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Ali Jaafar Ali, Iraqi sports anchorman, shot dead by unknown gunmen in Baghdad. *

Ryan Bennett, 35, former UFC announcer and founder of MMAweekly, died in a car crash. *

Ronald Cranford, 65, neurologist and bioethicist who developed coma standards, complications of kidney cancer. *

Raymond Davis Jr., 91, American chemist and a winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002, Alzheimer's disease. * *

Bobby Dykes, 77, veteran of 146 boxing matches who fought Kid Gavilan for the welterweight championship, Lou Gehrig's disease. *

Lula Mae Hardaway, 76, mother of singer Stevie Wonder. *

Flora Gill Jacobs, 87, American founder of the Dolls' House and Toy Museum in Washington D.C. *

Ken McIntyre, 63, college basketball player for St. John's, MVP of the 1965 National Invitation Tournament. * *

Matteo Spinola, 76, Italian actor and press-agent cinema and television actress (Sophia Loren, Serena Grandi) from 1960s with Enrico Lucherini, cancer *

Miguel Berrocal, 73, Spanish sculptor and puzzle creator; prostate cancer. *

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Slim Aarons, 89, American photographer, complications of a heart attack and stroke. * *

Hladnik Boštjan, 77, Slovenian film director. *

Bobby Harden, 70, country singer

Shohei Imamura, 79, Japanese film director (Black Rain), two-time winner of the Palme d'Or. Liver cancer. * *

Bill Kovacs, 56, computer animation pioneer and Academy Award winner, complications of a stroke. *

David Lloyd, 68, New Zealand botanist, complications from mystery illness, possibly poison. *

Taylor Major, Liberian Senator and Chair of the Public Utilities Authority. *

Trobec Metod, Slovenian serial killer, responsible for deaths of several women. Committed suicide in jail.*

Hugh B. Patterson Jr., 91, publisher of the Arkansas Gazette. *

Robert Sterling, 88, star of 1950s television show Topper, natural causes. *

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Neville Amadio, 93, flautist and soloist for Sydney Symphony Orchestra for 50 years. Series of small heart attacks.*

Peter Borsari, 67, celebrity photographer, complications from elective knee surgery. *

Dave Brady (real name Dave Bradley, British folk singer with Swan Arcade, chest infection. *

James Brolan, 42, CBS News sound technician, injuries sustained in car bombing in Iraq. *

Paul Douglas, 48, veteran CBS News cameraman, injuries sustained in car bombing in Iraq. *

Steve Mizerak, 61, champion billiards player *

Omeljan Pritsak, 87, Harvard professor, scholar and authority on Ukraine

Johnny Servoz-Gavin, 64, French racing driver.*

Spencer Witty, 92, American clothier, one of the four Witty Brothers. *

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Edward Aldwell, 68, music theorist and pianist specializing in Bach, automotive accident. *

James Archibald, 94, Maine judge for 50 years including service on the Maine Judicial Supreme Court between 1971 and his retirement in 1981. *

Fermín Chávez, 82, Argentine historian, complications from renal failure. *, *, *, *

James Conway Sr., 78, American entrepreneur, co-founder of Mister Softee. *

Sue Fear, 43, Australian mountaineer, climbing accident. *

Umberto Masetti, 80, motorcycle racer, the first Italian World Champion class 500cc in 1950 and 1952, pulmonary strokes *

Masumi Okada, 70, Japanese actor, played Brother Michael in Shogun, throat cancer. *

Tony Sardisco, 73, American footballer, former captain of the Boston Patriots, heart attack. *

Doris Saunders, 64, first editor of Them Days magazine and inducted into the Order of Canada for her role in preserving Labrador's history. Alzheimer's disease. *

Jack Skead, 94, South African ornithologist and natural historian. *

Arthur Widmer, 92, motion picture special effects pioneer, winner of an Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement, cancer. * *

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Adeeb, 72, Pakistani actor *

Harold Falls, 96, American ophthalmologist. *

Stephen Garner, 60,Chief Executive and President of Tompkins Trust Co. *

Paul Gleason, 67, American actor, mesothelioma. *

Craig "Ironhead" Heyward, 39, NFL fullback, complications from a brain tumor. *

Leslie Hansen Kopp, 53, American dance and music archivist. *

General Romeo Lucas García, 81, former President of Guatemala. Complications of Alzheimer's disease. *

Thelma Leeds, 95, American actress, widow of Parkyakarkus

James McClatchy, 85, Board Member of The McClatchy Company, infection after surgery. *

Walter Meyerhof, 84, former head of Stanford University's physics department and son of Nobel Prize-winner Otto Meyerhof, complications of Parkinson's disease. *

Michael Riffaterre, 81, French-born professor at Columbia University and scholar of French literature. *

Alex Toth, 77, American comic book artist and cartoonist (Space Ghost, Jonny Quest). *

Bull Ramos, Northwest US wrestler, shoulder infection *

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Tamsin Causer, 32, British sky diver, quadruple world record holder, sky diving accident. *

George Field, 101, American human rights activist, co-founder of Freedom House. *

Horondino José da Silva, also known as "Dino Sete Cordas", 88, Brazilian virtuouso of the seven-string guitar. *

General Johann-Adolf Graf von Kielmansegg, 99, German military officer *

Alan Kotok, 64, American early video game designer (Spacewar!), engineer for Digital Equipment. *

Mahmoud al-Majzoub, also known as Abu Hamza, Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader, assassination by bombing. *

Vincent McAllister, 51, guitarist of Pentagram, 1971-1977. * *

Edouard Michelin, 42, CEO of Michelin, boating accident off the Île de Sein. * *

Kevin O'Flanagan, 86, Irish former association football and rugby union international, and IOC member, heart problems. *

Anita Roberts, 64, American molecular biologist at the National Cancer Institute. *

Ted Schroeder, 84, American tennis player, winner at Wimbledon (1949) and the U.S. Open (1942), cancer. *

Raymond Triboulet, 99, member of the French Resistance during World War II, member of the French Parliament and government minister. * *

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Joe Brodsky, 71, former Dallas Cowboys NFL assistant coach, cancer. *

Sir Julian Bullard, 78, British diplomat *

Art Espenet Carpenter, 86, master wood craftsman known for his Espenet pieces displayed at the Smithsonian Institution, heart attack. *

Elizabeth Connelly, 77, former member of the New York State Assembly representing Staten Island. *

Desmond Dekker, 64, Jamaican ska musician, heart attack. ***

Lars Gyllensten, 84, Swedish author, physician, and member of the Swedish Academy. *

Wilber Huston, 93, American scientist and retired NASA mission director. *

Anthony Li Du'an, 79, Catholic archbishop of Xi'an, liver cancer. *

Aída Luz, 89, Argentinian film actress (sister of actor Jorge Luz), natural causes *

Donald Rudolph, 85, US Army soldier awarded the Medal of Honor during World War II, Alzheimer's disease. * *

Kemoko Sano, mid 70s, Guinean choreographer and founder of Les Merveilles de Guinée. *

Mari Yonehara, 56, Japanese essayist, ovarian cancer. *

Tobías Lasser, 95, Venezuelan botanist, founder of the Botanic Garden of Caracas, natural causes *.

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Edgar Beckham, 72, former Connecticut Board of Education chairman and first Black Dean at Wesleyan University, complications of a stroke. *

Eric Bedser, 87, cricketer for Surrey, and elder twin brother of Sir Alec Bedser. *

Henry Bumstead, 91, Academy Awards-winning art director (To Kill a Mockingbird, The Sting), prostate cancer. * * *

Robert Giaimo, 86, Congressman for Connecticut 3rd District 1959-1981, lung ailments. *

Nabil Hodhod, Palestinian security chief, killed by car bomb. *

Dick Johnson, 69, veteran Maine radio broadcaster and news reporter, complications of a heart attack. *

Salem Kadih, 22, member of the Palestinian governing group Hamas, shot by masked gunmen. *

Fritz Klein, 73, Austrain-born psychiatrist, sex researcher and bisexual activist. * *

Anderson Mazoka, 63, chief opposition leader in Zambia. *

Bernard Ostry, 78, Canadian civil servant and philanthropist, cancer. *

Leo Pescarolo, 70, Italian film producer

Claude Piéplu, 83. French actor *

John Wheeldon, 76, former Australian Labor Party Senator and minister in the Whitlam government. *

Bob Yuma, 55, southwestern US wrestler. *

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Philippe Amaury, 66, French media owner

Clifford Antone, 56, Austin blues club owner, heart attack. * *

Lloyd Bentsen, 85, American Vice-Presidential candidate, Senator, and Treasury Secretary under Clinton. *

Salvatore Billa, 63, Italian actor. *

James Carey, 71, American professor of journalism at Columbia University, author. * *

Ian Copeland, 57, American music promoter and agent, older brother of Stewart Copeland of The Police, melanoma. * *

Bracha Eden, 78, Israeli pianist, brain hemorrhage *

Ángel Fernández, 80, Mexican sports broadcaster, renal failure. *

Lucina Paquet Gabbard, 84, American English professor, movie actress and author, lung cancer. *

Kazimierz Górski, 85, former coach of Poland national football team, cancer. *

Ruben Mettler, 82, American former CEO of TRW. *

John Nevin, 79, former CEO of Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, heart attack. * *

Mary Margaret Smith, 112, Ohio's oldest person *

Jim Trimble, 87, Philadelphia Eagles coach 1952-55, emphysema. *

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Tony Campbell, 58, Australian race caller and sports broadcaster, cancer. *

Spencer Clark, 19, NASCAR Busch Series driver, road accident. *

Heather Crowe, 61, Canadian anti-smoking activist, lung cancer. *

Hamza El Din, 76, Nubian oud player. * * *

Jack Fallon, 90, jazz double bassist *

Lee Jong-wook, 61, Director-General of the World Health Organization, brain thrombus *

Lilia Prado, 78, Mexican actress, multiple organ failure. *

Philip Thorn, English researcher and statistician. *

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Onwin Borde, 51, percussionist. *

Lewis Davis, 80, American architect, co-founder of Davis Brody Bond. *

Katherine Dunham, 96, American dancer and choreographer. *

Hans Fantel, 84, Austrian-born writer, home electronics columnist for the New York Times. *

Richard McIlkenny, 73, member of the Birmingham Six, cancer. *

Dr. Eduardo Bernabé Ordaz Ducungé, 84, Cuban doctor, participant in the 26th of July Movement, and member of Cuban National Assembly (1976-2003), kidney failure. * *

Sherman Skolnick, 75, Illinois anti-corruption activist, heart attack. *

Billy Walker, 77, American country music performer and member of the Grand Ole Opry, traffic accident *

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Cecil Dowell, 45, University of Mississippi basketball player 1980-1984 and Assistant Coach at Mississippi Valley State University, car accident. *

Anthony Goodman, 74, Reuters United Nations correspondent for 20 years between 1980 and 2000, cancer and lung disease. *

JoAnna Lund, 61, cookbook author, cancer.*

Les Olive, 78, Assistant Secretary of Manchester United at time of Munich air disaster *

P T R Palanivelrajan, 74, Minister in the Tamil Nadu Government and former speaker of the Assembly, heart attack. *

Rt. Rev. Andy Radford, 62, Bishop of Taunton, brain tumour, *

Pat Seremet, 58, columnist for the Hartford Courant, brain aneurysm. *

Cherd Songsri, 75, legendary Thai film director, cancer *

Annis Stukus, 91, member of Canada's Sports Hall of Fame for his contributions to the Canadian Football League and ice hockey. *

Sanaa Younes, 60, Egyptian actress, lung cancer *

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Yitzhak Ben Aharon, 99, founder of the Israeli Labor Party. * *

Marji Bank, 82, American stage actress, complications from an illness *

Edward Roy Becker, 73, former chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. *

Peter Bryant, 82, British television producer. *

Alexandrina van Donkelaar-Vink, 111, oldest Dutch citizen *

Freddie Garrity, 65, singer of the 1960s pop band Freddie and the Dreamers, heart problems *

Robert Heinecken, 74, American artist and photographer. *

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James Andrew "Andy" Capps, 37, former drummer of Built to Spill. *

Jaan Eilart, 73, Estonian biogeographer. *

Morris Glushien, 96, American lawyer, general counsel for the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, argued the US Supreme Court case Staub v. the City of Baxley, Georgia. *

Hans Horrevoets, 32, Dutch sailor, swept overboard while competing in Volvo Ocean Race. *

Alex Leibkind, 53, German Olympic judoka and general manager of the Rhein Fire, heart attack. *

Andrew Martinez, 33, the "Naked Guy" at the University of California, Berkeley, apparent suicide. *

Vitor Negrete, 38, prominent Brazilian mountaineer, died after reaching the peak of Mount Everest without supplementary oxygen. *

Deane Oliver, 71, led Rutgers University to 14 Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association championships. *

Michael O'Riordan, 88, chairman of the Communist Party of Ireland and International Brigades veteran. *

Kiyan Prince, 15, youth team player with English football team Queens Park Rangers, stabbed to death. *

Kenneth Scott, 70, singer-songwriter elected to the Rockabilly Hall of Fame with The Strikes, complications from a stroke. *

Gilbert Sorrentino, 77, American novelist. *

George Sterling, 69, former member of the West Indies Cricket Board. *

Takahiro Tamura, 77, Japanese actor (Tora! Tora! Tora!). *

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Eva-Maria Bauer, 82, German actress. *

Cy Feuer, 95, American Broadway producer and writer (Guys and Dolls). * *

Dr Stephen Fleet, 69, Former Registrary, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Master of Downing College, Cambridge. *

Eric Forth, 61, British Conservative Member of Parliament and former government minister, bone cancer. *

Captain Nichola Goddard, 26, Canadian Forces, first female Canadian soldier since WW II to be killed in combat. *

Dan Q. Kennis, 86, American B movie producer. *

John Marsden, 64, Australian lawyer and civil liberties activist, cancer. *

Elaine Minacs, 61, founder and executive chairman of Minacs Worldwide business services firm. **

Daniel Owino Misiani, 66, Benga musician from Kenya, car accident *

Mieczysław Nowak, 69, Polish weightlifter, 1964 Olympic medalist *

Mustafa Yucel Ozbilgin, 63 prominent Turkish judge sitting in Turkey's highest court, shot dead. *

Lawrence "Ramrod" Shurtliff, 61, longtime crew member for the Grateful Dead, lung cancer. *

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Clare Boylan, 58, Irish author of 12 books including 7 novels, ovarian cancer. *

Frederick Ted Castle, 67, American novelist and art critic. *

Klaus Dahlen, 68, German actor *

Martin Dardis, 83, investigator who linked the Watergate burglars to the Committee to Re-elect the President, vascular condition. *

Herbert Doan, 83, former CEO and president of Dow Chemical (1962-1971). * *

Davie Morrison, 92, veteran Scottish athlete. *

Jorge Porcel, 69, Argentine actor and comedian, following gall bladder surgery. * *

Dan Ross, 49, former NFL football player (Cincinnati Bengals), suspected heart attack *

Takahiro Tamura, 77, Japanese movie and television actor, cerebral infarction * *

Prince Gideon Zulu, 72, member of Zulu royal family, South African politician, minister in Kwazulu-Natal legislature. *

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Joyce Ballantyne, 88, artist best known for creating the "Coppertone Girl" ad, heart attack. * *

George Blackburn, 93, head football coach at University of Virginia (1965-70). *

George Crile III, 61, CBS News producer, pancreatic cancer. * * *

Eberhard Esche, 73, German actor. *

Chic Hecht, 77, former Republican Senator for Nevada, prostate cancer. * *

Judith Moore, 66, American author (Fat Girl: a True Story). *

Abdullah Nur, 77, Saudi Arabian journalist and writer *

Cheikha Rimitti, 83, Algerian singer, heart attack. *

Bill Strode, 69, Pulitzer Prize winning photographer, cancer. *

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Lew Anderson, 84, American bandleader, played Clarabell the Clown on The Howdy Doody Show, prostate cancer. * *

James Botten, 67, South African international test cricketer, complications after colon operations. *

Steve Cooper, 47, rock singer for Juggernaut and S.A. Slayer *

Charles Gardner, former head of Royal Crown Cola, complications of diabetes

William Ginsberg, 75, American professor of environmental law at Hofstra University and former New York City commissioner of parks and recreation. *

Reza Hassanzadeh, 33, Iranian professional soccer player with Tractor Sazi, injuries from car accident. *

Robert Keith-Reid, 64, Fijian publisher, complications of heart bypass operation. *

Stanley Kunitz, 100, American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former US poet laureate. * *

Jim Lemon, 78, Major League Baseball player, cancer. * *

Paul Marco, approximately 81, American actor (Plan 9 from Outer Space) * *

Giancarlo Matteotti, member of Italy's Constituent Assembly and Undersecretary for the Budget. *

Bruce Merrifield, 84, Nobel Prize-winning chemist * *

Günther Nenning, 84, Austrian journalist, author and political activist *

Eva Norvind, New York City based dominatrix and former Mexican actress, drowning accident *

Mary Ritts, 95, founder of the Ritts Family puppet act, Canberra entertainment, natural causes. *

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Peter Anthony, Canadian comedian.

Helga Aumere, 83, Estonian musicologist. *

Dr. Carolyn Shaw Bell, 85, American economist at Wellesley College. *

Joan Diener, 76, American actress/soprano (Man of La Mancha), complications of cancer. *

Rick Farley, 53, Australian National Farmers' Federation Chief Executive for eight years. *

Ryan Francis, 19, freshman point guard for the USC basketball team, homicide. *

Katherine McCarron, 3, autistic child

Jaroslav Pelikan, 82, American historian of Christianity, winner of the Kluge Prize in the Human Sciences, lung cancer. * * *

Grand Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Rosenbaum, 86, Grand Rabbi of Kretschnif-Siget Hassidic Jewish sect in Jerusalem, a scion of the Nadvorna dynasty. *

Östen Sjöstrand, 80, Swedish poet, translator and member of the Swedish Academy. **

Peter Viereck, 89, American historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet. *

Johnnie Wilder, Jr., 56, R&B musician, founder of Heatwave ("Boogie Nights", "Always and Forever") *

Jere Witter, 79, Southern California TV news reporter, complications of cancer. *

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Ted Berkman, 92, author, scriptwriter (Bedtime for Bonzo). *

Richard Brickner, 72, American author. *

Mony Dalmès, 91, French actress, *

Hussein Maziq, 88, former prime minister & foreign minister of Libya *

Gillespie V. "Sonny" Montgomery, 85, former U.S. representative from Mississippi *

Breandán Ó Dúill, 70, Irish actor and broadcaster. *

Arthur Porges, 90, science fiction and fantasy writer.

Gustav Trampe, 74, German TV journalist. *

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Yossi Banai, 74, Israeli singer and actor *

Bob Duff, 80, played 11 rugby tests for the All Blacks including being captain for two tests against the Springboks in 1956. *

Melvin Lebetkin, 77, American lawyer convicted in the New York City Parking Violations Bureau scandal of the 1980s. *

Byron Morrow, 95, American tv and film character actor. *

Michael O'Leary, 70, former leader of the Irish Labour Party, drowned in a swimming pool. *

Floyd Patterson, 71, former boxing heavyweight champion, Alzheimer's disease and prostate cancer *

Ferdinando Tacconi, 83, Italian comics artist. *

Michael Taliferro, 45, actor and American football player, stroke. *

Frankie Thomas, 85, American actor (Tom Corbett, Space Cadet), stroke. * *

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Val Guest, 94, British film writer and director (The Quatermass Experiment, Casino Royale) *

John Hicks, 64, American jazz pianist/composer. *

James Keogh, 89, former executive editor of Time and speechwriter for US President Richard Nixon. *

Georgy Korniyenko, 81, Russian diplomat and deputy to Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. *

Angel Lopez, 44, Puerto Rican, designed Deborah Carthy-Deu's dress when she won the Miss Universe contest, heart attack.*

Juan Mendez, 41, Puerto Rican writer, complications due to AIDS (heart attack) *

A.M. Rosenthal, 84, Executive Editor of the New York Times for 17 years, stroke. *

Sue Smith, 60s, first woman to host a current affairs program in Australia, mitochondrial myopathy. *

Soraya, 37, Colombian-American songwriter, guitarist, arranger, record producer, and singer, breast cancer. *

Volkmar Kurt Wentzel, 91, noted National Geographic photographer and archivist, heart attack. *

Aleksandr Zinovyev, 83, Russian logician, sociologist and writer, brain cancer. *

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Frank Boos, 70, appraiser on the Public Broadcasting Service version of Antiques Roadshow, complications of vascular disease. *

Corey Engen, 90, Captain of the U.S. Nordic skiing team at the 1948 Winter Olympics, complications of pneumonia. *

Jerzy Ficowski, 81, Polish poet, writer and translator.*

Pietro Garinei, 87, Italian playwright and lyricist of "Arrivederci Roma" and other songs. *

Ruth Gay, 86, American author of books on Jewish life. *

Edouard Jaguer, French poet and art critic. *

Harold Robinson, first black scholarship American football player for the Kansas State Wildcats and in the Big Seven. *

Bob Rogers, former Texas A&M basketball coach. *

Robert Schwartz, 88, American stockbroker and founder of Economists for Peace and Security. *

Tony Ward, 82, Australian actor and journalist, cancer. *

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Philip Barberio, 60, visual effects veteran, multiple myeloma *

Scott Geoffrion, 40, Former NHRA ProStock World Championship runner-up, apparent heart attack. *

Lovana Jones, 68, Assistant Majority Leader in the Illinois House of Representatives, represented the 26th District since 1987, undisclosed causes. *

John Kimbrough, 87, College Hall of Fame American football player with Texas A&M and state legislator, pneumonia. *

George Lutz, 59, owner of the Amityville Horror house. * *

Pualani Mossman, 89, expert Hawaiian hula dancer and poster girl, natural causes *

Pule Patrick "Ace" Ntsoelengoe, 50, South African soccer player with the Minnesota Kicks and Kaizer Chiefs, unknown causes. *

Barbara Schwartz, 58, American painter. *

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Steve Bender, 64, record producer and member of Dschinghis Khan.

Richard Carleton, 62, Australian television journalist (60 Minutes), heart attack. * *

Joan C. Edwards, 87, American philanthropist, liver cancer. *

Lawrence Lader, 86, American author and abortion rights activist. *

Stella Sigcau, 69, South African Public Works Minister, heart-related problems. *

Jocelyn Simon, Baron Simon of Glaisdale, 95, United Kingdom minister and Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. *

Machiko Soga, 68, Japanese seiyū and actress and tokusatsu legend (Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger, Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, etc), pancreatic cancer*

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Joe Amsler, 65, kidnapper of Frank Sinatra, Jr. in 1963, liver failure. *

Lillian Asplund, 99, last American survivor of the Titanic sinking, died in sleep. *

Konstantin Beskov, 85, Soviet/Russian footballer and manager. *

Wing Commander John Coxen, 46, Royal Air Force, most senior British Officer killed in Iraq to date *

Shigeru Kayano, 79, Japanese Ainu activist *

Chen Li, 77, former editor of the China Daily *

Dick Magoffin, 69, Australian folklorist known for his research on "Waltzing Matilda", cancer. *

Steven Marshall, 58, American sound engineer and musician, inventor of the Marshall Time Modulator and revectorization. *

Grant McLennan, 48, lead singer of The Go-Betweens, suspected heart attack. *

Flt Lt Sarah Mulvihill, 32, first British servicewoman to be killed in action in Iraq. *

Erdal Oz, 71, Turkish publisher. *

František Peřina, 95, Czechoslovak fighter pilot who served in the British Royal Air Force during WWII. *

Herbert Raditschnig, 71, German cameraman and film documentarian *

Pattabhi Rama Reddy, 87, legendary Indian moviemaker, complications from a prolonged illness * *

Lorne Saxberg, 48, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) broadcaster. *

Sister Rose Thering, 85, Roman Catholic nun and professor at Seton Hall University. *

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Naushad Ali, 86, Indian musician. *

Larry Attebery, 73, Los Angeles television news broadcaster, pancreatic cancer *

George Frem, 72, former Lebanese cabinet minister, philanthropist, industrialist*

George Roche III, 70, former President of Hillsdale College, probable heart attack. *

Atif Yilmaz, 80, Turkish film director, screenwriter and producer, cancer * *

Joyce Nsubuga, 59, Ugandan doctor. *

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Alejandra Boero, 88, Argentine theater actress, director and teacher, pulmonary hypertension. *, *

Jim Delsing, 80, American Major League Baseball player. *

Luba Kadison, 99, Lithuanian-born actress in Yiddish theater. *

Hossein Kasbian, 73, Iranian film actor. *

Jack Perlmutter, 86, American artist. *

Paul Wadham, 63, Australian rules footballer

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Karel Appel, 85, Dutch COBRA painter. *

Rosita Fernandez, 88, Texan singer, member of the Tejano Music Hall of Fame. *

Lars-Erik Jonsson, 46, Swedish opera tenor *

Pramod Mahajan, 56, general secretary of India's Bharatiya Janata Party, gunshot wounds. *

Howard Thomas Markey, 85, American federal judge and U.S. Air Force major general, first chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. *

Earl Woods, 74, father and former coach of U.S. golfer Tiger Woods, prostate cancer *

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Joseph Lewis Clark, 57, convicted American murderer, executed in Ohio. * *

Luigi Griffanti, 89, Italian footballer, goalkeeper of ACF Fiorentina in the 1940s *

Rt. Rev. John Khoury, 76, Archpriest of the Antiochian Orthodox Church, heart attack.

Sam Mokuahi, Jr., also known as Sammy Steamboat, 71, legendary Hawaiian professional wrestler, complications from Alzheimer's disease *

Louis Rukeyser, 73, business and economics expert, multiple myeloma. *

Juan Ramón Salgado, 45, Honduran congressional deputy, gunshot wounds. *

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Jay Presson Allen, 84, American screenwriter, stroke. *

Ed Casey, 73, former Queensland Labor Party leader. *

George F. Haines, 82, American Olympic swimming coach, complications from a stroke *

John Edward Hawkins, known as Big Hawk, 36, Houston-based rapper, shot to death. *

Joseph S. Iseman, 89, lawyer, educator and former president of Bennington College, cardiac arrest *

Betsy Jones-Moreland, 76, film and television actress, cancer.

Rob Lacey, 43, stage actor and award-winning Christian author, bladder cancer *

Rauno Lehtinen, 74, Finnish composer *

Johnny Paris, 65, American saxophonist (Johnny & the Hurricanes) *

Bruce Peterson, 72, American test pilot and engineer, known for surviving the crash of the M2-F2 and inspiring the TV-series The Six Million Dollar Man. *

Raúl Francisco Cardinal Primatesta, 87, retired Archbishop of Córdoba, Argentina *