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Sanora Babb, 98, American novelist, widow of the cinematographer James Wong Howe *

Harry Clarke, 89, former NFL player with the Chicago Bears, Alzheimer's disease. *

Enrico Di Giuseppe, 73, American operatic tenor, cancer. *

Maurice Dodd, 83, cartoonist (The Perishers), brain haemorrhage. *

St John Ellis, 41, Doncaster Lakers rugby league coach and former Great Britain international.

Harry Farrell, 81, American political journalist and author

Sir John Peel, 101, Surgeon-Gynaecologist to Queen Elizabeth II

Maclovia Ruiz, 95, ballet and specialty dancer in many Hollywood films of the 1930's *

Xolilizwe Sigcau, 79, King of the Xhosas. *

Neil Strawser, 78, CBS Radio correspondent and anchor *

Phillip Whitehead, 68, Labour Party MEP for the East Midlands and former television producer.

30

Eddie Barlow, 65, South African cricketer. *

Candy Barr, 70, exotic dancer ***

Tory Dent, 47, American poet, essayist and art critic *

Rona Jaffe, 74, American novelist (The Best of Everything, Mazes and Monsters), cancer. *

Jean Ollivier, 81, French comics writer *

Pasquale Carpino, 69, Italian Canadian singing chef

29

Armand Phillip Bartos, 95, American architect *

Abuna Yesehaq Mandefro, 72, Ethiopian-Orthodox Archbishop *

Elizabeth Parcells, 54, American operatic coloratura soprano

M C Puri, 61, Professor Emeritus Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India.

James G. Pulliam, 80, architect, Parkinson's disease. *

Alan Rolfe, 97, British actor and film historian

28

Patrick Cranshaw, 86, American actor, famous for character "Blue" in Old School.

Richard De Angelis, 73, comedian and actor (The Wire), congestive heart failure. *

Virginia Dighero-Zolezzi, 114, oldest living person ever recognized in the history of Italy.

Jacinto Figueira Jr., 78, "The Man In White Shoes", Brazilian TV host. *

George Dabelich O'Brien, 78, design director of Tiffany & Company, home furnishings editor of the New York Times. *

Stevo Žigon, 79, Serbian actor and theatre director

27

Xavier Connor, 88, Australian jurist, foundation judge of the Federal Court of Australia, President of the Australian Law Reform Commission 1985 - 1987.

Ted Ditchburn, 84, goalkeeper for Tottenham Hotspur & England. *

John Druze, 91, last surviving member of the 1930s Fordham University football team's "Seven Blocks of Granite". *

Lewis Hanson, 81, former Air Force One pilot. *

Mary Pellatt, 94, niece of Sir Henry Pellatt

Dee Pollock, 68, American actor

Giancarlo Primo, 81, Italian basketball coach, the first to defeat National Teams USA and USSR in 1970s.

Erich Topp, 91, German U-boat commander in WWII.

Tokuji Wakasa, 91, Japanese businessman, former president of All Nippon Airways.

26

Julian "Bud" Blake, 87, American cartoonist (Tiger). *

Muriel Costa-Greenspon, 68, mezzo-soprano at the New York City Opera for 30 years *

John Diebold, 79, pioneering American computer engineer. *.

Ernesto Leal, 60, presidential chief of staff and former foreign minister of Nicaragua, pneumonia.

Linda Leighton, 88, American film and TV actress

Onoe Matsusuke, 59, Japanese film and kabuki actor.

Kerry Packer, 68, publishing, media and gaming tycoon, Australia's richest individual amassing a fortune of over $6 billion. *

Vyacheslav Platonov, 66, Russian volleyball trainer.

Vincent Schiavelli, 57, American character actor, lung cancer. *

25

Felice Andreasi, 77, Italian actor, writer and painter, Parkinson's disease.

Derek Bailey, 75, free improvising avant-garde guitarist, motor neuron disease. *

Robert Barbers, 61, former Philippines senator, heart attack. *

Bhanumathi, 80, Indian actress.

Donald Dawson, 97, executive assistant to Harry S. Truman. *

Charles Engell France, 59, assistant to Mikhail Baryshnikov at the American Ballet Theater. *

Henry Kock, 53, Canadian horticulturist and eco-activist, brain cancer. *

Birgit Nilsson, 87, Swedish soprano. **

Joseph Pararajasingham, 71, Sri Lankan politician and supporter of the Tamil Tiger rebels, shot and killed at a midnight Christmas mass. *

Rajshekhar, 69, Indian actor.

Roy Stuart, 70, American actor. *

24

Douglas Bigelow, 49, chief of web security at AOL, pancreatic cancer *

Constance Keene, 84, American classical pianist known for playing the romantic repertoire.

Harold Lawton, 106, British academic and veteran of the First World War. *

Michael Vale, 83, American actor who appeared in over 1,300 commercials as the sleepy doughnut maker for Dunkin' Donuts from 1982 - 1997.

Wang Daohan, 90, negotiator for People's Republic of China in cross-straits talks, who contributed to the formation of the 1992 Consensus with Koo Chen-fu from the Republic of China on Taiwan. **

23

Lajos Baróti, 91, Hungarian football coach.

Jimmy Boyle (coach), 63, former St. Joseph's University basketball coach.

Selma Jeanne Cohen, 85, dance historian, editor of The International Encyclopedia of Dance. *

G. Blakemore Evans, 93, Shakespeare scholar, author of The Riverside Shakespeare, stroke. *

Truman Gibson, 93, anti-segregation lawyer and boxing promoter *

Camille Gravel, 90, Louisiana lawyer and civil rights activist, advisor to three governors. *

Norman D. Vaughan, 100, American explorer and sportsman, part of Richard Byrd's 1928 South Pole expedition. **

Yao Wenyuan, 74, Chinese Communist political leader, member of the Gang of Four. *

22

James Dungy, 18, son of NFL coach Tony Dungy, apparent suicide.

David Engelhard, 64, former general secretary of the Christian Reformed Church, brain cancer. *

Cooper Evans, 81, former Republican US Representative from Iowa from 1981 - 1987.

Luis Hernandez, 56, witness of the investigation into Puerto Rico's senate's infamous "Video 59", heart attack.

Ulf Janson, 56, President International Casting Federation, cancer.

Aurora Miranda, 90, Brazilian entertainer, sister of Carmen Miranda. Appeared in The Three Caballeros in 1945, where she danced with Donald Duck.

21

Takis Binis, 82, one of the last classic Greek singers of Rebetiko, renal failure.

Camille Budarz, 70, American concert pianist

Clinton Carpenter, 84, American composer (finished Mahler's 10th Symphony).

O.B. Copeland, 89, first editor of Southern Living magazine. *

Horace Crouch ,87, Lt. Col. USAF ret.; a participant in the Doolittle Raid

Charles F. Cummings, 68, Official Historian of Newark, New Jersey. *

Myron Healey, 82, American actor *

Elrod Hendricks, 64, Baltimore Orioles coach, former MLB catcher, heart attack. *

Lucille Cipriano Szabo, 76, American opera singer.

Hallam Tennyson, 85, British radio producer and great-grandson of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, suspected victim of murder. *

Albert L. Weimorts, 67, civilian engineer for the US Air Force, designer of the GBU-28 and MOAB bombs. *

Paul M. Williams, 80, mountain climber and founder of Seattle Mountain Rescue, congestive heart failure. *

20

Raoul Bott, 82, Harvard mathematician, cancer.*

Argentina Brunetti, 98, actress (It's a Wonderful Life, The Caddy), writer, journalist.

Bradford Cannon, 98, Boston plastic surgeon, pneumonia. *

William W. Howells, 97, American anthropologist. *

Billy Hughes (actor), 57, American former child actor during the 60's.

Lyndon Olson Sr., 80, American lawyer. *

19

Sergio Danguillecourt, 42, great-great-grandson of Bacardi founder, and Bacardi Ltd. board member, killed in seaplane crash near Miami Beach, Florida. *

Hyman Engelberg, 92, physician to Marilyn Monroe, natural causes. *

Vincent Gigante, 77, Genovese family crime boss, heart disease.

Phyllis Gretzky, 64, mother of NHL legend Wayne Gretzky, lung cancer.

Julio Iglesias, Sr., 90, Spanish gynaecologist, among the oldest men to have fathered a child; Julio Iglesias's father and Enrique Iglesias's grandfather, heart attack.

Marjorie Kellogg, 83, American author and playwright (Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon). *

John D. Laupheimer, 75, golfer and second commissioner of the LPGA tour, cancer. *

Alan Shields, 61, American artist. *

Ted Tulchin, 79, Broadway producer (Sweeney Todd). *

Miller Upton, 88, president of Beloit College for 21 years. *

Reynaldo Wycoco, 59, head of the National Bureau of Investigation, the Philippines' lead intelligence agency, complications after suffering a hemorrhagic stroke last November 23, 2005.

18

Keith Duckworth, 72, co-founder of Cosworth engines.

Doug Dye, 84, New Zealand microbiologist.

Howie Ferguson, 75, former NFL player.

Rafael Fornés Collado, 88, Cuban cartoonist. *

Barry Halper, 66, baseball memorabilia collector and limited partner for the New York Yankees. *

Belita Jepson-Turner, 82, Olympic skater and film actress.

Siphiwe Khumalo, 50, South African actor and director and ex-husband of Sibongile Khumalo, heart attack.

John McIntyre, 89, Moderator of the Church of Scotland's General Assembly (1982), former acting principal and professor of divinity of the University of Edinburgh. **

Philip Oakes, 77, British writer, poet and television producer, heart attack. *

P.M. Sayeed, 64, India's Minister of Power, heart attack. *

Alan M. Voorhees, 83, transportation engineer and city planner *

17

Jack Anderson, 83, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, complications of Parkinson's disease. *

Marc Favreau, 76, French Canadian television and film actor, best known for his creation of the clown Sol.

Jacques Fouroux, 58, French rugby union captain and coach, heart attack. *

T. Edward Hambleton, 94, theatrical producer. *

Sankaran Nair, 80, Indian film director.

Haljand Udam, 69, Estonian translator and encyclopedist.

16

Anthony Barber, 85, British politician and former Conservative Party Chancellor of the Exchequer, complications of Parkinson's disease.

Kenneth Bulmer, 84, English writer (pseudonyms included Alan Burt Akers and Dray Prescot).

Joseph L. Owades, 86, American biochemist, inventor of light beer. * *

John Spencer, 58, American actor (The West Wing), heart attack.

Sverre Stenersen, 79, Norwegian Gold medal winner in the 1956 Winter Olympics.

Enzo Stuarti, 86, Italian tenor, was in many Broadway musicals, heart failure. *

Joey Villa, 68, American stand-up comedian.

15

T.K. Balachandran, 78, Indian Bollywood producer.

Sidney B. Factor, 89, Max Factor heir, natural causes. *

James Ingo Freed, 75, American architect.

Giuseppe Patroni Griffi, 84, Italian writer and director of movies and theatre.

Heinrich Gross, 90, Austrian alleged Nazi doctor and war criminal. * *

Walter Haut, 83, retired U.S. Army lieutenant, central figure in the Roswell UFO incident in 1947. *

Swami Jagdishwaranand, 71, Hindu spiritual leader in New York City. *

D.A. "Swanny" Kirby, 88, rodeo pioneer. *

Stan Leonard, 90, Canadian golfer, heart failure. *

Julian Marías, 91, Spanish philosopher and father of author Javier Marías.

Jim Ostendarp, 82, football coach at Amherst College for 33 years *

William Proxmire, 90, former Democratic Senator from Wisconsin (1957 - 1989), giver of the Golden Fleece Awards for wasteful government spending, complications of Alzheimer's disease.

Darrell Russell, 29, former NFL player for the Oakland Raiders and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, car accident.

14

Gordon Duncan, 41, Scottish musician, best known for his virtuoso Highland bagpiping in Celtic music, committed suicide in his home in Pitlochry.

Eliot Freidson, 82, sociologist, author of Profession of Medicine: A Study of the Sociology of Applied Knowledge. *

Sudhir Joshi, 57, Indian actor, heart attack.

John B. Nixon, 77, American convicted murderer, executed in Mississippi.

Stevenson J. Palfi, 53, American documentary filmmaker (Piano Players Rarely Ever Play Together). *

William "Duke" Procter, 106, Canadian WWI veteran. *

Herman Roiphe, 81, psychoanalyst, co-author of Infantile Origins of Sexual Identity and Your Child's Mind. *

M. Gladys Swetland, 113, believed to be the oldest resident of Pennsylvania. *

Rodney William Whitaker, 74, British author, wrote under pseudonyms such as "Trevanian".

Gery Scott, 82, British / Australian jazz and cabaret singer and teacher

13

Nathalie Babel Brown, 76, French-American scholar and editor, daughter of Isaac Babel. *

Stanley Tookie Williams, 51, American convicted murderer and co-founder of the Crips turned anti-gang activist, executed by lethal injection for killing 4 people in California.

12

Eric D'Arcy, 81, Australian Roman Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of Hobart.

George Bernau, 60, novelist, stroke.

Annie Dodds, 62, documentary filmmaker, leukemia. *

Grace Ingoldby, 56, British author and poet.

Abraham Melamed, 85, Israeli politician (National Religious Party).

Robert Newmyer, 49, American film producer, heart attack and complications of asthma.

Ramanand Sagar, 87, Bollywood film producer. *

Annette Stroyberg, 69, Danish actress and former wife of Roger Vadim. *

Gyula Trebitsch, 91, Hungarian film and TV producer.

Gebran Tueni, 48, Lebanese journalist and legislator, injuries sustained in a car bombing attack. *

Julius Wile, 91, US wine importer and educator *

11

Ulises Barrera, 80, Argentine boxing sportscaster, heart failure.

Walter Cudzik, 73, NFL and AFL center for the Boston Patriots.

Richard Sandbrook, 59, founding member of Friends of the Earth. *

Professor Hayim Tadmor, 82, Israeli Assyriologist. *

Del Philpott, 82, American soldier and scientist

10

Mary Jackson, 95, American actress.

Sydney Leff, 104, sheet-music illustrator for Irving Berlin. *

Donald Martino, 74, American composer.

Eugene McCarthy, 89, former Democratic United States Senator from Minnesota (1959-1971), and United States Representative (1949-1959) and presidential primary candidate.

David Patterson, 83, founder of the Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies at Oxford University. *

Richard Pryor, 65, American comedian and actor, heart attack and complications of multiple sclerosis.

Gardner Read, 92, American classical composer.

Bob Richardson, 73, fashion photographer.

9

Mike Botts, 61, American drummer, toured and recorded with Linda Ronstadt, Dan Fogelberg, Tina Turner and others, cancer.

Pauline Farrell, 93, operatic soprano, and former ambassador

Homer Mensch, 91, internationally known bass player, Juilliard teacher.

Eunice Norton, 97, American classical pianist and music promoter

György Sándor, 93, internationally famous pianist, Juilliard teacher, heart failure.

Robert Sheckley, 77, American science fiction author, brain aneurysm.

Boris Tazlitzky, 94, French artist, Nazi concentration camp survivor.

Brian Whittle, 59, British journalist and news agency head. *

8

R. W. Bradford, 58, publisher of Liberty magazine, cancer.

Dame Rose Heilbron, 91, British judge.

William J. Oswald, 86, algae scientist. *

Leo Scheffczyk, 85, German Cardinal Deacon of San Francesco Saverio alla Garbatella, Germany. *

Roger Shattuck, 82, American literary (Proust) scholar and author, prostate cancer. *

J.N. Williamson, 73, American horror writer, author and publisher.

Georgiy Zhzhonov, 90, Russian actor.

7

Lucy d'Abreu, 113, oldest person in the UK at the time of her death. *

Rigoberto Alpizar, 44, airplane passenger fatally shot by U.S. Air Marshals after allegedly claiming he had placed a bomb aboard.

James Bastien, 71, author of instructional books for the piano *

Adrian Biddle, 53, British cinematographer, heart attack.

Albert Henry Bosch, 97, Republican United States Representative from New York (1953 - 1960).

Carroll A. Campbell, Jr., 65, former South Carolina governor (1987-1995), and member of U.S. House of Representatives (1979-1987), heart attack and complications of Alzheimer's disease.

Bud Carson, 75, former NFL head coach, emphysema.

Loomis Dean, 88, photographer, notably for LIFE magazine.

Beach Dickerson, 81, actor in B films of Roger Corman.

Devan Nair, 82, former president of Singapore. *

Manouchehr Nozari, 69, Iranian television actor.

Bob O'Brien, 87, comedy writer (Here's Lucy).

6

Charly Gaul, 72, Luxembourgian cyclist, winner of the 1958 Tour de France.

Richard Grimsdale, 76, built the world's first transistorised computer and was at the forefront of work on Read Only Memory. *

Hanns Dieter Hüsch, 80, German political satirist.

Stephen L. Mosko, 58, American composer.

Jerzy Pajaczkowski-Dydynski, 111, oldest man in the UK at the time of his death. *

Danny Williams, 63, South African popular singer (best known for his version of the song "Moon River").

5

John Alvheim, 75, Norwegian politician.

Wesley Baker, 47, American convicted murderer, executed in Maryland.

Liu Binyan, 80, Chinese author and dissident, cancer. *

Milo Dor, 82, Serbian-Austrian author. ()

Edward L. Masry, 73, attorney and mentor to Erin Brockovich, complications of diabetes.

Charles McElmurry, 84, American animation designer.

Kevin "Big Kev" McQuay, 56, Australian businessman and media personality, heart attack. *

Frits Philips, 100, Dutch businessman, grandson of the founder of Philips, complications from a fall.

4

Fred Benavente, 79, Dutch comedian and television maker.

Hisako Hara, 96, Japanese actress.

Gregg Hoffman, 42, film producer, natural causes (autopsy result pending). *

Gloria Lasso, 83, Spanish singer.

Doug Murphy, 53, former CBS (KPIX) news anchorman, house fire.

3

Maggie Bailey, 101, nicknamed "Queen of the Mountain Bootleggers." *

Peter Cook, 62, Australian politician, melanoma.

Lance Dossor, 90, Australian pianist.

Peter E. Haas, Sr., 86, great-grandnephew of Levi Strauss, who with his brother built the Levi company into a major brand. *

Maurice Harris, 84, trumpet player, Hollywood, studio, TV and sessions player, (Tonight Show).

Kikka Sirén, 41, Finnish pop/schlager singer.

Kåre Kristiansen, 85, Norwegian politician; minister of Oil and Energy (1983 - 1986).

Lupe Madera, 52, Mexican former world champion boxer.

Sophie Thoko Mcgina, 67, South African actress and musician.

Abu Hamsa Rabia, Egyptian-born operational commander for Al-Qaeda. *

Atsuko Tanaka, 73, Japanese avant-garde artist, pneumonia.

Allan Waters, 84, Canadian broadcasting icon.

2

John Barber, 93, British newspaper drama critic. *

Kenneth Boyd, 57, American convicted murderer, executed in North Carolina, the 1,000th U.S. execution since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. *

Lillian Browse, 99, British art dealer and historian.

Shawn Paul Humphries, 34, American convicted murderer, executed in South Carolina.

John Iannaccone, 94, sky sailor, Hindenburg disaster witness.

Malik Joyeux, 25, professional surfer, killed at Hawaii's Banzai Pipeline. *

Maury Kraines, 84, co-owner of 1992 Indy 500 winner, heart failure.

William P. Lawrence, 75, retired U.S. Navy Vice Admiral, first to fly at twice the speed of sound. *

Peter Menegazzo, early 60s, Australian cattle baron, killed (along with his wife Angela) in a plane crash. **

Van Tuong Nguyen, 25, Australian executed at Changi Prison in Singapore for trafficking 396 grams of heroin in 2002, hanging. *

Mohammed Amza Zubeidi, 67, former Iraqi prime minister under Saddam Hussein.

1

Gust L. Avrakotos, 67, CIA agent who armed the mujaheddin of Afghanistan. *

Mary Hayley Bell, 94, British actress and writer, and wife of Sir John Mills.

Jack Colvin, 73, American actor, The Incredible Hulk, coronary thrombosis.

Werner Enders, 81, German tenor.

Michael Evans, 61, White House photographer, noted for capturing the trademark image of Ronald Reagan wearing a cowboy hat, cancer. *

Adam W. Kaiser, 19, American United States Marine Corps, Killed in Action, December 1, 2005, Operation Iraqi Freedom.

William Henry Ottley, 76, sports innovator, credited with promoting skydiving as a sport, pneumonia. *

William B. Tanner, 75, American multimillionaire businessman.

Ray Hanna, 77, British vintage warbird pilot and founder of The Old Flying Machine Company. *