# Deaths in October 2009
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The following is a list of deaths in October 2009.
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.

## October 2009
### 1

* Otar Chiladze, 76, Georgian writer, heart failure.
* André-Philippe Futa, 66, Congolese politician, Minister of the Economy and Foreign Trade (since 2002).
* Gunnar Haarberg, 92, Norwegian television presenter.
* Syed Kamal, 72, Pakistani actor.
* Lou Moro, 91, Canadian soccer player and coach.
* V. M. Muddiah, 80, Indian cricketer, stroke.
* Bhandit Rittakol, 58, Thai film director, producer and screenwriter, heart failure.
* Cintio Vitier, 88, Cuban poet.

### 2

* Alain Bernheim, 86, French-born American film producer, complications from dialysis.
* Marek Edelman, 86, Polish political and social activist, cardiologist, last surviving leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
* Jack Evans, 80, Australian politician, Senator (1983–1984), co-founder of the Australian Democrats, cancer.
* Nat Finkelstein, 76, American photographer and photojournalist.
* Jørgen Jensen, 65, Danish Olympic runner.
* John "Mr. Magic" Rivas, 53, American radio personality, heart attack.
* Saleh Meki, 61, Eritrean cabinet minister and politician, heart attack.
* Peg Mullen, 92, American author, subject of film Friendly Fire.
* Desmond Plummer, Baron Plummer of St. Marylebone, 95, British politician, leader of Greater London Council (1967–1973).
* Rolf Rüssmann, 58, German football manager, prostate cancer.
* Herman D. Stein, 92, American professor (Case Western Reserve University).
* Harvey Veniot, 93, Canadian MLA for Pictou West (1956–1974), Speaker of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly (1961–1968).
* Shaun Wylie, 96, British mathematician and World War II codebreaker.

### 3

* Aleksandre Basilaia, 67, Georgian composer.
* Vladimir Beekman, 80, Estonian writer and translator.
* Fernando Caldeiro, 51, Argentine-born American astronaut, brain cancer.
* Fatimah el-Sharif, 98, Libyan Queen of Libya (1951–1969), widow of King Idris I.
* Myrtle K. Hilo, 80, Hawaiian taxicab driver and radio personality.
* Will Inman, 86, American poet, Parkinson's disease.
* Robert Kirby, 61, British folk rock arranger.
* Ernie Lopez, 64, American boxer, complications from dementia.
* Reinhard Mohn, 88, German entrepreneur and publisher, founder of Bertelsmann Foundation.
* Michel Nédélec, 69, French Olympic cyclist.
* Vasile Louis Puscas, 94, American Bishop of St George's in Canton in the Romanian Catholic Church.
* Frank Zoppetti, 93, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers).

### 4

* Koichi Haraguchi, 68, Japanese chief of staff, Imperial House of Japan, heart attack.
* Veikko Huovinen, 82, Finnish writer.
* Fred Kaan, 80, Dutch-born British clergyman and hymn writer.
* Gerhard Kaufhold, 80, German footballer.
* Grace Keagy, 87, American actress, ovarian cancer.
* Ernő Kolczonay, 56, Hungarian Olympic silver medal-winning fencer (1980, 1992).
* James Lin Xili, 91, Chinese underground first Bishop of Wenzhou (since 1992), Alzheimer's disease.
* Shōichi Nakagawa, 56, Japanese politician, Minister of Finance (2008–2009).
* Nikiforos of Didymoteicho, 78, Greek bishop of Didymoteicho.
* Günther Rall, 91, German Luftwaffe flying ace during World War II, heart attack.
* Mercedes Sosa, 74, Argentinian folk singer, liver failure.
* Bronisław Żurakowski, 98, Polish aerospace engineer.

### 5

* Armando Acosta Cordero, 88, Cuban guerrilla.
* Tommy Capel, 87, English footballer (Nottingham Forest).
* Leon Clarke, 76, American football player (Los Angeles Rams), pancreatitis.
* James Duesenberry, 91, American economist.
* Ron Finley, 76, American football coach (Campbellsville Tigers).
* Israel Gelfand, 96, Russian mathematician.
* Gino Giugni, 82, Italian minister of labor and social security (1993–1994).
* Giselher Klebe, 84, German composer.
* David Lake, 66, American winemaker.
* Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones, 87, British classical scholar.
* Brian Powell, 35, American baseball player, suicide by gunshot.
* René Sommer, 58, Swiss inventor, co-inventor of the computer mouse.
* Johnny Williams, 77, English rugby union player.

### 6

* Jimmy Bates, 99, Australian football player, oldest living Australian Football League player.
* Pamela Blake, 94, American actress, natural causes.
* Douglas Campbell, 87, Scottish-born Canadian actor, complications of diabetes and heart disease.
* Raymond Federman, 81, French-born American writer and academic, cancer.
* Aengus Finucane, 77, Irish priest, chief executive of Concern Worldwide (1981–1997).
* Pyarelal Khandelwal, 84, Indian politician, cancer.
* Ruth L. Kirschstein, 82, American pathologist.
* Werner Maihofer, 90, German Minister of the Interior (1974–1978).
* Donna Mae Mims, 82, American race driver, first female SCCA champion, stroke.
* Ramanna Rai, 79, Indian politician.
* Gilberto Zaldívar, 75, American founder of the Repertorio Español, complications of dementia with Lewy bodies.

### 7

* Ben Ali, 82, American restaurateur (Ben's Chili Bowl), heart failure.
* Bikram Keshari Deo, 58, Indian politician, cardiac arrest.
* Irving Penn, 92, American fashion photographer (Vogue).
* Shelby Singleton, 77, American record producer and record label owner (Sun Records), brain cancer.
* Helen Watts, 81, British contralto.
* Pedro E. Zadunaisky, 91, Argentinian astronomer and mathematician.

### 8

* Gordon Boyd, 86, British-born Australian television personality.
* James Delgrosso, 66, American politician, mayor of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (2003–2004), leukemia.
* Gerald Ferguson, 72, American-born Canadian artist.
* Juan Carlos Mareco, 83, Uruguayan actor.
* Alex McCrae, 89, Scottish football player (Middlesbrough) and manager (Falkirk).
* Torsten Reißmann, 53, German Olympic judoka.
* Jean Sage, 68, French racing driver, former sporting director of the Renault F1 team.
* Michael Angelo Saltarelli, 77, American Roman Catholic Bishop of Wilmington (1995–2008), bone cancer.
* Abu Talib, 70, American blues musician, cancer.
* Sir Sydney Walling, 102, Antiguan cricketer.

### 9

* Arne Bakker, 79, Norwegian football and bandy player.
* Francis Baldacchino, 73, Maltese-born Bishop of Malindi, Kenya.
* Raymond A. Brown, 94, American lawyer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
* Aldo Buzzi, 99, Italian author and architect.
* Arturo "Zambo" Cavero, 68, Peruvian folk singer, complications from sepsis.
* Jacques Chessex, 75, Swiss author, first non-French recipient of the Prix Goncourt, heart attack.
* Anne Friedberg, 57, American professor (USC School of Cinematic Arts), colorectal cancer
* Vyacheslav Ivankov, 69, Russian crime figure, gunshot wounds.
* Stuart M. Kaminsky, 75, American mystery writer, hepatitis.
* Barry Letts, 84, British television actor, director and producer (Doctor Who).
* John Daido Loori, 78, American Zen Buddhist monk, lung cancer.
* Hermann Raich, 75, Austrian Roman Catholic Bishop of Wabag (1982–2008).
* Louis Sanmarco, 97, French administrator, governor (1954–1957) and High Commissioner (1957–1958) of Ubangi-Shari.
* Richard Sonnenfeldt, 86, German-born American interpreter at the Nuremberg Trials, complications from a stroke.
* Dré Steemans, 55, Belgian television and radio host, cardiac arrest.
* Horst Szymaniak, 75, German footballer.
* Rusty Wier, 65, American country music singer-songwriter, cancer.

### 10

* Luis Aguilé, 73, Argentine singer and songwriter, stomach cancer.
* Paul Bloom, 70, American lawyer, recovered $6 billion for the Department of Energy, pancreatic cancer.
* Sonny Bradshaw, 83, Jamaican jazz musician, stroke.
* Stephen Gately, 33, Irish pop singer (Boyzone), pulmonary edema.
* Larry Jansen, 89, American baseball player (New York Giants, Cincinnati Reds), heart failure and pneumonia.
* Joan Orenstein, 85, British-born Canadian actress.
* Lionel Pincus, 78, American businessman, founder of Warburg Pincus.
* Jack Rose, 92, British WWII fighter pilot and colonial administrator.
* Carol Tomlinson-Keasey, 66, American psychologist, breast cancer.

### 11

* Joan Martí i Alanis, 80, Spanish archbishop, Bishop of Urgell and co-Prince of Andorra (1971–2003).
* Peter Callanan, 74, Irish politician, member of the Seanad (since 1997).
* Patrick Hannan, 68, British broadcaster, author and journalist.
* Gustav Kral, 26, Austrian footballer, car accident.
* Abigail McLellan, 40, Scottish artist, multiple sclerosis.
* Veronika Neugebauer, 40, German voice actress, colorectal cancer.
* Alan Peters, 76, British furniture designer.
* Halit Refiğ, 75, Turkish film director, cholangiocarcinoma.

### 12

* Samy Abu Zaid, 30, Egyptian footballer, car accident.
* Maurice Agis, 77, British sculptor.
* Dietrich von Bothmer, 90, German-born American art historian, curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
* Alberto Castagnetti, 66, Italian Olympic swimmer, complications from cardiac surgery.
* Mildred Cohn, 96, American biochemist.
* Mikheil Kalatozishvili, 50, Russian film director, script writer and producer, heart attack.
* Donald Kaufman, 79, American toy car collector, heart attack.
* Brendan Mullen, 60, American punk impresario and club owner (The Masque), stroke.
* Stan Palk, 87, English footballer (Liverpool, Port Vale).
* Dickie Peterson, 63, American rock singer (Blue Cheer), liver cancer.
* Joe Rosen, 88, American Golden Age comic book letterer.
* Frank Vandenbroucke, 34, Belgian cyclist, pulmonary embolism.
* Ian Wallace, 90, British bass-baritone singer.

### 13

* Stephen Barnett, 73, American legal scholar, opposed the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970, cardiac arrest.
* Cullen Bryant, 58, American football player (Los Angeles Rams), natural causes.
* Rodger Doxsey, 62, American physicist and astronomer, cancer.
* Richard Foster, 63, American member of the Alaska House of Representatives, heart and kidney disease.
* Eugene Maxwell Frank, 101, American bishop of The Methodist Church.
* Atle Jebsen, 73, Norwegian shipowner and businessman, traffic collision.
* William Wayne Justice, 89, American federal judge.
* Lü Zhengcao, 104, Chinese general, last survivor of the original Shang Jiang.
* Winston Mankunku Ngozi, 66, South African saxophonist
* Al Martino, 82, American singer and actor (The Godfather), first person to top the UK Singles Chart.
* Daniel Melnick, 77, American studio executive, film producer and television producer, lung cancer.
* Paul Barbă Neagră, 80, Romanian film director and essayist.
* Roger Nixon, 88, American composer, complications from leukemia.
* Nan C. Robertson, 83, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, heart disease.
* Orane Simpson, 26, Jamaican football player, stabbed.
* Richard T. Whitcomb, 88, American aeronautical engineer, pneumonia
* Werner Zandt, 81, German Olympic sprinter.

### 14

* Lou Albano, 76, American professional wrestler and manager, actor (The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!), heart attack.
* Wilf K. Backhaus, 62, Canadian role-playing game designer.
* Antônio do Carmo Cheuiche, 82, Brazilian Auxiliary Bishop of Santa Maria (1969–1971) and Porto Alegre (1971–2001).
* Fred Cress, 71, British-born Australian artist, Archibald Prize winner (1988), pancreatic cancer.
* Roy Lane, 74, British hillclimbing competitor, peritonitis.
* C. B. Muthamma, 85, Indian first female diplomat and ambassador.
* Willard Varnell Oliver, 88, American Navajo code talker.
* Martyn Sanderson, 71, New Zealand actor (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring).
* Bruce Wasserstein, 61, American investment banker and businessman, arrhythmia.
* Collin Wilcox, 74, American actress (To Kill a Mockingbird), brain cancer.
* Leo Williams, 68, Australian rugby union official.

### 15

* George P. Jenkins, 94, American chairman of Metlife, assisted expansion of ABC and Pan Am, heart failure.
* Josias Kumpf, 84, Austrian Nazi concentration camp guard.
* Elizabeth Clare Prophet, 70, American New Age religious leader, co-founder of The Summit Lighthouse, Alzheimer's disease.
* Tollak B. Sirnes, 86, Norwegian physician, psychiatrist and pharmacologist.
* George Tuska, 93, American comic book artist (Iron Man, Captain Marvel, Teen Titans).
* Heinz Versteeg, 70, Dutch football player, cancer.
* Philip L. White, 86, American historian, cancer.

### 16

* Bob Davis, 77, American politician, U.S. Representative for Michigan (1979–1993), heart and kidney failure.
* Inglis Drever, 10, British hurdles racehorse, euthanised.
* Jose Herrera, 67, Venezuelan baseball player.
* Meilė Lukšienė, 96, Lithuanian cultural historian, member of the Sąjūdis.
* Andrés Montes, 53, Spanish sports commentator.
* Marian Przykucki, 85, Polish Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archbishop of Szczecin-Kamień (1992–1999).
* John Ramsden, 61, British historian.

### 17

* Dame Doreen Blumhardt, 95, New Zealand potter.
* Carla Boni, 84, Italian singer.
* Diana Elles, Baroness Elles, 88, British diplomat and politician.
* Ian Hagemoen, 68, Canadian football player (death announced on this date).
* Jay Johnson, 66, American U.S. Representative for Wisconsin (1997–1999), U.S. Mint Director (2000–2001), heart attack.
* Vladimir Kashpur, 82, Russian film actor, People's Artist of Russia.
* Kazuhiko Katō, 62, Japanese musician (The Folk Crusaders, Sadistic Mika Band), suicide by hanging.
* Louisa Mark, 49, British lovers rock singer, complications from a stomach ulcer.
* Norma Fox Mazer, 78, American author, brain cancer.
* Vic Mizzy, 93, American composer (The Addams Family, Green Acres).
* Rosanna Schiaffino, 69, Italian film actress, cancer.
* Sheldon Segal, 83, American reproductive biologist.
* Michael Shea, 71, British diplomat, press secretary to Queen Elizabeth II (1978–1987), dementia.
* Brian Campbell Vickery, 91, British information scientist.

### 18

* Ion Cojar, 78, Romanian actor and film director, Parkinson's disease.
* Ruth Duckworth, 90, American sculptor.
* Ha Bik Chuen, 83-84, Hong Kong painter.
* Jasper Howard, 20, American football player, stabbed.
* Lenore Kandel, 77, American poet, lung cancer.
* Leonard B. Keller, 62, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient, motorcycle accident.
* Sir Ludovic Kennedy, 89, British author and journalist, pneumonia.
* Adriaan Kortlandt, 91, Dutch biologist.
* Ovidiu Mușetescu, 54, Romanian politician, cancer.
* Ignacio Ponseti, 95, Spanish physician and inventor (Ponseti method).
* Nancy Spero, 83, American artist, heart failure.
* Basie Vivier, 82, South African rugby union player, captain of the Springboks (1956).

### 19

* Moni Fanan, 63, Israeli basketball team manager, suicide by hanging.
* Werner Heubeck, 85, German-born British managing director of Ulsterbus and Citybus, cancer.
* Joe Hutton Jr., 81, American basketball player, heart attack.
* Sushila Kerketta, 71, Indian politician, heart attack.
* Vladimír Klokočka, 80, Czech politician and jurist, signatory to Charter 77 manifesto.
* Shlomo Lorincz, 91, Hungarian-born Israeli politician, heart failure.
* Milun Marović, 62, Serbian Olympic basketball player.
* Reg McKay, 56, British journalist and crime fiction writer, brain and lung cancer.
* Angelo Musi, 91, American basketball player.
* Nimma Raja Reddy, 72, Indian politician.
* Alberto Testa, 82, Italian composer and lyricist.
* Radu Timofte, 60, Romanian intelligence officer, director of the Serviciul Român de Informaţii (2001–2006), leukemia.
* Howard Unruh, 88, American spree killer.
* Joseph Wiseman, 91, Canadian actor (Dr. No).

### 20

* Margaret Bisbrown, 90, British Olympic diver.
* Yvonne Carter, 50, British general practitioner and medical academic, breast cancer.
* Attila Dargay, 83, Hungarian animator.
* Colin Douglas-Smith, 91, Australian Olympic rower.
* Clifford Hansen, 97, American politician, Governor of Wyoming (1963–1967) and U.S. Senator (1967–1978).
* Robert C. Lautman, 85, American architectural photographer.
* Carl Fredrik Lowzow, 82, Norwegian politician.
* Charles Mills, 88, American painter.
* Doreen Reid Nakamarra, 54, Australian Aboriginal artist, pneumonia.
* Jef Nys, 82, Belgian comic book artist (Jommeke).
* Sultan Pepper, 47, American comedy writer, Emmy Award winner (The Ben Stiller Show).
* Yuri Ryazanov, 22, Russian artistic gymnast, traffic collision.
* Winai Senniam, 51, Thai parliamentarian, liver and colon cancer.

### 21

* Andrey Balashov, 63, Russian Olympic silver (1976) and bronze (1980) medal-winning sailor.
* Louise Cooper, 57, British novelist, aneurysm.
* Lionel Davidson, 87, British novelist, lung cancer.
* Clinton Ford, 77, British singer.
* John Jarman, 78, Welsh football player (Barnsley, Walsall) and coach.
* Iain Macphail, Lord Macphail, 71, British judge and legal scholar.
* Paul Massey, 83, British Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) rower.
* Yōko Minamida, 76, Japanese actress.
* Jack Nelson, 80, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist (1960), pancreatic cancer.
* Redmond O'Neill, 55, British political activist.
* Sirone, 69, American jazz musician.
* Ted Sizer, 77, American education reformer, colorectal cancer.
* Giuliano Vassalli, 94, Italian politician.

### 22

* Maryanne Amacher, 66, American experimental composer, sound artist, and installation artist, complications from a stroke.
* Paul Andrews, 53, Australian politician, cancer.
* Nicholas Atkin, 49, British historian, meningitis.
* Daniel Bekker, 77, South African boxer, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases.
* Ray B. Browne, 87, American educator, scholar of popular culture.
* Pierre Chaunu, 86, French historian.
* Howard Darwin, 78, Canadian sports promoter, founder of the Ottawa 67's, complications from heart surgery.
* Luther Dixon, 78, American songwriter.
* Evert Heinström, 97, Finnish Olympic athlete.
* Ray Lambert, 87, Welsh footballer (Liverpool, Wales).
* Don Lane, 75, American-born Australian entertainer, Alzheimer's disease.
* Don Ivan Punchatz, 73, American science fiction artist, cardiac arrest.
* Herman Reich, 91, American baseball player (Washington Senators, Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians).
* Maciej Rybiński, 64, Polish journalist and publicist.
* Soupy Sales, 83, American comedian and television host, cancer.
* Enver Shehu, 75, Albanian football player and manager.
* Suchart Chaovisith, 69, Thai politician, Finance Minister (2003–2004) and Deputy Prime Minister (2004), laryngeal cancer.
* Libero Tresoldi, 88, Italian Roman Catholic Bishop of Crema.
* Albert Watson, 91, English footballer (Huddersfield Town, Oldham Athletic).
* Elmer Winter, 97, American founder of Manpower Inc.
* George Patrick Ziemann, 68, American Roman Catholic Bishop of Santa Rosa.

### 23

* Linda Day, 71, American television director, leukemia and breast cancer.
* Trevor Denning, 86, British artist.
* Suhrab Faqir, 75, Pakistani folk singer, kidney disease.
* Chris Hawk, 58, American surfer, oral cancer.
* Lou Jacobi, 95, Canadian-born American actor (The Diary of Anne Frank).
* Ture Kailo, Vanuatuan politician and member of parliament.
* John Kenley, 103, American summer theater producer, complications of pneumonia.
* Ken Perkins, 83, British army general.
* Jack Poole, 76, Canadian real estate developer, pancreatic cancer.
* Ron Sobieszczyk, 75, American basketball player (DePaul Blue Demons, New York Knicks), degenerative brain disease.

### 24

* Bill Chadwick, 94, American hockey official and broadcaster.
* Yasuo Iwata, 67, Japanese actor, lung cancer.
* Norman Levitt, 66, American mathematician.
* Karl Reisinger, 73, Austrian Olympic judoka.

### 25

* Yoshiteru Abe, 68, Japanese professional Go player.
* Dee Anthony, 83, American music manager, pneumonia.
* Maksharip Aushev, 43, Russian political activist and opposition leader in Ingushetia, businessman (Ingushetia.org), shot.
* Adoor Bhavani, 82, Indian actress.
* Billy Bibit, 59, Filipino soldier and coup d'état leader, complications from a stroke.
* Camillo Cibin, 83, Italian former commander of the Corps of Gendarmerie of Vatican City.
* Fritz Darges, 96, German World War II Waffen-SS officer.
* Seymour Fromer, 87, American founder of Judah L. Magnes Museum.
* Leslie A. Geddes, 88, American electrical engineer and physiologist.
* Lawrence Halprin, 93, American architect (Ghirardelli Square, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial).
* Gerhard Knoop, 88, Norwegian theatre director.
* Chittaranjan Kolhatkar, 86, Indian actor, heart attack.
* S. Ashok Kumar, 62, Indian jurist.
* René Marigil, 81, Spanish cyclist.
* Mike McQueen, 52, American journalist, Associated Press bureau chief for Louisiana and Mississippi, cancer.
* Ingeborg Mello, 90, Argentinian Olympic athlete.
* Heinz-Klaus Metzger, 77, German music critic.
* Lázaro Pérez Jiménez, 66, Mexican Roman Catholic Bishop of Celaya.
* Alexander Piatigorsky, 80, Russian-born British philosopher.
* Jeffry Picower, 67, American philanthropist, associate of Bernard Madoff, drowned after heart attack.
* Kamala Sankrityayan, 89, Indian writer and litterateur.
* Tangi Satyanarayana, 78, Indian politician, speaker of the Vidhan Sabha of Andhra Pradesh (1983–1985).
* Thea Segall, 80, Romanian photographer who lived in Venezuela since 1958 until her death.
* Kevin Widemond, 23, American basketball player, heart attack.

### 26

* Daniel Acharuparambil, 70, Indian Roman Catholic archbishop of Verapoly (since 1996), kidney failure.
* Teel Bivins, 61, American member of the Texas Senate (1989–2004), Ambassador to Sweden (2004–2006).
* Sabino Fernández Campo, 1st Count of Latores, 91, Spanish Chief of the Royal House, key figure in failed 23-F coup d'état.
* Lea Fite, 54, American politician, member of the Alabama House of Representatives (since 2002), apparent seizure.
* Bill Kirk, 75, American baseball player.
* Fred McCarthy, 91, American cartoonist.
* Yoshirō Muraki, 85, Japanese film production designer and art director, heart failure.
* George Naʻope, 81, American musician and hula expert, founder of the Merrie Monarch Festival, cancer.
* Troy Smith, 87, American businessman, founder of Sonic Drive-In chain, natural causes.

### 27

* Tapani Aartomaa, 75, Finnish professor and graphic designer.
* Frank Brady Jr., 64, Irish footballer (Shamrock Rovers), cancer.
* John David Carson, 57, American actor (Falcon Crest).
* August Coppola, 75, American writer, literature professor and father of Nicolas Cage, heart attack.
* Roy DeCarava, 89, American photographer.
* Alex Harris, 34, Australian paralympian swimmer, gold medalist (2004), suicide by train.
* David Shepherd, 68, British cricketer and umpire, lung cancer.
* Paul Zamecnik, 96, American molecular biologist.

### 28

* Olga Kevelos, 85, British motorcycle trials rider.
* Leslie King, 59, Trinidadian Olympic cyclist.
* Paul Manz, 90, American Lutheran organist and composer.
* Taylor Mitchell, 19, Canadian singer–songwriter, coyote attack.
* Jerry Morris, 99, British epidemiologist.
* Ted Nebbeling, 65, Dutch-born Canadian politician, British Columbia MLA (1996–2005), Mayor of Whistler, colon cancer.

### 29

* Russell L. Ackoff, 90, American organizational theorist, complications from surgery.
* Bei Shizhang, 106, Chinese biologist and educator.
* Jean-François Bergier, 77, Swiss historian.
* Jan Gąsienica Ciaptak, 86, Polish Olympic skier.
* Charles E. Conrad, 84, American acting coach, kidney failure.
* San'yūtei Enraku V, 76, Japanese comedian (Shōten), lung cancer.
* Gino Fracas, 79, Canadian football player.
* Olav Hodne, 88, Norwegian missionary.
* June Maule, 92, American businesswoman, owner of Maule Air.
* John O'Quinn, 68, American lawyer, traffic collision.
* Norman Painting, 85, British radio actor (The Archers), heart failure.
* Jürgen Rieger, 63, German lawyer and politician (NPD), stroke.
* Beat Rüedi, 89, Swiss Olympic bronze medal-winning (1948) ice hockey player.
* Alexander Schure, 89, American academic, founder of NYIT, Chancellor of NSU (1970–1985), Alzheimer's disease.
* Dave Treen, 81, American politician, Governor of Louisiana (1980–1984), respiratory disease.

### 30

* Juvenal Amarijo, 85, Brazilian football player, respiratory failure.
* Norton Buffalo, 58, American singer-songwriter, blues harmonica player (Steve Miller Band), lung cancer.
* Ramata Diakité, 32–33, Malian Wassoulou musician, hepatitis A.
* Forest Evashevski, 91, American football coach (Iowa Hawkeyes), cancer.
* Claude Lévi-Strauss, 100, French anthropologist and author.
* Michelle Triola Marvin, 76, American plaintiff in landmark 'palimony' lawsuit (Marvin v. Marvin), lung cancer.
* June Middleton, 83, Australian with polio, world's longest survivor in an iron lung.
* Alick Rowe, 70, British television and radio writer, heart attack.
* Howie Schultz, 87, American baseball and basketball player, cancer.
* František Veselý, 65, Czech football player.
* Igor Vyazmikin, 43, Russian ice hockey player.
* Eugenia A. Wordsworth-Stevenson, Liberian diplomat.

### 31

* Roque Antonio Adames Rodríguez, 81, Dominican Roman Catholic Bishop of Santiago de los Caballeros.
* Tim Bickerstaff, 67, New Zealand radio personality.
* Chen Lin, 39, Chinese pop singer, suicide by jumping.
* Hugh Dinwiddy, 97, British cricketer.
* Stanley Ellis, 83, British linguistics scholar.
* Harry Gauss, 57, Canadian soccer coach, brain cancer.
* Pat Keysell, 83, British television presenter.
* Lee Hu-rak, 85, South Korean spy chief, Director of the National Intelligence Service (1970–1973), brain tumor.
* Mustafa Mahmoud, 87, Egyptian scientist, author and philosopher.
* John Mason, 89, British historian and librarian.
* Qian Xuesen, 97, Chinese scientist and co-founder of the JPL.
* Steve Reid, 94, American football player (Northwestern Wildcats).
* Neguinho do Samba, 54, Brazilian percussionist, founder of Olodum, heart failure.
* Jan Wejchert, 59, Polish businessman and media mogul, co-founder of ITI Group, co-owner of TVN, heart attack.
* Tom Wheatcroft, 87, British businessman, owner of Donington Park race circuit.