# Deaths in April 2012
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The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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).
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## April 2012
### 1

* Nancy Beckage, 61, American entomologist.
* Ekrem Bora, 78, Turkish actor, pulmonary edema.
* Alvin J. Boutte, 82, American banker and businessman.
* Lionel Bowen, 89, Australian politician, MP for Kingsford-Smith (1969–1990); Deputy Prime Minister (1983–1990), pneumonia.
* Sauro Bufalini, 70, Italian Olympic basketball player.
* Chang Mei-yao, 71, Taiwanese actress.
* Giorgio Chinaglia, 65, Italian footballer (Lazio, New York Cosmos), heart attack.
* Miguel de la Madrid, 77, Mexican politician, President (1982–1988), complications of pulmonary emphysema.
* Leila Denmark, 114, American supercentenarian, author, and physician, credited with developing a whooping cough vaccine.
* Peter M. Douglas, 69, German American environmental activist, lung and throat cancer.
* Klaus Dylewski, 95, German SS officer.
* Jamaa Fanaka, 68, American filmmaker.
* Sir Stan Yapp, 70, English politician.

### 2

* Jesús Aguilarte, 53, Venezuelan politician, Governor of Apure State (1999–2000; 2004–2011), shot.
* Russell Allen, 99, American cyclist.
* Benhuan, 104, Chinese Buddhist master, honorary president of the Buddhist Association of China.
* Rosario Bentivegna, 89, Italian partisan and doctor.
* Warren Bonython, 95, Australian conservationist, explorer, author, and chemical engineer.
* Roger Breske, 73, American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Senate (1990–2008).
* Elizabeth Catlett, 96, American-born Mexican artist.
* Allie Clark, 88, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Philadelphia Athletics).
* Jim Delaney, 91, American Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) shot putter.
* Sarah Dreher, 75, American novelist and playwright.
* Pilar Fuertes Ferragut, 49, Spanish diplomat.
* Rychard Karpov, 80, Ukrainian Olympic boxer.
* John Kuenster, 87, American sportswriter, editor of Baseball Digest.
* Mauricio Lasansky, 97, Argentinian-born American printmaker.
* Jimmy Little, 75, Australian singer.
* Felice Ludovisi, 94, Italian painter.
* Alan Ruddock, 68, Irish martial artist and teacher.
* M. Saroja, 79, Indian film actress.
* Neslişah Sultan, 91, Turkish-born Ottoman and Egyptian royal, heart attack.

### 3

* Amer Al Midani, 55, Lebanese businessman.
* Lorne Benson, 81, Canadian football player (Winnipeg Blue Bombers).
* Arduino Bertoldo, 79, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Foligno (1992–2008).
* Michael Bzdel, 81, Canadian Ukrainian Catholic hierarch, Metropolitan of Winnipeg (1992–2006).
* Richard Descoings, 53, French academic director (Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris).
* Frank Fucarino, 91, American basketball player (Toronto Huskies).
* Nicholas King, 79, American actor, preserved the Watts Towers.
* Efraím Basílio Krevey, 83, Brazilian Ukrainian Catholic hierarch, Bishop of São João Batista em Curitiba (1978–2006).
* Mingote, 93, Spanish cartoonist, writer, and journalist.
* Govind Narain, 95, Indian civil servant, Governor of Karnataka (1977–1983).
* Airton Pavilhão, 77, Brazilian footballer.
* Xenia Stad-de Jong, 90, Dutch Olympic gold medal-winning (1948) athlete.
* Chief Jay Strongbow, 83, American professional wrestler (WWF).
* José María Zárraga, 81, Spanish footballer and manager.

### 4

* Muhammad Afrizal, 30, Indonesian boxer, PABA featherweight champion (2008), injuries sustained from bout.
* A. Dean Byrd, 64, American psychologist.
* Dimitris Christoulas, 77, Greek pensioner, suicide by gunshot.
* Eugénie De Keyser, 93, Belgian writer and art critic.
* Joe Doyle, 78–79, Irish cyclist.
* Anne Karin Elstad, 74, Norwegian author, stroke.
* Ficre Ghebreyesus, 50, Eritrean-American artist, heart failure.
* Josiah Henson, 90, American Olympic bronze medal-winning (1952) wrestler, stroke and myocardial infarction.
* Aminul Islam, 40, Bangladeshi trade union leader.
* Nikolay Krasovsky, 87, Russian mathematician.
* Claude Miller, 70, French director, producer, and screenwriter.
* Helge Sverre Nesheim, 92, Norwegian broadcaster.
* Richard Okada, 66, American linguist, Professor of Japanese at Princeton University.
* Dubravko Pavličić, 44, Croatian footballer.
* Roberto Rexach Benítez, 82, Puerto Rican politician, President of the Senate (1993–1996).

### 5

* Keith Adams, 85, Australian adventurer and filmmaker.
* Abd al-Rahim Aqiqi Bakhshayishi, 70, Iranian jurist, writer, journalist and translator.
* Joe Avezzano, 68, American football player (Boston Patriots) and coach (Dallas Cowboys, Oakland Raiders), heart attack.
* David Axon, 61, British astrophysicist.
* Pedro Bartolomé Benoit, 91, Dominican military general, Provisional President (1965).
* Angelo Castro Jr., 67, Filipino journalist, The World Tonight anchor (1986–2009, 2011–2012), lung cancer.
* Cynthia Dall, 41, American musician.
* Attila Hazai, 44, Hungarian writer, suicide.
* Jim Herr, 87, American businessman, founder of Herr's Snacks.
* Jimmy Lawlor, 78, Irish footballer.
* Jim Marshall, 88, English businessman, founder of Marshall Amplification.
* Barney McKenna, 72, Irish musician (The Dubliners).
* Bingu wa Mutharika, 78, Malawian politician, President (since 2004), heart attack.
* Gil Noble, 80, American television reporter and host (Like It Is).
* Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, 76, German designer.
* Siegbert Salomon Prawer, 87, German-born British academic and writer.
* Bernard Rapoport, 94, American businessman and philanthropist.
* Regal Classic, 27, Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
* A. G. L. Shaw, 96, Australian historian.
* Stanislav Strnad, 81, Czech film director.
* Sir Peter Tapsell, 82, New Zealand politician, Speaker of the House of Representatives (1993–1996).
* Dick Wearmouth, 85, Australian football player.
* Christer Zetterberg, 70, Swedish businessman.

### 6

* Boraî Bashir, 80, Sudanese footballer.
* Larry Canning, 86, English footballer (Aston Villa) and broadcaster, vascular dementia.
* Karl P. Cohen, 99, American mathematical physicist.
* Robin Denniston, 85, British book publisher.
* Fang Lizhi, 76, Chinese political activist and astrophysicist.
* Felipe Fernández García, 76, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ávila (1976–1991) and San Cristóbal de La Laguna o Tenerife (1991–2005).
* Promode Gogoi, 82, Indian politician.
* Roland Guilbault, 77, American rear admiral who commanded the USS Ticonderoga, the first Aegis cruiser.
* Dermot Hannafin (Snr), 84, Irish football player.
* Theunis Jonck, 86, South African Olympic weightlifter.
* Thomas Kinkade, 54, American painter, overdose of alcohol and Valium.
* Thomas Sancton Sr., 97, American novelist and journalist.
* Michael Sands, 66, American show business publicist and alleged CIA operative, choked.
* Arnold Saul, 87, American tennis player and coach.
* Sheila Scotter, 91, Australian fashion editor (Vogue Australia).
* Reed Whittemore, 92, American poet.

### 7

* Michaelina Bellamy, 59, American singer, dancer, and actress, acute myeloid leukemia.
* Arthur Budd, 66, Australian footballer.
* Dennis De Souza, 77, Guyanese musician.
* Steven Kanumba, 28, Tanzanian actor and director.
* Alexander Leslie-Melville, 14th Earl of Leven, 87, Scottish peer and soldier, Lord Lieutenant of Nairn (1969–1999).
* Miss Read, 98, English writer.
* Satsue Mito, 97, Japanese zoologist.
* Ignatius Moses I Daoud, 81, Syrian Catholic cardinal, Patriarch of Antioch (1998–2001), stroke complications.
* David E. Pergrin, 94, American soldier, led the most decorated World War II engineering battalion.
* Bashir Khan Qureshi, 54, Pakistani politician, cardiac arrest.
* Tom Runnels, 78, American football player (Washington Redskins).
* Harold Robert Steacy, 88, Canadian mineralogist.
* Anders Thor, 76, Swedish scientist and educator.
* Serafym Verzun, 62, Ukrainian Orthodox hierarch, Bishop of Zhytomyr (1992–1995), Archbishop of Rivne (1995–2000) and Kirovohrad (2002–2008).
* Mike Wallace, 93, American news correspondent (60 Minutes).
* Jamshid Zokirov, 63, Uzbek actor.

### 8

* Mark Ayers, 63, American labor leader.
* Gordon Bagier, 87, British politician, MP for Sunderland South (1964–1987).
* Bram Bart, 49, Dutch voice actor, pancreatic cancer.
* Pat Carlin, 82, English footballer.
* Juventino Castro y Castro, 93, Mexican judge and politician.
* John Egan, 59, Irish Gaelic footballer.
* June Gibbs, 89, American politician, cancer.
* George Wilberforce Kakoma, 89, Ugandan musician, composer of the Ugandan national anthem.
* Blair Kiel, 50, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Indianapolis Colts, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), heart attack.
* Donal O'Brien, 72, Irish hurler.
* Anatoly Ravikovich, 75, Russian film actor (The Pokrovsky Gate), cancer.
* Jack Tramiel, 83, Polish-born American businessman, founder of Commodore and CEO of Atari.
* Al Veigel, 95, American baseball player (Boston Braves).
* Rikiya Yasuoka, 64, Japanese actor and singer, heart failure.
* Janusz K. Zawodny, 90, Polish-born American historian, World War II resistance fighter.

### 9

* Carol Adams, 94, American actress and dancer.
* Takeshi Aono, 75, Japanese voice actor (Dragon Ball, One Piece), post-operative multiple cerebral infarction.
* Reginald Askew, 83, British priest and academic.
* Richard Beyer, 85, American sculptor.
* Lester Breslow, 97, American physician.
* François Brigneau, 92, French journalist and author.
* Barry Cahill, 90, Canadian-born American actor (Grand Theft Auto, Sweet Bird of Youth).
* Dick Cullum, 81, English footballer.
* Chanig ar Gall, 89, French broadcaster, entertainer, and writer.
* John Golding, 82, British artist, art scholar and curator.
* José Guardiola, 81, Spanish singer (Eurovision Song Contest 1963).
* Ismail Haron, 66, Singaporean singer.
* Mark Lenzi, 43, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1992) diver, hypotension.
* Wiebo Ludwig, 70, Canadian environmental activist and convicted bomber, esophageal cancer.
* Miriam Mafai, 86, Italian journalist (La Repubblica), author and politician.
* Ivan Nagel, 80, German theater director.
* Simo Nikolić, 71, Croatian Olympic sailor.
* Meral Okay, 53, Turkish actress and screenwriter (Muhteşem Yüzyıl), cancer.
* Boris Parygin, 81, Russian philosopher and sociologist.
* Don Reed, 92, American football coach (Long Beach State 49ers), natural causes.
* Robert R. Sokal, 86, Austrian-born American biostatistician and entomologist.
* Malcolm Thomas, 82, Welsh rugby union player.

### 10

* Svein Aasmundstad, 77, Norwegian civil servant.
* John Anderson, 69, Northern Irish bioengineer.
* Luis Aponte Martínez, 89, Puerto Rican Roman Catholic prelate and first cardinal, Metropolitan Archbishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico (1964–1999).
* Erdoğan Arıca, 57, Turkish football coach, lung cancer.
* Raymond Aubrac, 97, French WWII resistance fighter.
* Leonardo Mario Bernacchi, 79, Italian-born Bolivian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Camiri (1993–2009).
* Frank Bochow, 74, German trade unionist and diplomat.
* Barbara Buchholz, 52, German musician and composer, cancer.
* Virginia Spencer Carr, 82, American biographer.
* Maria Pia Casilio, 76, Italian film actress.
* Lili Chookasian, 90, American opera singer.
* Kurt Crain, 47, American football player (Houston Oilers, Green Bay Packers).
* Dorothy Dermody, 102, Irish Olympic (1948) fencer.
* Zvi Dinstein, 86, Israeli politician, MK (1965–1974), pulmonary embolism.
* Carl Gatto, 74, American politician, member of the Alaska House of Representatives (since 2003), prostate cancer.
* Tichaona Mudzingwa, 69, Zimbabwean politician.
* Odd Rikard Olsen, 64, Norwegian newspaper editor and politician.
* Akin Omoboriowo, 81, Nigerian lawyer and politician.
* Andy Replogle, 58, American baseball player (Milwaukee Brewers).
* Afewerk Tekle, 80, Ethiopian artist, complications of stomach ulcer.
* Grant Tilly, 74, New Zealand actor (30 Days of Night).
* Carlos F. Truan, 76, American politician.
* N. Varadarajan, 88, Indian politician.
* John Weaver, 92, American sculptor.

### 11

* Julio Alemán, 79, Mexican actor, cancer.
* Ghamar Ariyan, 90, Iranian researcher and author.
* Ahmed Ben Bella, 93, Algerian politician, Prime Minister (1962–1963); President (1963–1965).
* Misbach Yusa Biran, 78, Indonesian film director.
* Roger Caron, 73, Canadian author, prison escape artist, and bank robber, infection.
* Eugene V. Clark, 86, American Roman Catholic priest.
* Steve Cokely, 59, American political researcher and lecturer.
* Tippy Dye, 97, American college athlete, coach, and athletic director.
* Peter Gerber, 88, Swiss politician.
* Gustaf Jansson, 90, Swedish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1952) athlete.
* Keith Leeson, 83, Australian Olympic hockey player.
* Bob Lewis, 86, American college basketball player (University of Utah).
* Gianni Marchetti, 78, Italian composer and songwriter.
* Moses Majekodunmi, 95, Nigerian politician, Minister of Health (1960–66).
* Hal McKusick, 87, American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and flautist, natural causes.
* Yolanda Mérida, 82, Mexican actress.
* Rainer Penkert, 90, German actor.
* Agustin Roman, 83, Cuban-born American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Miami (1979–2003), heart attack.

### 12

* Uno Anton, 70, Estonian politician.
* Vladimir Astapovsky, 65, Soviet Olympic bronze medal-winning (1976) footballer.
* Kellon Baptiste, 38, Grenadian footballer, cancer.
* Mohit Chattopadhyay, 77, Indian playwright, dramatist, and poet, cancer.
* Linda Cook, 63, American actress.
* Nico dei Gabbiani, 67, Italian singer.
* Elizabeth Ferris, 71, British Olympic bronze medal-winning (1960) diver.
* James Gallen, 83, American politician, complications from appendicitis.
* David Alan Gore, 58, American convicted serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
* Rodgers Grant, 76, American jazz pianist, cancer.
* Steinbjørn B. Jacobsen, 74, Faroese poet and writer, Faroese Literature Prize recipient.
* Robert Kennedy, 73, Canadian publisher, complications from skin cancer.
* Andrew Love, 70, American saxophonist (The Memphis Horns), complications of Alzheimer's disease.
* Masakre, 57, Mexican professional wrestler, cancer.
* Bruce Morrison, 88, Australian football player.
* Manfred Orzessek, 78, German footballer.
* Amy Tryon, 42, American Olympic bronze medal-winning (2004) equestrian, accidental drug overdose.

### 13

* Miguel Albareda Creus, 93, Spanish chess player.
* Eunice Alberts, 84–85, American contralto.
* Victor Arnold, 75, American actor.
* Irving K. Barber, 89, Canadian forester and philanthropist.
* John P. Blane, 82, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Rwanda (1982–1985); Chad (1985–1988).
* William B. Buffum, 90, American diplomat, US Ambassador to Lebanon (1970–1974), natural causes.
* Cecil Chaudhry, 70, Pakistani fighter pilot, school principal, and activist, lung cancer.
* Florin Constantiniu, 79, Romanian historian.
* Erland Cullberg, 81, Swedish artist.
* William Alden Edson, 99, American scientist and engineer.
* Avraham Goldberg, 99, American-born Israeli Talmud scholar.
* Verónica Gómez, 26, Venezuelan volleyball player, heart failure.
* Shūichi Higurashi, 75, Japanese manga illustrator, painted cover for Big Comic (1970–2011), pneumonia.
* Ruth Davis Kohrt, 90, American librarian and novelist.
* Marilyn Lovell Matz, 81, American actress (Ghosts of Mississippi), therapist and activist.
* Peter Mullins, 86, Australian Olympic decathlete (1948), basketball player, and coach.
* Lewis Nordan, 72, American writer, pneumonia.
* Mario Rizzi, 86, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Titular Archbishop of Bagnoregio (since 1991), Apostolic Nuncio to Bulgaria (1991–1996).
* David S. Smith, 94, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Sweden (1976–1977).
* Robert Wigmore, 62, Cook Islands politician.

### 14

* Celal Başkale, Turkish Kurdish politician, killed.
* Émile Bouchard, 92, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens), member of the Hockey Hall of Fame.
* Tom Farrell, 87, Canadian politician.
* William Finley, 69, American actor (Phantom of the Paradise), complications from surgery.
* C. Miller Fisher, 98, Canadian neurologist.
* Jonathan Frid, 87, Canadian actor (Dark Shadows), complications from a fall and pneumonia.
* Bela Gold, 97, Hungarian-born American businessman and professor.
* Ma Jaya, 71, American spiritual teacher, pancreatic cancer.
* Lee Kyung-hwan, 24, South Korean footballer (Suwon Bluewings), suicide by jumping.
* Eddie May, 68, English football player and manager.
* Piermario Morosini, 25, Italian footballer (Livorno), cardiac arrest.
* Martin Poll, 89, American film producer (The Lion in Winter), natural causes.
* Edward Purrington, 82, American opera director.
* Paulo César Saraceni, 78, Brazilian film director.
* Vincent F. Seyfried, 93, American historian.
* Per G. Stavnum, 70, Norwegian diplomat, ambassador to Lithuania (1991–1996); Vietnam (2000–2005).
* Synchronised, 9, Irish racehorse, euthanised after race fall.
* Viro the Virus, 33, American hip hop artist.
* Mikhail Voronin, 73, Ukrainian fashion designer.
* Cathie Wright, 82, American politician, California State Senator (1992–2000).

### 15

* Fred Birchmore, 100, American adventurer.
* Paul Bogart, 92, American Emmy Award-winning television director (All in the Family), natural causes.
* Jesús Giles Sánchez, 50, Mexican politician, cancer.
* Hans Johansson, 85, Swedish Olympic equestrian.
* Peter McKenzie, 59, New Zealand conservationist, cancer.
* Yasushi Mieno, 88, Japanese banker, Governor of the Bank of Japan (1989–1994), cardiac arrest.
* Jenny Olsson, 32, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier, cancer.
* Bob Perani, 69, Italian-born American ice hockey player (Flint Generals).
* Aleksandr Porokhovshchikov, 73, Russian actor, complications from diabetes and stroke.
* Murray Rose, 73, Australian Olympic gold medal-winning (1956, 1960) swimmer, leukaemia.
* Samir Said, 48, Kuwaiti footballer, traffic collision.
* Rich Saul, 64, American football player (Los Angeles Rams), leukemia.
* Dwayne Schintzius, 43, American basketball player (New Jersey Nets), respiratory failure.
* James Shaner, 75, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1995–2006).
* Joan Tozzer, 90, American figure skater.
* Bob Wright, 86, American college basketball coach (Morehead State University).
* Tadashi Yamamoto, 76, Japanese businessman, founder of the Japan Center for International Exchange, gall bladder cancer.

### 16

* Sári Barabás, 98, Hungarian-born German opera singer, stroke.
* Marian Biskup, 89, Polish historian.
* Laura Bornholdt, 93, American historian and academic administrator.
* Ernest Callenbach, 83, American writer and environmentalist.
* Teddy Charles, 84, American jazz musician and composer.
* Jack Cohen, 93, American rabbi.
* Ray Davey, 97, Northern Irish Presbyterian minister, founder of the Corrymeela Community.
* Jean Fréchaut, 97, French cyclist.
* Margalith Galun, 85, Israeli lichenologist, after a lengthy illness.
* Alan Hacker, 73, British clarinetist.
* George Kunda, 56, Zambian politician, Vice President (2008–2011), anaemia.
* A. F. Millidge, 98, British arachnologist.
* Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, 98, Danish shipping magnate.
* Antoine Hamid Mourany, 82, Lebanese-born Syrian Maronite hierarch, Metropolitan of Damascus (1989–1999).
* Arthur Nadel, 80, American fund manager and convicted embezzler.
* Ngô Đình Lệ Quyên, 53, South Vietnamese-born Italian lawyer, daughter of Madame Nhu, traffic collision.
* Oyalı, 4, Turkish sheep, first cloned animal in Turkey, lung disease.
* Carlo Petrini, 64, Italian footballer.
* Graham Simpson, 68, British musician (Roxy Music).
* Randy Starkman, 51, Canadian sports journalist, pneumonia.
* Jack Streidl, 93, American football coach.

### 17

* Alexander Appleford, 90, English pilot.
* Barry Askew, 75, British newspaper editor (News of the World).
* Walter M. Baker, 84, American politician.
* Leila Berg, 94, British children's author.
* J. Quinn Brisben, 77, American civil rights activist and Socialist candidate for U.S. President in 1992.
* Jake Carter, 87, American basketball player.
* Tim Collins, 66, American golfer.
* Michael Green, New Zealand diplomat, cancer. (death announced on this date)
* Stan Johnson, 75, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Kansas City Athletics).
* Ron Karabatsos, 78, American actor (Flashdance, Get Shorty, Prince of the City).
* Almasbei Kchach, 53, Abkhazian politician, suicide by gunshot.
* Sukenobu Kudō, 84, Japanese speed skater (1952 Winter Olympics), renal failure.
* Irving Millman, 88, American virologist and microbiologist.
* Dimitris Mitropanos, 64, Greek singer, pulmonary edema.
* Nityananda Mahapatra, 99, Indian politician, poet, and journalist, natural causes.
* Jonathan Plaut, 69, American rabbi.
* Ben H. Procter, 85, American author and football player (Los Angeles Rams), Parkinson's disease.
* Stanley Rogers Resor, 94, American lawyer, Secretary of the Army (1965–1971).
* Jane Schaberg, 74, American biblical scholar.
* Dom Valentino, 83, American sports broadcaster.
* Louis Vorster, 45, South African-born Namibian cricketer, shot.

### 18

* Pavol Bencz, 75, Czechoslovak footballer.
* Arthur Bottom, 82, English footballer (York City).
* José Cerviño Cerviño, 91, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tui-Vigo (1976–1996).
* Dick Clark, 82, American television host and producer (American Bandstand, Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, Pyramid), heart attack.
* Peter Collis, 82, English artist.
* Graham Cooper, 75, English cricketer.
* Hillman Curtis, 51, American graphic designer and filmmaker, colon cancer.
* Tina De Mola, 88, Italian actress, singer and television personality.
* John Anthony Golding, 91, Turks and Caicos Islands administrator.
* René Lépine, 82, Canadian real estate developer, prostate cancer.
* Kristian Lund, 80, Norwegian military officer, engineer and politician.
* John O'Neil, 91, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).
* Robert O. Ragland, 80, American film score composer.
* Sterling Ridge, 75, American politician, Mayor of Glendale, Arizona (1976–1980), three-term member of the Arizona House of Representatives.
* Col Saddington, 74, Australian football player.
* Naum Shopov, 78, Bulgarian actor.
* Åge Storhaug, 74, Norwegian Olympic (1960, 1964) gymnast, cancer.
* Fritz Theilen, 84, German resistance member.
* K. D. Wentworth, 61, American science fiction author, cancer and pneumonia.

### 19

* Muhammad Mustafa Badawi, 86, Egyptian academic.
* Allison Baden-Clay, 43, Australian executive, murdered.
* Leopold David de Rothschild, 84, British financier and philanthropist.
* Richard Drinnon, 87, American historian.
* Ray Easterling, 62, American football player (Atlanta Falcons), suicide by gunshot.
* Greg Ham, 58, Australian musician (Men at Work).
* Levon Helm, 71, American musician (The Band) and actor (Coal Miner's Daughter), throat cancer.
* Mansur Kamaletdinov, 86, Russian ballet dancer and teacher.
* Ken Lowrie, 85, Australian politician, member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council (1968–1986).
* Jacques Martin, 52, Canadian Paralympian, gold medalist (1984, 1988, 1992, 1996), heart attack.
* Enrico Pedrini, 72, Italian art theorist.
* Murtaza Razvi, 47, Pakistani journalist, strangled.
* Chitturi Satyanarayana, 98, Indian surgeon.
* Meenakshi Thapar, 27, Indian actress (404), strangled.
* Mabel Van Camp, 91, Canadian judge, first woman on the Supreme Court of Ontario.
* Valeri Vasiliev, 62, Russian Olympic gold (1972, 1976) and silver (1980) medal-winning ice hockey player.
* Zozo Zarpa, 73, Greek actress, heart failure.

### 20

* Mario Arturo Acosta Chaparro, 70, Mexican army general, shot.
* Ayten Alpman, 82, Turkish singer, respiratory failure.
* Jack Ashley, Baron Ashley of Stoke, 89, British politician and disability campaigner, MP for Stoke-on-Trent South (1966–1992).
* Alfie Biggs, 76, English footballer.
* Brian Boland, 80, Australian footballer.
* Matt Branam, 57, American academic, President of Rose–Hulman Institute of Technology (since 2009).
* Craig Cameron, 66, American ice hockey player.
* Peter Carsten, 83, German actor.
* George Cowan, 92, American physical chemist and member of Manhattan Project, injuries from a fall.
* Clément Haeyen, 84, Belgian Olympic (1960) weightlifter.
* Shannon Johnson, 28, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
* Mike Lipari, 79, Canadian Olympic weightlifter.
* Joe Muranyi, 84, American jazz musician.
* Don Wedge, 82, American football referee (1972–1995).
* Bert Weedon, 91, English guitarist and composer.

### 21

* John S. Ballard, 89, American politician.
* Doris Betts, 79, American author, lung cancer.
* Ramón Búa Otero, 78, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tarazona (1982–1989) and Calahorra y La Calzada-Logroño (1989–2003).
* Charles Colson, 80, American White House Counsel convicted in Watergate scandal, evangelist, founder of Prison Fellowship, brain hemorrhage.
* Albert Falco, 84, French sea captain and scuba diver.
* Wim Franken, 90, Dutch composer and pianist.
* Lenny Gault, 78, American country music singer, cancer.
* Harry Heslet, 92, American baseball player.
* Brian Heward, 76, English footballer.
* Charles Higham, 81, English-born American biographer, heart attack.
* Heinz Jentzsch, 92, German racehorse trainer.
* Peter Milano, 82, American businessman.
* Frank Odoi, 64, Kenyan cartoonist, road accident.
* Jerry Toppazzini, 80, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins, Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings).

### 22

* John Amabile, 73, American football scout (New York Giants), coach and player (Boston College).
* Gunnar Göransson, 78, Swedish Olympic cyclist.
* Bill Granger, 70, American author and columnist.
* Matti Kuosku, 71, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier.
* Petr Lisičan, 49, Czech Olympic cross-country skier.
* Buzz Potamkin, 66, American television producer.
* George Rathmann, 84, American businessman, first chief executive of Amgen, kidney failure.
* Aristarkh (Stankevich), 70, Belarusian Orthodox hierarch, Archbishop of Gomel and Zhlobin (since 1990).

### 23

* Navodaya Appachan, 81, Indian film producer, cancer.
* Lillemor Arvidsson, 68, Swedish trade union leader and politician, Governor of Gotland (1998–2004).
* Breda Beban, 59, Serbian film and video artist.
* Eunice Bommelyn, 85, American Tolowa cultural advocate, Tolowa language proponent, and historian.
* Peter Boothman, 68–69, Australian guitarist, composer, and educator.
* Hacho Boyadzhiev, 80, Bulgarian television and film director.
* Michael Brinton, 70, British businessman, Lord Lieutenant of Worcestershire (since 2001), cancer.
* Yvonne Brown, 59, American politician, cancer.
* Billy Bryans, 64, Canadian musician and producer (Parachute Club), lung cancer.
* Carmen Bunster, 94, Chilean actress.
* Chang Myung-sam, 48, Korean taekwondo practitioner, car accident.
* Roland Dale, 84, American football player (Washington Redskins).
* Michael DeBose, 58, American politician, Member of the Ohio House of Representatives (2002–2010), complications of Parkinson's disease.
* Chris Ethridge, 65, American country rock bassist (International Submarine Band, The Flying Burrito Brothers), pancreatic cancer.
* Veriano Luchetti, 73, Italian opera singer.
* Tommy Marth, 33, American musician (The Killers), suicide by gunshot.
* Raymond Thorsteinsson, 91, Canadian geologist.
* LeRoy T. Walker, 93, American track coach, Chairman of the US Olympic Committee (1992–1996).
* Flo Whyard, 95, Canadian politician, Mayor of Whitehorse (1981–1983), Yukon territorial minister (1975–1978), editor of the Whitehorse Star.

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* Svetlana Berzina, 80, Russian Egyptologist.
* Sheena Bora, 25, Indian executive, strangulation.
* Fred Bradley, 91, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).
* William A. Campbell, 95, American USAF colonel, member of the Tuskegee Airmen.
* William Chapman, 88, American operatic baritone and stage actor.
* Nell Ginjaar-Maas, 80, Dutch politician, State Secretary for Education and Science (1982–1989).
* Daniel McGillivray Brown, 89, Scottish chemist.
* Erast Parmasto, 83, Estonian mycologist.
* Miguel Portas, 53, Portuguese politician, Member of the European Parliament for Portugal (since 2004), lung cancer.
* Eusebio Razo Jr., 46, Mexican-born American jockey, explosion.
* Shireen Ritchie, Baroness Ritchie of Brompton, 67, British peer, councillor for Brompton ward, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (since 1998).
* Yugo Sako, 84, Japanese movie director, aspiration pneumonia.
* Village Kid, 31, Australian standardbred racehorse.
* Amos Vogel, 91, Austrian-born American film scholar, founder of the New York Film Festival and Cinema 16.
* George Vujnovich, 96, American OSS agent and leader of Operation Halyard, natural causes.
* Ambrose Weekes, 93, British Anglican bishop, first Suffragan Bishop in Europe.
* Thomas Christian Wyller, 89, Norwegian political scientist.

### 25

* Gerry Bahen, 83, Australian football player and administrator.
* Ben Blacknall, 65, American football player and coach.
* Rolando Ramos Dizon, 67, Filipino educator, Chairman of the Commission on Higher Education (2003–2004).
* Ben Gabriel, 94, Australian actor and director.
* Sir Brandon Gough, 74, British businessman, Chancellor of the University of East Anglia (since 2003).
* Harry Hicks, 86, British Olympic runner.
* Denny Jones, 101, American politician, member of the Oregon House of Representatives (1973–1999).
* Moscelyne Larkin, 87, American ballerina.
* Louis le Brocquy, 95, Irish painter.
* Stephen Maxwell, 69, Scottish politician.
* Hysni Milloshi, 66, Albanian politician.
* Ian Oswald, 82, Scottish sleep researcher.
* Paul L. Smith, 75, American actor (Popeye, Dune, Maverick).
* Jan Bernard Szlaga, 71, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Pelplin (since 1992), duodenal ulcer hemorrhage.
* Brij Bhushan Tiwari, 71, Indian politician, heart attack.

### 26

* Roy Claughton, 84, Australian politician.
* Clarence Cormier, 81, Canadian politician.
* Pete Fornatale, 66, American radio disc jockey (WNEW-FM, WFUV), brain aneurysm.
* Franco Fraticelli, 83, Italian film editor.
* Floyd D. Hall, 96, American pilot, chairman and chief executive of Eastern Air Lines.
* Ardian Klosi, 55, Albanian political analyst, publicist, and writer, suicide by hanging.
* Ted Newall, 76, Canadian businessman.
* Zé Peixe, 85, Brazilian naval pilot.
* Terence Spinks, 74, British Olympic gold medal-winning (1956) boxer.
* Margie Stewart, 92, American model and actress.
* Chut Wutty, 40, Cambodian environmental activist, shot.

### 27

* Wayne Aiken, 76, Canadian football player.
* Ron Ballatore, 71, American swimming coach, bone cancer.
* Daniel Boatwright, 82, American politician, California State Senator (1980–1996).
* Anatoly Lebed, 48, Russian army officer, Hero of the Russian Federation.
* Takayoshi Nagamine, 66, Japanese karate master and trainer.
* František Procházka, 50, Czech Olympic bronze medal-winning (1992) ice hockey player.
* Ari Magder, 28, Canadian child actor (Shining Time Station), complications from pneumonia.
* Harold Pupkewitz, 96, Lithuanian-born Namibian businessman, heart attack.
* René Rouffeteau, 86, French Olympic bronze medal-winning (1948) cyclist.
* Bill Skowron, 81, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Chicago White Sox), heart failure.
* Allen Tough, 76, Canadian scientist, complications of multiple system atrophy.
* Abu Mohammad Jawad Walieddine, 96, Lebanese Druze religious leader.
* David Weiss, 65, Swiss artist (Peter Fischli & David Weiss).

### 28

* Sir Fred Allen, 92, New Zealand rugby player, captain, and coach, leukemia.
* Bobby Alto, 73, American actor (Crocodile Dundee, Prince of the City, Love Is All There Is) and comedian, complications from a stroke.
* Charles Barron, 76, Scottish writer, playwright, teacher and lecturer, multi-organ failure.
* Harald Bergseth, 88, Norwegian soil scientist.
* John Birch, 82, British musician.
* Matilde Camus, 92, Spanish poet.
* H. Fred Clark, 75, American pediatrician, medical scientist, and social activist.
* Giorgio Consolini, 91, Italian singer.
* Jim Downing, 65–66, Irish Gaelic footballer.
* Joaquín Dualde, 79, Spanish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1960) field hockey player.
* Al Ecuyer, 74, American-born Canadian football player (Edmonton Eskimos).
* Stein Johnson, 90, Norwegian Olympic (1948, 1952) discus thrower.
* Jackie Kelso, 90, American jazz musician.
* Walter Mathews, 85, American actor (General Hospital).
* Patricia Medina, 92, British actress, natural causes.
* Dudley Peake, 77, Welsh footballer.
* Milan N. Popović, 87, Serbian psychiatrist and author.
* Sir John Quinton, 82, British banker (Barclays).
* Aberdeen Shikoyi, 27, Kenyan rugby player, spinal cord injury sustained in match play.
* Tom Spence, 50, Scottish footballer, suspected heart failure.
* Geoffrey Tyler, 91, British educationalist.
* Ervin Zádor, 76, Hungarian water polo player, Olympic gold medalist (1956).

### 29

* Amarillo Slim, 83, American professional gambler, winner of the 1972 World Series of Poker main event, colon cancer.
* Éric Charden, 69, French singer, lymphoma.
* Wiesław Chrzanowski, 88, Polish politician and professor, Marshal of the Sejm (1991–1993).
* Jean Desmasures, 83, French Olympic field hockey player.
* Dynaformer, 27, American racehorse and sire, euthanized.
* Shukri Ghanem, 69, Libyan politician, Prime Minister (2003–2006) and Minister of Oil (2006–2011).
* Joel Goldsmith, 54, American film and television composer (Stargate), son of Jerry Goldsmith.
* Daisy Junor, 92, Canadian baseball player (AAGPBL).
* Joram Lindenstrauss, 75, Israeli mathematician.
* Jim McCrary, 72, American photographer.
* Roland Moreno, 66, French inventor, creator of the smart card.
* Kenny Roberts, 84, American country music singer and yodeler.
* Jean Tschabold, 86, Swiss Olympic silver medal-winning (1952) gymnast.
* Idar Ulstein, 78, Norwegian businessman, cancer.

### 30

* Cliff Ashby, 92, British poet and novelist.
* Finn Benestad, 82, Norwegian musicologist.
* Ernst Bolldén, 45, Swedish wheelchair table tennis player and Paralympian gold (1996) and bronze (1996, 2000) medalist, bladder cancer.
* Tomás Borge, 81, Nicaraguan politician and poet, founder of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, pneumonia.
* Alexander Dale Oen, 26, Norwegian Olympic silver medal-winning (2008) swimmer, cardiac arrest.
* Alexandru Dincă, 66, Romanian handball player.
* Bob Finkel, 94, American producer and director, age-related illnesses.
* Giannis Gravanis, 54, Greek footballer (Panionios F.C.).
* Andrew Levane, 92, American basketball player (Syracuse Nationals, Milwaukee Hawks) and coach (New York Knicks, St. Louis Bombers).
* William Burley Lockwood, 95, British linguist.
* George Murdock, 81, American actor (Barney Miller, Battlestar Galactica, The X-Files), cancer.
* Billy Neighbors, 72, American football player (Boston Patriots, Miami Dolphins), heart attack.
* Benzion Netanyahu, 102, Israeli historian, academic, and Revisionist Zionist activist, father of Benjamin Netanyahu.
* Arturo Andrés Roig, 89, Argentine philosopher.
* Achala Sachdev, 91, Indian actress.
* Sicelo Shiceka, 45, South African politician, Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (since 2009).