Deaths in February 2011

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship, reason for notability, cause of death, and reference.

February 2011

1

• Ernst Badian, 85, Austrian classical scholar and history professor, complications from a fall.
• Lennox Fyfe, Baron Fyfe of Fairfield, 69, British politician.
• Daniele Formica, 61, Irish-born Italian actor, theatre director and playwright, pancreatic cancer.
• Douglas Haig, 90, American child actor.
• Stanisław Michalski, 78, Polish actor.
• Derek Rawcliffe, 89, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway.
• Knut Risan, 80, Norwegian actor.
• Husik Santurjan, 91, Turkish-born Armenian archbishop of Armenian Apostolic Church.
• Les Stubbs, 81, British footballer.

2

• Geoff Ainsworth, 64, Australian football player, cancer.
• Edward Amy, 92, Canadian brigadier general.
• Ian Anderson, 57, British politician, brain tumour.
• Darrel Baldock, 72, Australian football player and coach, member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly and Minister, stroke.
• Harriett Ball, 64, American educator, heart attack.
• Armando Chin Yong, 53, Malaysian opera singer, heart disease.
• Jimmy Fell, 75, British footballer.
• Bill Foster, 78, American television director, cancer.
• Defne Joy Foster, 35, Turkish actress, presenter and VJ.
• Awal Gul, 48, Afghan detainee in Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, heart attack.
• Douglas M. Head, 80, American politician, Minnesota Attorney General.
• Rodney Hill, 89, British mathematician.
• Clark Hulings, 88, American realist painter and physicist.
• Margaret John, 84, British actress, liver cancer.
• Durga Mukherjee, 77, Indian cricketer.
• Eric Nicol, 91, Canadian writer.
• René Verdon, 86, French-born American White House Executive Chef, leukemia.

3

• Ajib Ahmad, 63, Malaysian politician, Chief Minister of Johor.
• Édouard Glissant, 82, Martinican poet and writer.
• LeRoy Grannis, 93, American surfing photographer.
• Tony Levin, 71, British jazz drummer.
• Ron Piché, 75, Canadian baseball player, cancer.
• Maria Schneider, 58, French actress, cancer.
• Tatyana Shmyga, 82, Russian operetta singer and film actress, People's Artist of the USSR, vascular disease.
• Machan Varghese, 50, Indian Malayalam film actor, cancer.
• Neil Young, 66, British footballer, cancer.
• Robert Young, 95, American Olympic silver medal-winning athlete.

4

• Lu Bain, 68, Canadian football player.
• Martial Célestin, 97, Haitian lawyer and diplomat, Prime Minister.
• Woodie Fryman, 70, American baseball player.
• Michael Habeck, 66, German actor, after short illness.
• Fred Hole, 75, English art director.
• Dame Olga Lopes-Seale, 92, Guyanese-born Barbadian broadcaster and singer.
• Ahmed Mohamed Mahmoud, 37, Egyptian journalist, shot.
• Lena Nyman, 66, Swedish actress, cancer.
• Vasile Paraschiv, 82, Romanian political activist and dissident.
• Tura Satana, 72, American actress, heart failure.
• Earl Irvin West, 90, American church historian.
• Lee Winfield, 64, American basketball player, colon cancer.

5

• Fanizani Akuda, 78, Zimbabwean sculptor.
• Omar Amiralay, 66, Syrian filmmaker, heart attack.
• Eugeniusz Czajka, 83, Polish Olympic field hockey player.
• Ruth H. Funk, 93, American LDS Church youth leader.
• John Paul Getty III, 54, American heir and kidnapping victim, grandson of J. Paul Getty and father of Balthazar Getty, after long illness.
• Miriam Hansen, 61, American cinema scholar and professor, cancer.
• Brian Jacques, 71, British fantasy author, heart attack.
• Adjie Massaid, 43, Indonesian actor, under-23 national football team manager and politician, heart attack.
• Hiroko Nagata, 65, Japanese radical and murderer, vice-chairman of United Red Army.
• Donald Peterman, 79, American cinematographer, complications from myelodysplastic syndrome.
• Pertti Purhonen, 68, Finnish Olympic bronze medal-winning boxer, Alzheimer's disease.
• Martin Quigley Jr., 93, American publisher, spy and author.
• Peggy Rea, 89, American character actress, heart failure.
• Charles E. Silberman, 86, American journalist and author, heart attack.
• Pavel Vondruška, 85, Czech conductor and actor, accidental fall.
• Albert Yator, 17, Kenyan long-distance runner, world junior steeplechase medallist, bronchopneumonia.

6

• Andrée Chedid, 90, Egyptian-born French poet and novelist.
• Isabelle Corey, 71, French film actress, cancer.
• Billy Gallier, 78, British footballer and manager.
• Josefa Iloilo, 90, Fijian politician, President.
• Gary Moore, 58, Irish rock guitarist and singer, heart attack.
• William Morais, 19, Brazilian footballer, shot.
• John Nisby, 74, American football player, pneumonia.
• Ken Olsen, 84, American engineer, co-founder of Digital Equipment Corporation.
• Aurel Smith, 95, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.
• James Watson, 59, British trumpeter, heart attack.

7

• Maria Altmann, 94, Austrian-born American art heiress, after long illness.
• Jerry Ames, 80, American tapdancer and choreographer.
• Peter Feteris, 58, Dutch footballer.
• Hysen Hakani, 78, Albanian screenwriter and director, directed first Albanian short film.
• Bobby Kuntz, 79, American CFL player, Parkinson's disease.
• Eric Parsons, 87, British footballer.
• Ralph Pöhland, 64, German Olympic skier.
• Frank Roberts, 65, Australian boxer, first Australian Aboriginal Olympian, heart attack.

8

• Nick Arundel, 83, American journalist and publisher, pulmonary failure.
• Roza Baglanova, 89, Kazakh singer, People's Artist of the USSR.
• Luiz Bueno, 74, Brazilian race car driver, cancer.
• Elaine Crowley, 83, Irish author.
• Cliff Dapper, 91, American baseball player.
• Bradley C. Livezey, 56, American ornithologist, car accident.
• Tony Malinosky, 101, American baseball player.
• Marie-Rose Morel, 38, Belgian politician, cancer.
• Jorma Ojaharju, 72, Finnish author.
• Charles O. Perry, 81, American sculptor, stomach cancer.
• Angelo Reyes, 65, Filipino general and politician, suicide by gunshot.
• Cesare Rubini, 87, Italian basketball player and coach, water polo player.
• Donald S. Sanford, 92, American film and television writer.
• Marvin Sease, 64, American blues singer, pneumonia.
• Ferbent Shehu, 78, Albanian dancer and choreographer, heart attack.
• Eugenio Toussaint, 56, Mexican composer and jazz musician, heart attack.

9

• Olga de Angulo, 55, Colombian Olympic swimmer.
• Miltiadis Evert, 71, Greek politician and minister, Mayor of Athens and President of New Democracy.
• Leroy R. Hassell Sr., 55, American jurist, Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court and Chief Justice.
• David Sánchez Juliao, 65, Colombian author.
• Jimmy Lemi Milla, 62, Southern Sudanese politician, shot.
• Alicia Pietri, 87, Venezuelan First Lady, widow of President Rafael Caldera.

10

• Trevor Bailey, 87, British Test cricketer and BBC radio broadcaster, house fire.
• Emory Bellard, 83, American college football coach, creator of wishbone offense, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Doug Davis, 66, American football player.
• Claus Helmut Drese, 88, German theatre and opera administrator.
• Saad el-Shazly, 88, Egyptian military leader.
• Michael Harsgor, 86, Israeli historian.
• Bill Justice, 97, American animator.
• Blanche Honegger Moyse, 101, American conductor.
• Oleg Lavrentiev, 84, Russian nuclear physicist.
• Jon Petrovich, 63, American journalist, executive at CNN, cancer.
• Sam Plank, 62, British radio broadcaster, cancer.
• Fred Speck, 63, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Lynne Walker, 54, British music and theatre critic, cancer.
• Józef Życiński, 62, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Lublin, myocardial infarction.

11

• Nubia Barahona, 10, American child abuse victim, beaten.
• Reynaldo de Barros, 79, Brazilian politician, mayor of São Paulo.
• Bad News Brown, 33, Canadian rapper and harmonica player, beaten and shot.
• Sir Arthur Bryan, 87, British businessman.
• Tom Carnegie, 91, American sports announcer.
• Bo Carpelan, 84, Finnish poet and author.
• John Clay, 86, English cricketer.
• Steve Dacri, 58, American magician, cancer.
• Joe R. Greenhill, 96, American attorney, Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court.
• Roy Gussow, 92, American sculptor, heart attack.
• Gerry Huth, 77, American football player.
• Christian J. Lambertsen, 93, American diving engineer, inventor of first SCUBA device, renal failure.
• Earle Morris Jr., 82, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina.
• Josef Pirrung, 61, German footballer, cancer.
• Chuck Tanner, 82, American baseball manager and player, after long illness.

12

• Peter Alexander, 84, Austrian actor and singer.
• Kevin Barry Sr., 74, New Zealand boxing coach, after long illness.
• Gino Cimoli, 81, American baseball player, heart and kidney complications.
• Mato Damjanović, 83, Croatian chess grandmaster.
• Hal Dean, 89, American football player.
• Ernesto De Pascale, 52, Italian music promoter, producer and critic.
• Mark C. Ebersole, 89, American educator.
• James Elliott, 82, British-born Australian actor, Lewy body dementia.
• Betty Garrett, 91, American actress, singer and dancer, aortic aneurysm.
• Fedor den Hertog, 64, Dutch cyclist and Olympic medallist, prostate cancer.
• Andrzej Kłopotowski, 75, Polish Olympic swimmer.
• Konstantinos Kosmopoulos, 83, Greek politician, Mayor of Thessaloniki.
• Kenneth Mars, 75, American actor, pancreatic cancer.
• John Monson, 11th Baron Monson, 78, British aristocrat and politician, head injuries following a fall.
• Kyllikki Naukkarinen, 85, Finnish Olympic hurdler
• Saleh Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi, 90, Saudi Arabian businessman, founder of Al-Rajhi Bank, heart attack.
• Joanne Siegel, 93, American widow of Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel, reported model for the character of Lois Lane.
• Vipindas, 72, Indian cinematographer and director, short illness.
• Frank Whitten, 68, New Zealand actor, cancer.

13

• Arnfinn Bergmann, 82, Norwegian ski jumper and Olympic champion, after brief illness.
• Bustanil Arifin, 85, Indonesian politician.
• Manuel Esperón, 99, Mexican composer and actor.
• Louis Grisius, 74, Luxembourgish Olympic cyclist.
• Oakley Hall III, 60, American playwright, heart attack.
• Dona Hardy, 98, American actress.
• Inese Jaunzeme, 78, Latvian javelin thrower and Olympic gold medalist.
• Nobutoshi Kihara, 84, Japanese electronics engineer for Sony.
• Paul Marcus, 56, British television producer, cancer.
• T. P. McKenna, 81, Irish actor.
• Brian Shaw, 79/80, British rugby league player.
• Shi Yafeng, 91, Chinese geologist.

14

• Sean Boru, 57, Irish actor and author.
• Paul Briggs, 90, American football player.
• Tommy Burns, 88, Australian boxer.
• David F. Friedman, 87, American film producer, heart failure.
• Cecil Kaiser, 94, American Negro league baseball player, injuries from a fall.
• Catherine Clark Kroeger, 85, American author, professor and New Testament scholar, Pneumonia.
• Ali Abdulhadi Mushaima, 21, Bahraini protester, gunshot.
• Peter Pilkington, Baron Pilkington of Oxenford, 77, British academic and life peer, Chairman of the BCC.
• Sir George Shearing, 91, British-born American jazz pianist, heart failure.
• John Strauss, 90, American film and television composer, Parkinson's disease.

15

• Liliane Atlan, 79, French Jewish writer, cancer.
• Dame Judith Binney, 70, New Zealand historian and author.
• Charles Epstein, 77, American geneticist and Unabomber victim, pancreatic cancer.
• Joe Frazier, 88, American baseball player and manager.
• Dorian Gray, 83, Italian actress, suicide by gunshot.
• Sidney Harth, 85, American violinist and conductor, respiratory complications.
• Olavi Manninen, 82, Finnish Olympic runner.
• George Marsaglia, 87, American mathematician and computer scientist. developed diehard tests, heart attack.
• Fadhel Al-Matrook, 31, Bahraini protester, gunshot.
• François Nourissier, 83, French journalist and writer, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Frank Nyangweso, 71, Ugandan Olympic boxer.
• Cyril Stein, 82, British businessman.

16

• Hans Joachim Alpers, 67, German writer and editor of science fiction and fantasy.
• Neal Amundson, 95, American chemical engineer.
• William A. Bablitch, 69, American politician, Wisconsin State Senator and Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice.
• Alfred Burke, 92, British actor, chest infection.
• Jack Calfee, 69, American economist and author, heart attack.
• Tonny van Ede, 86, Dutch football player.
• Len Lesser, 88, American actor, cancer-related pneumonia.
• Justinas Marcinkevičius, 80, Lithuanian poet and playwright.
• Santi Santamaria, 53, Spanish chef, heart attack.
• David Shapiro, 58, American jazz musician, atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.
• Tu Jida, 83, Chinese aircraft designer.

17

• Hilal Al-Ahmadi, 56–57, Iraqi journalist, shot.
• John Stanley Beard, 95, British-born Australian forester and ecologist.
• Ricky Bell, 36, American football player.
• George Clarke, 89, British footballer.
• Dave Duerson, 50, American football player, suicide by gunshot.
• Francis Anthony Gomes, 79, Bangladeshi Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Mymensingh.
• Ron Hickman, 78, South African-born British inventor.
• Steve Horn, 79, American politician, U.S. Representative from California, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Augustine Hu Daguo, 88, Chinese Roman Catholic underground bishop of Guiyang.
• George Lewis, 93, Trinidad and Tobago Olympic track and field athlete.
• James McLure, 59, American playwright.
• Michelle Monkhouse, 19, Canadian fashion model, car accident.
• Bill Monroe, 90, American journalist, host of Meet the Press, complications from hypertension.
• Perry Moore, 39, American author and film producer, apparent drug overdose.
• Vivien Noakes, 74, British literary critic, cancer.
• Gustave Olombe Atelumbu Musilamu, 83, Congolese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Wamba.

18

• Paulo de Tarso Alvim, 91–92, Brazilian biologist.
• Cayle Chernin, 63, Canadian actress, cancer.
• Chloe Dzubilo, 50, American artist, musician and activist.
• John M. Falcone, 44, American police officer Poughkeepsie, New York, shot.
• Len Gilmore, 93, American baseball player.
• Spook Jacobs, 85, American baseball player.
• Catherine Jourdan, 62, French actress, pulmonary embolism.
• Buddy Lewis, 94, American baseball player, cancer.
• Abdost Rind, 27, Pakistani journalist, shot.
• Walter Seltzer, 96, American film producer.
• Marshall Stoneham, 70, British physicist, complications of surgery.
• Bob Tanna, c. 96, Indian amateur radio operator.
• Tykhon Zhylyakov, 42, Ukrainian Orthodox Bishop of Kremenchuk and Lubny.

19

• Suresh Babu, 58, Indian Olympic athlete, cirrhosis.
• Florinda Chico, 84, Spanish actress, respiratory disease.
• Norman Corner, 68, British footballer.
• Donald L. Cox, 74, American leader of the Black Panther Party.
• Ollie Matson, 80, American Hall of Fame football player, complications from dementia.
• Anson Rainey, 81, American academic and author, pancreatic cancer.
• Ernő Solymosi, 70, Hungarian Olympic bronze medal-winning football player.
• Dietrich Stobbe, 72, German politician, Mayor of West Berlin.
• David R. Thompson, 80, American federal judge.
• Max Wilk, 90, American playwright, screenwriter and author.
• Richard L. Williams, 87, American jurist, senior District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia.
• Yuan Xuefen, 88, Chinese Yue opera actress.

20

• Ted Bates, 84, American politician.
• Drew Baur, 66, American banker, co-owner of the St. Louis Cardinals, heart attack.
• Eddie Brandt, 90, American composer and songwriter.
• Raphaël Bretton, 91, French set decorator, Oscar winner.
• Barbara Harmer, 57, British aviator, first female Concorde pilot, cancer.
• Betty Hicks, 90, American golfer, Alzheimer's disease.
• Troy Jackson, 38, American basketball player.
• Tony Kellow, 58, British footballer.
• Jay Landesman, 91, American publisher, writer and nightclub proprietor, husband of Fran Landesman.
• Frank A. McClintock, 90, American mechanical engineer.
• Sir Fred Phillips, 92, Kittitian politician, Administrator and Governor of Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla.
• Helmut Ringelmann, 84, German film and television producer, organ failure.
• Noemí Simonetto de Portela, 85, Argentine Olympic silver medal-winning athlete.
• Malaysia Vasudevan, 66, Indian actor and playback singer, heart failure.
• Mehdi Mohammed Zeyo, 49, Libyan activist, explosion.

21

• Robert Albo, 78, American physician, surgeon and amateur illusionist.
• Odón Alonso, 85, Spanish conductor and composer.
• Jean Baeza, 68, French footballer.
• Wolfgang Baumgart, 61, German hockey player.
• Bob Boyd, 55, American professional golfer, leukemia.
• Ben Fricke, 35, American football player, colon cancer.
• Edwin D. Kilbourne, 90, American research scientist and influenza vaccine expert.
• Dick Klugman, 87, Australian politician, member of the House of Representatives.
• Anne Mathams, 97, Scottish education and disability campaigner.
• Dwayne McDuffie, 49, American comic book writer and television writer, complications following heart surgery.
• Bernard Nathanson, 84, American pro-choice activist and co-founder of NARAL, later anti-abortion activist and writer, cancer.
• Jerzy Nowosielski, 88, Polish painter, graphic artist, scenographer and illustrator.
• Russell W. Peterson, 94, American politician, Governor of Delaware, stroke.
• Kenneth Pillar, 86, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Hertford.
• Aranmula Ponnamma, 96, Indian actress.
• Swami Premananda, 59, Sri Lankan-born Indian religious leader, convicted rapist and murderer.
• Haila Stoddard, 97, American actress and Broadway producer.
• Judith Sulzberger, 87, American physician, pancreatic cancer.
• Antonín Švorc, 77, Czech operatic bass-baritone.

22

• Kjell Bjartveit, 83, Norwegian physician and politician.
• Brian Bonsor, 84, Scottish composer and music teacher.
• George Buksar, 84, American football player.
• Nicholas Courtney, 81, British actor.
• Bill Deck, 95, American Negro league baseball player.
• Beau Dollar, 69, American singer and drummer, long illness.
• Jean Dinning, 86, American songwriter.
• Jo Giles, 61, New Zealand television personality and sportswoman, earthquake.
• Chari Gómez Miranda, 80, Spanish journalist and television presenter.
• Ion Hobana, 80, Romanian science fiction author.
• Amanda Hooper, 30, New Zealand field hockey representative, earthquake.
• Jud McAtee, 91, Canadian-born American ice hockey player.
• James R. McCartney, 90, American politician, Secretary of State of West Virginia.
• Bill Nimmo, 93, American radio and television announcer and game show host.
• Ivo Pavelić, 103, Croatian footballer and Olympic swimmer.

23

• Matthew Carr, 57, British figurative artist, leukaemia.
• James Damman, 78, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Michigan, cancer.
• Joseph Flom, 87, American corporate lawyer, heart failure.
• Rebekah Johansson, 29, Swedish model, apparent suicide.
• Gustav Just, 89, German journalist and politician.
• Jean Lartéguy, 90, French soldier, war correspondent and writer.
• Frank Prout, 89, British Olympic sprint canoer and businessman.
• Nirmala Srivastava, 87, Indian spiritual leader, founder of Sahaja Yoga religious movement.
• Mike Zimring, 94, American radio actor and theatrical agent.

24

• Margaret Hope Bacon, 89, American Quaker historian, author and lecturer.
• Yozhef Betsa, 81, Ukrainian Olympic gold medal-winning footballer.
• Jerrold Kessel, 66, South African-born Israeli journalist, cancer.
• Anant Pai, 81, Indian educator and comics creator .
• Mullapudi Venkata Ramana, 80, Indian Telugu screenplay writer.
• Robert Reguly, 80, Canadian journalist, heart disease.
• Attila Takács, 82, Hungarian Olympic gymnast.
• Harry Walsh, 97, Canadian lawyer, complications from a fall.
• Jens Winther, 50, Danish jazz trumpet player, stroke.
• A. Wayne Wymore, 84, American mathematician and systems engineer.

25

• Isidora Aguirre, 91, Chilean writer, internal hemorrhage.
• Kamil Altan, 86, Turkish footballer.
• Frank Bare Sr., 80, American gymnast.
• John Thomas Chambers Jr., 82, American politician, only African-American Mayor of Annapolis, heart attack.
• Rick Coonce, 64, American drummer.
• Aminath Faiza, 86, Maldivian poet and author.
• Emanuel Fried, 97, American playwright and actor.
• Peter Hildreth, 82, British Olympic hurdler, 1950 European Championships medalist.
• István Jenei, 57, Hungarian Olympic sports shooter.
• John Miner, 92, American attorney, prosecutor responsible for investigating the death of Marilyn Monroe.
• Richard J. Naughton, 64, American vice admiral, Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy.
• Eneas Perdomo, 80, Venezuelan folk singer.
• Suze Rotolo, 67, American artist, lung cancer.
• Carola Scarpa, 39, Brazilian socialite, multiple organ failure.

26

• Abbas Amiri Moghaddam, 67, Iranian actor, car accident.
• Konstantinos Andriopoulos, 26, Greek footballer, leukemia.
• María Azambuya, 66, Uruguayan actress and theatre director.
• Judith Coplon, 89, American political analyst, convicted of espionage.
• Susan Crosland, 84, American journalist, widow of Anthony Crosland.
• Richard F. Daines, 60, American physician, Commissioner of the New York State Department of Health.
• Jon Fitch, 60, American politician, Arkansas State Representative and State Senator, complications from a stroke.
• Eugene Fodor, 60, American violinist, cirrhosis.
• Ed Frutig, 92, American football player.
• Greg Goossen, 65, American baseball player and actor.
• Bill Grigsby, 89, American radio sportscaster, prostate cancer and fall.
• Cynthia Holcomb Hall, 82, American circuit judge for the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, cancer.
• Shawn Lee, 44, American football player.
• Arnošt Lustig, 84, Czech writer and Holocaust survivor, cancer.
• James A. McClure, 86, American politician, U.S. Representative and Senator from Idaho, following multiple strokes.
• Dean Richards, 36, British footballer.
• Jorge Santoro, 66, Brazilian footballer, heart attack.
• Roch Thériault, 63, Canadian cult leader and convicted murderer, murdered in prison.
• Mark Tulin, 62, American bass player, heart attack.
• Zhu Guangya, 86, Chinese nuclear physicist, helped develop nation's first atomic bomb.

27

• Frank Alesia, 67, American actor and director.
• Frank Buckles, 110, American supercentenarian soldier, last living U.S. World War I veteran.
• J. Elliot Cameron, 88, American educator and religious leader.
• Margaret Eliot, 97, British music teacher and musician.
• Necmettin Erbakan, 84, Turkish politician, Prime Minister.
• James Gruber, 82, American teacher and early gay rights activist, last surviving member of the Mattachine Society.
• Maurice Guigue, 98, French football referee.
• Eddie Kirkland, 88, American blues guitarist, car accident.
• Oto Mádr, 94, Czech theologian and dissident.
• Amparo Muñoz, 56, Spanish actress, Miss Universe 1974.
• Skonk Nicholson, 94, South African teacher and rugby union coach.
• Emerson Rodwell, 89, Australian cricketer and soldier.
• Moacyr Scliar, 73, Brazilian physician and writer, stroke.
• Duke Snider, 84, American Hall of Fame baseball player.
• Gary Winick, 49, American film director, brain cancer.

28

• Donald E. Allured, 88, American handbell choir director, composer, and arranger
• Netiva Ben-Yehuda, 82, Israeli author and radio personality.
• Scott Cary, 87, American baseball player.
• Harvey Dorfman, 75, American sports psychologist.
• Ernest Eastman, 83, Liberian diplomat, Foreign Minister, Secretary General of the Mano River Union.
• John Ellis, 72, British trade unionist.
• Emmy, 21, Albanian singer, vehicular homicide.
• Annie Girardot, 79, French actress, Alzheimer's disease.
• Peter J. Gomes, 69, American preacher, theologian and author, professor at Harvard Divinity School, brain aneurysm and heart attack.
• Stan Holmes, 51, American baseball player, cancer.
• Nick LaTour, 82, American singer and actor, complications from cancer.
• Jozef Massy, 96, Belgian Olympic sprint canoer.
• Günter Mast, 84, German businessman.
• Aracy de Carvalho Guimarães Rosa, 102, Brazilian diplomatic clerk.
• Jane Russell, 89, American actress, respiratory illness.
• Jan van Schijndel, 83, Dutch footballer.
• Allan Williams, 88, Canadian politician, Attorney General of British Columbia, after long illness.
• Wally Yonamine, 85, American baseball and football player, prostate cancer.
• Doyald Young, 84, American logotype designer, complications of heart surgery.