Deaths in 2010
Appearance
The following is a list of notable deaths in 2010. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.
January 2010
- Ghazali Shafie, 87, Malaysian politician, former Home Minister (1973–1981) and Foreign Minister (1981–1984). [1]
- Robert Mosbacher, 82, American politician, Secretary of Commerce (1989–1992), pancreatic cancer. [2]
- Leonid Nechayev, 70, Russian film director, stroke. [3] (Russian)
- Robert Lam, 64, Malaysian news presenter, skin cancer. [4]
- Roger Pierre, 86, French actor (Mon oncle d'Amérique), cancer. [5] (French)
- Oleg Velyky, 32, Ukrainian-born German handball player, skin cancer. [6] (German)
- Earl Wild, 94, American classical pianist, heart failure. [7]
- Apache, American rapper, after long illness. [8]
- Clayton Gerein, 45, Canadian wheelchair sports athlete, seven-time Paralympian, cancer. [9]
- Louis R. Harlan, 87, American Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, after long illness. [10]
- Iskandar of Johor, 77, Malaysian Yang di-Pertuan Agong (1984–1989), Sultan of Johor (1981–2010). [11]
- Jennifer Lyn Jackson, 40, American Playboy model, drug overdose. [12]
- Robert "Squirrel" Lester, 67, American smooth soul tenor (The Chi-Lites). [13]
- Janeshwar Mishra, 76, Indian politician, cardiac arrest. [14]
- James Mitchell, 89, American actor (All My Children), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. [15]
- Maggie Renfro, 114, American supercentenarian, fourth-oldest person in the world. [16]
- Gordon Richardson, Baron Richardson of Duntisbourne, 94, British Governor of the Bank of England (1973–1983). [17]
- Jean Simmons, 80, British-born American actress (Hamlet, Spartacus), lung cancer. [18]
- Betty Wilson, 88, Australian cricketer. [19]
- Bobby Bragan, 92, American baseball player and manager. [20]
- Irwin Dambrot, 81, American basketball player involved in the CCNY Point Shaving Scandal, Parkinson's disease. [21]
- Timothy Kennelly, 18, British heavy metal bassist (After Death), drowning. [22]
- Chindodi Leela, 72, Indian theatre and film actress, complications from heart attack. [23]
- Hal Manders, 92, American baseball player. [24]
- Jacques Martin, 88, French comics artist and writer. [25] (French)
- Guillermo Abadía Morales, 97, Colombian folklore researcher, natural causes. [26] (Spanish)
- Curt Motton, 69, American baseball player, stomach cancer. [27]
- Paul Quarrington, 56, Canadian novelist, musician and screenwriter, lung cancer. [28]
- Apostolos Vasiliadis, 75, Greek footballer (PAOK F.C.). [29] (Greek)
- Leon Villalba, 21, British heavy metal guitarist (After Death), drowning. [30]
- Patricia Donoho Hughes, 79, American First Lady of Maryland (1979–1987), wife of Harry Hughes, Parkinson's disease. [31]
- Jim Korthe, 39, American vocalist (3rd Strike), after short illness. [32]
- Calvin Maglinger, 85, American painter. [33]
- John Moore, 68, Nigerian Roman Catholic Bishop of Bauchi (since 2003). [34]
- Jack Parry, 86, Welsh footballer. [35]
- Konstantin Popov, 47, Russian journalist, beaten by police. [36]
- Joe Ptacek, 37, American death metal vocalist (Broken Hope), suicide by gunshot. [37]
- Lynn Taitt, 75, Jamaican reggae guitarist, cancer. [38]
- Tom Cochran, 85, American football player (Washington Redskins). [39]
- Dan Fitzgerald, 67, American college basketball coach (Gonzaga). [40]
- Christos Hatziskoulidis, 58, Greek footballer (Egaleo F.C.), cancer. [41] (Greek)
- Vladimir Karpov, 87, Russian writer, Chairman of the USSR Union of Writers (1986–1991). [42] (Russian)
- Jennifer Lyon, 37, American reality TV personality (Survivor: Palau), breast cancer. [43]
- Ida Mae Martinez, 78, American professional wrestler. [44]
- Bill McLaren, 86, Scottish rugby union commentator. [45]
- Panajot Pano, 70, Albanian footballer. [46] (Albanian)
- Cerge Remonde, 51, Filipino press secretary, heart attack. [47]
- Kalthoum Sarrai, 47, Tunisian-born French television presenter (Supernanny), cancer. [48]
- Abraham Sutzkever, 96, Polish-born Israeli poet. [49] (Hebrew)
- Cyril Burke, 84, Australian rugby union player. [50]
- Kate McGarrigle, 63, Canadian folk singer, clear-cell sarcoma. [51]
- Günter Mielke, 67, German Olympic athlete. [52]
- Kevin O'Shea, 62, Canadian ice hockey player. [53]
- Robert B. Parker, 77, American detective writer (Spenser series, Jesse Stone novels), heart attack. [54]
- Jörgen Philip-Sörensen, 71, Danish businessman, after long illness. [55]
- Josephus Tethool, 75, Indonesian Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of Amboina (1982–2009). [56]
- Gaines Adams, 26, American football player (Chicago Bears, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), cardiac arrest. [57]
- Maki Asakawa, 67, Japanese singer, heart failure. [58] (Japanese)
- Jyoti Basu, 95, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (1977–2000), complications from pneumonia. [59]
- Thomas F. Cowan, 82, American politician, New Jersey State Senator (1984–1994). [60]
- Daisuke Gōri, 57, Japanese voice actor (Dragon Ball, Kinnikuman, Mobile Suit Gundam), suicide by wrist cutting. [61] (Japanese)
- Carlos Hernandez Gomez, 36, American journalist and television news reporter (CLTV), cancer. [62]
- Shigeru Kobayashi, 57, Japanese baseball player, heart failure. [63] (Japanese)
- Michalis Papakonstantinou, 91, Greek politician and author, Minister for Foreign Affairs (1992–1993). [64] (Greek)
- Loit Reintam, 80, Estonian soil scientist. [65] (Estonian)
- Robert D. Rowley, Jr., 68, American Episcopal Bishop of Northwestern Pennsylvania (1991–2007) [66]
- Erich Segal, 72, American professor, author (Love Story), and screenwriter (Yellow Submarine), heart attack. [67]
- Glen Bell, 86, American entrepreneur, founder of Taco Bell. [68]
- Judi Chamberlin, 65, American anti-psychiatry activist, lung disease. [69]
- Sam Dixon, 60, American minister, Deputy General Secretary of UMCOR (since 2007), earthquake. [70]
- Laura Chapman Hruska, 74, American writer, co-founder and editor in chief of Soho Press, cancer. [71]
- George Jellinek, 90, American radio personality (WQXR). [72]
- Stephen Morse, 65, American poet, complications from colon and lung cancer. [73]
- Takumi Shibano, 83, Japanese novelist, pneumonia. [74] (Japanese)
- Katsuhisa Shibata, 66, Japanese sumo wrestler, heart attack. [75] (Japanese)
- Carl Smith, 82, American country singer-songwriter. [76]
- Bernie Weintraub, 76, American talent agent, co-founder of the Paradigm Talent Agency. [77]
- Asim Butt, 31, Pakistani artist (Stuckism art movement), suicide by hanging. [78]
- Ed Chuman, 62, American wrestling promoter, after long illness. [79]
- Florence-Marie Cooper, 69, American federal judge, lymphoma. [80]
- Francene Cucinello, 43, American radio personality (WHAS), brain aneurysm. [81]
- Bahman Jalali, 65, Iranian photographer, pancreatic cancer. [82]
- Voldemar Kann, 90, Estonian graphic artist. [83] (Estonian)
- Detlev Lauscher, 57, German footballer. [84] (German)
- Steve Lovelady, 66, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, cancer. [85]
- Marshall Warren Nirenberg, 82, American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (1968), cancer. [86]
- Jamal Saeed Abdul Rahim, 44, Palestinian Al Qaeda ANO terrorist, airstrike. [87]
- Ernest Sparkman, 84, American radio personality (WSGS). [88]
- Toshiaki Takemiya, 88, Japanese baseball player, pancreatitis. [89] (Japanese)
- Fr Peter Thomson, 73, Australian Anglican theologian, mentor to Tony Blair. [90]
- Bobby Charles, 71, American songwriter ("See You Later, Alligator", "(I Don't Know Why) But I Do"). [91]
- Frank Corbi, 87, American jazz musician and educator. [92]
- Antonio Fontan, 86, Spanish politician and journalist. [93] (Spanish)
- Micha Gaillard, Haitian politician, earthquake. [94]
- John F. Hayes, 90, American attorney and politician, former member of the Kansas House of Representatives (1953-1955; 1967-1979). [95]
- Béla Kamocsa, 66, Hungarian-born Romanian singer. [96] (Romanian)
- Charles Nolte, 86, American actor, playwright and educator, prostate cancer. [97]
- Otto, 20, British dachshund-terrier, world's oldest dog, euthanised following stomach tumour. [98]
- P. K. Page, 93, Canadian poet. [99]
- Chilton Price, 96, American songwriter ("Slow Poke", "You Belong to Me"). [100]
- James W. Rutherford, 84, American Mayor of Flint, Michigan (1975–1983, 2002–2003). [101]
- Petra Schürmann, 74, German television presenter, Miss World 1956, after long illness. [102] (German)
- Antonio Vilaplana Molina, 83, Spanish Roman Catholic Bishop of León (1987–2002), renal failure. [103] (Spanish)
- Bernie Voorheis, 87, American basketball player. [104]
- Edward Brinton, 86, American marine biologist. [105] (Spanish)
- Mick Leahy, 74, British boxer, British middleweight champion (1963–1964). [106]
- Sir Robin Maxwell-Hyslop, 78, British politician, MP for Tiverton (1960–1992). [107]
- Abdullah Mehdar, Yemeni Al-Qaeda terrorist, shot. [108]
- Teddy Pendergrass, 59, American soul singer, complications from colon cancer. [109]
- Jay Reatard, 29, American garage punk musician. [110]
- Tommy Sloan, 84, British footballer. [111]
- Isamu Tanonaka, 77, Japanese seiyū (GeGeGe no Kitaro), heart attack. [112]
- Ed Thigpen, 79, American jazz drummer, after long illness. [113]
- Edgar Vos, 78, Dutch fashion designer, heart attack. [114]
- Masoud Alimohammadi, 50, Iranian nuclear scientist, bomb blast. [115]
- Georges Anglade, 65, Haitian professor and cabinet minister, co-founder of Universite du Quebec a Montreal, earthquake. [116]
- Hédi Annabi, 65, Tunisian diplomat, head of MINUSTAH, earthquake. [117]
- Zilda Arns, 75, Brazilian pediatrician and humanitarian, earthquake. [118] (Portuguese)
- Miloslav Bělonožník, 91, Czech Olympic ski jumper. [119] (Czech)
- Charles Benoit, Haitian Vicar general in Roman Catholic Church, earthquake.[120]
- Daniel Bensaïd, 63, French philosopher and Trotskyist activist. [121] (French)
- Joubert Charles, Haitian music promoter, earthquake. [122]
- Ken Colbung, 78, Australian Aboriginal elder, after short illness. [123]
- Anne-Marie Coriolan, Haitian Women's Rights activist who founded the organization Solidarite Fanm Ayisyen (Solidarity with Haitian Women), earthquake. [124]
- Luiz Carlos da Costa, 60, Brazilian diplomat, deputy head of MINUSTAH, earthquake. [125] (Portuguese)
- Brian Damage, 46, American punk and rock drummer (Misfits), complications of colon cancer. [126]
- Miguel Ángel de la Flor, 85, Peruvian army officer and politician. [127] (Spanish)
- Paul Denis, Haitian politician, Minister of Justice, earthquake. [128]
- Dannie Flesher, 58, American co-founder of Wax Trax! Records, pneumonia. [129]
- Kritsada Arunwong na Ayutthaya, 78, Thai architect, Governor of Bangkok (1996–2001), coronary artery disease. [130]
- Fred Krone, 79, American stuntman, cancer. [131]
- Hillis Layne, 91, American Major League Baseball player (1941, 1944–1945). [132]
- Magalie Marcelin, Haitian Women's Rights activist, founded the organization Kay Fanm to help shelter victims of rape and violence, earthquake. [133]
- Serge Marcil, 65, Canadian businessman and politician, Quebec MNA (1985–1994) and federal MP for Beauharnois—Salaberry (2000–2004), earthquake. [134]
- Allen McClay, 77, British founder of pharmaceutical company Almac, cancer. [135]
- Flo McGarrell, 35, Italian-born American artist, earthquake. [136]
- Myriam Merlet, 53, Haitian political activist, earthquake. [137]
- Joseph Serge Miot, 63, Haitian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Port-au-Prince, earthquake. [138]
- Elizabeth Moody, 70, New Zealand actress and theatre director, pneumonia. [139]
- Myrna Narcisse, Haitian, Director General of the Ministry of Women’s Condition in Haiti, earthquake. [140]
- Jimmy O, 35, Haitian hip hop musician, earthquake. [141]
- Art Rust, Jr., 82, American sports commentator, Parkinson's disease. [142]
- Vanda Skuratovich, 84, Belarusian Roman Catholic activist. [143] (Russian)
- Dewey Tucker, 24, American bassist and smooth jazz performer, shot. [144]
- Yabby You, 63, Jamaican reggae singer and producer. [145]
- Juliet Anderson, 71, American pornographic actress. [146]
- Francisco Benkö, 99, German-born Argentine chess master. [147] (Spanish)
- Fina de Calderón, 82, Spanish poet. [148] (Spanish)
- Robben Wright Fleming, 93, American president of the University of Michigan (1968–1978). [149]
- George Garanian, 75, Russian jazz saxophonist and bandleader, cardiac arrest. [150]
- Dorothy Geeben, 101, American Mayor of Ocean Breeze Park, Florida (since 2001), oldest active mayor in the United States. [151]
- Miep Gies, 100, Dutch humanitarian, protector of Anne Frank and her family during World War II, complications following a fall. [152]
- Mick Green, 65, British rock and roll guitarist (Johnny Kidd & The Pirates, Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas). [153]
- Andis Hadjicostis, 43, Cypriot CEO of Sigma TV, shot. [154] (Greek)
- Harry Männil, 89, Estonian-born Venezuelan businessman. [155]
- Edna McClure, 110, British supercentenarian. [156]
- Vasilis Patsouris, 51, Greek chief police officer of Zakynthos, suicide. [157] (Greek)
- Éric Rohmer, 89, French film director. [158]
- Joe Rollino, 104, American strongman, weightlifter, and boxer, struck by car. [159]
- Dennis Stock, 81, American photographer (Magnum Photos), colon and liver cancer. [160]
- Gordon Van Tol, 49, Canadian Olympic water polo player, heart attack. [161]
- Sandra Wright, 61, American blues and gospel singer, natural causes. [162]
- Sir Donald Acheson, 83, British physician, Chief Medical Officer of England (1983–1991). [163]
- Sailadhar Baruah, 68, Indian film producer, complications of diabetes. [164]
- Mina Bern, 98, Polish-born American Yiddish theatre actor, heart failure. [165]
- Bert Bushnell, 88, British Olympic gold medal-winning rower (1948). [166]
- Garland English, 28, American soldier and activist, rappelling accident. [167]
- Jan C. Gabriel, 69, American race track announcer, complications from polycystic kidney disease. [168]
- Donald Goerke, 83, American executive (Campbell's Soup Company), created SpaghettiOs, heart failure. [169]
- Tony Halme, 47, Finnish professional boxer, wrestler and Member of Parliament (2003–2007). [170]
- Dick Johnson, 84, American big band clarinetist (Artie Shaw Band), after short illness. [171]
- Nadav Levitan, 64, Israeli film director and screenwriter, lung disease. [172]
- Edward Linde, 67, American businessman, founder of Boston Properties, pneumonia. [173]
- Frances Morrell, 72, British political adviser and educationalist, cancer. [174]
- Ulf Olsson, 58, Swedish murderer, suicide by hanging. [175] (Swedish).
- Bill Patterson, 87, Australian racing driver, natural causes. [176]
- Jayne Walton Rosen, 92, American singer, Lawrence Welk's Champagne Lady (1940–1945), natural causes. [177]
- Moisés Saba Masri, 46, Mexican businessman, helicopter accident. [178] (Spanish)
- Dale Shewalter, 59, American teacher, founder of the Arizona Trail, cancer. [179]
- Mano Solo, 46, French singer, ruptured aneurysm. [180]
- Bojidar Spiriev, 78, Bulgarian-born Hungarian hydrologist and statistician, creator of IAAF scoring tables. [181]
- Torbjørn Yggeseth, 75, Norwegian ski jumping athlete and official. [182] (Norwegian)
- Améleté Abalo, 47, Togolese national football team assistant coach, shot. [183]
- Christopher Shaman Abba, 74, Nigerian Roman Catholic Bishop of Yola (since 1996), Bishop of Minna (1973–1996). [184]
- Amo Bessone, 93, American ice hockey player and coach. [185]
- Artur Beul, 94, Swiss songwriter and painter, widower of singer Lale Andersen. [186] (German)
- Franz-Hermann Brüner, 64, German head of OLAF, after long illness. [187]
- Mark Ellidge, British press photographer. [188]
- Ken Genser, 59, American politician, Mayor of Santa Monica, California, after long illness. [189]
- Per N. Hagen, 73, Norwegian politician. [190] (Norwegian)
- Rupert Hamer, 39, British journalist, defence correspondent for the Sunday Mirror, improvised explosive device. [191]
- Fatimah Hashim, 85, Malaysian politician, first female minister in the Malaysian government. [192]
- Jack Kerness, 98, American art director, natural causes. [193]
- Stanislas Ocloo, Togolese national football team spokesperson, shot. [194]
- Yevgeny Paladiev, 61, Soviet-born Kazakh ice hockey player. [195] (Russian)
- Antoine Palatis, 39, French cruiserweight boxing champion. [196]
- Diether Posser, 87, German politician. [197] (German)
- Armand Razafindratandra, 84, Malagasy cardinal, Archbishop of Antananarivo (1994–2005), fall. [198]
- Venda Tammann, 77, Estonian accordionist and music pedagogue. [199] (Estonian)
- Vimcy, 84, Indian sports writer. [200]
- Osvaldo Zotto, 46, Argentine tango dancer, heart attack. [201] (Spanish)
- Attila Bagonyai, 45, Hungarian chess master, complications from swine flu. [202] (Hungarian)
- Bob Blackburn, 85, American sports commentator (Seattle SuperSonics), pneumonia. [203]
- Jean Charpentier, 74, Canadian journalist, press secretary for Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, cancer. [204]
- Art Clokey, 88, American stop motion animator (Gumby, Davey and Goliath), bladder infection. [205]
- Piero De Bernardi, 83, Italian screenwriter. [206] (Italian)
- Slavka Maneva, 75, Macedonian writer and poet. [207] (Macedonian)
- Aleksandr Maslaev, 65, Russian actor. [208] (Russian)
- Monica Maughan, 76, Australian actress, cancer. [209]
- Jim Rimmer, 75, Canadian graphic designer, cancer. [210]
- Otmar Suitner, 87, Austrian conductor. [211] (German)
- Amir Vahedi, 48, Iranian-born American poker player, complications of diabetes. [212]
- Sumner G. Whittier, 98, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (1953–1957). [213]
- Yvonne Zanos, 60, American television journalist (KDKA-TV), ovarian cancer. [214]
- Sándor Barcs, 97, Hungarian football official, FIFA (1972–1974) and UEFA (1960–1978) vice-president. [215]
- Alexander Garnet Brown, 79, Canadian politician, member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly (1969–1978). [216]
- Thomas Sam Davis, 59, British singer (Deaf School), lung disease. [217]
- Stephen Huneck, 60, American wood carving artist, suicide by gunshot. [218]
- Alex Parker, 74, Scottish football player and manager, heart attack. [219]
- Donald Edmond Pelotte, 64, American Roman Catholic Bishop of Gallup (1990–2008), first Native American bishop. [220]
- Blanca Sánchez, 63, Mexican actress, kidney failure. [221]
- David Sarkisyan, 62, Russian museum director and architectural conservationist, lymphoma. [222]
- Philippe Séguin, 66, French politician, heart attack. [223]
- Jim White, 67, American professional wrestler, cancer. [224]
- Hardy Williams, 78, American politician, Pennsylvania State Senator (1983–1998), Alzheimer's disease. [225]
- Tim Davey, 58, American NFL executive, director of football operations. [226]
- Michael Harper, 78, British priest of the Church of England and later of the Antiochian Orthodox Church. [227]
- George Leonard, 86, American writer, editor and educator, pioneer of the Human Potential Movement, after long illness. [228]
- Graham Leonard, 88, British Church of England Bishop of London (1981–1991), subsequently a Roman Catholic priest. [229]
- Ivan Medek, 84, Czech music publicist, theorist and critic, collaborator of Václav Talich and Václav Havel. [230] (Czech)
- Harriet Miller, 90, American politician, Mayor of Santa Barbara, California (1995–2001). [231]
- Beniamino Placido, 80, Italian journalist and television critic. [232]
- James von Brunn, 89, American white supremacist, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting suspect. [233]
- Beverly Aadland, 67, American actress, girlfriend of Errol Flynn, diabetes and heart failure. [234]
- András Baranyecz, 63, Hungarian Olympic cyclist. [235] (Hungarian)
- Bernard Le Nail, 63, French writer, cerebral hemorrhage. [236] (French)
- Harold Lewis, 98, American flautist and movie studio musician. [237]
- Willie Mitchell, 81, American musician and record producer, cardiac arrest. [238]
- Giancarlo Nanni, 68, Italian stage director, after long illness. [239] (Italian)
- Kenneth Noland, 85, American color field painter, kidney cancer. [240]
- Jack Otis, 86, American university dean. [241]
- Courage Quashigah, 62, Ghanaian politician. [242]
- Philippa Scott, 91, British conservationist. [243]
- Joseph Shannon, 88, American pilot (Bay of Pigs invasion), after short illness. [244]
- George Syrimis, 88, Cypriot finance minister (1988–1993). [245]
- Toni Tecuceanu, 37, Romanian comedy actor, complications from swine flu. [246]
- George Willoughby, 95, American Quaker activist. [247]
- Paul Ahyi, 79, Togolese artist, designer of the flag of Togo. [248] (French)
- Lew Allen, 84, American general, Director of the National Security Agency (1973–1977), rheumatoid arthritis. [249]
- Tony Clarke, 68, British musician and record producer (The Moody Blues), emphysema. [250]
- Erasmo Dias, 85, Brazilian military officer and politician, cancer. [251] (Portuguese)
- Donal Donnelly, 78, English-born Irish actor, cancer [252]
- Hywel Teifi Edwards, 74, Welsh historian and writer, after short illness. [253]
- Johan Ferrier, 99, Surinamese politician, President (1975–1980). [254]
- Tadeusz Góra, 91, Polish pilot. [255] (Polish)
- Casey Johnson, 30, American socialite, Johnson & Johnson heiress. [256] (body discovered on this date)
- Erich Lipstok, 97, Estonian diplomat. [257] (Estonian)
- Rory Markas, 54, American baseball radio announcer (Los Angeles Angels). [258]
- György Mitró, 79, Hungarian swimmer. [259] (Hungarian)
- Sandro de América, 64, Argentinian singer, complications from heart and lung transplant surgery. [260]
- Ludwig Wilding, 82, German artist. [261] (German)
- Tsutomu Yamaguchi, 93, Japanese survivor of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, stomach cancer. [262]
- Oleksiy Yeschenko, 60, Ukrainian football coach, former head coach of FC Volyn Lutsk. [263] (Ukrainian)
- Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt, 84, Chilean composer, lung cancer. [264] (Spanish)
- Margery Beddow, 72, American choreographer and dancer. [265]
- Barry Blair, 56, Canadian comics artist and writer. [266]
- Gianni Bonichon, 65, Italian bobsledder, Olympic silver medalist. [267] (Italian)
- Otto Breg, 60, Austrian bobsledder. [268] (German)
- Sir Ian Brownlie, 77, British barrister, traffic collision. [269]
- Mary Daly, 81, American radical feminist philosopher. [270]
- Bill Gleason, 87, American sports journalist (Chicago Sun-Times, Sportswriters on TV), Parkinson's disease. [271]
- Ali Safi Golpaygani, 96, Iranian Marja', natural causes. [272] (Farsi)
- Billy Harris, 58, American basketball player (Northern Illinois Huskies, San Diego Conquistadors), stroke. [273]
- John Keith Irwin, 80, American sociologist. [274]
- Eunice Walker Johnson, 93, American director of Ebony Fashion Fair, widow of John H. Johnson, renal failure. [275]
- Giorgos Kambanelis, 80, Greek actor. [276] (Greek)
- Charles Kleibacker, 88, American fashion designer, pneumonia. [277]
- Luisito Martí, 65, Dominican actor, comedian and entertainer, stomach cancer. [278]
- Takis Michalos, 63, Greek national team water polo player and coach, cancer. [279] (Greek)
- Isak Rogde, 62, Norwegian translator. [280] (Norwegian)
- Roberto Roney, 70, Brazilian comedian, lung cancer. [281] (Portuguese)
- Paula Sladewski, 27, American Playboy model. [282]
- Tibet, 78, French comics artist and writer. [283] (French)
- Bobby Wilkins, 87, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics). [284]
- Adam Max Cohen 38, American author, Shakespeare scholar, associate professor (UMD), brain tumor. [285]
- David Gerber, 86, American executive producer (Police Story, Police Woman), heart failure. [286]
- Deborah Howell, 68, American journalist, Washington Post ombudsman, hit by car. [287]
- Augustine Paul, 65, Malaysian Federal Court judge, after chronic illness. [288]
- David R. Ross, 51, British historian, heart attack. [289]
- Yiannis Voultepsis, 87, Greek journalist. [290] (Greek)
- Gary Brockette, 62, American actor and assistant director, cancer. [291]
- Chauncey H. Browning, Jr., 75, American politician, West Virginia Attorney General (1969–1985). [292]
- Jean Carroll, 98, American comedienne (The Ed Sullivan Show). [293]
- Periyasamy Chandrasekaran, 52, Sri Lankan politician, Member of Parliament, after short illness. [294]
- Lhasa de Sela, 37, American singer, breast cancer. [295]
- Michael Dwyer, 58, Irish journalist and film critic, lung cancer. [296]
- Alfredo Mario Espósito Castro, 82, Argentinian Roman Catholic Bishop of Zárate-Campana (1976–1991). [297]
- John Freeman, 93, American animator (The Smurfs) and animation director (My Little Pony and Friends). [298]
- Bingo Gazingo, 85, American performance poet, traffic collision. [299]
- Richard Kindleberger, 67, American newspaper reporter (The Boston Globe), brain tumor. [300]
- Tetsuo Narikawa, 65, Japanese actor (Spectreman) and karate instructor. [301] (Japanese)
- Marlene Neubauer-Woerner, 91, German sculptor. [302] (German)
- Mohamed Rahmat, 71, Malaysian politician, Information Minister (1978–1982, 1987–1999). [303]
- Faisal Bin Shamlan, 75, Yemeni politician, presidential candidate (2006), cancer. [304]
- Billy Arjan Singh, 92, Indian author. [305]
- Gregory Slay, 40, American rock drummer (Remy Zero), cystic fibrosis. [306]
- Freya von Moltke, 98, German World War II resistance fighter. [307]
- Tom Walsh, 67, American politician, member of the Wyoming House of Representatives (2003–2008), leukemia. [308]
- John Shelton Wilder, 88, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee (1971–2007), stroke. [309]
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