Deaths in October 2009

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

October 2009

1

• Otar Chiladze, 76, Georgian writer, heart failure.
• André-Philippe Futa, 66, Congolese politician, Minister of the Economy and Foreign Trade.
• Gunnar Haarberg, 92, Norwegian television presenter.
• Syed Kamal, 72, Pakistani actor.
• Lou Moro, 91, Canadian soccer player and coach.
• V. M. Muddiah, 80, Indian cricketer, stroke.
• Bhandit Rittakol, 58, Thai film director, producer and screenwriter, heart failure.
• Cintio Vitier, 88, Cuban poet.

2

• Alain Bernheim, 86, French-born American film producer, complications from dialysis.
• Marek Edelman, 86, Polish political and social activist, cardiologist, last surviving leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
• Jack Evans, 80, Australian politician, Senator, co-founder of the Australian Democrats, cancer.
• Nat Finkelstein, 76, American photographer and photojournalist.
• Jørgen Jensen, 65, Danish Olympic runner.
• John "Mr. Magic" Rivas, 53, American radio personality, heart attack.
• Saleh Meki, 61, Eritrean cabinet minister and politician, heart attack.
• Peg Mullen, 92, American author, subject of film Friendly Fire.
• Desmond Plummer, Baron Plummer of St. Marylebone, 95, British politician, leader of Greater London Council.
• Rolf Rüssmann, 58, German football manager, prostate cancer.
• Herman D. Stein, 92, American professor.
• Harvey Veniot, 93, Canadian MLA for Pictou West, Speaker of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly.
• Shaun Wylie, 96, British mathematician and World War II codebreaker.

3

• Aleksandre Basilaia, 67, Georgian composer.
• Vladimir Beekman, 80, Estonian writer and translator.
• Fernando Caldeiro, 51, Argentine-born American astronaut, brain cancer.
• Fatimah el-Sharif, 98, Libyan Queen of Libya, widow of King Idris I.
• Myrtle K. Hilo, 80, Hawaiian taxicab driver and radio personality.
• Will Inman, 86, American poet, Parkinson's disease.
• Robert Kirby, 61, British folk rock arranger.
• Ernie Lopez, 64, American boxer, complications from dementia.
• Reinhard Mohn, 88, German entrepreneur and publisher, founder of Bertelsmann Foundation.
• Michel Nédélec, 69, French Olympic cyclist.
• Vasile Louis Puscas, 94, American Bishop of St George's in Canton in the Romanian Catholic Church.
• Frank Zoppetti, 93, American football player.

4

• Frederick E. Bakutis, 96, American naval officer and flying ace.
• Koichi Haraguchi, 68, Japanese chief of staff, Imperial House of Japan, heart attack.
• Veikko Huovinen, 82, Finnish writer.
• Fred Kaan, 80, Dutch-born British clergyman and hymn writer.
• Gerhard Kaufhold, 80, German footballer.
• Grace Keagy, 87, American actress, ovarian cancer.
• Ernő Kolczonay, 56, Hungarian Olympic silver medal-winning fencer.
• James Lin Xili, 91, Chinese underground first Bishop of Wenzhou, Alzheimer's disease.
• Shōichi Nakagawa, 56, Japanese politician, Minister of Finance.
• Nikiforos of Didymoteicho, 78, Greek bishop of Didymoteicho.
• Günther Rall, 91, German Luftwaffe flying ace during World War II, heart attack.
• Mercedes Sosa, 74, Argentinian folk singer, liver failure.
• Bronisław Żurakowski, 98, Polish aerospace engineer.

5

• Armando Acosta Cordero, 88, Cuban guerrilla.
• Tommy Capel, 87, English footballer.
• Leon Clarke, 76, American football player, pancreatitis.
• James Duesenberry, 91, American economist.
• Ron Finley, 76, American football coach.
• Israel Gelfand, 96, Russian mathematician.
• Gino Giugni, 82, Italian minister of labor and social security.
• Giselher Klebe, 84, German composer.
• David Lake, 66, American winemaker.
• Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones, 87, British classical scholar.
• Brian Powell, 35, American baseball player, suicide by gunshot.
• René Sommer, 58, Swiss inventor, co-inventor of the computer mouse.
• Johnny Williams, 77, English rugby union player.

6

• Jimmy Bates, 99, Australian football player, oldest living Australian Football League player.
• Pamela Blake, 94, American actress, natural causes.
• Douglas Campbell, 87, Scottish-born Canadian actor, complications of diabetes and heart disease.
• Raymond Federman, 81, French-born American writer and academic, cancer.
• Aengus Finucane, 77, Irish priest, chief executive of Concern Worldwide.
• Pyarelal Khandelwal, 84, Indian politician, cancer.
• Ruth L. Kirschstein, 82, American pathologist.
• Werner Maihofer, 90, German Minister of the Interior.
• Donna Mae Mims, 82, American race driver, first female SCCA champion, stroke.
• Ramanna Rai, 79, Indian politician.
• Gilberto Zaldívar, 75, American founder of the Repertorio Español, complications of dementia with Lewy bodies.

7

• Ben Ali, 82, American restaurateur, heart failure.
• Bikram Keshari Deo, 58, Indian politician, cardiac arrest.
• Irving Penn, 92, American fashion photographer.
• Shelby Singleton, 77, American record producer and record label owner, brain cancer.
• Helen Watts, 81, British contralto.
• Pedro E. Zadunaisky, 91, Argentinian astronomer and mathematician.

8

• Gordon Boyd, 86, British-born Australian television personality.
• James Delgrosso, 66, American politician, mayor of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, leukemia.
• Gerald Ferguson, 72, American-born Canadian artist.
• Juan Carlos Mareco, 83, Uruguayan actor.
• Alex McCrae, 89, Scottish football player and manager.
• Torsten Reißmann, 53, German Olympic judoka.
• Jean Sage, 68, French racing driver, former sporting director of the Renault F1 team.
• Michael Angelo Saltarelli, 77, American Roman Catholic Bishop of Wilmington, bone cancer.
• Abu Talib, 70, American blues musician, cancer.
• Sir Sydney Walling, 102, Antiguan cricketer.

9

• Arne Bakker, 79, Norwegian football and bandy player.
• Francis Baldacchino, 73, Maltese-born Bishop of Malindi, Kenya.
• Raymond A. Brown, 94, American lawyer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
• Aldo Buzzi, 99, Italian author and architect.
• Arturo "Zambo" Cavero, 68, Peruvian folk singer, complications from sepsis.
• Jacques Chessex, 75, Swiss author, first non-French recipient of the Prix Goncourt, heart attack.
• Anne Friedberg, 57, American professor, colorectal cancer
• Vyacheslav Ivankov, 69, Russian crime figure, gunshot wounds.
• Stuart M. Kaminsky, 75, American mystery writer, hepatitis.
• Barry Letts, 84, British television actor, director and producer.
• John Daido Loori, 78, American Zen Buddhist monk, lung cancer.
• Hermann Raich, 75, Austrian Roman Catholic Bishop of Wabag.
• Louis Sanmarco, 97, French administrator, governor and High Commissioner of Ubangi-Shari.
• Richard Sonnenfeldt, 86, German-born American interpreter at the Nuremberg Trials, complications from a stroke.
• Dré Steemans, 55, Belgian television and radio host, cardiac arrest.
• Horst Szymaniak, 75, German footballer.
• Rusty Wier, 65, American country music singer-songwriter, cancer.

10

• Luis Aguilé, 73, Argentine singer and songwriter, stomach cancer.
• Paul Bloom, 70, American lawyer, recovered $6 billion for the Department of Energy, pancreatic cancer.
• Sonny Bradshaw, 83, Jamaican jazz musician, stroke.
• Stephen Gately, 33, Irish pop singer, pulmonary edema.
• Larry Jansen, 89, American baseball player, heart failure and pneumonia.
• Joan Orenstein, 85, British-born Canadian actress.
• Lionel Pincus, 78, American businessman, founder of Warburg Pincus.
• Jack Rose, 92, British WWII fighter pilot and colonial administrator.
• Carol Tomlinson-Keasey, 66, American psychologist, breast cancer.

11

• Joan Martí i Alanis, 80, Spanish archbishop, Bishop of Urgell and co-Prince of Andorra.
• Peter Callanan, 74, Irish politician, member of the Seanad.
• Patrick Hannan, 68, British broadcaster, author and journalist.
• Gustav Kral, 26, Austrian footballer, car accident.
• Abigail McLellan, 40, Scottish artist, multiple sclerosis.
• Veronika Neugebauer, 40, German voice actress, colorectal cancer.
• Alan Peters, 76, British furniture designer.
• Halit Refiğ, 75, Turkish film director, cholangiocarcinoma.

12

• Samy Abu Zaid, 30, Egyptian footballer, car accident.
• Maurice Agis, 77, British sculptor.
• Dietrich von Bothmer, 90, German-born American art historian, curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
• Alberto Castagnetti, 66, Italian Olympic swimmer, complications from cardiac surgery.
• Mildred Cohn, 96, American biochemist.
• Mikheil Kalatozishvili, 50, Russian film director, script writer and producer, heart attack.
• Donald Kaufman, 79, American toy car collector, heart attack.
• Brendan Mullen, 60, American punk impresario and club owner, stroke.
• Stan Palk, 87, English footballer.
• Dickie Peterson, 63, American rock singer, liver cancer.
• Joe Rosen, 88, American Golden Age comic book letterer.
• Frank Vandenbroucke, 34, Belgian cyclist, pulmonary embolism.
• Ian Wallace, 90, British bass-baritone singer.

13

• Stephen Barnett, 73, American legal scholar, opposed the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970, cardiac arrest.
• Cullen Bryant, 58, American football player, natural causes.
• Rodger Doxsey, 62, American physicist and astronomer, cancer.
• Richard Foster, 63, American member of the Alaska House of Representatives, heart and kidney disease.
• Eugene Maxwell Frank, 101, American bishop of The Methodist Church.
• Atle Jebsen, 73, Norwegian shipowner and businessman, traffic collision.
• William Wayne Justice, 89, American federal judge.
• Lü Zhengcao, 104, Chinese general, last survivor of the original Shang Jiang.
• Winston Mankunku Ngozi, 66, South African saxophonist
• Al Martino, 82, American singer and actor, first person to top the UK Singles Chart.
• Daniel Melnick, 77, American studio executive, film producer and television producer, lung cancer.
• Paul Barbă Neagră, 80, Romanian film director and essayist.
• Roger Nixon, 88, American composer, complications from leukemia.
• Nan C. Robertson, 83, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, heart disease.
• Orane Simpson, 26, Jamaican football player, stabbed.
• Richard T. Whitcomb, 88, American aeronautical engineer, pneumonia
• Werner Zandt, 81, German Olympic sprinter.

14

• Lou Albano, 76, American professional wrestler and manager, actor, heart attack.
• Wilf K. Backhaus, 62, Canadian role-playing game designer.
• Antônio do Carmo Cheuiche, 82, Brazilian Auxiliary Bishop of Santa Maria and Porto Alegre.
• Fred Cress, 71, British-born Australian artist, Archibald Prize winner, pancreatic cancer.
• Roy Lane, 74, British hillclimbing competitor, peritonitis.
• C. B. Muthamma, 85, Indian first female diplomat and ambassador.
• Willard Varnell Oliver, 88, American Navajo code talker.
• Martyn Sanderson, 71, New Zealand actor.
• Bruce Wasserstein, 61, American investment banker and businessman, arrhythmia.
• Collin Wilcox, 74, American actress, brain cancer.
• Leo Williams, 68, Australian rugby union official.

15

• George P. Jenkins, 94, American chairman of Metlife, assisted expansion of ABC and Pan Am, heart failure.
• Josias Kumpf, 84, Austrian Nazi concentration camp guard.
• Elizabeth Clare Prophet, 70, American New Age religious leader, co-founder of The Summit Lighthouse, Alzheimer's disease.
• Tollak B. Sirnes, 86, Norwegian physician, psychiatrist and pharmacologist.
• George Tuska, 93, American comic book artist.
• Heinz Versteeg, 70, Dutch football player, cancer.
• Philip L. White, 86, American historian, cancer.

16

• Bob Davis, 77, American politician, U.S. Representative for Michigan, heart and kidney failure.
• Inglis Drever, 10, British hurdles racehorse, euthanised.
• Jose Herrera, 67, Venezuelan baseball player.
• Meilė Lukšienė, 96, Lithuanian cultural historian, member of the Sąjūdis.
• Andrés Montes, 53, Spanish sports commentator.
• Marian Przykucki, 85, Polish Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archbishop of Szczecin-Kamień.
• John Ramsden, 61, British historian.

17

• Dame Doreen Blumhardt, 95, New Zealand potter.
• Carla Boni, 84, Italian singer.
• Diana Elles, Baroness Elles, 88, British diplomat and politician.
• Ian Hagemoen, 68, Canadian football player.
• Jay Johnson, 66, American U.S. Representative for Wisconsin, U.S. Mint Director, heart attack.
• Vladimir Kashpur, 82, Russian film actor, People's Artist of Russia.
• Kazuhiko Katō, 62, Japanese musician, suicide by hanging.
• Louisa Mark, 49, British lovers rock singer, complications from a stomach ulcer.
• Norma Fox Mazer, 78, American author, brain cancer.
• Vic Mizzy, 93, American composer.
• Rosanna Schiaffino, 69, Italian film actress, cancer.
• Sheldon Segal, 83, American reproductive biologist.
• Michael Shea, 71, British diplomat, press secretary to Queen Elizabeth II, dementia.
• Brian Campbell Vickery, 91, British information scientist.

18

• Ion Cojar, 78, Romanian actor and film director, Parkinson's disease.
• Ruth Duckworth, 90, American sculptor.
• Ha Bik Chuen, 83-84, Hong Kong painter.
• Jasper Howard, 20, American football player, stabbed.
• Lenore Kandel, 77, American poet, lung cancer.
• Leonard B. Keller, 62, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient, motorcycle accident.
• Sir Ludovic Kennedy, 89, British author and journalist, pneumonia.
• Adriaan Kortlandt, 91, Dutch biologist.
• Ovidiu Mușetescu, 54, Romanian politician, cancer.
• Ignacio Ponseti, 95, Spanish physician and inventor.
• Nancy Spero, 83, American artist, heart failure.
• Basie Vivier, 82, South African rugby union player, captain of the Springboks.

19

• Moni Fanan, 63, Israeli basketball team manager, suicide by hanging.
• Werner Heubeck, 85, German-born British managing director of Ulsterbus and Citybus, cancer.
• Joe Hutton Jr., 81, American basketball player, heart attack.
• Sushila Kerketta, 71, Indian politician, heart attack.
• Vladimír Klokočka, 80, Czech politician and jurist, signatory to Charter 77 manifesto.
• Shlomo Lorincz, 91, Hungarian-born Israeli politician, heart failure.
• Milun Marović, 62, Serbian Olympic basketball player.
• Reg McKay, 56, British journalist and crime fiction writer, brain and lung cancer.
• Angelo Musi, 91, American basketball player.
• Nimma Raja Reddy, 72, Indian politician.
• Alberto Testa, 82, Italian composer and lyricist.
• Radu Timofte, 60, Romanian intelligence officer, director of the Serviciul Român de Informaţii, leukemia.
• Howard Unruh, 88, American spree killer.
• Joseph Wiseman, 91, Canadian actor.

20

• Margaret Bisbrown, 90, British Olympic diver.
• Yvonne Carter, 50, British general practitioner and medical academic, breast cancer.
• Attila Dargay, 83, Hungarian animator.
• Colin Douglas-Smith, 91, Australian Olympic rower.
• Clifford Hansen, 97, American politician, Governor of Wyoming and U.S. Senator.
• Robert C. Lautman, 85, American architectural photographer.
• Carl Fredrik Lowzow, 82, Norwegian politician.
• Charles Mills, 88, American painter.
• Doreen Reid Nakamarra, 54, Australian Aboriginal artist, pneumonia.
• Jef Nys, 82, Belgian comic book artist.
• Sultan Pepper, 47, American comedy writer, Emmy Award winner.
• Yuri Ryazanov, 22, Russian artistic gymnast, traffic collision.
• Winai Senniam, 51, Thai parliamentarian, liver and colon cancer.

21

• Andrey Balashov, 63, Russian Olympic silver and bronze medal-winning sailor.
• Louise Cooper, 57, British novelist, aneurysm.
• Lionel Davidson, 87, British novelist, lung cancer.
• Clinton Ford, 77, British singer.
• John Jarman, 78, Welsh football player and coach.
• Iain Macphail, Lord Macphail, 71, British judge and legal scholar.
• Paul Massey, 83, British Olympic silver medal-winning rower.
• Yōko Minamida, 76, Japanese actress.
• Jack Nelson, 80, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, pancreatic cancer.
• Redmond O'Neill, 55, British political activist.
• Sirone, 69, American jazz musician.
• Ted Sizer, 77, American education reformer, colorectal cancer.
• Giuliano Vassalli, 94, Italian politician.

22

• Maryanne Amacher, 66, American experimental composer, sound artist, and installation artist, complications from a stroke.
• Paul Andrews, 53, Australian politician, cancer.
• Nicholas Atkin, 49, British historian, meningitis.
• Daniel Bekker, 77, South African boxer, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases.
• Ray B. Browne, 87, American educator, scholar of popular culture.
• Pierre Chaunu, 86, French historian.
• Howard Darwin, 78, Canadian sports promoter, founder of the Ottawa 67's, complications from heart surgery.
• Luther Dixon, 78, American songwriter.
• Evert Heinström, 97, Finnish Olympic athlete.
• Ray Lambert, 87, Welsh footballer.
• Don Lane, 75, American-born Australian entertainer, Alzheimer's disease.
• Don Ivan Punchatz, 73, American science fiction artist, cardiac arrest.
• Herman Reich, 91, American baseball player.
• Maciej Rybiński, 64, Polish journalist and publicist.
• Soupy Sales, 83, American comedian and television host, cancer.
• Enver Shehu, 75, Albanian football player and manager.
• Suchart Chaovisith, 69, Thai politician, Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, laryngeal cancer.
• Libero Tresoldi, 88, Italian Roman Catholic Bishop of Crema.
• Albert Watson, 91, English footballer.
• Elmer Winter, 97, American founder of Manpower Inc.
• George Patrick Ziemann, 68, American Roman Catholic Bishop of Santa Rosa.

23

• Linda Day, 71, American television director, leukemia and breast cancer.
• Trevor Denning, 86, British artist.
• Suhrab Faqir, 75, Pakistani folk singer, kidney disease.
• Chris Hawk, 58, American surfer, oral cancer.
• Lou Jacobi, 95, Canadian-born American actor.
• Ture Kailo, Vanuatuan politician and member of parliament.
• John Kenley, 103, American summer theater producer, complications of pneumonia.
• Ken Perkins, 83, British army general.
• Jack Poole, 76, Canadian real estate developer, pancreatic cancer.
• Ron Sobieszczyk, 75, American basketball player, degenerative brain disease.

24

• Bill Chadwick, 94, American hockey official and broadcaster.
• Yasuo Iwata, 67, Japanese actor, lung cancer.
• Norman Levitt, 66, American mathematician.
• Karl Reisinger, 73, Austrian Olympic judoka.

25

• Yoshiteru Abe, 68, Japanese professional Go player.
• Dee Anthony, 83, American music manager, pneumonia.
• Maksharip Aushev, 43, Russian political activist and opposition leader in Ingushetia, businessman, shot.
• Adoor Bhavani, 82, Indian actress.
• Billy Bibit, 59, Filipino soldier and coup d'état leader, complications from a stroke.
• Camillo Cibin, 83, Italian former commander of the Corps of Gendarmerie of Vatican City.
• Fritz Darges, 96, German World War II Waffen-SS officer.
• Seymour Fromer, 87, American founder of Judah L. Magnes Museum.
• Leslie A. Geddes, 88, American electrical engineer and physiologist.
• Lawrence Halprin, 93, American architect.
• Gerhard Knoop, 88, Norwegian theatre director.
• Chittaranjan Kolhatkar, 86, Indian actor, heart attack.
• S. Ashok Kumar, 62, Indian jurist.
• René Marigil, 81, Spanish cyclist.
• Mike McQueen, 52, American journalist, Associated Press bureau chief for Louisiana and Mississippi, cancer.
• Ingeborg Mello, 90, Argentinian Olympic athlete.
• Heinz-Klaus Metzger, 77, German music critic.
• Lázaro Pérez Jiménez, 66, Mexican Roman Catholic Bishop of Celaya.
• Alexander Piatigorsky, 80, Russian-born British philosopher.
• Jeffry Picower, 67, American philanthropist, associate of Bernard Madoff, drowned after heart attack.
• Kamala Sankrityayan, 89, Indian writer and litterateur.
• Tangi Satyanarayana, 78, Indian politician, speaker of the Vidhan Sabha of Andhra Pradesh.
• Thea Segall, 80, Romanian photographer who lived in Venezuela since 1958 until her death.
• Kevin Widemond, 23, American basketball player, heart attack.

26

• Daniel Acharuparambil, 70, Indian Roman Catholic archbishop of Verapoly, kidney failure.
• Teel Bivins, 61, American member of the Texas Senate, Ambassador to Sweden.
• Sabino Fernández Campo, 1st Count of Latores, 91, Spanish Chief of the Royal House, key figure in failed 23-F coup d'état.
• Lea Fite, 54, American politician, member of the Alabama House of Representatives, apparent seizure.
• Bill Kirk, 75, American baseball player.
• Fred McCarthy, 91, American cartoonist.
• Yoshirō Muraki, 85, Japanese film production designer and art director, heart failure.
• George Naʻope, 81, American musician and hula expert, founder of the Merrie Monarch Festival, cancer.
• Troy Smith, 87, American businessman, founder of Sonic Drive-In chain, natural causes.

27

• Tapani Aartomaa, 75, Finnish professor and graphic designer.
• Frank Brady Jr., 64, Irish footballer, cancer.
• John David Carson, 57, American actor.
• August Coppola, 75, American writer, literature professor and father of Nicolas Cage, heart attack.
• Roy DeCarava, 89, American photographer.
• Alex Harris, 34, Australian paralympian swimmer, gold medalist (2004), suicide by train.
• David Shepherd, 68, British cricketer and umpire, lung cancer.
• Paul Zamecnik, 96, American molecular biologist.

28

• Olga Kevelos, 85, British motorcycle trials rider.
• Leslie King, 59, Trinidadian Olympic cyclist.
• Paul Manz, 90, American Lutheran organist and composer.
• Taylor Mitchell, 19, Canadian singer–songwriter, coyote attack.
• Jerry Morris, 99, British epidemiologist.
• Ted Nebbeling, 65, Dutch-born Canadian politician, British Columbia MLA, Mayor of Whistler, colon cancer.

29

• Russell L. Ackoff, 90, American organizational theorist, complications from surgery.
• Bei Shizhang, 106, Chinese biologist and educator.
• Jean-François Bergier, 77, Swiss historian.
• Jan Gąsienica Ciaptak, 86, Polish Olympic skier.
• Charles E. Conrad, 84, American acting coach, kidney failure.
• San'yūtei Enraku V, 76, Japanese comedian, lung cancer.
• Gino Fracas, 79, Canadian football player.
• Olav Hodne, 88, Norwegian missionary.
• June Maule, 92, American businesswoman, owner of Maule Air.
• John O'Quinn, 68, American lawyer, traffic collision.
• Norman Painting, 85, British radio actor, heart failure.
• Jürgen Rieger, 63, German lawyer and politician, stroke.
• Beat Rüedi, 89, Swiss Olympic bronze medal-winning ice hockey player.
• Alexander Schure, 89, American academic, founder of NYIT, Chancellor of NSU, Alzheimer's disease.
• Dave Treen, 81, American politician, Governor of Louisiana, respiratory disease.

30

• Juvenal Amarijo, 85, Brazilian football player, respiratory failure.
• Norton Buffalo, 58, American singer-songwriter, blues harmonica player, lung cancer.
• Ramata Diakité, 32–33, Malian Wassoulou musician, hepatitis A.
• Forest Evashevski, 91, American football coach, cancer.
• Claude Lévi-Strauss, 100, French anthropologist and author.
• Michelle Triola Marvin, 76, American plaintiff in landmark 'palimony' lawsuit, lung cancer.
• June Middleton, 83, Australian with polio, world's longest survivor in an iron lung.
• Alick Rowe, 70, British television and radio writer, heart attack.
• Howie Schultz, 87, American baseball and basketball player, cancer.
• František Veselý, 65, Czech football player.
• Igor Vyazmikin, 43, Russian ice hockey player.
• Eugenia A. Wordsworth-Stevenson, Liberian diplomat.

31

• Roque Antonio Adames Rodríguez, 81, Dominican Roman Catholic Bishop of Roman Catholic [Archdiocese of Santiago de los Caballeros|Santiago de los Caballeros].
• Tim Bickerstaff, 67, New Zealand radio personality.
• Chen Lin, 39, Chinese pop singer, suicide by jumping.
• Hugh Dinwiddy, 97, British cricketer.
• Stanley Ellis, 83, British linguistics scholar.
• Harry Gauss, 57, Canadian soccer coach, brain cancer.
• Pat Keysell, 83, British television presenter.
• Lee Hu-rak, 85, South Korean spy chief, Director of the National Intelligence Service, brain tumor.
• Mustafa Mahmoud, 87, Egyptian scientist, author and philosopher.
• John Mason, 89, British historian and librarian.
• Qian Xuesen, 97, Chinese scientist and co-founder of the JPL.
• Steve Reid, 94, American football player.
• Neguinho do Samba, 54, Brazilian percussionist, founder of Olodum, heart failure.
• Jan Wejchert, 59, Polish businessman and media mogul, co-founder of ITI Group, co-owner of TVN, heart attack.
• Tom Wheatcroft, 87, British businessman, owner of Donington Park race circuit.