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Isabel Bigley, 80, American stage actress, Tony Award-winner for Guys and Dolls. * *

Josh Graves, 79, American bluegrass dobro player *

Derek Jacobs, 18, American computer prodigy, one of the first people in the world to receive an identification microchip, motorcycle accident. *

Adolf H. Lundin, 73, Swedish oil and mining entrepreneur, leukemia. * (Swedish)

Pino Mlakar, 99, Slovenian ballet dancer. * (Slovenenian)

Concha Ortiz y Pino de Kleven, 96, American politician, served three terms in the New Mexico State Legislature. *

André Schwarz-Bart, 78, French novelist. *

András Sütő, 79, Romanian writer of Hungarian descent, melanoma. * (Hungarian)

Robert Jackson Thompson, 60, on California's death row since 1983 for murder, heart attack. *

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Rosamond Carr, 94, American fashion illustrator turned humanitarian and activist. * * *

Jan Werner Danielsen, 30, Norwegian singer. * (Norwegian)

Peter Grosz, 80, German-born engineer and aviation expert, son of painter George Grosz. *

Walter Hadlee, 91, New Zealand cricketer, stroke. *

Dr. Joseph Kauffman, 84, American educator, training director of the Peace Corps. *

John Klang, 49, Wisconsin school principal shot by student. *

Dr. Robert Petersdorf, 80, German-born American infectious diseases expert. *

Luis Muñoz Rivera, 90, last surviving signatory of the constitution of Puerto Rico. *

Louis-Albert Cardinal Vachon, 94, Archbishop Emeritus of Québec and Roman Catholic Primate of Canada. *

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George Balzer, 91, wrote for Jack Benny's radio and TV shows. *

Olivia Robello Breitha, 90,leprosy patient and author. *

Virgil Ierunca, 86, Romanian writer. *

Robert H. Knight, 87, American lawyer and government official. *

William Whalen III, 66, American director of the US National Park Service under President Carter, heart attack. * *

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Craig Kusick, 57, former first baseman for the Minnesota Twins, leukemia. *

Bruni Löbel, 85, German actress

Arthur Marwick, 70, Historian. First Professor of History at the Open University *

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Gerhard Behrendt, 77, inventor of Sandmännchen, most successful German children television show character. * (German)

Giuseppe Bennati, 85, Italian film director. *

Iva Toguri D'Aquino, 90, Japanese-American convicted, and later pardoned, of being WWII propagandist Tokyo Rose. * *

Alan Maclean, 81, Scottish publisher, brother of Soviet spy Donald Maclean. *

Byron Nelson, 94, professional golfer. * *

Sir Martin Roth, 88, Hungarian-born British President of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. *

Ralph Story, 86, American radio broadcaster and television show host (The $64,000 Challenge), emphysema. *

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Safia Ahmed-jan, 65, head of the Afghan Ministry of Women's Affairs in Kandahar province since 2001, assassinated. *

Omar al-Faruq, 35, a senior member of al-Qaeda, shot by British forces in Basra. *

Jeff Cooper, 86, American small arms expert. *

Maureen Daly, 85, author of Seventeenth Summer in 1942 which is credited with launching modern young adult literature. *

Leo Diehl, 92, former aide to Tip O'Neill. *

John Milo "Mike" Ford, 49, Sci-fi and fantacy writer, died of natural causes.

Lillian Robinson, 65, American director of the Simone de Beauvoir Institute and professor of women's studies at Concordia University. *

Sir Vijay R. Singh, 75, Indo-Fijian lawyer and politician, cancer. *

Sir Iain Tennant, 87, Scottish businessman and public servant. *

Metropolitan Vitaly Ustinov, 96, retired First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia

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John S. Boskovich, 49, artist and screenwriter, "Without You I'm Nothing." Cause undetermined. *

Joel T. Broyhill, 86, Republican Congressman from northern Virginia, 1953-75, congestive heart failure and pneumonia. *

Yutaka Egashira, 98, Japanese royalty, grandfather of Crown Princess Masako. *

Sally Gray, 90, English actress. *

Ben Heppner, 63, Canadian politician, prostate cancer. *

Patrick Quinn, 56, American actor and former president of the Actors' Equity Association, heart attack. *

Padmini Ramachandran, 74, Indian actress in Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, Telugu and Kannada films, heart attack. *

Thomas Stewart, 78, American bass-baritone. *

Tetsuro Tamba, 84, Japanese actor. * (Japanese) *

Henry Townsend, 96, American blues guitarist, pianist, and songwriter, pulmonary edema. *

Shelby Walker, 31, American female boxer and Mixed Martial Arts fighter, apparent medicine overdose. *

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Sir Malcolm Arnold, 84, composer, first UK citizen to win an Academy Award for film music, complications from a chest infection.*

Etta Baker, 93, Piedmont blues guitarist. *

Sir Charles Cutler, 88, former Deputy Premier of New South Wales, Australia, cancer. *

Dr. Mortimer Ostow, American psychiatrist and neuroscientist who studied anti-Semitism. *

Aladár Pege, 67, Hungarian jazz musician, dubbed "the Paganini of double bass". *

Tim Rooney, 59, American actor, son of Mickey Rooney, dermatomyositis. *

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Edward Albert, 55, American actor, son of actors Margo and Eddie Albert, lung cancer. *

Carla Benschop, 56, Dutch basketball player. * * * *

Dr. Harris Busch, 83, American biochemist and cancer researcher at Baylor College of Medicine. *

Enrique Gorriarán Merlo, 64, Argentine revolutionary and guerrilla leader, cardiac arrest due to an abdominal aortic aneurysm. *

Tommy Olivencia, 64, Puerto Rican salsa singer and bandleader. *

Mary Orr, 95, American author whose story "The Wisdom of Eve" inspired the film All About Eve. *

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Boz Burrell, 60, English bassist and vocalist (Bad Company/King Crimson), heart attack. ****

Margaret Ekpo, 92, Nigerian politician and women's rights activist. *

Alan Fletcher, 75, British graphic designer. *

Charles Larson, 86, American television writer and Emmy Award-nominated producer (The F.B.I.). *

Charles Rees, 78, British chemist *

William C. Schultz, 80, American CEO of the Fender Guitar Company. *

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Henri Jayer, 84, French winemaker. * *

Gilbert Jonas, 76, American fundraiser for the NAACP. *

Armin Jordan, 74, Swiss conductor. * *

Beth Levine, 91, American shoe designer known as the "America's First Lady of Shoe Design". *

Alfred Mann, 89, German-born musicologist, professor at Rutgers University and the Eastman School of Music. *

Sven Nykvist, 83, Swedish cinematographer and two-time Oscar winner. *

John W. Peterson, 84, American gospel hymn writer ("It Took a Miracle", "Surely Goodness and Mercy"), cancer. *

Ivan Shabunin, 70, first governor of Volgograd Oblast, natural causes. *

Don Walser, 72, Texas country singer and yodeler, complications from diabetes. *

Frank "Muddy" Waters, 83, American college football coach at Michigan State University. *

Dean Wooldridge, 93, American physicist and co-founder of TRW. * *

Pham Xuan An, 78, journalist, and spy for Hanoi during Vietnam war, emphysema. *

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Elizabeth Allen, 77, American actress (Donovan's Reef, Do I Hear a Waltz?, The Jackie Gleason Show). * *

Josh Crouch, 24, actor (Dawson's Creek, Darktales), hit-and-run. *

John. L. Finley, 70, American astronaut under the Manned Orbiting Laboratory program

Danny Flores, 77, American saxophonist and vocalist on the Champs' 1958 hit "Tequila", pneumonia. * * *

Joe Glazer, 88, American singer-songwriter known as "Labor's Troubador". *

Martha Holmes, 83, American former Life photographer, natural causes. * *

Sir Hugh Kawharu, 79, New Zealand academic and Māori leader. *

Vico Magistretti, 86, Italian architect and designer. *

Rev. Dr. Kurt Marquart, 72, Estonian-American Lutheran theologian, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. *

Evelyn Ortner, 82, American brownstone preservationist. *

Roy Schuiten, 55, Dutch cyclist. *

Terry Smith (Australian rules footballer), 47, former player with the Richmond and St Kilda football clubs, cancer. *

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Lt Col. Seán Clancy, 105, Ireland's oldest War of Independence veteran. *

Edward J. King, 81, former Democratic Governor of Massachusetts (1979-1983). *

Philip H. Melanson, 61, academic, expert on assassinations, cancer. * *

Nilton Pereira Mendes, 30, Brazilian football player with FC Shakhtyor Karagandy, heart attack during training. *

Leo Navratil, 85, Austrian psychiatrist *

Syd Thrift, 77, former general manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates and Baltimore Orioles. * *

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Jack Banta, 81, former baseball pitcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers. *

George Heslop, 66, English football player. *

Patricia Kennedy Lawford, 82, sister of U.S. President John F. Kennedy and ex-wife of actor Peter Lawford, pneumonia. * *

Alexei Loktev, 64, Soviet and Russian actor, car accident.*

Sr. Leonella Sgorbati, 65, Italian nun, gunshot wounds. *

Kazuyuki Sogabe, 58, Japanese anime voice actor (Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball) *

Dorothy C. Stratton, 107, American first director of the US Coast Guard Women's Reserve. * *

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Hélène Deschamps Adams, 85, Chinese-born French-American hero of the French Resistance. *

Sten Andersson, 83, former Swedish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Minister for Social Affairs, and Secretary of the Swedish Social Democratic Party, heart attack. *

Margaret Phipps Boegner, 99, American heiress and founder of Old Westbury Gardens. *

Roy Brewer, 97, American Hollywood representative of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees and Motion Picture Machine Operators during the blacklist era. *

Richard Caleal, 94, American automotive designer. *

Floyd Curry, 81, four-time Stanley Cup winner with the Montreal Canadiens. *

Zsuzsa Körmöczy, 82, Hungarian tennis player and coach, won the 1958 French Championships. *

Dr. Marjorie Lewisohn, 87, American doctor, first female trustee of Johns Hopkins University. *

Esther Martinez, 94, Tewa storyteller and linguist, car crash. *

Foad AlMohandess, 82, Egyptian comedy actor, heart failure. *

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Raymond Baxter, 84, British television presenter (Tomorrow's World). *

Oriana Fallaci, 77, Italian journalist and writer, breast cancer. *

Col. Guy Francois, participated in failed coups in Haiti in 1989 and 2001. *

Ricky Gibson, 53, former professional wrestler *

Charles L. Grant, 64, horror and science fiction author and editor, heart attack *.

Douglas Henderson, 71, Scottish politician *

Jang Keum-song, 29, niece of Kim Jong-il, suicide by overdose. *

Donald Kimball, 62, American defrocked Catholic priest, convicted in sex abuse scandal *

Nitun Kundu, 70, Bangladeshi artist and sculptor *

Evelyn LaBruce, 69, American mezzo-soprano opera singer. *

Rob Levin, 51, founder of Freenode, head injuries resulting from bicycle accident. *

Ivan Luini, 46, Italian furniture executive and founder of Kartell U.S., plane crash. *

Dr. David Lykken, 78, American professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota. *

Abe Saffron, 86, Sydney nightclub owner and property developer known as "Mr Sin". *

Pablo Santos, 19, Mexican actor (Greetings from Tucson), plane crash. *

Sergio Savarese, 48, Italian furniture designer and founder of Dialogica, plane crash. *

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Norman Brooks, 78, Canadian singer, purveyor of Al Jolson songs, emphysema. *

Elizabeth Choy, 95, war heroine and Singapore's first female legislator, pancreatic cancer. *

Mickey Hargitay, 80, Hungarian former Mr. Universe and actor, ex-husband of Jayne Mansfield, father of Mariska Hargitay. *

Admiral J. William Kime, 72, former commandant of the US Coast Guard. *

Andrey Kozlov, 41, First Deputy Chairman of Russia's Central Bank, shot. *

Peter Ling, 80, British TV writer and creator of Crossroads. *

Paulo Marques, 58, Brazilian journalist and broadcaster, brain cancer.* (in Portuguese)

Esme Melville, 87, Australian film and television actress.

Johnny Palmer, 88, American golfer, seven time PGA Tour winner. *

Dr. Frederic Wakeman, 68, American scholar of Chinese history. *

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Silviu Brucan, 90, former Romanian ambassador to the United States and an opponent of Nicolae Ceauşescu. *

Sir Douglas Dodds-Parker, 97, former Conservative minister and wartime SOE officer. *

Christopher Essex, 61, Australian fashion designer, cancer. *

Kimveer Gill, 25, gunman of Dawson College shooting, suicide. *

Peter Madden, 65, Canadian playwright, author of The Night No One Yelled and other plays

Collie Nicholson, 85, American sports information director at Grambling State University. *

Ann Richards, 73, former Governor of Texas, esophageal cancer. *

Lou "Boulder" Richards, 35, former guitarist for metalcore band Hatebreed, presumed suicide. * *

Peter Tevis, 69, musician, Parkinson's Disease. *

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Maria da Conceição Luanda, 42, Angolan journalist. *

Glenda Dawson, 65, Texas State Representative from the 29th District. *

Marc François, 46, French actor and stage director, suicide. * * (French)

Raymond Mikesell, 93, economist at the Bretton Woods Conference. *

Emily Perez, 23, United States Army 2nd Lieutenant in Iraq, killed by an improvised explosive device (IED). *

Edna Staebler, 100, Canadian cookbook and non-fiction author, stroke. *

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William Auld, 81, Scottish poet, author and supporter of Esperanto. *

Al Casey, 89, Phoenix-L.A. based rock, country and session guitarist.*

Peter Clentzos, 97, olympic competitor for Greece in pole vault. *

Peter Coppin, 86, leader of the first strike by Australian aboriginal pastoral workers. *

Pat Corley, 76, American actor (Phil the barkeep on Murphy Brown), congestive heart failure. * *

Solange Fernex, French ecologist and green politician. (French Wikipedia)

Joachim Fest, 79, German historian and journalist. *

Tyron Garner, 39, plaintiff in Lawrence v. Texas, meningitis. * **

Joseph Hayes, 88, American author (The Desperate Hours). *

Kwan Hoi-shan, 81, Hong Kong character actor, natural causes.*

Dr. Michael Mamakos, 80, American microvascular surgeon, part of the team that reattached a child's leg in 1978. *

Johannes Bob van Benthem, 85, Dutch lawyer, first president of the European Patent Office. *

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Ernestine Bayer, 97, mother of women's rowing, complications from pneumonia. *

Patty Berg, 88, American golf pioneer, founder of the LPGA, complications from Alzheimer's disease. *

Ira Brilliant, 84, American real estate developer, chemist, and founder of the Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies. *

Col. Ubiratan Guimarães, 63, Brazilian politician, gunshot wound. *

Clyde "Holly" Holloman, 47, Musician, Sleep Apnea. *

Rin Inumaru, 48, Japanese cartoonist (Ojarumaru), suicide. *

Melanie Lomax, 56, civil rights lawyer and former president of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners, car accident. *

Ted Risenhoover, 71, Democrat Representative for Oklahoma (1975-1979). *

Bennie Smith, 72, blues guitarist, heart attack while ill with terminal lung cancer. *

Daniel Smith, 20, son of model Anna Nicole Smith, drug overdose. *

Taufa'ahau Tupou IV, 88, King of Tonga, after illness. *

Gábor Vargas, 45, Swedish aerobatics aircraft pilot, midair collison above Marsamxett Harbour, Valletta. * *

James Wilson, 68, Associated Press Chicago bureau chief covered Wounded Knee Incident, cancer. *

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Gérard Brach, 79, French screenwriter (The Fearless Vampire Killers, The Name of the Rose), cancer. *

Clair Burgener, 84, California Representative, from 1973-1983, complications from Alzheimer's disease. *

Richard Dyer, 68, New Zealand actor and singer, heart attack while performing in HMS Pinafore. *

Navigator Dzinkambani, Malawian football player, eye cancer. *

Matt Gadsby, 27, Hinckley United footballer, collapsed on pitch during game and died soon after. *

Lucjan Kydryński, 77, Polish journalist, presenter and TV personality, natural causes. *

Emilie Mondor, 25, Canadian Olympic distance runner, car accident. *

Elisabeth Ogilvie, 89, American author. *

Herbert Rudley, 95, American actor. *

Keshavram Kashiram Shastri, 101, Gujarati founder of VHP, natural causes. *

Arkady Volsky, 74, Russian founder of the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. *

William B. Ziff, Jr., 76, publishing magnate, prostate cancer. * *

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Hilda Bernstein, 91, British-born South African author and anti-apartheid activist, heart failure. * *

Peter Brock, 61, Australian touring car racer, injuries sustained in a crash during a rally in Western Australia. *

Bernard Green, 47, former New Zealand rugby league international, mining accident at the Roa Coal Mine. *

Thomas Judge, 71, former Governor of Montana, pulmonary fibrosis. *

Norman Lewis, 93, American author on English grammar. *

Frank Middlemass, 87, English character actor (As Time Goes By). *

Dr. Estelle Ramey, 89, American endocrinologist, physiologist and feminist. *

Erk Russell, 80, college American football coach for the University of Georgia and Georgia Southern University, stroke. *

Dr. Fred Noel Spiess, 86, oceanographer and marine explorer, cancer. *

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Richard Blinder, 71, American architect (Rubin Museum of Art, Ford Center for the Performing Arts). *

Clem Coetzee, 67, Zimbabwean conservationist, heart attack. *

James deAnda, 81, American lawyer and federal judge, part of the legal team in Hernandez v. Texas, prostate cancer. *

Joan Donaldson, 60, founding head of the CBC Newsworld TV Network, complications from prior injuries. *

James Hawthorne, 74, former controller of the BBC in Northern Ireland. *

Peter Hyndman, 64, former British Columbia minister, cancer. *

Robert Earl Jones, 96, American actor, father of James Earl Jones. *

Lewis Portelli, 76, Maltese veteran sports journalist. *

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Warren Bolster, 59, American surf and skate photographer, suicide. * *

Steen Bostrup, 67, former Danish television news host. * (Danish)

Sir John Drummond, 71, former controller of BBC Radio 3 and The Proms. *

Peter Greenough, 89, American financial columnist for the Boston Globe, husband of Beverly Sills, after illness. * *

Don Lunn, 72, Australian breakfast radio DJ. *

Gordon Manning, 89, US television news executive at NBC and CBS, heart attack. *

Sir Michael Marshall, 76, English politician, former MP for Arundel and President of the Chichester Festival Theatre. *

Agha Shahi, 86, former Pakistani diplomat and foreign minister, after illness. *

Mohammed Taha, around 50, Sudanese newspaper editor, murdered. *, *

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Anne Gregg, 66, former presenter of the BBC programme Holiday, cancer. * *

Hilary Mason, 89, British TV character actress *

John McLusky, 83, British comic strip artist (James Bond). *

J. Bazzel Mull, 91, American Christian preacher and gospel music promoter. *

Apostolos Souglakos, 56, Greek wrestler and actor, stroke. * (Greek)

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Rémy Belvaux, 38, Belgian writer, producer and director of the cult film Man Bites Dog, probable suicide. *

Ingrid Bjoner, 78, Norwegian soprano. *

John Conte, 90, American actor, founded TV station KMIR, natural causes. * *

Giacinto Facchetti, 64, Italian former footballer, cancer. *

James Fee, 56, American photographer, liver cancer. *

Tamás Fejér, 86, Hungarian film director. *

Mark Anthony Graham, 33, Canadian Olympian and soldier, killed by friendly fire while serving in Afghanistan. *

Steve Irwin, 44, Australian naturalist, "The Crocodile Hunter", acute heart trauma caused by a stingray barb. * **

Norman Kelley, 95, American tenor, Alzheimer's disease. *

Moses Khumalo, 26, South African jazz saxophonist who won best newcomer at the South African Music Awards of 2002, suicide. *

Mlondi Mdluli, 25, Alabama A&M football (soccer) player, car crash in his native Swaziland. *

Giulia Sani-Casagli, 112, Italy's oldest person since Dec 28 2005; 9th-oldest in world * (Italian)

Colin Thiele, 85, Australian children's author, heart failure. *

Astrid Varnay, 88, Hungarian-Swedish-American soprano. * *

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Françoise Claustre, 69, French ethnologist and archaeologist. * * (French)

Eva Knardahl, 79, Norwegian classical pianist. *

Julia Levien, 94, American dancer and teacher. *

Jaime Osorio Gómez, 59, Colombian film producer, actor (Maria Full of Grace), heart attack. *

Anna Ringier, 110, Switzerland's oldest person. * (German)

Tom Suzuki, 76, American graphic designer. *

Annemarie Wendl, 91, German actress, heart failure. * (German)

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Bob Mathias, 75, decathlete, winner of two Olympic gold medals, and former United States Representative, cancer. *

Janet Mikhaiili, 70, Iranian book illustrator, cerebral apoplexy. *

Deforrest Most, 89, helped to establish Muscle Beach in Los Angeles, heart failure. *

Willi Ninja, 45, American dancer and choreographer, AIDS. * *

Clermont Pépin, 80, Canadian composer in Montréal, liver cancer. *

Silverio Pérez, 91, Mexican bullfighter, renal illness. *

Lionel Pickering, 74, former chairman of Derby County Football Club and noted businessman, cancer. *

Anthony Poon, 61, Singaporean abstract artist, lung cancer.

Dewey Redman, 75, American jazz saxophonist, father of Joshua Redman, liver failure. * *

Sandile Sayedwa, 39, South African sports administrator, car accident. *

Monty Stickles, 68, former tight-end for the San Francisco 49ers, heart failure after illness. *

Charlie Williams, 77, British comedian and former footballer with Doncaster Rovers, Parkinson's disease. * *

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Charles Aug, 68, American real estate executive. *

Tommy Chesbro, 66, wrestler and wrestling coach with Oklahoma State University, heart attack. * *

Nellie Connally, 87, widow of Texas Governor and Treasury Secretary John Connally, shared the automobile with John F. Kennedy when he was assassinated. *

György Faludy, 95, Hungarian poet, writer and translator. *

Rashid Maidin, 89, leader of the Communist Party of Malaya. *

Ronald Mansbridge, 100, British-born publisher, founded first US branch of Cambridge University Press. *

Bill McNutt, 81, former president of international fruitcake business the Collin Street Bakery, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. *

Warren Mitofsky, 72, American pollster, creator of the exit poll, heart failure. * *

Bob O'Connor, 61, Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, brain cancer. *

Travis I. Payze, 60, Australian rules footballer, prostate cancer. *

Jawn Sandifer, 92, American civil rights lawyer, successfully argued Henderson v. United States. *

Sir Kyffin Williams, 88, Welsh artist, lung and prostate cancer. *