Deaths in June 2010

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

June 2010

1

• Hank Bergman, 91, American war hero.
• Freddie Burdette, 73, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs).
• Vladimír Bystrov, 74, Czech writer and translator, recipient of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk. (Czech)
• Chinook Pass, 31, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
• Danny Douma, 63, American musician (Wha-Koo), cancer.
• Arturo Falaschi, 77, Italian geneticist.
• Barbara Greenspun, 88, American publisher (Las Vegas Sun).
• John Hagart, 72, Scottish football player and manager.
• Arthur A. Link, 96, American politician. U.S. Representative (1971–1973), Governor of North Dakota (1973–1981).
• Les Lockridge, 62, American musician (Buckacre), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Roger Manderscheid, 77, Luxembourgian author. (German)
• Miss Ellie, 17, American Chinese Crested Dog, winner of title World’s Ugliest Dog.
• Kazuo Ohno, 103, Japanese dancer, respiratory failure.
• Robert O. Smith, 67, American radio personality and voice actor (Ranma ½), pancreatic and liver cancer.
• Frank Pike, 80, Canadian football player and manager, heart failure.
• Joseph Strick, 86, American film director and producer, heart failure.
• Lobi Traoré, 48, Malian musician.
• Andrei Voznesensky, 77, Russian poet and writer. (Russian)

2

• Dick Bird, 77, British Anglican priest.
• Eleanor Taylor Bland, 65, American crime fiction writer.
• Floribert Chebeya, 46, Congolese human rights activist.
• Dorothy DeBorba, 85, American actress (Our Gang), emphysema and lung disease.
• Tony DiPreta, 88, American cartoonist, (Joe Palooka, Rex Morgan, M.D.), respiratory and cardiac arrest.
• John W. Douglas, 88, American civil rights advocate, complications from a stroke.
• Joe Gardi, 71, American football coach, stroke.
• Kovilan, 86, Indian novelist, respiratory disease.
• Garry Purdham, 31, English rugby league player (Workington Town), shot.
• Ri Je-gang, 80, North Korean politician, First Deputy Director of the Workers' Party Organization and Guidance Department, car accident.
• John Richardson, 77, Canadian politician, MP for Perth—Wellington—Waterloo (1993–1997); Perth—Middlesex (1997–2002), Alzheimer's disease.
• António Alva Rosa Coutinho, 84, Portuguese admiral and politician, Governor-General of Angola, after long illness.
• Michael Schildberger, 72, Australian journalist, prostate cancer.
• Giuseppe Taddei, 93, Italian opera singer.
• Leonard S. Unger, 92, American diplomat, Ambassador to Laos (1962–1964), Thailand (1967), and the Republic of China (1974–1979).
• Yoo Chang-soon, 92, South Korean politician, Prime Minister (1982).

3

• João Aguiar, 66, Portuguese writer and journalist. (Portuguese)
• Vladimir Arnold, 72, Russian mathematician, peritonitis.
• Frank Bernasko, 79, Ghanaian soldier and politician.
• Bill Clark, 80, New Zealand rugby player, after long illness.
• Frank E. Evans, 86, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Colorado (1965–1979).
• John Hedgecoe, 78, British photographer.
• Robert Hudson, 90, British broadcaster.
• Paul Malliavin, 84, French mathematician, creator of Malliavin calculus.
• Rue McClanahan, 76, American actress (The Golden Girls, Maude), stroke.
• Luigi Padovese, 63, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar of Anatolia and chairman of the Turkish Bishops' Conference (since 2004), stabbed.
• Pance Pondaag, 59, Indonesian pop singer and songwriter, complications from a stroke.
• Pétur Sigurgeirsson, 91, Icelandic prelate, Bishop of Iceland (1981–1989). (Icelandic)
• Emory C. Swank, 88, American diplomat, Ambassador to Cambodia (1970–1973).
• Hasan di Tiro, 84, Indonesian politician, founder of the Free Aceh Movement, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
• Charlie Wedemeyer, 64, American football player and coach, complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

4

• Raymond Allchin, 86, British archaeologist.
• Himan Brown, 99, American radio producer (CBS Radio Mystery Theater).
• Jim Copeland, 65, American football player, cancer.
• Marianne Elser Crowder, 104, American oldest Girl Scout, pancreatic cancer.
• Amado Crowley, 79/80, British occult writer and magician. (Death announced by this date)
• Richard Dunn, 75, American character actor (Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!), stroke.
• David Foster, 90, British naval pilot.
• Jack Harrison, 97, British air force officer, last survivor of Stalag Luft III.
• Richard P. Lindsay, 84, American Mormon leader and politician (Utah House of Representatives, 1972–1977), cancer.
• David Markson, 82, American writer (Wittgenstein's Mistress).
• William Miranda Marín, 69, Puerto Rican politician, mayor of Caguas (1997–2010), pancreatic cancer. (Spanish)
• Andi Meriem Matalatta, 52, Indonesian pop singer, complications from diabetes.
• Carlos Francisco Martins Pinheiro, 85, Portuguese Roman Catholic prelate. (Portuguese)
• Hennadiy Popovych, 37, Ukrainian footballer (Zenit, Shakhtar), cardiac arrest. (Russian)
• Chuck Taliano, 65, American Marine, featured on recruitment poster, multiple myeloma.
• Eddie Washington, 56, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives (2003–2010), heart attack.
• John Werket, 85, American Olympic speed skater.
• John Wooden, 99, American basketball coach (UCLA, 1948–1975).

5

• Esma Agolli, 81, Albanian actress, cardiac arrest. (Albanian)
• Braulio Alonso, 93, American educator.
• Sir Neil Anderson, 83, New Zealand admiral, Chief of Defence Staff (1980–1983).
• Danny Bank, 87, American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and flautist.
• Robert Bergenheim, 86, American founder of Boston Business Journal.
• Angus Douglas-Hamilton, 15th Duke of Hamilton, 71, British peer and racing driver, dementia.
• Robert Healy, 84, American journalist, executive editor (The Boston Globe), stroke.
• Stephen Clancy Hill, 34, American pornographic actor and murderer, suicide by jumping from cliff.
• Jacob Milgrom, 87, American rabbi and biblical scholar, brain hemorrhage.
• Finian Monahan, 86, Irish Roman Catholic friar and priest, Superior General (1973–1979), pneumonia.
• Arne Nordheim, 78, Norwegian contemporary classical composer.
• Tony Peluso, 60, American musician and record producer (The Carpenters), heart disease.
• Steven Reuther, 58, American film producer, cancer.
• Robert Wussler, 73, American businessman, co-founder of CNN, after long illness.

6

• Mabi de Almeida, 46, Angolan football manager, after long illness.
• Jack Beeson, 88, American contemporary classical music composer, heart failure.
• Marvin Isley, 56, American bassist (The Isley Brothers, Isley-Jasper-Isley), complications of diabetes.
• Dana Key, 56, American musician (DeGarmo and Key), ruptured blood clot.
• Abraham Nathanson, 80, American artist and author, co-inventor of Bananagrams, cancer.
• Robert B. Radnitz, 85, American film producer (Cross Creek, My Side of the Mountain, Sounder), complications from a stroke.
• Ladislav Smoljak, 78, Czech film and theatre director, after long illness.
• Jerry Stephenson, 66, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox), lung cancer.
• Paul Wunderlich, 83, German artist. (German)

7

• José Albi, 88, Spanish poet. (Spanish)
• Paul Bell, 59, American politician, member of the Iowa House of Representatives (since 1993), stomach cancer.
• Stuart Cable, 40, Welsh drummer (Stereophonics), accidental asphyxiation.
• Chai Zemin, 93, Chinese diplomat. (Chinese)
• Mordechai Eliyahu, 81, Israeli rabbi, Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel (1983–1993).
• Jorge Ginarte, 70, Argentine football manager. (Spanish)
• Ndoc Gjetja, 66, Albanian poet, after long illness. (Albanian)
• Alex Hastie, 74, British rugby player.
• Heather the Leather, 50, British scaleless carp, old age.
• Arsen Naydyonov, 68, Russian football coach (Zhemchuzhina, Novorossiysk). (Russian)
• Oliver N'Goma, 51, Gabonese singer and guitarist, renal failure.
• Omar Rayo, 82, Colombian painter and sculptor, heart attack. (Spanish)
• Viana Júnior, 68, Brazilian comedian, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. (Portuguese)
• Adriana Xenides, 54, Argentine-born Australian television personality (Wheel of Fortune), ruptured intestine.

8

• Tony Cennamo, 76, American disc jockey (WBUR), after long illness.
• Margaret Delacourt-Smith, Baroness Delacourt-Smith of Alteryn, 94, British politician and life peer.
• Dan R. Eastman, 64, American politician and businessman, Utah State Senator (2000–2008), heart failure.
• Joan Hinton, 88, American nuclear physicist, abdominal aneurysm.
• Porfi Jiménez, 82, Dominican-born Venezuelan musician, arranger, composer and bandleader. (Spanish)
• Plamen Maslarov, 60, Bulgarian film director.
• Stephen Rivers, 55, American publicist and political activist, prostate cancer.
• Ismael Blas Rolón Silvero, 96, Paraguayan Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Asunción (1970–1989).
• Crispian St. Peters, 71, British pop singer ("The Pied Piper", "You Were on My Mind"), after long illness.
• Andreas Voutsinas, 77, Greek actor and stage director.

9

• Epaminondas José de Araújo, 88, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Palmeira dos Índios (1978–1984). (Portuguese)
• Ken Brown, 70, British guitarist (The Quarrymen).
• Fadzil Mahmood, 73, Malaysian politician, speaker of the Perlis State Assembly (1986–1990).
• Melbert Ford, 49, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Christine Johnson, 98, American opera singer and actress.
• Bobby Kromm, 82, Canadian ice hockey coach (Detroit Red Wings, Winnipeg Jets), complications from colorectal cancer.
• Joseph Crescent McKinney, 81, American Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of Grand Rapids (1968–2001).
• Marina Semyonova, 101, Russian prima ballerina (Bolshoi Ballet).
• Mohamed Sylla, 39, Guinean footballer (Willem II, Martigues, Guinea), cancer. (Dutch)
• Harold Ivory Williams, 60, American jazz musician.
• Oleksandr Zinchenko, 53, Ukrainian politician.

10

• Paul Dobbs, 39, New Zealand motorcycle racer, race crash.
• David Ellison, 70, British actor (Juliet Bravo).
• Ginette Garcin, 82, French actress, cancer. (French)
• Ferdinand Oyono, 80, Cameroonian writer and government minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1992–1997). (French)
• Sigmar Polke, 69, German painter and photographer, cancer.
• Basil Schott, 70, American Byzantine Catholic friar, Metropolitan of the Byzantine Catholic Archeparchy of Pittsburgh (since 2002), cancer.

11

• Bernie Andrews, 76, British radio producer.
• Henri Cuq, 68, French politician. (French)
• Shunsuke Ikeda, 68, Japanese actor (Kikaider 01, Ultraman Mebius & Ultraman Brothers), complications from diabetes.
• Kip Deville, 7, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
• Norman Macrae, 86, British journalist, deputy editor of The Economist (1965–1988).
• William J. Mitchell, 65, American architect and urban designer (MIT Media Lab). complications of cancer.
• Johnny Parker, 80, British jazz pianist ("Bad Penny Blues").
• Andrzej Piątkowski, 75, Polish sabreur, Olympic medallist (1956, 1960 and 1964). (Polish)
• Fred Plum, 86, American neurologist, developed the term "persistent vegetative state", primary progressive aphasia.
• Dariusz Ratajczak, 47, Polish historian. (body discovered on this date)
• James N. Wood, 69, American museum director.

12

• Anne Chapman, 88, French-born American ethnologist.
• John Crampton, 88, British RAF pilot.
• Daisy D'ora, 97, German actress and socialite. (German)
• Richard Keynes, 90, British physiologist.
• Chuck Lyda, 57, American slalom and sprint canoer, stomach cancer.
• Felix Maldonado, 72, American baseball player and scout (Boston Red Sox), cancer.
• Fuat Mansurov, 82, Kazakh-born Russian conductor (Bolshoi Theatre). (Russian)
• Les Richter, 79, American football player (Los Angeles Rams), member of Pro Football Hall of Fame, and auto racing official, NASCAR head of operations, brain aneurysm.
• Egon Ronay, 94, Hungarian-born British restaurateur and restaurant critic.
• Philip Selznick, 91, American lawyer, author and sociologist.
• Grizzly Smith, 77, American professional wrestler, Alzheimer's disease.
• Jerzy Stefan Stawiński, 88, Polish screenwriter and film director. (Polish)
• Al Williamson, 79, American comic book artist (Secret Agent X-9, Star Wars, Flash Gordon).

13

• Combo Ayouba, Comorian army officer, Coordinator of the Transitional Military Committee (1995), shot.
• E. F. Bleiler, 90, American science fiction author.
• Thomas S. Buechner, 83, American museum director, lymphoma.
• Dave Broda, 65, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta (1997–2004), car crash.
• Jimmy Dean, 81, American country music singer (Big Bad John), actor and businessman (Jimmy Dean Foods), natural causes.
• Abbas Djoussouf, 68, Comorian politician, Prime Minister (1998–1999).
• Ernest Fleischmann, 85, German-born American impresario, executive director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
• Ernie Johnson, 84, American football and basketball player (UCLA).
• Emilio Macias, 76, Filipino politician, Governor of Negros Oriental, liver cancer.
• Tom Stith, 71, American basketball player (New York Knicks).
• Sergei Tretyakov, 53, Russian intelligence officer and defector, former SVR agent.
• Nelson Wallulatum, 84, American trial leader, chief of the Wasco Indians (since 1959), founder of The Museum at Warm Springs.
• Jonathan Wolken, 60, American artistic director, co-founder of Pilobolus, complications from stem cell transplant.

14

• Oscar Azócar, 45, Venezuelan baseball player (New York Yankees, San Diego Padres).
• Teshome Gabriel, 70, Ethiopian-born American cinema scholar, cardiac arrest.
• Resi Hammerer, 85, Austrian Olympic alpine skier, bronze medalist (1948 Winter Olympics). (German)
• Richard Herrmann, 90, Norwegian journalist, writer and radio personality (NRK), after long illness. (Norwegian)
• Jiří Kavan, 66, Czech Olympic silver medal-winning (1972) handball player.
• Leonid Kizim, 68, Ukrainian Soviet cosmonaut. (Russian)
• Ted Lowry, 90, American boxer, heart failure.
• Manohar Malgonkar, 96, Indian author.
• Luis Arturo Mondragón, 53, Honduran journalist, shot.
• Giacinto Prandelli, 96, Italian operatic tenor.
• Damian Silvera, 35, American Olympic soccer player.
• Jaroslav Škarvada, 85, Czech Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Prague (1982–2002). (Czech)

15

• Thomas W. L. Ashley, 87, American politician, U.S. Representative for Ohio (1955–1981).
• Charles Thomas Beer, 94, Canadian chemist.
• Bekim Fehmiu, 74, Serbian actor (I Even Met Happy Gypsies), suspected suicide by gunshot.
• Phil Gordon, 94, American character actor and dialect coach (The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, Petticoat Junction).
• Charles Hickcox, 63, American Olympic swimmer, gold and silver medalist (1968 Summer Olympics), cancer.
• Heidi Kabel, 95, German stage actress. (German)
• Tadashi Kawashima, 41, Japanese manga artist (Alive: The Final Evolution), liver cancer.
• Arnold Kramish, 87, American physicist, neurological disorder.
• Wendell Logan, 69, American composer.
• Busi Mhlongo, 62, South African musician, cancer.
• Jim Pugliano, 63, American drummer (The Jaggerz).
• Natalia Tolstaya, 67, Russian writer and translator. (Russian)

16

• Marc Bazin, 78, Haitian politician, Acting President and Prime Minister (1992–1993).
• Peter Brunette, 66, American film critic (The Hollywood Reporter), heart attack.
• Bill Dixon, 84, American jazz musician.
• Maureen Forrester, 79, Canadian opera singer, complications of Alzheimer's disease.
• Amedeo Guillet, 101, Italian army officer.
• Bob Hartman, 72, American baseball player, post-surgical infection.
• Allen Hoey, 57, American poet, Pulitzer Prize nominee, heart attack.
• Carole McGoldrick, 66, American singer (The Secrets), illness.
• Ronald Neame, 99, British film director (The Poseidon Adventure) and screenwriter.
• Corso Salani, 48, Italian actor and film director, stroke. (Italian)
• Garry Shider, 56, American musician (Parliament-Funkadelic), complications from brain and lung cancer.
• P. G. Viswambharan, 69, Indian film director, after long illness.

17

• Hannah Atkins, 86, American politician, Secretary of State of Oklahoma (1987–1991) and State Representative (1969–1981), cancer.
• Elżbieta Czyżewska, 72, Polish-born American actress, esophageal cancer.
• Hans Dichand, 89, Austrian journalist and newspaper publisher. (German)
• Sebastian Horsley, 47, British artist, heroin overdose.
• Anjali Mendes, 64, Indian model.
• K. S. Rajah, 80, Singaporean juridicial official, Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court, cancer.
• Andy Ripley, 62, British rugby player, prostate cancer.

18

• Trent Acid, 29, American professional wrestler, accidental drug overdose.
• Marcel Bigeard, 94, French general and politician.
• Bogdan Bogdanović, 87, Serbian architect, urbanist, and politician, Mayor of Belgrade (1982–1986), heart attack.
• Waldemar Ciesielczyk, 51, Polish Olympic fencer.
• Joe Deal, 62, American photographer, bladder cancer.
• Bidya Debbarma, 94, Indian politician.
• Robert Galambos, 96, American neuroscientist, discovered how bats navigate, heart failure.
• Ronnie Lee Gardner, 49, American convicted murderer, executed by firing squad.
• Tom Nicon, 22, French model, suicide by jumping.
• Kalmen Opperman, 90, American clarinetist, heart failure.
• José Saramago, 87, Portuguese novelist, playwright and journalist, Nobel Prize winner for literature, cancer.
• Hans Joachim Sewering, 94, German physician, member of the Waffen SS (1933–1945).

19

• Manute Bol, 47, Sudanese basketball player and activist, kidney failure and Stevens–Johnson syndrome.
• Anwar Chowdhry, 86, Pakistani sports official, President of the International Boxing Association (1986–2006), heart attack.
• Jack Cloud, 85, American football player.
• Ned Endress, 92, American basketball player.
• Marvin L. Esch, 82, American politician, U.S. Representative from Michigan (1967–1977).
• John Ferruggio, 84, American in-flight director, led evacuation of Pan Am Flight 93, organ failure.
• Mohammed Ali Hammadi, 46, Lebanese militant (Hezbollah), drone strike.
• Robin Matthews, 83, British economist and chess problemist.
• Carlos Monsiváis, 72, Mexican writer and journalist, respiratory failure. (Spanish)
• Vince O'Brien, 91, American character actor (Dark Shadows, Guiding Light, Law & Order).
• Alfred Parsons, 85, Australian diplomat, High Commissioners to the United Kingdom (1983–1987).
• Anthony Quinton, Baron Quinton, 85, British philosopher and life peer.
• Jesús Manuel Lara Rodríguez, 48, Mexican politician, mayor of Guadalupe, Chihuahua, shot.
• Dame Angela Rumbold, 77, British politician, MP for Mitcham and Morden (1982–1997).
• Nico Smith, 81, South African minister and anti-apartheid activist, heart attack.
• Ken Talbot, 59, Australian businessman, CEO of Macarthur Coal (1995–2008), plane crash.
• Paul Thiebaud, 49, American gallerist, colon cancer.
• Ursula Thiess, 86, German artist and actress (Bengal Brigade).
• Jack Tobin, 90, American anthropologist, expert on the Marshall Islands.
• Chris Welles, 72, American business journalist, Alzheimer's disease.

20

• Dwight Armstrong, 58, American anti-Vietnam War protestor, Sterling Hall bomber, lung cancer.
• Sir William Boulton, 3rd Baronet, 98, British barrister.
• Vladimír Dlouhý, 52, Czech actor. (Czech)
• Lai Sun Cheung, 59, Hong Kong football coach, lung cancer.
• Raymond Parks, 96, American auto racer, two-time NASCAR car owner points champion.
• Abdolmalek Rigi, 27, Iranian Sunni Islamist militant, leader of Jundallah, execution by hanging.
• Roberto Rosato, 66, Italian footballer. (Italian)
• Edith Shain, 91, American nurse, subject of V–J day in Times Square photograph, cancer.
• Gundibail Sunderam, 80, Indian cricketer, after a short illness.
• Harry B. Whittington, 94, British palaeontologist.

21

• Russell Ash, 64, British writer and publisher (The Top 10 of Everything).
• Irwin Barker, 58, Canadian comedian and television writer (This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Rick Mercer Report), leiomyosarcoma.
• Wilfried Feldenkirchen, 62, German economic historian and project manager (Siemens), car crash. (German)
• Rosemary Gillespie, 69, Australian human rights activist and lawyer, stroke.
• Bob Greene, 92, American Makah tribe elder, natural causes.
• Hector Laing, Baron Laing of Dunphail, 87, British businessman and life peer.
• Stanley Lucas, 110, British supercentenarian, oldest man in Europe.
• Allison Parks, 68, American model (Playboy, October 1965) and actress.
• Henrique Walter Pinotti, 81, Brazilian physician, cancer. (Portuguese)
• William S. Richardson, 90, American jurist and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii (1962–1966), Chief Justice (Hawaii Supreme Court, 1966–1982).
• Hermann Gonçalves Schatzmayr, 75, Brazilian virologist, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz researcher, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. (Portuguese)
• İlhan Selçuk, 85, Turkish lawyer, journalist and writer, editor-in-chief of Cumhuriyet, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
• Chris Sievey, 54, British comedian and musician (Frank Sidebottom), lung cancer.
• Tam White, 67, British musician and actor, heart attack.
• With Approval, 24, Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse, Canadian Triple Crown winner (1989), euthanized.
• Larry Jon Wilson, 69, American songwriter and musician, stroke.

22

• Peppy Blount, 85, American football player (Texas Longhorns) and line judge.
• Robin Bush, 67, British historian (Time Team).
• Gerald Heaney, 92, American jurist, United States Court of Appeals (1966–2006).
• Marie-Luise Jahn, 92, German activist, member of the anti-Nazi resistance movement White Rose. (German)
• Aileen Osofsky, 83, American community leader, philanthropist and bridge player (ACBL), complications from leukemia.
• Amokrane Oualiken, 77, Algerian footballer. (French)
• Pennant Roberts, 69, British television director.
• Manfred Römbell, 68, German writer, after long illness. (German)
• Wayne Stephenson, 65, Canadian professional and Olympic bronze medal-winning (1968) ice hockey player.
• Levern Tart, 68, American basketball player (Oakland Oaks, New York Nets).
• Tracy Wright, 50, Canadian actress, pancreatic cancer.

23

• Ron Atchison, 80, Canadian football player (Saskatchewan Roughriders), heart failure.
• Jörg Berger, 65, German football manager, bowel cancer.
• John Burton, 95, Australian diplomat and academic.
• Michael Cobb, 93, British Army officer and railway historian.
• Dermot Earley, 62, Irish Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces (2004–2010), after short illness.
• Allyn Ferguson, 85, American television composer (Barney Miller, Charlie's Angels), natural causes.
• Frank Giering, 38, German actor (Funny Games).
• Pavel Lyubimov, 71, Russian film director.
• Vernon Mendis, 84, Sri Lankan diplomat.
• Mohammed Mzali, 84, Tunisian politician, Prime Minister (1980–1986).
• Hiromu Naruse, 66, Japanese chief test driver for Toyota Motor Company, car crash.
• Pete Quaife, 66, British bassist (The Kinks), kidney failure.
• Peter Walker, Baron Walker of Worcester, 78, British politician and life peer, MP for Worcester (1961–1992), cancer.

24

• Toni Adams, 45, American professional wrestling manager, former wife of Chris Adams, heart attack.
• Fred Anderson, 81, American jazz tenor saxophonist.
• JoJo Billingsley, 58, American back-up singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd), cancer.
• Elise M. Boulding, 89, American sociologist, liver failure.
• Lorn Brown, 71, American sports commentator (Chicago White Sox), heart failure.
• Shirley Carr, 81, Canadian president of the Labour Congress.
• Cherubim Dambui, 62, Papua New Guinean Premier of East Sepik (1976–1983), auxiliary bishop of Port Moresby (since 2000), kidney failure.
• Digvijay Singh, 54, Indian politician.
• Francis Dreyfus, 70, French record producer (Disques Dreyfus).
• Harry Enns, 78, Canadian politician, MLA for Rockwood-Iberville/Lakeside (1966–2003).
• Don Enoch, 94, American politician, Mayor of Wichita, Kansas (1969–1970).
• Bill Hudson, 77, American photojournalist, heart failure.
• Alan Krueck, 70, American musicologist.
• Kazimierz Paździor, 75, Polish Olympic gold medal-winning (1960) boxer. (Polish)
• Jean-Léonard Rugambage, Rwandan journalist, shot.
• Walter Shorenstein, 95, American real estate developer and baseball team owner (San Francisco Giants), natural causes.
• Ben Sonnenberg, 73, American journalist, multiple sclerosis.

25

• Viveka Babajee, 37, Mauritian-born Indian model and actress, suicide by hanging.
• Brian Flowers, Baron Flowers, 85, British physicist, academic and life peer.
• F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, 62, Welsh science fiction author, suicide.
• Robert Nyman, 49, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (since 1999), drowning.
• Alan Plater, 75, English television writer, cancer.
• Richard B. Sellars, 94, American Chairman and CEO of Johnson & Johnson.
• Peter Sliker, 86, American bass-baritone at the Metropolitan Opera
• John A. Willis, 93, American editor of Theatre World.
• Wu Guanzhong, 90, Chinese painter.

26

• Algirdas Brazauskas, 77, Lithuanian politician, President (1993–1998); Prime Minister (2001–2006), lymphoma.
• D. Page Elmore, 71, American politician, member of the Maryland House of Delegates (2003–2010), cancer.
• Alberto Guzik, 66, Brazilian actor and writer, stomach cancer. (Portuguese)
• Paulo Teixeira Jorge, 82, Angolan politician, Minister of External Relations (1976–1984).
• Charles Spencer King, 85, English automotive engineer (Rover SD1, Range Rover), complications following a traffic accident.
• Harald Keres, 97, Estonian physicist. (Estonian)
• Shoista Mullojonova, 84, Tajik singer, heart attack. (Tajik)
• Akira Nakamura, 76, Japanese historian. (Japanese)
• Adoor Pankajam, 85, Indian actress.
• Conrad Poe, 62, Filipino actor, stroke.
• Benny Powell, 80, American jazz trombonist (April in Paris), heart attack following spinal surgery.
• Jonathan Smith, 43, British games developer.
• D. Sudarsanam, 68, Indian politician, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
• Sergio Vega, 40, Mexican banda singer, shot.
• Stanley Wagner, 83, American winemaker.
• Sir John Ward, 85, British politician, MP for Poole (1979–1997).
• Vasyl Yevseyev, 47, Ukrainian football coach, suicide by jumping. (Russian)

27

• Corey Allen, 75, American actor (Rebel Without a Cause), film and television director, complications of Parkinson's disease.
• Dolph Briscoe, 87, American politician, Governor of Texas (1973–1979), kidney failure and pneumonia.
• Ken Coates, 79, British politician and writer, suspected heart attack.
• Édgar García de Dios, 32, Mexican footballer, shot. (Spanish)
• João Gonçalves Filho, 75, Brazilian Olympic swimmer and water polo player. (Portuguese)
• Martin D. Ginsburg, 78, American attorney, husband of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, cancer.
• Aldo Giuffrè, 86, Italian actor, peritonitis. (Italian)
• Edo Mulahalilović, 46, Bosnian musician.
• Andreas Okopenko, 80, Austrian writer. (German)
• Rammellzee, 49, American hip hop musician and graffiti artist, after long illness.

28

• Bill Aucoin, 66, American band manager (Kiss), complications from prostate cancer.
• Peter Bowers, 80, Australian journalist, after long illness.
• Robert Byrd, 92, American politician, U.S. Representative (1953–1959), Senator from West Virginia (1959–2010).
• Clement Finch, 94, American hematologist.
• Nicolas Hayek, 82, Swiss entrepreneur, founder and chairman of The Swatch Group, heart failure.
• Willie Huber, 52, German-born Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings), heart attack.
• Chandrakant Kamat, 76, Indian Hindustani classical tabla player, heart attack.
• Louis Moyroud, 96, French-born American inventor of phototypesetting.
• Joya Sherrill, 85, American jazz vocalist, leukemia.
• William L. Taylor, 78, American attorney and civil rights advocate, complications from a fall.
• Rodolfo Torre Cantú, 46, Mexican politician, candidate for Governor of Tamaulipas, shot.

29

• Blair Barnes, 49, Canadian ice hockey player (Los Angeles Kings), heart attack.
• Ron Gans, 79, American voice actor (Transformers, Welcome to Pooh Corner, Dumbo's Circus), complications from pneumonia.
• Rudolf Leopold, 85, Austrian art collector. (German)
• Doug Ohlson, 73, American painter, complications from a fall.
• Queen Jane, 45, Kenyan musician, meningitis.
• Chandgi Ram, 72, Indian Olympic wrestler, cardiac arrest.
• Frank Rigney, 74, American-born Canadian football player (Winnipeg Blue Bombers).
• Pietro Taricone, 35, Italian actor and reality show contestant (Grande Fratello), parachute accident.

30

• Alf Carretta, 93, British vocalist (The Zimmers).
• Bruno Côté, 69, Canadian landscape painter, prostate cancer. (French)
• Ditta Zusa Einzinger, 79, Austrian singer (Lolita), cancer.
• Elliott Kastner, 80, American film producer (Where Eagles Dare), cancer.
• Harry Klein, 81, British jazz saxophonist.
• Noel Marshall, 79, American film director and producer.
• Serigne Mouhamadou Lamine Bara Mbacké, 85, Senegalese Grand Marabout of the Mourides.
• Denny Moyer, 70, American boxer.
• Gordon Mulholland, 89, British actor.
• Park Yong-ha, 32, South Korean actor and singer, suicide by hanging.