Austrian politician (b. 1950) October 13 Alexei Cherepanov, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1989) Guillaume Depardieu, French actor (b. 1971) Antonio José González Zumárraga, Ecuadorian cardinal (b. 1925) October 15 Edie Adams, American actress, singer, and businesswoman (b. 1927) Wang Yung-ching, Taiwanese entrepreneur (b. 1917) October 20 – Sœur Emmanuelle, Belgian-born French nun (b. 1908) October 25 Federico Luzzi, Italian tennis player (b. 1980) Muslim Magomayev, Azerbaijani singer (b. 1942) Estelle Reiner, American actress and singer (b. 1914) October 26 – Tony Hillerman, American writer (b. 1925) October 29 – William Wharton, American author (b. 1925) October 31 – Studs Terkel, American author and liberal commentator (b. 1912) November November 1 Jimmy Carl Black, American drummer (b. 1938) Jacques Piccard, Swiss explorer and engineer (b. 1922) Yma Sumac, Peruvian soprano (b. 1923) November 4 Michael Crichton, American author and producer (b. 1942) Juan Camilo Mouriño, Mexican politician (b. 1971) November 6 – Larry James, American athlete (b. 1947) November 8 – Mieczysław Rakowski, Polish politician, historian, and journalist (b. 1926) November 9 – Miriam Makeba, South African singer and civil rights activist (b. 1932) November 10 – Kiyosi Itô, Japanese mathematician (b. 1915) November 12 – Mitch Mitchell, English drummer (b. 1946) November 14 – Tsvetanka Khristova, Bulgarian athlete (b. 1962) November 22 – Ibrahim Nasir, second president of the Maldives (b. 1926) November 26 – Edna Parker, American supercentenarian (b. 1893) November 27 – V. P. Singh, seventh prime minister of India (b. 1931) November 29 – Jørn Utzon, Danish architect (b. 1918) December December 1 Paul Benedict, American actor (b. 1938) Mikel Laboa, Basque singer and songwriter (b. 1934) December 2 Frank Crean, Australian politician (b. 1916) Odetta, American singer (b. 1930) December 5 Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow, Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church (b. 1928) Nina Foch, Dutch-born American actress (b. 1924) Beverly Garland, American actress (b. 1926) December 8 – Robert Prosky, American actor (b. 1930) December 9 Yury Glazkov, Russian cosmonaut (b. 1939) Dražan Jerković, Croatian footballer and manager (b. 1936) December 11 Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, American physician and Nobel laureate (b. 1923) Bettie Page, American pin-up model (b. 1923) Maddie Blaustein, American voice actress and comic writer (b. 1960) December 12 Avery Dulles, American cardinal (b. 1918) Van Johnson, American actor (b. 1916) Tassos Papadopoulos, fifth president of Cyprus (b. 1934) December 13 – Horst Tappert, German actor (b. 1923) December 15 –