Deaths in January 2010
Appearance
The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2010.
January 2010
1
- Gary Brockette, 62, American actor and assistant director, cancer. [1]
- Chauncey H. Browning, Jr., 75, American politician, West Virginia Attorney General (1969–1985). [2]
- Jean Carroll, 98, American comedian (The Ed Sullivan Show). [3]
- Periyasamy Chandrasekaran, 52, Sri Lankan politician, Member of Parliament, after short illness. [4]
- Lhasa de Sela, 37, American singer, breast cancer. [5]
- Michael Dwyer, 58, Irish journalist and film critic, lung cancer. [6]
- Alfredo Mario Espósito Castro, 82, Argentinian Roman Catholic Bishop of Zárate-Campana (1976–1991). [7]
- John Freeman, 93, American animator (The Smurfs) and animation director (My Little Pony and Friends). [8]
- Bingo Gazingo, 85, American performance poet, struck by car. [9]
- Richard Kindleberger, 67, American newspaper reporter (The Boston Globe), brain tumor. [10]
- John Lyon, 58, British cricketer. [11]
- Jack Middleton, 92, British Olympic swimmer. [12]
- Tetsuo Narikawa, 65, Japanese actor (Spectreman) and karate instructor. [13]
- Marlene Neubauer-Woerner, 91, German sculptor. [14] (German)
- Stanisław Przybylski, 79, Polish modern pentathlete. [15]
- Mohamed Rahmat, 71, Malaysian politician, Information Minister (1978–1982, 1987–1999). [16]
- Faisal Bin Shamlan, 75, Yemeni politician, presidential candidate (2006), cancer. [17]
- Billy Arjan Singh, 92, Indian author. [18]
- Gregory Slay, 40, American rock drummer (Remy Zero), songwriter (Nip/Tuck theme), cystic fibrosis. [19]
- Freya von Moltke, 98, German World War II resistance fighter. [20]
- Tom Walsh, 67, American politician, member of the Wyoming House of Representatives (2003–2008), leukemia. [21]
- John Shelton Wilder, 88, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee (1971–2007), stroke. [22]
2
- Johann Frank, 71, Austrian football player (FK Austria Wien). [23] (German)
- David Gerber, 86, American executive producer (Police Story, Police Woman), heart failure. [24]
- Bill Green, 82, British aviation writer. [25]
- Deborah Howell, 68, American journalist, Washington Post ombudsman, hit by car. [26]
- René Oreel, 87, Belgian cyclist. [27]
- Augustine Paul, 65, Malaysian Federal Court judge, after chronic illness. [28]
- David R. Ross, 51, Scottish historian, heart attack. [29]
- Rajendra Keshavlal Shah, 96, Indian poet. [30]
3
- Gus Alexander, 75, Scottish footballer (Workington). [31]
- Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt, 84, Chilean composer, lung cancer. [32]
- Margery Beddow, 72, American choreographer and dancer. [33]
- Barry Blair, 56, Canadian comics artist and writer, brain aneurysm. [34]
- Gianni Bonichon, 65, Italian bobsledder, Olympic silver medalist. [35] (Italian)
- Sir Ian Brownlie, 77, British barrister, traffic collision. [36]
- Joyce Collins, 79, American jazz singer and pianist, pulmonary fibrosis. [37]
- Mary Daly, 81, American radical feminist philosopher. [38]
- Francis Gillingham, 93, British neurosurgeon. [39]
- Ali Safi Golpaygani, 96, Iranian Marja', natural causes. [40] (Persian)
- Billy Harris, 58, American basketball player (Northern Illinois Huskies, San Diego Conquistadors), stroke. [41]
- John Keith Irwin, 80, American sociologist. [42]
- Eunice Walker Johnson, 93, American director of Ebony Fashion Fair, widow of John H. Johnson, renal failure. [43]
- Charles Kleibacker, 88, American fashion designer, pneumonia. [44]
- Georges Martin, 94, French cyclist. [45]
- Takis Michalos, 63, Greek national team water polo player and coach, cancer. [46] (Greek)
- Moti Nandi, 79, Indian writer and sports journalist. [47]
- Geoffrey Reeve, 77, British film director. [48]
- Isak Rogde, 62, Norwegian translator. [49] (Norwegian)
- Tibet, 78, French comics artist and writer. [50]
- Bobby Wilkins, 87, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics). [51]
4
- Paul Ahyi, 79, Togolese artist, designer of the flag of Togo. [52] (French)
- Lew Allen, 84, American USAF general, NSA Director (1973–1977), USAF Chief of Staff (1978–1982), rheumatoid arthritis. [53]
- Knox Burger, 87, American editor, writer, and literary agent. [54]
- Neil Christian, 66, British singer, cancer. [55]
- Tony Clarke, 68, British musician and record producer (The Moody Blues), emphysema. [56]
- Donal Donnelly, 78, English-born Irish actor, cancer [57]
- Hywel Teifi Edwards, 75, Welsh historian and writer, after short illness. [58]
- Johan Ferrier, 99, Surinamese politician, President (1975–1980). [59]
- Tadeusz Góra, 91, Polish pilot. [60] (Polish)
- Casey Johnson, 30, American socialite, Johnson & Johnson heiress, diabetic ketoacidosis. [61]
- Rory Markas, 54, American baseball radio announcer (Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim), heart attack. [62]
- Sandro de América, 64, Argentinian singer, complications from heart and lung transplant surgery. [63]
- Ludwig Wilding, 82, German artist. [64] (German)
- Tsutomu Yamaguchi, 93, Japanese survivor of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, stomach cancer. [65]
5
- Abdul Azim al-Deeb, 80, Qatari professor (Qatar University). [66]
- Beverly Aadland, 67, American actress, girlfriend of Errol Flynn, diabetes and heart failure. [67]
- Daniel Kubert, 62, American mathematician. [68]
- Bernard Le Nail, 63, French writer, historian, Breton language and cultural advocate, cerebral hemorrhage. [69] (French)
- Willie Mitchell, 81, American musician and record producer, cardiac arrest. [70]
- Kenneth Noland, 85, American color field painter, kidney cancer. [71]
- Courage Quashigah, 62, Ghanaian politician. [72]
- Philippa Scott, 91, British conservationist. [73]
- George Syrimis, 88, Cypriot finance minister (1988–1993). [74]
- Toni Tecuceanu, 37, Romanian comedy actor, bacterial infection. [75]
- George Willoughby, 95, American Quaker activist. [76]
6
- Philippe Arthuys, 81, French composer and film director. [77] (French)
- David Giles, 83, British television director. [78]
- Michael Goulder, 82, British biblical scholar. [79]
- Michael Harper, 78, British priest of the Church of England and later of the Antiochian Orthodox Church. [80]
- George Leonard, 86, American writer, editor and educator, pioneer of the Human Potential Movement, after long illness. [81]
- Graham Leonard, 88, British Church of England Bishop of London (1981–1991), subsequently a Roman Catholic priest. [82]
- Ivan Medek, 84, Czech music publicist, theorist and critic, collaborator of Václav Talich and Václav Havel. [83]
- Harriet Miller, 90, American politician, mayor of Santa Barbara, California (1995–2001). [84]
- Beniamino Placido, 80, Italian journalist and television critic. [85]
- James von Brunn, 89, American white supremacist, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting suspect. [86]
7
- Sándor Barcs, 97, Hungarian politician and sport executive, interim President of UEFA (1972–1973). [87]
- Alexander Garnet Brown, 79, Canadian politician, member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly (1969–1978). [88]
- Bruria Kaufman, 91, Israeli physicist. [89]
- Stephen Huneck, 61, American wood carving artist, suicide by gunshot. [90]
- Kamal Mahsud, Pakistani Pashto language folk singer, gas leak. [91]
- Alex Parker, 74, Scottish football player (Falkirk, Everton, Southport, Scotland) and manager, heart attack. [92]
- Donald Edmond Pelotte, 64, American Roman Catholic Bishop of Gallup (1990–2008), first Native American bishop. [93]
- James D Robertson, 78, Scottish painter and lecturer. [94]
- Blanca Sánchez, 63, Mexican actress, kidney failure. [95]
- Philippe Séguin, 66, French politician, heart attack. [96]
- Jim White, 67, American professional wrestler, cancer. [97]
- Hardy Williams, 78, American politician, Pennsylvania State Senator (1983–1998), Alzheimer's disease. [98]
8
- Bob Blackburn, 85, American sports commentator (Seattle SuperSonics), pneumonia. [99]
- Jean Charpentier, 74, Canadian journalist, press secretary for Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, cancer. [100]
- Art Clokey, 88, American stop motion animator (Gumby, Davey and Goliath), bladder infection. [101]
- Piero De Bernardi, 83, Italian screenwriter. [102] (Italian)
- Tony Halme, 47, Finnish professional boxer, actor, wrestler and Member of Parliament (2003–2007), suicide by gunshot. [103] (Finnish)
- Raymond Kamber, 79, Swiss Olympic sprint canoer. [104] (German)
- Slavka Maneva, 75, Macedonian writer and poet. [105] (Macedonian)
- Charles Massi, 57, Central African politician and rebel leader. [106]
- Monica Maughan, 76, Australian actress, cancer. [107]
- Jim Rimmer, 75, Canadian graphic designer, cancer. [108]
- Otmar Suitner, 87, Austrian conductor. [109] (German)
- Hans L. Trefousse, 88, German-born American historian. [110]
- Amir Vahedi, 48, Iranian-born American poker player, complications of diabetes. [111]
- Sumner G. Whittier, 98, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (1953–1957). [112]
9
- Améleté Abalo, 47, Togolese national football team assistant coach, shot. [113]
- Christopher Shaman Abba, 74, Nigerian Roman Catholic Bishop of Yola (since 1996), Bishop of Minna (1973–1996). [114]
- Amo Bessone, 93, American ice hockey player and coach. [115]
- Gösta Bredefeldt, 74, Swedish actor. [116] (Swedish)
- Franz-Hermann Brüner, 64, German head of OLAF, after long illness. [117]
- Acúrsio Carrelo, 78, Portuguese footballer. [118] (Portuguese)
- Mark Ellidge, British press photographer. [119]
- Ken Genser, 59, American politician, mayor of Santa Monica, California, after long illness. [120]
- Per N. Hagen, 73, Norwegian politician. [121] (Norwegian)
- Rupert Hamer, 39, British journalist, defence correspondent for the Sunday Mirror, improvised explosive device. [122]
- Fatimah Hashim, 85, Malaysian politician, first female minister in the Malaysian government. [123]
- Laura Chapman Hruska, 74, American writer, co-founder and editor in chief of Soho Press, cancer. [124]
- Jack Kerness, 98, American art director, natural causes. [125]
- Nadav Levitan, 64, Israeli film director and screenwriter, lung disease. [126]
- Ronald Moore, 84, Canadian politician. [127]
- Yevgeny Paladiev, 61, Soviet-born Kazakh ice hockey player. [128] (Russian)
- Diether Posser, 87, German politician. [129] (German)
- Armand Razafindratandra, 84, Malagasy cardinal, archbishop of Antananarivo (1994–2005), fall. [130]
- Vimcy, 84, Indian sports writer. [131]
10
- Sir Donald Acheson, 83, British physician, Chief Medical Officer of England (1983–1991). [132]
- Sailadhar Baruah, 68, Indian film producer, complications of diabetes. [133]
- Mina Bern, 98, Polish-born American Yiddish theatre actor, heart failure. [134]
- Bert Bushnell, 88, British Olympic gold medal-winning rower (1948). [135]
- Carlos Bonilla Chávez, 86, Ecuadorian classical guitarist. [136] (Spanish)
- Simon Digby, 77, Indian-born British scholar and linguist, pancreatic cancer. [137]
- Jan C. Gabriel, 69, American race track announcer, complications from polycystic kidney disease. [138]
- Donald Goerke, 83, American executive (Campbell's Soup Company), created SpaghettiOs, heart failure. [139]
- Dick Johnson, 84, American big band clarinetist (Artie Shaw Band), after short illness. [140]
- Edward Linde, 67, American businessman, founder of Boston Properties, pneumonia. [141]
- Frances Morrell, 72, British political adviser and educationalist, cancer. [142]
- Ulf Olsson, 58, Swedish murderer, suicide by hanging. [143] (Swedish).
- Bill Patterson, 87, Australian racing driver, natural causes. [144]
- Jayne Walton Rosen, 92, American singer, Lawrence Welk's Champagne Lady (1940–1945), natural causes. [145]
- Moisés Saba, 47, Mexican entrepreneur, helicopter crash. [146]
- Dale Shewalter, 59, American teacher, founder of the Arizona Trail, cancer. [147]
- Mano Solo, 46, French singer, ruptured aneurysm. [148]
- Crispin Sorhaindo, 78, Dominican politician, President (1993–1998), cancer. [149]
- Bojidar Spiriev, 77, Bulgarian-born Hungarian hydrologist and statistician, creator of IAAF scoring tables. [150]
- Torbjørn Yggeseth, 75, Norwegian ski jumping athlete and official. [151]
11
- Juliet Anderson, 71, American pornographic actress and movie producer. [152]
- Francisco Benkö, 99, German-born Argentine chess master. [153]
- Robben Wright Fleming, 93, American president of the University of Michigan (1968–1978). [154]
- Georgy Garanian, 75, Russian jazz saxophonist and bandleader, cardiac arrest. [155]
- Dorothy Geeben, 101, American mayor of Ocean Breeze Park, Florida (since 2001), oldest active mayor in the U.S. [156]
- Miep Gies, 100, Dutch humanitarian, protector of Anne Frank during World War II, complications from a fall. [157]
- Mick Green, 65, British rock and roll guitarist (Johnny Kidd & The Pirates, Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas). [158]
- Andis Hadjicostis, 43, Cypriot CEO of Sigma TV, shot. [159] (Greek)
- Johnny King, 83, English footballer. [160]
- Kurt Liebhart, 76, Austrian Olympic sprint canoer. [161] (German)
- Harry Männil, 89, Estonian-born Venezuelan businessman. [162]
- Bob Noorda, 82, Dutch-born Italian graphic designer. [163]
- Éric Rohmer, 89, French film director. [164]
- Joe Rollino, 104 or 93, American strongman, weightlifter, and boxer, struck by van. [165]
- Ed Scott, 92, American baseball scout. [166]
- Dennis Stock, 81, American photographer (Magnum Photos), colon and liver cancer. [167]
- Gordon Van Tol, 49, Canadian Olympic water polo player, heart attack. [168]
12
- Masoud Alimohammadi, 50, Iranian nuclear scientist, bomb blast. [169]
- Daniel Bensaïd, 63, French philosopher and Trotskyist activist. [170]
- Ken Colbung, 78, Australian Aboriginal elder, after short illness. [171]
- Shirley Bell Cole, 89, American voice actor (Little Orphan Annie). [172]
- Brian Damage, 46, American punk and rock drummer (Misfits), complications of colorectal cancer. [173]
- Miguel Ángel de la Flor, 85, Peruvian army officer and politician. [174] (Spanish)
- Ralph S. Johnson, 103, American aviation pioneer. [175]
- Kritsada Arunwong na Ayutthaya, 78, Thai architect, Governor of Bangkok (1996–2001), coronary artery disease. [176]
- Fred Krone, 79, American stuntman, cancer. [177]
- Hillis Layne, 91, American Major League Baseball player (1941, 1944–1945). [178]
- Alastair Martin, 94, American tennis player, member of the Hall of Fame, President of the United States Tennis Association (1969–1970). [179]
- Sir Allen McClay, 77, British founder of pharmaceutical company Almac, cancer. [180]
- Elizabeth Moody, 70, New Zealand actress and theatre director, pneumonia. [181]
- Ann Prentiss, 70, American actress (Captain Nice, My Stepmother Is an Alien). [182]
- Art Rust, Jr., 82, American sports commentator, Parkinson's disease. [183]
- Hasib Sabbagh, 89, Palestinian businessman. [184]
- Vanda Skuratovich, 84, Belarusian Roman Catholic activist. [185] (Russian)
- Yabby You, 63, Jamaican reggae singer and producer, stroke. [186]
- Notable people killed in the 2010 Haiti earthquake:
- Georges Anglade, 65, Haitian professor and cabinet minister, co-founder of Université du Québec à Montréal. [187]
- Hédi Annabi, 65, Tunisian diplomat, Head of MINUSTAH. [188]
- Zilda Arns, 75, Brazilian pediatrician and humanitarian. [189]
- Luiz Carlos da Costa, 60, Brazilian diplomat, Deputy Head of MINUSTAH. [190] (Portuguese)
- Antoine Craan, 78, Haitiian-born Canadian footballer. [191]
- Serge Marcil, 65, Canadian politician, Quebec National Assembly of Quebec (1985–1994), MP for Beauharnois—Salaberry (2000–2004). [192]
- Flo McGarrell, 35, Italian-born American artist. [193]
- Myriam Merlet, 53, Haitian political activist. [194]
- Joseph Serge Miot, 63, Haitian Roman Catholic archbishop of Port-au-Prince. [195]
- Jimmy O, 35, Haitian hip hop musician. [196]
13
- Jack Block, 85, American psychologist, complications of a spinal cord injury. [197]
- Edward Brinton, 86, American marine biologist, after long illness. [198]
- Sir Robin Maxwell-Hyslop, 78, British politician, MP for Tiverton (1960–1992). [199]
- Abdullah Mehdar, Yemeni al-Qaeda terrorist, shot. [200]
- Teddy Pendergrass, 59, American soul singer, complications from colorectal cancer. [201]
- Jay Reatard, 29, American garage punk musician, cocaine toxicity. [202]
- Tommy Sloan, 84, Scottish footballer (Hearts, Motherwell). [203]
- Isamu Tanonaka, 77, Japanese voice actor (GeGeGe no Kitaro), heart attack. [204]
- Ed Thigpen, 79, American jazz drummer, after long illness. [205]
- Edgar Vos, 78, Dutch fashion designer, heart attack. [206]
14
- Ante Babaja, 82, Croatian film director and screenwriter. [207]
- Bobby Charles, 71, American songwriter ("See You Later, Alligator", "(I Don't Know Why) But I Do"). [208]
- Antonio Fontán, 86, Spanish politician and journalist. [209]
- Micha Gaillard, Haitian politician, earthquake. [210]
- John F. Hayes, 90, American attorney and politician, Kansas House of Representatives (1953–1955; 1967–1979). [211]
- Mark Jones, 70, British actor. [212]
- Charles Nolte, 86, American actor, playwright and educator, prostate cancer. [213]
- Otto, 20, British dachshund-terrier, world's oldest dog, euthanised following stomach tumour. [214]
- P. K. Page, 93, Canadian poet. [215]
- Chilton Price, 96, American songwriter ("Slow Poke", "You Belong to Me"). [216]
- Phoebe Prince, 15, Irish student at South Hadley High School, Massachusetts, bullying victim, suicide by hanging. [217]
- Marika Rivera, 90, French actress, daughter of Diego Rivera. [218]
- James W. Rutherford, 84, American mayor of Flint, Michigan (1975–1983, 2002–2003). [219]
- Katharina Rutschky, 68, German educationalist and author. [220] (German)
- Petra Schürmann, 74, German television presenter, Miss World 1956, after long illness. [221]
- Jessie Tait, 81, British ceramic designer. [222]
- Antonio Vilaplana Molina, 83, Spanish Roman Catholic Bishop of León (1987–2002), renal failure. [223] (Spanish)
- Bernie Voorheis, 87, American basketball player. [224]
- Rowland Wolfe, 95, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1932) gymnast. [225]
15
- Asim Butt, 31, Pakistani artist (Stuckism art movement), suicide by hanging. [226]
- Florence-Marie Cooper, 69, American federal judge, District Court for Central District of California (since 1999), lymphoma. [227]
- Michael Creeth, 85, British biochemist. [228]
- Bahman Jalali, 65, Iranian photographer, pancreatic cancer. [229]
- Detlev Lauscher, 57, German footballer. [230] (German)
- Steve Lovelady, 66, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, throat cancer. [231]
- Mike Osborn, 92, British military officer. [232]
- Marshall Warren Nirenberg, 82, American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (1968), cancer. [233]
- Peter Thomson, 73, Australian Anglican theologian, mentor to Tony Blair. [234]
16
- Glen Bell, 86, American entrepreneur, founder of Taco Bell. [235]
- Judi Chamberlin, 65, American anti-psychiatry activist, lung disease. [236]
- Guy Day, 79, American advertising executive. [237]
- Sam Dixon, 60, American minister, Deputy General Secretary of UMCOR (since 2007), earthquake.[238]
- Musa Inuwa, 62, Nigerian politician. [239]
- George Jellinek, 90, American radio personality (WQXR). [240]
- Felice Quinto, 80, Italian photographer. [241]
- Takumi Shibano, 83, Japanese novelist, pneumonia. [242]
- Carl Smith, 82, American country singer-songwriter (Hey Joe), after long illness. [243]
- Bernie Weintraub, 76, American talent agent, co-founder of the Paradigm Talent Agency. [244]
- Jimmy Wyble, 87, American guitarist, heart failure. [245]
17
- Gaines Adams, 26, American football player (Chicago Bears, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), cardiac arrest. [246]
- Maki Asakawa, 67, Japanese singer, heart failure. [247] (Japanese)
- Jyoti Basu, 95, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (1977–2000), complications from pneumonia. [248]
- Thomas F. Cowan, 82, American politician, New Jersey State Senator (1984–1994). [249]
- Daisuke Gōri, 57, Japanese voice actor (Dragon Ball, Kinnikuman, Mobile Suit Gundam), suicide by wrist cutting. [250]
- Béla Köpeczi, 88, Hungarian historian and politician, Minister of Education (1982–1988). [251] (Hungarian)
- Michalis Papakonstantinou, 91, Greek politician and author, Minister for Foreign Affairs (1992–1993). [252] (Greek)
- Erich Segal, 72, American professor, author (Love Story), and screenwriter (Yellow Submarine), heart attack. [253]
18
- K. S. Ashwath, 84, Indian actor, multiple organ failure. [254]
- Cyril Burke, 84, Australian rugby union player. [255]
- Herb Grosch, 91, Canadian-born American computer scientist. [256]
- Kate McGarrigle, 63, Canadian folk singer, clear-cell sarcoma. [257]
- Günter Mielke, 67, German Olympic athlete. [258] (German)
- Gladys Morcom, 91, British Olympic swimmer. [259]
- Imari Obadele, 79, American black separatist, stroke. [260]
- Kevin O'Shea, 62, Canadian ice hockey player (St. Louis Blues, Buffalo Sabres). [261]
- Robert B. Parker, 77, American detective writer (Spenser series, Jesse Stone novels), heart attack. [262]
- Jörgen Philip-Sörensen, 71, Danish businessman, after long illness. [263]
- Robert D. Rowley, Jr., 68, American Episcopal Bishop of Northwestern Pennsylvania (1991–2007). [264]
- Josephus Tethool, 75, Indonesian Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of Amboina (1982–2009). [265]
- Celestino Tugot, 99, Filipino golfer, winner of the Philippine Open (1949, 1955–1958, 1962), lung cancer. [266]
19
- Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, 50, Palestinian leader of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, murdered. [267]
- Frances Buss Buch, 92, American first female television director. [268]
- Ian Christie, 82, British jazz clarinetist. [269]
- Tom Cochran, 85, American football player (Washington Redskins). [270]
- Dan Fitzgerald, 67, American college basketball coach (Gonzaga). [271]
- Danny Fitzgerald, Irish hurler and Gaelic football player. [272] (death announced on this date)
- Christos Hatziskoulidis, 58, Greek footballer (Egaleo F.C.), cancer. [273] (Greek)
- Vladimir Karpov, 87, Russian writer, Chairman of the USSR Union of Writers (1986–1991). [274] (Russian)
- Jennifer Lyon, 37, American reality TV personality (Survivor: Palau), breast cancer. [275]
- Ida Mae Martinez, 78, American professional wrestler. [276]
- Bill McLaren, 86, Scottish rugby union commentator. [277]
- Panajot Pano, 70, Albanian footballer. [278] (Albanian)
- Cerge Remonde, 51, Filipino press secretary, heart attack. [279]
- Kalthoum Sarrai, 47, Tunisian-born French television presenter (Supernanny), cancer. [280]
- William Vitarelli, 99, American educator and architect. [281]
20
- Enid Campbell, 77, Australian legal scholar. [282]
- Tony Cummins, 103, Irish Roman Catholic priest. [283]
- Patricia Donoho Hughes, 79, American First Lady of Maryland (1979–1987), wife of Harry Hughes, Parkinson's disease. [284]
- John S. Loisel, 89, American fighter ace. [285]
- Calvin Maglinger, 85, American painter. [286]
- Bob Minton, 63, American-born Irish banker, critic of Scientology, heart ailment. [287]
- John Francis Moore, 68, Nigerian Roman Catholic Bishop of Bauchi (since 2003). [288]
- Jack Parry, 86, Welsh footballer (Swansea Town, Ipswich Town, Wales). [289]
- John Pawle, 94, English cricketer. [290]
- Derek Prag, 86, British politician, MEP for Hertfordshire (1979–1994). [291]
- Abraham Sutzkever, 96, Polish-born Israeli poet. [292]
- Lynn Taitt, 75, Jamaican reggae guitarist, cancer. [293]
21
- Bobby Bragan, 92, American baseball player and manager, heart attack. [294]
- Irwin Dambrot, 81, American basketball player involved in the CCNY Point Shaving Scandal, Parkinson's disease. [295]
- Lawrence Garfinkel, 88, American epidemiologist, cardiovascular disease. [296]
- Knud Gleie, 74, Danish Olympic swimmer. [297]
- Larry Johnson, 62, American film producer, heart attack. [298]
- Chindodi Leela, 72, Indian theatre and film actress, complications from heart attack. [299]
- Robert "Squirrel" Lester, 67, American smooth soul tenor (The Chi-Lites), liver cancer. [300]
- Hal Manders, 92, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers). [301]
- Jacques Martin, 88, French comics artist and writer. [302]
- Camille Maurane, 98, French baritone singer. [303] (French)
- Guillermo Abadía Morales, 97, Colombian folklore researcher, indigenous language expert, natural causes. [304] (Spanish)
- Curt Motton, 69, American baseball player, stomach cancer. [305]
- Paul Quarrington, 56, Canadian novelist, musician and screenwriter, lung cancer. [306]
22
- Apache, 45, American rapper, after long illness. [307]
- Donnis Churchwell, 73, American football player. [308]
- Sir Percy Cradock, 86, British diplomat, after short illness. [309]
- Sir Dermot de Trafford, 85, British aristocrat and businessman. [310]
- Clayton Gerein, 45, Canadian wheelchair sports athlete, seven-time Paralympian, brain tumor. [311]
- Louis R. Harlan, 87, American Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, after long illness. [312]
- Iskandar of Johor, 77, Malaysian Yang di-Pertuan Agong (1984–1989), Sultan of Johor (1981–2010). [313]
- Jennifer Lyn Jackson, 40, American Playboy model, drug overdose. [314]
- Andrew E. Lange, 52, American astrophysicist, Big Bang researcher, suicide by asphyxiation. [315]
- Juan Pedro Laporte, 64, Guatemalan archaeologist. [316] (Spanish)
- Janeshwar Mishra, 76, Indian politician, cardiac arrest. [317]
- James Mitchell, 89, American actor (All My Children), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. [318]
- Private Terms, 25, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized. [319]
- Maggie Renfro, 114, American supercentenarian, fourth-oldest person in the world, pneumonia. [320]
- Gordon Richardson, Baron Richardson of Duntisbourne, 94, British Governor of the Bank of England (1973–1983). [321]
- Godfrey A. Rockefeller, American aviator and conservationist. [322]
- Johnny Seven, 83, American character actor (Ironside), lung cancer. [323]
- Jean Simmons, 80, British-born American actress (Hamlet, Spartacus), lung cancer. [324]
- Tuanaitau F. Tuia, 89, American Samoan politician and legislator, longest serving member of the American Samoa Fono. [325]
- Betty Wilson, 88, Australian cricketer. [326]
- Tom Wittum, 60, American football player (San Francisco 49ers), cancer. [327]
23
- Robert Lam, 64, Malaysian news presenter, skin cancer. [328]
- Douglas J. Martin, 82, New Zealand leader in the LDS Church. [329]
- Sam Match, 87, American tennis player. [330]
- Roger Pierre, 86, French actor (Mon oncle d'Amérique), cancer. [331] (French)
- Sir Thomas Prickett, 96, British RAF Air Chief Marshal. [332]
- Kermit Tyler, 96, American pilot, figured in the attack on Pearl Harbor, complications from strokes. [333]
- Oleg Velyky, 32, Ukrainian-born German handball player, melanoma. [334] (German)
- Earl Wild, 94, American classical pianist, heart failure. [335]
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- Lawrence Aloysius Burke, 77, Jamaican Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kingston (2004–2008); Nassau (1981–2004), cancer. [336]
- Donald Dowd, 87, American campaign aide to the Kennedy family. [337]
- Ghazali Shafie, 87, Malaysian politician, Home Minister (1973–1981) and Foreign Minister (1981–1984). [338]
- Irshad Ahmed Haqqani, 81, Pakistani journalist and politician. [339]
- Robert Mosbacher, 82, American politician, Secretary of Commerce (1989–1992), pancreatic cancer. [340]
- Leonid Nechayev, 70, Russian film director, stroke. [341] (Russian)
- Jim Podoley, 76, American football player (Washington Redskins), melanoma. [342]
- James Henry Quello, 95, American government official, FCC Commissioner (1974–1997), heart and kidney failure. [343]
- FitzRoy Somerset, 5th Baron Raglan, 82, British aristocrat. [344]
- Pernell Roberts, 81, American actor (Bonanza; Trapper John, M.D.), pancreatic cancer. [345]
- Peter Wood, 74, Australian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland (1966–1974). [346]
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- Ali Hassan al-Majid, 68, Iraqi military commander and government minister, execution by hanging. [347]
- Lynn Bayonas, 66, Australian television writer and producer, cancer. [348]
- Orlando Cole, 101, American classical cellist and educator. [349]
- Horace Weldon Gilmore, 91, American federal judge. [350]
- Jane Jarvis, 94, American jazz pianist and organist. [351]
- Pádraig MacKernan, 69, Irish diplomat, Secretary General (Foreign Affairs), Ambassador to France and United States. [352]
- Georgiann Makropoulos, 67, American professional wrestling historian and author, heart attack. [353]
- Charles Mathias, 87, American politician, Senator from Maryland (1969–1987), complications of Parkinson's disease. [354]
- Gordon Park, 66, British convicted murderer, apparent suicide by hanging. [355]
- Algirdas Petrulis, 95, Lithuanian painter. [356] (Lithuanian)
- Ivan Prenđa, 70, Croatian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Zadar (since 1990). [357] (Croatian)
- Bill Ritchie, 78, Scottish comic book artist. [358]
- Emilio Vieyra, 88, Argentine film director, actor, screenwriter and producer. [359] (Spanish)
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- Andon Amaraich, 77, Micronesian Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, pneumonia. [360]
- Louis Auchincloss, 92, American novelist, complications of a stroke. [361]
- Juliusz Bardach, 95, Polish historian. [362] (Polish)
- Boa Sr., 85, Indian Great Andamanese elder, last speaker of the Bo language. [363]
- Geoffrey Burbidge, 84, British-born American astrophysicist, after long illness. [364]
- Anne Froelick, 96, American blacklisted screenwriter. [365]
- Dag Frøland, 64, Norwegian comedian, singer and variety artist. [366] (Norwegian)
- Paul R. Jones, 81, American art collector, after short illness. [367]
- Eugenijus Karpavičius, 56, Lithuanian illustrator. [368] (Lithuanian)
- Inda Ledesma, 83, Argentine actress, cardiac arrest. [369]
- Gummadi Venkateswara Rao, 82, Indian character actor, multiple organ failure. [370]
- Paul Verdzekov, 79, Cameroonian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bamenda (1970–2006). [371]
- Ken Walters, 76, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies). [372]
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- Harry Alger, 85, Canadian politician. [373]
- Lee Archer, 90, American Air Force pilot (Tuskegee Airman). [374]
- Barry Blitzer, 80, American television writer (Get Smart, The Flintstones), complications from abdominal surgery. [375]
- Betty Lou Keim, 71, American actress, lung cancer. [376]
- Ruben Kruger, 39, South African rugby union player, brain tumor. [377]
- Eduardo Michaelsen, 89, Cuban exile, painter in the naive art style. [378] (Spanish)
- Shirley Collie Nelson, 78, American country singer, ex-wife of Willie Nelson. [379]
- Ajmer Singh, 69, Indian athlete and educator. [380]
- Zelda Rubinstein, 76, American actress (Poltergeist, Picket Fences), natural causes. [381]
- J. D. Salinger, 91, American author (The Catcher in the Rye), natural causes. [382]
- Howard Zinn, 87, American historian (A People's History of the United States), civil rights and antiwar activist, heart attack. [383]
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- Mohammad-Reza Ali-Zamani, c. 38, Iranian activist, hanging. [384]
- Frank Baker Jr., 66, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians), heart failure. [385]
- Larbi Belkheir, 72, Algerian major general, Interior Minister (1991). [386]
- Bill Binder, 94, American restaurateur (Phillippe's). [387]
- Eduardo Catalano, 92, Argentine architect. [388]
- Patricia Clarke, 90, British biochemist. [389]
- José Eugênio Corrêa, 95, Brazilian Roman Catholic Bishop of Caratinga (1957–1978). [390]
- Margaret Dale, 87, British dancer and television director. [391]
- Walter Fondren, 73, American football player and conservationist, heart failure. [392]
- George Hanlon, 92, Australian horse trainer, three-time Melbourne Cup winner, natural causes. [393]
- Mick Higgins, 87, Irish Gaelic footballer, All-Ireland Senior Football Championship winner (Cavan; 1947, 1948, 1952). [394]
- Alistair Hulett, 57, Scottish-born Australian folk singer, liver failure. [395]
- Robert Joffe, 66, American lawyer, pancreatic cancer. [396]
- Patricia Leonard, 73, British contralto, throat cancer. [397]
- Kazimierz Mijal, 99, Polish politician. [398] (Polish)
- Bud Millikan, 89, American basketball coach (University of Maryland). [399]
- Sarah Mulvey, 34, British television producer (Channel 4), suspected suicide. [400]
- Arash Rahmanipour, c. 20, Iranian activist, hanging. [401]
- Seymour Sarason, 91, American psychologist. [402]
- Keiko Tobe, 52, Japanese manga artist (With the Light). [403]
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- Evgeny Agranovich, 91, Russian composer and bard. [404] (Russian)
- Tom Brookshier, 78, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles), coach and sportscaster (CBS Sports, WCAU), cancer. [405]
- Adam Alexander Dawson, 96, British film editor. [406]
- Eric Freiwald, 82, American television writer (The Young and the Restless). [407]
- Georgelle Hirliman, 73, American performance artist, cancer. [408]
- Derek Hodgkinson, 92, British air chief marshal. [409]
- Tom Howard, 59, American musician, heart attack. [410]
- Ralph McInerny, 80, American philosopher (University of Notre Dame) and mystery author (Father Dowling Mysteries). [411]
- Ram Niwas Mirdha, 85, Indian politician (Lok Sabha), minister and speaker (Rajasthan Legislative Assembly), multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. [412]
- Wilf Paish, 77, British athletics coach, after long illness. [413]
- Mikael Reuterswärd, 45, Swedish adventurer, first Swede to reach summit of Mount Everest (body found on this date). [414]
- Karen Schmeer, 39, American documentary film editor (The Fog of War), vehicular hit-and-run. [415]
- Zahid Sheikh, 60, Pakistani Olympic silver medal-winning (1972) field hockey player. [416]
- Cameron Snyder, 93, American sports journalist (The Baltimore Sun), won Dick McCann Memorial Award (1982), lung cancer. [417]
- Eckart Viehweg, 61, German mathematician, after short illness. [418]
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- Erna Baumbauer, 91, German casting agent. [419] (German)
- Ruth Cohn, 97, German psychotherapist. [420] (German)
- Sam Conn, 47, American journalist and actor. [421]
- Lucienne Day, 93, British textile designer. [422]
- Sølve Grotmol, 70, Norwegian sports commentator. [423] (Norwegian)
- Bruce Mitchell, 90, Australian academic. [424]
- Ursula Mommens, 101, British potter. [425]
- Brahmananda Panda, 61, Indian politician. [426]
- Aaron Ruben, 95, American television producer (Andy Griffith Show, Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C., Sanford and Son), pneumonia. [427]
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- Kage Baker, 57, American science fiction and fantasy author, uterine cancer. [428]
- Robert DeBlieux, 77, American politician, Mayor of Natchitoches, Louisiana (1976–1980), cerebral hemorrhage. [429]
- Pauly Fuemana, 40, New Zealand musician (OMC), after short illness. [430]
- Henry Fukuhara, 96, American watercolor painter, natural causes. [431]
- Patricia Gage, 69, British actress and voice actress. [432]
- Jiří Havlis, 77, Czech Olympic gold medal-winning (1952) rower. [433] (Czech)
- Albert Huie, 89, Jamaican painter. [434]
- Edith Josie, 88, Canadian columnist, natural causes. [435]
- Viktor Kaisiepo, 61, Netherlands New Guinean-born Dutch activist for West Papuan independence. [436]
- Thorleif Karlsen, 100, Norwegian police inspector, politician and radio host, natural causes. [437] (Norwegian)
- Howard Lotsof, 66, American researcher, discovered anti-addictive effects of ibogaine, liver cancer. [438]
- Tomás Eloy Martínez, 75, Argentine writer and journalist, brain tumor. [439]
- John Norris, 76, British-born Canadian publisher (Coda), heart condition. [440]
- Keith Norton, 69, Canadian politician, former MPP for Kingston and the Islands (1975–1985), cancer. [441]
- Paddie O'Neil, 83, British actress and singer. [442]
- Phil Smith, 63, Australian football player, cancer. [443]
- Pierre Vaneck, 78, French actor (The Science of Sleep), complications of heart surgery. [444] (French)