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Owen Abrahams, 72, former Australian rules footballer, serious illness. .

John L. Behler, 62, curator of herpetology at the Bronx Zoo *

Ruairi Brugha, 88, Irish Fianna Fáil politician, son of Cathal Brugha. *

Henry S. Coleman, 79, dean at Columbia University. *

Peter Hamilton, 90, American dancer. *

Boris Kostelanetz, 94, tax lawyer. *

Denis McInerney, 80, antitrust lawyer. *

Jason Sears, 38, American Punk rock singer (Rich Kids on LSD). *

Moira Shearer, 80, British ballerina, actress, and newspaper columnist, married to Sir Ludovic Kennedy. * *

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Stew Albert, 66, 1960s anti-establishment activist, co-founder of the Yippies. *

Paul Clinton, 53, CNN film critic, founder of the Broadcast Film Critics Association (BFCA). *

Feng Xiliang, 86, Chinese journalist China Daily. *

Seth Fisher, 33, comic book illustrator, fell from a seven-story building.* *

Arnold Graffi, 95, German Researcher for oncology. *

Coretta Scott King, 78, American civil rights leader, widow of Martin Luther King, Jr., ovarian cancer. ***** *

Norton Kiritz, 70, founder and president of the Grantsmanship Center. *

Otto Lang, 98, film producer and ski mogul. *.

Doris "Dodie" Londen, 75, first female chairman of Arizona state Republican Party. *

Metropolitan Nikolaj of Presov, 79, leader of the Czech and Slovak Orthodox Church. *

Thomas "Pig Champion" Roberts, 47, 450-lb. guitarist with American punk band Poison Idea. *

Irving Rosenwater, 73, English statistician. *

Wendy Wasserstein, 55, American playwright, lymphoma. **

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Paik Nam-june, 73, South Korean-born American artist, particularly noted for his video art. *

George Psychoundakis, 85, Greek Resistance fighter during World War II. *

Andrew Gonzalez, 65, Filipino linguist and educator. *

Emory Hale, 35/36, professional wrestler, complications from kidney failure *.

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Herta Glaz, 95, mezzo-soprano and opera teacher *

Rabbi Yits`haq Kadouri zekher tsadiq livrakha, 106?, renowned Sephardic Orthodox rabbi and kabbalist. *

Henry McGee, 76, British actor. *

Helmut Schulz, 93, chemical engineer and inventor *

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Marvin Bieghler, 58, American convicted murderer, executed in Indiana. *

Stoffer van der Bijl, 61, architect, designed the renovated Bourtange star fort, cardiac arrest during ice skating marathon.

Maurice Colclough, 52, English Rugby Union player, brain tumour. *

Tana Hoban, 88, photographer of children, author of over 110 children's books *

Phyllis King, 100, British Wimbledon-winner. **

Carol Lambrino, 86, elder son of King Carol II of Romania. *

Christopher Lloyd, 84, gardening writer, stroke. *

Gene McFadden, 56, singer and songwriter, cancer. *

Johannes Rau, 75, President of Germany (Bundespräsident) from 1999 - 2004. *

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Dr John Dunwoody CBE, 76, former British Member of Parliament, effects of an accident. *

Tom Hooper (sculptor), 79, Canadian sculptor. .

Morris Silverman, 93, philanthropist, founder of the Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research. *

Dave Tatsuno, 92, documented the Topaz Japanese internment camp in his film Topaz *

Khan Wali Khan, 89, prominent Pakistani opposition Leader and prominent Pashtun leader. .

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John S. Bainbridge, 90, founder of the Staffing of African Institutions of Legal Education and Research program *

Dunbar W. Bostwick, 98, harness racing trainer. *

Richard W. Couper, 83, former President of the New York Public Library. *

Marion Dudley, 33, American convicted murderer, executed in Texas. *

Endesha Ida Mae Holland, 61, Black playwright (From the Mississippi Delta) *

Luther Green, 59, former NBA player, lung cancer. .

John F. Kerin, professor, reproductive scientist, gynaecologist, farm accident. .

Anna Malle, 38, American adult film actress, car accident. *

Jim Murray, 76, news photographer, photographed aftermath of the JFK assassination, cancer. *

Herbert Schilder, 77, dental surgeon, improved root canal procedures *

Sudharmono, 78, Vice President of Indonesia from 1988 - 1993. .

Allan Temko, 81, Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic for the San Francisco Chronicle. *

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Zaki Badawi, 84, Islamic religious leader in Britain. *

Jack Fiske, 88, boxing journalist, Hall of Fame. *

William B. Graham, 94, CEO of health care company Baxter International. *

Schafik Handal, 75, former Presidential candidate and leader of El Salvador's main political opposition party, the FMLN. *

Peter Ladefoged, 80, phonetician.

Carlos (Café) Martínez, 41, former MLB player.

Fayard Nicholas, 91, American dancer, elder of the renowned Nicholas Brothers, pneumonia and complications of a stroke. * *

Chris Penn, 40, American actor, brother of Sean Penn, cardiomyopathy combined with multiple medication intake. * *

Sir Nicholas Shackleton, 68, British geologist, leukemia. *

Henry Zapruder, 67, American tax lawyer who helped establish Interest on Lawyers' Trust Accounts programs, son of Abraham Zapruder. *

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Ernie Baron, 65, Filipino radio/TV host and meteorologist, myocardial infarction brought about by diabetes.

Andrea Bronfman, 60, philanthropist and wife of Charles Bronfman, hit by car. *

Savino Guglielmetti, 94, Italian gymnast, 1928 Olympic gold-medalist and oldest surviving Olympic champion. *

Abu Ahmed Hassouna, 44, Fatah party leader in the West Bank, assassinated by Fatah members. *

Louanne Hogan, 86, big-band singer and singing double for 40's and 50's films.

General Samuel W. Koster, 86, highest ranking United States Army officer charged in My Lai massacre, renal cancer *

Chris McKinstry, 38, an independent researcher in artificial intelligence, suicide.

Olga Marie Mikalsen, 91, Norwegian singer.

Emilie Muse, 98, daredevil *

Joseph M. Newman, 96, American Film Director/Producer, This Island Earth. *

Bill Rice, 74, American artist. *

E.M. Smedley-Aston,93, Film Producer, 1950's.

Virginia Smith, 94, former Republican United States Representative from Nebraska (1975 - 1991).

David Weber, 92, clarinetist. *

Michael Wharton, 92, British humorist ("Peter Simple").

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Janette Carter, 82, last living member of the Carter Family country music group. *

Alec Coxon, 90, Yorkshire and England cricketer. *

Sherman Ferguson, 61, jazz drummer *

Rick van der Linden, 59, keyboardist of symphonic rock group Ekseption, complications of a stroke.

Joan Maynard, 77, preservationist. *

Nellie Y. McKay, 67, African-American literary critic. *

Albert Morse, 67, lawyer, art collection, publisher *

William Rubin, 78, director of the department of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art. *

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Michael Chan, Baron Chan, 65, British paediatrician and the second peer of Chinese origin. *

John James Cowperthwaite, 89, former Financial Secretary of Hong Kong. *

Ibrahim Rugova, 61, President of Kosovo, lung cancer. *

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Andrei Iordan, 71, former prime minister of Kyrgyzstan.

David Maust, 51, serial killer, heart failure after a botched suicide attempt. *

Johannes Mikkel, 98, Estonian art collector.

Richard LaMont "Monte" Mitzelfelt, 36, New Mexico Supercomputing Challenge judge, heart failure.

Rose Bouziane Nader, 99, President of the Shafeek Nader Trust for the Community Interest, mother of US Presidential candidate Ralph Nader. *

Pio Taofinu'u, 82, Samoan Roman Catholic cardinal.

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Jovanka Bach, 69, playwright-physician.

Gary Downie, South African psychotherapist and television production manager (Doctor Who, Star Cops), cancer. *

Anthony Franciosa, 77, American actor, third husband of Shelley Winters, stroke. *

Tom Nugent, 92, football coach, member of the College Football Hall of Fame. *

Wilson Pickett, 64, American soul singer, heart attack. *

Awn Alsharif Qasim, 73, Sudanese writer, educator and Islamic scholar

Geoff Rabone, 84, New Zealand cricketer.

Franz Seitz, 85, German film director.

Jos Staatsen, 62, mayor of Groningen (1985-1991), head of the Professional Football section of the Royal Netherlands Football Association (1993-1997).

Fred van der Werff, 90, Dutch retail entrepreneur, founder of the eponymous supermarket chain (founded in 1931, sold and disbanded in 1982).

Basil Worgul, 58, Columbia University biologist *

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Garth Jones, 88, AP newsman, pneumonia.

Rose Ellison King, 63, comic strip author (Flo & Friends) *

Norman McCabe, 94, animator and director, famous for Tokio Jokio and The Ducktators shorts from his Termite Terrace tenure at Warner Bros. *

Thomas Murphy, 90, former CEO of General Motors. *

Anton Rupert, 89, South African businessman, philanthropist and founding member of World Wide Fund for Nature, natural causes. *

Jan Twardowski, 90, Polish priest and poet.

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Harold R. Collier, 90, former Republican United States Representative from Illinois from 1957-1975

Wallace Mercer, 59, former chairman of Heart of Midlothian F.C., cancer. *

Michael Siegel, 61, estranged son of Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel, complications from knee surgery. *

Giles Worsley, 44, British architectural historian and journalist, nephew of the Duchess of Kent, cancer. *

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Stanley Biber, 82, American physician and pioneer in sex reassignment surgery, complications of pneumonia.

Richard P. McCormick, 89, professor at Rutgers University, expert on early American political history and New Jersey history.*

Arthur T. von Mehren, 83, professor at Harvard Law School, expert in international law. *

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Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, 79, Emir of Kuwait. **

Glyn Berry, 59, Welsh-born Canadian diplomat in Afghanistan.

Charles Byers, 83, associate dean, College of Music, University of Colorado, Boulder *

Hilma Contreras, 92, Dominican writer. *

Edward N. Hall, 91, U.S. Air Force rocket expert, father of the Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile program. **

Inge Merkel, 83, Austrian writer.

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Henri Colpi, 84, Swiss film director and cinematographer.

Jacques Faizant, 87, French cartoonist (Le Figaro). *

Jim Gary, 66, American sculptor. *

Conrad Hendricks, 27, South African professional football player, car crash. *

David Ingle, 72, American neuroscientist and experimental psychologist, pneumonia.

Richard Johnson, 75, Publisher of the Houston Chronicle. *

Mullah Khaksar, former Taliban minister who sided with the United States, killed by gunmen. **

Mark Philo, 21, English professional football player, injuries from a car crash. *

Bob Weinstock, 77, founded independent jazz record label Prestige, complications of diabetes. *

Shelley Winters, 85, American actress, heart failure. ***

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Raúl Anguiano, 90, Mexican engraver and painter. *

Richard Dalitz, 80, Australian physicist, expert in exotic particles, studied quarks.

Ron Jessie, 57, former NFL wide receiver. *

Marc Potvin, 38, former NHL player, found dead in his hotel room in Michigan, suicide.

Joan Root, 69, wildlife conservationist. *

Rui José Soares, 43, Brazilian writer.

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William M. Byrne Jr., 75, presiding judge in the trial of Daniel Ellsberg. **

Brendan Cauldwell, 83, Irish actor.

Edwin S. Cohen, 91, American tax expert and lawyer. *

Eldon Dedini, 84, cartoonist. *

Robert Edwin Drake, 82, NSA intelligence analyst, congestive heart failure. *

Shaikh Faisal bin Hamad Al Khalifa, 15, Bahraini prince, injuries from a car crash.

Günther Landgraf, 77, German physicist and former President of Dresden University of Technology. *

Stewart Linder, 74 American Oscar-winning film editor.

Anne Meacham, 80, American stage (Suddenly, Last Summer) and television actress (Another World). *

Meinrad Schütter, 95, Swiss composer. *

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Eric Namesnik, 35, American Olympic swimmer, injuries from a car crash.

Mark Spoon, 39, German DJ and prominent figure in trance music, heart attack. *

Alan Sytner, 70, founder of the Cavern Club, Liverpool. *

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Ira B. Black, 64, neuroscientist, founder of the Stem Cell Institute of New Jersey. *

Dave Brown, 52, former National Football League player, heart attack. *

Sergio Fedriani, 56, Italian artist. *

Elliot Forbes, 88, Harvard University professor and Beethoven scholar. *

Sidney Frank, 86, American businessman and philanthropist. *

Alethea Hayter, 94, British writer. *

Leon Lobel, 77, butcher, author and meat expert. *

Dennis Marks, 73, animation writer-producer. *

Joseph Waksberg, 90, survey researcher. *

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Andy Caldecott, 41, Australian Dakar Rally motorcycle rider, fatal neck injury sustained in an accident in Mauritania. *

Patricia Hitt, 87, Assistant Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under President Nixon. *

Selwyn Hughes, 77, British fundamentalist evangelical who founded Crusade for World Revival

David S. Kruidenier, 84, former publisher of the Des Moines Register. *

Mikk Mikiver, 68, Estonian stage director and actor.

Frank Okamura, 94, bonsai master. *

W. Cleon Skousen, 92, BYU professor and prominent Latter-day Saint author and lecturer.

Jack Snow, 62, former National Football League player and radio announcer, complications from a staph infection. *

Don Stewart, 70, actor (Michael Bauer on The Guiding Light). *

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Tony Banks, Baron Stratford, 62, former British Minister for Sport, stroke and cerebral hemorrhage. *

Elson Becerra, 27, Colombian football (soccer) player, shot. *

Alex Elmsley, 76, English magician, heart attack.

Johnny Fortune, 62, Surf guitarist, vocalist, session musician, diabetic-related heart failure.

Georg Wilhelm, Prinz von Hannover, Herzog zu Braunschweig und Lüneburg, 90, educator and Olympian. *

Stuart Quan, 43, movie stunt performer and karate instructor, cause unknown. *

David Rosenbaum, 63, New York Times reporter, head injury during mugging. *

Mimmo Rotella, 87, Italian artist. *

José Luis "Garrafa" Sanchez, 31, Argentine football (soccer) player, from injuries sustained in a biking accident.

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Urano Teixeira da Matta Bacellar, 58, Head of the UN peacekeeping force in Haiti, suicide. *

James Bastien, 71, American classical pianist, composer, teacher, and author of a series of piano instruction books.

Heinrich Harrer, 93, Austrian mountaineer, sportsman, geographer and author. **

Jorge Martinez Segueda, 90, Mexican environmentalist.

Marshall A. Robinson, 83, former president of the Russell Sage Foundation. *

Richard Urwand, 91, chess master.

Jim Zulevic, 40, American actor, heart attack.

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Allaire du Pont, 92, thoroughbred enthusiast, owner of Kelso. *

Yoshiro Kato, 80, Japanese cartoonist (Mappira-kun). *

Roshan Khan, 76, Pakistani squash player, father of Jahangir Khan complications from a heart attack and coma. *

Alf McMichael, 78, footballer for Northern Ireland & Newcastle United.

Józef Milik, 83, Polish Catholic priest and Dead Sea Scrolls scholar.

Comandante Ramona, 47, Tzotzil Indian Zapatista rebel leader and women's rights advocate, kidney disease and tuberculosis. *

Lou Rawls, 72, jazz and blues singer, lung and brain cancer. ****

Hugh Thompson, Jr., 62, Vietnam War helicopter pilot who helped stop the My Lai Massacre, removed from life support. **

Stanley Roger Tupper, 84, former Republican United States Representative from Maine from 1961 - 1967.

John Webster, 71, advertising writer responsible for commercials such as the Smash Martians, heart attack. *

Gábor Zavadszky, 31, Hungarian footballer (soccer player), probably pulmonary embolism. *

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Ramona Bell, 47, wife of broadcaster Art Bell, asthma attack. *

Rod Dedeaux, 91, American college baseball coach, complications from a stroke. **

Sophie Heathcote, 35, Australian actress and founder of skin care range Ki, aneurysm. *

Keizo Miura, 101, Japanese mountaineer. *

Lord Merlyn-Rees, 85, former British Home Secretary, following a number of falls.

Ken Mosdell, 83 Former Montreal Canadiens Hockey player

Simon Shanks, 34, linebacker for the Arizona Cardinals in 1995, murdered by home intruder.

Rachel Squire, 51, British Labour Member of Parliament for Dunfermline and West Fife, stroke. *

Alex St. Clair, 64, American musician, primarily with Captain Beefheart.

Vajramuni, 62, Indian actor.

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John Bierman, 76, BBC reporter and popular historian. *

Sultan Bilimkhanov, Deputy Speaker of the Chechen Parliament, injuries sustained in car crash. *

Phyllis Gates, 80, American ex-wife of actor Rock Hudson, lung cancer.

John Hahn-Petersen, 75, Danish actor, heart attack. *, *

William Haxby, 56, ocean cartographer. *

Milton Himmelfarb, 87, Jewish-American essayist. *

Fred K. Hoehler Jr., 87, founding director of the George Meany Center for Labor Studies of the AFL-CIO. *

Stan Hunt, 76, American newspaper cartoonist. *

Irving Layton, 93, Canadian poet, complications from Alzheimer's disease. *

Maria de Lourdes Pereira dos Santos Van-Dúnem, 70, Angolan singer.

Sheikh Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, 62, Ruler of Dubai and Prime Minister of the United Arab Emirates, heart attack. *

Gretl Schörg, 91, German actress of the 1940s and 1950s.

Nel van Vliet, 79, Dutch swimmer, 1948 Olympic Champion 200 m breaststroke. *

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Robertinho do Acordeon, 67, popular Brazilian country musician.

Kasey Davis, 20, freshman kicker at Texas Christian University, shot. *

Urbano Lazzaro, 81, Italian resistance fighter who captured Benito Mussolini. *

Caceres Monteiro, 57, Portuguese journalist, cancer. *

Steve Rogers, 51, Australian rugby league player and CEO of Cronulla, apparent suicide.

Arturo Sergi, 79, American operatic tenor.

Sir William Skate, 52, former Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, stroke.

Bruce Wilson, 64, Australian journalist, cancer. *

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Severino Bottero, 47, French Olympic slalom coach, auto accident.

Raul Davila, 74, Puerto Rican TV actor and producer..

Ofelia Fox, 82, owner the Tropicana Club in Havana, cancer. (*)

Carlos Helo, 77, distinguished Chilean comedian, heart attack.

Osa Massen, 91, Danish actress, played femme-fatale in several 40's Hollywood movies *

Philomena, 80, Indian actress.

Francis Steinmetz, 91 Dutch author and Colditz Castle escapee.

Frank Wilkinson, 91, American civil liberties activist. *

John Wojtowicz, 60, American bankrobber, was portrayed by Al Pacino in the movie Dog Day Afternoon

John Woodnutt, 81, British actor. *

Lidia Wysocka, 89 , Polish actress.

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Susan Bergman, 48, American author, sister of actress Anne Heche, brain cancer.

Otis Carney, 83, American author and screenwriter.

Frank Cary, 85, former chairman of IBM. **

Mapita Cortés, 75, Mexican actress.

Bryan Harvey, 49, former lead singer of House of Freaks, vocalist for Gutterball, murdered. *

Dawn Lake, 78, Australian entertainer, widow of Bobby Limb.

John Latham, 84, internationally exhibited artist.

Paul Lindblad, 64, American baseball player, Alzheimer's disease.

Dragan Lukić, 77, Serbian writer.

Harry Magdoff, 92, prominent American socialist.

Charles O. Porter, 86, former Democratic United States Representative from Oregon from 1957 - 1961, Alzheimer's disease. *

Gideon Rodan, 71, biomedical researcher. *

Hubert Schoemaker, 55, co-founder of biotech company Centocor. *