Deaths in March 2009

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The following is a list of deaths in March 2009.

March 2009

31

• Raúl Alfonsín, 82, Argentine President (1983–1989), lung cancer. [1]
• Jarl Alfredius, 66, Swedish journalist, prostate cancer. [2]
• John Atkins, 92, British writer. [3]
• Marga Barbu, 80, Romanian actress. [4]
• Michael Cox, 60, British novelist, cancer. [5]
• Paul E. Davis, 87, American college football coach. [6]
• Emory Elliott, 66, American academic, heart attack. [7]
• A. F. Golam Osmani, 76, Indian politician, lung cancer. [8]
• Hong Song-nam, 79, North Korean politician, Premier (1997–2003). [9] (Korean)
• Choor Singh, 98, Singaporean jurist, member of the Supreme Court of Singapore (1963–1980). [10]
• Sir Reresby Sitwell, 81, British aristocrat and writer. [11]

30

• Shirl Bernheim, 87, American actress. [12]
• Burton Blumert, 80, American president of the Center for Libertarian Studies, chairman of Mises Institute, cancer. [13]
• Eugène Drenthe, 83, Surinamese playwright and poet. [14] (Dutch)
• Herman Franks, 95, American baseball manager, heart failure. [15]
• Andrea Mead Lawrence, 76, American alpine skier, cancer. [16]
• Eric Munoz, 61, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly since 2001, complications of cardiac surgery. [17]
• Jackie Pretorius, 74, South African racing driver, assault during home invasion. [18]
• George Stoddard, 92, American financier, natural causes. [19]
• Loras Joseph Watters, 93, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Winona (1969–1986). [20]
• Sulim Yamadayev, 35, Russian military commander and Chechen warlord, shot. [21]

29

• Ivor Dent, 85, Canadian Mayor of Edmonton (1968–1974), Alzheimer’s disease. [22]
• Helvecia Viera, 80, Chilean comedian and actress, stroke. [23]
• Vladimir Fedotov, 66, Russian footballer and manager, Soviet Top League leading goalscorer (1964). [24]
• Monte Hale, 89, American country musician and actor, after long illness. [25]
• Andy Hallett, 33, American actor (Angel), heart disease. [26]
• Maurice Jarre, 84, French Academy Award-winning film composer (Lawrence of Arabia, Dr. Zhivago, Ghost), cancer. [27]
• Helen Levitt, 95, American photographer, respiratory failure. [28]
• Earl Paulk, 81, American pastor, implicated in several sex scandals, cancer. [29]
• Lou Saban, 87, American football player (Cleveland Browns) and coach (Boston Patriots, Buffalo Bills), complications from fall. [30]
• Kanwaljit Singh, 67, Indian politician, traffic accident. [31]
• Gerrit Viljoen, 82, South African politician, Administrator-General of South-West Africa (1978–1980). [32]

28

• Earle Brucker, Jr., 83, American baseball player. [33].
• Peter F. Donnelly, 70, American arts patron, vice-chairman of Americans for the Arts, complications of pancreatic cancer. [34]
• Inger Lise Gjørv, 70, Norwegian politician, cancer. [35] (Norwegian)
• Janet Jagan, 88, American-born Guyanese President (1997–1999), abdominal aortic aneurysm. [36]
• Hugh Kelly, 85, British footballer (Blackpool), pneumonia. [37]
• Martin J. Klein, 84, American historian and physicist. [38]
• Helmut Noller, 89, German Olympic sprint canoer. [39] (German)
• Jorge Preloran, 76, Argentine filmmaker, prostate cancer. [40]

27

• Alysheba, 25, American racehorse, Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner (1987), euthanized. [41]
• Sandra Cantu, 8, American homicide victim. [42]
• Jack Dreyfus, 95, American financier, pioneer of mutual funds. [43]
• Merle Hansen, 89, American civil rights activist, founding president of the North American Farm Alliance. [44]
• Irving R. Levine, 86, American journalist (NBC news), prostate cancer. [45]
• Arnold Meri, 89, Estonian Red Army World War II veteran. [46] (Estonian)
• Penor Rinpoche, 77, Tibetan religious leader (Nyingma Buddhist tradition). [47]

26

• Griselda Álvarez, 95, Mexican politician and writer, Governor of Colima (1979–1985), natural causes. [48]
• Arne Bendiksen, 82, Norwegian singer, composer and record producer, heart failure. [49]
• Gus Cifelli, 84, American football player (Detroit Lions), natural causes. [50]
• Larry Glick, 87, American talk radio host (WBZ), complications from cardiac surgery. [51]
• Edmund Lawson, 60, British barrister, stroke. [52]
• Wayne Lewellen, 65, American film studio executive (Paramount), cancer. [53]
• John Mayhew, 61, British drummer (Genesis), heart failure. [54]
• Shane McConkey, 39, Canadian extreme skier, base jumping accident. [55]
• Arnold Meri, 89, Estonian Soviet World War II veteran, charged with crimes against humanity. [56]
• Bob Scott, 70, British conservationist and ornithologist, cancer. [57]

25

• Steven Bach, 70, American film producer and author, cancer. [58]
• Johnny Blanchard, 76, American baseball player (New York Yankees), heart attack. [59]
• Marilyn Borden, 76, American actress (I Love Lucy), heart failure. [60]
• Bob Boucher, 68, British academic. [61]
• Yukio Endo, 72, Japanese gymnast, esophageal cancer. [62]
• John Hope Franklin, 94, American historian, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, heart failure. [63]
• Mari Kapi, 58, Papua New Guinean judge, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (2003–2008), kidney failure. [64]
• Kosuke Koyama, 79, Japanese-born American theologian, pneumonia. [65]
• Manny Oquendo, 78, American percussionist (Tito Puente, Tito Rodríguez), heart attack. [66]
• Giovanni Parisi, 41, Italian boxer, car accident. [67]
• Arthur Richman, 83, American baseball executive (New York Yankees, New York Mets) and writer (New York Daily Mirror). [68]
• Dan Seals, 61, American country music singer-songwriter (England Dan & John Ford Coley), mantle cell lymphoma. [69]
• Michael Ward, 77, British politician, MP for Peterborough (1974–1979). [70]
• Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu, 54, Turkish politician, founder of the Great Union Party, helicopter crash. [71]

24

• Timothy Brinton, 79, British newsreader and politician, Member of Parliament (1979–1987). [72]
• Robert Delford Brown, 78, American artist, drowned (body found on this date). [73]
• Irina Gabashvili, 48, Georgian-born American gymnast, cancer. [74]
• Uriel Jones, 74, American drummer (The Funk Brothers), complications from heart attack. [75]
• George Kell, 86, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers), member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. [76]
• Hans Klenk, 89, German racing driver. [77] (German)
• Denis Miller, 90, New Zealand bomber and airline pilot. [78]
• Gábor Ocskay, 33, Hungarian ice hockey player, heart attack. [79]
• Laurie Short, 93, Australian trade union leader. [80]
• Igor Stelnov, 46, Russian ice hockey player (HC CSKA Moscow), 1986 world champions team member, after long illness. [81]

23

• Manuel del Rosario, 93, Filipino Bishop of Malolos (1962–1977), pneumonia. [82]
• Geoff Holmes, 50, British cricketer. [83]
• Raúl Macías, 74, Mexican boxer, cancer. [84]
• Xavier Maniguet, 66, French intelligence agent, involved in the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, plane crash. [85]
• Lloyd Ruby, 81, American auto racing driver. [86]
• Ronald Tavel, 72, American playwright, heart attack. [87]
• Tonda, 50, Sumatran orangutan, oldest in captivity in United States. [88]
• Peter Wherrett, 72, Australian motoring journalist, cancer. [89]

22

• Frank Bogert, 99, American politician, Mayor of Palm Springs, California (1958–1966, 1982–1988). [90]
• Awilda Carbia, 71, Puerto Rican actress, comedian, impersonator and television personality, pneumonia. [91]
• Ralph Cooperman, 81, British Olympic fencer. [92]
• Steve Doll, 48, American professional wrestler, blood clot. [93]
• Jade Goody, 27, British reality television personality, cervical cancer. [94]
• Archie Green, 91, Canadian-born American folklorist and musicologist, renal failure. [95]
• Reg Isidore, 59, Aruban drummer (Robin Trower, Peter Green), heart attack, [96]
• Howard Komives, 67, American basketball player (Detroit Pistons), natural causes. [97]
• Guman Mal Lodha, 83, Indian judge and politician. [98]
• Abismo Negro, 37, Mexican lucha libre professional wrestler, drowned. [99]
• Kanta Rao, 85, Indian actor, liver cancer. [100]
• Geoffrey Sherman, 93, British Royal Marines officer, organised the ceremony for the Japanese surrender in 1945. [101]
• Aldo Vagnozzi, 83, American politician, member of the Michigan House of Representatives (2002–2006), cancer. [102]
• Leon Walker, 20, British rugby league player (Wakefield Trinity Wildcats). [103]

21

• Bob Arbogast, 81, American radio and television personality, lung cancer. [104]
• Beach Towel, 22, American harness racehorse, Harness Horse of the Year (1990), colic. [105]
• John Cater, 77, British actor. [106]
• Drummond Erskine, 89, American actor (Late Show with David Letterman). [107]
• Winifred Foley, 94, British writer. [108]
• John Franklyn-Robbins, 84, British actor. [109]
• Doug Frith, 64, Canadian MP for Sudbury (1980–1988), Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (1984), heart attack. [110]
• Joseph Jasgur, 89, American photographer, natural causes. [111]
• Vladimir Kuchmiy, 61, Russian newspaper chief editor (Sport Express). [112] (Russian)
• Genoveva Matute, 94, Filipino writer. [113]
• Walt Poddubny, 49, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers, Edmonton Oilers). [114]
• Khadijeh Saqafi, 93, Iranian widow of religious/political leader Ruhollah Khomeini, after long illness. [115]

20

• Joseph Albright, 70, American jurist, member of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, esophageal cancer. [116]
• Roberta Alison, 65, American tennis player, injuries sustained in fire. [117]
• Bill Bogash, 92, American roller derby skater, respiratory failure. [118]
• Mel Brown, 69, American blues guitarist, emphysema.[119]
• Abdellatif Filali, 81, Moroccan politician, Prime Minister (1994–1998). [120]
• Jaroslav Pitner, 83, Czech ice hockey coach. [121]
• Vladimir Savčić, 60, Serbian singer, cancer. [122] (Serbian)
• George Weber, 47, American radio broadcaster, stabbed. [123]

19

• Felipe Benítez Avalos, 82, Paraguayan Archbishop of Asunción. [124]
• Alastair Boyd, 7th Baron Kilmarnock, 81, British aristocrat, writer and politician.[125]
• Ion Dolănescu, 65, Romanian singer and politician, heart attack. [126]
• Ezio Flagello, 78, American opera singer, heart failure. [127]
• Harry Harris, 86, American television director (Fame, Falcon Crest), myelodysplasia. [128]

18

• Eddie Bo, 79, American singer and pianist, heart attack. [129]
• Ed Callahan, 79, American credit union administrator, blood complications. [130]
• Gianni Giansanti, 52, Italian photographer, bone cancer. [131]
• Kent Henry, 59, American guitarist. [132]
• Lil E. Tee, 20, American racehorse, Kentucky Derby winner (1992), euthanized. [133]
• Yeremey Parnov, 73, Russian writer. [134] (Russian)
• Moultrie Patten, 89, American actor (Northern Exposure) and jazz musician, pneumonia, [135]
• Pocholo Ramirez, 76, Filipino race car driver and television host, cancer. [136]
• Natasha Richardson, 45, British actress, epidural hematoma. [137]
• Luis Rojas Mena, 91, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Culiacán (1969–1993). [138]
• Glenn Sundby, 87, American gymnast, co-founder of USA Gymnastics, founder of International Gymnastics Hall of Fame. [139]
• Donald Tolmie, 85, Canadian politician, MP for Welland (1965–1972). [140]
• Earl Wood, 97, American physiologist, co-inventor of the G-suit. [141]

17

• Lester Davenport, 77, American blues musician, prostate cancer. [142]
• Edith Hahn Beer, 95, Austrian author, Holocaust survivor, natural causes. [143]
• Clodovil Hernandes, 71, Brazilian fashion stylist, politician and television presenter, stroke. [144] (Portuguese)
• Morton Lachman, 90, American television writer and executive producer, complications from diabetes and heart attack. [145]
• Whitey Lockman, 82, American baseball player (San Francisco Giants), pulmonary complications. [146]
• Jane Mayhall, 90, American poet. [147]
• Dale Memmelaar, 72, American football player (Cleveland Browns) [148]
• Roi Wilson, 87, British Royal Navy officer.[149]

16

• William Burns, 75, Australian politician. [150]
• Roland Dantes, 67, Filipino movie actor and martial arts instructor, heart failure. [151]
• Marjorie Grene, 98, American philosopher, after short illness. [152]
• Sir Nicholas Henderson, 89, British diplomat. [153]
• Nicholas Hughes, 47, American marine biologist, son of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, suicide by hanging. [154]
• Miljenko Licul, 62, Slovenian graphic designer. [155]
• Ramón Mantilla Duarte, 83, Colombian Bishop of Ipiales (1985–1987). [156]
• Alan Suddick, 64, British footballer, cancer. [157]
• Marvin Sutton, 62, American moonshiner, suspected suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. [158]

15

• Richard Aoki, 71, American civil rights activist. [159]
• Miguel Bernad, 91, Filipino Jesuit priest, academician and writer. [160]
• Billy C. Clark, 80, American writer. [161]
• Jack Dunham, 98, American animator and television producer, creator of the St. Hubert Chicken. [162]
• Edmund Hockridge, 89, Canadian singer and actor. [163]
• Pirkle Jones, 95, American photojournalist. [164]
• Jack Lawrence, 96, American songwriter, complications from fall. [165]
• Paulo Eduardo Andrade Ponte, 77, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of São Luís do Maranhão. [166]
• Michael Quinn, 86, American Lasallian brother and psychology professor, President of Saint Mary's College (1962–1969). [167].
• William Schwartz, 86, American nephrologist. [168]
• Ron Silver, 62, American actor (Ali, Timecop) and political activist, esophageal cancer. [169]
• Shinkichi Tajiri, 85, American-born Dutch sculptor. [170]
• Gunnar Tjörnebo, 81, Swedish steeplechase athlete. [171] (Swedish)
• Elmer Weingartner, 90, American baseball player. [172]
• Lionel Ziprin, 84, American poet, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. [173]

14

• Alain Bashung, 61, French singer, composer and actor, lung cancer. [174]
• Edith Lucie Bongo, 45, Congolese wife of Gabon President Omar Bongo, after long illness. [175]
• Altovise Davis, 65, American actress and dancer, widow of Sammy Davis, Jr., stroke. [176]
• Terence Edmond, 69, British actor (Z-Cars), bronchiectasis. [177]
• Citizen Kafka, 61, American broadcaster and musician. [178]
• Millard Kaufman, 92, American screenwriter (Bad Day at Black Rock), co-creator of Mr. Magoo. [179]
• Patrick Kinna, 95, British stenographer to Winston Churchill. [180]
• Jeff Komlo, 52, American football player, fugitive, car crash. [181]
• Coy Watson, Jr., 96, American silent film child actor, stomach cancer. [182]

13

• Medferiashwork Abebe, 84, Ethiopian royal. [183]
• Claude Black, 92, American civil rights advocate, after long illness. [184]
• Betsy Blair, 85, American actress (Marty), cancer. [185]
• Claude Brinegar, 82, American politician, United States Secretary of Transportation (1973–1975), natural causes. [186]
• Anne Brown, 96, American-born Norwegian opera singer. [187]
• William Davidson, 86, American businessman, owner of the Detroit Pistons, Tampa Bay Lightning. [188]
• Endal, 13, British service dog, stroke. [189]
• Alan W. Livingston, 91, American music executive, President of Capitol Records, creator of Bozo the clown. [190]
• Andrew Martin, 33, Canadian professional wrestler, accidental overdose. [191]
• James Purdy, 94, American novelist, poet and playwright. [192]
• Medet Sadyrkulov, 55, Kyrgyz politician, car crash. [193]
• Andrew Saunders, 77, British civil servant. [194]

12

• Leonore Annenberg, 91, American philanthropist, Chief of Protocol of the United States (1981–1982), natural causes. [195]
• Kalman Bloch, 95, American clarinetist. [196]
• Yann Brekilien, 88, French author, Breton language advocate. [197] (French)
• Martin Knowlton, 88, American adult education innovator, founder of Elderhostel. [198].
• Reginald C. Lindsay, 63, American jurist, member of the District Court for Massachusetts since 1993, after long illness. [199]
• Milan Stitt, 68, American playwright. [200]
• Blanca Varela, 82, Peruvian poet. [201]
• David Wood, 86, British Army officer, last surviving platoon commander of the Pegasus Bridge operation during World War II. [202]

11

• Paul W. Airey, 85, American Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force (1967–1969), complications from heart failure. [203]
• Péter Bacsó, 81, Hungarian film director, after long illness. [204]
• Frances Blaisdell, 97, American flautist. [205]
• Arthur Code, 85, American astronomer, complications of lung condition. [206]
• Charles Lewis, Jr., 45, American businessman, co-founder of mixed martial arts apparel company TapouT, car accident. [207]
• Grady Lewis, 92, American basketball player, executive with Converse. [208]
• Harvey Lowe, 90, Canadian broadcaster and yo-yo world champion, after long illness. [209]

10

• Brian Barry, 73, British philosopher. [210]
• Denis Begbie, 94, South African cricketer. [211]
• Derek Benfield, 82, British actor. [212]
• Jack Capper, 77, British footballer. [213]
• Dick Daugherty, 79, American football player (Los Angeles Rams). [214]
• Nancy Eiesland, 44, American theologian and author, lung cancer. [215]
• Jack Grimes, 82, American actor and voice actor. [216]
• Aaron Gural, 91, American real estate executive, pneumonia. [217]
• Tom Hanson, 41, Canadian photojournalist, heart attack. [218]
• George Hedges, 57, American lawyer and archaeologist, melanoma. [219]
• Ralph Mercado, 67, American music promoter (RMM Records & Video), cancer. [220]
• Anel Omar Rodríguez, 47, Panamanian politician, Minister of Culture, shot. [221]
• Michael Shannon, 55, American pediatrician. [222]

9

• Vince Cervi, 41, Australian boxer, heavyweight champion of Australia (1993–1995), shot. [223]
• Hanne Darboven, 68, German artist, lymphoma. [224]
• Eddie Lowe, 83, British footballer and manager. [225]
• Joseph Martin, 84, American addiction counselor and author, heart disease. [226]
• Larry Regan, 78, Canadian ice hockey player and general manager (Los Angeles Kings), Parkinson's disease. [227]
• Russell Spears, 92, American stonemason, elder of the Narragansett tribe. [228]
• Frank Stockwell, 80, Irish footballer. [229]
• Guillermo Thorndike, 69, Peruvian journalist, writer and editor, co-founder of La República, heart attack. [230]

8

• Girdhari Lal Bhargava, 73, Indian politician, heart attack. [231]
• Ali Bongo, 79, Indian-born British magician, pneumonia. [232]
• James Allen Keast, 86, Australian ornithologist. [233]
• Willie King, 65, American blues musician, heart attack. [234]
• Hank Locklin, 91, American country music singer, member of Grand Ole Opry. [235]
• Anna Manahan, 84, Irish actress, multiple organ failure. [236]
• Zbigniew Religa, 70, Polish cardiac surgeon and politician, Minister of Health (2005–2007), cancer. [237]
• Robert Soost, 88, American botanist, heart attack. [238]
• Ernest Trova, 82, American artist, heart failure. [239]
• Mary Warburg, 100, American philanthropist. [240]

7

• Steve Bernard, 61, American businessman, founder of Cape Cod Potato Chips, pancreatic cancer. [241]
• Michael Bowen, 71, American artist, complications of poliomyelitis. [242]
• Jimmy Boyd, 70, American actor and singer ("I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"), cancer. [243]
• Daniel E. Button, 91, American politician, member of the House of Representatives for New York (1967–1971), after long illness. [244]
• Chan Yun, 93, Taiwanese Buddhist monk and teacher of meditation. [245] (Chinese)
• Schuyler Chapin, 86, American general manager of the Metropolitan Opera (1972–1975). [246]
• David Gaiman, 75, British businessman, public relations director for the Church of Scientology, heart attack. [247]
• Jang Ja-yeon, 26, South Korean actress (Boys Over Flowers), suicide by hanging. [248]
• Dmitri Kozlov, 89, Russian aerospace engineer, founder of Progress State Research and Production Space Center. [249] (Russian)
• Barbara Parker, 62, American novelist, after long illness. [250]
• Tullio Pinelli, 100, Italian screenwriter (La strada). [251]
• Anton Shokh, 49, Ukrainian football player and coach. [252] (Russian)

6

• Jim Bellows, 86, American newspaper editor, Alzheimer's disease. [253]
• Silvio Cesare Bonicelli, 76, Italian Bishop of Parma. [254]
• James Clyde, Baron Clyde, 77, British judge, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (1996–2001), cancer. [255]
• Anthony Finigan, 83, British actor. [256]
• Colleen Howe, 76, American sports agent, wife of Gordie Howe, Pick's disease. [257]
• George Keverian, 77, American politician, member (1967–1991) and Speaker (1985–1991) of the Massachusetts House. [258]
• Francis Magalona, 44, Filipino actor and rapper, leukemia. [259]
• Kennedy McIntosh, 60, American basketball player, stroke. [260]
• Vivian Murray, 76, Irish businessman, chairman of An Post and Bord Iascaigh Mhara, after long illness. [261]
• Henri Pousseur, 79, Belgian composer. [262] (French)
• Eduardo Rodríguez, 57, Puerto Rican baseball player, septic shock. [263]
• Christon Tembo, 65, Zambian politician, Vice President (1997–2001). [264]
• Susan Tsvangirai, 50, Zimbabwean wife of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, car collision. [265]

5

• Mario Acuña, 68, Argentinian-born American astrophysicist, multiple myeloma. [266]
• Valeri Broshin, 46, Russian footballer, cancer. [267] (Russian)
• Francis Essex, 79, British television producer. [268]
• Temima Gezari, 103, American artist, natural causes. [269]
• Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr., 99, American engineer, pioneer of television technology, complications of hip fracture. [270]
• Mac Henderson, 101, British rugby union player (Scotland) and businessman. [271]
• Jitsuo Inagaki, 80, Japanese politician, illness. [272]
• Oscar Kamau Kingara, 38, Kenyan lawyer and human rights activist, shot. [273]
• Hung-Chang Lin, 89, Chinese-born American inventor, lung cancer. [274]
• John Paul Oulu, Kenyan human rights activist, shot. [275]
• Dave Pureifory, 59, American football player (Detroit Lions), prostate cancer. [276]

4

• Joseph Bloch, 91, American pianist and professor, heart attack. [277]
• John Cephas, 78, American Piedmont blues guitarist, natural causes. [278]
• Yvon Cormier, 70, Canadian professional wrestler, bone marrow cancer. [279]
• Horton Foote, 92, American playwright and screenwriter, after short illness. [280]
• Patricia De Martelaere, 51, Belgian writer and philosopher, complications of brain tumor. [281] (Dutch)
• George McAfee, 90, American football player (Chicago Bears). [282]
• Harry Parkes, 89, British footballer (Aston Villa). [283]
• Vasili Postnov, 46, Tajikistani footballer. [284]
• Salvatore Samperi, 64, Italian film director. [285]
• Triztán Vindtorn, 66, Norwegian poet. [286]

3

• Sydney Earle Chaplin, 82, American actor, son of Charlie Chaplin. [287]
• Frederick Conyngham, 7th Marquess Conyngham, 84, Irish nobleman, cancer. [288]
• Sebastian Faisst, 20, German handball player, heart failure. [289]
• Flemming Flindt, 72, Danish choreographer, after short illness. [290]
• Frank Ford, 92, American radio talk show host, stroke. [291]
• Åke Lindman, 81, Finnish actor and film director, after long illness. [292]
• Luis Mena Arroyo, 88, Mexican prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Mexico. [293]
• Gilbert Parent, 73, Canadian politician, Speaker (1994–2001) and Member of Parliament (1974–1984, 1988–2000), colon cancer. [294]
• Barbara Wright, 93, British translator. [295]

2

• Ernie Ashworth, 80, American country music singer, member of Grand Ole Opry. [296]
• Michael Baker, 52, Canadian politician, member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly since 1998, cancer. [297]
• Ernst Benda, 84, German politician, Interior Minister (1968–1969) and President, Federal Constitutional Court (1971–1983). [298]
• Andy Bowman, 74, British footballer, after long illness. [299]
• Robert Bruce, 65, British-born New Zealand professional wrestler and talent agent, after short illness. [300]
• Chris Finnegan, 64, British boxer, Olympic middleweight champion (1968), complications from pneumonia. [301]
• Alexandre Léontieff, 60, French politician, President of French Polynesia (1987–1991), heart attack. [302]
• Ann Marie Rogers, 57, British activist, campaigner for breast cancer drug Herceptin, breast cancer. [303]
• Jack Schwartz, 79, American mathematician and computer scientist, liver cancer. [304]
• Urban Sea, 20, French racehorse and broodmare, Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner (1993), complications during foaling. [305]
• João Bernardo Vieira, 69, Guinea-Bissauan politician, Prime Minister (1978–1980) and President (1980–1999, since 2005), shot. [306]
• Rob Williams, 29, British businessman, co-founder of Dolphin Music, snowboarding accident. [307]

1

• Robert Haggiag, 95, Libyan-born American film producer (Candy). [308]
• Ken Henry, 80, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1952) speed skater. [309]
• Charles S. Lieber, 78, Belgian-born American nutritionist, stomach cancer. [310]
• Paolo Maffei, 83, Italian astronomer and science fiction writer. [311] (Italian)
• Alf Pike, 91, Canadian ice hockey player and head coach (New York Rangers). [312]
• Pepe Rubianes, 61, Spanish Catalan actor and theatre director, lung cancer. [313]
• Eric Simms, 87, British ornithologist, writer and conservationist. [314]
• Joan Turner, 86, British actress. [315]