Deaths in 2010

The following is a list of notable deaths in 2010.

 January 
1
Gary Brockette, 67, American actor (The Last Picture Show) and assistant director, cancer.
Chauncey H. Browning, Jr., 75, American politician, West Virginia Attorney General (1969–1985).
Jean Carroll, 98, American comedian (The Ed Sullivan Show).
Periyasamy Chandrasekaran, 52, Sri Lankan politician, Member of Parliament, after short illness.UPF leader Chandrasekaran dies of heart attack
Lhasa de Sela, 37, American singer, breast cancer.
Michael Dwyer, 58, Irish journalist and film critic, lung cancer.
*Alfredo Mario Espósito Castro, 82, Argentinian Roman Catholic Bishop of Zárate-Campana (1976–1991).
John Freeman, 93, American animator (The Smurfs) and animation director (My Little Pony and Friends).
Bingo Gazingo, 85, American performance poet, struck by car.
Adrien Gilbert, 78, Canadian Olympic weightlifter
Richard Kindleberger, 67, American newspaper reporter (The Boston Globe), brain tumor.
John Lyon, 58, British cricketer.
Jack Middleton, 92, British Olympic swimmer.
Tetsuo Narikawa, 65, Japanese actor (Spectreman) and karate instructor, lung cancer.
Marlene Neubauer-Woerner, 91, German sculptor.
Libuše Patočková, 76, Czech Olympic cross-country skier.Libuše Patočková Bio, Stats, and Results
Stanisław Przybylski, 79, Polish modern pentathlete.
Mohamed Rahmat, 71, Malaysian politician, Information Minister (1978–1982, 1987–1999).
Faisal Bin Shamlan, 75, Yemeni politician, presidential candidate (2006), cancer.
Billy Arjan Singh, 92, Indian author.
Gregory Slay, 40, American rock drummer (Remy Zero), songwriter (Nip/Tuck theme), cystic fibrosis.
Freya von Moltke, 98, German World War II resistance fighter.
John Shelton Wilder, 88, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee (1971–2007), stroke.
Vera Zakharova, 89, first Yakut woman to fly a plane

2
Johann Frank, 71, Austrian football player (FK Austria Wien).
David Gerber, 86, American executive producer (Police Story, Police Woman), heart failure.
William Green, 82, British aviation writer.
Deborah Howell, 68, American journalist, The Washington Post ombudsman, hit by car.
René Oreel, 87, Belgian cyclist.
Augustine Paul, 65, Malaysian Federal Court judge, after chronic illness.
David R. Ross, 51, Scottish historian, heart attack.
Rajendra Shah, 96, Indian poet.

3
Gus Alexander, 75, Scottish footballer (Workington).Obituary - Gus Alexander of Workington
Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt, 84, Chilean composer, lung cancer.
Margery Beddow, 72, American choreographer and dancer.
Barry Blair, 56, Canadian comics artist and writer, brain aneurysm.
Gianni Bonichon, 65, Italian bobsledder, Olympic silver medalist.
Otto Breg, 60, Austrian Olympic bobsledder.Otto Breg Bio, Stats, and Results
Sir Ian Brownlie, 77, British barrister, traffic collision.
Joyce Collins, 79, American jazz singer and pianist, pulmonary fibrosis.
Mary Daly, 81, American radical feminist philosopher.
Francis Gillingham, 93, British neurosurgeon.
Ali Safi Golpaygani, 96, Iranian Marja', natural causes.
Billy Harris, 58, American basketball player (Northern Illinois Huskies, San Diego Conquistadors), stroke.
John Keith Irwin, 80, American sociologist.
Eunice W. Johnson, 93, American director of Ebony Fashion Fair, widow of John H. Johnson, renal failure.
Charles Kleibacker, 88, American fashion designer, pneumonia.
Georges Martin, 94, French cyclist.
Takis Michalos, 63, Greek Greece men's national water polo team water polo player and coach; cancer.
Moti Nandi, 79, Indian writer and sports journalist.
Geoffrey Reeve, 77, British film director.
Isak Rogde, 62, Norwegian translator.
Tibet, 78, French comics artist and writer.
Bobby Wilkins, 87, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).

4
Olaug Abrahamsen, 81, Norwegian politician.
Rosalie Abrams, 88, American feminist playwright, actress and activist, Alzheimer's disease.
Paul Ahyi, 79, Togolese artist, designer of the flag of Togo.
Lew Allen, 84, American USAF general, NSA Director (1973–1977), USAF Chief of Staff (1978–1982), rheumatoid arthritis.
Knox Burger, 87, American editor, writer, and literary agent.
Neil Christian, 66, British singer, cancer.
Tony Clarke, 68, British musician and record producer (The Moody Blues), emphysema.
Sandro de América, 64, Argentinian singer, complications from heart and lung transplant surgery.
Donal Donnelly, 78, English-born Irish actor, cancer
Hywel Teifi Edwards, 75, Welsh historian and writer, after short illness.
Johan Ferrier, 99, Surinamese politician, President (1975–1980).
Tadeusz Góra, 91, Polish pilot.
Rory Markas, 54, American baseball radio announcer (Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim), heart attack.
György Mitró, 79, Hungarian Olympic swimmer.
Ludwig Wilding, 82, German artist.
Tsutomu Yamaguchi, 93, Japanese survivor of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, stomach cancer.

5
Abdul Azim al-Deeb, 80, Qatari professor (Qatar University).
Beverly Aadland, 67, American actress, girlfriend of Errol Flynn, diabetes and heart failure.
Daniel Kubert, 62, American mathematician.
Bernard Le Nail, 63, French writer, historian, Breton language and cultural advocate, cerebral hemorrhage.
Willie Mitchell, 81, American musician and record producer, cardiac arrest.
Kenneth Noland, 85, American color field painter, kidney cancer.
Courage Quashigah, 62, Ghanaian politician.
Philippa Scott, 91, British conservationist.
George Syrimis, 88, Cypriot finance minister (1988–1993).
Toni Tecuceanu, 37, Romanian comedy actor, bacterial infection.Toni Tecuceanu, de la Cronica Carcotasilor, a murit de gripa porcina 
Rolf Thieme, 65, German Olympic hockey player.Rolf Thieme Bio, Stats, and Results
George Willoughby, 95, American Quaker activist.

6
Philippe Arthuys, 81, French composer and film director.
David Giles, 83, British television director.
Michael Goulder, 82, British biblical scholar.
Michael Harper, 78, British priest of the Church of England and later of the Antiochian Orthodox Church.
George Leonard, 86, American writer, editor and educator, pioneer of the Human Potential Movement, after long illness.
Graham Leonard, 88, British Church of England Bishop of London (1981–1991), subsequently a Roman Catholic priest.
Ivan Medek, 84, Czech music publicist, theorist and critic, collaborator of Václav Talich and Václav Havel.
Harriet Miller, 90, American politician, mayor of Santa Barbara, California (1995–2001).
Beniamino Placido, 80, Italian journalist and television critic.
Hervé Prouzet, 89, French cyclist
Kittu Suresh, 64, Indian cricketer.Kittu Suresh

7
Wendall Anschutz, 71, American television newsman.
Myrtle Aydelotte, 92, American nurse, professor and hospital administrator.
Sándor Barcs, 97, Hungarian politician and sport executive, interim President of UEFA (1972–1973).
Gerald Bordelon, 47, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
Alexander Garnet Brown, 79, Canadian politician, member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly (1969–1978).
Bruria Kaufman, 91, Israeli physicist.
Stephen Huneck, 61, American wood carving artist, suicide by gunshot.
Kamal Mahsud, Pakistani Pashto language folk singer, gas leak.
Alex Parker, 74, Scottish football player (Falkirk, Everton, Southport, Scotland) and manager, heart attack.
Donald Edmond Pelotte, 64, American Roman Catholic Bishop of Gallup (1990–2008), first Native American bishop.
James D Robertson, 78, Scottish painter and lecturer.
Blanca Sánchez, 63, Mexican actress, kidney failure.
Philippe Séguin, 66, French politician, heart attack.
Jim White, 67, American professional wrestler, cancer.
Hardy Williams, 78, American politician, Pennsylvania State Senator (1983–1998), Alzheimer's disease.

8
Bob Blackburn, 85, American sports commentator (Seattle SuperSonics), pneumonia.
Jean Charpentier, 74, Canadian journalist, press secretary for Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, cancer.An elegant man who 'achieved the impossible'
Art Clokey, 88, American stop motion animator (Gumby, Davey and Goliath), bladder infection.
Piero De Bernardi, 83, Italian screenwriter.
Tony Halme, 47, Finnish professional boxer, actor, wrestler and Member of Parliament (2003–2007), suicide by gunshot.
Raymond Kamber, 79, Swiss Olympic sprint canoer.
Slavka Maneva, 75, Macedonian writer and poet.
Charles Massi, 57, Central African politician and rebel leader.
Monica Maughan, 76, Australian actress, cancer.
Jim Rimmer, 75, Canadian graphic designer, cancer.
Gladstone Robinson, 66, Jamaican cricketer.Gladstone Robinson Is Dead
Gerrit de Ruiter, 82, Dutch hockey player
Otmar Suitner, 87, Austrian conductor.
Hans L. Trefousse, 88, German-born American historian.
Amir Vahedi, 48, Iranian-born American poker player, complications of diabetes.
Sumner G. Whittier, 98, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (1953–1957).

9
Améleté Abalo, 47, Togolese national football team assistant coach, shot.Togo in three days of mourning over deaths in Cabinda attack
John Ballem, 84, Canadian novelist.
Amo Bessone, 93, American ice hockey player and coach.Amo Bessone, 'Father of Spartan Hockey' Passes Away
Juan Bidegaray, 90, Uruguayan Olympic sailor
Gösta Bredefeldt, 74, Swedish actor.
Franz-Hermann Brüner, 64, German head of OLAF, after long illness.
Acúrsio Carrelo, 78, Portuguese footballer.
Mark Ellidge, 69–70, British press photographer.
Ken Genser, 59, American politician, mayor of Santa Monica, California, after long illness.
Per N. Hagen, 73, Norwegian politician.
Rupert Hamer, 39, British journalist, defence correspondent for the Sunday Mirror, improvised explosive device.
Fatimah Hashim, 85, Malaysian politician, first female minister in the Malaysian government.
Laura Chapman Hruska, 74, American writer, co-founder and editor in chief of Soho Press, cancer.
Jack Kerness, 98, American art director, natural causes.
Nadav Levitan, 64, Israeli film director and screenwriter, lung disease.
Ronald Moore, 84, Canadian politician.Former Members of the Legislative Assembly Obituaries
Evgeni Paladiev, 61, Soviet-born Kazakh ice hockey player.
Diether Posser, 87, German politician.
Armand Razafindratandra, 84, Malagasy cardinal, archbishop of Antananarivo (1994–2005), fall.
Vimcy, 84, Indian sports writer.
Thomas Summers West, 82, Scottish chemist.Royal Society of Edinburgh Obituary: Thomas Summers West

10
Sir Donald Acheson, 83, British physician, Chief Medical Officer of England (1983–1991).
Sailadhar Baruah, 68, Indian film producer, complications of diabetes.
Mina Bern, 98, Polish-born American Yiddish theatre actor, heart failure.
Bert Bushnell, 88, British Olympic gold medal-winning rower (1948).
Carlos Bonilla Chávez, 86, Ecuadorian classical guitarist.Carlos Bonilla Chávez 
Simon Digby, 77, Indian-born British scholar and linguist, pancreatic cancer.
Danny Fitzgerald, 49–50, Irish hurler and Gaelic football player.
Jan C. Gabriel, 69, American race track announcer, complications from polycystic kidney disease.
Donald Goerke, 83, American executive (Campbell's Soup Company), created SpaghettiOs, heart failure.
Dick Johnson, 84, American big band clarinetist (Artie Shaw Band), after short illness.
Edward Linde, 67, American businessman, founder of Boston Properties, pneumonia.Boston Properties says CEO Linde died Sunday
Frances Morrell, 72, British political adviser and educationalist, cancer.
Ulf Olsson, 58, Swedish murderer, suicide by hanging.
Bill Patterson, 87, Australian racing driver, natural causes.
Jayne Walton Rosen, 92, American singer, Lawrence Welk's Champagne Lady (1940–1945), natural causes.Death Notice: Jayne Walton Rosen
Moisés Saba, 47, Mexican entrepreneur, helicopter crash.
Dale Shewalter, 59, American teacher, founder of the Arizona Trail, cancer.
Mano Solo, 46, French singer, ruptured aneurysm.
Crispin Sorhaindo, 78, Dominican politician, President (1993–1998), cancer.Former head of state dies
Bojidar Spiriev, 77, Bulgarian-born Hungarian hydrologist and statistician, creator of IAAF scoring tables.
Torbjørn Yggeseth, 75, Norwegian ski jumping athlete and official.

11
Juliet Anderson, 71, American pornographic actress and movie producer.
Aleksandr Androshkin, 62, Soviet Ukrainian sports shooter.
Francisco Benkö, 99, German-born Argentine chess master.
Robben Wright Fleming, 93, American president of the University of Michigan (1968–1978).
Georgy Garanian, 75, Russian jazz saxophonist and bandleader, cardiac arrest.
Dorothy Geeben, 101, American mayor of Ocean Breeze Park, Florida (since 2001), oldest active mayor in the U.S.
Miep Gies, 100, Dutch humanitarian, protector of Anne Frank during World War II, complications from a fall.
Mick Green, 65, British rock and roll guitarist (Johnny Kidd & The Pirates, Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas).
Andis Hadjicostis, 43, Cypriot CEO of Sigma TV, shot.
Johnny King, 83, English footballer.
Kurt Liebhart, 76, Austrian Olympic sprint canoer.Kurt Liebhart hat uns verlassen  
Harry Männil, 89, Estonian-born Venezuelan businessman.
Bob Noorda, 82, Dutch-born Italian graphic designer.
Éric Rohmer, 89, French film director.
Joe Rollino, 104, American strongman, weightlifter, and boxer, struck by van.
Ed Scott, 92, American baseball scout.
Dennis Stock, 81, American photographer (Magnum Photos), colon and liver cancer.
Gordon Van Tol, 49, Canadian Olympic water polo player, heart attack.Remembering Gordon Van Tol

12
Masoud Alimohammadi, 50, Iranian nuclear scientist, bomb blast.
Miloslav Bělonožník, 91, Czech Olympic ski jumper.Miloslav Bělonožník Bio, Stats, and Results
Daniel Bensaïd, 63, French philosopher and Trotskyist activist.
Ken Colbung, 78, Australian Aboriginal elder, after short illness.
Shirley Bell Cole, 89, American voice actor (Little Orphan Annie).
Miguel Ángel de la Flor, 85, Peruvian army officer and politician.
Colin Dettmer, 51, South African cricketer.Colin Dettmer
Altan Dinçer, 77, Turkish Olympic basketball player.Altan Dinçer Bio, Stats, and Results
Krisda Arunvongse na Ayudhya, 78, Thai architect, Governor of Bangkok (1996–2001), coronary artery disease. 
Fred Krone, 79, American stuntman, cancer.
Elizabeth Laverick, 85, British engineer.
Hillis Layne, 91, American Major League Baseball player (1941, 1944–1945).
Alastair Martin, 94, American tennis player, member of the Hall of Fame, President of the United States Tennis Association (1969–1970).
Sir Allen McClay, 77, British pharmaceutical company founder, cancer.
Elizabeth Moody, 70, New Zealand actress and theatre director, pneumonia.Notable actress, director Elizabeth Moody dies
Ann Prentiss, 70, American actress (Captain Nice, My Stepmother Is an Alien).
Art Rust, Jr., 82, American sports commentator, Parkinson's disease.
Hasib Sabbagh, 89, Palestinian businessman.
Vanda Skuratovich, 84, Belarusian Roman Catholic activist.
Vadú, 32, Cape Verdean singer, traffic collision.
Yabby You, 63, Jamaican reggae singer and producer, stroke.
Notable people killed in the 2010 Haiti earthquake:
Georges Anglade, 65, Haitian professor and cabinet minister, co-founder of Université du Québec à Montréal.
Hédi Annabi, 65, Tunisian diplomat, Head of MINUSTAH.
Zilda Arns, 75, Brazilian pediatrician and humanitarian.
Luiz Carlos da Costa, 60, Brazilian diplomat, Deputy Head of MINUSTAH.
Serge Marcil, 65, Canadian politician, Quebec National Assembly of Quebec (1985–1994), MP for Beauharnois—Salaberry (2000–2004).Former MP's body found in Haiti
Flo McGarrell, 35, Italian-born American artist.
Myriam Merlet, 53, Haitian political activist.
Joseph Serge Miot, 63, Haitian Roman Catholic archbishop of Port-au-Prince.
Jimmy O, 35, Haitian hip hop musician.

13
Jack Block, 85, American psychologist, complications of a spinal cord injury.
Edward Brinton, 86, American marine biologist, after long illness.
Sir Robin Maxwell-Hyslop, 78, British politician, MP for Tiverton (1960–1992).
Abdullah Mehdar, Yemeni al-Qaeda terrorist, shot.
Teddy Pendergrass, 59, American soul singer, complications from colorectal cancer.
Jay Reatard, 29, American garage punk musician, cocaine toxicity.
Tommy Sloan, 84, Scottish footballer (Hearts, Motherwell).
Isamu Tanonaka, 77, Japanese voice actor (GeGeGe no Kitaro), heart attack.
Ed Thigpen, 79, American jazz drummer, after long illness.
Edgar Vos, 78, Dutch fashion designer, heart attack.

14
Ante Babaja, 82, Croatian film director and screenwriter.
Bobby Charles, 71, American songwriter ("See You Later, Alligator", "(I Don't Know Why) But I Do").
Antonio Fontán, 86, Spanish politician and journalist.
Micha Gaillard, 52-53, Haitian politician, earthquake.
John F. Hayes, 90, American attorney and politician, Kansas House of Representatives (1953–1955; 1967–1979).
Mark Jones, 70, British actor (The Empire Strikes Back, Doctor Who, Buccaneer).
Guðmundur Lárusson, 84, Icelandic Olympic sprinter.
Charles Nolte, 86, American actor, playwright and educator, prostate cancer.
Otto, 20, British dachshund-terrier, world's oldest dog, euthanised following stomach tumour.
P. K. Page, 93, Canadian poet.
Chilton Price, 96, American songwriter ("Slow Poke", "You Belong to Me").Songwriter Chilton Price, 96, Dies
Phoebe Prince, 15, Irish student at South Hadley High School, Massachusetts, bullying victim, suicide by hanging.9 charged in death of South Hadley teen, who took life after bullying
Marika Rivera, 90, French actress, daughter of Diego Rivera.
James W. Rutherford, 84, American mayor of Flint, Michigan (1975–1983, 2002–2003).
Katharina Rutschky, 68, German educationalist and author.
Petra Schürmann, 74, German television presenter, Miss World 1956, after long illness.
Jessie Tait, 81, British ceramic designer.
Antonio Vilaplana Molina, 83, Spanish Roman Catholic Bishop of León (1987–2002), renal failure. 
Bernie Voorheis, 87, American basketball player.
Rowland Wolfe, 95, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1932) gymnast.

15
Asim Butt, 31, Pakistani artist (Stuckism art movement), suicide by hanging.
Florence-Marie Cooper, 69, American federal judge, District Court for Central District of California (since 1999), lymphoma.
Michael Creeth, 85, British biochemist.
Bahman Jalali, 65, Iranian photographer, pancreatic cancer.
Detlev Lauscher, 57, German footballer.
Steve Lovelady, 66, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, throat cancer.Steven Lovelady, ex-Inquirer editor, dies
Mike Osborn, 92, British military officer.
Marshall Warren Nirenberg, 82, American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (1968), cancer.
Peter Thomson, 73, Australian Anglican theologian, mentor to Tony Blair.

16
Glen Bell, 86, American entrepreneur, founder of Taco Bell.
Judi Chamberlin, 65, American anti-psychiatry activist, lung disease.
Guy Day, 79, American advertising executive.
Sam Dixon, 60, American minister, Deputy General Secretary of UMCOR (since 2007), earthquake.
Robert Gerard, 89, Belgian footballer 
Musa Inuwa, 62, Nigerian politician.
George Jellinek, 90, American radio personality (WQXR).
Felice Quinto, 80, Italian photographer.
Takumi Shibano, 83, Japanese novelist, pneumonia.
Carl Smith, 82, American country singer-songwriter ("Hey Joe"), after long illness.
Bernie Weintraub, 76, American talent agent, co-founder of the Paradigm Talent Agency.
Jimmy Wyble, 87, American guitarist, heart failure.

17
Gaines Adams, 26, American football player (Chicago Bears, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), cardiac arrest.
Maki Asakawa, 67, Japanese singer, heart failure.
Jyoti Basu, 95, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (1977–2000), complications from pneumonia.
Thomas F. Cowan, 82, American politician, New Jersey State Senator (1984–1994).Former NJ Sen. Thomas F. Cowan of Jersey City died yesterday
Daisuke Gōri, 57, Japanese voice actor (Dragon Ball, Kinnikuman, Mobile Suit Gundam), suicide by wrist cutting.
Béla Köpeczi, 88, Hungarian historian and politician, Minister of Education (1982–1988).
Michalis Papakonstantinou, 91, Greek politician and author, Minister for Foreign Affairs (1992–1993).
Erich Segal, 72, American professor, author (Love Story), and screenwriter (Yellow Submarine), heart attack.

18
Ghulam Rabbani Agro, 76, Pakistani writer.
K. S. Ashwath, 84, Indian actor, multiple organ failure.
Cyril Burke, 84, Australian rugby union player.
Herb Grosch, 91, Canadian-born American computer scientist.
Kate McGarrigle, 63, Canadian folk singer, clear-cell sarcoma.
Günter Mielke, 67, German Olympic athlete.
Gladys Morcom, 91, British Olympic swimmer.
Imari Obadele, 79, American black separatist, stroke.
Reha Oğuz Türkkan, 90, Turkish writer.  
Kevin O'Shea, 62, Canadian ice hockey player (St. Louis Blues, Buffalo Sabres).
Robert B. Parker, 77, American detective writer (Spenser series, Jesse Stone novels), heart attack.
Jörgen Philip-Sörensen, 71, Danish businessman, after long illness.
Robert D. Rowley, 68, American Episcopal Bishop of Northwestern Pennsylvania (1991–2007).
Josephus Tethool, 75, Indonesian Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of Amboina (1982–2009).
Celestino Tugot, 99, Filipino golfer, winner of the Philippine Open (1949, 1955–1958, 1962), lung cancer.

19
Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, 50, Palestinian leader of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, murdered.
Frances Buss Buch, 92, American first female television director.
Christos Chatziskoulidis, 58, Greek footballer (Egaleo F.C.), cancer.
Ian Christie, 82, British jazz clarinetist.
Tom Cochran, 85, American football player (Washington Redskins).
Dan Fitzgerald, 67, American college basketball coach (Gonzaga).
Vladimir Karpov, 87, Russian writer, Chairman of the USSR Union of Writers (1986–1991).
Jennifer Lyon, 37, American reality TV personality (Survivor: Palau), breast cancer.
Ida Mae Martinez, 78, American professional wrestler.
Bill McLaren, 86, Scottish rugby union commentator.
Panajot Pano, 70, Albanian footballer.Ndërron jetë legjenda Panajot Pano 
Cerge Remonde, 51, Filipino journalist and politician, heart attack.
Kalthoum Sarrai, 47, Tunisian-born French television presenter (Supernanny), cancer.
William Vitarelli, 99, American educator and architect.

20
Enid Campbell, 77, Australian legal scholar.
Tony Cummins, 103, Irish Roman Catholic priest.
Patricia Donoho Hughes, 79, American First Lady of Maryland (1979–1987), wife of Harry Hughes, Parkinson's disease.Patricia Hughes, Md. first lady from 1979-1987, dies at age 79
John S. Loisel, 89, American fighter ace.John Loisel's obituary in the Dallas Morning News
Bob Minton, 63, American-born Irish banker, critic of Scientology, heart ailment.
John Francis Moore, 68, Nigerian Roman Catholic Bishop of Bauchi (since 2003).
Jack Parry, 86, Welsh footballer (Swansea Town, Ipswich Town, Wales).
John Pawle, 94, English cricketer.
Derek Prag, 86, British politician, MEP for Hertfordshire (1979–1994).
Wallace Michael Ross, 89, British organist and choirmaster.Lasting Tribute page for Wallace Ross
Abraham Sutzkever, 96, Polish-born Israeli poet.
Lynn Taitt, 75, Jamaican reggae guitarist, cancer.

21
Sayeed Ahmed, 79, Bangladeshi playwright.Playwright Sayeed Ahmed no more
Orhan Alp, 90, Turkish engineer and politician.
Bobby Bragan, 92, American baseball player and manager, heart attack.
Irwin Dambrot, 81, American basketball player involved in the CCNY Point Shaving Scandal, Parkinson's disease.
Lawrence Garfinkel, 88, American epidemiologist, cardiovascular disease.
Knud Gleie, 74, Danish Olympic swimmer.
Larry Johnson, 62, American film producer, heart attack.
Chindodi Leela, 72, Indian theatre and film actress, complications from heart attack.
Robert "Squirrel" Lester, 67, American smooth soul tenor (The Chi-Lites), liver cancer.
Hal Manders, 92, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).
Jacques Martin, 88, French comics artist and writer.
Camille Maurane, 98, French baritone singer.Décès du baryton Camille Maurane 
Guillermo Abadía Morales, 97, Colombian folklore researcher, indigenous language expert, natural causes.
Curt Motton, 69, American baseball player, stomach cancer.Curtell Howard Motton
Paul Quarrington, 56, Canadian novelist, musician and screenwriter, lung cancer.

22
Apache, 45, American rapper.
Lenna Arnold, 89, American baseball player (AAGPBL)
Donnis Churchwell, 73, American football player.Donnis H. Churchwell
Sir Percy Cradock, 86, British diplomat, after short illness.
Sir Dermot de Trafford, 85, British aristocrat and businessman.
Clayton Gerein, 45, Canadian wheelchair sports athlete, seven-time Paralympian, brain tumor.
Claus Gerson, 92, American Olympic hockey player.Claus Gerson Bio, Stats, and Results
Louis R. Harlan, 87, American Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, after long illness.
Iskandar of Johor, 77, Malaysian Yang di-Pertuan Agong (1984–1989), Sultan of Johor (1981–2010).Sultan of Johor passes away (Updated)
Jennifer Lyn Jackson, 40, American Playboy model, drug overdose.
Andrew E. Lange, 52, American astrophysicist, Big Bang researcher, suicide by asphyxiation.
Juan Pedro Laporte, 64, Guatemalan archaeologist.
Janeshwar Mishra, 76, Indian politician, cardiac arrest.
James Mitchell, 89, American actor (All My Children), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Private Terms, 25, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
Gordon Richardson, Baron Richardson of Duntisbourne, 94, British Governor of the Bank of England (1973–1983).
Godfrey A. Rockefeller, 85, American aviator and conservationist.
Johnny Seven, 83, American actor (Ironside, The Apartment, Gunfight in Abilene), lung cancer.
Jean Simmons, 80, British actress (Hamlet, Spartacus, Guys and Dolls), Emmy winner (1983), lung cancer.
Ruth P. Smith, 102, American pro-choice campaigner.
Tuanaitau F. Tuia, 89, American Samoan politician and legislator, longest serving member of the American Samoa Fono.
Betty Wilson, 88, Australian cricketer.
Tom Wittum, 60, American football player (San Francisco 49ers), cancer.

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George C. Baldwin, 92, American physicist.
Haren S. Gandhi, 68, Indian-born American inventor and engineer.Haren S. Gandhi 1941–2010
Robert Lam, 64, Malaysian news presenter, skin cancer.
Douglas J. Martin, 82, New Zealand leader in the LDS Church.
Sam Match, 87, American tennis player.
Roger Pierre, 86, French actor (Mon oncle d'Amérique), cancer.
Sir Thomas Prickett, 96, British RAF Air Chief Marshal.
Kermit Tyler, 96, American pilot, figured in the attack on Pearl Harbor, complications from strokes.'Don't worry about it,' was bad advice at Pearl Harbor
Oleg Velyky, 32, Ukrainian-born German handball player, melanoma.
Earl Wild, 94, American classical pianist, heart failure.

24
Boydson Baird, 91, American basketball player.
Lawrence Aloysius Burke, 77, Jamaican Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kingston (2004–2008), Nassau (1981–2004), cancer.
Thomas Cullinan, 63, South African cricketer.Old Andrean Obituaries: David Cullinan (Upper 1960-1965)
Donald Dowd, 87, American campaign aide to the Kennedy family.
*Ghazali Shafie, 87, Malaysian politician, Home Minister (1973–1981) and Foreign Minister (1981–1984).'King Ghaz' Remembered As No-nonsense Man
Irshad Ahmed Haqqani, 81, Pakistani journalist and politician.
Robert Mosbacher, 82, American politician, Secretary of Commerce (1989–1992), pancreatic cancer.
Leonid Nechayev, 70, Russian film director, stroke.Папа Леня: Скончался кинорежиссер Леонид Нечаев 
Jim Podoley, 76, American football player (Washington Redskins), melanoma.
James Henry Quello, 95, American government official, FCC Commissioner (1974–1997), heart and kidney failure.
FitzRoy Somerset, 5th Baron Raglan, 82, British aristocrat.
Pernell Roberts, 81, American actor (Bonanza; Trapper John, M.D., Ride Lonesome), pancreatic cancer.
Peter Wood, 74, Australian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland (1966–1974).

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Ali Hassan al-Majid, 68, Iraqi military commander and government minister, execution by hanging.
Sefis Anastasakos, 68, Greek politician, author, lawyer and activist, cancer.
Lynn Bayonas, 66, Australian television writer and producer, cancer.
Orlando Cole, 101, American classical cellist and educator.Orlando Cole, cellist and Curtis teacher, dies
Horace Weldon Gilmore, 91, American federal judge.
Jane Jarvis, 94, American jazz pianist and organist.
Pádraig MacKernan, 69, Irish diplomat, Secretary General (Foreign Affairs), Ambassador to France and United States.
Georgiann Makropoulos, 67, American professional wrestling historian and author, heart attack.
Iivari Malmikoski, 82, Finnish Olympic boxer.Iivari Malmikoski Bio, Stats, and Results
Charles Mathias, 87, American politician, Senator from Maryland (1969–1987), complications of Parkinson's disease.
Gordon Park, 66, British convicted murderer, apparent suicide by hanging.
Algirdas Petrulis, 95, Lithuanian painter.
Ivan Prenđa, 70, Croatian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Zadar (since 1990).
Bill Ritchie, 78, Scottish comic book artist.
Emilio Vieyra, 88, Argentine film director, actor, screenwriter and producer.

26
Andon Amaraich, 77, Micronesian Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, pneumonia.
Louis Auchincloss, 92, American novelist, complications of a stroke.
Juliusz Bardach, 95, Polish historian.
Boa Sr., 85, Indian Great Andamanese elder, last speaker of the Bo language.
Geoffrey Burbidge, 84, British-born American astrophysicist, after long illness.
Anne Froelick, 96, American blacklisted screenwriter.
Dag Frøland, 64, Norwegian comedian, singer and variety artist.
Gummadi, 82, Indian actor.Actor Gummadi passes away
Paul R. Jones, 81, American art collector, after short illness.Paul R. Jones dies at 81; major collector of African American art
Eugenijus Karpavičius, 56, Lithuanian illustrator.
Inda Ledesma, 83, Argentine actress, cardiac arrest.
Ajmer Singh, 69, Indian athlete and educator.
Paul Mbiybe Verdzekov, 79, Cameroonian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bamenda (1970–2006).
Ken Walters, 76, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).

27
Harry Alger, 85, Canadian politician.
Lee Archer, 90, American Air Force pilot (Tuskegee Airman).
Barry Blitzer, 80, American television writer (Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., The Flintstones, The Jetsons), complications from abdominal surgery.
Betty Lou Keim, 71, American actress, lung cancer.
Ruben Kruger, 39, South African rugby union player, brain tumor.Former Bok Kruger dies
Eduardo Michaelsen, 89, Cuban exile, painter in the naive art style.
Shirley Collie Nelson, 78, American country singer, ex-wife of Willie Nelson.
Zelda Rubinstein, 76, American actress (Poltergeist, Picket Fences, Scariest Places on Earth).'Poltergeist' actress dies at age 76
J. D. Salinger, 91, American author (The Catcher in the Rye).
Howard Zinn, 87, American historian (A People's History of the United States), civil rights and anti-war activist, heart attack.Historian-activist Zinn dies

28
A.K.M. Mohiuddin Ahmed, Bangladesh Army officer, hanged.
Mohammad-Reza Ali-Zamani, app. 38, Iranian activist, hanging.
Frank Baker Jr., 66, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians), heart failure.
Larbi Belkheir, 72, Algerian major general, Interior Minister (1991).
Bill Binder, 94, American restaurateur (Phillippe's).
Eduardo Catalano, 92, Argentine architect.
Patricia Clarke, 90, British biochemist.
José Eugênio Corrêa, 95, Brazilian Roman Catholic Bishop of Caratinga (1957–1978).
Margaret Dale, 87, British dancer and television director.
Walter Fondren, 73, American football player and conservationist, heart failure.
George Hanlon, 92, Australian horse trainer, three-time Melbourne Cup winner, natural causes.
Mick Higgins, 87, Irish Gaelic footballer, All-Ireland Senior Football Championship winner (Cavan; 1947, 1948, 1952).
Wilfriede Hoffmann, 77, German Olympic athlete.Wilfriede Hoffmann Bio, Stats, and Results
Mohammad Bazlul Huda, Bangladeshi army officer and assassin of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, hanged.5 Bangabandhu killers hanged
Alistair Hulett, 57, Scottish-born Australian folk singer, liver failure.
Robert Joffe, 66, American lawyer, pancreatic cancer.
Patricia Leonard, 73, British contralto, throat cancer.
Kazimierz Mijal, 99, Polish politician.
Bud Millikan, 89, American basketball coach (University of Maryland).
Sarah Mulvey, 34, British television producer (Channel 4), suspected suicide by opioid overdose.
Arash Rahmanipour, app. 20, Iranian activist, execution by hanging.
Seymour Sarason, 91, American psychologist.
Keiko Tobe, 52, Japanese manga artist (With the Light), mesothelioma.

29
Evgeny Agranovich, 91, Russian composer and bard.
Elsa Bakalar, 90–91, English-born American garden designer.https://commonweeder.blogspot.com/2008/01/garden-bloggers-book-club.html 
Tom Brookshier, 78, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles), coach and sportscaster (CBS Sports, WCAU), cancer.
Adam Alexander Dawson, 96, British film editor.
Eric Freiwald, 82, American television writer (The Young and the Restless).
Georgelle Hirliman, 73, American performance artist, cancer.
Sir Derek Hodgkinson, 92, British air chief marshal.
Tom Howard, 59, American musician, heart attack.
Ralph McInerny, 80, American philosopher (University of Notre Dame) and mystery author (Father Dowling Mysteries).
Ram Niwas Mirdha, 85, Indian politician (Lok Sabha), minister and speaker (Rajasthan Legislative Assembly), multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
Wilf Paish, 77, British athletics coach, after long illness.
Mikael Reuterswärd, 45, Swedish adventurer, first Swede to reach summit of Mount Everest (body found on this date).
Karen Schmeer, 39, American documentary film editor (The Fog of War), vehicular hit-and-run.
Zahid Sheikh, 60, Pakistani Olympic silver medal-winning (1972) field hockey player.
Cameron Snyder, 93, American sports journalist (The Baltimore Sun), won Dick McCann Memorial Award (1982), lung cancer.
Eckart Viehweg, 61, German mathematician, after short illness.

30
Rafet Angın, 94, Turkish teacher.
Erna Baumbauer, 91, German casting agent.
Ruth Cohn, 97, German psychotherapist.
Lucienne Day, 93, British textile designer.
Ron Giles, 90, English cricketer (Nottinghamshire).Ron Giles
Sølve Grotmol, 70, Norwegian sports commentator.
Bruce Mitchell, 90, Australian academic.
Ursula Mommens, 101, British potter.
Brahmananda Panda, 61, Indian politician.
Guy Renwick, 73, British Olympic bobsledder.Guy Renwick Bio, Stats, and Results
Aaron Ruben, 95, American television producer (Andy Griffith Show, Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C., Sanford and Son), pneumonia.
Tan Eng Yoon, 82, Singaporean Olympic sprinter.

31
Gunnar Aksnes, 83, Norwegian chemist and poet.
Kage Baker, 57, American science fiction and fantasy author, uterine cancer.
Pauly Fuemana, 40, New Zealand musician (OMC), after short illness.
Henry Fukuhara, 96, American watercolor painter, natural causes.
Patricia Gage, 69, British actress and voice actress.
Jiří Havlis, 77, Czech Olympic gold medal-winning (1952) rower.
Albert Huie, 89, Jamaican painter.
Edith Josie, 88, Canadian columnist, natural causes.
Viktor Kaisiepo, 61, Netherlands New Guinean-born Dutch activist for West Papuan independence.
Thorleif Karlsen, 100, Norwegian police inspector, politician and radio host, natural causes.
Sanna Kiero, 79, Finnish Olympic cross-country skier.Sanna Kiero Bio, Stats, and Results
Howard Lotsof, 66, American researcher, discovered anti-addictive effects of ibogaine, liver cancer.
Tomás Eloy Martínez, 75, Argentine writer and journalist, brain tumor.
Shizuka Miura, 47, Japanese ball-jointed doll maker and musician, suicide.
John Norris, 76, British-born Canadian publisher (Coda), heart condition.
Keith Norton, 69, Canadian politician, former MPP for Kingston and the Islands (1975–1985), cancer.
Paddie O'Neil, 83, British actress and singer.
Phil Smith, 63, Australian football player, cancer.Vale Phil Smith
Pierre Vaneck, 78, French actor (The Science of Sleep), complications of heart surgery.

 February 
1
Willie Anku, 60, Ghanaian music theorist, ethnomusicologist, composer, and performer, traffic collision.
Jim Atherton, 86, Welsh footballer.
Julian Edwin Bailes, Sr., 95, American politician, attorney and judge, stroke.
Jack Brisco, 68, American professional wrestler, complications from open heart surgery.
David Brown, 93, American film producer (Jaws, Cocoon, A Few Good Men), renal failure.
Rodolfo de Anda, 66, Mexican actor, thrombosis.
Steingrímur Hermannsson, 81, Icelandic politician, Prime Minister (1983–1987, 1988–1991).
Bobby Kirk, 82, Scottish footballer, dementia.
Atsushi Kuroi, 40, Japanese professional drifting driver, motorcycle accident.
Azzeddine Laraki, 80, Moroccan politician, Prime Minister (1986–1992).Muere el ex primer ministro marroquí Azedine Laraki 
Peter Martell, 71, Italian film actor.
Justin Mentell, 27, American actor (Boston Legal, G-Force), traffic collision.
Subir Raha, 61, Indian executive, chairman and managing director of ONGC (2001–2006), lung cancer.
Jaap van der Poll, 95, Dutch Olympic javelin thrower (1936 Summer Olympics).

2
Juan del Campo, 87, Spanish Olympic field hockey player.
Louisa Benson Craig, 68, Burmese-born American beauty queen and community leader.Louisa Benson Craig Dies Aged 69
Myron Donovan Crocker, 94, American federal judge.
Cochin Haneefa, 58, Indian Malayalam film actor, multiple organ failure.
Futa Helu, 75, Tongan philosopher.
Paul Herlinger, 80, American voice actor,
Tahir Hussain, 72, Indian film director, producer and writer, cardiac arrest.Bollywood Pays Tribute to Aamir Khan's Father Tahir Husain
Bernard Kates, 87, American actor, sepsis and pneumonia.
Svetozar Kurepa, 80, Croatian mathematician.
Aleen Leslie, 101, American screenwriter (A Date with Judy), pneumonia.
Rosa Lobato de Faria, 77, Portuguese writer and actress, complications from anemia.
Eustace Mullins, 86, American political writer, author and biographer, stroke.
Rex Nettleford, 76, Jamaican scholar and choreographer, heart attack.
*Ng Teng Fong, 82, Chinese-born Singaporean businessman, complications from a cerebral hemorrhage.Tycoon Ng Teng Fong dies
Jens-Anton Poulsson, 91, Norwegian military officer and resistance fighter (heavy water sabotage).
Srinivas Rangaraj, 77, Indian cricketer.Srinivas Rangaraj
Nelli Shkolnikova, 82, Ukrainian-born Australian violinist and educator, cancer.
*Raymond Wang Chong Lin, 88, Chinese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Zhaoxian, cerebral hemorrhage.Over twenty thousand Catholics at the funeral of the Bishop of Zhaoxian
Donald Wiseman, 91, British Assyriologist.
William Yurko, 83, Canadian politician, MP for Edmonton East (1979–1984).

3
Faiza Ashraf, 26, Pakistani-Norwegian shop assistant, strangulation.
Claudio Corti, 81, Italian mountaineer.
*Elazar ben Tsedaka ben Yitzhaq, 83, Palestinian Samaritan High Priest.
Frank Fasi, 89, American politician, Mayor of Honolulu (1969–1981, 1984–1994), natural causes.
John McCallum, 91, Australian actor and television producer (Skippy the Bush Kangaroo).Skippy creator dies
Dick McGuire, 84, American basketball player, New York Knicks senior consultant, Basketball Hall of Famer, ruptured aortic aneurysm.
Gil Merrick, 88, English footballer (Birmingham City).
Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen, 85, German princess, wife of Otto von Habsburg.
Frances Reid, 95, American actress (Days of Our Lives).
John Rety, 79, Hungarian-born British poet and anarchist.
Lindsay Thomas, 31, Canadian stage actress, lung cancer.
Georges Wilson, 88, French actor and film director.

4
Kostas Axelos, 85, Greek philosopher.
Gul Hameed Bhatti, 63, Pakistani journalist and editor, stroke.
Bill Dudley, 88, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), Pro Football Hall of Famer, stroke.
Manuel Esteba, 68, Spanish film director.
Richard Lashof, 87, American mathematician, after long illness.
Tomás Mac Giolla, 86, Irish politician, after long illness.
Cecil Heftel, 85, American businessman and politician, U.S. Representative from Hawaii (1977–1986), natural causes.
D. Van Holliday, 69, American physicist, complications of cardiac surgery.
Alfred Käärmann, 87, Estonian resistance fighter, member of the Forest Brothers.
Phillip Martin, 83, American tribal chief (Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians), stroke.
H. A. Perera, 59, Sri Lankan actor, after short illness.
Meir Pichhadze, 54, Georgian-born Israeli artist and painter, cancer.
Joseph Ignace Randrianasolo, 62, Malagasy Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Mahajanga (1999–2010).
Carl E. Taylor, 93, American physician and expert on international health, prostate cancer.
*Te Wei, 95, Chinese animator, respiratory failure.
Helen Tobias-Duesberg, 90, Estonian-born American composer.
Allan Wicks, 86, British organist and choirmaster.

5
Bayken Ashimov, 92, Kazakh politician.
Brendan Burke, 21, Canadian-born American ice hockey player, traffic collision.
Peter Calvocoressi, 97, British historian, publisher and intelligence officer.
Ian Carmichael, 89, British actor (Lucky Jim, Private's Progress, I'm All Right Jack).
Mallia Franklin, 57, American singer.
Galimzyan Khusainov, 72, Russian footballer. 
Sujit Kumar, 75, Indian actor and producer, cancer.Character actor Sujit Kumar no more
Frank Magid, 78, American media consultant, creator of Action News, lymphoma.
Hiroyuki Oze, 24, Japanese baseball player, suicide by jumping.
Clarke Scholes, 79, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1952) swimmer, heart failure.About Clark Scholes
Harry Schwarz, 85, South African lawyer, politician and diplomat, leader of the anti-apartheid movement, after short illness.
Brooks Thomas, 78, American publisher (Harper and Row), complications of a brain injury after a fall.

6
Micky Axton, 91, American aviator (Women Airforce Service Pilots), after short illness.
Albert Booth, 81, British politician, MP for Barrow-in-Furness (1966–1983), Secretary of State for Employment (1976–1979).
Robert Dana, 80, American poet, Iowa poet laureate (2004–2008), pancreatic cancer.
Sir John Dankworth, 82, British jazz musician.
Richard Delvy, 67, American drummer (The Bel-Airs), composer and record producer, after long illness.
Brad Ecklund, 87, American football player (New York Yanks), heart failure.Brad Ecklund, former NFL player and coach
Ernest van der Eyken, 96, Belgian composer, conductor and violist.
Kipkemboi Kimeli, 43, Kenyan athlete, 1988 Olympic bronze medalist, complications from pneumonia and tuberculosis.Kenyan Olympic Medalist Dies
*Lee Yung-dug, 83, South Korean politician, Prime Minister (1994), pneumonia.
Henry A. Miley, Jr., 94, American soldier, U.S. Army four-star general.General Henry A. Miley, Jr.
Lady Marjorie Nellie Murray, 85, British socialite, witness at the Nuremberg and Tokyo war crimes trials.
Nancy Sweezy, 88, American folklorist, potter and writer.Sweezy, 88, revived Jugtown
Donald Welsh, 66, American publisher (Outside), drowning.

7
Lars Aspeflaten, 85, Norwegian barrister and politician.
Franco Ballerini, 45, Italian road racing cyclist, rally crash.
Daniel Joseph Bradley, 82, British physicist.
Jean-Marie Buisset, 71, Belgian Olympic bobsledder and field hockey player, after short illness.
Bobby Dougan, 83, Scottish footballer.Hearts hero Dougan dies at age of 83
André Kolingba, 73, Central African politician, President (1981–1993).
Paul LaPalme, 86, American baseball player, after long illness.
*Lim Soo-hyeok, 40, South Korean baseball player (Lotte Giants), cardiac dysrhythmia.
Mihailo Marković, 86, Serbian philosopher.Preminuo akademik Mihailo Marković 
Kasturi Rajadhyaksha, 86, Indian physician.Kasturi Rajadhyaksha
Robert Roxby, 83, Australian cricketer.
Oscar da Silva, 89, Brazilian Olympic equestrian.Oscar da Silva Bio, Stats, and Results
William Tenn, 89, American science fiction writer and educator, heart failure.William Tenn/Phil Klass (science fiction writer) died today (2/7/10) at the age of 89

8
Angelo Franzosi, 88, Italian footballer.
David Froman, 71, American actor (The Edge of Night, Matlock), cancer.Television actor David Froman dies at age 71
Antonio Giolitti, 94, Italian politician.
Jimmie Heuga, 66, American Alpine ski racer, 1964 Olympic bronze medalist, multiple sclerosis.
Robert Hoy, 82, American actor (The Enforcer) and stuntman, cancer.
Carl Kaysen, 89, American economist, Deputy National Security Advisor (1961–1963), complications from a fall.
Dieter Klauß, 62, German Olympic hockey player.Dieter Klauss Bio, Stats, and Results
Bernard Lander, 94, American rabbi, founder of Touro College.
John Murtha, 77, American politician, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (1974–2010), complications of gallbladder surgery.
Anna Samokhina, 47, Russian actress, stomach cancer.
Krzysztof Skubiszewski, 83, Polish politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1989–1993).
Bobby A. Suarez, 67, Filipino film producer, director and screenwriter.
Wahei Tatematsu, 62, Japanese novelist, multiple organ failure.
Bill Utterback, 79, American illustrator and caricaturist.
Isidoor Van De Wiele, 85, Belgian Olympic sprinter.Isidoor Van De Wiele Bio, Stats, and Results

9
Abdul Karim Amu, 76, Nigerian sprinter.
Chaskel Besser, 86, Polish-born American rabbi.Rabbi Yechezkel Besser, Polish revival trailblazer, dies
John D. Butler, 94, American politician, mayor of San Diego (1951–1955), natural causes.
Davy Coenen, 29, Belgian mountain biker, brain tumor.Coenen dies after brain tumor
Alfred Gregory, 96, British mountain climber and photojournalist.
Phil Harris, 53, American fisherman, reality television participant (Deadliest Catch), stroke.
Jacques Hétu, 71, Canadian composer, lung cancer.
Juris Kalniņš, 71, Latvian basketball player.
Albert Kligman, 93, American dermatologist, inventor of Retin-A, heart attack.
Walter Frederick Morrison, 90, American inventor, designer of the frisbee.
Francine Irving Neff, 84, American politician, Treasurer of the United States (1974–1977), heart failure.
Iza Orjonikidze, 71, Georgian writer and politician, MP (1992–1995), after long illness.
Hastings Shade, 68, American deputy tribal chief of the Cherokee Nation (1999–2003).
David W. Slater, 88, Canadian economist, civil servant and President of York University (1970–1973).David Slater was York’s second president
Patricia Travers, 82, American violinist, cancer.
Malcolm Vaughan, 80, British singer.
Robert Shaw Sturgis Whitman, 94, American Episcopalian priest.

10
Yosef Azran, 69, Israeli rabbi and politician, member of the Knesset (1988–1996), liver failure.
Jack Bownass, 79, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers).
Carl Braun, 82, American basketball player (New York Knicks), natural causes.Former Knicks star Carl Braun dies at 82
Armando Falcão, 90, Brazilian politician, Justice Minister (1974–1979), pneumonia.
Gabriela Konevska-Trajkovska, 38, Macedonian politician, Deputy Prime Minister (2006–2008), after long illness.
Judith Paige Mitchell, 77, American television writer (The Client), cancer.
Michael Palme, 66, German sportswriter and host.
Orlando Peçanha, 74, Brazilian footballer, heart attack.
Gireesh Puthenchery, 48, Indian Malayalam lyricist and screenwriter, brain haemorrhage.
K. N. Raj, 85, Indian economist, after long illness.
Nelis J. Saunders, 88, American politician.
Fred Schaus, 84, American basketball player and coach (Los Angeles Lakers).
Enn Soosaar, 72, Estonian translator, literary critic and publicist.
*José Joaquín Trejos Fernández, 93, Costa Rican President (1966–1970), natural causes.
David Tyacke, 94, British Army general.
Eduard Vinokurov, 67, Russian Olympic fencer (1968, 1972, 1976).Eduard Vinokurov Bio, Stats, and Results
Frederick C. Weyand, 93, American army general, natural causes.
Charlie Wilson, 76, American politician, U.S. Representative (1973–1997), subject of the book and movie Charlie Wilson's War, pulmonary arrest.
H. V. F. Winstone, 83, British writer and journalist, lung cancer.

11
Irina Arkhipova, 85, Russian mezzo-soprano singer, People's Artist of the USSR, cardiac arrest.
Shahid Azmi, 32, Indian lawyer, shot.
Jabez Bryce, 75, Tongan-born Anglican prelate, archbishop of Polynesia (since 1975), first Pacific Islander Anglican bishop.
Iain Burgess, 56, British-born American punk rock record producer, pulmonary embolism.
Jennifer Daugherty, 30, American torture murder victim.
Pio Filippani Ronconi, 89, Italian orientalist.
Walther Fröstell, 96, Swedish Olympic shooter.
Brian Godfrey, 69, Welsh footballer, leukaemia.
Heward Grafftey, 81, Canadian politician, MP for Brome—Missisquoi, Parkinson's disease (1958–1968, 1972–1980).
Arthur H. Hayes, Jr., 76, American public official, Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (1981–1983), leukemia.
Mona Hofland, 80, Norwegian actress, after long illness.
Bo Holmberg, 67, Swedish governor, widower of Anna Lindh.Anna Lindh widower Bo Holmberg dies
Umetsugu Inoue, 86, Japanese film director, cerebral hemorrhage.
Robert Long, 77, New Zealand cricketer.
Alexander McQueen, 40, British fashion designer, suicide by hanging.Alexander McQueen's family left raw by his death
Caroline McWilliams, 64, American actress (Benson, Guiding Light, Mermaids), multiple myeloma.
Paul Rebillot, 78, American psychotherapist, respiratory failure.
E.H. Roelfzema, 62, Dutch writer, artist, poet, and musician.Obituary: E.H. Roelfzema
David Severn, 91, British author.
Yury Sevidov, 68, Russian footballer, Soviet Top League highest goal scorer (1962).Former coach of Neftchi football club dies
Gladys Skillett, 91, British nurse, first Guernsey wartime deportee to give birth in captivity.
Daryle Smith, 46, American football player (Dallas Cowboys).
Duncan Tanner, 51, British historian.
Colin Ward, 85, British anarchist writer.

12
Juan Pedro Amestoy, 84, Uruguayan accountant, politician and ambassador.
Petar Borota, 56, Serbian footballer (Partizan Belgrade and Chelsea), after long illness.
Maria Ragland Davis, 52, American biologist, shot.
Lisa Daniels, 79, British actress.
Ken Emerson, 82, Australian cartoonist (The Warrumbunglers).
Jerry Fahr, 85, American baseball player.
Gino Gardassanich, 87, Italian-born American football player.
Chhaya Ghosh, 69, Indian politician.West Bengal ex-minister Chhaya Ghosh dead
Sheldon Gilgore, 77, American physician, president of Pfizer (1971–1986) and Searle (1986–1995), pancreatic cancer.
Jake Hanna, 78, American jazz drummer, blood disease.
Adriel Johnson, 52, American biologist, shot.
Athan Karras, 82, Greek-born American advocate of Greek dance, complications from coronary artery bypass surgery.
Allan Kornblum, 71, American lawyer, counsel to the F.B.I., esophageal cancer.
Werner Krämer, 70, German footballer.
Nodar Kumaritashvili, 21, Georgian luger, national team member for the 2010 Winter Olympics, training accident.
Miro Mihovilović, 94, Croatian Olympic water polo player.Miro Mihovilović Bio, Stats, and Results
Luis Molowny, 84, Spanish footballer, heart attack.
Leroy Nash, 94, American murderer, oldest death row inmate, natural causes.
Alexis Pappas, 94, Greek-born Norwegian chemist.
G. K. Podila, 52, Indian-born American biologist, shot.
Willie Polland, 75, Scottish footballer (Heart of Midlothian).
Saleban Olad Roble, 46, Somali government minister, injuries sustained in the 2009 Shamo Hotel bombing.
Bernard Smith, 99, American sailboat designer, liver cancer.Dahlgren leader Smith, 99, dies
Grethe Sønck, 80, Danish actress and singer, natural causes.

13
Muhammad al-Rabou'e, 34, Yemeni journalist, shot.
Ralph G. Anderson, 86, American engineer and farmer.
Lucille Clifton, 73, American poet, Poet Laureate of Maryland (1974–1985).
Jock Ferguson, 64, Scottish-born Australian politician, Western Australian Legislative Council (since 2009), heart attack.
Werner Forman, 89, Czech-born British photographer.
Cy Grant, 90, Guyanese-born British actor and activist.
Dale Hawkins, 73, American rockabilly musician, colorectal cancer.
James D. Johnson, 85, American politician and jurist, Arkansas Supreme Court Justice (1959–1966), suicide by gunshot.
Raymond Mason, 87, British sculptor.
Robert J. Myers, 97, American politician, co-creator of the Social Security program, respiratory failure.
Jamil Nasser, 77, American jazz musician, cardiac arrest.
José María Pasquini Durán, 70, Argentine journalist, cardiac arrest.A Los 70 Años Murio el Periodista Jose Maria Pasquini Duran: Una voz que se hizo oír
John Reed, 94, British actor.
Red Rocha, 86, American basketball player and coach (Hawaii Rainbow Warriors).
Roger Thatcher, 83, British statistician.
Gareth Wigan, 78, British film studio executive (Star Wars, Chariots of Fire), after short illness.

14
Ram Sarup Ankhi, 77, Indian writer, poet, and novelist.
Audrey Collins, 94, British cricket player and administrator.
John Downey, 89, British Royal Air Force officer.Air Vice-Marshal John Downey
Doug Fieger, 57, American musician (The Knack), lung cancer.
Dick Francis, 89, British jockey and novelist (Dead Cert).
Helge Høva, 81, Norwegian politician.
Amos Funk, 98, American farm preservationist.Amos Funk, 98, farmland preservation pioneer, dies
Linnart Mäll, 71, Estonian historian, orientalist, translator and politician, cancer.
John Ruan, 96, American entrepreneur and philanthropist, Parkinson's disease.Prominent Iowan John Ruan dies at age 96
John Thorbjarnarson, 52, American conservationist and crocodile expert, malaria.
Jerzy Turek, 76, Polish actor, leukemia.Jerzy Turek nie żyje 
*Zhang Yalin, 28, Chinese football player, lymphoma.

15
W. H. Clatworthy, 94, American mathematician.
Juan Carlos González, 85, Uruguayan football player.Uruguayan football great dies
Ian Gray, 46, Australian football player, homicide by prohibited drug.
Jeanne M. Holm, 88, American general, pneumonia.
Bill Kajikawa, 97, American basketball coach (Arizona State Sun Devils).ASU legend Bill Kajikawa passes away
Dana Kirk, 74, American basketball coach (Memphis Tigers), heart attack.
Rigmor Mydtskov, 84, Danish court photographer.
Fred Peacock, 93, Canadian politician.
Aníbal Portillo, 95, Salvadoran military officer, head of state (1961–1962).
Sylvia Pressler, 75, American jurist, lymphoma.
Alfred Surratt, 87, American baseball player (Kansas City Monarchs), co-founder of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.Alfred "Slick" Surratt's Obituary in the Kansas City Star
Art Van Damme, 89, American jazz musician and accordionist, pneumonia.
George Waring, 84, British actor (Coronation Street), cancer.
Claud William Wright, 93, British civil servant and scientific expert.Claud Wright: Senior civil servant who was also a leading expert in geology, palaeontology and archaeology

16
Jim Bibby, 65, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates), bone cancer.
John Davis Chandler, 73, American actor (Adventures in Babysitting, The Outlaw Josey Wales).
William E. Gordon, 92, American inventor, designer of the Arecibo Radio Telescope, natural causes.
Martin Grossman, 45, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
Jim Harmon, 76, American science fiction writer, heart attack.
Ronald Howes, 83, American inventor, designer of Easy-Bake Oven.
Andrew Koenig, 41, American actor (Growing Pains), suicide by hanging.
Ino Kolbe, 95, German Esperanto expert.
Ian Roderick Macneil, 80, American-born lawyer and Scottish clan chief.
Mike Pittilo, 55, British biologist and educator, Principal of Robert Gordon University.
*Wan Chi Keung, 53, Hong Kong footballer, actor, and businessman, nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
Jim Waugh, 76, American baseball player.

17
Roger-Émile Aubry, 86, Swiss-born Bolivian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Reyes (1973–1999).
Chaturvedi Badrinath, 76, Indian officer and author.
Lottie Beck, 81, American baseball player (AAGPBL)
Arnold Beichman, 96, American writer and journalist.Arnold Beichman, 1913-2010
Bjørn Benkow, 70, Norwegian journalist.
Giulio de Florian, 74, Italian Olympic cross-country skier.
Makoto Fujita, 76, Japanese actor and comedian, ruptured artery.
Kathryn Grayson, 88, American actress and singer.
Ruby Hunter, 54, Australian singer and musician, heart attack.
Abdulkhakim Ismailov, 93, Russian Red Army soldier, World War II hero, natural causes.
David Lelei, 38, Kenyan middle distance runner, traffic collision.Former Kenyan athletics champion dies in crash
Ignatius P. Lobo, 90, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Belgaum (1967–1994).
Martha Mercader, 83, Argentine politician and writer.Murió Marta Mercader 
Hans Ørberg, 89, Danish linguist.
Witold Skaruch, 80, Polish actor.
Luigi Ulivelli, 74, Italian Olympic athlete.

18
John Babcock, 109, Canadian soldier, Canada's last surviving World War I veteran.Canada's last WW I veteran dies
Erwin Bachmann, 88, German Waffen-SS officer.
Asta Backman, 93, Finnish actress.
Bob Chakales, 82, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians).Bob Chakales' Obituary in the Richmond Times-Dispatch
Barton Childs, 93, American physician and geneticist, complications of lung cancer.
Amlan Datta, 85, Indian economist and teacher.
Alan Gordon, 65, Scottish football player, cancer.
Fernando Krahn, 75, Chilean plastic artist and illustrator.
Emilio Lavazza, 78, Italian businessman, President of Lavazza Coffee (1979–2008).
Nirmal Pandey, 48, Indian actor, heart attack.
Richard Proulx, 72, American choral conductor and composer.
Ariel Ramírez, 88, Argentine composer and pianist, pneumonia.

19
George Cisar, 99, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).
Daddy, 16, American Pit Bull Terrier, appeared with owner Cesar Millan in Dog Whisperer, euthanized due to cancer.
Jamie Gillis, 66, American pornographic film actor, melanoma.
Bruno Gironcoli, 73, Austrian sculptor, after long illness.
Lionel Jeffries, 83, British film actor, screenwriter and director.
Rudy Larriva, 94, American animator and animation director (Looney Tunes, The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show).
Rafael Muñoz Núñez, 85, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Zacatecas (1972–1984) and Aguascalientes (1984–1998).
Elli Parvo, 95, Italian film actress.
Giovanni Pettenella, 66, Italian Olympic cyclist.
Walter Plowright, 86, British veterinary scientist.
Laura Spurr, 64, American chairwoman of the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi since 2003, heart attack.
Bull Verweij, 100, Dutch businessman, co-founder of Radio Veronica.
Mladen Veža, 94, Croatian painter.

20
Chandan Mal Baid, 88, Indian politician.
Ghantasala Balaramayya, 78, Indian producer, director and actor.
Bobby Cox, 76, Scottish footballer (Dundee).
Georges Charachidzé, 80, French scholar of the Caucasian cultures.Georges Charachidzé, linguiste et historien, spécialiste du Caucase 
Juanita Goggins, 75, American politician, first black woman in South Carolina Legislature, hypothermia. (estimated date of death)
Linda Grover, 76, American peace activist, founder of Global Family Day, uterine and ovarian cancer.
Alexander Haig, 85, American politician and diplomat, Secretary of State (1981–1982), complications from an infection.
Sam Hamilton, 54, American public official, Director of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service since 2009, heart attack.
Sandy Kenyon, 87, American character and voice actor (The Twilight Zone, Here Comes Garfield).
Henry Kučera, 85, Czech-born American linguist.
Niall McCrudden, 45, Irish optician and socialite.
Padmanabham, 78, Indian actor, heart attack. 
Jason Wood, 38, British comedian and reality television contestant (Strictly Come Dancing).

21
Seth G. Atwood, 92, American industrialist, community leader, and horological collector.
Bob Doe, 89, British airman, Royal Air Force flying ace.
Jacek Karpiński, 83, Polish computer scientist.
Veini Kontinen, 82, Finnish Olympic skier.Veini Kontinen Bio, Stats, and Results
Vladimir Motyl, 82, Russian film director and scenarist, cervical fractures and pneumonia.
Albader Parad, Filipino militant (Abu Sayyaf), shot.
Vesa Pulliainen, 52, Finnish Olympic footballer.Vesa Pulliainen Bio, Stats, and Results
Casimir Johannes Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, 93, German nobleman, businessman and politician.
William E. Skillend, 83, British scholar of Korean language.
George Strickland, 84, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Cleveland Indians).
James Wieghart, 76, American newspaper editor (New York Daily News), pneumonia.

22
*Juan Angel Belda Dardiñá, 83, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Jaca (1978–1983) and León (1983–1987).
Michael J. Bradley, 76, British diplomat, Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands (1987–1993).
Robert Carter, 82, American priest and gay rights activist, a founder of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
Fred Chaffart, 74, Belgian businessperson.
Henry Cosgrove, 87, Australian judge, Judge of the Supreme Court of Tasmania (1977–1988).
Robin Davies, 56, British actor, lung cancer.
Hillar Eller, 70, Estonian politician, former chairman of the Estonian Left Party (1995–1996).
Eugene Lambert, 82, Irish puppeteer and ventriloquist (Wanderly Wagon).
Nelly Landry, 93, Belgian-born French tennis player.
Rozy Munir, 67, Indonesian diplomat, ambassador to Qatar, liver cancer.
Menachem Porush, 93, Israeli politician, Member of Knesset (1959–1975, 1977–1994).
Bobby Smith, 56, Scottish footballer, cancer.
Charles Stenvig, 82, American politician, Mayor of Minneapolis (1969–1973, 1975–1977).
Mohammed Zaman, 44, Afghan political and military leader, victim of suicide bombing.

23
John Hollings Addison, 80, Canadian politician and business executive.
Vyacheslav Andreyuk, 64, Soviet Russian football player.
Clarence R. Autery, 76, American general.
Bill Burtenshaw, 84, British footballer.William "Bill" Burtenshaw 
Michael Clancy, 60, Saint Helena politician and Governor (2004–2007), cancer.St Helena Mourns Former Governor
Mervyn Jones, 87, British journalist, biographer and novelist.
Abune Zena Markos, 72, Ethiopian Archbishop, complications from pneumonia.
Wyn Morris, 81, British conductor.
Gerhardt Neef, 63, German footballer (Rangers), throat cancer.
Henri Salmide, 90, German World War II naval officer, saved Bordeaux port from destruction.
Mosi Tatupu, 54, American football player (New England Patriots).
Derek Vanlint, 78, British-born Canadian cinematographer (Alien), short illness.
Orlando Zapata, 42, Cuban dissident, hunger strike.

24
Antonio Alegre, 85, Argentine businessman, President of Boca Juniors (1985–1995).
Delmo da Silva, 55, Brazilian Olympic sprinter.Delmo da Silva Bio, Stats, and Results
Ang It-hong, 82, Taiwanese singer, songwriter, composer and actor, pancreatic cancer.
Dawn Brancheau, 40, American SeaWorld trainer, killer whale attack.
Carlo Cicuttini, 63, Italian neo-fascist and terrorist.
Jake Elder, 73, American NASCAR crew chief, natural causes.
Howard George, 75, American Olympic wrestler.Howard George Bio, Stats, and Results
Richard Gruenwald, 93, Canadian politician, Alberta MLA for Lethbridge-West (1971–1975).
Dagfin Huseby, 87, Norwegian Olympic wrestler.Dagfin Huseby Bio, Stats, and Results
C. R. Johnson, 26, American newschool skier, skiing accident.
Birgitta Lindqvist, 67, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier.Birgitta Lindqvist Bio, Stats, and Results
Charles MacArthur, 89, Canadian politician, MLA for Inverness (1983–1998).

25
Henry Barron, 81, Irish jurist, Supreme Court of Ireland (1997–2003), after short illness.
Ernst Beyeler, 88, Swiss art collector.
Barbara Bray, 85, British translator.
Aaron Cohen, 79, American aerospace engineer, Director of Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (1986–1993), after long illness.
İhsan Doğramacı, 94, Turkish physician and academic, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
Vladislav Galkin, 38, Russian actor, heart failure.
Gheorghe Gaston Marin, 91, Romanian politician.
Donald Merrifield, 81, American Jesuit, first president of Loyola Marymount University (1973–1984), heart attack.
John Bernard McDowell, 88, American Roman Catholic prelate, Titular Bishop of Tamazuca (1966–1996).
Oscar Ravina, 79, Polish-born American violinist.Oscar Ravina's Obituary in The New York Times
David Soyer, 87, American cellist (Guarneri Quartet).
Efren Torres, 66, Mexican former world flyweight champion boxer, heart attack.
Ali Tounsi, 76, Algerian police official, Chief of National Police, shot.
Tuomo Tuormaa, 83, Finnish Olympic sprint canoer.
Ahmet Vardar, 73, Turkish journalist and writer, pancreatic cancer.
Frank Williams, 73, American architect (Trump Palace, Four Seasons Hotel New York), esophageal cancer.

26
María Elisa Álvarez Obaya, 76, Spanish pharmacist.
Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr., 92, American political photographer (Bachrach Studios).
Violet Barclay, 87, American comic book artist.
Tom Bass, 93, Australian sculptor.
Barry Bowen, 64, Belizean bottling magnate and politician, plane crash.
Francisco Cabrera Santos, 63, Venezuelan politician, mayor of Valencia, Carabobo.
Bernard Coutaz, 87, French music publisher, founder of Harmonia Mundi.
Richard Devon, 83, American character actor (Lassie), vascular disease.
Charles le Gai Eaton, 89, Swiss-born British diplomat and author.
Andrew Jaffe, 71, American journalist (Adweek), revived the Clio Awards, multiple myeloma.
Ivaylo Kirov, 63, Bulgarian Olympic basketball player.Ivaylo Kirov Bio, Stats, and Results
Robert McCall, 90, American artist, heart failure.
Nujabes, 36, Japanese hip hop composer (Samurai Champloo), traffic collision.
Jacques J. Polak, 95, Dutch economist.
Dave Sheasby, 69, British playwright, radio producer and dramatist.

27
David Bankier, 63, German-born Israeli Holocaust scholar.
Black Bear Island, app. 4, Irish Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
Larry Cassidy, 56, British bass guitarist and singer (Section 25).
Charlie Crowe, 85, English footballer (Newcastle United), Alzheimer's disease.
Frans De Blaes, 100, Belgian Olympic sprint canoer.
Nanaji Deshmukh, 93, Indian social activist and politician, after long illness.
Anna Fárová, 81, Czech photography historian and advocate, Charter 77 signatory.
Madeleine Ferron, 87, Canadian author, Alzheimer's disease.
Eli Fischer-Jørgensen, 99, Danish linguist and World War II resistance member.
Rosemary Goldie, 94, Australian Roman Catholic theologian, Under-Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Laity (1967–1976).
Jonathan May, 51, American cellist and conductor, stroke.
František Nedvěd, 59, Czech Olympic weightlifter.František Nedvěd Bio, Stats, and Results
Hank Rosenstein, 89, American basketball player (New York Knicks), heart failure.
Nathan Scott, 94, American film and television composer (Lassie, The Twilight Zone, Dragnet), natural causes.
Oleg Stepanov, 70, Russian judoka, 1964 Olympic bronze medal winner.
Wendy Toye, 92, British filmmaker.British film-maker Wendy Toye dies aged 92
Roger Veeser, 90, Swiss Olympic athlete.Roger Veeser Bio, Stats, and Results

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David Amland, 79, American painter and art educator.
Edward L. Athey, 88, American football, basketball and baseball player, baseball and basketball coach.
Martin Benson, 91, British actor (The Omen, Cleopatra, Goldfinger).Actor Martin Benson dies
Adam Blacklaw, 72, Scottish footballer (Burnley).
Gerald Butler, 79, British jurist and broadcaster, heart attack.
Theodore Cross, 86, American publisher and civil rights activist, heart failure.
Bohdan Ejmont, 82, Polish actor.
Rose Gray, 71, British restaurateur (The River Café) and food writer, brain cancer.
Gene Greytak, 84, American impressionist (Pope John Paul II), cancer.
Chushiro Hayashi, 89, Japanese astrophysicist, pneumonia.
Phillip Law, 97, Australian scientist and explorer (Australian Antarctic Territory).
José Mindlin, 95, Brazilian businessman and bibliophile, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
Carlos Montemayor, 62, Mexican writer, stomach cancer.
Nikolay Surov, 62, Russian Olympic rower.
Jorge Villamil, 80, Colombian composer, complications from diabetes.
George Watt, 92, Australian rugby league footballer.
Tom Wolk, 58, American bass guitarist (Hall & Oates), heart attack.

 March 
 March 1 - Vladimir Ilyushin, 82, Russian pilot.
 March 2 - Winston Spencer Churchill, 69, British politician, grandson of former Prime Minister, Winston Churchill.
 March 3 - Michael Foot, 96, British politician.
 March 3 - Keith Alexander, 53, English footballer.
 March 4 - Vladislav Ardzinba, 64, Abkhazian politician.
 March 5 - Philip Langridge, 70, British tenor.
 March 7 - Kenneth Dover, 89, British classicist.
 March 9 - Granny D, 100, American political activist.
 March 10 - Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, 81, Egyptian Muslim cleric.
 March 10 - Corey Haim, 38, Canadian actor, drug overdose.
 March 10 - Dorothy Janis, 100, American actress.
 March 12 - Miguel Delibes, 89, Spanish author and journalist, cancer.
 March 12 - Glauco Villas Boas, 53, Brazilian Cartoonist, Underground comic book illustrator and Cult Leader, Assassination
 March 14 - Peter Graves, 83, American actor, heart attack.
 March 16 - Ksenija Pajcin, 32, Serbian musician.
 March 17 - Alex Chilton, 59, American musician.
 March 18 - Fess Parker, 85, American actor.
 March 20 - Stewart Udall, 90, American politician.
 March 20 - Girija Prasad Koirala, 85, Nepalese politician.
 March 20 - Harry Carpenter, 84, British sports commentator.
 March 21 - Wolfgang Wagner, 90, German opera director, grandson of Richard Wagner, great-grandson of Franz Liszt.
 March 22 - Valentina Tolkunova, 63, Russian singer, cancer.
 March 22 - Sir James W. Black, 85, British physician, winner 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
 March 24 - Robert Culp, 79, American actor, injuries from a fall.
 March 25 - Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, 93, German political scientist.
 March 27 - Stanley Vann, 100, British church musician.
 March 27 - Vasily Smyslov, 89, Soviet, world chess champion.
 March 27 - Peter Herbolzheimer, 74, German jazz musician.
 March 27 - Dick Giordano, 77, American comic book artist.
 March 28 - June Havoc, 97, American actress.
 March 28 - Herb Ellis, 88, American musician. 
 March 30 - Martin Sandberger, 98, German military officer.

 April 
 April 1 - Ed Roberts, 68, American computer pioneer.
 April 1 - John Forsythe, 92, American actor, pneumonia.
 April 3 - Eugene Terre'Blanche, 69, South African political activist, beaten.
 April 5 - Vitaly Sevastyanov, 74, Soviet cosmonaut.
 April 6 - Corin Redgrave, 70, British political activist.
 April 7 - Christopher Cazenove, 64, British actor, sepsis.
 April 8 - Malcolm McLaren, 64, British music manager, mesothelioma.
 April 8 - Abel Muzorewa, 84, former bishop and Prime Minister of Zimbabwe.
 April 9 - Meinhardt Raabe, 94, American actor.
 April 10 - Maria Kaczyńska, 67, First Lady of Poland, plane crash.
 April 10 - Lech Kaczynski, 60, President of Poland, plane crash.
 April 10 - Ryszard Kaczorowski, 90, Polish politician, plane crash.
 April 10 - Dixie Carter, 70, American actress, cancer.
 April 12 - Werner Schroeter, 65, German movie director.
 April 14 - Israr Ahmed, 77, Pakistani Islamic scholar, heart attack.
 April 14 - Peter Steele, 48, American gothic metal musician, heart attack.
 April 16 - Carlos Franqui, 88, Cuban writer and political activist.
 April 16 - Tomas Spidlik, 90, Czech cardinal
 April 19 - Guru, 48, American rapper, multiple myeloma.
 April 20 - Dorothy Height, 98, American civil rights activist.
 April 21 - Juan Antonio Samaranch, 89, Spanish former President of the International Olympic Committee
 April 25 - Alan Sillitoe, 82, British writer.
 April 26 - Prabha Rau, 75, Indian politician, heart attack.
 April 30 - Paul Mayer, 98, German cardinal

 May 
 May 2 - Kama Chinen, 114, Japanese supercentenarian, officially the oldest person in the world at the time of her death.
 May 2 - Lynn Redgrave, 67, Anglo-American actress, breast cancer.
 May 3 - Florencio Campomanes, 83, Filipino chessplayer & President of FIDE.
 May 3 - Guenter Wendt, 86, German-American NASA engineer.
 May 4 - Luigi Poggi, 92, Italian cardinal.
 May 4 - Michael Thalbourne, 55, Australian physician
 May 5 - Giulietta Simionato, 99, Italian opera singer.
 May 5 - Umaru Yar'Adua, 58, President of Nigeria, after long illness.
 May 7 - Wally Hickel, 90, American politician, 2nd Governor of Alaska.
 May 8 - Andor Lilienthal, 99, Hungarian chess player.
 May 9 - Lena Horne, 92, American singer and actress.
 May 9 - Acharya Mahapragya, 89, Indian religious leader (Jainism), heart attack.
 May 10 - Frank Frazetta, 82, American artist.
 May 15 - Besian Idrizaj, 22, Austrian football player, heart attack.
 May 15 - Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, 86, former Vice-President of India.
 May 15 - John Shepherd-Barron, 84, Scottish inventor, invented the ATM.
 May 16 - Oswaldo López Arellano, 88, former President of Honduras.
 May 16 - Hank Jones, 91, American jazz pianist.
 May 16 - Ronnie James Dio, 67, American heavy metal musician, stomach cancer.
 May 17 - Yvonne Loriod, 86, French pianist.
 May 17 - Khattiya Sawasdipol, 58, Thai General, shot.
 May 17 - Bobbejaan Schoepen, 85, Belgian singer.
 May 18 - Edoardo Sanguineti, 79, Italian writer.
 May 20 - Walter Rudin, 89, Austrian-born mathematician.
 May 22 - Martin Gardner, 95, American author.
 May 23 - Leonida Georgievna, 95, Russian Grand Duchess.
 May 24 - Paul Gray, 38, American musician (Slipknot).
 May 25 - Siphiwo Ntshebe, 35, South African singer.
 May 26 - Art Linkletter, 97, Canadian-American television personality.
 May 27 - John William Finn, 100, American Navy officer.
 May 28 - Gary Coleman, 42, American actor, cerebral hemorrhage.
 May 29 - Dennis Hopper, 74, American actor, prostate cancer.
 May 31 - Louise Bourgeois, 98, French-American artist and sculptor.

 June 
 June 1 - Kazuo Ohno, 103, Japanese dancer.
 June 1 - Andrey Voznesensky, 77, Russian poet.
 June 2 - Giuseppe Taddei, 93, Italian opera singer.
 June 3 - Vladimir Arnold, 72, Russian mathematician.
 June 3 - Rue McClanahan, 76, American actress, stroke.
 June 4 - John Wooden, 99, American basketball player and coach, natural causes.
 June 7 - Mordechai Eliyahu, 81, Israeli rabbi.
 June 7 - Stuart Cable, 40, British drummer.
 June 9 - Marina Semyonova, 101, Russian ballerina.
 June 10 - Ferdinand Oyono, 80, Cameroonian writer.
 June 10 - Sigmar Polke, 69, German painter.
 June 13 - Jimmy Dean, 81, American country music singer.
 June 14 - Leonid Kizim, 68, Soviet cosmonaut.
 June 15 - Heidi Kabel, 95, German actress.
 June 16 - Ronald Neame, 99, British movie director.Internet Movie Database article on Ronald Neame
 June 18 - Marcel Bigeard, 94, French military officer.
 June 18 - José Saramago, 87, Portuguese writer, winner 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature.
 June 19 - Manute Bol, 47, Sudanese basketball player, kidney failure.
 June 19 - Carlos Monsivais, 72, Mexican writer and journalist.
 June 20 - Roberto Rosato, 66, Italian footballer.
 June 21 - Stanley Lucas, 110, British supercentenarian, oldest man in Europe at the time of his death.
 June 23 - Mohamed Mzali, 84, former Prime Minister of Tunisia.
 June 26 - Algirdas Brazauskas, 77, former President of Lithuania.
 June 28 - Robert Byrd, 92, American senator.

 July 
 July 2 - Beryl Bainbridge, 77, British writer, cancer.
 July 3 - Abu Daoud, 73, Palestinian politician and military commander.Reuters article on Abu Daoud
 July 3 - Herbert Erhardt, 79, German footballer.
 July 4 - Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, 74, Lebanese spiritual leader.
 July 5 - David Fanshawe, 68, British composer and explorer.
 July 5 - Bob Probert, 45, Canadian ice hockey player.
 July 5 - Cesare Siepi, 87, Italian opera singer.New York Times article on Cesare Siepi
 July 5 - Nasr Abu Zayd, 66, Egyptian-Dutch academic.
 July 6 - Werner Schmalenbach, 89, German art historian and curator.
 July 10 - Sugar Minott, 54, Jamaican reggae singer.
 July 10 - Raoul Moat, 37, British murderer, suicide by gunshot.Daily Mail article on Raoul Moat
 July 11 - Bob Sheppard, 99, American public address and baseball announcer, natural causes.
 July 12 - Günter Behnisch, 88, German architect.Architect Magazine article on Günter Behnisch
 July 12 - Harvey Pekar, 70, American comic, writer, and music critic.Huffington Post article on Harvey Pekar
 July 13 - George Steinbrenner, 80, American baseball team owner, heart attack.ESPN article on George Steinbrenner
 July 14 - Charles Mackerras, 84, Australian conductor.Washington Post article on Charles Mackerras
 July 14 - Madalina Manole, 43, Romanian singer.
 July 17 - Bernard Giraudeau, 63, French actor, director and writer.Internet Movie Database article on Bernard Giraudeau
 July 19 - David Warren, 85, Australian inventor.
 July 20 - Benedikt Sigurdsson Grondal, 86, Icelandic politician.
 July 21 - Luis Corvalan, 93, Chilean politician.
 July 21 - Anthony Rolfe Johnson, 69, British operatic tenor
 July 24 - Theo Albrecht, 88, German businessman (Aldi Nord).
 July 24 - Alex Higgins, 61, Northern Irish snooker player, throat cancer.
 July 25 - Vasco de Almeida e Costa, 77, Portuguese politician.
 July 27 - Maury Chaykin, 61, Canadian actor.
 July 27 - Wallace Souza, 51, Brazilian entertainer, politician, and criminal.
 July 29 - Zheng Ji, 110, Chinese supercentenarian, nutritionist and biochemist.
 July 31 - Suso Cecchi d'Amico, 96, Italian screenwriter.
 July 31 - Mitch Miller, 99, American music executive and television host.

 August 
 August 5 - Godfrey Binaisa, 90, Ugandan politician and former President.
 August 6 - Catfish Collins, 66, American guitarist (James Brown, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Parliament-Funkadelic), cancer.
 August 6 - Fredrik Ericsson, 35, Swedish climber, fall on K2.
 August 6 - Tony Judt, 62, British historian.
 August 7 - Bruno Cremer, 80, French actor.
 August 8 - Patricia Neal, 84, American actress, lung cancer.
 August 8 - Massamasso Tchangai, 32, Togolese footballer, heart attack.
 August 9 - Ted Stevens, 86, United States Senator, plane crash.
 August 10 - Antonio Pettigrew, 42, American athlete.
 August 12 - Guido de Marco, 79, former President of Malta.
 August 13 - Lance Cade, 29, American wrestler.
 August 14 - Abbey Lincoln, 80, American jazz singer and actress.
 August 15 - Lionel Regal, 37, French hillclimbing racer.
 August 16 - Nicola Cabibbo, 75, Italian physicist.
 August 16 - Dimitrios Ioannidis, 87, Greek military officer.
 August 17 - Francesco Cossiga, 82, 8th President of Italy.
 August 18 - Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma, 80, Spanish aristocrat, cancer.
 August 19 - Ahna Capri, 66, American Actress, car accident.
 August 21 - Christoph Schlingensief, 49, German movie and theatre director, lung cancer.
 August 22 - Stjepan Bobek, 86, Croatian footballer.
 August 23 - Satoshi Kon, 46, Japanese movie director, pancreatic cancer.
 August 26 - William B. Lenoir, 71, American astronaut, died from head injuries caused by a bicycle accident.
 August 26 - Raimon Panikkar, 91, Indian-Spanish theologian.
 August 27 - Anton Geesink, 76, Dutch judoka.
 August 28 - Sinan Hasani, 88, 10th President of Yugoslavia.
 August 30 - J. C. Bailey, 27, American professional wrestler.
 August 30 - Alain Corneau, 67, French filmmaker, cancer.
 August 30 - Francisco Varallo, 100, Argentine footballer.
 August 31 - Laurent Fignon, 50, French road bicycle racer, cancer.

 September 
 September 2 - Shmuel Eisenstadt, 86, Israeli sociologist.
 September 5 - Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, 88, Dutch painter.
 September 5 - Shoya Tomizawa, 19, Japanese motorcycle racer, motorcycle accident.
 September 7 - Amar Garibovic, 19, Serbian skier, car crash.
 September 8 - Israel Tal, 85, Israeli general.
 September 9 - Bent Larsen, 75, Danish chess player.
 September 11 - Kevin McCarthy, 96, American actor.
 September 12 - Claude Chabrol, 80, French movie director.
 September 18 - Egon Klepsch, 80, German politician.
 September 20 - Fud Leclerc, 86, Belgian singer.
 September 22 - Eddie Fisher, 82, American singer.
 September 22 - Jorge Gonzalez, 44, Argentine basketball player and wrestler, diabetes.
 September 24 - Gennady Yanayev, 73, Soviet politician.
 September 25 - Art Gilmore, 98, American radio, television announcer.
 September 26 - Gloria Stuart, 100, American actress.
 September 28 - Arthur Penn, 88, American director and producer.
 September 29 - Tony Curtis, 85, American actor.
 September 29 - Georges Charpak, 86, Polish-born French physicist.
 September 29 - Greg Giraldo, 44, American comedian, overdose on prescription medication.
 September 30 - Stephen J. Cannell, 69, American television producer and writer.

 October 
 October 3 - Philippa Foot, 90, British philosopher.
 October 4 - Norman Wisdom, 95, British actor and comedian.
 October 5 - Bernard Clavel, 87, French writer.
 October 7 - Milka Planinc, 85, Yugoslavian politician, former Prime Minister.
 October 9 - Maurice Allais, 99, French economist, winner 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics, natural causes.
 October 10 - Solomon Burke, 70, American singer-songwriter, natural causes.
 October 10 - Hwang Jang-yop, 87, North Korean politician and defector.
 October 10 - Joan Sutherland, 83, Australian soprano.
 October 12 - Manuel Alexandre, 92, Spanish actor, cancer.
 October 14 - Simon MacCorkindale, 58, British actor, bowel cancer.
 October 14 - Benoit Mandelbrot, 85, French-American mathematician, pancreatic cancer.
 October 14 - Hermann Scheer, 66, German politician, heart failure.
 October 16 - Barbara Billingsley, 94, American actress, polymyalgia.
 October 19 - Tom Bosley, 83, American actor, heart failure.
 October 20 - Bob Guccione, 79, American founder of Penthouse magazine, lung cancer.
 October 20 - Sardar Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari, 70, former President of Pakistan.
 October 21 - Loki Schmidt, 91, German environmentalist and wife of former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt, illness after fall.
 October 23 - David Thompson, 48, Prime Minister of Barbados, pancreatic cancer.
 October 25 - Gregory Isaacs, 59, Jamaican musician, lung cancer.
 October 26 - Paul the Octopus, 2, FIFA World Cup oracle, natural causes.
 October 27 - Néstor Kirchner, 60, former President of Argentina, heart attack.
 October 28 - Jonathan Motzfeldt, 72, Greenlandic politician, two-time former Prime Minister, cancer.
 October 30 - Harry Mulisch, 83, Dutch writer, cancer.

 November 
 November 1 - Ed Litzenberger, 78, Canadian ice hockey player.
 November 2 - Rudolf Barshai, 86, Russian conductor.
 November 3 - Viktor Chernomyrdin, 72, Russian politician, former Prime Minister, cancer.
 November 4 - Eugenie Blanchard, 114, French-Caribbean supercentenarian, world's oldest living person.
 November 5 - Hajo Herrmann, 97, German Luftwaffe pilot.
 November 5 - Jill Clayburgh, 66, American actress, chronic leukemia.
 November 8 - Emilio Eduardo Massera, 85, Argentine military officer.
 November 10 - Dino De Laurentiis, 91, Italian movie producer.
 November 12 - Henryk Gorecki, 76, Polish composer, after long illness.
 November 13 - Luis Garcia Berlanga, 89, Spanish movie director.
 November 15 - Larry Evans, 78, American chess player.
 November 17 - Olavo Rodrigues Barbosa, 87, Brazilian footballer, cancer.
 November 18 - Gaye Stewart, 87, Canadian ice hockey player.
 November 21 - David Nolan, 66, American activist and politician.
 November 22 - Frank Fenner, 95, Australian scientist.
 November 23 - Ingrid Pitt, 73, Polish-born British actress.
 November 24 - Huang Hua, 97, Chinese politician.
 November 27 - Irvin Kershner, 87, American movie director, after long illness.
 November 28 - Leslie Nielsen, 84, Canadian-born American actor, complications from pneumonia.
 November 29 - Mario Monicelli, 95, Italian movie director, suicide.
 November 29 - Maurice Wilkes, 97, British computer scientist.
 November 29 - Bella Akhmadulina, 73, Russian poet.

 December 

 December 1 - Adriaan Blaauw, 96, Dutch astronomer.
 December 2 - Ron Santo, 70. American baseball player, cancer.
 December 2 - Lee Huan, 93, Taiwanese politician, former Premier of the Republic of China.
 December 3 - Hugues Cuenod, 108, Swiss tenor.
 December 5 - Don Meredith, 72, American football player and television announcer, brain hemorrhage.
 December 9 - James Moody, 85, American jazz musician, pancreatic cancer.
 December 10 - John Bennett Fenn, 93, American chemist, Nobel laureate.
 December 12 - Tom Walkinshaw, 64, British engineer and racing team owner.
 December 13 - Richard Holbrooke, 69, American diplomat, complications from a torn aorta.
 December 15 - Blake Edwards, 88, American movie director, complications from pneumonia
 December 15 - Bob Feller, 92, American baseball player.
 December 15 - Jean Rollin, 72, French movie director, actor and writer.
 December 17 - Captain Beefheart, 69, American musician.
 December 18 - Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, 70, Italian banker and politician.
 December 20 - Brian Hanrahan, 61, British journalist, cancer.
 December 21 - Enzo Bearzot, 83, Italian footballer and coach.
 December 23 - K. Karunakaran, 92, Indian-Keralan politician, stroke.
 December 24 - Elisabeth Beresford, 84, British author.
 December 24 - Roy Neuberger, 107, American banker and art collector.
December 24 - Eino Tamberg, 80, Estonian composer.
 December 25 - Carlos Andrés Pérez, 88, 55th President of Venezuela, cardiac arrest.
 December 26 - Teena Marie, 54, American singer-songwriter.
December 26 - Salvador Jorge Blanco, 84, 48th President of the Dominican Republic, complications from fall.
 December 27 - Ronald Lee Herrick, 79, first organ donor, complications from heart surgery.
 December 28 - Billy Taylor, 89, American jazz musician, cardiac arrest.
December 29 - Avi Cohen, 54, Israeli footballer, complications of head injuries.
December 30 - Bobby Farrell, 61, Aruban performer.
December 30 - Ellis Clarke, 93, 1st President of Trinidad and Tobago, complications from a stroke.
December 31 - Syd Ward, 103, New Zealand cricketer.

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