Deaths in 2011

The following is a list of notable deaths in 2011.

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).

October 2011

6

5

Niver Arboleda, 43, Colombian footballer, heart attack. [1] (Spanish)
Graham Dilley, 52, English cricketer, cancer. [2]
Bert Jansch, 67, Scottish folk guitarist, singer and songwriter (Pentangle), cancer. [3]
Steve Jobs, 56, American computer entrepreneur and inventor, co-founder of Apple Inc., [4]
Charles Napier, 75, American actor (The Silence of the Lambs). [5]
Fred Shuttlesworth, 89, American civil rights leader. [6]
Gökşin Sipahioğlu, 84, Turkish photographer. [7] (French).

4

Kenneth H. Dahlberg, 94, American businessman and World War II fighter ace, natural causes. [8]
Diana Gribble, 69, Australian publisher (McPhee Gribble), cancer. [9]
Hanan Porat, 67, Israeli rabbi, educator and politician, cancer. [10]
Shmuel Shilo, 81, Israeli actor and director. [11] (Hebrew)

3

Mikko Laine, 30, Finnish rock musician, truck accident. [12]
Aden Meinel, 88, American astronomer and optical scientist. [13]
David I. Mitchell, 79, American set designer (Annie), cancer. [14]
Jim Neal, 81, American basketball player (Syracuse Nationals, Baltimore Bullets). [15]
Arthur C. Nielsen, Jr., 92, American businessman (ACNielsen), Parkinson's disease. [16]

2

Vasily Aleksanyan, 39, Russian lawyer and businessman, Executive Vice President of Yukos, complications from AIDS. [17]
Don Lapre, 47, American television pitchman, suicide. [18]
Peter Przygodda, 69, German film editor, cancer. [19] (German)
John Romonosky, 82, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Washington Senators). [20]
François Abu Salem, 60, French-born Palestinian actor and director. [21]
Pavlos Tassios, 69, Greek film director. [22] (Greek)
Moshe Wertman, 87, Israeli politician. [23]

1

Hans Christian Alsvik, 75, Norwegian television presenter. [24] (Norwegian)
David Bedford, 74, British composer and musician. [25]
Len Castle, 86, New Zealand potter. [26]
Ruby Langford Ginibi, 77, Australian author and Aboriginal historian. [27]
Paulos Mantovanis, 65, Cypriot Orthodox hierarch, Metropolitan of Kyrenia (since 1994). [28] (Greek)
Johnny Schmitz, 90, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Brooklyn Dodgers, Washington Senators). [29]
Sven Tumba, 80, Swedish ice hockey player (world champion 1953, 1957 and 1962), footballer and golfer, prostate cancer. [30]

September 2011

30

João d'Avila Moreira Lima, 92, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro (1982–2002). [31]
Anwar al-Awlaki, 40, American-born Yemeni cleric and Al-Qaeda official, airstrike. [32]
Gilberto Fernandez, 76, Cuban-born American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Miami (1997–2002). [33]
Peter Gent, 69, American football player (Dallas Cowboys) and author (North Dallas Forty). [34]
Alexander Grant, 86, New Zealand ballet dancer. [35]
Mike Heimerdinger, 58, American football coach (Tennessee Titans), cancer. [36]
Gaspar Henaine, 84, Mexican comedian. [37]
Mumtaz Jajja, 63, Pakistani politician, dengue fever. [38]
Roger G. Kennedy, 85, American civil servant, Director of the National Park Service (1993–1997), melanoma. [39]
Samir Khan, 25, Saudi-born American jihadist and publisher (Inspire), airstrike. [40]
Clifford Olson, 71, Canadian convicted serial killer, cancer. [41]
Ralph M. Steinman, 68, Canadian immunologist, announced as 2011 Nobel Laureate in Medicine, pancreatic cancer. [42]
Marv Tarplin, 70, American guitarist and songwriter (The Miracles). [43]

29

Eddie Bockman, 91, American baseball player, manager and scout (Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Yankees). [44]
Giorgos Fotiadis, 68, Greek journalist. [45] (Greek)
Hella Haasse, 93, Dutch writer. [46] (Dutch)
Philip Hannan, 98, American Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of New Orleans (1965–1988). [47]
Tatyana Lioznova, 87, Russian film director (Seventeen Moments of Spring), People's Artist of the USSR. [48] (Russian)
Sylvia Robinson, 75, American singer (Mickey & Sylvia), music producer and record label executive, heart failure. [49]
Miriam Schmierer, 112, Australian supercentenarian, nation's oldest person. [50]

28

Maple Batalia, 19, Indian-born Canadian actress (Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules), shot. [51]
Patrick Collinson, 82, British historian. [52]
Pierre Dansereau, 99, Canadian ecologist. [53] (French)
Leonard Dillon, 68, Jamaican musician (The Ethiopians), lung and prostate cancer. [54]
Heidi, 3, American-born cross-eyed opossum at Leipzig Zoo, euthanised. [55]
Claude R. Kirk, Jr., 85, American politician, Governor of Florida (1967–1971). [56]
Nelli Misirli, 72, Greek art historian, cancer. [57] (Greek)
Nick Navarro, 81, American law enforcement official, Sheriff of Broward County, Florida (1985–1992), complications of cancer. [58]

27

David Croft, 89, British television comedy writer and producer. [59]
Sara Douglass, 54, Australian fantasy author, ovarian cancer. [60]
Ida Fink, 89, Israeli Polish-language author. [61] (German)
Wilson Greatbatch, 92, American engineer, inventor of the implantable cardiac pacemaker. [62]
Dave Hill, 74, American golfer, complications from emphysema. [63]
Imre Makovecz, 75, Hungarian architect. [64]
Richard W. Mallary, 82, American politician, U.S. Representative from Vermont (1972–1975). [65]
Johnny "Country" Mathis, 77, American singer-songwriter. [66]
Jan Nijland, 76, Dutch politician. [67] (Dutch)
Jesús María Pereda, 73, Spanish football player and manager. [68]
Stuart Spencer, 79, Australian footballer. [69]
Joe Tofflemire, 46, American football player (Seattle Seahawks), heart failure. [70]
Erik Wedersøe, 73, Danish actor. [71] (Danish)
Johnnie Wright, 97, American country music singer (Johnnie & Jack), husband of Kitty Wells. [72]

26

Robert Blinc, 76, Slovene physicist. [73]
Sergio Bonelli, 78, Italian comic book author and publisher. [74]
Bob Cassilly, 61, American sculptor, founder of City Museum, bulldozer accident. [75]
Jessy Dixon, 73, American gospel musician. [76]
David Zelag Goodman, 81, American screenwriter (Straw Dogs), progressive supranuclear palsy. [77]
Jerry Haynes, 84, American actor, Parkinson's disease. [78]
Harry Muskee, 70, Dutch blues singer and musician (Cuby + Blizzards). cancer. [79] (Dutch)
Uan Rasey, 90, American film trumpeter (Chinatown, Singin' in the Rain), heart ailment. [80]
Michael Shor, 91, Israeli security official, CEO of Israel Military Industries (1972–1989). [81] (Hebrew)
Vasillaq Vangjeli, 63, Albanian comic and stage actor. [82] (Albanian)

25

Theyab Awana, 21, Emirati footballer, traffic accident. [83]
Denis Cannan, 92, British playwright. [84]
Erling Lars Dale, 65, Norwegian educationalist, cancer. [85] (Norwegian)
Norman Lawson, 75, English footballer and cricketer. [86]
Sissy Löwinger, 70, Austrian actress, daughter of Paul Löwinger. [87] (German)
Wangari Maathai, 71, Kenyan environmental activist, MP and Nobel Peace Prize winner, cancer. [88]
Ali St. Louis, 52, Trinidadian Olympic athlete, traffic accident. [89]

24

Surinder Kapoor, 86, Indian film producer, cardiac arrest. [90]
Tony Knap, 96, American college football coach, Alzheimer's disease. [91]
Konstantin Lerner, 61, Ukrainian chess grandmaster. [92]
Emanuel Litvinoff, 96, British writer and human rights campaigner. [93]
Gusty Spence, 78, British Ulster loyalist, leader of the Ulster Volunteer Force. [94]

23

Orlando Brown, 40, American football player (Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens), diabetic ketoacidosis. [95]
Hubert Constant, 80, Haitian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Cap-Haïtien (2003–2008). [96]
Micky Correa, 97, Indian jazz musician and big band leader. [97]
Lee Davenport, 95, American physicist, helped develop SCR-584 radar, cancer. [98]
Nikos Koemtzis, 73, Greek serial killer. [99] (Greek)
Danny Litwhiler, 95, American baseball player and coach. [100]
María Elizabeth Macías Castro, 39, Mexican newspaper editor. [101]
Rolland W. Redlin, 91, American politician, U.S. Representative from North Dakota (1965–1967). [102]
Douglas Stuart, 20th Earl of Moray, 83, British aristocrat. [103]
Joseph Trinh Chinh Truc, 85, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ban Me Thuot (1990–2000). [104]
José Miguel Varas, 83, Chilean writer. [105] (Spanish)
Carl Wood, 81, Australian in vitro fertilisation pioneer, Alzheimer's disease. [106]

22

Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, 70, Indian cricketer, ninth and last Nawab of Pataudi (1952–1971), lung disease. [107]
Jonathan Cecil, 72, English actor. [108]
John H. Dick, 92, American naval officer and college basketball player. [109]
Margaret Ogola, 53, Kenyan author. [110]
Whatumoana Paki, New Zealand Maori royal elder, widower of Te Atairangikaahu, father of King Tuheitia. [111]
Aristides Pereira, 87, Cape Verdean politician and guerrilla leader, President (1975–1991). [112]
Vic Roby, 93, American radio and television announcer. [113]
Knut Steen, 86, Norwegian sculptor. [114] (Norwegian)
Vesta Williams, 53, American R&B singer. [115]
Giorgos Zabaras, 65, Greek football official, chairman of Panetolikos F.C. (1994). [116]] (Greek)

21

Lawrence Russell Brewer, 44, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection. [117]
Troy Davis, 42, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection. [118]
Michael Julian Drake, 69, American planetary scientist. [119]
John Du Cann, 65/66, British musician (Atomic Rooster), heart attack. [120]
Paulette Dubost, 100, French actress (The Rules of the Game, The Last Metro). [121]
Justin N. Feldman, 92, American lawyer and campaign manager, heart failure. [122]
Ben Feleo, 85, Filipino film director. [123]
Mickey Rottner, 92, American basketball player (Sheboygan Red Skins, Chicago Stags). [124]
Pamela Ann Rymer, 70, American federal judge, cancer. [125]
Naoki Sugiura, 79, Japanese actor, lung cancer. [126] (Japanese)

20

Johnny Barend, 82, American professional wrestler, natural causes. [127]
Monte J. Brough, 72, American religious leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. [128]
Frank Driggs, 81, American Grammy Award-winning jazz producer, musician and archivist, natural causes. [129]
Oscar Handlin, 95, American historian. [130]
Annika Idström, 63, Finnish author, pancreatic cancer. [131] (Finnish)
Michael Jarvis, 73, British horse trainer. [132]; [133]
Aleksei Mamykin, 75, Russian footballer and coach. [134] (Russian)
Burhanuddin Rabbani, 70, Afghan politician, President (1992–1996, 2001), bomb attack. [135]
Leroy Schweitzer, 73, American anti-government separatist, leader of the Montana Freemen extremist group. [136]
Gaby Stenberg, 88, Swedish actress. [137] (Swedish)
Per Unckel, 63, Swedish politician, Governor of Stockholm County (since 2007), cancer. [138] (Swedish)
Arch West, 97, American marketing executive credited with developing Doritos. [139]
Robert Whitaker, 71, British photographer, shot The Beatles' butcher album cover, cancer. [140]

19

Arvid Andersson, 92, Swedish Olympic weightlifter. [141]
George Benton, 78, American boxer, pneumonia. [142]
Thomas Capano, 61, American convicted murderer, heart attack. [143]
Dolores Hope, 102, American philanthropist, widow of Bob Hope, natural causes. [144]
Earl Kress, 60, American animation writer, cancer. [145]
Ginger McCain, 80, British horse trainer, cancer. [146]
George Cadle Price, 92, Belizean politician, Prime Minister (1981–1984; 1989–1993). [147]
Johnny Răducanu, 79, Romanian jazz musician, cardiac arrest. [148] (Romanian)
Mark W. Worthen, 49, American horror author. [149]

18

Jack Adler, 94, American comic book artist. [150]
Mohammed Bassiouni, 74, Egyptian diplomat, Ambassador to Israel (1986–2000). [151]
Andrei Finkelstein, 69, Russian astronomer. [152] (Russian)
Norma Holloway Johnson, 79, American federal judge, first African American woman to serve as a district court chief judge, stroke. [153]
Bayless Manning, 88, American lawyer, Dean of Stanford Law School (1964–1971), first President of the Council on Foreign Relations. [154]
William F. May, 95, American film society founder (Film Society of Lincoln Center), heart failure. [155]
Marcelino Palentini, 68, Italian-born Argentinian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Jujuy (since 1995). [156]
Ivo Škrabalo, 77, Croatian writer, director and actor. [157] (Croatian)
Swian Zanoni, 23, Brazilian motocross rider, race accident. [158]

17

József Böröczky, 63, Hungarian comedian, pancreatic cancer. [159] (Hungarian)
Ernest House Sr., 65, American tribal leader, Chairman of the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe (1982–2010), injuries from a motorcycle accident. [160]
Colin Madigan, 90, Australian architect. [161]
Fedon Matheou, 87, Greek basketball player and coach. [162] (Greek)
Eleanor Mondale, 51, American television personality, daughter of Walter Mondale, brain cancer. [163]
Charles H. Percy, 91, American politician, Senator from Illinois (1967–1985), Alzheimer's disease. [164]
Kurt Sanderling, 98, German conductor. [165]
Ferenc Szojka, 80, Hungarian footballer. [166] (Hungarian)
Moisés Villanueva de la Luz, 47, Mexican politician, MP (2011). [167] (Spanish) (body found on this date)

16

Roger Belanger, 45, Canadian ice hockey player (Pittsburgh Penguins), heart attack. [168]
Sir Brian Burnett, 98, British Air Chief Marshal, Chairman of the All England Club. [169]
John P. Carroll, 12, American bulldog, mascot of Georgetown University. [170]
Jordi Dauder, 73, Spanish actor. [171] (Spanish)
Zuzana Dřízhalová, 36, Czech actress, cancer. [172] (Czech)
Norma Eberhardt, 82, American actress (Live Fast, Die Young, The Return of Dracula), stroke. [173]
Dave Gavitt, 73, American basketball coach, founder of the Big East Conference. [174]
William Hawthorne, 98, British aerospace engineer. [175]
Kara Kennedy, 51, American television producer, daughter of Ted Kennedy, heart attack. [176]
Jean Leclant, 91, French archaeologist and Egyptologist. [177] (French)
Jimmy Leeward, 74, American stunt and racing pilot, plane crash. [178]
Stephen Mueller, 63, American painter, cancer. [179]
Ted Mullighan, 72, Australian jurist, cancer. [180]
Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, 75, American blues musician. [181]
Tom Wilson, Sr., 80, American cartoonist (Ziggy). [182]

15

Frances Bay, 92, Canadian character actress (Happy Gilmore, Blue Velvet, The Middle). [183]
Parey Branton, 92, American politician, Louisiana State Representative (1960–1972), Mayor of Shongaloo (1972–1990). [184]
James M. Cannon, 93, American Presidential advisor to Gerald Ford, complications of a stroke. [185]
Clemente Faccani, 90, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Apostolic Nuncio to Kenya (1983–1995) and Seychelles (1985–1994). [186]
Dorothy Harrell, 87, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League). [187]
Khalid Abdel Nasser, 62, Egyptian professor, eldest son of Gamal Abdel Nasser. [188]
Mo Rothman, 92, Canadian-born American movie executive, persuaded Charlie Chaplin to return to the United States, Parkinson's disease. [189]
Nykodym Rusnak, 90, Ukrainian Orthodox hierarch, Metropolitan of Kharkiv and Bohodukhiv (since 1989). [190]
Regina Smendzianka, 86, Polish pianist. [191] (Polish)
Bill Taylor, 81, American baseball player (New York Giants, Detroit Tigers). [192]
Otakar Vávra, 100, Czech film director, screenwriter and pedagogue. [193] (Czech)

14

Harishchandra Birajdar, 61, Indian Olympic wrestler (1972). [194]
Lewis Brown, 56, American basketball player (Washington Bullets), heart attack. [195]
Gilles Chaillet, 65, French cartoonist. [196]
Choi Dong-Won, 53, South Korean baseball player (Lotte Giants, Samsung Lions), colon cancer. [197]
Julia Constenla, 83, Argentine journalist and writer. [198] (Spanish)
Desmond FitzGerald, 29th Knight of Glin, 74, Irish hereditary knight. [199]
David Francey, 87, Scottish broadcaster. [200]
Jorge Lavat, 78, Mexican actor. [201] (Spanish)
Rudolf Mössbauer, 82, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (1961). [202] (German)
Buddy Tinsley, 87, American-born Canadian football player (Winnipeg Blue Bombers). [203]
Malcolm Wallop, 78, American politician, United States Senator from Wyoming (1977–1995). [204]

13

Walter Bonatti, 81, Italian mountain climber. [205] (German)
John Calley, 81, American movie studio executive. [206]
Wilma Lee Cooper, 90, American country music singer, natural causes. [207]
Sam DeLuca, 75, American football player and broadcaster (New York Jets), pancreatic cancer. [208]
Helmut Frenz, 78, German clergyman and human rights activist. [209] (German)
Paul Gallant, 67, Canadian entrepreneur, inventor of Puzz-3D, cancer. [210]
Jack Garner, 84, American actor (The Rockford Files, My Fellow Americans), brother of James Garner. [211]
Richard Hamilton, 89, British artist. [212]
David Jull, 66, Australian politician, Member of the House of Representatives (1975–1983, 1984–2007). [213]
Daniel Keel, 80, Swiss publisher. [214] (German)
Joe Krupa, 78, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), heart ailment. [215]
DJ Mehdi, 34, French musician. [216]
Harlan Erwin Mitchell, 87, American politician, U.S. Representative from Georgia (1958–1961). [217]
Carl Oglesby, 76, American anti-war activist, lung cancer. [218]
Gautam Rajadhyaksha, 62, Indian photographer. [219]

12

Bill Cash, 92, American Negro league baseball player. [220]
Frits Castricum, 64, Dutch politician, Member of the House of Representatives (1977–1994) and the Senate (1999–2003). [221] (Dutch)
Alexander Galimov, 26, Russian ice hockey player, injuries sustained in the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash. [222]
Dinah Kaye, 87, Scottish jazz singer. [223]
Ralph Lomma, 87, American mini golf entrepreneur. [224]
Wade Mainer, 104, American bluegrass musician, heart failure. [225]
Don Wayne, 78, American songwriter ("Country Bumpkin", "Saginaw, Michigan"). [226]

11

Douglas Allen, Baron Croham, 93, British civil servant, Head of the Home Civil Service (1974–1977). [227]
Christian Bakkerud, 26, Danish racing driver, injuries sustained in a car accident. [228]
Cliff Brittle, 69, English sports administrator, Chairman of the Rugby Football Union (1996–1998). [229]
Arthur Evans, 68, American gay rights activist and author, aortic aneurysm. [230]
Ralph Gubbins, 79, English football player (Bolton Wanderers, Hull City, Tranmere Rovers). [231]
Yuri Kuzmenkov, 70, Russian actor (Big School-Break), heart attack. [232] (Russian)
Isabell Masters, 98, American politician, third-party candidate for President of the United States (1984, 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004). [233]
Yuli Ofer, 87, Romanian-born Israeli businessman and entrepreneur. [234]
Tanekichi Onishi, 111, Japanese supercentenarian. [235]
Walter Righter, 87, American clergyman, bishop in the Episcopal Church, after long illness. [236]
Andy Whitfield, 39, Welsh-born Australian actor (Spartacus: Blood and Sand), non-Hodgkin lymphoma. [237]

10

David E. L. Choong, 82, Malaysian badminton player. [238]
Graham Collier, 74, British jazz bassist. [239]
Joe B. Finley, 87, American rancher, co-founder of United Independent School District. [240]
Bernice Lake, 78, Anguillan-born Antiguan jurist, first Eastern Caribbean woman to be appointed Queen's Counsel. [241]
Cecil Marshall, 71, Canadian cricketer. [242]
Sabino Augusto Montanaro, 89, Paraguayan politician, Minister of the Interior (1968–1989). [243] (Spanish)
Eric Prabhakar, 86, Indian Olympic athlete (1948). [244]
Cliff Robertson, 88, American actor (Charly, Spider-Man, PT 109), natural causes. [245]

9

Valentino Braitenberg, 85, Italian neuroscientist. [246] (Italian)
Werner Geeser, 63, Swiss Olympic cross-country skier, cancer. [247] (German)
Laurie Hughes, 87, English football player (Liverpool). [248]
William Lesick, 88, Canadian politician, MP for Edmonton East (1984–1988). [249]
Herbert Lomas, 87, British poet. [250]
Ignace Matondo Kwa Nzambi, 79, Congolese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Basankusu (1974–1998) and Molegbe (1998–2007). [251]
Khairy Shalaby, 73, Egyptian writer. [252]
Peter Sneath, 87, British microbiologist. [253]

8

David Bitner, 62, American political leader, Chairman of the Republican Party of Florida (2011), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [254]
Mary Fickett, 83, American actress (All My Children), complications of Alzheimer's disease. [255]
Silvia Glogner, 70, Austrian-born German actress. [256] (German)
Jesse Jefferson, 62, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles, Toronto Blue Jays), prostate cancer. [257]
Keo Nakama, 91, American swimmer. [258]
Marcos Plonka, 71, Brazilian comedian and actor. [259] (Portuguese)
Sir Hilary Synnott, 66, British diplomat. [260]
Võ Chí Công, 99, Vietnamese politician, President (1987–1992). [261]
Emilianos Zacharopoulos, 96, Turkish-born Greek Orthodox hierarch, Metropolitan (since 1959). [262] (French)

7

Max Boisot, 67, British academic, cancer. [263]
Gabriel Bullet, 90, Swiss Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg (1970–1993). [264]
Derek Grierson, 79, Scottish footballer. [265]
Jang Hyo-Jo, 55, South Korean baseball player (Samsung Lions, Lotte Giants), liver cancer. [266]
Harold Mair, 92, Australian politician. [267]
Eddie Marshall, 73, American jazz drummer. [268]
Christopher Small, 84, New Zealand-born cultural musicologist. [269]
Gabriel Valdés, 92, Chilean politician and diplomat, President of the Senate of Chile (1990-1996), Foreign Minister (1964-1970). [270]
Hiroe Yuki, 62, Japanese badminton player. [271]
Notable ice hockey players and coaches among the 44 killed in the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash: [272]
- Vitali Anikeyenko, 24, Ukrainian
- Mikhail Balandin, 31, Russian
- Gennady Churilov, 24, Russian
- Pavol Demitra, 36, Slovakian
- Robert Dietrich, 25, German
- Marat Kalimulin, 23, Russian
- Alexander Kalyanin, 23, Russian
- Alexander Karpovtsev, 41, Russian coach, world champion (as player, 1993), Stanley Cup champion (as player, 1994, with New York Rangers)
- Andrei Kiryukhin, 24, Russian
- Nikita Klyukin, 21, Russian, world U18 champion (2007)
- Igor Korolev, 41, Russian coach
- Stefan Liv, 30, Swedish, Olympic gold medalist (2006), world champion (2006)
- Jan Marek, 31, Czech
- Brad McCrimmon, 52, Canadian coach, Stanley Cup champion (as player, 1989, with Calgary Flames)
- Sergei Ostapchuk, 21, Belarusian
- Karel Rachůnek, 32, Czech, world champion (2010)
- Ruslan Salei, 36, Belarusian
- Maxim Shuvalov, 18, Russian
- Kārlis Skrastiņš, 37, Latvian
- Pavel Snurnitsyn, 19, Russian
- Daniil Sobchenko, 20, Russian, world junior champion (2011)
- Ivan Tkachenko, 31, Russian
- Pavel Trakhanov, 33, Russian
- Yuri Urychev, 20, Russian, world junior champion (2011)
- Josef Vašíček, 30, Czech, world junior champion (2000), world champion (2005), Stanley Cup champion (2006, with Carolina Hurricanes)
- Alexander Vasyunov, 23, Russian
- Alexander Vyukhin, 38, Ukrainian
- Artem Yarchuk, 21, Russian

6

Shigeri Akabane, 70, Japanese professional wrestler, heart attack. [273]
Hans Apel, 79, German politician, Finance Minister (1974–1978) and Defence Minister (1978–1982). [274] (German)
Jordan Belson, 85, American filmmaker, heart failure. [275]
Bruce Dan, 64, American researcher (toxic shock syndrome), complicatons of a bone marrow transplant. [276]
Dan David, 82, Romanian-born Israeli businessman and philanthropist, brain hemorrhage. [277]
Archduke Felix of Austria, 95, Austrian royal, last surviving child of Charles I of Austria. [278]
Michael S. Hart, 64, American author, inventor of the e-book and founder of Project Gutenberg, heart attack. [279]
George Kuchar, 69, American film director, prostate cancer. [280]
Janusz Morgenstern, 88, Polish filmmaker. [281]
Wardell Quezergue, 81, American music arranger, producer and bandleader, heart failure. [282]
Raphaël Marie Ze, 78, Cameroonian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Sangmélima (1992–2008). [283]

5

Reidar Børjeson, 80, Norwegian Olympic figure skater (1952). [284] (Norwegian)
Andrew Zolile T. Brook, 81, South African Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Umtata (1979–1995). [285]
Angioletta Coradini, 65, Italian astrophysicist, cancer. [286] (Italian)
Charles S. Dubin, 92, American film and television director (Hawaii Five-O, Kojak, M*A*S*H), natural causes. [287]
Salvatore Licitra, 43, Italian tenor, injuries from a motor scooter accident. [288]
Vann Nath, 66, Cambodian painter. [289]
Bobby Rhine, 35, American soccer player (FC Dallas), heart attack. [290]
Peter Thuruthikonam, 82, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Vijayapuram (1988–2006), heart attack. [291]

4

Lalla Aicha, 81, Moroccan princess, first female Arab ambassador, Ambassador to United Kingdom (1965–1969); Greece (1969–1970); Italy (1970–1973). [292]
Victor Bussie, 92, American labor activist, president of Louisiana AFL–CIO, stomach cancer. [293]
Hugh Fox, 79, American poet and novelist. [294]
Hilde Heltberg, 51, Norwegian musician, cancer. [295]
Bill Kunkel, 61, American video game designer and magazine editor, heart attack. [296]
Fermo Mino Martinazzoli, 79, Italian politician, after long illness. [297] (Italian)
Jag Mundhra, 62, Indian film director (Bawandar). [298]
Lee Roy Selmon, 56, American Hall of Fame football player (Tampa Bay Buccaneers), stroke. [299]
Dana Wilson, 28, New Zealand rugby league player, car accident. [300]

3

Julio Casas Regueiro, 75, Cuban politician, Vice President and Defense Minister (since 2008), heart attack. [301]
Andrzej Maria Deskur, 87, Polish Roman Catholic cardinal, President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications (1973–1984). [302]
Don Fambrough, 88, American football player and head coach (University of Kansas), injuries from a fall. [303]
Finn Helgesen, 92, Norwegian Olympic gold medal-winning (1948) speed skater. [304] (Norwegian)
John Hoover, 91, American artist. [305]
Sándor Képíró, 97, Hungarian World War II veteran acquitted of Nazi war crimes. [306]
Sumant Misra, 88, Indian tennis player. [307]

2

Edgar Benson, 88, Canadian politician and diplomat. [308]
Roberto Bruce, 32, Chilean television journalist, plane crash. [309]
Felipe Camiroaga, 44, Chilean television presenter, plane crash. [310]
Tony Corsari, 84, Belgian television host, cancer. [311] (Dutch)
Allan Hubbard, 83, New Zealand businessman, car accident. [312]
Shrinivas Khale, 85, Indian composer. [313]
José María Montes, 91, Argentine Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Chascomús (1983–1996). [314]
Noramfaizul Mohd Nor, 39, Malaysian television camera operator (Bernama), shot. [315]
Trulshik Rinpoche, 88, Tibetan lama. [316]
Jehangir Sabavala, 89, Indian artist. [317]
Bernard William Smith, 94, Australian art historian and critic. [318]
Alberto Zalamea, 82, Colombian journalist and politician, Ambassador to Côte d'Ivoire, Venezuela and Italy. [319]

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Jan Lammers, 84, Dutch Olympic athlete (1948). [320] (Dutch)
Liu Huang A-tao, 90, Taiwanese activist, first comfort woman to sue Japan for compensation. [321]
Abdulrahman al-Nuaimi, 67, Bahraini opposition leader, founder of the PFLB and the NDA. [322]
Alexandru Pesamosca, 81, Romanian surgeon and pediatrician, cardiac arrest. [323]
Kamal Salibi, 82, Lebanese historian. [324]