Deaths in March 2010

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

March 2010

1

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

2

• Francisco Ada, 75, Northern Mariana Islands politician, first Lieutenant Governor (1978–1982).
• Syed Ali, 67, Indian Olympic gold medal-winning (1964) field hockey player.
• Josef Allerberger, 85, Austrian World War II sniper. (German)
• Melva Blancett, 85, American actress.
• Judith Bumpus, 70, British arts radio producer.
• Winston Churchill, 69, British politician, MP for Stretford (1970–1983) and Davyhulme (1983–1997), prostate cancer.
• Paul Drayton, 70, American athlete, 1964 Olympic gold and silver medalist, cancer.
• Emil Forselius, 35, Swedish actor, suicide. (Swedish)
• Jón Hnefill Aðalsteinsson, 82, Icelandic scholar. (Icelandic)
• Don Kent, 92, American meteorologist (WBZ-TV), natural causes.
• Ibragim Khasanov, 72, Russian Olympic sprint canoer. (Russian)
• Charles B. Moore, 89, American physicist, engineer and meteorologist.
• Geoff Myburgh, 81, South African Olympic sailor.
• Omar Pound, 83, American writer and translator.

3

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

4

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

5

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

6

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

7

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

8

• Albert P. Clark, 96, American Air Force officer.
• Tony Imi, 72, British cinematographer.
• David Kimche, 82, Israeli diplomat, Mossad spy (1953–1980), brain cancer.
• Vit Klemes, 77, Czech-born Canadian hydrologist.
• Guy Lapébie, 93, French road bicycle racer. (German)
• Benjamin Rubin, 93, American microbiologist, inventor of the bifurcated vaccination needle.
• Jerry E. Smith, 59, American author, pancreatic cancer.
• Gale Thomson, 90, American First Lady of New Hampshire (1973–1979), wife of Meldrim Thomson, Jr., heart failure. 's+sons%2C+state+officials+pay+tribute+to+her+grace+and+service&articleId=69915192-f2aa-475f-8af2-54d36114b081
• Mahama Johnson Traoré, 68, Senegalese film director, after long illness.
• Georgiy Zatsepin, 92, Russian astrophysicist. (Russian)

9

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

10

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

11

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

12

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

13

• Jerry Adler, 91, American harmonicist, prostate cancer.
• Sir Michael Angus, 79, British businessman, Chairman of Unilever (1986–1992).
• Sir Ian Axford, 76, New Zealand space scientist, after long illness.
• Jean Ferrat, 79, French singer, cancer.
• Momcilo Gavrić, 71, Croatian-born American football player (San Francisco 49ers).
• He Pingping, 21, Chinese dwarf, shortest man who was able to walk, heart complications.
• Terry Heffernan, 58, New Zealand politician, cancer.
• Édouard Kargu, 84, French footballer. (French)
• Cliff Livingston, 79, American football player (N.Y. Giants) and stuntman, complications from dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson's disease.
• Leon Manley, 83, Canadian football player (Edmonton Eskimos).
• Andrzej Marcinkowski, 81, Polish lawyer and politician, acting Minister of Justice (1991), after long illness. (Polish)
• Neville Meade, 61, Jamaican-born British boxer.
• Gary Mittelholtz, 55, Canadian journalist (CBC Radio), heart attack.
• Fouad Zakariyya, 82/3, Egyptian philosopher.

14

• Chimen Abramsky, 93, British historian, expert in Jewish studies and Hebrew literature.
• Nahúm Elí Palacios Arteaga, 36, Honduran journalist and television news director, shot.
• Carmen Capalbo, 84, American theater director, emphysema.
• Junior Collins, 82, American horn player.
• Corsica Joe, 90, American professional wrestler.
• Cherie DeCastro, 87, American singer (The DeCastro Sisters), pneumonia.
• Edmund Dinis, 85, American prosecutor, investigated Chappaquiddick incident, complications of treatment for lymphoma.
• Pat Fanning, 91, Irish hurler (Waterford), President of the Gaelic Athletic Association (1970–1973).
• Peter Graves, 83, American actor (Mission: Impossible, Airplane!), heart attack.
• Vinda Karandikar, 91, Indian poet and writer, after short illness.
• Arnold Loxam, 93, British organist.
• Konrad Ruhland, 78, German musicologist. (German)
• Felipe Sapag, 93, Argentine politician. (Spanish)
• Der Scutt, 75, American architect (Trump Tower, One Astor Plaza, Reading Public Museum), liver failure.
• Janet Simpson, 65, British Olympic track and field athlete, heart attack.
• Altie Taylor, 62, American football player (Detroit Lions).
• Buddy Tudor, 74, American businessman, cancer.
• Lisle Wilson, 66, American actor.

15

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

16

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

17

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

18

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

19

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

20

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

21

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

22

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

23

• Edith Barney, 87, American baseball player.
• Midge Costanza, 77, American social and political activist, advisor to President Jimmy Carter, cancer.
• Alan King-Hamilton, 105, British judge.
• Lauretta Masiero, 80, Italian actress. (Italian)
• Jiro Nagasawa, 78, Japanese Olympic swimmer and national coach, throat cancer.
• Wayne Patrick, 63, American football player (Buffalo Bills), kidney disease.
• Kaljo Põllu, 75, Estonian artist. (Estonian)
• Kanu Sanyal, 78, Indian revolutionary, Naxal leader, suicide by hanging.
• Alex Seith, 75, American politician.
• Sulaiman Daud, 77, Malaysian politician, minister (1981–1999), liver cancer.
• Blanche Thebom, 94, American mezzo-soprano, pneumonia.
• James Williamson, 26, Australian mountain biker and journalist.
• Marva Wright, 62, American blues singer, complications from a stroke.

24

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

25

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

26

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

27

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

28

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

29

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

30

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

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