Deaths in February 2010

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

February 2010

1

• Jack Brisco, 68, American professional wrestler, complications from open heart surgery.
• David Brown, 93, American film producer (Jaws, Cocoon, A Few Good Men), renal failure.
• Rodolfo de Anda, 66, Mexican actor, thrombosis. (Spanish)
• Steingrímur Hermannsson, 81, Icelandic politician, Prime Minister (1983–1987, 1988–1991).
• Bobby Kirk, 82, Scottish footballer, dementia.
• Atsushi Kuroi, 40, Japanese professional drifting driver, motorcycle accident.
• Azzeddine Laraki, 80, Moroccan politician, Prime Minister (1986–1992). (Spanish)
• Peter Martell, 71, Italian film actor. (German)
• Justin Mentell, 27, American actor (Boston Legal), car accident.
• Subir Raha, 61, Indian executive, chairman and managing director of ONGC (2001–2006), lung cancer.
• Jaap van der Poll, 95, Dutch Olympic javelin thrower (1936 Summer Olympics).

2

• Juan del Campo, 87, Spanish Olympic field hockey player. (Spanish)
• Myron Donovan Crocker, 94, American federal judge.
• Cochin Haneefa, 58, Indian Malayalam film actor, multiple organ failure.
• Futa Helu, 75, Tongan philosopher.
• Paul Herlinger, 80, American voice actor,
• Tahir Hussain, 72, Indian film director, producer and writer, cardiac arrest.
• Bernard Kates, 87, American actor, sepsis and pneumonia.
• Svetozar Kurepa, 80, Croatian mathematician. (Croatian)
• Aleen Leslie, 101, American screenwriter (A Date with Judy), pneumonia.
• Rosa Lobato de Faria, 77, Portuguese writer and actress, complications from anemia. (Portuguese)
• Eustace Mullins, 86, American political writer, author and biographer, stroke.
• Rex Nettleford, 76, Jamaican scholar and choreographer, heart attack.
• Ng Teng Fong, 82, Chinese-born Singaporean businessman, complications from a cerebral hemorrhage.
• Jens-Anton Poulsson, 91, Norwegian military officer and resistance fighter (heavy water sabotage). (Norwegian)
• Nelli Shkolnikova, 82, Ukrainian-born Australian violinist and educator, cancer.
• Raymond Wang Chong Lin, 88, Chinese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Zhaoxian, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Donald Wiseman, 91, British assyriologist.
• William Yurko, 83, Canadian politician, MP for Edmonton East (1979–1984).

3

• Claudio Corti, 81, Italian mountaineer.
• Elazar ben Tsedaka ben Yitzhaq, 83, Palestinian Samaritan High Priest.
• Frank Fasi, 89, American politician, Mayor of Honolulu (1969–1981, 1984–1994), natural causes.
• John McCallum, 91, Australian actor and television producer (Skippy the Bush Kangaroo).
• Dick McGuire, 84, American basketball player, New York Knicks senior consultant, Basketball Hall of Famer, natural causes.
• Gil Merrick, 88, English footballer (Birmingham City).
• Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen, 85, German princess, wife of Otto von Habsburg.
• Frances Reid, 95, American actress (Days of our Lives).
• John Rety, 79, Hungarian-born British poet and anarchist.
• Lindsay Thomas, 31, Canadian stage actress, lung cancer.
• Georges Wilson, 88, French actor and film director.

4

• Kostas Axelos, 85, Greek philosopher. (Greek)
• Bill Dudley, 88, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), Pro Football Hall of Famer, stroke.
• Manuel Esteba, 68, Spanish film director.
• Richard Lashof, 87, American mathematician, after long illness.
• Tomás Mac Giolla, 86, Irish politician, after long illness.
• D. Van Holliday, 69, American physicist, complications of cardiac surgery.
• Alfred Käärmann, 87, Estonian resistance fighter, member of the Forest Brothers. (Estonian)
• Phillip Martin, 83, American tribal chief (Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians), stroke.
• H. A. Perera, 59, Sri Lankan actor, after short illness.
• Meir Pichhadze, 54, Georgian-born Israeli artist and painter, cancer.
• Joseph Ignace Randrianasolo, 62, Malagasy Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Mahajanga (1999–2010).
• Carl E. Taylor, 93, American physician and expert on international health, prostate cancer.
• Te Wei, 95, Chinese animator, respiratory failure.
• Helen Tobias-Duesberg, 90, Estonian-born American composer.
• Allan Wicks, 86, British organist and choirmaster.

5

• Bayken Ashimov, 92, Kazakh politician.
• Gul Hameed Bhatti, 63, Pakistani journalist and editor, stroke.
• Brendan Burke, 21, Canadian-born American ice hockey player notable for coming out, car accident.
• Peter Calvocoressi, 97, British historian, publisher and intelligence officer.
• Ian Carmichael, 89, British actor (Lucky Jim, Private's Progress, I'm All Right Jack).
• Mallia Franklin, 57, American singer.
• Cecil Heftel, 85, American businessman and politician, U.S. Representative from Hawaii (1977–1986), natural causes.
• Galimzyan Khusainov, 72, Russian footballer. (Russian)
• Sujeet Kumar, 75, Indian actor and producer, cancer.
• Frank Magid, 78, American media consultant, creator of Action News, lymphoma.
• Hiroyuki Oze, 24, Japanese baseball player, suicide by jumping.
• Greg Pianka, 35, American bassist (Dirty Looks), stabbed.
• Clarke Scholes, 79, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1952) swimmer, heart failure.
• Harry Schwarz, 85, South African lawyer, politician and diplomat, leader of the anti-apartheid movement, after short illness.
• Brooks Thomas, 78, American publisher (Harper and Row), complications of a brain injury after a fall.

6

• Micky Axton, 91, American aviator (Women Airforce Service Pilots), after short illness.
• Albert Booth, 81, British politician, MP for Barrow-in-Furness (1966–1983), Secretary of State for Employment (1976–1979).
• Robert Dana, 80, American poet, Iowa poet laureate (2004–2008), pancreatic cancer.
• Sir John Dankworth, 82, British jazz musician.
• Richard Delvy, 67, American drummer (The Bel-Airs), composer and record producer, after long illness.
• Brad Ecklund, 87, American football player (New York Yanks), heart failure.
• Ernest van der Eyken, 96, Belgian composer, conductor and violist. (Dutch)
• Kipkemboi Kimeli, 43, Kenyan athlete, 1988 Olympic bronze medalist, complications from pneumonia and tuberculosis.
• Lee Yeong-duk, 84, South Korean politician, Prime Minister (1994), pneumonia.
• Henry A. Miley, Jr., 94, American soldier, U.S. Army four-star general. [http://www.rauschfuneralhomes.com/service/920/Henry-A.-Miley,-Jr.-General-US-Army-Ret.]
• Lady Marjorie Nellie Murray, 85, British socialite, witness at the Nuremberg and Tokyo war crimes trials.
• Nancy Sweezy, 88, American folklorist, potter and writer.
• Donald Welsh, 66, American publisher (Outside), drowning.

7

• Franco Ballerini, 45, Italian road racing cyclist, rally car accident.
• Daniel Joseph Bradley, 82, British physicist.
• Jean-Marie Buisset, 71, Belgian Olympic bobsledder and field hockey player, after short illness. (French)
• Bobby Dougan, 83, Scottish footballer.
• André Kolingba, 73, Central African politician, President (1981–1993).
• Paul LaPalme, 86, American baseball player, after long illness.
• Lim Soo-Hyeok, 40, South Korean baseballl player (Lotte Giants), cardiac dysrhythmia. (Korean)
• Mihailo Marković, 86, Serbian philosopher. (German)
• William Tenn, 89, American science fiction writer and educator, heart failure.

8

• Angelo Franzosi, 88, Italian footballer.
• David Froman, 71, American actor (The Edge of Night, Matlock), cancer.
• Antonio Giolitti, 94, Italian politician. (Italian)
• Jimmie Heuga, 66, American Alpine ski racer, 1964 Olympic bronze medalist, multiple sclerosis.
• Robert Hoy, 82, American actor (The Enforcer) and stuntman, cancer.
• Carl Kaysen, 89, American economist, Deputy National Security Advisor (1961–1963), complications from a fall.
• Bernard Lander, 94, American rabbi, founder of Touro College.
• John Murtha, 77, American politician, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (1974–2010), complications of gallbladder surgery.
• Anna Samokhina, 47, Russian actress, stomach cancer. (Russian)
• Krzysztof Skubiszewski, 83, Polish politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1989–1993). (Polish)
• Bobby A. Suarez, 67, Filipino film producer, director and screenwriter.
• Wahei Tatematsu, 62, Japanese novelist, multiple organ failure.
• Bill Utterback, 79, American illustrator and caricaturist.

9

• Chaskel Besser, 86, Polish-born American rabbi.
• John D. Butler, 94, American politician, Mayor of San Diego (1951–1955), natural causes.
• Davy Coenen, 29, Belgian mountain biker, brain tumor.
• Alfred Gregory, 96, British mountain climber and photojournalist.
• Phil Harris, 53, American fisherman, reality television participant (Deadliest Catch), stroke.
• Jacques Hétu, 71, Canadian composer, lung cancer.
• Albert Kligman, 93, American dermatologist, inventor of Retin-A, heart attack.
• Walter Frederick Morrison, 90, American inventor, designer of the frisbee.
• Francine Irving Neff, 84, American politician, Treasurer of the United States (1974–1977), heart failure.
• Iza Orjonikidze, 71, Georgian writer and politician, MP (1992–1995), after long illness.
• Hastings Shade, 68, American deputy tribal chief of the Cherokee Nation (1999–2003).
• David W. Slater, 88, Canadian economist, civil servant and President of York University (1970–1973).
• Patricia Travers, 82, American violinist, cancer.
• Malcolm Vaughan, 80, British singer.
• Robert Shaw Sturgis Whitman, 94, American Episcopalian priest.

10

• Yosef Azran, 69, Israeli rabbi and politician, member of the Knesset (1988–1996), liver failure.
• Jack Bownass, 79, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Carl Braun, 82, American basketball player (New York Knicks), natural causes.
• Orlando Peçanha de Carvalho, 74, Brazilian footballer, heart attack. (Portuguese)
• Armando Falcão, 90, Brazilian politician, Justice Minister (1974–1979), pneumonia. (Portuguese)
• Gabriela Konevska-Trajkovska, 38, Macedonian politician, Deputy Prime Minister (2006–2008), after long illness.
• Judith Paige Mitchell, 77, American television writer, cancer.
• Michael Palme, 66, German sportswriter and host. (German)
• Gireesh Puthenchery, 48, Indian Malayalam lyricist and screenwriter, brain haemorrhage.
• K. N. Raj, 85, Indian economist, after long illness.
• Fred Schaus, 84, American basketball player and coach (Los Angeles Lakers).
• Enn Soosaar, 72, Estonian translator, literary critic and publicist. (Estonian)
• José Joaquín Trejos Fernández, 93, Costa Rican President (1966–1970), natural causes.
• David Tyacke, 94, British Army general.
• Eduard Vinokurov, 67, Russian Olympic fencer (1968, 1972, 1976). (Russian)
• Frederick C. Weyand, 93, American army general, natural causes.
• Charlie Wilson, 76, American politician, U.S. Representative (1973–1997), subject of Charlie Wilson's War, pulmonary arrest.
• H. V. F. Winstone, 83, British writer and journalist, lung cancer.

11

• Irina Arkhipova, 85, Russian mezzo-soprano singer, People's Artist of the USSR, cardiac arrest.
• Jabez Bryce, 75, Tongan-born Anglican prelate, archbishop of Polynesia (since 1975), first Pacific Islander Anglican bishop.
• Iain Burgess, 46, British-born American punk rock record producer, pulmonary embolism.
• Jennifer Daugherty, 30, American torture murder victim.
• Pio Filippani Ronconi, 89, Italian orientalist.
• Brian Godfrey, 69, Welsh footballer, leukaemia.
• Heward Grafftey, 81, Canadian politician, MP for Brome—Missisquoi, Parkinson's disease (1958–1968, 1972–1980).
• Arthur H. Hayes, Jr., 76, American public official, Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (1981–1983), leukemia.
• Mona Hofland, 80, Norwegian actress, after long illness. (Norwegian)
• Bo Holmberg, 67, Swedish governor, widower of Anna Lindh.
• Umetsugu Inoue, 86, Japanese film director, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Alexander McQueen, 40, British fashion designer, suicide by hanging.
• Caroline McWilliams, 64, American actress (Benson, Guiding Light), multiple myeloma.
• Paul Rebillot, 78, American psychotherapist, respiratory failure.
• E.H. Roelfzema, 62, Dutch writer, artist, poet, and musician.
• David Severn, 91, British author.
• Yury Sevidov, 68, Russian footballer, Soviet Top League highest goal scorer (1962). (Russian)
• Gladys Skillett, 91, British nurse, first Guernsey wartime deportee to give birth in captivity.
• Daryle Smith, 46, American football player (Dallas Cowboys).
• Duncan Tanner, 51, British historian.
• Colin Ward, 85, British anarchist writer.

12

• Petar Borota, 56, Serbian footballer (Partizan Belgrade and Chelsea), after long illness.
• Maria Ragland Davis, 52, American biologist, shot.
• Ken Emerson, 82, Australian cartoonist (The Warrumbunglers).
• Jerry Fahr, 85, American baseball player.
• Gino Gardassanich, 87, Italian-born American football player.
• Sheldon Gilgore, 77, American physician, president of Pfizer (1971–1986) and Searle (1986–1995), pancreatic cancer.
• Jake Hanna, 78, American jazz drummer, blood disease.
• Adriel Johnson, 52, American biologist, shot.
• Athan Karras, 82, Greek-born American advocate of Greek dance, complications from coronary artery bypass surgery.
• Allan Kornblum, 71, American lawyer, counsel to the F.B.I., esophageal cancer.
• Werner Krämer, 70, German footballer. (German)
• Nodar Kumaritashvili, 21, Georgian luger, national team member for the 2010 Winter Olympics, training accident.
• Luis Molowny, 84, Spanish footballer, heart attack.
• Leroy Nash, 94, American murderer, oldest death row inmate, natural causes.
• Alexis Pappas, 94, Greek-born Norwegian chemist. (Norwegian)
• G. K. Podila, 52, Indian-born American biologist, shot.
• Willie Polland, 75, Scottish footballer (Heart of Midlothian).
• Bernard Smith, 99, American sailboat designer, liver cancer.
• Grethe Sønck, 80, Danish actress and singer, natural causes. (Danish)

13

• Lucille Clifton, 73, American poet (Blessing the Boats), Poet Laureate of Maryland (1974–1985).
• Jock Ferguson, 64, Scottish-born Australian politician, Western Australian Legislative Council (since 2009), heart attack.
• Werner Forman, 89, Czech-born British photographer.
• Cy Grant, 90, Guyanese-born British actor and activist.
• Dale Hawkins, 73, American rockabilly musician, colorectal cancer.
• James D. Johnson, 85, American politician and jurist, Arkansas Supreme Court Justice (1959–1966), suicide by gunshot.
• Raymond Mason, 87, British sculptor.
• Robert J. Myers, 97, American politician, co-creator of the Social Security program, respiratory failure.
• Jamil Nasser, 77, American jazz musician, cardiac arrest.
• José María Pasquini Durán, 70, Argentine journalist, cardiac arrest. (Spanish)
• John Reed, 94, British actor.
• Saleban Olad Roble, Somali government minister, injuries sustained in the 2009 Shamo Hotel bombing.
• Red Rocha, 86, American basketball player and coach (Hawaii Rainbow Warriors).
• Gareth Wigan, 78, British film studio executive (Star Wars, Chariots of Fire), after short illness.

14

• Audrey Collins, 94, British cricket player and administrator.
• Doug Fieger, 57, American musician (The Knack), lung cancer.
• Dick Francis, 89, British jockey and novelist (Dead Cert).
• Lee Freeman, 60, American rhythm guitarist (Strawberry Alarm Clock), cancer.
• Helge Høva, 81, Norwegian politician. (Norwegian)
• Amos Funk, 98, American farm preservationist.
• Andrew Koenig, 41, American actor (Growing Pains), suicide.
• Linnart Mäll, 71, Estonian historian, orientalist, translator and politician, cancer.
• Rosa Rein, 112, German-born Swiss supercentenarian.
• John Ruan, 96, American entrepreneur and philanthropist, Parkinson's disease.
• John Thorbjarnarson, 52, American conservationist and crocodile expert, malaria.
• Jerzy Turek, 76, Polish actor. (Polish)
• Zhang Yalin, 28, Chinese football player, lymphoma. (Chinese)

15

• W. H. Clatworthy, 94, American mathematician.
• Juan Carlos González, 85, Uruguayan football player.
• Ian Gray, 46, Australian football player, homicide by prohibited drug.
• Jeanne M. Holm, 88, American general, pneumonia.
• Bill Kajikawa, 97, American basketball coach (Arizona State Sun Devils).
• Dana Kirk, 74, American basketball coach (Memphis Tigers), heart attack.
• Rigmor Mydtskov, 84, Danish court photographer. (Danish)
• Fred Peacock, 93, Canadian politician.
• Sylvia Pressler, 75, American jurist, lymphoma.
• Alfred Surratt, 87, American baseball player (Kansas City Monarchs), co-founder of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.
• Art Van Damme, 89, American jazz musician and accordionist, pneumonia.
• George Waring, 84, British actor (Coronation Street), cancer.

16

• Jim Bibby, 65, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates), bone cancer.
• John Davis Chandler, 73, American character actor.
• William E. Gordon, 92, American inventor, designer of the Arecibo Radio Telescope, natural causes.
• Bo Griffin, 51, American radio and television personality, colorectal cancer.
• Martin Grossman, 45, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Jim Harmon, 76, American science fiction writer, heart attack.
• Ronald Howes, 83, American inventor, designer of Easy-Bake Oven.
• Ino Kolbe, 95, German Esperanto expert.
• Ian Roderick Macneil, 80, American-born lawyer and Scottish clan chief.
• Mike Pittilo, 55, British biologist and educator, Principal of Robert Gordon University.
• Wan Chi Keung, 53, Hong Kong footballer, actor, and businessman, nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
• Jim Waugh, 76, American baseball player.

17

• Roger-Émile Aubry, 86, Swiss-born Bolivian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Reyes (1973–1999).
• Arnold Beichman, 96, American writer and journalist.
• Bjørn Benkow, 70, Norwegian journalist. (Norwegian)
• Giulio de Florian, 74, Italian Olympic cross-country skier. (Italian)
• Makoto Fujita, 76, Japanese actor and comedian, ruptured artery.
• Kathryn Grayson, 88, American actress and singer.
• Ruby Hunter, 54, Australian singer and musician, heart attack.
• Abdulkhakim Ismailov, 93, Russian Red Army soldier, World War II hero, natural causes.
• David Lelei, 38, Kenyan middle distance runner, car accident.
• Ignatius P. Lobo, 90, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Belgaum (1967–1994).
• Hans Henning Ørberg, c. 90, Danish linguist.
• Martha Mercader, 83, Argentine politician and writer. (Spanish)
• Witold Skaruch, 80, Polish actor. (Polish)
• Luigi Ulivelli, 74, Italian Olympic athlete. (Italian)

18

• John Babcock, 109, Canadian soldier, Canada's last surviving World War I veteran.
• Erwin Bachmann, 88, German Waffen-SS officer. (German)
• Bob Chakales, 82, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians).
• Barton Childs, 93, American physician and geneticist, complications of lung cancer.
• Amlan Datta, 85, Indian economist and teacher.
• Alan Gordon, 65, Scottish football player, cancer.
• Fernando Krahn, 75, Chilean plastic artist and illustrator. (Spanish)
• Emilio Lavazza, 78, Italian businessman, President of Lavazza Coffee (1979–2008).
• Nirmal Pandey, 48, Indian actor, heart attack.
• Richard Proulx, 72, American choral conductor and composer.
• Ariel Ramírez, 88, Argentine composer and pianist, pneumonia.

19

• George Cisar, 99, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).
• Daddy, 16, American Pit Bull Terrier, appeared with owner Cesar Millan in Dog Whisperer, euthanized due to cancer.
• Jamie Gillis, 66, American pornographic film actor, melanoma.
• Bruno Gironcoli, 73, Austrian sculptor, after long illness.
• Lionel Jeffries, 83, British film actor, screenwriter and director.
• Rudy Larriva, 94, American animator and animation director (Looney Tunes, The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show).
• Rafael Muñoz Núñez, 85, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Zacatecas (1972–1984) and Aguascalientes (1984–1998).
• Elli Parvo, 95, Italian film actress. (Italian)
• Walter Plowright, 86, British veterinary scientist.
• Laura Spurr, 64, American chairwoman of the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi since 2003, heart attack.
• Bull Verweij, 100, Dutch businessman, co-founder of Radio Veronica. (Dutch)
• Mladen Veža, 94, Croatian painter.

20

• Bobby Cox, 76, Scottish footballer (Dundee).
• Georges Charachidzé, 80, French scholar of the Caucasian cultures.
• Juanita Goggins, 75, American politician, first black woman in South Carolina Legislature, hypothermia. (estimated date of death)
• Linda Grover, 76, American peace activist, founder of Global Family Day, uterine and ovarian cancer.
• Alexander Haig, 85, American politician and diplomat, Secretary of State (1981–1982), complications from an infection.
• Sam Hamilton, 54, American public official, Director of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service since 2009, heart attack.
• Sandy Kenyon, 87, American character and voice actor (The Twilight Zone, Here Comes Garfield).
• Henry Kucera, 85, Czech-born American linguist.
• Niall McCrudden, 45, Irish optician and socialite.
• Aníbal Portillo, 95, Salvadoran military officer, head of state (1961-1962). (Spanish)
• Basavaraju Venkata Padmanabha Rao, 78, Indian actor, heart attack.
• Jason Wood, 38, British comedian and reality television contestant (Strictly Come Dancing).

21

• Bob Doe, 89, British airman, Royal Air Force flying ace.
• Jacek Karpiński, 83, Polish computer scientist. (Polish)
• Vladimir Motyl, 82, Russian film director and scenarist, cervical fractures and pneumonia.
• Albader Parad, Filipino militant (Abu Sayyaf), shot.
• Menachem Porush, 93, Israeli politician, Member of Knesset (1959–1975, 1977–1994).
• William E. Skillend, 83, British scholar of Korean language.
• George Strickland, 84, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Cleveland Indians).
• James Wieghart, 76, American newspaper editor (New York Daily News), pneumonia.

22

• Juan Angel Belda Dardiñá, 83, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Jaca (1978–1983) and León (1983–1987).
• Michael J. Bradley, 76, British diplomat, Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands (1987–1993).
• Robert Carter, 82, American priest and gay rights activist, a founder of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force. .
• Fred Chaffart, 74, Belgian businessperson. (Dutch)
• Henry Cosgrove, 87, Australian judge, Judge of the Supreme Court of Tasmania (1977–1988).
• Robin Davies, 56, British actor, lung cancer.
• Eugene Lambert, 82, Irish puppeteer and ventriloquist (Wanderly Wagon).
• Nelly Landry, 93, Belgian-born French tennis player. (French)
• Rozy Munir, 67, Indonesian diplomat, ambassador to Qatar, liver cancer.
• Steffi Sidney, 74, American film actress (Rebel Without a Cause), kidney failure.
• Bobby Smith, 56, Scottish footballer, cancer.
• Ruth P. Smith, 102, American pro-choice campaigner.
• Charles Stenvig, 82, American politician, Mayor of Minneapolis] (1969–1973, 1975–1977).
• Mohammed Zaman, 44, Afghan political and military leader, victim of suicide bombing.

23

• Mervyn Jones, 87, British journalist, biographer and novelist.
• Abune Zena Markos, 72, Ethiopian Archbishop, complications from pneumonia.
• Wyn Morris, 81, British conductor.
• Gerhardt Neef, 63, German footballer (Rangers), throat cancer.
• Henri Salmide, 90, German World War II naval officer, saved Bordeaux port from destruction.
• Mosi Tatupu, 54, American football player (New England Patriots).
• Derek Vanlint, 78, British-born Canadian cinematographer (Alien), short illness.
• Orlando Zapata, 42, Cuban dissident, hunger strike.

24

• Antonio Alegre, 85, Argentine businessman, President of Boca Juniors (1985–1995). (Spanish)
• Ang It-hong, 82, Taiwanese singer, songwriter, composer and actor, pancreatic cancer. (Chinese)
• Carlo Cicuttini, 63, Italian neo-fascist and terrorist. (Italian)
• Jake Elder, 73, American NASCAR crew chief, natural causes.
• Richard Gruenwald, 93, Canadian politician, Alberta MLA for Lethbridge-West (1971–1975).
• C. R. Johnson, 26, American newschool skier, skiing accident.

25

• Henry Barron, 81, Irish jurist, Supreme Court of Ireland (1997–2003), after short illness.
• Ernst Beyeler, 88, Swiss art collector.
• Barbara Bray, 85, British translator.
• Michael Clancy, 60, Saint Helena politician and Governor (2004–2007). (death announced on this date)
• Aaron Cohen, 79, American aerospace engineer, Director of Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (1986–1993), after long illness.
• İhsan Doğramacı, 94, Turkish physician and academic, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
• Vladislav Galkin, 38, Russian actor, heart failure (body discovered on this date). (Russian)
• Gheorghe Gaston Marin, 91, Romanian politician. (Romanian)
• Donald Merrifield, 81, American Jesuit, first president of Loyola Marymount University (1973–1984), heart attack.
• John Bernard McDowell, 88, American Roman Catholic prelate, Titular Bishop of Tamazuca (1966–1996).
• David Soyer, 87, American cellist (Guarneri Quartet).
• Efren Torres, 66, Mexican boxer, heart attack.
• Ali Tounsi, 76, Algerian police official, Chief of National Police, shot.
• Tuomo Tuormaa, 83, Finnish Olympic sprint canoer.
• Ahmet Vardar, 73, Turkish journalist and writer, pancreatic cancer.
• Frank Williams, 73, American architect (Trump Palace, Four Seasons Hotel New York), esophageal cancer.

26

• Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr., 92, American political photographer (Bachrach Studios).
• Violet Barclay, 87, American comic book artist.
• Tom Bass, 93, Australian sculptor.
• Barry Bowen, 64, Belizean bottling magnate and politician, plane crash.
• Francisco Cabrera Santos, 63, Venezuelan politician, mayor of Valencia, Carabobo. (Spanish)
• Bernard Coutaz, 87, French music publisher, founder of Harmonia Mundi.
• Richard Devon, 84, American character actor (Lassie), vascular disease.
• Charles le Gai Eaton, 89, Swiss-born British diplomat and author.
• Andrew Jaffe, 71, American journalist (Adweek), revived the Clio Awards, multiple myeloma.
• Robert McCall, 90, American artist, heart failure.
• Nujabes, 36, Japanese hip hop composer (Samurai Champloo), car accident.
• Jacques J. Polak, 95, Dutch economist.
• Dave Sheasby, 69, British playwright, radio producer and dramatist.

27

• David Bankier, 63, German-born Israeli Holocaust scholar.
• Black Bear Island, c. 4, Irish Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
• Larry Cassidy, 56, British bass guitarist and singer (Section 25).
• Charlie Crowe, 85, English footballer (Newcastle United), Alzheimer's disease.
• Frans De Blaes, 100, Belgian Olympic sprint canoer. (Dutch)
• Nanaji Deshmukh, 93, Indian social activist and politician, after long illness.
• Anna Fárová, 81, Czech photography historian and advocate, Charter 77 signatory.
• Madeleine Ferron, 87, Canadian author, Alzheimer's disease. (French)
• Eli Fischer-Jørgensen, 99, Danish linguist and World War II resistance member. (Danish)
• Rosemary Goldie, 94, Australian Roman Catholic theologian, Under-Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Laity (1967–1976).
• Jonathan May, 51, American cellist and conductor, stroke.
• Hank Rosenstein, 89, American basketball player (New York Knicks), heart failure.
• Nathan Scott, 94, American film and television composer (Lassie, The Twilight Zone, Dragnet), natural causes.
• Oleg Stepanov, 70, Russian judoka, 1964 Olympic bronze medal winner. (Russian)
• Wendy Toye, 92, British filmmaker.

28

• Martin Benson, 91, British stage actor (The Omen, Cleopatra, Goldfinger).
• Adam Blacklaw, 72, Scottish footballer (Burnley).
• Gerald Butler, 79, British jurist and broadcaster, heart attack.
• Theodore Cross, 86, American publisher and civil rights activist, heart failure.
• Bohdan Ejmont, 82, Polish actor.
• Rose Gray, 71, British restaurateur (The River Café) and food writer, brain cancer.
• Gene Greytak, 84, American impressionist (Pope John Paul II), cancer.
• Chushiro Hayashi, 89, Japanese astrophysicist, pneumonia.
• Phillip Law, 97, Australian scientist and explorer (Australian Antarctic Territory).
• José Mindlin, 95, Brazilian businessman and bibliophile, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
• Carlos Montemayor, 62, Mexican writer, stomach cancer. (Spanish)
• Nikolay Surov, 62, Russian Olympic rower. (Russian)
• Jorge Villamil, 80, Colombian composer, complications from diabetes. (Spanish)
• George Watt, 92, Australian rugby league footballer.
• Tom "T-Bone" Wolk, 58, American bass guitarist (Hall & Oates), heart attack.