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James Ronald "Bunkie" Blackburn, 69, NASCAR driver *

Owen Chamberlain, 85, particle physicist, co-discoverer of the antiproton, winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics. Complications from Parkinson's Disease.*

Travis Claridge, 27, American football player with the Atlanta Falcons, Carolina Panthers and Hamilton Tiger-Cats. *

Hugh McCartney, 86, former Labour Party MP. *

Push Singh, 33, Artificial Intelligence researcher who did groundbreaking work in the Open Mind Common Sense Project. * Suicide

J. Tyson Tildon, 74, American neuroscientist did pioneering work in the biochemistry of mental retardation.

Arno Wallaard, 26, Dutch cyclist.

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Alice Baker, 107, last surviving British woman to serve in the First World War, member of the Royal Flying Corps * *

Ferenc Bene, 61, Hungarian football (soccer) player

Otis Chandler, 78, former publisher of the Los Angeles Times. ***

Fahd Faraj al-Juwair, 36, Saudi Arabian alleged head of al-Qaeda in the Arabian peninsula, killed in foiled bombing attempt. *

Milton Katims, 96, long-time conductor and leader of the Seattle Symphony

Tsakani Mhinga, 27, South African R&B singer. *

William Musto, 88, former mayor of Union City, New Jersey, convicted of racketeering *

Pierre Nerini, 90, French violinist.

Hans-Georg Possanner, 66, Austrian diplomat.

John Prestwich, 67, Longest surviving iron lung patient *

Robert Lee Scott, Jr., 97, retired United States Air Force brigadier general and fighter ace, author (God is My Co-Pilot). *

Linda Smith, 48, British comedian, ovarian cancer. *

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Dr. E. Russell Alexander, 77, American epidemiologist *

Georgina Battiscombe, 100, author & biographer *

Bill Cardoso, 68, American writer and editor, coined the term "gonzo" *

Walter Kerber, 79, German Jesuit and Professor of Ethics *

Alexis N. Obolensky, 86, White Russian exile, US. State Department negotiator. *

Sir Hans Singer, 95, German-born British economist, helped create the World Food Program and the United Nations Development Program. *

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Jeff Barnes, 23, professional wrestling announcer, died after falling off a cliff while hiking.

Dr. Robin Coombs, 84, British immunologist, developed Coombs Antibody test*

Kenneth Deane, 45, Canadian police officer convicted in Ipperwash shooting, automobile accident. *

Thomas Koppel, 61, Danish musician and composer from the band Savage Rose. *

Darren McGavin, 83, American actor (Kolchak: The Night Stalker, A Christmas Story). * **

Henry M. Morris, 87, American young earth creationist leader, complications of stroke. * *

Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin, 69, Poet Laureate of Ethiopia. **

Charlie Wayman, 83, English footballer, during the 1940s and 1950s, following a long illness *

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Octavia Butler, 58, Black science fiction author and MacArthur Foundation Fellow, head injury. *

Michael S. Joyce, 63, executive vice president of the John M. Olin Foundation, president of the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation *

Don Knotts, 81, American actor (The Andy Griffith Show, Three's Company), complications from lung cancer. * *

Roland Kohloff, 71, timpanist, New York Philharmonic *

Charles Leonard, Jr., 92, American Olympic pentathlon silver medalist, heart attack. *

Danny Perasa, 67, NPR storyteller *

Andrew Sherratt, 59, British archaeologist at the University of Sheffield *

Denis Twitchett, 80, Gordon Wu Professor of Chinese Studies, Princeton University 1980-94, creator of the 15 volume The Cambridge History of China * *

Dennis Weaver, 81, American actor (Gunsmoke, McCloud), complications from cancer. ***

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Frederick Busch, 64, American author, heart attack. *

Francis Forster, 94, neurologist, Dean of Georgetown University medical school, treated US President Dwight Eisenhower *

Luna Leopold, 90, American ecologist and author *

Dr. Leo Lutwak, 77, American biochemist and nutritionist for the US Food and Drug Administration, raised concerns about fen-phen *

Machteld Mellink, 88, Netherlands-born American archaeologist of sites in Anatolia *

Dr. Robert W. Miller, 84, American epidemiologist with the US National Cancer Institute, studied Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings *

Diane Shalet, 71, American actress and author *

Gilbert Shoko, 43, Zimbabwean politician in the Movement for Democratic Change *

Reverend Earl Stallings, 89, Baptist pastor praised by Martin Luther King in the Letter from Birmingham Jail *

Telmo Zarraonaindía, 85, Spanish football (soccer) player, heart attack. **

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Atwar Bahjat, 30, Iraqi journalist for al-Arabiya, abducted and killed in Iraq. **

Anthony Burger, 44, American gospel music pianist, collapsed during performance. *

Said Mohamed Djohar, 87, former President of Comoros. **

Hilde Domin, 96, German poet and writer. *

Donelson Hoopes, 73, American curator *

Francis Easterly Little, 69, opera tenor and educator *

Edward Nalbandian, 78, owner of Zachary All Clothing in Los Angeles, Alzheimer's disease. *

Larry Neill, 87, American composer and big band singer, (Paul Whiteman, Shep Fields) pneumonia

Flossie Page, 112, American supercentenarian from Kansas. *

Sinnathamby Rajaratnam, 90, former Second Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore, heart failure. *

Romana, 50, Pakistani film, stage and television actress, lung and heart ailments. *

Bill Tung, 72, Hong Kong actor, horse racing commentator. *

Richard Wawro, 52, autistic savant internationally recognized artist, cancer. *

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Gennadiy Aygi, 71, Russian author and poet who wrote in the Chuvash language. *

Abraham Cardozo, 91, Dutch-born cantor of Congregation Shearith Israel in New York. *

Theodore Draper, 93, American historian and political commentator. *

Ed Franklin, 84, American-born political cartoonist (The Globe and Mail) *

Bruce Hart, 68, American lyricist for TV's Sesame Street, lung cancer. *

Don Herbert, 44, American firefighter who awoke from a 9-year coma in 2005, pneumonia. *

Mirko Marjanovic, 68, prime minister of Serbia from 1994 to 2000. *

Angelica Rozeanu, 84, Romanian-born table tennis world champion. *

Stefan Terlezki, 78, British Conservative Member of Parliament 1983-1987.*

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Carroll Anderson, 86, American, Surf Ballroom manager, arranged fateful Buddy Holly flight. *

Hernan Echavarria, 95, Colombian industrialist, part of the Civil Front that forced Gustavo Rojas from office *

Seymour Furman, 74, American cardiologist, improved pacemaker procedures

Lou Gish, 35, British stage, film and television actress, cancer. *

Curt Gowdy, 86, American sports broadcaster, leukemia. ***

Paul Marcinkus, 84, controversial American Catholic archbishop, headed Vatican Bank. *

Eli Segal, 63, American businessman, aide to U.S. President Bill Clinton, mesothelioma. *

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James Hinton, 69, American documentary photographer, prostate cancer. *

Ken Keuffel, 82, American college football coach, prostate cancer. *

Erna Lazarus, 102, American screenwriter.

Kenneth McCabe, 59, NYPD detective who investigated the Mafia *

Henry Michael, 92, American anthropologist and geographer. *

Thomas Malcolm Taylor, 63, American money manager, snowmobile accident. *

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Richard Bright, 68, American movie and television actor, pedestrian accident. *

Eathon Hall, 40, American museum curator *

Bill Hartley, 75, Australian political activist and trade unionist. *

Laurel Hester, 49, American gay rights activist, lung cancer. *

Zita James, 102, leader of the 1920s London socialites known as Bright Young Things. *

Charles Leonard, 92, US Army Major General and Olympic sharpshooter *

Alexander Ramati, 86, producer, writer and director

Tom Sellers, 83, American newspaper reporter and 1955 Pulitzer Prize winner, heart attack. *

James Shively, 63, American former POW in Vietnam and prosecutor. *

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Ray Barretto, 76, American-born Latin jazz percussionist and bandleader, heart failure. **

Sybille Bedford, 94, German-born British novelist and memoirist. *

Paul Carr, 72, American TV and movie actor, lung cancer. *

Roy Chapman, 79, American race horse owner, complications from emphysema. *

Bill Cowsill, 58, American singer, lead of The Cowsills, emphysema and other ailments. **

Giovanni Gandini, 77, founder of the Italian comics magazine Linus. * *

Harold Hunter, 31, American pro skateboarder, in movie Kids, suspected drug overdose. *

Bob Lewis, 81, American race horse owner, congestive heart failure. *

Lloyd David Lindsey, 88, Anglo-Brazilian chemist.

Raymond Mauer, 89, American advertising executive and scriptwriter (Duck and Cover). *

Jorge Pinto Mendonça, 51, Brazilian football (soccer) player, heart attack. *

Yevgeny Samoilov, 94, Russian actor *

Bernhard Werner, 89, German athlete.

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Paul Avrich, 74, American professor and historian of anarchism, Alzheimer's disease. *

Benno Besson, 83, Swiss stage director. *

Michael Durham, aka Johnny Grunge, 39, American pro wrestler, sleep apnea complications. *

Sid Feller, 89, American music arranger, conductor and record producer. *

Robert E. Fischer, 88, New York State Supreme Court justice, Attica Prison riots investigator. *

Susie Gibson, 115, American supercentenarian, heart failure. *

Ernie Stautner, 80, Bavarian-born American Pro Football Hall of Famer, Alzheimer's disease. *

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Xavier Barquet, 46, American film producer and actor. *

Philip Coombs, 90, American diplomat *

Barbara Guest, 85, American poet of the New York School *

Zodwa Khoza, 30, South African brand manager of Orlando Pirates Football Club, Aids related complications *

Anna Marly, 88, Russian-born songwriter, France's "Troubadour of the Resistance." *

Andrei Petrov, 75, Russian composer. *

Robert E. Rich, Sr., 92, American businessman, creator of first nondairy whipped topping. *

Sun Yun-suan, 93, former Premier of Republic of China, myocardial infarction. *

Josip Vrhovec, 79, former foreign minister of Yugoslavia.

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Rabbi Yehuda Chitrik, 106, Lubavitch storyteller. *

Darry Cowl, 80, French actor and pianist, lung cancer. *

Shoshana Damari, 83, "Queen of Israeli song," pneumonia. *

Joel Dorius, 87, American professor of literature, bone marrow cancer. *

Michael Fitzgerald, 55, American film historian and author. *

Lynden David Hall, 31, British soul singer, Hodgkin's lymphoma. *

Hermann Lein, 86, resistance fighter against National Socialism.

Sir Peter Masefield, 91, British aviation executive, pilot and author. *

Benjamin Matthews, 72, bass-baritone opera singer, co-founder of Opera Ebony *

Don Paarlberg, 94, American agricultural economics adviser to three U.S. Presidents. *

Arnold Rogow, 81, author and psychoanalyst *

Robert Taylor Sr., 89, American businessman, miniature golf pioneer. *

Putte Wickman, 81, Swedish jazz orchestra leader and clarinetist, cancer. *

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John Brooke-Little, 78, English author and officer of arms. *

Brummet Echohawk, 83, Pawnee artist. *

Ilan Halimi, French Jew murdered by a gang from Banlieue. Possibly anti-Semitic murder.

Andreas Katsulas, 59, American actor, lung cancer. *

Alan M. Levin, 79, American documentary filmmaker. *

Edna Lewis, 89, American author of cookbooks on Southern U.S. cuisine. *

Lewis "Bud" McFadin, 77, American pro football player and coach. *

Altynbek Sarsenbayev, 43, former Kazakhstan cabinet minister, assassinated. **

Sir Peter Strawson, 86, British philosopher. *

Joseph Ujlaki, 76, Hungarian-born French football player. *

Wang Xuan, 70, Chinese academic and IT expert. *

Bettie Wilson, 115, American supercentenarian, complications from congestive heart failure. *

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Lenny Dee, 83, American organist/composer (Plantation Boogie) and club owner. **

Geordie Hormel, 77, American musician and studio owner, heir to the Hormel Foods fortune. *

Juan Sánchez-Navarro y Peón, 92, Mexican entrepreneur and co-founder of National Action Party.

Ken Hart, 88, American composer, playwright, US veteran, lobbyist, journalist, WW II*

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Peter Benchley, 65, American author best known for Jaws, pulmonary fibrosis. * *

Peggy Cripps Appiah, 84, British-Ghanaian children's author. *

Ken Fletcher, 65, Australian tennis player, cancer. *

Patrick Laver, 74, British diplomat, treaty negotiator, auto accident

Rickie Layne, 81, American ventriloquist, heart failure. **

Jackie "Mr. TV" Pallo, 79, British professional wrestler, cancer. *

Robert W. Peterson, 80, American sports historian, lung cancer. *

Harry Schein, 81, Austrian-born founder of Swedish Film Institute, author and columnist. *

Jockey Shabalala, 62, South African singer with Ladysmith Black Mambazo. *

Thomas A. Spragens, 88, figure in American higher education, former President of Centre College. **

Harry Vines, 67, American wheelchair basketball coach

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John Belluso, 36, American playwright, Engleman-Camurdrie syndrome. *

Jill Fraser, 59, British theatre director, cancer. * *

Dick Harmon, 58, American golfer and golf instructor. *

Knut-Olaf Haustein, 71, German physician.

Virve Hinnov, 90, Estonian art historian and museologist.

John Prentice, 79, Scottish football player and manager. *

Norman Shumway, 83, American surgeon performed first U.S. heart transplant, lung cancer. *

Peter Smith, 65, British trade union leader, oesophageal cancer

Juan Soriano, 85, Mexican painter and sculptor. *

André Strappe, 77, French football player. *

James Yancey, aka J Dilla, 32, American hip hop record producer and MC, lupus nephritis. *

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Phil Brown, 89, American actor, best known for playing "Uncle Owen" Lars in Star Wars. *

Ibolya Csák, 91, Hungarian athlete, 1936 Olympic gold medalist in women's high jump. *

Dai Ailian, 89, Chinese dancer and choreographer, founder of the Beijing Dance Academy. *

Monsignor John T. Fagan, 79, American social services director, Parkinson's disease. *

Robert B. Hotz, 91, American aviation expert, complications of Parkinson's disease. *

Edward G. Jefferson, 84, London-born American businessman, former CEO of DuPont. *

Sir Freddie Laker, 83, British entrepreneur, founder of Laker Airways. *

Don Lewis, aka Lewis Gordon, 70, Canadian stage actor, heart attack. *

Nadira, 75, Indian Bollywood actress. *

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Larry Black, 54, American track and field medalist at 1972 Summer Olympics, aneurysm. *

Elton Dean, 60, English jazz saxophonist, heart and liver related problems. *

Michael Gilbert, 93, British mystery author and lawyer. *

Ron Greenwood, 84, British football manager, England national team, West Ham United. *

Michael "The Bounty" Hunter, 45, American professional boxer, gunshot wound. *

Akira Ifukube, 91, Japanese film composer, best known for Godzilla film series. *

Mart Kenney, 95, "Canada's Big Band King," bandleader/musician, complications from a fall.*

Fritz Leitermeyer, 80, Austrian composer and first violinist at Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra 1946 to 1985 *

Gigi Parrish later known as Katherine Weld, 92, American actress *

Kuljeet Randhawa, 30, Indian television actress, suicide. *

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Glenn L. Benner, II, 43, American convicted murderer, executed in Ohio. *

George Millay, 76, American businessman and founder of SeaWorld, lung cancer. *

Max Rosenn, 96, judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit from 1970-2006. *

Mitchell Rupe, 51, American convicted murderer ruled too heavy to be hanged, liver disease. *

Alan Shalleck, 76, American TV writer, director (Curious George animated films), murdered. *

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John Brightman, Baron Brightman, 94, UK lawyer and former Lord of Appeal.

Mario Condello, 53, Australian lawyer and gangland criminal.

Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez, 80, American comedian and actor, cancer. **

Maulana M. Abdul Mannan, 71, politician who collaborated with Pakistani forces during the liberation war of Bangladesh. *

Barry Martin, 44, African-American dancer and choreographer. *

Stella Ross-Craig, 99, one of the most prodigious of British flora illustrators. *

Esther Sandoval, 78, Puerto Rican actress. *

Karin Struck, 58, German writer, cancer.

Kouji Totani, 57, Japanese voice actor, heart failure.

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Roland S. Boreham Jr., 81, American businessman, former CEO of Baldor Electric Co. *

Norma Candal, 75, Puerto Rican comedienne, actress and drama teacher, head injury. *

Franklin Cover, 77, American TV and movie actor, pneumonia. *

Ton van Dalen, 60, Dutch soccer agent, heart attack. *

Martin Feinstein, 84, first executive director of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and general manager of the Washington National Opera. *

Herbert Fischer, 91, German diplomat.

Reuven Frank, 85, American TV journalism pioneer and former NBC News president, complications from pneumonia. *

Ulrich Klöti, 63, Swiss political scientist.

Peter Philp, 85, British dramatist and antiques expert.

Jack Taylor, 60, one of the heaviest men in Britain, heart attack. *

Carl Vogel, 84, German art collector.

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George T. Davis, 98, American criminal defense lawyer *

Friedrich Engel, 97, German, former Nazi SS officer. *

Betty Friedan, 85, American feminist and writer, congestive heart failure. **

William Augustus Jones Jr., 71, American Civil Rights pioneer. *

Barbara W. Leyden, 56, American palynologist and paleoecologist.

Joe McGuff, 79, American sportswriter and newspaper editor, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig's Disease). *

Elena Carter Richardson, 55, Mexico-born principal dancer and teacher, cancer.

Myron Waldman, 97, American animator for Betty Boop and Superman cartoons. *

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Ustad Qawwal Bahauddin, 71 or 72, Indian-Pakistani Qawwali singer.

Walerian Borowczyk, 82, Polish-born surrealist filmmaker * *

Jean Byron, 80, American actress, infection following hip replacement surgery. *

Kurt Emmerich, 76, German radio reporter.

Frank Goodman, 89, Broadway press agent. *

Lou Jones, 74, American Olympic runner. *

Sonny King, 83, American comedian-singer, Jimmy Durante's sidekick, cancer. *

Duma Kumalo, 48, one of the Sharpeville Six, human rights activist, film-maker and founding member of the Khulumani Support Group for victims of apartheid-related violence. * *

Al Lewis, 82, American actor (Grandpa Munster on The Munsters), Green Party political candidate, restauranteur, and radio host. *

Romano Mussolini, 78, Italian jazz musician and painter, son of Benito Mussolini. *

Denne Petitclerc, 76, journalist, screenwriter, and friend of Ernest Hemingway *

Johnny Vaught, 96, NCAA championship-winning University of Mississippi football coach. *

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Jill Chaifetz, 41, American lawyer and executive director of the nonprofit legal group Advocates for Children of New York, ovarian cancer. *

Mizanur Rahman Chowdhury, 77, former prime minister of Bangladesh. *

Chris Doty, 39, Canadian documentarian and playwright, suicide. *

Guglielmo Letteri, 80, Italian comic book artist. *

Pat Rupp, 63, goaltender for the 1964 and 1968 USA Olympic ice hockey teams, cancer. *

Nicholas Swarbrick, 107, last remaining English merchant sailor of World War I.

Sir Reginald Swartz, 94, Australian politician, Minister for Civil Aviation from 1966-1969. *

Chris Walton, 72, English cricketer. *, *

Stephen Worobetz, 91, Canadian politician, former lieutenant governor of Saskatchewan. *

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Roy Alon, 63, British film stuntman, heart attack. *

Dick Bass, 68, American pro football player and radio analyst. *

Dick Brooks, 63, American NASCAR race car driver and radio broadcaster, heart attack. *

Ernest Dudley, 97, British novelist, journalist, screenwriter, actor, radio broadcaster. *

Carlson Gracie, Sr., 72, Brazilian martial artist, complications from kidney stones. *

Samuel Pearson Goddard, Jr., 86, American politician, governor of Arizona 1965-1967. *

Charles Henry, 78, former chief of the New York City housing police. *

Jean-Philippe Maitre, 56, former President of the Swiss National Council, brain tumor. *

Charles John Tottenham, 8th Marquess of Ely, 92, British-born former headmaster of Canada's Trinity College School, member of British House of Lords. *