Deaths in June 2009

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The following is a list of deaths in June 2009.

June 2009

1

• Silvio Barbato, 50, Italian-born Brazilian conductor and composer, plane crash.
• Thomas Berry, 94, American cultural historian and ecotheologian.
• Bob Christie, 85, American racing driver.
• Ken Clark, 81, American actor, heart attack.
• Ernest May, 80, American historian (Harvard University), complications from cancer surgery.
• Fatma Ceren Necipoğlu, 37, Turkish classical harpist and academic (Anadolu University in Eskişehir), plane crash.
• Vincent O'Brien, 92, Irish race horse trainer.
• Prince Pedro Luiz of Orléans-Braganza, 26, Brazilian prince, plane crash.
• Alexander S. Potupa, 64, Belarusian politician, physicist, economist and writer.
• Jerry Rosenberg, 72, American jailhouse lawyer, natural causes.
• Parvin Soleimani, 86, Persian actress, brain tumor.
• Dirk du Toit, 65, South African politician, suspected heart failure.

2

• Kai Lai Chung, 92, Chinese-born American mathematician.
• David Eddings, 77, American fantasy author.
• John Ernsting, 81, British Air Vice-Marshal, expert in aviation medicine.
• FrancEyE, 87, American poet, complications from a hip fracture.
• Alfred Kern, 85, American novelist and academic.
• Tony Maggs, 72, South African racing driver, cancer.
• Palghat R. Raghu, 81, Burmese-born Indian musician, cardiac arrest.
• Kidane-Mariam Teklehaimanot, 75, Ethiopian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Adigrat (1985–2001).
• Paul O. Williams, 74, American science fiction author, aortic dissection.

3

• Geoffrey Bingham, 90, Australian evangelical Christian writer.
• David Bromige, 75, British-born Canadian poet and academic, winner of the Pushcart Prize, complications from diabetes.
• Sam Butera, 81, American saxophonist, Alzheimer's disease.
• James F. Calvert, 88, American naval officer, 46th Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy, heart failure.
• David Carradine, 72, American actor (Kung Fu, Kill Bill) and film director, erotic asphyxiation.
• Do Kum-bong, 79, South Korean actress.
• Sam George, 56, Canadian activist, native rights campaigner involved with the Ipperwash Crisis, pancreatic and lung cancer.
• Thomas Gill, 87, American politician, U.S. Representative from Hawaii (1963–1965), after long illness.
• Frank G. Harrison, 69, American politician, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (1983–1985), natural causes.
• Geir Høgsnes, 58, Norwegian sociologist. (Norwegian)
• Peter J. Landin, 78, British computer scientist, prostate cancer.
• John Campbell Ross, 110, Australian supercentenarian, last surviving Australian veteran of World War I.
• Shih Kien, 96, Hong Kong actor (Enter the Dragon).
• Koko Taylor, 80, American blues musician, complications from gastrointestinal surgery.
• Moloko Temo, 134, South African centenarian, claimant to the world's oldest person title.

4

• Mojisola Adekunle-Obasanjo, 65, Nigerian army officer and politician.
• Lev Brovarskyi, 60, Ukrainian Soviet-era footballer and coach. (Russian)
• Robert Colescott, 83, American painter, U.S. representative to Venice Biennale (1997).
• Ward Costello, 89, American actor and composer, complications from a stroke.
• Philip D. Curtin, 87, American historian, pneumonia.
• Luc Alfons de Hovre, 83, Belgian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Mechelen-Brussels (1982–2002).
• John F. Henning, 93, American politician and diplomat, United States Ambassador to New Zealand (1967–1969).
• Dorothy Layton, 96, American actress (County Hospital).
• Chris O'Brien, 57, Australian oncologist, surgeon on the reality television program RPA, brain tumour.
• Randy Smith, 60, American basketball player (Buffalo Braves), 1978 NBA All-Star Game MVP, heart attack.

5

• Bernard Barker, 92, Cuban-born American intelligence operative, Watergate burglar, lung cancer.
• Peter L. Bernstein, 90, American economic historian, pneumonia.
• Alan Berkman, 63, American physician and activist, lymphoma.
• Fleur Cowles, 101, American writer, editor and artist.
• Baciro Dabó, 51, Guinea-Bissauan politician, presidential candidate, shot.
• Jeff Hanson, 31, American singer–songwriter, fall.
• Richard Jacobs, 83, American real estate developer, owner of the Cleveland Indians (1986–2001), after long illness.
• Luo Jing, 48, Chinese news presenter, lymphoma.
• Adilgerei Magomedtagirov, 53, Russian general, Interior Minister for the Republic of Dagestan, shot.
• Rajeev Motwani, 47, Indian-born American academic, advisor for Google, Inc..
• Boris Pokrovsky, 97, Russian opera director, People's Artist of the USSR. (Russian)
• Helder Proença, Guinea-Bissauan politician, Minister of Defense, shot.
• Haydn Tanner, 92, British rugby union player.
• George Edward Wahlen, 84, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient, after long illness.

6

• Charles Arnold-Baker, 90, British historian.
• Jean Dausset, 92, French immunologist, Nobel Prize in Medicine (1980). (French)
• Mary Howard de Liagre, 96, American actress (Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Swamp Water).
• Jim Owens, 82, American college football coach (Washington Huskies), complications from hypertension and heart problems.
• Pio Sagapolutele, 39, American Samoan footballer (Cleveland Browns, New England Patriots), aneurysm.

7

• Roy Boe, 79, American businessman, owner of New Jersey Nets (1969–1978), New York Islanders (1972–1979), heart failure.
• Hugh Hopper, 64, British progressive rock bassist and composer (Soft Machine), leukaemia.
• Willie Kilmarnock, 87, Scottish footballer (Motherwell F.C.).
• Gordon Lennon, 26, Northern Irish footballer (Dumbarton F.C.), car crash.
• Kenny Rankin, 69, American singer-songwriter, lung cancer.
• Peter Townsend, 81, British sociologist, pneumonia.
• Baron Vaea, 88, Tongan politician, Prime Minister (1991–2000), after short illness.

8

• Omar Bongo, 73, Gabonese politician, President (1967–2009), heart attack.
• Frank Dasso, 91, American baseball player.
• Sheila Finestone, 82, Canadian politician, MP for Mount Royal (1984–1999) and Senator (1999–2002), cancer.
• Aage Rou Jensen, 84, Danish footballer. (Danish)
• Nathan Marsters, 29, Canadian ice hockey player, car accident.
• Harold Norse, 92, American poet.
• Johnny Palermo, 27, American actor, car accident.
• Matt Simpson, 73, British poet and literary critic.
• Habib Tanvir, 85, Indian playwright and theatre director, after short illness.

9

• Duke Bainum, 56, American politician (Hawaii House of Representatives, Honolulu City Council), aortic aneurysm.
• Norman E. Brinker, 78, American restaurateur (Brinker International), aspiration pneumonia.
• Cyril Connell, Jr., 81, Australian rugby league player.
• Edward Hanrahan, 88, American lawyer, State's Attorney (Cook County, Illinois), leukemia.
• Jean Hugel, 84, French winemaker (Alsace wine), cancer.
• Bill Lillard, 90, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).
• Jack Littrell, 80, American baseball player, Alzheimer's disease.
• Dick May, 78, American racing driver, after long illness.
• John Francis Mitchell, 81, American electronics engineer, president of Motorola.
• Michael Roof, 32, American actor (xXx, Black Hawk Down, The Dukes of Hazzard), suicide by hanging.
• Dave Simons, 54, American comic book artist, cancer.
• Arne Tovik, 53, Norwegian newspaper editor and journalist. (Norwegian)
• Karl Michael Vogler, 80, German actor. (German)

10

• Barry Beckett, 66, American record producer, session musician, keyboardist (Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section), natural causes.
• Andrew Wendell Bogue, 90, American federal judge.
• John A. Eddy, 78, American astronomer, cancer.
• Tenniel Evans, 83, British actor.
• Xaver Frick, 96, Liechtensteinian Olympic athlete and cross-country skier.
• Aza Gazgireyeva, Russian jurist, senior judge in Ingushetia, shot.
• Woodie Held, 77, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians), brain cancer.
• Huey Long, 105, American singer (The Ink Spots).
• Michel Nguyên Khác Ngu, 100, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Long Xuyên (1960–1997).
• Jack Nimitz, 79, American jazz baritone saxophonist, complications from emphysema.
• Richard Quick, 66, American swimming and diving coach, brain tumor.
• Stelios Skevofilakas, 70, Greek footballer (AEK Athens), stomach cancer. (Greek)
• Helle Virkner, 83, Danish actress and first lady, cancer.

11

• Viacheslav Aliabiev, 75, Ukrainian footballer (Shakhtyor Stalino), USSR Cup winner (1961, 1962), cancer.
• Sidney W. Bijou, 100, American child psychologist.
• Marian Goliński, 59, Polish politician, car accident. (Polish)
• Jakob Kjersem, 83, Norwegian Olympic athlete. (Norwegian)
• Frank J. Low, 75, American physicist and astronomer.
• Christel Peters, 93, German actress. (German)
• Carl Pursell, 76, American politician, U.S. Representative from Michigan (1977–1993), heart disease.
• Ricardo Rangel, 85, Mozambican photojournalist.
• Sumire, 21, Japanese fashion model, brain hemorrhage.
• Roger Terry, 87, American airman (Tuskegee Airmen), heart failure.

12

• Shailaja Acharya, 65, Nepalese politician, Deputy Prime Minister (1998), Alzheimer's disease and pneumonia.
• John Crellin, 55, Manx motorcycle racer and civil engineer, race accident.
• Annesley Dias, Sri Lankan comedian,
• Robinson O. Everett, 81, American judge, member of the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces since 1980.
• Charles Fenton, 97, Australian politician, member (1957–1981) and President (1972–1981) of the Tasmanian Legislative Council.
• Peter Gowan, 63, British professor of politics, mesothelioma.
• Andy Hughes, 43, British musician (The Orb), producer and DJ.
• Ivan Lichter, 91, New Zealand physician, pioneer in palliative care.
• Félix Malloum, 76, Chadian politician, President (1975–1979), cardiac arrest.
• Rosa Markmann, 101, Chilean First Lady (1946–1952). (Spanish)
• Peter Wheeler, 65, British chemical engineer and businessman, owner of TVR, after short illness.

13

• Khalil Abi-Nader, 87, Lebanese Maronite prelate, archbishop of Beirut (1986–1996).
• Bashir Aushev, 62, Russian public official, Deputy Prime Minister of Ingushetia (2002–2008), shot.
• Otilio Galíndez, 73, Venezuelan poet and composer.
• Mitsuharu Misawa, 46, Japanese professional wrestler, spinal cord injury.
• John Saville, 93, British Marxist economic and social historian.

14

• Bob Bogle, 75, American guitarist (The Ventures), non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
• Angela Coughlan, 56, Canadian swimmer, bronze medalist (1968 Summer Olympics), multiple myeloma.
• Ivan Della Mea, 68, Italian singer–songwriter and author, after long illness. (Italian)
• Yasuharu Hasebe, 77, Japanese film director, pneumonia.
• William McIntyre, 91, Canadian jurist, Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (1979–1989), throat cancer.
• Moumouni Adamou Djermakoye, 70, Nigerien politician.
• Carlos Pardo, 33, Mexican NASCAR race driver, race crash.
• Edith Ronne, 89, American explorer, first American woman to visit Antarctica, cancer.
• Frederick Sontag, 84, American academic and author, professor of philosophy (Pomona College), heart failure.
• Abel Tador, 24, Nigerian footballer, shot.
• Hal Woodeshick, 76, American baseball player (Houston Colt .45s), after long illness.

15

• George Belotti, 74, American football player, complications of a stroke.
• Antonio Bianco, 57, South African diamond cutter, cancer.
• Helen Boosalis, 89, American politician, Mayor of Lincoln, Nebraska (1975–1983), brain tumor.
• Charles Horan, 85, British police officer.
• Allan King, 79, Canadian film director (Warrendale, Termini Station, Silence of the North), brain tumor.
• Desmond Moran, 60, Australian criminal, member of Moran family, shot.

16

• John Anthony, 76, British Olympic shooter.
• Peter Arundell, 75, British racing driver, pulmonary fibrosis.
• Douglas Bunn, 81, British barrister and horse breeder, founder and chairman of the All England Jumping Course.
• Emmanuel Constant, 81, Haitian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Les Gonaïves (1966–2003). (French)
• Paul A. Fino, 95, American politician, U.S. Representative from New York (1953–1968).
• Celia Fremlin, 95, British crime novelist.
• D. Mark Hegsted, 95, American nutritionist, research led to recommended decrease in dietary saturated fats.
• Charlie Mariano, 85, American jazz alto saxophonist, cancer.
• Tina Marsh, 55, American jazz vocalist, breast cancer.
• Frank Herbert Mason, 88, American artist and teacher.
• Proud Accolade, 7, American Thoroughbred racehorse, neurological disorder.

17

• Joji Banuve, 69, Fijian politician, Minister for Local Government and the Environment, after short illness.
• José Calvário, 58, Portuguese maestro and orchestrator, complications from heart attack.
• Ralf Dahrendorf, Baron Dahrendorf, 80, German-born British sociologist and politician, cancer.
• Alejandro Doria, 72, Argentine film director, pneumonia.
• Patrick Dowling, 89, British television producer.
• Eon, 55, British musician, complications from pneumonia.
• José Ignacio García Hamilton, 65, Argentine politician and historian.
• Jane Aiken Hodge, 91, American-born British writer, suicide by drug overdose.
• Wayne L. Horvitz, 88, American labor mediator, cancer.
• John Houghtaling, 92, American businessman and inventor (Magic Fingers vibrating bed), complications from a fall.
• IZ the Wiz, 50, American graffiti artist, heart attack.
• Darrell Powers, 86, American soldier, served in the 506th Infantry Regiment (Band of Brothers), natural causes.
• Dusty Rhodes, 82, American baseball player (New York Giants), complications from diabetes and emphysema.
• Ali Said, Somali public servant, chief of police (Mogadishu), shot.
• Shacky Tauro, 49, Zimbabwean footballer, after short illness.
• Tony Wong, 60, Canadian politician.
• Gordon Wray, 57, British-born Canadian politician.

18

• Omar Hashi Aden, Somali politician, Minister of Security, suicide bomb attack.
• Giovanni Arrighi, 71, Italian economist. (Italian)
• Hortensia Bussi, 94, Chilean First Lady (1970–1973), widow of President Salvador Allende, natural causes. (Spanish)
• Victor Cosson, 93, French road bicycle racer. (French)
• Terry Griffiths, 64, Australian politician.
• Sir Henry Hodge, 65, British jurist, High Court judge since 2004, acute myeloid leukaemia.
• Ali Akbar Khan, 87, Indian sarod player, kidney failure.

19

• Alberto Andrade, 65, Peruvian politician, pulmonary fibrosis. (Spanish)
• Sir Derrick Bailey, 90, British cricketer and baronet, son of diamond tycoon and politician Sir Abe Bailey.
• H. A. Boucher, 88, American politician, first elected Lieutenant Governor of Alaska (1970–1974).
• Ron Crocombe, 79, New Zealand academic (University of the South Pacific), heart attack.
• Vicente Ferrer Moncho, 89, Spanish philanthropist.
• Shelly Gross, 88, American Broadway producer, bladder cancer.
• Jörg Hube, 65, German actor, cancer. (German)
• Arthur W. Lehman, 91, American euphonium player, pulmonary fibrosis.
• Peter Newbrook, 88, British cinematographer and film producer.
• Gary Papa, 54, American television sportscaster (WPVI-TV), prostate cancer.
• Ken Roberts, 99, American actor and announcer, pneumonia.
• Herschel Rosenthal, 91, American politician, member of the California Senate (1982–1998).
• Bob Schuler, 66, American politician, member of the Ohio Senate since 2002, cancer.
• Stan Sismey, 92, Australian cricketer.
• Tomoji Tanabe, 113, Japanese supercentenarian, was world's oldest living man, heart failure.

20

• Colin Bean, 83, British actor (Dad's Army).
• Aldo Gargani, 76, Italian philosopher. (Italian)
• Joel Helleny, 52, American trombonist,
• Ralph F. Hirschmann, 87, American biochemist who led synthesis of the first enzyme, renal failure.
• Nazir Jairazbhoy, 81, British-born American ethnomusicologist.
• Patrick Kombayi, 70, Zimbabwean politician and businessman, complications from 1990 shooting.
• Godfrey Rampling, 100, British athlete, 1936 Olympic relay champion, NATO commander, father of actress Charlotte Rampling.
• Kenneth L. Reusser, 89, American Marine aviator, decorated veteran of World War II, Korean and Vietnam Wars.

21

• Gilda Galán, 92, Puerto Rican actress. (Spanish)
• Lorena Gale, 51, Canadian actress (Battlestar Galactica, The Perfect Score) and playwright, throat cancer.
• José Nicomedes Grossi, 93, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bom Jesus da Lapa (1962–1990). (Portuguese)
• Errol Harris, 101, South African philosopher.
• Arthur Luft, 94, Manx politician and deemster.

22

• Agnes Tachyon, 11, Japanese Thorughbred racehorse, heart failure.
• Betty Allen, 82, American operatic mezzo-soprano, kidney disease.
• Bert Bank, 94, American radio pioneer and politician, Bataan Death March survivor.
• Antonio Fernandes de Castro, 111, Portuguese supercentenarian.
• David Farquhar, 82, Australian politician, member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly (1972–1976).
• Alec Gallup, 81, American pollster, chairman of the Gallup Poll, heart disease.
• June Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair, 95, British musician and patron of the arts.
• Maj-Len Grönholm, 57, Finnish politician and beauty queen, councilwoman, Miss Finland (1972), cancer. (Finnish)
• Moisei Itkis, 80, Soviet Olympic shooter.
• Billy Red Lyons, 77, Canadian professional wrestler, cancer.
• Eddie Preston, 80, American jazz trumpeter.
• Steve Race, 88, British broadcaster and musician.
• Philip Simmons, 97, American blacksmith.
• Karel Van Miert, 67, Belgian politician, European Commissioner (1989–1999), cardiac arrest resulting in fall.
• Sam B. Williams, 88, American engineer and inventor.

23

• Thurman Adams, Jr., 80, American politician, member of the Delaware Senate since 1972, pancreatic cancer.
• Raymond Berthiaume, 78, Canadian jazz musician, singer and record producer, cancer. (French)
• Phyllis Busansky, 72, American politician, county commissioner and supervisor of elections (Hillsborough County, Florida).
• John Callaway, 72, American journalist (Chicago Tonight), heart attack.
• Harold H. Carstens, 84, American magazine publisher.
• Gegham Ghandilyan, 35, Armenian actor, car accident.
• İsmet Güney, 77, Cypriot artist and cartoonist, designed flag of the Republic of Cyprus, cancer. (Greek)
• Hanne Hiob, 86, German actress, daughter of poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht.
• Johny Joseph, 45, Haitian news presenter (Télévision Nationale d'Haiti), cancer. (French)
• Thomas M. King, 80, American Roman Catholic priest and theologian, expert on Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, heart attack.
• Ed McMahon, 86, American television host (Star Search) and announcer (The Tonight Show).
• Aram Miskaryan, 36, Armenian actor, car accident.
• Jerri Nielsen, 57, American physician, treated herself for breast cancer on Antarctica in 1999, breast cancer.
• Robin Plackett, 88, British statistician.
• Jackie Swindells, 72, British footballer.

24

• Irv Homer, 85, American talk show host, heart attack.
• Olja Ivanjicki, 78, Serbian painter.
• Tim Krekel, 58, American guitarist and songwriter, cancer.
• Robèrt Lafont, 87, French academic. (French)
• Roméo LeBlanc, 81, Canadian politician (1973–1994), Governor General (1995–1999), Alzheimer's disease.
• Robert B. Pamplin, 97, American executive, President of Georgia-Pacific (1957–1976).
• Ed Thomas, 58, American football coach, NFL High School Football Coach of the Year (2005), shot.
• Steven Wells, 49, British journalist and author, cancer.

25

• Don Coldsmith, 83, American western author, stroke.
• George Ernest, 87, American film actor.
• Farrah Fawcett, 62, American actress (Charlie's Angels), anal cancer.
• Morton Gottlieb, 88, American Broadway theatre producer, Tony Award winner (1971), natural causes.
• James Baker Hall, 74, American poet and academic, Kentucky Poet Laureate (2001–2003), natural causes.
• Michael Jackson, 50, American pop singer–songwriter ("Thriller", "Billie Jean") and actor (The Wiz), acute propofol intoxication.
• Clifton Johnson, 67, American jurist, North Carolina Superior Court (1978–1982) and Court of Appeals (1982–1996).
• Brian Jones, 70, British poet.
• Sylvia Levin, 91, American civic and voter registration activist, registered 47,000 new voters, stroke.
• Shiv Charan Mathur, 83, Indian politician, Governor of Assam since 2008, Chief Minister of Rajasthan (1988–1989), cardiac arrest.
• Mian Tufail Mohammad, 95, Pakistani politician, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Bela Mukhopadhyay, 89, Indian singer, widow of singer and composer Hemanta Mukherjee, natural causes.
• Kaleem Omar, 72, Pakistani poet and journalist, heart failure.
• Sky Saxon, 71, American rock musician (The Seeds), heart failure.
• Hugh Scaife, 79, British set decorator,
• Anil Wilson, 62, Indian educator, Principal of St. Stephen's College, Delhi (1991–2007), pancreatic cancer.
• Yasmine, 37, Belgian singer and television presenter, suicide by hanging.

26

• Jo Amar, 79, Moroccan-born Israeli singer.
• Bernard Ganley, 83, British rugby league player.
• Amnon Kapeliouk, 78, Israeli journalist and author.

27

• Ernst Barkmann, 89, German World War II Waffen-SS soldier and panzer ace.
• Frank Barlow, 98, British historian.
• Victoriano Crémer, 102, Spanish poet and journalist, natural causes.
• Mary Lou Forbes, 83, American journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner (1959), breast cancer.
• Willy Kyrklund, 88, Finnish-born Swedish author. (Swedish)
• Nanae Nagata, 53, Japanese marathon runner, colorectal cancer.
• Fayette Pinkney, 61, American musician (The Three Degrees), respiratory failure.
• Gale Storm, 87, American actress (My Little Margie, The Gale Storm Show).
• Gordon Taylor, 93, British Anglican priest and Royal Navy chaplain.
• Jackie Washington, 89, Canadian blues musician, complications from a heart attack.

28

• Terry Black, 62, Canadian singer, multiple sclerosis.
• Joseph Crowdy, 85, British soldier, Commandant of the Royal Army Medical Corps.
• Josep Maria Guix Ferreres, 81, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Vic (1983–2003). (Spanish)
• Rita Keane, 86, Irish traditional singer.
• A. K. Lohithadas, 54, Indian screenwriter and film director, heart attack.
• Billy Mays, 50, American pitchman and television host (Pitchmen), hypertensive heart disease. .
• Jeff Swanagan, 51, American founding executive director and president of the Georgia Aquarium, heart attack.
• Fred Travalena, 66, American comedian and impressionist, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
• Lucia Lauria Vigna, 113, Italian supercentenarian, oldest person in Europe. (French)
• Tom Wilkes, 69, American graphic designer.
• Yu Hyun-mok, 83, South Korean film director, cerebral infarction.

29

• Dave Batters, 39, Canadian politician, MP for Palliser (2004–2008), suicide.
• Joe Bowman, 84, American bootmaker and sharpshooter, heart attack.
• Mohammad Hoqouqi, 72, Iranian poet, cirrhosis.
• Pauline Picard, 62, Canadian politician, MP for Drummond (1993–2008), lung cancer. (French)
• Jan Rubeš, 89, Czech-born Canadian actor (Witness) and opera singer, stroke.
• Sandra Warfield, 88, American operatic mezzo-soprano, complications from a stroke,

30

• Pina Bausch, 68, German modern dance choreographer, cancer.
• Paquito Cordero, 77, Puerto Rican actor, comedian and producer, respiratory disease.
• Robert DePugh, 86, American anti-Communist activist.
• Liam Fairhurst, 14, British fundraiser, synovial sarcoma.
• James F. McNulty, Jr., 83, American politician, U.S. Representative from Arizona (1983–1985), Parkinson's disease.
• Jan Molander, 89, Swedish actor and film director. (Swedish)
• Luis Oliva, 101, Argentine Olympic athlete. (Spanish)
• Harve Presnell, 75, American actor (Fargo, Saving Private Ryan, Patch Adams) and singer, pancreatic cancer.
• Shi Pei Pu, 70, Chinese opera singer, gender-bending spy who was basis for M. Butterfly.