Deaths in 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).

June 2012

6

• Otto Ineichen, 70, Swiss businessman and politician, heart failure. [1] (German)
• Vladimir Krutov, 52, Russian ice hockey player, internal bleeding and liver failure. [2] (Russian)
• Nemanja Nesic, 24, Serbian rower. [3]
• Anna Maria Niemeyer, 82 Brazilian designer, pulmonary emphysema. [4] (Portuguese)
• Estela Raval, 77, Argentine singer, breast cancer. [5]
• Prince Tomohito of Mikasa, 66, Japanese royal, cancer. [6]
• Mykola Volosyanko, 40, Ukrainian football player. [7] (Russian)

5

• Antoine Bernheim, 87, French banker. [8]
• Ray Bradbury, 91, American science fiction and fantasy author (Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles). [9]
• Tamás Frank, 65, Hungarian businessman, vice president of the Hungaroring Sport Ltd. [10] (Hungarian)
• Hal Keller, 83, American baseball player (Washington Senators) and executive (Seattle Mariners, Texas Rangers), esophageal cancer. [11]
• Lucky Diamond, c. 15, American Maltese dog, Guinness World Record holder (dog most photographed with celebrities), cancer. [12]
• Sensajurō Nishikawa, 70, Japanese dancer, bronchial pneumonia. [13] (Japanese)
• Athinodoros Prousalis, 86, Greek film and television actor, heart attack. [14]
• Charlie Sutton, 88, Australian football player and coach (Footscray). [15]

4

• Peter Beaven, 86, New Zealand architect, cancer. [16]
• Bobby Black, 85, Scottish football player. [17]
• Enrique Bolanos, 87, Mexican-born American boxer. [18]
• Pedro Borbón, 65, Dominican Republic-born American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds), cancer. [19]
• Jim Fitzgerald, 86, American businessman, majority owner of the Milwaukee Bucks (1976–1985) and Golden State Warriors (1986–1995). [20]
• Ireneo García Alonso, 89, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Albacete (1968–1980). [21]
• Bernard A. Jean, 87, Canadian lawyer and politician. [22] (French)
• Eduard Khil, 77, Russian singer ("Trololo"), stroke. [23]
• Abu Yahya al-Libi, 49, Libyan terrorist, senior member of al-Qaeda, drone strike. [24]
• George Marino, 65, American audio mastering engineer (Guns N' Roses, AC/DC, Metallica), lung cancer. [25]
• Rodolfo Quezada Toruño, 80, Guatemalan Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Guatemala (2001–2010), intestinal blockage. [26]
• Herb Reed, 83, American singer (The Platters). [27]
• Bryan Rufenach, 23, Canadian ice hockey player, electrocution. [28]
• Johnny Yoshinaga, 63, Japanese drummer, pneumonia. [29] (Japanese)

3

• Carol Ann Abrams, 69, American film producer (The Ernest Green Story) and author, mother of J. J. Abrams. [30]
• Andy Hamilton, 94, Jamaican-born British saxophonist and composer. [31]
• Rajsoomer Lallah, 79, Mauritian lawyer and judge. [32] (French)
• Bob Meillon, 69, Australian director. [33]
• Tatsuo Miyata, 83, Japanese screenwriter, respiratory failure. [34] (Japanese)
• Roy Salvadori, 90, British Formula One race car driver. [35]
• Sir Brian Talboys, 90, New Zealand politician, MP for Wallace (1957–1981), Deputy Prime Minister (1975–1981). [36]
• Roel de Wit, 85, Dutch politician, Mayor of Alkmaar (1970–1976), Queen's Commissioner of North Holland (1976–1992). [37] (Dutch)

2

• Avraham Botzer, 83, Israeli general, Commander of the Navy (1968–1972). [38] (Hebrew)
• Adolfo Calero, 80, Nicaraguan businessman, leader of the Democratic Force, pneumonia and kidney failure. [39]
• Richard Dawson, 79, English-born American actor (Hogan's Heroes), game show panelist (Match Game) and host (Family Feud), esophageal cancer. [40]
• LeRoy Ellis, 72, American basketball player (Los Angeles Lakers, Philadelphia 76ers, Baltimore Bullets), cancer. [41]
• David C. Garrett, Jr., 90, American businessman, CEO of Delta Air Lines. [42]
• Jan Gmelich Meijling, 76, Dutch politician, Mayor of Castricum (1978–1985) and Den Helder (1985–1994), State Secretary for Defence (1994–1998). [43] (Dutch)
• Kathryn Joosten, 72, American actress (Desperate Housewives, The West Wing), lung cancer. [44]
• Frazier Mohawk, 71, American record producer (Buffalo Springfield, The Byrds), after long illness. [45]
• Oliver, c. 55, Congolese-born common chimpanzee noted for his upright stature and humanlike traits. [46]
• Setsuko Takeda, 87, Japanese politician, member of the House of Councillors, myocardial infarction. [47] (Japanese)

1

• Faruq Z. Bey, 70, American jazz saxophonist, emphysema. [48]
• Pádraig Faulkner, 94, Irish politician, TD for Louth (1957–1987), Minister for Defence (1979–1980), and Ceann Comhairle (1980–1981). [49]
• Toshio Naiki, 74, Japanese businessman, pneumonia. [50] (Japanese)
• Teruo Niinobe, 90, Japanese painter, metastatic liver cancer. [51] (Japanese)
• Marion Sandler, 81, American businesswoman (Golden West Financial). [52]
• Brahmeshwar Singh, 67, Indian militia chief, head of Ranvir Sena. [53]
• Kōtarō Tachibana, 78, Japanese politician and parliamentarian, heart failure. [54] (Japanese)
• Kōichi Takagi, 93, Japanese politician, mayor of Tsuruga, Fukui. [55] (Japanese)
• Juozas Tunaitis, 83, Lithuanian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Vilnius (1991–2010). [56]

May 2012

31

• Christopher Challis, 93, British cinematographer. [57]
• Farid Habib, 77, Lebanese politician, MP for El Koura (since 2005), illness. [58]
• Randall B. Kester, 95, American attorney and judge. [59]
• Mark Midler, 80, Russian Olympic gold medal-winning (1960, 1964) foil fencer. [60] (Russian)
• Kiyohiko Ozaki, 69, Japanese pop singer, liver cancer. [61] (Japanese)
• Paul Sussman, 44, British journalist (CNN), archaeologist, and author, ruptured aneurysm. [62]
• Orlando Woolridge, 52, American basketball player (Chicago Bulls) and coach (Los Angeles Sparks), heart disease. [63]

30

• Pierre Ceyrac, 98, French Jesuit missionary. [64] (French)
• Pete Cosey, 68, American guitarist. [65]
• Edi Federer, 57, Austrian ski jumper, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [66]
• John Fox, 55, American comedian, colon cancer. [67]
• Buddy Freitag, 80, American Broadway theatre producer (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Catch Me If You Can), brain tumour. [68]
• Sky Hertwig, 60, American football player (Detroit Lions), heart failure. [69]
• Sir Andrew Huxley, 94, British physiologist, biophysicist, and Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine, 1963). [70]
• Charles Lemmond, 84, American politician, Pennsylvania State Senator (1985–2006). [71]
• Farideh Mashini, Iranian feminist activist. [72] (Persian)
• Hiroki Oda, 98, Japanese painter, heart failure. [73] (Japanese)
• Gerhard Pohl, 74, German politician, drowning. [74] (German)
• Jack Twyman, 78, American Hall of Fame basketball player (Rochester/Cincinnati Royals), blood cancer. [75]

29

• Dick Beals, 85, American voice actor (Davey and Goliath, Speedy Alka-Seltzer). [76]
• Cassandra Jardine, 57, British journalist, lung cancer. [77]
• Mark Minkov, 67, Russian composer. [78] (Russian)
• Jim Paratore, 58, American television producer (TMZ, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Rosie O'Donnell Show), heart attack. [79]
• Ivor Porter, 98, British diplomat. [80]
• Ola O. Røssum, 86, Norwegian politician. [81] (Norwegian)
• Kaneto Shindo, 100, Japanese film director, natural causes. [82]
• Jim Unger, 75, English-born Canadian cartoonist (Herman). [83]
• Doc Watson, 89, American folk and bluegrass musician, complications following surgery. [84]

28

• Don Anthony, 83, British Olympic hammer thrower. [85]
• Kuniichi Asami, 90, Japanese jockey, horse trainer and owner, illness. [86] (Japanese)
• Hugh Dawnay, 79, English soldier and polo player. [87]
• Bob Edwards, 86, British journalist. [88]
• James Leslie, 89, Australian businessman, Chancellor of Deakin University. [89]
• Ludovic Quistin, 28, Guadeloupean footballer (Tamworth), traffic accident. [90]
• Yuri Susloparov, 53, Ukrainian-born Russian football player and coach. [91] (Ukrainian)
• Bill Wohrman, 81, American actor (Porky's, Cocoon: The Return), natural causes. [92]
• Matthew Yuricich, 89, American special effects artist (Field of Dreams, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Blade Runner). [93]

27

• Sakhr al-Taifi, Afghan al-Qaeda leader. [94] (Dutch)
• John Brain, 51, British rugby player (Gloucester). [95]
• Dee Caruso, 83, American television writer (Get Smart, The Monkees), pneumonia. [96]
• Simeon Daniel, 77, Saint Kitts and Nevis politician, Premier of Nevis (1983–1992). [97]
• Friedrich Hirzebruch, 84, German mathematician. [98]
• Kasuke Iimori, 75, Japanese scholar (Takushoku University). [99] (Japanese)
• Zita Kabátová, 99, Czech actress. [100] (Czech)
• David Rimoin, 75, American geneticist, pancreatic cancer. [101]
• Earl Shorris, 75, American writer and social critic. [102]
• Johnny Tapia, 45, American boxer. [103] (body discovered on this date)

26

• Orhan Boran, 84, Turkish television host, bone marrow cancer. [104]
• Arthur Decabooter, 75, Belgian professional racing cyclist, heart attack. [105] (Dutch)
• Leo Dillon, 79, American comic book illustrator (Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears), complications from lung surgery. [106]
• Rudy Eugene, 31, American criminal and cannibal, shooting. [107]
• Stephen Healey, 29, British Army officer and footballer (Swansea City), improvised explosive device. [108]
• William Lee Miller, 86, American author. [109]
• Hiroshi Miyazawa, 90, Japanese politician, Minister of Justice (1995), Governor of Hiroshima Prefecture (1973–1981), natural causes. [110] (Japanese)
• Hans Schmidt, 87, Canadian professional wrestler. [111]
• Roy Wilson, 72, Jamaican singer (Higgs and Wilson). [112]

25

• Sandy Dahl, 52, American activist, widow of United Airlines Flight 93 pilot Jason Dahl, natural causes. [113]
• Dilip, 56, Indian actor, heart attack. [114]
• Robert Fossier, 84, French historian [115]
• Keith Gardner, 82, Jamaican Olympic bronze medal-winning (1960) athlete, complications of surgery and stroke. [116]
• William Hanley, 80, American screenwriter and playwright. [117]
• Yasuo Ido, 67, Japanese politician, mayor of Ukiha, Fukuoka, cancer. [118] (Japanese)
• Ryūichi Kawamura, 69, Japanese radio personality. [119] (Japanese)
• Walter Malli, 71, Austrian jazz musician and artist. [120] (German)
• Edoardo Mangiarotti, 93, Italian Olympic gold medal-winning (1936, 1952, 1956, 1960) fencer. [121]
• Beatrice Sparks, 95, American therapist and writer. [122]

24

• Klaas Carel Faber, 90, Dutch-born Nazi war criminal, kidney failure. [123]
• Kathi Kamen Goldmark, 63, American writer, cancer. [124]
• Sir James Hamilton, 89, British aeronautical engineer (Concorde). [125]
• Jacqueline Harpman, 82, Belgian writer. [126] (French)
• Ryōsuke Hatanaka, 90, Japanese baritone, choral conductor, music critic, and composer, pneumonia. [127] (Japanese)
• Godfried Lannoo, 85, Belgian editor. [128] (Dutch)
• Hermengild Li Yi, 88, Chinese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Lu’an (since 1998). [129]
• Juan Francisco Lombardo, 86, Argentine football player. [130] (Spanish)
• Mark McConnell, American drummer (Sebastian Bach, Blackfoot), multiple organ failure. [131]
• Ric McDonald, 69, American football head trainer (San Diego Chargers). [132]
• Steve Michalik, 63, American bodybuilder. [133]
• Ndombe Opetum, 65, Congolese musician. [134] (French)
• Lee Rich, 93, American television executive and producer (The Waltons, Dallas), lung cancer. [135]
• Van Smith, 67, American baseball scout (San Diego Padres). [136]
• Yoshiyuki Suzuki, 65, Japanese guitarist, liver failure. [137] (Japanese) (body discovered on this date)
• Lou Watson, 88, American basketball player and coach (Indiana University). [138]

23

• T. Garry Buckley, 89, American politician, Vermont State Senator (1955–1965), Lieutenant Governor (1977–1979). [139]
• Gyula Elek, 80, Hungarian handball player and coach. [140] (Hungarian)
• Sattareh Farmanfarmaian, 91, Iranian writer and princess. [141] (Persian)
• Paul Fussell, 88, American literary scholar and social critic, natural causes. [142]
• Al Gordon, 89, American television writer (Three's Company, The Jack Benny Program), seizure. [143]
• Barbara Holborow, 81, Australian magistrate, NSW Senior Australian of the Year (2012), cancer. [144]
• Hal Jackson, 96, American disc jockey and radio personality. [145]
• Joseph Lesniewski, 91, American World War II veteran, member of Easy Company. [146]
• Kuly Ral, 35, British musician (RDB), cancer. [147]
• William C. Wampler, 86, American politician, U.S. Representative for Virginia (1953–1955, 1967–1983). [148]

22

• Muzaffar Ahmed, 79, Bangladeshi economist, natural causes. [149]
• Wesley A. Brown, 85, American naval officer, first African-American graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. [150]
• Janet Carroll, 71, American singer and actress (Risky Business, Married... with Children, Murphy Brown), brain tumor. [151]
• Dave Mann, 79, American football player (Chicago Cardinals, Toronto Argonauts), complications from dementia. [152]
• Yasuko Minorikawa, 66, Japanese stylist, cancer. [153] (Japanese)
• Shiu-Ying Hu, 102, Chinese botanist. [154]
• Boleslaw Sulik, 83, Polish film maker. [155]
• Alan Thorne, 73, Australian anthropologist, developer of the theory of multiregional origin of modern humans, Alzheimer's disease. [156]
• Aleksey Vanin, 87, Russian film actor. [157] (Russian)
• Mike Voight, 58, American football player (Houston Oilers). [158]
• Sir Derek Wanless, 64, British banker and public policy adviser, pancreatic cancer. [159]
• Jesse Whittenton, 78, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Los Angeles Rams). [160]
• Hidekazu Yoshida. 98, Japanese music critic and literary critic. [161]

21

• Kyūya Arai, 80, Japanese businessman, executive vice-president of the Broadcasting System of Niigata. [162] (Japanese)
• Eddie Blazonczyk, 70, American polka musician, natural causes. [163]
• Otis Clark, 109, American evangelist, oldest known survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race riot, and butler (to Clark Gable, Charlie Chaplin and Joan Crawford), natural causes. [164]
• Constantine of Irinoupolis, 75, American Orthodox hierarch, Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA (since 1993). [165]
• Heiko Daxl, 54, German media artist. [166] (German)
• Roman Dumbadze, 48, Georgian rebel commander, shooting. [167]
• Ezell Lee, 74, American politician, Mississippi State Representative (1988–1992) and State Senator (1992–2012), cancer. [168]
• Juan Manuel Montero Vázquez, 64, Spanish military surgeon. [169] (Spanish)
• Akira Ōmori, 85, Japanese politician, member of the House of Councillors, brain tumor. [170] (Japanese)
• Douglas Rodríguez, 61, Cuban boxer, heart attack. [171] (death announced on this date)
• Bill Stewart, 59, American football coach (West Virginia University), apparent heart attack. [172]
• Rodolfo Félix Valdés, 86, Mexican politician, Governor of Sonora (1985–1991). [173] (Spanish)

20

• Safiuddin Ahmed, 89, Bangladeshi painter and printmaker. [174]
• Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, 60, Libyan terrorist, convicted of bombing Pan Am Flight 103, prostate cancer. [175]
• Bob Bethell, 69, American politician, Kansas State Representative (since 1999), car accident. [176]
• Louis F. Burns, 92, American tribal and Osage Nation historian. [177]
• Leela Dube, 89, Indian anthropologist. [178]
• Geoffrey Evans, 69, Irish serial killer. [179]
• John George, 81, Scottish officer of arms. [180]
• Robin Gibb, 62, British singer and songwriter (Bee Gees), colon and liver cancer. [181]
• Shane Hidalgo, 24, American professional skateboarder, car accident. [182]
• Nils Jernsletten, 77, Norwegian linguist. [183] (Norwegian)
• David Littman, 78, British historian and human rights activist. [184]
• Eugene Polley, 96, American engineer, inventor of the wireless TV remote control. [185]
• Howie Richmond, 94, American music publisher and executive. [186]
• Carrie Smith, 70, American blues and jazz singer. [187]
• Andrew B. Steinberg, 53, American lawyer. [188]
• Svenn Stray, 90, Norwegian politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1970–1971, 1981–1986). [189] (Norwegian)

19

• Bob Boozer, 75, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1960) basketball player (Cincinnati Royals, New York Knicks, Chicago Bulls), brain aneurysm. [190]
• Tamara Brooks, 70, American choral conductor. [191]
• Mark Buckley, 35, Scottish motorcycle racer, crash during 2012 North West 200 Races. [192]
• Ian Burgess, 81, British racing driver. [193]
• Muriel Cerf, 61, French writer, cancer. [194] (French)
• Isak Doera, 80, Philippine-born Indonesian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Sintang (1976–1996). [195]
• Ranjit Kumar Gupta, 93, Indian police chief. [196]
• Gerhard Hetz, 69, German Olympic silver and bronze medal-winning (1964) swimmer. [197] (German)
• Phil Lamason, 93, New Zealand Air Force officer. [198]
• Mauro Pichini, 33, Argentine racing driver, plane crash. [199] (Spanish)
• Willie Robinson, 70, American drag racer and promoter, after long illness. [200]
• Heiichi Sugiyama, 97, Japanese poet and film critic, pneumonia. [201] (Japanese)
• Kōichi Toda, 71, Japanese painter, rectal cancer. [202] (Japanese)

18

• Marco Antonio Ávila García, 39, Mexican journalist. [203] (body discovered on this date)
• Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, 86, German baritone and conductor. [204]
• Tom Fuentes, 63, American political leader, Orange County Republican Party chairman (1985–2004), liver cancer. [205]
• Kōsō Fujimoto, 86, Japanese calligrapher, senility. [206] (Japanese)
• Jai Gurudev, 116 (unverified), Indian religious leader. [207]
• Peter Jones, 49, British drummer (Crowded House), brain cancer. [208]
• Justo Justo, 70, Filipino columnist and politician. [209]
• Hans-Dieter Lange, 85, German TV journalist. [210] (German)
• Alan Oakley, 85, British designer of Raleigh Chopper bicycle, cancer. [211]
• Paul O'Sullivan, 48, Canadian comedian and actor, car accident. [212]
• Gavin Packard, 48, British-born Indian Bollywood film actor, respiratory disease. [213]
• Richard Rabago, 68, American actor (VR Troopers) and martial artist. [214]
• Joe Sampite, 81, American politician, Mayor of Natchitoches, Louisiana (1980–2000). [215]
• A. Teeuw, 90, Dutch critic of Indonesian literature. [216]

17

• Warda Al-Jazairia, 72, Algerian singer, cardiac arrest. [217]
• Agron Aliaj, Albanian ballet master and choreographer, complications from a car accident. [218] (Albanian)
• Herbert Breslin, 87, American music industry executive, heart attack. [219]
• Sophia Brown, 30, British reality show contestant (Big Brother 10). [220]
• France Clidat, 79, French classical pianist. [221] (French)
• Gideon Ezra, 74, Israeli politician, MK (since 1996), lung cancer. [222]
• Patrick Mafisango, 32, Congolese-born Rwandan footballer, car accident. [223]
• Nobuyuki Morikawa, 79, Japanese saxophonist, lung cancer. [224] (Japanese)
• Stepan Karapetovich Pogosyan, 80, Armenian historian and politician. [225] (Russian)
• Derek Round, 77, New Zealand journalist, injuries following assault. [226] (body discovered on this date)
• Ron Shock, 69, American stand-up comedian, urethral cancer. [227]
• Donna Summer, 63, American singer ("Bad Girls", "Hot Stuff", "Last Dance", "I Feel Love"), lung cancer. [228]
• Harald Synnes, 81, Norwegian politician. [229]
• Moti Tikaram, 87, Fijian judge and ombudsman. [230]

16

• Patricia Aakhus, 59, Irish novelist, cancer. [231]
• James Abdnor, 89, American politician, U.S. Representative (1973–1981) and U.S. Senator (1981–1987) from South Dakota. [232]
• Maria Bieşu, 76, Moldovan opera singer, leukemia. [233] (Russian)
• Chuck Brown, 75, American singer and musician ("Bustin' Loose"), multiple organ failure. [234]
• Ernie Chan, 71, Filipino-born American comic book artist. [235]
• Pat Dickie, 93, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Council for Ballarat (1956–1978). [236]
• Doug Dillard, 75, American bluegrass musician (The Dillards) and actor (The Andy Griffith Show), lung infection. [237]
• Kurt Felix, 71, Swiss television presenter, thymoma. [238] (German)
• Hans Geister, 83, German runner. [239] (German)
• Kevin Hickey, 56, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Baltimore Orioles), complications of a seizure. [240]
• Ikuya Katō, 83, Japanese haiku poet and critic, heart failure. [241] (Japanese)
• Mary Richardson Kennedy, 52, American architect, estranged wife of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., suicide by hanging. [242]
• Susumu Kobayashi, 58, Japanese actor, tarento, and member of the owarai group Hipup, gastric cancer. [243] (Japanese)
• Andrei Mylnikov, 93, Russian painter. [244] (Russian)
• Jesse L. Thomas, 83, American football player (Baltimore Colts), of complications from dementia. [245]
• Thad Tillotson, 71, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Nakai Hawks). [246]
• Anne Warner, 71, British biologist, cerebral haemorrhage [247]
• Yonghan Qiu, 89, Taiwanese businessperson and author. [248] (Chinese)

15

• Henry Denker, 99, American novelist and playwright, lung cancer. [249]
• Carlos Fuentes, 83, Panamanian-born Mexican novelist, internal hemorrhage. [250]
• Jean Craighead George, 92, American children's author (Julie of the Wolves, My Side of the Mountain), heart failure. [251]
• Peter Koslowski, 59, German philosopher and academic. [252] (German)
• Arno Lustiger, 88, Upper Silesian-born German writer and Judaic historian. [253]
• Zakaria Mohieddin, 93, Egyptian politician and military officer, Vice President (1961–1964, 1965–1968), Prime Minister (1965–1966). [254]
• John Murray, 11th Duke of Atholl, 83, South African-born hereditary peer of the Peerage of Scotland. [255]
• Sanae Nakahara, 76, Japanese actress, heart failure. [256] (Japanese)
• Sir Roy Shaw, 93, British arts administrator. [257]
• Frederick E. Smith, 93, British author (633 Squadron), heart attack. [258]
• Betty Miller Unterberger, 89, Scottish-born American historian. [259]
• Alfredo Villatoro, Honduran journalist. [260] (body found on this date)
• George Wyllie, 90, Scottish sculptor. [261]

14

• Vladimer Aptsiauri, 50, Georgian Olympic gold medal-winning (1988) fencer. [262]
• Tor Marius Gromstad, 22, Norwegian footballer (Stabæk), fall. [263] (Norwegian) (body discovered on this date)
• Mitchell Guist, 48, American reality series cast member (Swamp People), natural causes. [264]
• Derek Hammond-Stroud, 86, English opera singer. [265]
• Ernst Hinterberger, 80, Austrian author and screenwriter (Kaisermühlen Blues, Ein echter Wiener geht nicht unter). [266] (German)
• Maude Aimee Humbard, 89, American gospel singer, widow of televangelist Rex Humbard, complications from Alzheimer's disease. [267]
• Chōseki Kanō, 82, Japanese calligrapher, pneumonia. [268] (Japanese)
• Louise Latimer, 96, American actress. [269]
• Mike McGrady, 78, American writer. [270]
• Taruni Sachdev, 14, Indian film actress (Paa), plane crash. [271]
• Mario Trejo, 86, Argentine poet. [272] (Spanish)
• Belita Woods, 63, American funk singer (Brainstorm, Parliament-Funkadelic), heart failure. [273]
• Tatsuya Yoshimura, 60, Japanese author, stomach cancer. [274] (Japanese)

13

• Trond Bråthen, 35, Norwegian singer and guitarist (Urgehal). [275]
• Arsala Rahmani Daulat, Afghan politician, Afghan High Peace Council member, shot. [276]
• Donald "Duck" Dunn, 70, American bass guitarist (The Blues Brothers, Booker T. & the M.G.'s). [277]
• Katya Filipova, 63, Bulgarian pop singer, pulmonary embolism. [278]
• Jin Chang-hyun, 82, South Korean violin manufacturer, colorectal cancer. [279] (Japanese)
• Les Leston, 91, British racing driver. [280]
• Jean McFarlane, Baroness McFarlane of Llandaff, 86, British nurse and peeress. [281]
• Nguyen Van Thien, 106, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Vinh Long (1960–1968). [282]
• Lee Richardson, 33, British speedway rider, in-race crash. [283]
• Nolan Richardson III, 47, American college basketball coach (Tennessee State University). [284]
• Don Ritchie, 85, Australian volunteer, rescued 160 people from suicide. [285]
• Jack Simcock, 82, British artist. [286]
• Bill Walsh, 84, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers). [287]
• Trevor Young, 86, New Zealand politician, MP for Hutt (1968–1978); Eastern Hutt (1978–1990). [288]

12

• Jan Bens, 91, Dutch footballer (Feyenoord). [289]
• Paul Cyr, 48, Canadian hockey player (Buffalo Sabres, New York Rangers, Hartford Whalers), heart failure. [290]
• Paul Dee, 65, American lawyer and athletic director (University of Miami). [291]
• Ernst Josef Fittkau, 75, German entomologist. [292] (German)
• Ruth Foster, 92, American actress (Little House on the Prairie). [293]
• Edward Joint, 89, American soldier and member of Easy Company. [294]
• Terry Martin, 74, American surfboard shaper. [295]
• Neil McKenty, 87, Canadian radio talk-show host and author. [296]
• Eddy Paape, 91, Belgian comics artist (Luc Orient). [297] (Dutch)
• Harold Arthur Poling, 86, American businessman, CEO and Chairman of Ford Motor Company (1990–1993). [298]
• Sam Porcello, 76, American food scientist, created the Oreo cookie filling. [299]
• Ken Selby, 76, American businessman, founder of Mazzio's, complications from lung cancer. [300]
• Fritz Ursell, 89, German-born British mathematician (Ursell number). [301]

11

• Jack Benaroya, 90, American real estate developer. [302]
• Patrick Bosch, 47, Dutch footballer (FC Twente), car accident. [303] (Dutch)
• Stanislav Brebera, 86, Czech chemist. [304] (Czech)
• Massimo Cenci, 68, Italian Roman Catholic priest, deputy secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, heart attack. [305]
• Tony DeZuniga, 79, Filipino comic book artist and co-creator of Jonah Hex and Black Orchid, complications from stroke. [306]
• Thea Hochleitner, 86, Austrian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1956) alpine skier. [307] (German)
• Rodolfo Kappenberger, 95, Swiss footballer. [308]
• Sir Michael Kerry, 88, British public servant. [309]
• Ramesh Mehta, 78, Indian comedian, playwright, director, and actor. [310]
• László Seregi, 82, Hungarian dancer and choreographer. [311] (French)
• Martin Stovold, 56, English cricketer, lung disease. [312]
• Travis H. Tomlinson, 98, American politician, Mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina (1965–1969). [313]
• Frank Wills, 53, American baseball player (Toronto Blue Jays, Kansas City Royals, Cleveland Indians). [314]

10

• Peter David, 60, British journalist (The Economist). [315]
• Horst Faas, 79, German photojournalist (Associated Press). [316]
• Ranjitsinh Pratapsinh Gaekwad, 74, Indian politician, member of the Lok Sabha (1980–1989), Maharaja of Baroda (since 1988). [317]
• Evelyn Johnson, 102, American aviator. [318]
• Miyozō Katō, 100, Japanese painter, senility. [319] (Japanese)
• April Kauffman, 47, American radio personality, homicide by firearm. [320]
• Günther Kaufmann, 64, German film actor, heart attack. [321]
• Pekka Marjamäki, 64, Finnish Olympic ice hockey player, heart attack. [322]
• Adam Christopher Mayes, 35, American FBI Top Ten Fugitive, suicide. [323]
• Kōichi Nakamoto, 75, Japanese politician, mayor of Ikoma, Nara, liver cancer. [324] (Japanese)
• Eddie Perkins, 75, American boxer. [325]
• Joyce Redman, 96, English-born Irish actress (Othello, Tom Jones), pneumonia. [326]
• Bernardo Sassetti, 41, Portuguese jazz pianist and film composer, fall. [327] (Portuguese)
• Carroll Shelby, 89, American automobile racer and designer. [328]
• Umeko Shimomura, 100, Japanese haiku poet, pneumonia. [329] (Japanese)
• Andreas Shipanga, 80, Namibian politician, Chairman of the Transitional Government of National Unity (1987, 1988), heart attack. [330]
• Gunnar Sønsteby, 94, Norwegian resistance movement member. [331] (Norwegian)
• Yasutomo Watanabe, 95, Japanese painter, acute heart failure. [332] (Japanese)
• Walter Wink, 76, American theologian, complications of dementia. [333]
• Gulumbu Yunupingu, 69, Australian Aboriginal artist. [334]

9

• Carl Beane, 59, American sports broadcaster and public address announcer (Fenway Park), heart attack. [335]
• Celso Chavez, 44, American guitarist (Possum Dixon), pneumonia. [336]
• Bertram Cohler, 73, American psychologist. [337]
• Alain Fossoul, 83, Belgian footballer, [338] (French)
• Sir Geoffrey Henry, 71, Cook Islands politician, Prime Minister (1983, 1989–1999), and Speaker of Parliament (since 2011), cancer. [339]
• Yoshiyuki Nagatake, 73, Japanese opera researcher and critic, prostate cancer. [340] (Japanese)
• Vidal Sassoon, 84, British hairstylist, leukemia. [341]
• Ingvald M. Smith-Kielland, 92, Norwegian royal servant. [342]
• Shizuteru Usui, 74, Japanese physician and author, president of the Hiroshima Prefectural Medical Association. [343] (Japanese)

8

• Ampon Tangnoppakul, 64, Thai detainee. [344]
• William Aquin Carew, 89, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Apostolic Nuncio to Japan (1983–1997). [345]
• Junichi Itō, 63, Japanese banker, president of the Daisan Bank. [346] (Japanese)
• Nicholas Katzenbach, 90, American lawyer, United States Attorney General (1965–1966). [347]
• Lau Teng Chuan, 83, Singaporean sports administrator, stomach cancer. [348]
• Everett Lilly, 87, American bluegrass musician (The Lilly Brothers). [349]
• Carlos Loiseau, 63, Argentine cartoonist, cancer. [350]
• Sergio Marqués Fernández, 65, Spanish politician, President of the Principality of Asturias (1995-1999). [351]
• Bob Marshall, 77, American politician. Mayor of San Bruno, California (1980–1991). [352]
• Jerry McMorris, 71, American baseball executive (Colorado Rockies), pancreatic cancer. [353]
• Kiyoko Ōtani, 93, Japanese soprano, respiratory failure. [354] (Japanese)
• Frank Parr, 83, English cricketer and jazz musician. [355]
• Louis H. Pollak, 89, American federal judge. [356]
• George Stephen Ritchie, 97, British admiral. [357]
• Stacy Robinson, 50, American football player (New York Giants), cancer. [358]
• Minoru Sano, 85, Japanese businessperson, founder and president of Nipro, heart failure. [359] (Japanese)
• Maurice Sendak, 83, American author and illustrator (Where the Wild Things Are, Little Bear), complications of a stroke. [360]
• Roman Totenberg, 101, Polish-born American violinist, renal failure. [361]
• Jan van der Velden, 71, Dutch footballer, [362] (Dutch)

7

• Ivan Allen, 81, American ballet dancer (Metropolitan Opera). [363]
• Ferenc Bartha, 68, Hungarian economist, Governor of the National Bank of Hungary (1988–1990), suicide. [364] (Hungarian)
• Jules Bocandé, 53, Senegalese footballer, complications of surgery and stroke. [365]
• R. Michael Canjar, 58, American mathematician. [366]
• Robert Everett Coyle, 82, American federal judge. [367]
• Andrea Crisanti, 75, Italian production designer and art director. [368]
• Dennis E. Fitch, 69, American pilot (United Airlines Flight 232), brain cancer. [369]
• Hirotada Hayase, 71, Japanese track and field athlete (1960 Summer Olympics, 1964 Summer Olympics), blood poisoning. [370] (Japanese)
• Alexander Keynan, 90, Israeli microbiologist, co-founder and the first director of Israel Institute for Biological Research. [371] (Hebrew)

6

• Fahd al-Quso, 37, Yemeni militant, al-Qaeda member, airstrike. [372]
• Michael Burks, 54, American blues musician, heart attack. [373]
• Pat Frink, 67, American basketball player (Cincinnati Royals), automobile accident. [374]
• Iraj Ghaderi, 77, Iranian film director and actor. [375] (Persian)
• Kåre Øistein Hansen, 88, Norwegian politician. [376]
• James Isaac, 51, American film director (Jason X) and special effects supervisor, blood cancer. [377]
• Kostas Karras, 76, Greek actor, MP (2000–2007), prostate cancer. [378] (Greek)
• Félix Kouadjo, 73, Ivorian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bondoukou (since 1996). [379]
• Jean Laplanche, 87, French psychoanalyst, pulmonary fibrosis, [380] (French)
• George Lindsey, 83, American actor (The Andy Griffith Show, Mayberry R.F.D., Hee Haw), after brief illness. [381]
• Georgi Lozanov, 85, Bulgarian educator, developed Suggestopedia. [382]
• KM Mathew, 77, Indian writer. [383]
• Marika Mitsotakis, 82, Greek politician, wife of the Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Mitsotakis (1990–1993), complications of poliomyelitis. [384]
• John Slack, 81, English cricketer and judge. [385]
• Yale Summers, 78, American actor (Daktari). [386]
• Tran Dinh Truong, 80, Vietnamese businessman. [387] (Vietnamese)
• Jan Trøjborg, 56, Danish politician, member of the Folketing (1987–2005), and Defence Minister (2000–2001), heart failure. [388] (Danish)

5

• Stevan Bena, 76, Serbian footballer. [389] (Serbian)
• Count Carl Johan Bernadotte of Wisborg, 95, Swedish royal, youngest son of King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden. [390]
• James R. Browning, 93, American judge. [391]
• Aatos Erkko, 79, Finnish journalist and publisher, after long illness. [392]
• George Knobel, 89, Dutch football manager, complications of Alzheimer's disease. [393] (Dutch)
• Miguel Mora Gornals, 75, Spanish Olympic cyclist. [394] (Spanish)
• Roy Padayachie, 62, South African politician. [395]
• Ivica Šangulin, 75, Croatian football player and manager. [396] (Croation)
• Surendranath, 75, Indian cricketer. [397]
• Ali Uras, 88, Turkish Olympic basketball player and president of Galatasaray S.K. (1979–1986). [398] (Turkish)

4

• Haukur Angantýsson, 63, Icelandic chess player. [399] (Icelandic)
• T. P. Chandrasekharan, 51, Indian politician. [400]
• Alexander Chikvaidze, 74, Georgian diplomat. [401] (Georgian)
• Charlotte Hawkins Flowers, 112, American supercentenarian, kidney failure. [402]
• Angelica Garnett, 93, British writer and painter. [403]
• Crawford Hallock Greenewalt, Jr., 74, American archaeologist. [404]
• Mort Lindsey, 89, American orchestra leader and composer. [405]
• Alikhan Nakotskhoyev, 25, Russian football player. [406] (Russian)
• Anthony O'Connell, 73, Irish-born American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Knoxville (1988–1998) and Palm Beach (1998–2002). [407]
• Edward Short, Baron Glenamara, 99, British politician, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party (1972–1976), MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central (1951–1976). [408]
• Bob Stewart, 91, American television game show producer (Password, To Tell the Truth, The Price Is Right), natural causes. [409]
• Adam Yauch, 47, American musician (Beastie Boys) and film director (Gunnin' for That No. 1 Spot), salivary gland cancer. [410]
• Rashidi Yekini, 48, Nigerian footballer. [411]

3

• Edith Bliss, 52, Australian pop singer and television presenter. [412]
• Lloyd Brevett, 80, Jamaican double bassist (The Skatalites), complications from stroke. [413]
• Peter K. Cullins, 83, American admiral, first commander of the Naval Data Automation Command, complications from hepatitis B. [414]
• John Miles Foley, 65, American folklorist and literary scholar. [415]
• Jorge Illueca, 93, Panamanian politician, President (1984), respiratory failure. [416] (Spanish)
• František Tondra, 75, Slovak Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Spiš (1989–2011), heart failure. [417] (Slovak)
• Felix Werder, 90, German-born Australian composer. [418]

2

• Peter Connolly, 77, British historian. [419]
• Mark Deutch, 67, Russian journalist, drowned. [420] (Russian)
• Nélida Gómez de Navajas, 76, Argentine human rights activist (Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo). [421] (Spanish)
• Fernando Lopes, 76, Portuguese film director, throat cancer. [422] (Portuguese)
• James Marker, 90, American-born Canadian businessman, inventor of Cheezies. [423]
• Charlotte Mitchell, 85, British actress. [424]
• Tufan Miñnullin, 76, Russian Tatar writer and playwright, heart attack. [425] (Russian)
• Les Mogg, 82, Australian football player. [426]
• Donald L. Owens, 82, American military officer. [427]
• J. T. Ready, 39, American border militia leader, former neo-Nazi, suicide by gunshot. [428]
• Junior Seau, 43, American football player (San Diego Chargers, Miami Dolphins, New England Patriots), suicide by gunshot. [429]
• Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih, 57, Indonesian physician, Minister of Health (2009–2012), cancer. [430]
• Akira Tonomura, 70, Japanese physicist, pancreatic cancer. [431] (Japanese)
• Digby Wolfe, 82, British actor and screenwriter (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In), cancer. [432]
• Zvi Zeitlin, 90, Belorussian-born American classical violinist, pneumonia. [433]

1

• Gonçalo Amorim, 39, Portuguese Olympic cyclist. [434] (Portuguese)
• Gogó Andreu, 92, Argentine comedian and actor. [435] (Spanish)
• John Spencer Hardy, 98, American lieutenant general, NATO commander for Southern Europe. [436]
• Harold K. Hoskins, 85, American pilot, Tuskegee Airman, Congressional Gold Medal winner, complications from a fall. [437]
• Greg Jackson, 60, American basketball player (New York Knicks, Phoenix Suns), heart attack. [438]
• Eric James, 87, British Anglican clergyman and broadcaster. [439]
• Senteza Kajubi, 86, Ugandan university administrator and academic. [440]
• James Kinley, 86, Canadian engineer and industrialist, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (1994–2000). [441]
• Charles Pitts, 65, American soul musician, guitarist for Isaac Hayes, lung cancer. [442]
• Harriet Presser, 76, American sociologist and demographer. [443]
• Earl Rose, 85, American medical examiner, attempted to autopsy President Kennedy after assassination, Parkinson's disease. [444]
• Shanmugasundari, 75, Indian film actress, heart attack. [445]
• Mordechai Virshubski, 82, Israeli politician, MK (1977–1992) and Deputy Speaker of the Knesset (1988–1992). [446]

April 2012

See Deaths in April 2012.

March 2012

See Deaths in March 2012.

February 2012

See Deaths in February 2012.

January 2012

See Deaths in January 2012.

See also

• Deaths in 2011
• Deaths in 2010
• Deaths in 2009
• Deaths in 2008
• Deaths in 2007
• Deaths in 2006

• Deaths in 2005
• Deaths in 2004
• Deaths in 2003
• Deaths in 2002
• Deaths in 2001
• Deaths in 2000

• Deaths in 1999
• Deaths in 1998
• Deaths in 1997
• Deaths in 1996
• Deaths in 1995
• Deaths in 1994

• Deaths in 1993
• Deaths in 1992
• Deaths in 1991
• Deaths in 1990
• Deaths in 1989
• Deaths in 1988

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