Deaths in July 2008

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

July 2008

1

• Abdullahi Afrah, 55, Somalian islamist, shot.
• Aleksei Argun, 71, Abkhazian politician.
• Keith Charles, 74, American actor, lung cancer.
• Clay Felker, 82, American editor and journalist, throat cancer.
• Mel Galley, 60, British guitarist, esophageal cancer.
• Mogens Glistrup, 82, Danish politician, lawyer and founder of the Progress Party.
• Robert Harling, 98, British typographer.
• Dejan Medaković, 85, Serbian writer, historian, professor, president of Academy of Sciences and Arts.
• Sir Richard Morris, 82, British industrialist.
• John Pont, 80, American college football coach.
• Mark Dean Schwab, 39, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.

2

• Chris Arlman, 64, Dutch politician, heart attack.
• Glencairn Balfour Paul, 90, British diplomat.
• Omar Caetano, 69, Uruguayan football player.
• Abdel Wahab El-Messiri, 70, Egyptian scholar and politician, cancer.
• Jean-Pierre Muller, 83, French Olympic fencer.
• Joe Nhlanhla, 71, South African politician, minister of Intelligence Services.
• Simone Ortega, 89, Spanish culinary author.
• Natasha Shneider, 52, Russian-born American actress and musician, cancer.
• Elizabeth Spriggs, 78, British actress.

3

• M. C. Ahamed, 77, Sri Lankan politician.
• Sue Alexander, 74, American writer of children's literature.
• Dan Cook, 81, American journalist.
• Ernie Cooksey, 28, British footballer, melanoma.
• Larry Harmon, 83, American entertainer, heart failure.
• Harald Heide-Steen Jr., 68, Norwegian actor and comedian, lung cancer.
• Clive Hornby, 63, British actor, cancer.
• Kat Kinkade, 77, American co-founder of Twin Oaks Community, cancer.
• Annabelle Lee, 86, American baseball player.
• Thomas Orley, 74, American Olympic fencer.
• Dave Powers, 74, American television director, four-time Emmy winner, skin cancer.
• Oliver Schroer, 53, Canadian fiddler, leukemia.
• John Sedwick, 79, American television director.

4

• Alfred Arteaga, 58, American Chicano poet, heart attack.
• Thomas M. Disch, 68, American science fiction author, suicide by gunshot.
• Jesse Helms, 86, American politician, senator from North Carolina, natural causes.
• Evelyn Keyes, 91, American actress, uterine cancer.
• Terrence Kiel, 27, American football player, car crash.
• Wayne Pai, 55, Taiwanese businessman, founding chairman of Polaris Group, suicide.
• Agneta Prytz, 91, Swedish actress, wife of Gösta Folke.
• Janwillem van de Wetering, 77, Dutch writer.
• Sir Charles Wheeler, 85, British journalist, longest serving BBC foreign correspondent, lung cancer.

5

• Pieter Bogaers, 84, Dutch politician of the Catholic People's Party.
• Hasan Doğan, 52, Turkish president of the national football federation, cardiac arrest.
• René Harris, 60, Nauruan president, cardiac arrest.
• Dagfinn Næss, 74, Norwegian Olympic boxer.
• Thích Huyền Quang, 88, Vietnamese religious leader, supreme patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam.

6

• Bob Ackles, 69, Canadian executive for the Canadian Football League's BC Lions, heart attack.
• George Ambo, 85, Papua New Guinean Archbishop.
• Jack Collins, 78, Australian footballer, premiership winner with Footscray, heart attack.
• Bobby Durham, 71, American jazz drummer.
• Ambuya Mlambo, 84, Zimbabwean radio and television presenter, cancer.
• Nonna Mordyukova, 82, Russian actress, diabetes.
• Mando Ramos, 59, American former WBC and WBA World lightweight champion boxer.
• George Tibbits, 74, Australian architect and composer.

7

• Sultana bint Abdulaziz Al-Saud, 80, Saudi sister of King Abdullah.
• Larry H. Abraham, 70, American businessman and author.
• Ralph Ackerman, 67, American photographer, producer, traveler and lecturer.
• Donald Allen, 81, Australian cricketer.
• Bruce Conner, 74, American artist, natural causes.
• Bruce Dalling, 69, South African yachtsman, heart attack.
• Yitzchok Dovid Groner, 83, Australian Chabad rabbi.
• Lear Fan, 27, American-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire, natural causes.
• Dorian Leigh, 91, American fashion model, sister of Suzy Parker, Alzheimer's disease.
• Clem McSpadden, 82, American politician, congressman from Oklahoma, cancer.
• Hugh Mendl, 88, British record producer.
• Giovanni Viola, 82, Italian football goalkeeper, natural causes.
• Fred Yates, 85, British painter.

8

• Alex d'Arbeloff, 80, American entrepreneur.
• Wieńczysław Gliński, 87, Polish actor.
• Erling Rønneberg, 84, Norwegian resistance trainer and politician, mayor of Ski.
• Sir John Templeton, 95, British businessman and philanthropist, pneumonia.
• Sir Anthony Troup, 86, British vice-admiral.

9

• Séamus Brennan, 60, Irish politician, prostate cancer.
• Wim de Beer, 75, Dutch field hockey player.
• Don Eaddy, 74, American sportsman.
• Elizabeth Fabac, 86, American baseball player
• Charles H. Joffe, 78, American film producer, Oscar winner, after long illness.
• Sherman Lee, 90, American director of the Cleveland Museum of Art.
• J. Murdoch Ritchie, 83, American biophysicist.
• John West, 84, Australian broadcaster and theatre historian.

10

• Hiroaki Aoki, 69, Japanese-born American founder of Benihana restaurants, pneumonia.
• Bernard Cahier, 81, French Formula One photojournalist.
• Robert M. DeHaven, 86, American flying ace and test pilot.
• Don Devitt, 86, Australian politician.
• Archie McCardell, 81, American business executive.
• Steve Mingori, 64, American baseball player, natural causes.
• Ayub Ommaya, 78, Pakistani neurosurgeon, Alzheimer's disease.
• William W. Robertson, 66, American lawyer.
• Mike Souchak, 81, American golfer, complications of heart attack.
• Ahmad Suradji, 57, Indonesian serial killer, execution by firing squad.
• Yoji Totsuka, 66, Japanese particle physicist, colorectal cancer.
• Vindication, 8, American champion racehorse, euthanized.

11

• Mahmood Ali, 79-80, Pakistani artist, cardiac arrest.
• Joe Barr, 63, American editor and writer.
• Michael DeBakey, 99, American cardiovascular surgeon and medical pioneer, natural causes.
• Roy M. Huffington, 90, American oilman, diplomat and philanthropist, natural causes.
• James H. Humphrey, 97, American physical education educator and researcher.
• Iswadi Idris, 60, Indonesian football player and coach.
• Mike Kleinhenz, 56, American voice actor, heart attack.
• Breno Mello, 76, Brazilian actor and footballer.
• Chuck Stobbs, 79, American baseball pitcher, cancer.

12

• Patricia Buckley Bozell, 81, American founder of Catholic journal Triumph, wife of L. Brent Bozell Jr., throat cancer.
• Reinhard Fabisch, 57, German football manager, cancer.
• Virginia B. MacDonald, 87, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives and Illinois State Senate.
• Bobby Murcer, 62, American baseball player and sportscaster, brain cancer.
• Earl Lee Nelson, 79, American R&B singer, Alzheimer's disease.
• Olive Riley, 108, Australian woman believed to be the world's oldest blogger, natural causes.
• Tony Snow, 53, American White House press secretary, Fox News presenter, colon cancer.
• Tsay Jaw-yang, 67, Taiwanese politician, minister of Transportation and Communications, pneumonia.

13

• Nicolas Arroyo, 90, Cuban architect, diplomat and minister.
• Les Crane, 74, American talk show host, Grammy Award winner.
• Peter Durack, 81, Australian senator and attorney-general.
• Red Foley, 79, American sportswriter and baseball official scorer.
• Bronisław Geremek, 76, Polish social historian and politician, minister of Foreign Affairs, car accident.
• John Raymond Hobbs, 79, British physician, lung cancer.
• John Mabuku, Namibian politician, governor of Caprivi Region, supporter of Caprivi Strip secessionist movement.
• Dave Ricketts, 73, American baseball player and coach, renal cancer.
• Dona Spring, 55, American disability rights activist and Green politician, Berkeley city councilor since 1992, rheumatoid arthritis.
• Gerald Wiggins, 86, American jazz pianist.

14

• Miguel Benavides, 68, Cuban actor.
• Y. V. Chandrachud, 88, Indian jurist, Chief Justice.
• Bryan Cowgill, 81, British television executive.
• Henki Kolstad, 93, Norwegian actor.
• Luke Kruytbosch, 47, American race caller, natural causes.
• Teta Lando, 60, Angolan musician, cancer.
• Hugh Lloyd, 85, British actor.
• George Noakes, 83, Welsh Anglican prelate, Archbishop of Wales.
• Ong Chit Chung, 59, Singaporean politician.
• Katie Reider, 30, American singer and songwriter, cerebral hemorrhage and cancer.
• Riek Schagen, 94, Dutch actress and artist.
• Mike Schutte, 57, South African boxer, cancer.
• Steven Thomas, 36, American entrepreneur missing since 30 June, fall from Pali Lookout.

15

• Peter Ala Adjetey, 76, Ghanaian lawyer and politician.
• Ahmad Basri Akil, 69, Malaysian football manager.
• György Kolonics, 36, Hungarian Olympic canoeing gold medallist, heart failure.
• Yuri Mikhaylov, 77, Russian speed skater.
• Gionata Mingozzi, 23, Italian footballer, car accident.
• Derek W. Moore, 77, British mathematician.
• Steve Peterson, 58, American NASCAR technical director, natural causes.
• Tang Aoqing, 92, Chinese chemist, President of Jilin University.
• Karl Unterkircher, 37, Italian mountaineer and explorer, fall on Nanga Parbat.
• Gennadi Volnov, 68, Russian basketball player for Soviet Union, 1972 Olympic gold medallist.

16

• Sir Eric Dunn, 80, British air marshal.
• Roger Landes, 91, British Special Operations Executive agent.
• Sherman Maxwell, 100, American Negro league baseball sportscaster.
• Peanuts O'Flaherty, 90, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Jo Stafford, 90, American traditional pop singer, heart failure.
• Lindsay Thompson, 84, Australian politician, premier of Victoria, pneumonia.

17

• Lila T. Abaunza, 79, Nicaraguan first lady, wife of President Enrique Bolaños.
• Giorgio Ceragioli, 78, Italian engineer, professor and a leader in the pro-Third World movement, Parkinson's disease.
• Creig Flessel, 96, American comic book artist.
• Johny Fonck, 87, Luxembourgish Olympic athlete.
• Larry Haines, 89, American actor.
• John Hunt, Baron Hunt of Tanworth, 88, British civil servant and politician, cabinet secretary.
• Mick Ibbett, 80, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council.
• George Niven, 79, Scottish football goalkeeper.
• M. P. Shankar, 72, Indian actor.
• Paul Sorensen, 82, American actor.
• Sir Graham Speight, 86, New Zealand High Court judge, chief justice of the Cook Islands.
• Ma Prem Usha, 70, Indian tarot card reader and columnist, natural causes.

18

• Yardley Chittick, 107, American patent attorney, injuries sustained in a fall.
• Tauno Marttinen, 95, Finnish composer.
• Khosrow Shakibai, 64, Iranian actor, liver cancer.
• Dennis Townhill, 83, British chorister and organist.
• Peter Welsh, 54, Australian footballer, cancer.

19

• Robert Berning, 73, American grocer, principal wine buyer for Trader Joe's, bone cancer.
• Sarah Conlon, 82, British campaigner on behalf of Guildford Four and Maguire Seven, lung cancer.
• Eddie Fuller, 76, South African cricketer.
• Dercy Gonçalves, 101, Brazilian actress, pneumonia.
• Samudra Gupta, 62, Bangladeshi poet, gallbladder cancer.
• Jerome Holtzman, 82, American baseball writer, stroke.
• Ann Lambton, 96, British historian, after long illness.
• Robert Nesheim, 86, American nutritionist, developed Cap'n Crunch and Life breakfast cereals, prostate cancer.
• Dave Pearson, 70, British painter.

20

• Célio de Castro, 76, Brazilian politician, mayor of Belo Horizonte, natural causes.
• Jim Johnson, 83, British army officer.
• Yann Richter, 80, Swiss politician, president of the FDP, heart disease.
• Dinko Šakić, 86, Croatian fascist leader of the Independent State of Croatia in World War II, heart failure.
• Artie Traum, 65, American folk singer and guitarist, cancer.
• Charles Z. Wick, 90, American politician, director of USIA, natural causes.

21

• Harry Åkerfelt, 93, Finnish canoeist.
• Sidney Craig, 76, Canadian entrepreneur and thoroughbred horse owner, co-founder of Jenny Craig, Inc.
• Eric Dowling, 92, British prisoner of war, helped plan The Great Escape from Stalag Luft III.
• Antoni Jaszczak, 62, Polish economist, politician and minister of construction.
• K-Swift, 29, American radio personality, drowned.
• El Kazovsky, 58, Russian-born Hungarian painter and artist.
• Donald Stokes, Baron Stokes, 94, British industrialist and chief executive of British Leyland.
• Muhlis Tayfur, 85-86, Turkish Olympic wrestler.
• María Vaner, 73, Argentine actress.
• Adil Zulfikarpašić, 86, Bosnian businessman and philanthropist, natural causes.

22

• Ballindaggin, 23, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
• Joe Beck, 62, American jazz guitarist.
• Helen Brockman, 105, American fashion designer, author and professor, natural causes.
• Greg Burson, 59, American voice actor.
• Patrick Connor, 81, British actor.
• Maurice Coomarawel, 68, Sri Lankan Olympic cyclist.
• Helen Gardiner, 70, Canadian philanthropist, pancreatic cancer.
• Estelle Getty, 84, American actress '', Emmy winner, Lewy body dementia.
• Victor A. McKusick, 86, American geneticist, architect of the Human Genome Project, cancer.

23

• Anna Maria Cantù, 84, Italian Olympic sprinter.
• N. Robin Crossby, 54, Canadian game designer, creator of Hârn role-playing system, cancer.
• Kurt Furgler, 84, Swiss member of the Federal Council, heart failure.
• Ahmet Hadžipašić, 56, Bosnian politician, prime minister, heart attack.
• Dick Johnson, 85, American aeronautical engineer and glider pilot, gliding accident.
• Frank Schweihs, 78, American reputed mafia enforcer, cancer.
• Clay T. Whitehead, 69, American director of White House Office of Telecommunications Policy, prostate cancer.

24

• Lawrence Anastasia, 81, American politician.
• Bruce Clarke, 82, Australian jazz guitarist.
• Eddie Davidson, 35, American convicted spammer and prison escapee, suicide by gunshot.
• Norman Dello Joio, 95, American composer, natural causes.
• Zezé Gonzaga, 81, Brazilian singer, natural causes.
• Robert T. Herres, 75, American Air Force general, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, brain cancer.
• David H. Popper, 95, American diplomat, ambassador to Cyprus and Chile, complications from a fall.

25

• Bruce Adler, 63, American actor, liver cancer.
• Bud Browne, 96, American surf film maker.
• Hiram Bullock, 52, American jazz guitarist, throat cancer.
• Harriet Burns, 79, American artist, first woman to work at Walt Disney Imagineering, heart complications.
• Don Callander, 78, American fantasy novel author.
• Jamiel Chagra, 63, American drug trafficker, cancer.
• Michael J. Daly, 83, American Medal of Honor recipient, cancer.
• Jeff Fehring, 53, Australian footballer, suicide.
• Johnny Griffin, 80, American jazz saxophonist.
• Tracy Hall, 88, American physical chemist, Alzheimer's disease.
• Joseph P. Landry, 86, Canadian businessman, senator.
• Carrie Allen McCray, 94, American author.
• Randy Pausch, 47, American computer science professor and author, pancreatic cancer.
• Mikhail Pugovkin, 85, Russian actor, diabetes.
• Herizo Razafimahaleo, 53, Malagasy politician, renal failure.

26

• Nadir Abdurrahmanov, 82, Azerbaijani painter.
• Malik Anokha, 65, Pakistani actor, heart attack.
• Daniel Bukantz, 90, American Olympic fencer.
• Bruna Colombetti-Peroncini, 72, Italian Olympic fencer.
• Roland B. Day, 89, American judge, Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice.
• Ed Foster, 59, American technology columnist, heart attack.
• Chas Messenger, 94, British racing cyclist.
• William H. Rogers, 94, British architect.

27

• Raymonde Allain, 96, French model and actress.
• Osvaldo Álvarez Guerrero, 67, Argentine politician, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Carl Aschan, 102, Swedish-born British intelligence officer and spy during World War II.
• Marie Kachel Bucher, 98, American teacher, last surviving resident of the Ephrata Cloister.
• Youssef Chahine, 82, Egyptian film director, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Graeme Crallan, 50, British rock drummer, head injuries from fall.
• Bob Crampsey, 78, British football journalist, after long illness.
• Russ Gibson, 69, American baseball catcher.
• Tomio Hosoda, 82, Japanese Olympic sprinter.
• Russell Johnston, Baron Russell-Johnston, 75, British politician, cancer.
• Fenwick Lansdowne, 71, Canadian wildlife artist.
• Marisa Merlini, 84, Italian actress.
• Isaac Saba Raffoul, 84, Mexican businessman.
• Julius B. Richmond, 91, American vice admiral, surgeon general, cancer.
• Horst Stein, 80, German conductor.
• Jean Stonell, 79, New Zealand cricketer.

28

• Pierre Berès, 95, French bookseller.
• Wendo Kolosoy, 83, Congolese musician, after long illness.
• Bob Margarita, 87, American football player, pneumonia.
• Midhat Mursi, 55, Egyptian al-Qaeda chemical weapons expert, missile strike.
• Margaret Ringenberg, 87, American aviator and airplane racer, natural causes.
• Syahrir, 63, Indonesian economist and political activist, lung cancer.
• Suzanne Tamim, 30, Lebanese singer and actress, stabbed.
• Anatoly Tyazhlov, 66, Russian politician, governor of Moscow Oblast.

29

• Joseph Batten, 36, American game developer, suicide by gunshot.
• Melissa Batten, 36, American game developer, shot.
• Eula Beal, 89, American opera singer.
• Luther Davis, 91, American playwright and screenwriter.
• Edie Huggins, 72, American journalist and reporter, lung cancer.
• Bruce Edwards Ivins, 62, American microbiologist suspected of 2001 anthrax attacks, suicide by drug overdose.
• Mate Parlov, 59, Croatian boxer, Olympic and World Boxing Council light-heavyweight champion, lung cancer.
• Earlene Risinger, 81, American baseball player.
• Ishmeet Singh, 19, Indian singer, drowned.
• Eric Varley, Baron Varley, 75, British politician, Secretary of State for Industry, cancer.
• June Walker, 74, American activist, President of Hadassah.

30

• Anne Armstrong, 80, American diplomat and politician, ambassador to the United Kingdom, cancer.
• Peter Coke, 95, British actor and playwright.
• Alfonso Dantés, 65, Mexican professional wrestler.
• Vittorio Fiorucci, 75, Canadian graphic artist, stroke.
• Anette Fredriksson, 48, Swedish Olympic swimmer.
• Tim McLean, 22, Canadian homicide victim, stabbed.
• Jack Nash, 79, German-born American businessman and hedge fund pioneer.
• Leif Pettersen, 57, Canadian football player and sportscaster, heart attack.

31

• Falani Aukuso, 69, Tokelauan politician, deputy director general of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community.
• Blagoje Bratić, 62, Bosnian footballer.
• Athos Bulcão, 90, Brazilian painter and sculptor, Parkinson's disease.
• Alice Chalifoux, 100, American harpist with the Cleveland Orchestra.
• Hirosi Ismael, 72, Micronesian politician, Vice President.
• Yi Cheong-jun, 68, South Korean novelist, lung cancer.
• Lee Young, 94, American jazz drummer.