Deaths in 2011

1 December 2011
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- 1.2 30
- 1.3 29
- 1.4 28
- 1.5 27
- 1.6 26
- 1.7 25
- 1.8 24
- 1.9 23
- 1.10 22
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- 1.14 18
- 1.15 17
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- 1.18 14
- 1.19 13
- 1.20 12
- 1.21 11
- 1.22 10
- 1.23 9
- 1.24 8
- 1.25 7
- 1.26 6
- 1.27 5
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- 1.29 3
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2 November 2011
3 October 2011
4 September 2011
5 August 2011
6 July 2011
7 June 2011
8 May 2011
9 April 2011
10 March 2011
11 February 2011
12 January 2011
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The following is a list of notable deaths in 2011.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference (and language of reference, if not English).

December 2011

31

Murray Barnes, 57, Australian soccer player (Sydney Hakoah), national captain (1980–1981). [1]
Sir David Hirst, 86, British jurist. [2]
Rex Jackson, 83, Australian politician and convicted criminal, New South Wales MLA for Bulli (1955–1971) and Heathcote (1971–1986). [3]
Glenn Lord, 80, American editor. [4]
Jerzy Kluger, 90, Polish businessman, bronchitis. [5]
Michael Mann , 87, British Anglican prelate, Dean of Windsor (1976–1989). [6]
Milton Wong, 72, Canadian businessman and philanthropist, pancreatic cancer. [7]

30

Ted Beard, 90, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Chicago White Sox). [8]
John Buchanan, 58, American museum director (De Young Museum, Portland Art Museum) , cancer. [9]
Mike Colalillo, 86, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient. [10]
George Daldry, 88, Australian fitness trainer. [11]
Dezső Garas, 77, Hungarian actor. [12]
Muhammad Hamidullah Khan, 74, Bangladeshi politician. [13]
Sir Robert Horton, 72, British businessman. [14]
Kim Geun-tae, 64, South Korean politician, Minister of Health and Welfare (2004–2006), pneumonia and kidney failure. [15]
Ricardo Legorreta, 80, Mexican architect, UIA Gold Medal recipient, cancer. [16] (Spanish)
Feo Mustakowa-Genadiewa, 102, Greek-born Bulgarian ballet dancer. [17]
Ronald Searle, 91, British cartoonist (St Trinian's School, Molesworth). [18]
Doug Sellars, 50, Canadian television executive (Fox Sports Media Group, CBC Sports), heart attack. [19]
Vasily Starodubtsev, 80, Russian politician, Governor of Tula Oblast (1997–2005), member of the Gang of Eight (1991). [20]
Mirko Tremaglia, 85, Italian politician, Minister without portfolio (2001–2006). [21]
Eva Zeisel, 105, Hungarian-born American ceramic artist and designer. [22]

29

Paul Antaki, 84, Egyptian Melkite Catholic hierarch, Auxiliary Archbishop of Antioch (1968–2001). [23]
Robert Dickey, 72, American R&B singer (James & Bobby Purify). [24]
Rosman García, 32, Venezuelan baseball player (Texas Rangers), traffic collision. [25] (Spanish)
Leopold Hawelka, 100, Austrian coffee house owner (Café Hawelka). [26]
Aamir Hayat Khan Rokhri, 55, Pakistani politician, heart attack. [27]
Svein Krøvel, 65, Norwegian cinematographer. [28] (Norwegian)
Tyron Perez, 26, Filipino actor (StarStruck), shot. [29]
Amichand Rajbansi, 69, South African politician, Minister without portfolio (1984–1988), Leader of the Minority Front (since 1994). [30]

28

Danny DeGennaro, 56, American rock guitarist (Kingfish), shot. [31]
Don Mueller, 84, American baseball player (New York Giants, Chicago White Sox), MLB All-Star (1954, 1955). [32]
Lucia Rikaki, 50, Greek stage, film and television director, cancer. [33]
Jon Roberts, 63, American drug trafficker, cancer. [34]
Myron Roderick, 77, American Olympic wrestler (1956) and coach. [35]
Greg Spira, 44, American baseball researcher (SABR), writer and editor. [36]
Kaye Stevens, 79, American singer and actress, breast cancer and blood clots. [37]
Teruo Sugihara, 74, Japanese golfer, prostate cancer. [38]
Gommaar Verbueken, 81, Belgian footballer. [39] (Dutch)

27

Catê, 38, Brazilian footballer, car accident. [40]
Sir Clifford Darling, 89, Bahamian politician, Governor-General (1992–1995). [41]
Sir Michael Dummett, 86, British philosopher. [42]
Helen Frankenthaler, 83, American painter. [43]
Julia Sampson Hayward, 77, American tennis player, won Australian Open doubles and mixed doubles (1963). [44]
Rusty Hevelin, 89, American science fiction fanzine publisher. [45]
Mykola Koltsov, 75, Russian-born Ukrainian footballer and youth trainer. [46] (Ukrainian)
Ante Čedo Martinić, 51, Croatian actor (Ruža vjetrova), cancer. [47] (Croatian)
Thinley Norbu, 81, Tibetan Buddhist writer and teacher. [48]
Sir Iwan Raikes, 90, British admiral. [49]
Martino Scarafile, 84, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Castellaneta (1985–2003). [50]
Dan Terry, 87, American jazz trumpeter and big band leader. [51]
Dennis Utter, 72, American politician, Nebraska State Senator (since 2009). [52]
Johnny Wilson, 82, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (Detroit Red Wings). [53]

26

Houston Antwine, 72, American football player (Boston/New England Patriots, Philadelphia Eagles), AFL All-Star (1963–1968), heart failure. [54]
Pedro Armendáriz, Jr., 71, Mexican actor (Zorro series), cancer. [55]
Sarekoppa Bangarappa, 79, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Karnataka (1990–1992). [56]
Joe Bodolai, 63, American comedy writer (Saturday Night Live) and producer, suicide by poisoning. [57]
Sean Collins, 59, American surfer and surf forecaster (Surfline), heart attack. [58]
Fred Fono, 49, Solomon Islander politician, Deputy Prime Minister (2006) and MP for Central Kwara'ae (1997–2010). [59]
Barbara Lea, 82, American jazz singer and actress, Alzheimer's disease. [60]
Betty McQuade, 70, Scottish-born Australian singer. [61]
Sam Rivers, 88, American jazz musician and composer, pneumonia. [62]
James Rizzi, 61, American pop artist. [63]
Constantine Sidamon-Eristoff, 81, American-born Georgian aristocrat, New York City highway commissioner, esphogeal cancer. [64]

25

Giorgio Bocca, 91, Italian essayist and journalist. [65] (Italian)
Ben Breedlove, 18, American Internet personality, cardiac arrest. [66]
Sue Carroll, 58, British journalist, pancreatic cancer. [67]
Argyris Chionis, 68, Greek poet, author and translator. [68] (Greek)
Adrienne Cooper, 65, American klezmer and Yiddish vocalist. [69]
Gideon Doron, 66, Israeli political scientist, leader of HaYisraelim. [70] (Hebrew)
Satyadev Dubey, 75, Indian actor, playwright and director. [71]
Thomas Finnegan, 86, Irish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Killala (1987–2002). [72]
Seán French, 80, Irish politician, Lord Mayor of Cork (1976) and TD (1967–1982). [73]
Habib Galhia, 70, Tunisian boxer, Olympic bronze medalist (1964). [74] (French)
Andrew Geller, 87, American architect, kidney failure. [75]
Khalil Ibrahim, Sudanese Darfuri rebel leader. [76]
Hans-Heinrich Isenbart, 88, German sports commentator. [77]
Sir Roger Jowell, 69, British social statistician. [78]
John Christoffel Kannemeyer, 72, South African writer, authority on Afrikaans literature. [79]
Joop Koopman, 81, Dutch television host and quizmaster. [80] (Dutch)
Christophe Laigneau, 46, French footballer (Stade Lavallois). [81] (French)
Henry Philips, 79, Mauritian footballer (Fire Brigade SC), cardiac arrest. [82] (French)
Sir Moses Pitakaka, Solomon Islander politician, Governor-General (1994–1999). [83]
George Robb, 85, English footballer (Tottenham Hotspur), dementia. [84]
Ferenc Schmidt, 70, Hungarian politician. [85] (Hungarian)
Jim Sherwood, 69, American musician (The Mothers of Invention). [86]
Simms Taback, 79, American author, graphic artist and illustrator. [87]

24

Armando Brambilla, 69, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Rome (since 1994). [88]
Sergio Buso, 61, Italian footballer and coach. [89]
José Andrés Corral Arredondo, 65, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Parral (since 1992), heart attack. [90] (Spanish)
Lex Gigeroff, 49, Canadian writer, actor and producer (Lexx), heart attack. [91]
Johannes Heesters, 108, Dutch actor and singer, stroke. [92]
Marvin Knopp, 78, American mathematician. [93]
Zsuzsi Mary, 64, Hungarian pop singer, suicide. [94] (Hungarian)
Jody Rainwater, 92, American bluegrass musician and radio personality, heart disease. [95]
Lynn Samuels, 69, American radio personality (Sirius XM). [96]
Walter Söhne, 98, German agronomist. [97] (German)
Vitaly Tseshkovsky, 67, Russian chess Grandmaster. [98] (Russian)

23

Neil Davids, 56, English footballer. [99]
Cees van Dongen, 79, Dutch motorcycle road racer. [100] (Dutch)
Evelyn Handler, 78, American academic, President of the University of New Hampshire (1980–1983) and Brandeis University (1983–1991), traffic collision. [101]
Bill Klatt, 64, American ice hockey player (Minnesota Fighting Saints), leukemia. [102]
Aydın Menderes, 65, Turkish politician, son of Adnan Menderes. [103]
Norayr Musheghian, 76, Armenian wrestler, coach and public activist, world champion (1958). [104] (Russian)
Abdur Razzaq, 69, Bangladeshi politician. [105]
Bruce Ruxton, 85, Australian veterans' representative and advocate, President of the Victorian RSL (1979–2002). [106]

22

Per Berlin, 90, Swedish Olympic silver (1952) and bronze (1956) medal-winning wrestler. [107] (Swedish)
Richard Bessière, 88, French author. [108] (French)
Bettye Danoff, 88, American golfer, founding member of the LPGA. [109]
Bennie Ellender, 86, American college football coach (Arkansas State, Tulane), Alzheimer's disease. [110]
Michael von Grünau, 67, Canadian psychologist and neurophysiologist. [111]
Nina Mula, 80, Russian-born Albanian soprano. [112]
Vasant Ranjane, 74, Indian cricketer. [113]
Rogelio Sánchez González, 90, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Colima (1972–1980). [114]
Marion Segal Freed, 77, American film producer, editor and screenwriter. [115]
Zithulele Sinqe, 48, South African long distance runner, car accident. [116]
Ernest A. Watkinson, 99, Canadian politician. [117]

21

Bud Bloomfield, 75, American baseball player. [118]
Francis Braganza, 89, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Baroda (1987–1997). [119]
John Chamberlain, 84, American sculptor. [120]
David Gold, 31, Canadian musician (Woods of Ypres), car accident. [121]
P. K. Iyengar, 80, Indian nuclear scientist. [122]
Alastair Maitland, 95, British diplomat. [123]
Werner Otto, 102, German entrepreneur (Otto GmbH). [124] (German)
Olavi Rokka, 86, Finnish Olympic modern pentathlete, bronze medalist (1952). [125] (Finnish)
Yevhen Rudakov, 69, Russian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1972) football goalkeeper. [126] (Ukrainian)
Robert Simons, 89, English cricketer (Hertfordshire). [127]
Jonathan Stephenson, 60s, English-born Northern Irish politician. [128]
Roberto Szidon, 70, Brazilian classical pianist, heart attack. [129] (Portuguese)
Umanosuke Ueda, 71, Japanese professional wrestler and actor, respiratory failure. [130] (Japanese)
Jean-Pierre Urkia, 93, French-born Laotian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Paksé (1967–1975). [131]

20

Robert Ader, 79, American psychologist, co-founder of psychoneuroimmunology. [132]
Hana Andronikova, 44, Czech writer and playwright, cancer. [133]
Sean Bonniwell, 71, American guitarist, singer and songwriter (The Music Machine). [134]
Howard P. Boyd, 97, American naturalist. [135]
Jeffrey Buckalew, 45, American financial executive, plane crash. [136]
Hugh Carless, 86, British diplomat and explorer. [137]
Clem DeRosa, 86, American jazz drummer, arranger, bandleader and music educator, director of the International Association for Jazz Education. [138]
Vasilis Dioskouridis, 70, Greek intellectual. [139] (Greek)
Jack Goldman, 90, American physicist, chief scientist at Xerox Corporation. [140]
Iván Heyn, 34, Argentine economist and politician. [141]
Khalifa Kambi, 56, Gambian politician, Deputy Minister of Agriculture (since 2010). [142]
George Lundy, 64, American priest and academic, President of Wheeling Jesuit University (2000–2003), stroke. [143]
Yoshimitsu Morita, 61, Japanese film director (The Family Game), liver failure. [144]
Tushar Ranganath, 37, Indian film director (Gulama), heart attack. [145]
John Rex, 86, South African-born British sociologist. [146] (death reported on this date)
Leopold Unger, 89, Polish journalist. [147] (Polish)
Kenchappa Varadaraj, 89, Indian Olympic footballer (1948). [148]
Václav Zítek, 79, Czech opera singer. [149]

19

George Athor, 49, South Sudanese rebel leader, shot. [150]
Evans Knowles, 97, Canadian politician, Member of Parliament for Norfolk (1957–1962). [151]
Luciano Magistrelli, 73, Italian Olympic footballer (1960), heart attack. [152] (Italian)
Héctor Núñez, 75, Uruguayan footballer, after long illness. [153] (Spanish)
Horst-Eberhard Richter, 88, German psychoanalyst and social philosopher. [154] (German)
Ron Smith, 70, American radio host (WBAL), pancreatic cancer. [155]

18

Doe Avedon, 86, American actress (The High and the Mighty) and model, pneumonia. [156]
Henry E. Catto, Jr., 81, American public servant and diplomat, complications of leukemia. [157]
Lorenzo de Rodas, 81, Mexican actor (Bajo la misma piel), heart attack. [158] (Spanish)
Jeremy Doyle, 28, Australian wheelchair basketball player, Paralympic gold medalist (2009), bladder cancer. [159]
Václav Havel, 75, Czech playwright and politician, President of Czechoslovakia (1989–1992) and the Czech Republic (1993–2003). [160]
Warren Hellman, 77, American investor, founder of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festivals, complications from leukemia treatment. [161]
Salem Jubran, 71, Israeli Arab poet and journalist. [162]
Ralph MacDonald, 67, American percussionist and songwriter. [163]
Ted Markland, 78, American actor. [164]
Donald Neilson, 75, English serial killer. [165]
Don Sharp, 89, Australian-born British film director (Hammer horror). [166]
Ronald Wolfe, 89, British sitcom writer (The Rag Trade, On the Buses), complications from a fall. [167]

17

John Bishop, 65, American soul and jazz guitarist, heart attack. [168]
Sérgio Britto, 88, Brazilian actor and television host, heart failure. [169] {Spanish)
Michael Gower Coleman, 72, South African Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Port Elizabeth (1986–2011). [170]
Eva Ekvall, 28, Venezuelan TV news anchor and model, Miss Venezuela 2000, breast cancer. [171]
Cesária Évora, 70, Cape Verdean singer, heart failure. [172]
Kim Jong-il, 69 or 70, North Korean Supreme Leader (since 1994), heart attack. [173]
Mario Mannucci, 79, Italian rally co-driver. [174] (Polish)
Harley Sewell, 80, American football player (Detroit Lions, Los Angeles Rams). [175]
Joãosinho Trinta, 78, Brazilian Carnival designer, septic shock. [176] (Portuguese)

16

Ulf Aas, 92, Norwegian illustrator. [177] (Norwegian)
Bob Brookmeyer, 81, American jazz valve trombonist, cardiopulmonary arrest. [178]
Robert Easton, 81, American actor and dialect coach. [179]
Dan Frazer, 90, American actor (Kojak, As The World Turns), cardiac arrest. [180]
Alice Glenn, 89, Irish politician, TD for Dublin Central (1981–1982; 1982–1987). [181]
Chubee Kagita, 54, Japanese politician, heart failure. [182] (Japanese)
Gadzhimurat Kamalov, 46, Russian journalist, shot. [183]
Henry Kitchener, 3rd Earl Kitchener, 92, British soldier and aristocrat. [184]
Mark Kopytman, 82, Ukrainian-born Israeli composer. [185] (Hebrew)
Bert Muhly, 88, American politician and academic, Mayor of Santa Cruz, California (1974–1975), heart failure. [186]
Patrick V. Murphy, 91, American police chief, New York City Police Commissioner (1970–1973), heart attack. [187]
Te Paekiomeka Joy Ruha, 80, New Zealand Māori leader. [188]
Slim Dunkin, 24, American rapper (1017 Brick Squad), shot. [189]
Keith W. Wilcox, 90, American architect and politician, member of LDS priesthood. [190]

15

Eduardo Barreto, 57, Uruguayan comic book artist. [191]
Emmett L. Bennett, Jr., 93, American classicist whose cataloging of Linear B led to its decipherment. [192]
Graham Booth, 71, British politician, Member of the European Parliament for South West England (2002–2008). [193]
William Claver, 75, Filipino human rights lawyer, Congressman from Kalinga-Apayao (1987–1992). [194]
David Fordham, 62, Australian sports commentator, cancer. [195]
Walter Giller, 84, German actor. [196] (German)
Christopher Hitchens, 62, British writer (God Is Not Great) and commentator (Vanity Fair), esophageal cancer. [197]
Paula Hyman, 65, American professor of modern Jewish history (Yale University). [198]
Ricardo Ibarra, 61, Argentine Olympic rower (1972, 1976, 1984). [199] (Spanish)
Guy Ignolin, 75, French professional cyclist. [200] (French)
Nur Khan, 88, Pakistani air marshal, Chief of Air Staff (1965–1969) and Governor of West Pakistan (1969–1970). [201]
James M. Quigley, 93, American politician, Representative from Pennsylvania (1955–1957; 1959–1961). [202]
Jason Richards, 35, New Zealand race car driver (V8 Supercars), adrenocortical carcinoma. [203]
Carmen Rupe, 75, New Zealand transsexual entertainer, kidney failure. [204]
Mario Tovar González, 78, Mexican Olympic wrestler (1952–1968), respiratory complications. [205] (Spanish)

14

Luigi Carpaneda, 86, Italian Olympic fencer, gold medalist (1956). [206] (Italian)
Boris Chertok, 99, Soviet and Russian rocket designer. [207]
Pedro Febles, 53, Venezuelan footballer and manager. [208] (Spanish)
Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck, 75, German Olympic rower, gold medalist (1960). [209] (German)
Thomas C. Kelly, 80, American Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Louisville (1981–2007). [210]
Carol Murphy, 79, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly (1993–2002). [211]
Ed Roman, 61, American guitar maker. [212]
Mark Francis Schmitt, 88, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Marquette (1978–1992). [213]
Joe Simon, 98, American comic book writer (Captain America, Fighting American, Prez). [214]
David Spancer, 43, American script coordinator (Just Shoot Me, That '70s Show, The Larry Sanders Show), colon cancer. [215]
Billie Jo Spears, 74, American country music singer ("Blanket on the Ground"), cancer. [216]
George Whitman, 98, American bookstore proprietor (Shakespeare and Company), complications of a stroke. [217]
James A. Zimble, 78, American Navy officer, Surgeon General of the United States Navy (1987–1991). [218]

13

Anthony Amato, 91, American opera impresario, cancer. [219]
T. J. Bass, 79, American writer. [220]
Graham Brown, 87, American actor, pulmonary failure. [221]
Juan Calderón, 75, Mexican journalist and announcer. [222] (Spanish)
Kabir Chowdhury, 88, Bangladeshi writer. [223]
Russell Hoban, 86, American writer. [224]
Park Tae Joon, 84, South Korean businessman, honorary chairman of POSCO, lung disease. [225]
Klaus-Dieter Sieloff, 69, German footballer. [226] (German)
Edie Stevenson, 81, American advertising copywriter, Alzheimer's disease. [227]
Erica Wilson, 83, British-born American embroidery designer. [228]

12

John Atterberry, 40, American music industry executive (Death Row Records), shot. [229]
Sunday Bada, 42, Nigerian Olympic sprinter, gold medalist (2000). [230]
Pupi Campo, 91, Cuban-born American bandleader. [231]
Predrag Ćeramilac, 67, Serbian actor, suicide. [232] (Croatian)
Clyde Conner, 78, American football player (San Francisco 49ers). [233]
John Gardner, 94, British classical music composer. [234]
Louise Henry, 100, American film actress. [235]
Heini Lohrer, 93, Swiss Olympic ice hockey player (1948). [236]
Alberto de Mendoza, 88, Argentine actor (Horror Express). [237]
Mălina Olinescu, 37, Romanian singer (Eurovision Song Contest 1998), suicide. [238] (Romanian)
Robert Peliza, 91, Gibraltarian politician, Chief Minister (1969–1972). [239]
Bert Schneider, 78, American film and television producer (Easy Rider, Five Easy Pieces, The Monkees), natural causes. [240]
Merih Sezen, 93, Turkish Olympic fencer (1948). [241]
Gene Summers, 83, American architect (McCormick Place), liver disease.[242]
Will Townsend, 33, American video game producer (DJ Hero), car crash. [243]

11

Ahmed Bahgat, 79, Egyptian writer and journalist. [244]
Enric Barbat, 68, Spanish Catalan language singer, member of Els Setze Jutges. [245] (Spanish).
Rodolfo Bottino, 52, Brazilian actor, pulmonary embolism. [246] (Portuguese)
Trevor Christian, 69, Australian boxer, first Indigenous Australian to referee world title bout. [247]
Phillip Cottrell, 43, Scottish journalist (BBC Scotland, Radio New Zealand), assaulted. [248]
Mimi Darwish, 69, Egyptian Olympic footballer (1964). [249] (Arabic)
John Patrick Foley, 76, American Roman Catholic Cardinal and Grand Master Emeritus of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, leukemia and anemia. [250]
Mihnea Gheorghiu, 92, Romanian writer and filmmaker, natural causes. [251] (Romanian)
Susan Gordon, 62, American child actress (The Five Pennies, My Three Sons, The Twilight Zone), thyroid cancer. [252]
J. Lynn Helms, 86, American Marine Corps officer, Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (1981–1984), cardiopulmonary failure and pneumonia. [253]
Hans Heinz Holz, 84, German Marxist philosopher. [254] (German)
Harold Hopkins, 67, Australian actor (Don's Party, Gallipoli, Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities), mesothelioma. [255]
Ke Yan, 82, Chinese poet and writer. [256]
Ahmed İhsan Kırımlı, 91, Turkish doctor, politician, poet and philanthropist. [257] (Turkish)
Leonida Lari, 62, Moldovan-born Romanian writer and politician, member of the Supreme Soviet (1989–1991) and Romanian Parliament (1992–2008), breast cancer. [258]
Mario Miranda, 85, Indian cartoonist. [259]
Bonnie Prudden, 97, American rock climber and physical fitness advocate. [260]

10

Cary D. Allred, 64, American politician, member of the North Carolina Senate (1980–1984) and North Carolina House of Representatives (1994–2009). [261]
Jean Baucus, 94, American author, historian and arts patron, mother of Max Baucus. [262]
Hamilton Bobby, 44, Indian footballer. [263]
Dragan Dostanić, 54, Serbian football manager (ŁKS Łódź). [264] (Polish)
John Gower, 70, American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly (1973–1979). [265]
Shinichi Ichikawa, 70, Japanese scriptwriter. [266] (Japanese)
Vida Jerman, 72, Croatian actress, lung cancer. [267] (Croatian)
Albert Overhauser, 86, American physicist. [268]
Stephen Schlossberg, 90, American union leader. [269]
Panagiotis Sideris, 33, Greek handball player, heart attack. [270] (Greek)
Karryl Smith, American rapper (The Conscious Daughters). [271]
Sotia Tsotou, 69, Greek lyricist, cancer. [272] (Greek)

9

Alf R. Bjercke, 90, Norwegian business magnate. [273] (Norwegian)
Davida Karol, 94, Israeli actress. [274] (Hebrew)
João Pereira dos Santos, 93, Brazilian martial artist (Capoeira). [275] (Portuguese)
Len Phillips, 89, British footballer. [276]
Stanislaw Podemski, 82, Polish journalist. [277] (Polish)
Richard J. Rabbitt, 76, American politician, Speaker of the Missouri House of Representatives (1973–1977), heart failure. [278]
Roy Tattersall, 89, British Test cricketer. [279]
Myra Taylor, 94, American jazz singer. [280]

8

Gilbert Adair, 66, Scottish author, film critic and journalist, brain haemorrhage. [281]
Roman Baembaev, 55, Ukrainian-born Israeli poet. [282] (Hebrew)
Peter Brown, 77, English footballer. [283]
Robert Brown, 61, American politician, Georgia State Senator (1991–2011), suicide by gunshot. [284] (body discovered on this date)
Lewis Bush, 42, American football player (San Diego Chargers, Kansas City Chiefs), apparent heart attack. [285]
Sir Zelman Cowen, 92, Australian constitutional lawyer and academic, 19th Governor-General of Australia (1977–1982). [286]
Vinko Cuzzi, 72, Croatian footballer. [287] (Croatian)
Ladislas de Hoyos, 72, French journalist and news anchor (TF1). [288] (French).
Nancy Hoyt, 56, American reality show contestant (The Amazing Race), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [289]
Gene Huff, 82, American politician, member of the Kentucky House of Representatives (1967–1971) and State Senator (1971–1994), lung disease. [290]
Giorgio Mariani, 65, Italian footballer. [291] (Italian)
Minoru Miki, 81, Japanese composer. [292] (Japanese)
Andrew Pataki, 84, American Eastern Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Parma for Ruthenian (1984–1995) and Passaic for Ruthenian (1995–2007). [293]
Joe Restic, 85, American NCAA and CFL football coach (Harvard Crimson, Hamilton Tiger-Cats). [294]
Nakdimon Rogel, 86, Israeli journalist and broadcaster, author of the Nakdi Report. [295]
Roman Simakov, 27, Russian boxer, injuries sustained during a fight. [296]
Dick Sims, 60, American keyboardist (Eric Clapton, Bob Seger). [297]
Dan Spears, 62, American musician (Willie Nelson and Family), exposure. [298]
Alan Styles, 75, British roadie (Pink Floyd), subject of the song "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast". [299]

7

Oscar Angeletti, 64, Argentine racing driver. [300] (Spanish)
Josip Barković, 94, Croatian writer. [301] (Croatian)
Bob Burnett, 71, American musician (The Highwaymen), brain cancer. [302]
Pearse Cahill, 95, Irish aviation pioneer. [303]
Peter Croker, 89, British footballer. [304]
Ofield Dukes, 79, American civil rights activist, multiple myeloma. [305]
Don Duong, 54, Vietnamese-born American actor (We Were Soldiers), complications following post-stroke surgery. [306]
Teresa Hsu Chih, 113, Chinese-born Singaporean social worker. [307]
Tom Kennedy, 63, American film trailer producer. [308]
Nuno Viriato Tavares de Melo Egídio, 89, Portuguese general, Governor of Macau (1979–1981). [309]
Harry Morgan, 96, American actor (M*A*S*H, Dragnet), pneumonia. [310]
Gilberto Pinto, 82, Venezuelan playwright. [311] (Spanish)
Jerry Robinson, 89, American comic book artist (Batman) and reputed creator of The Joker. [312]
Charlie Russell, 74, American country music DJ. [313]
T. A. Springer, 85, Dutch mathematician. [314]
Fred Thompson, 19, American football player (Oregon State University). [315]

6

Paul Blair, 69, American magazine editor and tour guide. [316]
Brent Darby, 30, American basketball player (Ohio State University), blood clots. [317]
Tony Fell, 79, British music publisher. [318]
Ron Fletcher, 90, American dancer and pilates teacher, heart failure. [319]
Sum Ying Fung, 112, Canadian supercentenarian, oldest person in Canada at time of death, natural causes. [320]
Dobie Gray, 71, American singer ("The 'In' Crowd", "Drift Away"). [321]
Barbara Orbison, 61, German-born American record producer and music publisher, widow of Roy Orbison, pancreatic cancer. [322]
Paul Ramírez, 25, Venezuelan footballer, stroke. [323] (Spanish)
Lawrie Tierney, 52, Scottish footballer. [324]
Erik Werner, 81, Danish cartoonist. [325] (Danish)

5

Dan Biggers, 80, American actor (In the Heat of the Night, Glory). [326]
Michel Descombey, 81, French choreographer. [327]
Paul M. Doty, 91, American scientist. [328]
Tetsuzo Fuyushiba, 75, Japanese politician, Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (2006–2008), acute pneumonia. [329]
Peter Gethin, 71, British Formula One driver (1970–1974). [330]
Jorge Maria Hourton Poisson, 85, French-born Chilean Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Temuco (1992–2001). [331]
Gennady Logofet, 69, Russian footballer. [332] (Russian)
Joe Lonnett, 84, American baseball player and coach. [333]
Dan Mills, 80, American animator (Family Guy, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe). [334]
Pusuke, 26, Japanese dog, world's oldest known living dog at time of death, natural causes. [335]
Bill Stits, 80, American football player (Detroit Lions, San Francisco 49ers, New York Giants), complications from Alzheimer's disease. [336]
Darrell K. Sweet, 77, American artist. [337]
Violetta Villas, 73, Belgian-born Polish singer. [338]

4

Mary Ellen Avery, 84, American pediatrician. [339]
Allan Cameron, 94, Scottish soldier and curler. [340]
Ambika Charan Choudhury, 81, Indian writer. [341]
Patricia C. Dunn, 58, American businesswoman, Chairman of Hewlett-Packard (2005–2006), ovarian cancer. [342]
Adam Hanuszkiewicz, 87, Polish actor and theatre director. [343] (Polish)
Matti Yrjänä Joensuu, 63, Finnish crime fiction writer. [344] (Finnish)
Besim Kabashi, 35, Albanian kickboxer. [345] (German)
Alamein Kopu, 68, New Zealand politician, List MP (1996–1999). [346]
James S. Malosky, 82, American football coach (Minnesota-Duluth Bulldogs), respiratory failure. [347]
Solange Pierre, 48, Dominican Republic human rights advocate, winner of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award (2006), heart attack. [348]
RJ Rosales, 37, Filipino-born Australian singer and actor. [349]
Sócrates, 57, Brazilian footballer, septic shock. [350]
Hubert Sumlin, 80, American blues guitarist, heart failure. [351]
Andrey Tverdokhlebov, 70, Soviet dissident. [352] (Russian)

3

Jalal Alamgir, 40, Bangladeshi academic, drowning. [353]
Dev Anand, 88, Indian actor (Ziddi), cardiac arrest. [354]
Louky Bersianik, 81, Canadian novelist. [355] (French)
Philip "Fatis" Burrell, 57, Jamaican record producer, stroke. [356]
Sabri Godo, 82, Albanian politician, writer and scriptwriter, founder and president of the Republican Party of Albania, lung cancer. [357] (Albanian)
Karl-Axel Karlsson, 72, Swedish Olympic sport shooter (1972, 1976). [358] (Swedish)
Sam Loxton, 90, Australian cricketer (The Invincibles), Australian rules footballer and politician, Victorian MLA for Prahran (1955–1979). [359]
Larry Rickles, 41, American Emmy Award-winning producer (Mr. Warmth: The Don Rickles Project), pneumonia. [360]
Rafael Rodríguez Barrera, 74, Mexican politician, Governor of Campeche (1973–1979), President of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (1992–1993). [361]
Rob Schroeder, 85, American racing driver. [362]
Heinrich Sonne, 94, German Waffen-SS member, recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. [363] (Portuguese)

2

Robert Lawrence Balzer, 99, American wine journalist. [364]
Bruno Bianchi, 56, French cartoonist and animator (Heathcliff and The Catillac Cats), co-creator of Inspector Gadget. [365]
Laurent Fuahea, 84, Tongan-born Wallisian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Wallis et Futuna (1974–2005). [366]
Chiyono Hasegawa, 115, Japanese supercentenarian, nation's oldest person. [367]
Pavle Jurina, 57, Croatian handball player and coach. [368] (Croatian)
Christopher Logue, 85, British poet. [369]
David Montgomery, 84, American historian, brain hemorrhage. [370]
Artur Quaresma, 94, Portuguese footballer. [371] {Portuguese)
Patrick Sheridan, 89, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of New York (1990–2001). [372]
Bill Tapia, 103, American ukulelist. [373]
Howard Tate, 72, American soul singer. [374]

1

Shingo Araki, 72, Japanese animation artist and character designer. [375] (French)
Arthur Beetson, 66, Australian rugby league footballer, first Indigenous Australian to captain a national team in any sport, heart attack. [376]
Andrei Blaier, 78, Romanian film director and screenwriter, after long illness. [377] (Romanian)
Martina Davis-Correia, 44, American civil rights activist, breast cancer. [378]
Ragnhild Hveger, 90, Danish swimmer, Olympic silver medalist (1936). [379] (Danish)
Ted Lapka, 91, American football player (Washington Redskins). [380]
François Lesage, 82, French embroidery designer. [381]
Bill McKinney, 80, American actor (Deliverance, The Outlaw Josey Wales), esophageal cancer. [382]
Mr. Ebbo, 37, Tanzanian rapper, leukemia. [383]
Purificacion Quisumbing, 77, Filipino human rights advocate, Chairperson of Commission on Human Rights (2002–2008), multiple myeloma. [384]
Louis Silverstein, 92, American artist and graphic designer. [385]
Alan Sues, 85, American comic (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In), heart attack. [386]
Hippolyte van den Bosch, 85, Belgian football player. [387]
Christa Wolf, 82, German writer. [388]
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, 65, American psychoanalyst, biographer of Hannah Arendt, pulmonary embolism. [389]