The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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.

May 2008

1

• Aden Hashi Farah Ayro, Somalian politician and Al-Shabaab member, air strike.^[1]
• Paulo Amaral, 84, Brazilian football player (Flamengo) and coach (Juventus).^[2]
• SM Nasimuddin SM Amin, 54, Malaysian entrepreneur and founder of Naza, lung cancer.^[3]
• Bernard Archard, 91, British actor (Krull, Doctor Who, Emmerdale).^[4]
• Buzzie Bavasi, 93, American baseball executive (Dodgers, Angels, Padres).^[5]
• Mary Berry, 90, British musicologist and nun.^[6]
• Philipp von Boeselager, 90, German World War II anti-Hitler conspirator.^[7]
• Nirmala Deshpande, 78, Indian peace activist, after brief illness.^[8]
• Elaine Dundy, 86, American writer and actress.^[9]
• Aden Hashi Farah, Somali leader of Al-Shabab insurgent group, air strike.^[10]
• Jim Hager, 61, American country music singer and television actor (Hee Haw), heart attack.^[11]
• Mark Kendall, 49, British footballer (Spurs, Newport, Wolves).^[12]
• Sir Anthony Mamo, 99, Maltese politician, first president of the Republic of Malta.^[13]
• Alberto Estima de Oliveira, 74, Portuguese poet.^[14]
• Deborah Jeane Palfrey, 52, American escort agency proprietor, suicide by hanging.^[15]
• Marcel Van Der Auwera, 84, Belgian fencer.^[16]
• J. J. Voskuil, 81, Dutch novelist.^[17]

2

• Josephine Apieu Jenaro Aken, 53, South Sudanese civil servant, plane crash.^[18]
• Robert Brachtenbach, 77, American jurist, Washington State Supreme Court justice (1972–1994), throat cancer.^[19]
• Carole Dekeijser, 48, Belgian painter, lung cancer.^[20]
• Dominic Dim Deng, 58, Sudanese politician, defence minister for Southern Sudan, plane crash.^[21]
• Robert M. Isaac, 80, American politician, mayor of Colorado Springs, Colorado (1979–1997), pneumonia.^[22]
• Sergio Lauricella, 86, Italian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1948) composer.^[23]
• Mildred Loving, 68, American civil rights pioneer, challenged Virginia interracial marriage law (Loving v. Virginia).^[24]
• Ilyas Malayev, 72, Uzbekistani musician and poet, pancreatic cancer.^[25]
• Beverlee McKinsey, 72, American actress (Another World, Guiding Light, Bronco Billy), complications from kidney transplant.^[26]
• Izold Pustõlnik, 70, Ukrainian-born Estonian astronomer.^[27]
• Daniel Sekhoto, 37, South African football player.^[28]
• Mike Titcomb, 75, British rugby union referee, kidney failure.^[29]
• Frank Y. Whiteley, Jr., 93, American thoroughbred racehorse trainer (Ruffian).^[30]
• Justin Yak, Sudanese politician, minister for cabinet affairs for Southern Sudan (2006–2007), plane crash.^[21]

3

• Charles Caccia, 78, Canadian politician, environmentalist, Liberal MP for Davenport (1968–2004), complications of stroke.^[31]
• Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, 82, Spanish prime minister (1981–1982), natural causes.^[32]
• Eight Belles, 3, American racehorse, 2008 Kentucky Derby 2nd-place finisher, euthanized.^[33]
• Martin Finnegan, 27, Irish motorbike racer, race crash.^[34]
• Fay Gale, 75, Australian cultural geographer.^[35]
• Lynne Cooper Harvey, 92, American radio producer, Radio Hall of Fame member, wife of Paul Harvey, leukemia.^[36]
• Ted Key, 95, American cartoonist (Hazel), bladder cancer and stroke.^[37]
• Hanon Reznikov, 57, American playwright.^[38]
• Morgan Sparks, 91, American engineer, inventor of the first practical bipolar junction transistor.^[39]
• Ngugi wa Mirii, 57, Kenyan playwright, car accident.^[40]

4

• Roger Aeschlimann, 84, Swiss cyclist.^[41]
• John Altieri, 38, American actor (Jersey Boys), pneumonia.^[42]
• Fred Baur, 89, American chemist, inventor of the Pringles can.^[43]
• Alvin Colt, 92, American Tony Award-winning costume designer (On the Town, Guys and Dolls, Pipe Dream, Li'l Abner).^[44]
• John Greenwood, 57, British businessman and catering executive, motor neurone disease.^[45]
• Fred Haines, 72, American screenwriter and film director, lung cancer.^[46]
• Richard Holme, Baron Holme of Cheltenham, 71, British Liberal Democrat politician, cancer.^[47]
• Kishan Maharaj, 84, Indian musician, leading exponent of the Benares gharana tabla, stroke.^[48]
• Colin Murdoch, 79, New Zealand inventor of the disposable hypodermic syringe and the tranquilizer gun, cancer.^[49]

5

• Sam Aubrey, 85, American basketball player and coach (Oklahoma State Cowboys).^[50]
• Thomas Boggs, 63, American drummer (Box Tops), owner of Huey's Restaurants.^[51]
• Hugh Bradner, 92, American scientist credited with inventing the wetsuit, complications of pneumonia.^[52]
• Pak Kyongni, 82, South Korean novelist, lung cancer.^[53]
• Irv Robbins, 90, American businessman, co-founder of the Baskin-Robbins ice cream chain.^[54][55]
• Zvonko Sabolović, 84, Yugoslav Olympic sprinter.^[56]
• Alma Hogan Snell, 85, American Crow tribal nation historian, herbalist, granddaughter of Pretty Shield.^[57]
• Jerry Wallace, 79, American country music singer, heart failure.^[58]
• Witold Woyda, 68, Polish fencer, double gold medallist at the 1972 Summer Olympics, lung cancer.^[59]

6

• John Jay Iselin, 74, American public television innovator, descendant of John Jay, pneumonia.^[60]
• Franz Jackson, 95, American saxophonist.^[61]
• Harvey Karman, 84, American psychologist and women's reproductive health advocate, inventor of the Karman cannula, stroke.^[62]
• William Earl Lynd, 53, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.^[63]
• Ray Michie, Baroness Michie of Gallanach, 74, British Liberal Democrat politician, cancer.^[64]
• D.C. Minner, 73, American blues musician.^[65]
• John Reames, 65, British football manager and administrator, cancer.^[66]
• Mark Saunders, 32, British barrister, shot by police.^[67]

7

• William Douglas Allen, 94, British physicist and electrical engineer.^[68]
• John Earle, 64, Irish saxophonist.^[69]
• Neeraj Grover, 26, Indian television executive and producer (Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Se Tez Hain?), beaten.^[70]
• Rachel Hoffman, 23, American police informant, murdered.^[71]
• Clifford L. Jones, 80, American politician, Pennsylvania Republican Party chairman, prostate cancer.^[72]
• Donald Montrose, 84, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Stockton (1986–1999).^[73]
• Thijs Wöltgens, 64, Dutch politician, mayor of Kerkrade (1994–2000), senator (1995–2005).^[74]
• Gernot Zippe, 90, Austrian engineer.^[75]

8

• Al-Bandari bint Abdulaziz, 80, Saudi sister of King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.^[76]
• Eddy Arnold, 89, American country music singer.^[77]
• Willem Brakman, 85, Dutch author.^[78]
• Ian Brodie, 72, British foreign correspondent (The Daily Telegraph).^[79]
• Jose Feria, 91, Filipino supreme court justice (1986–1987).^[80]
• Yasuharu Furuta, 93, Japanese Olympic hurdler.^[81]
• Murray Jarvik, 84, American academic and co-inventor of the nicotine patch, heart failure.^[82]
• Larry Levine, 80, American Grammy-winning audio engineer (Wall of Sound), emphysema.^[83]
• Luigi Malerba, 81, Italian writer.^[84]
• Édgar Eusebio Millán Gómez, 41, Mexican federal police anti-drug coordinator, shot.^[85]
• François Sterchele, 26, Belgian footballer (Belgium, Club Brugge), car accident.^[86]

9

• James Atkinson, 92, British physicist.^[87]
• Firoz Dastur, 89, Indian Hindustani classical musician (Kirana Gharana), anaemia.^[88]
• Jack Gibson, 79, Australian rugby league player and coach, selected as "Coach of the Century".^[89]
• Judy Grable, 72, American female professional wrestler.^[90]
• Shmuel Katz, 93, Israeli writer, historian and journalist.^[91]
• Arthur Kroeger, 76, Canadian civil servant (1958–1992), academic and chancellor of Carleton University (1993–2002).^[92]
• Baptiste Manzini, 87, American football player.^[93]
• Nuala O'Faolain, 68, Irish journalist and author, lung cancer.^[94][95]
• Mamadou N'Diaye, 68, Senegalese Olympic sprinter.^[96]
• Ronald Parise, 56, American astronaut, brain tumor.^[97]
• Esteban Robles Espinosa, Mexican police commander, shot.^[98]
• Pascal Sevran, 62, French television presenter and producer, lyricist and writer, lung cancer.^[99]
• Sinan Sofuoğlu, 25, Turkish motorcycle racer, training crash.^[100]
• Artur da Távola, 72, Brazilian journalist, writer and politician, heart disease.^[101]

10

• Sir John Barraclough, 90, British air marshal.^[102]
• Leyla Gencer, 79, Turkish soprano opera singer, respiratory and cardiac failure.^[103]
• Paul Haeberlin, 84, French chef and restaurateur (L'Auberge de l'Ill).^[104]
• Jessica Jacobs, 17, Australian singer and actress (The Saddle Club), fell under train.^[105][106]
• Liao Feng-Teh, 57, Taiwanese incoming interior minister, heart attack.^[107]
• Eusebio Ríos, 73, Spanish international footballer and coach.^[108]
• Mario Schiano, 74, Italian jazz saxophonist, after long Illness.^[109]
• Peter Thurnham, 69, British MP for Bolton North East (1983–1997), pancreatic cancer.^[110]

11

• Sir Austin Bide, 92, British chemist and industrialist.^[111]
• Sam Dauya, 70, Zimbabwean founder of Dynamos F.C. football team.^[112]
• Alema Leota, 80, American alleged organized crime leader, 1978 candidate for governor of Hawaii, injuries from car accident.^[113]
• Raymattja Marika, 49, Australian Yolngu scholar, linguist, educator and cultural advocate, heart attack.^[114]
• Bruno Neves, 27, Portuguese cyclist, crash during race.^[115]
• Dottie Rambo, 74, American gospel singer, bus crash.^[116]
• John Rutsey, 55, Canadian drummer (Rush), heart attack.^[117]
• Heather Stohler, 29, American model for Calvin Klein, fire.^[118]
• Dick Sutcliffe, 90, American animator, creator of Davey and Goliath, stroke.^[119]
• Jeff Torrington, 72, British novelist (Swing Hammer Swing), Parkinson's disease.^[120]
• Curtis Whitley, 39, American football player (San Diego Chargers, Carolina Panthers, Oakland Raiders).^[121]

12

• Seton Airlie, 88, Scottish footballer.^[122]
• Penny Banner, 73, American professional wrestler, cancer.^[123]
• David Daniels, 74, American poet.^[124]
• Oakley Hall, 87, American novelist (Warlock), kidney disease and cancer.^[125]
• Lidiya Masterkova, 81, Russian-born French painter.^[126]
• Natural Blitz, 7–8, Australian-bred stallion.^[127]
• Robert Rauschenberg, 82, American pop artist, heart failure.^[128]
• Bruce Sayers, 80, British electrical engineer.^[129]
• Irena Sendler, 98, Polish humanitarian, saved 2500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II.^[130]

13

• Jill Adams, 77, British actress, cancer.^[131]
• Saad Al-Salim Al-Sabah, 78, Kuwaiti emir (2006).^[132]
• Dolores Alexander, 76, American feminist, writer, and reporter.^[133]
• Charles Gary Allison, 69–70, American screenwriter and film producer.^[134]
• Lucius D. Battle, 89, American ambassador to Egypt (1964–1967), Parkinson's disease.^[135]
• Bernardin Gantin, 86, Beninese cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.^[136]
• Isaiah Otieno, 18, son of Kenyan politician Dalmas Otieno Anyango EGH, EBS, helicopter crash.^[137]
• John Phillip Law, 70, American actor (Barbarella).^[138]
• Larry McKeon, 63, American politician, first openly gay member of the Illinois General Assembly, stroke.^[139]
• Colea Răutu, 95, Romanian actor, cirrhosis.^[140]
• Ron Stone, 72, American news anchor (KHOU, KPRC in Houston), prostate cancer.^[141]
• Costică Toma, 80, Romanian football goalkeeper (Romania, Steaua București).^[142]
• Maheswary Velautham, Sri Lankan lawyer and activist, shot.^[143]
• Roger Harold Metford Warner, 95, British antiques dealer.^[144]

14

• Frith Banbury, 96, British stage director and actor, liver cancer.^[145]
• Dagmar Barnouw, 72, German cultural historian.^[146]
• Arthur Burks, 92, American mathematician and computer pioneer, Alzheimer's disease.^[147]
• Warren Cowan, 87, American publicist, cancer.^[148]
• Roger Ellis, 70, American football player, cancer.^[149]
• John Forbes-Robertson, 80, British actor.^[150]
• Derek Goodwin, 88, British ornithologist.^[151]
• Roy Heath, 81, Guyanese writer.^[152]
• Jay Morago, 90, American governor of the Gila River Indian Community (1954–1960), cancer.^[153]
• Tonderai Ndira, 33, Zimbabwean political dissident, murdered.^[154]
• Yuri Rytkheu, 78, Russian Chukchi language writer.^[155]
• Mário Schoemberger, 56, Brazilian film, television and stage actor, cancer.^[156]
• Richard David Vine, 82, American diplomat, ambassador to Switzerland (1979–1981).^[157]

15

• Del Ankers, 91, American cinematographer and photographer (Muppets commercials).^[158]
• Henry Austin, 88, Indian diplomat and politician, ambassador to Portugal.^[159]
• Tommy Burns, 51, Scottish football player and manager (Celtic, Kilmarnock, Reading), melanoma.^[160]
• Tove Billington Bye, 79, Norwegian politician.^[161]
• Alexander Courage, 88, American television composer (Star Trek, The Waltons) and orchestrator (Jurassic Park).^[162]
• Anthony Denness, 71, English cricketer.^[163]
• Walt Dickerson, 80, American vibraphonist, cardiac arrest.^[164]
• Robert Dunlop, 47, British motorcycle racer, chest injuries.^[165]
• Will Elder, 86, American comic book artist (Mad, Little Annie Fanny), Parkinson's disease.^[166][167]
• Bob Florence, 75, American jazz composer and arranger, pneumonia.^[168]
• Youssef Idilbi, 32, Dutch actor, suicide.^[169]
• Willis Lamb, 94, American physicist, Nobel laureate in physics (1955), complications of gallstone disorder.^[170]
• Earl Leggett, 75, American football player and coach.^[171]
• Yanks Music, 14, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.^[172]

16

• Charles J. Adams, 91, American politician.^{[citation needed]}
• Aonosato Sakari, 72, Japanese sumo wrestler.^[173]
• William Blease, Baron Blease, 93, British politician.^[174]
• Henry Canoy, 84, Filipino businessman, founder of Radio Mindanao Network.^[175]
• Sandy Howard, 80, American film and television producer (A Man Called Horse), Alzheimer's disease.^[176]
• David Mitton, 69, British animation director (Thomas & Friends, Thunderbirds), heart attack.^[177]
• Robert Mondavi, 94, American winemaker, benefactor of the Mondavi Center, member of the California Hall of Fame.^[178]
• Igor Polyakov, 95, Russian rower, 1952 Olympic silver medalist.^[179]
• Marc Rabémila, 70, Malagasy Olympic athlete.^[180]
• Jimmy Slyde, 80, American tap dancer.^[181]
• Peter Rolfe Vaughan, 73, English scientist, heart attack.^[182]

17

• Jolyon Brettingham Smith, 58, British composer, musicologist and radio presenter.^[183]
• John Fitzsimmons, 68, British Roman Catholic priest and broadcaster, after long illness.^[184]
• Thomas Flatley, 76, American real estate tycoon and philanthropist, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.^[185]
• Zélia Gattai, 91, Brazilian writer and novelist, wife of Jorge Amado.^[186]
• Wilfrid Mellers, 94, British composer and author.^[187]
• D. Aubrey Moodie, 99, Canadian politician.^[188]
• Jack Rayner, 87, Australian rugby league player.^[189]
• Sophan Sophiaan, 64, Indonesian actor and politician, motorcycle accident.^[190]
• Joyce Trimmer, 80, Canadian politician, mayor of Scarborough, Ontario (1988–1994), cancer.^[191]
• Lionel Van Deerlin, 93, American politician and journalist, representative from California (1963–1981).^[192]

18

• Lionel Algama, 73, Sri Lankan singer, composer and a musician.^[193]
• Pietro Cascella, 87, Italian contemporary artist.^[194]
• Irma Córdoba, 94, Argentine actress, natural causes.^[195]
• Jonathan James, 24, American cyber criminal.^[196]
• John Lucas, 85, Barbadian-born Canadian cricketer.^[197]
• Lloyd Moore, 95, American NASCAR driver (1949–1955).^[198]
• Elemore Morgan, Jr., 76, American landscape artist.^[199]
• Jack Norris, 99, American football player.^[200]
• Joseph Pevney, 96, American television and film director (Bonanza, Star Trek, The Paper Chase, Trapper John, M.D.).^[201]

19

• Nigel Cassidy, 62, British footballer.^[202]
• Larry Coutre, 80, American football player (Green Bay Packers).^[203]
• Jack Duffy, 81, Canadian comedian, natural causes.^[204]
• Chaim Flom, 56, Israeli scholar and rosh yeshiva.^[205]
• Huntington Hartford, 97, American businessman and philanthropist.^[206]
• Barclay Howard, 55, British golfer.^[207]
• Rimma Kazakova, 76, Russian poet.^[208]
• Mariam McGlone, 92, American dancer and choreographer.^[209]
• Kjell Kristian Rike, 63, Norwegian sports commentator.^[210]
• André Schlupp, 78, French Olympic basketball player.^[211]
• Vijay Tendulkar, 80, Indian playwright, myasthenia gravis.^[212]

20

• Iona Banks, 87, British actress (Pobol y Cwm).^[213]
• Crispin Beltran, 75, Filipino congressman and labor leader, head injuries from a fall.^[214]
• Viktor Bortsov, 73, Russian actor, intestinal cancer.^[215]
• Margot Boyd, 94, British actress (The Archers).^[216]
• Thomas Burlison, Baron Burlison, 71, British footballer and trade unionist.^[217]
• Charles William John Eliot, 79, Canadian academic administrator, president of the University of Prince Edward Island (1985–1995), complications of a stroke.^[218]
• Joachim Erwin, 58, German politician, mayor of Düsseldorf, colorectal cancer.^[219]
• Gonzalo Figueroa Garcia Huidobro, 77, Chilean archaeologist.^[220]
• Herb Hash, 97, American baseball pitcher (Boston Red Sox), stroke.^[221]
• Harald Hein, 58, German Olympic fencer.^[222]
• Zelma Henderson, 88, American last surviving plaintiff in Brown v. Board of Education, pancreatic cancer.^[223]
• Hamilton Jordan, 63, American politician, Jimmy Carter's White House chief of staff (1979–1980), mesothelioma.^[224]
• Baine Kerr, 88, American lawyer and oil executive.^[225]
• Cy Leonard, 82, Canadian ventriloquist.^[226]
• Ali Sadikin, 80, Indonesian politician, governor of Jakarta (1966–1977), liver cancer.^[227]
• S. K. Trimurti, 96, Indonesian journalist, first minister of labor and employment, natural causes.^[228]

21

• Bert André, 66, Dutch actor (Flodder), intracranial hemorrhage^[229]
• Earl Wesley Berry, 49, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.^[230]
• Mel Casson, 87, American cartoonist (Redeye).^[231]
• Brian Keenan, 66, Irish IRA commander, cancer.^[232]
• Ted Lanyon, 68, Canadian ice hockey player.^[233]
• Michelle Meldrum, 39, American rock guitarist (Phantom Blue, Meldrum), cystic growth on the brain.^[234]
• John Aloysius Morgan, 98, Australian Roman Catholic prelate.^[235]
• Siegmund Nissel, 86, German-born British violinist (Amadeus Quartet).^[236]
• Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos, 77, Portuguese artist and engraver, long illness.^[237]
• Torcato Sepúlveda, 57, Portuguese journalist.^[238]
• Jeheskel Shoshani, 65, Israeli-born American elephant expert, bus explosion.^[239]

22

• Melek Amet, 47, Romanian model, ovarian cancer.^{[citation needed]}
• Robert Asprin, 61, American science fiction and fantasy writer (MythAdventures), heart attack.^[240]
• Charlie Booth, 104, Australian athlete, inventor of the starting block.^[241]
• Harry Lange, 77, German production designer and art director (2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Wars, The Dark Crystal).^[242]
• Jack Mildren, 58, American football player, Oklahoma's lieutenant governor (1990–1995), stomach cancer.^[243]
• Paul Patrick, 58, British gay rights activist, chronic lung condition.^[244]
• Hana Maria Pravda, 90, Czech actress and Holocaust survivor.^[245]
• Tubby T, 33, British dancehall/garage musician, stroke.^[246]

23

• Nigel Anderson, 88, British soldier, landowner, and politician.^[247]
• Alan Brien, 83, British journalist and critic.^[248]
• Cornell Capa, 90, American photographer, founder of the International Center of Photography.^[249]
• Roberto Freire, 81, Brazilian writer and psychiatrist, created somatherapy.^[250]
• Dritan Hoxha, 39, Albanian businessman, car accident.^[251]
• Thelma Keane, 82, Australian-born American who inspired husband Bil's comic strip The Family Circus, Alzheimer's disease.^[252]
• Heinz Kwiatkowski, 81, German footballer, member of 1954 FIFA World Cup-winning team.^[253]
• Iñaki Ochoa de Olza, 40, Spanish mountaineer and alpinist, pulmonary edema while climbing Annapurna.^[254]
• Jefferson Peres, 76, Brazilian senator from Amazonas, heart attack.^[255]
• Utah Phillips, 73, American folk singer and political activist, heart failure.^[256]
• Jack Smith, 72, English football player (Hartlepool United, Swindon Town, Margate) and manager.^[257]

24

• Adam Baruch, 63, Israeli journalist, writer and art critic, diabetes complications.^[258]
• Bob Beck, 63, Guamanian zoologist and conservationist, worked to save Guam rail native birds.^[259]
• Tano Cimarosa, 86, Italian actor.^[260]
• Reg Flewin, 87, British footballer.^[261]
• Rob Knox, 18, British actor (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince), stabbed.^[262]
• Eugenio Garza Lagüera, 84, Mexican businessman, president of FEMSA, natural causes.^[263]
• Isaac Lipschits, 77, Dutch political scientist and historian, natural causes.^[264]
• Dick Martin, 86, American comedian (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In), respiratory complications.^[265]
• Jimmy McGriff, 72, American jazz and blues organist, multiple sclerosis.^[266]
• Sonny Okosun, 61, Nigerian musician, colon cancer.^[267]

25

• Nadia Arslan, 59, Lebanese actress, breast cancer.^[268]
• Louise Firouz, 74, American horse breeder.^[269]
• George Garrett, 78, American novelist and poet, cancer.^[270]
• Geremi González, 33, Venezuelan MLB baseball player, lightning strike.^[271]
• James D. Griffin, 78, American mayor of Buffalo, New York (1978–1994), Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.^[272]
• Bukhuti Gurgenidze, 74, Georgian chess grandmaster.^[273]
• Ítalo Argentino Lúder, 91, Argentine acting president (1975).^[274]
• Tom McHale, 45, American football player (Tampa Bay Buccaneers).^[275]
• Mitch Mullany, 39, American comedian and actor (Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher, The Wayans Bros., The Sweetest Thing), diabetes-related stroke.^[276]
• J. R. Simplot, 99, American businessman, original McDonald's french fries supplier.^[277]
• Olaf Sørensen, 90, Danish Olympic runner.^[278]
• Ernst Stuhlinger, 94, German-born American rocket scientist.^[279]
• Camu Tao, 30, American rapper-producer, lung cancer.^[280]
• Kenneth H. Wood, 90, American author and administrator, editor of the Adventist Review, heart failure.^[281]

26

• Dolly Aglay, 41, Filipino financial journalist, cancer.^[282]
• Jerry C. Begay, 83, American Navajo code talker and World War II veteran.^[283]
• Dick Evans, 90, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Chicago Cardinals).^[284]
• Hans Haasmann, 92, Dutch Olympic diver Hans Haasmann Bio, Stats, and Results | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com
• Earle Hagen, 88, American film and television theme composer (The Andy Griffith Show, The Mod Squad, I Spy).^[285]
• Howlin' Dave, 52, Filipino radio disc jockey and proponent of Pinoy rock, stroke.^[286]
• John Hulme, 63, English footballer (Bolton Wanderers, Reading, Bury).^[287]
• Roy Koerner, 75, British polar scientist and explorer.^[288]
• Yuriy Konovalov, 78, Soviet-born Azerbaijani Olympic track athlete, 4 × 100 m relay silver medallist (1956 and 1960).^[289]
• Donald L. Pilling, 64, American admiral, Vice Chief of Naval Operations (1997–2000), leukemia.^[290]
• Sydney Pollack, 73, American film director and actor (Tootsie, Out of Africa, Michael Clayton), Oscar winner (1986), stomach cancer.^[291]
• Alan Renouf, 89, Australian head of DFAT, ambassador to United States (1977–1979), France and Yugoslavia, leukemia.^[292]
• Kermit Scott, 71, American philosophy professor, namesake of Kermit the Frog.^[293]
• Robert G. Voight, 87, American academic.^[294]

27

• Ed Arno, 91, Austrian-American cartoonist, caricaturist, illustrator and comics artist.^[295]
• Valmae Beck, 64, Australian child murderer, complications of heart surgery.^[296]
• Tony Hussein Hinde, 55, Australian-born Maldivian surfer, heart attack.^[297]
• Jim Kerr, 68, American professional football player (Washington Redskins)^[298]
• Franz Künstler, 107, German World War I veteran, last known surviving veteran of the Central Powers.^[299]
• Hubert Macey, 87, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers).^[300]
• Per Nielsen, 88, Danish Olympic shooter.^[301]
• Mick Nolan, 58, Australian footballer, cancer.^[302]
• Neal Potter, 93, American politician.^[303]
• Abram Raselemane, 30, South African footballer, apparent suicide.^[304]
• Alejandro Romualdo, 82, Peruvian poet.^[305]
• Keith Rosewarne, 83, Australian footballer.^[306]

28

• Beryl Cook, 81, British painter.^[307]
• Sven Davidson, 79, Swedish tennis player.^[308]
• Robert H. Justman, 81, American television and film producer (Star Trek), Parkinson's disease.^[309]
• Elinor Lyon, 86, British children's writer.^[310]
• Danny Moss, 80, British jazz tenor saxophonist.^[311]
• Nashoba's Key, 5, American racehorse, euthanized.^[312]
• Dianne Odell, 61, American author with polio, power failure to iron lung.^[313]
• Erin Spanevello, 21, Canadian fashion model, drug overdose.^[314]

29

• Paula Gunn Allen, 68, Native American poet, novelist, and activist, lung cancer.^[315]
• José Alejandro Bernales, 59, Chilean director general of Carabineros de Chile, helicopter crash.^[316]
• Luc Bourdon, 21, Canadian ice hockey player, motorcycle accident.^[317]
• Romeo A. Brawner, 72, Filipino appeals court judge (1995–2005), election commissioner (2005–2008), heart attack.^[318]
• Len Devine, 84, Australian politician, MP for East Sydney (1963–1969).^[319]
• Harvey Korman, 81, American actor and comedian (Blazing Saddles, The Carol Burnett Show, The Flintstones), four-time Emmy winner, abdominal aortic aneurysm.^[320]
• Donald MacLeod, 75, New Zealand cricketer.^[321]

30

• Harry Brautigam, 59, Nicaraguan president of the BCIE since 2003, heart problem after air crash.^[322]
• Campbell Burnap, 68, British jazz trombonist, cancer.^[323]
• Harlan Cleveland, 90, American diplomat, educator and author, ambassador to NATO (1965–1969), natural causes.^[324]
• Rodney Gordon, 75, British architect.^[325]
• Graeme Miller, 67, Australian cricketer.^[326]
• Noel Moore, 79, British civil servant, leader of decimalisation project, brain tumour.^[327]
• Chris Morgan, 55, British journalist, apparent suicide in front of a train.^[328]
• William Eldridge Odom, 75, American Army Lieutenant General and director of the National Security Agency.^[329]
• Lorenzo Odone, 30, American ALD patient portrayed in the film Lorenzo's Oil.^[330]
• Mike Scott, 75, British television producer and presenter.^[331]
• Boris Shakhlin, 76, Russian-born Ukrainian gymnast, winner of seven Olympic gold medals for the Soviet Union, cardiac arrest.^[332]
• Suprakash Som, 60, Indian cricketer.^[333]
• Nat Temple, 94, British bandleader.^[334]

31

• Carlos Alhinho, 59, Portuguese international footballer, fall.^[335]
• John Ambler, 83, British businessman.^{[citation needed]}
• Joe Axelson, 80, American executive and general manager of the National Basketball Association Sacramento Kings.^[336]
• Nusret Çolpan, 56, Turkish painter and architect.^[337]
• Detlef Gromoll, 70, American mathematician, brain hemorrhage.^[338]
• Nelly Láinez, 88, Argentine actress, urinary infection.^[339]
• Per-Erik Larsson, 79, Swedish skier.^[340]
• Charles Moskos, 74, American sociologist, architect of the US military DADT gay and lesbian policy, cancer.^[341]
• Paul Thomson, 91, American botanist, co-founder of the California Rare Fruit Growers Association.^[342]
• Allan Wiles, 87, New Zealand cricketer.^[343]