Deaths in March 2008
The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2008.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
March 2008[edit]
1[edit]
- Haroldo de Andrade, 73, Brazilian radio presenter (Rádio Globo), multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.[1]
- Dora Dolz, 66, Spanish-born Dutch artist.[2]
- Kevin Dunn, 57, British Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle.[3]
- Bhanbhagta Gurung, 86, Nepalese Gurkha soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross.[4]
- Raúl Reyes, 59, Colombian FARC second-in-command, airstrike.[5]
- Moustafa Soheim, 70, Egyptian Olympic fencer.[6]
- Sid Spindler, 75, Polish-born Australian senator (Democrats) (1990–1996), liver cancer.[7]
- Andrey Tissin, 32, Russian world and European canoeing champion, Olympian and coach, drowning.[8]
- George Toley, 91, American collegiate tennis coach.[9]
2[edit]
- Sofiko Chiaureli, 70, Georgian actress.[10]
- Barbara Anne Davis, 77, American baseball player (AAGPBL)[11]
- Roger Gill, 35, Guyanese Olympic sprinter, car accident.[12]
- Jeff Healey, 41, Canadian jazz and blues-rock guitarist and vocalist, sarcoma.[13]
- Carl Hoddle, 40, English footballer (Leyton Orient, Barnet), brain aneurysm.[14][15]
- Paul Raymond, 82, British pornographic magazine publisher and property magnate.[16]
- Ted Robinson, 84, American golf course architect, pancreatic cancer.[17]
- Frederick Seitz, 96, American physicist who co-discovered the Wigner-Seitz cell.[18]
3[edit]
- Bertil Albertsson, 86, Swedish runner.[19]
- Vizol Koso, 93, Indian Naga politician.[20]
- Ramón Barquín, 93, Cuban army colonel and diplomat, opponent of Fulgencio Batista, led 1956 coup attempt, cancer.[21]
- William Brice, 86, American painter and UCLA professor, injuries from fall.[22]
- Giuseppe Di Stefano, 86, Italian operatic tenor, after long coma following assault.[23]
- Donald S. Lopez, Sr., 84, American deputy director of the National Air and Space Museum, heart attack.[24]
- Malcolm McKenna, 77, American paleontologist.[25]
- Norm O'Neill, 71, Australian cricketer, throat cancer.[26]
- Annemarie Renger, 88, German politician (SPD), Speaker of Parliament (1972–1976).[27]
- Iván Ríos, 45, Colombian FARC commander, shot by his Chief of Security.[28]
- Norman "Hurricane" Smith, 85, British singer, recording engineer (The Beatles, Pink Floyd) and record producer.[29]
- Kenneth Woollcombe, 84, British Bishop of Oxford (1971–1978).[30]
4[edit]
- Hossein Alikhani, 63, Iranian NGO founder, political scientist and author, leukemia.[31]
- Richard Davis Anderson, 86, American mathematician.[32]
- Erwin Ballabio, 89, Swiss football goalkeeper.[33]
- Robert Bruning, 79, Australian actor, heart attack.[34]
- Gary Gygax, 69, American game designer, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons.[35]
- Tina Lagostena Bassi, 82, Italian politician.[36]
- Elena Nathanael, 61, Greek actress, lung cancer.[37]
- Leonard Rosenman, 83, American film composer (Barry Lyndon, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Bound for Glory), Oscar winner (1977, 1978), heart attack.[38]
- Semka Sokolović-Bertok, 72, Croatian actress, stroke.[39]
- George Walter, 79, Antiguan Premier (1971–1976), heart attack.[40]
5[edit]
- Eve Carson, 22, American student leader (UNC Chapel Hill), shot.[41]
- Derek Dooley, 78, British footballer and former chairman of Sheffield United.[42]
- Elfriede Kaun, 93, German 1936 Olympic bronze medalist in the high jump.[43]
- Nader Khalili, 72, Iranian architect, heart failure.[44]
- John C. Mackie, 87, American Representative from Michigan (1965–1967).[45]
- Richard Miles McCool, 86, American Medal of Honor recipient for actions during World War II.[46]
- Don McFarlane, 81, Canadian Olympic sprinter.[47]
- Stephen Oliver, 66, American actor (Peyton Place), gastric cancer.[48]
- Sixty Rayburn, 91, American politician.[49]
- Hajibey Sultanov, 86, Azerbaijani astronomer, fire accident.[50]
- Joseph Weizenbaum, 85, German-born American computer scientist, inventor of ELIZA computer program, stroke.[51]
- Ihor Yemchuk, 77, Ukrainian Olympic silver (1952) and bronze (1956) medal-winning rower.[52]
6[edit]
- Gloria Shayne Baker, 84, American songwriter (Rain Rain Go Away, Do You Hear What I Hear?), lung cancer.[53]
- Lili Boniche, 87, Algerian-born French singer of Andalusian Arabic songs.[54]
- Don Curtis, 80, American professional wrestler, stroke.[55]
- Kurt Eberling, Sr., 77, German-American inventor of SpaghettiOs, cancer.[56]
- Gustaw Holoubek, 84, Polish film and theatre actor and politician.[57]
- Stanislav Konopásek, 84, Czechoslovakian Olympic silver medallist in ice hockey (1948).[58]
- Peter Poreku Dery, 89, Ghanaian cardinal, Archbishop of Tamale (1974–1994).[59]
- Kiddinan Sivanesan, 51, Sri Lankan Tamil Parliament member (TNA), roadside bomb.[60]
- Malvin Wald, 90, American screenwriter (The Naked City).[61]
7[edit]
- Ossie Álvarez, 74, American Major League Baseball player (Washington Senators, Detroit Tigers).[62]
- Luisa Isabel Álvarez de Toledo, 71, Spanish noblewoman and author.[63]
- Isaías Carrasco, 43, Spanish Basque politician, shot.[64]
- Leonardo Costagliola, 87, Italian football goalkeeper (ACF Fiorentina).[65]
- Dick Durrell, 82, American founding publisher of People magazine, lung cancer.[66]
- David Gale, 86, American mathematician, heart attack.[67]
- Charles A. Gillespie, Jr., 72, American diplomat, Ambassador to Colombia and Chile, cancer.[68]
- Leon Greenman, 97, British Holocaust survivor, only Englishman sent to Auschwitz.[69]
- Julius Paltiel, 83, Norwegian Holocaust survivor.[70]
- Francis Pym, 86, British Conservative Party politician, Foreign Secretary (1982–1983).[71]
- Howard Wing, 92, Chinese Olympic cyclist.[72]
8[edit]
- Lucy G. Acosta, 81, Mexican-American activist.[73]
- Sadun Aren, 85, Turkish academic and politician.[74]
- Carol Barnes, 63, British ITN news presenter, stroke.[75]
- Donald C. MacDonald, 94, Canadian politician, former leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party.[76]
- Les Smith, 80, English footballer (Wolves, Aston Villa), cancer.[77]
9[edit]
- Gus Giordano, 84, American Emmy Award-winning jazz dancer, pneumonia.[78]
- Edward L. Hart, American poet and Mormon hymnwriter.[79]
- Florent Jodoin, 85, Canadian Olympic cyclist.[80]
- Simon Reisman, 88, Canadian chief negotiator of the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement, cardiac arrest.[81]
10[edit]
- Galo Ador Jr., 39, Filipino cartoonist.[82]
- Richard Biegenwald, 67, American serial killer.[83]
- William Bradford, 61, American serial killer, natural causes.[84]
- Hugh Brown, 88, British Labour politician, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland (1974–1979).[85]
- Charles Wayne Day, 65, American blues guitarist, wrote the distinctive riff in "Secret Agent Man".[86]
- Robert P. Foster, 90, American academic administrator, president of Northwest Missouri State University (1964–1977).[87]
- Ricardo García, 81, Mexican Olympic cyclist.[88]
- Dennis Irwin, 56, American jazz double bassist, complications of cancer.[89]
- Ana Kalandadze, 83, Georgian poet.[90]
- Vangelis Kazan, 70, Greek actor.[91]
- Lee Ho-seong, 41, South Korean baseball player, thief and murderer, suicide by drowning.[92]
- Radovan Lukavský, 88, Czech actor.[93]
- Sai Htee Saing, 57, Burmese singer.[94]
- Otto Schnellbacher, 84, American football and basketball player, cancer.[95]
11[edit]
- J. I. Albrecht, 77, American-born Canadian manager and director in the Canadian Football League, complications from a stroke.[96]
- Zakaria Deros, 62, Malaysian former politician, heart attack.[97]
- John Roderick, 93, American journalist (AP) and author, extensively covered China (1930s–2000s), heart failure and pneumonia.[98]
- Phyllis Spira, 64, South African prima ballerina, complications of surgery.[99]
- Dave Stevens, 52, American comic book writer and artist (The Rocketeer), leukemia.[100]
- Michael J. Todd, 50, British Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police, exposure.[101]
- Lukas Vischer, 81, Swiss theologian.[102]
12[edit]
- Alan Buckley, 66, British rugby union and rugby league player.[103]
- Folke Eriksson, 82, Swedish Olympic water polo player.[104]
- Erwin Geschonneck, 101, German actor.[105]
- Jorge Guinzburg, 59, Argentine journalist and comedian, pulmonary infection.[106]
- Alun Hoddinott, 78, Welsh composer.[107]
- Cassià Maria Just, 81, Spanish cleric, former abbot of Santa Maria de Montserrat, stroke.[108]
- Howard Metzenbaum, 90, American politician, Senator from Ohio (1974, 1976–1995).[109]
- Ovidiu Iuliu Moldovan, 66, Romanian actor, cancer.[110]
- Károly Németh, 85, Hungarian politician.[111]
- Lazare Ponticelli, 110, Italian-born last official French veteran of World War I.[112]
- Asesela Ravuvu, 77, Fijian politician and former University of the South Pacific academic, natural causes.[113]
- Tom Tuohy, 90, British chemist, averted potential disaster at Windscale.[114]
13[edit]
- Tessa Birnie, 73, New Zealand concert pianist.[115]
- Iosif Boyarsky, 90, Russian former Soyuzmultfilm director, one of the fathers of Soviet animation.[116]
- Claire Brooks, 76, British politician.[117]
- Martin Fierro, 66, American saxophonist, cancer.[118]
- Scarlet Garcia, 23, Filipino model, shot.[119]
- Terry Moloney, 68, Irish hurler.[120]
- Chike Obi, 86, Nigerian mathematician and politician.[121]
- Rafael Tufiño, 85, Puerto Rican painter and printmaker, lung cancer.[122]
14[edit]
- Taslim Arif, 53, Pakistani cricketer, lung infection.[123]
- Gary Binfield, 42, British swimmer, heart attack.[124]
- Mel Brandt, 88, American actor and announcer.[125]
- Clyde Cameron, 95, Australian politician, MP (1949–1980), Minister in the Whitlam Government.[126]
- Mike Dawson, 54, American football player, heart attack.[127]
- Stig-Olof Grenner, 68, Finnish Olympic swimmer[128]
- Chiara Lubich, 88, Italian Catholic activist, founder of the Focolare Movement.[129]
- Ingvald Ulveseth, 83, Norwegian politician.[130]
15[edit]
- Sambhaji Angre, 87, Indian politician.[131]
- Jacob DeShazer, 95, American bombardier, participant in the Doolittle Raid.[132]
- Mikey Dread, 54, Jamaican singer, record producer and broadcaster, brain tumor.[133]
- Vytautas Kernagis, 56, Lithuanian singer, television announcer, gastric cancer.[134]
- G. David Low, 52, American astronaut, colon cancer.[135]
- Benjamin Ngoubou, 82, Gabonese foreign minister.[136]
- Sam C. Pointer, Jr., 73, American federal judge for the District Court for the Northern District of Alabama (1970–2000).[137]
- Ken Reardon, 86, Canadian ice hockey defenceman (Montreal Canadiens), Alzheimer's disease.[138]
- Ross Scaife, 47, American classicist and digital humanist, cancer.[139]
- Yury Tsuranov, 72, Soviet Olympic sport shooter.[140]
- Vicki Van Meter, 26, American pilot, suicide by gunshot.[141]
16[edit]
- Anura Bandaranaike, 59, Sri Lankan politician, complications from cancer.[142]
- Bill Brown, 95, Australian cricket captain, member of 1948 Invincibles team.[143]
- Ola Brunkert, 61, Swedish session drummer for ABBA, injuries from accidental fall.[144]
- Wayne Davis, 44, American football player, motor neurone disease.[145]
- Ivan Dixon, 76, American actor (Hogan's Heroes, A Raisin in the Sun, Porgy and Bess), complications from kidney failure.[146]
- Gary Hart, 66, American professional wrestling manager, heart attack.[147]
- John Hewer, 86, British actor (Captain Birdseye), natural causes.[148]
- Otto Jemelka, 93-94, Czechoslovakian Olympic modern pentathlete.[149]
- Daniel MacMaster, 39, Canadian rock vocalist (Bonham), group A streptococcal infection.[150]
- Mary Meader, 91, American aerial photographer.[151]
- Bob Purkey, 78, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds, Pittsburgh Pirates), Alzheimer's disease.[152]
- John Shedd Reed, 90, American president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (1967–1986), natural causes.[153]
- Laurus Škurla, 80, Czechoslovakian-born American first hierarch of the ROCOR.[154]
- Jonathan Williams, 79, American poet, photographer and publisher, founder of The Jargon Society.[155]
17[edit]
- Roland Arnall, 68, American owner of Ameriquest Mortgage, Ambassador to the Netherlands (2006–2008), cancer.[156]
- Claude Farell, 93, Austrian actress.[157]
- Kim Goetz, 50, American basketball player.[158]
- Claus Luthe, 75, German automobile designer.[159]
- Georges Pisani, 89, French Olympic sailor [160]
18[edit]
- Hazel Barnes, 92, American philosopher.[161]
- Andrew Britton, 27, British-born spy novelist, undiagnosed heart condition.[162]
- Mariano Di Gangi, 84, Canadian Presbyterian minister.[163]
- Philip Jones Griffiths, 72, British photojournalist, cancer.[164]
- Martin Halliday, 81, British physician.[165]
- Jyrki Hämäläinen, 65, Finnish journalist, editor of Suosikki magazine.[166]
- Anthony Minghella, 54, British director (The English Patient, Cold Mountain, The Talented Mr. Ripley), Oscar winner (1997), post-surgery haemorrhage.[167]
- Geoffrey Pearson, 80, Canadian diplomat, son of former Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson.[168]
- Anton Pongratz, 60, Romanian Olympic fencer.[169]
- Maral Rahmanzadeh, 92, Azeri painter, visual artist.[170]
- Oreste Rizzini, 67, Italian voice actor, stomach cancer.[171]
- Justin Wright, 27, American animator (Ratatouille), heart attack.[172]
19[edit]
- Joe Blackledge, 79, British cricketer, former captain and president of the Lancashire County Cricket Club.[173]
- Sir Arthur C. Clarke, 90, British science fiction author (2001: A Space Odyssey), heart failure.[174]
- Hugo Claus, 78, Belgian author, voluntary euthanasia.[175]
- John Dowie, 93, Australian sculptor, stroke.[176]
- Mia Permanto, 19, Finnish singer, finalist in Idols, accidental drug overdose.[177]
- Raghuvaran, 59, Indian actor, cardiac arrest.[178]
- Paul Scofield, 86, British actor (A Man for All Seasons, Quiz Show, Serpico), Oscar winner (1967), leukaemia.[179]
- Chantal Sébire, 53, French esthesioneuroblastoma patient and euthanasia activist, Pentobarbital overdose[180]
20[edit]
- Eric Ashton, 73, British rugby league player for Wigan and Great Britain, cancer.[181]
- Sobhan Babu, 71, Indian actor, cardiac arrest.[182]
- Ann Baumgartner, 89, American aviator.[183]
- Alexandru Custov, 53, Romanian footballer.[184]
- Prince Ferdinand, Duke of Castro, 81, Italian claimant to headship of the House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies.[185]
- Jon Hassler, 74, American author, progressive supranuclear palsy.[186]
- Al Hofmann, 60, American drag racer, heart attack.[187]
- Carlos Galvão de Melo, 86, Portuguese general, Conservative member of National Salvation Junta.[188]
- Bestia Salvaje, 46, Mexican lucha libre wrestler, liver disease.[189]
- Brian Wilde, 80, British actor (Porridge, Last of the Summer Wine, The Dustbinmen).[190]
21[edit]
- Gadzhi Abashilov, 58, Russian journalist, chief of VGTRK TV company in Dagestan, shot.[191]
- Anna Alchuk, 52, Russian poet and visual artist, suicide.[192]
- Henri Blaffart, 42, Belgian wildlife conservationist for Conservation International in New Caledonia, drowned.[193]
- Tamás Bujkó, 48, Hungarian judo competitor, stabbed and beaten.[194]
- Denis Cosgrove, 59, British geographer and Alexander von Humboldt professor of geography at UCLA, cancer.[195]
- Klaus Dinger, 61, German drummer (Neu!, Kraftwerk), heart failure.[196]
- Roy Foster, 62, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians).[197]
- Lynne Golding-Kirk, 87, Australian ballerina, complications of surgery.[198]
- George Gross, 85, Canadian sports journalist, founding sports editor of the Toronto Sun, heart attack.[199]
- Shusha Guppy, 72, Iranian writer and singer.[200]
- Raymond Leblanc, 92, Belgian comic book producer and publisher (The Adventures of Tintin).[201]
- John List, 82, American mass murderer, complications of pneumonia.[202]
- Gabriel París Gordillo, 98, Colombian military governor, chairman of Colombian Military Junta.[203]
- Waltrude Schleyer, 92, German widow of Hanns-Martin Schleyer, advocate against the Red Army Faction.[204]
- Ilyas Shurpayev, 32, Russian journalist responsible for North Caucasus news on Channel One, murder by strangulation.[205]
- Merv Wallace, 91, New Zealand cricket captain (1952–1953).[206]
22[edit]
- Robert Dyk, 71, American television reporter (ABC News, WMTW-TV), cancer.[207]
- Cachao, 89, Cuban musician credited with creating mambo, renal failure.[208]
- Robert J. McIntosh, 85, American politician, U.S. Representative from Michigan (1957–1959).[209]
- Harvey Picker, 92, American philanthropist.[210]
- Adolfo Suárez Rivera, 81, Mexican cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Monterrey, brain hemorrhage.[211]
23[edit]
- Abdallah al-Ajmi, 29, Kuwaiti bomber, suicide.[212]
- Big Jack Armstrong, 62, American radio DJ.[213]
- Heath Benedict, 24, American football offensive lineman (Newberry College), 2008 NFL Draft prospect, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.[214]
- Al Copeland, 64, American restaurateur, founder of Popeyes Chicken, salivary gland cancer.[215]
- Hugo Correa, 81, Chilean journalist and science fiction writer.[216]
- Maryam Farman Farmaian, 94, Iranian feminist activist.[217]
- E. A. Markham, 68, Montserrat-born British poet and writer.[218]
- George Switzer, 92, American mineralogist, acquired the Hope Diamond for the Smithsonian Institution, pneumonia.[219]
- Chase Tatum, 34, American World Championship Wrestling wrestler and road manager for Outkast, apparent accidental drug overdose.[220]
- Vaino Vahing, 68, Estonian writer and psychiatrist.[221]
24[edit]
- Severin Cecile Abega, 52, Cameroonian author and anthropologist.[222]
- Chalmers Alford, 53, American jazz guitarist, diabetes.[223]
- Neil Aspinall, 66, British road manager for The Beatles and executive of Apple Corps, lung cancer.[224]
- Rafael Azcona, 81, Spanish screenwriter, lung cancer.[225]
- Victor Christ-Janer, 92, American architect.[226]
- John Cushley, 65, Scottish footballer (Celtic, West Ham United), motor neurone disease.[227]
- Ray Drinkwater, 76, British footballer (Queens Park Rangers).[228]
- Boris Dvornik, 68, Croatian actor, stroke.[229]
- Mary Joan Nielubowicz, 79, American head of the Navy Nurse Corps (1983–1987).[230]
- Hal Riney, 75, American advertising executive, founder of Publicis & Hal Riney, cancer.[231]
- Dina Sassoli, 87, Italian actress.[232]
- Sam Toy, 84, British chair of Ford UK (1980–1986).[233]
- Richard Widmark, 93, American actor (Kiss of Death, Judgment at Nuremberg, Against All Odds).[234]
- Sherri Wood, 28, Canadian journalist (Toronto Sun), brain cancer.[235]
25[edit]
- Art Aragon, 80, American boxer, stroke.[236]
- Ben Carnevale, 92, American college basketball coach.[237]
- Tony Church, 77, British actor.[238]
- Jimmy Dell, 83, British Wing Commander and test pilot.[239]
- Ronald Dick, 76, British Royal Air Force officer.[240]
- Thierry Gilardi, 49, French journalist and TF1 sports commentator, heart attack.[241]
- William G. Hyland, 79, American intelligence official.[242]
- Sergey Kramarenko, 61, Russian football player.[243]
- Abby Mann, 80, American screenwriter (Judgment at Nuremberg), Oscar winner (1962), heart failure.[244]
- Herb Peterson, 89, American fast food pioneer, inventor of the McDonald's Egg McMuffin.[245]
- Gene Puerling, 78, American vocal jazz musician, singer, musical arranger for the Hi-Los and Singers Unlimited.[246]
- Edward Rafeedie, 79, American senior judge for the California Central District Court, cancer.[247]
- Sérgio de Souza, 73, Brazilian journalist, co-founder and editor of Caros Amigos magazine, respiratory illness.[248]
- Ivan Toms, 55, South African physician, activist against apartheid and conscription, meningitis.[249]
26[edit]
- Hawley Ades, 99, American choral arranger.[250]
- Christian Bergelin, 62, French politician.[251]
- Robert Fagles, 74, American professor, poet and translator of ancient epics, prostate cancer.[252]
- Donald Hunter, 81, British football player.[253]
- Manuel Marulanda, 78, Colombian founder and commander-in-chief of terrorist organization FARC.[254]
- Wally Phillips, 82, American radio personality, pioneer of talk radio, Alzheimer's disease.[255]
27[edit]
- Jean-Marie Balestre, 86, French former President of FISA and later FIA.[256]
- Beverly Broadman, 60, American broadcaster with CNN and CBS News, cancer.[257]
- Billy Consolo, 73, American baseball player and coach, heart attack.[258]
- George Pruteanu, 60, Romanian literary critic and senator, heart attack.[259]
28[edit]
- Mohammad Asaduzzaman, 60, Bangladeshi university academic and administrator, cardiac arrest.[260]
- Lorne Ferguson, 77, Canadian ice hockey player.[261]
- Kunio Lemari, 65, Marshall Islands acting President (1996–1997).[262]
- Michael Podro, 77, British art historian.[263]
- Herb Rich, 79, American football player.[264]
- Ron Slinker, 62, American professional wrestler.[265]
- Helen Yglesias, 92, American novelist.[266]
29[edit]
- Fereydun Adamiyat, 87, Iranian historian.[267]
- Albert Alcalay, 90, American abstract artist.[268]
- Angus Fairhurst, 41, British artist, suicide by hanging.[269]
- Allan Ganley, 77, British jazz drummer.[270]
- Josef Mikl, 78, Austrian painter, cancer.[271]
- Isabella Nardoni, 5, Brazilian murder victim, thrown out of window.[272]
- Ralph Rapson, 93, American architect, heart attack.[273]
- Albert Stallard, Baron Stallard, 86, British Labour MP and life peer.[274]
- Myint Thein, 62, Burmese National League for Democracy spokesman, stomach cancer.[275]
30[edit]
- Marie-Françoise Audollent, 70, French actress, accidental fall.[276]
- Anders Göthberg, 32, Swedish guitarist (Broder Daniel).[277]
- Douglas Kent Hall, 69, American writer and photographer.[278]
- David Leslie, 54, British racing driver and commentator, Farnborough air crash.[279]
- Sean Levert, 39, American R&B singer.[280]
- Richard Lloyd, 63, British racing driver and team owner, Farnborough air crash.[279]
- Jim Mooney, 88, American comic book artist (Batman, Spider-Man, Thor).[281]
- David D. Newsom, 90, American Ambassador to the Philippines (1977–1978), respiratory failure.[282]
- Dith Pran, 65, Cambodian-born American journalist, survivor of the Killing Fields, pancreatic cancer.[283]
31[edit]
- Nikolai Baibakov, 97, Russian economist, Gosplan head (1955–1957, 1965–1985), pneumonia.[284]
- Jules Dassin, 96, American film director (The Naked City, Rififi, Never on Sunday), influenza.[285]
- William Louis Dickinson, 82, American judge and Representative from Alabama (1965–1993), colon cancer.[286]
- Eliyahu Boruch Finkel, 60, Israeli rabbi and lecturer.[287]
- Robert F. Goheen, 88, American President of Princeton University (1957–1972), Ambassador to India (1977–1980), heart failure.[288]
- Bill Keightley, 81, American equipment manager for Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball since 1962, bleeding from spinal tumor.[289]
- Halszka Osmólska, 77, Polish palaeontologist.[290]
- David Todd, 93, American architect, designed Manhattan Plaza, former chairman of NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission.[291]
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