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Dugald Christie, 65, Canadian lawyer and legal activist, road accident. *

Paul Eells, 70, voice of the Arkansas Razorbacks football and basketball for radio and television, car accident. *

Mario Faustinelli, 81, Italian comic book artist. *

Frederick Kilgour, 92, American librarian, founder of OCLC Online Computer Library Center. * *

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Duygu Asena, 60, Turkish writer and civil-rights advocate, brain tumour. * *

Al Balding, 82, Canadian golfer, cancer. *

Murray Bookchin, 85, American political essayist, heart failure. *

Dr. Philip D’Arcy Hart, 106, famed UK medical researcher. *

J. Palmer Gaillard, 86, mayor of Charleston, South Carolina 1959-1975, following a car crash. *

Anthony Galla-Rini, 102, concert accordionist, heart failure

Akbar Mohammadi, 34, Iranian student dissident, heart attack following a hunger strike and torture. *

Ferenc Zenthe, 86, Hungarian actor. *

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Hani Awijan, 29, leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad's military wing, The Al-Quds brigades, in Nablus, West Bank, killed by gunfire. *

Guido Dacco, 63, Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula 3000, 24 Hours of Le Mans, & Champ Cars. * *

David deLisle, classical musician and professor of music at Xavier University for 40 years. *

Daniel Lev, 72, Indonesian scholar, lung cancer. *

Dr. Jean Baker Miller, 78, American psychiatrist and author (Toward a New Psychology of Women). *

Jose Lopez Rosario, 30, alleged Puerto Rican drug dealer *

James Olin, 86, member of the United States House of Representatives 1982-1992. *

Pierre Vidal-Naquet, 76, French historian and activist, cerebral haemorrhage. *

Louis Winnick, 85, Romanian-born economist for the Ford Foundation. * *

James Harvey Young, 90, American social historian of medicine, professor at Emory University, complications of a stroke. *

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Patrick Allen, 79, British actor. *

Rut Brandt, 86, Norwegian resistance fighter, second wife of former German chancellor Willy Brandt. *

Nigel Cox, 55, New Zealand novelist, cancer. *

Abdallah Isaaq Deerow, 56, Constitution and Federalism Minister of Somalia, assassination. *

Harold Enarson, 87, president of The Ohio State University (1972-81), fired football coach Woody Hayes, hydrocephalus. * *

David Gemmell, 57, British fantasy novelist. * *

Dr. Joel Hedgpeth, 94, American marine biologist and Californian environmental activist. *

Don Malarkey, 101, American former PGA Tour golfer and oldest living PGA member. *

Richard Mock, 61, American painter, sculptor, and editorial cartoonist. *

Sep Smith, 94, legendary Leicester City footballer, and oldest living England international player. *

Billy Walsh, 85, former footballer & manager, played international football for Northern Ireland, New Zealand & Republic of Ireland. **

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A. Frank Carven III, 54, co-founder and director of the Families of T.W.A. Flight 800 Association. *

Maryann Mahaffey, 81, former member of Detroit city council, leukemia. *

Carlos Roque, 70, Portuguese comic book artist. *

Alexander Safran, 95, former Chief Rabbi of Romania who tried to stop the deportation of Jews by the pro-Nazi regime during World War II. * *

Elisabeth Volkmann, 70, German actress, German voice of Marge Simpson.*

Johnny Weissmuller Jr., 65, American actor, son of Johnny Weissmuller, liver cancer. *

Funsho Williams, 58, Nigerian politician, strangled. *

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Emmeline Brice, 111, oldest Briton.*

Louise "Miss Lou" Bennett-Coverley, 86, Jamaican folklorist, comedienne, poet. * *

Floyd Dixon, 77, American R&B pianist, kidney failure. * *

Vincent J. Fuller, 75, lawyer who defended John Hinckley, Jr, lung cancer. *

Jessie Gilbert, 19, British chess player, youngest Women's World Amateur Championship winner, fall. * *

Sunil Kumar, 34, Bhopal disaster campaigner against Union Carbide and founder of Children Against Carbide, found hanged.

Darrell Martinie, 63, astrologer known as "the Cosmic Muffin", cancer. *

Princess Tatiana von Metternich, 91, Russian-born German aristocrat, World War II diarist, and arts patron. *

Thurl Metzger, 90, former director of Heifer International. *

Ed O'Herron, Jr, 90, North Carolina politician and businessman who helped to build Eckerd Drugs into one of the biggest drugstore chains in the US. *

Timotheos III Papoutsakis, 91, Archbishop of Crete. **

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Lydia, Duchess of Bedford, 88, second wife of John Russell, 13th Duke of Bedford. *

Carl Brashear, 75, first black US Navy diver, portrayed by Cuba Gooding Jr. in the film Men of Honor, heart failure. *

Chen Jinlang, 45, Singaporean pop singer in Hokkien dialect, colorectal cancer. *

Ezra Fleischer, 78, Transylvanian-born Israeli poet, winner of the Israel Prize, and professor at Hebrew University. *

Hani Mohsin Hanafi, 43, Malaysian actor and television game show host, heart attack **

Karin Hübner, 69, German actress and musical star (played Eliza Doolittle in German adaptation of My Fair Lady) *

Mati Jostov, 47, Estonian business manager, car accident * *

Bill Meistrell, 77, founder of the Body Glove wet suit company, Parkinson's disease. *

Aldo Notari, 74, president of the International Baseball Federation. *

James Schwabacher, 86, founder of San Francisco Opera's Merola Program for young artists, complications of pneumonia. *

Bob Simpson, 61, retired senior BBC correspondent. *

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Janka Bryl, 89, Belarusian writer. **

Heinrich Hollreiser, 93, German conductor. *

Maha Kanapathipillai, pro-Government Tamil politician in Sri Lanka, presumed shot dead by Tamil Tigers**

Bill Long, 88, Canadian ice hockey coach *

Leon Morris, 92, Australian theologian. *

Michael Sellers, 52, British author, son of Peter Sellers, died during heart surgery. * *

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Charles E. Brady, Jr., 54, American former astronaut. *

Charles Bray, 72, American press secretary for the US State Department, deputy director of the USIA, and ambassador to Senegal. *

Jean-Paul Desbiens, 79, French-Canadian author of Les insolences du Frère Untel, heart attack *

Lt. Col. Besby Holmes, 88, US Air Force fighter pilot, participant in air action that killed Admiral Yamamoto. * *

John Mack, 78, American oboist, complications from brain cancer.*

Frederick Mosteller, 89, Harvard professor of statistics, founding chair of the department of statistics, sepsis. *

Terence Otway, 92, British soldier, commander of the assault on the Merville Battery on D-Day*

Ewa Sałacka, 49, Polish actress, allergic reaction to wasp sting. *

Simonetta Stefanelli, 51, Italian actress (Apollonia in The Godfather), cancer *

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Heather Bratton, 19, American model, car accident. *

Donald Reid Cabral, 83, former foreign minister of the Dominican Republic. *

José Antonio Delgado, 41, first Venezuelan to climb Mount Everest, found dead on Nanga Parbat in Pakistan. *

Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, 71, Italian-Brazilian actor, complications from kidney disease. *

Jessie Mae Hemphill, 82, award winning blues musician, complications of an infection. *

Thomas J. Manton, 73, longtime Democratic leader of Queens, NY, former US Representative (1985-99), prostate cancer. **

Dr. Dika Newlin, 82, American musician and musicologist, scholar of Arnold Schoenberg. *

James E. West, 55, former mayor of Spokane, Washington, colorectal cancer *

Russell J. York, 84, World War II veteran and hero of the battle for the Hurtgen Forest on November 20, 1944. *

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Walter Allner, 97, German-born art director of Fortune. *

Ric Campman, 64, artist and co-founder of the River Gallery School, cancer. **

Mako, 72, Japanese-American film, television, and Broadway actor; esophageal cancer *

John Mazmanian, 80, drag racing pioneer. *

Bob McCausland, 90, cartoonist for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. *

Ta Mok, 80, former Khmer Rouge commander, known as "The Butcher." *

J. Madison Wright Morris, 21, former child actress *

Palladium, 17, Estonian competition horse, euthanized after breaking leg. * * *

Alexander Petrenko, 30, Russian international basketballer, car crash. *

Gianmario Roveraro, 70, Italian banker and founder of Akros Finanziaria, missing since July 5, murder. * *

Bert Slater, 70, Scottish footballer *

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Charles Bettelheim, 92, French Marxist economist and historian *

Philipp von Bismarck, 91, German politician of the CDU party. *

Kevin Brophy, 21, Australian basketball player at the University of Georgia, automobile accident. * *

Madonna Castillo, 31, former Secretary-General of the Anakpawis party in the Philippines, shot. *

Chung In-yung, 86, founder of Halla Engineering & Construction in South Korea. *

Robert Cornthwaite, 89, American character actor (Thing From Another World). *

Ted Grant, 93, South African-British Trotskyist politician *

Brandon Hedrick, 27, convicted murderer and rapist, execution by electric chair in Virginia *

Tom Larson, 77, former Federal Highway Administrator and Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Transport. *

Lim Kim San, 89, former cabinet minister of Singapore. *

Frank Nabarro, 90, English-born South African physicist who was a pioneer of solid state physics*

Harry Olivieri, 90, co-inventor of the Philly cheesesteak and co-founder of Pat's King of Steaks cheesesteak emporium. *

Gérard Oury, 87, French actor, screenwriter and film director. * * *

Theo Sijthoff, 69, Dutch former cyclist and fashion designer *

Romeo Tan Togonon, 55, editorial cartoonist for the Manila Times. *

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Rev Robert Baumiller, 75, associate dean of health at Xavier University. *

Mauriceo Brown, 31, executed in Texas for 1996 robbery murder. *

Troy May, 39, owner of Oshawa Dodgers Baseball Club, heart attack due to injuries from car accident. *

Sam Neely, 58, singer-songwriter, collapsed while mowing his lawn.*

Maulvi Yunis Khalis, 87, mujahideen leader in Afghanistan who met with Ronald Reagan in 1988. *

Dave Walter, 63, Montana historian, heart attack. *

Jack Warden, 85, Emmy Award-winning American actor, heart and kidney failure. *

George Wetherill, 80, American astrophysicist, winner of the National Medal of Science. *

Tudi Wiggins, 70, Canada-born soap opera actor, cancer. *

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Raul Cortez, 73, Brazilian actor, pancreatic cancer. *

Henry Hewes, 89, former Saturday Review theater critic and editor of Best Plays (1960-1964). * *

Jimmy Leadbetter, 78, former Ipswich Town footballer. **

David Maloney, 72, British television director and producer for Doctor Who and Blakes 7 *

V.P. Sathyan, 41, former captain of the Indian national football team, apparent suicide. **

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Rev. Amos Bailey, 88, writer of the syndicated column "Our Daily Bread", thyroid cancer. *

Billy Firehawk, 40, former professional wrestler, diabetes *

Galen Fiss, 75, former Cleveland Browns linebacker. *; *

Dr. James Jandl, 80, American hematologist at Harvard University, author of Blood: Textbook of Hematology. *

Keith LeClair, 40, U.S. college baseball coach, Lou Gehrig's Disease *

Mike MacDonald, 65, pioneering Canadian aboriginal video artist. *

Robert Mardian, 82, attorney for Richard Nixon, figure in the Watergate scandal, lung cancer. *

Sam Myers, 70, American blues musician, who won 9 W.C. Handy awards with his band the Rockets; throat cancer. * *

David Skramstad, 74, twice mayor of Olympia, Washington and mystery writer, heart failure. *

Mickey Spillane, 88, American author, creator of Mike Hammer detective fiction, cancer. ***

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Walter Binaghi, 87, former ICAO Council President. *

Peter Chew, 82, author and journalist specialising in horse racing, heart attack. *

Dr. Keith DeVries, 69, American archaeologist at the University of Pennsylvania, excavated Gordion. *

Martin Gallent, 75, American former vice chairman of the New York City Planning Commission. *

Kevin Hughes, 53, former British Labour MP for Doncaster North, motor neurone disease * *.

Bob Orton, Sr., 76, former professional wrestler, heart attack. *

Destiny Norton (date disapppeared), 5, American child, kidnapped and murdered.

Ossi Reichert, 80, German alpine skier, Olympic Champion 1956. *

Winthrop Paul Rockefeller, 57, American billionaire and Lieutenant Governor of Arkansas since 1996, myeloproliferative disorder. * *

Harold Scott Jr., 70, American award-winning actor and playwright, first black artistic director of a major American regional theater. * *

Malachi Thompson, 56, American jazz trumpeter, lymphoma. * *

Winston Wilson, 63, co-founder of Winston Daniels Ltd of Napa Valley, wine importer, esophageal cancer. *

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Robert H. Brooks, 69, chairman of Hooters of America, natural causes. *

Rev. Joseph Boone, 83, United States civil rights activist, diabetes. *

John Feild, 83, pioneer of affirmative action as executive director of the President's Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity in the administration of John F. Kennedy, heart attack. *

John Joseph Fitzpatrick, 87, Bishop of Brownsville for 20 years. *

Howdy Groskloss, 100, was the oldest living former major league baseball player. *

Kenneth Lochhead, 80, Canadian artist who was a member of the Regina Five, colorectal cancer. *

Dr. James Nicholas, 85, American orthopedic surgeon and physician for three NFL teams. *

Daniel Nickerson, 48, former professional wrestling promoter *

István Pálfi, 39, Hungarian Member of the European Parliament, long illness. *

Rupert Pole, 87, American actor, forest ranger, and former co-husband of bigamist Anais Nin.*

A.C. Krishna Rao, 93, founder of the Stree Seva Mandir charity for destitute women in India. *

Andrée Ruellan, 101, American painter. *

David W. Simpson, 51, American Mayor of Bethel, Ohio, aneurysm. *

Andrew Sudduth, 44, American rower who won an Olympic silver medal, pancreatic cancer. * *

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Ted Bilkey, 72, former Chief Operating Officer for DP World. * *

Anthony Cave Brown, 77, English historian of espionage. *

William Downs, 39, American convicted murderer, executed in South Carolina. *

Tom Frame, British comic book letterer, cancer. *

Heinrich Heidersberger, 100, German photographer *

William Lash III, 45, former assistant secretary of the United States Department of Commerce and professor at George Mason University, suicide after killing his 12 year old autistic son. *

Christophe Mérieux, 39, head of research at BioMérieux and intended successor to Alain Mérieux as Chief Executive, heart attack. *

Carrie Nye, 69, American actress; lung cancer. **

June Ormond, 94, produced country music and religious films, complications of a stroke. *

Eduards Pāvuls, 77, famous Latvian actor *

Martha Peterson, 90, American president of Barnard College (1967-75). *

Senne Rouffaer, 80, Flemish actor. *

Len Teeuws, 79, former offensive and definsive lineman for the Los Angeles Rams and the Chicago Cardinals. *

Maulana Hasan Turrabi, prominent Shia leader in Pakistan, died in bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan. *

Aleksander Wojtkiewicz, 43, Polish International Grandmaster of chess, perforated intestine, and massive bleeding. * *

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Red Buttons, 87, American comedian, vascular disease ***

Pamela Cooper, 95, refugee activist known for her work with the Palestinians. *

Charles Dakin, 76, British classical composer, car crash. *

Jürgen Kießling, 65, FIFA World Cup 2006 official in Berlin, suicide. *

John Rector, Jr, 86, former publisher of the Dallas Morning News, pneumonia. *

Mark Ryder, 85, American dancer. *

Jonathan Solomon, 74, Gwich'in tribal leader. *

Ángel Cardinal Suquía Goicoechea, 89, retired Metropolitan-Archbishop of Madrid *

Cora T. Walker, 84, African-American lawyer, co-founder and senior partner of Walker & Bailey. *

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Rocky Barton, 49, American convicted murderer, executed in Ohio. *

George Creel, Jr., 90, Assistant Secretary in the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development and newspaper columnist. *

Kurt Kreuger, 89, Swiss-German actor (Sahara, The Enemy Below), stroke. * * *

Hubert Lampo, 85, Belgian writer. *

Charles H. G. Rees, 84, American media executive, former president of Whitney Communications. *

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Kathy Augustine, 50, State Controller of Nevada who was first Nevada state official to be impeached in office, death currently under investigation. * *

Vasant Chavan, 64, Indian politician and former Minister, cardiac arrest. *

John Coletta, 74, former manager of Deep Purple and Whitesnake, due to unspecified illness. *

Neil Coulbeck, Royal Bank of Scotland executive questioned over Enron collapse, unexplained. *

Mary Day, 96, American ballet dancer and co-founder of the Washington School of Ballet. *

Gerald Gidwitz, 99, American cosmetics executive, co-founder of Helene Curtis, congestive heart failure. * *

Barnard Hughes, 90, American Tony and Emmy Award-winning actor. * *

Bill Miller, 91, American pianist for Frank Sinatra, heart attack. * *

Derrick O'Brien, 31, executed for the rape and murder of two teenage girls in Texas. *

Bronwyn Oliver, 47, Australian sculptor, suicide. *

William Pryce, 73, United States ambassador to Honduras from 1993 to 1996, pancreatic cancer. *

Wilhelm Schippers, 41, Dutch murderer, suicide in Bijlmerbajes prison *

Ruth Schonthal, 82, German-born classical pianist and composer * * *

John Spencer, 71, British former world champion snooker player, stomach cancer * * *

Philippe Takla, 91, former foreign minister of Lebanon. **

Wiarton Willie, 8, Canada's most well-known Groundhog Day prognosticator, following a long illness *

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Shamil Basayev, 41, Chechen rebel leader, terrorist, explosion. * * **

Tommy Bruce, 68, British singer ("Ain't Misbehavin'"). *

Robert Fumerton, 93, Top scoring Canadian night fighter ace of World War II. "Washington Post", p. B-6, Jul. 27, 2006 *

The Very Rev. Dr. Raymond Furnell, 71, Dean of York from 1994-2003, responsible for introducing charges to visitors at York Minster, cancer **

Anthony Holliday, 66, South African philosopher and journalist, cancer. *

Ahmad Nadeem Qasimi, 89, Urdu poet, writer, critic and journalist who published 50 books. *

Ruth Schonthal, 82, American composer. Complications from heart attack. cf July 11 *

Ali Taziyev, Chechen militant.*

Blanca Torres, 78, Mexican actress. *

Fred Wander, 89, Austrian author and Holocaust survivor. *

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Dr. Fred Epstein, 68, American pediatric neurosurgeon who developed new ways of operating on tumors, melanoma. *

Abdel Moneim Madbouly, 84, Egyptian comedian and playwright. Congestive heart failure. *

Professor John Raeburn, 93, agricultural economist responsible for planning the "Dig for Victory" campaign in the United Kingdom during World War II. *

Alan Senitt, 27, British political activist, stabbed to death. *

Milan Williams, 58, keyboardist, founding member of R&B/funk band the Commodores, cancer. * *

Michael Zinzun, 57, ex-Black Panthers and anti-police activist; died in his sleep. *

Anthony Joseph Boneca, 21, Canadian Soldier, reservist with the Lake Superior Scottish Regiment; killed in firefight against Taliban.

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George Albee, 84, American psychologist and former head of the American Psychological Association, argued that social problems contributed to mental illness. * *

June Allyson, 88, Hollywood actress, pulmonary respiratory failure and acute bronchitis after a long illness. *

Eric Bedford, 78, former member of the Wran Government ministry 1976-1985 in New South Wales. *

Franco Belgiorno-Nettis, 91, founder of Transfield Holdings Australia's largest engineering and construction firm, died after a fall. *

Rolf Braun, 77, German Fastnacht and TV personality *

David Bright, 49, American researcher into underwater exploration and shipwrecks, cardiac arrest stemming from decompression sickness. * *

Ana María Campoy, 80, Argentine actress, pneumonia. *

Peter Hawkins, 82, British actor and voice artist - voice of the Flowerpot Men, Captain Pugwash and the Daleks. *

Catherine Leroy, 60, French photojournalist known for her coverage of the Vietnam War in Life, lung cancer. * *

Lajos Polgar, 89, accused of involvement in genocide in World War II as a member of the Hungarian Arrow Cross. *

Raja Rao, 97, Indian novelist (Kanthapura). * *

Jesse Simons, 88, American labor arbitrator, heart failure. *

Dorothy Uhnak, 76, American policewoman turned novelist. *

Sabine Dünser, 29, singer for gothic metal band Elis, Cerebral hemorrhage. *

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Luis Barragan, 34, president of 1-800-Mattress, drowned. * *

Syd Barrett, 60, founding member of Pink Floyd, complications related to diabetes. *

Irene Buri-Nelson, 84, first female member of the Wisconsin Broadcasters Hall of Fame, car crash. *

Reinhold Carlson, 100, former mayor of Des Moines, Iowa and Iowa State Senator. *

Rudi Carrell, 71, Dutch-born TV entertainer most active in Germany, lung cancer *

Dorothea Church, 83, African-American model, first successful black model in Paris. *

John Warner Fitzgerald, 81, former Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court. *

Elias Hrawi, 79, former President of Lebanon (1989-98), cancer. *

Dina Kaminskaya, 87, Russian lawyer who defended Soviet dissidents. *

Shana Leaupepe, 21, New Mexico State University American football player, drive-by shooting. *

Dolores Lescure, 89, former chair of the Woodrow Wilson Birthplace Foundation and former mayor of Staunton, Virginia. *

Gilbert Mason, 77, Mississippi civil rights campaigner. *

Dr. John Money, 84, New Zealand-born psychologist and sex researcher at Johns Hopkins University, Parkinson's disease. * *

Mícheál Ó Domhnaill, 53, Irish musician with the Bothy Band. *

Eric Schopler, 79, psychologist known for his pioneering work in autism treatment, cancer. *

Frank P. Zeidler, 93, Mayor of Milwaukee 1948-1960 and last Socialist Party of America mayor of a major city, died in his sleep. *

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Poul Andersen, 84, Danish-born publisher of Bien, the only weekly Danish newspaper in the US, Alzheimer's disease. *

Juan de Ávalos, 94, Spanish sculptor, heart attack *.

Teddy Craft, 22, U.S. college football player for Georgia Southern, motorcycle accident *

Ralph Ginzburg, 76, U.S. publisher who fought two First Amendment battles during the 1960s, multiple myeloma, *

Al Hodge, 55, Cornish rock guitarist and songwriter, cancer. *

John Manos, 83, US and Ohio judge for 43 years. *

George Prugh, 86 United States Army General and military lawyer who organised Prisoner of War status for combatants in the Vietnam War, complications from Parkinson's disease. *

Juan Pablo Rebella, 32, Uruguayan film director, suicide. *, *

Kasey Rogers, 80, American actress (Bewitched) and motocross racer, stroke. *,*,*

E.S. Turner, 96, English historian and journalist. *

Tom Weir, 91, Scottish climber, author and broadcaster. * *

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Barbara Albright, 51, prolific U.S. author of food and knitting books, brain tumor. *

Lucien Crump, 71, Philadelphia artist and art gallery owner, cancer. *

Lou Dantzler, 69, founder of Challengers Boys & Girls Club in Los Angeles, stroke. *

Gert Fredriksson, 86, Swedish canoeist and Sweden's most successful Olympian, cancer. *

Lewis Glucksman, 80, former head of U.S.-based financial giant Lehman Brothers. *

Hans Gmoser, 73, Austrian-born founder heli-skiing business. *

Kevin Herlihy, 58, New Zealand softball pitcher played in two teams that won world titles and inaugural member of the New Zealand Sports Hall of Fame, heart attack. *

Kenneth Lay, 64, former CEO of U.S. energy firm Enron, later convicted of fraud, heart attack. *

Don Lusher, 82, British jazz trombonist and band leader. *

Paul Nelson, 69, American rock critic who worked for Rolling Stone and who signed the New York Dolls while working for Mercury Records. *

Amzie Strickland, 87, American actress *

Hugh Stubbins, Jr., 94, American architect of Manhattan's Citicorp Centre, pneumonia. * *

Tongan prince Sione ʻUluvalu Ngū Takeivūlai Tukuʻaho, 56, and princess Kaimana, 46, car crash in Menlo Park, California. ***

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Zelda Foster, 71, American social worker and hospice pioneer. *

Dean Goodman, 86, American actor, husband of Maria Riva, the daughter of Marlene Dietrich.

John Hinde, 92, Australian film reviewer and journalist. *

Bobby Joe Mason, 70, member of the Harlem Globetrotters for 15 years and member of the Bradley University team of the century, cardiac arrest. *

Jack Sameth, 79, American television producer and director. *

Sir Leslie Smith, 87, industrialist behind the The BOC Group growth. *

Dorothy Hayden Truscott, 80, American world champion bridge player and author. Complications of Parkinson's Disease. *

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Bashir Al-Mogherbi, 83, first presedent of Libyan football club Al Ahly Benghazi.

Hans Bierbrauer alias Oskar, 84, German caricaturist. *

Mark Aubrey Tennyson, 5th Baron Tennyson, 86, great-grandson of poet Lord Tennyson.

Francis Cammaerts, 90, led 30,000 French Resistance fighters while with the Special Operations Executive. *

Dick Dickey, 79, former player with the Boston Celtics and North Carolina State University. *

Edgar Ewing, 93, Californian artist, coronary artery disease leading to cardiac arrest. *

Joseph Goguen, 65, American computer scientist from UCSD. *

Arthur Haggerty, 74, American dog trainer. *

Benjamin Hendrickson, 55, American actor (As the World Turns), suicide by gunshot. * *

Wilbert Hopper, 73, former president, CEO and chairman of Petro-Canada. *

Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, 52, American mezzo-soprano opera singer, breast cancer. * *

Lars Korvald, 90, former Prime Minister of Norway. *

Sir Carol Mather, 87, former British Conservative MP. *

Nimrod Ping, 46, Brighton city councillor. Complications of liver disease, caused by Hepatitis C. *

Jack Smith, 92, musician and former host of You Asked for It, leukemia. * *

Lynn Stanley, 58, chairwoman of the Protect Marriage Arizona Coalition and activist against gay marriage, car accident. *

Mpozi Tolbert, 34, award winning press photographer. *

Joe Weaver, 71, leader of the Blue Note Orchestra and musician on early Tamla sessions, stroke. *

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L. Thomas Appleby, 82, American president of the United Nations Development Corporation and New York City housing commissioner. *

Maurice Fox-Strangways, 9th Earl of Ilchester, 86, former member House of Lords and RAF Group Captain. *

Balázs Horváth, 64, Hungarian politician, former Interior Minister, lung cancer *

Herty Lewites, 65, Nicaraguan presidential candidate. *

Jan Murray, 89, American Borscht Belt comedian **

Tihomir Ognjanov, 79, former footballer for Yugoslavia, played in the 1950 World Cup *

Joan Quennell, 82, British Conservative Member of Parliament for Petersfield 1960–1974. *

Roland Remmel, 88, American businessman and fundraiser for waterfowl charities, cancer. *

Anatole Shub, 78, American journalist and author on Russia. Complications of pneumonia and a stroke. *

Jeffrey Wasserman, 59, American painter. *

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Umberto Abronzino, 85, member of US National Soccer Hall of Fame as an administrator. *

Michael Barton, 91, Surrey cricketer and president. *

Edwin Broderick, 89, former Roman Catholic Bishop of Albany, NY, USA, and director of Catholic Relief Services. *

Jaye Michael Davis, 62, veteran U.S. radio deejay, motorcycle accident. *

Willie Denson, 69, American singer and songwriter ("Mama Said"), lung cancer. *

Irving Green, 90, co-founder of Mercury Records. * *

Ryutaro Hashimoto, 68, former Prime Minister of Japan (1996-98). *

Rabbi Louis Jacobs, 85, founder of the British Masorti movement. *

Israel Kantor, 56, member of Tropicana All Stars, cancer. *

Yousuf Khan, 70, represented India in soccer at 1960 Summer Olympics, heart attack. *

Robert Lepikson, 54, Estonian businessman and politician *

Roderick MacLeish, 80, U.S. journalist, author and filmmaker. *

Michael Parman, 61, editor and publisher of The Press Democrat, pancreatic cancer. *

Dr. Philip Rieff, 83, American sociologist and author. *

Samir Sarhan, 65, Egyptian writer, critic and organiser of the Cairo International Book Fair, heart failure. *

Fred Trueman, 75, Yorkshire and England cricketer, lung cancer.