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The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2011.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
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February 2011
1
- Ernst Badian, 85, Austrian classical scholar and history professor (Harvard University), complications from a fall.[1]
- Lennox Fyfe, Baron Fyfe of Fairfield, 69, British politician.[2]
- Daniele Formica, 61, Irish-born Italian actor, theatre director and playwright, pancreatic cancer.[3]
- Douglas Haig, 90, American child actor.[4]
- Stanisław Michalski, 78, Polish actor.[5]
- Derek Rawcliffe, 89, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway (1981–1991).[6]
- Knut Risan, 80, Norwegian actor.[7]
- Husik Santurjan, 91, Turkish-born Armenian archbishop of Armenian Apostolic Church.[8]
- Les Stubbs, 81, British footballer.[9]
2
- Geoff Ainsworth, 64, Australian football player, cancer.[10]
- Edward Amy, 92, Canadian brigadier general.[11]
- Ian Anderson, 57, British politician, brain tumour.[12]
- Darrel Baldock, 72, Australian football player and coach, member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly (1972–1987) and Minister (1975–1982), stroke.[13]
- Harriett Ball, 64, American educator, heart attack.[14]
- Armando Chin Yong, 53, Malaysian opera singer, heart disease.[15]
- Jimmy Fell, 75, British footballer (Grimsby Town).[16]
- Bill Foster, 78, American television director (Benson, Full House, The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults), cancer.[17]
- Defne Joy Foster, 35, Turkish actress, presenter and VJ.[18]
- Awal Gul, 48, Afghan detainee in Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, heart attack.[19]
- Douglas M. Head, 80, American politician, Minnesota Attorney General (1967–1971).[20]
- Rodney Hill, 89, British mathematician.[21]
- Clark Hulings, 88, American realist painter and physicist.[22]
- Margaret John, 84, British actress (High Hopes, Gavin & Stacey, Game of Thrones), liver cancer.[23]
- Durga Mukherjee, 77, Indian cricketer.[24]
- Eric Nicol, 91, Canadian writer.[25]
- René Verdon, 86, French-born American White House Executive Chef, leukemia.[26]
3
- Ajib Ahmad, 63, Malaysian politician, Chief Minister of Johor (1982–1986).[27]
- Édouard Glissant, 82, Martinican poet and writer.[28]
- LeRoy Grannis, 93, American surfing photographer.[29]
- Tony Levin, 71, British jazz drummer.[30]
- Ron Piché, 75, Canadian baseball player (Atlanta Braves, St. Louis Cardinals), cancer.[31]
- Maria Schneider, 58, French actress (Last Tango in Paris), cancer.[32]
- Tatyana Shmyga, 82, Russian operetta singer and film actress (Hussar Ballad), People's Artist of the USSR, vascular disease.[33]
- Machan Varghese, 50, Indian Malayalam film actor, cancer.[34]
- Neil Young, 66, British footballer (Manchester City), cancer.[35]
- Robert Young, 95, American Olympic silver medal-winning (1936) athlete.[36]
4
- Lu Bain, 68, Canadian football player.[37]
- Martial Célestin, 97, Haitian lawyer and diplomat, Prime Minister (1988).[38]
- Woodie Fryman, 70, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Montreal Expos).[39]
- Michael Habeck, 66, German actor, after short illness.[40]
- Fred Hole, 75, English art director (Return of the Jedi, Aliens, Empire of the Sun).[41]
- Dame Olga Lopes-Seale, 92, Guyanese-born Barbadian broadcaster and singer.[42]
- Ahmed Mohamed Mahmoud, 37, Egyptian journalist, shot.[43]
- Lena Nyman, 66, Swedish actress (I Am Curious (Yellow), I Am Curious (Blue), Autumn Sonata), cancer.[44]
- Vasile Paraschiv, 82, Romanian political activist and dissident.[45]
- Tura Satana, 72, American actress (Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!), heart failure.[46]
- Earl Irvin West, 90, American church historian.[47]
- Lee Winfield, 64, American basketball player (Seattle SuperSonics, Buffalo Braves), colon cancer.[48]
5
- Fanizani Akuda, 78, Zimbabwean sculptor.[49]
- Omar Amiralay, 66, Syrian filmmaker, heart attack.[50]
- Eugeniusz Czajka, 83, Polish Olympic field hockey player.[51]
- Ruth H. Funk, 93, American LDS Church youth leader (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints).[52]
- John Paul Getty III, 54, American heir and kidnapping victim, grandson of J. Paul Getty and father of Balthazar Getty, after long illness.[53]
- Miriam Hansen, 61, American cinema scholar and professor (University of Chicago), cancer.[54]
- Brian Jacques, 71, British fantasy author (Redwall), heart attack.[55]
- Adjie Massaid, 43, Indonesian actor, under-23 national football team manager and politician, heart attack.[56]
- Hiroko Nagata, 65, Japanese radical and murderer, vice-chairman of United Red Army.[57]
- Donald Peterman, 79, American cinematographer (Flashdance, Men in Black, Cocoon), complications from myelodysplastic syndrome.[58]
- Pertti Purhonen, 68, Finnish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1964) boxer, Alzheimer's disease.[59]
- Martin Quigley Jr., 93, American publisher, spy and author.[60]
- Peggy Rea, 89, American character actress (Grace Under Fire, The Dukes of Hazzard, Step by Step, The Waltons), heart failure.[61]
- Charles E. Silberman, 86, American journalist and author (Criminal Violence, Criminal Justice), heart attack.[62]
- Pavel Vondruška, 85, Czech conductor and actor, accidental fall.[63]
- Albert Yator, 17, Kenyan long-distance runner, world junior steeplechase medallist, bronchopneumonia.[64]
6
- Andrée Chedid, 90, Egyptian-born French poet and novelist.[65]
- Isabelle Corey, 71, French film actress, cancer.[66][67]
- Billy Gallier, 78, British footballer (Tamworth) and manager.[68]
- Josefa Iloilo, 90, Fijian politician, President (2000–2006; 2007–2009).[69]
- Gary Moore, 58, Irish rock guitarist and singer (Thin Lizzy), heart attack.[70]
- William Morais, 19, Brazilian footballer (América-MG), shot.[71]
- John Nisby, 74, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers, Washington Redskins), pneumonia.[72]
- Ken Olsen, 84, American engineer, co-founder of Digital Equipment Corporation.[73]
- Aurel Smith, 95, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.[74]
- James Watson, 59, British trumpeter, heart attack.[75]
7
- Maria Altmann, 94, Austrian-born American art heiress, after long illness.[76]
- Jerry Ames, 80, American tapdancer and choreographer.[77]
- Peter Feteris, 58, Dutch footballer.[78]
- Hysen Hakani, 78, Albanian screenwriter and director, directed first Albanian short film.[79]
- Bobby Kuntz, 79, American CFL player (Toronto Argonauts, Hamilton Tiger-Cats), Parkinson's disease.[80]
- Eric Parsons, 87, British footballer.[81]
- Ralph Pöhland, 64, German Olympic skier.[82]
- Frank Roberts, 65, Australian boxer, first Australian Aboriginal Olympian (1964), heart attack.[83]
8
- Nick Arundel, 83, American journalist and publisher, pulmonary failure.[84]
- Roza Baglanova, 89, Kazakh singer, People's Artist of the USSR.[85]
- Luiz Bueno, 74, Brazilian race car driver, cancer.[86]
- Elaine Crowley, 83, Irish author.[87]
- Cliff Dapper, 91, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).[88]
- Bradley C. Livezey, 56, American ornithologist, car accident.[89]
- Tony Malinosky, 101, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).[90]
- Marie-Rose Morel, 38, Belgian politician, cancer.[91]
- Jorma Ojaharju, 72, Finnish author.[92]
- Charles O. Perry, 81, American sculptor, stomach cancer.[93]
- Angelo Reyes, 65, Filipino general and politician, suicide by gunshot.[94]
- Cesare Rubini, 87, Italian basketball player and coach, water polo player.[95]
- Donald S. Sanford, 92, American film and television writer (Midway).[96]
- Marvin Sease, 64, American blues singer, pneumonia.[97]
- Ferbent Shehu, 78, Albanian dancer and choreographer, heart attack.[98]
- Eugenio Toussaint, 56, Mexican composer and jazz musician, heart attack.[99]
9
- Olga de Angulo, 55, Colombian Olympic swimmer.[100]
- Miltiadis Evert, 71, Greek politician and minister, Mayor of Athens (1987–1989) and President of New Democracy (1993–1997).[101]
- Leroy R. Hassell Sr., 55, American jurist, Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court (since 1989) and Chief Justice (2003–2011).[102]
- David Sánchez Juliao, 65, Colombian author.[103]
- Jimmy Lemi Milla, 62, Southern Sudanese politician, shot.[104]
- Alicia Pietri, 87, Venezuelan First Lady (1969–1974; 1994–1999), widow of President Rafael Caldera.[105]
10
- Trevor Bailey, 87, British Test cricketer and BBC radio broadcaster (Test Match Special), house fire.[106]
- Emory Bellard, 83, American college football coach (Texas A&M University, Mississippi State University), creator of wishbone offense, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.[107]
- Doug Davis, 66, American football player (Minnesota Vikings).[108]
- Claus Helmut Drese, 88, German theatre and opera administrator.[109]
- Saad el-Shazly, 88, Egyptian military leader.[110]
- Michael Harsgor, 86, Israeli historian.[111]
- Bill Justice, 97, American animator (Peter Pan, Bambi, Alice in Wonderland).[112]
- Blanche Honegger Moyse, 101, American conductor.[113]
- Oleg Lavrentiev, 84, Russian nuclear physicist.[114]
- Jon Petrovich, 63, American journalist, executive at CNN, cancer.[115]
- Sam Plank, 62, British radio broadcaster, cancer.[116]
- Fred Speck, 63, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings).[117]
- Lynne Walker, 54, British music and theatre critic, cancer.[118]
- Józef Życiński, 62, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Lublin (since 1997), myocardial infarction.[119]
11
- Nubia Barahona, 10, American child abuse victim, beaten.[120]
- Reynaldo de Barros, 79, Brazilian politician, mayor of São Paulo (1979–1982).[121]
- Bad News Brown, 33, Canadian rapper and harmonica player, beaten and shot.[122]
- Sir Arthur Bryan, 87, British businessman.[123]
- Tom Carnegie, 91, American sports announcer (Indianapolis Motor Speedway).[124]
- Bo Carpelan, 84, Finnish poet and author.[125]
- John Clay, 86, English cricketer.[126]
- Steve Dacri, 58, American magician, cancer.[127]
- Joe R. Greenhill, 96, American attorney, Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court (1972–1982).[128]
- Roy Gussow, 92, American sculptor (Infinity), heart attack.[129]
- Gerry Huth, 77, American football player (New York Giants, Philadelphia Eagles, Minnesota Vikings).[130]
- Christian J. Lambertsen, 93, American diving engineer, inventor of first SCUBA device, renal failure.[131]
- Earle Morris Jr., 82, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina (1971–1975).[132]
- Josef Pirrung, 61, German footballer, cancer.[133]
- Chuck Tanner, 82, American baseball manager (Chicago White Sox, Pittsburgh Pirates) and player (Los Angeles Dodgers), after long illness.[134]
12
- Peter Alexander, 84, Austrian actor and singer.[135]
- Kevin Barry Sr., 74, New Zealand boxing coach, after long illness.[136]
- Gino Cimoli, 81, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates), heart and kidney complications.[137]
- Mato Damjanović, 83, Croatian chess grandmaster.[138]
- Hal Dean, 89, American football player (Los Angeles Rams).[139]
- Ernesto De Pascale, 52, Italian music promoter, producer and critic.[140]
- Mark C. Ebersole, 89, American educator.[141]
- James Elliott, 82, British-born Australian actor (Number 96), Lewy body dementia.[142]
- Betty Garrett, 91, American actress, singer and dancer (On the Town, All in the Family, Laverne & Shirley), aortic aneurysm.[143]
- Fedor den Hertog, 64, Dutch cyclist and Olympic medallist, prostate cancer.[144]
- Andrzej Kłopotowski, 75, Polish Olympic swimmer.[145]
- Konstantinos Kosmopoulos, 83, Greek politician, Mayor of Thessaloniki (1989–1999).[146]
- Kenneth Mars, 75, American actor (Young Frankenstein, The Producers, The Little Mermaid), pancreatic cancer.[147]
- John Monson, 11th Baron Monson, 78, British aristocrat and politician, head injuries following a fall.[148]
- Kyllikki Naukkarinen, 85, Finnish Olympic hurdler[149]
- Saleh Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi, 90, Saudi Arabian businessman, founder of Al-Rajhi Bank, heart attack.[150]
- Joanne Siegel, 93, American widow of Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel, reported model for the character of Lois Lane.[151]
- Vipindas, 72, Indian cinematographer and director, short illness.[152]
- Frank Whitten, 68, New Zealand actor (Outrageous Fortune), cancer.[153]
13
- Arnfinn Bergmann, 82, Norwegian ski jumper and Olympic champion, after brief illness.[154]
- Bustanil Arifin, 85, Indonesian politician.[155]
- Manuel Esperón, 99, Mexican composer and actor.[156]
- Louis Grisius, 74, Luxembourgish Olympic cyclist.[157]
- Oakley Hall III, 60, American playwright, heart attack.[158]
- Dona Hardy, 98, American actress (The Truman Show, When Harry Met Sally..., Superbad).[159]
- Inese Jaunzeme, 78, Latvian javelin thrower and Olympic gold medalist (1956 Melbourne).[160]
- Nobutoshi Kihara, 84, Japanese electronics engineer for Sony.[161]
- Paul Marcus, 56, British television producer, cancer.[162]
- T. P. McKenna, 81, Irish actor (The Avengers, Doctor Who).[163]
- Brian Shaw, 79/80, British rugby league player.[164]
- Shi Yafeng, 91, Chinese geologist.[165]
14
- Sean Boru, 57, Irish actor and author.[166]
- Paul Briggs, 90, American football player (Detroit Lions).[167]
- Tommy Burns, 88, Australian boxer.[168]
- David F. Friedman, 87, American film producer (Blood Feast), heart failure.[169]
- Cecil Kaiser, 94, American Negro league baseball player, injuries from a fall.[170]
- Catherine Clark Kroeger, 85, American author, professor and New Testament scholar, Pneumonia.[171][172]
- Ali Abdulhadi Mushaima, 21, Bahraini protester, gunshot.[173]
- Peter Pilkington, Baron Pilkington of Oxenford, 77, British academic and life peer, Chairman of the BCC (1992–1996).[174]
- Sir George Shearing, 91, British-born American jazz pianist (Lullaby of Birdland), heart failure.[175]
- John Strauss, 90, American film and television composer (Car 54, Where Are You?), Parkinson's disease.[176]
15
- Liliane Atlan, 79, French Jewish writer, cancer.[177]
- Dame Judith Binney, 70, New Zealand historian and author.[178]
- Charles Epstein, 77, American geneticist and Unabomber victim, pancreatic cancer.[179]
- Joe Frazier, 88, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals) and manager (New York Mets).[180]
- Dorian Gray, 83, Italian actress, suicide by gunshot.[181]
- Sidney Harth, 85, American violinist and conductor, respiratory complications.[182]
- Olavi Manninen, 82, Finnish Olympic runner.[183]
- George Marsaglia, 87, American mathematician and computer scientist. developed diehard tests, heart attack.[184]
- Fadhel Al-Matrook, 31, Bahraini protester, gunshot.[173]
- François Nourissier, 83, French journalist and writer, complications from Parkinson's disease.[185]
- Frank Nyangweso, 71, Ugandan Olympic boxer.[186]
- Cyril Stein, 82, British businessman.[187]
16
- Hans Joachim Alpers, 67, German writer and editor of science fiction and fantasy.[188]
- Neal Amundson, 95, American chemical engineer.[189]
- William A. Bablitch, 69, American politician, Wisconsin State Senator (1983–2003) and Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice (1983–2002).[190]
- Alfred Burke, 92, British actor (Public Eye, Enemy at the Door), chest infection.[191]
- Jack Calfee, 69, American economist and author, heart attack.[192]
- Tonny van Ede, 86, Dutch football player (Sparta Rotterdam).[193]
- Len Lesser, 88, American actor (Seinfeld, Everybody Loves Raymond, Kelly's Heroes), cancer-related pneumonia.[194]
- Justinas Marcinkevičius, 80, Lithuanian poet and playwright.[195]
- Santi Santamaria, 53, Spanish chef, heart attack.[196]
- David Shapiro, 58, American jazz musician, atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.[197]
- Tu Jida, 83, Chinese aircraft designer (Nanchang CJ-6, Shenyang J-5A, Chengdu JJ-5, Chengdu J-7).[198]
17
- Hilal Al-Ahmadi, 56–57, Iraqi journalist, shot.[199]
- John Stanley Beard, 95, British-born Australian forester and ecologist.[200]
- Ricky Bell, 36, American football player (Chicago Bears, Jacksonville Jaguars, Winnipeg Blue Bombers).[201]
- George Clarke, 89, British footballer (Ipswich Town).[202]
- Dave Duerson, 50, American football player (Chicago Bears, Phoenix Cardinals, New York Giants), suicide by gunshot.[203]
- Francis Anthony Gomes, 79, Bangladeshi Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Mymensingh (1987–2006).[204]
- Ron Hickman, 78, South African-born British inventor (Black & Decker Workmate, Lotus Elan).[205]
- Steve Horn, 79, American politician, U.S. Representative from California (1993–2003), complications from Alzheimer's disease.[206]
- Augustine Hu Daguo, 88, Chinese Roman Catholic underground bishop of Guiyang.[207]
- George Lewis, 93, Trinidad and Tobago Olympic track and field athlete.[208]
- James McLure, 59, American playwright.[209]
- Michelle Monkhouse, 19, Canadian fashion model, car accident.[210]
- Bill Monroe, 90, American journalist, host of Meet the Press (1975–1984), complications from hypertension.[211]
- Perry Moore, 39, American author (Hero) and film producer (The Chronicles of Narnia), apparent drug overdose.[212]
- Vivien Noakes, 74, British literary critic, cancer.[213]
- Gustave Olombe Atelumbu Musilamu, 83, Congolese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Wamba (1968–1990).[214]
18
- Paulo de Tarso Alvim, 91–92, Brazilian biologist.[215]
- Cayle Chernin, 63, Canadian actress (Goin' Down the Road), cancer.[216]
- Chloe Dzubilo, 50, American artist, musician and activist.[217]
- John M. Falcone, 44, American police officer Poughkeepsie, New York, shot.[218]
- Len Gilmore, 93, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates).[219]
- Spook Jacobs, 85, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics/Kansas City Athletics, Pittsburgh Pirates).[220]
- Catherine Jourdan, 62, French actress, pulmonary embolism.[221]
- Buddy Lewis, 94, American baseball player (Washington Senators), cancer.[222]
- Abdost Rind, 27, Pakistani journalist, shot.[223]
- Walter Seltzer, 96, American film producer (Soylent Green, The Omega Man, The Last Hard Men).[224]
- Marshall Stoneham, 70, British physicist, complications of surgery.[225]
- Bob Tanna, c. 96, Indian amateur radio operator.[226]
- Tykhon Zhylyakov, 42, Ukrainian Orthodox Bishop of Kremenchuk and Lubny (since 2009).[227]
19
- Suresh Babu, 58, Indian Olympic athlete, cirrhosis.[228]
- Florinda Chico, 84, Spanish actress, respiratory disease.[229]
- Norman Corner, 68, British footballer.[230]
- Donald L. Cox, 74, American leader of the Black Panther Party.[231]
- Ollie Matson, 80, American Hall of Fame football player (St. Louis Rams, Philadelphia Eagles), complications from dementia.[232]
- Anson Rainey, 81, American academic and author, pancreatic cancer.[233]
- Ernő Solymosi, 70, Hungarian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1960) football player.[234]
- Dietrich Stobbe, 72, German politician, Mayor of West Berlin (1977–1981).[235]
- David R. Thompson, 80, American federal judge.[236]
- Max Wilk, 90, American playwright, screenwriter and author.[237]
- Richard L. Williams, 87, American jurist, senior District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia (1980–2011).[238]
- Yuan Xuefen, 88, Chinese Yue opera actress.[239]
20
- Ted Bates, 84, American politician.[240]
- Drew Baur, 66, American banker, co-owner of the St. Louis Cardinals, heart attack.[241]
- Eddie Brandt, 90, American composer and songwriter.[242]
- Raphaël Bretton, 91, French set decorator (Hello, Dolly!, The Towering Inferno, The Poseidon Adventure), Oscar winner (1970).[243]
- Barbara Harmer, 57, British aviator, first female Concorde pilot, cancer.[244]
- Betty Hicks, 90, American golfer (LPGA Tour), Alzheimer's disease.[245]
- Troy Jackson, 38, American basketball player (AND1 Mixtape Tour).[246]
- Tony Kellow, 58, British footballer (Exeter City).[247]
- Jay Landesman, 91, American publisher, writer and nightclub proprietor, husband of Fran Landesman.[248]
- Frank A. McClintock, 90, American mechanical engineer.[249]
- Sir Fred Phillips, 92, Kittitian politician, Administrator (1966–1967) and Governor of Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla (1967–1969).[250]
- Helmut Ringelmann, 84, German film and television producer, organ failure.[251]
- Noemí Simonetto de Portela, 85, Argentine Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) athlete.[252]
- Malaysia Vasudevan, 66, Indian actor and playback singer, heart failure.[253][254]
- Mehdi Mohammed Zeyo, 49, Libyan activist, explosion.[255]
21
- Robert Albo, 78, American physician, surgeon and amateur illusionist.[256]
- Odón Alonso, 85, Spanish conductor and composer.[257]
- Jean Baeza, 68, French footballer.[258]
- Wolfgang Baumgart, 61, German hockey player.[259]
- Bob Boyd, 55, American professional golfer, leukemia.[260]
- Ben Fricke, 35, American football player (Dallas Cowboys), colon cancer.[261]
- Edwin D. Kilbourne, 90, American research scientist and influenza vaccine expert.[262]
- Dick Klugman, 87, Australian politician, member of the House of Representatives (1969–1990).[263]
- Anne Mathams, 97, Scottish education and disability campaigner.[264]
- Dwayne McDuffie, 49, American comic book writer (Static Shock, Damage Control) and television writer (Justice League), complications following heart surgery.[265]
- Bernard Nathanson, 84, American pro-choice activist and co-founder of NARAL, later anti-abortion activist and writer, cancer.[266]
- Jerzy Nowosielski, 88, Polish painter, graphic artist, scenographer and illustrator.[267]
- Russell W. Peterson, 94, American politician, Governor of Delaware (1969–1973), stroke.[268]
- Kenneth Pillar, 86, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Hertford (1982–1989).[269]
- Aranmula Ponnamma, 96, Indian actress.[270]
- Swami Premananda, 59, Sri Lankan-born Indian religious leader, convicted rapist and murderer.[271]
- Haila Stoddard, 97, American actress and Broadway producer.[272]
- Judith Sulzberger, 87, American physician, pancreatic cancer.[273]
- Antonín Švorc, 77, Czech operatic bass-baritone.[274]
22
- Kjell Bjartveit, 83, Norwegian physician and politician.[275]
- Brian Bonsor, 84, Scottish composer and music teacher.[276]
- George Buksar, 84, American football player (Chicago Hornets, Washington Redskins).[277]
- Nicholas Courtney, 81, British actor (Doctor Who, Then Churchill Said to Me, Bullseye!).[278]
- Bill Deck, 95, American Negro league baseball player.[279]
- Beau Dollar, 69, American singer and drummer, long illness.[280]
- Jean Dinning, 86, American songwriter ("Teen Angel").[281]
- Jo Giles, 61, New Zealand television personality and sportswoman, earthquake.[282]
- Chari Gómez Miranda, 80, Spanish journalist and television presenter.[283]
- Ion Hobana, 80, Romanian science fiction author.[284]
- Amanda Hooper, 30, New Zealand field hockey representative, earthquake.[285]
- Jud McAtee, 91, Canadian-born American ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Blackhawks).[286]
- James R. McCartney, 90, American politician, Secretary of State of West Virginia (1975–1977).[287]
- Bill Nimmo, 93, American radio and television announcer (Who Do You Trust?, The Jackie Gleason Show) and game show host (Keep It in the Family).[288]
- Ivo Pavelić, 103, Croatian footballer and Olympic swimmer.[289]
23
- Matthew Carr, 57, British figurative artist, leukaemia.[290]
- James Damman, 78, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Michigan (1975–1979), cancer.[291]
- Joseph Flom, 87, American corporate lawyer, heart failure.[292]
- Rebekah Johansson, 29, Swedish model, apparent suicide.[293]
- Gustav Just, 89, German journalist and politician.[294]
- Jean Lartéguy, 90, French soldier, war correspondent and writer.[295]
- Frank Prout, 89, British Olympic sprint canoer and businessman.[296]
- Nirmala Srivastava, 87, Indian spiritual leader, founder of Sahaja Yoga religious movement.[297]
- Mike Zimring, 94, American radio actor and theatrical agent.[298]
24
- Margaret Hope Bacon, 89, American Quaker historian, author and lecturer.[299]
- Yozhef Betsa, 81, Ukrainian Olympic gold medal-winning (1956) footballer.[300]
- Jerrold Kessel, 66, South African-born Israeli journalist (CNN), cancer.[301]
- Anant Pai, 81, Indian educator and comics creator (Amar Chitra Katha).[302]
- Mullapudi Venkata Ramana, 80, Indian Telugu screenplay writer.[303]
- Robert Reguly, 80, Canadian journalist (Toronto Star), heart disease.[304]
- Attila Takács, 82, Hungarian Olympic gymnast.[305]
- Harry Walsh, 97, Canadian lawyer, complications from a fall.[306]
- Jens Winther, 50, Danish jazz trumpet player, stroke.[307]
- A. Wayne Wymore, 84, American mathematician and systems engineer.[308]
25
- Isidora Aguirre, 91, Chilean writer, internal hemorrhage.[309]
- Kamil Altan, 86, Turkish footballer.[310]
- Frank Bare Sr., 80, American gymnast.[311]
- John Thomas Chambers Jr., 82, American politician, only African-American Mayor of Annapolis (1981), heart attack.[312]
- Rick Coonce, 64, American drummer (The Grass Roots).[313]
- Aminath Faiza, 86, Maldivian poet and author.[314]
- Emanuel Fried, 97, American playwright and actor.[315]
- Peter Hildreth, 82, British Olympic hurdler, 1950 European Championships medalist.[316]
- István Jenei, 57, Hungarian Olympic sports shooter.[317]
- John Miner, 92, American attorney, prosecutor responsible for investigating the death of Marilyn Monroe.[318]
- Richard J. Naughton, 64, American vice admiral, Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy (2002–2003).[319]
- Eneas Perdomo, 80, Venezuelan folk singer.[320]
- Suze Rotolo, 67, American artist, lung cancer.[321]
- Carola Scarpa, 39, Brazilian socialite, multiple organ failure.[322]
26
- Abbas Amiri Moghaddam, 67, Iranian actor, car accident.[323]
- Konstantinos Andriopoulos, 26, Greek footballer (PAOK, Veria), leukemia.[324]
- María Azambuya, 66, Uruguayan actress and theatre director.[325]
- Judith Coplon, 89, American political analyst, convicted of espionage.[326]
- Susan Crosland, 84, American journalist, widow of Anthony Crosland.[327]
- Richard F. Daines, 60, American physician, Commissioner of the New York State Department of Health (2007–2010).[328]
- Jon Fitch, 60, American politician, Arkansas State Representative (1979–1983) and State Senator (1983–2002), complications from a stroke.[329]
- Eugene Fodor, 60, American violinist, cirrhosis.[330]
- Ed Frutig, 92, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Detroit Lions).[331]
- Greg Goossen, 65, American baseball player (New York Mets) and actor (Wyatt Earp, Unforgiven).[332]
- Bill Grigsby, 89, American radio sportscaster (Kansas City Chiefs), prostate cancer and fall.[333]
- Cynthia Holcomb Hall, 82, American circuit judge for the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1984–1997), cancer.[334]
- Shawn Lee, 44, American football player (Miami Dolphins, Chicago Bears).[335]
- Arnošt Lustig, 84, Czech writer and Holocaust survivor, cancer.[336]
- James A. McClure, 86, American politician, U.S. Representative (1967–1973) and Senator from Idaho (1973–1991), following multiple strokes.[337]
- Dean Richards, 36, British footballer (Bradford City, Wolverhampton, Southampton, Tottenham).[338]
- Jorge Santoro, 66, Brazilian footballer, heart attack.[339]
- Roch Thériault, 63, Canadian cult leader and convicted murderer, murdered in prison.[340]
- Mark Tulin, 62, American bass player (The Electric Prunes, The Smashing Pumpkins), heart attack.[341]
- Zhu Guangya, 86, Chinese nuclear physicist, helped develop nation's first atomic bomb.[342]
27
- Frank Alesia, 67, American actor and director (Pajama Party, Riot on Sunset Strip, C'mon, Let's Live a Little).[343]
- Frank Buckles, 110, American supercentenarian soldier, last living U.S. World War I veteran.[344]
- J. Elliot Cameron, 88, American educator and religious leader.[345]
- Margaret Eliot, 97, British music teacher and musician.[346]
- Necmettin Erbakan, 84, Turkish politician, Prime Minister (1996–1997).[347]
- James Gruber, 82, American teacher and early gay rights activist, last surviving member of the Mattachine Society.[348]
- Maurice Guigue, 98, French football referee (1958 FIFA World Cup Final).[349]
- Eddie Kirkland, 88, American blues guitarist, car accident.[350]
- Oto Mádr, 94, Czech theologian and dissident.[351]
- Amparo Muñoz, 56, Spanish actress, Miss Universe 1974.[352]
- Skonk Nicholson, 94, South African teacher and rugby union coach (Maritzburg College, 1948–1982).[353]
- Emerson Rodwell, 89, Australian cricketer and soldier.[354]
- Moacyr Scliar, 73, Brazilian physician and writer, stroke.[355]
- Duke Snider, 84, American Hall of Fame baseball player (Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Mets, San Francisco Giants).[356]
- Gary Winick, 49, American film director (13 Going on 30, Letters to Juliet, Charlotte's Web), brain cancer.[357]
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- Donald E. Allured, 88, American handbell choir director, composer, and arranger
- Netiva Ben-Yehuda, 82, Israeli author and radio personality.[358]
- Scott Cary, 87, American baseball player (Washington Senators).[359]
- Harvey Dorfman, 75, American sports psychologist.[360]
- Ernest Eastman, 83, Liberian diplomat, Foreign Minister (1983–1986), Secretary General of the Mano River Union.[361]
- John Ellis, 72, British trade unionist.[362]
- Emmy, 21, Albanian singer, vehicular homicide.[363]
- Annie Girardot, 79, French actress, Alzheimer's disease.[364]
- Peter J. Gomes, 69, American preacher, theologian and author, professor at Harvard Divinity School, brain aneurysm and heart attack.[365]
- Stan Holmes, 51, American baseball player, cancer.[366]
- Nick LaTour, 82, American singer and actor (Jingle All The Way, Don Juan DeMarco, Deep Cover), complications from cancer.[367]
- Jozef Massy, 96, Belgian Olympic sprint canoer.[368]
- Günter Mast, 84, German businessman (Jägermeister).[369]
- Aracy de Carvalho Guimarães Rosa, 102, Brazilian diplomatic clerk.[370]
- Jane Russell, 89, American actress (The Outlaw, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Las Vegas Story), respiratory illness.[371]
- Jan van Schijndel, 83, Dutch footballer (1952 Summer Olympics).[372]
- Allan Williams, 88, Canadian politician, Attorney General of British Columbia (1979–1983), after long illness.[373]
- Wally Yonamine, 85, American baseball (Yomiuri Giants, Chunichi Dragons) and football player (San Francisco 49ers), prostate cancer.[374]
- Doyald Young, 84, American logotype designer, complications of heart surgery.[375]
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