Deaths in July 2008

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The following is a list of notable deaths in July 2008.

July 2008

31

• Falani Aukuso, Tokelauan politician, deputy director general of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community. [1]
• Blagoje Bratić, 62, Bosnian footballer. [2] (Serbian)
• Athos Bulcão, 90, Brazilian painter and sculptor, Parkinson's disease. [3]
• Alice Chalifoux, 100, American harpist with the Cleveland Orchestra (1931–1974). [4]
• Alfonso Dantés, 65, Mexican professional wrestler. [5]
• Hiroshi Ismael, 72, Micronesian politician, Vice President (1987–1991). [6]
• Lee Cheong-joon, 68, South Korean novelist, lung cancer. [7]
• Lee Young, 94, American jazz drummer. [8]

30

• Anne Armstrong, 80, American diplomat and politician, ambassador to the United Kingdom (1976–1977), cancer. [9]
• Peter Coke, 95, British actor (Paul Temple) and playwright. [10]
• Vittorio Fiorucci, 75, Canadian graphic artist, stroke. [11]
• Tim McLean, 22, Canadian homicide victim, stabbed. [12]
• Leif Pettersen, 57, Canadian footballer and sportscaster, heart attack. [13]

29

• Eula Beal, 89, American opera singer. [14]
• Luther Davis, 91, American playwright and screenwriter. [15]
• Edie Huggins, 72, American journalist and reporter (WCAU-TV), lung cancer. [16]
• Bruce Edwards Ivins, 62, American microbiologist suspected of 2001 anthrax attacks, suicide by drug overdose. [17]
• Mate Parlov, 59, Croatian boxer, Olympic and WBC light-heavyweight champion. [18]
• Earlene Risinger, 81, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League). [19]
• Ishmeet Singh Sodhi, 18, Indian singer, drowned. [20]
• Eric Varley, Baron Varley, 75, British politician, Secretary of State for Industry (1975–1979), cancer. [21]
• June Walker, 74, American activist, President of Hadassah. [22]

28

• Pierre Berès, 95, French bookseller. [23]
• Wendo Kolosoy, 83, Congolese musician, after long illness. [24]
• Bob Margarita, 87, American football player (Chicago Bears), pneumonia. [25]
• Midhat Mursi, 55, Egyptian al-Qaida chemical weapons expert, missile strike. [26]
• Margaret Ringenberg, 87, American aviator and airplane racer, natural causes. [27]
• Syahrir, 63, Indonesian economist and political activist, lung cancer. [28]
• Suzanne Tamim, 30, Lebanese singer and actress, stabbed. [29]
• Anatoliy Tyazhlov, 66, Russian politician, governor of Moscow Oblast (1991–2000). [30] (Russian)

27

• Osvaldo Álvarez Guerrero, 67, Argentine politician, cerebral hemorrhage. [31] (Spanish)
• Carl Aschan, 102, Swedish-born British intelligence officer and spy during World War II. [32]
• Marie Kachel Bucher, 98, American teacher, last surviving resident of the Ephrata Cloister. [33]
• Youssef Chahine, 82, Egyptian film director, cerebral hemorrhage. [34]
• Graeme Crallan, 50, British rock drummer (White Spirit, Tank), head injuries from fall. [35]
• Bob Crampsey, 78, British football journalist, after long illness. [36]
• Russ Gibson, 69, American baseball catcher. [37]
• Russell Johnston, Baron Russell-Johnston, 75, British politician, cancer. [38]
• Fenwick Lansdowne, 71, Canadian wildlife artist. [39]
• Marisa Merlini, 84, Italian actress. [40] (Italian)
• Isaac Saba Raffoul, 84, Mexican businessman. [41] (Spanish)
• Julius B. Richmond, 91, American vice admiral, surgeon general (1977–1981), cancer. [42]
• Horst Stein, 80, German conductor. [43] (German)

26

• Daniel Bukantz, 90, American Olympic fencer. [44]
• Bruna Colombetti-Peroncini, 72, Italian Olympic fencer. [45]
• Roland B. Day, 89, American judge, Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice (1974–1996). [46]
• Ed Foster, 59, American technology columnist (InfoWorld), heart attack. [47]
• Ted Hall, 48, American musician and sound mixer, after long illness. [48]
• Chas Messenger, 94, British cyclist. [49]

25

• Bruce Adler, 63, American actor (Crazy for You), liver cancer. [50]
• Bud Browne, 96, American surf film maker. [51]
• Hiram Bullock, 52, American jazz guitarist, throat cancer. [52]
• Harriet Burns, 79, American artist, first woman to work at Walt Disney Imagineering, heart complications. [53]
• Don Callander, 78, American fantasy novel author. [54]
• Jamiel Chagra, 63, American drug trafficker, cancer. [55]
• Michael J. Daly, 83, American Medal of Honor recipient, cancer. [56]
• Jeff Fehring, 53, Australian footballer, suicide. [57]
• Johnny Griffin, 80, American jazz saxophonist. [58]
• Tracy Hall, 88, American physical chemist, Alzheimer's disease. [59]
• Joseph Gérard Lauri P. Landry, 86, Canadian businessman, senator (1996–1997). [60]
• Carrie Allen McCray, 94, American author. [61]
• Randy Pausch, 47, American computer science professor (Carnegie Mellon) and author (The Last Lecture), pancreatic cancer. [62]
• Mikhail Pugovkin, 85, Russian actor, diabetes. [63] (Russian)
• Herizo Razafimahaleo, 53, Malagasy politician, renal failure. [64]

24

• Eddie Davidson, 35, American convicted spammer and prison escapee, suicide by gunshot. [65]
• Norman Dello Joio, 95, American composer, natural causes. [66]
• Zezé Gonzaga, 81, Brazilian singer, natural causes. [67] (Portuguese)
• Robert T. Herres, 75, American Air Force general, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1987–1990), brain cancer. [68]
• David H. Popper, 95, American diplomat, ambassador to Cyprus (1969–1973) and Chile (1974–1977), complications from a fall. [69]

23

• N. Robin Crossby, 54, Canadian game designer, creator of Hârn role-playing system, cancer. [70]
• Kurt Furgler, 84, Swiss member of the Federal Council (1972–1986), heart failure. [71]
• Ahmet Hadžipašić, 56, Bosnian politician, prime minister (2003–2007), heart attack. [72]
• Frank Schweihs, 78, American reputed mafia enforcer, cancer. [73]
• Carol Vitale, 59, American playmate (1974) and talk show host. [74]
• Clay T. Whitehead, 69, American director of White House Office of Telecommunications Policy (1970–1974), prostate cancer. [75]

22

• Joe Beck, 62, American jazz guitarist. [76]
• Helen Brockman, 105, American fashion designer, author and professor, natural causes. [77]
• Greg Burson, 59, American voice actor. [78]
• Helen Gardiner, 70, Canadian philanthropist, pancreatic cancer. [79]
• Estelle Getty, 84, American actress (The Golden Girls), Lewy body dementia. [80]
• Victor A. McKusick, 86, American geneticist, architect of the Human Genome Project, cancer. [81]

21

• Sidney Craig, 76, Canadian entrepreneur and thoroughbred horse owner, co-founder of Jenny Craig, Inc. [82]
• Eric Dowling, 92, British prisoner of war, helped plan The Great Escape from Stalag Luft III. [83]
• Antoni Jaszczak, 62, Polish economist, politician and minister of construction (2006). [84] (Polish)
• El Kazovsky, 58, Russian-born Hungarian painter and artist. [85] (Hungarian)
• Donald Stokes, Baron Stokes, 94, British industrialist and chief executive of British Leyland (1964–1968). [86]
• María Vaner, 73, Argentine actress. [87]
• Adil Zulfikarpašić, 86, Bosnian businessman and philanthropist, natural causes. [88] (Bosnian)

20

• Célio de Castro, 76, Brazilian politician, mayor of Belo Horizonte (1997–2001), natural causes. [89] (Portuguese)
• Yann Richter, 80, Swiss politician, president of the FDP (1978–1984), heart disease. [90] (German)
• Dinko Šakić, 86, Croatian fascist leader of the Independent State of Croatia in World War II, heart failure. [91]
• Artie Traum, 65, American folk singer and guitarist, cancer. [92]
• Charles Z. Wick, 90, American politician, director of USIA (1981–1988), natural causes. [93]

19

• Robert Berning, 73, American grocer, principal wine buyer for Trader Joe's, bone cancer. [94]
• Anastasia Blue, 28, American pornographic actress, drug overdose. [95]
• Sarah Conlon, 82, British campaigner on behalf of Guildford Four and Maguire Seven, lung cancer. [96]
• Dercy Gonçalves, 101, Brazilian actress, pneumonia. [97]
• Samudra Gupta, 62, Bangladeshi poet, gallbladder cancer. [98]
• Jerome Holtzman, 82, American baseball writer, stroke. [99]
• Ann Lambton, 96, British historian, after long illness. [100]
• Robert Nesheim, 86, American nutritionist (Quaker Oats), developed Cap'n Crunch and Life breakfast cereals, prostate cancer. [101]
• Dave Pearson, 70, British painter. [102]

18

• Yardley Chittick, 107, American patent attorney, injuries sustained in a fall. [103]
• Tauno Marttinen, 95, Finnish composer. [104] (Finnish)
• George Niven, 79, British footballer (Rangers, Partick Thistle). [105]
• Khosrow Shakibai, 64, Iranian actor, liver cancer. [106]
• Dennis Townhill, 83, British chorister and organist. [107]
• Peter J. Welsh, 54, Australian footballer (Hawthorn, Richmond), cancer. [108]

17

• Lila T. Abaunza, 79, Nicaraguan first lady (2002–2007), wife of President Enrique Bolaños. [109]
• Creig Flessel, 96, American comic book artist. [110]
• Larry Haines, 89, American actor (Search for Tomorrow). [111]
• John Hunt, Baron Hunt of Tanworth, 88, British civil servant and politician, cabinet secretary (1973–1979). [112]
• Mick Ibbett, 80, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1984–1991). [113]
• Paul Sorensen, 82, American actor (Dallas). [114]
• Sir Graham Speight, 86, New Zealand High Court judge, chief justice of the Cook Islands. [115]
• Ma Prem Usha, 70, Indian tarot card reader and columnist, natural causes. [116]

16

• Roger Landes, 91, British Special Operations Executive agent. [117]
• Sherman Maxwell, 100, American Negro league baseball sportscaster. [118]
• Peanuts O'Flaherty, 90, Canadian ice hockey player. [119]
• Jo Stafford, 90, American traditional pop singer ("You Belong to Me"), heart failure. [120]
• Lindsay Thompson, 84, Australian politician, premier of Victoria (1981–1982), pneumonia. [121]

15

• György Kolonics, 36, Hungarian Olympic canoeing gold medallist (1996, 2000), heart failure. [122]
• Yuri Mikhaylov, 77, Russian speed skater. [123] (Russian)
• Gionata Mingozzi, 23, Italian footballer (Treviso F.B.C. 1993), car accident. [124]
• Steve Peterson, 58, American NASCAR technical director, natural causes. [125]
• Karl Unterkircher, 37, Italian mountaineer and explorer, fall on Nanga Parbat. [126]
• Gennadi Volnov, 68, Russian basketball player for Soviet Union, 1972 Olympic gold medallist. [127]

14

• Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud, 88, Indian jurist, chief justice (1978–1985). [128]
• Bryan Cowgill, 81, British television executive. [129]
• John Danzenbaker, 89, American birdwatcher, pancreatic cancer. [130]
• Henki Kolstad, 93, Norwegian actor. [131]
• Luke Kruytbosch, 47, American race caller, natural causes. [132]
• Teta Lando, 60, Angolan musician, cancer. [133]
• Hugh Lloyd, 85, British actor (Hancock's Half Hour). [134]
• Ong Chit Chung, 59, Singaporean politician. [135]
• Katie Reider, 30, American singer and songwriter, cerebral hemorrhage. [136]
• Riek Schagen, 94, Dutch actress and artist. [137] (Dutch)
• Steven Thomas, 36, American entrepreneur missing since 30 June, body found on this date after fall from Pali Lookout. [138]

13

• Les Crane, 74, American talk show host, Grammy Award winner ("Desiderata"). [139]
• Peter Durack, 81, Australian senator and attorney-general (1977–1983). [140]
• Red Foley, 79, American sportswriter and baseball official scorer. [141]
• Bronisław Geremek, 76, Polish social historian and politician, minister of Foreign Affairs (1997–2000), car accident. [142]
• John Raymond Hobbs, 79, British physician, lung cancer. [143]
• John Mabuku, Namibian politician, governor of Caprivi Region, supporter of Caprivi Strip secessionist movement. [144]
• Dave Ricketts, 73, American baseball player and coach (St. Louis Cardinals), renal cancer. [145]
• Dona Spring, 55, American disability rights activist and Green politician, Berkeley city councilor since 1992, rheumatoid arthritis. [146]
• Gerald Wiggins, 86, American jazz pianist. [147]

12

• Patricia Buckley Bozell, 81, American founder of Catholic journal Triumph, wife of L. Brent Bozell Jr., throat cancer. [148]
• Reinhard Fabisch, 57, German football manager, cancer. [149]
• Bobby Murcer, 62, American baseball player and sportscaster (New York Yankees), brain cancer. [150]
• Earl Lee Nelson, 79, American R&B singer (Bob & Earl, The Hollywood Flames, Jackie Lee), Alzheimer's disease. [151]
• Olive Riley, 108, Australian woman believed to be the world's oldest blogger, natural causes. [152]
• Tony Snow, 53, American White House press secretary (2006–2007), Fox News presenter, colon cancer. [153]
• Tsai Chao-yang, 67, Taiwanese politician, minister of Transportation and Communications, pneumonia. [154] (Chinese)

11

• Joe Barr, 63, American editor and writer. [155]
• Michael E. DeBakey, 99, American cardiovascular surgeon and medical pioneer, natural causes. [156]
• Roy M. Huffington, 90, American oilman, diplomat and philanthropist, natural causes. [157]
• James H. Humphrey, 97, American physical education educator and researcher. [158]
• Mike Kleinhenz, 56, American voice actor, heart attack. [159]
• Breno Mello, 76, Brazilian actor (Black Orpheus) and footballer. [160]
• Chuck Stobbs, 79, American baseball pitcher, cancer. [161]

10

• Hiroaki Aoki, 69, Japanese-born American founder of Benihana restaurants, pneumonia. [162]
• Bernard Cahier, 81, French Formula One photojournalist. [163]
• Archie McCardell, 81, American business executive (Xerox, International Harvester). [164]
• Steve Mingori, 64, American baseball player (Kansas City Royals), natural causes. [165]
• Ayub K. Ommaya, 78, Pakistani neurosurgeon, Alzheimer's disease. [166]
• William W. Robertson, 66, American lawyer. [167]
• Mike Souchak, 81, American golfer, complications of heart attack. [168]
• Ahmad Suradji, 57, Indonesian serial killer, execution by firing squad. [169]
• Yoji Totsuka, 66, Japanese particle physicist, colorectal cancer. [170]
• Vindication, 8, American champion racehorse, euthanized. [171]

9

• Séamus Brennan, 60, Irish politician, prostate cancer. [172]
• Charles H. Joffe, 78, American film producer (Annie Hall), after long illness. [173]
• Sherman Lee, 90, American director of the Cleveland Museum of Art (1958–1983). [174]
• J. Murdoch Ritchie, 83, American biophysicist. [175]

8

• Alex d'Arbeloff, 80, American entrepreneur. [176]
• Dagfinn Næss, 74, Norwegian Olympic boxer. [177]
• Erling Rønneberg, 84, Norwegian resistance trainer and politician, mayor of Ski (1958–1990). [178] (Norwegian)
• Sir John Templeton, 95, British businessman and philanthropist, pneumonia. [179]

7

• Princess Sultana bint Abdulaziz Al-Saud, 80, Saudi sister of King Abdullah. [180]
• Bruce Conner, 74, American artist, natural causes. [181]
• Bruce Dalling, 69, South African yachtsman, heart attack. [182]
• Yitzchok Dovid Groner, 83, Australian Chabad rabbi. [183]
• Dorian Leigh, 91, American fashion model (Revlon), sister of Suzy Parker, Alzheimer's disease. [184]
• Clem McSpadden, 82, American politician, congressman from Oklahoma (1973–1975), cancer. [185]
• Hugh Mendl, 88, British record producer. [186]
• Giovanni Viola, 82, Italian football goalkeeper, natural causes. [187] (Italian)
• Fred Yates, 85, British painter. [188]

6

• Bob Ackles, 69, Canadian executive for the CFL's BC Lions, heart attack. [189]
• George Ambo, 85, Papua New Guinean Archbishop. [190]
• Jack C. Collins, 78, Australian footballer, premiership winner with Footscray (1954), heart attack. [191]
• Bobby Durham, 71, American jazz drummer. [192]
• Ambuya Mlambo, 84, Zimbabwean radio and television presenter, cancer. [193]
• Nonna Mordyukova, 82, Russian actress, diabetes. [194] (Russian)
• Mando Ramos, 59, American professional boxer. [195]
• George Tibbits, 74, Australian architect and composer. [196]

5

• Hasan Doğan, 52, Turkish president of the national football federation, cardiac arrest. [197]
• René Harris, 60, Nauruan president (1999–2000, 2001–2003, 2003, 2003–2004), cardiac arrest. [198]
• Huyền Quang, 88, Vietnamese religious leader, supreme patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam. [199]

4

• Thomas M. Disch, 68, American science fiction author (Camp Concentration, The Brave Little Toaster), suicide. [200]
• Jesse Helms, 86, American politician, senator from North Carolina (1973–2003), natural causes. [201]
• Evelyn Keyes, 91, American actress (Gone With the Wind), uterine cancer. [202]
• Terrence Kiel, 27, American football player (San Diego Chargers), car crash. [203]
• Wayne Pai, 55, Taiwanese businessman, founding chairman of Polaris Group, suicide. [204]
• Agneta Prytz, 91, Swedish actress, wife of Gösta Folke. [205]
• Janwillem van de Wetering, 77, Dutch writer. [206]
• Sir Charles Wheeler, 85, British journalist, longest serving BBC foreign correspondent, lung cancer. [207]

3

• Dan Cook, 81, American journalist (San Antonio Express-News, KENS-TV). [208]
• Ernie Cooksey, 28, British footballer (Oldham Athletic, Grays Athletic), melanoma. [209]
• Larry Harmon, 83, American entertainer (Bozo the Clown), heart failure. [210]
• Harald Heide-Steen Jr., 68, Norwegian actor and comedian, lung cancer. [211] (Norwegian)
• Clive Hornby, 63, British actor (Emmerdale), hypoxia. [212]
• Kat Kinkade, 77, American co-founder of Twin Oaks Community, cancer. [213]
• Annabelle Lee, 86, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League). [214]
• Jean-Pierre Muller, 83, French Olympic fencer. [215] (French)
• David P. Powers, 74, American Emmy Award-winning television director, skin cancer. [216]
• Oliver Schroer, 53, Canadian fiddler, leukemia. [217]
• John Sedwick, American television director. [218]
• Sayed Umerali Shihab Thangal, 66, Indian qadi, cancer. [219]

2

• Abdel Wahab Elmessiri, 70, Egyptian scholar and politician, cancer. [220]
• Glencairn Balfour Paul, 90, British diplomat. [221]
• Joe Nhlanhla, 71, South African politician, minister of Intelligence Services (1999–2001). [222]
• Simone Ortega, 89, Spanish culinary author. [223]
• Natasha Shneider, 52, Russian-born American actress (2010: The Year We Make Contact) and musician (Eleven), cancer. [224]
• Elizabeth Spriggs, 78, British stage, television and film actress (Sense and Sensibility, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone). [225]

1

• Keith Charles, 74, American actor, lung cancer. [226]
• Clay Felker, 82, American editor and journalist (New York magazine), throat cancer. [227]
• Mel Galley, 60, British guitarist (Trapeze, Whitesnake, Phenomena), esophageal cancer. [228]
• Mogens Glistrup, 82, Danish politician, lawyer and founder of the Progress Party. [229] (Danish)
• Robert Harling, 98, British typographer. [230]
• Dejan Medaković, 85, Serbian writer, historian, professor, president of Academy of Sciences and Arts (1999–2003). [231] (Serbian)
• John Pont, 80, American college football coach. [232]
• Mark Dean Schwab, 39, American murderer, execution by lethal injection. [233]