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

## June 2010
### 1

* Omar Andréen, 87, Norwegian painter, graphic artist, and illustrator.
* Freddie Burdette, 73, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs).
* Vladimír Bystrov, 74, Czech writer and translator, recipient of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk.
* Chinook Pass, 31, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
* Arturo Falaschi, 77, Italian geneticist.
* John Hagart, 72, Scottish football player and manager.
* Heather the Leather, 50, British scaleless carp, old age.
* Arthur A. Link, 96, American politician. U.S. Representative (1971–1973), Governor of North Dakota (1973–1981).
* Roger Manderscheid, 77, Luxembourgish author.
* Miss Ellie, 17, American Chinese Crested Dog, winner of title World's Ugliest Dog.
* Kazuo Ohno, 103, Japanese dancer, respiratory failure.
* Frank Pike, 80, Canadian football player and manager, heart failure.
* Joseph Strick, 86, American film director and producer, heart failure.
* Lobi Traoré, 48, Malian musician.
* Andrei Voznesensky, 77, Russian poet and writer.

### 2

* Dick Bird, 77, British Anglican priest.
* Eleanor Taylor Bland, 65, American crime fiction writer.
* Floribert Chebeya, 46, Congolese human rights activist.
* Dorothy DeBorba, 85, American actress (Our Gang), emphysema and lung disease.
* Tony DiPreta, 88, American cartoonist, (Joe Palooka, Rex Morgan, M.D.), respiratory and cardiac arrest.
* John W. Douglas, 88, American civil rights advocate, complications from a stroke.
* Joe Gardi, 71, American football coach, stroke.
* Kovilan, 86, Indian novelist, respiratory disease.
* Marguerite Narbel, 92, Swiss biologist and politician, member of the Grand Council of Vaud.
* Garry Purdham, 31, English rugby league player (Workington Town), shot.
* Ri Je-gang, 80, North Korean politician, First Deputy Head of the Organization and Guidance Department of the Workers' Party of Korea, car accident.
* John Richardson, 77, Canadian politician, MP for Perth—Wellington—Waterloo (1993–1997); Perth—Middlesex (1997–2002), Alzheimer's disease.
* António Alva Rosa Coutinho, 84, Portuguese admiral and politician, Governor-General of Angola, after long illness.
* Michael Schildberger, 72, Australian journalist, prostate cancer.
* Gabriele Sella, 47, Italian Olympic cyclist.
* Giuseppe Taddei, 93, Italian opera singer.
* Yoo Chang-soon, 92, South Korean politician, Prime Minister (1982).

### 3

* João Aguiar, 66, Portuguese writer and journalist.
* Vladimir Arnold, 72, Russian mathematician, peritonitis.
* Frank Bernasko, 79, Ghanaian soldier and politician.
* Bill Clark, 80, New Zealand rugby player, after long illness.
* Frank Evans, 86, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Colorado (1965–1979).
* John Hedgecoe, 78, British photographer.
* Robert Hudson, 90, British broadcaster.
* K. M. M. B. Kulatunga, Sri Lankan puisne justice of the Supreme Court
* Paul Malliavin, 84, French mathematician, creator of Malliavin calculus.
* Rue McClanahan, 76, American actress (The Golden Girls, Maude, Starship Troopers), Emmy winner (1987), stroke.
* Luigi Padovese, 63, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar of Anatolia and chairman of the Turkish Bishops' Conference (since 2004), stabbed.
* Pance Pondaag, 59, Indonesian pop singer and songwriter, complications from a stroke.
* Pétur Sigurgeirsson, 91, Icelandic prelate, Bishop of Iceland (1981–1989).
* Emory C. Swank, 88, American diplomat, Ambassador to Cambodia (1970–1973).
* Hasan Tiro, 84, Indonesian politician, founder of the Free Aceh Movement, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
* Leonard S. Unger, 92, American diplomat, Ambassador to Laos (1962–1964), Thailand (1967), and the Republic of China (1974–1979).
* Charlie Wedemeyer, 64, American football player and coach, complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

### 4

* Raymond Allchin, 86, British archaeologist.
* Bill Ashenfelter, 85, American Olympic athlete.
* Frank Ballard, 80, American puppeteer and educator, complications from Parkinson's disease.
* Himan Brown, 99, American radio producer (CBS Radio Mystery Theater).
* Jim Copeland, 65, American football player, cancer.
* Marianne Elser Crowder, 104, American oldest Girl Scout, pancreatic cancer.
* Amado Crowley, 80, British occult writer and magician. (Death announced by this date)
* Richard Dunn, 73, American character actor (Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!), stroke.
* David Foster, 90, British naval pilot.
* Jack Harrison, 97, British air force officer, last survivor of Stalag Luft III.
* Richard P. Lindsay, 84, American Mormon leader and politician (Utah House of Representatives, 1972–1977), cancer.
* Syd Luyt, 84, South African Olympic runner.
* David Markson, 82, American writer (Wittgenstein's Mistress).
* William Miranda Marín, 69, Puerto Rican politician, mayor of Caguas (1997–2010), pancreatic cancer.
* Andi Meriem Matalatta, 52, Indonesian pop singer, complications from diabetes.
* Carlos Francisco Martins Pinheiro, 85, Portuguese Roman Catholic prelate.
* Hennadiy Popovych, 37, Ukrainian footballer (Zenit, Shakhtar), cardiac arrest.
* Norman Rothfield, 98, Australian peace and labour activist.
* Ray Smith, 80, Australian Olympic athlete.
* Chuck Taliano, 65, American marine, featured on recruitment poster, multiple myeloma.
* Eddie Washington, 56, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives (2003–2010), heart attack.
* John Werket, 85, American Olympic speed skater.
* John Wooden, 99, American basketball coach (UCLA, 1948–1975).

### 5

* Esma Agolli, 81, Albanian actress, cardiac arrest.
* Braulio Alonso, 93, American educator.
* Sir Neil Anderson, 83, New Zealand admiral, Chief of Defence Staff (1980–1983).
* Danny Bank, 87, American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and flautist.
* Robert C. Bergenheim, 86, American founder of Boston Business Journal.
* Angus Douglas-Hamilton, 15th Duke of Hamilton, 71, British peer and racing driver, dementia.
* Robert Healy, 84, American journalist, executive editor (The Boston Globe), stroke.
* Stephen Clancy Hill, 34, American pornographic actor and murderer, suicide by jumping.
* Jacob Milgrom, 87, American rabbi and biblical scholar, brain hemorrhage.
* Finian Monahan, 86, Irish Roman Catholic friar and priest, Superior General (1973–1979), pneumonia.
* Arne Nordheim, 78, Norwegian contemporary classical composer.
* Tony Peluso, 60, American musician and record producer (The Carpenters), heart disease.
* Steven Reuther, 58, American film producer (Dirty Dancing, Pretty Woman, The Ugly Truth), cancer.
* Robert Wussler, 73, American businessman, co-founder of CNN, after long illness.

### 6

* Mabi de Almeida, 46, Angolan football manager, after long illness.
* Jack Beeson, 88, American contemporary classical music composer, heart failure.
* Marvin Isley, 56, American bassist (The Isley Brothers, Isley-Jasper-Isley), complications of diabetes.
* Dana Key, 56, American musician (DeGarmo and Key), ruptured blood clot.
* Abraham Nathanson, 80, American graphic designer and author, co-inventor of Bananagrams, cancer.
* Robert B. Radnitz, 85, American film producer (Cross Creek, My Side of the Mountain, Sounder), complications from a stroke.
* Ladislav Smoljak, 78, Czech film and theatre director, after long illness.
* Jerry Stephenson, 66, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox), lung cancer.
* Paul Wunderlich, 83, German artist.

### 7

* José Albi, 88, Spanish poet.
* Paul Bell, 59, American politician, member of the Iowa House of Representatives (since 1993), stomach cancer.
* Stuart Cable, 40, Welsh drummer (Stereophonics), accidental asphyxiation.
* Chai Zemin, 93, Chinese diplomat.
* Mordechai Eliyahu, 81, Israeli rabbi, Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel (1983–1993).
* Jorge Ginarte, 70, Argentine football manager.
* Ndoc Gjetja, 66, Albanian poet, after long illness.
* Alex Hastie, 74, British rugby player.
* Eric Mason, 83, British actor (Hot Fuzz, A Man for All Seasons, Doctor Who).
* Arsen Naydyonov, 68, Russian football coach (Zhemchuzhina, Novorossiysk).
* Oliver N'Goma, 51, Gabonese singer and guitarist, renal failure.
* Omar Rayo, 82, Colombian painter and sculptor, heart attack.
* Viana Júnior, 68, Brazilian comedian, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
* Adriana Xenides, 54, Argentine-born Australian television personality (Wheel of Fortune), ruptured intestine.

### 8

* Tony Cennamo, 76, American disc jockey (WBUR), after long illness.
* Margaret Delacourt-Smith, Baroness Delacourt-Smith of Alteryn, 94, British politician and life peer.
* Dan Eastman, 64, American politician and businessman, Utah State Senator (2000–2008), heart failure.
* Joan Hinton, 88, American nuclear physicist, abdominal aneurysm.
* Porfi Jiménez, 82, Dominican-born Venezuelan musician, arranger, composer and bandleader.
* Plamen Maslarov, 60, Bulgarian film director.
* Stephen Rivers, 55, American publicist and political activist, prostate cancer.
* Ismael Blas Rolón Silvero, 96, Paraguayan Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Asunción (1970–1989).
* Crispian St. Peters, 71, British pop singer ("The Pied Piper", "You Were on My Mind"), after long illness.
* Andreas Voutsinas, 79, Greek actor and stage director.

### 9

* Epaminondas José de Araújo, 88, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Palmeira dos Índios (1978–1984).
* Ken Brown, 70, British guitarist (The Quarrymen).
* Fadzil Mahmood, 73, Malaysian politician, speaker of the Perlis State Assembly (1986–1990).
* Melbert Ford, 49, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
* Christine Johnson, 98, American opera singer and actress.
* Bobby Kromm, 82, Canadian ice hockey coach (Detroit Red Wings, Winnipeg Jets), complications from colorectal cancer.
* Joseph Crescent McKinney, 81, American Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of Grand Rapids (1968–2001).
* Marina Semyonova, 101, Russian prima ballerina (Bolshoi Ballet).
* Mohamed Sylla, 39, Guinean footballer (Willem II, Martigues, Guinea), cancer.
* Oleksandr Zinchenko, 53, Ukrainian politician.

### 10

* David Ellison, 70, British actor (Juliet Bravo).
* Ginette Garcin, 82, French actress, cancer.
* Ferdinand Oyono, 80, Cameroonian writer and government minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1992–1997).
* Sigmar Polke, 69, German painter and photographer, cancer.
* Basil Schott, 70, American Byzantine Catholic friar, Metropolitan of the Byzantine Catholic Archeparchy of Pittsburgh (since 2002), cancer.

### 11

* Bernie Andrews, 76, British radio producer.
* Maria Aurora, 72, Portuguese journalist, poet, novelist, children's writer and television presenter.
* Henri Cuq, 68, French politician.
* Shunsuke Ikeda, 68, Japanese actor (Kikaider 01, Ultraman Mebius & Ultraman Brothers), stomach cancer.
* Kip Deville, 7, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
* Norman Macrae, 86, British journalist, deputy editor of The Economist (1965–1988).
* William J. Mitchell, 65, American architect and urban designer (MIT Media Lab), complications of cancer.
* Johnny Parker, 80, British jazz pianist ("Bad Penny Blues").
* Andrzej Piątkowski, 75, Polish sabreur, Olympic medallist (1956, 1960 and 1964).
* Fred Plum, 86, American neurologist, developed the term "persistent vegetative state", primary progressive aphasia.
* Badal Rahman, 61, Bangladeshi film director and political activist.
* Dariusz Ratajczak, 47, Polish holocaust denier (body discovered on this date).
* Bus Whitehead, 82, American basketball player (Nebraska Cornhuskers)
* James N. Wood, 69, American museum director.

### 12

* Anne Chapman, 88, French-born American ethnologist.
* John Crampton, 88, British RAF pilot.
* Daisy D'ora, 97, German actress and socialite.
* Richard Keynes, 90, British physiologist.
* Rik Levins, 60, American comic book artist (Captain America, The Avengers).
* Chuck Lyda, 57, American slalom and sprint canoer, stomach cancer.
* Félix Maldonado, 72, American baseball player and scout (Boston Red Sox), cancer.
* Fuat Mansurov, 82, Kazakh-born Russian conductor (Bolshoi Theatre).
* Les Richter, 79, American football player (Los Angeles Rams), member of Pro Football Hall of Fame, and auto racing official, NASCAR head of operations, brain aneurysm.
* Egon Ronay, 94, Hungarian-born British restaurateur and restaurant critic.
* Philip Selznick, 91, American lawyer, author and sociologist.
* Grizzly Smith, 77, American professional wrestler, Alzheimer's disease.
* Jerzy Stefan Stawiński, 88, Polish screenwriter and film director.
* Al Williamson, 79, American comic book artist (Secret Agent X-9, Superman, Flash Gordon).

### 13

* Combo Ayouba, 57-58, Comorian army officer, Coordinator of the Transitional Military Committee (1995), shot.
* E. F. Bleiler, 90, American science fiction author.
* Thomas S. Buechner, 83, American museum director, lymphoma.
* Dave Broda, 65, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta (1997–2004), car crash.
* Jimmy Dean, 81, American country music singer (Big Bad John), actor and businessman (Jimmy Dean Foods), natural causes.
* Abbas Djoussouf, 68, Comorian politician, Prime Minister (1998–1999).
* Ernest Fleischmann, 85, German-born American impresario, executive director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
* Ernie Johnson, 84, American football and basketball player (UCLA).
* Emilio Macias, 76, Filipino politician, Governor of Negros Oriental, liver cancer.
* F. James McDonald, 87, American businessman, President of General Motors (1981–1987).
* Tom Stith, 71, American basketball player (New York Knicks).
* Sergei Tretyakov, 53, Russian intelligence officer and defector, former SVR agent.
* Nelson Wallulatum, 84, American Wasco tribe leader, chief of the Wasco Indians (since 1959), founder of The Museum at Warm Springs.
* Jonathan Wolken, 60, American artistic director, co-founder of Pilobolus, complications from stem cell transplant.

### 14

* Oscar Azócar, 45, Venezuelan baseball player (New York Yankees, San Diego Padres).
* Teshome Gabriel, 70, Ethiopian-born American cinema scholar, cardiac arrest.
* Resi Hammerer, 85, Austrian Olympic alpine skier, bronze medalist (1948 Winter Olympics).
* Richard Herrmann, 90, Norwegian journalist, writer and radio personality (NRK), after long illness.
* Jiří Kavan, 66, Czech Olympic silver medal-winning (1972) handball player.
* Leonid Kizim, 68, Ukrainian Soviet cosmonaut.
* Ted Lowry, 90, American boxer, heart failure.
* Manohar Malgonkar, 96, Indian author.
* Luis Arturo Mondragón, 53, Honduran journalist, shot.
* Giacinto Prandelli, 96, Italian operatic tenor.
* Damian Silvera, 35, American Olympic soccer player.
* Jaroslav Škarvada, 85, Czech Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Prague (1982–2002).

### 15

* Thomas L. Ashley, 87, American politician, U.S. Representative for Ohio (1955–1981).
* Charles Thomas Beer, 94, Canadian chemist.
* Brian Bethell, 45, American spree killer.
* Bekim Fehmiu, 74, Serbian actor (I Even Met Happy Gypsies), suspected suicide by gunshot.
* Phil Gordon, 94, American character actor and dialect coach (The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, Petticoat Junction).
* Charlie Hickcox, 63, American Olympic swimmer, gold and silver medalist (1968 Summer Olympics), cancer.
* Heidi Kabel, 95, German stage actress.
* Tadashi Kawashima, 41, Japanese manga artist (Alive: The Final Evolution), liver cancer.
* Arnold Kramish, 87, American physicist, neurological disorder.
* Wendell Logan, 69, American composer.
* Busi Mhlongo, 62, South African musician, cancer.
* Natalia Tolstaya, 67, Russian writer and translator.

### 16

* Joselito Agustin, 37, Filipino journalist, shot.
* Marc Bazin, 78, Haitian politician, Acting President and Prime Minister (1992–1993).
* Peter Brunette, 66, American film critic (The Hollywood Reporter), heart attack.
* Bill Dixon, 84, American jazz musician.
* Maureen Forrester, 79, Canadian opera singer, complications of Alzheimer's disease.
* Amedeo Guillet, 101, Italian army officer.
* Bob Hartman, 72, American baseball player, post-surgical infection.
* Allen Hoey, 57, American poet, Pulitzer Prize nominee, heart attack.
* Ronald Neame, 99, British film director (The Poseidon Adventure) and screenwriter.
* Jim Nestor, 90, Australian Olympic cyclist.
* Corso Salani, 48, Italian actor and film director, stroke.
* Garry Shider, 56, American musician (Parliament-Funkadelic), complications from brain and lung cancer.
* P. G. Viswambharan, 63, Indian film director, after long illness.

### 17

* Hannah Atkins, 86, American politician, Secretary of State of Oklahoma (1987–1991) and State Representative (1969–1981), cancer.
* Elżbieta Czyżewska, 72, Polish-born American actress, esophageal cancer.
* Hans Dichand, 89, Austrian journalist and newspaper publisher.
* Sebastian Horsley, 47, British artist, heroin overdose.
* Anjali Mendes, 64, Indian model.
* K. S. Rajah, 80, Singaporean juridical official, Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court, cancer.
* Andy Ripley, 62, British rugby player, prostate cancer.

### 18

* Trent Acid, 29, American professional wrestler, accidental drug overdose.
* Marcel Bigeard, 94, French general and politician.
* Bogdan Bogdanović, 87, Serbian architect, urbanist, and politician, Mayor of Belgrade (1982–1986), heart attack.
* Waldemar Ciesielczyk, 51, Polish Olympic fencer.
* Joe Deal, 62, American photographer, bladder cancer.
* Bidya Debbarma, 94, Indian politician.
* Robert Galambos, 96, American neuroscientist, discovered how bats navigate, heart failure.
* Ronnie Lee Gardner, 49, American convicted murderer, executed by firing squad.
* Tom Nicon, 22, French model, suicide by jumping.
* Kalmen Opperman, 90, American clarinetist, heart failure.
* José Saramago, 87, Portuguese novelist, playwright and journalist, Nobel Prize winner for literature, cancer.
* Hans Joachim Sewering, 94, German physician, member of the Waffen-SS (1933–1945).
* Hadelin Viellevoye, 95, Belgian footballer

### 19

* Manute Bol, 47, Sudanese basketball player and activist, kidney failure and Stevens–Johnson syndrome.
* Anwar Chowdhry, 86, Pakistani sports official, President of the International Boxing Association (1986–2006), heart attack.
* Jack Cloud, 85, American football player.
* Ned Endress, 92, American basketball player.
* Marvin L. Esch, 82, American politician, U.S. Representative from Michigan (1967–1977).
* John Ferruggio, 84, American in-flight director, led evacuation of Pan Am Flight 93, organ failure.
* Mohammed Ali Hammadi, 46, Lebanese militant (Hezbollah), drone strike.
* Robin Matthews, 83, British economist and chess problemist.
* Carlos Monsiváis, 72, Mexican writer and journalist, respiratory failure.
* Vince O'Brien, 91, American character actor (Dark Shadows, Guiding Light, Law & Order).
* Alfred Parsons, 85, Australian diplomat, High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (1983–1987).
* Anthony Quinton, Baron Quinton, 85, British philosopher and life peer.
* Jesús Manuel Lara Rodríguez, 48, Mexican politician, mayor of Guadalupe, Chihuahua, shot.
* Dame Angela Rumbold, 77, British politician, MP for Mitcham and Morden (1982–1997).
* Nico Smith, 81, South African minister and anti-apartheid activist, heart attack.
* Ken Talbot, 59, Australian businessman, CEO of Macarthur Coal (1995–2008), plane crash.
* Paul Thiebaud, 49, American gallerist, colon cancer.
* Ursula Thiess, 86, German artist and actress (Bengal Brigade).
* Jack Tobin, 90, American anthropologist, expert on the Marshall Islands.
* Chris Welles, 72, American business journalist, Alzheimer's disease.

### 20

* Dwight Armstrong, 58, American anti-Vietnam War protester, Sterling Hall bomber, lung cancer.
* Sir William Boulton, 3rd Baronet, 98, British barrister.
* Vladimír Dlouhý, 52, Czech actor.
* Lai Sun Cheung, 59, Hong Kong football coach, lung cancer.
* Raymond Parks, 96, American auto racer, two-time NASCAR car owner points champion.
* Abdolmalek Rigi, 27, Iranian Sunni Islamist militant, leader of Jundallah, execution by hanging.
* Roberto Rosato, 66, Italian footballer.
* Gundibail Sunderam, 80, Indian cricketer, after a short illness.
* Albert Webster, 85, British Olympic athlete.
* Harry B. Whittington, 94, British palaeontologist.

### 21

* Jesús Álvarez Amaya, 84, Mexican painter and graphic artist, cancer.
* Russell Ash, 64, British writer and publisher (The Top 10 of Everything).
* Irwin Barker, 58, Canadian comedian and television writer (This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Rick Mercer Report), leiomyosarcoma.
* Wilfried Feldenkirchen, 62, German economic historian and project manager (Siemens), car crash.
* Rosemary Gillespie, 69, Australian human rights activist and lawyer, stroke.
* Bob Greene, 92, American Makah tribe elder, natural causes.
* Hector Laing, Baron Laing of Dunphail, 87, British businessman and life peer.
* Allison Parks, 68, American model (Playboy, October 1965) and actress.
* Ingeborg Pertmayr, 63, Austrian Olympic diver.
* Henrique Walter Pinotti, 81, Brazilian physician, cancer.
* William S. Richardson, 90, American jurist and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii (1962–1966), Chief Justice (Hawaii Supreme Court, 1966–1982).
* Hermann Gonçalves Schatzmayr, 75, Brazilian virologist, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz researcher, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
* İlhan Selçuk, 85, Turkish lawyer, journalist and writer, editor-in-chief of Cumhuriyet, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
* Chris Sievey, 54, British comedian and musician (Frank Sidebottom), lung cancer.
* Tam White, 67, British musician and actor, heart attack.
* With Approval, 24, Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse, Canadian Triple Crown winner (1989), euthanized.
* Larry Jon Wilson, 69, American songwriter and musician, stroke.

### 22

* Pamela Ascherson, 87, British sculptor, painter and illustrator.
* Peppy Blount, 85, American football player (Texas Longhorns) and line judge.
* Robin Bush, 67, British historian (Time Team).
* Gerald Heaney, 92, American jurist, United States Court of Appeals (1966–2006).
* Marie-Luise Jahn, 92, German activist, member of the anti-Nazi resistance movement White Rose.
* Aileen Osofsky, 83, American community leader, philanthropist and bridge player (ACBL), complications from leukemia.
* Amokrane Oualiken, 77, Algerian footballer.
* Pennant Roberts, 69, British television director.
* Manfred Römbell, 68, German writer, after long illness.
* Wayne Stephenson, 65, Canadian professional and Olympic bronze medal-winning (1968) ice hockey player.
* Levern Tart, 68, American basketball player (Oakland Oaks, New York Nets).
* Tracy Wright, 50, Canadian actress, pancreatic cancer.

### 23

* Anthony Adrian Allen, 96, British entomologist.
* Ron Atchison, 80, Canadian football player (Saskatchewan Roughriders), heart failure.
* Jörg Berger, 65, German football manager, bowel cancer.
* John Burton, 95, Australian diplomat and academic.
* Michael Cobb, 93, British Army officer and railway historian.
* Dermot Earley, 62, Irish Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces (2004–2010), after short illness.
* Allyn Ferguson, 85, American television composer (Barney Miller, Charlie's Angels), natural causes.
* Frank Giering, 38, German actor (Funny Games).
* Pavel Lyubimov, 71, Russian film director.
* Vernon Mendis, 84, Sri Lankan diplomat.
* Mohammed Mzali, 84, Tunisian politician, Prime Minister (1980–1986).
* Hiromu Naruse, 66, Japanese chief test driver for Toyota Motor Company, car crash.
* Pete Quaife, 66, British bassist (The Kinks), kidney failure.
* Peter Walker, Baron Walker of Worcester, 78, British politician and life peer, MP for Worcester (1961–1992), cancer.

### 24

* Toni Adams, 45, American professional wrestling manager, former wife of Chris Adams, heart attack.
* Sadri Ahmeti, 71, Albanian painter and poet.
* Fred Anderson, 81, American jazz tenor saxophonist.
* Rawshan Ara, 69, Bangladeshi film actress.
* Armand Bernard, 82, Canadian Olympic wrestler.
* JoJo Billingsley, 58, American back-up singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd), cancer.
* Elise M. Boulding, 89, American sociologist, liver failure.
* Lorn Brown, 71, American sports commentator (Chicago White Sox), heart failure.
* Shirley Carr, 81, Canadian president of the Labour Congress.
* Cherubim Dambui, 62, Papua New Guinean Premier of East Sepik (1976–1983), auxiliary bishop of Port Moresby (since 2000), kidney failure.
* Digvijay Singh, 54, Indian politician.
* Francis Dreyfus, 70, French record producer (Disques Dreyfus).
* Harry Enns, 78, Canadian politician, MLA for Rockwood-Iberville/Lakeside (1966–2003).
* Don Enoch, 94, American politician, Mayor of Wichita, Kansas (1969–1970).
* Bill Hudson, 77, American photojournalist, heart failure.
* Alan Krueck, 70, American musicologist.
* Kazimierz Paździor, 75, Polish Olympic gold medal-winning (1960) boxer.
* Jean-Léonard Rugambage, Rwandan journalist, shot.
* Walter Shorenstein, 95, American real estate developer and baseball team owner (San Francisco Giants), natural causes.
* Ben Sonnenberg, 73, American journalist, multiple sclerosis.
* Jean-Luc Tricoire, 57, French Olympic sports shooter.

### 25

* Viveka Babajee, 37, Mauritian-born Indian model and actress, suicide by hanging.
* Brian Flowers, Baron Flowers, 85, British physicist, academic and life peer.
* F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, 62, Welsh science fiction author, suicide by self-immolation.
* Robert Nyman, 49, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (since 1999), drowning.
* Alan Plater, 75, English television writer, cancer.
* Richard B. Sellars, 94, American Chairman and CEO of Johnson & Johnson.
* Peter Sliker, 86, American bass-baritone at the Metropolitan Opera
* John A. Willis, 93, American editor of Theatre World.
* Wu Guanzhong, 90, Chinese painter.

### 26

* Algirdas Brazauskas, 77, Lithuanian politician, President (1993–1998); Prime Minister (2001–2006), lymphoma.
* D. Page Elmore, 71, American politician, member of the Maryland House of Delegates (2003–2010), cancer.
* Aldo Giuffrè, 86, Italian actor, peritonitis.
* Alberto Guzik, 66, Brazilian actor and writer, stomach cancer.
* Paulo Teixeira Jorge, 82, Angolan politician, Minister of External Relations (1976–1984).
* Charles Spencer King, 85, English automotive engineer (Rover SD1, Range Rover), complications following a traffic accident.
* Harald Keres, 97, Estonian physicist.
* Shoista Mullojonova, 84, Tajik singer, heart attack.
* Akira Nakamura, 76, Japanese historian.
* Adoor Pankajam, 81, Indian actress.
* Conrad Poe, 62, Filipino actor, stroke.
* Benny Powell, 80, American jazz trombonist (April in Paris), heart attack following spinal surgery.
* Jonathan Smith, 43, British games developer.
* D. Sudarsanam, 68, Indian politician, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
* Sergio Vega, 40, Mexican banda singer, shot.
* Stanley Wagner, 83, American winemaker.
* Sir John Ward, 85, British politician, MP for Poole (1979–1997).
* Vasyl Yevseyev, 47, Ukrainian football coach, suicide by jumping.

### 27

* Corey Allen, 75, American actor (Rebel Without a Cause), film and television director, complications of Parkinson's disease.
* Leif Alsheimer, 57, Swedish lawyer, lecturer and author.
* Dolph Briscoe, 87, American politician, Governor of Texas (1973–1979), kidney failure and pneumonia.
* Ken Coates, 79, British politician and writer, suspected heart attack.
* Édgar García de Dios, 32, Mexican footballer, shot.
* João Gonçalves Filho, 75, Brazilian Olympic swimmer and water polo player.
* Martin D. Ginsburg, 78, American attorney, husband of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, cancer.
* Edo Mulahalilović, 46, Bosnian musician.
* Andreas Okopenko, 80, Austrian writer.

### 28

* Claude Anderson, 86, Australian footballer.
* Bill Aucoin, 66, American band manager (Kiss), complications from prostate cancer.
* Leo Bernier, 81, Canadian politician.
* Peter Bowers, 80, Australian journalist, Alzheimer's disease.
* Robert Byrd, 92, American politician, U.S. Representative (1953–1959), Senator from West Virginia (1959–2010).
* Clement Finch, 94, American hematologist.
* Nicolas Hayek, 82, Swiss entrepreneur, founder and chairman of The Swatch Group, heart failure.
* Kirsten Heisig, 48, German politician and juvenile magistrate, suicide.
* Willie Huber, 52, German-born Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings), heart attack.
* Chandrakant Kamat, 76, Indian Hindustani classical tabla player, heart attack.
* Louis Moyroud, 96, French-born American inventor of phototypesetting.
* Rammellzee, 49, American hip hop musician and graffiti artist, after long illness.
* Joya Sherrill, 85, American jazz vocalist, leukemia.
* William L. Taylor, 78, American attorney and civil rights advocate, complications from a fall.
* Rodolfo Torre Cantú, 46, Mexican politician, candidate for Governor of Tamaulipas, shot.

### 29

* Blair Barnes, 49, Canadian ice hockey player (Los Angeles Kings), heart attack.
* Ron Gans, 79, American voice actor (Transformers, Welcome to Pooh Corner, Dumbo's Circus), complications from pneumonia.
* Rudolf Leopold, 85, Austrian art collector.
* Doug Ohlson, 73, American painter, complications from a fall.
* Queen Jane, 45, Kenyan musician, meningitis.
* Chandgi Ram, 72, Indian Olympic wrestler, cardiac arrest.
* Frank Rigney, 74, American-born Canadian football player (Winnipeg Blue Bombers).
* Pietro Taricone, 35, Italian actor and reality show contestant (Grande Fratello), parachute accident.

### 30

* Brian Ash, 73-74, British writer, scientific journalist, and editor.
* Bruno Côté, 69, Canadian landscape painter, prostate cancer.
* Ditta Zusa Einzinger, 79, Austrian singer (Lolita), cancer.
* Elliott Kastner, 80, American film producer (Where Eagles Dare), cancer.
* Harry Klein, 81, British jazz saxophonist.
* Juhani Kyöstilä, 78, Finnish Olympic basketball player.
* Noel Marshall, 79, American film director and producer.
* Serigne Mouhamadou Lamine Bara Mbacké, 85, Senegalese Grand Marabout of the Mourides.
* Denny Moyer, 70, American world light middleweight champion boxer.
* Gordon Mulholland, 89, British actor.
* Park Yong-ha, 32, South Korean actor and singer, suicide by hanging.