The following is a list of notable deaths in August 2008.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

August 2008

1

• Leopoldo Alas Mínguez, 45, Spanish writer, poet and editor.^[1]
• Carlos Aponte, 69, Colombian footballer.^[2]
• Rolf Bae, 33, Norwegian mountaineer, climbing accident.^[3]
• Pauline Baynes, 85, British illustrator (The Chronicles of Narnia, The Lord of the Rings).^[4]
• Peter Jackson, 80, Australian fashion designer, prostate cancer.^[5]
• Ashok Mankad, 61, Indian cricketer.^[6]
• Chief Mqalo, 91, South African Chief of the AmaKhuze Tribe, Alice.^[7]
• Harkishan Singh Surjeet, 92, Indian politician, cardiac arrest.^[8]
• Butch White, 72, British cricketer (Hampshire, Glamorgan, England).^[9]

2

• Fujio Akatsuka, 72, Japanese manga artist, pneumonia.^[10]
• Frederic Apcar, 93, Russian-born French acrobatic dancer and producer/impresario.^[11]
• Thomas John Ashton, 3rd Baron Ashton of Hyde, 81, British aristocrat and banker.^[12]
• Geoffrey Ballard, 76, Canadian businessman and fuel cell scientist, founder of Ballard Power Systems.^[13]
• Pérez Celis, 69, Argentine plastic artist, leukaemia.^[14]
• Affonso Évora, 89, Brazilian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1948) basketball player.^[15]
• Helga Gitmark, 78, Norwegian politician.^[16]
• Christopher González, 65, Jamaican sculptor and painter, cancer.^[17]
• Kåre Grøndahl Hagem, 93, Norwegian politician.^[18]
• Allen Kolstad, 76, American politician, lieutenant governor of Montana (1988–1991), cancer.^[19]
• Ger McDonnell, 37, Irish mountaineer, first Irishman to reach K2 summit, climbing accident.^[20]
• Peter Rodman, 64, American foreign policy expert, leukemia.^[21]
• John F. Seiberling, 89, American politician, representative from Ohio (1971–1987), respiratory failure.^[22]

3

• Anton Allemann, 72, Swiss footballer (PSV Eindhoven, 1. FC Nürnberg, Grasshopper Zürich), heart attack.^[23]
• Skip Caray, 68, American broadcaster for baseball (Atlanta Braves) and basketball (Hawks), son of Harry Caray, bronchitis.^[24]
• Erik Darling, 74, American songwriter, folk musician, lymphoma.^[25]
• Roger Dean, 65, British guitarist, brain cancer.^[26]
• Babatunde Jose, 82, Nigerian journalist and newspaper editor.^[27]
• Jeffrey S. Medkeff, 39, American astronomer and science writer, liver cancer.^[28]
• Robert Montgomery, 78, American lawyer.^[29]
• Aurelius H. Piper Sr., 92, American hereditary chief of the Golden Hill Paugussett Indian Nation since 1959, natural causes.^[30]
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 89, Russian novelist and historian, Nobel Prize winner (1970), heart failure.^[31]
• Louis Teicher, 83, American classical pianist (Ferrante & Teicher), heart failure.^[32]

4

• Alberto Achacaz Walakial, 79, Chilean craftsman, one of the last full-blooded Alacaluf, blood poisoning.^[33]
• Sally Insul, 92, American actress, heart failure.^[34]
• Craig Jones, 23, British motorcycle racer, head injuries from a race crash.^[35]
• Peter Kass, 85, American actor, director and teacher.^[36]
• Eri Kawai, 43, Japanese pop and classical singer, liver cancer.^[37]
• Victor McCaffery, 89, Australian cricketer.^[38]
• Robert Maheu, 90, American businessman, aide to Howard Hughes.^[39]
• Nicola Rescigno, 92, American opera conductor, complications from broken femur.^[40]
• Johnny Thio, 63, Belgian football player and coach, myocardial rupture.^[41]
• Greg Weld, 64, American racing driver and businessman, heart attack.^[42]

5

• Aziz Abdullah Ahmed, 80-81, Iraqi Kurdish judge, Alzheimer's disease.^[43]
• Jaroslav Alexa, 59, Czech Olympic athlete.^[44]
• Bruno Dallansky, 79, Austrian actor.^[45]
• Robert Hazard, 59, American musician and songwriter ("Girls Just Want to Have Fun"), pancreatic cancer.^[46]
• Jack Kamen, 88, American comic book artist (Tales from the Crypt, The Vault of Horror), cancer.^[47]
• Reg Lindsay, 79, Australian country music singer and songwriter, pneumonia.^[48]
• Shelby Linville, 78, American basketball player (Kentucky Wildcats), cancer.^[49]
• José Medellín, 33, Mexican convicted murderer, execution in Texas by lethal injection.^[50]
• Gary Mooney, 78, American animator (Sleeping Beauty, Lady and the Tramp, George of the Jungle), cancer.^[51]
• Daniel L. Norris, 73, Canadian commissioner of the Northwest Territories (1989–1994), heart failure.^[52]
• Eva Pflug, 79, German actress (Raumpatrouille Orion).^[53]
• Manuel de Almeida Trindade, 90, Portuguese bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Aveiro (1962–1988).^[54]

6

• Bertil Ahlin, 81, Swedish boxer.^[55]
• Robert Nason Beck, 80, American scientist, myelodysplasia.^[56]
• John K. Cooley, 80, American author (Unholy Wars), journalist and expert of Middle East affairs, cancer.^[57]
• Ela-Mana-Mou, 32, British Thoroughbred race horse and sire, euthanized.^[58]
• Gene Galusha, 66, American actor and narrator.^[59]
• Roy Howard, 85, Australian cricketer.^[60]
• Karl Kuehl, 70, American baseball scout, coach and manager (Montreal Expos), pulmonary fibrosis.^[61]
• Tony Russo, 71, American whistleblower (Pentagon Papers).^[62]
• Jud Taylor, 68, American television director and actor (Dr. Kildare, Star Trek, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit), kidney failure.^[63]
• Reg Whitehouse, 75, Canadian football player (Saskatchewan Roughriders).^[64]

7

• Bernie Brillstein, 77, American film producer (Ghostbusters, The Blues Brothers, ALF), chronic pulmonary disease.^[65]
• Juan Bustos, 72, Chilean politician, liver cancer.^[66]
• Simon Gray, 71, British playwright, abdominal aortic aneurysm.^[67]
• Ralph Klein, 77, Israeli basketball player and coach, intestinal cancer.^[68]
• Andrea Pininfarina, 51, Italian businessman, CEO of Pininfarina, motorcycle accident.^[69]
• Clarence Rost, 94, Canadian ice hockey player.^[70]

8

• Ann-Mari Aasland, 93, Norwegian politician.^[71]
• Rio Alex Bulo, 30, Indonesian Serial Killer
• Ralph Edward Dodge, 101, American bishop of the Methodist Church.^[72]
• Antonio Gava, 78, Italian politician, minister of the interior (1988–1990), after long illness.^[73]
• Orville Moody, 74, American professional golfer, winner of 1969 U.S. Open.^[74]
• Eleo Pomare, 70, Colombian modern dance choreographer, cancer.^[75]
• Henk Starreveld, 94, Dutch Olympic canoer.^[76]

9

• Giorgi Antsukhelidze, 23, Georgian soldier, shot.^[77]
• Sir Stanley Bailey, 81, British chief constable of Northumbria Police (1975–1991).^[78]
• Peter Coe, 88, British athletics coach, father of Sebastian Coe.^[79]
• Colm Condon, 87, Irish lawyer, Attorney General (1965–1973).^[80]
• Bob Cunis, 67, New Zealand cricketer.^[81]
• Mahmoud Darwish, 67, Palestinian poet, complications from open heart surgery.^[82]
• Archie Elliott, Lord Elliott, 85, British judge.^[83]
• Ken Griffiths, 78, English footballer (Port Vale).^[84]
• Jacob Landau, 74, American journalist, attorney, co-founder of Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, after long illness.^[85]
• Bernie Mac, 50, American comedian and actor (The Bernie Mac Show, Ocean's Eleven, Friday), complications from pneumonia.^[86]
• Gilbert Morand, 85, French military patrol runner.^[87]
• Roy Simmonds, 79, Australian rules footballer (Hawthorn), cancer.^[88]
• Greg Urwin, 61, Australian diplomat, Secretary General of the Pacific Islands Forum (2004–2008), cancer.^[89]
• Denis Vetchinov, 32, Russian army major, recipient of Hero of the Russian Federation award, killed in action.^[90]
• Vivian Shun-wen Wu, 95, Taiwanese entrepreneur, chairwoman of Yulon Motor, heart failure.^[91]

10

• Louise Armstrong, 71, American children's writer.^[92]
• Sir William Christie, 95, North Irish politician, Lord Mayor of Belfast (1972–1975).^[93]
• Lee Clark, 71, Canadian politician, MP for Brandon—Souris (1983–1993).^[94]
• John Esmonde, 71, British television writer, half of Esmonde and Larbey (Please Sir!, The Good Life).^[95]
• Isaac Hayes, 65, American soul and funk musician ("Theme from Shaft") and actor (South Park, The Rockford Files), Oscar winner (1972), stroke.^[96]
• Cezmi Kartay, 88, Turkish civil servant and politician (chairman of SODEP).^[97]
• William A. Knowlton, 88, American general.^[98]
• Howard G. Minsky, 94, American film producer (Love Story).^[99]
• Terence Rigby, 71, British actor (Get Carter, Watership Down, Mona Lisa Smile), lung cancer.^[100]
• Alexander Slobodyanik, 65, Ukrainian pianist, meningitis.^[101]
• František Tikal, 75, Czech ice hockey player.^[102]
• David Young, 76, British Bishop of Ripon (1977–1999).^[103]

11

• Arase Nagahide, 59, Japanese sumo wrestler, heart failure.^[104]
• Agneta Bolme Börjefors, 67, Swedish television presenter and royal reporter.^[105]
• Sheikh Abdul Aziz, 55–56, Kashmir politician, shot.^[106]
• Henry B. R. Brown, 82, American investment banker, aneurysm.^[107]
• John S. Bull, 73, American NASA astronaut.^[108]
• Sir Bill Cotton, 80, British television executive.^[109]
• George Deem, 75, American artist, lung cancer.^[110]
• George Furth, 75, American playwright (Company) and actor (Blazing Saddles, The Cannonball Run).^[111]
• Don Helms, 81, American steel guitarist.^[112]
• James Hoyt, 83, American soldier, member of the Buchenwald liberation team.^[113]
• Anatoly Khrapaty, 45, Kazakh Olympic weightlifter (USSR and Kazakhstan), motorcycle accident.^[114]
• Günther Schifter, 84, Austrian journalist and radio presenter.^[115]
• Fred Sinowatz, 79, Austrian politician, chancellor of Austria (1983–1986).^[116]
• Darren Taylor, 42, American gang member turned peacemaker, cancer.^[117]
• Rhoshii Wells, 31, American boxer, Olympic medallist, shot.^[118]

12

• Christie Allen, 53, Australian pop singer, pancreatic cancer.^[119]
• Michael Baxandall, 74, British art historian, Parkinson's disease.^[120]
• Gilles Bilodeau, 53, Canadian NHL and World Hockey Association player (Quebec Nordiques).^[121]
• Mick Clough, 80, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (1976–1988, 1991–1999).^[122]
• Dottie Wiltse Collins, 84, American AAGPBL baseball pitcher (Fort Wayne Daisies).^[123]
• Leon Dorsey, 32, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.^[124]
• Donald Erb, 81, American avant-garde composer.^[125]
• George Gick, 92, American Major League Baseball player (Chicago White Sox).^[126]
• Rust Hills, 83, American fiction editor (Esquire), cardiac arrest.^[127]
• Lester Hogan, 88, American physicist, complications of Alzheimer's disease.^[128]
• Vilma Jamnická, 101, Austro-Hungarian-born Slovakian actress and astrologer.^[129]
• Francis Lacassin, 76, French editor.^[130]
• Patricia W. Malone, 84, American naval officer.^[131]
• Aditya Prakash, 84, Indian architect.^[132]
• Herm Schneidman, 94, American football player (Green Bay Packers).^[133]
• Stan Storimans, 39, Dutch photojournalist and cameraman, mortar fire.^[134]
• Bill Stulla, 97, American children's television show host.^[135]

13

• Sandy Allen, 53, American tallest woman in the world (according to Guinness World Records).^[136]
• Henri Cartan, 104, French mathematician.^[137]
• Bill Gwatney, 48, American politician, Arkansas state senator (1992–2002), Democratic Party of Arkansas chairman, shot.^[138]
• John MacDougall, 60, British politician, MP for Glenrothes since 2005 and Central Fife (2001–2005), mesothelioma.^[139]
• Nollaig Ó Gadhra, 64, Irish language activist, journalist and historian, co-founder of Teilifís na Gaeilge.^[140]
• Roy Prosser, 66, Australian international rugby union player, heart attack.^[141]
• Dino Toso, 39, Italian automotive engineer, Renault F1 director of aerodynamics, cancer.^[142]
• Jack Weil, 107, American founder of Rockmount Ranch Wear, oldest working CEO.^[143]
• Stuart Cary Welch, 80, American scholar and collector of Indian and Islamic art.^[144]

14

• Seiji Aochi, 66, Japanese ski jumper, stomach cancer.^[145]
• Sandy Bruce-Lockhart, Baron Bruce-Lockhart, 66, British politician and local government leader, cancer.^[146]
• Ralph Feigin, 70, American pediatrician, lung cancer.^[147]
• Luigi Grossi, 83, Italian Olympic sprinter.^[148]
• Percy Irausquin, 39, Aruban fashion designer, cerebral hemorrhage.^[149]
• Carlton John, 92-93, Trinidadian West Indian cricket umpire.^[150]
• Marius Maziers, 93, French prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.^[151]
• Michael Anthony Rodriguez, 45, American murderer, member of the Texas Seven, execution by lethal injection.^[152]
• Lita Roza, 82, British singer, first British female to top the UK singles chart.^[153]
• Bob Worthington, 72, American honorary consul of the Cook Islands to the United States (1985–2008).^[154]

15

• Carlos Meglia, 50, Argentine comic book artist (Cybersix).^[155]
• James Orthwein, 84, American businessman, cancer.^[156]
• Gladys Powers, 109, British-born last World War I veteran living in Canada, served with the WAAC and WRAF.^[157]
• Leroy Sievers, 53, American journalist, colon cancer.^[158]
• Vic Toweel, 79, South African boxer, bantamweight world champion (1952–1954).^[159]
• Jerry Wexler, 91, American record producer, heart failure.^[160]
• Darrin Winston, 42, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, 1997–1998), leukemia.^[161]

16

• Hugh Butt, 98, American physician.^[162]
• Dorival Caymmi, 94, Brazilian songwriter and singer, multiple organ failure.^[163]
• Roberta Collins, 63, American actress (Death Race 2000, Eaten Alive), drug overdose.^[164]
• Michel-Gaspard Coppenrath, 84, Tahitian archbishop of Papeete (1973–1999), ruptured aneurysm.^[165]
• Ronnie Drew, 73, Irish singer, founding member of The Dubliners, after long illness.^[166]
• Jack Dunham, 98, American animator and television producer, creator of the St. Hubert Chicken.^[167]
• Masanobu Fukuoka, 95, Japanese microbiologist, pioneer of no-till grain cultivation.^[168]
• Elena Leușteanu, 73, Romanian gymnast and three-time Olympic medalist, pancreatic cancer.^[169]
• Fanny Mikey, 78, Argentine-born Colombian theatre actress, renal failure.^[170]
• Johnny Moore, 70, Jamaican trumpeter, founding member of The Skatalites, cancer.^[171]
• Alfred Rainer, 20, Austrian Nordic combined skier, paragliding accident.^[172]
• Helge Uuetoa, 71, Estonian stage designer, beaten.^[173]

17

• Marie Fisher, 77, Australian politician, Member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1978–1988).^[174]
• Dave Freeman, 47, American author (100 Things To Do Before You Die), injuries from fall.^[175]
• Maudie Hopkins, 93, last certified American Civil War widow.^[176]
• Sir Edwin Nixon, 83, English businessman, chief executive of IBM UK.^[177]
• Philip Saffman, 77, American mathematician.^[178]
• Franco Sensi, 82, Italian businessman, president of A.S. Roma since 1993, respiratory failure.^[179]

18

• Kazys Abromavičius, 80, Lithuanian painter.^[180]
• Jeannette Eyerly, 100, American author and columnist.^[181]
• Manny Farber, 91, American film critic and painter.^[182]
• Bob Humphrys, 56, British BBC sports presenter, lung cancer.^[183]
• Genuine Risk, 31, American racehorse, 1980 Kentucky Derby winner.^[184]
• Pervis Jackson, 70, American R&B bass singer (The Spinners), cancer.^[185]
• Jumoke, 18, American western lowland gorilla, complications of early pregnancy.^[186]
• Floyd Peters, 72, American football player, complications from Alzheimer's disease.^[187]

19

• Leo Abse, 91, British politician, MP (1958–1987), reformer of laws on homosexuality and divorce.^[188]
• Carlos Arguelles, 90, Filipino architect.^[189]
• Julius Carry, 56, American actor (The Last Dragon, Disco Godfather, Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place), pancreatic cancer.^[190]
• Binyamin Gibli, 89, Israeli head of military intelligence.^[191]
• Algimantas Masiulis, 77, Lithuanian actor.^[192]
• LeRoi Moore, 46, American saxophonist (Dave Matthews Band), complications from ATV accident.^[193]
• Mikhail Mukasei, 101, Russian spy.^[194]
• Levy Mwanawasa, 59, Zambian politician, president since 2002, complications from stroke.^[195]
• Diane Webber, 76, American model and actress.^[196]

20

• Tunku Abdullah, 83, Malaysian businessman.^[197]
• Mario Bertok, 79, Croatian chess grandmaster and journalist, drowned.^[198]
• Marshall Brown, 90, American basketball player and coach.^[199]
• Chao Yao-tung, 92, Taiwanese minister of economic affairs, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.^[200]
• Ed Freeman, 80, American U.S. Army helicopter pilot, recipient of the Medal of Honor, complications of Parkinson's disease.^[201]
• Phil Guy, 68, American blues guitarist, brother of Buddy Guy, pancreatic cancer.^[202]
• Larry Hennessy, 79, American basketball player (Philadelphia Warriors, Syracuse Nationals).^[203]
• Hua Guofeng, 87, Chinese premier (1976–1980), chairman of the Chinese Communist Party (1976–1981).^[204]
• Clair Isbister, 92, Australian paediatrician.^[205]
• Edward Jaworski, 82, American Olympic water polo player (1952).^[206]
• Dick Jones, 97, American politician.^[207]
• Eric Longworth, 90, British actor (Dad's Army).^[208]
• Leopoldo Serran, 66, Brazilian screenwriter, liver cancer.^[209]
• Stephanie Tubbs Jones, 58, American member of the House of Representatives from Ohio since 1999, cerebral hemorrhage.^[210]
• Gene Upshaw, 63, American NFL player (Oakland Raiders), executive director of NFLPA, pancreatic cancer.^[211]

21

• Robert E. Armstrong, 82, American politician.^[212]
• Fred Crane, 90, American film and television actor (Gone with the Wind), complications from surgery.^[213]
• Iosif Constantin Drăgan, 91, Romanian businessman and historian.^[214]
• Jerry Finn, 39, American record producer (Blink-182, Green Day, Morrissey), cerebral hemorrhage.^[215]
• Don Fox, 72, British rugby league player (Wakefield).^[216]
• Buddy Harman, 79, American session musician, heart failure.^[217]
• Lee Eon, 27, South Korean actor and model, motorcycle accident.^[218]
• Ágústa Þorsteinsdóttir, 66, Icelandic Olympic swimmer.^[219]
• Laurence Urdang, 81, American lexicographer, heart failure.^[220]
• Wolfgang Vogel, 82, German lawyer, negotiator in prisoner exchange programs during the Cold War.^[221]

22

• Kenny Ailshie, 59, American horse trainer, suicide.^[222]
• Frank Cornish, 40, American football player (Dallas Cowboys), apparent heart attack.^[223]
• James H. Faulkner, 92, American publisher, politician and educator.^[224]
• Jeff MacKay, 59, American actor (Magnum, P.I., Tales of the Gold Monkey, JAG), liver complications.^[225]
• Michael J. Manning, 65, Australian-born Papua New Guinean anti-corruption activist and economist, heart attack.^[226]
• Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman, 94, American abstract expressionist art collector, natural causes.^[227]
• Robert Pintenat, 60, French football player.^[228]
• Ralph Young, 90, American singer (Sandler and Young).^[229]

23

• Jimmy Cleveland, 82, American jazz trombonist.^[230]
• Ruth Cohen, 78, American actress (Seinfeld), heart attack.^[231]
• Leo Elter, 78, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers, Washington Redskins), heart failure.^[232]
• Steve Foley, 49, American drummer (The Replacements, Bash & Pop), drug overdose.^[233]
• Doris Gibson, 98, Peruvian journalist, founder of Caretas magazine.^[234]
• Ian Hibell, 74, British cyclist, hit and run car crash.^[235]
• Yuri Nosenko, 81, Soviet-born Ukrainian KGB agent who defected to United States, after a long illness.^[236]
• John Russell, 89, British-born American art critic and author.^[237]
• Thomas Huckle Weller, 93, American virologist, Nobel Prize winner (Medicine, 1954).^[238]

24

• Gerard W. Ford, 83, American co-founder of Ford Modeling Agency, endocarditis.^[239]
• Riitta Immonen, 90, Finnish fashion designer and entrepreneur, co-founder of Marimekko.^[240]
• Tad Mosel, 86, American Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright (All the Way Home).^[241]
• Morris Sullivan, 91, American film producer (All Dogs Go to Heaven).^[242]
• Peter Sutton, 65, British sound engineer (The Empire Strikes Back, The Dark Crystal, Little Shop of Horrors), Oscar winner (1981), leukemia.^[243]
• Wei Wei, 88, Chinese poet and writer, liver cancer.^[244]

25

• Elmer H. Antonsen, 78, American philologist.^{[citation needed]}
• Randa Chahal Sabag, 54, Lebanese film maker, cancer.^[245]
• Marpessa Dawn, 74, American actress (Black Orpheus), heart attack.^[246]
• Kevin Duckworth, 44, American NBA basketball player, heart failure resulting from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.^[247]
• Ahmad Faraz, 74, Pakistani poet.^[248]
• Hardwicke Knight, 97, New Zealand historian and photographer.^[249]
• Pavle Kozjek, 49, Slovenian mountaineer, climbing accident.^[250]
• Jabir Herbert Muhammad, 79, American businessman, long-time manager of Muhammad Ali, complications from heart surgery.^[251]
• Vassili Nesterenko, 73, Belarusian physicist.^[252]
• Pehr Henrik Nordgren, 64, Finnish composer, cancer.^[253]
• Mario Fernando Peña Angulo, 56, Peruvian congressman, lymphoma.^[254]
• Josef Tal, 97, Israeli composer, natural causes.^[255]
• John Thoday, 91, British geneticist.^[256]

26

• Pierre Colas, 32, German Mayanist scholar, assistant professor in anthropology at Vanderbilt University, shot.^[257]
• Bobby Cummings, 72, English footballer (Aberdeen, Newcastle United).^[258]
• Bob Mountford, 56, British footballer (Port Vale, Rochdale), cancer.^[259]
• Edgardo Vega Yunqué, 72, Puerto Rican novelist.^[260]
• Hazel Warp, 93, American stuntwoman (Gone with the Wind).^[261]
• Barbara Warren, 65, American triathlete, bicycle crash.^[262]

27

• Sally Abston, 74, American surgeon and scientist, kidney failure and hypertension.^[263]
• Del Martin, 87, American gay rights activist, first legal same-sex marriage in California, complications from bone fracture.^[264]
• Isa Meireles, 76, Portuguese journalist and writer.^[265]
• Chittaranjan Mitra, 82, Indian scientist and administrator.^[266]
• Abie Nathan, 81, Israeli peace activist, founder of Voice of Peace radio station.^[267]
• Mark Priestley, 32, Australian actor (All Saints), suicide.^[268]
• Olavo Setúbal, 85, Brazilian politician and banker, mayor of São Paulo (1975–1979), heart failure.^[269]

28

• İlhan Berk, 89, Turkish poet.^[270]
• Harold Challenor, 86, British war hero (Operation Speedwell) and corrupt Metropolitan police officer.^[271]
• Phil Hill, 81, American racing driver, 1961 Formula One world champion, complications of Parkinson's disease.^[272]
• Ralph Kovel, 88, American antiques expert and author, complications of broken hip.^[273]
• Chidananda Saraswati, 91, Indian spiritual leader, president of the Divine Life Society.^[274]
• Sigurbjörn Einarsson, 97, Icelandic bishop of the Church of Iceland (1959–1981).^[275]
• Wonderful Smith, 97, American comedian, natural causes.^[276]
• Michel Vastel, 68, Canadian journalist and columnist, throat cancer.^[277]

29

• William Appling, 75, American conductor, pianist, educator and arranger.^[278]
• Bridget Cracroft-Eley, 74, British Lord-Lieutenant of Lincolnshire since 1995.^[279]
• Jayshree Gadkar, 66, Indian actress.^[280]
• David Gordon Allen d'Aldecamb Lumsden, 75, British Garioch Pursuivant.^[281]
• Geoffrey Perkins, 55, British comedy producer, writer and performer, head of comedy for BBC, road accident.^[282]
• Peter Snow, 81, British artist and theatre designer.^[283]

30

• K. K. Birla, 89, Indian industrialist and politician, after brief illness.^[284]
• Tommy Bolt, 92, American professional golfer, 1958 U.S. Open champion, liver failure.^[285]
• Robin Bullough, 78, British mathematical physicist.^[286]
• Brian Hambly, 71, Australian rugby league player.^[287]
• Killer Kowalski, 81, Canadian professional wrestler, heart attack.^[288]
• Eldon Rathburn, 92, Canadian composer, after brief illness.^[289]
• Gilberto Rincón Gallardo, 69, Mexican politician, presidential candidate.^[290]
• William Howard Wriggins, 90, American academic, ambassador to Sri Lanka and Maldives (1977–1979).^[291]

31

• Cynthia Ahearn, 55, American echinodermologist and museum specialist.^[292]
• Meir Avizohar, 84, Israeli politician and academic.^[293]
• Jean-Marie Berckmans, 54, Belgian writer, lung disease.^[294]
• Ken Campbell, 66, British actor (A Fish Called Wanda).^[295]
• Jamie Dolan, 39, British footballer (Motherwell F.C.), heart attack.^[296]
• Harmohinder Singh Gill, 75, Indian-born American scientist.^[297]
• Edwin O. Guthman, 89, American Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, amyloidosis.^[298]
• Ike Pappas, 75, American CBS journalist, broadcast murder of Lee Harvey Oswald, heart failure.^[299]
• Victor Yates, 69, New Zealand rugby footballer.^[300]
• Magomed Yevloyev, 37, Ingush journalist and owner of the opposition news website Ingushetiya.ru, shot.^[301]