# Deaths in November 2012
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The following is a list of notable deaths in November 2012.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
* Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.

## November 2012
### 1

* Mary Applebey, 96, English civil servant and mental health campaigner, fall.
* Brad Armstrong, 50, American professional wrestler (WWE, WCW, NWA, SMW).
* John Lee Armstrong, 79, American football player and coach.
* Chen Zude, 68, Chinese Go player, cancer.
* Chong Chee Kin, 39, Singaporean journalist, heart failure.
* Mir Abdolrez Daryabeigi, 82, Iranian artist.
* Stan Enebo, 87, American politician and electrician.
* Agustín García Calvo, 86, Spanish academic, respiratory failure.
* Geoffrey Lofthouse, 86, British politician, MP for Pontefract and Castleford (1978–1997).
* Jan Louwers, 82, Dutch footballer (FC Eindhoven).
* Mitch Lucker, 28, American musician and singer (Suicide Silence), traffic collision.
* Pascual Pérez, 55, Dominican baseball player (Atlanta Braves, Montreal Expos), bludgeoning.
* Omry Ronen, 75, Ukrainian-born American Slavist, stroke.
* Jonathan Street, 69, British novelist and public relations executive, fall.
* Edwin Q. White, 90, American journalist, Saigon bureau chief for the Associated Press (1965–1975), heart failure.

### 2

* Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar, 82, Indian mathematician.
* Annette Baier, 83, New Zealand philosopher.
* Herman Bank, 96, American mechanical engineer (JPL).
* Milt Campbell, 78, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1956) decathlete, prostate cancer and diabetes.
* David L. Cornwell, 67, American politician, U.S. Representative from Indiana (1977–1979), kidney cancer.
* Peter B. Dews, 89–90, American psychologist and pharmacologist.
* Robert Morton Duncan, 85, American federal judge (Armed Forces Court of Appeals, Southern Ohio District Court).
* Dusty Ellis, 59, American whistleblower, cancer.
* Joe Ginsberg, 86, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians, Detroit Tigers).
* Han Suyin, 95, Chinese-born British writer (A Many-Splendoured Thing).
* Emilio Homps, 98, Argentine Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) sailor.
* Just A Dash, 35, Australian Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the 1981 Melbourne Cup and Adelaide Cup, euthanized.
* Hans Lindgren, 80, Swedish actor.
* Mohammed Rafeh, 30, Syrian actor, shot.
* Pino Rauti, 85, Italian politician.
* János Rózsás, 86, Hungarian writer.
* Ken Stephinson, 79, British television director and producer.
* John C. Tyson, 86, American judge (Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals), natural causes.
* Roger Wood, 87, Belgian-born American editor and journalist (Daily Express, New York Post), cancer.
* Kinjarapu Yerran Naidu, 55, Indian politician, MP for Srikakulam (1996–2009), traffic collision.

### 3

* Carmélia Alves, 89, Brazilian baião singer, multiple organ seizure.
* Hans Henrik Andersen, 75, Danish nuclear physicist.
* Fotis Balopoulos, 68, Greek footballer.
* Sattar Beheshti, 35, Iranian blogger.
* Marie Bell, 90, New Zealand educationalist.
* Anne-Lise Berntsen, 69, Norwegian soprano singer.
* Odd Børretzen, 85, Norwegian author and singer, pneumonia.
* George Chesterton, 90, British cricketer.
* Duke Vin, 84, Jamaican-born British disk jockey and sound system operator.
* Franz Dumont, 67, German historian.
* Tommy Godwin, 91, British Olympic bronze medal-winning (1948) track cyclist.
* Evelyn Byrd Harrison, 82, American classical scholar and archaeologist.
* Mükerrem Hiç, 83, Turkish academic and politician.
* Greg King, 43, New Zealand lawyer, suicide.
* Thomas K. McCraw, 72, American scholar (Harvard University) and author (Prophets of Regulation).
* Kailashpati Mishra, 89, Indian politician, Governor of Gujarat and Rajasthan (2003–04), asthma.
* Eugenija Pleškytė, 74, Lithuanian actress.
* Charles Schwartz Jr., 90, American senior federal judge (US District Court of Eastern Louisiana).
* Ingegerd Troedsson, 83, Swedish politician, MP for Uppsala County (1974–1994), first female Speaker of the Riksdag (1991–1994).
* Vasily Vladimirov, 89, Russian mathematician.

### 4

* Anne-Marie Albiach, 75, French poet and translator, following a long illness.
* Mildred Vorpahl Baass, 95, American poet, Poet Laureate of Texas (1993–1995).
* Akhtaruzzaman Chowdhury Babu, 67, Bangladeshi politician, kidney disease.
* Pier Cesare Bori, 75, Italian professor.
* J. H. Burns, 90, Scottish historian.
* Fabio Castillo Figueroa, 91, Salvadoran politician.
* Ted Curson, 77, American jazz trumpeter, heart attack.
* Jim Durham, 65, American sportscaster, heart attack.
* Samuel S. Freedman, 85, American politician (Connecticut House, 1972–1978), judge (Connecticut Superior Court, 1978–2010); professor (Quinnipiac).
* Mike L. Fry, 61, American businessman and entertainer, immune disorder.
* Dan Gavriliu, 97, Romanian surgeon.
* Beverley Goodway, 69, British glamour photographer, prostate cancer.
* Frances Hashimoto, 69, American businesswoman and civic leader, inventor of mochi ice cream, lung cancer.
* Marit Henie, 87, Norwegian Olympic (1948) figure skater.
* Eiji Hosoya, 67, Japanese businessman, Chairman of Resona Holdings.
* Jane Holtz Kay, 74, American architecture and urban design critic and author.
* Peter O'Donohue, 89, Australian VFL football player (Hawthorn).
* Reg Pickett, 85, English footballer (Portsmouth, Ipswich Town).
* Kirk Reeves, 56, American street entertainer, suicide by gunshot.
* David Resnick, 88, Brazilian-born Israeli architect and town planner.
* Jacob Sahaya Kumar Aruni, 38, Indian restaurateur and television show host, heart attack.
* Glen Morgan Williams, 92, American senior federal judge, Western District Court of Virginia (1976–2010).
* Verle Wright Jr., 84, American Olympic sports shooter.

### 5

* Assem Salam, 87–88, Lebanese civil engineer.
* Umesh Chandra Banerjee, 74, Indian judge.
* Bernard Bierman, 104, American composer.
* Joseph Oliver Bowers, 102, Dominican-born Antiguan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Accra, Ghana (1953–1971), and Saint John's – Basseterre (1971–1981).
* Olympe Bradna, 92, French-born American dancer and actress (College Holiday, Souls at Sea, The Night of Nights).
* Julia Britton, 98, Australian playwright.
* Charles V. Bush, 72, American air force officer, first African American to graduate from the US Air Force Academy, colon cancer.
* Elliott Carter, 103, American composer, natural causes.
* Frank Cope, 83, English weightlifter.
* Paul L. Douglas, 85, American lawyer and politician.
* James R. Dumpson, 103, American public servant, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Welfare (1959–1965), stroke.
* Leonardo Favio, 74, Argentine singer, actor, and film director (Chronicle of a Boy Alone, Juan Moreira, Nazareno Cruz and the Wolf), polyneuritis melaminosa and HCV.
* Bob Kaplan, 75, Canadian politician, oversaw creation of CSIS, Solicitor General (1980–1984), MP for Don Valley (1968–1972) and York Centre (1974–1993), cancer.
* Razaullah Khan, 75, Pakistani cricketer.
* Reis Leming, 81, American George Medal-winning airman.
* Margaret Nichols, 82, American animator and executive of I.A.T.S.E.
* Louis Pienaar, 86, South African lawyer and diplomat, Administrator-General of Namibia (1985–1990).
* Keith Ripley, 77, English footballer.
* Sikandar Sanam, 52, Pakistani actor and comedian, liver cancer.
* Stalking Cat, 54, American body modifier.
* Jimmy Stephen, 90, Scottish footballer.
* Bertram Wyatt-Brown, 80, American historian and author, pulmonary fibrosis.

### 6

* Larry Alexander, 62, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House (1979–1990).
* Aloysius Balina, 67, Tanzanian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Geita (1984–1997) and Shinyanga (since 1997), liver cancer.
* Hetty Blok, 92, Dutch actress, comedian, singer and director.
* Ron Braden, 64, American football and baseball coach.
* Joel Connable, 39, American journalist, diabetic seizure.
* Charles Delporte, 83, Belgian painter and sculptor.
* Bo Dickinson, 77, American football player.
* Clive Dunn, 92, British actor (Dad's Army) and singer ("Grandad"), complications following operation.
* Samuel Guo Chuan-zhen, 94, Chinese Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Jinan (1997–2000).
* Vladimír Jiránek, 74, Czech cartoonist and animator.
* Theodore T. Jones, 68, American judge, NY Court of Appeals (since 2007), apparent heart attack.
* Carmen Martínez Sierra, 108, Spanish actress.
* Ernest Mateen, 46, American boxer, shot.
* Maxim of Bulgaria, 98, Bulgarian Orthodox hierarch, Patriarch of All Bulgaria (since 1971), heart ailment.
* Panbanisha, 26, American bonobo involved in language studies (Great Ape Trust), common cold.
* Ivor Powell, 96, Welsh footballer (Queens Park Rangers, Aston Villa) and coach (Carlisle United, Team Bath).
* Frank J. Prial, 82, American journalist and wine critic (The New York Times), complications of prostate cancer.
* Damaskinos Roumeliotis, 92, Greek Orthodox hierarch, Metropolitan of Maronia and Komotini (1974–2012), multiple organ failure.
* Bohdan Tsap, 71, Ukrainian footballer and youth football trainer.
* Carmen Warschaw, 95, American politician and philanthropist, natural causes.

### 7

* Carmen Basilio, 85, American dual world champion boxer, pneumonia.
* Ray Beckwith, 100, South Australian wine chemist.
* Aleksandr Berkutov, 80, Russian Olympic gold medal-winning (1956, 1960) rower.
* Heinz-Jürgen Blome, 65, German footballer (VfL Bochum).
* Murray Byrne, 84, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Council for Ballarat Province (1958–1976).
* Henry Colman, 89, American producer and screenwriter.
* Alan Coxon, 82, English cricketer.
* Ellen Douglas, 91, American writer, heart failure.
* Kevin O'Donnell Jr., 61, American science fiction author, lung cancer.
* David Olive, 75, British theoretical physicist.
* Glenys Page, 72, New Zealand cricketer.
* Sandy Pearson, 94, Australian major general, Commander of the 1st Australian Task Force (1968–1969).
* Frank Peppiatt, 85, Canadian-born American television writer and producer, co-creator of Hee Haw, bladder cancer.
* Richard Robbins, 71, American musician and score writer (Howards End, Remains of the Day, A Room with a View), Parkinson's disease.
* Darrell Royal, 88, American football coach (University of Texas), Alzheimer's disease.
* Arthur K. Snyder, 79, American politician, Los Angeles City Councilman (1967–1985).
* Elliott Stein, 83, American film critic and historian.

### 8

* Péricles Azambuja, 85, Brazilian historian, writer and journalist.
* Lucille Bliss, 96, American voice actress (Crusader Rabbit, The Smurfs, Invader Zim), natural causes.
* Robert McCallum Blumenthal, 81, American mathematician.
* Herbert Carter, 93, American pilot (Tuskegee Airmen).
* György Danis, 67, Hungarian politician.
* Bruce Evans, 87, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Gippsland East (1961–1992).
* Bobby Gilfillan, 74, Scottish footballer (Doncaster Rovers), prostate cancer.
* Gerard Gramse, 68, Polish sprinter.
* Roger Hammond, 76, British actor (The King's Speech, The Madness of King George, Around the World in 80 Days), cancer.
* Leo Keke, 65, Nauruan politician, MP (1976-1980).
* Cornel Lucas, 92, British photographer.
* Lee MacPhail, 95, American baseball Hall of Fame general manager (Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees), American League President (1973–1984), natural causes.
* Pete Namlook, 51, German electronic musician, producer and composer, founder of FAX music label, heart attack.
* Patrick Francis Sheehan, 80, Irish-born Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Yola (1970–1996) and Kano (1996–2008).
* Robert Swenning, 88, American figure skater.

### 9

* Pirkko Aro, 89, Finnish journalist and politician.
* John Attenborough, 84, English businessman, brother of Richard Attenborough and David Attenborough.
* Leaford Bearskin, 91, American tribal leader, Chief of the Wyandotte Nation (1983–2011).
* Roger Blais, 95, Canadian film director and producer.
* Aïssatou Boiro, 57–58, Guinean civil servant, murdered.
* William Brandon Lacy Campos, 35, African American poet, HIV and gay rights activist.
* Nora Bustamante Luciani, 88, Venezuelan physician, historian, writer and intellectual.
* Milan Čič, 80, Slovak lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the Slovak Socialist Republic (1989–1990), complications from a stroke.
* Iurie Darie, 83, Romanian actor (A Bomb Was Stolen), complications from a stroke.
* Joseph D. Early, 79, American politician, member of the House of Representatives from Massachusetts (1975–1993).
* Valerie Eliot, 86, British editor, widow of T. S. Eliot.
* Isaac Fadoyebo, 86, Nigerian soldier.
* Harold Gould, 88, American baseball player (Philadelphia Stars).
* Major Harris, 65, American R&B singer ("Love Won't Let Me Wait"), member of The Delfonics, heart and lung failure.
* Bobbi Jordan, 75, American actress (General Hospital, Mame), heart attack.
* Will van Kralingen, 61, Dutch actress (Havinck, Temmink: The Ultimate Fight), cancer.
* Herbie Kronowitz, 89, American boxer.
* Helen Mussallem, 97, Canadian nurse.
* Sergey Nikolsky, 107, Russian mathematician.
* Billy O'Brien, 83, American politician, member of the Virginia House (1974–1992).
* Bernard Perera, 56, Sri Lankan cricketer.
* Paul Petrie, 84, American poet and academic.
* Pat Renella, 83, American actor (Bullitt, General Hospital, The New Phil Silvers Show).
* Jim Sinclair, 79, Canadian non-status Indian aboriginal activist and politician, cancer.
* Malcolm Smith, 80, South African cricketer.
* James L. Stone, 89, American army officer and prisoner of war, recipient of the Medal of Honor.
* Bill Tarmey, 71, British actor (Coronation Street), heart attack.
* Hubert Zimmermann, 71, French computer scientist.

### 10

* Witkop Badenhorst, 71–72, South African Army general, pneumonia and heart failure.
* Robert Carter, 102, British Royal Air Force officer.
* Isabel Coe, 61, Australian rights activists.
* John Louis Coffey, 90, American federal judge (U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals).
* Eric Day, 91, English footballer (Southampton F.C.).
* Eric Devenport, 86, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Dunwich (1980–1992).
* Stuart Freedman, 68, American physicist.
* Kekoo Gandhy, 92, Indian art gallerist, art collector and art connoisseur, pancreatic cancer.
* Gilbert Geis, 87, American criminologist.
* Wilhelm Hennis, 89, German political scientist.
* Sándor Kiss, 71, Hungarian Olympic gymnast.
* Marian Lines, 78, British writer and actress.
* Mitsuko Mori, 92, Japanese actress, heart failure.
* Mynavathi, 78, Indian actress, cardiac arrest.
* Ricky Naputi, 39, Guamanian obese man, heaviest in world.
* Alexander Perepilichny, 44, Russian businessman and whistleblower.
* Piet van Zeil, 85, Dutch politician, State Secretary for Economic Affairs (1981–1986) and Social Affairs (1982), Mayor of Heerlen (1986–1992).

### 11

* Lam Adesina, 73, Nigerian politician, Governor of Oyo State (1999–2003).
* Edith Anrep, 100, Swedish lawyer and feminist.
* Joe Egan, 93, British rugby league footballer.
* Tomaž Ertl, 79, Slovenian communist-era politician.
* Alex Esclamado, 84, Filipino-born American media and civic leader, pneumonia.
* David Gwynne-James, 75, Welsh first-class cricketer, British Army officer and military historian, head injuries sustained after a heart attack.
* Iqbal Haider, 67, Pakistani politician, Law Minister (1993–1994), lung disease.
* Sir Rex Hunt, 86, British diplomat and colonial administrator, Governor of the Falkland Islands (1980–1982, 1982–1985).
* Farish Jenkins, 72, American palaeontologist, complications of pneumonia.
* Jalal Mansouri, 82, Iranian Olympic weightlifter.
* Victor Mees, 85, Belgian footballer (Royal Antwerp F.C.).
* Patricia Monaghan, 66, American author.
* Ilya Oleynikov, 65, Russian comedian and actor, cardiovascular disease.
* Johnny Prescott, 74, English boxer.
* Harry Wayland Randall, 96, American World War II veteran and war photographer.
* Tarachand Sahu, 65, Indian politician, MP for Durg (1996–2009), multiple organ failure.
* Hal Ziegler, 80, American politician, member of the Michigan House (1966–1974), Michigan Senate (1975–1978), heart attack.

### 12

* Charles Kofi Agbenaza, 80–81, Ghanaian politician.
* Coty Beavers, 28, American murder victim, shot.
* Arthur Bialas, 81, German footballer.
* Marshall Bouldin III, 89, American portrait painter.
* Dave Cahill, 71, American football player.
* Robert J. Cotter, 69, American chemist and mass spectrometrist, heart failure.
* Angela Cropper, 66, Trinidadian diplomat and politician.
* Anthony di Bonaventura, 83, American pianist and academic.
* Bob French, 74, American jazz musician and radio show host, dementia and diabetes.
* Hans Hammarskiöld, 87, Swedish photographer, after a brief illness.
* Alan Hopkins, 86, British politician, complications following a heart operation.
* Michel Hrynchyshyn, 83, Canadian-born French Ukrainian Catholic hierarch, Apostolic Exarch in France, Benelux and Switzerland (1982–2012).
* Harry McShane, 92, Scottish footballer.
* Mario Murillo, 85, Costa Rican footballer.
* Sergio Oliva, 71, Cuban-born American bodybuilder, Mr. Olympia (1967–1969).
* Fred Ridgeway, 59, English actor, motor neurone disease.
* Daniel Stern, 78, American psychiatrist, heart failure.
* Ronald Stretton, 82, English Olympic bronze medal-winning (1952) track cyclist.
* Willis Whitfield, 92, American physicist and inventor (Cleanroom).
* John Winter, 82, British architect, respiratory failure.
* Wilbur Woo, 96, Chinese-born American politician and community leader, complications from stroke and pneumonia.
* Walt Zeboski, 83, American photographer (Associated Press), pneumonia.

### 13

* Murray Arnold, 74, American basketball coach (Chattanooga Mocs, Perth Wildcats), cancer.
* Will Barnet, 101, American painter.
* Naima Bayari, Moroccan Muay Thai kickboxer, gas leak.
* Bryce Bayer, 83, American scientist (Bayer filter).
* Ray Carter, 79, English cricketer.
* Erazm Ciołek, 75, Polish photojournalist.
* Kenneth Cragg, 99, British Anglican priest and scholar.
* Robert Shirley, 13th Earl Ferrers, 83, British peer, Deputy Leader of the House of Lords (1979–1983, 1988–1997).
* Jack Gilbert, 87, American poet, pneumonia with complications from Alzheimer's disease.
* Milan Horálek, 80, Czech economist and politician, Minister of Labour and Social Affairs (1990–1992).
* John Kelly, 82, Irish Olympic racewalker.
* Manolo Peña, 46, Spanish footballer (Real Zaragoza, Real Valladolid), cancer.
* John Sheridan, 78, English rugby league footballer (Castleford).
* Yao Defen, 40, Chinese record holder, world's tallest woman.
* Ray Zone, 65, American cinema historian, adaptor and 3D expert, heart attack.

### 14

* Alex Alves, 37, Brazilian footballer (Hertha BSC), leukemia.
* Enrique Beech, 92, Filipino Olympic shooter.
* Harold G. Christensen, 86, American attorney, cancer.
* William Cusano, 69, Italian-born Canadian politician, complications from surgery.
* Mildred Inks Davidson Dalrymple, 92, American military aviator.
* Brian Davies, 82, Australian rugby league footballer.
* Martin Fay, 76, Irish musician (The Chieftains).
* Wendell Garrett, 83, American historian, appraiser on Antiques Roadshow, natural causes.
* Joe Gilliam Sr., 89, American football coach (Tennessee State).
* Daniel Goodman, 67, American ecologist and biologist, complications from surgery.
* Norman Greenwood, 87, Australian-born British chemist.
* Gail Harris, 81, American baseball player (New York Giants, Detroit Tigers).
* Ramon Torres Hernandez, 41, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
* Ahmed Jabari, 52, Palestinian military leader (Hamas), airstrike.
* Lucien Laferte, 93, Canadian ski jumper.
* Bertram McLean, 64, Jamaican musician.
* Paddy Meegan, 90, Irish football player (Meath GAA).
* Luíz Eugênio Pérez, 84, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Jales (1970–1981) and Jaboticabal (1981–2003), complications following surgery.
* Olusola Saraki, 79, Nigerian politician.
* Stanley Smith, 75, English rugby league footballer.
* Adrián Silva Moreno, 34, Mexican journalist, shot.

### 15

* Théophile Abega, 58, Cameroonian footballer (Canon Yaoundé, Toulouse F.C.), cardiac arrest.
* Kader Bhayat, 76, Mauritian lawyer and politician.
* Luís Carreira, 35, Portuguese motorcycle racer, race collision.
* Harry Christiani, 87, Guyanese cricketer.
* Harvey Tristan Cropper, 81, American painter, cancer.
* Pete Eneh, 67-68, Nigerian actor, after leg amputation.
* María Santos Gorrostieta Salazar, 36, Mexican politician, Mayor of Tiquicheo (2008–2011), beating and stabbing.
* Khin Maung Toe, 62, Burmese singer–songwriter, cancer.
* Josef Kloimstein, 84, Austrian Olympic silver (1960) and bronze (1956) medal-winning rower.
* Maleli Kunavore, 29, Fijian rugby player (Toulouse), cardiac arrest.
* Moosa Mangera, 67, South African cricketer.
* Gerrit Oosting, 71, Dutch politician.
* K. C. Pant, 81, Indian politician, Minister of Defence (1987–1989), heart attack.
* David Oliver Relin, 49, American journalist and author, suicide by train.
* José Song Sui-Wan, 71, Chinese-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of São Gabriel da Cachoeira (2002–2009), Parkinson's disease and liver tumor.
* Frode Thingnæs, 72, Norwegian jazz musician ("The First Day of Love", "Mata Hari"), complications from a heart attack.
* William Turnbull, 90, Scottish artist.

### 16

* Stuart Babbage, 96, Australian Anglican priest, Dean of Sydney (1947–1953) and Melbourne (1953–1962).
* Leo Blair, 89, British academic.
* David Bolt, 84, English novelist and literary agent.
* Alby Broadby, 95, Australian politician, member (1968–1988) and President (1984–1988) of the Tasmanian Legislative Council.
* Eric Burgin, 88, British cricketer (Yorkshire).
* Fernando Casanova, 86, Mexican actor, prostate cancer.
* John Chapman, 82, Australian evangelist, multiple organ failure.
* Luis de los Cobos, 85, Spanish composer.
* Louis Tom Dragna, 92, Italian-American mobster.
* Subhash Dutta, 82, Bangladeshi filmmaker, heart disease.
* Patrick Edlinger, 52, French climber, fall.
* Kayode Eso, 87, Nigerian jurist.
* Jefferson Kaye, 75, American radio, television, and film announcer, cancer.
* Aliu Mahama, 66, Ghanaian politician, Vice President (2001–2009), complications from a stroke.
* Hubert Meyer, 98, German army officer.
* Helen Milliken, 89, American First Lady of Michigan (1969–1983), ovarian cancer.
* James W. Moseley, 81, American ufologist.
* Eliyahu Nawi, 92, Israeli politician and jurist, Mayor of Beersheba (1963–1986).
* Bob Scott, 91, New Zealand rugby union player.
* Bob Wiggins, 79, American Negro American League baseball outfielder.

### 17

* Sushila Adivarekar, 89, Indian politician.
* Nina Aleshina, 88, Russian architect.
* Ingrid Bruce, 72, Swedish engineer.
* Ponty Chadha, 55, Indian businessman, shot.
* Armand Desmet, 81, Belgian professional cyclist.
* Branko Elsner, 82, Slovenian footballer and coach.
* Dick Felt, 79, American football player (New York Titans, Boston Patriots), natural causes.
* Bonnie Lynn Fields, 68, American actress (Angel in My Pocket, Bye Bye Birdie, Funny Girl) and Mouseketeer, throat cancer.
* Kathleen Fowler, 87, Australian military officer.
* Christian Godefroy, 64, French author.
* Lea Gottlieb, 94, Israeli fashion designer.
* Henryk Grzybowski, 78, Polish footballer (Legia Warsaw).
* Katherine Kath, 92, French ballerina turned actress.
* Robert Lin, 70, Chinese-born American professor and experimental physicist, stroke.
* Arnaud Maggs, 86, Canadian artist and photographer.
* Eduardo Morales Miranda, 102, Chilean educator, co-founder of the Universidad Austral de Chile.
* Cliff Pilkey, 90, Canadian politician and trade union leader.
* Freddy Schmidt, 96, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs).
* Billy Scott, 70, American singer, pancreatic and liver cancer.
* David Speer, 61, American businessman, CEO of Illinois Tool Works, cancer.
* Bal Thackeray, 86, Indian politician, cardio-respiratory arrest.
* Margaret Yorke, 88, British crime fiction writer.

### 18

* Graham Anderson, 83, British-born Canadian heraldic scholar and officer of arms.
* Emilio Aragón Bermúdez, 83, Spanish clown, accordionist, and singer.
* Alan Barblett, 83, Australian Olympic hockey player.
* Burke Deadrich, 67, American wrestler.
* Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya, 55, Russian-born American chess grandmaster, brain cancer.
* David Eaton, 78, South African cricketer.
* Stan Greig, 82, Scottish pianist, drummer, and bandleader, Parkinson's disease.
* Phoebe Hearst Cooke, 85, American businesswoman (Hearst Corporation) and philanthropist, pneumonia.
* Francis D. Imbuga, 65, Kenyan playwright and academic, stroke.
* Ian Kirkpatrick, 82, South African rugby union player and coach.
* Neva Jane Langley, 79, American beauty pageant queen, Miss America (1953), cancer.
* Sir Philip Ledger, 74, British classical musician and academic.
* William McCarthy, Baron McCarthy, 87, British politician and life peer.
* Kenny Morgans, 73, Welsh footballer (Manchester United), Munich air disaster survivor.
* Kyrillos Oikonomopoulos, 82, Cypriot-born Zimbabwean Orthodox hierarch, Metropolitan of Zimbabwe (2001–2002).
* Ed Richards, 83, American Olympic fencer (1964).
* Helmut Sonnenfeldt, 86, German-born American foreign policy official, Alzheimer's disease.
* Don R. Swanson, 88, American information scientist.

### 19

* James Bassham, 89, American scientist.
* David G. Cantor, 77, American mathematician.
* Ken Charlton, 89, Australian rugby league footballer.
* John Cooper, 90, Australian cricketer.
* Omar Abdallah Dakhqan, Jordanian politician, Agriculture Minister.
* Bill Durkin, 90, American basketball player.
* John Hefin, 71, Welsh television director and producer (Pobol y Cwm, The Life and Times of David Lloyd George), cancer.
* Viter Juste, 87, Haitian-born American community leader, coined the term "Little Haiti", dementia and diabetes.
* Hannie Lips, 88, Dutch television announcer.
* Shiro Miya, 69, Japanese enka singer.
* Pete La Roca, 74, American jazz drummer, lung cancer.
* Joe Riordan, 82, Australian politician, member of the House of Representatives for Phillip (1972–1975), Minister for Housing and Construction (1975).
* Warren Rudman, 82, American politician, Senator from New Hampshire (1980–1993), lymphoma.
* Boris Strugatsky, 79, Russian science fiction author, pneumonia.
* George D. Weber, 87, American politician, member of the Missouri House of Representatives (1965–1967), lymphoma.

### 20

* Kaspars Astašenko, 37, Latvian ice hockey player (Tampa Bay Lightning).
* Pedro Bantigue, 92, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of San Pablo (1967–1995), internal bleeding.
* Jersey Bridgeman, 6, American murder victim, strangulation.
* David C. Copley, 60, American publishing heir (Copley Press) and socialite, apparent heart attack.
* Michael Dunford, 68, English musician.
* Louis O. Giuffrida, 92, American army general, Director of Federal Emergency Management Agency (1981–1985).
* Redd Griffin, 73, American politician, member of Illinois General Assembly (1980–1983).
* William Grut, 98, Swedish Olympic gold medal-winning (1948) modern pentathlete.
* Gary Ingham, 48, English footballer (Doncaster Rovers).
* Ivan Kušan, 80, Croatian writer.
* David O'Brien Martin, 68, American politician, member of the House of Representatives from New York (1981–1993), cancer.
* Flora Martirosian, 55, Armenian singer, complications following gall bladder surgery.
* Mike Ryan, 77, Irish-born American soccer coach and first head coach of the US women's national team, aplastic anemia.

### 21

* Stephen Abrams, 74, American-born British drug policy activist.
* Berthold Albrecht, 58, German businessman.
* Mladen Bašić, 95, Croat pianist and conductor.
* Roland Baudric, 87, French wrestler.
* Dann Cahn, 89, American film and television editor (I Love Lucy), natural causes.
* Charles Denman, 5th Baron Denman, 96, British businessman and peer.
* Nick Discepola, 62, Italian-born Canadian politician, MP for Vaudreuil (1993–1997) and Vaudreuil-Soulanges (1997–2004), pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor.
* Harold Fiskari, 84, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Mr. Food, 81, American television chef (Mr. Food), pancreatic cancer.
* Șerban Ionescu, 62, Romanian actor, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
* Ajmal Kasab, 25, Pakistani gunman involved in 2008 Mumbai attacks, execution by hanging.
* Valcho Kostov, 76, Bulgarian Olympic freestyle wrestler (1960).
* Ernesto McCausland, 51, Colombian journalist and filmmaker, cancer.
* Vladka Meed, 90, Polish Jewish resistance member (Warsaw Ghetto Uprising survivor), Alzheimer's disease.
* Edwarda O'Bara, 59, American medical patient, died after 42 years in a diabetic coma.
* Nedu Onyeuku, 29, Nigerian basketball player, shot.
* Austin Peralta, 22, American jazz musician and composer.
* Deborah Raffin, 59, American actress (Once Is Not Enough, Death Wish 3, 7th Heaven), leukemia.
* Stein Schjærven, 78, Norwegian marketing agent.
* Rashid Sharafetdinov, 69, Russian Olympic long-distance runner.
* Eugene Smith, 94, American pilot (Tuskegee Airmen) and attorney.
* Algirdas Šocikas, 84, Lithuanian Olympic boxer.
* Emily Squires, 71, American television director (Sesame Street) and scriptwriter (Guiding Light, As the World Turns).
* Mack B. Stokes, 100, American bishop in the United Methodist Church.
* Wang Houjun, 69, Chinese footballer (Shanghai Shenhua) and coach (Shanghai Pudong), uremia.

### 22

* Frank Barsalona, 74, American talent agent and concert promoter, Alzheimer's disease.
* Peter Bennett, 77, American music promoter, heart attack.
* Bob Burtwell, 85, Canadian Olympic basketball player.
* Pearl Laska Chamberlain, 103, American aviator.
* John Earl Coleman, 82, American Vipassana meditation teacher. (in Italian)
* Bryce Courtenay, 79, South African-born Australian novelist (The Power of One), stomach cancer.
* Weldon Drew, 77, American basketball coach, automobile accident.
* Raimund Krauth, 59, German footballer (Eintracht Frankfurt, Karlsruher SC).
* Bennie McRae, 72, American football player (Chicago Bears).
* Yashar Nuri, 60, Azerbaijani actor.
* P. Govinda Pillai, 86, Indian politician.
* Fahimeh Rastkar, 80, Iranian actress and voice dubbing artist, Alzheimer's disease.
* Ken Rowe, 78, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles, Los Angeles Dodgers), pneumonia.
* Lyubov Sadchikova, 61, Russian Olympic speed skater.
* Mel Shaw, 97, American design artist (Fantasia, Bambi, The Fox and the Hound, The Lion King), heart failure.
* K. H. Ting, 97, Chinese Anglican bishop.
* Jan Trefulka, 83, Czech writer and dissident, signatory of the Charter 77, renal failure and pneumonia.

### 23

* Veerapandy S. Arumugam, 75, Indian politician, respiratory failure.
* Sava Babić, 78, Serbian writer, poet, translator and university professor.
* John Bara, 85, American politician.
* José Luis Borau, 83, Spanish filmmaker, throat cancer.
* Noel Botham, 72, British journalist and author.
* Jordan Davis, 17, American student, shot.
* Peter Dawson, 66, English cricketer.
* Akkamma Devi, 94, Indian politician, MP for Nilgiris (1962–1967), first Badaga woman to graduate from college.
* Chuck Diering, 89, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals), cerebral hemorrhage.
* Gray Foy, 90, American artist.
* Go Native, 9, Irish Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the 2009 Fighting Fifth Hurdle and Christmas Hurdle.
* Lawrence Guyot, 73, American civil rights activist, heart disease and diabetes.
* Larry Hagman, 81, American actor (Dallas, I Dream of Jeannie, Nixon), complications from throat cancer.
* Diana, Lady Isaac, 91, English-born New Zealand environmentalist and arts patron.
* John Kemeny, 87, Hungarian-born Canadian film producer (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Atlantic City), cancer.
* Tadeusz Kwapień, 89, Polish cross country skier.
* Alfonso Montemayor, 90, Mexican footballer (Club León).
* Giuseppe Nahmad, 80, Syrian art dealer.
* Adolph Peschke, 98, American outdoorsman, author and project designer in the Boy Scouts of America.
* Nelson Prudêncio, 68, Brazilian Olympic silver (1968) and bronze (1972) medal-winning triple jumper, complications from lung cancer.
* Goffredo Stabellini, 87, Italian footballer.
* Robert O. Swados, 93, American attorney and businessman.
* Hal Trosky Jr., 76, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox), lung cancer.

### 24

* Marcel Beaudry, 79, Canadian lawyer, politician and public official, cancer.
* Héctor Camacho, 50, Puerto Rican former triple world champion boxer, injuries from gunshot.
* Alec Campbell, 80, British-born Botswanan archaeologist and historian, leukemia.
* Ian Campbell, 79, British folk musician (Ian Campbell Folk Group), cancer.
* Ardeshir Cowasjee, 86, Pakistani newspaper columnist (Dawn), chest ailment.
* George E. Haynsworth, 90, American Episcopal prelate, missionary to Nicaragua.
* Antoine Kohn, 79, Luxembourgish football player and manager.
* Tony Leblanc, 90, Spanish actor, heart attack.
* Shawn Little, 48, Canadian politician, heart failure.
* Frank Pittman, 77, American psychiatrist and author (Private Lies: Infidelity and Betrayal of Intimacy), cancer.
* Joan Shepherd, 88, British athlete.
* Chris Stamp, 70, British music producer and manager (The Who), cancer.
* Jimmy Stewart, 73, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds, Houston Astros).
* Moniek Toebosch, 64, Dutch actress, artist and musician, enthusasia.
* Nicholas Turro, 74, American chemist, pancreatic cancer.
* Ernie Warlick, 80, American football player (Buffalo Bills, Calgary Stampeders).

### 25

* Juan Carlos Calderón, 74, Spanish composer and conductor.
* Earl Carroll, 75, American singer (The Cadillacs, The Coasters), complications of a stroke and diabetes.
* Clifford Digre, 89, American entrepreneur.
* Guilherme Espírito Santo, 93, Portuguese footballer and athlete.
* Simeon ten Holt, 89, Dutch contemporary classical composer.
* Lars Hörmander, 81, Swedish mathematician.
* Hans Kuhn, 92, Swiss physical chemist.
* Bert Linnecor, 78, English footballer.
* Luo Yang, 51, Chinese engineer, developer of the Shenyang J-15 program, heart attack.
* Mark Meier, 86, American glaciologist and academic.
* Juan Pereda, 81, Bolivian military leader, President (1978).
* Tom Robinson, 74, Bahamian Olympic sprinter (1956, 1960, 1964, 1968).
* Roy Thomas Severn, 83, British civil engineer.
* Dave Sexton, 82, English footballer and manager (Chelsea, Manchester United).
* Dinah Sheridan, 92, English actress (The Railway Children).
* Martin Smyth, 76, Irish Olympic boxer.
* Lary J. Swoboda, 73, American politician, member of Wisconsin State Assembly (1970–1994), heart attack.
* Jim Temp, 79, American football player (Green Bay Packers), heart disease.
* Carlisle Towery, 92, American basketball player (Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons).

### 26

* Celso Ad. Castillo, 69, Filipino director and actor, cardiac arrest.
* Theo Brandmüller, 64, German composer.
* Jim Brewington, 73, American football player.
* Paul Neeley Brown, 86, American senior judge of the District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.
* Denis Haynes, 88, English cricketer (Staffordshire).
* Bill Hollar, 74, American racing driver.
* Edward R. Kirkland, 89, American politician.
* Joe Kulbacki, 74, American football player (Buffalo Bills).
* Mike Kume, 86, American Major League Baseball player.
* Peter Marsh, 64, Australian paralympian.
* Joseph Murray, 93, American doctor and Nobel laureate (1990), performed first kidney transplantation, hemorrhagic stroke.
* Peter C. Myers, 81, American politician, member of the Missouri House of Representatives (1998–2006), Deputy Secretary of the USDA (1982–1989).
* P. K. Venukuttan Nair, 81, Indian actor (Oolkatal, Swapnadanam).
* M. C. Nambudiripad, 93, Indian science writer.
* Kuno Pajula, 88, Estonian Evangelical Lutheran prelate, Archbishop (1987–1994).
* Martin Richards, 80, American Broadway and film producer (Chicago, La Cage aux Folles), cancer.
* Buddy Roberts, 67, American professional wrestler, member of the Fabulous Freebirds, pneumonia.
* César Sánchez, 77, Bolivian footballer.
* David Schwendeman, 87, American taxidermist (American Museum of Natural History).
* Hans Jørgen Walle-Hansen, 100, Norwegian businessman.
* Richard Wilkins, 59, American lawyer.

### 27

* Maddela Abel, 88, Indian political scientist.
* Mickey Baker, 87, American guitarist (Mickey & Sylvia) and songwriter ("Love Is Strange"), heart and kidney failure.
* Viacheslav Belavkin, 66, Russian-British mathematician.
* Gilbert Clements, 84, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island (1995–2001).
* Pat Connolly, 84, Canadian sports broadcaster, throat cancer and melanoma.
* Theophilus Danzy, 82, American football coach.
* Jim Davis, 84, American politician, member of the Indiana House of Representatives (1982–1998).
* Ab Fafié, 71, Dutch footballer and coach.
* Érik Izraelewicz, 58, French media executive (Le Monde), heart attack.
* Pascal Kalemba, 33, Congolese footballer.
* Bob Kellett, 84, English film and television director.
* Ladislas Kijno, 91, Polish-born French painter.
* Jorma Limmonen, 78, Finnish Olympic boxer.
* Marvin Miller, 95, American union leader, executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association (1966–1982), liver cancer.
* Herbert Oberhofer, 57, Austrian footballer (Admira Wacker).
* Chris Odera, 48, Kenyan Olympic boxer, kidney failure.
* Lennart Samuelsson, 88, Swedish footballer.
* Assane Seck, 93, Senegalese politician, Foreign Minister (1973–1978).
* Bennie Turner, 64, American politician and lawyer, member of the Mississippi State Senate (since 1992), brain cancer.
* Jack Wishna, 54, American businessman, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.

### 28

* Evelyn Ackerman, 88, American industrial designer.
* Ahmed bin Hamed al Hamed, 82–83, Emirati politician.
* Knut Ahnlund, 89, Swedish literary historian, writer, member of the Swedish Academy.
* Shahid Akbar, 54, Indian cricketer, multiple organ failure.
* Tarquinio Angiolin, 84, Italian rower.
* Sir William Bulmer, 92, British businessman, Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire (1978–1985).
* Gloria Davy, 81, American opera singer.
* José Maria Fidélis dos Santos, 68, Brazilian footballer (Bangu Atlético Clube), cancer.
* Jerry Finkelstein, 96, American media mogul and businessman (The Hill, New York Law Journal).
* Jakes Gerwel, 66, South African academic and corporate executive, complications following heart surgery.
* Tom Hardman, 21, English cricketer.
* Ray Heffner, 87, American academic, president of Brown University (1966–1969).
* James Day Hodgson, 96, American politician, Secretary of Labor (1970–1974) and Ambassador to Japan (1974–1977).
* Jerry D. Mahlman, 72, American meteorologist.
* Philip Mastin, 82, American politician, member of Michigan House of Representatives (1970–1976) and the Michigan Senate (1983), first Michigan Senator to be recalled.
* Cosimo Nocera, 74, Italian footballer (Foggia Calcio).
* Don Rhymer, 51, American film (Big Momma's House, Surf's Up, Rio) and television writer (Evening Shade), complications of head and neck cancer.
* Spain Rodriguez, 72, American underground cartoonist, cancer.
* Albie Thoms, 71, Australian film director, writer, and producer.
* Franco Ventriglia, 90, American opera singer.
* Zig Ziglar, 86, American author and motivational speaker, pneumonia.

### 29

* Velia Abdel-Huda, 96, Egyptian art historian and socialite.
* Joelmir Beting, 75, Brazilian journalist and writer, stroke.
* Eldon Edge, 86, American politician.
* Maddalena Fagandini, 83, British electronic musician and television producer.
* Bo Lozoff, 65, American writer and interfaith humanitarian, traffic collision.
* Susan Luckey, 74, American actress (The Music Man, Carousel), natural causes.
* Sherab Palden Beru, 100-101, Tibetan thangka artist.
* Marie-Jacques Perrier, 88, French singer and fashion journalist.
* Merv Pregulman, 90, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Detroit Lions, New York Bulldogs), steel executive and philanthropist.
* Klaus Schütz, 86, German politician, Mayor of West Berlin (1967–1977), President of the Bundesrat (1967–1968).
* Werner Seibold, 64, German Olympic bronze medallist sport shooter (1976).
* Joyce Spiliotis, 65, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (since 2003), cancer.
* Benjamin Tatar, 82, American actor (The Wind and the Lion, The Piano Lesson), chronic pulmonary disease.
* Ronald Frank Thiemann, 66, American professor and author, pancreatic cancer.
* Zora Wolfová, 84, Czech translator.
* Cuthbert Woodroffe, 94, Barbadian prelate, Primate of the West Indies (1980–1986).

### 30

* Rogelio Álvarez, 74, Cuban-born American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds), complications of kidney disease.
* Mario Ardizzon, 74, Italian footballer.
* Barry Berkus, 77, American architect, author and art collector.
* Lars-Gunnar Björklund, 75, Swedish radio and TV journalist.
* Rick Blackburn, 70, American music executive.
* Roman Butenko, 32, Ukrainian football player, car crash.
* Gregory S. Clark, 65, American politician.
* Mitchell Cole, 27, English footballer (Southend United, Stevenage Borough), complications of a heart defect.
* Kélétigui Diabaté, 81, Malian musician.
* Dolores Donlon, 92, American model and actress.
* Jacqueline Duc, 90, French actress.
* Jamelle Folsom, 85, American First Lady of Alabama (1948–1951, 1955–1959), mother of Jim Folsom, Jr., cancer.
* Stephen Gray, 89, English musical administrator, managed the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic.
* I. K. Gujral, 92, Indian politician, Prime Minister (1997–1998), multiple organ failure.
* Munir Malik, 78, Pakistani cricketer.
* Dolores Mantez, 76, British television actress (UFO).
* Jeff Millar, 70, American film critic (Houston Chronicle) and comic strip writer (Tank McNamara), bile duct cancer.
* Susil Moonesinghe, 82, Sri Lankan politician and diplomat.
* Homer R. Warner, 90, American cardiologist, father of medical informatics, complications of pancreatitis.
* Athar Zaidi, 66, Pakistani Test cricket umpire.