Deaths in March 2009

The following is a list of deaths in March 2009.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
* Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

March 2009

1

* Robert Haggiag, 95, Libyan-born American film producer ('' Candy'').
* Ken Henry, 80, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1952) speed skater.
* Charles S. Lieber, 78, Belgian-born American nutritionist, stomach cancer.
*Paolo Maffei, 83, Italian astronomer and science fiction writer.
*Alf Pike, 91, Canadian ice hockey player and head coach (New York Rangers).
* Pepe Rubianes, 61, Spanish Catalan actor and theatre director, lung cancer.
* Eric Simms, 87, British ornithologist, writer and conservationist.
*Joan Turner, 86, British actress.

2

*Ernest Ashworth, 80, American country music singer, member of Grand Ole Opry.
* Michael Baker, 52, Canadian politician, member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly since 1998, cancer.
* Halit Balamir, appr. 87, Turkish Olympic silver medal-winning ( 1948) wrestler, myocardial infarction.
*Ernst Benda, 84, German politician, Interior Minister (1968–1969) and President, Federal Constitutional Court (1971–1983).
*Andy Bowman, 74, Scottish footballer ( Hearts, Newport County), after long illness.
*Robert Bruce, 65, British-born New Zealand professional wrestler and talent agent, after short illness.
*Chris Finnegan), complications from pneumonia.
* Alexandre Léontieff, 60, French politician, President of French Polynesia (1987–1991), heart attack.
* Ann Marie Rogers, 57, British activist, campaigner for breast cancer drug Herceptin, breast cancer.
*Jacob T. Schwartz, 79, American mathematician and computer scientist, liver cancer.
*Urban Sea, 20, French racehorse and broodmare, Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner (1993), complications during foaling.
*João Bernardo Vieira, 69, Guinea-Bissauan politician, Prime Minister (1978–1980) and President (1980–1999, since 2005), shot.

3

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

4

* Joseph Bloch, 91, American pianist and professor, heart attack.
* John Cephas, 78, American Piedmont blues guitarist, natural causes.
*Yvon Cormier, 70, Canadian professional wrestler, bone marrow cancer.
*Horton Foote, 92, American playwright and screenwriter, after short illness.
* Patricia De Martelaere, 51, Belgian writer and philosopher, complications of brain tumor.
*George McAfee, 90, American football player ( Chicago Bears) and member of Pro Football Hall of Fame.
* Harry Parkes, 89, British footballer ( Aston Villa).
* Vasili Postnov, 46, Tajikistani footballer.
*Salvatore Samperi, 64, Italian film director.
*Triztán Vindtorn, 66, Norwegian poet.

5

* Mario Acuña, 68, Argentinian-born American astrophysicist, multiple myeloma.
*Valeri Broshin, 46, Russian footballer, cancer.
*Francis Essex, 79, British television producer.
* Temima Gezari, 103, American artist, natural causes.
* Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr., 99, American engineer, pioneer of television technology, complications of hip fracture.
* Janez Gradišnik, 91, Slovenian author and translator.
* Mac Henderson, 101, British rugby union player (Scotland) and businessman.
*Jitsuo Inagaki, 80, Japanese politician, illness.
*Oscar Kamau Kingara, 38, Kenyan lawyer and human rights activist, shot.Rights activist Oscar Kamau Kingara shot dead in central Nairobi
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* Hung-Chang Lin, 89, Chinese-born American inventor, lung cancer.
* John Paul Oulu, Kenyan human rights activist, shot.
*Dave Pureifory, 59, American football player ( Detroit Lions), prostate cancer.

6

*Jim Bellows, 86, American newspaper editor, Alzheimer's disease.
* Silvio Cesare Bonicelli, 76, Italian Bishop of Parma.
*James Clyde, Baron Clyde, 77, British judge, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (1996–2001), cancer.
*Colleen Howe, 76, American sports agent, wife of Gordie Howe, Pick's disease.
* George Keverian, 77, American politician, member (1967–1991) and Speaker (1985–1991) of the Massachusetts House.
*Francis Magalona, 44, Filipino actor and rapper, leukemia.
* Kennedy McIntosh, 60, American basketball player, stroke.
* Vivian Murray, 76, Irish businessman, chairman of An Post and Bord Iascaigh Mhara, after long illness.
*Henri Pousseur, 79, Belgian composer.
* Eduardo Rodríguez, 57, Puerto Rican baseball player, septic shock.
*Christon Tembo, 64, Zambian politician, Vice President (1997–2001).
*Susan Tsvangirai, 50, Zimbabwean wife of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, car collision.

7

* Steve Bernard, 61, American businessman, founder of Cape Cod Potato Chips, pancreatic cancer.
* Michael Bowen, 71, American artist, complications of poliomyelitis.
*Jimmy Boyd, 70, American actor and singer ("I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"), cancer.
*Daniel E. Button, 91, American politician, member of the House of Representatives for New York (1967–1971), after long illness.
*Chan Yun, 93, Taiwanese Buddhist monk and teacher of meditation.
*Schuyler Chapin, 86, American general manager of the Metropolitan Opera (1972–1975).
*David Gaiman, 75, British businessman, public relations director for the Church of Scientology, heart attack.
*Jang Ja-yeon, 26, South Korean actress (''Boys Over Flowers (2009 TV series), Boys Over Flowers''), suicide by hanging.
*Dmitri Ilyich Kozlov, Dmitri Kozlov, 89, Russian aerospace engineer, founder of Progress State Research and Production Rocket Space Center, Progress State Research and Production Space Center.
*Barbara Parker (writer), Barbara Parker, 62, American novelist, after long illness.
*Tullio Pinelli, 100, Italian screenwriter (''La strada'').
*Anton Shokh, 49, Ukrainian football player and coach.

8

*Girdhari Lal Bhargava, 73, Indian politician, heart attack.
*Ali Bongo (magician), Ali Bongo, 79, Indian-born British magician, pneumonia.
*James Allen Keast, 86, Australian ornithologist.
*Willie King, 65, American blues musician, heart attack.
*Hank Locklin, 91, American country music singer, member of Grand Ole Opry.
*Anna Manahan, 84, Irish actress, multiple organ failure.
*Zbigniew Religa, 70, Polish cardiac surgeon and politician, Minister of Health (2005–2007), cancer.
*Robert Soost, 88, American botanist, heart attack.
*Ernest Trova, 82, American artist, heart failure.
*Mary Warburg, 100, American philanthropist.

9

*Timothy Abell, 78, English cricketer and field hockey player.
*Adiele Afigbo, 71, Nigerian historian.
*Hanne Darboven, 68, German artist, lymphoma.
*Eddie Lowe (footballer), Eddie Lowe, 83, British footballer and manager.
*Joseph Martin (speaker), Joseph Martin, 84, American Roman Catholic priest, addiction counselor and author, heart disease.
*Larry Regan, 78, Canadian ice hockey player and general manager (Los Angeles Kings), Parkinson's disease.
*Russell Spears, 92, American stonemason, elder of the Narragansett (tribe), Narragansett tribe.
*Frank Stockwell, 80, Irish footballer.
*Guillermo Thorndike, 69, Peruvian journalist, writer and editor, co-founder of ''La República (Peru), La República'', heart attack.

10

*Brian Barry, 73, British philosopher.
*Denis Begbie, 94, South African cricketer.
*Derek Benfield, 82, British actor.
*Jack Capper, 77, British footballer.
*Dick Daugherty, 79, American football player (Los Angeles Rams).
*Nancy Eiesland, 44, American theologian and author, lung cancer.
*Jack Grimes (actor), Jack Grimes, 82, American actor and voice actor (''Speed Racer'').
*Aaron Gural, 91, American real estate executive, pneumonia.
*Tom Hanson (photojournalist), Tom Hanson, 41, Canadian photojournalist, heart attack.
*George Hedges, 57, American lawyer and archaeologist, melanoma.
*Ralph Mercado, 67, American music promoter (RMM Records & Video), cancer.
*Anel Omar Rodríguez, 47, Panamanian politician, Minister of Culture, shot.
*Michael Shannon (pediatrician), Michael Shannon, 55, American pediatrician.

11

*Paul W. Airey, 85, American Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force (1967–1969), complications from heart failure.
*Péter Bacsó, 81, Hungarian film director, after long illness.
*Frances Blaisdell, 97, American flautist.
*Arthur Code, 85, American astronomer, complications of lung condition.
*Charles Lewis, Jr., 45, American businessman, co-founder of mixed martial arts apparel company Tapout (clothing brand), Tapout, car accident.
*Grady Lewis, 92, American basketball player, executive with Converse (shoe company), Converse.
*Harvey Lowe, 90, Canadian broadcaster and yo-yo world champion, after long illness.

12

*Leonore Annenberg, 91, American philanthropist, Chief of Protocol of the United States (1981–1982), natural causes.
*Kalman Bloch, 95, American clarinetist.
*Yann Brekilien, 88, French author, Breton language advocate.
*Jesús Elizondo, 78, Mexican Olympic shooter.
*Martin Knowlton, 88, American adult education innovator, founder of Elderhostel.
*Reginald C. Lindsay, 63, American jurist, member of the District Court for Massachusetts since 1993, after long illness.
*Milan Stitt, 68, American playwright.
*Ferenc Szabó (footballer), Ferenc Szabó, 88, Hungarian footballer (Ferencvárosi TC).
*Huw Thomas, 81, Welsh broadcaster.
*Blanca Varela, 82, Peruvian poet.
*David Wood (British Army officer), David Wood, 86, British Army officer, last surviving platoon commander of the Pegasus Bridge, Pegasus Bridge operation during World War II.

13

*Medferiashwork Abebe, 84, Ethiopian royal.
*Claude Black (minister), Claude Black, 92, American civil rights advocate, after long illness.
*Betsy Blair, 85, American actress ''(Marty (film), Marty)'', cancer.
*Claude Brinegar, 82, American politician, United States Secretary of Transportation (1973–1975), natural causes.
*Anne Brown, 96, American-born Norwegian opera singer.
*Bill Davidson (businessman), William Davidson, 86, American businessman, owner of the Detroit Pistons, Tampa Bay Lightning.
*Endal, 13, British service dog, stroke.
*Keith Herber, 60, American role-playing game designer.
*Alan W. Livingston, 91, American music executive, President of Capitol Records, creator of Bozo the clown.
*James Purdy, 94, American novelist, poet and playwright.
*Medet Sadyrkulov, 55, Kyrgyz politician, car crash.
*Andrew Saunders, 77, British civil servant.
*Test (wrestler), Test, 33, Canadian professional wrestler, accidental overdose.

14

*Alain Bashung, 61, French singer, composer and actor, lung cancer.
*Edith Lucie Bongo, 45, Congolese wife of Gabon President Omar Bongo, after long illness.
*Altovise Davis, 65, American actress and dancer, widow of Sammy Davis, Jr., stroke.
*Terence Edmond, 69, British actor (''Z-Cars''), bronchiectasis.
*Ronald Max Hartwell, 88, Australian economic historian.
*Citizen Kafka, 61, American broadcaster and musician.
*Millard Kaufman, 92, American screenwriter (''Bad Day at Black Rock''), co-creator of Mr. Magoo.
*Abdul Rahman Khleifawi, 78–79, Syrian politician, Prime Minister (1971–1972, 1976–1978).
*Patrick Kinna, 95, British stenographer to Winston Churchill.
*Jeff Komlo, 52, American football player, fugitive, car crash.
*Robin Mukherjee, 65, Indian cricketer.
*Coy Watson, Jr., 96, American silent film child actor, stomach cancer.

15

*Jumadi Abdi, 26, Indonesian footballer.
*Nikolai Afanasyev, 92, Russian firearms designer.
*Richard Aoki, 71, American civil rights activist.
*Miguel Bernad, 91, Filipino Jesuit priest, academician and writer.
*Billy C. Clark, 80, American writer.
*Edmund Hockridge, 89, Canadian singer and actor.
*Pirkle Jones, 95, American photojournalist.
*Paulo Eduardo Andrade Ponte, 77, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of São Luís do Maranhão, São Luís do Maranhão.
*Michael Quinn (academic), Michael Quinn, 86, American Lasallian Brothers, Lasallian brother and psychology professor, President of Saint Mary's College of California, Saint Mary's College (1962–1969).
*William Schwartz (physician), William Schwartz, 86, American nephrologist.
*Ron Silver, 62, American actor (''Ali (film), Ali'', ''Timecop'') and political activist, esophageal cancer.
*Alan Suddick, 64, British footballer, cancer.
*Shinkichi Tajiri, 85, American-born Dutch sculptor.
*Gunnar Tjörnebo, 81, Swedish steeplechase athlete.
*Elmer Weingartner, 90, American baseball player.
*Harry Zachariah, 97, Australian cricketer.
*Lionel Ziprin, 84, American poet, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

16

*Bill Burns (Australian politician), Bill Burns, 75, Australian politician.
*Roland Dantes, 67, Filipino film actor and martial arts instructor, heart failure.
*The DeZurik Sisters, Carolyn Dezurik, 90, American country musician.
*Franz Feldinger, 80, Austrian Olympic footballer.
*Marjorie Grene, 98, American philosopher, after short illness.
*Nicholas Henderson, Sir Nicholas Henderson, 89, British diplomat.
*Nicholas Hughes, 47, American marine biologist, son of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, suicide by hanging.
*Jack Lawrence (songwriter), Jack Lawrence, 96, American songwriter, complications from fall.
*Miljenko Licul, 62, Slovenian graphic designer.
*Ramón Mantilla Duarte, 83, Colombian Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Ipiales, Ipiales (1985–1987).
*Popcorn Sutton, 62, American moonshiner, suspected suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.

17

*Lester Davenport, 77, American blues musician, prostate cancer.
*Edith Hahn Beer, 95, Austrian author, Holocaust survivor, natural causes.
*Clodovil Hernandes, 71, Brazilian fashion stylist, politician and television presenter, stroke.
*Morton Lachman, 90, American television writer and executive producer, complications from diabetes and heart attack.
*Whitey Lockman, 82, American baseball player (San Francisco Giants), pulmonary complications.
*Jane Mayhall, 90, American poet.
*Dale Memmelaar, 72, American football player (Cleveland Browns)
*Roi Wilson, 87, British Royal Navy officer.

18

*Eddie Bo, 79, American singer and pianist, heart attack.
*Ed Callahan, 79, American credit union administrator, blood complications.
*Gianni Giansanti, 52, Italian photographer, bone cancer.
*Des Healey, 81, Australian rules footballer.
*Kent Henry, 59, American guitarist.
*Lil E. Tee, 20, American racehorse, Kentucky Derby winner (1992), euthanized.
*Yeremey Parnov, 73, Russian writer.
*Moultrie Patten, 89, American actor (''Northern Exposure'') and jazz musician, pneumonia,
*Pocholo Ramirez, 76, Filipino race car driver and television host, cancer.
*Natasha Richardson, 45, British actress (''Cabaret (musical), Cabaret'', ''The Parent Trap (1998 film), The Parent Trap'', ''Maid in Manhattan''), epidural hematoma.
*Luis Rojas Mena, 91, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Culiacán, Culiacán (1969–1993).
*Glenn Sundby, 87, American gymnast, co-founder of USA Gymnastics, founder of International Gymnastics Hall of Fame.
*Donald Tolmie, 85, Canadian politician, MP for Welland (electoral district), Welland (1965–1972).
*Earl Wood, 97, American physiologist, co-inventor of the G-suit.

19

*Paul Angelis, 66, English actor and writer (''Z-Cars'', ''Porridge (1974 TV series)/Porridge'', ''Yellow Submarine (film)/ Yellow Submarine'')
*Felipe Santiago Benítez Avalos, Felipe Benítez Avalos, 82, Paraguayan archbishop of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Asunción, Asunción.
*Maria Bergson, 95, American architect and designer.
*Alastair Boyd, 7th Baron Kilmarnock, 81, British aristocrat, writer and politician.
*Ion Dolănescu, 65, Romanian singer and politician, heart attack.
*Ezio Flagello, 78, American opera singer, heart failure.
*Harry Harris (director), Harry Harris, 86, American television director (''Fame (1982 TV series), Fame'', ''Falcon Crest''), myelodysplasia.

20

*Joseph Albright, 70, American jurist, member of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, esophageal cancer.
*Roberta Alison, 65, American tennis player, injuries sustained in fire.
*Bill Bogash, 92, American roller derby skater, respiratory failure.
*Mel Brown (guitarist), Mel Brown, 69, American blues guitarist, emphysema.
*Abdellatif Filali, 81, Moroccan politician, Prime Minister (1994–1998).
*Vicente Gandía, 84, Mexican artist of Spanish origin, heart attack.
*Jaroslav Pitner, 83, Czech ice hockey coach.
*Vladimir Savčić, 60, Serbian singer, cancer.
*Pierre Skawinski, 96, French Olympic sprinter.
*George Weber (radio personality), George Weber, 47, American radio broadcaster, stabbed.
*Václav Winter (athlete), Václav Winter, 84, Czech Olympic athlete.
*Albina Yelkina, 76, Soviet Olympic athlete.

21

*Bob Arbogast, 81, American radio and television personality, lung cancer.
*Beach Towel (horse), Beach Towel, 22, American harness racehorse, Harness Horse of the Year (1990), colic.
*John Cater, 77, British actor.
*Drummond Erskine, 89, American actor (''Late Show with David Letterman'').
*Winifred Foley, 94, British writer.
*John Franklyn-Robbins, 84, British actor.
*Doug Frith, 64, Canadian MP for Sudbury (federal electoral district), Sudbury (1980–1988), Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (1984), heart attack.
*Joseph Jasgur, 89, American photographer, natural causes.
*Vladimir Kuchmiy, 61, Russian newspaper chief editor (''Sport Express'').
*Genoveva Matute, 94, Filipino writer.
*Walt Poddubny, 49, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers, Edmonton Oilers).
*Khadijeh Saqafi, 95, Iranian widow of religious/political leader Ruhollah Khomeini, after long illness.

22

*Frank Bogert, 99, American politician, Mayor of Palm Springs, California (1958–1966, 1982–1988).
*Timothy Brinton, 79, British newsreader and politician, MP (1979–1987).
*Awilda Carbia, 71, Puerto Rican actress, comedian, impersonator and television personality, pneumonia.
*Ralph Cooperman, 81, British Olympic fencer.
*Steve Doll, 48, American professional wrestler, blood clot.
*Jade Goody, 27, British reality television personality, cervical cancer.
*Archie Green, 91, Canadian-born American folklorist and musicologist, renal failure.
*John L. Harper, 73, British biologist.
*Reg Isidore, 59, Aruban drummer (Robin Trower, Peter Green (musician), Peter Green), heart attack,
*Howard Komives, 67, American basketball player (New York Knicks, Detroit Pistons), natural causes.
*Guman Mal Lodha, 83, Indian judge and politician.
*Aubrey Mayhew, 81, American music producer.
*Abismo Negro, 37, Mexican lucha libre professional wrestler, drowned.
*Kanta Rao, 85, Indian actor, liver cancer.
*Geoffrey Sherman, 93, British Royal Marines officer, organised the ceremony for the Japanese surrender in 1945.
*Aldo Vagnozzi, 83, American politician, member of the Michigan House of Representatives (2002–2006), cancer.
*Leon Walker, 20, British rugby league player, natural causes (Wakefield Trinity, Wakefield Trinity Wildcats).

23

*Manuel del Rosario, 93, Filipino Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Malolos, Malolos (1962–1977), pneumonia.
*Geoff Holmes, 50, British cricketer.
*Raúl Macías, 74, Mexican former NBA (now WBA) world bantamweight champion boxer, cancer.
*Xavier Maniguet, 62, French intelligence agent, involved in the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, sinking of the ''Rainbow Warrior'', plane crash.
*Billy Rackard, 78, Irish hurler and Gaelic footballer.
*Lloyd Ruby, 81, American auto racing driver.
*Ronald Tavel, 72, American playwright, heart attack.
*Tonda (orangutan), Tonda, 50, American Sumatran-born orangutan, oldest in captivity in United States.
*Peter Wherrett, 72, Australian motoring journalist, cancer.

24

*Robert Delford Brown, 78, American artist, drowned (body found on this date).
*Irina Gabashvili, 48, Georgian-born American gymnast, cancer.
*Uriel Jones, 74, American drummer (The Funk Brothers), complications from heart attack.
*George Kell, 86, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers) and broadcaster, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.
*Hans Klenk, 89, German racing driver.
*Denis Miller, 90, New Zealand airline and bomber pilot.
*Gábor Ocskay, 33, Hungarian ice hockey player, heart attack.
*Laurie Short, 93, Australian trade union leader.
*Igor Stelnov, 46, Russian ice hockey player (HC CSKA Moscow), 1986 World Ice Hockey Championships, 1986 world champions team member, after long illness.

25

*Frank Adams (footballer), Frank Adams, 76, British footballer.
*Steven Bach, 70, American film producer and author, cancer.
*Johnny Blanchard, 76, American baseball player (New York Yankees), heart attack.
*Marilyn Borden, 76, American actress (''I Love Lucy''), heart failure.
*Bob Boucher (educator), Bob Boucher, 68, British academic.
*Donald W. Duncan, 79, American soldier and antiwar activist.
*Yukio Endō, 72, Japanese gymnast, esophageal cancer.
*John Hope Franklin, 94, American historian, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, heart failure.
*Mari Kapi, 58, Papua New Guinean judge, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (2003–2008), kidney failure.
*Kosuke Koyama, 79, Japanese-born American theologian, pneumonia.
*Manny Oquendo, 78, American percussionist (Tito Puente, Tito Rodríguez), heart attack.
*Giovanni Parisi, 41, Italian Olympic featherweight champion boxer (1988), car accident.
*Arthur Richman, 83, American baseball executive (New York Yankees, New York Mets) and writer (''New York Daily Mirror'').
*Dan Seals, 61, American country music singer-songwriter (England Dan & John Ford Coley), mantle cell lymphoma.
*Michael Ward (UK politician), Michael Ward, 77, British politician, MP for Peterborough (UK Parliament constituency), Peterborough (1974–1979).
*Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu, 54, Turkish politician, founder of the Great Union Party, helicopter crash.

26

*Griselda Álvarez, 95, Mexican politician and writer, Governor of Colima (1979–1985), natural causes.
*Arne Bendiksen, 82, Norwegian singer, composer and record producer, heart failure.
*Kim Bradley (surfer), Kim Bradley, 53, Australian surfer.
*Gus Cifelli, 84, American football player ( Detroit Lions), natural causes.
*Larry Glick, 87, American talk radio host (WBZ (AM), WBZ), complications from cardiac surgery.
*Edmund Lawson, 60, British barrister, stroke.
*Wayne Lewellen, 65, American film studio executive (Paramount Pictures, Paramount), cancer.
*John Mayhew (musician), John Mayhew, 61, British drummer (Genesis (band), Genesis), heart failure.
*Shane McConkey, 39, Canadian extreme skier, base jumping accident.
*Bob Scott (ornithologist), Bob Scott, 70, British conservationist and ornithologist, cancer.
*Ivan Wyatt, 85, New Zealand cricketer.

27

*Alysheba, 25, American racehorse, Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner (1987), euthanized.
*Sandra Cantu homicide, Sandra Cantu, 8, American homicide victim.
*Jack Dreyfus, 95, American financier, pioneer of mutual funds.
*Evert Grift, 86, Dutch Olympic cyclist.
*Merle Hansen, 89, American civil rights activist, founding president of the North American Farm Alliance.
*Dorothy Kelly (educator), Dorothy Kelly, 79, American educator, President of the College of New Rochelle, heart attack.
*Irving R. Levine, 86, American journalist (NBC news), prostate cancer.
*Arnold Meri, 89, Estonian Red Army World War II veteran.
*Penor Rinpoche, 77, Tibetan religious leader (Nyingma, Nyingma Buddhist tradition).

28

*Earle Brucker, Jr., 83, American baseball player.
*Peter F. Donnelly, 70, American arts patron, vice-chairman of Americans for the Arts, complications of pancreatic cancer.
*Inger Lise Gjørv, 70, Norwegian politician, cancer.
*Janet Jagan, 88, American-born Guyanese President (1997–1999), abdominal aortic aneurysm.
*Hughie Kelly, Hugh Kelly, 85, British footballer (Blackpool F.C., Blackpool), pneumonia.
*Martin J. Klein, 84, American historian and physicist.
*Helmut Noller, 89, German Olympic sprint canoer.
*Jorge Preloran, 76, Argentine filmmaker, prostate cancer.

29

*Ivor Dent, 85, Canadian Mayor of Edmonton (1968–1974), Alzheimer's disease.
*Helvecia Viera, 80, Chilean comedian and actress, stroke.
*Vladimir Fedotov, 66, Russian footballer and manager, Soviet Top League leading goalscorer (Soviet Top League 1964, 1964).
*Monte Hale, 89, American country musician and actor, after long illness.
*Andy Hallett, 33, American actor (''Angel (1999 TV series), Angel''), heart disease.
*Maurice Jarre, 84, French Academy Award-winning film composer (''Lawrence of Arabia (film), Lawrence of Arabia'', ''Doctor Zhivago (film), Doctor Zhivago'', ''Ghost (1990 film), Ghost''), cancer.
*Helen Levitt, 95, American photographer, respiratory failure.
*Miroslav Moravec, 70, Czech actor, cancer.
*Earl Paulk, 81, American pastor, implicated in several sex scandals, cancer.
*Lou Saban, 87, American football player (Cleveland Browns) and coach (Boston Patriots, Buffalo Bills), complications from fall.
*Kanwaljit Singh (politician), Kanwaljit Singh, 67, Indian politician, traffic accident.
*Gerrit Viljoen, 82, South African politician, Administrator-General of South-West Africa (1978–1980).

30

*Shirl Bernheim, 87, American actress.
*Burton Blumert, 80, American president of the Center for Libertarian Studies, chairman of Mises Institute, cancer.
*Eugène Drenthe, 83, Surinamese playwright and poet.
*Herman Franks, 95, American baseball manager, heart failure.
*Andrea Mead Lawrence, 76, American alpine skier, cancer.
*Eric Munoz, 61, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly since 2001, complications of cardiac surgery.
*Jackie Pretorius, 74, South African racing driver, assault during home invasion.
*David Scott (art historian), David Scott, 92, American art historian.
*George Stoddard, 92, American financier, natural causes.
*Loras Joseph Watters, 93, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Winona, Winona (1969–1986).
*Sulim Yamadayev, 35, Russian military commander and Chechen people, Chechen warlord, shot.

31

*Raúl Alfonsín, 82, Argentine President (1983–1989), lung cancer.
*Jarl Alfredius, 66, Swedish journalist, prostate cancer.
*John Atkins (writer), John Atkins, 92, British writer.
*Marga Barbu, 80, Romanian actress.
*Michael Cox (novelist), Michael Cox, 60, British novelist, cancer.
*Paul E. Davis, 87, American college football coach.
*Emory Elliott, 66, American academic, heart attack.
*A. F. Golam Osmani, 76, Indian politician, lung cancer.
*Hong Song-nam, 79, North Korean politician, Premier (1997–2003).
*Gordon Kerr (swimmer), Gordon Kerr, 91, Canadian Olympic swimmer.
*Choor Singh, 98, Singaporean jurist, member of the Supreme Court of Singapore (1963–1980).
*Reresby Sitwell, Sir Reresby Sitwell, 81, British aristocrat and writer.Sir Reresby Sitwell, Bt: writer and businessman
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