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Recent deaths in November 2010

Deaths in November 2010

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The following is a list of notable deaths in November 2010.

[edit] November 2010

[edit] 30

• Daya Mata, 96, American spiritual leader, Self-Realization Fellowship president (1955–2010). [1]
• Garry Gross, 73, American fashion photographer, heart attack. [2]
• Jim Kelley, 61, American sportswriter and television journalist (Sports Illustrated), pancreatic cancer. [3]
• Gabriela Kownacka, 58, Polish actress (Rodzina zastępcza), breast cancer. [4] (Polish)
• J.E. "Pat" Patterson, 86, American politician, mayor of Minden, Louisiana (1974–1978). [5]
• Imre Sátori, 73, Hungarian footballer, Olympic bronze medalist (1960). [6] (Hungarian) (death announced on this date)
• Dave Skrien, 81, American CFL football player (Roughriders, Blue Bombers) and coach (BC Lions, Roughriders), complications from Alzheimer's disease. [7]
• Ted Sorel, 74, American actor (Guiding Light, Law & Order), complications from Lyme disease. [8]
• R. C. Stevens, 76, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Washington Senators). [9]
• Maud Sundberg, 98, Swedish Olympic athlete. [10] (Swedish)
• Monty Sunshine, 82, British clarinetist (Chris Barber Orchestra). [11]

[edit] 29

• Bella Akhmadulina, 73, Russian poet. [12]
• Irena Anders, 90, Polish stage actress and singer. [13] (Polish)
• El Hijo de Cien Caras, 34, Mexican professional wrestler, shot. [14] (Spanish)
• Hermila García Quiñones, 38, Mexican police chief, shot. [15] (Spanish)
• John Gerrish, 100, American composer. [16]
• Richard Goldman, 90, American philanthropist, founder of the Goldman Environmental Prize. [17]
• Peter Hofmann, 66, German operatic tenor, dementia and Parkinson's disease. [18] (German)
• William Robert Holcomb, 88, American politician, Mayor of San Bernardino, California (1971–1985, 1989–1993), heart failure. [19]
• Omar Khalidi, 54, Indian-born American academic, railway accident. [20]
• John Mantle, 64, Scottish Episcopalian prelate, Bishop of Brechin (2005–2010). [21]
• Alfred Masini, 80, American television producer, creator of Entertainment Tonight, Solid Gold and Star Search, melanoma. [22]
• Mario Monicelli, 95, Italian film director, suicide by jumping. [23]
• Steven Posner, 67, American corporate raider, boat collision. [24]
• Majid Shahriari, Iranian quantum physicist, car bomb. [25]
• Stephen J. Solarz, 70, American politician, U.S. Representative from New York (1975–1993), esophageal cancer. [26]
• Hortensia Starke, 89, Filipino politician, Representative from Negros Occidental (1987–1995). [27]
• W. Frank Steely, 85, American educator, first president of Northern Kentucky University, Alzheimer's disease. [28]
• Sir Maurice Wilkes, 97, British computer scientist. [29]

[edit] 28

• Jon D'Agostino, 81, Italian-born American comic book artist, bone cancer. [30]
• Keir Clark, 100, Canadian politician. [31]
• Samuel T. Cohen, 89, American physicist, inventor of the neutron bomb, cancer. [32]
• Giorgos Fountas, 86, Greek actor, Alzheimer's disease. [33] (Greek)
• Daniel Maia, 40, Brazilian racing driver, racing accident. [34] (Portuguese)
• Vladimir Maslachenko, 74, Russian footballer, winner of the 1960 European Nations' Cup. [35] (Russian)
• Gil McDougald, 82, American baseball player (New York Yankees), prostate cancer. [36]
• Carlos Mercedes Vásquez, 27, Guatemalan footballer (Deportivo Malacateco), homicide. [37]. (Spanish) (body found on this date)
• Katsuya Miyahira, Japanese martial artist. [38]
• Leslie Nielsen, 84, Canadian-born American actor (Airplane!, The Naked Gun), pneumonia. [39]
• Gene Polito, 92, American cinematographer (Futureworld, Up in Smoke, Lost in Space), esophageal cancer. [40]
• Mahaveer Prasad, 71, Indian politician, after long illness. [41]

[edit] 27

• Mohamed Kassim Abdul Jabbar, 77, Singaporean politician, renal failure. [42]
• Irvin Kershner, 87, American film director (Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back), lung cancer. [43]
• George Robitaille, 55, Canadian transit fare collector, viral video subject, complications from a stroke. [44]
• Bill Werle, 89, American baseball player (Pirates, Cardinals, Red Sox). [45]

[edit] 26

• Gavin Blyth, 41, British television producer, cancer. [46]
• R. N. DeArmond, 99, American historian. [47]
• James DiPaola, 57, American politician, Massachusetts House of Representatives (1993–1996), Sheriff of Middlesex County (1996–2010), suicide by gunshot. [48]
• Leroy Drumm, 74, American bluegrass songwriter, heart failure. [49]
• Mohammad Anwar Elahee, 81, Mauritian footballer and manager. [50]
• Pascal Grosjean, 39, Swiss motorcycle racer, post-race crash. [51]
• Maria Hellwig, 90, German yodeler and folk musician. [52] (German)
• Palle Huld, 98, Danish actor, believed to be inspiration for Tintin. [53]
• Paraska Korolyuk, 71, Ukrainian political activist (Orange Revolution). [54] (Ukrainian)
• Mario Pacheco, 60, Spanish music producer and photographer. [55]
• Kevin Parry, 77, Australian businessman, car accident. [56]
• Purcell Powless, 84, American tribal leader, chairman of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin (1967–1990). [57]
• Marjory Saunders, 97, Canadian Olympic archer. [58]
• Vithal Umap, 80, Indian folk artist, heart attack. [59]

[edit] 25

• Alfred Balk, 80, American journalist, former editor of the Columbia Journalism Review, cancer. [60]
• Jesse Bankston, 103, American politician. [61]
• Tony Dixon, 52, Irish disc jockey and blogger, after short illness. [62]
• Bernard Matthews, 80, British businessman (Bernard Matthews Farms). [63]
• Doris McCarthy, 100, Canadian artist. [64]
• James Morrison, 68, American politician, member of the Kansas House of Representatives (1992–2010). [65]
• Colin Slee, 65, British Church of England prelate, Dean of Southwark Cathedral, pancreatic cancer. [66]
• Ann Southam, 73, Canadian composer. [67]
• Bob Wheeler, 58, American Olympic athlete. [68] (death announced on this date)
• Giorgos Zotos, 77, Greek journalist, cardiac arrest. [69] (Greek)

[edit] 24

• Peter Christopherson, 55, British musician (Coil, Throbbing Gristle) and graphic artist (Hipgnosis). [70]
• A. Arthur Giddon, 101, American lawyer and jurist. [71]
• Huang Hua, 97, Chinese politician, Foreign Minister (1976–1982). [72]
• Valentin Ivakin, 80, Russian footballer and football manager. [73] (Russian)
• Lim Chong Eu, 91, Malaysian politician, Chief Minister of Penang (1969–1990). [74]
• Sergio Valech, 83, Chilean Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Santiago de Chile (1973–2003). [75] (Spanish)
• Norm Winningstad, 85, American technology entrepreneur, founder of Floating Point Systems, suicide. [76]

[edit] 23

• Mauro Alice, 84, Brazilian film editor, pneumonia. [77]
• Nassos Daphnis, 96, Greek-born American artist, Alzheimer's disease. [78]
• Joyce Howard, 88, British actress (The Night Has Eyes, They Met in the Dark), natural causes. [79]
• Pavel Lednyov, 67, Russian modern pentathlete. [80] (Russian)
• Ingrid Pitt, 73, Polish-born British actress (The Vampire Lovers, Countess Dracula, The House That Dripped Blood, Where Eagles Dare), heart failure. [81]
• Kananginak Pootoogook, 75, Canadian Inuit artist, complications from surgery. [82]
• James Tyler, 70, American lutenist. [83]
• George Otto Wirz, 81, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Madison (1977–2004). [84]

[edit] 22

• Jean Cione, 82, American baseball player (Rockford Peaches). [85]
• Frank Fenner, 95, Australian scientist. [86]
• Julien Guiomar, 82, French film actor. [87] (French)
• David Lam, 87, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia (1988–1995), prostate cancer. [88]
• Len Lunde, 74, Canadian ice hockey player, heart condition. [89]
• Winston Murray, 69, Guyanese politician, Shadow Minister of Finance. [90]
• Urbano Navarrete Cortés, 90, Spanish Roman Catholic priest, Cardinal since 2007. [91]
• Tom Underwood, 56, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, New York Yankees, Oakland A's), pancreatic cancer. [92]

[edit] 21

• José Antônio Rezende de Almeida Prado, 67, Brazilian composer and pianist, pulmonary edema. [93] (Portuguese)
• Rosaura Andreu, 92, American actress. [94]
• Willis Burks II, 75, American actor (King of California, CSI, Law & Order). [95]
• Silverio Cavazos, 41, Mexican politician, Governor of Colima (2005–2009), shot. [96]
• Takaharu Kondo, 66, Japanese jurist, member of the Supreme Court, pneumonia. [97] (Japanese)
• Steve Kuczek, 85, American baseball player (Boston Braves). [98]
• Norris Church Mailer, 61, American author and model, gastrointestinal cancer. [99]
• David Nolan, 66, American political activist, Libertarian Party founder, stroke. [100]
• Prince Chunk, 10, American obese cat, heart disease. [101]
• Margaret Taylor-Burroughs, 95, American museum founder (DuSable Museum of African American History). [102]

[edit] 20

• Laurie Bembenek, 52, American convicted murderer, liver and kidney failure. [103]
• Roxana Briban, 39, Romanian soprano, apparent suicide. [104]
• Santha Devi, 85, Indian actress. [105]
• Chalmers Johnson, 79, American scholar and author. [106]
• Rob Lytle, 56, American football player (Michigan Wolverines, Denver Broncos), heart attack. [107]
• Danny McDevitt, 78, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers). [108]
• Little Smokey Smothers, 71, American blues guitarist and singer, natural causes. [109]
• Ruth Springford, 89, Canadian actress (5 Card Stud, Hangin' In), after short illness. [110]
• Heinz Weiss, 89, German film actor. [111] (German)
• Jim Yardley, 64, English cricketer. [112]

[edit] 19

• 75 Cents, 77, Croatian singer (Eurovision Song Contest 2008). [113]
• Pat Burns, 58, Canadian ice hockey coach (Canadiens, Maple Leafs, Bruins and Devils), lung cancer. [114]
• Byron Duckenfield, 93, British air force pilot, World War II veteran. [115]
• Piotr Hertel, 74, Polish composer. [116] (Polish)
• Ole Bjørn Støle, 60, Norwegian judge. [117] (Norwegian)
• Atama Zedkaia, 79, Marshallese tribal leader, paramount chief of Majuro, mother of President Jurelang Zedkaia. [118]

[edit] 18

• Freddy Beras-Goico, 69, Dominican television producer, comedian, writer and actor, gastric cancer. [119] (Spanish)
• Jochem Bobeldijk, 90, Dutch Olympic sprint canoer. [120] (Dutch)
• Jim Cruickshank, 69, Scottish footballer. [121]
• Brian G. Marsden, 73, British astronomer, after long illness. [122]
• Abraham Serfaty, 84, Moroccan pro-democracy activist. [123]
• Gaye Stewart, 87, Canadian ice hockey player. [124]
• Mackenzie Taylor, 32, British comedian, suicide. [125]

[edit] 17

• Olavo Rodrigues Barbosa, 87, Brazilian footballer. [126] (Portuguese)
• Johnny Simpson, 88, New Zealand rugby player. [127]
• N. Viswanathan, 81, Indian actor, heart attack. [128]

[edit] 16

• Paul Calello, 49, American investment banker, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. [129]
• Britton Chance, 97, American biochemist, biophysicist and Olympic sailor. [130]
• Ronni Chasen, 64, American publicist (Hans Zimmer, Michael Douglas), shot. [131]
• Ragnhild Magerøy, 90, Norwegian writer. [132] (Norwegian)
• Donald Nyrop, 98, American CEO of Northwest Airlines (1954–1976), Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration. [133]
• Mimi Perrin, 84, French jazz singer and pianist. [134]
• Ilie Savu, 90, Romanian footballer and coach, hepatic cirrhosis. [135]
• Wyngard Tracy, 58, Filipino talent manager, stroke. [136]
• Wong Tin-lam, 83, Chinese screenwriter, producer, director and actor, organ failure. [137]

[edit] 15

• Helen Boehm, 89, American businesswoman, complications from cancer and Parkison's disease. [138]
• Nikol Joseph Cauchi, 81, Maltese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Gozo (1972–2005). [139]
• Edmond Amran El Maleh, 93, Moroccan writer and intellectual. [140]
• Larry Evans, 78, American chess grandmaster and author, complications following gallbladder operation. [141]
• Moira Hoey, 88, Irish actor (The Riordans, Glenroe). [142]
• Paul Jiang Taoran, 84, Chinese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Zhengding, heart disease. [143]
• Andreas Kirchner, 57, German bobsledder. [144] (German)
• Ed Kirkpatrick, 66, American baseball player (California Angels, Kansas City Royals, Pittsburgh Pirates), throat cancer. [145]
• W. Howard Lester, 75, American businessman, former CEO of Williams-Sonoma, cancer. [146]
• Cassam Moollan, 84, Mauritian Chief Justice (1982–1988). [147]
• Imre Polyák, 78, Hungarian Greco-Roman wrestler. [148] (Hungarian)
• Hugh Prather, 72, American self-help author, apparent heart attack. [149]
• William Self, 89, American actor and television production manager (Batman, Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea), heart attack. [150]

[edit] 14

• Hal Bamberger, 86, American baseball player (New York Giants). [151]
• Vincent Broderick, 90, English cricketer. [152]
• Lew Carpenter, 78, American football player (Detroit Lions, Green Bay Packers, Philadelphia Eagles). [153]
• Wes Santee, 78, American Olympic track athlete (1952 Summer Olympics), cancer. [154]
• Bobbi Sykes, 67, Australian Aboriginal rights activist. [155]

[edit] 13

• George Binks, 96, American baseball player (Washington Senators, Philadelphia Athletics). [156]
• Jim Deane, 82, Australian football player. [157]
• Luis García Berlanga, 89, Spanish film director, natural causes. [158] (Spanish)
• Witold Hatka, 71, Polish politician, car accident. [159] (Polish)
• Ken Iman, 71, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Los Angeles Rams). [160]
• Nathan Oliveira, 81, American painter. [161]
• D. V. S. Raju, 81, Indian film producer, short illness. [162]
• Allan Sandage, 84, American astronomer, pancreatic cancer. [163]

[edit] 12

• Des Alwi, 82, Indonesian historian, businessman, and public intellectual, adopted son of Mohammad Hatta, heart failure. [164]
• Stanisław Bobak, 54, Polish Olympic ski jumper. [165] (Polish)
• Ernst von Glasersfeld, 93, Austrian-born American philosopher. [166]
• Henryk Górecki, 76, Polish composer, after long illness. [167]
• William Hohri, 83, American activist, source behind Civil Liberties Act of 1988, Alzheimer's disease. [168]
• Theodore W. Kheel, 96, American labor negotiator. [169]
• Karl Plutus, 106, Estonian jurist and centenarian. [170] (Estonian)

[edit] 11

• Carlos Edmundo de Ory, 87, Spanish poet, leukemia. [171] (Spanish)
• John Elliott, 66, American football player (New York Jets), cancer. [172]
• Attila Kovács, 70, Hungarian Olympic fencer. [173] (Hungarian) (death announced on this date)
• Baby Marie Osborne, 99, American silent movie actress. [174]

[edit] 10

• Dino De Laurentiis, 91, Italian film producer. [175]
• Theo Doyer, 54, Dutch Olympic field hockey player, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [176] (Dutch)
• Jim Farry, 56, Scottish football administrator, Chief Executive of the Scottish Football Association (1990–1999), heart attack. [177]
• Phillip Hoffman, 80, American surfer, pulmonary disease. [178]
• Donald S. Kellermann, 83, American journalist and opinion researcher, liver cancer. [179]
• Tiger Lance, 70, South African cricketer, injuries from a car accident. [180]
• Dave Niehaus, 75, American sportscaster (Seattle Mariners), 2008 Ford C. Frick Award recipient, heart attack. [181]
• Nicolo Rizzuto, 86, Italian-born Canadian mafia leader (Rizzuto crime family), shot. [182]
• Einar Sæter, 92, Norwegian triple jumper, resistance member, newspaper editor and writer. [183] (Norwegian)

[edit] 9

• Elizabeth Carnegy, Baroness Carnegy of Lour, 85, British academic and life peer. [184]
• John Jerome Cunneen, 78, New Zealand Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Christchurch (1995–2007). [185]
• Robin Day, 95, British furniture designer. [186]
• Robert Donatucci, 58, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (since 1980), sleep apnea. [187]
• Albert Wesley Johnson, 87, Canadian civil servant, President of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (1975–1982), after long illness. [188]
• Ektor Kaknavatos, 90, Greek poet. [189] (Greek)
• Amos Lavi, 57, Israeli actor. [190] (Hebrew)
• Herman Liebaers, 91, Belgian linguist. [191] (Dutch)
• Lursakdi Sampatisiri, 91, Thai businesswoman and politician, first female Minister of Transport (1976–1977). [192]

[edit] 8

• Gregorio Barradas Miravete, 28, Mexican politician, Mayor-elect of Rodríguez Clara, Veracruz, shot. [193]
• Richard Bing, 101, German-born American cardiologist. [194]
• Fred Blankemeijer, 84, Dutch footballer. [195] (Dutch)
• Philip Carlo, 61, American crime author, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [196]
• Quintin Dailey, 49, American basketball player (Chicago Bulls, Los Angeles Clippers, Seattle SuperSonics), cardiovascular disease. [197]
• Disque Deane, 89, American financier, pnuemonia. [198]
• Jack Levine, 95, American artist. [199]
• Emilio Eduardo Massera, 85, Argentine admiral, member of the 1976 Argentine coup d'état, cardiovascular arrest. [200]
• Addison Powell, 89, American actor (Dark Shadows, The Thomas Crown Affair, Three Days of the Condor). [201]
• Mikhail Savicki, 88, Belarusian painter. [202] (Russian)
• George Solomos, 85, American editor and writer. [203]
• Jean White, 69, British pastor and missionary, pancreatic cancer. [204]

[edit] 7

• George Estock, 86, American baseball player (Boston Braves). [205]
• Chris Goudge, 75, British Olympic athlete. [206]
• Domingo Maza Zavala, 88, Venezuelan economist, President of the Central Bank of Venezuela (1997–2004). [207] (Spanish)
• Yoshinobu Nishizaki, 75, Japanese anime producer (Space Battleship Yamato), fall from boat. [208]
• Smaro Stefanidou, 97, Greek actress, heart failure. [209] (Greek)

[edit] 6

• Fernando Bastos de Ávila, 92, Brazilian Roman Catholic priest, Vice-Chancellor (Pontifícia Universidade Católica), member of Academy of Letters, cancer. [210]
• Ezard Haußmann, 75, German actor, cancer. [211] (German)
• Peter Hilton, 87, British mathematician. [212]
• Walter Isard, 91, American economist, founder of regional science. [213]
• Jo Myong-Rok, 82, North Korean military official, First Vice-Chairman of the National Defense Commission (since 2009), heart disease. [214]
• Robert Lipshutz, 88, American politician, White House Counsel (1977–1979). [215]
• Siddhartha Shankar Ray, 90, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (1972–1977), Governor of Punjab (1986–1989), renal failure. [216]
• Michael Seifert, 86, Soviet-born Nazi war criminal, complications from a fall. [217]
• Jay Van Noy, 82, American baseball player (1951 St. Louis Cardinals). [218]

[edit] 5

• Martin Baum, 86, American talent agent (Creative Artists Agency), President of ABC Pictures (1968–1971). [219]
• Jutta Burggraf, 58, German Roman Catholic theologian and professor (University of Navarre). [220]
• Antonio Cárdenas Guillén, 48, Mexican drug lord, shot. [221]
• Jill Clayburgh, 66, American actress (An Unmarried Woman, Ally McBeal, Dirty Sexy Money), chronic leukemia. [222]
• Hajo Herrmann, 97, German Luftwaffe bomber pilot and lawyer. [223]
• Charles McDowell, 84, American journalist and syndicated columnist, complications from a stroke. [224]
• Midge the Sea Lion, 25, American sea lion (Oklahoma City Zoo), euthanized. [225]
• Randy Miller, 39, American drummer (The Myriad), bone cancer. [226]
• Rozsika Parker, 64, British art historian and psychotherapist, cancer. [227]
• Adrian Păunescu, 67, Romanian author, poet and politician. [228]
• Martin Starkie, 87, British actor and writer. [229]
• David Steuart, 94, Canadian politician, Saskatchewan MLA (1962–1977) and Leader of the Opposition (1971–1976), Senator (1975–1991). [230]
• Henriette van Lynden-Leijten, 60, Dutch diplomat, cancer. [231]
• Shirley Verrett, 79, American operatic mezzo-soprano, heart failure. [232]

[edit] 4

• Sparky Anderson, 76, American baseball player and manager (Cincinnati Reds, Detroit Tigers), member of Baseball Hall of Fame, complications from dementia. [233]
• Eugénie Blanchard, 114, French supercentenarian, world's oldest person. [234]
• Ron Cockerill, 75, English footballer (Grimsby Town, Huddersfield Town), natural causes. [235]
• Jean Compagnon, 94, French Army General and author. [236]
• Ophelia Alcantara Dimalanta, 76, Filipino poet, hypertension. [237]
• Antoine Duquesne, 69, Belgian politician. [238] (French)
• James Freud, 51, Australian vocalist and bassist (Models) and solo artist, suicide. [239]
• John Greene, 90, American football player (Detroit Lions), after short illness. [240]
• Michelle Nicastro, 50, American singer, actress (When Harry Met Sally...) and voice actress (The Swan Princess), lung cancer. [241]
• Rudy Regalado, 67, Venezuelan percussionist and bandleader (El Chicano), complications of pneumonia. [242]
• Charles Reynolds, 78, American magician, liver cancer. [243]
• Noel Taylor, 97, American Emmy Award-winning costume designer. [244]

[edit] 3

• Petros Hanna Issa Al-Harboli, 64, Iraqi Chaldean Catholic Bishop of Zakho (since 2001). [245]
• Alfons Benedikter, 92, Austrian politician. [246] (German)
• Jerry Bock, 81, American musical theater composer (Fiddler on the Roof, Fiorello!), heart failure. [247]
• Kenneth Brown, 77, American academic, chairman of first undergraduate peace studies program in the United States (1980–2005). [248]
• Viktor Chernomyrdin, 72, Russian politician, Prime Minister (1992–1998), Ambassador to Ukraine (2001–2009), cancer. [249]
• Jim Clench, 61, Canadian bass guitarist (April Wine, Bachman–Turner Overdrive), lung cancer. [250]
• Bill Colvin, 75, Canadian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1956) ice hockey player. [251]
• Hotep Idris Galeta, 69, South African jazz pianist, composer and lecturer, asthma attack. [252]
• P. Lal, 81, Indian writer. [253]
• Sonia Pottinger, 79, Jamaican record producer. [254]
• Pentti Uotinen, 79, Finnish Olympic ski jumper. [255]

[edit] 2

• Rudolf Barshai, 86, Russian conductor and viola player. [256]
• Sarah Doron, 88, Israeli politician and government minister. [257]
• Andy Irons, 32, American professional surfer. [258]
• Clyde King, 86, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Cincinnati Reds) and manager (New York Yankees). [259]
• Romualdas Krikščiūnas, 80, Lithuanian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop and Apostolic Administrator of Panevėžys (1973–1983). [260] (Lithuanian)
• Kalim Sharafi, 85, Indian Bengali language singer. [261]
• Jule Sugarman, 83, American educator, creator and director of the Head Start Program, cancer.[262]

[edit] 1

• Mihai Chiţac, 82, Romanian general, Minister of Interior (1989–1990), after long illness. [263]
• Julia Clements, 104, English flower arranger and author. [264]
• Monica Johnson, 64, American novelist and screenwriter (Lost in America, Modern Romance), esophageal cancer. [265]
• Herbert Krug, 73, German equestrian, Olympic gold medalist (1984), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [266]
• Ed Litzenberger, 78, Canadian ice hockey player. [267]
• Charlie O'Donnell, 78, American announcer (Wheel of Fortune), heart failure. [268]
• Ernesto Presas, 65, Filipino martial arts grandmaster. [269]
• Shannon Tavarez, 11, American actress (The Lion King), leukemia. [270]
• Gaston Vandermeerssche, 89, Belgian partisan, leader of World War II Dutch underground intelligence, subject of Gaston's War, natural causes. [271]