# Deaths in December 2012
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The following is a list of notable deaths in December 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.

## December 2012
### 1

* Ahmed Taib El Alj, 84, Moroccan writer.
* Raymond Ausloos, 82, Belgian football player.
* Jovan Belcher, 25, American football player (Kansas City Chiefs), suicide by gunshot.
* José Bénazéraf, 90, French film director and producer.
* Arthur Chaskalson, 81, South African judge, Chief Justice (2001–2005), leukaemia.
* John Crigler, 76, American basketball player (University of Kentucky).
* Steve Fox, 54, English footballer, cancer.
* Chuck Gavin, 78, American football player.
* Dee Harvey, 47, American R&B singer.
* Rick Majerus, 64, American college basketball coach (University of Utah, Saint Louis University), heart failure.
* Ezroy Millwood, 70, Jamaican transport businessman.
* Gerard Parker, 76, American Cherokee tribal leader, Principal Chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (1995).
* Rubén Pellanda, 65, Argentine politician.
* Ed Price, 94, American politician, member of the Florida Senate (1958–1966).
* Ray Rosso, 96, Italian-born American football coach, natural causes.
* Marcia Russell, 72, New Zealand journalist and news presenter.
* Edouard Saouma, 86, Lebanese civil servant, Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (1976–1993).
* Bhim Bahadur Tamang, 78, Nepali politician, stroke.
* Phil Taylor, 95, English footballer and coach (Liverpool).
* Vidal Vega, 48, Paraguayan peasant leader, shooting.
* Yoshinori Watanabe, 71, Japanese yakuza, fifth godfather of the Yamaguchi-gumi.
* Reinhold Weege, 62, American television writer and producer (Barney Miller, Night Court), natural causes.
* James R. Whelan, 79, American publisher (The Washington Times), multiple organ failure.

### 2

* Ron Auchettl, 66, Australian footballer.
* Michael Crawford, 92, English cricketer.
* Gitte Dæhlin, 56, Norwegian sculptor.
* Preeti Ganguly, 59, Indian actress, cardiac arrest.
* Michael A. Gorman, 62, American politician, member of the North Carolina House of Representatives (2003–2005), POEMS syndrome.
* Tom Hendry, 83, Canadian playwright, founder of Manitoba Theatre Centre.
* Hiroshi Kato, 77, Japanese aikido master.
* Israel Keyes, 34, American alleged serial killer, suicide by hanging and lacerations.
* Ehsan Naraghi, 86, Iranian sociologist and writer, Director of UNESCO's Youth Division (1980–1996), long illness.
* Sylvester Odhiambo, Kenyan football coach (Muhoroni Youth F.C.).
* Décio Pignatari, 85, Brazilian poet, essayist and translator, respiratory failure.
* Azumir Veríssimo, 77, Brazilian footballer.
* Szymon, 23, Australian musician, suicide.

### 3

* Jules Mikhael Al-Jamil, 74, Iraqi-born Lebanese Syrian Catholic hierarch, Archbishop-Procurator in Rome (since 1986).
* Leo Rajendram Antony, 85, Sri Lankan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Trincomalee-Batticaloa (1974–1983).
* Amir Mahmud Anvar, 67, Iranian literary academic and poet.
* Tommy Berggren, 62, Swedish footballer.
* Ivan Boboshko, 83, Soviet football player and coach.
* Georgy Borisenko, 90, Soviet correspondence chess grandmaster and chess theoretician.
* Kuntal Chandra, 28, Bangladeshi cricketer, strangulation.
* Bill Donckers, 61, American football player, lymphoma.
* Christopher Erhardt, 53, American video game producer and academic.
* Peter Johnson Sr., 91, American trial lawyer and political power broker, pulmonary fibrosis.
* Fyodor Khitruk, 95, Russian animator and animation director (The Story of a Crime).
* Mohamed Mahroof, 62, Sri Lankan politician, MP for Colombo (2000–2010).
* Diego Mendieta, 32, Paraguayan footballer, viral infection.
* Carlomagno Meneses, 85, Peruvian Olympic boxer.
* Eileen Moran, 60, American visual effects producer (The Lord of the Rings, Avatar, King Kong), cancer.
* King G. Porter, 91, American politician, member of the Tennessee State Senate.
* Sir Geoffrey Shakerley, 80, British photographer.
* Janet Shaw, 46, Australian Paralympic bronze medal-winning (2004) cyclist and author, cancer.
* Jeroen Willems, 50, Dutch actor and singer, cardiac arrest.

### 4

* Alfredo Abon Lee, 85, Cuban military officer.
* Narmada Akka, Indian communist, shot.
* Grady Allen, 66, American football player (Atlanta Falcons), cardiac arrest.
* José Alves da Costa, 73, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Corumbá (1991–1999).
* Vasily Belov, 80, Russian writer, poet and dramatist.
* Philippe Bena, 60, French Olympic fencer.
* Jean Bollack, 89, French philosopher, philologist and literary critic.
* Jack Brooks, 89, American politician, member of US House of Representatives (1953–1995) and Texas House of Representatives (1949–1953).
* Miguel Calero, 41, Colombian footballer, cerebral thrombosis.
* Rozina Cambos, 60, Israeli actress (The Human Resources Manager), leukemia.
* James B. Cardwell, 90, American bureaucrat, complications of a broken hip.
* Besse Cooper, 116, American supercentenarian, world's oldest person.
* Tony Deane-Drummond, 95, British army major general.
* Massimo Giustetti, 86, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Pinerolo (1974–1975), Mondovi (1975–1986) and Biella (1986–2001).
* Jonathan Harvey, 73, English composer, motor neurone disease.
* Helen Johnson Houghton, 102, British racehorse trainer.
* Eamon Kelly, 65, Irish criminal, shot.
* Peter Kiesewetter, 67, German modern classical composer.
* Miroslav Klůc, 90, Czech Olympic ice hockey (1956) forward and coach, member of Czech Ice Hockey Hall of Fame, stroke.
* Larry Lawrence, 63, American football player (Oakland Raiders, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Edmonton Eskimos), edema.
* Paul Marcotte, 84, American politician, member of the Kentucky House of Representatives (2005–2007).
* Branislav Milinković, 52, Serbian diplomat, ambassador to NATO and Austria, suicide by jumping.
* Robert Monclar, 82, French Olympic basketball player.
* Hilmar Moore, 92, American politician, longest-serving mayor in the United States, complications of a fall.
* Tony Sweeney, 81, Irish sports writer and historian, heart attack.
* Michael Till, 77, British Anglican priest, Dean of Winchester (1996–2005).
* Ken Trickey, 79, American basketball coach (Oral Roberts University).
* Gerrit van Dijk, 73, Dutch animator, long illness.
* John Ward, 64, American football player (Minnesota Vikings), cancer.

### 5

* Allah Bachayo Khoso, 77, Pakistani artist and Alghoza player.
* Sammy Arena, 81, American singer, multiple organ failure.
* Petrine Archer-Straw, 55, British art historian, sickle-cell disease.
* Erwin Bischofberger, 76, Swedish Jesuit and medical practitioner.
* Dave Brubeck, 91, American jazz pianist ("Take Five") and composer ("Blue Rondo à la Turk"), heart failure.
* MC Buffalo, 41, Croatian rapper, stroke.
* Carlos Francisco Chang Marín, 90, Panamanian painter, musician, journalist, and writer.
* Evgeny Chubarov, 77, Russian painter, sculptor, and graphic artist.
* Chen Wencong, 42, Singaporean actor, writer and producer, pneumonia.
* Eduardo J. Corso, 92, Uruguayan journalist and lawyer.
* Wilhelmus Demarteau, 95, Dutch-born Indonesian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Banjarmasin (1954–1983).
* Enebeli Elebuwa, 66, Nigerian actor, stroke.
* Peter Feltus, 70, American philatelist.
* Francesco Fonti, 64, Italian criminal.
* Kazbek Gekkiyev, 28, Russian journalist, shooting.
* Frigyes Hollósi, 71, Hungarian actor.
* Ignatius IV of Antioch, 92, Syrian Orthodox patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church of Antioch (since 1979), stroke.
* Nakamura Kanzaburō XVIII, 57, Japanese kabuki star, acute respiratory distress syndrome.
* Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, 103, Australian philanthropist, widow of Sir Keith Murdoch, mother of Rupert Murdoch.
* Yves Niaré, 35, French Olympic (2008) shot putter, traffic collision.
* Oscar Niemeyer, 104, Brazilian architect, respiratory infection.
* Eileen Pollock, 86, American television writer and producer (Dynasty, The Colbys).
* Kaisa Sere, 58, Finnish computer scientist.
* Doug Smith, 75, Scottish footballer and administrator (Dundee United).
* Felix Weinberg, 84, Czech-born British physicist.

### 6

* Miguel Abia Biteo Boricó, 51, Equatorial Guinean politician, Prime Minister (2004–2006), heart attack.
* Mike Boyette, 71, American professional wrestler, heart disease.
* Jan Carew, 92, Guyanese writer and academic.
* Ed Cassidy, 89, American musician (Spirit), cancer.
* Eta Cohen, 96, English violin teacher and author.
* Arnold C. Cooper, 79, American academic.
* Bim Diederich, 90, Luxembourgish road bicycle racer.
* David Favrholdt, 81, Danish philosopher.
* Keitani Graham, 32, Micronesian Olympic (2012) Greco-Roman wrestler, heart attack.
* Alice Harden, 64, American politician, Mississippi State Senator (since 1988).
* Karine Kazinian, 57, Armenian diplomat, Ambassador to the United Kingdom (since 2011), complications during surgery.
* Jeffrey Koo Sr., 79, Taiwanese businessman and billionaire, chairman for Chinatrust Financial Holding Company.
* Huw Lloyd-Langton, 61, British guitarist (Hawkwind, Widowmaker), throat cancer.
* Reginald Norby, 78, Norwegian diplomat, Ambassador to France (1994–1998).
* O-Six, 6, Yellowstone National Park gray wolf, shot.
* Pulpit, 18, American Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the 1997 Fountain of Youth Stakes and Blue Grass Stakes.
* Giovanni Sostero, 48, Italian astronomer, heart attack.
* Pedro Vaz, 49, Uruguayan diplomat and lawyer, Minister of Foreign Affairs (2009–2010), Ambassador to Chile (since 2010), heart attack.

### 7

* Abu-Zaid al Kuwaiti, 46, Kuwaiti al-Qaeda leader, drone strike.
* Duggan Anderson, 88, Australian football player (Swan Districts Football Club).
* Olga Beaver, 70, Czech-American mathematician.
* Marie Bennigsen-Broxup, 68, British orientalist.
* Mikelis Brizga, 101, Australian businessman.
* P. J. Carey, 59, American baseball coach (Colorado Rockies).
* Chen Wen-yu, 88, Taiwanese horticulturist.
* Thomas Cornell, 75, American artist and professor, cancer.
* Armando Costa, 63, Canadian soccer coach and player.
* Gilbert Durand, 91, French academic.
* Ernest England, 85, Australian cricketer.
* Ammar El Sherei, 64, Egyptian musical composer and performer, heart ailment.
* Denis Houf, 80, Belgian footballer (Standard Liège).
* William F. House, 89, American physician, developer of the cochlear implant, cancer.
* Irene Hughes, 92, American psychic.
* Nikola Ilić, 27, Serbian basketball player, cancer.
* Armand Van De Kerkhove, 97, Belgian footballer
* Roelof Kruisinga, 90, Dutch politician, Minister of Defence (1977–1978).
* Art Larsen, 87, American tennis player.
* Jeni Le Gon, 96, American dancer and actress (Amos 'n' Andy).
* Rusty Mills, 49, American animator (Animaniacs, Pinky and the Brain, The Replacements), colon cancer.
* Ralph Parr, 88, American fighter pilot, Korean War flying ace.
* Marty Reisman, 82, American table tennis player, complications of heart and lung ailments.
* Saul Steinberg, 73, American businessman and corporate raider.
* Govindasamy Suppiah, 83, Singaporean football referee, diabetes.
* Joseph R. Weisberger, 92, American judge, Chief Justice of Rhode Island Supreme Court (1993–2001).

### 8

* Hermelindo Alberti, 87, Argentine sprinter.
* Barry Altman, 63, American businessman, cancer.
* Jerry Brown, 25, American football player (Dallas Cowboys), traffic collision.
* Mary Griggs Burke, 96, American art collector, largest private collector of Japanese art outside Japan.
* Arnold Dean, 82, American radio sports host and personality.
* Vernice Ferguson, 84, American nurse and healthcare executive.
* John Gowans, 78, British religious leader and musician, General of The Salvation Army (1999–2002).
* Jagannathan, 74, Indian actor.
* Yvonne Kennedy, 67, American politician, member of the Alabama House of Representatives (since 1979).
* Johnny Lira, 61, American lightweight boxer, liver disease.
* Ambrose Madtha, 57, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Titular Archbishop of Naissus, Apostolic Nuncio to Côte d'Ivoire (since 2008), traffic collision.
* Charles Martin, 81, American politician, member of the Alabama House of Representatives and Alabama Senate.
* Khan Sarwar Murshid, 88, Bangladeshi educationist and intellectual, complications from stroke.
* Walter Newman, 91, American civic leader and army veteran.
* Bill Prest, 86, Australian politician, Queensland MLA for Port Curtis (1976–1992).
* Hal Schaefer, 87, American jazz musician and vocal coach (Marilyn Monroe) involved in the Wrong-Door Raid.
* Isaiah Shavitt, 87, Polish–born American theoretical chemist.
* Mark Strizic, 84, Australian photographer.

### 9

* Barbara Alby, 66, American politician, member of the California State Assembly (1993–1998).
* Håkon E. Andersen, 87, Norwegian bishop.
* Mathews Barnabas, 88, Indian Metropolitan of Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church.
* Michael Bürsch, 70, German politician.
* Anna Czóbel, 94, Hungarian cinematographer.
* Biswajit Das, 24, Bangladeshi tailor, murdered.
* Jeanne Gervais, 90, Ivorian politician.
* Anat Gov, 58, Israeli playwright and screenwriter, colorectal cancer.
* Hiromori Kawashima, 90, Japanese sports administrator.
* Ivan Ljavinec, 89, Ukrainian-born Czech Byzantine Catholic hierarch, Apostolic Exarch in the Czech Republic (1996–2003).
* Sir Patrick Moore, 89, British astronomer and broadcaster (The Sky at Night), sepsis.
* Alex Moulton, 92, British engineer and inventor (Moulton Bicycle).
* Béla Nagy Abodi, 94, Hungarian painter.
* André Nelis, 77, Belgian Olympic silver (1956) and bronze (1960) medal-winning sailor, cancer.
* Ataa Oko, abt. 93, Ghanaian fantasy coffin artist.
* Jenni Rivera, 43, American-born Mexican banda and norteño singer, plane crash.
* Charles Rosen, 85, American pianist and author, cancer.
* Riccardo Schicchi, 59, Italian pornographer, chronic kidney disease caused by type 2 diabetes.
* Norman Joseph Woodland, 91, American inventor, co-creator of the bar code.

### 10

* Iajuddin Ahmed, 81, Bangladeshi politician, President (2002–2009), heart and kidney disease.
* Vladimir Bakulin, 73, Kazakhstani Olympic silver medal-winning (1968) wrestler.
* Ashwini Bhatt, 76, Indian novelist.
* Cliff Brown, 60, American football player (Notre Dame).
* Antonio Cubillo, 82, Spanish politician, founder of Canary Islands Independence Movement.
* Lisa Della Casa, 93, Swiss soprano.
* Marla English, 77, American actress.
* Ralph Frese, 86, American canoe maker and conservationist.
* Ed Grady, 89, American actor (The Notebook, Dawson's Creek).
* Albert O. Hirschman, 97, German-born American economist.
* Hungargunn Bear It'n Mind, 9, Hungarian Vizsla, the Best in Show at Crufts in 2010.
* Harry Iauko, Vanuatuan politician, MP for Tanna (2008–2012), complications of pneumonia.
* Ibn Bey, 28, British-bred Thoroughbred racehorse and sire.
* Jacques Jullien, 83, French Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Beauvais (1978–1984), and Archbishop of Rennes (1985–1998).
* Patricia Kennedy, 96, Australian stage, film, and television actress (My Brilliant Career, Return to Eden).
* Ciarán Maher, 50, Irish Gaelic football player.
* Roy Miles, 77, British art dealer.
* Bob Munden, 70, American entertainer, heart failure.
* Shoichi Ozawa, 83, Japanese actor and folk art researcher.
* Paul Rauch, 82, American television producer (Another World, One Life to Live, Santa Barbara), complications of blood clots.
* Tommy Roberts, 70, British fashion designer.
* John Small, 66, American football player (Atlanta Falcons, Detroit Lions).
* Felix Stehling, 87, American restaurateur, co-founder of Taco Cabana, dementia.
* Erwin Tomash, 91, American businessman (Dataproducts), Alzheimer's disease.
* Birdsall S. Viault, 80, American academic.
* Reginald James Wallace, 93, British civil servant, last Governor of the Gilbert Islands (1978–1979).

### 11

* Angélica M. Arambarri, 67, Argentine botanist and mycologist.
* Emilia Pisani Belserene, 89, American astronomer.
* Toni Blankenheim, 90, German opera singer.
* Lou Castagnola, 76, American athlete.
* Gennadiy Dulnev, 85, Russian academic.
* Semiha Es, 100, Turkish photographer.
* Antonie Hegerlíková, 89, Czech actress, Thalia Award winner (2004).
* William B. Hopkins, 90, American politician, member of Virginia Senate (1960–1980), majority leader (1976–1980).
* Pedro Reginaldo Lira, 97, Argentinian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of San Francisco in Argentina (1961–1965), and Auxiliary Bishop of Salta (1967–1978).
* B. B. Nimbalkar, 92, Indian cricketer.
* Dindi Gowa Nyasulu, 68, Malawian politician, leader of AFORD, brain tumor.
* Manuel Pardo, 56, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
* Gérard Rasquin, 85, Luxembourgish Olympic sprinter.
* Ravi Shankar, 92, Indian musician, complications from heart surgery.
* Walter Francis Sullivan, 84, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Richmond (1974–2003), liver cancer.
* Galina Vishnevskaya, 86, Russian soprano opera singer and recitalist.
* Colleen Walker, 56, American golfer, won du Maurier Classic (1997), breast cancer.
* Mendel Weinbach, 79, Polish-born Israeli rabbi.

### 12

* Joe Allbritton, 87, American businessman, broadcaster and publisher.
* Fazlul Haque Amini, 67, Bangladeshi Muslim scholar.
* W. Rex Black, 92, American politician, member of the Utah Senate (1973–1997).
* Cynthia Bolbach, 64, American lawyer, cancer.
* Ray Briem, 82, American radio host (KABC), cancer.
* Eddie "Guitar" Burns, 84, American Detroit blues musician, heart failure.
* Manas Chakraborty, 70, Indian singer.
* Ron Cooper, 80, British bicycle frame maker.
* Alfred Delcourt, 83, Belgian football referee.
* Richard Eyre, 83, British Anglican priest, Dean of Exeter (1981–1996).
* Chris Fokma, 85, Dutch sculptor and ceramist.
* Laurie Gallagher, 88, Australian footballer.
* Else Marie Jakobsen, 85, Norwegian textile artist.
* Walt Kirk, 88, American basketball player (Fort Wayne Pistons, Milwaukee Hawks).
* Don Medford, 95, American television director (Baretta, Dynasty, The F.B.I., The Fugitive).
* N. M. Mohan, 63, Indian comic book writer and editor, heart attack.
* Thomas Naylor, 76, American economist.
* Uri Possen, 70, American economist.
* Manju Bharat Ram, 66, Indian educationalist, cancer.
* Augustin Sagna, 92, Senegalese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ziguinchor (1966–1995).
* Nityanand Swami, 85, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Uttarakhand (2000–2001).
* David Tait, 25, English rugby player, fall from building.

### 13

* Willie Ackerman, 73, American drummer (Willie Nelson, Loretta Lynn, Louis Armstrong).
* Andreu Alfaro, 83, Spanish sculptor.
* Donnie Andrews, 58, American criminal, inspiration for Omar Little on The Wire, complications of heart surgery.
* Jaco de Bakker, 73, Dutch theoretical computer scientist.
* Balthazar Bigirimana, 54-55, Burundian politician and diplomat.
* Ian Black, 88, Scottish footballer.
* Jan Blaha, 74, Czech Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop (1967–2012).
* John Bradley, 87, American racer.
* Alan Colquhoun, 91, English architect, historian, critic and teacher.
* Gil Friesen, 75, American music and film executive, President of A&M Records (1965–1990), leukemia.
* Jack Hanlon, 96, American child actor (Our Gang, The Shakedown, The General).
* Maurice Herzog, 93, French climber and politician, Minister of Youth and Sport (1958–1963).
* Natalya Kustinskaya, 74, Russian actress (Three Plus Two, Ivan Vasilievich Changes Profession), complications from pneumonia.
* Moshe Lazar, 84, American academic.
* Newton Edward Miller, 93, American politician, member of the New Jersey House of Representatives (1981–1989).
* Midori Miura, 64, Japanese translator of Russian, cancer.
* T. Shanmugham, 92, Indian footballer and coach, respiratory ailment.
* Rob Talbot, 89, New Zealand politician, MP for Ashburton (1966–1969, 1978–1987) and South Canterbury (1969–1978).
* Abdesslam Yassine, 84, Moroccan political figure, complications of influenza.

### 14

* Joseph Abiodun Adetiloye, 82, Nigerian Anglican prelate, Primate of the Church of Nigeria (1986–1999).
* Leon Abrams, 89, British surgeon.
* Claude Abravanel, 88, Swiss pianist and composer.
* Richard Baum, 72, American China watcher.
* Avrelija Cencič, 48, Slovenian university professor.
* Alida Chelli, 69, Italian actress, cancer.
* Ertuğ Ergin, 42, Turkish singer.
* John Graham, 89, British army major general.
* Edward Jones, 62, American politician, North Carolina State Senator (since 2007), pancreatic cancer.
* Kenneth Kendall, 88, British television broadcaster (BBC News, Treasure Hunt), complications of a stroke.
* Klaus Köste, 69, German Olympic champion (1972) gymnast, heart failure.
* Hazel McIsaac, 79, Canadian politician, Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly member for St. George's (1975–1982), Alzheimer's disease.
* Jitka Senecká, 72, Czech Olympic volleyball player.
* Marion Stokes, 83, American television producer and civil rights activist.
* Shōmei Tōmatsu, 82, Japanese photographer.
* Victoria Leigh Soto, 27, American elementary school teacher, shot.

### 15

* Mohammad Amin, 84, Indian historian.
* Yury Anisimov, 74, Soviet Olympic sailor.
* Owoye Andrew Azazi, 60, Nigerian general, National Security Adviser (2010–2012), helicopter crash.
* Jamala al-Baidhani, 35, Yemeni activist, respiratory disease.
* Dick Hafer, 85, American jazz saxophonist.
* Bob Johnston, 83, Australian rules footballer (Melbourne).
* C. Louis Kincannon, 72, American bureaucrat, Director of the U.S. Census Bureau (2002–2008), cancer.
* Vincent Lafko, 67, Slovak Olympic silver medallist handball player (1972).
* Bob Odell, 90, American football player, kidney disease.
* Páidí Ó Sé, 57, Irish Gaelic football player and manager, suspected heart attack.
* Bobby Jack Oliver, 76, American football player.
* Ralph Pampena, 78, American police officer, Pittsburgh Police Chief (1987–1990), cancer.
* Jeffrey Potter, 94, American author.
* John Anderson Strong, 97, Scottish physician and academic.
* Takeshi Urata, 65, Japanese astronomer.
* Patrick Yakowa, 64, Nigerian politician, Governor of Kaduna State (since 2010), helicopter crash.
* Olga Zubarry, 83, Argentine film actress.

### 16

* Charlesia Alexis, 78, Chagossian singer and activist.
* Axel Anderson, 83, German-born Puerto Rican actor.
* Robert W. Bazley, 87, American four-star general.
* James Walker Benét, 98, American journalist, veteran of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, son of William Rose Benét.
* Petar Bozhilov, 49, Bulgarian canoer.
* Sheila Casey (née McKinley), 71, Scottish singer, cancer.
* John Chen Shi-zhong, 94, Chinese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Suifu (since 1985).
* Peter Clarke, 77, British cartoonist.
* Doyle Conner, 83, American politician, member of Florida House (1950–1960), Speaker (1958–1960), Florida Commissioner of Agriculture (1961–1991).
* Febo Conti, 85, Italian television and radio presenter.
* Duaine Counsell, 92, American football and baseball coach.
* Robert Derleth, 90, American football player, complications of a stroke.
* Andrzej Dłużniewski, 73, Polish sculptor.
* George Duggan, 100, New Zealand Marist priest and writer.
* Elwood V. Jensen, 92, American medical researcher, pneumonia.
* Laurier LaPierre, 83, Canadian broadcaster and politician, Senator from Ontario (2001–2004).
* Iñaki Lejarreta, 29, Spanish Olympic (2008) mountain biker, traffic collision.
* Avraham Mor, 77, Israeli actor and voice actor, cancer.
* Adam Ndlovu, 42, Zimbabwean footballer, traffic collision.
* Enrique Oltuski, 82, Cuban politician and revolutionary, respiratory failure.
* Nikolai Parshin, 83, Russian football player and manager.
* Jim Patterson, 84, Scottish footballer.
* Brian Sampson, 71, Australian rules football player.
* Fan Vavřincová, 95, Czech author and screenwriter (Eva tropí hlouposti, Taková normální rodinka).
* Josh Weston, 39, American gay porn actor, AIDS-related causes.
* Jake Adam York, 40, American poet, stroke.

### 17

* Charlie Adam, 50, Scottish footballer, suicide.
* Richard Adams, 65, Filipino-born American gay rights activist, cancer.
* Tony Charlton, 83, Australian sports broadcaster, bowel cancer.
* Chinwe Chukwuogo-Roy, 60, Nigerian-born British artist, cancer.
* Wayne Ducheneaux, 76, American Native leader.
* Manfred Feist, 82, German politician and party functionary.
* Jack Frazer, 80, Canadian politician.
* James Gower, 90, American Catholic priest and peace activist, co-founder of the College of the Atlantic.
* Jesse Hill, 86, American civil rights leader and businessman.
* Daniel Inouye, 88, American politician, Senator from Hawaii (since 1963), President pro tempore (since 2010), Medal of Honor recipient, respiratory failure.
* Peter Kenen, 80, American academic, emphysema.
* Arnaldo Mesa, 45, Cuban Olympic silver medal-winning (1996) boxer, stroke.
* Frank Pastore, 55, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds), injuries from a traffic collision.
* Midge Richardson, 82, American magazine editor (Seventeen), natural causes.
* Sir Colin Spedding, 87, British biologist and agricultural scientist.
* Carroll S. Walsh Jr., 91, American judge, New York Supreme Court (1978–1990), heart failure.

### 18

* Skippy Baxter, 93, American figure skater.
* Leman Çıdamlı, 80, Turkish actress, lung cancer.
* Gabrielle Clerk, 89, Canadian psychologist.
* Spencer Cox, 44, American HIV/AIDS activist, AIDS-related causes.
* Joseph T. Doyle, 81, American judge and politician, cancer.
* Sigmund Eisner, 92, American academic.
* Albert Elias, 41, American sports agent.
* Georgi Kaloyanchev, 87, Bulgarian actor (The Tied Up Balloon, Where Are You Going?).
* Koko, 7, Australian canine actor (Red Dog), heart disease.
* Ben Luján, 77, American politician, member of the New Mexico House of Representatives (since 1975), Speaker (since 2001), lung cancer.
* Frank Macchiarola, 71, American educator, New York City Schools Chancellor (1978–1983), liver cancer.
* Bessie Moody-Lawrence, 71, American politician, member of the South Carolina House of Representatives (1993–2007), brain cancer.
* Mustafa Ould Salek, 76, Mauritanian army officer and politician, Chairman of the Military Committee for National Recovery (1978–1979).
* Keith Reilly, 77, Canadian curler.
* Camil Samson, 77, Canadian politician, MNA for Rouyn-Noranda (1970–1981).
* George Showell, 78, English footballer, ruptured stomach aortic artery.
* Danny Steinmann, 70, American film director (Friday the 13th: A New Beginning, Savage Streets, The Unseen).
* Jim Whalen, 69, American football player (New England Patriots).
* Kevin Williams, 42, American football player.
* Sir Marcus Worsley, 5th Baronet, 87, English politician, MP for Keighley (1959–1964) and Chelsea (1966–1974).
* Muriel T. Yacavone, 92, American politician, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives (1970–1982).

### 19

* Bud Alper, 82, American sound engineer (Blade Runner, Rocky, The Crow).
* Inez Andrews, 83, American gospel singer (The Caravans), cancer.
* Mauricio García Araujo, 81, Venezuelan economist.
* Bob Armstrong, 64, Australian policeman, cancer.
* Sir Lawrie Barratt, 85, English businessman (Barratt Developments).
* Robert Bork, 85, American legal scholar, jurist, and 1987 Supreme Court nominee, heart disease.
* Alan Cowey, 77, British biochemist.
* Paul Crauchet, 92, French actor.
* Ian Crewes, 74, Australian footballer.
* Garniss Curtis, 93, American geophysicist.
* Colin Davis, 79, British racing driver, winner of 1964 Targa Florio.
* Les Devonshire, 86, English footballer.
* Pecker Dunne, 79, Irish musician.
* Krzysztof Etmanowicz, 53, Polish football manager.
* Daniel Gasman, 79, American historian.
* Konrad Hischier, 77, Swiss Olympic skier.
* Georges Jobé, 51, Belgian motocross rider, five-time FIM World Motocross Champion, leukemia.
* Douglas Leiterman, 85, Canadian producer and journalist (This Hour Has Seven Days).
* Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, 68, Israeli lieutenant general, Chief of Staff (1995–1998) and politician, Minister of Transportation and Tourism, cancer.
* Larry Morris, 79, American football player (Chicago Bears, Los Angeles Rams), after long illness.
* Keiji Nakazawa, 73, Japanese manga artist and writer (Barefoot Gen), lung cancer.
* George O'Donnell, 83, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates).
* Virginia Starcher, 82, American politician, member of the West Virginia House of Delegates (1986–1990).
* Peter Struck, 69, German politician, member of the Bundestag (1980–2009), Minister of Defence (2002–2005), heart attack.
* Piet de Visser, 81, Dutch politician.

### 20

* George Almones, 50, American basketball player, heart failure.
* Mohammad Awad, 73, Jordanian footballer.
* Bill Bell, 100, British army officer and lawyer.
* Don Campbell, 87, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Daniel Cazés, 73, Mexican anthropologist.
* Stan Charlton, 83, English footballer (Leyton Orient, Arsenal).
* Leslie Claudius, 85, Indian Olympic champion (1948, 1952, 1956, 1960) field hockey player, cirrhosis of the liver.
* Richard Crandall, 64, American scientist, leukemia.
* Niall FitzGerald, 81, Irish football player.
* Robert Juniper, 83, Australian artist.
* Eagle Keys, 89, American-born Canadian CFL football player (Montreal Alouettes, Edmonton Eskimos) and coach (Saskatchewan Roughriders).
* Larry L. King, 83, American writer and playwright (Best Little Whorehouse in Texas), emphysema.
* Chick Maggioli, 90, American football player.
* Jimmy McCracklin, 91, American blues musician, diabetes and hypertension.
* Victor Merzhanov, 93, Russian classical pianist.
* Erich Peters, 92, Swedish Olympic gymnast.
* Albert Renaud, 92, Canadian ice hockey player.
* Thelma Reston, 75, Brazilian actress (Entranced Earth), breast cancer.
* Kamil Sönmez, 65, Turkish singer and actor, State Artist, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Dennis Stevens, 79, English footballer (Bolton Wanderers, Everton).
* Jerome Whitehead, 56, American basketball player, gastrointestinal hemorrhage.

### 21

* Sultan Ahmed, 74, Bangladeshi Navy admiral.
* Vivian Anderson, 91, American baseball player (Milwaukee Chicks).
* Boyd Bartley, 92, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).
* Jarl Borssén, 75, Swedish actor and comedian.
* Thomas Bryant, 79, South African cricketer.
* Margarita Costa Tenorio, 61, Spanish biologist.
* Curtis Crider, 82, American racing driver.
* Jishu Dasgupta, 53, Indian film and television producer, cardiac arrest.
* Lee Dorman, 70, American bass guitarist (Iron Butterfly, Captain Beyond), natural causes.
* David Lomon, 94, British military veteran, member of the International Brigade.
* Shane McEntee, 56, Irish politician, TD for Meath (2005–2007) & Meath East (since 2007); Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (since 2011), suicide.
* Thomas W. McGee, 88, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1963–1991) and Speaker (1975–1984).
* Lotoala Metia, Tuvaluan politician, Minister for Finance, after long illness.
* Seiso Moyo, 56, Zimbabwean politician, MP for Nketa, heart attack.
* Daphne Oxenford, 93, English television and radio actress (Listen with Mother, Coronation Street).
* Basil Robinson, 93, English-born Canadian cricketer.

### 22

* Peter Anker, 85, Norwegian art historian and critic.
* Bashir Ahmad Bilour, 69, Pakistani politician, bombing.
* Paul Borowski, 75, German Olympic silver medallist sailor (1972).
* Chuck Cherundolo, 96, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Steelers), heart failure.
* Charles Cleveland, 61, American basketball player.
* Wattie Dick, 85, Scottish footballer (Accrington Stanley).
* Neil Doolan, 79, Australian football player.
* Ryan Freel, 36, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds), suicide by gunshot.
* Emidio Greco, 74, Italian film director and screenwriter.
* Willy Blok Hanson, 98, Javanese-born Canadian dancer.
* Rip Hawk, 82, American professional wrestler.
* George Hazlett, 89, Scottish footballer.
* Gary Johnson, 74, American baseball player and manager.
* Květa Legátová, 93, Czech writer, novel filmed as Želary.
* Barbara Lett-Simmons, 85, American politician.
* Lim Keng Yaik, 73, Malaysian politician.
* Bill McBride, 67, American politician, Democratic Party nominee for Governor of Florida (2002), heart attack.
* Gerald Melling, 69, British-born New Zealand architect and writer.
* Cliff Osmond, 75, American actor (Irma la Douce, The Fortune Cookie, Kiss Me, Stupid), pancreatic cancer.
* Robert Pew, 89, American businessman and philanthropist, CEO and Chairman of Steelcase.
* Bolesław Proch, 60, Polish speedway rider, heart attack.
* Arthur Quinlan, 92, Irish journalist (The Irish Times).
* Robert Stevenson, 96, American musicologist.
* Arkady Vorobyov, 88, Soviet weightlifter, Olympic champion under-90 kg (1956, 1960).
* Marva Whitney, 68, American singer, complications of pneumonia.

### 23

* Jerry Araos, 68, Filipino sculptor, landscape artist, and activist.
* Eduardo Arnosi, 88, Argentine music critic and writer.
* Emilio Ciolli, 79, Italian cyclist.
* Abe Deutschendorf, 77, American politician, member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives (1994–2006).
* Dennis Greenland, 75, British soil scientist.
* Jean Harris, 89, American convicted murderer, killer of Scarsdale Diet doctor Herman Tarnower.
* Sylvia Hyman, 95, American ceramic artist.
* Eduardo Maiorino, 33, Brazilian MMA fighter, heart attack.
* Judy Nerat, 64, American politician, member of the Michigan House of Representatives (2009–2011), cancer.
* John Quimby, 77, American politician, member of the California State Assembly (1962–1974), complications of pneumonia.
* Mike Scaccia, 47, American heavy metal guitarist (Ministry, Rigor Mortis, Revolting Cocks), heart attack.
* Pedro Toledo, 69, Puerto Rican public official, Superintendent of the Puerto Rico Police Department (1993–2001, 2005–2009), cardiac arrest.
* Cristian Tudor, 30, Romanian footballer, cirrhosis.
* Klemens von Klemperer, 96, German-born American historian.
* Evelyn Ward, 89, American television actress, mother of David Cassidy, Alzheimer's disease.

### 24

* Anand Abhyankar, 48, Indian actor, traffic collision.
* Hugh Aitken, 88, American composer.
* Vilen Barskyi, 92, Ukrainian Soviet and German artist.
* Richard Rodney Bennett, 76, English film composer (Nicholas and Alexandra, Murder on the Orient Express, Four Weddings and a Funeral), BAFTA winner (1975).
* Capital Steez, 19, American rapper, suicide by jumping.
* Frank Christian, 60, American singer-songwriter.
* Ray Collins, 76, American singer (The Mothers of Invention), cardiac arrest.
* Brad Corbett, 75, American baseball owner (Texas Rangers, 1974–1980).
* Guy Dodson, 75, New Zealand biochemist.
* Charles Durning, 89, American actor (Evening Shade, Rescue Me, Dog Day Afternoon).
* Kimio Eto, 88, Japanese musician.
* Earl Evans, 57, American basketball player.
* Carolina Griño-Aquino, 89, Filipino judge, Supreme Court (1988–1993) and Court of Appeals.
* Douglas Hamilton, 65, British journalist, drowned.
* Lee Hartman, 82, American animator (The Mickey Mouse Club, Sleeping Beauty) and actor (Night of the Living Dead), complications from dementia.
* Jack Klugman, 90, American actor (Quincy, M.E., The Odd Couple, 12 Angry Men), Emmy winner (1964, 1971, 1973), prostate cancer.
* Alexander Leaf, 92, American physician and research scientist.
* Xavier Mabille, 79, Belgian historian and political scientist.
* Dennis O'Driscoll, 58, Irish poet.
* Elwyn Richardson, 87, New Zealand educator.

### 25

* Seeta bint Fahd Al Damir, 90, Saudi royal.
* Erico Aumentado, 72, Filipino politician, member of the House of Representatives for Bohol (since 2010), pneumonia.
* Jerzy Bereś, 82, Polish artist.
* Sir Neville Bosworth, 94, British politician, Lord Mayor of Birmingham (1969–1970).
* Augusto Bracca, 94, Venezuelan songwriter, respiratory arrest.
* Frank Calabrese Sr., 75, American mafia hitman (Family Secrets), suspected heart disease.
* Rachel Douglas-Home, 27th Baroness Dacre, 83, British aristocrat.
* Jane Dixon, 75, American Episcopal prelate, Suffragan Bishop of Washington (1992–2002).
* Peter Ebert, 94, German opera director.
* Şerafettin Elçi, 74, Kurdish lawyer, politician, government minister and statesman, cancer.
* Halfdan Hegtun, 94, Norwegian radio personality and politician.
* Edward Hughes, 92, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Metuchen (1987–1997), cancer.
* John Josephs, 88, English cricketer (Leicestershire).
* Henry Ford Kamel, 51, Ghanaian politician, MP for Buem (since 2004).
* Joe Krivak, 77, American football coach (University of Maryland), leukemia.
* Mahmoud Larnaout, 67, Tunisian actor.
* Rudolf Müller, 81, German Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Görlitz (1994–2006).
* Othmar Schneider, 84, Austrian Olympic champion (1952) Alpine skier and marksman.
* Turki bin Sultan Al Saud, 53, Saudi royal, Deputy Minister of Culture and Information (since 2011), heart attack.
* Lynn Watters, 96, Canadian Olympic sailor.
* Jože Zidar, 85, Slovenian Olympic ski jumper.

### 26

* Abdul Ghafoor Ahmed, 85, Pakistani politician and educator.
* Gerry Anderson, 83, British producer, writer and director (Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons), Alzheimer's disease.
* Fontella Bass, 72, American singer ("Rescue Me"), complications from a heart attack.
* Paul T. Bateman, 93, American number theorist.
* Elizabeth Brewster, 90, Canadian poet and academic.
* Chu Ting-shun, 84, Taiwanese folk musician and yueqin player.
* Les Garnider, 89, Australian footballer.
* Anton Geiser, 88, Yugoslav-born Nazi concentration camp guard.
* Fred Gerard, 88, French jazz trumpeter and composer
* E. Porter Hatcher Jr., 76, American politician, member of the Kentucky House of Representatives (1987–1999).
* Hugh Lambie, 95, Australian Olympic rower.
* Gerald McDermott, 71, American filmmaker and author.
* Jean Perrot, 92, French archaeologist.
* Irving Saraf, 80, Polish producer, editor and director (In the Shadow of the Stars, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
* Henri Strzelecki, 87, Polish-born British fashion designer, co-founder of Henri Lloyd.
* Ibrahim Tannous, 83, Lebanese military commander.
* Rebecca Tarbotton, 39, Canadian-born American environmental activist, director of Rainforest Action Network, drowning.

### 27

* Zuleika Alambert, 90, Brazilian writer, feminist, and politician.
* Peter Anderson, 62, New Zealand cricketer.
* Bernie Baxter, 83, Australian rules football player.
* Valentin Boreyko, 79, Russian Olympic champion (1960) rower.
* Harry Carey Jr., 91, American actor (Gremlins, Tombstone, The Searchers), natural causes.
* Lloyd Charmers, 74, Jamaican singer and record producer, heart attack.
* Mahmudul Karim Chowdhury, Bangladeshi politician.
* Beatriz da Costa, 38, German artist, cancer.
* Maurice Paul Delorme, 93, French Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Lyon (1975–1994).
* Beth Finch, 91, American politician, first female Mayor of Fayetteville, North Carolina (1975–1981).
* Hamid Ghodse, 74, Iranian-born British academic, expert in substance abuse and dependence, lung cancer.
* Sohrab Hossain, 90, Bangladeshi singer, exponent of Nazrul Sangeet.
* Ken Jones, 68, English footballer (Bradford Park Avenue, Southampton).
* Paul Khoarai, 79, Mosotho Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Leribe (1970–2009).
* Jorma Kortelainen, 80, Finnish Olympic silver medalist (1956) cross-country skier and rower, sepsis.
* Tingye Li, 81, Chinese-born American physicist.
* Edgar May, 83, Swiss-born American politician and Pulitzer prize-winning (1961) journalist, member of Vermont House of Representatives (1973–1983) and Senate (1983–1991), stroke.
* Benny McLaughlin, 84, American footballer.
* Jesco von Puttkamer, 79, German-born American aerospace engineer and NASA manager.
* Albert Riederer, 67, American judge and civic leader, Missouri Court of Appeals (1997–1999), cancer.
* Archie Roy, 88, Scottish astronomer and paranormal expert, pneumonia.
* Jim Sandoval, 54, American baseball historian.
* Norman Schwarzkopf Jr., 78, American general, Commander-in-Chief of United States Central Command (1988–1991), complications from pneumonia.
* Noriko Sengoku, 90, Japanese actress (Seven Samurai).
* Takashi Taniguchi, 65, Japanese voice actor (Bokurano, One Piece, Xenoblade Chronicles).
* Mlađa Veselinović, 97, Serbian actor.
* Salt Walther, 65, American racecar driver.
* Ivar Ytreland, 86, Norwegian politician.

### 28

* Nicholas Ambraseys, 83, Greek engineering seismologist.
* Fyodor Arkhipenko, 91, Soviet-Belarusian pilot.
* Bogdan Baltazar, 73, Romanian banker, press secretary for Prime Minister Petre Roman, cancer.
* Martin G. Barnes, 64, American politician, first African American mayor of Paterson, New Jersey (1997–2002).
* Richard Lee Beasley, 82, American politician, member of the South Carolina House of Representatives (1960–1966), father of David M. Beasley.
* Steve Bryles, 55, American politician, member of the Arkansas Senate (2001–2011), cancer.
* John Carol Case, 89, British baritone.
* Emilio Charles Jr., 56, Mexican professional wrestler, kidney failure.
* Jayne Cortez, 76, American poet and performance artist.
* Mark Crispin, 56, American computer programmer.
* John Diehl, 76, American football player.
* Václav Drobný, 32, Czech footballer (Aston Villa, national team), bobsleigh collision.
* Barrie Edgar, 93, English producer (Come Dancing, Gardeners' World), pneumonia.
* Jon Finch, 70, English actor (Frenzy, Kingdom of Heaven, Death on the Nile).
* Arnór Hannibalsson, 78, Icelandic philosopher and professor.
* Frank Henderson, 84, American politician and judge, member of the South Dakota Senate (1965–1966, 1969–1970) and Supreme Court of South Dakota (1979–1994).
* Tommy Keane, 44, Irish association football player.
* Leif Krantz, 80, Swedish television producer and film director.
* Dan Kraus, 89, American basketball player and FBI special agent, cancer.
* Claude-Anne Lopez, 92, American author and scholar, Alzheimer's disease.
* Lord Avie, 34, American thoroughbred racehorse, oldest living Eclipse Award winner (1980).
* Arman Manukyan, 81, Turkish economist and writer, heart disease.
* George Patterson, 92, Scottish missionary.
* Fred Rehm, 91, American basketball player.
* Emmanuel Scheffer, 88, German-born Israeli football coach, coached national team to only World Cup (1970).
* Burdette Solum, 85, American politician, member of the South Dakota House of Representatives (1991–1992, 1998–2004).
* Frankie Walsh, 76, Irish hurler (Waterford GAA).

### 29

* Hugh Adam, 87, Scottish businessperson.
* Aleksandra Akimova, 90, Russian pilot.
* Bob Astles, 88, British-born Ugandan government adviser of Milton Obote and Idi Amin.
* Mike Auldridge, 73, American bluegrass musician (The Seldom Scene), cancer.
* Kevin Betson, 83, Australian footballer.
* Henri Bortoft, 74, British philosopher.
* Chu Chang-kyun, 91, South Korean businessperson.
* Keith Crombie, 73, British music venue owner and promoter.
* Tony Greig, 66, South African cricketer, England captain (1975–1977) and Australian Nine Network television commentator, heart attack.
* Roland Griffiths-Marsh, 89, Australian soldier.
* Patience Latting, 94, American politician, first female Mayor of Oklahoma City (1971–1983).
* Edward Meneeley, 85, American artist.
* Ian Norton, 75, English cricketer.
* Ben Overton, 86, American judge, Supreme Court of Florida (1974–1999), complications following heart surgery.
* William Rees-Mogg, Baron Rees-Mogg, 84, British journalist and life peer, Editor of The Times (1967–1981), oesophageal cancer.
* Salvador Reyes Monteón, 76, Mexican footballer (C.D. Guadalajara, national team).
* Paulo Rocha, 77, Portuguese film director.
* Bruce Stark, 79, American cartoonist (New York Daily News), emphysema.
* Ruth Ann Steinhagen, 83, American stalker, shot Eddie Waitkus, inspiration for The Natural, fall.
* Ignacy Tokarczuk, 94, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Przemyśl (1965–1993).
* Jean Topart, 90, French actor (Fantastic Planet).
* Jeanne Vertefeuille, 80, American CIA official.

### 30

* Muhammad Amir Bijligar, 85, Pakistani religious leader.
* Gerry Brady, 87, Irish sports shooter.
* Catarina Castor, 32, Guatemalan politician, first Ixil woman elected to Congress, plane crash.
* Philip Coppens, 41, American author, cancer.
* Dennis Ferguson, 64, Australian convicted child sex offender.
* Beate Sirota Gordon, 89, Austrian-born American performing arts producer and women's rights advocate, drafted the Constitution of Japan.
* Mike Hopkins, 53, New Zealand sound editor (The Lord of the Rings, Transformers, King Kong), drowned.
* Arend Langenberg, 63, Dutch voice-over and radio presenter, rectal cancer.
* Rita Levi-Montalcini, 103, Italian neurologist and senator for life, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1986), natural causes.
* Göran Nilsson, 66, Swedish cinematographer.
* Gloria Pall, 85, American actress, heart failure.
* Sir Irvine Patnick, 83, British politician, MP for Sheffield Hallam (1987–1997), heart disease.
* Sonam Topgyal, 71, Tibetan politician, Kalön Tripa (Prime Minister) of the Central Tibetan Administration (1997–2001), stomach cancer.
* Andreu Vivó, 34, Spanish artistic gymnast, competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics, heart attack while mountain climbing.
* Carl Woese, 84, American biologist, winner of Leeuwenhoek Medal (1992), National Medal of Science (2000), complications from pancreatic cancer.

### 31

* Elfriede Abbe, 93, American sculptor, wood engraver and botanical illustrator.
* Larry Bowie, 73, American football player (Minnesota Vikings).
* Moisès Broggi, 104, Spanish physician and pacifist.
* Carmen Calleja, 63, Spanish politician.
* Sergio de Castro, 90, French-Argentinian artist.
* Béla Csécsei, 60, Hungarian politician, Mayor of Józsefváros (1993–2009).
* Susana Dalmás, 64, Uruguayan politician, Senator (2010–2012), heart attack.
* Jim Davenport, 54, American journalist (Associated Press), cancer.
* Walter Hekster, 75, Dutch composer, clarinetist and conductor.
* Konstantin Kobets, 73, Russian Soviet-era military commander.
* Alasdair Liddell, 63, British health executive.
* Velta Līne, 89, Latvian actress, Stalin Prize (1948, 1951), People's Artist (1973).
* Annapurna Maharana, 95, Indian revolutionary figure and women's rights activist.
* Jovette Marchessault, 74, Canadian writer and artist.
* Tarak Mekki, 54, Tunisian politician, heart attack.
* Alan Reece, 85, British engineer and businessman.
* James B. Reuter, 96, American-born Filipino Roman Catholic priest and mass media advocate, complications from a stroke.
* Jean-Henri Roger, 63, French film director.
* Günter Rössler, 86, German photographer.
* Yang Teng-kuei, 74, Taiwanese film producer (Fong Sai-yuk, A City of Sadness), stroke.