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Deaths in February 2012
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The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2012.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference (and language of reference, if not English).
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February 2012
1
- Herb Adams, 83, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).[1]
- Gerlando Alberti, 84, Italian Sicilian Mafioso, cancer.[2]
- Gerhard Bosse, 90, German violinist and conductor.[3]
- Robert B. Cohen, 86, American businessman, founder of Hudson News, progressive supranuclear palsy.[4]
- Herb Conn, 91, American climbing and caving pioneer.[5]
- Don Cornelius, 75, American television host and producer (Soul Train), suicide by gunshot.[6]
- Andrij Dobriansky, 81, Ukrainian-born American opera singer, diabetes and heart disease.[7]
- Angelo Dundee, 90, American boxing trainer (Muhammad Ali).[8]
- Joe Ekins, 88, British World War II soldier.[9]
- Fabián Estapé, 88, Spanish economist.[10]
- Jannatul Ferdous, 74, Bangladeshi teacher and politician.[11]
- André Génovès, 70, French film producer and director.[12]
- Tony Giorgio, 88, Italian-American actor and magician, heart failure.[13]
- Sara González Gómez, 62 or 64, Cuban singer.[14]
- John Harrison, 87, Australian Olympic rower.[15]
- Ruth Hausmeister, 99, German actress (Zwei Brüder, The Longest Day).[16]
- Ladislav Kuna, 64, Slovak football player and manager.[17]
- Robert Lawless, 74, American anthropologist.[18]
- Ardath Mayhar, 81, American author.[19]
- Ingolf Mork, 64, Norwegian Olympic ski jumper.[20]
- David Peaston, 54, American R&B singer, complications of diabetes.[21]
- Lutz Philipp, 71, German Olympic athlete.[22]
- Gilbert Poirot, 67, French Olympic ski jumper.[23]
- Charlie Spoonhour, 72, American basketball coach (Southwest Missouri State, Saint Louis University), complications from lung disease.[24]
- Jerry Steiner, 94, American basketball player (Fort Wayne Pistons).[25]
- Andrzej Sztolf, 70, Polish Olympic ski jumper.[26]
- Wisława Szymborska, 88, Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature (1996).[27]
2
- Paramjit Bahia, 61, Indian-born Canadian field hockey player.[28]
- Joyce Barkhouse, 98, Canadian children's writer (Pit Pony), heart attack.[29]
- Daphne Brooker, 84, British model, costume designer, and professor, bronchopneumonia.[30]
- Paul Consbruch, 81, German Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Paderborn (1980–1999).[31]
- Frederick William Danker, 91, American lexicographer and New Testament scholar.[32]
- David Edelsten, 78, British writer and army officer.[33]
- George Esper, 79, American journalist and foreign correspondent (Associated Press).[34]
- Elwyn Friedrich, 78, Swiss Olympic ice hockey player, myocardial infarction.[35]
- Luis Javier Garrido, 71, Mexican political analyst.[36]
- Dorothy Gilman, 88, American spy novelist (The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax), complications of Alzheimer's disease.[37]
- Jorge Glusberg, 79, Argentine author and curator, director of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes.[38]
- John Houlder, 95, British engineer.[39]
- Nassib Lahoud, 67, Lebanese politician.[40]
- James F. Lloyd, 89, American politician, U.S. Representative from California (1975–1981), stroke.[41]
- Asko Mäkilä, 67, Finnish footballer[42]
3
- Steve Appleton, 51, American businessman (Micron Technology), plane crash.[43]
- Christopher Asir, 64, Indian bishop, cancer.[44]
- John Christopher, 89, British science fiction author (The Tripods, The Sword of the Spirits).[45]
- HIM Damsyik, 82, Indonesian dancer and actor.[46]
- Francis Patrick Donovan, 90, Australian academic, lawyer, and diplomat.[47]
- Ben Gazzara, 81, American actor (Anatomy of a Murder, The Big Lebowski, Road House), pancreatic cancer.[48]
- Terence Hildner, 49, American general, commander of the 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary).[49]
- Raj Kanwar, 50, Indian film director and producer, kidney failure.[50]
- Karibasavaiah, 52, Indian film actor.[51]
- Zalman King, 70, American film director (Wild Orchid) and producer (9½ Weeks), cancer.[52]
- Karlo Maquinto, 21, Filipino boxer.[53]
- Mart Port, 90, Estonian architect.[54]
- Jacob Salatun, 84, Indonesian ufologist.[55]
- Andrzej Szczeklik, 73, Polish physician and educational administrator (Jagiellonian University Medical College).[56]
- Toh Chin Chye, 90, Singaporean politician, Deputy Prime Minister (1965–1968) and Minister for Health (1975–1981).[57]
- Wilhelm Wachtmeister, 88, Swedish diplomat, Ambassador to the United States (1974–1989).[58]
- Norton Zinder, 83, American microbiologist, pneumonia.[59]
4
- István Csurka, 77, Hungarian playwright and politician, Chairman of the Hungarian Justice and Life Party (since 1993).[60]
- Robert Daniel, 75, American politician, U.S. Representative from Virginia (1973–1983).[61]
- Mike deGruy, 60, American documentary filmmaker (Trials of Life, The Blue Planet), helicopter crash.[62]
- Václav Dosbaba, 67, Czech painter.[63]
- Nigel Doughty, 54, British businessman, owner (since 1999) and chairman (2001–2011) of Nottingham Forest F.C.[64]
- George Duncan, 75, Scottish footballer.[65]
- Soledad Duterte, 95, Filipino teacher and activist.[66]
- Joseph W. Estabrook, 67, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of the Military Services (since 2004) and Titular Bishop of Flenucleta.[67]
- Harry F. Franke Jr., 89, American politician.[68]
- Robert Glaser, 91, American cognitive psychologist, complications from Alzheimer's disease.[69]
- Florence Green, 110, British supercentenarian, last surviving veteran of World War I.[70]
- Fernando Lanhas, 88, Portuguese painter.[71]
- Hubert Leitgeb, 46, Italian Olympic biathlete, two-time world champion, avalanche.[72]
- Irene McKinney, 72, American poet, Poet Laureate of West Virginia (since 1994), cancer.[73]
- Livio Minelli, 85, Italian former European welterweight champion boxer.[74]
- Wendell Mitchell, 71, American politician, Alabama State Senator (1974–2010), heart failure.[75]
- Nicolás Moreno, 88, Mexican landscape painter.[76]
- Jeffrey Perry, 63, British stage and screen actor (The Chronicles of Narnia).[77]
- Sir Alan Reay, 86, British Army officer, Director General Army Medical Services (1981–1984).[78]
- Pierre-Eugène Rouanet, 94, French-born Ivorian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Daloa (1956–1975).[79]
- János Sebestyén, 80, Hungarian organist.[80]
- Giovanni Volta, 83, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Pavia (1986–2003).[81]
- Andrew Wight, 51, Australian screenwriter and producer (Sanctum), helicopter crash.[82]
- Pongphan Wongsuwan, 61, Thai football manager (TOT S.C.).[83]
5
- José Luis Álvarez, 94, Guatemalan artist.[84]
- Violeta Autumn, 81, Peruvian-born American architect and artist.[85]
- Blaine, 74, Canadian editorial cartoonist.[86]
- Royal Cathcart, 85, American football player.[87]
- Colin Churchett, 86, Australian footballer.[88]
- Sam Coppola, 79, American actor (Saturday Night Fever, Fatal Attraction, Ryan's Hope).[89]
- Jazmín De Grazia, 27, Argentine model and television presenter, cocaine overdose.[90]
- Al De Lory, 82, American record producer.[91]
- Lady Ganga, 45, American humanitarian, cervical cancer.[92]
- Jef Gilson, 85, French musician.[93]
- Bill Hinzman, 75, American actor (Night of the Living Dead), cancer.[94]
- Ray Honeyford, 77, English headmaster and writer.[95]
- William D. Houser, 90, American vice admiral (World War II, Korea, Vietnam), Alzheimer's disease and pneumonia.[96]
- Jiang Ying, 92, Chinese opera singer and music teacher.[97]
- Lidiya Rasulova, 70, Azerbaijani politician, member of Supreme Soviet, Minister of Social Security (1988-1991) and of Education (1993-1997).[98]
- Peter Kerim, 57, Ugandan military officer.[99]
- Phil Shanahan, 84, Irish hurler.[100]
- John Turner Sargent Sr., 87, American publisher.[101]
- Lawrence Zhang Wen-Chang, 92, Chinese Roman Catholic priest, Apostolic Administrator of Kunming, Dali, and Zhaotong (since 2000).[102]
- Jo Zwaan, 89, Dutch Olympic athlete.[103]
6
- Abdus Sattar Akon, 82-83, Bangladeshi teacher and politician, result of illness.[104]
- Billy Bean, 78, American jazz guitarist.[105]
- Jean Bingen, 91, Belgian papyrologist and epigrapher.[106]
- Peter Breck, 82, American actor (The Big Valley).[107]
- Roger Chesneau, 86, French steeplechaser.[108]
- Sharada Dwivedi, 69, Indian historian.[109]
- Yasuhiro Ishimoto, 90, Japanese photographer, complications following pneumonia and a stroke.[110]
- Noel Kelehan, 76, Irish musician (RTÉ Concert Orchestra).[111]
- Jim King, 69, British musician (Family).[112]
- Jay Lambert, 86, American Olympic boxer.[113]
- Juan Vicente Lezcano, 74, Paraguayan footballer.[114]
- Matthew Mbu, 82, Nigerian politician and diplomat, Foreign Minister (1993).[115]
- Władysław Ogrodziński, 93, Polish historian and writer.[116]
- Erik Reitzel, 70, Danish civil engineer.[117]
- Bob Roesner, 85, American baseball umpire.[118]
- David Rosenhan, 82, American psychologist.[119]
- Norma Merrick Sklarek, 85, American architect, heart failure.[120]
- Antoni Tàpies, 88, Spanish painter.[121]
- István Udvardi, 51, Hungarian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1980) water polo player.[122]
- Janice E. Voss, 55, American astronaut, breast cancer.[123]
- David A. Winter, 81, Canadian academic.[124]
7
- Sam Aluko, 82, Nigerian economist and scholar.[125]
- Leonard E. Andera, 77, American politician.[126]
- James Baring, 6th Baron Revelstoke, 73, British aristocrat.[127]
- Knox Chamblin, 76, American pastor and professor.[128]
- Danny Clyburn, 37, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles, Tampa Bay Devil Rays), shot.[129]
- Patricia Stephens Due, 72, American civil rights activist, cancer.[130]
- Ann Dummett, 81, British activist.[131]
- Devy Erlih, 83, French violinist.[132]
- Peter Goddard, 80, New Zealand educationalist.[133]
- Marie-Louise Haumont, 93, Belgian writer.[134]
- Florence Holway, 96, American advocate for rape victims.[135]
- Harry Keough, 84, American soccer player and coach.[136]
- Sergio Larraín, 81, Chilean photographer.[137]
- Robert Maxwell, 90, American songwriter and harpist.[138]
8
- Shane Atwell, 41, Barbadian sailor.[139]
- Bill Benson, 91, Canadian ice hockey player.[140]
- Theophilus Brown, 92, American painter.[141]
- Phil Bruns, 80, American actor (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Barney Miller, The Great Waldo Pepper).[142]
- Dennis Callahan, 70, American politician, Mayor of Annapolis (1985–1989), heart attack.[143]
- Robert Christie, 69, English cricketer.[144]
- John Cunningham, 72, Irish journalist, editor of Connacht Tribune (1984–2007), illness.[145]
- Alain Danilet, 64, French politician.[146]
- Laurent Desjardins, 88, Canadian politician.[147]
- Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin, 101, French philologist.[148]
- John Fairfax, 74, British ocean rower and adventurer.[149]
- Giangiacomo Guelfi, 87, Italian opera singer.[150]
- Robert E. Hecht, 92, American antiquities dealer.[151]
- Lew Hitch, 82, American basketball player (Minneapolis Lakers, Milwaukee Hawks, Philadelphia Warriors).[152]
- Jorge Salvador Lara, 85, Ecuadorian historian and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1966, 1976–1977).[153]
- Franca Maï, 52, French actress, cancer.[154]
- Laurie Main, 89, Australian-born character actor (Welcome to Pooh Corner).[155]
- Enrique Moreno, 48, Spanish footballer.[156]
- Gunther Plaut, 99, German-born Canadian rabbi and author.[157]
- Jimmy Sabater, 75, American Latin musician.[158]
- Allan Segal, 70, British documentary maker, cancer.[159]
- Luis Alberto Spinetta, 62, Argentine musician (Almendra, Pescado Rabioso, Invisible), lung cancer.[160]
- Irina Turova, 76, Soviet sprinter.[161]
- Wando, 66, Brazilian singer, cardiorespiratory arrest.[162]
- Brayim Younisi, 85, Iranian Kurdish writer, novelist and translator.[163]
9
- Adam Adamowicz, 43, American video game concept artist (The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Fallout 3), cancer.[164]
- Robert Baker, 85, American ice hockey player.[165]
- Jill Kinmont Boothe, 75, American alpine skier.[166]
- Peggy Crowe, 56, American Olympic speed skater.[167]
- Susarla Dakshinamurthi, 90, Indian film music director, playback singer, and record producer.[168]
- Fred Dickson, 74, Canadian lawyer and politician, Senator (since 2009), colon cancer.[169]
- O. P. Dutta, 90, Indian film director, complications of pneumonia.[170]
- Josh Gifford, 70, British racehorse jockey and trainer, heart attack.[171]
- John Hick, 90, English philosopher and theologian.[172]
- Barbara Marianowska, 64, British-born Polish politician.[173]
- Joe Moretti, 73, British guitarist, lung cancer.[174]
- Oscar Núñez, 83, Argentine actor (Good Life Delivery), cancer.[175]
- Don Panciera, 84, American football player (New York Yankees, Detroit Lions, Chicago Cardinals).[176]
10
- Ibrahim Al-Faqi, 61, Egyptian-born Canadian neuro-linguistic programming expert, home fire.[177]
- Chuck Baird, 64, American artist.[178]
- Geoffrey Cornish, 97, American golf course architect.[179]
- R. T. France, 73, British New Testament scholar.[180]
- Ronald Fraser, 81, English historian.[181]
- John Gage, 73, British art historian.[182]
- Joseph Gaggero, 84, Gibraltarian businessman.[183]
- Filippo Giannini, 88, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Rome (1980–1998).[184]
- Ed Harrison, 84, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers, Boston Bruins).[185]
- Francisco de Guruceaga Iturriza, 84, Venezuelan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of La Guaira (1973–2001).[186]
- Brian Jones, 67, British intelligence analyst.[187]
- Andrey Korotkov, 57, Russian politician, after long illness.[188]
- Lloyd Morrison, 54, New Zealand businessman (Infratil), leukemia.[189]
- Wilmot Perkins, 80, Jamaican radio personality.[190]
- David Anthony Pizzuto, 60, Canadian-born American voice actor (Family Guy, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3).[191]
- Ivan Pravilov, 48, Ukrainian ice hockey coach, suicide by hanging.[192]
- Refuse To Bend, 11, Irish Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the National Stakes (2002) and 2,000 Guineas Stakes (2003), myocardial infarction.[193]
- James Riordan, 75, English novelist and academic.[194]
- Adolfo Schwelm Cruz, 88, Argentine racing driver.[195]
- Jeffrey Zaslow, 53, American author and columnist, car accident.[196]
11
- Siri Bjerke, 53, Norwegian politician, Minister of the Environment (2000–2001), cancer.[197]
- Volodymyr Borysovsky, 78, Ukrainian builder, electrical engineer, and politician.[198]
- David Craven, 60, American art historian.[199]
- Gene Crumling, 89, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals).[200]
- Aharon Davidi, 85, Israeli general.[201]
- Guido Fanti, 86, Italian politician.[202]
- Trent Frayne, 93, Canadian sportswriter.[203]
- Whitney Houston, 48, American singer ("I Will Always Love You") and actress (The Bodyguard), accidental drowning.[204]
- John Sperry, 87, Canadian Anglican Bishop of the Arctic (1974–1990).[205]
12
- Galal Amer, 59, Egyptian journalist, heart attack.[206]
- Zina Bethune, 66, American actress (Sunrise at Campobello), hit-and-run.[207]
- Nicanor de Guzman Jr., 80, Filipino politician, lingering liver and pancreatic illness.[208]
- Malcolm Devitt, 75, English footballer.[209]
- Denis Flannery, 83, Australian rugby league player.[210]
- Adrian Foley, 8th Baron Foley, 88, British musician and aristocrat.[211]
- David Kelly, 82, Irish actor (Fawlty Towers, Strumpet City, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory).[212]
- Gratia Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, 99, Dutch Olympic alpine skier (1936).[213]
- John Severin, 90, American comic book artist (Hulk, Sgt. Fury and his Howling Commandos), co-founder of Mad magazine.[214]
- David A. Walker, 83, British scientist.[215]
- Howard Zimmerman, 85, American professor of chemistry.[216]
13
- Wendy Albano, 52, American businesswoman, strangled.[217]
- Russell Arms, 92, American singer (Your Hit Parade) and actor (The Man Who Came to Dinner).[218]
- Lillian Bassman, 94, American photographer.[219]
- Ladislau Biernaski, 74, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of São José dos Pinhais (since 2006), cancer.[220]
- Frank Braña, 77, Spanish film actor, respiratory failure.[221]
- Al Brenner, 64, American football player (New York Giants, Hamilton Tiger-Cats).[222]
- Jodie Christian, 80, American jazz pianist.[223]
- Louise Cochrane, 93, American-born British television producer.[224]
- Trevor Davey, 85, New Zealand politician.[225]
- Eamonn Deacy, 53, Irish footballer, member of Aston Villa championship-winning team (1981), heart attack.[226]
- Sophie Desmarets, 89, French actress.[227]
- Humayun Faridi, 59, Bangladeshi actor.[228]
- Maria Fischer-Slyzh, 89, Ukrainian-Canadian pediatrician and philanthropist.[229]
- Daniel C. Gerould, 84, American playwright and academic.[230]
- David Griffiths, 84, British Anglican clergyman, Archdeacon of Berkshire (1987–1992).[231]
- Kushimaumi Keita, 46, Japanese sumo wrestler and coach (Tagonoura), ischaemic heart disease.[232]
- Anwar Kamal Khan, 64, Pakistani politician, cardiac failure.[233]
- Akhlaq Mohammed Khan, 75, Indian poet, lyricist and academic, lung cancer.[234]
- Isaak B. Klejman, 91, Ukrainian Soviet archaeologist.[235]
- Mohamed Lamari, 72, Algerian lieutenant general, Chief of Staff of the People's National Army (1993–2004), heart attack.[236]
- Víctor Manuel Liceaga Ruibal, 77, Mexican politician, Governor of Baja California Sur (1987–1993), respiratory failure.[237]
- Severo Lombardoni, 62, Italian music producer.[238]
- Jim O'Brien, 64, Scottish film and television director (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles).[239]
- Leta Peer, 47, Swiss painter and fine art photographer.[240]
- Sansón, 87, Spanish football player.[241]
- Freddie Solomon, 59, American football player (Miami Dolphins, San Francisco 49ers), colon and liver cancer.[242]
- Edward Groesbeck Voss, 82, American botanist and lepidopterist.[243]
14
- V. S. Acharya, 71, Indian politician.[244]
- Mike Bernardo, 42, South African boxer, kickboxer and martial artist.[245]
- Desmond Carroll, 93, English archdeacon.[246]
- Zlatko Crnković, 76, Croatian actor, cardiac arrest.[247]
- Ibragimkhalil Daudov, 51, Russian militant leader of the Vilayat Dagestan, shot.[248]
- Erwin Fiedor, 68, Polish Olympic ski jumper.[249]
- Reinhold Frosch, 76, Austrian luger.[250]
- Gloria Gallardo, 73, American activist.[251]
- Kim Pong-chol, 69, North Korean politician, helicopter crash.[252]
- Tonmi Lillman, 38, Finnish musician (Ajattara, Sinergy, To/Die/For, Lordi).[253]
- Earl Lindley, 78, American football player (Edmonton Eskimos).[254]
- Tom McAnearney, 79, Scottish footballer (Sheffield Wednesday, Peterborough United, Aldershot).[255]
- Dory Previn, 86, American singer-songwriter (Mythical Kings and Iguanas) and lyricist (Valley of the Dolls, Last Tango in Paris).[256]
- Péter Rusorán, 71, Hungarian water polo player and coach, Olympic champion.[257]
- Art Tait, 83, American football player.[258]
- Alfredo Vega, 77, Paraguayan footballer.[259][better source needed]
15
- Tariq al-Dahab, 34-38, Yemeni terrorist, shot.[260]
- Charles Anthony, 82, American tenor, kidney failure.[261]
- Ray Bailey, 76, Australian politician, President of the Tasmanian Legislative Council (1997–2002).[262]
- Sir Alan Cottrell, 92, British metallurgist and physicist.[263]
- Shannon D. Cramer, 90, American admiral.[264]
- William H. Dabney, 77, American military officer, awarded Navy Cross.[265]
- Cyril Domb, 91, British physicist.[266]
- Jacques Duby, 89, French actor.[267]
- Joki Freund, 85, German jazz saxophonist.[268]
- Zelda Kaplan, 95, American socialite and philanthropist.[269]
- Doug McNichol, 81, Canadian football player (Montreal Alouettes, Toronto Argonauts).[270]
- Bibudhendra Mishra, 83, Indian politician.[271]
- Lina Romay, 57, Spanish actress, cancer.[272]
- Clive Shakespeare, 62, British-born Australian guitarist (Sherbet) and record producer, prostate cancer.[273]
- James Whitaker, 71, British journalist, royal editor of the Daily Mirror, cancer.[274]
- Gerrit Ybema, 66, Dutch politician, State Secretary for Economic Affairs (1998–2002), lung cancer.[275]
- John J. Yeosock, 74, American lieutenant general, lung cancer.[276]
16
- Duško Antunović, 65, Croatian Olympic water polo player and coach.[277]
- Gösta Arvidsson, 86, Swedish Olympic athlete.[278]
- Chikage Awashima, 87, Japanese actress (Takarazuka Revue), pancreatic cancer.[279]
- Mitja Brodar, 91, Slovenian archaeologist.[280]
- Tiko Campbell, 64, American author and architect.[281]
- Gary Carter, 57, American Hall of Fame baseball player (Montreal Expos, New York Mets), brain tumor.[282]
- Shlomo Cohen-Tzidon, 89, Israeli politician.[283]
- Donald Henry Colless, 89, Australian entomologist.[284]
- Israel "Bo" Curtis, 79, American educator and funeral home insurance agent.[285]
- René Debenne, 97, French cyclist.[286]
- Sir Baddeley Devesi, 70, Solomon Islander politician, first Governor-General (1978–1988).[287]
- Jacques Forest, 91, French carcinologist.[288]
- Warren Hudson, 49, Canadian football player (Toronto Argonauts, Winnipeg Blue Bombers), brain cancer.[289]
- Elyse Knox, 94, American actress and model, mother of Mark Harmon.[290]
- Joy Lamason, 96, New Zealand cricketer.[291]
- Reidar T. Larsen, 88, Norwegian politician, member of parliament (1973–1977).[292]
- John Macionis, 95, American Olympic silver medal-winning (1936) swimmer.[293]
- Kathryn McGee, 91, American disability rights advocate.[294]
- Harry McPherson, 82, American lawyer and lobbyist, advisor to Lyndon B. Johnson, cancer.[295]
- Geevarghese Osthathios, 93, Indian Orthodox bishop, Senior Metropolitan of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church.[296]
- Anil Ramdas, 54, Surinamese-born Dutch columnist and journalist (NRC Handelsblad).[297]
- Ronald Rindestu, 69, Norwegian politician.[298]
- John Ritchie, 67, English footballer.[299]
- Anthony Shadid, 43, American journalist, asthma.[300]
- Ethel Stark, 101, Canadian violinist and conductor.[301]
- Gene Vance, 88, American basketball player (Chicago Stags, Tri-Cities Blackhawks, Milwaukee Hawks).[302]
- Dick Anthony Williams, 77, American actor (Edward Scissorhands, The Jerk, Homefront), after long illness.[303]
17
- Rodolfo Acevedo, 60, Chilean historian.[304]
- Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn, 93, Dutch mathematician.[305]
- Robert Carr, Baron Carr of Hadley, 95, British politician, MP for Mitcham (1950–1974) & Carshalton (1974–1976); Home Secretary (1972–1974).[306]
- Clarence Dart, 91, American World War II fighter pilot (Tuskegee Airmen).[307]
- Michael Davis, 68, American bassist (MC5), liver failure.[308]
- Winkie Direko, 82, South African politician, Premier of the Free State (1999–2004), stroke.[309]
- Pierre Francisse, 87, Belgian Olympic fencer.[310]
- Danny Halloran, 57, Australian footballer (Carlton).[311]
- Jordan, 79, Brazilian footballer (Flamengo), diabetes.[312]
- Kurt Lehovec, 93, American physicist.[313]
- Ulric Neisser, 83, American psychologist.[314]
- Hank Nelson, 74, Australian historian, cancer.[315]
- Peter Novick, 77, American historian.[316]
- Howie Nunn, 76, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds).[317]
- Frank Sanders, 62, American Olympic silver medal-winning (1972) ice hockey player, pancreatic cancer.[318]
18
- Roald Aas, 83, Norwegian Olympic gold (1960) and bronze (1952) medal-winning speed skater.[319]
- Alex Anisi, Papua New Guinean politician.[320]
- Mariam Behruzi, 66-67, Iranian lawyer.[321]
- József Breznay, 95, Hungarian painter.[322]
- George Brizan, 69, Grenadian politician, Prime Minister (1995), diabetes.[323]
- João Viegas Carrascalão, 65, East Timorese politician.[324]
- Zvezdan Čebinac, 72, Serbian football player and manager.[325]
- Elizabeth Connell, 65, South African soprano, cancer.[326]
- Clementina Díaz y de Ovando, 96, Mexican writer and academic.[327]
- Linda Estrella, 89, Fillipina actress.[328]
- M. R. D. Foot, 92, English military historian.[329]
- Ken Goodwin, 78, English comedian (The Comedians), Alzheimer's disease.[330]
- Peter Halliday, 87, Welsh actor (Doctor Who, The Remains of the Day).[331]
- Miles Jackson-Lipkin, 87, British barrister, Hong Kong High Court judge (1981–1987), social welfare fraudster.[332]
- María Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat, 90, Argentine business executive and philanthropist.[333]
- Matt Lamb, 79, American painter.[334]
- Bertie Messitt, 81, Irish Olympic athlete (1960).[335]
- Roger Miner, 77, American senior federal appellate judge, heart failure.[336]
- Cal Murphy, 79, Canadian football coach and general manager (Winnipeg Blue Bombers).[337]
- Peter Sharp, 72, New Zealand first class cricketer (Canterbury) and cricket commentator, cancer.[338]
- Ric Waite, 78, American cinematographer (Red Dawn, Footloose, 48 Hrs.).[339]
- Mohammed Wardi, 79, Sudanese singer and songwriter, kidney complications.[340]
19
- Hubert Braun, 72, German Olympic bobsledder.[341]
- Georgi Cherkelov, 81, Bulgarian actor, stroke.[342]
- Robin Corbett, Baron Corbett of Castle Vale, 78, British politician, MP for Hemel Hempstead (1974–1979) and Birmingham Erdington (1983–2001), cancer.[343]
- Renato Dulbecco, 97, Italian-born American virologist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1975).[344]
- Avraham Fahn, 95, Israeli professor.[345]
- Vito Giacalone, 88, American mobster.[346]
- Eric Harris, 56, American football player (Toronto Argonauts, Kansas City Chiefs, Los Angeles Rams), heart attack.[347]
- J. Paul Hogan, 92, American research chemist.[348]
- Steve Kordek, 100, American pinball machine designer.[349]
- Giovanni Lilliu, 97, Italian archeologist.[350]
- Ruth Barcan Marcus, 90, American philosopher and logician.[351]
- Walter Schloss, 95, American investor and stock trader, leukemia.[352]
- Dick Smith, 72, American baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Mets).[353]
- So Man-sul, 84, North Korean Zainichi activist, Chongryon Central Standing Committee chairman.[354]
- Frits Staal, 81, Dutch philosopher.[355]
- Stanislovas Stonkus, 80, Lithuanian basketball player.[356]
- Herman G. Tillman Jr., 89, American pilot (World War II, Korea, Vietnam), liver failure.[357]
- Jaroslav Velinský, 79, Czech science fiction and detective author.[358]
- Vitaly Vorotnikov, 86, Soviet politician, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR (1988–1990).[359]
20
- Foyez Ahmad, 84, Bangladeshi journalist, writer and cultural activist.[360]
- Clive Baker, 77, English footballer (Halifax Town).[361]
- Raymond Cicci, 82, French footballer[362]
- Knut Torbjørn Eggen, 51, Norwegian Olympic football player and coach.[363]
- Asar Eppel, 77, Russian translator, stroke.[364]
- Johnny Ezersky, 89, American basketball player.[365]
- Ra Ganapati, 76, Indian writer.[366]
- Sebhat Gebre-Egziabher, 76, Ethiopian author.[367]
- Imanuel Geiss, 81, German historian.[368]
- Marcel Gerdil, 84, French sprinter.[369]
- Katie Hall, 73, American politician, U.S. Representative from Indiana (1982–1985).[370]
- S. N. Lakshmi, 85, Indian actress, cardiac arrest.[371]
- Lydia Lamaison, 97, Argentine actress (Muñeca Brava).[372]
- Christoffer Schander, 51, Norwegian marine biologist.[373]
- Ariyil Shukoor, 24, Indian student, stabbed.[374]
- Michael Siegal, 61, British developmental psychologist.[375]
- Adrienne Smith, 78, Australian sport administrator.[376]
- John Steer, 83, British art historian.[377]
- Edgardo Gabriel Storni, 75, Argentine Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz (1984–2002).[378]
- Tamanna Begum, 64, Pakistani actress.[379]
- Sullivan Walker, 68, Trinidadian actor (The Cosby Show, Get Rich or Die Tryin'), heart attack.[380]
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- Ranil Abeynaike, 57, Sri Lankan cricketer and commentator, heart attack.[381]
- James Blackett-Ord, 90, British judge and churchman.[382]
- Ajahn Chanda Thawaro, 90, Thai Buddhist monk.[383]
- Sarbari Roy Choudhury, 79, Indian sculptor, heart attack.[384]
- H. M. Darmstandler, 89, American Air Force officer.[385]
- Herman Fialkov, 89, American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and philanthropist.[386]
- Manuel Franco da Costa de Oliveira Falcão, 89, Portuguese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Beja (1980–1999).[387]
- Emlyn Hooson, Baron Hooson, 86, British politician, MP for Montgomeryshire (1962–1979).[388]
- Colin Ireland, 57, British serial killer.[389]
- Pierre Juneau, 89, Canadian broadcasting executive and cabinet minister, Minister of Communications (1975), namesake of the Juno Awards.[390]
- Fay Kleinman, 99, American painter, complications of a broken hip.[391]
- Vera Kublanovskaya, 91, Russian mathematician.[392]
- Yusuf Kurçenli, 65, Turkish film director, cancer.[393]
- Tom Martinez, 66, American football coach, heart attack.[394]
- John Michuki, 79, Kenyan politician, heart attack.[395]
- Benjamin Romualdez, 81, Filipino politician and diplomat, Governor of Leyte (1967–1986), brother of Imelda Marcos, cancer.[396]
- Leonard Rosoman, 98, British artist.[397]
- Barney Rosset, 89, American publisher (Grove Press) and free speech advocate.[398]
- Eldor Urazbayev, 71, Russian film director.[399]
- Stanisław Wieśniak, 81, Polish Olympic rower.[400]
- John Charles Winter, 88, British church organist.[401]
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- Ali Abolhassani, 56, Iranian spiritual historiograph, heart failure.[402]
- Syed Mohammad Izhar Ashraf, 78, Indian imam.[403]
- Frank Carson, 85, Northern Irish comedian.[404]
- Marie Colvin, 56, American reporter (The Sunday Times), shelling.[405]
- Nakamura Jakuemon IV, 91, Japanese kabuki actor, pneumonia.[406]
- Lyudmila Kasatkina, 86, Russian actress, People's Artist of the USSR.[407]
- Thabang Lebese, 38, South African footballer, AIDS-related illness.[408]
- Lorin Levee, 61, American clarinetist (Los Angeles Philharmonic).[409]
- João Mansur, 88, Brazilian politician, Governor of Paraná (1973).[410]
- Robert R. McElroy, 84, American photographer.[411]
- Mike Melvoin, 74, American jazz pianist and composer, cancer.[412]
- Dmitri Nabokov, 77, American opera singer and translator.[413]
- Rémi Ochlik, 28, French photographer, shelling.[414]
- Royal Academy, 25, Irish Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the Breeders' Cup Mile (1990).[415]
- Haycene Ryan, 60, Montserratian cricketer, cancer.[416]
- Ian Robertson, 89, British rear admiral.[417]
- Cuauhtémoc Sandoval Ramírez, 61, Mexican politician, heart attack.[418]
- Enzo Sellerio, 88, Italian photographer, heart attack.[419]
- Billy Strange, 81, American songwriter ("Limbo Rock") and music arranger.[420]
- Sukhbir, 86, Indian writer.[421]
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- Tasoltan Basiev, 64, Soviet and Russian engineer.[422]
- Dick Bernard, 94, Scottish lawn bowler.[423]
- Cathy Campbell, 49, New Zealand broadcaster, brain tumour.[424]
- Charlie Collins, 66, Canadian football player, car accident.[425]
- Anne Commire, 72, American playwright.[426]
- William Gay, 70, American author.[427]
- Peter King, 47, English footballer (Crewe Alexandra, Southport).[428]
- Grigory Kosykh, 79, Soviet sports shooter.[429]
- Mariuccia Medici, 102, Swiss-born Italian actress.[430]
- William Raggio, 85, American politician, Nevada State Senator (1972–2011), respiratory illness.[431]
- David Sayre, 87, American scientist.[432]
- Marc Soula, 66, French entomologist.[433]
- Bruce Surtees, 74, American cinematographer (Lenny, Dirty Harry, Beverly Hills Cop).[434]
- Jan van Borssum Buisman, 92, Dutch painter.[435]
- Kazimierz Żygulski, 92, Polish sociologist and politician.[436]
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- Infanta Maria Adelaide of Portugal, 100, Portuguese royal.[437]
- Tony Aiello, 90, American football player.[438]
- Agnes Allen, 81, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).[439]
- István Anhalt, 92, Hungarian-born Canadian composer.[440]
- Bob Badgley, 83, American jazz double-bassist.[441][circular reference]
- Jan Berenstain, 88, American writer and illustrator (Berenstain Bears), stroke.[442]
- Benedict Freedman, 92, American novelist and mathematician.[443]
- Njenga Karume, 82, Kenyan businessman and politician, cancer.[444]
- Theodore Mann, 87, American theatre producer and director.[445]
- Terry Mathews, 47, American baseball player (Texas Rangers, Florida Marlins, Baltimore Orioles), heart attack.[446]
- Kenneth Price, 77, American ceramics artist, cancer.[447]
- Pery Ribeiro, 74, Brazilian singer, myocardial infarction.[448]
- Eliana Tranchesi, 56, Brazilian chief executive (Daslu).[449]
- Jay Ward, 73, American baseball player (Minnesota Twins, Cincinnati Reds).[450]
- Oliver Wrong, 87, British medical academic.[451]
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- Gloria Alcorta, 96, Argentine writer, poet and sculptor.[452]
- Maurice André, 78, French classical trumpeter.[453]
- Dave Cheadle, 60, American baseball player (Atlanta Braves).[454]
- Lynn Compton, 90, American soldier, inspiration for Band of Brothers, heart attack.[455]
- Dick Davies, 76, American gold-medal winning Olympic basketball player (1964).[456]
- Alan Detweiler, 85, Canadian composer, author, and patron of the arts.[457]
- Lloyd R. George, 85, American politician, member of the Arkansas House of Representatives (1963–1967; 1973–1997).[458]
- Red Holloway, 84, American jazz saxophonist, stroke and kidney failure.[459]
- Erland Josephson, 88, Swedish actor and author, leader of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, complications of Parkinson's disease.[460]
- Louisiana Red, 79, American blues musician, stroke.[461]
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- Ed Brigadier, 62, American actor (Pushing Daisies, Gilmore Girls, The Jane Austen Book Club).[462]
- Phyllis Simmons Brooks, 85, Canadian educator.[463]
- Richard Carpenter, 82, English television screenwriter.[464]
- Robinson Cavalcanti, 67, Brazilian Anglican bishop, stabbed.[465]
- Paddy Concannon, 93, Irish politician.[466]
- Árpád Fekete, 90, Hungarian football player and coach.[467]
- Mohamed Fourati, 80, Tunisian surgeon.[468]
- Georg Holzherr, 85, Swiss Roman Catholic prelate, Abbot Ordinary of Territorial Abbacy of Maria Einsiedeln (1969–2001).[469]
- Don Joyce, 82, American football player (Baltimore Colts, Chicago Cardinals, Minnesota Vikings).[470]
- Hans Christian Korting, 59, German dermatologist.[471]
- Kumar Kashyap Mahasthavir, 85, Nepalese Buddhist monk.[472]
- Trayvon Martin, 17, American teenager, shot.[473]
- Berto Poosen, 67, Belgian Olympic volleyball player.[474]
- George E. Terwilleger, 71, American politician.[475]
- Johannes Vågsnes, 88, Norwegian politician.[476]
- Yvonne Verbeeck, 98, Belgian actress.[477]
- Zollie Volchok, 95, American basketball executive.[478]
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- Ely Bielutin, 86, Russian artist.[479]
- Louis Bertorelle, 79, French Olympic basketball player.[480]
- David Bowman, 54, American writer, cerebral hemorrhage.[481]
- Rich Brenner, 65, American sports commentator.[482]
- Pedro Azabache Bustamante, 94, Peruvian painter.[483]
- Vince Dantona, 62, American ventriloquist.[484]
- Werner Guballa, 67, German Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Mainz (since 2003).[485]
- Ma Jiyuan, 91, Chinese military leader.[486]
- Sailen Manna, 87, Indian Olympic footballer.[487]
- Piotr Pawłowski, 86, Polish actor.[488]
- Armand Penverne, 85, French football player.[489]
- Tina Strobos, 91, Dutch psychiatrist and humanitarian, protected Jewish refugees during World War II, cancer.[490]
- Władysław Tajner, 76, Polish Olympic ski jumper.[491]
- Helga Vlahović, 67, Croatian journalist, producer and television personality, uterine cancer.[492]
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- Karl Arnold, 71, German weightlifter.[493]
- Frisner Augustin, 63, Haitian Vodou drummer.[494]
- Bai Jing, 28, Chinese actress, stabbed.[495]
- Anna Lou Dehavenon, 85, American anthropologist.[496]
- Terri Dial, 62, American banker, pancreatic cancer.[497]
- Ian Gallahar, 70s, Irish road racing cyclist.[498]
- Jaime Graça, 70, Portuguese footballer.[499]
- Jim Green, 68, American-born Canadian politician and activist, lung cancer.[500]
- Fritz Hakl, 80, Austrian actor.[501]
- William Hamilton, 87, American theologian.[502]
- Anders Kulläng, 68, Swedish rally driver, drowning.[503]
- Antonio Attolini Lack, 80, Mexican architect.[504]
- Abukar Hassan Mohamoud, 43-49, Somali journalist, shot.[505]
- Hal Roach, 84, Irish comedian.[506]
- Murray Sargent, 83, Australian cricketer (South Australia, Leicestershire).[507]
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- Roland Bautista, 60, American guitarist (Earth, Wind & Fire).[508]
- Ertjies Bezuidenhout, 56, South African cyclist.[509]
- Prudence Burns Burrell, 95, American nurse.[510]
- Gerald Caravelli, 68, American bridge player.[511]
- Dennis Chinnery, 84, British actor (Doctor Who).[512]
- Woody Farmer, 76, American wrestler, cancer.[513]
- Fukuzo Iwasaki, 86, Japanese businessman.[514]
- Davy Jones, 66, British actor and musician (The Monkees), heart attack.[515]
- Karl Kodat, 69, Austrian international footballer.[516]
- Sheldon Moldoff, 91, American comic book artist (Batman, Superman, Blackhawk), kidney failure.[517]
- Horacio Morales, 68, Filipino economist and politician, Secretary of Agrarian Reform (1998–2001), heart attack.[518]
- P. K. Narayana Panicker, 81, Indian welfare worker, President of the Nair Service Society.[519]
- Vasilis Tsivilikas, 70, Greek comic actor, heart attack.[520]
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