# Deaths in December 2014
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The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2014.
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.

## December 2014
### 1

* Ray Abeyta, 58, American painter, motorcycle accident.
* Mario Abramovich, 88, Argentine violinist and composer.
* Mihailo Čanak, 82, Serbian architect and researcher.
* Jimmy Duncan, 83, Scottish footballer (Celtic).
* Alberto Breccia Guzzo, 68, Uruguayan politician.
* David Cooke, 59, British rear admiral, Commander Operations (2006–2009).
* Claudio Fiorentini, 93, Italian Olympic sport shooter.
* Allen Phillips Griffiths, 87, Welsh professor.
* Kim Song-ae, 89, North Korean politician, second wife of Kim Il Sung. (death announced on this date)
* Jean Klein, 70, French Olympic rower.
* Sita Murt, 68, Spanish fashion designer and businesswoman, cancer.
* Aleksandar Petrović, 55, Serbian basketball coach, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
* Roberto Sagastume Pinto, 70, Guatemalan politician, Mayor of Esquipulas (1996–2000), Governor of Chiquimula (2001–2003), traffic collision.
* Dimitrios Trichopoulos, 76, Greek-born American epidemiologist and oncologist, advanced the Mediterranean diet, heart attack.
* Rocky Wood, 55, New Zealand-born Australian author, complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

### 2

* Don L. Anderson, 81, American geophysicist, cancer.
* A. R. Antulay, 85, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Maharashtra (1980–1982).
* Dominique Aubier, 92, French author.
* Jean Béliveau, 83, Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens).
* Josie Cichockyj, 50, British wheelchair basketball player, cancer.
* Gerry DeLeeuw, 88, Canadian football player.
* Theill Drengsgaard, 87, Danish footballer.
* Ian Fairbairn, 83, English actor (Doctor Who, Timeslip, Emergency Ward 10).
* Gerry Fisher, 88, British cinematographer (Highlander, Running on Empty, Wise Blood).
* Juan Flores, 71, American educator, professor of social and cultural analysis, Guillain–Barré syndrome.
* Peter Furneaux, 79, English football club chairman and investor (Grimsby Town).
* Andre Gill, 73, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins).
* Peter Gübeli, 89, Swiss Olympic rower.
* André Le Guillerm, 90, French Olympic weightlifter.
* Albert Jackson, 71, English footballer (Bangor City, Oldham Athletic, Wigan Athletic).
* Bobby Keys, 70, American saxophonist (The Rolling Stones), cirrhosis.
* John Laurence Lambert, 78, Australian author, lung cancer.
* Don Laws, 85, American figure skater and coach, heart failure.
* Carlos Mamery, 54, Puerto Rican music producer and television personality (Idol Puerto Rico), heart attack.
* Marion D. McGowan, 86, American politician.
* A. J. McNamara, 78, American legislator and federal judge, progressive supranuclear palsy.
* Lyudmila Perepyolkina, 84, Russian actress.
* Hans-Dieter Riechel, 79, German Olympic biathlete.
* Giampaolo Rugarli, 81, Italian novelist.
* Jeff Truman, 57, Australian screenwriter and actor (Neighbours, Superman Returns, Home and Away).
* Deven Verma, 77, Indian film actor.
* Dennis Walaker, 73, American politician, Mayor of Fargo, North Dakota (since 2006), kidney cancer.

### 3

* Herman Badillo, 85, Puerto Rican-born American politician, member of the U.S. House from New York's 22nd (1971–1973) and 21st (1973–1977) districts, heart failure.
* Jacques Barrot, 77, French politician, European Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security (2008–2010).
* Poppy Bermúdez, 86, Argentine-born Dominican chief executive (Bermúdez).
* Nathaniel Branden, 84, Canadian-born American psychologist.
* L. Stephen Coles, 73, American scientist, co-founder and the Executive Director of the Gerontology Research Group, pancreatic cancer.
* Lulu Dikana, 35, South African recording artist and vocalist, oesophageal perforation.
* Hubert Egger, 87, German cross country skier.
* Martha Farkas Glaser, 93, Civil Rights Activist and Manager of Jazz musician Erroll Garner.
* Sjefke Janssen, 95, Dutch racing cyclist.
* Vicente Leñero, 81, Mexican writer and journalist, pulmonary emphysema.
* Kostas Linoxilakis, 81, Greek footballer.
* Ann Marcus, 93, American television screenwriter (Days of Our Lives, General Hospital, Peyton Place).
* Vincent L. McKusick, 93, American attorney, Chief Justice of Maine (1977–1992).
* Ian McLagan, 69, English keyboardist (Small Faces), stroke.
* Alfred E. Novak, 84, American-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Paranaguá (1989–2006).
* Patrick Edward O'Connor, 82, New Zealand-born Tokelauan Roman Catholic prelate, Ecclesiastical Superior of Tokelau (1992–2011).
* Luc Oursel, 55, French businessman, CEO of Areva (2011–2014).
* Giulio Questi, 90, Italian director and screenwriter (Django Kill, La morte ha fatto l'uovo).
* Walter Reyno, 79, Uruguayan actor, respiratory failure.
* Jack Scott, 85, American college football coach.
* James Stewart, 73, Canadian mathematician and violinist, multiple myeloma.
* Jim Swink, 78, American football player (Dallas Texans), lymphoma.
* Sergio Armando Valls, 73, Mexican judge, member of the Supreme Court (since 2004).
* Ray Williams, 87, Welsh rugby union coach.

### 4

* Sitamadji Allarassem, 25, Chadian footballer.
* Mariam Behnam, 93, Iranian-born Emirati writer, diplomat and women's rights activist.
* Richard Bootzin, 74, American psychologist, heart disease.
* Nikolay Brusentsov, 89, Russian computer scientist.
* Bryan Burwell, 59, American sportswriter, cancer.
* Charles De Sorgher, 84, Belgian Olympic bobsledder.
* Brian Dunsworth, 89, Canadian football player.
* Hroar Elvenes, 82, Norwegian Olympic speed skater (1952, 1956, 1960, 1964).
* Claudia Emerson, 57, American poet, complications of colon cancer.
* Frank and Louie, 15, American-born Ragdoll cat, world's oldest diprosopus cat, euthanized.
* Graeme Goodall, 82, Australian recording engineer and record label owner, co-founder of Island Records.
* Jack Gregory, 87, American football coach (Rhode Island Rams).
* Talât Sait Halman, 83, Turkish poet and academic, Minister of Culture and Tourism (1971).
* V. R. Krishna Iyer, 99, Indian judge, member of the Supreme Court.
* Takeo Kamachi, 78, Japanese Olympic sport shooter, stroke.
* Lynne Kosky, 56, Australian politician, MLA for Altona (1996–2010), breast cancer.
* Bob Montgomery, 77, American songwriter ("Heartbeat", "Misty Blue"), Parkinson's disease.
* Gavril Nagy, 82, Romanian Olympic water polo player.
* Aleksey Nasedkin, 72, Russian pianist and composer.
* Hugo Niskanen, 94, Finnish Olympic long-distance runner (1952).
* Jeremy Thorpe, 85, British politician, Leader of the Liberal Party (1967–1976), MP for North Devon (1959–1979), central figure in the Thorpe affair, Parkinson's disease.
* Rudolf Vanmoerkerke, 90, Belgian businessman.

### 5

* Yashaw Adem, Turkish actor.
* Ernest C. Brace, 83, American pilot, longest civilian POW in Vietnam War.
* John C. Burton, 91, American cross country skier.
* Manuel De Sica, 65, Italian composer, heart attack.
* Queen Fabiola of Belgium, 86, Spanish-born queen consort of King Baudouin.
* Ralph Adam Fine, 73, American judge, member of the Wisconsin Court of Appeals.
* Rod Graber, 84, American baseball player.
* Jackie Healy-Rae, 83, Irish politician, TD for Kerry South (1997–2011).
* Luis Herrera de la Fuente, 98, Mexican conductor and composer.
* Kōichi Kawakita, 72, Japanese special effects director (Godzilla vs. Biollante).
* Arthur Leipzig, 96, American photographer.
* Gil Marks, 62, American food writer and historian, lung cancer.
* Dennis Marriott, 75, English cricketer.
* Gennadi Poloka, 84, Russian Soviet-era film director.
* Marco Torlonia, 6th Prince of Civitella-Cesi, 77, Spanish nobleman.
* Silvio Zavala, 105, Mexican historian and diplomat, Ambassador to France (1966–1975).

### 6

* Ralph H. Baer, 92, American video game pioneer, inventor and engineer, developed the Magnavox Odyssey, recipient of the National Medal of Technology (2004).
* Mick Barry, 95, Irish road bowler.
* Robert T. Bennett, 75, American politician.
* Jimmy Del Ray, 52, American professional wrestler (WWF, WCW), traffic collision.
* David Galloway, 72, New Zealand biochemist and botanist.
* Fred Hawkins, 91, American golfer.
* Menis Koumandareas, 83, Greek writer.
* Naphtali Lau-Lavie, 88, Israeli writer and diplomat.
* Renato Mambor, 78, Italian painter.
* Maquinita Merlos, 73, Salvadoran football player (Águila, national team) and manager.
* Nick Nicolau, 81, American football coach.
* Oscar Whisky, 9, Irish-bred British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse, fall.
* Takao Saito, 85, Japanese cinematographer, chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
* Adnan Gulshair el Shukrijumah, 39, Saudi Arabian-born external operations chief (al-Qaeda), shot.
* Luke Somers, 33, British-born American photojournalist and AQAP hostage, shot.
* Emma Lou Thayne, 90, American Mormon poet.
* István Varga, 71, Hungarian Olympic handball player.
* Stella Young, 32, Australian comedian and disability advocate.

### 7

* Abdellah Baha, 60, Moroccan politician, Minister of State (since 2012), MP for Rabat (since 2002), hit by train.
* Horace Batten, 102, English shoemaker and bootmaker.
* João de Sousa, 90, Portuguese Olympic rower.
* Lawrence Dorr, 89, Hungarian-American writer.
* Charlie Flowers, 77, American football player (Los Angeles Chargers, Ole Miss Rebels).
* Brian Roy Goble, 57, Canadian musician (Subhumans), heart attack.
* Irving Guttman, 86, Canadian opera director.
* Carol Judge, 73, American healthcare advocate and registered nurse, First Lady of Montana (1973–1980), cancer.
* Holger Larsen, 89, Danish Olympic rower.
* Mark Lewis, 60, American storyteller, actor and teacher.
* Norman Mair, 86, Scottish rugby union player and journalist.
* Eddie Rouse, 60, American actor (American Gangster, Pineapple Express, Being Flynn), liver failure.
* Grahanandan Singh, 88, Indian Olympic field hockey player.
* Khalil Ullah Khan, 80, Bangladeshi film and television actor.
* Tommy Todd, 88, Scottish footballer (Airdrie, Hamilton, Crewe, Derby and Rochdale).
* Nikolai Vasenin, 95, Russian World War II veteran, Legion of Honour recipient.
* Ken Weatherwax, 59, American actor (The Addams Family), heart attack.
* Jerzy Wilim, 73, Polish footballer.

### 8

* Paul S. Amenta, 92, American politician, member of the Connecticut Senate.
* Sacvan Bercovitch, 81, Canadian literary and cultural critic.
* James Brown, 83, Scottish cricketer.
* Robert N. Burr, 98, American historian.
* Martha Cecilia, 61, Filipino writer, cancer.
* Sobho Gianchandani, 94, Pakistani writer and social scientist, heart attack.
* Tom Gosnell, 63, Canadian politician, Mayor of London, Ontario (1986–1994), cancer.
* Buddy Hicks, 87, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers), complications from a fall.
* Russ Kemmerer, 84, American baseball player (Washington Senators, Chicago White Sox).
* Nedunuri Krishnamurthy, 87, Indian carnatic vocalist, lung cancer.
* Mango, 60, Italian singer ("Bella d'estate", "Lei verrà"), heart attack.
* Ralph Maud, 85, Canadian literary scholar.
* Knut Nystedt, 99, Norwegian orchestral and choral composer.
* Brian Sullivan, 48, American lawyer and politician, member of the Washington House of Representatives (1997–2001), assistant district attorney of Barrow, Alaska, shot.
* Elmārs Zemgalis, 91, Latvian-born American chess player.

### 9

* Dave Behrman, 73, American football player (Buffalo Bills, Denver Broncos), pancreatic cancer.
* Tony Bullen, 83, British Olympic speed skater.
* Ion Butmalai, 50, Moldovan politician, MP (since 2009), suicide by gunshot.
* Frank Farrington, 88, Australian rugby league player and administrator (Newtown Jets).
* José Feghali, 53, Brazilian pianist, suicide by gunshot.
* Jane Freilicher, 90, American representational painter.
* Stuart Hunt, 87, American politician, member of the Vermont House of Representatives.
* Robert Kinoshita, 100, American production designer (Lost in Space, Forbidden Planet).
* Gerd Kirste, 96, Norwegian politician.
* Jean-Marie Léyé, 82, Ni-Vanuatu politician, President (1994–1999).
* Jorge María Mejía, 91, Argentine Roman Catholic prelate, cardinal, Archivist of the Vatican Secret Archives (1998–2003), Librarian of the Vatican Library (1998–2003).
* Mary Ann Mobley, 77, American actress (Diff'rent Strokes, Falcon Crest) and television personality, Miss America (1959), breast cancer.
* Lydia Mordkovitch, 70, Russian-born British violinist, cancer.
* Blagoje Paunović, 67, Serbian football player and manager.
* Karl Otto Pöhl, 85, German economist, President of the Bundesbank (1980–1991).
* Lila Sapinsley, 92, American politician, member of the Rhode Island Senate (1973–1984).
* Sheila Stewart, 77, Scottish singer, storyteller, and author.
* Dave Theisen, 73, American football player (Toronto Argonauts, Winnipeg Blue Bombers).
* Jože Toporišič, 88, Slovene linguist.
* Clifford Wright, 87, Canadian politician, Mayor of Saskatoon (1976–1988), lung cancer.

### 10

* Ziad Abu Ein, 55, Palestinian politician, coronary blockage from heart hemorrhage.
* John P. Anton, 94, American philosopher.
* Anubes da Silva, 79, Brazilian Olympic sprinter.
* Don Dufek Sr., 85, American football player.
* Pierre Fautrier, 91, French cyclist.
* Ralph Giordano, 91, German writer and publicist, complications from hip fracture.
* Raúl Gómez Ramírez, 50, Mexican politician, MP for Guanajuato (since 2012), injuries sustained in a traffic collision.
* Slađa Guduraš, 27, Bosnian singer and actress, traffic collision.
* Alice Hoover, 86, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).
* Catherine Hughes, 81, British diplomat and academic.
* James Koller, 78, American poet.
* Donald Moffitt, 83, American science fiction author.
* Robert B. Oakley, 83, American diplomat, Ambassador to Zaire (1979–1982), Somalia (1982–1984) and Pakistan (1988–1991), Parkinson's disease.
* Otto Pöggeler, 85, German philosopher.
* Bob Solinger, 88, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings, Toronto Maple Leafs).
* Judy Baar Topinka, 70, American politician, Illinois Treasurer (1995–2007) and Comptroller (since 2011), complications related to a stroke.
* Gerard Vianen, 70, Dutch racing cyclist, leukemia.
* Robert Wolfe, 93, American historian, archivist and World War II veteran.
* Martin Zijlstra, 70, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives (1989–2002).

### 11

* Tom Adams, 76, English actor (The Great Escape, Licensed to Kill, Doctor Who), cancer.
* Ahmed al Tilemsi, 36-37, Malian terrorist, shot.
* George Ardisson, 83, Italian actor (The Long Hair of Death, Agent 3S3: Passport to Hell).
* Roger Bielle, 86, French Olympic wrestler.
* Tim Black, 77, English family planning pioneer, founder of Marie Stopes International.
* Vera Bulatova, 82, Uzbek archaeologist, architectural historian and museologist.
* Peter Clarke, 81, English chess player.
* Harold Crocker, 86, Australian rugby league footballer.
* Benigno De Grandi, 90, Italian footballer (Palermo, A.C. Milan).
* John D. Driggs, 87, American politician, Mayor of Phoenix, Arizona (1970–1974), established the Phoenix Mountain Preserve, pancreatitis.
* Michel du Cille, 58, American photojournalist (The Washington Post), heart attack.
* Sergio Fiorentini, 80, Italian actor and voice actor.
* Patricia Gallaher, 77, Australian librarian.
* Jack Harrington, 84, Australian rules footballer (Essendon).
* Robert A. Johnson, 93, American politician.
* Philip Knights, Baron Knights, 94, English police officer and peer, Chief Constable of the West Midlands (1975–1985).
* Georges Lagrange, 85, French Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Gap (1988–2003).
* Fred Meggs, 62, American composer, cancer.
* Mel Richardson, 86, American politician, member of the Idaho House of Representatives (1988–1992) and Senate (1992–2008), cancer.
* Dawn Sears, 53, American country musician (Nothin' but Good), lung cancer.
* Gerald Sim, 89, English actor (Gandhi, Patriot Games, Frenzy).
* Robert Taylor, 70, American animator, film director and screenwriter (The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
* Laszlo Varga, 89, Hungarian-born American cellist.
* Hans Wallat, 85, German conductor and music director.

### 12

* John Baxter, 78, Scottish footballer (Hibernian).
* Rod Belcher, 94, American football and basketball announcer.
* Norman Bridwell, 86, American author and cartoonist (Clifford the Big Red Dog), prostate cancer.
* James Clarke, 91, English footballer.
* Peter Delisle, 79, English cricketer.
* Jonathan Dunn-Rankin, 84, American actor, television journalist and activist.
* Phillip Edwards, 87, British rear admiral and bursar.
* Ivor Grattan-Guinness, 73, English historian of mathematics and logic.
* John Hampton, 61, American music engineer and producer, complications of cancer.
* José María Lorant, 59, Argentine football player and coach.
* Donald S. Malecki, 81, American author and insurance consultant.
* Billy Milligan, 59, American criminal defendant diagnosed with multiple personality disorder, cancer.
* John Persen, 73, Norwegian composer.
* Herb Plews, 86, American baseball player (Washington Senators).
* Mohammad Shahid, 66, Indian cricketer.
* Yury Shutov, 68, Russian politician, heart attack.
* Vladimír Stibořík, 87, Czech Olympic sports shooter (1960, 1964).
* Graham Turbott, 100, New Zealand ornithologist.
* Mary Jeanne van Appledorn, 87, American composer.
* Alan Ward, 79, New Zealand historian.
* Dave West, 70, British businessman, stabbed.

### 13

* Yvonne Abbas, 92, member of the French Resistance.
* Ernst Albrecht, 84, German politician, Prime Minister of Lower Saxony (1976–1990).
* Mary Arden, 81, American actress.
* Norbert P. Arnold, 94, American mechanical engineer, businessman, and politician.
* Joan Barril, 62, Spanish writer and journalist, pneumonia.
* Ina Bauer, 73, German figure skater.
* Anthony Birch, 90, British political scientist.
* Bill Bonds, 82, American television news anchor (WXYZ-TV), heart attack.
* Geoffrey Cooper, 89, British RAF officer.
* Aaron Goldberg, 97, American botanist.
* John Hickman, 87, New Zealand meteorologist.
* Janis Martin, 75, American opera singer.
* William E. May, 86, American theologian.
* Andreas Schockenhoff, 57, German politician, MP (since 1990).
* Martha Sigall, 97, American animator (Looney Tunes).
* Phil Stern, 95, American photographer, emphysema and heart failure.
* Brian Swatuk, 65, Canadian jockey, cancer.
* Taitetsu Unno, 85, Japanese Shin Buddhist scholar and author.

### 14

* Angalifu, 44, Sudanese-born American rhinoceros, one of two remaining male northern white rhinoceros.
* Fatima bint Rashid Al Nuaimi, Emirati Ajman royal.
* Anoushirvan Arjmand, 73, Iranian actor, heart attack.
* Daniel Beren, 85, American politician.
* Sy Berger, 91, American baseball promoter.
* Franz Brunner, 83, Austrian Olympic wrestler.
* Joe Carr, 63, American bluegrass musician, stroke.
* Peter R. Chacon, 89, American politician, pneumonia.
* Alex Chigogidze, 59, Georgian general topologist.
* Theo Colborn, 87, American environmentalist and academic.
* Irene Dalis, 89, American opera singer and impresario.
* Bobo Faulkner, 73, English model and television personality, cancer.
* Millie Kirkham, 91, American singer.
* Louis Alphonse Koyagialo, 67, Congolese politician, Acting Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (2012).
* Hal Lewis, 79, American football player (Baltimore Colts, Buffalo Bills, Oakland Raiders).
* Doug Martin, 78, American college basketball coach (South Dakota Coyotes).
* John McCraw, 89, New Zealand soil scientist.
* Bess Myerson, 90, American model (Miss America 1945) and television actress.
* Anthony Edward Pevec, 89, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Cleveland (1982–2001).
* P. J. Sarma, 70, Indian actor and dubbing artist, heart attack.
* Rohit Talwar, 49, Indian cricketer, cancer.
* Fuzzy Thurston, 80, American football player (Green Bay Packers), Alzheimer's disease and cancer.
* Johnny Treadwell, 73, American football player (Texas Longhorns).

### 15

* Johnnie L. Caldwell, 92, American politician.
* Chakri, 40, Indian film composer and playback singer, heart attack.
* David R. Chesnutt, 73-74, American historian and editor, throat cancer.
* Booth Colman, 91, American actor (Planet of the Apes, Norma Rae, Intolerable Cruelty).
* Herbert E. Douglass, 87, American theologian.
* John Gall, 89, American author and pediatrician.
* David Garth, 84, American political consultant.
* Jeff Guy, 74, South African historian.
* Michael Hare Duke, 89, Scottish Anglican bishop.
* Cotton Hodges, 88, American racecar driver.
* Mustapha Maarof, 79, Malaysian actor.
* Nicolae Manea, 60, Romanian football player and manager, liver cancer.
* Donald Metcalf, 85, Australian medical researcher, pancreatic cancer.
* Ray Steadman-Allen, 92, British composer and Salvation Army officer.
* Arthur Whyte, 93, Australian politician, President of the South Australian Legislative Council (1978–1985).
* Fausto Zapata, 73, Mexican journalist, politician and diplomat, Governor of San Luis Potosí (1991), cancer.

### 16

* Phillip Archuleta, 65, American politician, member of the New Mexico House of Representatives (since 2013), pneumonia.
* J. K. M. A. Aziz, Bangladeshi politician.
* Anthony Bottrall, 76, British diplomat.
* Martin Brasier, 67, English palaeobiologist and astrobiologist, traffic collision.
* Inés Cifuentes, 59, English-born American seismologist and educator, breast cancer.
* Tim Cochran, 59, American mathematician.
* Yvonne Cossart, 80, Australian virologist.
* Reidar Dørum, 89, Norwegian footballer (FK Ørn-Horten).
* Maurice Duverger, 97, French jurist, sociologist and politician.
* Osee Fagan, 90, American judge.
* Jack Hazlett, 76, New Zealand rugby union player (Southland, national team).
* Abdulmari Imao, 78, Filipino sculptor.
* Eddie Kachur, 80, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks).
* Karl-Heinz Kurras, 87, German police officer and Stasi member, killed Benno Ohnesorg.
* Man Haron Monis, 50, Iranian self-styled Muslim cleric and hostage taker, shot.
* Maximo Munzi, 57, Argentine cinematographer, pancreatic cancer.
* Romie J. Palmer, 93, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives.
* Wendy Rene, 67, American soul singer, complications from stroke.
* Rock Scully, 73, American band manager (Grateful Dead), lung cancer.
* Sultan Singh, 91, Indian politician, Governor of Tripura (1989–1990).
* Ernie Terrell, 75, American heavyweight boxer, WBA champion (1965–1967).

### 17

* Judith Baker, 75, American judoka.
* Eric Bjornstad, 80, American climber and author.
* Rex Chandler, 77, American politician.
* Chan Kwok-Hung, 51, Chinese cinematographer (Fly Me to Polaris, Skiptrace), drowned.
* Hildward Croes, 52, Aruban musician, composer and arranger, cancer.
* Stephen Youssef Doueihi, 87, Lebanese-born American Maronite Catholic hierarch, Bishop of St. Maron of Brooklyn (1997–2004).
* Neville Featherstone-Griffin, 81, English cricketer (Surrey).
* Clarke Fraser, 94, Canadian medical geneticist.
* Fritz Rudolf Fries, 79, German writer.
* Dieter Grau, 101, German-born American rocket scientist, NASA Quality Control Director for the Saturn V.
* Neil James, 53, English rugby league player.
* Richard C. Hottelet, 97, American broadcast journalist (Murrow's Boys).
* Leonard Kent, 89, New Zealand cricketer.
* Stephen J. Kopp, 63, American educator, President of Marshall University (since 2005), heart attack.
* Oleh Lysheha, 65, Ukrainian poet, playwright and translator.
* Daniel Sitentu Mpasi, 80, Namibian tribal leader, King of the Uukwangali.
* Jarle Ofstad, 87, Norwegian physician.
* Lowell Steward, 95, American World War II veteran, member of the Tuskegee Airmen.
* Takeshi Taketsuru, 90, Japanese whisky distiller (Nikka).
* Ivan Vekić, 76, Croatian politician.
* Jean Walraven, 88, American Olympic hurdler.

### 18

* Yacub Addy, 83, Ghanaian-born American drummer, heart attack.
* Donald J. Albosta, 89, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives from Michigan's 10th district (1979–1985).
* Virginia Baxter, 82, American figure skater.
* John Beedell, 81, New Zealand-born Canadian Olympic sprint canoer (1960).
* Gideon Ben-Yisrael, 91, Israeli politician, member of the Knesset.
* Franco Bomprezzi, 62, Italian journalist and writer.
* Boyd Brown, 62, American football player.
* Bill J. Dukes, 87, American politician, member of the Alabama House of Representatives (1994–2010), Parkinson's disease.
* Claude Frikart, 92, French Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Paris (1986–1997).
* John Fry, 69, American record producer, founder of Ardent Studios, cardiac arrest.
* Jerry Hale, 78, American college basketball coach, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
* Larry Henley, 77, American singer (The Newbeats) and songwriter ("Wind Beneath My Wings").
* Bob Kelly, 74, American football player (Houston Oilers, Kansas City Chiefs, Cincinnati Bengals).
* Ingvar Kjellson, 91, Swedish actor (Heja Roland!), pneumonia.
* Virna Lisi, 78, Italian actress (How to Murder Your Wife, La Reine Margot), cancer.
* Carleton Mabee, 99, American Pulitzer Prize-winning writer.
* Neasa Ní Annracháin, 92, Irish actress.
* Knud Pedersen, 88, Danish artist and resistance fighter.
* Mandy Rice-Davies, 70, British model, figure in the Profumo affair, cancer.
* Harold M. Schulweis, 89, American rabbi and activist.
* Robert Simpson, 102, American meteorologist, co-developer of the Saffir–Simpson hurricane wind scale.
* Deral Teteak, 85, American football player (Green Bay Packers).
* Tsang Siu-fo, 91, Chinese police officer.
* Ed Vereb, 80, American football player (Washington Redskins).
* Ante Žanetić, 78, Croatian footballer, Olympic champion (1960).

### 19

* Mohammed Aqeel, Pakistani militant, hanged.
* S. S. Balan, 77, Indian media executive (Ananda Vikatan), heart attack.
* Charles Bartlett, 93, British artist.
* Philip Bradbourn, 63, British politician, MEP for West Midlands (since 1999), bowel cancer.
* Calypso Mama, 88, Bahamian calypso singer.
* Arthur Gardner, 104, American film and television producer (The Rifleman) and actor (All Quiet on the Western Front).
* Pat Holton, 78, Scottish footballer (Motherwell, Hamilton Academical).
* Barbara Jones, 62, Jamaican reggae/gospel singer, leukaemia.
* Roberta Leigh, 87, British author and television producer (Space Patrol).
* Éva Pajor, 77, Hungarian Olympian
* Igor Rodionov, 78, Russian general and politician, Minister of Defence (1996–1997).
* Robert D. San Souci, 68, American children's author and screenwriter (Mulan), head injury.
* Larry Smith, 63, American record producer (Run–D.M.C.).
* Colin Strang, 2nd Baron Strang, 92, British philosopher and peer.
* Dick Thornton, 75, American-born Canadian football player (Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Toronto Argonauts), lung cancer.
* Chunilal Vaidya, 97, Indian political activist.

### 20

* Lucio Abis, 88, Italian politician, President of Sardinia (1970), member of the Italian Senate (1972–1994).
* Maqsudul Alam, 60, Bangladeshi scientist, liver cirrhosis.
* Joe Anderson, 86, British rugby league player (Castleford, Leeds, Featherstone Rovers), kidney cancer.
* Seriki Audu, 23, Nigerian footballer (Lobi Stars), traffic collision.
* Larry Auerbach, 91, American television director (Love of Life, One Life to Live, As the World Turns), complications of glioblastoma.
* Ronnie Bedford, 83, American jazz drummer.
* Zdenko Bego, 81, Croatian rower.
* Donald Charlton Bradley, 90, British chemist.
* Per-Ingvar Brånemark, 85, Swedish orthopedic surgeon, heart attack.
* Ismaaiyl Abdullah Brinsley, 28, American criminal, suicide by gunshot.
* Penny Dann, 50, British children’s book illustrator, cancer.
* George Fisher, 90, American college basketball coach (Austin Peay).
* John Freeman, 99, British politician, journalist, broadcaster and diplomat, MP for Watford (1945–1955), Ambassador to the United States (1969–1971).
* Ranulph Glanville, 68, British architect and cybernetician.
* James L. Kinsey, 80, American chemist.
* Bob Lanier, 89, American businessman and politician, Mayor of Houston, Texas (1992–1998).
* Brian Manley, 85, British engineer.
* Sam Morris, 84, English footballer (Chester City).
* William Lowell Putnam III, 90, American broadcasting executive (Springfield Television), Trustee Emeritus of the Lowell Observatory.
* Gino Pellegrini, 73, Italian scenic designer (2001: A Space Odyssey, Mary Poppins, The Birds) and painter.
* Miodrag B. Protić, 92, Serbian painter.
* Derek Rencher, 82, English ballet dancer.
* David Strudwick, 80, Australian cricketer.
* Alberto Valdiri, 55, Colombian actor (Doña Bárbara, Yo soy Betty, la fea), heart attack.

### 21

* Morteza Ahmadi, 90, Iranian actor.
* Akhlas Akhlaq, 33, Pakistani-Russian convicted plotter, execution by hanging.
* Anatole Beck, 84, American mathematician.
* Jane Bown, 89, British photographer (The Observer).
* Pedro Brescia Cafferata, 93, Peruvian businessman.
* Sonya Butt, 90, British Special Operations Executive agent.
* Walter De Buck, 80, Belgian singer and sculptor, esophageal cancer.
* Dušan Dragosavac, 95, Yugoslavian politician, Chairman of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (1981–1982).
* Andy Everest, 90, American football player and coach.
* Horacio Ferrer, 81, Uruguayan poet, broadcaster and tango lyricist, heart failure.
* Chris Hall, 64, Canadian lacrosse coach (Calgary Roughnecks, Vancouver Stealth), throat cancer.
* High Chaparral, 15, Irish Thoroughbred racehorse, Epsom Derby winner (2002), euthanised.
* Åke Johansson, 86, Swedish footballer (IFK Norrköping, national team).
* Udo Jürgens, 80, Austrian composer and singer ("Reach for the Stars"), winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 1966.
* Bruce Lindahl, 95, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives (1965–1971).
* Tom Nieporte, 86, American golfer.
* Hans Riesel, 85, Swedish mathematician.
* Sitor Situmorang, 91, Indonesian poet and writer.
* Frank Truitt, 89, American basketball coach (LSU, Kent State).
* Paul Walther, 87, American basketball player (University of Tennessee).
* Billie Whitelaw, 82, English actress (The Omen, The Dark Crystal, Hot Fuzz), pneumonia.
* Alan Williams, 84, British politician, MP for Swansea West (1964–2010), Father of the House (2005–2010).

### 22

* John Robert Beyster, 90, American physicist, founder of Science Applications International Corporation.
* Christine Cavanaugh, 51, American voice actress (Rugrats, Dexter's Laboratory, Babe).
* Joe Cocker, 70, British singer ("With a Little Help from My Friends", "You Are So Beautiful", "Up Where We Belong"), lung cancer.
* Ulpiano Cos Villa, 79, Cuban baseball broadcaster.
* Christopher Davidge, 85, British Olympic rower (1952, 1956, 1960).
* Mayer Eisenstein, 68, American pediatrician and family physician.
* William J. Fishman, 93, British academic.
* Nate Fox, 37, American basketball player, shot.
* Vera Gebuhr, 98, Danish actress (Matador).
* Richard Graydon, 92, British stuntman and stunt coordinator (James Bond, Batman).
* Abdel Aziz Mohamed Hegazy, 91, Egyptian politician, Prime Minister (1974–1975).
* Sarann Knight-Preddy, 94, American businesswoman and civil rights activist.
* Gertrude Kolar, 88, Austrian Olympic gymnast (1948, 1952).
* Maurizio Lotti, 74, Italian politician.
* Rosemary Lowe-McConnell, 93, British biologist.
* Catherine N. Norton, 73, American librarian.
* Moses Otolorin, 67, Nigerian footballer (Shooting Stars), cancer.
* Madhavi Sardesai, 52, Indian academic and writer, cancer.
* Joseph Sargent, 89, American film director (The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, MacArthur, Jaws: The Revenge), heart disease.
* Fritz Sdunek, 67, German professional boxing trainer (Wladimir and Vitali Klitschko, Felix Sturm), heart attack.
* Walter Smishek, 89, Polish-born Canadian politician.
* Brandon Stoddard, 77, American television executive (ABC), bladder cancer.
* Bernard Stone, 87, American politician, Chicago Alderman (1973–2011), complications from a fall.
* Gaddam Venkatswamy, 85, Indian politician.

### 23

* Evgeny Aramovich Abramyan, 84, Armenian physicist.
* Raymond L. Acosta, 89, American district court judge.
* K. Balachander, 84, Indian filmmaker and playwright.
* Jo Jo Benson, 76, American singer.
* Johnny Bergh, 80, Norwegian producer, director and screenwriter.
* Jacques Chancel, 86, French journalist and writer, cancer.
* Johnnie Colemon, 94, American theologian.
* John Coll, British computer specialist.
* Luis Condomi, 66, Argentine footballer.
* John Denvir, 76, American football player (Denver Broncos).
* Raymond M. Durkin, 78, American politician, complications related to heart failure and emphysema.
* Mike Elliott, 68, British comedian and actor (Goal!, Billy Elliot, Crocodile Shoes), cancer.
* Rustom K. S. Ghandhi, 90, Indian vice admiral.
* Guilford Glazer, 93, American real estate developer and philanthropist.
* Robert V. Hogg, 90, American statistician.
* Jeremy Lloyd, 84, British screenwriter (Are You Being Served?, 'Allo 'Allo!) and actor (Murder on the Orient Express), pneumonia.
* Edward H. Martin, 83, American vice admiral.
* Robert McCabe, 86, American educator.
* Elvina Podchernikova-Elvorti, 86, Russian circus artist and animal trainer.
* Přemek Podlaha, 76, Czech television personality.
* John J. Powers, 96, American food scientist.
* Nigel Priestley, 71, New Zealand earthquake engineer, cancer.
* Debbie Purdy, 51, British campaigner for assisted suicide.
* Hessel Rienks, 82, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives (1974–1989).
* Craig Schiffer, 58, American financier (Lehman Brothers), avalanche.
* Jerzy Semkow, 86, Polish-born French conductor.
* John Kennett Starnes, 96, Canadian civil servant, diplomat and novelist.
* Norman Wray, 91, American Roman Catholic missionary, Alzheimer's disease.
* Robert Zoellner, 82, American investor and stamp collector.
* João Nílson Zunino, 68, Brazilian executive, President of Avaí FC (2002–2013).

### 24

* Ekhlasuddin Ahmed, 74, Bangladeshi children's writer.
* Mack Alston, 67, American football player (Washington Redskins).
* Rubén Amorín, 87, Uruguayan football player and coach (Guatemala national team), Alzheimer's disease.
* Tómas Árnason, 91, Icelandic politician.
* Jeannine Baticle, 93-94, French art historian.
* Leonard Beerman, 93, American Reform rabbi.
* Giovanni Bersani, 100, Italian politician.
* Jacqueline Briskin, 87, British-born American writer.
* Donald Niel Cameron, 97, Canadian politician.
* Anna M. Cienciala, 85, Polish-American historian and author.
* Buddy DeFranco, 91, American jazz clarinet player.
* Reidar Floeng, 96, Norwegian politician.
* Edward Greenspan, 70, Canadian lawyer, heart failure.
* Robert Hall, 87, American basketball player (Harlem Globetrotters).
* Herbert Harris, 88, American politician, member of the U.S. House from Virginia's 8th district (1975–1981).
* Lee Israel, 75, American author and forger.
* Owen H. Johnson, 85, American politician, member of the New York State Senate (1972–2012).
* Yevgeny Korolkov, 84, Russian gymnast, Olympic champion (1952).
* Krzysztof Krauze, 61, Polish film director (The Debt, Plac Zbawiciela), prostate cancer.
* Colin Latimour, 68, New Zealand footballer.
* Sir George Lepping, 67, Solomon Islands politician, Governor-General (1988–1994).
* Arthur Louis, 64, American-born British reggae cross-over musician (Knockin' on Heaven's Door).
* Ihor Nadein, 66, Ukrainian football player and coach.
* Hidetoshi Nakamura, 60, Japanese voice actor (Mobile Suit Victory Gundam, To Love-Ru).
* Alf Næsheim, 88, Norwegian artist and writer.
* Barry Williams, 70, English spree killer.
* Ramsey Muir Withers, 84, Canadian army officer, Chief of the Defence Staff (1980–1983), heart attack.

### 25

* Alberta Adams, 97, American blues singer.
* N. L. Balakrishnan, 72, Indian actor and photographer.
* Warren Brown, 85, Bermudian sailor and businessman.
* Nand Chaturvedi, 91, Indian poet.
* Chen Shi-chang, 80, Taiwanese politician, multiple organ failure.
* Dave Comer, 58, New Zealand film location scout (The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit), cancer.
* Louis Boutet de Monvel, 73, French mathematician.
* Geoffrey Eastop, 93, English potter.
* Kjell Hanssen, 82, Norwegian politician.
* John M. Imel, 82, American attorney.
* Bernard Kay, 86, British actor (Doctor Who, Coronation Street, Doctor Zhivago).
* Bruce Livingston, 87, Australian cricketer.
* Marlene Longenecker, 69, American literary scholar, acute myeloid leukemia.
* Mary F. Lyon, 89, British geneticist.
* George Miller, 92, American politician, Mayor of Tucson, Arizona (1991–1999).
* Ricardo Porro, 89, Cuban-born architect.
* David Ryall, 79, English actor (The Singing Detective, Harry Potter, The Elephant Man).
* Jean Stogdon, 86, British campaigner and social worker (Grandparents Plus).
* Tony Wilkinson, 66, British archaeologist.
* Gleb Yakunin, 80, Russian priest and Soviet dissident.

### 26

* Samson Alcantara, 79, Filipino politician and academic.
* Stanisław Barańczak, 68, Polish poet and academic, pneumonia.
* Al Belletto, 86, American jazz musician.
* Roger L. Bernashe, 87, American politician.
* Dick Dale, 88, American saxophonist and singer (The Lawrence Welk Show).
* Roberto Delmastro, 69, Chilean politician, MP for Valdivia (1998–2010), lung cancer.
* Rajan Devadas, 93, Indian photojournalist.
* James B. Edwards, 87, American politician, Governor of South Carolina (1975–1979), United States Secretary of Energy (1981–1982), complications from a stroke.
* Paul V. Gadola, 85, American senior judge, District Court Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan (1988–2008).
* Lars-Erik Gustafsson, 76, Swedish Olympic athlete.
* Joe Macko, 86, American baseball player and manager.
* Giuseppe Pittau, 86, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Secretary of Congregation for Catholic Education (1998–2003).
* Geoff Pullar, 79, English Test cricketer (Lancashire).
* Rhodes Reason, 84, American actor (Star Trek, Annie, 77 Sunset Strip).
* John Richardson Jr., 93, American political activist, Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs (1969–1977).
* Ken Riddington, 92, British television producer (House of Cards).
* Andrew Thomson, 78, British academic and historian.
* Leo Tindemans, 92, Belgian politician, Prime Minister (1974–1978), Minister of Foreign Affairs (1981–1989).

### 27

* Ben Ammi Ben-Israel, 75, American-born Israeli religious leader (African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem).
* Fatima Aouam, 55, Moroccan Olympic runner (1988).
* Hans-Christian Bartel, 82, German violist and composer.
* Graham Cox, 81, British judge.
* Tom Currigan, 94, American politician, Mayor of Denver (1963–1968).
* Carl Neumann Degler, 93, American historian and author, Pulitzer Prize winner (1972).
* Timothy Dowd, 99, Irish-American police official.
* Ulises Estrella, 75, Ecuadorian poet.
* Claude Frank, 89, German-born American pianist, complications of dementia.
* William P. Gerberding, 85, American educator, president of University of Washington.
* Ron Henry, 80, English footballer (Tottenham Hotspur, national team).
* Jacques Hurtubise, 75, Canadian painter.
* Percy Johnson, 85, Australian rules footballer (North Melbourne).
* Ronald Li, 85, Chinese stockbroker, Chairman of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (1986–1987), cancer.
* Kees Luesink, 61, Dutch politician, Mayor of Doesburg (since 2008).
* Karel Poma, 94, Belgian politician and minister of state, MP (1965–1985), Mayor of Wilrijk (1953–1958).
* Erich Retter, 89, German footballer (VfB Stuttgart, West Germany national team).
* Tomaž Šalamun, 73, Slovene poet.
* Carol Stone, 60, British transgender priest, pancreatic cancer.
* Elaine Summers, 89, American choreographer (Judson Dance Theater) and filmmaker, complications of fall.
* Hamid Taqavi, 58–59, Iranian brigadier general, shot.
* Bridget Turner, 75, British actress (Doctor Who, Casualty, Z-Cars).
* Jacques Vandenhaute, 83, Belgian politician, Mayor of Woluwe-Saint-Pierre (1983–2007).
* John Webster, 89, British mycologist.

### 28

* Leelah Alcorn, 17, American transgender girl, suicide by vehicular impact.
* Ruggero J. Aldisert, 95, American judge.
* Paul Barry, 88, American football player.
* Earl Clark, 95, American soldier.
* Chris Dyko, 48, American football player (Chicago Bears), traffic collision.
* Leopoldo Federico, 87, Argentine tango musician.
* Javier Fragoso, 72, Mexican footballer (Club América, national team).
* Vahan Hovhannisyan, 58, Armenian politician.
* Michio Kushi, 88, Japanese-born American scholar, pancreatic cancer.
* Michael C. Murphy, 62, American politician and pastor.
* Frankie Randall, 76, American singer and actor, lung cancer.
* Lewis Rudolph, 95, American businessman, co-founder of Krispy Kreme.
* Jaakko Suikkari, 89, Finnish Olympic sprinter.
* Merrill Womach, 87, American gospel singer.

### 29

* Hardo Aasmäe, 63, Estonian geographer, entrepreneur and politician.
* Rashid Al Zlami, 88, Saudi Arabian poet.
* Natalie Carter Barraga, 99, American educator and researcher.
* Patricia Hill Burnett, 94, American artist and women's rights activist.
* Ernest de Soto, 91, American lithographer.
* Dorrit Dekk, 97, Czechoslovakian graphic designer.
* Said Khalifa Gouda, 84, Egyptian Olympic weightlifter.
* Saiyid Hamid, 94, Indian educator, Vice-Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University (1980–1985).
* Hari Harilela, 92, Indian-born Hong Kong hotelier.
* Odd Iversen, 69, Norwegian footballer (Rosenborg, national team).
* Jah Paul Jo, 58, American musician (Dread Zeppelin).
* Madhu Kaithapram, 44, Indian film director (Eakantham, Madhya Venal).
* Jaynie Krick, 85, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).
* Jack E. McCoy, 85, American politician.
* Jenny Pat, 33, Hong Kong art dealer, accidental drug overdose.
* Juanito Remulla Sr., 81, Filipino politician, Governor of Cavite (1979–1986), multiple organ failure.
* Sir Ivor Richardson, 84, New Zealand jurist, President of the Court of Appeal (1996–2002).
* Ulf Sand, 76, Norwegian politician.
* Howard Schultz, 61, American television producer (Extreme Makeover, Dating Naked).
* Samuel Sentini, 66, Honduran footballer (Olimpia, national team), Alzheimer's disease.
* Leslie Silver, 89, British football executive, Chairman of Leeds United (1983–1996).
* Paul Sprenger, 74, American attorney, heart attack.
* Bob Usher, 89, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds).
* André Wohllebe, 52, German Olympic champion sprint canoer (1992) and dual bronze medallist (1988).

### 30

* Abdul Hamid Zainal Abidin, 70, Malaysian politician, heart attack.
* Frank Atkinson, 90, British museum director (Beamish Museum).
* Terry Becker, 93, American actor (The Twilight Zone, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea).
* Jake Berthot, 75, American artist.
* Deborah Bone, 51, English mental health nurse, inspired Disco 2000, multiple myeloma.
* Antonio Brack Egg, 74, Peruvian ecologist and politician, Minister of Environment (2008–2011).
* Ronald Bromley, 96, British Army officer.
* Robert Conroy, 76, American science fiction author, winner of the Sidewise Award for Alternate History, thymus cancer.
* Philip Converse, 86, American political scientist.
* Derek Coombs, 83, British politician, MP for Birmingham Yardley (1970–1974).
* Hester A. Davis, 84, American archaeologist.
* Roland de Corneille, 87, Canadian Anglican priest and politician.
* Angela Delevingne, 102, English aristocrat and socialite.
* Yolande Donlan, 94, American-born British actress.
* George B. Fitch, 66, American politician, Mayor of Warrenton, Virginia (1998–2014), cancer.
* Jim Galloway, 78, Scottish-born Canadian jazz clarinet and saxophone player.
* Allan Garraway, 88, British railway manager.
* Patrick Gowers, 78, English composer.
* Joan Israel, 84, American psychotherapist.
* Marian Jurczyk, 79, Polish politician and trade union activist (Solidarity), Mayor of Szczecin (1998–2000, 2002–2006).
* Beau Kazer, 63, Canadian actor (The Young and the Restless, Taxi Driver).
* Igor Kiselyov, 35, Russian footballer (Biolog-Novokubansk Progress, Torpedo Moscow), heart failure.
* Dick Loggere, 93, Dutch Olympic field hockey player, silver medallist (1952) and bronze medallist (1948).
* J. B. Moraes, 81, Indian poet and writer.
* Rosemary Mulligan, 73, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives (1993–2013).
* Luise Rainer, 104, German-born American actress (The Great Ziegfeld, The Good Earth), Academy Award winner (1936, 1937), pneumonia.
* Walter Roque, 77, Uruguayan football player (Uruguay national team) and coach (Venezuela national team).
* Milton Rosen, 99, American rocket scientist and NASA executive, complications from prostate cancer.
* T. E. Vasudevan, 97, Indian film producer (Snehaseema, Kavyamela).
* B. G. Verghese, 87, Indian journalist and newspaper editor (Hindustan Times, The Indian Express).
* Jan V. White, 86, American graphic designer.

### 31

* W. Raymond Beck, 90, American politician.
* Jim Bennett, 70, Irish hurler.
* Giovanni Del Rio, 89, Italian politician, President of Sardinia (1967–1970, 1973–1976).
* Jimmy Dunn, 91, Scottish footballer (Wolverhampton Wanderers, Derby County).
* Edward Herrmann, 71, American actor (Gilmore Girls, Richie Rich, The Lost Boys), brain cancer.
* Abdullah Hussain, 94, Malaysian novelist (Interlok).
* Keith Jenkinson, 88, Australian rules footballer (South Melbourne).
* Ferenc A. Jolesz, 68, Hungarian-American physician and scientist, pulmonary embolism.
* Michael Kennedy, 88, British biographer, journalist and music critic.
* Nejat Konuk, 86, Cypriot politician, Prime Minister of Northern Cyprus (1976–1978, 1983–1985).
* Norbert Leser, 81, Austrian jurist, political scientist and social philosopher.
* Marie Smallface Marule, 70, Canadian-Blackfoot academic administrator, activist, and educator, President of Red Crow Community College (since 1992).
* James McNaughton Hester, 90, American academic, President of New York University (1962–1975).
* Romanus Orjinta, 33, Nigerian footballer.
* Luis Oruezábal, 62, Argentine footballer (Vélez Sársfield, Granada, national team), Pan American Games champion (1971), carbon monoxide poisoning.
* Norm Phelps, 75, American author and animal rights activist.
* Washington Rodríguez, 70, Uruguayan Olympic bantamweight boxer, bronze medallist (1964).
* Kamala Sinha, 82, Indian politician and diplomat.
* S. Arthur Spiegel, 94, American federal judge.
* Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington, 99, British aristocrat and Army officer.