Deaths in October 2008
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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 2008.
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- John Daly, 71, British film producer, cancer. [1]
- Frank Navetta, 46, American guitarist (Descendents). [2]
- Sir John Page, 89, British politician, MP for Harrow West (1960–1987). [3]
- John Pearse, 69, British guitarist. [4]
- Studs Terkel, 96, American broadcaster and author (The Good War), complications from a fall. [5]
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- Edith Evans Asbury, 98, American journalist (The New York Times), after long illness. [6]
- Fred Baron, 61, American trial lawyer and political fundraiser, multiple myeloma. [7]
- Robert H. Barrow, 86, American general, 27th Commandant of the Marine Corps (1979–1983). [8]
- Cundo Bermúdez, 94, Cuban artist. [9]
- Valentin Bubukin, 75, Russian footballer, after long illness. [10]
- John Graham Cuckney, Baron Cuckney, 83, British financier and industrialist. [11]
- David Jeaffreson, 76, British colonial official, Hong Kong Secretary for Security (1982–1988), ICAC Commissioner (1988–1991). [12]
- Julius Neave, 89, British insurance executive. [13]
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- Gerald Arpino, 85, American dancer and choreographer, after long illness. [14]
- Mike Baker, 45, American singer (Shadow Gallery), heart attack. [15]
- Cor Brom, 76, Dutch footballer and coach, Parkinson's disease. [16]
- Yiannis Koskiniatis, 25, Greek footballer, suicide by jumping. [17]
- Mae Mercer, 76, American blues singer. [18]
- William Wharton, 82, American painter and novelist (Birdy), infection. [19]
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- Buck Adams, 52, American pornographic actor and director, complications from heart failure. [20].
- Dina Cocea, 95, Romanian actress, heart attack. [21]
- Kung Te-cheng, 88, Chinese-born Taiwanese 77th generation descendant of Confucius, heart and respiratory failure. [22]
- Alexander Lowen, 97, American psychotherapist. [23]
- Pak Song-chol, 95, North Korean politician, Premier (1976–1977), after long illness. [24]
- Augusto Petró, 90, Brazilian Bishop of Uruguaiana (1964–1995), complications from Alzheimer's disease. [25]
- John Ripley, 69, American Marine war hero. [26]
- Allan Scott, 80, Australian businessman and road transport magnate, complications from diabetes and heart condition. [27]
- George Sopkin, 94, American cellist, natural causes. [28]
- Ilus Vay, 85, Hungarian actress. [29]
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- Dean Barnett, 41, American columnist and blogger, complications from cystic fibrosis. [30]
- Chris Bryant, 72, British screenwriter and actor. [31]
- Charles Dubin, 87, Canadian Chief Justice of Ontario (1990–1996), head of the Dubin Inquiry into drugs in sport, pneumonia. [32]
- Ray Ellis, 85, American musician, conductor and television producer, complications from melanoma. [33].
- Heinz Krügel, 87, German footballer and coach, after long illness. [34] (German)
- Ed Levy, 91, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, New York Yankees). [35]
- Es'kia Mphahlele, 88, South African writer and academic, natural causes. [36]
- Frank Nagai, 76, Japanese singer. [37]
- Bernard W. Rogers, 87, American general, Commander of the US European Command (1979–1987). [38]
- Roy Stewart, 83, Jamaican-born British actor. [39]
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- Delfino Borroni, 110, Italian last known World War I veteran from Italy. [40]
- P. Cameron DeVore, 76, American First Amendment attorney, apparent heart attack. [41]
- Eileen Donaghy, 78, Irish singer, cancer. [42]
- Thomas Dunn, 82, American conductor, heart failure. [43]
- Conrad Efraim, 63, Antiguan professional wrestler, stroke. [44]
- Tony Hillerman, 83, American mystery writer, pulmonary failure. [45]
- Karl Kassulke, 67, American football player (Minnesota Vikings), heart attack. [46]
- Pablo Montes, 62, Cuban athlete, heart attack. [47]
- Delmar Watson, 82, American child actor (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington), prostate cancer. [48]
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- John Axon, 48, British actor (The Royal), grandson of John Axon, heart attack. [49]
- Gerard Damiano, 80, American adult film director (Deep Throat), stroke. [50]
- Columb Farrelly, Irish record producer who discovered Sinéad O'Connor and The Pale, after short illness. [51]
- Bob Gambold, 79, American football player (Los Angeles Rams, Philadelphia Eagles). [52]
- Irwin Gunsalus, 96, American biochemist, heart failure. [53]
- Amos E. Joel, Jr., 90, American inventor, pioneer of the cellphone. [54]
- Federico Luzzi, 28, Italian tennis player, leukemia. [55]
- Muslim Magomayev, 66, Azerbaijani singer. [56]
- Ian McColl, 81, British footballer, team manager for Scotland, natural causes. [57]
- Anne Pressly, 26, American television news anchor (KATV), injuries during home invasion. [58]
- Estelle Reiner, 94, American singer and actress (When Harry Met Sally...), wife of Carl Reiner, mother of Rob Reiner. [59]
- Hal Roth, 81, American sailor and author, lung cancer. [60]
- Tahereh Saffarzadeh, 72, Iranian poet and academic, cancer. [61]
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- Moshe Cotel, 65, American pianist and composer, natural causes. [62]
- Howard French, 95, British newspaper editor. [63]
- Milton Katselas, 74, American film director, heart failure. [64]
- Premasiri Khemadasa, 71, Sri Lankan musician and composer. [65]
- Merl Saunders, 74, American keyboardist (The Grateful Dead), collaborator with Jerry Garcia, complications from a stroke. [66]
- Xiao Ke, 101, Chinese general in the People's Liberation Army, illness. [67]
- Helmut Zilk, 81, Austrian politician, Mayor of Vienna (1984–1994), heart failure. [68]
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- Gianluigi Braschi, 45, Italian film producer (Life Is Beautiful), after long illness. [69]
- Oszkár Csuvik, 83, Hungarian water polo player, Olympic silver medalist (1948). [70] (Hungarian)
- Danny Dill, 83, American songwriter ("Long Black Veil"). [71]
- Kevin Finnegan, 60, British boxer. [72]
- E. Roger Muir, 89, American television producer, stroke. [73]
- Ivo Pukanić, 47, Croatian newspaper editor and politician, assassination by car bomb. [74]
- F. W. Walbank, 98, British scholar of Greek history. [75]
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- William Warren Conolly, 87, Caymanian politician. [76]
- Lou Dorfsman, 90, American television graphic designer, heart failure. [77]
- David Evans, 73, British politician, MP (1987–1997), cancer. [78]
- Ernest Kombo, 67, Congolese Bishop of Owando, cancer. [79]
- David Lloyd Meredith, 74, British actor. [80]
- Paritosh Sen, 90, Indian artist, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. [81]
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- Sonja Bernadotte, 64, German-born Swedish countess, breast cancer. [82]
- Alex Close, 86, Belgian road bicycle racer, winner of Tour de Belgique (1955) and Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré (1956). [83] (French)
- Jake Crawford, 80, American Major League Baseball player. [84]
- George Edwards, 87, British footballer (Wales). [85]
- Peter Levinson, 74, American music industry biographer, fall. [86]
- Ram Ruhee, 81, Mauritian founder of the National Olympic Committee, IOC member, after long illness. [87]
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- Daniel Aguillón, 24, Mexican boxer, brain death caused by knockout. [88]
- Sœur Emmanuelle, 99, Belgian-born French nun, natural causes. [89]
- Shamsiah Fakeh, 84, Malaysian independence activist, lung infection. [90]
- Vittorio Foa, 98, Italian politician, journalist and writer. [91]
- James Gleeson, 92, Australian art critic and surrealist painter. [92]
- William Headline, 76, American CNN bureau chief, fall. [93]
- Gene Hickerson, 73, American football player (Cleveland Browns), after long illness. [94]
- Pat Kavanagh, 68, British literary agent, wife of Julian Barnes, brain tumour [95]
- Joe Lutz, 83, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns), after long illness. [96]
- David Myers, 37, British rugby league player (Widnes and England), car accident. [97]
- John Ringham, 80, British actor. [98]
- Bobi Sourander, 79, Finnish-born Swedish journalist and author. [99] (Finnish)
- C. V. Sridhar, 73, Indian filmmaker, cardiac arrest. [100]
- Krzysztof Zaleski, 60, Polish actor, after long illness. [101]
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- Richard Blackwell, 86, American fashion critic ("Mr. Blackwell's Ten Worst Dressed Women"), intestinal infection. [102]
- John A. Campbell, 67, Australian-born American lumber executive, president and CEO of Pacific Lumber Company, cancer. [103]
- Tony Dean, 67, American outdoors broadcaster, complications from appendicectomy. [104]
- Marilyn Ferguson, 70, American writer (The Aquarian Conspiracy), heart attack. [105]
- Hal Kant, 77, American lawyer for the Grateful Dead, pancreatic cancer. [106]
- Leah Maivia, 81, Samoan wrestling promoter, wife of Peter Maivia, grandmother of Dwayne Johnson. [107]
- Harry T. Mangurian, Jr., 82, American businessman and horse breeder, former owner of the Boston Celtics, leukemia. [108]
- Mireille Marokvia, 99, French writer. [109]
- Rudy Ray Moore, 81, American comedian and actor (Dolemite), complications from diabetes. [110]
- Robert B. Nett, 86, American Medal of Honor recipient, after brief illness. [111]
- Nigel Plews, 74, British cricket umpire, renal cancer. [112]
- Gianni Raimondi, 85, Italian lyric tenor. [113]
- Gail Robinson, 62, American soprano, complications from rheumatoid arthritis. [114]
- Arthur Sendas, 72, Brazilian supermarket magnate, shot. [115]
- Lou Stringer, 91, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs and Boston Red Sox). [116]
- Doreen Wilber, 78, American archer, 1972 Olympic gold medallist, Alzheimer's disease. [117]
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- Evelyn Ay Sempier, 75, American beauty pageant winner, Miss America (1954), colorectal cancer. [118]
- Salvatore Boccaccio, 70, Italian bishop of Frosinone-Veroli-Ferentino. [119]
- Albert Boime, 75, American art historian, myelofibrosis. [120]
- Alfredo E. Evangelista, 82, Filipino archeologist, discovered the Laguna Copperplate Inscription. [121]
- Charley Fox, 88, Canadian pilot credited with strafing Erwin Rommel's car, car accident. [122]
- Peter Gordeno, 69, British actor, singer and dancer. [123]
- Tormod Haugen, 63, Norwegian children's author, after long illness. [124] (Norwegian)
- Dave McKenna, 78, American jazz pianist, lung cancer. [125]
- James J. Rhoades, 66, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania State Senate since 1981, car accident. [126]
- Dee Dee Warwick, 63, American soul singer, sister of Dionne Warwick, after long illness. [127]
- Xie Jin, 84, Chinese film director. [128]
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- George M. Keller, 84, American oil executive, founder of Chevron Corporation, complications from orthopedic surgery. [129]
- Prince Ludwig of Bavaria, 95, German royal, member of the House of Wittelsbach. [130]
- Urmas Ott, 53, Estonian journalist and television host, heart attack. [131]
- Santo Bartolomeo Quadri, 88, Italian archbishop of Modena-Nonantola (1983–1996). [132]
- Bill Reilly, 70, American publisher, founder of Primedia, bone and prostate cancer. [133]
- Levi Stubbs, 72, American vocalist (The Four Tops), complications of cancer and stroke. [134]
- Nick Weatherspoon, 58, American basketball player, natural causes. [135]
- Ben Weider, 85, Canadian bodybuilding promoter and Napoleon scholar. [136]
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- Ere Kokkonen, 70, Finnish film director, after illness. [137] (Finnish)
- Paul L. Montgomery, 72, American journalist and reporter (New York Times), cancer. [138]
- Jack Reynolds, 71, American professional wrestling announcer (WWWF/WWF), complications from surgery. [139]
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- Edie Adams, 81, American actress and singer, pneumonia and cancer. [140]
- Fazıl Hüsnü Dağlarca, 94, Turkish poet, chronic renal failure. [141]
- Nathan Davis, 91, American actor. [142]
- Chris Mims, 38, American football player. [143]
- Jack Narz, 85, American game show host (Concentration), complications from strokes. [144]
- Suzzanna, 66, Indonesian actress, complications of diabetes. [145]
- Eddie Thompson, 68, British businessman, chairman of Dundee United, prostate cancer. [146]
- Des Townson, 74, New Zealand yacht designer, cancer. [147]
- Tom Tresh, 70, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Detroit Tigers), heart attack. [148]
- Roderick Walker, 76, British SAS commander. [149]
- Wang Yung-ching, 91, Taiwanese entrepreneur and billionaire, founder of Formosa Plastics. [150]
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- Barrington J. Bayley, 71, British science fiction author, complications of colorectal cancer. [151]
- Richard Cooey, 41, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection. [152]
- Robert Furman, 93, American spy during World War II, foreign intelligence chief for Manhattan Project, metastatic melanoma. [153]
- Antonio Iannucci, 94, Italian Archbishop of Pescara-Penne (1959–1990). [154]
- Ray Lowry, 64, British cartoonist and illustrator, after long illness. [155]
- Anne Mackenzie-Stuart, 78, British political activist. [156]
- Pat Moss, 73, British rally driver, sister of Stirling Moss, after long illness. [157]
- Martin Peake, 2nd Viscount Ingleby, 82, British peer, activist for the disabled. [158]
- Dame Daphne Purves, 99, New Zealand educator. [159]
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- Khryss Adalia, 62, Filipino film, television and stage director, colorectal cancer. [160]
- Pablo Barrachina Estevan, 95, Spanish Bishop of Orihuela-Alicante (1954–1989). [161]
- Gus Chambers, 52, British vocalist (Grip Inc), suicide. [162]
- Alexei Cherepanov, 19, Russian ice hockey player, acute cardiomyopathy. [163]
- Guillaume Depardieu, 37, French actor, pneumonia. [164]
- Antonio José González Zumárraga, 83, Ecuadorian cardinal, stomach cancer. [165]
- Matthew John Rinaldo, 77, American politician, member of the House of Representatives (1973–1993), Parkinson's disease. [166]
- Paul Rogers, 87, American politician, member of the House of Representatives (1957–1979), lung cancer. [167]
- Frank Rosenthal, 79, American gaming executive, sports handicapper, inspiration for the 1995 film Casino, heart attack. [168]
- Eduardus Sangsun, 65, Indonesian Bishop of Ruteng, heart attack. [169]
- Françoise Seigner, 80, French comedienne and actress, pancreatic cancer. [170]
- Eduardo Serrano, 97, Venezuelan musician, conductor and composer. [171] (Spanish)
- Christopher Wicking, 65, British screenwriter. [172]
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- Lenvil Elliott, 57, American football player (San Francisco 49ers, Cincinnati Bengals), heart attack. [173]
- Chuck Evans, 41, American football player (Minnesota Vikings), heart failure. [174]
- Sir Dick Franks, 88, British Head of the Secret Intelligence Service (1979–1982). [175]
- Cliff Nobles, 64, American pop musician, cancer. [176]
- James E. Reilly, 60, American soap opera writer, complications from cardiac surgery. [177]
- John R. Reilly, 80, American lawyer, adviser to six Democratic presidential candidates, cancer. [178]
- Allan Rosenfield, 75, American physician, dean of Columbia University School of Public Health (1986–2008), ALS. [179]
- Adam Watene, 31, Cook Islands rugby league player, suspected heart attack. [180]
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- Vija Artmane, 79, Latvian actress, complications from strokes. [181]
- Daniel Awdry, 84, British politician, MP for Chippenham (1962–1979). [182]
- William Claxton, 80, American photographer, complications of heart failure. [183]
- Kevin Foster, 39, American baseball player, renal cancer. [184]
- Jörg Haider, 58, Austrian politician, Governor of Carinthia (1989–1991, since 1999), leader of the FPÖ and BZÖ, car accident. [185]
- Russ Hamilton, 76, British singer. [186]
- Ernst-Paul Hasselbach, 42, Surinamese-born Dutch television producer, car accident. [187]
- Neal Hefti, 85, American composer ("Batman Theme", "The Odd Couple Theme"), heart attack. [188]
- Badar Munir, 68, Pakistani actor, complications of cardiac arrest. [189]
- Scarlett, 13, American stray cat, name source of the Scarlett Award for Animal Heroism, animal euthanasia. [190] [191]
- Mark Shivas, 70, British film and television producer, Head of BBC Drama (1988–1993). [192]
- Allan Spear, 71, American politician, first openly gay member of Minnesota Senate (1973–2000), complications of heart surgery. [193]
- Gil Stratton, 86, American television and radio sportscaster (Los Angeles Rams, Santa Anita Racetrack), heart failure. [194]
- Nelson Symonds, 75, Canadian jazz guitarist, heart attack, [195]
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- James Benson, 63, American entrepreneur (SpaceDev), brain tumor. [196]
- Alton Ellis, 70, Jamaican singer, lymphatic cancer. [197]
- Sid Hudson, 93, American baseball player. [198]
- Muhammad Aslam Khan Khattak, 100, Pakistani politician and diplomat, after long illness. [199]
- Gerald Leeman, 86, American wrestler, Olympic silver medallist (1948). [200]
- Kazuyoshi Miura, 61, Japanese businessman, murder suspect, suicide by hanging. [201]
- Javad Nurbakhsh, 81, Iranian spiritual leader. [202]
- Alexey Prokurorov, 44, Russian cross-country skier, car accident. [203]
- Leo Rosner, 90, Polish-born Australian musician, Holocaust survivor in Schindler's List, complications of Alzheimer's disease. [204]
- Kurt Weinzierl, 77, Austrian actor. [205]
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- Gidget Gein, 39, American bassist (Marilyn Manson), drug overdose. [206]
- Al Hall, 74, American hammer throw champion, complications from Alzheimer's disease. [207]
- Milan Kymlicka, 72, Czech-born Canadian composer and conductor. [208]
- David Lett, 69, American winemaker, heart failure. [209]
- Bert Loxley, 74, British footballer and manager, after long illness. [210]
- Ardeshir Mohassess, 70, Iranian illustrator and cartoonist, heart attack. [211]
- Judith Wachs, 70, American musician (Voice of the Turtle) and promoter of Sephardic music, cancer. [212]
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- Daniel De Gale, 21, British leukemia campaigner, after short illness. [213]
- Bob Friend, 70, British newscaster, cancer. [214]
- José Luis Garza, 47, Mexican recorded as world's fifth heaviest person at time of death, heart failure. [215]
- Tanya Halesworth, 73, Australian television news presenter, cancer. [216]
- Eileen Herlie, 90, British-born American actress (Hamlet, All My Children), complications of pneumonia. [217]
- Norman Hogg, Baron Hogg of Cumbernauld, 70, British politician, MP (1979–1997), cancer. [218]
- Les McCrabb, 93, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics). [219]
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- Peter Copley, 93, British actor. [220]
- Bruce Dal Canton, 66, American baseball player, esophageal cancer. [221]
- Leslie Hardman, 95, British cleric at liberation of Belsen. [222]
- George Kissell, 88, American baseball coach (St. Louis Cardinals), car accident. [223]
- DeWayne McKinney, 47, American ATM entrepreneur wrongfully convicted for murder, traffic accident. [224]
- George Emil Palade, 95, Romanian cell biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (Physiology or Medicine, 1974). [225]
- Miles Richmond, 85, British painter. [226]
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- Peter Avery, 85, British scholar and Iranian specialist. [227]
- Larry Belcher, 61, American politician, member of Kentucky House of Representatives (1999–2002, since 2006), car accident. [228]
- Peter Cox, 82, Australian politician. [229]
- Paavo Haavikko, 77, Finnish poet and playwright, after long illness. [230]
- Olga Kaljakin, 57, American art director, film poster designer (The Last Samurai, Field of Dreams), emphysema. [231]
- Kim Ji-hoo, 23, South Korean actor, suicide by hanging. [232]
- Nadia Nerina, 80, South African ballerina. [233]
- Janaka Perera, 62, Sri Lankan general and politician, bomb blast injuries. [234]
- Anne Margrethe Strømsheim, 94, Norwegian resistance member. [235] (Norwegian)
- Sir John Young, 88, Australian jurist, Chief Justice of Victoria (1974–1991), Lieutenant-Governor of Victoria (1974–1995). [236]
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- Ernest Beutler, 80, American hematologist, lymphoma. [237]
- Kim Chan, 93/94?, Chinese-born American actor. [238]
- Leopoldo Elia, 82, Italian legal scholar, President of the Constitutional Court, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1994). [239] (Italian)
- Servando González, 85, Mexican documentary film director. [240]
- Roy K. Moore, 94, American FBI agent known for civil rights investigations, pneumonia. [241]
- Mohamed Moumou, 43, Iraqi al-Qaida second-in-command, shot. [242]
- Howard G. Munson, 84, American judge. [243]
- Iba N'Diaye, 80, Senegalese painter, heart failure. [244]
- Ken Ogata, 71, Japanese actor (The Ballad of Narayama), liver cancer. [245]
- Hans Richter, 89, German actor and director (Emil and the Detectives). [246] (German)
- Lloyd Thaxton, 81, American television personality, multiple myeloma. [247]
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- Harry Bath, 83, Australian rugby league player and coach, after long illness. [248]
- Ted Briggs, 85, British sailor, last survivor of the sinking of HMS Hood. [249]
- Craig Fertig, 66, American football player and coach, kidney failure. [250]
- Al Gallodoro, 95, American jazz musician, after brief illness. [251]
- Derek Jones, 81, British colonial official, Hong Kong Secretary for Economic Services (1973–1976), Environment (1976–1981). [252]
- Levi Kereama, 27, Australian 2003 Australian Idol contestant, apparent suicide by jumping. [253]
- Saul Laskin, 90, Canadian politician, first mayor of Thunder Bay, heart attack. [254]
- Peter Vansittart, 88, British writer. [255]
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- Zulfiqar Ahmed, 82, Pakistani cricketer, cardiac arrest. [256]
- Mahir al-Zubaydi, Iraqi al-Qaeda leader, shot. [257]
- Jean Foyer, 87, French politician, Minister of Justice (1962–1967) and Minister of Health (1972–1973). [258] (French)
- Johnny "J", 39, American hip-hop producer, apparent suicide by jumping. [259]
- Rajendra Singh Lodha, 66, Indian accountant, chairman of the Birla Corporation, heart attack. [260]
- George Thomson, Baron Thomson of Monifieth, 87, British businessman and journalist, MP (1952–1973), viral infection. [261]
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- Bonnie Bluh, 82, American feminist writer, aortic dissection. [262].
- Choi Jin-sil, 39, South Korean actress, suicide by hanging. [263]
- Rob Guest, 58, British-born New Zealand actor and singer, stroke. [264]
- Shaharom Husain, 88, Malaysian historian. [265]
- Kataejar Jibas, 55, Marshallese politician, mayor of Bikini Atoll since 2007, injuries from a car accident. [266]
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- Robert Arthur, 83, American actor (Twelve O'Clock High), heart failure. [267]
- Ian Collier, British actor and singer. [268]
- Robert Couturier, 103, French sculptor. [269] (French)
- Boris Efimov, 109, Russian political cartoonist. [270]
- Daphney Hlomuka, 59, South African actress, kidney cancer. [271]
- Val Jansante, 88, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers). [272]
- Detlef Lewe, 69, German canoeist, 1972 Olympic bronze medalist, after brief illness. [273] (German)
- House Peters, Jr., 92, American actor (Mr. Clean), pneumonia. [274]
- Nick Reynolds, 75, American folk musician (The Kingston Trio), acute respiratory disease. [275]
- LeJuan Simon, 27, Trinidadian athlete, complications of pulmonary hypertension. [276]
- Poornam Viswanathan, 88, Indian actor, multiple organ failure. [277]

