Deaths in May 2012

The following is a list of **notable deaths in May 2012**.

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

## May 2012
 1948-2012]]
 1949-2012]]
### 1
*Gonçalo Amorim, 39, Portuguese Olympic cyclist.
*Gogó Andreu, 92, Argentine comedian and actor.
*Cali Carranza, 59, American Tejano musician, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
*Harold L. Colburn Jr., 86, American physician and politician.
*Gale Dixon, 65–66, American actress and singer, pancreatic cancer.
*Joseph Erhardy, 83, American sculptor.
*Gord Fashoway, 85, Canadian ice hockey player.
*Rufina Gasheva, 90, Soviet Russian flight navigator.
*John Spencer Hardy, 98, American lieutenant general, NATO commander for Southern Europe.
*Harold K. Hoskins, 85, American pilot, Tuskegee Airman, Congressional Gold Medal winner, complications from a fall.
*Greg Jackson, 60, American basketball player (New York Knicks, Phoenix Suns), heart attack.
*Eric James, 87, British Anglican clergyman and broadcaster.
*Senteza Kajubi, 86, Ugandan university administrator and academic.
*James Kinley, 86, Canadian engineer and industrialist, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (1994–2000).
*Daniel Mulumba, 49, Ugandan Olympic swimmer.
*Viktoras Petkus, 83, Lithuanian political activist and dissident.
*Charles Pitts, 65, American soul musician, guitarist for Isaac Hayes, lung cancer.
*Harriet Presser, 76, American sociologist and demographer.
*Earl Rose, 85, American medical examiner, attempted to autopsy President Kennedy after assassination, Parkinson's disease.
*Shanmugasundari, 75, Indian film actress, heart attack.
*Mordechai Virshubski, 82, Israeli politician, MK (1977–1992) and Deputy Speaker of the Knesset (1988–1992).
*Arnold Manaaki Wilson, 83, New Zealand artist and educator.

### 2
*Bram Bogart, 90, Dutch-born Belgian painter.
*Michel Boudart, 87, American chemical engineer.
*William Francis Brace, 85, American geophysicist.
*Ranjit Cheema, Canadian gangster and drug trader, shot.
*Razia Matin Chowdhury, 87, Bangladeshi politician, old age complications.
*Peter Connolly, 77, British historian.
*Shirin Darasha, 73, Indian theatre director, pulmonary fibrosis.
*Mark Deutch, 67, Russian journalist, drowned.
*Andrew Ganigan, 59, American former NABF lightweight champion boxer, cancer.
*Nélida Gómez de Navajas, 84, Argentine human rights activist (Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo).
*Fernando Lopes, 76, Portuguese film director, throat cancer.
*Zenaida Manfugás, 80, Cuban-born American pianist.
*James Marker, 90, American-born Canadian businessman, inventor of Cheezies.
*Charlotte Mitchell, 85, British actress.
*Tufan Miñnullin, 76, Russian Tatar writer and playwright, heart attack.
*Les Mogg, 82, Australian football player.
*Donald L. Owens, 82, American military officer.
*Ernst Rau, 85, German Olympic fencer.
*J. T. Ready, 39, American border militia leader, former neo-Nazi, suicide by gunshot.
*Tracy Reed, 69, English actress (*Dr. Strangelove*, *Casino Royale*), cancer.
*Junior Seau, 43, American football player (San Diego Chargers, Miami Dolphins, New England Patriots), suicide by gunshot.
*Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih, 57, Indonesian physician, Minister of Health (2009–2012), cancer.
*Akira Tonomura, 70, Japanese physicist, pancreatic cancer.
*Lourdes Valera, 58, Venezuelan actress, lung cancer.
*Digby Wolfe, 82, British actor and screenwriter (''Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In''), cancer.
*Zvi Zeitlin, 90, Belarusian-born American classical violinist, pneumonia.

### 3
*Edith Bliss, 52, Australian pop singer and television presenter, lung cancer.
*Lloyd Brevett, 80, Jamaican double bassist (The Skatalites), complications from stroke.
*Elizabeth Busche, 20, American curler, cancer.
*Peter K. Cullins, 83, American admiral, first commander of the Naval Data Automation Command, complications from hepatitis B.
*John Miles Foley, 65, American folklorist and literary scholar.
*Jorge Illueca, 93, Panamanian politician, President (1984), respiratory failure.
*Andrew Suknaski, 69, Canadian poet and visual artist.
*Richie Thomson, 71, New Zealand Olympic cyclist.
*František Tondra, 75, Slovak Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Spiš (1989–2011), heart failure.
*Tú Duyên, 96, Vietnamese painter.
*Felix Werder, 90, German-born Australian composer.

### 4
*Haukur Angantýsson, 63, Icelandic chess player.
*Harriet Berger, 94, American political scientist.
*T. P. Chandrasekharan, 51, Indian politician, assassinated (hacked).
*Aleksandre Chikvaidze, 74, Georgian diplomat.
*Neville Coleman, 74, Australian underwater nature photographer.
*Gert Frischmuth, 79, German choral conductor and music educator.
*Angelica Garnett, 93, British writer and painter.
*Crawford Hallock Greenewalt, Jr., 74, American archaeologist.
*Mort Lindsey, 89, American orchestra leader and composer.
*Anthony O'Connell, 73, Irish-born American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Knoxville (1988–1998) and Palm Beach (1998–2002).
*Edward Short, Baron Glenamara, 99, British politician, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party (1972–1976), MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central (1951–1976).
*Bob Stewart, 91, American television game show producer (*Password*, *To Tell the Truth*, *The Price Is Right*), natural causes.
*Adam Yauch, 47, American musician (Beastie Boys) and film director (''Gunnin' for That No. 1 Spot''), salivary gland cancer.
*Rashidi Yekini, 48, Nigerian footballer.

### 5
*Ramón Arano, 72, Mexican baseball player. 
*Stevan Bena, 76, Serbian footballer.
*Frederick J. Brown, 67, American artist.
*Count Carl Johan Bernadotte of Wisborg, 95, Swedish royal, youngest son of King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden.
*James R. Browning, 93, American senior (former chief) judge of the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
*Marguerite S. Chang, 88, Chinese-born American research chemist and inventor.
*Reg Cutler, 77, English footballer.
*Aatos Erkko, 79, Finnish journalist and publisher, after long illness.
*Florida Pearl, 20, Irish racehorse, winner of the Champion Bumper (1997), euthanized.
*George Knobel, 89, Dutch football manager, complications of Alzheimer's disease.
*Don Leshnock, 65, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).
*Michail Markov, 73, Russian cyclist and coach.
*Meow, app. 2, American cat, heaviest cat at his time of death, lung failure.
*Miguel Mora Gornals, 75, Spanish Olympic cyclist.
*Roy Padayachie, 62, South African politician.
*Mendel Sachs, 85, American theoretical physicist.
*Ivica Šangulin, 75, Croatian football player and manager.
*Surendranath, 75, Indian cricketer.
*Ali Uras, 88, Turkish Olympic basketball player and president of Galatasaray S.K. (1979&ndash;1986).

### 6
*Lubna Agha, 63, Pakistani-American artist, cancer.
*Fahd al-Quso, 37, Yemeni militant, al-Qaeda member, airstrike.
*Vagn Andersen, 74, Danish sports shooter.
*Tyrone Breuninger, 73, American trombonist.
*Michael Burks, 54, American blues musician, heart attack.
*François Chevalier, 98, French historian.
*Ekalavyan, 77, Indian writer.
*Pat Frink, 67, American basketball player (Cincinnati Royals), automobile accident.
*Jerry H. Geisler, 77, American lawyer and politician.
*Iraj Ghaderi, 77, Iranian film director and actor.
*Kåre Øistein Hansen, 84, Norwegian politician.
*James Isaac, 51, American film director, producer (*Jason X*, *Skinwalkers*) and special effects supervisor, multiple myeloma and blood cancer.
*Kostas Karras, 76, Greek actor, MP (2000–2007), prostate cancer.
*Félix Kouadjo, 73, Ivorian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bondoukou (since 1996).
*Jean Laplanche, 87, French psychoanalyst, pulmonary fibrosis
*George Lindsey, 83, American actor (*The Andy Griffith Show*, *Mayberry R.F.D.*, *Hee Haw*), after brief illness.
*Georgi Lozanov, 85, Bulgarian educator, developed Suggestopedia.
*Marika Mitsotakis, 82, Greek politician, wife of the Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Mitsotakis (1990–1993), complications of poliomyelitis.
*John Slack, 81, English cricketer and judge.
*Yale Summers, 78, American actor (*Daktari*).
*Tran Dinh Truong, 80, Vietnamese businessman.
*Jan Trøjborg, 56, Danish politician, member of the Folketing (1987–2005), and Defence Minister (2000–2001), heart failure.
*John Worrall, 84, New Zealand cricketer.

### 7
*Ivan Allen, 81, American ballet dancer (Metropolitan Opera).
*Ferenc Bartha, 68, Hungarian economist, Governor of the National Bank of Hungary (1988–1990), suicide.
*Sammy Barr, 80, Scottish trade union leader.
*Norbert Becker, 74, German agricultural scientist.
*Jules Bocandé, 53, Senegalese footballer, complications of surgery and stroke.
*Rich Buhler, 65, American radio personality, pancreatic cancer.
*R. Michael Canjar, 58, American mathematician.
*Robert Everett Coyle, 82, American senior (former chief) judge of the District Court for the Eastern District of California.
*Andrea Crisanti, 75, Italian production designer and art director.
*Dennis E. Fitch, 69, American pilot (United Airlines Flight 232), brain cancer.
*Virgil Frye, 81, American actor and boxer, Pick's Disease.
*Kimitada Hayase, 71, Japanese track and field athlete (1960 Summer Olympics, 1964 Summer Olympics), blood poisoning.
*Alexander Keynan, 90, Israeli microbiologist, co-founder and the first director of Israel Institute for Biological Research.
* Eva Rausing, 48, American philanthropist.
*Gene Visich, 85, American AAGPBL baseball player.

### 8
*Ampon Tangnoppakul, 64, Thai detainee, cancer.
*Bobby Bulch, 79, English footballer.
*Oscar M. Corbin Jr., 94, American politician.
*Yves Courrière, 76, French writer, biographer and journalist.
*Aimée Danis, 82, Canadian film director and producer.
*Isabel Gago, 98, Portuguese engineer.
*Nan Giese, 90, Australian educator and artist.
*Nicholas Katzenbach, 90, American lawyer, United States Attorney General (1965–1966).
*Lau Teng Chuan, 83, Singaporean sports administrator, stomach cancer.
*Everett Lilly, 87, American bluegrass musician (The Lilly Brothers).
*Frank Parr, 83, English cricketer and jazz musician.
*Louis H. Pollak, 89, American senior judge of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
*Ingvill Raaum, 76, Norwegian politician.
*George Stephen Ritchie, 97, British war hero and hydrographer.
*Stacy Robinson, 50, American football player (New York Giants), cancer.
*Robert de La Rochefoucauld, 88, French Resistance member.
*Maurice Sendak, 83, American author and illustrator (*Where the Wild Things Are*, *Little Bear*), complications of a stroke.
*Roman Totenberg, 101, Polish-born American violinist, renal failure.
*Vo Rogue, 28, Australian Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the Australian Cup (1989, 1990).
*Garth Webb, 93, Canadian soldier and museum founder (Juno Beach Centre).

### 9
*Carl Beane, 59, American sports broadcaster and public address announcer (Fenway Park), heart attack.
*James Carter, 100, American basketball coach (University of Dayton).
*Bertram Cohler, 73, American psychologist.
*Danilo De Girolamo, 56, Italian voice actor, heart attack.
*Alfred Doll-Steinberg, 78, Austrian-born British chemical engineer.
*Gunnar Dybwad, 83, Norwegian footballer.
*Alain Fossoul, 83, Belgian footballer,
*Hernán Haddad, 83, Chilean Olympic athlete.
*Sir Geoffrey Henry, 71, Cook Islands politician, Prime Minister (1983, 1989–1999), and Speaker of Parliament (since 2011), cancer.
*Constantin Piron, 80, Belgian physicist.
*Vidal Sassoon, 84, British hairstylist, leukemia.
*Ingvald M. Smith-Kielland, 92, Norwegian royal servant.
*Lajos Somodi, Sr., 83, Hungarian Olympic bronze medallist fencer (1956).

### 10
*Edward Abramson, 91, American politician.
*George Birimisa, 88, American playwright, actor, and director.
*Ningali Cullen, 69–70, Australian activist.
*Barbara D'Arcy, 84, American visual merchandiser.
*Evelyn Bryan Johnson, 102, American aviator.
*Günther Kaufmann, 64, German film actor, heart attack.
*Pekka Marjamäki, 64, Finnish Olympic ice hockey player, heart attack.
*Eddie Perkins, 75, American former world light welterweight champion boxer.
*Joyce Redman, 96, Irish-born British actress (*Othello*, *Tom Jones*), pneumonia.
*Bernardo Sassetti, 41, Portuguese jazz pianist and film composer, fall.
*Carroll Shelby, 89, American automobile racer and designer.
*Andreas Shipanga, 80, Namibian politician, Chairman of the Transitional Government of National Unity (1987, 1988), heart attack.
*Gunnar Sønsteby, 94, Norwegian resistance movement member.
*Walter Wink, 76, American theologian, complications of dementia.
*Paul Winslow, 74, American football player and NFL defensive back (Green Bay Packers)
*Gulumbu Yunupingu, 69, Australian Aboriginal artist.

### 11
*Soungalo Bagayogo, 70, Malian Olympic boxer.
*Alma Bella, 102, Filipino actress.
*Jack Benaroya, 90, American real estate developer.
*Sherman A. Bernard, 86, American businessman.
*Patrick Bosch, 47, Dutch footballer (FC Twente), car accident.
*Stanislav Brebera, 86, Czech chemist. 
*Les Carr, 82, Australian football player.
*Sheila Conroy, 94, Irish trade union leader and activist.
*Dankwart Danckwerts, 79, German sociologist.
*Alfred Diamant, 94, Austrian-born American political scientist.
*Leela Roy Ghosh, 64, Indian actress and voice-dubbing artist, complications of liver transplant surgery.
*Rose Mary Glaser, 90, American AAGPBL baseball player.
*Grant Jeffrey, 63, Canadian Bible teacher and writer.
*Rodolfo Kappenberger, 95, Swiss footballer.
*László Seregi, 82, Hungarian dancer and choreographer.
*Roland Shaw, 91, British bandleader and music arranger.
*Martin Stovold, 56, English cricketer.

### 12
*Jan Bens, 91, Dutch footballer (Feyenoord).
*Frank Bethwaite, 91, New Zealand boat designer, author and meteorologist.
*Ferrin C. Campbell, 88, American politician.
*Paul Cyr, 48, Canadian hockey player (Buffalo Sabres, New York Rangers, Hartford Whalers), heart failure.
*Ruth Foster, 92, American actress (*Little House on the Prairie*).
*Richard Gerrard-Wright, 82, British Army officer.
*Terry Martin, 74, American surfboard shaper.
*Neil McKenty, 87, Canadian radio talk-show host and author.
*Donald Nicholson, 96, British biochemist.
*Eddy Paape, 91, Belgian comics artist (*Luc Orient*).
*Harold Arthur Poling, 86, American businessman, CEO and Chairman of Ford Motor Company (1990–1993).
*Sam Porcello, 76, American food scientist, created the Oreo cookie filling.
*Fritz Ursell, 89, German-born British mathematician (Ursell number).

### 13
*Trond Bråthen, 34, Norwegian singer and guitarist (Urgehal), natural causes.
*William G. Braud, 69, American psychologist and parapsychologist.
*Marek Cichosz, 32, Polish cyclist.
*Arsala Rahmani Daulat, Afghan politician, Afghan High Peace Council member, shot.
*Donald "Duck" Dunn, 70, American bass guitarist (The Blues Brothers, Booker T. & the M.G.'s).
*Paul Engstad, 85, Norwegian writer and politician.
*Lee Richardson, 33, British speedway rider, race crash.
*Nolan Richardson III, 47, American college basketball coach (Tennessee State University).
*Don Ritchie, 85, Australian volunteer, rescued 160 people from suicide.
*Jack Simcock, 82, British artist.
*Bill Walsh, 84, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers).
*Trevor Young, 86, New Zealand politician, MP for Hutt (1968–1978); Eastern Hutt (1978–1990).

### 14
*Vladimer Aptsiauri, 50, Georgian Olympic gold medal-winning (1988) fencer.
*Burgess Carr, 76, Liberian-born American priest, religious leader, and professor, Lewy bodies disease.
*Joséphine Catapano, 93, American perfumer.
*Horia Damian, 90, Romanian painter and sculptor.
*Tor Marius Gromstad, 22, Norwegian footballer (Stabæk), fall.
*Mitchell Guist, 48, American reality series cast member (*Swamp People*), natural causes.
*Derek Hammond-Stroud, 86, English opera singer.
*Ernst Hinterberger, 80, Austrian author and screenwriter (*Kaisermühlen Blues*, *Ein echter Wiener geht nicht unter*).
*Taruni Sachdev, 14, Indian film actress (*Paa*), plane crash.
*Mario Trejo, 86, Argentine poet.

### 15
*Donald S. Bryan, 90, American Air Force pilot and flying ace.
*Henry Denker, 99, American novelist and playwright, lung cancer.
*Carlos Fuentes, 83, Panamanian-born Mexican novelist, internal hemorrhage.
*Jean Craighead George, 92, American children's author (*Julie of the Wolves*, *My Side of the Mountain*), heart failure.
*Peter Koslowski, 59, German philosopher and academic.
*Arno Lustiger, 88, Upper Silesian-born German writer and Judaic historian.
*Zakaria Mohieddin, 93, Egyptian politician and military officer, Vice President (1961–1964, 1965–1968), Prime Minister (1965–1966).
*John Murray, 11th Duke of Atholl, 83, South African-born hereditary peer of the Peerage of Scotland.
*Sir Roy Shaw, 93, British arts administrator.
*Frederick E. Smith, 93, British author (*633 Squadron*), heart attack.
*Ángel Alfredo Villatoro, 47, Honduran journalist and radio personality, killed.
*Horst Walter, 75, German artist.
*George Wyllie, 90, Scottish sculptor.

### 16
*Patricia Aakhus, 59, American novelist, cancer.
*Dwight Bentel, 103, American journalist and professor.
*Jože Bertoncelj, 90, Slovenian alpine skier.
*Maria Bieşu, 76, Moldovan opera singer, leukemia.
*Barry Blaikie, 77, Australian politician.
*Chuck Brown, 75, American singer and musician ("Bustin' Loose"), multiple organ failure.
*Warren Bruno, 63, American restaurateur.
*Ernie Chan, 71, Filipino-born American comic book artist (*Batman*, *Doctor Strange*, *Conan the Barbarian*).
*Doug Dillard, 75, American bluegrass musician (The Dillards) and actor (*The Andy Griffith Show*), lung infection.
*Kurt Felix, 71, Swiss television presenter, thymoma.
*Hans Geister, 83, German Olympic bronze medallist relay runner (1952).
*Hugo Gottfrit, 61, Argentine football player.
*Kevin Hickey, 56, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Baltimore Orioles), complications of a seizure.
*Andrei Mylnikov, 93, Russian painter.
*Thad Tillotson, 71, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Nakai Hawks).
*Anne Warner, 71, British biologist, cerebral haemorrhage.
*Brixton Karnes, 52, American actor ("Team Knight rider"), pneumonia.

### 17
*Warda Al-Jazairia, 72, Algerian singer, cardiac arrest.
*Marion C. Bascom, 87, American civil rights leader, heart attack.
*France Clidat, 79, French classical pianist.
*James Doss, 73, American writer.
*Patrick Mafisango, 32, Congolese-born Rwandan footballer, car accident.
*Stepan Pogosyan, 80, Armenian historian and politician.
*Derek Round, 77, New Zealand journalist, injuries following assault.
*Ron Shock, 69, American stand-up comedian, urethral cancer.
*Donna Summer, 63, American singer ("Bad Girls", "Hot Stuff", "Last Dance", "I Feel Love"), lung cancer.

### 18
*Arthur Bertram Court, 84, Australian botanist.
*Dick Everitt, 90, English footballer.
*Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, 86, German baritone and conductor.
*Tom Fuentes, 63, American political leader, Orange County Republican Party chairman (1985–2004), liver cancer.
*Marco Antonio Ávila García, 39, Mexican crime reporter, strangulation.
*Peter Jones, 49, British drummer (Crowded House), brain cancer.
*Justo Justo, 70, Filipino columnist and politician.
*Alan Oakley, 85, British designer of Raleigh Chopper bicycle, cancer.
*Paul O'Sullivan, 48, Canadian comedian and actor, car accident.
*Gavin Packard, 48, British-born Indian Bollywood film actor, respiratory disease.
*A. Teeuw, 90, Dutch critic of Indonesian literature.

### 19
*Willard Bond, 85, American painter.
*Bob Boozer, 75, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1960) basketball player (New York Knicks, Chicago Bulls), brain aneurysm.
*Rudolf Braun, 82, Swiss historian.
*Tamara Brooks, 70, American choral conductor, heart attack.
*Ian Burgess, 81, British racing driver.
*Muriel Cerf, 61, French writer, cancer.
*Jacques Clancy, 92, French actor.
*John Guest, 73, British geologist.
*Ranjit Kumar Gupta, 93, Indian police chief.
*Gerhard Hetz, 69, German Olympic silver and bronze medal-winning (1964) swimmer.
*Ann Rosener, 97, American photojournalist.

### 20
*Safiuddin Ahmed, 89, Bangladeshi painter and printmaker.
*Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, 60, Libyan terrorist, convicted of bombing Pan Am Flight 103, prostate cancer.
*Jacqueline Ayer, 82, American author, illustrator, fashion and textile designer.
*Bob Bethell, 69, American politician, Kansas State Representative (since 1999), car accident.
*Alan Britton, 89, New Zealand cricketer.
*Louis F. Burns, 92, American tribal and Osage Nation historian.
*Leela Dube, 89, Indian anthropologist.
*Geoffrey Evans, 69, Irish serial killer.
*John George, 81, Scottish officer of arms.
*Robin Gibb, 62, British singer and songwriter (Bee Gees), liver and kidney failure.
*Ernestine Glossbrenner, 79, American educator and politician.
*Nils Jernsletten, 77, Norwegian linguist.
*David Littman, 78, British historian and human rights activist.
*Bholabhai Patel, 77, Indian Gujarati author.
*Eugene Polley, 96, American engineer, inventor of the wireless TV remote control.
*Howie Richmond, 94, American music publisher and executive.
*David Ridgway, 74, British archaeologist.
*Raul Rojas, 70, American former WBA featherweight champion boxer.
*Carrie Smith, 86, American blues and jazz singer.
*Andrew B. Steinberg, 53, American lawyer.
*Sultana Zaman, 76, Bangladeshi actress.

### 21
*Kateryna Adamenko, 93, Ukrainian athlete and coach, atherosclerosis.
*Bahram Alivandi, 83–84, Iranian-born Austrian artist.
*Andreas Arntzen, 83, Norwegian barrister.
*C.C. Banana, 43, American comedian, suicide.
*Kevin Barry, 62, New Zealand rugby league player.
*Eddie Blazonczyk, 70, American polka musician, natural causes.
*Heiko Daxl, 54, German media artist.
*Roman Dumbadze, 48, Georgian rebel commander, shooting.
*Giovinella Gonthier, 63, Seychellian teacher, concierge, diplomat, author, and consultant.
*Heinrich Holland, 84, German-born American scientist.
*Ezell Lee, 74, American politician, Mississippi State Representative (1988–1992) and State Senator (1992–2012), cancer.
*Master Oats, 26, British Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the Cheltenham Gold Cup (1995), myocardial infarction.
*Juan Manuel Montero Vázquez, 64, Spanish military surgeon.
*Douglas Rodríguez, 61, Cuban boxer, heart attack.
*Bill Stewart, 59, American football coach (West Virginia University), apparent heart attack.
*Alan Thorne, 73, Australian anthropologist, developer of the theory of multiregional origin of modern humans, Alzheimer's disease.
*Rodolfo Félix Valdés, 86, Mexican politician, Governor of Sonora (1985–1991).

### 22
*Muzaffar Ahmed, 79, Bangladeshi economist, natural causes.
*Muzafar Bhutto, 41, Pakistani Sindhi nationalist politician.
*Juanita Boisseau, 100, American dancer.
*Michael Bryson, 69, American reporter.
*Janet Carroll, 71, American singer and actress (*Risky Business*, *Married... with Children*, *Murphy Brown*), brain cancer.
*Daehaeng, 85, Korean Buddhist nun.
*Chico Formiga, 81, Brazilian footballer and manager, heart attack.
*Shiu-Ying Hu, 102, Chinese botanist.
*Henrik Kalocsai, 71, Hungarian Olympic track and field athlete.
*Flinder Anderson Khonglam, 67, Indian politician and physician, Chief Minister of Meghalaya (2001–2003).
*Albion W. Knight, Jr., 87, American army officer, bishop and politician.
*Dave Mann, 79, American football player (Chicago Cardinals, Toronto Argonauts), complications from dementia.
*Hazel Monteith, 94, Jamaican consumer rights advocate.
*John Moores, Jr., 83, English businessman, Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University (1994–1999).
*Elaine Mulqueen, 80, American children's television host and personality.
*Edmund Potrzebowski, 85, Polish Olympic athlete.
*Janet Lees Price, 69, British actress (*Blakes 7*, *Z-Cars*).
*Ernie Smith, 81, American Negro league baseball player.
*Mike Voight, 58, American football player.
*Sir Derek Wanless, 64, British banker and public policy adviser, pancreatic cancer.
*Hidekazu Yoshida, 98, Japanese music critic and literary critic.

### 23
*Aub Carrigan, 94, Australian cricketer.
*Gyula Elek, 80, Hungarian handball player and coach.
*Sattareh Farmanfarmaian, 91, Iranian writer and princess.
*Paul Fussell, 88, American literary scholar and social critic, natural causes.
*Millie Goldsholl, 92, American film director and producer.
*Hal Jackson, 96, American disc jockey and radio personality.
*Leonel Mitchell, 81, American liturgical scholar.
*William C. Wampler, 86, American politician, U.S. Representative for Virginia (1953–1955, 1967–1983).

### 24
*Ursula Arnold, 83, German photographer.
*George Ceithaml, 81, American football player.
*Klaas Carel Faber, 90, Dutch-born Nazi war criminal, kidney failure.
*Kathi Kamen Goldmark, 63, American writer, cancer.
*James Arnot Hamilton, 89, British aircraft designer.
*Jacqueline Harpman, 82, Belgian writer.
*Juan Francisco Lombardo, 86, Argentine football player.
*Toby Maduot, 78, Sudanese politician.
*Ndombe Opetum, 68, Congolese musician.
*William Rathje, 66, American archaeologist.
*Lee Rich, 93, American television executive and producer (*The Waltons*, *Dallas*), co-founder of Lorimar Television, lung cancer.

### 25
*R. Dilip, 56, Indian actor, heart attack.
*Robert Fossier, 84, French historian.
*Alistair Hamilton, 77, Scottish lawyer, scout leader and banker.
*William Hanley, 80, American screenwriter and playwright.
*Peter D. Sieruta, 63, American writer and critic, complications due to a fall.
*Beatrice Sparks, 95, American therapist and writer.
*Doug Walton, 65–66, English rugby league player.
*Lou Watson, 88, American basketball player and coach (Indiana University).

### 26
*Zvi Aharoni, 91, German-born Israeli Mossad agent.
*Orhan Boran, 84, Turkish television host, bone marrow cancer.
*Arthur Decabooter, 75, Belgian professional racing cyclist, heart attack.
*Leo Dillon, 79, American comic book illustrator (''Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears*), complications from lung surgery.
*Anna-Lisa Eriksson, 83, Swedish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1956) cross-country skier.
*Omar Muhammad Farah, 36–37, Somali teacher and politician, road accident.
*Hiroshi Miyazawa, 90, Japanese politician, Minister of Justice (1995), Governor of Hiroshima Prefecture (1973–1981), natural causes.
*Jean Morton, 91, British television presenter.
*Hans Schmidt, 87, Canadian professional wrestler.
*Jim Unger, 75, English-born Canadian cartoonist (*Herman*).
*Roy Wilson, 72, Jamaican singer (Higgs and Wilson).

### 27
*Dee Caruso, 83, American television writer (*Get Smart*, *The Monkees''), pneumonia.
*Simeon Daniel, 77, Kittitian politician, first Premier of Nevis (1983–1992).
*Octiabr' Emelianenko, 85, Soviet Russian physicist.
*Friedrich Hirzebruch, 84, German mathematician.
*Zita Kabátová, 99, Czech actress.
*William Lee Miller, 86, American historian.
*David Rimoin, 75, American geneticist, pancreatic cancer.
*Earl Shorris, 75, American writer and social critic.
*Johnny Tapia, 45, American former triple world champion boxer.
*Jan de Vries, 88, Canadian army veteran.

### 28
*Pierre Allès, 95, Algerian racing cyclist.
*Don Anthony, 83, British Olympic hammer thrower.
*Gregorio Baro, 83, Argentine chemist.
*Ed Burton, 72, American basketball player.
*Hugh Dawnay, 79, English soldier and polo player.
*Rheta DeVries, 75, American psychologist.
*Bob Edwards, 86, British journalist.
*Richard Killen, 82, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1981&ndash;1991).
*Judith Nelson, 72, American opera singer.
*Ludovic Quistin, 28, Guadeloupean footballer (Tamworth), traffic accident.
*Yuri Susloparov, 53, Ukrainian-born Russian football player and coach.
*Emmanuel David Tannenbaum, 33, Israeli scientist.
*Matthew Yuricich, 89, American special effects artist (*Field of Dreams*, *Close Encounters of the Third Kind*, *Blade Runner*).

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*Toni Arden, 88, American singer.
*André Bernier, 81, Canadian politician and accountant.
*Frederick Gehring, 64, American mathematician.
*Dick Beals, 85, American voice actor (*Davey and Goliath*, Speedy Alka-Seltzer).
*Vince Cardell, 73, American pianist.
*Maureen Dunlop de Popp, 91, Argentinian-born British aviator.
*Elizabeth Ewen, American historian.
*John Fredriksson, 88, Swedish alpine skier.
*Nasir Gadžihanov, 45, Macedonian Olympic wrestler.
*Cassandra Jardine, 57, British journalist, cancer.
*Mark Minkov, 67, Russian composer.
*Mohamed Taieb Naciri, 73, Moroccan lawyer and politician.
*Jim Paratore, 58, American television producer (TMZ, *The Ellen DeGeneres Show*, ''The Rosie O'Donnell Show*), heart attack.
*Ivor Porter, 98, British diplomat.
*Ola O. Røssum, 86, Norwegian politician.
*Kaneto Shindo, 100, Japanese film director, natural causes.
*Doc Watson, 89, American folk and bluegrass musician, complications following surgery.

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*Zahir Alam, 42, Indian cricketer, liver ailment.
*Barton Lidice Beneš, 69, American artist.
*Jerry Blemker, 67, American baseball coach.
*Duane Bryers, 100, American painter, illustrator, and sculptor.
*Pierre Ceyrac, 98, French Jesuit missionary.
*Tomas Fernandez Concepcion, 78, Filipino politician.
*Aldo Conterno, 81, Italian winemaker.
*Pete Cosey, 68, American guitarist.
*Edi Federer, 57, Austrian ski jumper, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
*John Fox, 59, American comedian, colon cancer.
*Buddy Freitag, 80, American Broadway theatre producer (*Dirty Rotten Scoundrels*, *Catch Me If You Can*), brain tumor.
*Farideh Mashini, Iranian feminist activist.
*Hamza Ben Driss Ottmani, 72, Moroccan economist and writer.
*Mr. Imagination, 64, American outsider artist, blood infection.
*Gerhard Pohl, 74, German politician, drowning.
*Rekin Teksoy, 84, Turkish lawyer, author and translator.

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*Natasha Borovsky, 87, Russian American poet and novelist.
*Christopher Challis, 93, British cinematographer (*Chitty Chitty Bang Bang*, *Top Secret!*, *Mary, Queen of Scots'').
*John H. Ewing, 93, American politician.
*Desmond Fernando, 81, Sri Lankan doctor and inventor.
*Roger Fournier, 82, Canadian writer and television director.
*Farid Habib, 77, Lebanese politician, MP for El Koura (since 2005), illness.
*Nélson Jacobina, 58, Brazilian songwriter ("Maracatu Atômico"), lung cancer.
*Randall B. Kester, 95, American attorney and judge.
*Mark Midler, 80, Russian Olympic gold medal-winning (1960, 1964) foil fencer.
*Paul Pietsch, 100, German Formula One and Grand Prix race car driver, first to reach the age of 100, pneumonia.
*Paul Sussman, 45, British journalist (CNN), archaeologist, and author, ruptured aneurysm.
*Gareth Walters, 83, Welsh musician.
*Orlando Woolridge, 52, American basketball player (Chicago Bulls) and coach (Los Angeles Sparks), heart disease.
*Zhou Ruchang, 94, Chinese academic and redologist.

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