Deaths in June 2012
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The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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).
June 2012
1
- Lamu Amatya, 80, first Nepalese trained–nurse, Alzheimer's disease.[1]
- Faruq Z. Bey, 70, American jazz saxophonist, emphysema.[2]
- Pádraig Faulkner, 94, Irish politician, TD for Louth (1957–1987), Minister for Defence (1979–1980), Ceann Comhairle (1980–1981).[3]
- Milan Gaľa, 59, Slovak politician.[4]
- Avram Goldstein, 92, American pharmacologist.[5]
- Marcial Gómez Parejo, 81, Spanish Andalusian painter and illustrator.[6]
- Nick Knilans, 94, American bomber pilot.[7]
- Marion Sandler, 81, American businesswoman (Golden West Financial).[8]
- Jörg Schmeisser, 70, German-Australian printmaker.[9]
- Brahmeshwar Singh, 67, Indian militia chief, head of Ranvir Sena, shooting.[10]
- Juozas Tunaitis, 83, Lithuanian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Vilnius (1991–2010).[11]
2
- Eliseo Nicolás Alonso, 57, Spanish woodcarver.[citation needed]
- Elnur Aslanov, 29, Azerbaijani wrestler, car accident.[12]
- Avraham Botzer, 83, Israeli general, Commander of the Navy (1968–1972).[13]
- Adolfo Calero, 80, Nicaraguan businessman, leader of the Democratic Force, pneumonia and kidney failure.[14]
- Richard Dawson, 79, English-born American actor (Hogan's Heroes) and host (Family Feud), esophageal cancer.[15]
- L. K. Doraiswamy, 85, Indian chemical engineer, author and academic, heart ailments.[16]
- LeRoy Ellis, 72, American basketball player (Los Angeles Lakers, Philadelphia 76ers, Baltimore Bullets), prostate cancer.[17]
- Héctor García Cobo, 88, Mexican photo-journalist.[18]
- David C. Garrett Jr., 90, American businessman, CEO of Delta Air Lines.[19]
- Jan Gmelich Meijling, 76, Dutch politician, Mayor of Castricum (1978–1985) and Den Helder (1985–1994), State Secretary for Defence (1994–1998).[20]
- Kathryn Joosten, 72, American actress (Desperate Housewives, The West Wing, Bedtime Stories), Emmy winner (2005, 2008), lung cancer.[21]
- Frazier Mohawk, 71, American record producer (Buffalo Springfield, The Byrds).[22]
- Soini Nikkinen, 88, Finnish Olympic javelin thrower and world record holder.[23]
- Marco Onorato, 59, Italian cinematographer.[24]
- Oliver, app. 55, Congolese-born common chimpanzee noted for his upright stature and humanlike traits.[25]
- Genichi Taguchi, 88, Japanese engineer and statistician.[26]
3
- Carol Ann Abrams, 69, American film producer (The Ernest Green Story) and author, cancer.[27]
- Bob Bill, 72, American football player and businessman, heart failure.[28]
- Peter Orlebar Bishop, 94, Australian neurophysiologist.[29]
- Angelo Di Castro, 86, Italian sculptor.[30]
- James L. Foreman, 85, American judge.[31]
- Rosa Guy, 89, Trinidadian-born American author, cancer.[32]
- Andy Hamilton, 94, Jamaican-born British saxophonist and composer.[33]
- Rajsoomer Lallah, 79, Mauritian lawyer and judge.[34]
- Alphonse Le Gastelois, 97, British recluse.[35]
- John Lang, 84, British Anglican priest and broadcaster, Dean of Lichfield (1980–1993).[36]
- Mary Perry, 69, American Olympic volleyball player, neurodegenerative disease.[37]
- Hugh Poole, 86, New Zealand Olympic sailor.[38]
- Jean-Louis Richard, 85, French film director.[39]
- Roy Salvadori, 90, British Formula One race car driver.[40]
- Sir Brian Talboys, 90, New Zealand politician, MP for Wallace (1957–1981), Deputy Prime Minister (1975–1981).[41]
- Sergio Tedesco, 84, Italian actor, voice actor and tenor.[42]
- Roel de Wit, 85, Dutch politician, Mayor of Alkmaar (1970–1976), Queen's Commissioner of North Holland (1976–1992).[43]
- Notable people killed in the crash of Dana Air Flight 0992:
- Levi Chibuike Ajuonuma, 60, Nigerian academic, journalist and public relations expert.[44]
- Ibrahim Damcida, 78–79, Nigerian civil servant.[45]
- Celestine Onwuliri, 60, Nigerian academician.[46]
4
- Peter Beaven, 86, New Zealand architect, cancer.[47]
- J. C. Bhattacharyya, 81, Indian astronomer.[48]
- Bobby Black, 85, Scottish football player.[49]
- Pedro Borbón, 65, Dominican Republic-born American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds), cancer.[50]
- Dennis Eugene Breedlove, 72, American botanist, herbarium curator, and plant collector.[51]
- Tom Cryer, 62, American lawyer.[52]
- Jim Fitzgerald, 86, American businessman, majority owner of the Milwaukee Bucks (1976–1985) and Golden State Warriors (1986–1995).[53]
- Ireneo García Alonso, 89, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Albacete (1968–1980).[54]
- Barney Gibbens, 77, British businessman.[55]
- Bernard Jean, 87, Canadian lawyer and politician, member (1960–1970) and Speaker (1963–1966) of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick.[56]
- Stan Jolley, 86, American art director and production designer (Witness, Superman, Caddyshack).[57]
- Eduard Khil, 77, Russian singer ("Trololo"), stroke.[58]
- Abu Yahya al-Libi, 49, Libyan terrorist, senior member of al-Qaeda, drone strike.[59]
- Lim Hock Siew, 81, Singaporean doctor, politician, and political prisoner.[60]
- Rodolfo Quezada Toruño, 80, Guatemalan Roman Catholic prelate, Cardinal Archbishop of Guatemala (2001–2010), intestinal blockage.[61]
- Herb Reed, 83, American singer (The Platters).[62]
- Philip Snow, 96, British cricketer and administrator.[63]
- Per Sunderland, 87, Norwegian actor.[64]
- Barry Unsworth, 81, British novelist, lung cancer.[65]
5
- Carl Bledsoe, 88, American politician, Colorado State Representative (1973–1991).[66]
- Ray Bradbury, 91, American author (Fahrenheit 451, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Dandelion Wine).[67]
- Steve Buttle, 59, English football player and coach, cancer.[68]
- Keith Coster, 92, South African army officer.[69]
- Richard Duc, 77, French rower.[70]
- Guy Elmour, New Caledonian football manager.[71]
- Shapoor Gharib, 78–79, Iranian director and screenplay writer.[72]
- John Hinrichs, 78, American welding engineer, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.[73]
- David Hodgson, 73, Australian judge.[74]
- Caroline John, 71, British actress (Doctor Who, Love Actually, The Doctors).[75]
- Hal Keller, 83, American baseball player (Washington Senators) and executive (Seattle Mariners, Texas Rangers), esophageal cancer.[76]
- Lucky Diamond, app. 15, American Maltese dog, Guinness World Record holder (dog most photographed with celebrities), cancer.[77]
- Mihai Pătrașcu, 29, Romanian computer scientist, brain cancer.[78]
- Athinodoros Prousalis, 86, Greek film and television actor, heart attack.[79]
- Charlie Sutton, 88, Australian football player and coach (Footscray).[80]
- Chris Thompson, 52, English footballer.[81]
6
- Frank Barsotti, 74, American photographer.[82]
- Mohamed Elrawi, 77, Egyptian academic.[83]
- Lillian Gallo, 84, American television producer.[84]
- Jiang Minkuan, 82, Chinese politician, Governor of Sichuan.[85]
- Vladimir Krutov, 52, Russian ice hockey player (CSKA Moscow, Vancouver Canucks) and Olympic medal-winner (1980, 1984, 1988), internal bleeding and liver failure.[86]
- Li Wangyang, 62, Chinese labour rights activist, hanging.[87]
- Jean-Louis Loday, 66, French mathematician.[88]
- Nolan Miller, 79, American fashion designer, lung cancer.[89]
- Manuel Preciado Rebolledo, 54, Spanish football player and coach (Sporting Gijón, Racing Santander), heart attack.[90]
- Agostinho José Sartori, 83, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Palmas–Francisco Beltrão (1970–2005), complications of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases.[91]
- Prince Tomohito of Mikasa, 66, Japanese royal, cancer.[92]
- Mykola Volosyanko, 40, Ukrainian football player, heart failure.[93]
7
- Walter Becker, 79, German racing cyclist.[94]
- F. Herbert Bormann, 90, American ecologist, discovered acid rain.[95]
- William Cartwright, 89, Bahamian politician and publisher, co-founder of the Progressive Liberal Party.[96]
- John T. Cunningham, 96, American historian, journalist, and writer.[97]
- Richard N. Dixon, 74, American politician.[98]
- David Gibson, 76, English cricketer.[99]
- Peter Gray, 85, British chemist.[100]
- Ping-ti Ho, 95, Chinese-born American historian.[101]
- Mervin Jackson, 65, American basketball player (Utah Stars).[102]
- Abid Hamid Mahmud, 55, Iraqi military officer, bodyguard and personal secretary of Saddam Hussein, execution by hanging.[103]
- John Medlin, 78, American banker, CEO of Wachovia (1977–1993), heart attack.[104]
- Cotton Owens, 88, American Hall of Fame NASCAR driver and owner, lung cancer.[105]
- J. Michael Riva, 63, American production designer (The Color Purple, A Few Good Men, Iron Man), stroke.[106]
- Rupert Scotland, 74, Bermudian cricketer.[107]
- Chuck Share, 85, American basketball player (Fort Wayne Pistons, St. Louis Hawks, Minneapolis Lakers).[108]
- Phillip V. Tobias, 86, South African palaeoanthropologist.[109]
- Robert L. Washington III, 47, American comic book writer, co-creator of Static.[110]
- Bob Welch, 66, American musician (Fleetwood Mac, Paris) and songwriter ("Sentimental Lady"), suicide by gunshot.[111]
8
- Luis Aloy, 82, Spanish football player (FC Barcelona, Real Oviedo).[112]
- Baku Akae, 79, Japanese novelist.[113]
- Pete Brennan, 75, American basketball player (New York Knicks), prostate cancer.[114]
- Frank Cady, 96, American actor (Green Acres, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Petticoat Junction).[115]
- K. S. R. Das, 76, Indian film director.[116]
- Wilf Doyle, 87, Canadian musician.[117]
- Jane Evans, 65, New Zealand artist.[118]
- Bengt Fröbom, 85, Swedish Olympic cyclist.[119]
- Robert Galley, 91, French politician, Mayor of Troyes (1972–1995), Minister of Transport (1972–1973), Compagnon de la Libération.[120]
- Nikolay Ivanov, 62, Russian Olympic gold medal-winning (1976) rower.[121]
- Tom Kamara, 62-63, Liberian journalist.[122]
- Ivan Lessa, 77, Brazilian journalist, pulmonary emphysema.[123]
- Pat Mahoney, 83, Canadian businessman, politician, and judge, MP for Calgary South (1968–1972), General Manager of the Calgary Stampeders (1965).[124]
- Sepp Maier, 77, German Olympic skier.[125]
- Charles E. M. Pearce, 72, New Zealand-born Australian mathematician, traffic collision.[126]
- Ghassan Tueni, 86, Lebanese journalist and politician, Ambassador to the United Nations (1977–1982).[127]
9
- Hans Abramson, 82, Swedish film director.[128]
- Audrey Arno, 70, German pop singer, Alzheimer's disease.[129]
- Roy Ayres, 82, American guitar player.[130]
- Rachel Browne, 77, Canadian dancer and choreographer.[131]
- Régis Clère, 55, French Olympic (1980) road bicycle racer, complications during surgery.[132]
- Burwyn Davidson, 68, Australian politician.[133]
- Don Durbridge, 73, British broadcaster.[134]
- George Ede, 72, Canadian biathlete.[135]
- Masahisa Fukase, 78, Japanese photographer, cerebral hemorrhage.[136]
- Paul Jenkins, 88, American abstract expressionist painter.[137]
- Thomas Kalman, 94, American politician.[138]
- John Maples, 69, British politician and life peer, MP for Lewisham West (1983–1992) and Stratford-on-Avon (1997–2010), cancer.[139]
- Ivan Minatti, 88, Slovenian poet and translator.[140]
- Georges Sari, 87, Greek author and actress.[141]
- Hawk Taylor, 73, American baseball player (Milwaukee Braves, New York Mets, Kansas City Royals).[142]
- Abram Wilson, 38, American jazz trumpeter, cancer.[143]
10
- Piero Bellugi, 87, Italian conductor.[144]
- Eivind Bolle, 88, Norwegian politician.[145]
- Kenneth Clark, 89, New Zealand-born British ceramicist.[146]
- Nikita Dolgushin, 73, Russian Soviet ballet dancer and choreographer.[147]
- Jimmy Elledge, 69, American singer, complications following a stroke.[148]
- Judy Freudberg, 62, American television (Sesame Street) and film (The Land Before Time, An American Tail) writer, brain tumor.[149]
- Warner Fusselle, 68, American sportscaster (Brooklyn Cyclones, This Week in Baseball), heart attack.[150]
- Will Hoebee, 64, Dutch music producer, cancer.[151]
- Richard L. Hoffman, 84, American zoologist.[152]
- Sixten Isberg, 90, Swedish alpine skier.[153]
- Maria Keil, 97, Portuguese artist.[154]
- Georges Mathieu, 91, French artist.[155]
- Dante Micheli, 73, Italian football player.[156]
- Ruby Monaghan, 96, Australian cricketer.[157]
- Joshua Orwa Ojode, 53, Kenyan politician, MP for Ndhiwa (since 1994), Assistant Minister for Internal Security, helicopter crash.[158]
- Elvis Perrodin, 55, American jockey, cancer.[159]
- George Saitoti, 66, Kenyan politician, MP for Kajiado North (since 1988), Vice-President (1989–1997, 1999–2002), helicopter crash.[158]
- Sudono Salim, 95, Indonesian businessman.[160]
- Eugene Selznick, 82, American Hall of Fame volleyball player and Olympic (1964, 1996, 2000) coach, pneumonia.[161]
- Gérard Théodore, 91, French Compagnon de la Libération.[162]
- Hugo Thiemann, 95, Swiss businessman, co-founded Club of Rome.[163]
- Daya-Nand Verma, 78, Indian mathematician (Verma modules).[164]
- Gordon West, 69, English football player (Everton), cancer.[165]
11
- Lee Allen, 77, American Olympic wrestler (1956, 1960) and coach (1980), heart failure.[166]
- Kinsey Anderson, 85, American professor of physics (University of California at Berkeley).[167]
- Hector Bianciotti, 82, Argentine-born French writer, member of the Académie française.[168]
- Dave Boswell, 67, American baseball player (Minnesota Twins), heart attack.[169]
- Samanunu Cakobau-Talakuli, 72, Fijian chief and politician.[170]
- Patricia Donahue, 87, American actress.[171]
- Raymond Eid, 81, Syrian Maronite Catholic hierarch, Metropolitan of Damascus (1999–2005).[172]
- Michael Fellman, 68–69, Canadian professor.[173]
- Anthony Hancock, 65, British publisher, stroke.[174]
- Masazumi Harada, 77, Japanese doctor, researcher of Minamata disease, acute myeloid leukemia.[175]
- Norman F. Lent, 81, American politician, U.S. Representative from New York (1971–1993), cancer.[176]
- A.M. Parkin, 68, English artist.[177]
- Reggie Pearman, 89, American middle-distance runner.[178]
- Ann Rutherford, 94, Canadian-born American actress (Gone with the Wind, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty), heart disease.[179]
- Stay High 149, 61, American graffiti artist, complications from liver disease.[180]
- Teófilo Stevenson, 60, Cuban Olympic gold medal-winning (1972, 1976, 1980) boxer, heart attack.[181]
- Berthold Wulf, 85, German priest, poet and philosopher.[182]
12
- Marwan Arafat, 67, Syrian footballer and referee, assassinated.[183]
- Philip H. Corboy, 87, American lawyer.[184]
- Darara, 29, Irish-bred French-trained Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the 1986 Prix de Psyché and Prix Vermeille.[185]
- Juan José Díaz Infante Núñez, 75, Mexican architect and industrial designer.[186]
- Henry Hill, 69, American mobster, inspiration for the movie Goodfellas, heart disease.[187]
- Sheikh Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein, 100, Somali politician, Interim President (1969).[188]
- Annie B. Martin, 91, American civil rights activist.[189]
- Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen, 94, Danish-born German psychoanalyst and feminist.[190]
- Elinor Ostrom, 78, American economist and Nobel laureate (Economics, 2009), pancreatic cancer.[191]
- Mercedes Otero, 74, Puerto Rican politician, member of Senate (1993 to 2001), swollen appendix.[192]
- Pahiño, 89, Spanish footballer.[193]
- Aldo Ronconi, 93, Italian racing cyclist.[194]
- Frank Walker, 69, Australian politician, MP for Robertson (1990–1996), and judge, cancer.[195]
- Don Woods, 84, American meteorologist and cartoonist, cancer.[196]
13
- Chris Andrews, 55, American entrepreneur.[197]
- James Ashworth, 23, English soldier, awarded Victoria Cross, shot.[198]
- Sam Beddingfield, 78, American aerospace engineer, lung cancer.[199]
- Graeme Bell, 97, Australian jazz musician and composer, stroke.[200]
- Chiara Corbella Petrillo, 28, Italian anti-abortion activist, carcinoma.[201]
- Monte Crockett, 73, American football player.[202]
- Roger Garaudy, 98, French philosopher, author, and Holocaust denier.[203]
- Luiz Gonzaga Bergonzini, 76, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Guarulhos (1991–2011).[204]
- Mehdi Hassan, 84, Pakistani ghazal singer, chest infection.[205]
- Jože Humer, 76, Slovenian composer, cancer.[206]
- Erica Kennedy, 42, American author and columnist.[207]
- William Standish Knowles, 95, American chemist and Nobel laureate (Chemistry, 2001), complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.[208]
- Dawid Kruiper, 71, South African tribal leader, tuberculosis.[209]
- Hannu Posti, 86, Finnish long-distance runner and biathlete.[210]
- Giacinto Santambrogio, 67, Italian professional bicycle racer.[211]
- Michael Sokolski, 85, Polish-born American design engineer, founder of Scantron, heart failure.[212]
- Gladys Widdiss, 97, American tribal historian and potter, President of the Aquinnah Wampanoag of Gay Head (1978–1987).[213]
14
- Dick Acres, 78, American basketball coach.[214]
- Edward Andersson, 78, Finnish legal scholar.[215]
- Peter Archer, Baron Archer of Sandwell, 85, British politician, MP for Rowley Regis and Tipton (1966–1974) and Warley West (1974–1992).[216]
- Víctor Manuel Báez, Mexican crime journalist, murdered.[217]
- Bill Barlee, 79, Canadian politician.[218]
- Rosalie Bertell, 83, American scientist, author, environmental activist, epidemiologist, and nun, cancer.[219]
- Al Brancato, 93, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).[220]
- Bob Chappuis, 89, American AAFC football player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Chicago Hornets), complications of a fall.[221]
- Anadi Sankar Gupta, 79, Indian mathematician.[222]
- Bob Hank, 88, Australian SANFL footballer (West Torrens), ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm.[223]
- Margie Hyams, 91, American jazz musician, renal failure.[224]
- Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, 82, German classical pianist and teacher.[225]
- Hassan Kassai, 83, Iranian musician.[226]
- Adrien Poliquin, 83, Canadian Olympic wrestler.[227]
- Jesse Powell, 65, American football player (Miami Dolphins).[228]
- Kaka Radhakrishnan, 86, Indian actor, respiratory failure.[229]
- Carlos Reichenbach, 67, Brazilian filmmaker, cardiac arrest.[230]
- Erik Rhodes, 30, American pornographic actor, heart attack.[231]
- Jean Robieux, 86, French physicist.[232]
- Jaroslav Šabata, 84, Czech politologist and dissident.[233]
- Gitta Sereny, 91, Austrian-born British author.[234]
- Juha Sihvola, 54, Finnish historian and philosopher.[235]
- Mundia Sikatana, 74, Zambian politician and diplomat.[236]
- Mako Tabuni, Indonesian separatist leader, deputy chairman of the National Committee for West Papua, shooting.[237]
- Jerry Tubbs, 77, American football player (Dallas Cowboys, Chicago Cardinals, San Francisco 49ers).[238]
- Yvette Wilson, 48, American comedian and actress (Moesha, The Parkers), cervical cancer.[239]
15
- Anouar Abdel-Malek, 88, Egyptian-born French political scientist.[240]
- Araafa, 9, Irish-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire, ruptured blood vessel.[241]
- Robin Benson, 83, Irish sailor.[242]
- Francis Bonaert, 97, Belgian architect.[243]
- Don Cacas, 80, Australian Olympic wrestler.[244]
- Phillip D. Cagan, 85, American economist.[245]
- Günther Domenig, 77, Austrian architect.[246]
- Rune Gustafsson, 78, Swedish jazz guitarist and composer.[247]
- George Kerr, 74, Jamaican athlete, heart attack.[248]
- Barry MacKay, 76, American tennis player and commentator.[249]
- Albino Mamede Cleto, 77, Portuguese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Coimbra (2001–2011).[250]
- Israel Nogueda Otero, 77, Mexican politician and economist, Governor of Guerrero (1971–1975), heart attack.[251]
- Carl Julius Norstrøm, 76, Norwegian economist.[252]
- Alan Saunders, 58, English-born Australian broadcaster and philosopher, pneumonia.[253]
- Simon Tortell, 52, Maltese football player.[254]
- Pasa Tosusu, 54, Vanuatuan civil servant.[255]
- Albert Joseph Tsiahoana, 84, Malagasy Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Antsiranana (1967–1998).[256]
- Arthur Henry Winnington Williams, 99, Jamaican parliamentarian.[257]
- Angus Wright, 78, British television producer.[258]
16
- Nayef bin Abdulaziz, 78, Saudi royal, Governor of Riyadh (1953–1955), Minister of Interior (since 1975), and Crown Prince (since 2011).[259]
- Jaroslava Adamová, 87, Czech actress.[260]
- Giuseppe Bertolucci, 65, Italian film director.[261]
- Kamala Bose, 64, Indian classical vocalist.[262]
- Howie Chizek, 65, American public address announcer (Cleveland Cavaliers, Cleveland Force) and talk radio host (WNIR), heart attack.[263]
- June Curry, 91, American housewife.[264]
- Dan Dorfman, 80, American financial journalist (CNN, CNBC), cardiogenic shock.[265]
- John Faiman, 70, American football player, brain aneurysm.[266]
- Sir Alasdair Fraser, 65, Northern Irish lawyer, Director of Public Prosecutions for Northern Ireland (1989–2010), cancer.[267]
- Nils Karlsson, 94, Swedish Olympic gold medal-winning (1948) cross-country skier.[268]
- Jorge Lankenau, 68, Mexican banker.[269]
- Sławomir Petelicki, 65, Polish army officer (JW GROM), suspected suicide by gunshot.[270]
- Stanley Pinker, 87, South African painter and printmaker.[271]
- Thierry Roland, 74, French sports journalist, stroke.[272]
- Jiří Siegel, 85, Czech Olympic basketball player.[273]
- Susan Tyrrell, 67, American actress (Cry-Baby, Fat City, The Chipmunk Adventure), essential thrombocytosis.[274]
17
- Stéphane Brosse, 40, French ski mountaineer, climbing accident.[275]
- Patricia Brown, 81, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League) and professor (Suffolk University).[276]
- George Casella, 61, American statistician, multiple myeloma.[277]
- Jack Caulfield, 83, American security operative and law enforcement officer.[278]
- Chen Din Hwa, 89, Chinese industrialist, prostate cancer.[279]
- Nathan Divinsky, 87, Canadian mathematician, author, and chess master.[280]
- Kevin Easton, 79, Australian footballer.[281]
- Brian Hibbard, 65, Welsh actor and singer (The Flying Pickets), prostate cancer.[282]
- Anthony Ekezia Ilonu, 74, Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Okigwe (1981–2006).[283]
- Raivo Järvi, 57, Estonian artist, radio personality, and politician, member of the Riigikogu (since 2003).[284]
- Rodney King, 47, American victim of videotaped police beating that sparked the 1992 Los Angeles riots, accidental drowning.[285]
- Walo Lüönd, 85, Swiss actor, pneumonia.[286]
- John McEldowney, 64, New Zealand international rugby union player.[287]
- R. C. Owens, 77, American football player (San Francisco 49ers, Baltimore Colts, New York Giants) and executive (San Francisco 49ers).[288]
- Bernard Prior, 78, English rugby league player.[289]
- Fauzia Wahab, 56, Pakistani politician, complications of gall bladder surgery.[290]
18
- Nicky Barnes, 78, American crime boss, cancer.[291]
- Doug Brown, 88, Australian footballer.[292]
- Don Charlwood, 96, Australian author.[293]
- Kay Christopher, 86, American actress and model, diabetes.[294]
- Horacio Coppola, 105, Argentine photographer and filmmaker.[295]
- Lina Haag, 105, German anti-fascist activist.[296]
- Dennis Hamilton, 68, American basketball player (Los Angeles Lakers), cancer.[297]
- Ghazala Javed, 24, Pakistani singer, shooting.[298]
- Eva Klepáčová, 79, Czech actress.[299]
- Tom Maynard, 23, Welsh cricketer, electrocution.[300]
- Luis Edgardo Mercado Jarrín, 92, Peruvian politician, Prime Minister (1973–1975).[301]
- Jim Packard, 70, American public radio announcer (Whad'Ya Know?), cardiopulmonary disease.[302]
- Alketas Panagoulias, 78, Greek football player and manager.[303]
- Salem Ali Qatan, Yemeni general, explosion.[304]
- Alexander Robinson, 87, Australian cricketer.[305]
- Victor Spinetti, 82, Welsh comic actor (A Hard Day's Night, Help!, Magical Mystery Tour), prostate cancer.[306]
- William Van Regenmorter, 73, American politician, Michigan State Senator (1991–2003) and State Representative (1983–1991, 2003–2007), Parkinson's disease.[307]
- Bernard Vifian, 67, Swiss cyclist.[308]
- Judith Wallerstein, 90, American psychologist and anti-divorce activist.[309]
- Ralph Wenzel, 69, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers, San Diego Chargers), complications from dementia.[310]
19
- Guma Aguiar, 35, Brazilian-born American energy industrialist and businessman, drawn (disappeared on that day).[311]
- Anthony Bate, 84, British actor (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy).[312]
- Bryan Bayley, 79, New Zealand cricketer.[313]
- Yves Boël, 84, Belgian businessman.[314]
- Gerry Bron, 79, British record producer and manager (Uriah Heep, Motörhead).[315]
- Jim Drake, 83, American aeronautical engineer, inventor of the windsurfer, complications from lung disease.[316]
- Romuald Drobaczyński, 81, Polish film director.[317]
- K. R. Gangadharan, 76, Indian film producer.[318]
- Walter Haefner, 101, Irish businessman and Thoroughbred owner.[319]
- Gerhard Kallmann, 97, German-born American architect (Boston City Hall), co-founder of Kallmann McKinnell & Wood.[320]
- Luuk Kroon, 69, Dutch naval officer, Commander of the Royal Netherlands Navy (1995–1998), Chief of the Netherlands Defence Staff (1998–2004).[321]
- Aloysio José Leal Penna, 79, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Botucatu (2000–2008).[322]
- Richard Lynch, 72, American actor (Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek: The Next Generation), heart attack.[323]
- Sir Michael Palliser, 90, British diplomat, Head of the Diplomatic Service (1975–1982).[324]
- Ronald Roberts, 89, British Olympic swimmer.[325]
- Harold H. Seward, 81, American computer scientist.[326]
- Joan LaCour Scott, 91, American screenwriter (The Waltons, Lassie).[327]
- Emili Teixidor, 78, Spanish writer and journalist, cancer.[328]
- Norbert Tiemann, 87, American politician, Governor of Nebraska (1967–1971).[329]
- Kevin M. Tucker, 71, American police commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department (1986–1988), brain tumor.[330]
20
- Judy Agnew, 91, American Second Lady (1969–1973), widow of former Vice President Spiro Agnew.[331]
- Roman Bazan, 73, Polish footballer.[332]
- Frieda Berryhill, 90, American anti–nuclear power activist.[333]
- William W. Cooper, 97, American management scientist.[334]
- Robert J. Kelleher, 99, American tennis player, official (International Tennis Hall Of Fame inductee) and senior judge of the District Court for the Central District of California.[335]
- Alistair Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 9th Marquess of Londonderry, 74, British nobleman.[336]
- Alcides Mendoza Castro, 84, Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Cuzco (1983–2003).[337]
- LeRoy Neiman, 91, American artist.[338]
- Heinrich IV, Prince Reuss of Köstritz, 92, German noble.[339]
- Andrew Sarris, 83, American film critic, complications from a fall.[340]
- Mike Westmacott, 87, British mountaineer, member of 1953 British Mount Everest Expedition.[341]
- Robert Zimmermann, 77, Swiss Olympic bobsledder.[342]
21
- J. Michael Adams, 64, American professor, President of Fairleigh Dickinson University (since 1999), acute myeloid leukemia.[343]
- Richard Adler, 90, American Tony Award-winning producer and composer (Damn Yankees, The Pajama Game).[344]
- William Stewart, Lord Allanbridge, 86, Scottish judge and politician.[345]
- Tejparkash Singh Brar, 74, Kenyan Olympic hockey player.[346]
- Ziad Durrani, 30, Pakistani politician, cardiac arrest.[347]
- Sylvia Ettenberg, 94, Jewish educator.[348]
- Abid Hussain, 85, Indian civil servant and diplomat, heart attack.[349]
- Sunil Janah, 94, Indian photographer.[350]
- Viggo Johannessen, 76, Norwegian civil servant.[351]
- Joviano de Lima Júnior, 70, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Ribeirão Preto (since 2006).[352]
- Sir Alexander MacAra, 80, British doctor and medical administrator.[353]
- Shōgyo Ōba, 96, Japanese lacquer artist (Maki-e), Living National Treasure.[354]
- Radha Vinod Raju, 62, Indian police chief, lung infection and multiple organ failure.[355]
- Gilbert Blaize Rego, 90, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Simla and Chandigarh (1971–1999).[356]
- Anna Schwartz, 96, American economist and author (A Monetary History of the United States).[357]
- Teddy Scott, 83, Scottish footballer (Aberdeen).[358]
- Ramaz Shengelia, 55, Georgian football player, heart attack.[359]
- Drew Turnbull, 82, British rugby player, complications of Alzheimer's disease.[360]
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- Obaidullah Baig, 76, Pakistani writer and television personality, cancer.[361]
- María Teresa Castillo, 103, Venezuelan journalist and activist, founder of the Caracas Athenaeum.[362]
- Edward N. Costikyan, 87, American politician and author.[363]
- D. S. Ravindra Doss, 67, Indian journalist and union leader.[364]
- Mary Fedden, 96, British painter.[365]
- Fernie Flaman, 85, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs) and Hall of Fame member.[366]
- Juan Luis Galiardo, 72, Spanish actor (Antony and Cleopatra, Tango), lung cancer.[367]
- Sergio Goretti, 83, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Assisi-Nocera Umbra-Gualdo Tadino (1980–2005).[368]
- Edmund Kornfeld, 93, American organic chemist.[369]
- Jackie Neilson, 83, Scottish footballer (St Mirren).[370]
- Mirjam Polkunen, 86, Finnish writer.[371]
- Rolly Tasker, 86, Australian Olympic silver medal-winning (1956) sailor, cancer.[372]
- Hans Villius, 88, Swedish historian, television and radio personality, complications of diabetes.[373]
- Margaret Wright, 72, British politician, Principal Speaker of the Green Party (1999–2003), cancer.[374]
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- Adorable Rubí, 68, Mexican wrestler, kidney infection.[375]
- Hamza Bounab, 28, Algerian football player, heart attack.[376]
- Marjorie Chibnall, 96, British medievalist.[377]
- Franz Crass, 84, German singer.[378]
- Count Robin de La Lanne-Mirrlees, 87, British author, soldier, and officer of arms.[379]
- James Durbin, 88, British statistician and econometrician.[380]
- Brigitte Engerer, 59, French pianist, cancer.[381]
- Arne Wegner Haaland, 88, Norwegian engineer.[382]
- Ken Hargreaves, 73, British politician, MP for Hyndburn (1983–1992), cancer.[383]
- Hollywood Wildcat, 22, American Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the Breeders' Cup Distaff (1993) and Gamely Stakes (1994), cancer.[384]
- Robert G. Marotz, 90, American politician, Wisconsin State Assemblyman (1949–1959) and Speaker (1957–1959).[385]
- Alan McDonald, 48, Northern Irish football player and manager, apparent heart attack.[386]
- Frank Chee Willeto, 87, American Navajo code talker in World War II, Congressional Silver Medal recipient, Vice President of the Navajo Nation (1998–1999).[387]
- Walter J. Zable, 97, American founder and CEO of Cubic Corporation.[388]
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- Chris Adams, 84, English footballer.[389]
- Darrel Akerfelds, 50, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies) and coach (San Diego Padres), pancreatic cancer.[390]
- Gad Beck, 88, German educator, author, and gay Holocaust survivor.[391]
- Choi Chung-sik, 80, South Korean athlete.[392]
- Jean Cox, 90, American opera singer.[393]
- Youssef Dawoud, 74, Egyptian actor.[394]
- Ralph Elliott, 90, German-born Australian professor of English and runologist.[395]
- Elwi Gazi, 83, Egyptian Olympic equestrian.[396]
- Karnail Gill, 70, Indian folk singer, cancer.[397]
- James Grout, 84, English actor (Inspector Morse).[398]
- Ruth Grulkowski, 81, American Olympic gymnast.[399]
- Gu Chaohao, 86, Chinese mathematician.[400]
- Karl Guðmundsson, 88, Icelandic football player and manager.[401]
- Birger Karlsson, 85, Finnish Olympic rower.[402]
- Heino Kruus, 85, Estonian Olympic silver medal-winning (1952) basketball player.[403]
- Lonesome George, app. 102, Ecuadorian Pinta Island tortoise endling, apparent heart failure.[404]
- Ted Luckenbill, 72, American basketball player (Philadelphia Warriors), cancer.[405]
- Miki Roqué, 23, Spanish footballer, cancer.[406]
- Ann C. Scales, 60, American lawyer and law professor, complications of a fall.[407]
- Rudolf Schmid, 97, Swiss-born German Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Augsburg (1972–1990).[408]
- Claude Sumner, 92, Canadian philosopher.[409]
25
- Robert F. Berkhofer, 80, American historian.[410]
- Krishna Bhusan Bal, 64, Nepalese poet, intracerebral hemorrhage.[411]
- Shigemitsu Dandō, 98, Japanese jurist and Supreme Court judge.[412]
- Erhard Domay, 72, German theologian.[413]
- Norman Felton, 99, British-born American television producer (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.).[414]
- Yitzhak Galanti, 75, Israeli politician.[415]
- Campbell Gillies, 21, Scottish jockey, swimming pool accident.[416]
- George Randolph Hearst Jr., 84, American businessman (Hearst Corporation), complications from a stroke.[417]
- Vyacheslav Ionov, 71, Russian Olympic gold medal-winning (1964) sprint canoer.[418]
- Lucella MacLean, 91, Canadian baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).[419]
- Sir David Money-Coutts, 80, British banker.[420]
- Edgar Ross, 62, American boxer.[421]
- Doris Schade, 88, German television actress.[422]
- Kjell Sørensen, 81, Norwegian Olympics sports shooter.[423]
26
- Sverker Åström, 96, Swedish diplomat.[424]
- Daniel Batman, 31, Australian Olympic (2000) sprinter, traffic collision.[425]
- Miloš Blagojević, 81, Serbian historian.[426]
- Dan Carr, 60, American poet, cancer.[427]
- Chen Qiang, 94, Chinese actor.[428]
- Pat Cummings, 55, American basketball player (New York Knicks, Miami Heat).[429]
- Angelo Cuniberti, 91, Italian-born Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Florencia (1961–1978).[430]
- Ann Curtis, 86, American Olympic gold and silver medal-winning (1948) swimmer.[431]
- Juan Carlos Dyrzka, 71, Argentine Olympic (1964, 1968) hurdler, heart failure.[432]
- Harry Edwards, 85, Australian politician, member of the Australian House of Representatives for Berowra (1972–1993).[433]
- Nora Ephron, 71, American film director (Sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail) and screenwriter (When Harry Met Sally...), BAFTA winner (1990), pneumonia.[434]
- José García Ortiz, 63, Mexican politician, MP (2003–2006).[435]
- Malcolm Glazzard, 80, English footballer.[436]
- Amar Goswami, 66, Indian writer and journalist.[437]
- Harry W. Kvebæk, 87, Norwegian musician.[438]
- Harry Levinson, 90, American psychologist.[439]
- Howard Michell, 98, Australian businessman and philanthropist.[440]
- Mario O'Hara, 68, Filipino film director, leukemia.[441]
- Doris Singleton, 92, American actress (I Love Lucy, My Three Sons, Affair in Reno).[442]
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- Jerónimo Tomás Abreu Herrera, 81, Dominican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Mao-Monte Cristi (1978–2006).[443]
- Dénes Berényi, 83, Hungarian physicist.[444]
- Filemón Camacho, 85, Venezuelan Olympic athlete.[445]
- Susanna Clark, 73, American artist and songwriter, cancer.[446]
- Stan Cox, 93, British Olympic athlete (1948, 1952).[447]
- Renate Damm, 65, German road bicycle racer.[448]
- Rosemary Dobson, 92, Australian poet.[449]
- Bobby Jack Floyd, 82, American football player.[450]
- Jesse Glover, 77, American martial arts instructor, cancer.[451]
- Don Grady, 68, American actor (My Three Sons, The Mickey Mouse Club), cancer.[452]
- Eddie Jones, 74, American football executive (Miami Dolphins).[453]
- Iurie Miterev, 37, Moldovan international footballer, leukemia.[454]
- Konstantinos Triaridis, 74, Greek politician, Minister for Macedonia-Thrace (1993–1996), cancer.[455]
- Algimantas Vincas Ulba, 73, Lithuanian politician.[456]
28
- Vicente Bobadilla, 74, Paraguayan footballer.[457]
- Stephen Dwoskin, 73, American experimental filmmaker.[458]
- Fred Dyke, 89, Canadian curler.[459]
- Éric Gaudibert, 75, Swiss composer.[460]
- Kamal Ghanaja, Jordanian Hamas member, shot.[461]
- Richard Isay, 77, American psychiatrist, cancer.[462]
- Ivan Karp, 86, American art dealer, natural causes.[463]
- Leontine T. Kelly, 92, American Methodist bishop.[464]
- Ron Lynch, 89, English cricketer, long illness.[465]
- Gabriel G. Nahas, 92, American physician.[466]
- Robert Sabatier, 88, French writer.[467]
- Chris Sanderson, 38, Canadian lacrosse player and coach, cancer.[468]
- Doris Sams, 85, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).[469]
- Norman Sas, 87, American entrepreneur, inventor of Electric football, stroke.[470]
- Herb Scherer, 83, American basketball player (Tri-Cities Blackhawks, New York Knicks).[471]
- Paul Stassino, 82, Greek-Cypriot actor (Thunderball).[472]
- Zhang Ruifang, 94, Chinese film actress.[citation needed]
29
- Carlos Alberto, 80, Brazilian Olympic footballer.[473]
- Vahe Avetyan, 32, Armenian doctor, brain injury.[474]
- Takeo Chii, 70, Japanese actor, heart failure.[475]
- Joan Dunlop, 78, British health advocate and activist, cancer.[476]
- Antonio Floirendo Sr., 96, Filipino entrepreneur and landowner, kidney failure.[477]
- Verna Harrah, 67, American film producer (Anaconda).[478]
- Graham Horn, 57, English footballer (Luton Town).[479]
- Mogale Paul Nkhumishe, 74, South African Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Witbank (1984–2000) and Polokwane (2000–2011).[480]
- Vincent Ostrom, 92, American political scientist.[481]
- Juan Reccius, 101, Chilean Olympic athlete (1936), South American champion (1935).[482]
- Włodzimierz Sokołowski, 71, Polish Olympic athlete.[483]
- Floyd Temple, 86, American baseball coach (University of Kansas).[484]
- José Sótero Valero Ruz, 76, Venezuelan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Guanare (2001–2011).[485]
- Yong Nyuk Lin, 94, Singaporean politician.[486]
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- Michael Abney-Hastings, 14th Earl of Loudoun, 69, British Australian peer.[487]
- Luís Caldas, 85, Portuguese Olympic wrestler.[488]
- Vladlen Davydov, 88, Soviet and Russian theater and film actor.[489]
- Miguel S. Demapan, 59, American jurist, Chief Justice of the Northern Mariana Islands Supreme Court (1999–2011).[490]
- Richard Eardley, 83, American politician, Mayor of Boise, Idaho (1974–1986), heart attack.[491]
- Olivier Ferrand, 42, French civil servant and public intellectual.[492]
- Marilyn Houlberg, 72, American anthropologist.[493]
- Thymios Karakatsanis, 71, Greek actor.[494]
- Jacqueline Law, 45, Hong Kong actress, pancreatic cancer.[495]
- Joyce D. Miller, 84, American union activist.[496]
- Armando Montaño, 22, American student and journalist, suffocation.[497]
- Ivan Sekyra, 59, Czech guitarist (Abraxas).[498]
- Yitzhak Shamir, 96, Israeli politician, Prime Minister (1983–1984, 1986–1992), Alzheimer's disease.[499]
- Yomo Toro, 78, Puerto Rican cuatro player, kidney failure.[500]
- Michael J. Ybarra, 45, American journalist and author, climbing accident.[501]
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