Deaths in May 2011
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The following is a list of notable deaths in May 2011.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
May 2011
1
- Alex, 52, Indian actor and magician, brief illness.[1]
- Spyrydon Babskyi, 52, Ukrainian Orthodox hierarch, Archbishop of Vinnytsia in UOC-KP (1992–1993).[2]
- Schalk Booysen, 83, South African Olympic sprinter.[3]
- Sir Henry Cooper, 76, British Olympic heavyweight boxer.[4]
- Brian Evans, 74, Welsh cricketer (Glamorgan).[5]
- Kim Jun-bong, 58, South Korean taxi driver, suicide by crucifixion.[6]
- Agustín García-Gasco Vicente, 80, Spanish Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Valencia (1992–2009), cardiac arrest.[7]
- Moshe Landau, 99, Israeli jurist, Chief Justice (1980–1982), presided over Adolf Eichmann's trial (1961).[8]
- Ted Lowe, 90, British snooker commentator.[9]
- Steven Orszag, 68, American mathematician, chronic lymphocytic leukemia.[10]
- Anny Rüegg, 98-99, Swiss alpine skier.[11]
- Ivan Slavkov, 70, Bulgarian sports official.[12]
- William O. Taylor II, 78, American journalist and publisher (The Boston Globe), brain tumor.[13]
- J. Ernest Wilkins Jr., 87, American mathematician and nuclear scientist.[14]
2
- Leonid Abalkin, 80, Russian economist.[15]
- Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, 46, Kuwaiti Al-Qaeda computer expert, shot.[16]
- L.V. Banks, 78, American guitarist, singer and songwriter, heart failure.[17]
- Ion Barbu, 72, Romanian football player.[18]
- Robert W. Clower, 85, American economist.[19]
- Lloyd Colteryahn, 79, American football player (Baltimore Colts).[20]
- Sir Basil Hall, 93, British lawyer and civil servant, Treasury Solicitor (1975–1980).[21]
- Danny Kassap, 28, Congolese-born Canadian long-distance runner.[22]
- Osama bin Laden, 54, Saudi founder of Al-Qaeda, planned September 11 attacks, shot.[23]
- Alexander Lazarev, 73, Russian actor.[24]
- Eddie Lewis, 76, English footballer (Manchester United, West Ham United), cancer.[25]
- Owen Roe McGovern, 93, Irish Gaelic football player.[26]
- Lyuben Obretenov, 92, Bulgarian Olympic gymnast.[27]
- René Emilio Ponce, 64, Salvadoran general and defence minister, army chief of staff during the Civil War.[28]
- David Sencer, 86, American public health official, director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (1966–1977), heart disease.[29]
- Shigeo Yaegashi, 78, Japanese footballer.[30]
3
- Paul Ackerley, 61, New Zealand hockey player and coach, skin cancer.[31]
- Frédéric Affo, 68, Beninese politician and football executive.[32]
- Robert Marshall Anderson, 77, American bishop, pancreatic cancer.[33]
- Victor Auer, 74, American Olympic silver medal-winning (1972) sports shooter.[34]
- Bob Balog, 86, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers).[35]
- Robert Brout, 82, American-born Belgian theoretical physicist.[36]
- Odell Brown, 70, American jazz organist and songwriter ("Sexual Healing").[37]
- Jackie Cooper, 88, American actor (Skippy, Our Gang, Superman).[38]
- C. Rollins Hanlon, 96, American cardiac surgeon, lymphoma.[39]
- Richie Hubbard, 78, Canadian politician.[40]
- Sergo Kotrikadze, 74, Georgian football player and coach, heart attack.[41]
- Abdulla Kurd, 34, Turkish Kurdish Islamist militant.[42]
- Mildred Robbins Leet, 88, American philanthropist, co-founder of Trickle Up, complications of a fall.[43]
- Dale Martin, 59, American politician, member of the West Virginia House of Delegates (2000–2011).[44]
- Larry McCormick, 71, Canadian politician, Member of Parliament for Hastings—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington (1993–2004).[45]
- Marianna Nagy, 82, Hungarian pair skater.[46]
- Patrick Roy, 53, French politician, pancreatic cancer.[47]
- Peter Urbach, 71, German Cold War informant.[48]
- Thanasis Veggos, 83, Greek actor, stroke.[49]
- Armand Van Wambeke, 84, Belgian Olympic basketball player.[50]
- Des Williams, 83, South African Olympic boxer.[51]
4
- James Beggs, 87, American Olympic rower.[52]
- Lázaro Blanco, 73, Mexican photographer, cancer.[53]
- Maurice Carpentier, 89, French cyclist.[54]
- Frans de Kok, 87, Dutch conductor.[55]
- Oliver Elmes, 76, British graphic designer (Doctor Who).[56]
- Jacques Georges Habib Hafouri, 94, Syrian Catholic hierarch, Archbishop of Hassaké-Nisibi (1982–1996).[57]
- Sammy McCrory, 86, Northern Irish footballer.[58]
- Ronald H. Miller, 73, American professor of religion.[59]
- Mary Murphy, 80, American actress (The Wild One).[60]
- Thomas G. Nelson, 74, American federal judge, complications from declining health.[61]
- Françoise Olivier-Coupeau, 51, French politician, cancer.[62]
- Emil Reinecke, 78, German cyclist.[63]
- Acacio Valbuena Rodríguez, 88, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Prefect for Western Sahara (1994–2009).[64]
- Frans Sammut, 66, Maltese writer, natural causes.[65]
- Bernard Stasi, 80, French politician, Minister for Overseas Departments and Territories (1973–1974), Alzheimer's disease.[66]
- Richard Steinheimer, 81, American railroad photographer, Alzheimer's disease.[67]
- Sada Thompson, 83, American actress (Family), lung disease.[68]
5
- Leslie Audus, 99, British botany professor (University of London), expert on plant growth hormones.[69]
- Alice Bridges, 94, American Olympic bronze medal-winning (1936) swimmer.[70]
- Nikolay Chuchalov, 78, Soviet Olympic wrestler.[71]
- Claude Choules, 110, British-born Australian veteran, last combat veteran of World War I.[72]
- Donald Crump, 78, Canadian commissioner of the Canadian Football League (1990–1991).[73]
- Salomón Hakim, 81, Colombian neurosurgeon, researcher and inventor.[74]
- Al Johnson, 88, American football player and coach.[75]
- Arthur Laurents, 93, American playwright, librettist, stage director, and screenwriter (Anastasia, Rope, West Side Story).[76]
- Dougie McCracken, 46, Scottish football player (Ayr United), suspected suicide.[77]
- Yosef Merimovich, 86, Israeli football player and manager.[78]
- Rolo Puente, 71, Argentine actor, pulmonary emphysema.[79]
- Friedrich Rückert, 90, Austrian Olympic hockey player.[80]
- Tommy Wright, 83, Scottish footballer.[81]
- Dana Wynter, 79, German-born British actress (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Airport, The Man Who Never Was), heart failure.[82]
6
- Barry Connolly, 72, Australian football player.[83]
- Oniroku Dan, 80, Japanese author, esophageal cancer.[84]
- Sir Geoffrey Dhenin, 93, British air marshal.[85]
- Bill Hopkins, 83, Welsh writer.[86]
- Horace Freeland Judson, 80, American science historian (The Great Betrayal: Fraud In Science), complications of a stroke.[87]
- Antanas Krištopaitis, 89, Lithuanian painter.[88]
- Kazi Nuruzzaman, 86, Bangladeshi veteran of the Liberation War, natural causes.[89]
- Duane Pillette, 88, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies).[90]
- Dick Walsh, 85, American baseball executive, first commissioner of the North American Soccer League.[91]
- Yoon Ki-won, 24, South Korean football player, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.[92]
7
- Johnny Albino, 93, Puerto Rican bolero singer, heart attack.[93]
- Seve Ballesteros, 54, Spanish golfer, brain cancer.[94]
- Big George, 53, British broadcaster and music arranger.[95]
- Willard Boyle, 86, Canadian physicist, Nobel laureate (2009).[96]
- Shaukat Galiev, 82, Soviet Tatar poet and writer of children's books.[97]
- Jack Gordon, 66, American politician, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives (1972–1980), State Senator (1980–1992; 1996–2011), brain cancer.[98]
- Ross Hagen, 72, American actor (Daktari, Speedway).[99]
- Allyson Hennessy, 63, Trinidadian broadcaster.[100]
- Eilert Määttä, 75, Swedish ice hockey player and coach.[101]
- Milan Mišík, 82, Slovak geologist.[102]
- Gunter Sachs, 78, German photographer, author and multi-millionaire industrialist, suicide by gunshot.[103]
- Robert Stempel, 77, American automobile executive, chairman and CEO of General Motors (1990–1992).[104]
- Kate Swift, 87, American writer, stomach cancer.[105]
- John Walker, 67, American musician (The Walker Brothers), liver cancer.[106]
- Doric Wilson, 72, American playwright and gay activist.[107]
8
- Huthaifa al-Batawi, Iraqi al-Qaeda leader, shot.[108]
- Wallace Clark, 84, Northern Irish maritime writer.[109]
- Cornell Dupree, 68, American jazz and R&B guitarist, complications from emphysema.[110]
- George Guțiu, 87, Romanian Catholic hierarch, Archbishop of Cluj-Gherla (1994–2002).[111]
- Corwin Hansch, 92, American chemist, pneumonia.[112]
- Li Desheng, 95, Chinese People's Liberation Army general.[113]
- Charles McPhee, 49, American radio host, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.[114]
- Greg Percival, 86, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1977–1978; 1986–1988).[115]
- Soňa Pertlová, 23, Czech chessplayer, cancer.[116]
- Lionel Rose, 62, Australian world champion boxer.[117]
- Hilton Rosemarin, 58, Canadian set decorator (Three Men and a Baby, Cocktail, Jumper), brain cancer.[118]
- Carlos Trillo, 68, Argentine comic book writer (Cybersix).[119]
- Galina Urbanovich, 93, Russian Olympic gold and silver medal-winning (1952) gymnast.[120]
- Arkady Vaksberg, 83, Soviet and Russian lawyer, author, film maker and playwright.[121]
- Sir Ronald Waterhouse, 85, British jurist.[122]
9
- George Allen, 87, American ichthyologist and fisheries scientist.[123]
- William Y. Anderson, 89, Swedish-born American fighter pilot.[124]
- David Cairns, 44, British politician, MP for Greenock and Inverclyde (2001–2005) and Inverclyde (since 2005), acute pancreatitis.[125]
- Robert Ellsworth, 84, American politician and diplomat, Representative from Kansas (1961–1967), Ambassador to NATO (1969–1971), complications from pneumonia.[126]
- Epiphanios of Vryoula, 76, American Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Spain and Portugal.[127]
- Henry Feffer, 93, American professor and spine surgeon, treated Saddam Hussein, heart failure.[128]
- Dolores Fuller, 88, American actress (Glen or Glenda), and songwriter ("Rock-A-Hula Baby").[129]
- Jeff Gralnick, 72, American television news producer.[130]
- Lidia Gueiler Tejada, 89, Bolivian politician, acting President (1979–1980), after a long illness.[131]
- Wadel Abdelkader Kamougué, 71–72, Chadian politician and military officer, Vice President of Chad (1979–1982), President of the National Assembly of Chad (1997–2002).[132]
- Doug Leeds, 63, American executive, vice-chairman of American Theatre Wing, cancer.[133]
- Ivo Pešák, 66, Czech singer, dancer and comic performer.[134]
- Roland Spångberg, 88, Swedish Olympic water polo player.[135]
- Newton Thornburg, 81, American novelist.[136]
- Shailendra Kumar Upadhyay, 82, Nepali politician, Foreign Minister (1986–1990), altitude sickness.[137]
- Wouter Weylandt, 26, Belgian road bicycle racer, race crash.[138]
10
- Omar Ahmad, 46, American entrepreneur (Napster) and politician, Mayor of San Carlos, California (2010–2011), heart attack.[139]
- Michael Baze, 24, American jockey, accidental drug overdose.[140]
- Bill Bergesch, 89, American baseball executive (Kansas City Athletics, New York Yankees, Cincinnati Reds).[141]
- Frank Boston, 72, American politician, member of the Maryland House of Delegates (1987–1999).[142]
- John S. Carter, 65, American music producer, cancer.[143]
- Bill Gallo, 88, American cartoonist and newspaper columnist, complications from pneumonia.[144]
- Patrick Galvin, 83, Irish writer.[145]
- Zim Ngqawana, 51, South African jazz saxophonist, stroke.[146]
- Burt Reinhardt, 91, American broadcast executive, President of CNN (1982–1990), complications from strokes.[147]
- David Weston, 75, British artist.[148]
- Norma Zimmer, 87, American entertainer (The Lawrence Welk Show).[149]
11
- Clark Accord, 50, Surinamese–Dutch author and makeup artist, stomach cancer.[150]
- Maurice Goldhaber, 100, American physicist.[151]
- Leo Kahn, 94, American entrepreneur, co-founder of Staples, complications from a series of strokes.[152]
- Albert Obiefuna, 81, Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Onitsha (1995–2003).[153]
- Leo Passage, 75, Dutch-born American hairstylist.[154]
- Reach Sambath, 47, Cambodian journalist, stroke.[155]
- Elisabeth Svendsen, 81, British hotelier and animal welfare campaigner, founder of The Donkey Sanctuary.[156]
- Robert Traylor, 34, American basketball player (Milwaukee Bucks, Cleveland Cavaliers, New Orleans Hornets), suspected heart attack.[157]
- Glyn Williams, 92, Welsh footballer.[158]
- Snooky Young, 92, American jazz trumpeter, complications of a lung ailment.[159]
12
- Chen Muhua, 90, Chinese politician.[160]
- Harrison Chongo, 41, Zambian football player, malaria.[161]
- Matej Čurko, 42–43, Slovak murderer, cannibal and suspected serial killer, complications from gunshot wounds.[162]
- Charles F. Haas, 97, American television director (Bonanza, The Outer Limits, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.).[163]
- Mose Jefferson, 68, American businessman, cancer.[164]
- Jack Jones, 86, American Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter (Los Angeles Times), lung disease.[165]
- Lloyd Knibb, 80, Jamaican drummer (The Skatalites), liver cancer.[166]
- Noreen Murray, 76, British geneticist.[167]
- David Orton, 77, Canadian environmentalist, pancreatic cancer.[168]
- Carlos Pascual, 80, Cuban baseball player (Washington Senators).[169]
- Luigi del Gallo Roccagiovine, 88, Italian nobleman and Roman Catholic prelate, Titular Bishop of Camplum (since 1982).[170]
- Ron Springs, 54, American football player (Dallas Cowboys, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), complications from surgery.[171]
- Bill Summers, 75, American car builder (Goldenrod).[172]
- Miyu Uehara, 24, Japanese glamour model, apparent suicide by hanging.[173]
- Jack Wolf, 76, American information theorist, cancer.[174]
13
- Derek Boogaard, 28, Canadian hockey player (Minnesota Wild, New York Rangers), accidental overdose of alcohol and oxycodone.[175]
- Stephen De Staebler, 78, American sculptor and printmaker, complications from cancer.[176]
- Chit Estella, 53, Filipino journalist and professor, traffic collision.[177]
- Pam Gems, 85, British playwright.[178]
- Bernard Greenhouse, 95, American cellist.[179]
- Bob Litherland, 80, British politician, MP for Manchester Central (1979–1997), cancer.[180]
- Princess Maria Elisabeth of Bavaria, 96, German noblewoman.[181]
- Wallace McCain, 81, Canadian businessman, co-founder of McCain Foods, pancreatic cancer.[182]
- Mel Queen, 69, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim) and pitching coach (Blue Jays).[183]
- Jack Richardson, 81, Canadian record producer (The Guess Who).[184]
- Bruce Ricker, 68, American film documentarian and producer (Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser).[185]
- Badal Sarkar, 85, Indian dramatist, colon cancer.[186]
14
- Ferial Alibali, 78, Albanian actress.[187]
- James Richard Cheek, 74, American diplomat, Ambassador to Sudan (1989–1992) and Argentina (1993–1996).[188]
- Murray Handwerker, 89, American businessman (Nathan's Famous).[189]
- Teuvo Laukkanen, 91, Finnish Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) cross-country skier.[190]
- Michael Onslow, 7th Earl of Onslow, 73, British politician.[191]
- Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, 87, Chinese-born American historian and author.[192]
- Birgitta Trotzig, 81, Swedish author.[193]
- Ernie Walker, 82, Scottish football administrator.[194]
- Joseph Wershba, 90, American television producer and reporter.[195]
15
- Gunnar Alksnis, 79, Latvian-American philosopher and theologian.[196]
- Maico Buncio, 22, Filipino motorcycle racer, race crash.[197]
- Donald Christian, 52, Antiguan Olympic cyclist.[198]
- John Feikens, 93, American senior (former chief) judge of the District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, after long illness.[199]
- Bob Flanigan, 84, American singer (The Four Freshmen) and musician.[200]
- Pete Lovely, 85, American racecar driver.[201]
- William Pennington, 88, American casino executive (Circus Circus Enterprises), Parkinson's disease.[202]
- Anjuman Shehzadi, 33, Pakistani sage actress.[203]
- Mahendra Singh Tikait, 76, Indian farming union leader, bone cancer.[204]
- Samuel Wanjiru, 24, Kenyan Olympic gold medal-winning (2008) marathon runner, fall from balcony.[205]
- Martin Woodhouse, 78, British novelist, screenwriter and inventor.[206]
16
- Ralph Barker, 93, British air gunner and writer.[207]
- Robert Berks, 89, American sculptor, industrial designer and planner.[208]
- Douglas Blubaugh, 76, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1960) wrestler, motorcycle accident.[209]
- Serghei Covaliov, 66, Romanian Olympic gold (1968) and silver (1972) medal-winning canoeist.[210]
- Bob Davis, 82, Australian football player.[211]
- Nathaniel Davis, 86, American diplomat, cancer.[212]
- Edward Hardwicke, 78, British actor (Sherlock Holmes).[213]
- Kiyoshi Kodama, 77, Japanese actor, stomach cancer.
- Bill Skiles, 79, American comedian (Skiles and Henderson), kidney cancer.[214]
17
- Sean Dunphy, 73, Irish entertainer.[215]
- Joseph Galibardy, 96, Indian Olympic gold medal-winning (1936) field hockey player.[216]
- James M. Hewgley Jr., 94, American politician, Mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma (1966–1970).[217]
- Harmon Killebrew, 74, American Hall of Fame baseball player (Minnesota Twins, Kansas City Royals), esophageal cancer.[218]
- Tomás Mac Anna, 84, Irish director and actor.[219]
- Frank Upton, 76, English footballer (Derby County, Chelsea), after short illness.[220]
18
- Seiseki Abe, 96, Japanese shodo and aikido teacher.[221]
- Marcel De Mulder, 83, Belgian cyclist.[222]
- Edward H. Harte, 88, American newspaper executive (Harte-Hanks).[223]
- Leonard Kastle, 82, American composer and filmmaker (The Honeymoon Killers).[224]
- Wlodzimierz Ksiazek, 60, Polish-born American painter.[225] (body found on this date)
- Włada Majewska, 100, Polish radio journalist, actress and singer.[226]
- Hans Sterr, 77, German Olympic wrestler.[227]
- Antoinette Tubman, 97, Liberian socialite, First Lady (1948–1971).[228]
- Dick Wimmer, 74, American author, heart complications.[229]
19
- Phyllis Avery, 88, American actress, heart failure.[230]
- Don H. Barden, 67, American businessman, lung cancer.[231]
- Garret FitzGerald, 85, Irish politician, Taoiseach (1981–1982, 1982–1987), Minister for Foreign Affairs (1973–1977), pneumonia.[232]
- Ivan Gibbs, 83, Australian politician, Queensland MLA for Albert (1974–1989), cancer.[233]
- Jeffrey Catherine Jones, 67, American transgender artist.[234]
- David H. Kelley, 87, American-born Canadian archaeologist.[235]
- Kathy Kirby, 72, British singer, heart attack.[236]
- William Kloefkorn, 78, American poet.[237]
- Alda Noni, 95, Italian coloratura soprano.[238]
- Vladimir Ryzhkin, 80, Russian Olympic gold medal-winning (1956) footballer.[239]
- Tom West, 71, American computer hardware engineer, heart attack.[240]
20
- Michael Bell, 74, Irish politician, Teachta Dála for Louth (1982–2002).[241]
- John Cigna, 75, American radio personality (KDKA).[242]
- William Elliott, Baron Elliott of Morpeth, 90, British politician, MP for Newcastle upon Tyne North (1957–1983).[243]
- Arieh Handler, 95, Israeli Zionist leader.[244]
- Eduard Janota, 59, Czech politician, Finance Minister (2009–2010), cardiac arrest.[245]
- Donald Krim, 65, American businessman, president of Kino International, cancer.[246]
- Ciril Pelhan, 89, Yugoslav Olympic swimmer.[247]
- Joaquín Pérez, 75, Mexican Olympic double bronze medal-winning (1980) equestrian.[248]
- Steve Rutt, 66, American inventor of early video animation, pancreatic cancer.[249]
- Randy Savage, 58, American professional wrestler (WWF, WCW) and actor (Spider-Man), heart attack.[250]
21
- Cecilia Miranda de Carvalho, 97, Brazilian singer.[251]
- John Delaney, 42, Irish businessman (Intrade).[252]
- Irene Gilbert, 76, American actress and school director, co-founder of Stella Adler Academy of Los Angeles, Alzheimer's disease.[253]
- David J. Hudson, 67, American sound mixer (Beauty and the Beast, The Terminator, The Lion King).[254]
- Bill Hunter, 71, Australian actor (Muriel's Wedding), liver cancer.[255]
- Pádraig Kennelly, 82, Irish website, editor and journalist, founder of Kerry's Eye.[256]
- Dieter Klöcker, 75, German clarinetist.[257]
- Gordon McLennan, 87, British politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party (1975–1990), cancer.[258]
- Hiroyuki Nagato, 77, Japanese actor, cerebrovascular disease.[259]
- Jim Pyburn, 78, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles), after long illness.[260]
- Bill Rechin, 80, American cartoonist (Crock), complications from esophageal cancer.[261]
- William White, 98, British sports shooter.[262]
22
- Stanislav Batishchev, 70, Soviet Ukrainian weightlifter.[263]
- Joseph Brooks, 73, American Grammy-winning songwriter ("You Light Up My Life"), suicide by asphyxiation.[264]
- Joëlle Brupbacher, 32, Swiss mountaineer, acute mountain sickness.[265]
- Chidananda Dasgupta, 89, Indian film critic.[266]
- Bill Eaton, 79, Australian politician, member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Mourilyan (1980–1994).[267]
- Alexandru Ene, 82, Romanian football player.[268]
- Matej Ferjan, 34, Slovenian motorcycle speedway rider.[269]
- Bob Gould, 74, Australian activist and bookseller.[270]
- Ralph Hunt, 83, Australian politician, MP for Gwydir (1969–1989).[271]
- Suzanne Mizzi, 43, British glamour model and interior designer, cancer.[272]
- Ronald Naar, 56, Dutch mountaineer.[273]
- Breon O'Casey, 83, British artist.[274]
- Govind Chandra Pande, 87, Indian historian.[275]
- Walter Soboleff, 102, American Tlingit scholar and spiritual leader, first Native Alaskan Prebysterian minister, bone and prostate cancer.[276]
- Joe Steffy, 85, American college football player (Army), 1947 Outland Trophy winner.[277]
- George Henry Strohsahl, Jr., 73, American naval officer and former commander of the Pacific Missile Test Center.[278]
23
- Sam Faust, 26, Australian rugby league player, leukemia.[279]
- Michele Fawdon, 63, British-born Australian actress (Cathy's Child), cancer.[280]
- Peter Frelinghuysen Jr., 95, American politician, U.S. Representative from New Jersey (1953–1975).[281]
- Nasser Hejazi, 61, Iranian football player and manager, cancer.[282]
- Pilu Momtaz, 52, Bangladeshi pop singer.[283]
- Abdias do Nascimento, 97, Brazilian activist and politician.[284]
- Joseph Nguyễn Tích Đức, 73, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ban Me Thuot (2000–2006).[285]
- Karel Otčenášek, 91, Czech Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Hradec Králové (1989–1998).[286]
- Frank S. Petersen, 88, American jurist and politician.[287]
- Harry Redmond Jr., 101, American special effects artist and producer (King Kong), natural causes.[288]
- Alejandro Roces, 86, Filipino writer and government official, Secretary of Education (1961–1965).[289]
- Roberto Sosa, 81, Honduran poet, heart attack.[citation needed]
- John Templeton-Cotill, 90, British admiral.[290]
- Xavier Tondo, 32, Spanish cyclist, crushed by car.[291]
24
- Huguette Clark, 104, American heiress.[292]
- José Cláudio da Silva, 54, Brazilian Amazon environmentalist and conservationist, shot.[293]
- Arthur Goldreich, 82, South African-born Israeli political activist.[294]
- Mark Haines, 65, American television anchor (CNBC).[295]
- Glyn Hughes, 75, English poet, novelist and artist, cancer.[296]
- Imre Nagy, 70, Canadian Olympic fencer.[297]
- Fănuș Neagu, 79, Romanian novelist, journalist, and short story writer.[298]
- Edward Plunkett, 20th Baron of Dunsany, 71, Irish artist.[299]
- Barry Potomski, 38, Canadian ice hockey player (Los Angeles Kings).[300]
- Sir Blair Stewart-Wilson, 81, British courtier.[301]
- Paul Winslow, 82, South African cricketer.[302]
- Stephen K. Yamashiro, 69, American politician, Mayor of Hawaii County (1992–2000), pneumonia.[303]
- Hakim Ali Zardari, 81, Pakistani politician, father of Asif Ali Zardari, after long illness.[304]
25
- Lillian Adams, 89, American actress (Private Benjamin, The Suite Life on Deck, Bruce Almighty).[305]
- Maurice E. Baringer, 89, American educator and politician.[306]
- Nina Leopold Bradley, 93, American conservationist.[307]
- Leonora Carrington, 94, British-born Mexican painter and novelist.[308]
- Luigi Diligenza, 90, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Capua (1978–1997).[309]
- Roger Gautier, 88, French Olympic silver medal-winning (1952) rower.[310]
- Edwin Honig, 91, American poet and translator, Alzheimer's disease.[311]
- Terry Jenner, 66, Australian Test cricketer and coach.[312]
- Miroslav Opsenica, 29, Serbian footballer, car accident.[313]
- Gene Smith, 94, American baseball player (Negro leagues).[314]
- Paul Splittorff, 64, American baseball player and broadcaster (Kansas City Royals), complications from melanoma.[315]
- Dimitrios Taliadoros, 85-86, Greek Olympic basketball player.[316]
- Yannis Varveris, 56, Greek poet, critic and translator, cardiac arrest.[317]
- Paul J. Wiedorfer, 90, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.[318]
- Edward Żentara, 55, Polish actor.[319]
26
- Arisen Ahubudu, 91, Sri Lankan scholar, author and playwright.[320]
- Flick Colby, 65, American dancer and choreographer (Pan's People), bronchial pneumonia.[321]
- George Heron, 92, American tribal leader, President of the Seneca Nation of New York (1958–1960; 1962–1964).[322]
- Irwin D. Mandel, 89, American dental scientist in preventative dentistry.[323]
- Peter McKechnie, 70, Australian politician, member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Carnarvon (1974–1989).[324]
- Tyler Simpson, 25, Australian soccer player.[325]
27
- Sam Alexander, 28, British Royal Marine, shot.[326]
- María Rosa Alonso, 104, Spanish professor, philologist and essayist.[327]
- Edward a'Beckett, 71, Australian cricketer.[328]
- Armando Bandini, 84, Italian actor and voice actor.[329]
- John W. Bowen, 84, American politician, Member of the Ohio Senate.[330]
- Johnny Brewer, 74, American football player (Cleveland Browns, New Orleans Saints).[331]
- Janet Brown, 87, British actress and impersonator, after short illness.[332]
- Jeff Conaway, 60, American actor (Grease, Taxi, Babylon 5).[333]
- Margo Dydek, 37, Polish basketball player (Utah Starzz, Los Angeles Sparks) and coach, heart attack.[334]
- Johanna Fiedler, 65, American author, daughter of Arthur Fiedler.[335]
- Regalado Maambong, 72, Filipino jurist, member of 1986 Constitutional Commission.[336]
- Prince Ali Mirza Qajar, 81, Iranian royal, Head of the Qajar Imperial Family (since 1988), after long illness.[337]
- Joaquín Moya, 79, Spanish Olympic fencer.[338]
- Gil Scott-Heron, 62, American poet ("The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"), musician and author.[339]
- Jukka Toivola, 61, Finnish Olympic athlete, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.[340]
- Michael Willoughby, 12th Baron Middleton, 90, British aristocrat and politician.[341]
28
- Hermann Bley, 75, German footballer.[342]
- Mohammed Daud Daud, 42, Afghan general, police commander for northern Afghanistan, bombing.[343]
- Bill Harris, 79, Canadian baseball player (Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers).[344]
- Romuald Klim, 78, Belarusian hammer thrower, Olympic gold medalist (1964).[345]
- Ann McPherson, 65, British physician and public health campaigner.[346]
- Dame Barbara Mills, 70, British barrister, Director of Public Prosecutions (1992–1998), stroke.[347]
- Leo Rangell, 97, American psychoanalyst, complications from surgery.[348]
- Alys Robi, 88, Canadian singer.[349]
- Martha Rommelaere, 88, Canadian baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).[350]
- John H. Sinfelt, 80, American chemical engineer in unleaded gasoline, congestive heart failure.[351]
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- Sergei Bagapsh, 62, Abkhazian politician, President (since 2005), complications after surgery.[352]
- Jon Blake, 52, Australian actor, pneumonia.[353]
- Simon Brint, 60, British musician, suicide.[354]
- Bill Clements, 94, American politician, Governor of Texas (1979–1983; 1987–1991).[355]
- Billy Crook, 84, English footballer (Wolverhampton Wanderers).[356]
- Wally Jay, 93, American martial arts teacher, founder of Small Circle JuJitsu, after long illness.[357]
- Ferenc Mádl, 80, Hungarian politician, President of the Republic (2000–2005).[358]
- Vitaly Margulis, 83, Russian classical pianist.[359]
- Tom Roeser, 82, American political commentator.[360]
- Bill Roycroft, 96, Australian equestrian, five-time Olympian, gold medallist (1960).[361]
- Cosmo Francesco Ruppi, 78, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Termoli-Larino (1980–1988) and Archbishop of Lecce (1988–2009).[362]
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- Bill Benulis, 82, American cartoonist.[363]
- Ricky Bruch, 64, Swedish athlete, cancer.[364]
- Henri Chammartin, 92, Swiss dressage equestrian, multiple Olympic medallist.[365]
- Paul B. Ferrara, 68, American scientist and administrator, pioneer of genetic fingerprinting, brain tumor.[366]
- Jung Jong-kwan, 29, South Korean footballer, suspected suicide by hanging.[367]
- Sudhakar Kulkarni, 73, Indian cricket umpire.[368]
- Eddie Morrison, 63, Scottish footballer and manager (Kilmarnock).[369]
- Hans Nogler, 91, Austrian Olympic alpine skier.[370]
- Isikia Savua, 59, Fijian diplomat and police commissioner.[371]
- Marek Siemek, 68, Polish philosopher and historian of philosophy.[372]
- Clarice Taylor, 93, American actress (Sesame Street, The Cosby Show).[373]
- Giorgio Tozzi, 88, American operatic bass, heart attack.[374]
- Tillmann Uhrmacher, 44, German DJ, music producer and radio host.[375]
- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, 89, American medical physicist, Nobel laureate.[376]
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- Gilberto Aleman, 80, Spanish author and journalist.[377]
- Pauline Betz, 91, American tennis player.[378]
- Jonas Bevacqua, 33, American fashion designer (Lifted Research Group).[379]
- Conrado Estrella Sr., 93, Filipino politician, Governor of Pangasinan (1954–1963), Agrarian Reform Minister (1978–1986).[380]
- Derek Hodge, 69, U.S. Virgin Islander politician and attorney, Lieutenant Governor of the United States Virgin Islands (1987–1995), cancer.[381]
- Keith Irvine, 82, British-born American interior designer, cardiac arrest.[382]
- Hans Keilson, 101, German-born Dutch psychoanalyst and novelist.[383]
- Sir John Martin, 93, British admiral, Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey (1974–1980).[384]
- Adolfas Mekas, 85, Lithuanian-born American film director.[385]
- Andy Robustelli, 85, American Hall of Fame football player (Los Angeles Rams, New York Giants).[386]
- Philip Rose, 89, American theatrical producer, stroke.[387]
- Ezzatollah Sahabi, 81, Iranian politician, Member of Parliament (1980–1984), stroke.[388]
- Saleem Shahzad, 40, Pakistani journalist, shot.[389] (body found on this date)
- Hugh Stewart, 100, British film editor and producer.[390]
- Grant Sullivan, 86, American actor (Pony Express), cancer.[391]
- Ram Man Trishit, 70, Nepali lyricist, kidney problems.[392]
- Sølvi Wang, 81, Norwegian singer and actress.[393]
- Jennifer Worth, 75, British author, esophageal cancer.[394]