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Jay Bernstein, 69, American Hollywood publicist. *

Barry Driscoll, 79, British sculptor and painter, cancer. *

Bobby Fetzer, 50, an heir of the Fetzer Vineyards family, river rafting accident. *

Tyler Fry, 33, American model and boyfriend of Shoshana Bean, in a car accident. *

Boris Koytchou, 86, Russian-born contract bridge player. *

Harold "Bunny" Levitt, 96, American basketball player, member of the Harlem Globetrotters. *

George Mgrdichian, 71, American oud player. *

Heinz Poll, 80, German-born choreographer and co-founder of the Ohio Ballet. *

Jean-François Revel, 82, French philosopher *

Corinne Rey-Bellet, 33, Swiss Alpine skier, shot dead *

William (Bill) Roberts, 105, British First World War veteran *

Rabbi Moshe Shmuel Shapiro, 88, Rosh Yeshivah of Yeshivas Be'er Yaakov in Israel *

Paul Spiegel, 68, Chairman of the Central Council of German Jews, natural causes. * *

Pramoedya Ananta Toer, 81, Indonesian writer *

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Sid Barron, 88, Canadian cartoonist. Known for the biplane flying overhead trailing a banner that read "mild, isn't it." **

William L. Durkin, 89, U.S. Marine and businessman - best known for rescuing Howard Hughes in 1946 plane crash, heart attack *

Jiri Frel, 82, Czech-born antiquities curator for the J. Paul Getty Museum. *

Reuben Falber, 91, former Assistant General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain. *

John Kenneth Galbraith, 97, American economist and author (The Affluent Society), natural causes. **

Dr. Lawrence F. Grey, MD, 55 Urologist and leading pioneer specializing in Vasectomy Reversal Surgery. (aka "the Vas Doctor), suicide. *

Leighton Kerner, 79, American classical music critic for The Village Voice. *

Bishop James Mote, 84, American Bishop of the breakaway Anglican Catholic Church. *

Alberta Nelson, 68, American actress known for beach blanket movies of 1960s. *

Félix Siby, 64, Gabonese politician and former government minister. *

John Trever, 90, American scholar who photographed the Dead Sea Scrolls in Jerusalem. * *

Alvin S. White, 87, American test pilot *

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Helen Armstrong, 68, American concert violinist

Angel O. Berrios, 69, former mayor of Caguas, Puerto Rico, heart failure *

Steve Howe, 48, former Major League pitcher, automobile accident * *

Ben-Zion Orgad, 80, Israeli composer, cancer * *

MGG Pillai, 67, veteran Malaysian journalist and political activist, heart complications * *

Harvey Ratner, 79, former owner of the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves. *

Burt Todd, 81, American entrepreneur. *

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Elma "Pem" Gardner Farnsworth, 98, Philo Farnsworth's widow *

Bogdan Hancu, 28, killed by roadside bomb in Iraq, first Romanian soldier to die in Iraq *

Pat Marsden, 69, Canadian sportscaster, lung cancer. *

Roy Mogg, 77, English Methodist preacher and fraternalist, announced at the 74th National Convention of the Loyal Order of Moose

Strini Moodley, 60, founding member of South African Black Consciousness Movement *

Kay Noble-Bell, 65, American wrestler. *

Julia Thorne, 61, American author and first wife of John Kerry, cancer *

Alexander Buel Trowbridge, 76, Secretary of Commerce under US President Lyndon B. Johnson from 1967-1968, former president of the National Association of Manufacturers.*

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Rabbi Moshe Halberstam, 74, Jerusalemite Rabbi, Dean of Tshakava Yeshivah and prominent member of the Edah Charedis Rabbinical Court of Jerusalem. *

Helen Hobbs Jordan, 99, American music teacher whose students included Tony Bennett, Melissa Manchester, Bette Midler, and Paul Simon. *

Daniel McKenna, 54, former guitarist for the band Toby Beau, apparent suicide *

Peter Millard, 34, American programmer and engineer, assisted with development of Jabber/XMPP and wrote and maintained Exodus. *

Voldemar Miller, 95, Estonian historian, archivist, book researcher and author of several books for children. *

Professor Yuval Ne'eman, 80, Israeli physicist, founder of the Israel Space Agency, and former science minister. * *

Russ Swan, 42, former Major League Baseball pitcher (injuries due to a fall) *

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Jokin Gorostidi, 62, Spanish leftwing nationalist leader. *

Joseph Iseman, 89, American lawyer. *

Jane Jacobs, 89, American-born Canadian urban activist and author (The Death and Life of Great American Cities), stroke. *

Peter Law, 58, Welsh politician, independent MP and AM, brain tumor. *

Tabe Slioor, 79, Finnish socialite. *

Colonel James Swindal, 88, American pilot of Air Force One during the John F. Kennedy assassination. *

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Erik Bergman, 94, Finnish composer *

Nasreen Pervin Huq, 47, Bangladeshi women's activist and Director of Action Aid *

Grace Nelsen Jones, 112, Virginia's oldest person. * *

Brian Labone, 66, former Everton and England footballer, heart attack *

Bonnie Owens, 76, country music singer. *

Jimmy Sharman, 94, Australian boxing troupe impresario. *

Sibby Sisti, 85, MLB player with the Boston Braves *

Steve Stavro, 78, Canadian grocery store magnate and a former owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs, heart attack. *

Grand Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum, 91, of Satmar, one of the largest Hassidic Jewish groups in the world. *

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Ghafar Baba, 81, Malaysian former Deputy Prime Minister. *

Susan Browning, 65, American actress. *

Harvey Bullock, 84, American television writer and producer (The Love Boat, Love, American Style). * *

Wing Commander Johnny Checketts, 94, New Zealand World War 2 Flying ace *

Willie Finnigan, 93, legendary footballer for Hibernian F.C. *

Boris Fraenkel, 85, French Trotskyist *

Barry Gibbs, 73, South Australian cricket official. * *

William Gottlieb, 89, American jazz photographer. * * *

John Dunster, 83, British radiation expert *

Jennifer Jayne, 64, British TV and film actress ("William Tell (tv series)")

George Lenchner, 88, American mathematics educator. *

Florence Mars, 83, American civil rights activist, author of Witness in Philadelphia. * *

David Peckinpah, 54, television producer and director, heart attack *.

Phil Walden, 66, American founder of Capricorn Records, cancer. *

Isaac Witkin, 69, South African-born American sculptor. *

Roger Watkins, 69, English, former editor-in-chief of Variety magazine, cancer.

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Henriette Avram, 86, library systems analyst, developed MARC cataloging format. * *

Alexis Bespaloff, 71, Romanian-born wine columnist for New York magazine. *

Ed Davis, 89, former Los Angeles police chief (1969-1978). *

Kay Finegan, 95, American 1940s big band singer. *

Bill Kirschner, 97, American inventor of the first commercially successful fiberglass skis, founder of the K2 Corporation, member of the United States National Ski Hall of Fame. *

Titos Kontopoulos, 45, Greek journalist, cancer. *

Nobby Lawton, 65, midfielder & former captain of Preston North End, cancer. *

Jobie Nutarak, 58, Canadian politician. Shot during hunting trip. *

Satyadeow Sawh, 50, Guyanese Minister of Fisheries, Crops and Livestock. Shot by masked gunmen. * * *

Ronnie Sox, 67, American drag racing pioneer. *

Alida Valli, 84, Italian actress (The Third Man). * **

Fausto Vitello, 59, founding publisher of the skateboarding magazine Thrasher, heart attack. * *

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Sir Richard Bayliss, 89, formerly Queen Elizabeth II's physician, former head of the Medical Household and leading thyroidologist. *

William Boggs, 19, boxer, homicide *

Willie Brown Jr., 61, executed in North Carolina for a 1983 murder. *

Fred Burton, 43, Belgian comic book artist. * *

Robert Carleson, 75, official in the Nixon, Ford, and Reagan US Presidential administrations. *

Marianna Christos, 58, American operatic soprano *

Jacob Kovco, 25, first Australian Defence Forces serviceperson killed in Iraq. *

Telê Santana, 74, Brazilian football coach, complications from an intestinal infection. *

Mohammed and Hayder Ali, 23 and 24, stabbed to death in South London by a gang.

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Kathleen Antonelli, 85, one of the original computer programmers, cancer.

Cong Fei, 36, Chinese singer and philanthropist, stomach cancer.

Cy Bahakel, 87, American media magnate. *

Dennis Duggan, 78, newspaper columnist *

Stanley Hiller, Jr., 81, American helicopter designer. *

Sylvia de Leur, 72, Dutch actress, ALS. *

Ron Mather, 68, Scottish basketball coach. *

Miguel Zacarías Nogaim, 101, Mexican film director. *

Wolfgang Unzicker, 80, German chess grandmaster. *

Robert Wegman, 87, chairman and former CEO of Wegmans Food Markets, Inc., philanthropist. * *

Elaine Young, 71, American celebrity real estate broker. *

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Oscar Acosta, 49, manager of the Gulf Coast Yankees, automobile accident. *

Scott Crossfield, 84, American X-15 test pilot, plane crash. **

Bob Dove, 85, American NFL defensive lineman and member of the College Football Hall of Fame. *

Ellen Kuzwayo, 91, South African author, anti-apartheid activist, and member of Parliament, diabetes. * *

Zola Levitt, 67, Christian broadcaster, messianic Jewish preacher, lung cancer. *

Humberto Trejo, 38, New York Yankees field coordinator for the Dominican Republic, automobile accident. *

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John Lyall, 66, former football manager with West Ham United F.C. and Ipswich Town F.C., heart attack. * *

Marcia Martin, 82, American children's author. *

Grady McWhiney, 77, American historian. *

Dick Rockwell, 85, American cartoonist, assistant on Steve Canyon, nephew of Norman Rockwell. *

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Dr. Jean Bernard, 98, French hematologist. * *

Scott Brazil, 50, American television producer and director (The Shield), Lou Gehrig's disease. * *

Peter Cadbury, 88, British entrepreneur * *

Elford Albin Cederberg, 88, former Republican United States Representative from Michigan from 1953-1978 and former mayor of Bay City, Michigan. *

Alice Fiske, 88, opened her estate Sylvester Manor on Shelter Island to archeological research. *

Henderson Forsythe, 88, American actor (As the World Turns). * **

Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, 84, scholar of Judaism. *

Warren Platner, 86, American modernist architect and designer. *

Rudolf Slánský, Jr., 71, former Czech ambassador to Russia, son of Rudolf Slánský. *

Rev. Seymour St. John, 94, headmaster of the Choate School for 26 years. *

Vaishnavi, 20, Indian Bollywood actress, suicide. *

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Francisco Adam, 22, Portuguese actor, car accident. *

Richard Eckersley, 65, graphic designer. *

Morton Freedgood, 93, American author (The Taking of Pelham One Two Three) under the pseudonym of John Godey. * *

Brett Goldin, 27, South African actor, killed by a head shot together with friend, fashion designer Richard Bloom, 27. *

Dimitri Hadzi, 85, American sculptor and professor at Harvard University. *

Harold Horwood, 82, writer and former Newfoundland politician, cancer. *

Daniel Schaefer, 70, former Republican United States Representative from Colorado served 1983-1999, cancer. *

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Raul Corrales, 81, Cuban photographer *

Lord Eliot (Jago Eliot), 40, English noble, epilepsy, *, *

Calum Kennedy, 77, Scottish traditional singer. *

Pavel Koutecký, 49, Czech documentary film maker, accidental fall. *

Anthony James Ryan, 84, American photographer, producer, writer, actor and production manager. *

Louise Smith, 89, first woman inducted into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame, known as "the first lady of racing," complications from cancer. *

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Mahmut Bakalli, 70, Kosovo ethnic Albanian politician. *

Edward Broida, 72, American art collector. *

Dr. Tom Ferguson, 62, American medical doctor and author. *

Raúl Quijano, 82, former foreign minister of Argentina *

Miguel Reale, 95, Brazilian philosopher of law, heart attack. *

Dr. Eberhardt Rechtin, 80, American electrical engineer and telecommunications expert. *

Dr. Lynn Smaha, 63, American cardiologist and former president of the American Heart Association, heart attack. *

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Sir Michael Cobham, 79, chairman of aerospace company Cobham plc, son of founder Sir Alan Cobham. * *

Ed Corbett, 74, American actor. *

Peter Karches, 54, American executive at Morgan Stanley, lymphocytic leukemia. *

Ronald B. Rogers, 80, American concert singer and actor. *

Michael Shir, 83, Israeli writer, founder of children's magazine Ezbeoni. *

Dame Muriel Spark, 88, British novelist, best known for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1962). *

Keo Viphakone, 89, Laos Secretary of State for Social Welfare and Commissioner of Rural Affairs, Ramon Magsaysay Award recipient. *

Bruce Weber, 54, Australian rules football executive who was president of the Port Adelaide Football Club

Arthur Winston, 100, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority employee famous for serving for 76 years and retiring at age 100. *

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Mushin Musa Matwalli Atwah, 41, Egyptian militant, killed by Pakistani forces. *

William Sloane Coffin, 81, American minister and peace activist, congestive heart failure. *.

Dr. Paulina Kernberg, 71, Chilean-born American child psychiatrist, professor at Cornell University. *

Kazuo Kuroki, 75, Japanese film director *

Christiane Maybach, 74, German actress *

Shekhar Mehta, 60, Kenyan rally driver, five-time winner of the Safari Rally & president of the FIA's World Rally Championship commission, illness relating to complications from an old injury. *

Howard Newman, 85, American executive and investor. *

Puggy Pearson, 77, American poker player. *

Albert E. Radford, 88, American botanist, senior author of Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas, a landmark flora for North Carolina and South Carolina, which is still the definitive guide, nearly forty years after its publication. *

Rajkumar, 76, Indian actor, cardiac arrest. *

William Woo, 69, first Asian-American to be editor of a major American daily newspaper, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, professor at Stanford University. *

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Leonard Dommett, 77, Australian violinist and conductor

Les Foote, 81, Australian Football Hall of Fame member. *

DeShaun Holton, 32, American rapper better known as Proof of D-12, homicide. * * *

Siobhán O'Hanlon, 43, Sinn Féin politician, cancer. *

June Pointer, 52, singer, former member of The Pointer Sisters, cancer. *

Shin Sang-ok, 80, Korean Film producer, liver problems.*

Naoki Tominaga, 92, Japanese sculptor *

Logan Young Jr., 65, central figure in the University of Alabama recruiting scandal. *

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Joe Faragalli, 76, CFL head coach with the Saskatchewan Roughriders and Edmonton Eskimos, unspecified illness. *

Bonaya Godana, 54, Kenyan politician, plane crash. *

Bishop Charles Henderson KC*HS, 81, retired Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of Southwark, England, cancer. *

Mirugi Kariuki, 53, Kenyan politician and lawyer, plane crash. *

Kleitos Kyrou, 85, Greek poet, unspecified respiratory illness. *

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Charles Doe, 79, founder of Ninety Nine Restaurant & Pub, cancer. *

Frank Gibney, 81, American writer and journalist on Asia. *

Billy Hitchcock, 89, Major League Baseball infielder, coach, manager, and scout, natural causes. * *

George Minden, 85, Romanian president of the CIA-financed International Literary Center. *

Robin Orr, 96, Scottish classical composer and conductor *

Jimmy Outlaw, 93, baseball third baseman/outfielder who played for the Cincinnati Reds, Boston Bees and Detroit Tigers between 1937 and 1949 *

Georges Rawiri, 74, Gabonese politician, president of the Senate and former foreign minister. *

Vilgot Sjöman, 81, Swedish film director (I Am Curious (Yellow)), complications from brain haemorrhage. *

Natalia Troitskaya, 55, Russian operatic soprano *

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Dr.Phillip Harrity, 42, Pathologist at William Beaumont Hospital and Alumnus of the Roeper School, cancer. *

Elizabeth Maguire, 47, American editor, vice president and publisher of Basic Books. *

Richard Pearlman, 68, director of the Chicago Lyric Opera Center for American Artists. *

Gerard Reve, 82, Dutch author (The Evenings, The Fourth Man), Alzheimer's disease. * **

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John Blackburn, 82, comics artist and writer. *

Christian, The Dowager Lady Hesketh, 76, British historian. *

Denise Morgan, 41, lawyer & professor at New York Law School *

Bobbie Nudie, 92, American fashion designer, wife of Nudie Cohn. *

Frederick Pough, 99, American mineralogist and author of A Field Guide to Rocks and Minerals (1953). *

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Jim Clack, 58, NFL offensive guard, heart failure. *

Maggie Dixon, 28, women's basketball coach at United States Military Academy, cardiac arrhythmia. *

Amanda Duff, 92, American actress *

Francis L. Kellogg, 89, American diplomat *

Leslie Norris, 84, Welsh poet and professor at Brigham Young University. *

Lucie 'Anne' Pere-Pucheu, 112, French supercentenarian. *

Stefanos Strategos, 83, Greek actor, lung problems *

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Alain de Boissieu, 92, French General and son-in-law of Charles De Gaulle *

J.B. Fuqua, 87, American entrepreneur and philanthropist. *

George Savalla Gomes, 90, Brazilian entertainer who performed as "Carequinha" the clown.*

Allan Kaprow, 78, American artist and art theorist, natural causes. *

Armando Labra, 62, Mexican economist. *

Archbishop Pasquale Macchi, 82, former private secretary to Pope Paul VI. * *

Abdul-Salam Ojeili, 88, Syrian novelist. *

Ellinor Piipuu, 92, Estonian ceramist. *

Gene Pitney, 66, American singer and songwriter, heart disease. * *

Marcelo Real, 48, Argentine sportscaster. *

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Colonel Fred Christensen, 84, American fighter ace in World War II. *
Eckhard Dagge, 58, German WBC junior middleweight boxer. *
Denis Donaldson, 55/56, former head of Sinn Féin at Stormont, and British double-agent, found shot dead at his home. *
Gary Gray, 69, American child actor of the 1940s.*
Jürgen Thorwald, 90, German writer. *
Vickery Turner, 66, British actress of the 60's. *
Charles Wilcox GC, won the George Cross for helping rescue a man trapped high on a building in Birmingham *
Canon Frederick B. Williams, 66, minister of the Church of the Intercession in Harlem, New York City *
Tommy Wilson, 72, ex-Reading F.C. & Exeter City F.C. player, and notable figure in Bridgwater, Somerset. *

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April 3|3


Tom Abercrombie, 75, National Geographic photographer, complications from open-heart surgery. *
Barry Bingham, Jr., 72, former editor and publisher of the Louisville Courier-Journal and the Louisville Times. *
Lou Carrol, 83, American traveling salesman, gave Checkers to Richard Nixon. *
Doug Coombs, 48, American extreme skier, ski accident in the French Alps. *
Martin Gilks, 41, former drummer with The Wonder Stuff, motorcycle accident. * *
Marshall Goldberg, 88, former NFL running back of the Chicago Cardinals, complications due to a head injury. * *
Peter Hadhazy, 62, longtime NFL official, former general manager of the Cleveland Browns. * *
Albert Harker, 95, last surviving member of the US 1934 FIFA World Cup soccer team. *
Frédérique Huydts, 38, Dutch actress, colon cancer. *
Gwin Kolb, 86, American professor at the University of Chicago and scholar of Samuel Johnson. *
Antonia Morgan 91, fled the U.S. with granddaughter in Elizabeth Morgan custody battle *
Genzo Murakami, 96, Japanese novelist. *
Walter Ristow, 97, American map librarian at the New York Public Library and the Library of Congress *
Ida Vos, 74, Dutch writer. *

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April 2|2


Sir Anthony Beaumont-Dark, 73, former British Conservative Member of Parliament. *.
William 'John' Jordan, 85, businessman, aviator & motor racing team boss. *
Mohammed al-Maghout, 72, Syrian poet and playwright. *
Victor Quiñonez, 46, International Wrestling Association (IWA) Promoter and Owner. *, *
Bernard Seigal, 48, American musician and essayist with the stage name Buddy Blue, co-founder of the Beat Farmers. *
Nina von Stauffenberg, 92, widow of Hitler's would-be assassin. *

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April 1|1


Anthony Ameruso, 68, former New York City transportation commissioner. *
Ryusuke Matsumoto, 49, Japanese comedian. *
In Tam, 89, former Cambodian politician. *