Deaths in June 2006

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The following is a list of notable deaths in June 2006.

30

• Dieter Froese, 68, East Prussian-born artist. [1]
• Robert Gernhardt, 68, German satirist [2]
• Edward Hamilton, 89, highly decorated United States Army veteran during World War II, pneumonia. [3]
• Dr. Harold Olmo, 96, American grape breeder and geneticist. [4]
• Albert Sherman, 88, publisher of the Newport Daily News, cancer. [5]
• Richard Streeton, 75, English journalist [6]
• Ross Tompkins, 68, American Tonight Show pianist. [7]

29

• Fabián Bielinsky, 47, Argentine film director, heart attack. [8]
• Tom Brown, 79, West Texas oilman who founded Brown & Roper. [9]
• Luis Crisci, 66, Uruguayan Minister of Labour (1982–1983). [10]
• Mercedes Quezada de Fox, 87, mother of Mexican President Vicente Fox Quezada, respiratory arrest. [11]
• William Fraser, 100, theology student at Aberdeen University and oldest student in Scotland, pneumonia. [12]
• Joyce Hatto, 77, classical pianist who plagiarized more than 100 albums, cancer.[13]
• Ed Hugus, 82, racing driver, possible winner of the Le Mans 24 hour race in 1965. [14]
• Caroline Kearney, 22, Irish Triathlete, collision with a car while on a training cycle ride in Montpellier [15]
• Stanley Moskowitz, 68, Central Intelligence Agency liaison to Congress, heart attack. [16][17]
• Wallace Potts, 59, film archivist for the Rudolf Nureyev Foundation, lymphoma. [18]
• Glen Renfrew, 77, Australian-born former head of Reuters. [19] [20]
• Lloyd Richards, 87, first Black Broadway director, Tony Award winner, heart failure. [21]
• Heliodoro Rico, 84, American track and field administrator. [22]
• Pierre Rinfret, 82, Canadian-born economist and Republican candidate for Governor of New York in 1990. [23] [24]
• Lev Sandakhchiev, 70 Russian biochemist who helped to end the Soviet bioweapons program, heart disease. [25]
• Randy Walker, 52, Northwestern University football coach, apparent heart attack [26]
• F. Mark Wyatt, 86, a Central Intelligence Agency officer, who delivered bags of money to swing the 1948 Italy election. [27] [28] [29]

28

• Sedley Alley, 50, American convicted murderer and rapist, executed via lethal injection. [30]
• Jim Baen, 62, science fiction editor and publisher. [31]
• Theodore Black, 77, American executive, former CEO of Ingersoll Rand. [32]
• Walter Cox, 87, head coach of Clemson Tigers from 1948 to 1951 and former president of Clemson University. [33]
• Boban Giankovic, 43, Serbian basketball player in Greece, heart attack. [34]
• Theodore Levitt, 81, German-born former editor of the Harvard Business Review and author of books on marketing, coined the term globalization. [35] [36]
• Vance Rudy Martin, 64, founder and former CEO of The Lending Tree, cancer. [37]
• Herman Merinoff, 77, American liquor distributor, co-chair of the Charmer-Sunbelt Group. [38]
• Mahmoud Mestiri, 77, former foreign minister of Tunisia [39]
• George Page, 71, creator and narrator of the PBS series Nature. [40]
• Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell, 87, English barrister, politician and author. [41]
• Fernando Sanchez, 70, Belgian-born fashion designer. [42]
• Mickey Sims, 51, former player with the Cleveland Browns, heart attack. [43]
• Wing Commander George Unwin, 93, Battle of Britain ace. [44]
• Lennie Weinrib, 71, American actor. [45]
• Jean Henri Courcoul, 87, French Resistance fighter and World War II RAF heavy bomber pilot, heart attack.

27

• Eileen Barton, 76, American singer, actress, ovarian cancer [46]
• Robert Carrier, 82, American celebrity chef.[47]
• J. Robert Elliott, 96, US Federal District Judge who overturned the conviction of Lt. William Calley. [48]
• Michael Fanfalone, 57, aviation union leader, complications of Crohn's disease. [49]
• Sir Gerard Mansfield, 84, British admiral. [50]
• Ángel Maturino Reséndiz, 46, Mexican convicted serial killer, execution via lethal injection. [51]
• Virginia Rosenbaum, 63, corporate research analyst and widow of David Rosenbaum, cancer. [52]
• Don Wright, 97, Canadian composer and lyricist. [53]

26

• Bob Allan, 54, former Chief Executive of the Glasgow Housing Association. [54]
• Bear JJ1 (Bruno the Bear), the first wild bear in Germany in 170 years, shot to death. [55]
• Al Brounstein, 86, Canadian-born American Napa Valley vintner, Parkinson's disease. [56]
• Joe Carter, 57, gospel singer who took his "A Song in the Night" show to five continents playing 300 shows in five continents. [57]
• Donald Halperin, 60, former New York state senator. [58]
• Johnny Jenkins, 67, American blues guitarist who influenced Otis Redding and Jimi Hendrix, stroke. [59] [60]
• Marlon Kalkai, 33, former professional wrestler best known as Tiger Kahn in Stampede Wrestling, heart failure
• Lieutenant General Parami Kulatunga, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Sri Lankan Army, bomb blast. [61]
• Frederick Mayer, 84, educational philosopher, creativity expert, author of "History of Educational Thought".
• Marion Mingins, 53, the first female chaplain to Queen Elizabeth II, and pioneer of women's ministry in the Church of England.
• Eric Rofes, 51, American author and AIDS educator, heart attack. [62]
• Dr. Joseph Schildkraut, 72, American psychiatrist at Harvard University. [63]
• Abbye Stockton, 88, pioneering American woman weightlifter and bodybuilder, Alzheimer's disease. [64] [65]
• Stephen Tiger, 57, member of Native American band Tiger Tiger who performed with Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin, recipient of a Native American Music Association Lifetime Achievement Award, head injury. [66]
• Stan Torgerson, 82, radio announcer for Ole Miss football and basketball games. [67]
• Jeff Winkless, 65, Los Angeles voice actor, brain tumor

25

• Elkan Allan, 83, created Ready Steady Go! and developed the first television listings for the UK in the Sunday Times. [68]
• Eliyahu Asheri, 18, Israeli civilian kidnapped and murdered by militants in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
• Charles Barrow, 84, former justice of the Texas Supreme Court. [69]
• B. D. Nag Chowdhury, 89, Indian nuclear scientist, cerebral haemorrhage. [70]
• George Whitaker Clarke, 100, Washington state politician. [71]
• Richard DeVore, 73, Colorado sculptor, lung cancer. [72]
• Harry Elliot, 101, former professional wrestling promoter, Natural Causes [73]
• Alexis Giannoulias, 69, founder of the Broadway Bank in Chicago and father of Alexi Giannoulias a Democrat politician, heart attack. [74]
• Kenneth Griffith, 84, Welsh actor and documentary maker, Parkinson's disease. [75]
• Akbar Hossain, 65, Bangladeshi Minister for Shipping and hero of 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, heart attack [76]
• Dr. Irving Kaplansky, 89, American mathematician at the University of Chicago. [77] [78]
• Dibya Khaling, 56, lyricist and composer of Nepali music responsible for 1,000 songs, cardiac arrest. [79]
• Arif Mardin, 74, Turkish-American Grammy Award winning music producer, pancreatic cancer. [80] [81]
• Sophie Maslow, 95, American choreographer. [82]
• Melvin Moss, 83, American anatomist and former dean of Columbia University's dental school. [83]
• Gad Navon, 84, Former Chief Israeli Military Rabbi, cancer. [84]
• Jaap Penraat, 88, Dutch architect and member of Dutch resistance in World War II. [85]
• Michael Ruane, 78, Massachusetts legislator 1975-2005, cancer. [86]
• Seema Aissen Weatherwax, 100, Ukrainian photographer
• Roberta Weston, 118?, claimed to be the world's oldest woman but no documentary proof of claim. [87]

24

• John Conger, 85, psychologist and former dean of the University of Colorado School of Medicine. [88]
• Denice Denton, 46, chancellor of the University of California at Santa Cruz, suicide. [89]
• Ben Garry, 50, played NFL for the Baltimore Colts, car crash. [90]
• Jeffrey Harbers, 54, Microsoft executive who worked on developing many software programs including Microsoft Office, plane crash. [91]
• Tichaona Jokonya, 67, Information & Publicity Minister in Zimbabwe, cardiac arrest. [92]
• Ígor Medio, 34, and Carlos Redondo, 40, members of Felpeyu folk band, from Asturias, Spain, car accident. [93]
• John F. Oates, 71, Professor Emeritus of Ancient History and Classics at Duke University and one of America's leading papyrologists. [94]
• Patsy Ramsey, 49, mother of JonBenét Ramsey, ovarian cancer. [95], [96]
• Lyle Stuart, 83, American journalist and publisher. [97]
• Gerald Tomlinson, 73, mystery and baseball writer. [98]
• Tom Triplett, 71, Savannah, Georgia politician, former Georgia Representative. [99]
• Ric Weiland, 53, Microsoft pioneer, developed BASIC, COBOL and Microsoft Works, suicide. [100]
• David Owen, 38, Topeka Kansas homeless advocate, lobbyist, asphyxiated [101]

23

• Martin Adler, 47, Swedish journalist. Shot by unknown assailant in Mogadishu, Somalia. [102]
• John William Wentworth Butters, 80, Australian energy pioneer and son of Sir John Butters. [103]
• Harriet, 176, Galápagos tortoise believed to be the oldest animal in the world and allegedly owned by Charles Darwin, heart failure. [104]
• Grady Johnson, 66, former WWF wrestler known as "Crazy" Luke Graham; heart failure. [105]
• Budhi Kunderan, 66, former India wicketkeeper/batsman, lung cancer. [106]
• Aaron Spelling, 83, American television producer (Charlie's Angels, Starsky and Hutch, Beverly Hills, 90210), complications of stroke. [107]

22

• Heinz Ansbacher, 101, German-born psychologist and expert in the work of Alfred Adler. [108]
• Anna Castelli Ferrieri, 87, Italian architect and designer. [109]
• Alfred Hopkins Jr, 80, Mayor of Annapolis 1989-1997. [110]
• Moose, 16, canine star of U.S. sit-com Frasier, played the character Eddie, "Skip" on film "My Dog Skip". [111]
• Pinuccia Nava, 86, Italian actress of the 1940s and 1950s on stage (the "Nava Sisters"), screen and TV (clown "Scaramacai"). [112]
• Chanel Petro Nixon, 16, student, murder victim in Brooklyn, New York.

21

• Theo Bell, 52, National Football League receiver with the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, kidney disease and scleroderma. [113]
• Vern Leroy Bullough, 77, medical historian known for his history of nursing, cancer. [114]
• Monsignor Denis Faul, 73, former chaplain at the Maze Prison, outspoken critic of The Troubles and a key figure in attempts to end the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike in Northern Ireland, cancer. [115]
• Jacques Lanzmann, 79, French author, editor and songwriter. [116]
• Khamis al-Obeidi, 39, defense lawyer for Saddam Hussein, assassinated. [117]
• David Walton, 43, member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee [118]
• Jonathan Wordsworth, 73, scholar of Romanticism and chair of the Wordsworth Trust. [119]

20

• Ken Browne, 72, New Zealand steeplechase jockey and trainer. [120]
• Bill Daniel, 90, former Governor of Guam. [121]
• Evelyn Dubrow, 95, US women and labor advocate awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1999. [122]
• Billy Johnson, 87, former New York Yankee and All-Star third baseman, cause not given. [123]
• E. Pierce Marshall, 67, son of J. Howard Marshall and Anna Nicole Smith's stepson and plaintiff in their inheritance feud, aggressive infection. [124]
• Jerome Martin (aka Redd Angel), 29, South African singer, car wreck. [125]
• Lamont Reese, 28, American convicted murderer, executed. [126]
• Charles H. Sawyer, 91, birth control researcher, Alzheimer's disease. [127]
• William Shurcliff, 97, physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb. [128]
• Claydes Charles Smith, 57, co-founder and lead guitarist of Kool and the Gang. [129]
• Vincent Usolor, former Nigerian Senator, died in his sleep. [130]

19

• Hugh Baird, 76, footballer for Leeds United, Aberdeen, Airdrieonians and Scotland. [131]
• Myldred Jones, 96, Californian social worker who founded youth shelter in Los Alamitos, California and helped to launch other youth services. [132]
• Priit Kolbre, 50, Estonian diplomat [133]
• Duane Roland, 53, guitarist and a founder of rock band Molly Hatchet. [134]
• Howard Shanet, 87, US conductor and composer. [135]
• István 'Joni' Szulovszky, 55, Hungarian musician, founding member of A.E. Bizottság. [136] [Hungarian]
• Melvin Watson, 98, American Baptist minister who trained Martin Luther King and other civil rights leaders, complications from surgery [137]
• Arthur Yap (Singapore Poet and Artist), 64, Lecturer, English Department, University of Singapore; cancer of the throat.

18

• Luke Belton, 87, Irish politician. [138]
• Des Colquhoun, 75, former editor-in-chief and columnist for The Adelaide Advertiser, died in his sleep. [139]
• Nathaniel Neiman Craley, Jr., 78, former Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives (1965–67) from Pennsylvania.
• Jesus Fuertes, 68, Spanish painter and protégé of Pablo Picasso, heart attack. [140]
• Chris and Cru Kahui, 3-months, New Zealand child homicide victims.
• Gică Petrescu, 91, Romanian singer. [141]
• Sir David Poole, 68, British judge. [142]
• Donald Reilly, 72, American cartoonist (The New Yorker), cancer. [143] [144]
• René Renou, 54, French vintner. [145]
• Vincent Sherman, 99, American film director (Mr. Skeffington, The Young Philadelphians), natural causes. [146][147]
• Richard Stahl, 74, American comedy actor, Parkinson's disease. [148][149]
• Madeleine St John, 64, Australian novelist who wrote a book shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1997, emphysema. [150]
• Arthur Wood, 93, executive at Sears, Roebuck & Company responsible for building Sears Tower, complications of pneumonia. [151]
• Hubert Cornfield, 77, film director in Hollywood (“The Night of the Following Day”, “Les Grandes Moyens” etc.).

17

• Norma Becker, 76, American anti-war activist, former chair of the War Resisters League. [152]
• Cláudio Besserman Vianna, (a.k.a. Bussunda), 43, Brazilian comedian, member of Casseta & Planeta, heart attack [153]
• Arthur Franz, 86, American character actor (Sands of Iwo Jima, Invaders from Mars). Emphysema and heart disease. [154][155]
• Mikhail Lapshin, 71, Russian politician, leader of the Agrarian Party and former president of the Altai Republic (2002–2006), cause unknown. [156]
• Bill Lamb, 76, American public television executive, co-founder of WNET and former chief of KCET. [157]
• Charles Older, 88, Los Angeles Superior Court judge who presided over the Charles Manson trial, complications of a fall. [158][159]
• Abdul-Khalim Saydullayev, 38 or 39, Chechen separatist rebel leader. [160]
• Julian Slade, 76, English composer and lyricist of Salad Days, cancer. [161]
• Bob Weaver, 77, Miami, Florida-based weatherman known as "Weaver the Weatherman" on WTVJ, cancer. [162]
• William Yallup Sr, 79, Yakama Nation elder. [163]

16

• Jimmy Allison, 77, Scottish unionist and Scottish organiser for the Labour Party between 1977 and 1990. [164] [165]
• Irving Berk, 100, Romania-born American founder of Berk Trade and Business School. [166]
• Roland Boyes, 69, Former Labour politician and photographer. Alzheimer's disease. [167]
• Barbara Epstein, 76, co-founder of the New York Review of Books, lung cancer. [168]
• Robert Hatch, 75, American public relations executive for Children's Television Workshop and the Peace Corps. [169]
• Tsuyoshi Kakefuda, 77, cancer researcher, liver disease. [170]
• Arthur Malvin, 83, Emmy award winning composer and lyricist, after a long illness. [171]
• Robert W. Mann, 81, American mechanical engineer and designer. [172]
• Scott Manning, 48, builder and pilot of the world's smallest jet, crash landing. [173]
• Igor Śmiałowski, 88, Polish actor, [174]
• Judy Wolpe, 62, cabinet member in two states and wife of former U.S. representative Howard Wolpe, drowning. [175] [176]

15

• Betty Curtis, 70, Italian singer, winner of Sanremo Music Festival in 1961 with Luciano Tajoli. [177]
• Rabi Das, 34, leader of Communist Party of India (Marxist) in West Bengal, shot dead by suspected Maoists. [178]
• Raymond Devos, 83, French humorist. [179]
• Ján Langoš, 59, Slovak politician, head of the Nation's Memory Institute of Slovakia [180] (Slovak)
• Jabu Sithole, 34, Zulu weatherman on the South African Broadcasting Corporation, AIDS. [181]
• Grand Rabbi Israel Dan Taub, 78, Modzitzer Rebbe of Bnei Brak, Israel. [182]

14

• Samuel Ackerman, 58, Chairman and CEO of Panacos Pharmaceuticals, heart attack. [183]
• Josiah Beeman, 70, former US ambassador to New Zealand and Western Samoa, campaign manager for Jerry Brown, kidney failure.
• Monty Berman, 94, British B-movie producer. [184]
• H. Monroe Browne, 89, former US ambassador to New Zealand. [185]
• Khurshid Zahan Hoque, 69, Bangladesh's Minister for Women and Children, cirrhosis of the liver. [186]
• Surinder Kaur, 77, Punjabi folk and classical singer known as the "nightingale of Punjab". [187]
• Craig Morris, 66, American pre-Columbian archaeologist at the American Museum of Natural History. [188]
• Jean Roba, 75, Belgian comics writer [189]
• Ndabezinhle Sigogo, Zimbabwean novelist and poet. [190]
• Irving Sunshine, 90, leader in forensic toxicology, multiple myeloma. [191]
• Klaas Verboom, 58, Canadian artist, liver cancer. [192]

13

• Roy Clarke, 79, convicted sex attacker who abused children over a 60 year period, natural causes.[193]
• Freddie Gorman, 77, US songwriter. [194]
• Patricia Guiver, 76, animal welfare advocate and mystery novelist, complications of heart surgery. [195]
• Charles Haughey, 80, former Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland, prostate cancer. [196]
• Hiroyuki Iwaki, 73, Japanese conductor, congestive heart failure. [197]
• Luis Jiménez, 65, American sculptor, crushed by a statue. [198]
• Burke Riley, 92, American lawyer and politician, Alzheimer's disease. [199]
• Dennis Shepherd, 79, South African Olympic boxer. [200]

12

• Anna Lee Aldred, 85, American jockey and first woman in US to receive a jockey's licence, member of the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame. [201] [202]
• Andrew William "Nicky" Barr, 90, Australian rugby union player and World War II fighter pilot [203]
• Chakufwa Chihana, 67, veteran Malawi opposition figure who ran unsuccessfully for President losing to Bakili Muluzi, brain tumour. [204]
• Michael Dornheim, 51, award-winning journalist with Aviation Week, car crash. [205]
• Michael Fajans, 58, American painter, motorcycle accident. [206] [207]
• Wes Hill, 76, Niagara River expert. [208]
• Clifford Hocking, 74, Australian entrepreneur [209]
• György Ligeti, 83, influential Hungarian composer. [210]
• José Leite Lopes, 87, Brazilian physicist. [211]
• Evan Settle, 93, former University of Kentucky basketballer. [212]
• Frank Streeter, 88, American philanthropist and book collector. [213]
• Mel Streeter, 75, architect and University of Oregon basketball player, amyloidosis. [214]
• Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, 82, billionaire Canadian media mogul and art collector. Possible heart attack. [215]
• Nijiro Tokuda, 111, oldest man in Japan [216]
• Paul Xanthos, 85, tennis coach at Los Angeles Pierce College for three decades winning 23 Conference titles, died in his sleep. [217]

11

• Michael Bartosh, 28, Mac OS X Server expert, injuries from a fall. [218]
• James Cameron, 92, founder of America's Black Holocaust Museum, lymphoma. [219]
• Pierre Clerdent, 97, Belgian politician (Liège), and holder of the Grand-Croix de la Légion d'honneur. [220]
• Neroli Fairhall, 61, New Zealand paraplegic archer and Olympic competitor. [221]
• Rolande Falcinelli, 86, French organist and composer.
• Tim Hildebrandt, 67, American artist. Complications of diabetes. [222]
• William Hundley, 80, American lawyer. [223]
• Hugh Latimer, 93, English actor and toy maker. [224]
• Mike Quarry, 55, light heavyweight boxer who challenged Bob Foster for the title, pugilistic dementia. [225]
• Major Bruce Shand, 89, father of Camilla, The Duchess of Cornwall, and father-in-law of Charles, Prince of Wales, cancer. [226]
• Daniel Steiner, 72, American president of the New England Conservatory, lung disease. [227] [228]
• John Udeh, 50, prolific writer on development issues and former Federal Commissioner representing Enugu State 1999-2003. [229]
• George Washington, 76, American boxing trainer. [230]

10

• Qadi Abdul Karim Abdullah Al-Arashi, 72, former President of North Yemen. [231]
• Hubertus Czernin, 50, Austrian journalist who helped return paintings looted by the Nazis. Mastocytosis.[232] [233]
• Moe Drabowsky, 70, Polish-born American Major League Baseball player, multiple myeloma. [234]
• German Goldenshteyn, 71, Bessarabian-born clarinetist and klezmer musician. [235]
• Wulff-Dieter Heintz, 76, German astronomer at Swarthmore College. [236]
• Kenneth Jack, 81, Australian artist. [237]
• Charles Johnson, 96, Negro League baseballer for the Chicago American Giants, complications of prostate cancer. [238]
• Philip Merrill, 72, publisher and diplomat, suicide. [239]
• Ruddy Thomas, 54, Jamaican singer, heart attack. [240]

9

• Kinga Choszcz aka "Freespirit", Polish author (Led By Destiny: Hitchhiking Around the World), cerebral malaria. [241]
• Drafi Deutscher, 60, German singer. [de]
• Michael Forrestall, 73, Canadian senator, died following hospitalization for breathing problems. [242]
• Patricia Janus, 74, American poet, heart attack brought on by liver cancer.
• Gloria Jones, 78, American socialite, widow of James Jones and mother of Kaylie Jones. [243]
• Mary Lutz, 55, director of competitive riding for the physically challenged at the United States Equestrian Federation. [244]
• Enzo Siciliano, 72, Italian writer, diabetes mellitus. [245]
• Vern Williams, 76, Bluegrass mandolin player and singer. [246]

8

• Thomas G. Arthur, 84, caterer who developed the Dodger Dog, heart attack. [247] [248]
• Will Baxter, 99, first professor of accounting in the UK. [249]
• Audrey Campbell, 76, actress best known for playing "Olga" in an infamous sexploitation film trilogy, undisclosed causes [250]
• Jake Copass, 86, American cowboy poet, leukemia. [251]
• Robert Donner, 75, American character actor probably best known for playing Exidor on Mork and Mindy, aneurysm. [252]
• Jack Jackson (nom de plume Jaxon), 65, American comic book artist and co-founder of Rip Off Press. [253]
• Mykola Kolessa, 102, Ukrainian composer and conductor. [254]
• Abouna Matta El Meskeen, 87, Spiritual Father of St. Macarius' Monastery in the Wilderness of Scetis, Egypt. [255]
• Mary Martin McLaughlin, 87, American scholar of the Middle Ages. [256]
• John C. Roberts, 72, founder of Australian construction company Brookfield Multiplex. Complications of diabetes. [257]
• Jamal Abu Samhadana, leader of PA / Hamas forces in Gaza Strip and PRC. Killed by Israeli air strike. [258]
• Talcott Seelye, 84, former United States ambassador to Tunisia and Syria. [259]
• Sir Peter Smithers, 92, British politician, MP for Winchester and Secretary General of the Council of Europe. [260]

7

• Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, 39, leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, US military strike. [261]
• Sheik Abd-Al-Rahman, spiritual adviser for Al-Qaeda in Iraq, US military strike. [262]
• Betty Beale, 94, Washington, D.C. society columnist. [263]
• Carl Dengler, 91, blind Rochester, New York bandleader and percussionist. [264]
• Joseph Dorfman, 65, Russian-Israeli composer of new music and a Shostakovich scholar.[265]
• Dr. Morton Kligerman, 88, American cancer researcher and professor of oncology and radiology. [266]
• Terry McCann, 74, Olympic gold medalist in freestyle wrestling and helped found USA Wrestling, and retired Executive Director of Toastmasters International, cancer (see [267]).
• Scott Palmer, 38, bassist for the reggae band John Brown's Body, cancer of the gall bladder. [268]
• Ingo Preminger, 95, Hollywood talent agent and producer (M*A*S*H), brother of Otto Preminger. [269] [270]
• Louis B. Sohn, 92, Lviv-born scholar of international law, helped draft the UN Charter. [271]
• John Tenta (aka Earthquake), 42, Canadian professional wrestler for the World Wrestling Federation, bladder cancer. [272]

6

• Professor Leslie Alcock, 81, pioneer of Dark Age archaeology, led the team that excavated Cadbury Castle. [273]
• Scobey Hartley, 74, Alberta oilman, heart attack [274][275]
• Frank Lanza, 74, Chairman and CEO of L-3 Communications following surgery. [276]
• Arnold Newman, 88, American photographer who pioneered "environmental portraiture". [277] [278].
• Reathel Odum, 97, White House personal secretary to Bess Truman. [279]
• Billy Preston, 59, American musician ("You Are So Beautiful", "Nothing from Nothing") known for his work with the Beatles, malignant hypertension leading to kidney failure. [280]
• Hilton Ruiz, 54, American jazz pianist, injuries from a fall. [281] [282]
• Léon Weil, 109, French World War I veteran. [283]
• Jason Moss, 31, Attorney and author of the book "The Last Victim" [284]

5

• Ray Cale, 83, Dual international for Wales in rugby union and rugby league. [285] [286]
• Frederick Franck, 97, Dutch artist, author, and dentist. [287]
• Eric Gregg, 55, American former Major League Baseball umpire, stroke. [288] [289][290]
• Wayne Hage, 69, American cattle rancher who sued the US National Forest Service over grazing rights. [291]
• Caleb Hammond, 90, American president of C. S. Hammond & Co. mapmakers. [292]
• Carlene Lewis, 51, American lawyer who sued Merck over the drug Vioxx. [293]
• Henri Magne, 53, French rally co-driver (navigator) [294] [295]
• Jorge Melendez, unknown age, involved in professional wrestling, committed suicide
• Robert Ross, 86, leader of the Muscular Dystrophy Association for 44 years and persuaded Jerry Lewis to undertake a yearly telethon to raise money for muscular dystrophy, complications of broken hip. [296]
• Elizabeth Fretwell, 85, Australian opera singer best known for her performances with the Sadler's Wells company. [297]

4

• Alec Bregonzi, 76, British actor
• Bill Fleming, 92, former MLB pitcher for the Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs [298]
• Peter Greenwell, 76, British composer and pianist known for his work with Noel Coward who later developed a tribute show described by Alan Jay Lerner as "the best Noel Coward since Noel Coward.[299]
• Raul Indipwo, 72, Portuguese singer, member of Duo Ouro Negro band, born in Angola, cancer [300]
• Ron Jones, 41, former Major League Baseball player, brain hemorrhage [301]
• Richard Kapp, 69, American conductor and founder of the Philharmonia Virtuosi. [302]
• Anthony Marreco, 90, junior British prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials and founding member of Amnesty International. [303]
• Eric Molobi, 58, South African anti-apartheid activist and businessman, lung cancer. [304]
• William M. Steger, 85, United States district court judge and Republican candidate for Governor of Texas in 1960. [305]
• Robert Taylor, 68, former New York Giants defensive end who played in the 1963 NFL championship game, complications following surgery for colon cancer. [306]

3

• Dick Anderson, 73, scuba diver. [307]
• Leo Clarke, 82, Roman Catholic Bishop of Maitland–Newcastle, Australia, 1976-1995. [308]
• William Dimitr Jr., 76, Rhode Island Superior Court judge, cancer. [309]
• Karmveer Nakwhal, 17, rising American rap artist and founder of KarmFarm Kids, a children's organization in Yuba City, California, murdered [310]
• Brian Duke, 79, tropical disease expert who helped to save millions from river blindness. [311]
• Johnny Grande, 76, pianist, member of Bill Haley's backing band, The Comets. Complications arising from cancer. [312]
• George Kashdan, 78, American comic book writer and editor for DC Comics. [313]
• Janet Sandell, 70, South African social activist, ovarian cancer. [314]
• Doug Serrurier, 85, former Grand Prix racing driver and constructor. [315]
• Prudence Watson, Canadian lawyer, brain tumor. [316]
• Ni Wen-ya, 105, former President of the Legislative Yuan. [317]
• Robin Williams Jr., 91, American sociologist and former president of the American Sociological Association. [318]

2

• Sol Cantor, 95, American discount store pioneer. [319]
• Ronald Cass, 83, British film score composer.
• Jennifer Eley, 44, prize-winning American classical concert pianist. [320]
• Barbara Furrer Goodman, 74, American educator, former chair of the board of trustees of the Teachers College at Columbia University. [321]
• Bernard Loomis, 82, American toymaker responsible for Strawberry Shortcake and Star Wars action figures, heart disease. [322]
• Vivek Maitra, Indian politician, possible foul play. [323]
• Leon Pownall, 63, Canadian actor, cancer.
• Frank Spencer, 87, FBI agent who investigated the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. [324]
• Vince Welnick, 55, member of The Grateful Dead, suicide. [325]
• Edward Yates, 87, director of American Bandstand (1952–1969). [326]
• Vyacheslav Klykov, 66, Russian sculptor and nationalist politician.[327]

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• Perry Bass, 91, Texas oilman and philanthropist. [328]
• Dr. Charles Brush III, 83, American archaeologist and former president of the Explorers Club. [329]
• Arthur Espenet Carpenter, 86, American furniture craftsman. [330]
• Shokichi Iyanaga, 100, influential Japanese mathematician [331]
• Rocío Jurado, 61, Spanish singer and actress, pancreatic cancer. [332]
• Allan Prior, 84, British television scriptwriter (Z-Cars, Howards' Way, The Charmer), father of folk singer Maddy Prior. [333]
• Calvin Pullins, Prince, 74, US-wrestler
• Abdul Latif Sharif. 59, Egyptian, suspect in the femicides in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, officially of natural causes, rumored poisoning.
• Claude Terrail, 88, owner of the restaurant La Tour d'Argent. [334]
• William D. Winn, 59, professor of education at the University of Washington. [335]