The following is a list of notabledeaths in December 2007.

Entries for each day are listedalphabetically 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.

• Rasim Al-Jumaily, 69, Iraqi actor and comedian, kidney failure.^[1]
• Jennifer Davidson, 38, American executive, senior vice president of programming and scheduling forCartoon Network.^[2]
• Elisabeth Eybers, 92, South African-born poet.^[3]
• Tony Fall, 67, British rally driver andOpel Motorsport Team director, heart attack.^[4]
• Ken McGregor, 78, Australian tennis player, stomach cancer.^[5]
• Danny Newman, 88, American publicist for theLyric Opera of Chicago, pulmonary fibrosis.^[6]
• Anton Rodgers, 74, British actor.^[7]
• Ivo Rojnica, 92, Croatian-Argentine war crimes suspect, businessman, diplomat, and intelligence agent.^[8]

• Jennifer Alexander, 35, Canadian-born American ballet dancer, traffic collision.^[9]
• Robert Orville Anderson, 90, American founder and former CEO ofARCO.^[10]
• Nelly Beltrán, 82, Argentine actress.^[11]
• Elizabeth Hardwick, 91, American co-founder ofThe New York Review of Books.^[12]
• Doreen Kartinyeri, 72,Ngarrindjeri elder and historian.^[13]
• David Maybury-Lewis, 78, British anthropologist.^[14]
• Eleonora Rossi Drago, 82, Italian actress, cerebral haemorrhage.^[15]
• Les Shannon, 81, English football player (Liverpool,Burnley) and manager (Bury,Blackpool).^[16]
• Thomas F. Torrance, 94, Scottish theologian.^[17]

• Art Arfons, 81, American jet-car driver and drag racer, three-time worldland speed record holder.^[18]
• John Belgrave, 67, New Zealand public servant, Chief Ombudsman (2003–2007), cancer.^[19]
• Jaime Fuster, 66, Puerto Rican politician and jurist, Resident Commissioner (1985–1992), heart attack.^[20]
• Susumu Katsumata, 63, Japanese manga artist and illustrator, melanoma.^[21]
• James Kemsley, 59, Australian cartoonist (Ginger Meggs), motor neurone disease.^[22]
• Keshav Meshram, 70, Indian writer and critic, lung cancer.^[23]
• Lord Bloody Wog Rolo, 62, Australian activist, renal cell carcinoma.^[24]
• Heloneida Studart, 76, Brazilian writer, essayist, playwright, journalist, advocate for women's rights, and political figure.^[25]

• Jake Gaudaur, 87, Canadian Commissioner of the Canadian Football League (1968–1984), cancer.^[26]
• Jay H. Gordon, 77, American politician, Vermont Auditor of Accounts (1965–1969), smoke inhalation.^[27]
• Stanley McArdle, 85, British admiral.^[28]
• Norval Morrisseau, 75, CanadianOjibwe artist, founder of theWoodlands Style, Parkinson's disease.^[29]
• Pimp C, 33, American rapper (UGK), sleep apnea and accidental overdose.^[30][31]
• Chip Reese, 56, American professional poker player, heart attack.^[32]
• Herman Rose, 98, American cityscape painter, cancer.^[33]
• Carlos Valdes, 81, Cuban conga player, respiratory failure.^[34]

• Iosif Dan, 57, Romanian revolutionary, lung cancer.^[35]
• Madhukar Vasudev Dhond, 93, Indian literary and art critic.^[36]
• Christine Finn, 78, English actress.^[37]
• Robin Gloag, 64, British co-founder ofStagecoach Group, traffic collision.^[38]
• Arnold Hardy, 85, American Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer, complications from hip surgery.^[39]
• Robert A. Hawkins, 19, American mass murderer, suicide by gunshot.^[40]
• Andrew Imbrie, 86, American composer.^[41]
• Jillian Kesner-Graver, 58, American actress (Happy Days),Orson Welles historian, staph infection.^[42]
• Alois Kracher, 48, Austrian winemaker, pancreatic cancer.^[43]
• Peter Orton, 64, English television producer, cancer.^[44]
• George Paraskevaides, 91, Cypriot businessman (Joannou & Paraskevaides) and philanthropist.^[45]
• Karlheinz Stockhausen, 79, German composer.^[46]
• Tony Tenser, 87, British film producer.^[47]
• Harry Thomson Jones, 82, British racehorse trainer.^[48]
• Rene Villanueva, 53, Filipino playwright and author, stroke.^[49]
• John Winter, 83, Australian athlete,1948 Olympics high jump gold medalist.^[50]

• Wolfgang Assbrock, 55, German politician, member of theCDU andLandtag of North Rhine-Westphalia.^[51]
• Mike Donkin, 56, British reporter and journalist (BBC News), cancer.^[52]
• Katy French, 24, Irish model, suspected overdose.^[53]
• Jacques Hébert, 84, Canadian politician, Senator (1983–1998).^[54]
• John Hill, 95, British politician, Conservative MP forSouth Norfolk (1955–1974).^[55]
• John Pilkington Hudson, 97, British horticulturist and bomb disposal expert.^[56]
• Gennadi Kinko, 65, Soviet Estonian rower.^[57]
• Murray Klein, 84, American businessman, co-owner of New York City'sZabar's food emporium, lung cancer.^[58]
• Shelley Rohde, 74, British journalist and author.^[59]
• Ken Southworth, 89, American animator (Scooby-Doo,Q. T. Hush,He-Man and the Masters of the Universe), stroke.^[60]
• András Szőllősy, 86, Hungarian composer.^[61]

• Noel Forster, 75, British artist.^[62]
• Fuad Hassan, 78, Indonesian Minister of Education (1985–1993), cancer.^[63]
• John Hollowbread, 73, British football goalkeeper (Tottenham Hotspur,Southampton).^[64]
• Sartono Kartodirdjo, 86, Indonesian historian.^[65]

• Donald Burton, 73, British actor, husband of actressCarroll Baker, emphysema.^[66]
• Ioan Fiscuteanu, 70, Romanian actor, colon cancer.^[67]
• Dmitry Grigorieff, 89, American Episcopalian prelate, dean emeritus ofSaint Nicholas Cathedral in Washington, D.C., cardiac arrest.^[68]
• Roger King, 63, American TV executive (King World,CBS), developedWheel of Fortune,Jeopardy! andThe Oprah Winfrey Show, stroke.^[69]
• Gerardo García Pimentel, 24, Mexican crime reporter, shot.^[70]
• Al Scaduto, 79, American cartoonist (They'll Do It Every Time).^[71]

• John Stuart Archer, 64, British chemical engineer and academic administrator.^[72]
• István Borzsák, 92, Hungarian classical scholar.^[73]
• Edward Dutkiewicz, 46, British artist.^[74]
• Wayne Howard, 58, American comic book artist (Charlton Comics), heart attack.^[75]
• Apichet Kittikorncharoen, 25, Thai singer, brain injury.^[76]
• Jim Langley, 78, British footballer forEngland,Fulham, andQPR, heart attack.^[77]
• Matthew J. Murray, 24, American spree killer, suicide by gunshot.^[78]
• Elspeth Rostow, 90, American academic, University of Texas dean, widow ofWalt Whitman Rostow, heart attack.^[79]
• Kurt Schmied, 81, Austrian footballer, former member of thenational team.^[80]
• Thore Skogman, 76, Swedish musician, stroke.^[81]
• Rafael Sperafico, 26, Brazilian racing driver, race crash.^[82]
• J. Fife Symington Jr., 97, American diplomat to Trinidad and Tobago, complications of old age.^[83]
• Gordon Zahn, 84, American Catholic peace activist, co-founder ofPax Christi USA, complications of Alzheimer's disease.^[84]

• Ashleigh Aston Moore, 26, American-born Canadian actress (Now and Then).^{[citation needed]}
• George Morris, 76, American football player (Georgia Tech,San Francisco 49ers), apparent heart attack.^[85]
• Aqsa Parvez, 16, Canadian allegedly killed for refusing to wear hijab, strangled.^[86]
• Jerry Ricks, 67, American blues guitarist.^[87]
• James Roxburgh, 86, British prelate,Bishop of Barking.^[88]
• Gordon Samuels, 84, Australian governor of New South Wales (1996–2001).^[89]
• Henrietta Yurchenco, 91, American folklorist.^[90]

• Allan Bérubé, 61, American gay historian and writer, complications from stomach ulcers.^[91]
• José Luis Calva, 38, Mexican writer, serial killer and cannibal, suicide by hanging.^[92]
• Yuriy Chervochkin, 22, Russian opposition activist, beating.
• Freddie Fields, 84, American Hollywood agent, producer and studio executive, lung cancer.^[93]
• Pat Hannigan, 71, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs,New York Rangers,Philadelphia Flyers).^[94]
• Christie Hennessy, 62, Irish singer and songwriter, cancer.^[95]
• Nicholas Kao Se Tseien, 110, Chinese supercentenarian, world's oldest Catholic priest.^[96]
• Carl Ludwig, Archduke of Austria, 89, Austrian son of EmperorCharles I of Austria.^[97]
• Ottomar Pinto, 76, Brazilian politician, Governor ofRoraima (2004–2007), heart attack.^[98]
• Tatsuzō Shimaoka, 88, Japanese potter,living national treasure, acute liver failure.^[99]
• Terry Yates, 57, American biologist, discovered source ofhantavirus, brain cancer.^[100]

• Basuki, 51, Indonesian comedian.^[101]
• Ted Corbitt, 88, American ultramarathon runner, respiratory complications.^[102]
• Shawn Eckardt, 40, American bodyguard and businessman, conspired to assaultNancy Kerrigan, natural causes.^[103]
• Josep Guinovart, 80, Spanish artist.^[104]
• François al-Hajj, 54, Lebanese Army general, roadside bomb.^[105][106]
• Rosemarie Koczy, 72, Holocaust survivor, German artist and teacher known for her many works dealing with the Holocaust.^[107]
• Márcio Montarroyos, 59, Brazilian jazz trumpeter, lung cancer.^[108]
• Jim Nevill, 80, British police officer, former head of Scotland Yard anti-terrorist squad.^[109]
• Alfons Maria Stickler, 97, Austrian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.^[110]
• Ike Turner, 76, American R&B musician and record producer, ex-husband of singerTina Turner, cocaine overdose.^[111][112]
• Schuster Vance, 47, American actor, cancer.^[113]
• Lee Vincent, 91, American bassist and radio personality (WILK), heart failure.^[114]
• Yuli Vorontsov, 78, Russian diplomat, former ambassador to the United Nations and United States.^[115]

• Philippe Clay, 80, French singer and actor.^[116]
• Fuat Deniz, 40, Swedish-Assyrian sociologist, stabbed.^[117]
• Wiggo Hanssen, 84, Norwegian Olympic speed skater.^[118]
• Laura Huxley, 96, American musician and author, widow ofAldous Huxley, cancer.^[119]
• Jan Jakub Kotík, 35, Czech artist and rock drummer, cancer.^[120]
• Alain Payet, 60, French adult film director.^[121]
• Robert Russin, 93, American sculptor.^[122]
• Floyd Westerman, 71, American musician, actor (Dances With Wolves,Walker, Texas Ranger,Hidalgo) and Native American activist, leukemia.^[123]

• Issam Al Zaim, 67, Syrian economist, former Minister of Industry, heart attack.^[124]
• Hank Kaplan, 87, American boxing historian, cancer.^[125]
• Maria Lauterbach, 20, American marine and murder victim.^[126]
• Cuddles Marshall, 82, American baseball player (New York Yankees).^[127]
• Frank Morgan, 73, American saxophonist.^[128]
• Johnny Science, 52, American drag king, heart failure.^[129]
• Emory Sekaquaptewa, 78, American indigenousHopi anthropologist.^[130]
• Krishna Srinivas, 94, Indian poet and writer.^[131]
• Jan Švéda, 76, Czech Olympic rower.^[132]

• John Berg, 58, American actor, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.^[133]
• Jean Bottéro, 93, FrenchAssyriologist.^[134]
• St. Clair Bourne, 64, American documentary filmmaker (Half Past Autumn), pulmonary embolism.^[135]
• Julia Carson, 69, American member of the House of Representatives from Indiana since 1997, lung cancer.^[136]
• Gerard Fairtlough, 77, British biochemist and entrepreneur.^[137]
• Andrzeja Górska, 91, Polish nun, abbess of theGrey Ursulines.^[138]
• Ryan Gracie, 33, Brazilian martial artist.^[139]
• Clem Jones, 89, AustralianLord Mayor of Brisbane (1961–1975),pneumonia.^[140]
• Matjaž Klopčič, 73, Slovenian film director.^[141]
• Diane Middlebrook, 68, American biographer and poet, cancer.^[142]
• Caetano N'Tchama, 52, Bissau-Guinean politician,Prime Minister (2000-2001).^[143]
• Giuseppe Rinaldi, 88, Italian actor and voice actor.^[144]
• Tejeshwar Singh, 60, Indian publisher, newsreader and theatre activist, cardiac arrest.^[145]
• Ace Vergel, 55, Filipino actor, cardiac arrest.^[146]
• Jonathan Witchell, 33, British BBC reporter forRadio Kent.^[147]

• Joe Ethridge, 79, American football player (Green Bay Packers).^[148]
• Dan Fogelberg, 56, American singer-songwriter ("Same Old Lang Syne"), prostate cancer.^[149]
• Harald Genzmer, 98, German composer of classical music.^[150]
• Ismail Gulgee, 81, Pakistani painter, strangled.^[151]
• Serge Vinçon, 58, French politician.^[152]

• Don Chevrier, 69, Canadian sportscaster.^[153]
• Joel Dorn, 65, American jazz, pop and R&B record producer, heart attack.^[154]
• Jim Holstein, 77, American basketball player (Minneapolis Lakers).^[155]
• Tom Murphy, 83, American politician, speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives (1973–2002), complications of a stroke.^[156]
• Celestino Piatti, 85, Swiss graphic artist, painter and book designer.^[157]
• Marnesba Tackett, 99, American civil rights activist.^[158]
• Jack Zander, 99, American animator (Tom and Jerry).^[159]

• Walter Bowart, 68, American co-founder ofEast Village Other, colon cancer.^[160]
• Gerald Le Dain, 83, Canadian jurist, Justice of the Supreme Court.^[161]
• Carl Graff-Wang, 64, Norwegian Olympic handball player.^[162]
• Samuel Karlin, 83, American mathematician, heart attack.^[163]
• Jack Linkletter, 70, American television host, lymphoma.^[164]
• Motiur Rahman, 58, Indian politician,Rashtriya Janata Dal member of theRajya Sabha since 2005, heart attack.^[165]
• Bill Strauss, 60, American writer and satirist, founder of political comedy groupCapitol Steps, pancreatic cancer.^[166]

• Frank Capra Jr., 73, American movie studio executive, son of directorFrank Capra, prostate cancer.^[167]
• James Costigan, 81, American actor and television writer (Eleanor and Franklin), heart failure.^[168]
• Desmond C. Derbyshire, 83, British linguist.^[169]
• John A. Garraty, 87, American historian, heart failure.^[170]
• Dapper O'Neil, 87, American politician,Boston City Council (1971–1999).^[171]

• Tommy Byrne, 87, American baseball player.^[172]
• Jeanne Carmen, 77, American actress and pin-up girl, lymphoma.^[173]
• Arabella Churchill, 58, British founder ofChildren's World charity, granddaughter of SirWinston Churchill, pancreatic cancer.^[174]
• Russell Coffey, 109, American serviceman, one of three known remaining American veterans of World War I.^[175]
• Lorne Davis, 77, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens) and scout (Edmonton Oilers).^[176]
• Ted Finn, 68, Canadian intelligence official, director ofCSIS (1984–1987).^[177]
• John Gibbs, 90, British Anglican prelate,Bishop of Coventry (1976–1985).^[178]
• Peer Hultberg, 72, Danish author and psychoanalyst.^[179]
• Geoffrey Martin, 79, British historian andKeeper of the Public Records (1982–1988).^[180]
• Lydia Mendoza, 91, AmericanTejano music singer and guitarist.^[181]
• Raphaël Nguyễn Văn Diệp, 81, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, coadjutor bishop ofVĩnh Long (1975–2007).^[182]
• Robbie Williams, 45, Australian politician, first Indigenous Australian Brisbane City councillor, formerATSIC commissioner, heart attack.^[183]

• Adolfas Akelaitis, 97, Lithuanian Olympic athlete.^[184]
• Carol Bly, 77, American author and poet, ovarian cancer.^[185]
• Ken Hendricks, 66, American contractor and billionaire, fall from roof.^[186]
• Hans Imhoff, 85, German businessman, founder of Imhoff Chocolate Museum inCologne.^[187]
• Jack Lamabe, 71, American Major League Baseball pitcher.^[188]
• Ken Lee, 75, Chinese-born Australian businessman, owner and co-founder ofBing Lee superstores, cancer.^[189]
• Saadia Marciano, 57, IsraeliBlack Panthers leader, member of theKnesset.^[190]
• Norton Nascimento, 45, Brazilian actor, heart failure.^[191]
• Jeani Read, 60, Canadian journalist, cancer.^[192]
• Battista Serioli, 107, Italian World War I veteran.^[193]

• Joe Ames, 86, American singer (Ames Brothers), heart attack.^[194]
• Philip Bednall, 76, Australian cricketer.^[195]
• Chrysostomos I of Cyprus, 80, Cypriot prelate, Archbishop of Cyprus (1977–2006).^[196]
• Sir Charles Court, 96, Australian politician,Premier of Western Australia (1974–1982).^[197]
• Andy Davis, 80, American football player (Washington Redskins).^[198]
• Sylvan Fox, 79, American journalist, complications from pneumonia.^[199]
• Andrew Glyn, 64, British economist.^[200]
• Julien Gracq, 97, French writer.^[201]
• Lucien Teisseire, 88, French road bicycle racer.^[202]
• Marvin Wachman, 90, American historian, President ofLincoln University andTemple University, heart failure.^[203]
• Ruth Wallis, 87, American singer-songwriter, complications of Alzheimer's disease.^[204]
• Takashi Yamamoto, 58, Japanese politician.^[205]

• Dale Baird, 71, American thoroughbred horse trainer, traffic collision.^[206]
• Donald Chant, 79, Canadian biologist and environmental advocate.^[207]
• Evelyn Gandy, 87, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi (1976–1980).^[208]
• William Francis Ganong Jr., 83, American neuroendocrinologist, prostate cancer.^[209]
• Michael Kidd, 92, American film and stage choreographer, cancer.^[210]
• Aloísio Lorscheider, 83, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate and cardinal, heart failure.^[211]
• Tyler MacDuff, 82, American actor.^[212]
• Hans Mild, 73, Swedish footballer and ice hockey player.^[213]
• Oscar Peterson, 82, Canadian jazz pianist, kidney failure and complications from a stroke.^[214]
• Rhoda Pritzker, 93, American philanthropist, member of thePritzker family.^[215]
• José Ferreira Queimado, 94, Portuguese former chairman ofS.L. Benfica, after long illness.^[216]
• Kevin Sinclair, 65, New Zealand-born Hong Kong reporter, editor and columnist for theSouth China Morning Post, cancer.^[217]
• Osvaldo Reyes, 88, Chilean painter, stroke.^[218]
• Frank Swaelen, 77, Belgian politician, former president of the Senate and minister of state.^[219]

• Jim Angel, 67, Australian radio newsreader, stroke.^[220]
• Cláudio Camunguelo, 60, Brazilian composer and singer, diabetes.^[221]
• Reinhard Heß, 62, German ski jumping coach, pancreatic cancer.^[222]
• Wilhelmina Jashemski, 97, American archaeologist, renal failure.^[223]
• Andreas Matzbacher, 25, Austrian cyclist, traffic collision.^[224]
• Sir Nicholas Pumfrey, 56, British judge, stroke.^[225]
• George Warrington, 55, American transportation official, President ofAmtrak (1998–2002), pancreatic cancer.^[226]

• Jim Beauchamp, 68, American Major League Baseball player and coach, leukemia.^[227]
• Tommy Harmer, 79, British footballer (Tottenham Hotspur,Watford andChelsea).^[228]
• John Hayes, 80, New Zealand test cricketer.^[229]
• Pat Kirkwood, 86, British actress, Alzheimer's disease.^[230]
• Hugh Massingberd, 60, British genealogist and journalist, formerDaily Telegraph obituary editor.^[231]
• Mighty King Kong, 34, Kenyan reggae musician.^[232]
• William MacDonald, 90, American Christian author.^{[233][better source needed]}
• Hans Otte, 81, German avant-garde composer and pianist.^[234]
• G. P. Sippy, 93, Indian film producer and director.^[235]
• Carlos Eduardo Sousa Jr., 17, American student, tiger attack.^[236]
• Tatiana, 4, American-born Siberian tiger atSan Francisco Zoo, mauled a visitor to death, shot.^[236]
• Sir George Vallings, 75, British vice admiral, throat cancer.^[237]

• Raúl Bernao, 66, Argentine footballer, hepatitis.^[238]
• Sir Phillip Bridges, 85, British barrister and judge,Chief Justice of the Gambia.^[239]
• Jim Castiglia, 89, American football and baseball player, natural causes.^[240]
• Joe Dolan, 68, Irish singer and entertainer, brain haemorrhage.^[241]
• Andrew Grima, 86, British jeweller.^[242]
• Voitto Liukkonen, 67, Finnish sports commentator.^[243]
• Paul D. MacLean, 94, American physician, developedtriune brain concept, heart attack.^[244]
• Nina Menshikova, 79, Russian actress.^[245]
• Stu Nahan, 81, American sportscaster, lymphoma.^[246]
• John Pappenheimer, 92, American physiologist, respiratory failure.^[247]

• Kit Ahern, 92, Irish politician.^[248]
• Ben D. Altamirano, 77, American politician, member of theNew Mexico Senate since 1971, heart attack.^[249]
• Ben Bamfuchile, 47, Zambian coach of theNamibia national football team, after short illness.^[250]
• Benazir Bhutto, 54, Pakistani opposition leader and former prime minister (1988–1990, 1993–1996),assassinated.^[251]
• Edward A. Brennan, 73, American businessman, former chairman ofSears, Roebuck and Company.^[252]
• Sir Howard Colvin, 88, British architectural historian.^[253]
• Steven Florio, 58, American businessman, former CEO ofCondé Nast, heart attack.^[254]
• Jerzy Kawalerowicz, 85, Polish film director.^[255]
• Jaan Kross, 87, Estonian writer.^[256]
• Ed LaDou, 52, American pizza chef, popularized gourmetCalifornia-style pizzas, cancer.^[257]
• Marie-Jeanne, 87, American ballet dancer, congestive heart failure^[258]
• Pedro Gastão of Orléans-Braganza, 94, Brazilian pretender to the titleEmperor of Brazil.^[259]
• Peter Wing, 93, Canadian politician, mayor ofKamloops, North America's first mayor of Chinese descent, stroke.^[260]

• Aidin Nikkhah Bahrami, 25, Iranian basketball player, traffic collision.^{[citation needed]}
• Jiří Pauer, 88, Czech composer, theatre director and academic.^[261]
• Serigne Saliou Mbacké, 92, Senegalese religious leader, fifth caliph of theMouride Islamic movement.^[262]
• Amarnath Sehgal, 85, Indian sculptor.^[263]
• Sun Daolin, 86, Chinese actor.^[264]
• Tab Thacker, 45, American wrestler and actor (Police Academy,City Heat,Wildcats), complications from diabetes.^[265]

• Olayr Coan, 48, Brazilian actor and theater director, traffic collision.^[266]
• Phil Dusenberry, 71, American advertising executive, lung cancer.^[267]
• Kevin Greening, 44, British formerBBC Radio 1 disc jockey.^[268]
• Vincent Gruppuso, 67, American businessman, founder of Kozy Shack puddings, complications from diabetes.^[269]
• Abdullah ibn Husayn al-Ahmar, 74, Yemeni politician, Parliamentary speaker since 1993, cancer.^[270]
• Joan Ingpen, 91, British classical music manager (Ingpen & Williams), launched the career ofLuciano Pavarotti.^[271]
• Rex King-Clark, 94, British soldier and racing driver.^[272]
• Robert Morris, 81, English cricketer.^[273]
• Nonja, 55, Indonesian Sumatran orangutan thought to be world's oldest.^[274]
• Phil O'Donnell, 35, Scottish footballer (Motherwell) with oneScotland cap, heart failure.^[275][276]
• Scott M. Robinson, 54, American key grip.
• H. D. Thoreau Jr., 84, American track-and-field authority and Olympics official, complications from Alzheimer's and stroke.^[277]
• Shu Uemura, 79, Japanese makeup artist, pneumonia.^[278]

• Bert Bolin, 82, Swedish meteorologist, stomach cancer.^[279]
• Kinkri Devi, 82, Indian environmentalist.^[280]
• Laila Kaland, 68, Norwegian politician, MP (1985–2001), after long illness.^[281]
• Jorge Machiñena, 71, Uruguayan deputy (1985–2000), President of the Chamber (1996–1997), heart attack.^[282]
• Leonard B. Meyer, 89, American musicologist.^[283]
• Victor Navarra, 55, American coordinator forNew York Marathon, cancer.^[284]
• Doreen Norton, 85, British nursing pioneer.^[285]
• Willie Robinson, 81, American blues singer, injuries from a fire.^[286]
• Louis Wolfson, 95, American businessman, bred and raced 1978U.S. Triple Crown championAffirmed, colon cancer.^[287]

• Alberto Alonso, 90, Cuban dancer and choreographer, heart attack.^[288]
• Tommy Dickson, 78, British footballer (Linfield,Northern Ireland), after long illness.^[289]
• Tony Elliott, 48, American football player (New Orleans Saints), natural causes.^[290]
• Ralph Emmerson, 94, British Anglican prelate,Bishop of Knaresborough (1972–1979).^[291]
• Michael Goldberg, 83, American abstract expressionist painter, heart attack.^[292]
• Bill Idelson, 88, American actor and script writer, complications from a broken hip.^[293]
• Kathryn Ish, 71, American television, voiceover and theater actress (Laverne & Shirley), cancer.^[294]
• Milton L. Klein, 97, Canadian politician, MP forCartier (1963–1968).^[295]
• Markku Peltola, 51, Finnish actor and musician.^[296]
• Muhammad Osman Said, 85, Libyan Prime Minister (1960–1963).^[297]
• Ettore Sottsass, 90, Italian designer, heart failure.^[298]

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