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Dieter Froese, 68, East Prussian-born artist. *

Robert Gernhardt, 68, German satirist *

Edward Hamilton, 89, highly decorated United States Army veteran during World War II, pneumonia. *

Dr. Harold Olmo, 90, American grape breeder and geneticist. *

Albert Sherman, 88, publisher of the Newport Daily News, cancer. *

Richard Streeton, 75, English journalist *

Ross Tompkins, 68, American Tonight Show pianist. *

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Fabián Bielinsky, 47, Argentinean film director, heart attack. *

Tom Brown, 79, West Texas oilman who founded Brown & Roper. *

Mercedes Quezada de Fox, 87, mother of Mexican President Vicente Fox Quezada, respiratory arrest. *

William Fraser, 100, theology student at Aberdeen University and oldest student in Scotland, pneumonia. *

Joyce Hatto, 77, classical pianist who recorded more than 100 albums, cancer. *

Ed Hugus, 82, racing driver, possible winner of the Le Mans 24 Hour race in 1965. *

Caroline Kearney, 22, Irish Triathlete,collision with a car while on a training cycle ride in Montpellier *

Stanley Moskowitz, 68, Central Intelligence Agency liaison to Congress, heart attack. **

Wallace Potts, 59, film archivist for the Rudolf Nureyev Foundation, lymphoma. *

Glen Renfrew, 77, Australian-born former head of Reuters. * *

Lloyd Richards, 87, first Black Broadway director, Tony Award winner, heart failure. *

Heliodoro Rico, 84, American track and field administrator. *

Pierre Rinfret, 82, Canadian-born economist and Republican candidate for Governor of New York in 1990. * *

Lev Sandakhchiev, 70 Russian biochemist who helped to end the Soviet bioweapons program, heart disease. *

Randy Walker, 52, Northwestern University football coach, apparent heart attack *

F. Mark Wyatt, 86, a Central Intelligence Agency officer, who delivered bags of money to swing the 1948 Italy election. ***

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Sedley Alley, 50, American convicted murderer and rapist, executed via lethal injection. *

Jim Baen, 62, science fiction editor and publisher. *

Theodore Black, 77, American executive, former CEO of Ingersoll Rand. *

Walter Cox, 87, former president of Clemson University. *

Boban Giankovic, 43, Serbian basketball player in Greece, heart attack. *

Theodore Levitt, 81, German-born former editor of the Harvard Business Review and author of books on marketing, coined the term globalization. * *

Vance Rudy Martin, 64, founder and former CEO of The Lending Tree, cancer. *

Herman Merinoff, 77, American liquor distributor, co-chair of the Charmer-Sunbelt Group. *

Mahmoud Mestiri, 77, former foreign minister of Tunisia *

George Page, 71, creator and narrator of the PBS series Nature. *

Peter Rawlinson, Baron Rawlinson of Ewell, 87, English barrister, politician and author. *

Fernando Sanchez, 70, Belgian-born fashion designer. *

Mickey Sims, 51, former player with the Cleveland Browns, heart attack. *

Wing Commander George Unwin, 93, Battle of Britain ace. *

Lennie Weinrib, 71, American actor. *

Jean Henri Courcoul, 87, French Resistance fighter and WWII RAF heavy bomber pilot, heart attack.

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Eileen Barton, 76, American singer, actress, ovarian cancer *

Robert Carrier, 82, American celebrity chef.*

J. Robert Elliott, 96, US Federal District Judge who overturned the conviction of Lt. William Calley. *

Michael Fanfalone, 57, aviation union leader, complications of Crohn's disease. *

Ángel Maturino Reséndiz, 46, Mexican serial killer, execution via lethal injection. *

Virginia Rosenbaum, 63, corporate research analyst and widow of David Rosenbaum, cancer. *

Don Wright, 97, Canadian composer and lyricist. *

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Bob Allan, 54, former Chief Executive of the Glasgow Housing Association. *

Bear JJ1 (Bruno the Bear), the first wild bear in Germany in 170 years, shot to death. *

Al Brounstein, 86, Canadian-born American Napa Valley vintner, Parkinson's disease. *

Joe Carter, 57. gospel singer who took his "A Song in the Night" show to five continents playing 300 shows in five continents. *

Donald Halperin, 60, former New York state senator. *

Johnny Jenkins, 67, American blues guitarist who who influenced Otis Redding and Jimi Hendrix, stroke. * *

Marlon Kalkai, 33, former professional wrestler best known as Tiger Kahn in Stampede Wrestling, heart failure

Lieutenant General Parami Kulatunga, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Sri Lankan Army, bomb blast. *

Marion Mingins,53, the first female chaplain to Queen Elizabeth II, and pioneer of women's ministry in the Church of England.

Eric Rofes, 51, American author and AIDS educator, heart attack. *

Dr. Joseph Schildkraut, 72, American psychiatrist at Harvard University. *

Abbye Stockton, 88, pioneering American woman weightlifter and bodybuilder, Alzheimer's disease. * *

Stephen Tiger, 57, member of Native American band Tiger Tiger who performed with Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin, recipient of a Native American Music Association Lifetime Achievement Award, head injury. *

Stan Torgerson, 82, radio announcer for Ole Miss football and basketball games. *

Jeff Winkless, 65, Los Angeles voice actor, brain tumor

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Elkan Allan, 83, created Ready, Steady, Go! and developed the first television listings for the UK in the Sunday Times. *

Eliyahu Asheri, 18, Israeli civilian kidnapped and murdered by militants in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

Charles Barrow, 84, former justice of the Texas Supreme Court. *

B. D. Nag Chowdhury, 89, Indian nuclear scientist, cerebral haemorrhage. *

George Whitaker Clarke, 100, Washington state politician. *

Richard DeVore, 73, Colorado sculptor, lung cancer. *

Harry Elliot, 101, former professional wrestling promoter, Natural Causes *

Alexis Giannoulias, 69, founder of the Broadway Bank in Chicago and father of Alexi Giannoulias a Democrat politician, heart attack. *

Kenneth Griffith, 84, Welsh actor and documentary maker, Parkinson's disease. *

Akbar Hossain, 65, Bangladeshi Minister for Shipping and hero of 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War, heart attack *

Dr. Irving Kaplansky, 89, American mathematician at the University of Chicago. * *

Dibya Khaling, 56, lyricist and composer of Nepali music responsible for 1,000 songs, cardiac arrest. *

Arif Mardin, 74, Turkish-American Grammy Award winning music producer, pancreatic cancer. * *

Sophie Maslow, 95, American choreographer. *

Melvin Moss, 83, American anatomist and former dean of Columbia University's dental school. *

Gad Navon, 84, Former Chief Israeli Military Rabbi, cancer. *

Jaap Penraat, 88, Dutch architect and member of Dutch resistance in World War II. *

Michael Ruane, 78, Massachusetts legislator 1975-2005, cancer. *

Seema Aissen Weatherwax, 100, Ukrainian photographer

Roberta Weston, 118?, claimed to be the world's oldest woman but no documentary proof of claim. *

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John Conger, 85, psychologist and former dean of the University of Colorado School of Medicine. *

Denice Denton, 46, chancellor of the University of California at Santa Cruz, suicide. *

Ben Garry, 50, played NFL for the Baltimore Colts, car crash. *

Jeffrey Harbers, 54, Microsoft executive who worked on developing many software programs including Microsoft Office, plane crash. *

Tichaona Jokonya, 67, Information & Publicity Minister in Zimbabwe, cardiac arrest. *

Ígor Medio, 34, and Carlos Redondo, 40, members of Felpeyu folk band, from Asturias, Spain, car accident. *

John F. Oates, 71, Professor Emeritus of Ancient History and Classics at Duke University and one of America's leading papyrologists. *

Patsy Ramsey, 49, mother of the late JonBenét Ramsey, ovarian cancer. *, *

Lyle Stuart, 83, American journalist and publisher. *

Gerald Tomlinson, 73, mystery and baseball writer. *

Tom Triplett, 71, Savannah, Georgia politician, former Georgia Representative. *

Ric Weiland, 53, Microsoft pioneer, developed BASIC, COBOL and Microsoft Works, suicide. *

David Owen, 38, Topeka Kansas homeless advocate, lobbyist, asphyxiated *

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Martin Adler, 47, Swedish journalist. Shot by unknown assailant in Mogadishu, Somalia. *

Harriet, 176, Galápagos tortoise believed to be the oldest animal in the world and allegedly owned by Charles Darwin, heart failure. *

Grady Johnson, 66, former WWF wrestler known as "Crazy" Luke Graham; heart failure. *

Budhi Kunderan, 66, former India wicketkeeper/batsman, lung cancer. *

Aaron Spelling, 83, American television producer (Charlie's Angels, Starsky and Hutch, Beverly Hills 90210), complications of stroke. *

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Heinz Ansbacher, 101, German-born psychologist and expert in the work of Alfred Adler. *

Anna Castelli Ferrieri, 87, Italian architect and designer. *

Alfred Hopkins Jr, 80, Mayor of Annapolis 1989-1997. *

Moose, 16, canine star of U.S. sit-com Frasier, played the character Eddie, "Skip" on film "My Dog Skip". *

Pinuccia Nava, 86, Italian actress of the 1940s and 1950s on stage (the "Nava Sisters"), screen and TV (clown "Scaramacai"). *

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Theo Bell, 52, National Football League receiver with the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, kidney disease and scleroderma. *

Vern Leroy Bullough, 77, medical historian known for his history of nursing, cancer. *

Monsignor Denis Faul, 73, former chaplain at the Maze Prison, outspoken critic of The Troubles and a key figure in attempts to end the 1981 Irish Hunger Strike in Northern Ireland, cancer. *

Jacques Lanzmann, 79, French author, editor and songwriter. *

Khamis al-Obeidi, 39, defense lawyer for Saddam Hussein, assassinated. *

David Walton, 43, member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee *

Jonathan Wordsworth, 73, scholar of Romanticism and chair of the Wordsworth Trust. *

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Ken Browne, 72, New Zealand steeplechase jockey and trainer. *

Bill Daniel, 90, former Governor of Guam. *

Evelyn Dubrow, 95, US women and labor advocate awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1999. *

Billy Johnson, 87, former New York Yankee and All-Star third baseman, cause not given. *

E. Pierce Marshall, 67, son of J. Howard Marshall and Anna Nicole Smith's stepson and plaintiff in their inheritance feud, aggressive infection. *

Jerome Martin (aka Redd Angel), 29, South African singer, car wreck. *

Lamont Reese, 28, American convicted murderer, executed. *

Charles H. Sawyer, 91, birth control researcher, Alzheimer's disease. *

William Shurcliff, 97, physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb. *

Claydes Charles Smith, 57, co-founder and lead guitarist of Kool and the Gang. *

Vincent Usolor, former Nigerian Senator, died in his sleep. *

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Hugh Baird, 76, footballer for Leeds United, Aberdeen, Airdrieonians and Scotland. *

Myldred Jones, 96, Californian social worker who founded youth shelter in Los Alamitos, California and helped to launch other youth services. *

Priit Kolbre, 50, Estonian diplomat *

Duane Roland, 53, guitarist and a founder of rock band Molly Hatchet. *

Howard Shanet, 87, US conductor and composer. *

István 'Joni' Szulovszky, 55, Hungarian musician, founding member of A.E. Bizottság. * Hungarian

Melvin Watson, 98, American Baptist minister who trained Martin Luther King and other civil rights leaders, complications from surgery *

Arthur Yap (Singapore Poet and Artist),64, Lecturer, English Department, University of Singapore; cancer of the throat.

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Luke Belton, 87, Irish politician. *

Des Colquhoun, 75, former editor-in-chief and columnist for the The Adelaide Advertiser, died in his sleep. *

Nathaniel Neiman Craley, Jr., 78, former Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives (1965-67) from Pennsylvania.

Jesus Fuertes, 68, Spanish painter and protege of Pablo Picasso, heart attack. *

Chris and Cru Kahui, 3-months, New Zealand child homicide victims.

Gică Petrescu, 91, Romanian singer. *

Donald Reilly, 72, American cartoonist (The New Yorker), cancer. * *

René Renou, 54, French vintner. *

Vincent Sherman, 99, American film director (Mr. Skeffington, The Young Philadelphians), natural causes. **

Richard Stahl, 74, American comedy actor, Parkinson's disease. **

Madeleine St John, 64, Australian novelist who wrote a book shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1997, emphysema. *

Arthur Wood, 93, executive at Sears, Roebuck & Company responsible for building Sears Tower, complications of pneumonia. *

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Norma Becker, 76, American anti-war activist, former chair of the War Resisters League. *

Cláudio Besserman Vianna, (a.k.a. Bussunda), 43, Brazilian comedian, member of Casseta & Planeta, heart attack *

Arthur Franz, 86, American character actor (Sands of Iwo Jima, Invaders from Mars). Emphysema and heart disease. **

Mikhail Lapshin, 71, Russian politician, leader of the Agrarian Party and former president of the Altai Republic (2002-2006), cause unknown. *

Bill Lamb, 76, American public television executive, co-founder of WNET and former chief of KCET. *

Charles Older, 88, Los Angeles Superior Court judge who presided over the Charles Manson trial, complications of a fall. **

Abdul-Khalim Saydullayev, 38 or 39, Chechen separatist rebel leader. *

Julian Slade, 76, English composer and lyricist of "Salad Days", cancer. *

Bob Weaver, 77, Miami, Florida-based weatherman known as "Weaver the Weatherman" on WTVJ, cancer. *

William Yallup Sr, 79, Yakama Nation elder. *

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Jimmy Allison, 77, Scottish unionist and Scottish organiser for the Labour Party between 1977 and 1990. * *

Irving Berk, 100, Romania-born American founder of Berk Trade and Business School. *

Roland Boyes, 69, Former Labour politician and photographer. Alzheimer's disease. *

Barbara Epstein, 76, co-founder of the New York Review of Books, lung cancer. *

Robert Hatch, 75, American public relations executive for Children's Television Workshop and the Peace Corps. *

Tsuyoshi Kakefuda, 77, cancer researcher, liver disease. *

Arthur Malvin, 83, Emmy award winning composer and lyricist, after a long illness. *

Robert W. Mann, 81, American mechanical engineer and designer. *

Scott Manning, 48, builder and pilot of the world's smallest jet, crash landing. *

Igor Śmiałowski, 88, Polish actor, *

Judy Wolpe, 62, cabinet member in two states and wife of former U.S. representative Howard Wolpe, drowning. * *

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Betty Curtis, 70, Italian singer, winner of Sanremo Music Festival in 1961 with Luciano Tajoli. *

Rabi Das, 34, leader of Communist Party of India (Marxist) in West Bengal, shot dead by suspected Maoists. *

Raymond Devos, 83, French humorist. *

Jabu Sithole, 34, Zulu weatherman on the South African Broadcasting Corporation, AIDS. *

Grand Rabbi Israel Dan Taub, 78, Modzitzer Rebbe of Bnei Brak, Israel. *

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Samuel Ackerman, 58, Chairman and CEO of Panacos Pharmaceuticals, heart attack. *

Josiah Beeman, 70, former US ambassador to New Zealand and Western Samoa, campaign manager for Jerry Brown, kidney failure.

Monty Berman, 94, British B-movie producer. *

H. Monroe Browne, 89, former US ambassador to New Zealand. *

Khurshid Zahan Hoque, 69, Bangladesh's Minister for Women and Children, cirrhosis of the liver. *

Surinder Kaur, 77, Punjabi folk and classical singer known as the "nightingale of Punjab". *

Craig Morris, 66, American pre-Columbian archaeologist at the American Museum of Natural History. *

Jean Roba, 75, Belgian comics writer *

Ndabezinhle Sigogo, Zimbabwean novelist and poet. *

Irving Sunshine, 90, leader in forensic toxicology, multiple myeloma. *

Klaas Verboom, 58, Canadian artist, liver cancer. *

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Roy Clarke, 79, convicted sex attacker who abused children over a 60 year period, natural causes.*

Freddie Gorman, 77, US songwriter. *

Patricia Guiver, 76, animal welfare advocate and mystery novelist, complications of heart surgery. *

Charles Haughey, 80, former Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland, prostate cancer. *

Hiroyuki Iwaki, 73, Japanese conductor, congestive heart failure. *

Luis Jiménez, 65, American sculptor, crushed by a statue. *

Burke Riley, 92, American lawyer and politician, Alzheimer's disease. *

Dennis Shepherd, 79, South African Olympic boxer. *

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Anna Lee Aldred, 85, American jockey and first woman in US to receive a jockey's licence, member of the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame. * *

Andrew William "Nicky" Barr, 90, Australian rugby union player and World War II fighter pilot *

Chakufwa Chihana, 67, veteran Malawi opposition figure who ran unsuccessfully for President losing to Bakili Muluzi, brain tumour. *

Michael Dornheim, 51, award-winning journalist with Aviation Week, car crash. *

Michael Fajans, 58, Amercian painter, motorcycle accident. * *

Wes Hill, 76, Niagara River expert. *

Clifford Hocking, 74, Australian entrepreneur *

György Ligeti, 83, influential Hungarian composer. *

José Leite Lopes, 87, Brazilian physicist. *

Evan Settle, 93, former University of Kentucky basketballer. *

Frank Streeter, 88, American philanthropist and book collector. *

Mel Streeter, 75, architect and University of Oregon basketball player, amyloidosis. *

Kenneth Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, 82, billionaire Canadian media mogul and art collector. Possible heart attack. *

Nijiro Tokuda, 111, oldest man in Japan *

Paul Xanthos, 85, tennis coach at Pierce College for three decades winning 23 Conference titles, died in his sleep. *

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Michael Bartosh, 28, Mac OS X Server expert, injuries from a fall. *

James Cameron, 92, founder of America's Black Holocaust Museum, lymphoma. *

Pierre Clerdent, 97, Belgian politician (Liège), and holder of the Grand-Croix de la Légion d'honneur. *

Neroli Fairhall, 61, New Zealand paraplegic archer and Olympic competitor. *

Rolande Falcinelli, 86, French organist and composer.

Tim Hildebrandt, 67, American artist. Complications of diabetes. *

William Hundley, 80, American lawyer. *

Hugh Latimer, 93, English actor and toy maker. *

Mike Quarry, 55, light heavyweight boxer who challenged Bob Foster for the title, pugilistic dementia. *

Major Bruce Shand, 89, father of Camilla, The Duchess of Cornwall, and father-in-law of Charles, Prince of Wales, cancer. *

Daniel Steiner, 72, American president of the New England Conservatory, lung disease. * *

John Udeh, 50, prolific writer on development issues and former Federal Commissioner representing Enugu State 1999-2003. *

George Washington, 76, American boxing trainer. *

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Qadi Abdul Karim Abdullah Al-Arashi, 72, former President of North Yemen. *

Hubertus Czernin, 50, Austrian journalist who helped return paintings looted by the Nazis. Mastocytosis.* *

Moe Drabowsky, 70, Polish-born American Major League Baseball player, multiple myeloma. *

German Goldenshteyn, 71, Bessarabian-born clarinetist and klezmer musician. *

Wulff-Dieter Heintz, 76, German astronomer at Swarthmore College. *

Kenneth Jack, 81, Australian artist. *

Charles Johnson, 96, Negro League baseballer for the Chicago American Giants, complications of prostate cancer. *

Philip Merrill, 72, publisher and diplomat, suicide. *

Ruddy Thomas, 54, Jamaican singer, heart attack. *

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Kinga Choszcz aka "Freespirit", Polish author (Led By Destiny: Hitchhiking Around the World), cerebral malaria. *

Drafi Deutscher, 60, German singer.

Michael Forrestall, 73, Canadian senator, died following hospitalization for breathing problems. *

Patricia Janus, 74, American poet, heart attack brought on by liver cancer.

Gloria Jones, 78, American socialite, widow of James Jones and mother of Kaylie Jones. *

Mary Lutz, 55, director of competitive riding for the physically challenged at the United States Equestrian Federation. *

Enzo Siciliano, 72, Italian writer, diabetes mellitus. *

Vern Williams, 76, Bluegrass mandolin player and singer. *

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Thomas G. Arthur, 84, caterer who developed the Dodger Dog, heart attack. * *

Will Baxter, 99, first professor of accounting in the UK. *

Audrey Campbell, 76, actress best known for playing "Olga" in an infamous sexploitation film trilogy, undisclosed causes *

Jake Copass, 86, American cowboy poet, leukemia. *

Robert Donner, 75, American character actor probably best known for playing Exidor on Mork and Mindy, aneurysm. *

Jack Jackson (nom de plume Jaxon), 65, American comic book artist and co-founder of Rip Off Press. *

Mykola Kolessa, 102, Ukrainian composer and conductor. *

Abouna Matta El Meskeen, 87, Spiritual Father of St. Macarius' Monastery in the Wilderness of Scetis, Egypt. *

Mary Martin McLaughlin, 87, American scholar of the Middle Ages. *

John C. Roberts, 72, founder of Australian construction company Multiplex. Complications of diabetes. *

Jamal Abu Samhadana, leader of PA / Hamas forces in Gaza Strip and PRC. Killed by Israeli air strike. *

Talcott Seelye, 84, former United States ambassador to Tunisia and Syria. *

Sir Peter Smithers, 92, British politician, MP for Winchester and Secretary General of the Council of Europe. *

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Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, 39, leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, US military strike. *

Sheik Abd-Al-Rahman, spiritual adviser for Al-Qaeda in Iraq, US military strike. *

Betty Beale, 94, Washington, D.C. society columnist. *

Carl Dengler, 91, blind Rochester, New York bandleader and percussionist. *

Joseph Dorfman, 65, Russian-Israeli composer of new music and a Shostakovich scholar.*

Dr. Morton Kligerman, 88, American cancer researcher and professor of oncology and radiology. *

Terry McCann, 74, Olympic gold medalist in freestyle wrestling and helped found USA Wrestling, and retired Executive Director of Toastmasters International, cancer (see *).

Scott Palmer, 38, bassist for the reggae band John Brown's Body, cancer of the gall bladder. *

Ingo Preminger, 95, Hollywood talent agent and producer (M*A*S*H), brother of Otto Preminger. * *

Howard Rosenstone, 68, American theatrical agent. *

Louis B. Sohn, 92, Lviv-born scholar of international law, helped draft the UN Charter. *

John Tenta (aka Earthquake), 42, Canadian professional wrestler for the World Wrestling Federation, bladder cancer. *

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Professor Leslie Alcock, 81, pioneer of Dark Age archaeology, led the team that excavated Cadbury Castle. *

Scobey Hartley, 74, Alberta oilman, heart attack *

Frank Lanza, 74, Chairman and CEO of L-3 Communications following surgery. *

Arnold Newman, 88, American photographer who pioneered "environmental portraiture". * *.

Reathel Odum, 97, White House personal secretary to Bess Truman. *

Billy Preston, 59, American musician ("You Are So Beautiful", "Nothing from Nothing") known for his work with the Beatles, malignant hypertension leading to kidney failure. *

Hilton Ruiz, 54, American jazz pianist, injuries from a fall. * *

Léon Weil, 109, French World War I veteran. *

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Ray Cale, 83, Dual international for Wales in rugby union and rugby league. * *

Frederick Franck, 97, Dutch artist, author, and dentist. *

Eric Gregg, 55, American former Major League Baseball umpire, stroke. * **

Wayne Hage, 69, American cattle rancher who sued the US National Forest Service over grazing rights. *

Caleb Hammond, 90, American president of C. S. Hammond & Company mapmakers. *

Carlene Lewis, 51, American lawyer who sued Merck over the drug Vioxx. *

Henri Magne, 53, French rally co-driver (navigator) * *

Jorge Melendez, unknown age, involved in professional wrestling, committed suicide

Robert Ross, 86, leader of the Muscular Dystrophy Association for 44 years and persuaded Jerry Lewis to undertake a yearly telethon to raise money for muscular dystrophy, complications of broken hip. *

Elizabeth Fretwell, 85, Australian opera singer best known for her performances with the Sadler's Wells company. *

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Alec Bregonzi, 76, British actor *

Bill Fleming, 92, former MLB pitcher for the Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs *

Peter Greenwell, 76, British composer and pianist known for his work with Noel Coward who later developed a tribute show described by Alan Jay Lerner as "the best Noel Coward since Noel Coward.*

Raul Indipwo, 72, Portuguese singer, born in Angola, cancer *

Ron Jones, 41, former Major League Baseball player, brain hemorrhage *

Richard Kapp, 69, American conductor and founder of the Philharmonia Virtuosi. *

Anthony Marreco, 90, junior British prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials and founding member of Amnesty International. *

Eric Molobi, 58, South African anti-apartheid activist and businessman, lung cancer. *

William M. Steger, 85, United States district court judge and Republican candidate for Governor of Texas in 1960. *

Robert Taylor, 68, former New York Giants defensive end who played in the 1963 NFL championship game, complications following surgery for colon cancer. *

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Dick Anderson, 73, scuba diver. *

Leo Clarke, 82, Roman Catholic Bishop of Maitland-Newcastle, Australia, 1976-1995. *

William Dimitr Jr., 76, Rhode Island Superior Court judge, cancer. *

Brian Duke, 79, tropical disease expert who helped to save millions from river blindness. *

Johnny Grande, 76, pianist, member of Bill Haley's backing band, The Comets. Complications arising from cancer. *

George Kashdan, 78, American comic book writer and editor for DC Comics. *

Janet Sandell, 70, South African social activist, ovarian cancer. *

Doug Serrurier, 85, former Grand Prix racing driver and constructor. *

Prudence Watson, Canadian lawyer, brain tumor. *

Ni Wen-ya, 105, former President of the Legislative Yuan. *

Robin Williams Jr., 91, American sociologist and former president of the American Sociological Association. *

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Sol Cantor, 95, American discount store pioneer. *

Ronald Cass, 83, British film score composer.

Jennifer Eley, 44, prize-winning American classical concert pianist. *

Barbara Furrer Goodman, 74, American educator, former chair of the board of trustees of the Teachers College at Columbia University. *

Bernard Loomis, 82, American toymaker responsible for Strawberry Shortcake and Star Wars action figures, heart disease. *

Vivek Maitra, Indian politician, possible foul play. *

Leon Pownall, 63, Canadian actor, cancer. *

Frank Spencer, 87, FBI agent who investigated the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. *

Vince Welnick, 55, member of The Grateful Dead, suicide. *

Edward Yates, 87, director of American Bandstand (1952–1969). *

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Perry Bass, 91, Texas oilman and philanthropist. *

Dr. Charles Brush III, 83, American archaeologist and former president of the Explorer's Club. *

Arthur Espenet Carpenter, 86, American furniture craftsman. *

Shokichi Iyanaga, 100, influential Japanese mathematician *

Rocío Jurado, 61, Spanish singer and actress, pancreatic cancer. *

Allan Prior, 84, British television scriptwriter (Z Cars, Howard's Way, The Charmer), father of folk singer Maddy Prior. *

Calvin Pullins, Prince, 74, US-wrestler

Abdul Latif Sharif. 59, Egyptian, suspect in the femicides in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, officially of natural causes, rumored poisoning.

Claude Terrail, 88, owner of the restaurant La Tour d'Argent. *

William D. Winn, 59, professor of education at the University of Washington. *