# Deaths in January 2012
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The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2012.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
* Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference (and language of reference, if not English).

## January 2012
### 1

* Gary Ablett, 46, English footballer (Liverpool, Everton, Birmingham City), non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
* Bob Anderson, 89, British Olympic fencer (1952) and fight choreographer (Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings, The Princess Bride).
* Alfredo Battisti, 86, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Udine (1972–2000).
* Jorge Andrés Martínez Boero, 38, Argentine motorcycle racer, Dakar Rally crash.
* Elizabeth Brumfiel, 66, American archaeologist.
* Frank Cioffi, 83, American philosopher.
* Diego Cuenca, 84, Spanish footballer.
* Alvin Devane, 88, American soldier.
* Marino Di Teana, 91, Italian Argentine sculptor.
* Hilda Feste, 98, Norwegian woman, murdered.
* Ingeborg Finke-Siegmund, 92, German pianist and piano teacher.
* Anders Frandsen, 51, Danish singer and television presenter.
* Rebecca Fromer, 84, American historian and writer, co-founder of the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life.
* Kiro Gligorov, 94, Macedonian politician, first democratically elected President (1991–1999).
* Jan Groover, 68, American photographer.
* Hermann Guggiari, 87, Paraguayan engineer and sculptor.
* Frank Horwill, 84, British athletics coach.
* Ed Jenkins, 78, American politician, Representative from Georgia (1977–1993).
* Alessandro Liberati, 57, Italian medical researcher, cancer.
* Nay Win Maung, 49, Burmese physician and pro-democracy activist, heart attack.
* Fred Milano, 72, American doo-wop singer (The Belmonts, Dion and the Belmonts), lung cancer.
* Tommy Mont, 89, American college football coach and NFL player, heart failure.
* Marcelle Narbonne, 113, French supercentenarian, oldest European living person.
* Carlos Soria, 63, Argentine politician, Secretary of Intelligence (2002), Governor of Río Negro (since 2011), shot.
* Yafa Yarkoni, 86, Israeli singer, Alzheimer's disease.

### 2

* Beatriz Bandeira, 102, Brazilian communist, human rights activist, poet and writer.
* Ian Bargh, 76, British-born Canadian jazz pianist, lung cancer.
* Alicia Baro, 93, American human rights activist.
* David W. Barron, 76, British computer scientist.
* Peg Belson, 90, British health activist.
* Ivan Calin, 76, Moldovan politician, Acting President of the Moldovan Parliament (2009).
* William P. Carey, 81, American businessman (W. P. Carey & Co.) and philanthropist.
* Joseph Henry Condon, 76, American computer scientist, engineer and physicist.
* Ioan Drăgan, 46, Romanian footballer (FC Brașov), colorectal cancer.
* Vivi Friedman, 44, Finnish film director, cancer.
* Silvana Gallardo, 58, American actress (MacGyver, Starsky and Hutch, Babylon 5), cancer.
* Liv Godin, 93, Norwegian missionary.
* Yoshiro Hayashi, 89, Japanese golfer.
* Gordon Hirabayashi, 93, American civil rights activist (Hirabayashi v. United States).
* Jim Huber, 67, American sports commentator (CNN, TNT).
* Anatoly Kolesov, 73, Russian wrestler, Olympic gold medalist (1964).
* Howie Koplitz, 73, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Washington Senators).
* Helmut Müller-Brühl, 78, German conductor.
* Larry Reinhardt, 63, American rock guitarist (Iron Butterfly, Captain Beyond), liver cirrhosis.
* Alan Rowlands, 82, English pianist.
* Ambjørg Sælthun, 89, Norwegian politician.
* Otto Scrinzi, 93, Austrian journalist and politician.
* Hans Schepers, 81, German Olympic water polo player.
* Paulo Rodrigues, 25, Brazilian footballer, car crash.
* H. Edwin Young, 94, American economist, Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1968–1977).

### 3

* Charles W. Bailey II, 81, American journalist and novelist (Seven Days in May), Parkinson's disease.
* Gene Bartow, 81, American college basketball coach (UAB, UCLA), stomach cancer.
* Gordon Buttrey, 85, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks).
* Robert L. Carter, 94, American civil rights activist (Sweatt v. Painter) and judge, complications from a stroke.
* Minnie Sue Coleman, 85, American artist.
* Ray Costict, 56, American football player (New England Patriots).
* Miguel Couturier, 61, Mexican actor (Miss Bala, Once Upon a Time in Mexico), cancer.
* Ellen Currie, 81, American writer and advertising executive.
* Willi Entenmann, 68, German football player and coach, heart attack.
* Juan Escudero, 91, Spanish footballer.
* Margaret Feeny, 94, British councillor.
* Fong Fei-fei, 60, Taiwanese singer and actress, lung cancer.
* Lars Lennart Forsberg, 78, Swedish film director.
* Mounir Fourar, 39, Algerian man, one of the tallest men in the world.
* Bryan Hickman, 30, American football player (Cleveland Browns), suicide.
* John David Lewis, 56, American political scientist.
* Winifred Milius Lubell, 97, American illustrator and writer, heart failure.
* Joaquín Martínez, 81, Mexican-born American actor (Jeremiah Johnson, Die Another Day), pancreatic cancer.
* Osamu Matsubara, 94, Japanese businessman, chairman of Books Kinokuniya, heart failure.
* Stepan Oshchepkov, 77, Russian canoeist, Olympic gold medalist (1964).
* Mikhail Romadin, 71, Russian artist.
* Josef Škvorecký, 87, Czech writer and publisher, cancer.
* Miguel Terekhov, 83, Uruguayan-born American ballet dancer and teacher, complications of lung fibrosis.
* Jenny Tomasin, 73, British actress (Upstairs, Downstairs), hypertensive heart disease.
* Wylie Vale, 70, American endocrinologist.
* Vicar, 77, Chilean cartoonist.
* Bob Weston, 64, British guitarist and songwriter (Fleetwood Mac), gastrointestinal hemorrhage. (body found on this date)
* Harold Zirin, 82, American astronomer.

### 4

* Eve Arnold, 99, American photographer.
* Ruben Ayala, 89, American politician, California State Senator (1974–1998), first elected Mayor of Chino, California (1964–1966).
* Jiří Bárta, 76, Czech pianist and composer.
* Totti Bergh, 76, Norwegian jazz saxophonist.
* C.O.D., American musician, stroke.
* James F. Crow, 95, American geneticist.
* Angela von den Driesch, 77, German archaeologist and veterinarian.
* Stephen M. DuBrul Jr., 82, American businessman.
* Harry Fowler, 85, British character actor.
* Gatewood Galbraith, 64, American lawyer and author, complications from chronic emphysema.
* Sinake Giregire, 74, Papua New Guinean businessman and politician.
* Sir Archibald Glenn, 100, Australian industrialist, Chancellor of La Trobe University.
* Patricia Mather, 88, Australian zoologist.
* Kerry McGregor, 37, British singer and reality contestant (The X Factor), bladder cancer.
* Bob McKenzie, 83, Australian football player.
* Kalpana Mohan, 65, Indian actress.
* Carmen Naranjo, 83, Costa Rican novelist, poet and essayist, cancer.
* Hisako Ōishi, 75, Japanese politician, member of the House of Councillors, respiratory failure.
* Rod Robbie, 83, Canadian architect.
* Xaver Unsinn, 82, German Olympic ice hockey player and coach.
* Hans Wahli, 84, Swiss Olympic athlete.
* David Wheeler, 86, American theatrical director.

### 5

* Richard Alf, 59, American businessman, co-founder and chairman of San Diego Comic-Con, pancreatic cancer.
* François-Marie Algoud, 91, French royalist and author.
* Selwyn Baptiste, 75, Trinidadian-born British musician and festival organiser.
* Sigurður Bjarnason, 96, Icelandic politician and diplomat.
* Gordon W. Bowie, 67, American musician.
* Don Carter, 85, American professional bowler, complication from pneumonia and emphysema.
* Samson H. Chowdhury, 86, Bangladeshi businessman.
* George Dargo, 76, American legal scholar, skin cancer.
* Mirtha Dermisache, 71, Argentine artist.
* Hilmar Duerbeck, 63, German astronomer.
* Idwal Fisher, 76, Welsh rugby player.
* Thelma Forbes, 101, Canadian politician.
* Hikaru Hayashi, 80, Japanese composer.
* Frank Ackerman Hill, 92, American U.S. Air Force officer, commander of the 33rd Air Division.
* Frederica Sagor Maas, 111, American silent film screenwriter (The Plastic Age), playwright, memoirist and author.
* Isaac Díaz Pardo, 91, Spanish artist.
* Amit Saigal, 46, Indian rock magazine publisher, concert promoter and musician, drowned.
* Alexander Sizonenko, 52, Russian basketball player, world's tallest person (1991).

### 6

* Kenneth Andrews, 90, British historian.
* Louise Gibson Annand, 96, Scottish artist.
* James R. Arnold, 88, American space scientist.
* Tom Ardolino, 56, American drummer (NRBQ).
* Roger Boisjoly, 73, American aerospace engineer, anticipated the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, cancer.
* Azer Bülbül, 44, Turkish singer and actor, heart attack.
* Harlin Butterley, 84, Australian Anglican priest and Dean of Hobart from 1972 to 1980.
* Gabriel Cadis, 60, Israeli attorney, chairman of the Jaffa Orthodox Church Association, stabbed.
* John Celardo, 93, American comic strip artist (Tarzan, Buz Sawyer).
* Harry Fearnley, 88, English footballer.
* Bob Holness, 83, South African-born British quiz show host and actor (Blockbusters).
* Eleutherios Katsaitis, 82, Greek-born British Orthodox hierarch, Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Great Britain (1987–1994), smothered.
* W. Francis McBeth, 78, American composer.
* Frank James McGarr, 90, American former senior (and chief) judge of the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
* Basil Payne, 88, Irish poet.
* Ellen Pence, 63, American sociologist and social activist, creator of the Duluth Domestic Abuse Intervention Project, breast cancer.
* Thomas Virgil Pittman, 95, American senior (former chief) judge of the District Court for the Southern District of Alabama and judge for the Middle District of Alabama.
* Sybil Plumlee, 100, American teacher and police officer.
* Spike Pola, 97, Australian football player.
* John Pollock, 87, English author.
* Louis Rech, 85, Italian-born Luxembourgish politician, Mayor of Dudelange (1985–1993).
* Clive Shell, 64, Welsh international rugby player.

### 7

* Ibrahim Aslan, 77, Egyptian novelist and short story writer, heart failure.
* Tony Blankley, 63, British-born American commentator, newspaper editor and child actor, stomach cancer.
* Karen Ramey Burns, 64, American forensic anthropologist.
* Glenn Cox, 80, American baseball player (Kansas City Athletics).
* Bert Daikeler, 83, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
* George Gabin, 80, American artist and art educator.
* Francella Mary Griggs, 91, American nun, advocated for federal recognition of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians.
* George Livingston, 78, American politician, first elected black mayor of Richmond, California (1985–1993), diabetes.
* Hideaki Nitani, 81, Japanese actor (Tokyo Drifter), pneumonia.
* Charlie Pawsey, 88, English rugby league player.
* Henri Puppo, 98, French cyclist.
* Herbert Wilf, 80, American mathematician.

### 8

* Jan Håkan Åberg, 95, Swedish organist and composer.
* Dave Alexander, 73, American blues singer and pianist, suicide by gunshot.
* Artax, 17, American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the 1999 Breeders' Cup Sprint, Carter Handicap and Vosburgh Stakes.
* Franz Berger, 71, Austrian Olympic wrestler.
* Andrea Bosic, 92, Italian actor.
* Françoise Christophe, 88, French actress.
* Herb Clarke, 84, American television weatherman (WCAU-TV), NATAS Governor's Award winner (2007), Alzheimer's disease.
* Franz Dorfer, 61, Austrian Olympic boxer (1976).
* Gunnar Dyrberg, 90, Danish resistance fighter, head of Holger Danske (1943–1945).
* Edarem, 79, American television presenter and internet celebrity.
* Israel Getzler, 91, Jewish-British historian.
* T. J. Hamblin, 68, British haematologist, cancer.
* Svetlana Kharitonova, 79, Russian actress, after long illness.
* Dmitry Machinsky, 74, Russian archaeologist.
* John Madin, 87, English architect.
* Charles Morris, 85, British politician, MP for Manchester Openshaw (1963–1983).
* Clarence C. Pope, 81, American prelate, Episcopal Bishop of Fort Worth (1986–1994).
* Graham Rathbone, 69, Welsh footballer, dementia.
* Bernhard Schrader, 80, German theoretical chemist.
* Alexis Weissenberg, 82, Bulgarian-born French pianist.

### 9

* Rebeca Anchondo Fernández, 85, Mexican politician.
* Tubby Bacon, 81, American baseball team owner (Milwaukee Braves) and oenophile.
* Louis Boekhout, 92, Dutch-born Canadian painter.
* Paul Rice Camp, 92, American academic.
* Ron Caron, 82, Canadian ice hockey administrator, General Manager of the St. Louis Blues (1983–1993, 1996).
* Ernie Carson, 74, American jazz musician.
* Jock Collaquo, 77, Hong Kong hockey player.
* Brian Curvis, 74, Welsh former Commonwealth welterweight champion boxer, leukaemia.
* Alex DeCroce, 75, American politician, New Jersey General Assembly Minority Leader (since 2004).
* Bill Dickie, 82, Scottish football administrator.
* Ruth Fernández, 92, Puerto Rican contralto and politician, Senator (1973–1981).
* Takashi Fujinama, 80, Japanese translator, pneumonia.
* Bridie Gallagher, 87, Irish singer.
* Augusto Gansser-Biaggi, 101, Swiss geologist.
* Floro Garrido, 59, Spanish soccer player and manager, multiple organ failure.
* Francis Golffing, 101, Austrian-American poet, essayist, teacher, and translator.
* Christian-Joseph Guyonvarc'h, 85, French philologist, specializing in Celtic studies.
* Junsaku Koizumi, 87, Japanese painter and pottery artist, pneumonia.
* Mae Laborde, 102, American actress (Pineapple Express, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia).
* Vern McGrew, 82, American Olympic athlete.
* Robert Nelson, 81, American filmmaker, cancer.
* John Both Puok, 48, South Sudanese politician.
* William G. Roll, 85, American psychologist and parapsychologist.
* Malam Bacai Sanhá, 64, Guinea-Bissauan politician, President (1999–2000; since 2009).
* Larry Solway, 83, Canadian radio personality and author.
* László Szekeres, 90, Hungarian physician.
* Pyotr Vasilevsky, 55, Belarusian football player and coach.
* Aldo Zenhäusern, 60, Swiss Olympic ice hockey player (1976).

### 10

* Fred Bateman, 74, American economic historian.
* Paul Antoine Bohoun Bouabré, 54, Ivorian politician and economist, kidney problems.
* Alfonso de Bourbon, 79, American claimant of Spanish royalty, traffic accident.
* Jim Congrove, 65, American politician, heart complications.
* Maurice Dantin, 82, American attorney and politician.
* Azeem Daultana, 32, Pakistani politician, Member of the National Assembly, road accident.
* José Freire de Oliveira Neto, 83, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Mossoró (1984–2004).
* Vince Gibson, 78, American college football coach.
* Jack Heron, 85, American college basketball coach (Sacramento State University).
* Kyra T. Inachin, 43, German historian.
* Lila Kaye, 82, British actress.
* Isi Metzstein, 83, German-born British architect.
* Jean Pigott, 87, Canadian politician and businesswoman, MP for Ottawa—Carleton (1976–1979).
* Pir of Pagaro VII, 83, Pakistani politician and spiritual leader, heart attack.
* Cliff Portwood, 74, English footballer and singer, lung disease.
* Alfred Pyka, 77, German footballer.
* Mary Raftery, 54, Irish journalist (States of Fear).
* Takao Sakurai, 70, Japanese boxer, Olympic gold medalist (1964), esophageal cancer.
* Gevork Vartanian, 87, Soviet intelligence agent, Hero of the Soviet Union.

### 11

* Fatima al-Aqel, 54, Yemeni human rights activist.
* Sarah E. Beard, 90, American medical researcher.
* Richard Bruno, 87, American costume designer (Raging Bull, Goodfellas, The Color of Money), kidney failure.
* Frank Cook, 76, British politician, MP for Stockton North (1983–2010), lung cancer.
* Bohumil Golián, 81, Slovak volleyball player, Olympic silver (1964) and bronze (1968) medalist.
* Gilles Jacquier, 43, French journalist, 2003 recipient of the Albert Londres Prize, grenade attack.
* Edgar Kaiser Jr., 69, Canadian businessman and philanthropist, owner of the Denver Broncos (1981–1984).
* V. Madhusudhana Rao, 88, Indian film director.
* Mario Maranzana, 82, Italian actor and voice actor.
* Chuck Metcalf, 81, American double-bassist.
* Wally Osterkorn, 83, American basketball player.
* Steven Rawlings, 49, British astrophysicist.
* Ivor Rees, 85, Welsh Anglican prelate, Bishop of St David's (1991–1995).
* Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, 32, Iranian nuclear scientist, car bomb.
* Christoffer Selbekk, 72, Norwegian businessman and ski jumper.
* Colm Tucker, 59, Irish rugby union player.
* David Whitaker, 80, English composer and songwriter.
* Ross Wightman, 82, New Zealand rugby union player.

### 12

* Bjørn G. Andersen, 87, Norwegian geologist.
* John Beech Austin, 94, British aviator.
* Sadao Bekku, 89, Japanese composer, pneumonia.
* Glenda Dickerson, 66, American theatre director.
* Brian C. Downey, 61, Canadian politician.
* Basil Gordon, 80, American mathematician.
* Reginald Hill, 75, British crime writer (Dalziel and Pascoe).
* Natalee Holloway, 18 (in 2005), American student, missing since 2005. (declared legally dead on this date)
* Bill Janklow, 72, American politician, Attorney General (1975–1979) and Governor of South Dakota (1979–1987, 1995–2003); U.S. Representative (2003–2004), brain cancer.
* Shiv Kumari of Kotah, 95, Indian Hindu royal.
* MS-1, 55, Mexican professional wrestler, car accident.
* Charles H. Price II, 80, American businessman and diplomat.
* Hannes Råstam, 56, Swedish journalist.
* Rosalind Runcie, 79, British pianist, widow of Robert Runcie.
* Rubina Shergill, 29, Indian television actress.
* Jim Stanley, 76, American football coach (Oklahoma State Cowboys), cancer.
* John G. Watkins, 98, American psychologist.
* Jorge Wilmot, 83, Mexican potter.

### 13

* Anton Blom, 87, Norwegian journalist.
* Rauf Denktaş, 87, Cypriot politician, founder and first president of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, multiple organ failure.
* Guido Dessauer, 96, German paper engineer and art collector.
* Dilys Elwyn-Edwards, 93, Welsh composer.
* Felipe Fernández, 78, Argentine basketball player.
* Morgan Jones, 83, American actor (The Twilight Zone).
* Lefter Küçükandonyadis, 86, Turkish Olympic footballer (Fenerbahçe) and coach, pneumonia.
* Oscar Valentín Leal Caal, 41, Guatemalan politician, Congressman (since 2008), shot.
* Artie Levine, 86, American boxer.
* Billie Love, 88, British actress and photographer.
* Armand Mercier, 78, American politician, Mayor of Lowell, Massachusetts (2004–2006).
* Curt Meyer-Clason, 101, German writer and translator.
* Miljan Miljanić, 81, Serbian footballer, coach and administrator.
* Abdollah Mojtabavi, 87, Iranian wrestler.
* Richard Threlkeld, 74, American television journalist (CBS News), traffic collision.
* Bob Wright, 76, American biographer and politician, Chairman of the Utah Republican Party (1977–1979), Alzheimer's disease.
* Andrzej Krzysztof Wróblewski, 76, Polish journalist.

### 14

* Howard H. Bell, 98, American historian.
* Charles E. Bishop, 90, American academic.
* Janey Buchan, 85, Scottish politician, MEP for Glasgow (1979–1994).
* Anthony J. Calio, 82, American physicist and businessman, congestive heart failure and lung cancer.
* Mircea Ciumara, 68, Romanian politician, Minister of Finance (1996–1997), cancer.
* Joseph T. Collins, 72, American herpetologist.
* Carol Creiniceanu, 72, Romanian football player.
* Ekuikui IV, 98, Angolan king of Bailundo, disease.
* Dan Evins, 76, American entrepreneur, founder of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store.
* Robbie France, 52, British drummer (Skunk Anansie, Diamond Head, UFO), ruptured aorta.
* Charles Howard, 87, Australian Roman Catholic leader, Superior General of the Marist Brothers (1985–1993).
* Pearse Hutchinson, 84, Irish broadcaster and writer, member of Aosdána.
* Arfa Karim, 16, Pakistani student, world's youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (2004–2008), idiopathic epilepsy seizures.
* Lasse Kolstad, 90, Norwegian actor.
* Antonio Mistrorigo, 99, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Treviso (1958–1988).
* Giampiero Moretti, 71, Italian racing driver, winner of the 24 Hours of Daytona (1998), founder of Momo.
* Kaoru Nishimoto, 88, Japanese shogi player, pneumonia.
* Mila Parély, 94, French actress.
* Finn Pedersen, 86, Danish Olympic gold medal-winning (1948) rower.
* Dame Lesley Strathie, 56, British civil servant, Permanent Secretary to HM Revenue and Customs (2008–2011), cancer.
* Txillardegi, 82, Spanish writer and politician.
* Rosy Varte, 88, French actress.
* Zelemkhan Zangiyev, 37, Russian footballer.

### 15

* Mika Ahola, 37, Finnish enduro rider, motorcycle crash.
* Richard Bader, 80, Canadian quantum chemist.
* Gelareh Bagherzadeh, 30, Iranian student, shot.
* Ed Derwinski, 85, American politician, U.S. Representative from Illinois (1959–1983); United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs (1989–1992), merkel cell carcinoma.
* Claes Egnell, 95, Swedish sport shooter and Olympic silver medal-winning (1952) pentathlete.
* Manuel Fraga, 89, Spanish politician, President of the Xunta of Galicia (1990–2005), founder of the People's Party and co-father of Spanish Constitution, heart failure.
* Sir Robert Freer, 88, British military officer, Deputy Commander of RAF Strike Command (1978–1980).
* Carlo Fruttero, 85, Italian writer.
* Ben Hana, 54, New Zealand vagrant.
* Eisuke Hinode, 70, Japanese politician, member of the House of Councillors, gall bladder cancer.
* Eduard Ivanov, 73, Soviet ice hockey player, World and Olympic champion.
* Samuel Jaskilka, 92, American Marine Corps general, pneumonia.
* Matteo La Grua, 97, Italian priest and exorcist.
* Pirkko Länsivuori, 85, Finnish Olympic sprinter.
* Michael Mussa, 67, American economist, heart failure.
* Samuel B. Nunez Jr., 81, American politician, President of the Louisiana State Senate (1983–1988; 1990–1996).
* Ib Spang Olsen, 90, Danish cartoonist and author, recipient of the Hans Christian Andersen Award.
* Chris Pavlou, 72, Australian football player.
* Jerry Poteet, 75, American martial arts instructor.
* Rafael Rincón González, 89, Venezuelan musician.
* Jack Roberts, 58, American climber, fall.
* Hulett C. Smith, 93, American politician, Governor of West Virginia (1965–1969).
* Peter Veness, 27, Australian journalist, brain cancer.
* Homai Vyarawalla, 98, Indian photojournalist, first Indian woman to work as a photojournalist.
* Victor Yngve, 91, American linguist.

### 16

* Mohammed al-Awwad, 53–54, Syrian general, shot.
* Joe Bygraves, 80, Jamaican born British former British Empire heavyweight champion boxer.
* Juan Carlos, 66, Spanish footballer.
* Jimmy Castor, 71, American funk and R&B saxophonist ("Troglodyte (Cave Man)"), heart failure.
* L. Ted Coneybeare, 86, Canadian TV producer and educational consultant.
* Mike Current, 66, American football player (Denver Broncos, Miami Dolphins, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), apparent suicide by gunshot.
* Efron Etkin, 59, Israeli actor and voice actor, cancer.
* Sigursteinn Gíslason, 43, Icelandic football player and manager, cancer.
* Pierre Goubert, 96, French historian.
* Lorna Kesterson, 86, American newspaper editor and journalist (Henderson Home News), Mayor of Henderson, Nevada (1985–1993).
* Dave Lee, 64, British comedian, cancer.
* Gustav Leonhardt, 83, Dutch harpsichordist and conductor.
* David Phiri, 74, Zambian businessman, Governor of the Bank of Zambia.
* The Senator, c. 3500, American pond cypress tree, largest in the world, fire.
* Valentine Rusantsov, 72, Russian hierarch, Primate of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church (1996–2012).

### 17

* Mukarram Khan Atif, Pakistani journalist and reporter, shot.
* Kearney Barton, 80, American record producer.
* Colin Campbell, 80, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Antigonish (1986–2002).
* F. Elwood Davis, 96, American lawyer.
* Aengus Fanning, 69, Irish journalist, editor of the Sunday Independent, cancer.
* Janet Folkes, 52, English academic, cancer.
* Carlos Guirao, 57, Spanish musician.
* Julius Meimberg, 95, German air force pilot (Luftwaffe), recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.
* Johnny Otis, 90, American R&B singer-songwriter.
* Piet Römer, 83, Dutch actor (Baantjer).
* Mohamed Rouicha, 61, Moroccan folk singer.
* R. W. Schambach, 85, American evangelist, heart failure.
* Marty Springstead, 74, American baseball umpire, heart attack.
* Tom Tellefsen, 80, Norwegian actor.
* Uncle Chichi, 24–26, American dog, unofficial world's oldest dog (2011–2012).

### 18

* Karen Brazell, 73, American academic, professor and translator of Japanese.
* Sir Tom Cowie, 89, British entrepreneur.
* Thérèse Delpech, 63, French nuclear proliferation expert, apparent heart attack.
* Carlos Figueroa, 80, Spanish Olympic equestrian.
* Ray Finch, 97, British studio potter.
* Tom Gilmartin, 87, American politician.
* Mel Goldstein, 66, American television meteorologist (WTNH), multiple myeloma.
* Anthony Gonsalves, 84, Indian film music composer.
* Georg Lassen, 96, German naval officer, World War II U-boat commander.
* Joseph Noiret, 84, French poet.
* Yuri Rasovsky, 67, American writer and producer, esophageal cancer.
* Giuseppe Vedovato, 99, Italian politician.

### 19

* Peter Åslin, 49, Swedish ice hockey player, Olympic bronze medal-winner (1988), stroke.
* Giancarlo Bigazzi, 71, Italian composer ("Gloria", "Self Control", "No Me Ames").
* Sarah Burke, 29, Canadian freestyle skier, world champion (2005), cardiac arrest following skiing accident.
* Maurice Casey, 88, New Zealand judge.
* Elena Catena, 91, Spanish academic and feminist.
* Rudi van Dantzig, 78, Dutch choreographer.
* Giovanni De Andrea, 83, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, vice-president of Labour Office of the Apostolic See (1989–2007).
* Peter de Francia, 90, British artist.
* Charles Fecher, 94, American author.
* Colonel Stone Johnson, 93, American civil rights activist.
* Beverly McDermott, 85, American casting director (Cocoon, Scarface, Lenny).
* Gene Methvin, 77, American journalist and magazine editor.
* Patrick Geoffrey O'Neill, 87, British academic.
* Gert Puzicha, 67, German boxer.
* Winston Riley, 65, Jamaican reggae musician and producer, complications of shooting.
* On Sarig, 85, Israeli children's book author.
* Errol Scorcher, 55, Jamaican reggae disc jockey, ruptured blood vessel.
* Richard Sheirer, 65, American public servant, officer-in-charge of the rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks, pulmonary edema.
* Gilbert Temmerman, 83, Belgian politician, MP (1971–1989), Mayor of Ghent (1989–1994), Minister of State.
* Jacqueline Grennan Wexler, 85, American Roman Catholic nun and university president.

### 20

* Enenche Akogwu, 31, Nigerian journalist and cameraman, shot.
* John F. Baker Jr., 66, American Medal of Honor recipient.
* Billy 'Silver Dollar' Baxter, 85, American film producer.
* Ruthilde Boesch, 94, Austrian singer.
* Edna Bourque, 96, Canadian volunteer.
* Larry Butler, 69, American music producer.
* Stella Cunliffe, 95, British statistician.
* Peter Collins Dorsey, 80, American jurist.
* Lucy Faulkner, 87, Northern Irish journalist.
* Dolores Guinness, 75, German baroness and socialite.
* Etta James, 73, American blues singer ("At Last"), leukemia.
* Nikhat Kazmi, 53, Indian film critic, breast cancer.
* Ioannis Kefalogiannis, 79, Greek politician, MP (1958–1964; 1974–2004) and Minister of the Interior (1992–1993).
* John Levy, 99, American jazz double-bassist and manager.
* Bill Mardo, 88, American sportswriter, Parkinson's disease.
* M. I. Markose, 89, Indian politician.
* Marion Mathie, 86, British actress (Lolita).
* Mario Pastega, 95, American businessman and philanthropist.
* Jiří Raška, 70, Czech ski jumper, Olympic gold medalist (1968), heart disease.
* Margaret Renwick, 88, Canadian politician.
* Alejandro Rodriguez, 93, American psychiatrist and academic.
* Robert Fortune Sanchez, 77, American Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Santa Fe (1977–1993), Alzheimer's disease.
* Edna Sheen, 67, American makeup artist (Philadelphia, Courage Under Fire, Akeelah and the Bee).
* Patrick Shovelton, 92, British civil servant and obituarist.
* Dudley Thompson, 95, Jamaican politician and diplomat.
* Michael Welsh, 85, English politician, Member of Parliament (1979–1992).
* Walter Whitehurst, 77, English footballer.

### 21

* Daniel Alba, 71, Mexican Olympic wrestler.
* Bilal al-Berjawi, 27, Lebanese terrorist, drone strike.
* Saud Nasser Al-Saud Al-Sabah, 68, Kuwaiti royal, diplomat and politician.
* Stan Austman, 75, Canadian curler, cancer.
* Albert Baskakov, 83, Russian physicist.
* J. R. Boone, 86, American football player (Chicago Bears).
* Roy John Britten, 92, American molecular biologist.
* Cliff Chambers, 90, American baseball player.
* Chea Soth, 83, Cambodian politician.
* Vincenzo Consolo, 78, Italian writer.
* Emmanuel Cooper, 73, British potter and writer.
* Ernie Gregory, 90, English footballer.
* Gerre Hancock, 77, American organist.
* Troy Herriage, 81, American baseball player (Kansas City Athletics).
* Jonathan Idema, 55, American scam artist, complications from AIDS.
* Eiko Ishioka, 72, Japanese costume designer (Bram Stoker's Dracula, Immortals, The Cell), Oscar winner (1993), pancreatic cancer.
* Irena Jarocka, 65, Polish singer.
* John D. Lowry, 79, Canadian film restorer.
* Una Mulzac, 88, American bookseller.
* Salma Mumtaz, 85, Pakistani actress, diabetes.
* Jeffrey Ntuka, 26, South African footballer, stabbed.
* Vasco Ramires Sr., 72, Portuguese Olympic equestrian.
* Tang Xiaodan, 101, Chinese film director.
* Jodie-Anne White, 44, Australian dancer and choreographer, artistic director of the Ballet Theatre of Queensland, cancer.
* Slavko Ziherl, 66, Slovenian psychiatrist and politician.

### 22

* Massimo Baistrocchi, 69, Italian diplomat and writer, Ambassador to Namibia (2001–2004), heart attack.
* Sarah Cullen, 62, British radio and television journalist.
* Jesus Elbinias, 82, Filipino judge.
* Roy Ewans, 94, British aerodynamicist.
* Alfred Gescheidt, 85, American photographer, cancer.
* Earle R. Gister, 77, American acting teacher.
* Rita Gorr, 85, Belgian opera singer.
* André Green, 84, French psychoanalyst.
* Jim Irwin, 77, American sportscaster (WTMJ), voice of the Green Bay Packers, complications from kidney cancer.
* Moisés Kaiman, 97, Polish-born Mexican rabbi.
* Sir Simon Marsden, 63, British photographer.
* Andy Musser, 74, American sportscaster (Philadelphia Phillies, Philadelphia 76ers).
* Joe Paterno, 85, American college football coach (Penn State Nittany Lions), lung cancer.
* Yauhen Shatokhin, 64, Belarusian painter and political activist.
* Pierre Sudreau, 92, French politician, inspired The Little Prince.
* Clarence Tillenius, 98, Canadian artist and conservationist.
* Dick Tufeld, 85, American voice actor and announcer, voice of Robot B-9 on Lost in Space.

### 23

* David Atkinson, 71, British politician, MP for Bournemouth East (1977–2005), bowel cancer.
* Jeanne Quint Benoliel, 92, American nurse.
* Viviana Bontacchio, 52, Italian football player.
* Amol Bose, 69, Bangladeshi actor, heart attack.
* Wesley E. Brown, 104, American jurist, senior (former chief) judge of the District Court for Kansas (since 1962).
* Anthony Capo, 52, American mobster-turned-informant (DeCavalcante crime family), heart attack.
* Marge Carey, 73, British union leader, President of USDAW (1997–2006), motor neurone disease.
* Arne Christiansen, 85, Norwegian judge.
* Ovidiu Constantinescu, 79, Romanian mycologist.
* Marcel De Boodt, 85, Belgian academic.
* Erik Haaest, 76, Danish journalist and author.
* Jugal Kishore, 98, Indian physician.
* Maurice Meisner, 80, American historian.
* Miloš Pojar, 71, Czech author and diplomat.
* Bingham Ray, 57, American independent film executive, complications from strokes.
* Bill Robb, 84, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Miranda (1978–1984).
* Gerhard Schröder, 90, German television executive.
* Slacker, British electronic music producer.
* Stig Vig, 63, Swedish singer (Dag Vag).

### 24

* Kurt Adolff, 90, German racing driver.
* Theodoros Angelopoulos, 76, Greek film director, hit by motorcycle.
* Sukumar Azhikode, 85, Indian writer, critic, and orator, cancer.
* Jane Bashara, 56, American marketing manager, strangulation.
* James C. Bliss, 78, American electrical engineer and entrepreneur.
* Antony Barrington Brown, 84, British designer, photographer and explorer.
* James Farentino, 73, American actor (Dynasty, ER, Melrose Place), sequelae from hip fracture.
* J. Joseph Garrahy, 81, American politician, Governor of Rhode Island (1977–1985).
* Vadim Glowna, 70, German actor and film director.
* Paul S. Goodman, 74, American organizational theorist.
* Arild Haaland, 92, Norwegian philosopher.
* Carolina Isakson Proctor, 81, Colombian First Lady (1986–1990).
* Moira Milton, 88, Scottish amateur golfer.
* Patricia Neway, 92, American operatic soprano and musical theatre actress (The Sound of Music), Tony Award-winner.
* W. Allen Pepper Jr., 70, American jurist, federal judge for the Northern District of Mississippi (since 1999), heart attack.
* Bruce Riutta, 67, American Olympic ice hockey player, complications from heart surgery.
* Stig Sæterbakken, 46, Norwegian writer.
* Pierre Sinibaldi, 87, French footballer and manager.
* William Crossley, 3rd Baron Somerleyton, 83, British aristocrat and courtier, Master of the Horse (1991– 1999).
* Carleton B. Swift Jr., 92, American intelligence officer.
* Gyula Tarr, 80, Hungarian Olympic wrestler.
* Althea Wynne, 75, British sculptor.

### 25

* Sir Alfred Ball, 91, British air marshal.
* Jane Bashara, 56, American marketing manager, strangulation.
* Paavo Berglund, 82, Finnish conductor.
* Josef Brunner, 83, German politician.
* Veronica Carstens, 88, German First Lady (1979–1984).
* Carlos Escarrá, 57, Venezuelan politician, Attorney General (since 2011), heart attack.
* Emil Hossu, 70, Romanian actor, cardiac arrest.
* Kazimierz Jasiński, 65, Polish Olympic cyclist, cancer.
* Jacques Maisonrouge, 87, French businessman, chairman of IBM World Trade Corporation.
* Mabel Manzotti, 73, Argentine actress (Besos en la Frente, Vidas robadas), complications from a stroke.
* Len McIntyre, 78, British rugby league player.
* Andrew MacNaughtan, 47, Canadian photographer.
* Merab Megreladze, 55, Georgian football player.
* Abid Ali Nazish, 40, Afghan actor, shot.
* Franco Pacini, 72, Italian astronomer.
* Émile Paganon, 95, French skier.
* Mark Reale, 56, American heavy metal guitarist (Riot), Crohn's disease.
* Nick Santino, 47, American actor, suicide by drug overdose.
* Mary Semans, 91, American heiress and philanthropist.
* Robert Sheran, 96, American politician and judge.
* Charles Stanmore, 87, Australian Olympic fencer.
* Kosta Tsonev, 82, Bulgarian actor.
* Jean Wells, 56, American game designer.
* Alexander Zhitinsky, 71, Russian writer.

### 26

* Ian Abercrombie, 77, British actor (Seinfeld, Army of Darkness, Star Wars: The Clone Wars), kidney failure.
* Dimitra Arliss, 79, American actress (The Sting, General Hospital, Xanadu), complications from a stroke.
* Iggy Arroyo, 60, Filipino politician, Representative from the 5th District of Negros Occidental (since 2004), cardiac arrest.
* Alfredo Avelín, 84, Argentine politician, Governor of San Juan (1999–2002), multiple organ failure.
* Valentin Blazhes, 75, Soviet and Russian folklorist and literary scholar.
* Bud Byerly, 92, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds).
* Kartar Singh Duggal, 94, Indian writer.
* Alex Eadie, 91, British politician, MP for Midlothian (1966–1992).
* M. O. H. Farook, 74, Indian politician and diplomat, Governor of Kerala (since 2011).
* Clare Fischer, 83, American composer.
* Robert Hegyes, 60, American actor (Welcome Back, Kotter; Cagney & Lacey), heart attack.
* Seui Laau, 69, American Samoan politician.
* Roberto Mieres, 87, Argentine racing driver.
* Miguel Nazar Haro, 87, Mexican intelligence chief, head of the Dirección Federal de Seguridad (1978–1982).
* Stan Smith, 79, Australian VFL football player.
* Colin Tarrant, 59, British actor (The Bill), suicide by exsanguination.
* Juan Fremiot Torres Oliver, 86, Puerto Rican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ponce (1964–2000).
* Robert Turner, 91, Canadian composer.

### 27

* Hikmat Mizban Ibrahim, 80, Iraqi politician, Minister of Finance (1995–2003).
* Russ Arnold, 90, American bridge player.
* Fernanza Burgess, 51, American football player.
* Tom Campbell, 84, Canadian politician, Mayor of Vancouver (1967–1972).
* Chen Chuanxi, 95, Chinese conductor.
* Greg Cook, 65, American football player (Cincinnati Bengals), complications from pneumonia.
* Kay Davis, 91, American jazz singer.
* Reza de Wet, 59, South African playwright, leukaemia.
* Ted Dicks, 83, English composer.
* Thomas Fennell, 84, Canadian politician.
* Jeannette Hamby, 78, American politician, Oregon State Senator (1983–1999), stroke complications and cancer.
* Deepika Joshi-Shah, 35, Indian singer and voice actress.
* Todd Lynn, 47, American stand-up comedian and actor (My Wife and Kids).
* James Metcalf, 86, American sculptor.
* Richard K. Olney, 64, American physician, pioneer in clinical research on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
* Hermano Pablo, 90, American evangelist and broadcaster.
* Bogusława Pietkiewicz, 67, Polish Olympic diver.
* István Rózsavölgyi, 82, Hungarian runner, Olympic bronze medalist (1960), heart problems.
* Juan Sarrachini, 65, Argentine footballer.
* Kazimierz Smoleń, 91, Polish museum director and Holocaust survivor.
* Kevin White, 82, American politician, Mayor of Boston (1968–1984).

### 28

* Bob Armstrong, 50, American ice hockey player.
* Diana Bliss, 57, Australian public relations consultant and theatre producer, wife of Alan Bond.
* Joseph Curran, 89, American college basketball coach (Canisius).
* Don Fullmer, 72, American boxer, lymphoid leukemia.
* Keriman Halis Ece, 98, Turkish beauty pageant queen, pianist and fashion model, Miss Turkey 1932.
* Roman Juszkiewicz, 59, Polish astrophysicist.
* Chand Mal Lodha, 93, Indian judge.
* Andrew McMillan, 54, Australian writer and music journalist.
* Paul F. O'Rourke, 87, American politician.
* Don Starkell, 79, Canadian adventurist and author.

### 29

* Karin Aasma, 85, Estonian-Swedish art historian.
* Lee Adler, 88, American historic preservationist.
* Yomi Bankole, 52, Nigerian table tennis player.
* L. Basavaraju, 92, Indian scholar.
* Damien Bona, 56, American journalist, writer and film historian, heart attack.
* Henrique da Silva Horta, 91, Portuguese vice admiral and colonial administrator.
* John H. Davis, 82, American author, Alzheimer's disease.
* Tatiana Dorofeeva, 64, Russian linguist, orientalist and translator.
* Predrag Dragić, 66, Serbian writer.
* Nijaz Duraković, 63, Bosnian author and politician.
* Ranjit Singh Dyal, 83, Indian Army general.
* Borys Fedorenko, 65, Ukrainian painter.
* Hellen Huisman, 74, Dutch voice actress.
* François Migault, 67, French racing driver.
* Syed Abu Nasar, 79, Indian professor of electrical engineering.
* Kell Osborne, 72, American singer.
* Goody Petronelli, 88, American boxing trainer and manager (Marvin Hagler).
* John Rich, 86, American television director (All in the Family, Benson, The Dick Van Dyke Show), heart failure.
* Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, 93, Italian politician, Minister of the Interior (1983–1987); President (1992–1999) and Lifetime Senator (since 1999).
* Gabriel Lawrence Sengol, 83, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tiruchirapalli (1990–1997).
* J. O. Urmson, 96, British philosopher.
* Camilla Williams, 92, American opera singer, complications from cancer.

### 30

* Eladio Acosta Arteaga, 95, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Santa Fe de Antioquia (1988–1992).
* Rolf Appel, 90, German chemist.
* Frank Aschenbrenner, 86, German-born American football player (Chicago Hornets, Montreal Alouettes).
* Don Blenkarn, 81, Canadian politician, MP for Mississauga (1972–1974) and Mississauga South (1979–1993).
* Terence Cowley, 83, Australian cricketer.
* Klaus Goldschlag, 89, Canadian ambassador.
* Helmi Höhle, 87, German Olympic fencer.
* George Lambert, 83, American Olympic silver (1956) and bronze (1960) medal-winning modern pentathlete.
* Abdelhamid Mehri, 85, Algerian resistance fighter and politician.
* Doeschka Meijsing, 64, Dutch novelist.
* Michael D. Ryan, 66, American jurist, Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court (2002–2010), apparent heart attack.
* Idichapuli Selvaraj, 73, Indian actor.
* Frederick Treves, 86, British actor (The Elephant Man).
* Johann Carl Vogel, 79, South African physicist.
* Bill Wallace, 64, American author.

### 31

* Stefano Angeleri, 85, Italian footballer and coach.
* Everardus Antonius M. Baaij, 90, Dutch-born South African Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Aliwal (1973–1981).
* Mani Ram Bagri, 91, Indian politician.
* Rick Behenna, 51, American baseball player (Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians), cancer.
* Anthony Bevilacqua, 88, American Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Philadelphia (1988–2003).
* Leslie Carter, 25, American singer and reality star (House of Carters), drug overdose.
* H. John Caulfield, 75, American optical physicist.
* Bob Citron, 79, American entrepreneur and aerospace engineer, prostate cancer.
* Tristram P. Coffin, 89, American folklorist.
* Zelda Curtis, 88, British journalist and feminist.
* Stacy Doris, 49, American poet, cancer.
* Felicia Eze, 37, Nigerian Olympic footballer.
* Ayelet Galena, 2, American child, born with dyskeratosis congenita, lung complications.
* Juan Carlos Gené, 82, Argentine actor and playwright.
* John Hughes, 66, American drug counselor.
* Mikel Japp, 59, Welsh musician and songwriter.
* Siddika Kabir, 80, Bangladeshi teacher, television show host and cookbook author.
* Petros Karatroupkos, 82, Greek-born Zambian Orthodox hierarch, Bishop of Zambia (2001–2003).
* Mike Kelley, 57, American artist and musician (Destroy All Monsters), suicide. (body found on this date)
* Bob LaPointe, 66, American high school and college football coach.
* Peadar Maher, 87, Irish politician, TD for Laois–Offaly (1951–1961).
* Clara Nomee, 73, American politician, first female Chairperson of the Crow Nation (1990–2000).
* Sid Ottewell, 92, English footballer (Nottingham Forest F.C.).
* Al Rio, 49, Brazilian comic book artist, suicide by hanging.
* Antonio Segura, 64, Spanish comics writer.
* King Stitt, 71, Jamaican singer, complications from prostate cancer and diabetes.
* Dorothea Tanning, 101, American surrealist painter, printmaker and sculptor.
* Bob Thalman, 89, American football player and coach.