- Deaths in May 2008
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The following is a list of notable deaths in May 2008.
May 2008
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- Carlos Alhinho, 59, Portuguese international footballer, fall. [1]
- Joe Axelson, 80, American executive and general manager of the NBA Sacramento Kings. [2]
- Nusret Çolpan, 56, Turkish painter and architect. [3] (Turkish)
- Detlef Gromoll, 70, American mathematician, brain hemorrhage. [4]
- Nelly Láinez, 88, Argentine actress, urinary infection. [5]
- Per-Erik Larsson, 79, Swedish skier. [6] (Swedish)
- Charles Moskos, 74, American sociologist, architect of the US military DADT gay and lesbian policy, cancer. [7]
- Paul Thomson, 91, American botanist, co-founder of the California Rare Fruit Growers Association. [8]
30
- Harry Brautigam, 59, Nicaraguan president of the BCIE since 2003, heart problem after air crash. [9]
- Campbell Burnap, 68, British jazz trombonist, cancer. [10]
- Harlan Cleveland, 90, American diplomat, educator and author, ambassador to NATO (1965–1969), natural causes. [11]
- Rodney Gordon, 75, British architect. [12]
- Noel Moore, 79, British civil servant, leader of decimalisation project, brain tumour. [13]
- Chris Morgan, 55, British journalist, apparent suicide in front of a train. [14]
- William Eldridge Odom, 75, American army Lieutenant General and director of the National Security Agency. [15]
- Lorenzo Odone, 30, American ALD patient portrayed in the film Lorenzo's Oil. [16]
- Mike Scott, 75, British television producer and presenter. [17]
- Boris Shakhlin, 76, Russian-born Ukrainian gymnast, winner of seven Olympic gold medals for the Soviet Union, cardiac arrest. [18]
- Nat Temple, 94, British bandleader. [19]
29
- Paula Gunn Allen, 68, Native American poet, novelist, and activist, lung cancer. [20]
- José Alejandro Bernales, 59, Chilean director general of Carabineros de Chile, helicopter crash. [21]
- Luc Bourdon, 21, Canadian ice hockey player, motorcycle accident. [22]
- Romeo A. Brawner, 72, Filipino appeals court judge (1995–2005), election commissioner (2005–2008), heart attack. [23]
- Leonard Devine, 84, Australian politician, MP for East Sydney (1963–1969). [24]
- Harvey Korman, 81, American actor and comedian (Blazing Saddles, The Carol Burnett Show, The Flintstones), abdominal aortic aneurysm. [25]
28
- Beryl Cook, 81, British painter. [26]
- Sven Davidson, 79, Swedish tennis player. [27]
- Robert H. Justman, 81, American television and film producer (Star Trek), Parkinson's disease. [28]
- Elinor Lyon, 86, British children's writer. [29]
- Danny Moss, 80, British jazz tenor saxophonist. [30]
- Dianne Odell, 61, American author and polio victim, power failure to iron lung. [31]
- Erin Spanevello, 21, Canadian fashion model, drug overdose. [32]
27
- Valmae Beck, 64, Australian child murderer, complications of heart surgery. [33]
- Tony Hussein Hinde, 55, Australian-born Maldivian surfer, heart attack. [34]
- Franz Künstler, 107, German World War I veteran, last known surviving veteran of the Central Powers. [35]
- Hubert Macey, 87, Canadian ice hockey player. [36]
- Mick Nolan, 58, Australian footballer, cancer. [37]
- Abram Raselemane, 30, South African footballer, apparent suicide. [38]
- Alejandro Romualdo, 82, Peruvian poet. [39] (Spanish)
- Keith Rosewarne, 83, Australian footballer. [40]
26
- Dolly Aglay, 41, Filipino financial journalist, cancer. [41]
- Jerry C. Begay, 83, American Navajo code talker and World War II veteran. [42]
- Earle Hagen, 88, American composer of film and television theme music (The Andy Griffith Show, The Mod Squad). [43]
- Howlin' Dave, 52, Filipino radio disc jockey and proponent of Pinoy rock, stroke. [44]
- Roy Koerner, 75, British polar scientist and explorer. [45]
- Yuriy Konovalov, 78, Soviet-born Azerbaijani Olympic track athlete, 4 x 100m relay silver medallist (1956 and 1960). [46] (Russian)
- Donald L. Pilling, 64, American admiral, Vice Chief of Naval Operations (1997–2000), leukemia. [47]
- Sydney Pollack, 73, American film director (The Firm, Tootsie, Out of Africa) and actor, stomach cancer. [48]
- Alan Renouf, 89, Australian head of DFAT, ambassador to United States (1977–1979), France and Yugoslavia, leukemia. [49]
- Kermit Scott, 71, American philosophy professor, namesake of Kermit the Frog. [50]
25
- Louise Firouz, 74, American horse breeder. [51]
- George Garrett, 78, American novelist and poet, cancer. [52]
- Geremi González, 33, Venezuelan MLB baseball player, lightning strike. [53]
- James D. Griffin, 78, American mayor of Buffalo, New York (1978–1994), Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. [54]
- Bukhuti Gurgenidze, 74, Georgian chess grandmaster. [55]
- Ítalo Argentino Lúder, 91, Argentine acting president (1975). [56] (Spanish)
- Tom McHale, 45, American football player (Tampa Bay Buccaneers). [57]
- Mitch Mullany, 39, American comedian and actor (Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher), diabetes-related stroke. [58]
- J. R. Simplot, 99, American businessman, original McDonald's french fries supplier. [59]
- Clémentine Solignac, 113, French supercentenarian, verified world's fourth oldest person. [60]
- Ernst Stuhlinger, 94, German-born American rocket scientist. [61]
- Camu Tao, 30, American rapper-producer, lung cancer. [62]
- Kenneth H. Wood, 90, American author and administrator, editor of the Adventist Review, heart failure. [63]
24
- Adam Baruch, 63, Israeli journalist, writer and art critic, diabetes complications. [64]
- Bob Beck, 63, Guamanian zoologist and conservationist, worked to save Guam Rail native birds. [65]
- Tano Cimarosa, 86, Italian actor. [66] (Italian)
- Reg Flewin, 87, British footballer. [67]
- Rob Knox, 18, British actor (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince), stabbed. [68]
- Eugenio Garza Lagüera, 84, Mexican businessman, president of FEMSA, natural causes. [69]
- Isaac Lipschits, 77, Dutch political scientist and historian, natural causes. [70] (Dutch)
- Dick Martin, 86, American comedian (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In), respiratory complications. [71]
- Jimmy McGriff, 72, American jazz and blues organist, multiple sclerosis. [72]
- Sonny Okosun, 61, Nigerian musician, colon cancer. [73]
23
- Alan Brien, 83, British journalist and critic. [74]
- Cornell Capa, 90, American photographer, founder of the International Center of Photography. [75]
- Roberto Freire, 81, Brazilian writer and psychiatrist, created somatherapy. [76]
- Dritan Hoxha, 39, Albanian businessman, car accident. [77]
- Thelma Keane, 82, Australian-born American who inspired husband Bil's comic strip The Family Circus, Alzheimer's disease. [78]
- Heinz Kwiatkowski, 81, German footballer, member of 1954 FIFA World Cup-winning team. [79]
- Iñaki Ochoa de Olza, 40, Spanish mountaineer and alpinist, pulmonary edema while climbing Annapurna. [80]
- Jefferson Peres, 76, Brazilian senator from Amazonas, heart attack. [81] (Portuguese)
- Utah Phillips, 73, American folk singer and political activist, heart failure. [82]
22
- Robert Asprin, 61, American science fiction and fantasy writer (MythAdventures), heart attack. [83]
- Charlie Booth, 104, Australian athlete, inventor of the starting block. [84]
- Harry Lange, 77, German astronautical illustrator and film production designer (2001: A Space Odyssey). [85]
- Jack Mildren, 58, American football player, Oklahoma's lieutenant governor (1990–1995), stomach cancer. [86]
- Paul Patrick, 58, British gay rights activist, chronic lung condition. [87]
- Hana Maria Pravda, 90, Czech actress and Holocaust survivor. [88]
21
- Mel Casson, 87, American cartoonist (Redeye). [89]
- Brian Keenan, 66, Irish IRA commander, cancer. [90]
- Ted Lanyon, 68, Canadian ice hockey player. [91]
- Michelle Meldrum, 39, American rock guitarist (Phantom Blue, Meldrum), cystic growth on the brain. [92]
- John Aloysius Morgan, 98, Australian Roman Catholic prelate. [93]
- Siegmund Nissel, 86, German-born British violinist (Amadeus Quartet). [94]
- Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos, 77, Portuguese artist and engraver, long illness. [95] (Portuguese)
- Torcato Sepúlveda, 57, Portuguese journalist. [96] (Portuguese)
20
- Iona Banks, 87, British actress (Pobol y Cwm). [97]
- Crispin Beltran, 75, Filipino congressman and labor leader, head injuries from a fall. [98]
- Viktor Bortsov, 73, Russian actor, intestinal cancer. [99] (Russian)
- Margot Boyd, 94, British actress (Marjorie Antrobus on The Archers). [100]
- Thomas Burlison, Baron Burlison, 71, British footballer and trade unionist. [101]
- Joachim Erwin, 58, German politician, mayor of Düsseldorf, colorectal cancer. [102]
- Herb Hash, 97, American baseball pitcher (Boston Red Sox), stroke. [103]
- Harald Hein, 58, German Olympic fencer. [104]
- Zelma Henderson, 88, American last surviving plaintiff in Brown v. Board of Education, pancreatic cancer. [105]
- Hamilton Jordan, 63, American politician, Jimmy Carter's White House chief of staff (1979–1980), mesothelioma. [106]
- Cy Leonard, 82, Canadian ventriloquist. [107]
- Ali Sadikin, 80, Indonesian politician, governor of Jakarta (1966–1977), liver cancer. [108]
- Jeheskel Shoshani, 65, Israeli-born American elephant expert, bus explosion. [109]
- S. K. Trimurti, 96, Indonesian journalist, first minister of labor and employment, natural causes. [110] (Indonesian)
19
- Randy Acord, 89, American aviation historian. [111]
- Nigel Cassidy, 62, British footballer. [112]
- Larry Coutre, 80, American football player. [113]
- Jack Duffy, 81, Canadian comedian, natural causes. [114]
- Chaim Flom, Israeli scholar and rosh yeshiva. [115]
- Huntington Hartford, 97, American businessman and philanthropist. [116]
- Rimma Kazakova, 76, Russian poet. [117]
- Mariam McGlone, 92, American dancer and choreographer. [118]
- Kjell Kristian Rike, 63, Norwegian sports commentator. [119]
- Vijay Tendulkar, 80, Indian playwright, myasthenia gravis. [120]
18
- Pietro Cascella, 87, Italian contemporary artist. [121]
- Irma Córdoba, 94, Argentine actress, natural causes. [122] (Spanish)
- Lloyd Moore, 95, American NASCAR driver (1949–1955). [123]
- Elemore Morgan, Jr., 76, American landscape artist. [124]
- Joseph Pevney, 96, American television and film director (Bonanza, Star Trek, The Paper Chase, Trapper John, M.D.). [125]
17
- Jolyon Brettingham Smith, 58, British composer, musicologist and radio presenter. [126] (German)
- John Fitzsimmons, 68, British Roman Catholic priest and broadcaster, after long illness. [127]
- Thomas Flatley, 76, American real estate tycoon and philanthropist, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [128]
- Zélia Gattai, 91, Brazilian writer and novelist, wife of Jorge Amado. [129]
- Wilfrid Mellers, 94, British composer and author. [130]
- D. Aubrey Moodie, 99, Canadian politician. [131]
- Jack Rayner, 87, Australian rugby league player. [132]
- Sophan Sophiaan, 64, Indonesian actor and politician, motorcycle accident. [133]
- Joyce Trimmer, 80, Canadian politician, mayor of Scarborough, Ontario (1988–1994), cancer. [134]
- Lionel Van Deerlin, 93, American politician and journalist, representative from California (1963–1981).[135]
16
- William Blease, Baron Blease, 93, British politician. [136]
- Henry Canoy, 84, Filipino businessman, founder of Radio Mindanao Network. [137]
- Sandy Howard, 80, American film and television producer (A Man Called Horse), Alzheimer's disease. [138]
- David Mitton, 69, British animation director, heart attack. [139]
- Robert Mondavi, 94, American winemaker, benefactor of the Mondavi Center, member of the California Hall of Fame. [140]
- Igor Polyakov, 95, Russian rower, 1952 Olympic silver medalist. [141] (Russian)
- Jimmy Slyde, 80, American tap dancer. [142]
15
- Del Ankers, 91, American cinematographer and photographer (Muppets commercials). [143]
- Henry Austin, 88, Indian diplomat and politician, ambassador to Portugal. [144]
- Tommy Burns, 51, Scottish football player and manager (Celtic, Kilmarnock, Reading), melanoma. [145]
- Tove Billington Bye, 79, Norwegian politician. [146] (Norwegian)
- Alexander Courage, 88, American orchestrator and film composer. [147]
- Walt Dickerson, 80, American vibraphonist, cardiac arrest. [148]
- Robert Dunlop, 47, British motorcycle racer, chest injuries. [149]
- Will Elder, 86, American comic book artist (Mad, Little Annie Fanny), Parkinson's disease. [150] [151]
- Bob Florence, 75, American jazz composer and arranger, pneumonia. [152]
- Youssef Idilbi, 32, Dutch actor, suicide. [153] (Dutch)
- Willis Lamb, 94, American physicist, Nobel laureate in physics (1955), complications of gallstone disorder. [154]
- Earl Leggett, 75, American football player and coach. [155]
14
- Frith Banbury, 96, British stage director and actor, liver cancer. [156]
- Arthur Burks, 92, American mathematician and computer pioneer, Alzheimer's disease. [157]
- Warren Cowan, 87, American publicist, cancer. [158]
- John Forbes-Robertson, 80, British actor. [159]
- Derek Goodwin, 88, British ornithologist. [160]
- Roy Heath, 81, Guyanese writer. [161]
- Jay Morago, 90, American governor of the Gila River Indian Community (1954–1960), cancer. [162]
- Tonderai Ndira, 33, Zimbabwean political dissident, murdered. [163]
- Astrid Zachrison, 112, Swedish supercentenarian, oldest Swede ever. [164]
- Yuri Rytkheu, 78, Russian Chukchi language writer. [165]
- Mário Schoemberger, 56, Brazilian film, television and stage actor, cancer. [166] (Portuguese)
- Richard David Vine, 82, American diplomat, ambassador to Switzerland (1979–1981). [167]
13
- Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, 78, Kuwaiti emir (2006). [168]
- Jill Adams, 77, British actress, cancer. [169]
- Lucius D. Battle, 89, American ambassador to Egypt (1964–1967), Parkinson's disease. [170]
- Bernardin Gantin, 86, Beninese cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. [171]
- John Phillip Law, 70, American actor (Barbarella). [172]
- Larry McKeon, 63, American politician, first openly gay member of the Illinois General Assembly, stroke. [173]
- Colea Răutu, 95, Romanian actor, cirrhosis. [174]
- Ron Stone, 72, American news anchor (KHOU, KPRC in Houston), prostate cancer. [175]
- Costică Toma, 80, Romanian football goalkeeper (Romania, Steaua Bucureşti). [176]
12
- Penny Banner, 73, American professional wrestler, cancer. [177]
- David Daniels, 74, American poet. [178]
- Oakley Hall, 87, American novelist (Warlock), kidney disease and cancer. [179]
- Lidiya Masterkova, 81, Russian-born French painter. [180] (Russian)
- Robert Rauschenberg, 82, American pop artist, heart failure. [181]
- Irena Sendler, 98, Polish humanitarian, saved 2500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. [182]
11
- Sam Dauya, 70, Zimbabwean founder of Dynamos F.C. football team. [183]
- Alema Leota, 80, American alleged organized crime leader, 1978 candidate for governor of Hawaii, injuries from car accident. [184]
- Raymattja Marika, 49, Australian Yolngu scholar, linguist, educator and cultural advocate, heart attack. [185]
- Bruno Neves, 27, Portuguese cyclist, crash during race. [186]
- Dottie Rambo, 74, American gospel singer, bus crash. [187]
- John Rutsey, 55, Canadian drummer (Rush), heart attack. [188]
- Heather Stohler, 29, American model for Calvin Klein, fire. [189]
- Dick Sutcliffe, 90, American animator, creator of Davey and Goliath, stroke. [190]
- Jeff Torrington, 72, British novelist (Swing Hammer Swing), Parkinson's disease. [191]
- Curtis Whitley, 39, American football player (San Diego Chargers, Carolina Panthers, Oakland Raiders). [192] [193]
10
- Leyla Gencer, 79, Turkish soprano opera singer, respiratory and cardiac failure. [194]
- Paul Haeberlin, 84, French chef and restaurateur (L'Auberge de l'Ill). [195]
- Jessica Jacobs, 17, Australian actress and singer, fell under train. [196] [197]
- Liao Feng-Teh, 57, Taiwanese incoming interior minister, heart attack. [198]
- Eusebio Ríos, 73, Spanish international footballer and coach. [199] (Spanish)
- Mario Schiano, 74, Italian jazz saxophonist, after long Illness. [200]
- Peter Thurnham, 69, British MP for Bolton North East (1983–1997), pancreatic cancer. [201]
9
- James Atkinson, 92, British physicist. [202]
- Firoz Dastur, 89, Indian Hindustani classical musician (Kirana Gharana), anaemia. [203]
- Jack Gibson, 79, Australian rugby league player and coach, selected as "Coach of the Century". [204]
- Judy Grable, 82, American female professional wrestler. [205]
- Shmuel Katz, 93, Israeli writer, historian and journalist. [206]
- Arthur Kroeger, 76, Canadian civil servant (1958–1992), academic and chancellor of Carleton University (1993–2002). [207]
- Nuala O'Faolain, 68, Irish journalist and author, lung cancer. [208] [209]
- Ronald A. Parise, 56, American astronaut, brain tumor. [210]
- Esteban Robles Espinosa, Mexican police commander, shot. [211]
- Pascal Sevran, 62, French television presenter and producer, lyricist and writer, lung cancer. [212]
- Sinan Sofuoğlu, 25, Turkish motorcycle racer, training crash. [213]
- Artur da Távola, 72, Brazilian journalist, writer and politician, heart disease. [214] (Portuguese)
8
- Eddy Arnold, 89, American country music singer. [215]
- Willem Brakman, 85, Dutch author. [216] (Dutch)
- Ian Brodie, 72, British foreign correspondent (The Daily Telegraph). [217]
- Jose Feria, 91, Filipino supreme court justice (1986–1987). [218]
- Murray Jarvik, 84, American academic and co-inventor of the nicotine patch, heart failure. [219]
- Larry Levine, 80, American Grammy-winning audio engineer (Wall of Sound), emphysema. [220]
- Luigi Malerba, 81, Italian writer. [221]
- Édgar Eusebio Millán Gómez, 41, Mexican federal police anti-drug coordinator, shot. [222]
- François Sterchele, 26, Belgian footballer (Belgium, Club Brugge), car accident. [223]
7
- William Douglas Allen, 94, British physicist and electrical engineer. [224]
- Neeraj Grover, 26, Indian television executive and producer (Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Se Tez Hain?), beaten. [225]
- Clifford Jones, 80, American politician, Pennsylvania Republican Party chairman, prostate cancer. [226]
- Thijs Wöltgens, 64, Dutch politician, mayor of Kerkrade (1994–2000), senator (1995–2005). [227] (Dutch)
- Gernot Zippe, 90, Austrian engineer. [228]
6
- John Jay Iselin, 74, American public television innovator, descendent of John Jay, pneumonia. [229]
- Franz Jackson, 95, American saxophonist. [230]
- Harvey Karman, 84, American psychologist and women's reproductive health advocate, inventor of the Karman cannula, stroke. [231]
- Ray Michie, Baroness Michie of Gallanach, 74, British Liberal Democrat politician, cancer. [232]
- D.C. Minner, 73, American blues musician. [233]
- John Reames, 65, British football manager and administrator, cancer. [234]
5
- Sam Aubrey, 85, American basketball player and coach (Oklahoma State Cowboys). [235]
- Thomas Boggs, 63, American drummer (Box Tops), owner of Huey's Restaurants. [236]
- Hugh Bradner, 92, American scientist credited with inventing the wetsuit. [237]
- Park Kyung-ni, 82, South Korean novelist, lung cancer. [238]
- Irv Robbins, 90, American businessman, co-founder of the Baskin-Robbins ice cream chain. [239] [240]
- Alma Hogan Snell, 85, American Crow tribal nation historian, herbalist, granddaughter of Pretty Shield. [241]
- Jerry Wallace, 79, American country music singer, heart failure. [242]
- Witold Woyda, 68, Polish fencer, double gold medallist at the 1972 Summer Olympics, lung cancer. [243]
4
- John Altieri, 38, American actor (Jersey Boys), pneumonia. [244]
- Fred Baur, 89, American chemist, inventor of the Pringles can. [245]
- Alvin Colt, 92, American Tony Award–winning costume designer (On the Town, Guys and Dolls, Pipe Dream, Li'l Abner). [246]
- John Greenwood, 57, British businessman and catering executive, motor neurone disease. [247]
- Fred Haines, 72, American screenwriter and film director, lung cancer. [248]
- Richard Holme, Baron Holme of Cheltenham, 71, British Liberal Democrat politician, cancer. [249]
- Kishan Maharaj, 84, Indian musician, leading exponent of the Benares gharana tabla, stroke. [250]
- Colin Murdoch, 79, New Zealand inventor of the disposable hypodermic syringe and the tranquilizer gun, cancer. [251]
- F. R. Wallace, Jr., 91, American mayor of Chesterfield, New Jersey (1975–1981), natural causes. [252]
3
- Charles Caccia, 78, Canadian politician, environmentalist, Liberal MP for Davenport (1968–2004), complications of stroke. [253]
- Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo, 82, Spanish prime minister (1981–1982), natural causes. [254]
- Eight Belles, 3, American racehorse, 2008 Kentucky Derby 2nd place finisher, euthanized. [255]
- Martin Finnegan, 27, Irish motorbike racer, race crash. [256]
- Fay Gale, 75, Australian cultural geographer. [257]
- Lynne Cooper Harvey, 92, American radio producer, Radio Hall of Fame member, wife of Paul Harvey, leukemia. [258]
- Ted Key, 95, American cartoonist (Hazel), bladder cancer and stroke. [259]
- Morgan Sparks, 91, American engineer, inventor of the first practical bipolar junction transistor. [260]
- Ngugi wa Mirii, 57, Kenyan playwright, car accident. [261]
2
- Robert Brachtenbach, 77, American jurist, Washington State Supreme Court justice (1972–1994), throat cancer. [262]
- Carole Dekeijser, 48, Belgian painter, lung cancer. [263] (French)
- Dominic Dim Deng, Sudanese politician, defence minister for Southern Sudan, plane crash. [264]
- Robert M. Isaac, 80, American politician, mayor of Colorado Springs, Colorado (1979–1997), pneumonia. [265]
- Mildred Loving, 68, American civil rights pioneer, challenged Virginia interracial marriage law (Loving v. Virginia). [266]
- Ilyas Malayev, 72, Uzbekistani musician and poet, pancreatic cancer. [267]
- Beverlee McKinsey, 72, American soap opera actress (Another World, Guiding Light), complications from kidney transplant. [268]
- Izold Pustylnik, 70, Ukrainian-born Estonian astronomer. [269]
- Daniel Sekhoto, 37, South African football player. [270]
- Mike Titcomb, 75 , British rugby union referee, kidney failure. [271]
- Frank Y. Whiteley, Jr., 93, American thoroughbred racehorse trainer (Ruffian). [272]
- Justin Yak, Sudanese politician, minister for cabinet affairs for Southern Sudan (2006–2007), plane crash. [273]
1
- Nasimuddin Amin, 54, Malaysian entrepreneur and founder of Naza, lung cancer. [274]
- Bernard Archard, 91, British actor. [275]
- Buzzie Bavasi, 93, American baseball executive (Dodgers, Angels, Padres). [276]
- Mary Berry, 90, British musicologist and nun. [277]
- Philipp von Boeselager, 90, German World War II anti-Hitler conspirator. [278]
- Nirmala Deshpande, 78, Indian peace activist, after brief illness. [279]
- Elaine Dundy, 86, American writer and actress. [280]
- Aden Hashi Farah, Somali leader of Al-Shabab insurgent group, air strike. [281]
- Jim Hager, 61, American country music singer and television actor (Hee Haw), heart attack. [282]
- Mark Kendall, 49, British footballer (Tottenham Hotspur, Newport County, Wolverhampton Wanderers). [283]
- Sir Anthony Mamo, 99, Maltese politician, first president of the Republic of Malta. [284]
- Alberto Estima de Oliveira, 74, Portuguese poet. [285] (Portuguese)
- Deborah Jeane Palfrey, 52, American escort agency proprietor, suicide by hanging. [286] [287]
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