Deaths in 2012

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

## January 
* January 1 - Carlos Soria, 62, Argentine politician, shot.
* January 1 - Bob Anderson, 89, English fencer, and movie sword fight choreographer.
* January 1 - Kiro Gligorov, 94, former President of the Republic of Macedonia.
* January 2 - William P. Carey, 81, American investment manager and philanthropist.
* January 3 - Josef Skvorecky, 87, Czech writer and publisher, cancer.
* January 5 - Frederica Sagor Maas, 111, American screenwriter, playwright and writer.
* January 6 - Bob Holness, 83, South African-born British quiz show host.
* January 8 - Alexis Weissenberg, 82, Bulgarian pianist.
* January 9 - Malam Bacai Sanha, 64, President of Guinea-Bissau.
* January 9 - Mae Laborde, 102, American actress, natural causes.
* January 12 - Bill Janklow, 72, American politician and former Governor of South Dakota, cancer.
* January 12 - Reginald Hill, 75, British crime fiction writer.
* January 13 - Rauf Denktaş, 87, 1st President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, multiple organ failure.
* January 14 - Txillardegi, 82, Basque linguist, writer and politician.
* January 15 - Manuel Fraga Iribarne, 89, Spanish politician and former Prime Minister of Galicia, heart failure.
* January 15 - Ed Derwinski, 85, American politician.
* January 16 - Gustav Leonhardt, 83, Dutch musician, conductor and teacher.
* January 17 - Johnny Otis, 90, American songwriter.
* January 19 - Sarah Burke, 29, Canadian freestyle skier, complications from skiing accident.
* January 20 - Jiri Raska, 70, Czech ski jumper, heart disease.
* January 20 - Etta James, 73, American singer, leukemia.
* January 22 - Joe Paterno, 85, American college football coach, lung cancer.
* January 24 - Theodoros Angelopoulos, 76, Greek movie director and screenwriter, hit by a motorcycle.
* January 24 - James Farentino, 73, American actor.
* January 25 - Veronica Carstens, 88, former First Lady of Germany.
* January 26 - M. O. H. Farook, 74, Indian politician, diplomat and Governor of Kerala.
* January 26 - Colin Tarrant, 59, British actor 
* January 29 - Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, 93, 9th President of Italy.
* January 29 - Camilla Williams, 92, American opera singer, complications from cancer.
* January 31 - Anthony Bevilacqua, 88, former Roman Catholic Archbishop of Philadelphia.
* January 31 - Mike Kelley, 57, American artist and musician, suicide, (body found on this date).
* January 31 - Dorothea Tanning, 101, American painter.

## February 
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* February 1 - Wislawa Szymborska, 88, Polish poet, awarded 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature.
* February 1 - Angelo Dundee, 90, American boxing trainer.
* February 1 - Don Cornelius, 75, American gameshow host (Soul Train), suicide by gunshot.
* February 3 - Ben Gazzara, 81, American actor, pancreatic cancer.
* February 3 - Samuel Youd, 89, British science fiction writer.
* February 4 - Mike deGruy, 60, American documentary movie maker, helicopter crash.
* February 4 - Andrew Wight, 52, Australian screenwriter and producer, helicopter crash.
* February 6 - Antoni Tapies, 88, Spanish painter and sculptor.
* February 6 - Janice E. Voss, 55, American engineer and astronaut, breast cancer.
* February 11 - Whitney Houston, 48, American singer and actress, drowning.
* February 12 - David Kelly, 82, Irish actor.
* February 16 - Baddeley Devesi, 70, first Governor-General of the Solomon Islands.
* February 16 - Anil Ramdas, 54, Surinamese-Dutch journalist and columnist, suicide.
* February 16 - Anthony Shadid, 43, American journalist, asthma attack.
* February 17 - Ulric Neisser, 83, American psychologist.
* February 18 - Roald Aas, 83, Norwegian speed skater and cyclist.
* February 18 - George Brizan, 69, former Prime Minister of Grenada, diabetes.
* February 19 - Ruth Barcan Marcus, 90, American philosopher and logician.
* February 19 - Renato Dulbecco, 97, Italian virologist and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winner.
* February 20 - Vitaly Vorotnikov, 86, Soviet-Russian politician.
* February 22 - Marie Colvin, 56, American war correspondent, killed in Syria.
* February 22 - Remi Ochlik, 28, French photographer, killed in Syria.
* February 25 - Maurice Andre, 78, French classical trumpeter.
* February 25 - Red Holloway, 84, American jazz saxophonist, stroke and kidney failure.
* February 25 - Erland Josephson, 88, Swedish actor and writer.
* February 25 - Louisiana Red, 79, American blues musician.
* February 29 - Davy Jones, 66, British actor and musician (The Monkees), heart attack.

## March
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* March 1 - Lucio Dalla, 68, Italian singer-songwriter and musician, heart attack.
* March 3 - Ralph McQuarrie, 82, American conceptual designer and illustrator.
* March 5 - Robert B. Sherman, 86, American songwriter.
* March 6 - Francisco Xavier do Amaral, 75, East Timorese politician and President in 1975.
* March 7 - Wlodzimierz Smolarek, 54, Polish footballer.
* March 7 - Felicien Marceau, 98, French novelist, playwright and essayist.
* March 9 - Jose Tomas Sanchez, 91, Filipino cardinal.
* March 10 - Jean Giraud, 73, French comic book artist and writer.
* March 10 - Frank Sherwood Rowland, 84, American chemistry professor and Nobel Prize winner.
* March 10 - Nick Zoricic, 29, Canadian ski cross racer, brain injuries following crash.
* March 13 - Michel Duchaussoy, 73, French actor, cardiac arrest.
* March 14 - Censu Tabone, 98, 4th President of Malta.
* March 16 - Mervyn Davies, 65, Welsh rugby union player, cancer.
* March 16 - Estanislao Basora, 85, Catalan-Spanish footballer.
* March 17 - John Demjanjuk, 91, Ukrainian convicted war criminal.
* March 17 - Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria, 88, Egyptian Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, cancer.
* March 18 - George Tupou V, 63, King of Tonga.
* March 21 - Tonino Guerra, 92, Italian writer, poet and screenwriter.
* March 22 - Mohammed Merah, 23, French Islamic Jihadist and spree killer, shot.
* March 23 - Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, 77, former President of Somalia, complications from pneumonia.
* March 24 - Jocky Wilson, 62, Scottish darts player.
* [March 25] - Edd Gould, 23, British animator, artist, and voice actor. He was best known for creating *Eddsworld*
* March 25 - Antonio Tabucchi, 68, Italian writer and expert on Portuguese language and literature.
* March 27 - Adrienne Rich, 82, American poet, writer and feminist, complications from rheumatoid arthritis.
* March 28 - Alexander Arutunian, 91, Armenian composer.
* March 28 - Earl Scruggs, 88, American musician.
* March 31 - Dale R. Corson, 97, American physicist.

## April
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* April 1 - Giorgio Chinaglia, 65, Italian footballer, heart attack.
* April 1 - Leila Denmark, 114, American pediatrician and supercentenarian, natural causes.
* April 1 - Miguel de la Madrid, 77, 52nd President of Mexico, complications from pulmonary emphysema.
* April 3 - Xenia Stad-de Jong, 90, Dutch athlete.
* April 5 - Jim Marshall, 88, British businessman and founder of Marshall Amplification.
* April 5 - Barney McKenna, 72, Irish musician (The Dubliners).
* April 5 - Bingu wa Mutharika, 78, President of Malawi, heart attack.
* April 5 - Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, 76, German automobile designer and businessman.
* April 6 - Fang Lizhi, 76, Chinese astrophysicist and activist.
* April 6 - Thomas Kinkade, 54, American painter, accidental overdose of alcohol and valium.
* April 7 - Mike Wallace, 93, American journalist and television personality.
* April 8 - Jack Tramiel, 83, Polish-born American businessman, heart failure.
* April 11 - Ahmed Ben Bella, 93, 1st post-independence President of Algeria.
* April 14 - Émile Bouchard, 92, Canadian ice hockey player.
* April 14 - Piermario Morosini, 25, Italian footballer, cardiac arrest.
* April 14 - Jonathan Frid, 87, Canadian actor, pneumonia.
* April 15 - Murray Rose, 73, Scottish-born Australian swimmer, leukaemia.
* April 16 - Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller, 98, Danish shipping magnate.
* April 18 - Dick Clark, 82, American radio and television personality, heart attack. 
* April 19 - Valeri Vasiliev, 62, Russian ice hockey player.
* April 19 - Levon Helm, 71, American musician and actor, throat cancer.
* April 21 - Charles Colson, 80, American Watergate scandal figure.
* April 23 - Tommy Marth, 33, American musician (The Killers), suicide.
* April 27 - David Weiss, 65, Swiss artist.
* April 28 - Matilde Camus, 92, Spanish poet and writer.
* April 29 - Shukri Ghanem, 69, former Prime Minister of Libya, drowning.
* April 29 - Joel Goldsmith, 54, American composer.
* April 29 - Amarillo Slim, 83, American professional poker player.
* April 30 - Tomas Borge, 81, Nicaraguan politician, complications from surgery.
* April 30 - Alexander Dale Oen, 26, Norwegian swimmer, heart failure.

## May 
* May

## June 
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* June 2 - Kathryn Joosten, 72, American television actress, lung cancer.
* June 2 - Richard Dawson, 79, English actor and former host of *Family Feud*, complications related to esophageal cancer.
* June 3 - Roy Salvadori, 90, English motor racing driver.
* June 4 - Eduard Khil, 77, Russian baritone singer.
* June 5 - Barry Unsworth, 81, British writer.
* June 5 - Ray Bradbury, 91, American writer and screenwriter, after long illness.
* June 6 - Prince Tomohito of Mikasa, 66, Japanese royal, cancer.
* June 6 - Vladimir Krutov, 52, Soviet-Russian ice hockey player, internal bleeding and liver failure.
* June 6 - Manuel Preciado Rebolledo, 54, Spanish footballer and coach, heart attack.
* June 7 - Abid Hamid Mahmud, 55, Iraqi military officer, execution by hanging.
* June 7 - Bob Welch, 65, American musician, suicide by gunshot.
* June 7 - J. Michael Riva, 63, American production designer, stroke.
* June 10 - George Saitoti, 66, Kenyan politician and former Vice president of Kenya, helicopter crash.
* June 11 - Ann Rutherford, 94, Canadian-born American actress, heart problems.
* June 11 - Teofilo Stevenson, 60, Cuban boxer, heart attack.
* June 12 - Henry Hill, 69, American convict.
* June 12 - Elinor Ostrom, 78, American economist and Nobel laureate, cancer.
* June 13 - Roger Garaudy, 98, French philosopher and Holocaust denier.
* June 13 - William Standish Knowles, 95, American chemist and Nobel laureate.
* June 14 - Carlos Reichenbach, 67, Brazilian movie director, heart failure.
* June 16 - Nils Karlsson, 94, Swedish cross-country skier.
* June 16 - Susan Tyrrell, 67, American actress, blood disease.
* June 16 - Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz al-Saud, 78, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia.
* June 17 - Rodney King, 47, American victim of police brutality, unexplained circumstances.
* June 19 - Norbert Tiemann, 87, American politician and 32nd Governor of Nebraska.
* June 21 - Ramaz Shengelia, 55, Soviet-Georgian footballer, brain haemorrhage.
* June 21 - Anna Schwartz, 96, American economist and writer.
* June 23 - Brigitte Engerer, 59, French pianist, cancer.
* June 23 - Alan McDonald, 48, Northern Irish footballer and manager.
* June 24 - Lonesome George, c. 100, Ecuadorean Pinta Island tortoise and last-known survivor of his sub-species.
* June 24 - Heino Kruus, 85, Estonian basketball player.
* June 24 - Miki Roque, 23, Spanish footballer, pelvic cancer.
* June 26 - Nora Ephron, 71, American writer, screenwriter and director, leukaemia.
* June 30 - Yitzhak Shamir, 96, two-time former Prime Minister of Israel, Alzheimer's disease.

## July
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* July 1 - Alan G. Poindexter, 50, American NASA astronaut, jet ski accident.
* July 1 - Evelyn Lear, 86, American operatic soprano.
* July 3 - Sergio Pininfarina, 85, Italian senator for life, engineer and automobile designer.
* July 3 - Andy Griffith, 86, American stage, movie, and television actor, heart attack.
* July 4 - Eric Sykes, 89, British actor and writer.
* July 5 - Gerrit Komrij, 68, Dutch writer, cancer.
* July 7 - Leon Schlumpf, 87, Swiss politician, former Member of the Federal Council and former President of the Confederation.
* July 7 - Mouss Diouf, 47, Senegalese-born French actor and humorist.
* July 8 - Ernest Borgnine, 95, American actor, renal failure.
* July 9 - Terepai Maoate, 78, 6th Prime Minister of the Cook Islands.
* July 9 - Dom Eugênio de Araújo Sales, 91, Brazilian Roman Catholic cardinal, heart failure.
* July 9 - Isuzu Yamada, 95, Japanese movie actress, multiple organ failure.
* July 9 - Eva Rausing, 48, American businesswoman and philanthropist (body found on this date), heart attack linked to drug abuse.
* July 10 - Lol Coxhill, 79, English jazz saxophonist.
* July 12 - Dara Singh, 83, Indian wrestler and actor.
* July 13 - Jerzy Kulej, 71, Polish boxer and politician.
* July 13 - Richard D. Zanuck, 77, American movie producer, heart attack.
* July 13 - Sage Stallone, 36, American actor, movie director, producer and screenwriter, atherosclerosis (body found on this date).
* July 14 - Sixten Jernberg, 83, Swedish cross-country skier.
* July 15 - Celeste Holm, 95, American actress.
* July 16 - Jon Lord, 71, British musician (Deep Purple), pancreatic cancer and pulmonary embolism.
* July 16 - Stephen Covey, 79, American writer, complications from bicycle accident.
* July 18 - Rajesh Khanna, 69, Indian actor, producer and politician.
* July 18 - Jean Francois-Poncet, 83, French diplomat, politician and former Foreign Minister of France.
* July 19 - Omar Suleiman, 76, Egyptian army general, politician, diplomat and intelligence officer.
* July 19 - Hans Nowak, 74, German footballer.
* July 22 - Bohdan Stupka, 70, Ukrainian actor and former Minister of Culture.
* July 22 - George Armitage Miller, 92, American psychologist.
* July 22 - Oswaldo Paya, 60, Cuban activist, traffic collision.
* July 23 - Sally Ride, 61, American astronaut and astrophysicist, pancreatic cancer.
* July 24 - Larry Hoppen, 61, American singer and guitarist, hanging.
* July 24 - John Atta Mills, 68, President of Ghana.
* July 24 - Sherman Hemsley, 74, American actor and comedian.
* July 24 - Chad Everett, 76, American actor, lung cancer.
* July 26 - Franz West, 65, Austrian artist.
* July 26 - Lupe Ontiveros, 69, American actress.
* July 27 - Norman Alden, 87, American actor, natural causes.
* July 27 - R. G. Armstrong, 95, American actor, natural causes.
* July 27 - Tony Martin, 98, American singer and actor, natural causes.
* July 27 - Jack Taylor, 82, English football referee.
* July 27 - Russ Mayberry, 86, Scottish-American television director, illness.
* July 27 - Geoffrey Hughes, 68, British actor, prostate cancer.
* July 30 - Chris Marker, 91, French photographer, writer and documentary moviemaker.
* July 30 - Maeve Binchy, 72, Irish novelist, after short illness.
* July 31 - Alfredo Ramos de Oliveira, 87, Brazilian footballer and coach.
* July 31 - Gore Vidal, 86, American writer, complications from pneumonia.

## August 
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* August 1 - Tony Sly, 41, American singer, songwriter and guitarist. 
* August 1 - Aldo Maldera, 58, Italian footballer.
* August 2 - Mihaela Ursuleasa, 33, Romanian pianist, cerebral hemorrhage (body found on this date).
* August 5 - Chavela Vargas, 93, Costa Rican-born Mexican singer-songwriter and actress, respiratory arrest.
* August 6 - Bernard Lovell, 98, British physicist and radio astronomer.
* August 6 - Ruggiero Ricci, 94, American violinist, heart failure.
* August 6 - Marvin Hamlisch, 68, American composer, after short illness.
* August 9 - Mel Stuart, 83, American director and producer, cancer.
* August 9 - Al Freeman, Jr., 78, American actor.
* August 10 - Carlo Rambaldi, 86, Italian special effects artist. 
* August 13 - Johnny Pesky, 92, American baseball player, manager and coach.
* August 13 - Helen Gurley Brown, 90, American writer, publisher and businesswoman.
* August 14 - Phyllis Thaxter, 92, American actress, Alzheimer's disease.
* August 14 - Svetozar Gligoric, 89, Serbian chess grandmaster, stroke.
* August 14 - Sergey Kapitsa, 84, Russian physicist.
* August 15 - Harry Harrison, 87, American science fiction writer.
* August 15 - Biff Elliot, 89, American movie and television actor.
* August 16 - Abune Paulos, 76, Ethiopian Orthodox Church Patriarch.
* August 16 - William Windom, 88, American movie, television, voice, and stage actor, heart failure. 
* August 18 - Jesse Robredo, 54, Filipino politician, plane crash.
* August 18 - Scott McKenzie, 73, American singer and songwriter.
* August 19 - Tony Scott, 68, British movie director and producer (brother of Ridley Scott), suicide by jumping. 
* August 20 - Phyllis Diller, 95, American actress and comedian, natural causes.
* August 20 - Dom Mintoff, 96, former Prime Minister of Malta, natural causes.
* August 20 - Meles Zenawi, 57, Prime Minister of Ethiopia and former President, illness.
* August 20 - Virginia Dwyer, 92, American movie and television actress, natural causes.
* August 21 - William Thurston, 65, American mathematician.
* August 22 - Paul Shan Kuo-hsi, 88, Taiwanese Roman Catholic cardinal, lung cancer.
* August 23 - Steve Van Buren, 91, Honduran-born American football player, pneumonia.
* August 23 - Jerry Nelson, 78, American puppeteer and voice actor for *The Muppets* and *Sesame Street*, cancer.
* August 24 - Felix Mielli Venerando, 74, Brazilian footballer, cardiac arrest.
* August 24 - Pauli Ellefsen, 76, former Prime Minister of the Faroe Islands.
* August 24 - Steven Franken, 80, American television, voice and movie actor, cancer.
* August 25 - Neil Armstrong, 82, American astronaut and first person to walk on the Moon, complications from heart surgery.
* August 27 - Russell Scott, 91, American entertainer, pneumonia.
* August 27 - Malcolm Browne, 81, American journalist and photographer, complications from Parkinson's disease.
* August 28 - Said Afandi al-Chirkawi, 74, Russian Muslim Sufi leader, bombing.
* August 28 - Alfred Schmidt, 81, German philosopher.
* August 30 - Chris Lighty, 44, American music executive and talent agent, suicide.
* August 31 - Sergey Leonidovich Sokolov, 101, Soviet-Russian military commander.
* August 31 - Carlo Maria Martini, 85, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal and Archbishop of Milan.
* August 31 - Max Bygraves, 89, British talk show host, actor, singer, and comedian who hosted *Family Fortunes*, Alzheimer's disease.

## September 
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* September 1 - Hal David, 91, American songwriter, complications from a stroke.
* September 1 - Smarck Michel, 75, 6th Prime Minister of Haiti, brain tumor.
* September 3 - Sun Myung Moon, 92, Korean religious leader, pneumonia.
* September 3 - Mahmoud El-Gohary, 74, Egyptian footballer and coach, complications from a stroke.
* September 3 - Michael Clarke Duncan, 54, American actor, complications from a heart attack.
* September 6 - Art Modell, 87, American businessman and former NFL team owner, heart failure.
* September 6 - Terry Nutkins, 66, British naturalist and television presenter, leukemia.
* September 7 - Leszek Drogosz, 79, Polish Olympic boxer and actor, cancer.
* September 8 - Bill Moggridge, 69, British designer, writer and educator, cancer.
* September 8 - Mārtiņš Roze, 47, Latvian politician and Minister of Agriculture, blood clot.
* September 8 - Thomas Szasz, 92, Hungarian psychiatrist.
* September 10 - Lance LeGault, 77, American movie, television, and voice actor.
* September 10 - Vondell Darr, 93, American silent movie and child actress.
* September 11 - Sergio Livingstone, 92, Chilean footballer, natural causes.
* September 11 - Deaths in the 2012 U.S. diplomatic missions attacks:
**Christopher Stevens, 52, American diplomat and 10th Ambassador of Libya, murdered.
**Sean Smith, 34, American diplomat, murdered. 
**Glen Doherty, 42, American security officer, murdered.  
**Tyrone Woods, American former U.S. Navy Seal, murdered.    
* September 12 - Derek Jameson, 82, British journalist and broadcaster, heart attack.
* September 12 - Sid Watkins, 84, British neurosurgeon.
* September 13 - Peter Lougheed, 84, Canadian politician, lawyer, and football player, natural causes.
* September 16 - Princess Ragnhild of Norway, 82, Norwegian royalty, after long illness.
* September 16 - John Ingle, 84, American movie, television, and voice actor. 
* September 17 - Russell E. Train, 92, American politician.
* September 18 - Santiago Carrillo, 97, Spanish Communist politician.
* September 20 - Fortunato Baldelli, 77, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal.
* September 21 - Henry Bauchau, 99, Belgian psychoanalyst and writer.
* September 21 - Michael Rye, 94, American movie, television, stage, voice, and video game actor, natural causes.
* September 23 - Corrie Sanders, 46, South African boxer, shot.
* September 23 - Pavel Grachev, 64, Russian general and politician.
* September 25 - Andy Williams, 84, American singer and entertainer, bladder cancer.
* September 26 - Johnny Lewis, 28, American movie and television actor, injuries from a fall.
* September 27 - Herbert Lom, 95, Czech-born British movie and television actor.
* September 28 - Michael O'Hare, 60, American movie, stage, and television actor, heart attack.
* September 29 - Carlos Büsser, 84, Argentine military personal who was commander of Operation Rosario, heart attack.
* September 29 - Hebe Camargo, 83, Brazilian actress, singer and television presenter, cardiac arrest.
* September 29 - Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, 86, American publisher.
* September 30 - Barbara Ann Scott, 84, Canadian figure skater.
* September 30 - Barry Commoner, 95, American biologist, professor and politician, natural causes.

## October 
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* October 1 - Eric Hobsbawm, 95, British historian and writer, after long illness.
* October 1 - Dirk Bach, 51, German actor, comedian and television presenter.
* October 1 - Moshe Sanbar, 86, Hungarian-born Israeli economist.
* October 5 - Claude Pinoteau, 87, French movie director and screenwriter.
* October 6 - Chadli Bendjedid, 83, 3rd President of Algeria.
* October 7 - Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano, 37, Mexican druglord, shot.
* October 8 - Ken Sansom, 85, American movie, television, stage, radio, and voice actor, stroke.
* October 9 - Paddy Roy Bates, 91, British pirate radio broadcaster and founder of the Sealand micronation, Alzheimer's disease.
* October 10 - Alex Karras, 77, American football player and actor, kidney failure.
* October 11 - Helmut Haller, 73, German footballer, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's disease.
* October 11 - Edgar Negret, 92, Colombian sculptor, cancer and heart failure.
* October 13 - Gary Collins, 74, American movie, television, stage, radio, voice actor, and television host, natural causes.
* October 14 - Arlen Specter, 82, American politician and former United States Senator for Pennsylvania.
* October 15 - Norodom Sihanouk, 89, former King of Cambodia, heart attack.
* October 15 - Claude Cheysson, 92, French politician and former foreign minister.
* October 17 - Emile Allais, 100, French alpine skier.
* October 17 - Sylvia Kristel, 60, Dutch actress, model and singer, complications from cancer.
* October 17 - Stanford R. Ovshinsky, 89, American inventor and scientist, prostate cancer.
* October 18 - Slater Martin, 86, American basketball player.
* October 19 - Fiorenzo Magni, 91, Italian road racing cyclist, aneurysm.
* October 20 - E. Donnall Thomas, 92, American physician and Nobel Prize winner.
* October 20 - Paul Kurtz, 86, American Secular Humanist philosopher.
* October 21 - George McGovern, 90, American politician, former United States Senator for South Dakota and 1972 Presidential candidate, natural causes.
* October 21 - Yash Chopra, 80, Indian movie director, screenwriter and producer.
* October 22 - Russell Means, 72, Native American activist, writer, musician, politician and actor, esophageal cancer.
* October 22 - Shubha Phutela, 21, Indian movie actress and model, multiple organ failure.
* October 23 - Sunil Gangopadhyay, 78, Indian poet and novelist, heart attack.
* October 23 - Wilhelm Brasse, 94, Polish photographer and Holocaust survivor.
* October 24 - Anita Bjork, 89, Swedish actress.
* October 24 - Margaret Osborne duPont, 94, American tennis player.
* October 25 - John Connelly, 74, English footballer.
* October 25 - Jacques Barzun, 104, French-born American historian and philosopher.
* October 26 - John M. Johansen, 96, American architect, heart failure.
* October 27 - Hans Werner Henze, 86, German composer.
* October 27 - Natina Reed, 32, American singer-songwriter, rapper and actress, traffic collision.
* October 28 - Terry Callier, 67, American jazz, soul and folk guitarist and singer-songwriter, cancer.
* October 29 - J. Bernlef, 75, Dutch novelist and poet.
* October 29 - Albano Harguindeguy, 85, Argentine general, natural causes.
* October 31 - John Fitch, 95, American racing driver, engineer and inventor.
* October 31 - John H. Reed, 91, American politician and 67th Governor of Maine.

## November 
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* November 1 - Mitch Lucker, 28, American singer (Suicide Silence), traffic collision.
* November 1 - Gae Aulenti, 84, Italian architect and designer.
* November 1 - Agustin Garcia Calvo, 86, Spanish academic and philosopher, respiratory failure.
* November 2 - Milt Campbell, 78, American athlete, prostate cancer and diabetes.
* November 4 - Ted Curson, 77, American jazz trumpeter.
* November 5 - Elliott Carter, 103, American composer, natural causes.
* November 6 - Maxim of Bulgaria, 98, Patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church.
* November 6 - Clive Dunn, 92, British actor, comedian and writer, complications from surgery.
* November 7 - Carmen Basilio, 85, American boxer, pneumonia.
* November 8 - Lucille Bliss, 96, American actress, natural causes.
* November 9 - Sergey Nikolsky, 107, Russian mathematician.
* November 9 - Joseph D. Early, 79, American politician and member of the House of Representatives from Massachusetts, illness.
* November 9 - Bill Tarmey, 71, British actor, heart attack.
* November 9 - Major Harris, 65, American R&B singer ("Love Won't Let Me Wait"), member of The Delfonics, heart and lung failure.
* November 11 - Rex Hunt, 86, British former Governor of the Falkland Islands.
* November 12 - Sergio Oliva, 71, Cuban-born American bodybuilder.
* November 14 - Ahmed Jabari, 52, Palestinian military commander (Hamas), airstrike.
* November 16 - Aliu Mahama, 66, former Vice president of Ghana.
* November 17 - Bal Thackeray, 86, Indian politician, cardio-respiratory arrest.
* November 19 - Pete La Roca, 74, American jazz drummer.
* November 20 - David O'Brien Martin, 68, American politician, cancer.
* November 21 - Ajmal Kasab, 25, Pakistani gunman in the 26 November 2008 Mumbai attacks, executed by hanging.
* November 21 - Deborah Raffin, 59, American actress, leukemia. 
* November 22 - Bryce Courtenay, 79, South African-Australian writer, stomach cancer.
* November 23 - Larry Hagman, 81, American actor, director and producer, leukemia.
* November 24 - Héctor Camacho, 50, Puerto Rican boxer, shot.
* November 25 - Dave Sexton, 82, English footballer and coach.
* November 25 - Lars Hormander, 81, Swedish mathematician.
* November 26 - Joseph E. Murray, 93, American doctor who performed the first successful kidney transplant, stroke.
* November 28 - Zig Ziglar, 86, American writer, speaker, and salesman, pneumonia.
* November 30 - I. K. Gujral, 92, former Prime Minister of India, multiple organ failure.

## December 
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* December 1 - Mitchell Cole, 27, English footballer, heart problem.
* December 1 - Phil Taylor, 95, English footballer and coach.
* December 1 - Jovan Belcher, 25, American football player and murderer, suicide by gunshot.
* December 2 - Ehsan Naraghi, 86, Iranian sociologist and writer, long illness. 
* December 4 - Miguel Calero, 41, Colombian footballer.
* December 4 - Besse Cooper, 116, American supercentenarian and world's oldest person,  respiratory failure.
* December 5 - Dave Brubeck, 91, American jazz pianist, composer and bandleader, heart failure.
* December 5 - Elisabeth Murdoch, 103, Australian philanthropist and mother of Rupert Murdoch, natural causes.
* December 5 - Oscar Niemeyer, 104, Brazilian architect, cardiac arrest.
* December 6 - Miguel Abia Biteo, 51, former Prime Minister of Equatorial Guinea, heart attack.
* December 9 - Patrick Moore, 89, English astronomer, writer and broadcaster, infection.
* December 9 - Jenni Rivera, 43, American-Mexican singer and actress, plane crash.
* December 9 -  Charles Rosen, 85, American pianist and writer on music.
* December 10 - Iajuddin Ahmed, 81, former President of Bangladesh, heart and kidney disease.
* December 10 - Lisa Della Casa, 93, Swiss operatic soprano.
* December 11 - Galina Vishnevskaya, 86, Russian operatic soprano.
* December 11 - Ravi Shankar, 92, Indian sitarist, after short illness.
* December 13 - Maurice Herzog, 93, French mountaineer.
* December 14 - Kenneth Kendall, 88, British television broadcaster, stroke.
* December 17 - Dina Manfredini, 115, Italian-American supercentenarian and world's oldest person.
* December 17 - Daniel Inouye, 88, United States Senator for Hawaii, respiratory complications .
* December 19 - Peter Struck, 69, German politician, heart attack.
* December 19 - Robert Bork, 85, American legal scholar who was nominated to become part of the United States Supreme Court in 1987, heart disease.
* December 20 - Jimmy McCracklin, 91, American blues musician, diabetes and hypertension.
* December 21 - Lee Dorman, 70, American bass guitarist, natural causes.
* December 22 - Cliff Osmond, 75, American actor, writer, producer, director, and screenwriter, pancreatic cancer.
* December 24 - Richard Rodney Bennett, 76, British composer and musician.
* December 24 - Charles Durning, 89, American actor, natural causes.
* December 24 - Jack Klugman, 90, American stage, television and movie actor, prostate cancer.
* December 25 - Frank Calabrese, Sr., 75, American Chicago mafia hitman (Family Secrets), suspected heart disease.
* December 25 - Othmar Schneider, 84, Austrian alpine skier.
* December 26 - Gerry Anderson, 83, British writer, director and producer.
* December 26 - Fontella Bass, 72, American singer, heart attack.
* December 27 - Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr., 78, American general, complications from pneumonia.
* December 27 - Harry Carey, Jr., 91, American actor, natural causes.
* December 28 - Václav Drobný, 32, Czech footballer, bobsleighing accident.
* December 28 - Emmanuel Scheffer, 88, German-born Israeli football coach.
* December 29 - Tony Greig, 66, South African-born English cricketer, heart attack.
* December 29 - Mike Auldridge, 73, American bluegrass musician, cancer.
* December 30 - Rita Levi-Montalcini, 103, Italian neurologist, neurobiologist and Nobel Prize winner, natural causes.
* December 30 - Carl Woese, 84, American scientist and biologist, pancreatic cancer.

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