Deaths in February 2009

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The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2009.

February 2009

28

• Tomás Altamirano, 49, Panamanian politician, National Assembly deputy, traffic accident. [1]
• Mark H. Beers, 54, American geriatrician, complications from diabetes. [2]
• Ode Burrell, 69, American football player (Houston Oilers), complications from diabetes. [3]
• Paul Harvey, 90, American radio broadcaster. [4]
• Johnny Holiday, 96, American actor. [5]
• Alvin Klein, 73, American theater critic, heart attack. [6]
• Al Lewis, 84, American children's television host, natural causes. [7]
• Miguel Serrano, 91, Chilean poet, diplomat and neo-Nazi, stroke. [8] (Spanish)
• Tom Sturdivant, 78, American baseball player (New York Yankees). [9]

27

• John Alvin, 91, American actor, complications of a fall. [10]
• Alan Landers, 68, American smoking model turned opponent, throat and lung cancer. [11]
• Robert E. A. Lee, 87, American documentary film producer, cancer. [12]
• James Page Mackey, 95, Canadian chief of Toronto Police Service (1958–1970). [13]
• Manea Mănescu, 92, Romanian Prime Minister (1974–1979). [14]
• Alastair McCorquodale, 83, British athlete and cricketer, silver medallist at the 1948 Summer Olympics. [15]
• John Francis Marchment Middleton, 87, British anthropologist. [16]
• Gerriet Postma, 76, Dutch painter. [17] (Dutch)
• Dorothea Holt Redmond, 98, American movie artist and illustrator. [18]
• Geoffrey Smith, 80, British gardening expert and presenter. [19]

26

• Rick Beckett, 54, American radio broadcaster (WOOD (AM)), heart attack. [20]
• Ruth Drexel, 78, German actress (Der Bulle von Tölz). [21] (German)
• Johnny Kerr, 76, American basketball player, coach, and color commentator (Chicago Bulls), prostate cancer. [22]
• Sir Michael Quinlan, 78, British civil servant, Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Defence (1988–1992). [23]
• Wendy Richard, 65, British actress (Are You Being Served?, EastEnders), breast cancer. [24]
• Nell Soto, 82, American politician, member of the California State Senate (2000–2006), complications from stroke. [25]
• Wilbert Tatum, 76, American publisher (New York Amsterdam News), multiple organ failure. [26]
• Norm Van Lier, 61, American basketball player (Chicago Bulls). [27]

25

• Randall Bewley, 53, American guitarist (Pylon), heart attack. [28]
• Ian Carr, 75, British writer and musician (Nucleus), after long illness. [29]
• Philip José Farmer, 91, American writer (Riverworld). [30]
• Bill Holm, 65, American author and poet, heart attack. [31]
• Molly Kool, 93, Canadian sailor, North America's first licensed female sea captain. [32]
• Roger C. Kormendi, 59, American economist, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease. [33]
• Howard Menger, 87, American ufologist. [34]
• Atieno Odhiambo, 63, Kenyan academic, dementia. [35]
• Clarence Swensen, 91, American actor (munchkin in The Wizard of Oz), complications of a stroke. [36]

24

• Jean Battersby, 80, Australian arts executive, esophageal cancer. [37]
• Ed Cray, 50, American actor. [38]
• Svatopluk Havelka, 83, Czech composer. [39] (Czech)
• Edward Judd, 76, British actor (The Day the Earth Caught Fire). [40]
• Antoinette K-Doe, 66, American bar owner, heart attack. [41]
• Pearl Lang, 87, American dancer and choreographer, heart attack. [42]
• Dondi Ledesma, 50, Filipino bassist, heart failure. [43]
• James D. McGinnis, 77, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Delaware (1977–1981), cancer. [44]
• Max Théret, 96, French businessman, founder of the Fnac electronics retailer. [45]

23

• Marie Boas Hall, 89, American historian. [46]
• Tom Cole, 75, American screenwriter and playwright, multiple myeloma. [47]
• Sverre Fehn, 84, Norwegian architect. [48]
• Lorna Frampton, 88, British Olympic swimmer. [49]
• Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook, 96, Canadian portrait sculptor. [50]
• August Kiuru, 86, Finnish Olympic silver medal-winning (1948, 1956) cross-country skier. [51]
• Seppo Kolehmainen, 76, Finnish actor, after long illness. [52] (Finnish)
• James Leslie, 50, British politician, member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for North Antrim (1998–2003), heart attack. [53]
• Noel Martin, 86, American graphic designer, leukemia. [54]
• Laurence Payne, 89, British actor (Sexton Blake). [55]
• Tuulikki Pietilä, 92, Finnish graphic artist. [56]
• Franciszek Starowieyski, 78, Polish artist. [57]
• Scott Symons, 75, Canadian writer. [58]
• David Taylor, 79, American banker. [59]

22

• Candido Cannavò, 78, Italian sports journalist, editor-in-chief of La Gazzetta dello Sport (1983–2002), cerebral hemorrhage. [60]
• Barbara Marshall, 64, American journalist and politician, member of the Honolulu City Council since 2002, colon cancer. [61]
• Rhena Schweitzer Miller, 90, American humanitarian, daughter of Albert Schweitzer. [62]
• Derrell Palmer, 86, American football player (Cleveland Browns), natural causes. [63]
• Paul Joseph Pham Dinh Tung, 89, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate and cardinal, Archbishop of Hanoi (1994–2005). [64]
• Howard Zieff, 81, American film director (Private Benjamin), complications from Parkinson's disease. [65]

21

• Ian Alger, 82, American psychiatrist, heart failure. [66]
• Fannie Kauffman, 84, Canadian-born Mexican actress and comedian, natural causes. [67] (Spanish)
• Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, 79, Russian-born Israeli mathematician, Parkinson's disease. [68]
• Mary Printz, 82, American switchboard operator, inspiration for Bells Are Ringing. [69]
• Wilton G. S. Sankawulo, 71, Liberian politician and academic, Chairman of the Council of State (1995–1996), heart failure. [70]
• Victor Zarnowitz, 89, Polish-born American economist, heart attack. [71]

20

• Marcella Althaus-Reid, 56, Argentine-born British Queer theologian, Professor of Contextual Theology (University of Edinburgh). [72]
• Friedrich Berentzen, 81, German industrialist. [73] (German)
• James I. C. Boyd, 87, British railway historian. [74]
• Fine Cotton, 31, Australian Thoroughbred racehorse involved in sports betting substitution scandal. [75]
• Antonio De Rosso, 68, Italian religious leader, founder of the Orthodox Church in Italy. [76] (Italian)
• Mary Jacobus, 52, American journalist, cerebral hemorrhage. [77]
• William Jorden, 85, American journalist and diplomat, lung cancer. [78]
• Larry H. Miller, 64, American businessman, owner of the Utah Jazz, complications of diabetes. [79]
• Christopher Nolan, 43, Irish author, winner of the Whitbread Prize (1988), pulmonary aspiration. [80]
• Julius Nota, 37, Slovak footballer and coach, stabbed. [81] (Slovak)
• Robert Quarry, 83, American film and television actor. [82]
• Fats Sadi, 81, Belgian jazz musician, vocalist and composer. [83]
• Socks, 19, American Presidential cat of the Clinton family, euthanized. [84]
• Shraga Weil, 90, Israeli painter. [85] (Hebrew)

19

• Chet Bulger, 91, American football player (Chicago Cardinals), natural causes. [86]
• Ronald Dearing, Baron Dearing, 78, British life peer and civil servant, cancer. [87]
• Kelly Groucutt, 63, British bass guitar player (Electric Light Orchestra), heart attack. [88]
• Edmund Hlawka, 92, Austrian mathematician. [89]
• Ibrahim Hussein, 72, Malaysian artist, heart attack. [90]
• Ian L. Jenkins, 64, British public official, Surgeon General (2002–2006), Constable and Governor of Windsor Castle (2008–2009). [91]
• Oreste Lionello, 81, Italian actor, entertainer and film dubber, after long illness. [92]
• Nonnie Moore, 87, American fashion editor (GQ, Harper's Bazaar), choking accident. [93]
• Keith W. Nolan, 44, American military historian. [94]
• Harrison Ridley Jr., 70, American jazz presenter, after short illness. [95]
• Miika Tenkula, 34, Finnish guitarist and songwriter (Sentenced). [96]
• Anna Watt, 85, British entertainer (Fran and Anna), natural causes. [97]
• Thomas Jerome Welsh, 87, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Allentown (1983–1997). [98]
• James White, 86, British politician, MP for Glasgow Pollok (1970–1987). [99]

18

• Jacques Bino, 50, French Guadeloupean trade union official, shot. [100]
• Viking Björk, 90, Swedish surgeon. [101]
• J. Max Bond, Jr., 73, American architect, cancer. [102]
• Snooks Eaglin, 73, American guitarist, heart attack. [103]
• Raymond Alvah Hanson, 85, American inventor. [104]
• John Kanzius, 64, American inventor, pneumonia. [105]
• Robert Luff, 94, British theatre producer and impresario. [106]
• Tayeb Salih, 80, Sudanese writer (Season of Migration to the North). [107]
• Kamila Skolimowska, 26, Polish hammer thrower, 2000 Olympics gold medalist, pulmonary embolism. [108]
• Andrew Tsien Chih-ch'un, 83, Taiwanese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Hwalien (1992–2001), heart attack. [109]

17

• Doris Abrahams, 88, American theatrical producer (Equus), heart failure. [110]
• Eric Blau, 87, American theatrical producer (Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris), pneumonia. [111]
• Conchita Cintrón, 86, Chilean-born Portuguese bullfighter, heart attack. [112] (Portuguese)
• Edhi Handoko, 48, Indonesian chess grandmaster, heart attack. [113]
• Victor Kiernan, 95, British historian. [114]
• Gazanfer Özcan, 78, Turkish actor, respiratory disease. [115]
• Robert Robideau, 61, American Native Americans activist. [116]
• Shabnam Romani, 80, Pakistani poet and writer, after long illness. [117]
• Gyula Sáringer, 81, Hungarian agronomist. [118] (Hungarian)
• Brad Van Pelt, 57, American football player (New York Giants), heart attack. [119]
• Mike Whitmarsh, 46, American beach volleyball and basketball player, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. [120]

16

• Dorothy Bridges, 93, American actress and poet, wife of Lloyd Bridges, mother of Beau and Jeff Bridges, age-related causes. [121]
• Konrad Dannenberg, 96, German-born American rocket scientist, natural causes. [122]
• Sir Ernest Harrison, 82, British businessman. [123]
• Stephen Kim Sou-hwan, 86, South Korean Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Seoul (1968–1998). [124]
• Edward Salia, 56, Ghanaian politician, Minister of State (1995), throat infection. [125]
• Travis, 14, American-born chimpanzee, television commercial animal, shot. [126]

15

• Joe Cuba, 78, American musician, complications of a bacterial infection. [127]
• Noble Doss, 88, American football player. [128]
• Diether Haenicke, 73, American academic, Western Michigan University President (1985–1998, 2006–2007), head injury. [129]
• William R. Sharpe, Jr., 80, American politician, West Virginia Senate (1960–1980, 1984–2009), President pro tem (1990–2009). [130]
• Carl Venne, 62, American Chairman of the Crow Nation since 2002, natural causes. [131]

14

• Sir Bernard Ashley, 82, British businessman, cancer. [132]
• Louie Bellson, 84, American jazz drummer, complications from Parkinson's disease. [133]
• Luís Andrés Edo, 82, Spanish anarchist. [134]
• Kjersti Graver, 63, Norwegian public servant, Consumer Ombudsman (1987–1995). [135] (Norwegian)
• Buck Griffin, 85, American rockabilly musician, heart failure. [136]
• Alfred A. Knopf, Jr., 90, American publisher, son of Alfred A. Knopf, complications from fall. [137]
• John McGlinn, 55, American conductor and historian of musicals. [138]
• Boris Yavitz, 85, Georgian-born American academic, dean of Columbia Business School (1975–1982), prostate cancer. [139]

13

• Gianna Maria Canale, 81, Italian actress. [140] (Italian)
• Joe Goldstein, 81, American sports promoter, heart attack and stroke. [141]
• Geshe Gyeltsen, 85, Tibetan spiritual leader, founder of Thubten Dhargye Ling. [142]
• Alfred J. Kahn, 90, American child welfare expert. [143]
• Jean Laroyenne, 78, French Olympic bronze medal-winning (1952) fencer. [144]
• Dilys Laye, 74, British actress, cancer. [145]
• Julius Patching, 92, Australian Olympic official. [146]
• Corky Trinidad, 69, Filipino-born American cartoonist, pancreatic cancer. [147]
• Edward Upward, 105, British writer. [148]
• Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh, 83, Azerbaijani poet, after long illness. [149]

12

• Hermann Becht, 69, German opera singer. [150] (German)
• Vasanti N. Bhat-Nayak, 70 or 71, Indian professor of combinatorics and graph theory.^{[citation needed]}
• Giacomo Bulgarelli, 68, Italian footballer, after long illness. [151]
• Alison Des Forges, 66, American human rights activist, plane crash. [152]
• Beverly Eckert, 57, American 9/11 widow and activist, member of 9/11 Family Steering Committee, plane crash. [153]
• Evan Ira Farber, 87, American Faculty Emeritus (Earlham College). [154]
• Ed Grothus, 85, American anti-nuclear activist, cancer. [155]
• Lis Hartel, 87, Danish equestrian. [156]
• Hugh Leonard, 82, Irish playwright, multiple ailments. [157]
• Mat Mathews, 84, Dutch jazz accordionist. [158] (Dutch)
• Coleman Mellett, 34, American jazz guitarist (Chuck Mangione's band), plane crash. [159]
• Domenica Niehoff, 63, German prostitution activist, complications from lung disease. [160]
• Gerry Niewood, 65, American jazz saxophonist (Chuck Mangione's band), plane crash. [161]
• Malcolm Toon, 92, American ambassador (Czechoslovakia 1969–71, Yugoslavia 1971–75, Israel 1975–76, USSR 1976–79). [162]
• Ted Uhlaender, 68, American baseball player (Twins, Indians, Reds), heart attack. [163]
• Aasiya Zubair, 37, American businesswoman, co-founder of Bridges TV, beheaded. [164]

11

• Estelle Bennett, 67, American singer (The Ronettes), colon cancer. [165]
• Virgil Lee Griffin, 64, American Ku Klux Klan leader. [166]
• Willem Johan Kolff, 97, Dutch-born American physician, inventor of the artificial kidney. [167]
• Sir Peter Leng, 83, British Army General. [168]
• Penny Ramsey, Australian actress, cancer. [169]
• Rail Rzayev, 64, Azerbaijani general, head of the Air Force, shot. [170]
• Marina Svetlova, 86, French-born American ballerina and teacher, complications from stroke. [171]
• Mildred Wolfe, 96, American artist, after long illness. [172]

10

• Jan Błoński, 78, Polish literary critic, Holocaust scholar. [173]
• Carolyn George, 81, American dancer and photographer, primary lateral sclerosis. [174]
• Leila Hadley, 83, American travel writer. [175]
• Philippe Kourouma, 76, Guinean Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of N’Zérékoré. [176]
• Berting Labra, 75, Filipino character actor, emphysema. [177]
• Jeremy Lusk, 24, American motocross racer, brain injury. [178]
• Jean-Baptiste Mintsa-Mi-Mba, 60, Gabonese politician. [179] (French)

9

• Robert Woodruff Anderson, 91, American Academy Award–nominated playwright and screenwriter, pneumonia. [180]
• Kazys Bradūnas, 91, Lithuanian émigré, poet and editor. [181] (Lithuanian)
• Marc Burrows, 30, British footballer, cancer. [182]
• Gareth Alban Davies, 82, British academic and poet. [183]
• Reg Davies, 79, British footballer. [184]
• Eluana Englaro, 38, Italian patient in right to die case, withdrawal of nutrition. [185]
• Neville Hamilton, 48, British footballer. [186]
• Vic Lewis, 89, British jazz guitarist. [187]
• Orlando "Cachaito" López, 76, Cuban bassist (Buena Vista Social Club), complications from prostate surgery. [188]
• Don Maclennan, 79, South African poet and playwright. [189]
• Maria Orwid, 78, Polish psychiatrist. [190]
• Peer Portner, 69, Kenyan-born British developer of ventricular assist device, cancer. [191]
• Sean F. Scott, 39, American ALS activist, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [192]

8

• Guy Chichester, 73, American activist, founding member of Clamshell Alliance. [193]
• Marian Cozma, 26, Romanian handball player, stabbed. [194]
• Sigurdur Helgason, 87, Icelandic business executive, CEO of Icelandair and pioneer of low cost airlines. [195]
• Wesley L. McDonald, 84, American admiral and naval aviator. [196]
• Neil McNeill, 87, Australian politician, member of the House of Representatives (1961–1963). [197]
• Terry Spencer, 90, British RAF fighter pilot and war photographer, cancer. [198]
• Bob Stephen, 50, Canadian football player, heart attack. [199]

7

• Molly Bee, 69, American country singer ("I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"), complications from a stroke. [200]
• Jack Cover, 88, American scientist, inventor of the Taser, pneumonia. [201]
• Blossom Dearie, 82, American jazz singer and pianist (Schoolhouse Rock!), after long illness. [202]
• Reg Evans, 80, Australian actor, bushfire. [203]
• John Gabler, 78, American baseball pitcher (New York Yankees, Washington Senators). [204]
• Sir George Godber, 100, British physician and public servant, Chief Medical Officer (1960–1973). [205]
• Richard Gordon, 61, British author, heart attack. [206] (Chinese)
• Joe Haverty, 72, Irish football player. [207]
• Betty Jameson, 89, American golfer, three-time major championship winner. [208]
• Jacques Lancelot, 88, French clarinetist, heart failure. [209] (Japanese)
• Mel Kaufman, 50, American football player (Washington Redskins). [210]
• Brian Naylor, 78, Australian news presenter, bushfire. [211]
• Jorge Reyes, 56, Mexican musician (Chac Mool), heart attack. [212] (Spanish)
• Sarah Roache, 60, British actress. [213]
• Piotr Stańczak, 42, Polish geologist, beheaded. [214]
• Richard Zann, 64, Australian ornithologist, bushfire. [215]

6

• Bashir Ahmad, 68, Indian-born Scottish politician, MSP for Glasgow region, heart attack. [216]
• Philip Carey, 83, American actor (One Life to Live), lung cancer. [217]
• Alfred Flores, 92, Guamanian rancher and politician, member of the Legislature of Guam. [218]
• George Karpati, 74, Canadian neurologist. [219]
• Boubacar Joseph Ndiaye, 86, Senegalese curator of the House of Slaves Memorial. [220]
• Shirley Jean Rickert, 82, American actress (Our Gang), after long illness. [221]
• Susan Walsh, 60, American actress, natural causes. [222]
• James Whitmore, 87, American Academy Award–nominated actor, lung cancer. [223]

5

• Sigurd Andersson, 82, Swedish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1952) cross-country skier. [224] (Swedish)
• Albert Barillé, 88, French television screenwriter and producer. [225] (German)
• John W. Grace, 82, Canadian Privacy Commissioner (1983–1990), heart attack. [226]
• Khalid Hasan, 74, Pakistani journalist and author, cancer. [227]
• George Hughes, 83, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers). [228]
• Payton Jordan, 91, American coach of 1968 United States Olympic track and field team, cancer. [229]
• Leo Orenstein, 89, Canadian director, producer and writer. [230]
• Raaphi Persitz, 74, Israeli chess master. [231]
• Dana Vávrová, 41, Czech-born German actress and film director, cancer. [232] (German)
• Noah Weinberg, 78, American-born Israeli rabbi, founder of Aish HaTorah. [233]
• Xiangzhong Yang, 49, Chinese-born American stem cell scientist, cancer. [234]

4

• Antonie Dixon, 40, New Zealand murderer, suicide. [235]
• Christophe Dupouey, 40, French cyclist, World Cross Country Champion (1996), suicide. [236]
• Arnljot Eggen, 85, Norwegian writer. [237] (Norwegian)
• Herbert Hamrol, 106, American centenarian, one of the last survivors of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, pneumonia. [238]
• Ramón Hernández, 68, Puerto Rican baseball player. [239] (Spanish)
• Lux Interior, 62, American singer, songwriter and musician (The Cramps), aortic dissection. [240]
• Ed Schwartz, 62, American radio personality, kidney and heart disease. [241]
• Mark Shepherd, 86, American chairman of Texas Instruments (1976–1988), complications from pulmonary fibrosis. [242]
• David Snow, 84, British ornithologist. [243]
• Dave Willson, 62, British lighting designer. [244]

3

• Ben Blank, 87, American television graphics innovator (CBS, ABC), complications from a stroke. [245]
• Tom Brumley, 73, American steel guitarist (The Buckaroos), heart attack. [246]
• Rabindra Kumar DasGupta, 93, Indian scholar of Bengali and English literature. [247]
• Kurt Demmler, 65, German songwriter, suicide by hanging. [248]
• Sid Finney, 79, British ice hockey player. [249]
• Millard Fuller, 74, American co-founder of Habitat for Humanity International, after short illness. [250]
• Warren Kimbro, 74, American Black Panther, convicted murderer and charitable organization executive, heart attack. [251]
• Mike Maloy, 59, American-born Austrian basketball player, influenza. [252]
• Max Neuhaus, 69, American musician, cancer. [253]
• António dos Reis Rodrigues, 90, Portuguese Roman Catholic prelate Bishop of Madarsuma (1966–1998). [254]
• Jorge Serguera, 76, Cuban journalist, President of the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television (death announced on this date). [255]
• Sheng-yen, 79, Chinese-born Taiwanese Buddhist Zen master, kidney disease. [256]
• Pavlo Zahrebelnyi, 84, Ukrainian writer, after long illness. [257]

2

• Donald Alexander, 87, American government official, Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (1973–1977), cancer. [258]
• Paul Birch, 46, British footballer, bone cancer. [259]
• Ralph Carpenter, 99, American antiques and architecture preservationist, natural causes. [260]
• Lublin Dilja, 51, Albanian ambassador. [261]
• Yusril Djalinus, 64, Indonesian journalist, co-founder of Tempo Magazine, stroke. [262]
• Russ Germain, 62, Canadian radio presenter, lung cancer. [263]
• Paul Galloway, 74, American journalist (Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune), heart attack. [264]
• Susan Hibbert, 84, British secretary, last surviving British witness to signing of the World War II German Instrument of Surrender. [265]
• Howard Kanovitz, 79, American painter, bacterial infection after heart surgery. [266]
• Ralph Kaplowitz, 89, American basketball player (New York Knicks), kidney failure. [267]
• Fredrik Kayser, 90, Norwegian resistance fighter during World War II, after long illness. [268] (Norwegian)
• James E. Long, 68, American politician, North Carolina Commissioner of Insurance (1985–2009), complications of a stroke. [269]
• Jean Martin, 86, French actor (The Battle of Algiers, The Day of the Jackal), cancer. [270] (French)
• Ezzat Negahban, c. 82, Iranian archaeologist. [271] (Persian)
• Joe M. Rodgers, 75, American construction executive, Ambassador to France (1985–1989), cancer. [272]
• Sunny Skylar, 95, American songwriter. [273]
• Jim Wilson, 67, American football player (San Francisco 49ers) and wrestler, cancer. [274]
• Kazuhiro Yamauchi, 76, Japanese baseball player, liver failure. [275]

1

• Charles W. Akers, 88, American historian. [276]
• Joe Ades, 74, American salesman. [277]
• Anna Donald, 42, Australian epidemiologist, breast cancer. [278]
• Lukas Foss, 86, American composer, conductor, pianist and educator, heart attack. [279]
• Tim Grundy, 50, British radio and television presenter, heart attack. [280]
• Michael Homer, 50, American business executive (Netscape), Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. [281]
• Ranbir Singh Hooda, 94, Indian politician, after long illness. [282]
• Peter Howson, 89, Australian politician, Minister for Air (1964–1968) and Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (1971–1972), fall. [283]
• John A. Knight, c. 78, American church leader, General Superintendent of the Church of the Nazarene (1985–2001). [284]
• Arieh Levavi, 96, Lithuanian-born Israeli public servant, Ambassador to Argentina during capture of Adolf Eichmann. [285] (Hebrew)
• Sir Alan Muir Wood, 87, British civil engineer. [286]
• Yoya Martínez, 96, Chilean actress, natural causes. [287] (Spanish)
• Jim McWithey, 81, American race car driver. [288]
• Roy Magee, 79, Northern Irish peace activist. [289]
• Edward Joseph O'Donnell, 77, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Lafayette (1994–2002). [290]

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