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List of notable deaths in a month
The following is a list of notable deaths in August 2008 .
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
August 2008
1
Leopoldo Alas Mínguez , 45, Spanish writer, poet and editor.
[1]
Carlos Aponte , 69, Colombian footballer.
[2]
Rolf Bae , 33, Norwegian mountaineer,
climbing accident .
[3]
Pauline Baynes , 85, British illustrator (
The Chronicles of Narnia ,
The Lord of the Rings ).
[4]
Peter Jackson , 80, Australian fashion designer, prostate cancer.
[5]
Ashok Mankad , 61, Indian cricketer.
[6]
Chief Mqalo , 91, South African Chief of the AmaKhuze Tribe,
Alice .
[7]
Harkishan Singh Surjeet , 92, Indian politician, cardiac arrest.
[8]
Butch White , 72, British cricketer (
Hampshire ,
Glamorgan ,
England ).
[9]
2
Fujio Akatsuka , 72, Japanese manga artist, pneumonia.
[10]
Frederic Apcar , 93, Russian-born French acrobatic dancer and producer/impresario.
[11]
Thomas John Ashton, 3rd Baron Ashton of Hyde , 81, British aristocrat and banker.
[12]
Geoffrey Ballard , 76, Canadian businessman and fuel cell scientist, founder of
Ballard Power Systems .
[13]
Pérez Celis , 69, Argentine plastic artist, leukaemia.
[14]
Affonso Évora , 89, Brazilian Olympic bronze medal-winning (
1948 ) basketball player.
[15]
Helga Gitmark , 78, Norwegian politician.
[16]
Christopher González , 65, Jamaican sculptor and painter, cancer.
[17]
Kåre Grøndahl Hagem , 93, Norwegian politician.
[18]
Allen Kolstad , 76, American politician, lieutenant governor of Montana (1988–1991), cancer.
[19]
Ger McDonnell , 37, Irish mountaineer, first Irishman to reach
K2 summit,
climbing accident .
[20]
Peter Rodman , 64, American foreign policy expert, leukemia.
[21]
John F. Seiberling , 89, American politician, representative from Ohio (1971–1987), respiratory failure.
[22]
3
Anton Allemann , 72, Swiss footballer (
PSV Eindhoven ,
1. FC Nürnberg ,
Grasshopper Zürich ), heart attack.
[23]
Skip Caray , 68, American broadcaster for baseball (
Atlanta Braves ) and basketball (
Hawks ), son of
Harry Caray , bronchitis.
[24]
Erik Darling , 74, American songwriter, folk musician, lymphoma.
[25]
Roger Dean , 65, British guitarist, brain cancer.
[26]
Babatunde Jose , 82, Nigerian journalist and newspaper editor.
[27]
Jeffrey S. Medkeff , 39, American astronomer and science writer, liver cancer.
[28]
Robert Montgomery , 78, American lawyer.
[29]
Aurelius H. Piper Sr. , 92, American hereditary chief of the
Golden Hill Paugussett Indian Nation since 1959, natural causes.
[30]
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn , 89, Russian novelist and historian, Nobel Prize winner (1970), heart failure.
[31]
Louis Teicher , 83, American classical pianist (
Ferrante & Teicher ), heart failure.
[32]
4
Alberto Achacaz Walakial , 79, Chilean craftsman, one of the last full-blooded
Alacaluf , blood poisoning.
[33]
Sally Insul , 92, American actress, heart failure.
[34]
Craig Jones , 23, British motorcycle racer, head injuries from a race crash.
[35]
Peter Kass , 85, American actor, director and teacher.
[36]
Eri Kawai , 43, Japanese pop and classical singer, liver cancer.
[37]
Victor McCaffery , 89, Australian cricketer.
[38]
Robert Maheu , 90, American businessman, aide to
Howard Hughes .
[39]
Nicola Rescigno , 92, American opera conductor, complications from broken femur.
[40]
Johnny Thio , 63, Belgian football player and coach, myocardial rupture.
[41]
Greg Weld , 64, American racing driver and businessman, heart attack.
[42]
5
Aziz Abdullah Ahmed , 80-81, Iraqi Kurdish judge, Alzheimer's disease.
[43]
Jaroslav Alexa , 59, Czech Olympic athlete.
[44]
Bruno Dallansky , 79, Austrian actor.
[45]
Robert Hazard , 59, American musician and songwriter ("
Girls Just Want to Have Fun "), pancreatic cancer.
[46]
Jack Kamen , 88, American comic book artist (
Tales from the Crypt ,
The Vault of Horror ), cancer.
[47]
Reg Lindsay , 79, Australian country music singer and songwriter, pneumonia.
[48]
Shelby Linville , 78, American basketball player (
Kentucky Wildcats ), cancer.
[49]
José Medellín , 33, Mexican convicted murderer, execution in Texas by lethal injection.
[50]
Gary Mooney , 78, American animator (
Sleeping Beauty ,
Lady and the Tramp ,
George of the Jungle ), cancer.
[51]
Daniel L. Norris , 73, Canadian commissioner of the Northwest Territories (1989–1994), heart failure.
[52]
Eva Pflug , 79, German actress (
Raumpatrouille Orion ).
[53]
Manuel de Almeida Trindade , 90, Portuguese bishop of the
Roman Catholic Diocese of Aveiro (1962–1988).
[54]
6
Bertil Ahlin , 81, Swedish boxer.
[55]
Robert Nason Beck , 80, American scientist, myelodysplasia.
[56]
John K. Cooley , 80, American author (
Unholy Wars ), journalist and expert of Middle East affairs, cancer.
[57]
Ela-Mana-Mou , 32, British Thoroughbred race horse and sire, euthanized.
[58]
Gene Galusha , 66, American actor and narrator.
[59]
Roy Howard , 85, Australian cricketer.
[60]
Karl Kuehl , 70, American baseball scout, coach and manager (
Montreal Expos ), pulmonary fibrosis.
[61]
Tony Russo , 71, American whistleblower (
Pentagon Papers ).
[62]
Jud Taylor , 68, American television director and actor (
Dr. Kildare ,
Star Trek ,
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit ), kidney failure.
[63]
Reg Whitehouse , 75, Canadian football player (
Saskatchewan Roughriders ).
[64]
7
Bernie Brillstein , 77, American film producer (
Ghostbusters ,
The Blues Brothers ,
ALF ), chronic pulmonary disease.
[65]
Juan Bustos , 72, Chilean politician, liver cancer.
[66]
Simon Gray , 71, British playwright, abdominal aortic aneurysm.
[67]
Ralph Klein , 77, Israeli basketball player and coach, intestinal cancer.
[68]
Andrea Pininfarina , 51, Italian businessman, CEO of
Pininfarina , motorcycle accident.
[69]
Clarence Rost , 94, Canadian ice hockey player.
[70]
8
Ann-Mari Aasland , 93, Norwegian politician.
[71]
Rio Alex Bulo , 30, Indonesian Serial Killer
Ralph Edward Dodge , 101, American bishop of the Methodist Church.
[72]
Antonio Gava , 78, Italian politician, minister of the interior (1988–1990), after long illness.
[73]
Orville Moody , 74, American professional golfer, winner of 1969 U.S. Open.
[74]
Eleo Pomare , 70, Colombian modern dance choreographer, cancer.
[75]
Henk Starreveld , 94, Dutch Olympic canoer.
[76]
9
Giorgi Antsukhelidze , 23, Georgian soldier, shot.
[77]
Sir Stanley Bailey , 81, British chief constable of
Northumbria Police (1975–1991).
[78]
Peter Coe , 88, British athletics coach, father of
Sebastian Coe .
[79]
Colm Condon , 87, Irish lawyer, Attorney General (1965–1973).
[80]
Bob Cunis , 67, New Zealand cricketer.
[81]
Mahmoud Darwish , 67, Palestinian poet, complications from open heart surgery.
[82]
Archie Elliott, Lord Elliott , 85, British judge.
[83]
Ken Griffiths , 78, English footballer (
Port Vale ).
[84]
Jacob Landau , 74, American journalist, attorney, co-founder of
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press , after long illness.
[85]
Bernie Mac , 50, American comedian and actor (
The Bernie Mac Show ,
Ocean's Eleven ,
Friday ), complications from pneumonia.
[86]
Gilbert Morand , 85, French
military patrol runner.
[87]
Roy Simmonds , 79, Australian rules footballer (
Hawthorn ), cancer.
[88]
Greg Urwin , 61, Australian diplomat, Secretary General of the
Pacific Islands Forum (2004–2008), cancer.
[89]
Denis Vetchinov , 32, Russian army major, recipient of
Hero of the Russian Federation award, killed in action.
[90]
Vivian Shun-wen Wu , 95, Taiwanese entrepreneur, chairwoman of
Yulon Motor , heart failure.
[91]
10
Louise Armstrong , 71, American children's writer.
[92]
Sir William Christie , 95, North Irish politician,
Lord Mayor of Belfast (1972–1975).
[93]
Lee Clark , 71, Canadian politician, MP for
Brandon—Souris (1983–1993).
[94]
John Esmonde , 71, British television writer, half of
Esmonde and Larbey (
Please Sir! ,
The Good Life ).
[95]
Isaac Hayes , 65, American soul and funk musician ("
Theme from Shaft ") and actor (
South Park ,
The Rockford Files ),
Oscar winner (
1972 ), stroke.
[96]
Cezmi Kartay , 88, Turkish civil servant and politician (chairman of
SODEP ).
[97]
William A. Knowlton , 88, American general.
[98]
Howard G. Minsky , 94, American film producer (
Love Story ).
[99]
Terence Rigby , 71, British actor (
Get Carter ,
Watership Down ,
Mona Lisa Smile ), lung cancer.
[100]
Alexander Slobodyanik , 65, Ukrainian pianist, meningitis.
[101]
František Tikal , 75, Czech ice hockey player.
[102]
David Young , 76, British
Bishop of Ripon (1977–1999).
[103]
11
Arase Nagahide , 59, Japanese sumo wrestler, heart failure.
[104]
Agneta Bolme Börjefors , 67, Swedish television presenter and royal reporter.
[105]
Sheikh Abdul Aziz , 55–56, Kashmir politician, shot.
[106]
Henry B. R. Brown , 82, American investment banker, aneurysm.
[107]
John S. Bull , 73, American NASA astronaut.
[108]
Sir Bill Cotton , 80, British television executive.
[109]
George Deem , 75, American artist, lung cancer.
[110]
George Furth , 75, American playwright (
Company ) and actor (
Blazing Saddles ,
The Cannonball Run ).
[111]
Don Helms , 81, American steel guitarist.
[112]
James Hoyt , 83, American soldier, member of the
Buchenwald liberation team.
[113]
Anatoly Khrapaty , 45, Kazakh Olympic weightlifter (USSR and Kazakhstan), motorcycle accident.
[114]
Günther Schifter , 84, Austrian journalist and radio presenter.
[115]
Fred Sinowatz , 79, Austrian politician, chancellor of Austria (1983–1986).
[116]
Darren Taylor , 42, American gang member turned peacemaker, cancer.
[117]
Rhoshii Wells , 31, American boxer, Olympic medallist, shot.
[118]
12
Christie Allen , 53, Australian pop singer, pancreatic cancer.
[119]
Michael Baxandall , 74, British art historian, Parkinson's disease.
[120]
Gilles Bilodeau , 53, Canadian NHL and World Hockey Association player (
Quebec Nordiques ).
[121]
Mick Clough , 80, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (1976–1988, 1991–1999).
[122]
Dottie Wiltse Collins , 84, American
AAGPBL baseball pitcher (
Fort Wayne Daisies ).
[123]
Leon Dorsey , 32, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
[124]
Donald Erb , 81, American avant-garde composer.
[125]
George Gick , 92, American Major League Baseball player (
Chicago White Sox ).
[126]
Rust Hills , 83, American fiction editor (
Esquire ), cardiac arrest.
[127]
Lester Hogan , 88, American physicist, complications of Alzheimer's disease.
[128]
Vilma Jamnická , 101, Austro-Hungarian-born Slovakian actress and astrologer.
[129]
Francis Lacassin , 76, French editor.
[130]
Patricia W. Malone , 84, American naval officer.
[131]
Aditya Prakash , 84, Indian architect.
[132]
Herm Schneidman , 94, American football player (
Green Bay Packers ).
[133]
Stan Storimans , 39, Dutch photojournalist and cameraman, mortar fire.
[134]
Bill Stulla , 97, American children's television show host.
[135]
13
Sandy Allen , 53, American tallest woman in the world (according to Guinness World Records ).
[136]
Henri Cartan , 104, French mathematician.
[137]
Bill Gwatney , 48, American politician, Arkansas state senator (1992–2002), Democratic Party of Arkansas chairman, shot.
[138]
John MacDougall , 60, British politician, MP for
Glenrothes since 2005 and
Central Fife (2001–2005), mesothelioma.
[139]
Nollaig Ó Gadhra , 64, Irish language activist, journalist and historian, co-founder of
Teilifís na Gaeilge .
[140]
Roy Prosser , 66, Australian international rugby union player, heart attack.
[141]
Dino Toso , 39, Italian automotive engineer,
Renault F1 director of aerodynamics, cancer.
[142]
Jack Weil , 107, American founder of Rockmount Ranch Wear, oldest working CEO.
[143]
Stuart Cary Welch , 80, American scholar and collector of Indian and Islamic art.
[144]
14
Seiji Aochi , 66, Japanese ski jumper, stomach cancer.
[145]
Sandy Bruce-Lockhart, Baron Bruce-Lockhart , 66, British politician and local government leader, cancer.
[146]
Ralph Feigin , 70, American pediatrician, lung cancer.
[147]
Luigi Grossi , 83, Italian Olympic sprinter.
[148]
Percy Irausquin , 39, Aruban fashion designer, cerebral hemorrhage.
[149]
Carlton John , 92-93, Trinidadian West Indian cricket umpire.
[150]
Marius Maziers , 93, French prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
[151]
Michael Anthony Rodriguez , 45, American murderer, member of the Texas Seven, execution by lethal injection.
[152]
Lita Roza , 82, British singer, first British female to top the UK singles chart.
[153]
Bob Worthington , 72, American honorary consul of the Cook Islands to the United States (1985–2008).
[154]
15
Carlos Meglia , 50, Argentine comic book artist (
Cybersix ).
[155]
James Orthwein , 84, American businessman, cancer.
[156]
Gladys Powers , 109, British-born last World War I veteran living in Canada, served with the
WAAC and
WRAF .
[157]
Leroy Sievers , 53, American journalist, colon cancer.
[158]
Vic Toweel , 79, South African boxer, bantamweight world champion (1952–1954).
[159]
Jerry Wexler , 91, American record producer, heart failure.
[160]
Darrin Winston , 42, American baseball player (
Philadelphia Phillies , 1997–1998), leukemia.
[161]
16
Hugh Butt , 98, American physician.
[162]
Dorival Caymmi , 94, Brazilian songwriter and singer, multiple organ failure.
[163]
Roberta Collins , 63, American actress (
Death Race 2000 ,
Eaten Alive ), drug overdose.
[164]
Michel-Gaspard Coppenrath , 84, Tahitian archbishop of
Papeete (1973–1999), ruptured aneurysm.
[165]
Ronnie Drew , 73, Irish singer, founding member of
The Dubliners , after long illness.
[166]
Jack Dunham , 98, American animator and television producer, creator of the
St. Hubert Chicken .
[167]
Masanobu Fukuoka , 95, Japanese microbiologist, pioneer of no-till grain cultivation.
[168]
Elena Leușteanu , 73, Romanian gymnast and three-time Olympic medalist, pancreatic cancer.
[169]
Fanny Mikey , 78, Argentine-born Colombian theatre actress, renal failure.
[170]
Johnny Moore , 70, Jamaican trumpeter, founding member of
The Skatalites , cancer.
[171]
Alfred Rainer , 20, Austrian Nordic combined skier, paragliding accident.
[172]
Helge Uuetoa , 71, Estonian stage designer, beaten.
[173]
17
Marie Fisher , 77, Australian politician, Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1978–1988).
[174]
Dave Freeman , 47, American author (100 Things To Do Before You Die ), injuries from fall.
[175]
Maudie Hopkins , 93, last certified American Civil War widow.
[176]
Sir Edwin Nixon , 83, English businessman, chief executive of
IBM UK.
[177]
Philip Saffman , 77, American mathematician.
[178]
Franco Sensi , 82, Italian businessman, president of
A.S. Roma since 1993, respiratory failure.
[179]
18
Kazys Abromavičius , 80, Lithuanian painter.
[180]
Jeannette Eyerly , 100, American author and columnist.
[181]
Manny Farber , 91, American film critic and painter.
[182]
Bob Humphrys , 56, British BBC sports presenter, lung cancer.
[183]
Genuine Risk , 31, American racehorse, 1980 Kentucky Derby winner.
[184]
Pervis Jackson , 70, American R&B bass singer (
The Spinners ), cancer.
[185]
Jumoke , 18, American western lowland gorilla, complications of early pregnancy.
[186]
Floyd Peters , 72, American football player, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
[187]
19
Leo Abse , 91, British politician, MP (1958–1987), reformer of laws on homosexuality and divorce.
[188]
Carlos Arguelles , 90, Filipino architect.
[189]
Julius Carry , 56, American actor (
The Last Dragon ,
Disco Godfather ,
Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place ), pancreatic cancer.
[190]
Binyamin Gibli , 89, Israeli head of military intelligence.
[191]
Algimantas Masiulis , 77, Lithuanian actor.
[192]
LeRoi Moore , 46, American saxophonist (
Dave Matthews Band ), complications from ATV accident.
[193]
Mikhail Mukasei , 101, Russian spy.
[194]
Levy Mwanawasa , 59, Zambian politician, president since 2002, complications from stroke.
[195]
Diane Webber , 76, American model and actress.
[196]
20
Tunku Abdullah , 83, Malaysian businessman.
[197]
Mario Bertok , 79, Croatian chess grandmaster and journalist, drowned.
[198]
Marshall Brown , 90, American basketball player and coach.
[199]
Chao Yao-tung , 92, Taiwanese minister of economic affairs, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
[200]
Ed Freeman , 80, American U.S. Army helicopter pilot, recipient of the Medal of Honor, complications of Parkinson's disease.
[201]
Phil Guy , 68, American blues guitarist, brother of
Buddy Guy , pancreatic cancer.
[202]
Larry Hennessy , 79, American basketball player (
Philadelphia Warriors ,
Syracuse Nationals ).
[203]
Hua Guofeng , 87, Chinese premier (1976–1980),
chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (1976–1981).
[204]
Clair Isbister , 92, Australian paediatrician.
[205]
Edward Jaworski , 82, American Olympic water polo player (
1952 ).
[206]
Dick Jones , 97, American politician.
[207]
Eric Longworth , 90, British actor (
Dad's Army ).
[208]
Leopoldo Serran , 66, Brazilian screenwriter, liver cancer.
[209]
Stephanie Tubbs Jones , 58, American member of the House of Representatives from Ohio since 1999, cerebral hemorrhage.
[210]
Gene Upshaw , 63, American NFL player (
Oakland Raiders ), executive director of
NFLPA , pancreatic cancer.
[211]
21
Robert E. Armstrong , 82, American politician.
[212]
Fred Crane , 90, American film and television actor (
Gone with the Wind ), complications from surgery.
[213]
Iosif Constantin Drăgan , 91, Romanian businessman and historian.
[214]
Jerry Finn , 39, American record producer (
Blink-182 ,
Green Day ,
Morrissey ), cerebral hemorrhage.
[215]
Don Fox , 72, British rugby league player (
Wakefield ).
[216]
Buddy Harman , 79, American session musician, heart failure.
[217]
Lee Eon , 27, South Korean actor and model, motorcycle accident.
[218]
Ágústa Þorsteinsdóttir , 66, Icelandic Olympic swimmer.
[219]
Laurence Urdang , 81, American lexicographer, heart failure.
[220]
Wolfgang Vogel , 82, German lawyer, negotiator in prisoner exchange programs during the Cold War.
[221]
22
Kenny Ailshie , 59, American horse trainer, suicide.
[222]
Frank Cornish , 40, American football player (
Dallas Cowboys ), apparent heart attack.
[223]
James H. Faulkner , 92, American publisher, politician and educator.
[224]
Jeff MacKay , 59, American actor (
Magnum, P.I. ,
Tales of the Gold Monkey ,
JAG ), liver complications.
[225]
Michael J. Manning , 65, Australian-born Papua New Guinean anti-corruption activist and economist, heart attack.
[226]
Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman , 94, American abstract expressionist art collector, natural causes.
[227]
Robert Pintenat , 60, French football player.
[228]
Ralph Young , 90, American singer (
Sandler and Young ).
[229]
23
Jimmy Cleveland , 82, American jazz trombonist.
[230]
Ruth Cohen , 78, American actress (
Seinfeld ), heart attack.
[231]
Leo Elter , 78, American football player (
Pittsburgh Steelers ,
Washington Redskins ), heart failure.
[232]
Steve Foley , 49, American drummer (
The Replacements ,
Bash & Pop ), drug overdose.
[233]
Doris Gibson , 98, Peruvian journalist, founder of
Caretas magazine.
[234]
Ian Hibell , 74, British cyclist, hit and run car crash.
[235]
Yuri Nosenko , 81, Soviet-born Ukrainian KGB agent who defected to United States, after a long illness.
[236]
John Russell , 89, British-born American art critic and author.
[237]
Thomas Huckle Weller , 93, American virologist, Nobel Prize winner (
Medicine , 1954).
[238]
24
Gerard W. Ford , 83, American co-founder of
Ford Modeling Agency , endocarditis.
[239]
Riitta Immonen , 90, Finnish fashion designer and entrepreneur, co-founder of
Marimekko .
[240]
Tad Mosel , 86, American Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright (
All the Way Home ).
[241]
Morris Sullivan , 91, American film producer (
All Dogs Go to Heaven ).
[242]
Peter Sutton , 65, British sound engineer (
The Empire Strikes Back ,
The Dark Crystal ,
Little Shop of Horrors ),
Oscar winner (
1981 ), leukemia.
[243]
Wei Wei , 88, Chinese poet and writer, liver cancer.
[244]
25
Elmer H. Antonsen , 78, American philologist.[
citation needed ]
Randa Chahal Sabag , 54, Lebanese film maker, cancer.
[245]
Marpessa Dawn , 74, American actress (
Black Orpheus ), heart attack.
[246]
Kevin Duckworth , 44, American NBA basketball player, heart failure resulting from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
[247]
Ahmad Faraz , 74, Pakistani poet.
[248]
Hardwicke Knight , 97, New Zealand historian and photographer.
[249]
Pavle Kozjek , 49, Slovenian mountaineer, climbing accident.
[250]
Jabir Herbert Muhammad , 79, American businessman, long-time manager of
Muhammad Ali , complications from heart surgery.
[251]
Vassili Nesterenko , 73, Belarusian physicist.
[252]
Pehr Henrik Nordgren , 64, Finnish composer, cancer.
[253]
Mario Fernando Peña Angulo , 56, Peruvian congressman, lymphoma.
[254]
Josef Tal , 97, Israeli composer, natural causes.
[255]
John Thoday , 91, British geneticist.
[256]
26
Pierre Colas , 32, German Mayanist scholar, assistant professor in anthropology at
Vanderbilt University , shot.
[257]
Bobby Cummings , 72, English footballer (
Aberdeen ,
Newcastle United ).
[258]
Bob Mountford , 56, British footballer (
Port Vale ,
Rochdale ), cancer.
[259]
Edgardo Vega Yunqué , 72, Puerto Rican novelist.
[260]
Hazel Warp , 93, American stuntwoman (
Gone with the Wind ).
[261]
Barbara Warren , 65, American triathlete, bicycle crash.
[262]
27
Sally Abston , 74, American surgeon and scientist, kidney failure and hypertension.
[263]
Del Martin , 87, American gay rights activist, first legal same-sex marriage in California, complications from bone fracture.
[264]
Isa Meireles , 76, Portuguese journalist and writer.
[265]
Chittaranjan Mitra , 82, Indian scientist and administrator.
[266]
Abie Nathan , 81, Israeli peace activist, founder of
Voice of Peace radio station.
[267]
Mark Priestley , 32, Australian actor (
All Saints ), suicide.
[268]
Olavo Setúbal , 85, Brazilian politician and banker, mayor of São Paulo (1975–1979), heart failure.
[269]
28
İlhan Berk , 89, Turkish poet.
[270]
Harold Challenor , 86, British war hero (
Operation Speedwell ) and corrupt Metropolitan police officer.
[271]
Phil Hill , 81, American racing driver,
1961 Formula One world champion , complications of Parkinson's disease.
[272]
Ralph Kovel , 88, American antiques expert and author, complications of broken hip.
[273]
Chidananda Saraswati , 91, Indian spiritual leader, president of the
Divine Life Society .
[274]
Sigurbjörn Einarsson , 97, Icelandic bishop of the Church of Iceland (1959–1981).
[275]
Wonderful Smith , 97, American comedian, natural causes.
[276]
Michel Vastel , 68, Canadian journalist and columnist, throat cancer.
[277]
29
William Appling , 75, American conductor, pianist, educator and arranger.
[278]
Bridget Cracroft-Eley , 74, British
Lord-Lieutenant of Lincolnshire since 1995.
[279]
Jayshree Gadkar , 66, Indian actress.
[280]
David Gordon Allen d'Aldecamb Lumsden , 75, British
Garioch Pursuivant .
[281]
Bela E. Kennedy , American politician, 90, Michigan state legislator.
[282]
Geoffrey Perkins , 55, British comedy producer, writer and performer, head of comedy for BBC, road accident.
[283]
Peter Snow , 81, British artist and theatre designer.
[284]
30
K. K. Birla , 89, Indian industrialist and politician, after brief illness.
[285]
Tommy Bolt , 92, American professional golfer, 1958 U.S. Open champion, liver failure.
[286]
Robin Bullough , 78, British mathematical physicist.
[287]
Brian Hambly , 71, Australian rugby league player.
[288]
Killer Kowalski , 81, Canadian professional wrestler, heart attack.
[289]
Eldon Rathburn , 92, Canadian composer, after brief illness.
[290]
Gilberto Rincón Gallardo , 69, Mexican politician, presidential candidate.
[291]
William Howard Wriggins , 90, American academic, ambassador to Sri Lanka and Maldives (1977–1979).
[292]
31
Cynthia Ahearn , 55, American echinodermologist and museum specialist.
[293]
Meir Avizohar , 84, Israeli politician and academic.
[294]
Jean-Marie Berckmans , 54, Belgian writer, lung disease.
[295]
Ken Campbell , 66, British actor (
A Fish Called Wanda ).
[296]
Jamie Dolan , 39, British footballer (
Motherwell F.C. ), heart attack.
[297]
Harmohinder Singh Gill , 75, Indian-born American scientist.
[298]
Edwin O. Guthman , 89, American Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, amyloidosis.
[299]
Ike Pappas , 75, American CBS journalist, broadcast murder of
Lee Harvey Oswald , heart failure.
[300]
Victor Yates , 69, New Zealand rugby footballer.
[301]
Magomed Yevloyev , 37, Ingush journalist and owner of the opposition news website
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