Deaths in 2012

The following is a list of notable deaths in 2012.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference (and language of reference, if not English).

February 2012

6

• Sharada Dwivedi, 69, Indian historian. [1]
• Vitaly Gorelik, 44, Russian mountaineer, heart attack. [2]
• Yasuhiro Ishimoto, 90, Japanese photographer, complications following pneumonia and a stroke. [3] (Japanese)
• Matthew Mbu, 82, Nigerian politician and diplomat, Foreign Minister (1993). [4]
• Władysław Ogrodziński, 93, Polish historian and writer. [5] (Polish)
• Antoni Tàpies, 88, Spanish painter. [6]

5

• Sam Coppola, 79, American actor (Saturday Night Fever, Fatal Attraction). [7]
• Jazmín De Grazia, 27, Argentine model, drowned. [8]
• Bill Hinzman, 75, American actor (Night of the Living Dead), cancer. [9]
• Mitsuhiko Yoshino, 80, Japanese mountain climber, heart failure. [10] (Japanese)

4

• István Csurka, 77, Hungarian playwright and politician, Chairman of the Hungarian Justice and Life Party (since 1993). [11] (Hungarian)
• Mike deGruy, 60, American documentary filmmaker (Trials of Life, The Blue Planet), helicopter crash. [12]
• Nigel Doughty, 54, British businessman, owner (since 1999) and chairman (2001–2011) of Nottingham Forest F.C. [13]
• Joseph W. Estabrook, 67, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of the Military Services (since 2004) and Titular Bishop of Flenucleta. [14]
• Jeff Fraza, 34, American professional boxer, struck by train. [15]
• Andy Gabrielson, 24, American stormchaser, car accident. [16]
• Fernando Lanhas, 88, Portuguese painter. [17] (Portuguese)
• Hubert Leitgeb, 46, Italian biathlete, two-time world champion, avalanche. [18] (German)
• Irene McKinney, 72, American poet, Poet Laureate of West Virginia (since 1994), cancer. [19]
• Wendell Mitchell, 71, American politician, Alabama State Senator (1974–2010), heart failure. [20]
• János Sebestyén, 80, Hungarian organist. [21] (Hungarian)
• Giovanni Volta, 83, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Pavia (1986–2003). [22]
• Andrew Wight, 51, Australian screenwriter and producer (Sanctum), helicopter crash. [23]

3

• Nikos Apergis, 65, Greek actor, playwright and politician, cancer. [24] (Greek)
• Steve Appleton, 51, American businessman (Micron Technology), plane crash. [25]
• Patricia Disney, 77, American philanthropist, Alzheimer’s disease. [26]
• Ben Gazzara, 81, American actor (Run for Your Life, Road House), pancreatic cancer. [27]
• Terence Hildner, 49, American general, commander of the 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary). [28]
• Kumashi Kakehashi, 88, Japanese politician, stomach cancer. [29] (Japanese)
• Raj Kanwar, 50, Indian film director and producer, kidney failure. [30]
• Zalman King, 69, American film director (Wild Orchid) and producer (9½ Weeks), cancer. [31]
• Karlo Maquinto, 21, Filipino boxer. [32]
• Mayer Matalon, 89, Jamaican businessman. [33]
• Andrzej Szczeklik, 73, Polish physician and educational administrator (Jagiellonian University Medical College). [34] (Polish)
• Toh Chin Chye, 90, Singaporean politician, Deputy Prime Minister (1965–1968) and Minister for Health (1975–1981). [35]
• Samuel Youd, 89, British science fiction author (The Tripods, The Sword of the Spirits). [36]

2

• Joyce Barkhouse, 98, Canadian children's writer (Pit Pony), heart attack. [37]
• Paul Consbruch, 81, German Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Paderborn (1980–1999). [38]
• Frederick William Danker, 91, American lexicographer and New Testament scholar. [39]
• George Esper, 79, American reporter (Fall of Saigon) and professor. [40]
• Luis Javier Garrido, 71, Mexican political analyst. [41] (Spanish)
• Dorothy Gilman, 88, American spy novelist (The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax), complications of Alzheimer’s disease. [42]
• Jorge Glusberg, 79, Argentine author and curator, director of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. [43] (Spanish)
• Jane Ising, 110, German-born American economics professor and supercentenarian, wife of Ernst Ising. [44]
• Nassib Lahoud, 67, Lebanese politician. [45]
• James F. Lloyd, 89, American politician, U.S. Representative from California (1975–1981). [46]

1

• Herb Adams, 83, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox). [47]
• Gerlando Alberti, 88, Italian Sicilian Mafioso, cancer. [48] (Italian)
• Yona Baltman, 82, Israeli jurist, State Attorney (1982–1988). [49] (Hebrew)
• Elizabeth Candon, 90, American nun, president of Trinity College (Vermont), pulmonary fibrosis. [50]
• Don Cornelius, 75, American television host and producer (Soul Train), suicide by gunshot. [51]
• Angelo Dundee, 90, American boxing trainer (Muhammad Ali). [52]
• Ruth Hausmeister, 99, German actress (The Longest Day). [53] (German)
• Ladislav Kuna, 64, Slovak football player and manager. [54] (Slovak)
• Anil Mohile, 71, Indian film music composer, heart attack. [55]
• Ingolf Mork, 64, Norwegian ski jumper. [56] (Norwegian)
• Taiji Ōtani, 80, Japanese baseball umpire, heart failure. [57] (Japanese)
• David Peaston, 54, American R&B singer, complications of diabetes. [58]
• Charlie Spoonhour, 72, American basketball coach (Southwest Missouri State, Saint Louis University), complications from lung disease. [59]
• Jerry Steiner, 94, American basketball player (Fort Wayne Pistons). [60]
• Wisława Szymborska, 88, Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature (1996). [61]

January 2012

31

• Stefano Angeleri, 85, Italian footballer and coach. [62] (Italian)
• Everardus Antonius M. Baaij, 90, Dutch-born South African Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Aliwal (1973–1981). [63]
• Rick Behenna, 51, American baseball player (Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians), cancer. [64]
• Anthony Cardinal Bevilacqua, 88, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Philadelphia (1988–2003). [65]
• Leslie Carter, 25, American singer and reality star (House of Carters), sister of Nick and Aaron Carter, drug overdose. [66]
• Fabián Estapé, 88, Spanish economist. [67] (Spanish)
• Juan Carlos Gené, 82, Argentine actor and playwright. [68] (Spanish)
• Siddika Kabir, 80, Bangladeshi teacher, television show host and cookbook author. [69]
• Petros Karatroupkos, 82, Greek-born Zambian Orthodox hierarch, Bishop of Zambia (2001–2003). [70] (Greek)
• Masayuki Kawakatsu, 55, Japanese writer and editor, house fire. [71] (Japanese)
• Mike Kelley, 57, American artist and musician (Destroy All Monsters), suicide. [72] (body found on this date)
• Bob LaPointe, 66, American high school and college football head coach. [73]
• Sid Ottewell, 92, English footballer (Nottingham Forest F.C.). [74]
• Antonio Segura, 64, Spanish comics writer. [75] (Spanish)
• King Stitt, 71, Jamaican singer, complications from prostate cancer and diabetes. [76]
• Dorothea Tanning, 101, American surrealist painter, printmaker and sculptor. [77]
• Kelly Timilty, 49, American politician, member of the Massachusetts Governor's Council (1992–2012). [78]

30

• Eladio Acosta Arteaga, 95, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Santa Fe de Antioquia (1988–1992). [79]
• Frank Aschenbrenner, 86, German-born American football player (Chicago Hornets, Montreal Alouettes). [80]
• Don Blenkarn, 81, Canadian politician, MP for Mississauga (1972–1974) and Mississauga South (1979–1993). [81]
• Bruce Howard, 86, American television writer (The Red Skelton Show, Gilligan's Island, Good Times), natural causes. [82]
• Abdelhamid Mehri, 85, Algerian resistance fighter and politician. [83] (French)
• Toshio Kuze, 81, Japanese psychologist (Nagoya University), multiple organ failure. [84] (Japanese)
• Doeschka Meijsing, 64, Dutch novelist. [85]
• Dick Nochimson, 91, American basketball player (Washington Brewers, Paterson Crescents). [86]
• Al Rio, 49, Brazilian comic book artist, suicide by hanging. [87]
• Michael D. Ryan, 66, American jurist, Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court (2002–2010), apparent heart attack. [88]
• Lawrence J. Shapiro, 79, American physician, homicide. [89]
• Frederick Treves, 86, British actor. [90]
• Samuel S. Vaughan, 83, American publishing executive (Doubleday) and author, stroke. [91]

29

• Mónica Agudelo, 55, Colombian journalist and writer. [92] (Spanish)
• Aloizs Blonskis, 78, Latvian police general and politician. [93] (Latvian)
• Sally Birdsong, 91, American actress (The Toy) and make-up artist. [94]
• Damien Bona, 57, American journalist, writer and film historian, heart attack. [95]
• John H. Davis, 82, American author, Alzheimer's disease. [96]
• Ranjit Singh Dyal, 83, Indian Army general. [97]
• Predrag Dragić, 66, Serbian writer. [98] (Serbian)
• Nijaz Duraković, 63, Bosnian author and politician. [99] (Serbian)
• François Migault, 67, French racing driver. [100] (French)
• Keiko Mure, 82, Japanese poet, stroke. [101] (Japanese)
• Poul Trier Pedersen, 90, Danish journalist and writer. [102] (Danish)
• Goody Petronelli, 88, American boxing trainer and manager (Marvin Hagler).[103]
• John Rich, 86, American television director (All in the Family, Benson, The Dick Van Dyke Show), heart failure. [104]
• Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, 93, Italian politician, Minister of the Interior (1983–1987); President (1992–1999) and Lifetime Senator (since 1999). [105]
• Gabriel Lawrence Sengol, 83, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tiruchirapalli (1990–1997). [106]
• Camilla Williams, 92, American opera singer, complications from cancer. [107]

28

• Curt Alchin, 44, South African racecar driver, racing accident. [108]
• Diana Bliss, 57, Australian public relations consultant and theatre producer, wife of Alan Bond. [109]
• Joseph Curran, 89, American college basketball coach (Canisius). [110]
• Don Fullmer, 72, American boxer, lymphoid leukemia. [111]
• Keriman Halis Ece, 98, Turkish beauty pageant queen, pianist and fashion model, Miss Turkey 1932. [112]
• Roman Juszkiewicz, 59, Polish astrophysicist. [113] (Polish)
• Vlado Oláh, 64, Czech poet and philosopher. [114]
• Don Starkell, 79, Canadian adventurist and author. [115]
• Tatsuo Tomobe, 83, Japanese politician. [116]

27

• Tom Campbell, 84, Canadian politician, Mayor of Vancouver (1967–1972). [117]
• Jeannette Hamby, 78, American politician, Oregon State Senator (1983–1999), stroke complications and cancer. [118]
• Milan Jungmann, 90, Czech literary critic and translator. [119] (Czech)
• Dzhamaleim Mutaliyev, 35, Russian rebel leader, shot. [120]
• Richard K. Olney, 64, American physician and pioneer in clinical research on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [121]
• István Rózsavölgyi, 82, Hungarian 1500-metre runner, Olympic bronze medalist (1960), heart problems. [122] (Hungarian)
• Juan Sarrachini, 65, Argentine footballer. [123] (Spanish)
• Kazimierz Smoleń, 91, Polish museum director and Auschwitz survivor. [124]
• Pavel Vancea, 47, Romanian karateka, World Champion (1993), suicide by hanging. [125]
• Kevin White, 82, American politician, Mayor of Boston (1968–1984). [126]

26

• Ian Abercrombie, 77, British actor (Seinfeld, Wizards of Waverly Place, Birds of Prey). [127]
• Dimitra Arliss, 79, American actress (The Sting, General Hospital, Xanadu), complications from a stroke. [128]
• Iggy Arroyo, 60, Filipino politician, Representative from the 5th District of Negros Occidental (since 2004), cardiac arrest. [129]
• Alfredo Avelín, 84, Argentine politician, Governor of San Juan (1999–2002), multiple organ failure. [130] (Spanish)
• Joseph Brooks, 84, American retail executive (Lord and Taylor), leukemia. [131]
• Bud Byerly, 91, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds). [132]
• Greg Cook, 65, American football player (Cincinnati Bengals), complications from pneumonia. [133]
• Kartar Singh Duggal, 94, Indian writer. [134]
• Alex Eadie, 91, British politician, MP for Midlothian (1966–1992). [135]
• M. O. H. Farook, 74, Indian politician and diplomat, Governor of Kerala (since 2011). [136]
• Clare Fischer, 83, American composer. [137]
• Robert Hegyes, 60, American actor (Welcome Back, Kotter; Cagney & Lacey), heart attack. [138]
• Seui Laau, 69, American Samoan politician and Senator. [139]
• Roberto Mieres, 87, Argentine racing driver. [140]
• Miguel Nazar Haro, 87, Mexican intelligence chief, head of the Dirección Federal de Seguridad (1978–1982). [141]
• Colin Tarrant, 59, English actor (The Bill). [142]
• Juan Fremiot Torres Oliver, 86, Puerto Rican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ponce (1964–2000). [143] (Spanish)

25

• Sir Alfred Ball, 91, British air marshal. [144]
• Paavo Berglund, 82, Finnish conductor. [145]
• Veronica Carstens, 88, German First Lady (1979–1984). [146] (German)
• Carlos Escarrá, 57, Venezuelan politician, Attorney General (since 2011), heart attack. [147]
• Emil Hossu, 70, Romanian actor, cardiac arrest. [148] (Romanian)
• Dick Kniss, 74, American bassist (Peter, Paul and Mary; The John Denver Band), pulmonary disease. [149]
• Mabel Manzotti, 73, Argentine actress (Besos en la Frente, Vidas robadas), complications from a stroke. [150] (Spanish)
• Len McIntyre, 78, British rugby league player. [151]
• Andrew MacNaughtan, 47, Canadian photographer. [152]
• Mark Reale, 56, American heavy metal guitarist (Riot), Crohn's disease. [153]
• Nick Santino, 47, American actor (All My Children, Guiding Light), suicide by overdose. [154]
• Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans, 91, American heiress and philanthropist. [155]
• Robert Sheran, 96, American politician and judge. [156]
• Kosta Tsonev, 82, Bulgarian actor. [157]
• Jean Wells, 56, American game designer. [158]
• Alexander Zhitinsky, 71, Russian writer. [159] (Russian)

24

• Theodoros Angelopoulos, 76, Greek film director, hit by motorcycle. [160]
• Sukumar Azhikode, 85, Indian writer, critic, and orator, cancer. [161]
• James C. Bliss, 78, American electrical engineer and entrepreneur. [162]
• James Farentino, 73, American actor (Dynasty, ER, Melrose Place), sequelae from hip fracture. [163]
• J. Joseph Garrahy, 81, American politician, Governor of Rhode Island (1977–1985). [164]
• Vadim Glowna, 70, German actor and film director. [165] (German)
• Delma Kollar, 114, American supercentenarian, one of the 100 verified oldest people ever. [166]
• Moira Milton, 88, Scottish amateur golfer. [167]
• Stan Mitchell, 67, American football player (Miami Dolphins). [168]
• Patricia Neway, 92, American operatic soprano and Tony Award-winning musical theatre actress (The Sound of Music). [169]
• W. Allen Pepper, Jr., 70, American federal judge for the Northern District of Mississippi (since 1999), heart attack. [170]
• Stig Sæterbakken, 46, Norwegian writer. [171] (Norwegian)
• Pierre Sinibaldi, 87, French footballer and manager. [172] (French)
• Norio Yamada, 89, Japanese novelist, acute heart failure. [173] (Japanese)

23

• David Atkinson, 71, British politician, MP for Bournemouth East (1977–2005), bowel cancer. [174]
• Amal Bose, 75, Bangladeshi actor. [175]
• Wesley E. Brown, 104, American federal judge for the District Court for Kansas (since 1962). [176]
• Anthony Capo, 52, American mobster-turned-informant (DeCavalcante crime family), heart attack. [177]
• Yardena Cohen, 101, Israeli dancer and choreographer. [178] (Hebrew)
• Marcel De Boodt, 85, Belgian academic. [179] (Dutch)
• Erik Haaest, 76, Danish journalist and author. [180] (Danish)
• Sadahiro Kojima, 60, Japanese racehorse trainer. [181] (Japanese)
• Charla Krupp, 58, American author, breast cancer. [182]
• Maurice Meisner, 80, American historian. [183]
• Miloš Pojar, 71, Czech author and diplomat. [184]
• Bingham Ray, 57, American independent film executive, complications from strokes. [185]
• Gerhard Schröder, 90, German television executive. [186] (German)
• Slacker, British electronic music producer. [187]
• Stig Vig, 63, Swedish singer (Dag Vag). [188] (Swedish)

22

• Massimo Baistrocchi, 69, Italian diplomat and writer, Ambassador to Namibia (2001-2004), heart attack. [189]
• Rita Gorr, 85, Belgian opera singer. [190]
• André Green, 84, French psychoanalyst. [191] (French)
• Jim Irwin, 77, American sportscaster (WTMJ), voice of the Green Bay Packers, complications from kidney cancer. [192]
• Moisés Kaiman, 97, Polish-born Mexican rabbi. [193] (Spanish)
• Andy Musser, 74, American sportscaster (Philadelphia Phillies, Philadelphia 76ers). [194]
• Katsurō Nakamura, 86, Japanese doctor, pneumonia. [195] (Japanese)
• Joe Paterno, 85, American college football coach (Penn State Nittany Lions), lung cancer. [196]
• Pierre Sudreau, 92, French politician, inspired The Little Prince. [197]
• Clarence Tillenius, 98, Canadian artist and conservationist. [198]
• Dick Tufeld, 85, American voice actor and announcer, voice of Robot B-9 on Lost in Space. [199]

21

• Saud Nasser Al-Saud Al-Sabah, 68, Kuwaiti royal, diplomat and politician. [200]
• Toyomi Arai, 76, Japanese poet, respiratory failure. [201] (Japanese)
• J. R. Boone, 86, American football player (Chicago Bears). [202]
• Cliff Chambers, 90, American baseball player. [203]
• Vincenzo Consolo, 78, Italian writer. [204]
• Emmanuel Cooper, 73, British potter and writer. [205]
• Antal Czettler, 87, Hungarian historian. [206] (Hungarian)
• Ernie Gregory, 90, English footballer. [207]
• Gerre Hancock, 77, American organist. [208]
• Jonathan Idema, 55, American con artist, complications from AIDS. [209]
• Eiko Ishioka, 72, Japanese art director and designer, pancreatic cancer. [210]
• Irena Jarocka, 65, Polish singer. [211] (Polish)
• Doug Long, 56, American football player (Seattle Seahawks), cancer. [212]
• Una Mulzac, 88, American bookseller. [213]
• Salma Mumtaz, 85, Pakistani actress, diabetes. [214]
• Tang Xiaodan, 101, Chinese film director. [215]
• Jodie-Anne White, 44, Australian dancer and choreographer, artistic director of the Ballet Theatre of Queensland, cancer. [216]
• Slavko Ziherl, 66, Slovenian psychiatrist and politician. [217] (Slovenian)

20

• John F. Baker, Jr., 66, American Medal of Honor recipient. [218]
• Larry Butler, 69, American music producer. [219]
• Peter Collins Dorsey, 80, American federal judge. [220]
• Lucy Faulkner, 87, Northern Irish journalist, widow of Brian Faulkner. [221]
• Etta James, 73, American blues vocalist ("At Last"), leukemia. [222]
• Nikhat Kazmi, 53, Indian film critic, breast cancer. [223]
• Ioannis Kefalogiannis, 79, Greek politician, MP (1958–1964; 1974–2004) and Minister of the Interior (1992–1993). [224] (Greek)
• John Levy, 99, American jazz double-bassist and manager. [225]
• Jeffrey Ntuka, 26, South African football player, stabbed. [226]
• Mario Pastega, 95, American businessman and philanthropist. [227]
• Jiří Raška, 70, Czech ski jumper, Olympic gold medalist (1968), heart disease. [228]
• Margaret Renwick, 88, Canadian politician. [229]
• Alejandro Rodriguez, 93, American psychiatrist and academic. [230]
• Robert Fortune Sanchez, 77, American Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Santa Fe (1977–1993), Alzheimer's disease. [231]
• Dudley Thompson, 95, Jamaican politician and diplomat. [232]
• Ioan Ursuț, 53, Romanian criminal and serial escapist, suicide by hanging. [233] (Swedish)
• Phillip Vannatter, 70, American police investigator (O. J. Simpson murder case), cancer. [234]
• George Zecevic, 75, Yugoslavian-born American film producer (A Nightmare on Elm Street). [235]

19

• Yedda Alves, 83, Brazilian actress. [236] (Portuguese)
• Peter Åslin, 49, Swedish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1988) ice hockey player, stroke. [237] (Swedish)
• Giancarlo Bigazzi, 71, Italian singer. [238] (Italian)
• Omar Brebesh, 62, Libyan diplomat, tortured. [239]
• Sarah Burke, 29, Canadian freestyle skier, world champion (2005), cardiac arrest following skiing accident. [240]
• Stella Cunliffe, 95, British statistician. [241]
• Rudi van Dantzig, 78, Dutch choreographer. [242] (Dutch)
• Giovanni De Andrea, 83, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Vice-President of Labour Office of the Apostolic See (1989–2007). [243]
• Peter de Francia, 90, British artist. [244]
• Anthony Gonsalves, 84, Indian film music composer. [245]
• Colonel Stone Johnson, 93, American civil rights activist. [246]
• Beverly McDermott, 83, American casting director (Airport 77, Cocoon: The Return, Lenny). [247]
• Gene Methvin, 77, American journalist and magazine editor. [248]
• Winston Riley, 65, Jamaican reggae musician and producer, complications of shooting. [249]
• On Sarig, 85, Israeli children's book author. [250] (Hebrew)
• Errol Scorcher, 55, Jamaican reggae DJ, ruptured blood vessel. [251]
• Richard Sheirer, 65, American public servant, officer-in-charge of the rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks, pulmonary edema. [252]
• Gilbert Temmerman, 83, Belgian politician, MP (1971–1989), Mayor of Ghent (1989–1994), Minister of State. [253] (Dutch)

18

• Karen Brazell, 73, American professor and translator of Japanese. [254]
• Tom Cowie, 89, British entrepreneur. [255]
• Thérèse Delpech, 63, French nuclear proliferation expert, apparent heart attack. [256]
• Mel Goldstein, 66, American television meteorologist (WTNH), multiple myeloma. [257]
• Karl Hofmann, 85, German politician, Member of Parliament for Coburg (1965–1973). [258] (German)
• Georg Lassen, 96, German naval officer, World War II U-boat commander. [259]
• Giuseppe Vedovato, 99, Italian politician. [260] (Italian)
• Michihiro Yamaki, 78, Japanese businessman, founder of Sigma Corporation. [261]
• Yevgeny Zharikov, 70, Russian film actor (Ivan's Childhood), cancer. [262] (Russian)

17

• Ernie Alexander, 78, American politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives (2000–2008). [263]
• Colin Campbell, 80, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Antigonish (1986–2002). [264]
• Aengus Fanning, 69, Irish journalist, editor of the Sunday Independent, cancer. [265]
• Harold Ghosh, 75, Indian cricketer. [266]
• Julius Meimberg, 95, German Luftwaffe flying ace, recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. [267] (Portuguese)
• Johnny Otis, 90, American R&B singer-songwriter. [268]
• Piet Römer, 83, Dutch actor (Baantjer). [269] (Dutch)
• Mohamed Rouicha, 61, Moroccan folk singer. [270] (French)
• R. W. Schambach, 85, American evangelist, heart failure. [271]
• Marty Springstead, 74, American Major League Baseball umpire, heart attack. [272]
• Keizaburō Yamaguchi, 83, Japanese art historian (Rissho University), heart failure. [273] (Japanese)

16

• Jimmy Castor, 71, American funk and R&B saxophonist ("Troglodyte (Cave Man)"), heart failure. [274]
• Mike Current, 66, American football player (Denver Broncos, Miami Dolphins, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), apparent suicide by gunshot. [275]
• Norman W. Edmund, 95, American businessman, founder of Edmund Scientific Corporation. [276]
• Sigursteinn Gíslason, 43, Icelandic footballer and manager. [277] (Icelandic)
• Pierre Goubert, 96, French historian. [278] (French)
• Tatsuya Hashi, 74, Japanese comedian, pneumonia. [279] (Japanese)
• Lorna Kesterson, 86, American newspaper editor and journalist (Henderson Home News), Mayor of Henderson, Nevada (1985–1993). [280]
• Gustav Leonhardt, 83, Dutch harpsichordist and conductor. [281]
• Juan Carlos Pérez López, 66, Spanish footballer. [282] (Spanish)
• David Phiri, 74, Zambian businessman, Governor of the Bank of Zambia. [283]
• Valentin Rusantsov, 72, Russian hierarch, Primate of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church (1996–2012). [284]
• The Senator, American pond cypress, world's fifth oldest known tree, fire. [285]

15

• Mika Ahola, 37, Finnish enduro rider, motorcycle crash. [286]
• Richard Bader, 80, Canadian quantum chemist. [287]
• Ed Derwinski, 85, American politician, U.S. Representative from Illinois (1959–1983); United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs (1989–1992), merkel cell carcinoma. [288]
• Claes Egnell, 95, Swedish sport shooter and Olympic silver medal-winning (1952) pentathlete. [289] (Swedish)
• Manuel Fraga Iribarne, 89, Spanish politician, President of the Xunta of Galicia (1990–2005), founder of the People's Party, heart failure. [290]
• Robert Freer, 88, British military officer, Deputy Commander of RAF Strike Command (1978–1980). [291]
• Carlo Fruttero, 85, Italian writer. [292] (Italian)
• Yevgeny Ginzburg, 66, Russian television director, stroke. [293] (Russian)
• Ben Hana, 54, New Zealand vagrant. [294]
• Eisuke Hinode, 70, Japanese politician, member of the House of Councillors, gall bladder cancer. [295]
• Eduard Ivanov, 73, Soviet ice hockey player, World and Olympic champion. [296] (Russian)
• Samuel Jaskilka, 92, American Marine Corps general, pneumonia. [297]
• Michael Mussa, 67, American economist, heart failure.[298]
• Samuel B. Nunez, Jr., 81, American politician, President of the Louisiana State Senate (1983–1988; 1990–1996). [299]
• Fumio Nunoya, 64, Japanese rock and roll singer, cerebral hemorrhage. [300] (Japanese)
• Ib Spang Olsen, 90, Danish cartoonist and author, recipient of the Hans Christian Andersen Award. [301] (Danish)
• Chris Pavlou, 72, Australian football player. [302]
• Rafael Rincón González, 89, Venezuelan musician. [303] (Spanish)
• Jack Roberts, 58, American climber, fall. [304]
• Hiromi Sakai, 27, Japanese speedway racer, accident during practice. [305]
• Hulett C. Smith, 93, American politician, Governor of West Virginia (1965–1969). [306]
• Peter Veness, 27, Australian journalist, brain cancer. [307]
• Homai Vyarawalla, 98, Indian photojournalist, first Indian woman to work as a photojournalist. [308]

14

• Janey Buchan, 85, Scottish politician, MEP for Glasgow (1979–1994). [309]
• Mircea Ciumara, 68, Romanian politician, Minister of Finance (1996–1997), cancer. [310] (Romanian)
• Marv Davidov, 80, American peace activist (The Honeywell Project). [311]
• Ekuikui IV, 98, Angolan king of Bailundo, disease. [312]
• Dan Evins, 76, American entrepreneur, founder of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store. [313]
• Robbie France, 52, British drummer (Skunk Anansie, Diamond Head, UFO), ruptured aorta. [314]
• Ritsuo Horimoto, 76, Japanese baseball player (Yomiuri Giants), pneumonia. [315] (Japanese)
• Charles Howard, 87, Australian Roman Catholic leader, Superior General of the Marist Brothers (1985–1993). [316]
• Pearse Hutchinson, 84, Irish broadcaster and writer, member of Aosdána. [317]
• Arfa Karim, 16, Pakistani student, world's youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (2004–2008), idiopathic epilepsy seizures. [318]
• Lasse Kolstad, 90, Norwegian actor. [319] (Norwegian)
• Curt Meyer-Clason, 101, German writer and translator. [320] (German)
• Antonio Mistrorigo, 99, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Treviso (1958–1988). [321]
• Pilar Montero, 90, American bar owner. [322]
• Giampiero Moretti, 71, Italian racing driver, winner of the 24 Hours of Daytona (1998), founder of Momo. [323] (Italian)
• Kaoru Nishimoto, 88, Japanese shogi player, pneumonia. [324] (Japanese)
• Mila Parély, 94, French actress. [325] (French)
• Finn Pedersen, 86, Danish rower. [326] (Danish)
• Dame Lesley Ann Strathie, 56, British civil servant, Permanent Secretary to HM Revenue and Customs (2008–2011), cancer. [327]
• Txillardegi, 82, Basque writer and politician. [328] (Spanish)
• Rosy Varte, 88, French actress. [329] (French).
• Zelemkhan Zangiyev, 37, Russian footballer. [330] (Russian)

13

• Anton Blom, 87, Norwegian journalist. [331] (Norwegian)
• Rauf Denktaş, 87, Cypriot politician, founder and first president of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, multiple organ failure. [332]
• Guido Dessauer, 96, German paper engineer and art collector. [333] (German)
• Dilys Elwyn-Edwards, 93, Welsh composer. [334]
• Sándor Fehér, 38, Hungarian violinist, drowned. [335]
• Morgan Jones, 83, American actor (The Blue Angels, The Twilight Zone). [336]
• Lefter Küçükandonyadis, 86, Turkish Olympic footballer (Fenerbahçe) and coach, pneumonia. [337] (Turkish)
• Oscar Valentín Leal Caal, 41, Guatemalan politician, Congressman (since 2008), shot. [338]
• Armand Mercier, 78, American politician. [339]
• Miljan Miljanić, 81, Serbian football player, coach and administrator. [340]
• Abdollah Mojtabavi, 87, Iranian wrestler. [341] (Persian)
• Andrea Schenck, 55, American actress (All My Children), drowned. [342]
• Richard Threlkeld, 74, American reporter (CBS News), traffic collision. [343]
• William Robert Wright, 76, American biographer and politician, Chairman of the Utah Republican Party (1977–1979), Alzheimer's disease. [344]
• Andrzej Krzysztof Wróblewski, 76, Polish journalist. [345] (Polish)

12

• Sadao Bekku, 89, Japanese composer, pneumonia. [346]
• Charlie Collins, 78, American country musician (Roy Acuff's Smoky Mountain Boys), stroke. [347]
• Glenda Dickerson, 66, American theatre director. [348]
• Reginald Hill, 75, British crime writer (Dalziel and Pascoe). [349]
• Natalee Holloway, 18 (in 2005), American student, missing since 2005. [350] (declared legally dead on this date)
• Bill Janklow, 72, American politician, Attorney General (1975–1979) and Governor of South Dakota (1979–1987, 1995–2003); U.S. Representative (2003–2004), brain cancer. [351]
• Shiv Kumari of Kotah, 95, Indian Hindu royal. [352]
• MS-1, 55, Mexican professional wrestler, car accident. [353] (Spanish)
• Aslı Nemutlu, 18, Turkish skier, training accident. [354] (Turkish)
• Charles H. Price II, 80, American businessman and diplomat. [355]
• Hannes Råstam, 56, Swedish journalist. [356] (Swedish)
• Rosalind Runcie, 79, British pianist, widow of Robert Runcie. [357]
• Jim Stanley, 76, American football coach (Oklahoma State Cowboys), cancer. [358]

11

• Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, 32, Iranian nuclear scientist, car bomb. [359]
• Richard Bruno, 87, American costume designer (Raging Bull, Goodfellas), kidney failure. [360]
• Frank Cook, 76, British politician, MP for Stockton North (1983–2010), lung cancer. [361]
• Bohumil Golián, 81, Slovak Olympic silver (1964) and bronze (1968) medal-winning volleyball player. [362]
• Gilles Jacquier, 43, French journalist, 2003 recipient of the Albert Londres Prize, grenade attack. [363]
• Edgar Kaiser, 69, Canadian businessman and philanthropist, owner of the Denver Broncos (1981–1984). [364]
• John Madin, 87, English architect. [365]
• V. Madhusudhan Rao, 94, Indian film director. [366]
• Wally Osterkorn, 83, American basketball player. [367]
• Steven Rawlings, 49, British astrophysicist. [368]
• Colm Tucker, 59, Irish rugby union player. [369]
• David Whitaker, 80, English composer and songwriter. [370]

10

• Alfonso de Bourbon, 83, American claimant of Spanish royalty, traffic accident. [371]
• Azeem Daultana, 32, Pakistani politician, Member of the National Assembly, road accident. [372]
• José Freire de Oliveira Neto, 83, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Mossoró (1984–2004). [373]
• Israel Getzler, 92, Israeli historian. [374] (Hebrew)
• Vince Gibson, 78, American college football coach. [375]
• Jack Heron, 85, American college basketball coach (Sacramento State University). [376]
• Kyra T. Inachin, 43, German historian. [377] (German)
• Lila Kaye, 82, British actress. [378]
• John McCarthy, 61, Irish mental health campaigner and founder of Mad Pride, motor neurone disease. [379]
• Charlie Pawsey, 88, English rugby league player. [380] (death announced on this date)
• Jean Pigott, 87, Canadian politician and businesswoman, MP for Ottawa—Carleton (1976–1979). [381]
• Cliff Portwood, 74, English footballer and singer. [382]
• Mary Raftery, 54, Irish journalist (States of Fear). [383]
• Takao Sakurai, 70, Japanese Olympic gold medal-winning (1964) boxer, esophageal cancer. [384] (Japanese)
• Syed Shah Mardan Shah-II, 83, Pakistani politician and spiritual leader, heart attack. [385]
• Gevork Vartanian, 87, Soviet intelligence agent, Hero of the Soviet Union. [386]

9

• Ron Caron, 82, Canadian ice hockey administrator, General Manager of the St. Louis Blues (1983–1993, 1996). [387]
• Ernie Carson, 74, American jazz musician. [388]
• Brian Curvis, 74, Welsh boxer, leukaemia. [389] (death announced on this date).
• Alex DeCroce, 75, American politician, New Jersey General Assembly Minority Leader (since 2004). [390]
• Bill Dickie, 82, Scottish football administrator. [391]
• Ruth Fernández, 92, Puerto Rican contralto and politician, Senator (1973–1981). [392] (Spanish)
• Bridie Gallagher, 87, Irish singer. [393]
• Augusto Gansser-Biaggi, 101, Swiss geologist. [394]
• Koizumi Junsaku, 87, Japanese painter and pottery artist, pneumonia. [395]
• Mae Laborde, 102, American actress. [396]
• Vern McGrew, 82, American Olympic athlete. [397]
• Robert Nelson, 81, American filmmaker, cancer. [398]
• John Both Puok, 48, South Sudanese politician. [399]
• Salvador A. Rodolfo, Sr., 92, Filipino war hero, leukemia. [400]
• William G. Roll, 85, American psychologist and parapsychologist. [401]
• Malam Bacai Sanhá, 64, Guinea-Bissauan politician, President (1999–2000; since 2009). [402]
• Larry Solway, 83, Canadian radio personality and author. [403]
• Pyotr Vasilevsky, 55, Belarusian football player and coach. [404] (Russian)
• Aldo Zenhäusern, 60, Swiss Olympic ice hockey player (1976). [405]

8

• Dave Alexander, 73, American blues singer and pianist, suicide. [406]
• Herb Clarke, 84, American television weatherman (WCAU-TV), NATAS Governor's Award winner (2007), Alzheimer's disease. [407]
• Glenn Cox, 80, American baseball player (Kansas City Athletics). [408]
• Franz Dorfer, 61, Austrian Olympic boxer (1976). [409] (German)
• Gunnar Dyrberg, 90, Danish resistance fighter, head of Holger Danske (1943–1945). [410] (Danish)
• T. J. Hamblin, 68, British haematologist, cancer. [411]
• Dmitry Machinsky, 74, Russian archaeologist. [412] (Russian)
• Charles Morris, 85, British politician, MP for Manchester Openshaw (1963–1983). [413]
• Clarence Cullam Pope, 81, American prelate, Episcopal Bishop of Fort Worth (1986–1994). [414]
• Graham Rathbone, 69, Welsh footballer, dementia. [415]
• Alexis Weissenberg, 82, Bulgarian-born French pianist. [416]

7

• Ibrahim Aslan, 77, Egyptian novelist and short story writer, heart failure. [417]
• Tony Blankley, 63, British-born American conservative commentator, newspaper editor and child actor, stomach cancer. [418]
• George Livingston, 78, American politician, first elected African American mayor of Richmond, California (1985–1993), diabetes. [419]
• Hideaki Nitani, 81, Japanese actor (Tokyo Drifter), pneumonia. [420] (Japanese)
• Herbert Wilf, 80, American mathematician. [421]

6

• Louise Gibson Annand, 96, Scottish artist. [422]
• James R. Arnold, 88, American space scientist. [423]
• Tom Ardolino, 56, American drummer (NRBQ). [424]
• Roger Boisjoly, 73, American aerospace engineer and whistle-blower, cancer. [425]
• Gabriel Cadis, 60, Israeli attorney, chairman of the Jaffa Orthodox Church Association, stabbed. [426]
• John Celardo, 93, American comic strip artist (Tarzan, Buz Sawyer). [427]
• Harry Fearnley, 88, English footballer. [428]
• Bob Holness, 83, South African-born British quiz show host and actor (Blockbusters). [429]
• Eleftherios Katsaitis, 82, Greek-born British Orthodox hierarch, Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Great Britain (1987–1994), smothered. [430] (Greek)
• W. Francis McBeth, 78, American composer. [431]
• Frank James McGarr, 90, American federal district judge. [432]
• Basil Payne, 88, Irish poet. [433]
• Ellen Pence, 63, American sociologist and social activist, creator of the Duluth Domestic Abuse Intervention Project, breast cancer. [434]
• Louis Rech, 85, Italian-born Luxembourgian politician, Mayor of Dudelange (1985–1993). [435] (German)
• Clive Shell, 64, Welsh international rugby player. [436] (death announced on this date).

5

• Richard Alf, 59, American businessman, co-founder and chairman of San Diego Comic-Con International, pancreatic cancer. [437]
• Selwyn Baptiste, 75, Trinidadian-born British musician and festival organiser. [438]
• Don Carter, 85, American professional bowler, complication from pneumonia and emphysema. [439]
• Samson H. Chowdhury, 86, Bangladeshi businessman. [440]
• Idwal Fisher, 76, Welsh rugby player. [441]
• Thelma Forbes, 101, Canadian politician. [442]
• Hikaru Hayashi, 80, Japanese composer. [443] (Japanese)
• Frank Ackerman Hill, 92, American U.S. Air Force commander of the 33rd Air Division. [444]
• Frederica Sagor Maas, 111, American silent film screenwriter (The Plastic Age), playwright, memoirist and author. [445]
• Amit Saigal, 46, Indian rock magazine publisher, concert promoter and musician, drowned. [446]
• Alexander Sizonenko, 52, Russian basketball player, world's tallest person (1991). [447] (Russian)

4

• Eve Arnold, 99, American photographer. [448]
• Ruben Ayala, 89, American politician, California State Senator (1974–1998), first elected Mayor of Chino, California (1964–1966). [449]
• James F. Crow, 95, American geneticist. [450]
• Harry Fowler, 85, British character actor. [451]
• Gatewood Galbraith, 64, American lawyer and author, complications from chronic emphysema. [452]
• Sir Archibald Glenn, 100, Australian industrialist, Chancellor of La Trobe University. [453]
• Kerry McGregor, 37, British singer and reality contestant (The X Factor), bladder cancer. [454]
• Bobby McKenzie, 83, Australian football player. [455]
• Kalpana Mohan, 65, Indian actress. [456]
• Carmen Naranjo, 83, Costa Rican novelist, poet and essayist, cancer. [457]
• Hisako Ōishi, 75, Japanese politician, member of the House of Councillors, respiratory failure. [458]
• Rod Robbie, 83, Canadian architect. [459]
• Xaver Unsinn, 82, German Olympic ice hockey player and coach. [460] (German)
• David Wheeler, 86, American theatrical director. [461]

3

• Charles W. Bailey, 81, American journalist and novelist (Seven Days in May), Parkinson's disease. [462]
• Gene Bartow, 81, American college basketball coach (UAB, UCLA), stomach cancer. [463]
• Robert L. Carter, 94, American civil rights activist (Sweatt v. Painter) and judge, complications from a stroke. [464]
• Ray Costict, 56, American football player (New England Patriots). [465]
• Miguel Couturier, 61, Mexican actor (Miss Bala, Once Upon a Time in Mexico), cancer. [466] (Spanish)
• Willi Entenmann, 68, German football player and coach, heart attack. [467] (German)
• Juan Escudero, 91, Spanish footballer. [468]
• Selorm Kuadey, 24, Ukrainian-born English rugby union player (Sale Sharks). [469]
• John David Lewis, 56, American political scientist. [470]
• Winifred Milius Lubell, 97, American illustrator and writer, heart failure. [471]
• Joaquín Martínez, 81, Mexican-born American actor (Jeremiah Johnson, Die Another Day), pancreatic cancer. [472]
• Osamu Matsubara, 94, Japanese businessperson, chairman of Books Kinokuniya, heart failure. [473] (Japanese)
• Stepan Oshchepkov, 77, Russian canoeist, Olympic gold medalist (1964). [474] (Russian)
• Josef Škvorecký, 87, Czech writer and publisher, cancer. [475]
• Miguel Terekhov, 83, Uruguayan-born American ballet dancer and teacher, complications of lung fibrosis. [476]
• Jenny Tomasin, 75, British actress (Upstairs, Downstairs). [477]
• Wylie Vale, 70, American endocrinologist. [478]
• Vicar, 77, Chilean cartoonist. [479] (Spanish)
• Bob Weston, 64, British guitarist and songwriter (Fleetwood Mac), gastrointestinal hemorrhage. [480] (body found on this date)
• Harold Zirin, 82, American astronomer. [481]

2

• Ian Bargh, 76, British-born Canadian jazz pianist, lung cancer. [482]
• D.W. Barron, 76, British computer scientist. [483]
• Ivan Călin, 76, Moldovan politician, Acting President of the Moldovan Parliament (2009). [484] (Russian)
• William P. Carey, 81, American businessman (W. P. Carey & Co.) and philanthropist. [485]
• Ioan Drăgan, 46, Romanian footballer (FC Brașov), colorectal cancer. [486] (Romanian)
• Vivi Friedman, 44, Finnish film director, cancer. [487]
• Silvana Gallardo, 58, American actress. [488]
• Yoshiro Hayashi, 89, Japanese golfer. [489] (Japanese)
• Gordon Hirabayashi, 93, American civil rights activist (Hirabayashi v. United States). [490]
• Jim Huber, 67, American sports commentator (CNN, TNT). [491]
• Anatoly Kolesov, 73, Russian wrestler, Olympic gold medalist (1964). [492] (Russian)
• Howie Koplitz, 73, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Washington Senators). [493]
• Helmut Müller-Brühl, 78, German conductor. [494] (German)
• Larry Reinhardt, 63, American rock guitarist (Iron Butterfly, Captain Beyond), liver cirrhosis. [495]
• Ambjørg Sælthun, 89, Norwegian politician. [496] (Norwegian)
• Paulo Rodrigues da Silva, 25, Brazilian footballer, car crash. [497] (Portuguese)
• H. Edwin Young, 94, American economist, Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1968–1977). [498]

1

• Gary Ablett, 46, English footballer (Liverpool, Everton, Birmingham City), non-Hodgkin lymphoma. [499]
• Bob Anderson, 89, British Olympic fencer (1952), film fight director and choreographer (Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings). [500]
• Alfredo Battisti, 86, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Udine (1972–2000). [501] (Italian)
• Jorge Andrés Boero, 38, Argentine motorcycle racer, Dakar rally crash. [502]
• Anders Frandsen, 51, Danish singer and television presenter. [503] (Danish)
• Rebecca Fromer, 84, American historian and writer, co-founder of the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life. [504]
• Kiro Gligorov, 94, Macedonian politician, first democratically elected President (1991–1999). [505]
• Jan Groover, 68 American photographer. [506]
• Hermann Guggiari, 87, Paraguayan engineer and sculptor. [507] (Spanish)
• Frank Horwill, 84, British athletics coach. [508]
• Ed Jenkins, 78, American politician, Representative from Georgia (1977–1993). [509]
• Nay Win Maung, 49, Burmese physician and pro-democracy activist, heart attack. [510]
• Fred Milano, 72, American doo-wop singer (The Belmonts, Dion and the Belmonts), lung cancer. [511]
• Tommy Mont, 89, American college football coach and NFL player, heart failure. [512]
• Marcelle Narbonne, 113, French supercentenarian, oldest person in Europe. [513] (French)
• Carlos Soria, 63, Argentine politician, Secretary of Intelligence (2002), Governor of Río Negro (since 2011), shot. [514]
• Yafa Yarkoni, 86, Israeli singer. [515]

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