Deaths in July 2009

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The following is a list of deaths in July 2009.

July 2009

1

• Alexis Argüello, 57, Nicaraguan boxer and politician, mayor of Managua, suspected suicide by gunshot.
• Marwa El-Sherbini, 31, Egyptian pharmacist and vilification victim, stabbed.
• Karl Malden, 97, American Academy Award winning actor (A Streetcar Named Desire), natural causes.
• Anna Karen Morrow, 94, American actress (Peyton Place), natural causes.
• John Henry Moss, 90, American baseball executive (South Atlantic League), mayor of Kings Mountain, North Carolina.
• Onni Palaste, 91, Finnish soldier and writer, Winter War veteran, natural causes. (Finnish)
• David Pears, 87, British philosopher.
• Baltasar Porcel, 72, Spanish Catalan writer, cancer.
• Andree Layton Roaf, 68, American jurist, first black woman on Arkansas Supreme Court.
• Mollie Sugden, 86, British actress (Are You Being Served?), heart failure.
• Rupert Thorneloe, 39, British soldier, Commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, improvised explosive device.
• Norman Welton, 81, American journalist, photo editor for the Associated Press, colon cancer.
• Jean Yoyotte, 81, French Egyptologist.
• Lyudmila Zykina, 80, Russian singer, Hero of Socialist Labor, cardiac arrest.

2

• Pasquale Borgomeo, 76, Vatican director of Radio Vatican, after long illness.
• Steve Brennan, 57, Irish-born American reporter and editor (The Hollywood Reporter), cancer.
• Susan Fernandez, 52, Filipina activist and singer, ovarian cancer.
• M. K. Chandrashekaran, 72, Indian zoologist, after brief illness.
• Kaj Hansen, 68, Danish football player. (Danish)
• Martin Hengel, 82, German theologian.
• Herbert G. Klein, 91, American journalist, White House Communications Director for President Richard Nixon.
• Tyeb Mehta, 84, Indian painter, heart attack.
• Robert Daniel Potter, 86, American judge, member of the District Court for the Western District of North Carolina (1981–1994).
• Bert Schneider, 71, Austrian Grand Prix motorcycle racer. (German)
• Clyde Shugart, 92, American football player (Washington Redskins), stroke.
• Robert E. L. Taylor, 96, American publisher and chairman of the Philadelphia Bulletin.

3

• Jorge Enrique Adoum, 83, Ecuadorian poet and writer.
• Alauddin Al-Azad, 77, Bangladeshi author, natural causes.
• John Barry, 84, American president and CEO of WD-40, pulmonary fibrosis.
• John Blackburn, 84, American administrator (University of Alabama), myelodysplastic syndrome.
• Frank Devine, 77, New Zealand-born Australian newspaper editor, after long illness.
• Gabriel Fino Noriega, 42, Honduran journalist, shot.
• E. J. Josey, 85, American librarian and civil rights activist, natural causes.
• John Keel, 79, American ufologist and writer (The Mothman Prophecies), heart failure.
• Barbara Margolis, 79, American prisoners' rights advocate, official greeter for New York City, cancer.
• Victor Smorgon, 96, Ukrainian-born Australian industrialist, natural causes.

4

• Jim Chapin, 89, American jazz drummer.
• Robert E. Hopkins, 94, American optical engineer.
• Brenda Joyce, 92, American actress (Tarzan and the Amazons).
• Béla Király, 97, Hungarian general and historian, natural causes.
• Allen Klein, 77, American businessman, Beatles and Rolling Stones manager, Alzheimer's disease.
• Drake Levin, 62, American guitarist (Paul Revere & the Raiders), cancer.
• Robert Louis-Dreyfus, 63, French-born Swiss billionaire, leukemia.
• Steve McNair, 36, American football player (Tennessee Titans, Baltimore Ravens), shot.
• Hugh Millais, 79, British actor and adventurer.
• Robert Mitchell, 96, American organist, pneumonia.
• Khan Mohammad, 81, Pakistani cricketer, prostate cancer.
• Leo Mol, 94, Ukrainian-born Canadian sculptor.
• Lasse Strömstedt, 74, Swedish writer.
• Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard, 70, Congolese politician, Minister of State.
• Laurence Villiers, 7th Earl of Clarendon, 76, British aristocrat.

5

• John Bachar, 52, American rock climber, fall.
• Peter Blaker, Baron Blaker, 86, British diplomat and politician, MP for Blackpool South (1964–1992), pneumonia.
• Lou Creekmur, 82, American football player (Detroit Lions) and member of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
• Takeo Doi, 89, Japanese psychoanalyst.
• Alfred John Ellory, 89, British flautist.
• Oscar Murton, Baron Murton of Lindisfarne, 95, British politician, MP for Poole (1964–1979).
• John Orman, 60, American professor and politician, self-appointed chairman of Connecticut for Lieberman party.
• Bob Titchenal, 91, American football player and coach.
• Waldo Von Erich, 75, Canadian professional wrestler, fall.

6

• Vasily Aksyonov, 76, Russian novelist, stroke.
• Mihai Baicu, 33, Romanian footballer, heart attack.
• Patrick Tracy Burris, 41, American criminal, suspected South Carolina spree killer, shot.
• Rene Capo, 48, Cuban-born American judo Olympic (1988, 1996), lung cancer.
• Johnny Collins, 71, British folk singer.
• Marlon Green, 80, American pilot.
• Oscar G. Mayer, Jr., 95, American business executive (Oscar Mayer).
• Robert McNamara, 93, American business executive, Secretary of Defense (1961–1968), natural causes.
• Mathieu Montcourt, 24, French tennis player, cardiac arrest.
• Jim Reid, 75, British folk musician, after short illness.
• Robert L. Short, 76, American theologian (The Gospel According to Peanuts).
• Martin Streek, 45, Canadian disc jockey, suspected suicide.
• Bleddyn Williams, 86, British rugby player, captain of Wales and British Lions, after long illness.

7

• Anabaa, 17, American Thoroughbred racehorse, peritonitis after undergoing surgery from colic.
• Richard Reader Harris, 96, British businessman and politician, MP for Heston and Isleworth (1950–1970).
• John Marshall, 77, American sculptor.

8

• Harry Gray, 89, American CEO and chairman of United Technologies Corporation.
• Bertha Hertogh, 72, Dutch woman whose adoption led to ethnic riots in Singapore in 1950, leukemia.
• Robert Isabell, 57, American event planner, heart attack.
• Edward Kenna, 90, Australian soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross.
• Judi Ann Mason, 54, American screenwriter, television producer (Good Times) and playwright, aortic dissection.
• Waldo McBurney, 106, American beekeeper, oldest worker in the United States.
• Nelson Munsey, 61, American football player (Baltimore Colts), heart disease.
• Edgar O'Ballance, 90, British military historian.
• Lou Pagliaro, 90, American table tennis player, national champion (1940–1942, 1952).
• Yury Shlyapin, 77, Russian water polo player, Olympic bronze medalist (1956). (Russian)

9

• William C. Conner, 89, American federal judge (District Court for the Southern District of New York).
• Magomed Gadaborshev, Russian Colonel, Head of Ingushetia Forensics and Investigations Center, shot.
• George Haig, 2nd Earl Haig, 91, British Army officer, patron of military charities and artist.
• Jessie Hollins, 39, American baseball player, drowned.
• Ron Kennedy, 56, Canadian ice hockey player and trainer, brain cancer.
• Frank Mickens, 63, American educator, natural causes.
• Kinuthia Murugu, Kenyan Permanent Secretary, shot.
• Henri Verbrugghe, 79, Belgian Olympic canoer. (Dutch)

10

• Sir Edward Downes, 85, British conductor, assisted suicide.
• Ebba Haslund, 91, Norwegian author. (Norwegian)
• Patrick J. McManus, 54, American politician, Mayor of Lynn, Massachusetts (1992–2001).
• Edward Durell Stone, Jr., 76, American landscape architect.
• Zena Marshall, 83, Kenyan-born British actress (Dr. No), after short illness.

11

• Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara, 69, Spanish woman believed to be world's oldest mother, cancer.
• John Caldwell, 71, Irish boxer, Olympic medalist (1956), world bantamweight champion (1961–1962), cancer.
• Manuel Carrascalão, 75, East Timorese politician, cerebral embolism. (Portuguese)
• Robert 'Dolly' Dunn, 68, Australian child molester, multiple organ failure.
• Reg Fleming, 73, Canadian hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks).
• Arturo Gatti, 37, Canadian boxer, strangulation.
• Paul Hemphill, 73, American author, throat cancer.
• Ji Xianlin, 97, Chinese linguist, paleographer, historian and writer, heart attack. (Chinese)
• Lawyer Ron, 6, American Thoroughbred racehorse, complications after colic surgery.
• Mark Mandala, 72, American television executive, president of ABC (1986–1994), heart attack.
• Žan Marolt, 44, Bosnia-Herzegovinian actor. (Bosnian)
• Geraint Owen, 43, British actor, cerebral haemorrhage.

12

• Doris Barr, 87, Canadian baseball player, original member of All-American Girls Professional Baseball League.
• Charles N. Brown, 72, American founding editor of Locus magazine.
• Vinod Chaubey, 49, Indian police officer, shot in the Rajnandgaon ambush.
• Tommy Cummings, 80, British football player (Burnley F.C.).
• Donald MacCormick, 70, British television journalist, heart attack.
• Shesha Palihakkara, 81, Sri Lankan dancer, actor and producer.
• Christopher Prout, Baron Kingsland, 67, British politician and barrister, MEP (1979–1994), pulmonary embolism.
• S. G. Sender, 78, Belgian pastry chef, after long illness.
• Pavel Smeyan, 52, Russian singer and actor, cancer.
• Nikola Stanchev, 78, Bulgarian wrestler, Olympic gold medalist.
• Simon Vinkenoog, 80, Dutch poet and writer.
• Jane Weinberger, 91, American author, widow of Caspar Weinberger, stroke.

13

• Uma Aaltonen, 68, Finnish author, journalist and politician.
• Amin al-Hafez, 83, Lebanese politician, Prime Minister (1973).
• Giuseppe Alessi, 103, Italian politician, President of Sicily (1947–1949, 1955–1956). (Italian)
• Robert Cushman, 62, American photograph curator (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences).
• Neil Munro, 62, Canadian director, actor and playwright, after long illness.
• Nilu Phule, 78, Indian Marathi and Hindi film actor, esophageal cancer.
• Vince Powell, 80, British scriptwriter (Love Thy Neighbour, Mind Your Language).
• Beverly Roberts, 96, American actress, natural causes.
• Dash Snow, 27, American artist, heroin overdose.

14

• Pat Brady, 83, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), lymphoma.
• Lucio Ceccarini, 78, Italian water polo player. (Italian)
• Sam Church, 72, American labor leader (UMWA), complications of surgery.
• Joe DiGangi, 94, American bullpen catcher (New York Yankees), natural causes.
• Phyllis Gotlieb, 83, Canadian science fiction author,
• Christopher Hipp, 47, American inventor (blade server) and entrepreneur, suspected embolism.
• Dallas McKennon, 89, American actor and voice actor (Gumby, Buzz Buzzard, Archie Andrews), natural causes.
• Kujtim Majaci, 47, Albanian footballer, heart attack.
• Heinrich Schweiger, 77, Austrian actor, cardiovascular disease.
• Jean Sommeng Vorachak, 76, Laotian Apostolic Vicar of Savannakhet.
• Bill Young, 95, New Zealand politician and diplomat.
• Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, 74, Polish actor and director.

15

• Avraham Ahituv, 79, German-born Israeli intelligence chief, Director of the Shin Bet (1974–1980).
• Khursheed Kamal Aziz, 81, Pakistani historian.
• Seddon Bennington, 61, New Zealand chief executive of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, hypothermia.
• Adama Drabo, 60/61, Malian filmmaker and playwright.
• Natalya Estemirova, 50, Russian human rights activist in Chechnya and Ingushetia, shot.
• Klára Fried-Bánfalvi, 78, Hungarian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1960) sprint canoeist. (Hungarian)
• Brian Goodwin, 78, Canadian mathematician, fall from a bicycle.
• Julius Shulman, 98, American architectural photographer.

16

• Thomas Dao, 88, Chinese-born American physician, expert in breast cancer treatment, Pick's Disease.
• Leslie Fernandez, 91, British WW2 Special Forces saboteur and trainer of Violette Szabó.
• Charles Gonthier, 80, Canadian jurist, Supreme Court Justice (1989–2003).
• Maurice Grimaud, 95, French police chief of Paris during the 1968 student uprising.
• Otto Heino, 94, American ceramicist and potter, acute renal failure.
• Jerry Holland, 54, American-born Canadian fiddler and composer, cancer.
• Paulo Lopes de Faria, 78, Brazilian archbishop of Diamantina. (Portuguese)
• D. K. Pattammal, 90, Indian Carnatic singer, after short illness.
• Angelo Rizzo, 83, Italian archbishop of Ragusa. (Italian)
• Yury Verlinsky, 65, Russian medical researcher, colorectal cancer.

17

• Meir Amit, 88, Israeli major general and politician.
• Gordon Burn, 61, British writer, cancer.
• Walter Cronkite, 92, American television news anchor, cerebrovascular disease.
• Richard H. Hall, 78, American ufologist, colon cancer.
• Leszek Kołakowski, 81, Polish philosopher, historian of ideas and essayist.
• Jean Margéot, 93, Mauritian cardinal.
• Gordon Waller, 64, British singer (Peter and Gordon), cardiac arrest.

18

• Henry Allingham, 113, British supercentenarian, world's oldest man and World War I veteran.
• Annagul Annakuliyeva, 85, Turkmen opera singer and actress.
• Jill Balcon, 84, British actress, widow of Cecil Day-Lewis and mother of Daniel Day-Lewis, brain tumour.
• Yasmine Belmadi, 33, French actor, traffic collision. (French)
• Lionel Casson, 94, American professor of Classics (New York University), author on ancient maritime history, pneumonia.
• Ricardo Londoño, 59, Colombian racing driver, shot.
• Steven Rothenberg, 50, American studio executive (Lions Gate Entertainment, Artisan Entertainment), stomach cancer.
• Graham Stanton, 69, New Zealand-born British theologian.
• Joel Weisman, 66, American physician and pioneer in AIDS detection, heart disease.

19

• Sue Burns, 58, American businesswoman, principal owner of the San Francisco Giants, lung cancer.
• Karen Harup, 84, Danish swimmer, Olympic champion (1948). (Danish)
• Ingeborg Hunzinger, 94, German sculptor. (German)
• Frank McCourt, 78, Irish-American author (Angela's Ashes), melanoma.
• Gilberto Mestrinho, 81, Brazilian Governor of Amazonas (1959–1963, 1983–1987, 1991–1995), lung cancer. (Portuguese)
• Cecil Mountford, 90, New Zealand rugby league player and coach.
• Guillermo Schulenburg, 93, Mexican Abbot of the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe (1963–1996), natural causes. (Spanish)
• Ray Shaw, 75, American journalist and publisher (American City Business Journals), complications from a wasp sting.
• Bryan Stanley, 83, British trade unionist, General Secretary of the Post Office Engineering Union.
• Henry Surtees, 18, British racing driver, Formula Two race accident.
• Ebbe Wallén, 92, Swedish Olympic bobsledder.

20

• Gene Amondson, 65, American politician, Prohibition Party nominee for U.S. President, stroke.
• Ria Brieffies, 52, Dutch singer (Dolly Dots), lung cancer. (Dutch)
• Edward T. Hall, 95, American anthropologist.
• Bobby Knoxall, 75, British comedian.
• Vedat Okyar, 64, Turkish journalist and footballer (Beşiktaş J.K.), colorectal cancer. (Turkish)
• Stan Polley, 87, American music manager.
• Charles E. Richardson, 74, American newspaper publisher.
• Paul Fouad Tabet, 79, Lebanese archbishop, Nuncio to Greece (1996–2005).
• Gösta Werner, 101, Swedish film director.
• Carlton Willey, 78, American baseball player (Milwaukee Braves, New York Mets), lung cancer.

21

• John Dawson, 64, American musician (New Riders of the Purple Sage), stomach cancer.
• Armando del Moral, 93, Spanish-born American film journalist, natural causes.
• Nelson Demarco, 84, Uruguayan basketball player, Olympic bronze medalist (1952, 1956). (Spanish)
• Heinz Edelmann, 75, Czech-born German illustrator and designer, heart disease and renal failure.
• Gidget, 15, American chihuahua, Taco Bell mascot, stroke.
• Gangubai Hangal, 96, Indian Hindustani classical singer, cardiac arrest.
• Marcel Jacob, 45, Swedish musician, suicide.
• Yoshinori Kanada, 57, Japanese animator, heart attack.
• Les Lye, 84, Canadian actor and broadcaster (You Can't Do That on Television).
• Hiroshi Wakasugi, 74, Japanese orchestra conductor, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.

22

• Howard Engle, 89, American pediatrician, lead plaintiff in landmark tobacco lawsuit, lymphoma.
• Richard M. Givan, 88, American judge, Chief Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court (1969–1994).
• Peter Krieg, 61, German documentary filmmaker. (German)
• Mark Leduc, 47, Canadian boxer, Olympic silver medalist (1992), heat stroke.
• Herbert Morris, 94, American rower, Olympic gold medalist (1936).
• Marco Antonio Nazareth, 23, Mexican boxer, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Billy Parks, 61, American football player, melanoma.
• Lynn Pressman Raymond, 97, American president of Pressman Toy Corporation.
• John Ryan, 88, British cartoonist (Captain Pugwash).
• Damian Steele, 33, American professional wrestler, brain aneurysm.
• Aygyl Tajiyeva, 64, Turkmen politician and opposition activist, stroke.

23

• Virginia Carroll, 95, American actress and model, natural causes.
• E. Lynn Harris, 54, American author.
• Talis Kitsing, 33, Estonian reality TV star.
• Danny McBride, 63, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Sha Na Na), natural causes. .
• Duse Nacaratti, 76, Brazilian actress, respiratory failure. (Portuguese)
• Thomas N. Schroth, 88, American editor (Congressional Quarterly), founder of The National Journal, heart failure.

24

• José Carlos da Costa Araújo, 47, Brazilian goalkeeper, reserve at 1990 World Cup, abdominal cancer. (Portuguese)
• Omar Dani, 85, Indonesian Commander of the National Air Force (1962–1965).
• Friedrich Goldmann, 68, German composer and conductor. (German)
• Austin Gresham, 84, British pathologist.
• G. Alexander Heard, 92, American presidential advisor, Chancellor of Vanderbilt University (1963–1982).
• John Panton, 92, British golfer.
• Harry Towb, 83, British actor, cancer.

25

• Yasmin Ahmad, 51, Malaysian film director, brain hemorrhage.
• Rick Bryan, 47, American football player (Atlanta Falcons), heart attack.
• Gladys Bustamante, 97, Jamaican trade unionist and activist, wife of Prime Minister Alexander Bustamante.
• Alexis Cohen, 25, American singer, American Idol contestant, hit-and-run.
• Vernon Forrest, 38, American boxer, shot.
• Gerald Gardner, 83, Irish-born American mathematician, evidence led to ban on sex-segregated classified advertising. leukemia.
• Erling Kristiansen, 85, Norwegian Olympic cyclist.
• Ken Major, 80, British architect.
• Stanley Middleton, 89, British author, cancer.
• Harry Patch, 111, British supercentenarian, fourth-last surviving World War I veteran.
• Herbert Pickering, 90, New Zealand politician.
• Sarath Ranawaka, 58, Sri Lankan politician, after short illness.

26

• John Brockway, 80, British swimmer.
• Traugott Buhre, 80, German actor. (German)
• Bhaskar Chandavarkar, 73, Indian sitarist and composer, cancer.
• Merce Cunningham, 90, American choreographer, natural causes.
• Richard Ferguson, 73, British barrister, Queen's Counsel for Northern Ireland and former politician.
• Clayton Hill, 78, American actor (Dawn of the Dead, Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth), complications from pneumonia.
• Lois Hunt, 84, American lyric soprano, complications from cardiac surgery.
• Marcey Jacobson, 97, American photographer of indigenous peoples in Mexico, heart failure.
• James E. King, 69, American politician, Florida state senator since 1999, pancreatic cancer.
• Maria Sílvia, 65, Brazilian actress, lung cancer. (Portuguese)
• Michael Steinberg, 80, American musicologist.
• Sérgio Viotti, 82, Brazilian actor, cardiac arrest. (Portuguese)
• Jerry Yanover, 62, Canadian political advisor.

27

• Bernadette Cozart, 62, American gardener, urban gardening advocate, heart attack.
• Dick Holub, 87, American basketball player (NY Knicks) and coach (FDU).
• Domingos Lam, 81, Chinese Roman Catholic bishop of Macau.
• Lee Orr, 92, Canadian Olympic athlete.
• Luis Quintana, 57, Puerto Rican baseball player (California Angels), natural causes.
• George Russell, 86, American jazz composer, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Larry Siemering, 98, American college football head coach, complications from a fall.
• Sybil, 3, British Downing Street cat, Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office (2007–2008), after short illness.
• Aeronwy Thomas, 66, British translator and writer, daughter of Dylan Thomas, cancer.
• Michaël Zeeman, 50, Dutch literary critic, journalist, poet and writer, brain cancer.

28

• Hermann J. Huber, 54, German journalist and writer, heart attack. (German)
• Reverend Ike, 74, American evangelist, stroke.
• Jim Johnson, 68, American football coach (Philadelphia Eagles), melanoma.
• Kaori Kawamura, 38, Japanese singer, breast cancer.
• Brian Mears, 78, British Chairman of Chelsea Football Club (1969–1991).
• Leela Naidu, 69, Indian actress, Miss India (1954), after long illness.
• Bernard Rosenthal, 94, American sculptor, stroke.
• William G. Tapply, 69, American writer, leukemia,
• Peter Tahourdin, 80, British-born Australian composer.

29

• Dina Babbitt, 86, Czech-born American artist and Holocaust survivor, abdominal cancer.
• Rajan P. Dev, 58, Indian actor, after short illness.
• Gayatri Devi, 90, Indian royal, last Maharani of Jaipur (1939–1970), paralytic ileus.
• Steve Fiorilla, 48, American artist.
• Joanne Jordan, 88, American actress and spokesmodel, Parkinson's disease.
• Ernest W. Lefever, 90, American foreign policy expert, founder of Ethics and Public Policy Center, dementia with Lewy bodies.
• Paul McGrillen, 37, Scottish footballer (Motherwell F.C.).
• Olga A. Méndez, 84, American politician, New York State Senator (1978–2004), breast cancer.
• Steven Miessner, 48, American Academy Awards administrator, heart attack.
• Renato Pagliari, 69, Italian-born British singer (Renée and Renato), brain cancer.
• Edward Richardson, 79, Australian cricketer.
• Zhuo Lin, 93, Chinese consultant, widow of Deng Xiaoping.

30

• Yuri Kurnenin, 55, Belarusian football player and coach. (Russian)
• Joy Langan, 66, Canadian politician, MP for Mission—Coquitlam (1988–1993), breast cancer.
• Yoshihisa Maitani, 76, Japanese camera designer.
• Mohammed Yusuf, 39, Nigerian sect leader (Boko Haram), shot.
• Peter Zadek, 83, German stage director, film director and screenwriter, illness. (German)

31

• Sir Edward Archdale, 87, British Royal Navy officer.
• Tim Guest, 34, British writer, suspected heart attack.
• David Hawkes, 86, British sinologist.
• Chris Humphries, 62, British botanist.
• Ted Nierenberg, 86, American entrepreneur, founder of Dansk International Designs, pancreatic cancer.
• Sir Bobby Robson, 76, British footballer and manager, lung cancer.
• Harry Alan Towers, 88, British film producer and screenwriter, after short illness.