1 •
Harold Bodle, 84, English footballer (
Birmingham City F.C.,
Bury F.C.,
Stockport County F.C. and
Accrington Stanley F.C.). •
Shirley Chisholm, 80, American politician, first black woman ever to serve in the
U.S. Congress. •
Robert Fortier, 78, American actor. •
Hugh Lawson, 6th Baron Burnham, 73, British newspaper executive, peer, and Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords. •
Bob Matsui, 63, American Democratic Party member of the House of Representatives, cancer. •
Dmitry Nelyubin, 33, Russian cyclist, murdered. •
Patrick Denis O'Donnell, 82, Irish military historian and army officer. •
Willem Scholten, 77, Dutch politician and economist.
2 •
Arnold Denker, 90, American chess player, brain cancer. •
Cyril Fletcher, 91, British comedian (''
That's Life!''). •
Frank Kelly Freas, 82, American science fiction artist. •
Félix Galimi, 84, Argentine Olympic fencer. •
Margaret Gardiner, 100, British art collector and left wing political activist. •
Paul Manning, 45, American television writer (
ER,
L.A. Law), colorectal cancer. •
Maclyn McCarty, 93, American geneticist and
DNA research pioneer, heart failure. •
Claude Meillassoux, 79, French neo-Marxist economic anthropologist and
Africanist. •
Edo Murtić, 83, Croatian painter. •
C. M. Pennington-Richards, 93, British film director and cinematographer. •
Ngo Van, 93, Vietnamese revolutionary. •
Charles Paul Wilp, 72, German advertising-designer, artist, and photographer. •
John Ziman, 79, British-New Zealand physicist and
humanist.
3 •
Koo Chen-fu, 88, Chinese negotiator with the People's Republic of China,
renal cancer. •
Paul Darragh, 51, Irish Olympic equestrian showjumper, heart failure. •
Jyotindra Nath Dixit, 68, Indian national security adviser and former foreign secretary, heart attack. •
Will Eisner, 87, American comic book artist (
The Spirit), complications following surgery. •
Misael Escuti, 78, Chilean football player, cardiovascular disease. •
Mehmet Faruk Sükan, 84, Turkish physician, politician and government minister. •
László Vadász, 56, Hungarian
chess grandmaster. •
Kay Williamson, 69, British linguist, heart attack.
4 •
Ali Al-Haidri, Iraqi governor of Baghdad province, assassinated. •
Humphrey Carpenter, 58, British biographer and broadcaster, heart attack. •
Guy Davenport, 77, American writer, translator, illustrator, and painter,
lung cancer. •
Frank Harary, 83, American mathematician, a foremost expert on
graph theory. •
Robert Heilbroner, 85, American economist. •
Marguerite Pearson, 72, American professional baseball player (
AAGPBL). •
Bud Poile, 80, Canadian professional ice hockey player, member of
Hockey Hall of Fame,
Parkinson's disease. •
Alton Tobey, 90, American muralist and painter. •
Jorge Eduardo Wright, 82, Argentine
mycologist.
5 •
Antonio Benítez-Rojo, 73, Cuban writer. •
Gabrielle Daye, 93, English stage actress. •
Martín Acosta y Lara, 79, Uruguayan basketball player. •
René Le Hénaff, 103, French film editor and director. •
Sean, 69, American cartoonist, lung cancer. •
Danny Sugerman, 50, American music manager,
lung cancer.
6 •
Vern Barberis, 76, Australian weightlifter and Olympic medalist. •
Sergio Fubini, 76, Italian theoretical physicist. •
Ronald 'Bo' Ginn, 70, American politician,
lung cancer. •
Lois Hole, 75, Canadian businesswoman, author and politician,
Lieutenant Governor of Alberta, cancer. •
Makgatho Mandela, 54, South African last surviving son of
Nelson Mandela,
AIDS. •
Tarquinio Provini, 71, Italian motorcycle road racer. •
Louis Robichaud, 79, Canadian former premier of
New Brunswick. •
Nicholas Scott, 71, British politician. •
Boris Shtokolov, 74, Soviet and Russian singer. •
Ali Shukri, 85, Yugoslav-Kosovan politician, President of the
Executive Council (1963–1967) and
Presidency (1981–1982). •
Sindhu, 33, Indian actress, lung infection. •
A. Hays Town, 101, American architect.
7 •
Harry Boyles, 93, American baseball player. •
Evgeny Chuprun, 77, Soviet and Russian realist painter. •
Pierre Daninos, 91, French novelist (
The Diary of Major Thompson). •
Rosemary Kennedy, 86, American sister of
John F. Kennedy. •
Ivar Medaas, 66, Norwegian folksinger and
fiddle player. •
Aleksandr Prokhorov, 58, Soviet footballer (
Dynamo Kyiv,
FC Spartak Moscow).
8 •
Badja Djola, 56, American actor (
Mississippi Burning,
The Hurricane,
The Last Boy Scout), heart attack. •
Tage Fahlborg, 92, Swedish sprint canoeist. •
Jacqueline Joubert, 83, French television announcer, producer and director. •
Suvad Katana, 35, Bosnian footballer, heart attack. •
Friedrich Kuhn, 85, West German bobsledder and Olympic champion. •
Aksella Luts, 99, Estonian screenwriter, actress and filmmaker. •
Song Renqiong, 95, Chinese general and politician. •
David Shaw, 50, Australian
scuba diver, drowned. •
Michel Thomas, 90, Polish-American linguist, decorated war veteran and
nazi hunter.
9 •
Artidoro Berti, 84, Italian Olympic runner. •
Gonzalo Gavira, 79, Mexican sound effects creator (
The Exorcist,
The Towering Inferno). •
Joanne Grant, 74, American journalist and
communist activist. •
Koji Hashimoto, 68, Japanese film director. •
Antonín Klimek, 67, Czech historian. •
Bob Mabe, 75, American baseball player. •
Ricky Rodriguez, 29, American member of a religious cult "
The Family", suicide by gunshot. •
Michael P. Ryan, 88,
United States Marine Corps major general. •
Vantile Whitfield, 74, American arts administrator,
Alzheimer's disease.
10 •
Gene Baylos, 98, American comedian. •
Princess Joséphine-Charlotte of Belgium, 77, Belgian Princess of Belgium and Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, cancer. •
Georges Bernier, 75, French humorist. •
Margherita Carosio, 96, Italian soprano. •
Fernand Cazenave, 80, French rugby player and national coach. •
Tommy Fine, 90, American
Major League Baseball player (
Boston Red Sox and
St. Louis Browns). •
James Forman, 76, American executive secretary of the
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, colorectal cancer. •
Stephen Hastings, 83, British politician, MP for
Mid Bedfordshire (1960–1983),
esophageal cancer. •
Erwin Hillier, 93, British cinematographer. •
Ursula Hoff, 95, Australian scholar and author on art. •
Kalevi Hämäläinen, 72, Finnish cross-country skier and Olympic champion. •
Helmut Losch, 57, East German heavyweight weightlifting champion. •
Jan Pieter Schotte, 76, Belgian official of the
Roman Curia, cardinal since 1994. •
Inna Tumanyan, 75, Soviet-Armenian film director and screenwriter. •
Arthur Walworth, 101, American writer and biographer.
11 •
Alessandro Ruspoli, 9th Prince of Cerveteri, 80, Italian aristocrat, actor and socialite. •
Spencer Dryden, 66, American drummer (
Jefferson Airplane), cancer. •
Jimmy Griffin, 61, American singer, guitarist, songwriter, member of rock band
Bread, cancer. •
Miriam Hyde, 91, Australian composer (
Valley of Rocks). •
Fabrizio Meoni, 47, Italian motorcyclist, motorcycle accident. •
Jerzy Pawłowski, 72, Polish fencer and Olympic champion. •
Thelma White, 94, American actress (
Reefer Madness),
pneumonia.
12 •
Domiciano Cavém, 72, Portuguese football player and manager,
Alzheimer's disease. •
Gaston Clermont, 91, Canadian businessman and politician. •
Kenneth Farmer, 92, Canadian Olympic ice hockey player and sports administrator. •
Leila Fawzi, 86, Egyptian actress and model. •
Manfred Fuhrmann, 79, German classical philologist and academic. •
Herbert Goldstein, 82, American physicist. •
Luther Goldman, 95, American naturalist. •
Tullio Gonnelli, 92, Italian athlete and Olympic silver medalist. •
Bernard Meadows, 89, British modernist sculptor. •
Amrish Puri, 72, Indian actor (
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,
Mr. India,
Gandhi), cerebral hemorrhage. •
Jay Schulberg, 65, American advertising executive,
pancreatic cancer. •
Edmund S. Valtman, 90, Estonian-American
Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist.
13 •
Earl Cameron, 89, Canadian broadcaster and
The National anchor (1959–1966). •
Jacques de Tonnancour, 88, Canadian artist and art educator from Montreal, Quebec. •
Nell Rankin, 81, United States
mezzo-soprano opera singer (
Metropolitan Opera). •
K. V. Sarma, 85, Indian historian of science. •
Hisham Sharabi, 78, American cultural historian and political activist, cancer.
14 •
Ward Beysen, 63, Belgian politician and freemason, suicide by drowning. •
Edwin Bélanger, 94, Canadian musician. •
Ofelia Guilmáin, 83, Spanish film and stage actress,
pneumonia. •
Charlotte MacLeod, 82, American mystery writer,
Alzheimer's disease. •
Conroy Maddox, 92, British surrealist painter. •
Rudolph Moshammer, 64, German fashion designer, homicide. •
Carl Möhner, 83, Austrian film actor, director, screenwriter and painter,
Parkinson's disease. •
Rocky Roberts, 63, American-Italian
rhythm and blues singer. •
Jesús Rafael Soto, 81, Venezuelan
kinetic artist.
15 •
Felix Aprahamian, 90, English music critic. •
Leonid Brekhovskikh, 87, Russian scientist. •
Terry Crowley, 51, New Zealand linguist of
Oceanic languages. •
Walter Ernsting, 84, German science fiction author (
Perry Rhodan). •
Elizabeth Janeway, 91, American feminist author. •
Dan Lee, 35, Canadian animator (
Finding Nemo,
Monsters, Inc.,
Toy Story 2), heart failure. •
Werner Lesser, 72, East German Olympic ski jumper. •
Ruth Warrick, 89, American actress (
Citizen Kane,
All My Children,
Song of the South), pneumonia. •
Karapetê Xaço, 104, Armenian singer of traditional Kurdish
Dengbêj music. •
Victoria de los Ángeles, 81, Spanish soprano, heart attack.
16 •
H. Bentley Glass, 98, American biologist, known for controversial views. •
Agustín González, 74, Spanish film actor,
pneumonia. •
Yoshito Matsushige, 92, Japanese photojournalist. •
Jerzy Pławczyk, 93, Polish Olympic high jumper. •
Gudrun Wegner, 49, East German swimmer, cancer. •
Marjorie Williams, 47, American journalist.
The Washington Post columnist and contributing editor for
Vanity Fair,
liver cancer.
17 •
Maria Albuleț, 72, Romanian
chess Woman Grandmaster. •
Charlie Bell, 44, Australian business executive, CEO of
McDonald's,
colon cancer. •
Bezerra da Silva, 77, Brazilian
samba musician. •
Basil Hoskins, 75, English theatre and film actor. •
Anatoly Kartashov, 67, Russian water polo player and Olympic silver medalist. •
Virginia Mayo, 84, American film actress
(White Heat, The Best Years of Our Lives), heart attack. •
Albert Schatz, 84, American microbiologist, discoverer of
streptomycin,
pancreatic cancer. •
George P. L. Walker, 78, British
volcanologist. •
Hansjoachim Walther, 65, German politician and mathematician. •
Zhao Ziyang, 85, Chinese politician,
Communist Party General Secretary (1987-1989), complications of multiple strokes.
18 •
Charles Thurston Brockman, 77, American broadcaster and president of the
United States Auto Club (1969-1972). •
Gabrielle Brune, 92, British actress. •
Vivian H. H. Green, 89, British priest and historian. •
Robert Moch, 90, American rower. •
Pez Whatley, 54, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
19 •
Theodore W. Allen, 85, American scholar, writer, and activist. •
Bill Andersen, 80, New Zealand communist and trade union leader. •
Lamont Bentley, 31, American actor (
Moesha) and rapper, traffic collision. •
Jens-Halvard Bratz, 84, Norwegian businessman and politician. •
Carlos Cortez, 81, American artist and political activist. •
K. Sello Duiker, 30, South African novelist, suicide by hanging. •
Anita Kulcsár, 28, Hungarian handball player and Olympic silver medalist, traffic collision. •
Rinat Mardanshin, 41, Russian
motorcycle speedway rider, complications during surgery. •
Stan West, 78, American gridiron football player.
20 •
Parveen Babi, 50, Indian actress,
diabetes. •
Ivor G. Balding, 96, American polo player. •
Bogle, 40, Jamaican dancer, homicide. •
Per Borten, 91, Norwegian politician,
Prime Minister of Norway (1965-1971). •
Dick Gallagher, 49, American composer, predominantly for off-Broadway productions. •
Solomon King, 74, American singer, cancer. •
Jan Nowak-Jeziorański, 91, Polish journalist and decorated World War II hero, head of the
Radio Free Europe Polish section. •
Miriam Rothschild, 96, British
zoologist,
entomologist and author. •
Hamdan Sheikh Tahir, 81, Malaysian politician, governor of
Penang (1989-2001).
21 •
Jacques Andrieux, 87, French fighter pilot during World War II. •
Theun de Vries, 97, Dutch writer. •
Ole Due, 73, Danish jurist and judge. •
John L. Hess, 87, American journalist. •
Henry Källgren, 73, Swedish football player. •
Edward F. McLaughlin, Jr., 84, American attorney and politician. •
Kaljo Raid, 83, Estonian composer, cellist and pastor. •
Neville Scott, 69, New Zealand Olympic runner. •
Steve Susskind, 62, American voice-over actor, traffic collision.
22 •
William Deakin, 91, British World War II hero and founder of
St Antony's College, Oxford. •
César Gutiérrez, 61, Venezuelan baseball player. •
Patsy Rowlands, 74, British actress, known for her roles in the
Carry On films,
breast cancer. •
William Trager, 94, American
parasitologist. •
Consuelo Velázquez, 88, Mexican songwriter and lyricist, and author of the song "
Bésame Mucho". •
Rose Mary Woods, 87, American politician, former secretary of
Richard Nixon and key
Watergate figure.
23 •
Harley Baldwin, 59, American land developer and art dealer,
kidney cancer. •
Morys Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare, 85, British politician and peer, Deputy Speaker of the House of Lords. •
Johnny Carson, 79, United States comedian and television host, emphysema. •
Douglas Knight, 83, American educator, businessman, author, former president of
Lawrence University and
Duke University. •
Charles Martin, 45, American gridiron football player,
kidney failure. •
Mutsuko Sakura, 83, Japanese actress. •
Eddie Sinclair, 67, Scottish snooker player.
24 •
June Bronhill, 75, Australian actress and opera, operetta and musical comedy singer,
Alzheimer's disease. •
Else Krüger, 89, German secretary of
nazi official
Martin Bormann during World War II. •
Paritala Ravindra, 46, Indian politician, homicide. •
Lev Saychuk, 81, Soviet Olympic fencer. •
Leslie Wood, 72, English footballer.
25 •
Barbara Craig, 89, British archaeologist, classicist, and academic, specialising in classical pottery. •
Philip Johnson, 98, American architect. •
Ron Kersey, 55, American keyboardist, songwriter, producer and arranger. •
Vikki LaMotta, 75, American model, ex-wife of American boxer
Jake LaMotta. •
Manuel Lopes, 97, Cape Verdean novelist, poet and essayist. •
Ray Peterson, 65, American popular singer ("
Tell Laura I Love Her"), cancer. •
Joop Rohner, 77, Dutch water polo goalkeeper. •
Max Velthuijs, 81, Dutch writer and illustrator. •
Netti Witziers-Timmer, 81, Dutch sprinter and Olympic champion.
26 •
Fraser Elliott, 83, Canadian lawyer and
philanthropist. •
Rudi Falkenhagen, 71, Dutch actor. •
Peter A. Garland, 81, American politician, U.S. Representative from Maine (1961–1963). •
Jackie Henderson, 73, Scottish footballer. •
Josie MacAvin, 85, Irish set director. •
Cordelia Scaife May, 76, American philanthropist and heiress to
Mellon family fortune,
pancreatic cancer. •
Inge Pohmann, 83/84, German tennis player.
27 •
Shah A M S Kibria, 73, Bangladeshi economist, diplomat and politician, homicide. •
Rado Lenček, 83, Slovene linguist and
ethnologist. •
Aurélie Nemours, 94, French painter. •
Jonathan Welsh, 57, Canadian actor.
28 •
Artūras Barysas, 50, Lithuanian counter-culture actor, singer, photographer and filmmaker. •
Daniel Branca, 53, Argentinian
Disney comic book artist, heart attack. •
Jim Capaldi, 60, British
rock musician and songwriter (
Traffic),
stomach cancer. •
Lucien Carr, 79, American
United Press International editor,
bone cancer. •
Karen Lancaume, (aka
Karen Bach), 32, French adult film performer, suicide by drug overdose. •
Paul A. Partain, 58, American actor (
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre), cancer. •
Jacques Villeret, 53, French actor and comedian, internal hemorrhage.
29 •
Ron Feinberg, 72, American actor (
A Boy and His Dog, ''
Hulk Hogan's Rock 'n' Wrestling, The Centurions''). •
Eric Griffiths, 64, British guitarist in the musical group
The Quarrymen,
pancreatic cancer. •
Jean Hengen, 92, Luxembourgish prelate of the
Roman Catholic Church. •
Ephraim Kishon, 80, Israeli dramatist, screenwriter and film director, heart attack. •
Žika Mitrović, 83, Serbian film director. •
Bill Shadel, 96, American journalist,
prostate cancer. •
Joan Tompkins, 89, American actress.
30 •
Mary Beck, 96, American politician. •
Wolfgang Becker, 94, German film director and film editor. •
Martyn Bennett, 33, Scottish Celtic musician, cancer. •
Susan Bradshaw, 73, British pianist. •
Maurice Desimpelaere, 84, Belgian cyclist. •
Sir Horace Law, 93, British admiral.
31 •
Ron Basford, 72, Canadian cabinet minister (1970s). •
Nel Benschop, 87, Dutch poet. •
Jack Collins, 86, American actor (
The Towering Inferno,
The Sting,
Bewitched). •
Makarand Dave, 82, Indian poet and author. •
Malcolm Hardee, 55, British comedian, drowned. •
Ishrat Hashmi, 57, Pakistani actress. •
Bobby Howitt, 79, Scottish football player and manager. •
Hosur Narasimhaiah, 84, Indian physicist and educator. •
Ivan Noble, 37, British
BBC journalist, brain cancer. •
Franz-Joseph Schulze, 86, German general during and after World War II and
Knight's Cross recipient. •
Lee Segel, 72, American mathematician and writer. •
Bill Voiselle, 86, American
Major League Baseball player. ==References==