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* [[John Madin]], 87, English architect. [http://www.birminghampost.net/news/west-midlands-news/2012/01/11/john-madin-the-architect-behind-birmingham-central-library-dies-65233-30101182/] |
* [[John Madin]], 87, English architect. [http://www.birminghampost.net/news/west-midlands-news/2012/01/11/john-madin-the-architect-behind-birmingham-central-library-dies-65233-30101182/] |
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* [[V. Madhusudhan Rao]], 94, Indian film director. [http://ibnlive.in.com/news/veteran-film-director-passes-away/220055-60-121.html] |
* [[V. Madhusudhan Rao]], 94, Indian film director. [http://ibnlive.in.com/news/veteran-film-director-passes-away/220055-60-121.html] |
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*[[Wally Osterkorn]], 83, American basketball player. [http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/azcentral/obituary.aspx?n=walter-r-osterkorn&pid=155460624] |
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*[[Steven Rawlings]], 49, British astrophysicist. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jan/13/oxford-professor-steven-rawlings-wife] |
*[[Steven Rawlings]], 49, British astrophysicist. [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jan/13/oxford-professor-steven-rawlings-wife] |
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* [[Colm Tucker]], 59, Irish rugby union player. [http://www.rte.ie/sport/rugby/2012/0111/tuckerc.html] |
* [[Colm Tucker]], 59, Irish rugby union player. [http://www.rte.ie/sport/rugby/2012/0111/tuckerc.html] |
Revision as of 09:15, 21 January 2012
The following is a list of notable deaths in 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).
January 2012
- Larry Butler, 69, American music producer. [1]
- Etta James, 73, American singer ("At Last"), leukemia. [2]
- Nikhat Kazmi, 53, Indian film critic. [3]
- Ioannis Kefalogiannis, 79, Greek politician. [4] (Greek)
- Jiří Raška, 70, Czech ski jumper, Olympic gold medalist (1968), heart disease. [5]
- Robert Fortune Sanchez, 77, American Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Santa Fe (1977–1993). [6]
- Ioan Ursuț, 53, Romanian criminal and serial escapist, suicide by hanging. [7] (Swedish)
- Yedda Alves, 83, Brazilian actress. [8] (Portuguese)
- Peter Åslin, 49, Swedish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1988) ice hockey player, stroke. [9] (Swedish)
- Giancarlo Bigazzi, 71, Italian singer. [10] (Italian)
- Sarah Burke, 29, Canadian freestyle skier, world champion (2005), cardiac arrest following skiing accident. [11]
- Tom Cowie, 89, British businessman. [12]
- Rudi van Dantzig, 78, Dutch choreographer. [13] (Dutch)
- Giovanni De Andrea, 83, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Vice-President of Labour Office of the Apostolic See (1989–2007). [14]
- Shraga Gafni, 85, Israeli children's book author. [15] (Hebrew)
- Anthony Gonsalves, 84, Indian film music composer. [16]
- Colonel Stone Johnson, 93, American civil rights activist. [17]
- Beverly McDermott, 83, American casting director (Airport 77, Cocoon: The Return, Lenny). [18]
- Winston Riley, 65, Jamaican reggae musician and producer, complications of shooting. [19]
- Richard Sheirer, 65, American public servant, officer-in-charge of the rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks, pulmonary edema. [20]
- Gilbert Temmerman, 83, Belgian politician, MP (1971–1989), Mayor of Ghent (1989–1994), Minister of State. [21] (Dutch)
- Jenny Tomasin, 75, British actress (Upstairs, Downstairs). [22] (death announced on this date)
- Thérèse Delpech, 63, French nuclear proliferation expert, apparent heart attack. [23]
- Mel Goldstein, 66, American television meteorologist (WTNH), multiple myeloma. [24]
- Karl Hofmann, 85, German politician, Member of Parliament for Coburg (1965–1973). [25] (German)
- Giuseppe Vedovato, 99, Italian politician. [26] (Italian)
- Yevgeny Zharikov, 70, Russian film actor (Ivan's Childhood), cancer. [27] (Russian)
- Ernie Alexander, 78, American politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives (2000–2008). [28]
- Colin Campbell, 80, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Antigonish (1986–2002). [29]
- Aengus Fanning, 69, Irish journalist, editor of the Sunday Independent, cancer. [30]
- Harold Ghosh, 75, Indian cricketer. [31]
- Johnny Otis, 90, American R&B singer-songwriter. [32]
- Piet Römer, 83, Dutch actor (Baantjer). [33] (Dutch)
- R. W. Schambach, 85, American evangelist, heart failure. [34]
- Marty Springstead, 74, American Major League Baseball umpire, heart attack. [35]
- Keizaburō Yamaguchi, 83, Japanese art historian (Rissho University), heart failure. [36] (Japanese)
- Jimmy Castor, 71, American funk and R&B saxophonist ("Troglodyte (Cave Man)"), heart failure. [37]
- Mike Current, 66, American football player (Denver Broncos, Miami Dolphins, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), apparent suicide by gunshot. [38]
- Sigursteinn Gíslason, 43, Icelandic footballer and manager. [39] (Icelandic)
- Tatsuya Hashi, 74, Japanese comedian, pneumonia. [40] (Japanese)
- Lorna Kesterson, 86, American newspaper editor and journalist (Henderson Home News), Mayor of Henderson, Nevada (1985–1993). [41]
- Gustav Leonhardt, 83, Dutch harpsichordist and conductor. [42]
- Juan Carlos Pérez López, 66, Spanish footballer. [43] (Spanish)
- Michael Mussa, 67, American economist, heart attack. [44]
- David Phiri, 74, Zambian businessman, Governor of the Bank of Zambia. [45]
- Valentin Rusantsov, 72, Russian hierarch, Primate of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church (1996–2012). [46]
- The Senator, American bald cypress, world's fifth oldest known tree, fire. [47]
- Mika Ahola, 37, Finnish enduro rider, motorcycle crash. [48]
- Ed Derwinski, 85, American politician, U.S. Representative from Illinois (1959–1983); United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs (1989–1992), merkel cell carcinoma. [49]
- Manuel Fraga Iribarne, 89, Spanish politician, President of the Xunta of Galicia (1990–2005), founder of the People's Party, heart failure. [50]
- Carlo Fruttero, 85, Italian writer. [51] (Italian)
- Yevgeny Ginzburg, 66, Russian television director, stroke. [52] (Russian)
- Ben Hana, 54, New Zealand vagrant. [53]
- Eisuke Hinode, 70, Japanese politician, member of the House of Councillors, gall bladder cancer. [54]
- Eduard Ivanov, 73, Soviet ice hockey player, World and Olympic champion. [55] (Russian)
- Samuel B. Nunez, Jr., 81, American politician, President of the Louisiana State Senate (1983–1988; 1990–1996). [56]
- Fumio Nunoya, 64, Japanese rock and roll singer, cerebral hemorrhage. [57] (Japanese)
- Ib Spang Olsen, 90, Danish cartoonist and author. [58] (Danish)
- Chris Pavlou, 72, Australian football player. [59]
- Rafael Rincón González, 89, Venezuelan musician. [60] (Spanish)
- Jack Roberts, 58, American climber, fall. [61]
- Hiromi Sakai, 27, Japanese speedway racer, accident during practice. [62]
- Hulett C. Smith, 93, American politician, Governor of West Virginia (1965–1969). [63]
- Peter Veness, 27, Australian journalist, brain cancer. [64]
- Homai Vyarawalla, 98, Indian photojournalist. [65]
- Janey Buchan, 85, Scottish politician, MEP for Glasgow (1979–1994). [66]
- Mircea Ciumara, 68, Romanian politician, Minister of Finance (1996–1997), cancer. [67] (Romanian)
- Marv Davidov, 80, American peace activist (The Honeywell Project). [68]
- Ekuikui IV, 98, Angolan king of Bailundo, disease. [69]
- Dan Evins, 76, American entrepreneur, founder of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store. [70]
- Robbie France, 52, British drummer (Skunk Anansie, Diamond Head, UFO), ruptured aorta. [71]
- Ritsuo Horimoto, 76, Japanese baseball player (Yomiuri Giants), pneumonia. [72] (Japanese)
- Charles Howard, 87, Australian Roman Catholic leader, Superior General of the Marist Brothers (1985–1993). [73]
- Pearse Hutchinson, 84, Irish broadcaster and writer, member of Aosdána. [74]
- Arfa Karim, 16, Pakistani student, world's youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (2004–2008), idiopathic epilepsy seizures. [75]
- Lasse Kolstad, 90, Norwegian actor. [76] (Norwegian)
- Curt Meyer-Clason, 101, German writer and translator. [77] (German)
- Antonio Mistrorigo, 99, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Treviso (1958–1988). [78]
- Giampiero Moretti, 71, Italian racing driver, winner of the 24 Hours of Daytona (1998), founder of Momo. [79] (Italian)
- Kaoru Nishimoto, 88, Japanese shogi player, pneumonia. [80] (Japanese)
- Mila Parély, 94, French actress. [81] (French)
- Dame Lesley Ann Strathie, 56, British civil servant, Permanent Secretary to HM Revenue and Customs (2008–2011), cancer. [82]
- Txillardegi, 82, Basque writer and politician. [83] (Spanish)
- Rosy Varte, 88, French actress. [84] (French).
- Zelemkhan Zangiyev, 37, Russian footballer. [85] (Russian)
- Anton Blom, 87, Norwegian journalist. [86] (Norwegian)
- Rauf Denktaş, 87, Cypriot politician, founder and first president of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, multiple organ failure. [87]
- Guido Dessauer, 96, German paper engineer and art collector. [88] (German)
- Dilys Elwyn-Edwards, 93, Welsh composer. [89]
- Sándor Fehér, 38, Hungarian violinist, drowned. [90]
- Lefter Küçükandonyadis, 86, Turkish Olympic footballer (Fenerbahçe) and coach, pneumonia. [91] (Turkish)
- Oscar Valentín Leal Caal, 41, Guatemalan politician, Congressman (since 2008), shot. [92]
- Miljan Miljanić, 81, Serbian football player, coach and administrator. [93]
- Abdollah Mojtabavi, 87, Iranian wrestler. [94] (Persian)
- Richard Threlkeld, 74, American reporter (CBS News), traffic collision. [95]
- William Robert Wright, 76, American biographer and politician, Chairman of the Utah Republican Party (1977–1979), Alzheimer's disease. [96]
- Andrzej Krzysztof Wróblewski, 76, Polish journalist. [97] (Polish)
- Sadao Bekku, 89, Japanese composer, pneumonia. [98] (Japanese)
- Charlie Collins, 78, American country musician (Roy Acuff's Smoky Mountain Boys), stroke. [99]
- Reginald Hill, 75, British crime writer (Dalziel and Pascoe). [100]
- Natalee Holloway, 18, American student, missing since 2005. [101] (declared legally dead on this date)
- Bill Janklow, 72, American politician, Attorney General (1975–1979) and Governor of South Dakota (1979–1987, 1995–2003); U.S. Representative (2003–2004), brain cancer. [102]
- Shiv Kumari of Kotah, 95, Indian Hindu royal. [103]
- MS-1, 55, Mexican professional wrestler, car accident. [104] (Spanish)
- Aslı Nemutlu, 18, Turkish skier, training accident. [105] (Turkish)
- Charles H. Price II, 80, American businessman and diplomat. [106]
- Hannes Råstam, 56, Swedish journalist. [107] (Swedish)
- Rosalind Runcie, 79, British pianist, widow of Robert Runcie. [108]
- Jim Stanley, 76, American football coach (Oklahoma State Cowboys), cancer. [109]
- Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, 32, Iranian nuclear scientist, car bomb. [110]
- Richard Bruno, 87, American costume designer (Raging Bull, Goodfellas), kidney failure. [111]
- Frank Cook, 76, British politician, MP for Stockton North (1983–2010), lung cancer. [112]
- Bohumil Golián, 81, Slovak Olympic silver (1964) and bronze (1968) medal-winning volleyball player. [113]
- Gilles Jacquier, 43, French journalist, grenade attack. [114]
- Edgar Kaiser, 69, Canadian businessman and philanthropist, owner of the Denver Broncos (1981–1984). [115]
- John Madin, 87, English architect. [116]
- V. Madhusudhan Rao, 94, Indian film director. [117]
- Wally Osterkorn, 83, American basketball player. [118]
- Steven Rawlings, 49, British astrophysicist. [119]
- Colm Tucker, 59, Irish rugby union player. [120]
- David Whitaker, 80, English composer and songwriter. [121] (French)
- Alfonso de Bourbon, 83, American claimant of Spanish royalty, traffic accident. [122]
- Azeem Daultana, 32, Pakistani politician, Member of the National Assembly, road accident. [123]
- José Freire de Oliveira Neto, 83, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Mossoró (1984–2004). [124]
- Israel Getzler, 92, Israeli historian. [125] (Hebrew)
- Vince Gibson, 78, American college football coach. [126]
- Jack Heron, 85, American college basketball coach (Sacramento State University). [127]
- Kyra T. Inachin, 43, German historian. [128] (German)
- Lila Kaye, 82, British actress. [129]
- John McCarthy, 61, Irish mental health campaigner and founder of Mad Pride, motor neurone disease. [130]
- Charlie Pawsey, 88, English rugby league player. [131] (death announced on this date)
- Jean Pigott, 87, Canadian politician and businesswoman, MP for Ottawa—Carleton (1976–1979). [132]
- Cliff Portwood, 74, English footballer and singer. [133]
- Mary Raftery, 54, Irish journalist (States of Fear). [134]
- Takao Sakurai, 70, Japanese Olympic gold medal-winning (1964) boxer, esophageal cancer. [135] (Japanese)
- Syed Shah Mardan Shah-II, 83, Pakistani politician and spiritual leader, heart attack. [136]
- Gevork Vartanian, 87, Soviet intelligence agent, Hero of the Soviet Union. [137]
- Ron Caron, 82, Canadian ice hockey administrator, General Manager of the St. Louis Blues (1983–1993, 1996). [138]
- Ernie Carson, 74, American jazz musician. [139]
- Brian Curvis, 74, Welsh boxer, leukaemia. [140] (death announced on this date).
- Alex DeCroce, 75, American politician, New Jersey General Assembly Minority Leader (since 2004). [141]
- Bill Dickie, 82, Scottish football administrator. [142]
- Ruth Fernández, 92, Puerto Rican contralto and politician, Senator (1973–1981). [143] (Spanish)
- Bridie Gallagher, 87, Irish singer. [144]
- Augusto Gansser-Biaggi, 101, Swiss geologist. [145] (German)
- Koizumi Junsaku, 87, Japanese painter and pottery artist, pneumonia. [146] (Japanese)
- Mae Laborde, 102, American actress. [147]
- Vern McGrew, 82, American Olympic athlete. [148]
- John Both Puok, 48, South Sudanese politician. [149]
- William G. Roll, 85, American psychologist and parapsychologist. [150]
- Malam Bacai Sanhá, 64, Guinea-Bissauan politician, President (1999–2000; since 2009). [151]
- Larry Solway, 83, Canadian radio personality and author. [152]
- Pyotr Vasilevsky, 55, Belarusian football player and coach. [153] (Russian)
- Aldo Zenhäusern, 60, Swiss Olympic ice hockey player (1976). [154]
- Dave Alexander, 73, American blues singer and pianist, suicide. [155]
- Herb Clarke, 84, American television weatherman (WCAU-TV), NATAS Governor's Award winner (2007), Alzheimer's disease. [156]
- Glenn Cox, 80, American baseball player (Kansas City Athletics). [157]
- Franz Dorfer, 61, Austrian Olympic boxer (1976). [158] (German)
- Gunnar Dyrberg, 90, Danish resistance fighter, after long illness. [159] (Danish)
- Dmitry Machinsky, 74, Russian archaeologist. [160] (Russian)
- Charles Morris, 85, British politician, MP for Manchester Openshaw (1963–1983). [161]
- Graham Rathbone, 69, Welsh footballer, dementia. [162]
- Alexis Weissenberg, 82, Bulgarian-born French pianist. [163]
- Ibrahim Aslan, 77, Egyptian novelist and short story writer, heart failure. [164]
- Tony Blankley, 63, British-born American conservative commentator, newspaper editor and child actor, stomach cancer. [165]
- Richard Hopkins, 47, British television producer (Strictly Come Dancing), cancer. [166]
- George Livingston, 78, American politician, first elected African American mayor of Richmond, California (1985–1993), diabetes. [167]
- Hideaki Nitani, 81, Japanese actor (Tokyo Drifter), pneumonia. [168] (Japanese)
- Clarence Cullam Pope, 81, American prelate, Episcopal Bishop of Fort Worth (1986–1994). [169]
- Herbert Wilf, 80, American mathematician. [170]
- Louise Gibson Annand, 96, Scottish artist. [171]
- Tom Ardolino, 56, American drummer (NRBQ). [172]
- Nicole Bogner, 27, Austrian musician (Visions of Atlantis), illness. [173]
- Gabriel Cadis, 60, Israeli attorney, chairman of the Jaffa Orthodox Church Association, stabbed. [174]
- John Celardo, 93, American comic strip artist (Tarzan, Buz Sawyer). [175]
- Bob Holness, 83, South African-born British quiz show host and actor (Blockbusters). [176]
- Eleftherios Katsaitis, 82, Greek-born British Orthodox hierarch, Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Great Britain (1987–1994). [177] (Greek)
- W. Francis McBeth, 78, American composer. [178]
- Frank James McGarr, 90, American federal district judge. [179]
- John McWhinnie, 43, American rare book dealer and gallerist, drowned. [180]
- Ellen Pence, 63, American sociologist and social activist, creator of the Duluth Domestic Abuse Intervention Project, breast cancer. [181]
- Louis Rech, 85, Italian-born Luxembourgian politician, Mayor of Dudelange (1985–1993). [182] (German)
- Clive Shell, 64, Welsh international rugby player. [183] (death announced on this date).
- Danilo Slivnik, 61, Slovene journalist and author, suicide. [184]
- Richard Alf, 59, American businessman, co-founder and chairman of San Diego Comic-Con International, pancreatic cancer. [185]
- Selwyn Baptiste, 75, Trinidadian-born British musician and festival organiser. [186]
- Don Carter, 85, American professional bowler, complication from pneumonia and emphysema. [187]
- Samson H. Chowdhury, 86, Bangladeshi businessman. [188]
- Biţu Fălticineanu, 86, Romanian theatre director, after long illness. [189] (Romanian)
- Idwal Fisher, 76, Welsh rugby player. [190]
- Hikaru Hayashi, 80, Japanese composer. [191] (Japanese)
- Frank Ackerman Hill, 92, American U.S. Air Force commander of the 33rd Air Division. [192]
- Frederica Sagor Maas, 111, American silent film screenwriter (The Plastic Age), playwright, memoirist and author. [193]
- Amit Saigal, 46, Indian rock magazine publisher, concert promoter and musician, drowned. [194]
- Alexander Sizonenko, 52, Russian basketball player, world's tallest person (1991). [195] (Russian)
- Eve Arnold, 99, American photographer. [196]
- Ruben Ayala, 89, American politician, California State Senator (1974–1998), first elected Mayor of Chino, California (1964–1966). [197]
- Kōzō Chifuji, 74, Japanese composer, shamisen player, heart failure. [198] (Japanese)
- James F. Crow, 95, American geneticist. [199]
- Byron Donzis, 79, American inventor, stroke. [200]
- Paul Fauks, 87, American minor league sports director (St. Louis Cardinals). [201]
- Harry Fowler, 85, British character actor. [202]
- Gatewood Galbraith, 64, American lawyer and author, complications from chronic emphysema. [203]
- Sir Archibald Glenn, 100, Australian industrialist, Chancellor of La Trobe University. [204]
- Kalpana, 65, Indian actress, cancer. [205]
- Kerry McGregor, 37, British singer and reality contestant (The X Factor), bladder cancer. [206]
- Bobby McKenzie, 83, Australian football player. [207]
- Juan Carlos Mendizábal, 60, Argentine journalist, liver cancer. [208]
- Hiroki Nagase, 36, Japanese composer, suicide by hanging. [209] (Japanese) (body discovered on this date)
- Carmen Naranjo, 83, Costa Rican novelist, poet and essayist, cancer. [210] (Spanish)
- Hisako Ōishi, 75, Japanese politician, member of the House of Councillors, respiratory failure. [211] (Japanese)
- Rod Robbie, 83, Canadian architect. [212]
- Mitch Shirota, 78, American racehorse jockey and trainer. [213]
- Teppei Tsubone, 100, Japanese businessman, pneumonia. [214] (Japanese)
- Xaver Unsinn, 82, German Olympic ice hockey player and coach. [215] (German)
- Charles W. Bailey, 81, American journalist and novelist (Seven Days in May), Parkinson's disease. [216]
- Gene Bartow, 81, American college basketball coach (UAB, UCLA), stomach cancer. [217]
- Angelo Bowers, 26, American comedian, traffic collision. [218]
- Robert L. Carter, 94, American civil rights activist (Sweatt v. Painter) and judge, complications from a stroke. [219]
- Ray Costict, 56, American football player (New England Patriots). [220]
- Miguel Couturier, 61, Mexican actor (Miss Bala, Once Upon a Time in Mexico), cancer. [221] (Spanish)
- Willi Entenmann, 68, German football player and coach, heart attack. [222] (German)
- Juan Escudero, 91, Spanish footballer. [223]
- John David Lewis, 56, American political scientist. [224]
- Selorm Kuadey, 24, Ukrainian-born English rugby union player (Sale Sharks). [225]
- Osamu Matsubara, 94, Japanese businessperson, chairman of Books Kinokuniya, heart failure. [226] (Japanese)
- Winifred Milius Lubell, 97, American illustrator and writer, heart failure. [227]
- Enrique de Melchor, 61, Spanish flamenco guitarist, cancer. [228]
- Stepan Oshchepkov, 77, Russian canoeist, Olympic gold medalist (1964). [229] (Russian)
- Yadid Rubin, 74, Israeli painter. [230] (Hebrew)
- Felix Shuman, 87, American actor (Damien: Omen II, The Fury). [231]
- Josef Škvorecký, 87, Czech writer and publisher, cancer. [232]
- Otoichirō Suzuki, 87, Japanese politician, mayor of Tochigi, Tochigi, myocardial infarction. [233] (Japanese)
- Miguel Terekhov, 83, Uruguayan-born American ballet dancer and teacher, complications of lung fibrosis. [234]
- Wylie Vale, 70, American endocrinologist. [235]
- Vicar, 77, Chilean cartoonist. [236] (Spanish)
- Bob Weston, 64, British guitarist and songwriter (Fleetwood Mac), gastrointestinal hemorrhage. [237] (body found on this date)
- Ian Bargh, 76, British-born Canadian jazz pianist, lung cancer. [238]
- D.W. Barron, 76, British computer scientist. [239]
- Ivan Călin, 76, Moldovan politician, Acting President of the Moldovan Parliament (2009). [240] (Russian)
- William P. Carey, 81, American businessman (W. P. Carey & Co.) and philanthropist. [241]
- Ioan Drăgan, 46, Romanian footballer (FC Brașov), colorectal cancer. [242] (Romanian)
- Odin Fottoh, 73, Tajik composer. [243] (Russian)
- Vivi Friedman, 44, Finnish film director, cancer. [244]
- Yoshiro Hayashi, 89, Japanese golfer. [245] (Japanese)
- Gordon Hirabayashi, 93, American civil rights activist (Hirabayashi v. United States). [246]
- Jim Huber, 67, American sports commentator (CNN, TNT). [247]
- Elli Konstantoudaki, 39, Greek journalist. [248] (Greek)
- Anatoly Kolesov, 73, Russian wrestler, Olympic gold medalist (1964), after long illness. [249] (Russian)
- Howie Koplitz, 73, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Washington Senators). [250]
- Hisao Maki, 71, Japanese manga author and novelist, acute pneumonia. [251] (Japanese)
- Helmut Müller-Brühl, 78, German conductor. [252] (German)
- Hajime Otaki, 68, Japanese scholar of Chinese history (Kyoto University, Teikyo University), esophageal cancer. [253] (Japanese)
- Larry Reinhardt, 63, American rock guitarist (Iron Butterfly, Captain Beyond), liver cirrhosis. [254]
- Otto Scrinzi, 93, Austrian politician. [255] (German)
- Ambjørg Sælthun, 89, Norwegian politician. [256] (Norwegian)
- Paulo Rodrigues da Silva, 25, Brazilian footballer, car crash. [257] (Portuguese)
- Arend Voortman, 81, Dutch politician. [258] (Dutch)
- Hugh Edwin Young, 94, American economist, Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1968–1977). [259]
- Gary Ablett, 46, English footballer (Liverpool, Everton, Birmingham City), non-Hodgkin lymphoma. [260]
- Bob Anderson, 89, British Olympic fencer (1952), film fight director and choreographer (Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings). [261]
- Jan Baas, 94, Dutch politician. [262] (Dutch)
- Alfredo Battisti, 86, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Udine (1972–2000). [263] (Italian)
- Jorge Andrés Boero, 38, Argentine motorcycle racer, Dakar rally crash. [264]
- Anders Frandsen, 51, Danish singer and television presenter. [265] (Danish)
- Kiro Gligorov, 94, Macedonian politician, first democratically elected President (1991–1999). [266]
- Jan Groover, 68 American photographer. [267]
- Hermann Guggiari, 87, Paraguayan engineer and sculptor. [268] (Spanish)
- Andreas Herzog, 20, German wrestler, suicide. [269] (German)
- Frank Horwill, 84, British athletics coach. [270]
- Ed Jenkins, 78, American politician, Representative from Georgia (1977–1993). [271]
- Nay Win Maung, 49, Burmese physician and pro-democracy activist, heart attack. [272]
- Fred Milano, 72, American doo-wop singer (The Belmonts, Dion and the Belmonts), lung cancer. [273]
- Nina Miranda, 86, Uruguayan tango singer and composer. [274] (Spanish)
- Tommy Mont, 89, American college football coach and NFL player, heart failure. [275]
- Marcelle Narbonne, 113, French supercentenarian, oldest person in Europe. [276] (French)
- Carlos Soria, 63, Argentine politician, Secretary of Intelligence (2002), Governor of Río Negro (since 2011), shot. [277]
- Lore Steubing, 89, German botanist. [278] (German)
- Yafa Yarkoni, 86, Israeli singer. [279]
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