Deaths in July 2009

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The following is a list of deaths in July 2009.

July 2009

31

• Sir Edward Folmer Archdale, 3rd Baronet, 87, British Royal Navy officer. [1]
• Tim Guest, 34, British writer, suspected heart attack. [2]
• David Hawkes, 86, British sinologist. [3]
• Ted Nierenberg, 86, American entrepreneur, founder of Dansk International Designs, pancreatic cancer. [4]
• Sir Bobby Robson, 76, British footballer and manager, lung cancer. [5]
• Harry Alan Towers, 88, British film producer and screenwriter, after short illness. [6]

30

• Yuri Kurnenin, 55, Belarussian football player and coach. [7] (Russian)
• Joy Langan, 66, Canadian politician, MP for Mission—Coquitlam (1988–1993), breast cancer. [8]
• Yoshihisa Maitani, 76, Japanese camera designer. [9]
• Mohammed Yusuf, 39, Nigerian sect leader (Boko Haram), shot. [10]
• Peter Zadek, 83, German stage director, film director and screenwriter, illness. [11] (German)

29

• Dina Babbitt, 86, Czech-born American artist and Holocaust survivor, abdominal cancer. [12]
• Rajan P. Dev, 58, Indian actor, after short illness. [13]
• Gayatri Devi, 90, Indian royal, last Maharani of Jaipur (1939–1970), paralytic ileus. [14]
• Steve Fiorilla, 48, American artist. [15]
• Joanne Jordan, 88, American actress and spokesmodel, Parkinson's disease. [16]
• Ernest W. Lefever, 90, American foreign policy expert, founder of Ethics and Public Policy Center, dementia with Lewy bodies. [17]
• Paul McGrillen, 37, Scottish footballer (Motherwell F.C.). [18]
• Olga A. Méndez, 84, American politician, New York State Senator (1978–2004), breast cancer. [19]
• Steven Miessner, 48, American Academy Awards administrator, heart attack. [20]
• Renato Pagliari, 69, Italian-born British singer (Renée and Renato), brain cancer. [21]
• Zhuo Lin, 93, Chinese consultant, widow of Deng Xiaoping. [22]

28

• Hermann J. Huber, 54, German journalist and writer, myocardial infarction. [23] (German)
• Reverend Ike, 74, American evangelist, stroke. [24]
• Jim Johnson, 68, American football coach (Philadelphia Eagles), melanoma. [25]
• Kaori Kawamura, 38, Japanese singer, breast cancer. [26]
• Brian Mears, 78, British Chairman of Chelsea Football Club (1969–1991). [27]
• Leela Naidu, 69, Indian actress, Miss India (1954), after long illness. [28]
• Bernard Rosenthal, 94, American sculptor, stroke. [29]
• Peter Tahourdin, 80, British-born Australian composer. [30]

27

• Bernadette Cozart, 62, American gardener, urban gardening advocate, heart attack. [31]
• Dick Holub, 87, American basketball player (NY Knicks) and coach (FDU). [32]
• Domingos Lam, 81, Chinese Roman Catholic bishop of Macau. [33] (Chinese)
• Lee Orr, 92, Canadian Olympic athlete. [34]
• Luis Quintana, 57, Puerto Rican baseball player (California Angels), natural causes. [35]
• George Russell, 86, American jazz composer, complications from Alzheimer's disease. [36]
• Larry Siemering, 98, American college football head coach, complications from a fall. [37]
• Sybil, British Downing Street cat, Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office (2007–2008), after short illness. [38]
• Aeronwy Thomas, 66, British translator and writer, daughter of Dylan Thomas, cancer. [39]
• Michaël Zeeman, 50, Dutch literary critic, journalist, poet and writer, brain cancer. [40] (Dutch)

26

• John Brockway, 80, British swimmer. [41]
• Traugott Buhre, 80, German actor. [42] (German)
• Bhaskar Chandavarkar, 73, Indian sitarist and composer, cancer. [43]
• Merce Cunningham, 90, American choreographer, natural causes. [44]
• Richard Ferguson, 73, British barrister, Queen's Counsel for Northern Ireland and former politician. [45]
• Clayton Hill, 78, American actor (Dawn of the Dead, Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth), complications from pneumonia. [46]
• Lois Hunt, 84, American lyric soprano, complications from cardiac surgery. [47]
• Marcey Jacobson, 97, American photographer of indigenous peoples in Mexico, heart failure. [48]
• James E. King, 69, American politician, Florida state senator since 1999, pancreatic cancer. [49]
• Maria Sílvia, 65, Brazilian actress, lung cancer. [50] (Portuguese)
• Michael Steinberg, 80, American musicologist. [51]
• Sérgio Viotti, 82, Brazilian actor, cardiac arrest. [52] (Portuguese)
• Jerry Yanover, 62, Canadian political advisor. [53]

25

• Yasmin Ahmad, 51, Malaysian film director, brain hemorrhage. [54]
• Rick Bryan, 47, American football player (Atlanta Falcons), heart attack. [55]
• Gladys Bustamante, 97, Jamaican trade unionist and activist, wife of Prime Minister Alexander Bustamante. [56]
• Vernon Forrest, 38, American boxer, shot. [57]
• Gerald Gardner, 83, Irish-born American mathematician, evidence led to ban on sex-segregated classified advertising. leukemia. [58]
• Ken Major, 80, British architect. [59]
• Stanley Middleton, 89, British author, cancer. [60]
• Harry Patch, 111, British supercentenarian, fourth-last surviving World War I veteran. [61]
• Sarath Ranawaka, 58, Sri Lankan politician, after short illness. [62]

24

• Alexis Cohen, 25, American singer, American Idol contestant, hit-and-run. [63]
• José Carlos da Costa Araújo, 47, Brazilian goalkeeper, reserve at 1990 World Cup, abdominal cancer. [64] (Portuguese)
• Omar Dani, 85, Indonesian Commander of the National Air Force (1962–1965). [65]
• Friedrich Goldmann, 68, German composer and conductor. [66] (German)
• Austin Gresham, 84, British pathologist. [67]
• G. Alexander Heard, 92, American presidential advisor, Chancellor of Vanderbilt University (1963–1982). [68]
• John Panton, 92, British golfer. [69]
• Harry Towb, 83, British actor, cancer. [70]

23

• Virginia Carroll, 95, American actress and model, natural causes. [71]
• E. Lynn Harris, 54, American author. [72]
• Danny McBride, 63, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Sha Na Na), natural causes. [73].
• Duse Nacaratti, 76, Brazilian actress, respiratory failure. [74] (Portuguese)
• Thomas N. Schroth, 88, American editor (Congressional Quarterly), founder of The National Journal, heart failure. [75]

22

• Howard Engle, 89, American pediatrician, lead plaintiff in landmark tobacco lawsuit, lymphoma. [76]
• Richard M. Givan, 88, American judge, Chief Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court (1969–1994). [77]
• Peter Krieg, 61, German documentary filmmaker. [78] (German)
• Mark Leduc, 47, Canadian boxer, Olympic silver medalist (1992), heat stroke. [79]
• Herbert Morris, 94, American rower, Olympic gold medalist (1936). [80]
• Marco Antonio Nazareth, 23, Mexican boxer, cerebral hemorrhage. [81]
• Billy Parks, 61, American football player, melanoma. [82]
• Lynn Pressman Raymond, 97, American president of Pressman Toy Corporation. [83]
• John Ryan, 88, British cartoonist (Captain Pugwash). [84]
• Damian Steele, 33, American professional wrestler, brain aneurysm. [85]
• Aygyl Tajiyeva, 64, Turkmen politician and opposition activist, stroke. [86]

21

• John Dawson, 64, American musician (New Riders of the Purple Sage), stomach cancer. [87]
• Armando del Moral, 93, Spanish-born American film journalist, natural causes. [88]
• Nelson Demarco, 84, Uruguayan basketball player, Olympic bronze medalist (1952, 1956). [89] (Spanish)
• Heinz Edelmann, 75, Czech-born German illustrator and designer, heart disease and renal failure. [90]
• Gidget, 15, American chihuahua, Taco Bell mascot, stroke. [91]
• Gangubai Hangal, 96, Indian Hindustani classical singer, cardiac arrest. [92]
• Marcel Jacob, 45, Swedish musician, suicide. [93]
• Yoshinori Kanada, 57, Japanese animator, heart attack. [94]
• Les Lye, 84, Canadian actor and broadcaster (You Can't Do That on Television). [95]
• Hiroshi Wakasugi, 74, Japanese orchestra conductor, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. [96]

20

• Gene Amondson, 65, American politician, Prohibition Party nominee for U.S. President, stroke. [97]
• Ria Brieffies, 52, Dutch singer (Dolly Dots), lung cancer. [98] (Dutch)
• Edward T. Hall, 95, American anthropologist. [99]
• Bobby Knoxall, 75, British comedian. [100]
• Vedat Okyar, 64, Turkish journalist and footballer (Beşiktaş J.K.), colorectal cancer. [101] (Turkish)
• Stan Polley, 87, American music manager. [102]
• Paul Fouad Tabet, 79, Lebanese archbishop, Nuncio to Greece (1996–2005). [103]
• Gösta Werner, 101, Swedish film director. [104]
• Carlton Willey, 78, American baseball player (Milwaukee Braves, New York Mets), lung cancer. [105]

19

• Sue Burns, 58, American businesswoman, principal owner of the San Francisco Giants, lung cancer. [106]
• Karen Harup, 84, Danish swimmer, Olympic champion (1948). [107] (Danish)
• Ingeborg Hunzinger, 94, German sculptor. [108] (German)
• Frank McCourt, 78, Irish-American author (Angela's Ashes), melanoma. [109]
• Gilberto Mestrinho, 81, Brazilian Governor of Amazonas (1959–1963, 1983–1987, 1991–1995), lung cancer. [110] (Portuguese)
• Cecil Mountford, 90, New Zealand rugby league player and coach. [111]
• Guillermo Schulenburg, 93, Mexican Abbot of the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe (1963–1996), natural causes. [112] (Spanish)
• Ray Shaw, 75, American journalist and publisher (American City Business Journals), complications from a wasp sting. [113]
• Bryan Stanley, 83, British trade unionist, General Secretary of the Post Office Engineering Union. [114]
• Henry Surtees, 18, British racing driver, Formula Two race accident. [115]
• Ebbe Wallén, 92, Swedish Olympic bobsledder. [116]

18

• Henry Allingham, 113, British supercentenarian, world's oldest man and WWI veteran. [117]
• Annagul Annakuliyeva, 85, Turkmen opera singer and actress. [118]
• Jill Balcon, 84, British actress, widow of Cecil Day-Lewis and mother of Daniel Day-Lewis, brain tumour. [119]
• Yasmine Belmadi, 33, French actor, traffic collision. [120] (French)
• Lionel Casson, 94, American professor of Classics (New York University), author on ancient maritime history, pneumonia. [121]
• Ricardo Londoño, 59, Colombian racing driver, shot. [122]
• Steven Rothenberg, 50, American studio executive (Lions Gate Entertainment, Artisan Entertainment), stomach cancer. [123]
• Graham Stanton, 69, New Zealand-born British theologian. [124]
• Joel Weisman, 66, American physician and pioneer in AIDS detection, heart disease. [125]

17

• Meir Amit, 88, Israeli major general and politician. [126]
• Gordon Burn, 61, British writer, cancer. [127]
• Walter Cronkite, 92, American television news anchor, cerebrovascular disease. [128]
• Richard H. Hall, 78, American ufologist, colon cancer. [129]
• Leszek Kołakowski, 81, Polish philosopher, historian of ideas and essayist. [130]
• Jean Margéot, 93, Mauritian cardinal. [131]
• Gordon Waller, 64, British singer (Peter and Gordon), cardiac arrest. [132]

16

• Thomas Dao, 88, Chinese-born American physician, expert in breast cancer treatment, Pick's Disease. [133]
• Leslie Fernandez, 91, British WW2 Special Forces saboteur and trainer of Violette Szabó. [134]
• Charles Gonthier, 80, Canadian jurist, Supreme Court Justice (1989–2003). [135]
• Maurice Grimaud, 95, French police chief of Paris during the 1968 student uprising. [136]
• Otto Heino, 94, American ceramicist and potter, acute renal failure. [137]
• Jerry Holland, 54, American-born Canadian fiddler and composer, cancer. [138]
• Paulo Lopes de Faria, 78, Brazilian Archbishop of Diamantina. [139] (Portuguese)
• D. K. Pattammal, 90, Indian Carnatic singer, after short illness. [140]
• Angelo Rizzo, 83, Italian Archbishop of Ragusa. [141] (Italian)
• Yury Verlinsky, 65, Russian medical researcher, colorectal cancer. [142]

15

• Avraham Ahituv, 79, German-born Israeli intelligence chief, Director of the Shin Bet (1974–1980). [143]
• Seddon Bennington, 61, New Zealand chief executive of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, hypothermia. [144]
• Natalya Estemirova, 50, Russian human rights activist in Chechnya and Ingushetia, shot. [145]
• Brian Goodwin, 78, Canadian mathematician, fall from a bicycle. [146]
• Julius Shulman, 98, American architectural photographer. [147]

14

• Pat Brady, 83, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), lymphoma. [148]
• Lucio Ceccarini, 78, Italian water polo player. [149] (Italian)
• Sam Church, 72, American labor leader (UMWA), complications of surgery. [150]
• Joe DiGangi, 94, American bullpen catcher (New York Yankees), natural causes. [151]
• Phyllis Gotlieb, 83, Canadian science fiction author, [152]
• Christopher Hipp, 47, American inventor (blade server) and entrepreneur, suspected embolism. [153]
• Dallas McKennon, 89, American voice actor (Gumby, Buzz Buzzard, Archie Andrews), natural causes. [154]
• Heinrich Schweiger, 77, Austrian actor, cardiovascular disease. [155]
• Jean Sommeng Vorachak, 76, Laotian Apostolic Vicar of Savannakhet. [156]
• Bill Young, 95, New Zealand politician and diplomat. [157]
• Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, 74, Polish actor and director. [158]

13

• Uma Aaltonen, 68, Finnish author, journalist and politician. [159] (Finnish)
• Amin al-Hafez, 83, Lebanese politician, Prime Minister (1973). [160]
• Giuseppe Alessi, 103, Italian politician, president of the Regional Council of Sicily (1947–1949, 1955–1956). [161] (Italian)
• Robert Cushman, 62, American photograph curator (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). [162]
• Neil Munro, 62, Canadian director, actor and playwright, after long illness. [163]
• Nilu Phule, 78, Indian Marathi and Hindi film actor, esophageal cancer. [164]
• Vince Powell, 80, British scriptwriter (Love Thy Neighbour, Mind Your Language). [165]
• Beverly Roberts, 96, American actress, natural causes. [166]
• Dash Snow, 27, American artist, heroin overdose. [167]

12

• Doris Barr, 87, Canadian baseball player, original member of All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. [168]
• Charles N. Brown, 72, American founding editor of Locus magazine. [169]
• Tommy Cummings, 80, British football player (Burnley F.C.). [170]
• Donald MacCormick, 70, British television journalist, heart attack. [171]
• Shesha Palihakkara, 81, Sri Lankan dancer, actor and producer. [172]
• Christopher Prout, Baron Kingsland, 67, British politician and barrister, MEP (1979–1994), pulmonary embolism. [173]
• S. G. Sender, 78, Belgian pastry chef, after long illness. [174]
• Pavel Smeyan, 52, Russian singer and actor, cancer. [175]
• Nikola Stanchev, 78, Bulgarian wrestler, Olympic gold medalist. [176]
• Simon Vinkenoog, 80, Dutch poet and writer. [177]
• Jane Weinberger, 91, American author, widow of Caspar Weinberger, stroke. [178]

11

• Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara, 69, Spanish woman believed to be world's oldest mother, cancer. [179]
• John Caldwell, 71, Irish boxer, Olympic medalist (1956), world bantamweight champion (1961–1962), cancer. [180]
• Manuel Carrascalão, 75, East Timorese politician, cerebral embolism. [181] (Portuguese)
• Robert 'Dolly' Dunn, 68, Australian child molester, multiple organ failure. [182]
• Reg Fleming, 73, Canadian hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks). [183]
• Arturo Gatti, 37, Canadian boxer, strangulation. [184]
• Paul Hemphill, 73, American author, throat cancer. [185]
• Ji Xianlin, 97, Chinese linguist, paleographer, historian and writer, heart attack. [186] (Chinese)
• Mark Mandala, 72, American television executive, president of ABC (1986–1994), heart attack. [187]
• Žan Marolt, 44, Bosnia-Herzegovinian actor. [188] (Bosnian)
• Geraint Owen, 43, British actor, cerebral haemorrhage. [189]

10

• Sir Edward Downes, 85, British conductor, assisted suicide. [190]
• Ebba Haslund, 91, Norwegian author. [191] (Norwegian)
• Edward Durell Stone, Jr., 76, American landscape architect. [192]
• Zena Marshall, 83, Kenyan-born British actress (Dr. No), after short illness. [193]

9

• William C. Conner, 89, American federal judge (District Court for the Southern District of New York). [194]
• Magomed Gadaborshev, Russian Colonel, Head of Ingushetia Forensics and Investigations Center, shot. [195]
• George Haig, 2nd Earl Haig, 91, British Army officer, patron of military charities and artist. [196]
• Jessie Hollins, 39, American baseball player, drowned. [197]
• Ron Kennedy, 56, Canadian ice hockey player and trainer, brain cancer. [198]
• Frank Mickens, 63, American educator, natural causes. [199]
• Kinuthia Murugu, Kenyan Permanent Secretary, shot. [200]
• Henri Verbrugghe, 79, Belgian Olympic canoer. [201] (Dutch)

8

• Harry Gray, 89, American CEO and chairman of United Technologies Corporation. [202]
• Bertha Hertogh, 72, Dutch woman whose adoption led to ethnic riots in Singapore in 1950, leukemia. [203]
• Robert Isabell, 57, American event planner, heart attack. [204]
• Edward Kenna, 90, Australian soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross. [205]
• Judi Ann Mason, 54, American screenwriter, television producer (Good Times) and playwright, aortic dissection. [206]
• Waldo McBurney, 106, American beekeeper, oldest worker in the United States. [207]
• Nelson Munsey, 61, American football player (Baltimore Colts), heart disease. [208]
• Edgar O'Ballance, 90, British military historian. [209]
• Lou Pagliaro, 90, American table tennis player, national champion (1940–1942, 1952). [210]
• Yury Shlyapin, 77, Russian water polo player, Olympic bronze medalist (1956). [211] (Russian)

7

• Richard Reader Harris, 96, British businessman and politician, MP for Heston and Isleworth (1950–1970). [212]

6

• Vasily Aksyonov, 76, Russian novelist, stroke. [213]
• Mihai Baicu, 33, Romanian footballer, heart attack. [214]
• Patrick Tracy Burris, 41, American criminal, suspected South Carolina spree killer, shot. [215]
• Rene Capo, 48, Cuban-born American judo Olympian (1988, 1996), lung cancer. [216]
• Johnny Collins, 71, British folk singer. [217]
• Marlon Green, 80, American pilot. [218]
• Oscar G. Mayer, Jr., 95, American business executive (Oscar Mayer). [219]
• Robert McNamara, 93, American business executive, Secretary of Defense (1961–1968), natural causes. [220]
• Mathieu Montcourt, 24, French tennis player, cardiac arrest. [221]
• Jim Reid, 75, British folk musician, after short illness. [222]
• Robert L. Short, 76, American theologian (The Gospel According to Peanuts). [223]
• Martin Streek, 45, Canadian disc jockey, suspected suicide. [224]
• Bleddyn Williams, 86, British rugby player, captain of Wales and British Lions, after long illness. [225]

5

• John Bachar, 52, American rock climber, fall. [226]
• Peter Blaker, Baron Blaker, 86, British diplomat and politician, MP for Blackpool South (1964–1992), pneumonia. [227]
• Lou Creekmur, 82, American football player (Detroit Lions). [228]
• Takeo Doi, 89, Japanese psychoanalyst. [229]
• Alfred John Ellory, 89, British flautist. [230]
• Oscar Murton, Baron Murton of Lindisfarne, 95, British politician, MP for Poole (1964–1979). [231]
• John Orman, 60, American professor and politician, self-appointed chairman of Connecticut for Lieberman party. [232]
• Bob Titchenal, 91, American football player and coach. [233]
• Waldo Von Erich, 75, Canadian professional wrestler, fall. [234]

4

• Jim Chapin, 89, American jazz drummer. [235]
• Robert E. Hopkins, 94, American optical engineer. [236]
• Brenda Joyce, 92, American actress (Tarzan and the Amazons). [237]
• Béla Király, 97, Hungarian general and historian, natural causes. [238]
• Allen Klein, 77, American businessman, Beatles and Rolling Stones manager, Alzheimer's disease. [239]
• Drake Levin, 62, American guitarist (Paul Revere & the Raiders), cancer. [240]
• Robert Louis-Dreyfus, 63, French-born Swiss billionaire, leukemia. [241]
• Steve McNair, 36, American football player (Tennessee Titans, Baltimore Ravens), shot. [242]
• Hugh Millais, 79, British actor and adventurer. [243]
• Robert Mitchell, 96, American organist, pneumonia. [244]
• Khan Mohammad, 81, Pakistani cricketer, prostate cancer. [245]
• Leo Mol, 94, Ukrainian-born Canadian sculptor. [246]
• Lasse Strömstedt, 74, Swedish writer. [247] (Swedish)
• Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard, 70, Congolese politician, Minister of State. [248]
• Laurence Villiers, 7th Earl of Clarendon, 76, British aristocrat. [249]

3

• Jorge Enrique Adoum, 83, Ecuadorian poet and writer. [250] (Spanish)
• Alauddin Al-Azad, 77, Bangladeshi author, natural causes. [251]
• John Barry, 84, American president and CEO of WD-40, pulmonary fibrosis. [252]
• John Blackburn, 84, American administrator (University of Alabama), myelodysplastic syndrome. [253]
• Frank Devine, 77, New Zealand-born Australian newspaper editor, after long illness. [254]
• Gabriel Fino Noriega, 42, Honduran journalist, shot. [255]
• E. J. Josey, 85, American librarian and civil rights activist, natural causes. [256]
• John Keel, 79, American ufologist and writer (The Mothman Prophecies), heart failure. [257]
• Barbara Margolis, 79, American prisoners' rights advocate, official greeter for New York City, cancer. [258]
• Victor Smorgon, 96, Ukrainian-born Australian industrialist, natural causes. [259]

2

• Pasquale Borgomeo, 76, Vatican director of Radio Vatican, after long illness. [260]
• Steve Brennan, 57, Irish-born American reporter and editor (The Hollywood Reporter), cancer. [261]
• Susan Fernandez, 52, Filipina activist and singer, ovarian cancer. [262]
• Kaj Hansen, 68, Danish football player. [263] (Danish)
• Martin Hengel, 82, German theologian. [264]
• Herbert G. Klein, 91, American journalist, White House Communications Director for President Richard Nixon. [265]
• Tyeb Mehta, 84, Indian painter, heart attack. [266]
• Robert Daniel Potter, 86, American judge, member of the District Court for the Western District of North Carolina (1981–1994). [267]
• Bert Schneider, 71, Austrian Grand Prix motorcycle racer. [268] (German)
• Clyde Shugart, 92, American football player (Washington Redskins), stroke. [269]
• Robert E. L. Taylor, 96, American publisher and chairman of the Philadelphia Bulletin. [270]

1

• Alexis Argüello, 57, Nicaraguan boxer and politician, mayor of Managua, suspected suicide by gunshot. [271]
• Marwa El-Sherbini, 31, Egyptian pharmacist and vilification victim, stabbed. [272]
• Karl Malden, 97, American Academy Award winning actor (A Streetcar Named Desire), natural causes. [273]
• Anna Karen Morrow, 94, American actress (Peyton Place), natural causes. [274]
• Onni Palaste, 91, Finnish soldier and writer, Winter War veteran, natural causes. [275] (Finnish)
• David Pears, 87, British philosopher. [276]
• Baltasar Porcel, 72, Spanish Catalan writer, cancer. [277]
• Andree Layton Roaf, 68, American jurist, first black woman on Arkansas Supreme Court. [278]
• Mollie Sugden, 86, British actress (Are You Being Served?), natural causes. [279]
• Rupert Thorneloe, 39, British soldier, Commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, improvised explosive device. [280]
• Norman Welton, 81, American journalist, photo editor for the Associated Press, colon cancer. [281]
• Lyudmila Zykina, 80, Russian singer, Hero of Socialist Labor, cardiac arrest. [282]