# Deaths in October 2010
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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 2010.
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.

## October 2010
### 1

* Georgy Arbatov, 87, Russian political scientist.
* Dezső Bundzsák, 82, Hungarian football player and coach.
* Ian Buxton, 72, English footballer and cricketer, natural causes.
* Charles Caruana, 77, Gibraltarian Roman Catholic bishop of Gibraltar (1998–2010), complications from a fall.
* Bobby Craig, 75, Scottish footballer.
* Audouin Dollfus, 85, French astronomer.
* Marshall Flaum, 85, American Emmy Award-winning director (The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau), complications from hip surgery.
* Kilian Hennessy, 103, Irish patriarch of the Hennessy cognac company.
* Gerard Labuda, 93, Polish historian.
* Michel Mathieu, 66, French diplomat, cancer.
* David Aldrich Nelson, 78, American jurist, judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
* William W. Norton, 85, American screenwriter (Gator, Brannigan), heart attack.
* William C. Patrick III, 84, American scientist, expert on germs, bladder cancer.
* Pamela Rooks, Indian film director and screenwriter.
* Mikhail Roshchin, 77, Russian playwright.
* Phillips Talbot, 95, American diplomat, Ambassador to Greece (1965–1969), President of the Asia Society (1970–1981).
* Lan Wright, 87, British science fiction writer.

### 2

* David M. Bailey, 44, American singer-songwriter, glioblastoma.
* Brenda Cowling, 85, British actress.
* Maurice Foster, 77, Canadian politician, MP for Algoma (1968–1993), pulmonary fibrosis.
* Robert Goodnough, 92, American abstract expressionist painter, pneumonia.
* Stephen Griew, 82, Canadian gerontologist.
* Ruby Heafner, 86, American baseball player.
* Art Jarvinen, 54, American composer, teacher and musician (The California EAR Unit).
* Kwa Geok Choo, 89, Singaporean lawyer, wife of Lee Kuan Yew, mother of Lee Hsien Loong.
* Sam Lesser, 95, British journalist.
* Gillian Lowndes, 74, British ceramicist.

### 3

* Maury Allen, 78, American sportswriter (The New York Post), lymphoma.
* João Costa, 90, Portuguese Olympic fencer.
* Philippa Foot, 90, British philosopher.
* Sir Louis Le Bailly, 95, British admiral, Director-General of Intelligence.
* Claude Lefort, 86, French philosopher.
* Ben Mondor, 85, American baseball executive (Pawtucket Red Sox).
* Eddie Platt, 88, American saxophonist.
* Abraham Sarmiento, 88, Filipino jurist, Supreme Court Associate Justice (1987–1991).
* Dianne Whalen, 59, Canadian politician, Newfoundland and Labrador MHA for Conception Bay East and Bell Island (2003–2010), cancer.
* Ed Wilson, 65, Brazilian singer-songwriter, founder of Renato e Seus Blue Caps, cancer.

### 4

* William Birenbaum, 87, American educator (Antioch College), heart failure.
* Maurice Broomfield, 94, British photographer.
* Henrique de Senna Fernandes, 86, Macanese author.
* Gordon Lewis, 86, British aeronautical engineer.
* Rajan Mehra, 76, Indian cricket umpire.
* Reinhard Oehme, 82, German-born American particle physicist. (body found on this date)
* Peter Warr, 72, British racing driver and Formula One team principal (Lotus), heart attack.
* Brian Williams, 54, British fantasy illustrator
* Sir Norman Wisdom, 95, British comedian and actor, after long illness.

### 5

* Yakov Alpert, 99, Soviet-born American physicist.
* Roy Axe, 73, British car designer (Talbot Horizon, Rover 800), cancer.
* Roy Ward Baker, 93, British film director (A Night To Remember).
* Jack Berntsen, 69, Norwegian folk singer.
* Stan Bisset, 98, Australian rugby union player and World War II veteran.
* Alba Bouwer, 90, South African writer (Afrikaans children's literature), natural causes.
* Bernard Clavel, 87, French writer, natural causes.
* Mary Leona Gage, 71, American pageant queen, stripped of Miss USA (1957) title, heart failure.
* Karel Hardeman, 96, Dutch Olympic rower.
* Josephine Drivinski Hunsinger, 95, American politician. Member of the Michigan House of Representatives for District 1 (1973-1976).
* Moss Keane, 62, Irish rugby union player, bowel cancer.
* Jānis Klovāns, 75, Latvian chess master.
* Steve Lee, 47, Swiss musician (Gotthard), motorcycle accident.
* Julio Parise Loro, 90, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Napo (1978–96).
* Karen McCarthy, 63, American politician, U.S. Representative from Missouri (1995–2005), Alzheimer's disease.
* Børge Raahauge Nielsen, 90, Danish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1948) rower.
* William Shakespeare, 61, Australian glam rock singer, heart attack.

### 6

* Norman Christie, 85, Scottish football player and manager (Montrose F.C.).
* Jean Debuf, 86, French weightlifter, Olympic bronze medalist (1956).
* Don Goodsir, 73, Australian educator, author, and environmentalist.
* Ivor Hale, 88, English cricketer.
* Rhys Isaac, 72, Australian historian, cancer.
* Antonie Kamerling, 44, Dutch actor and singer, suicide.
* Ralph Kercheval, 98, American football player.
* Gran Naniwa, 33, Japanese professional wrestler, myocardial blockage.
* Colette Renard, 85, French singer and actress, after long illness.
* Henry Sommerville, 82, Australian Olympic fencer.
* Piet Wijn, 81, Dutch comics creator.

### 7

* Ashab-ul-Haq, Bangladeshi politician.
* Metring David, 90, Filipino actress and comedian.
* Gail Dolgin, 65, American documentary filmmaker (Daughter from Danang), breast cancer.
* Kristin Johannsen, 52, American author, educator and environmentalist.
* Ljupčo Jordanovski, 57, Macedonian seismologist and politician, Acting President (2004).
* Chuck Leo, 76, American football player (Boston Patriots).
* Ian Morris, 53, New Zealand musician (Th' Dudes) and record producer.
* Milka Planinc, 85, Yugoslavian politician, Prime Minister (1982–1986).
* Guy Rouleau, 87, Canadian politician.
* A. Venkatachalam, 55, Indian politician, stabbed.

### 8

* Frank Bourgholtzer, 90, American television reporter, first full-time NBC News White House correspondent.
* S. S. Chandran, 69, Indian comic actor and politician, member of the Rajya Sabha (2001–2007), heart attack.
* Jim Fuchs, 82, American shot putter, Olympic bronze medalist (1948, 1952).
* Nils Hallberg, 89, Swedish actor.
* John Huchra, 61, American astronomer, heart attack.
* Ryō Ikebe, 92, Japanese actor (Gorath), blood poisoning.
* Reg King, 65, British singer (The Action), cancer.
* Simbara Maki, 71, Ivorian Olympic hurdler.
* Malcolm Mencer Martin, 89, Austrian-British pediatric endocrinologist, injuries sustained after being hit by car.
* Sue Miles, 66, British counter-culture activist and restaurateur.
* David F. Musto, 74, American drug control expert, heart attack.
* Maurice Neligan, 73, Irish surgeon, performed Ireland's first heart transplant.
* Linda Norgrove, 36, British aid worker and hostage, killed during rescue attempt.
* Mohammad Omar, Afghan politician, Governor of Kunduz Province, bomb blast.
* Pleasant Tap, 23, American thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized due to laminitis.
* Melvin Lane Powers, 68, American real estate developer, acquitted of murdering his uncle.
* Karl Prantl, 86, Austrian sculptor, stroke.
* Neil Richardson, 80, English composer, arranger and conductor.
* Dale Roberts, 70, American baseball player (New York Yankees).
* Albertina Walker, 81, American gospel music singer (The Caravans), respiratory failure.

### 9

* Maurice Allais, 99, French economist, winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1988).
* Mashallah Amin Sorour, 79, Iranian cyclist.
* Edmund Chong Ket Wah, 54, Malaysian politician, Member of Parliament (since 2004), motorcycle accident.
* Les Fell, 89, English footballer (Charlton Athletic, Crystal Palace).
* Aleksandr Matveyev, 84, Russian linguist, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, natural causes.
* Isaia Rasila, 42, Fijian rugby player.
* Zecharia Sitchin, 90, Azerbaijani-born American author.

### 10

* Louis F. Bantle, 81, American chairman of U.S. Tobacco Company, lung cancer and emphysema.
* Reinhold Brinkmann, 76, German musicologist.
* Solomon Burke, 70, American R&B singer-songwriter ("Everybody Needs Somebody to Love"), natural causes.
* Ger Feeney, Irish Gaelic footballer.
* Les Gibbard, 64, New Zealand-born British political cartoonist, during routine operation.
* John Graysmark, 75, British production designer and art director (Ragtime, Gorillas in the Mist, Flash Gordon).
* Hwang Jang-yop, 87, North Korean politician and defector, apparent heart attack.
* Éric Joisel, 53, French wet-folding origami artist, lung cancer.
* Richard Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 4th Baron Acton, 69, British politician.
* David H. McNerney, 79, American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient, lung cancer.
* Adán Martín Menis, 66, Spanish politician, President of the Canary Islands (2003–2007).
* Rex Rabanye, 66, jazz, fusion and soulful pop musician.
* Franz Xaver Schwarzenböck, 87, German Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of München und Freising (1972–1998).
* Solly Sherman, 93, American football player (Chicago Bears).
* A. Edison Stairs, 85, Canadian businessman and politician, New Brunswick MLA (1960–1978) and Minister of Finance (1974–1976), natural causes.
* Walter Staley, 77, American Olympic bronze medal-winning (1952) equestrian.
* Alison Stephens, 40, British classical mandolinist, cervical cancer.
* Dame Joan Sutherland, 83, Australian dramatic coloratura soprano.
* Richard S. Van Wagoner, 64, American historian of Mormonism and Utah.
* Frank Verpillat, 63, French director and inventor.

### 11

* Tomislav Franjković, 79, Croatian Olympic silver medal-winning (1956) water polo player.
* Bill Harsha, 89, American politician, U.S. Representative from Ohio (1961–1981).
* Janet MacLachlan, 77, American actress (Archie Bunker's Place, Sounder), cardiovascular complications.
* Richard Morefield, 81, American embassy worker, hostage during Iran Hostage Crisis.
* Marian P. Opala, 89, American jurist, Associate Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court (1978–2010), stroke.
* Claire Rayner, 79, British author.
* Georges Rutaganda, 51, Rwandan Hutu paramilitary leader, convicted war criminal, after long illness.
* Robert Tishman, 94, American real estate developer (Tishman Speyer).
* Donald H. Tuck, 87, Australian science fiction bibliographer.
* Ian Turner, 85, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1948) rower.

### 12

* Abul Hasnat Md. Abdul Hai, Bangladeshi politician.
* Manuel Alexandre, 92, Spanish actor, cancer.
* Jorge Ardila Serrano, 85, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Girardot (1988–2001).
* Austin Ardill, 93, British politician, member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland for Carrick.
* Challenger, 51, Bangladeshi actor.
* Michael Galloway, 85, American actor.
* Michel Hugo, 79, French-born American cinematographer (Dynasty, Melrose Place, Mission: Impossible), lung cancer.
* Angelo Infanti, 71, Italian actor, cardiac arrest.
* Lionel W. McKenzie, 91, American economist.
* Dick Miles, 85, American table tennis player, natural causes.
* Woody Peoples, 67, American football player (San Francisco 49ers, Philadelphia Eagles).
* Pepín, 78, Spanish footballer.
* Belva Plain, 95, American novelist (Evergreen).

### 13

* Juan Carlos Arteche, 53, Spanish footballer, cancer.
* Eddie Baily, 85, English footballer (Tottenham Hotspur).
* General Johnson, 69, American musician and record producer (Chairmen of the Board), complications of lung cancer.
* Vernon Biever, 87, American photographer.
* Khoisan X, 55, South African political activist, stroke.
* Mary Malcolm, 92, British BBC announcer and television personality.
* Marzieh, 86, Iranian singer, cancer.
* Sol Steinmetz, 80, Hungarian-born American lexicographer and linguist, pneumonia.

### 14

* Malcolm Allison, 83, English footballer (West Ham United) and manager (Manchester City, Crystal Palace), after long illness.
* Glenn J. Ames, 55, American historian, cancer.
* Carla Del Poggio, 84, Italian actress.
* Louis Henkin, 92, American international human rights law expert and academic (Columbia Law School).
* Alain Le Bussy, 63, Belgian science fiction author, complications following throat surgery.
* Simon MacCorkindale, 58, British actor (Falcon Crest, Death on the Nile, Manimal, Casualty), bowel cancer.
* Benoît Mandelbrot, 85, Polish-born American mathematician, pioneer of the study of fractals, pancreatic cancer.
* Constance Reid, 92, American mathematics author and biographer.
* Hermann Scheer, 66, German politician, member of the Bundestag (1980–2010) and Right Livelihood Award laureate (1999), after short illness.
* Larry Siegfried, 71, American basketball player (Boston Celtics), heart attack.

### 15

* Jim Dougal, 65, Northern Irish journalist (BBC News, RTÉ, UTV).
* Mildred Fay Jefferson, 84, American anti-abortion activist, first black woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School.
* N. Paul Kenworthy, 85, American cinematographer (The Living Desert, The Vanishing Prairie), thyroid cancer.
* Georges Mathé, 88, French oncologist and immunologist, bone marrow transplant pioneer.
* Vera Rózsa, 93, Hungarian voice teacher.
* Johnny Sheffield, 79, American actor (Tarzan Finds a Son!, Bomba, the Jungle Boy, Knute Rockne All American), heart attack.

### 16

* Barbara Billingsley, 94, American actress, polymyalgia (Leave It to Beaver, Airplane!, Muppet Babies).
* Alfredo Bini, 83, Italian film producer.
* Jack Butterfield, 91, Canadian-born American sports administrator, President of the American Hockey League (1969–1994).
* Chao-Li Chi, 83, Chinese-born American actor (Falcon Crest).
* Giannis Dalianidis, 86, Greek film director and screenwriter (Oi Thalassies oi Hadres, O katergaris), multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
* Eyedea, 28, American rapper and musician (Eyedea & Abilities).
* Friedrich Katz, 83, Austrian anthropologist and historian, cancer.
* Masud Husain Khan, 91, Indian linguist.
* Ioannis Ladas, 90, Greek army officer, member of the 1967–1974 military junta.
* Betty S. Murphy, 77, American lawyer, first woman to chair the National Labor Relations Board, pneumonia.
* Aldo Maria Lazzarín Stella, 83, Italian-born Chilean Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Aysén (1989–1998).
* Valmy Thomas, 81, Puerto Rican baseball player.
* Leigh Van Valen, 75, American evolutionary biologist (Red Queen's Hypothesis), respiratory infection.

### 17

* Åsmund Apeland, 80, Norwegian politician.
* Jake Dunlap, 85, Canadian football player (Ottawa Rough Riders), cancer.
* John Baird Finlay, 81, Canadian politician, MP for Oxford (1993–2004).
* Emmanuel Lê Phong Thuân, 79, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Cân Tho (since 1990).
* Joe Lis, 64, American baseball player, prostate cancer.
* Freddy Schuman, 85, American baseball fan (New York Yankees), heart attack.
* Michael Tabor, 63, American Black Panther Party member, complications from a stroke.
* Dennis Taylor, 56, American saxophonist, heart attack.

### 18

* Luc Agbala, 63, Togo football player and referee.
* Marion Brown, 79, American jazz saxophonist.
* Consuelo Crespi, 82, American-born Italian countess, fashion model and editor, stroke.
* David Fontana, 75, British psychologist and parapsychologist, pancreatic cancer.
* Margaret Gwenver, 84, American actress (Guiding Light).
* Hans Hägele, 70, German footballer, suicide by jumping.
* Mel Hopkins, 75, Welsh footballer (Tottenham Hotspur, Brighton & Hove Albion).
* Yertward Mazamanian, 85, American hippie.
* Peng Chong, 95, Chinese politician, former National Committee member.
* Billy Raimondi, 97, American baseball player
* Doug Wilson, 90, British Olympic athlete.
* Ken Wriedt, 83, Australian politician, Senator for Tasmania (1967–1980), Leader of the Tasmanian Opposition (1982–1986).

### 19

* Tom Bosley, 83, American actor (Happy Days, Father Dowling Mysteries), heart failure.
* Craig Charron, 42, American ice hockey player, stomach cancer.
* Graham Crowden, 87, Scottish actor (If...., A Very Peculiar Practice, Waiting For God).
* André Mahé, 90, French road bicycle racer.
* Paul Steven Miller, 49, American disability rights leader, cancer.
* John Waterlow, 94, British physiologist.

### 20

* Jean Asfar, 92, Egyptian Olympic fencer.
* Francisco Batistela, 79, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bom Jesus da Lapa (1990–2009).
* Otey Clark, 95, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox).
* W. Cary Edwards, 66, American politician, New Jersey State Assemblyman (1978–1982) and Attorney General (1986–1989), cancer.
* Herbert Enderton, 74, American mathematician and logician, leukemia.
* Mariano Ferreyra, 23, Argentine left-wing militant, shot.
* Bob Guccione, 79, American photographer and founder of Penthouse, lung cancer.
* Eva Ibbotson, 85, Austrian-born British novelist (Journey to the River Sea, The Secret of Platform 13).
* Coleman Jacoby, 95, American television comedy writer, pancreatic cancer.
* D. Geraint James, 88, Welsh doctor.
* Bill Jennings, 85, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns).
* Robert Katz, 77, American writer, complications from cancer surgery.
* Max Kohnstamm, 96, Dutch historian and diplomat.
* Farooq Leghari, 70, Pakistani politician, President (1993–1997), heart complications.
* Sir George Mallet, 87, Saint Lucian politician, Governor-General (1996–1997), cancer.
* Eduard Novák, 63, Czech ice hockey player, Olympic silver (1976) and bronze (1972) medalist.
* Jenny Oropeza, 53, American politician, California State Assemblywoman (2000–2006) and State Senator (since 2006), after long illness.
* Robert Paynter, 82, British cinematographer (Trading Places, An American Werewolf in London, Michael Jackson's Thriller).
* Harvey Phillips, 80, American tuba player, Parkinson's disease.
* Gilbert Planté, 69, French Olympic footballer.
* Julian Roberts, 80, British librarian.
* Tony Roig, 81, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, Washington Senators), after long illness.
* Parthasarathy Sharma, 62, Indian Test cricketer (1974–1977), cancer.
* Tikhon Stepanov, 47, Russian Orthodox prelate, Bishop of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogory (since 1996), heart attack.
* Ari Up, 48, German-born British punk musician (The Slits), cancer.
* Wendall Woodbury, 68, American television journalist and host (WGAL-TV), lymphoma.

### 21

* Antonio Alatorre, 88, Mexican philologist.
* Mustapha Anane, 60, Algerian footballer, after long illness.
* A. Ayyappan, 61, Indian poet.
* José Carbajal, 66, Uruguayan singer, guitarist, and composer (Los Olimareños), cardiac arrest.
* Sir Leslie Froggatt, 90, British-born Australian business executive, CEO of Shell Australia (1969–1980), complications from Parkinson's disease.
* Kjell Landmark, 80, Norwegian poet and politician, cancer.
* James F. Neal, 81, American jurist, prosecuted Watergate figures, cancer.
* Howard Harry Rosenbrock, 89, British electrical engineer and scientist.
* Loki Schmidt, 91, German environmentalist, wife of Helmut Schmidt, illness after a fall and complications of a broken foot.
* Natasha Spender, 91, British musician and writer, widow of Stephen Spender.

### 22

* Alex Anderson, 90, American cartoonist, created characters for The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show and Crusader Rabbit.
* Donald A. Andrews, 69, Canadian correctional psychologist and criminologist.
* Rune Blomqvist, 85, Swedish Olympic sprint canoer.
* Arthur M. Brazier, 89, American pastor and civil rights activist.
* Alí Chumacero, 92, Mexican writer and poet, pneumonia.
* Bill Henderson, 86, Northern Irish politician and newspaper proprietor.
* Helen Hunley, 90, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta (1985–1991).
* Anne McDonald, 49, Australian disability rights activist, heart attack.
* Franz Raschid, 56, German footballer, pancreatic cancer.
* Eio Sakata, 90, Japanese professional Go player, aortic aneurysm.
* Denis Simpson, 59, Canadian actor (Polka Dot Door) and singer, brain hemorrhage.
* Kjell Stormoen, 89, Norwegian actor and theater director.
* René Villiger, 79, Swiss painter, cancer.

### 23

* Ralph Belknap Baldwin, 98, American planetary scientist.
* Vince Banonis, 89, American football player (Chicago Cardinals, Detroit Lions).
* Ior Bock, 68, Finnish actor and tour guide, stabbing.
* George Cain, 66, American author, kidney failure.
* Fran Crippen, 26, American swimmer, heart attack.
* Leo Cullum, 68, American cartoonist (The New Yorker), cancer.
* Robert Fitzpatrick, 73, American manager and actor, lung disease.
* S. Neil Fujita, 89, American graphic designer, complications of a stroke.
* Princess Irmingard of Bavaria, 87, German noblewoman.
* Donald Leifert, 59, American science fiction actor.
* Chhewang Nima, 43, Nepalese mountaineer and guide, avalanche.
* Michael Porter, 59, American wrestling announcer.
* Stanley Tanger, 87, American businessman, founder of Tanger Factory Outlet Centers.
* David Thompson, 48, British-born Barbadian politician, Prime Minister (since 2008), pancreatic cancer.
* Tom Winslow, 69, American folk musician, complications from a stroke.

### 24

* Ralph Anderson, 86, American architect, kidney cancer.
* Les Anthony, 88, Welsh rugby union player.
* Bob Courtney, 87, British-born South African broadcaster and actor.
* Mike Esposito, 83, American comic book artist (Spider-Man, The Flash, Wonder Woman).
* Georges Frêche, 72, French politician, cardiac arrest.
* Fritz Grösche, 69, German footballer and coach, cancer.
* Linda Hargrove, 61, American singer-songwriter.
* Andy Holmes, 51, British Olympic gold (1984, 1988) and bronze (1988) medal-winning rower, leptospirosis.
* Franciszek Jarecki, 79, Polish-born American jet pilot and defector.
* Lamont Johnson, 88, American actor and television director (The Twilight Zone, The Execution of Private Slovik), heart failure.
* Alex Oakley, 84, Canadian Olympic race walker.
* Pan Jin-yu, 96, Taiwanese last speaker of the Pazeh language.
* Ignacio Ramírez de Haro, 15th Count of Bornos, 92, Spanish noble, 15th Count of Bornos, Grandee of Spain, legionella.
* Burton B. Roberts, 88, American judge, New York Supreme Court Justice (1973–1998), respiratory failure.
* Willie Rutherford, 65, Australian soccer player.
* Sylvia Sleigh, 94, American painter, complications of a stroke.
* Jack Stackpoole, 93, Australian cricketer.
* David Stahl, 60, American conductor, lymphoma.
* Joseph Stein, 98, American playwright (Fiddler on the Roof, Zorba).

### 25

* Hans Arnold, 85, Swiss-born Swedish artist.
* Sonny Ates, 75, American racecar driver.
* Lisa Blount, 53, American actress (An Officer and a Gentleman) and film producer (The Accountant).
* Sonia Burgess, 63, British immigration lawyer.
* Jeff Carter, 82, Australian photographer and author.
* Valentina Gaganova, 78, Russian textile worker and politician.
* Richard T. Gill, 82, American opera singer, heart failure.
* Douglas Hooper, 83, English psychotherapist, traffic collision.
* Gregory Isaacs, 59, Jamaican reggae singer, lung cancer.
* Andreas Maurer, 91, Austrian politician, Landeshauptmann of Lower Austria (1966–1981).
* Vesna Parun, 88, Croatian writer.
* Ada Polak, 96, Norwegian art historian.
* Rudy Rufer, 83, American baseball player (New York Giants).
* Roy Skinner, 80, American college basketball coach (Vanderbilt), respiratory failure.

### 26

* Jaroslava Komárková, 83, Czech Olympic athlete.
* Glen Little, 84, American circus performer ("Frosty the Clown").
* Mbah Maridjan, 83, Indonesian spiritual guardian of Mount Merapi (1982–2010), pyroclastic flow from Mount Merapi.
* Ricardo Montez, 87, Gibraltarian character actor.
* Paul the Octopus, 2, British-born World Cup oracle octopus (Sea Life Centre in Oberhausen, Germany), natural causes.
* James Phelps, 78, American gospel and R&B singer, complications of diabetes.
* Ana María Romero de Campero, 67, Bolivian journalist and politician, President of the Senate of Bolivia (2010), colorectal cancer.
* Romeu Tuma, 79, Brazilian politician, Senator (1995–2010), multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
* Ray Watson, 87, Australian judge.

### 27

* Mary Emma Allison, 93, American co-creator of Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF.
* Denise Borino-Quinn, 46, American actress (The Sopranos), liver cancer.
* Gene Fodge, 79, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs).
* William Griffiths, 88, British Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) field hockey player.
* Chris Gulker, 59, American photographer, programmer and writer, brain cancer.
* Néstor Kirchner, 60, Argentine politician, President (2003–2007), First Gentleman (since 2007), Secretary General of UNASUR (2010), heart attack.
* Paul Kolton, 87, American chairman of the American Stock Exchange (1972–1977), lymphoma.
* Luigi Macaluso, 62, Italian businessman, President and Chairman of the Sowind Group, heart attack.
* Owen B. Pickett, 80, American politician, U.S. Representative from Virginia (1987–2001).
* Saqr bin Mohammad al-Qassimi, 92, Emirati ruler of Ras al-Khaimah (since 1948).
* Hall W. Thompson, 87, American developer of a country club that did not admit black members.
* James Wall, 92, American actor (Captain Kangaroo) and stage manager, after short illness.

### 28

* Isabella Abbott, 91, American ethnobotanist, first native Hawaiian to receive a doctorate in science.
* Ibrahim Ahmad Abd al-Sattar Muhammad, 54, Iraqi general, Armed Forces Chief of Staff (1999–2003), cancer.
* Harry Baldwin, 90, English footballer.
* Jack Brokensha, 84, Australian jazz musician, composer and arranger.
* Jesús Mateo Calderón Barrueto, 90, Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Puno (1972–1998).
* Robert Dickie, 46, British champion boxer, heart attack.
* Robert Ellenstein, 87, American character actor.
* Erling Fløtten, 72, Norwegian politician.
* Watts Humphrey, 83, American software engineer.
* Gerard Kelly, 51, British actor (City Lights), brain aneurysm.
* Liang Congjie, 78, Chinese environmentalist (Friends of Nature), lung infection.
* James MacArthur, 72, American actor (Hawaii Five-O, Swiss Family Robinson), natural causes.
* Jonathan Motzfeldt, 72, Greenlandic politician, Prime Minister (1979–1991; 1997–2002), brain hemorrhage.
* Paddy Mullins, 91, Irish racehorse trainer.
* Maurice Murphy, 75, British musician (London Symphony Orchestra).
* Ehud Netzer, 76, Israeli archaeologist, discovered tomb of Herod the Great, injuries from a fall.
* Walter Payton, 68, American jazz bassist and sousaphonist, complications from a stroke.
* Anna Prieto Sandoval, 76, American tribal leader (Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation), Native American gaming enterprises pioneer, diabetes.
* Jean Schmit, 79, Luxembourgish Olympic cyclist.
* John Sekula, 41, American guitarist (Mushroomhead).

### 29

* Gerhard Beyer, 69, German Olympic sports shooter.
* Marcelino Camacho, 92, Spanish trade unionist.
* Ronnie Clayton, 76, English footballer (Blackburn Rovers).
* Geoffrey Crawley, 83, British photographer and editor, debunked Cottingley Fairies mystery.
* Stefan Florescu, 83, American paralympic swimmer and table tennis player.
* Mervyn Haisman, 82, British writer (Doctor Who).
* George Hickenlooper, 47, American documentary filmmaker, accidental drug overdose.
* Yisrael Katz, 82, Israeli public servant and government minister.
* Antonio Mariscal, 95, Mexican Olympic diver.
* Bärbel Mohr, 46, German author.
* Bernard de Nonancourt, 90, French businessman and member of the French Resistance, owner of Laurent-Perrier.
* Karlo Sakandelidze, 82, Georgian actor.
* Takeshi Shudo, 61, Japanese writer, creator of Pokémon, subarachnoid hemorrhage.

### 30

* Randall Dale Adams, 61, American anti–death penalty activist, brain tumor.
* Douglas Argent, 89, British television producer and director (Fawlty Towers).
* Vladimir Arsenyev, 62, Russian Africanist, ethnographer, and exhibition curator.
* John Benson, 67, Scottish footballer and manager, after short illness.
* Romano Bonagura, 80, Italian bobsledder, Olympic silver medalist (1964).
* Leopoldo Alfredo Bravo, 50, Argentine diplomat, ambassador to Russia, cancer.
* Édouard Carpentier, 84, French-born Canadian professional wrestler.
* Ina Clare, 77, British actress (EastEnders).
* Meta Elste-Neumann, 91, American gymnast, Olympic bronze medalist (1948), cancer.
* Arthur Bernard Lewis, 84, American television producer and writer (Dallas), complications from pneumonia.
* Ananías Maidana, 87, Paraguayan teacher and politician, prostate cancer.
* Harry Mulisch, 83, Dutch writer (The Assault, The Discovery of Heaven), cancer.
* Nachi Nozawa, 72, Japanese voice actor, lung cancer.
* Clyde Summers, 91, American academic, complications of a stroke.
* Mateus Feliciano Augusto Tomás, 52, Angolan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Namibe (since 2009).
* Howard Van Hyning, 74, American percussionist (New York City Opera), myocardial infarction.

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* Michel d'Aillières, 86, French politician.
* Evelyn Baghtcheban, 82, Turkish-Persian opera singer.
* Manfred Bock, 69, German Olympic decathlete, heart attack.
* Max Barandun, 68, Swiss Olympic sprinter.
* Roger Holloway, 76, British Anglican priest.
* Dick Loepfe, 88, American football player (Chicago Cardinals).
* Maurice Lucas, 58, American basketball player (Portland Trail Blazers, Phoenix Suns, Los Angeles Lakers), bladder cancer.
* John Selfridge, 83, American mathematician.
* János Simon, 81, Hungarian basketball player, EuroBasket winner (1955).
* Ted Sorensen, 82, American lawyer, White House counsel (1961–1964), stroke.
* Artie Wilson, 90, American baseball player (New York Giants, Birmingham Black Barons), Alzheimer's disease.