# Deaths in August 2012
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The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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 (and language of reference, if not English).

## August 2012
### 1

* Ülkü Adatepe, 79, Turkish adoptee, adopted daughter of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, traffic collision.
* Archie Baxter, 90, Australian footballer.
* Joan Bernard, 94, British academic, first Principal of Trevelyan College, Durham.
* Dorothy D'Anna, 94, American actress.
* Sami Damian, 82, Romanian-born Jewish literary critic and essayist.
* Don Erickson, 80, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).
* David Eyton-Jones, 88, British Army officer.
* Liselotte Funcke, 94, German politician.
* Aldo Maldera, 58, Italian footballer (AC Milan).
* Riccardo Ruotolo, 83, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Manfredonia-Vieste-San Giovanni Rotondo (1995–2004).
* Abel Salinas, 82, Peruvian politician.
* Douglas Townsend, 90, American composer and musicologist.
* Barry Trapnell, 88, English cricketer and headmaster.
* Keiko Tsushima, 86, Japanese actress (Seven Samurai), stomach cancer.
* Gustavo Vassallo, 92, Argentine fencer.

### 2

* Thor Axelsson, 91, Finnish sprint canoer.
* Alistair Bell, 82, British judge and politician.
* Jacques Caufrier, 70, Belgian Olympic water polo player (1960 and 1964).
* Ruy de Freitas, 95, Brazilian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1948) basketball player, multiple organ failure.
* Felix De Smedt, 88, Belgian pioneer judo teacher.
* Amos Hakham, 91, Israeli Bible scholar, first winner of the International Bible Contest (1958).
* Sir Gabriel Horn, 85, British biologist.
* Magnus Isacsson, 64, Canadian documentary filmmaker (Maxime, McDuff & McDo), cancer.
* Jimmy Jones, 82, American pop singer ("Handy Man", "Good Timin'").
* Sir John Keegan, 78, British military historian and journalist.
* Giovanni Lucchi, 69, Italian bow maker.
* Jacques Marty, 72, French Olympic boxer.
* Bernd Meier, 40, German footballer, heart attack.
* Jean Merrill, 89, American children's author (The Pushcart War), cancer.
* Marguerite Piazza, 90, American singer, heart failure.
* Cesare Pinarello, 79, Italian Olympic dual bronze medallist racing cyclist (1952, 1956).
* Gilbert Prouteau, 95, French poet and film director.
* William Smith, 4th Viscount Hambleden, 82, British peer, cancer.
* Jacques-Raymond Tremblay, 88, Canadian politician.
* Mihaela Ursuleasa, 33, Romanian pianist, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Herman van Ham, 81, Dutch head chef.

### 3

* Jan Muhammad Baloch, 60, Pakistani Olympic boxer.
* John Berry, 67, English speedway promoter (Ipswich Witches) and national team manager.
* Garth Burkett, 85, Australian football player.
* Fernando Cavaleiro, 95, Portuguese Olympic equestrian.
* Chang Do-yong, 89, South Korean general, politician and professor, dementia.
* Al Conway, 82, American football player and official.
* Frank Evans, 90, American Negro league baseball player.
* Martin Fleischmann, 85, Czech-born British chemist, complications of Parkinson's disease.
* Giorgi Gomiashvili, 39, Georgian business executive and diplomat, suicide by gunshot.
* Paul McCracken, 96, American economist, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (1969–1971).
* John Pritchard, 85, American basketball player.
* George Shanard, 86, American politician and agribusinessman.

### 4

* István Andrássy, 85, Hungarian nematologist.
* Johnnie Bassett, 76, American blues musician, cancer.
* Josy Braun, 74, Luxembourgish writer, journalist and translator.
* Abdul Matin Chowdhury, 78, Bangladeshi politician, old age complications.
* Giuseppe Coco, 76, Italian comics artist and illustrator.
* Brian Crozier, 94, British author and journalist.
* Metin Erksan, 83, Turkish film director, renal failure.
* Hanley Funderburk, 81, American academic administrator, President of Auburn University (1980–1983).
* Con Houlihan, 86, Irish sports journalist.
* John J. Phelan Jr., 81, American financier and chief executive (New York Stock Exchange).
* Bud Riley, 86, American CFL coach (Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Hamilton Tiger-cats).
* Arnie Risen, 87, American Hall of Fame basketball player (Boston Celtics, Rochester Royals), complications from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer.
* Henry Scholberg, 91, American bibliographer.
* Jimmy Thomson, 75, Scottish footballer (Dunfermline Athletic).

### 5

* Erwin Axer, 95, Polish theatre director.
* Michel Daerden, 62, Belgian politician, heart attack.
* Benjamin W. Heineman, 98, American railroad executive.
* Fred Matua, 28, American football player, heart failure.
* Martin E. Segal, 96, Russian-born American entrepreneur (Film Society of Lincoln Center).
* Sister Boom Boom, 57, American gay rights activist, member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, liver cancer.
* Kirk Urso, 22, American soccer player, heart failure.
* Chavela Vargas, 93, Costa Rican-born Mexican singer-songwriter, respiratory arrest.
* Roland Charles Wagner, 51, French author, traffic collision.
* Péter Zwack, 85, Hungarian businessman, philanthropist, diplomat and U.S. ambassador.
* Manie van Zyl, 83, South African Olympic wrestler.

### 6

* Míne Bean Uí Chribín, 84, Irish conservative campaigner.
* Celso Blues Boy, 56, Brazilian singer and guitarist, laryngeal cancer.
* Valentin Chernykh, 77, Russian screenwriter.
* Douglas Alan Clark, 95, American pilot.
* Richard Cragun, 67, American ballet dancer, heart attack.
* Marvin Hamlisch, 68, American composer and arranger (The Way We Were, A Chorus Line, The Sting), EGOT winner, lung failure.
* Robert Hughes, 74, Australian art critic and writer (The Fatal Shore).
* Gerry Kearby, 65, American businessman, traffic collision.
* Sir Bernard Lovell, 98, British astronomer.
* Mark O'Donnell, 58, American playwright (Hairspray, Cry-Baby) and author, respiratory arrest.
* Boris Razinsky, 79, Russian football player.
* Ruggiero Ricci, 94, American violinist, heart failure.
* Dan Roundfield, 59, American basketball player (Atlanta Hawks), drowning.
* Shunpei Ueyama, 91, Japanese philosopher.
* Frits Vandenboer, 78, Belgian footballer.
* Eleftherios Veryvakis, 77, Greek politician.
* Gregor W. Yeates, 68, New Zealand soil zoologist and ecologist.

### 7

* Murtuz Alasgarov, 83, Azerbaijani politician, Speaker of the National Assembly (1996–2005).
* Fritzi Jane Courtney, 89, American actress.
* George Crawford, 86, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Council for Jika Jika (1985–1992).
* Judith Crist, 90, American film critic.
* Luc de Heusch, 85, Belgian filmmaker and academic.
* Sabahattin Kalender, 93, Turkish composer.
* Vladimir Kobzev, 52, Russian football player and coach, stroke.
* Donald C. Paup, 73, American badminton player and academic.
* Anna Piaggi, 81, Italian fashion writer.
* Ranking Trevor, 60, Jamaican reggae musician, traffic collision.
* Veljko Rogošić, 71, Croatian Olympic long-distance swimmer.
* Hans Hammond Rossbach, 80, Norwegian politician.
* Samala Sadasiva, 84, Indian writer.
* Sir John Joseph Swaine, 80, Hong Kong politician and barrister, President of the Legislative Council (1993–1995).
* Marvin Lee Wilson, 54, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
* Mayer Zald, 81, American sociologist.
* Dušan Zbavitel, 87, Czech Indologist.

### 8

* Fay Ajzenberg-Selove, 86, German-born American physicist.
* Japie Basson, 94, South African politician.
* Hans Camenzind, 78, Swiss electronics engineer.
* Aung Shwe Prue Chowdhury, 98, Bangladeshi politician.
* Lou Costello, 76, English footballer.
* András Domahidy, 92, Hungarian-Australian novelist and librarian.
* Ruth Etchells, 81, English poet and college principal.
* Sancho Gracia, 75, Spanish actor, lung cancer.
* Azizul Haque, 93, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and politician.
* Georgios Katsifaras, 77, Greek politician.
* Surya Lesmana, 68, Indonesian football player and manager, heart attack.
* Kurt Maetzig, 101, German film director.

### 9

* José Aruego, 80, Filipino children's book author and illustrator.
* Harry G. Barnes Jr., 86, American diplomat.
* Ralph W. Beiting, 88, American priest.
* Max Bound, 87, Australian environmental activist and trade unionist.
* Gerard J. Campbell, 92, American Jesuit and academic, President of Georgetown University (1964–1968).
* Carnegie, 21, British-bred French-trained Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe (1994), euthanized (death announced on this date).
* Ananda Dassanayake, 92, Sri Lankan politician.
* Carl Davis, 77, American record producer ("Duke of Earl", "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher"), lung disease.
* Tom Dockrell, 88, American ice hockey player and coach.
* Pyotr Fomenko, 80, Soviet and Russian film and theater director, teacher, and artistic director.
* Gene F. Franklin, 85, American control theorist, professor emeritus of electrical engineering (Stanford University).
* Al Freeman Jr., 78, American actor (Malcolm X, My Sweet Charlie, One Life to Live) and professor.
* Dale Olson, 78, American publicist, cancer.
* David Rakoff, 47, Canadian-born American writer and actor (Capote, Strangers with Candy), cancer.
* Hjalte Rasmussen, 71, Danish academic.
* Carmen Belén Richardson, 81, Puerto Rican actress and comedian.
* Jan Sawka, 65, Polish-born American artist and architect, heart attack.
* Mel Stuart, 83, American film director (If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium; Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory), cancer.
* Erol Togay, 62, Turkish footballer.

### 10

* James Lloyd Abbot Jr., 94, American U.S. Navy rear admiral.
* Umar Sulaiman Al-Ashqar, 72, Jordanian academic.
* Altay Sarsenuly Amanzholov, 78, Kazakh Turkologist.
* Art Andrew, 81, United States Virgin Islands Olympic sailor.
* William G. Bade, 88, American mathematician.
* Robert C. Becklin, 86, American businessman and politician.
* Billy Bootle, 86, English footballer.
* Philippe Bugalski, 49, French rally driver, injuries from fall.
* Suresh Dalal, 79, Indian poet and writer in Gujarati language, heart attack.
* Amjad Hameed Khan Dasti, 94, Pakistani politician.
* Ioan Dicezare, 95, Romanian WWII fighter pilot ace.
* Joe Douse, 82, American Negro League baseball player.
* Irving Fein, 101, American film and television producer, manager of Jack Benny and George Burns.
* Madeleine Leininger, 87, American nursing theorist.
* William W. Momyer, 95, American air force general, heart ailment.
* Carlo Rambaldi, 86, Italian special effects artist (Alien, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial), Oscar winner (1976, 1980, 1983).

### 11

* Red Bastien, 81, American professional wrestler, Alzheimer's disease.
* Carlo Curley, 59, American classical organist.
* Michael Dokes, 54, American former WBA heavyweight champion boxer, liver cancer.
* Marco Antonio Dorantes García, 76, Mexican football referee.
* Beverly Milton Dyck, 78, Canadian politician, progressive supranuclear palsy.
* Hans Einstein, 89, American physician.
* Karl Fleming, 84, American journalist, respiratory complications.
* Von Freeman, 88, American hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, heart failure.
* Lucy Gallardo, 82, Argentine-born Mexican film and telenovela actress (How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
* Hilary Gardner, 90, South African cricketer.
* Heidi Holland, 64, Zimbabwean journalist and author, apparent suicide by hanging.
* Shafaat Jamil, 72, Bangladesh Army officer.
* Bhadriraju Krishnamurti, 84, Indian linguist.
* R. Duncan Luce, 87, American cognitive scientist.
* Henning Moritzen, 84, Danish actor, heart attack.
* Dame Simone Prendergast, 82, British public servant and philanthropist.
* Bill Rafferty, 68, American comedian and television host (Blockbusters, Card Sharks, Real People), heart failure.
* Stuart Randall, Baron Randall of St Budeaux, 74, British politician, MP for Kingston upon Hull West (1983–1997).
* Roger Sandall, 79, New Zealand anthropologist and writer.
* Sid Waddell, 72, British darts commentator and author, bowel cancer.
* Susan Weiner, 66, American politician, Mayor of Savannah (1992–1996), complications from surgery.

### 12

* Eileen Beasley, 91, Welsh teacher and Welsh language campaigner, pancreatic cancer.
* Ève Cournoyer, 43, Canadian singer-songwriter.
* Prabuddha Dasgupta, 55, Indian fashion photographer, heart attack.
* Alex Falconer, 72, Scottish politician, MEP for Mid Scotland and Fife (1984–1999).
* Pedro Gasset, 88, Spanish Olympic field hockey player.
* Jerry Grant, 77, American race car driver, liver failure and diabetes.
* Dominic Hibberd, 71, English biographer, pneumonia-induced corticobasal degeneration.
* Barbara Kimenye, 82, British-born Ugandan children's author.
* Joe Kubert, 85, Polish-born American comic book artist (Sgt. Rock, Hawkman), multiple myeloma.
* Jakov Labura, 74, Croatian Olympic rower.
* Frank Martin, 73, American defense attorney and politician, Mayor of Columbus, Georgia (1991–1994), pancreatic cancer.
* Robert W. McNitt, 97, American U.S. Navy rear admiral, dean of admissions at the U.S. Naval Academy, heart failure.
* Édgar Morales Pérez, Mexican politician, mayor-elect of Matehuala, shooting.
* Alf Morris, Baron Morris, 84, British politician and disability rights campaigner, MP for Manchester Wythenshawe (1964–1997).
* Jackie Watters, 92, Scottish footballer (Celtic).

### 13

* Hugo Bedau, 85, American philosopher, complications from Parkinson's disease.
* Beverly Bender, 94, American sculptor.
* Helen Gurley Brown, 90, American author, publisher, and businesswoman; editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine (1965–1997).
* Robert Bruce, 96, Scottish composer.
* Jimmy Carr, 79, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles).
* Dan Daniels, 90, American sportscaster.
* Salvador Escudero, 69, Filipino politician, cancer.
* E. X. Giroux, 88, U.S.-born Canadian writer.
* Kathi Goertzen, 54, American journalist and television anchor (KOMO-TV), benign brain tumors.
* Nellie Gray, 88, American anti-abortion activist and lawyer, natural causes. (body discovered on this date)
* Ray Jordon, 75, Australian cricketer and football coach, cancer.
* Deborah Scaling Kiley, 54, American shipwreck survivor, sailor, author, motivational speaker and businesswoman.
* Hervé Le Cléac'h, 97, French Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Taiohae o Tefenuaenata (1973–1986).
* W. Michael Mathes, 76, American historian, expert on the history of Baja California.
* Johnny Munkhammar, 37, Swedish politician, MP (2010–2012) and writer, adenoid cystic carcinoma.
* Johnny Pesky, 92, American baseball player, manager, and coach (Boston Red Sox).
* Joan Roberts, 95, American musical theatre actress (Oklahoma!), heart failure.
* Typhoon Tracy, 6, Australian Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the Coolmore Classic (2009) and Futurity Stakes (2010).

### 14

* Maja Bošković-Stulli, 89, Croatian historian, writer, publisher and academic.
* Remy Charlip, 83, American dancer.
* Colorspin, 29, French-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare, suspected heart attack.
* Vilasrao Deshmukh, 67, Indian politician, kidney and liver failure.
* Svetozar Gligorić, 89, Serbian chess grandmaster, stroke.
* Brian Green, 77, British football coach and player.
* Svein Hansen, 69, Norwegian ice hockey player.
* Sergey Kapitsa, 84, Russian physicist, demographer, and television host; son of Pyotr Kapitsa.
* Billy Kerr, 67, Irish Olympic cyclist.
* Marilyn Leavitt-Imblum, 66, American embroidery designer.
* Charles Maynard, 42, Bahamian politician, chairman of the opposition Free National Movement (since 2012), apparent heart attack.
* Anna Orso, 73, Italian actress.
* Ron Palillo, 63, American actor (Welcome Back, Kotter, Rubik, the Amazing Cube, Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives), heart attack.
* Al Rabin, 76, American producer and director (Days of Our Lives).
* Rosemary Rice, 87, American radio and television actress (Archie Andrews, Mama).
* Smoke, American donkey, therapy animal for the United States Marine Corps.
* Phyllis Thaxter, 92, American actress (Superman, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, The World of Henry Orient), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
* Zhou Kehua, 42, Chinese criminal, shooting.

### 15

* Elson Iazegi Beyruth, 70, Brazilian footballer, complications of diabetes.
* Bob Birch, 56, American musician (Elton John), apparent suicide by gunshot.
* Jeffery Boswall, 81, British naturalist and broadcaster, cancer.
* Richard B. Brewer, 61, American chief executive officer (Myrexis), cancer.
* Altamiro Carrilho, 87, Brazilian musician and composer, lung cancer.
* Enzo Cavazzoni, 80, Italian Olympic water polo player.
* Biff Elliot, 89, American actor (Alfred Hitchcock Presents, I, the Jury, The Enemy Below).
* Joaquín Filba, 89, Spanish cyclist.
* Punch Gunalan, 68, Malaysian badminton player, liver cancer.
* Harry Harrison, 87, American science fiction writer (Make Room! Make Room!, The Stainless Steel Rat).
* Henry Herx, 79, American film critic, complications from liver cancer.
* Ralph Holman, 94, American biochemist.
* Matthew Ianniello, 92, American mobster, member of the Genovese crime family.
* Elisabeth von Janota-Bzowski, 99, German graphic artist and postage stamp designer.
* Müşfik Kenter, 79, Turkish theater actor, lung cancer.
* Colleen B. Lemmon, 85, American Latter Day Saint counselor.
* Ashok Mehta, 65, Indian cinematographer (Bandit Queen), lung cancer.
* Carina Moberg, 46, Swedish politician, MP for Stockholm County (1994–2012), cancer.
* Albert (Peto) Nicholas, 61, Cook Islands politician, heart attack.
* Burl Osborne, 75, American publisher, chairman of the Associated Press (2002–2007), after short illness.
* Mitchell Todd, 21, British rugby player (Nottingham), traffic collision.
* Sir Ray Whitney, 81, British politician, MP for Wycombe (1978–2001).
* Heinz Wittig, 74, German Olympic water polo player.
* Arbën Xhaferi, 64, Macedonian politician and Albanian-rights activist, complications from a stroke.

### 16

* Peter Joseph Bis, app. 61, American homeless man, heart attack.
* Larry R. Brown, 69, American politician, member of the North Carolina House of Representatives (since 2005), heart attack.
* Candice Cohen-Ahnine, app. 35, French-born former Saudi royal, fall from apartment window.
* T. G. Kamala Devi, 81, Indian actor and playback singer.
* Evon Dickson, 77, New Zealand cricketer.
* Akiva Ehrenfeld, 90, Austrian-born Israeli Orthodox Jewish rabbi.
* Martine Franck, 74, Belgian photographer, bone marrow cancer.
* Owsley Brown Frazier, 77, American philanthropist.
* Jang Hyun-kyu, 30, South Korean footballer, suspected heart attack.
* Phil Kelly, 73, Irish footballer.
* William Kent, 93, American artist.
* Constance Kgosiemang, 66, Namibian politician, paramount chief of the Tswana people, heart attack.
* Princess Lalla Amina of Morocco, 58, Moroccan royal, daughter of Mohammed V of Morocco, lung cancer.
* Marvin Meyer, 64, American biblical scholar, cancer.
* Abune Paulos, 76, Ethiopian patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, heart attack.
* Bystrík Režucha, 77, Slovak conductor.
* William Windom, 88, American actor (Murder She Wrote, To Kill a Mockingbird, Star Trek), heart failure.
* Katsumi Yamauchi, 100, Japanese politician, mayor of Iwata, Shizuoka, natural causes.

### 17

* Joan Bielski, 88, Australian activist.
* Aase Bjerkholt, 97, Norwegian politician and government minister, Minister of Family and Consumer Affairs (1956–1963, 1963–1965).
* Pál Bogár, 84, Hungarian Olympic basketball player.
* Amparo Cuevas, 81, Spanish Roman Catholic seer.
* Axel Edelstam, 88, Swedish diplomat.
* Joey Kovar, 29, American reality TV star (The Real World: Hollywood, Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew), opiate intoxication.
* Geoffrey Lees, 92, English cricketer and educator, prolonged illness.
* John Lynch-Staunton, 82, Canadian politician, Senator (1990–2005), leader of the Conservative Party (2003–2004), heart attack.
* Willem G. van Maanen, 91, Dutch journalist and writer.
* Panos Markovic, 87, Greek football coach and player.
* Lou Martin, 63, Northern Irish musician (Rory Gallagher).
* Brian Oakley, 84, British civil servant and scientist.
* Shirley W. Palmer-Ball, 82, American businessman and politician.
* Veronique Peck, 80, French-born American arts patron.
* Victor Poor, 79, American engineer, co-developer of the microchip and various radio developments, cancer.
* Patrick Ricard, 67, French entrepreneur (Pernod Ricard), complications from a heart attack.

### 18

* Samuel Anderson, 82, Cuban Olympic hurdler.
* Hisham al-Hayali, Iraqi politician, Governor of Diyala Governorate (2012), traffic collision.
* Tayseer al-Mashhadani, Iraqi engineer and politician, traffic collision.
* Alan Bateman, 76, Australian film producer and television screenwriter, cancer.
* Harrison Begay, 94, American painter.
* George Bowers, 68, American film editor (A League of Their Own, The Country Bears, Harlem Nights), complications following heart surgery.
* Lourival Mendes França, Brazilian draughts player.
* Robert B. Gaither, 83, American mechanical engineer.
* Les Kaine, 76, Australian footballer (Hawthorn).
* John Kovatch, 92, American football player (Washington Redskins).
* Scott McKenzie, 73, American singer ("San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)") and songwriter ("Kokomo"), Guillain–Barré syndrome.
* Ra. Ki. Rangarajan, 85, Indian Tamil language writer.
* Jesse Robredo, 54, Filipino politician, Mayor of Naga City (1988–1998, 2001–2010), Secretary of the Interior and Local Government (since 2010), plane crash.
* Eilif Straume, 83, Norwegian writer and critic.

### 19

* Ghazi al-Sadiq, Sudanese politician, Minister of Guidance and Religious Endowments, plane crash.
* Yuriy Avanesov, 77, Soviet football player and coach.
* Doug Dench, 82, Australian football player.
* Hellmut Geissner, 86, German scholar.
* Donal Henahan, 91, American music critic.
* Ivar Iversen, 97, Norwegian Olympic sprint canoeist.
* Laura Latini, 42, Italian voice actress, cancer.
* Maïté Nahyr, 64, South African-born Belgian actress.
* Samia Yusuf Omar, 21, Somali Olympic runner, drowning. (death announced on this date)
* Tony Scott, 68, British film director (Top Gun, True Romance, Man on Fire) and producer, suicide by jumping.
* Edmund Skellings, 80, American poet.

### 20

* Agnes World, 17, American-bred, Japanese-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire.
* Seweryn Chajtman, 93, Polish scientist.
* Phyllis Diller, 95, American comedian and actress (The Pruitts of Southampton, Splendor in the Grass, A Bug's Life).
* Virginia Dwyer, 92, American actress (Another World, As the World Turns, Guiding Light).
* Juan Edmunds Rapahango, 89, Chilean Rapa Nui politician.
* Daryl Hine, 76, American poet, editor, and translator, intestinal blockage.
* Jacob Matijevic, 64, American engineer (NASA).
* Dom Mintoff, 96, Maltese politician, Prime Minister (1955–1958, 1971–1984), natural causes.
* Len Quested, 87, English footballer.
* Kapu Rajaiah, 87, Indian painter, complication of Parkinson's disease.
* Alexander Saxton, 93, American novelist and historian.
* Mika Yamamoto, 45, Japanese journalist, shooting.
* Meles Zenawi, 57, Ethiopian politician, President (1991–1995), Prime Minister (since 1995), liver cancer.

### 21

* Vinus van Baalen, 70, Dutch Olympic swimmer.
* Paul Bassim, 89, Lebanese Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Beirut (1974–1999).
* Joe Cunningham, 80–81, Northern Irish Gaelic footballer.
* Tissa David, 91, Hungarian-born American animator (Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure), cancer.
* John Davidson, 87, American politician, member of the Illinois Senate (1973–1993), natural causes.
* Genoveva Dawson, 94, Argentine botanist, curator, teacher, and explorer.
* Hans Josephsohn, 92, Swiss sculptor.
* Delcia Kite, 88, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1976–1995).
* Kyle Larsen, 62, American contract bridge player.
* Georg Leber, 91, German politician, Minister of Defence (1972–1978).
* Shimon Lev-Ari, 70, Israeli actor, theatre director and translator.
* Gary Mara, 50, Australian rugby league player (Balmain Tigers), traffic collision.
* Taketoshi Naito, 86, Japanese actor.
* Don Raleigh, 86, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers), complications of a fall.
* J. Frank Raley Jr., 85, American politician, member of the Maryland Senate (1963–1966), heart attack.
* Roy Speer, 80, American businessman (Home Shopping Network).
* Guy Spitaels, 80, Belgian politician, Leader of the Socialist Party (1981–1992), Minister-President of Wallonia (1992–1994), brain tumor.
* William Thurston, 65, American mathematician, melanoma.
* Sergio Toppi, 79, Italian cartoonist, cancer.
* Ivan the Gorilla, 49–50, gorilla who didn't see his kind for 27 years, chest tumor.

### 22

* Houcine Anafal, 59, Moroccan footballer, heart attack.
* Bernie Anderson, 71, Australian footballer.
* Nina Bawden, 87, British author (Carrie's War).
* Larry Carp, 86, American attorney and diplomat.
* David K. Cheng, 94, Chinese-born American professor.
* Charles Flores, 41, Cuban-born American jazz bassist, throat cancer.
* José Foralosso, 74, Italian-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Marabá (2000–2012), complications from a stroke.
* Trevor French, Australian Paralympic swimmer.
* Guy Landry Hazoumé, 72, Beninese politician and poet.
* Paulino Matip Nhial, 69–70, South Sudanese military leader and politician, complications of diabetes.
* Paul Shan Kuo-hsi, 88, Taiwanese Roman Catholic cardinal, Bishop of Kaohsiung (1991–2006), pneumonia.
* Martin Shikuku, 79, Kenyan politician, MP for Butere (1963–1975, 1979–1988, 1992–1997), cancer.
* Jeffrey Stone, 85, American actor, model for Prince Charming in Cinderella.
* András Szennay, 91, Hungarian Roman Catholic prelate, Abbot of the Pannonhalma Archabbey (1973–1991).

### 23

* Col Campbell, 78, Australian gardener, cancer.
* Paul Ch'eng Shih-kuang, 96, Taiwanese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tainan (1966–1990).
* Jean-Luc Delarue, 48, French television producer and host, stomach cancer.
* Aubrey Dunn Sr., 84, American politician, member of the New Mexico Senate (1965–1980), cancer.
* James Fogle, 75, American author (Drugstore Cowboy), mesothelioma.
* Byard Lancaster, 70, American jazz multi-instrumentalist, pancreatic cancer.
* Howard Lee, 77, Bermudian Olympic sailor.
* Edith Mastenbroek, 37, Dutch politician, Member of the European Parliament (2004–2008), cardiac arrest.
* Bob Myrick, 59, American baseball player (New York Mets), heart attack.
* Merv Neagle, 54, Australian AFL football player (Essendon), traffic collision.
* Jerry Nelson, 78, American puppeteer (The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock), prostate cancer and COPD.
* James Serrin, 85, American mathematician.
* Josepha Sherman, 65, American science fiction author.
* Steve Van Buren, 91, American Hall of Fame football player (Philadelphia Eagles), pneumonia.

### 24

* Henry H. Black, 83, American marine.
* Werner Braun, 86, German musicologist.
* Cornelia Brierly, 99, American architect.
* Bud Chamberlain, 92, American baseball player and realtor.
* Dadullah, app. 47, Pakistani Taliban leader (Bajaur Agency), airstrike.
* Richard William Davis, 70, American child murderer and rapist, natural causes.
* Aleksander Donner, 65, Ukrainian handball coach.
* Lijon Eknilang, 66, Marshallese anti–nuclear weapons activist. (death reported on this date)
* Pauli Ellefsen, 76, Faroese politician, Prime Minister (1981–1985).
* Sir Richard Evans, 84, British diplomat, Ambassador to the People's Republic of China (1984–1988).
* Félix Miélli Venerando, 74, Brazilian footballer, 1970 FIFA World Cup winner, cardiac arrest.
* Steve Franken, 80, American actor (Bewitched, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis), cancer.
* Bud Goodall, 59, American scholar and writer, pancreatic cancer.
* Gerd Greune, 63, German politician.
* Zygmunt Kiszkurno, 91, Polish Olympic sport shooter.
* Claire Malis, 69, American actress (One Life to Live, From Here to Eternity, The Facts of Life), heart failure and pneumonia.
* Dale Sommers, 68, American radio personality, Addison's disease.
* Maureen Toal, 82, Irish actress.
* Krum Yanev, 83, Bulgarian Olympic footballer.

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* Florencio Amarilla, 77, Paraguayan footballer, coach and actor.
* Neil Armstrong, 82, American astronaut, first person to walk on the Moon, complications from surgery.
* R. Palmer Beasley, 76, American physician, public health educator, and epidemiologist, pancreatic cancer.
* Ray Booty, 79, English cyclist, British Empire and Commonwealth Games gold medallist (1958), cancer.
* Stephen Bradford, 48, English cricket player (Lincolnshire).
* Willard C. Butcher, 85, American banker, cancer.
* Joshua Casteel, 32, American soldier and playwright, lung cancer.
* Stanley Crooks, 70, American tribal leader, Chairman of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (1992–2012), respiratory ailment.
* Wisse Dekker, 88, Dutch businessman, traffic collision.
* Georg Feuerstein, 65, German-born Canadian scholar of Hinduism.
* Roger Fisher, 90, American academic.
* Vesna Girardi-Jurkić, 68, Croatian archeologist and museologist.
* Roberto González Barrera, 82, Mexican businessman, founder of Gruma, cancer.
* Donald Gorrie, 79, Scottish politician, MSP for Central Scotland (1999–2007), MP for Edinburgh West (1997–2001).
* Aurélio Granada Escudeiro, 92, Portuguese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Angra (1979–1996), pneumonia.
* Angkarn Kalayanapong, 86, Thai poet and artist, heart disease and diabetes.
* Eduardo Koaik, 86, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Piracicaba (1984–2002), cancer.
* V. K. Lakshmanan, 80, Indian politician, MP for Coimbatore East (1991–2006).
* Richard Norris, 80, British Olympic bronze medallist field hockey player (1952).
* Emilio Pacione, 92, Scottish footballer (Dundee United).
* Manola Saavedra, 76, Spanish-born Mexican actress.
* Pontus Schultz, 40, Swedish journalist, ravine fall during 2012 Haute Route bicycle race.
* Juan Valdez, 74, American land rights activist.

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* Russ Alben, 82, American advertising executive.
* Reginald Bartholomew, 76, American diplomat, cancer.
* Jacques Bensimon, 69, Canadian film executive, cancer.
* Gérard Bitsindou, 70, Congolese politician.
* Viredo Espinosa, 83, Cuban artist, vascular disease.
* Robert T. Gannett, 94, American politician and lawyer.
* John Goldkamp, 64, American criminologist, multiple myeloma.
* George Gunther, 92, American politician.
* A. K. Hangal, 98, Indian actor, complications from a fall.
* Countess Alix de Lannoy, 70, Belgian countess, mother of Stéphanie de Lannoy, stroke.
* Peter L. Shelton, 67, American architect, cancer.
* Karsten Anker Solhaug, 97, Norwegian salvationist.
* Alan Steen, 90, English footballer (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
* Krzysztof Wilmanski, 72, Polish physicist, pancreatic cancer.

### 27

* Neville Alexander, 75, South African revolutionary and linguist, cancer.
* Aurora Bautista, 86, Spanish film actress.
* Malcolm Browne, 81, American journalist and photographer (1964 Pulitzer Prize), complications of Parkinson's disease.
* Irwin Cohen, 60, American judoka, amyloidosis and myelodysplastic syndromes.
* Tony Dumper, 88, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Dudley (1977–1993).
* Richard L. Fisher, 64, American politician and energy executive, heart attack.
* Art Heyman, 71, American basketball player (New York Knicks, Philadelphia 76ers).
* Allan Horsfall, 84, British gay rights activist.
* Ivica Horvat, 86, Croatian football player and manager.
* Richard Keyes, 81, American painter.
* Sir Richard Kingsland, 95, Australian RAAF pilot and public servant.
* Geliy Korzhev, 87, Russian painter.
* Karl Lennert, 91, German physician and pathologist.
* Leonard Linsky, 90, American philosopher.
* Louis Ncamiso Ndlovu, 67, Swazi Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Manzini (1985–2012), heart failure.
* Antoine Redin, 77, French footballer and football manager.
* Aboud Rogo, 44, Kenyan Islamic cleric, shooting.
* Russell Scott, 91, American clown and television host (Blinky's Fun Club), pneumonia.
* Tomáš Sedláček, 94, Czech general, anti-Nazi resistance member, and political prisoner, melanoma.
* Tao Wei, 46, Chinese football player and commentator, heart attack.
* Roger J. White, 71, British-born American Episcopal prelate, Bishop of Milwaukee (1985–2003), brain aneurysm.
* Albert George Wilson, 94, American astronomer.

### 28

* Akhlakul Hossain Ahmed, 85, Bangladeshi physician and politician.
* Said Afandi al-Chirkawi, 74, Russian Muslim Sufi leader, suicide bomb attack.
* Sir Rhodes Boyson, 87, British educator, author and politician, MP for Brent North (1974–1997).
* Norm Dussault, 86, American ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens).
* Maffeo Giovanni Ducoli, 93, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Belluno-Feltre (1975–1996).
* Eva Figes, 80, English author.
* Shulamith Firestone, 67, Canadian-born American feminist writer (The Dialectic of Sex).
* Dave Fredrickson, 85, American archaeologist, anthropologist, and folk singer.
* William Pascal Kikoti, 55, Tanzanian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Mpanda (since 2000), complications of high blood pressure.
* Dick McBride, 84, American beat poet.
* Saul Merin, 79, Israeli ophthalmologist.
* K. Pankajakshan, 84, Indian politician, MLA in Kerala (1971–1977, 1980–1991), cardiac arrest.
* Alfred Schmidt, 81, German philosopher.
* Ramón Sota, 74, Spanish golfer, pneumonia.

### 29

* Said Aburish, 77, Palestinian journalist.
* Margie Foote, 82, American politician.
* Ruth Goldbloom, 88, Canadian philanthropist, co-founder of the Pier 21 museum, cancer.
* Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, 59, British academic and author (The Occult Roots of Nazism), cancer.
* Shoshichi Kobayashi, 80, Japanese mathematician.
* Anne McKnight, 88, American opera singer.
* Les Moss, 87, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns).
* Daniel O'Keefe, 84, American author and editor (Reader's Digest), inventor of Festivus.
* Sergei Ovchinnikov, 43, Russian volleyball coach (women's national team), suspected suicide by hanging.
* Jeremy Pope, 76, New Zealand activist and lawyer.
* Donald E. Tewes, 96, American businessman and politician, Representative from Wisconsin (1957–1959).
* Valyra, 3, British-bred French-trained Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the Prix de Diane (2012), euthanized.

### 30

* Bernardo Bonezzi, 48, Spanish film music composer.
* Daire Brehan, 55, Irish broadcaster, actress and barrister, cancer.
* L. Macon Epps, 92, American engineer, inventor, author and poet.
* Gaeton Fonzi, 76, American investigative journalist, complications from Parkinson's disease.
* Kristian Fougner, 93, Norwegian engineer and resistance member.
* Paul Friedrichs, 72, German motocross racer.
* Bill Kini, 75, New Zealand boxer and rugby player, cancer.
* Igor Kvasha, 79, Russian actor.
* Carlos Larrañaga, 75, Spanish actor, cardiac decompensation.
* Chris Lighty, 44, American talent manager, co-founder of Violator Entertainment, suicide by gunshot.
* Nat Peeples, 86, American professional baseball player.
* Don Richard Riso, 66, American teacher and author, cancer.
* Jacek Sempoliński, 85, Polish painter, art professor, critic, and essayist.
* Anton Skulberg, 90, Norwegian scientist and politician, MP for Østfold (1969–1972, 1974–1977).
* Vidar Theisen, 79, Norwegian meteorologist and weather presenter, Parkinson's disease.
* Gabriel Vahanian, 85, French Christian theologian.
* Christopher Williams, 85, British Olympic bobsledder.
* Xin Kegui, 61, Chinese academic and civil engineer.

### 31

* Cornelis Christiaan Berg, 78, Dutch botanist.
* Max Bygraves, 89, British singer, variety performer, and TV game show host (Family Fortunes), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
* Lucas Luis Dónnelly, 91, Argentine Roman Catholic prelate.
* Mark J. Dworkin, 66, Canadian writer.
* Rajvinder Kaur Gill, 40, Canadian banker, strangulation.
* Tom Keating, 69, American football player (Oakland Raiders), prostate cancer.
* Alan M. Kriegsman, 84, American dance critic (1976 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism), heart disease.
* Kris Kin, 12, American-bred British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of The Derby (2003), cervical fracture. (death announced on this date)
* Joe Lewis, 68, American martial arts master, actor, brain tumor.
* Carlo Maria Martini, 85, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Cardinal Archbishop of Milan (1979–2002), Parkinson's disease.
* Frank B. McDonald, 87, American astrophysicist.
* Pedro Medina Avendaño, 96, Colombian poet.
* Steven Smith Mijiga, 74, Malawian civil servant, Post Master General.
* Anthony Mathias Mundadan, 88, Indian priest.
* Kashiram Rana, 74, Indian politician, MLA for Surat East (1975–1980) and MP for Surat (1989–2009), heart attack.
* Heraldine Rock, 79, Saint Lucian educator and politician.
* John C. Shabaz, 81, American judge and politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly (1964–1979).
* Sergey Sokolov, 101, Soviet military commander, Marshal of the Soviet Union, Minister of Defense of the Soviet Union (1984–1987).
* Theatrical, 30, Irish-bred American Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the Breeders' Cup Turf (1987), euthanized.
* Edward Vincent, 78, American politician, first African-American Mayor of Inglewood, California (1983–1996), member of the California State Assembly (1996–2000).
* Norbert Walter, 67, German economist.
* Mahmoud El-Gohary, 74, Egyptian football player and coach, complications of a stroke.