1 •
Gary Brockette, 67, American actor (
The Last Picture Show) and assistant director, cancer. •
Chauncey H. Browning Jr., 75, American politician, West Virginia Attorney General (1969–1985). •
Jean Carroll, 98, American comedian (
The Ed Sullivan Show). •
P. Chandrasekaran, 52, Sri Lankan politician, Member of Parliament, after short illness. •
Lhasa de Sela, 37, American singer, breast cancer. •
Michael Dwyer, 58, Irish journalist and film critic, lung cancer. •
Alfredo Mario Espósito Castro, 82, Argentinian Roman Catholic Bishop of
Zárate-Campana (1976–1991). •
John Freeman, 93, American animator (
The Smurfs) and animation director (
My Little Pony and Friends). •
Bingo Gazingo, 85, American performance poet, struck by car. •
Adrien Gilbert, 78, Canadian Olympic weightlifter •
Richard Kindleberger, 67, American newspaper reporter (
The Boston Globe), brain tumor. •
John Lyon, 58, British cricketer. •
Jack Middleton, 92, British Olympic swimmer. •
Tetsuo Narikawa, 65, Japanese actor (
Spectreman) and karate instructor, lung cancer. •
Marlene Neubauer-Woerner, 91, German sculptor. •
Libuše Patočková, 76, Czech Olympic cross-country skier. •
Stanisław Przybylski, 79, Polish modern pentathlete. •
Mohamed Rahmat, 71, Malaysian politician, Information Minister (1978–1982, 1987–1999). •
Faisal Bin Shamlan, 75, Yemeni politician, presidential candidate (
2006), cancer. •
Billy Arjan Singh, 92, Indian author. •
Gregory Slay, 40, American rock drummer (
Remy Zero), songwriter (
Nip/Tuck theme), cystic fibrosis. •
Freya von Moltke, 98, German World War II resistance fighter. •
John Shelton Wilder, 88, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee (1971–2007), stroke. •
Vera Zakharova, 89, first Yakut woman to fly a plane
2 •
Johann Frank, 71, Austrian football player (
FK Austria Wien). •
David Gerber, 86, American executive producer (
Police Story,
Police Woman), heart failure. •
William Green, 82, British aviation writer. •
Deborah Howell, 68, American journalist,
The Washington Post ombudsman, hit by car. •
René Oreel, 87, Belgian cyclist. •
Augustine Paul, 65, Malaysian Federal Court judge, after chronic illness. •
David R. Ross, 51, Scottish historian, heart attack. •
Rajendra Shah, 96, Indian poet.
3 •
Gus Alexander, 75, Scottish footballer (
Workington). •
Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt, 84, Chilean composer, lung cancer. •
Margery Beddow, 72, American choreographer and dancer. •
Barry Blair, 56, Canadian comics artist and writer, brain aneurysm. •
Gianni Bonichon, 65, Italian bobsledder,
Olympic silver medalist. •
Otto Breg, 60, Austrian Olympic bobsledder. •
Sir Ian Brownlie, 77, British barrister, traffic collision. •
Joyce Collins, 79, American jazz singer and pianist, pulmonary fibrosis. •
Mary Daly, 81, American radical feminist philosopher. •
Francis Gillingham, 93, British neurosurgeon. •
Ali Safi Golpaygani, 96, Iranian
Marja', natural causes. •
Billy Harris, 58, American basketball player (
Northern Illinois Huskies,
San Diego Conquistadors), stroke. •
John Keith Irwin, 80, American sociologist. •
Eunice W. Johnson, 93, American director of
Ebony Fashion Fair, widow of
John H. Johnson, renal failure. •
Charles Kleibacker, 88, American fashion designer, pneumonia. •
Georges Martin, 94, French cyclist. •
Takis Michalos, 63, Greek
Greece men's national water polo team water polo player and coach; cancer. •
Moti Nandi, 79, Indian writer and sports journalist. •
Geoffrey Reeve, 77, British film director. •
Isak Rogde, 62, Norwegian translator. •
Tibet, 78, French comics artist and writer. •
Bobby Wilkins, 87, American baseball player (
Philadelphia Athletics).
4 •
Olaug Abrahamsen, 81, Norwegian politician. •
Rosalie Abrams, 88, American feminist playwright, actress and activist, Alzheimer's disease. •
Paul Ahyi, 79, Togolese artist, designer of the
flag of Togo. •
Lew Allen, 84, American USAF general, NSA Director (1973–1977), USAF Chief of Staff (1978–1982), rheumatoid arthritis. •
Knox Burger, 87, American editor, writer, and literary agent. •
Neil Christian, 66, British singer, cancer. •
Tony Clarke, 68, British musician and record producer (
The Moody Blues), emphysema. •
Sandro de América, 64, Argentinian singer, complications from heart and lung transplant surgery. •
Donal Donnelly, 78, English-born Irish actor, cancer •
Hywel Teifi Edwards, 75, Welsh historian and writer, after short illness. •
Johan Ferrier, 99, Surinamese politician, President (1975–1980). •
Tadeusz Góra, 91, Polish pilot. •
Rory Markas, 54, American baseball radio announcer (
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim), heart attack. •
György Mitró, 79, Hungarian Olympic swimmer. •
Ludwig Wilding, 82, German artist. •
Tsutomu Yamaguchi, 93, Japanese
survivor of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, stomach cancer.
5 •
Abdul Azim al-Deeb, 80, Qatari professor (
Qatar University). •
Beverly Aadland, 67, American actress, girlfriend of
Errol Flynn, diabetes and heart failure. •
Daniel Kubert, 62, American mathematician. •
Bernard Le Nail, 63, French writer, historian, Breton language and cultural advocate, cerebral hemorrhage. •
Willie Mitchell, 81, American musician and record producer, cardiac arrest. •
Kenneth Noland, 85, American color field painter, kidney cancer. •
Courage Quashigah, 62, Ghanaian politician. •
Philippa Scott, 91, British conservationist. •
George Syrimis, 88, Cypriot finance minister (1988–1993). •
Toni Tecuceanu, 37, Romanian comedy actor, bacterial infection. •
Rolf Thieme, 65, German Olympic hockey player. •
George Willoughby, 95, American Quaker activist.
6 •
Philippe Arthuys, 81, French composer and film director. •
David Giles, 83, British television director. •
Michael Goulder, 82, British biblical scholar. •
Michael Harper, 78, British priest of the Church of England and later of the Antiochian Orthodox Church. •
George Leonard, 86, American writer, editor and educator, pioneer of the
Human Potential Movement, after long illness. •
Graham Leonard, 88, British Church of England Bishop of London (1981–1991), subsequently a Roman Catholic priest. •
Ivan Medek, 84, Czech music publicist, theorist and critic, collaborator of
Václav Talich and
Václav Havel. •
Harriet Miller, 90, American politician, mayor of
Santa Barbara, California (1995–2001). •
Beniamino Placido, 80, Italian journalist and television critic. •
Hervé Prouzet, 89, French cyclist •
Kittu Suresh, 64, Indian cricketer.
7 •
Wendall Anschutz, 71, American television newsman. •
Myrtle Aydelotte, 92, American nurse, professor and hospital administrator. •
Sándor Barcs, 97, Hungarian politician and sport executive, interim
President of UEFA (1972–1973). •
Gerald Bordelon, 47, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection. •
Alexander Garnet Brown, 79, Canadian politician, member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly (1969–1978). •
Bruria Kaufman, 91, Israeli physicist. •
Stephen Huneck, 61, American wood carving artist, suicide by gunshot. •
Kamal Mahsud, Pakistani Pashto language folk singer, gas leak. •
Alex Parker, 74, Scottish football player (
Falkirk,
Everton,
Southport,
Scotland) and manager, heart attack. •
Donald Edmond Pelotte, 64, American Roman Catholic Bishop of
Gallup (1990–2008), first Native American bishop. •
James D Robertson, 78, Scottish painter and lecturer. •
Blanca Sánchez, 63, Mexican actress, kidney failure. •
Philippe Séguin, 66, French politician, heart attack. •
Jim White, 67, American professional wrestler, cancer. •
Hardy Williams, 78, American politician, Pennsylvania State Senator (1983–1998), Alzheimer's disease.
8 •
Bob Blackburn, 85, American sports commentator (
Seattle SuperSonics), pneumonia. •
Jean Charpentier, 74, Canadian journalist, press secretary for Prime Minister
Pierre Trudeau, cancer. •
Art Clokey, 88, American stop motion animator (
Gumby,
Davey and Goliath), bladder infection. •
Piero De Bernardi, 83, Italian screenwriter. •
Tony Halme, 47, Finnish professional boxer, actor, wrestler and Member of Parliament (2003–2007), suicide by gunshot. •
Raymond Kamber, 79, Swiss Olympic sprint canoer. •
Slavka Maneva, 75, Macedonian writer and poet. •
Charles Massi, 57, Central African politician and rebel leader. •
Monica Maughan, 76, Australian actress, cancer. •
Jim Rimmer, 75, Canadian graphic designer, cancer. •
Gladstone Robinson, 66, Jamaican cricketer. •
Gerrit de Ruiter, 82, Dutch hockey player •
Otmar Suitner, 87, Austrian conductor. •
Hans L. Trefousse, 88, German-born American historian. •
Amir Vahedi, 48, Iranian-born American poker player, complications of
diabetes. •
Sumner G. Whittier, 98, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (1953–1957).
9 •
Améleté Abalo, 47, Togolese
national football team assistant coach, shot. •
John Ballem, 84, Canadian novelist. •
Amo Bessone, 93, American ice hockey player and coach. •
Juan Bidegaray, 90, Uruguayan Olympic sailor •
Gösta Bredefeldt, 74, Swedish actor. •
Franz-Hermann Brüner, 64, German head of
OLAF, after long illness. •
Acúrsio Carrelo, 78, Portuguese footballer. •
Mark Ellidge, 69–70, British press photographer. •
Ken Genser, 59, American politician, mayor of
Santa Monica, California, after long illness. •
Per N. Hagen, 73, Norwegian politician. •
Rupert Hamer, 39, British journalist, defence correspondent for the
Sunday Mirror, improvised explosive device. •
Fatimah Hashim, 85, Malaysian politician, first female minister in the Malaysian government. •
Laura Chapman Hruska, 74, American writer, co-founder and editor in chief of Soho Press, cancer. •
Jack Kerness, 98, American art director, natural causes. •
Nadav Levitan, 64, Israeli film director and screenwriter, lung disease. •
Ronald Moore, 84, Canadian politician. •
Evgeni Paladiev, 61, Soviet-born Kazakh ice hockey player. •
Diether Posser, 87, German politician. •
Armand Razafindratandra, 84, Malagasy cardinal, archbishop of
Antananarivo (1994–2005), fall. •
Vimcy, 84, Indian sports writer. •
Thomas Summers West, 82, Scottish chemist.
10 •
Sir Donald Acheson, 83, British physician, Chief Medical Officer of England (1983–1991). •
Sailadhar Baruah, 68, Indian film producer, complications of diabetes. •
Mina Bern, 98, Polish-born American Yiddish theatre actor, heart failure. •
Bert Bushnell, 88, British Olympic gold medal-winning rower (
1948). •
Carlos Bonilla Chávez, 86, Ecuadorian classical guitarist. •
Simon Digby, 77, Indian-born British scholar and linguist, pancreatic cancer. •
Danny Fitzgerald, 49–50, Irish hurler and Gaelic football player. •
Jan C. Gabriel, 69, American race track announcer, complications from polycystic kidney disease. •
Donald Goerke, 83, American
executive (
Campbell's Soup Company), created
SpaghettiOs, heart failure. •
Dick Johnson, 84, American big band clarinetist (
Artie Shaw Band), after short illness. •
Edward Linde, 67, American businessman, founder of
Boston Properties, pneumonia. •
Frances Morrell, 72, British political adviser and educationalist, cancer. •
Ulf Olsson, 58, Swedish murderer, suicide by hanging. •
Bill Patterson, 87, Australian racing driver, natural causes. •
Jayne Walton Rosen, 92, American singer,
Lawrence Welk's Champagne Lady (1940–1945), natural causes. •
Moisés Saba, 47, Mexican entrepreneur, helicopter crash. •
Dale Shewalter, 59, American teacher, founder of the
Arizona Trail, cancer. •
Mano Solo, 46, French singer, ruptured aneurysm. •
Crispin Sorhaindo, 78, Dominican politician, President (1993–1998), cancer. •
Bojidar Spiriev, 77, Bulgarian-born Hungarian hydrologist and statistician, creator of
IAAF scoring tables. •
Patcha Ramachandra Rao, 67, Indian Metallurgist and Administrator. •
Torbjørn Yggeseth, 75, Norwegian ski jumping athlete and official.
11 •
Juliet Anderson, 71, American pornographic actress and movie producer. •
Aleksandr Androshkin, 62, Soviet Ukrainian sports shooter. •
Francisco Benkö, 99, German-born Argentine chess master. •
Robben Wright Fleming, 93, American president of the University of Michigan (1968–1978). •
Georgy Garanian, 75, Russian jazz saxophonist and bandleader, cardiac arrest. •
Dorothy Geeben, 101, American mayor of
Ocean Breeze Park, Florida (since 2001), oldest active mayor in the U.S. •
Miep Gies, 100, Dutch humanitarian, protector of
Anne Frank during World War II, complications from a fall. •
Mick Green, 65, British rock and roll guitarist (
Johnny Kidd & The Pirates,
Billy J. Kramer and
the Dakotas). •
Andis Hadjicostis, 43, Cypriot CEO of
Sigma TV, shot. •
Johnny King, 83, English footballer. •
Kurt Liebhart, 76, Austrian Olympic sprint canoer. •
Harry Männil, 89, Estonian-born Venezuelan businessman. •
Bob Noorda, 82, Dutch-born Italian graphic designer. •
Éric Rohmer, 89, French film director. •
Joe Rollino, 104, American strongman, weightlifter, and boxer, struck by van. •
Ed Scott, 92, American baseball scout. •
Dennis Stock, 81, American photographer (
Magnum Photos), colon and liver cancer. •
Gordon Van Tol, 49, Canadian Olympic water polo player, heart attack.
12 •
Masoud Alimohammadi, 50, Iranian nuclear scientist, bomb blast. •
Miloslav Bělonožník, 91, Czech Olympic ski jumper. •
Daniel Bensaïd, 63, French philosopher and Trotskyist activist. •
Ken Colbung, 78, Australian Aboriginal elder, after short illness. •
Shirley Bell Cole, 89, American voice actor (
Little Orphan Annie). •
Miguel Ángel de la Flor, 85, Peruvian army officer and politician. •
Colin Dettmer, 51, South African cricketer. •
Altan Dinçer, 77, Turkish Olympic basketball player. •
Krisda Arunvongse na Ayudhya, 78, Thai architect, Governor of Bangkok (1996–2001), coronary artery disease. •
Fred Krone, 79, American stuntman, cancer. •
Elizabeth Laverick, 85, British engineer. •
Hillis Layne, 91, American Major League Baseball player (1941, 1944–1945). •
Alastair Martin, 94, American tennis player, member of the Hall of Fame, President of the United States Tennis Association (1969–1970). •
Sir Allen McClay, 77, British pharmaceutical company founder, cancer. •
Elizabeth Moody, 70, New Zealand actress and theatre director, pneumonia. •
Ann Prentiss, 70, American actress (
Captain Nice,
My Stepmother Is an Alien). •
Art Rust Jr., 82, American sports commentator, Parkinson's disease. •
Hasib Sabbagh, 89, Palestinian businessman. •
Vanda Skuratovich, 84, Belarusian Roman Catholic activist. •
Vadú, 32, Cape Verdean singer, traffic collision. •
Yabby You, 63, Jamaican reggae singer and producer, stroke. • Notable people killed in the
2010 Haiti earthquake: •
Georges Anglade, 65, Haitian professor and cabinet minister, co-founder of
Université du Québec à Montréal. •
Hédi Annabi, 65, Tunisian diplomat, Head of
MINUSTAH. •
Zilda Arns, 75, Brazilian pediatrician and humanitarian. •
Luiz Carlos da Costa, 60, Brazilian diplomat, Deputy Head of
MINUSTAH. •
Anne Marie Coriolan, 53, Haitian feminist and activist. •
Serge Marcil, 65, Canadian politician, Quebec National Assembly of Quebec (1985–1994), MP for
Beauharnois—Salaberry (2000–2004). •
Magalie Marcelin, 47-48, Haitian feminist, lawyer and actress. •
Flo McGarrell, 35, Italian-born American artist. •
Myriam Merlet, 53, Haitian political activist. •
Joseph Serge Miot, 63, Haitian Roman Catholic archbishop of
Port-au-Prince. •
Nikolay Sukhomlin, 64, Russian scientist and professor. •
Tran Trieu Quan, 57, Vietnamese-Canadian taekwondo grandmaster. •
Jimmy O, 35, Haitian hip hop musician. •
Pierre Vernet, 66, Haitian linguist and lexicographer.
13 •
Jack Block, 85, American psychologist, complications of a spinal cord injury. •
Edward Brinton, 86, American marine biologist, after long illness. •
Sir Robin Maxwell-Hyslop, 78, British politician, MP for
Tiverton (1960–1992). •
Abdullah Mehdar, Yemeni al-Qaeda terrorist, shot. •
Teddy Pendergrass, 59, American soul singer, complications from colorectal cancer. •
Jay Reatard, 29, American garage punk musician, cocaine toxicity. •
Tommy Sloan, 84, Scottish footballer (
Hearts,
Motherwell). •
Isamu Tanonaka, 77, Japanese voice actor (
GeGeGe no Kitaro), heart attack. •
Ed Thigpen, 79, American jazz drummer, after long illness. •
Edgar Vos, 78, Dutch fashion designer, heart attack.
14 •
Ante Babaja, 82, Croatian film director and screenwriter. •
Bobby Charles, 71, American songwriter ("
See You Later, Alligator", "
(I Don't Know Why) But I Do"). •
Antonio Fontán, 86, Spanish politician and journalist. •
Micha Gaillard, 52-53, Haitian politician, earthquake. •
John F. Hayes, 90, American attorney and politician, Kansas House of Representatives (1953–1955; 1967–1979). •
Mark Jones, 70, British actor (
The Empire Strikes Back,
Doctor Who,
Buccaneer). •
Guðmundur Lárusson, 84, Icelandic Olympic sprinter. •
Charles Nolte, 86, American actor, playwright and educator, prostate cancer. •
Otto, 20, British dachshund-terrier, world's oldest dog, euthanised following stomach tumour. •
P. K. Page, 93, Canadian poet. •
Chilton Price, 96, American songwriter ("
Slow Poke", "
You Belong to Me"). •
Phoebe Prince, 15, Irish student at
South Hadley High School, Massachusetts, bullying victim, suicide by hanging. •
Marika Rivera, 90, French actress, daughter of
Diego Rivera. •
James W. Rutherford, 84, American mayor of
Flint, Michigan (1975–1983, 2002–2003). •
Katharina Rutschky, 68, German educationalist and author. •
Petra Schürmann, 74, German television presenter,
Miss World 1956, after long illness. •
Jessie Tait, 81, British ceramic designer. •
Antonio Vilaplana Molina, 83, Spanish Roman Catholic Bishop of
León (1987–2002), renal failure. •
Bernie Voorheis, 87, American basketball player. •
Rowland Wolfe, 95, American Olympic gold medal-winning (
1932) gymnast.
15 •
Asim Butt, 31, Pakistani artist (
Stuckism art movement), suicide by hanging. •
Florence-Marie Cooper, 69, American federal judge, District Court for Central District of California (since 1999), lymphoma. •
Michael Creeth, 85, British biochemist. •
Bahman Jalali, 65, Iranian photographer, pancreatic cancer. •
Detlev Lauscher, 57, German footballer. •
Steve Lovelady, 66, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, throat cancer. •
Mike Osborn, 92, British military officer. •
Marshall Warren Nirenberg, 82, American biochemist and geneticist,
Nobel Prize laureate (1968), cancer. •
Peter Thomson, 73, Australian Anglican
theologian, mentor to
Tony Blair.
16 •
Glen Bell, 86, American entrepreneur, founder of
Taco Bell. •
Judi Chamberlin, 65, American anti-psychiatry activist, lung disease. •
Guy Day, 79, American advertising executive. •
Sam Dixon, 60, American minister, Deputy General Secretary of
UMCOR (since 2007), earthquake. •
Robert Gerard, 89, Belgian footballer •
Musa Inuwa, 62, Nigerian politician. •
George Jellinek, 90, American radio personality (
WQXR). •
Felice Quinto, 80, Italian photographer. •
Takumi Shibano, 83, Japanese novelist, pneumonia. •
Carl Smith, 82, American country singer-songwriter ("
Hey Joe"), after long illness. •
Bernie Weintraub, 76, American talent agent, co-founder of the
Paradigm Talent Agency. •
Jimmy Wyble, 87, American guitarist, heart failure.
17 •
Gaines Adams, 26, American football player (
Chicago Bears,
Tampa Bay Buccaneers), cardiac arrest. •
Maki Asakawa, 67, Japanese singer, heart failure. •
Jyoti Basu, 95, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (1977–2000), complications from pneumonia. •
Thomas F. Cowan, 82, American politician, New Jersey State Senator (1984–1994). •
Daisuke Gōri, 57, Japanese voice actor (
Dragon Ball,
Kinnikuman,
Mobile Suit Gundam), suicide by wrist cutting. •
Béla Köpeczi, 88, Hungarian historian and politician, Minister of Education (1982–1988). •
Michalis Papakonstantinou, 91, Greek politician and author, Minister for Foreign Affairs (1992–1993). •
Erich Segal, 72, American professor, author (
Love Story), and screenwriter
(Yellow Submarine), heart attack.
18 •
Ghulam Rabbani Agro, 76, Pakistani writer. •
K. S. Ashwath, 84, Indian actor, multiple organ failure. •
Cyril Burke, 84, Australian rugby union player. •
Herb Grosch, 91, Canadian-born American computer scientist. •
Kate McGarrigle, 63, Canadian folk singer, clear-cell sarcoma. •
Günter Mielke, 67, German Olympic athlete. •
Gladys Morcom, 91, British Olympic swimmer. •
Imari Obadele, 79, American black separatist, stroke. •
Reha Oğuz Türkkan, 90, Turkish writer. •
Kevin O'Shea, 62, Canadian ice hockey player (
St. Louis Blues,
Buffalo Sabres). •
Robert B. Parker, 77, American detective writer (
Spenser series,
Jesse Stone novels), heart attack. •
Jörgen Philip-Sörensen, 71, Danish businessman, after long illness. •
Robert D. Rowley, 68, American Episcopal Bishop of Northwestern Pennsylvania (1991–2007). •
Josephus Tethool, 75, Indonesian Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of
Amboina (1982–2009). •
Celestino Tugot, 99, Filipino golfer, winner of the
Philippine Open (1949, 1955–1958, 1962), lung cancer.
19 •
Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, 50, Palestinian leader of the
Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, murdered. •
Frances Buss Buch, 92, American first female television director. •
Christos Chatziskoulidis, 58, Greek footballer (
Egaleo F.C.), cancer. •
Ian Christie, 82, British jazz clarinetist. •
Tom Cochran, 85, American football player (
Washington Redskins). •
Dan Fitzgerald, 67, American college basketball coach (
Gonzaga). •
Vladimir Karpov, 87, Russian writer, Chairman of the
USSR Union of Writers (1986–1991). •
Jennifer Lyon, 37, American reality TV personality (
Survivor: Palau), breast cancer. •
Ida Mae Martinez, 78, American professional wrestler. •
Bill McLaren, 86, Scottish rugby union commentator. •
Panajot Pano, 70, Albanian footballer. •
Cerge Remonde, 51, Filipino journalist and politician, heart attack. •
Kalthoum Sarrai, 47, Tunisian-born French television presenter (
Supernanny), cancer. •
William Vitarelli, 99, American educator and architect.
20 •
Enid Campbell, 77, Australian legal scholar. •
Tony Cummins, 103, Irish Roman Catholic priest. •
Patricia Donoho Hughes, 79, American First Lady of
Maryland (1979–1987), wife of
Harry Hughes, Parkinson's disease. •
John S. Loisel, 89, American fighter ace. •
Bob Minton, 63, American-born Irish banker, critic of
Scientology, heart ailment. •
John Francis Moore, 68, Nigerian Roman Catholic Bishop of
Bauchi (since 2003). •
Jack Parry, 86, Welsh footballer (
Swansea Town,
Ipswich Town,
Wales). •
John Pawle, 94, English cricketer. •
Derek Prag, 86, British politician,
MEP for Hertfordshire (1979–1994). •
Wallace Michael Ross, 89, British organist and choirmaster. •
Abraham Sutzkever, 96, Polish-born Israeli poet. •
Lynn Taitt, 75, Jamaican reggae guitarist, cancer.
21 •
Sayeed Ahmed, 79, Bangladeshi playwright. •
Orhan Alp, 90, Turkish engineer and politician. •
Bobby Bragan, 92, American baseball player and manager, heart attack. •
Irwin Dambrot, 81, American basketball player involved in the
CCNY Point Shaving Scandal, Parkinson's disease. •
Lawrence Garfinkel, 88, American epidemiologist, cardiovascular disease. •
Knud Gleie, 74, Danish Olympic swimmer. •
Larry Johnson, 62, American film producer, heart attack. •
Chindodi Leela, 72, Indian theatre and film actress, complications from heart attack. •
Robert "Squirrel" Lester, 67, American smooth soul tenor (
The Chi-Lites), liver cancer. •
Hal Manders, 92, American baseball player (
Detroit Tigers). •
Jacques Martin, 88, French comics artist and writer. •
Camille Maurane, 98, French baritone singer. •
Guillermo Abadía Morales, 97, Colombian folklore researcher, indigenous language expert, natural causes. •
Curt Motton, 69, American baseball player, stomach cancer. •
Paul Quarrington, 56, Canadian novelist, musician and screenwriter, lung cancer.
22 •
Apache, 45, American rapper. •
Lenna Arnold, 89, American baseball player (
AAGPBL) •
Donnis Churchwell, 73, American football player. •
Sir Percy Cradock, 86, British diplomat, after short illness. •
Sir Dermot de Trafford, 85, British aristocrat and businessman. •
Clayton Gerein, 45, Canadian wheelchair sports athlete, seven-time Paralympian, brain tumor. •
Claus Gerson, 92, American Olympic hockey player. •
Louis R. Harlan, 87, American Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, after long illness. •
Iskandar of Johor, 77, Malaysian
Yang di-Pertuan Agong (1984–1989),
Sultan of Johor (1981–2010). •
Jennifer Lyn Jackson, 40, American
Playboy model, drug overdose. •
Andrew E. Lange, 52, American astrophysicist, Big Bang researcher, suicide by asphyxiation. •
Juan Pedro Laporte, 64, Guatemalan archaeologist. •
Janeshwar Mishra, 76, Indian politician, cardiac arrest. •
James Mitchell, 89, American actor (
All My Children), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. •
Private Terms, 25, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized. •
Gordon Richardson, Baron Richardson of Duntisbourne, 94, British Governor of the Bank of England (1973–1983). •
Godfrey A. Rockefeller, 85, American aviator and conservationist. •
Johnny Seven, 83, American actor (
Ironside,
The Apartment,
Gunfight in Abilene), lung cancer. •
Jean Simmons, 80, British actress (
Hamlet,
Spartacus,
Guys and Dolls),
Emmy winner (
1983), lung cancer. •
Ruth P. Smith, 102, American pro-choice campaigner. •
Tuanaitau F. Tuia, 89, American Samoan politician and legislator, longest serving member of the
American Samoa Fono. •
Betty Wilson, 88, Australian cricketer. •
Tom Wittum, 60, American football player (
San Francisco 49ers), cancer.
23 •
George C. Baldwin, 92, American physicist. •
Haren S. Gandhi, 68, Indian-born American inventor and engineer. •
Robert Lam, 64, Malaysian news presenter, skin cancer. •
Douglas J. Martin, 82, New Zealand leader in the
LDS Church. •
Sam Match, 87, American tennis player. •
Roger Pierre, 86, French actor (''
Mon oncle d'Amérique''), cancer. •
Sir Thomas Prickett, 96, British RAF Air Chief Marshal. •
Kermit Tyler, 96, American pilot, figured in the
attack on Pearl Harbor, complications from strokes. •
Oleg Velyky, 32, Ukrainian-born German handball player, melanoma. •
Earl Wild, 94, American classical pianist, heart failure.
24 •
Boydson Baird, 91, American basketball player. •
Lawrence Aloysius Burke, 77, Jamaican Roman Catholic Archbishop of
Kingston (2004–2008),
Nassau (1981–2004), cancer. •
Thomas Cullinan, 63, South African cricketer. •
Donald Dowd, 87, American campaign aide to the
Kennedy family. •
Ghazali Shafie, 87, Malaysian politician, Home Minister (1973–1981) and Foreign Minister (1981–1984). •
Irshad Ahmed Haqqani, 81, Pakistani journalist and politician. •
Robert Mosbacher, 82, American politician, Secretary of Commerce (1989–1992), pancreatic cancer. •
Leonid Nechayev, 70, Russian film director, stroke. •
Jim Podoley, 76, American football player (
Washington Redskins), melanoma. •
James Henry Quello, 95, American government official,
FCC Commissioner (1974–1997), heart and kidney failure. •
FitzRoy Somerset, 5th Baron Raglan, 82, British aristocrat. •
Pernell Roberts, 81, American actor (
Bonanza;
Trapper John, M.D.,
Ride Lonesome), pancreatic cancer. •
Peter Wood, 74, Australian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland (1966–1974).
25 •
Ali Hassan al-Majid, 68, Iraqi military commander and government minister, execution by hanging. •
Sefis Anastasakos, 68, Greek politician, author, lawyer and activist, cancer. •
Lynn Bayonas, 66, Australian television writer and producer, cancer. •
Orlando Cole, 101, American classical cellist and educator. •
Horace Weldon Gilmore, 91, American federal judge. •
Jane Jarvis, 94, American jazz pianist and organist. •
Pádraig MacKernan, 69, Irish diplomat, Secretary General (Foreign Affairs), Ambassador to France and United States. •
Georgiann Makropoulos, 67, American professional wrestling historian and author, heart attack. •
Iivari Malmikoski, 82, Finnish Olympic boxer. •
Charles Mathias, 87, American politician, Senator from Maryland (1969–1987), complications of Parkinson's disease. •
Gordon Park, 66, British convicted murderer, apparent suicide by
hanging. •
Algirdas Petrulis, 95, Lithuanian painter. •
Ivan Prenđa, 70, Croatian Roman Catholic Archbishop of
Zadar (since 1990). •
Bill Ritchie, 78, Scottish comic book artist. •
Emilio Vieyra, 88, Argentine film director, actor, screenwriter and producer.
26 •
Andon Amaraich, 77, Micronesian Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, pneumonia. •
Louis Auchincloss, 92, American novelist, complications of a stroke. •
Juliusz Bardach, 95, Polish historian. •
Boa Sr, 85, Indian
Great Andamanese elder, last speaker of the
Bo language. •
Geoffrey Burbidge, 84, British-born American astrophysicist, after long illness. •
Anne Froelick, 96, American blacklisted screenwriter. •
Dag Frøland, 64, Norwegian comedian, singer and variety artist. •
Gummadi, 82, Indian actor. •
Paul R. Jones, 81, American art collector, after short illness. •
Eugenijus Karpavičius, 56, Lithuanian illustrator. •
Inda Ledesma, 83, Argentine actress, cardiac arrest. •
Ajmer Singh, 69, Indian athlete and educator. •
Paul Mbiybe Verdzekov, 79, Cameroonian Roman Catholic Archbishop of
Bamenda (1970–2006). •
Ken Walters, 76, American baseball player (
Philadelphia Phillies).
27 •
Harry Alger, 85, Canadian politician. •
Barry Blitzer, 80, American television writer (
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.,
The Flintstones,
The Jetsons), complications from abdominal surgery. •
Betty Lou Keim, 71, American actress, lung cancer. •
Ruben Kruger, 39, South African rugby union player, brain tumor. •
Eduardo Michaelsen, 89, Cuban exile, painter in the
naive art style. •
Shirley Collie Nelson, 78, American country singer, ex-wife of
Willie Nelson. •
Zelda Rubinstein, 76, American actress (
Poltergeist,
Picket Fences,
Scariest Places on Earth). •
J. D. Salinger, 91, American author (
The Catcher in the Rye). •
Howard Zinn, 87, American historian (''
A People's History of the United States''), civil rights and anti-war activist, heart attack.
28 •
A. K. M. Mohiuddin Ahmed, Bangladesh Army officer, hanged. •
Mohammad-Reza Ali-Zamani, app. 38, Iranian activist, hanging. •
Frank Baker Jr., 66, American baseball player (
Cleveland Indians), heart failure. •
Larbi Belkheir, 72, Algerian major general, Interior Minister (1991). •
Bill Binder, 94, American restaurateur (
Phillippe's). •
Eduardo Catalano, 92, Argentine architect. •
Patricia Clarke, 90, British biochemist. •
José Eugênio Corrêa, 95, Brazilian Roman Catholic Bishop of
Caratinga (1957–1978). •
Margaret Dale, 87, British dancer and television director. •
Walter Fondren, 73, American football player and conservationist, heart failure. •
George Hanlon, 92, Australian horse trainer, three-time
Melbourne Cup winner, natural causes. •
Mick Higgins, 87, Irish Gaelic footballer,
All-Ireland Senior Football Championship winner (
Cavan; 1947, 1948, 1952). •
Wilfriede Hoffmann, 77, German Olympic athlete. •
Mohammad Bazlul Huda, Bangladeshi army officer and assassin of
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, hanged. •
Alistair Hulett, 57, Scottish-born Australian folk singer, liver failure. •
Robert Joffe, 66, American lawyer, pancreatic cancer. •
Patricia Leonard, 73, British contralto, throat cancer. •
Kazimierz Mijal, 99, Polish politician. •
Bud Millikan, 89, American basketball coach (
University of Maryland). •
Sarah Mulvey, 34, British television producer (
Channel 4), suspected suicide by opioid overdose. •
Sayed Farooq-ur-Rahman, 63, Bangladeshi army officer and politician, hanging. •
Arash Rahmanipour, app. 20, Iranian activist, execution by hanging. •
Keiko Tobe, 52, Japanese manga artist (
With the Light), mesothelioma.
29 •
Evgeny Agranovich, 91, Russian composer and bard. •
Elsa Bakalar, 90–91, English-born American garden designer. •
Tom Brookshier, 78, American football player (
Philadelphia Eagles), coach and sportscaster (
CBS Sports,
WCAU), cancer. •
Adam Alexander Dawson, 96, British film editor. •
Eric Freiwald, 82, American television writer (
The Young and the Restless). •
Georgelle Hirliman, 73, American performance artist, cancer. • Sir
Derek Hodgkinson, 92, British air chief marshal. •
Tom Howard, 59, American musician, heart attack. •
Ralph McInerny, 80, American philosopher (
University of Notre Dame) and mystery author (
Father Dowling Mysteries). •
Ram Niwas Mirdha, 85, Indian politician (
Lok Sabha), minister and speaker (
Rajasthan Legislative Assembly), multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. •
Wilf Paish, 77, British athletics coach, after long illness. •
Mikael Reuterswärd, 45, Swedish adventurer, first Swede to reach summit of Mount Everest (body found on this date). •
Karen Schmeer, 39, American documentary film editor (
The Fog of War), vehicular hit-and-run. •
Zahid Sheikh, 60, Pakistani Olympic silver medal-winning (
1972) field hockey player. •
Cameron Snyder, 93, American sports journalist (
The Baltimore Sun), won
Dick McCann Memorial Award (1982), lung cancer. •
Eckart Viehweg, 61, German mathematician, after short illness.
30 •
Rafet Angın, 94, Turkish teacher. •
Erna Baumbauer, 91, German casting agent. •
Ruth Cohn, 97, German psychotherapist. •
Lucienne Day, 93, British textile designer. •
Ron Giles, 90, English cricketer (
Nottinghamshire). •
Sølve Grotmol, 70, Norwegian sports commentator. •
Bruce Mitchell, 90, Australian academic. •
Ursula Mommens, 101, British potter. •
Brahmananda Panda, 61, Indian politician. •
Guy Renwick, 73, British Olympic bobsledder. •
Aaron Ruben, 95, American television producer (
Andy Griffith Show,
Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C.,
Sanford and Son), pneumonia. •
Tan Eng Yoon, 82, Singaporean Olympic sprinter.
31 •
Gunnar Aksnes, 83, Norwegian chemist and poet. •
Kage Baker, 57, American science fiction and fantasy author, uterine cancer. •
Pauly Fuemana, 40, New Zealand musician (
OMC), after short illness. •
Henry Fukuhara, 96, American watercolor painter, natural causes. •
Patricia Gage, 69, British actress and voice actress. •
Jiří Havlis, 77, Czech Olympic gold medal-winning (
1952) rower. •
Albert Huie, 89, Jamaican painter. •
Edith Josie, 88, Canadian columnist, natural causes. •
Viktor Kaisiepo, 61, Netherlands New Guinean-born Dutch activist for
West Papuan independence. •
Thorleif Karlsen, 100, Norwegian police inspector, politician and radio host, natural causes. •
Sanna Kiero, 79, Finnish Olympic cross-country skier. •
Howard Lotsof, 66, American researcher, discovered anti-addictive effects of
ibogaine, liver cancer. •
Tomás Eloy Martínez, 75, Argentine writer and journalist, brain tumor. •
Shizuka Miura, 47, Japanese ball-jointed doll maker and musician, suicide. •
John Norris, 76, British-born Canadian publisher (
Coda), heart condition. •
Keith Norton, 69, Canadian politician, former MPP for
Kingston and the Islands (1975–1985), cancer. •
Paddie O'Neil, 83, British actress and singer. •
Phil Smith, 63, Australian football player, cancer. •
Pierre Vaneck, 78, French actor (
The Science of Sleep), complications of heart surgery. ==References==