Deaths in February 2012

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The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2012.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference (and language of reference, if not English).

February 2012

29

• Fukuzo Iwasaki, 86, Japanese businessman. [1] (Japanese)
• Davy Jones, 66, British actor and musician (The Monkees), heart attack. [2]
• Karl Kodat, 69, Austrian international footballer. [3] (German)
• Sheldon Moldoff, 91, American comic book artist. [4]
• Horacio Morales, 68, Filipino economist and politician, Secretary of Agrarian Reform (1998–2001), heart attack. [5]
• Yanosuke Narazaki, 91, Japanese politician. [6] (Japanese) (body discovered on this date)
• P. K. Narayana Panicker, 81, Indian welfare worker, President of the Nair Service Society. [7]
• David Rathband, 44, British police officer, shot and blinded during the 2010 Northumbria Police manhunt, suicide. [8]
• George Rivas, 41, American murderer, member of the Texas Seven, executed by lethal injection. [9]
• Vasilis Tsivilikas, 70, Greek actor, heart failure. [10] (Greek)

28

• Shōko Aoba, 93, Japanese singer, pneumonia. [11] (Japanese)
• Bai Jing, 29, Chinese actress. [12]
• Amid Capeci, 50, American art director (Newsweek, Rolling Stone), melanoma. [13]
• Terri Dial, 62, American executive (Wells Fargo, Citibank), pancreatic cancer. [14]
• Jaime Graça, 70, Portuguese footballer. [15] (Portuguese)
• Jim Green, 68, American-born Canadian politician and activist, lung cancer. [16]
• William Hamilton, 87, American theologian. [17]
• Daisuke Izumi, 84, Japanese tarento and television personality, liver cancer. [18] (Japanese)
• Hiroshi Kawahara, 83, Japanese political scientist (Waseda University), multiple organ failure. [19] (Japanese)
• Peter King, 47, English footballer. [20] (death announced on this date)
• Armand Penverne, 85, French football player. [21]
• Hal Roach, 84, Irish comedian. [22]
• Toshihiko Yamashita, 92, Japanese businessman, President of Matsushita Electric Industrial (1977–1986), dementia. [23] (Japanese)

27

• Charles Amer, 100, British football chairman (Middlesbrough F.C.). [24] (death announced on this date)
• Eli Belyutin, 86, Russian artist. [25] (Russian)
• Louis Bertorelle, 79, French Olympic basketball player. [26] (French)
• Rich Brenner, 65, American sports anchor (WGHP), heart attack. [27]
• Vince Dantona, 62, American ventriloquist. [28]
• Werner Guballa, 67, German Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Mainz (since 2003). [29]
• Tsutomu Hattori, 88, Japanese baseball player (Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes) and coach (Hosei University), stroke. [30] (Japanese)
• Teruhisa Kanai, 63, Japanese bureaucrat (Ministry of Finance), myocardial infarction. [31] (Japanese)
• Anders Kulläng, 68, Swedish rally driver, drowned. [32] (Swedish)
• Sailen Manna, 87, Indian Olympic footballer. [33]
• Velloor G. Ramabhadran, 82, Indian mridangamist. [34]
• Tina Strobos, 91, Dutch psychiatrist and humanitarian, protected Jewish refugees during WWII, cancer. [35]
• Norio Sugiyama, 81, Japanese politician, renal pelvic cancer. [36] (Japanese)
• Władysław Tajner, 76, Polish Olympic ski jumper. [37] (Polish)
• Helga Vlahović, 67, Croatian journalist, producer and television personality, uterine cancer. [38] (Croatian)

26

• Richard Carpenter, 78, English television screenwriter. [39]
• Árpád Fekete, 90, Hungarian football player and coach. [40] (Spanish)
• Georg Holzherr, 85, Swiss Roman Catholic prelate, Abbot Ordinary of Territorial Abbacy of Maria Einsiedeln (1969–2001). [41]
• Don Joyce, 82, American football player (Baltimore Colts, Chicago Cardinals, Minnesota Vikings). [42]
• Hazy Osterwald, 90, Swiss jazz musician and bandleader. [43]
• Berto Poosen, 67, Belgian Olympic volleyball player. [44] (Dutch)
• Sol Schiff, 94, American world table tennis champion. [45]
• Johannes Vågsnes, 88, Norwegian politician. [46] (Norwegian)
• Yvonne Verbeeck, 98, Belgian actress. [47] (Dutch)
• Zollie Volchok, 95, American basketball executive. [48]
• Etsuya Washio, 73, Japanese labor activist, chairman of RENGO, president of the Japan College of Social Work. [49] (Japanese)
• Kazunori Yoneda, 61, Japanese volleyball coach (women's national team), lung cancer. [50] (Japanese)

25

• Raúl Abzueta, 49, Venezuelan musician, stroke. [51] (Spanish)
• Maurice André, 78, French classical trumpeter. [52]
• Dee Cernile, 46, Canadian guitarist (Sven Gali), cancer. [53]
• Edna Chadwell, 84, American brothel keeper (Chicken Ranch). [54]
• Dave Cheadle, 60, American baseball player (Atlanta Braves). [55]
• Dennis Chinnery, 85, British actor. [56]
• Lynn Compton, 90, American soldier, inspiration for Band of Brothers, heart attack. [57]
• Dick Davies, 76, American gold-medal winning Olympic basketball player (1964). [58]
• Lloyd R. George, 85, American politician, member of the Arkansas House of Representatives (1963–1967; 1973–1997). [59]
• Red Holloway, 84, American jazz saxophonist, stroke and kidney failure. [60]
• Erland Josephson, 88, Swedish actor and author, leader of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, complications of Parkinson's disease. [61]
• Louisiana Red, 79, American blues musician, stroke. [62]
• Martha Stewart, 89, American actress. [63]
• Thomas Watters, 99, Scottish veteran of the Spanish Civil War. [64]

24

• Infanta Maria Adelaide of Portugal, 100, Portuguese royal. [65] (Portuguese)
• István Anhalt, 92, Hungarian-born Canadian composer. [66]
• Jan Berenstain, 88, American writer and illustrator (Berenstain Bears), stroke. [67]
• Benedict Freedman, 92, American novelist and mathematician. [68]
• Dennis Gomes, 68, American prosecutor and businessman (Resorts Casino Hotel), complications from kidney dialysis. [69]
• Njenga Karume, 82, Kenyan businessman and politician, cancer. [70]
• Howard Kissel, 69, American theatre critic (New York Daily News), complications of liver transplant. [71]
• Theodore Mann, 87, American theatre producer and director. [72]
• Terry Mathews, 47, American baseball player (Texas Rangers, Florida Marlins, Baltimore Orioles), heart attack. [73]
• Kenneth Price, 77, American ceramics artist, cancer. [74]
• Pery Ribeiro, 74, Brazilian singer, myocardial infarction. [75] (Portuguese)
• Eliana Tranchesi, 55, Brazilian businesswoman (Daslu), lung cancer. [76] (Portuguese)
• Kostas Tsiftis, 34, Greek journalist, heart attack. [77] (Greek)

23

• Pandit Nidan Bandhu Banerjee, 89, Indian classical vocalist, age related illness. [78]
• Joydeb Basu, 49, Indian poet, heart attack. [79]
• Cathy Campbell, 49, New Zealand broadcaster, brain tumour. [80]
• William Gay, 70, American author. [81]
• Grigory Kosykh, 79, Soviet sports shooter. [82] (Russian)
• Mariuccia Medici, 102, Swiss-born Italian actress. [83] (Italian)
• Stella Nardari-Vecchiato, 113, Italian supercentenarian, oldest person in Italy at time of her death, natural causes. [84] (Italian)
• William Raggio, 85, American politician, Nevada State Senator (1972–2011), respiratory illness. [85]
• Bruce Surtees, 74, American cinematographer (Lenny, Dirty Harry, Beverly Hills Cop). [86]
• John Susac, 71, American neurologist (Susac's syndrome), lung cancer. [87]

22

• Frank Carson, 85, Northern Irish comedian. [88]
• Marie Colvin, 56, American reporter (The Sunday Times), shelling. [89]
• Nakamura Jakuemon IV, 91, Japanese kabuki actor, pneumonia. [90] (Japanese)
• Lyudmila Kasatkina, 86, Russian actress, People's Artist of the USSR. [91] (Russian)
• Kōji Kita, 63, Japanese singer (Four Leaves), liver cancer. [92] (Japanese)
• Thabang Lebese, 38, South African footballer. [93]
• Lorin Levee, 61, American clarinetist (Los Angeles Philharmonic). [94]
• João Mansur, 88, Brazilian politician, Governor of Paraná (1973). [95] (Portuguese)
• Robert R. McElroy, 84, American photographer. [96]
• Mike Melvoin, 74, American jazz pianist and composer, cancer. [97]
• Dmitri Nabokov, 77, American opera singer and translator. [98] (Dutch)
• Rémi Ochlik, 28, French photographer, shelling. [99]
• Royal Academy, 25, Irish racehorse, old age. [100]
• Marko Ruždjak, 65, Croatian academic. [101] (Croatian)
• Cuauhtémoc Sandoval Ramírez, 61, Mexican politician, heart attack. [102] (Spanish)
• Waldo Sauter, 90, American college baseball coach (Central Michigan University). [103]
• Enzo Sellerio, 88, Italian photographer, heart attack. [104] (Italian)
• Billy Strange, 81, American songwriter ("Limbo Rock") and music arranger. [105]

21

• Ranil Abeynaike, 57, Sri Lankan cricketer and commentator, heart attack. [106]
• Sarbari Roy Choudhury, 79, Indian sculptor, heart attack. [107]
• Thom Enright, 59, American musician (The Young Adults), brain cancer. [108]
• Manuel Franco da Costa de Oliveira Falcão, 89, Portuguese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Beja (1980–1999). [109]
• Emlyn Hooson, Baron Hooson, 86, British politician, MP for Montgomeryshire (1962–1979). [110]
• Colin Ireland, 57, British serial killer. [111]
• Pierre Juneau, 89, Canadian broadcasting executive and federal cabinet minister, Minister of Communications (1975). [112]
• Yasuhiko Kawamura, 71, Japanese baseball player (Chunichi Dragons), pancreatic cancer. [113] (Japanese)
• Fay Kleinman, 99, American painter, complications of a broken hip. [114]
• Yusuf Kurçenli, 65, Turkish film director, cancer. [115]
• Andreas Lunnan, 71, Norwegian journalist and musician. [116] (Norwegian)
• Tom Martinez, 66, American football coach, heart attack. [117]
• Asahi Matsui, 84, Japanese politician, pneumonia. [118] (Japanese)
• John Michuki, 79, Kenyan politician, heart attack. [119]
• Tsutomu Omori, 49, Japanese executive, suicide by hanging. [120] (body found on this date)
• Christopher Reimer, 26, Canadian rock guitarist (Women, The Dodos). [121]
• Benjamin Romualdez, 81, Filipino politician and diplomat, Governor of Leyte (1967–1986), cancer. [122]
• Leonard Rosoman, 98, British artist. [123]
• Barney Rosset, 89, American publisher (Grove Press) and free speech advocate. [124]
• Rami al-Sayed, Syrian journalist and blogger, shelling. [125]
• John Charles Winter, 88, British church organist. [126]

20

• Renato Dulbecco, 97, Italian-born American virologist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1975). [127]
• Knut Torbjørn Eggen, 51, Norwegian Olympic football player and coach. [128] (Norwegian)
• Asar Eppel, 77, Russian translator, stroke. [129] (Russian)
• Sebhat Gebre-Egziabher, 76, Ethiopian author. [130]
• Imanuel Geiss, 81, German historian. [131] (German)
• Katie Hall, 73, American politician, U.S. Representative from Indiana (1982–1985). [132]
• S. N. Lakshmi, 85, Indian actress, cardiac arrest. [133]
• Lydia Lamaison, 97, Argentine actress (Muñeca Brava). [134]
• Christoffer Schander, 51, Norwegian marine biologist. [135] (Norwegian)
• Maya Sen, 84, Indian Rabindra Sangeet exponent, heart and thyroid problems. [136]
• Edgardo Gabriel Storni, 75, Argentine Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz (1984–2002). [137] (Spanish)
• Kjell Thue, 92, Norwegian radio host. [138] (Norwegian)
• Vitaly Vorotnikov, 86, Soviet politician, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR (1988–1990). [139]
• Sullivan Walker, 68, Trinidadian actor (The Cosby Show, Earth 2). [140]

19

• Georgi Cherkelov, 81, Bulgarian actor, stroke. [141] (Bulgarian)
• Robin Corbett, Baron Corbett of Castle Vale, 78, British politician, MP for Hemel Hempstead (1974–1979) and Birmingham Erdington (1983–2001), cancer. [142]
• Luc Flad, 76, Dutch footballer. [143] (Dutch)
• Vito Giacalone, 88, American mobster. [144]
• Peter Halliday, 87, Welsh actor. [145]
• Eric Harris, 56, American football player (Toronto Argonauts, Kansas City Chiefs, Los Angeles Rams), heart attack. [146]
• J. Paul Hogan, 92, American research chemist. [147]
• Steve Kordek, 100, American pinball machine designer. [148]
• Ruth Barcan Marcus, 90, American philosopher and logician. [149]
• Walter Schloss, 95, American investor and stock trader, leukemia. [150]
• So Man-sul, 84, North Korean Zainichi activist, Chongryon Central Standing Committee chairman. [151]
• Frits Staal, 81, Dutch philosopher. [152] (Dutch)
• Herman G. Tillman, Jr., 89, American pilot (WWII, Korea, Vietnam), liver failure. [153]
• Shigeo Uetake, 81, Japanese politician, bile duct cancer. [154] (Japanese)
• Jaroslav Velinský, 79, Czech science fiction and detective author. [155] (Czech)

18

• Roald Aas, 83, Norwegian Olympic gold (1960) and bronze (1952) medal-winning speed skater. [156] (Norwegian)
• József Breznay, 95, Hungarian painter. [157] (Hungarian)
• George Brizan, 69, Grenadian politician, Prime Minister (1995), diabetes. [158]
• Zvezdan Čebinac, 72, Serbian football player and manager. [159]
• Rose Cliver, 109, American centenarian, one of the last known survivors of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. [160]
• Elizabeth Connell, 65, South African soprano singer, cancer. [161]
• Clementina Díaz y de Ovando, 96, Mexican writer and academic. [162]
• M. R. D. Foot, 92, English military historian. [163]
• Ken Goodwin, 78, English comedian (The Comedians), Alzheimer's disease. [164]
• María Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat, 90, Argentine business executive and philanthropist. [165]
• Matt Lamb, 79, American painter. [166]
• Bertie Messitt, 81, Irish Olympic athlete (1960). [167]
• Roger Miner, 77, American federal appellate judge, heart failure. [168]
• Cal Murphy, 79, Canadian football coach and general manager (Winnipeg Blue Bombers). [169]
• Sadao Sakamoto, 94, Japanese politician, stroke. [170] (Japanese)
• Peter Sharp, 72, New Zealand first class cricketer (Canterbury) and cricket commentator, cancer. [171]
• Ric Waite, 78, American cinematographer (Red Dawn, Footloose). [172]

17

• Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn, 93, Dutch mathematician. [173]
• Robert Carr, 95, British politician, MP for Mitcham (1950–1974) & Carshalton (1974–1976); Home Secretary (1972–1974). [174]
• João Viegas Carrascalão, 65, East Timorese politician. [175] (Portuguese)
• Jordan da Costa, 79, Brazilian footballer (Flamengo), diabetes. [176] (Portuguese)
• Clarence Dart, 91, American World War II fighter pilot (Tuskegee Airmen). [177]
• Michael Davis, 68, American bassist (MC5), liver failure. [178]
• Winkie Direko, 82, South African politician, Premier of the Free State (1999–2004), stroke. [179]
• Tatyana Golikova, 66, Russian ballerina (Bolshoi Ballet). [180] (Russian)
• Danny Halloran, 57, Australian VFL football player. [181]
• Milorad Bibić Mosor, 59, Croatian journalist and writer. [182] (Croatian)
• Ulric Neisser, 83, American psychologist. [183]
• Hank Nelson, 74, Australian historian, cancer. [184]
• Howie Nunn, 76, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds). [185]
• Atsuo Okunaka, 81, Japanese film director, heart failure. [186] (Japanese)
• Frank Sanders, 62, American Olympic silver medal-winning (1972) ice hockey player, pancreatic cancer. [187]
• Enrique Sierra, 54, Spanish musician, member of rock band Radio Futura, kidney disease. [188] (Spanish)

16

• Duško Antunović, 65, Croatian Olympic water polo player and coach. [189] (Croatian)
• Gösta Arvidsson, 86, Swedish Olympic athlete. [190] (Swedish)
• Chikage Awashima, 87, Japanese actress (Takarazuka Revue), pancreatic cancer. [191] (Japanese)
• Gary Carter, 57, American Hall of Fame baseball player (Montreal Expos, New York Mets), brain tumor. [192]
• Bubi Chen, 74, Indonesian jazz musician [193]
• Baddeley Devesi, 70, Solomon Islander politician, first Governor-General (1978–1988). [194]
• Warren Hudson, 49, Canadian football player (Toronto Argonauts, Winnipeg Blue Bombers), brain cancer. [195]
• Reidar T. Larsen, 88, Norwegian politician, member of parliament (1973–1977). [196] (Norwegian)
• John Macionis, 95, American Olympic silver medal-winning (1936) swimmer. [197]
• Kathryn McGee, 91, American disability rights advocate. [198]
• Jon McIntire, 70, American band manager (Grateful Dead), cancer. [199]
• Harry McPherson, 82, American lawyer and lobbyist, advisor to Lyndon B. Johnson, cancer. [200]
• Geevarghese Mar Osthathios, 93, Indian Orthodox bishop, Senior Metropolitan of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church. [201]
• Anil Ramdas, 54, Surinamese-born Dutch columnist and journalist (NRC Handelsblad). [202]
• Anthony Shadid, 43, American journalist, asthma. [203]
• Gene Vance, 88, American basketball player (Chicago Stags, Tri-Cities Blackhawks, Milwaukee Hawks). [204]
• Dick Anthony Williams, 77, American actor (Edward Scissorhands, The Jerk, Homefront), after long illness. [205]

15

• Charles Anthony, 82, American tenor, kidney failure. [206]
• Sir Alan Cottrell, 92, British metallurgist and physicist. [207]
• William H. Dabney, 77, American colonel, awarded Navy Cross. [208]
• Cyril Domb, 91, British physicist. [209]
• Jacques Duby, 89, French actor. [210] (French)
• Pola Illéry, 103, Romanian film actress. [211]
• Zelda Kaplan, 95, American socialite and philanthropist. [212]
• Elyse Knox, 94, American actress and model, mother of Mark Harmon. [213]
• Doug McNichol, 81, Canadian football player (Montreal Alouettes, Toronto Argonauts). [214]
• Lina Romay, 57, Spanish actress. [215]
• Clive Shakespeare, 62, British-born Australian guitarist (Sherbet) and record producer, prostate cancer. [216]
• James Whitaker, 71, British journalist, royal editor of the Daily Mirror, cancer. [217]
• Gerrit Ybema, 66, Dutch politician, lung cancer. [218]
• John J. Yeosock, 74, American lieutenant general, lung cancer. [219]

14

• V. S. Acharya, 71, Indian politician. [220]
• Aleksander Avdzhiev, 53, Bulgarian journalist and television presenter, cancer. [221] (Bulgarian)
• Mike Bernardo, 42, South African boxer, kickboxer and martial artist. [222]
• Zlatko Crnković, 76, Croatian actor, cardiac arrest. [223] (Croatian)
• Henri-Germain Delauze, 82, French engineer and diver, founder of COMEX. [224] (French)
• Erwin Fiedor, 68, Polish Olympic ski jumper. [225] (Polish)
• Shamim Ahmed Khan, 74, Indian sitar player, cardiac arrest. [226]
• Kim Pong-chol, 69, North Korean politician. [227]
• Tonmi Lillman, 38, Finnish musician (Ajattara, Sinergy, To/Die/For, Lordi). [228]
• Earl Lindley, 78, American football player (Edmonton Eskimos). [229]
• Tom McAnearney, 79, Scottish footballer (Sheffield Wednesday, Peterborough United, Aldershot). [230]
• Dory Previn, 86, American singer-songwriter (Mythical Kings and Iguanas) and lyricist (Valley of the Dolls, Last Tango in Paris). [231]
• Péter Rusorán, 71, Hungarian water polo player and coach, Olympic champion. [232] (Hungarian)

13

• Russell Arms, 92, American singer (Your Hit Parade) and actor (The Man Who Came to Dinner). [233]
• Lillian Bassman, 94, American photographer. [234]
• Ladislau Biernaski, 74, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of São José dos Pinhais (since 2006), cancer. [235]
• Frank Braña, 77, Spanish film actor, respiratory failure. [236] (Spanish)
• Al Brenner, 64, American football player (New York Giants, Hamilton Tiger-Cats). [237]
• Jodie Christian, 80, American jazz pianist. [238]
• Eamon Deacy, 53, Irish footballer, member of Aston Villa championship-winning team (1981), heart attack. [239]
• Humayun Faridi, 59, Bangladeshi actor. [240]
• Shōzaburō Fujino, 84, Japanese economist, pneumonia. [241] (Japanese)
• Daniel C. Gerould, 84, American playwright and academic. [242]
• David Griffiths, 84, British Anglican clergyman, Archdeacon of Berkshire (1987–1992). [243]
• David Kelly, 82, Irish actor (Fawlty Towers, Strumpet City, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory). [244]
• Anwar Kamal Khan, 64, Pakistani politician, cardiac failure. [245]
• Akhlaq Mohammed Khan, 75, Indian poet, lyricist and academic, lung cancer. [246]
• Keita Kushimaumi, 46, Japanese sumo wrestler and coach (Tagonoura), ischaemic heart disease. [247] (Japanese)
• Mohamed Lamari, 72, Algerian general, Chief of Staff of the People's National Army (1993–2004), heart attack. [248]
• Víctor Manuel Liceaga Ruibal, 77, Mexican politician, Governor of Baja California Sur (1987-1993), respiratory failure. [249] (Spanish)
• Severo Lombardoni, 62, Italian music producer. [250] (Italian)
• Chieko Misaki, 90-91, Japanese actress, complications from dementia. [251] (Japanese)
• Sansón, 87, Spanish football player. [252] (Spanish)
• Alaxandros Schinas, 88, Greek journalist (Deutsche Welle), stroke. [253] (Greek)
• Freddie Solomon, 59, American football player (Miami Dolphins, San Francisco 49ers), colon and liver cancer. [254]
• Edward Groesbeck Voss, 82, American botanist and lepidopterist. [255]

12

• Cem Atabeyoğlu, 88, Turkish sports historian, journalist and writer, pioneer of Fenerbahçe men's basketball team. [256] (Turkish)
• Zina Bethune, 66, American actress (Sunrise at Campobello), hit-and-run. [257]
• Malcolm Devitt, 75, English footballer. [258]
• Denis Flannery, 83, Australian rugby league player. [259]
• Adrian Foley, 8th Baron Foley, 88, British musician and aristocrat. [260]
• Ritsuo Isobe, 89, Japanese businessman and bureaucrat (Ministry of Finance), renal pelvis cancer. [261] (Japanese)
• David Kelly, 82, Irish actor (Fawlty Towers, Strumpet City, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory). [262]
• Gratia Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, 99, Dutch Olympic alpine skier (1936). [263] (Dutch)
• John Severin, 90, American comic book artist (Hulk), co-founder of Mad magazine. [264]
• Howard Zimmerman, 85, American professor of chemistry. [265]

11

• Siri Bjerke, 53, Norwegian politician, Minister of the Environment (2000–2001), cancer. [266] (Norwegian)
• Gene Crumling, 89, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals). [267]
• Aharon Davidi, 85, Israeli general. [268] (Hebrew)
• Trent Frayne, 93, Canadian sportswriter. [269]
• Whitney Houston, 48, American singer ("I Will Always Love You") and actress (The Bodyguard). [270]
• Issa al-Khouli, Syrian general, shot. [271]
• Sergey Kolosov, 90, Russian film director, People's Artist of the USSR. [272] (Russian)
• Michitaka Konoe, 89, Japanese historian, head of the Konoe family, heart failure. [273] (Japanese)
• Yōji Nagase, 80, Japanese politician, mayor of Kawaguchi, Saitama, pneumonia. [274] (Japanese)
• Jeffrey Perry, 63, British stage and screen actor. [275]
• John Sperry, 87, Canadian Anglican Bishop of the Arctic (1974–1990). [276]
• Ryūichirō Tachi, 90, Japanese economist, pneumonia. [277] (Japanese)

10

• Chuck Baird, 64, American artist. [278]
• Nikolaos Chios, 54, Greek journalist, cancer. [279] (Greek)
• Geoffrey Cornish, 97, American golf course architect. [280]
• Emyr Daniel, 63, Welsh broadcaster and television producer. [281]
• R. T. France, 73, British New Testament scholar. [282]
• Ronald Fraser, 81, English historian. [283]
• Joseph Gaggero, 84, Gibraltarian businessman. [284]
• Filippo Giannini, 88, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Rome (1980–1998). [285]
• Francisco de Guruceaga Iturriza, 84, Venezuelan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of La Guaira (1973–2001). [286]
• Brian Jones, 67, British intelligence analyst. [287]
• Gloria Lloyd, 87, American actress (Temptation), daughter of Harold Lloyd. [288]
• Lloyd Morrison, 54, New Zealand businessman (Infratil), leukemia. [289]
• Wilmot Perkins, 80, Jamaican radio personality. [290]
• Ivan Pravilov, 48, Ukrainian ice hockey coach, suspected suicide. [291]
• James Riordan, 75, English novelist and academic. [292]
• Ippei Sōda, 81, Japanese actor, colon cancer. [293] (Japanese)
• Jeffrey Zaslow, 53, American author and columnist, car accident. [294]

9

• Adam Adamowicz, 42, American video game concept artist (The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Fallout 3), cancer. [295]
• Jill Kinmont Boothe, 75, American alpine skier. [296]
• Peggy Crowe, 56, American Olympic speed skater. [297]
• Fred Dickson, 74, Canadian lawyer and politician, Senator (since 2009), colon cancer. [298]
• O. P. Dutta, 90, Indian film director, complications of pneumonia. [299]
• Josh Gifford, 70, British racehorse jockey and trainer, heart attack. [300]
• John Hick, 90, English philosopher and theologian. [301]
• Kiyoshi Kajiwara, 90, Japanese politician, member of the House of Councillors, chief of the Ministry of Transport. [302] (Japanese)
• Barbara Marianowska, 64, British-born Polish politician. [303] (Polish)
• Dave Maynard, 82, American broadcaster (WBZ (AM), WBZ-TV), Parkinson’s disease. [304]
• Joe Moretti, 73, British guitarist, lung cancer. [305]
• Oscar Núñez, 83, Argentine actor (Good Life Delivery), cancer. [306]
• Don Panciera, 84, American football player (New York Yankees, Detroit Lions, Chicago Cardinals). [307]
• Lukáš Přibyl, 33, Czech sports administrator, Vice-President of AC Sparta Prague. [308]
• Shirō Taihei, 55, Japanese comedian, actor and broadcast writer, ventricular fibrillation. [309] (Japanese)
• Milan Zinaić, 65, Croatian art historian and art critic. [310] (Croatian)

8

• Theophilus Brown, 92, American painter. [311]
• Phil Bruns, 80, American actor (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman; Barney Miller; The Great Waldo Pepper), natural causes. [312]
• Dennis Callahan, 70, American politician, Mayor of Annapolis (1985–1989), heart attack. [313]
• John Cunningham, 66, Irish journalist, editor of Connacht Tribune (1984–2007), illness. [314]
• Laurent Desjardins, 88, Canadian politician. [315]
• John Fairfax, 74, British ocean rower and adventurer. [316]
• Giangiacomo Guelfi, 87, Italian opera singer. [317] (Italian)
• Robert Hecht, Jr., 92, American antiquities dealer. [318]
• Lew Hitch, 82, American basketball player (Minneapolis Lakers, Milwaukee Hawks, Philadelphia Warriors). [319]
• Jorge Salvador Lara, 85, Ecuadorian historian and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1966, 1976–1977). [320] (Spanish)
• Laurie Main, 89, Australian-born character actor (Welcome to Pooh Corner). [321]
• Enrique Moreno, 48, Spanish footballer. [322] (Spanish)
• Gunther Plaut, 99, German-born Canadian rabbi and author. [323]
• Jimmy Sabater, Sr., 75, American Latin musician. [324]
• Allan Segal, 70, British documentary maker, cancer. [325]
• Ib Holm Sørensen, Danish computer scientist. [326] (death announced on this date)
• Luis Alberto Spinetta, 62, Argentine musician (Almendra, Pescado Rabioso, Invisible), lung cancer. [327]
• Wando, 66, Brazilian singer, cardiorespiratory arrest. [328] (Portuguese)
• Brayim Younisi, 85, Kurdish writer, novelist and translator. [329] (Arabic)

7

• James Baring, 6th Baron Revelstoke, 73, British aristocrat. [330]
• Danny Clyburn, 37, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles, Tampa Bay Devil Rays), shot. [331]
• Patricia Stephens Due, 72, American civil rights activist, cancer. [332]
• Marie-Louise Haumont, 93, Belgian writer. [333] (French)
• Florence Holway, 96, American advocate for rape victims. [334]
• Harry Keough, 84, American soccer player and coach. [335]
• Sergio Larraín, 81, Chilean photographer. [336]
• Phil Shanahan, 84, Irish hurler. [337]

6

• Peter Breck, 82, American actor (The Big Valley). [338]
• Sharada Dwivedi, 69, Indian historian. [339]
• Yasuhiro Ishimoto, 90, Japanese photographer, complications following pneumonia and a stroke. [340] (Japanese)
• Noel Kelehan, 76, Irish musician (RTÉ Concert Orchestra). [341]
• Jay Lambert, 86, American Olympic boxer. [342]
• Juan Vicente Lezcano, 74, Paraguayan footballer. [343] (Spanish)
• Matthew Mbu, 82, Nigerian politician and diplomat, Foreign Minister (1993). [344]
• Władysław Ogrodziński, 93, Polish historian and writer. [345] (Polish)
• Nuri Otay, 54, Turkish businessman. [346] (Turkish)
• Norma Merrick Sklarek, 85, American architect, heart failure. [347]
• Antoni Tàpies, 88, Spanish painter. [348]
• István Udvardi, 51, Hungarian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1980) water polo player. [349] (Hungarian)
• Janice E. Voss, 55, American astronaut, cancer. [350]
• David A. Winter, 81, Canadian academic. [351]

5

• Blaine, 74, Canadian editorial cartoonist. [352]
• Sam Coppola, 79, American actor (Saturday Night Fever, Fatal Attraction). [353]
• Bill Hinzman, 75, American actor (Night of the Living Dead), cancer. [354]
• Ray Honeyford, 77, English headmaster and writer. [355]
• William D. Houser, 90, American admiral (WWII, Korea, Korea), Alzheimer’s disease and pneumonia. [356]
• Jiang Ying, 92, Chinese opera singer and music teacher. [357]
• John Turner Sargent, Sr., 87, American publisher. [358]
• Lawrence Zhang Wen-Chang, 92, Chinese Roman Catholic priest, Apostolic Administrator of Kunming, Dali, and Zhaotong (since 2000). [359]
• Jo Zwaan, 89, Dutch Olympic athlete. [360] (Dutch)

4

• István Csurka, 77, Hungarian playwright and politician, Chairman of the Hungarian Justice and Life Party (since 1993). [361] (Hungarian)
• Robert Daniel, 75, American politician, U.S. Representative from Virginia (1973–1983). [362]
• Mike deGruy, 60, American documentary filmmaker (Trials of Life, The Blue Planet), helicopter crash. [363]
• Nigel Doughty, 54, British businessman, owner (since 1999) and chairman (2001–2011) of Nottingham Forest F.C. [364]
• Joseph W. Estabrook, 67, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of the Military Services (since 2004) and Titular Bishop of Flenucleta. [365]
• Jeff Fraza, 34, American professional boxer, struck by train. [366]
• Robert Glaser, 91, American cognitive psychologist, complications from Alzheimer's disease. [367]
• Florence Green, 110, British supercentenarian, last surviving veteran of World War I. [368]
• Fernando Lanhas, 88, Portuguese painter. [369] (Portuguese)
• Hubert Leitgeb, 46, Italian Olympic biathlete, two-time world champion, avalanche. [370] (German)
• Irene McKinney, 72, American poet, Poet Laureate of West Virginia (since 1994), cancer. [371]
• Livio Minelli, 85, Italian boxer. [372]
• Wendell Mitchell, 71, American politician, Alabama State Senator (1974–2010), heart failure. [373]
• Pierre-Eugène Rouanet, 94, French-born Ivorian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Daloa (1956–1975). [374]
• János Sebestyén, 80, Hungarian organist. [375] (Hungarian)
• Giovanni Volta, 83, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Pavia (1986–2003). [376]
• Andrew Wight, 51, Australian screenwriter and producer (Sanctum), helicopter crash. [377]

3

• Steve Appleton, 51, American businessman (Micron Technology), plane crash. [378]
• HIM Damsyik, 82, Indonesian dancer and actor. [379]
• Ben Gazzara, 81, American actor (Run for Your Life, Road House), pancreatic cancer. [380]
• Terence Hildner, 49, American general, commander of the 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary). [381]
• Raj Kanwar, 50, Indian film director and producer, kidney failure. [382]
• Zalman King, 69, American film director (Wild Orchid) and producer (9½ Weeks), cancer. [383]
• Karlo Maquinto, 21, Filipino boxer. [384]
• Andrzej Szczeklik, 73, Polish physician and educational administrator (Jagiellonian University Medical College). [385] (Polish)
• Toh Chin Chye, 90, Singaporean politician, Deputy Prime Minister (1965–1968) and Minister for Health (1975–1981). [386]
• Wilhelm Wachtmeister, 88, Swedish diplomat, Ambassador to the United States (1974–1989). [387]
• Sam Youd, 89, British science fiction author (The Tripods, The Sword of the Spirits). [388]
• Norton Zinder, 83, American microbiologist, pneumonia. [389]

2

• Joyce Barkhouse, 98, Canadian children's writer (Pit Pony), heart attack. [390]
• Paul Consbruch, 81, German Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Paderborn (1980–1999). [391]
• Frederick William Danker, 91, American lexicographer and New Testament scholar. [392]
• David Edelsten, 78, British writer and army officer. [393]
• Elwyn Friedrich, 78, Swiss Olympic ice hockey player, myocardial infarction. [394] (German)
• Luis Javier Garrido, 71, Mexican political analyst. [395] (Spanish)
• Dorothy Gilman, 88, American spy novelist (The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax), complications of Alzheimer’s disease. [396]
• Jorge Glusberg, 79, Argentine author and curator, director of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. [397] (Spanish)
• Jane Ising, 110, German-born American academic and supercentenarian, wife of Ernst Ising. [398]
• Nassib Lahoud, 67, Lebanese politician. [399]
• James F. Lloyd, 89, American politician, U.S. Representative from California (1975–1981), stroke. [400]

1

• Herb Adams, 83, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox). [401]
• Gerlando Alberti, 88, Italian Sicilian Mafioso, cancer. [402] (Italian)
• Don Cornelius, 75, American television host and producer (Soul Train), suicide by gunshot. [403]
• Angelo Dundee, 90, American boxing trainer (Muhammad Ali). [404]
• Joe Ekins, 88, British World War II soldier. [405]
• Fabián Estapé, 88, Spanish economist. [406]
• John Harrison, 87, Australian Olympic rower. [407]
• Ruth Hausmeister, 99, German actress (Zwei Brüder, The Longest Day). [408] (German)
• Ladislav Kuna, 64, Slovak football player and manager. [409] (Slovak)
• Robert Lawless, 74, American anthropologist. [410]
• Ingolf Mork, 64, Norwegian Olympic ski jumper. [411] (Norwegian)
• David Peaston, 54, American R&B singer, complications of diabetes. [412]
• Lutz Philipp, 71, German Olympic athlete. [413] (German)
• Gilbert Poirot, 67, French Olympic ski jumper. [414] (French)
• Charlie Spoonhour, 72, American basketball coach (Southwest Missouri State, Saint Louis University), complications from lung disease. [415]
• Jerry Steiner, 94, American basketball player (Fort Wayne Pistons). [416]
• Andrzej Sztolf, 70, Polish Olympic ski jumper. [417] (Polish)
• Wisława Szymborska, 88, Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature (1996). [418]