1 •
Eddie Chamblee, 79, American tenor, alto saxophonist and vocalist. •
Engelbert Hundertpfund, 81, Austrian Olympic cross-country skier (
1948). •
Alish Lambaranski, 84, Soviet and Azerbaijani statesman. •
Jos LeDuc, 54, Canadian professional wrestler, lung infection. •
Osman Ahmed Osman, 82, Egyptian engineer, entrepreneur, and politician. •
Jack Sepkoski, 50, American
paleontologist. •
Brian Shawe-Taylor, 84, British racing driver. •
Roger Verhaes, 78, Belgian Olympic athlete (
1948).
2 •
Thomas C. Cochran, 97, American economic historian and author. •
Bill Davidson, 64, American football player and coach and college athletics administrator. •
Igor M. Diakonoff, 84, Russian historian, linguist and translator. •
Ernest A. Gross, 92, American diplomat and lawyer. •
Douglas Harkness, 96, Canadian politician, teacher and farmer. •
Robert Arthur Humphreys, 91, British historian and professor of Latin American studies. •
Tibor Kalman, 49, American graphic designer,
non-Hodgkins lymphoma. •
Oliver Reed, 61, British actor (
The Devils,
Oliver!,
The Three Musketeers), alcohol intoxication, heart attack. •
Włodzimierz Sokorski, 90, Polish communist politician, writer, and brigadier general. •
Anahit Tsitsikian, 72, Armenian female violinist.
3 •
Joe Adcock, 71, American baseball player and manager,
Alzheimer's disease. •
Steve Chiasson, 32, Canadian ice hockey player, (
Detroit Red Wings,
Calgary Flames,
Carolina Hurricanes),
drunk driving crash. •
Godfrey Evans, 78, English cricketer. •
Giulio Fioravanti, 75, Italian operatic baritone. •
Rune Hammarström, 78, Swedish Olympic speed skater (
1948). •
Princess Urraca of the Two Sicilies, 85, German noblewoman and member of the
House of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. •
Josef Zeman, 84, Czech football player.
4 •
Manny Babbitt, 50,
U.S. Marine veteran of the
Vietnam War and convicted murderer,
execution by lethal injection. •
Bob Dietz, 81, American basketball player. •
Terry Evans, 87, Canadian wrestler and Olympian (
1936). •
Albert Fearnley, 75, English rugby league football player, and coach. •
Wilfried Geeroms, 57, Belgian Olympic hurdler (
1964,
1968), cancer. •
Jean Marius René Guibé, 89, French
naturalist. •
Mahendra Narayan Nidhi, 77, Nepali politician and
Gandhian leader. •
Milenko Pavlović, 39, Yugoslavian Air Force pilot, shot down. •
John Salmon, 88, New Zealand photographer, conservationist, and author. •
Henry Tiller, 84, Norwegian boxer and Olympic medalist (
1936).
5 •
Vasilis Diamantopoulos, 78, Greek actor, heart attack. •
John Howard, 86, British Army officer during World War II. •
Luis Jiménez, 70, Mexican Olympic fencer (
1956). •
Will Owens, 97, American baseball player. •
Américo Paredes, 83, American author. •
Rodrigo Ruiz, 76, Mexican football player. •
Rui da Silva, 47, Brazilian sprinter and Olympian (
1976).
6 •
Fehmi Agani, 67,
Kosovan sociologist and politician. •
Josef Böck, 85, German Olympic wrestler (
1936). •
Keizo Hasegawa, 76, Japanese Olympic triple jumper (
1952). •
Kaii Higashiyama, 90, Japanese writer and artist. •
Sven Meyer, 21, German figure skater, suicide by gunshot. •
Johnny Morris, 82, British television presenter. •
Erick Pitau, 47, French Olympic field hockey player (
1972). •
Maria Laura Rocca, 81, Italian actress and writer. •
Mark Tuinei, 39, American football player (
Dallas Cowboys), drug overdose.
7 •
Randi Anda, 100, Norwegian politician. •
Chen Yanyan, 83, Chinese actress and film producer. •
Andrew Gray, 43, British anthropologist and activist for the rights of indigenous peoples, plane crash. •
Joseph Gray, 79, Irish-born English Roman Catholic prelate,
Bishop of Shrewsbury. •
Leon Hess, 85, American businessman and owner of the
New York Jets. •
Royden Ingham, 88, American Olympic cyclist (
1932). •
Elliot Pinhey, 88, British entomologist. •
Yury Zakharanka, 47, Belarusian minister and oppositional politician, murdered by the
Lukashenko regime.
8 •
Edward Abraham, 85, English biochemist, stroke. •
Dirk Bogarde, 78, British actor (
Doctor in the House,
The Servant,
A Bridge Too Far), heart attack. •
Ed Gilbert, 67, American voice actor (
The Transformers,
TaleSpin,
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero), lung cancer. •
Soeman Hs, 95, Indonesian author. •
John Kotz, 80, American collegiate basketball player and early professional. •
Michael Nightingale, 76, English actor. •
Alan Paterson, 70, English high jumper and Olympian (
1948,
1952). •
Sally Payne, 86, American actress, stroke. •
Dana Plato, 34, American actress (''
Diff'rent Strokes''), suicide by drug overdose. •
Leon Thomas, 61, American jazz and blues vocalist, heart failure.
9 •
Harry Blech, 89, British violinist and conductor. •
Shirley Dinsdale, 72, American ventriloquist and television and radio personality, cancer. •
Derek Fatchett, 53, British politician, heart attack. •
Jürgen Fuchs, 48, East German writer and dissident,
leukemia. •
Jim Hunt, 95, American athletic trainer. •
Božidar Kantušer, 77, Slovene composer of classical music, cerebral infarct, stroke. •
Wynona Lipman, 75–76, American politician, cancer. •
Ivan M. Niven, 83, Canadian-American mathematician. •
George T. Raymond, 84, American
civil rights leader. •
Karamshi Jethabhai Somaiya, 96, Indian educationist. •
Ole Søltoft, 58, Danish actor.
10 •
Fred Giffin, 79, Australian Olympic weightlifter (
1952). •
Hans Granlid, 72, Swedish novelist and literary researcher. •
Anésia Pinheiro Machado, Brazilian female pilot. •
Albert Mauer, 92, Polish Olympic ice hockey player (
1932). •
John Munonye, 70, Nigerian writer. •
Carl Powis, 71, American baseball player (
Baltimore Orioles). •
Shel Silverstein, 68, American poet, playwright, and cartoonist, heart attack. •
Eric Willis, 77, Australian politician,
Premier of New South Wales (1976).
11 •
José Fernández Aguayo, Spanish photography director. •
Eqbal Ahmad, 65, Pakistani political scientist, writer and pacifist, heart failure. •
Tamás Burkus, 26, Hungarian Olympic sports shooter (
1996). •
Josef Dostál, 95, Czech botanist,
pteridologist, conservationist and climber. •
Elaine Fifield, 68, Australian ballerina. •
Werner Fuchs, 50, German football player, heart attack. •
Albert John Henderson, 78, American judge. •
George Hunter, 60, Scottish motorcycle speedway rider. •
Stanisław Jankowiak, 58, Polish Olympic canoeist (
1964). •
Egon Johansen, 79, Danish Olympic field hockey player (
1948). •
Birdy Sweeney, 67, Irish actor and comedian. •
Ben Taylor, 71, American baseball player (
St. Louis Browns,
Detroit Tigers,
Milwaukee Braves). •
Robert Thomas, 72, Welsh sculptor.
12 •
William James Morgan, 84, Northern Irish
unionist politician. •
Robert Rose, 47, Australian sportsman and
quadriplegic, complications following surgery. •
Penny Santon, 82, American actress (
Matt Houston,
Funny Girl,
Fletch). •
Saul Steinberg, 84, Romanian-American cartoonist and illustrator. •
Jerzy Stroba, 79, Polish
Roman Catholic bishop. •
Daniel Frank Walls, 56, New Zealand
theoretical physicist, cancer. •
Huang Yingjie, 87, Chinese Olympic sprinter (
1936).
13 •
Ibn Baz, 88, Saudi Arabian Islamic scholar. •
Roy Crowson, 84, English biologist. •
Meg Greenfield, 68, American editorial writer, cancer. •
Motohiko Hino, 53, Japanese
jazz drummer,
liver failure. •
Giuseppe Petrilli, 86, Italian professor and European Commissioner. •
Gene Sarazen, 97, American golf player, complications of
pneumonia. •
John Whiting, 90, American sociologist and anthropologist.
14 •
Manuel del Cabral, 92, Dominican poet, writer, and diplomat. •
Buck Houghton, 84, American television producer and writer,
pulmonary emphysema. •
Tang Pao-yun, 55, Taiwanese actress. •
Joseph F. Smith, 79, American politician, member of the
United States House of Representatives (1981-1983). •
William Tucker, 38, American guitarist, suicide by drug overdose and throat-cutting. •
Grete Weil, 92, German writer. •
Asrat Woldeyes, 70, Ethiopian surgeon, heart ailment. •
Jerry Wunderlich, 73, American set decorator (
The Exorcist,
The Last Tycoon,
WarGames). •
Nitya Chaitanya Yati, 74, Indian philosopher, psychologist, author and poet.
15 •
Lotfi Baccouche, 25, Tunisian Olympic footballer (
1996). •
Valeh Barshadly, 71, Azerbaijani Minister of Defense. •
Lily Fayol, 84, French singer. •
Rob Gretton, 46, British band manager (
Joy Division,
New Order), heart attack. •
Ernst Mosch, 73, German musician, composer and conductor. •
Kenneth Riches, 90, British
Anglican bishop. •
Bob Wilson, 85, American gridiron football player (
Brooklyn Dodgers). •
John Minor Wisdom, 93, American circuit judge (
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit).
16 •
Guy Cudell, 82, Belgian politician, mayor of
Saint-Josse-ten-Noode (1953–1999), cancer. •
Minder Coleman, 95, American artist. •
Cam Fraser, 67, Canadian football player. •
Bobby Goldman, 60, American
bridge player, writer, and official. •
George Hill Hodel, 91, American physician and suspect in several
murders. •
Andy Norval, 87, Australian rugby player. •
Lembit Oll, 33, Estonian
chess grandmaster, suicide by jumping.
17 •
James Broughton, 85, American poet, playwright and filmmaker, heart failure. •
Bruce Fairbairn, 49, Canadian musician and record producer. •
Božidar Finka, 73, Croatian linguist and lexicographer. •
Henry Jones, 86, American actor, complications from a fall. •
Thelma Kalama, 68, American Olympic swimmer (
1948). •
Ed Rimkus, 85, Lithuanian-American Olympic bobsledder (
1948).
18 •
Juan Manuel Couder, 64, Spanish tennis player. •
Hayrettin Erkmen, 84, Turkish politician. •
Dias Gomes, 76, Brazilian playwright, traffic collision. •
Hank Herring, 76, American boxer and Olympian (
1948). •
Miguel Pedro Mundo, 61, American bishop of the
Catholic Church. •
Augustus Pablo, 44, Jamaican record producer and musician, respiratory failure. •
Freddy Randall, 78, English
jazz trumpeter and bandleader. •
Betty Robinson, 87, American athlete and winner of the first Olympic Woman's 100 m (
1928,
1936),
Alzheimer's disease.
19 •
James Blades, 97, English
percussionist. •
Candy Candido, 85, American radio performer, bass player and voice actor. •
Rebecca Elson, 39, Canadian–American astronomer and writer, cancer. •
Hugh Hanrahan, 52, Canadian politician, member of the
House of Commons of Canada (1993-1997). •
Larry Markes, 77, American comedian, singer and screenwriter. •
John McSweeney, Jr., 83, American film editor. •
Kalevi Pakarinen, 63, Finnish Olympic fencer (
1960). •
Vera Scarth-Johnson, 87, British-Australian botanist and botanical illustrator. •
Xhafer Spahiu, 75, Albanian politician. •
Alister Williamson, 80, Australian-British actor.
20 •
William Alfred, 76, American playwright, poet, and academic. •
Renato Gei, 78, Italian football player and manager. •
James E. Hill, 77, United States Air Force general and World War II flying ace, cancer. •
Robert Rhodes James, 66, British politician. •
Carlos Quirino, 89, Filipino biographer and historian. •
Colette Ripert, 69, French actress.
21 •
Vanessa Brown, 71, Austrian-American actress,
breast cancer. •
Jozef Cleber, 82, Dutch trombonist, violinist, and composer. •
Rauni Essman, 81, Finnish Olympic sprinter (
1936). •
Colin Hayes, 75, Australian trainer of
thoroughbred racehorses. •
Norman Rossington, 70, English actor. •
Mario Tagliaferri, 71, Italian prelate of the
Catholic Church. •
Fulvio Tomizza, 64, Italian writer.
22 •
Milton Banana, 64, Brazilian bossa nova and jazz drummer. •
Loleh Bellon, 74, French stage and film actress and playwright. •
Mark Edward Bradley, 92,
United States Air Force general and aviator pioneer. •
Rubén W. Cavallotti, 74, Uruguayan-Argentine film director. •
Duilio Coletti, 92, Italian film director and screenwriter, heart attack. •
Alfred Kubel, 90, American politician.
23 •
Arthur Edward Ellis, 84, English football referee, cancer. •
Owen Hart, 34, Canadian professional wrestler (
WWF), injuries sustained from fall. •
John T. Hayward, 90, American
naval aviator during World War II, cancer. •
Perry Johnson, 74-75, Bermudian Olympic sprinter (
1948). •
Asa Singh Mastana, 71, Indian musician and singer. •
Janina Mendalska, 62, Polish Olympic canoeist (
1960). •
John Prentice, 78, American cartoonist (
Rip Kirby). •
Albert Charles Smith, 93, American botanist.
24 •
Irene Bache, 98, British artist. •
Guru Hanuman, 98, Indian wrestling coach, car crash. •
T. N. Gopinathan Nair, 81, Indian dramatist, novelist, poet and screenwriter. •
Ramón Rubial, 92, Spanish socialist leader. •
Arnaldo Silva, 55, Portuguese football player.
25 •
Fredda Brilliant, 96, Polish sculptor and actress. •
Hillary Brooke, 84, American film actress,
pulmonary embolism. •
Luc Colin, 63, French Olympic cross-country skier (
1968). •
Horst Frank, 69, German film actor, stroke. •
René Gallice, 80, French football player. •
William Meronek, 82, Canadian ice hockey player (
Montreal Canadiens). •
Paul Moss, 90, American gridiron football player (
Pittsburgh Pirates). •
Bal Dattatreya Tilak, 80, Indian chemical engineer.
26 •
William Cutolo, 49, American mobster (
Colombo crime family), murdered. •
Sir Hugh Fish, 76, English chemist. •
Joanino, 86, Brazilian footballer. •
Belli Lalitha, 25, Indian folk singer, homicide. •
Felipe Rodríguez, 73, Puerto Rican singer of
boleros, fall. •
Paul Sacher, 93, Swiss conductor,
patron and impresario. •
Waldo Semon, 100, American inventor. •
Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, 89, Austrian political scientist and journalist. •
Jack Wells, 88, Canadian radio and television broadcaster.
27 •
Alice Adams, 72, American short story writer and novelist. •
Zach de Beer, 70, South African politician and businessman, stroke. •
Francine Everett, 84, American actress and singer. •
Timo Lampén, 64, Finnish Olympic basketball player (
1964). •
William T. Moore, 81, American attorney and politician. •
Leah Ray, 84, American singer and actress. •
James Rowland, 76, Australian air chief marshal. •
Violet Webb, 84, English
track and field athlete and Olympic medalist (
1932,
1936).
28 •
Michael Barkai, 64,
Israeli Navy general, suicide by gunshot. •
Peter Bostock, 87, British
Anglican priest. •
Henry Carlsson, 81, Swedish football player, manager, and Olympian (
1948). •
Mansour Dia, 58, Senegalese triple jumper and Olympian (
1964,
1968,
1972). •
Florence MacMichael, 80, American character actress. •
Raphael Recanati, 75, Israeli-American shipping magnate, banker, and philanthropist, heart failure. •
Lady Rowlands, 95, American film actress. •
Petrus Van Theemsche, 83, Belgian racing cyclist. •
B. Vittalacharya, 79, Indian film director and producer.
29 •
Ronald Burns, 66, British Olympic swimmer (
1952). •
Joe Busch, 91, Australian rugby player. •
João Carlos de Oliveira, 45, Brazilian athlete and Olympian (
1976,
1980), complications of
alcoholism. •
Bernard Lajarrige, 87, French film and television actor. •
Mattia Moreni, 78, Italian sculptor and painter. •
Richard Ray, 72, American politician, member of the
United States House of Representatives (1983-1993).
30 •
Rajesh Singh Adhikari, 28, Indian Army officer. •
Don Harper, 78, Australian composer. •
Sonia Chadwick Hawkes, 65, English archaeologist, cancer. •
Clarence Heise, 91, American baseball player (
St. Louis Cardinals). •
William R. Lawley Jr., 78, United States Army Air Forces officer and recipient of the
Medal of Honor. •
Kalju Lepik, 78, Estonian poet. •
Paul S. Newman, 75, American writer of comic books and strips, heart attack.
31 •
Emilio Baldonedo, 82, Argentine football player and manager. •
Inayat Hussain Bhatti, 71, Pakistani actor, script writer, social worker and columnist. •
Don Biederman, 59, Canadian stock car racer,
brain aneurysm. •
Nicolas Bréhal, 46, French novelist and literary critic. •
Davor Dujmović, 29, Bosnian Serb actor, suicide by hanging. •
Willibald Hahn, 89, Austrian football player and manager. •
Anatoli Ivanov, 71, Soviet and Russian writer. •
Auguste Le Breton, 86, French novelist,
lung cancer. •
Radomir Lukić, 84, Serbian jurist and academic. •
Charles Pierce, 72, American
female impersonator. •
Vic Rouse, 56, American college basketball player (
Loyola Ramblers). •
Virendra Kumar Sakhlecha, 69, Indian politician. == References ==