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Mohamed Abdelwahab, 23, Egyptian international footballer, suspected heart attack. *

Dave Arnold, 72, athletics coach to Kelly Holmes for much of her career, cancer. *

K. Sri Dhammananda, 87, Sri Lankan/Malaysian bhikkhu, stroke. *.

Guy Gabaldon, 80, World War II US Marine, the "Pied Piper of Saipan", heart attack. * *

J.S. Holliday, 82, American historian and expert on California Gold Rush, pulmonary fibrosis. *

Mike Magill, 86, American racing driver. *

"Broadway" Charlie Wagner, 93, former pitcher for the Boston Red Sox. * *

Bernard Wohl, 76, American social worker, executive director of the Goddard Riverside Community Center. *

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Robin Cooke, Baron Cooke of Thorndon, 80, New Zealand jurist. *

Glenn Ford, 90, Canadian-American actor (Blackboard Jungle, Cimarron). * *

Bob Gallagher, 83, chairman of Arthur J. Gallagher insurance brokerage. *

Burt Goldblatt, 82, American jazz album cover designer. *

Susan L. Hefle, 46, American food scientist, cancer.*

George Johnson, 112, purported grandson of US president Andrew Johnson, possibly the last Californian World War I veteran, pneumonia. *

Dr. Olga Jonasson, 72, American transplant surgeon. *

Igor Kio, 62, Russian illusionist, *

Uwe Leichsenring, 39, German NPD politician, injuries sustained in a car accident. * (German)

Bob LeRose, 85, colorist and cover production artist for DC Comics. *

Ron McKenna, 88, head trainer for the New York Mets 1970-1980, heart attack. *

Naguib Mahfouz, 94, Egyptian winner of 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature, head injuries sustained in a fall in July. *

Hector Monro, Baron Monro of Langholm, 83, Scottish former Conservative MP and government minister. *

Mel Sachs, 60, New York City trial lawyer. *

Dennis Spellmann, 70, President of Lindenwood University. *

Bill Stumpf, 70, American industrial designer who co-created the Aeron office chair. * *

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Kent Andersson, 64, Swedish motorcycle racer, winner of 1973 and 1974 125cc World Championships. *

Stefan Blaho, 21, Slovak hockey player drafted by the New York Islanders, car accident. *

John Cummins, 58, Victorian union official and last secretary of the Builders' Labourers Federation, cancer. *

Dr. Robert Gorlin, 83, American oral pathologist. *

Gerald Green, 84, American author (The Last Angry Man) and screenwriter (Holocaust). *

Dorothy Harmsen, 91, co-creator of the Jolly Rancher, author and collector of American Western art, heart attack. * *

Benjamin Rawitz-Castel, 60, Israeli pianist, murdered in Brussels. *

Jumpin' Gene Simmons, 73, American rockabilly musician. *

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Ed Benedict, 94, American animator and layout artist, designed Fred Flintstone.*

Don Chipp, 81, Australian politician, founder of the Australian Democrats. * * *

Mary Lee Robb Cline, 80, played Marjorie on The Great Gildersleeve, heart failure. *

Heino Lipp, 84, Estonian champion decathlete, prevented from competing in the 1948 and 1952 Olympics due to Soviet repression. * (Estonian), * (PDF)

Robert McDermott, 86, former dean of the United States Air Force Academy, chairman of USAA and owner of San Antonio Spurs, stroke. *

David Nicholson, 67, British horse racing trainer, suspected heart attack. *

Pip Pyle, 56, drummer with Gong and Hatfield and the North *

William F. Quinn, 87, first Governor of Hawaii, pneumonia. * *

Michael Richard, 58, photographer, cancer. *

Benoît Sauvageau, 42, Bloc Québécois MP, traffic accident. *

Dr. Melvin Schwartz, 73, American physicist, winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Physics. * *

Alfred Sherman, 86, British co-founder of the Conservative think tank the Centre for Policy Studies. *

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Maria Esther de Capovilla, 116, world's oldest person and the last person known to have been alive in the 1880s, pneumonia. * * *

Jon Dough, 43, AVN Hall of Fame pornographic actor, suicide. *

Ike Hildebrand, 79, Canadian ice hockey and lacrosse player. *

Vashti McCollum, 93, American plaintiff in McCollum v. Board of Education. *

Luciano Mendes de Almeida, 75, Archbishop of Mariana, Brazil, cancer. *

Hrishikesh Mukherjee, 83, Indian film director * *

Jesse Pintado, 37, American guitarist with Terrorizer and Napalm Death, complications of diabetic coma. *

Dr. A. James Rowan, 71, neurologist who studied epilepsy. *

Patrick Smith, 58, board member of Habitat for Humanity International, one of 49 killed on Comair Flight 5191. *

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Rainer Barzel, 82, former President of the German Bundestag and Chairman of the CDU. *

Nawab Akbar Bugti, 79, Balochistani rebel tribal leader, killed by Pakistani military forces. *

John Ripley Forbes, 93, American naturalist and conservationist, founder of nature museums. *

William Garnett, 89, American aerial photographer. *

Yosef Hadar, 90, Israeli composer, cancer (in Hebrew)

Evgeny Kucherevsky, 65, Ukrainian football coach of Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk, car crash. *

Father Marie-Dominique Philippe, O.P., 93, French Dominican priest & founder of the Community of St. John, stroke. *

Vladimir Tretchikoff, 92, Russian artist. *

Michael Vestey, 61, former BBC correspondent and radio critic on The Spectator magazine. *

Sir Clyde Walcott, 80, West Indian cricketer. **

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John Blankenstein, 57, one of the first openly gay Dutch football referees, kidney disease. *

Noor Hassanali, 88, former President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago. *

Morton Holbrook, Jr., 91, led reform of Kentucky court system. *

Silva Kaputikyan, 87, Armenian poet. *

Lena King Lee, 100, educator and attorney, one of the first African-American women elected to the Maryland General Assembly. * *

Vijay Mehra, 68, Indian cricketer. *

Cristian Nemescu, 27, Romanian film director, car accident. **

Dr. Gail Shapiro, 59, American pediatric allergist. *

Joseph Stefano, 84, screenwriter (Psycho), co-creator of The Outer Limits. * *

Toroku Takagi, 102, Japanese composer. *

Andrei Toncu, 28, Romanian sound designer, car accident. * * *

Ross Warneke, 54, Australian television commentator and radio broadcaster, cancer. *

John Wilson, 56, New York Times journalist and founding member of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. *

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Herbert Hupka, 91, German journalist and politician. * (in German)

Leonard Levy, 83, Canadian-born US constitutional historian and author, winner of the 1969 Pulitzer Prize for History. *

Anthony Malara, 69, former president of CBS Television and former head of the New York State Broadcasters Association. *

Viktor Pavlov, 65, Russian actor, heart attack. * (in Russian)

Rocco Petrone, 80, American NASA engineer, director of Project Apollo and the Marshall Space Flight Center. *

David Plowright, 75, TV executive and producer, former chairman of Granada Television. *

Ralph Schoenstein, 73, American humorist and NPR commentator. *

Léopold Simoneau, 90, Canadian lyric tenor. * *

James Tenney, 72, experimental composer, cancer.*

Gene Thompson, 89, baseball player with the Cincinnati Reds and the New York Giants. *

John Weinzweig, 93, Canadian music composer. *

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Lauren Crowner, 25, news anchor/reporter at WCMH-TV in Columbus, OH, infection after auto accident. *

Maynard Ferguson, 78, Canadian jazz trumpeter, kidney and liver failure. * **

Wasim Raja, 54, former Pakistan Test cricket player, heart attack while playing a match in Marlow, England. * *

David Schnaufer, 53, Appalachian dulcimer player, lung cancer. *

Marie Tharp, 86, American oceanographic cartographer. *

Ed Warren, 79, demonologist, after long illness. *

Jay Young, 56, one of the original CNN news anchors, heart attack. *

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Wallace Brown, 76, Australian journalist, political correspondent in Canberra for (Brisbane's) The Courier-Mail 1961-1996. *

Bruce Gary, 55, American rock musician, drummer with The Knack, lymphoma. * *

Frank Lennon, 79, Canadian photographer who recorded Paul Henderson celebrating his winning goal in the Summit Series. *

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Máximo Carvajal, 70, Chilean comic book artist. *

George Edwards, 87, American radio host for WQXR. *

Ustad Bismillah Khan, 90, Indian shehnai musician and Bharat Ratna winner, heart attack. * * *

Jon Lilletun, 60, Norwegian politician (KrF), Minister of Education 1997-2000, cancer. *

Geff Noblet, 89, Australian Test cricketer 1949-1953. *

William C. Norris, 95, American engineer and founder of Control Data Corporation. *

Buck Page, 84, western musician and founder of the original Riders of the Purple Sage. *

Paul Fentener van Vlissingen, 65, Dutch billionaire businessman, pancreatic cancer. *

S. Yizhar, 89, Israeli author, heart disease. *

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Dr. George Astaphan, 60, Kittian doctor who provided steroids to, amongst others, Ben Johnson in the 1980s. *

Claude Blanchard, 74, French-Canadian pop singer and actor, heart attack. *

Renate Brausewetter, 100, German silent film actress. *

Alexander Cushing, 92, American founder of the Squaw Valley Ski Resort, brought the 1960 Winter Olympics to the US. *

Roger Donoghue, 75, American boxer. *

Robert Hoffman, 59, American businessman and art collector, co-founder of National Lampoon. *

James T. "Red" Hudson, 81, founder of Hudson Foods, lung cancer. *

Jack Laughery, 71, American former CEO and chairman of the Hardee's restaurant chain, lung cancer. *

Jacob Mincer, 84, Polish-born professor of economics at Columbia University. *

Giuseppe Moccia, alias Pipolo, 75, Italian film director with Franco Castellano (Castellano & Pipolo), father of writer Federico Moccia. *

Joe Rosenthal, 94, Pulitzer Prize winner for photographing United States Marines raising their flag on Iwo Jima, natural causes. *

Neil Trezise, 75, Australian Labor politician, Victorian State Government Minister for Sport 1982-92, Australian Rules footballer 1949-59 for Geelong, heart attack. *

Richard Arthur de Yarburgh-Bateson, 95, 6th Baron Deramore and writer of erotic fiction. *

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Marvin Barrett, 86, American journalist and author. *

Joyce Blair, 73, British actress, sister of Lionel Blair, cancer *

Clinton Bristow, Jr., 57, American lawyer and education official, president of Alcorn State University, heart failure. *

James Lovett Dewar, 94, American banker, founder of Park Avenue Bank. *

Joseph Hill, 57, Jamaican lead singer of roots reggae group Culture, liver failure. * *

Omar Oscar Míguez, 78, Uruguayan footballer and 1950 FIFA World Cup winner. *

Mervyn Wood, 89, Australian rower, three-time Olympic medal winner, New South Wales Police Commissioner. * *

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James Clark, Jr., 87, former president of the Maryland State Senate, cancer. *

Kathryn Frost, 57, retired U.S. Army Major General and one of its highest ranking women, wife of former U.S. Representative Martin Frost, breast cancer. *

Grace Furukawa, 77, first Japanese-Canadian teacher in Ontario, natural causes. *

Fernand Gignac, 72, French-Canadian singer and actor, hepatitis. *

Dick Hickox, 68, guard for the University of Miami basketball team, 1959-60. *

Ken Kearney, 82, dual international for Australia in rugby league and rugby union, heart attack. *

Robert Mitchell, 77, American Broadway set designer. *

Jeffrey Tennyson, 54, American artist and collector of hamburger memorabilia, author of Hamburger Heaven. *

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Tan Sri Kontek Kamariah Ahmad, 95, Malaysian educationist, politician, activist and pioneer in the Malaysian co-operative movement. * *

Len Evans, 75, Australian wine writer and founder of the Australian Wine Bureau, heart attack. *

Ken Goodall, 59, Irish international rugby union player 1967-1970. *

Masumi Hayashi, 60, Japanese-American photographer, shooting. *

John Hutton, 59, American furniture designer. *

Dr. Vernon Ingram, 82, German-born molecular biologist at MIT, discovered the cause of sickle cell anemia. *

Walter Jagiello, 76, "Li'l Wally", American polka musician and songwriter. *

Shamsur Rahman, 76, Bangladeshi poet, kidney and liver failure. *

Bernard Rapp, 61, French film director, writer and journalist, lung cancer. * *

Werner Scharff, 90, German-born designer of the Lanz flannel granny nightgown, Parkinson's disease. *

Sig Shore, 87, film producer (Superfly). *

Evan Harris Walker, 70, physicist and consciousness theorist *

Guy Weill, 92, Swiss-born collector of Asian art. *

Yen Ngoc Do, 65, founder of Nguoi Viet Daily News, diabetes and kidney disease. * *

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Umberto Baldini, 84, Italian art restorer, director of the conservation studios at the Uffizi. *

Alex Buzo, 62, Australian playwright (Norm and Ahmed, Rooted), cancer. *

Herschel Green, 86, American World War II fighter ace. *

Robert Kreem, 83, Estonian exile activist *

Jon Nödtveidt, 31, Swedish lead guitarist and vocalist of melodic black metal band Dissection, convicted murderer, suicide. **

Iris Ovshinsky, 79, co-founder of ECD Ovonics, wife of inventor Stanford Ovshinsky. *

Velda Otsus, 92, Estonian actress * * * (all in Estonian)

James A. Reed, 92, lawyer and banker, former assistant Secretary of the Treasury. *

Alfredo Stroessner, 93, former dictator of Paraguay, complications from hernia surgery. *

Roy Tobias, 78, American ballet dancer and teacher. *

Alan Vint, 61, American actor, multiple organ failure following various illnesses **

William Wasson, 82, American priest who founded orphanages, complications from a hip injury. *

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Rick Bourke, 51, Australian rugby league player, cancer. *

Dr. James W. Smith, Jr., 79, American surgeon, author, and collector of early arcade games. *

Rudi Stern, 69, American multimedia artist. *

Dame Te Atairangikaahu, 75, Māori Queen. *

Doug White, 61, American news anchor, cancer. *

Faas Wilkes, 82, Dutch international footballer. *

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Dr. Paul Beeson, 97, American infectious disease researcher, former chair of the department of medicine at Yale University. *

Johnny Duncan, 67, country singer and songwriter ("She Can Put Her Shoes Under My Bed Anytime", "It Couldn't Have Been Any Better"), heart attack. * * *

Richard J. Farmer, 43, Emmy-award winning cameraman. *

Adriaan de Groot, 91, Dutch chess master and psychologist. *

Milton Kaye, 97, American pianist and arranger. *

Lord Kilbracken, 85, British-born Irish peer, wartime Fleet Air Arm pilot and journalist. * *

Bruno Kirby, 57, American character actor (The Godfather Part II, City Slickers), complications from leukemia. * *

Luis Fernandez de la Reguera, 39, American film director, (Rockets Redglare!), motorcycle accident. *

Lawrence Sacharow, 68, American Obie Award-winning Off-Broadway director. *

Dr. James Wattenbarger, 84, American educator and University of Florida professor, designed Florida's community college system. *

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Joseph Carlino, 89, American Speaker of the New York State Assembly, 1959-1964. *

Heather Clarke, 39, Wife of Golfer Darren Clarke

Kermit L. Hall, 61, President of the University at Albany and member of the 1992 Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board, swimming accident. * *

Al Hostak, 90, American National Boxing Association Middleweight champion in 1938 and 1939, stroke. * *

Tony Jay, 73, British actor and voice artist, complications from tumor surgery. *

Annely Juda, 91, German-born London art gallery owner. *

Armin Meyer, 92, American ambassador to Lebanon, Iran and Japan, Parkinson's disease. * *

Walter Nurnberg, 78, professional wrestler. *

Payao Poontarat, 49, Thailand's first Olympic medal winner (bronze, 1976) and former World Boxing Council champion, ALS. * *

Diane Shamash, 51, American founder of Minetta Brook, a non-profit art organization. *

Nathan Sloane, 97, former owner of the Fox Cross Candy Company. *

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Victoria Gray Adams, 79, African-American civil rights activist, first woman to run for a US Senate seat in Mississippi, cancer. * *

Mazisi Kunene, 76, South African poet and academic. *

Ketheshwaran Loganathan, Tamil peace official, assassination. *

Camille Loiseau, 114, French doyenne, oldest verified person in Western Europe. ** (French)

Raska Lukwiya, commander in the Lord's Resistance Army of Uganda and indictee of the International Criminal Court for war crimes, killed in battle. *

Dr. Monroe Romansky, 95, American academic and physician, developed the Romansky Formula for penicillin administration, Alzheimer's disease. * *

Karl von Stroheim, 78, professional wrestler, heart attack. *

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John L. Bull, 92, American ornithologist. *

Alvin Cooperman, 83, American entertainment executive. *

David Thomas Dawson, 48, convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection in Montana. *

Victor del Corral, 84, Cuban restauranteur, founder of New York City's Victor's Cafe. *

Mike Douglas, 81, American talk-show host and entertainer. *

Joel Harnett, 80, American civic watchdog and former candidate for Mayor of New York City. *

Alice Ilchman, 71, American economist, president of Sarah Lawrence College, 1981-1998. *

Buffie Johnson, 94, American painter. *

Mazisi Kunene, 76, South African poet laureate. *

Leonard Marks, 90, American communications lawyer and former director of the United States Information Agency. *

Joe Rebman, 21, sprint car driver, racing accident in Mansfield, OH. *

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George Dawkes, 86 English cricketer, specialising in wicket keeping, for Derbyshire. *

Barbara George 63, R&B-singer *

Irving São Paulo, 41, Brazilian actor, multiple organ failure *

Yasuo Takei, 76, Japan's second-richest man and founder of Takefuji Corporation. * *

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Anga Díaz, 45, Cuban conga player. * *

Melissa Hayden, 83, Canadian-born ballerina, former principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, pancreatic cancer. * *

Philip Empson High, 92, British science fiction author, natural causes. *

Said Abdullo Nuri, 59, leader of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan, cancer.*

James Van Allen, 91, American space physicist, heart failure. * *

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William B. Anderson, 82, journalist *

Gustavo Arcos, 79, Cuban dissident, pneumonia. * *

Marion Cajori, 56, documentary filmmaker. *

Darrell Ferguson, 28, convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection in Ohio. *

Duke Jordan, 84, American bebop jazz pianist. * *

Dino Restelli, 81, major league baseball player. *

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Mary Anderson Bain, 94, New Deal director under FDR and former top aide to Congressman Sid Yates. *

Sue Bierman, 82, former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, car accident. *

Jim Crooker, 80, amateur who played in more Bob Hope Chrysler Classic tournaments than any other golfer, cancer. *

Lois January, 92, American actress, Alzheimer's disease. *

Robert McCullough, 64, African-American civil rights activist, leader of the Friendship Nine. *

Bob Miller, 76, NFL defensive tackle with the title-winning Detroit Lions, cancer. *

John Weinberg, 81, American banker, former head of Goldman Sachs, complications from a fall. *

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Gintaras Beresnevičius, 45, a Lithuanian historian of religions specializing in Baltic mythology, writer, scholar, publicist. *

Dorothy Healey, 91, American communist leader, pneumonia. *

Rafik Kamalov, Kyrgyz Imam and alleged Islamic militant, injuries sustained from gunfire. *

Stella Moray, 83, British actress and performer. *.

Jim Pomeroy, 53, first American to win a World Championship Motocross event, automobile accident. *

Moacir Santos, 80, Brazilian composer and arranger. **

Sir Robert Sparkes, 77, Australian grazier and businessman, former President of the Queensland National Party 1970-1990. *

Hirotaka Suzuoki, 56, Japanese anime voice actor, lung cancer. *

Monsignor Lawrence Wnuk, 98, Polish Roman Catholic priest, Protonotary Apostolic, founder of the Polish Canadian Centre Association of Windsor, Ontario. *

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Susan Butcher, 51, four-time Iditarod champion, complications from a bone marrow transplant to combat acute myeloid leukemia. **

Steve Crosno, 66, longtime El Paso radio DJ whose career spanned nearly 50 years, kidney failure. *

Richard L. Fisher, 65, New York City developer and philanthropist, cancer. *

William Massee, 87, American wine writer. *

Hugo Schiltz, 78, Belgian politician. *

Daniel Schmid, 64, Swiss filmmaker and director (Il Bacio di Tosca), cancer. * *

Ed Thrasher, 74, American album cover designer. *

Rosaline Yeoh (née Chan Yee Hing), 54, former Hong Kong actress and wife of Malaysian tycoon Tan Sri Francis Yeoh, cancer. **

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Elden Auker, 95, former American Major League Baseball pitcher, heart attack. * *

Julio Galán, 46, Mexican neo-expressionist painter. *

John Locke, 62, former keyboardist of Spirit. *

Dr. James F. X. O'Rourke, 86, American eye surgeon, former mayor of Yonkers, New York, and former professional football player. *

Nandini Satpathy, 75, Chief Minister of Orissa, India 1972-1976, cerebral bleeding. *

Monroe Clark, 70, American Singer, Actor, Performer of the Violin, Piano, Keytar and Viola.

Esther Snyder, 86, president of California-based In-N-Out Burger. *

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Helmut Bein, 74, German rally driver, Opel Motorsport manager and Formula 3 official * *

Richard T. Greene Sr., 93, Black banker, former director of the Carver Federal Savings Bank. *

Dr. John Haase, 82, German-born American dentist turned author (Me and the Arch Kook Petulia), emphysema. * *

Arthur Lee, 61, American rock musician, leader of the psychedelic band Love, leukemia. * *

Ken Richmond, 80, British actor and wrestler, 1952 Olympic bronze medal winner, gong striker in the credits for films by J. Arthur Rank Studios. * *

Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, 90, German born opera soprano, natural causes. *

Robert Eric Wone, 32, American general counsel to Radio Free Asia, stabbing. *

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Holger Börner, 75, German politician, prime minister of Hesse 1976-1987, cancer. *

Fitz Eugene Dixon, Jr., 82, former owner of the Philadelphia 76ers who signed Julius Erving, skin cancer. *

Maurice Kriegel-Valrimont, 92, French Resistance fighter, militant communist, and politician. *

David Levy, 79, New York State Supreme Court justice. *

Kim McLagan, 57, British model of the 1960s, wife of Ian McLagan of The Faces and former wife of Keith Moon, traffic accident. *

Harold Ronk, 85, American singing ringmaster for Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus. *

Ferenc Szusza, 82, record goalscorer for a single club in Hungarian football. *

Audrey Lindvall, 23, American model and sister of American supermodel Angela Lindvall, traffic accident.

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Gay Delanghe, 65, American choreographer. *

Dr. Vincent Dole, 93, American medical researcher, established that methadone could treat heroin addiction, ruptured aorta. * *

Rufus Harley, 70, American jazz bagpipe player, prostate cancer. *

Gabriel Kaspereit, French politician.

Masao Nishimura, 73, Japanese banker, CEO of the Industrial Bank of Japan and founder and CEO of Mizuho Holdings, Inc.. *

Rev. Bernard Pagano, 81, American Catholic priest charged with and later cleared of armed robbery, stroke. *

Arlene Raven, 62, feminist writer and art critic, kidney cancer. *

Jason Rhoades, 41, American installation artist, heart failure. **

Bob Thaves, 81, cartoonist, created and illustrated Frank and Ernest, respiratory failure *

Johannes Cardinal Willebrands, 96, Archbishop of Utrecht 1975-1983, oldest Cardinal in the Roman Catholic church. * * (English) * (Dutch)

Iris Marion Young, 57, political philosopher and feminist, esophageal cancer. *