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Deaths in May 2012
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The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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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May 2012
1
- Gonçalo Amorim, 39, Portuguese Olympic cyclist.[1]
- Gogó Andreu, 92, Argentine comedian and actor.[2]
- Cali Carranza, 59, American Tejano musician, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.[3]
- Harold L. Colburn Jr., 86, American physician and politician.[4]
- Gale Dixon, 65–66, American actress and singer, pancreatic cancer.[5]
- Joseph Erhardy, 83, American sculptor.[6]
- Gord Fashoway, 85, Canadian ice hockey player.[7]
- Rufina Gasheva, 90, Soviet Russian flight navigator.[8][circular reference]
- John Spencer Hardy, 98, American lieutenant general, NATO commander for Southern Europe.[9]
- Harold K. Hoskins, 85, American pilot, Tuskegee Airman, Congressional Gold Medal winner, complications from a fall.[10]
- Greg Jackson, 60, American basketball player (New York Knicks, Phoenix Suns), heart attack.[11]
- Eric James, 87, British Anglican clergyman and broadcaster.[12]
- Senteza Kajubi, 86, Ugandan university administrator and academic.[13]
- James Kinley, 86, Canadian engineer and industrialist, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (1994–2000).[14]
- Daniel Mulumba, 49, Ugandan Olympic swimmer.[15]
- Viktoras Petkus, 83, Lithuanian political activist and dissident.[16]
- Charles Pitts, 65, American soul musician, guitarist for Isaac Hayes, lung cancer.[17]
- Harriet Presser, 76, American sociologist and demographer.[18]
- Earl Rose, 85, American medical examiner, attempted to autopsy President Kennedy after assassination, Parkinson's disease.[19]
- Shanmugasundari, 75, Indian film actress, heart attack.[20]
- Mordechai Virshubski, 82, Israeli politician, MK (1977–1992) and Deputy Speaker of the Knesset (1988–1992).[21]
- Arnold Manaaki Wilson, 83, New Zealand artist and educator.[22]
2
- Bram Bogart, 90, Dutch-born Belgian painter.[23]
- Michel Boudart, 87, American chemical engineer.[24]
- William Francis Brace, 85, American geophysicist.[25]
- Ranjit Cheema, Canadian gangster and drug trader, shot.[26]
- Razia Matin Chowdhury, 87, Bangladeshi politician, old age complications.[27]
- Peter Connolly, 77, British historian.[28]
- Shirin Darasha, 73, Indian theatre director, pulmonary fibrosis.[29]
- Mark Deutch, 67, Russian journalist, drowned.[30]
- Andrew Ganigan, 59, American former NABF lightweight champion boxer, cancer.[31]
- Nélida Gómez de Navajas, 84, Argentine human rights activist (Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo).[32]
- Fernando Lopes, 76, Portuguese film director, throat cancer.[33]
- Zenaida Manfugás, 80, Cuban-born American pianist.[34]
- James Marker, 90, American-born Canadian businessman, inventor of Cheezies.[35]
- Charlotte Mitchell, 85, British actress.[36]
- Tufan Miñnullin, 76, Russian Tatar writer and playwright, heart attack.[37]
- Les Mogg, 82, Australian football player.[38]
- Donald L. Owens, 82, American military officer.[39]
- Ernst Rau, 85, German Olympic fencer.[40]
- J. T. Ready, 39, American border militia leader, former neo-Nazi, suicide by gunshot.[41]
- Tracy Reed, 69, English actress (Dr. Strangelove, Casino Royale), cancer.[42]
- Junior Seau, 43, American football player (San Diego Chargers, Miami Dolphins, New England Patriots), suicide by gunshot.[43]
- Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih, 57, Indonesian physician, Minister of Health (2009–2012), cancer.[44]
- Akira Tonomura, 70, Japanese physicist, pancreatic cancer.[45]
- Lourdes Valera, 58, Venezuelan actress, lung cancer.[46]
- Digby Wolfe, 82, British actor and screenwriter (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In), cancer.[47]
- Zvi Zeitlin, 90, Belarusian-born American classical violinist, pneumonia.[48]
3
- Edith Bliss, 52, Australian pop singer and television presenter, lung cancer.[49]
- Lloyd Brevett, 80, Jamaican double bassist (The Skatalites), complications from stroke.[50]
- Elizabeth Busche, 19, American curler, cancer.[51]
- Peter K. Cullins, 83, American admiral, first commander of the Naval Data Automation Command, complications from hepatitis B.[52]
- John Miles Foley, 65, American folklorist and literary scholar.[53]
- Jorge Illueca, 93, Panamanian politician, President (1984), respiratory failure.[54]
- Andrew Suknaski, 69, Canadian poet and visual artist.[55]
- Richie Thomson, 71, New Zealand Olympic cyclist.[56]
- František Tondra, 75, Slovak Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Spiš (1989–2011), heart failure.[57]
- Tú Duyên, 96, Vietnamese painter.[58]
- Felix Werder, 90, German-born Australian composer.[59]
4
- Haukur Angantýsson, 63, Icelandic chess player.[60]
- Harriet Berger, 94, American political scientist.[61]
- T. P. Chandrasekharan, 51, Indian politician, assassinated (hacked).[62]
- Aleksandre Chikvaidze, 74, Georgian diplomat.[63]
- Neville Coleman, 74, Australian underwater nature photographer.[64]
- Gert Frischmuth, 79, German choral conductor and music educator.[65]
- Angelica Garnett, 93, British writer and painter.[66]
- Crawford Hallock Greenewalt Jr., 74, American archaeologist.[67]
- Mort Lindsey, 89, American orchestra leader and composer.[68]
- Anthony O'Connell, 73, Irish-born American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Knoxville (1988–1998) and Palm Beach (1998–2002).[69]
- Edward Short, Baron Glenamara, 99, British politician, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party (1972–1976), MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central (1951–1976).[70]
- Bob Stewart, 91, American television game show producer (Password, To Tell the Truth, The Price Is Right), natural causes.[71]
- Adam Yauch, 47, American musician (Beastie Boys) and film director (Gunnin' for That No. 1 Spot), salivary gland cancer.[72]
- Rashidi Yekini, 48, Nigerian footballer.[73]
5
- Ramón Arano, 72, Mexican baseball player.[74]
- Frederick J. Brown, 67, American artist.[75]
- Carl Johan Bernadotte, 95, Swedish royal, youngest son of King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden.[76]
- James R. Browning, 93, American senior (former chief) judge of the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.[77]
- Marguerite S. Chang, 88, Chinese-born American research chemist and inventor.[78]
- Reg Cutler, 77, English footballer.[79]
- Aatos Erkko, 79, Finnish journalist and publisher, after long illness.[80]
- Florida Pearl, 20, Irish racehorse, winner of the Champion Bumper (1997), euthanized.[81]
- George Knobel, 89, Dutch football manager, complications of Alzheimer's disease.[82]
- Don Leshnock, 65, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).[83]
- Michail Markov, 73, Russian cyclist and coach.[84]
- Meow, app. 2, American cat, heaviest cat at his time of death, lung failure.[85]
- Miguel Mora Gornals, 75, Spanish Olympic cyclist.[86]
- Roy Padayachie, 62, South African politician.[87]
- Mendel Sachs, 85, American theoretical physicist.[88]
- Ivica Šangulin, 75, Croatian football player and manager.[89]
- Surendranath, 75, Indian cricketer.[90]
- Ali Uras, 88, Turkish Olympic basketball player and president of Galatasaray S.K. (1979–1986).[91]
6
- Lubna Agha, 63, Pakistani-American artist, cancer.[92]
- Fahd al-Quso, 37, Yemeni militant, al-Qaeda member, airstrike.[93]
- Vagn Andersen, 74, Danish sports shooter.[94]
- Stevan Bena, 76, Serbian footballer.[95]
- Tyrone Breuninger, 73, American trombonist.[96]
- Michael Burks, 54, American blues musician, heart attack.[97]
- François Chevalier, 98, French historian.[98]
- Ekalavyan, 77, Indian writer.[99]
- Pat Frink, 67, American basketball player (Cincinnati Royals), automobile accident.[100]
- Jerry H. Geisler, 77, American lawyer and politician.[101]
- Iraj Ghaderi, 77, Iranian film director and actor.[102]
- Kåre Øistein Hansen, 84, Norwegian politician.[103]
- James Isaac, 51, American film director, producer (Jason X, Skinwalkers) and special effects supervisor, multiple myeloma and blood cancer.[104]
- Kostas Karras, 76, Greek actor, MP (2000–2007), prostate cancer.[105]
- Félix Kouadjo, 73, Ivorian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bondoukou (since 1996).[106]
- Jean Laplanche, 87, French psychoanalyst, pulmonary fibrosis,[107]
- George Lindsey, 83, American actor (The Andy Griffith Show, Mayberry R.F.D., Hee Haw), after brief illness.[108]
- Georgi Lozanov, 85, Bulgarian educator, developed Suggestopedia.[109]
- Marika Mitsotakis, 82, Greek politician, wife of the Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Mitsotakis (1990–1993), complications of poliomyelitis.[110]
- John Slack, 81, English cricketer and judge.[111]
- Yale Summers, 78, American actor (Daktari).[112]
- Tran Dinh Truong, 80, Vietnamese businessman.[113]
- Jan Trøjborg, 56, Danish politician, member of the Folketing (1987–2005), and Defence Minister (2000–2001), heart failure.[114]
- John Worrall, 84, New Zealand cricketer.[115]
7
- Ivan Allen, 81, American ballet dancer (Metropolitan Opera).[116]
- Ferenc Bartha, 68, Hungarian economist, Governor of the National Bank of Hungary (1988–1990), suicide.[117]
- Sammy Barr, 80, Scottish trade union leader.[118]
- Norbert Becker, 74, German agricultural scientist.[119]
- Jules Bocandé, 53, Senegalese footballer, complications of surgery and stroke.[120]
- Rich Buhler, 65, American radio personality, pancreatic cancer.[121]
- R. Michael Canjar, 58, American mathematician.[122]
- Robert Everett Coyle, 82, American senior (former chief) judge of the District Court for the Eastern District of California.[123]
- Andrea Crisanti, 75, Italian production designer and art director.[124]
- Virgil Frye, 81, American actor and boxer, Pick's Disease.[125]
- Kimitada Hayase, 71, Japanese track and field athlete (1960 Summer Olympics, 1964 Summer Olympics), blood poisoning.[126]
- Alexander Keynan, 90, Israeli microbiologist, co-founder and the first director of Israel Institute for Biological Research.[127]
- Eva Rausing, 48, American philanthropist.[128]
- Gene Visich, 85, American AAGPBL baseball player.[129]
8
- Ampon Tangnoppakul, 64, Thai detainee, cancer.[130]
- Bobby Bulch, 79, English footballer.[131]
- William Aquin Carew, 89, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Apostolic Nuncio to Japan (1983–1997).[132]
- Oscar M. Corbin Jr., 94, American politician.[133]
- Yves Courrière, 76, French writer, biographer and journalist.[134]
- Aimée Danis, 82, Canadian film director and producer.[135]
- Isabel Gago, 98, Portuguese engineer.[136]
- Nan Giese, 90, Australian educator and artist.[137]
- Nicholas Katzenbach, 90, American lawyer, United States Attorney General (1965–1966).[138]
- Lau Teng Chuan, 83, Singaporean sports administrator, stomach cancer.[139]
- Everett Lilly, 87, American bluegrass musician (The Lilly Brothers).[140]
- Carlos Loiseau, 63, Argentine cartoonist, colorectal cancer.[141]
- Sergio Marqués Fernández, 65, Spanish politician, President of the Principality of Asturias (1995–1999).[142]
- Bob Marshall, 77, American politician. Mayor of San Bruno, California (1980–1991).[143]
- Jerry McMorris, 71, American baseball executive (Colorado Rockies), pancreatic cancer.[144]
- Frank Parr, 83, English cricketer and jazz musician.[145]
- Louis H. Pollak, 89, American senior judge of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.[146]
- Ingvill Raaum, 76, Norwegian politician.[147]
- George Stephen Ritchie, 97, British war hero and hydrographer.[148]
- Stacy Robinson, 50, American football player (New York Giants), cancer.[149]
- Robert de La Rochefoucauld, 88, French Resistance member.[150]
- Maurice Sendak, 83, American author and illustrator (Where the Wild Things Are, Little Bear), complications of a stroke.[151]
- Roman Totenberg, 101, Polish-born American violinist, renal failure.[152]
- Vo Rogue, 28, Australian Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the Australian Cup (1989, 1990).[153]
- Garth Webb, 93, Canadian soldier and museum founder (Juno Beach Centre).[154]
9
- Carl Beane, 59, American sports broadcaster and public address announcer (Fenway Park), heart attack.[155]
- James Carter, 100, American basketball coach (University of Dayton).[156]
- Bertram Cohler, 73, American psychologist.[157]
- Danilo De Girolamo, 56, Italian voice actor, heart attack.[158]
- Alfred Doll-Steinberg, 78, Austrian-born British chemical engineer.[159]
- Gunnar Dybwad, 83, Norwegian footballer.[160]
- Alain Fossoul, 83, Belgian footballer,[161]
- Hernán Haddad, 83, Chilean Olympic athlete.[162]
- Sir Geoffrey Henry, 71, Cook Islands politician, Prime Minister (1983, 1989–1999), and Speaker of Parliament (since 2011), cancer.[163]
- Northerly, 15, Australian racehorse, winner of the Australian Cup (2001, 2003) and Cox Plate (2001, 2002), euthanized.[164]
- Constantin Piron, 80, Belgian physicist.[165]
- Vidal Sassoon, 84, British hairstylist, leukemia.[166]
- Ingvald M. Smith-Kielland, 92, Norwegian royal servant.[167]
- Lajos Somodi Sr., 83, Hungarian Olympic bronze medallist fencer (1956).[168]
10
- Edward Abramson, 91, American politician.[169]
- George Birimisa, 88, American playwright, actor, and director.[170]
- Ningali Cullen, 69–70, Australian activist.[171]
- Barbara D'Arcy, 84, American visual merchandiser.[172]
- Peter David, 60, British journalist, (The Economist) traffic collision.[173]
- Horst Faas, 79, German photojournalist (Associated Press).[174]
- Ranjitsinh Pratapsinh Gaekwad, 74, Indian politician, member of the Lok Sabha (1980–1989), Maharaja of Baroda (since 1988).[175]
- Evelyn Bryan Johnson, 102, American aviator.[176]
- Günther Kaufmann, 64, German film actor, heart attack.[177]
- Pekka Marjamäki, 64, Finnish Olympic ice hockey player, heart attack.[178]
- Eddie Perkins, 75, American former world light welterweight champion boxer.[179]
- Joyce Redman, 96, Irish-born British actress (Othello, Tom Jones), pneumonia.[180]
- Bernardo Sassetti, 41, Portuguese jazz pianist and film composer, fall.[181]
- Carroll Shelby, 89, American automobile racer and designer.[182]
- Andreas Shipanga, 80, Namibian politician, Chairman of the Transitional Government of National Unity (1987, 1988), heart attack.[183]
- Gunnar Sønsteby, 94, Norwegian resistance movement member.[184]
- Walter Wink, 76, American theologian, complications of dementia.[185]
- Paul Winslow, 74, American football player and NFL defensive back (Green Bay Packers)[186]
- Gulumbu Yunupingu, 69, Australian Aboriginal artist.[187]
11
- Soungalo Bagayogo, 70, Malian Olympic boxer.[188]
- Alma Bella, 102, Filipino actress.[189]
- Jack Benaroya, 90, American real estate developer.[190]
- Sherman A. Bernard, 86, American businessman.[191]
- Patrick Bosch, 47, Dutch footballer (FC Twente), car accident.[192]
- Stanislav Brebera, 86, Czech chemist.[193]
- Les Carr, 82, Australian football player.[194]
- Sheila Conroy, 94, Irish trade union leader and activist.[195]
- Dankwart Danckwerts, 79, German sociologist.[196]
- Tony DeZuniga, 79, Filipino comic book artist and co-creator of Jonah Hex and Black Orchid, complications from stroke.[197]
- Alfred Diamant, 94, Austrian-born American political scientist.[198]
- Leela Roy Ghosh, 64, Indian actress and voice-dubbing artist, complications of liver transplant surgery.[199]
- Rose Mary Glaser, 90, American AAGPBL baseball player.[200]
- Thea Hochleitner, 86, Austrian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1956) alpine skier.[201]
- Grant Jeffrey, 63, Canadian Bible teacher and writer.[202]
- Rodolfo Kappenberger, 95, Swiss footballer.[203]
- Sir Michael Kerry, 88, British public servant, Treasury Solicitor (1980–1984).[204]
- Annemarie Roeper, 93, Austrian-born American educator, co-founder of the Roeper School, pneumonia.[205]
- László Seregi, 82, Hungarian dancer and choreographer.[206]
- Roland Shaw, 91, British bandleader and music arranger.[207]
- Martin Stovold, 56, English cricketer.[208]
- Travis H. Tomlinson, 98, American politician, Mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina (1965–1969).[209]
- Frank Wills, 53, American baseball player (Toronto Blue Jays, Kansas City Royals, Cleveland Indians).[210]
12
- Jan Bens, 91, Dutch footballer (Feyenoord).[211]
- Frank Bethwaite, 91, New Zealand boat designer, author and meteorologist.[212]
- Ferrin C. Campbell, 88, American politician.[213]
- Paul Cyr, 48, Canadian hockey player (Buffalo Sabres, New York Rangers, Hartford Whalers), heart failure.[214]
- Paul Dee, 65, American lawyer and athletic director (University of Miami).[215]
- Ernst Josef Fittkau, 84, German entomologist.[216]
- Ruth Foster, 92, American actress (Little House on the Prairie).[217]
- Richard Gerrard-Wright, 82, British Army officer.[218]
- Terry Martin, 74, American surfboard shaper.[219]
- Neil McKenty, 87, Canadian radio talk-show host and author.[220]
- Donald Nicholson, 96, British biochemist.[221]
- Eddy Paape, 91, Belgian comics artist (Luc Orient).[222]
- Harold Arthur Poling, 86, American businessman, CEO and Chairman of Ford Motor Company (1990–1993).[223]
- Sam Porcello, 76, American food scientist, created the Oreo cookie filling.[224]
- Ken Selby, 76, American businessman, founder of Mazzio's, complications from lung cancer.[225]
- Fritz Ursell, 89, German-born British mathematician (Ursell number).[226]
13
- Trond Bråthen, 34, Norwegian singer and guitarist (Urgehal), natural causes.[227]
- William G. Braud, 69, American psychologist and parapsychologist.[228]
- Marek Cichosz, 32, Polish cyclist.[229]
- Arsala Rahmani Daulat, Afghan politician, Afghan High Peace Council member, shot.[230]
- Donald "Duck" Dunn, 70, American bass guitarist (The Blues Brothers, Booker T. & the M.G.'s).[231]
- Paul Engstad, 85, Norwegian writer and politician.[232]
- Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz, 69, American theologian, cancer.[233]
- Les Leston, 91, British racing driver.[234]
- Andy Mate, 72, American soccer player.[235]
- Jean McFarlane, Baroness McFarlane of Llandaff, 86, British nurse and peer.[236]
- Nguyễn Văn Thiện, 106, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Vĩnh Long (1960–1968).[237]
- Lee Richardson, 33, British speedway rider, race crash.[238]
- Nolan Richardson III, 47, American college basketball coach (Tennessee State University).[239]
- Don Ritchie, 85, Australian volunteer, rescued 160 people from suicide.[240]
- Jack Simcock, 82, British artist.[241]
- Bill Walsh, 84, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers).[242]
- Trevor Young, 86, New Zealand politician, MP for Hutt (1968–1978); Eastern Hutt (1978–1990).[243]
14
- Vladimer Aptsiauri, 50, Georgian Olympic gold medal-winning (1988) fencer.[244]
- Burgess Carr, 76, Liberian-born American priest, religious leader, and professor, Lewy bodies disease.[245]
- Joséphine Catapano, 93, American perfumer.[246]
- Horia Damian, 90, Romanian painter and sculptor.[247]
- Tor Marius Gromstad, 22, Norwegian footballer (Stabæk), fall.[248] (body discovered on this date)
- Mitchell Guist, 48, American reality series cast member (Swamp People), natural causes.[249]
- Derek Hammond-Stroud, 86, English opera singer.[250]
- Ernst Hinterberger, 80, Austrian author and screenwriter (Kaisermühlen Blues, Ein echter Wiener geht nicht unter).[251]
- Taruni Sachdev, 14, Indian film actress (Vellinakshatram, Sathyam, Paa, Vetri Selvan), plane crash.[252]
- Mario Trejo, 86, Argentine poet.[253]
- Belita Woods, 63, American funk singer (Brainstorm, Parliament-Funkadelic), heart failure.[254]
15
- Donald S. Bryan, 90, American Air Force pilot and flying ace.[255]
- Henry Denker, 99, American novelist and playwright, lung cancer.[256]
- Carlos Fuentes, 83, Panamanian-born Mexican novelist, internal hemorrhage.[257]
- Jean Craighead George, 92, American children's author (Julie of the Wolves, My Side of the Mountain), heart failure.[258]
- Peter Koslowski, 59, German philosopher and academic.[259]
- Arno Lustiger, 88, Upper Silesian-born German writer and Judaic historian.[260]
- Zakaria Mohieddin, 93, Egyptian politician and military officer, Vice President (1961–1964, 1965–1968), Prime Minister (1965–1966).[261]
- John Murray, 11th Duke of Atholl, 83, South African-born hereditary peer of the Peerage of Scotland.[262]
- Dominique Rolin, 99, Belgian author.[263]
- Sir Roy Shaw, 93, British arts administrator.[264]
- Frederick E. Smith, 93, British author (633 Squadron), heart attack.[265]
- Ángel Alfredo Villatoro, 47, Honduran journalist and radio personality, killed.[266]
- Horst Walter, 75, German artist.[267]
- George Wyllie, 90, Scottish sculptor.[268]
16
- Patricia Aakhus, 59, American novelist, cancer.[269]
- James Abdnor, 89, American politician, U.S. Representative (1973–1981) and U.S. Senator (1981–1987) from South Dakota.[270]
- Dwight Bentel, 103, American journalist and professor.[271]
- Jože Bertoncelj, 90, Slovenian alpine skier.[272]
- Maria Bieșu, 76, Moldovan opera singer, leukemia.[273]
- Barry Blaikie, 77, Australian politician.[274]
- Chuck Brown, 75, American singer and musician ("Bustin' Loose"), multiple organ failure.[275]
- Warren Bruno, 63, American restaurateur.[276]
- Ernie Chan, 71, Filipino-born American comic book artist (Batman, Doctor Strange, Conan the Barbarian).[277]
- Pat Dickie, 93, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Council for Ballarat (1956–1978).[278]
- Doug Dillard, 75, American bluegrass musician (The Dillards) and actor (The Andy Griffith Show), lung infection.[279]
- Kurt Felix, 71, Swiss television presenter, thymoma.[280]
- Hans Geister, 83, German Olympic bronze medallist relay runner (1952).[281]
- Hugo Gottfrit, 61, Argentine football player.[282]
- Kevin Hickey, 56, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Baltimore Orioles), complications of a seizure.[283]
- Andrei Mylnikov, 93, Russian painter.[284]
- Thad Tillotson, 71, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Nakai Hawks).[285]
- Anne Warner, 71, British biologist, cerebral haemorrhage.[286]
17
- Warda Al-Jazairia, 72, Algerian singer, cardiac arrest.[287]
- Marion C. Bascom, 87, American civil rights leader, heart attack.[288]
- Herbert Breslin, 87, American music industry executive, heart attack.[289]
- France Clidat, 79, French classical pianist.[290]
- James Doss, 73, American writer.[291]
- Gideon Ezra, 74, Israeli politician, MK (since 1996), lung cancer.[292]
- Patrick Mafisango, 32, Congolese-born Rwandan footballer, car accident.[293]
- Stepan Pogosyan, 80, Armenian historian and politician.[294]
- Derek Round, 77, New Zealand journalist, injuries following assault.[295] (body discovered on this date)
- Ron Shock, 69, American stand-up comedian, urethral cancer.[296]
- Donna Summer, 63, American singer ("Bad Girls", "Hot Stuff", "Last Dance", "I Feel Love"), lung cancer.[297]
- Harald Synnes, 81, Norwegian politician.[298]
- Marcy Tigner, 90, American Christian children's entertainer.[299]
- Sir Moti Tikaram, 87, Fijian judge and ombudsman.[300]
18
- Arthur Bertram Court, 84, Australian botanist.[301]
- Dick Everitt, 90, English footballer.[302]
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, 86, German baritone and conductor.[303]
- Tom Fuentes, 63, American political leader, Orange County Republican Party chairman (1985–2004), liver cancer.[304]
- Marco Antonio Ávila García, 39, Mexican crime reporter, strangulation.[305]
- Peter Jones, 49, British drummer (Crowded House), brain cancer.[306]
- Justo Justo, 70, Filipino columnist and politician.[307]
- Eugene Lacritz, 82, American conductor.[308]
- Hans-Dieter Lange, 85, German TV journalist.[309]
- Alan Oakley, 85, British designer of Raleigh Chopper bicycle, cancer.[310]
- Paul O'Sullivan, 48, Canadian comedian and actor (It Takes Two, George Shrinks, Grossology), traffic collision.[311]
- Gavin Packard, 48, British-born Indian Bollywood film actor, respiratory disease.[312]
- A. Teeuw, 90, Dutch critic of Indonesian literature.[313]
19
- Willard Bond, 85, American painter.[314]
- Bob Boozer, 75, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1960) basketball player (New York Knicks, Chicago Bulls), brain aneurysm.[315]
- Rudolf Braun, 82, Swiss historian.[316]
- Tamara Brooks, 70, American choral conductor, heart attack.[317]
- Ian Burgess, 81, British racing driver.[318]
- Muriel Cerf, 61, French writer, cancer.[319]
- Jacques Clancy, 92, French actor.[320]
- Isak Doera, 80, Philippines-born Indonesian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Sintang (1976–1996).[321]
- John Guest, 73, British geologist.[322]
- Ranjit Kumar Gupta, 93, Indian police chief.[323]
- Gerhard Hetz, 69, German Olympic silver and bronze medal-winning (1964) swimmer.[324]
- Phil Lamason, 93, New Zealand Air Force officer.[325]
- Ann Rosener, 97, American photojournalist.[326]
20
- Safiuddin Ahmed, 89, Bangladeshi painter and printmaker.[327]
- Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, 60, Libyan terrorist, convicted of bombing Pan Am Flight 103, prostate cancer.[328]
- Jacqueline Ayer, 82, American author, illustrator, fashion and textile designer.[329]
- Bob Bethell, 69, American politician, Kansas State Representative (since 1999), car accident.[330]
- Alan Britton, 89, New Zealand cricketer.[331]
- Louis F. Burns, 92, American tribal and Osage Nation historian.[332]
- Leela Dube, 89, Indian anthropologist.[333]
- Geoffrey Evans, 69, Irish serial killer.[334]
- John George, 81, Scottish officer of arms.[335]
- Robin Gibb, 62, British singer and songwriter (Bee Gees), liver and kidney failure.[336]
- Ernestine Glossbrenner, 79, American educator and politician.[337]
- Nils Jernsletten, 77, Norwegian linguist.[338]
- David Littman, 78, British historian and human rights activist.[339]
- Bholabhai Patel, 77, Indian Gujarati author.[340]
- Eugene Polley, 96, American engineer, inventor of the wireless TV remote control.[341]
- Howie Richmond, 94, American music publisher and executive.[342]
- David Ridgway, 74, British archaeologist.[343]
- Raul Rojas, 70, American former WBA featherweight champion boxer.[344]
- Carrie Smith, 86, American blues and jazz singer.[345]
- Andrew B. Steinberg, 53, American lawyer.[346]
- Marc Strange, 70, Canadian television writer (The Beachcombers) and actor (X-Men: The Animated Series, ReGenesis), cancer.[347]
- Svenn Stray, 90, Norwegian politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1970–1971, 1981–1986).[348]
- Sultana Zaman, 76, Bangladeshi actress.[349]
21
- Kateryna Adamenko, 93, Ukrainian athlete and coach, atherosclerosis.[350]
- Bahram Alivandi, 83–84, Iranian-born Austrian artist.[351]
- Andreas Arntzen, 83, Norwegian barrister.[352]
- C.C. Banana, 43, American comedian, suicide.[353]
- Kevin Barry, 62, New Zealand rugby league player.[354]
- Eddie Blazonczyk, 70, American polka musician, natural causes.[355]
- Otis Clark, 109, American evangelist, oldest known survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race riot, and butler (Clark Gable, Joan Crawford), natural causes.[356]
- Constantine of Irinoupolis, 75, American Orthodox hierarch, Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA (since 1993).[357]
- Heiko Daxl, 54, German media artist.[358]
- Roman Dumbadze, 48, Georgian rebel commander, shot.[359]
- Giovinella Gonthier, 63, Seychellian teacher, concierge, diplomat, author, and consultant.[360]
- Heinrich Holland, 84, German-born American scientist.[361]
- Ezell Lee, 74, American politician, Mississippi State Representative (1988–1992) and State Senator (1992–2012), cancer.[362]
- Master Oats, 26, British Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the Cheltenham Gold Cup (1995), myocardial infarction.[363]
- Juan Manuel Montero Vázquez, 64, Spanish military surgeon.[364]
- Douglas Rodríguez, 61, Cuban boxer, heart attack.[365]
- Bill Stewart, 59, American football coach (West Virginia University), apparent heart attack.[366]
- Alan Thorne, 73, Australian anthropologist, developer of the theory of multiregional origin of modern humans, Alzheimer's disease.[367]
- Rodolfo Félix Valdés, 86, Mexican politician, Governor of Sonora (1985–1991).[368]
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- Muzaffar Ahmed, 79, Bangladeshi economist, natural causes.[369]
- Muzafar Bhutto, 41, Pakistani Sindhi nationalist politician.[370]
- Juanita Boisseau, 100, American dancer.[371]
- Wesley A. Brown, 85, American naval officer, first African-American graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, cancer.[372]
- Michael Bryson, 69, American reporter.[373]
- Janet Carroll, 71, American singer and actress (Risky Business, Married... with Children, Murphy Brown), brain cancer.[374]
- Daehaeng, 85, Korean Buddhist nun.[375]
- Chico Formiga, 81, Brazilian footballer and manager, heart attack.[376]
- Shiu-Ying Hu, 102, Chinese botanist.[377]
- Henrik Kalocsai, 71, Hungarian Olympic track and field athlete.[378]
- Flinder Anderson Khonglam, 67, Indian politician and physician, Chief Minister of Meghalaya (2001–2003).[379]
- Albion W. Knight Jr., 87, American army officer, bishop and politician.[380]
- Dave Mann, 79, American football player (Chicago Cardinals, Toronto Argonauts), complications from dementia.[381]
- Hazel Monteith, 94, Jamaican consumer rights advocate.[382]
- John Moores Jr., 83, English businessman, Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University (1994–1999).[383]
- Elaine Mulqueen, 80, American children's television host and personality.[384]
- Edmund Potrzebowski, 85, Polish Olympic athlete.[385]
- Janet Lees Price, 69, British actress (Blake's 7, Z-Cars).[386]
- Mike Voight, 58, American football player.[387]
- Sir Derek Wanless, 64, British banker and public policy adviser, pancreatic cancer.[388]
- Jesse Whittenton, 78, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Los Angeles Rams).[389]
- Hidekazu Yoshida, 98, Japanese music critic and literary critic.[390]
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- T. Garry Buckley, 89, American politician, Vermont State Senator (1955–1965), Lieutenant Governor (1977–1979).[391]
- Aub Carrigan, 94, Australian cricketer.[392]
- Gyula Elek, 80, Hungarian handball player and coach.[393]
- Sattareh Farmanfarmaian, 91, Iranian writer and princess.[394]
- Paul Fussell, 88, American literary scholar and social critic, natural causes.[395]
- Millie Goldsholl, 92, American film director and producer.[396]
- Hal Jackson, 96, American disc jockey and radio personality.[397]
- Leonel Mitchell, 81, American liturgical scholar.[398]
- William C. Wampler, 86, American politician, U.S. Representative for Virginia (1953–1955, 1967–1983).[399]
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- Ursula Arnold, 83, German photographer.[400]
- George Ceithaml, 91, American football player.[401]
- Klaas Carel Faber, 90, Dutch-born Nazi war criminal, kidney failure.[402]
- Kathi Kamen Goldmark, 63, American writer, cancer.[403]
- James Arnot Hamilton, 89, British aircraft designer.[404]
- Jacqueline Harpman, 82, Belgian writer.[405]
- Hermengild Li Yi, 88, Chinese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Lu'an (since 1998).[406]
- Juan Francisco Lombardo, 86, Argentine football player.[407]
- Toby Maduot, 78, Sudanese politician.[408]
- Mark McConnell, 50, American drummer (Sebastian Bach, Blackfoot), multiple organ failure.[409]
- Ndombe Opetum, 68, Congolese musician.[410]
- William Rathje, 66, American archaeologist.[411]
- Lee Rich, 93, American television executive and producer (The Waltons, Dallas), co-founder of Lorimar Television, lung cancer.[412]
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- R. Dilip, 56, Indian actor, heart attack.[413]
- Robert Fossier, 84, French historian.[414]
- Keith Gardner, 82, Jamaican Olympic bronze medal-winning (1960) athlete, complications of surgery and stroke.[415]
- Alistair Hamilton, 77, Scottish lawyer, scout leader and banker.[416]
- William Hanley, 80, American screenwriter and playwright.[417]
- Edoardo Mangiarotti, 93, Italian Olympic gold medal-winning (1936, 1952, 1956, 1960) fencer.[418]
- Peter D. Sieruta, 63, American writer and critic, complications due to a fall.[419]
- Beatrice Sparks, 95, American therapist and writer.[420]
- Doug Walton, 65–66, English rugby league player.[421]
- Lou Watson, 88, American basketball player and coach (Indiana University).[422]
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- Zvi Aharoni, 91, German-born Israeli Mossad agent.[423][424]
- Orhan Boran, 84, Turkish television host, bone marrow cancer.[425]
- Arthur Decabooter, 75, Belgian professional racing cyclist, heart attack.[426]
- Leo Dillon, 79, American comic book illustrator (Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears), complications from lung surgery.[427]
- Anna-Lisa Eriksson, 83, Swedish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1956) cross-country skier.[428]
- Omar Muhammad Farah, 36–37, Somali teacher and politician, road accident.[429]
- Stephen Healey, 29, British Army officer and footballer (Swansea City), improvised explosive device.[430]
- Hiroshi Miyazawa, 90, Japanese politician, Minister of Justice (1995), Governor of Hiroshima Prefecture (1973–1981), natural causes.[431]
- Jean Morton, 91, British television presenter.[432]
- Hans Schmidt, 87, Canadian professional wrestler.[433]
- Jim Unger, 75, English-born Canadian cartoonist (Herman).[434]
- Roy Wilson, 72, Jamaican singer (Higgs and Wilson).[435]
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- Dee Caruso, 83, American television writer (Get Smart, The Monkees), pneumonia.[436]
- Simeon Daniel, 77, Kittitian politician, first Premier of Nevis (1983–1992).[437]
- Octiabr' Emelianenko, 85, Soviet Russian physicist.[438]
- Friedrich Hirzebruch, 84, German mathematician.[439]
- Zita Kabátová, 99, Czech actress.[440]
- Richard Wall Lyman, 88, American educator and historian, President of Stanford University (1970–1980), heart failure.[441]
- William Lee Miller, 86, American historian.[442]
- David Rimoin, 75, American geneticist, pancreatic cancer.[443]
- Earl Shorris, 75, American writer and social critic.[444]
- Johnny Tapia, 45, American former triple world champion boxer.[445]
- Jan de Vries, 88, Canadian army veteran.[446]
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- Pierre Allès, 95, Algerian racing cyclist.[447]
- Don Anthony, 83, British Olympic hammer thrower.[448]
- Gregorio Baro, 83, Argentine chemist.[449]
- Ed Burton, 72, American basketball player.[450]
- Hugh Dawnay, 79, English soldier and polo player.[451]
- Rheta DeVries, 75, American psychologist.[452]
- Bob Edwards, 86, British journalist.[453]
- Richard Killen, 82, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1981–1991).[454]
- Judith Nelson, 72, American opera singer.[455]
- Harry Parker, 64, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, New York Mets, Cleveland Indians).[456]
- Ludovic Quistin, 28, Guadeloupean footballer (Tamworth), traffic accident.[457]
- Yuri Susloparov, 53, Ukrainian-born Russian football player and coach.[458]
- Emmanuel David Tannenbaum, 33, Israeli scientist.[459]
- Matthew Yuricich, 89, American special effects artist (Field of Dreams, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Blade Runner).[460]
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- Toni Arden, 88, American singer.[461]
- André Bernier, 81, Canadian politician and accountant.[462]
- Dick Beals, 85, American voice actor (Davey and Goliath, Speedy Alka-Seltzer).[463]
- Vince Cardell, 73, American pianist.[464]
- Maureen Dunlop de Popp, 91, Argentinian-born British aviator.[465]
- Elizabeth Ewen, American historian.[466]
- John Fredriksson, 88, Swedish alpine skier.[467]
- Nasir Gadžihanov, 45, Macedonian Olympic wrestler.[468]
- Frederick Gehring, 64, American mathematician.[469]
- Cassandra Jardine, 57, British journalist, cancer.[470]
- Mark Minkov, 67, Russian composer.[471]
- Mohamed Taieb Naciri, 73, Moroccan lawyer and politician.[472]
- Jim Paratore, 58, American television producer (TMZ, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Rosie O'Donnell Show), heart attack.[473]
- Ivor Porter, 98, British diplomat.[474]
- Ola O. Røssum, 86, Norwegian politician.[475]
- Kaneto Shindo, 100, Japanese film director, natural causes.[476]
- Doc Watson, 89, American folk and bluegrass musician, complications following surgery.[477]
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- Zahir Alam, 42, Indian cricketer, liver ailment.[478]
- Barton Lidice Beneš, 69, American artist.[479]
- Jerry Blemker, 67, American baseball coach.[480]
- Duane Bryers, 100, American painter, illustrator, and sculptor.[481]
- Pierre Ceyrac, 98, French Jesuit missionary.[482]
- Tomas Fernandez Concepcion, 78, Filipino politician.[483]
- Aldo Conterno, 81, Italian winemaker.[484]
- Pete Cosey, 68, American guitarist.[485]
- Edi Federer, 57, Austrian ski jumper, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.[486]
- John Fox, 59, American comedian, colon cancer.[487]
- Buddy Freitag, 80, American Broadway theatre producer (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Catch Me If You Can), brain tumor.[488]
- Sir Andrew Huxley, 94, British physiologist, biophysicist, and Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine, 1963).[489]
- Albertus Klijn, 89, Dutch religious scholar.[490]
- Charles Lemmond, 84, American politician, Pennsylvania State Senator (1985–2006).[491]
- Farideh Mashini, Iranian feminist activist.[492]
- Hamza Ben Driss Ottmani, 72, Moroccan economist and writer.[493]
- Mr. Imagination, 64, American outsider artist, blood infection.[494]
- Gerhard Pohl, 74, German politician, drowning.[495]
- Rekin Teksoy, 84, Turkish lawyer, author and translator.[496]
- Jack Twyman, 78, American Hall of Fame basketball player (Rochester/Cincinnati Royals), blood cancer.[497]
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- Natasha Borovsky, 87, Russian American poet and novelist.[498]
- Christopher Challis, 93, British cinematographer (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Top Secret!, Mary, Queen of Scots).[499]
- John H. Ewing, 93, American politician.[500]
- Desmond Fernando, 81, Sri Lankan doctor and inventor.[501]
- Roger Fournier, 82, Canadian writer and television director.[502]
- Farid Habib, 77, Lebanese politician, MP for El Koura (since 2005), illness.[503]
- Nélson Jacobina, 58, Brazilian songwriter ("Maracatu Atômico"), lung cancer.[504]
- Randall B. Kester, 95, American attorney and judge.[505]
- Mark Midler, 80, Russian Olympic gold medal-winning (1960, 1964) foil fencer.[506]
- Paul Pietsch, 100, German Formula One and Grand Prix race car driver, first to reach the age of 100, pneumonia.[507]
- Paul Sussman, 45, British journalist (CNN), archaeologist, and author, ruptured aneurysm.[508]
- Gareth Walters, 83, Welsh musician.[509]
- Orlando Woolridge, 52, American basketball player (Chicago Bulls) and coach (Los Angeles Sparks), heart disease.[510]
- Zhou Ruchang, 94, Chinese academic and redologist.[511]
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