Deaths in May 2008

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

May 2008

1

• Nasimuddin Amin, 54, Malaysian entrepreneur and founder of Naza, lung cancer. [1]
• Bernard Archard, 91, British actor. [2]
• Buzzie Bavasi, 93, American baseball executive (Dodgers, Angels, Padres). [3]
• Mary Berry, 90, British musicologist and nun. [4]
• Philipp von Boeselager, 90, German World War II anti-Hitler conspirator. [5]
• Nirmala Deshpande, 78, Indian peace activist, after brief illness. [6]
• Elaine Dundy, 86, American writer and actress. [7]
• Aden Hashi Farah, Somali leader of Al-Shabab insurgent group, air strike. [8]
• Jim Hager, 61, American country music singer and television actor (Hee Haw), heart attack. [9]
• Mark Kendall, 49, British footballer (Tottenham Hotspur, Newport County, Wolverhampton Wanderers). [10]
• Sir Anthony Mamo, 99, Maltese politician, first president of the Republic of Malta. [11]
• Alberto Estima de Oliveira, 74, Portuguese poet. [12] (Portuguese)
• Deborah Jeane Palfrey, 52, American escort agency proprietor, suicide by hanging. [13] [14]

2

• Robert Brachtenbach, 77, American jurist, Washington State Supreme Court justice (1972–1994), throat cancer. [15]
• Carole Dekeijser, 48, Belgian painter, lung cancer. [16] (French)
• Dominic Dim Deng, Sudanese politician, defence minister for Southern Sudan, plane crash. [17]
• Robert M. Isaac, 80, American politician, mayor of Colorado Springs, Colorado (1979–1997), pneumonia. [18]
• Sergio Lauricella, 86, Italian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1948) composer. [19]
• Mildred Loving, 68, American civil rights pioneer, challenged Virginia interracial marriage law (Loving v. Virginia). [20]
• Ilyas Malayev, 72, Uzbekistani musician and poet, pancreatic cancer. [21]
• Beverlee McKinsey, 72, American soap opera actress (Another World, Guiding Light), complications from kidney transplant. [22]
• Izold Pustylnik, 70, Ukrainian-born Estonian astronomer. [23]
• Daniel Sekhoto, 37, South African football player. [24]
• Mike Titcomb, 75, British rugby union referee, kidney failure. [25]
• Frank Y. Whiteley, Jr., 93, American thoroughbred racehorse trainer (Ruffian). [26]
• Justin Yak, Sudanese politician, minister for cabinet affairs for Southern Sudan (2006–2007), plane crash. [27]

3

• Charles Caccia, 78, Canadian politician, environmentalist, Liberal MP for Davenport (1968–2004), complications of stroke. [28]
• Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo, 82, Spanish prime minister (1981–1982), natural causes. [29]
• Eight Belles, 3, American racehorse, 2008 Kentucky Derby 2nd-place finisher, euthanized. [30]
• Martin Finnegan, 27, Irish motorbike racer, race crash. [31]
• Fay Gale, 75, Australian cultural geographer. [32]
• Lynne Cooper Harvey, 92, American radio producer, Radio Hall of Fame member, wife of Paul Harvey, leukemia. [33]
• Ted Key, 95, American cartoonist (Hazel), bladder cancer and stroke. [34]
• Hanon Reznikov, 57, American playwright. [35]
• Morgan Sparks, 91, American engineer, inventor of the first practical bipolar junction transistor. [36]
• Ngugi wa Mirii, 57, Kenyan playwright, car accident. [37]

4

• Roger Aeschlimann, 84, Swiss cyclist. [38]
• John Altieri, 38, American actor (Jersey Boys), pneumonia. [39]
• Fred Baur, 89, American chemist, inventor of the Pringles can. [40]
• Alvin Colt, 92, American Tony Award–winning costume designer (On the Town, Guys and Dolls, Pipe Dream, Li'l Abner). [41]
• John Greenwood, 57, British businessman and catering executive, motor neurone disease. [42]
• Fred Haines, 72, American screenwriter and film director, lung cancer. [43]
• Richard Holme, Baron Holme of Cheltenham, 71, British Liberal Democrat politician, cancer. [44]
• Kishan Maharaj, 84, Indian musician, leading exponent of the Benares gharana tabla, stroke. [45]
• Colin Murdoch, 79, New Zealand inventor of the disposable hypodermic syringe and the tranquilizer gun, cancer. [46]

5

• Sam Aubrey, 85, American basketball player and coach (Oklahoma State Cowboys). [47]
• Thomas Boggs, 63, American drummer (Box Tops), owner of Huey's Restaurants. [48]
• Hugh Bradner, 92, American scientist credited with inventing the wetsuit. [49]
• Park Kyung-ni, 82, South Korean novelist, lung cancer. [50]
• Irv Robbins, 90, American businessman, co-founder of the Baskin-Robbins ice cream chain. [51] [52]
• Alma Hogan Snell, 85, American Crow tribal nation historian, herbalist, granddaughter of Pretty Shield. [53]
• Jerry Wallace, 79, American country music singer, heart failure. [54]
• Witold Woyda, 68, Polish fencer, double gold medallist at the 1972 Summer Olympics, lung cancer. [55]

6

• John Jay Iselin, 74, American public television innovator, descendent of John Jay, pneumonia. [56]
• Franz Jackson, 95, American saxophonist. [57]
• Harvey Karman, 84, American psychologist and women's reproductive health advocate, inventor of the Karman cannula, stroke. [58]
• William Earl Lynd, 53, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
• Ray Michie, Baroness Michie of Gallanach, 74, British Liberal Democrat politician, cancer. [59]
• D.C. Minner, 73, American blues musician. [60]
• John Reames, 65, British football manager and administrator, cancer. [61]

7

• William Douglas Allen, 94, British physicist and electrical engineer. [62]
• Neeraj Grover, 26, Indian television executive and producer (Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Se Tez Hain?), beaten. [63]
• Rachel Hoffman, 23, American police informant, murdered. [64]
• Clifford Jones, 80, American politician, Pennsylvania Republican Party chairman, prostate cancer. [65]
• Thijs Wöltgens, 64, Dutch politician, mayor of Kerkrade (1994–2000), senator (1995–2005). [66] (Dutch)
• Gernot Zippe, 90, Austrian engineer. [67]

8

• Eddy Arnold, 89, American country music singer. [68]
• Willem Brakman, 85, Dutch author. [69] (Dutch)
• Ian Brodie, 72, British foreign correspondent (The Daily Telegraph). [70]
• John Earle, 64, Irish saxophonist. [71]
• Jose Feria, 91, Filipino supreme court justice (1986–1987). [72]
• Murray Jarvik, 84, American academic and co-inventor of the nicotine patch, heart failure. [73]
• Larry Levine, 80, American Grammy-winning audio engineer (Wall of Sound), emphysema. [74]
• Luigi Malerba, 81, Italian writer. [75]
• Édgar Eusebio Millán Gómez, 41, Mexican federal police anti-drug coordinator, shot. [76]
• François Sterchele, 26, Belgian footballer (Belgium, Club Brugge), car accident. [77]

9

• James Atkinson, 92, British physicist. [78]
• Firoz Dastur, 89, Indian Hindustani classical musician (Kirana Gharana), anaemia. [79]
• Jack Gibson, 79, Australian rugby league player and coach, selected as "Coach of the Century". [80]
• Judy Grable, 82, American female professional wrestler. [81]
• Shmuel Katz, 93, Israeli writer, historian and journalist. [82]
• Arthur Kroeger, 76, Canadian civil servant (1958–1992), academic and chancellor of Carleton University (1993–2002). [83]
• Nuala O'Faolain, 68, Irish journalist and author, lung cancer. [84] [85]
• Ronald A. Parise, 56, American astronaut, brain tumor. [86]
• Esteban Robles Espinosa, Mexican police commander, shot. [87]
• Pascal Sevran, 62, French television presenter and producer, lyricist and writer, lung cancer. [88]
• Sinan Sofuoğlu, 25, Turkish motorcycle racer, training crash. [89]
• Artur da Távola, 72, Brazilian journalist, writer and politician, heart disease. [90] (Portuguese)

10

• Sir John Barraclough, 90, British air marshal. [91]
• Leyla Gencer, 79, Turkish soprano opera singer, respiratory and cardiac failure. [92]
• Paul Haeberlin, 84, French chef and restaurateur (L'Auberge de l'Ill). [93]
• Jessica Jacobs, 17, Australian actress and singer, fell under train. [94] [95]
• Liao Feng-Teh, 57, Taiwanese incoming interior minister, heart attack. [96]
• Eusebio Ríos, 73, Spanish international footballer and coach. [97] (Spanish)
• Mario Schiano, 74, Italian jazz saxophonist, after long Illness. [98]
• Peter Thurnham, 69, British MP for Bolton North East (1983–1997), pancreatic cancer. [99]

11

• Sir Austin Bide, 92, British chemist and industrialist. [100]
• Sam Dauya, 70, Zimbabwean founder of Dynamos F.C. football team. [101]
• Alema Leota, 80, American alleged organized crime leader, 1978 candidate for governor of Hawaii, injuries from car accident. [102]
• Raymattja Marika, 49, Australian Yolngu scholar, linguist, educator and cultural advocate, heart attack. [103]
• Bruno Neves, 27, Portuguese cyclist, crash during race. [104]
• Dottie Rambo, 74, American gospel singer, bus crash. [105]
• John Rutsey, 55, Canadian drummer (Rush), heart attack. [106]
• Heather Stohler, 29, American model for Calvin Klein, fire. [107]
• Dick Sutcliffe, 90, American animator, creator of Davey and Goliath, stroke. [108]
• Jeff Torrington, 72, British novelist (Swing Hammer Swing), Parkinson's disease. [109]
• Curtis Whitley, 39, American football player (San Diego Chargers, Carolina Panthers, Oakland Raiders). [110]

12

• Penny Banner, 73, American professional wrestler, cancer. [111]
• David Daniels, 74, American poet. [112]
• Oakley Hall, 87, American novelist (Warlock), kidney disease and cancer. [113]
• Lidiya Masterkova, 81, Russian-born French painter. [114] (Russian)
• Robert Rauschenberg, 82, American pop artist, heart failure. [115]
• Irena Sendler, 98, Polish humanitarian, saved 2500 Jewish children from the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. [116]

13

• Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, 78, Kuwaiti emir (2006). [117]
• Jill Adams, 77, British actress, cancer. [118]
• Lucius D. Battle, 89, American ambassador to Egypt (1964–1967), Parkinson's disease. [119]
• Bernardin Gantin, 86, Beninese cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. [120]
• John Phillip Law, 70, American actor (Barbarella). [121]
• Larry McKeon, 63, American politician, first openly gay member of the Illinois General Assembly, stroke. [122]
• Colea Răutu, 95, Romanian actor, cirrhosis. [123]
• Ron Stone, 72, American news anchor (KHOU, KPRC in Houston), prostate cancer. [124]
• Costică Toma, 80, Romanian football goalkeeper (Romania, Steaua Bucureşti). [125]
• Maheswary Velautham, Sri Lankan lawyer and activist, shot. [126]

14

• Frith Banbury, 96, British stage director and actor, liver cancer. [127]
• Arthur Burks, 92, American mathematician and computer pioneer, Alzheimer's disease. [128]
• Warren Cowan, 87, American publicist, cancer. [129]
• John Forbes-Robertson, 80, British actor. [130]
• Derek Goodwin, 88, British ornithologist. [131]
• Roy Heath, 81, Guyanese writer. [132]
• Jay Morago, 90, American governor of the Gila River Indian Community (1954–1960), cancer. [133]
• Tonderai Ndira, 33, Zimbabwean political dissident, murdered. [134]
• Yuri Rytkheu, 78, Russian Chukchi language writer. [135]
• Mário Schoemberger, 56, Brazilian film, television and stage actor, cancer. [136] (Portuguese)
• Richard David Vine, 82, American diplomat, ambassador to Switzerland (1979–1981). [137]

15

• Del Ankers, 91, American cinematographer and photographer (Muppets commercials). [138]
• Henry Austin, 88, Indian diplomat and politician, ambassador to Portugal. [139]
• Tommy Burns, 51, Scottish football player and manager (Celtic, Kilmarnock, Reading), melanoma. [140]
• Tove Billington Bye, 79, Norwegian politician. [141] (Norwegian)
• Alexander Courage, 88, American orchestrator and film composer. [142]
• Anthony Denness, 71, English cricketer. [143]
• Walt Dickerson, 80, American vibraphonist, cardiac arrest. [144]
• Robert Dunlop, 47, British motorcycle racer, chest injuries. [145]
• Will Elder, 86, American comic book artist (Mad, Little Annie Fanny), Parkinson's disease. [146] [147]
• Bob Florence, 75, American jazz composer and arranger, pneumonia. [148]
• Youssef Idilbi, 32, Dutch actor, suicide. [149] (Dutch)
• Willis Lamb, 94, American physicist, Nobel laureate in physics (1955), complications of gallstone disorder. [150]
• Earl Leggett, 75, American football player and coach. [151]

16

• William Blease, Baron Blease, 93, British politician. [152]
• Henry Canoy, 84, Filipino businessman, founder of Radio Mindanao Network. [153]
• Sandy Howard, 80, American film and television producer (A Man Called Horse), Alzheimer's disease. [154]
• David Mitton, 69, British animation director, heart attack. [155]
• Robert Mondavi, 94, American winemaker, benefactor of the Mondavi Center, member of the California Hall of Fame. [156]
• Igor Polyakov, 95, Russian rower, 1952 Olympic silver medalist. [157] (Russian)
• Jimmy Slyde, 80, American tap dancer. [158]
• Peter Rolfe Vaughan, 73, English scientist, heart attack. [159]

17

• Jolyon Brettingham Smith, 58, British composer, musicologist and radio presenter. [160] (German)
• John Fitzsimmons, 68, British Roman Catholic priest and broadcaster, after long illness. [161]
• Thomas Flatley, 76, American real estate tycoon and philanthropist, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [162]
• Zélia Gattai, 91, Brazilian writer and novelist, wife of Jorge Amado. [163]
• Wilfrid Mellers, 94, British composer and author. [164]
• D. Aubrey Moodie, 99, Canadian politician. [165]
• Jack Rayner, 87, Australian rugby league player. [166]
• Sophan Sophiaan, 64, Indonesian actor and politician, motorcycle accident. [167]
• Joyce Trimmer, 80, Canadian politician, mayor of Scarborough, Ontario (1988–1994), cancer. [168]
• Lionel Van Deerlin, 93, American politician and journalist, representative from California (1963–1981).[169]

18

• Pietro Cascella, 87, Italian contemporary artist. [170]
• Irma Córdoba, 94, Argentine actress, natural causes. [171] (Spanish)
• Jonathan James, 24, American cyber criminal. [172]
• John Lucas, 85, Barbadian-born Canadian cricketer.[173]
• Lloyd Moore, 95, American NASCAR driver (1949–1955). [174]
• Elemore Morgan, Jr., 76, American landscape artist. [175]
• Joseph Pevney, 96, American television and film director (Bonanza, Star Trek, The Paper Chase, Trapper John, M.D.). [176]

19

• Randy Acord, 89, American aviation historian. [177]
• Nigel Cassidy, 62, British footballer. [178]
• Larry Coutre, 80, American football player. [179]
• Jack Duffy, 81, Canadian comedian, natural causes. [180]
• Chaim Flom, Israeli scholar and rosh yeshiva. [181]
• Huntington Hartford, 97, American businessman and philanthropist. [182]
• Barclay Howard, 55, British golfer. [183]
• Rimma Kazakova, 76, Russian poet. [184]
• Mariam McGlone, 92, American dancer and choreographer. [185]
• Kjell Kristian Rike, 63, Norwegian sports commentator. [186]
• Vijay Tendulkar, 80, Indian playwright, myasthenia gravis. [187]

20

• Iona Banks, 87, British actress (Pobol y Cwm). [188]
• Crispin Beltran, 75, Filipino congressman and labor leader, head injuries from a fall. [189]
• Viktor Bortsov, 73, Russian actor, intestinal cancer. [190] (Russian)
• Margot Boyd, 94, British actress (Marjorie Antrobus on The Archers). [191]
• Thomas Burlison, Baron Burlison, 71, British footballer and trade unionist. [192]
• Joachim Erwin, 58, German politician, mayor of Düsseldorf, colorectal cancer. [193]
• Herb Hash, 97, American baseball pitcher (Boston Red Sox), stroke. [194]
• Harald Hein, 58, German Olympic fencer. [195]
• Zelma Henderson, 88, American last surviving plaintiff in Brown v. Board of Education, pancreatic cancer. [196]
• Hamilton Jordan, 63, American politician, Jimmy Carter's White House chief of staff (1979–1980), mesothelioma. [197]
• Baine Kerr, 88, American lawyer and oil executive. [198]
• Cy Leonard, 82, Canadian ventriloquist. [199]
• Ali Sadikin, 80, Indonesian politician, governor of Jakarta (1966–1977), liver cancer. [200]
• Jeheskel Shoshani, 65, Israeli-born American elephant expert, bus explosion. [201]
• S. K. Trimurti, 96, Indonesian journalist, first minister of labor and employment, natural causes. [202] (Indonesian)

21

• Mel Casson, 87, American cartoonist (Redeye). [203]
• Brian Keenan, 66, Irish IRA commander, cancer. [204]
• Ted Lanyon, 68, Canadian ice hockey player. [205]
• Michelle Meldrum, 39, American rock guitarist (Phantom Blue, Meldrum), cystic growth on the brain. [206]
• John Aloysius Morgan, 98, Australian Roman Catholic prelate. [207]
• Siegmund Nissel, 86, German-born British violinist (Amadeus Quartet). [208]
• Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos, 77, Portuguese artist and engraver, long illness. [209]
• Torcato Sepúlveda, 57, Portuguese journalist. [210] (Portuguese)

22

• Robert Asprin, 61, American science fiction and fantasy writer (MythAdventures), heart attack. [211]
• Charlie Booth, 104, Australian athlete, inventor of the starting block. [212]
• Harry Lange, 77, German astronautical illustrator and film production designer (2001: A Space Odyssey). [213]
• Jack Mildren, 58, American football player, Oklahoma's lieutenant governor (1990–1995), stomach cancer. [214]
• Paul Patrick, 58, British gay rights activist, chronic lung condition. [215]
• Hana Maria Pravda, 90, Czech actress and Holocaust survivor. [216]

23

• Alan Brien, 83, British journalist and critic. [217]
• Cornell Capa, 90, American photographer, founder of the International Center of Photography. [218]
• Roberto Freire, 81, Brazilian writer and psychiatrist, created somatherapy. [219]
• Dritan Hoxha, 39, Albanian businessman, car accident. [220]
• Thelma Keane, 82, Australian-born American who inspired husband Bil's comic strip The Family Circus, Alzheimer's disease. [221]
• Heinz Kwiatkowski, 81, German footballer, member of 1954 FIFA World Cup-winning team. [222]
• Iñaki Ochoa de Olza, 40, Spanish mountaineer and alpinist, pulmonary edema while climbing Annapurna. [223]
• Jefferson Peres, 76, Brazilian senator from Amazonas, heart attack. [224] (Portuguese)
• Utah Phillips, 73, American folk singer and political activist, heart failure. [225]

24

• Adam Baruch, 63, Israeli journalist, writer and art critic, diabetes complications. [226]
• Bob Beck, 63, Guamanian zoologist and conservationist, worked to save Guam rail native birds. [227]
• Tano Cimarosa, 86, Italian actor. [228] (Italian)
• Reg Flewin, 87, British footballer. [229]
• Rob Knox, 18, British actor (Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince), stabbed. [230]
• Eugenio Garza Lagüera, 84, Mexican businessman, president of FEMSA, natural causes. [231]
• Isaac Lipschits, 77, Dutch political scientist and historian, natural causes. [232] (Dutch)
• Dick Martin, 86, American comedian (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In), respiratory complications. [233]
• Jimmy McGriff, 72, American jazz and blues organist, multiple sclerosis. [234]
• Sonny Okosun, 61, Nigerian musician, colon cancer. [235]

25

• Louise Firouz, 74, American horse breeder. [236]
• George Garrett, 78, American novelist and poet, cancer. [237]
• Geremi González, 33, Venezuelan MLB baseball player, lightning strike. [238]
• James D. Griffin, 78, American mayor of Buffalo, New York (1978–1994), Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. [239]
• Bukhuti Gurgenidze, 74, Georgian chess grandmaster. [240]
• Ítalo Argentino Lúder, 91, Argentine acting president (1975). [241] (Spanish)
• Tom McHale, 45, American football player (Tampa Bay Buccaneers). [242]
• Mitch Mullany, 39, American comedian and actor (Nick Freno: Licensed Teacher), diabetes-related stroke. [243]
• J. R. Simplot, 99, American businessman, original McDonald's french fries supplier. [244]
• Clémentine Solignac, 113, French supercentenarian, verified world's fourth oldest person. [245]
• Ernst Stuhlinger, 94, German-born American rocket scientist. [246]
• Camu Tao, 30, American rapper-producer, lung cancer. [247]
• Kenneth H. Wood, 90, American author and administrator, editor of the Adventist Review, heart failure. [248]

26

• Dolly Aglay, 41, Filipino financial journalist, cancer. [249]
• Jerry C. Begay, 83, American Navajo code talker and World War II veteran. [250]
• Earle Hagen, 88, American composer of film and television theme music (The Andy Griffith Show, The Mod Squad). [251]
• Howlin' Dave, 52, Filipino radio disc jockey and proponent of Pinoy rock, stroke. [252]
• Roy Koerner, 75, British polar scientist and explorer. [253]
• Yuriy Konovalov, 78, Soviet-born Azerbaijani Olympic track athlete, 4 x 100m relay silver medallist (1956 and 1960). [254] (Russian)
• Donald L. Pilling, 64, American admiral, Vice Chief of Naval Operations (1997–2000), leukemia. [255]
• Sydney Pollack, 73, American film director (The Firm, Tootsie, Out of Africa) and actor, stomach cancer. [256]
• Alan Renouf, 89, Australian head of DFAT, ambassador to United States (1977–1979), France and Yugoslavia, leukemia. [257]
• Kermit Scott, 71, American philosophy professor, namesake of Kermit the Frog. [258]
• Robert G. Voight, 87, American academic. [259]

27

• Valmae Beck, 64, Australian child murderer, complications of heart surgery. [260]
• Tony Hussein Hinde, 55, Australian-born Maldivian surfer, heart attack. [261]
• Franz Künstler, 107, German World War I veteran, last known surviving veteran of the Central Powers. [262]
• Hubert Macey, 87, Canadian ice hockey player. [263]
• Per Nielsen, 88, Danish Olympic shooter. [264]
• Mick Nolan, 58, Australian footballer, cancer. [265]
• Neal Potter, 93, American politician. [266]
• Abram Raselemane, 30, South African footballer, apparent suicide. [267]
• Alejandro Romualdo, 82, Peruvian poet. [268] (Spanish)
• Keith Rosewarne, 83, Australian footballer. [269]

28

• Beryl Cook, 81, British painter. [270]
• Sven Davidson, 79, Swedish tennis player. [271]
• Robert H. Justman, 81, American television and film producer (Star Trek), Parkinson's disease. [272]
• Elinor Lyon, 86, British children's writer. [273]
• Danny Moss, 80, British jazz tenor saxophonist. [274]
• Dianne Odell, 61, American author and polio victim, power failure to iron lung. [275]
• Erin Spanevello, 21, Canadian fashion model, drug overdose. [276]

29

• Paula Gunn Allen, 68, Native American poet, novelist, and activist, lung cancer. [277]
• José Alejandro Bernales, 59, Chilean director general of Carabineros de Chile, helicopter crash. [278]
• Luc Bourdon, 21, Canadian ice hockey player, motorcycle accident. [279]
• Romeo A. Brawner, 72, Filipino appeals court judge (1995–2005), election commissioner (2005–2008), heart attack. [280]
• Len Devine, 84, Australian politician, MP for East Sydney (1963–1969). [281]
• Harvey Korman, 81, American actor and comedian (Blazing Saddles, The Carol Burnett Show, The Flintstones), abdominal aortic aneurysm. [282]

30

• Harry Brautigam, 59, Nicaraguan president of the BCIE since 2003, heart problem after air crash. [283]
• Campbell Burnap, 68, British jazz trombonist, cancer. [284]
• Harlan Cleveland, 90, American diplomat, educator and author, ambassador to NATO (1965–1969), natural causes. [285]
• Rodney Gordon, 75, British architect. [286]
• Noel Moore, 79, British civil servant, leader of decimalisation project, brain tumour. [287]
• Chris Morgan, 55, British journalist, apparent suicide in front of a train. [288]
• William Eldridge Odom, 75, American Army Lieutenant General and director of the National Security Agency. [289]
• Lorenzo Odone, 30, American ALD patient portrayed in the film Lorenzo's Oil. [290]
• Mike Scott, 75, British television producer and presenter. [291]
• Boris Shakhlin, 76, Russian-born Ukrainian gymnast, winner of seven Olympic gold medals for the Soviet Union, cardiac arrest. [292]
• Nat Temple, 94, British bandleader. [293]

31

• Carlos Alhinho, 59, Portuguese international footballer, fall. [294]
• Joe Axelson, 80, American executive and general manager of the National Basketball Association Sacramento Kings. [295]
• Nusret Çolpan, 56, Turkish painter and architect. [296] (Turkish)
• Detlef Gromoll, 70, American mathematician, brain hemorrhage. [297]
• Nelly Láinez, 88, Argentine actress, urinary infection. [298]
• Per-Erik Larsson, 79, Swedish skier. [299] (Swedish)
• Charles Moskos, 74, American sociologist, architect of the US military DADT gay and lesbian policy, cancer. [300]
• Paul Thomson, 91, American botanist, co-founder of the California Rare Fruit Growers Association. [301]