Deaths in January 2009

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

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.

January 2009

1

• Todd Bullard, 77, American educator, complications from diabetes.
• Hubert Desbiens, 77, Canadian politician, Quebec MNA (1976–1989).
• Dennis Ford, 77, South African Olympic swimmer.
• Walter Haynes, 80, American steel guitarist.
• Ramashreya Jha, 80, Indian musicologist, complications following heart surgery.
• John Morrow, 77, British Presbyterian minister and peace activist.
• Fahid Mohammed Ally Msalam, 32, Kenyan al-Qaeda leader, allegedly behind Marriott hotel bombings, airstrike.
• Claiborne Pell, 90, American Senator from Rhode Island (1961–1997), creator of the Pell Grant, Parkinson's disease.
• Gert Petersen, 81, Danish journalist and politician.
• Robert Prince, 89, American Major, recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross.
• Edmund Purdom, 84, British actor.
• Nizar Rayan, 49, Palestinian Hamas military and political leader, airstrike.
• Willard Warren Scott Jr., 82, American general, head of United States Military Academy (1981–1986), Parkinson's disease.
• Johannes Mario Simmel, 84, Austrian writer.
• Henry King Stanford, 92, American academic, president of the University of Miami (1962–1981).
• Helen Suzman, 91, South African anti-apartheid activist and politician, MP (1953–1989).
• Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan, 48, Kenyan al-Qaeda leader, airstrike.
• Robert Saxton Taylor, 90, American library scholar.

2

• Dnyaneshwar Agashe, 66, Indian cricketer and businessman, heart attack.
• Leonard Andrews, 83, American art patron, prostate cancer.
• Inger Christensen, 73, Danish poet, novelist and essayist.
• John DeFrancis, 97, American sinologist.
• Pavel Deyev, 67, Soviet Olympic equestrian.
• Ralph Gibson, 84, American flying ace of the Korean War.
• Hank DeZonie, 86, American basketball player.
• Steven Gilborn, 72, American actor (Ellen), cancer.
• Valentina Giovagnini, 28, Italian singer, car crash.
• Ian Greaves, 76, British footballer and manager (Mansfield Town, Bolton Wanderers).
• Tony Gregory, 61, Irish politician, member of Dáil Éireann, cancer.
• Joe Henry, 78, American baseball player (Memphis Red Sox, Negro leagues).
• Ryuzo Hiraki, 77, Japanese footballer, pneumonia.
• Albert Horner, 95, Canadian politician, MP for The Battlefords (1958–1968).
• John Olav Larssen, 81, Norwegian evangelical preacher.
• Elisheva Michaeli, 80, Israeli actress (Big Gus, What's the Fuss?), cancer.
• Rashid bin Ahmad Al Mualla II, 78, Emirati ruler of Umm al-Quwain.
• József Sákovics, 81, Hungarian Olympic fencer.
• Nick Scandone, 42, American yachtsman, paralympian gold medallist (2008), Lou Gehrig's disease.
• Cy Thomas, 82, British ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs, Chicago Blackhawks).
• Olgierd Zienkiewicz, 87, British civil engineer.

3

• Abu Zakaria al-Jamal, 49, Palestinian senior Hamas leader, air strike.
• Kjelfrid Brusveen, 82, Norwegian cross-country skier.
• Charles Camilleri, 77, Maltese composer.
• John Grindrod, 89, Australian Anglican prelate, Archbishop of Brisbane (1980–1989).
• Peter English, 71, Scottish professor of agriculture and author, heart failure.
• Betty Freeman, 87, American philanthropist.
• Pat Hingle, 84, American actor (Batman, Norma Rae, Hang 'Em High), myelodysplasia.
• Li Zuopeng, 94, Chinese general and politician.
• Ulf G. Lindén, 71, Swedish entrepreneur, heart failure.
• Sam McQuagg, 73, American race car driver, NASCAR Rookie of the Year (1965), cancer.
• Hisayasu Nagata, 39, Japanese politician, suicide by jumping.
• Olga San Juan, 81, American actress, kidney failure.
• Matt Sczesny, 76, American scout for the Boston Red Sox, cancer.
• Rosemary Thomson, 73, American politician.
• Sir Alan Walters, 82, British economist.

4

• Lei Clijsters, 52, Belgian footballer and coach, father of Kim Clijsters, lung cancer.
• Sonny Fai, 20, New Zealand rugby league player, drowned.
• Oswaldo Domingues, 91, Brazilian Olympic sprinter.
• K. K. Govind, 92, Indian freedom fighter.
• Gedalio Grinberg, 77, Cuban-born American founder of Movado Group, natural causes.
• Ivan Gubijan, 85, Croatian hammer thrower, Olympic medalist (1948), after long illness.
• India, 18, American pet cat of George W. Bush.
• Gert Jonke, 62, Austrian writer and poet, cancer.
• Arvid Knutsen, 64, Norwegian footballer (Viking FK), brain tumor.
• Jon Latimer, 44, British historian, heart attack.
• Bob Lazarus, 52, American comedian, leukemia.
• Sudhir Ranjan Majumdar, 75, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Tripura (1988–1992), heart attack.
• John McGillicuddy, 78, American CEO of Manufacturers Hanover (1971–1991), Chemical Banking (1991–1993), prostate cancer.
• Vladimir Repyev, 52, Russian Olympic silver medal-winning (1980) handball player.
• Giselle Salandy, 21, Trinidadian boxer, car accident.

5

• Griffin Bell, 90, American judge, Fifth Circuit Appeals Court (1961–1976), U.S. Attorney General (1977–1979), pancreatic cancer.
• Evangelos Depastas, 76, Greek Olympic runner.
• Harry Kinnard, 93, American Army lieutenant general.
• Dale Livingston, 63, American football player (Green Bay Packers), complications from heart surgery.
• Mario Magnotta, 66, Italian Internet celebrity, pulmonary embolism.
• Adolf Merckle, 74, German businessman, suicide by train.
• Stanton Parris, 78, Barbadian cricket umpire, after short illness.
• Roland Piquepaille, 62, French software engineer and technology writer, complications from digestive virus.
• Carl Pohlad, 93, American banker, owner of the Minnesota Twins.
• Jimmy Rayner, 73, English footballer (Peterborough United).
• Verna Mae Slone, 94, American author and quilter, complications from a fall.
• Mircea Stănescu, 39, Romanian politician, MP (2004–2008), apparent suicide by gunshot.
• Ned Tanen, 77, American executive (Universal Pictures), natural causes.
• Sam Taylor, 74, American blues musician, complications from heart disease.

6

• Ron Asheton, 60, American rock guitarist (The Stooges), heart attack (death announced on this date).
• Nino Bongiovanni, 97, American baseball player.
• Brahmkumar Bhatt, 87, Indian politician and Indian independence activist.
• Geoffrey Brooke, 88, British Olympic modern pentathlete.
• Vivian Della Chiesa, 94, American soprano and Broadway theatre performer.
• Robert T. Connor, 90, American politician, Staten Island Borough President (1966–1977).
• Maria Dimitriadi, 58, Greek singer, lung disease.
• John T. Elfvin, 91, American federal judge, justice of the Western District of New York since 1974.
• Alan Geisler, 78, American condiment inventor and food chemist, protein disorder.
• Cheryl Holdridge, 64, American actress (The Mickey Mouse Club), lung cancer.
• John Riley Holt, 90, British physicist.
• Róbert Ilosfalvy, 81, Hungarian opera singer.
• Claude Jeter, 94, American gospel music singer.
• John Scott Martin, 83, British actor (Doctor Who, I, Claudius, Z-Cars), Parkinson's disease.
• Richard Seaver, 82, American owner of Arcade Publishing, heart attack.
• Ghulam Mohammad Shah, 88, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir (1984–1986), after long illness.
• John Street, 77, British snooker referee, pulmonary disease.
• Victor Sumulong, 62, Filipino politician, Congressman (1998–2007), Mayor of Antipolo since 2007, diabetes.
• Charlie Thomson, 78, Scottish footballer (Clyde, Chelsea, Nottingham Forest).

7

• Aimé Adam, 95, Canadian politician.
• Yaakov Banai, 89, Israeli Lehi commander.
• J. D. H. Catleugh, 88, British artist.
• Alfie Conn Sr., 82, Scottish footballer (Hearts, Raith Rovers, Scotland).
• Robert G. Eaton, 71, Canadian politician, cancer.
• Alex van Heerden, 34, South African musician, car accident.
• Jacques Littlefield, 59, American owner of the Military Vehicle Technology Foundation, colon cancer.
• Robert T. Monagan, 88, American politician, Speaker of the California State Assembly (1969–1970), after long illness.
• Puck Oversloot, 94, Dutch swimmer, Olympic silver medallist (1932).
• Anália de Victória Pereira, 67, Angolan politician.
• Ray Dennis Steckler, 70, American film director (Rat Pfink a Boo Boo), cardiac arrest.
• Bob Wilkins, 76, American television personality, horror film host, complications from Alzheimer's disease.

8

• Magdaleno Cano, 75, Mexican Olympic cyclist.
• Alberto Eliani, 86, Italian football player and manager.
• Don Galloway, 71, American actor (Ironside, The Big Chill, Gunfight in Abilene), stroke.
• Björn Haugan, 66, Norwegian operatic lyric tenor.
• Lamya, 45, British singer, heart attack.
• Gaston Lenôtre, 88, French pastry chef.
• Irène Mélikoff, 91, Russian-born French Turkologist.
• Charles Morgan Jr., 78, American lawyer, complications of Alzheimer's disease.
• Richard John Neuhaus, 72, Canadian-born American Roman Catholic priest and theologian, founder of First Things, cancer.
• Zbigniew Podlecki, 68, Polish motorcycle speedway rider.
• Deborah Riedel, 50, Australian soprano, cancer.
• Leonidas Vargas, 60, Colombian drug trafficker, shot.
• Cornelia Wallace, 69, American First Lady of Alabama (1971–1978), second wife of George Wallace, cancer.
• Lasantha Wickrematunge, 50, Sri Lankan journalist, shot.

9

• István Antal, 50, Romanian Olympic ice hockey player, cardiac arrest.
• Dave Dee, 67, British singer (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich), prostate cancer.
• Harry Endo, 87, American actor (Hawaii Five-O), stroke.
• Rob Gauntlett, 21, British mountaineer, youngest Briton to climb Mount Everest, climbing accident.
• Jon Hager, 67, American country musician and comedian (Hee Haw).
• René Herms, 26, German middle-distance runner.
• Joe Hirsch, 80, American horse racing journalist, Parkinson's disease.
• T. Llew Jones, 93, British Welsh language writer.
• Aleksandr Kosopkin, 51, Russian statesman, Plenipotentiary Representative in the State Duma (since 2009), helicopter crash.
• Peter Lane, Baron Lane of Horsell, 83, British businessman and politician.
• Pál Németh, 71, Hungarian hammer throw coach, heart failure.
• Kaarle Ojanen, 90, Finnish chess player.
• Dave Roberts, 64, American baseball pitcher (Houston Astros, San Diego Padres, Detroit Tigers), lung cancer.
• Jean Sassi, 91, French army colonel.
• Jack F. Shaw, 70, American cross country running coach.
• David Smiley, 92, British SOE officer.
• Ljubica Sokić, 94, Serbian painter.
• Tom Van Flandern, 68, American astronomer, colon cancer.
• Sir Neil Wheeler, 91, British Air Chief Marshal.
• Frank Williams, 50, American baseball player (San Francisco Giants, Cincinnati Reds, Detroit Tigers), heart attack.

10

• Georges Cravenne, 94, French publicity agent, founder of the César Award.
• Isabelle of Salm-Salm, 105, German royal.
• Peter Kollock, 49, American sociologist, motorcycle accident.
• Pio Laghi, 86, Italian Cardinal for San Pietro in Vincoli, Vatican Ambassador to the US (1980–1990), hematologic disease.
• Liliana Lozano, 30, Colombian actress and beauty queen, shot.
• Gil Mains, 79, American football player.
• Jean Pelletier, 73, Canadian politician, Mayor of Quebec City (1977–1989), Chief of Staff (1993–2001), complications of colon cancer.
• Eluned Phillips, 94, British writer, crowned bard at the National Eisteddfod of Wales (1967, 1983), pneumonia.
• Colin Phipps, 74, British petroleum geologist and MP (1974–1979).
• Ivor Spencer, 84, British toastmaster.
• Bill Stone, 108, British World War I veteran.
• Coosje van Bruggen, 66, Dutch-born American sculptor, wife of Claes Oldenburg, breast cancer.
• Jack Wheeler, 89, British footballer.
• Sidney Wood, 97, American tennis player, Hall of Fame (1964), third-youngest winner of Wimbledon (1931).
• Ray Yoshida, 78, American painter, cancer.
• Elżbieta Zawacka, 99, Polish World War II freedom fighter.

11

• Maurice L. Albertson, 91, American Peace Corps architect, founder of Village Earth.
• Quirino De Ascaniis, 100, Italian priest.
• Anabel Bosch, 32, Filipino singer, cerebral aneurysm.
• Andy DeMize, 25, American drummer (Nekromantix), car accident.
• Shigeo Fukuda, 76, Japanese sculptor and graphic artist, subarachnoid hemorrhage.
• Jack Gifford, 68, American businessman (Maxim Integrated Products), heart attack.
• Epeli Hauʻofa, 70, Fijian writer and anthropologist, after short illness.
• Bert Hazell, 101, British politician and trade unionist, MP (1964–1970), oldest modern MP.
• Bob Kilby, 64, British motorcycle speedway rider, cancer.
• Li Sizhong, 87, Chinese ichthyologist.
• Pat Lindsey, 72, American politician, member of the Alabama Senate (1967–1974, since 1982), heart attack.
• Freddie Mack, 74, British boxer and musician.
• Ricardo Martínez de Hoyos, 90, Mexican painter, pneumonia.
• François de Noailles, 103, French noble.
• Tom O'Horgan, 84, American theater director (Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar), complications of Alzheimer's disease.
• Wally Olds, 59, American Olympic ice hockey silver medal-winning player (1972), colon cancer.
• Frederic M. Richards, 83, American biochemist, natural causes.
• Vivian Ridler, 95, British printer.
• Lorene Rogers, 94, American educator, President of the University of Texas at Austin (1974–1979).
• Milan Rúfus, 80, Slovak poet and academic.
• Daryl Seaman, 86, Canadian businessman, co-owner of the Calgary Flames.
• Jon Tvedt, 42, Norwegian orienteer and mountain runner, fall.
• Victor Vacquier, 101, American geophysicist, pneumonia.
• David Vine, 74, British sports presenter, heart attack.
• Olle Wänlund, 85, Swedish Olympic cyclist.

12

• Claude Berri, 74, French film director (Jean de Florette, Manon des Sources), Academy Award winner, stroke.
• Russ Craft, 89, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Steelers).
• Friaça, 84, Brazilian footballer, multiple organ failure.
• Walter Harris, 77, Canadian artist.
• Mick Imlah, 52, British poet, motor neurone disease.
• David Kerr, 86, British politician, MP for Wandsworth Central (1964–1970).
• Jack Erik Kjuus, 81, Norwegian politician.
• Alan Lew, 65, American rabbi.
• Arne Næss, 96, Norwegian philosopher, founder of deep ecology.
• Michael Russell, 88, Irish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore.
• Alejandro Sokol, 48, Argentine rock and roll musician, cardio-respiratory failure.
• Allen Zwerdling, 86, American theatre director and actor.

13

• Ayman Alkurd, 28, Palestinian footballer, airstrike.
• Pedro Aguilar, 81, American dancer, heart failure.
• Hortense Calisher, 97, American author.
• Tommy Casey, 78, British footballer.
• Cousin Junior, 48, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
• Mikhail Donskoy, 61, Russian programmer, co-developer of the first world computer chess champion (Kaissa).
• John Edmondson, 2nd Baron Sandford, 88, British naval officer, politician, and Anglican priest.
• Mary Ejercito, 103, Filipino mother of Joseph Estrada, heart seizure and stomach aneurysm.
• Preston Gómez, 85, Cuban-born American baseball player, coach and manager (San Diego Padres).
• Umar Israilov, 27, Russian critic of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, shot.
• Jean Keene, 85, American bird feeder, natural causes.
• Gary Kurfirst, 61, American music manager.
• Sir Dai Llewellyn, 62, British socialite, bone cancer.
• Patrick McGoohan, 80, American-born Irish actor (The Prisoner, Braveheart, Escape from Alcatraz), after short illness.
• Elizabeth Paterson-Brown, 87, Scottish curler.
• James B. Pearson, 88, American politician, U.S. Senator from Kansas (1962–1978).
• Mansour Rahbani, 83, Lebanese composer and musician, pneumonia.
• Nicholas Andrew Rey, 70, Polish-born American diplomat, Ambassador to Poland (1993–1997), lung cancer.
• W. D. Snodgrass, 83, American poet, lung cancer.
• Folke Sundquist, 83, Swedish actor.
• Richard Tyler, 92, British architect.
• Eben van Zijl, 77, Namibian politician.
• Nancy Bird Walton, 93, Australian aviator, natural causes.
• Peter Ward, 95, British Olympic athlete.

14

• Trammell Crow, 94, American real estate developer.
• Mike Derrick, 65, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox).
• Dušan Džamonja, 80, Croatian sculptor, heart failure.
• Peter E. Fleming Jr., 79, American criminal defense lawyer, complications from lung surgery.
• Jan Kaplický, 71, Czech-born British architect.
• The Mighty Duke, 77, Trinidadian calypsonian, myelofibrosis.
• Ricardo Montalbán, 88, Mexican-born American actor (Fantasy Island, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, The Naked Gun), Emmy winner (1978), heart failure.
• Angela Morley, 84, British composer and conductor.
• Aron Moscona, 87, Israeli-born American biologist, heart failure.
• Leo Rwabwogo, 59, Ugandan boxer, Olympic medallist (1968, 1972).
• Gennadiy Shatkov, 76, Russian Soviet-era boxer, Olympic gold medalist (1956).

15

• Abdirahman Ahmed, Somali politician, shot.
• Boris Apostolov, 83, Bulgarian Olympic footballer.
• Ovini Bokini, 64, Fijian chief and politician.
• Maurice Chappaz, 92, Swiss author and poet.
• Olivier Clément, 87, French Eastern Orthodox theologian.
• William Close, 84, American physician, helped stem 2007 Congo ebola epidemic, father of Glenn Close, heart attack.
• Veronika Dudarova, 92, Russian symphony conductor.
• Tommy Jones, 54, American baseball player, manager and coach, brain cancer.
• Tommy Muñiz, 86, Puerto Rican television producer and comedian, after long illness.
• Said Seyam, 50, Palestinian government official, Interior Minister (2006–2007), airstrike.
• Tapan Sinha, 84, Indian film director, bronchopneumonia.
• Craig Stimac, 54, American baseball player (San Diego Padres), suicide by gunshot.
• Lillian Willoughby, 93, American Quaker activist, founder of Take Back the Night.

16

• Aad Bak, 82, Dutch football player.
• Sidney Brichto, 72, American-born British Liberal rabbi.
• Jim Carvin, 79, American political strategist, heart failure.
• Joe Erskine, 78, American boxer and ultramarathon runner.
• Judith Hoffberg, 74, American art librarian and archivist, lymphoma.
• Claudio Milar, 34, Uruguayan footballer, bus crash.
• Gordon Whitey Mitchell, 76, American jazz musician and comedy writer (Get Smart, All in the Family, The Jeffersons), cancer.
• Sir John Mortimer, 85, British barrister, novelist and dramatist (Rumpole of the Bailey), after long illness.
• Robert Palmer, 74, American vintner, blood infection.
• Bogdan Tirnanić, 67, Serbian journalist.
• Joop Wille, 88, Dutch footballer (EDO and The Netherlands).
• Andrew Wyeth, 91, American painter (Christina's World), after short illness.

17

• Tomislav Crnković, 79, Croatian footballer.
• Susanna Foster, 84, American actress and singer (Phantom of the Opera).
• Gary Hill, 67, American basketball player.
• Fiza Ibn-e-Faizi, 86, Urdu and Persian poet, prolonged illness.
• Anders Isaksson, 65, Swedish writer, reporter and historian.
• Mary Lundby, 60, American politician, member of the Iowa Senate since 1995, cervical cancer.
• Malcolm MacPherson, 65, American journalist, heart attack.
• Paul Nicholls, 62, Australian first-class cricketer, cancer.
• Marjorie Parker Smith, 92, American figure skater.
• Mike Parkinson, 60, New Zealand rugby union player.
• Edmund Leopold de Rothschild, 93, British financier and horticulturist.
• Arthur Weisberg, 77, American bassoonist, pancreatic cancer.
• Kamil Zvelebil, 80, Czech scholar of Indian literature and linguistics, cancer.

18

• Max Borges Jr., 90, Cuban architect.
• Kathleen Byron, 88, British actress (Black Narcissus, The Elephant Man, Saving Private Ryan).
• Holly Coors, 88, American conservative political activist and philanthropist, after long illness.
• Tony Hart, 83, British artist and television presenter.
• Marta Ingarden, 87, Polish and Ukrainian architect.
• Nora Kovach, 77, Hungarian-born American ballerina, after short illness.
• Bob May, 69, American actor (Lost in Space), heart failure.
• Zenonas Petrauskas, 58, Lithuanian lawyer and politician.
• Bal Samant, 84, Indian writer, after long illness.
• Seymour Schwartzman, 78, American cantor and operatic baritone.
• James E. Swett, 88, American fighter pilot, Medal of Honor recipient, after long illness.
• Grigore Vieru, 73, Moldovan poet, car accident.

19

• Anastasia Baburova, 25, Russian journalist, shot.
• E. Balanandan, 84, Indian politician and trade unionist, lung cancer.
• Hugh Lindsay, 81, British Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle.
• Stanislav Markelov, 34, Russian civil rights lawyer, shot.
• Dennis Page, 89, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Lancaster (1975–1985).
• Viking Palm, 85, Swedish Olympic gold medal-winning (1952) wrestler.
• Raymond Parker, 89, British sprint canoer.
• Luigi Preti, 94, Italian politician, natural causes.
• José Torres, 72, Puerto Rican boxer, Olympic silver medallist (1956), heart attack.

20

• Chris Chianelli, 58, American hobbyist, writer and television host, natural causes.
• Constance E. Cook, 89, American politician, member of the New York State Assembly (1963–1974).
• Austin Denney, 65, American football player (Chicago Bears, Buffalo Bills).
• Johnny Dixon, 85, British footballer (Aston Villa), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• David S. Dodge, 86, American President of American University of Beirut (1996–1997), cancer.
• Joe Domnanovich, 89, American football player.
• Cornell N. Dypski, 77, American legislator.
• Mark Fernando, 67, Sri Lankan judge, member of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka, cancer.
• Mickey Gee, 64, British rock and roll guitarist, emphysema.
• Stéphanos II Ghattas, 89, Egyptian Coptic Catholic prelate, Patriarch of Alexandria (1986–2006).
• Stan Hagen, 68, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia (1986–1991, since 2001), heart attack.
• Bhogendra Jha, 85, Indian politician.
• Dante Lavelli, 85, American football player (Cleveland Browns), Hall of Famer (1975), heart failure.
• David "Fathead" Newman, 75, American jazz saxophonist (Fathead), pancreatic cancer.
• Dina Vierny, 89, Russian-born French model.
• Sheila Walsh, 80, British romantic novelist.
• Leonard Albert Wiseman, 93, British chemist and scientific administrator.

21

• Irina Belotelstink, 96, Russian-born American couturier.
• Ernie Bourne, 82, Australian actor.
• Pat Crawford, 75, Australian Test cricketer, after long illness.
• Vic Crowe, 76, British footballer (Aston Villa, Peterborough) and manager (Aston Villa, Portland Timbers), after long illness.
• Shane Dronett, 38, American football player (Atlanta Falcons), suicide by gunshot.
• Astrid Folstad, 76, Norwegian actress.
• Jean Jadot, 99, Belgian prelate and diplomat, Vatican Ambassador to the US (1974–1980), after long illness.
• Leonard Kemp, 99, Australian cricketer.
• Lajos Kiss, 68, Hungarian rower.
• Finn Kobberø, 73, Danish badminton player.
• Horace R. Kornegay, 84, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina (1961–1969).
• Krista Kilvet, 62, Estonian journalist, politician and diplomat.
• Sally Ledger, 47, English literary scholar.
• Kunal Mitra, 44, Indian actor, heart attack.
• Peter Persidis, 61, Austrian footballer, cancer.
• Veatrice Rice, 59, American television personality (Jimmy Kimmel Live!), cancer.
• Daphne Rooke, 94, South African author.
• Charles H. Schneer, 88, American film producer (Jason and the Argonauts), Alzheimer's disease.

22

• Panapasa Balekana, 79, Fijian-born Solomon Island co-writer of the Solomon Islands national anthem.
• John Alan Beesley, 81, Canadian diplomat.
• Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum, 103, Cambodian politician, Prime Minister (1962).
• Bob Doyle, 93, Irish activist, last surviving Irish member of the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War.
• Bill Herchman, 75, American football player.
• Sveinn Ingvarsson, 94, Icelandic Olympic sprinter.
• Pentti Kouri, 59, Finnish economist and investor, after long illness.
• Liang Yusheng, 85, Chinese novelist, natural causes.
• Reginald Perkins, 53, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
• Clément Pinault, 23, French footballer, heart attack.
• Darrell Sandeen, 73, American actor (L.A. Confidential), stroke.
• Louis-Paul-Armand Simonneaux, 93, French Bishop of Versailles.
• Billy Werber, 100, American baseball player, last living teammate of Babe Ruth, oldest living Major League Baseball player, natural causes.
• Mbongeleni Zondi, 39, South African Zulu chief, shot.

23

• Ilija Arnautović, 84, Yugoslavian architect.
• Sir Richard Beaumont, 96, British diplomat.
• H. J. Blackham, 105, British humanist and writer.
• Martin Delaney, 63, American HIV activist, complications from liver cancer.
• Helen Maksagak, 77, Canadian politician, first Inuk Northwest Territories Commissioner (1995–1999) and Nunavut (1999–2000).
• Sybil Moses, 69, American judge (New Jersey Superior Court) and lawyer, breast cancer.
• George Perle, 93, American composer, after long illness.
• Anna Radziwiłł, 69, Polish historian and politician.
• Robert W. Scott, 79, American politician, Governor of North Carolina (1969–1973), natural causes.
• Percy Smith, 86, Canadian politician, MP for Northumberland—Miramichi (1968–1974).
• Thomas, 61, American activist, pulmonary disease.
• Compton Vyfhuis, 76, Guyanese West Indian cricket umpire.

24

• Susan Baird, 68, Scottish politician, Lord Provost of Glasgow (1988–1992).
• Gérard Blanc, 61, French singer and guitarist, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Fernando Cornejo, 39, Chilean footballer, stomach cancer.
• Mariana Bridi Costa, 20, Brazilian model, complications from necrotic sepsis.
• Olivia Irvine Dodge, 90, American philanthropist.
• Leonard Gaskin, 88, American jazz bassist.
• Marie Glory, 103, French actress.
• Reg Gutteridge, 84, British boxing commentator and journalist, stroke.
• Diane Holland, 78, British actress (Hi-de-Hi!), bronchial pneumonia.
• Karl Koller, 79, Austrian footballer, Alzheimer's disease.
• Len Perme, 91, American baseball player.
• Olga Raggio, 82, Italian-born American art scholar and curator, cancer.
• John Buchan Ross, 96, British Royal Air Force officer.
• William Smith, 69, American theologian.
• Thomas Ambrose Tschoepe, 93, American Bishop of Dallas.
• Kay Yow, 66, American women's basketball coach (NC State), breast cancer.
• Bernard C. Webber, 80, United States Coast Guardsman, heart attack.

25

• Mamadou Dia, 98, Senegalese politician, Prime Minister (1957–1962).
• León Klenicki, 78, American rabbi, colorectal cancer.
• Ewald Kooiman, 70, Dutch organist, cardiac arrest.
• Ed Lyons, 85, American baseball player (Washington Senators).
• Kim Manners, 58, American television producer and director (The X-Files, Supernatural, 21 Jump Street), lung cancer.
• John Murray, 93, Australian politician, MP (1958–1961).
• Hiroshi Oguchi, 58, Japanese artist and musician.
• Antonio Pagán, 50, American politician, New York City Councilman (1992–1998), Commissioner of Employment (1998–2002).
• Marguerite, Baroness de Reuter, 96, British aristocrat, last heir of the Reuters family, granddaughter-in-law of Paul Reuter.

26

• Mamman Bello Ali, 50, Nigerian politician, Senator (1999–2007), Governor of Yobe State since 2007, leukemia.
• Fernando Amaral, 84, Portuguese politician, President of the Assembly of the Republic (1984–1987).
• James Brady, 80, American columnist (Parade, New York Post).
• Ahmad Hasan Dani, 88, Pakistani archaeologist.
• John Isaacs, 93, American basketball player (New York Renaissance), stroke.
• Ivan Jensen, 86, Danish footballer.
• Roy Johnson, 49, American baseball player, heart attack.
• Zakan Jugelia, Abkhaz politician, shot.
• Lucijan Kleva, 66, Slovenian rower.
• Don Ladner, 60, New Zealand rugby league player, heart attack.
• Sir Donald Luddington, 88, British High Commissioner for Western Pacific (1973–1976), Hong Kong ICAC Commissioner (1978–1980).
• Gerry Merito, 70, New Zealand singer and guitarist.
• Avraham Ravitz, 75, Israeli politician, member of the Knesset (1988–2009), heart failure.
• David Sabiston, 84, American physician, pioneer of heart surgery, stroke.
• Alan Scott, 72, Australian oven manufacturer, heart failure.

27

• Connie Buckley, 93, Irish hurler.
• Christian Enzensberger, 77, German anglicist, author and translator.
• Koji Kakizawa, 75, Japanese politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs (1994), esophageal cancer.
• Blair Lent, 79, American author and illustrator (Tikki Tikki Tembo), pneumonia.
• Michael Majerus, 54, British geneticist.
• Aubrey Powell, 90, British footballer.
• Mino Reitano, 64, Italian singer, after long illness.
• Sharat Sardana, 40, British screenwriter (Goodness Gracious Me), streptococcal infection.
• John Updike, 76, American author (Rabbit Is Rich, The Witches of Eastwick), lung cancer.
• Ramaswamy Venkataraman, 98, Indian politician, President (1987–1992), multiple organ failure.
• Billy Wilson, 81, American football player (San Francisco 49ers), cancer.

28

• Robert S. Barton, 83, American computer engineer.
• E. A. Chowdhury, 80, Bangladeshi police official.
• Gene Corbett, 95, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).
• Glenn Davis, 74, American Olympic gold medal hurdler, after long illness.
• John Patrick Diggins, 73, American historian, colorectal cancer.
• Fang Chengguo, 65, Chinese banker.
• Lucille M. Mair, 84, Jamaican diplomat.
• Vasilij Melik, 88, Slovenian historian.
• Gyula Pálóczi, 46, Hungarian athlete, heart disease.
• Billy Powell, 56, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd), heart attack.
• Mira Rostova, 99, Russian-born American acting coach.
• Peter Serry, 35, Kenyan football player, coach and administrator, fire.
• Robert L. Stone, 87, American CEO of The Hertz Corporation, heart failure.
• Angel Wainaina, 25, Kenyan actress, fire.
• Wendell Wyatt, 91, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives for Oregon (1964–1975).

29

• A. M. B. H. G. Abeyrathnebanda, 19, Sri Lankan soldier, explosion.
• Pawlu Aquilina, 79, Maltese poet and writer.
• René Berger, 93, Swiss writer, philosopher and art historian.
• Juan Brotto, 69, Argentine Olympic cyclist.
• Geraldine Bureker, 84, American baseball player (AAGPBL)
• Charles Clews, 89, Maltese comedian.
• Hank Crawford, 74, American jazz, rhythm and blues saxophonist, complications from a stroke.
• John Harry Dunning, 81, British economist.
• Bill Frindall, 69, British cricket statistician, Legionnaire's disease.
• Karl Gass, 91, German documentary filmmaker, natural causes.
• Hélio Gracie, 95, Brazilian martial artist, creator of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
• George Holmes, 81, British historian.
• John Martyn, 60, British singer and songwriter, pneumonia.
• Roger Pontet, 88, French cyclist.
• Roy Saunders, 78, British footballer (Liverpool, Swansea City).
• Charles H. Smelser, 88, American politician, Maryland Delegate (1955–1963) and State Senator (1967–1995).
• Roy Somlyo, 83, American theatre producer, cancer.
• François Villiers, 88, French film director.

30

• José de Almeida Batista Pereira, 91, Brazilian Bishop of Guaxupé (1964–1976).
• João do Amaral Gurgel, 82, Brazilian engineer and businessman, Alzheimer's disease.
• Hans Beck, 79, German inventor, creator of Playmobil toys.
• Mike Francis, 47, Italian pop musician, lung cancer.
• John Gordy, 73, American football player (Detroit Lions), pancreatic cancer.
• H. Guy Hunt, 75, American politician, Governor of Alabama (1987–1993), lung cancer.
• Safar Iranpak, 61, Iranian footballer, lung cancer.
• Ingemar Johansson, 76, Swedish world heavyweight boxing champion (1959–1960), complications from pneumonia.
• Sune Jonsson, 78, Swedish photographer and writer.
• Gérard Lecointe, 96, French general.
• Teddy Mayer, 73, American motor racing entrepreneur.
• Milton Parker, 90, American businessman, owner of the Carnegie Deli, respiratory problems.
• James Schevill, 88, American poet and playwright, stroke.
• Stephen Zetterberg, 92, American attorney and politician.
• Neiliezhü Üsou, 67, Indian influential Baptist preacher and public leader from the North-Eastern state of India, Nagaland.

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• Lino Aldani, 82, Italian science fiction writer, lung disease.
• Sir John Fuller, 91, Australian politician and monarchist, member of New South Wales Legislative Council (1961–1978), cancer.
• Harry Hill, 92, British bronze medal-winning Olympic cyclist (1936), pneumonia.
• Thérèse Lavoie-Roux, 80, Canadian politician, after long illness.
• Francis Lévy, 78, French rugby player.
• Eddie Logan, 98, American Negro league baseball player, stroke.
• Dewey Martin, 68, Canadian-born American drummer (Buffalo Springfield).
• Nagesh, 75, Indian film comedian, after short illness.
• Des Newton, 67, British craftsman, maker of model ships in bottles.
• Clint Ritchie, 70, American actor (One Life to Live), blood clot after heart surgery.
• Daniel Seligman, 84, American columnist (Fortune), multiple myeloma.
• Erland von Koch, 98, Swedish composer.
• Joanna Wiszniewicz, 61, Polish historian.

External links

• List of January 2009 deaths at IMDb