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George Leslie Brown, 79, former Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, first Black lieutenant governor in the US * *

Angela Devi, 30, Indian-American big-bust model and performer, suicide by asphyxiation * *

Olive McKean, 90, Silver medalist at the 1936 Berlin Olympics in swimming, swimming coach to Don Schollander and others. *

Jackie McLean, 73, jazz saxophonist *

Candice Rialson, 54, actress, liver disease. *

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Red Hickey, 89, NFL coach of the San Francisco 49ers, inventor of shotgun formation, natural causes. *

Philip Hyde, 84, American wildlife photographer *

Manohar Shyam Joshi, 73, Indian Hindi novelist and soap opera writer *

John McGahern, 71, Irish novelist and playwright, cancer. *

Gloria Monty, 84, executive producer of the soap opera General Hospital, cancer. *

Kathleen Pflueger, 90, American collector of porcelain. *luvia diaz age 13 died in a car crash

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Eric Budd, 84, English administrator, the General Secretary (1987–2000) and Vice-Chairman of the Cricket Society (2000–2001) *

Salvador Elizondo, 73, Mexican writer and member of the Mexican Academy of the Language, of cancer. *

Henry Farrell, 85, American author and screenwriter (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte). *

Penny Jay, 80, American country singer/songwriter ("Don't Let Me Cross Over", "Just Over the Line"), long time companion of William Little guitarist (Even Keel) of California, USA. *

Gretchen Rau, 66, set decorator, winner of 2005 Academy Award for Best Art Direction for Memoirs of a Geisha *

Jacqueline Roumeguere, 78, South African-born French anthropologist. *

Bob Veith, 81, former Indianapolis 500 racing driver. *

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Don Alias, 66, American jazz percussionist. *

Jerry Brudos, 67, imprisoned U.S. serial killer, natural causes *

Pro Hart, 77, Australian outback painter, motor neurone disease *

Bansi Lal, 78, Haryana's four time chief minister, and defence minister of India during Indian Emergency (1975 - 77). *, *

Charles Schepens, 94, American ophthalmologist known as "the father of retinal surgery" and a Nazi resistance movement leader *

Caspar Weinberger, 88, U.S. Secretary of Defense 1981-1987 under Reagan; Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare 1973-1975 under Nixon and Ford.*

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Al Alquist, 97, former California state senator * *

Wayne Boden, 58, Canadian serial killer and rapist, of natural causes after a lengthy illness *

Dan Curtis, 77, American television producer (Dark Shadows, The Winds of War). *

Ian Hamilton Finlay, 80, Scottish artist. *

Ken Kaess, 51, American advertising executive, CEO of DDB Worldwide, cancer *

Stanisław Lem, 84, Polish science fiction writer, heart failure. * *

Ruari McLean, 88, distinguished British typographer *

Lyn Nofziger, 81, press secretary for Ronald Reagan *

Ron Schipper, 77, College Football Hall of Fame Coach *, *

Bernard Siegan, 81, Ronald Reagan Federal Appellate Court nominee *

Dr. Rudolf Vrba, 82, Czech physician, Auschwitz escapee and contributor to the Auschwitz Protocol, cancer. *

Peter Wells, 58, guitarist from Australian rock outfit Rose Tattoo, prostate cancer. *

Neil Williams, 43, international Test cricketer for England.*

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Angelo d'Arrigo, 44, Italian aviator, air crash. *

Dr. William A. Barnes, 94, American surgeon, co-inventor of the Barnes-Redo button, a feeding tube device. *

Anil Biswas, 61, Indian politician, cerebral hemorrhage *.

David Cunliffe-Lister, 2nd Earl of Swinton, 69, British peer, politician & magistrate. *

Paul Dana, 30, IRL Indy car driver, multiple trauma injuries sustained in accident. *

Alain Danet, 74, head of Paris' Olympic Games bid, IOC honorary member and ex field hockey player. *

Ayako Koshino, 92, Japanese fashion designer, mother of Michiko Koshino *

Manar Maged, 2, Egyptian girl born with two heads, brain infection *.

Ariclê Perez, 62, Brazilian actress. *

Prince Abdul Rahman Al-Sudairy, 89, uncle of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia, former governor of Al-Jouf *

Nikki Sudden, 49, British musician, punk-blues icon, and co-founder of Swell Maps. *

Johhny “Chop” Vasco, 35, Noteable Motorcycle builder based in California.

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Erma Ora James Byrd, 88, wife of US Senator Robert Byrd. *

Bob Carlos Clarke, 55, Irish photographer, suicide.**

Rocío Dúrcal, 61, Spanish singer and actress, uterine cancer. *

Richard Fleischer, 89, American film director (Tora! Tora! Tora!, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Soylent Green) * *

Stephen Charles Gleason, 59, Iowa public health director and health care advisor to U.S. President Bill Clinton *

Danilo Lazović, 56, Serbian actor. *

Doris Muscatine, 80, travel and food author and writer, complications from a fall *

Buck Owens, 76, American country music star, heart attack. *

Alfredo Silipigni, 72, longtime conductor of the New Jersey State Opera *

Mansfield Sprague, 95, Eisenhower administration official.

Tom Toelle, 74, German TV director.

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Jörg Bastuck, 36, German rally car co-driver, accident during the 2006 Rally Catalunya. *

John Glenn Beall, Jr., 78, former Republican United States Senator from Maryland from 1971 - 1977 and United States Representative from 1969 - 1971. *

Dr. Jaroslava Moserova, 76, Czech senator, ambassador, presidential candidate, doctor, and translator. *

Lynne Perrie, 74, English actress (Coronation Street, Kes), stroke. *

Norman Pounds, 94, British historian and author.

Carl Seiberlich, 82, retired Rear Admiral of US Navy *

Lin Yud, 49, child trafficker executed by gunshot in Fujian, China. *

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Adwaita, 255 (approximate age), tortoise claimant for world's oldest animal, reputedly a former pet of General Clive, liver failure. *

David B. Bleak, 74, Medal of Honor recipient in the Korean War. *

Sarah Caldwell, 82, longtime conductor of the Opera Company of Boston *

René-Philippe Dawant, 64, Belgian journalist, heart attack. *

Desmond Doss, 87, Medal of Honor recipient and conscientious objector. *

Gerry "Tex" Ehman, 73, Canadian-born retired NHL player and executive, lung cancer. *

Edythe Gaines, 83, executive director of the New York City Board of Education's Office of Educational Planning and Support *

John W. Griffin, 78, perennial candidate in Ohio and member of the Ohio State Board of Education.

Eloy de la Iglesia, 62, Spanish film director. *.

Pío Leyva, 88, Cuban musician (Buena Vista Social Club), heart attack. *

Rolf Myller, 79, German born architect and writer of children's and puzzle books. *

Peter Shand Kydd, 80, English wallpaper heir and stepfather of Diana, Princess of Wales. *

Cindy Walker, 87, American country-western songwriter, (Dream Baby) for Roy Orbison et al. *

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Ria Beckers, 67, former political leader of the Dutch political parties Politieke Partij Radicalen and GroenLinks. *

James Chikerema, 80, Zimbabwean nationalist, co-founder of ZAPU and government co-minister in the internal settlement government of Rhodesia. *

Pierre Clostermann, 85, WWII French Flying Ace. *

DJ Swing, 39, MOBO award winning British DJ. *

Matt Kennedy, 101, Coney Island booster *

Eugene Landy, 71, American psychologist, famous for treating Brian Wilson, lung cancer *

Britt Lomond, 80, American actor (Zorro), fencer, and WWII veteran. *

Giuseppe Longoni, 63, Italian footballer, neuronic cerebral illness. *

Gergely András Molnar, 108, the last Hungarian veteran of the First World War *

Brian Parkyn, 82, British Labour MP for Bedford 1966-70 *.

Robert Salazar, Jr., 27, American convicted murderer, executed in Texas. *

Stig Wennerström, 99, Swedish Air Force Colonel convicted of spying for the USSR. * *

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Lord Ackner, 85, British Lord of Appeal. *

Bob Delegall, 60, American actor and director, prostate cancer. *

Margaret Ewing, 60, Scottish nationalist politician, breast cancer. *

James O. Freedman, 70, former president of Dartmouth College and the University of Iowa, non-Hodgkin lymphoma. *

Bert Isaac, 83, Welsh painter.

Philip B. Kundhardt Jr., 78, Life Magazine managing editor, documentary producer, writer *

Doris Jones, 92, African-American ballet dancer, co-founder of the Jones-Haywood School of Ballet. *

Bernard Lacoste, 74, French clothing magnate of Lacoste, unspecified illness. *

Leslie MacMitchell, 85, American runner, Sullivan Award winner *

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Bhrigu Kumar Phukan, 49, India politician *

Gene Scott, 68, American tennis player and publisher of Tennis Week. *

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Dick Addis, 74, former South Bend, Indiana news weatherman and longtime WNDU-TV personality, natural causes *

Mohammad Ali, 78, Pakistani actor, cardiac arrest. *

Anselmo Colzani, 87, Italian operatic baritone *

Nicholas R. Cozzarelli, 67, molecular and cell biologist, science journal editor, Burkitt's lymphoma. * * *

Leon Daniel, 74, American correspondent and editor for United Press International *

Kevin Payne, 34, professional boxer, injuries sustained during fight. *

Channing Pollock, 79, magician, complications of cancer.*

Dr. Richard Root, 68, American epidemiologist, crocodile attack. *

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Michael Attwell, 63, British actor. *

Bill Beutel, 75, WABC-TV anchorman, Alzheimer's disease. *

Nelson Dantas, 78, Brazilian actor, lung cancer. *

Fernando Gil, 69, Portuguese philosopher and college professor, unknown illness. *

Anatoli Puzach, 65, former Soviet World Cup footballer & title-winning coach for Dynamo Kiev*

Stella Snead, 96, British surrealist painter *

Drexel Sprecher, 92, American prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials. *

Belle Zeck, 87, American lawyer, Nuremberg prosecutor *

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Yuan Baojing, 39 or 40, Chinese multi-millionaire, executed by lethal injection for ordering a contract killing.

Lumumba Carson, 49, American hip-hop DJ (as Professor X of the X-Clan), spinal meningitis. * *

Oleg Cassini, 92, fashion designer. * *

Narvin Kimball, 97, American banjo player, founding member of the Preservation Hall Jazz Band and the Gentlemen of Jazz. *

Ray Meyer, 92, former DePaul basketball coach and member of the Basketball Hall of Fame, natural causes. *

G. William Miller, 81, United States Secretary of Treasury from 1979 - 1981 under Jimmy Carter, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. *

Patrick Moody, 39, American convicted murderer, executed in North Carolina. *

Marc Moret, 82, Swiss pharmaceutical executive, honorary chairman of Novartis. * * *

Eric Ottens, 23, College basketball player for Evansville, automobile accident. *

Bob Papenbrook, 50, Los Angeles voice actor, lung complications. *

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Jonathan Delisle, 28, AHL and NHL hockey player, automobile accident. *

David Feintuch, 61, American science fiction author, following cardiac trouble. *

Paul Flaherty, 42, web indexing pioneer * *

James Hill, 95,legendary British soldier who commanded the Canadian paratroopers who dropped into France on D-Day, natural causes

K. Leroy Irvis, 86, Speaker of Pennsylvania House of Representatives (first African-American Speaker in any U.S. state government), cancer. *

Coen Ooft, 85, Surinam politician and jurist.

Archbishop Romeo Panciroli, 82, Italian Catholic Archbishop, former Director of the Vatican Press Office. * *

Stephen Procuniar, 60, American artist *

Moira Redmond, 77, English actress, heart attack. *

Jade Snow Wong, 84, Chinese author and ceramicist, natural causes.*

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Ken Brewer, 64, Poet Laureate of Utah, pancreatic cancer. *

Estelle Busch, 91, American actress, helped establish equity-waiver theatres. *

Humphrey (exact date unknown), c. 17, Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office, 1989 - 1997. *

René Lasserre, 93, Paris restaurateur. *

George Mackey, 90, formerly Landon T. Clay Professor of mathematics, Harvard University. *

Charles Newman, 67, American novelist (White Jazz, The Promisekeeper: A Tephramancy) and editor (TriQuarterly) *

George Rallis, 87, former Prime Minister of Greece, 1980-81, heart failure. *

Mark Southern, 45, professor of linguistics, Middlebury College

Red Storey, 88, former CFL player and NHL referee. *

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E.S. Anderson, 94, British microbiologist *

Ann Calvello, 76, roller derby player, liver cancer. *

Hamish Gray, Baron Gray of Contin, 78, former British Conservative government minister. *

Lennart Meri, 76, former President of Estonia. *

Art Michaluk, 82, former AHL hockey player and World War II veteran. *

Herb Tobman, 81, former president of the Stardust Hotel in Las Vegas *

Dina DeStefano, 43, former wrestling valet/model.

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Robert C. Baker, 84, American agricultural scientist, developed chicken products and processes. *

Roy Clarke, 80, footballer for Manchester City & Wales. *

Jimmy Johnstone, 61, Scottish football player, voted Celtic's best ever, motor neurone disease. *

Tara Rose McAvoy, 18, reigning Miss Deaf Texas, killed by train while walking on tracks. *

Charles Newman, 67, American novelist and founding editor of TriQuarterly. *

Dr. James Schwartz, 73, Columbia University neurobiologist .*

Maureen Stapleton, 80, American actress, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Oscar Stiegler, 102, expert on repair, inspection and construction of naval vessels. *

Peter Tomarken, 63, American game show host (Press Your Luck), plane crash. *

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Nick Barone, 79, American heavyweight and light heavyweight boxer *

Joseph Bova, 81, American actor (Once Upon a Mattress) *

Jurij Brězan, 89, Sorbian-German writer.

Massimo Della Pergola, 93, Italian journalist who founded Sisal, Totocalcio, and Totip. *

István Gyulai, 62, Hungarian journalist, General Secretary of the IAAF. *

Jonatan Johansson, 26, Swedish snowboarder, accident during training. *

Victor Sokolov, 59, dissident ex-Soviet journalist, and Orthodox priest, lung cancer.

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Jean Cuq, 78, French general. Former chief of Staff of the FINUL.

John Falotico, 82, NYPD detective who arrested David Berkowitz. *

General Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley, 81, British soldier and military historian. *

Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion, 75, NHL player with the Montreal Canadiens and New York Rangers, stomach cancer. *

Pauline Gregg, 96, author, historian and biographer.

Kim Hyung-gon, 48, Korean comedian, heart attack. *

Slobodan Milošević, 64, former President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia standing trial for war crimes, heart attack. * *

Glenn Olds, 85, president of Kent State University (1971-1977) *

Andrall Pearson, 80, former president of PepsiCo. *

Jesús Miguel Rollán, 37, Spanish former water polo goalkeeper, suicide.

Lindsay Shonteff, 70, British horror film director of the 1960s. *

Charles M. Tanner, age?, founder of Covenant Players, declining health following massive stroke. *

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Péter Halász, 62, Hungarian actor and director, liver cancer *

Craig Huebing, 77, American actor (General Hospital) *

Mary MacIsaac, 112, Saskatchewan's oldest person.

Alberto Migré, 74, Argentine TV screenwriter and producer, heart attack. *

Hans Oberndorfer, 80, German astronomer and author, cancer.

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Dominic Baranello, 83, Democratic leader in New York State. *

Hanka Bielicka, 90, Polish singer and actress.

Dennis Brookes, 90, English cricketer. *

Péter Halász, 62, Hungarian theatre director, actor, and writer, liver cancer. * *

Doug Hamilton, 43, general manager for the Los Angeles Galaxy soccer team, heart attack aboard aircraft. *

Colin Ingleby-Mackenzie, 72, English cricketer and insurance executive, brain tumor. *

Anna Moffo, 73 or 75, American singer and operatic soprano, stroke following decade long battle with breast cancer *

Nena O'Neill, 82, American writer, co-author of Open Marriage: A New Life Style for Couples (1972) *

John Profumo, 91, British politician, complications following a stroke. *

Harry Seidler, 82, leading Australian architect of the Modernism movement. *

John Wilde, 86, American surrealist painter *

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Sir Brian Barratt-Boyes, 82, pioneering New Zealand cardiologist, complications during heart valve replacement. *

Dr. Lawrence Brass, 49, Yale University neurologist *

Joseph Burchenal, 93, American oncologist, worked on leukemia treatments *

Teresa Ciepły, 69, Polish athlete, 1964 Olympic track champion.

Giordano Cottur, 91, Italian Giro d'Italia-Champion. *, *, *

John T. Kramer, 68, American legal scholar. *

George Sassoon, 69, scientist. author and radio amateur, cancer. *

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Howard Jackson, 54, American martial artist. *

John Junkin, 76, British actor, lung cancer. *

Norman Leonard, 92, American lawyer for left-wing causes *

Ludwik Margules, 72, Mexican theatre director, cancer. *

John Joseph McFall, 88, former Democratic United States Representative from California (1956 — 1978). *

Gordon Parks, 93, photographer, film director (Shaft), cancer. *

Jesse "Guitar" Taylor, 55, blues guitarist. *

Ali Farka Touré, 66, Malian musician, cancer. *

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Anne Braden, 81, American civil rights activist. *

Lily Dumont, 94, Classical concert pianist *

King Floyd, 61, American Soul singer. *

Mubdar Hatim al-Dulaimi, 55, Major General in the Iraqi Army, shot by a sniper. *

Margaret Muse, 91, American stage and film actress. *

Mortimo Planno, 85, Rastafarian philosopher. *

Kirby Puckett, 45, Hall of Fame MLB player for the Minnesota Twins, stroke complications. *

Dana Reeve, 45, activist, widow of Christopher Reeve, lung cancer. *

Hans-Dieter Söling, 76, German biochemist. *

Simon Ungers, 49, New York-based German architect and artist. *

Ruth Weiss, 97, (also: Wèi Lùshī 魏璐诗) Austrian-Chinese journalist and member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. *

Abou Yacoubou, 54, Director of Political Affairs of the Economic Community of West African States. *

Francis Zimbeaux, 93, French-born American landscape artist. *

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Milan Babić, 50, former leader of the Republic of Serbian Krajina who pleaded guilty to war crimes, suicide. *

Reba Hancock, 72, sister of Johnny Cash. *

Richard Kuklinski, 70, American mafia hitman, natural causes. *

Josh Rehm, 27, American Grand-Am racing driver, car accident. *

John Sandusky, 80, former NFL player and assistant coach, complications from internal bleeding. *

Rodney Strong, 78, American ballet dancer and vintner. *

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Caleb Foote, 88, Boalt School of Law Professor, pacifist activist *

John Reynolds Gardiner, 61, American children's author, pancreatitis *

Roman Ogaza, 54, Polish football player. *

David Rose, 95, American courtroom artist. *

Edgar Valter, 76, Estonian children's book illustrator and cartoonist. *

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Ivor Cutler, 83, humorist, author, singer, and poet. *

William Herskovic, 91, escapee from Auschwitz during World War Two, cancer. *

Charlie Hodge, 71, guitarist and backup singer for Elvis Presley and Graceland resident, lung cancer. *

Lily Lambert McCarthy, 91, an American millionairess and collector of Nelsonia, decorated by the British for her war work, and also a generous benefactress of museums and libraries in England and the United States. * *

Richard VanderVeen, 83, former Democratic United States Representative from Michigan (1973 — 1977), prostate cancer. *

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Madeleine Cosman, 68, American scholar of medieval Europe *

Robert Dryfoos, 63, former New York City Councilman. *

Leopold Gratz, 75, Austrian politician, former Mayor of Vienna. *

Bill Hays, 67, British director of stage and television. *

Valter Heuer, 77, Estonian chess champion and chess historian. *

Marion Higgins, 112, California's oldest person. *

Phyllis Huffman, 61, award-winning casting director. *

Willie Kent, 70, blues bassist, cancer. *

Tommaso Onofri, 1, kidnapped toddler, murdered *.

Harold Ostroff, 82, builder of nonprofit cooperative housing complexes in New York City. *

Sylvia Schofield, 89, British newspaper columnist, novelist, WWII spy

Garrett Scott, 37, American documentary filmmaker (Occupation: Dreamland), cardiac arrest. * *

Peter Snow, ?, New Zealand doctor who discovered "Tapanui flu" (chronic fatigue syndrome). *

Rachel Mellon Walton, 107, American philanthropist. *

Jack Wild, 53, British actor (Oliver!, H.R. Pufnstuf), oral cancer. *

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Annette von Aretin, 85, German TV personality.

Joëlle Aubron, 46, French member of Action Directe, lung cancer. *

Harry Browne, 72, American libertarian writer and presidential candidate for the United States Libertarian Party, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. *

Mack Easley, 89, former Democratic lieutenant governor of New Mexico (1963 — 1966). *

Alexander Fol, 72, Bulgarian historian of ancient Greece, former Minister of Education. *

Joseph H. Gardner, 78, American real estate developer. *

O. Milton Gossett, 80, American advertising executive, former CEO Saatchi & Saatchi Compton Worldwide *

Edith "Judy" Ingamells, 112, oldest British person. *

Johnny Jackson, 54, former drummer for The Jackson 5, stabbing. *

Anna De Lisle Wells, 23, top amateur jockey, suicide by hanging. *

Peter Osgood, 59, former English footballer, heart attack. *

John Parkinson, 99, President of Belfast Titanic Society, former Harland and Wolff shipyard worker, witnessed departure of the RMS Titanic as a child. *

Pierre Pasquini, 85, former French Minister of Veterans and War Victims. *

Jan Raniecki, 70, chairman of Polonia Warszawa. *

Gilbert Steiner, 81, Brookings Institute scholar. *

Jenny Tamburi, 53, Italian actress 1970s B-movies and casting director TV-series. *