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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 2010.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
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October 2010
1
- Georgy Arbatov, 87, Russian political scientist.[1]
- Dezső Bundzsák, 82, Hungarian football player and coach.[2]
- Ian Buxton, 72, English footballer and cricketer, natural causes.[3]
- Charles Caruana, 77, Gibraltarian Roman Catholic bishop of Gibraltar (1998–2010), complications from a fall.[4]
- Bobby Craig, 75, Scottish footballer.[5]
- Audouin Dollfus, 85, French astronomer.[6]
- Marshall Flaum, 85, American Emmy Award-winning director (The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau), complications from hip surgery.[7]
- Kilian Hennessy, 103, Irish patriarch of the Hennessy cognac company.[8]
- Gerard Labuda, 93, Polish historian.[9]
- Michel Mathieu, 66, French diplomat, cancer.[10]
- David Aldrich Nelson, 78, American jurist, judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.[11]
- William W. Norton, 85, American screenwriter (Gator, Brannigan), heart attack.[12]
- William C. Patrick III, 84, American scientist, expert on germs, bladder cancer.[13]
- Pamela Rooks, Indian film director and screenwriter.[14]
- Mikhail Roshchin, 77, Russian playwright.[15]
- Phillips Talbot, 95, American diplomat, Ambassador to Greece (1965–1969), President of the Asia Society (1970–1981).[16]
- Lan Wright, 87, British science fiction writer.[17]
2
- David M. Bailey, 44, American singer-songwriter, glioblastoma.[18]
- Brenda Cowling, 85, British actress.[19]
- Maurice Foster, 77, Canadian politician, MP for Algoma (1968–1993), pulmonary fibrosis.[20]
- Robert Goodnough, 92, American abstract expressionist painter, pneumonia.[21]
- Stephen Griew, 82, Canadian gerontologist.[22]
- Ruby Heafner, 86, American baseball player.[23]
- Art Jarvinen, 54, American composer, teacher and musician (The California EAR Unit).[24]
- Kwa Geok Choo, 89, Singaporean lawyer, wife of Lee Kuan Yew, mother of Lee Hsien Loong.[25]
- Sam Lesser, 95, British journalist.[26]
- Gillian Lowndes, 74, British ceramicist.[27]
3
- Maury Allen, 78, American sportswriter (The New York Post), lymphoma.[28]
- João Costa, 90, Portuguese Olympic fencer.[29]
- Philippa Foot, 90, British philosopher.[30]
- Sir Louis Le Bailly, 95, British admiral, Director-General of Intelligence.[31]
- Claude Lefort, 86, French philosopher.[32]
- Ben Mondor, 85, American baseball executive (Pawtucket Red Sox).[33]
- Eddie Platt, 88, American saxophonist.[34]
- Abraham Sarmiento, 88, Filipino jurist, Supreme Court Associate Justice (1987–1991).[35]
- Dianne Whalen, 59, Canadian politician, Newfoundland and Labrador MHA for Conception Bay East and Bell Island (2003–2010), cancer.[36]
- Ed Wilson, 65, Brazilian singer-songwriter, founder of Renato e Seus Blue Caps, cancer.[37]
4
- William Birenbaum, 87, American educator (Antioch College), heart failure.[38]
- Maurice Broomfield, 94, British photographer.[39]
- Paula Escarameia, 50, Portuguese jurist (International Law Commission).[40]
- Henrique de Senna Fernandes, 86, Macanese author.[41]
- Gordon Lewis, 86, British aeronautical engineer.[42]
- Rajan Mehra, 76, Indian cricket umpire.[43]
- Reinhard Oehme, 82, German-born American particle physicist.[44] (body found on this date)
- Peter Warr, 72, British racing driver and Formula One team principal (Lotus), heart attack.[45]
- Brian Williams, 54, British fantasy illustrator[46]
- Sir Norman Wisdom, 95, British comedian and actor, after long illness.[47]
5
- Yakov Alpert, 99, Soviet-born American physicist.[48]
- Roy Axe, 73, British car designer (Talbot Horizon, Rover 800), cancer.[49]
- Roy Ward Baker, 93, British film director (A Night To Remember).[50]
- Jack Berntsen, 69, Norwegian folk singer.[51]
- Stan Bisset, 98, Australian rugby union player and World War II veteran.[52]
- Alba Bouwer, 90, South African writer (Afrikaans children's literature), natural causes.[53]
- Bernard Clavel, 87, French writer, natural causes.[54]
- Mary Leona Gage, 71, American pageant queen, stripped of Miss USA (1957) title, heart failure.[55]
- Karel Hardeman, 96, Dutch Olympic rower.[56]
- Josephine Drivinski Hunsinger, 95, American politician. Member of the Michigan House of Representatives for District 1 (1973-1976).[57]
- Moss Keane, 62, Irish rugby union player, bowel cancer.[58]
- Jānis Klovāns, 75, Latvian chess master.[59]
- Steve Lee, 47, Swiss musician (Gotthard), motorcycle accident.[60]
- Julio Parise Loro, 90, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Napo (1978–96).[61]
- Karen McCarthy, 63, American politician, U.S. Representative from Missouri (1995–2005), Alzheimer's disease.[62]
- Børge Raahauge Nielsen, 90, Danish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1948) rower.[63]
- William Shakespeare, 61, Australian glam rock singer, heart attack.[64]
6
- Norman Christie, 85, Scottish football player and manager (Montrose F.C.).[65]
- Jean Debuf, 86, French weightlifter, Olympic bronze medalist (1956).[66]
- Don Goodsir, 73, Australian educator, author, and environmentalist.[67]
- Ivor Hale, 88, English cricketer.[68]
- Rhys Isaac, 72, Australian historian, cancer.[69]
- Antonie Kamerling, 44, Dutch actor and singer, suicide.[70]
- Ralph Kercheval, 98, American football player.[71]
- Gran Naniwa, 33, Japanese professional wrestler, myocardial blockage.[72]
- Colette Renard, 85, French singer and actress, after long illness.[73]
- Henry Sommerville, 82, Australian Olympic fencer.[74]
- Piet Wijn, 81, Dutch comics creator.[75]
7
- Ashab-ul-Haq, Bangladeshi politician.[76]
- Metring David, 90, Filipino actress and comedian.[77]
- Gail Dolgin, 65, American documentary filmmaker (Daughter from Danang), breast cancer.[78]
- Kristin Johannsen, 52, American author, educator and environmentalist.[79]
- Ljupčo Jordanovski, 57, Macedonian seismologist and politician, Acting President (2004).[80]
- Chuck Leo, 76, American football player (Boston Patriots).[81]
- Ian Morris, 53, New Zealand musician (Th' Dudes) and record producer.[82]
- Milka Planinc, 85, Yugoslavian politician, Prime Minister (1982–1986).[83]
- Guy Rouleau, 87, Canadian politician.[84]
- A. Venkatachalam, 55, Indian politician, stabbed.[85]
8
- Frank Bourgholtzer, 90, American television reporter, first full-time NBC News White House correspondent.[86]
- S. S. Chandran, 69, Indian comic actor and politician, member of the Rajya Sabha (2001–2007), heart attack.[87]
- Jim Fuchs, 82, American shot putter, Olympic bronze medalist (1948, 1952).[88]
- Nils Hallberg, 89, Swedish actor.[89]
- John Huchra, 61, American astronomer, heart attack.[90]
- Ryō Ikebe, 92, Japanese actor (Gorath), blood poisoning.[91]
- Reg King, 65, British singer (The Action), cancer.[92]
- Simbara Maki, 71, Ivorian Olympic hurdler.[93]
- Malcolm Mencer Martin, 89, Austrian-British pediatric endocrinologist, injuries sustained after being hit by car.[94]
- Sue Miles, 66, British counter-culture activist and restaurateur.[95]
- David F. Musto, 74, American drug control expert, heart attack.[96]
- Maurice Neligan, 73, Irish surgeon, performed Ireland's first heart transplant.[97]
- Linda Norgrove, 36, British aid worker and hostage, killed during rescue attempt.[98]
- Mohammad Omar, Afghan politician, Governor of Kunduz Province, bomb blast.[99]
- Pleasant Tap, 23, American thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized due to laminitis.[100]
- Melvin Lane Powers, 68, American real estate developer, acquitted of murdering his uncle.[101]
- Karl Prantl, 86, Austrian sculptor, stroke.[102]
- Neil Richardson, 80, English composer, arranger and conductor.[103]
- Dale Roberts, 70, American baseball player (New York Yankees).[104]
- Albertina Walker, 81, American gospel music singer (The Caravans), respiratory failure.[105]
9
- Maurice Allais, 99, French economist, winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1988).[106]
- Mashallah Amin Sorour, 79, Iranian cyclist.[107]
- Edmund Chong Ket Wah, 54, Malaysian politician, Member of Parliament (since 2004), motorcycle accident.[108]
- Les Fell, 89, English footballer (Charlton Athletic, Crystal Palace).[109]
- Aleksandr Matveyev, 84, Russian linguist, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, natural causes.[110]
- Isaia Rasila, 42, Fijian rugby player.[111]
- Zecharia Sitchin, 90, Azerbaijani-born American author.[112]
10
- Louis F. Bantle, 81, American chairman of U.S. Tobacco Company, lung cancer and emphysema.[113]
- Reinhold Brinkmann, 76, German musicologist.[114]
- Solomon Burke, 70, American R&B singer-songwriter ("Everybody Needs Somebody to Love"), natural causes.[115]
- Ger Feeney, Irish Gaelic footballer.[116]
- Les Gibbard, 64, New Zealand-born British political cartoonist, during routine operation.[117]
- John Graysmark, 75, British production designer and art director (Ragtime, Gorillas in the Mist, Flash Gordon).[118]
- Hwang Jang-yop, 87, North Korean politician and defector, apparent heart attack.[119]
- Éric Joisel, 53, French wet-folding origami artist, lung cancer.[120]
- Richard Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 4th Baron Acton, 69, British politician.[121]
- David H. McNerney, 79, American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient, lung cancer.[122]
- Adán Martín Menis, 66, Spanish politician, President of the Canary Islands (2003–2007).[123]
- Rex Rabanye, 66, jazz, fusion and soulful pop musician.[124]
- Franz Xaver Schwarzenböck, 87, German Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of München und Freising (1972–1998).[125]
- Solly Sherman, 93, American football player (Chicago Bears).[126]
- A. Edison Stairs, 85, Canadian businessman and politician, New Brunswick MLA (1960–1978) and Minister of Finance (1974–1976), natural causes.[127]
- Walter Staley, 77, American Olympic bronze medal-winning (1952) equestrian.[128]
- Alison Stephens, 40, British classical mandolinist, cervical cancer.[129]
- Dame Joan Sutherland, 83, Australian dramatic coloratura soprano.[130]
- Richard S. Van Wagoner, 64, American historian of Mormonism and Utah.[131]
- Frank Verpillat, 63, French director and inventor.[132]
11
- Tomislav Franjković, 79, Croatian Olympic silver medal-winning (1956) water polo player.[133]
- Bill Harsha, 89, American politician, U.S. Representative from Ohio (1961–1981).[134]
- Janet MacLachlan, 77, American actress (Archie Bunker's Place, Sounder), cardiovascular complications.[135]
- Richard Morefield, 81, American embassy worker, hostage during Iran Hostage Crisis.[136]
- Marian P. Opala, 89, American jurist, Associate Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court (1978–2010), stroke.[137]
- Claire Rayner, 79, British author.[138]
- Georges Rutaganda, 51, Rwandan Hutu paramilitary leader, convicted war criminal, after long illness.[139]
- Robert Tishman, 94, American real estate developer (Tishman Speyer).[140]
- Donald H. Tuck, 87, Australian science fiction bibliographer.[141]
- Ian Turner, 85, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1948) rower.[142]
12
- Abul Hasnat Md. Abdul Hai, Bangladeshi politician.[143]
- Manuel Alexandre, 92, Spanish actor, cancer.[144]
- Jorge Ardila Serrano, 85, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Girardot (1988–2001).[145]
- Austin Ardill, 93, British politician, member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland for Carrick.[146]
- Challenger, 51, Bangladeshi actor.[147]
- Michael Galloway, 85, American actor.[148]
- Michel Hugo, 79, French-born American cinematographer (Dynasty, Melrose Place, Mission: Impossible), lung cancer.[149]
- Angelo Infanti, 71, Italian actor, cardiac arrest.[150]
- Lionel W. McKenzie, 91, American economist.[151]
- Dick Miles, 85, American table tennis player, natural causes.[152]
- Woody Peoples, 67, American football player (San Francisco 49ers, Philadelphia Eagles).[153]
- Pepín, 78, Spanish footballer.[154]
- Belva Plain, 95, American novelist (Evergreen).[155]
13
- Juan Carlos Arteche, 53, Spanish footballer, cancer.[156]
- Eddie Baily, 85, English footballer (Tottenham Hotspur).[157]
- General Johnson, 69, American musician and record producer (Chairmen of the Board), complications of lung cancer.[158]
- Vernon Biever, 87, American photographer.[159]
- Khoisan X, 55, South African political activist, stroke.[160]
- Mary Malcolm, 92, British BBC announcer and television personality.[161]
- Marzieh, 86, Iranian singer, cancer.[162]
- Sol Steinmetz, 80, Hungarian-born American lexicographer and linguist, pneumonia.[163]
14
- Malcolm Allison, 83, English footballer (West Ham United) and manager (Manchester City, Crystal Palace), after long illness.[164]
- Glenn J. Ames, 55, American historian, cancer.[165]
- Carla Del Poggio, 84, Italian actress.[166]
- Louis Henkin, 92, American international human rights law expert and academic (Columbia Law School).[167]
- Alain Le Bussy, 63, Belgian science fiction author, complications following throat surgery.[168]
- Simon MacCorkindale, 58, British actor (Falcon Crest, Death on the Nile, Manimal, Casualty), bowel cancer.[135][169]
- Benoît Mandelbrot, 85, Polish-born American mathematician, pioneer of the study of fractals, pancreatic cancer.[170]
- Constance Reid, 92, American mathematics author and biographer.[171]
- Hermann Scheer, 66, German politician, member of the Bundestag (1980–2010) and Right Livelihood Award laureate (1999), after short illness.[172]
- Larry Siegfried, 71, American basketball player (Boston Celtics), heart attack.[173]
15
- Jim Dougal, 65, Northern Irish journalist (BBC News, RTÉ, UTV).[174]
- Mildred Fay Jefferson, 84, American anti-abortion activist, first black woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School.[175]
- N. Paul Kenworthy, 85, American cinematographer (The Living Desert, The Vanishing Prairie), thyroid cancer.[176]
- Georges Mathé, 88, French oncologist and immunologist, bone marrow transplant pioneer.[177]
- Vera Rózsa, 93, Hungarian voice teacher.[178]
- Johnny Sheffield, 79, American actor (Tarzan Finds a Son!, Bomba, the Jungle Boy, Knute Rockne All American), heart attack.[179]
16
- Barbara Billingsley, 94, American actress, polymyalgia (Leave It to Beaver, Airplane!, Muppet Babies).[180]
- Alfredo Bini, 83, Italian film producer.[181]
- Jack Butterfield, 91, Canadian-born American sports administrator, President of the American Hockey League (1969–1994).[182]
- Chao-Li Chi, 83, Chinese-born American actor (Falcon Crest).[183]
- Giannis Dalianidis, 86, Greek film director and screenwriter (Oi Thalassies oi Hadres, O katergaris), multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.[184]
- Eyedea, 28, American rapper and musician (Eyedea & Abilities).[185]
- Friedrich Katz, 83, Austrian anthropologist and historian, cancer.[186]
- Masud Husain Khan, 91, Indian linguist.[187]
- Ioannis Ladas, 90, Greek army officer, member of the 1967–1974 military junta.[188]
- Betty S. Murphy, 77, American lawyer, first woman to chair the National Labor Relations Board, pneumonia.[189]
- Aldo Maria Lazzarín Stella, 83, Italian-born Chilean Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Aysén (1989–1998).[190]
- Valmy Thomas, 84, Puerto Rican baseball player.[191]
- Leigh Van Valen, 75, American evolutionary biologist (Red Queen's Hypothesis), respiratory infection.[192]
17
- Åsmund Apeland, 80, Norwegian politician.[193]
- Jake Dunlap, 85, Canadian football player (Ottawa Rough Riders), cancer.[194]
- John Baird Finlay, 81, Canadian politician, MP for Oxford (1993–2004).[195]
- Emmanuel Lê Phong Thuân, 79, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Cân Tho (since 1990).[196]
- Joe Lis, 64, American baseball player, prostate cancer.[197]
- Freddy Schuman, 85, American baseball fan (New York Yankees), heart attack.[198]
- Michael Tabor, 63, American Black Panther Party member, complications from a stroke.[199]
- Dennis Taylor, 56, American saxophonist, heart attack.[200]
18
- Luc Agbala, 63, Togo football player and referee.[201]
- Marion Brown, 79, American jazz saxophonist.[202]
- Consuelo Crespi, 82, American-born Italian countess, fashion model and editor, stroke.[203]
- David Fontana, 75, British psychologist and parapsychologist, pancreatic cancer.[204]
- Margaret Gwenver, 84, American actress (Guiding Light).[205]
- Hans Hägele, 70, German footballer, suicide by jumping.[206]
- Mel Hopkins, 75, Welsh footballer (Tottenham Hotspur, Brighton & Hove Albion).[207]
- Yertward Mazamanian, 85, American hippie.[208]
- Peng Chong, 95, Chinese politician, former National Committee member.[209]
- Billy Raimondi, 97, American baseball player[210]
- Doug Wilson, 90, British Olympic athlete.[211]
- Ken Wriedt, 83, Australian politician, Senator for Tasmania (1967–1980), Leader of the Tasmanian Opposition (1982–1986).[212]
19
- Tom Bosley, 83, American actor (Happy Days, Father Dowling Mysteries), heart failure.[213]
- Craig Charron, 42, American ice hockey player, stomach cancer.[214]
- Graham Crowden, 87, Scottish actor (If...., A Very Peculiar Practice, Waiting For God).[215]
- André Mahé, 90, French road bicycle racer.[216]
- Paul Steven Miller, 49, American disability rights leader, cancer.[217]
- John Waterlow, 94, British physiologist.[218]
20
- Jean Asfar, 92, Egyptian Olympic fencer.[219]
- Francisco Batistela, 79, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bom Jesus da Lapa (1990–2009).[220]
- Otey Clark, 95, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox).[221]
- W. Cary Edwards, 66, American politician, New Jersey State Assemblyman (1978–1982) and Attorney General (1986–1989), cancer.[222]
- Herbert Enderton, 74, American mathematician and logician, leukemia.[223]
- Mariano Ferreyra, 23, Argentine left-wing militant, shot.[224]
- Bob Guccione, 79, American photographer and founder of Penthouse, lung cancer.[225]
- Eva Ibbotson, 85, Austrian-born British novelist (Journey to the River Sea, The Secret of Platform 13).[226]
- Coleman Jacoby, 95, American television comedy writer, pancreatic cancer.[227]
- D. Geraint James, 88, Welsh doctor.[228]
- Bill Jennings, 85, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns).[229]
- Robert Katz, 77, American writer, complications from cancer surgery.[230]
- Max Kohnstamm, 96, Dutch historian and diplomat.[231]
- Farooq Leghari, 70, Pakistani politician, President (1993–1997), heart complications.[232]
- Sir George Mallet, 87, Saint Lucian politician, Governor-General (1996–1997), cancer.[233]
- Eduard Novák, 63, Czech ice hockey player, Olympic silver (1976) and bronze (1972) medalist.[234]
- Jenny Oropeza, 53, American politician, California State Assemblywoman (2000–2006) and State Senator (since 2006), after long illness.[235]
- Robert Paynter, 82, British cinematographer (Trading Places, An American Werewolf in London, Michael Jackson's Thriller).[236]
- Harvey Phillips, 80, American tuba player, Parkinson's disease.[237]
- Gilbert Planté, 69, French Olympic footballer.[238]
- Julian Roberts, 80, British librarian.[239]
- Tony Roig, 81, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, Washington Senators), after long illness.[240]
- Parthasarathy Sharma, 62, Indian Test cricketer (1974–1977), cancer.[241]
- Tikhon Stepanov, 47, Russian Orthodox prelate, Bishop of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogory (since 1996), heart attack.[242]
- Ari Up, 48, German-born British punk musician (The Slits), cancer.[243]
- Wendall Woodbury, 68, American television journalist and host (WGAL-TV), lymphoma.[244]
21
- Antonio Alatorre, 88, Mexican philologist.[245]
- Mustapha Anane, 60, Algerian footballer, after long illness.[246]
- A. Ayyappan, 61, Indian poet.[247]
- José Carbajal, 66, Uruguayan singer, guitarist, and composer (Los Olimareños), cardiac arrest.[248]
- Sir Leslie Froggatt, 90, British-born Australian business executive, CEO of Shell Australia (1969–1980), complications from Parkinson's disease.[249]
- Kjell Landmark, 80, Norwegian poet and politician, cancer.[250]
- James F. Neal, 81, American jurist, prosecuted Watergate figures, cancer.[251]
- Howard Harry Rosenbrock, 89, British electrical engineer and scientist.[252]
- Loki Schmidt, 91, German environmentalist, wife of Helmut Schmidt, illness after a fall and complications of a broken foot.[253]
- Natasha Spender, 91, British musician and writer, widow of Stephen Spender.[254]
22
- Alex Anderson, 90, American cartoonist, created characters for The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show and Crusader Rabbit.[255]
- Donald A. Andrews, 69, Canadian correctional psychologist and criminologist.[256]
- Rune Blomqvist, 85, Swedish Olympic sprint canoer.[257]
- Arthur M. Brazier, 89, American pastor and civil rights activist.[258]
- Alí Chumacero, 92, Mexican writer and poet, pneumonia.[259]
- Bill Henderson, 86, Northern Irish politician and newspaper proprietor.[260]
- Helen Hunley, 90, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta (1985–1991).[261]
- Anne McDonald, 49, Australian disability rights activist, heart attack.[262]
- Franz Raschid, 56, German footballer, pancreatic cancer.[263]
- Eio Sakata, 90, Japanese professional Go player, aortic aneurysm.[264]
- Denis Simpson, 59, Canadian actor (Polka Dot Door) and singer, brain hemorrhage.[265]
- Kjell Stormoen, 89, Norwegian actor and theater director.[266]
- René Villiger, 79, Swiss painter, cancer.[267]
23
- Ralph Belknap Baldwin, 98, American planetary scientist.[268]
- Vince Banonis, 89, American football player (Chicago Cardinals, Detroit Lions).[269]
- Ior Bock, 68, Finnish actor and tour guide, stabbing.[270]
- George Cain, 66, American author, kidney failure.[271]
- Fran Crippen, 26, American swimmer, heart attack.[272]
- Leo Cullum, 68, American cartoonist (The New Yorker), cancer.[273]
- Robert Fitzpatrick, 73, American manager and actor, lung disease.[274]
- S. Neil Fujita, 89, American graphic designer, complications of a stroke.[275]
- Princess Irmingard of Bavaria, 87, German noblewoman.[276]
- Donald Leifert, 59, American science fiction actor.[277]
- Chhewang Nima, 43, Nepalese mountaineer and guide, avalanche.[278]
- Michael Porter, 59, American wrestling announcer.[279]
- Stanley Tanger, 87, American businessman, founder of Tanger Factory Outlet Centers.[280]
- David Thompson, 48, British-born Barbadian politician, Prime Minister (since 2008), pancreatic cancer.[281]
- Tom Winslow, 69, American folk musician, complications from a stroke.[282]
24
- Ralph Anderson, 86, American architect, kidney cancer.[283]
- Les Anthony, 88, Welsh rugby union player.[284]
- Bob Courtney, 87, British-born South African broadcaster and actor.[285]
- Mike Esposito, 83, American comic book artist (Spider-Man, The Flash, Wonder Woman).[286]
- Georges Frêche, 72, French politician, cardiac arrest.[287]
- Fritz Grösche, 69, German footballer and coach, cancer.[288]
- Linda Hargrove, 61, American singer-songwriter.[289]
- Andy Holmes, 51, British Olympic gold (1984, 1988) and bronze (1988) medal-winning rower, leptospirosis.[290]
- Franciszek Jarecki, 79, Polish-born American jet pilot and defector.[291]
- Lamont Johnson, 88, American actor and television director (The Twilight Zone, The Execution of Private Slovik), heart failure.[292]
- Alex Oakley, 84, Canadian Olympic race walker.[293]
- Pan Jin-yu, 96, Taiwanese last speaker of the Pazeh language.[294]
- Ignacio Ramírez de Haro, 15th Count of Bornos, 92, Spanish noble, 15th Count of Bornos, Grandee of Spain, legionella.[295]
- Burton B. Roberts, 88, American judge, New York Supreme Court Justice (1973–1998), respiratory failure.[296]
- Willie Rutherford, 65, Australian soccer player.[297]
- Sylvia Sleigh, 94, American painter, complications of a stroke.[298]
- Jack Stackpoole, 93, Australian cricketer.[299]
- David Stahl, 60, American conductor, lymphoma.[300]
- Joseph Stein, 98, American playwright (Fiddler on the Roof, Zorba).[301]
25
- Hans Arnold, 85, Swiss-born Swedish artist.[302]
- Sonny Ates, 75, American racecar driver.[303]
- Lisa Blount, 53, American actress (An Officer and a Gentleman) and film producer (The Accountant).[304]
- Sonia Burgess, 63, British immigration lawyer.[305]
- Jeff Carter, 82, Australian photographer and author.[306]
- Valentina Gaganova, 78, Russian textile worker and politician.[307]
- Richard T. Gill, 82, American opera singer, heart failure.[308]
- Douglas Hooper, 83, English psychotherapist, traffic collision.[309]
- Gregory Isaacs, 59, Jamaican reggae singer, lung cancer.[310]
- Andreas Maurer, 91, Austrian politician, Landeshauptmann of Lower Austria (1966–1981).[311]
- Vesna Parun, 88, Croatian writer.[312]
- Ada Polak, 96, Norwegian art historian.[313]
- Rudy Rufer, 83, American baseball player (New York Giants).[314]
- Roy Skinner, 80, American college basketball coach (Vanderbilt), respiratory failure.[315]
26
- Jaroslava Komárková, 83, Czech Olympic athlete.[316]
- Glen Little, 84, American circus performer ("Frosty the Clown").[317]
- Mbah Maridjan, 83, Indonesian spiritual guardian of Mount Merapi (1982–2010), pyroclastic flow from Mount Merapi.[318]
- Ricardo Montez, 87, Gibraltarian character actor.[319]
- Paul the Octopus, 2, British-born World Cup oracle octopus (Sea Life Centre in Oberhausen, Germany), natural causes.[320]
- James Phelps, 78, American gospel and R&B singer, complications of diabetes.[321]
- Ana María Romero de Campero, 67, Bolivian journalist and politician, President of the Senate of Bolivia (2010), colorectal cancer.[322]
- Romeu Tuma, 79, Brazilian politician, Senator (1995–2010), multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.[323]
- Ray Watson, 87, Australian judge.[324]
27
- Mary Emma Allison, 93, American co-creator of Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF.[325]
- Denise Borino-Quinn, 46, American actress (The Sopranos), liver cancer.[326]
- Gene Fodge, 79, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs).[327]
- William Griffiths, 88, British Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) field hockey player.[328]
- Chris Gulker, 59, American photographer, programmer and writer, brain cancer.[329]
- Néstor Kirchner, 60, Argentine politician, President (2003–2007), First Gentleman (since 2007), Secretary General of UNASUR (2010), heart attack.[330]
- Paul Kolton, 87, American chairman of the American Stock Exchange (1972–1977), lymphoma.[331]
- Luigi Macaluso, 62, Italian businessman, President and Chairman of the Sowind Group, heart attack.[332]
- Owen B. Pickett, 80, American politician, U.S. Representative from Virginia (1987–2001).[333]
- Saqr bin Mohammad al-Qassimi, 92, Emirati ruler of Ras al-Khaimah (since 1948).[334]
- Hall W. Thompson, 87, American developer of a country club that did not admit black members.[335]
- James Wall, 92, American actor (Captain Kangaroo) and stage manager, after short illness.[336]
28
- Isabella Abbott, 91, American ethnobotanist, first native Hawaiian to receive a doctorate in science.[337]
- Ibrahim Ahmad Abd al-Sattar Muhammad, 54, Iraqi general, Armed Forces Chief of Staff (1999–2003), cancer.[338]
- Harry Baldwin, 90, English footballer.[339]
- Jack Brokensha, 84, Australian jazz musician, composer and arranger.[340]
- Jesús Mateo Calderón Barrueto, 90, Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Puno (1972–1998).[341]
- Robert Dickie, 46, British champion boxer, heart attack.[342]
- Robert Ellenstein, 87, American character actor.[343]
- Erling Fløtten, 72, Norwegian politician.[344]
- Watts Humphrey, 83, American software engineer.[345]
- Gerard Kelly, 51, British actor (City Lights), brain aneurysm.[346]
- Liang Congjie, 78, Chinese environmentalist (Friends of Nature), lung infection.[347]
- James MacArthur, 72, American actor (Hawaii Five-O, Swiss Family Robinson), natural causes.[348]
- Jonathan Motzfeldt, 72, Greenlandic politician, Prime Minister (1979–1991; 1997–2002), brain hemorrhage.[349]
- Paddy Mullins, 91, Irish racehorse trainer.[350]
- Maurice Murphy, 75, British musician (London Symphony Orchestra).[351]
- Ehud Netzer, 76, Israeli archaeologist, discovered tomb of Herod the Great, injuries from a fall.[352]
- Walter Payton, 68, American jazz bassist and sousaphonist, complications from a stroke.[353]
- Anna Prieto Sandoval, 76, American tribal leader (Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation), Native American gaming enterprises pioneer, diabetes.[354]
- Jean Schmit, 79, Luxembourgish Olympic cyclist.[355]
- John Sekula, 41, American guitarist (Mushroomhead).[356]
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- Gerhard Beyer, 69, German Olympic sports shooter.[357]
- Marcelino Camacho, 92, Spanish trade unionist.[358]
- Ronnie Clayton, 76, English footballer (Blackburn Rovers).[359]
- Geoffrey Crawley, 83, British photographer and editor, debunked Cottingley Fairies mystery.[360]
- Stefan Florescu, 83, American paralympic swimmer and table tennis player.[361]
- Mervyn Haisman, 82, British writer (Doctor Who).[362]
- George Hickenlooper, 47, American documentary filmmaker, accidental drug overdose.[363]
- Yisrael Katz, 82, Israeli public servant and government minister.[364]
- Antonio Mariscal, 95, Mexican Olympic diver.[365]
- Bärbel Mohr, 46, German author.[366]
- Bernard de Nonancourt, 90, French businessman and member of the French Resistance, owner of Laurent-Perrier.[367]
- Karlo Sakandelidze, 82, Georgian actor.[368]
- Takeshi Shudo, 61, Japanese writer, creator of Pokémon, subarachnoid hemorrhage.[369]
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- Randall Dale Adams, 61, American anti–death penalty activist, brain tumor.[370]
- Douglas Argent, 89, British television producer and director (Fawlty Towers).[371]
- Vladimir Arsenyev, 62, Russian Africanist, ethnographer, and exhibition curator.[372]
- John Benson, 67, Scottish footballer and manager, after short illness.[373]
- Romano Bonagura, 80, Italian bobsledder, Olympic silver medalist (1964).[374]
- Leopoldo Alfredo Bravo, 50, Argentine diplomat, ambassador to Russia, cancer.[375]
- Édouard Carpentier, 84, French-born Canadian professional wrestler.[376]
- Ina Clare, 77, British actress (EastEnders).[377]
- Meta Elste-Neumann, 91, American gymnast, Olympic bronze medalist (1948), cancer.[378]
- Arthur Bernard Lewis, 84, American television producer and writer (Dallas), complications from pneumonia.[379]
- Ananías Maidana, 87, Paraguayan teacher and politician, prostate cancer.[380]
- Harry Mulisch, 83, Dutch writer (The Assault, The Discovery of Heaven), cancer.[381]
- Nachi Nozawa, 72, Japanese voice actor, lung cancer.[382]
- Clyde Summers, 91, American academic, complications of a stroke.[383]
- Mateus Feliciano Augusto Tomás, 52, Angolan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Namibe (since 2009).[384]
- Howard Van Hyning, 74, American percussionist (New York City Opera), myocardial infarction.[385]
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- Michel d'Aillières, 86, French politician.[386]
- Evelyn Baghtcheban, 82, Turkish-Persian opera singer.[387]
- Manfred Bock, 69, German Olympic decathlete, heart attack.[388]
- Max Barandun, 68, Swiss Olympic sprinter.[389]
- Roger Holloway, 76, British Anglican priest.[390]
- Dick Loepfe, 88, American football player (Chicago Cardinals).[391]
- Maurice Lucas, 58, American basketball player (Portland Trail Blazers, Phoenix Suns, Los Angeles Lakers), bladder cancer.[392]
- John Selfridge, 83, American mathematician.[393]
- János Simon, 81, Hungarian basketball player, EuroBasket winner (1955).[394]
- Ted Sorensen, 82, American lawyer, White House counsel (1961–1964), stroke.[395]
- Artie Wilson, 90, American baseball player (New York Giants, Birmingham Black Barons), Alzheimer's disease.[396]
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