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Deaths 1 - 24 of 24

1st - Charles "skip" Pitts, American soul and blues guitarist, dies from lung cancer at 65
2nd - Junior Seau, NFL inside linebacker, commits suicide at 43
4th - MCA [Adam Yauch], Beastie Boys vocalist, dies from cancer at 47
6th - George Lindsey, American actor, dies at 83
8th - Nicholas Katzenbach, American Attorney General, dies at 90
8th - Maurice Sendak, American author/illustrator, dies at 83
9th - Vidal Sassoon, British hairdresser and businessman, dies from leukemia at 84
10th - Evelyn Johnson, American pilot, dies at 102
10th - Carroll Shelby, American automobile designer, dies at 89
13th - Donald "Duck" Dunn, American bassist, dies at 70
15th - Carlos Fuentes, Mexican author, dies from a haemorrhage at 83
16th - James Abdnor, American senator, dies at 89
17th - Donna Summer, American singer, dies from lung cancer at 63
18th - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German baritone, dies at 86
19th - Robert Boozer, American basketball player, dies at 75
20th - Abdel Basset Ali Al-Megrahi, convicted bomber (Pan Am 103), dies from prostate cancer at 60
20th - Robin Gibb, British singer song-writer, dies from colon and liver cancer at 62
22nd - Wesley Brown, 1st African American US Naval Academy graduate, dies at 85
23rd - Joseph Lesniewski, soldier (Easy Company, 101st Airborne), dies at 91
Singer-songwriter Robin Gibb (20th) 23rd - Paul Fussell, American historian, dies from natural causes at 88
25th - Edoardo Mangiarotti, Italian fencer, dies at 93
29th - Doc Watson, American bluegrass musician, dies from complications following surgery at 89
30th - Andrew Huxley, British physiologist and Nobel laureate, dies at 94
30th - Jack Twyman, American Hall of Fame basketball player, dies from complications from blood cancer at 78