Deaths in September 2009

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

September 2009

1

• Dick Berg, 87, American screenwriter and television producer, fall.
• Jake Drake-Brockman, 53, British musician and sound recordist, motorcycle accident.
• Jock Buchanan, 74, Scottish footballer.
• Aubrey Buxton, Baron Buxton of Alsa, 91, British television executive and conservationist.
• Carlos Alberto Menezes Direito, 66, Brazilian judge, pancreatic cancer.
• Gulab Mohanlal Hiranandani, 78, Indian admiral.
• Jang Jin-young, 37, South Korean actress, stomach cancer.
• Wycliffe Johnson, 47, Jamaican Reggae musician and composer, heart failure.
• Erich Kunzel, 74, American conductor, cancer.
• Wayne E. Meyer, 83, American Rear-Admiral, Aegis Combat System manager, heart failure.
• Francis Rogallo, 97, American aeronautical inventor.
• John Stephens, 43, American football player, NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year, traffic collision.
• Alexis Tioseco, 28, Filipino-born Canadian film critic, shot.
• Sir Oliver Wright, 88, British diplomat.

2

• Hylton Ackerman, 62, South African cricketer.
• Guy Babylon, 52, American musician, heart attack.
• Brian Boshier, 77, British cricketer.
• Jon Eydmann, 41, British band manager, heart attack.
• Donald Hamilton Fraser, 80, British painter.
• Bill Hefner, 79, American politician, member of the House of Representatives for North Carolina, brain aneurysm.
• Virve Kiple, 82, Estonian ballet dancer, actress, and director.
• Tibor Kristóf, 67, Hungarian voice actor, Hungarian voice of Sean Connery, Morgan Freeman and Darth Vader.
• Abdullah Laghmani, 40s, Afghan Secret Service chief, bomb blast.
• Mr Percival, 33, Australian pelican, animal actor, natural causes.
• John Poole, 82, British sculptor.
• Christian Poveda, 52, French photojournalist and documentary filmmaker, shot.
• Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, 60, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, helicopter crash.
• Mohamed Alí Seineldín, 75, Argentine military commander and putschist.
• Robert Spinrad, 77, American computer pioneer, director of the Palo Alto Research Center, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Ismael Valenzuela, 74, American jockey, after long illness.
• Jeffrey Wernick, 56, American animation executive and sports agent.

3

• Nicky Chapman, Baroness Chapman, 48, British peer, member of the House of Lords, brittle bone disease.
• Hulda Regehr Clark, 80, Canadian alternative medicine practitioner.
• Christine D'haen, 85, Belgian poet.
• Giovanni Melis Fois, 92, Italian Bishop of Nuoro.
• Caro Jones, 86, American casting director, multiple myeloma.
• Edith Kaplan, 85, American neuropsychologist.
• Alec MacLachlan, 30, British hostage in Iraq.
• Ronald Sarre, 77, Australian cricketer.
• Yukhym Shkolnykov, 70, Ukrainian association football coach.

4

• Buddy Blattner, 89, American sportscaster, baseball and table tennis player, complications from lung cancer.
• Iain Cuthbertson, 79, British actor.
• Allan Ekelund, 91, Swedish film producer, collaborator with Ingmar Bergman.
• Guy Guillabert, 78, French Olympic bronze medal-winning rower.
• Siegfried Gurschler, 83, Austrian sports shooter.
• Skip Miller, 62, American music industry executive, president of Motown Records, heart attack.
• Franz Olah, 99, Austrian politician, Interior Minister.
• Carl Reindel, 74, American actor.
• Keith Waterhouse, 80, British author and playwright, natural causes.
• Bill Welch, 68, American politician, mayor of State College, Pennsylvania, complications after leg surgery.

5

• Gani Fawehinmi, 71, Nigerian lawyer and human rights activist, lung cancer.
• Carl Hovde, 82, American professor, Dean during the Columbia University protests of 1968, lung cancer.
• Mickie Jones, 56, American bassist, liver cancer.
• Liang Shoupan, 93, Chinese aerospace engineer.
• Jesse Mahelona, 26, American football player, traffic collision.
• Richard Merkin, 70, American artist.
• Saifur Rahman, 77, Bangladeshi politician, longest-serving Finance Minister, traffic collision.
• Ron Raikes, 61, American politician, Nebraska state senator, farm accident.
• Richard D. Robinson, 88, American educator.
• Charlie Waller, 87, American football coach.

6

• Christopher John Banda, 35, Malawian footballer.
• Harcharan Singh Brar, 90, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Punjab.
• Vanja Drach, 77, Croatian actor.
• Gerhart Friedlander, 93, German-born American nuclear chemist, coronary disease.
• Helgi Hóseasson, 89, Icelandic activist.
• José Francisco Fuentes, 43, Mexican politician, shot.
• Catherine Gaskin, 80, Irish-born Australian novelist, ovarian cancer.
• Nada Iveljić, 79, Croatian writer.
• John Merino, 42, Ecuadorian colonel, head of presidential security for Rafael Correa, swine flu.
• David J. Ritchie, 58, American game designer.
• Sim, 83, French comic actor.
• Tatyana Ustinova, 96, Russian geologist.
• Stephen White, 81, Irish Gaelic footballer, member of Ireland Team of the Century, after short illness.
• Sir David Williams, 78, British academic, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, cancer.

7

• Medea Chakhava, 88, Georgian theatre and film actress.
• Junior Coghlan, 93, American silent film actor.
• Norman Curtis, 84, English football player and manager.
• John T. Elson, 78, American religion editor.
• Eddie Locke, 79, American jazz drummer.
• Fred Mills, 74, Canadian musician, traffic collision.
• Ra'anan Naim, 73, Israeli politician, Member of Knesset.
• Colin Sharp, 56, British musician and writer, brain haemorrhage.
• Paul Lê Đắc Trọng, 91, Vietnamese Bishop of Hanoi.
• Christos Vartzakis, 98, Greek athlete.

8

• Aleksandr Aksyonov, 85, Belarusian PM of Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Ambassador to Poland.
• Army Archerd, 90, American entertainment columnist, malignant mesothelioma.
• Ray Barrett, 82, Australian film, television and theatre actor, brain hemorrhage.
• Aage Bohr, 87, Danish physicist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics.
• Mike Bongiorno, 85, American-born Italian television presenter, heart failure.
• Rica Erickson, 101, Australian naturalist, artist and author.
• Henry S. Fitch, 99, American herpetologist.
• Rogelio Borja Flores, 74, Filipino sports writer, respiratory failure.
• Annie Le, 24, American graduate student, strangled.
• Kyle Woodring, 42, American drummer, apparent suicide by hanging.

9

• Kevin Carmody, 84, Australian cricket umpire.
• Eric Davidson, 94, Canadian blind mechanic, survivor of the Halifax Explosion.
• Anthony G. Evans, 66, British scientist.
• Léon Glovacki, 81, French footballer, played in 1954 FIFA World Cup.
• James Krenov, 88, American cabinetmaker.
• Stanley Cornwell Lewis, 103, British painter and illustrator.
• Steve Mann, 66, American songwriter and guitarist.
• Frank Mazzuca, 87, Canadian businessman, mayor of Capreol, Ontario.
• Sultan Munadi, 32, Afghan journalist, translator and correspondent, shot.
• Andrzej Śliwiński, 70, Polish Bishop of Elbląg.

10

• John Asquith, 77, English cricketer.
• Frank Batten, 82, American businessman, founder of The Weather Channel.
• Lou Bender, 99, American basketball pioneer who popularized the sport in New York City, cancer.
• Kerry Brown, 51, Canadian professional wrestler, liver failure.
• Lisle C. Carter, 83, American administrator, complications from pneumonia.
• Lyn Hamilton, 65, Canadian author, cancer.
• Sam Hinton, 92, American folk singer and marine biologist.
• Margaret Holmes, 100, Australian peace activist.
• Robert H. Miller, 90, American jurist, Chief Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court.
• Gertrude Noone, 110, American supercentenarian, oldest person in Connecticut and world's oldest military veteran.
• Patricia Robinson, 79, Trinidadian economist, First Lady, wife of A. N. R. Robinson.
• Yoshifumi Tajima, 91, Japanese actor, esophageal cancer.
• Tony Thornton, 49, American professional boxer, injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident.

11

• Sarane Alexandrian, 82, French art historian and philosopher.
• Juan Almeida Bosque, 82, Cuban politician, Vice President of the Council of State, cardiac arrest.
• James E. Bromwell, 89, American politician, Representative for Iowa.
• Jim Carroll, 60, American author, poet and musician, heart attack.
• Mool Chand Chowhan, 82, Indian sports official.
• Pierre Cossette, 85, Canadian television producer, brought the Grammy Awards to television.
• Larry Gelbart, 81, American comedy writer and blogger, cancer.
• Bob Greenberg, 75, American record executive, stroke.
• Zakes Mokae, 75, South African-born American actor, complications from a stroke.
• Georgios Papoulias, 82, Greek politician and diplomat, Foreign Minister, suicide by gunshot.
• John Pattison, 92, New Zealand World War II pilot.
• Henny van Schoonhoven, 39, Dutch footballer, cancer.
• Crystal Lee Sutton, 68, American union organizer, inspiration for Norma Rae, brain cancer.
• Felicia Tang, 31, Singaporean-born American actress and model, suffocated.
• Yoshito Usui, 51, Japanese manga artist, mountaineering accident.

12

• Norman Borlaug, 95, American agronomist and humanitarian, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, cancer.
• Dominik Brunner, 50, German businessman and manager, blunt trauma.
• Jeanne Clemson, 87, American theatre director, actress and educator, Parkinson's disease.
• Raj Singh Dungarpur, 73, Indian cricket player and administrator.
• George Eckstein, 81, American television writer and producer, lung cancer.
• Edward Gelsthorpe, 88, American marketing executive.
• Alfred Gottschalk, 79, German-born American President of Hebrew Union College, Reform Judaism leader, traffic collision.
• William Hoffman, 84, American novelist.
• Shah Abdul Karim, 93, Bangladeshi musician, respiratory problems.
• Jack Kramer, 88, American tennis player, cancer.
• Armando Manhiça, 66, Portuguese international footballer.
• Brian Mier, 74, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Council for Waverley.
• Antônio Olinto, 90, Brazilian writer, multiple organ failure.
• Danny Pang, 42, Taiwanese-born American hedge fund manager.
• Willy Ronis, 99, French photographer.
• T. R. Satishchandran, 80, Indian Administrative Service officer.
• Fred Sherman, 86, American economist and business commentator.
• Lawrence B. Slobodkin, 81, American ecologist.
• Bill Sparkman, 51, American substitute teacher and census worker, hanged.

13

• Philip Aziz, 86, Canadian artist, cancer.
• Felix Bowness, 87, British actor.
• Paul Burke, 83, American actor, leukemia.
• Malcolm Casadaban, 60, American molecular genetics professor, plague.
• Lonny Frey, 99, American baseball player, oldest living MLB All-Star.
• Arnold Laven, 87, American film and television director, pneumonia.
• Paul Shirtliff, 46, English footballer, cancer.
• Sarah E. Wright, 80, American novelist, complications from cancer.

14

• Keith Floyd, 65, British chef, heart attack.
• Henry Gibson, 73, American actor, cancer.
• Bobby Graham, 69, British session drummer, stomach cancer.
• Jing Shuping, 91, Chinese businessman, founder of Minsheng Bank.
• Mike Leyland, 68, Australian travel documentary host, complications of Parkinson's disease.
• Ralph S. Moore, 102, American horticulturist, natural causes.
• Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, 30, Kenyan terrorist, airstrike.
• Jody Powell, 65, American White House Press Secretary for President Jimmy Carter, heart attack.
• John Rarick, 85, American politician, Representative for Louisiana, cancer.
• Darren Sutherland, 27, Irish boxer, 2008 Olympic bronze medalist, suicide by hanging.
• Patrick Swayze, 57, American actor, pancreatic cancer.
• Lily Tembo, 27, Zambian musician, songwriter and journalist, complications from gastritis.
• Titus, 35, African silverback gorilla.
• Bartholomew Yu Chengti, 90, Chinese clandestine Roman Catholic prelate.
• Elio Zagato, 88, Italian car designer.

15

• Nicu Constantin, 70, Romanian actor.
• George Crumbley, 86, American founder of the Peach Bowl.
• Fred Cusick, 90, American sports commentator, complications from bladder cancer.
• Leon Eisenberg, 87, American child psychiatrist, prostate cancer.
• Tommy Greenhough, 77, British cricketer.
• Troy Kennedy Martin, 77, British screenwriter, liver cancer.
• Michael Knox, 48, American co-founder of Park Place Productions, producer of John Madden Football, colon cancer.
• Espiridion Laxa, 79, Filipino independent film producer, prostate cancer.
• Gerald Lestz, 95, American columnist and author, founder of the Demuth Museum.
• Lincoln Maazel, 106, American singer and actor.
• Vladimír Padrta, 56, Slovak Olympic basketball player.
• Kallie Reyneke, 87, South African Olympic racewalker.
• Trevor Rhone, 69, Jamaican playwright, heart attack.

16

• Brian Barron, 69, British journalist and war correspondent, cancer.
• Timothy Bateson, 83, British actor.
• Myles Brand, 67, American NCAA president, pancreatic cancer.
• W. Horace Carter, 88, American newspaper website, 1953 Pulitzer Prize winner, heart attack.
• Monte Clark, 72, American football player and coach, cancer.
• Luciano Emmer, 91, Italian film director.
• Sotero Laurel, 90, Filipino politician, Senator, President Pro Tempore.
• John Littlewood, 78, British chess player
• Lori Mai, 31, German-American folk rock singer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Ernst Märzendorfer, 88, Austrian conductor.
• Julian Niemczyk, 89, American Ambassador to Czechoslovakia, cardiac arrest.
• Filip Nikolic, 35, French singer and actor, drug overdose.
• Steve Romanik, 85, American football player.
• Melvin Simon, 82, American shopping mall developer, producer, Indiana Pacers owner.
• Mary Travers, 72, American singer, leukemia.
• Dorothy Wellman, 95, American dancer and actress, widow of William Wellman.

17

• Tommy Burnett, 67, American politician, Tennessee House of Representatives.
• Virginia Chadwick, 64, Australian politician, cancer.
• Frank Deasy, 49, Irish Emmy Award-winning screenwriter, liver cancer.
• Dick Durock, 72, American actor and stuntman, pancreatic cancer.
• Sue Eakin, 90, American history professor.
• Bernie Fuchs, 76, American illustrator, esophageal cancer.
• Dick Hoover, 79, American professional bowler.
• Randy Johnson, 65, American football quarterback.
• Leon Kirchner, 90, American Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, heart failure.
• Bob Kowalkowski, 65, American football player and coach.
• Robert Searcy, 88, American member of the Tuskegee Airmen, colorectal cancer.
• Noordin Mohammad Top, 41, Malaysian terrorist, shot.
• Geoff Williamson, 86, Australian Olympic bronze medal-winning rower.

18

• Peter Denyer, 62, British actor.
• James Donnewald, 84, American politician, Illinois Treasurer.
• Doug Fisher, 89, Canadian journalist and politician, MP for Port Arthur.
• Pearl Hackney, 92, British actress, widow of Eric Barker.
• Mahlon Hoagland, 87, American biochemist.
• Doreen Jensen, 76, Canadian sculptor.
• Irving Kristol, 89, American neoconservative advocate and editor, lung cancer.
• Natalia Shvedova, 92, Russian lexicologist.
• John J. Wild, 95, American physician, co-developer of ultrasound use in cancer detection.

19

• Gabriel Beaudry, 82, Canadian Olympic rower.
• Willy Breinholst, 91, Danish author.
• Alan Deyermond, 77, British hispanist.
• Arthur Ferrante, 88, American pianist, natural causes.
• Stevie Gray, 42, British footballer.
• Víctor Israel, 80, Spanish actor.
• Monty Kaser, 67, American professional golfer, prostate cancer.
• Milton Meltzer, 94, American historian and author, esophageal cancer.
• Maurizio Montalbini, 56, Italian sociologist and caver, heart failure.
• Elizaveta Mukasei, 97, Russian Soviet-era spy, wife of Mikhail Mukasei.
• Jose Antonio Ortega Bonet, 79, Cuban-born businessman and philanthropist, founder of Sazón Goya Food Company, cancer.
• Roc Raida, 37, American DJ, cardiac arrest after a spinal cord injury.
• Joseph-Marie Sardou, 86, French archbishop Emeritus of Monaco.
• Eduard Zimmermann, 80, German journalist and television presenter.

20

• Mario Bertolo, 80, French cyclist.
• Freddy Bienstock, 86, American music website.
• Hernan Córdoba, 19, Colombian footballer, traffic collision.
• Bertil Gärtner, 84, Swedish Lutheran bishop of Gothenburg.
• John Hart, 91, American actor.
• Ken Hough, 80, New Zealand cricketer and footballer.
• Yusuf Khan, 79-80, Pakistani actor, cardiac arrest.
• Booker Moore, 50, American football player, heart attack.
• Bayo Ohu, 45, Nigerian journalist and news editor, shot.
• Eddy Prentice, 88, New Zealand cricketer.

21

• Robert Ginty, 60, American actor and director, cancer.
• Michael Lockett, 29, British soldier, improvised explosive device.
• Myroslav Marusyn, 85, Ukrainian archbishop, Secretary Emeritus of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches.
• Piers Merchant, 58, British politician, MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central and Beckenham, cancer.
• Parviz Meshkatian, 54, Iranian musician and composer, cardiac arrest.
• Junzo Shono, 88, Japanese author, member of the Japan Art Academy.
• Sula Wolff, 85, British child psychiatrist.

22

• Marco Achilli, 60, Italian footballer.
• Manuel Bermejo Hernández, 73, Spanish politician, MP for Cáceres.
• Kole Čašule, 88, Macedonian writer.
• Edward Delaney, 79, Irish sculptor.
• Olaf Dufseth, 91, Norwegian Olympic Nordic combined and cross-country skier.
• Andréa Maltarolli, 46, Brazilian telenovela screenwriter, cancer.
• Bruce McPhee, 82, Australian race car driver, won Hardie Ferodo 500.
• Dirce Migliaccio, 75, Brazilian actress, pneumonia.
• Summer Squall, 22, American thoroughbred racehorse, 1990 Preakness Stakes winner, euthanized.
• Charlotte Turgeon, 97, American chef and author, influenza.
• S. Varalakshmi, 84, Indian actress and singer, complications from a fall.
• Wess, 64, Italian singer, placed third in Eurovision Song Contest 1975.

23

• Paul B. Fay, 91, American politician, Acting Secretary of the Navy, Alzheimer's disease.
• Gigolo FRH, 26, German-bred dressage horse, four-time Olympic gold medalist, euthanized.
• Ertuğrul Osman, 97, Turkish 43rd Head of the Imperial Ottoman Dynasty, lung and kidney failure.
• Dennis Pacey, 80, British footballer, aneurysm.
• Stuart Robertson, 65, British-born Canadian journalist and gardener, complications from pneumonia.
• Bill Speirs, 57, British trade union leader, after long illness.
• George M. Sullivan, 87, American politician, Mayor of Anchorage, Alaska, lung cancer.
• Marie Wadley, 102, American co-founder of the Five Civilized Tribes Museum.
• Don Yarborough, 83, American politician, Parkinson's disease.

24

• Nelly Arcan, 36, Canadian novelist, suicide by hanging.
• Susan Atkins, 61, American murderer, brain cancer.
• Pudhota Chinniah Balaswamy, 80, Indian Bishop of Nellore.
• Keith Batchelor, 78, Australian rules footballer.
• Terry Bly, 73, British footballer, heart attack.
• Forrest Church, 61, American Unitarian Universalist minister, author and theologian, esophageal cancer.
• Cryptoclearance, 25, American thoroughbred racehorse, complications from colic surgery.
• Joseph Satoshi Fukahori, 84, Japanese Bishop of Takamatsu.
• Joseph Gurwin, 89, Lithuanian-born American textile manufacturer and philanthropist, heart failure.
• Kevork Hovnanian, 86, Iraqi-born American businessman, founder of Hovnanian Enterprises.
• Rogers McVaugh, 100, American botanist.
• Sir Howard Morrison, 74, New Zealand singer, heart attack.
• Emile Norman, 91, American artist, natural causes.
• Robert Sahakyants, 59, Armenian animator, complications from heart surgery.
• Egon Solymossy, 87, Hungarian Olympic athlete.
• Mimi Weddell, 94, American actress.
• Margo Wilson, 66, Canadian psychologist.

25

• István Bujtor, 67, Hungarian actor and director, coccidiosis.
• Pierre Falardeau, 62, Canadian film director, cancer.
• Alicia de Larrocha, 86, Spanish pianist.
• Maria Gulovich Liu, 87, Slovakian resistance member, cancer.
• Clifton Maloney, 71, American businessman, husband of U.S. Representative Carolyn B. Maloney, mountaineering accident.
• Steeve Nguema Ndong, 37, Gabonese Olympic judoka.
• Francis Noel-Baker, 89, British politician, MP for Brentford and Chiswick and Swindon.
• Bob Stupak, 67, American casino owner, leukemia.
• David Will, 72, British vice president of FIFA, former Brechin City F.C. chairman, cancer.

26

• Sir John Dyke Acland, 16th Baronet, 70, British aristocrat, traffic collision.
• Geoff Barrowcliffe, 77, British footballer.
• Tony Chua, 43-44, Filipino sports executive, Barako Bulls team manager, drowning during Tropical Storm Ondoy.
• Zygmunt Chychła, 83, Polish boxer, 1952 Olympic gold medalist.
• W. I. B. Crealock, 89, British yacht designer.
• Amy Farris, 40, American fiddler and singer-songwriter, suicide.
• John Hyson, 81, American museum curator and historian.
• Ingvi Sigurður Ingvarsson, 84, Icelandic diplomat.
• Paul Medhurst, 55, British-New Zealand cyclist.
• Nihat Nikerel, 59, Turkish actor, heart attack.
• Alfred Oglesby, 42, American football player.
• Soeprapto, 85, Indonesian politician, Governor of Jakarta.
• David Underdown, 84, British historian, author of definitive work on Pride's Purge.

27

• Alimsultan Alkhamatov, 44, Russian politician and official, head of the Khasavyurt region of Dagestan, shot.
• John Connell, 69, American artist.
• Ivan Dykhovichny, 61, Russian film director, screenwriter, cancer.
• Donald Fisher, 81, American businessman, founder of The Gap, cancer.
• John Holmes, 57, British rugby league player, cancer.
• Charles Snead Houston, 96, American physician, mountaineer, inventor, author and filmmaker.
• Hans-Heinrich Jescheck, 94, German professor.
• Li Hou, 86, Chinese politician.
• Manuel Mandel, 72, Brazilian Olympic rower.
• Donal McLaughlin, 102, American architect, designer of the Flag of the United Nations, esophageal cancer.
• Dewald Roode, 69, South African academic, fall.
• William Safire, 79, American speechwriter and journalist, pancreatic cancer.

28

• Apostolos of Kilkis, 85, Greek bishop of Kilkis.
• René Bliard, 76, French footballer.
• Guillermo Endara, 73, Panamanian politician, President.
• Imre Katzenbach, 45, Hungarian footballer.
• Ulf Larsson, 53, Swedish actor, stage director and revue artist.
• Best Ogedegbe, 55, Nigerian footballer, complications from surgery.
• Luis Sánchez-Moreno Lira, 83, Peruvian archbishop Emeritus of Arequipa.
• Don Thompson, 85, American baseball player.

29

• Micheline Beauchemin, 79, Canadian tapestry and textile artist.
• Henry Bellmon, 88, American Governor of Oklahoma, U.S. Senator, Parkinson's disease.
• Ebony Dickinson, 32, American basketball player, breast cancer.
• Gunnar Haugan, 84, Norwegian character actor.
• Julian Hope, 2nd Baron Glendevon, 59, British opera producer, cancer.
• Margo Johns, 90, British actress.
• Greg Ladanyi, 57, American record producer and recording engineer, complications from a fall.
• Jean Ladd, 86, American baseball player.
• Ray Nettles, 60, American-born Canadian football player, cancer.
• John L. Pollock, 69, American philosopher.
• Pavel Popovich, 78, Ukrainian-born Soviet cosmonaut.
• Ed Sherman, 97, American football coach.
• Nick Strutt, 62, British country musician.
• Sperantza Vrana, 81, Greek film actress, singer and writer, heart attack.
• Vladimir Yakovlev, 79, Soviet Olympic sailor.

30

• Sir Alastair Aird, 78, British Royal courtier.
• Pentti Airikkala, 64, Finnish rally driver, prostate cancer.
• Rafael Arozarena, 86, Spanish writer and poet.
• Robert S. Baker, 93, British film and television producer.
• John Couey, 51, American murderer, killer of Jessica Lunsford, prostate cancer.
• Robert Haase, 86, American lawyer.
• Roland La Starza, 82, American actor and professional boxer.
• Raúl Magaña, 69, Salvadoran footballer and manager, gastric cancer.
• Byron Palmer, 89, American actor, natural causes.
• Birender Singh, 88, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Haryana, cardiac arrest.
• Victor Van Schil, 69, Belgian cyclist.