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- Ross Benson, 56, British journalist for the Daily Mail and award-winning foreign correspondent
- Anna Haycraft, 72, British writer (also known as Alice Thomas Ellis), lung cancer
- César Lattes, 80, Brazilian physicist, contributed to the physics of elementary particles and discovered the pion
- Aslan Maskhadov, 53, Chechen separatist leader, killed by Russian troops.
- Brigitte Mira, 94, German theatrical actress
- Fred Rice, 86, American football coach.
- Jeremy Russell, 60, cofounding member of the band Blue Cheer
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