Ttyjfyk

The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2011.

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.

December 2011

1

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  Shingo Araki, 72, Japanese animation artist and character designer (Yu-Gi-Oh!, Galaxy Express 999).^[1]


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  Eric Arnott, 82, British eye surgeon.^[2]


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  Arthur Beetson, 66, Australian rugby league footballer, first Indigenous Australian to captain a national team in any sport, heart attack.^[3]


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  Andrei Blaier, 78, Romanian film director and screenwriter, after long illness.^[4]


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  Martina Davis-Correia, 44, American civil rights activist, breast cancer.^[5]


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  Ragnhild Hveger, 90, Danish swimmer, Olympic silver medalist (1936).^[6] (Danish)


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  Ted Lapka, 91, American football player (Washington Redskins).^[7]


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  François Lesage, 82, French embroidery designer.^[8]


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  Bill McKinney, 80, American actor (Deliverance, The Outlaw Josey Wales), esophageal cancer.^[9]


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  Mr. Ebbo, 37, Tanzanian rapper, leukemia.^[10]


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  Purificacion Quisumbing, 77, Filipino human rights advocate, Chairperson of Commission on Human Rights (2002–2008), multiple myeloma.^[11]


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  Louis Silverstein, 92, American artist and graphic designer.^[12]


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  Alan Sues, 85, American comic (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In), heart attack.^[13]


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  Hippolyte Van den Bosch, 85, Belgian football player.^[14]


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  Christa Wolf, 82, German writer.^[15]


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  Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, 65, American psychoanalyst, biographer of Hannah Arendt, pulmonary embolism.^[16]

2

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  Robert Lawrence Balzer, 99, American wine journalist.^[17]


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  Bruno Bianchi, 56, French cartoonist and animator (Heathcliff and The Catillac Cats), co-creator of Inspector Gadget.^[18]


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  Laurent Fuahea, 84, Tongan-born Wallisian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Wallis et Futuna (1974–2005).^[19]


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  Chiyono Hasegawa, 115, Japanese supercentenarian, nation's oldest person and world's second oldest living person.^[20]


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  Pavle Jurina, 57, Croatian handball player and coach.^[21]


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  Christopher Logue, 85, British poet.^[22]


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  David Montgomery, 84, American historian, brain hemorrhage.^[23]


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  Artur Quaresma, 94, Portuguese footballer.^[24]


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  Patrick Sheridan, 89, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of New York (1990–2001).^[25]


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  Bill Tapia, 103, American ukulelist.^[26]


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  Howard Tate, 72, American soul singer.^[27]

3

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  Jalal Alamgir, 40, Bangladeshi academic, drowning.^[28]


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  Dev Anand, 88, Indian actor, cardiac arrest.^[29]


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  Louky Bersianik, 81, Canadian novelist.^[30]


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  Philip "Fatis" Burrell, 57, Jamaican record producer, stroke.^[31]


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  Ernst-Jürgen Dreyer, 77, German writer.^[32]


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  Sabri Godo, 82, Albanian politician, writer and scriptwriter, founder and president of the Republican Party of Albania, lung cancer.^[33]


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  Karl-Axel Karlsson, 72, Swedish Olympic sport shooter (1972, 1976).^[34]


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  Sam Loxton, 90, Australian cricketer (The Invincibles), Australian rules footballer and politician, Victorian MLA for Prahran (1955–1979).^[35]


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  Larry Rickles, 41, American Emmy Award-winning producer (Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project), pneumonia.^[36]


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  Rafael Rodríguez Barrera, 74, Mexican politician, Governor of Campeche (1973–1979), President of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (1992–1993).^[37]


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  Rob Schroeder, 85, American racing driver.^[38]


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  Heinrich Sonne, 94, German Waffen-SS member, recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.^[39]

4

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  Mary Ellen Avery, 84, American pediatrician.^[40]


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  Allan Cameron, 94, Scottish soldier and curler.^[41]


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  Ambika Charan Choudhury, 81, Indian writer.^[42]


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  Marion Dougherty, 88, American casting director (Full Metal Jacket, Batman, Midnight Cowboy).^[43]


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  Patricia C. Dunn, 58, American businesswoman, Chairman of Hewlett-Packard (2005–2006), ovarian cancer.^[44]


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  Adam Hanuszkiewicz, 87, Polish actor and theatre director.^[45]


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  Matti Yrjänä Joensuu, 63, Finnish crime fiction writer.^[46]


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  Besim Kabashi, 35, Albanian kickboxer.^[47]


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  Alamein Kopu, 68, New Zealand politician, List MP (1996–1999).^[48]


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  James S. Malosky, 82, American football coach (Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs), respiratory failure.^[49]


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  Solange Pierre, 48, Dominican Republic human rights advocate, winner of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award (2006), heart attack.^[50]


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  RJ Rosales, 37, Filipino-born Australian singer and actor. [1]
  


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  Sócrates, 57, Brazilian footballer, septic shock.^[51]


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  Hubert Sumlin, 80, American blues guitarist, heart failure.^[52]


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  Andrey Tverdokhlebov, 70, Soviet dissident.^[53]

5

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  Dan Biggers, 80, American actor (In the Heat of the Night, Glory).^[54]


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  Michel Descombey, 81, French choreographer.^[55]


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  Paul M. Doty, 91, American scientist.^[56]


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  Tetsuzo Fuyushiba, 75, Japanese politician, Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (2006–2008), acute pneumonia.^[57]


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  Peter Gethin, 71, British Formula One driver (1970–1974).^[58]


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  Jorge Maria Hourton Poisson, 85, French-born Chilean Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Temuco (1992–2001).^[59]


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  Gennady Logofet, 69, Russian footballer.^[60]


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  Joe Lonnett, 84, American baseball player and coach.^[61]


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  Dan Mills, 80, American animator (Family Guy, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe).^[62]


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  Pusuke, 26, Japanese dog, world's oldest known living dog at time of death, natural causes.^[63]


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  Bill Stits, 80, American football player (Detroit Lions, San Francisco 49ers, New York Giants), complications from Alzheimer's disease.^[64]


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  Darrell K. Sweet, 77, American artist.^[65]


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  Georges Talbourdet, 60, French cyclist.^[66]


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  Violetta Villas, 73, Belgian-born Polish singer.^[67]


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  Celia, Viscountess Whitelaw of Penrith, 84, British ATS volunteer, philanthropist/charity worker and horticulturist.^[68]

6

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  John Banks, 89, American Negro League baseball player.^[69]


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  Brent Darby, 30, American basketball player (Ohio State University), blood clots.^[70]


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  Tony Fell, 79, British music publisher.^[71]


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  Ron Fletcher, 90, American dancer and pilates teacher, heart failure.^[72]


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  Sum Ying Fung, 112, Canadian supercentenarian, oldest person in Canada at time of death, natural causes.^[73]


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  Dobie Gray, 71, American singer ("The 'In' Crowd", "Drift Away").^[74]


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  Barbara Orbison, 61, German-born American record producer and music publisher, widow of Roy Orbison, pancreatic cancer.^[75]


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  Paul Ramírez, 25, Venezuelan footballer, stroke.^[76]


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  Lawrie Tierney, 52, Scottish footballer.^[77]

7

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  Pearse Cahill, 95, Irish aviation pioneer.^[78]


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  Peter Croker, 89, English footballer (Charlton Athletic).^[79]


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  Teresa Hsu Chih, 113, Chinese-born Singaporean social worker and supercentenarian.^[80]


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  Tom Kennedy, 63, American film trailer producer.^[81]


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  Nuno Viriato Tavares de Melo Egídio, 89, Portuguese general, Governor of Macau (1979–1981).^[82]


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  Harry Morgan, 96, American actor (M*A*S*H, Dragnet, December Bride), pneumonia.^[83]


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  Elizabeth Ann Ray, 98, American USAF officer.^[84]


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  Jerry Robinson, 89, American comic book artist (Batman) and reputed creator of The Joker.^[85]


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  Charlie Russell, 74, Canadian country music DJ.^[86]


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  T. A. Springer, 85, Dutch mathematician.^[87]

8

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  Gilbert Adair, 66, Scottish author, film critic and journalist, brain haemorrhage.^[88]


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  Peter Brown, 77, English footballer.^[89]


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  Robert Brown, 61, American politician, Georgia State Senator (1991–2011), suicide by gunshot.^[90]


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  Lewis Bush, 42, American football player (San Diego Chargers, Kansas City Chiefs), apparent heart attack.^[91]


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  Sir Zelman Cowen, 92, Australian constitutional lawyer and academic, 19th Governor-General of Australia (1977–1982).^[92]


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  Vinko Cuzzi, 72, Croatian footballer.^[93]


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  Ladislas de Hoyos, 72, French journalist and news anchor (TF1).^[94]


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  Don Duong, 54, Vietnamese-born American actor (We Were Soldiers), heart failure and brain hemorrhage.^[95]


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  Gene Huff, 82, American politician, member of the Kentucky House of Representatives (1967–1971) and State Senator (1971–1994), lung disease.^[96]


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  Peggy Makins, 95, British agony aunt.^[97]


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  Giorgio Mariani, 65, Italian footballer.^[98]


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  Minoru Miki, 81, Japanese composer.^[99] (Japanese)


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  Andrew Pataki, 84, American Eastern Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Parma for Ruthenian (1984–1995) and Passaic for Ruthenian (1995–2007).^[100]


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  Joe Restic, 85, American NCAA and CFL football coach (Harvard Crimson, Hamilton Tiger-Cats).^[101]


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  Charles Ritcheson, 86, American historian and diplomat.^[102]


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  Nakdimon Rogel, 86, Israeli journalist and broadcaster, author of the Nakdi Report.^[103]


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  Anthony Philip Harbord-Hamond, 11th Baron Suffield, 89, British soldier and aristocrat.^[104]

9

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  Alf R. Bjercke, 90, Norwegian business magnate.^[105]


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  Jacques Debary, 97, French actor.^[106]


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  Pushpa Hans, 94, Indian playback singer and actress.^[107]


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  Davida Karol, 94, Israeli actress.^[108]


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  João Pereira dos Santos, 93, Brazilian martial artist (Capoeira).^[109]


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  Len Phillips, 89, English footballer (Portsmouth, England).^[110]


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  Richard J. Rabbitt, 76, American politician, Speaker of the Missouri House of Representatives (1973–1977), heart failure.^[111]


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  Roy Tattersall, 89, British Test cricketer.^[112]


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  Myra Taylor, 94, American jazz singer.^[113]

10

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  Cary D. Allred, 64, American politician, member of the North Carolina Senate (1980–1984) and North Carolina House of Representatives (1994–2009).^[114]


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  Jean Baucus, 94, American author, historian and arts patron, mother of Max Baucus.^[115]


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  Hamilton Bobby, 44, Indian footballer, heart attack.^[116]


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  John Gower, 70, American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly (1973–1979).^[117]


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  Vida Jerman, 72, Croatian actress, lung cancer.^[118]


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  Albert Overhauser, 86, American physicist.^[119]


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  Stephen Schlossberg, 90, American union leader.^[120]


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  Ernst Specker, 91, Swiss mathematician (Kochen–Specker theorem).^[121]


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  Frank Stephens, 98, Australian surgeon.^[122]

11

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  Phillip Cottrell, 43, Scottish journalist (BBC Scotland, Radio New Zealand), assaulted.^[123]


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  Mimi Darwish, 69, Egyptian Olympic footballer (1964).^[124]


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  John Patrick Foley, 76, American Roman Catholic Cardinal and Grand Master Emeritus of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, leukemia and anemia.^[125]


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  Susan Gordon, 62, American child actress (The Five Pennies, My Three Sons, The Twilight Zone), thyroid cancer.^[126]


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  J. Lynn Helms, 86, American Marine Corps officer, Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (1981–1984), cardiopulmonary failure and pneumonia.^[127]


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  Mabel Holle, 91, American baseball player (AAGPBL).^[128]


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  Hans Heinz Holz, 84, German Marxist philosopher.^[129]


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  Harold Hopkins, 67, Australian actor (Don's Party, Gallipoli, Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities), mesothelioma.^[130]


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  Eric Howlett, 84, American inventor.^[131]


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  Ke Yan, 82, Chinese poet and writer.^[132]


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  Ahmed İhsan Kırımlı, 91, Turkish doctor, politician, poet and philanthropist.^[133]


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  Leonida Lari, 62, Moldovan-born Romanian writer and politician, member of the Supreme Soviet (1989–1991) and Romanian Parliament (1992–2008), breast cancer.^[134]


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  Mario Miranda, 85, Indian cartoonist.^[135]


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  Bonnie Prudden, 97, American rock climber and physical fitness advocate.^[136]


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  M. S. Reddy, 87, Indian film producer, long illness.^[137]

12

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  Sunday Bada, 42, Nigerian Olympic sprinter, gold medalist (2000).^[138]


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  Clyde Conner, 78, American football player (San Francisco 49ers).^[139]


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  John Gardner, 94, British classical music composer.^[140]


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  Heini Lohrer, 93, Swiss Olympic ice hockey player (1948).^[141]


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  Alberto de Mendoza, 88, Argentine actor (Horror Express).^[142]


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  Mălina Olinescu, 37, Romanian singer (Eurovision Song Contest 1998), suicide.^[143]


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  Sir Robert Peliza, 91, Gibraltarian politician, Chief Minister (1969–1972).^[144]


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  Bert Schneider, 78, American film and television producer (Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, The Monkees), natural causes.^[145]


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  Merih Sezen, 93, Turkish Olympic fencer (1948).^[146]


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  Randy Stein, 58, American baseball player.^[147]


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  Gene Summers, 83, American architect (McCormick Place), liver disease.^[148]

13

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  T. J. Bass, 79, American writer.^[149]


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  Graham Brown, 87, American actor (Malcolm X, The Muppets Take Manhattan), pulmonary failure.^[150]


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  Kabir Chowdhury, 88, Bangladeshi writer.^[151]


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  Russell Hoban, 86, American writer.^[152]


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  Park Tae-joon, 84, South Korean businessman and prime minister, breathing difficulties.^[153]


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  Klaus-Dieter Sieloff, 69, German footballer.^[154]


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  Erica Wilson, 83, British-born American embroidery designer.^[155]

14

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  Roy Ash, 93, American businessman and public official, Director of the Office of Management and Budget (1972–1975).^[156]


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  Graham Booth, 71, British politician, Member of the European Parliament for South West England (2002–2008).^[157]


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  Luigi Carpaneda, 86, Italian Olympic fencer, gold medalist (1956).^[158]


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  Boris Chertok, 99, Soviet and Russian rocket designer.^[159]


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  Pedro Febles, 53, Venezuelan footballer and manager.^[160] (Spanish)


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  Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck, 75, German Olympic rower, gold medalist (1960).^[161]


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  Thomas C. Kelly, 80, American Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Louisville (1981–2007).^[162]


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  Arthur King, 84, Canadian boxer.^[163]


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  Carol Murphy, 79, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly (1993–2002).^[164]


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  Mark Francis Schmitt, 88, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Marquette (1978–1992).^[165]


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  Don Sharp, 90, Australian-born British film director (Hammer horror).^[166]


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  Joe Simon, 98, American comic book writer (Captain America, Fighting American, Prez).^[167]


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  Billie Jo Spears, 74, American country music singer ("Blanket on the Ground"), cancer.^[168]


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  George Whitman, 98, American bookstore proprietor (Shakespeare and Company), complications of a stroke.^[169]


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  James A. Zimble, 78, American Navy officer, Surgeon General of the United States Navy (1987–1991).^[170]

15

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  Eduardo Barreto, 57, Uruguayan comic book artist (Batman, Superman, Martian Manhunter).^[171]


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  Emmett L. Bennett, Jr., 93, American classicist whose cataloging of Linear B led to its decipherment.^[172]


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  Bob Brookmeyer, 81, American jazz valve trombonist, cardiopulmonary arrest.^[173]


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  Andy Carey, 80, American baseball player (New York Yankees).^[174]


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  Walter Giller, 84, German actor.^[175]


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  Christopher Hitchens, 62, British writer (God Is Not Great) and commentator (Vanity Fair), esophageal cancer.^[176]


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  Paula Hyman, 65, American professor of modern Jewish history (Yale University).^[177]


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  Ricardo Ibarra, 61, Argentine Olympic rower (1972, 1976, 1984).^[178]


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  Guy Ignolin, 75, French professional cyclist.^[179]


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  Gadzhimurat Kamalov, 46, Russian journalist, shot.^[180]


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  Herbert Kesel, 80, German Olympic rower.[2]
  


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  Nur Khan, 88, Pakistani air marshal, Chief of Air Staff (1965–1969) and Governor of West Pakistan (1969–1970).^[181]


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  Frank X. McDermott, 87, American politician, President of the New Jersey Senate (1967–1973).^[182]


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  James M. Quigley, 93, American politician, Representative from Pennsylvania (1955–1957; 1959–1961).^[183]


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  Jason Richards, 35, New Zealand race car driver (V8 Supercars), adrenocortical carcinoma.^[184]


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  Carmen Rupe, 75, New Zealand transsexual entertainer, kidney failure.^[185]


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  Mario Tovar González, 78, Mexican Olympic wrestler (1952–1968), respiratory complications.^[186]

16

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  Ulf Aas, 92, Norwegian illustrator.^[187]


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  Robert Easton, 81, American dialect coach and actor (Working Girl, Pete's Dragon, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country).^[188]


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  Dan Frazer, 90, American actor (Kojak, As the World Turns), cardiac arrest.^[189]


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  Alice Glenn, 89, Irish politician, TD for Dublin Central (1981–1982; 1982–1987).^[190]


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  Chubee Kagita, 54, Japanese politician, heart failure.^[191]


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  Henry Kitchener, 3rd Earl Kitchener, 92, British soldier and aristocrat.^[192]


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  Mark Kopytman, 82, Ukrainian-born Israeli composer.^[193]


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  Bert Muhly, 88, American politician and academic, Mayor of Santa Cruz, California (1974–1975), heart failure.^[194]


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  Patrick V. Murphy, 91, American police chief, New York City Police Commissioner (1970–1973), heart attack.^[195]


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  Michele O'Callaghan, 48, American makeup artist, cancer.^[196]


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  Te Paekiomeka Joy Ruha, 80, New Zealand Māori leader.^[197]


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  Keith W. Wilcox, 90, American architect and politician, member of LDS priesthood.^[198]


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  Nicol Williamson, 75, Scottish actor (Inadmissible Evidence, Spawn, Excalibur), esophageal cancer.^[199]

17

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  Charles Chester, 92, English rugby player.^[200]


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  Marian Fricker, 89, American AAGPBL baseball player.^[201]


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  Michael Gower Coleman, 72, South African Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Port Elizabeth (1986–2011).^[202]


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  Eva Ekvall, 28, Venezuelan TV news anchor and model, Miss Venezuela 2000, breast cancer.^[203]


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  Cesária Évora, 70, Cape Verdean singer, heart failure.^[204]


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  Maurice Huggett, 66, English nightclub proprietor.^[205]


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  Kim Jong-il, 69, North Korean Supreme Leader (since 1994), heart attack.^[206]


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  Harley Sewell, 80, American football player (Detroit Lions, Los Angeles Rams).^[207]

18

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  Doe Avedon, 86, American actress (The High and the Mighty) and model, pneumonia.^[208]


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  Cor Bakker, 93, Dutch cyclist. [3]
  


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  Jean Boucher, 85, Canadian politician, Member of Parliament for Châteauguay—Huntingdon—Laprairie (1953–1958).^[209]


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  Henry E. Catto, Jr., 81, American public servant and diplomat, complications of leukemia.^[210]


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  Jeremy Doyle, 28, Australian wheelchair basketball player, Paralympic gold medalist (2009), bladder cancer.^[211]


• Maurice Fitzgibbons, 57, American politician.^[212]


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  Václav Havel, 75, Czech playwright and politician, President of Czechoslovakia (1989–1992) and the Czech Republic (1993–2003).^[213]


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  Warren Hellman, 77, American investor, founder of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festivals, complications from leukemia treatment.^[214]


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  Evans Knowles, 97, Canadian politician, Member of Parliament for Norfolk (1957–1962).^[215]


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  Ralph MacDonald, 67, American percussionist and songwriter.^[216]


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  Ted Markland, 78, American actor. [4]
  


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  Donald Neilson, 75, English serial killer.^[217]


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  John Rex, 86, South African-born British sociologist.^[218]


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  Johnny Silvo, 75, British folk and blues singer.^[219]


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  Brian Sparkes, 70, Canadian biochemist.^[220]


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  Ronald Wolfe, 89, British sitcom writer (The Rag Trade, On the Buses), complications from a fall.^[221]


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  Marijan Žužej, 77, Croatian Olympic silver medal-winning (1956) water polo player.^[222]

19

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  George Athor, 49, South Sudanese rebel leader, shot.^[223]


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  Gerard Louis Goettel, 83, American judge.^[224]


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  Luciano Magistrelli, 73, Italian Olympic footballer (1960), heart attack.^[225]


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  Héctor Núñez, 75, Uruguayan footballer, after long illness.^[226]


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  William G. Robinson, 85, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.^[227]


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  Ron Smith, 70, American radio host (WBAL), pancreatic cancer.^[228]


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  Kathleen Webb, 85, American AAGPBL baseball player.^[229]

20

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  Robert Ader, 79, American psychologist, co-founder of psychoneuroimmunology.^[230]


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  Hana Andronikova, 44, Czech writer and playwright, cancer.^[231]


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  Sean Bonniwell, 71, American guitarist, singer and songwriter (The Music Machine).^[232]


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  Howard P. Boyd, 97, American naturalist.^[233]


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  Hugh Carless, 86, British diplomat and explorer.^[234]


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  Jack Goldman, 90, American physicist, chief scientist at Xerox Corporation.^[235]


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  Khalifa Kambi, 56, Gambian politician, Deputy Minister of Agriculture (since 2010).^[236]


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  George Lundy, 64, American priest and academic, President of Wheeling Jesuit University (2000–2003), stroke.^[237]


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  Yoshimitsu Morita, 61, Japanese film director (The Family Game), liver failure.^[238]


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  Tushar Ranganath, 37, Indian film director (Gulama), heart attack.^[239]


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  Barry Reckord, 85, Jamaican playwright.^[240]


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  Leopold Unger, 89, Polish journalist.^[241] (Polish)


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  Kenchappa Varadaraj, 89, Indian Olympic footballer (1948).^[242]


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  Václav Zítek, 79, Czech opera singer.^[243]

21

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  Bud Bloomfield, 75, American baseball player.^[244]


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  Francis Braganza, 89, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Baroda (1987–1997).^[245]


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  John Chamberlain, 84, American sculptor.^[246]


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  P. K. Iyengar, 80, Indian nuclear scientist.^[247]


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  Alastair Maitland, 95, British diplomat.^[248]


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  Werner Otto, 102, German entrepreneur (Otto GmbH).^[249]


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  Olavi Rokka, 86, Finnish Olympic modern pentathlete, bronze medalist (1952).^[250]


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  Yevhen Rudakov, 69, Russian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1972) football goalkeeper.^[251]


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  Robert Simons, 89, English cricketer (Hertfordshire).^[252]


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  Jonathan Stephenson, 60s, English-born Northern Irish politician.^[253]


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  Roberto Szidon, 70, Brazilian classical pianist, heart attack.^[254]


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  Umanosuke Ueda, 71, Japanese professional wrestler and actor, respiratory failure.^[255]


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  Jean-Pierre Urkia, 93, French-born Laotian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Paksé (1967–1975).^[256]

22

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  Per Berlin, 90, Swedish Olympic silver (1952) and bronze (1956) medal-winning wrestler.^[257]


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  Richard Bessière, 88, French author.^[258]


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  Emanuel Bosák, 87, Czech sports official.^[259]


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  Bettye Danoff, 88, American golfer, founding member of the LPGA.^[260]


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  William Duell, 88, American singer and actor (1776, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest).^[261]


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  Bennie Ellender, 86, American college football coach (Arkansas State, Tulane), Alzheimer's disease.^[262]


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  Michael von Grünau, 67, Canadian psychologist and neurophysiologist.^[263]


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  Vasant Ranjane, 74, Indian cricketer.^[264]


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  Rogelio Sánchez González, 90, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Colima (1972–1980).^[265]


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  Marion Segal Freed, 77, American film producer, editor and screenwriter.^[266]


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  Zithulele Sinqe, 48, South African Olympic long distance runner, car accident.^[267]


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  Ernest A. Watkinson, 99, Canadian politician.^[268]

23

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  Merrill Kenneth Albert, 88, American author and trial lawyer, heart disease.^[269]


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  Denise Darcel, 87, French actress, aneurysm.^[270]


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  Neil Davids, 56, English footballer.^[271]


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  Cees van Dongen, 79, Dutch motorcycle road racer.^[272]


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  Evelyn Handler, 78, American academic, President of the University of New Hampshire (1980–1983) and Brandeis University (1983–1991), traffic collision.^[273]


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  Bill Klatt, 64, American ice hockey player (Minnesota Fighting Saints), leukemia.^[274]


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  Francis Nigel Lee, 77, British-born American theologian, motor neurone disease.^[275]


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  Tripuraneni Maharadhi, 82, Indian screenwriter.^[276]


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  Aydın Menderes, 65, Turkish politician, son of Adnan Menderes.^[277]


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  Norayr Musheghian, 76, Armenian wrestler, coach and public activist, world champion (1958).^[278]


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  Abdur Razzaq, 69, Bangladeshi politician.^[279]


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  Bruce Ruxton, 85, Australian veterans' representative and advocate, President of the Victorian RSL (1979–2002).^[280]


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  Muhammad Afzal Zullah, 83, Pakistani jurist, Chief Justice (1990–1993).^[281]

24

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  Monte Amundsen, 81, American opera and musical singer.^[282]


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  M. Salah Baouendi, 74, Tunisian-born American mathematician.^[283]


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  Armando Brambilla, 69, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Rome (since 1994).^[284]


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  Sergio Buso, 61, Italian footballer and coach.^[285]


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  Peggy R. Cook, 73, American politician.^[286]


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  José Andrés Corral Arredondo, 65, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Parral (since 1992), heart attack.^[287]


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  Bernard Gert, 77, American philosopher.^[288]


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  Johannes Heesters, 108, Dutch actor and singer, stroke.^[289]


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  Marvin Knopp, 78, American mathematician.^[290]


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  Zsuzsi Mary, 64, Hungarian pop singer, suicide.^[291]


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  Jody Rainwater, 92, American bluegrass musician and radio personality, heart disease.^[292]


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  John N. Ross, 91, Irish politician.^[293]


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  Lynn Samuels, 69, American radio personality (Sirius XM).^[294]


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  Walter Söhne, 98, German agronomist.^[295] (German)


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  Henri Sitek, 82, Polish-French cyclist.^[296]


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  Vitaly Tseshkovsky, 67, Russian chess Grandmaster.^[297]

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  Giorgio Bocca, 91, Italian essayist and journalist.^[298]


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  Ben Breedlove, 18, American Internet personality, cardiac arrest.^[299]


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  Sue Carroll, 58, British journalist, pancreatic cancer.^[300]


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  Adrienne Cooper, 65, American klezmer and Yiddish vocalist, adrenal cancer.^[301]


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  Satyadev Dubey, 75, Indian actor, playwright and director.^[302]


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  Thomas Finnegan, 86, Irish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Killala (1987–2002).^[303]


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  Seán French, 80, Irish politician, Lord Mayor of Cork (1976) and TD (1967–1982).^[304]


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  Jack Fulbeck, 95, American poet and academic.^[305]


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  Habib Galhia, 70, Tunisian boxer, Olympic bronze medalist (1964).^[306]


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  Andrew Geller, 87, American architect, kidney failure.^[307]


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  Lex Gigeroff, 49, Canadian writer, actor and producer (Lexx), heart attack.^[308]


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  Khalil Ibrahim, Sudanese Darfuri rebel leader.^[309]


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  Sir Roger Jowell, 69, British social statistician.^[310]


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  John Christoffel Kannemeyer, 72, South African writer, authority on Afrikaans literature.^[311]


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  Christophe Laigneau, 46, French footballer (Stade Lavallois).^[312]


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  Alexander Melnikov, 81, Soviet and Russian politician.^[313]


• Sir Moses Pitakaka, 66, Solomon Islander politician, Governor-General (1994–1999).^[314]


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  George Robb, 85, English footballer (Tottenham Hotspur F.C.), dementia.^[315]


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  Ferenc Schmidt, 70, Hungarian politician.^[316]


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  Jim Sherwood, 69, American musician (The Mothers of Invention).^[317]


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  Simms Taback, 79, American author, graphic artist and illustrator.^[318]

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  Kennan Adeang, 69, Nauruan politician, President (1986).^[319]


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  Houston Antwine, 72, American football player (Boston/New England Patriots, Philadelphia Eagles), AFL All-Star (1963–1968), heart failure.^[320]


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  Pedro Armendáriz, Jr., 71, Mexican actor (Zorro series), cancer.^[321]


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  Sarekoppa Bangarappa, 79, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Karnataka (1990–1992).^[322]


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  Joe Bodolai, 63, American comedy writer (Saturday Night Live) and producer, suicide by poisoning.^[323]


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  Sean Collins, 59, American surfer and surf forecaster (Surfline), heart attack.^[324]


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  Fred Fono, 49, Solomon Islander politician, Deputy Prime Minister (2006) and MP for Central Kwara'ae (1997–2010).^[325]


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  John Mackintosh Howie, 75, Scottish mathematician.^[326]


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  Kiyonori Kikutake, Japanese architect.^[327] (Japanese)


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  Barbara Lea, 82, American jazz singer and actress, Alzheimer's disease.^[328]


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  Wilhelm Noller, 92, German Luftwaffe member, recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.^[329]


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  Sam Rivers, 88, American jazz musician and composer, pneumonia.^[330]


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  James Rizzi, 61, American pop artist.^[331]


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  Constantine Sidamon-Eristoff, 81, American-born Georgian aristocrat, New York City highway commissioner, esphogeal cancer.^[332]

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  Frank Bourke, 89, Australian football player.^[333]


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  Catê, 38, Brazilian footballer, car accident. [5]
  


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  Sir Clifford Darling, 89, Bahamian politician, Governor-General (1992–1995).^[334]


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  Sir Michael Dummett, 86, British philosopher.^[335]


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  Helen Frankenthaler, 83, American painter.^[336]


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  Julia Sampson Hayward, 77, American tennis player, won Australian Open doubles and mixed doubles (1963).^[337]


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  Rusty Hevelin, 89, American science fiction fanzine publisher.^[338]


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  Mykola Koltsov, 75, Russian-born Ukrainian footballer and youth trainer.^[339]


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  Ante Čedo Martinić, 51, Croatian actor (Ruža vjetrova), cancer.^[340]


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  Thinley Norbu, 81, Tibetan Buddhist writer and teacher.^[341]


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  Sir Iwan Raikes, 90, British admiral.^[342]


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  Betty Jane Rhodes, 90, American actress (The Arizona Raiders, Sweater Girl).^[343]


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  Martino Scarafile, 84, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Castellaneta (1985–2003).^[344]


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  Thomas Michael Shanahan, 77, American district judge.^[345]


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  Dan Terry, 87, American jazz trumpeter and big band leader.^[346]


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  Anne Tyng, 91, American architect.^[347]


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  Dennis Utter, 72, American politician, Nebraska State Senator (since 2009).^[348]


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  Johnny Wilson, 82, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (Detroit Red Wings).^[349]

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  James Earl Baumgartner, 68, American mathematician.^[350]


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  Bruce Fine, 74, American sports team part-owner.^[351]


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  Larry Hamilton, 60, American blues singer and songwriter.^[352]


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  Charlotte Kerr, 84, German film director and producer.^[353]


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  Razia Khan, 75, Bangladeshi writer and educationist.^[354]


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  Don Mueller, 84, American baseball player (New York Giants, Chicago White Sox), MLB All-Star (1954, 1955).^[355]


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  Hasan Mutlucan, 85, Turkish folk singer.^[356]


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  Lucia Rikaki, 50, Greek stage, film and television director, cancer.^[357]


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  Jon Roberts, 63, American drug trafficker, cancer.^[358]


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  Myron Roderick, 77, American Olympic wrestler (1956) and coach.^[359]


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  Kaye Stevens, 79, American singer and actress, breast cancer and blood clots.^[360]


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  Teruo Sugihara, 74, Japanese golfer, prostate cancer.^[361]

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  Julie Allred, 57, American actress, diabetes.^[362]


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  Paul Antaki, 84, Egyptian Melkite Catholic hierarch, Auxiliary Archbishop of Antioch (1968–2001).^[363]


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  Rosman García, 32, Venezuelan baseball player (Texas Rangers), traffic collision.^[364]


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  Leopold Hawelka, 100, Austrian coffee house owner (Café Hawelka).^[365]


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  John Robert Holmes, 84, Canadian politician, MP for Lambton—Kent (1972–1980).^[366]


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  Ron Howells, 84, Welsh footballer.^[367]


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  Ken Johnson, 80, English footballer.^[368]


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  Aamir Hayat Khan Rokhri, 55, Pakistani politician, heart attack.^[369]


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  Svein Krøvel, 65, Norwegian cinematographer.^[370]


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  Tyron Perez, 26, Filipino actor (StarStruck), shot.^[371]


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  Amichand Rajbansi, 69, South African politician, Minister without portfolio (1984–1988), Leader of the Minority Front (since 1994).^[372]


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  Bob Wasserman, 77, American police chief and politician, Mayor of Fremont, California (2004–2011), respiratory complications.^[373]


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  Milton Wong, 72, Canadian businessman and philanthropist, pancreatic cancer.^[374]

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  Ted Beard, 90, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago White Sox).^[375]


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  Garnet Campbell, 84, Canadian curler.^[376]


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  Mike Colalillo, 86, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.^[377]


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  Dezső Garas, 77, Hungarian actor.^[378]


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  Mona Guérin, 77, Haitian writer and playwright.^[379]


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  Muhammad Hamidullah Khan, 74, Bangladeshi politician.^[380]


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  Sir Robert Horton, 72, British businessman.^[381]


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  Kim Geun-tae, 64, South Korean politician, Minister of Health and Welfare (2004–2006), pneumonia and kidney failure.^[382]


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  Richard Lainhart, 58, American artist and composer, complications after surgery.^[383]


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  Ricardo Legorreta, 80, Mexican architect, UIA Gold Medal recipient, cancer.^[384]


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  Ronald Searle, 91, British cartoonist (St Trinian's School, Molesworth).^[385]


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  Doug Sellars, 50, Canadian television executive (Fox Sports Media Group, CBC Sports), heart attack.^[386]


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  Vasily Starodubtsev, 80, Russian politician, Governor of Tula Oblast (1997–2005), member of the Gang of Eight (1991).^[387]


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  Eleanor Ross Taylor, 91, American poet.^[388]


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  Mirko Tremaglia, 85, Italian politician, Minister without portfolio (2001–2006).^[389]


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  Eva Zeisel, 105, Hungarian-born American ceramic artist and designer.^[390]

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  Kanati Allen, 64, American Olympic gymnast.^[391]


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  Murray Barnes, 57, Australian soccer player (Sydney Hakoah), national captain (1980–1981).^[392]


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  Celia Dale, 99, British crime writer.^[393]


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  Alfonso Gómez-Lobo, 71, Chilean-born American academic, professor of metaphysics and moral philosophy (Georgetown University).^[394]


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  Roy Greenwood, 80, English footballer (Crystal Palace F.C.).^[395]


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  Sir David Hirst, 86, British jurist.^[396]


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  Rex Jackson, 83, Australian politician and convicted criminal, New South Wales MLA for Bulli (1955–1971) and Heathcote (1971–1986).^[397]


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  Penny Jordan, 65, British romantic novelist.^[398]


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  Jerzy Kluger, 90, Polish businessman, bronchitis.^[399]


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  Stanley Kwan, 86, Hong Kong banker, creator of the Hang Seng Index, heart failure.^[400]


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  Glenn Lord, 80, American editor.^[401]


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  Michael Mann, 87, British Anglican prelate, Dean of Windsor (1976–1989).^[402]

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