Deaths in November 2009

The following is a list of notable deaths in November 2009.

November 2009

1

• Sakher Habash, 69, Palestinian party official (Fatah), stroke.
• Esther Hautzig, 79, American Holocaust survivor and writer.
• Seán Mac Fhionnghaile, 57, Irish actor, cancer.
• Endel Laas, 94, Estonian forest scientist. (Estonian)
• Arturo Salazar Mejía, 88, Colombian Roman Catholic Bishop of Pasto. (Spanish)
• Alda Merini, 78, Italian poet. (Italian)
• Gopal Mishra, 77, Indian journalist, after short illness.
• Gus Mitges, 90, Canadian politician, MP for Grey—Simcoe (1972–1988) and Bruce—Grey (1988–1993).
• Alan Ogg, 42, American basketball player (Miami Heat), complications from staphylococcal infection.
• Robert H. Rines, 87, American scientist, inventor, composer and Loch Ness Monster expert, heart failure.
• Achim Stocker, 74, German football official, Chairman of SC Freiburg, heart attack. (German)
• George Zoritch, 92, Russian-born American dancer.

2

• Princess Haya bint Abdulaziz, 80, Saudi royal, sister of King Abdullah.
• Nien Cheng, 94, Chinese author and political prisoner.
• Lou Filippo, 83, American boxing referee and judge, member of the World Boxing Hall of Fame, stroke.
• Ida Frabboni, 113, Italian supercentenarian. (Italian)
• Evelyn Hofer, 87, German-born photographer.
• Brian James, 91, Australian actor, complications after a fall.
• Shabattai Kalmanovich, 61, Russian former KGB spy, President of WBC Spartak Moscow Region, shot.
• Keith Kettleborough, 74, British footballer (Sheffield United)
• José Luis López Vázquez, 87, Spanish actor, after long illness.
• Phil Lumpkin, 57, American NBA player and high school basketball coach, pneumonia.
• Ron Moeller, 71, American baseball player.
• Beverley O'Sullivan, 28, Irish singer, car crash.
• Amir Pnueli, 68, Israeli computer scientist and Turing Award winner.
• Glenn Remick, 58, American founder of American Darters Association, member of National Darts Hall of Fame, amyloidosis.
• Mark Smith, 49, British bassist (The Waterboys) and record producer.
• Leonard Steinberg, Baron Steinberg, 73, British businessman and life peer.
• Lonnie Zamora, 76, American alleged UFO witness, heart failure.

3

• Charles August, 90, American businessman, founder of Monro Muffler Brake.
• Francisco Ayala, 103, Spanish novelist, natural causes.
• Archie Baird, 90, Scottish footballer (Aberdeen).
• Carl Ballantine, 92, American actor (McHale's Navy), natural causes.
• Brother Blue, 88, American storyteller, performance artist, after short illness.
• Dodo Chichinadze, 84, Georgian actress.
• Jean B. Cryor, 70, American politician, cancer.
• Shel Dorf, 76, American founder of the San Diego Comic-Con, diabetes-related complications.
• Parry Gordon, 64, English rugby league player.
• Tamás Lossonczy, 105, Hungarian abstract painter. (Hungarian)
• Lorissa McComas, 38, American softcore model and actress, after long illness.
• Toshiyuki Mimura, 61, Japanese baseball player and manager (Hiroshima Toyo Carp).
• Alice S. Rossi, 87, American sociologist and feminist.

4

• Win Aung, 65, Burmese politician and military officer, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1998–2004).
• William H. Avery, 98, American politician, Representative for Kansas (1955–1965), Governor of Kansas (1965–1967).
• Don Beaven, 85, New Zealand scientist and diabetes researcher, house fire.
• Ivan Biakov, 65, Russian Olympic gold medal-winning biathlete (1972, 1976)
• Hubertus Brandenburg, 85, German-born Roman Catholic Bishop of Stockholm (1977–1998). (Swedish).
• Stefano Chiodi, 52, Italian footballer. (Italian)
• Art D'Lugoff, 85, American jazz nightclub owner (The Village Gate), heart attack.
• Kabun Mutō, 82, Japanese politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs (1993), pancreatic cancer.
• Thomas P. O'Malley, 79, American academic, President of Loyola Marymount University (1991–1999), heart attack.
• Antonio Pelle, 77, Italian 'Ndrangheta boss, heart attack.
• David Tree, 94, British actor.

5

• Evan Chandler, 65, American father of Michael Jackson molestation accuser, suicide by gunshot.
• Peter Chen Bolu, 96, Chinese Roman Catholic Bishop of Daming.
• I. F. Clarke, 91, British literary scholar.
• Roy Collins, 75, English cricketer.
• Adam Firestorm, 32, New Zealand-born Canadian professional wrestler, suicide.
• Félix Luna, 84, Argentinian historian, after long illness.
• Barrie Rickards, 71, British palaeontologist and angler, cancer.

6

• Manuel Arvizu, 90, Mexican Roman Catholic Bishop of Jesús María del Nayar.
• Nick Counter, 69, American film executive and lawyer.
• Dimitri De Fauw, 28, Belgian track cyclist, suicide.
• Abraham Escudero Montoya, 69, Colombian Roman Catholic Bishop of Palmira. (Spanish)
• Waldo Hunt, 88, American publisher.
• Jacno, 52, French musician, cancer. (French)
• Otomar Krejča, 87, Czech theatre director. (Czech)
• Hans Lund, 59, American poker player, cancer.
• Antonio Rosario Mennonna, 103, Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. (German)
• Tommy Reis, 95, American baseball player.
• Donald Rix, 78. Canadian pathologist and philanthropist.
• Manuel Solís, 91, Panamanian President (1988–1989), pulmonary edema. (Spanish)
• Ron Sproat, 77, American television writer (Dark Shadows), heart attack.

7

• Yelena Bondarchuk, 47, Russian actress, breast cancer. (Russian)]
• Gene D. Cohen, 65, American psychiatrist, prostate cancer.
• Vic Davies, 55, Australian radio presenter, lung cancer.
• Bob Dillinger, 91, American baseball player.
• Anselmo Duarte, 89, Brazilian actor, screenwriter and film director, complications of a stroke. (Portuguese)
• Bernardo Garza Sada, 79, Mexican businessman, founder of ALFA.
• Donald Harington, 73, American author, cancer.
• Chris Harman, 66, British socialist journalist and activist.
• Billy Ingham, 57, British footballer (Burnley), after long illness.
• Joe Maross, 86, American actor, cardiac arrest.
• Alayna Morgan, 61, American obese woman.
• Allan Mulder, 81, Australian politician, MP (1972–1975).
• David C. Smith, 80, American historian.

8

• Ellen Ahrndt, 87, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).
• Hiley Edwards, 58, English cricketer (Devon), cancer.
• Jerry Fuchs, 34, American drummer (Maserati, !!!), fall.
• Armin Gessert, 46, German video game developer, heart attack.
• Vitaly Ginzburg, 93, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• Burleigh Hines, 77, American journalist.
• Sir Patrick Howard-Dobson, 88, British army general.
• Karl Kroeber, 83, American literary scholar of Native American literature, cancer.
• Malcolm Laycock, 71, British radio DJ.
• Igor Starygin, 63, Russian actor, complications of a stroke.

9

• Sedley Andrus, 94, British herald.
• Al Cervi, 92, American basketball player and coach (Rochester Royals, Syracuse Nationals).
• Earl Cooley, 98, American smokejumper.
• Clen Denning, 98, Australian footballer, oldest surviving Australian Football League player.
• Henry L. Kimelman, 88, American Ambassador to Haiti (1980–1981), heart failure.
• Earsell Mackbee, 68, American football player (Minnesota Vikings), complications following a stroke.
• Ib Olsen, 80, Danish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1948) rower. (Danish)
• Mehdi Sahabi, 66, Iranian writer and translator, heart attack.
• Charles Proctor Sifton, 74, American federal judge, sarcoidosis.
• Stephen Edmund Verney, 90, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Repton (1977–1985).
• Nick Waterlow, 69, British-born Australian artistic director and curator, stabbed.

10

• Robert Cameron, 98, American aerial photographer.
• Gheorghe Dinică, 75, Romanian actor, cardiac arrest. (Romanian)
• Robert Enke, 32, German footballer, suicide by train impact.
• William Ganz, 90, Slovakian-born American cardiologist, co-inventor of the pulmonary artery catheter, natural causes.
• Tomaž Humar, 40, Slovenian mountaineer, mountaineering accident.
• Simple Kapadia, 51, Indian actress and costume designer, cancer.
• Dick Katz, 85, American jazz pianist and arranger, lung cancer.
• David Lloyd, 75, American comedy writer ("Chuckles Bites the Dust"), prostate cancer.
• Uolevi Manninen, 72, Finnish Olympic basketball player. (Finnish)
• Hisaya Morishige, 96, Japanese actor, natural causes.
• John Allen Muhammad, 48, American convicted spree killer (Beltway Sniper), executed by lethal injection.
• Anne Mustoe, 76, British headmistress, cyclist and writer.
• Ramin Pourandarjani, 26, Iranian doctor, whistleblower on use of torture, poisoned.
• José Afonso Ribeiro, 80, Brazilian Roman Catholic Bishop of Borba. (Portuguese)

11

• Keith Fagnou, 38, Canadian organic chemist, complications of H1N1 influenza.
• Ehsan Fatahian, 28, Iranian Kurdish activist, executed by hanging.
• Henry Jayasena, 78, Sri Lankan actor.
• Irving Kriesberg, 90, American expressionist artist, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Tom Merriman, 85, American jingle composer, complications from a fall.
• Marvin Minoff, 78, American film and television producer (The Nixon Interviews, Patch Adams).
• John Jay O'Connor, 79, American lawyer, husband of Sandra Day O'Connor, Alzheimer's disease.
• Helge Reiss, 81, Norwegian actor. (Norwegian)

12

• Mohamed Abdi Aware, Somali judge, Chief Justice of Puntland, shot.
• Vagrich Bakhchanyan, 71, Ukrainian-born American painter, apparent suicide. (Russian)
• Dámaso Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer, 60, Spanish judge, Advocate-General of the European Court of Justice.
• Eleanor Hovda, 69, American composer and dancer.
• Robert Kendall, 82, American actor, heart attack.
• Willy Kernen, 80, Swiss footballer, participated in World Cup (1950, 1954, 1962).
• Bernard Kolélas, 76, Congolese politician, Mayor of Brazzaville, Prime Minister (1997).
• James R. Lilley, 81, American diplomat, ambassador to South Korea and China, complications linked to prostate cancer.
• Henri Sérandour, 72, French International Olympic Committee member, former head of the French National Olympic Committee.
• Florence Temko, 88, American origami expert, heart failure.
• Paul Wendkos, 87, American television and film director (Gidget), complications of a stroke.
• Emanuel Zisman, 74, Israeli politician, Member of Knesset (1988–1999).

13

• Roy Butler, 83, American politician, first directly elected Mayor of Austin, Texas (1971–1975), complications from a fall.
• Michał Gajownik, 27, Polish Olympic sprint canoer, traffic collision. (Polish)
• Ueli Gegenschatz, 38, Swiss BASE jumper, jumping accident. (German)
• Dell Hymes, 82, American anthropologist, linguist and folklorist, complications of Alzheimer's disease.
• Bruce King, 85, American politician, three-term Governor of New Mexico, complications from heart procedure.
• Ron Klimkowski, 65, American baseball player, heart failure.
• Mara Manzan, 57, Brazilian actress, lung cancer. (Portuguese)
• John J. O'Connor, 76, American television critic (The New York Times), lung cancer.
• Armen Takhtajan, 99, Soviet botanist.

14

• Nikolay Anikin, 77, Russian-born American Olympic gold medal skiing champion (1956 Olympics), cancer.
• Edgar Fay, 101, British judge.
• Moshe Gidron, 84, Israeli Major General.
• John F. Gregory, 82, American optical engineer.
• Thomas Hollyman, 89, American photographer.
• Travis LaRue, 96, American politician, Mayor of Austin, Texas (1969–1971).
• John David McWilliam, 68, British politician, MP for Blaydon (1979–2005).
• Lewis Millett, 88, American Medal of Honor recipient.
• David A. Olsen, 71, American businessman, after short illness.
• Ladislav Sitenský, 90, Czech photographer.

15

• Derek B, 44, British rapper, heart attack.
• Tia Barrett, 62, New Zealand ambassador and diplomat, High Commissioner to the Cook Islands (2009), after short illness.
• Richard Carlyle, 95, Canadian actor.
• Ray Charnley, 74, English footballer (Blackpool, Morecambe), after long illness.
• Dennis Cole, 69, American actor, liver failure.
• Andriy Fedchuk, 29, Ukrainian Olympic bronze medal-winning boxer (2000), traffic collision. (Russian)
• Karol Galba, 88, Slovakian football official.
• Pierre Harmel, 98, Belgian politician, Prime Minister (1965–1966). (Dutch)
• Natalicio Lima, 91, Brazilian guitarist (Los Indios Tabajaras), stomach cancer.
• Ambrose Mathalaimuthu, 84, Indian Bishop of Coimbatore.
• Hans Matthöfer, 84, German politician, Minister of Finance (1978–1982). (German)
• Anna Mendelssohn, 61, British poet and political activist (Angry Brigade), brain tumour.
• Allan Murdmaa, 75, Estonian architect. (Estonian)
• Ken Ober, 52, American comedian and game show host (Remote Control).
• Patriarch Pavle, 95, Serbian 44th Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, cardiac arrest.
• Jim Pead, 85, Australian politician.
• Jocelyn Quivrin, 30, French actor, car accident. (French)
• Earl Wentz, 71, American composer and performer, after long illness.

16

• Pablo Amaringo, 66, Peruvian artist.
• Eddie Bell, 78, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles, New York Titans), heart failure.
• Jeff Clyne, 72, British jazz bassist, heart attack.
• Antonio de Nigris, 31, Mexican football player, heart failure.
• Robert J. Frankel, 68, American thoroughbred horse trainer, leukemia.
• Jan Leighton, 87, American actor, complications from a stroke.
• Anne-Sofie Østvedt, 89, Norwegian intelligence operative for XU. (Norwegian)
• Jack Wong Sue, 84, Australian Z Special Unit member and businessman.
• Harry Taylor, 83, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Olivia Patricia Thomas, 114, American supercentenarian, third-oldest person in the world.
• Bucky Williams, 102, American baseball player, second-oldest Negro League Baseball player.
• Edward Woodward, 79, British film and television actor, natural causes.

17

• José Aboulker, 89, Algerian World War II resistance fighter.
• Peter Armstrong, 80, American Roman Catholic priest, apparent heart attack.
• John Craxton, 87, British painter.
• Mickey Dias, 88, Sri Lankan-born British legal scholar.
• Niku Kheradmand, 77, Iranian actress, complications of a heart attack.
• Nikolay Olyalin, 68, Russian actor. (Russian)
• Sy Syms, 83, American entrepreneur, founder and chairman of off-price clothier SYMS, heart failure.

18

• Johnny Almond, 63, British jazz and rock musician (Mark-Almond), cancer.
• Abrar Alvi, 82, Indian film director and screenwriter (Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam), stomach complications. .
• Frances Lasker Brody, 93, American art collector and philanthropist.
• Albert Crewe, 82, British-born American physicist, invented scanning transmission electron microscope, Parkinson's disease.
• Jeanne-Claude, 74, French environmental artist (The Gates), complications from a ruptured brain aneurysm.
• Red Robbins, 65, American basketball player, cancer.
• Salem Saad, 31, Emirati footballer (Al-Nasr SC), heart attack.

19

• Frank Beattie, 76, Scottish footballer (Kilmarnock F.C.), after long illness.
• Johnny Delgado, 61, Filipino actor, lymphoma.
• John Malcolm Gray, 75, British banker.
• Daul Kim, 20, South Korean fashion model, suicide by hanging.
• Pat Mackie, 95, New Zealand-born Australian trade unionist.
• David Nokes, 61, British scholar.
• Sir Noel Power, 79, Australian acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong (1996–1997), heart attack.
• Jim Stanfield, 62, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Nao Takasugi, 87, American politician, member of the California State Assembly (1993–1999), stroke.
• Uga VII, 4, American English bulldog mascot (University of Georgia), heart attack.

20

• Robert Foxcroft, 75, Canadian Olympic fencer.
• Martino Gomiero, 85, Italian Roman Catholic Bishop of Adria-Rovigo.
• Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, 78, Pakistani politician, Chief Minister of Sindh (1973–1977); Prime Minister (1990), after long illness.
• Lino Lacedelli, 83, Italian mountaineer, first man to reach the summit of K2.
• H. C. Robbins Landon, 83, American musicologist.
• Celso Pitta, 63, Brazilian politician, Mayor of São Paulo (1997–2000), colorectal cancer.
• Herbert Richers, 86, Brazilian filmmaker and voice artist, kidney failure.
• Max Robertson, 94, British radio broadcaster.
• Alejandro R. Ruiz, 85, American World War II Medal of Honor recipient.
• Lester Shubin, 84, American developer of the bulletproof Kevlar vest, heart attack.
• Elisabeth Söderström, 82, Swedish soprano, complications from a stroke.
• Roman Trakhtenberg, 41, Russian actor, television and radio presenter, heart attack.
• Ted Weill, 84, American politician.
• Charis Wilson, 95, American model and writer.

21

• Gerhard Aspheim, 79, Norwegian jazz trombonist. (Norwegian)
• Bernard Bonnin, 70, Filipino actor, diabetes.
• Konstantin Feoktistov, 83, Russian cosmonaut and aerospace engineer. (Russian)
• Tom Janik, 69, American football player (Denver Broncos, Buffalo Bills).
• Ken Krueger, 83, American publisher, co-founder and chairman of San Diego Comic-Con International, heart attack.
• Rena Kanokogi, 74, American judoka, multiple myeloma.
• Johnny Påhlsson, 68, Swedish Olympic sport shooter.
• Paige Palmer, 93, American fitness trainer.
• Art Savage, 58, American CEO (San Jose Sharks) (1990–1996) and co-owner (Sacramento Rivercats) (1999–2009), lung cancer.
• Allen Shelton, 73, American banjo player, leukemia.

22

• Billy Joe Daugherty, 57, American Christian minister, lymphoma.
• Sir John Grugeon, 81, British politician.
• Ali Kordan, 51, Iranian politician, Minister of the Interior (2008), multiple myeloma.
• Juan Carlos Muñoz, 90, Argentinian footballer, heart attack. (Spanish)
• Haydain Neale, 39, Canadian singer–songwriter (jacksoul), lung cancer.
• Francisco Rodriguez, 25, American Golden Gloves boxer, brain injury sustained during match.
• Emile Vanfasse, 69, French Polynesian politician, Finance Minister (2004–2006).

23

• Paul K. Carlton, 88, American Air Force general.
• Philip Kueber, 75, Canadian Olympic silver medal-winning (1956) rower.
• Pim Koopman, 56, Dutch progressive rock drummer (Kayak).
• Richard Meale, 77, Australian composer.
• Tony Parry, 64, British footballer (Hartlepool United), pneumonia.
• Pat Quinn, 74, Irish businessman, founder of the Quinnsworth supermarket chain, renal failure.
• Yang Xianyi, 94, Chinese translator.

24

• José Arraño Acevedo, 88, Chilean writer and historian, pneumonia. (Spanish)
• Amy Black, 36, British mezzo-soprano opera singer.
• Chan Hung Lit, 66, Hong Kong actor, heart failure.
• Francis French, 7th Baron de Freyne, 82, Irish aristocrat.
• Gonçalves Isabelinha, 100, Portuguese footballer and physician. (Portuguese)
• Irena Nawrocka, 92, Polish Olympic fencer. (Polish)
• George Parsons, 83, British rugby union and rugby league player.
• Abe Pollin, 85, American businessman, owner of Washington Wizards and Washington Capitals, corticobasal degeneration.
• Hale Smith, 84, American composer and arranger, complications of a stroke.
• Samak Sundaravej, 74, Thai politician, Prime Minister (2008), liver cancer.

25

• Albert Dolhats, 88, French cyclist.
• Jean Serge Essous, 68, Congolese musician.
• Beatrice Gray, 98, American actress.
• Giorgio Carbone, 73, Italian self-proclaimed head of state of the Principality of Seborga micronation.
• Frans Haarsma, 88, Dutch professor for pastoral theology. (Dutch)
• William Norman, 77, New Zealand cricketer.

26

• Avery Clayton, 62, American executive director, heart attack.
• Peter Forakis, 82, American artist.
• Robert J. Fox, 81, American Catholic priest, cancer.
• Nikola Kovachev, 75, Bulgarian football player and manager. (Bulgarian)
• Lis Løwert, 89, Danish film actress. (Danish)
• Geoffrey Moorhouse, 77, British journalist and author, stroke.
• Ecaterina Stahl-Iencic, 60, Romanian Olympic fencer.

27

• Al Alberts, 87, American singer (The Four Aces), kidney failure.
• Jacques Baratier, 91, French film director and screenwriter. (French)
• Erich Böhme, 79, German journalist, editor of Der Spiegel (1973–1989), cancer.
• Jacques Braunstein, 78, Romanian-born Venezuelan economist, publicist and jazz disc jockey, heart failure. (Spanish)
• William Bresnan, 75, American businessman, founder of Bresnan Communications, cancer.
• Jeffrey Grayson, 67, American businessman and criminal.
• Bess Lomax Hawes, 88, American folklorist and musician, stroke.
• Geneviève Joy, 90, French pianist.
• Alice McGrath, 92, American activist (Sleepy Lagoon murder trial), infection from a chronic illness.
• Mike Penner, 52, American sportswriter (Los Angeles Times), suicide.
• Irving Tripp, 88, American comic book artist (Little Lulu), cancer.
• Larry Turner, 70, American politician, member of the Tennessee House of Representatives (since 1985), after long illness.
• Warren Vanders, 79, American actor, lung cancer.

28

• René Barret, 87, French cyclist.
• Gilles Carle, 81, Canadian film director and screenwriter, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• David Aaron Clark, 49, American pornographic actor and film director, pulmonary embolism.
• Bjartmar Gjerde, 78, Norwegian politician, cabinet minister and broadcasting executive. (Norwegian)
• Bob Keane, 87, American music producer and manager, founder of Del-Fi Records, renal failure.
• Eric Waldram Kemp, 94, British Church of England theologian, Bishop of Chichester (1974–2001).
• Tony Kendall, 73, Italian actor (Kommissar X series), after short illness.
• Patrick Konchellah, 41, Kenyan runner, stomach cancer.
• Samuel Martin, 85, American linguist.
• Koichi Saito, 80, Japanese film director and photographer, pneumonia.
• Jerry Shipkey, 84, American football player.
• Joaquín Vargas Gómez, 84, Mexican media owner, founder of MVS Comunicaciones, natural causes. (Spanish)

29

• Prince Alexander of Belgium, 67, Belgian royal, pulmonary embolism.
• George Bickford, 82, Australian football player. (death announced on this date)
• Andrew Donald Booth, 91, British computer scientist.
• Mary Call Darby Collins, 98, American First Lady of Florida (1955–1961), after long illness.
• George Cummins, 78, Irish footballer (Everton, Luton Town, Republic of Ireland).
• Nora David, Baroness David, 96, British politician, member of the House of Lords.
• Gilbert-Antoine Duchêne, 90, French Bishop of Saint-Claude (1975–1994).
• Princess Farial of Egypt, 71, Egyptian royal, oldest child of King Farouk, stomach cancer.
• Ghalib Bin Ali, 96, Omani Ibadi religious leader. (Arabic)
• Robert Holdstock, 61, British science fiction author, Escherichia coli infection.
• Solange Magnano, 38, Argentinian beauty queen (Miss Argentina, 1994), pulmonary embolism.
• Richard Mayne, 83, British international civil servant, broadcaster and critic.
• Karl Peglau, 82, German traffic psychologist, creator of the Ampelmännchen traffic lights.
• Lee Pelty, 74, American stage actor, lung cancer.
• Jerneja Perc, 38, Slovenian athlete, cancer. (Slovenian)
• John Storm Roberts, 73, American ethnomusician.
• Roy Hendry Thomson, 77, British politician.

30

• Christopher Anvil, 84, American science fiction writer.
• George Atkins, 92, Canadian radio and TV presenter (CBC), founder of Farm Radio International, kidney failure.
• Dot Bailey, 92, New Zealand cricketer.
• Asim Butt, 42, Pakistani-born British cricketer.
• Emile Eid, 84, Lebanese Roman Catholic titular bishop of Sarepta dei Maroniti.
• Brent Green, 33, Australian football player, drowned.
• Paul Naschy, 75, Spanish actor, screenwriter and director, pancreatic cancer.
• Milorad Pavić, 80, Serbian writer, heart failure.
• Lucian Pulvermacher, 91, American head of the True Catholic Church.