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The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2009.

Deaths in March 2009

31

Raúl Alfonsín, 82, Argentine President (1983–1989), lung cancer. [1]
Jarl Alfredius, 66, Swedish journalist, prostate cancer. [2] (Swedish)
Janak Raj Chhabra, 90, Indian field hockey player, captain of the national team. [3]
Michael Cox, 60, British novelist, cancer. [4]
Paul E. Davis, 87, American college football coach. [5]
Emory Elliott, 66, American academic, heart attack. [6]
Martin Gammelgaard, 107, Denmark's oldest man. [7] (Swedish)
A. F. Golam Osmani, 76, Indian politician, lung cancer. [8]
Choor Singh, 98, Singaporean jurist, judge of the Supreme Court of Singapore (1963–1980). [9]
Sir Reresby Sitwell, 7th Baronet, 81, British aristocrat and writer. [10]

30

Ankito, 85, Brazilian actor and comedian, lung cancer. [11] (Portuguese)
Burton Blumert, 80, American president of the Center for Libertarian Studies, chairman of Mises Institute, cancer. [12]
Eugène Drenthe, 83, Surinamese playwright and poet. [13] (Dutch)
Herman Franks, 95, American baseball manager, heart failure. [14]
Naji Jaber, 64, Syrian actor, after long illness. [15]
Andrea Mead Lawrence, 76, American alpine skier, cancer. [16]
Eric Munoz, 61, American politician, New Jersey State Assemblyman since 2001, complications of cardiac surgery. [17]
Jackie Pretorius, 74, South African racing driver, assault during home invasion. [18]
George Stoddard, 92, American financier, natural causes. [19]
Loras Joseph Watters, 93, American Bishop of Winona, Minnesota (1969–1986). [20]
Sulim Yamadayev, 35, Russian military commander and Chechen warlord, shot. [21]

29

Ivor Dent, 85, Canadian mayor of Edmonton (1968–1974), Alzheimer’s disease. [22]
Helvecia Viera, 80, Chilean comedian and actress, heart disease.[23]
Vladimir Fedotov, 66, Russian football player and manager, Soviet Top League leading goalscorer (1964). [24] (Russian)
Monte Hale, 89, American country musician and actor, after long illness. [25]
Andy Hallett, 33, American actor (Angel), heart disease. [26]
Maurice Jarre, 84, French Academy Award–winning film composer (Lawrence of Arabia, Dr. Zhivago), cancer. [27]
Helen Levitt, 95, American photographer, respiratory failure. [28]
Miroslav Moravec, 69, Czech actor, cancer. [29] (Czech)
Lou Saban, 87, American football player (Cleveland Browns) and coach (Boston Patriots, Buffalo Bills), complications from a fall. [30]
Kanwaljit Singh, 67, Indian politician, traffic accident. [31]
Gerrit Viljoen, 82, South African politician, Administrator-General of South-West Africa (1978–1980). [32]

28

Earle Brucker, Jr., 83, American baseball player. [33].
Travis Criscola, 24, American guitarist (The Cute Lepers), drug overdose. [34]
Peter F. Donnelly, 70, American arts patron, vice-chairman of Americans for the Arts, complications of pancreatic cancer. [35]
Inger Lise Gjørv, 70, Norwegian politician, cancer. [36] (Norwegian)
Janet Jagan, 88, American-born Guyanese President (1997–1999), abdominal aortic aneurysm. [37]
Hugh Kelly, 85, British footballer (Blackpool), pneumonia. [38]
Martin J. Klein, 84, American historian and physicist. [39]
Ugo Martinat, 66, Italian politician, after long illness. [40] (Italian)
Arnold Meri, 89, Estonian World War II veteran charged with crimes against humanity. [41] (Estonian)
Earl Paulk, 81, American pastor implicated in several sex scandals, cancer. [42]

27

Alysheba, 25, American racehorse, Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner (1987), euthanized. [43]
Jack Dreyfus, 95, American financier, pioneer of mutual funds. [44]
Irving R. Levine, 86, American journalist (NBC news), prostate cancer. [45]
Penor Rinpoche, 77, Tibetan religious leader (Nyingma Buddhist tradition). [46]

26

Griselda Álvarez, 95, Mexican politician and writer, Governor of Colima (1979–1985), natural causes. [47] (Spanish)
Arne Bendiksen, 82, Norwegian singer, composer and record producer, heart failure. [48]
Kim Bradley, 54, Australian surfing pioneer. [49]
Gus Cifelli, 84, American football player (Detroit Lions), natural causes. [50]
Larry Glick, 87, American talk radio host (WBZ), complications from cardiac surgery. [51]
Wayne Lewellen, 65, American film studio executive (Paramount), cancer. [52]
Shane McConkey, 39, Canadian extreme skier, base jumping accident. [53]

25

Steven Bach, 70, American film producer and author, cancer. [54]
Johnny Blanchard, 76, American baseball player (New York Yankees), heart attack. [55]
Marilyn Borden, 76, American actress (I Love Lucy), heart failure. [56]
Bob Boucher, 68, British academic. [57]
David Cooley, 49, American test pilot (Lockheed Martin), plane crash. [58]
Yukio Endo, 72, Japanese gymnast, esophageal cancer. [59]
John Hope Franklin, 94, American historian, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, heart failure. [60]
Kosuke Koyama, 79, Japanese-born American theologian, pneumonia. [61]
Gordon Margulis, 77, British-born American bodyguard, confidant to Howard Hughes, esophageal cancer. [62]
Gábor Ocskay, 33, Hungarian ice hockey player, heart attack. [63]
Manny Oquendo, 78, American percussionist (Tito Puente and Tito Rodríguez orchestras), heart attack. [64]
Giovanni Parisi, 41, Italian boxer, car accident. [65]
Arthur Richman, 83, American baseball executive (New York Yankees, New York Mets) and writer (New York Daily Mirror). [66]
Dan Seals, 61, American country music singer-songwriter (England Dan & John Ford Coley), mantle cell lymphoma. [67]
Michael Ward, 77, British politician, MP for Peterborough (1974–1979). [68]
Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu, 53, Turkish politician, founder of the Great Union Party, helicopter crash. [69]

24

Timothy Brinton, 79, British newsreader and politician, Member of Parliament (1979–1987). [70]
Robert Delford Brown, 78, American artist. [71]
Irina Gabashvili, 48, Georgian-born American gymnast, cancer. [72]
Uriel Jones, 74, American drummer (The Funk Brothers), complications from a heart attack. [73]
George Kell, 86, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers), member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. [74]
Laurie Short, 93, Australian trade union leader. [75]
Igor Stelnov, 46, Russian ice hockey player (HC CSKA Moscow), 1986 world champions team member, after long illness. [76] (Russian)

23

Manuel del Rosario, 93, Filipino Roman Catholic Bishop of Malolos (1962–1977), pneumonia. [77]
Geoff Holmes, 50, British cricketer. [78]
Raúl Macías, 74, Mexican boxer, cancer. [79] (Spanish)
Xavier Maniguet, 66, French intelligence agent involved in the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, plane crash. [80]
Lloyd Ruby, 81, American auto racing driver. [81]
Ronald Tavel, 72, American playwright, heart attack. [82]
Tonda, 50, Sumatran orangutan, oldest in captivity in United States. [83]
Peter Wherrett, 72, Australian motoring journalist, cancer. [84]

22

Frank Bogert, 99, American politician, Mayor of Palm Springs, California (1958–1966, 1982–1988). [85]
Awilda Carbia, 71, Puerto Rican actress, comedian, impersonator and television personality, pneumonia. [86] (Spanish)
Steve Doll, 48, American professional wrestler, blood clot. [87]
Jade Goody, 27, British reality television personality, cervical cancer. [88]
Archie Green, 91, Canadian-born American folklorist and musicologist, renal failure. [89]
Kou Iijima, 112, Japanese supercentenarian. [90]
Howie Komives, 67, American basketball player (Detroit Pistons), natural causes. [91]
Abismo Negro, 37, Mexican lucha libre professional wrestler, drowned. [92]
Clarice Pearson, 110, American supercentenarian. [93]
Kanta Rao, 85, Indian actor, liver cancer. [94]
Leon Walker, 20, British rugby league player (Wakefield Wildcats). [95]

21

Bob Arbogast, 81, American radio and television personality, lung cancer. [96]
Beach Towel, 22, American harness racehorse, Harness Horse of the Year (1990), colic. [97]
Giuseppe Bonaviri, 84, Italian writer and cardiologist. [98] (Italian)
Drummond Erskine, 89, American actor (Late Show with David Letterman). [99]
Winifred Foley, 94, British writer. [100]
Doug Frith, 64, Canadian MP for Sudbury (1980–1988), Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (1984), heart attack. [101]
Joseph Jasgur, 89, American photographer, natural causes. [102]
Vladimir Kuchmiy, 61, Russian newspaper chief editor (Sport Express). [103] (Russian)
Genoveva Matute, 94, Filipino writer. [104]
Bryce Morrison, 57, British football club secretary (Liverpool F.C.). [105]
Walt Poddubny, 49, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers). [106]
Khadijeh Saqafi, 93, Iranian wife of Ruhollah Khomeini, after long illness. [107]
Aldo Vagnozzi, 83, American politician, member of the Michigan House of Representatives (2002–2006), cancer. [108]

20

Joseph Albright, 70, American jurist (West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals), esophageal cancer. [109]
Roberta Alison, 65, American tennis player, injuries sustained in fire. [110]
Bill Bogash, 92, American roller derby skater, respiratory failure. [111]
Mel Brown, 69, American blues guitarist, emphysema. [112]
Abdellatif Filali, 81, Moroccan politician, Prime Minister (1994–1998). [113]
Catharina Peters-Keultjes, 111, Dutch supercentenarian. [114]
Jaroslav Pitner, 83, Czech ice hockey coach. [115]
Vladimir Savčić, 60, Serbian singer, cancer. [116] (Serbian)
George Weber, 47, American radio broadcaster, stabbed. [117]

19

Felipe Benítez Avalos, 82, Paraguayan Archbishop of Asunción. [118] (Spanish)
Alastair Boyd, 7th Baron Kilmarnock, 81, British aristocrat, writer and politician. [119]
Zoltán Breyer, 45, Hungarian actor, after long illness. [120] (Hungarian)
Ion Dolănescu, 65, Romanian singer and politician, heart attack. [121] (Romanian)
Ezio Flagello, 78, American opera singer, heart failure. [122]
Gertrud Fussenegger, 96, Austrian writer. [123] (German)
Harry Harris, 86, American television director (Fame), myelodysplasia. [124]

18

Eddie Bo, 79, American singer and pianist, heart attack. [125]
Ed Callahan, 80, American credit union administrator, blood complications. [126]
Gianni Giansanti, 52, Italian photographer, bone cancer. [127]
Kent Henry, 59, American guitarist. [128]
Lil E. Tee, 20, American racehorse, Kentucky Derby winner (1992), euthanized. [129]
Yeremey Parnov, 73, Russian writer. [130] (Russian)
Moultrie Patten, 89, American actor (Northern Exposure) and jazz musician, pneumonia, [131]
Pocholo Ramirez, 76, Filipino race car driver and television host, cancer. [132]
Natasha Richardson, 45, British actress, epidural hematoma. [133]
Luis Rojas Mena, 91, Mexican Roman Catholic Bishop of Culiacán (1969–1993). [134] (Spanish)
Glenn Sundby, 87, American gymnast, co-founder of USA Gymnastics, founder of International Gymnastics Hall of Fame. [135]
Donald Tolmie, 85, Canadian politician, MP for Welland (1965–1972). [136]
Earl Wood, 97, American physiologist, co-inventor of the G-suit. [137]

17

Lester Davenport, 77, American blues musician, prostate cancer. [138]
Tom Haley, 88, American television host (WKYC-TV), after short illness. [139]
Clodovil Hernandes, 71, Brazilian fashion stylist, politician and television presenter, stroke. [140] (Portuguese)
Gaston Labrèche, 70s, Canadian judge, bus crash. [141]
Morton Lachman, 90, American television writer and executive producer, complications from diabetes and heart attack. [142]
Whitey Lockman, 82, American baseball player (San Francisco Giants), pulmonary complications. [143]
Jane Mayhall, 90, American poet. [144]
Dale Memmelaar, 72, American football player (Cleveland Browns) [145]

16

William Burns, 75, Australian politician. [146]
Roland Dantes, 67, Filipino movie actor and martial arts instructor, heart failure. [147]
Maria Eufemia Domenici, 110, Italian supercentenarian. [148] (Italian)
Marjorie Grene, 98, American philosopher, after short illness. [149]
Sir Nicholas Henderson, 89, British diplomat. [150]
Nicholas Hughes, 47, American marine biologist, son of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, suicide by hanging. [151]
Miljenko Licul, 62, Slovenian graphic designer. [152]
Ramón Mantilla Duarte, 83, Colombian Bishop of Ipiales (1985–1987). [153]
Alan Suddick, 64, British footballer, cancer. [154]
Marvin Sutton, 62, American moonshiner, suspected suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. [155]

15

Richard Aoki, 71, American civil rights activist. [156]
Miguel Bernad, 91, Filipino Jesuit priest, academician and writer. [157]
Billy C. Clark, 80, American writer. [158]
Jack Dunham, 98, American animator. [159]
Edmund Hockridge, 89, Canadian singer and actor. [160]
Pirkle Jones, 95, American photojournalist. [161]
Jack Lawrence, 96, American songwriter, complications from a fall. [162]
Paulo Eduardo Andrade Ponte, 77, Brazilian Archbishop of São Luís do Maranhão. [163]
Michael Quinn, 86, American Lasallian brother and psychology professor, President of Saint Mary's College (1962–1969). [164].
William Schwartz, 86, American nephrologist. [165]
Ron Silver, 62, American actor and political activist, esophageal cancer. [166]
Gunnar Tjörnebo, 81, Swedish runner (steeplechase). [167] (Swedish)
Elmer Weingartner, 90, American baseball player. [168]
Lionel Ziprin, 84, American poet, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. [169]

14

Alain Bashung, 61, French singer, composer and actor, lung cancer. [170]
Edith Lucie Bongo, 45, Congolese wife of Gabon President Omar Bongo, after long illness. [171]
Altovise Davis, 65, American actress and dancer, widow of Sammy Davis, Jr., stroke. [172]
Terence Edmond, 69, British actor (Z-Cars), bronchiectasis. [173]
Citizen Kafka, 61, American broadcaster and musician. [174]
Millard Kaufman, 92, American screenwriter (Bad Day at Black Rock), co-creator of Mr. Magoo. [175]
Jeff Komlo, 52, American football player, fugitive, car crash. [176]
Robin Mukherjee, 65, Indian cricketer, heart attack. [177]
Lars Petersson, 85, Swedish railroad director-general. [178] (Swedish)
Dick Ross, 90, American television and film producer. [179]
Shinkichi Tajiri, 85, American-born Dutch sculptor. [180]
Coy Watson, Jr., 96, American silent film child actor, stomach cancer. [181]

13

Claude Black, 92, American civil rights advocate, after long illness. [182]
Betsy Blair, 85, American actress (Marty), cancer. [183]
Claude Brinegar, 82, American politician, United States Secretary of Transportation (1973–1975), natural causes. [184]
Anne Brown, 96, American-born Norwegian opera singer. [185]
Dan Brown, 50, American football coach, brain cancer. [186]
William Davidson, 86, American businessman, owner of the Detroit Pistons, Tampa Bay Lightning. [187]
Alan W. Livingston, 91, American music executive, President of Capitol Records, creator of Bozo the clown. [188]
Andrew Martin, 33, Canadian professional wrestler. [189]
James Purdy, 94, American novelist, poet and playwright. [190]
Medet Sadyrkulov, 55, Kyrgyz politician, car crash. [191]
Wu Chuanjun, 91, Chinese geographer. [192]

12

Leonore Annenberg, 91, American philanthropist, Chief of Protocol of the United States (1981–1982), natural causes. [193]
Kalman Bloch, 95, American clarinetist. [194]
Yann Brekilien, 88, French author, Breton language advocate. [195] (French)
Martin Knowlton, 88, American adult education innovator, founder of Elderhostel. [196].
Reginald C. Lindsay, 63, American judge, member of the District Court for Massachusetts since 1993, after long illness. [197]
Milan Stitt, 68, American playwright. [198]
Huw Thomas, 81, British news presenter (ITN). [199]
Blanca Varela, 82, Peruvian poet. [200]
David Wood, 86, British Army officer, last surviving platoon commander of the Pegasus Bridge operation during WWII. [201]

11

Paul W. Airey, 85, American Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force (1967–1969), complications from heart failure. [202]
Péter Bacsó, 81, Hungarian film director, after long illness. [203]
Frances Blaisdell, 97, American flautist. [204]
Arthur Code, 85, American astronomer, complications of a lung condition. [205]
Tim Kretschmer, 17, German mass murderer (Winnenden school shooting), suicide by gunshot. [206]
Charles Lewis, Jr., 45, American businessman, co-founder of mixed martial arts apparel company TapouT, car accident. [207]
Grady Lewis, 92, American basketball player, executive with Converse. [208]
Harvey Lowe, 90, Canadian broadcaster and yo-yo world champion, after long illness. [209]
Omakuchi Narasimhan, 73, Indian actor, heart failure. [210]

10

Brian Barry, 73, British philosopher. [211]
Denis Begbie, 94, South African cricketer. [212]
Derek Benfield, 82, British actor. [213]
Dick Daugherty, 79, American football player (Los Angeles Rams). [214]
Nancy Eiesland, 44, American theologian and author, lung cancer. [215]
Aaron Gural, 91, American real estate executive, pneumonia. [216]
Tom Hanson, 41, Canadian photojournalist, heart attack. [217]
George Hedges, 57, American lawyer and archaeologist, melanoma. [218]
Geir Killingland, 55, Norwegian modeling agency president, cancer. [219] (Norwegian)
Ralph Mercado, 67, American music promoter (RMM Records & Video), cancer. [220]
Chuck Olmstead, 60, American journalist (WHAS-TV), brain aneurysm. [221]
Anel Omar Rodríguez, 47, Panamanian politician, Minister of Culture, shot. [222]
Anatoly Seglin, 86, Russian ice hockey player (Spartak Moscow). [223]
Michael Shannon, 55, American pediatrician. [224]
Ebru Soykan, 28, Turkish transgender human rights activist, stabbed. [225]

9

Vince Cervi, 41, Australian boxer, heavyweight champion of Australia (1993–1995), shot. [226]
Hal Gaba, 63, American businessman, co-owner of Concord Music Group, cancer. [227]
Eddie Lowe, 83, British footballer and manager. [228]
Joseph Martin, 84, American addiction counselor and author, heart disease. [229]
Konstantin Morozov, 73, Russian shortest person. [230]
Larry Regan, 78, Canadian ice hockey player and general manager (Los Angeles Kings), Parkinson's disease. [231]
Russell Spears, 92, American stonemason, elder of the Narragansett tribe. [232]
Frank Stockwell, 80, Irish footballer. [233]
Guillermo Thorndike, 69, Peruvian journalist, writer and editor, co-founder of La República, heart attack. [234]
Terri Vandenbosch, 46, American actress, complications from chronic kidney disease. [235]

8

Girdhari Lal Bhargava, 73, Indian politician, heart attack. [236]
Ali Bongo, 79, Indian-born British magician, pneumonia. [237]
Willie King, 65, American blues musician, heart attack. [238]
Hank Locklin, 91, American country music singer, member of Grand Ole Opry. [239]
Anna Manahan, 84, Irish actress, multiple organ failure. [240]
Zbigniew Religa, 70, Polish cardiac surgeon and politician, Minister of Health (2005–2007), cancer. [241]
Ken Snellgrove, 67, British cricketer. [242]
Robert Soost, 88, American botanist, heart attack. [243]
Ernest Trova, 82, American artist, heart failure. [244]
Mary Warburg, 100, American philanthropist. [245]

7

Yan Arlazorov, 62, Russian actor and radio host, stomach cancer. [246]
Václav Bedrich, 90, Czech animation director. [247] (Hungarian)
Steve Bernard, 61, American businessman, founder of Cape Cod Potato Chips, pancreatic cancer. [248]
Jimmy Boyd, 70, American actor and singer ("I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"), cancer. [249]
Daniel E. Button, 91, American politician, member of the House of Representatives for New York (1967–1971), after long illness. [250]
Schuyler Chapin, 86, American general manager of the Metropolitan Opera (1972–1975). [251]
David Gaiman, 75, British businessman, public relations director for the Church of Scientology, heart attack. [252]
Takahiro Itoh, 21, Japanese actor, brother of Atsushi Itoh, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. [253]
Jang Ja-yeon, 26, South Korean actress (Boys Over Flowers), suicide by hanging. [254]
Dmitry Kozlov, 89, Russian aerospace engineer, founder of Progress State Research and Production Space Center. [255] (Russian)
Barbara Parker, 62, American novelist, after long illness. [256]
Tullio Pinelli, 100, Italian screenwriter (La strada). [257]
Anton Schoch, 49, Kazakhstani football head coach of national under-21 team. [258] (Russian)

6

Jim Bellows, 86, American newspaper editor, Alzheimer's disease. [259]
Silvio Cesare Bonicelli, 76, Italian Bishop of Parma. [260]
James Clyde, Baron Clyde, 77, British judge, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (1996–2001), cancer. [261]
Anthony Finigan, 83, British actor. [262]
Colleen Howe, 76, American sports agent, wife of Gordie Howe, Pick's disease. [263]
George Keverian, 77, American politician, member (1967–1991) and Speaker (1985–1991) of the Massachusetts House. [264]
Francis Magalona, 44, Filipino actor and rapper, leukemia. [265]
Kennedy McIntosh, 60, American basketball player, stroke. [266]
Vivian Murray, 76, Irish businessman, chairman of An Post and Bord Iascaigh Mhara, after long illness. [267]
Henri Pousseur, 79, Belgian composer. [268] (French)
Eduardo Rodríguez, 57, Puerto Rican baseball player, septic shock. [269]
Christon Tembo, 65, Zambian politician, Vice President (1997–2001). [270]
Susan Tsvangirai, 50, Zimbabwean wife of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, car collision. [271]

5

Mario Acuña, 68, Argentinian-born American astrophysicist, multiple myeloma. [272]
Valeri Broshin, 46, Russian footballer, cancer. [273] (Russian)
Francis Essex, 79, British television producer. [274]
Temima Gezari, 103, American artist, natural causes. [275]
Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr., 99, American engineer, pioneer of television technology, complications of hip fracture. [276]
Jitsuo Inagaki, 80, Japanese politician, illness. [277]
Oscar Kamau Kingara, 38, Kenyan lawyer and human rights activist, shot. [278]
Hung-Chang Lin, 89, Chinese-born American inventor, lung cancer. [279]
John Paul Oulu, Kenyan human rights activist, shot. [280]
Dave Pureifory, 59, American football player (Detroit Lions), prostate cancer. [281]

4

Joseph Bloch, 91, American pianist and professor, heart attack. [282]
Irving Buchman, 83, American makeup artist (Midnight Cowboy, Taxi Driver), heart failure. [283]
John Cephas, 78, American Piedmont blues guitarist, natural causes. [284]
Yvon Cormier, 70, Canadian professional wrestler, bone marrow cancer. [285]
Horton Foote, 92, American playwright and screenwriter, after short illness. [286]
Patricia De Martelaere, 51, Belgian writer and philosopher, complications of brain tumor. [287] (Dutch)
George McAfee, 90, American football player (Chicago Bears). [288]
Harry Parkes, 89, British footballer (Aston Villa). [289]
Salvatore Samperi, 64, Italian film director. [290]
Triztán Vindtorn, 66, Norwegian poet. [291]

3

Sydney Earle Chaplin, 82, American actor, son of Charlie Chaplin. [292]
Frederick Conyngham, 7th Marquess Conyngham, 84, Irish nobleman, cancer. [293]
Sebastian Faisst, 20, German handball player, heart failure. [294]
Flemming Flindt, 72, Danish choreographer, after short illness. [295]
Frank Ford, 92, American radio talk show host, stroke. [296]
Åke Lindman, 81, Finnish actor and film director, after long illness. [297]
Luis Mena Arroyo, 88, Mexican Auxiliary Bishop of Mexico. [298]
Gilbert Parent, 73, Canadian politician, Speaker (1994–2001) and Member of Parliament (1974–1984, 1988–2000), colon cancer. [299]
Barbara Wright, 93, British translator. [300]

2

Ernie Ashworth, 80, American country music singer, member of Grand Ole Opry. [301]
Michael Baker, 52, Canadian politician, member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly since 1998, cancer. [302]
Ernst Benda, 84, German politician, Interior Minister (1968–1969) and President, Federal Constitutional Court (1971–1983). [303]
Andy Bowman, 74, British footballer, after long illness. [304]
Robert Bruce, 65, British-born New Zealand professional wrestler and talent agent, after short illness. [305]
Chris Finnegan, 64, British boxer, Olympic middleweight champion (1968), complications from pneumonia. [306]
Alexandre Léontieff, 60, French politician, President of French Polynesia (1987–1991), heart attack. [307]
Ann Marie Rogers, 57, British campaigner for breast cancer drug Herceptin, breast cancer. [308]
Jack Schwartz, 79, American mathematician and computer scientist, liver cancer. [309]
Urban Sea, 20, French racehorse and broodmare, Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner (1993), complications during foaling. [310]
João Bernardo Vieira, 69, Guinea-Bissauan politician, Prime Minister (1978–1980) and President (1980–1999, since 2005), shot. [311]
Rob Williams, 29, British businessman, co-founder of Dolphin Music, snowboarding accident. [312]

1

Robert Haggiag, 95, Libyan-born American film producer (Candy). [313]
Charles S. Lieber, 78, Belgian-born American nutritionist, stomach cancer. [314]
Paolo Maffei, 83, Italian astronomer and science fiction writer. [315] (Italian)
Alf Pike, 91, Canadian ice hockey player and head coach (New York Rangers). [316]
Pepe Rubianes, 61, Spanish Catalan actor and theatre director, lung cancer. [317] (Spanish)
Eric Simms, 87, British ornithologist, writer and conservationist. [318]
Joan Turner, 86, British actress. [319]

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