# Deaths in January 2011
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The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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.

## January 2011
### 1

* Anna Anni, 84, Italian costume designer (Otello).
* Georgiy Ball, 83, Russian writer.
* Branko Bokun, 90, Yugoslavian writer.
* Peter Branson, 86, British admiral.
* Sir Robin Carnegie, 84, British army general.
* Charles Fambrough, 60, American jazz musician and composer.
* Bruce Halliday, 84, Canadian physician and politician, MP for Oxford (1974–1993).
* Gerd Michael Henneberg, 88, German actor.
* Sonia Humphrey, 63, Australian television presenter and journalist.
* Flemming Jørgensen, 63, Danish actor and musician (Bamses Venner), heart attack.
* Verne Langdon, 69, American musician, record producer and make-up artist.
* Constantin Marin, 85, Romanian musician, conductor and composer.
* John Olguin, 89, American aquarium official, director of the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium (1949–1987).
* Billy Joe Patton, 88, American golfer.
* Louise Reiss, 90, American physician, co-ordinator of the Baby Tooth Survey.
* John Rice, 92, American baseball umpire (1955–1973).
* Faizal Yusof, 32, Malaysian actor, heart attack.

### 2

* Bali Ram Bhagat, 88, Indian politician, Speaker of the Lok Sabha (1976–1977) and Governor of Rajasthan (1993–1998).
* Kate Ebli, 52, American politician, member of the Michigan House of Representatives (2006–2010).
* Anne Francis, 80, American actress (Honey West, Forbidden Planet, The Twilight Zone), pancreatic cancer.
* Peter Hobbs, 92, French-born American character actor (Barney Miller, Lou Grant, The Odd Couple), after brief illness.
* Hans Kalt, 86, Swiss rower, Olympic silver (1948) and bronze (1952) medalist.
* Émile Masson Jr., 95, Belgian cyclist, winner of Paris–Roubaix and La Flèche Wallonne classic cycle races.
* John Osborne, 74, Montserratian politician, Chief Minister (1978–1991; 2001–2006), after long illness.
* Pete Postlethwaite, 64, British actor (In the Name of the Father, Amistad, The Usual Suspects), pancreatic cancer.
* William R. Ratchford, 76, American politician, U.S. Representative from Connecticut (1979–1985), complications from Parkinson's disease.
* Bill Robertson, 93, Australian intelligence officer.
* Miriam Seegar, 103, American silent film actress and interior designer.
* Shen Tianhui, 87, Chinese chemist, academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
* Patricia Smith, 80, American actress (The Spirit of St. Louis, The Bob Newhart Show, The Debbie Reynolds Show), heart failure.
* Margot Stevenson, 98, American stage and radio actress (The Shadow).
* Szeto Wah, 79, Hong Kong political activist, lung cancer.
* Robert Trumble, 91, Australian writer and musician.
* Hari Uppal, 84, Indian dancer and dance academy founder.
* Richard Winters, 92, American army officer and World War II veteran, depicted in Band of Brothers, Parkinson's disease.

### 3

* Julia Bonds, 58, American activist, cancer.
* Fadil Hadžić, 88, Croatian filmmaker, screenwriter, playwright and journalist.
* Jill Haworth, 65, English actress (Exodus, In Harm's Way, Cabaret, The Outer Limits), natural causes.
* Zbigniew Jaremski, 61, Polish athlete, 1976 Olympic silver medalist.
* Michael Kennelly, 96, Irish-born American Jesuit priest, President of Loyola University New Orleans (1970–1974), founder of Strake Jesuit College Prep.
* Suchitra Mitra, 86, Indian singer, cardiac arrest.
* Alfred Proksch, 102, Austrian athlete and graphic designer.
* Yosef Shiloach, 69, Israeli actor, cancer.
* Anatoliy Skorokhod, 81, Ukrainian mathematician.
* Paul Soldner, 89, American ceramicist.
* Eva Strittmatter, 80, German writer.
* William Takaku, Papua New Guinean film and theatre actor, screenwriter and theatre director.
* Stanley Tolliver, 85, American attorney and civil rights advocate.
* Nakamura Tomijyuro V, 81, Japanese Kabuki actor, Living National Treasure.
* Alec Woodall, 92, British politician, MP for Hemsworth (1974–1987).

### 4

* Mohamed Bouazizi, 26, Tunisian protestor, self-immolation.
* Grady Chapman, 81, American doo-wop singer (The Robins), heart failure.
* Chrysanth Chepil, 73, Russian Orthodox prelate, Metropolitan of Vyatka-Slobodskoy.
* B. H. Friedman, 84, American author and art critic, pneumonia.
* Keki Byramjee Grant, 90, Indian cardiologist.
* Sir John Gray, 92, British physiologist.
* Cyril M. Harris, 93, American acoustical engineer.
* Hadayatullah Hübsch, 64, German journalist.
* Mick Karn, 52, Cypriot-born British musician (Japan), cancer.
* Dick King-Smith, 88, British author (The Sheep-Pig, The Water Horse, The Queen's Nose).
* Gustavo Kupinski, 36, Argentine guitarist (Los Piojos), traffic collision.
* Herb Mitchell, 73, American actor (The Practice, Gettysburg, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me).
* Coen Moulijn, 73, Dutch footballer, brain haemorrhage.
* Ali-Reza Pahlavi, 44, Iranian royal, son of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, suicide by gunshot.
* Ronald Parfitt, 97, British Olympic fencer.
* Gerry Rafferty, 63, Scottish singer-songwriter ("Baker Street", "Stuck in the Middle with You", "Right Down the Line"), liver failure.
* Jack Richardson, 90, British chemical engineer.
* Salmaan Taseer, 66, Pakistani politician, Governor of Punjab (since 2008), shot.
* Bob Usdane, 74, American politician, member of the Arizona Senate (1977–1991), after a short illness.

### 5

* Ross Cain, 54, Nauruan politician.
* Jim Duncan, 86, American football player and coach.
* Paul Egertson, 75, American Lutheran bishop, heart attack.
* David Hart, 66, British political activist, author and playwright, motor neurone disease.
* Lily Marinho, 89, Brazilian philanthropist, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, respiratory failure.
* Malangatana Ngwenya, 74, Mozambican poet and painter, after long illness.
* Jack Oliver, 87, American scientist, provided seismic evidence supporting plate tectonics.
* Helene Palmer, 82, British actress (Coronation Street).
* Agustin Perdices, 76, Filipino politician, Governor of Negros Oriental (since 2010), stomach cancer.
* Assar Rönnlund, 75, Swedish cross-country skier, world and Olympic champion.
* Brian Rust, 88, British jazz discographer and music journalist.
* David G. Trager, 73, American jurist, pancreatic cancer.
* Bill Zeller, 27, American computer programmer, complications from a suicide attempt.

### 6

* Leovigildo Banaag, 67, Filipino politician, cardiac arrest.
* Rudi Bass, 96, Austrian-born American graphic artist, illustrator and writer.
* John Bendor-Samuel, 81, British missionary and linguist, traffic collision.
* Tom Cavanagh, 28, American ice hockey player (San Jose Sharks), blunt force trauma.
* Susana Chávez, 36, Mexican poet and human rights activist, strangled.
* Francisco de la Rosa, 44, Dominican baseball player (Baltimore Orioles), after a long illness.
* Ryne Duren, 81, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, New York Yankees).
* Ohan Durian, 88, Armenian composer.
* Gad Granach, 95, German memoirist, son of Alexander Granach.
* John D. Kendall, 93, American musical educator (Suzuki method), complications of a stroke.
* Irving Farmer Kennedy, 88, Canadian World War II fighter pilot.
* Aron Kincaid, 70, American actor (The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini, Batman: the Animated Series, The Transformers), heart failure.
* Gary Mason, 48, British boxer, cycling collision.
* Uche Okafor, 43, Nigerian footballer, murdered.
* Andrzej Przeździecki, 84, Polish Olympic fencer and trainer.
* Anthony S. Seminerio, 75, American politician and convicted felon, member of the New York State Assembly (1979–2009).
* Pyotr Sumin, 64, Russian politician, Governor of Chelyabinsk Oblast (1996–2010).
* Donald J. Tyson, 80, American business executive, Chairman of Tyson Foods (1967–2001), cancer.
* Vang Pao, 81, Lao army general and Hmong community leader, Commander of the Secret Army, pneumonia.
* Reg Ward, 82, British chief executive of London Docklands Development Corporation (1981–1987).
* Dagmar Wilson, 94, American anti-nuclear activist, heart failure.

### 7

* Helga Bachmann, 79, Icelandic actress and director.
* Red Borom, 95, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).
* Eddie Carr, 87, American football player (San Francisco 49ers).
* Carlos Castro, 65, Portuguese journalist, bludgeoned.
* Derek Gardner, 79, British vehicle and Formula One car designer.
* Robert P. Hanrahan, 76, American politician, U.S. Representative from Illinois (1973–1975).
* George Harris, 77, American Olympic judoka, leukemia.
* Bill "Tiger" Johnson, 84, American football player (San Francisco 49ers) and coach (Cincinnati Bengals).
* Krzysztof Kolberger, 60, Polish actor, cancer.
* Włodzimierz Ławniczak, 51, Polish journalist, Chairman of Telewizja Polska, after long illness.
* Val Puccio, 45, American professional wrestler.
* Richard Bordeaux Parker, 87, American diplomat.
* Bobby Robinson, 93, American record producer.
* Simona Senoner, 17, Italian ski jumper.
* José Vidal, 70, Dominican baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Seattle Pilots), cancer.

### 8

* Noel Andrews, 79, Irish boxing commentator.
* Joey Carew, 73, Trinidadian cricketer (West Indies), arteriosclerosis.
* Willi Dansgaard, 88, Danish paleoclimatologist.
* Jiří Dienstbier, 73, Czech politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1989–1992).
* Peter Donaldson, 58, Canadian actor (The Sweet Hereafter, Emily of New Moon, Road to Avonlea), lung cancer.
* Hans Ulrich Engelmann, 89, German composer.
* Mike Gambrill, 75, British Olympic cyclist, bronze medalist (1956).
* José García, 84, Uruguayan footballer
* Oleg Grabar, 81, American Islamic art historian, heart failure.
* Ángel Pedraza, 48, Spanish footballer and manager, cancer.
* Manuel Pestana Filho, 82, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Anápolis (1978–2004).
* Juan Piquer Simón, 74, Spanish film director (Pieces, Slugs), lung cancer.
* John Roll, 63, American jurist, shot.
* Del Reisman, 86, American television producer (The Twilight Zone, The Untouchables) and writer, President of WGAW (1991–1993), cardiac arrest.
* Elfa Secioria, 51, Indonesian jazz pianist.
* Thorbjørn Svenssen, 86, Norwegian footballer, record 104 appearances for the national team, stroke.
* Morton Sweig, 95, American businessman.
* Christopher Trumbo, 70, American screenwriter, kidney cancer.
* William F. Walsh, 98, American politician, Mayor of Syracuse, New York (1961–1969), Congressman (1973–1979).
* Moshe Yess, 67, Canadian composer and singer, cancer.

### 9

* James Acord, 66, American sculptor, suicide.
* Vítor Alves, 75, Portuguese soldier and politician, member of the MFA, responsible for the Carnation Revolution, cancer.
* Richard Butcher, 29, English footballer (Macclesfield Town), natural causes.
* Ruth Cavin, 92, American mystery novel editor, lung cancer.
* Debbie Friedman, 59, American songwriter, pneumonia.
* Sir Ernest Lee-Steere, 98, Australian horse racing official, Lord Mayor of Perth, Western Australia (1972–1978).
* Makinti Napanangka, 80s, Australian Papunya Tula artist.
* Howard Wallace Pollock, 90, American politician, U.S. Representative from Alaska (1967–1971).
* Dave Sisler, 79, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Cincinnati Reds), prostate cancer.
* Georges Van Brabant, 84, Belgian Olympian
* Jerzy Woźniak, 78, Polish footballer (Legia Warszawa).
* Peter Yates, 81, British film director and producer (Bullitt, Breaking Away, Krull).

### 10

* Liana Alexandra, 63, Romanian music educator and composer.
* Naseerullah Babar, 82, Pakistani soldier and politician, Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (1976–1977) and Interior Minister (1993–1996).
* Arthur Barrett, 83, English footballer.
* Bill Bower, 93, American aviator, last surviving pilot of Doolittle Raid, complications from a fall.
* John Dye, 47, American actor (Touched by an Angel, Tour of Duty, Jack's Place), heart attack.
* Dorothy Franey, 97, American Olympic speed skater.
* Cookie Gilchrist, 75, American football player (Buffalo Bills, Denver Broncos), cancer.
* Joe Gores, 79, American novelist and screenwriter.
* John Gross, 75, British literary critic.
* Miklós Hofer, 79, Hungarian architect.
* Bert Kinnear, 87, British Olympic swimmer.
* Bora Kostić, 80, Serbian footballer (Red Star Belgrade).
* Shota Kviraia, 58, Georgian politician and security officer.
* Gideon Njoku, 63, Nigerian footballer and coach, cardiac arrest.
* Vivek Shauq, 47, Indian actor, comedian, writer and singer, heart attack.
* A. W. B. Simpson, 79, British legal historian.
* María Elena Walsh, 80, Argentine musician, poet and writer ("Manuelita la tortuga"), after long illness.
* John Ward, 90, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles (1963–1996).
* Gary Whitbread, 53, British cricketer.
* Margaret Whiting, 86, American pop singer ("A Tree in the Meadow", "Moonlight in Vermont"), natural causes.

### 11

* Zoltán Berczik, 73, Hungarian table tennis player and coach.
* Ralph Campbell, 64, American politician, North Carolina state auditor (1992–2004), lung cancer.
* Dame Barbara Clayton, 88, British pathologist.
* Zoë Dominic, 90, English photographer.
* Egon Drews, 84, German Olympic bronze medal-winning (1952) flatwater canoer.
* Milan Ercegan, 94, Yugoslavian president of the International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles (1972–2002).
* Kozo Haraguchi, 100, Japanese track and field athlete, respiratory failure.
* André Marchand, 84, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec.
* Matti Mattson, 94, American veteran of the Spanish Civil War (Abraham Lincoln Brigade).
* John Modinos, 84, Cypriot opera baritone, heart failure.
* David Nelson, 74, American actor (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Peyton Place, Cry-Baby), colon cancer.
* Knut Olsen, 57, Norwegian journalist and television presenter, cancer.
* Alfio Peraboni, 56, Italian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1980, 1984) sailor, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Won-il Rhee, 50, South Korean digital art curator, heart attack.
* Ze'ev Segal, 63, Israeli jurist and legal analyst.
* Marcel Trudel, 93, Canadian historian and author, cancer.

### 12

* Aswismarmo, 85, Indonesian major general.
* Clemar Bucci, 90, Argentine racing driver.
* Hans Bütikofer, 95, Swiss Olympic silver medal-winning (1936) bobsledder.
* Howard Engleman, 91, American college basketball player.
* Paul Picerni, 88, American actor (The Untouchables, The Young Marrieds, House of Wax), heart attack.
* Terje Sagvolden, 65, Norwegian neuroscientist.
* Kenneth Stevenson, 61, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Portsmouth (1995–2009), cancer.
* Dawn Sylvia-Stasiewicz, 52, American dog trainer (Bo) and author, respiratory distress.

### 13

* Wali Khan Babar, 29, Pakistani journalist, gunshot.
* Alan Butler, 80, South African priest.
* Frank Calabro, 86, Italian-born Australian transport operator and politician, MLC (1970–1988).
* Mick Cremin, 87, Australian rugby union footballer.
* Tuviah Friedman, 88, Israeli Nazi hunter.
* Michel Gratton, 58, Canadian journalist, Press Secretary to Prime Minister Brian Mulroney (1984–1987).
* Albert Heijn Jr., 83, Dutch entrepreneur, owner of the Albert Heijn supermarket chain.
* Greg Hjorth, 47, Australian mathematician and chess player, heart attack.
* Hellmut Lange, 87, German actor (Serenade for Two Spies, Diamond Safari).
* Charles Muscat, 48, Maltese footballer.
* Prabhakar Panshikar, 79, Indian stage actor, after long illness.
* Allen Salter, 74, Canadian Olympic weightlifter.
* Ellen Stewart, 91, American theater director.
* Marian Woyna-Orlewicz, 97, Polish cross country skier.

### 14

* Eduardo Armella, 82, Argentine Olympic shooter.
* Sun Axelsson, 75, Swedish novelist.
* Julio Barragán, 82, Argentine painter.
* Salvatore Cancemi, 68, Italian mafiosi, stroke.
* Georgia Carroll, 91, American fashion model and actress (Yankee Doodle Dandy).
* David Coren, 93, Israeli politician, member of the Knesset (1969–1977).
* Dr. Creep, 69, American television host.
* Stephanie Glaser, 90, Swiss actress.
* Marty Gold, 95, American composer, pianist and bandleader.
* Toshiyuki Hosokawa, 70, Japanese actor, acute subdural hematoma.
* Liu Huaqing, 94, Chinese naval commander (1982–1988).
* Peter Post, 77, Dutch cyclist, winner of the 1964 Paris–Roubaix event.
* Betty Mae Tiger Jumper, 88, American health official and tribal leader, first woman to lead the Seminole tribe (1967–71).
* Ben Wada, 80, Japanese television director, esophageal cancer.
* Per Olav Wiken, 73, Norwegian Olympic silver medal-winning 1968 sailor.

### 15

* Ellen Alaküla, 83, Estonian actress and theatre teacher.
* Gaston Allaire, 94, Canadian musicologist.
* Minhaj Barna, 89, Pakistani journalist.
* Kenneth Grant, 86, British occultist and writer, head of the Typhonian Order.
* Roy Hartsfield, 85, American baseball player (Boston Braves) and first manager of Toronto Blue Jays, complications of liver cancer.
* Harvey James, 58, Australian musician (Sherbet), lung cancer.
* Michael Langham, 91, English stage director and actor, complications from a chest infection.
* Romulus Linney, 80, American playwright, lung cancer.
* Nat Lofthouse, 85, English footballer (Bolton Wanderers, England).
* Ed Lowe, 64, American journalist (Newsday, The Long Island Press), liver cancer.
* Mike Vibert, 60, Jersey politician, Minister for Education, Sport and Culture (2005–2008), heart attack.
* Susannah York, 72, English actress (Tom Jones, Superman, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?), bone marrow cancer.
* Hilde Zach, 68, Austrian politician, Mayor of Innsbruck (2002–2010).
* Zeng Xianyi, 74, Chinese professor of legal history.

### 16

* Augusto Algueró, 76, Spanish composer and conductor, cardiac arrest.
* Miguel Ángel Álvarez, 88, Puerto Rican comedian and actor, respiratory failure.
* Julian Asquith, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Asquith, 94, British aristocrat and diplomat, Administrator of Saint Lucia (1958–1962), Governor of the Seychelles (1962–1967).
* David Crowley, 72, American politician, cancer.
* Hovhannes Bedros XVIII Kasparian, 83, Egyptian-born Lebanese Armenian Catholic prelate, Patriarch of Cilicia (1982–1998).
* Milton Levine, 97, American entrepreneur, inventor of Uncle Milton's Ant Farm.
* Steve Prestwich, 56, British-born Australian drummer (Cold Chisel, Little River Band) and songwriter, brain tumour.
* Reinaldo Pünder, 72, German-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Coroatá (since 1978).
* Ye Peida, 95, Chinese telecommunications engineer, President of the Beijing Institute of Posts and Telecommunications.
* Stefka Yordanova, 64, Bulgarian sprinter and middle-distance runner.

### 17

* Marina Abroskina, 43, Russian basketball player, brain tumor.
* Jürgen Barth, 67, German Olympic cyclist.
* Brian Boobbyer, 82, English rugby union player and cricketer.
* David Bradby, 68, British theatre scholar.
* Sjonni Brink, 36, Icelandic musician and singer, complications from a stroke.
* Sir Bernard Crossland, 87, British engineer, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University Belfast (1978–1982).
* Perry Currin, 82, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns), heart failure.
* Keith Davey, 84, Canadian politician and campaign organizer, Senator (1966–1996).
* Gita Dey, 79, Indian actress, cardiac arrest.
* Jean Dutourd, 91, French novelist.
* Vern Kaiser, 85, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens).
* Don Kirshner, 76, American record producer and songwriter, host of Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, heart failure.
* Robert W. Mackenzie, 82, Canadian labour organizer and politician, Ontario Minister of Labour (1990–1994).
* John Ross, 72, American activist, author and journalist, liver cancer.
* Shinichiro Sakurai, 81, Japanese automotive engineer, heart failure.

### 18

* Charlie Cowdrey, 77, American football coach (Illinois State University, Southwestern College).
* George Crowe, 89, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals).
* Jerre DeNoble, 87, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).
* Eugenia Escudero, 96, Mexican Olympic fencer.
* Al Grunwald, 80, American baseball player.
* Duncan Hall, 85, Australian rugby league player.
* John Herivel, 92, British codebreaker at Bletchley Park.
* Antonín Kubálek, 75, Czech-born Canadian pianist, complications from a brain tumour.
* Jim McManus, 70, American tennis player.
* Cristian Paţurcă, 46, Romanian composer.
* Milton Rogovin, 101, American documentary photographer.
* Jacques Sarr, 76, Senegalese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Thiès (since 1986).
* Sargent Shriver, 95, American diplomat and politician, Ambassador to France (1968–1970), vice presidential nominee (1972), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
* Edgar Tafel, 98, American architect.

### 19

* John Barnes, 94, Australian cricketer.
* Neva Egan, 96, American educator, First Lady of Alaska (1959–1966, 1970–1974), widow of William Allen Egan.
* George Franck, 92, American football player (New York Giants).
* Wayne R. Grisham, 88, American politician, Representative from California (1979–1983).
* Mihai Ionescu, 74, Romanian footballer (Petrolul Ploieşti, Romania).
* Jose Kusugak, 60, Canadian Inuit leader, bladder cancer.
* James O'Gwynn, 82, American country music singer, pneumonia.
* Bryce Postles, 79, New Zealand cricketer.
* Ramiro Saraiva Guerreiro, 92, Brazilian politician, Minister of External Relations (1979–1985).
* Bob Scott, 79, Australian politician, member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Cook (1977–1989).
* Wilfrid Sheed, 80, English-born American novelist and essayist, urosepsis.
* Carla Swart, 23, South African cyclist, traffic collision.
* Hira Devi Waiba, 71, Nepali folk singer, injuries from a fire.
* Bob Young, 87, American news journalist and anchor (ABC World News).

### 20

* Kenth Andersson, 66, Swedish middle-distance runner.
* Maurice Brown, 91, British Royal Air Force fighter pilot.
* José Luis Castro Aguirre, 67, Mexican ichthyologist.
* Eduardo Davino, 81, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Palestrina (1997–2005).
* Bruce Gordon, 94, American actor (The Untouchables, Peyton Place, Piranha).
* Ernest McCulloch, 84, Canadian biologist.
* Miesque, 27, French racehorse, euthanized.
* F. A. Nettelbeck, 60, American poet.
* José Ortiz, 63, Puerto Rican baseball player.
* Sonia Peres, 87, Israeli First Lady.
* Reynolds Price, 77, American author, professor at Duke University, heart attack.
* John Jacob Rhodes III, 67, American politician, U.S. Representative from Arizona (1987–1993).
* Eugénio Salessu, 87, Angolan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Malanje (1977–1998).
* Sexy Cora, 23, German pornographic actress, complications from breast enlargement surgery.
* William Shipley, 89, American linguist, complications of pneumonia.
* Alan Uglow, 69, British-born American painter, lung cancer.
* Gus Zernial, 87, American baseball player (Oakland Athletics, Detroit Tigers, Chicago White Sox), heart failure.

### 21

* Theoni V. Aldredge, 88, Greek-born American costume designer (Ghostbusters, Network, The Great Gatsby), Oscar winner (1975).
* Robert Cohu, 99, French Olympic basketball player.
* Peter Demos, 87, Australian Olympic basketball player.
* Jay Garner, 82, American actor (Pennies from Heaven, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century), respiratory failure.
* Tony Geiss, 86, American television writer and composer (Sesame Street), Emmy award winner, complications from a fall.
* Emanuele Gerada, 90, Maltese Roman Catholic prelate, Titular Archbishop of Nomentum, Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland (1989–1995).
* Herb Gray, 76, American-born Canadian football player (Winnipeg Blue Bombers).
* Barney F. Hajiro, 94, American soldier, formerly the oldest living Medal of Honor recipient.
* Wally Hughes, 76, English football coach.
* Dennis Oppenheim, 72, American artist, liver cancer.
* E. V. V. Satyanarayana, 54, Indian Telugu movie director, throat cancer and cardiac arrest.

### 22

* Virgil Akins, 82, American boxer, world welterweight champion (1958).
* Solange Bertrand, 97, French artist.
* Sir Chandos Blair, 91, British army general.
* Ralph Felton, 78, American football player (Washington Redskins).
* Aslam Khokhar, 91, Pakistani cricketer.
* Quentin Orlando, 91, American politician, Member of the Pennsylvania State Senate (1973–1980).
* Park Wan-suh, 79, South Korean novelist, cancer.
* René Piché, 79, Canadian politician.
* Bobby Poe, 77, American pop singer, songwriter and promoter, blood clot.
* Gary Schreider, 76, Canadian football player.
* William Schreyer, 83, American business executive, chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch (1985–1993).
* Lois Smith, 81, Canadian dancer (National Ballet of Canada).
* Tullia Zevi, 91, Italian journalist and politician, leader of the Italian Jewish community.

### 23

* Danny Brabham, 69, American football player (Houston Oilers, Cincinnati Bengals).
* Ed Dyas, 71, American football player (Auburn Tigers), member of the College Football Hall of Fame, stomach cancer.
* Peter Gibb, 56, Australian criminal, heart attack.
* Ole Kopreitan, 73, Norwegian political activist.
* Jack LaLanne, 96, American fitness and nutritional expert, pneumonia.
* Poppa Neutrino, 77, American adventurer, crossed Atlantic Ocean on raft made of discarded material, heart failure.
* Louise Raggio, 91, American lawyer.
* Novica Tadić, 62, Yugoslavian poet.
* Neil Truscott, 88, Australian diplomat.

### 24

* Alec Boden, 85, Scottish footballer (Celtic).
* Bernd Eichinger, 61, German film producer (The NeverEnding Story, Resident Evil, Fantastic Four), heart attack.
* David Frye, 77, American satirist and Richard Nixon impersonator, cardiopulmonary arrest.
* Phil Gallie, 71, British politician, MP for Ayr (1992–97), MSP for South of Scotland (1999–2007).
* Barrie Lee Hall, Jr., 61, American jazz trumpeter and band leader (Duke Ellington).
* Basil F. Heath, 93, Canadian-born American Mohawk actor and stuntman.
* Bhimsen Joshi, 88, Indian musician, Bharat Ratna laureate.
* Francisco Mata, 78, Venezuelan folk singer and composer.
* Jack Matheson, 86, Canadian sports journalist.
* Samuel Ruiz, 86, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of San Cristóbal de las Casas (1959–2000).
* Anna Yablonskaya, 29, Ukrainian playwright, bombing.

### 25

* Daniel Bell, 91, American sociologist.
* Vincent Cronin, 86, British writer.
* Alison Geissler, 103, British glass engraver.
* Bill Holden, 82, English footballer.
* Arto Javanainen, 51, Finnish ice hockey player (Pittsburgh Penguins), after long illness.
* Kotha Satchidananda Murthy, 86, Indian philosopher.
* Ganga Bahadur Thapa, 75–76, Nepalese Olympic runner.

### 26

* Anna Avanzini, 93, Italian Olympic gymnast.
* Robert Crook, 81, American politician, member of the Mississippi State Senate (1964–1992).
* Mike DeBardeleben, 70, American criminal, pneumonia.
* John Herbert, 81, Brazilian actor, emphysema.
* Gladys Horton, 65, American R&B singer (The Marvelettes), complications from a stroke.
* David Kato, 46, Ugandan gay rights activist, bludgeoned with hammer.
* R. F. Langley, 72, British poet and diarist.
* Charlie Louvin, 83, American country music singer (The Louvin Brothers), pancreatic cancer.
* María Mercader, 92, Spanish actress.
* Eddie Mordue, 83, British saxophonist.
* Tore Sjöstrand, 89, Swedish Olympic gold medal-winning (1948) athlete.

### 27

* Charlie Callas, 86, American comedian and actor (Pete's Dragon, Silent Movie, Switch).
* Liana Dumitrescu, 38, Romanian politician, member of the Chamber of Deputies (since 2004), stroke.
* William L. Eagleton, 84, American diplomat.
* Mārtiņš Freimanis, 33, Latvian musician (F.L.Y.) and actor, performed at Eurovision Song Contest 2003, influenza.
* Henri Goosen, 84, French Olympic diver.
* Hannemor Gram, 92, Norwegian Olympic alpine skier.
* Boyd Kirkland, 60, American animation producer and director (Batman: The Animated Series, X-Men: Evolution, G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero), pulmonary fibrosis.
* Wenceslau Malta, 79, Brazilian Olympic modern pentathlete.
* Vaughn Mancha, 89, American football player (Boston Yanks), heart failure.
* Svein Mathisen, 58, Norwegian footballer (IK Start), cancer.
* Butch McCord, 85, American Negro league baseball player.
* Diana Norman, 77, British author and journalist.
* Don Rondo, 81, American singer ("White Silver Sands"), lung cancer.
* Tøger Seidenfaden, 53, Danish newspaper editor-in-chief (Politiken), cancer.
* Guy J. Velella, 66, American politician and convicted criminal, New York State Assemblyman (1973–1982) and State Senator (1986–2004), lung cancer.
* Kjeld Vibe, 83, Norwegian diplomat, ambassador to the United States.
* William Williams, 83, Canadian metallurgical engineer.

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* Hamida Barmaki, 40, Afghan law professor and human rights activist, suicide bomb attack.
* William Bartley, 94, American pilot.
* Ken Carpenter, 84, American football player (Cleveland Browns).
* Raymond Cohen, 91, British violinist.
* Karen Cromie, 31, British Paralympian, suicide by jumping.
* Sushil Kumar Dhara, 99, Indian revolutionary.
* Dariush Homayoon, 82, Iranian politician and journalist, Minister of Information and Tourism (1977–1978).
* Megan McNeil, 20, Canadian singer, adrenal cancer.
* Dame Margaret Price, 69, British soprano, heart failure.

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* Ian Abdulla, 63–64, Australian artist, cancer.
* Hussein El-Alfy, 83, Egyptian rower.
* Milton Babbitt, 94, American composer.
* Zahra Bahrami, 46, Dutch-Iranian protestor and convicted drug trafficker, execution by hanging.
* William J. Bate, 76, American politician.
* José Llopis Corona, 92, Spanish footballer.
* Bruce Jackson, 62, American audio engineer, plane crash.
* Loreen Rice Lucas, 96, Canadian author.
* Hemayel Martina, 20, Curaçaon poet, complications from a traffic collision.
* Raymond McClean, 78, Northern Irish politician and doctor, Mayor of Derry (1973–1974).
* Emilio Ogñénovich, 88, Argentine Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Mercedes-Luján (1982–2000).
* Nora Sun, 72, Chinese-born American diplomat, businesswoman and author, granddaughter of Sun Yat-sen, injuries from car crash.
* Dorothy Thompson, 87, British social historian.
* Emanuel Vardi, 95, Israeli-born American violist, cancer.
* Liza Vorfi, 86, Albanian stage actress, after long illness.
* Norman Wilkinson, 79, English football player.

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* Brian Barritt, 76, English author, artist, and counterculture figure.
* John Barry, 77, British film score composer (From Russia with Love, Chaplin, Out of Africa), five-time Oscar winner, heart attack.
* Ajahn Maha Bua, 97, Thai Buddhist monk.
* J. Elliott Burch, 86, American hall of fame racehorse trainer, pneumonia.
* Michael Herzog, 58, Austrian ice hockey player.
* Charles Nolan, 53, American fashion designer, cancer of the head and neck.
* Bernard O'Brien, 96, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1965–1980).
* Ian R. Porteous, 80, British mathematician.
* Hisaye Yamamoto, 89, American author.

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* Hernán Alvarado Solano, 65, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Guapi (since 2001).
* Bartolomeu Anania, 89, Romanian Orthodox Metropolitan of Cluj-Napoca, Alba Iulia, Crişana and Maramureş (since 1993).
* A. C. Bartulis, 83, American businessman and politician.
* Raymond Challinor, 81, British historian.
* Nikolay Dorizo, 87, Russian poet.
* Zilpha Grant, 91, British Olympic swimmer.
* Stuart Hood, 95, Scottish writer and television executive, controller of BBC Television (1961–1964).
* Charles Kaman, 91, American aeronautical engineer, founder of Kaman Aircraft and Ovation Guitar Company.
* Tally Monastyryov, 71, Soviet Olympic skier.
* Nildo Parente, 76–77, Brazilian actor, stroke.
* Mark Ryan, 51, British musician (Adam and the Ants), complications from liver damage.
* Charles Sellier, 67, American film and television producer (The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams).
* N. Khelchandra Singh, 90, Indian writer, lexicographer and historian.
* Michael Tolan, 85, American actor (The Greatest Story Ever Told, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Presumed Innocent), heart disease and renal failure.
* Norman Uprichard, 82, Northern Irish footballer.
* Doc Williams, 96, American country music performer.