Deaths in January 2010

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The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2010.

January 2010

31

• Kage Baker, 57, American science fiction and fantasy author, uterine cancer. [1]
• Erna Baumbauer, 91, German casting agent. [2]
• Robert DeBlieux, 77, American Mayor of Natchitoches, Louisiana (1976–1980), cerebral hemorrhage. [3]
• Pauly Fuemana, 40, New Zealand musician (OMC), after short illness. [4]
• Kemal Gordon, 29, American filmmaker, complications of lupus. [5]
• Edith Josie, 88, Canadian columnist, natural causes. [6]
• Victor Kaisiepo, 61, Netherlands New Guinean-born Dutch activist for West Papuan independence. [7]
• Thorleif Karlsen, 100, Norwegian police inspector, politician and radio host, natural causes. [8] (Norwegian)
• Howard Lotsof, 66, American researcher, discovered anti-addictive effects of ibogaine, liver cancer. [9]
• Tomás Eloy Martínez, 75, Argentine writer and journalist, cancer. [10] (Spanish)
• Keith Norton, 69, Canadian politician, former MPP for Kingston and the Islands (1975–1985), cancer. [11]

30

• Ruth Cohn, 97, German psychotherapist. [12] (German)
• Lucienne Day, 93, British textile designer. [13]
• Antiochos Evangelatos II, 24, Greek rapper, cardiac arrest. [14] (Greek)
• Sølve Grotmol, 70, Norwegian sports commentator. [15] (Norwegian)
• Ursula Mommens, 101, British potter. [16]
• Aaron Ruben, 95, American television producer (Andy Griffith Show, Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C., Sanford and Son), pneumonia. [17]
• Tan Eng Yoon, 82, Singaporean sprinter and Olympian, vehicular hit-and-run. [18]
• Mandla Thabethe, South African actor and television producer, motorcycle accident. [19]

29

• Evgeny Agranovich, 91, Russian composer and bard. [20] (Russian)
• Tom Brookshier, 78, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles), coach and sportscaster (CBS Sports, WCAU), cancer. [21]
• Mlungisi Dlamini, 27, South African IBO lightweight boxing champion, car accident. [22]
• Ralph McInerny, 80, American philosopher (University of Notre Dame) and mystery author (Father Dowling Mysteries). [23]
• Ram Niwas Mirdha, 85, Indian politician (Lok Sabha), minister and speaker (Rajasthan Legislative Assembly), MODS. [24]
• Wilf Paish, 77, British athletics coach, after long illness. [25]
• Mikael Reuterswärd, 45, Swedish adventurer, first Swede to reach summit of Mount Everest. [26] (Swedish)
• Karen Schmeer, 39, American documentary film editor (The Fog of War), vehicular hit-and-run. [27]
• Zahid Sheikh, 60, Pakistani Olympic silver medal-winning (1972) field hockey player. [28]
• Cameron Snyder, 93, American sports journalist (The Baltimore Sun), won Dick McCann Memorial Award (1982), lung cancer. [29]

28

• Larbi Belkheir, 72, Algerian major general, Interior Minister (1991). [30]
• Eduardo Catalano, 92, Argentine architect. [31]
• Patricia Clarke, 90, British biochemist. [32]
• José Eugênio Corrêa, 95, Brazilian Roman Catholic Bishop of Caratinga (1957–1978). [33]
• Margaret Dale, 87, British dancer and television director. [34]
• Walter Fondren, 73, American football player and conservationist, heart failure. [35]
• Mick Higgins, 87, Irish Gaelic footballer, All-Ireland Senior Football Championship winner (Cavan; 1947, 1948, 1952). [36]
• Alistair Hulett, 57, Scottish-born Australian folk singer, liver failure. [37]
• Kazimierz Mijal, 99, Polish politician. [38] (Polish)
• Bud Millikan, 89, American basketball coach (University of Maryland). [39]
• Keiko Tobe, 52, Japanese mangaka (With the Light). [40]

27

• Lee Archer, 90, American Air Force pilot (Tuskegee Airman). [41]
• Barry Blitzer, 80, American television writer (Get Smart, The Flintstones), complications from abdominal surgery. [42]
• Shirley Caddell, 78, American country singer, ex-wife of Willie Nelson. [43]
• George Hanlon, 92, Australian horse trainer, three-time Melbourne Cup winner, natural causes. [44]
• Ruben Kruger, 39, South African rugby union player, brain tumor. [45]
• Yiannis Marditsis, 77, Greek footballer (Egaleo F.C., A.E.K. Athens). [46] (Greek)
• Eduardo Michaelsen, 89, Cuban exile, painter in the naive art style. [47] (Spanish)
• Terry Mills, 71, British horse trainer, cancer. [48].
• Zelda Rubinstein, 76, American actress (Poltergeist, Picket Fences), natural causes. [49]
• J. D. Salinger, 91, American author (The Catcher in the Rye), natural causes. [50]
• Ajmer Singh, 69, Indian Olympic athlete, after long illness. [51]
• Marios Stavrolemis, 88, Greek theatrical entrepreneur. [52] (Greek)
• Howard Zinn, 87, American historian (A People's History of the United States), civil rights and antiwar activist, heart attack. [53]

26

• Andon Amaraich, 77, Micronesian Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, pneumonia. [54]
• Louis Auchincloss, 92, American novelist, complications of a stroke. [55]
• Boa Sr., c.85, Indian Great Andamanese elder, last speaker of the Bo language. [56]
• Juliusz Bardach, 95, Polish historian. [57] (Polish)
• Geoffrey Burbidge, 84, British-born American astrophysicist, after long illness. [58]
• Anne Froelick, 96, American blacklisted screenwriter. [59]
• Dag Frøland, 64, Norwegian comedian, singer and variety artist. [60] (Norwegian)
• Paul R. Jones, 81, American art collector, after short illness. [61]
• Inda Ledesma, 83, Argentine actress, cardiac arrest. [62] (Spanish)
• Karl-Ulrich Müller, 65, German Ambassador to Iceland (since 2007), car accident. [63]
• Gummadi Venkateswara Rao, 82, Indian character actor, multiple organ failure. [64]
• Paul Verdzekov, 79, Cameroonian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bamenda (1970–2006). [65]
• Emilio Vieyra, 88, Argentine film director, actor, screenwriter and producer. [66] (Spanish)
• Ken Walters, 76, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies). [67]
• Denzil Webster, 75, British rugby league footballer. [68]

25

• Ali Hassan al-Majid, 68, Iraqi military commander and government minister, execution by hanging. [69]
• Sefis Anastasakos, 68, Greek politician, author, lawyer and activist, cancer. [70] (Greek)
• Lynn Bayonas, 66, Australian television writer and producer, cancer. [71]
• Orlando Cole, 101, American classical cellist and educator. [72]
• Jane Jarvis, 94, American jazz pianist and organist. [73]
• Luis Leal, 102, Mexican-born American professor of Chicano Studies (UCLA), National Humanities Medalist, natural causes. [74]
• Pádraig MacKernan, 69, Irish diplomat, Secretary General (Foreign Affairs), Ambassador to France and United States. [75]
• Georgiann Makropoulos, 67, American professional wrestling historian and author, heart attack. [76]
• Charles Mathias, 87, American politician, Senator from Maryland (1969–1987), complications of Parkinson's disease. [77]
• Gordon Park, 66, British convicted murderer, apparent suicide by hanging. [78]
• Ivan Prenđa, 70, Croatian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Zadar (since 1990). [79] (Croatian)
• Bill Ritchie, 78, Scottish comic book artist. [80]

24

• Lawrence Aloysius Burke, 77, Jamaican Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kingston (2004–2008); Nassau (1981–2004), cancer. [81]
• Donald Dowd, 87, American campaign aide to the Kennedy family. [82]
• Ghazali Shafie, 87, Malaysian politician, Home Minister (1973–1981) and Foreign Minister (1981–1984). [83]
• Dave Grant, 50, Australian comedian, pancreatic cancer. [84]
• Robert Mosbacher, 82, American politician, Secretary of Commerce (1989–1992), pancreatic cancer. [85]
• Leonid Nechayev, 70, Russian film director, stroke. [86] (Russian)
• James Henry Quello, 95, American government official, FCC Commissioner (1974–1997), heart and kidney failure. [87]
• FitzRoy Somerset, 5th Baron Raglan, 82, British aristocrat. [88]
• Pernell Roberts, 81, American actor (Bonanza; Trapper John, M.D.), pancreatic cancer. [89]
• Robyn Whitehead, 27, British model and filmmaker, suspected drug overdose. [90]

23

• Robert Lam, 64, Malaysian news presenter, skin cancer. [91]
• Douglas J. Martin, 82, New Zealand leader in the LDS Church. [92]
• Sam Match, 87, American tennis player. [93]
• Ken Matz, 64, American news presenter, cancer. [94]
• Viktor Palm, 83, Estonian chemist. [95] (Estonian)
• Roger Pierre, 86, French actor (Mon oncle d'Amérique), cancer. [96] (French)
• Thomas Prickett, 96, British Air Chief Marshal of the Royal Air Force. [97]
• Oleg Velyky, 32, Ukrainian-born German handball player, skin cancer. [98] (German)
• Earl Wild, 94, American classical pianist, heart failure. [99]

22

• Apache, American rapper, after long illness. [100]
• Donnis Churchwell, 73, American football player. [101]
• Sir Percy Cradock, 86, British diplomat, after short illness. [102]
• Sir Dermot de Trafford, 85, British aristocrat and businessman. [103]
• Clayton Gerein, 45, Canadian wheelchair sports athlete, seven-time Paralympian, brain tumor. [104]
• Louis R. Harlan, 87, American Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, after long illness. [105]
• Iskandar of Johor, 77, Malaysian Yang di-Pertuan Agong (1984–1989), Sultan of Johor (1981–2010). [106]
• Jennifer Lyn Jackson, 40, American Playboy model, drug overdose. [107]
• Andrew E. Lange, 52, American astrophysicist, Big Bang researcher, suicide by asphyxiation. [108]
• Robert "Squirrel" Lester, 67, American smooth soul tenor (The Chi-Lites). [109]
• Janeshwar Mishra, 76, Indian politician, cardiac arrest. [110]
• James Mitchell, 89, American actor (All My Children), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. [111]
• Maggie Renfro, 114, American supercentenarian, fourth-oldest person in the world, pneumonia. [112]
• Gordon Richardson, Baron Richardson of Duntisbourne, 94, British Governor of the Bank of England (1973–1983). [113]
• Johnny Seven, 83, American character actor (Ironside), lung cancer. [114]
• Jean Simmons, 80, British-born American actress (Hamlet, Spartacus), lung cancer. [115]
• Ruth Proskauer Smith, 102, American abortion rights activist. [116]
• Betty Wilson, 88, Australian cricketer. [117]
• Tom Wittum, 60, American football player (San Francisco 49ers), cancer. [118]

21

• Bobby Bragan, 92, American baseball player and manager, heart attack. [119]
• Irwin Dambrot, 81, American basketball player involved in the CCNY Point Shaving Scandal, Parkinson's disease. [120]
• Lawrence Garfinkel, 88, American epidemiologist, cardiovascular disease. [121]
• Larry Johnson, 62, American film producer, heart attack. [122]
• Timothy Kennelly, 18, British heavy metal bassist (After Death), drowning. [123]
• Chindodi Leela, 72, Indian theatre and film actress, complications from heart attack. [124]
• Hal Manders, 92, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers). [125]
• Jacques Martin, 88, French comics artist and writer. [126] (French)
• Camille Maurane, 98, French baritone singer. [127] (French)
• Guillermo Abadía Morales, 97, Colombian folklore researcher, indigenous language expert, natural causes. [128] (Spanish)
• Curt Motton, 69, American baseball player, stomach cancer. [129]
• Paul Quarrington, 56, Canadian novelist, musician and screenwriter, lung cancer. [130]
• Eedo Raide, 63, Estonian rally driver. [131] (Estonian)
• Apostolos Vasiliadis, 75, Greek footballer (PAOK F.C.). [132] (Greek)
• Leon Villalba, 21, British heavy metal guitarist (After Death), drowning. [133]

20

• Taner Baybars, 73, Cypriot-born British poet and painter. [134]
• Merle Ellis, 76, American butcher, author and television host. [135]
• Patricia Donoho Hughes, 79, American First Lady of Maryland (1979–1987), wife of Harry Hughes, Parkinson's disease. [136]
• Jim Korthe, 39, American vocalist (3rd Strike), after short illness. [137]
• John S. Loisel, 89, American fighter ace. [138]
• Calvin Maglinger, 85, American painter. [139]
• John Moore, 68, Nigerian Roman Catholic Bishop of Bauchi (since 2003). [140]
• Jack Parry, 86, Welsh footballer. [141]
• Konstantin Popov, 47, Russian journalist, beaten by police. [142]
• Joe Ptacek, 37, American death metal vocalist (Broken Hope), suicide by gunshot. [143]
• Abraham Sutzkever, 96, Lithuanian-born Israeli poet. [144]
• Lynn Taitt, 75, Jamaican reggae guitarist, cancer. [145]

19

• Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, 50, Palestinian leader of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, murdered. [146]
• Frances Buss Buch, 92, American first female television director. [147]
• Tom Cochran, 85, American football player (Washington Redskins). [148]
• Dan Fitzgerald, 67, American college basketball coach (Gonzaga). [149]
• Christos Hatziskoulidis, 58, Greek footballer (Egaleo F.C.), cancer. [150] (Greek)
• Vladimir Karpov, 87, Russian writer, Chairman of the USSR Union of Writers (1986–1991). [151] (Russian)
• Jennifer Lyon, 37, American reality TV personality (Survivor: Palau), breast cancer. [152]
• Ida Mae Martinez, 78, American professional wrestler. [153]
• Bill McLaren, 86, Scottish rugby union commentator. [154]
• Panajot Pano, 70, Albanian footballer. [155] (Albanian)
• Cerge Remonde, 51, Filipino press secretary, heart attack. [156]
• Kalthoum Sarrai, 47, Tunisian-born French television presenter (Supernanny), cancer. [157]
• Abraham Sutzkever, 96, Polish-born Israeli poet. [158] (Hebrew)

18

• Cyril Burke, 84, Australian rugby union player. [159]
• Herb Grosch, 75, Canadian-born American computer scientist. [160]
• Kate McGarrigle, 63, Canadian folk singer, clear-cell sarcoma. [161]
• Günter Mielke, 67, German Olympic athlete. [162]
• Imari Obadele, 79, American black separatist, stroke. [163]
• Kevin O'Shea, 62, Canadian ice hockey player. [164]
• Robert B. Parker, 77, American detective writer (Spenser series, Jesse Stone novels), heart attack. [165]
• Jörgen Philip-Sörensen, 71, Danish businessman, after long illness. [166]
• Josephus Tethool, 75, Indonesian Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of Amboina (1982–2009). [167] (Spanish)

17

• Gaines Adams, 26, American football player (Chicago Bears, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), cardiac arrest. [168]
• Maki Asakawa, 67, Japanese singer, heart failure. [169] (Japanese)
• Jyoti Basu, 95, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (1977–2000), complications from pneumonia. [170]
• Thomas F. Cowan, 82, American politician, New Jersey State Senator (1984–1994). [171]
• Daisuke Gōri, 57, Japanese voice actor (Dragon Ball, Kinnikuman, Mobile Suit Gundam), suicide by wrist cutting. [172] (Japanese)
• Carlos Hernandez Gomez, 36, American journalist and television news reporter (CLTV), cancer. [173]
• Shigeru Kobayashi, 57, Japanese baseball player, heart failure. [174] (Japanese)
• Michalis Papakonstantinou, 91, Greek politician and author, Minister for Foreign Affairs (1992–1993). [175] (Greek)
• Loit Reintam, 80, Estonian soil scientist. [176] (Estonian)
• Robert D. Rowley, Jr., 68, American Episcopal Bishop of Northwestern Pennsylvania (1991–2007) [177]
• Erich Segal, 72, American professor, author (Love Story), and screenwriter (Yellow Submarine), heart attack. [178]

16

• Glen Bell, 86, American entrepreneur, founder of Taco Bell. [179]
• Judi Chamberlin, 65, American anti-psychiatry activist, lung disease. [180]
• Sam Dixon, 60, American minister, Deputy General Secretary of UMCOR (since 2007), earthquake. [181]
• Laura Chapman Hruska, 74, American writer, co-founder and editor in chief of Soho Press, cancer. [182]
• George Jellinek, 90, American radio personality (WQXR). [183]
• Leslie Linder, 85, British actor and theatrical agent. [184]
• Stephen Morse, 65, American poet, complications from colon and lung cancer. [185]
• Takumi Shibano, 83, Japanese novelist, pneumonia. [186] (Japanese)
• Katsuhisa Shibata, 66, Japanese sumo wrestler, heart attack. [187] (Japanese)
• Carl Smith, 82, American country singer-songwriter (Hey Joe), after long illness. [188]
• Bernie Weintraub, 76, American talent agent, co-founder of the Paradigm Talent Agency. [189]

15

• Asim Butt, 31, Pakistani artist (Stuckism art movement), suicide by hanging. [190]
• Ed Chuman, 62, American wrestling promoter, after long illness. [191]
• Florence-Marie Cooper, 69, American federal judge, District Court for the Central District of California (since 1999), lymphoma. [192]
• Francene Cucinello, 43, American radio personality (WHAS), brain aneurysm. [193]
• Lydia Csato Gasman, 84, Romanian-born American art historian. [194]
• Bahman Jalali, 65, Iranian photographer, pancreatic cancer. [195]
• Voldemar Kann, 90, Estonian graphic artist. [196] (Estonian)
• Detlev Lauscher, 57, German footballer. [197] (German)
• Steve Lovelady, 66, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, cancer. [198]
• Marshall Warren Nirenberg, 82, American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (1968), cancer. [199]
• Jamal Saeed Abdul Rahim, 44, Palestinian Al Qaeda ANO terrorist, airstrike. [200]
• Ernest Sparkman, 84, American radio personality (WSGS). [201]
• Toshiaki Takemiya, 88, Japanese baseball player, pancreatitis. [202] (Japanese)
• Peter Thomson, 73, Australian Anglican theologian, mentor to Tony Blair. [203]

14

• Bobby Charles, 71, American songwriter ("See You Later, Alligator", "(I Don't Know Why) But I Do"). [204]
• Frank Corbi, 87, American jazz musician and educator. [205]
• Antonio Fontan, 86, Spanish politician and journalist. [206] (Spanish)
• Micha Gaillard, Haitian politician, earthquake. [207]
• John F. Hayes, 90, American attorney and politician, Kansas House of Representatives (1953–1955; 1967–1979). [208]
• Béla Kamocsa, 66, Hungarian-born Romanian singer. [209] (Romanian)
• Charles Nolte, 86, American actor, playwright and educator, prostate cancer. [210]
• Otto, 20, British dachshund-terrier, world's oldest dog, euthanised following stomach tumour. [211]
• P. K. Page, 93, Canadian poet. [212]
• Chilton Price, 96, American songwriter ("Slow Poke", "You Belong to Me"). [213]
• Marika Rivera, 90, French actress, daughter of Diego Rivera. [214]
• James W. Rutherford, 84, American Mayor of Flint, Michigan (1975–1983, 2002–2003). [215]
• Petra Schürmann, 74, German television presenter, Miss World 1956, after long illness. [216] (German)
• Antonio Vilaplana Molina, 83, Spanish Roman Catholic Bishop of León (1987–2002), renal failure. [217] (Spanish)
• Bernie Voorheis, 87, American basketball player. [218]

13

• Jack Block, 85, American psychologist, complications of a spinal cord injury. [219]
• Edward Brinton, 86, American marine biologist, after long illness. [220]
• Sir Robin Maxwell-Hyslop, 78, British politician, MP for Tiverton (1960–1992). [221]
• Abdullah Mehdar, Yemeni Al-Qaeda terrorist, shot. [222]
• Teddy Pendergrass, 59, American soul singer, complications from colon cancer. [223]
• Jay Reatard, 29, American garage punk musician, cocaine toxicity. [224]
• Tommy Sloan, 84, British footballer. [225]
• Isamu Tanonaka, 77, Japanese seiyū (GeGeGe no Kitaro), heart attack. [226]
• Ed Thigpen, 79, American jazz drummer, after long illness. [227]
• Edgar Vos, 78, Dutch fashion designer, heart attack. [228]

12

• Masoud Alimohammadi, 50, Iranian nuclear scientist, bomb blast. [229]
• Georges Anglade, 65, Haitian professor and cabinet minister, co-founder of Universite du Quebec a Montreal, earthquake. [230]
• Hédi Annabi, 65, Tunisian diplomat, Head of MINUSTAH, earthquake. [231]
• Zilda Arns, 75, Brazilian pediatrician and humanitarian, earthquake. [232] (Portuguese)
• Miloslav Bělonožník, 91, Czech Olympic ski jumper. [233] (Czech)
• Charles Benoit, Haitian Roman Catholic vicar general, earthquake. [234]
• Daniel Bensaïd, 63, French philosopher and Trotskyist activist. [235] (French)
• Joubert Charles, 44, Haitian music promoter, earthquake. [236]
• Ken Colbung, 78, Australian Aboriginal elder, after short illness. [237]
• Shirley Bell Cole, 89, American voice actor (Little Orphan Annie). [238]
• Anne-Marie Coriolan, 53, Haitian women's rights activist, earthquake. [239]
• Luiz Carlos da Costa, 60, Brazilian diplomat, Deputy Head of MINUSTAH, earthquake. [240] (Portuguese)
• Antoine Craan‎, 78, Haitiian-born Canadian footballer, earthquake. [241]
• Brian Damage, 46, American punk and rock drummer (Misfits), complications of colon cancer. [242]
• Miguel Ángel de la Flor, 85, Peruvian army officer and politician. [243] (Spanish)
• Dannie Flesher, 58, American co-founder of Wax Trax! Records, pneumonia. [244]
• Kritsada Arunwong na Ayutthaya, 78, Thai architect, Governor of Bangkok (1996–2001), coronary artery disease. [245]
• Fred Krone, 79, American stuntman, cancer. [246]
• Hillis Layne, 91, American Major League Baseball player (1941, 1944–1945). [247]
• Magalie Marcelin, Haitian women's rights activist, earthquake. [248]
• Serge Marcil, 65, Canadian politician, Quebec MNA (1985–1994), MP for Beauharnois—Salaberry (2000–2004), earthquake. [249]
• Allen McClay, 77, British founder of pharmaceutical company Almac, cancer. [250]
• Flo McGarrell, 35, Italian-born American artist, earthquake. [251]
• Myriam Merlet, 53, Haitian political activist, earthquake. [252]
• Joseph Serge Miot, 63, Haitian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Port-au-Prince, earthquake. [253]
• Elizabeth Moody, 70, New Zealand actress and theatre director, pneumonia. [254]
• Myrna Narcisse, Haitian Director General of the Ministry of Women’s Condition, earthquake. [255]
• Jimmy O, 35, Haitian hip hop musician, earthquake. [256]
• Art Rust, Jr., 82, American sports commentator, Parkinson's disease. [257]
• Hasib Sabbagh, 89, Palestinian businessman. [258]
• Vanda Skuratovich, 84, Belarusian Roman Catholic activist. [259] (Russian)
• Dewey Tucker, 24, American bassist and smooth jazz performer, shot. [260]
• Yabby You, 63, Jamaican reggae singer and producer, stroke. [261]

11

• Juliet Anderson, 71, American pornographic actress. [262]
• Francisco Benkö, 99, German-born Argentine chess master. [263] (Spanish)
• Fina de Calderón, 82, Spanish poet. [264] (Spanish)
• Robben Wright Fleming, 93, American president of the University of Michigan (1968–1978). [265]
• George Garanian, 75, Russian jazz saxophonist and bandleader, cardiac arrest. [266]
• Dorothy Geeben, 101, American Mayor of Ocean Breeze Park, Florida (since 2001), oldest active mayor in the United States. [267]
• Dennis Geisen, 66, American television news editor (WBZ-TV), cardiac arrest. [268]
• Miep Gies, 100, Dutch humanitarian, protector of Anne Frank and her family during World War II, complications following a fall. [269]
• Mick Green, 65, British rock and roll guitarist (Johnny Kidd & The Pirates, Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas). [270]
• Andis Hadjicostis, 43, Cypriot CEO of Sigma TV, shot. [271] (Greek)
• Harry Männil, 89, Estonian-born Venezuelan businessman. [272]
• Edna McClure, 110, British supercentenarian. [273]
• Vasilis Patsouris, 51, Greek chief police officer of Zakynthos, suicide. [274] (Greek)
• Éric Rohmer, 89, French film director. [275]
• Joe Rollino, 104, American strongman, weightlifter, and boxer, struck by van. [276]
• Dennis Stock, 81, American photographer (Magnum Photos), colon and liver cancer. [277]
• Gordon Van Tol, 49, Canadian Olympic water polo player, heart attack. [278]
• Sandra Wright, 61, American blues and gospel singer, natural causes. [279]

10

• Sir Donald Acheson, 83, British physician, Chief Medical Officer of England (1983–1991). [280]
• Sailadhar Baruah, 68, Indian film producer, complications of diabetes. [281]
• Mina Bern, 98, Polish-born American Yiddish theatre actor, heart failure. [282]
• Bert Bushnell, 88, British Olympic gold medal-winning rower (1948). [283]
• Simon Digby, 77, Indian-born British scholar and linguist, pancreatic cancer. [284]
• Garland English, 28, American soldier and activist, rappelling accident. [285]
• Jan C. Gabriel, 69, American race track announcer, complications from polycystic kidney disease. [286]
• Donald Goerke, 83, American executive (Campbell's Soup Company), created SpaghettiOs, heart failure. [287]
• Dick Johnson, 84, American big band clarinetist (Artie Shaw Band), after short illness. [288]
• Nadav Levitan, 64, Israeli film director and screenwriter, lung disease. [289]
• Edward Linde, 67, American businessman, founder of Boston Properties, pneumonia. [290]
• Frances Morrell, 72, British political adviser and educationalist, cancer. [291]
• Ulf Olsson, 58, Swedish murderer, suicide by hanging. [292] (Swedish).
• Bill Patterson, 87, Australian racing driver, natural causes. [293]
• Jayne Walton Rosen, 92, American singer, Lawrence Welk's Champagne Lady (1940–1945), natural causes. [294]
• Moisés Saba Masri, 46, Mexican businessman, helicopter accident. [295] (Spanish)
• Dale Shewalter, 59, American teacher, founder of the Arizona Trail, cancer. [296]
• Mano Solo, 46, French singer, ruptured aneurysm. [297]
• Crispin Sorhaindo, 78, Dominican politician, President (1993–1998), cancer. [298]
• Bojidar Spiriev, 78, Bulgarian-born Hungarian hydrologist and statistician, creator of IAAF scoring tables. [299]
• Torbjørn Yggeseth, 75, Norwegian ski jumping athlete and official. [300] (Norwegian)

9

• Améleté Abalo, 47, Togolese national football team assistant coach, shot. [301]
• Christopher Shaman Abba, 74, Nigerian Roman Catholic Bishop of Yola (since 1996), Bishop of Minna (1973–1996). [302]
• Amo Bessone, 93, American ice hockey player and coach. [303]
• Artur Beul, 94, Swiss songwriter and painter, widower of singer Lale Andersen. [304] (German)
• Franz-Hermann Brüner, 64, German head of OLAF, after long illness. [305]
• Mark Ellidge, British press photographer. [306]
• Ken Genser, 59, American politician, Mayor of Santa Monica, California, after long illness. [307]
• Per N. Hagen, 73, Norwegian politician. [308] (Norwegian)
• Rupert Hamer, 39, British journalist, defence correspondent for the Sunday Mirror, improvised explosive device. [309]
• Fatimah Hashim, 85, Malaysian politician, first female minister in the Malaysian government. [310]
• Jack Kerness, 98, American art director, natural causes. [311]
• Yevgeny Paladiev, 61, Soviet-born Kazakh ice hockey player. [312] (Russian)
• Antoine Palatis, 39, French cruiserweight boxing champion. [313]
• Diether Posser, 87, German politician. [314] (German)
• Armand Razafindratandra, 84, Malagasy cardinal, Archbishop of Antananarivo (1994–2005), fall. [315]
• Venda Tammann, 77, Estonian accordionist and music pedagogue. [316] (Estonian)
• Vimcy, 84, Indian sports writer. [317]
• Osvaldo Zotto, 46, Argentine tango dancer, heart attack. [318] (Spanish)

8

• Attila Bagonyai, 45, Hungarian chess master, complications from swine flu. [319] (Hungarian)
• Bob Blackburn, 85, American sports commentator (Seattle SuperSonics), pneumonia. [320]
• Jean Charpentier, 74, Canadian journalist, press secretary for Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, cancer. [321]
• Art Clokey, 88, American stop motion animator (Gumby, Davey and Goliath), bladder infection. [322]
• Piero De Bernardi, 83, Italian screenwriter. [323] (Italian)
• Tony Halme, 47, Finnish professional boxer, wrestler and Member of Parliament (2003–2007). [324] (Finnish)
• Slavka Maneva, 75, Macedonian writer and poet. [325] (Macedonian)
• Aleksandr Maslaev, 65, Russian actor. [326] (Russian)
• Monica Maughan, 76, Australian actress, cancer. [327]
• Jim Rimmer, 75, Canadian graphic designer, cancer. [328]
• Otmar Suitner, 87, Austrian conductor. [329] (German)
• Hans Trefousse, 88 German-born American historian. [330]
• Amir Vahedi, 48, Iranian-born American poker player, complications of diabetes. [331]
• Sumner G. Whittier, 98, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (1953–1957). [332]
• Yvonne Zanos, 60, American television journalist (KDKA-TV), ovarian cancer. [333]

7

• Alexander Garnet Brown, 79, Canadian politician, member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly (1969–1978). [334]
• Thomas Sam Davis, 59, British singer (Deaf School), lung disease. [335]
• Stephen Huneck, 61, American wood carving artist, suicide by gunshot. [336]
• Kamal Mahsud, Pakistani Pashto language folk singer, gas leak. [337]
• Alex Parker, 74, Scottish football player and manager, heart attack. [338]
• Donald Edmond Pelotte, 64, American Roman Catholic Bishop of Gallup (1990–2008), first Native American bishop. [339]
• Blanca Sánchez, 63, Mexican actress, kidney failure. [340]
• Philippe Séguin, 66, French politician, heart attack. [341]
• Jim White, 67, American professional wrestler, cancer. [342]
• Hardy Williams, 78, American politician, Pennsylvania State Senator (1983–1998), Alzheimer's disease. [343]

6

• Michael Harper, 78, British priest of the Church of England and later of the Antiochian Orthodox Church. [344]
• George Leonard, 86, American writer, editor and educator, pioneer of the Human Potential Movement, after long illness. [345]
• Graham Leonard, 88, British Church of England Bishop of London (1981–1991), subsequently a Roman Catholic priest. [346]
• Ivan Medek, 84, Czech music publicist, theorist and critic, collaborator of Václav Talich and Václav Havel. [347] (Czech)
• Harriet Miller, 90, American politician, Mayor of Santa Barbara, California (1995–2001). [348]
• Beniamino Placido, 80, Italian journalist and television critic. [349]
• James von Brunn, 89, American white supremacist, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting suspect. [350]

5

• Beverly Aadland, 67, American actress, girlfriend of Errol Flynn, diabetes and heart failure. [351]
• Bernard Le Nail, 63, French writer, cerebral hemorrhage. [352] (French)
• Willie Mitchell, 81, American musician and record producer, cardiac arrest. [353]
• Kenneth Noland, 85, American color field painter, kidney cancer. [354]
• Courage Quashigah, 62, Ghanaian politician. [355]
• Philippa Scott, 91, British conservationist. [356]
• George Syrimis, 88, Cypriot finance minister (1988–1993). [357]
• Toni Tecuceanu, 37, Romanian comedy actor, complications from swine flu. [358]
• George Willoughby, 95, American Quaker activist. [359]

4

• Paul Ahyi, 79, Togolese artist, designer of the flag of Togo. [360] (French)
• Lew Allen, 84, American USAF general, NSA Director (1973–1977), USAF Chief of Staff (1978–1982), rheumatoid arthritis. [361]
• Knox Burger, 87, American editor, writer, and literary agent. [362]
• Neil Christian, 66, British singer, cancer. [363]
• Tony Clarke, 68, British musician and record producer (The Moody Blues), emphysema. [364]
• Donal Donnelly, 78, English-born Irish actor, cancer [365]
• Hywel Teifi Edwards, 74, Welsh historian and writer, after short illness. [366]
• Johan Ferrier, 99, Surinamese politician, President (1975–1980). [367]
• Tadeusz Góra, 91, Polish pilot. [368] (Polish)
• Casey Johnson, 30, American socialite, Johnson & Johnson heiress, diabetic ketoacidosis. [369]
• Rory Markas, 54, American baseball radio announcer (Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim). [370]
• Sandro de América, 64, Argentinian singer, complications from heart and lung transplant surgery. [371]
• Ludwig Wilding, 82, German artist. [372] (German)
• Tsutomu Yamaguchi, 93, Japanese survivor of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, stomach cancer. [373]

3

• Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt, 84, Chilean composer, lung cancer. [374] (Spanish)
• Margery Beddow, 72, American choreographer and dancer. [375]
• Barry Blair, 56, Canadian comics artist and writer, brain aneurysm. [376]
• Gianni Bonichon, 65, Italian bobsledder, Olympic silver medalist. [377] (Italian)
• Sir Ian Brownlie, 77, British barrister, traffic collision. [378]
• Joyce Collins, 79, American jazz singer and pianist, pulmonary fibrosis. [379]
• Mary Daly, 81, American radical feminist philosopher. [380]
• Francis Gillingham, 93, British neurosurgeon. [381]
• Ali Safi Golpaygani, 96, Iranian Marja', natural causes. [382] (Farsi)
• Billy Harris, 58, American basketball player (Northern Illinois Huskies, San Diego Conquistadors), stroke. [383]
• John Keith Irwin, 80, American sociologist. [384]
• Eunice Walker Johnson, 93, American director of Ebony Fashion Fair, widow of John H. Johnson, renal failure. [385]
• Charles Kleibacker, 88, American fashion designer, pneumonia. [386]
• Takis Michalos, 63, Greek national team water polo player and coach, cancer. [387] (Greek)
• Isak Rogde, 62, Norwegian translator. [388] (Norwegian)
• Tibet, 78, French comics artist and writer. [389]
• Bobby Wilkins, 87, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics). [390]

2

• Johann Frank, 71, Austrian football player (FK Austria Wien). [391] (German)
• David Gerber, 86, American executive producer (Police Story, Police Woman), heart failure. [392]
• Deborah Howell, 68, American journalist, Washington Post ombudsman, hit by car. [393]
• Augustine Paul, 65, Malaysian Federal Court judge, after chronic illness. [394]
• David R. Ross, 51, Scottish historian, heart attack. [395]

1

• Gary Brockette, 62, American actor and assistant director, cancer. [396]
• Chauncey H. Browning, Jr., 75, American politician, West Virginia Attorney General (1969–1985). [397]
• Jean Carroll, 98, American comedienne (The Ed Sullivan Show). [398]
• Periyasamy Chandrasekaran, 52, Sri Lankan politician, Member of Parliament, after short illness. [399]
• Lhasa de Sela, 37, American singer, breast cancer. [400]
• Michael Dwyer, 58, Irish journalist and film critic, lung cancer. [401]
• Alfredo Mario Espósito Castro, 82, Argentinian Roman Catholic Bishop of Zárate-Campana (1976–1991). [402]
• John Freeman, 93, American animator (The Smurfs) and animation director (My Little Pony and Friends). [403]
• Bingo Gazingo, 85, American performance poet, struck by car. [404]
• Richard Kindleberger, 67, American newspaper reporter (The Boston Globe), brain tumor. [405]
• Tetsuo Narikawa, 65, Japanese actor (Spectreman) and karate instructor. [406] (Japanese)
• Marlene Neubauer-Woerner, 91, German sculptor. [407] (German)
• Mohamed Rahmat, 71, Malaysian politician, Information Minister (1978–1982, 1987–1999). [408]
• Faisal Bin Shamlan, 75, Yemeni politician, presidential candidate (2006), cancer. [409]
• Billy Arjan Singh, 92, Indian author. [410]
• Gregory Slay, 40, American rock drummer (Remy Zero), songwriter (Nip/Tuck theme), cystic fibrosis. [411]
• Freya von Moltke, 98, German World War II resistance fighter. [412]
• Tom Walsh, 67, American politician, member of the Wyoming House of Representatives (2003–2008), leukemia. [413]
• John Shelton Wilder, 88, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee (1971–2007), stroke. [414]