Deaths in July 2008

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

July 2008

1

• Keith Charles, 74, American actor, lung cancer.
• Clay Felker, 82, American editor and journalist (New York magazine), throat cancer.
• Mel Galley, 60, British guitarist (Trapeze, Whitesnake, Phenomena), esophageal cancer.
• Mogens Glistrup, 82, Danish politician, lawyer and founder of the Progress Party. (Danish)
• Robert Harling, 98, British typographer.
• Dejan Medaković, 85, Serbian writer, historian, professor, president of Academy of Sciences and Arts (1999–2003). (Serbian)
• John Pont, 80, American college football coach.
• Mark Dean Schwab, 39, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.

2

• Abdel Wahab Elmessiri, 70, Egyptian scholar and politician, cancer.
• Glencairn Balfour Paul, 90, British diplomat.
• Omar Caetano, 69, Uruguayan football player. (Spanish)
• Joe Nhlanhla, 71, South African politician, minister of Intelligence Services (1999–2001).
• Simone Ortega, 89, Spanish culinary author.
• Natasha Shneider, 52, Russian-born American actress (2010: The Year We Make Contact) and musician (Eleven), cancer.
• Elizabeth Spriggs, 78, British stage, television and film actress (Sense and Sensibility, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone).

3

• Dan Cook, 81, American journalist (San Antonio Express-News, KENS-TV).
• Ernie Cooksey, 28, British footballer (Oldham Athletic, Grays Athletic), melanoma.
• Larry Harmon, 83, American entertainer (Bozo the Clown), heart failure.
• Harald Heide-Steen Jr., 68, Norwegian actor and comedian, lung cancer. (Norwegian)
• Clive Hornby, 63, British actor (Emmerdale), cancer.
• Kat Kinkade, 77, American co-founder of Twin Oaks Community, cancer.
• Annabelle Lee, 86, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).
• Jean-Pierre Muller, 83, French Olympic fencer. (French)
• Thomas Orley, 74, American Olympic fencer.
• Dave Powers, 74, American Emmy Award-winning television director, skin cancer.
• Oliver Schroer, 53, Canadian fiddler, leukemia.
• John Sedwick, American television director.
• Sayed Umerali Shihab Thangal, 66, Indian qadi, cancer.

4

• Thomas M. Disch, 68, American science fiction author (Camp Concentration, The Brave Little Toaster), suicide.
• Jesse Helms, 86, American politician, senator from North Carolina (1973–2003), natural causes.
• Evelyn Keyes, 91, American actress (Gone With the Wind), uterine cancer.
• Terrence Kiel, 27, American football player (San Diego Chargers), car crash.
• Wayne Pai, 55, Taiwanese businessman, founding chairman of Polaris Group, suicide.
• Agneta Prytz, 91, Swedish actress, wife of Gösta Folke.
• Janwillem van de Wetering, 77, Dutch writer.
• Sir Charles Wheeler, 85, British journalist, longest serving BBC foreign correspondent, lung cancer.

5

• Hasan Doğan, 52, Turkish president of the national football federation, cardiac arrest.
• René Harris, 60, Nauruan president (1999–2000, 2001–2003, 2003, 2003–2004), cardiac arrest.
• Huyền Quang, 88, Vietnamese religious leader, supreme patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam.

6

• Bob Ackles, 69, Canadian executive for the Canadian Football League's BC Lions, heart attack.
• George Ambo, 85, Papua New Guinean Archbishop.
• Jack C. Collins, 78, Australian footballer, premiership winner with Footscray (1954), heart attack.
• Bobby Durham, 71, American jazz drummer.
• Ambuya Mlambo, 84, Zimbabwean radio and television presenter, cancer.
• Nonna Mordyukova, 82, Russian actress, diabetes. (Russian)
• Mando Ramos, 59, American professional boxer.
• George Tibbits, 74, Australian architect and composer.

7

• Princess Sultana bint Abdulaziz Al-Saud, 80, Saudi sister of King Abdullah.
• Donald Allen, 81, Australian cricketer.
• Bruce Conner, 74, American artist, natural causes.
• Bruce Dalling, 69, South African yachtsman, heart attack.
• Yitzchok Dovid Groner, 83, Australian Chabad rabbi.
• Dorian Leigh, 91, American fashion model (Revlon), sister of Suzy Parker, Alzheimer's disease.
• Clem McSpadden, 82, American politician, congressman from Oklahoma (1973–1975), cancer.
• Hugh Mendl, 88, British record producer.
• Giovanni Viola, 82, Italian football goalkeeper, natural causes. (Italian)
• Fred Yates, 85, British painter.

8

• Alex d'Arbeloff, 80, American entrepreneur.
• Wieńczysław Gliński, 87, Polish actor.
• Dagfinn Næss, 74, Norwegian Olympic boxer.
• Erling Rønneberg, 84, Norwegian resistance trainer and politician, mayor of Ski (1958–1990). (Norwegian)
• Sir John Templeton, 95, British businessman and philanthropist, pneumonia.

9

• Séamus Brennan, 60, Irish politician, prostate cancer.
• Charles H. Joffe, 78, American film producer (Annie Hall), after long illness.
• Sherman Lee, 90, American director of the Cleveland Museum of Art (1958–1983).
• J. Murdoch Ritchie, 83, American biophysicist.
• John West, 84, Australian broadcaster and theatre historian.

10

• Hiroaki Aoki, 69, Japanese-born American founder of Benihana restaurants, pneumonia.
• Bernard Cahier, 81, French Formula One photojournalist.
• Don Devitt, 86, Australian politician.
• Archie McCardell, 81, American business executive (Xerox, International Harvester).
• Steve Mingori, 64, American baseball player (Kansas City Royals), natural causes.
• Ayub K. Ommaya, 78, Pakistani neurosurgeon, Alzheimer's disease.
• William W. Robertson, 66, American lawyer.
• Mike Souchak, 81, American golfer, complications of heart attack.
• Ahmad Suradji, 57, Indonesian serial killer, execution by firing squad.
• Yoji Totsuka, 66, Japanese particle physicist, colorectal cancer.
• Vindication, 8, American champion racehorse, euthanized.

11

• Joe Barr, 63, American editor and writer.
• Michael E. DeBakey, 99, American cardiovascular surgeon and medical pioneer, natural causes.
• Roy M. Huffington, 90, American oilman, diplomat and philanthropist, natural causes.
• James H. Humphrey, 97, American physical education educator and researcher.
• Mike Kleinhenz, 56, American voice actor, heart attack.
• Breno Mello, 76, Brazilian actor (Black Orpheus) and footballer.
• Chuck Stobbs, 79, American baseball pitcher, cancer.

12

• Patricia Buckley Bozell, 81, American founder of Catholic journal Triumph, wife of L. Brent Bozell Jr., throat cancer.
• Reinhard Fabisch, 57, German football manager, cancer.
• Bobby Murcer, 62, American baseball player and sportscaster (New York Yankees), brain cancer.
• Earl Lee Nelson, 79, American R&B singer (Bob & Earl, The Hollywood Flames, Jackie Lee), Alzheimer's disease.
• Olive Riley, 108, Australian woman believed to be the world's oldest blogger, natural causes.
• Tony Snow, 53, American White House press secretary (2006–2007), Fox News presenter, colon cancer.
• Tsai Chao-yang, 67, Taiwanese politician, minister of Transportation and Communications, pneumonia. (Chinese)

13

• Les Crane, 74, American talk show host, Grammy Award winner ("Desiderata").
• Peter Durack, 81, Australian senator and attorney-general (1977–1983).
• Red Foley, 79, American sportswriter and baseball official scorer.
• Bronisław Geremek, 76, Polish social historian and politician, minister of Foreign Affairs (1997–2000), car accident.
• John Raymond Hobbs, 79, British physician, lung cancer.
• John Mabuku, Namibian politician, governor of Caprivi Region, supporter of Caprivi Strip secessionist movement.
• Dave Ricketts, 73, American baseball player and coach (St. Louis Cardinals), renal cancer.
• Dona Spring, 55, American disability rights activist and Green politician, Berkeley city councilor since 1992, rheumatoid arthritis.
• Gerald Wiggins, 86, American jazz pianist.

14

• Miguel Benavides, 68, Cuban actor.
• Yeshwant Vishnu Chandrachud, 88, Indian jurist, chief justice (1978–1985).
• Bryan Cowgill, 81, British television executive.
• John Danzenbaker, 89, American birdwatcher, pancreatic cancer.
• Henki Kolstad, 93, Norwegian actor.
• Luke Kruytbosch, 47, American race caller, natural causes.
• Teta Lando, 60, Angolan musician, cancer.
• Hugh Lloyd, 85, British actor (Hancock's Half Hour).
• Ong Chit Chung, 59, Singaporean politician.
• Katie Reider, 30, American singer and songwriter, cerebral hemorrhage and cancer.
• Riek Schagen, 94, Dutch actress and artist. (Dutch)
• Steven Thomas, 36, American entrepreneur missing since 30 June, body found on this date after fall from Pali Lookout.

15

• György Kolonics, 36, Hungarian Olympic canoeing gold medallist (1996, 2000), heart failure.
• Yuri Mikhaylov, 77, Russian speed skater. (Russian)
• Gionata Mingozzi, 23, Italian footballer (Treviso F.B.C. 1993), car accident.
• Steve Peterson, 58, American NASCAR technical director, natural causes.
• Karl Unterkircher, 37, Italian mountaineer and explorer, fall on Nanga Parbat.
• Gennadi Volnov, 68, Russian basketball player for Soviet Union, 1972 Olympic gold medallist.

16

• Sir Eric Dunn, 80, British air marshal.
• Roger Landes, 91, British Special Operations Executive agent.
• Sherman Maxwell, 100, American Negro league baseball sportscaster.
• Peanuts O'Flaherty, 90, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Jo Stafford, 90, American traditional pop singer ("You Belong to Me"), heart failure.
• Lindsay Thompson, 84, Australian politician, premier of Victoria (1981–1982), pneumonia.

17

• Lila T. Abaunza, 79, Nicaraguan first lady (2002–2007), wife of President Enrique Bolaños.
• Giorgio Ceragioli, 78, Italian engineer, professor and a leader in the pro-Third World movement, Parkinson's disease.
• Creig Flessel, 96, American comic book artist.
• Johny Fonck, 87, Luxembourgian Olympic athlete. (Luxembourgish)
• Larry Haines, 89, American actor (Search for Tomorrow).
• John Hunt, Baron Hunt of Tanworth, 88, British civil servant and politician, cabinet secretary (1973–1979).
• Mick Ibbett, 80, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1984–1991).
• George Niven, 79, Scottish football goalkeeper (Rangers, Partick Thistle).
• Paul Sorensen, 82, American actor (Dallas).
• Sir Graham Speight, 86, New Zealand High Court judge, chief justice of the Cook Islands.
• Ma Prem Usha, 70, Indian tarot card reader and columnist, natural causes.

18

• Yardley Chittick, 107, American patent attorney, injuries sustained in a fall.
• Tauno Marttinen, 95, Finnish composer. (Finnish)
• Khosrow Shakibai, 64, Iranian actor, liver cancer.
• Dennis Townhill, 83, British chorister and organist.
• Peter J. Welsh, 54, Australian footballer (Hawthorn, Richmond), cancer.

19

• Robert Berning, 73, American grocer, principal wine buyer for Trader Joe's, bone cancer.
• Sarah Conlon, 82, British campaigner on behalf of Guildford Four and Maguire Seven, lung cancer.
• Eddie Fuller, 76, South African cricketer.
• Dercy Gonçalves, 101, Brazilian actress, pneumonia.
• Samudra Gupta, 62, Bangladeshi poet, gallbladder cancer.
• Jerome Holtzman, 82, American baseball writer, stroke.
• Ann Lambton, 96, British historian, after long illness.
• Robert Nesheim, 86, American nutritionist (Quaker Oats), developed Cap'n Crunch and Life breakfast cereals, prostate cancer.
• Dave Pearson, 70, British painter.

20

• Célio de Castro, 76, Brazilian politician, mayor of Belo Horizonte (1997–2001), natural causes. (Portuguese)
• Yann Richter, 80, Swiss politician, president of the FDP (1978–1984), heart disease. (German)
• Dinko Šakić, 86, Croatian fascist leader of the Independent State of Croatia in World War II, heart failure.
• Artie Traum, 65, American folk singer and guitarist, cancer.
• Charles Z. Wick, 90, American politician, director of USIA (1981–1988), natural causes.

21

• Sidney Craig, 76, Canadian entrepreneur and thoroughbred horse owner, co-founder of Jenny Craig, Inc.
• Eric Dowling, 92, British prisoner of war, helped plan The Great Escape from Stalag Luft III.
• Antoni Jaszczak, 62, Polish economist, politician and minister of construction (2006). (Polish)
• K-Swift, 29, American radio personality.
• El Kazovsky, 58, Russian-born Hungarian painter and artist. (Hungarian)
• Donald Stokes, Baron Stokes, 94, British industrialist and chief executive of British Leyland (1964–1968).
• María Vaner, 73, Argentine actress.
• Adil Zulfikarpašić, 86, Bosnian businessman and philanthropist, natural causes. (Bosnian)

22

• Joe Beck, 62, American jazz guitarist.
• Helen Brockman, 105, American fashion designer, author and professor, natural causes.
• Greg Burson, 59, American voice actor.
• Patrick Connor, 81, British actor.
• Maurice Coomarawel, 68, Sri Lankan Olympic cyclist.
• Helen Gardiner, 70, Canadian philanthropist, pancreatic cancer.
• Estelle Getty, 84, American actress (The Golden Girls), Lewy body dementia.
• Victor A. McKusick, 86, American geneticist, architect of the Human Genome Project, cancer.

23

• N. Robin Crossby, 54, Canadian game designer, creator of Hârn role-playing system, cancer.
• Kurt Furgler, 84, Swiss member of the Federal Council (1972–1986), heart failure.
• Ahmet Hadžipašić, 56, Bosnian politician, prime minister (2003–2007), heart attack.
• Frank Schweihs, 78, American reputed mafia enforcer, cancer.
• Carol Vitale, 59, American playmate (1974) and talk show host.
• Clay T. Whitehead, 69, American director of White House Office of Telecommunications Policy (1970–1974), prostate cancer.

24

• Bruce Clarke, 82, Australian jazz guitarist.
• Eddie Davidson, 35, American convicted spammer and prison escapee, suicide by gunshot.
• Norman Dello Joio, 95, American composer, natural causes.
• Zezé Gonzaga, 81, Brazilian singer, natural causes. (Portuguese)
• Robert T. Herres, 75, American Air Force general, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1987–1990), brain cancer.
• David H. Popper, 95, American diplomat, ambassador to Cyprus (1969–1973) and Chile (1974–1977), complications from a fall.

25

• Bruce Adler, 63, American actor (Crazy for You), liver cancer.
• Bud Browne, 96, American surf film maker.
• Hiram Bullock, 52, American jazz guitarist, throat cancer.
• Harriet Burns, 79, American artist, first woman to work at Walt Disney Imagineering, heart complications.
• Don Callander, 78, American fantasy novel author.
• Jamiel Chagra, 63, American drug trafficker, cancer.
• Michael J. Daly, 83, American Medal of Honor recipient, cancer.
• Jeff Fehring, 53, Australian footballer, suicide.
• Johnny Griffin, 80, American jazz saxophonist.
• Tracy Hall, 88, American physical chemist, Alzheimer's disease.
• Joseph Gérard Lauri P. Landry, 86, Canadian businessman, senator (1996–1997).
• Carrie Allen McCray, 94, American author.
• Randy Pausch, 47, American computer science professor (Carnegie Mellon) and author (The Last Lecture), pancreatic cancer.
• Mikhail Pugovkin, 85, Russian actor, diabetes. (Russian)
• Herizo Razafimahaleo, 53, Malagasy politician, renal failure.

26

• Daniel Bukantz, 90, American Olympic fencer.
• Bruna Colombetti-Peroncini, 72, Italian Olympic fencer.
• Roland B. Day, 89, American judge, Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice (1974–1996).
• Ed Foster, 59, American technology columnist (InfoWorld), heart attack.
• Ted Hall, 48, American musician and sound mixer, after long illness.
• Chas Messenger, 94, British cyclist.
• William H. Rogers, 94, British architect.

27

• Osvaldo Álvarez Guerrero, 67, Argentine politician, cerebral hemorrhage. (Spanish)
• Carl Aschan, 102, Swedish-born British intelligence officer and spy during World War II.
• Marie Kachel Bucher, 98, American teacher, last surviving resident of the Ephrata Cloister.
• Youssef Chahine, 82, Egyptian film director, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Graeme Crallan, 50, British rock drummer (White Spirit, Tank), head injuries from fall.
• Bob Crampsey, 78, British football journalist, after long illness.
• Russ Gibson, 69, American baseball catcher.
• Russell Johnston, Baron Russell-Johnston, 75, British politician, cancer.
• Fenwick Lansdowne, 71, Canadian wildlife artist.
• Marisa Merlini, 84, Italian actress. (Italian)
• Isaac Saba Raffoul, 84, Mexican businessman. (Spanish)
• Julius B. Richmond, 91, American vice admiral, surgeon general (1977–1981), cancer.
• Horst Stein, 80, German conductor. (German)
• Jean Stonell, 79, New Zealand cricketer.

28

• Pierre Berès, 95, French bookseller.
• Wendo Kolosoy, 83, Congolese musician, after long illness.
• Bob Margarita, 87, American football player (Chicago Bears), pneumonia.
• Midhat Mursi, 55, Egyptian al-Qaeda chemical weapons expert, missile strike.
• Margaret Ringenberg, 87, American aviator and airplane racer, natural causes.
• Syahrir, 63, Indonesian economist and political activist, lung cancer.
• Suzanne Tamim, 30, Lebanese singer and actress, stabbed.
• Anatoliy Tyazhlov, 66, Russian politician, governor of Moscow Oblast (1991–2000). (Russian)

29

• Joseph Batten, 36, American game developer, suicide by gunshot.
• Melissa Batten, 36, American game developer, shot.
• Eula Beal, 89, American opera singer.
• Luther Davis, 91, American playwright and screenwriter.
• Edie Huggins, 72, American journalist and reporter (WCAU-TV), lung cancer.
• Bruce Edwards Ivins, 62, American microbiologist suspected of 2001 anthrax attacks, suicide by drug overdose.
• Mate Parlov, 59, Croatian boxer, Olympic and World Boxing Council light-heavyweight champion.
• Earlene Risinger, 81, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).
• Ishmeet Singh Sodhi, 18, Indian singer, drowned.
• Eric Varley, Baron Varley, 75, British politician, Secretary of State for Industry (1975–1979), cancer.
• June Walker, 74, American activist, President of Hadassah.

30

• Anne Armstrong, 80, American diplomat and politician, ambassador to the United Kingdom (1976–1977), cancer.
• Peter Coke, 95, British actor (Paul Temple) and playwright.
• Vittorio Fiorucci, 75, Canadian graphic artist, stroke.
• Tim McLean, 22, Canadian homicide victim, stabbed.
• Leif Pettersen, 57, Canadian footballer and sportscaster, heart attack.

31

• Falani Aukuso, Tokelauan politician, deputy director general of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community.
• Blagoje Bratić, 62, Bosnian footballer. (Serbian)
• Athos Bulcão, 90, Brazilian painter and sculptor, Parkinson's disease.
• Alice Chalifoux, 100, American harpist with the Cleveland Orchestra (1931–1974).
• Alfonso Dantés, 65, Mexican professional wrestler.
• Hiroshi Ismael, 72, Micronesian politician, Vice President (1987–1991).
• Lee Cheong-joon, 68, South Korean novelist, lung cancer.
• Lee Young, 94, American jazz drummer.