Deaths in March 2010

The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2010.

March 2010

1

Perry Brooks, 55, American football player (Washington Redskins). [1]
Robert Clarkson, 62, American tax protestor. [2]
Kristian Digby, 32, British television presenter and director (To Buy or Not to Buy), accidental suffocation. [3]
Clifton Forbes, 64, Jamaican Olympic athlete, after long illness. [4]
Slavko Fras, 81, Slovenian journalist and editor. [5]
Barry Hannah, 67, American novelist and short story writer (Geronimo Rex), heart attack. [6]
Vladimir Ilyushin, 82, Russian test pilot. [7] (German)
Paul Kim Ok-kyun, 84, South Korean Roman Catholic prelate, Titular Bishop of Girba (1985–2001). [8]
Ruth Kligman, 80, American abstract painter, muse of Jackson Pollock. [9]
Joseph Hernández Ochoa, 26, Honduran journalist, shot. [10]

2

Francisco Ada, 75, Northern Mariana Islands politician, first Lieutenant Governor (1978–1982). [11]
Syed Ali, 67, Indian Olympic gold medal-winning (1964) field hockey player. [12]
Melva Blancett, 85, American actress. [13]
Judith Bumpus, 70, British arts radio producer. [14]
Winston Churchill, 69, British politician, MP for Stretford (1970–1983) and Davyhulme (1983–1997), prostate cancer. [15]
Paul Drayton, 70, American athlete, 1964 Olympic gold and silver medalist, cancer. [16]
Emil Forselius, 35, Swedish actor, suicide. [17] (Swedish)
Jón Hnefill Aðalsteinsson, 82, Icelandic scholar. [18] (Icelandic)
Don Kent, 92, American meteorologist (WBZ-TV), natural causes. [19]
Miloslav Loos, 96, Czech Olympic cyclist. [20]
Ibragim Khasanov, 72, Russian Olympic sprint canoer. [21] (Russian)
Charles B. Moore, 89, American physicist, engineer and meteorologist. [22]
Eric Morse, 91, Australian cricketer. [23]
Geoff Myburgh, 81, South African Olympic sailor. [24]
Omar Pound, 83, American writer and translator. [25]

3

Keith Alexander, 53, British footballer (Saint Lucia) and manager, brain aneurysm. [26]
Johnny Allen, 76, American football player (Washington Redskins), Alzheimer's disease. [27]
Frank Bertaina, 65, American Major League Baseball player, heart attack. [28]
Mariya Dolina, 87, Ukrainian dive bomber pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union. [29] (Ukrainian)
Michael Foot, 96, British politician, Leader of the Labour Party (1980–1983). [30]
Marie-Christine Gessinger, 17, Austrian fashion model, car accident. [31] (German)
Momo Kapor, 72, Serbian writer and painter. [32]
Big Tiny Little, 79, American musician (The Lawrence Welk Show). [33]
Yuri Stepanov, 42, Russian actor, car accident. [34]
John Strohmeyer, 85, American journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner, heart failure. [35]
Oleg Tyurin, 72, Russian rower, 1964 Olympic gold medalist. [36]. (Russian)

4

Raimund Abraham, 76, Austrian-born American architect (Austrian Cultural Forum New York), car accident. [37]
Johnny Alf, 80, Brazilian singer and composer, prostate cancer. [38]
Vladislav Ardzinba, 64, Georgian politician, separatist President of Abkhazia (1994–2005). [39]
Ron Banks, 58, American singer (The Dramatics), heart attack. [40]
Big Truck, c. 5, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized. [41]
André Bouchard, 54, Canadian ecologist and environmentalist, heart attack. [42]
Etta Cameron, 70, Bahamian-born Danish gospel singer, cancer. [43]
Hilario Chávez Joya, 82, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Nuevo Casas Grandes (1977–2004). [44]
Amalie Christie, 96, Norwegian pianist. [45] (Norwegian)
Samuel J. Eldersveld, 92, American political scientist and politician. [46]
Joaquim Fiúza, 102, Portuguese sailor, 1952 Olympic bronze medalist. [47] (Portuguese)
Tetsuo Kondo, 80, Japanese politician, Minister of Labour (1991–1992). [48]
Nan Martin, 82, American actress (The Drew Carey Show, Cast Away, Shallow Hal), emphysema. [49]
Roger Newman, 69, British-born American actor and television writer (Guiding Light, Passions), cancer. [50]
Angelo Poffo, 84, American professional wrestler. [51]
Tony Richards, 76, English footballer (Walsall). [52]
Joanne Simpson, 86, American meteorologist, first woman to earn a doctorate in meteorology. [53]
Lolly Vegas, 70, American singer (Redbone), lung cancer. [54]
Fred Wedlock, 67, British folk musician, complications from pneumonia. [55]

5

Aminah Assilmi, c. 65, American Muslim lecturer, writer and women's rights activist, car accident. [56]
Donald N. Frey, 87, American product planning manager, co-creator of Ford Mustang, stroke. [57]
Aleksandr Grave, 89, Russian actor. [58] (Russian)
Herta Haas, 96, Slovenian-born Yugoslav Partisan, second wife of Josip Broz Tito. [59]
Philip Langridge, 70, British tenor, colorectal cancer. [60]
Andrée Peel, 105, French patriot, World War II Resistance member. [61]
Charles B. Pierce, 71, American film director (The Legend of Boggy Creek). [62]
Alberto Ronchey, 83, Italian politician and journalist. [63] (Italian)
Wolfgang Schenck, 97, German airman, Luftwaffe flying ace. [64] (Portuguese)
Richard Stapley, 86, British-born American actor (The Three Musketeers), renal failure. [65]
Edgar Wayburn, 103, American environmentalist and conservationist. [66]
Jan Wilson, 70, Australian politician, Victorian MLA for Dandenong North (1985–1999). [67]

6

Mansour Amir-Asefi, 76, Iranian Olympic footballer, cancer. [68]
Cho Gyeong-chul, 80, South Korean astronomer, heart attack. [69]
Fiennes Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, 88, British aristocrat. [70]
Bruce Graham, 84, American architect (Willis Tower, John Hancock Center), Alzheimer's disease. [71]
Endurance Idahor, 25, Nigerian footballer, heart attack. [72]
H.M. Koutoukas, 72, American playwright (Medea in the Laundromat), complications of diabetes. [73]
Mark Linkous, 47, American singer-songwriter (Sparklehorse), suicide by gunshot. [74]
Carol Marsh, 83, British actress. [75]
Ronald Pettersson, 74, Swedish ice hockey player. [76] (Swedish)
Jim Roland, 67, American Major League Baseball player. [77]
Sydney Tierney, 86, British politician, MP for Birmingham Yardley (1974–1979). [78]
Nigel Trench, 7th Baron Ashtown, 93, British diplomat. [79]

7

Daisey Bailey, 113, American supercentenarian, second-oldest person in the nation and fourth-oldest in world. [80]
Sir Kenneth Dover, 89, British classicist, President of the British Academy (1978–1981). [81]
Ken Dyer, 63, American football player (Cincinnati Bengals). [82]
Newton Kulundu, 61, Kenyan politician, Minister of Labour (2006–2008), after long illness. [83]
Sergo Mikoyan, 80, Russian historian, specialist on Latin America, leukemia. [84]
Carlos Moratorio, 80, Argentine Olympic silver medal-winning (1964) equestrian. [85] (Spanish)
Ida Bagus Oka, 74, Indonesian Governor of Bali, heart disease. [86]
Mary Josephine Ray, 114, Canadian-born American supercentenarian, oldest person in the nation and second-oldest in world. [87]
Richard Stites, 78, American historian and author, complications from cancer. [88]
Tom Thurber, 75, Canadian politician. [89]
Patrick Topaloff, 65, French actor and humorist, heart attack. [90] (French)
Ben Westlund, 60, American politician, Oregon State Treasurer (2009–2010), lung cancer. [91]
William Proctor Wilson, 88, American businessman and philanthropist. [92]

8

Albert P. Clark, 96, American Air Force officer. [93]
Tony Imi, 72, British cinematographer. [94]
David Kimche, 82, Israeli diplomat, Mossad spy (1953–1980), brain cancer. [95]
Vit Klemes, 77, Czech-born Canadian hydrologist. [96]
Guy Lapébie, 93, French road bicycle racer. [97] (German)
Benjamin Rubin, 93, American microbiologist, inventor of the bifurcated vaccination needle. [98]
Jerry E. Smith, 59, American author, pancreatic cancer. [99]
Gale Thomson, 90, American First Lady of New Hampshire (1973–1979), wife of Meldrim Thomson, Jr., heart failure. [100]
Mahama Johnson Traoré, 68, Senegalese film director, after long illness. [101]
Georgiy Zatsepin, 92, Russian astrophysicist. [102] (Russian)

9

Antoine Choueiri, 70, Lebanese businessman and media magnate, after long illness. [103]
Paul Collier, 46, Australian disability advocate, brain haemorrhage. [104]
Gheorghe Constantin, 77, Romanian footballer and manager. [105] (Romanian)
Lionel Cox, 80, Australian road bicycle racer, pneumonia. [106]
Willie Davis, 69, American baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers), natural causes. [107]
Dulmatin, 39, Indonesian terrorist, 2002 Bali bombings planner, shot. [108]
Teresa Gutiérrez, 81, Colombian actress, natural causes. [109] (Spanish)
Doris Haddock, 100, American political activist, complications of respiratory disease. [110]
Catherine Itzin, 65, American feminist academic, honorary research fellow (University of Bradford), duodenal cancer. [111]
Jean Kerebel, 91, French Olympic silver (1948) medal-winning athlete. [112] (French)
Bernard Narokobi, 72, Papua New Guinean politician, diplomat, lawyer and philosopher, after short illness. [113]
Richard Edwin Parris Jr., 46, American musician (Animal Bag), ruptured ulcer. [114]
Wilfy Rebimbus, 67, Indian musician, lung cancer. [115]
Alda Neves da Graça do Espírito Santo, 83, Santomean poet. [116] (Portuguese)
Henry Wittenberg, 91, American wrestler, 1948 Olympic gold medalist. [117]

10

Truddi Chase, 74, American autobiographical author. [118]
Leeann Chin, 77, Chinese-born American restaurateur, founder of Leeann Chin restaurants, after long illness. [119]
Evelyn Dall, 92, American singer and actress, after long illness. [120]
Björn von der Esch, 80, Swedish politician. [121] (Swedish)
Bill Fisher, 84, Australian judge, President of the New South Wales Industrial Commission (1981–1998). [122]
Corey Haim, 38, Canadian actor (Lucas, The Lost Boys, License to Drive), pneumonia. [123]
Tim Holland, 79, American backgammon player, emphysema. [124]
Dorothy Janis, 98, American silent film actress. [125]
Micky Jones, 63, Welsh singer and guitarist (Man), brain tumour. [126]
Vincent Mensah, 85, Beninese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Porto Novo (1970–2000). [127] (French)
Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, 81, Egyptian Muslim cleric, Grand Imam (Al-Azhar Mosque), heart attack. [128]
George Webb, 92, British traditional jazz musician [129]

11

Walter Aronson, 92, Swedish Olympic bobsledder. [130] (Swedish)
Paul Dunlap, 90, American film composer. [131]
John Durr, 79, South African Olympic swimmer. [132]
John Hill, 68, Canadian professional wrestler, Alzheimer's disease. [133]
Louis Holmes, 99, British-born Canadian ice hockey player and coach. [134]
Matilde Elena López, 91, Salvadoran poet, essayist and playwright. [135] (Spanish)
Willie MacFarlane, 79, Scottish footballer and manager. [136]
David Meza, 51, Honduran journalist, shot. [137]
Hans van Mierlo, 78, Dutch politician, Minister of Defence (1981–1982), Minister of Foreign Affairs (1994–1998), Deputy Prime Minister (1994–1998). [138]
Charles Moore, 79, American photographer. [139]
Bernard Novak, 90, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1969–1980). [140]
Merlin Olsen, 69, American football player (Los Angeles Rams), member of Pro Football Hall of Fame, and actor (Little House on the Prairie, Father Murphy), mesothelioma. [141]
Arnall Patz, 89, American ophthalmologist, heart disease. [142]
Leena Peltonen-Palotie, 57, Finnish geneticist, bone cancer. [143]
Elena Schwarz, 61, Russian poet. [144]
Sandy Scott, 75, Canadian professional wrestler, pancreatic cancer. [145]
Elisabeth de Stroumillo, 83, British journalist, scooter accident. [146]
Colin Wells, 76, British historian and archaeologist. [147]

12

David Ahenakew, 76, Canadian First Nations leader and politician, cancer. [148]
Bob Attersley, 76, Canadian ice hockey player, 1960 Winter Olympics silver medalist. [149]
Miguel Delibes, 89, Spanish author, journalist and scholar, colorectal cancer. [150]
Lesley Duncan, 66, British singer-songwriter, cerebrovascular disease. [151]
Hanna-Renate Laurien, 81, German politician. [152] (German)
Fatima Meer, 81, South African academic, screenwriter and anti-apartheid activist, stroke. [153]
Aleksandr Minayev, 51, Russian football player and coach. [154] (Russian)
Charles Muscatine, 89, American Chaucer scholar and advocate for education reform, lung infection. [155]
Hugh Robertson, 70, Scottish footballer (Dundee F.C.). [156]
Glauco Villas Boas, 53, Brazilian cartoonist (Geraldão), shot. [157] (Portuguese)

13

Jerry Adler, 91, American harmonicist, prostate cancer. [158]
Sir Michael Angus, 79, British businessman, Chairman of Unilever (1986–1992). [159]
Sir Ian Axford, 76, New Zealand space scientist, after long illness. [160]
Jean Ferrat, 79, French singer, cancer. [161]
Momcilo Gavrić, 71, Croatian-born American football player (San Francisco 49ers). [162]
He Pingping, 21, Chinese dwarf, shortest man who was able to walk, heart complications. [163]
Terry Heffernan, 58, New Zealand politician, cancer. [164]
Édouard Kargu, 84, French footballer. [165] (French)
Cliff Livingston, 79, American football player (N.Y. Giants) and stuntman, complications from dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson's disease. [166]
Leon Manley, 83, Canadian football player (Edmonton Eskimos). [167]
Andrzej Marcinkowski, 81, Polish lawyer and politician, acting Minister of Justice (1991), after long illness. [168] (Polish)
Neville Meade, 61, Jamaican-born British boxer. [169]
Gary Mittelholtz, 55, Canadian journalist (CBC Radio), heart attack [170]
Fouad Zakariyya, 82/83, Egyptian philosopher. [171]

14

Chimen Abramsky, 93, British historian, expert in Jewish studies and Hebrew literature. [172]
Nahúm Elí Palacios Arteaga, 36, Honduran journalist and television news director, shot.
Carmen Capalbo, 84, American theater director, emphysema. [173]
Edward Eugene Claplanhoo, 81, American Makah leader and veteran, first Makah college graduate, founder of the Makah Museum. [174]
Junior Collins, 82, American horn player. [175]
Corsica Joe, 90, American professional wrestler. [176]
Cherie DeCastro, 87, American singer (The DeCastro Sisters), pneumonia. [177]
Edmund Dinis, 85, American prosecutor, investigated Chappaquiddick incident, complications of treatment for lymphoma. [178]
Pat Fanning, 91, Irish hurler (Waterford), President of the Gaelic Athletic Association (1970–1973). [179]
Peter Graves, 83, American actor (Mission: Impossible, Airplane!), heart attack. [180]
Vinda Karandikar, 91, Indian poet and writer, after short illness. [181]
Hernán Llerena, 81, Peruvian Olympic cyclist. [182]
Arnold Loxam, 93, British organist. [183]
Konrad Ruhland, 78, German musicologist. [184] (German)
Felipe Sapag, 93, Argentine politician. [185] (Spanish)
Der Scutt, 75, American architect (Trump Tower, One Astor Plaza, Reading Public Museum), liver failure. [186]
Janet Simpson, 65, British Olympic track and field athlete, heart attack. [187]
Altie Taylor, 62, American football player (Detroit Lions). [188]
Buddy Tudor, 74, American businessman, cancer. [189]
Lisle Wilson, 66, American actor. [190]

15

Charlie Ashcroft, 83, English footballer (Liverpool F.C.). [191]
W. H. Atkinson, 75, American racing driver. [192]
Emilia Boncodin, 55, Filipino Secretary of DBM (1998, 2001–2005), ZTE scandal whistleblower, cardiac arrest. [193]
Bill Burtenshaw, 84, British footballer. [194] (death announced on this date)
Joseph Galdon, 81, Filipino writer and academic. [195]
Günther Heidemann, 77, German Olympic bronze medal-winning (1952) boxer. [196] (German)
Robert Hodgins, 89, South African artist, lung cancer. [197]
Ken Holcombe, 91, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox). [198]
Ashok Kumar, 53, British MP for Langbaurgh (1991–1992) and MSEC (1997–2010), natural causes. [199]
Ron Lundy, 75, American radio disc jockey (WABC, WCBS-FM), heart attack. [200]
Sam Mtukudzi, 21, Zimbabwean musician, car accident. [201]
David J. Steinberg, 45, American actor (Willow, Epic Movie). [202]
Patricia Wrightson, 88, Australian children's writer. [203]

16

Herb Cohen, 77, American record company executive, manager of Frank Zappa. [204]
Billy Hoeft, 77, American Major League Baseball All-Star pitcher (Detroit Tigers, Baltimore Orioles). [205]
Kayode Irekperu, 23, Nigerian footballer, malaria. [206]
Filip Kapisoda, 22, Montenegrin model, suicide by gunshot. [207]
Hachiro Maekawa, 97, Japanese baseball player (Yomiuri Giants), respiratory failure. [208]
Ksenija Pajčin, 32, Serbian pop singer, shot. [209] (Serbian)
Jane Sherman, 101, American writer and dancer. [210]

17

Abdellah Blinda, 58, Moroccan footballer, heart attack. [211]
Tim Chadwick, 47, New Zealand artist, traffic collision. [212]
Alex Chilton, 59, American musician (Big Star, The Box Tops), heart attack. [213]
Wayne Collett, 60, American athlete, 1972 Summer Olympics silver medalist, cancer. [214]
Sid Fleischman, 90, American children's writer, cancer. [215]
Van Fletcher, 85, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers). [216]
Charlie Gillett, 68, British radio presenter, music writer and record producer, after long illness. [217]
Peter Gowland, 93, American glamour photographer and actor, hip surgery. [218]
Ştefan Gheorghiu, 83, Romanian violinist. [219] (Romanian)
Johnnie High, 80, American country music impresario, heart failure. [220]
Robert Michael White, 85, American X-15 test pilot. [221]

18

Amanda Castro, 47, Honduran poet, respiratory disease. [222] (Spanish)
Júlio Correia da Silva, 90, Portuguese footballer. [223] (Portuguese)
Herb Denenberg, 80, American journalist (WCAU), consumer advocate, Pennsylvania insurance commissioner, heart attack. [224]
Donald P. Kelly, 88, American leveraged buyout investor (Beatrice Foods), cancer. [225]
Chick Lang, Sr., 83, American businessman, general manager of Maryland Jockey Club, natural causes. [226]
Herbert G. Lewin, 95, American politician, candidate in the 1988 Presidential election, heart failure. [227]
Pak Nam-gi, 76, North Korean public official, executed by firing squad. [228] (death announced on this date)
Fess Parker, 85, American actor (Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone), natural causes. [229]
Zygmunt Pawłowicz, 82, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Gdańsk (1985–2005). [230]
Paul Warner Powell, 31, American convicted murderer, executed by electric chair. [231]
William Wolfe, 86, Scottish politician, National Chairman of the Scottish National Party (1969–1979). [232]
Konstantin Yeryomenko, 39, Russian futsal player, European champion (1999), heart attack. [233]
Jerry York, 71, American businessman, Executive Director for Apple Inc., cerebral hemorrhage. [234]

19

Carlo Chenis, 55, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Civitavecchia-Tarquinia (since 2006). [235]
Bob Curtis, 60, English footballer (Charlton Athletic, Mansfield Town), motor neurone disease. [236]
Gerald Drucker, 84, British double bass player. [237]
Wayne S. Ewing, 81, American politician. [238]
John Hicklenton, 42, British comics artist (2000 AD), assisted suicide. [239]
Ted Hooper, 91, British bee keeper. [240]
George Lane, 95, Hungarian-born British World War II commando, pneumonia. [241]
Roberto de la Madrid, 88, Mexican politician, Governor of Baja California (1977–1983), first American-born governor of a Mexican state. [242]
Bill McIntyre, 80, American actor (Dallas), natural causes. [243]
Elinor Smith, 98, American aviator. [244]
Dottie Thompson, 88, American festival organizer, co-founder of the Merrie Monarch Festival, complications from pneumonia. [245]
Raúl de la Torre, 72, Argentine film director (Pobre mariposa, Funes, un gran amor), cardiac arrest. [246] (Spanish)

20

István Bilek, 77, Hungarian chess grandmaster. [247] (Hungarian)
Alan Cameron, 80, Australian rugby union player, national team. [248]
Harry Carpenter, 84, British sports commentator and television presenter. [249]
Liz Carpenter, 89, American feminist author, press secretary to Lady Bird Johnson (1963–1969), pneumonia. [250]
Claiborne Cary, 78, American actress and cabaret performer, complications from Parkinson's disease. [251]
Clodomiro Castilla, 50, Colombian journalist, shot. [252]
Dorothy Corrigan, 96, Canadian politician, first female Mayor of Charlottetown (1968–1972). [253]
Chicka Dixon, 81, Australian Aboriginal activist, asbestosis. [254]
Ebet Kadarusman, 73, Indonesian television and radio presenter, stroke. [255]
Ray Fonseca, 56, American hula master, heart attack. [256]
Fred Heineman, 80, American politician, Representative from North Carolina (1995–1997), natural causes. [257]
John Eric Holmes, 80, American science fiction and fantasy author. [258]
Girija Prasad Koirala, 85, Nepalese politician, Prime Minister (four terms), multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. [259]
Ian Knight, 69, British stage designer, cancer. [260]
Naim Krieziu, 92, Albanian footballer. [261] (Italian)
Erwin Lehn, 90, German musician and conductor. [262]
Robin Milner, 76, British computer scientist, heart attack. [263]
Ai Ogawa, 62, American poet, breast cancer. [264]
Fernando Iório Rodrigues, 80, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Palmeira dos Índios (1985–2006). [265]
Mikel Scicluna, 80, Canadian professional wrestler, liver cancer. [266]
Stewart Udall, 90, American politician, Secretary of the Interior (1961–1969), fall. [267]
Yang Lina, 47, Singaporean actress (Samsui Women), uterine cancer. [268]

21

Vivian Blake, 53, Jamaican drug lord, heart attack. [269]
Franco Gualdrini, 86, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Terni-Narni-Amelia (1983–2000). [270]
Lou Jankowski, 78, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings). [271]
Takeo Kimura, 91, Japanese art director. [272]
Brownie Ledbetter, 77, American civil rights activist. [273]
Margaret Moth, 58, New Zealand photojournalist (CNN), colorectal cancer. [274]
Wolfgang Wagner, 90, German director (Bayreuth Festival), natural causes. [275]
Susana, Lady Walton, 83, Argentine writer, widow of composer Sir William Walton, natural causes. [276]

22

Sir James Black, 85, British physician, Nobel Laureate in Medicine (1988). [277]
Özhan Canaydın, 67, Turkish basketball player, president of Galatasaray S.K. (2002–2008), pancreatic cancer. [278] (Turkish)
Diz Disley, 78, Canadian-born British jazz guitarist. [279]
Ky Fan, 95, American mathematician. [280]
Ella Mae Johnson, 106, American social worker and author. [281]
Leroy Matthiesen, 88, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Amarillo (1980–1997). [282]
Emil Schulz, 71, German boxer. [283] (German)
Valentina Tolkunova, 63, Russian singer, People's Artist of RSFSR, brain tumor. [284] (Russian)

23

Edith Barney, 87, American baseball player. [285]
Midge Costanza, 77, American social and political activist, advisor to President Jimmy Carter, cancer. [286]
Alan King-Hamilton, 105, British judge. [287]
Lauretta Masiero, 82, Italian actress, Alzheimer's disease. [288] (Italian)
Jiro Nagasawa, 78, Japanese Olympic swimmer and national coach, throat cancer. [289]
Wayne Patrick, 63, American football player (Buffalo Bills), kidney disease. [290]
Kaljo Põllu, 75, Estonian artist. [291] (Estonian)
Kanu Sanyal, 78, Indian revolutionary, Naxal leader, suicide by hanging. [292]
Alex Seith, 75, American politician. [293]
Sulaiman Daud, 77, Malaysian politician, minister (1981–1999), liver cancer. [294]
Blanche Thebom, 94, American mezzo-soprano, pneumonia. [295]
James Williamson, 26, Australian mountain biker and journalist. [296]
Marva Wright, 62, American blues singer, complications from a stroke. [297]

24

Elijah Alexander, 39, American football player (Indianapolis Colts), multiple myeloma. [298]
Anzor Astemirov, 33, Russian insurgent, leader of the 2005 Nalchik raid, shot. [299]
Robert Culp, 79, American actor (I Spy, The Greatest American Hero, The Pelican Brief), heart attack. [300]
Martin Elliott, 63, British photographer (Tennis Girl), cancer. [301]^{[dead link]}
Oswaldo Frota-Pessoa, 93, Brazilian geneticist and academic. [302] (Portuguese)
Ron Hamence, 94, Australian cricketer. [303]
Colleen Kay Hutchins, 83, American actress, Miss America (1952), mother of Kiki Vandeweghe. [304]
Johnny Maestro, 70, American singer (The Crests, The Brooklyn Bridge), cancer. [305]
Jim Marshall, 74, American photographer. [306]
William Mayne, 82, British children's author. [307]
Harold McGraw, Jr., 92, American businessman, CEO of McGraw-Hill (1975–1983). [308]
Otto Otepka, 94, American Deputy Director of the Department of State's Office of Security (1959–1962). [309]
Daphne Park, Baroness Park of Monmouth, 88, British spy (MI6), after long illness. [310]
Mortimer Sackler, 93, American physician and philanthropist. [311]
Elena Tairova, 18, Russian chess player, woman grandmaster and international master, after long illness. [312]

25

B. W. Aston, 73, American historian, after long illness. [313]
Pål Bang-Hansen, 72, Norwegian film director, actor and film critic, skin cancer. [314] (Norwegian)
Ben Gascoigne, 94, New Zealand-born Australian optical astronomer. [315]
Kit Horn, 80, American surfer, non-Hodgkins lymphoma. [316]
Des Hoysted, 86, Australian radio broadcaster and horse racing commentator. [317]
Marty Lederhandler, 92, American photographer (Associated Press), stroke. [318]
John P. McGarr, 45, American actor and film producer, traffic accident. [319]
Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, 93, German political scientist. [320]
José Antonio Peteiro Freire, 73, Moroccan Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Tanger (1983–2005). [321]
Marshall Plummer, 62, American first Vice President of the Navajo Nation (1991–1994), lung disease. [322]
Michael S. Rosenfeld, 75, American talent agent, co-founder of Creative Artists Agency. [323]
Robert Sandager, 95, American Olympic shooter. [324]
Chet Simmons, 81, American sports broadcasting executive, first president of ESPN, Commissioner (USFL), natural causes. [325]
Zainal Abidin Ahmad, 71, Malaysian politician, brain cancer. [326]
Zhang Tingfa, 91, Chinese general, commander of the PLA Air Force. [327]

26

Ahmed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, 41, Emirati managing director of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, glider crash. [328]
Franklin D. Burgess, 75, American federal judge, cancer. [329]
Lara Jones, 34, British children's author and illustrator, melanoma. [330]
Manuel de Jesús Juárez, 55, Honduran journalist, shot. [331]
Shemuel Katz, 83, Israeli caricaturist and illustrator. [332]
Kwon Hyi-ro, 81, Japanese-born Korean murderer, prostate cancer. [333]
José Bayardo Mairena Ramírez, 52, Honduran journalist, shot. [334]
Rocco Pantaleo, 53, Italian-born Australian owner of La Porchetta, motorcycle accident. [335]
Charles Ryskamp, 81, American art collector and museum director (Frick Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library), cancer. [336]
George X. Schwartz, 96, American politician. [337]
Max Whitehead, 87, Australian rugby league player, model and professional wrestler, complications following a hip operation. [338]

27

Dick Giordano, 77, American comic book artist and editor (Batman, Green Lantern), complications from pneumonia. [339]
Zbigniew Gut, 60, Polish footballer. [340] (Polish)
Peter Herbolzheimer, 74, German jazz musician. [341]
Colm Kiernan, 78, Australian historian, biographer of Irish Australians. [342]
Eva Markvoort, 25, Canadian blogger and subject of 65_Redroses, cystic fibrosis. [343]
Stanford Parris, 80, American politician, Representative from Virginia (1973–1975, 1981–1991), heart disease. [344]
Vasily Smyslov, 89, Russian chess grandmaster, World Champion (1957–1958), heart failure. [345]
Stanley Vann, 100, British organist and composer, complications following a fall. [346]

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Fred Ascani, 92, American Air Force test pilot, lung cancer. [347]
David Carnegie, 14th Earl of Northesk, 55, Scottish peer, member of the House of Lords. [348]
Preeda Chullamondhol, 64, Thai Olympic cyclist. [349]
Sir Gaven Donne, 95, New Zealand jurist, former Chief Justice of various Pacific nations. [350]
Dan Duncan, 77, American businessman oil company executive and billionaire, cerebral hemorrhage. [351]
Herb Ellis, 88, American jazz guitarist, Alzheimer's disease. [352]
Derlis Florentín, 26, Paraguayan football player, car accident. [353]
Joe Gates, 55, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox) and coach (Gary SouthShore RailCats), heart failure. [354]
June Havoc, 97, Canadian-born American actress, natural causes. [355]
Aly Ibrahim, 38, Egyptian Olympic rower, traffic collision. [356]
John Lawrenson, 88, British rugby league player. [357]
John Purdin, 67, American baseball player. [358]
Agim Qirjaqi, 59, Albanian actor and television director. [359] (Albanian)
Zofia Romanowiczowa, 87, Polish writer and translator. [360] (Polish)
Asbjørn Sjøthun, 82, Norwegian politician, Mayor of Balsfjord (1962–1969), MP (1969–1989). [361] (Norwegian)
Eric Tunney, 45, Canadian comedian (Brain Candy). [362]

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Tom Burton, 46, American professional wrestler. [363]
Choi Jin-young, 39, South Korean actor and singer, brother of Choi Jin-sil, suicide by hanging. [364]
Marcel Cosmat, 99, French Olympic bronze medal-winning (1936) rower. [365] (French)
Kurt Hockerup, 65, Danish politician, cardiac arrest. [366] (Danish)
Alan Isler, 75, British-born American novelist and professor, after long illness. [367]
János Kass, 82, Hungarian artist. [368]
Jenne Langhout, 91, Dutch Olympic field hockey player. [369] (Dutch)
Sam Menning, 85, American character actor and photographer (My Name Is Earl, The Prestige), emphysema. [370]
Armando Nogueira, 83, Brazilian sports journalist. [371] (Portuguese)
Elliot Willensky, 66, American songwriter, stroke. [372]

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Alfred Ambs, 87, German World War II flying ace. [373]
Thomas Angove, 92, Australian winemaker, inventor of the wine cask. [374]
John Bunch, 88, American jazz pianist, melanoma. [375]
Juan Carlos Caballero Vega, 109, Mexican revolutionary, driver of Pancho Villa. [376]
Jaime Escalante, 79, American mathematics teacher, inspiration for film Stand and Deliver, bladder cancer. [377]
John Fethers, 80, Australian Olympic fencer (1952). [378]
Peter Flinsch, 89, German-born Canadian artist. [379]
Josef Homeyer, 80, German Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Hildesheim (1983–2004). [380] (German)
Morris R. Jeppson, 87, American Army Air Corps officer, assistant weaponeer on the Enola Gay. [381]
David Mills, 48, American author, journalist and television writer (NYPD Blue, The Corner, Kingpin), brain aneurysm. [382]
Malcolm Poindexter, 84, American journalist and reporter (KYW-TV), Alzheimer's disease. [383]
Martin Sandberger, 98, German Nazi leader and Holocaust perpetrator. [384] (French)
Harriet Shetler, 92, American advocate, a founder of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. [385]
Bill Smith, 94, American politician, Member of the New York Senate (1963–1987). [386]
H. Clyde Wilson Jr., 83, American anthropologist and politician. [387]
Jadin Wong, 96, American dancer, comedian and talent agent. [388]

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Eugene Allen, 90, American White House butler (1952–1986), renal failure. [389]
Arlette Franco, 70, French politician, complications from brain tumor. [390] (French)
Paul Fry, 45, British motorcycle speedway rider. [391]
Burton Joseph, 79, American First Amendment lawyer, brain cancer. [392]
Tina Leung, 65, Hong Kong actress. [393]
Syed Qasim Mahmood, 82, Pakistani Urdu writer and encyclopedist, heart condition. [394] (Urdu)
Ludwig Martin, 100, German lawyer, Attorney General of Germany (1963–1974). [395] (German)
Coots Matthews, 86, American oil well firefighter (Boots & Coots), respiratory problems. [396]
Shirley Mills, 83, American actress (The Grapes of Wrath), pneumonia. [397]
Jerald terHorst, 87, American White House Press Secretary (1974), heart failure. [398]