Deaths in January 2010
Introduction The following is a list of notable '''deaths in January 2010'''.Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:* Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
January 2010 ===1===*Gary Brockette, 62, American actor (''The Last Picture Show'') and assistant director, cancer. *Chauncey H. Browning, Jr., 75, American politician, West Virginia Attorney General (1969–1985). *Jean Carroll, 98, American comedian (''The Ed Sullivan Show''). *Periyasamy Chandrasekaran, 52, Sri Lankan politician, Member of Parliament, after short illness. *Lhasa de Sela, 37, American singer, breast cancer. *Michael Dwyer, 58, Irish journalist and film critic, lung cancer. *Alfredo Mario Espósito Castro, 82, Argentinian Roman Catholic Bishop of Zárate-Campana (1976–1991). *John Freeman, 93, American animator (''The Smurfs'') and animation director (''My Little Pony and Friends''). *Bingo Gazingo, 85, American performance poet, struck by car. *Adrien Gilbert, 78, Canadian Olympic weightlifter*Richard Kindleberger, 67, American newspaper reporter (''The Boston Globe''), brain tumor. *John Lyon, 58, British cricketer. *Jack Middleton, 92, British Olympic swimmer. *Tetsuo Narikawa, 65, Japanese actor (''Spectreman'') and karate instructor, lung cancer. *Marlene Neubauer-Woerner, 91, German sculptor. *Libuše Patočková, 76, Czech Olympic cross-country skier. *Stanisław Przybylski, 79, Polish modern pentathlete. *Mohamed Rahmat, 71, Malaysian politician, Information Minister (1978–1982, 1987–1999). *Faisal Bin Shamlan, 75, Yemeni politician, presidential candidate (2006), cancer. *Billy Arjan Singh, 92, Indian author. *Gregory Slay, 40, American rock drummer (Remy Zero), songwriter (''Nip/Tuck'' theme), cystic fibrosis. *Freya von Moltke, 98, German World War II resistance fighter. *John Shelton Wilder, 88, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee (1971–2007), stroke. *Vera Zakharova, 89, first Yakut woman to fly a plane===2===*Johann Frank, 71, Austrian football player (FK Austria Wien). *David Gerber, 86, American executive producer (''Police Story'', ''Police Woman''), heart failure. *William Green, 82, British aviation writer. *Deborah Howell, 68, American journalist, ''The Washington Post'' ombudsman, hit by car. *René Oreel, 87, Belgian cyclist. *Augustine Paul, 65, Malaysian Federal Court judge, after chronic illness. *David R. Ross, 51, Scottish historian, heart attack. *Rajendra Shah, 96, Indian poet.===3===*Gus Alexander, 75, Scottish footballer (Workington). *Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt, 84, Chilean composer, lung cancer. *Margery Beddow, 72, American choreographer and dancer. *Barry Blair, 56, Canadian comics artist and writer, brain aneurysm. *Gianni Bonichon, 65, Italian bobsledder, Olympic silver medalist. *Otto Breg, 60, Austrian Olympic bobsledder. *Sir Ian Brownlie, 77, British barrister, traffic collision. *Joyce Collins, 79, American jazz singer and pianist, pulmonary fibrosis. *Mary Daly, 81, American radical feminist philosopher. *Francis Gillingham, 93, British neurosurgeon. *Ali Safi Golpaygani, 96, Iranian Marja', natural causes. *Billy Harris, 58, American basketball player (Northern Illinois Huskies, San Diego Conquistadors), stroke. *John Keith Irwin, 80, American sociologist. *Eunice W. Johnson, 93, American director of ''Ebony'' Fashion Fair, widow of John H. Johnson, renal failure. *Charles Kleibacker, 88, American fashion designer, pneumonia. *Georges Martin, 94, French cyclist. *Takis Michalos, 63, Greek Greece men's national water polo team water polo player and coach; cancer. *Moti Nandi, 79, Indian writer and sports journalist. *Geoffrey Reeve, 77, British film director. *Isak Rogde, 62, Norwegian translator. *Tibet, 78, French comics artist and writer. *Bobby Wilkins, 87, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).===4===*Olaug Abrahamsen, 81, Norwegian politician. *Rosalie Abrams, 88, American feminist playwright, actress and activist, Alzheimer's disease. *Paul Ahyi, 79, Togolese artist, designer of the flag of Togo. *Lew Allen, 84, American USAF general, NSA Director (1973–1977), USAF Chief of Staff (1978–1982), rheumatoid arthritis. *Knox Burger, 87, American editor, writer, and literary agent. *Neil Christian, 66, British singer, cancer. *Tony Clarke, 68, British musician and record producer (The Moody Blues), emphysema. *Sandro de América, 64, Argentinian singer, complications from heart and lung transplant surgery. *Donal Donnelly, 78, English-born Irish actor, cancer*Hywel Teifi Edwards, 75, Welsh historian and writer, after short illness. *Johan Ferrier, 99, Surinamese politician, President (1975–1980). *Tadeusz Góra, 91, Polish pilot. *Rory Markas, 54, American baseball radio announcer (Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim), heart attack. *György Mitró, 79, Hungarian Olympic swimmer. *Ludwig Wilding, 82, German artist. *Tsutomu Yamaguchi, 93, Japanese survivor of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, stomach cancer.===5===*Abdul Azim al-Deeb, 80, Qatari professor (Qatar University). *Beverly Aadland, 67, American actress, girlfriend of Errol Flynn, diabetes and heart failure. *Daniel Kubert, 62, American mathematician. *Bernard Le Nail, 63, French writer, historian, Breton language and cultural advocate, cerebral hemorrhage. *Willie Mitchell, 81, American musician and record producer, cardiac arrest. *Kenneth Noland, 85, American color field painter, kidney cancer. *Courage Quashigah, 62, Ghanaian politician. *Philippa Scott, 91, British conservationist. *George Syrimis, 88, Cypriot finance minister (1988–1993). *Toni Tecuceanu, 37, Romanian comedy actor, bacterial infection. *Rolf Thieme, 65, German Olympic hockey player. *George Willoughby, 95, American Quaker activist.===6===*Philippe Arthuys, 81, French composer and film director. *David Giles, 83, British television director. *Michael Goulder, 82, British biblical scholar. *Michael Harper, 78, British priest of the Church of England and later of the Antiochian Orthodox Church. *George Leonard, 86, American writer, editor and educator, pioneer of the Human Potential Movement, after long illness. *Graham Leonard, 88, British Church of England Bishop of London (1981–1991), subsequently a Roman Catholic priest. *Ivan Medek, 84, Czech music publicist, theorist and critic, collaborator of Václav Talich and Václav Havel. *Harriet Miller, 90, American politician, mayor of Santa Barbara, California (1995–2001). *Beniamino Placido, 80, Italian journalist and television critic. *Hervé Prouzet, 89, French cyclist*Kittu Suresh, 64, Indian cricketer.===7===*Wendall Anschutz, 71, American television newsman. *Myrtle Aydelotte, 92, American nurse, professor and hospital administrator. *Sándor Barcs, 97, Hungarian politician and sport executive, interim President of UEFA (1972–1973). *Gerald Bordelon, 47, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection. *Alexander Garnet Brown, 79, Canadian politician, member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly (1969–1978). *Bruria Kaufman, 91, Israeli physicist. *Stephen Huneck, 61, American wood carving artist, suicide by gunshot. *Kamal Mahsud, Pakistani Pashto language folk singer, gas leak. *Alex Parker, 74, Scottish football player (Falkirk, Everton, Southport, Scotland) and manager, heart attack. *Donald Edmond Pelotte, 64, American Roman Catholic Bishop of Gallup (1990–2008), first Native American bishop. *James D Robertson, 78, Scottish painter and lecturer. *Blanca Sánchez, 63, Mexican actress, kidney failure. *Philippe Séguin, 66, French politician, heart attack. *Jim White, 67, American professional wrestler, cancer. *Hardy Williams, 78, American politician, Pennsylvania State Senator (1983–1998), Alzheimer's disease.===8===*Bob Blackburn, 85, American sports commentator (Seattle SuperSonics), pneumonia. *Jean Charpentier, 74, Canadian journalist, press secretary for Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, cancer. *Art Clokey, 88, American stop motion animator (Gumby, ''Davey and Goliath''), bladder infection. *Piero De Bernardi, 83, Italian screenwriter. *Tony Halme, 47, Finnish professional boxer, actor, wrestler and Member of Parliament (2003–2007), suicide by gunshot. *Raymond Kamber, 79, Swiss Olympic sprint canoer. *Slavka Maneva, 75, Macedonian writer and poet. *Charles Massi, 57, Central African politician and rebel leader. *Monica Maughan, 76, Australian actress, cancer. *Jim Rimmer, 75, Canadian graphic designer, cancer. *Gladstone Robinson, 66, Jamaican cricketer. *Gerrit de Ruiter, 82, Dutch hockey player*Otmar Suitner, 87, Austrian conductor. *Hans L. Trefousse, 88, German-born American historian. *Amir Vahedi, 48, Iranian-born American poker player, complications of diabetes. *Sumner G. Whittier, 98, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (1953–1957).===9===*Améleté Abalo, 47, Togolese national football team assistant coach, shot. *John Ballem, 84, Canadian novelist. *Amo Bessone, 93, American ice hockey player and coach. *Juan Bidegaray, 90, Uruguayan Olympic sailor*Gösta Bredefeldt, 74, Swedish actor. *Franz-Hermann Brüner, 64, German head of OLAF, after long illness. *Acúrsio Carrelo, 78, Portuguese footballer. *Mark Ellidge, 69–70, British press photographer. *Ken Genser, 59, American politician, mayor of Santa Monica, California, after long illness. *Per N. Hagen, 73, Norwegian politician. *Rupert Hamer, 39, British journalist, defence correspondent for the ''Sunday Mirror'', improvised explosive device. *Fatimah Hashim, 85, Malaysian politician, first female minister in the Malaysian government. *Laura Chapman Hruska, 74, American writer, co-founder and editor in chief of Soho Press, cancer. *Jack Kerness, 98, American art director, natural causes. *Nadav Levitan, 64, Israeli film director and screenwriter, lung disease. *Ronald Moore, 84, Canadian politician. *Evgeni Paladiev, 61, Soviet-born Kazakh ice hockey player. *Diether Posser, 87, German politician. *Armand Razafindratandra, 84, Malagasy cardinal, archbishop of Antananarivo (1994–2005), fall. *Vimcy, 84, Indian sports writer. *Thomas Summers West, 82, Scottish chemist.===10===*Sir Donald Acheson, 83, British physician, Chief Medical Officer of England (1983–1991). *Sailadhar Baruah, 68, Indian film producer, complications of diabetes. *Mina Bern, 98, Polish-born American Yiddish theatre actor, heart failure. *Bert Bushnell, 88, British Olympic gold medal-winning rower (1948). *Carlos Bonilla Chávez, 86, Ecuadorian classical guitarist. *Simon Digby, 77, Indian-born British scholar and linguist, pancreatic cancer. *Danny Fitzgerald, 49–50, Irish hurler and Gaelic football player. *Jan C. Gabriel, 69, American race track announcer, complications from polycystic kidney disease. *Donald Goerke, 83, American executive (Campbell's Soup Company), created SpaghettiOs, heart failure. *Dick Johnson, 84, American big band clarinetist (Artie Shaw Band), after short illness. *Edward Linde, 67, American businessman, founder of Boston Properties, pneumonia. *Frances Morrell, 72, British political adviser and educationalist, cancer. *Ulf Olsson, 58, Swedish murderer, suicide by hanging. *Bill Patterson, 87, Australian racing driver, natural causes. *Jayne Walton Rosen, 92, American singer, Lawrence Welk's Champagne Lady (1940–1945), natural causes. *Moisés Saba, 47, Mexican entrepreneur, helicopter crash. *Dale Shewalter, 59, American teacher, founder of the Arizona Trail, cancer. *Mano Solo, 46, French singer, ruptured aneurysm. *Crispin Sorhaindo, 78, Dominican politician, President (1993–1998), cancer. *Bojidar Spiriev, 77, Bulgarian-born Hungarian hydrologist and statistician, creator of IAAF scoring tables. *Torbjørn Yggeseth, 75, Norwegian ski jumping athlete and official.===11===*Juliet Anderson, 71, American pornographic actress and movie producer. *Aleksandr Androshkin, 62, Soviet Ukrainian sports shooter. *Francisco Benkö, 99, German-born Argentine chess master. *Robben Wright Fleming, 93, American president of the University of Michigan (1968–1978). *Georgy Garanian, 75, Russian jazz saxophonist and bandleader, cardiac arrest. *Dorothy Geeben, 101, American mayor of Ocean Breeze Park, Florida (since 2001), oldest active mayor in the U.S.*Miep Gies, 100, Dutch humanitarian, protector of Anne Frank during World War II, complications from a fall. *Mick Green, 65, British rock and roll guitarist (Johnny Kidd & The Pirates, Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas). *Andis Hadjicostis, 43, Cypriot CEO of Sigma TV, shot. *Johnny King, 83, English footballer. *Kurt Liebhart, 76, Austrian Olympic sprint canoer. *Harry Männil, 89, Estonian-born Venezuelan businessman. *Bob Noorda, 82, Dutch-born Italian graphic designer. *Éric Rohmer, 89, French film director. *Joe Rollino, 104, American strongman, weightlifter, and boxer, struck by van. *Ed Scott, 92, American baseball scout. *Dennis Stock, 81, American photographer (Magnum Photos), colon and liver cancer. *Gordon Van Tol, 49, Canadian Olympic water polo player, heart attack.===12===*Masoud Alimohammadi, 50, Iranian nuclear scientist, bomb blast. *Miloslav Bělonožník, 91, Czech Olympic ski jumper. *Daniel Bensaïd, 63, French philosopher and Trotskyist activist. *Ken Colbung, 78, Australian Aboriginal elder, after short illness. *Shirley Bell Cole, 89, American voice actor (''Little Orphan Annie''). *Miguel Ángel de la Flor, 85, Peruvian army officer and politician. *Colin Dettmer, 51, South African cricketer. *Altan Dinçer, 77, Turkish Olympic basketball player. *Krisda Arunvongse na Ayudhya, 78, Thai architect, Governor of Bangkok (1996–2001), coronary artery disease. *Fred Krone, 79, American stuntman, cancer. *Elizabeth Laverick, 85, British engineer. *Hillis Layne, 91, American Major League Baseball player (1941, 1944–1945). *Alastair Martin, 94, American tennis player, member of the Hall of Fame, President of the United States Tennis Association (1969–1970). *Sir Allen McClay, 77, British pharmaceutical company founder, cancer. *Elizabeth Moody, 70, New Zealand actress and theatre director, pneumonia. *Ann Prentiss, 70, American actress (''Captain Nice'', ''My Stepmother Is an Alien''). *Art Rust, Jr., 82, American sports commentator, Parkinson's disease. *Hasib Sabbagh, 89, Palestinian businessman. *Vanda Skuratovich, 84, Belarusian Roman Catholic activist. *Vadú, 32, Cape Verdean singer, car accident. *Yabby You, 63, Jamaican reggae singer and producer, stroke. *Notable people killed in the 2010 Haiti earthquake:**Georges Anglade, 65, Haitian professor and cabinet minister, co-founder of Université du Québec à Montréal. **Hédi Annabi, 65, Tunisian diplomat, Head of MINUSTAH. **Zilda Arns, 75, Brazilian pediatrician and humanitarian. **Luiz Carlos da Costa, 60, Brazilian diplomat, Deputy Head of MINUSTAH. **Serge Marcil, 65, Canadian politician, Quebec National Assembly of Quebec (1985–1994), MP for Beauharnois—Salaberry (2000–2004). **Flo McGarrell, 35, Italian-born American artist. **Myriam Merlet, 53, Haitian political activist. **Joseph Serge Miot, 63, Haitian Roman Catholic archbishop of Port-au-Prince. **Jimmy O, 35, Haitian hip hop musician.===13===*Jack Block, 85, American psychologist, complications of a spinal cord injury. *Edward Brinton, 86, American marine biologist, after long illness. *Sir Robin Maxwell-Hyslop, 78, British politician, MP for Tiverton (1960–1992). *Abdullah Mehdar, Yemeni al-Qaeda terrorist, shot. *Teddy Pendergrass, 59, American soul singer, complications from colorectal cancer. *Jay Reatard, 29, American garage punk musician, cocaine toxicity. *Tommy Sloan, 84, Scottish footballer (Hearts, Motherwell). *Isamu Tanonaka, 77, Japanese voice actor (''GeGeGe no Kitaro''), heart attack. *Ed Thigpen, 79, American jazz drummer, after long illness. *Edgar Vos, 78, Dutch fashion designer, heart attack.===14===*Ante Babaja, 82, Croatian film director and screenwriter. *Bobby Charles, 71, American songwriter ("See You Later, Alligator", "(I Don't Know Why) But I Do"). *Antonio Fontán, 86, Spanish politician and journalist. *Micha Gaillard, 52-53, Haitian politician, earthquake. *John F. Hayes, 90, American attorney and politician, Kansas House of Representatives (1953–1955; 1967–1979). *Mark Jones, 70, British actor (''The Empire Strikes Back'', ''Doctor Who'', ''Buccaneer''). *Guðmundur Lárusson, 84, Icelandic Olympic sprinter. *Charles Nolte, 86, American actor, playwright and educator, prostate cancer. *Otto, 20, British dachshund-terrier, world's oldest dog, euthanised following stomach tumour.*P. K. Page, 93, Canadian poet. *Chilton Price, 96, American songwriter ("Slow Poke", "You Belong to Me"). *Phoebe Prince, 15, Irish student at South Hadley High School, Massachusetts, bullying victim, suicide by hanging. *Marika Rivera, 90, French actress, daughter of Diego Rivera. *James W. Rutherford, 84, American mayor of Flint, Michigan (1975–1983, 2002–2003). *Katharina Rutschky, 68, German educationalist and author. *Petra Schürmann, 74, German television presenter, Miss World 1956, after long illness. *Jessie Tait, 81, British ceramic designer. *Antonio Vilaplana Molina, 83, Spanish Roman Catholic Bishop of León (1987–2002), renal failure. *Bernie Voorheis, 87, American basketball player. *Rowland Wolfe, 95, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1932) gymnast.===15===*Asim Butt, 31, Pakistani artist (Stuckism art movement), suicide by hanging. *Florence-Marie Cooper, 69, American federal judge, District Court for Central District of California (since 1999), lymphoma. *Michael Creeth, 85, British biochemist. *Bahman Jalali, 65, Iranian photographer, pancreatic cancer. *Detlev Lauscher, 57, German footballer. *Steve Lovelady, 66, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, throat cancer. *Mike Osborn, 92, British military officer. *Marshall Warren Nirenberg, 82, American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (1968), cancer. *Peter Thomson, 73, Australian Anglican theologian, mentor to Tony Blair.===16===*Glen Bell, 86, American entrepreneur, founder of Taco Bell. *Judi Chamberlin, 65, American anti-psychiatry activist, lung disease. *Guy Day, 79, American advertising executive. *Sam Dixon, 60, American minister, Deputy General Secretary of UMCOR (since 2007), earthquake. *Robert Gerard, 89, Belgian footballer *Musa Inuwa, 62, Nigerian politician. *George Jellinek, 90, American radio personality (WQXR). *Felice Quinto, 80, Italian photographer. *Takumi Shibano, 83, Japanese novelist, pneumonia. *Carl Smith, 82, American country singer-songwriter ("Hey Joe"), after long illness. *Bernie Weintraub, 76, American talent agent, co-founder of the Paradigm Talent Agency. *Jimmy Wyble, 87, American guitarist, heart failure. *Katsuhisa Shibata, 66, Japanese professional wrestler, heart failure.===17===*Gaines Adams, 26, American football player (Chicago Bears, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), cardiac arrest. *Maki Asakawa, 67, Japanese singer, heart failure. *Jyoti Basu, 95, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (1977–2000), complications from pneumonia. *Thomas F. Cowan, 82, American politician, New Jersey State Senator (1984–1994). *Daisuke Gōri, 57, Japanese voice actor (''Dragon Ball'', ''Kinnikuman'', ''Mobile Suit Gundam''), suicide by wrist cutting. *Béla Köpeczi, 88, Hungarian historian and politician, Minister of Education (1982–1988). *Michalis Papakonstantinou, 91, Greek politician and author, Minister for Foreign Affairs (1992–1993). *Erich Segal, 72, American professor, author (''Love Story''), and screenwriter ''(Yellow Submarine''), heart attack.===18===*Ghulam Rabbani Agro, 76, Pakistani writer.*K. S. Ashwath, 84, Indian actor, multiple organ failure. *Cyril Burke, 84, Australian rugby union player. *Herb Grosch, 91, Canadian-born American computer scientist. *Kate McGarrigle, 63, Canadian folk singer, clear-cell sarcoma. *Günter Mielke, 67, German Olympic athlete. *Gladys Morcom, 91, British Olympic swimmer. *Imari Obadele, 79, American black separatist, stroke. *Reha Oğuz Türkkan, 90, Turkish writer. *Kevin O'Shea, 62, Canadian ice hockey player (St. Louis Blues, Buffalo Sabres). *Robert B. Parker, 77, American detective writer (Spenser series, Jesse Stone novels), heart attack. *Jörgen Philip-Sörensen, 71, Danish businessman, after long illness. *Robert D. Rowley, 68, American Episcopal Bishop of Northwestern Pennsylvania (1991–2007). *Josephus Tethool, 75, Indonesian Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of Amboina (1982–2009). *Celestino Tugot, 99, Filipino golfer, winner of the Philippine Open (1949, 1955–1958, 1962), lung cancer.===19===*Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, 50, Palestinian leader of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, murdered. *Frances Buss Buch, 92, American first female television director. *Christos Chatziskoulidis, 58, Greek footballer (Egaleo F.C. ), cancer. *Ian Christie, 82, British jazz clarinetist. *Tom Cochran, 85, American football player (Washington Redskins). *Dan Fitzgerald, 67, American college basketball coach (Gonzaga). *Vladimir Karpov, 87, Russian writer, Chairman of the USSR Union of Writers (1986–1991). *Jennifer Lyon, 37, American reality TV personality (''Survivor: Palau''), breast cancer. *Ida Mae Martinez, 78, American professional wrestler. *Bill McLaren, 86, Scottish rugby union commentator. *Panajot Pano, 70, Albanian footballer. *Cerge Remonde, 51, Filipino journalist and politician, heart attack. *Kalthoum Sarrai, 47, Tunisian-born French television presenter (''Supernanny''), cancer. *William Vitarelli, 99, American educator and architect.===20===*Enid Campbell, 77, Australian legal scholar. *Tony Cummins, 103, Irish Roman Catholic priest. *Patricia Donoho Hughes, 79, American First Lady of Maryland (1979–1987), wife of Harry Hughes, Parkinson's disease. *John S. Loisel, 89, American fighter ace. *Bob Minton, 63, American-born Irish banker, critic of Scientology, heart ailment. *John Francis Moore, 68, Nigerian Roman Catholic Bishop of Bauchi (since 2003). *Jack Parry, 86, Welsh footballer (Swansea Town, Ipswich Town, Wales). *John Pawle, 94, English cricketer. *Derek Prag, 86, British politician, MEP for Hertfordshire (1979–1994). *Wallace Michael Ross, 89, British organist and choirmaster. *Abraham Sutzkever, 96, Polish-born Israeli poet. *Lynn Taitt, 75, Jamaican reggae guitarist, cancer.===21===*Sayeed Ahmed, 79, Bangladeshi playwright. *Orhan Alp, 90, Turkish engineer and politician. *Bobby Bragan, 92, American baseball player and manager, heart attack. *Irwin Dambrot, 81, American basketball player involved in the CCNY Point Shaving Scandal, Parkinson's disease. *Lawrence Garfinkel, 88, American epidemiologist, cardiovascular disease. *Knud Gleie, 74, Danish Olympic swimmer. *Larry Johnson, 62, American film producer, heart attack. *Chindodi Leela, 72, Indian theatre and film actress, complications from heart attack. *Robert "Squirrel" Lester, 67, American smooth soul tenor (The Chi-Lites), liver cancer. *Hal Manders, 92, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers). *Jacques Martin, 88, French comics artist and writer. *Camille Maurane, 98, French baritone singer. *Guillermo Abadía Morales, 97, Colombian folklore researcher, indigenous language expert, natural causes. *Curt Motton, 69, American baseball player, stomach cancer. *Paul Quarrington, 56, Canadian novelist, musician and screenwriter, lung cancer.===22===*Apache, 45, American rapper, after long illness. *Lenna Arnold, 89, American baseball player (AAGPBL)*Donnis Churchwell, 73, American football player. *Sir Percy Cradock, 86, British diplomat, after short illness. *Sir Dermot de Trafford, 85, British aristocrat and businessman. *Clayton Gerein, 45, Canadian wheelchair sports athlete, seven-time Paralympian, brain tumor. *Claus Gerson, 92, American Olympic hockey player. *Louis R. Harlan, 87, American Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, after long illness. *Iskandar of Johor, 77, Malaysian Yang di-Pertuan Agong (1984–1989), Sultan of Johor (1981–2010). *Jennifer Lyn Jackson, 40, American ''Playboy'' model, drug overdose. *Andrew E. Lange, 52, American astrophysicist, Big Bang researcher, suicide by asphyxiation. *Juan Pedro Laporte, 64, Guatemalan archaeologist. *Janeshwar Mishra, 76, Indian politician, cardiac arrest. *James Mitchell, 89, American actor (''All My Children''), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. *Private Terms, 25, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized. *Gordon Richardson, Baron Richardson of Duntisbourne, 94, British Governor of the Bank of England (1973–1983). *Godfrey A. Rockefeller, 85, American aviator and conservationist. *Johnny Seven, 83, American actor (''Ironside''), lung cancer. *Jean Simmons, 80, British-born American actress (''Hamlet'', ''Spartacus''), lung cancer. *Ruth P. Smith, 102, American pro-choice campaigner. *Tuanaitau F. Tuia, 89, American Samoan politician and legislator, longest serving member of the American Samoa Fono. *Betty Wilson, 88, Australian cricketer. *Tom Wittum, 60, American football player (San Francisco 49ers), cancer.===23===*George C. Baldwin, 92, American physicist. *Haren S. Gandhi, 68, Indian-born American inventor and engineer. *Robert Lam, 64, Malaysian news presenter, skin cancer. *Douglas J. Martin, 82, New Zealand leader in the LDS Church. *Sam Match, 87, American tennis player. *Roger Pierre, 86, French actor (''Mon oncle d'Amérique''), cancer. *Sir Thomas Prickett, 96, British RAF Air Chief Marshal. *Kermit Tyler, 96, American pilot, figured in the attack on Pearl Harbor, complications from strokes. *Oleg Velyky, 32, Ukrainian-born German handball player, melanoma. *Earl Wild, 94, American classical pianist, heart failure.===24===*Boydson Baird, 91, American basketball player. *Lawrence Aloysius Burke, 77, Jamaican Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kingston (2004–2008), Nassau (1981–2004), cancer. *Thomas Cullinan, 63, South African cricketer. *Donald Dowd, 87, American campaign aide to the Kennedy family. *Ghazali Shafie, 87, Malaysian politician, Home Minister (1973–1981) and Foreign Minister (1981–1984). *Irshad Ahmed Haqqani, 81, Pakistani journalist and politician. *Robert Mosbacher, 82, American politician, Secretary of Commerce (1989–1992), pancreatic cancer. *Leonid Nechayev, 70, Russian film director, stroke. *Jim Podoley, 76, American football player (Washington Redskins), melanoma. *James Henry Quello, 95, American government official, FCC Commissioner (1974–1997), heart and kidney failure. *FitzRoy Somerset, 5th Baron Raglan, 82, British aristocrat. *Pernell Roberts, 81, American actor (''Bonanza''; ''Trapper John, M.D. ''), pancreatic cancer. *Peter Wood, 74, Australian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland (1966–1974).===25===*Ali Hassan al-Majid, 68, Iraqi military commander and government minister, execution by hanging. *Sefis Anastasakos, 68, Greek politician, author, lawyer and activist, cancer. *Lynn Bayonas, 66, Australian television writer and producer, cancer. *Orlando Cole, 101, American classical cellist and educator. *Horace Weldon Gilmore, 91, American federal judge. *Jane Jarvis, 94, American jazz pianist and organist. *Pádraig MacKernan, 69, Irish diplomat, Secretary General (Foreign Affairs), Ambassador to France and United States. *Georgiann Makropoulos, 67, American professional wrestling historian and author, heart attack. *Iivari Malmikoski, 82, Finnish Olympic boxer. *Charles Mathias, 87, American politician, Senator from Maryland (1969–1987), complications of Parkinson's disease. *Gordon Park, 66, British convicted murderer, apparent suicide by hanging. *Algirdas Petrulis, 95, Lithuanian painter. *Ivan Prenđa, 70, Croatian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Zadar (since 1990). *Bill Ritchie, 78, Scottish comic book artist. *Emilio Vieyra, 88, Argentine film director, actor, screenwriter and producer.===26===*Andon Amaraich, 77, Micronesian Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, pneumonia. *Louis Auchincloss, 92, American novelist, complications of a stroke. *Juliusz Bardach, 95, Polish historian. *Boa Sr., 85, Indian Great Andamanese elder, last speaker of the Bo language. *Geoffrey Burbidge, 84, British-born American astrophysicist, after long illness. *Anne Froelick, 96, American blacklisted screenwriter. *Dag Frøland, 64, Norwegian comedian, singer and variety artist. *Gummadi, 82, Indian actor. *Paul R. Jones, 81, American art collector, after short illness. *Eugenijus Karpavičius, 56, Lithuanian illustrator. *Inda Ledesma, 83, Argentine actress, cardiac arrest. *Ajmer Singh, 69, Indian athlete and educator. *Paul Mbiybe Verdzekov, 79, Cameroonian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bamenda (1970–2006). *Ken Walters, 76, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).===27===*Harry Alger, 85, Canadian politician. *Lee Archer, 90, American Air Force pilot (Tuskegee Airman). *Barry Blitzer, 80, American television writer (''Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. '', ''The Flintstones'', ''The Jetsons''), complications from abdominal surgery. *Betty Lou Keim, 71, American actress, lung cancer. *Ruben Kruger, 39, South African rugby union player, brain tumor. *Eduardo Michaelsen, 89, Cuban exile, painter in the naive art style. *Shirley Collie Nelson, 78, American country singer, ex-wife of Willie Nelson. *Zelda Rubinstein, 76, American actress (''Poltergeist'', ''Picket Fences''), natural causes.*J. D. Salinger, 91, American author (''The Catcher in the Rye''), natural causes. *Howard Zinn, 87, American historian (''A People's History of the United States''), civil rights and anti-war activist, heart attack.===28===*A.K.M. Mohiuddin Ahmed, Bangladesh Army officer, hanged. *Mohammad-Reza Ali-Zamani, app. 38, Iranian activist, hanging. *Frank Baker Jr., 66, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians), heart failure. *Larbi Belkheir, 72, Algerian major general, Interior Minister (1991). *Bill Binder, 94, American restaurateur (Phillippe's). *Eduardo Catalano, 92, Argentine architect. *Patricia Clarke, 90, British biochemist. *José Eugênio Corrêa, 95, Brazilian Roman Catholic Bishop of Caratinga (1957–1978). *Margaret Dale, 87, British dancer and television director. *Walter Fondren, 73, American football player and conservationist, heart failure. *George Hanlon, 92, Australian horse trainer, three-time Melbourne Cup winner, natural causes. *Mick Higgins, 87, Irish Gaelic footballer, All-Ireland Senior Football Championship winner (Cavan; 1947, 1948, 1952). *Wilfriede Hoffmann, 77, German Olympic athlete. *Mohammad Bazlul Huda, Bangladeshi army officer and assassin of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, hanged. *Alistair Hulett, 57, Scottish-born Australian folk singer, liver failure. *Robert Joffe, 66, American lawyer, pancreatic cancer. *Patricia Leonard, 73, British contralto, throat cancer. *Kazimierz Mijal, 99, Polish politician. *Bud Millikan, 89, American basketball coach (University of Maryland). *Sarah Mulvey, 34, British television producer (Channel 4), suspected suicide. *Arash Rahmanipour, app. 20, Iranian activist, hanging. *Seymour Sarason, 91, American psychologist. *Keiko Tobe, 52, Japanese manga artist (''With the Light''), mesothelioma.===29===*Evgeny Agranovich, 91, Russian composer and bard. *Elsa Bakalar, 90–91, English-born American garden designer. *Tom Brookshier, 78, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles), coach and sportscaster (CBS Sports, WCAU), cancer. *Adam Alexander Dawson, 96, British film editor. *Eric Freiwald, 82, American television writer (''The Young and the Restless''). *Georgelle Hirliman, 73, American performance artist, cancer. *Sir Derek Hodgkinson, 92, British air chief marshal. *Tom Howard, 59, American musician, heart attack. *Ralph McInerny, 80, American philosopher (University of Notre Dame) and mystery author (''Father Dowling Mysteries''). *Ram Niwas Mirdha, 85, Indian politician (Lok Sabha), minister and speaker (Rajasthan Legislative Assembly), multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. *Wilf Paish, 77, British athletics coach, after long illness. *Mikael Reuterswärd, 45, Swedish adventurer, first Swede to reach summit of Mount Everest (body found on this date). *Karen Schmeer, 39, American documentary film editor (''The Fog of War''), vehicular hit-and-run. *Zahid Sheikh, 60, Pakistani Olympic silver medal-winning (1972) field hockey player. *Cameron Snyder, 93, American sports journalist (''The Baltimore Sun''), won Dick McCann Memorial Award (1982), lung cancer. *Eckart Viehweg, 61, German mathematician, after short illness.===30===*Rafet Angın, 94, Turkish teacher. *Erna Baumbauer, 91, German casting agent. *Ruth Cohn, 97, German psychotherapist. *Lucienne Day, 93, British textile designer. *Ron Giles, 90, English cricketer (Nottinghamshire). *Sølve Grotmol, 70, Norwegian sports commentator. *Bruce Mitchell, 90, Australian academic. *Ursula Mommens, 101, British potter. *Brahmananda Panda, 61, Indian politician. *Guy Renwick, 73, British Olympic bobsledder. *Aaron Ruben, 95, American television producer (''Andy Griffith Show'', ''Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C. '', ''Sanford and Son''), pneumonia. *Tan Eng Yoon, 82, Singaporean Olympic sprinter.===31===*Gunnar Aksnes, 83, Norwegian chemist and poet. *Kage Baker, 57, American science fiction and fantasy author, uterine cancer. *Pauly Fuemana, 40, New Zealand musician (OMC), after short illness. *Henry Fukuhara, 96, American watercolor painter, natural causes. *Patricia Gage, 69, British actress and voice actress. *Jiří Havlis, 77, Czech Olympic gold medal-winning (1952) rower. *Albert Huie, 89, Jamaican painter. *Edith Josie, 88, Canadian columnist, natural causes. *Viktor Kaisiepo, 61, Netherlands New Guinean-born Dutch activist for West Papuan independence. *Thorleif Karlsen, 100, Norwegian police inspector, politician and radio host, natural causes. *Sanna Kiero, 79, Finnish Olympic cross-country skier. *Howard Lotsof, 66, American researcher, discovered anti-addictive effects of ibogaine, liver cancer. *Tomás Eloy Martínez, 75, Argentine writer and journalist, brain tumor. *Shizuka Miura, Japanese ball-jointed doll maker and musician, suicide. *John Norris, 76, British-born Canadian publisher (''Coda''), heart condition. *Keith Norton, 69, Canadian politician, former MPP for Kingston and the Islands (1975–1985), cancer. *Paddie O'Neil, 83, British actress and singer. *Phil Smith, 63, Australian football player, cancer. *Pierre Vaneck, 78, French actor (''The Science of Sleep''), complications of heart surgery.
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