Английская Википедия:Deaths in February 2008

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The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2008.

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.

February 2008

1

• Hélio Quaglia Barbosa, 66, Brazilian member of the Superior Court of Justice, multiple organ failure.
• Floyd Boring, 92, American Secret Service agent, helped foil Truman assassination attempt, heart attack.
• Beto Carrero, 70, Brazilian theme park owner (Beto Carrero World), endocarditis.
• Al DeMao, 87, American football center for the Washington Redskins (1945–1953).
• Ralph DiGia, 93, American World War II conscientious objector and peace activist with War Resisters League, pneumonia.Шаблон:Citation needed
• Allan Grant, 88, American photojournalist for Life magazine.
• Earl Greenburg, 61, American head of NBC daytime, melanoma.
• Frank Fletcher Hamilton, 86, Canadian World War II pilot and politician.
• Russi Karanjia, 95, Indian journalist, editor of Blitz.
• Władysław Kawula, 70, Polish footballer.
• Shell Kepler, 49, American actress (General Hospital, Three's Company) and fashion designer (HSC), renal failure.
• Tony Silver, 82, American documentary filmmaker known for directing the film Style Wars.
• Ralph Wallace, 58, American politician, member of the Texas State House (1977–1992).

2

• Gus Arriola, 90, American cartoonist (Gordo), Parkinson's disease.
• Billy Balbastro, 67, Filipino journalist and broadcaster, cancer.
• Ahmad Bourghani, 48, Iranian politician, heart failure.
• Earl Butz, 98, American politician, Secretary of Agriculture (1971–1976).
• Heinrich Dahlinger, 85, German field handball player, entrepreneur, kidney failure.
• Joshua Lederberg, 82, American Nobel Prize–winning molecular biologist.
• Barry Morse, 89, British-born Canadian actor (The Fugitive, Space: 1999).
• Katoucha Niane, 47, French supermodel and women's rights activist, drowning.
• Sir David Orr, 85, British businessman.
• Daoud Soumain, Chadian general, Army Chief of Staff, killed during the Battle of N'Djamena.
• Roger Testu, 94, French cartoonist.
• Ed Vargo, 79, American baseball umpire.
• Edward Wilson, 60, British actor (When the Boat Comes In), director of the National Youth Theatre, cancer.

3

• Cyril Stanley Bamberger, 88, British Royal Air Force pilot.
• Samuel Boyle, 59, American bureau chief (New York City) of Associated Press (1981–2002), lung cancer.
• Charles Fernley Fawcett, 92, American adventurer, actor and freedom fighter.
• Ernesto Illy, 82, Italian food chemist and chairman of the illy coffee company.
• Sigurveig Jónsdóttir, 77, Icelandic actress, natural causes.
• Jorge Liderman, 50, Argentine-American composer, apparent suicide by train impact.
• Jackie Orszaczky, 59, Hungarian-born Australian musician, cancer.
• Geoffrey Paish, 86, British tennis player and administrator.
• Cornelius L. Reid, 96, American vocal pedagogue.
• John Elliott Smart, 91, British submariner.
• Charley van de Weerd, 86, Dutch football player.

4

• Chris Anderson, 81, American jazz pianist, complications from a stroke.
• Endel Aruja, 96, Estonian physicist.
• Sheldon Brown, 63, American bicycle mechanic and technical authority, heart attack.
• Larry Cruz, 66, Filipino journalist and restaurateur, pneumonia and complications from cancer.
• Augusta Dabney, 89, American actress (A World Apart, Running on Empty, The Paper).
• Tata Güines, 77, Cuban percussionist, kidney infection.
• Rose Hacker, 101, British activist.
• Harry Richard Landis, 108, American second-to-last World War I veteran.
• Stefan Meller, 65, Polish diplomat, foreign minister (2005–2006).
• Bertha Moss, 88, Argentine actor, cardiac arrest.
• Nikolay Popov, 76, Russian chief designer of T-80 tank, after long illness.
• John Snodgrass, 79, British diplomat.
• Peter Thomas, Baron Thomas of Gwydir, 87, British Conservative Party chairman (1970–1972), Welsh Secretary (1970–1974).

5

• Sayed Nafees al-Hussaini, 74, Pakistani calligrapher.
• Zoran Antonijević, 62, Serbian soccer plater.
• Schoolboy Cleve, 82, American blues musician, harmonica and guitar player.
• Karl Ehrhardt, 83, American New York Mets fan known for his signs in the crowd.
• Kenny Konz, 79, American football defensive back (Cleveland Browns), pneumonia.
• Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 90, Indian founder of Transcendental Meditation movement, former guru to The Beatles.
• Vitaliy Ponomarenko, 33, Ukrainian powerlifting champion, heart condition.
• Winston Walls, 65, American musician, heart failure and diabetes.

6

• John Alvin, 59, American film poster artist (Star Wars, Blade Runner, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial), heart attack.
• Phyllis Barnhart, 85, American animator (The Secret of NIMH).
• Charles Borck, 91, Filipino Olympic basketball player and coach.
• George W. Dunaway, 85, United States Army soldier who served as the second Sergeant Major of the Army.
• Nikol Faridani, 72, Iranian aerial photographer, prostate cancer.
• Oliver Foot, 61, British President of Orbis International.
• John Grimsley, 45, American football linebacker (Houston Oilers, Miami Dolphins), accidental gunshot.
• Andrew Harwood, 62, Australian radio and TV presenter (It's Academic, Jeopardy!), actor (The Paul Hogan Show), asthma attack.
• George Hekkers, 84, American football player.
• Neville Holt, 95, Australian Olympic shooter.
• John McWethy, 61, American news correspondent (ABC News), skiing accident.
• Kurt Nemetz, 81, Austrian Olympic cyclist.
• Ruth Stafford Peale, 101, American writer, widow of Norman Vincent Peale.
• Kalpana Rai, 57, Indian actress.
• Tony Rolt, 89, British racing driver and last living participant in the first F1 World Championship race.
• Gwenc'hlan Le Scouëzec, 78, French leader of the Druids of Brittany.

7

• Richard Altick, 92, American historian and author.
• Alberto Bustamante Belaunde, 57, Peruvian politician, Prime Minister (1999–2000), heart attack.
• Andrew Bertie, 78, British Grand Master of the Order of Malta.
• Bill Bowman, 76, American football player.
• Hoàng Minh Chính, 85, Vietnamese dissident, pancreatic cancer.
• Tamara Desni, 96, German-born British actress.
• Lakshmipati, 50, Indian actor.
• Helen Mayer, 75, Australian politician, MP (1983–1987).
• Benny Neyman, 56, Dutch singer, cancer.
• Daphne Robinson, 75, New Zealand cricketer.
• Guy Severin, 81, Russian academician and engineer.
• Kunal Singh, 30, Indian actor, suicide by hanging.
• Frank Wayman, 76, English footballer (Chester City), struck by motorcycle.
• Nicolaas Jan van Strien, 61, Dutch conservationist, cancer.
• Leona Wood, 86, American painter and dancer

8

• John Bartlett, 58, Australian politician.
• Chua Ek Kay, 61, Singaporean painter and Cultural Medallion winner, nose cancer.
• Eva Dahlbeck, 87, Swedish actress and writer, infection.
• Frank J. Dixon, 87, American University teacher.
• Victor Dominguez, 72, Filipino congressman, cardiac arrest.
• Earl B. Fowler Jr., 82, American Vice Admiral.
• J. Hemachandran, 75, Indian politician and trade unionist, spinal cord injury.
• Robert Jastrow, 82, American astronomer, physicist and cosmologist, pneumonia.
• Stephen Kipkorir, 37, Kenyan long-distance runner, car crash.
• Swaran Lata, 83, Pakistani film actress.
• Jane Lumb, 66, British model and actress, appeared in Fry's Turkish Delight commercials, breast cancer.
• Ah Meng, 48, Sumatran orangutan, tourist icon at Singapore Zoo.
• K. Rajaram, 82, Indian politician.
• Rudie Sypkes, 57, Australian founder of the Chickenfeed retail chain and philanthropist, pulmonary fibrosis.
• Phyllis A. Whitney, 104, American mystery novelist, pneumonia.

9

• Manuel F. Alsina Capo, 98, Spanish-Puerto Rican urologist and surgeon.
• Alfred Altenburger, 84, Swiss speed skater.
• Baba Amte, 93, Indian social activist, advocate for lepers, RLA recipient.
• John Anthony Derrington, 86, British civil engineer.
• Robert DoQui, 73, American character actor (RoboCop, Coffy, Nashville).
• Scot Halpin, 54, American one time drummer for The Who, brain tumor.
• Günter Havenstein, 79, German Olympic runner.
• Christopher Hyatt, 64, American psychologist, occultist, and author, cancer.
• Gene Knutson, 75, American football player.
• Dorothy Podber, 75, American performance artist, shot Andy Warhol's Shot Marilyns paintings.
• Merril Sandoval, 82, American Navajo Code Talker during World War II.
• Joseph Tyree Sneed III, 87, American senior judge (Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit).
• Carm Lino Spiteri, 75, Maltese architect and politician.
• Jazeh Tabatabai, 77, Iranian avant-garde painter, poet, and sculptor, heart failure.
• Harry Tapping, 81, New Zealand cricketer.
• Guy Tchingoma, 22, Gabonese footballer, on-field collision.
• Mindrolling Trichen, 78, Tibetan ceremonial head of the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism.
• Georgy Yegorov, 89, Russian Soviet Navy Admiral of the Fleet.

10

• John Abbotts, 83, English footballer.
• Arne Barhaugen, 76, Norwegian Olympic Nordic combined skier.
• Freddie Bell, 76, American rhythm and blues singer, cancer.
• Kirk Browning, 86, American television director, heart attack.
• Alaa Abdulkareem Fartusi, 29, Iraqi journalist and cameraman, victim of the Balad bomb blast.
• Ārijs Geikins, 71, Latvian playwright, writer, director, actor and drama teacher.
• Adeline Geo-Karis, 89, American politician, member of Illinois State Senate (1979–2007), natural causes.
• Steve Gerber, 60, American comic book writer (Howard the Duck, Captain America, Daredevil), idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
• Ove Jørstad, 37, Norwegian footballer, cardiac arrest.
• Ron Leavitt, 60, American television writer and producer (Married... with Children, Unhappily Ever After, The Jeffersons), lung cancer.
• Dario Lodigiani, 91, American baseball player.
• William Long, 85, British politician, MP of Northern Ireland (1962–1972).
• Peter Marginter, 73, Austrian author.
• Inga Nielsen, 61, Danish soprano, cancer.
• Manuel Ortiz, 59, Cuban Olympic fencer.
• Roy Scheider, 75, American actor (Jaws, The French Connection, All That Jazz), staph infection.
• Ramón Daumal Serra, 95, Spanish Roman Catholic bishop.
• Chris Townson, 60, British drummer (John's Children).
• Ray Wu, 79, American biologist and educator.

11

• Fouad al-Tikerly, 81, Iraqi novelist and judge, pancreatic cancer.
• Emilio Carballido, 82, Mexican playwright, heart attack.
• Tom Lantos, 80, American Representative from California since 1981, only Holocaust survivor elected to Congress, esophageal cancer.
• Torakichi Nakamura, 92, Japanese professional golfer, natural causes.
• Frank Piasecki, 88, American aeronautical engineer who invented the tandem rotor placement in helicopter design, stroke.
• Rahatullah, 18, Pakistani cricketer (Peshawar, Under-19 national team), gunshot injury.
• Alfredo Reinado, 40, East Timorese rebel, shot during attack on José Ramos-Horta.
• Zelig Sharfstein, 79, American chief rabbi of Cincinnati, heart condition.
• Melvin Alvah Traylor Jr., 92, American ornithologist and curator emeritus at the Field Museum of Natural History.
• Carolina Tronconi, 94, Italian gymnast, Olympic silver medalist (1928).
• Laura Urdapilleta, 76, Mexican ballerina.

12

• T. O. S. Benson, 90, Nigerian lawyer.
• Oscar Brodney, 100, American lawyer and screenwriter (Harvey).
• John Brunious, 67, American jazz trumpeter, heart attack.
• Ron Chippindale, 75, New Zealand chief air accident investigator, car accident.
• Boris Chirikov, 79, Soviet and Russian physicist, cancer.
• Wilson Hermosa González, 64, Bolivian musician and composer (Los Kjarkas).
• David Groh, 68, American actor (Rhoda), kidney cancer and heart failur.
• Thomas Grosser, 42, German footballer, heart attack during training.
• Preston Hanson, 87, American actor (Julius Caesar, The Loretta Young Show, Cage of Evil).
• Geoffrey Lewis, 87, British Professor of Turkish at Oxford University.
• Monica Morell, 54, Swiss singer, cancer.
• Imad Mughniyah, 45, Lebanese senior member of Hezbollah, car bomb.
• Badri Patarkatsishvili, 52, Georgian business oligarch and 2008 presidential candidate, heart attack.
• Jean Prouff, 88, French footballer and manager.

13

• Smoky Dawson, 94, Australian country music performer, after a short illness.
• Michele Greco, 83, Italian Mafia boss, lung cancer.
• Kon Ichikawa, 92, Japanese film director (Tokyo Olympiad, The Burmese Harp), pneumonia.
• Larry King, 15, Student at E.O. Green Junior High School, gunshot by Brandon McInerney
• Rajendra Nath, 75, Indian film actor, cardiac arrest.
• Henri Salvador, 90, French jazz singer and guitarist, aneurysm.
• Lionel Mark Smith, 62, American actor (Days of Our Lives, Homicide, Magnolia), cancer.
• Roger Voisin, 89, American trumpeter.

14

• Gene Allen, 79, American jazz reedist.
• Len Boyd, 84, British footballer.
• Jess Cain, 81, American radio personality (WHDH AM), cancer.
• Thurlow Cooper, 74, American football player (New York Titans).
• Hal Erickson, 88, American baseball player.
• Werner Giesa, 53, German author.
• Chuck Heaton, 90, American sports journalist.
• Sir Ralph Howell, 84, British Conservative MP (1970–1997).
• Steven Kazmierczak, 27, American mass murderer (Northern Illinois University shooting), suicide by gunshot.
• Sir Desmond Langley, 77, British army general.
• Odell Lawson, 59, American football running back.
• Perry Lopez, 78, American actor (Chinatown, Kelly's Heroes, McLintock!), lung cancer.
• William Modell, 86, American chairman of Modell's Sporting Goods, complications from prostate cancer.
• Padoh Mahn Sha Lah Phan, 64, Burmese Secretary General of Karen National Union, gunshot.

15

• Ayman al-Fayed, 42, Palestinian commander of al-Quds Brigades, explosion.
• Willie P. Bennett, 56, Canadian singer, natural causes.
• Sam Bith, 74, Cambodian former Khmer Rouge commander.
• Ashley Callie, 34, South African actress, car accident.
• Joaquim Costa, 72, Portuguese rock musician.
• Antoni Heda, 91, Polish Brigadier General, freedom fighter during World War II.
• Marcel Hendrickx, 82, Belgian cyclist.
• Derek Frank Lawden, 88, British-born New Zealand mathematician.
• Amnon Netzer, 73, Iranian Jewish historian.
• Peter B. Neubauer, 94, American child psychiatrist.
• Marijan Oblak, 88, Croatian Archbishop of Zadar.
• Naziha Salim, 81, Iraqi painter, complications from a stroke.
• Walter Warwick Sawyer, 96, English mathematician.
• Mikhail Solomentsev, 94, Russian Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the SFSR (1971–1983).
• Inge Thun, 62, Norwegian footballer (Strømsgodset), stroke.
• Johnny Weaver, 72, American professional wrestler, natural causes.

16

• Kenneth Radway Allen, 97, New Zealand fisheries biologist.
• Shelley Beattie, 40, American bodybuilder (American Gladiators), suicide.
• Hugh Bullard, 65, Bahamian Olympic sprinter.
• Harry Flemming, 74, Canadian journalist, complications from cancer and pneumonia.
• Brendan Hughes, 59, Irish member of the Provisional IRA.
• Jerry Karl, 66, American racing driver, car accident.
• Boris Khmelnitsky, 67, Russian actor in adventure films.
• Hans Leussink, 96, German politician.
• Shawn Lonsdale, 46, American videographer and critic of Scientology.
• Bobby Lord, 74, American country musician.
• Vittorio Lucarelli, 79, Italian Olympic fencer.
• Horst-Rüdiger Magnor, 65, German Olympic athlete.
• Per Erik Monsen, 61, Norwegian Member of Parliament (1997–2005), complications from heart attack.
• James Orange, 65, American civil rights activist.
• Fabio Presca, 77, Italian Olympic basketball player.
• Charlie Ryan, 92, American musician and songwriter ("Hot Rod Lincoln"), heart disease.

17

• Nicola Agnozzi, 96, Italian Roman Catholic prelate.
• Aysel Gürel, 80, Turkish lyric writer and actress, chronic bronchitis.
• Brian Harris, 72, English footballer (Everton, Cardiff City, Newport County).
• Bill Juzda, 87, Canadian ice hockey defenceman (Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Rangers), cancer.
• Manna, 44, Bangladeshi film actor, heart attack.
• Val Ross, 57, Canadian journalist and children's writer, brain cancer.
• Benigno G. Tabora, 92, American survivor of Bataan Death March.
• Winning Colors, 23, American racehorse, won 1988 Kentucky Derby, euthanized.

18

• Grits Gresham, 85, American conservationist, sportsman and actor, complication of infection and pneumonia.
• Jim Jones, 57, American rock guitarist (Pere Ubu), heart attack.
• Raymond Kennedy, 73, American novelist, complications of a stroke.
• Sir Richard Knowles, 90, British leader of Birmingham City Council (1984–1993), bladder cancer.
• Jack Lyons, 92, British financier and philanthropist.
• Mihaela Mitrache, 52, Romanian actress, cancer.
• Ralph Brazelton Peck, 95, American civil engineer.
• Alain Robbe-Grillet, 85, French writer (Last Year at Marienbad), heart failure.
• Raymond J. Smith, 77, American editor, complications of pneumonia.
• Stanisław Swatowski, 73, Polish Olympic sprinter.
• Alec N. Wildenstein, 67, French international art dealer, ex-husband of socialite Jocelyn Wildenstein, cancer.

19

• Barry Barclay, 63, New Zealand film maker, heart attack.
• Mary Barclay, 91, British actress.
• Jean-Michel Bertrand, 64, French politician.
• Natalia Bessmertnova, 66, Russian prima ballerina, cancer.
• Richard D'Aeth, 95, British scholar.
• Eugene Freedman, 82, American figurine creator.
• David Hildyard, 91, English sound engineer (Fiddler on the Roof, Cabaret, Firestarter), Oscar winner (1972, 1973).
• Bob Howsam, 89, American sports executive (Denver Broncos, Cincinnati Reds), heart condition.
• Yegor Letov, 43, Russian punk rock singer, heart failure.
• Teo Macero, 82, American record producer and saxophonist.
• Emily Perry, 100, British actress.
• Peter Pianto, 78, Australian footballer.
• Lydia Shum, 62, Hong Kong actress, liver cancer.
• David Watkin, 82, British cinematographer (Out of Africa, Chariots of Fire, Moonstruck), Oscar winner (1986), cancer.

20

• Peter S. Albin, 73, American economist.
• Mary Elizabeth Carnegie, 91, American nurse, cardiovascular disease.
• Larry Davis, 41, American convicted murderer, stabbed.
• D. G. S. Dhinakaran, 73, Indian evangelist.
• Helmut Sturm, 75, German painter.
• Bobby Lee Trammell, 74, American rockabilly singer, Arkansas Representative (1997–2002).
• Paranjape Prakash Vishvanath, 60, Indian Shiv Sena politician, cancer.

21

• Madalena Barbosa, 65, Portuguese feminist.
• Paul-Louis Carrière, 99, French Roman Catholic prelate.
• Ben Chapman, 79, American actor (Creature from the Black Lagoon).
• Joe Gibbs, 65, Jamaican reggae producer, heart attack.
• Ana González Olea, 92, Chilean actress, septic shock.
• Archie Hind, 79, British novelist.
• Hans Janitschek, 73, Austrian journalist, heart attack.
• Geoff Leek, 76, Australian footballer with Essendon.
• Sunny Lowry, 97, One of the first English women to swim the English Channel.
• Evan Mecham, 83, American Governor of Arizona (1987–1988).
• Robin Moore, 82, American author (The French Connection, The Green Berets).
• Billy J. Murphy, 87, American football coach (University of Memphis).
• Emmanuel Sanon, 56, Haitian footballer, pancreatic cancer.
• Walter Eric Spear, 87, German physicist.
• Sufi Abu Taleb, 83, Egyptian politician, acting President (1981), Speaker of the People's Assembly (1978–1983).
• Sanggyai Yexe, 92, Chinese government official, one of the first ethnic Tibetans to join Mao Zedong's army and embrace Communism.

22

• Chuck Adamson, 71, American police officer, cancer.
• Richard Baer, 79, American television writer (Bewitched, Hennesey, That Girl), heart attack.
• Johnnie Carr, 97, American civil rights leader.
• Eagle Day, 75, American football player, after short illness.
• Rubens de Falco, 76, Brazilian telenovela actor (Escrava Isaura), heart failure.
• Nunzio Gallo, 79, Italian singer, represented Italy in the 1957 Eurovision Song Contest, brain haemorrhage.
• Maurice Laing, 90, English builder.
• Dennis Letts, 73, American actor (August: Osage County, Cast Away, Fire Down Below), lung cancer.
• Oswaldo Louzada, 95, Brazilian actor, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
• Stephen Marlowe, 79, American novelist (The Second Longest Night).
• Andreas Rüedi, 76, Swiss Olympic skier.
• Steve Whitaker, 53, British comic book colorist (V for Vendetta).

23

• Joaquim Pinto de Andrade, 81, Angolan politician, first honorary MPLA President, PRD chairman, after long illness.
• Henry Arana, 86, Puerto Rican composer.
• Janez Drnovšek, 57, Slovenian Prime Minister (1992–2002) and President (2002–2007), cancer.
• Josep Palau i Fabre, 90, Spanish author.
• Roger Foulon, 84, Belgian writer.
• Douglas Fraser, 91, American president of the United Auto Workers, emphysema.
• Paul Frère, 91, Belgian Formula One driver, 24 Hours of Le Mans winner and automobile journalist.
• Denis Lazure, 82, Canadian politician (NDP), cancer.
• Hubert Lilliefors, 79, American statistician, lung cancer.
• Gentil Ferreira Viana, 72, Angolan politician.

24

• Phil Bodner, 90, American jazz clarinetist and studio musician.
• Peter Curtin, 58, Australian cricketer.
• Lady Darcy de Knayth, 69, British crossbench member of the House of Lords, disability campaigner.
• Alan Dargin, 40, Australian didgeridoo player.
• Floyd Matthews, 105, American oldest living submariner.
• Larry Norman, 60, American Christian rock singer/songwriter, heart failure.
• Shirley Ritts, 87, American interior designer, mother of photographer Herb Ritts, emphysema.
• W. Laird Stabler Jr., 77, American former Attorney General of Delaware, oral cancer.
• Pearl Witherington, 93, British World War II Secret Service agent.
• Milford Zornes, 100, American watercolor artist, heart failure.

25

• Ashley Cooper, 27, Australian V8 Supercar driver, injuries from a race crash.
• Genoa Keawe, 89, American performer of Hawaiian music.
• Hans Raj Khanna, 95, Indian Supreme Court judge.
• Alan Ledesma, 29, Mexican telenovela actor, stomach cancer.
• Static Major, 33, American performer, record producer and songwriter, from complications after medical procedure.
• Vladimir Troshin, 81, Russian singer and actor.
• Roy Wise, 84, American baseball player.

26

• Julio García Agapito, 44, Peruvian environmentalist, shot.
• Charles Chan, 93, Chinese actor and director.
• Jimmy Dugdale, 76, English footballer (West Bromwich Albion, Aston Villa).
• Paddy Fahey, 84, Irish Olympic athlete.
• Tyronne Fernando, 66, Sri Lankan politician, Foreign Minister (2001–2004).
• Cabral Ferreira, 56, Portuguese President of C.F. Os Belenenses (2005–2008), cancer.
• Dick Fletcher, 65, American meteorologist at WTSP Tampa Bay, stroke.
• Robert Kraichnan, 80, American physicist, heart disease.
• Buddy Miles, 60, American drummer (Band of Gypsys, Electric Flag), lead vocalist (California Raisins), heart failure.
• Dan Shomron, 70, Israeli general, Chief of the Defense Forces (1987–1991), stroke.
• Bodil Udsen, 83, Danish actress, after short illness.
• Zbigniew Woźnicki, 49, Polish Olympic cyclist.
• John Yates, 82, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Gloucester (1975–1992).

27

• Shihab al-Tamimi, 74, Iraqi head of the Journalists Syndicate, heart attack following shooting.
• Mira Alečković, 84, Serbian and Yugoslav poet.
• Anna Andreeva, 90, Russian textile designer.
• Anthony Blond, 79, British book publisher.
• William F. Buckley, Jr., 82, American author, conservative political commentator, founder of National Review magazine, emphysema.
• Boyd Coddington, 63, American owner of hot rod shop, star of American Hot Rod on TLC.
• Octavio Cortázar, 73, Cuban film director and screenwriter, heart attack.
• Myron Cope, 79, American radio broadcaster for the Pittsburgh Steelers, inventor of the "Terrible Towel".
• David Edwards, 20, American football player paralyzed during a game in 2003, pneumonia.
• W. C. Heinz, 93, American sportswriter.
• Ernst Hiller, 79, German motorcycle racer.
• Raymond Kāne, 82, American slack key guitarist.
• Mandi Lampi, 19, Finnish child actress and singer.
• Ivan Rebroff, 76, German singer.
• Barbara Seaman, 72, American writer, journalist and activist, lung cancer.
• Sujatha, 72, Indian author, inventor of the electronic voting machine, multiple organ failure.

28

• Aharon Amir, 85, Israeli author and translator, natural causes.
• John Bliss, 77, American actor (Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide, Intolerable Cruelty, Andy Richter Controls the Universe), aortic aneurysm.
• Gérard Calvet, 80, French abbot and founder of the Abbey of Le Barroux, heart attack.
• Milt Harradence, 86, Canadian lawyer, judge and former leader of PCAA, cancer.
• Joseph M. Juran, 103, American engineer and philanthropist, stroke.
• Miss Alleged, 20, French Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
• Val Plumwood, 67, Australian ecologist and feminist, natural causes.
• Julian Rathbone, 73, British novelist.
• Mike Smith, 64, British rock and roll singer and keyboardist (The Dave Clark Five), pneumonia.
• André Verhalle, 84, Belgian Olympic fencer.

29

• Maria Adelaide Aboim Inglez, 75, Portuguese communist activist.
• Bill Carlson, 73, American news anchor (WCCO, Twin Cities), prostate cancer.
• Buddy Dial, 71, American football player.
• Vitaly Fedorchuk, 89, Russian head of the KGB.
• Jerry Groom, 78, American football player.
• Ralph Hansch, 83, Canadian Olympic ice hockey player.
• Janet Kagan, 62, American writer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
• Mar Paulos Faraj Rahho, 65, Iraqi Chaldean Catholic archbishop, kidnapped on this date and subsequently found dead.