NOTABLE DEATHS IN MARCH 2010
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March 2010
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* Eugene Allen, 90, American White House butler (1952-1986), renal failure. [12]
* Jack Diesing, 92, American businessman, chairman of College World Series (1963–2002), complications from Parkinson's disease. [13]
* Caresse Henry, 44, American music manager (Madonna), self-inflicted gunshot. [14] [15]
* Jerald terHorst, 87, American White House Press Secretary (1974), heart failure. [16]
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* Thomas Angove, 92, Australian winemaker, inventor of the wine cask. [17]
* Nicola Arigliano, 86, Italian jazz and swing singer. [18] (Italian)
* John Bunch, 88, American jazz pianist, melanoma. [19]
* Jaime Escalante, 79, American mathematics teacher, inspiration for film Stand and Deliver, bladder cancer. [20]
* Peter Flinsch, 89, German-born Canadian artist. [21]
* Josef Homeyer, 80, German Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Hildesheim (1983–2004). [22] (German)
* David Mills, 48, American author, journalist and television writer (NYPD Blue, The Corner, Kingpin), brain aneurysm. [23]
* Malcolm Poindexter, 84, American journalist and reporter (KYW-TV), Alzheimer's disease. [24]
* Krzysztof Teodor Toeplitz, 77, Polish journalist, politician and screenwriter. [25] (Polish)
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* Choi Jin-young, 39, South Korean actor and singer, brother of Choi Jin Sil, suicide by hanging. [26]
* George Kosikov, 65, Russian educator (Moscow University). [27] (Russian)
* Armando Nogueira, 83, Brazilian journalist, cerebral cancer. [28] (Portuguese)
* Elliot Willensky, 66, American songwriter, stroke. [29]
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* Aléxis Afonso, 29, Paraguayan football player, car accident. [30] (Portuguese)
* David Carnegie, 14th Earl of Northesk, 55, Scottish peer, member of the House of Lords. [31]
* Preeda Chullamondhol, 64, Thai Olympic cyclist, kidney disease. [32]
* Sir Gaven Donne, 95, New Zealand jurist, former Chief Justice of various Pacific nations. [33]
* Dan Duncan, 77, American businessman and billionaire. [34]
* Herb Ellis, 88, American jazz guitarist, Alzheimer's disease. [35]
* Derlis Florentín, 26, Paraguayan football player, car accident. [36] (Spanish)
* Joe Gates, 55, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox) and coach (Gary SouthShore RailCats), heart failure. [37]
* June Havoc, 97, Canadian-born American actress, natural causes. [38]
* Aly Ibrahim, 38, Egyptian Olympic rower, traffic collision. [39] (Arabic)
* John Lawrenson, 88, British rugby league player. [40]
* Agim Qirjaqi, 59, Albanian actor and television director. [41] (Albanian)
* Zofia Romanowiczowa, 87, Polish writer and translator. [42] (Polish)
* Eric Tunney, 45, Canadian comedian (Brain Candy). [43]
* Joseph Warren, 71, American campaign adviser for Michael Dukakis, complications from a stroke. [44]
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* Dick Giordano, 77, American comic book artist and editor (Batman, Green Lantern), complications from pneumonia. [45]
* Zbigniew Gut, 60, Polish footballer. [46] (Polish)
* Peter Herbolzheimer, 74, German jazz musician. [47] (German)
* Stanford Parris, 80, American politician, Representative from Virginia (1973–1975, 1981–1991), heart disease. [48]
* Vasily Smyslov, 89, Russian chess grandmaster, World Champion (1957–1958), heart failure. [49]
* Stanley Vann, 100, British organist and composer, complications following a fall. [50]
* Charlie Vergos, 84, American restaurateur, Alzheimer's disease. [51]
* Hatsumi Shibata, 57, Japanese singer, heart attack. [52]
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* Ahmed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, 41, Emirati businessman, managing director of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, glider crash. [53]
* Franklin D. Burgess, 75, American federal judge, cancer. [54]
* Manuel de Jesús Juárez, 55, Honduran journalist, shot. [55]
* Shemuel Katz, 83, Israeli caricaturist and illustrator. [56]
* Kwon Hyi-ro, 81, Japanese-born Korean murderer, prostate cancer. [57]
* José Bayardo Mairena Ramírez, 52, Honduran journalist, shot. [58]
* Rocco Pantaleo, 53, Italian-born Australian owner of La Porchetta, motorcycle accident. [59]
* Charles Ryskamp, 81, American art collector and museum director (Frick Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library), cancer. [60]
* Max Whitehead, 87, Australian rugby league player, model and professional wrestler, complications following a hip operation. [61]
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* Pål Bang-Hansen, 72, Norwegian film director, actor and film critic, skin cancer. [62] (Norwegian)
* Kendall Berry, 22, American football player (FIU), stabbing. [63]
* Kim Dawson, 85, American model, Alzheimer's disease. [64]
* Richard Engquist, 76, American lyricist (Kuni-Leml), lung cancer. [65]
* Dmitri Gorchev, 46, Russian writer and painter. [66] (Russian)
* Des Hoysted, 86, Australian radio broadcaster and horse racing commentator. [67]
* Marty Lederhandler, 92, American photographer (Associated Press), stroke. [68]
* Sture Linnér, 92, Swedish diplomat, professor and author, aide to UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld. [69] (Swedish)
* Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, 93, German political scientist. [70] (German)
* José Antonio Peteiro Freire, 73, Moroccan Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Tanger (1983–2005). [71]
* Edmund Pillsbury, 66, American museum director, heart attack. [72]
* Marshall Plummer, 62, American first Vice President of the Navajo Nation (1991–1994), lung disease. [73]
* Michael S. Rosenfeld, 75, American talent agent, co-founder of Creative Artists Agency. [74]
* Chet Simmons, 81, American sports broadcasting executive, first president of ESPN, Commissioner (USFL), natural causes. [75]
* Mohan Wagh, 81, Indian Marathi theatre producer, cardiac arrest. [76]
* Zainal Abidin Ahmad, 71, Malaysian politician, brain cancer. [77]
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* Elijah Alexander, 39, American football player (Indianapolis Colts), multiple myeloma. [78]
* Robert Culp, 79, American actor (I Spy, The Greatest American Hero, Everybody Loves Raymond), complications following a fall. [79]
* Oswaldo Frota-Pessoa, 93, Brazilian geneticist and academic. [80] (Portuguese)
* Ron Hamence, 94, Australian cricketer. [81]
* Colleen Kay Hutchins, 83, American actress, Miss America (1952), mother of Kiki Vandeweghe. [82]
* Johnny Maestro, 70, American singer (The Crests, The Brooklyn Bridge), cancer. [83]
* Aleksander Mankowski, 86, Polish long-distance runner. [84] (Polish)
* Jim Marshall, 74, American photographer. [85]
* Harold McGraw, Jr., 92, American businessman, CEO of McGraw-Hill (1975–1983). [86]
* Daphne Park, Baroness Park of Monmouth, 88, British spy (MI6), after long illness. [87]
* Mortimer Sackler, 93, American psychobiologist, pharmaceutical manufacturer and philanthropist. [88]
* Andrzej Sadlej, 69, Polish chemist, professor of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toru?. [89] (Polish)
* Elena Tairova, 18, Russian chess player, woman grandmaster and international master, after long illness. [90]
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* Midge Costanza, 77, American social and political activist, advisor to President Jimmy Carter, cancer. [91]
* István Jancsó, 71, Hungarian-born Brazilian academic, kidney failure. [92] (Portuguese)
* Alan King-Hamilton, 105, British judge. [93]
* Raiha Mahuta, 67, New Zealand negotiator and Tainui leader, myelofibrosis. [94]
* Mauricio Kleiff Menache, 79, Mexican screenwriter and comedian, complications from heart surgery. [95] (Spanish)
* Lauretta Masiero, 80, Italian actress. [96] (Italian)
* Jiro Nagasawa, 78, Japanese Olympic swimmer and national coach, throat cancer. [97]
* José Maria Nunes, 80, Portuguese filmmaker. [98] (Spanish)
* Wayne Patrick, 63, American football player (Buffalo Bills), kidney disease. [99]
* Kaljo Põllu, 75, Estonian artist. [100] (Estonian)
* Kanu Sanyal, 78, Indian revolutionary, Naxal leader, suicide by hanging. [101]
* Sulaiman Daud, 77, Malaysian politician, minister (1981–1999), liver cancer. [102]
* Blanche Thebom, 94, American mezzo-soprano, pneumonia. [103]
* Fritz Wagnerberger, 72, German Olympic alpine skier. [104] (German)
* James Williamson, 26, Australian mountain biker and journalist. [105]
* Marva Wright, 62, American blues singer, complications from a stroke. [106]
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* Sir James Black, 85, British physician, Nobel Laureate in Medicine (1988). [107]
* Özhan Canayd?n, 67, Turkish basketball player, president of Galatasaray S.K. (2002–2008), pancreatic cancer. [108] (Turkish)
* Mile C?rpeni?an, 34, Romanian journalist, sepsis. [109]
* Ella Mae Johnson, 106, American social worker and author. [110]
* Phil Johnson, 80, American journalist and broadcaster (WWL-TV), after long illness. [111]
* Leroy Matthiesen, 88, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Amarillo (1980–1997). [112]
* Patrick Mvula, Malawian footballer (Big Bullets). [113]
* Emil Schulz, 71, German boxer. [114] (German)
* Valentina Tolkunova, 63, Russian singer, People's Artist of RSFSR, cancer. [115] (Russian)
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* István Bilek, 77, Hungarian chess grandmaster. [116] (Hungarian)
* Vivian Blake, 53, Jamaican drug lord, heart attack. [117]
* Franco Gualdrini, 86, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Terni-Narni-Amelia (1983–2000). [118]
* Lou Jankowski, 78, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Black Hawks, Detroit Red Wings). [119]
* Takeo Kimura, 91, Japanese art director. [120]
* Andrzej Kozera, 73, Polish television journalist. [121] (Polish)
* Margaret Moth, 58, New Zealand photojournalist (CNN), colorectal cancer. [122]
* Florence Poe, 112, American supercentenarian, complications from a stroke. [123]
* Roy Steinfort, 88, American journalist, vice-president of Associated Press, cancer. [124]
* Wolfgang Wagner, 90, German director (Bayreuth Festival), natural causes. [125]
* Susana, Lady Walton, 83, Argentine writer, widow of composer Sir William Walton, natural causes. [126]
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* Harry Carpenter, 84, British sports commentator and television presenter. [127]
* Liz Carpenter, 89, American feminist author, media advisor and press secretary to Lady Bird Johnson (1963–1969), pneumonia. [128]
* Claiborne Cary, 78, American actress and cabaret performer, sister of Cloris Leachman, complications from Parkinson's disease. [129]
* Clodomiro Castilla, 50, Colombian journalist, shot. [130]
* Dorothy Corrigan, 96, Canadian politician, first female Mayor of Charlottetown (1968–1972). [131]
* Chicka Dixon, 81, Australian Aboriginal activist, asbestosis. [132]
* William Dorman, 91, American real estate columnist (Boston Herald-Traveler, The Boston Globe), heart failure. [133]
* Ebet Kadarusman, 73, Indonesian television and radio presenter, stroke. [134]
* Ray Fonseca, 56, American hula master, heart attack. [135]
* Fred Heineman, 80, American politician, Representative from North Carolina (1995–1997), natural causes. [136]
* Girija Prasad Koirala, 85, Nepalese politician, Prime Minister (four terms), multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. [137]
* Robin Milner, 76, British computer scientist, heart attack. [138]
* Ai Ogawa, 62, American poet, breast cancer. [139]
* Fernando Iório Rodrigues, 80, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Palmeira dos Índios (1985–2006). [140]
* Mikel Scicluna, 80, Canadian professional wrestler, liver cancer. [141]
* Stewart Udall, 90, American politician, Secretary of the Interior (1961–1969), natural causes. [142]
* Yang Lina, 47, Singaporean actress (Samsui Women), uterine cancer. [143]
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* Carlo Chenis, 55, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Civitavecchia-Tarquinia (since 2006). [144]
* Bob Curtis, 60, English footballer (Charlton Athletic, Mansfield Town), motor neurone disease. [145]
* John Hicklenton, 42, British comics artist (2000 AD), assisted suicide. [146]
* Bill McIntyre, 80, American actor (Dallas), natural causes. [147]
* Elinor Smith, 98, American aviator. [148]
* Dottie Thompson, 88, American festival organizer, co-founder of the Merrie Monarch Festival, complications from pneumonia. [149]
* Raúl de la Torre, 72, Argentine film director (Pobre mariposa, Funes, un gran amor), cardiac arrest. [150] (Spanish)
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* Rick Abramson, 65, American music promoter, lung cancer. [151]
* Amanda Castro, 47, Honduran poet, respiratory disease. [152] (Spanish)
* Herb Denenberg, 80, American journalist (WCAU) and consumer advocate, Pennsylvania insurance commissioner, heart attack. [153]
* Konstantin Eremenko, 39, Russian futsal player, European champion (1999), heart attack. [154]
* Donald P. Kelly, 88, American leveraged buyout investor (Beatrice Foods), cancer. [155]
* Chick Lang, Sr., 83, American businessman, general manager of Maryland Jockey Club, natural causes. [156]
* Herbert Lewin, 95, American politician, candidate in the 1988 Presidential election, heart failure. [157]
* Pak Nam-gi, 76, North Korean public official, executed by firing squad. [158] (death announced on this date)
* Fess Parker, 85, American actor (Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone), natural causes. [159]
* Zygmunt Paw?owicz, 82, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Gda?sk (1985–2005). [160]
* Sean Stewart, 29, Australian bassist (HTRK). [161]
* William Wolfe, 86, Scottish politician, National Chairman of the Scottish National Party (1969–1979). [162]
* Jerry York, 71, American businessman, Executive Director for Apple Inc., cerebral hemorrhage. [163]
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* Alex Chilton, 59, American musician (Big Star, The Box Tops), heart attack. [164]
* Wayne Collett, 60, American athlete, 1972 Summer Olympics silver medalist, cancer. [165]
* Joseph Ettedgui, 71, British fashion designer, cancer. [166]
* Sid Fleischman, 90, American children's writer, cancer. [167]
* Van Fletcher, 85, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers). [168]
* Charlie Gillett, 68, British radio presenter, music writer and record producer, after long illness. [169]
* Peter Gowland, 93, American glamour photographer and actor. [170]
* Johnnie High, 80, American country music impresario, heart disease. [171]
* Tadeusz Prejzner, 85, Polish composer and pianist. [172] (Polish)
* Juan Turri, 59, Argentinian Olympic athlete, myocardial infarction. [173] (Spanish)
* Robert M. White, 85, American X-15 test pilot. [174]
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* Herb Cohen, 77, American record company executive, manager of Frank Zappa. [175]
* Billy Hoeft, 77, American Major League Baseball All-Star pitcher. [176]
* Filip Kapisoda, 22, Montenegrin model, suicide by gunshot. [177]
* Arnold Loxam, 93, British organist. [178]
* Hachiro Maekawa, 97, Japanese baseball player (Yomiuri Giants), respiratory failure. [179]
* Ksenija Paj?in, 32, Serbian pop singer, shot. [180] (Serbian)
* Jane Sherman, 101, American writer and dancer. [181]
* Ira Skutch, 88, American television game show producer and director, lymphoma. [182]
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* Dan Achen, 51, Canadian guitarist (Junkhouse), heart attack. [183]
* Charlie Ashcroft, 83, English footballer (Liverpool F.C.). [184]
* Emilia Boncodin, 55, Filipino public servant, whistleblower in ZTE scandal, cardiac arrest. [185]
* Joseph Galdon, 81, Filipino writer and academic. [186]
* Robert Hodgins, 89, South African artist, lung cancer. [187]
* Ashok Kumar, 53, British politician, MP for Langbaurgh (1991–1992) and Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland (1997–2010), natural causes. [188]
* Ron Lundy, 75, American radio disc jockey (WABC, WCBS-FM), heart attack. [189]
* Sam Mtukudzi, 21, Zimbabwean musician, car accident. [190]
* John Mulhern, 69, Irish horse trainer. [191]
* Heno Sarv, 56, Estonian cultural geographer and ethnologist. [192] (Estonian)
* David J. Steinberg, 45, American actor (Willow). [193]
* Patricia Wrightson, 88, Australian children's writer. [194]
* Sotiris Zakapidas, 97, Greek footballer (Iraklis Thessaloniki F.C.). [195] (Greek)
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* Chimen Abramsky, 93, British historian, expert in Jewish studies and Hebrew literature. [196]
* Carmen Capalbo, 84, American theater director, emphysema. [197]
* Corsica Joe, 90, American professional wrestler. [198]
* Cherie DeCastro, 87, American singer (The DeCastro Sisters), pneumonia. [199]
* Edmund Dinis, 85, American prosecutor, investigated Chappaquiddick incident, complications of treatment for lymphoma. [200]
* Pat Fanning, 91, Irish hurler (Waterford), President of the Gaelic Athletic Association (1970–1973). [201]
* Panos Glykofridis, 80, Greek film director. [202] (Greek)
* Peter Graves, 83, American actor (Mission: Impossible, Airplane!), heart attack. [203]
* Vinda Karandikar, 91, Indian poet and writer, after short illness. [204]
* Urpo Leppänen, 66, Finnish politician. [205] (Finnish)
* Hernán Llerena, 81, Peruvian Olympic cyclist. [206] (Spanish)
* Nahúm Elí Palacios Ortega, 36, Honduran journalist and television news director, shot. [207]
* Park Chun-seok, 80, South Korean composer, stroke. [208]
* John Powles, 61, Canadian Head of the Canada-Japan Society, Order of the Rising Sun recipient, pancreatic cancer. [209]
* Felipe Sapag, 93, Argentine politician. [210] (Spanish)
* Der Scutt, 75, American architect (Trump Tower, One Astor Plaza, Reading Public Museum), liver failure. [211]
* Janet Simpson, 65, British Olympic track and field athlete, heart attack. [212]
* Altie Taylor, 62, American football player (Detroit Lions). [213]
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* Jerry Adler, 91, American harmonicist, prostate cancer. [214]
* Sir Michael Angus, 79, British businessman, Chairman of Unilever (1986–1992). [215]
* Sir Ian Axford, 76, New Zealand space scientist, after long illness. [216]
* Jean Ferrat, 79, French singer, after long illness. [217]
* Momcilo Gavri?, 71, Croatian-born American football player (San Francisco 49ers). [218]
* He Pingping, 21, Chinese dwarf, shortest man who was able to walk, heart complications. [219]
* Ljubomir Kapor, 78, Croatian actor, cancer. [220] (Croatian)
* Édouard Kargu, 84, French footballer. [221] (French)
* Cliff Livingston, 79, American football player (New York Giants) and stuntman, complications from Lewy body dementia and Parkinson's disease. [222]
* Leon Manley, 83, Canadian football player (Edmonton Eskimos). [223]
* Andrzej Marcinkowski, 81, Polish lawyer and politican, acting Minister of Justice (1991), after long illness. [224] (Polish)
* Neville Meade, 61, Jamaican-born British boxer, 1974 Commonwealth Games gold medalist, British heavyweight champion, cancer. [225]
* Gary Mittelholtz, 55, Canadian journalist (CBC Radio), heart attack. [226]
* Kevin Neill, 78, British lead guitarist (Karl Denver Trio), motor neurone disease. [227]
* Andres Ringo, 71, Estonian architect. [228] (Estonian)
* Tõnu Tuvikene, 57, Estonian astrophysicist and applied mathematician. [229] (Estonian)
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* David Ahenakew, 76, Canadian First Nations leader and politician, cancer. [230]
* Bob Attersley, 76, Canadian ice hockey player, 1960 Winter Olympics silver medalist. [231]
* Edward Carson, 80, American banker and philanthropist, head of First Interstate Bancorp. [232]
* Arthur H. Christy, 86, American attorney, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. [233]
* Carol Clerk, British rock journalist, breast cancer. [234]
* Miguel Delibes, 89, Spanish author, journalist and scholar, colorectal cancer. [235]
* Lesley Duncan, 66, British singer-songwriter, cerebrovascular disease. [236]
* Hanna-Renate Laurien, 81, German politician. [237] (German)
* Fatima Meer, 81, South African academic, screenwriter and anti-apartheid activist, stroke. [238]
* Aleksandr Minayev, 51, Russian football player and coach. [239] (Russian)
* Charles Muscatine, 89, American Chaucer scholar and advocate for education reform, lung infection. [240]
* Hugh Robertson, 70, Scottish footballer (Dundee F.C.). [241]
* Garry Sharpe-Young, 45, British rock journalist, founder of Rockdetector.com, aneurysm. [242]
* Ian Sinfield, 75, Australian Olympic athlete. [243]
* Glauco Villas Boas, 53, Brazilian cartoonist (Geraldão), shot. [244] (Portuguese)
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* Beop Jeong, 78, South Korean Seon Buddhist monk, lung cancer. [245]
* Henri-Charles Dubourguier, 62, French microbiologist. [246] (Estonian)
* Paul Dunlap, 90, American film composer. [247]
* Carlos de Jesus Euzébio, 58, Brazilian footballer (Santos Futebol Clube), car accident. [248] (Portuguese)
* John Hill, 68, Canadian professional wrestler, Alzheimer's disease. [249]
* Louis Holmes, 99, British-born Canadian ice hockey player and coach. [250]
* Matilde Elena López, 91, Salvadoran poet, essayist and playwright. [251] (Spanish)
* Willie MacFarlane, 79, Scottish footballer and manager. [252]
* David Meza Montecinos, 51, Honduran journalist, shot. [253]
* Hans van Mierlo, 78, Dutch politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1994–1998), founder of political party D66. [254]
* Charles Moore, 79, American photographer. [255]
* Merlin Olsen, 69, American football player (Los Angeles Rams) and actor (Little House on the Prairie, Father Murphy), mesothelioma. [256]
* Leena Peltonen-Palotie, 57, Finnish geneticist, bone cancer. [257]
* Brian Pitman, 78, British banker, Chairman of Virgin Money (2010) and Lloyds TSB (1997–2001), heart attack. [258]
* Sandy Scott, 75, Canadian professional wrestler, pancreatic cancer. [259]
* Édgar Valcárcel Arze, 77, Peruvian composer, esophageal cancer. [260] (Spanish)
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* Truddi Chase, 70, American autobiographical author. [261]
* Leeann Chin, 77, Chinese-born American restaurateur, founder of Leeann Chin restaurants, after long illness. [262]
* Antoine Choueiri, 70, Lebanese businessman and media magnate, after long illness. [263]
* Evelyn Dall, 92, American singer and actress, after long illness. [264]
* Mark Goldstein, 49, Honduran politician and businessman, plane crash. [265] (Spanish)
* Corey Haim, 38, Canadian actor (Lucas, The Lost Boys, License to Drive). [266]
* Tim Holland, 79, American backgammon player, emphysema. [267]
* Dorothy Janis, 98, American silent film actress. [268]
* Micky Jones, 63, Welsh singer and guitarist (Man), brain tumour. [269]
* Rich Koeper, 66, American football player (Green Bay Packers). [270]
* Jacek Krolak, 50, Polish journalist and graphic designer (Polityka). [271] (Polish)
* Vincent Mensah, 85, Beninese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Porto Novo (1970–2000). [272] (French)
* Arnall Patz, 89, American ophthalmologist, heart disease. [273]
* Gene Stoltzfus, 70, American peace activist, director of Christian Peacemaker Teams, heart failure. [274]
* Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, 81, Egyptian Muslim cleric, Grand Imam (Al-Azhar Mosque), heart attack. [275]
* Ray Tye, 87, American businessman and philanthropist, cancer. [276]
* George Webb, 92, British traditional jazz musician [277]
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* Gheorghe Constantin, 77, Romanian footballer and manager. [278] (Romanian)
* Lionel Cox, 80, Australian road bicycle racer, pneumonia. [279]
* Willie Davis, 69, American baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers), natural causes. [280]
* Dulmatin, 39, Indonesian terrorist, 2002 Bali bombings planner, shot. [281]
* Teresa Gutiérrez, 81, Colombian actress, natural causes. [282] (Spanish)
* Doris Haddock, 100, American political activist, complications of respiratory disease. [283]
* Ricardo Jurado, 83, Argentine broadcaster. [284] (Spanish)
* Randy Kwasniewski, 55, American executive (Hard Rock Hotel), apparent suicide by gunshot. [285]
* Bernard Narokobi, 72, Papua New Guinean politician, diplomat, lawyer and philosopher, after short illness. [286]
* Wilfy Rebimbus, 67, Indian musician, lung cancer. [287]
* Ricardo Vidal, 79, Chilean Olympic athlete. [288] (Spanish)
* Henry Wittenberg, 91, American wrestler, 1948 Olympic gold medalist. [289]
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* Albert P. Clark, 96, American Air Force officer. [290]
* Tony Imi, 72, British cinematographer. [291]
* David Kimche, 82, Israeli diplomat, Mossad spy (1953–1980), brain cancer. [292]
* Guy Lapébie, 93, French road bicycle racer. [293] (German)
* Ho Sanderson, 60, British businessman, hit by train. [294]
* Jerry E. Smith, 59, American author, pancreatic cancer. [295]
* Gale Thomson, 90, American First Lady of New Hampshire (1973–1979), wife of Meldrim Thomson, Jr., heart failure. [296]
* Bartholomew Yeboah, 19, Ghanaian footballer. [297]
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* Daisey Bailey, 113, American supercentenarian, second-oldest person in U.S. and fourth-oldest in world. [298]
* Sir Kenneth Dover, 89, British classicist, President of the British Academy (1978–1981). [299]
* Ken Dyer, 63, American football player (Cincinnati Bengals), heart failure. [300]
* Newton Kulundu, 61, Kenyan politician, Minister of Labour (2006–2008), after long illness. [301]
* Mihajlo Mihajlov, 76, Serbian scholar, writer and dissident. [302]
* Sergo Mikoyan, 80, Russian historian, specialist on Latin America, leukemia. [303]
* Mary Josephine Ray, 114, Canadian-born American supercentenarian, oldest person in U.S. and second-oldest in world. [304]
* Robson Rocha Costa, 23, Brazilian futsal player, haemorrhagic shock following match injury. [305]
* Richard Stites, 78, American historian and author, complications from cancer. [306]
* Patrick Topaloff, 65, French actor and humorist, heart attack. [307] (French)
* Ben Westlund, 60, American politician, Oregon State Treasurer (2009–2010), lung cancer. [308]
* Marcin Wnuk, 61, Polish politician, Mayor of Inowroclaw (1994–2001) and MP (2001–2005), heart attack. [309] (Polish)
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* Mansour Amirasefi, 76, Iranian Olympic footballer, cancer. [310]
* Cho Gyeong-chul, 80, South Korean astronomer, heart attack. [311]
* Fiennes Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, 88, British aristocrat. [312]
* Bruce Graham, 84, American architect (Willis Tower, John Hancock Center), Alzheimer's disease. [313]
* Samuel Hinote, 67, American catfish expert and businessman. [314]
* Endurance Idahor, 25, Nigerian footballer, heart attack. [315]
* H.M. Koutoukas, 72, American playwright (Medea in the Laundromat), complications of diabetes. [316]
* Mark Linkous, 47, American singer-songwriter (Sparklehorse), suicide by gunshot. [317]
* Dener Pacheco, 28, Brazilian actor, stomach and lung cancer. [318] (Portuguese)
* Ronald Pettersson, 74, Swedish ice hockey player. [319] (Swedish)
* Jim Roland, 67, American Major League Baseball player. [320]
* Nigel Trench, 7th Baron Ashtown, 93, British diplomat. [321]
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* John Patrick Bedell, 36, American computer programmer, Pentagon subway gunman, shot. [322]
* Donald N. Frey, 87, American product planning manager, co-creator of Ford Mustang, stroke. [323]
* Aleksandr Grave, 89, Russian actor. [324] (Russian)
* Herta Haas, 96, Slovenian-born Yugoslav Partisan, second wife of Josip Broz Tito. [325]
* Philip Langridge, 70, British tenor, colorectal cancer. [326]
* Faqir Mohammed, 39, Pakistani militant commander (Taliban), air strike. [327]
* Andrée Peel, 105, French patriot, World War II Resistance member. [328]
* Charles B. Pierce, 71, American film director (The Legend of Boggy Creek). [329]
* Darcy Pohland, 48, American television reporter (WCCO-TV). [330]
* Alberto Ronchey, 83, Italian politician and journalist. [331] (Italian)
* Wolfgang Schenck, 97, German airman, Luftwaffe flying ace. [332] (Portuguese)
* Richard Stapley, 86, British-born American actor (The Three Musketeers), renal failure. [333]
* Jaanus Tamm, 52, Estonian writer and journalist. [334] (Estonian)
* Edgar Wayburn, 103, American environmentalist and conservationist. [335]
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* Raimund Abraham, 76, Austrian-born American architect (Austrian Cultural Forum New York), car accident. [336]
* Johnny Alf, 80, Brazilian singer and composer, prostate cancer. [337]
* Vladislav Ardzinba, 64, Georgian politician, separatist President of Abkhazia (1994–2005). [338]
* Ron Banks, 58, American singer (The Dramatics), heart attack. [339]
* André Bouchard, 54, Canadian ecologist and environmentalist, heart attack. [340]
* Etta Cameron, 70, Bahamian-born Danish gospel singer, after long illness. [341]
* Hilario Chávez Joya, 82, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Nuevo Casas Grandes (1977–2004). [342]
* Vladimir Chebotaryov, 88, Russian film director (Amphibian Man). [343] (Russian)
* Samuel J. Eldersveld, 92, American political scientist and politician. [344]
* Joaquim Fiúza, 102, Portuguese sailor, 1952 Olympic bronze medalist. [345] (Portuguese)
* Tetsuo Kondo, 80, Japanese politician, Minister of Labour (1991–1992). [346]
* Nan Martin, 82, American actress (The Drew Carey Show), emphysema. [347]
* Arthur Menzies, 93, Canadian diplomat, heart attack. [348]
* Roger Newman, 69, British-born American actor and television writer (Guiding Light, Passions), cancer. [349]
* Angelo Poffo, 84, American professional wrestler. [350]
* Tony Richards, 76, British footballer. [351]
* Joanne Simpson, 86, American meteorologist, first woman to earn a doctorate in meteorology. [352]
* Lolly Vegas, 70, American singer (Redbone), lung cancer. [353]
* Fred Wedlock, 67, British folk musician, complications from pneumonia. [354]
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* Keith Alexander, 53, British footballer (Saint Lucia) and manager, brain aneurysm. [355]
* Johnny Allen, 76, American football player (Washington Redskins), Alzheimer's disease. [356]
* Frank Bertaina, 65, American Major League Baseball player, heart attack. [357]
* Mariya Dolina, 87, Ukrainian dive bomber pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union. [358] (Ukrainian)
* Michael Foot, 96, British politician, Leader of the Labour Party (1980–1983). [359]
* Momo Kapor, 72, Serbian writer and painter. [360]
* Big Tiny Little, 79, American musician (The Lawrence Welk Show). [361]
* Cliff Livingston, 80, American football player (New York Giants),. [362]
* Paul Saar, 90, Estonian Eastern Orthodox priest. [363] (Estonian)
* Yuri Stepanov, 42, Russian actor, car accident. [364] (Russian)
* John Strohmeyer, 85, American journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner, heart failure. [365]
* Michalis Toumbouros, 51, Greek singer-songwriter and physician, motorcycle accident. [366] (Greek)
* Oleg Tyurin, 72, Russian rower, 1964 Olympic gold medalist. [367]. (Russian)
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* Francisco Ada, 75, Northern Mariana Islands politician, first Lieutenant Governor (1978–1982). [368]
* Melva Blancett, 85, American actress. [369]
* Winston Churchill, 69, British politician, MP for Stretford (1970–1983) and Davyhulme (1983–1997), prostate cancer. [370]
* Paul Drayton, 70, American athlete, 1964 Olympic gold and silver medalist, cancer. [371]
* Emil Forselius, 35, Swedish actor, suicide. [372] (Swedish)
* Don Kent, 92, American meteorologist (WBZ-TV), natural causes. [373]
* Geoff Myburgh, 81, South African Olympic sailor. [374]
* Nikolay Surov, 62, Russian Olympic rower. [375] (Russian)
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* Perry Brooks, 55, American football player (Washington Redskins). [376]
* Kristian Digby, 32, British television presenter and director (To Buy or Not to Buy). [377]
* Clifton Forbes, 64, Jamaican Olympic athlete, after long illness. [378]
* Slavko Fras, 81, Slovenian journalist and editor. [379]
* Barry Hannah, 67, American novelist and short story writer (Geronimo Rex), heart attack. [380]
* Vladimir Ilyushin, 82, Russian test pilot. [381] (German)
* Paul Kim Ok-kyun, 84, South Korean Roman Catholic prelate, Titular Bishop of Girba (1985–2001). [382]
* Ruth Kligman, 80, American abstract painter, muse of Jackson Pollock. [383]
* Joseph Hernández Ochoa, 26, Honduran journalist, shot. [384]