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

Vladimir Krutov, 52, Russian ice hockey player, internal bleeding and liver failure. [1] (Russian)
Prince Tomohito of Mikasa, 66, Japanese royal, cancer. [2]

5

Ray Bradbury, 91, American science fiction and fantasy author (Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles). [3]
Antoine Bernheim, 87, French banker. [4] (French)
Tamás Frank, 65, Hungarian businessman, manager, Vice President of the Hungaroring Sport Ltd. [5] (Hungarian)
Hal Keller, 83, American baseball player (Washington Senators) and executive (Seattle Mariners, Texas Rangers), esophageal cancer. [6]
Sensajurō Nishikawa, 70, Japanese dancer, bronchial pneumonia. [7] (Japanese)
Athinodoros Prousalis, 86, Greek film and television actor, heart attack. [8]
Charlie Sutton, 88, Australian football player and coach (Footscray). [9]

4

Peter Beaven, 86, New Zealand architect, cancer. [10]
Bobby Black, 85, Scottish football player. [11]
Enrique Bolanos, 87, Mexican-born American boxer. [12]
Pedro Borbón, 65, Dominican Republic-born American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds), cancer. [13]
Jim Fitzgerald, 86, American businessman, majority owner of the Milwaukee Bucks (1976–1985) and Golden State Warriors (1986–1995). [14]
Ireneo García Alonso, 89, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Albacete (1968–1980). [15]
Bernard A. Jean, 87, Canadian lawyer and politician. [16] (French)
Eduard Khil, 77, Russian singer ("Trololo"), stroke. [17]
Abu Yahya al-Libi, 49, Libyan terrorist, senior member of al-Qaeda, drone strike. [18]
George Marino, 65, American audio mastering engineer (Guns N' Roses, AC/DC, Metallica), lung cancer. [19]
Rodolfo Quezada Toruño, 80, Guatemalan Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Guatemala (2001–2010), complications from bowel obstruction. [20]
Herb Reed, 83, American singer (The Platters). [21]
Bryan Rufenach, 23, Canadian hockey player, electrocution. [22]
Johnny Yoshinaga, 63, Japanese drummer, pneumonia. [23] (Japanese)

3

Carol Ann Abrams, 69, American film producer (The Ernest Green Story) and author, mother of J. J. Abrams. [24]
Andy Hamilton, 94, Jamaican-born British saxophonist and composer. [25]
Rajsoomer Lallah, 79, Mauritian lawyer and judge. [26] (French)
Bob Meillon, 69, Australian director. [27]
Tatsuo Miyata, 83, Japanese screenwriter, respiratory failure. [28] (Japanese)
Roy Salvadori, 90, British Formula One race car driver. [29]
Sir Brian Talboys, 90, New Zealand politician, MP for Wallace (1957–1981), Deputy Prime Minister (1975–1981). [30]
Roel de Wit, 85, Dutch politician, Mayor of Alkmaar (1970–1976), Queen's Commissioner of North Holland (1976–1992). [31] (Dutch)

2

Avraham Botzer, 83, Israeli general, Commander of the Navy (1968–1972). [32] (Hebrew)
Adolfo Calero, 80, Nicaraguan businessman, leader of the Democratic Force, pneumonia and kidney failure. [33]
Richard Dawson, 79, English-born American actor (Hogan's Heroes), game show panelist (Match Game) and host (Family Feud), esophageal cancer. [34]
LeRoy Ellis, 72, American basketball player (Los Angeles Lakers, Philadelphia 76ers, Baltimore Bullets), cancer. [35]
David C. Garrett, Jr., 90, American businessman, CEO of Delta Air Lines. [36]
Jan Gmelich Meijling, 76, Dutch politician, Mayor of Castricum (1978–1985) and Den Helder (1985–1994), State Secretary for Defence (1994–1998). [37] (Dutch)
Kathryn Joosten, 72, American actress (Desperate Housewives, The West Wing), lung cancer. [38]
Frazier Mohawk, 71, American record producer (Buffalo Springfield, The Byrds), after long illness. [39]
Oliver, c. 55, Congolese-born common chimpanzee noted for his upright stature and humanlike traits. [40]
Setsuko Takeda, 87, Japanese politician, member of the House of Councillors, myocardial infarction. [41] (Japanese)

1

Faruq Z. Bey, 70, American jazz saxophonist, emphysema. [42]
Pádraig Faulkner, 94, Irish politician, TD for Louth (1957–1987), Minister for Defence (1979–1980), and Ceann Comhairle (1980–1981). [43]
Toshio Naiki, 74, Japanese businessman, pneumonia. [44] (Japanese)
Teruo Niinobe, 90, Japanese painter, metastatic liver cancer. [45] (Japanese)
Marion Sandler, 81, American businesswoman (Golden West Financial). [46]
Brahmeshwar Singh, 67, Indian militia chief, head of Ranvir Sena. [47]
Kōtarō Tachibana, 78, Japanese politician and parliamentarian, heart failure. [48] (Japanese)
Kōichi Takagi, 93, Japanese politician, mayor of Tsuruga, Fukui. [49] (Japanese)
Juozas Tunaitis, 83, Lithuanian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Vilnius (1991–2010). [50]

May 2012

31

Christopher Challis, 93, British cinematographer. [51]
Farid Habib, 77, Lebanese politician, MP for El Koura (since 2005), illness. [52]
Randall B. Kester, 95, American attorney and judge. [53]
Mark Midler, 80, Russian Olympic gold medal-winning (1960, 1964) foil fencer. [54] (Russian)
Kiyohiko Ozaki, 69, Japanese pop singer, liver cancer. [55] (Japanese)
Paul Sussman, 44, British journalist (CNN), archaeologist, and author, ruptured aneurysm. [56]
Orlando Woolridge, 52, American basketball player (Chicago Bulls) and coach (Los Angeles Sparks), heart disease. [57]

30

Pierre Ceyrac, 98, French Jesuit missionary. [58] (French)
Pete Cosey, 68, American guitarist. [59]
Edi Federer, 57, Austrian ski jumper, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [60]
John Fox, 55, American comedian, colon cancer. [61]
Buddy Freitag, 80, American Broadway theatre producer (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Catch Me If You Can), brain tumour. [62]
Sky Hertwig, 60, American football player (Detroit Lions), heart failure. [63]
Sir Andrew Huxley, 94, British physiologist, biophysicist, and Nobel laureate (Physiology or Medicine, 1963). [64]
Charles Lemmond, 84, American politician, Pennsylvania State Senator (1985–2006). [65]
Farideh Mashini, Iranian feminist activist. [66] (Persian)
Hiroki Oda, 98, Japanese painter, heart failure. [67] (Japanese)
Gerhard Pohl, 74, German politician, drowning. [68] (German)
Jack Twyman, 78, American Hall of Fame basketball player (Rochester/Cincinnati Royals), blood cancer. [69]

29

Dick Beals, 85, American voice actor (Davey and Goliath, Speedy Alka-Seltzer). [70]
Cassandra Jardine, 57, British journalist, lung cancer. [71]
Mark Minkov, 67, Russian composer. [72] (Russian)
Jim Paratore, 58, American television producer (TMZ, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Rosie O'Donnell Show), heart attack. [73]
Ivor Porter, 98, British diplomat. [74]
Ola O. Røssum, 86, Norwegian politician. [75] (Norwegian)
Kaneto Shindo, 100, Japanese film director, natural causes. [76]
Jim Unger, 75, English-born Canadian cartoonist (Herman). [77]
Doc Watson, 89, American folk and bluegrass musician, complications following surgery. [78]

28

Don Anthony, 83, British Olympic hammer thrower. [79]
Kuniichi Asami, 90, Japanese jockey, horse trainer and owner, illness. [80] (Japanese)
Hugh Dawnay, 79, English soldier and polo player. [81]
Bob Edwards, 86, British journalist. [82]
James Leslie, 89, Australian businessman, Chancellor of Deakin University. [83]
Ludovic Quistin, 28, Guadeloupean footballer (Tamworth), traffic accident. [84]
Yuri Susloparov, 53, Ukrainian-born Russian football player and coach. [85] (Ukrainian)
Bill Wohrman, 81, American actor (Porky's, Cocoon: The Return), natural causes. [86]
Matthew Yuricich, 89, American special effects artist (Field of Dreams, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Blade Runner). [87]

27

Sakhr al-Taifi, Afghan al-Qaeda leader. [88] (Dutch)
John Brain, 51, British rugby player (Gloucester). [89]
Dee Caruso, 83, American television writer (Get Smart, The Monkees), pneumonia. [90]
Simeon Daniel, 77, Saint Kitts and Nevis politician, Premier of Nevis (1983–1992). [91]
Friedrich Hirzebruch, 84, German mathematician. [92]
Kasuke Iimori, 75, Japanese scholar (Takushoku University). [93] (Japanese)
Zita Kabátová, 99, Czech actress. [94] (Czech)
David Rimoin, 75, American geneticist, pancreatic cancer. [95]
Earl Shorris, 75, American writer and social critic. [96]
Johnny Tapia, 45, American boxer. [97] (body discovered on this date)

26

Orhan Boran, 84, Turkish television host, bone marrow cancer. [98]
Arthur Decabooter, 75, Belgian professional racing cyclist, heart attack. [99] (Dutch)
Leo Dillon, 79, American comic book illustrator (Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears), complications from lung surgery. [100]
Rudy Eugene, 31, American criminal and cannibal, shooting. [101]
Stephen Healey, 29, British Army officer and footballer (Swansea City), improvised explosive device. [102]
William Lee Miller, 86, American author. [103]
Hiroshi Miyazawa, 90, Japanese politician, Minister of Justice (1995), Governor of Hiroshima Prefecture (1973–1981), natural causes. [104] (Japanese)
Hans Schmidt, 87, Canadian professional wrestler. [105]
Roy Wilson, 72, Jamaican singer (Higgs and Wilson). [106]

25

Sandy Dahl, 52, American activist, widow of United Airlines Flight 93 pilot Jason Dahl, natural causes. [107]
Dilip, 56, Indian actor, heart attack. [108]
Robert Fossier, 84, French historian [109]
Keith Gardner, 82, Jamaican Olympic bronze medal-winning (1960) athlete, complications of surgery and stroke. [110]
William Hanley, 80, American screenwriter and playwright. [111]
Yasuo Ido, 67, Japanese politician, mayor of Ukiha, Fukuoka, cancer. [112] (Japanese)
Ryūichi Kawamura, 69, Japanese radio personality. [113] (Japanese)
Walter Malli, 71, Austrian jazz musician and artist. [114] (German)
Edoardo Mangiarotti, 93, Italian Olympic gold medal-winning (1936, 1952, 1956, 1960) fencer. [115]
Beatrice Sparks, 95, American therapist and writer. [116]

24

Klaas Carel Faber, 90, Dutch-born Nazi war criminal, kidney failure. [117]
Kathi Kamen Goldmark, 63, American writer, cancer. [118]
Sir James Hamilton, 89, British aeronautical engineer (Concorde). [119]
Jacqueline Harpman, 82, Belgian writer. [120] (French)
Ryōsuke Hatanaka, 90, Japanese baritone, choral conductor, music critic, and composer, pneumonia. [121] (Japanese)
Godfried Lannoo, 85, Belgian editor. [122] (Dutch)
Hermengild Li Yi, 88, Chinese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Lu’an (since 1998). [123]
Juan Francisco Lombardo, 86, Argentine football player. [124] (Spanish)
Mark McConnell, American drummer (Sebastian Bach, Blackfoot), multiple organ failure. [125]
Ric McDonald, 69, American football head trainer (San Diego Chargers). [126]
Steve Michalik, 63, American bodybuilder. [127]
Ndombe Opetum, 65, Congolese musician. [128] (French)
Lee Rich, 93, American television executive and producer (The Waltons, Dallas), lung cancer. [129]
Van Smith, 67, American baseball scout (San Diego Padres). [130]
Yoshiyuki Suzuki, 65, Japanese guitarist, liver failure. [131] (Japanese) (body discovered on this date)
Lou Watson, 88, American basketball player and coach (Indiana University). [132]

23

T. Garry Buckley, 89, American politician, Vermont State Senator (1955–1965), Lieutenant Governor (1977–1979). [133]
Gyula Elek, 80, Hungarian handball player and coach. [134] (Hungarian)
Sattareh Farmanfarmaian, 91, Iranian writer and princess. [135] (Persian)
Paul Fussell, 88, American literary scholar and social critic, natural causes. [136]
Al Gordon, 89, American television writer (Three's Company, The Jack Benny Program), seizure. [137]
Barbara Holborow, 81, Australian magistrate, NSW Senior Australian of the Year (2012), cancer. [138]
Hal Jackson, 96, American disc jockey and radio personality. [139]
Joseph Lesniewski, 91, American World War II veteran, member of Easy Company. [140]
Kuly Ral, 35, British musician (RDB), cancer. [141]
William C. Wampler, 86, American politician, U.S. Representative for Virginia (1953–1955, 1967–1983). [142]

22

Muzaffar Ahmed, 79, Bangladeshi economist, natural causes. [143]
Wesley A. Brown, 85, American naval officer, first African-American graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. [144]
Janet Carroll, 71, American singer and actress (Risky Business, Married... with Children, Murphy Brown), brain tumor. [145]
Dave Mann, 79, American football player (Chicago Cardinals, Toronto Argonauts), complications from dementia. [146]
Yasuko Minorikawa, 66, Japanese stylist, cancer. [147] (Japanese)
Shiu-Ying Hu, 102, Chinese botanist. [148]
Boleslaw Sulik, 83, Polish film maker. [149]
Alan Thorne, 73, Australian anthropologist, developer of the theory of multiregional origin of modern humans, Alzheimer's disease. [150]
Aleksey Vanin, 87, Russian film actor. [151] (Russian)
Mike Voight, 58, American football player (Houston Oilers). [152]
Sir Derek Wanless, 64, British banker and public policy adviser, pancreatic cancer. [153]
Jesse Whittenton, 78, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Los Angeles Rams). [154]
Hidekazu Yoshida. 98, Japanese music critic and literary critic. [155]

21

Kyūya Arai, 80, Japanese businessman, executive vice-president of the Broadcasting System of Niigata. [156] (Japanese)
Eddie Blazonczyk, 70, American polka musician, natural causes. [157]
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. [158]
Constantine of Irinoupolis, 75, American Orthodox hierarch, Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA (since 1993). [159]
Heiko Daxl, 54, German media artist. [160]
Roman Dumbadze, 48, Georgian rebel commander, shooting. [161]
Ezell Lee, 74, American politician, Mississippi State Representative (1988–1992) and State Senator (1992–2012), cancer. [162]
Juan Manuel Montero Vázquez, 64, Spanish military surgeon. [163] (Spanish)
Akira Ōmori, 85, Japanese politician, member of the House of Councillors, brain tumor. [164] (Japanese)
Douglas Rodríguez, 61, Cuban boxer, heart attack. [165] (death announced on this date)
Bill Stewart, 59, American football coach (West Virginia University), apparent heart attack. [166]
Rodolfo Félix Valdés, 86, Mexican politician, Governor of Sonora (1985–1991). [167] (Spanish)

20

Safiuddin Ahmed, 89, Bangladeshi painter and printmaker. [168]
Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, 60, Libyan terrorist, convicted of bombing Pan Am Flight 103, prostate cancer. [169]
Bob Bethell, 69, American politician, Kansas State Representative (since 1999), car accident. [170]
Louis F. Burns, 92, American tribal and Osage Nation historian. [171]
Leela Dube, 89, Indian anthropologist. [172]
Geoffrey Evans, 69, Irish serial killer. [173]
John George, 81, Scottish officer of arms. [174]
Robin Gibb, 62, British singer and songwriter (Bee Gees), colon and liver cancer. [175]
Shane Hidalgo, 24, American professional skateboarder, car accident. [176]
Nils Jernsletten, 77, Norwegian linguist. [177] (Norwegian)
David Littman, 78, British historian and human rights activist. [178]
Eugene Polley, 96, American engineer, inventor of the wireless TV remote control. [179]
Howie Richmond, 94, American music publisher and executive. [180]
Carrie Smith, 70, American blues and jazz singer. [181]
Andrew B. Steinberg, 53, American lawyer. [182]
Svenn Stray, 90, Norwegian politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1970–1971, 1981–1986). [183] (Norwegian)

19

Bob Boozer, 75, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1960) basketball player (Cincinnati Royals, New York Knicks, Chicago Bulls), brain aneurysm. [184]
Tamara Brooks, 70, American choral conductor. [185]
Mark Buckley, 35, Scottish motorcycle racer, crash during 2012 North West 200 Races. [186]
Ian Burgess, 81, British racing driver. [187]
Muriel Cerf, 61, French writer, cancer. [188] (French)
Isak Doera, 80, Philippine-born Indonesian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Sintang (1976–1996). [189]
Ranjit Kumar Gupta, 93, Indian police chief. [190]
Gerhard Hetz, 69, German Olympic silver and bronze medal-winning (1964) swimmer. [191] (German)
Phil Lamason, 93, New Zealand Air Force officer. [192]
Mauro Pichini, 33, Argentine racing driver, plane crash. [193] (Spanish)
Willie Robinson, 70, American drag racer and promoter, after long illness. [194]
Heiichi Sugiyama, 97, Japanese poet and film critic, pneumonia. [195] (Japanese)
Kōichi Toda, 71, Japanese painter, rectal cancer. [196]^{[dead link]} (Japanese)

18

Marco Antonio Ávila García, 39, Mexican journalist. [197] (body discovered on this date)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, 86, German baritone and conductor. [198]
Tom Fuentes, 63, American political leader, Orange County Republican Party chairman (1985–2004), liver cancer. [199]
Kōsō Fujimoto, 86, Japanese calligrapher, senility. [200] (Japanese)
Jai Gurudev, 116 (unverified), Indian religious leader. [201]
Peter Jones, 49, British drummer (Crowded House), brain cancer. [202]
Justo Justo, 70, Filipino columnist and politician. [203]
Hans-Dieter Lange, 85, German TV journalist. [204] (German)
Alan Oakley, 85, British designer of Raleigh Chopper bicycle, cancer. [205]
Paul O'Sullivan, 48, Canadian comedian and actor, car accident. [206]
Gavin Packard, 48, British-born Indian Bollywood film actor, respiratory disease. [207]
Richard Rabago, 68, American actor (VR Troopers) and martial artist. [208]
Joe Sampite, 81, American politician, Mayor of Natchitoches, Louisiana (1980–2000). [209]
A. Teeuw, 90, Dutch critic of Indonesian literature. [210]

17

Warda Al-Jazairia, 72, Algerian singer, cardiac arrest. [211]
Agron Aliaj, Albanian ballet master and choreographer, complications from a car accident. [212] (Albanian)
Herbert Breslin, 87, American music industry executive, heart attack. [213]
Sophia Brown, 30, British reality show contestant (Big Brother 10). [214]
France Clidat, 79, French classical pianist. [215] (French)
Gideon Ezra, 74, Israeli politician, MK (since 1996), lung cancer. [216]
Patrick Mafisango, 32, Congolese-born Rwandan footballer, car accident. [217]
Nobuyuki Morikawa, 79, Japanese saxophonist, lung cancer. [218] (Japanese)
Stepan Karapetovich Pogosyan, 80, Armenian historian and politician. [219] (Russian)
Derek Round, 77, New Zealand journalist, injuries following assault. [220] (body discovered on this date)
Ron Shock, 69, American stand-up comedian, urethral cancer. [221]
Donna Summer, 63, American singer ("Bad Girls", "Hot Stuff", "Last Dance", "I Feel Love"), lung cancer. [222]
Harald Synnes, 81, Norwegian politician. [223]
Moti Tikaram, 87, Fijian judge and ombudsman. [224]

16

Patricia Aakhus, 59, Irish novelist, cancer. [225]
James Abdnor, 89, American politician, U.S. Representative (1973–1981) and U.S. Senator (1981–1987) from South Dakota. [226]
Maria Bieşu, 76, Moldovan opera singer, leukemia. [227] (Russian)
Chuck Brown, 75, American singer and musician ("Bustin' Loose"), multiple organ failure. [228]
Ernie Chan, 71, Filipino-born American comic book artist. [229]
Pat Dickie, 93, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Council for Ballarat (1956–1978). [230]
Doug Dillard, 75, American bluegrass musician (The Dillards) and actor (The Andy Griffith Show), lung infection. [231]
Kurt Felix, 71, Swiss television presenter, thymoma. [232] (German)
Hans Geister, 83, German runner. [233] (German)
Kevin Hickey, 56, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Baltimore Orioles), complications of a seizure. [234]
Ikuya Katō, 83, Japanese haiku poet and critic, heart failure. [235] (Japanese)
Mary Richardson Kennedy, 52, American architect, estranged wife of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., suicide by hanging. [236]
Susumu Kobayashi, 58, Japanese actor, tarento, and member of the owarai group Hipup, gastric cancer. [237] (Japanese)
Andrei Mylnikov, 93, Russian painter. [238] (Russian)
Jesse L. Thomas, 83, American football player (Baltimore Colts), of complications from dementia. [239]
Thad Tillotson, 71, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Nakai Hawks). [240]
Anne Warner, 71, British biologist, cerebral haemorrhage [241]
Yonghan Qiu, 89, Taiwanese businessperson and author. [242] (Chinese)

15

Henry Denker, 99, American novelist and playwright, lung cancer. [243]
Carlos Fuentes, 83, Panamanian-born Mexican novelist, internal hemorrhage. [244]
Jean Craighead George, 92, American children's author (Julie of the Wolves, My Side of the Mountain), heart failure. [245]
Peter Koslowski, 59, German philosopher and academic. [246] (German)
Arno Lustiger, 88, Upper Silesian-born German writer and Judaic historian. [247]
Zakaria Mohieddin, 93, Egyptian politician and military officer, Vice President (1961–1964, 1965–1968), Prime Minister (1965–1966). [248]
John Murray, 11th Duke of Atholl, 83, South African-born hereditary peer of the Peerage of Scotland. [249]
Sanae Nakahara, 76, Japanese actress, heart failure. [250] (Japanese)
Sir Roy Shaw, 93, British arts administrator. [251]
Frederick E. Smith, 93, British author (633 Squadron), heart attack. [252]
Betty Miller Unterberger, 89, Scottish-born American historian. [253]
Alfredo Villatoro, Honduran journalist. [254] (body found on this date)
George Wyllie, 90, Scottish sculptor. [255]

14

Vladimer Aptsiauri, 50, Georgian Olympic gold medal-winning (1988) fencer. [256]
Tor Marius Gromstad, 22, Norwegian footballer (Stabæk), fall. [257] (Norwegian) (body discovered on this date)
Mitchell Guist, 48, American reality series cast member (Swamp People), natural causes. [258]
Derek Hammond-Stroud, 86, English opera singer. [259]
Ernst Hinterberger, 80, Austrian author and screenwriter (Kaisermühlen Blues, Ein echter Wiener geht nicht unter). [260] (German)
Maude Aimee Humbard, 89, American gospel singer, widow of televangelist Rex Humbard, complications from Alzheimer's disease. [261]
Chōseki Kanō, 82, Japanese calligrapher, pneumonia. [262] (Japanese)
Louise Latimer, 96, American actress. [263]
Mike McGrady, 78, American writer. [264]
Taruni Sachdev, 14, Indian film actress (Paa), plane crash. [265]
Mario Trejo, 86, Argentine poet. [266] (Spanish)
Belita Woods, 63, American funk singer (Brainstorm, Parliament-Funkadelic), heart failure. [267]
Tatsuya Yoshimura, 60, Japanese author, stomach cancer. [268] (Japanese)

13

Trond Bråthen, 35, Norwegian singer and guitarist (Urgehal). [269]
Arsala Rahmani Daulat, Afghan politician, Afghan High Peace Council member, shot. [270]
Donald "Duck" Dunn, 70, American bass guitarist (The Blues Brothers, Booker T. & the M.G.'s). [271]
Katya Filipova, 63, Bulgarian pop singer, pulmonary embolism. [272]
Jin Chang-hyun, 82, South Korean violin manufacturer, colorectal cancer. [273] (Japanese)
Les Leston, 91, British racing driver. [274]
Jean McFarlane, Baroness McFarlane of Llandaff, 86, British nurse and peeress. [275]
Nguyen Van Thien, 106, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Vinh Long (1960–1968). [276]
Lee Richardson, 33, British speedway rider, in-race crash. [277]
Nolan Richardson III, 47, American college basketball coach (Tennessee State University). [278]
Don Ritchie, 85, Australian volunteer, rescued 160 people from suicide. [279]
Jack Simcock, 82, British artist. [280]
Bill Walsh, 84, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers). [281]
Trevor Young, 86, New Zealand politician, MP for Hutt (1968–1978); Eastern Hutt (1978–1990). [282]

12

Jan Bens, 91, Dutch footballer (Feyenoord). [283]
Paul Cyr, 48, Canadian hockey player (Buffalo Sabres, New York Rangers, Hartford Whalers), heart failure. [284]
Paul Dee, 65, American lawyer and athletic director (University of Miami). [285]
Ernst Josef Fittkau, 75, German entomologist. [286] (German)
Ruth Foster, 92, American actress (Little House on the Prairie). [287]
Edward Joint, 89, American soldier and member of Easy Company. [288]
Terry Martin, 74, American surfboard shaper. [289]
Neil McKenty, 87, Canadian radio talk-show host and author. [290]
Eddy Paape, 91, Belgian comics artist (Luc Orient). [291] (Dutch)
Harold Arthur Poling, 86, American businessman, CEO and Chairman of Ford Motor Company (1990–1993). [292]
Sam Porcello, 76, American food scientist, created the Oreo cookie filling. [293]
Ken Selby, 76, American businessman, founder of Mazzio's, complications from lung cancer. [294]
Fritz Ursell, 89, German-born British mathematician (Ursell number). [295]

11

Jack Benaroya, 90, American real estate developer. [296]
Patrick Bosch, 47, Dutch footballer (FC Twente), car accident. [297] (Dutch)
Stanislav Brebera, 86, Czech chemist. [298] (Czech)
Massimo Cenci, 68, Italian Roman Catholic priest, deputy secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, heart attack. [299]
Tony DeZuniga, 79, Filipino comic book artist and co-creator of Jonah Hex and Black Orchid, complications from stroke. [300]
Thea Hochleitner, 86, Austrian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1956) alpine skier. [301] (German)
Rodolfo Kappenberger, 95, Swiss footballer. [302]
Sir Michael Kerry, 88, British public servant. [303]
Ramesh Mehta, 78, Indian comedian, playwright, director, and actor. [304]
László Seregi, 82, Hungarian dancer and choreographer. [305] (French)
Martin Stovold, 56, English cricketer, lung disease. [306]
Travis H. Tomlinson, 98, American politician, Mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina (1965–1969). [307]
Frank Wills, 53, American baseball player (Toronto Blue Jays, Kansas City Royals, Cleveland Indians). [308]

10

Peter David, 60, British journalist (The Economist). [309]
Horst Faas, 79, German photojournalist (Associated Press). [310]
Ranjitsinh Pratapsinh Gaekwad, 74, Indian politician, member of the Lok Sabha (1980–1989), Maharaja of Baroda (since 1988). [311]
Evelyn Johnson, 102, American aviator. [312]
Miyozō Katō, 100, Japanese painter, senility. [313]^{[dead link]} (Japanese)
April Kauffman, 47, American radio personality, homicide by firearm. [314]
Günther Kaufmann, 64, German film actor, heart attack. [315]
Pekka Marjamäki, 64, Finnish Olympic ice hockey player, heart attack. [316]
Adam Christopher Mayes, 35, American FBI Top Ten Fugitive, suicide. [317]
Kōichi Nakamoto, 75, Japanese politician, mayor of Ikoma, Nara, liver cancer. [318] (Japanese)
Eddie Perkins, 75, American boxer. [319]
Joyce Redman, 96, English-born Irish actress (Othello, Tom Jones), pneumonia. [320]
Bernardo Sassetti, 41, Portuguese jazz pianist and film composer, fall. [321] (Portuguese)
Carroll Shelby, 89, American automobile racer and designer. [322]
Umeko Shimomura, 100, Japanese haiku poet, pneumonia. [323] (Japanese)
Andreas Shipanga, 80, Namibian politician, Chairman of the Transitional Government of National Unity (1987, 1988), heart attack. [324]
Gunnar Sønsteby, 94, Norwegian resistance movement member. [325] (Norwegian)
Yasutomo Watanabe, 95, Japanese painter, acute heart failure. [326] (Japanese)
Walter Wink, 76, American theologian, complications of dementia. [327]
Gulumbu Yunupingu, 69, Australian Aboriginal artist. [328]

9

Carl Beane, 59, American sports broadcaster and public address announcer (Fenway Park), heart attack. [329]
Celso Chavez, 44, American guitarist (Possum Dixon), pneumonia. [330]
Bertram Cohler, 73, American psychologist. [331]
Alain Fossoul, 83, Belgian footballer, [332] (French)
Sir Geoffrey Henry, 71, Cook Islands politician, Prime Minister (1983, 1989–1999), and Speaker of Parliament (since 2011), cancer. [333]
Yoshiyuki Nagatake, 73, Japanese opera researcher and critic, prostate cancer. [334] (Japanese)
Vidal Sassoon, 84, British hairstylist, leukemia. [335]
Ingvald M. Smith-Kielland, 92, Norwegian royal servant. [336]
Shizuteru Usui, 74, Japanese physician and author, president of the Hiroshima Prefectural Medical Association. [337] (Japanese)

8

Ampon Tangnoppakul, 64, Thai detainee. [338]
William Aquin Carew, 89, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Apostolic Nuncio to Japan (1983–1997). [339]
Junichi Itō, 63, Japanese banker, president of the Daisan Bank. [340] (Japanese)
Nicholas Katzenbach, 90, American lawyer, United States Attorney General (1965–1966). [341]
Lau Teng Chuan, 83, Singaporean sports administrator, stomach cancer. [342]
Everett Lilly, 87, American bluegrass musician (The Lilly Brothers). [343]
Carlos Loiseau, 63, Argentine cartoonist, cancer. [344]
Sergio Marqués Fernández, 65, Spanish politician, President of the Principality of Asturias (1995-1999). [345]
Bob Marshall, 77, American politician. Mayor of San Bruno, California (1980–1991). [346]
Jerry McMorris, 71, American baseball executive (Colorado Rockies), pancreatic cancer. [347]
Kiyoko Ōtani, 93, Japanese soprano, respiratory failure. [348] (Japanese)
Frank Parr, 83, English cricketer and jazz musician. [349]
Louis H. Pollak, 89, American federal judge. [350]
George Stephen Ritchie, 97, British admiral. [351]
Stacy Robinson, 50, American football player (New York Giants), cancer. [352]
Minoru Sano, 85, Japanese businessperson, founder and president of Nipro, heart failure. [353] (Japanese)
Maurice Sendak, 83, American author and illustrator (Where the Wild Things Are, Little Bear), complications of a stroke. [354]
Roman Totenberg, 101, Polish-born American violinist, renal failure. [355]
Jan van der Velden, 71, Dutch footballer, [356] (Dutch)

7

Ivan Allen, 81, American ballet dancer (Metropolitan Opera). [357]
Ferenc Bartha, 68, Hungarian economist, Governor of the National Bank of Hungary (1988–1990), suicide. [358] (Hungarian)
Jules Bocandé, 53, Senegalese footballer, complications of surgery and stroke. [359]
R. Michael Canjar, 58, American mathematician. [360]
Robert Everett Coyle, 82, American federal judge. [361]
Andrea Crisanti, 75, Italian production designer and art director. [362]
Dennis E. Fitch, 69, American pilot (United Airlines Flight 232), brain cancer. [363]
Keitarō Hanaya, 66, Japanese novelist, lung cancer. [364] (Japanese)
Hirotada Hayase, 71, Japanese track and field athlete (1960 Summer Olympics, 1964 Summer Olympics), blood poisoning. [365] (Japanese)
Masaki Ikuta, 89, Japanese jurist (Keio University), pneumonia. [366] (Japanese)
Alexander Keynan, 90, Israeli microbiologist, co-founder and the first director of Israel Institute for Biological Research. [367] (Hebrew)
Toshiaki Nagasaki, 71, Japanese theater director, bone tumor and lung cancer. [368] (Japanese)
Michal Pešek, 53, Czech actor, presenter, entrepreneur, and politician, lung cancer. [369] (Czech)
Lizzie Watkins, 24, Australian hockey player (North Coast Raiders), on field accident. [370]

6

Fahd al-Quso, 37, Yemeni militant, al-Qaeda member, airstrike. [371]
Michael Burks, 54, American blues musician, heart attack. [372]
Pat Frink, 67, American basketball player (Cincinnati Royals), automobile accident. [373]
Iraj Ghaderi, 77, Iranian film director and actor. [374] (Persian)
Kåre Øistein Hansen, 88, Norwegian politician. [375]
James Isaac, 51, American film director (Jason X) and special effects supervisor, blood cancer. [376]
Kostas Karras, 76, Greek actor, MP (2000–2007), prostate cancer. [377] (Greek)
Félix Kouadjo, 73, Ivorian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bondoukou (since 1996). [378]
Jean Laplanche, 87, French psychoanalyst, pulmonary fibrosis, [379] (French)
George Lindsey, 83, American actor (The Andy Griffith Show, Mayberry R.F.D., Hee Haw), after brief illness. [380]
Georgi Lozanov, 85, Bulgarian educator, developed Suggestopedia. [381]
KM Mathew, 77, Indian writer. [382]
Marika Mitsotakis, 82, Greek politician, wife of the Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Mitsotakis (1990–1993), complications of poliomyelitis. [383]
John Slack, 81, English cricketer and judge. [384]
Yale Summers, 78, American actor (Daktari). [385]
Tran Dinh Truong, 80, Vietnamese businessman. [386] (Vietnamese)
Jan Trøjborg, 56, Danish politician, member of the Folketing (1987–2005), and Defence Minister (2000–2001), heart failure. [387] (Danish)

5

Stevan Bena, 76, Serbian footballer. [388] (Serbian)
Count Carl Johan Bernadotte of Wisborg, 95, Swedish royal, youngest son of King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden. [389]
James R. Browning, 93, American judge. [390]
Aatos Erkko, 79, Finnish journalist and publisher, after long illness. [391]
George Knobel, 89, Dutch football manager, complications of Alzheimer's disease. [392] (Dutch)
Miguel Mora Gornals, 75, Spanish Olympic cyclist. [393] (Spanish)
Roy Padayachie, 62, South African politician. [394]
Ivica Šangulin, 75, Croatian football player and manager. [395] (Croation)
Surendranath, 75, Indian cricketer. [396]
Ali Uras, 88, Turkish Olympic basketball player and president of Galatasaray S.K. (1979–1986). [397] (Turkish)

4

Haukur Angantýsson, 63, Icelandic chess player. [398] (Icelandic)
T. P. Chandrasekharan, 51, Indian politician. [399]
Alexander Chikvaidze, 74, Georgian diplomat. [400] (Georgian)
Charlotte Hawkins Flowers, 112, American supercentenarian, kidney failure. [401]
Angelica Garnett, 93, British writer and painter. [402]
Crawford Hallock Greenewalt, Jr., 74, American archaeologist. [403]
Mort Lindsey, 89, American orchestra leader and composer. [404]
Alikhan Nakotskhoyev, 25, Russian football player. [405] (Russian)
Anthony O'Connell, 73, Irish-born American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Knoxville (1988–1998) and Palm Beach (1998–2002). [406]
Edward Short, Baron Glenamara, 99, British politician, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party (1972–1976), MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central (1951–1976). [407]
Bob Stewart, 91, American television game show producer (Password, To Tell the Truth, The Price Is Right), natural causes. [408]
Adam Yauch, 47, American musician (Beastie Boys) and film director (Gunnin' for That No. 1 Spot), salivary gland cancer. [409]
Rashidi Yekini, 48, Nigerian footballer. [410]

3

Edith Bliss, 52, Australian pop singer and television presenter. [411]
Lloyd Brevett, 80, Jamaican double bassist (The Skatalites), complications from stroke. [412]
Peter K. Cullins, 83, American admiral, first commander of the Naval Data Automation Command, complications from hepatitis B. [413]
John Miles Foley, 65, American folklorist and literary scholar. [414]
Jorge Illueca, 93, Panamanian politician, President (1984), respiratory failure. [415] (Spanish)
František Tondra, 75, Slovak Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Spiš (1989–2011), heart failure. [416] (Slovak)
Felix Werder, 90, German-born Australian composer. [417]

2

Peter Connolly, 77, British historian. [418]
Mark Deutch, 67, Russian journalist, drowned. [419] (Russian)
Nélida Gómez de Navajas, 76, Argentine human rights activist (Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo). [420] (Spanish)
Fernando Lopes, 76, Portuguese film director, throat cancer. [421] (Portuguese)
James Marker, 90, American-born Canadian businessman, inventor of Cheezies. [422]
Charlotte Mitchell, 85, British actress. [423]
Tufan Miñnullin, 76, Russian Tatar writer and playwright, heart attack. [424] (Russian)
Les Mogg, 82, Australian football player. [425]
Donald L. Owens, 82, American military officer. [426]
J. T. Ready, 39, American border militia leader, former neo-Nazi, suicide by gunshot. [427]
Junior Seau, 43, American football player (San Diego Chargers, Miami Dolphins, New England Patriots), suicide by gunshot. [428]
Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih, 57, Indonesian physician, Minister of Health (2009–2012), cancer. [429]
Akira Tonomura, 70, Japanese physicist, pancreatic cancer. [430] (Japanese)
Digby Wolfe, 82, British actor and screenwriter (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In), cancer. [431]
Zvi Zeitlin, 90, Belorussian-born American classical violinist, pneumonia. [432]

1

Gonçalo Amorim, 39, Portuguese Olympic cyclist. [433] (Portuguese)
Gogó Andreu, 92, Argentine comedian and actor. [434] (Spanish)
John Spencer Hardy, 98, American lieutenant general, NATO commander for Southern Europe. [435]
Harold K. Hoskins, 85, American pilot, Tuskegee Airman, Congressional Gold Medal winner, complications from a fall. [436]
Greg Jackson, 60, American basketball player (New York Knicks, Phoenix Suns), heart attack. [437]
Eric James, 87, British Anglican clergyman and broadcaster. [438]
Senteza Kajubi, 86, Ugandan university administrator and academic. [439]
James Kinley, 86, Canadian engineer and industrialist, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (1994–2000). [440]
Charles Pitts, 65, American soul musician, guitarist for Isaac Hayes, lung cancer. [441]
Harriet Presser, 76, American sociologist and demographer. [442]
Earl Rose, 85, American medical examiner, attempted to autopsy President Kennedy after assassination, Parkinson's disease. [443]
Shanmugasundari, 75, Indian film actress, heart attack. [444]
Mordechai Virshubski, 82, Israeli politician, MK (1977–1992) and Deputy Speaker of the Knesset (1988–1992). [445]