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.
*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.
*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).
*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.
*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.
*Rolf Thieme, 65, German Olympic hockey player.
*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.

### 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.
*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.
*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.
*John Ballem, 84, Canadian novelist.
*Amo Bessone, 93, American ice hockey player and coach.
*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.
*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.

### 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.
*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.
*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.
*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.
*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.
*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.

### 12
*Masoud Alimohammadi, 50, Iranian nuclear scientist, bomb blast.
*Miloslav Bělonožník, 91, Czech Olympic ski jumper.
*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.
*Altan Dinçer, 77, Turkish Olympic basketball player.
*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.
*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).
**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").
*Phoebe Prince, 15, Irish student at South Hadley High School, Massachusetts, bullying victim, suicide by hanging.
*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.
*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 https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/62184/Robert_Gerard.html
*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).
*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.
*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.
*John S. Loisel, 89, American fighter ace.
*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.
*Abraham Sutzkever, 96, Polish-born Israeli poet.
*Lynn Taitt, 75, Jamaican reggae guitarist, cancer.

### 21
*Sayeed Ahmed, 79, Bangladeshi playwright.
*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.
*Guillermo Abadía Morales, 97, Colombian folklore researcher, indigenous language expert, natural causes.
*Curt Motton, 69, American baseball player, stomach cancer.
*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.
*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.
*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).
*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.

### 23
*George C. Baldwin, 92, American physicist.
*Haren S. Gandhi, 68, Indian-born American inventor and engineer.
*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.
*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.
*Donald Dowd, 87, American campaign aide to the Kennedy family.
*Ghazali Shafie, 87, Malaysian politician, Home Minister (1973–1981) and Foreign Minister (1981–1984).
*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.
*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&ndash;1974).

### 25
*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.
*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.
*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.
*Paul R. Jones, 81, American art collector, after short illness.
*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.
*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.
*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*).
*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.

### 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.
*Mohammad Bazlul Huda, Bangladeshi army officer and assassin of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, 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.
*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.
*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).
*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.
*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.
*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.
*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).
*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.
*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.
*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.
*Jens-Anton Poulsson, 91, Norwegian military officer and resistance fighter (heavy water sabotage).
*Srinivas Rangaraj, 77, Indian cricketer.
*Nelli Shkolnikova, 82, Ukrainian-born Australian violinist and educator, cancer.
*Raymond Wang Chong Lin, 88, Chinese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Zhaoxian, cerebral hemorrhage.
*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*).
*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.
*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.
*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.
*Ernest van der Eyken, 96, Belgian composer, conductor and violist.
*Kipkemboi Kimeli, 43, Kenyan athlete, 1988 Olympic bronze medalist, complications from pneumonia and tuberculosis.
*Lee Yung-dug, 83, South Korean politician, Prime Minister (1994), pneumonia.
*Henry A. Miley, Jr., 94, American soldier, U.S. Army four-star general.
*Lady Marjorie Nellie Murray, 85, British socialite, witness at the Nuremberg and Tokyo war crimes trials.
*Nancy Sweezy, 88, American folklorist, potter and writer.
*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.
*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.
*Kasturi Rajadhyaksha, 86, Indian physician.
*Robert Roxby, 83, Australian cricketer.
*Oscar da Silva, 89, Brazilian Olympic equestrian.
*William Tenn, 89, American science fiction writer and educator, heart failure.

### 8
*Angelo Franzosi, 88, Italian footballer.
*David Froman, 71, American actor (*The Edge of Night*, *Matlock*), cancer.
*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.
*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.

### 9
*Abdul Karim Amu, 76, Nigerian sprinter.
*Chaskel Besser, 86, Polish-born American rabbi.
*John D. Butler, 94, American politician, mayor of San Diego (1951–1955), natural causes.
*Davy Coenen, 29, Belgian mountain biker, 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).
*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.
*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).
*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.
*Umetsugu Inoue, 86, Japanese film director, cerebral hemorrhage.
*Robert Long, 77, New Zealand cricketer.
*Alexander McQueen, 40, British fashion designer, suicide by hanging.
*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.
*David Severn, 91, British author.
*Yury Sevidov, 68, Russian footballer, Soviet Top League highest goal scorer (1962).
*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.
*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.
*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.
*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.
*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.
*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.
*Linnart Mäll, 71, Estonian historian, orientalist, translator and politician, cancer.
*John Ruan, 96, American entrepreneur and philanthropist, Parkinson's disease.
*John Thorbjarnarson, 52, American conservationist and crocodile expert, malaria.
*Jerzy Turek, 76, Polish actor, leukemia.
*Zhang Yalin, 28, Chinese football player, lymphoma.

### 15
*W. H. Clatworthy, 94, American mathematician.
*Juan Carlos González, 85, Uruguayan football player.
*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).
*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.
*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.

### 16
*Jim Bibby, 65, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates), bone cancer.
*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.
*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.
*Ignatius P. Lobo, 90, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Belgaum (1967–1994).
*Martha Mercader, 83, Argentine politician and writer.
*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.
*Erwin Bachmann, 88, German Waffen-SS officer.
*Asta Backman, 93, Finnish actress.
*Bob Chakales, 82, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians).
*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.
*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.
*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.
*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&ndash;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.
*Michael Clancy, 60, Saint Helena politician and Governor (2004–2007), cancer.
*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.
*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.
*Richard Gruenwald, 93, Canadian politician, Alberta MLA for Lethbridge-West (1971–1975).
*Dagfin Huseby, 87, Norwegian Olympic wrestler.
*C. R. Johnson, 26, American newschool skier, skiing accident.
*Birgitta Lindqvist, 67, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier.
*Charles MacArthur, 89, Canadian politician, MLA for Inverness (1983&ndash;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.
*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.
*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.
*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.
*Roger Veeser, 90, Swiss Olympic athlete.

### 28
*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*).
*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 
 1913-2010]]
 1939-2010]]
 1971-2010]]
 1926-2010]]
 1924-2010]]
 1924-2010]]
 1930-2010]]
 1921-2010]]
* 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 
 1918-2010]]
 1935-2010]]
 1942-2010]]
 1949-2010]]
 1919-2010]]
 1939-2010]]
 1962-2010]]
 1920-2010]]
 1928-2010]]
* 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 
 1943-2010]]
 1917-2010]]
 1923-2010]]
 1942-2010]]
 1936-2010]]
* 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 
 1937-2010]]
 1934-2010]]
 1910-2010]]
 1928-2010]]
 1941-2010]]
 1922-2010]]
 1932-2010]]
* 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.
* 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 
 1939-2010]]
 1940-2010]]
 1925-2010]]
 1925-2010]]
* July 2 - Beryl Bainbridge, 77, British writer, cancer.
* July 3 - Abu Daoud, 73, Palestinian politician and military commander.
* 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.
* 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.
* July 11 - Bob Sheppard, 99, American public address and baseball announcer, natural causes.
* July 12 - Günter Behnisch, 88, German architect.
* July 12 - Harvey Pekar, 70, American comic, writer, and music critic.
* July 13 - George Steinbrenner, 80, American baseball team owner, heart attack.
* July 14 - Charles Mackerras, 84, Australian conductor.
* July 14 - Madalina Manole, 43, Romanian singer.
* July 17 - Bernard Giraudeau, 63, French actor, director and writer.
* 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 
 1926-2010]]
 1923-2010]]
 1931-2010]]
 1930-2010]]
 1928-2010]]
 1923-2010]]
* 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 
 1935-2010]]
 1928-2010]]
 1925-2010]]
 1924-2010]]
 1965-2010]]
 1941-2010]]
* 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 
 1926-2010]]
 1915-2010]]
 1927-2010]]
 1950-2010]]
* 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 
 1938-2010]]
 1944-2010]]
 1919-2010]]
 1933-2010]]
 1926-2010]]
 1915-2010]]
 1913-2010]]
 1937-2010]]
* 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 
 1914-2010]]
 1902-2010]]
 1938-2010]]
 1917-2010]]
 1941-2010]]
 1927-2010]]
 1922-2010]]
 
 1956-2010]]
 1917-2010]]
* 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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