1 •
Fathi Arafat, 71, Palestinian physician, founder of the Palestinian
Red Crescent Society,
stomach cancer. •
Mammad Araz, 71, Azerbaijani poet. •
Bill Brown, 73, Scottish football goalkeeper. •
Prince Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, 93, German-born Dutch royal, spouse of
Queen Juliana and father of
Queen Beatrix, lung and colon cancer. •
Norman Newell, 85, English record producer and lyricist. •
Damon Simonelli, 45, American
planetary scientist, heart failure. •
David Vienneau, 53, Canadian journalist,
pancreatic cancer.
2 •
Larry Buchanan, 81, American
B-movie director, producer and writer, complications of collapsed lung. •
Kevin Coyne, 60, English musician,
filmmaker, and a writer of lyrics, stories and poems. •
Cachita Galán, 61, Argentine singer, cancer. •
Dame Alicia Markova, 94, English ballerina, stroke. •
Nadine Shamir, 32, American techno singer/songwriter, complications during childbirth. •
Louis W. Truman, 96, Senior American Army officer. •
Mona Van Duyn, 83, American poet,
US Poet Laureate (1992),
bone cancer.
3 •
Shiing-Shen Chern, 93, Chinese mathematician, heart failure following heart attack. •
Robert Dhéry, 83, French comedian, actor, director and screenwriter. •
Gerald FitzGerald, 8th Duke of Leinster, 90, Irish nobleman. •
June Maston, 76, Australian Olympic sprinter and athletics coach. •
Maria Perschy, 66, Austrian actress, cancer. •
Helmut Rix, 78, German linguist, car accident. •
Josef Schwammberger, 92, German SS (
Schutzstaffel) officer and labor camp commander during World War II. •
Fred Silva, 77, American gridiron football player, heart attack. •
Marek Stachowski, 68, Polish composer. •
Yaroslav Starobogatov, 72, Russian
zoologist and academic.
4 •
Mahmut Atalay, 70, Turkish freestyle wrestler and coach, heart attack. •
Willem Duyn, 67, Dutch singer, actor, and entertainer, heart attack. •
Carl Esmond, 102, Austrian film and stage actor. •
Tom Fitzgerald, 53, American soccer coach (
University of Tampa), motorcycle accident. •
Elena Souliotis, 61, Greek operatic soprano, heart failure. •
Svend Wad, 76, Danish boxer and Olympic medalist. •
Ron Williamson, 51, American minor league baseball player and murder convict,
liver cirrhosis.
5 •
Giuseppe Campora, 81, Italian operatic tenor. •
Seymour Ginsburg, 76, American computer scientist, Alzheimer's disease. •
Neil Hallett, 80, Belgian-English actor. •
Cristiano Júnior, 25, Brazilian footballer, cardiac arrest after on-field collision. •
Manzanita, 48, Spanish singer and guitarist, heart attack. •
Jose Pellissery, 53–54, Indian film and theatre actor. •
Øystein Rottem, 58, Norwegian philologist,
literary historian and
literary critic, cancer. •
Hicham Zerouali, 27, Moroccan footballer, car accident.
6 •
Frank Reginald Carey, 92, British
fighter ace during World War II. •
Raymond Goethals, 83, Belgian soccer coach,
colorectal cancer. •
Árpád Makay, 93, Hungarian cinematographer. •
Adrian Morris, 75, English painter. •
John Norton, 86,
United States Army general. •
Enrique Salinas, 52, Mexican businessman,
asphyxiation. •
Christine Wodetzky, 66, German actress.
7 •
Pacita Abad, 58, Filipino painter,
lung cancer. •
Frederick Fennell, 90, American conductor, founder of
Eastman Wind Ensemble. •
María Rosa Gallo, 82, Argentine actress,
pneumonia. •
Julije Knifer, 80, Croatian abstract painter. •
Floyd Nattrass, 86, Canadian Olympic
sports shooter (
men's trap shooting at the
1964 Summer Olympics). •
Zuzana Navarová, 45, Czech singer and songwriter, cancer. •
Jay Van Andel, 80, American co-founder and former chairman of
Amway,
Parkinson's disease. •
Oscar M. Ruebhausen, 92, American lawyer and adviser to
Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller. •
Jerry Scoggins, 93, American musician ("
The Ballad of Jed Clampett").
8 •
Dimebag Darrell, 38, American
heavy metal guitarist (
Pantera,
Damageplan), shot. •
Cleve Gray, 86, American abstract painter. •
Johnny Lockett, 89, British
Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. •
Jackson Mac Low, 82, American poet, composer and performance artist, complications from stroke. •
Noel Mills, 60, New Zealand rower and Olympic silver medalist. •
C. S. Rao, 80, Indian actor, writer and director. •
Leslie Scarman, Baron Scarman, 93, British jurist,
Lord of Appeal in Ordinary (1977–1986).
9 •
Andrea Absolonová, 27, Czech diver and adult model known as Lea De Mae,
brain cancer. •
Henny Backus, 93, American actress, stroke. •
David Brudnoy, 64, American radio talk show host (
Boston),
Merkel cell carcinoma. •
Paul Edwards, 81, Austrian-American philosopher. •
Peter Emery, 78, British Conservative politician (
Honiton, 1967–1997;
East Devon, 1997–2001). •
Jimmy Gauld, 75, Scottish football player. •
Philippe Gigantès, 81, Canadian former senator, cancer. •
Jean Tournier, 78, French
cinematographer. •
Sergey Voychenko, 49, Belarusian artist and designer, complications following
heart bypass surgery.
10 •
Khoren Abrahamyan, 74, Armenian actor and director. •
Bruno Arcari, 89, Italian football player player and coach. •
Norman Borrett, 87, English sportsman. •
Emilio Cruz, 66, Cuban-American artist,
pancreatic cancer. •
Bob King, 81, American college basketball coach. •
Radner Muratov, 76, Soviet and Russian stage and film actor, stroke. •
Homi Wadia, 93, Indian film director and producer. •
Gary Webb, 49, American investigative reporter ("
Dark Alliance"), suicide by gunshot.
11 •
Christopher Blake, 55, English actor and screenwriter,
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma. •
José Luis Cuciuffo, 43, Argentinian footballer and
1986 Football World Cup champion, hunting accident. •
Arthur Lydiard, 87, New Zealand marathon runner and athletics coach, heart attack. •
Harry Roesli, 53, Indonesian singer-songwriter, heart attack. •
Margaret Shaw, 101, American photographer and
folklorist. •
M. S. Subbulakshmi, 88, Indian
carnatic musician and singer, heart problems.
12 •
Joseph Beyrle, 81,
United States Army and Soviet
Red Army soldier, heart attack. •
Pramod Chakravorty, 75, Indian film producer and director. •
Herbert Dreilich, 62, German
rock musician, cancer. •
Frits Helmuth, 73, Danish film actor. •
Rollin Hotchkiss, 93, American biochemist and
molecular genetics pioneer. •
George Hunter, 77, South African boxer and Olympic champion. •
Frank Isola, 79, American
jazz drummer. •
Harry McNally, 68, English football player, coach and manager, heart attack. •
Phaswane Mpe, 34, South African novelist,
AIDS-related complications. •
Fabian O'Dea, 86, Canadian lawyer and politician,
Lieutenant Governor of Newfoundland and Labrador. •
Maurizio Perissinot, 53, Italian rally driver. •
Syed Mir Qasim, 83, Indian politician,
Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir (1971–1975). •
William B. Rosson, 86,
United States Army general, heart attack. •
Bernarda Bryson Shahn, 101, American painter,
lithographer, widow of
Ben Shahn. •
Pavlo Vasylyk, 78,
Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch.
13 •
Donald S. Jones, 76,
United States Navy admiral. •
Andre Rodgers, 70, Bahamian baseball player, first Bahamian to play in
Major League Baseball. •
Tom Turesson, 62, Swedish footballer. •
David Wheeler, 77, English
computer scientist.
14 •
Candice Daly, 38, American film and TV actress (
The Young and the Restless), polydrug intoxication. •
John Downey, 77, American contemporary classical composer, conductor, and pianist. •
Danny Doyle, 87, American baseball player (
Boston Red Sox). •
Rod Kanehl, 70, American baseball player, heart attack. •
Alexey Korneyev, 65, Russian footballer. •
Anselmo López, 94, Spanish basketball coach and administrator. •
Fernando Poe Jr., 65, Filipino actor and former presidential candidate, stroke. •
Alex Sarkisian, 82, American gridiron football player. •
Agostino Straulino, 90, Italian Olympic sailor (mixed two person
keelboat:
1952 gold medal winner,
1956 silver medal winner). •
Carsten Peter Thiede, 52, German
archaeologist and
New Testament scholar, heart attack.
15 •
Alma Duncan, 87, Canadian painter, graphic artist, and filmmaker. •
Chiang Fang-liang, 88, Belarus-Taiwanese widow of
Chiang Ching-kuo and
First Lady of the
Republic of China (1978–1988), pulmonary and cardiac failure. •
Vassal Gadoengin, 61,
Nauruan politician and then-incumbent Speaker of Parliament, heart attack. •
Jiban Ghosh, 69, Indian cricket umpire. •
Sidonie Goossens, 105, British harpist. •
Pauline LaFon Gore, 92, American lawyer. •
Jim Holliday, 55–56, American pornographic film producer and historian, complications from
diabetes. •
Lucien Musset, 82, French historian, specializing in the history of the
Vikings. •
Rodney O'Gliasain Kennedy-Minott, 76, American diplomat,
United States Ambassador to Sweden, complications of
pancreatitis.
16 •
Ted Abernathy, 71, American baseball player. •
Laxmikant Berde, 50, Indian actor,
kidney failure. •
Martha Carson, 83, American gospel-country music singer. •
Richard B. Fisher, 68, American investment banker, cancer. •
Deyda Hydara, 58, Gambian journalist and editor, homicide. •
Stefano Madia, 49, Italian actor. •
Agnes Martin, 92, American abstract painter,
pneumonia. •
Bobby Mattick, 89, American former baseball player and manager, stroke. •
Seymour Melman, 86, American economist and academic. •
Mahmoud Messadi, 93, Tunisian author and intellectual. •
Yehudit Naot, 60, Israeli scientist and politician,
throat cancer. •
Lawrence O'Brien, 53, Canadian politician, member of the
House of Commons of Canada, cancer. •
Freddie Perren, 61, American two-time
Grammy Award-winning record producer, stroke. •
Prathapachandran, 63, Indian actor. •
Hans-Rudolf Rösing, 99, German
U-boat commander during World War II. •
William Silverman, 87, American physician and
neonatology pioneer, kidney failure.
17 •
Erich Auer, 81, Austrian theater, film and television actor. •
Dick Heckstall-Smith, 70, British saxophone player (Colosseum,
John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers), cancer. •
James Ling, 81, American businessman. •
Agnes Mary Mansour, 73, American
Catholic nun and politician,
breast cancer. •
Gyula Marsovszky, 68, Swiss
Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. •
Ib Mossin, 71, Danish actor, singer and director. •
Dietrich Schwanitz, 64, German writer and literary scholar, pulmonary embolism. •
Tom Wesselmann, 73, American pop artist, surgical complications. •
Sir James Wilson, 83, British army general.
18 •
Noel Beaton, 78, Australian MP (
Bendigo, 1960–1969) and journalist. •
Freddy Chaves, 86, Belgian football player. •
Vijay Hazare, 89, Indian cricketer, Captain of India (1951–1953), complications following
intestinal cancer. •
Mariella Lotti, 85, Italian film actress. •
Albert Nordengen, 81, Norwegian Conservative politician, Mayor of Oslo (1976–1990), heart failure. •
Peter Palitzsch, 86, German theatre director and theatre manager. •
Anthony Sampson, 78, British journalist and author, official biographer of
Nelson Mandela, heart attack. •
Kikuko, Princess Takamatsu, 92, Japanese member of the imperial family,
sepsis. •
Glenn Vaughan, 60, American baseball player (
Houston Colt .45s).
19 •
Mamdouh Adwan, 63, Syrian writer, poet, playwright and critic, cancer. •
Gretchen Bender, 53, American video artist, cancer. •
Richard Best, 88, British film editor. •
Herbert C. Brown, 92, British
Nobel Prize-winning chemist (
Chemistry, 1979), heart attack. •
Vojin Jelić, 83, Croatian Serb writer and poet. •
Andrée Tainsy, 93, Belgian actress. •
Renata Tebaldi, 82, Italian opera singer, cancer. •
Gheorghe Tătaru, 56, Romanian football player. •
Thomas Yamamoto, 87, American artist.
20 •
Liliane Maigné, 76, French actress. •
Alexander Marshack, 86, American independent scholar and
paleolithic archaeologist. •
Jack Newfield, 66, American author, activist and journalist (
Village Voice,
New York Daily News,
New York Post), kidney cancer. •
Son Seals, 62, American
blues musician, complications of
diabetes.
21 •
Lennart Bernadotte, 95, Swedish prince. •
Richard Hamilton, 83, American actor (
Men in Black,
Pale Rider,
Bret Maverick). •
Arild Nyquist, 67, Norwegian novelist, poet, children's writer and musician. •
Autar Singh Paintal, 79, Indian physiologist and
medical scientist. •
Mack Vickery, 66, American musician and songwriter, heart attack. •
Zvonimir Vučković, 88,
Yugoslav Chetnik military commander.
22 •
Yusuf Soalih Ajura, 114, Ghanaian Islamic scholar, political activist and sect leader. •
Doug Ault, 54, American
Major League Baseball player (
Toronto Blue Jays), suicide by gunshot. •
Mario Curletto, 69, Italian fencer. •
Rudi Kolak, 86, Yugoslav and Bosnian
communist politician. •
Paul Métivier, 104, Canadian World War I veteran. •
Antonio Rangel, 61, Mexican
badminton player.
23 •
Reuven Adiv, 74, Israeli actor, director and drama teacher, heart attack. •
Richard Barnet, 75, American political activist. •
Peter Beazley, 82, British businessman and
Conservative Party politician. •
John W. Duarte, 85, British classical guitarist and writer, cancer. •
Ifor James, 73, British horn player. •
Roger Moorey, 67, British
archaeologist and historian. •
P. V. Narasimha Rao, 83, Indian Prime Minister (1991–1996), heart attack. •
Richard Abel Smith, 71,
British Army officer and landowner, stroke. •
Anne Truitt, 83, American sculptor.
24 •
Richard Annand, 90, British soldier, first
Victoria Cross recipient of World War II. •
Sir Anthony Meyer, 3rd Baronet, 84, British Conservative MP (
West Flintshire, 1970–1983;
Clwyd North-West, 1983–1992), cancer. •
Johnny Oates, 58, American MLB catcher (
Baltimore Orioles,
New York Yankees) and manager (
Baltimore Orioles,
Texas Rangers), brain tumor. •
Pete Palangio, 96, Canadian ice hockey player. •
Rosemary Rue, 76, British physician and civil servant, breast cancer, colorectal cancer. •
Elwira Seroczyńska, 73, Polish Olympic speed skater (
silver medal winner in
women's 1500 metres at the
1960 Winter Olympics). •
Lauri Silvennoinen, 88, Finnish Olympic cross-country skier (
1948 silver medal winner in
men's 4 x 10 kilometre cross-country skiing relay). •
Elmer Swenson, 91, American horticulturist and pioneering
grape breeder.
25 •
Ahmad Bashir, 81, Pakistani writer, journalist, and film director. •
Sandy Cameron, 66, Canadian politician. •
Nripen Chakraborty, 99, Indian politician. •
Amaechi Ottiji, 34, Nigerian football player, shot. •
Donald Pederson, 79, American electrical engineer, complications from
Parkinson's disease. •
Antony Preston, 66, British naval historian and writer. •
Eddie Spicer, 82, English footballer (
Liverpool F.C.). •
Gennadi Strekalov, 64, Russian cosmonaut,
Hero of the Soviet Union, cancer. •
Ian Syster, 28, South African long-distance runner, drowned. •
Lev Vainshtein, 88, Soviet world champion and Olympic bronze medalist in shooting. •
Howie Williams, 77, American basketball player.
26 •
Charles Biederman, 98, American
abstract artist. •
Jonathan Drummond-Webb, 45, South African paediatric heart surgeon, suicide by opioid overdose. •
Garard Green, 80, British actor. •
Marianne Heiberg, 59, Norwegian diplomat,
Oslo Accords mediator, heart attack. •
Eddie Layton, 79, American organist (
New York Yankees). •
David McKay, 83, Australian journalist and racing driver, cancer. •
Don Nygord, 68, American Olympic
sports shooter (
50 metre 1984,
10 metre 1988,
50 metre 1988). •
Sir Angus Ogilvy, 76, British businessman, husband of HRH
Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy, throat cancer. •
Frank Pantridge, 88, British physician and cardiologist. •
Ishigaki Rin, 84, Japanese poet. •
Martin Robertson, 93, British classical scholar and poet. •
Mikhail Smirtyukov, 95, Soviet politician and statesman. •
Reggie White, 43, American football player (
Philadelphia Eagles,
Green Bay Packers) and member of the
Pro Football Hall of Fame, cardiac arrhythmia. • Notable people killed in the
2004 Asian tsunami: •
Jane Attenborough, 49, British arts administrator. •
Troy Broadbridge, 24, Australian Football League player (
Melbourne). •
Kristina Fröjmark, 47, Swedish reality TV star. •
Poom Jensen, 21, Thai prince. •
Sujeewa Kamalasuriya, 39, Sri Lankan cricketer. •
Sigurd Køhn, 45, Norwegian composer. •
Stephen Lissenburgh, 40, British policy researcher. •
Markus Sandlund, 29, Swedish cellist. •
Aki Sirkesalo, 42, Finnish musician. •
Mieszko Talarczyk, 30, Swedish musician. •
Robert Whymant, 60, British journalist (
The Times) and author.
27 •
Eneko Arieta, 71, Spanish footballer. •
Eros Beraldo, 75, Italian football player. •
Mabel Blythe, 74, Sri Lankan actress and singer. •
Ferenc Bessenyei, 85, Hungarian actor and singer. •
Hank Garland, 74, American studio guitarist (
Elvis Presley,
Charlie Parker),
staphylococcus infection. •
Ernest Groth, 82, American baseball player (
Cleveland Indians,
Chicago White Sox). •
Heorhiy Kirpa, 58, Ukrainian industrialist and politician, shot. •
Luigi Mariotti, 92, Italian politician.
28 •
Jacques Dupuis, 81, Belgian Jesuit priest and theologian. •
Jerry Orbach, 69, American actor (
Law & Order,
Beauty and the Beast,
Dirty Dancing),
Tony winner (
1969), prostate cancer. •
Susan Sontag, 71, American author, literary theorist and activist, acute myeloid leukemia. •
Tzvi Tzur, 81, Israeli officer and politician.
29 •
Julius Axelrod, 92, American
Nobel Prize-winning biochemist (
Medicine, 1970). •
William Boyett, 77, American actor (
Adam-12), complications from
pneumonia and kidney failure. •
John Bridgeman, 88, British sculptor. •
Ken Burkhart, 89, American
Major League Baseball pitcher and umpire,
emphysema. •
Alf Evers, 99, American historian. •
Eugenio Garin, 95, Italian philosopher and
renaissance historian. •
Ermanno Gorrieri, 84, Italian politician and economist. •
Liddy Holloway, 57, New Zealand actress (
Shortland Street) and writer,
liver cancer. •
Larry McNeill, 53, American
National Basketball Association player. •
Gus Niarhos, 84, American baseball player (
New York Yankees,
Chicago White Sox,
Boston Red Sox,
Philadelphia Phillies). •
Esther Thelen, 63, American
developmental psychologist and
cognitive scientist.
30 •
Saad Al-Dosari, 27, Saudi Arabian football player, traffic collision. •
Salvatore Asta, 89, Italian prelate of the
Catholic Church. •
Biswajit Das, 68, Indian playwright, short story writer, and film director. •
Mark Fiennes, 71, English photographer and illustrator. •
Masao Kato, 57, Japanese
go player, stroke. •
Marcelo Sajen, 39, Argentine serial rapist, suicide by gunshot. •
Ionel Schein, 77, Romanian-French architect. •
Artie Shaw, 94, American
jazz musician, complications of
diabetes.
31 •
Aladi Aruna, 71, Indian politician, murdered. •
John Chataway, 57, Canadian politician, complications from stroke. •
Charlie Cozart, 85, American baseball player (
Boston Braves). •
Gérard Debreu, 83, French-American
Nobel Prize-winning economist (
Economics, 1983). •
Jack Karwales, 84, American football player. •
Cliff Letcher, 52, Australian tennis player. •
Balkrishan Singh, 71, Indian Olympic field hockey player (
gold medal winner in men's field hockey at the
1956 Summer Olympics). •
Kuini Speed, 55, Fijian chief and politician, cancer. •
George Wackenhut, 85, American businessman, founder of
Wackenhut Corporation, heart failure. == References ==