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* Tomás Altamirano, 49, Panamanian politician, National Assembly deputy, traffic accident. [1]
* Mark H. Beers, 54, American geriatrician, complications from diabetes. [2]
* Ode Burrell, 69, American football player (Houston Oilers), complications from diabetes. [3]
* Paul Harvey, 90, American radio broadcaster. [4]
* Johnny Holiday, 96, American actor. [5]
* Alvin Klein, 73, American theater critic, heart attack. [6]
* Al Lewis, 84, American television host. [7]
* Miguel Serrano, 91, Chilean poet, diplomat and neo-Nazi, stroke. [8] (Spanish)
* Tom Sturdivant, 78, American baseball player (New York Yankees). [9]

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* John Alvin, 91, American actor. [10]
* Alan Landers, 68, American smoking model turned opponent, throat and lung cancer. [11]
* Robert E. A. Lee, 87, American documentary film producer, cancer. [12]
* James Page Mackey, 95, Canadian chief of Toronto Police Service (1958–1970). [13]
* Manea Mănescu, 92, Romanian Prime Minister (1974–1979). [14]
* Alastair McCorquodale, 83, British athlete and cricketer, silver medallist at the 1948 Summer Olympics. [15]
* John Francis Marchment Middleton, 87, British anthropologist. [16]
* Dorothea Holt Redmond, 98, American movie artist and illustrator. [17]
* Geoffrey Smith, 80, British gardening expert and presenter. [18]

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* Rick Beckett, 54, American radio broadcaster (WOOD (AM)), heart attack. [19]
* Ruth Drexel, 78, German actress (Der Bulle von Tölz). [20] (German)
* Johnny Kerr, 76, American basketball player, coach, and color commentator (Chicago Bulls), prostate cancer. [21]
* Sir Michael Quinlan, 78, British civil servant, Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Defence (1988–1992). [22]
* Wendy Richard, 65, British actress (Are You Being Served?, EastEnders), breast cancer. [23]
* Nell Soto, 82, American politician, member of the California State Senate (2000–2006), complications from stroke. [24]
* Wilbert Tatum, 76, American publisher (New York Amsterdam News), multiple organ failure. [25]
* Norm Van Lier, 61, American basketball player (Chicago Bulls). [26]

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* Randall Bewley, 53, American guitarist (Pylon), heart attack. [27]
* Ian Carr, 75, British writer and musician (Nucleus), after long illness. [28]
* Philip José Farmer, 91, American writer (Riverworld). [29]
* Bill Holm, 65, American author and poet. [30]
* Molly Kool, 93, Canadian sailor, North America's first licensed female sea captain. [31]
* Howard Menger, 87, American ufologist. [32]
* Atieno Odhiambo, 63, Kenyan academic, dementia. [33]
* Clarence Swensen, 91, American actor (The Wizard of Oz Munchkin). [34]

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* Jean Battersby, 80, Australian arts executive, esophageal cancer. [35]
* Svatopluk Havelka, 83, Czech composer. [36] (Czech)
* Edward Judd, 76, British actor (The Day the Earth Caught Fire). [37]
* Antoinette K-Doe, 66, American bar owner, heart attack. [38]
* August Kiuru, 86, Finnish Olympic silver medal-winning (1948, 1956) cross-country skier. [39] (Finnish)
* Pearl Lang, 87, American dancer and choreographer, heart attack. [40]
* Dondi Ledesma, 50, Filipino bassist, heart failure. [41]
* James D. McGinnis, 77, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Delaware (1977–1981), cancer. [42]
* Max Théret, 96, French businessman, founder of the Fnac electronics retailer. [43]

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* Marie Boas Hall, 89, American historian. [44]
* Tom Cole, 75, American screenwriter and playwright, multiple myeloma. [45]
* Sverre Fehn, 84, Norwegian architect. [46]
* Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook, 96, Canadian portrait sculptor. [47]
* Seppo Kolehmainen, 76, Finnish actor, after long illness. [48] (Finnish)
* James Leslie, 50, British politician, member of the Northern Ireland Assembly for North Antrim (1998–2003), heart attack. [49]
* Noel Martin, 86, American graphic designer, leukemia. [50]
* Laurence Payne, 89, British actor (Sexton Blake). [51]
* Tuulikki Pietilä, 92, Finnish graphic artist. [52]
* Franciszek Starowieyski, 78, Polish artist. [53]
* Scott Symons, 75, Canadian writer. [54]
* David Taylor, 79, American banker. [55]

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* Candido Cannavò, 78, Italian sports journalist, editor-in-chief of La Gazzetta dello Sport (1983–2002), cerebral hemorrhage. [56]
* Barbara Marshall, 64, American journalist and politician, member of the Honolulu City Council since 2002, colon cancer. [57]
* Rhena Schweitzer Miller, 90, American humanitarian, daughter of Albert Schweitzer. [58]
* Derrell Palmer, 86, American football player (Cleveland Browns), natural causes. [59]
* Paul Joseph Pham Dinh Tung, 89, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate and cardinal, Archbishop of Hanoi (1994–2005). [60]
* Howard Zieff, 81, American film director (Private Benjamin), complications from Parkinson's disease. [61]

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* Ian Alger, 82, American psychiatrist, heart failure. [62]
* Ilya Piatetski-Shapiro, 79, Russian-born Israeli mathematician, Parkinson’s disease. [63]
* Mary Printz, 82, American switchboard operator, inspiration for Bells Are Ringing. [64]
* Wilton G. S. Sankawulo, 71, Liberian politician and academic, Chairman of the Council of State (1995–1996), heart failure. [65]
* Victor Zarnowitz, 89, Polish-born American economist, heart attack. [66]

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* Marcella Althaus-Reid, 56, Argentine-born British Queer theologian, Professor of Contextual Theology (University of Edinburgh). [67]
* Friedrich Berentzen, 81, German industrialist. [68] (German)
* James I. C. Boyd, 87, British railway historian. [69]
* Fine Cotton, 31, Australian Thoroughbred racehorse involved in sports betting substitution scandal. [70]
* Antonio De Rosso, 68, Italian religious leader, founder of the Orthodox Church in Italy. [71] (Italian)
* Mary Jacobus, 52, American journalist, cerebral hemorrhage. [72]
* William Jorden, 85, American journalist and diplomat, lung cancer. [73]
* Larry H. Miller, 64, American businessman, owner of the Utah Jazz, complications of diabetes. [74]
* Christopher Nolan, 43, Irish author, winner of the Whitbread Prize (1988), pulmonary aspiration. [75]
* Julius Nota, 37, Slovak footballer and coach, stabbed. [76] (Slovak)
* Robert Quarry, 83, American film and television actor. [77]
* Fats Sadi, 81, Belgian jazz musician, vocalist and composer. [78]
* Socks, 19, American Presidential cat of the Clinton family, euthanized. [79]

[edit] 19

* Chet Bulger, 91, American football player (Chicago Cardinals), natural causes. [80]
* Ronald Dearing, Baron Dearing, 78, British life peer and civil servant, cancer. [81]
* Kelly Groucutt, 63, British bass guitar player (Electric Light Orchestra), heart attack. [82]
* Edmund Hlawka, 92, Austrian mathematician. [83]
* Ibrahim Hussein, 72, Malaysian artist, heart attack. [84]
* Ian L. Jenkins, 64, British public official, Surgeon General (2002–2006), Constable and Governor of Windsor Castle (2008–2009). [85]
* Oreste Lionello, 81, Italian actor, entertainer and film dubber, after long illness. [86]
* Nonnie Moore, 87, American fashion editor (GQ, Harper's Bazaar). [87]
* Harrison Ridley Jr., 70, American jazz presenter, after short illness. [88]
* Miika Tenkula, 34, Finnish guitarist and songwriter (Sentenced). [89]
* Anna Watt, 85, British entertainer (Fran and Anna), natural causes. [90]
* Thomas Jerome Welsh, 87, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Allentown (1983–1997). [91]
* James White, 86, British politician, MP for Glasgow Pollok (1970–1987). [92]

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* Jacques Bino, 50, French Guadeloupean trade union official, shot. [93]
* Viking Björk, 90, Swedish surgeon. [94] (Swedish)
* J. Max Bond, Jr., 73, American architect, cancer. [95]
* Snooks Eaglin, 73, American guitarist, heart attack. [96]
* Raymond Alvah Hanson, 85, American inventor. [97]
* John Kanzius, 64, American inventor, pneumonia. [98]
* Robert Luff, 94, British theatre producer and impresario. [99]
* Tayeb Salih, 80, Sudanese writer (Season of Migration to the North). [100]
* Kamila Skolimowska, 26, Polish hammer thrower, 2000 Olympics gold medalist, pulmonary embolism. [101]
* Andrew Tsien Chih-ch'un, 83, Taiwanese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Hwalien (1992–2001), heart attack. [102]

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* Doris Abrahams, 88, American theatrical producer (Equus), heart failure. [103]
* Eric Blau, 87, American theatrical producer (Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris), pneumonia. [104]
* Conchita Cintrón, 86, Chilean-born Portuguese bullfighter, heart attack. [105] (Portuguese)
* Edhi Handoko, 48, Indonesian chess grandmaster, heart attack. [106]
* Victor Kiernan, 95, British historian. [107]
* Gazanfer Özcan, 78, Turkish actor, respiratory disease. [108]
* Robert Robideau, 61, American Native Americans activist. [109]
* Shabnam Romani, 80, Pakistani poet and writer, after long illness. [110]
* Gyula Sáringer, 81, Hungarian agronomist. [111] (Hungarian)
* Brad Van Pelt, 57, American football player (New York Giants), heart attack. [112]
* Mike Whitmarsh, 46, American beach volleyball and basketball player, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. [113]

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* Dorothy Bridges, 93, American actress and poet, wife of Lloyd Bridges, mother of Beau and Jeff Bridges. [114]
* Konrad Dannenberg, 96, German-born American rocket scientist, natural causes. [115]
* Stephen Kim Sou-hwan, 86, South Korean Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Seoul (1968–1998). [116]
* Edward Salia, 56, Ghanaian politician, Minister of State (1995), throat infection. [117]
* Travis, 14, American-born chimpanzee, television commercial animal, shot. [118]

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* Joe Cuba, 78, American musician, complications of a bacterial infection. [119]
* Noble Doss, 88, American football player. [120]
* Diether Haenicke, 73, American academic, Western Michigan University President (1985–1998, 2006–2007), head injury. [121]
* William R. Sharpe, Jr., 80, American politician, West Virginia Senate (1960–1980, 1984–2009), President pro tem (1990–2009). [122]
* Carl Venne, 62, American Chairman of the Crow Nation since 2002, natural causes. [123]

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* Sir Bernard Ashley, 82, British businessman, cancer. [124]
* Louie Bellson, 84, American jazz drummer, complications from Parkinson's disease. [125]
* Luís Andrés Edo, 82, Spanish anarchist. [126]
* Kjersti Graver, 63, Norwegian public servant, Consumer Ombudsman (1987–1995). [127] (Norwegian)
* Buck Griffin, 85, American rockabilly musician, heart failure. [128]
* Alfred A. Knopf, Jr., 90, American publisher, son of Alfred A. Knopf, complications from fall. [129]
* John McGlinn, 55, American conductor and historian of musicals. [130]
* Boris Yavitz, 85, Georgian-born American academic, dean of Columbia Business School (1975–1982), prostate cancer. [131]

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* Gianna Maria Canale, 81, Italian actress. [132] (Italian)
* Joe Goldstein, 81, American sports promoter, heart attack and stroke. [133]
* Geshe Gyeltsen, 85, Tibetan spiritual leader, founder of Thubten Dhargye Ling. [134]
* Alfred J. Kahn, 90, American child welfare expert. [135]
* Dilys Laye, 74, British actress, cancer. [136]
* Julius Patching, 92, Australian Olympic official. [137]
* Corky Trinidad, 69, Filipino-born American cartoonist, pancreatic cancer. [138]
* Edward Upward, 105, British writer. [139]
* Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh, 83, Azerbaijani poet, after long illness. [140]

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* Hermann Becht, 69, German opera singer. [141] (German)
* Vasanti N. Bhat-Nayak, 70 or 71, Indian professor of combinatorics and graph theory.[citation needed]
* Giacomo Bulgarelli, 68, Italian footballer, after long illness. [142]
* Alison Des Forges, 66, American human rights activist, plane crash. [143]
* Beverly Eckert, 57, American 9/11 widow and activist, member of 9/11 Family Steering Committee, plane crash. [144]
* Evan Ira Farber, 87, American Faculty Emeritus (Earlham College). [145]
* Ed Grothus, 85, American anti-nuclear activist, cancer. [146]
* Lis Hartel, 87, Danish equestrian. [147]
* Hugh Leonard, 82, Irish playwright. [148]
* Mat Mathews, 84, Dutch jazz accordionist. [149] (Dutch)
* Coleman Mellett, 34, American jazz guitarist (Chuck Mangione's band), plane crash. [150]
* Domenica Niehoff, 63, German prostitution activist, complications from lung disease. [151]
* Gerry Niewood, 65, American jazz saxophonist (Chuck Mangione's band), plane crash. [152]
* Malcolm Toon, 92, American ambassador (Czechoslovakia 1969–71, Yugoslavia 1971–75, Israel 1975–76, USSR 1976–79). [153]
* Ted Uhlaender, 68, American baseball player, heart attack. [154]
* Aasiya Zubair, 37, American businesswoman, co-founder of Bridges TV, beheaded. [155]

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* Albert Barillé, 88, French television screenwriter and producer. [156] (German)
* Estelle Bennett, 67, American singer (The Ronettes), colon cancer. [157]
* Virgil Lee Griffin, 64, American Ku Klux Klan leader. [158]
* Willem Johan Kolff, 97, Dutch-born American physician, inventor of the artificial kidney. [159]
* Sir Peter Leng, 83, British Army General. [160]
* Penny Ramsey, Australian actress, cancer. [161]
* Rail Rzayev, 64, Azerbaijani general, head of the Air Force, shot. [162]
* Marina Svetlova, 86, French-born American ballerina and teacher, complications from stroke. [163]
* Mildred Wolfe, 96, American artist, after long illness. [164]

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* Jan Błoński, 78, Polish literary critic, Holocaust scholar. [165]
* Carolyn George, 81, American dancer and photographer, primary lateral sclerosis. [166]
* Leila Hadley, 83, American travel writer. [167]
* Philippe Kourouma, 76, Guinean Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of N’Zérékoré. [168]
* Berting Labra, 75, Filipino character actor, emphysema. [169]
* Jeremy Lusk, 24, American motocross racer, brain injury. [170]
* Jean-Baptiste Mintsa-Mi-Mba, 60, Gabonese politician. [171] (French)

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* Robert Woodruff Anderson, 91, American Academy Award–nominated playwright and screenwriter, pneumonia. [172]
* Kazys Bradūnas, 91, Lithuanian émigré, poet and editor. [173] (Lithuanian)
* Marc Burrows, 30, British footballer, cancer. [174]
* Reg Davies, 79, British footballer. [175]
* Eluana Englaro, 38, Italian patient in right to die case, withdrawal of nutrition. [176]
* Neville Hamilton, 48, British footballer. [177]
* Vic Lewis, 89, British jazz guitarist. [178]
* Orlando "Cachaito" López, 76, Cuban bassist (Buena Vista Social Club), complications from prostate surgery. [179]
* Don Maclennan, 79, South African poet and playwright. [180]
* Maria Orwid, 78, Polish psychiatrist. [181]
* Peer Portner, 69, Kenyan-born British developer of ventricular assist device, cancer. [182]
* Sean F. Scott, 39, American ALS activist, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [183]

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* Guy Chichester, 73, American activist, founding member of Clamshell Alliance. [184]
* Marian Cozma, 26, Romanian handball player, stabbed. [185]
* Sigurdur Helgason, 87, Icelandic business executive, CEO of Icelandair and pioneer of low cost airlines. [186]
* Wesley L. McDonald, 84, American admiral and naval aviator. [187]
* Neil McNeill, 87, Australian politician, member of the House of Representatives (1961–1963). [188]
* Terry Spencer, 90, British RAF fighter pilot and war photographer, cancer. [189]
* Bob Stephen, 50, Canadian football player, heart attack. [190]

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* Molly Bee, 69, American country singer ("I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"), complications from a stroke. [191]
* Jack Cover, 88, American scientist, inventor of the Taser, pneumonia. [192]
* Blossom Dearie, 82, American jazz singer and pianist (Schoolhouse Rock!), after long illness. [193]
* Reg Evans, 80, Australian actor, bushfire. [194]
* John Gabler, 78, American baseball pitcher (New York Yankees, Washington Senators). [195]
* Sir George Godber, 100, British physician and public servant, Chief Medical Officer (1960–1973). [196]
* Richard Gordon, 61, British author, heart attack. [197] (Chinese)
* Joe Haverty, 72, Irish football player. [198]
* Betty Jameson, 89, American golfer, three-time major championship winner. [199]
* Jacques Lancelot, 88, French clarinetist, heart failure. [200] (Japanese)
* Mel Kaufman, 50, American football player (Washington Redskins). [201]
* Brian Naylor, 78, Australian news presenter, bushfire. [202]
* Jorge Reyes, 56, Mexican musician (Chac Mool), heart attack. [203] (Spanish)
* Sarah Roache, 60, British actress. [204]
* Piotr Stańczak, 42, Polish geologist, beheaded. [205]
* Richard Zann, 64, Australian ornithologist, bushfire. [206]

[edit] 6

* Bashir Ahmad, 68, Indian-born Scottish politician, MSP for Glasgow region, heart attack. [207]
* Philip Carey, 83, American actor (One Life to Live), lung cancer. [208]
* Alfred Flores, 92, Guamanian rancher and politician, member of the Legislature of Guam. [209]
* George Karpati, 74, Canadian neurologist. [210]
* Boubacar Joseph Ndiaye, 86, Senegalese curator of the House of Slaves Memorial. [211]
* Shirley Jean Rickert, 82, American actress (Our Gang), after long illness. [212]
* Susan Walsh, 60, American actress. [213]
* James Whitmore, 87, American Academy Award–nominated actor, lung cancer. [214]

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* Sigurd Andersson, 82, Swedish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1952) cross-country skier. [215] (Swedish)
* John W. Grace, 82, Canadian Privacy Commissioner (1983–1990), heart attack. [216]
* Khalid Hasan, 74, Pakistani journalist and author, cancer. [217]
* George Hughes, 83, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers). [218]
* Payton Jordan, 91, American coach of 1968 United States Olympic track and field team, cancer. [219]
* Leo Orenstein, 89, Canadian director, producer and writer. [220]
* Raaphi Persitz, 74, Israeli chess master. [221]
* Dana Vávrová, 41, Czech-born German actress and film director, cancer. [222] (German)
* Noah Weinberg, 78, American-born Israeli rabbi, founder of Aish HaTorah. [223]
* Xiangzhong Yang, 49, Chinese-born American stem cell scientist, cancer. [224]

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* Antonie Dixon, 40, New Zealand murderer, suicide. [225]
* Christophe Dupouey, 40, French cyclist, World Cross Country Champion (1996), suicide. [226]
* Arnljot Eggen, 85, Norwegian writer. [227] (Norwegian)
* Herbert Hamrol, 106, American centenarian, one of the last survivors of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, pneumonia. [228]
* Ramón Hernández, 68, Puerto Rican baseball player. [229] (Spanish)
* Lux Interior, 62, American singer, songwriter and musician (The Cramps), aortic dissection. [230]
* Ed Schwartz, 62, American radio personality, kidney and heart disease. [231]
* Mark Shepherd, 86, American chairman of Texas Instruments (1976–1988), complications from pulmonary fibrosis. [232]
* David Snow, 84, British ornithologist. [233]
* Dave Willson, 62, British lighting designer. [234]

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* Ben Blank, 87, American television graphics innovator (CBS, ABC). [235]
* Tom Brumley, 73, American steel guitarist (The Buckaroos), heart attack. [236]
* Rabindra Kumar DasGupta, 93, Indian scholar of Bengali and English literature. [237]
* Kurt Demmler, 65, German songwriter, suicide by hanging. [238]
* Millard Fuller, 74, American co-founder of Habitat for Humanity International, after short illness. [239]
* Warren Kimbro, 74, American Black Panther, murderer and charitable organization executive, heart attack. [240]
* Mike Maloy, 59, American-born Austrian basketball player. [241]
* Max Neuhaus, 69, American musician, cancer. [242]
* António dos Reis Rodrigues, 90, Portuguese Roman Catholic prelate Bishop of Madarsuma (1966–1998). [243]
* Jorge Serguera, 76, Cuban journalist, President of the Cuban Institute of Radio and Television (death announced on this date). [244]
* Sheng-yen, 79, Chinese-born Taiwanese Buddhist Zen master, kidney disease. [245]
* Pavlo Zahrebelnyi, 84, Ukrainian writer, after long illness. [246]

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* Donald Alexander, 87, American government official, Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service (1973–1977), cancer. [247]
* Paul Birch, 46, British footballer, bone cancer. [248]
* Ralph Carpenter, 99, American conservationist. [249]
* Yusril Djalinus, 64, Indonesian journalist, co-founder of Tempo Magazine, stroke. [250]
* Russ Germain, 62, Canadian radio presenter, lung cancer. [251]
* Paul Galloway, 74, American journalist (Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune), heart attack. [252]
* Susan Hibbert, 84, British secretary, last surviving British witness to signing of the WWII German Instrument of Surrender. [253]
* Howard Kanovitz, 79, American painter, bacterial infection after heart surgery. [254]
* Ralph Kaplowitz, 89, American basketball player (New York Knicks), kidney failure. [255]
* Fredrik Kayser, 90, Norwegian resistance fighter during World War II. [256] (Norwegian)
* James E. Long, 68, American politician, North Carolina Commissioner of Insurance (1985–2009), complications of a stroke. [257]
* Jean Martin, 86, French actor (The Battle of Algiers, The Day of the Jackal). [258] (French)
* Ezzat Negahban, c. 82, Iranian archaeologist. [259] (Persian)
* Joe M. Rodgers, 75, American construction executive, Ambassador to France (1985–1989), cancer. [260]
* Sunny Skylar, 95, American songwriter. [261]
* Jim Wilson, 67, American football player (San Francisco 49ers) and wrestler, cancer. [262]
* Kazuhiro Yamauchi, 76, Japanese baseball player, liver failure. [263]

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* Charles W. Akers, 88, American historian. [264]
* Nancy Adams, 84, American businesswoman, co-owner of the Tennessee Titans, after short illness. [265]
* Joe Ades, 74, American salesman. [266]
* Anna Donald, 42, Australian epidemiologist, breast cancer. [267]
* Lukas Foss, 86, American composer, conductor, pianist and educator, heart attack. [268]
* Tim Grundy, 50, British radio and television presenter, heart attack. [269]
* Michael Homer, 50, American business executive (Netscape), Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. [270]
* Ranbir Singh Hooda, 94, Indian politician, after long illness. [271]
* Peter Howson, 89, Australian politician, Minister for Air (1964–1968) and Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (1971–1972), fall. [272]
* John A. Knight, c. 78, American church leader, General Superintendent of the Church of the Nazarene (1985–2001). [273]
* Arieh Levavi, 96, Lithuanian-born Israeli public servant, Ambassador to Argentina during capture of Adolf Eichmann. [274] (Hebrew)
* Sir Alan Muir Wood, 87, British civil engineer. [275]
* Yoya Martínez, 96, Chilean actress, natural causes. [276] (Spanish)
* Jim McWithey, 81, American race car driver. [277]
* Edward Joseph O'Donnell, 77, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Lafayette (1994–2002). [278]

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* Lino Aldani, 82, Italian science fiction writer, lung disease. [1]
* Sir John Fuller, 91, Australian politician and monarchist, member of New South Wales Legislative Council (1961–1978), cancer. [2]
* Harry Hill, 92, British bronze medal-winning Olympic cyclist (1936), pneumonia. [3]
* Thérèse Lavoie-Roux, 80, Canadian politician, after long illness. [4]
* Eddie Logan, 98, American Negro league baseball player, stroke. [5]
* Dewey Martin, 68, Canadian-born American drummer (Buffalo Springfield). [6]
* Nagesh, 75, Indian film comedian, after short illness. [7]
* Des Newton, 67, British craftsman, maker of model ships in bottles. [8]
* Clint Ritchie, 70, American actor (One Life to Live), blood clot after heart surgery. [9]
* Daniel Seligman, 84, American columnist (Fortune), multiple myeloma. [10]
* Erland von Koch, 98, Swedish composer. [11] (Swedish)
* Joanna Wiszniewicz, 61, Polish historian. [12] (Polish)

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* José de Almeida Batista Pereira, 91, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Guaxupé (1964–1976). [13]
* Hans Beck, 79, German inventor, creator of Playmobil toys. [14]
* Mike Francis, 47, Italian pop musician, lung cancer. [15]
* John Gordy, 73, American football player (Detroit Lions), pancreatic cancer. [16]
* H. Guy Hunt, 75, American politician, Governor of Alabama (1987–1993), lung cancer. [17]
* Safar Iranpak, 61, Iranian footballer, lung cancer. [18]
* Ingemar Johansson, 76, Swedish world heavyweight boxing champion (1959–1960), complications from pneumonia. [19]
* Sune Jonsson, 78, Swedish photographer and writer. [20] (Swedish)
* Teddy Mayer, 73, American motor racing entrepreneur. [21]
* Milton Parker, 90, American businessman, owner of the Carnegie Deli, respiratory problems. [22]
* James Schevill, 88, American poet and playwright, stroke. [23]
* Stephen Zetterberg, 92, American attorney and politician. [24]

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* Pawlu Aquilina, 79, Maltese poet and writer. [25]
* René Berger, 93, Swiss writer, philosopher and art historian. [26] (French)
* Charles Clews, 89, Maltese comedian. [27]
* Hank Crawford, 74, American jazz, rhythm and blues saxophonist, complications from a stroke. [28]
* Bill Frindall, 69, British cricket statistician, Legionnaire's disease. [29]
* Karl Gass, 91, German documentary filmmaker, natural causes. [30] (German)
* Hélio Gracie, 95, Brazilian martial artist, creator of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. [31]
* George Holmes, 81, British historian. [32]
* John Martyn, 60, British singer and songwriter, pneumonia. [33]
* Gyula Pálóczi, 46, Hungarian athlete, heart disease. [34]
* Roy Saunders, 78, British footballer (Liverpool, Swansea City). [35]
* Charles H. Smelser, 88, American politician, Maryland Delegate (1955–1963) and State Senator (1967–1995). [36].
* Roy Somlyo, 83, American theatre producer, cancer. [37]
* François Villiers, 88, French film director. [38] (French)

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* Robert S. Barton, 83, American computer engineer. [39]
* Gene Corbett, 95, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies). [40]
* Glenn Davis, 74, American Olympic gold medal hurdler, after long illness. [41]
* John Patrick Diggins, 73, American historian, colorectal cancer. [42]
* Lucille M. Mair, 84, Jamaican diplomat. [43]
* Vasilij Melik, 88, Slovenian historian. [44] (Slovenian)
* Billy Powell, 56, American musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd), heart attack. [45]
* Berta Rosenberg, 112, German-born American supercentenarian, oldest Jewish person. [46]
* Mira Rostova, 99, Russian-born American acting coach. [47]
* Peter Serry, 35, Kenyan football player, coach and administrator, fire. [48]
* Robert L. Stone, 87, American CEO of The Hertz Corporation, heart failure. [49]
* Angel Wainaina, 25, Kenyan actress, fire. [50]
* Wendell Wyatt, 91, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives for Oregon (1964–1975). [51]

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* Mamman Bello Ali, 50, Nigerian politician, Senator (1999–2007), Governor of Yobe State since 2007, leukemia. [52]
* Connie Buckley, 93, Irish hurler. [53]
* Christian Enzensberger, 77, German anglicist, author and translator. [54] (German)
* Koji Kakizawa, 75, Japanese politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs (1994), esophageal cancer. [55]
* Blair Lent, 79, American author and illustrator (Tikki Tikki Tembo), pneumonia. [56]
* Michael Majerus, 54, British geneticist. [57]
* Aubrey Powell, 90, British footballer. [58]
* Mino Reitano, 64, Italian singer, after long illness. [59] (Italian)
* Sharat Sardana, 40, British screenwriter (Goodness Gracious Me), streptococcal infection. [60]
* John Updike, 76, American author (Rabbit Is Rich, The Witches of Eastwick), lung cancer. [61]
* R. Venkataraman, 98, Indian politician, President (1987–1992), multiple organ failure. [62]
* Billy Wilson, 81, American football player (San Francisco 49ers), cancer. [63]

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* James Brady, 80, American columnist (PARADE, New York Post). [64]
* Ahmad Hasan Dani, 88, Pakistani archaeologist. [65]
* Jerry Fowler, 68, American football player (Houston Oilers), Louisiana Elections Commissioner (1980–2000), heart failure. [66]
* John Isaacs, 93, American basketball player (New York Renaissance), stroke. [67]
* Roy Johnson, 49, American baseball player, heart attack. [68]
* Zakan Jugelia, Abkhaz politician, shot. [69]
* Don Ladner, 60, New Zealand rugby league player, heart attack. [70]
* Sir Donald Luddington, 88, British High Commissioner for Western Pacific (1973–76), Hong Kong ICAC Commissioner (1978–80). [71]
* Avraham Ravitz, 75, Israeli politician, member of the Knesset (1988–2009), heart failure. [72]
* David Sabiston, 84, American physician, pioneer of heart surgery, stroke. [73]
* Alan Scott, 72, Australian oven manufacturer, heart failure. [74]

[edit] 25

* Mamadou Dia, 98, Senegalese politician, Prime Minister (1957–1962). [75]
* Leon Klenicki, 78, American rabbi, colorectal cancer. [76]
* Ewald Kooiman, 70, Dutch organist, cardiac arrest. [77] (German)
* Ed Lyons, 85, American baseball player (Washington Senators). [78]
* Kim Manners, 58, American television producer and director (The X-Files, Supernatural), lung cancer. [79]
* John Murray, 93, Australian politician. [80]
* Hiroshi Oguchi, 58, Japanese artist and musician. [81]
* Antonio Pagán, 50, American politician, New York City Councilman (1992–1998), Commissioner of Employment (1998–2002). [82]
* Marguerite, Baroness de Reuter, 96, British aristocrat, last heir of the Reuters family, granddaughter-in-law of Paul Reuter. [83]

[edit] 24

* Gérard Blanc, 61, French singer and guitarist, cerebral hemorrhage. [84]
* Fernando Cornejo, 39, Chilean footballer, stomach cancer. [85]
* Mariana Bridi da Costa, 20, Brazilian model, complications from necrotic septicemia. [86]
* Olivia Irvine Dodge, 90, American philanthropist. [87]
* Leonard Gaskin, 88, American jazz bassist. [88]
* Marie Glory, 103, French actress. [89] (French)
* Reg Gutteridge, 84, British boxing commentator and journalist, after short illness. [90]
* Edith Hahn Beer, 95, Austrian Holocaust survivor. [91]
* Diane Holland, 78, British actress, bronchial pneumonia. [92]
* Karl Koller, 79, Austrian footballer, Alzheimer's disease. [93]
* Len Perme, 91, American baseball player. [94]
* Olga Raggio, 82, Italian-born American art scholar and curator, cancer. [95]
* Thomas Ambrose Tschoepe, 93, American Bishop of Dallas. [96]
* Kay Yow, 66, American women's basketball coach (NC State), breast cancer. [97]

[edit] 23

* H. J. Blackham, 105, British humanist and writer. [98]
* Martin Delaney, 63, American HIV activist, complications from liver cancer. [99]
* Irving Feiner, 84, American freedom of speech advocate, ruptured cerebral aneurysm. [100]
* Helen Maksagak, 77, Canadian politician, first Inuk Northwest Territories Commissioner (1995–1999) and Nunavut (1999–2000). [101]
* Sybil Moses, 69, American judge (New Jersey Superior Court) and lawyer, breast cancer. [102]
* George Perle, 93, American composer, after long illness. [103]
* Anna Radziwiłł, 69, Polish historian and politician. [104]
* Robert W. Scott, 79, American politician, Governor of North Carolina (1969–1973), natural causes. [105]
* Percy Smith, 86, Canadian politician, Member of Parliament for Northumberland—Miramichi (1968–1974). [106]

[edit] 22

* Panapasa Balekana, 79, Fijian-born Solomon Island co-writer of the Solomon Islands national anthem. [107]
* John Alan Beesley, 81, Canadian diplomat. [108]
* Chau Sen Cocsal Chhum, 103, Cambodian politician, Prime Minister (1962). [109]
* Bob Doyle, 93, Irish activist, last surviving Irish member of the International Brigade in the Spanish Civil War. [110]
* Bill Herchman, 75, American football player. [111]
* Vivian Illing, 108, American centenarian, one of the last survivors of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. [112]
* Pentti Kouri, 59, Finnish economist and investor, after long illness. [113] (Finnish)
* Liang Yusheng, 85, Chinese novelist, natural causes. [114]
* Clément Pinault, 23, French footballer, heart attack. [115]
* Darrell Sandeen, 73, American actor (L.A. Confidential), stroke. [116]
* Louis-Paul-Armand Simonneaux, 93, French bishop of Versailles. [117]
* Billy Werber, 100, American baseball player, last living teammate of Babe Ruth, oldest living MLB player, natural causes. [118]
* Mbongeleni Zondi, 39, South African Zulu chief, shot. [119]

[edit] 21

* Irina Belotelkin, 96, Russian-born American couturier. [120]
* Ernie Bourne, 82, Australian actor. [121]
* Pat Crawford, 75, Australian Test cricketer, after long illness. [122]
* Vic Crowe, 76, British footballer (Aston Villa, Peterborough) and manager (Aston Villa, Portland Timbers), after long illness. [123]
* Shane Dronett, 38, American football player (Atlanta Falcons), suicide. [124]
* Astrid Folstad, 76, Norwegian actress. [125] (Norwegian)
* Jean Jadot, 99, Belgian Roman Catholic prelate and diplomat, Vatican Ambassador to the US (1974–1980), after long illness. [126]
* Finn Kobberø, 73, Danish badminton player. [127]
* Horace R. Kornegay, 84, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina (1961–1969). [128]
* Kunal Mitra, 44, Indian actor, heart attack. [129]
* Peter Persidis, 61, Austrian footballer, cancer. [130]
* Veatrice Rice, 59, American television personality (Jimmy Kimmel Live!), cancer. [131]
* Daphne Rooke, 94, South African author. [132]
* Charles H. Schneer, 88, American film producer (Jason and the Argonauts), Alzheimer's disease. [133]

[edit] 20

* Chris Chianelli, 58, American hobbyist, writer and television host, natural causes. [134]
* Constance Cook, 89, American politician, member of the New York State Assembly (1963–1974). [135]
* Johnny Dixon, 85, British footballer (Aston Villa), complications from Alzheimer's disease. [136]
* David S. Dodge, 86, American President of American University of Beirut (1996–1997), cancer. [137]
* Joe Domnanovich, 89, American football player. [138]
* Mark Fernando, 67, Sri Lankan jurist, member of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka, cancer. [139]
* Mickey Gee, 64, British rock and roll guitarist, emphysema. [140]
* Stéphanos II Ghattas, 89, Egyptian Coptic Catholic prelate, Patriarch of Alexandria (1986–2006). [141]
* Stan Hagen, 68, Canadian member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia (1986–1991, since 2001), heart attack. [142]
* Dante Lavelli, 85, American football player (Cleveland Browns), Hall of Famer (1975), heart failure. [143]
* David Newman, 75, American jazz saxophonist (Fathead), pancreatic cancer. [144]
* Dina Vierny, 89, Russian-born French model. [145]

[edit] 19

* Anastasia Baburova, 25, Russian journalist, shot. [146]
* E. Balanandan, 84, Indian politician and trade unionist, lung cancer. [147]
* Beatrice Farve, 113, American supercentenarian, verified second oldest person in the world. [148]
* Hugh Lindsay, 81, British Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle. [149]
* Stanislav Markelov, 34, Russian civil rights lawyer, shot. [150]
* Dennis Fountain Page, 89, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Lancaster (1975–1985). [151]
* Raymond Parker, 89, British sprint canoer. [152]
* Luigi Preti, 94, Italian politician, natural causes. [153] (Italian)
* José Torres, 72, Puerto Rican boxer, Olympic silver medallist (1956), heart attack. [154]
* Joop Wille, 88, Dutch footballer (EDO and The Netherlands). [155] (Dutch)

[edit] 18

* Max Borges Jr., 90, Cuban architect. [156]
* Kathleen Byron, 88, British actress (Black Narcissus, A Matter of Life and Death, The House in the Square), after long illness. [157]
* Holly Coors, 88, American activist and philanthropist, after long illness. [158]
* Tony Hart, 83, British artist and television presenter. [159]
* Nora Kovach, 77, Hungarian-born American ballerina, after short illness. [160]
* Bob May, 69, American actor (Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel), heart failure. [161]
* Zenonas Petrauskas, 58, Lithuanian lawyer and politician. [162] (Lithuanian)
* Bal Samant, 85, Indian writer, after long illness. [163]
* James E. Swett, 88, American fighter pilot, Medal of Honor recipient, after long illness. [164]
* Grigore Vieru, 73, Moldovan poet, car accident. [165]

[edit] 17

* Tomislav Crnković, 79, Croatian footballer. [166] (Croatian)
* Susanna Foster, 84, American actress and singer (Phantom of the Opera). [167]
* Gary Hill, 67, American basketball player. [168]
* Anders Isaksson, 65, Swedish writer, reporter and historian. [169] (Swedish)
* Mary Lundby, 60, American politician, member of the Iowa Senate since 1995, cervical cancer. [170]
* Malcolm MacPherson, 65, American journalist, heart attack. [171]
* Paul Nicholls, 62, Australian first-class cricketer, cancer. [172]
* Marjorie Parker Smith, 92, American figure skater. [173]
* Mike Parkinson, 60, New Zealand rugby union player. [174]
* Edmund Leopold de Rothschild, 93, British financier and horticulturist. [175]
* Arthur Weisberg, 77, American bassoonist, pancreatic cancer. [176]

[edit] 16

* Sidney Brichto, 72, American-born British Liberal rabbi. [177]
* Jim Carvin, 79, American political strategist, heart failure. [178]
* Joe Erskine, 78, American boxer and ultramarathon runner. [179]
* Judith Hoffberg, 74, American art librarian and archivist, lymphoma. [180]
* Claudio Milar, 34, Uruguayan footballer, bus crash. [181]
* Whitey Mitchell, 76, American jazz musician and comedy writer (Get Smart, All in the Family, The Jeffersons), cancer. [182]
* Sir John Mortimer, 85, British barrister, novelist and dramatist (Rumpole of the Bailey), after long illness. [183]
* Robert Palmer, 74, American vintner, blood infection. [184]
* Bogdan Tirnanić, 67, Serbian journalist. [185] (Serbian)
* Andrew Wyeth, 91, American painter (Christina's World), after short illness. [186]

[edit] 15

* Abdirahman Ahmed, Somali politician, shot. [187]
* Ovini Bokini, 64, Fijian chief and politician. [188]
* Maurice Chappaz, 92, Swiss author and poet. [189]
* Olivier Clement, 87, French Eastern Orthodox theologian. [190] (Romanian)
* William Close, 84, American physician, helped stem 2007 Congo ebola epidemic, father of actress Glenn Close, heart attack. [191]
* Veronica Dudarova, 92, Russian symphony conductor. [192]
* Tommy Jones, 54, American baseball player, manager and coach, brain cancer. [193]
* Tommy Muñiz, 86, Puerto Rican television producer and comedian, after long illness. [194]
* Said Seyam, 50, Palestinian government official, Interior Minister (2006–2007), airstrike. [195]
* Tapan Sinha, 84, Indian film director, bronchopneumonia. [196]
* Craig Stimac, 54, American baseball player (San Diego Padres), suicide. [197] (Italian)
* Lillian Willoughby, 93, American Quaker activist, founder of Take Back the Night. [198]

[edit] 14

* Trammell Crow, 94, American real estate developer. [199]
* Mike Derrick, 65, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox). [200]
* Dušan Džamonja, 80, Croatian sculptor, heart failure. [201]
* Peter E. Fleming Jr., 79, American criminal defense lawyer, complications from lung surgery. [202]
* Jan Kaplický, 71, Czech-born British architect. [203]
* The Mighty Duke, 77, Trinidadian calypsonian, myelofibrosis. [204]
* Ricardo Montalbán, 88, Mexican-born American actor (Fantasy Island, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan), heart failure. [205]
* Angela Morley, 84, British composer and conductor. [206]
* Aron Moscona, 87, Israeli-born American biologist, heart failure. [207]
* Leo Rwabwogo, 59, Ugandan boxer, Olympic medallist (1968, 1972). [208]
* Gennadiy Shatkov, 76, Russian Soviet-era boxer, Olympic gold medalist (1956). [209]

[edit] 13

* Ayman Alkurd, 34, Palestinian footballer, airstrike. [210]
* Pedro Aguilar, 81, American dancer, heart failure. [211]
* Hortense Calisher, 97, American author. [212]
* Tommy Casey, 78, British footballer. [213]
* Mikhail Donskoy, 61, Russian programmer, co-developer of the first world computer chess champion (Kaissa). [214]
* John Edmondson, 2nd Baron Sandford, 88, British politician and Anglican priest. [215]
* Mary Ejercito, 103, Filipino mother of former President Joseph Estrada, heart seizure and stomach aneurysm. [216]
* Preston Gómez, 85, Cuban-born American baseball player, coach and manager (San Diego Padres). [217]
* Umar Israilov, 27, Russian critic of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, shot. [218]
* Lanny Kean, 48, American professional wrestler, heart attack. [219]
* Jean Keene, 85, American bird feeder, natural causes. [220]
* Gary Kurfirst, 61, American music manager. [221]
* Sir Dai Llewellyn, 62, British socialite, bone cancer. [222]
* Patrick McGoohan, 80, American-born Irish actor (The Prisoner, Braveheart), after short illness. [223]
* James B. Pearson, 88, American politician, member of the United States Senate from Kansas (1962–1978). [224]
* Mansour Rahbani, 83, Lebanese composer and musician, pneumonia. [225]
* Nicholas Andrew Rey, 70, Polish-born American diplomat, Ambassador to Poland (1993–1997), lung cancer. [226]
* William De Witt Snodgrass, 83, American poet, lung cancer. [227]
* Folke Sundquist, 83, Swedish actor. [228] (Swedish)
* Richard Tyler, 92, British architect. [229]
* Eben van Zijl, 77, Namibian politician. [230] (German)
* Nancy Bird Walton, 93, Australian aviator, natural causes. [231]
* Peter Ward, 95, British Olympic athlete. [232]

[edit] 12

* Claude Berri, 74, French film director (Jean de Florette, Manon des Sources), Academy Award winner, stroke. [233]
* Russ Craft, 89, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Steelers). [234]
* Friaça, 84, Brazilian footballer, multiple organ failure. [235]
* Mick Imlah, 52, British poet, motor neurone disease. [236]
* David Kerr, 86, British politician, MP for Wandsworth Central (1964–1970). [237]
* Arne Næss, 96, Norwegian philosopher, founder of deep ecology. [238]
* Michael Russell, 88, Irish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore. [239]
* Alejandro Sokol, 48, Argentine rock and roll musician, cardio-respiratory failure. [240] (Spanish)
* B. V. Subbamma, 83, Indian Lutheran theologian. [241]
* Allen Zwerdling, 86, American theatre director and actor. [242]

[edit] 11

* Maurice L. Albertson, 91, American Peace Corps architect, founder of Village Earth. [243]
* Andy DeMize, 25, American drummer (Nekromantix), car accident. [244]
* Shigeo Fukuda, 76, Japanese sculptor and graphic artist, subarachnoid hemorrhage. [245]
* Jack Gifford, 68, American businessman (Maxim Integrated Products), heart attack. [246]
* Epeli Hau'ofa, 70, Fijian writer and anthropologist, after short illness. [247]
* Bert Hazell, 101, British politician and trade unionist; MP (1964–1970), oldest modern MP. [248]
* Bob Kilby, 64, British motorcycle speedway rider, cancer. [249]
* Pio Laghi, 86, Italian Cardinal for San Pietro in Vincoli, Vatican Ambassador to the US (1980–1990), hematologic disease. [250]
* Pat Lindsey, 72, American politician, member of the Alabama Senate (1967–1974, since 1982), heart attack. [251]
* Freddie Mack, 74, British boxer and musician. [252]
* Ricardo Martínez de Hoyos, 90, Mexican painter, pneumonia. [253] (Spanish)
* François, 9th duc de Noailles, 103, French noble. [254] (Dutch)
* Tom O'Horgan, 84, American theater director (Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar), complications of Alzheimer's disease. [255]
* Frederic M. Richards, 83, American biochemist, natural causes. [256]
* Vivian Ridler, 95, British printer. [257]
* Lorene Rogers, 94, American educator, President of the University of Texas at Austin (1974–1979). [258]
* Milan Rúfus, 80, Slovak poet and academic. [259]
* Daryl Seaman, 86, Canadian businessman, co-owner of the Calgary Flames. [260]
* Jon Tvedt, 42, Norwegian orienteer and mountain runner, fall. [261] (Norwegian)
* Victor Vacquier, 101, American geophysicist, pneumonia. [262]
* David Vine, 74, British sports presenter, heart attack. [263]

[edit] 10

* Anabel Bosch, 32, Filipino singer, cerebral aneurysm. [264]
* Georges Cravenne, 94, French publicity agent, founder of the César Award. [265]
* Rob Gauntlett, 21, British mountaineer, youngest Briton to climb Mount Everest, climbing accident. [266]
* Peter Kollock, 49, American sociologist, motorcycle accident. [267]
* Gil Mains, 79, American football player. [268]
* Jean Pelletier, 73, Canadian politician, Mayor of Quebec City (1977–1989), Chief of Staff (1993–2001), cancer. [269]
* Eluned Phillips, 94, British writer, crowned bard at the National Eisteddfod of Wales (1967, 1983), pneumonia. [270]
* Colin Phipps, 74, British petroleum geologist and MP (1974–1979). [271]
* Ivor Spencer, 84, British toastmaster. [272]
* Bill Stone, 108, British World War I veteran. [273]
* Coosje van Bruggen, 66, Dutch-born American sculptor, wife of Claes Oldenburg, breast cancer. [274]
* Jack Wheeler, 89, British footballer. [275]
* Sidney Wood, 97, American tennis player, Hall of Fame (1964), third-youngest winner of Wimbledon (1931). [276]
* Ray Yoshida, 78, American painter, cancer. [277]
* Elżbieta Zawacka, 99, Polish World War II freedom fighter. [278]

[edit] 9

* Dave Dee, 67, British singer (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich), prostate cancer. [279]
* Harry Endo, 87, American actor (Hawaii Five-O), stroke. [280]
* Jon Hager, 67, American country musician and comedian (Hee Haw). [281]
* René Herms, 26, German middle distance runner. [282]
* Joe Hirsch, 80, American horse racing journalist, Parkinson's disease. [283]
* T. Llew Jones, 93, British Welsh language writer. [284]
* Peter Lane, Baron Lane of Horsell, 83, British businessman and politician. [285]
* Pál Németh, 71, Hungarian hammer throw coach, heart failure. [286]
* Kaarle Ojanen, 90, Finnish chess player. [287]
* Dave Roberts, 64, American baseball pitcher, lung cancer. [288]
* Jean Sassi, 91, French army colonel. [289] (French)
* Jack F. Shaw, 70, American cross country running coach. [290]
* David Smiley, 92, British SOE officer. [291]
* Ljubica Sokić, 94, Serbian painter. [292] (Serbian)
* Tom Van Flandern, 68, American astronomer, colon cancer. [293]
* Sir Neil Wheeler, 91, British Air Chief Marshal. [294]
* Frank Williams, 50, American baseball player, heart attack. [295]

[edit] 8

* Don Galloway, 71, American actor (Ironside), stroke. [296]
* Bjorn Haugan, 66, Norwegian operatic lyric tenor. [297]
* Gaston Lenôtre, 88, French pastry chef and caterer, after long illness. [298]
* Irene Melikoff, 91, Russian-born French Turkologist. [299]
* Charles Morgan, Jr., 78, American lawyer, complications of Alzheimer's disease. [300]
* Richard John Neuhaus, 72, Canadian-born American Roman Catholic priest and theologian, founder of First Things, cancer. [301]
* Zbigniew Podlecki, 68, Polish motorcycle speedway rider. [302]
* Deborah Riedel, 50, Australian soprano, cancer. [303]
* Leonidas Vargas, 60, Colombian drug trafficker, shot. [304]
* Cornelia Wallace, 69, American First Lady of Alabama (1971–1978), second wife of Governor George Wallace, cancer. [305]
* Lasantha Wickrematunge, 50, Sri Lankan journalist, shot. [306]

[edit] 7

* Yaakov Banai, 89, Israeli Lehi commander. [307] (Hebrew)
* Don Callender, 81, American businessman, founder of Marie Callender's restaurants. [308]
* J. D. H. Catleugh, 88, British artist. [309]
* Alfie Conn, Sr., 82, British footballer. [310]
* Alex van Heerden, 34, South African musician, car accident. [311]
* Jacques Littlefield, 59, American owner of the Military Vehicle Technology Foundation, colon cancer. [312]
* Robert T. Monagan, 88, American politician, Speaker of the California State Assembly (1969–1970), after long illness. [313]
* Puck Oversloot, 94, Dutch swimmer, Olympic silver medallist (1932). [314] (Dutch)
* Anália de Victória Pereira, 67, Angolan politician. [315]
* Ray Dennis Steckler, 70, American film director (Rat Pfink a Boo Boo), cardiac arrest. [316]
* Bob Wilkins, 76, American television personality, horror film host, complications from Alzheimer's disease. [317]

[edit] 6

* Ron Asheton, 60, American rock guitarist (The Stooges), heart attack (death announced on this date). [318]
* Nino Bongiovanni, 97, American baseball player. [319]
* Vivian Della Chiesa, 94, American soprano and Broadway theatre performer. [320]
* Maria Dimitriadi, 57, Greek singer, lung disease. [321]
* John T. Elfvin, 91, American federal judge, justice of the Western District of New York since 1974. [322]
* Manuela Fernández-Fojaco, 113, Spanish supercentenarian, verified oldest person in Europe. [323]
* Alan Geisler, 78, American condiment inventor and food chemist, protein disorder. [324]
* Cheryl Holdridge, 64, American actress (The Mickey Mouse Club), lung cancer. [325]
* John Holt, 90, British physicist. [326]
* Robert Ilosfalvy, 81, Hungarian opera singer. [327] (Hungarian)
* Claude Jeter, 94, American gospel music singer. [328]
* Frank Richard Maloney, 63, American writer and poet. [329]
* John Scott Martin, 83, British actor (Doctor Who, I, Claudius, Z-Cars), Parkinson's disease. [330]
* Richard Seaver, 82, American owner of Arcade Publishing, heart attack. [331]
* Ghulam Mohammad Shah, 88, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir (1984–1986), after long illness. [332]
* John Street, 77, British snooker referee, pulmonary disease. [333]
* Victor Sumulong, 62, Filipino politician, Congressman (1998–2007), Mayor of Antipolo City since 2007, diabetes. [334]
* Charlie Thomson, 78, British footballer. [335]

[edit] 5

* Griffin Bell, 90, American judge, Fifth Circuit Appeals Court (1961–1976), U.S. Attorney General (1977–1979), pancreatic cancer. [336]
* Sonny Fai, 20, New Zealand rugby league player (New Zealand Warriors), missing presumed drowned. [337]
* Gautam Goswami, 43, Indian civil servant accused of corruption, pancreatic cancer. [338]
* Harry Kinnard, 93, American Army lieutenant general. [339]
* Dale Livingston, 63, American football player (Green Bay Packers), complications from heart surgery. [340]
* Mario Magnotta, 66, Italian Internet celebrity, pulmonary embolism. [341] (Italian)
* Adolf Merckle, 74, German businessman, suicide by train impact. [342]
* Zakaria Mohieddin, 90, Egyptian Prime Minister (1965–1966). [343] (Arabic)
* Stanton Parris, 78, Barbadian cricket umpire, after short illness. [344]
* Roland Piquepaille, 62, French software engineer and technology writer, complications from digestive virus. [345] (French)
* Carl Pohlad, 93, American banker, owner of the Minnesota Twins. [346]
* Jimmy Rayner, 73, British footballer. [347]
* Verna Mae Slone, 94, American author and quilter, complications from a fall. [348]
* Mircea Stănescu, 39, Romanian politician, MP (2004–2008), apparent suicide by gunshot. [349]
* Ned Tanen, 77, American executive (Universal Pictures), natural causes. [350]
* Sam Taylor, 74, American blues musician, complications from heart disease. [351]

[edit] 4

* Lei Clijsters, 52, Belgian footballer and coach, father of Kim Clijsters, lung cancer. [352]
* Betty Freeman, 87, American philanthropist. [353]
* K. K. Govind, 92, Indian freedom fighter. [354]
* Gedalio Grinberg, 77, Cuban-born American founder of Movado Group, natural causes. [355]
* Ivan Gubijan, 85, Croatian hammer thrower, Olympic medalist (1948), after long illness. [356]
* India, 18, American pet cat of President George W. Bush. [357]
* Gert Jonke, 62, Austrian writer and poet, cancer. [358]
* Arvid Knutsen, 64, Norwegian footballer (Viking FK), brain tumor. [359] (Norwegian)
* Jon Latimer, 44, British historian, heart attack. [360]
* Bob Lazarus, 52, American comedian, leukemia. [361]
* Sudhir Ranjan Majumdar, 75, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Tripura (1988–1992), heart attack. [362]
* John McGillicuddy, 78, American CEO of Manufacturers Hanover (1971–1991), Chemical Banking (1991–1993), prostate cancer. [363]
* Giselle Salandy, 21, Trinidadian boxer, car accident. [364]

[edit] 3

* Abu Zakaria al-Jamal, 49, Palestinian senior Hamas leader, air strike. [365]
* Charles Camilleri, 77, Maltese composer. [366]
* John Grindrod, 89, Australian Anglican prelate, Archbishop of Brisbane (1980–1989). [367]
* Pat Hingle, 84, American actor (Splendor in the Grass, Hang 'Em High, Batman), blood cancer. [368]
* Li Zuopeng, 94, Chinese general and politician. [369]
* Ulf G. Lindén, 71, Swedish entrepreneur, heart failure. [370] (Swedish)
* Sam McQuagg, 73, American race car driver, NASCAR Rookie of the Year (1965), cancer. [371]
* Hisayasu Nagata, 39, Japanese politician, suicide by jumping. [372]
* Olga San Juan, 81, American actress, kidney failure. [373]
* Matt Sczesny, 76, American scout for the Boston Red Sox, cancer. [374]
* Sir Alan Walters, 82, British economist. [375]

[edit] 2

* Leonard Andrews, 83, American art patron, prostate cancer. [376]
* Inger Christensen, 73, Danish poet, novelist and essayist. [377]
* John DeFrancis, 97, American sinologist. [378]
* Ralph Gibson, 84, American flying ace of the Korean War. [379]
* Hank DeZonie, 86, American basketball player. [380]
* Steven Gilborn, 72, American actor (Ellen), cancer. [381]
* Valentina Giovagnini, 28, Italian singer, car crash. [382] (Italian)
* Ian Greaves, 76, British footballer and manager (Mansfield Town, Bolton Wanderers). [383]
* Tony Gregory, 61, Irish politician, member of Dáil Éireann, cancer. [384]
* Joe Henry, 78, American baseball player (Memphis Red Sox, Negro Leagues). [385]
* Ryuzo Hiraki, 77, Japanese footballer, pneumonia. [386]
* Maria de Jesus, 115, Portuguese supercentenarian, world's verified oldest person, septic shock. [387]
* John Olav Larssen, 81, Norwegian evangelical preacher. [388] (Norwegian)
* Rashid III, 78, Emirati ruler of Umm al-Quwain. [389]
* Nick Scandone, 42, American yachtsman, paralympian gold medallist (2008), Lou Gehrig's disease. [390]
* Olgierd Zienkiewicz, 87, British civil engineer. [391]

[edit] 1

* Aarne Arvonen, 111, Finnish supercentenarian, last surviving veteran of the Finnish Civil War. [392] (Finnish)
* Todd H. Bullard, 77, American educator, complications from diabetes. [393]
* Walter Haynes, 80, American steel guitarist. [394]
* John Morrow, 77, British Presbyterian minister and peace activist. [395]
* Fahid Mohammed Ally Msalam, 32, Kenyan Al-Qaeda leader, allegedly behind Marriott hotel bombings, airstrike. [396]
* Claiborne Pell, 90, American Senator from Rhode Island (1961–1997), creator of the Pell Grant, Parkinson's disease. [397]
* Gert Petersen, 81, Danish journalist and politician. [398] (Danish)
* Robert Prince, 89, American Major, recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross. [399]
* Edmund Purdom, 84, British actor. [400]
* Nizar Rayan, 49, Palestinian Hamas military and political leader, airstrike. [401]
* Willard Warren Scott, Jr., 82, American general, head of United States Military Academy (1981–1986), Parkinson's disease. [402]
* Johannes Mario Simmel, 84, Austrian writer. [403]
* Henry King Stanford, 92, American academic, president of the University of Miami (1962–1981). [404]
* Helen Suzman, 91, South African anti-apartheid activist and politician, MP (1953–1989). [405]
* Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan, Kenyan Al-Qaeda leader, airstrike. [406]