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

## March 2012
### 1

* Blagoje Adžić, 79, Serbian politician.
* Eddie Allen, 93, American football player.
* Phillip R. Allen, 72, American actor (Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, The Bad News Bears).
* Alice Arden, 97, American Olympic (1936) high jumper.
* Henryk Bałuszyński, 39, Polish footballer, heart attack.
* Luigi Bazzoni, 82, Italian film director (Pride and Vengeance, The Fifth Cord).
* Andrew Breitbart, 43, American publisher and political commentator, heart attack.
* Jerome Courtland, 85, American actor, director, and producer (Escape to Witch Mountain, Tokyo Joe), heart disease.
* Lucio Dalla, 68, Italian singer-songwriter ("Caruso", "4/3/1943", "Piazza Grande") and musician, heart attack.
* Jack Fouts, 86, American football player and coach.
* Peter Graeme, 90, British oboist.
* Paul Hürlimann, 78, Swiss Olympic equestrian.
* Fathulla Jameel, 69, Maldivian politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1978–2005), heart disease.
* 9th Jebtsundamba Khutughtu, 80, Tibetan-born Mongolian Buddhist spiritual leader.
* Archie Kalokerinos, 85, Greek-Australian physician.
* Thomas J. Lydon, 84, American federal judge, sepsis and car accident complications.
* Altamir Heitor Martins, 32, Brazilian footballer (BEC Tero Sasana F.C.).
* Gemma McCluskie, 29, British actress (EastEnders), blunt force trauma.
* Germano Mosconi, 79, Italian sportswriter and news presenter.
* Callan Pinckney, 72, American fitness professional, created Callanetics.
* Randy Primas, 62, American politician, Mayor of Camden, New Jersey (1981–1990), bone marrow cancer.
* Conrad Soares, 72, Bermudan Olympic sailor.

### 2

* Lawrence Anthony, 61, South African conservationist and environmentalist, heart attack.
* Van T. Barfoot, 92, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient, head injuries from a fall.
* Gerry Bridgwood, 67, English footballer (Stoke City), heart attack.
* Nydia Ecury, 86, Aruban-Dutch writer, translator and actress, Alzheimer's disease.
* George Firestone, 80, American politician, Secretary of State of Florida (1978–1987), Alzheimer's disease.
* Doug Furnas, 52, American professional wrestler, heart disease.
* Vera Galushka-Duyunova, 66, Russian volleyball player, cardiac arrest.
* Brajamohan Jamatia, 106, Indian politician.
* Sir Keith Jones, 100, Australian medical practitioner and surgeon.
* Gary Kubly, 68, American politician, Minnesota State Senator (since 2002), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
* Rui Maia, 86, Portuguese Olympian
* José Adolfo Mojica Morales, 75, Salvadoran Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Sonsonate (1989–2011).
* John Panelli, 85, American football player (Detroit Lions, Chicago Cardinals).
* George Reynolds, 83, Australian racing driver.
* Gérard Rinaldi, 69, French actor and singer (Les Charlots), lymphoma.
* Norman St John-Stevas, 82, British politician and author, Leader of the House of Commons (1979–1981).
* Stan Stearns, 76, American photographer (John F. Kennedy, Jr. salute), lung cancer.
* Frits Wijngaard, 85, Dutch Olympic boxer.
* James Q. Wilson, 80, American political scientist, co-author of the broken windows theory, leukemia.
* Isagani Yambot, 77, Filipino journalist, publisher of the Philippine Daily Inquirer (since 1994), heart attack.

### 3

* Fritz Baier, 88, German politician.
* Viv Bingham, 79, British political activist.
* Irvin Borish, 99, American optometrist.
* Steve Bridges, 48, American impressionist (George W. Bush), anaphylaxis.
* Dave Charnley, 76, British former European lightweight champion boxer.
* Leonardo Cimino, 94, American actor (Moonstruck, Dune, Hudson Hawk), COPD.
* Mike Darby, 69, Australian football player.
* A R Shamsud Doha, 83, Bangladeshi politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1982–1984).
* Felícia Fuster, 91, Spanish Catalan painter and poet.
* Henryk Grabowski, 82, Polish Olympic athlete.
* Anthony Grainger, 36, English police victim, shot.
* Lloyd Hittle, 88, American baseball player (Washington Senators).
* Per J. Husabø, 83, Norwegian politician.
* Lutfullah Khan, 95, Pakistani writer and sound archivist.
* Franklin McMahon, 90, American artist and reporter.
* Ralph McQuarrie, 82, American conceptual designer and illustrator (Star Wars, Cocoon, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial), Oscar winner (1986).
* Frank Marocco, 81, American accordionist, arranger and composer.
* Ronnie Montrose, 64, American guitarist (Montrose), suicide by gunshot.
* Jim Obradovich, 62, American baseball player (Houston Astros).
* Norris Stevenson, 72, American football player (Dallas Cowboys, Edmonton Eskimos, BC Lions), cancer.
* Kason Sugioka, 98, Japanese calligrapher, Order of Culture recipient, heart failure.
* Alex Webster, 80, American football player (New York Giants, Montreal Alouettes) and coach (New York Giants).

### 4

* Ali Ahmed Abdi, 26, Somali journalist, shot.
* Maurice De Muer, 90, French cyclist and sports director.
* Christopher Joseph Earl, 86, British neurologist.
* William E. Galbraith, 86, American businessman.
* Bill Green, 50, American sprinter, cancer.
* Robert Brendon Keating, 87, American diplomat, Ambassador to Madagascar and the Comoros (1983–1986), pneumonia.
* Paul McBride, 46, British lawyer.
* Pete McCaffrey, 74, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1964) basketball player.
* Don Mincher, 73, American baseball player (Minnesota Twins, California Angels, Oakland Athletics), President of the Southern League (2000–2011).
* Runako Morton, 33, Nevisian Test cricketer (West Indies), traffic collision.
* John C. Reiss, 89, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Trenton (1980–1997).
* Shmuel Tankus, 97, Israeli naval officer, fifth commander of the Navy.
* Joan Taylor, 82, American actress (Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, The Rifleman), natural causes.

### 5

* Don Andrews, 82, Australian guitarist.
* Yehuda Ben-Haim, 56, Israeli Olympic boxer.
* Jörg Balke, 75, German Olympic athlete.
* Sobha Brahma, 82, Indian painter and sculptor.
* Willard Cochrane, 97, American agricultural economist.
* Rafael Corporán de los Santos, 71, Dominican television producer, host, and politician, Mayor of Distrito Nacional (1990–1994), heart attack.
* Fernando Da Silva, 91, American painter.
* Paul Haines, 41, New Zealand writer, cancer.
* Zahir Howaida, 67, Afghan singer.
* William Heirens, 83, American serial killer.
* Rushworth Kidder, 67, American ethicist and writer, natural causes.
* Godwin Kotey, 46–47, Ghanaian actor, producer, educator, playwright and director, leukemia.
* Marian Kuszewski, 78, Polish Olympic silver medal-winning (1956, 1960) fencer.
* Roland Lakes, 72, American football player (San Francisco 49ers, New York Giants).
* Philip Madoc, 77, Welsh actor (Dad's Army, The Life and Times of David Lloyd George).
* Maurice Pechet, 94, American academic.
* Ken Shipp, 83, American football coach.
* William O. Wooldridge, 89, American army officer.

### 6

* Marcos Alonso, 78, Spanish football player (Real Madrid).
* Francisco Xavier do Amaral, 75, East Timorese politician, President (1975).
* Jaap Boersma, 82, Dutch politician, Minister of Social Affairs (1971–1977), Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries (1973).
* Jan Dawidziuk, 74, Polish-born American bishop of the Polish National Catholic Church.
* Antonio Garzya, 85, Italian professor.
* Lucia Mannucci, 91, Italian singer.
* Maurice Moyer, 93, American clergyman and civil rights leader.
* Suwa Nejiko, 92, Japanese violinist.
* Donald M. Payne, 77, American politician, U.S. Representative from New Jersey (since 1989), colon cancer.
* Frederick M. Reed, 87, American politician, Attorney General of Vermont (1957–1960).
* Robert B. Sherman, 86, American songwriter and composer (Mary Poppins, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), Oscar winner (1965).
* Arthur A. Vogel, 88, American bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of West Missouri.
* Helen Walulik, 82, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).
* Sayuri Yamauchi, 55, Japanese voice actress (Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, Crayon Shin-chan), cancer.

### 7

* Jeanne Achterberg, 69, American psychologist, breast cancer.
* Cris Alexander, 92, American actor and photographer.
* Gary DeCramer, 67, American politician, Minnesota state senator (1983–1993).
* Tony Drake, 89, English hiker.
* Harold K. Forsen, 79, American nuclear engineer.
* Gherardo Gnoli, 74, Italian historian.
* Dave Hrechkosy, 60, Canadian ice hockey player (California Golden Seals, St. Louis Blues), brain cancer.
* Sir Raymond Lygo, 87, British admiral and businessman.
* Félicien Marceau, 98, French novelist, member of the Académie française.
* Marcel Mouchel, 85, French footballer and manager.
* Greg Novak, 61, American writer and wargame designer.
* Big Walter Price, 97, American blues singer, songwriter and pianist.
* Włodzimierz Smolarek, 54, Polish footballer.
* Pierre Tornade, 82, French actor.
* Ramaz Urushadze, 72, Georgian footballer.
* Aníbal Villacís, 85, Ecuadorian painter.

### 8

* Corinna Adam, 75, British journalist, home fire.
* Kristin Bølgen Bronebakk, 61, Norwegian civil servant.
* LaVerne Carter, 86, American bowler, heart failure.
* S. Henry Cho, 77, Korean martial arts instructor.
* Pat Claridge, 73, Canadian football player, Alzheimer's disease.
* Leslie Cochran, 60, American street personality, activist, and politician, head trauma.
* Simin Daneshvar, 90, Iranian academic, novelist, fiction writer and translator.
* Ursula Dronke, 91, British medievalist.
* Mike Fetchick, 89, American golfer.
* Compton Gonsalves, 85, Trinidad and Tobago Olympic cyclist.
* Bugs Henderson, 68, American blues guitarist, cancer.
* Charlie Hoag, 81, American Olympic gold medal-winning basketball player (1952).
* Scott Huey, 88, Northern Irish cricketer.
* Elena Libera, 94, Italian Olympic (1948) fencer.
* Minoru Mori, 77, Japanese businessperson, chairman and executive director of the Mori Building Company, founder of the Mori Art Museum, heart failure.
* Elio Pagliarani, 84, Italian poet and literary critic.
* Jens Petersen, 70, Danish footballer and manager.
* Steven Rubenstein, 49, American anthropologist.
* Mick Walker, 69, British motorcycling writer.

### 9

* Peter Bergman, 72, American comedian (The Firesign Theater), leukemia.
* Dennis Bowen, 61, American actor (Caddyshack II; Welcome Back, Kotter).
* Brian Bromley, 65, English footballer (Bolton Wanderers, Portsmouth).
* Herb Carnegie, 92, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Anton Crișan, 70, Romanian ice hockey player.
* Harry Dagnall, 97, British philatelist.
* Willye Dennis, 85, American civil rights activist and politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives (1992–1999).
* John Holt, 82, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1972–1984).
* Thomas Locker, 74, American author and painter.
* Fotis Mavriplis, 92, Greek Olympic skier.
* Joy Mukherjee, 73, Indian actor.
* Zuhir al-Qaisi, 49, Palestinian militant leader, Secretary General of the Popular Resistance Committees (since 2011), air strike.
* Selma Rubin, 96, American activist and environmentalist.
* Jose Tomas Sanchez, 91, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, Cardinal Priest of San Pio V a Villa Carpegna (1991–2012).
* Terry Teene, 70, American singer and clown, injuries from a traffic collision.
* Bill Wedderburn, Baron Wedderburn of Charlton, 84, British academic and politician.
* Harry Wendelstedt, 73, American baseball umpire (1966–1998), brain tumor.
* Widjojo Nitisastro, 84, Indonesian economist and government minister.

### 10

* Sukumar Barman, 60, Indian politician.
* George Beattie, 86, Scottish footballer.
* Bert R. Bulkin, 82, American aeronautical engineer.
* Dorrit Cohn, 87, American academic.
* Wim De Smet, 79, Flemish zoologist.
* Amina El Filali, 16, Moroccan rape victim, suicide by poisoning.
* Elmer L. Gaden, 88, American biochemist.
* Jean Giraud, 73, French comic book artist (Blueberry, Métal Hurlant) and film production designer (Tron, Alien), cancer.
* Julio César González, 35, Mexican Olympic boxer and former world light heavyweight champion, injuries from a hit and run.
* Robert A. Howie, 88, English petrologist.
* Jay McMullen, 90, American journalist (CBS News).
* Hermín Negrón Santana, 74, Puerto Rican Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico (since 1981).
* R. I. Page, 87, British historian and runologist.
* Mykola Plaviuk, 86, Ukrainian politician, last President of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile (1989–1992).
* Uttamrao Deorao Patil, 67, Indian politician.
* Frank Sherwood Rowland, 84, American chemistry professor, Nobel laureate in Chemistry (1995), Parkinson's disease.
* Domna Samiou, 83, Greek singer and traditional music researcher.
* Tony Silipo, 54, Canadian politician, Ontario Minister of Education (1991–1993) and MPP for Dovercourt (1990–1999), brain tumor.
* Jammu Siltavuori, 85, Finnish murderer and sex offender.
* Ruth-Marie Stewart, 84, American Olympic skier.
* John G. Taylor, 80, British physicist.
* Tan Boon Teik, 83, Singaporean lawyer, Attorney-General (1967–1992), internal bleeding.
* Jack Watson, 90, English cricketer, football coach and scout.
* Richard White, 86, New Zealand rugby union player.
* Ethel Winter, 87, American dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company and teacher at the Juilliard School.
* Nick Zoricic, 29, Canadian ski cross racer, brain injuries from race crash.

### 11

* Henry Adefope, 85, Nigerian politician, Foreign Minister (1978–1979).
* Hub Andrews, 89, American baseball player (New York Giants).
* Gian Nicola Babini, 67, Italian scientist.
* Faith Brook, 90, British actress.
* Sid Couchey, 92, American comic book artist (Richie Rich, Little Lotta, Little Dot), Burkitt's lymphoma.
* Alba Encarnación, 56, Puerto Rican activist and teacher.
* Wayne Frazier, 73, American football player (Kansas City Chiefs).
* Hans G. Helms, 79, German experimental writer.
* Philip Jenkinson, 76, English television presenter.
* María Teresa López Beltrán, 61, Spanish medievalist and academic (University of Málaga).
* Tom Manastersky, 83, Canadian football player (Montreal Alouettes, Saskatchewan Roughriders) and hockey player (Montreal Canadiens).
* Bogusław Mec, 65, Polish singer, songwriter, composer, and artist.
* James B. Morehead, 95, American World War II flying ace, stroke complications.
* Noverre, 14, American Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the Sussex Stakes (2001). (death announced on this date)
* Lanier W. Phillips, 88, American civil rights activist.
* Gösta Schwarck, 96, Danish composer and businessman.
* John Souza, 91, American soccer player (1950 World Cup, 1948 and 1952 Olympics).
* Leon Spencer, 66, American jazz organist.
* Ghiath Tayfour, 42-43, Syrian boxing champion, shot.
* Ian Turpie, 68, Australian actor and game show host, throat cancer.
* Miomir Vukobratović, 81, Serbian mechanical engineer.
* Tahira Wasti, 68, Pakistani actor.

### 12

* Mark Aguhar, 24, American activist, writer and multimedia fine artist, suicide.
* Niels Baunsøe, 72, Danish Olympic cyclist.
* Robert Parke Cameron, 91, Canadian diplomat.
* Samuel Glazer, 89, American entrepreneur and businessman, co-developer of Mr. Coffee, leukemia.
* Junus Effendi Habibie, 74, Indonesian diplomat.
* Dick Harter, 81, American basketball coach (Charlotte Hornets, University of Oregon), cancer.
* Michael Hossack, 65, American drummer (The Doobie Brothers), cancer.
* Friedhelm Konietzka, 73, German-born Swiss football player and manager, assisted suicide.
* Erling Stuer Lauridsen, 95, Danish Olympic wrestler.
* Augustin Misago, 69, Rwandan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Gikongoro (since 1992).
* Wilson Abraham Moncayo Jalil, 67, Ecuadorian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Santo Domingo en Ecuador (since 2002).
* Tom Murrin, 73, American performance artist and playwright.
* Madeleine Parent, 93, Canadian union leader and women's rights activist.
* Jean-Pierre Salignon, 84, French Olympic basketball player.
* Douglas Scott, 91, Australian politician, member of the Australian Senate (1970, 1974–1985).

### 13

* Vernon Ahmadjian, 81, American lichenologist.
* Abdullah al-Dahdouh, 45–46, Moroccan Muslim, murdered.
* Keith Bannister, 89, English footballer.
* Michael P. Barnett, 82, British theoretical chemist and computer scientist.
* Bengt Beckman, 86, Swedish mathematician.
* Derek Bridge, 90, English cricketer.
* Harvey T. Carter, 83, American rock climber.
* Domitila Chúngara, 74, Bolivian labor leader and feminist, lung cancer.
* Bodjie Dasig, 48, Filipino singer and songwriter, cancer.
* Della Davidson, 60, American modern dancer, choreographer, and dance professor, breast cancer.
* Julius Depaoli, 88, Austrian Olympic water polo player.
* Michel Duchaussoy, 73, French actor, cardiac arrest.
* Jock Hobbs, 52, New Zealand rugby union player and administrator, leukaemia.
* Frank Jordan, 79, Australian Olympic (1952) water polo player.
* Tom Johnson, 89, American astronomer and businessman, founder of Celestron.
* Noel Luces, 63, Trinidadian Olympic (1968) cyclist, stroke.
* Hans Ludvig Martensen, 84, Danish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Copenhagen (1965–1995).
* Eileen McDonough, 49, American child actress (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Waltons).
* Grete Nordrå, 87, Norwegian actress.
* Karl Roy, 43, Filipino singer (Kapatid, P.O.T.), cardiac arrest.
* Lyudmila Shagalova, 88, Russian film actress (The Young Guard, Balzaminov's Marriage).
* Amusa Shittu, 75, Nigerian footballer, effects of a stroke.
* Jacques Villiers, 87, French aerospace engineer.

### 14

* Gretl Aicher, 84, Austrian artistic director.
* Liesbeth Baarveld-Schlaman, 77, Dutch politician.
* Ray Barlow, 85, English footballer (West Bromwich Albion).
* Vladimir Buslaev, 74, Russian mathematical physicist.
* Valentīna Butāne, 82, Latvian singer.
* Matthew G. Carter, 98, American politician and housing activist, Mayor of Montclair, New Jersey (1968–1972), Alzheimer's disease.
* Kihachi Enomoto, 75, Japanese baseball player, colon cancer.
* Himanish Goswami, 85, Indian writer and cartoonist, prostate cancer.
* Ernst-Günter Habig, 76, German Olympic footballer, stroke.
* Eddie King, 73, American Chicago blues musician.
* Carl Rattray, 82, Jamaican jurist and politician, Attorney General (1989–1993) and president of the Court of Appeal (1993–1999).
* Marcel Rohrbach, 78, French cyclist.
* Pierre Schoendoerffer, 83, French director (The Anderson Platoon), surgical complications.
* Margareta Sjöstedt, 88, Swedish-born Austrian singer and actress.
* Ted L. Strickland, 79, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Colorado (1973–1975).
* Ċensu Tabone, 98, Maltese politician, President (1989–1994) and Minister for Foreign Affairs (1987–1989).

### 15

* Alice Amsden, 68, American economist and MIT professor.
* Edvard Hagerup Bull, 89, Norwegian composer.
* Mervyn Davies, 65, Welsh rugby union player, cancer.
* Bob Day, 67, American Olympic (1968) distance runner, bladder cancer.
* Baby Falak, 2, Indian baby, cardiac arrest.
* Eb Gaines, 84, American businessman and diplomat, Consul General to Bermuda (1989–1992).
* Lily Garafulic, 97, Chilean sculptor and professor.
* Luis Gonzales, 81, Filipino actor, pneumonia.
* Bernardino González Ruiz, 101, Panamanian politician, President (1963).
* Fran Matera, 87, American comic strip artist (Steve Roper and Mike Nomad).
* Nigel Napier, 14th Lord Napier, 81, British soldier and courtier.
* Dave Philley, 91, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles, Chicago White Sox, Philadelphia Athletics).
* Pepe Rubio, 80, Spanish actor.
* Jean-Marie Souriau, 89, French mathematician.
* Joe Stanley, 104, American World War II pilot, commander of Eglin Air Force Base.

### 16

* Aziz Ab'Sáber, 87, Brazilian geologist, heart attack.
* Georges Aber, 81, French singer-songwriter.
* Alexander of Liechtenstein, 82, Liechtenstein royal.
* Lee Balterman, 91, American photographer.
* M. A. R. Barker, 83, American professor, fantasy novelist, and role-playing game creator.
* Estanislau Basora, 85, Spanish footballer.
* John Billman, 92, American football player (Minnesota Gophers, Brooklyn Dodgers, Chicago Rockets).
* Bijan Choudhury, 80–81, Indian painter.
* Giancarlo Cobelli, 82, Italian actor and stage director.
* Ed Dahler, 86, American basketball player.
* Ray Gariepy, 83, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs).
* John Ghindia, 86, American football player (University of Michigan).
* Robert Hails, 89, American air force lieutenant general, vice commander of Tactical Air Command.
* Robert L. Hall, 85, American anthropologist, authority on Native American culture, complications from carcinoid cancer.
* Donald E. Hillman, 93, American World War II flying ace.
* Irvin Iffla, 88, Jamaican cricketer.
* Eldon Nelson, 85, American jockey.
* Bronislav Poloczek, 72, Czech theatre and television actor.
* Peter Serracino Inglott, 75, Maltese philosopher.
* Anita Steckel, 82, American feminist artist.
* Takaaki Yoshimoto, 87, Japanese poet, critic, and professor (Tokyo Institute of Technology), pneumonia.
* Dieter Zechlin, 85, German pianist.

### 17

* Patience Abbe, 87, American children's author.
* Paul Boyer, 76, American historian.
* Rubí Cerioni, 84, Argentine footballer.
* Bernard Cohen, 87, American nuclear physicist.
* Matt Conte, 85, American football player and coach.
* John Cowles Jr., 82, American businessman and philanthropist, lung cancer.
* Bert Demarco, 87, Scottish snooker player and billiard hall owner, stroke.
* John Demjanjuk, 91, Ukrainian Nazi war criminal, natural causes.
* René Fontaine, 78, Canadian politician, Minister of Northern Development (1987–1990).
* John T. Henley, 90, American politician, President pro tempore of the North Carolina Senate (1975–1978).
* Famara Jatta, 53, Gambian government minister and economist, Governor of the Central Bank (2003–2007).
* Jaye Radisich, 35, Australian politician, Western Australian MLA for Swan Hills (2001–2008), cancer.
* Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria, 88, Egyptian Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria (since 1971), prostate cancer.
* Ron Stewart, 79, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Ngaire Thomas, 69, New Zealand author.
* Margaret Whitlam, 92, Australian swimmer and activist, wife of Gough Whitlam, complications from a fall.
* Chaleo Yoovidhya, 88, Thai businessman (Red Bull), natural causes.
* Fakhra Younus, 33, Pakistani acid attack victim, suicide by jumping.

### 18

* Imra Agotić, 69, Croatian major general, commander of the Air Force.
* Khelifi Ahmed, 90–91, Algerian singer.
* Haim Alexander, 96, German-born Israeli composer.
* Furman Bisher, 93, American sports writer (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution), heart attack.
* William R. Charette, 79, American Medal of Honor recipient.
* Shirley May France, 79, American swimmer.
* António Leitão, 51, Portuguese Olympic bronze medal-winning (1984) athlete, iron overload.
* Bob McConnell, 87, American baseball author and researcher, founding member of Society for American Baseball Research.
* William G. Moore Jr., 91, American Air Force general.
* Alan Pegler, 91, British railway preservationist.
* Claudia Pía Baudracco, 41, Argentine women, sexual minorities and LGTBI rights activist.
* Anargyros Printezis, 74, Greek Eastern Catholic hierarch, Apostolic Exarch of Greece (1975–2008).
* Nigel Rusted, 104, Canadian physician.
* István Suti, 72, Hungarian Olympic equestrian.
* George Tupou V, 63, Tongan King (since 2006).
* Eric Watson, 56, British photographer, heart attack.
* Jalal Zolfonun, 74, Iranian setar player and composer, heart disease.

### 19

* Verica Barać, 56, Serbian lawyer, cancer.
* Dante Benvenuti, 86, Argentine Olympic cyclist.
* Hanne Borchsenius, 76, Danish actress.
* Jim Case, 84, American television director and producer.
* Jagbir Singh Chhina, 92, Indian freedom fighter.
* Gene DeWeese, 78, American author.
* Donald Brown Engley, 94, American librarian.
* Ulu Grosbard, 83, Belgian-born American theatre and film director (The Subject Was Roses, American Buffalo).
* William J. Hibbler, 65, American federal judge, District Judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (since 1999).
* Anton Jude, 51, Sri Lankan actor, cardiac arrest.
* Sanford N. McDonnell, 89, American businessman (McDonnell Douglas), pancreatic cancer.
* Paul Peter Mostoway, 81, Canadian politician.
* Hugo Munthe-Kaas, 90, Norwegian resistance fighter and politician.
* Karl-Heinz Spickenagel, 80, German footballer.
* George Topolnisky, 95, Canadian politician.
* Knut Erik Tranøy, 93, Norwegian philosopher.

### 20

* Erlom Akhvlediani, 78, Georgian writer.
* Guy Boucher, 68, French Canadian actor, singer and radio and TV presenter.
* Daishin Noboru, 74, Japanese sumo wrestler.
* Ottorino Enzo, 85, Italian rower.
* Bill Glasson, 87, Australian politician, member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Gregory (1974–1989).
* Lincoln Hall, 56, Australian mountaineer and author, mesothelioma.
* Ralph P. Hummel, 74, American political scientist.
* Noboru Ishiguro, 73, Japanese animator and animation director (Space Battleship Yamato, The Super Dimension Fortress Macross, Megazone 23).
* Ante Jurić, 89, Croatian Roman Catholic prelate, Metropolitan Archbishop of Split and Makarska (1988–2000).
* Abdul Rahman Orfalli, 23, Syrian protest organizer, bombing.
* Mel Parnell, 89, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox), cancer.
* Frits de Ruijter, 94, Dutch Olympic athlete.
* Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg, 101, Polish-born Israeli Haredi rabbi and rosh yeshiva.
* Jim Stynes, 45, Irish-born Australian football player, cancer.
* Allan Tolmich, 93, American athlete, Amateur Athletic Union hurdle champion (1937, 1939, 1940, 1941).
* Bernard Zadi Zaourou, 73, Ivorian politician and author, heart complications.

### 21

* Shaima Alawadi, 32, American murder victim, head trauma.
* Lacy Banks, 68, American sports columnist (Chicago Sun-Times) and author, heart disease.
* Rekia Boyd, 22, American police victim, shot.
* Christine Brooke-Rose, 89, British writer and literary critic.
* John George Chedid, 88, Lebanese-born American Maronite hierarch, first Bishop of Our Lady of Los Angeles (1994–2000).
* Albrecht Dietz, 86, German entrepreneur and scientist.
* Judy Egerton, 83, Australian-born British art historian and curator.
* Ron Erhardt, 81, American football coach (New England Patriots, New York Giants, New York Jets).
* Elisabeth Ettlinger, 96, German-born Swiss archaeologist and academic.
* Robert Fuest, 84, English film director.
* Bruno Giacometti, 104, Swiss architect, brother of Alberto and Diego Giacometti.
* Tonino Guerra, 92, Italian poet and screenwriter (L'Avventura, Blowup, Amarcord).
* Irving Louis Horowitz, 82, American sociologist (Rutgers University, Washington University), surgical complications.
* Mohamed Kassas, 91, Egyptian botanist and environmentalist.
* Murray Lender, 81, American entrepreneur (Lender's Bagels), complications from a fall.
* Yuri Razuvaev, 66, Russian chess player and trainer.
* Matanhy Saldanha, 63, Indian politician and social activist, heart attack.
* Marina Salye, 77, Russian geologist and politician, heart attack.
* Shao Xianghua, 99, Chinese scientist.
* Derick Thomson, 90, Scottish poet.
* Kåre Tveter, 90, Norwegian painter and illustrator.

### 22

* Joe Blanchard, 83, American football player (Edmonton Eskimos), professional wrestler and promoter, squamous-cell carcinoma.
* C. K. Chandrappan, 76, Indian politician, Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Kerala), member of the Lok Sabha (1977–1980; 2004–2010), cancer.
* Samuel Collins, 88, American politician.
* Ted Cutting, 85, British automotive engineer, designed Aston Martin DBR1.
* Dhaval Dhairyawan, 32, Indian photographer, after a long illness.
* Hernán Elizondo Arce, 90, Costa Rican novelist and poet.
* Demir Gökgöl, 74, Turkish-born German actor.
* Harry Gunnarsson, 82, Swedish Olympic boxer.
* Johnny McCauley, 86, Irish singer-songwriter.
* Vimal Mundada, 49, Indian politician, cancer.
* Nagnath Naikwadi, 89, Indian independence activist and social worker.
* Jackson Narcomey, 70, American painter.
* Muhammad Ibrahim Nugud, 80, Sudanese politician, Secretary General of the Sudanese Communist Party (since 1971).
* Kirsten Passer, 82, Danish actress.
* John Payton, 65, American civil rights attorney (Gratz v. Bollinger).
* Matthew White Ridley, 4th Viscount Ridley, 86, British nobleman.
* Edward Sismore, 90, British RAF officer (Air Commodore) and Distinguished Flying Cross recipient.
* Mickey Sullivan, 80, American baseball coach.
* David Waltz, 68, American computer scientist.
* Neil L. Whitehead, 56, English anthropologist.

### 23

* Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, 77, Somali politician, President (2004–2008), liver failure.
* Chico Anysio, 80, Brazilian comedian, renal and pulmonary failure.
* Jean-Yves Besselat, 68, French politician.
* Harold Blitman, 82, American basketball coach.
* Jim Duffy, 75, American animator (Rugrats, The Smurfs, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero), cancer.
* Jack Ellena, 80, American football player.
* Hynek Hromada, 76, Czech sports shooter.
* Witold Lesiewicz, 89, Polish film director.
* Eric Lowen, 60, American singer and songwriter ("We Belong", "Everything I Wanted"), complications from ALS.
* Péter Pázmándy, 73, Hungarian-born Swiss footballer and coach.
* Naji Talib, 94, Iraqi politician, Prime Minister (1966–1967).
* Lonnie Wright, 68, American football (Denver Broncos) and basketball (Denver Rockets) player, heart failure.

### 24

* Iqbal Bahu, 68, Pakistani singer, cardiac arrest.
* Dennis Bennett, 72, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, Boston Red Sox).
* Vigor Bovolenta, 37, Italian Olympic silver medal-winning (1996) volleyball player, heart attack.
* Sir Paul Callaghan, 64, New Zealand physicist, colon cancer.
* Henry Clark, 82, Northern Irish politician, MP for Antrim, North (1959–1970).
* Bill Cutler, 92, American baseball executive.
* Hertha Engelbrecht, 89, German lawyer.
* Pierre Gérald, 105, French actor.
* Vince Lovegrove, 65, Australian musician and journalist, car accident.
* Marion Marlowe, 83, American singer and stage actress, natural causes.
* Edward Henryk Materski, 89, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Radom (1992–1999).
* Nick Noble, 85, American pop and country singer ("The Tip of My Fingers", "Moonlight Swim").
* Jose Prakash, 86, Indian actor, heart failure.
* Wolfgang Rennert, 89, German conductor.
* Jocky Wilson, 62, Scottish darts player.

### 25

* Raymond Bley, 73, Luxembourgish Olympic cyclist.
* Priscilla Buckley, 90, American writer, managing editor of National Review.
* Hal E. Chester, 91, American film producer and former child actor.
* John Crosfield, 96, British businessman.
* Bob DeCourcy, 84, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers).
* Tony Gordon, 63, New Zealand rugby league player and coach.
* Edd Gould, 23, British animator (Eddsworld), leukemia.
* Russell C. Jordan Jr., 85, American politician.
* Mona Shourie Kapoor, 48, Indian television producer, cancer.
* Ben-Zion Leitner, 85, Israeli soldier, Medal of Valor recipient.
* Lex, 12, American Marine service dog, awarded honorary Purple Heart, cancer.
* Tom Lodge, 75, British radio DJ, cancer.
* Ralph Maxwell, 78, New Zealand politician, MP for Waitakere (1978–1984) and Titirangi (1984–1990).
* Roger Molander, 71, American anti-nuclear activist, complications from liver cancer.
* Tony Newton, Baron Newton of Braintree, 74, British politician, Leader of the House of Commons (1992–1997), MP for Braintree (1974–1997).
* Nathalie Perrey, 83, French actress.
* Larry Stevenson, 81, American skateboard innovator, pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease.
* Bertil Ströberg, 79, Swedish Air Force officer and spy, cancer.
* Bert Sugar, 74, American boxing writer and historian, cardiac arrest.
* Antonio Tabucchi, 68, Italian novelist (Indian Nocturne, Pereira Maintains).
* Bill Weston, 70, British stuntman (Saving Private Ryan, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Titanic).

### 26

* Susana Agüero, 68, Argentine ballet dancer.
* Sisto Averno, 86, American football player (Baltimore Colts).
* Michael Begley, 79, Irish politician, TD for Kerry South (1969–1989).
* Thomas M. Cover, 73, American information theorist.
* David Craighead, 88, American organist.
* Manik Sitaram Godghate, 74, Indian poet.
* Jay Holt, 88, American Olympic wrestler.
* Edmond Jacobs, 83, Luxembourgish cyclist.
* Helmer Ringgren, 94, Swedish theologian.
* Stella Tanner, 87, British actress.

### 27

* Dale Baker, 73, Australian politician, South Australian MHA for MacKillop (1985–1997); Leader of the Opposition (1990–1992), motor neurone disease.
* Sohen Biln, 72, Canadian Olympic rower.
* Hugo Biermann, 95, South African admiral.
* Roger Cooke, 71, American artist and muralist.
* Millôr Fernandes, 87, Brazilian cartoonist, humorist, and playwright, multiple organ failure.
* Ademilde Fonseca, 91, Brazilian Choro singer.
* Marc Gervais, 82, Canadian Jesuit, writer, and film professor, complications of dementia.
* Larry Haws, 72, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives (2006–2010), brain cancer.
* Harold G. Hillam, 77, American leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
* Anatoly Kikin, 71, Soviet and Russian footballer and coach.
* Hilton Kramer, 84, American art critic, co-founder of The New Criterion.
* Adrienne Rich, 82, American feminist poet and essayist, complications of rheumatoid arthritis.
* Warren Stevens, 92, American actor (Forbidden Planet, The Barefoot Contessa, Return to Peyton Place), lung disease.
* Micah True, 58, American ultramarathon runner.
* Garry Walberg, 90, American actor (Quincy, M.E., The Odd Couple, Peyton Place), COPD and heart failure.
* Daniel Zamudio, 24, Chilean homosexual, beaten.
* Alim Zankishiev, 30, Russian insurgent, leader in the Caucasus Emirate, killed.

### 28

* Fred Anderson, 78, Australian rugby league player.
* John Arden, 81, English playwright.
* Alexander Arutiunian, 91, Armenian composer.
* Etel Billig, 79, American actress, brain aneurysm.
* Leonard Braithwaite, 88, Canadian lawyer and politician.
* Walker Calhoun, 93, Cherokee musician, dancer, and teacher.
* Jacques Carelman, 83, French painter, illustrator and designer.
* Harry Crews, 76, American author, neuropathy.
* T. Damodaran, 77, Indian screenwriter.
* Ruth M. Davis, 83, American computer scientist and civil servant.
* Hans van den Doel, 74, Dutch economist and politician, Member of the House of Representatives (1967–1973).
* Joy G. Dryfoos, 86, American sociologist, cardiac arrest.
* Alberto María Fonrouge, 99, Argentine politician and lawyer.
* Jerry McCain, 81, American blues musician.
* Willie May, 75, American Olympic hurdle medalist (1960), amyloidosis.
* Erkki Nordberg, 65, Finnish colonel and war correspondent.
* Brian Phillips, 80, English footballer (Mansfield Town).
* William Sampson, 52, Canadian author, heart attack.
* Earl Scruggs, 88, American bluegrass musician, natural causes.
* Sergei Solnechnikov, 31, Russian military officer, grenade explosion.
* Eduard Steinberg, 76, Russian painter, cancer.
* Neil Travis, 75, American film editor (Dances with Wolves, Stepmom, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines), Oscar winner (1991).
* Addie L. Wyatt, 88, American labor and civil rights leader, long illness.

### 29

* Mortimer H. Appley, 90, American psychologist and academic administrator.
* P. S. Appu, 83, Indian civil servant.
* Luke Askew, 80, American actor (Cool Hand Luke, Easy Rider, The Green Berets).
* Ioannis Banias, 72, Greek politician.
* Borgia, 18, German racehorse, euthanized.
* Jonathan Bowden, 49, British politician.
* Bill Brett, Baron Brett, 70, British trade unionist and politician.
* Liv Buck, 83, Norwegian trade unionist.
* Olimpia Cavalli, 81, Italian actress (Vanina Vanini, The Thursday, His Women).
* John S. Chase, 87, American architect.
* Pap Cheyassin Secka, 69, Gambian politician.
* Paulino Reale Chirina, 88, Argentine Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Venado Tuerto (1989–2000).
* Gerald Estrin, 90, American computer science pioneer.
* Albert Hadley, 91, American interior decorator, cancer.
* Bill Jenkins, 81, American NHRA drag racer.
* Hone Kaa, 71, New Zealand church leader, cancer.
* Kenneth Libo, 74, American historian of Jewish immigration.
* Oksana Makar, 18, Ukrainian rape and murder victim.
* John Mallison, 82, Australian pastor.
* Montjeu, 16, Irish racehorse, sepsis.
* Ray Narleski, 83, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians), natural causes.
* Joel Olson, 45, American political science professor.
* Michael Peterson, 59, Australian surfer, heart attack.
* Frank H. Strickler, 92, American defense lawyer.
* David Walter, 64, British journalist, cancer.

### 30

* Janet Anderson Perkin, 90, Canadian baseball player and curler.
* Raja Ashman Shah, 53, Malaysian royal, son of the Sultan of Perak, asthma attack.
* Rex Babin, 49, American cartoonist (The Sacramento Bee), cancer.
* Robert Beezer, 83, American federal judge, lung cancer.
* Jorge Carpizo McGregor, 67, Mexican jurist, complications from surgery.
* James Chowning Davies, 93, American sociologist.
* Ron Gaunt, 78, Australian cricketer.
* Kees Guyt, 58, Dutch footballer (AZ'67).
* Rich Jeffries, 73, American television announcer (The Price Is Right).
* Aquila Berlas Kiani, 90–91, Indian academic.
* Barry Kitchener, 64, English footballer (Millwall), cancer.
* Viktor Kosichkin, 74, Russian Olympic speed skating gold and silver medalist (1960).
* Francesco Mancini, 43, Italian footballer (Foggia), heart attack.
* Addie Morrow, 83, Northern Irish politician.
* Emrys Roberts, 82, Welsh poet and author, Archdruid of Wales (1987–1990).
* Granville Semmes, 84, American entrepreneur, founder of 1-800-Flowers.
* Leonid Shebarshin, 77, Russian KGB interim Chairman (1991), suicide by gunshot.
* Tenga Rinpoche, 80, Tibetan lama.
* Ioannis Vasileiadis, 88, Greek politician and admiral, Minister of Public Order (1990–1991).
* Erich Wenk, 86, German bass-baritone.

### 31

* Judith Adams, 68, New Zealand-born Australian politician, Senator for Western Australia (since 2005), breast cancer.
* Beatrice Brumby, 98, Australian pastoral and tourism pioneer.
* G. Emerson Cole, 93, American radio broadcaster.
* Dale R. Corson, 97, American physicist, President of Cornell University (1969–1977), heart failure.
* Cosmas Desmond, 76, South African priest and activist.
* Grand Slam, 17, American thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the 1997 Belmont Futurity Stakes and Champagne Stakes, heart failure.
* Bernard Gruenke, 99, American stained glass artist.
* Lise London, 96, French resistance fighter, widow of Artur London.
* Jerry Lynch, 81, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Cincinnati Reds), prostate cancer.
* Galina Savenko, 46, Russian Olympic sprint canoer.
* Alberto Sughi, 83, Italian painter.
* Halbert White, 61, American economist, cancer.