Deaths in 2013

The following is a list of notable deaths in 2013.
January
January 1 - Christopher Martin-Jenkins, 67, English sportscaster and cricket journalist, lymphoma.
January 1 - Lloyd Hartman Elliott, 94, American educator, natural causes.
January 1 - Slobodan Rakitic, 72, Serbian writer and politician, illness.
January 1 - Louis J. Nigro, Jr., 65, American diplomat, cancer.
January 1 - Roz Howard, 91, American racing driver, natural causes.
January 1 - Patsy May, 78, American actress, natural causes.
January 1 - Phyllis Wiener, 91, American artist, natural causes.
January 1 - Patti Page, 85, American singer, natural causes.
January 1 - Barbara Werle, 84, American actress, natural causes.
January 2 - Teresa Toranska, 69, Polish journalist and writer, illness.
January 2 - Ladislao Mazurkiewicz, 67, Uruguayan footballer, after short illness.
January 2 - Ned Wertimer, 89, American actor, fall.
January 3 - Sergiu Nicolaescu, 82, Romanian movie director, actor and politician, cardiac arrest.
January 3 - Burry Stander, 25, South African mountain biker, training accident.
January 4 - Tony Lip, 82, American movie and television actor.
January 5 - Reg Dean, 110, British supercentenarian, natural causes.
January 5 - Martha Greenhouse, 91, American actress, natural causes.
January 6 - Neil Adcock, 81, South African cricketer, bowel cancer.
January 7 - Huell Howser, 67, American television personality, actor and comedian, prostate cancer.
January 7 - David R. Ellis, 60, American stuntman and director.
January 7 - Jirina Jiraskova, 81, Czech actress, natural causes.
January 7 - Carl Berner, 110, German-American supercentenarian, natural causes.
January 9 - James M. Buchanan, 93, American economist, winner 1986 Nobel Prize in Economics, natural causes.
January 9 - Vivian Brown, 85, American media personality, Alzheimer's disease.
January 9 - Rex Trailer, 84, American actor, singer, producer and television personality, pneumonia.
January 11 - Nguyen Khanh, 85, Vietnamese general and military leader, illnesses related to renal failure.
January 11 - Aaron Swartz, 26, American computer programmer, author and internet activist, suicide.
January 11 - Mariangela Melato, 71, Italian actress, pancreatic cancer.
January 12 - Koto Okubo, 115, Japanese supercentenarian, natural causes.
January 13 - Bille Brown, 61, Australian actor and playwright, bowel cancer.
January 14 - Conrad Bain, 89, Canadian-born American actor (Diff'rent Strokes), complications from a stroke.
January 15 - Nagisa Oshima, 80, Japanese director and screenwriter, pneumonia.
January 16 - Yevdokiya Mekshilo, 81, Russian cross-country skier.
January 16 - Pauline Phillips, 94, American advice columnist, natural causes.
January 17 - Jakob Arjouni, 48, German writer, pancreatic cancer.
January 17 - Sophiya Haque, 41, British actress, pneumonia.
January 18 - Walmor Chagas, 81, Brazilian actor, suicide by firearm.
January 19 - Taiho Koki, 72, Japanese sumo wrestler.
January 19 - Earl Weaver, 82, American baseball player, heart attack.
January 19 - Stan Musial, 92, American baseball player, natural causes.
January 21 - Michael Winner, 77, British movie director, producer and food critic, liver cancer.
January 21 - Alden W. Clausen, 89, American banking executive and former World Bank President, complications from pneumonia.
January 23 - Jozef Glemp, 83, Polish cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
January 23 - Janice Knickrehm, 87, American actress, natural causes.
January 24 - Patricia Lovell, 83, Australian television host and movie producer, liver cancer.
January 27 - Pham Duy, 91, Vietnamese composer, liver and heart disease.
January 27 - Sally Starr, 90, American television personality, natural causes.
January 28 - Lloyd Phillips, 63, American movie producer, heart attack.
January 29 - Bernard Horsfall, 82, British actor, fall.
January 30 - Patty Andrews, 94, American singer, natural causes.
January 31 - Hassan Habibi, 76, Iranian politician, 1st Vice president of Iran.
January 31 - Caleb Moore, 25, American snowmobile competitor, injuries from fall.
January 31 - Ruben Bonifaz Nuno, 89, Mexican poet and scholar, natural causes.
February
February 1 - Ed Koch, 88, American politician and 105th Mayor of New York City, heart failure.
February 1 - Barney, 12, American presidential pet dog of George W. Bush, lymphoma.
February 1 - Robin Sachs, 61, British actor, heart attack.
February 2 - John Kerr, 81, American actor, short illness.
February 3 - David Oates, 50, English sports commentator, short-illness.
February 3 - Peter Gilmore, 81, British actor.
February 4 - Essie Mae Washington-Williams, 87, American schoolteacher and daughter of Strom Thurmond, natural causes.
February 4 - Reg Presley, 71, British rock musician, lung cancer and stroke.
February 5 - Egil Hovland, 88, Norwegian composer.
February 5 - Stuart Freeborn, 98, British make-up artist, natural causes.
February 6 - Chokri Belaid, 48, Tunisian lawyer and politician, shot.
February 7 - Krsto Papic, 79, Croatian screenwriter and movie director, stomach cancer.
February 8 - Giovanni Cheli, 94, Italian cardinal, natural causes.
February 8 - Chris Brinker, 42, American movie producer, aortic aneurysm.
February 9 - Keiki Fukuda, 99, American martial artist, natural causes.
February 9 - Kare Valebrokk, 72, Norwegian journalist, editor and television executive, natural causes.
February 9 - Afzal Guru, 43, Indian Islamist terrorist, hanged.
February 11 - D. Vinayachandran, 66, Indian Malayalam poet.
February 12 - Christopher Dorner, 33, American former police officer and spree killer, apparent gunshot suicide.
February 13 - Gerry Day, 91, American movie and television writer, natural causes.
February 14 - Reeva Steenkamp, 29, South African model, shot.
February 14 - Ronald Dworkin, 81, American philosopher, leukemia.
February 15 - Todor Kolev, 73, Bulgarian actor, comedian, singer, presenter, lung cancer.
February 16 - Tony Sheridan, 72, British musician and singer-songwriter, complications after heart failure.
February 17 - Richard Briers, 79, British actor, emphysema.
February 17 - Mindy McCready, 37, American country music singer, suicide by gunshot.
February 18 - Jerry Buss, 80, American businessman and owner of the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team, cancer and renal failure.
February 18 - Elspet Gray, 83, Scottish actress.
February 18 - Kevin Ayers, 68, English singer-songwriter.
February 18 - Otfried Preussler, 89, German children's author.
February 19 - Joaquin Cordero, 90, Mexican actor, pneumonia.
February 19 - John Brascia, 80, American dancer, Parkinson's disease.
February 19 - Armen Alchian, 98, American economist, natural causes.
February 19 - Donald Richie, 88, American writer, critic, journalist, and historian on Japanese history, natural causes.
February 19 - Robert Coleman Richardson, 75, American Nobel Prize-winning physicist, heart attack.
February 19 - Lou Myers, 77, American actor, pneumonia and heart failure.
February 20 - Antonio Roma, 80, Argentine footballer.
February 21 - Magic Slim, 75, American blues singer and guitarist, heart failure.
February 21 - Bob Godfrey, 91, British Academy Award-winning animator, natural causes.
February 21 - Raymond Cusick, 84, British TV designer, heart failure.
February 22 - Hasse Jeppson, 87, Swedish footballer, natural causes.
February 22 - Atje Keulen-Deelstra, 74, Dutch speed skater, pneumonia.
February 22 - George Ives, 87, American actor, natural causes.
February 22 - Wolfgang Sawallisch, 89, German conductor and pianist.
February 23 - Julien Ries, 92, Belgian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
February 24 - Dave Charlton, 76, South African racing driver.
February 25 - Ray O'Connor, 86, 22nd Premier of Western Australia, natural causes.
February 25 - Carmen Montejo, 87, Mexican actress, illness.
February 25 - C. Everett Koop, 96, American politician, Surgeon General of the United States and spokesperson, renal failure.
February 26 - Marie-Claire Alain, 86, French organist and teacher, natural causes.
February 26 - Stephane Hessel, 95, German-born French diplomat, writer and Resistance activist, natural causes.
February 27 - Van Cliburn, 78, American pianist, bone cancer.
February 27 - Ramon Dekkers, 43, Dutch kickboxer.
February 27 - Dale Robertson, 89, American actor, pneumonia and lung cancer.
February 28 - Bruce Reynolds, 81, British criminal, heart attack.
February 28 - Donald A. Glaser, 86, American Nobel Prize-winning physicist and neurobiologist, natural causes.
March
March 1 - Bonnie Franklin, 69, American actress, pancreatic cancer.
March 1 - Chris Canavan, 84, British actor, heart attack.
March 1 - Jewel Akens, 79, American R&B singer, complications from back surgery.
March 1 - Janez Albreht, 87, Slovenian actor, natural causes.
March 1 - Campbell Armstrong, 69, Scottish author, heart attack.
March 2 - Hans Schnitger, 97, Dutch field hockey player, natural causes.
March 2 - Peter Harvey, 68, Australian television journalist (Nine Network), pancreatic cancer.
March 3 - Luis Cubilla, 72, Uruguayan footballer, stomach cancer.
March 3 - Bobby Rogers, 73, American soul singer and songwriter, long-illness.
March 4 - Seki Matsunaga, 84, Japanese footballer, natural causes.
March 4 - Fran Warren, 87, American actress and singer, natural causes.
March 4 - Harry Greene, 89, Welsh actor and television personality, natural causes.
March 5 - Hugo Chavez, 58, President of Venezuela, respiratory failure caused by cancer.
March 5 - Paul Bearer, 58, American professional wrestling manager, heart attack.
March 6 - Alvin Lee, 68, British guitarst, complications from surgery.
March 6 - Stompin' Tom Connors, 77, Canadian country-folk singer, kidney failure.
March 6 - Aydin Aybay, 83/84, Turkish professor, writer, and lawyer, respiratory failure.
March 7 - Peter Banks, 65, English guitarist, heart failure.
March 7 - Damiano Damiani, 90, Italian screenwriter, movie director and actor, respiratory failure.
March 7 - Frederick B. Karl, 88, American politician, heart disease.
March 7 - Sybil Christopher, 83, Welsh actress, heart failure.
March 8 - Ewald Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin, 90, German army officer and Resistance activist, natural causes.
March 9 - Merton Simpson, 84, American artist, complications from stroke, diabetes and dementia.
March 9 - Angelo J. Arculeo, 89, American politician, natural causes.
March 9 - Geoff Braybrooke, 77, British-born New Zealand politician, MP for Napier (19812002), heart attack.
March 9 - David Farmbrough, 83, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Bedford (1981-1993), illness.
March 9 - Max Jakobson, 89, Finnish diplomat and journalist, natural causes.
March 9 - Larry Martin, 69, American paleontologist, heart attack.
March 10 - Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland, 97, Welsh-born member of the Swedish royal family, stroke.
March 11 - Mitchell Melton, 69, American politician, prostate cancer.
March 12 - Clive Burr, 56, British drummer, multiple sclerosis.
March 13 - Malachi Throne, 84, American actor, lung cancer.
March 13 - Ducky Detweiler, 94, American baseball player, natural causes.
March 14 - Mirja Hietamies, 82, Finnish cross-country skier, natural causes.
March 14 - Ieng Sary, 87, Vietnamese-born Cambodian politician and co-founder of the Khmer Rouge, heart failure.
March 14 - Jack Greene, 83, American country music singer, Alzheimer's disease.
March 15 - Booth Gardner, 76, American politician and 19th Governor of Washington, Parkinson's disease.
March 16 - Jose Alfredo Martinez de Hoz, 87, Argentine economist, natural causes.
March 16 - Marina Solodkin, 60, Russian-born Israeli politician, stroke.
March 16 - Frank Thornton, 92, British actor, natural causes.
March 17 - Mitchell Hooks, 89, American artist and illustrator, natural causes.
March 18 - Muhammad Mahmood Alam, 77, Pakistani general and flying ace, illness.
March 19 - Holger Juul Hansen, 88, Danish actor, natural causes.
March 19 - Irina Petrescu, 71, Romanian actress, cancer.
March 20 - Zillur Rahman, 84, President of Bangladesh since 2009, lung infection.
March 20 - James Herbert, 69, English writer of horror fiction, heart attack.
March 20 - George Lowe, 89, New Zealand mountaineer and last-surviving member of the 1953 Mount Everest expedition.
March 21 - Robert Nichols, 88, American character actor, heart failure.
March 21 - Elsie Thompson, 113, American supercentenarian, heart failure.
March 21 - Pietro Mennea, 60, Italian sprinter and politician, after long illness.
March 21 - Chinua Achebe, 82, Nigerian novelist, poet and academic, after short-illness.
March 22 - Bebo Valdes, 94, Cuban pianist, composer and bandleader, Alzheimer's disease.
March 22 - Vladimir Cech, 61, Czech actor, television presenter and politician, colon cancer and pneumonia.
March 22 - Derek Watkins, 68, British trumpeter, cancer.
March 23 - Boris Berezovsky, 67, Russian businessman and mathematician, suicide by hanging.
March 23 - Joe Weider, 93, American trainer, bodybuilder, and personality, heart failure.
March 23 - Virgil Trucks, 95, American baseball player, natural causes.
March 24 - Inge Lonning, 75, Norwegian theologian, educator, and politician, illness.
March 24 - Gury Marchuk, 87, Russian scientist, natural causes.
March 25 - Anthony Lewis, 85, American journalist, kidney and heart failure.
March 25 - Lou Sleater, 86, American baseball player, lung disease.
March 26 - Jerzy Nowak, 89, Polish actor, natural causes.
March 26 - Don Payne, 48, American television writer and screenwriter, bone cancer.
March 26 - Sukumari, 74, Indian actress, heart attack caused by burn injuries.
March 27 - Hjalmar Andersen, 90, Norwegian speed skater, complications from a fall.
March 28 - Manuel Garcia Ferre, 83, Spanish-Argentine cartoonist, complications of heart surgery.
March 28 - Boris Strel, 53, Slovenian skier, suicide.
March 28 - Richard Griffiths, 65, British actor, complications from heart surgery.
March 29 - Ralph Klein, 70, Canadian politician, COPD and dementia.
March 29 - Brian Huggins, 81, British-Canadian journalist and actor, heart attack.
March 30 - Valeri Zolotukhin, 71, Russian actor, brain tumor.
March 30 - Phil Ramone, 79, South African-born American record producer, brain aneurism.
March 30 - Bob Turley, 82, American baseball player, liver cancer.
March 31 - Ahmad Sayyed Javadi, 95, Iranian political activist and politician, natural causes.
April
April 1 - Nicolae Martinescu, 73, Romanian wrestler, heart failure.
April 1 - William H. Ginsburg, 70, American lawyer, Monica Lewinsky's lawyer during Bill Clinton's lawsuit, cancer.
April 1 - Moses Blah, 65, Liberian politician and President of Liberia (2003), heart failure.
April 1 - Bob Smith, 82, American baseball player, heart attack.
April 2 - Jesus Franco, 82, Spanish movie maker, director, writer, cinematographer and actor, complications from a stroke.
April 2 - Milo O'Shea, 86, Irish actor, short-illness.
April 2 - Jane Henson, 78, American puppeteer and co-founder of The Muppets, cancer.
April 2 - Maria Redaelli, 113, Italian supercentenarian, natural causes.
April 3 - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, 85, German-born novelist, short story writer and screenwriter, pulmonary failure.
April 3 - Marivi Bilbao, 83, Spanish actress, natural causes.
April 3 - Jean Sincere, 93, American actress, natural causes.
April 4 - Roger Ebert, 70, American movie critic and television host for At the Movies, thyroid cancer.
April 4 - Carmine Infantino, 87, American comic book artist and editor, natural causes.
April 4 - Basil Copper, 89, British writer, Alzheimer's disease.
April 5 - Regina Bianchi, 92, Italian stage actress, natural causes.
April 6 - Bigas Luna, 67, Spanish movie maker, cancer.
April 6 - Miguel Poblet, 85, Spanish racing cyclist, renal failure.
April 7 - Neil Smith, 59, Australian rock and roll musician, cancer.
April 7 - Lilly Pulitzer, 81, American fashion designer, natural causes.
April 7 - Les Blank, 77, American documentary movie maker, bladder cancer.
April 8 - Sara Montiel, 85, Spanish actress and singer.
April 8 - Richard Brooker, 58, British actor and stuntman.
April 8 - Annette Funicello, 70, American actress and singer, multiple sclerosis.
April 8 - Margaret Thatcher, 87, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1979-1990), stroke.
April 8 - Yasuhiro Yamada, 45, Japanese footballer.
April 8 - Jose Luis Sampedro, 96, Spanish writer, humorist, and economist, natural causes.
April 8 - William Royer, 92, American politician, natural causes.
April 9 - Zao Wou Ki, 93, Chinese-born French artist, natural causes.
April 9 - Paolo Soleri, 93, Italian architect, natural causes.
April 9 - David Hayes, 82, American sculptor, leukemia.
April 10 - Robert Edwards, 87, British Nobel Prize-winning physiologist and IVF pioneer, lung illness.
April 11 - Maria Tallchief, 88, American prima ballerina, complications from a fall.
April 11 - Grady Hatton, 90, American baseball player and manager, natural causes.
April 11 - Jonathan Winters, 87, American comedian and actor, natural causes.
April 12 - Ya'akov Yosef, 66, Israeli rabbi and politician, cancer.
April 13 - Frank Bank, 71, American actor.
April 13 - Chi Cheng, 42, American bassist (Deftones), complications of injuries sustained in a vehicle accident.
April 14 - P. B. Sreenivas, 82, Indian singer, heart attack.
April 14 - Rentaro Mikuni, 90, Japanese actor and movie director, heart failure.
April 14 - Colin Davis, 85, British conductor, short illness.
April 14 - Charlie Wilson, 70, American politician, stroke.
April 14 - Armando Villanueva, 97, former Prime Minister of Peru, natural causes.
April 15 - Richard Collins, 66, Canadian actor, heart attack.
April 15 - Richard LeParmentier, 66, British-American actor and scriptwriter, heart attack.
April 15 - Sal Castro, 79, American activist and teacher, thyroid cancer.
April 16 - Pat Summerall, 82, American football player, cardiac arrest.
April 16 - George Beverly Shea, 104, Canadian-American gospel singer, stroke.
April 16 - Jack Daniels, 85, American baseball player.
April 16 - Pentti Lund, 87, Finnish-Canadian ice hockey player, short-illness.
April 17 - Deanna Durbin, 91, Canadian singer and actress.
April 17 - T. K. Ramamoorthy, 91, Indian composer and violinist, short illness.
April 17 - Anne Firestone Ball, 79, American philanthropist, complications from burn injuries.
April 17 - Sir Steuart Pringle, 84, British army general.
April 18 - Storm Thorgerson, 69, British graphic designer, cancer.
April 18 - Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, Chechen-born American suspect in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, shot.
April 19 - Francois Jacob, 92, French Nobel Prize-winning biologist.
April 19 - Mike Denness, 72, Scottish cricketer, cancer.
April 19 - Al Neuharth, 89, American businessman, columnist and author, founder of USA Today, complications from a fall.
April 19 - Allan Arbus, 95, American actor, heart failure.
April 20 - Patrick Garland, 78, English theatre producer and director, actor, and writer.
April 20 - Huang Wenyong, 60, Singaporean actor, lymphoma.
April 20 - Nosher Powell, 84, British actor, stuntman, and boxer, natural causes.
April 21 - Chrissy Amphlett, 53, Australian singer, breast cancer.
April 21 - Shakuntala Devi, 84, Indian mathematician and prodigy mental calculator, heart attack.
April 22 - Richie Havens, 72, American folk singer and guitarist, heart attack.
April 23 - Kathryn Wasserman Davis, 106, American philanthropist, natural causes.
April 23 - Robert W. Edgar, 69, American politician and executive, heart attack.
April 24 - Larry Felser, 80, American sports journalist and columnist.
April 25 - Johnny Lockwood, 92, British-Australian actor, natural causes.
April 25 - Anna Proclemer, 89, Italian actress, natural causes.
April 25 - Lembit Vahesaar, 77, Estonian chess player, heart failure.
April 26 - William L. Guy, 93, American politician, Governor of North Dakota (19611973), Alzheimer's disease.
April 26 - George Jones, 81, American country music singer, hypoxic respiratory failure.
April 27 - Mary Thom, 68, American magazine executive editor (Ms.), traffic collision.
April 27 - Mutula Kilonzo, 65, Kenyan senator and senior counsel.
April 27 - Aida Bortnik, 75, Argentine screenwriter.
April 28 - Janos Starker, 88, Hungarian-American cellist, natural causes.
April 29 - Richard Barry, 93, Irish politician, TD for Cork East (1953 - 1981).
April 30 - Roberto Chabet, 76, Filipino artist.
April 30 - Andrew J. Offutt, 78, American science fiction author, cirrhosis.
April 30 - Mike Gray, 77, American documentary movie maker, screenwriter and author.
May
May 1 - Chris Kelly, 34, American rapper (Kris Kross), drug-overdose.
May 2 - Ivan Turina, 32, Croatian footballer, suspected heart failure.
May 2 - Jeff Hanneman, 49, American guitarist (Slayer), liver failure.
May 3 - Brad Drewett, 54, Australian tennis player and executive chairman, motor neurone disease.
May 3 - Larry Shafer, 67, American Ohio National Guardsman acquitted over Kent State University shootings, complications from surgery.
May 3 - Joe Astroth, 90, American baseball player, natural causes.
May 4 - Otis R. Bowen, 95, American politician and 44th Governor of Indiana (1973-1981).
May 4 - Christian de Duve, 95, Belgian biochemist and Nobel Prize winner, assisted suicide.
May 4 - Cesar Portillo de la Luz, 90, Cuban composer and interpreter.
May 4 - Mario Machado, 78, American news anchor, journalist and actor, pneumonia.
May 5 - Sarah Kirsch, 78, German poet and writer, after short illness.
May 5 - Ishaq Hajwane, 85, Indian convicted terrorist (1993 Bombay bombings), multiple organ failure.
May 6 - Giulio Andreotti, 94, former Prime Minister of Italy (1972-1973, 1976-1979, 1989-1992), respiratory complications.
May 7 - Ray Harryhausen, 92, American stop-motion animator, natural causes.
May 7 - Aubrey Woods, 85, British actor.
May 8 - Jeanne Cooper, 84, American actress, infection.
May 8 - Dallas Willard, 77, American author and philosopher, cancer.
May 8 - Bryan Forbes, 86, British actor, and movie director, long-illness.
May 9 - George M. Leader, 95, American politician and Governor of Pennsylvania (1955-1959), natural causes.
May 9 - Malcolm Shabazz, 28, American Islamist, grandson of Malcolm X, thrown off building following a robbery.
May 9 - Alfredo Landa, 80, Spanish actor.
May 10 - Barbara Callcott, Australian actress.
May 11 - Vincent Dowling, 83, Irish theatre director.
May 12 - Constantino Romero, 65, Spanish voice actor, television and radio host, neurodegenerative disease.
May 12 - Gerd Langguth, 66, German politician, writer, educator and political scientist.
May 13 - Joyce Brothers, 85, American psychologist, writer and actress, respiratory failure.
May 13 - Kenneth Waltz, 88, American political scientist.
May 14 - Chuck Muncie, 60, American football player, heart attack.
May 15 - Fred White, 76, American sports broadcaster, complications of melanoma.
May 15 - Henrique Rosa, 67, Guinea-Bissau politician, President (2003-2005), lung cancer.
May 16 - Heinrich Rohrer, 79, Swiss Nobel Prize-winning physicist.
May 16 - Paul Shane, 72, British actor and comedian, illness.
May 16 - Dick Trickle, 71, American race car driver (NASCAR), suicide by gunshot.
May 17 - Jorge Rafael Videla, 87, Argentine military leader and politician, President (1976-1981), complications from a fall.
May 17 - Peter Schulz, 83, German politician, Mayor of Hamburg (1971-1974).
May 17 - Philippe Gaumont, 40, French racing cyclist, heart attack.
May 17 - Alan O'Day, 72, American singer and songwriter, brain cancer.
May 18 - Steve Forrest, 87, American actor, natural causes.
May 18 - Jo Benkow, 88, Norwegian writer and politician, President of the Parliament (1985-1993), natural causes.
May 18 - Nam Duck-woo, 89, former Prime Minister of South Korea, testicular cancer.
May 19 - Bella Flores, 84, Filipino actress, complications from hip surgery.
May 20 - Ray Manzarek, 74, American musician and singer (The Doors), bile duct cancer.
May 21 - Trevor Bolder, 62, British musician, cancer.
May 21 - Mohammad Khaled Hossain, 34, Bangladeshi mountaineer, climbing accident.
May 21 - Dominique Venner, 78, French historian, journalist and essayist, suicide by gunshot.
May 22 - Richard Thorp, 81, English actor.
May 22 - Henri Dutilleux, 97, French composer, natural causes.
May 23 - Georges Moustaki, 79, French singer and composer, after long illness.
May 23 - James Sisnett, 113, Barbadian supercentenarian and second-oldest living man, natural causes.
May 24 - Pyotr Todorovsky, 87, Ukrainian-born Russian movie director, screenwriter, and cinematographer, heart attack.
May 24 - Ed Shaughnessy, 84, American drummer, heart attack.
May 24 - Elsa Bornemann, 61, Argentine children's writer.
May 24 - John "Mule" Miles, 90, American Negro League baseball player, natural causes.
May 24 - Haynes Johnson, 81, American journalist, winner of Pulitzer Prize (1996), heart attack.
May 25 - T. M. Soundararajan, 91, Indian playback singer, illness.
May 26 - Jack Vance, 96, American fantasy, mystery and science fiction writer, natural causes.
May 26 - Otto Muehl, 87, Austrian painter and activist, Parkinson's disease and heart disease.
May 27 - Bill Pertwee, 86, British radio and television actor (Dad's Army) and author, natural causes.
May 27 - Nazmiye Demirel, 86, Turkish first lady, wife of Suleyman Demirel, Alzheimer's disease.
May 28 - Viktor Kulikov, 91, Russian military officer, illness.
May 28 - Eddie Romero, 88, Filipino movie director, blood clot and prostate cancer.
May 29 - Henry Morgentaler, 90, Polish-Canadian physician, abortion advocate and Holocaust survivor, heart attack.
May 29 - Irenise Moulonguet, 112, French supercentenarian and oldest living person in France, natural causes.
May 29 - Mulgrew Miller, 57, American jazz pianist.
May 29 - Franca Rame, 84, Italian theatre actress, playwright and political activist, short illness.
May 29 - Andrew Greeley, 85, American priest and author, complications from brain injuries.
May 30 - Vina Mazumdar, 86, Indian academic and women's activist, lung tumour.
May 30 - Dean Brooks, 96, American physician and actor, natural causes.
May 31 - Abir Goswami, 37, Indian television actor, heart attack.
May 31 - Jean Stapleton, 90, American actress, natural causes.
June
June 1 - Sigbjorn Rafdal, 48, Norwegian cyclist, race collision.
June 1 - Ian P. Howard, 85, Canadian psychologist, cancer.
June 1 - Hanfried Lenz, 97, German mathematician, natural causes.
June 1 - James Kelleher, 82, Canadian politician, MP for Sault Ste. Marie (19841988), member of Canadian Senate (19902005), heart failure.
June 2 - Virginia Waring, 97, American classical pianist, widow of Fred Waring.
June 2 - Chen Xitong, 84, Chinese politician, Mayor of Beijing (1983-1993).
June 3 - Frank Lautenberg, 89, American politician, United States Senator from New Jersey, viral pneumonia.
June 3 - Jiah Khan, 25, American-born British-Indian actress, suicide by hanging.
June 3 - Deacon Jones, 74, American Pro Football Hall of Fame football player (Los Angeles Rams), natural causes.
June 3 - Atul Chitnis, 51, German-born Indian IT specialist, open source advocate and editor, intestinal cancer.
June 4 - S. Shamsuddin, 84, Singaporean actor, long-illness.
June 5 - Ruairi O Bradaigh, 80, Irish republican politician, President of Sinn Fein (1970-1983), short-illness.
June 5 - Gloria O'Connor, 84, American actress, natural causes.
June 5 - Stanislaw Nagy, 91, Polish cardinal, natural causes.
June 6 - Tom Sharpe, 85, British author, complications from diabetes.
June 6 - Jerome Karle, 94, American physical chemist, liver cancer.
June 6 - Maxine Stuart, 94, American actress, natural causes.
June 6 - Esther Williams, 91, American swimmer, businesswoman, and actress, natural causes.
June 6 - Elaine Laron, 83, American songwriter and lyricist, pneumonia.
June 6 - Eugen Merzbacher, 92, German-born American physicist, natural causes.
June 6 - Malcolm Todd, 73, British historian and archaeologist, illness.
June 7 - Pierre Mauroy, 84, French politician, former Prime Minister of France, lung cancer.
June 7 - Richard Ramirez, 53, American serial killer ("Night Stalker"), liver failure.
June 8 - Willi Sitte, 92, German painter, natural causes.
June 8 - Paul Cellucci, 65, American politician, 69th Governor of Massachusetts and former Ambassador to Canada, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
June 8 - Yoram Kaniuk, 83, Israeli writer, painter, journalist and theatre critic, cancer.
June 8 - Taufiq Kiemas, 70, Indonesian politician, husband of former President of Indonesia Megawati Sukarnoputri, heart attack.
June 9 - Harry Lewis, 93, American actor (Key Largo) and restaurateur, natural causes.
June 9 - Iain Banks, 59, Scottish novelist, gallbladder cancer.
June 9 - Walter Jens, 90, German philologist, literature historian, professor and writer, dementia.
June 10 - Enrique Orizaola, 91, Spanish footballer.
June 10 - Barbara Vucanovich, 91, American politician, Member of the United States House of Representatives, natural causes.
June 11 - Evelyn Kozak, 113, American supercentenarian, 7th oldest verified person in the world, heart attack.
June 11 - Luo Meizhen, 127?, Chinese oldest person unverified claimant, natural causes.
June 11 - Robert Fogel, 86, American economic historian, winner of Nobel Prize in Economics, short-illness.
June 11 - Henry Cecil, 70, British racehorse trainer, stomach cancer.
June 12 - Jiroemon Kimura, 116, Japanese supercentenarian, world's oldest man, natural causes.
June 13 - Kenji Utsumi, 75, Japanese voice actor, cancerous peritonitis.
June 13 - Mohammed Al-Khilaiwi, 41, Saudi footballer, cardiac arrest.
June 14 - Al Green, 57, American professional wrestler, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
June 14 - Gene Mako, 97, American tennis player, natural causes.
June 15 - Jose Froilan Gonzalez, 90, Argentine racing driver, respiratory failure.
June 15 - Manivannan, 58, Indian actor and director, heart attack.
June 15 - Heinz Flohe, 65, German footballer, complications from a stroke.
June 15 - Stan Lopata, 87, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies), heart failure.
June 15 - Peride Celal, 97, Turkish author, natural causes.
June 15 - Kenneth G. Wilson, 77, American physicist and Nobel Prize winner, lymphoma.
June 16 - Ottmar Walter, 89, German footballer, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
June 16 - Josip Kuze, 60, Croatian footballer and manager.
June 16 - Bernard Sahlins, 90, American comedy writer and theater owner, founder of The Second City, natural causes.
June 17 - James Holshouser, 78, American politician, Governor of North Carolina (19731977), heart failure.
June 17 - Mitsue Nagasaki, 113, Japanese supercentenarian, 7th oldest person in the world, natural causes.
June 18 - Michael Hastings, 33, American journalist, traffic collision.
June 19 - Slim Whitman, 90, American country music singer-songwriter, heart failure.
June 19 - Gyula Horn, 80, Hungarian politician, Prime Minister of Hungary (1994-1998).
June 19 - Vince Flynn, 47, American author, prostate cancer.
June 19 - Michael Baigent, 65, New Zealand author, brain haemorrhage.
June 19 - James Gandolfini, 51, American actor (The Sopranos), heart attack.
June 20 - Jean-Louis Scherrer, 78, French fashion designer.
June 20 - Jeffrey Smart, 91, Australian artist, renal failure.
June 20 - Ingvar Rydell, 91, Swedish footballer, natural causes.
June 21 - Dame Barbara Goodman, 80, New Zealand politician.
June 22 - Wendy Saddington, 64, Australian jazz and blues singer (Chain), esophageal cancer.
June 22 - Allan Simonsen, 34, Danish racing driver, racing accident during 2013 24 Hours of Le Mans.
June 22 - Henning Larsen, 87, Danish architect, natural causes.
June 22 - Robert O. Cox, 95, American politician, Mayor of Fort Lauderdale (19861991), natural causes.
June 22 - Beverly Fawell, 82, American politician, chronic heart failure.
June 22 - Gary David Goldberg, 68, American television screenwriter and producer, brain cancer.
June 23 - Frank Stranahan, 90, American golfer, natural causes.
June 23 - Peter Fraser, Baron Fraser of Carmyllie, 68, Scottish politician and advocate, heart attack.
June 23 - Frank Kelso, 79, American military officer, Chief of Naval Operations (19901994), complications from a fall.
June 23 - Bobby Bland, 83, American blues and soul singer, illness.
June 23 - Richard Matheson, 87, American author and screenwriter (I Am Legend), long illness.
June 24 - Jackie Fargo, 85, American professional wrestler, complications from pneumonia.
June 24 - Emilio Colombo, 93, Italian politician and former Prime Minister of Italy, natural causes.
June 24 - William Hathaway, 89, American politician, member of the US House (19651973) and US Senate for Maine (19731979), natural causes.
June 25 - Lau Kar-leung, 76, Chinese-Hong Kong martial artist, action choreographer and movie director, lymphatic cancer.
June 25 - Robert E. Gilka, 96, American photographer and news executive, Director of Photography for National Geographic, complications of pneumonia.
June 25 - Jim Hudson, 70, American football player (New York Jets), traumatic dementia encephalophathy.
June 25 - Harry Parker, 77, American Olympic rower (1960) and Olympic rowing coach (USRowing, Harvard University), myelodysplastic syndrome.
June 25 - Uma Shivakumar, 71, Indian actress, multiple organ failure.
June 26 - James Liu, 91, Chinese-born Australian community activist, natural causes.
June 26 - Marc Rich, 78, Belgian-born American tax evader, commodities trader and illegal oil broker (Iran Hostage Crisis), stroke.
June 26 - Kimberly McCarthy, 52, American criminal, execution by lethal injection.
June 26 - Bert Stern, 83, American photographer, heart attack.
June 27 - Stefano Borgonovo, 49, Italian footballer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
June 27 - Alain Mimoun, 92, French long-distance runner and Olympic champion.
June 28 - Peter Lehmann, 82, Australian vineyard owner and vintner, kidney disease.
June 28 - Yiye Avila, 87, Puerto Rican-American televangelist, heart attack.
June 29 - Margherita Hack, 91, Italian astrophysicist and popular science writer, suspected heart failure.
June 29 - Jim Kelly, 67, American martial artist and actor, cancer.
June 30 - Andrea Mame, 41, Italian race car driver and entrepreneur, race collision.
June 30 - Paul Mulcahy, Irish rally driver, race collision.
July
July 1 - Maureen Waaka, 70, New Zealand politician and pageant contestant, complications from a stroke.
July 1 - Charles Foley, 82, American toy and board game inventor (Twister), Alzheimer's disease.
July 1 - William H. Gray, 71, American politician, member of the U.S. House for Pennsylvania (19781991), natural causes.
July 2 - Princess Fawzia Fuad of Egypt, 91, Egyptian royal, Queen of Iran (19411948), natural causes.
July 2 - Paul Jenkins, 74, American television actor (The Waltons), short-illness.
July 2 - Douglas Engelbart, 88, American scientist, inventor of the computer mouse, kidney failure.
July 3 - Radu Vasile, 70, Romanian politician, historian and poet, Prime Minister of Romania (1998-1999) and Parliament of Romania (1992-2004), colon cancer.
July 4 - Jack Crompton, 91, English footballer, natural causes.
July 4 - Mahasundari Devi, 82, Indian artist, heart failure.
July 4 - Bernie Nolan, 52, Irish singer (The Nolans) and actress, breast cancer.
July 4 - Onllwyn Brace, 80, Welsh rugby union player, illness.
July 4 - Innocent Lotocky, 97, American bishop in the Ukrainian Catholic Church, natural causes.
July 5 - Hue Hollins, 70, American basketball referee for the National Basketball Association.
July 5 - Dave Cargo, 84, American politician, Governor of New Mexico (19671971) and House of Representatives (19631967), complications from a stroke.
July 5 - Jean Guy, 90, American spouse, First Lady of North Dakota (1961-1973), wife of William L. Guy, stroke.
July 6 - David Johnson, 67, British horse owner (Comply or Die), cancer.
July 6 - Douglas Dayton, 88, American retail executive, founder of Target Corporation, cancer.
July 7 - Michael Mastromarino, 49, American illegal body parts harvester, bone cancer.
July 7 - Joe Conley, 85, American actor (The Waltons), complications from dementia.
July 7 - Anna Wing, 98, British actress (EastEnders), natural causes.
July 8 - Dick Gray, 81, American baseball player, heart failure.
July 8 - Sabawi Ibrahim al-Tikriti, 66, Iraqi intelligence officer, half brother of Saddam Hussein, cancer.
July 8 - Nadezhda Popova, 91, Russian military pilot, presented Hero of the Soviet Union for service during World War II, natural causes.
July 8 - Edmund Morgan, 97, American historian and author, natural causes.
July 9 - Princess Marsi Paribatra, 81, Thai royal and artist, illness.
July 9 - Markus Buchel, 54, Liechtenstein politician, Prime Minister (1993), heart attack.
July 9 - Masao Yoshida, 58, Japanese nuclear engineer, esophageal cancer.
July 10 - Concha Garcia Campoy, 54, Spanish radio and television journalist, liver failure caused by leukemia.
July 10 - Andrea Veneracion, 84, Filipina singer, stroke.
July 11 - Zeb Alley, 84, American politician, member of the North Carolina Senate (19711973), recipient of Bronze Star Medal, heart failure.
July 12 - Amar Bose, 83, American audio executive, founder of Bose Corporation, heart attack.
July 12 - Alan Whicker, 87, British broadcaster and journalist, bronchopneumonia.
July 12 - Pran, 93, Indian actor, pneumonia.
July 13 - Cory Monteith, 31, Canadian actor (Glee) and singer, apparent drug-overdose.
July 14 - Matt Batts, 91, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox), natural causes.
July 14 - Dennis Burkley, 67, American actor (King of the Hill), heart attack.
July 15 - Noel Lee, 88, Chinese-born American and French classical pianist and composer, complications from a fall.
July 16 - Talia Castellano, 13, American makeup artist, cancer.
July 16 - T-Model Ford, 93, American blues musician, respiratory failure.
July 17 - Said Ali al-Shihri, 39, Saudi Arabian militant, deputy leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, drone strike.
July 17 - Vincenzo Cerami, 72, Italian screenwriter, cancer.
July 18 - Nobuyuki Aihara, 78, Japanese gymnast, heart failure.
July 18 - Samar Mukherjee, 100, Indian politician, MP for Howrah (19711984), Senator (19861993), West Bengal MLA for Howrah (19571971), respiratory failure.
July 19 - Bert Trautmann, 89, German-born British footballer and manager (Manchester City), heart failure.
July 19 - Mel Smith, 60, British comedian, actor and director, heart attack.
July 19 - Simon Pimenta, 93, Indian cardinal, natural causes.
July 20 - Helen Thomas, 92, American journalist, natural causes.
July 21 - Denys de La Patelliere, 92, French movie director and novelist, natural causes.
July 22 - Lawrie Reilly, 84, Scottish footballer, illness.
July 22 - Dennis Farina, 69, American actor (Law & Order, Saving Private Ryan), pulmonary embolism.
July 23 - Rona Anderson, 86, Scottish actress, natural causes.
July 23 - Jokichi Igarashi, 111, Japanese supercentenarian, oldest man in the world, natural causes.
July 23 - Emile Griffith, 75, US Virgin Islander boxer, middleweight and welterweight champion, complications from dementia.
July 23 - Djalma Santos, 84, Brazilian footballer, pneumonia.
July 24 - Derek Percy, 64, Australian murderer, longest-serving prisoner in Victoria, cancer.
July 24 - Fred Dretske, 80, American philosopher and epistemologist, heart failure.
July 25 - Virginia E. Johnson, 88, American sexologist (Masters & Johnson) and psychologist, natural causes.
July 25 - Mark Corwin, 65, American Emmy Award-winning game show director (Wheel of Fortune), cancer.
July 25 - Bernadette Lafont, 74, French actress, cardiac arrest.
July 25 - Mohamed Brahmi, 58, Tunisian politician and opposition leader, MP for Movement of the People (since 2011), shot.
July 25 - Walter De Maria, 77, American sculptor (The Lightning Field), stroke.
July 25 - Steve Berrios, 68, American Latin jazz drummer, heart attack.
July 26 - JJ Cale, 74, American Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter and musician, heart attack.
July 26 - George P. Mitchell, 94, American businessman, real estate developer, and pioneer of shale gas technology, natural causes.
July 27 - Lindy Boggs, 97, American politician, member of the US House for Louisiana (19731991), Ambassador to the Vatican (19972001), natural causes.
July 27 - Henryk Baranowski, 70, Polish actor, illness.
July 27 - Jon Leyne, 55, British journalist (BBC), brain tumour.
July 27 - Sekou Camara, 27, Malian footballer (Pelita Bandung Raya), heart attack.
July 28 - Ersilio Tonini, 99, Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, natural causes.
July 28 - Eileen Brennan, 80, American actress, bladder cancer.
July 28 - Mustafa Adrisi, 91, Ugandan military officer and politician, Vice President (19771978), natural causes.
July 28 - Rita Reys, 88, Dutch jazz singer, intracranial hemorrhage.
July 28 - William Scranton, 96, American diplomat and politician, 38th Governor of Pennsylvania and 13th Ambassador to the United Nations, cerebral hemorrhage.
July 29 - Christian Benitez, 27, Ecuadorean footballer, heart failure.
July 30 - Harry F. Byrd, Jr., 98, American politician, former United States Senator from Virginia (1965-1983), heart disease.
July 30 - Antoni Ramallets, 89, Catalan-Spanish footballer, natural causes.
July 30 - Guillermo Alvarez Guedes, 86, Cuban writer and comedian, stomach illness.
July 30 - Robert Neelly Bellah, 86, American sociologist, complications from heart surgery.
July 31 - John Graves, 92, American author, natural causes.
July 31 - Michael Ansara, 91, Syrian-American actor (Star Trek, Batman: The Animated Series), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
July 31 - Jon Manchip White, 89, Welsh-American writer, natural causes.
August
August 1 - John Amis, 91, British broadcaster, classical music critic and writer, natural causes.
August 1 - Dick Kazmaier, 82, American businessman and football player, heart and lung disease.
August 1 - Gail Kobe, 82, American actress and television producer, natural causes.
August 2 - V. Dakshinamoorthy, 93, Indian musician and music director, natural causes.
August 2 - Jozef Adamovic, 74, Slovak actor, heart failure.
August 3 - John Palmer, 77, American journalist and news anchor (NBC News), pulmonary fibrosis.
August 4 - Yitzhak Berman, 100, Ukrainian-born Israeli politician, natural causes.
August 4 - Renato Ruggiero, 83, Italian politician and former Minister for Foreign Affairs.
August 4 - Art Donovan, 88, American football player, respiratory ailment.
August 4 - Sandy Woodward, 81, British admiral (Falklands War).
August 4 - Betty Babcock, 91, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives (19751977), natural causes.
August 5 - George Duke, 67, American jazz keyboardist.
August 5 - Shawn Burr, 47, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings), fall.
August 5 - Jaime Luiz Coelho, 97, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop and Archbishop of Maringa (1956-1997), natural causes.
August 6 - Stan Lynde, 81, American cartoonist, cancer.
August 6 - Lidia Korsakowna, 79, Polish actress, heart failure.
August 6 - Dave Wagstaffe, 70, English footballer (Manchester City), short-illness.
August 6 - Selcuk Yula, 53, Turkish footballer, heart attack.
August 7 - Margaret Pellegrini, 89, American actress, complications of a stroke.
August 8 - Igor Kurnosov, 28, Russian chess grandmaster, traffic collision.
August 8 - Jack Clement, 82, American record and movie producer, songwriter and singer, liver cancer.
August 8 - Barbara Mertz, 85, American mystery writer, heart failure.
August 8 - Leon Aime Taverdet, 90, French Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Langres (1981-1999), natural causes.
August 8 - Johannes Bluyssen, 87, Dutch Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Den Bosch (1966-1983), natural causes.
August 8 - Karen Black, 74, American actress, ampullary cancer.
August 9 - William Lynch, Jr., 72, American politician, complications related to kidney disease.
August 9 - Johnny Logan, 86, American baseball player (Milwaukee Braves, Pittsburgh Pirates), natural causes.
August 10 - William P. Clark, Jr., 81, American civil servant, National Security Advisor (1982-1983), Secretary of the Interior (1983-1985), Parkinson's disease.
August 10 - Haji, 67, Canadian actress and former exotic dancer.
August 10 - Eydie Gorme, 84, American singer, short-illness.
August 11 - Henry Polic II, 68, American actor (Batman: The Animated Series, Webster), cancer.
August 11 - Eliza Gerner, 92, Croatian actress, natural causes.
August 11 - Shirley Herz, 87, American Tony Award-winning publicist, complications from a stroke.
August 11 - Jean Elshtain, 72, American scholar, heart failure.
August 12 - Prince Friso of Orange-Nassau, 44, Dutch royal, complications following skiing accident.
August 12 - Vasiliy Mihaylovich Peskov, 83, Russian writer and journalist.
August 12 - Pauline Maier, 75, American historian and academic, short-illness.
August 12 - David McLetchie, 61, Scottish politician, former leader of the Scottish Conservative Party, cancer.
August 13 - Lothar Bisky, 71, German politician (Die Linke).
August 14 - Lisa Robin Kelly, 43, American actress (That '70s Show), cardiac arrest.
August 14 - Mark Sutton, 41, British stuntman, stunt wing-diving accident.
August 14 - Gia Allemand, 29, American reality television star, suicide by hanging.
August 15 - Marich Man Singh Shrestha, 71, Nepali politician, Prime Minister of Nepal (19861990), lung cancer.
August 15 - Slawomir Mrozek, 83, Polish playwright, heart attack.
August 15 - August Schellenberg, 77, Canadian-born American actor, lung cancer.
August 16 - Roy Bonisteel, 83, Canadian journalist and television host, cancer.
August 17 - Claus Jacobi, 86, German journalist, editor-in-chief of Der Spiegel (1962-1968), natural causes.
August 18 - Rolv Wesenlund, 76, Norwegian actor and comedian, heart failure.
August 19 - Jose Sarria, 90, American LGBT rights activist and drag queen, founder of the Imperial Court System, natural causes.
August 19 - Russell S. Doughten, 86, American movie producer, renal failure.
August 19 - Lee Thompson Young, 29, American actor (The Famous Jett Jackson), self-inflicted gunshot wound.
August 19 - Donna Hightower, 86, American singer, natural causes.
August 20 - Elmore Leonard, 87, American novelist and screenwriter, complications from a stroke.
August 20 - Ted Post, 95, American movie and television director (Hang 'Em High), natural causes.
August 21 - Sid Bernstein, 95, American music producer and promoter, brought The Beatles and The Rolling Stones to the United States, natural causes.
August 21 - C. Gordon Fullerton, 76, American astronaut and test pilot, complications from a stroke
August 22 - Paul Poberezny, 91, American aviation pioneer, aircraft designer and founder of the Experimental Aircraft Association, cancer.
August 22 - Jetty Paerl, 92, Dutch singer, natural causes.
August 23 - Gilbert Taylor, 99, British cinematographer (Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope), natural causes.
August 24 - Newton de Sordi, 82, Brazilian footballer, 1958 FIFA World Cup-winning player, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
August 24 - Julie Harris, 87, American actress, congestive heart failure.
August 25 - Gylmar dos Santos Neves, 83, Brazilian footballer, 1958 FIFA World Cup-winning player, infection.
August 25 - William Froug, 91, American television writer and producer, natural causes.
August 26 - Helie de Saint Marc, 91, French Resistance member and military officer, natural causes.
August 26 - Mike Winters, 82, Irish comedian, illness.
August 26 - Gerard Murphy, 64, British actor (Batman Begins), prostate cancer.
August 27 - Anatoly Onoprienko, 54, Ukrainian serial killer and mass murderer, heart failure.
August 28 - Murray Gershenz, 91, American actor (The Hangover), heart attack.
August 29 - Cliff Morgan, 83, Welsh rugby player and broadcaster, illness.
August 30 - Seamus Heaney, 74, Irish poet, recipient of Nobel Prize in Literature (1995), illness.
August 30 - Soledad Mexia, 114, Mexican-born American supercentenarian, oldest verified Mexican-born person and world's fifth oldest person, natural causes.
August 31 - David Frost, 74, British journalist, writer, comedian and television personality, heart attack.
September
September 1 - Zvonko Busic, 67, Croatian airplane hijacker (TWA Flight 355), suicide by gunshot.
September 1 - Ole Ernst, 73, Danish actor, illness.
September 1 - Ken Wallis, 97, British autogyro exponent and James Bond stunt pilot, natural causes.
September 1 - Tommy Morrison, 44, American heavyweight champion boxer and actor (Rocky V), multiple organ failure.
September 2 - David Jacobs, 87, British radio and television broadcaster, heart attack.
September 2 - Makoto Moroi, 82, Japanese composer.
September 2 - Ronald Coase, 102, British economist, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Economics (1991), natural causes.
September 2 - Frederik Pohl, 93, American science fiction author (Man Plus), natural causes.
September 2 - Valerie Benguigui, 47, French actress, breast cancer.
September 3 - Ariel Castro, 53, American convicted kidnapper (2013 Cleveland, Ohio, missing trio), suicide by hanging.
September 4 - Ferdinand Biwersi, 79, German football referee, heart attack.
September 4 - Sir Arthur George, 98, Australian lawyer and football administrator, natural causes.
September 5 - Sushmita Banerjee, 49, Afghan writer, shot.
September 5 - Rochus Misch, 96, German army officer, bodyguard of Adolf Hitler and last survivor of the Fuhrerbunker, natural causes.
September 6 - Ann C. Crispin, 63, American science fiction author, cancer.
September 7 - Ilja Hurnik, 90, Czech composer and essayist, natural causes.
September 7 - Marek Spilar, 38, Slovakian footballer, suicide.
September 7 - Monroe Isadore, 107, American centenarian, shot by police.
September 8 - Cal Worthington, 92, American car dealer, natural causes.
September 9 - Jules Paivio, 97, Canadian cartographer and teacher, last surviving Canadian veteran of the Spanish Civil War, natural causes.
September 10 - Josef Nemec, 79, Czech Olympic boxer, bronze medalist (1960), illness.
September 11 - Marshall Berman, 73, American philosopher and writer, illness.
September 12 - Abu Mansoor Al-Amriki, 29, American Islamist, shot.
September 12 - Ray Dolby, 80, American inventor (surround sound), leukemia.
September 12 - Erich Loest, 87, German author, suicide.
September 12 - Otto Sander, 72, German actor, cancer.
September 13 - Delfor Dicasolo, 93, Argentine comedian, actor, and writer, natural causes.
September 13 - Anwar Hossain, 82, Bangladeshi actor, heart attack.
September 13 - Salustiano Sanchez, 112, Spanish-born American supercentenarian, world's oldest living man, natural causes.
September 14 - Jorge Pedreros, 71, Chilean musician, record producer, comedian, and actor, pneumonia.
September 15 - Lily Sullos, 84, Hungarian-Argentine writer and astrologist, illness.
September 15 - Joyce Jacobs, 91, British-born Australian actress (A Country Practice), natural causes.
September 16 - Philip Berg, 86, American rabbi, Leader of the Kabbalah Centre (since 1984), stroke.
September 16 - Terrie Hall, 53, American CDC spokesperson and anti-tobacco advocate, throat cancer.
September 16 - Daniel Diaz Torres, 64, Cuban movie director, heart attack.
September 16 - Chin Peng, 89, Malaysian politician, leader of the Malayan Communist Party, natural causes.
September 16 - Patsy Swayze, 86, American dancer and choreographer, mother of Patrick Swayze, stroke.
September 17 - Eiji Toyoda, 100, Japanese industrialist (Toyota Motor Company), heart failure.
September 17 - Marti de Riquer i Morera, 99, Spanish Catalan linguist and nobleman, veteran of the Spanish Civil War.
September 17 - Michael Giannatos, 72, Greek actor, heart attack.
September 17 - Bernie McGann, 76, Australian jazz alto saxophonist, complications from heart surgery.
September 18 - Marcel Reich-Ranicki, 93, German writer and literary critic, natural causes.
September 18 - Richard C. Sarafian, 83, American movie and television director, complications from pneumonia.
September 18 - John D. Vanderhoof, 91, American politician, Governor of Colorado (1973-1975), natural causes.
September 18 - Ken Norton, 70, American heavyweight boxer and actor, heart failure.
September 19 - Hiroshi Yamauchi, 85, Japanese businessman, President of Nintendo, pneumonia.
September 19 - Saye Zerbo, 81, Burkinabe politician, President of Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) (1980-1982), illness.
September 20 - Carolyn Cassady, 90, American-born British Beat Generation writer, wife of Neal Cassady, natural causes.
September 21 - Peter Solan, 84, Slovak movie director, heart attack.
September 21 - Michel Brault, 85, Canadian director, heart attack.
September 22 - David Hubel, 87, Canadian biologist, renal failure.
September 22 - Luciano Vincenzoni, 87, Italian screenwriter (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly), natural causes.
September 23 - Jane Connell, 87, American theatre actress, pneumonia.
September 23 - Rex Hobcroft, 88, Australian pianist, conductor, composer and music administrator, natural causes.
September 23 - Christopher Koch, 81, Australian novelist, prostate cancer.
September 23 - Ruth Patrick, 105, American ecology pioneer, natural causes.
September 24 - Viktor Zinger, 71, Soviet Olympic ice hockey gold medalist (1968), long-illness.
September 25 - Timothy Joseph Lyne, 94, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago (1983-1995), natural causes.
September 26 - Denis Brodeur, 82, Canadian ice hockey player and photographer, winner of bronze medal at 1956 Winter Olympics, pneumonia.
September 26 - Evelyn G. Lowery, 88, American civil rights activist (Selma to Montgomery marches), complications from a stroke.
September 26 - Sos Sargsyan, 83, Armenian actor, heart attack.
September 27 - Gates Brown, 74, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers), heart attack.
September 27 - John Calvert, 102, American magician, natural causes.
September 27 - Tuncel Kurtiz, 77, Turkish actor, fall.
September 27 - A. C. Lyles, 95, American movie producer (Paramount Pictures), natural causes.
September 28 - Walter Schmidinger, 80, Austrian actor, pneumonia.
September 29 - Pete T. Cenarrusa, 95, American politician, Secretary of State of Idaho (1967-2003), natural causes.
September 29 - Patricia Castell, 87, Argentinian actress, pneumonia.
September 30 - Rangel Valchanov, 84, Bulgarian actor and movie director, cancer.
October
October 1 - Peter Broadbent, 80, English footballer, Alzheimer's disease.
October 1 - Tom Clancy, 66, American writer, heart failure.
October 1 - Giuliano Gemma, 75, Italian actor, traffic collision.
October 1 - Israel Gutman, 90, Israeli historian, natural causes.
October 2 - Abraham Nemeth, 94, American mathematician and inventor, natural causes.
October 2 - Hilton A. Green, 84, American assistant director (Psycho) and producer (Sixteen Candles), pneumonia.
October 2 - Herman Hugg, 92, American artist, Alzheimer's disease.
October 2 - Kaare Ornung, 82, Norwegian pianist and music teacher, stroke.
October 3 - Angeles Santos Torroella, 101, Spanish painter, natural causes.
October 3 - Chuck Smith, 86, American pastor, pneumonia.
October 3 - Sergei Belov, 69, Russian basketball player, heart attack.
October 3 - Bill Eppridge, 75, American photographer (Life), septic infection.
October 4 - Vo Nguyen Giap, 102, Vietnamese general and politician, natural causes.
October 4 - Nicholas Oresko, 96, American World War II veteran, Medal of Honor recipient, complications of surgery.
October 5 - Carlo Lizzani, 91, Italian movie director, screenwriter and critic, suicide by jumping.
October 6 - Nico van Kampen, 92, Dutch theoretical physicist and professor, natural causes.
October 6 - Paul Rogers, 96, English movie, television and stage actor (Billy Budd), natural causes.
October 7 - Patrice Chereau, 68, French movie director, producer and actor, lung cancer.
October 7 - Joanna Chmielewska, 81, Polish novelist and screenwriter.
October 7 - Ovadia Yosef, 93, Israeli rabbi, former Chief Rabbi of Israel, multiple organ failure.
October 8 - Paul Desmarais, 86, Canadian businessman, pneumonia.
October 8 - Andy Pafko, 92, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Brooklyn Dodgers, Milwaukee Braves), natural causes.
October 8 - Rod Grams, 65, American politician and TV anchor, Minnesota Senator (1995-2001), member of House of Representatives (1993-1995), colon cancer.
October 8 - Phil Chevron, 56, Irish musician (The Pogues), esophageal cancer.
October 9 - Chopper Read, 58, Australian criminal, liver cancer.
October 9 - Norma Bengell, 78, Brazilian actress and movie director, lung cancer.
October 9 - Stanley Kauffmann, 97, American author, editor, and movie critic, pneumonia.
October 9 - Wilfried Martens, 77, Belgian politician, former Prime Minister of Belgium (19791981; 19811992), pancreatic cancer.
October 10 - Scott Carpenter, 88, American test pilot, astronaut and aquanaut, complications from a stroke.
October 10 - Cal Smith, 81, American country singer, heart failure.
October 11 - Maria de Villota, 33, Spanish racing driver, cardiac arrest.
October 11 - Erich Priebke, 100, German Nazi war criminal, natural causes.
October 11 - Terry Rhoads, 61, American actor (Liar Liar, The Day After Tomorrow), amyloidosis.
October 11 - William H. Sullivan, 90, American diplomat, pneumonia.
October 11 - Toshio Udo, 87, Japanese writer and critic, pneumonia.
October 12 - Oscar Hijuelos, 62, Cuban-American novelist (The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love), winner of Pulitzer Prize (1990), heart attack.
October 12 - George Herbig, 93, American astronomer, natural causes.
October 13 - Olga Aroseva, 87, Russian actress, natural causes.
October 14 - Bruno Metsu, 59, French footballer and coach, colon cancer.
October 15 - Sean Edwards, 26, English racing driver, racing accident.
October 15 - Hans Riegel, 90, German businessman (Haribo), heart failure.
October 16 - Ed Lauter, 74, American actor (Death Wish III), mesothelioma.
October 17 - Mother Antonia, 86, American nun, pneumonia.
October 17 - George A. Blair, 98, American businessman, entrepreneur and waterskier, natural causes.
October 18 - Tom Foley, 84, American politician, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (1989-1995), complications from a stroke.
October 18 - Bill Young, 82, American politician, complications of chronic injury.
October 19 - Georges Descrieres, 83, French actor, cancer.
October 20 - Jovanka Broz, 88, Yugoslavian army officer, wife of Josip Broz Tito, First Lady of Yugoslavia (1953-1980), natural causes.
October 20 - Lawrence Klein, 93, American economist, predicted post-World War II economic boom, given Nobel Prize in Economics (1980), natural causes.
October 21 - Bud Adams, 90, American businessman, owner of the Tennessee Titans, natural causes.
October 21 - Oscar Yanes, 86, Venezuelan author, pneumonia.
October 22 - Lajos Fur, 82, Hungarian politician and historian, Minister of Defence (1990-1994), heart attack.
October 23 - Bill Mazer, 92, American sportscaster and game show host.
October 23 - Anthony Caro, 89, British abstract sculptor, heart attack.
October 24 - Manna Dey, 94, Indian playback singer, respiratory illness and renal failure.
October 24 - Manolo Escobar, 82, Spanish singer.
October 24 - Zuzzurro, 67, Italian actor and comedian, lung cancer.
October 25 - Nigel Davenport, 83, British actor. (Chariots of Fire, Howards' Way)
October 25 - Hal Needham, 82, American stuntman and movie director (Smokey and the Bandit), cancer.
October 25 - Bill Sharman, 87, American basketball player and coach, complications from a stroke.
October 25 - Marcia Wallace, 70, American actress (The Simpsons) and comedienne, pneumonia.
October 26 - Al Johnson, 65, American soul singer (The Unifics), heart attack.
October 27 - Lou Reed, 71, American rock musician (The Velvet Underground) and songwriter ("Walk on the Wild Side"), liver disease.
October 27 - Luigi Magni, 85, Italian screenwriter and movie director, prostate cancer.
October 28 - Tadeusz Mazowiecki, 86, Polish politician, Prime Minister of Poland (19891991), pneumonia.
October 29 - Graham Stark, 91, English actor (Superman III, Alfie), stroke.
October 30 - Michael Palmer, 71, American novelist, cancer.
October 30 - Frank Wess, 91, American jazz saxophonist and flutist, heart failure.
October 31 - Henryk Markiewicz, 90, Polish historian, natural causes.
October 31 - Gerard de Villiers, 83, French writer, journalist and editor, pancreatic cancer.
November
November 1 - John Y. McCollister, 92, American politician, member of the House of Representatives from Nebraska (1971-1977), prostate cancer.
November 1 - Tato Laviera, 62, Puerton Rican poet, diabetes.
November 1 - Paul Dennis Reid, 55, American convicted murderer.
November 2 - Jack Alexander, 77, Scottish entertainer and comedian, stroke.
November 2 - Walt Bellamy, 74, American basketball player, stroke.
November 3 - Gerard Cieslik, 86, Polish footballer, heart attack.
November 3 - William J. Coyne, 77, American politician, member of the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania (1981-2003), head injuries from a fall.
November 3 - Nick Cardy, 93, American comic book artist (Aquaman, Teen Titans), heart failure.
November 4 - Hans von Borsody, 84, Austrian-born German actor, lung cancer.
November 5 - Habibollah Asgaroladi, 81, Iranian politician and presidential election candidate, Leader of Islamic Coalition Party (1998-2008), lung infection.
November 5 - Juan Carlos Calabro, 79, Argentine actor, kidney disease.
November 5 - Leonid Stolovich, 84, Estonian philosopher, heart attack.
November 5 - Juan Manuel Tenuta, 89, Uruguayan actor, stroke.
November 6 - Ace Parker, 101, American football and baseball player, natural causes.
November 7 - Paul Mantee, 82, American actor (Apollo 13), prostate cancer.
November 7 - Amparo Rivelles, 88, Spanish actress.
November 7 - Manfred Rommel, 84, German politician, Lord Mayor of Stuttgart (1974-1996), son of Erwin Rommel, Parkinson's disease.
November 8 - Chiyoko Shimakura, 75, Japanese singer and actress, liver cancer.
November 9 - Helen Eadie, 66, Scottish politician, MSP for Dunfermline East (1999-2011); Cowdenbeath (since 2011), cancer.
November 10 - Vijaydan Detha, 87, Indian folk writer, multiple organ failure.
November 11 - Domenico Bartolucci, 96, Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, natural causes.
November 11 - Stein Grieg Halvorsen, 104, Norwegian theater actor, natural causes.
November 11 - Shirley Mitchell, 94, American actress (I Love Lucy), natural causes.
November 12 - Aleksandr Serebrov, 69, Soviet-Russian cosmonaut.
November 12 - John Tavener, 69, English composer, heart attack.
November 12 - Geo Costiniu, 63, Romanian actor, adenocarcinoma.
November 12 - Al Ruscio, 89, American actor (The Godfather Part III, Showgirls), renal failure.
November 13 - Todd Christensen, 57, American football player (Los Angeles Raiders), liver disease.
November 14 - Grace Jones, 113, British supercentenarian, oldest person in the United Kingdom, complications from a fall.
November 15 - Glafcos Clerides, 94, Cypriot politician, President of Cyprus (1974, 1993-2003), heart failure.
November 15 - Karla Alvarez, 41, Mexican actress, respiratory failure.
November 16 - Zbynek Hejda, 83, Czech poet and historian, recipient of Jaroslav Seifert Award (1996), heart attack.
November 17 - Doris Lessing, 94, British novelist, poet, playwright and librettist, Nobel laureate in Literature (2007), stroke.
November 18 - Thomas Howard, 30, American football player, traffic collision.
November 18 - Ljubomir Vracarevic, 66, Serbian martial artist, heart attack.
November 18 - Nejat Uygur, 86, Turkish comedian, lung cancer.
November 19 - Antoni Tomiczek, 98, Polish pilot during World War II, natural causes.
November 19 - Ray Gosling, 74, British broadcaster and gay rights activist, heart attack.
November 19 - Diane Disney Miller, 79, American philanthropist and daughter of Walt Disney, complications from a fall.
November 19 - Babe Birrer, 85, American baseball player, lung cancer.
November 19 - Marc Breaux, 89, American choreographer (Mary Poppins), pneumonia.
November 19 - Frederick Sanger, 95, British biochemist and laureate of Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1958, 1980), natural causes.
November 20 - Joseph Paul Franklin, 63, American serial killer, shot Larry Flynt, executed by lethal injection.
November 20 - Sylvia Browne, 77, American author and psychic, heart failure.
November 20 - Pavel Bobek, 76, Czech singer, stroke.
November 21 - Maurice Vachon, 84, Canadian professional wrestler, heart failure.
November 21 - Vern Mikkelsen, 85, American basketball player, heart attack.
November 22 - Georges Lautner, 87, French movie director and screenwriter, long-illness.
November 23 - Walter Frosch, 62, German footballer, pulmonary fibroses.
November 23 - Jay Leggett, 50, American actor and comedian, heart attack.
November 23 - William Jerome McCormack, 89, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of New York (1986-2001), Alzheimer's disease.
November 23 - Connie Broden, 81, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens), pneumonia.
November 23 - Costanzo Preve, 70, Italian Marxist philosopher, stroke.
November 24 - Earl McClung, 90, American World War II veteran, natural causes.
November 24 - Matti Ranin, 87, Finnish actor, natural causes.
November 25 - Ricardo Fort, 45, Argentinian entrepreneur, television personality, dancer and artist, heart failure.
November 25 - Bill Foulkes, 81, English footballer (Manchester United, England), prostate cancer.
November 25 - William Adam, 96, American trumpeter and bandleader, natural causes.
November 25 - Lou Brissie, 89, American baseball player, symbol for the disabled and veterans, cardiopulmonary failure.
November 25 - Chae Myung-shin, 86, South Korean Army general during the Vietnam War, stomach cancer.
November 25 - Bob Day, 72, English pop singer (The Allisons), heart attack.
November 25 - Al Plastino, 91, American comic book artist (Superman), prostate cancer.
November 25 - Chico Hamilton, 92, American jazz drummer.
November 26 - John Galbraith Graham, 92, crossword maker, esophageal cancer.
November 26 - Stan Stennett, 88, Welsh comic entertainer, actor and jazz musician, complications following stroke.
November 26 - Tony Musante, 77, American actor (As the World Turns), complications following surgery.
November 26 - Arik Einstein, 74, Israel singer, aortic aneursym
November 27 - Nilton Santos, 88, Brazilian footballer (Botafogo), respiratory failure.
November 27 - Lewis Collins, 67, British actor (The Professionals), lung cancer.
November 27 - Reg Simpson, 93, English Test cricketer, natural causes.
November 28 - Mitja Ribicic, 94, Slovenian politician, Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (1969-1971), natural causes.
November 28 - Danny Wells, 72, Canadian-born American actor (The Jeffersons), heart attack.
November 29 - Natalya Gorbanevskaya, 77, Russian poet, translator and civil rights activist, heart failure.
November 30 - Yury Yakovlev, 85, Russian actor (Anna Karenina), heart failure.
November 30 - Jean Kent, 92, English actress (The Browning Version), complications from a fall.
November 30 - Paul Walker, 40, American actor (The Fast and the Furious), traffic collision.
December
December 1 - Heinrich Boere, 92, Dutch-German Nazi war criminal, natural causes.
December 1 - Lino Grech, 83, Maltese actor, writer and director, prostate cancer.
December 1 - Edward Heffron, 90, American World War II veteran, natural causes.
December 2 - Brian Hitchen, 77, British journalist and editor, car accident.
December 2 - Salim Kallas, 77, Syrian actor and politician, lung cancer.
December 2 - William Allain, 85, American politician, Governor of Mississippi (1984-1988), Attorney General (1980-1984).
December 2 - Pedro Rocha, 70, Uruguayan footballer, stomach cancer.
December 2 - Christopher Evan Welch, 48, American (Lincoln) actor, lung cancer.
December 2 - Vernon Shaw, 83, Dominican politician, 5th President of Dominica, heart attack.
December 3 - Ahmed Fouad Negm, 84, Egyptian vernacular poet, long-illness.
December 3 - Ida Pollock, 105, British romance novelist, natural causes.
December 3 - Ronald Hunter, 70, American actor (Law & Order, The Big Bang Theory), heart and kidney failure.
December 4 - Joana Raspall i Juanola, 100, Spanish-Catalan writer, natural causes.
December 5 - Nelson Mandela, 95, South African politician and activist, 1st President of South Africa and Nobel Peace Prize-winner, lung infection.
December 5 - Barry Jackson, 75, English actor (Doctor Who), stroke.
December 5 - Fred Bassetti, 96, American architect, natural causes.
December 5 - Colin Wilson, 82, English writer, stroke.
December 6 - Stan Tracey, 86, British jazz pianist, prostate cancer.
December 6 - Nya Quesada, 94, Argentine actress, natural causes.
December 7 - Edouard Molinaro, 85, French movie director and screenwriter, heart attack.
December 7 - Jozef Kowalski, 113, Polish WWI-era veteran, last surviving veteran of the 1919-1921 Polish-Soviet War, natural causes.
December 8 - Sandor Szokolay, 82, Hungarian composer and professor, pneumonia.
December 8 - Richard S. Williamson, 64, American lawyer and diplomat, United States ambassador to the United Nations, cerebral hemorrhage.
December 9 - Eleanor Parker, 91, American actress (The Sound of Music), complications of pneumonia.
December 9 - Kees Brusse, 88, Dutch actor and movie director, natural causes.
December 10 - Jim Hall, 83, American jazz guitarist, composer and arranger, heart attack.
December 10 - Don Lund, 90, American baseball player, natural causes.
December 10 - Rossana Podesta, 79, Italian actress (Ulysses), brain cancer.
December 11 - Nadir Afonso, 93, Portuguese geometric abstractionist painter, heart failure.
December 12 - Barbara Branden, 84, American writer, breast cancer.
December 12 - Jang Sung-taek, 67, North Korean politician, Vice-Chancellor of the National Defence Commission, executed.
December 12 - Mac McGarry, 87, American television quiz show host (It's Academic), pneumonia.
December 12 - Audrey Totter, 95, American actress (Medical Center), stroke.
December 12 - Tom Laughlin, 82, American actor, (Billy Jack), pneumonia.
December 13 - Zafer Onen, 92, Turkish movie actor, heart failure.
December 14 - Sir John Cornforth, 96, Australian-British chemist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1975), natural causes.
December 14 - Peter O'Toole, 81, Irish actor (Lawrence of Arabia), stomach cancer.
December 14 - George Rodrigue, 69, American painter, prostate cancer.
December 14 - France Roche, 92, French actress, natural causes.
December 15 - Joan Fontaine, 96, British actress (Suspicion), natural causes.
December 15 - Harold Camping, 92, American evangelist and doomsday predictor, pneumonia.
December 16 - Ray Price, 87, American singer, pancreatic cancer.
December 17 - Janet Rowley, 88, American cancer researcher, complications of ovarian cancer.
December 18 - Ronnie Biggs, 84, British criminal, heart failure.
December 19 - Nae Lazarescu, 72, Romanian actor and comedian, chronic liver disease.
December 19 - Ned Vizzini, 32, American writer, suicide.
December 20 - Nelly Omar, 102, Argentine actress and singer, cardiac arrest.
December 21 - John Eisenhower, 91, American historian, son of Dwight D. Eisenhower, natural causes.
December 21 - David Coleman, 87, British sports commentator and television presenter, short illness.
December 21 - Edgar Bronfman, Sr., 84, Canadian-American businessman and activist for Jewish and Israeli causes, natural causes.
December 22 - Diomedes Diaz, 56, Colombian musician, cardiac arrest.
December 23 - Mikhail Kalashnikov, 94, Russian weapons designer, creator of the AK-47, long-illness.
December 23 - Yusef Lateef, 93, American saxophonist, prostate cancer.
December 23 - Robert W. Wilson, 87, American philanthropist and businessman, suicide by jumping.
December 24 - Frederic Back, 89, Canadian animator, cancer.
December 24 - Allan McKeown, 67, British movie producer, husband of Tracey Ullman, prostate cancer.
December 25 - Adnan Senses, 78, Turkish musician and actor, stomach cancer.
December 26 - Marta Eggerth, 101, Hungarian singer and actress, natural causes.
December 26 - Dr. Tangalanga, 97, Argentine comedian, natural causes.
December 27 - Mohamad Chatah, 62, Lebanese politician, Minister of Finance (2008-2009), Ambassador to the United States (1997-2000), car bomb.
December 27 - Elvira Quintilla, 85, Spanish actress, heart attack.
December 28 - Halton Arp, 86, American astronomer, stroke.
December 28 - Joseph Ruskin, 89, American actor (Alias), natural causes.
December 28 - Andrew Jacobs, Jr., 81, American politician, member of the House of Representatives (1965-1973; 1975-1997), natural causes.
December 29 - Wojciech Kilar, 81, Polish composer (Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Pianist), cancer.
December 29 - Mary Wibberley, 79, British novelist, short-illness.
December 30 - Eero Mantyranta, 76, Finnish Olympic champion cross-country skier, heart attack.
December 31 - John Fortune, 74, British comedian and actor, leukemia.
December 31 - Johnny Orr, 86, American basketball player and coach, congestive heart failure.
December 31 - James Avery, 65, American actor (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air), complications from heart surgery.