December 2009
20

* Jack Hixon, 88, British association football scout. [1]
* Yiannis Moralis, 93, Greek visual artist. [2]
* Brittany Murphy, 32, American actress (Clueless; 8 Mile; Girl, Interrupted), voice actress (King of the Hill) and singer. [3]

19

* Grand Ayatollah Hosein-Ali Montazeri, 87, Iranian cleric and dissident, natural causes. [4]
* Zeki Ökten, 68, Turkish film director, heart disease. [5]

18

* José Bardina, 70, Venezuelan actor, bladder cancer. [6]
* Emina Hrenovica, 53, Bosnian journalist, illness. [7] (Bosnian)
* Joasaph (McLellan), 47, American Head of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem of the ROCOR, cancer. [8]
* Job (Osacky), 63, American Archbishop of the Orthodox Church in America. [9]
* Mike Simpson, 47, American politician, Michigan state Representative, heart attack. [10]
* Rex Yetman, 76, Canadian bluegrass musician [11]
* Jack Zilly, 88, American football player (Los Angeles Rams). [12]

17

* Amin al-Hafiz, 88, Syrian politician, President (1963–1966). [13] (Arabic)
* Fred Baden, 75, American politician, Mayor of Pineville, Louisiana (1970–1998), complications from a fall. [14]
* Paolo Barlera, 27, Liberian-born Italian basketball player, leukemia. [15] (Italian)
* Alaina Reed Hall, 63, American actress (Sesame Street, 227), breast cancer. [16]
* Chris Henry, 26, American football player (Cincinnati Bengals), car accident. [17]
* Jennifer Jones, 90, American Academy Award-winning actress (The Song of Bernadette), natural causes. [18]
* Miljenko Mihić, 75, Serbian football coach. [19] (Serbian)
* Dan O'Bannon, 63, American screenwriter, director and actor, Crohn's disease. [20]
* Albert Ràfols-Casamada, 86, Spanish artist. [21] (Spanish)

16

* Marcos Arturo Beltrán-Leyva, 48, Mexican drug lord, shot. [22]
* Arthur Cores, 52, American businessman, founder of Boston Market, esophageal cancer. [23]
* Drexell R. Davis, 88, American politician, Kentucky Secretary of State and state treasurer. [24]
* Roy E. Disney, 79, American executive (The Walt Disney Company), nephew of Walt Disney, stomach cancer. [25]
* Yegor Gaidar, 53, Russian politician, acting Prime Minister (1992), thrombus. [26]
* Fred Honsberger, 58, American radio personality. [27]
* Kelly Kwalik, Indonesian West Papua separatist leader and commander (Free Papua Movement), shot. [28]
* Dame Victoire Bennett, Lady Ridsdale, 88, British politician, World War II intelligence agent, inspiration for Miss Moneypenny. [29]
* Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, 69, South African politician, Minister of Health (1999–2008), complications from a liver transplant. [30]
* Vladimir Turchinsky, 46, Russian actor, bodybuilder and showman, heart attack. [31]
* Josef Voß, 72, German Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of Munster, Titular Bishop of Thisiduo (since 1988). [32]
* Bob Waldmire, 64, American Route 66 artist, cancer. [33]

15

* Courtlandt Bryan, 73, American author, cancer. [34]
* Arnaldo Ribeiro, 79, Brazilian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Ribeirão Preto (1988–2006). [35]
* Oral Roberts, 91, American evangelist, founder of Oral Roberts University, complications from pneumonia. [36]

14

* Alan A'Court, 75, British footballer (Liverpool F.C.), cancer. [37]
* Dennis deLeon, 61, American human rights commissioner and AIDS activist, heart failure. [38]
* Jack Denham, 85, Australian horse trainer, winner of 1997 Caulfield and Melbourne Cup (Might and Power), after long illness. [39]
* Chris Feinstein, 42, American bassist (Ryan Adams & The Cardinals). [40]
* Conard Fowkes, 76, American actor (Dark Shadows). [41]
* David Pecaut, 54, Canadian municipal entrepreneur, colorectal cancer. [42]
* Daniel Piscopo, 89, Maltese politician. [43]
* Sol Price, 93, American businessman, founder of Price Club, natural causes. [44]

13

* Dan Barton, 88, American actor and voice-over actor, heart failure and kidney disease. [45]
* Julio Bravo Ducal, 83, Spanish track and field athletics trainer and pioneer. [46] (Spanish)
* Moyra Fraser, 86, Australian-born British actress (As Time Goes By). [47]
* Yvonne King, 89, American singer (The King Sisters). [48]
* Arne Næss, 84, Norwegian politician, Mayor of Bergen. [49] (Norwegian)
* Piergiorgio Nesti, 78, Italian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Camerino-San Severino Marche. [50] (Italian)
* Paul Samuelson, 94, American economist, Nobel Prize winner (1970), after short illness. [51]
* Thomas F. Stroock, 84, American politician, Ambassador to Guatemala (1989–1992), after long illness. [52]
* Larry Sultan, 63, American photographer, cancer. [53]
* Joseph Tierney, 68, American politician, five-time president of Boston City Council, cancer. [54]
* Wilton Cezar Xavier, 62, Brazilian footballer. [55] (Portuguese)

12

* Val Avery, 85, American actor (The Killing of a Chinese Bookie). [56]
* Klavdiya Boyarskikh, 70, Russian cross-country skier, Olympic gold medalist (1964). [57] (Russian)
* Charles Davis, 84, Irish-born American actor, heart attack. [58]
* Robert G. Heft, 67, American designer of the 50-star American flag. [59]

11

* Garland Adair, 111, American supercentenarian. [60]
* Brindley Benn, 86, Guyanese politician, Deputy Prime Minister, natural causes. [61]
* Francisco Piquer Chanza, 87, Spanish actor. [62] (Spanish)
* Mike Cinqmars, 31, American freestyle motocross racing pioneer and X-Games medalist. [63]
* D'Arcy D'Souza, 96, Pakistani Roman Catholic priest. [64]
* Jean-Robert Gauthier, 80, Canadian MP for Ottawa East (1972–74), Ottawa—Vanier (1974–94); Senator (1994–2004), stroke. [65]
* Jamil Haddad, 83, Brazilian politician, Mayor of Rio de Janeiro (1983) and Health Minister, heart attack. [66] (Portuguese)
* Colin Clement Walter James, 83, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Winchester (1985–1995), chest infection. [67]
* Ciarán Mac Mathúna, 84, Irish radio presenter and music collector. [68]
* Mohammed Majid Al Muhairi, 34, Emirati offshore powerboat racing driver, race crash. [69]
* Jean-Marc Sanchez, 48, French offshore powerboat racing throttleman, race crash. [70]
* Sultan bin Saqr, 63, Emirati son of Ras al-Khaimah sheikh Saqr bin Mohammad al-Qassimi. [71]
* Damien Truth, 29, Canadian wrestler, heart attack. [72]
* Eric Wrinkles, 49, American murderer, execution by lethal injection. [73]

10

* Najeeb Ahmed, 48, Pakistani journalist, cardiac arrest. [74]
* Dilip Chitre, 70, Indian poet, cancer. [75]
* Kenny Dino, 67, American pop singer. [76]
* Sir John Gingell, 84, British Air Chief Marshal and Black Rod (1985–1992). [77]
* Thomas Hoving, 78, American director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1967–1977), lung cancer. [78]
* József Kóczián, 83, Hungarian table tennis player. [79] (Hungarian)
* William L. Reilly, 94, American Jesuit and philosophy professor, President of Le Moyne College (1964–1976). [80]
* Roy Shatzko, 69, Canadian football player. [81]

9

* Luiz Carlos Alborghetti, 64, Brazilian television presenter and politician, lung cancer. [82] (Portuguese)
* Gene Barry, 90, American actor (Burke's Law, Bat Masterson), heart failure. [83]
* Francis Blanchard, 93, French civil servant, Director-General of the International Labour Organization (1974–1989). [84]
* Nasim Jamil, 54, Pakistani-born British radio presenter, murdered. [85]
* Sa'ad Khair, 56, Jordanian secret service chief, heart attack. [86]
* Petr Kocman, 39, Czech football player, traffic collision. [87] (Czech)
* Piotr Krzywicki, 45, Polish politician, pancreatic cancer. [88] (Polish)
* Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García, 79, Guatemalan President (1974–1978), complications of cancer. [89]
* Rodrigo Carazo Odio, 82, Costa Rican politician, President (1978–1982), heart failure. [90]
* Faramarz Payvar, 77, Iranian composer and santur player, brain damage. [91]
* Onofre Cândido Rosa, 85, Brazilian Roman Catholic Bishop of Jardim (1981–1999). [92]
* Goldie Semple, 56, Canadian stage actor, breast cancer. [93]
* Luther Smith, 89, American pilot, member of the Tuskegee Airmen, heart attack. [94]
* Kathryn Waldo, 33, American ice hockey player (Northeastern University Huskies), lung and kidney failure. [95]
* Håkan Wickberg, 66, Swedish Olympic ice hockey player. [96] (Swedish)

8

* James Bingham, 84, British artist. [97]
* Kenneth Biros, 51, American murderer, execution by lethal injection. [98]
* Louis Blondel, 70, French Roman Catholic priest and missionary of the White Fathers. [99]
* Su Cruickshank, 63, Australian jazz singer and actress (Young Einstein), heart and kidney failure. [100]
* Luis Días, 57, Dominican musician and song writer, heart attack. [101].
* John Givens, 83, American basketball coach (Kentucky Colonels, 1967). [102]
* Arthur Glasser, 95, American missionary and theologian. [103]
* Elza Medeiros, 88, Brazilian nurse, World War II veteran. [104] (Portuguese)
* Anthony Sanusi, 98, Nigerian Roman Catholic Bishop of Ijebu-Ode (1969–1990). [105]
* Sir Philip Watson, 90, British admiral. [106]
* Yang Yanming, 51, Chinese embezzler, executed. [107]
* Yosef Haim Yerushalmi, 77, American scholar, emphysema. [108]

7

* Nur Akbar, 56, Afghan Al-Qaeda terrorist, airstrike. [109] (German)
* Frank M. Coffin, 90, American politician, Representative from Maine (1957–1961), complications from aortic aneurysm surgery. [110]
* Royden G. Derrick, 94, American general authority of the LDS Church, natural causes. [111]
* Al Dorow, 80, American football player (Washington Redskins, New York Titans), bone cancer. [112]
* Shunkichi Hamada, 99, Japanese Olympic silver medal-winning (1932) field hockey player. [113] (Japanese)
* Rose Kaufman, 70, American screenwriter, cancer. [114]
* William C. McInnes, 86, American Jesuit, president of Fairfield University (1964–1973) and USF (1973–1976), after long illness. [115]
* Lorenzo Ochoa Salas, Mexican archeologist. [116]. (Spanish)
* Grady Patterson, 85, American politician, South Carolina state Treasurer (1966–1995; 1999–2007), natural causes. [117]
* Mark Ritts, 63, American actor and puppeteer (Beakman's World), kidney cancer. [118]
* Pyotr Vail, 60, Russian essayist and journalist. [119]

6

* Pedro Altares, 74, Spanish journalist, after long illness. [120] (Spanish)
* Dennis P. Collins, 85, American politician, Mayor of Bayonne, New Jersey (1974-1990), multiple health problems. [121]
* Rupprecht Geiger, 101, German painter. [122] (German)
* Uno Mereste, 81, Estonian economist. [123] (Estonian)
* Gul Mola, 46, Pakistani Al-Qaeda terrorist, airstrike. [124]
* Dermott Monteith, 66, Irish cricketer, after short illness. [125]
* John Pittenger, 79, American politician, Pennsylvania Secretary of Education (1972–1976), Parkinson's disease. [126]
* Bina Rai, 78, Indian actress (Anarkali), heart attack. [127]
* Daouda Sow, 76, Senegalese politician, President of National Assembly (1984-1998). [128] (French)

5

* Jerry Birn, 86, American television writer. [129]
* Nina Fishman, 63, British historian and political activist, cancer. [130]
* Alfred Hrdlicka, 81, Austrian architect and draughtsman. [131]
* Otto Graf Lambsdorff, 82, German politician, Minister of Economics and Technology (1977–1982; 1982–1984). [132]
* Kálmán Markovits, 78, Hungarian Olympic gold (1952, 1956) and bronze (1960) medalist in water polo, after long illness. [133]
* Tim "Barrel Man" McKernan, 69, American fan of the Denver Broncos, lung failure. [134]
* Garfield Morgan, 78, British actor, cancer. [135]
* Malcolm Perry, 80, American attending physician to President John F. Kennedy after his assassination, lung cancer. [136]
* Manuel Prado y Colón de Carvajal, 78, Spanish diplomat. [137] (German)
* Jim Rohn, 79, American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker, pulmonary fibrosis. [138]
* Jack Rose, 38, American guitarist, heart attack. [139]
* Hans-Jürgen Simon, 70, German football player and official. [140] (German)
* Princess Vimolchatra of Thailand, 88, Thai royal, cousin of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, renal failure. [141] (Thai)
* William A. Wilson, 95, American Ambassador to the Holy See (1984–1986). [142]

4

* Richard T. Antoun, 77, American anthropologist and professor, stabbed. [143]
* Harold Bell, 90, American television producer, creator of Woodsy Owl. [144]
* Liam Clancy, 74, Irish folk singer (The Clancy Brothers), pulmonary fibrosis. [145]
* Eddie Fatu, 36, American professional wrestler, heart attack. [146]
* Matthew Luo Duxi, 90, Chinese Roman Catholic Bishop of Jiading. [147]
* Jérôme-Michel-Francis Martin, 68, French Roman Catholic Bishop of Berbérati (1987–1991). [148]
* Bryan O'Byrne, 78, American character actor. [149]
* Spyridon, 83, Greek Metropolitan Bishop of Lagkadas, after long illness. [150] (Greek)
* Vyacheslav Tikhonov, 81, Russian actor (Seventeen Moments of Spring). [151] (Russian)
* Stephen Toulmin, 87, British philosopher and author, heart failure. [152]
* Jordi Solé Tura, 79, Spanish politician and lawyer, Minister of Culture (1991–1993). [153] (Spanish)
* Mall Vaasma, 64, Estonian mycologist. [154] (Estonian)

3

* Ibrahim Hassan Addou, Somali Higher Education Minister, bombing. [155]
* Qamar Aden Ali, Somali Health Minister, bombing. [156]
* Luis María Bandrés, 65, Spanish leader of Basque Nationalist Party, after long illness. [157] (Spanish)
* Estêvão Cardoso de Avellar, 92, Brazilian Roman Catholic Bishop of Uberlândia (1978–1992). [158]
* Ahmed El-Fahal, 35, Iraqi anti Al-Qaeda coordinator, terrorist attack. [159] (German)
* Paula Hawkins, 82, American politician, Senator from Florida (1981–1987), complications from a fall. [160]
* István Iglódi, 65, Hungarian Kossuth Prize-winning actor. [161] (Hungarian)
* Leila Lopes, 40, Brazilian actress, suicide. [162] (Portuguese)
* Curtis Nkondo, 81, South African politician, activist and diplomat, after long illness. [163]
* Sam Salt, 69, British rear admiral, captain of HMS Sheffield during the Falklands War. [164]
* Peter R. Scanlon, 78, American accountant and chairman (Coopers & Lybrand), cancer. [165]
* Valbjörn Þorláksson, 75, Icelandic decathlete. [166] (Icelandic)
* Richard Todd, 90, Irish-born British Academy Award-nominated actor (The Hasty Heart, The Dam Busters), cancer. [167]
* Ahmed Abdulahi Waayeel, Somali Education Minister, bombing. [168]
* Bobby Wayne Woods, 44, American rapist, kidnapper and murderer, execution by lethal injection. [169]
* Torrie Zito, 76, American pianist and arranger, emphysema. [170]

2

* Harold A. Ackerman, 81, American federal judge, natural causes. [171]
* Foge Fazio, 71, American football coach, leukemia. [172]
* Ikuo Hirayama, 79, Japanese painter, stroke. [173]
* Maggie Jones, 75, British actress (Coronation Street), after long illness. [174]
* Jozo Križanović, 65, Bosnian politician, Croat member of the Presidency (2001–2002), complications from surgery. [175] (Bosnian)
* Luiz Lombardi Neto, 69, Brazilian announcer (Silvio Santos television program), stroke. [176] (Portuguese)
* Aaron Schroeder, 83, American songwriter, Alzheimer's disease. [177]
* Vjekoslav Šutej, 58, Croatian conductor, leukemia. [178] (Croatian)
* Eric Woolfson, 64, Scottish singer and keyboardist (The Alan Parsons Project), cancer. [179]

1

* Christoph Budde, 46, German football player (Borussia Mönchengladbach), swine flu. [180] (German)
* Maurice Clemmons, 37, American felon, suspected of Lakewood police officer shooting, shot. [181]
* Neil Dougall, 88, British footballer (Plymouth Argyle), after long illness. [182]
* Tommy Henrich, 96, American baseball player (New York Yankees). [183]
* "Big Bill" Lister, 86, American honky tonk singer, after short illness. [184]
* Alberto Martínez, 59, Uruguayan football player (FK Austria Wien), heart failure. [185] (German)
* Richard Nader, 69, American disc jockey and promoter, Parkinson's disease. [186]
* Ramses Shaffy, 76, Dutch singer and actor, esophageal cancer. [187] (Dutch)
* Erik Siliksaar, 95, Estonian surgeon. [188] (Estonian)
* Shilendra Kumar Singh, 77, Indian politician, Governor of Rajasthan (2007–2009), after short illness. [189]
* Éva Szörényi, 92, Hungarian actress, Kossuth Prize winner. [190] (Hungarian)
* Donald Washington, Sr., 79, American jazz tenor saxophonist, lung cancer. [191]

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* George Atkins, 92, Canadian radio and TV presenter (CBC), founder of Farm Radio International, kidney failure. [1]
* Asim Butt, 42, Pakistani-born British cricketer. [2]
* Harry C. Crosby, 84, American science fiction writer under pen name Christopher Anvil. [3]
* Emile Eid, 84, Lebanese Roman Catholic titular bishop of Sarepta dei Maroniti. [4]
* Brent Green, 33, Australian football player, drowned. [5]
* Paul Naschy, 75, Spanish actor, screenwriter and director. [6]
* Milorad Pavić, 80, Serbian writer, heart failure. [7]
* Lucian Pulvermacher, 91, American head of the True Catholic Church. [8]
* Ahmet Ulucay, 55, Turkish film director, pneumonia. [9] (Turkish)

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* Prince Alexander of Belgium, 67, Belgian royal, pulmonary embolism. [10] (French)
* Mary Call Darby Collins, 98, American First Lady of Florida (1955–1961), after long illness. [11]
* Nora David, Baroness David, 96, British politician, member of the House of Lords. [12]
* Gilbert-Antoine Duchêne, 90, French Bishop of Saint-Claude (1975–1994). [13]
* Princess Farial of Egypt, 71, Egyptian royal, oldest child of King Farouk, stomach cancer. [14]
* Robert Holdstock, 61, British science fiction author, Escherichia coli infection. [15]
* Solange Magnano, 38, Argentinian beauty queen (Miss Argentina, 1994), pulmonary embolism. [16]
* Lee Pelty, 74, American stage actor, lung cancer. [17]
* Jerneja Perc, 38, Slovenian athlete, cancer. [18] (Slovenian)
* Roy Hendry Thomson, 77, British politician. [19]

[edit] 28

* Gilles Carle, 81, Canadian film director and screenwriter, complications from Parkinson's disease. [20]
* Bjartmar Gjerde, 78, Norwegian politician, cabinet minister and broadcasting executive. [21] (Norwegian)
* Jeff Hoover, 41, American football coach (Eastern Illinois University), car accident. [22]
* Bob Keane, 87, American music producer and manager, founder of Del-Fi Records, renal failure. [23]
* Eric Waldram Kemp, 94, British Church of England theologian, Bishop of Chichester (1974–2001). [24]
* Tony Kendall, 73, Italian actor (Kommissar X series), after short illness. [25]
* Patrick Konchellah, 41, Kenyan runner, after long illness. [26]
* Jan Kuczyński, 74, Polish Olympic wrestler. [27] (Polish)
* Koichi Saito, 80, Japanese film director and photographer, pneumonia. [28]
* István Sárkány, 96, Hungarian Olympic gymnast. [29] (Hungarian)
* Joaquín Vargas Gómez, 84, Mexican media owner, founder of MVS Comunicaciones, natural causes. [30] (Spanish)

[edit] 27

* Al Alberts, 87, American singer (The Four Aces), kidney failure. [31]
* Jacques Baratier, 91, French film director and screenwriter. [32] (French)
* Erich Böhme, 79, German journalist, editor of Der Spiegel (1973–1989), cancer. [33]
* Jacques Braunstein, 78, Romanian-born Venezuelan economist, publicist and jazz disc jockey, heart failure. [34] (Spanish)
* William J. Bresnan, 75, American businessman, founder of Bresnan Communications, cancer. [35]
* Bess Lomax Hawes, 88, American folklorist and musician, stroke. [36]
* Geneviève Joy, 90, French pianist. [37]
* Alice McGrath, 92, American activist (Sleepy Lagoon murder trial), infection from a chronic illness. [38]
* György Melis, 86, Hungarian opera singer. [39]
* Mike Penner, 52, American sportswriter (Los Angeles Times), suicide. [40]
* Irving Tripp, 88, American comic book artist (Little Lulu), cancer. [41]
* Larry Turner, 70, American politician, member of the Tennessee House of Representatives (since 1985), after long illness. [42]
* Warren Vanderschuit, 79, American actor, lung cancer. [43]

[edit] 26

* Pia Beck, 84, Dutch jazz pianist and singer, heart attack. [44]
* Bernard Birnbaum, 89, American television producer (CBS News), heart attack. [45]
* Peter Forakis, 82, American artist. [46]
* Robert J. Fox, 81, American Catholic priest, cancer. [47]
* Ecaterina Iencic-Stahl, 63, Romanian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1968, 1972) fencer. [48] (Romanian)
* Nikola Kovachev, 75, Bulgarian football player and manager. [49] (Bulgarian)
* Lis Løwert, 89, Danish film actress. [50] (Danish)
* Geoffrey Moorhouse, 77, British journalist and author, stroke. [51]
* Alexis Reed, 26, American wrestling manager, stepdaughter of Brian Pillman, automobile accident. [52]

[edit] 25

* Giorgio Carbone, 73, Italian self-proclaimed head of state of the Principality of Seborga micronation. [53]
* Krista Odakivi, 34, Estonian meteorologist, beaten. [54] (Estonian)

[edit] 24

* José Arraño, 88, Chilean writer and historian, pneumonia. [55] (Spanish)
* Amy Black, 36, British mezzo-soprano opera singer. [56]
* Chan Hung Lit, 66, Hong Kong actor, heart failure. [57]
* Francis French, 7th Baron de Freyne, 82, Irish aristocrat. [58]
* Mike LeBell, 79, American professional wrestling promoter, older brother of Gene LeBell, respiratory failure. [59]
* Abe Pollin, 85, American businessman, owner of Washington Wizards and Washington Capitals, corticobasal degeneration. [60]
* Vello Rummo, 88, Estonian theatrical producer. [61] (Estonian)
* Hale Smith, 84, American composer and arranger, complications of a stroke. [62]
* Squingy, 37, Jamaican disc jockey (Bass Odyssey), HIV/AIDS. [63]
* Samak Sundaravej, 74, Thai politician, Prime Minister (2008), liver cancer. [64]

[edit] 23

* Víctor Brizuela, 77, Argentinian sports commentator, complications following kidney transplant. [65] (Spanish)
* Robert Degen, 104, American songwriter (Hokey Pokey). [66]
* Pim Koopman, 56, Dutch progressive rock drummer (Kayak). [67]
* Richard Meale, 77, Australian composer. [68]
* Lennart Olsson, 67, Swedish eccentric football fan, cancer. [69] (Swedish)
* Joe Papa, American musician (Controlled Bleeding), heart attack. [70]
* Tony Parry, 64, British footballer (Hartlepool United), pneumonia. [71]
* Pat Quinn, 74, Irish businessman, founder of the Quinnsworth supermarket chain, renal failure. [72]
* Yang Xianyi, 94, Chinese translator. [73]

[edit] 22

* Billy Joe Daugherty, 57, American Christian minister, lymphoma. [74]
* Sir John Grugeon, 81, British politician. [75]
* Jeong Nam-kyu, 40, South Korean serial killer, suicide by hanging. [76]
* B.Z. Kastler, 89, American businessman, former CEO of (Questar Corporation). [77]
* Ali Kordan, 51, Iranian politician, Minister of the Interior (2008), multiple myeloma. [78]
* Art Lake, 85, American news presenter and weatherman (WJAR-TV). [79]
* Juan Carlos Muñoz, 90, Argentinian footballer, heart attack. [80] (Spanish)
* Haydain Neale, 39, Canadian singer–songwriter (jacksoul), lung cancer. [81]
* Iraklis Papasideris, 80, Greek lyricist. [82] (Greek)
* Francisco Rodriguez, 25, American Golden Gloves boxer, brain injury sustained during match. [83]
* Emile Vanfasse, 69, French Polynesian politician, Finance Minister (2004–2006). [84]

[edit] 21

* Gerhard Aspheim, 79, Norwegian jazz trombonist. [85] (Norwegian)
* Bernard Bonnin, 70, Filipino actor, diabetes. [86]
* Konstantin Feoktistov, 83, Russian cosmonaut and aerospace engineer. [87] (Russian)
* Tom Janik, 69, American football player (Denver Broncos, Buffalo Bills). [88]
* Rena Kanokogi, 74, American judoka, multiple myeloma. [89]
* Paige Palmer, 93, American fitness trainer. [90]
* Allen Shelton, 73, American banjo player, leukemia. [91]

[edit] 20

* Martino Gomiero, 85, Italian Roman Catholic Bishop of Adria-Rovigo. [92]
* Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, 78, Pakistani politician, Chief Minister of Sindh (1973–1977); Prime Minister (1990), after long illness. [93]
* Lino Lacedelli, 83, Italian mountaineer, first man to reach the summit of K2. [94]
* H. C. Robbins Landon, 83, American musicologist. [95]
* Celso Pitta, 63, Brazilian politician, Mayor of São Paulo (1997–2000), colorectal cancer. [96]
* Herbert Richers, 86, Brazilian filmmaker and voice artist, kidney failure. [97] (Portuguese)
* Max Robertson, 94, British radio broadcaster. [98]
* Alejandro R. Ruiz, 85, American World War II Medal of Honor recipient. [99]
* Lester Shubin, 84, American developer of the bulletproof Kevlar vest, heart attack. [100]
* Elisabeth Söderström, 82, Swedish soprano, complications from a stroke. [101]
* Roman Trakhtenberg, 41, Russian actor, television and radio presenter, heart attack. [102]
* Charis Wilson, 95, American model and writer. [103]

[edit] 19

* Frank Beattie, 76, Scottish footballer (Kilmarnock F.C.), after long illness. [104]
* Johnny Delgado, 61, Filipino actor, lymphoma. [105]
* Daul Kim, 20, South Korean fashion model, suicide by hanging. [106]
* Pat Mackie, 95, New Zealand-born Australian trade unionist. [107]
* Sir Noel Power, 79, Australian acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong (1996–1997), heart attack. [108]
* Nao Takasugi, 87, American politician, member of the California State Assembly (1993–1999), stroke. [109]
* Uga VII, 4, American English bulldog mascot (University of Georgia), heart attack. [110]

[edit] 18

* Johnny Almond, 63, British jazz and rock musician (Mark-Almond), cancer. [111]
* Abrar Alvi, 82, Indian film director and screenwriter (Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam), stomach complications. [112].
* Albert Crewe, 82, British-born American physicist, invented scanning transmission electron microscope, Parkinson's disease. [113]
* Jeanne-Claude, 74, French environmental artist (The Gates), complications from a ruptured brain aneurysm. [114]
* Red Robbins, 65, American basketball player, cancer. [115]
* Salem Saad, 31, Emirati footballer (Al-Nasr SC), heart attack. [116]

[edit] 17

* John Craxton, 87, British painter. [117]
* Niku Kheradmand, 77, Iranian actress, complications of a heart attack. [118]
* Nikolay Olyalin, 68, Russian actor. [119] (Russian)
* Sy Syms, 83, American entrepreneur, founder and chairman of off-price clothier SYMS, heart failure. [120]

[edit] 16

* Eddie Bell, 78, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles, New York Titans), heart failure. [121]
* Jeff Clyne, 72, British jazz bassist, heart attack. [122]
* Antonio de Nigris, 31, Mexican football player, heart failure. [123]
* Robert J. Frankel, 68, American thoroughbred horse trainer, leukemia. [124]
* Jan Leighton, 87, American actor, complications from a stroke. [125]
* Jack Wong Sue, 84, Australian Z Special Unit member and businessman. [126]
* Olivia Patricia Thomas, 114, American supercentenarian, third-oldest person in the world. [127]
* Bucky Williams, 102, American baseball player, second-oldest Negro League Baseball player. [128]
* Edward Woodward, 79, British film and television actor, natural causes. [129]

[edit] 15

* Derek B, 44, British rapper, heart attack. [130]
* Tia Barrett, 62, New Zealand ambassador and diplomat, High Commissioner to the Cook Islands (2009), after short illness. [131]
* Richard Carlyle, 95, Canadian actor. [132]
* Ray Charnley, 74, English footballer (Blackpool, Morecambe), after long illness. [133]
* Dennis Cole, 69, American actor. [134]
* Andriy Fedchuk, 29, Ukrainian Olympic bronze medal-winning boxer (2000), traffic collision. [135] (Russian)
* Pierre Harmel, 98, Belgian politician, Prime Minister (1965–1966). [136] (Dutch)
* Natalicio Lima, 91, Brazilian guitarist (Los Indios Tabajaras), stomach cancer. [137]
* Ambrose Mathalaimuthu, 84, Indian Bishop of Coimbatore. [138]
* Hans Matthöfer, 84, German politician, Minister of Finance (1978–1982). [139] (German)
* Anna Mendelssohn, 61, British poet and political activist (Angry Brigade), brain tumour. [140]
* Allan Murdmaa, 75, Estonian architect. [141] (Estonian)
* Ken Ober, 52, American comedian and game show host (Remote Control). [142]
* Patriarch Pavle, 95, Serbian 44th Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, cardiac arrest. [143]
* Jocelyn Quivrin, 30, French actor, car accident. [144] (French)
* Earl Wentz, 71, American composer and performer, after long illness. [145]

[edit] 14

* Nikolay Anikin, 77, Russian-born American Olympic gold medal skiing champion (1956 Olympics), cancer. [146]
* Edgar Fay, 101, British judge. [147]
* Moshe Gidron, 84, Israeli Major General. [148]
* Thomas Hollyman, 89, American photographer. [149]
* John David McWilliam, 68, British politician, Member of Parliament for Blaydon (1979–2005). [150]
* Lewis Millett, 88, American Medal of Honor recipient. [151]
* David A. Olsen, 71, American businessman, after short illness. [152]
* Ladislav Sitenský, 90, Czech photographer. [153]

[edit] 13

* Michał Gajownik, 27, Polish Olympic sprint canoer, traffic collision. [154] (Polish)
* Ueli Gegenschatz, 38, Swiss BASE jumper, jumping accident. [155] (German)
* Dell Hymes, 82, American anthropologist, linguist and folklorist, complications of Alzheimer's disease. [156]
* Bruce King, 85, American politician, three-term Governor of New Mexico, complications from heart procedure. [157]
* Ron Klimkowski, 65, American baseball player, heart failure. [158]
* Mara Manzan, 57, Brazilian actress, lung cancer. [159] (Portuguese)
* John J. O'Connor, 76, American television critic (The New York Times), lung cancer. [160]
* Armen Takhtajan, 99, Soviet botanist. [161] (Russian)

[edit] 12

* Mohamed Abdi Aware, Somali judge, Chief Justice of Puntland, shot. [162]
* Vagrich Bakhchanyan, 71, Ukrainian-born American painter, apparent suicide. [163] (Russian)
* Dámaso Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer, 60, Spanish judge, Advocate-General of the European Court of Justice. [164]
* Robert Kendall, 82, American actor, heart attack. [165]
* Willy Kernen, 80, Swiss footballer, participated in World Cup (1950, 1954, 1962). [166]
* Bernard Kolélas, 76, Congolese politician, Mayor of Brazzaville, Prime Minister (1997). [167]
* James R. Lilley, 81, American diplomat, ambassador to South Korea and China, complications linked to prostate cancer. [168]
* Henri Sérandour, 72, French IOC member, former head of the French National Olympic Committee. [169]
* Paul Wendkos, 87, American television and film director (Gidget), complications of a stroke. [170]
* Emanuel Zisman, 74, Israeli politician, Member of Knesset (1988–1999). [171]

[edit] 11

* Ehsan Fatahian, 28, Iranian Kurdish activist, executed by hanging. [172]
* Henry Jayasena, 78, Sri Lankan actor. [173]
* Irving Kriesberg, 90, American expressionist artist, complications from Parkinson's disease. [174]
* Tom Merriman, 85, American jingle composer, complications from a fall. [175]
* Marvin Minoff, 78, American film and television producer (The Nixon Interviews, Patch Adams). [176]
* John Jay O'Connor, 79, American lawyer, husband of Sandra Day O'Connor, Alzheimer's disease. [177]
* Helge Reiss, 81, Norwegian actor. [178] (Norwegian)

[edit] 10

* Gheorghe Dinică, 75, Romanian actor, cardiac arrest. [179] (Romanian)
* Robert Enke, 32, German footballer, suicide by train impact. [180]
* William Ganz, 90, Slovakian-born American cardiologist, co-inventor of the pulmonary artery catheter, natural causes. [181]
* Tomaž Humar, 40, Slovenian mountaineer, mountaineering accident. [182]
* Simple Kapadia, 51, Indian actress and costume designer, cancer. [183]
* Dick Katz, 85, American jazz pianist and arranger, lung cancer. [184]
* David Lloyd, 75, American comedy writer ("Chuckles Bites the Dust"), prostate cancer. [185]
* Uolevi Manninen, 72, Finnish Olympic basketball player. [186] (Finnish)
* Hisaya Morishige, 96, Japanese actor, natural causes. [187]
* John Allen Muhammad, 48, American spree killer (Beltway Sniper), execution by lethal injection. [188]
* Anne Mustoe, 76, British headmistress, cyclist and writer. [189]
* Ramin Pourandarjani, 26, Iranian doctor, whistleblower on use of torture, poisoned. [190]
* José Afonso Ribeiro, 80, Brazilian Roman Catholic Bishop of Borba. [191] (Portuguese)

[edit] 9

* Sedley Andrus, 94, British herald. [192]
* Al Cervi, 92, American basketball player and coach (Rochester Royals, Syracuse Nationals). [193]
* Earl Cooley, 98, American smokejumper. [194]
* Clen Denning, 98, Australian footballer, oldest surviving VFL player. [195]
* Henry L. Kimelman, 88, American Ambassador to Haiti (1980–1981), heart failure. [196]
* Earsell Mackbee, 68, American football player (Minnesota Vikings), complications following a stroke. [197]
* Mehdi Sahabi, 66, Iranian writer and translator, heart attack. [198]
* Charles Proctor Sifton, 74, American federal judge, sarcoidosis. [199]
* Stephen Edmund Verney, 90, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Repton (1977–1985). [200]
* Nick Waterlow, 69, British-born Australian artistic director and curator, stabbed. [201]

[edit] 8

* Jerry Fuchs, 34, American drummer (Maserati, !!!), fall. [202]
* Armin Gessert, 46, German video game developer, heart attack. [203]
* Vitaly Ginzburg, 93, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. [204]
* Burleigh Hines, 77, American journalist. [205]
* Karl Kroeber, 83, American literary scholar of Native American literature, cancer. [206]
* Malcolm Laycock, 71, British radio DJ. [207]
* Igor Starygin, 63, Russian actor, complications of a stroke. [208] (Russian)

[edit] 7

* Vic Davies, 55, Australian radio presenter, lung cancer. [209]
* Bob Dillinger, 91, American baseball player. [210]
* Anselmo Duarte, 89, Brazilian actor, screenwriter and film director, complications of a stroke. [211] (Portuguese)
* Bernardo Garza Sada, 79, Mexican businessman, founder of ALFA. [212]
* Donald Harington, 73, American author, cancer. [213]
* Chris Harman, 66, British socialist journalist and activist. [214]
* Billy Ingham, 57, British footballer (Burnley), after long illness. [215]
* Joe Maross, 86, American actor, cardiac arrest. [216]
* Allan Mulder, 81, Australian politician, MP (1972–1975). [217]

[edit] 6

* Manuel Arvizu, 90, Mexican Roman Catholic Bishop of Jesús María del Nayar. [218]
* Nick Counter, 69, American film executive and lawyer. [219]
* Dimitri De Fauw, 28, Belgian track cyclist, suicide. [220]
* Abraham Escudero Montoya, 69, Colombian Roman Catholic Bishop of Palmira. [221] (Spanish)
* Jacno, 52, French musician, cancer. [222] (French)
* Otomar Krejča, 87, Czech theatre director. [223] (Czech)
* Hans Lund, 59, American poker player, cancer. [224]
* Antonio Rosario Mennonna, 103, Italian Prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. [225] (German)
* Tommy Reis, 95, American baseball player. [226]
* Manuel Solís, 91, Panamanian President (1988–1989), pulmonary edema. [227] (Spanish)
* Ron Sproat, 77, American television writer (Dark Shadows), heart attack. [228]

[edit] 5

* Peter Chen Bolu, 96, Chinese Roman Catholic Bishop of Daming. [229]
* Adam Firestorm, 32, New Zealand-born Canadian professional wrestler, suicide. [230]
* Félix Luna, 84, Argentinian historian, after long illness. [231]
* Barrie Rickards, 71, British palaeontologist and angler, cancer. [232]

[edit] 4

* Win Aung, 65, Burmese politician and military officer, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1998–2004). [233]
* William H. Avery, 98, American politician, Representative for Kansas (1955–1965), Governor of Kansas (1965–1967). [234]
* Don Beaven, 85, New Zealand scientist and diabetes researcher, house fire. [235]
* Ivan Biakov, 65, Russian Olympic gold medal-winning biathlete (1972, 1976). [236] (Ukrainian)
* Hubertus Brandenburg, 85, German-born Roman Catholic Bishop of Stockholm (1977–1998). [237] (Swedish).
* Stefano Chiodi, 52, Italian footballer. [238] (Italian)
* Art D'Lugoff, 85, American jazz nightclub owner (The Village Gate), heart attack. [239]
* Kabun Mutō, 82, Japanese politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs (1993), pancreatic cancer. [240]
* Thomas P. O'Malley, 79, American academic, President of Loyola Marymount University (1991–1999), heart attack. [241]
* Antonio Pelle, 77, Italian 'Ndrangheta boss, heart attack. [242]
* David Tree, 94, British actor. [243]

[edit] 3

* Charles August, 90, American businessman, founder of Monro Muffler and Brake. [244]
* Francisco Ayala, 103, Spanish novelist, natural causes. [245] (Spanish)
* Archie Baird, 90, Scottish footballer (Aberdeen). [246]
* Carl Ballantine, 92, American actor (McHale's Navy), natural causes. [247]
* Brother Blue, 88, American storyteller, performance artist, after short illness. [248]
* Dodo Chichinadze, 84, Georgian actress. [249]
* Shel Dorf, 76, American founder of the San Diego Comic-Con, diabetes-related complications. [250]
* Parry Gordon, 64, English rugby league player. [251]
* Tamás Lossonczy, 105, Hungarian abstract painter. [252] (Hungarian)
* Lorissa McComas, 38, American softcore model and actress, after long illness. [253]
* Toshiyuki Mimura, 61, Japanese baseball player and manager (Hiroshima Toyo Carp). [254]

[edit] 2

* Princess Haya bint Abdulaziz, 80, Saudi royal, sister of King Abdullah. [255]
* Nien Cheng, 94, Chinese author and political prisoner. [256]
* Lou Filippo, 83, American boxing referee and judge, member of the World Boxing Hall of Fame, stroke. [257]
* Ida Frabboni, 113, Italian supercentenarian. [258] (Italian)
* Evelyn Hofer, 87, German-born photographer. [259]
* Brian James, 91, Australian actor, complications after a fall. [260]
* Shabattai Kalmanovich, 61, Russian former KGB spy, President of WBC Spartak Moscow Region, shot. [261]
* Keith Kettleborough, 74, British footballer (Sheffield United) [262]
* Phil Lumpkin, 57, American NBA player and high school basketball coach, pneumonia. [263]
* Ron Moeller, 71, American baseball player. [264]
* Beverley O'Sullivan, 28, Irish singer, car crash. [265]
* Amir Pnueli, 68, Israeli computer scientist and Turing Award winner. [266]
* Glenn Remick, 58, American founder of American Darters Association, member of National Darts Hall of Fame, amyloidosis. [267]
* Mark Smith, 49, British bassist (The Waterboys) and record producer. [268]
* Leonard Steinberg, Baron Steinberg, 73, British businessman and life peer. [269]
* José Luis López Vázquez, 87, Spanish actor, after long illness. [270] (Spanish)

[edit] 1

* Sakher Habash, 69, Palestinian party official (Fatah), stroke. [271]
* Esther Hautzig, 79, American Holocaust survivor and writer. [272]
* Seán Mac Fhionnghaile, 57, Irish actor, cancer. [273]
* Endel Laas, 94, Estonian forest scientist. [274] (Estonian)
* Arturo Salazar Mejía, 88, Colombian Roman Catholic Bishop of Pasto. [275] (Spanish)
* Alda Merini, 78, Italian poet. [276] (Italian)
* Gopal Mishra, 77, Indian journalist, after short illness. [277]
* Gus Mitges, 90, Canadian politician, MP for Grey—Simcoe (1972–1988) and Bruce—Grey (1988–1993). [278]
* Alan Ogg, 42, American basketball player (Miami Heat), complications from staphylococcal infection. [279]
* Robert H. Rines, 87, American scientist, inventor, composer and Loch Ness Monster expert, heart failure. [280]
* Achim Stocker, 74, German football official, Chairman of SC Freiburg, heart attack. [281] (German)
* George Zoritch, 92, Russian-born American dancer. [282]

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[edit] 31

* Roque Antonio Adames Rodríguez, 81, Dominican Roman Catholic Bishop of Santiago de los Caballeros. [1] (Spanish)
* Chen Lin, 39, Chinese pop singer, suicide by jumping. [2] (Chinese)
* Hugh Dinwiddy, 97, British cricketer. [3]
* Stanley Ellis, 83, British linguistics scholar. [4]
* Harry Gauss, 57, Canadian soccer coach, brain cancer. [5]
* Pat Keysell, 83, British television presenter. [6]
* Lee Hu-rak, 85, South Korean spy chief, Director of the National Intelligence Service (1970–1973), age-related causes. [7]
* Mustafa Mahmud, 87, Egyptian scientist, author and philosopher. [8] (Arabic)
* Qian Xuesen, 97, Chinese scientist and co-founder of the JPL. [9]
* Steve Reid, 94, American football player (Northwestern Wildcats). [10]
* Neguinho do Samba, 54, Brazilian percussionist, founder of Olodum, heart failure. [11] (Portuguese)
* Jan Wejchert, 59, Polish businessman and media mogul, co-founder of ITI Group, co-owner of TVN. [12] (Polish)
* Tom Wheatcroft, 87, British businessman, owner of Donington Park race circuit, after long illness. [13]

[edit] 30

* Juvenal Amarijo, 85, Brazilian football player. [14]
* Norton Buffalo, 58, American singer-songwriter, blues harmonica player (Steve Miller Band), lung cancer. [15]
* Ramata Diakite, 33?, Malian Wassoulou musician. [16]
* Forest Evashevski, 91, American football coach (Iowa Hawkeyes), cancer. [17]
* Claude Lévi-Strauss, 100, French anthropologist and author. [18]
* Michelle Triola Marvin, 76, American plaintiff in landmark "palimony" lawsuit (Marvin v. Marvin), lung cancer. [19]
* June Middleton, 83, Australian polio victim, world's longest survivor in an iron lung. [20]
* Alick Rowe, 70, British televison and radio writer, heart attack. [21]
* Howie Schultz, 87, American baseball and basketball player, cancer. [22]
* František Veselý, 65, Czech football player. [23] (German)
* Igor Vyazmikin, 43, Russian ice hockey player. [24] (Russian)

[edit] 29

* Russell L. Ackoff, 90, American organizational theorist, complications from surgery. [25]
* Bei Shizhang, 106, Chinese biologist and educator. [26]
* Jean-François Bergier, 77, Swiss historian. [27]
* Charles E. Conrad, 84, American acting coach, kidney failure. [28]
* Sanyutei Enraku, 76, Japanese comedian (Shōten), lung cancer. [29]
* Gino Fracas, 79, Canadian football player. [30]
* Olav Hodne, 88, Norwegian missionary. [31] (Norwegian)
* June Maule, 92, American businesswoman, owner of Maule Air. [32]
* John O'Quinn, 68, American lawyer, car accident. [33]
* Norman Painting, 85, British radio actor (The Archers), heart failure. [34]
* Jürgen Rieger, 63, German lawyer and politician (NPD), stroke. [35] (German)
* Alexander Schure, 89, American academic, founder of NYIT, Chancellor of NSU (1970–1985), Alzheimer's disease. [36]
* Dave Treen, 81, American politician, Governor of Louisiana (1980–1984), respiratory disease. [37]

[edit] 28

* Olga Kevelos, 85, British motorcycle trials rider. [38]
* Paul Manz, 90, American Lutheran organist and composer. [39]
* Taylor Mitchell, 19, Canadian singer–songwriter, coyote attack. [40]
* Jeremy Morris, 99, British epidemiologist. [41]
* Ted Nebbeling, 65, Dutch-born Canadian politician, British Columbia MLA (1996–2005), Mayor of Whistler, colon cancer. [42]

[edit] 27

* Tapani Aartomaa, 75, Finnish professor and graphic designer. [43] (Finnish)
* Frank Brady, Jr., 64, Irish footballer, cancer. [44]
* August Coppola, 75, American writer, literature professor and father of Nicolas Cage, heart attack. [45]
* Roy DeCarava, 89, American photographer. [46]
* Alex Harris, 34, Australian paralympian swimmer, gold medalist (2004), suicide by train. [47]
* David Shepherd, 68, British cricketer and umpire, lung cancer. [48]
* Paul Zamecnik, 96, American molecular biologist. [49]

[edit] 26

* Daniel Acharuparambil, 70, Indian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Verapoly (since 1996), kidney failure. [50]
* Teel Bivins, 61, American member of the Texas Senate (1989–2004), Ambassador to Sweden (2004–2006), after long illness. [51]
* Sabino Fernández Campo, 91, Spanish Chief of the Royal House, key figure in failed 23-F coup d'état. [52] (Spanish)
* Lea Fite, 59, American politician, member of the Alabama House of Representatives (since 2002), apparent seizure. [53]
* Yoshirō Muraki, 85, Japanese film production designer and art director, heart failure. [54]
* George Na'ope, 81, American musician and hula expert, founder of the Merrie Monarch Festival, cancer. [55]
* Troy Smith, 87, American businessman, founder of Sonic Drive-In chain, natural causes. [56]

[edit] 25

* Dee Anthony, 83, American music manager, pneumonia. [57]
* Maksharip Aushev, 43, Russian political activist and opposition leader in Ingushetia, businessman (Ingushetia.org), shot. [58]
* Adoor Bhavani, 82, Indian actress, after long illness. [59]
* Billy Bibit, 59, Filipino soldier and coup d'etat leader, complications from a stroke. [60]
* Camillo Cibin, 83, Italian former commander of the Corps of Gendarmerie of Vatican City. [61] (German)
* Fritz Darges, 96, German World War II Waffen-SS officer. [62] (German)
* Seymour Fromer, 87, American founder of Judah L. Magnes Museum, after long illness. [63]
* Leslie A. Geddes, 88, American electrical engineer and physiologist. [64]
* Lawrence Halprin, 93, American architect (Ghirardelli Square, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial). [65]
* Gerhard Knoop, 88, Norwegian theatre director. [66] (Norwegian)
* Chittaranjan Kolhatkar, 86, Indian actor, heart attack. [67]
* Mike McQueen, 52, American journalist, Associated Press bureau chief for Louisiana and Mississippi, cancer. [68]
* Ingeborg Mello, 90, Argentinian Olympic athlete. [69] (Spanish)
* Heinz-Klaus Metzger, 77, German music critic. [70] (German)
* Lázaro Pérez Jiménez, 66, Mexican Roman Catholic Bishop of Celaya. [71] (Spanish)
* Alexander Piatigorsky, 80, Russian-born British philosopher. [72] (Russian)
* Jeffry Picower, 67, American philanthropist, associate of Bernard Madoff, drowned after heart attack. [73]
* Kamala Sankrityayan, 89, Indian writer and litterateur. [74]
* Tangi Satyanarayana, 84, Indian politician, Speaker of the Vidhan Sabha of Andhra Pradesh (1983–1985), after long illness. [75]
* Kevin Widemond, 23, American basketball player, heart attack. [76]

[edit] 24

* Bill Chadwick, 94, American hockey official and broadcaster. [77]
* Yasuo Iwata, 67, Japanese actor, lung cancer. [78] (Japanese)

[edit] 23

* Ture Cailo, Vanuatuan politician and member of parliament. [79]
* Linda Day, 71, American television director, leukemia and breast cancer. [80]
* Trevor Denning, 86, British artist. [81]
* Sohrab Fakir, 75, Pakistani folk singer, kidney disease. [82]
* Chris Hawk, 58, American surfer, oral cancer. [83]
* Lou Jacobi, 95, Canadian-born American actor (The Diary of Anne Frank). [84]
* John Kenley, 103, American summer theater producer, complications of pneumonia. [85]
* Shiloh Pepin, 10, American girl with rare sirenomelia condition, pneumonia. [86]
* Jack Poole, 76, Canadian real estate developer, pancreatic cancer. [87]
* Ron Sobieszczyk, 75, American basketball player (DePaul Blue Demons, New York Knicks), degenerative brain disease. [88]

[edit] 22

* Maryanne Amacher, 66, American experimental composer, sound artist, and installation artist, complications after a stroke. [89]
* Paul Andrews, 53, Australian politician, cancer. [90]
* Nicholas Atkin, 49, British historian, meningitis. [91]
* Daniel Bekker, 77, South African boxer, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases. [92]
* Ray B. Browne, 87, American educator, scholar of popular culture. [93]
* Pierre Chaunu, 86, French historian. [94] (French)
* Howard Darwin, 78, Canadian sports promoter, founder of the Ottawa 67's, complications from heart surgery. [95]
* Ray Lambert, 87, British footballer. [96]
* Don Lane, 75, American-born Australian entertainer, Alzheimer's disease. [97]
* Don Ivan Punchatz, 73, American science fiction artist, cardiac arrest. [98]
* Herman Reich, 91, American baseball player (Washington Senators, Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians). [99]
* Maciej Rybinski, 64, Polish journalist and publicist. [100]
* Soupy Sales, 83, American comedian and television host, cancer. [101]
* Suchart Chaovisith, 69, Thai politician, Finance Minister (2003–2004) and Deputy Prime Minister (2004), laryngeal cancer. [102]
* Libero Tresoldi, 88, Italian Roman Catholic Bishop of Crema. [103] (Italian)
* Elmer Winter, 97, American founder of Manpower Inc. [104]
* George Patrick Ziemann, 68, American Roman Catholic Bishop of Santa Rosa. [105]

[edit] 21

* Louise Cooper, 57, British novelist, aneurysm. [106]
* Lionel Davidson, 87, British novelist, lung cancer. [107]
* Clinton Ford, 77, British singer, after long illness. [108]
* John Jarman, 78, British footballer and coach, after short illness. [109]
* Iain Macphail, Lord Macphail, 71, British judge and legal scholar. [110]
* Yōko Minamida, 76, Japanese actress. [111]
* Jack Nelson, 80, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist (1960), pancreatic cancer. [112]
* Redmond O'Neill, 55, British political activist. [113]
* Sirone, 69, American jazz musician. [114]
* Ted Sizer, 77, American education reformer, colorectal cancer. [115]
* Giuliano Vassalli, 94, Italian politician, illness. [116] (Italian)

[edit] 20

* Yvonne Carter, 50, British general practitioner and medical academic, breast cancer. [117]
* Attila Dargay, 83, Hungarian animator. [118] (Hungarian)
* Margaret Fitzgerald, 113, Canadian supercentenarian, natural causes. [119]
* Clifford Hansen, 97, American politician, Governor of Wyoming (1963–1967) and U.S. Senator (1967–1978). [120]
* Charles Mills, 88, American painter. [121]
* Doreen Reid Nakamarra, 50, Australian Aboriginal artist, pneumonia. [122]
* Jef Nys, 82, Belgian comic book artist (Jommeke). [123] (Dutch)
* Sultan Pepper, 47, American comedy writer, Emmy Award winner (The Ben Stiller Show). [124]
* Yuri Ryazanov, 22, Russian artistic gymnast, car accident. [125]
* Winai Senniam, 51, Thai parliamentarian, liver and colon cancer. [126]

[edit] 19

* Dame Doreen Blumhardt, 95, New Zealand potter. [127]
* Moni Fanan, 63, Israeli basketball team manager, suicide by hanging. [128]
* Werner Heubeck, 85, German-born British managing director of Ulsterbus and Citybus, cancer. [129]
* Joe Hutton, 81, American basketball player, heart attack. [130]
* Sushila Kerketta, 71, Indian politician, heart attack. [131]
* Vladimír Klokočka, 80, Czech politician and jurist, signatory to Charter 77 manifesto. [132]
* Shlomo Lorincz, 91, Hungarian-born Israeli politician, heart failure. [133]
* Reg McKay, 56, British journalist and crime fiction writer, brain and lung cancer. [134]
* Alberto Testa, 82, Italian composer and lyricist. [135] (Italian)
* Radu Timofte, 60, Romanian intelligence officer, director of the Serviciul Român de Informaţii (2001–2006), leukemia. [136]
* Howard Unruh, 88, American spree killer. [137]
* Joseph Wiseman, 91, Canadian actor (Dr. No). [138]

[edit] 18

* Ion Cojar, 78, Romanian actor and film director, Parkinson's disease. [139] (Romanian)
* Ruth Duckworth, 90, American sculptor, after short illness. [140]
* Jasper Howard, 20, American football player, stabbed. [141]
* Lenore Kandel, 77, American poet, lung cancer. [142]
* Leonard B. Keller, 62, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient, motorcycle accident. [143]
* Sir Ludovic Kennedy, 89, British author and journalist, pneumonia. [144]
* Adriaan Kortlandt, 91, Dutch biologist. [145] (Dutch)
* Ovidiu Muşetescu, 54, Romanian politician, cancer. [146] (Romanian)
* Ignacio Ponseti, 95, Spanish physician and inventor (Ponseti method). [147]
* Nancy Spero, 83, American artist, heart failure. [148]
* Basie Vivier, 82, South African rugby union player, captain of the Springboks (1956). [149]

[edit] 17

* Carla Boni, 84, Italian singer, after long illness. [150] (Italian)
* Diana Elles, Baroness Elles, 88, British diplomat and politician. [151]
* Jay W. Johnson, 66, American U.S. Representative for Wisconsin (1997–1999), U.S. Mint Director (2000–2001), heart attack. [152]
* Vladimir Kashpur, 82, Russian film actor, People's Artist of Russia. [153] (Russian)
* Kazuhiko Kato, 62, Japanese musician (The Folk Crusaders, Sadistic Mika Band), suicide by hanging. [154]
* Louisa Mark, 49, British lovers rock singer. [155]
* Norma Fox Mazer, 78, American author, brain cancer. [156]
* Vic Mizzy, 93, American composer (The Addams Family, Green Acres), [157]
* Rosanna Schiaffino, 69, Italian film actress, cancer. [158] (Italian)
* Sheldon Segal, 83, American reproductive biologist. [159]
* Michael Shea, 71, British diplomat, press secretary to Queen Elizabeth II (1978–1987), dementia. [160]

[edit] 16

* Bob Davis, 77, American politician, U.S. Representative for Michigan (1979–1993), heart and kidney failure. [161]
* Inglis Drever, 10, British hurdles racehorse, euthanised. [162]
* Meilė Lukšienė, 96, Lithuanian cultural historian, member of the Sąjūdis. [163] (Lithuanian)
* Andrés Montes, 53, Spanish sports commentator. [164] (Spanish)
* Marian Przykucki, 85, Polish Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archbishop of Szczecin-Kamień (1992–1999). [165] (Polish)

[edit] 15

* George P. Jenkins, 94, American chairman of Metlife, assisted expansion of ABC and Pan Am, heart failure. [166]
* Josias Kumpf, 84, Austrian Nazi concentration camp guard. [167] (German)
* Elizabeth Clare Prophet, 70, American New Age religious leader, co-founder of The Summit Lighthouse, Alzheimer's disease. [168]
* Tollak B. Sirnes, 86, Norwegian physician, psychiatrist and pharmacologist. [169] (Norwegian)
* George Tuska, 93, American Golden Age comic book artist (Iron Man). [170]
* Heinz Versteeg, 70, Dutch football player, cancer. [171] (German)

[edit] 14

* Lou Albano, 76, American professional wrestler and manager, actor (The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!), natural causes. [172]
* Antônio do Carmo Cheuiche, 82, Brazilian Auxiliary Bishop of Santa Maria (1969–1971) and Porto Alegre (1971–2001). [173]
* Fred Cress, 71, British-born Australian artist, Archibald Prize winner (1988), pancreatic cancer. [174]
* Albert Elms, 89, British composer. [175]
* Roy Lane, 74, British hillclimbing competitor, peritonitis. [176]
* C. B. Muthamma, 88, Indian first female diplomat and ambassador. [177]
* Willard Varnell Oliver, 88, American Navajo code talker. [178]
* Martyn Sanderson, 71, New Zealand actor. [179]
* Bruce Wasserstein, 61, American investment banker and businessman. [180]
* Collin Wilcox, 74, American actress (To Kill a Mockingbird), brain cancer. [181]

[edit] 13

* Stephen Barnett, 73, American legal scholar, opposed the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970, cardiac arrest. [182]
* Cullen Bryant, 58, American football player (Los Angeles Rams), natural causes. [183]
* Rodger Doxsey, 62, American physicist and astronomer, cancer. [184]
* Richard Foster, 63, American member of the Alaska House of Representatives, heart and kidney disease. [185]
* Grietje Jansen-Anker, 112, Dutch supercentenarian. [186] (Dutch)
* Atle Jebsen, 73, Norwegian shipowner and businessman, car crash. [187] (Norwegian)
* William Wayne Justice, 89, American federal judge. [188]
* Lü Zhengcao, 104, Chinese general, last survivor of the original Shang Jiang. [189]
* Winston Ngozi Mankunku, 66, South African saxophone player. [190]
* Al Martino, 82, American singer and actor (The Godfather), first person to top the UK Singles Chart. [191]
* Daniel Melnick, 77, American studio chief (MGM, Columbia), television producer, executive producer (That's Entertainment!). [192]
* Paul Barbă Neagră, 80, Romanian film director and essayist. [193] (Romanian)
* Roger Nixon, 88, American composer, complications from leukemia. [194]
* Nan C. Robertson, 83, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, heart disease. [195]
* Oraine Simpson, 26, Jamaican football player, stabbed. [196]
* Richard T. Whitcomb, 88, American aeronautical engineer. pneumonia [197]
* Leo Williams, 68, Australian rugby union official. [198]

[edit] 12

* Maurice Agis, 77, British sculptor. [199]
* Dietrich von Bothmer, 90, German-born American art historian, curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [200]
* Alberto Castagnetti, 66, Italian Olympic swimmer, complications from cardiac surgery. [201] (Italian)
* Mildred Cohn, 96, American biochemist. [202]
* Mikheil Kalatozishvili, 50, Russian film director, script writer and producer. [203] (Russian)
* Donald Kaufman, 79, American toy car collector, heart attack. [204]
* Brendan Mullen, 60, American punk impresario and club owner (The Masque), stroke. [205]
* Stan Palk, 87, British footballer. [206]
* Dickie Peterson, 63, American rock singer (Blue Cheer), liver cancer. [207]
* Joe Rosen, 88, American Golden Age comic book letterer. [208]
* Frank Vandenbroucke, 34, Belgian cyclist, pulmonary embolism. [209]
* Ian Wallace, 90, British bass-baritone singer, after long illness. [210]

[edit] 11

* Joan Martí i Alanis, 80, Spanish archbishop, Bishop of Urgell and co-Prince of Andorra (1971–2003), after long illness. [211]
* Peter Callanan, 74, Irish politician, member of the Seanad (since 1997). [212]
* Patrick Hannan, 68, British broadcaster, author and journalist, after short illness. [213]
* Gustav Kral, 26, Austrian footballer, car accident. [214] (German)
* Abigail McLellan, 40, Scottish artist, multiple sclerosis. [215]
* Veronika Neugebauer, 39, German actress, voice actress and singer. [216] (German)
* Alan Peters, 76, British furniture designer, after long illness. [217]
* Halit Refiğ, 75, Turkish film director, cholangiocarcinoma. [218] (Turkish)

[edit] 10

* Luis Aguilé, 73, Argentinian singer and songwriter, stomach cancer. [219] (Spanish)
* Paul Bloom, 70, American lawyer, recovered $6 billion for the Department of Energy, pancreatic cancer. [220]
* Sonny Bradshaw, 83, Jamaican jazz musician, stroke. [221]
* Stephen Gately, 33, Irish pop singer (Boyzone), pulmonary oedema. [222]
* Larry Jansen, 89, American baseball player (New York Giants, Cincinnati Reds), heart failure and pneumonia. [223]
* Edward Knight, 82, American actor. [224]
* Joan Orenstein, 85, British-born Canadian actress. [225]
* Lionel Pincus, 78, American businessman, founder of Warburg Pincus, after long illness. [226]
* Carol Tomlinson-Keasey, 66, American psychologist, breast cancer. [227]

[edit] 9

* Arne Bakker, 79, Norwegian football and bandy player. [228] (Norwegian)
* Francis Baldacchino, 73, Maltese-born Bishop of Malindi, Kenya. [229]
* Raymond A. Brown, 94, American lawyer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. [230]
* Aldo Buzzi, 99, Italian author and architect. [231]
* Arturo "Zambo" Cavero, 68, Peruvian folk singer, complications of sepsis. [232]
* Jacques Chessex, 75, Swiss author, first non-French recipient of the Prix Goncourt, heart attack. [233]
* Anne Friedberg, 57, American professor (USC School of Cinematic Arts), colorectal cancer[234]
* Vyacheslav Ivankov, 69, Russian crime figure, gunshot wounds. [235] (Russian)
* Stuart M. Kaminsky, 75, American mystery writer, hepatitis. [236]
* Barry Letts, 84, British television actor, director and producer (Doctor Who). [237]
* John Daido Loori, 78, American Zen Buddhist monk, lung cancer. [238]
* Hermann Raich, 75, Austrian Roman Catholic Bishop of Wabag (1982–2008). [239]
* Louis Sanmarco, 97, French administrator, Governor (1954–1957) and High Commissioner (1957–1958) of Ubangi-Shari. [240]
* Richard Sonnenfeldt, 86, German-born American interpreter at the Nuremberg Trials, complications from a stroke. [241]
* Dré Steemans, 55, Belgian television and radio host, cardiac arrest. [242] (Dutch)
* Horst Szymaniak, 75, German footballer, after long illness. [243] (German)
* Rusty Wier, 65, American country music singer-songwriter, cancer. [244]

[edit] 8

* Gordon Boyd, 86, British-born Australian television personality, after short illness. [245]
* James Delgrosso, 66, American politician, Mayor of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (2003–2004), leukemia. [246]
* Gerald Ferguson, 72, American-born Canadian artist. [247]
* Juan Carlos Mareco, 83, Uruguayan actor. [248]
* Torsten Reißmann, 56, German Olympic judoka. [249] (German)
* Jean Sage, 68, French racing driver, former sporting director of the Renault F1 team. [250]
* Michael Angelo Saltarelli, 77, American Roman Catholic Bishop of Wilmington (1995–2008), bone cancer. [251]
* Abu Talib, 70, American blues musician, cancer. [252]
* Sir Sydney Walling, 102, Antiguan cricketer. [253]

[edit] 7

* Ben Ali, 82, American restaurateur (Ben's Chili Bowl), heart failure. [254]
* Bikram Keshari Deo, 58, Indian politician, cardiac arrest. [255]
* Steve Ferguson, 60, American guitarist (NRBQ), cancer. [256]
* Irving Penn, 92, American fashion photographer (Vogue). [257]
* Shelby Singleton, 77, American record producer and record label owner (Sun Records), brain cancer. [258]
* Helen Watts, 81, British contralto. [259]
* Pedro E. Zadunaisky, 91, Argentinian astronomer and mathematician. [260]

[edit] 6

* Jimmy Bates, 99, Australian football player, oldest living VFL player. [261]
* Pamela Blake, 94, American actress, natural causes. [262]
* Douglas Campbell, 87, Scottish-born Canadian actor, complications of diabetes and heart disease. [263]
* Raymond Federman, 81, French-born American writer and academic, cancer. [264]
* Aengus Finucane, 77, Irish priest, Chief Executive of Concern Worldwide (1981–1997), after short illness. [265]
* Pyarelal Khandelwal, 80, Indian politician, cancer. [266]
* Werner Maihofer, 90, German Minister of the Interior (1974–1978). [267] (German)
* Donna Mae Mims, 82, American race driver, first female SCCA champion, stroke. [268]
* Gilberto Zaldívar, 75, American founder of the Repertorio Español, complications of dementia with Lewy bodies. [269]

[edit] 5

* Mike Alexander, 32, British bassist (Evile), cerebral haemorrhage. [270]
* Leon Clarke, 76, American football player (Los Angeles Rams), pancreatitis. [271]
* Israel Gelfand, 96, Russian mathematician. [272]
* Giselher Klebe, 84, German composer. [273] (German)
* David Lake, 66, American winemaker. [274]
* Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones, 87, British classical scholar. [275]
* Brian Powell, 35, American baseball player, self-inflicted gunshot wound. [276]
* René Sommer, 58, Swiss co-inventor of the computer mouse. [277]
* Aisling Symes, 2, New Zealand child whose disappearance initiated major search, drowned. [278].

[edit] 4

* Koichi Haraguchi, 68, Japanese chief of staff, Imperial House of Japan, heart attack. [279] (Japanese)
* Veikko Huovinen, 82, Finnish writer. [280] (Finnish)
* Grace Keagy, 87, American actress, ovarian cancer. [281]
* Ernő Kolczonay, 56, Hungarian Olympic silver medal-winning fencer (1980, 1992). [282] (Hungarian)
* James Lin Xili, 91, Chinese underground first Bishop of Wenzhou (since 1992), Alzheimer’s disease. [283]
* Shōichi Nakagawa, 56, Japanese politician, Minister of Finance (2008–2009). [284]
* Nikiforos, 78, Greek Bishop of Didymoteicho, after long illness. [285] (Greek)
* Günther Rall, 91, German Luftwaffe flying ace during WWII, heart attack. [286]
* Mercedes Sosa, 74, Argentinian folk singer, liver failure. [287]
* Bronisław Żurakowski, 98, Polish aerospace engineer. [288] (Polish)

[edit] 3

* Alexander Basilaia, 67, Georgian composer, after long illness. [289]
* Vladimir Beekman, 80, Estonian writer and translator. [290] (Estonian)
* Fernando Caldeiro, 51, Argentine-born American astronaut, brain cancer. [291]
* Fatima of Libya, 98, Queen of Libya (1951–1969), widow of King Idris I. [292] (Arabic)
* Robert Kirby, 61, British folk rock arranger, after short illness. [293]
* Ernie Lopez, 64, American boxer, complications from dementia. [294]
* Reinhard Mohn, 88, German entrepreneur and publisher, founder of Bertelsmann Foundation. [295] (German)
* Vasile Louis Puscas, 94, American Bishop of St George's in Canton in the Romanian Catholic Church. [296]

[edit] 2

* Alain Bernheim, 86, French-born American film producer, complications of dialysis. [297]
* Alan Dary, 89, American radio host (WHDH-AM). [298]
* Marek Edelman, 86, Polish political and social activist, cardiologist, last surviving leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. [299]
* Jack Evans, 80, Australian politician, Senator (1983–1984), co-founder of the Australian Democrats, cancer. [300]
* Nat Finkelstein, 76, American photographer and photojournalist. [301]
* John "Mr. Magic" Rivas, 53, American radio personality, heart attack. [302]
* Saleh Meki, 61, Eritrean cabinet minister and politician, heart attack. [303]
* Peg Mullen, 92, American author, subject of film Friendly Fire. [304]
* Desmond Plummer, Baron Plummer of St. Marylebone, 95, British politician, leader of Greater London Council (1967–1973). [305]
* Rolf Rüssmann, 58, German football manager, prostate cancer. [306]
* Herman D. Stein, 92, American professor (Case Western Reserve University). [307]
* Harvey Veniot, 93, Canadian MLA for Pictou West (1956–1974), Speaker of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly (1961–1968). [308]
* Shaun Wylie, 96, British mathematician and World War II codebreaker. [309]

[edit] 1

* Otar Chiladze, 76, Georgian writer, heart failure. [310] (Georgian)
* André-Philippe Futa, 66, Congolese politician, Minister of the Economy and Foreign Trade (since 2002). [311]
* Gunnar Haarberg, 92, Norwegian television presenter. [312] (Norwegian)
* Syed Kamal, 72, Pakistani actor, after long illness. [313]
* Lou Moro, 91, Canadian footballer and football coach. [314]
* V. M. Muddiah, 80, Indian cricketer, stroke. [315]
* Bhandit Rittakol, 58, Thai film director, producer and screenwriter, heart failure. [316]
* Cintio Vitier, 88, Cuban poet. [317]

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[edit] 30

* Sir Alastair Aird, 78, British Royal courtier. [1]
* Pentti Airikkala, 64, Finnish rally driver, prostate cancer. [2]
* Rafael Arozarena, 86, Spanish writer and poet. [3] (Spanish)
* Robert S. Baker, 93, British film and television producer (The Saint, The Persuaders!). [4]
* John Couey, 51, American murderer, killer of Jessica Lunsford (the inspiration for Jessica's Law), anal cancer. [5]
* Lee Fletcher, 43, American politician, Chief of staff of U.S. Representative John Cooksey, talk radio host (KBYO-FM), cancer. [6]
* Roland La Starza, 82, American actor and professional boxer. [7]
* Byron Palmer, 89, American actor, natural causes. [8]
* Rao Birender Singh, 88, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Haryana (1967), cardiac arrest. [9]

[edit] 29

* Micheline Beauchemin, 79, Canadian tapestry and textile artist. [10]
* Henry Bellmon, 88, American Governor of Oklahoma (1963–1967; 1987–1991), U.S. Senator (1969–1981), Parkinson’s disease. [11]
* Gunnar Haugan, 84, Norwegian character actor. [12] (Norwegian)
* Julian Hope, 2nd Baron Glendevon, 59, British opera producer, cancer. [13]
* Margo Johns, 90, British actress. [14]
* Greg Ladanyi, 57, American record producer and recording engineer, complications from a fall. [15]
* Ray Nettles, 60, American-born Canadian football player (BC Lions), cancer. [16]
* Pavel Popovich, 78, Ukrainian-born Soviet cosmonaut. [17] (German)
* Ed Sherman, 97, American football coach (Muskingum College). [18]
* Nick Strutt, 62, British country musician. [19]
* Sperantza Vrana, 77 or 83, Greek film actress, singer and writer, heart attack. [20] (Greek)

[edit] 28

* Alimsultan Alkhamatov, 44, Russian official, head of the Khasavyurt region of Dagestan, shot. [21]
* Apostolos, 85, Greek Bishop of Kilkis. [22] (Greek)
* René Bliard, 76, French footballer (Stade Reims) (death announced on this date). [23]
* Annie Butler, 112, British supercentenarian. [24]
* Guillermo Endara, 73, Panamanian politician, President (1989–1994). [25]
* Ulf Larsson, 53, Swedish actor, stage director and revue artist. [26] (Swedish)
* Best Ogedegbe, 55, Nigerian footballer, complications from surgery. [27]
* Luis Sánchez-Moreno Lira, 83, Peruvian Archbishop Emeritus of Arequipa. [28]
* Don Thompson, 85, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers), after long illness. [29]

[edit] 27

* Ivan Dykhovichny, 61, Russian film director, screenwriter, cancer. [30] (Russian)
* Donald Fisher, 81, American businessman, founder of The Gap, cancer. [31]
* John Holmes, 57, British rugby league player, cancer. [32]
* Henry Hopkins, 81, American curator and museum director, cancer. [33]
* Charles Snead Houston, 96, American physician, mountaineer, inventor, author and filmmaker. [34]
* Donal McLaughlin, 102, American architect, designer of the Flag of the United Nations, esophageal cancer. [35]
* Brian Redman, 31, American bass player (3 Inches of Blood, Trial), scooter accident. [36]
* William Safire, 79, American speechwriter and journalist (The New York Times), pancreatic cancer. [37]
* Beau Velasco, Australian guitarist (The Death Set). [38]

[edit] 26

* Sir John Dyke Acland, 16th Baronet, 70, British aristocrat, car accident. [39]
* Geoff Barrowcliffe, 77, British footballer (Derby County). [40]
* Tony Chua, Filipino sports executive, Barako Bulls team manager, drowning during Tropical Storm Ketsana. [41]
* Zygmunt Chychła, 83, Polish boxer, 1952 Olympic gold medalist. [42] (Polish)
* W.I.B. Crealock, 89, British yacht designer. [43]
* Amy Farris, 40, American fiddler, singer and songwriter. [44]
* John Hyson, 81, American museum curator and historian. [45]
* Rudy LaGatta, 79, American musician (Five Fun Ghouls). [46]
* Nihat Nikerel, 59, Turkish actor, heart attack. [47] (Turkish)
* Alfred Oglesby, 42, American football player (Miami Dolphins). [48]
* R. Soeprapto, 85, Indonesian politician, Governor of Jakarta (1982–1987). [49]
* David Underdown, 84, British historian, author of definitive work on Pride's Purge. [50]

[edit] 25

* István Bujtor, 67, Hungarian actor and director, coccidiosis. [51] (Hungarian)
* Pierre Falardeau, 62, Canadian film director, cancer. [52]
* Alicia de Larrocha, 86, Spanish pianist. [53]
* Maria Gulovich Liu, 87, Slovakian resistance member, cancer. [54]
* Clifton Maloney, 71, American businessman, husband of U.S. Representative Carolyn B. Maloney, mountaineering accident. [55]
* Francis Noel-Baker, 89, British politician, MP for Brentford and Chiswick (1945–1950) and Swindon (1955–1969). [56]
* Bob Stupak, 67, American casino owner (Vegas World, Stratosphere Las Vegas), leukemia. [57]
* David Will, 72, British vice president of FIFA, former Brechin City F.C. chairman, cancer. [58]

[edit] 24

* Nelly Arcan, 35, Canadian novelist, suicide. [59]
* Susan Atkins, 61, American murderer ('Manson Family' member), brain cancer. [60]
* Pudhota Chinniah Balaswamy, 80, Indian Bishop of Nellore. [61]
* Terry Bly, 73, British footballer (Norwich City, Peterborough United), heart attack. [62]
* Forrest Church, 61, American Unitarian Universalist minister, author and theologian, esophageal cancer. [63]
* Cryptoclearance, 25, American Thoroughbred racehorse, complications from colic surgery. [64]
* Joseph Satoshi Fukahori, 84, Japanese Bishop of Takamatsu. [65]
* Joseph Gurwin, 89, Lithuanian-born American textile manufacturer and philanthropist, heart failure. [66]
* Kevork Hovnanian, 86, Iraqi-born American businessman, founder of Hovnanian Enterprises. [67]
* Rogers McVaugh, 100, American botanist. [68]
* Sir Howard Morrison, 74, New Zealand singer, heart attack. [69]
* Emile Norman, 91, American artist, natural causes. [70]
* Robert Sahakyants, 59, Armenian animator, complications from heart surgery. [71]
* Egon Solymossy, 87, Hungarian Olympic athlete (death announced on this date). [72] (Hungarian)
* Mimi Weddell, 94, American actress (Student Bodies, The Thomas Crown Affair), after short illness. [73]

[edit] 23

* Paul B. Fay, 91, American politician, Acting Secretary of the Navy (1963), Alzheimer's disease. [74]
* Gigolo FRH, 26, German-bred dressage horse, four-time Olympic gold medalist, euthanized. [75]
* Ertuğrul Osman, 97, Turkish 43rd Head of the Imperial Ottoman Dynasty, lung and kidney failure. [76]
* Dennis Pacey, 80, British footballer (Leyton Orient, Millwall), aneurysm. [77]
* Stuart Robertson, 65, British-born Canadian journalist and gardener, complications of pneumonia. [78]
* Bill Speirs, 57, British trade union leader, after long illness. [79]
* George M. Sullivan, 87, American politician, Mayor of Anchorage, Alaska (1967–1981), lung cancer. [80]
* Marie Wadley, 102, American co-founder of the Five Civilized Tribes Museum. [81]
* Don Yarborough, 83, American politician, Parkinson's disease. [82]

[edit] 22

* Kole Casule, 88, Macedonian writer, after long illness. [83]
* Edward Delaney, 79, Irish sculptor. [84]
* Olaf Dufseth, 91, Norwegian Olympic nordic combined and cross-country skier. [85] (Norwegian)
* Andrea Maltarolli, 46, Brazilian telenovela screenwriter (Beleza Pura), cancer. [86] (Portuguese)
* Bruce McPhee, 82, Australian race car driver, won Hardie Ferodo 500 (1968). [87]
* Dirce Migliaccio, 76, Brazilian actress, pneumonia. [88] (Portuguese)
* Summer Squall, 22, American thoroughbred stallion racehorse, 1990 Preakness Stakes winner, euthanized. [89]
* Charlotte Turgeon, 97, American chef and author, influenza. [90]
* S. Varalakshmi, 84, Indian actress and singer, complications from a fall. [91]
* Lucy Vodden, 46, British inspiration for The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds", lupus. [92]
* Wess, 64, Italian singer, placed third in Eurovision Song Contest 1975. [93]

[edit] 21

* Robert Ginty, 60, American actor and director, cancer. [94]
* Miroslav Stefan Marusyn, 85, Ukrainian archbishop, Secretary Emeritus of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches. [95]
* Piers Merchant, 58, British politician, MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central (1983–1987) and Beckenham (1992–1997), cancer. [96]
* Parviz Meshkatian, 54, Iranian musician and composer, cardiac arrest. [97]
* Junzo Shono, 88, Japanese author, member of the Japan Art Academy. [98]
* Sula Wolff, 85, British child psychiatrist. [99]
* Sam Carr, 83, American blues drummer, heart failure. [100]

[edit] 20

* Freddy Bienstock, 81, American music publisher (Carlin America). [101]
* Herman Córdoba, 19, Colombian footballer, car accident. [102]
* Bertil Gärtner, 84, Swedish Lutheran Bishop of Gothenburg (1970–1991). [103] (Swedish)
* John Hart, 91, American actor (The Lone Ranger). [104]
* Ken Hough, 80, New Zealand cricketer and footballer. [105]
* Yusuf Khan, Pakistani actor, cardiac arrest. [106]
* Booker Moore, 50, American football player (Buffalo Bills), heart attack. [107]
* Bayo Ohu, 45, Nigerian journalist and news editor (The Guardian), shot. [108]

[edit] 19

* Willy Breinholst, 91, Danish author. [109] (Danish)
* Alan Deyermond, 77, British hispanist. [110]
* Arthur Ferrante, 88, American pianist (Ferrante & Teicher), natural causes. [111]
* Stevie Gray, 42, British footballer (Aberdeen FC, 1983–1990). [112].
* Víctor Israel, 80, Spanish actor. [113]
* Monty Kaser, 67, American professional golfer, prostate cancer. [114]
* Milton Meltzer, 94, American historian and author, esophageal cancer. [115]
* Maurizio Montalbini, 56, Italian sociologist and caver, heart failure. [116]
* Elizaveta Mukasei, 97, Russian Soviet-era spy, wife of Mikhail Mukasei. [117]
* Jose Antonio Ortega Bonet, 79, Cuban-born businessman and philanthropist, founder of Sazón Goya Food Company, cancer. [118]
* Roc Raida, 37, American turntablist (The X-Ecutioners), spinal cord injury. [119]
* Joseph-Marie Sardou, 86, French Archbishop Emeritus of Monaco. [120]
* Eduard Zimmermann, 80, German journalist and television presenter. [121] (German)

[edit] 18

* Peter Denyer, 62, British actor (Please Sir!). [122]
* James Donnewald, 84, American politician, Illinois Treasurer (1983–1987). [123]
* Doug Fisher, 89, Canadian journalist and politician, MP for Port Arthur (1957–1965). [124]
* Pearl Hackney, 92, British actress, widow of Eric Barker. [125]
* Mahlon Hoagland, 87, American biochemist. [126]
* Irving Kristol, 89, American neoconservative advocate and editor (The Public Interest), lung cancer. [127]
* Natalia Shvedova, 92, Russian lexicologist. [128] (Russian)
* John J. Wild, 95, American physician, co-developer of ultrasound use in cancer detection. [129]

[edit] 17

* Tommy Burnett, 67, American politician, Tennessee House of Representatives (1970–1990). [130]
* Virginia Chadwick, 64, Australian politician, cancer. [131]
* Frank Deasy, 49, Irish Emmy Award-winning screenwriter (Prime Suspect: The Final Act), liver cancer. [132]
* Dick Durock, 72, American actor and stuntman (Swamp Thing), pancreatic cancer. [133]
* Sue Eakin, 90, American historian. [134]
* Bernie Fuchs, 76, American illustrator, esophageal cancer. [135]
* Dick Hoover, 79, American professional bowler. [136]
* Randy Johnson, 65, American football player (Atlanta Falcons). [137]
* Leon Kirchner, 90, American Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, heart failure. [138]
* Bob Kowalkowski, 65, American football player and coach (Detroit Lions). [139]
* Robert Searcy, 88, American member of the Tuskegee Airmen, colorectal cancer. [140]
* Noordin Mohammad Top, 41, Malaysian terrorist, shot. [141]

[edit] 16

* Brian Barron, 69, British journalist and war correspondent, cancer. [142]
* Timothy Bateson, 83, British actor. [143]
* Myles Brand, 67, American NCAA president, pancreatic cancer. [144]
* W. Horace Carter, 88, American newspaper publisher, 1953 Pulitzer Prize winner, heart attack. [145]
* Monte Clark, 72, American football player and coach (Detroit Lions), cancer. [146]
* Luciano Emmer, 91, Italian film director (Three Girls from Rome). [147] (Italian)
* Sotero Laurel, 90, Filipino politician, Senator (1986–1992), President Pro Tempore (1990-1991), after long illness. [148]
* John Littlewood, 78, British chess player [149]
* Lori Mai, 31, German-American Folk rock singer, Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [150]
* Ernst Märzendorfer, 88, Austrian conductor, after long illness. [151]
* Johnny Mullins, 86, American songwriter, Alzheimer's disease. [152]
* Julian Niemczyk, 89, American Ambassador to Czechoslovakia (1986–1989), cardiac arrest. [153]
* Filip Nikolic, 35, French singer and actor, drug overdose. [154] (French)
* Steve Romanik, 85, American football player (Chicago Bears), after long illness. [155]
* Melvin Simon, 82, American shopping mall developer (Simon Property Group), producer (Porky's), Indiana Pacers owner. [156]
* Mary Travers, 72, American singer (Peter, Paul and Mary), leukemia. [157]
* Dorothy Wellman, 95, American dancer and actress, widow of William Wellman. [158]

[edit] 15

* Nicu Constantin, 70, Romanian actor. [159] (Romanian)
* George Crumbley, 86, American founder of the Peach Bowl. [160]
* Fred Cusick, 90, American sports commentator (Boston Bruins), complications from bladder cancer. [161]
* Leon Eisenberg, 87, American child psychiatrist, prostate cancer. [162]
* Tommy Greenhough, 77, British cricketer. [163]
* Troy Kennedy Martin, 77, British screenwriter (Z-Cars, Edge of Darkness, The Italian Job), liver cancer. [164]
* Michael Knox, 48, American co-founder of Park Place Productions, producer of John Madden Football, colon cancer. [165]
* Espiridion Laxa, 79, Filipino independent film producer, prostate cancer. [166]
* Gerald Lestz, 95, American columnist and author, founder of the Demuth Museum. [167]
* Trevor Rhone, 69, Jamaican playwright, heart attack. [168]

[edit] 14

* Keith Floyd, 65, British chef, heart attack. [169]
* Henry Gibson, 73, American actor (Laugh-In, Boston Legal), cancer. [170]
* Bobby Graham, 69, British session drummer, stomach cancer. [171]
* Jing Shuping, 91, Chinese businessman, founder of Minsheng Bank. [172]
* Mike Leyland, 68, Australian travel documentary host (Leyland Brothers), complications of Parkinson's disease. [173]
* Ralph S. Moore, 102, American horticulturist, natural causes. [174]
* Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, c.30, Kenyan terrorist, airstrike. [175]
* Jody Powell, 65, American White House Press Secretary for President Jimmy Carter, heart attack. [176]
* John Rarick, 85, American politician, Representative for Louisiana (1967–1975), cancer. [177]
* Darren Sutherland, 27, Irish boxer, 2008 Olympic bronze medalist, suicide by hanging. [178]
* Patrick Swayze, 57, American actor (Dirty Dancing, Ghost), pancreatic cancer. [179]
* Lily Tembo, 27, Zambian musician, songwriter and journalist, complications of gastritis. [180]
* Titus, 35, African silverback gorilla. [181]
* Elio Zagato, 88, Italian car designer. [182]

[edit] 13

* Philip Aziz, 86, Canadian artist, cancer. [183]
* Felix Bowness, 87, British actor (Hi-de-Hi!) [184]
* Paul Burke, 83, American actor (Naked City), leukemia. [185]
* Malcolm Casadaban, 60, American molecular genetics professor, plague. [186]
* Lonny Frey, 99, American baseball player, oldest living MLB All-Star. [187]
* Arnold Laven, 87, American film and television director (The Rifleman, The Big Valley), pneumonia. [188]
* Paul Shirtliff, 46, British footballer, cancer. [189]
* Sarah E. Wright, 80, American novelist, complications of cancer. [190]

[edit] 12

* Thabet bin Laden, 49, Saudi businessman and patriarch, brother of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. [191]
* Norman Borlaug, 95, American agronomist and humanitarian, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1970), cancer. [192]
* Dominik Brunner, 50, German businessman and manager, blunt trauma. [193]
* Jeanne Clemson, 87, American theatre director, actress and educator, Parkinson's disease. [194]
* Raj Singh Dungarpur, 73, Indian cricket player and administrator, after long illness. [195]
* George Eckstein, 81, American television writer and producer (The Fugitive), lung cancer. [196]
* Edward Gelsthorpe, 88, American marketing executive. [197]
* Alfred Gottschalk, 79, German-born American President of Hebrew Union College, Reform Judaism leader, traffic collision. [198]
* William Hoffman, 84, American novelist. [199]
* Shah Abdul Karim, 93, Bangladeshi musician, respiratory problems. [200]
* Jack Kramer, 88, American tennis player, cancer. [201]
* Antônio Olinto, 90, Brazilian writer, multiple organ failure. [202] (Portuguese)
* Danny Pang, 42, Taiwanese-born American hedge fund manager. [203]
* Willy Ronis, 99, French photographer. [204]
* Fred Sherman, 86, American economist and business commentator, multiple health problems. [205]
* Lawrence B. Slobodkin, 81, American ecologist. [206]
* Bill Sparkman, 51, American substitute teacher and census worker, hanged. [207]

[edit] 11

* Sarane Alexandrian, 82, French art historian and philosopher. [208]
* Juan Almeida Bosque, 82, Cuban politician, Vice President of the Council of State, cardiac arrest. [209]
* Gertrude Baines, 115, American supercentenarian, world's oldest person, suspected heart attack. [210]
* William Beck, 49, American businessman, co-owner of the Charlotte Bobcats, plane crash. [211]
* James E. Bromwell, 89, American politician, Representative for Iowa (1961–1965), after short illness. [212]
* Jim Carroll, 60, American author (The Basketball Diaries), poet and musician, heart attack. [213]
* Mool Chand Chowhan, 82, Indian sports official, after short illness. [214]
* Pierre Cossette, 85, Canadian television producer, brought the Grammy Awards to television. [215]
* Larry Gelbart, 81, American comedy writer (M*A*S*H) and blogger (The Huffington Post), cancer. [216]
* Bob Greenberg, 75, American record executive, stroke. [217]
* Crystal Lee Jordan, 68, American union organizer, inspiration for Norma Rae, brain cancer. [218]
* Zakes Mokae, 75, South African-born American actor (Gross Anatomy), complications of a stroke. [219]
* Georgios Papoulias, 82, Greek politician and diplomat, Foreign Minister (1989, 1990), suicide. [220] (Greek)
* John Pattison, 92, New Zealand World War II pilot. [221]
* Henny van Schoonhoven, 39, Dutch footballer, cancer. [222] (Dutch)
* Felicia Tang, 31, Singaporean-born American actress and model, suffocated. [223]
* Yoshito Usui, 51, Japanese mangaka (Crayon Shin-chan), mountaineering accident. [224]

[edit] 10

* Frank Batten, 82, American businessman, founder of The Weather Channel, after long illness. [225]
* Lou Bender, 99, American basketball pioneer who popularized the sport in New York City, cancer. [226]
* Kerry Brown, 51, Canadian professional wrestler, liver failure. [227]
* Lisle Carter, Jr, 83, American administrator, complications from pneumonia. [228]
* Lyn Hamilton, 65, Canadian author, cancer. [229]
* Sam Hinton, 92, American folk singer and marine biologist. [230]
* Margaret Holmes, 100, Australian peace activist. [231]
* Robert H. Miller, 90, American jurist, Chief Justice of the Kansas Supreme Court (1988–1990). [232]
* Gertrude Noone, 110, American supercentenarian, world's oldest military veteran. [233]
* Patricia Robinson, 79, Trinidadian economist, First Lady (1997–2003), wife of A. N. R. Robinson. [234]
* Tony Thornton, 49, American professional boxer, injuries from a motorcycle accident. [235]

[edit] 9

* Guillermo de Cun, 80, Cuban actor. [236]
* Eric Davidson, 94, Canadian blind mechanic, survivor of the Halifax Explosion. [237]
* Léon Glovacki, 81, French footballer, played in 1954 FIFA World Cup. [238] (French)
* James Krenov, 88, American cabinetmaker. [239]
* Stanley Cornwell Lewis, 103, British painter and illustrator. [240]
* Frank Mazzuca, 87, Canadian businessman, Mayor of Capreol, Ontario. [241]
* Sultan Munadi, 32, Afghan journalist, translator and correspondent (The New York Times), shot. [242]
* Andrzej Śliwiński, 70, Polish Bishop of Elbląg (1992–2003). [243] (Polish)

[edit] 8

* Aleksandr Aksyonov, 85, Belarussian PM of Byelorussian SSR (1978–1983), Soviet Ambassador to Poland (1983–1986). [244]
* Army Archerd, 90, American entertainment columnist (Variety), mesothelioma. [245]
* Ray Barrett, 82, Australian film, television and theatre actor, brain haemorrhage. [246]
* Aage Niels Bohr, 87, Danish physicist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics (1975). [247]
* Mike Bongiorno, 85, American-born Italian television presenter, heart failure. [248]
* Rica Erickson, 101, Australian naturalist, artist and author. [249]
* Henry Sheldon Fitch, 99, American herpetologist. [250]
* Rogelio Borja Flores, 74, Filipino sports writer, respiratory failure. [251]
* Annie Le, 24, American graduate student, homicide. [252]
* Kyle Woodring, 42, American drummer (Survivor), apparent suicide by hanging. [253]

[edit] 7

* Medea Chakhava, 88, Georgian theatre and film actress. [254]
* Frank Coghlan, Jr., 93, American silent movie actor.[255]
* Norman Curtis, 84, British footballer. [256]
* John T. Elson, 78, American religion editor (Time). [257]
* Eddie Locke, 79, American jazz drummer. [258]
* Fred Mills, 74, Canadian musician (Canadian Brass), car accident. [259]
* Ra'anan Naim, 73, Israeli politician, Member of Knesset (1981–1984). [260]
* Colin Sharp, 56, British musician and writer, brain haemorrhage. [261]
* Paul Lê Dac Trong, 91, Vietnamese Bishop of Hanoi (1994–2006). [262]
* Christos Vartzakis, 98, Greek athlete. [263] (Greek)

[edit] 6

* Christopher John Banda, 36, Malawian footballer. [264]
* Harcharan Singh Brar, 87, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Punjab (1995–1996), after long illness. [265]
* Vanja Drach, 77, Croatian actor. [266] (Croatian)
* Gerhart Friedlander, 93, German-born American nuclear chemist, coronary disease. [267]
* Jose Francisco Fuentes, 43, Mexican politician, shot. [268]
* Catherine Gaskin, 80, Irish-born Australian novelist, ovarian cancer. [269]
* Nada Iveljić, 79, Croatian writer. [270] (Croatian)
* John Merino, 42, Ecuadorian colonel, head of presidential security for Rafael Correa, swine flu. [271]
* Sim, 83, French comic actor. [272] (French)
* Tatyana Ustinova, 96, Russian geologist. [273] (Russian)
* Stephen White, 81, Irish Gaelic footballer, member of Ireland Team of the Century, after short illness. [274]
* Sir David Glyndwr Tudor Williams, 78, British academic, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge (1989–1996), cancer. [275]

[edit] 5

* Ross Clifton, 32, American mixed martial artist, heart attack. [276]
* Gani Fawehinmi, 71, Nigerian lawyer and human rights activist, lung cancer. [277]
* Carl Hovde, 82, American professor, Dean during the Columbia University protests of 1968, lung cancer. [278]
* Mickie Jones, American bassist (Angel), liver cancer. [279]
* Jesse Mahelona, 26, American football player (Tennessee Titans), car accident. [280]
* Richard Merkin, 70, American artist. [281]
* Saifur Rahman, 77, Bangladeshi politician, longest-serving Finance Minister, car accident. [282]
* Ron Raikes, 61, American politician, Nebraska state senator (1998–2008), farm accident. [283]

[edit] 4

* Buddy Blattner, 89, American sportscaster, baseball and table tennis player, complications from lung cancer. [284]
* Iain Cuthbertson, 79, British actor. [285]
* Allan Ekelund, 91, Swedish film producer, collaborator with Ingmar Bergman. [286] (Swedish)
* Skip Miller, 62, American music industry executive, president of Motown Records, heart attack. [287]
* Franz Olah, 99, Austrian politician, Interior Minister (1963–1964). [288]
* Keith Waterhouse, 80, British author and playwright (Billy Liar), natural causes. [289]
* Bill Welch, 68, American politician, Mayor of State College, Pennsylvania, complications after leg surgery. [290]

[edit] 3

* Nicola Chapman, Baroness Chapman, 48, British peer, member of the House of Lords, brittle bone disease. [291]
* Christine D'Haen, 85, Belgian poet. [292] (Dutch)
* Giovanni Melis Fois, 92, Italian Bishop of Nuoro (1970–1992). [293]
* Caro Jones, 86, American casting director (Rocky, The Karate Kid, The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres), multiple myeloma. [294]
* Alec MacLachlan, 30, British hostage in Iraq (death confirmed on this date). [295]

[edit] 2

* Hylton Ackerman, 62, South African cricketer, after long illness. [296]
* Guy Babylon, 52, American musician (Elton John band), heart attack. [297]
* Brian Boshier, 77, British cricketer. [298]
* Jon Eydmann, 41, British band manager (Suede), heart attack. [299]
* Donald Hamilton Fraser, 80, British painter. [300]
* Bill Hefner, 79, American politician, member of the House of Representatives for North Carolina (1975–1999), brain aneurysm. [301]
* Tibor Kristóf, 67, Hungarian voice actor, Hungarian voice of Sean Connery, Morgan Freeman and Darth Vader. [302] (Hungarian)
* Abdullah Laghmani, 40s, Afghan Secret Service chief, bomb blast. [303]
* Mr Percival, 33, Australian pelican, animal actor (Storm Boy), natural causes. [304]
* Christian Poveda, 54, French photojournalist and documentary filmmaker, shot. [305]
* Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy, 60, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh (since 2004), helicopter crash. [306]
* Mohamed Alí Seineldín, 75, Argentinian military commander and putschist (Carapintadas). [307] (German)
* Robert Spinrad, 77, American computer pioneer, director of the Palo Alto Research Center, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [308]
* Ismael Valenzuela, 74, American jockey, after long illness. [309]
* Jeffrey Wernick, 56, American animation executive (DIC Animation City) and sports agent. [310]

[edit] 1

* Dick Berg, 87, American screenwriter and television producer, fall. [311]
* Jake Drake-Brockman, 53, British musician (Echo & the Bunnymen) and sound recordist, motorcycle accident. [312]
* Jock Buchanan, 74, British football player. [313]
* Aubrey Buxton, Baron Buxton of Alsa, 91, British television executive and conservationist. [314]
* Carlos Alberto Menezes Direito, 66, Brazilian judge (Supreme Federal Court) (2007–2009), pancreatic cancer. [315] (Portuguese)
* Jang Jin-young, 35, South Korean actress, stomach cancer. [316]
* Wycliffe Johnson, 47, Jamaican Reggae musician and composer, heart failure. [317]
* Erich Kunzel, 74, American conductor (Cincinnati Pops Orchestra), cancer. [318]
* Maria Christina of Bourbon-Parma, 84, Spanish royal (House of Bourbon-Parma), daughter of Elias, Duke of Parma. [319] (Spanish)
* Wayne E. Meyer, 83, American Rear-Admiral, Aegis Combat System manager, heart failure. [320]
* Francis Rogallo, 97, American aeronautical inventor (Rogallo wing). [321]
* John Stephens, 43, American football player (New England Patriots), NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year (1988), car accident. [322]
* Alexis Tioseco, 28, Filipino-born Canadian film critic, shot. [323]
* Sir Oliver Wright, 88, British diplomat. [324]

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[edit] 31

* John Choi Young-su, 67, South Korean Archbishop of Daegu. [1]
* Ping Duenas, 78, Guamanian politician, heart attack. [2]
* Barry Flanagan, 68, British sculptor, motor neurone disease. [3]
* Frederick Gore, 95, British artist. [4]
* Amos Hawley, 98, American economist. [5]
* Eddie Higgins, 77, American jazz pianist, cancer. [6]
* Torsten Lindberg, 92, Swedish Olympic gold medal-winning (1948) football player. [7] (Swedish)
* Eraño Manalo, 84, Filipino Executive Minister of the Iglesia ni Cristo (1963–2009), cardiopulmonary arrest. [8]
* Jack Manning, 93, American film, stage and television actor. [9]
* Anna Belle Clement O'Brien, 86, American politician, Tennessee state senator (1976–1996), complications from a fall. [10]
* George Piranian, 95, American mathematician. [11]

[edit] 30

* Ildikó Kishonti, 62, Hungarian actress. [12] (Hungarian)
* Marie Knight, 84, American gospel singer, pneumonia. [13]
* Sheila Lukins, 66, American cook and food writer, brain cancer. [14]
* Robert J. Matthews, 82, American LDS educator and scholar, open-heart surgery complications. [15]
* Christos Palaiologos, 59, Greek left-wing politician, former mayor of Livadeia, [16] (Greek)
* Jack Phillips, 87, American baseball player. [17]
* Mark Pringle, 50, Australian triathlete, road accident. [18]
* Kiki Sørum, 70, Norwegian fashion journalist. [19] (Norwegian)
* Nancy Talbot, 89, American businesswoman, co-founder of Talbots retail stores, Alzheimer's disease. [20]
* Simon Thirgood, 46, British biologist and ecologist, building collapse. [21]

[edit] 29

* Gennaro Angiulo, 90, American Mafia underboss, renal failure. [22]
* Chanel, 21, American dachshund, world's oldest dog, natural causes. [23]
* Chris Connor, 81, American jazz singer, cancer. [24]
* Simon Dee, 74, British radio disc jockey and television presenter, bone cancer. [25]
* Sam Etcheverry, 79, American-born Canadian football player, member of the Canadian Football Hall of Fame, cancer. [26]
* Gustavo Martínez Frías, 74, Colombian Archbishop of Nueva Pamplona. [27]
* Frank Gardner, 78, Australian motor racing driver. [28]
* Pete Horeck, 86, Canadian ice hockey player, prostate cancer. [29]
* Mady Rahl, 94, German actress. [30] (German)
* Dave Smith, 76, American college football player and coach, cancer. [31]
* Yolanda Varela, 79, Mexican film actress, natural causes. [32] (Spanish)

[edit] 28

* Richard Egan, 73, American businessman and diplomat, suicide by gunshot. [33]
* Emil Glad, 81, Croatian actor. [34] (Croatian)
* Adam Goldstein, 36, American club disc jockey and musician (Crazy Town), suspected drug overdose. [35]
* Hubert D. Humphreys, 86, American historian. [36]
* Noel Debroy Jones, 76, British prelate, Bishop of Sodor and Man (1989–2003), cancer. [37]
* Günter Kießling, 83, German general. [38] (German)
* Eli Thompson, 36, American skydiver, skydiving accident. [39]
* Wayne Tippit, 76, American character actor (Melrose Place), after long illness. [40]
* Henk van Ulsen, 82, Dutch actor. [41] (Dutch)

[edit] 27

* Nicholas Cavendish, 6th Baron Chesham, 67, British aristocrat and politician. [42]
* Shota Chochishvili, 59, Georgian Olympic gold medalist in judo, leukemia. [43] (Russian)
* Alex Grass, 82, American businessman, founder of Rite Aid drugstores, lung cancer. [44]
* Dave Laut, 52, American Olympic bronze medalist in shot put, shot. [45]
* Sergey Mikhalkov, 96, Russian writer and poet (National Anthem of the Soviet Union and National Anthem of Russia). [46]
* Joaquín Ruiz-Giménez, 96, Spanish politician. [47] (Spanish)
* Virgilio Savona, 89, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra), Parkinson's disease. [48] (Italian)
* Shing Fui-On, 54, Hong Kong actor, nasopharyngeal carcinoma. [49]

[edit] 26

* Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, 56, Iraqi politician, lung cancer. [50]
* Hyman Bloom, 96, Latvian-born American painter of mystical Jewish works. [51]
* Per Christensen, 75, Norwegian actor (Hotel Cæsar, Elling). [52] (Norwegian)
* Sadie Corre, 91, British actress (The Rocky Horror Picture Show). [53]
* Dominick Dunne, 83, American writer and investigative journalist, bladder cancer. [54]
* Ellie Greenwich, 68, American songwriter ("Be My Baby", "Chapel of Love"), heart attack. [55]
* Sir Jack Harris, 2nd Baronet, 103, British-born New Zealand businessman. [56]
* William Korey, 87, American lobbyist, Anti-Defamation League director, cardiac arrhythmia. [57]
* Birger Skeie, 58, Norwegian businessman, Chairman of TTS Marine, heart attack. [58] (Norwegian)

[edit] 25

* Berle Adams, 92, American music industry executive (MCA), after long illness. [59]
* Bob Carroll, 73, American historian and author. [60]
* William Emerson, 86. American journalist and editor, stroke. [61]
* Nikos Garoufallou, 72, Greek actor, car accident. [62] (Greek)
* Ted Kennedy, 77, American politician, Senator from Massachusetts (1962–2009), brain cancer. [63]
* Eduardo Mendoza Goiticoa, 92, Venezuelan politician, Minister of Agriculture (1945–1947). [64] (Spanish)
* Carl K. Moeddel, 71, American Auxiliary Bishop of Cincinnati (1993–2007), after long illness. [65]
* Ray Ramsey, 88, American football player (Chicago Cardinals), complications from a fall. [66]
* Mandé Sidibé, 69, Malian politician and economist, Prime Minister (2000–2002), after short illness. [67]

[edit] 24

* Joseph Corbett, Jr., 80, American murderer and kidnapper, suicide by gunshot. [68]
* Sir Harry Fang, 86, Hong Kong orthopaedic surgeon, President of Rehabilitation International (1980–1984), respiratory failure. [69]
* Frank Marcus Fernando, 77, Sri Lankan Bishop of Chilaw. [70]
* Leif Flengsrud, 86, Norwegian Olympic cyclist. [71] (Norwegian)
* Janullah Hashimzada, 40, Afghan journalist, Pakistan bureau chief for Shamshad TV, shot. [72]
* Kashin, 40, New Zealand Asian elephant, euthanised. [73]
* Joe Maneri, 82, American jazz composer, musician and inventor, complications of heart surgery. [74]
* Eduardo V. Roquero, 59, Filipino politician, Representative (2004–2007), four-time Mayor of San Jose del Monte. [75]
* Toni Sailer, 73, Austrian ski racer, laryngeal cancer. [76]
* T. J. Turner, 46, American football player (Miami Dolphins), complications from a stroke. [77]
* Jim Urbanek, 64, American football player (Miami Dolphins). [78]

[edit] 23

* Alexander Bozhkov, 58, Bulgarian politician, Deputy Prime Minister (1997–1999), cancer. [79]
* Stanley Kaplan, 90, American businessman and scholastic test preparation pioneer, founder of Kaplan, Inc., heart disease. [80]
* Baitullah Mehsud, c.35, Pakistani militant, injuries resulting from a military strike. [81]
* Anna-Maria Müller, 60, German luger, 1972 Winter Olympics women's singles gold medalist. [82]
* Pierre Samuel, 87, French mathematician, arms control and environmental activist. [83] (French)
* Edzo Toxopeus, 91, Dutch politician, Minister of the Interior (1959–1965). [84] (Dutch)
* William Williams, 93, American businessman and team owner (Cincinnati Bengals, Cincinnati Reds). [85]

[edit] 22

* David Avadon, 60, American illusionist, heart attack. [86]
* Vicki Cruse, 40, American aerobatic pilot, air show accident. [87]
* Muriel Duckworth, 100, Canadian feminist and activist, complications from a fall. [88]
* Elmer Kelton, 83, American Western novelist, natural causes. [89]
* Iftikhar Ali Khan, Pakistani general, Defence Secretary (1997–1999), heart attack. [90]
* Erkki Laine, 51, Finnish ice hockey player, drowned. [91] (Finnish)
* Beryl Wayne Sprinkel, 85, American economist, Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome. [92]
* Adrien Zeller, 69, French politician and humanist, heart attack. [93]

[edit] 21

* Ernest Brown, 93, American tap dancer. [94]
* Johnny Carter, 75, American singer (The Flamingos, The Dells), lung cancer. [95]
* Edward Goldsmith, 80, British environmentalist. [96]
* Chris McCubbins, 63, American-born Canadian Olympic athlete, leukemia. [97]
* Leo Obstbaum, 40, Argentine-born Spanish design director for the 2010 Winter Olympics. [98]
* Rex Shelley, 78, Singaporean author, lung cancer. [99]
* Geoffrey Tozer, 54, Australian pianist, liver disease. [100]
* Dean Turner, 37, Australian bassist (Magic Dirt), lung cancer. [101]

[edit] 20

* Semyon Farada, 75, Russian actor, after long illness. [102]
* Carlos González Nova, 92, Mexican businessman, founder of Comercial Mexicana supermarket chain. [103]
* Larry Knechtel, 69, American keyboardist (Bread), bassist and session musician (The Beach Boys, The Doors), heart attack. [104]
* Karla Kuskin, 77, American children's author and illustrator, corticobasal degeneration. [105]
* Dudu Topaz, 62, Israeli actor, suicide by hanging. [106]
* Gordon Woods, 57, American veterinary scientist, created first cloned mule (Idaho Gem). [107]

[edit] 19

* Paul Ashbee, 91, British archaeologist. [108]
* Donald M. Grant, 82, American science fiction publisher. [109]
* Don Hewitt, 86, American television producer, creator of 60 Minutes, pancreatic cancer. [110]
* Harry Kermode, 87, Canadian Olympic basketball player. [111]
* John Marek, 47, American murderer, execution by lethal injection. [112]
* Anthony Petro Mayalla, 69, Tanzanian Archbishop of Mwanza (since 1987). [113]
* Edward Rondthaler, 104, American typographist. [114]
* Vic Snell, 81, British footballer. [115]
* Park M. Strader, 64, American politician, cancer. [116]
* Bobby Thomson, 65, British footballer, prostate cancer. [117]

[edit] 18

* Hildegard Behrens, 72, German soprano, aortic aneurysm. [118] (German)
* Charles Bond, 94, American Air Force general, pilot with Flying Tigers, dementia. [119]
* Rose Friedman, 97, Ukrainian-born American economist, widow of Milton Friedman. [120]
* Jason Getsy, 33, American murderer, execution by lethal injection. [121]
* Dic Jones, 75, Welsh poet. [122]
* Kim Dae-jung, 83, South Korean politician, President (1998–2003), Nobel Peace Prize recipient, heart failure. [123]
* Hugo Loetscher, 79, Swiss author, complications following surgery. [124] (German)
* Jack McGeorge, 60, American munitions analyst and BDSM activist, complications of heart surgery. [125]
* Robert Novak, 78, American conservative author and pundit, brain cancer. [126]
* Fernanda Pivano, 92, Italian writer, journalist, translator and critic, after long illness. [127] (Italian)
* Mária Vadász, 59, Hungarian Olympic bronze medal-winning team handball player at 1976 Olympics. [128] (Hungarian)
* Geertje Wielema, 75, Dutch swimmer. [129] (Dutch)

[edit] 17

* Paul Hogue, 69, American basketball player, heart and kidney failure. [130]
* Tullio Kezich, 80, Italian film critic. [131] (Italian)
* Tiffany Simelane, 21, Swazi beauty pageant contestant, Miss Swaziland 2008, suicide by poisoning. [132]
* Davey Williams, 81, American baseball player (New York Giants) . [133]

[edit] 16

* Alistair Campbell, 84, New Zealand poet, after short illness. [134]
* Mualla Eyüboğlu, 90, Turkish architect, one of the country's first female architects, heart failure. [135] (Turkish)
* Paul Healion, 31, Irish cyclist, car crash. [136]
* Warren E. Hearnes, 86, American politician, Governor of Missouri (1965–1973), after brief illness. [137]
* Khalid bin Mahfouz, 60, Saudi Arabian billionaire banker, heart attack. [138]
* Richard Moore, 83, American cinematographer, co-founder of Panavision. [139]
* John Mulagada, 71, Indian Bishop of Eluru, first Dalit to become a bishop. [140]
* Ed Reimers, 96, American character actor (Star Trek, The Barefoot Executive). [141]
* Laurie Rowley, 68, British comedy writer (The Two Ronnies, Not the Nine O'Clock News), heart attack. [142]
* Igor Tkachenko, 45, Russian Air Force pilot (Russian Knights), stunt collision. [143]
* Burl Toler, 81, American football official, first African American official in the NFL. [144]

[edit] 15

* Kenneth Bacon, 64, American president of Refugees International, Asst Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, melanoma. [145]
* Florin Bogardo, 67, Romanian singer. [146] (Romanian)
* Virginia Davis, 90, American child actress. [147]
* Jim Dickinson, 67, American musician and record producer. [148]
* Jasmine Fiore, 28, American Playboy model, strangled. [149]
* Shūe Matsubayashi, 89, Japanese film director, heart failure. [150] (Japanese)
* Abdel Latif Moussa, 47, Palestinian cleric, leader of Jund Ansar Allah, bomb blast. [151]
* Sammy Petrillo, 74, American comedian, cancer. [152]
* André Prokovsky, 70, French dancer, cancer. [153]
* Louis Rosen, 91, American nuclear physicist (Manhattan Project), inventor of the atom smasher, subdural hematoma. [154]
* Malcolm Richard Wilkey, 90, American federal judge and diplomat. [155]

[edit] 14

* Frank Branston, 70, British politician, Mayor of the Borough of Bedford, aortic aneurysm. [156]
* Ted Kennedy, 83, Canadian hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs), heart failure. [157]
* Lawrence Lucie, 101, American jazz guitarist. [158]
* Kimani Maruge, 90, Kenyan student, oldest man to start primary school, stomach cancer. [159]
* Philip Saltzman, 80, Mexican-born American television writer and producer (Columbo, Barnaby Jones), natural causes. [160]
* Gerolf Steiner, 101, German zoologist. [161] (German)

[edit] 13

* John Bentley, 92, British actor (Crossroads). [162]
* M. Watt Espy, 77, American researcher and author on capital punishment. [163]
* Lavelle Felton, 29, American basketball player (Paderborn Baskets), shot. [164]
* Brian McLaughlin, 54, British footballer (Celtic, Motherwell). [165]
* Joseph Gilles Napoléon Ouellet, 87, Canadian Archbishop of Rimouski. [166] (French)
* Les Paul, 94, American guitarist and inventor, complications from pneumonia. [167]
* Al Purvis, 80, Canadian Olympic gold medal-winning ice hockey player (1952). [168]
* Bob Taggart, 109, British centenarian, oldest man in Scotland. [169].
* Dobby Walker, 90, American labor lawyer, stroke. [170]
* Eleutherius Winance, 100, Belgian-born American monk, philosophy professor, founder of St. Andrew's Abbey, heart attack. [171]

[edit] 12

* Rashied Ali, 74, American jazz drummer, heart attack. [172]
* Ruslan Amerkhanov, Russian official, Ingushetia construction minister, shot. [173]
* Ruth Ford, 98, American model and actress. [174]
* Gladys Gillem, 88, American professional wrestler, Alzheimer's disease. [175]
* John Gregson, Baron Gregson, 85, British businessman and politician. [176]
* Zaw One, 64, Burmese actor and singer, liver disease. [177]
* Nalin Seneviratne, 78, Sri Lankan general, Commander of the Army (1985–1988). [178]
* Karl Von Hess, 90, American professional wrestler, Alzheimer's disease. [179]
* Shingo Yamashiro, 70, Japanese actor, pneumonia. [180]

[edit] 11

* Malik Akhmedilov, 33, Russian journalist, shot. [181]
* Campbell R. Bridges, 71, British gemologist and adventurer, stabbed. [182]
* Nuala Fennell, 73, Irish politician. [183]
* José Ramón García Antón, 61, Spanish engineer and politician in Valencian Community. [184]
* Valeriu Lazarov, 73, Romanian-born Spanish television producer, natural causes. [185]
* Aykut Oray, 67, Turkish actor, heart attack. [186] (Turkish)
* Behjat Sadr, 85, Iranian painter, heart attack. [187]
* Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 88, American activist, founder of the Special Olympics, sister of John F. Kennedy. [188]
* Jan Sillo, 32, South African footballer, car accident. [189]
* Kitty White, 86, American jazz vocalist, stroke. [190]
* Margaret Bush Wilson, 90, American lawyer and activist, multiple organ failure. [191]

[edit] 10

* Laurie Bickerton, 92, Australian football player. [192]
* Josef Burg, 97, Ukrainian Yiddish writer, stroke. [193]
* Albert L. Gordon, 94, American gay rights legal activist, natural causes. [194]
* Rita Inos, 55, Northern Mariana Island educator and politician, first female candidate for Lieutenant Governor, cancer. [195]
* Andy Kessler, 48, American skateboarder, cardiac arrest following wasp sting. [196]
* Ede Király, 82, Hungarian Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) figure skater. [197] (Hungarian)
* Urpo Korhonen, 86, Finnish Olympic gold medal-winning (1952) cross-country skier. [198] (Finnish)
* Sylvia Lennick, 93, Canadian actress and comedienne, complications from pneumonia. [199]
* Merlyn Mantle, 77, American author, widow of Mickey Mantle, Alzheimer's disease. [200]
* Art McKinlay, 77, American Olympic silver medal-winning (1956) rower, heart attack. [201]
* Zarema Sadulayeva, 33, Russian activist, head of children's aid organization in Chechnya, shot. [202]
* Renzo Sambo, 67, Italian Olympic gold medal-winning (1968) rower. [203] (Italian)
* Thomas C. Slater, 68, American politician, member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives (since 1994), lung cancer. [204]
* Yosef Tamir, 94, Israeli politician and environmental activist, member of the Knesset (1965–1981). [205]
* Francisco Valdés, 66, Chilean footballer. [206] (Spanish)

[edit] 9

* Frank Borth, 91, American comic book artist. [207]
* Tommy Clinton, 83, Irish footballer. [208]
* Thierry Jonquet, 55, French writer. [209] (French)
* William Lindsay Osteen, Sr., 79, American judge of the District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina (1991–2006). [210]
* John Quade, 71, American character actor (Every Which Way But Loose, The Outlaw Josey Wales), natural causes. [211]
* Rodney Scott Webb, 74, American federal judge, cancer. [212]
* Jasmine You, 30, Japanese bassist (Versailles). [213]

[edit] 8

* Alfonso Calderón, 78, Chilean writer and poet, heart attack. [214]
* Yehuda Cohen, 95, Israeli Supreme Court justice. [215] (Hebrew)
* Cal Ermer, 85, American baseball coach and manager (Minnesota Twins). [216]
* Harold Hitchcock, 95, British artist. [217]
* Daniel Jarque, 26, Spanish footballer, heart attack. [218]
* Pål Kraby, 77, Norwegian barrister and businessman. [219] (Norwegian)
* Peter Milton, 80, Australian politician, MP (1980–1990). [220]
* Jone Railomo, 28, Fijian rugby player, member of the Fiji 2007 Rugby World Cup team, after short illness. [221]
* Barnett Rosenberg, 82, American chemist, discovered cisplatin. [222]
* Raul Solnado, 79, Portuguese actor and comedian, heart condition. [223] (Portuguese)
* Michael Viner, 65, American record producer (Incredible Bongo Band), cancer. [224]

[edit] 7

* Jimmy Bedford, 69, American distiller (Jack Daniel's), heart attack. [225]
* Frank G. Dickey, 91, American educator, president of the University of Kentucky (1956–1963), after long illness. [226]
* Carleen Hutchins, 98, American violin maker. [227]
* Gibson, 7, American Great Dane, recognized by Guinness Book of World Records as world's tallest dog, bone cancer. [227]
* Taha Muhie-eldin Marouf, 80, Iraqi politician, Vice President (1975–2003). [228]
* Gulshan Kumar Mehta, 72, Indian songwriter, heart failure. [229]
* John Harber Phillips, 75, Australian jurist, Chief Justice of Victoria (1991–2003), after long illness. [230]
* Danko Popović, 81, Serbian writer. [231] (Serbian)
* Louis E. Saavedra, 76, American politician, Mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico (1973; 1989–1993), brain cancer. [232]
* Mike Seeger, 75, American folk musician, folklorist and banjo player, cancer. [233]
* Tatiana Stepa, 46, Romanian singer, cancer. [234] (Romanian)
* Seiichi Tagawa, 91, Japanese politician, party leader (New Liberal Club), natural causes. [235]
* Anne Wexler, 79, American political adviser and lobbyist, breast cancer. [236]

[edit] 6

* Bahadır Akkuzu, 54, Turkish musician, heart attack. [237] (Turkish)
* Riccardo Cassin, 100, Italian mountaineer. [238] (Italian)
* Savka Dabčević-Kučar, 85, Croatian politician. [239] (Croatian)
* Willy DeVille, 58, American singer–songwriter (Mink DeVille), pancreatic cancer. [240]
* Stanley Haidasz, 86, Canadian politician, MP for Trinity (1957–1958) and Parkdale (1962–1978), Senator (1978–1998). [241]
* Charles Townsend Harrison, 67, British art historian. [242]
* John Hughes, 59, American film director, screenwriter, and producer (Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club), heart attack. [243]
* Anthony Impreveduto, 61, American corrupt politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly (1987–2004), lymphoma. [244]
* Jack T. Kirby, 70, American historian, winner of the 2007 Bancroft Prize, heart failure. [245]
* Anilza Leoni, 75, Brazilian actress, emphysema. [246] (Portuguese)
* Donald Marshall, Jr., 55, Canadian wrongfully convicted of murder, complications from a 2003 lung transplant. [247]
* Murali, 55, Indian actor, heart attack. [248]
* Reiko Ohara, 62, Japanese actress (body discovered on this date). [249]
* Willibrordus S. Rendra, 73, Indonesian poet. [250]
* Sam, 4, Australian koala made famous after the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires, euthanised. [251]
* Aram Tigran, 75, Armenian singer and oud player. [252]
* Otha Young, 66, American musician and songwriter, cancer. [253]

[edit] 5

* Gerald Cohen, 68, Canadian Marxist political philosopher. [254]
* Jordi Sabater Pi, 87, Spanish ethologist, discovered albino gorilla Snowflake. [255]
* Sheikha Hessa bint Salman Al Khalifa, c.76, Bahraini royal, widow of Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, mother of present King. [256]
* Budd Schulberg, 95, American screenwriter (On the Waterfront), television producer and novelist, natural causes. [257]
* Al Tomko, 77, Canadian professional wrestler, pancreatic cancer. [258]

[edit] 4

* Dave Ames, 72, American football player (New York Titans), Lou Gehrig's disease. [259]
* Svend Auken, 66, Danish politician, prostate cancer. [260]
* Benson, c.25, British common carp, voted as Britain's Favourite Carp (death announced on this date). [261]
* George I. Cannon, 89, American church leader (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints). [262]
* Charles Gaylord, 72, American martial arts grandmaster (Kajukenbo). [263]
* Sir David Haslam, 86, British admiral. [264]
* Ergash Karimov, 75, Uzbek actor and comedian. [265]
* Amos Kenan, 82, Israeli columnist, painter, sculptor, playwright and novelist, Alzheimer's disease. [266]
* Joseph Msika, 85, Zimbabwean politician, Vice President (since 1999). [267]
* Gonzalo Santos, 68, Northern Mariana Island Cabinet member, educator and principal, lung cancer. [268]
* Blake Snyder, 51, American screenwriter and author, cardiac arrest. [269]
* Ole A. Sørli, 63, Norwegian manager and record producer. [270] (Norwegian)
* Mbah Surip, 60, Indonesian reggae singer, suspected heart attack. [271]
* Robert Mitsuhiro Takasugi, 78, American federal judge. [272]
* Martha Ware, 91, American judge, first female judge in Plymouth County, Massachusetts. [273]
* James Wiegold, 75, Welsh mathematician, leukaemia. [274]

[edit] 3

* Subhas Chakrabarty, 66, Indian politician. [275]
* Christopher Elrington, 79, English historian, general editor of the Victoria County History. [276]
* Zelik Epstein, 96, American rabbi and rosh yeshiva. [277]
* Charles Gwathmey, 71, American architect. [278]
* Walter Philip Leber, 90, American Governor of the Panama Canal Zone (1967–1971). [279]
* Nikolaos Makarezos, 90, Greek army officer, leader of the Greek military junta of 1967–1974. [280]
* Zinovy Vysokovsky, 76, Russian actor. [281] (Russian)

[edit] 2

* Shafiq al-Hout, 77, Palestinian politician, co-founder of the Palestine Liberation Organization, cancer. [282]
* Adolf Endler, 78, German writer. [283] (German)
* Hironoshin Furuhashi, 80, Japanese swimmer, Vice President of FINA, natural causes. [284]
* Mark Green, 92, British prelate, Bishop of Aston (1972–1982). [285]
* Antonio Lopes dos Santos, 92, Portuguese general, Governor of Macau (1962–1966), Cape Verde (1969–1974). [286]
* Billy Lee Riley, 75, American rockabilly musician, cancer. [287]
* Stanley Robertson, 68, British folk singer and storyteller. [288]
* Michael A. Wiener, 71, American radio mogul (Infinity Broadcasting) and philanthropist, cancer. [289]
* Sidney Zion, 75, American journalist, cancer. [290]

[edit] 1

* Jerome Anderson, 55, American basketball player (Boston Celtics) and coach, after long illness. [291]
* Corazon Aquino, 76, Filipino politician, first female President (1986–1992), colon cancer. [292]
* Devendra Nath Dwivedi, 74, Indian politician, Governor designate of Gujurat. [293]
* Edward D. Ives, 83, American folklorist and professor. [294]
* Keith Macklin, 78, British journalist and broadcaster. [295]
* George Taylor Morris, 62, American radio personality, throat cancer. [296]
* Nicholas D'Antonio Salza, 93, Honduran Bishop of Juticalpa (1963–1977). [297]
* Naomi Sims, 61, American model and author, breast cancer. [298]
* Rana Chandra Singh, 78, Pakistani politician. [299]
* Howard Smit, 98, American film make-up artist (The Wizard of Oz). [300]
* Panakkad Sayeed Mohammedali Shihab Thangal, 73, Indian politician, cardiac arrest. [301]
* Princess Felicitas of Prussia, 75, German princess, great-granddaughter of Kaiser Wilhelm II. [302]
* Borka Vučić, 84, Serbian politician and banker, car accident. [303]

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[edit] 31

* Sir Edward Folmer Archdale, 3rd Baronet, 87, British Royal Navy officer. [1]
* Tim Guest, 34, British writer, suspected heart attack. [2]
* David Hawkes, 86, British sinologist. [3]
* Ted Nierenberg, 86, American entrepreneur, founder of Dansk International Designs, pancreatic cancer. [4]
* Sir Bobby Robson, 76, British footballer and manager, lung cancer. [5]
* Harry Alan Towers, 88, British film producer and screenwriter, after short illness. [6]

[edit] 30

* Yuri Kurnenin, 55, Belarussian football player and coach. [7] (Russian)
* Joy Langan, 66, Canadian politician, MP for Mission—Coquitlam (1988–1993), breast cancer. [8]
* Yoshihisa Maitani, 76, Japanese camera designer. [9]
* Mohammed Yusuf, 39, Nigerian sect leader (Boko Haram), shot. [10]
* Peter Zadek, 83, German stage director, film director and screenwriter, illness. [11] (German)

[edit] 29

* Dina Babbitt, 86, Czech-born American artist and Holocaust survivor, abdominal cancer. [12]
* Rajan P. Dev, 58, Indian actor, after short illness. [13]
* Gayatri Devi, 90, Indian royal, last Maharani of Jaipur (1939–1970), paralytic ileus. [14]
* Joanne Jordan, 88, American actress and spokesmodel, Parkinson's disease. [15]
* Ernest W. Lefever, 90, American foreign policy expert, founder of Ethics and Public Policy Center, dementia with Lewy bodies. [16]
* Paul McGrillen, 37, Scottish footballer (Motherwell F.C.). [17]
* Olga A. Méndez, 84, American politician, New York State Senator (1978–2004), breast cancer. [18]
* Steven Miessner, 48, American Academy Awards administrator, heart attack. [19]
* Renato Pagliari, 69, Italian-born British singer (Renée and Renato), brain cancer. [20]
* Zhuo Lin, 93, Chinese consultant, widow of Deng Xiaoping. [21]

[edit] 28

* Reverend Ike, 74, American evangelist, stroke. [22]
* Jim Johnson, 68, American football coach (Philadelphia Eagles), melanoma. [23]
* Kaori Kawamura, 38, Japanese singer, breast cancer. [24]
* Brian Mears, 78, British Chairman of Chelsea Football Club (1969–1991). [25]
* Leela Naidu, 69, Indian actress, Miss India (1954), after long illness. [26]
* Bernard Rosenthal, 94, American sculptor, stroke. [27]
* Peter Tahourdin, 80, British-born Australian composer. [28]

[edit] 27

* Bernadette Cozart, 62, American gardener, urban gardening advocate, heart attack. [29]
* Dick Holub, 87, American basketball player (NY Knicks) and coach (FDU). [30]
* Domingos Lam, 81, Chinese Roman Catholic bishop of Macau. [31] (Chinese)
* Lee Orr, 92, Canadian Olympic athlete. [32]
* Luis Quintana, 57, Puerto Rican baseball player (California Angels), natural causes. [33]
* George Russell, 86, American jazz composer, complications from Alzheimer's disease. [34]
* Larry Siemering, 98, American college football head coach, complications from a fall. [35]
* Sybil, British Downing Street cat, Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office (2007–2008), after short illness. [36]
* Aeronwy Thomas, 66, British translator and writer, daughter of Dylan Thomas, cancer. [37]
* Michaël Zeeman, 50, Dutch literary critic, journalist, poet and writer, brain cancer. [38] (Dutch)

[edit] 26

* John Brockway, 80, British swimmer. [39]
* Traugott Buhre, 80, German actor. [40] (German)
* Bhaskar Chandavarkar, 73, Indian sitarist and composer, cancer. [41]
* Merce Cunningham, 90, American choreographer, natural causes. [42]
* Richard Ferguson, 73, British barrister, Queen's Counsel for Northern Ireland and former politician. [43]
* Clayton Hill, 78, American actor (Dawn of the Dead, Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth), complications from pneumonia. [44]
* Lois Hunt, 84, American lyric soprano, complications from cardiac surgery. [45]
* Marcey Jacobson, 97, American photographer of indigenous peoples in Mexico, heart failure. [46]
* James E. King, 69, American politician, Florida state senator since 1999, pancreatic cancer. [47]
* Maria Sílvia, 65, Brazilian actress, lung cancer. [48] (Portuguese)
* Michael Steinberg, 80, American musicologist. [49]
* Sérgio Viotti, 82, Brazilian actor, cardiac arrest. [50] (Portuguese)
* Jerry Yanover, 62, Canadian political advisor. [51]

[edit] 25

* Yasmin Ahmad, 51, Malaysian film director, brain hemorrhage. [52]
* Rick Bryan, 47, American football player (Atlanta Falcons), heart attack. [53]
* Gladys Bustamante, 97, Jamaican trade unionist and activist, wife of Prime Minister Alexander Bustamante. [54]
* Vernon Forrest, 38, American boxer, shot. [55]
* Gerald Gardner, 83, Irish-born American mathematician, evidence led to ban on sex-segregated classified advertising. leukemia. [56]
* Ken Major, 80, British architect. [57]
* Stanley Middleton, 89, British author, cancer. [58]
* Harry Patch, 111, British supercentenarian, fourth-last surviving World War I veteran. [59]
* Sarath Ranawaka, 58, Sri Lankan politician, after short illness. [60]

[edit] 24

* José Carlos da Costa Araújo, 47, Brazilian goalkeeper, reserve at 1990 World Cup, abdominal cancer. [61] (Portuguese)
* Omar Dani, 85, Indonesian Commander of the National Air Force (1962–1965). [62]
* Friedrich Goldmann, 68, German composer and conductor. [63] (German)
* Austin Gresham, 84, British pathologist. [64]
* G. Alexander Heard, 92, American presidential advisor, Chancellor of Vanderbilt University (1963–1982). [65]
* John Panton, 92, British golfer. [66]
* Harry Towb, 83, British actor, cancer. [67]

[edit] 23

* Virginia Carroll, 95, American actress and model, natural causes. [68]
* E. Lynn Harris, 54, American author. [69]
* Danny McBride, 63, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Sha Na Na), natural causes. [70].
* Duse Nacaratti, 76, Brazilian actress, respiratory failure. [71] (Portuguese)
* Thomas N. Schroth, 88, American editor (Congressional Quarterly), founder of The National Journal, heart failure. [72]
* Gösta Werner, 101, Swedish film director. [73] (Swedish)

[edit] 22

* Howard Engle, 89, American pediatrician, lead plaintiff in landmark tobacco lawsuit, lymphoma. [74]
* Richard M. Givan, 88, American judge, Chief Justice of the Indiana Supreme Court (1969–1994). [75]
* Peter Krieg, 61, German documentary filmmaker. [76] (German)
* Mark Leduc, 47, Canadian boxer, Olympic silver medalist (1992), heat stroke. [77]
* Herbert Morris, 94, American rower, Olympic gold medalist (1936). [78]
* Marco Antonio Nazareth, 23, Mexican boxer, cerebral hemorrhage. [79]
* Lynn Pressman Raymond, 97, American president of Pressman Toy Corporation. [80]
* John Ryan, 88, British cartoonist (Captain Pugwash). [81]
* Damien Steele, 33, American professional wrestler, brain aneurysm. [82]
* Aygyl Tajiyeva, 64, Turkmen politician and opposition activist, stroke. [83]

[edit] 21

* John Dawson, 64, American musician (New Riders of the Purple Sage), stomach cancer. [84]
* Armando del Moral, 93, Spanish-born American film journalist, natural causes. [85]
* Nelson Demarco, 84, Uruguayan basketball player, Olympic bronze medalist (1952, 1956). [86] (Spanish)
* Heinz Edelmann, 75, Czech-born German illustrator and designer, heart disease and renal failure. [87]
* Gidget, 15, American chihuahua, Taco Bell mascot, stroke. [88]
* Gangubai Hangal, 96, Indian Hindustani classical singer, cardiac arrest. [89]
* Marcel Jacob, 45, Swedish musician, suicide. [90]
* Yoshinori Kanada, 57, Japanese animator, heart attack. [91]
* Les Lye, 84, Canadian actor and broadcaster (You Can't Do That on Television). [92]
* Hiroshi Wakasugi, 74, Japanese orchestra conductor, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. [93]

[edit] 20

* Gene Amondson, 65, American politician, Prohibition Party nominee for U.S. President, stroke. [94]
* Ria Brieffies, 52, Dutch singer (Dolly Dots), lung cancer. [95] (Dutch)
* Edward T. Hall, 95, American anthropologist. [96]
* Bobby Knoxall, 75, British comedian. [97]
* Vedat Okyar, 64, Turkish journalist and footballer (Beşiktaş J.K.), colorectal cancer. [98] (Turkish)
* Stan Polley, 87, American music manager. [99]
* Paul Fouad Tabet, 79, Lebanese archbishop, Nuncio to Greece (1996–2005). [100]
* Gösta Werner, 101, Swedish film director. [101]
* Carlton Willey, 78, American baseball player (Milwaukee Braves, New York Mets), lung cancer. [102]

[edit] 19

* Sue Burns, 58, American businesswoman, principal owner of the San Francisco Giants, lung cancer. [103]
* Karen Harup, 84, Danish swimmer, Olympic champion (1948). [104] (Danish)
* Ingeborg Hunzinger, 94, German sculptor. [105] (German)
* Frank McCourt, 78, Irish-American author (Angela's Ashes), melanoma. [106]
* Gilberto Mestrinho, 81, Brazilian Governor of Amazonas (1959–1963, 1983–1987, 1991–1995), lung cancer. [107] (Portuguese)
* Cecil Mountford, 90, New Zealand rugby league player and coach. [108]
* Guillermo Schulenburg, 93, Mexican Abbot of the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe (1963–1996), natural causes. [109] (Spanish)
* Ray Shaw, 75, American journalist and publisher (American City Business Journals), complications from a wasp sting. [110]
* Bryan Stanley, 83, British trade unionist, General Secretary of the Post Office Engineering Union. [111]
* Henry Surtees, 18, British racing driver, Formula Two race accident. [112]
* Ebbe Wallén, 92, Swedish Olympic bobsledder. [113]

[edit] 18

* Henry Allingham, 113, British supercentenarian, world's oldest man and WWI veteran. [114]
* Annagul Annakuliyeva, 85, Turkmen opera singer and actress. [115]
* Jill Balcon, 84, British actress, widow of Cecil Day-Lewis and mother of Daniel Day-Lewis, brain tumour. [116]
* Yasmine Belmadi, 33, French actor, traffic collision. [117] (French)
* Lionel Casson, 94, American professor of Classics (New York University), author on ancient maritime history, pneumonia. [118]
* Ricardo Londoño, 59, Colombian racing driver, shot. [119]
* Steven Rothenberg, 50, American studio executive (Lions Gate Entertainment, Artisan Entertainment), stomach cancer. [120]
* Graham Stanton, 69, New Zealand-born British theologian. [121]
* Joel Weisman, 66, American physician and pioneer in AIDS detection, heart disease. [122]

[edit] 17

* Meir Amit, 88, Israeli major general and politician. [123]
* Gordon Burn, 61, British writer, cancer. [124]
* Walter Cronkite, 92, American television news anchor, cerebrovascular disease. [125]
* Leszek Kołakowski, 81, Polish philosopher, historian of ideas and essayist. [126]
* Jean Margéot, 93, Mauritian cardinal. [127]
* Gordon Waller, 64, British singer (Peter and Gordon), cardiac arrest. [128]

[edit] 16

* Thomas Dao, 88, Chinese-born American physician, expert in breast cancer treatment, Pick's Disease. [129]
* Leslie Fernandez, 91, British WW2 Special Forces saboteur and trainer of Violette Szabó. [130]
* Charles Gonthier, 80, Canadian jurist, Supreme Court Justice (1989–2003). [131]
* Maurice Grimaud, 95, French police chief of Paris during the 1968 student uprising. [132]
* Otto Heino, 94, American ceramicist and potter, acute renal failure. [133]
* Jerry Holland, 54, American-born Canadian fiddler and composer, cancer. [134]
* Paulo Lopes de Faria, 78, Brazilian Archbishop of Diamantina. [135] (Portuguese)
* D. K. Pattammal, 90, Indian Carnatic singer, after short illness. [136]
* Angelo Rizzo, 83, Italian Archbishop of Ragusa. [137] (Italian)
* Yury Verlinsky, 65, Russian medical researcher, colorectal cancer. [138]

[edit] 15

* Avraham Ahituv, 79, German-born Israeli intelligence chief, Director of the Shin Bet (1974–1980). [139]
* Seddon Bennington, 61, New Zealand chief executive of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, hypothermia. [140]
* Natalya Estemirova, 50, Russian human rights activist in Chechnya and Ingushetia, shot. [141]
* Brian Goodwin, 78, Canadian mathematician, fall from a bicycle. [142]
* Julius Shulman, 98, American architectural photographer. [143]

[edit] 14

* Pat Brady, 83, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), lymphoma. [144]
* Lucio Ceccarini, 78, Italian water polo player. [145] (Italian)
* Sam Church, 72, American labor leader (UMWA), complications of surgery. [146]
* Joe DiGangi, 94, American bullpen catcher (New York Yankees), natural causes. [147]
* Phyllis Gotlieb, 83, Canadian science fiction author, [148]
* Christopher Hipp, 47, American inventor (blade server) and entrepreneur, suspected embolism. [149]
* Dallas McKennon, 89, American voice actor (Gumby, Buzz Buzzard, Archie Andrews), natural causes. [150]
* Heinrich Schweiger, 77, Austrian actor, cardiovascular disease. [151]
* Jean Sommeng Vorachak, 76, Laotian Apostolic Vicar of Savannakhet. [152]
* Bill Young, 95, New Zealand politician and diplomat. [153]
* Zbigniew Zapasiewicz, 74, Polish actor and director. [154]

[edit] 13

* Uma Aaltonen, 68, Finnish author, journalist and politician. [155] (Finnish)
* Amin al-Hafez, 83, Lebanese politician, Prime Minister (1973). [156]
* Giuseppe Alessi, 103, Italian politician, president of the Regional Council of Sicily (1947–1949, 1955–1956). [157] (Italian)
* Robert Cushman, 62, American photograph curator (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences). [158]
* Neil Munro, 62, Canadian director, actor and playwright, after long illness. [159]
* Nilu Phule, 78, Indian Marathi and Hindi film actor, esophageal cancer. [160]
* Vince Powell, 80, British scriptwriter (Love Thy Neighbour, Mind Your Language). [161]
* Beverly Roberts, 96, American actress, natural causes. [162]
* Dash Snow, 27, American artist, heroin overdose. [163]

[edit] 12

* Doris Barr, 87, Canadian baseball player, original member of All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. [164]
* Charles N. Brown, 72, American founding editor of Locus magazine. [165]
* Tommy Cummings, 80, British football player (Burnley F.C.). [166]
* Donald MacCormick, 70, British television journalist, heart attack. [167]
* Shesha Palihakkara, 81, Sri Lankan dancer, actor and producer. [168]
* Christopher Prout, Baron Kingsland, 67, British politician and barrister, MEP (1979–1994), pulmonary embolism. [169]
* S. G. Sender, 78, Belgian pastry chef, after long illness. [170]
* Pavel Smeyan, 52, Russian singer and actor, cancer. [171]
* Nikola Stanchev, 78, Bulgarian wrestler, Olympic gold medalist. [172]
* Simon Vinkenoog, 80, Dutch poet and writer. [173]
* Jane Weinberger, 91, American author, widow of Caspar Weinberger, stroke. [174]

[edit] 11

* Maria del Carmen Bousada de Lara, 69, Spanish woman believed to be world's oldest mother, cancer. [175]
* John Caldwell, 71, Irish boxer, Olympic medalist (1956), world bantamweight champion (1961–1962), cancer. [176]
* Manuel Carrascalão, 75, East Timorese politician, cerebral embolism. [177] (Portuguese)
* Robert 'Dolly' Dunn, 68, Australian child molester, multiple organ failure. [178]
* Reg Fleming, 73, Canadian hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks). [179]
* Arturo Gatti, 37, Canadian boxer, strangulation. [180]
* Paul Hemphill, 73, American author, throat cancer. [181]
* Ji Xianlin, 97, Chinese linguist, paleographer, historian and writer, heart attack. [182] (Chinese)
* Mark Mandala, 72, American television executive, president of ABC (1986–1994), heart attack. [183]
* Žan Marolt, 44, Bosnia-Herzegovinian actor. [184] (Bosnian)
* Geraint Owen, 43, British actor, cerebral haemorrhage. [185]

[edit] 10

* Sir Edward Downes, 85, British conductor, assisted suicide. [186]
* Ebba Haslund, 91, Norwegian author. [187] (Norwegian)
* Zena Marshall, 83, Kenyan-born British actress (Dr. No), after short illness. [188]
* Yury Shlyapin, 77, Russian water polo player, Olympic bronze medalist (1956). [189] (Russian) (death reported on this date)

[edit] 9

* William C. Conner, 89, American federal judge (District Court for the Southern District of New York). [190]
* Magomed Gadaborshev, Russian Colonel, Head of Ingushetia Forensics and Investigations Center, shot. [191]
* George Haig, 2nd Earl Haig, 91, British Army officer, patron of military charities and artist. [192]
* Jessie Hollins, 39, American baseball player, drowned. [193]
* Ron Kennedy, 56, Canadian ice hockey player and trainer, brain cancer. [194]
* Frank Mickens, 63, American educator, natural causes. [195]
* Kinuthia Murugu, Kenyan Permanent Secretary, shot. [196]
* Henri Verbrugghe, 79, Belgian Olympic canoer. [197] (Dutch)

[edit] 8

* Harry Gray, 89, American CEO and chairman of United Technologies Corporation. [198]
* Bertha Hertogh, 72, Dutch woman whose adoption led to ethnic riots in Singapore in 1950, leukemia. [199]
* Robert Isabell, 57, American event planner, heart attack. [200]
* Edward Kenna, 90, Australian soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross. [201]
* Judi Ann Mason, 54, American screenwriter, television producer (Good Times) and playwright, aortic dissection. [202]
* Waldo McBurney, 106, American beekeeper, oldest worker in the United States. [203]
* Nelson Munsey, 61, American football player (Baltimore Colts), heart disease. [204]
* Edgar O'Ballance, 90, British military historian. [205]
* Lou Pagliaro, 90, American table tennis player, national champion (1940–1942, 1952). [206]

[edit] 7

* Reader Harris, 96, British businessman and politician, MP for Heston and Isleworth (1950–1970). [207]

[edit] 6

* Vasily Aksyonov, 76, Russian novelist, stroke. [208]
* Mihai Baicu, 33, Romanian footballer, heart attack. [209]
* Patrick Tracy Burris, 41, American criminal, suspected South Carolina spree killer, shot. [210]
* Rene Capo, 48, Cuban-born American judo Olympian (1988, 1996), lung cancer. [211]
* Johnny Collins, 71, British folk singer. [212]
* Marlon Green, 80, American pilot. [213]
* Oscar G. Mayer, Jr., 95, American business executive (Oscar Mayer). [214]
* Robert McNamara, 93, American business executive, Secretary of Defense (1961–1968), natural causes. [215]
* Mathieu Montcourt, 24, French tennis player, cardiac arrest. [216]
* Jim Reid, 75, British folk musician, after short illness. [217]
* Robert L. Short, 76, American theologian (The Gospel According to Peanuts). [218]
* Martin Streek, 45, Canadian disc jockey, suspected suicide. [219]
* Bleddyn Williams, 86, British rugby player, captain of Wales and British Lions, after long illness. [220]

[edit] 5

* John Bachar, 52, American rock climber, fall. [221]
* Peter Blaker, Baron Blaker, 86, British diplomat and politician, MP for Blackpool South (1964–1992), pneumonia. [222]
* Lou Creekmur, 82, American football player (Detroit Lions). [223]
* Takeo Doi, 89, Japanese psychoanalyst. [224]
* Alfred John Ellory, 89, British flautist. [225]
* Oscar Murton, Baron Murton of Lindisfarne, 95, British politician, MP for Poole (1964–1979). [226]
* John Orman, 60, American professor and politician, self-appointed chairman of Connecticut for Lieberman party. [227]
* Bob Titchenal, 91, American football player and coach. [228]
* Waldo Von Erich, 75, Canadian professional wrestler, fall. [229]

[edit] 4

* Jim Chapin, 89, American jazz drummer. [230]
* Robert E. Hopkins, 94, American optical engineer. [231]
* Brenda Joyce, 92, American actress (Tarzan and the Amazons). [232]
* Béla Király, 97, Hungarian general and historian, natural causes. [233]
* Allen Klein, 77, American businessman, Beatles and Rolling Stones manager, Alzheimer's disease. [234]
* Drake Levin, 62, American guitarist (Paul Revere & the Raiders), cancer. [235]
* Robert Louis-Dreyfus, 63, French-born Swiss billionaire, leukemia. [236]
* Steve McNair, 36, American football player (Tennessee Titans, Baltimore Ravens), shot. [237]
* Hugh Millais, 79, British actor and adventurer. [238]
* Robert Mitchell, 96, American organist, pneumonia. [239]
* Khan Mohammad, 81, Pakistani cricketer, prostate cancer. [240]
* Leo Mol, 94, Ukrainian-born Canadian sculptor. [241]
* Lasse Strömstedt, 74, Swedish writer. [242] (Swedish)
* Jean-Baptiste Tati Loutard, 70, Congolese politician, Minister of State. [243]
* Laurence Villiers, 7th Earl of Clarendon, 76, British aristocrat. [244]

[edit] 3

* Jorge Enrique Adoum, 83, Ecuadorian poet and writer. [245] (Spanish)
* Alauddin Al-Azad, 77, Bangladeshi author, natural causes. [246]
* John Barry, 84, American president and CEO of WD-40, pulmonary fibrosis. [247]
* Frank Devine, 77, New Zealand-born Australian newspaper editor, after long illness. [248]
* Gabriel Fino Noriega, 42, Honduran journalist, shot. [249]
* E. J. Josey, 85, American librarian and civil rights activist, natural causes. [250]
* John Keel, 79, American ufologist and writer (The Mothman Prophecies), heart failure. [251]
* Barbara Margolis, 79, American prisoners' rights advocate, official greeter for New York City, cancer. [252]
* Victor Smorgon, 96, Ukrainian-born Australian industrialist, natural causes. [253]

[edit] 2

* Pasquale Borgomeo, 76, Vatican director of Radio Vatican, after long illness. [254]
* Steve Brennan, 57, Irish-born American reporter and editor (The Hollywood Reporter), cancer. [255]
* Susan Fernandez, 52, Filipina activist and singer, ovarian cancer. [256]
* Martin Hengel, 82, German theologian. [257]
* Herbert G. Klein, 91, American journalist, White House Communications Director for President Richard Nixon. [258]
* Tyeb Mehta, 84, Indian painter, heart attack. [259]
* Robert Daniel Potter, 86, American judge, member of the District Court for the Western District of North Carolina (1981–1994). [260]
* Bert Schneider, 71, Austrian Grand Prix motorcycle racer. [261] (German)
* Clyde Shugart, 92, American football player (Washington Redskins), stroke. [262]
* Robert E. L. Taylor, 96, American publisher and chairman of the Philadelphia Bulletin. [263]

[edit] 1

* Alexis Argüello, 57, Nicaraguan boxer and politician, mayor of Managua, suspected suicide by gunshot. [264]
* Marwa El-Sherbini, 31, Egyptian pharmacist and vilification victim, stabbed. [265]
* Karl Malden, 97, American Academy Award winning actor (A Streetcar Named Desire), natural causes. [266]
* Anna Karen Morrow, 94, American actress (Peyton Place), natural causes. [267]
* Onni Palaste, 91, Finnish soldier and writer, Winter War veteran, natural causes. [268] (Finnish)
* David Pears, 87, British philosopher. [269]
* Baltasar Porcel, 72, Spanish Catalan writer, cancer. [270]
* Andree Layton Roaf, 68, American jurist, first black woman on Arkansas Supreme Court. [271]
* Mollie Sugden, 86, British actress (Are You Being Served?), natural causes. [272]
* Rupert Thorneloe, 39, British soldier, Commanding Officer of the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, improvised explosive device. [273]
* Norman Welton, 81, American journalist, photo editor for the Associated Press, colon cancer. [274]
* Lyudmila Zykina, 80, Russian singer, Hero of Socialist Labor, cardiac arrest. [275]

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[edit] 30

* Pina Bausch, 68, German modern dance choreographer, cancer. [1]
* Paquito Cordero, 77, Puerto Rican actor, comedian and producer, respiratory disease. [2]
* Liam Fairhurst, 14, British fundraiser, synovial sarcoma. [3]
* James F. McNulty, Jr., 83, American politician, U.S. Representative from Arizona (1983–1985), Parkinson's disease. [4]
* Jan Molander, 89, Swedish actor and film director. [5] (Swedish)
* Luis Oliva, 101, Argentine Olympic athlete. [6] (Spanish)
* Harve Presnell, 75, American actor (Paint Your Wagon) and singer, pancreatic cancer. [7]
* Shi Pei Pu, 70, Chinese opera singer, gender-bending spy who was basis for M. Butterfly. [8]

[edit] 29

* Dave Batters, 39, Canadian politician, MP for Palliser (2004–2008), suicide. [9]
* Joe Bowman, 84, American bootmaker and sharpshooter, heart attack. [10]
* Mohammad Hoqouqi, 72, Iranian poet, cirrhosis. [11]
* Pauline Picard, 62, Canadian politician, MP for Drummond (1993–2008), lung cancer. [12] (French)
* Jan Rubes, 89, Czech-born Canadian actor (Witness) and opera singer, stroke. [13]
* Sandra Warfield, 88, American operatic mezzo-soprano, complications from a stroke, [14]

[edit] 28

* Terry Black, 62, Canadian singer, multiple sclerosis. [15]
* Joseph Crowdy, 85, British soldier, Commandant of the Royal Army Medical Corps. [16]
* Josep Maria Guix Ferreres, 81, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Vic (1983–2003). [17] (Spanish)
* Rita Keane, 86, Irish traditional singer. [18]
* A. K. Lohithadas, 54, Indian screenwriter and film director, heart attack. [19]
* Billy Mays, 50, American pitchman and television host (Pitchmen), hypertensive heart disease. [20].
* Jeff Swanagan, 51, American founding executive director and president of the Georgia Aquarium, heart attack. [21]
* Fred Travalena, 66, American comedian and impressionist, non-Hodgkin lymphoma. [22]
* Lucia Lauria Vigna, 113, Italian supercentenarian, oldest person in Europe. [23] (French)
* Tom Wilkes, 69, American graphic designer. [24]
* Yu Hyun-mok, 83, South Korean film director, cerebral infarction. [25]

[edit] 27

* Ernst Barkmann, 89, German World War II Waffen-SS soldier and panzer ace. [26] (Portuguese)
* Frank Barlow, 98, British historian. [27]
* Victoriano Crémer, 102, Spanish poet and journalist, natural causes. [28]
* Mary Lou Forbes, 83, American journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner (1959), breast cancer. [29]
* Willy Kyrklund, 88, Finnish-born Swedish author. [30] (Swedish)
* Nanae Nagata, 53, Japanese marathon runner, colorectal cancer. [31]
* Fayette Pinkney, 61, American musician (The Three Degrees), respiratory failure. [32]
* Gale Storm, 87, American actress (My Little Margie, The Gale Storm Show). [33]
* Jackie Washington, 89, Canadian blues musician, complications from a heart attack. [34]

[edit] 26

* Jo Amar, 79, Moroccan-born Israeli singer. [35]
* Bernard Ganley, 83, British rugby league player. [36]
* Amnon Kapeliouk, 78, Israeli journalist and author. [37]

[edit] 25

* Don Coldsmith, 83, American western author, stroke. [38]
* Farrah Fawcett, 62, American actress (Charlie's Angels), anal cancer. [39]
* Morton Gottlieb, 88, American Broadway theatre producer, Tony Award winner (1971), natural causes. [40]
* James Baker Hall, 74, American poet and academic, Kentucky Poet Laureate (2001-2003), natural causes. [41]
* Michael Jackson, 50, American pop singer–songwriter, acute propofol intoxication. [42]
* Clifton Johnson, 67, American jurist, North Carolina Superior Court (1978-1982) and Court of Appeals (1982-1996). [43]
* Brian Jones, 70, British poet. [44]
* Sylvia Levin, 91, American civic and voter registration activist, registered 47,000 new voters, stroke. [45]
* Shiv Charan Mathur, 83, Indian politician, Governor of Assam since 2008, Chief Minister of Rajasthan (1988–1989), cardiac arrest. [46]
* Mian Tufail Mohammad, 95, Pakistani politician, cerebral hemorrhage. [47]
* Bela Mukhopadhyay, 89, Indian singer, widow of singer and composer Hemanta Mukherjee, natural causes. [48]
* Kaleem Omar, 72, Pakistani poet and journalist, heart failure. [49]
* Sky Saxon, 71, American rock musician (The Seeds), heart failure. [50]
* Hugh Scaife, 79, British set decorator, [51]
* Anil Wilson, 62, Indian educator, Principal of St. Stephen's College, Delhi (1991–2007), pancreatic cancer. [52]
* Yasmine, 37, Belgian singer and television presenter, suicide by hanging. [53]

[edit] 24

* Irv Homer, 85, American talk show host, heart attack. [54]
* Olja Ivanjicki, 78, Serbian painter. [55]
* Tim Krekel, 58, American guitarist and songwriter, cancer. [56]
* Robèrt Lafont, 87, French academic. [57] (French)
* Roméo LeBlanc, 81, Canadian politician (1973–1994), Governor General (1995–1999), Alzheimer's disease. [58]
* Robert B. Pamplin, 97, American executive, President of Georgia-Pacific (1957–1976). [59]
* Ed Thomas, 58, American football coach, NFL High School Football Coach of the Year (2005), shot. [60]
* Steven Wells, 49, British journalist and author, cancer. [61]

[edit] 23

* Thurman Adams, Jr., 80, American politician, member of the Delaware Senate since 1972, pancreatic cancer. [62]
* Raymond Berthiaume, 78, Canadian jazz musician, singer and record producer, cancer. [63] (French)
* Phyllis Busansky, 72, American politician, county commissioner and supervisor of elections (Hillsborough County, Florida). [64]
* John Callaway, 72, American journalist (Chicago Tonight), heart attack. [65]
* Harold H. Carstens, 84, American magazine publisher. [66]
* Gegham Ghandilyan, 35, Armenian actor, car accident. [67]
* İsmet Güney, 77, Cypriot artist and cartoonist, designed flag of the Republic of Cyprus, cancer. [68] (Greek)
* Hanne Hiob, 86, German actress, daughter of poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht. [69]
* Johny Joseph, 45, Haitian news presenter (Télévision Nationale d'Haiti), cancer. [70] (French)
* Thomas M. King, 80, American Roman Catholic priest and theologian, expert on Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, heart attack. [71]
* Ed McMahon, 86, American television host (Star Search) and announcer (The Tonight Show). [72]
* Aram Miskaryan, 36, Armenian actor, car accident. [73]
* Jerri Nielsen, 57, American physician, treated herself for breast cancer on Antarctica in 1999, breast cancer. [74]
* Robin Plackett, 88, British statistician. [75]
* Jackie Swindells, 72, British footballer. [76]

[edit] 22

* Betty Allen, 82, American operatic mezzo-soprano, kidney disease. [77]
* Bert Bank, 94, American radio pioneer and politician, Bataan Death March survivor. [78]
* Antonio Fernandes de Castro, 111, Portuguese supercentenarian. [79]
* Alec Gallup, 81, American pollster, chairman of the Gallup Poll, heart disease. [80]
* June Gordon, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair, 95, British musician and patron of the arts. [81]
* Maj-Len Grönholm, 57, Finnish politician and beauty queen, councilwoman, Miss Finland (1972), cancer. [82] (Finnish)
* Billy Red Lyons, 77, Canadian professional wrestler, cancer. [83]
* Eddie Preston, 80, American jazz trumpeter. [84]
* Steve Race, 88, British broadcaster and musician. [85]
* Philip Simmons, 97, American blacksmith. [86]
* Karel Van Miert, 67, Belgian politician, European Commissioner (1989–1999), cardiac arrest resulting in fall. [87]
* Sam B. Williams, 88, American engineer and inventor. [88]

[edit] 21

* Gilda Galán, 92, Puerto Rican actress. [89] (Spanish)
* Lorena Gale, 51, Canadian actress (Battlestar Galactica) and playwright, gastrointestinal cancer. [90]
* José Nicomedes Grossi, 93, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bom Jesus da Lapa (1962-1990). [91] (Portuguese)
* Errol Harris, 101, South African philosopher. [92]
* Arthur Luft, 94, Manx politician and deemster. [93]

[edit] 20

* Neda Agha-Soltan, 26, Iranian student, shot. [94]
* Colin Bean, 83, British actor (Dad's Army). [95]
* Aldo Gargani, 76, Italian philosopher. [96] (Italian)
* Joel Helleny, 52, American trombonist, [97]
* Ralph F. Hirschmann, 87, American biochemist who led synthesis of the first enzyme, renal failure. [98]
* Nazir Jairazbhoy, 81, British-born American ethnomusicologist. [99]
* Patrick Kombayi, 70, Zimbabwean politician and businessman, complications from 1990 shooting. [100]
* Godfrey Rampling, 100, British athlete, 1936 Olympic relay champion, NATO commander, father of actress Charlotte Rampling. [101]
* Kenneth L. Reusser, 89, American Marine aviator, decorated veteran of World War II, Korean and Vietnam Wars. [102]

[edit] 19

* Alberto Andrade, 65, Peruvian politician, pulmonary fibrosis. [103] (Spanish)
* Sir Derrick Bailey, 90, British cricketer and baronet, son of diamond tycoon and politician Sir Abe Bailey. [104]
* H. A. Boucher, 88, American politician, first elected Lieutenant Governor of Alaska (1970–1974). [105]
* Ron Crocombe, 79, New Zealand academic (University of the South Pacific), heart attack. [106]
* Vicente Ferrer Moncho, 89, Spanish philanthropist. [107]
* Shelly Gross, 88, American Broadway producer, bladder cancer. [108]
* Jörg Hube, 65, German actor, cancer. [109] (German)
* Arthur W. Lehman, 91, American euphonium player, pulmonary fibrosis. [110]
* Peter Newbrook, 88, British cinematographer and film producer. [111]
* Gary Papa, 54, American television sportscaster (WPVI-TV), prostate cancer. [112]
* Ken Roberts, 99, American actor and announcer, pneumonia. [113]
* Herschel Rosenthal, 91, American politician, member of the California Senate (1982–1998). [114]
* Bob Schuler, 66, American politician, member of the Ohio Senate since 2002, cancer. [115]
* Stan Sismey, 92, Australian cricketer. [116]
* Tomoji Tanabe, 113, Japanese supercentenarian, was world's oldest living man, heart failure. [117]

[edit] 18

* Omar Hashi Aden, Somali politician, Minister of Security, suicide bomb attack. [118]
* Giovanni Arrighi, 71, Italian economist. [119] (Italian)
* Hortensia Bussi, 94, Chilean First Lady (1970–1973), widow of President Salvador Allende, natural causes. [120] (Spanish)
* Victor Cosson, 93, French road bicycle racer. [121] (French)
* Sir Henry Hodge, 65, British jurist, High Court judge since 2004, acute myeloid leukaemia. [122]
* Ali Akbar Khan, 87, Indian sarod player, kidney failure. [123]

[edit] 17

* Joji Banuve, 69, Fijian politician, Minister for Local Government and the Environment, after short illness. [124]
* José Calvário, 58, Portuguese maestro and orchestrator, complications from heart attack. [125]
* Ralf Dahrendorf, Baron Dahrendorf, 80, German-born British sociologist and politician, cancer. [126]
* Alejandro Doria, 72, Argentine film director, pneumonia. [127] (Spanish)
* Eon, 55, British musician, complications from pneumonia. [128]
* José Ignacio García Hamilton, 65, Argentine politician and historian. [129]
* Jane Aiken Hodge, 91, American-born British writer, suicide by drug overdose. [130]
* Wayne L. Horvitz, 88, American labor mediator, cancer. [131]
* John Houghtaling, 92, American businessman and inventor (Magic Fingers vibrating bed), complications from a fall. [132]
* IZ the Wiz, 50, American graffiti artist, heart attack. [133]
* Darrell Powers, 86, American soldier, served in the 506th Infantry Regiment (Band of Brothers), natural causes. [134]
* Dusty Rhodes, 82, American baseball player (New York Giants), complications from diabetes and emphysema. [135]
* Ali Said, Somali public servant, chief of police (Mogadishu), shot. [136]
* Shacky Tauro, 49, Zimbabwean footballer, after short illness. [137]
* Tony Wong, 60, Canadian politician. [138]
* Gordon Wray, 57, British-born Canadian politician. [139]

[edit] 16

* Peter Arundell, 75, British racing driver, pulmonary fibrosis. [140]
* Douglas Bunn, 81, British barrister and horse breeder, founder and chairman of the All England Jumping Course. [141]
* Emmanuel Constant, 81, Haitian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Les Gonaïves (1966–2003). [142] (French)
* Paul A. Fino, 95, American politician, U.S. Representative from New York (1953–1968). [143]
* Celia Fremlin, 95, British crime novelist. [144]
* D. Mark Hegsted, 95, American nutritionist, research led to recommended decrease in dietary saturated fats. [145]
* Charlie Mariano, 85, American jazz alto saxophonist, cancer. [146]
* Tina Marsh, 55, American jazz vocalist, breast cancer. [147]
* Frank Mason, 88, American artist and teacher. [148]

[edit] 15

* George Belotti, 74, American football player, complications of a stroke. [149]
* Antonio Bianco, 57, South African diamond cutter, cancer. [150]
* Helen Boosalis, 89, American politician, Mayor of Lincoln, Nebraska (1975–1983), brain tumor. [151]
* Allan King, 79, Canadian film director (Warrendale, Termini Station, Silence of the North), brain tumor. [152]
* Desmond Moran, 60, Australian criminal, member of Moran family, shot. [153]

[edit] 14

* Bob Bogle, 75, American guitarist (The Ventures), non-Hodgkin lymphoma. [154]
* Angela Coughlan, 56, Canadian swimmer, bronze medalist (1968 Summer Olympics), multiple myeloma. [155]
* Ivan Della Mea, 68, Italian singer–songwriter and author, after long illness. [156] (Italian)
* Yasuharu Hasebe, 77, Japanese film director, pneumonia. [157]
* William McIntyre, 91, Canadian jurist, Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (1979-1989), throat cancer. [158]
* Moumouni Adamou Djermakoye, 70, Nigerien politician. [159]
* Carlos Pardo, 33, Mexican NASCAR race driver, race crash. [160]
* Edith Ronne, 89, American explorer, first American woman to visit Antarctica, cancer. [161]
* Frederick Sontag, 84, American academic and author, professor of philosophy (Pomona College), heart failure. [162]
* Abel Tador, 24, Nigerian footballer, shot. [163]
* Hal Woodeshick, 76, American baseball player (Houston Colt .45s), after long illness. [164]

[edit] 13

* Khalil Abi-Nader, 87, Lebanese Maronite prelate, Archbishop of Beirut (1986–1996). [165]
* Bashir Aushev, 62, Russian public official, Deputy Prime Minister of Ingushetia (2002–2008), shot. [166]
* Otilio Galíndez, 73, Venezuelan poet and composer. [167]
* Mitsuharu Misawa, 46, Japanese professional wrestler, spinal cord injury. [168]
* John Saville, 93, British Marxist economic and social historian. [169]

[edit] 12

* Shailaja Acharya, 65, Nepalese politician, Deputy Prime Minister (1998), Alzheimer's disease and pneumonia. [170]
* John Crellin, 58, Manx motorcycle racer and civil engineer, race accident. [171]
* Annesley Dias, Sri Lankan comedian, [172]
* Robinson O. Everett, 81, American judge, member of the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces since 1980. [173]
* Peter Gowan, 63, British professor of politics, mesothelioma. [174]
* Andy Hughes, 43, British musician (The Orb), producer and DJ. [175]
* Ivan Lichter, 91, New Zealand physician, pioneer in palliative care. [176]
* Félix Malloum, 76, Chadian politician, President (1975–1979), cardiac arrest. [177] (French)
* Rosa Markmann, 101, Chilean First Lady (1946–1952). [178] (Spanish)
* Peter Wheeler, 65, British chemical engineer and businessman, owner of TVR, after short illness. [179]

[edit] 11

* Viacheslav Aliabiev, 75, Ukrainian footballer (Shakhtyor Stalino), USSR Cup winner (1961, 1962), cancer. [180]
* Sidney W. Bijou, 100, American child psychologist. [181]
* Marian Goliński, 59, Polish politician, car accident. [182] (Polish)
* Jakob Kjersem, 83, Norwegian Olympic athlete. [183] (Norwegian)
* Frank J. Low, 75, American physicist and astronomer. [184]
* Christel Peters, 93, German actress. [185] (German)
* Carl Pursell, 76, American politician, U.S. Representative from Michigan (1977–1993), heart disease. [186]
* Ricardo Rangel, 85, Mozambican photojournalist. [187]
* Roger Terry, 87, American airman (Tuskegee Airmen), heart failure. [188]

[edit] 10

* Barry Beckett, 66, American record producer, session musician, keyboardist (Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section), natural causes. [189]
* Andrew Wendell Bogue, 90, American federal judge. [190]
* John A. Eddy, 78, American astronomer, cancer. [191]
* Tenniel Evans, 83, British actor. [192]
* Xaver Frick, 96, Liechtensteinian Olympic athlete and cross-country skier. [193]
* Aza Gazgireeva, Russian jurist, senior judge in Ingushetia, shot. [194]
* Woodie Held, 77, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians), brain cancer. [195]
* Huey Long, 105, American singer (The Ink Spots). [196]
* Michel Nguyên Khác Ngu, 100, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Long Xuyen (1960–1997). [197]
* Jack Nimitz, 79, American jazz baritone saxophonist, complications from emphysema. [198]
* Richard Quick, 66, American swimming and diving coach, brain tumor. [199]
* Stelios Skevofilakas, 70, Greek footballer (AEK Athens), stomach cancer. [200] (Greek)
* Helle Virkner, 83, Danish actress, cancer. [201]

[edit] 9

* Duke Bainum, 56, American politician (Hawaii House of Representatives, Honolulu City Council), aortic aneurysm. [202]
* Norman E. Brinker, 78, American restaurateur (Brinker International), aspiration pneumonia. [203]
* Edward Hanrahan, 88, American lawyer, State's Attorney (Cook County, Illinois), leukemia. [204]
* Jean Hugel, 84, French winemaker (Alsace wine), cancer. [205]
* Bill Lillard, 90, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics). [206]
* Jack Littrell, 80, American baseball player, Alzheimer's disease. [207]
* Dick May, 78, American racing driver, after long illness. [208]
* Michael Roof, 32, American actor (xXx, Black Hawk Down, The Dukes of Hazzard), suicide by hanging. [209]
* Dave Simons, 54, American comic book artist, cancer. [210]
* Arne Tovik, 53, Norwegian newspaper editor and journalist. [211] (Norwegian)
* Karl Michael Vogler, 80, German actor. [212] (German)

[edit] 8

* Omar Bongo, 73, Gabonese politician, President (1967–2009), heart attack. [213]
* Frank Dasso, 91, American baseball player. [214]
* Ed Dorohoy, 80, Canadian ice hockey player. [215] (death announced on this date)
* Sheila Finestone, 82, Canadian politician, MP for Mount Royal (1984–1999) and Senator (1999–2002), cancer. [216]
* Aage Rou Jensen, 84, Danish footballer. [217] (Danish)
* Nathan Marsters, 29, Canadian ice hockey player, car accident. [218]
* Harold Norse, 92, American poet. [219]
* Johnny Palermo, 27, American actor, car accident. [220]
* Habib Tanvir, 85, Indian playwright and theatre director, after short illness. [221]

[edit] 7

* Roy Boe, 79, American businessman, owner of New Jersey Nets (1969–1978), New York Islanders (1972–1979), heart failure. [222]
* Hugh Hopper, 64, British progressive rock bassist and composer (Soft Machine), leukaemia. [223]
* Gordon Lennon, 26, British footballer (Dumbarton F.C.), car crash. [224]
* Kenny Rankin, 69, American singer-songwriter, lung cancer. [225]
* Peter Townsend, 81, British sociologist, pneumonia. [226]
* Baron Vaea, 88, Tongan politician, Prime Minister (1991–2000), after short illness. [227]

[edit] 6

* Charles Arnold-Baker, 90, British historian. [228]
* Jean Dausset, 92, French immunologist, Nobel Prize in Medicine (1980). [229] (French)
* Mary Howard de Liagre, 96, American actress (Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Swamp Water). [230]
* Jim Owens, 82, American college football coach (Washington Huskies), complications from hypertension and heart problems. [231]
* Pio Sagapolutele, 39, American Samoan football player (Cleveland Browns, New England Patriots), aneurysm. [232]

[edit] 5

* Bernard Barker, 92, Cuban-born American intelligence operative, Watergate burglar, lung cancer. [233]
* Peter L. Bernstein, 90, American economic historian, pneumonia. [234]
* Alan Berkman, 63, American physician and activist, lymphoma. [235]
* Fleur Cowles, 101, American writer, editor and artist. [236]
* Baciro Dabó, 51, Guinea-Bissauan politician, presidential candidate, shot. [237]
* Jeff Hanson, 31, American singer–songwriter, fall. [238]
* Richard Jacobs, 83, American real estate developer, owner of the Cleveland Indians (1986–2001), after long illness. [239]
* Luo Jing, 48, Chinese news presenter, lymphoma. [240]
* Adilgerei Magomedtagirov, 53, Russian general, Interior Minister for the Republic of Dagestan, shot. [241]
* Rajeev Motwani, 47, Indian-born American academic, advisor for Google, Inc.. [242]
* Boris Pokrovsky, 97, Russian opera director, People's Artist of the USSR. [243] (Russian)
* Helder Proença, Guinea-Bissauan politician, Minister of Defense, shot. [244]
* Haydn Tanner, 92, British rugby union player. [245]
* George Edward Wahlen, 84, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient, after long illness. [246]

[edit] 4

* Lev Brovarsky, 60, Ukrainian Soviet-era footballer and coach. [247] (Russian)
* Robert Colescott, 83, American painter, U.S. representative to Venice Biennale (1997). [248]
* Ward Costello, 89, American actor and composer, complications from a stroke. [249]
* Philip D. Curtin, 87, American historian, pneumonia. [250]
* Luc Alfons de Hovre, 83, Belgian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Mechelen-Brussels (1982-2002). [251]
* John F. Henning, 93, American politician and diplomat, United States Ambassador to New Zealand (1967–1969). [252]
* Dorothy Layton, 96, American actress (County Hospital). [253]
* Chris O'Brien, 57, Australian oncologist, surgeon on the reality television program RPA, brain tumour. [254]
* Randy Smith, 60, American basketball player (Buffalo Braves), 1978 NBA All-Star Game MVP, heart attack. [255]

[edit] 3

* Geoffrey Bingham, 90, Australian evangelical Christian writer. [256]
* David Bromige, 75, British-born Canadian poet and academic, winner of the Pushcart Prize, complications from diabetes. [257]
* Sam Butera, 81, American saxophonist, Alzheimer's disease. [258]
* James F. Calvert, 88, American naval officer, 46th Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy, heart failure. [259]
* David Carradine, 72, American actor and film director, hanged. [260]
* Do Kum-bong, 79, South Korean actress. [261]
* Sam George, 56, Canadian activist, native rights campaigner involved with the Ipperwash Crisis, pancreatic and lung cancer. [262]
* Thomas Gill, 87, American politician, U.S. Representative from Hawaii (1963–1965), after long illness. [263]
* Frank G. Harrison, 69, American politician, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (1983–1985), natural causes. [264]
* Geir Høgsnes, 58, Norwegian sociologist. [265] (Norwegian)
* Peter J. Landin, 78, British computer scientist, prostate cancer. [266]
* John Campbell Ross, 110, Australian supercentenarian, last surviving Australian veteran of World War I. [267]
* Shih Kien, 96, Hong Kong actor (Enter the Dragon). [268]
* Koko Taylor, 80, American blues musician, complications from gastrointestinal surgery. [269]
* Moloko Temo, 134?, South African centenarian, claimant to the world's oldest person title. [270]

[edit] 2

* Kai Lai Chung, 92, Chinese-born American mathematician. [271]
* David Eddings, 77, American fantasy author. [272]
* John Ernsting, 81, British Air Vice-Marshal, expert in aviation medicine. [273]
* FrancEyE, 87, American poet, complications from a hip fracture. [274]
* Alfred Kern, 85, American novelist and academic. [275]
* Tony Maggs, 72, South African racing driver, cancer. [276]
* Palghat R. Raghu, 81, Burmese-born Indian musician, cardiac arrest. [277]
* Kidane-Mariam Teklehaimanot, 75, Ethiopian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Adigrat (1985–2001). [278]
* Paul O. Williams, 74. American science fiction author, aortic dissection. [279]

[edit] 1

* Silvio Barbato, 50, Italian-born Brazilian conductor and composer, plane crash. [280]
* Thomas Berry, 94, American cultural historian and ecotheologian. [281]
* Bob Christie, 85, American racing driver. [282]
* Ernest May, 80, American historian (Harvard University), complications from cancer surgery. [283]
* Fatma Ceren Necipoğlu, 37, Turkish classical harpist and academic (Anadolu University in Eskişehir), plane crash. [284]
* Vincent O'Brien, 92, Irish race horse trainer. [285]
* Prince Pedro Luís of Orléans-Braganza, 26, Brazilian prince, plane crash. [286]
* Alexander S. Potupa, 64, Belarussian politician, physicist, economist and writer. [287]
* Jerry Rosenberg, 72, American jailhouse lawyer, natural causes. [288]
* Parvin Soleimani, 86, Persian actress, brain tumor. [289]
* Dirk du Toit, 65, South African politician, suspected heart failure. [290]

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[edit] 31

* Martin Clemens, 94, British colonial administrator and soldier. [1]
* Millvina Dean, 97, British woman, last living passenger aboard the Titanic, pneumonia. [2]
* Brian Edrich, 86, British cricketer. [3]
* Sir John Holland, 94, Australian engineer, construction magnate. [4]
* Danny La Rue, 81, Irish-born British female impersonator and singer, prostate cancer. [5]
* Vyacheslav Nevinny, 74, Russian actor, diabetes. [6] (Russian)
* Emil L. Smith, 97, American biochemist, myocardial infarction. [7]
* Kamala Surayya, 75, Indian writer, after long illness. [8]
* George Tiller, 67, American physician and abortion provider, shot. [9]

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* Torsten Andersson, 82, Swedish painter. [10] (Swedish)
* Luís Cabral, 78, Guinea-Bissauan politician, President (1973–1980). [11]
* Eva Dawes, 96, Canadian bronze medal-winning Olympic high jumper (1932), stroke. [12]
* Susanna Haapoja, 42, Finnish politician, cerebral haemorrhage. [13]
* Eric Hammond, 79, British trade unionist, General Secretary of the EETPU. [14]
* Ephraim Katzir, 93, Israeli biophysicist and politician, President (1973–1978). [15]
* Herma Kirchschläger, 93, Austrian widow of former President Rudolf Kirchschläger. [16] (German)
* Waldemar Matuška, 76, Czech singer, pneumonia and heart failure. [17] (Czech)
* Gaafar Nimeiry, 79, Sudanese politician, President (1969–1985). [18]

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* Hank Bassen, 76, Canadian ice hockey player, heart attack. [19]
* Kevin Beurle, 53, British scientist, hot air balloon accident. [20]
* Reginald Golledge, 71, Australian-born American geographer. [21]
* Ed Murray, 80, American politician, Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives (1987–1991). [22]
* Bill Perkins, 89, Australian footballer (Richmond). [23]
* Steve Prest, 43, British snooker player and coach, peritonitis. [24]
* Karine Ruby, 31, French snowboarder, fall. [25]

[edit] 28

* Mort Abrahams, 93, American film and television producer (Planet of the Apes, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.), natural causes. [26]
* Terence Alexander, 86, British film and television actor (Bergerac). [27]
* Terry Barr, 73, American football player (Detroit Lions), Alzheimer's disease. [28]
* Manuel Collantes, 91, Filipino diplomat, Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs (1984), cardiac arrest. [29]
* Carlton Forbes, 72, Jamaican-born British first-class cricketer. [30]
* Roger Kaffer, 81, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Joliet. [31]
* Luis María de Larrea y Legarreta, 91, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bilbao. [32] (Spanish)
* Lenrie Peters, 76, Gambian surgeon and novelist, after short illness. [33]
* Ercole Rabitti, 87, Italian footballer and trainer. [34] (Italian)
* Oleg Shenin, 71, Russian politician, member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1990–1991). [35]
* Betty Tancock, 98, Canadian Olympic swimmer (1932). [36]
* John Tolos, 78, Canadian professional wrestler, renal failure. [37]

[edit] 27

* Ammo Baba, 74, Iraqi footballer and athletic trainer, diabetes. [38].
* Thomas Franck, 77, American lawyer. [39]
* Sir Clive Grainger, 74, British economist, Nobel Prize winner for economics. [40]
* Mona Grey, 98, British public servant, Chief Nursing Officer for Northern Ireland. [41].
* Abram Hoffer, 92, Canadian orthomolecular psychiatrist. [42]
* Gérard Jean-Juste, 62, Haitian political activist, after long illness. [43]
* Carol Anne O'Marie, 75, American Roman Catholic nun and mystery novelist, Parkinson's disease. [44]
* Sir William Refshauge, 96, Australian public health administrator. [45]
* Paul Sharratt, 75, British-born American television producer, cancer. [46]

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* Kaoru Kurimoto, 56, Japanese author, pancreatic cancer. [47]
* Mihalis Papagiannakis, 68, Greek politician, Member of Parliament, cancer. [48] (Greek)
* Michael Ross, 89, American screenwriter and director (Three's Company), complications from a heart attack and stroke. [49]
* Ronald Takaki, 70, American sociologist, professor of ethnic studies (University of California, Berkeley), suicide. [50]
* Marek Walczewski, 72, Polish actor. [51]
* Peter Zezel, 44, Canadian ice hockey player, haemolytic anaemia. [52]

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* Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem, 48, Nigerian Pan African activist, car accident. [53]
* Billy Baxter, 70, British footballer, cancer. [54]
* Rolf Brahde, 91, Norwegian astronomer. [55] (Norwegian)
* Amos Elon, 82, Austrian-born Israeli author and journalist. [56] (German)
* Haakon Lie, 103, Norwegian politician. [57] (Norwegian)
* Ivan van Sertima, 74, Guyanese-born British historian, linguist and anthropologist (Rutgers University). [58]

[edit] 24

* Jay Bennett, 45, American musician (Wilco) and songwriter, accidental drug overdose. [59]
* Jack Lewis, 84, American screenwriter, lung cancer. [60]

[edit] 23

* Charles Albury, 88, American co-pilot of the Bockscar at atomic bombing of Nagasaki, heart failure. [61]
* Raleigh Brown, 87, American politician, state representative (Texas), heart attack. [62]
* Lawrence Daly, 84, British trade union leader. [63]
* Joseph Duval, 80, French Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Rouen (1981–2004). [64] (French)
* Ken Gill, 81, British trade union leader. [65]
* David Lunceford, 75, American football player, Alzheimer's disease. [66]
* Tadeusz Pyka, 79, Polish politician. [67] (Polish)
* Roh Moo-hyun, 62, South Korean politician, President (2003–2008), suicide by jumping. [68]
* Sir Tangaroa Tangaroa, 88, Cook Islands public servant, Queen's Representative (1985–1990). [69]

[edit] 22

* Alexander Mezhirov, 86, Russian poet. [70] (Russian)
* Zé Rodrix, 61, Brazilian musician. [71] (Portuguese)
* Yeo Woon Kye, 69, South Korean actress, kidney cancer. [72]

[edit] 21

* Joan Alexander, 94, American radio actress (The Adventures of Superman), intestinal blockage. [73]
* Walter da Silva, 68, Brazilian footballer and coach, heart attack. [74]
* Fathi Eljahmi, 68, Libyan political activist, blood infection. [75]
* Barry England, 77, British novelist and playwright. [76]
* Anatoli Kirilov, 42, Bulgarian football coach (PFC Spartak Varna), car accident. [77]
* Him Mark Lai, 83, American historian, bladder cancer. [78]
* Sam Maloof, 93, American woodworker, pneumonia. [79]
* Rolf McPherson, 96, American evangelist, son of Aimee Semple McPherson, natural causes. [80]
* Robert Müller, 28, German ice hockey player, brain cancer. [81] (German)
* Kanagasabai Pathmanathan, 64, Sri Lankan politician. [82]
* Togo Tanaka, 93, American journalist, natural causes. [83]

[edit] 20

* Arthur Erickson, 84, Canadian architect (Simon Fraser University, Roy Thomson Hall). [84]
* Lucy Gordon, 28, British actress (Spider-Man 3, The Four Feathers), suicide by hanging. [85]
* Alan Kelly, Sr., 72, Irish footballer, cancer. [86]
* Matthew Krel, 64, Russian-born Australian conductor, founder of the SBS Youth Orchestra, encephalitis. [87]
* Randi Lindtner Næss, 104, Norwegian actress. [88] (Norwegian)
* Nguyen Ba Can, Vietnamese politician, Prime Minister of South Vietnam (1975). [89]
* Simon Oates, 77, British actor, prostate cancer. [90]
* Larry Rice, 63, American racing driver, lung cancer. [91]
* María Amelia López Soliño, 97, Spanish blogger, world's oldest blogger. [92]
* Paul Vinar, 69, Australian footballer. [93]
* Ralph D. Winter, 84, American missionary (U.S. Center for World Mission), multiple myeloma and lymphoma. [94]
* Oleg Yankovsky, 65, Russian actor, pancreatic cancer. [95]
* Yehoshua Zettler, 91, Israeli resistance fighter (Lehi). [96]
* Jerzy Zubrzycki, 89, Polish-born Australian sociologist. [97]

[edit] 19

* Michael Preston Barr, 82, American composer, diabetes. [98]
* Robert F. Furchgott, 92, American scientist, Nobel Prize winner. [99]
* Andrei Ivanov, 42, Russian footballer. [100] (Russian)
* Knut Hammer Larsen, 38, Norwegian footballer, leukemia. [101] (Norwegian)
* Nicholas Maw, 73, British composer (Odyssey), heart failure. [102]
* Clint Smith, 95, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers, Chicago Blackhawks). [103]
* Herbert York, 87, American physicist. [104]

[edit] 18

* Wayne Allwine, 62, American voice artist (Mickey Mouse), complications from diabetes. [105]
* Carole Cole, 64, American actress (Sanford and Son, Grady), daughter of Nat King Cole, lung cancer. [106]
* Dolla, 21, American rap artist, shot. [107]
* Sir David Hay, 92, Australian public servant, Ambassador to the United Nations, Administrator of Papua New Guinea. [108]
* K. Pattabhi Jois, 93, Indian yoga teacher, after short illness. [109]
* Balasingham Nadesan, Sri Lankan rebel, political chief of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), missile attack. [110]
* Paul Parin, 92, Swiss psychoanalyst, author and ethnologist. [111] (German)
* Velupillai Prabhakaran, 54, Sri Lankan rebel, leader of the LTTE, missile attack. [112]
* Türkan Saylan, 74, Turkish doctor, cancer. [113]
* Thillaiyampalam Sivanesan, 45, Sri Lankan rebel, leader of the LTTE naval wing (Sea Tigers), missile attack. [114]
* Shanmugalingam Sivashankar, Sri Lankan rebel, leader of the LTTE intelligence wing, missile attack. [115]
* Lee Solters, 89, American press agent, natural causes. [116]

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* Mohammad-Taqi Bahjat Foumani, 96, Iranian cleric, heart disease. [117]
* Mario Benedetti, 88, Uruguayan author and poet. [118]
* Daniel Carasso, 103, Greek-born French businessman (Groupe Danone). [119]
* Adolf Dickfeld, 99, German World War II Luftwaffe flying ace. [120]
* David Herbert Donald, 88, American historian, heart failure. [121]
* Masaru Hayami, 84, Japanese public servant, Governor of the Bank of Japan (1998–2003), respiratory failure. [122]
* David Ireland, 78, American sculptor and conceptual artist, pneumonia. [123]
* Jung Seung-hye, 44, South Korean film producer, colon cancer. [124]
* Guillermo Lora, 87, Bolivian revolutionary leader, liver cancer. [125]
* Dame Patricia Mackinnon, 97, Australian community worker and philanthropist, President of the Royal Children's Hospital. [126]
* Prakash Mehra, 69, Indian film producer and director, pneumonia and multiple organ failure. [127]
* William Moore, 60, British loyalist paramilitary, member of the Shankill Butchers, suspected heart attack. [128]
* Peter Slabakov, 86, Bulgarian actor. [129]
* Ron Snidow, 67, American football player (Washington Redskins, Cleveland Browns), complications from Lou Gehrig's disease. [130]
* Octavia St. Laurent, American transwoman and performer. [131]
* Mark Young, 23, British motorcycle racer, race crash. [132]

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* Prospero Amatong, 77, Filipino politician, Congressman (1998–2007), Governor of Davao del Norte (1992–1998), fall. [133]
* John E. Connelly, 82, American entrepreneur, founder of Gateway Clipper Fleet, heart failure. [134]
* Henry David Halsey, 90, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Carlisle (1972–1989), after short illness. [135]
* Sándor Katona, 66, Hungarian footballer and Olympic champion. [136] (Hungarian)
* Peter Sampson, 81, British footballer (Bristol Rovers), Alzheimer's disease. [137]

[edit] 15

* Susanna Agnelli, 87, Italian politician and writer, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1995–1996). [138]
* Si Frumkin, 78, Lithuanian-born Holocaust survivor. [139]
* Alan Hackney, 84, British screenwriter. [140]
* Rodger McFarlane, 54, American gay rights activist, first executive director of Gay Men's Health Crisis, suicide. [141]
* Mohammad-Amin Riahi, 86, Iranian historian and literary scholar. [142]
* E. Beatrice Riley, 112, Australian supercentenarian. [143]
* Edwin S. Shneidman, 91, American suicidologist. [144]
* Helvi Sipilä, 94, Finnish diplomat. [145]
* Roy Talbot, 94, Bermudan calypso musician, last surviving member of original Talbot Brothers. [146]
* Bud Tingwell, 86, Australian actor, prostate cancer. [147]
* Wayman Tisdale, 44, American basketball player and jazz bassist, cancer. [148]
* Hubert van Es, 67, Dutch photographer at the fall of Saigon, brain hemorrhage. [149]

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* Monica Bleibtreu, 65, Austrian actress, screenwriter and drama teacher, cancer. [150] (German)
* Newt Heisley, 88, American commercial artist, designer of POW/MIA flag, after long illness. [151]
* Ken Hollyman, 86, British footballer. [152]
* Marian McDougall, 95, American amateur golfer. [153]
* Buddy Montgomery, 79, American jazz musician, heart failure. [154]
* William J. Passmore, 77, American jockey, complications from emphysema. [155]
* Bob Rosburg, 82, American golfer and television color analyst, fall. [156]

[edit] 13

* Frank Aletter, 83, American character actor (It's About Time), cancer. [157]
* Waldemar Levy Cardoso, 108, Brazilian Field Marshal, WWI-era veteran. [158] (Portuguese)
* Achille Compagnoni, 94, Italian mountaineer, first person to ascend K2. [159] (Italian)
* Don Cordner, 87, Australian footballer. [160]
* Rafael Escalona, 81, Colombian Vallenato composer and troubador. [161] (Spanish)
* Norbert Eschmann, 75, Swiss footballer. [162] (French)
* Anne Scott-James, 96, British journalist and author, widow of Sir Osbert Lancaster. [163]
* L. William Seidman, 88, American public servant, Chairman of the FDIC (1985–1991), after short illness. [164]
* Joe Tandy, 26, British auto racing team owner, car crash. [165]

[edit] 12

* Christopher Bathurst, 3rd Viscount Bledisloe, 74, British aristocrat and politician, heart failure. [166]
* Dame Heather Begg, 76, New Zealand operatic soprano, leukemia. [167]
* Mohan Saliya Ellawala, 61, Sri Lankan politician, Governor of Sabaragamuwa Province (2008–2009), after long illness. [168]
* Eden Ross Lipson, 66, American book editor, pancreatic cancer. [169]
* Thomas Nordseth-Tiller, 28, Norwegian screenwriter (Max Manus), cancer. [170] (Norwegian)
* Roger Planchon, 77, French theatre director, heart attack. [171] (French)
* Sidique Ali Merican, 78, Malaysian sprinter, stroke. [172]
* Antonio Vega, 51, Spanish pop singer-songwriter (Nacha Pop), pneumonia. [173] (Spanish)
* Heini Walter, 81, Swiss racing driver. [174]

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* Pat Booth, 66, British model and writer, cancer. [175]
* Lude Check, 91, Canadian ice hockey player. [176]
* Abel Goumba, 82, Central African politician, Prime Minister (1957–58, 1959, 2003) and Vice-President (2003–2005). [177] (French)
* Claudio Huepe, 69, Chilean politician and diplomat, heart attack. [178]
* Bill Kelso, 69, American baseball player. [179]
* Mark Landon, 60, American actor, adopted son of Michael Landon. [180]
* Shanthi Lekha, 79, Sri Lankan actress. [181]
* S. M. Nanda, 93, Indian admiral, Chief of Naval Staff (1970–1973). [182]
* Leonard Shlain, 71, American surgeon and writer, brain cancer. [183]
* Angel Arce Torres, 78, American hit and run victim, bronchial pneumonia due to spinal injury. [184]

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* Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, Libyan Al-Qaeda paramilitary trainer accused of terrorism, alleged suicide. [185]
* Robert John Cornell, 89, American politician and Roman Catholic priest, U.S. Representative from Wisconsin (1975–1979). [186]
* James Kirkup, 91, British poet, translator and travel writer, stroke. [187]
* Rodrigo Rosenberg Marzano, 47, Guatemalan lawyer, shot. [188]
* Clive Scott, 64, British keyboardist and songwriter (Jigsaw), stroke. [189]
* Brian Simnjanovski, 27, American football player (Berlin Thunder), car accident. [190]
* Robert J. Sinclair, 77, American executive, CEO of Saab-Scania of America, cancer. [191]

[edit] 9

* Stephen Bruton, 60, American songwriter and guitarist (Kris Kristofferson band), throat cancer. [192]
* Chuck Daly, 78, American basketball coach, pancreatic cancer. [193]
* Sahan Dosova, 130?, Kazakhstani supercentenarian and longevity claimant. [194] (Hungarian)
* Travis Edmonson, 76, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Bud & Travis), heart failure. [195]
* Henry T. King, 89, American attorney, Nuremberg trials prosecutor, cancer. [196]
* David Marcus, 85, Irish literary editor, after long illness. [197]
* Ernest Millington, 93, British politician and educator, last living World War II-era member of the British Parliament. [198]
* Eugene Smith, 88, American gospel singer. [199]
* Evgenios Spatharis, 85, Greek shadow play artist, fall. [200] (Greek)
* Jean-Claude Van Geenberghe, 46, Belgian-born Ukrainian equestrian. [201] (German)
* George Zinkhan, 57, American academic and suspected murderer, suicide by gunshot. [202]

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* Gianni Baget Bozzo, 84, Italian Roman Catholic priest and politician. [203]
* Fons Brijdenbach, 54, Belgian athlete, cancer. [204] (Dutch)
* Dom DiMaggio, 92, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox), brother of Joe DiMaggio, pneumonia. [205]
* Hideyuki Fujisawa, 83, Japanese Go player, aspiration pneumonia. [206] (Japanese)
* Carlos Kloppenburg, 89, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Novo Hamburgo (1986–1995). [207]
* Ninel Kurgapkina, 80, Russian prima ballerina, road accident. [208] (Russian)
* Greg Palmer, 61, American writer, television reporter and Emmy Award-winning journalist, lung cancer. [209]
* Bud Shrake, 77, American journalist and novelist, lung cancer. [210]
* Eunice Taylor, 75, American baseball player (Kenosha Comets). [211]

[edit] 7

* Robin Blaser, 83, American-born Canadian poet, Griffin Poetry Prize winner. [212]
* Mickey Carroll, 89, American actor (The Wizard of Oz). [213]
* Ian Cundy, 64, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Peterborough, mesothelioma. [214]
* Linda Dangcil, 66, American actress (The Flying Nun), throat cancer. [215]
* John Furia, Jr., 79, American screenwriter (The Twilight Zone, Dr. Kildare), President of the Writers Guild, West (1973–1975). [216]
* Tony Marsh, 77, British racing driver. [217]
* David Mellor, 78, British industrial designer, manufacturer and retailer. [218]
* Frank Melton, 60, American politician, Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi. [219]
* Danny Ozark, 85, American baseball manager. [220]
* Wayland Young, 2nd Baron Kennet, 85, British politician and writer. [221]

[edit] 6

* Erik Bluemel, 32, American professor (University of Denver), bicycle accident. [222]
* Sam Cohn, 79, American talent agent, after short illness. [223]
* Leon Despres, 101, American attorney and politician, heart failure. [224]
* Ean Evans, 48, American bassist (Lynyrd Skynyrd), cancer. [225]
* Kevin Grubb, 31, American NASCAR driver, suicide by gunshot. [226]
* Sid Laverents, 100, American amateur filmmaker, pneumonia. [227]
* Lev Losev, 71, Russian poet and literary critic. [228] (Russian)
* Guy Mascolo, 65, Italian hairdresser, co-founder of Toni & Guy. [229]
* Bob Meyer, 76, Australian logician, lung cancer. [230]
* Valentin Varennikov, 85, Russian general. [231] (Russian)
* Viola Wills, 69, American pop singer, cancer.[232]

[edit] 5

* Benjamín Flores, 24, Mexican boxer, brain injury during a match. [233]
* David S. King, 91, American politician, U.S. Representative for Utah (1959–1963). [234]
* Richard Miller, 83, American operatic tenor and educator, Professor Emeritus of Voice (Oberlin Conservatory of Music). [235]
* Elsie B. Washington, 66, American author, wrote first African American romance novel, multiple sclerosis and cancer. [236]
* Murasaki Yamada, 60, Japanese manga artist. [237]

[edit] 4

* Bobby Campbell, 86, British footballer and manager. [238]
* Dom DeLuise, 75, American actor and comedian (The Cannonball Run, The Secret of NIMH), writer and chef, kidney failure. [239]
* Charles Lugano, 59, Kenyan politician, after short illness. [240]
* Martha Mason, 71, American author, lived 60 years in an iron lung. [241]
* Fritz Muliar, 89, Austrian actor. [242]
* Jane Randolph, 93, American actress. [243]
* Gisela Stein, 73, German actress. [244] (German)

[edit] 3

* Robert B. Choate, Jr., 84, American food lobbyist. [245]
* John Elsworthy, 77, British footballer. [246]
* Hui Ki On, 65, Hong Kong public servant, Commissioner of Police (1994–2001), cancer. [247]
* Eleanor Perenyi, 91, American gardener and writer, cerebral hemorrhage. [248]
* Ram Shewalkar, 78, Indian Marathi writer, cardiac arrest. [249]
* Ralph Thompson, 95, British animal artist. [250]

[edit] 2

* Alfred Appel, 75, American scholar, expert on Vladimir Nabokov, heart failure. [251]
* K.Balaji, 74, Indian Tamil actor and producer, multiple organ failure. [252]
* Augusto Boal, 78, Brazilian dramatist and theater director (Theatre of the Oppressed), respiratory failure. [253] (Portuguese)
* Marilyn French, 79, American writer, heart failure. [254]
* Kiyoshiro Imawano, 58, Japanese rock musician. [255] (Japanese)
* Janus Kamban, 95, Faroese sculptor and graphic designer. [256]
* Jack Kemp, 73, American politician and football player, candidate for Vice President (1996), cancer. [257]
* Carole C. Noon, 59, American primatologist, founder of Save the Chimps, pancreatic cancer. [258]
* Robert Pauley, 85, American executive, President of ABC Radio (1961–1967), heart failure. [259]
* Virginia Prince, 96, American transgender activist. [260]

[edit] 1

* Ralph J. Cappy, 65, American jurist, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (2003–2008). [261]
* Delara Darabi, 22, Iranian convicted murderer, executed by hanging. [262]
* Fred Delmare, 87, German actor, complications from pneumonia. [263] (German)
* Ric Estrada, 81, Cuban-born American penciler of comic books, prostate cancer. [264]
* Danny Gans, 52, American entertainer. [265]
* Norman Gash, 97, British historian. [266]
* Albert Hamilton Gordon, 107, American businessman. [267]
* George Hannan, 98, Australian politician. [268]
* Jokke Kangaskorpi, 37, Finnish footballer. [269] (Finnish)
* Jack D. Maltester, 95, American politician, Mayor of San Leandro, California. [270]
* Marc Rocco, 46, American film director (Murder in the First, Where the Day Takes You) and screenwriter. [271]
* Sunline, 13, New Zealand champion racehorse, euthanized. [272]
* John Wilke, 54, American investigative reporter, pancreatic cancer. [273]

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* Amparo Arozamena, 92, Mexican actress, heart attack. [1] (Spanish)
* Maxime de la Falaise, 86, British model, socialite, fashion designer, cookbook writer and gastronome, natural causes. [2]
* Ben Enoch, 19, British golfer, car accident. [3]
* Harold Fischer, 83, American Air Force officer, Korean War fighter ace and noted PoW, complications from surgery [4]
* Mallory Horne, 84, American politician, member of Florida House of Representatives, President of Florida Senate, lung cancer. [5]
* Maurice Lindsay, 90, British poet and broadcaster. [6]
* McCoy McLemore, 67, American basketball player and television color analyst, cancer. [7]
* Henk Nijdam, 73, Dutch road bicycle racer, track pursuit world champion (1962). [8]
* Venetia Phair, 90, British teacher who named Pluto. [9]
* David Picão, 85, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Santos (1996–2000). [10] (Portuguese)
* William A. Price, 94, American journalist. [11]
* Ron Richards, 80, British record producer. [12]
* Raymond J. Saulnier, 100, American economist. [13]

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* Günther Bahr, 87, German Luftwaffe fighter pilot. [14] (German)
* Jack Lohrke, 85, American baseball player, stroke. [15]
* Tom McGrath, 68, British poet and playwright, liver cancer. [16]
* Charles L. Young, Sr., 77, American politician, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives, heart attack. [17]

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* Lota Delgado, 90, Filipina actress. [18]
* U. A. Fanthorpe, 79, British poet. [19]
* Vern Gosdin, 74, American country music singer, complications from a stroke. [20]
* Ekaterina Maximova, 70, Russian ballet dancer. [21] (Russian)
* Steinar Lem, 57, Norwegian environmentalist and anti-consumerism activist, cancer. [22] (Norwegian)
* Richard Pratt, 74, Australian businessman, prostate cancer. [23]
* Valeria Peter Predescu, 62, Romanian singer, heart attack. [24] (Romanian)
* Ted Reynolds, 84, Canadian sportscaster (CBC Television). [25]
* Buddy Rose, 56, American professional wrestler. [26]
* Pearse Wyse, 81, Irish politician. [27]

[edit] 27

* Ernie Barnes, 70, American neo-mannerist artist and football player, after short illness. [28]
* John Crispo, 75, Canadian economist and educator, prostate cancer. [29]
* Tom Deitz, 57, American science fiction author, heart failure. [30]
* Miroslav Filip, 80, Czech chess player. [31] (Czech)
* Frank Gansz, 70, American football coach (Kansas City Chiefs), complications from knee replacement surgery. [32]
* Glen Gondrezick, 53, American basketball player, complications following heart transplant. [33]
* Feroz Khan, 69, Indian actor, cancer. [34]
* Frankie Manning, 94, American dancer and choreographer, pneumonia. [35]
* Edwin McClellan, 83, British Japanologist. [36]
* Karl Mullen, 82, Irish rugby union player. [37]
* Greg Page, 50, American boxer, complications from brain injury. [38]
* Paraluman, 85, Filipina actress. [39]
* Robley Rex, 107, American World War I-era veteran. [40]
* Woo Seung-yeon, 25, South Korean actress and model, suicide by hanging. [41]

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* Salamo Arouch, 86, Greek-born Israeli boxer and Holocaust survivor.[42]
* Alan Bristow, 84, British businessman. [43]
* Hans Holzer, 89, Austrian-born American paranormal investigator and author, after long illness. [44]
* Geir Hovig, 64, Norwegian radio host, after short illness. [45] (Norwegian)
* Danny Kladis, 92, American racecar driver. [46]
* Levan Mikeladze, 52, Georgian diplomat and politician, heart attack. [47]
* Dominic Motikoe, Lesotho politician, shot. [48]
* Colwyn Philipps, 3rd Viscount St Davids, 70, British aristocrat and politician. [49]
* Perez Zagorin, 88, American historian. [50]

[edit] 25

* Beatrice Arthur, 86, American Emmy and Tony Award-winning actress (Maude, The Golden Girls, Mame), cancer. [51]
* Yamil Chade, 88, Lebanese-born Puerto Rican sports team owner and manager. [52] (Spanish]
* John Marchi, 87, American politician, member of the New York State Senate (1957–2006), complications from pneumonia. [53]

[edit] 24

* Irving D. Chais, 83, American businessman, owner of the New York Doll Hospital, after long illness. [54]
* Tim Curry, 70, American attorney, District Attorney for Tarrant County, Texas, (1972–2009), lung cancer. [55]
* Margaret Gelling, 84, British toponymist. [56]
* Bo Leuf, 56, Swedish technology writer. [57] (Swedish)
* John Michell, 76, British author, cancer. [58]
* Sixto Palavecino, 94, Argentine poet and musician. [59] (Spanish)
* Michael Parsons, 48, Australian footballer, brain tumour. [60]
* Orville Howard Phillips, 85, Canadian politician, member of the Senate of Canada (1963–1999), stroke. [61]

[edit] 23

* William F. Barnes, 91, American football coach (UCLA), complications from pneumonia. [62]
* Kenneth Paul Block, 84, American fashion illustrator. [63]
* Gordon Gair, 92, Canadian lacrosse player. [64]
* Don Kiser, 72, American politician, Mayor of Paris, Kentucky (2003–2009), heart attack. [65]
* Lam Sheung Yee, 74, Hong Kong footballer, coach, announcer and actor. [66]
* Ivan Madray, 74, Guyanese cricketer, hypertension. [67]
* Felipe Solís Olguín, 64, Mexican archaeologist, curator of the National Anthropology Museum, cardiac arrest. [68]
* Timothy Wright, 61, American pastor and gospel singer, car accident. [69]

[edit] 22

* Ken Annakin, 94, British film director (The Longest Day, Battle of the Bulge), complications from heart attack and stroke. [70]
* Jack Cardiff, 94, British cinematographer (A Matter Of Life And Death, Black Narcissus, The African Queen), natural causes. [71]
* Marilyn Cooper, 74, American actress, after long illness. [72]
* Bob Hamm, 74, American writer and Cajun humorist, complications related to cancer. [73]
* David Kellermann, 41, American businessman, CFO of Freddie Mac since 2008, suicide by hanging. [74]
* Alex Lees, 97, British planner of the Great Escape during World War II. [75]
* George C. Rawlings, 87, American politician, member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1964–1969). [76]
* Heinz Schröder, 80, German puppeteer. [77] (German)
* Kim Weiskopf, 62, American television writer, pancreatic cancer. [78]

[edit] 21

* Iqbal Bano, 74, Indian-born Pakistani singer, after short illness. [79]
* Robin Gillett, 83, British Lord Mayor of London (1976–1977). [80]
* Jack Jones, 96, British trade union leader, veteran of the International Brigades. [81]
* James Byron Moran, 78, American jurist (United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois), after long illness. [82]
* Santha Rama Rau, 86, Indian-born American writer, cardiac arrest. [83]

[edit] 20

* Beata Asimakopoulou, 77, Greek actress, after short illness. [84] (Greek)
* Thomas Hill, 81, American actor. [85]
* Franco Rotella, 42, Italian footballer, melanoma. [86] (Italian)

[edit] 19

* J. G. Ballard, 78, British novelist, prostate cancer. [87]
* Doc Blanchard, 84, American college football player (Army), Heisman Trophy winner (1945), pneumonia. [88]
* Tilahun Gessesse, 68, Ethiopian singer. [89]
* Tony Kett, 57, Irish politician, cancer. [90]
* Tharon Musser, 84, American lighting designer, after long illness. [91]
* Ray Nance, 94, American World War II veteran, survivor of D-Day. [92]
* Dicky Robinson, 82, British footballer (Middlesbrough), after long illness. [93]
* Terrell Starr, 82, American politician, member of the Georgia State Senate (1968–2006), heart failure. [94]
* Kiril Vajarov, 21, Bulgarian ice hockey goaltender, member of the national team (2006–2009), stabbed. [95] (Dutch)

[edit] 18

* Tissa Abeysekara, 69, Sri Lankan film director, writer and actor, brain haemorrhage. [96]
* Toi Aukuso Cain, 77, Samoan politician and murderer, liver cancer. [97]
* Peter Dennis, 75, British actor. [98]
* Edward George, Baron George, 70, British public official, Governor of the Bank of England (1993–2003), lung cancer. [99]
* Vernon Malone, 77, American politician, member of the North Carolina Senate (2003–2009), natural causes. [100]
* Bill Orton, 60, American politician, member of the US House of Representatives from Utah (1991–1997), ATV accident. [101]
* Stephanie Parker, 22, British actress (Belonging), apparent suicide by hanging. [102]
* Charles Peebler, 72, American advertising executive, progressive supranuclear palsy. [103]
* Whitelaw Reid, 95, American journalist, complications of lung and heart failure. [104]
* Elías Wessin y Wessin, 84, Dominican politician and general, cardiac arrest. [105] (Spanish)

[edit] 17

* Midge Miller, 86, American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly (1971–1985), cancer. [106]
* Honoré Desmond Sharrer, 88, American artist. [107]

[edit] 16

* Patty Costello, 61, American ten-pin bowler, pancreatic cancer. [108]
* Sal Guarriello, 90, American politician, after short illness. [109]
* Tengiz Gudava, 55, Georgian-born Soviet dissident and journalist (RFE/RL). [110] (Russian)
* Timothy Holst, 61, American circus ringmaster, after short illness. [111]
* James D. Houston, 75, American author, cancer. [112]
* Jim Lange, 82, American editorial cartoonist (The Oklahoman), after long illness. [113]
* Svein Longva, 65, Norwegian economist, State Conciliator (2005–2009). [114] (Norwegian)
* Michel Mondésert, 92, French Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Grenoble. [115]
* Viktor Paskov, 59, Bulgarian writer, lung cancer. [116]
* Eduardo Rózsa-Flores, 49, Hungarian journalist, writer, actor and soldier, shot. [117]
* Saensak Muangsurin, 58, Thai boxer, intestinal complications. [118]
* Fadel Shana'a, 23, Palestinian photojournalist (Reuters), military strike. [119]

[edit] 15

* Ed Blake, 83, American baseball player, after long illness. [120]
* Sir Clement Freud, 84, German-born British writer, broadcaster and politician, MP (1973–1987). [121]
* Merle Harmon, 82, American sportscaster, pneumonia. [122]
* Wisdom Siziba, 28, Zimbabwean cricketer, heart failure. [123]
* László Tisza, 101, Hungarian-born American physicist. [124]

[edit] 14

* Richard Baker, 62, American surf apparel executive (Ocean Pacific), cancer. [125]
* Maurice Druon, 90, French novelist, Dean of the Académie française (French Academy), and French Resistance fighter. [126]
* Fuyuko Kamisaka, 78, Japanese historian, author and critic, cancer. [127]
* Les Keiter, 89, American sportscaster, natural causes. [128]
* Max Lake, 84, Australian winemaker, fall. [129]
* Marcus Loane, 97, Australian Anglican Primate (1978–1982), Archbishop of Sydney (1966–1982), after short illness. [130]
* Peter Rogers, 95, British film producer (Carry On series). [131]
* Royce Ryton, 84, British playwright. [132]

[edit] 13

* John Armitage, 88, Australian politician, MP (1961–1963, 1969–1983). [133]
* Björn Borg, 89, Swedish swimmer. [134] (Swedish)
* Stefan Brecht, 84, German poet, son of Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel, after long illness. [135]
* Frank Costigan, 78, Australian lawyer and royal commissioner, head of the Costigan Commission. [136]
* Tony Eckstein, 85, American politician and veterinarian. [137]
* Mark Fidrych, 54, American baseball pitcher (Detroit Tigers), suffocation. [138]
* Jack D. Hunter, 87, American author, cancer. [139]
* Harry Kalas, 73, American sportscaster, heart attack. [140]
* Ángel Miguel, 79, Spanish professional golfer. [141] (Spanish)
* Bruce Snyder, 69, American football coach, melanoma. [142]
* Kevin Walton, 90, British winner of the Albert Medal. [143]

[edit] 12

* Sitara Achakzai, 52, Afghan women's rights activist and politician, shot. [144]
* Danny Cameron, 85, Canadian politician, Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick (1991–1995). [145]
* Marilyn Chambers, 56, American pornographic film actress (Behind the Green Door), erotic dancer, and politician, heart disease. [146]
* Kent Douglas, 73, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs), cancer [147]
* Gene Handley, 94, American baseball player. [148]
* Mike Keen, 69, British footballer, after short illness. [149]
* Hans Kleppen, 102, Norwegian ski jumper. [150] (Norwegian)
* Sir Kirby Laing, 92, British civil engineer. [151]
* Sir John Maddox, 83, British science writer, editor (Nature, 1966–1973, 1980–1995). [152]
* Stephen Minarik, 49, American politician, chairman of the New York Republican State Committee (2004–2006), heart attack. [153]
* Ephraim Obot, 72, Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Idah since 1977. [154]
* Franklin Rosemont, 65, American surrealist poet, labor historian and co-founder of the Chicago Surrealist Group. [155]
* Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, 58, American writer and critical theorist, pioneer of queer studies, breast cancer. [156]
* Derek Weiler, 40, Canadian editor and writer. [157]
* Zeke Zarchy, 93, American swing music jazz trumpeter. [158]

[edit] 11

* James William Brodie, 88, New Zealand geologist, oceanographer and geophysicist. [159]
* Mickey Cafagna, 65, American politician, mayor of Poway, California, complications from kidney cancer. [160]
* Simon Channing-Williams, 63, British film producer, cancer. [161]
* Albert Chernenko, 74, Russian philosopher, son of Konstantin Chernenko. [162] (Russian)
* Rob Dickson, 45, Australian football player, winner of Australian Survivor, car accident. [163]
* Gerda Gilboe, 94, Danish actress. [164][165] (Danish)
* Judith Krug, 69, American librarian, founder of Banned Books Week, stomach cancer. [166]
* René Monory, 85, French politician, President of the Senate (1992–1998). [167]
* Tita Muñoz, 82, Filipino actress, after long illness. [168]
* Jimmy Neighbour, 58, British footballer (Norwich City, Tottenham Hotspur), heart attack. [169]
* Vishnu Prabhakar, 97, Indian writer, after long illness. [170]
* Johnny Roadhouse, 88, British saxophonist. [171]
* Al Rosenbaum, 82, American sculptor, co-founder of the Virginia Holocaust Museum. [172]
* Corín Tellado, 81, Spanish novelist, heart failure. [173]

[edit] 10

* Richard Arnell, 91, British composer. [174]
* Richard Fox Cartwright, 95, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Plymouth (1972–1982). [175]
* Blake Chanslor, 88, American businessman, founder of Blake's Lotaburger. [176]
* Deborah Digges, 59, American poet, apparent suicide by jumping. [177]
* Frank Morris, 85, Canadian football player and executive, after long illness. [178]
* Naum Olev, 70, Russian lyricist. [179] (Russian)
* Yevgeny Vesnik, 86, Russian actor, stroke. [180]

[edit] 9

* Nick Adenhart, 22, American baseball pitcher (Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim), car accident. [181]
* Randy Cain, 63, American singer (The Delfonics). [182]
* Mike Casey, 60, American college basketball player (Kentucky Wildcats) (1967–1971), heart disease. [183]
* Colin Jordan, 85, British politician and Neo-Nazi activist. [184]
* Ernest Manirumva, Burundian anti-corruption activist (OLUCOME), stabbed. [185]
* Shakti Samanta, 83, Indian film director and producer, cardiac arrest. [186]
* Dale Swann, 61, American character actor, complications of stroke. [187]

[edit] 8

* Wally Baker, 111, American supercentenarian. [188]
* Lennie Bennett, 70, British comedian and game show host (Lucky Ladders), after short illness. [189]
* Jane Bryan, 90, American actress, after long illness. [190]
* Henri Meschonnic, 76, French poet, linguist, translator and theoretician. [191]
* Dan Miller, 67, American television journalist (WSMV, KCBS), heart attack. [192]
* Piotr Morawski, 32, Polish mountain climber, mountaineering accident. [193]
* Jean Overton Fuller, 94, British writer and painter. [194]
* Tam Paton, 70, Scottish music manager and spokesperson for the Bay City Rollers, suspected heart attack. [195]
* David Winans, 74, American gospel singer, heart attack. [196]

[edit] 7

* Dave Arneson, 61, American game designer, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons, cancer. [197]
* Samuel Beer, 97, American academic, expert on British government. [198]
* Raja Chelliah, 86, Indian economist, founder of Madras School of Economics, after short illness. [199]
* Stanley Jaki, 84, Hungarian-born American theologian, heart attack. [200]
* Philip Moore, Baron Moore of Wolvercote, 88, British private secretary to Queen Elizabeth II (1977–1986). [201]
* Paddy O'Hanlon, 65, Irish politician and barrister, after short illness. [202]
* Leo Prieto, 88, Filipino sports executive, PBA Commissioner (1975–1982), stroke. [203]
* Cecil Skotnes, 82, South African artist, pneumonia. [204]
* Gordon Slynn, Baron Slynn of Hadley, 79, British jurist, cancer. [205]
* Michael Stern, 98, American journalist and philanthropist, co-founder of Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum, pancreatic cancer. [206]
* Jack Wrangler, 62, American pornographic film actor, writer, and producer, emphysema. [207]

[edit] 6

* Steve Cannon, 81, American radio personality (WCCO), cancer. [208]
* J. M. S. Careless, 90, Canadian historian. [209]
* Dwight Crandell, 86, American volcanologist, heart attack. [210]
* Dorothy Cullman, 91, American philanthropist, complications of brain injury. [211]
* Russell E. Dunham, 89, American war veteran, Medal of Honor recipient, heart failure. [212]
* Jacques Hustin, 69, Belgian singer-songwriter. [213] (French)
* Shawn Mackay, 26, Australian rugby union player (Brumbies), cardiac arrest following car accident. [214]
* Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri, 71, South African Minister of Communications since 1999; acting President (2008), natural causes. [215]
* Andrzej Stelmachowski, 84, Polish academic and politician. [216]
* Mari Trini, 61, Spanish pop singer and actress. [217]
* Svetlana Ulmasova, 56, Uzbekistani athlete. [218]
* Damouré Zika, 85, Nigerien film actor and traditional healer, after long illness. [219]

[edit] 5

* Wouter Barendrecht, 43, Dutch film producer, heart failure. [220]
* Thomas R. Byrne, 86, American politician, Mayor of Saint Paul, Minnesota (1966–1970), cancer. [221]
* Tony D, 42, American hip hop DJ and musician, car accident. [222]
* I. J. Good, 92, British mathematician, statistician and cryptographer, natural causes. [223]
* Sir Neil MacCormick, 67, British jurist and Scottish nationalist politician, cancer. [224]
* Rocco Morabito, 88, American Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer. [225]
* Nancy Overton, 83, American pop singer (The Chordettes), esophageal cancer. [226]
* Constantine Papadakis, 63, Greek-born American president of Drexel University, complications from lung cancer. [227]
* William Tobin, 83, American journalist, esophageal cancer. [228]
* George Tribe, 88, Australian cricketer. [229]
* David Wheatley, 59, British film and television director, after long illness. [230]

[edit] 4

* Jobie Dajka, 27, Australian track cyclist, 2002 Keirin world champion. [231]
* Adriano Directo Emperado, 82, American martial artist (kajukenbo). [232]
* Maxine Cooper Gomberg, 84, American actress (Kiss Me Deadly), natural causes [233]
* Netherwood Hughes, 108, British fourth-to-last veteran of World War I. [234]
* Jody McCrea, 74, American actor, son of Joel McCrea and Frances Dee, cardiac arrest. [235]
* Gonzalo Olave, 25, Chilean actor, motorcycle accident. [236] (Spanish)
* I. Herbert Scheinberg, 89, American doctor, pneumonia. [237]
* Nelly Sindayen, 59, Filipino journalist, Manila correspondent for Time magazine, complications from diabetic stroke. [238]
* Armand Tanny, 90, American bodybuilder, natural causes. [239]
* Marvin Webster, 56, American basketball player (Seattle SuperSonics), natural causes. [240]

[edit] 3

* Ken Anderson, 33, American football player (Chicago Bears), heart attack. [241]
* James G. Boswell II, 86, American businessman, natural causes. [242]
* Thomas Braden, 92, American journalist and author (Eight Is Enough), cardiac arrest. [243]
* Eva Evdokimova, 60, Swiss-born American ballerina, complications of cancer. [244]
* Charlie Kennedy, 81, American alto saxophonist, pulmonary disease. [245]
* John King, 55, American ukelele player, heart attack. [246]
* Victor Millan, 89, American actor and theatre professor. [247]
* Alexei Parshchikov, 54, Russian poet. [248] (Russian)
* Crodowaldo Pavan, 89, Brazilian biologist and geneticist, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome and cancer. [249] (Portuguese)
* Jerome R. Waldie, 84, American politician, Representative from California (1966–1975). [250]

[edit] 2

* Exotic Dancer, 9, French-bred British racehorse, heart attack after race. [251]
* Guttorm Hansen, 88, Norwegian politician, President of Parliament (1973–1981). [252] (Norwegian)
* Taj Muhammad Jamali, 70, Pakistani politician, Chief Minister of Balochistan (1990–1993). [253]
* Albert Sanschagrin, 97, Canadian Bishop of Saint-Hyacinthe (1967–1979). [254]
* Bud Shank, 82, American alto saxophonist, pulmonary failure. [255]
* Frank Springer, 79, American comic book artist, prostate cancer. [256]

[edit] 1

* Arne Andersson, 91, Swedish middle distance runner. [257]
* Umberto Betti, 87, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Cardinal of Santi Vito, Modesto e Crescenzio since 2007. [258]
* John Blankenchip, 89, American educator, theater director and designer, after short illness. [259]
* Paul Dean, Baron Dean of Harptree, 84, British politician, Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons (1982–1992). [260]
* Margreta Elkins, 78, Australian mezzo-soprano, cancer. [261]
* Duane Jarvis, 51, American singer-songwriter, colon cancer. [262]
* Marcos Moshinsky, 88, Ukrainian-born Mexican physicist. [263]
* Daniel Joseph O'Hern, 78, American jurist, member of the New Jersey Supreme Court (1981–2000), melanoma. [264]
* Elaine Cancilla Orbach, 69, American actress, wife of Jerry Orbach, pneumonia. [265]
* Lou Perryman, 67, American actor, stabbed. [266]
* Miguel Ángel Suárez, 69, Puerto Rican actor, esophageal cancer. [267]
* Ian Tomlinson, 47, British pedestrian assaulted by police at 2009 G-20 London summit protests, abdominal haemorrhage. [268]

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[edit] 31

* Raúl Alfonsín, 82, Argentine President (1983–1989), lung cancer. [1]
* Jarl Alfredius, 66, Swedish journalist, prostate cancer. [2]
* John Atkins, 92, British writer. [3]
* Marga Barbu, 80, Romanian actress. [4]
* Michael Cox, 60, British novelist, cancer. [5]
* Paul E. Davis, 87, American college football coach. [6]
* Emory Elliott, 66, American academic, heart attack. [7]
* A. F. Golam Osmani, 76, Indian politician, lung cancer. [8]
* Hong Song-nam, 79, North Korean politician, Premier (1997–2003). [9] (Korean)
* Choor Singh, 98, Singaporean jurist, member of the Supreme Court of Singapore (1963–1980). [10]
* Sir Reresby Sitwell, 81, British aristocrat and writer. [11]

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* Shirl Bernheim, 87, American actress. [12]
* Burton Blumert, 80, American president of the Center for Libertarian Studies, chairman of Mises Institute, cancer. [13]
* Eugène Drenthe, 83, Surinamese playwright and poet. [14] (Dutch)
* Herman Franks, 95, American baseball manager, heart failure. [15]
* Andrea Mead Lawrence, 76, American alpine skier, cancer. [16]
* Eric Munoz, 61, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly since 2001, complications of cardiac surgery. [17]
* Jackie Pretorius, 74, South African racing driver, assault during home invasion. [18]
* George Stoddard, 92, American financier, natural causes. [19]
* Loras Joseph Watters, 93, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Winona (1969–1986). [20]
* Sulim Yamadayev, 35, Russian military commander and Chechen warlord, shot. [21]

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* Ivor Dent, 85, Canadian Mayor of Edmonton (1968–1974), Alzheimer’s disease. [22]
* Helvecia Viera, 80, Chilean comedian and actress, stroke. [23]
* Vladimir Fedotov, 66, Russian footballer and manager, Soviet Top League leading goalscorer (1964). [24]
* Monte Hale, 89, American country musician and actor, after long illness. [25]
* Andy Hallett, 33, American actor (Angel), heart disease. [26]
* Maurice Jarre, 84, French Academy Award-winning film composer (Lawrence of Arabia, Dr. Zhivago), cancer. [27]
* Helen Levitt, 95, American photographer, respiratory failure. [28]
* Earl Paulk, 81, American pastor, implicated in several sex scandals, cancer. [29]
* Lou Saban, 87, American football player (Cleveland Browns) and coach (Boston Patriots, Buffalo Bills), complications from fall. [30]
* Kanwaljit Singh, 67, Indian politician, traffic accident. [31]
* Gerrit Viljoen, 82, South African politician, Administrator-General of South-West Africa (1978–1980). [32]

[edit] 28

* Earle Brucker, Jr., 83, American baseball player. [33].
* Peter F. Donnelly, 70, American arts patron, vice-chairman of Americans for the Arts, complications of pancreatic cancer. [34]
* Inger Lise Gjørv, 70, Norwegian politician, cancer. [35] (Norwegian)
* Janet Jagan, 88, American-born Guyanese President (1997–1999), abdominal aortic aneurysm. [36]
* Hugh Kelly, 85, British footballer (Blackpool), pneumonia. [37]
* Martin J. Klein, 84, American historian and physicist. [38]
* Jorge Preloran, 76, Argentine filmmaker, prostate cancer. [39]

[edit] 27

* Alysheba, 25, American racehorse, Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner (1987), euthanized. [40]
* Sandra Cantu, 8, American homicide victim. [41]
* Jack Dreyfus, 95, American financier, pioneer of mutual funds. [42]
* Merle Hansen, 89, American civil rights activist, founding president of the North American Farm Alliance. [43]
* Irving R. Levine, 86, American journalist (NBC news), prostate cancer. [44]
* Penor Rinpoche, 77, Tibetan religious leader (Nyingma Buddhist tradition). [45]

[edit] 26

* Griselda Álvarez, 95, Mexican politician and writer, Governor of Colima (1979–1985), natural causes. [46]
* Arne Bendiksen, 82, Norwegian singer, composer and record producer, heart failure. [47]
* Gus Cifelli, 84, American football player (Detroit Lions), natural causes. [48]
* Larry Glick, 87, American talk radio host (WBZ), complications from cardiac surgery. [49]
* Edmund Lawson, 60, British barrister, stroke. [50]
* Wayne Lewellen, 65, American film studio executive (Paramount), cancer. [51]
* John Mayhew, 61, British drummer (Genesis), heart failure. [52]
* Shane McConkey, 39, Canadian extreme skier, base jumping accident. [53]
* Arnold Meri, 89, Estonian Soviet World War II veteran, charged with crimes against humanity. [54]
* Bob Scott, 70, British conservationist and ornithologist, cancer. [55]

[edit] 25

* Steven Bach, 70, American film producer and author, cancer. [56]
* Johnny Blanchard, 76, American baseball player (New York Yankees), heart attack. [57]
* Marilyn Borden, 76, American actress (I Love Lucy), heart failure. [58]
* Bob Boucher, 68, British academic. [59]
* Yukio Endo, 72, Japanese gymnast, esophageal cancer. [60]
* John Hope Franklin, 94, American historian, Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, heart failure. [61]
* Mari Kapi, 58, Papua New Guinean judge, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (2003–2008), kidney failure. [62]
* Kosuke Koyama, 79, Japanese-born American theologian, pneumonia. [63]
* Manny Oquendo, 78, American percussionist (Tito Puente, Tito Rodríguez), heart attack. [64]
* Giovanni Parisi, 41, Italian boxer, car accident. [65]
* Arthur Richman, 83, American baseball executive (New York Yankees, New York Mets) and writer (New York Daily Mirror). [66]
* Dan Seals, 61, American country music singer-songwriter (England Dan & John Ford Coley), mantle cell lymphoma. [67]
* Michael Ward, 77, British politician, MP for Peterborough (1974–1979). [68]
* Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu, 54, Turkish politician, founder of the Great Union Party, helicopter crash. [69]

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* Timothy Brinton, 79, British newsreader and politician, Member of Parliament (1979–1987). [70]
* Robert Delford Brown, 78, American artist, drowned (body found on this date). [71]
* Irina Gabashvili, 48, Georgian-born American gymnast, cancer. [72]
* Uriel Jones, 74, American drummer (The Funk Brothers), complications from heart attack. [73]
* George Kell, 86, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers), member of the Baseball Hall of Fame. [74]
* Hans Klenk, 89, German racing driver. [75] (German)
* Denis Miller, 90, New Zealand bomber and airline pilot. [76]
* Gábor Ocskay, 33, Hungarian ice hockey player, heart attack. [77]
* Laurie Short, 93, Australian trade union leader. [78]
* Igor Stelnov, 46, Russian ice hockey player (HC CSKA Moscow), 1986 world champions team member, after long illness. [79]

[edit] 23

* Manuel del Rosario, 93, Filipino Bishop of Malolos (1962–1977), pneumonia. [80]
* Geoff Holmes, 50, British cricketer. [81]
* Raúl Macías, 74, Mexican boxer, cancer. [82]
* Xavier Maniguet, 66, French intelligence agent, involved in the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, plane crash. [83]
* Lloyd Ruby, 81, American auto racing driver. [84]
* Ronald Tavel, 72, American playwright, heart attack. [85]
* Tonda, 50, Sumatran orangutan, oldest in captivity in United States. [86]
* Peter Wherrett, 72, Australian motoring journalist, cancer. [87]

[edit] 22

* Frank Bogert, 99, American politician, Mayor of Palm Springs, California (1958–1966, 1982–1988). [88]
* Awilda Carbia, 71, Puerto Rican actress, comedian, impersonator and television personality, pneumonia. [89]
* Steve Doll, 48, American professional wrestler, blood clot. [90]
* Jade Goody, 27, British reality television personality, cervical cancer. [91]
* Archie Green, 91, Canadian-born American folklorist and musicologist, renal failure. [92]
* Reg Isidore, 59, Aruban drummer (Robin Trower, Peter Green), heart attack, [93]
* Howard Komives, 67, American basketball player (Detroit Pistons), natural causes. [94]
* Abismo Negro, 37, Mexican lucha libre professional wrestler, drowned. [95]
* Kanta Rao, 85, Indian actor, liver cancer. [96]
* Geoffrey Sherman, 93, British Royal Marines officer, organised the ceremony for the Japanese surrender in 1945. [97]
* Aldo Vagnozzi, 83, American politician, member of the Michigan House of Representatives (2002–2006), cancer. [98]
* Leon Walker, 21, British rugby league player (Wakefield Trinity Wildcats). [99]

[edit] 21

* Bob Arbogast, 81, American radio and television personality, lung cancer. [100]
* Beach Towel, 22, American harness racehorse, Harness Horse of the Year (1990), colic. [101]
* John Cater, 77, British actor. [102]
* Drummond Erskine, 89, American actor (Late Show with David Letterman). [103]
* Winifred Foley, 94, British writer. [104]
* John Franklyn-Robbins, 84, British actor. [105]
* Doug Frith, 64, Canadian MP for Sudbury (1980–1988), Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (1984), heart attack. [106]
* Joseph Jasgur, 89, American photographer, natural causes. [107]
* Vladimir Kuchmiy, 61, Russian newspaper chief editor (Sport Express). [108] (Russian)
* Genoveva Matute, 94, Filipino writer. [109]
* Walt Poddubny, 49, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers). [110]
* Khadijeh Saqafi, 93, Iranian widow of religious/political leader Ruhollah Khomeini, after long illness. [111]

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* Joseph Albright, 70, American jurist, member of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, esophageal cancer. [112]
* Roberta Alison, 65, American tennis player, injuries sustained in fire. [113]
* Bill Bogash, 92, American roller derby skater, respiratory failure. [114]
* Mel Brown, 69, American blues guitarist, emphysema.[115]
* Abdellatif Filali, 81, Moroccan politician, Prime Minister (1994–1998). [116]
* Jaroslav Pitner, 83, Czech ice hockey coach. [117]
* Vladimir Savčić, 60, Serbian singer, cancer. [118] (Serbian)
* George Weber, 47, American radio broadcaster, stabbed. [119]

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* Felipe Benítez Avalos, 82, Paraguayan Archbishop of Asunción. [120]
* Alastair Boyd, 7th Baron Kilmarnock, 81, British aristocrat, writer and politician.[121]
* Ion Dolănescu, 65, Romanian singer and politician, heart attack. [122]
* Ezio Flagello, 78, American opera singer, heart failure. [123]
* Harry Harris, 86, American television director (Fame, Falcon Crest), myelodysplasia. [124]

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* Eddie Bo, 79, American singer and pianist, heart attack. [125]
* Ed Callahan, 79, American credit union administrator, blood complications. [126]
* Gianni Giansanti, 52, Italian photographer, bone cancer. [127]
* Kent Henry, 59, American guitarist. [128]
* Lil E. Tee, 20, American racehorse, Kentucky Derby winner (1992), euthanized. [129]
* Yeremey Parnov, 73, Russian writer. [130] (Russian)
* Moultrie Patten, 89, American actor (Northern Exposure) and jazz musician, pneumonia, [131]
* Pocholo Ramirez, 76, Filipino race car driver and television host, cancer. [132]
* Natasha Richardson, 45, British actress, epidural hematoma. [133]
* Luis Rojas Mena, 91, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Culiacán (1969–1993). [134]
* Glenn Sundby, 87, American gymnast, co-founder of USA Gymnastics, founder of International Gymnastics Hall of Fame. [135]
* Donald Tolmie, 85, Canadian politician, MP for Welland (1965–1972). [136]
* Earl Wood, 97, American physiologist, co-inventor of the G-suit. [137]

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* Lester Davenport, 77, American blues musician, prostate cancer. [138]
* Edith Hahn Beer, 95, Austrian author, Holocaust survivor, natural causes. [139]
* Clodovil Hernandes, 71, Brazilian fashion stylist, politician and television presenter, stroke. [140] (Portuguese)
* Morton Lachman, 90, American television writer and executive producer, complications from diabetes and heart attack. [141]
* Whitey Lockman, 82, American baseball player (San Francisco Giants), pulmonary complications. [142]
* Jane Mayhall, 90, American poet. [143]
* Dale Memmelaar, 72, American football player (Cleveland Browns) [144]
* Roi Wilson, 87, British Royal Navy officer.[145]

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* William Burns, 75, Australian politician. [146]
* Roland Dantes, 67, Filipino movie actor and martial arts instructor, heart failure. [147]
* Marjorie Grene, 98, American philosopher, after short illness. [148]
* Sir Nicholas Henderson, 89, British diplomat. [149]
* Nicholas Hughes, 47, American marine biologist, son of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, suicide by hanging. [150]
* Miljenko Licul, 62, Slovenian graphic designer. [151]
* Ramón Mantilla Duarte, 83, Colombian Bishop of Ipiales (1985–1987). [152]
* Alan Suddick, 64, British footballer, cancer. [153]
* Marvin Sutton, 62, American moonshiner, suspected suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. [154]

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* Richard Aoki, 71, American civil rights activist. [155]
* Miguel Bernad, 91, Filipino Jesuit priest, academician and writer. [156]
* Billy C. Clark, 80, American writer. [157]
* Jack Dunham, 98, American animator and television producer, creator of the St. Hubert Chicken. [158]
* Edmund Hockridge, 89, Canadian singer and actor. [159]
* Pirkle Jones, 95, American photojournalist. [160]
* Jack Lawrence, 96, American songwriter, complications from fall. [161]
* Paulo Eduardo Andrade Ponte, 77, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of São Luís do Maranhão. [162]
* Michael Quinn, 86, American Lasallian brother and psychology professor, President of Saint Mary's College (1962–1969). [163].
* William Schwartz, 86, American nephrologist. [164]
* Ron Silver, 62, American actor and political activist, esophageal cancer. [165]
* Shinkichi Tajiri, 85, American-born Dutch sculptor. [166]
* Gunnar Tjörnebo, 81, Swedish steeplechase athlete. [167] (Swedish)
* Elmer Weingartner, 90, American baseball player. [168]
* Lionel Ziprin, 84, American poet, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. [169]

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* Alain Bashung, 61, French singer, composer and actor, lung cancer. [170]
* Edith Lucie Bongo, 45, Congolese wife of Gabon President Omar Bongo, after long illness. [171]
* Altovise Davis, 65, American actress and dancer, widow of Sammy Davis, Jr., stroke. [172]
* Terence Edmond, 69, British actor (Z-Cars), bronchiectasis. [173]
* Citizen Kafka, 61, American broadcaster and musician. [174]
* Millard Kaufman, 92, American screenwriter (Bad Day at Black Rock), co-creator of Mr. Magoo. [175]
* Patrick Kinna, 95, British stenographer to Winston Churchill. [176]
* Jeff Komlo, 52, American football player, fugitive, car crash. [177]
* Coy Watson, Jr., 96, American silent film child actor, stomach cancer. [178]

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* Medferiashwork Abebe, Ethiopian royal. [179]
* Claude Black, 92, American civil rights advocate, after long illness. [180]
* Betsy Blair, 85, American actress (Marty), cancer. [181]
* Claude Brinegar, 82, American politician, United States Secretary of Transportation (1973–1975), natural causes. [182]
* Anne Brown, 96, American-born Norwegian opera singer. [183]
* William Davidson, 86, American businessman, owner of the Detroit Pistons, Tampa Bay Lightning. [184]
* Endal, 13, British service dog, stroke. [185]
* Alan W. Livingston, 91, American music executive, President of Capitol Records, creator of Bozo the clown. [186]
* Andrew Martin, 33, Canadian professional wrestler, accidental overdose. [187]
* James Purdy, 94, American novelist, poet and playwright. [188]
* Medet Sadyrkulov, 55, Kyrgyz politician, car crash. [189]
* Andrew Saunders, 77, British civil servant. [190]

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* Leonore Annenberg, 91, American philanthropist, Chief of Protocol of the United States (1981–1982), natural causes. [191]
* Kalman Bloch, 95, American clarinetist. [192]
* Yann Brekilien, 88, French author, Breton language advocate. [193] (French)
* Martin Knowlton, 88, American adult education innovator, founder of Elderhostel. [194].
* Reginald C. Lindsay, 63, American jurist, member of the District Court for Massachusetts since 1993, after long illness. [195]
* Milan Stitt, 68, American playwright. [196]
* Blanca Varela, 82, Peruvian poet. [197]
* David Wood, 86, British Army officer, last surviving platoon commander of the Pegasus Bridge operation during World War II. [198]

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* Paul W. Airey, 85, American Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force (1967–1969), complications from heart failure. [199]
* Péter Bacsó, 81, Hungarian film director, after long illness. [200]
* Frances Blaisdell, 97, American flautist. [201]
* Arthur Code, 85, American astronomer, complications of lung condition. [202]
* Charles Lewis, Jr., 45, American businessman, co-founder of mixed martial arts apparel company TapouT, car accident. [203]
* Grady Lewis, 92, American basketball player, executive with Converse. [204]
* Harvey Lowe, 90, Canadian broadcaster and yo-yo world champion, after long illness. [205]

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* Brian Barry, 73, British philosopher. [206]
* Denis Begbie, 94, South African cricketer. [207]
* Derek Benfield, 82, British actor. [208]
* Jack Capper, 77, British footballer. [209]
* Dick Daugherty, 79, American football player (Los Angeles Rams). [210]
* Nancy Eiesland, 44, American theologian and author, lung cancer. [211]
* Jack Grimes, 82, American actor and voice actor. [212]
* Aaron Gural, 91, American real estate executive, pneumonia. [213]
* Tom Hanson, 41, Canadian photojournalist, heart attack. [214]
* George Hedges, 57, American lawyer and archaeologist, melanoma. [215]
* Ralph Mercado, 67, American music promoter (RMM Records & Video), cancer. [216]
* Anel Omar Rodríguez, 47, Panamanian politician, Minister of Culture, shot. [217]
* Michael Shannon, 55, American pediatrician. [218]

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* Vince Cervi, 41, Australian boxer, heavyweight champion of Australia (1993–1995), shot. [219]
* Hanne Darboven, 68, German artist, lymphoma. [220]
* Eddie Lowe, 83, British footballer and manager. [221]
* Joseph Martin, 84, American addiction counselor and author, heart disease. [222]
* Larry Regan, 78, Canadian ice hockey player and general manager (Los Angeles Kings), Parkinson's disease. [223]
* Russell Spears, 92, American stonemason, elder of the Narragansett tribe. [224]
* Frank Stockwell, 80, Irish footballer. [225]
* Guillermo Thorndike, 69, Peruvian journalist, writer and editor, co-founder of La República, heart attack. [226]

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* Girdhari Lal Bhargava, 73, Indian politician, heart attack. [227]
* Ali Bongo, 79, Indian-born British magician, pneumonia. [228]
* James Allen Keast, 86, Australian ornithologist. [229]
* Willie King, 65, American blues musician, heart attack. [230]
* Hank Locklin, 91, American country music singer, member of Grand Ole Opry. [231]
* Anna Manahan, 84, Irish actress, multiple organ failure. [232]
* Zbigniew Religa, 70, Polish cardiac surgeon and politician, Minister of Health (2005–2007), cancer. [233]
* Robert Soost, 88, American botanist, heart attack. [234]
* Ernest Trova, 82, American artist, heart failure. [235]
* Mary Warburg, 100, American philanthropist. [236]

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* Steve Bernard, 61, American businessman, founder of Cape Cod Potato Chips, pancreatic cancer. [237]
* Michael Bowen, 71, American artist, complications of poliomyelitis. [238]
* Jimmy Boyd, 70, American actor and singer ("I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"), cancer. [239]
* Daniel E. Button, 91, American politician, member of the House of Representatives for New York (1967–1971), after long illness. [240]
* Chan Yun, 93, Taiwanese Buddhist monk and teacher of meditation. [241] (Chinese)
* Schuyler Chapin, 86, American general manager of the Metropolitan Opera (1972–1975). [242]
* David Gaiman, 75, British businessman, public relations director for the Church of Scientology, heart attack. [243]
* Jang Ja-yeon, 26, South Korean actress (Boys Over Flowers), suicide by hanging. [244]
* Dmitri Kozlov, 89, Russian aerospace engineer, founder of Progress State Research and Production Space Center. [245] (Russian)
* Barbara Parker, 62, American novelist, after long illness. [246]
* Tullio Pinelli, 100, Italian screenwriter (La strada). [247]

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* Jim Bellows, 86, American newspaper editor, Alzheimer's disease. [248]
* Silvio Cesare Bonicelli, 76, Italian Bishop of Parma. [249]
* James Clyde, Baron Clyde, 77, British judge, Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (1996–2001), cancer. [250]
* Anthony Finigan, 83, British actor. [251]
* Colleen Howe, 76, American sports agent, wife of Gordie Howe, Pick's disease. [252]
* George Keverian, 77, American politician, member (1967–1991) and Speaker (1985–1991) of the Massachusetts House. [253]
* Francis Magalona, 44, Filipino actor and rapper, leukemia. [254]
* Kennedy McIntosh, 60, American basketball player, stroke. [255]
* Vivian Murray, 76, Irish businessman, chairman of An Post and Bord Iascaigh Mhara, after long illness. [256]
* Henri Pousseur, 79, Belgian composer. [257] (French)
* Eduardo Rodríguez, 57, Puerto Rican baseball player, septic shock. [258]
* Christon Tembo, 65, Zambian politician, Vice President (1997–2001). [259]
* Susan Tsvangirai, 50, Zimbabwean wife of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, car collision. [260]

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* Mario Acuña, 68, Argentinian-born American astrophysicist, multiple myeloma. [261]
* Valeri Broshin, 46, Russian footballer, cancer. [262] (Russian)
* Francis Essex, 79, British television producer. [263]
* Temima Gezari, 103, American artist, natural causes. [264]
* Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr., 99, American engineer, pioneer of television technology, complications of hip fracture. [265]
* Mac Henderson, 101, British rugby union player (Scotland) and businessman. [266]
* Jitsuo Inagaki, 80, Japanese politician, illness. [267]
* Oscar Kamau Kingara, 38, Kenyan lawyer and human rights activist, shot. [268]
* Hung-Chang Lin, 89, Chinese-born American inventor, lung cancer. [269]
* John Paul Oulu, Kenyan human rights activist, shot. [270]
* Dave Pureifory, 59, American football player (Detroit Lions), prostate cancer. [271]

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* Joseph Bloch, 91, American pianist and professor, heart attack. [272]
* John Cephas, 78, American Piedmont blues guitarist, natural causes. [273]
* Yvon Cormier, 70, Canadian professional wrestler, bone marrow cancer. [274]
* Horton Foote, 92, American playwright and screenwriter, after short illness. [275]
* Patricia De Martelaere, 51, Belgian writer and philosopher, complications of brain tumor. [276] (Dutch)
* George McAfee, 90, American football player (Chicago Bears). [277]
* Harry Parkes, 89, British footballer (Aston Villa). [278]
* Salvatore Samperi, 64, Italian film director. [279]
* Triztán Vindtorn, 66, Norwegian poet. [280]

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* Sydney Earle Chaplin, 82, American actor, son of Charlie Chaplin. [281]
* Frederick Conyngham, 7th Marquess Conyngham, 84, Irish nobleman, cancer. [282]
* Alessandro De Rango, 49, Canadian mathematician, cancer. [283]
* Sebastian Faisst, 20, German handball player, heart failure. [284]
* Flemming Flindt, 72, Danish choreographer, after short illness. [285]
* Frank Ford, 92, American radio talk show host, stroke. [286]
* Åke Lindman, 81, Finnish actor and film director, after long illness. [287]
* Luis Mena Arroyo, 88, Mexican prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Mexico. [288]
* Gilbert Parent, 73, Canadian politician, Speaker (1994–2001) and Member of Parliament (1974–1984, 1988–2000), colon cancer. [289]
* Barbara Wright, 93, British translator. [290]

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* Ernie Ashworth, 80, American country music singer, member of Grand Ole Opry. [291]
* Michael Baker, 52, Canadian politician, member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly since 1998, cancer. [292]
* Ernst Benda, 84, German politician, Interior Minister (1968–1969) and President, Federal Constitutional Court (1971–1983). [293]
* Andy Bowman, 74, British footballer, after long illness. [294]
* Robert Bruce, 65, British-born New Zealand professional wrestler and talent agent, after short illness. [295]
* Chris Finnegan, 64, British boxer, Olympic middleweight champion (1968), complications from pneumonia. [296]
* Alexandre Léontieff, 60, French politician, President of French Polynesia (1987–1991), heart attack. [297]
* Ann Marie Rogers, 57, British activist, campaigner for breast cancer drug Herceptin, breast cancer. [298]
* Jack Schwartz, 79, American mathematician and computer scientist, liver cancer. [299]
* Urban Sea, 20, French racehorse and broodmare, Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner (1993), complications during foaling. [300]
* João Bernardo Vieira, 69, Guinea-Bissauan politician, Prime Minister (1978–1980) and President (1980–1999, since 2005), shot. [301]
* Rob Williams, 29, British businessman, co-founder of Dolphin Music, snowboarding accident. [302]

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* Robert Haggiag, 95, Libyan-born American film producer (Candy). [303]
* Ken Henry, 80, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1952) speed skater. [304]
* Charles S. Lieber, 78, Belgian-born American nutritionist, stomach cancer. [305]
* Paolo Maffei, 83, Italian astronomer and science fiction writer. [306] (Italian)
* Alf Pike, 91, Canadian ice hockey player and head coach (New York Rangers). [307]
* Pepe Rubianes, 61, Spanish Catalan actor and theatre director, lung cancer. [308]
* Eric Simms, 87, British ornithologist, writer and conservationist. [309]
* Joan Turner, 86, British actress. [310]