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P. W. Botha, 90, South African politician, Prime Minister (1978–1984), State President (1984–1989), heart attack. *

Shane Drury, 27, American professional bull rider in the PRCA, Ewing's sarcoma. *

William Franklyn, 81, English actor, prostate cancer. *

Peter Fryer, 79, English journalist who told uncomfortable truths in the Hungarian Revolution. *

Michael Genovese, 87, American alleged Mafia boss of Pittsburgh. *

Mabel Grosvenor, 101, Canadian physician and granddaughter of Alexander Graham Bell. *

Aud Schønemann, 83, Norwegian actress best known for comedy roles. * (Norwegian)

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Clifford Geertz, 80, American cultural anthropologist, complications following heart surgery. *

Jens Christian Hauge, 91, Norwegian WWII resistance leader, and first postwar defence minister, natural causes. *

Stephen Kaye, 75, American lawyer and author, cancer. *

Cesar Nazareno, 65, Filipino former head of the Philippine National Police, aneurysm. *

Ian Rilen, 58, Australian bass player (Rose Tattoo), bladder cancer. *

Mose Tolliver, 82, Alabaman folk artist, pneumonia.*

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Nigel Kneale, 84, English scriptwriter (The Quatermass Experiment), natural causes. *

Mohammadu Maccido, 78, Sultan of Sokoto, spiritual leader of Nigeria's Muslims, aeroplane crash. *

Silas Simmons, 111, American Negro league baseball player, oldest known professional baseball player in history. * *

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Robert Anderson, 85, American president and chairman of Rockwell International Corporation. *

Red Auerbach, 89, American coach of the Boston Celtics (1950–1966), heart attack. *

Tina Aumont, 60, French actress, pulmonary embolism. * (Italian)

Trevor Berbick, 51, Jamaican former heavyweight boxing champion and last boxer to face Muhammad Ali, homicide. *

Henry Fok, 83, Hong Kong businessman, philanthropist, and CCPPC official, cancer. *

Richard Gilman, 83, American drama and literary critic, lung cancer. *

Peter Gingold, 90, German anti-fascist. * (German)

Jack McGinley, 85, American businessman, part owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers, cancer. *

Marijohn Wilkin, 86, American country songwriter, a member of the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, heart failure. *

György Bence, 65, Hungarian philosopher. * (Hungarian)

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Ephraim Chamba, 71, Zimbabwean broadcaster, car accident. *

József Gregor, 66, Hungarian opera singer (bass) and father of actress Bernadett Gregor. * *

Thomas Russell Jones, 93, African-American New York state assemblyman and judge. *

Ghulam Ishaq Khan, 91, Pakistani former President, pneumonia. *

Humphrey Khoza, 58, South African businessman who set up the country's national lottery, car crash. *

Marlin McKeever, 66, former American football player, head injuries from a fall. *

Joe Niekro, 61, American Major League Baseball pitcher, brain aneurysm. *

Muhammad Qasim, 32, goalkeeper for the Pakistani field hockey team, cancer. *

Bradley Roland Will, 36, American Indymedia reporter, shot dead whilst covering a Mexican teachers' strike. *

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Gary Coull, 52, Canadian journalist, and co-founder of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange brokerage CLSA, cancer. * *

Rogério Duprat, 74, Brazilian composer, cancer. * (Portuguese)

Hermilda Escobar, 89, Colombian mother of former head of the Medellín Cartel Pablo Escobar. *

Tillman Franks, 86, American bassist, songwriter and country music manager, natural causes.

Michel Habib-Deloncle, 84, French politician, former Secretary of State. *

Ralph R. Harding, 77, former Idaho congressman. *

Pontus Hultén, 82, Swedish art collector and pioneering museum director. * (Swedish)

Charlie Leigh, 60, American kick returner for unbeaten 1972 Miami Dolphins, lung cancer. *

Kojima Nobuo, 91, Japanese author, pneumonia. * (Japanese)

Theodore Taylor, 85, American writer best known for The Cay, heart attack. *

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Rogério Duprat, 74, Brazilian producer and arranger of Tropicália music. *

Gerrard Haworth, 95, founder of office furniture company Haworth. *

Bernice Kanner, 57, American advertising columnist and journalist, aneurysm. * *

Edward Kenney, Sr., 85, executive in the Boston Red Sox farm system from 1949-91, complications of diabetes.*

Kintaro Ohki, known professionally as Kim Il, 77, South Korean World Wrestling Association champion, heart attack. *

Daniel Rolling, 52, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection. *

Robert Rosenberg, 54, Israeli author, cancer. *

Gregory Summers, 48, convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.*

Tom Wagoner, 75, responsible for springing open the starting gates each year at the Kentucky Derby. *

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David Conn, 56, District Attorney in the Menendez Brothers trial, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. *

Ray Johnson, 72, former CFL and Western Mustangs player and coach. *

Sally Lilienthal, 87, American disarmament activist, founder of the Ploughshares Fund, pneumonia following a bone infection. * *

Jeffrey Lundgren, 56, American convicted murderer, executed in Ohio. *

Enolia McMillan, 102, American civil rights activist, first female president of the NAACP, natural causes. *

Benjamin Meed, 88, Polish-born president and co-founder of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors. *

Rafael Ramírez Heredia, 67, Mexican writer, lung cancer *

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Leonid Hambro, 86, American concert pianist. *

Charles Horton, 81, founder of Physicians for Peace, cancer. *

Bruno Lauzi, 69, Italian singer and composer, Parkinson's disease. * (Italian)

Lawrence W. Levine, 73, American cultural historian, cancer. *

Lebo Mathosa, 29, South African singer, car accident. *

Mary Murray, 81, Massachusetts Republican representative between 1976 and 2000, cancer. *

Jack E. Scholl, 80, former head of Dr. Scholl's and executive director of the Dr. Scholl Foundation. *

Todd Skinner, 48, pioneering free climber, climbing accident. * *

Rein Strikwerda, 76, Dutch doctor and knee injury specialist. *

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Nelson de la Rosa, 38, Dominican actor, "World's Shortest Man" in the 1989 Guinness Book of Records, Unknown Causes. * *

Lucho DeCastro, Touring car driver, air crash. *

Masayuki Fujio, 89, former Japanese Minister of Education. *

Choe Gyuha, 87, former South Korean president. *

Arthur Hill, 84, Canadian Tony Award-winning actor (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?). * *

Mancs, 12, Hungarian rescue dog with the Spider Special Rescue Team of Miskolc, pneumonia *

William Marquard, 86, former CEO of American Standard Companies. *

Michael Mayne, 77, English clergyman, Dean of Westminster Abbey (1986–1996). *

Eric Newby, 86, English travel writer. * *

Manoj Punj, 36 Indian director. *

Arnold Sundgaard, 96, American lyricist, librettist and playwright. *

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Peter Barkworth, 77, British actor, bronchopneumonia following a stroke. **

Paul Biegel, 81, Dutch writer of children's literature. * (Dutch)

Daryl Duke, 77, Canadian film director (The Thorn Birds), pulmonary fibrosis. *

Nersi Gorgia, 68, Iranian film actor. *

Bryan Hipp, Diabolic and Cradle of Filth guitarist, unknown *

Bob Mann, 82, American football player, one of the Detroit Lions' first black players. *

Arthur Peacocke, 81, English scientist and theologian. *

Erik Walker, 23, Tampa Bay Devil Rays minor league pitcher, drowning. *

Paul Walters, 59, BBC radio and TV producer. *

Sandy West, 47, drummer and vocalist with The Runaways, lung cancer. *

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Maxi Baier, 86, German figure skater, gold medal winner at the 1936 Winter Olympics. *

Don Burroughs, 75, American football player from 1955–1964, cancer. *

Takuya Fujioka (), 76, Japanese actor (Daikichi Okakura in the Japanese soap opera ). *

Princess Irene Galitzine, 90, Russian-born Italian fashion designer. * *

Ted Johnson, 72, founder and former president of the World of Outlaws, lung cancer. *

Dr. Lawrence Kolb, 95, American psychiatrist, leader in community mental health movement, natural causes. *

Mary Gay Taylor, 71, radio journalist for WCBS-AM. *

Jane Wyatt, 96, American actress (Father Knows Best), natural causes. *

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Ralph Harris, Baron Harris of High Cross, 81, British founder of the Institute of Economic Affairs, and life peer. *

Dr. Arthur Holleb, 85, American surgical oncologist and educator, chief medical officer of the American Cancer Society. *

Phyllis Kirk, 79, American actress (House of Wax, The Thin Man), post cerebral aneurysm. * *

Ernest Maftei, 86, Romanian actor, lung cancer. *

Srividya, 53, Indian actress, cancer. *

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Don R. Christensen, 90, American animator and cartoonist. *

Oberia Coffin, 122?, American woman who may have been world's oldest person. *

Marc Hodler, 87, Swiss president of the International Ski Federation from 1951–1998, IOC whistleblower, natural causes. *

Achille Millo, 84, Italian actor. * (Italian)

Lisa Norris, 16, Scottish teenage cancer patient and accidental overdose victim *

Mario Francesco Cardinal Pompedda, 77, Italian cardinal, Prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signature from 1999–2004. * * (German)

Anna Russell, 94, British/Canadian comedian and classical music satirist. * *

Spoony Singh, 83, Indian born founder of the Hollywood Wax Museum. * *

Alvin M. Weinberg, 91, American Manhattan Project scientist and former director of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. * *

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Daniel Emilfork, 82, French actor (The City of Lost Children). *

Miriam Engelberg, 48, American graphic author (Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person), metastatic breast cancer. *

Christopher Glenn, 68, American CBS News radio and television news anchor, liver cancer. * *

Ursula Moray Williams, 95, English children's author. *

Sandra Regina Arantes do Nascimento, 42, Brazilian politician, daughter of footballer Pelé, breast cancer. *

Lieuwe Steiger, 82, goalkeeper for PSV Eindhoven (1942–1957, 1959) and the Netherlands (1953–1954), natural causes. * (Dutch)

Marcia Tucker, 66, American curator, founder of the New Museum of Contemporary Art. *

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Niall Andrews, 69, Irish politician, Fianna Fáil TD for Dublin South (1977–1987), MEP for Leinster (1984–2004), lung cancer. *

Ross Davidson, 57, former EastEnders actor, brain tumor. *

Richard Duvall, 44, British co-founder of Egg Banking plc and Zopa, cancer. *

Martin Flannery, 88, British politician, Labour MP for Sheffield Hillsborough (1974–1992). *

Harold Gardner, 107, WWI veteran, served a single day prior to the November 11 armistice. *

Tommy Johnson, 71, session musician best known for his work on the Jaws theme, complications of cancer and kidney failure. *

Dr. John Murra, 90, Ukranian-born American anthropologist and Inca scholar. *

Valentín Paniagua, 70, former president of Peru, complications from heart surgery. *

Lister Sinclair, 85, Canadian playwright and broadcaster. *

Ernie Steele, 88, played in two NFL championship games for the Philadelphia Eagles. *

Sigmund Strochlitz, 89, Polish Holocaust survivor and co-founder of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. *

Trebisonda "Ondina" Valla, 90, first Italian female Olympic champion, 80m hurdles, 1936, natural causes. *

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Derek Bond, 86, British actor (Callan, Scott of the Antarctic). *

William Bright, 78, American linguist and author, recorder of indigenous North American languages. *

Michelle Urry, 66, Canadian cartoons editor for Playboy. *

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Marja Bakker, 59, Dutch-born organizer of the Boston Marathon, only female president of the Boston Athletic Association Running Club. *

James Barr, 82, Scottish Hebrew Bible scholar. *

Chun Wei Cheung, 34, Dutch rowing cox and silver medallist at the 2004 Summer Olympics, liver cancer. * * (Dutch)

Gino Empry, 83, Canadian entertainment publicist and promoter. *

Freddy Fender, 69, Mexican-American singer ("Before the Next Teardrop Falls"), lung cancer. *

Thomas Hlongwane, former South African football (soccer) player, cancer. *

Herbert Leonard, 84, American TV and movie producer (Route 66, Naked City, The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin). * * *

Soni Pabla, 26, Punjabi singer, collapsed on stage during concert of a suspected heart attack

Klaas Runia, 80, Dutch Reformed theologian. *

Gerry Studds, 69, first openly homosexual U.S. Congressman, Democratic Representative for Massachusetts (1973–1997), pulmonary embolism. **

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Bernard Allen, 69, North Carolina General Assembly member. *

Mason Andrews, 87, delivered first test tube baby in the United States; former mayor of Norfolk, Virginia. *

Deborah Blumer, 64, Massachusetts State Representative, heart attack. * *

Petra Cabot, 99, American designer, created the Skotch Kooler, natural causes. * *

Mayme Clayton, 83, black history archivist, pancreatic cancer. *

Pál Kállai, 73, Hungarian jockey. *

Dino Cardinal Monduzzi, 84, Italian cardinal, Prefect of the Pontifical Household from 1986–1998. *

Dr. S. Peter Rosen, 73, British-American physicist. *

Hilda Terry, 92, American cartoonist, creator of comic strip Teena. *

Wang Guangmei, 85, wife of late Chinese Communist leader Liu Shaoqi. *

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Todd Bolender, 92, American dancer and choreographer, director of the Kansas City Ballet. *

Johnny Callison, 67, American Major League Baseball player, three-time All-Star outfielder with the Phillies. * *

Samuel B. Casey, Jr., 78, American CEO of Pullman Inc.

Hermann Eilts, 84, German-born American diplomat and US ambassador to Saudi Arabia (1965-70). *

Dr. Saul Farber, 88, American dean of the New York University Medical School, complications from circulatory problems. *

Richard Hunter, 60, Ngarrindjeri elder and South Australian citizen of the year. *

Gillo Pontecorvo, 86, Italian film director (The Battle of Algiers). *

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Sir Victor Goodhew, 86, British politician, Conservative MP for St Albans (1959–1983). *

Klaus Hiendl, 62, German businessman, injuries from a car crash. *

Howard Kerzner, 42, South African resort developer, CEO of Kerzner International Ltd., helicopter crash. **

Cory Lidle, 34, American baseball pitcher with the New York Yankees, plane crash. * *

Benito Martínez, 126?, claimant to the title of world's oldest person. *

Sir Robert Megarry, 96, British Judge and Vice-Chancellor of the Supreme Court (1982–1985). *

Jimmy Peters, 84, Canadian ice hockey player, Stanley Cup winner with the Montreal Canadiens and the Detroit Red Wings. *

Eddie Pellagrini, 88, American baseball player and coach at Boston College. *

Sheikh Raad Mutar Saleh, Mandaean leader in Iraq, assassination.

Norman Salsitz, 86, Polish-born resistance fighter, Holocaust survivor, and author. *

Jacques Sternberg, 83, French science fiction and fantastique author, lung cancer. * (French)

John Turvey, 61, Canadian youth activist and Order of Canada recipient, mitochondrial myopathy. *

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Norsehah Abu Bakar, 44, Malaysian singer, lung cancer. *

Jerry Belson, 68, Emmy-winning American television comedy writer (The Tracey Ullman Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show), prostate cancer. * *

Francis Berry, 91, English poet and literary critic. *

Harold Farb, 83, developer who expanded Houston by more than 30,000 apartments over the course of his career, heart attack. *.

Josie Orr, 85, former first lady of Indiana as wife of Gov. Robert D. Orr. *

Robert Richenburg, 89, abstract expressionist painter. *

Ian Scott, 72, former Attorney-General of Ontario. *

Edgar Summerlin, 78, American tenor saxophonist and composer of jazz church music. *

Lalit Suri, 59, Indian hotelier and parliamentarian, heart attack. *

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Sedat Alp, 93, first archaeologist in Turkey to specialize in Hittitology. * (Turkish)

Haris Charalambous, 21, University of Toledo basketball player. *

Jacqueline-Charlotte Dufresnoy (known as Coccinelle), 75, French transsexual singer, stroke. * (French)

Reg Freeson, 80, British politician, Minister of State for Housing and Local Government (1974–1979). *

Jeff Getty, 49, AIDS activist and first recipient of a cross-species bone marrow transplant, heart failure. * *

Marek Grechuta, 60, Polish singer, composer and lyricist. * (Polish)

Danièle Huillet, 70, French filmmaker, cancer. *

Paul Hunter, 27, English snooker player, neuroendocrine tumours. *

Dr Nelson Leonard, 90, American bioorganic chemist and chloroquine researcher. *

Sheldon Meyer, 80, American historian and editor at Oxford University Press. *

Mario Moya Palencia, 73, Mexican politician and diplomat (Interior Minister, 1969–1976), heart attack. *

Glenn Myernick, 51, assistant coach of the United States men's national soccer team, heart attack. *

Raymond Noorda, 82, American computer executive, former CEO of Novell. *

Kanshi Ram, 72, Indian politician, heart attack. *

Morris Tarshis, 87, American lawyer, former director of the New York City Bureau of Franchises. *

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Eve Adamson, 68, American theater director, founder of the Jean Cocteau Repertory, daughter of lyricist Harold Adamson. *

Ira Harkey, 88, American newspaper editor, winner of the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing for anti-segregation editorials in the Chronicle Star. *

Pavol Hnilica, 85, Slovak Catholic bishop. * (Slovak)

Jack Kirkbride, 83, British cartoonist for the Oldham Chronicle and father of actress Anne Kirkbride. *

Yaakov Maltz, 83, former Supreme Court of Israel Justice and State Comptroller, heart attack. * (Hebrew)

Ivan Murrell, 63, Major League Baseball player for the Astros and Padres *

Mark Porter, 31, New Zealand racing driver, injuries received at the Mount Panorama Circuit. *

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Winifred Bennett, 71, American amateur historian, suggested DNA testing to establish a relationship between Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemmings. *

Charlie Bradberry, 24, NASCAR driver, non-racing automobile accident. *

Danifel Campilan, 25, Filipino news reporter with 24 Oras, road accident. *

Craig Dobbin, 71, Canadian founder of CHC Helicopter, after illness following lung transplant. *

Karen Fischer, 30, German journalist, shot dead in Afghanistan. *

Julen Goikoetxea, 21, Spanish cyclist, suicide. *

Joseph Lynch, 93, Royal Navy sailor who won the George Cross. *

Anna Politkovskaya, 48, Russian journalist, shot dead in Moscow. * *

Peter Rossi, 84, American sociologist who studied homelessness. *

Christian Struwe, 38, German journalist, shot dead in Afghanistan. *

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Puck Brouwer, 75, Dutch athlete, silver medalist in the 200m at the 1952 Olympics. * (Dutch)

Claude Luter, 83, French jazz clarinetist and bandleader. *

Eduardo Mignogna, 66, Argentinian film director. * (Spanish)

Buck O'Neil, 94, American baseball player and manager in the Negro leagues. *

Timo Sarpaneva, 79, Finnish glassmaker. *

Heinz Sielmann, 89, German zoologist *

Wilson Tucker, 91, American science fiction writer. *

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Al Antczak, 84, longtime editor of The Tidings, the newspaper of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, pneumonia. *

Robert Dentith, 29, British radio presenter of "The Unsigned Show" on Kerrang! Radio. *

Friedrich Karl Flick, 79, German-Austrian billionaire. *

George King, 78, college basketball coach. *

Lieutenant General Liao Hansheng, 95, former Deputy Defence Minister of China. *

Speedy O. Long, 78, Democratic Representative for Louisiana (1964–1972), cousin of Huey Long. * *

Jennifer Moss, 61, British actress who played Lucille Hewitt on Coronation Street. *

Antonio Peña, 53, promoter of Asistencia Asesoría y Administración, heart attack. *

Jackie Rae, 84, Canadian singer, songwriter and entertainer. *

Don Thompson, 73, British race walker and 1960 Olympic gold medal winner, aneurysm. *

Dick Wagner, 78, American former President of the Cincinnati Reds and Houston Astros, injuries from a 1999 car crash. * *

Gilbert F. White, 94, American geographer. *

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Nigel Angus, 62, Scottish race horse trainer. *

R. W. Apple, Jr., 71, American political journalist and food writer for The New York Times, thoracic cancer. *

Tom Bell, 73, British actor (Wish You Were Here, Prime Suspect), after short illness. *

Gary Comer, 78, founder of the clothing chain Lands' End, and philanthropist, prostate cancer. *

General František Fajtl, 94, Czech WWII fighter pilot, after long illness. *

Walter Gibb, 87, British aviator and test pilot who held the world altitude record.*

Ralph Griswold, 72, creator of Snobol and Icon programming languages, cancer. *

Vic Heyliger, 87, Hall of Fame ice hockey coach of the US national team and at three colleges. *

Gene Janson, 72, Chicago-based character actor, heart attack on stage during a performance. *

Oskar Pastior, 78, Romanian-born German writer. *

Riccardo Pazzaglia, 80, Italian actor, writer and film director. * (Italian)

Katarina Tomasevski, 53, former United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Education.*

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Lucilla Andrews, 86, British romantic novelist. *

Vice-Admiral Sir John Cox, 77, British admiral who was Commander-in-Chief in the South Atlantic *

John Crank, 90, English mathematical physicist who helped solve the heat equation.*

Gwen Meredith, 98, Australian writer of all 5,795 episodes of the long-running radio serial Blue Hills, after heart trouble. *

Peter Norman, 64, Australian athlete and Olympic silver medalist, heart attack. * *

Danial Shapiro, 48, American dancer and choreographer. *

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Martha Batista, 82, First Lady of Cuba (1952–1959), second wife of President Fulgencio Batista. *

Frances Bergen, 84, American actress, wife of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen and mother of actress Candice Bergen. * *

Helen Chenoweth-Hage, 68, Republican Representative for Idaho (1995–2001), car accident.*

Tamara Dobson, 59, American actress, star of blaxploitation movie Cleopatra Jones, complications from pneumonia and multiple sclerosis. *

Brian Fitzpatrick, 75, former All Blacks rugby union player. *

Dr. Paul Halmos, 90, Hungarian-born American mathematician. * *

Arthur L. Jones, 61, award winning journalist and presidential spokesman, complications from leukemia treatment. *

Goran Mijatović, 36, Serbian businessman and owner of first league soccer club FK Bežanija, car bomb. *

Paul Richardson, 74, Philadelphia Phillies' longtime organist. *

Clyde Vollmer, 85, Major League Baseball player for the Cincinnati Reds *

Willem Zonggonau, ca. 64, West Papuan independence activist, heart attack. *

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Frank Beyer, 74, German film director (Jacob the Liar). * *

Sir Laurence Brodie-Hall AO, 96, Australian mining industrialist. *

Atanas Mihaylov, 57, Bulgarian soccer player. *

Jakob Oeri-Hoffmann, 86, Swiss pharmaceutical executive, director of Roche Holding AG. *

Judith Pizarro, 41, Puerto Rican actress, cardiac arrest. * (Spanish).

Rafael Quintero Ibarbia, 66, Cuban-born CIA agent. *

David Salten, 93, American educator and desegregation expert. *

André Viger, 54, French Canadian wheelchair marathoner and Paralympian, cancer. *

Yoshihiro Yonezawa, 53, Japanese manga critic and President and co-founder of Comic Market, lung cancer. *