# Deaths in February 2011
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The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2011.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
* Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

## February 2011
### 1

* Ernst Badian, 85, Austrian classical scholar and history professor (Harvard University), complications from a fall.
* Lennox Fyfe, Baron Fyfe of Fairfield, 69, British politician.
* Daniele Formica, 61, Irish-born Italian actor, theatre director and playwright, pancreatic cancer.
* Douglas Haig, 90, American child actor.
* Stanisław Michalski, 78, Polish actor.
* Derek Rawcliffe, 89, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway (1981–1991).
* Knut Risan, 80, Norwegian actor.
* Husik Santurjan, 91, Turkish-born Armenian archbishop of Armenian Apostolic Church.
* Les Stubbs, 81, British footballer.

### 2

* Geoff Ainsworth, 64, Australian football player, cancer.
* Edward Amy, 92, Canadian brigadier general.
* Ian Anderson, 57, British politician, brain tumour.
* Darrel Baldock, 72, Australian football player and coach, member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly (1972–1987) and Minister (1975–1982), stroke.
* Harriett Ball, 64, American educator, heart attack.
* Armando Chin Yong, 53, Malaysian opera singer, heart disease.
* Jimmy Fell, 75, British footballer (Grimsby Town).
* Bill Foster, 78, American television director (Benson, Full House, The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults), cancer.
* Defne Joy Foster, 35, Turkish actress, presenter and VJ.
* Awal Gul, 48, Afghan detainee in Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, heart attack.
* Douglas M. Head, 80, American politician, Minnesota Attorney General (1967–1971).
* Rodney Hill, 89, British mathematician.
* Clark Hulings, 88, American realist painter and physicist.
* Margaret John, 84, British actress (High Hopes, Gavin & Stacey, Game of Thrones), liver cancer.
* Durga Mukherjee, 77, Indian cricketer.
* Eric Nicol, 91, Canadian writer.
* René Verdon, 86, French-born American White House Executive Chef, leukemia.

### 3

* Ajib Ahmad, 63, Malaysian politician, Chief Minister of Johor (1982–1986).
* Édouard Glissant, 82, Martinican poet and writer.
* LeRoy Grannis, 93, American surfing photographer.
* Tony Levin, 71, British jazz drummer.
* Ron Piché, 75, Canadian baseball player (Atlanta Braves, St. Louis Cardinals), cancer.
* Maria Schneider, 58, French actress (Last Tango in Paris), cancer.
* Tatyana Shmyga, 82, Russian operetta singer and film actress (Hussar Ballad), People's Artist of the USSR, vascular disease.
* Machan Varghese, 50, Indian Malayalam film actor, cancer.
* Neil Young, 66, British footballer (Manchester City), cancer.
* Robert Young, 95, American Olympic silver medal-winning (1936) athlete.

### 4

* Lu Bain, 68, Canadian football player.
* Martial Célestin, 97, Haitian lawyer and diplomat, Prime Minister (1988).
* Woodie Fryman, 70, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Montreal Expos).
* Michael Habeck, 66, German actor, after short illness.
* Dame Olga Lopes-Seale, 92, Guyanese-born Barbadian broadcaster and singer.
* Ahmed Mohamed Mahmoud, 37, Egyptian journalist, shot.
* Lena Nyman, 66, Swedish actress (I Am Curious (Yellow), I Am Curious (Blue), Autumn Sonata), cancer.
* Vasile Paraschiv, 82, Romanian political activist and dissident.
* Tura Satana, 72, American actress (Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!), heart failure.
* Earl Irvin West, 90, American church historian.
* Lee Winfield, 64, American basketball player (Seattle SuperSonics, Buffalo Braves), colon cancer.

### 5

* Fanizani Akuda, 78, Zimbabwean sculptor.
* Omar Amiralay, 66, Syrian filmmaker, heart attack.
* Eugeniusz Czajka, 83, Polish Olympic field hockey player.
* Ruth H. Funk, 93, American LDS Church youth leader (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints).
* John Paul Getty III, 54, American heir and kidnapping victim, grandson of J. Paul Getty and father of Balthazar Getty, after long illness.
* Miriam Hansen, 61, American cinema scholar and professor (University of Chicago), cancer.
* Brian Jacques, 71, British fantasy author (Redwall), heart attack.
* Adjie Massaid, 43, Indonesian actor, under-23 national football team manager and politician, heart attack.
* Hiroko Nagata, 65, Japanese radical and murderer, vice-chairman of United Red Army.
* Donald Peterman, 79, American cinematographer (Flashdance, Men in Black, Cocoon), complications from myelodysplastic syndrome.
* Pertti Purhonen, 68, Finnish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1964) boxer, Alzheimer's disease.
* Martin Quigley, Jr., 93, American publisher, spy and author.
* Peggy Rea, 89, American character actress (Grace Under Fire, The Dukes of Hazzard, Step by Step, The Waltons), heart failure.
* Charles E. Silberman, 86, American journalist and author (Criminal Violence, Criminal Justice), heart attack.
* Pavel Vondruška, 85, Czech conductor and actor, accidental fall.
* Albert Yator, 17, Kenyan long-distance runner, world junior steeplechase medallist, bronchopneumonia.

### 6

* Andrée Chedid, 90, Egyptian-born French poet and novelist.
* Isabelle Corey, 71, French film actress, cancer.
* Billy Gallier, 78, British footballer (Tamworth) and manager.
* Josefa Iloilo, 90, Fijian politician, President (2000–2006; 2007–2009).
* Gary Moore, 58, Irish rock guitarist and singer (Thin Lizzy), heart attack.
* William Morais, 19, Brazilian footballer (América-MG), shot.
* John Nisby, 74, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers, Washington Redskins), pneumonia.
* Ken Olsen, 84, American engineer, co-founder of Digital Equipment Corporation.
* Aurel Smith, 95, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.
* James Watson, 59, British trumpeter, heart attack.

### 7

* Maria Altmann, 94, Austrian-born American art heiress, after long illness.
* Jerry Ames, 80, American tapdancer and choreographer.
* Peter Feteris, 58, Dutch footballer.
* Hysen Hakani, 78, Albanian screenwriter and director, directed first Albanian short film.
* Bobby Kuntz, 79, American CFL player (Toronto Argonauts, Hamilton Tiger-Cats), Parkinson's disease.
* Eric Parsons, 87, British footballer.
* Ralph Pöhland, 64, German Olympic skier.
* Frank Roberts, 65, Australian boxer, first Australian Aboriginal Olympian (1964), heart attack.

### 8

* Nick Arundel, 83, American journalist and publisher, pulmonary failure.
* Roza Baglanova, 89, Kazakh singer, People's Artist of the USSR.
* Luiz Bueno, 74, Brazilian race car driver, cancer.
* Elaine Crowley, 83, Irish author.
* Cliff Dapper, 91, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).
* Bradley C. Livezey, 56, American ornithologist, car accident.
* Tony Malinosky, 101, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).
* Marie-Rose Morel, 38, Belgian politician, cancer.
* Jorma Ojaharju, 72, Finnish author.
* Charles O. Perry, 81, American sculptor, stomach cancer.
* Angelo Reyes, 65, Filipino general and politician, suicide by gunshot.
* Cesare Rubini, 87, Italian basketball player and coach, water polo player.
* Donald S. Sanford, 92, American film and television writer (Midway).
* Marvin Sease, 64, American blues singer, pneumonia.
* Ferbent Shehu, 78, Albanian dancer and choreographer, heart attack.
* Eugenio Toussaint, 56, Mexican composer and jazz musician, heart attack.

### 9

* Olga de Angulo, 55, Colombian Olympic swimmer.
* Miltiadis Evert, 71, Greek politician and minister, Mayor of Athens (1987–1989) and President of New Democracy (1993–1997).
* Leroy R. Hassell, Sr., 55, American jurist, Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court (since 1989) and Chief Justice (2003–2011).
* David Sánchez Juliao, 65, Colombian author.
* Jimmy Lemi Milla, 62, Southern Sudanese politician, shot.
* Alicia Pietri, 87, Venezuelan First Lady (1969–1974; 1994–1999), widow of President Rafael Caldera.
* Ronald Walker, 85, Australian cricketer.

### 10

* Trevor Bailey, 87, British Test cricketer and BBC radio broadcaster (Test Match Special), house fire.
* Emory Bellard, 83, American college football coach (Texas A&M University, Mississippi State University), creator of wishbone offense, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
* Doug Davis, 66, American football player (Minnesota Vikings).
* Claus Helmut Drese, 88, German theatre and opera administrator.
* Saad el-Shazly, 88, Egyptian military leader.
* Michael Harsgor, 86, Israeli historian.
* Bill Justice, 97, American animator (Peter Pan, Bambi, Alice in Wonderland).
* Blanche Honegger Moyse, 101, American conductor.
* Oleg Lavrentiev, 84, Russian nuclear physicist.
* Jon Petrovich, 63, American journalist, executive at CNN, cancer.
* Sam Plank, 62, British radio broadcaster, cancer.
* Fred Speck, 63, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings).
* Lynne Walker, 54, British music and theatre critic, cancer.
* Józef Życiński, 62, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Lublin (since 1997), myocardial infarction.

### 11

* Nubia Barahona, 10, American child abuse victim, beaten.
* Reynaldo de Barros, 79, Brazilian politician, mayor of São Paulo (1979–1982).
* Bad News Brown, 33, Canadian rapper and harmonica player, beaten and shot.
* Sir Arthur Bryan, 87, British businessman.
* Tom Carnegie, 91, American sports announcer (Indianapolis Motor Speedway).
* Bo Carpelan, 84, Finnish poet and author.
* John Clay, 86, English cricketer.
* Steve Dacri, 58, American magician, cancer.
* Joe R. Greenhill, 96, American attorney, Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court (1972–1982).
* Roy Gussow, 92, American sculptor (Infinity), heart attack.
* Gerry Huth, 77, American football player (New York Giants, Philadelphia Eagles, Minnesota Vikings).
* Christian J. Lambertsen, 93, American diving engineer, inventor of first SCUBA device, renal failure.
* Earle Morris, Jr., 82, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina (1971–1975).
* Josef Pirrung, 61, German footballer, cancer.
* Chuck Tanner, 82, American baseball manager (Chicago White Sox, Pittsburgh Pirates) and player (Los Angeles Dodgers), after long illness.

### 12

* Peter Alexander, 84, Austrian actor and singer.
* Kevin Barry, Sr., 74, New Zealand boxing coach, after long illness.
* Gino Cimoli, 81, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates), heart and kidney complications.
* Mato Damjanović, 83, Croatian chess grandmaster.
* Hal Dean, 89, American football player (Los Angeles Rams).
* Ernesto De Pascale, 52, Italian music promoter, producer and critic.
* Mark C. Ebersole, 89, American educator.
* James Elliott, 82, British-born Australian actor (Number 96), Lewy body dementia.
* Betty Garrett, 91, American actress, singer and dancer (On the Town, All in the Family, Laverne & Shirley), aortic aneurysm.
* Fedor den Hertog, 64, Dutch cyclist and Olympic medallist, prostate cancer.
* Andrzej Kłopotowski, 75, Polish Olympic swimmer.
* Konstantinos Kosmopoulos, 83, Greek politician, Mayor of Thessaloniki (1989–1999).
* Kenneth Mars, 75, American actor (Young Frankenstein, The Producers, The Little Mermaid), pancreatic cancer.
* John Monson, 11th Baron Monson, 78, British aristocrat and politician, head injuries following a fall.
* Kyllikki Naukkarinen, 85, Finnish Olympic hurdler
* Saleh Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi, 90, Saudi Arabian businessman, founder of Al-Rajhi Bank, heart attack.
* Bridgett Rollins, 54, American model (Playboy), cancer.
* Joanne Siegel, 93, American widow of Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel, reported model for the character of Lois Lane.
* Vipindas, 72, Indian cinematographer and director, short illness.
* Frank Whitten, 68, New Zealand actor (Outrageous Fortune), cancer.

### 13

* Arnfinn Bergmann, 82, Norwegian ski jumper and Olympic champion, after brief illness.
* Bustanil Arifin, 85, Indonesian politician.
* Manuel Esperón, 99, Mexican composer and actor.
* Louis Grisius, 74, Luxembourgish Olympic cyclist.
* Oakley Hall III, 60, American playwright, heart attack.
* Dona Hardy, 98, American actress (The Truman Show, When Harry Met Sally..., Superbad).
* Inese Jaunzeme, 78, Latvian javelin thrower and Olympic gold medalist (1956 Melbourne).
* Nobutoshi Kihara, 84, Japanese electronics engineer for Sony.
* Paul Marcus, 56, British television producer, cancer.
* T. P. McKenna, 81, Irish actor (The Avengers, Doctor Who).
* Brian Shaw, 79/80, British rugby league player.
* Shi Yafeng, 91, Chinese geologist.

### 14

* Sean Boru, 57, Irish actor and author.
* Paul Briggs, 90, American football player (Detroit Lions).
* Tommy Burns, 88, Australian boxer.
* David F. Friedman, 87, American film producer (Blood Feast), heart failure.
* Cecil Kaiser, 94, American Negro league baseball player, injuries from a fall.
* Catherine Clark Kroeger, 85, American author, professor and New Testament scholar, Pneumonia.
* Ali Abdulhadi Mushaima, 21, Bahraini protester, gunshot.
* Peter Pilkington, Baron Pilkington of Oxenford, 77, British academic and life peer, Chairman of the BCC (1992–1996).
* Sir George Shearing, 91, British-born American jazz pianist (Lullaby of Birdland), heart failure.
* John Strauss, 90, American film and television composer (Car 54, Where Are You?), Parkinson's disease.

### 15

* Liliane Atlan, 79, French Jewish writer, cancer.
* Dame Judith Binney, 70, New Zealand historian and author.
* Charles Epstein, 77, American geneticist and Unabomber victim, pancreatic cancer.
* Joe Frazier, 88, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals) and manager (New York Mets).
* Dorian Gray, 83, Italian actress, suicide by gunshot.
* Sidney Harth, 85, American violinist and conductor, respiratory complications.
* Olavi Manninen, 82, Finnish Olympic runner.
* George Marsaglia, 87, American mathematician and computer scientist. developed diehard tests, heart attack.
* Fadhel Al-Matrook, 31, Bahraini protester, gunshot.
* François Nourissier, 83, French journalist and writer, complications from Parkinson's disease.
* Frank Nyangweso, 71, Ugandan Olympic boxer.
* Cyril Stein, 82, British businessman.

### 16

* Hans Joachim Alpers, 67, German writer and editor of science fiction and fantasy.
* Neal Amundson, 95, American chemical engineer.
* William A. Bablitch, 69, American politician, Wisconsin State Senator (1983–2003) and Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice (1983–2002).
* Alfred Burke, 92, British actor (Public Eye, Enemy at the Door), chest infection.
* Jack Calfee, 69, American economist and author, heart attack.
* Tonny van Ede, 86, Dutch football player (Sparta Rotterdam).
* Len Lesser, 88, American actor (Seinfeld, Everybody Loves Raymond, Kelly's Heroes), cancer-related pneumonia.
* Justinas Marcinkevičius, 80, Lithuanian poet and playwright.
* Santi Santamaria, 53, Spanish chef, heart attack.
* David Shapiro, 58, American jazz musician, atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.
* Tu Jida, 83, Chinese aircraft designer (Nanchang CJ-6, Shenyang J-5A, Chengdu JJ-5, Chengdu J-7).

### 17

* Hilal Al-Ahmadi, 56–57, Iraqi journalist, shot.
* John Stanley Beard, 95, British-born Australian forester and ecologist.
* Ricky Bell, 36, American football player (Chicago Bears, Jacksonville Jaguars, Winnipeg Blue Bombers).
* George Clarke, 89, British footballer (Ipswich Town).
* Dave Duerson, 50, American football player (Chicago Bears, Phoenix Cardinals, New York Giants), suicide by gunshot.
* Francis Anthony Gomes, 79, Bangladeshi Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Mymensingh (1987–2006).
* Ron Hickman, 78, South African-born British inventor (Black & Decker Workmate, Lotus Elan).
* Steve Horn, 79, American politician, U.S. Representative from California (1993–2003), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
* Augustine Hu Daguo, 88, Chinese Roman Catholic underground bishop of Guiyang.
* George Lewis, 93, Trinidad and Tobago Olympic track and field athlete.
* James McLure, 59, American playwright.
* Michelle Monkhouse, 19, Canadian fashion model, car accident.
* Bill Monroe, 90, American journalist, host of Meet the Press (1975–1984), complications from hypertension.
* Perry Moore, 39, American author (Hero) and film producer (The Chronicles of Narnia), apparent drug overdose.
* Vivien Noakes, 74, British literary critic, cancer.
* Gustave Olombe Atelumbu Musilamu, 83, Congolese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Wamba (1968–1990).

### 18

* Paulo de Tarso Alvim, 91–92, Brazilian biologist.
* Cayle Chernin, 63, Canadian actress (Goin' Down the Road), cancer.
* Chloe Dzubilo, 50, American artist, musician and activist.
* John M. Falcone, 44, American police officer Poughkeepsie, New York, shot.
* Len Gilmore, 93, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates).
* Spook Jacobs, 85, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics/Kansas City Athletics, Pittsburgh Pirates).
* Catherine Jourdan, 62, French actress, pulmonary embolism.
* Buddy Lewis, 94, American baseball player (Washington Senators), cancer.
* Abdost Rind, 27, Pakistani journalist, shot.
* Walter Seltzer, 96, American film producer (Soylent Green, The Omega Man, The Last Hard Men).
* Marshall Stoneham, 70, British physicist, complications of surgery.
* Bob Tanna, c. 96, Indian amateur radio operator.
* Tykhon Zhylyakov, 42, Ukrainian Orthodox Bishop of Kremenchuk and Lubny (since 2009).

### 19

* Suresh Babu, 58, Indian Olympic athlete, cirrhosis.
* Florinda Chico, 84, Spanish actress, respiratory disease.
* Norman Corner, 68, British footballer.
* Donald L. Cox, 74, American leader of the Black Panther Party.
* Ollie Matson, 80, American Hall of Fame football player (St. Louis Rams, Philadelphia Eagles), complications from dementia.
* Anson Rainey, 81, American academic and author, pancreatic cancer.
* Ernő Solymosi, 70, Hungarian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1960) football player.
* Dietrich Stobbe, 72, German politician, Mayor of West Berlin (1977–1981).
* David R. Thompson, 80, American federal judge.
* Max Wilk, 90, American playwright, screenwriter and author.
* Richard L. Williams, 87, American jurist, senior District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia (1980–2011).
* Yuan Xuefen, 88, Chinese Yue opera actress.

### 20

* Christopher Baker [fr], 73, British television director and production assistant, myeloid leukemia.
* Ted Bates, 84, American politician.
* Drew Baur, 66, American banker, co-owner of the St. Louis Cardinals, heart attack.
* Eddie Brandt, 90, American composer and songwriter.
* Raphaël Bretton, 91, French set decorator (Hello, Dolly!, The Towering Inferno, The Poseidon Adventure), Oscar winner (1970).
* Barbara Harmer, 57, British aviator, first female Concorde pilot, cancer.
* Betty Hicks, 90, American golfer (LPGA Tour), Alzheimer's disease.
* Troy Jackson, 35, American basketball player (AND1 Mixtape Tour).
* Tony Kellow, 58, British footballer (Exeter City).
* Jay Landesman, 91, American publisher, writer and nightclub proprietor, husband of Fran Landesman.
* Frank A. McClintock, 90, American mechanical engineer.
* Sir Fred Phillips, 92, Kittitian politician, Administrator (1966–1967) and Governor of Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla (1967–1969).
* Helmut Ringelmann, 84, German film and television producer, organ failure.
* Noemí Simonetto de Portela, 85, Argentine Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) athlete.
* Malaysia Vasudevan, 66, Indian actor and playback singer, heart failure.
* Mehdi Mohammed Zeyo, 49, Libyan activist, explosion.

### 21

* Robert Albo, 78, American physician, surgeon and amateur illusionist.
* Odón Alonso, 85, Spanish conductor and composer.
* Jean Baeza, 68, French footballer.
* Wolfgang Baumgart, 61, German hockey player.
* Bob Boyd, 55, American professional golfer, leukemia.
* Ben Fricke, 35, American football player (Dallas Cowboys), colon cancer.
* Edwin D. Kilbourne, 90, American research scientist and influenza vaccine expert.
* Dick Klugman, 87, Australian politician, member of the House of Representatives (1969–1990).
* Anne Mathams, 97, Scottish education and disability campaigner.
* Dwayne McDuffie, 49, American comic book writer (Static Shock, Damage Control) and television writer (Justice League), complications following heart surgery.
* Bernard Nathanson, 84, American pro-choice activist and co-founder of NARAL, later anti-abortion activist and writer, cancer.
* Jerzy Nowosielski, 88, Polish painter, graphic artist, scenographer and illustrator.
* Russell W. Peterson, 94, American politician, Governor of Delaware (1969–1973), stroke.
* Kenneth Pillar, 86, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Hertford (1982–1989).
* Aranmula Ponnamma, 96, Indian actress.
* Swami Premananda, 59, Sri Lankan-born Indian religious leader, convicted rapist and murderer.
* Haila Stoddard, 97, American actress and Broadway producer.
* Judith Sulzberger, 87, American physician, pancreatic cancer.
* Antonín Švorc, 77, Czech operatic bass-baritone.

### 22

* Kjell Bjartveit, 83, Norwegian physician and politician.
* Brian Bonsor, 84, Scottish composer and music teacher.
* George Buksar, 84, American football player (Chicago Hornets, Washington Redskins).
* Nicholas Courtney, 81, British actor (Doctor Who, Then Churchill Said to Me, Bullseye!).
* Bill Deck, 95, American Negro league baseball player.
* Beau Dollar, 69, American singer and drummer, long illness.
* Jean Dinning, 86, American songwriter ("Teen Angel"), sister of Mark Dinning.
* Jo Giles, 61, New Zealand television personality and sportswoman, earthquake.
* Chari Gómez Miranda, 80, Spanish journalist and television presenter.
* Ion Hobana, 80, Romanian science fiction author.
* Amanda Hooper, 30, New Zealand field hockey representative, earthquake.
* Jud McAtee, 91, Canadian-born American ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Blackhawks).
* James R. McCartney, 90, American politician, Secretary of State of West Virginia (1975–1977).
* Bill Nimmo, 93, American radio and television announcer (Who Do You Trust?, The Jackie Gleason Show) and game show host (Keep It in the Family).
* Ivo Pavelić, 103, Croatian footballer and Olympic swimmer.

### 23

* Matthew Carr, 57, British figurative artist, leukaemia.
* James Damman, 78, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Michigan (1975–1979), cancer.
* Joseph Flom, 87, American corporate lawyer, heart failure.
* Rebekah Johansson, 29, Swedish model, apparent suicide.
* Gustav Just, 89, German journalist and politician.
* Jean Lartéguy, 90, French soldier, war correspondent and writer.
* Frank Prout, 89, British Olympic sprint canoer and businessman.
* Nirmala Srivastava, 87, Indian spiritual leader, founder of Sahaja Yoga religious movement.
* Mike Zimring, 94, American radio actor and theatrical agent.

### 24

* Margaret Hope Bacon, 89, American Quaker historian, author and lecturer.
* Yozhef Betsa, 81, Ukrainian Olympic gold medal-winning (1956) footballer.
* Jerrold Kessel, 66, South African-born Israeli journalist (CNN), cancer.
* Anant Pai, 81, Indian educator and comics creator (Amar Chitra Katha).
* Mullapudi Venkata Ramana, 80, Indian Telugu screenplay writer.
* Robert Reguly, 80, Canadian journalist (Toronto Star), heart disease.
* Attila Takács, 82, Hungarian Olympic gymnast.
* Harry Walsh, 97, Canadian lawyer, complications from a fall.
* Jens Winther, 50, Danish jazz trumpet player, stroke.
* A. Wayne Wymore, 84, American mathematician and systems engineer.

### 25

* Isidora Aguirre, 91, Chilean writer, internal hemorrhage.
* Kamil Altan, 86, Turkish footballer.
* Frank Bare Sr., 80, American gymnast.
* John Thomas Chambers, Jr., 82, American politician, only African-American Mayor of Annapolis (1981), heart attack.
* Rick Coonce, 64, American drummer (The Grass Roots).
* Aminath Faiza, 86, Maldivian poet and author.
* Emanuel Fried, 97, American playwright and actor.
* Peter Hildreth, 82, British Olympic hurdler, 1950 European Championships medalist.
* István Jenei, 57, Hungarian Olympic sports shooter.
* John Miner, 92, American attorney, prosecutor responsible for investigating the death of Marilyn Monroe.
* Richard J. Naughton, 64, American vice admiral, Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy (2002–2003).
* Eneas Perdomo, 80, Venezuelan folk singer.
* Suze Rotolo, 67, American artist, lung cancer.
* Carola Scarpa, 39, Brazilian socialite, multiple organ failure.

### 26

* Abbas Amiri Moghaddam, 67, Iranian actor, car accident.
* Kostas Andriopoulos, 26, Greek footballer (PAOK, Veria), leukemia.
* María Azambuya, 66, Uruguayan actress and theatre director.
* Judith Coplon, 89, American political analyst, convicted of espionage.
* Susan Crosland, 84, American journalist, widow of Anthony Crosland.
* Richard F. Daines, 60, American physician, Commissioner of the New York State Department of Health (2007–2010).
* Jon Fitch, 60, American politician, Arkansas State Representative (1979–1983) and State Senator (1983–2002), complications of a stroke.
* Eugene Fodor, 60, American violinist, cirrhosis.
* Ed Frutig, 92, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Detroit Lions).
* Greg Goossen, 65, American baseball player (New York Mets) and actor (Wyatt Earp, Unforgiven).
* Bill Grigsby, 89, American radio sportscaster (Kansas City Chiefs), prostate cancer and fall.
* Cynthia Holcomb Hall, 82, American circuit judge for the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1984–1997), cancer.
* Shawn Lee, 44, American football player (Miami Dolphins, Chicago Bears).
* Arnošt Lustig, 84, Czech writer and Holocaust survivor, cancer.
* James A. McClure, 86, American politician, U.S. Representative (1967–1973) and Senator from Idaho (1973–1991), following multiple strokes.
* Dean Richards, 36, British footballer (Bradford City, Wolverhampton, Southampton, Tottenham).
* Jorge Santoro, 66, Brazilian footballer, heart attack.
* Roch Thériault, 63, Canadian cult leader and convicted murderer, murdered in prison.
* Mark Tulin, 62, American bass player (The Electric Prunes, The Smashing Pumpkins), heart attack.
* Zhu Guangya, 86, Chinese nuclear physicist, helped develop nation's first atomic bomb.

### 27

* Frank Alesia, 67, American actor and director (Pajama Party, Riot on Sunset Strip, C'mon, Let's Live a Little).
* Frank Buckles, 110, American supercentenarian soldier, last living U.S. World War I veteran.
* J. Elliot Cameron, 88, American educator and religious leader.
* Margaret Eliot, 97, British music teacher and musician.
* Necmettin Erbakan, 84, Turkish politician, Prime Minister (1996–1997).
* James Gruber, 82, American teacher and early gay rights activist, last surviving member of the Mattachine Society.
* Maurice Guigue, 98, French football referee (1958 FIFA World Cup Final).
* Eddie Kirkland, 88, American blues guitarist, car accident.
* Oto Mádr, 94, Czech theologian and dissident.
* Amparo Muñoz, 56, Spanish actress, Miss Universe 1974.
* Skonk Nicholson, 94, South African teacher and rugby union coach (Maritzburg College, 1948–1982).
* Emerson Rodwell, 89, Australian cricketer and soldier.
* Moacyr Scliar, 73, Brazilian physician and writer, stroke.
* Duke Snider, 84, American Baseball Hall of Famer (Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Mets, San Francisco Giants).
* Gary Winick, 49, American film director (13 Going on 30, Letters to Juliet, Charlotte's Web), pneumonia.

### 28

* Netiva Ben-Yehuda, 82, Israeli author and radio personality.
* Scott Cary, 87, American baseball player (Washington Senators).
* Harvey Dorfman, 75, American sports psychologist.
* Ernest Eastman, 83, Liberian diplomat, Foreign Minister (1983–1986), Secretary General of the Mano River Union.
* John Ellis, 72, British trade unionist.
* Emmy, 21, Albanian singer, vehicular homicide.
* Annie Girardot, 79, French actress, Alzheimer's disease.
* Peter J. Gomes, 69, American preacher, theologian and author, professor at Harvard Divinity School, brain aneurysm and heart attack.
* Stan Holmes, 51, American baseball player, cancer.
* Nick LaTour, 82, American singer and actor (Jingle All The Way, Don Juan DeMarco, Deep Cover), complications from cancer.
* Jozef Massy, 96, Belgian Olympic sprint canoer.
* Günter Mast, 84, German businessman (Jägermeister).
* Aracy de Carvalho Guimarães Rosa, 102, Brazilian diplomatic clerk.
* Jane Russell, 89, American actress (The Outlaw, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Las Vegas Story), respiratory illness.
* Jan van Schijndel, 83, Dutch footballer (1952 Summer Olympics).
* Allan Williams, 88, Canadian politician, Attorney General of British Columbia (1979–1983), after long illness.
* Wally Yonamine, 85, American baseball (Yomiuri Giants, Chunichi Dragons) and football player (San Francisco 49ers), prostate cancer.
* Doyald Young, 84, American logotype designer, complications of heart surgery.