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Deaths in February 2012

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

Contents

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

  • Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference (and language of reference, if not English).

    • 1

  • Herb Adams, 83, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).
  • Gerlando Alberti, 84, Italian Sicilian Mafioso, cancer.
  • Robert B. Cohen, 86, American businessman, founder of Hudson News, progressive supranuclear palsy.
  • Don Cornelius, 75, American television host and producer (Soul Train), suicide by gunshot.
  • Andrij Dobriansky, 81, Ukrainian-born American opera singer, diabetes and heart disease.
  • Angelo Dundee, 90, American boxing trainer (Muhammad Ali).
  • Joe Ekins, 88, British World War II soldier.
  • Fabián Estapé, 88, Spanish economist.
  • John Harrison, 87, Australian Olympic rower.
  • Ruth Hausmeister, 99, German actress (Zwei Brüder, The Longest Day).
  • Ladislav Kuna, 64, Slovak football player and manager.
  • Robert Lawless, 74, American anthropologist.
  • Ardath Mayhar, 81, American author.
  • Ingolf Mork, 64, Norwegian Olympic ski jumper.
  • Ladislao Nerio, 35, Salvadoran football player (C.D. Águila), strangled.
  • David Peaston, 54, American R&B singer, complications of diabetes.
  • Lutz Philipp, 71, German Olympic athlete.
  • Gilbert Poirot, 67, French Olympic ski jumper.
  • Charlie Spoonhour, 72, American basketball coach (Southwest Missouri State, Saint Louis University), complications from lung disease.
  • Jerry Steiner, 94, American basketball player (Fort Wayne Pistons).
  • Andrzej Sztolf, 70, Polish Olympic ski jumper.
  • Wisława Szymborska, 88, Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature (1996).

    • 2

  • Joyce Barkhouse, 98, Canadian children's writer (Pit Pony), heart attack.
  • Paul Consbruch, 81, German Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Paderborn (1980–1999).
  • Frederick William Danker, 91, American lexicographer and New Testament scholar.
  • David Edelsten, 78, British writer and army officer.
  • George Esper, 79, American journalist and foreign correspondent (Associated Press).
  • Elwyn Friedrich, 78, Swiss Olympic ice hockey player, myocardial infarction. (German)
  • Luis Javier Garrido, 71, Mexican political analyst. (Spanish)
  • Dorothy Gilman, 88, American spy novelist (The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax), complications of Alzheimer's disease.
  • Jorge Glusberg, 79, Argentine author and curator, director of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes.
  • Nassib Lahoud, 67, Lebanese politician.
  • James F. Lloyd, 89, American politician, U.S. Representative from California (1975–1981), stroke.

    • 3

  • Steve Appleton, 51, American businessman (Micron Technology), plane crash.
  • John Christopher, 89, British science fiction author (The Tripods, The Sword of the Spirits).
  • HIM Damsyik, 82, Indonesian dancer and actor.
  • Ben Gazzara, 81, American actor (Anatomy of a Murder, The Big Lebowski, Road House), pancreatic cancer.
  • Terence Hildner, 49, American general, commander of the 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary).
  • Raj Kanwar, 50, Indian film director and producer, kidney failure.
  • Karibasavaiah, 52, Indian film actor.
  • Zalman King, 69, American film director (Wild Orchid) and producer (9½ Weeks), cancer.
  • Karlo Maquinto, 21, Filipino boxer.
  • Mart Port, 90, Estonian architect.
  • Jacob Salatun, 84, Indonesian ufologist.
  • Andrzej Szczeklik, 73, Polish physician and educational administrator (Jagiellonian University Medical College).
  • Toh Chin Chye, 90, Singaporean politician, Deputy Prime Minister (1965–1968) and Minister for Health (1975–1981).
  • Wilhelm Wachtmeister, 88, Swedish diplomat, Ambassador to the United States (1974–1989).
  • Norton Zinder, 83, American microbiologist, pneumonia.

    • 4

  • István Csurka, 77, Hungarian playwright and politician, Chairman of the Hungarian Justice and Life Party (since 1993).
  • Robert Daniel, 75, American politician, U.S. Representative from Virginia (1973–1983).
  • Mike deGruy, 60, American documentary filmmaker (Trials of Life, The Blue Planet), helicopter crash.
  • Nigel Doughty, 54, British businessman, owner (since 1999) and chairman (2001–2011) of Nottingham Forest F.C.
  • Joseph W. Estabrook, 67, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of the Military Services (since 2004) and Titular Bishop of Flenucleta.
  • Harry F. Franke, Jr., 89, American politician.
  • Robert Glaser, 91, American cognitive psychologist, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
  • Florence Green, 110, British supercentenarian, last surviving veteran of World War I.
  • Fernando Lanhas, 88, Portuguese painter.
  • Hubert Leitgeb, 46, Italian Olympic biathlete, two-time world champion, avalanche.
  • Irene McKinney, 72, American poet, Poet Laureate of West Virginia (since 1994), cancer.
  • Livio Minelli, 85, Italian boxer.
  • Wendell Mitchell, 71, American politician, Alabama State Senator (1974–2010), heart failure.
  • Nicolás Moreno, 88, Mexican landscape painter.
  • Jeffrey Perry, 63, British stage and screen actor (The Chronicles of Narnia).
  • Sir Alan Reay, 86, British Army officer, Director General Army Medical Services (1981–1984).
  • Pierre-Eugène Rouanet, 94, French-born Ivorian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Daloa (1956–1975).
  • János Sebestyén, 80, Hungarian organist.
  • Giovanni Volta, 83, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Pavia (1986–2003).
  • Andrew Wight, 51, Australian screenwriter and producer (Sanctum), helicopter crash.
  • Pongphan Wongsuwan, 61, Thai football manager (TOT S.C.).

    • 5

  • Blaine, 74, Canadian editorial cartoonist.
  • Sam Coppola, 79, American actor (Saturday Night Fever, Fatal Attraction).
  • Al De Lory, 82, American record producer.
  • Bill Hinzman, 75, American actor (Night of the Living Dead), cancer.
  • Ray Honeyford, 77, English headmaster and writer.
  • William D. Houser, 90, American admiral (World War II, Korea, Vietnam), Alzheimer's disease and pneumonia.
  • Jiang Ying, 92, Chinese opera singer and music teacher.
  • Peter Kerim, 57, Ugandan military officer.
  • John Turner Sargent, Sr., 87, American publisher.
  • Lawrence Zhang Wen-Chang, 92, Chinese Roman Catholic priest, Apostolic Administrator of Kunming, Dali, and Zhaotong (since 2000).
  • Jo Zwaan, 89, Dutch Olympic athlete.

    • 6

  • Billy Bean, 78, American jazz guitarist.
  • Peter Breck, 82, American actor (The Big Valley).
  • Sharada Dwivedi, 69, Indian historian.
  • Yasuhiro Ishimoto, 90, Japanese photographer, complications following pneumonia and a stroke.
  • Noel Kelehan, 76, Irish musician (RTÉ Concert Orchestra).
  • Jim King, 69, British musician (Family).
  • Jay Lambert, 86, American Olympic boxer.
  • Juan Vicente Lezcano, 74, Paraguayan footballer.
  • Matthew Mbu, 82, Nigerian politician and diplomat, Foreign Minister (1993).
  • Władysław Ogrodziński, 93, Polish historian and writer.
  • Nuri Otay, 54, Turkish businessman.
  • Erik Reitzel, 70, Danish civil engineer.
  • Bob Roesner, 85, American baseball umpire.
  • David Rosenhan, 82, American psychologist.
  • Norma Merrick Sklarek, 85, American architect, heart failure.
  • Antoni Tàpies, 88, Spanish painter.
  • István Udvardi, 51, Hungarian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1980) water polo player.
  • Janice E. Voss, 55, American astronaut, breast cancer.
  • David A. Winter, 81, Canadian academic.

    • 7

  • James Baring, 6th Baron Revelstoke, 73, British aristocrat.
  • Danny Clyburn, 37, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles, Tampa Bay Devil Rays), shot.
  • Patricia Stephens Due, 72, American civil rights activist, cancer.
  • Ann Dummett, 81, British activist.
  • Devy Erilh, 83, French violinist.
  • Peter Goddard, 80, New Zealand educationalist.
  • Marie-Louise Haumont, 93, Belgian writer.
  • Florence Holway, 96, American advocate for rape victims.
  • Harry Keough, 84, American soccer player and coach.
  • Sergio Larraín, 81, Chilean photographer.
  • Robert Maxwell, 90, American songwriter and harpist.
  • Phil Shanahan, 84, Irish hurler.

    • 8

  • Theophilus Brown, 92, American painter.
  • Phil Bruns, 80, American actor (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Barney Miller, The Great Waldo Pepper), natural causes.
  • Dennis Callahan, 70, American politician, Mayor of Annapolis (1985–1989), heart attack.
  • John Cunningham, 72, Irish journalist, editor of Connacht Tribune (1984–2007), illness.
  • Laurent Desjardins, 88, Canadian politician.
  • John Fairfax, 74, British ocean rower and adventurer.
  • Giangiacomo Guelfi, 87, Italian opera singer.
  • Robert E. Hecht, 92, American antiquities dealer.
  • Lew Hitch, 82, American basketball player (Minneapolis Lakers, Milwaukee Hawks, Philadelphia Warriors).
  • Jorge Salvador Lara, 85, Ecuadorian historian and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1966, 1976–1977).
  • Laurie Main, 89, Australian-born character actor (Welcome to Pooh Corner).
  • Enrique Moreno Bellver, 48, Spanish footballer.
  • Gunther Plaut, 99, German-born Canadian rabbi and author.
  • Jimmy Sabater, Sr., 75, American Latin musician.
  • Allan Segal, 70, British documentary maker, cancer.
  • Ib Holm Sørensen, Danish computer scientist. (death announced on this date)
  • Luis Alberto Spinetta, 62, Argentine musician (Almendra, Pescado Rabioso, Invisible), lung cancer.
  • Irina Turova, 76, Soviet sprinter. [3] (Russian)
  • Wando, 66, Brazilian singer, cardiorespiratory arrest. (Portuguese)
  • Brayim Younisi, 85, Iranian Kurdish writer, novelist and translator. (Arabic)

    • 9

  • Adam Adamowicz, 42, American video game concept artist (The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Fallout 3), cancer.
  • Ole Albrechtsen, 87, Danish Olympic fencer.
  • Jill Kinmont Boothe, 75, American alpine skier.
  • Peggy Crowe, 56, American Olympic speed skater.
  • Fred Dickson, 74, Canadian lawyer and politician, Senator (since 2009), colon cancer.
  • O. P. Dutta, 90, Indian film director, complications of pneumonia.
  • Josh Gifford, 70, British racehorse jockey and trainer, heart attack.
  • John Hick, 90, English philosopher and theologian.
  • Barbara Marianowska, 64, British-born Polish politician.
  • Joe Moretti, 73, British guitarist, lung cancer.
  • Oscar Núñez, 83, Argentine actor (Good Life Delivery), cancer.
  • Don Panciera, 84, American football player (New York Yankees, Detroit Lions, Chicago Cardinals).

    • 10

  • Chuck Baird, 64, American artist.
  • Geoffrey Cornish, 97, American golf course architect.
  • R. T. France, 73, British New Testament scholar.
  • Ronald Fraser, 81, English historian.
  • Joseph Gaggero, 84, Gibraltarian businessman.
  • Filippo Giannini, 88, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Rome (1980–1998).
  • Ed Harrison, 84, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers, Boston Bruins).
  • Francisco de Guruceaga Iturriza, 84, Venezuelan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of La Guaira (1973–2001).
  • Brian Jones, 67, British intelligence analyst.
  • Andrey Korotkov, 57, Russian politician, after long illness.
  • Lloyd Morrison, 54, New Zealand businessman (Infratil), leukemia.
  • Wilmot Perkins, 80, Jamaican radio personality.
  • David Anthony Pizzuto, 60, Canadian-born American voice actor (Family Guy, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3).
  • Ivan Pravilov, 48, Ukrainian ice hockey coach, suspected suicide.
  • Refuse To Bend, 11, Irish Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the National Stakes (2002) and 2,000 Guineas Stakes (2003), myocardial infarction.
  • James Riordan, 75, English novelist and academic.
  • Adolfo Schwelm Cruz, 88, Argentine racing driver.
  • Jeffrey Zaslow, 53, American author and columnist, car accident.

    • 11

  • Siri Bjerke, 53, Norwegian politician, Minister of the Environment (2000–2001), cancer.
  • Gene Crumling, 89, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals).
  • Aharon Davidi, 85, Israeli general.
  • Trent Frayne, 93, Canadian sportswriter.
  • Whitney Houston, 48, American singer ("I Will Always Love You") and actress (The Bodyguard), accidental drowning.
  • John Sperry, 87, Canadian Anglican Bishop of the Arctic (1974–1990).

    • 12

  • Galal Amer, 59, Egyptian journalist, heart attack.
  • Zina Bethune, 66, American actress (Sunrise at Campobello), hit-and-run.
  • Malcolm Devitt, 75, English footballer.
  • Denis Flannery, 83, Australian rugby league player.
  • Adrian Foley, 8th Baron Foley, 88, British musician and aristocrat.
  • David Kelly, 82, Irish actor (Fawlty Towers, Strumpet City, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory).
  • Gratia Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, 99, Dutch Olympic alpine skier (1936).
  • John Severin, 90, American comic book artist (Hulk), co-founder of Mad magazine.
  • David Alan Walker, 83, British scientist.
  • Howard Zimmerman, 85, American professor of chemistry.

    • 13

  • Russell Arms, 92, American singer (Your Hit Parade) and actor (The Man Who Came to Dinner).
  • Lillian Bassman, 94, American photographer.
  • Ladislau Biernaski, 74, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of São José dos Pinhais (since 2006), cancer.
  • Frank Braña, 77, Spanish film actor, respiratory failure.
  • Al Brenner, 64, American football player (New York Giants, Hamilton Tiger-Cats).
  • Jodie Christian, 80, American jazz pianist.
  • Louise Cochrane, 93, American-born British television producer.
  • Eamonn Deacy, 53, Irish footballer, member of Aston Villa championship-winning team (1981), heart attack.
  • Humayun Faridi, 59, Bangladeshi actor.
  • Daniel C. Gerould, 84, American playwright and academic.
  • David Griffiths, 84, British Anglican clergyman, Archdeacon of Berkshire (1987–1992).
  • Kushimaumi Keita, 46, Japanese sumo wrestler and coach (Tagonoura), ischaemic heart disease.
  • Anwar Kamal Khan, 64, Pakistani politician, cardiac failure.
  • Akhlaq Mohammed Khan, 75, Indian poet, lyricist and academic, lung cancer.
  • Isaak B. Klejman, 91, Ukrainian Soviet archaeologist. [4]
  • Mohamed Lamari, 72/73, Algerian general, Chief of Staff of the People's National Army (1993–2004), heart attack.
  • Víctor Manuel Liceaga Ruibal, 77, Mexican politician, Governor of Baja California Sur (1987–1993), respiratory failure.
  • Severo Lombardoni, 62, Italian music producer.
  • Jim O'Brien, 64, Scottish film and television director (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles).
  • Leta Peer, 47, Swiss painter and fine art photographer.
  • Sansón, 87, Spanish football player.
  • Freddie Solomon, 59, American football player (Miami Dolphins, San Francisco 49ers), colon and liver cancer.
  • Edward Groesbeck Voss, 82, American botanist and lepidopterist.

    • 14

  • V. S. Acharya, 71, Indian politician.
  • Mike Bernardo, 42, South African boxer, kickboxer and martial artist.
  • Zlatko Crnković, 76, Croatian actor, cardiac arrest.
  • Ibragimkhalil Daudov, 51, Russian militant leader of the Vilayat Dagestan, shot.
  • Erwin Fiedor, 68, Polish Olympic ski jumper.
  • Reinhold Frosch, 76, Austrian luger.
  • Kim Pong-chol, 69, North Korean politician.
  • Tonmi Lillman, 38, Finnish musician (Ajattara, Sinergy, To/Die/For, Lordi).
  • Earl Lindley, 78, American football player (Edmonton Eskimos).
  • Tom McAnearney, 79, Scottish footballer (Sheffield Wednesday, Peterborough United, Aldershot).
  • Dory Previn, 86, American singer-songwriter (Mythical Kings and Iguanas) and lyricist (Valley of the Dolls, Last Tango in Paris).
  • Péter Rusorán, 71, Hungarian water polo player and coach, Olympic champion.
  • Alfredo Vega, 77, Paraguayan footballer

    • 15

  • Charles Anthony, 82, American tenor, kidney failure.
  • Ray Bailey, 76, Australian politician, President of the Tasmanian Legislative Council (1997–2002).
  • Sir Alan Cottrell, 92, British metallurgist and physicist.
  • William H. Dabney, 77, American military officer, awarded Navy Cross.
  • Cyril Domb, 91, British physicist.
  • Jacques Duby, 89, French actor.
  • Pola Illéry, 103, Romanian actress.
  • Zelda Kaplan, 95, American socialite and philanthropist.
  • Doug McNichol, 81, Canadian football player (Montreal Alouettes, Toronto Argonauts).
  • Lina Romay, 57, Spanish actress, cancer.
  • Clive Shakespeare, 62, British-born Australian guitarist (Sherbet) and record producer, prostate cancer.
  • James Whitaker, 71, British journalist, royal editor of the Daily Mirror, cancer.
  • Gerrit Ybema, 66, Dutch politician, State Secretary for Economic Affairs (1998–2002), lung cancer.
  • John J. Yeosock, 74, American lieutenant general, lung cancer.

    • 16

  • Duško Antunović, 65, Croatian Olympic water polo player and coach.
  • Gösta Arvidsson, 86, Swedish Olympic athlete.
  • Chikage Awashima, 87, Japanese actress (Takarazuka Revue), pancreatic cancer.
  • Mitja Brodar, 91, Slovenian archaeologist.
  • Gary Carter, 57, American Hall of Fame baseball player (Montreal Expos, New York Mets), brain tumor.
  • Shlomo Cohen-Tzidon, 89, Israeli politician.
  • Donald Henry Colless, 89, Australian entomologist
  • Sir Baddeley Devesi, 70, Solomon Islander politician, first Governor-General (1978–1988).
  • Warren Hudson, 49, Canadian football player (Toronto Argonauts, Winnipeg Blue Bombers), brain cancer.
  • Elyse Knox, 94, American actress and model, mother of Mark Harmon.
  • Joy Lamason, 96, New Zealand cricketer.
  • Reidar T. Larsen, 88, Norwegian politician, member of parliament (1973–1977).
  • John Macionis, 95, American Olympic silver medal-winning (1936) swimmer.
  • Kathryn McGee, 91, American disability rights advocate.
  • Harry McPherson, 82, American lawyer and lobbyist, advisor to Lyndon B. Johnson, cancer.
  • Geevarghese Mar Osthathios, 93, Indian Orthodox bishop, Senior Metropolitan of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church.
  • Anil Ramdas, 54, Surinamese-born Dutch columnist and journalist (NRC Handelsblad).
  • Ronald Rindestu, 69, Norwegian politician.
  • John Ritchie, 67, English footballer.
  • Anthony Shadid, 43, American journalist, asthma.
  • Ethel Stark, 95, Canadian violinist and conductor.
  • Gene Vance, 88, American basketball player (Chicago Stags, Tri-Cities Blackhawks, Milwaukee Hawks).
  • Dick Anthony Williams, 77, American actor (Edward Scissorhands, The Jerk, Homefront), after long illness.

    • 17

  • Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn, 93, Dutch mathematician.
  • Robert Carr, Baron Carr of Hadley, 95, British politician, MP for Mitcham (1950–1974) & Carshalton (1974–1976); Home Secretary (1972–1974).
  • Jordan da Costa, 79, Brazilian footballer (Flamengo), diabetes.
  • Clarence Dart, 91, American World War II fighter pilot (Tuskegee Airmen).
  • Michael Davis, 68, American bassist (MC5), liver failure.
  • Winkie Direko, 82, South African politician, Premier of the Free State (1999–2004), stroke.
  • Pierre Francisse, 87, Belgian Olympic fencer.
  • Danny Halloran, 57, Australian footballer (Carlton).
  • Kurt Lehovec, 93, American physicist.
  • Ulric Neisser, 83, American psychologist.
  • Hank Nelson, 74, Australian historian, cancer.
  • Peter Novick, 77, American historian.
  • Howie Nunn, 76, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds).
  • Frank Sanders, 62, American Olympic silver medal-winning (1972) ice hockey player, pancreatic cancer.

    • 18

  • Roald Aas, 83, Norwegian Olympic gold (1960) and bronze (1952) medal-winning speed skater.
  • József Breznay, 95, Hungarian painter.
  • George Brizan, 69, Grenadian politician, Prime Minister (1995), diabetes.
  • João Viegas Carrascalão, 65, East Timorese politician.
  • Zvezdan Čebinac, 72, Serbian football player and manager.
  • Rose Cliver, 109, American centenarian, one of the last known survivors of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
  • Elizabeth Connell, 65, South African soprano, cancer.
  • Clementina Díaz y de Ovando, 96, Mexican writer and academic.
  • Linda Estrella, 89, Fillipina actress.
  • M. R. D. Foot, 92, English military historian.
  • Ken Goodwin, 78, English comedian (The Comedians), Alzheimer's disease.
  • Peter Halliday, 87, Welsh actor (Doctor Who, The Remains of the Day).
  • Miles Jackson-Lipkin, 87, British barrister, Hong Kong High Court judge (1981–1987), social welfare fraudster.
  • María Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat, 90, Argentine business executive and philanthropist.
  • Matt Lamb, 79, American painter.
  • Bertie Messitt, 81, Irish Olympic athlete (1960).
  • Roger Miner, 77, American federal appellate judge, heart failure.
  • Cal Murphy, 79, Canadian football coach and general manager (Winnipeg Blue Bombers).
  • Peter Sharp, 72, New Zealand first class cricketer (Canterbury) and cricket commentator, cancer.
  • Ric Waite, 78, American cinematographer (Red Dawn, Footloose, 48 Hrs.).
  • Mohammed Wardi, 79, Sudanese singer and songwriter, kidney complications.

    • 19

  • Georgi Cherkelov, 81, Bulgarian actor, stroke.
  • Robin Corbett, Baron Corbett of Castle Vale, 78, British politician, MP for Hemel Hempstead (1974–1979) and Birmingham Erdington (1983–2001), cancer.
  • Renato Dulbecco, 97, Italian-born American virologist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1975).
  • Vito Giacalone, 88, American mobster.
  • Eric Harris, 56, American football player (Toronto Argonauts, Kansas City Chiefs, Los Angeles Rams), heart attack.
  • J. Paul Hogan, 92, American research chemist.
  • Steve Kordek, 100, American pinball machine designer.
  • Giovanni Lilliu, 97, Italian archeologist.
  • Ruth Barcan Marcus, 90, American philosopher and logician.
  • Walter Schloss, 95, American investor and stock trader, leukemia.
  • Dick Smith, 72, American baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Mets).
  • So Man-sul, 84, North Korean Zainichi activist, Chongryon Central Standing Committee chairman.
  • Frits Staal, 81, Dutch philosopher.
  • Stasys Stonkus, 80, Lithuanian basketball player.
  • Herman G. Tillman, Jr., 89, American pilot (World War II, Korea, Vietnam), liver failure.
  • Jaroslav Velinský, 79, Czech science fiction and detective author.
  • Vitaly Vorotnikov, 86, Soviet politician, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR (1988–1990).

    • 20

  • Knut Torbjørn Eggen, 51, Norwegian Olympic football player and coach.
  • Asar Eppel, 77, Russian translator, stroke.
  • Sebhat Gebre-Egziabher, 76, Ethiopian author.
  • Imanuel Geiss, 81, German historian.
  • Katie Hall, 73, American politician, U.S. Representative from Indiana (1982–1985).
  • S. N. Lakshmi, 85, Indian actress, cardiac arrest.
  • Lydia Lamaison, 97, Argentine actress (Muñeca Brava).
  • Christoffer Schander, 51, Norwegian marine biologist.
  • Michael Siegal, 61, British developmental psychologist.
  • Adrienne Smith, 78, Australian sport administrator.
  • Edgardo Gabriel Storni, 75, Argentine Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz (1984–2002).
  • Tamanna, 64, Pakistani actress.
  • Sullivan Walker, 68, Trinidadian actor (The Cosby Show, Get Rich or Die Tryin'), heart attack.

    • 21

  • Ranil Abeynaike, 57, Sri Lankan cricketer and commentator, heart attack.
  • Ajahn Chanda Thawaro, 90, Thai Buddhist monk.
  • Sarbari Roy Choudhury, 79, Indian sculptor, heart attack.
  • H. M. Darmstandler, 89, American Air Force officer.
  • Manuel Franco da Costa de Oliveira Falcão, 89, Portuguese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Beja (1980–1999).
  • Emlyn Hooson, Baron Hooson, 86, British politician, MP for Montgomeryshire (1962–1979).
  • Colin Ireland, 57, British serial killer.
  • Pierre Juneau, 89, Canadian broadcasting executive and cabinet minister, Minister of Communications (1975), namesake of the Juno Awards.
  • Fay Kleinman, 99, American painter, complications of a broken hip.
  • Vera Kublanovskaya, 91, Russian mathematician.
  • Yusuf Kurçenli, 65, Turkish film director, cancer.
  • Tom Martinez, 66, American football coach, heart attack.
  • John Michuki, 79, Kenyan politician, heart attack.
  • Benjamin Romualdez, 81, Filipino politician and diplomat, Governor of Leyte (1967–1986), brother of Imelda Marcos, cancer.
  • Leonard Rosoman, 98, British artist.
  • Barney Rosset, 89, American publisher (Grove Press) and free speech advocate.
  • Eldor Magomatovich Urazbayev, 71, Russian film director.
  • John Charles Winter, 88, British church organist.

    • 22

  • Frank Carson, 85, Northern Irish comedian.
  • Marie Colvin, 56, American reporter (The Sunday Times), shelling.
  • Nakamura Jakuemon IV, 91, Japanese kabuki actor, pneumonia.
  • Lyudmila Kasatkina, 86, Russian actress, People's Artist of the USSR.
  • Thabang Lebese, 38, South African footballer, AIDS-related illness.
  • Lorin Levee, 61, American clarinetist (Los Angeles Philharmonic).
  • João Mansur, 88, Brazilian politician, Governor of Paraná (1973).
  • Robert R. McElroy, 84, American photographer.
  • Mike Melvoin, 74, American jazz pianist and composer, cancer.
  • Dmitri Nabokov, 77, American opera singer and translator.
  • Rémi Ochlik, 28, French photographer, shelling.
  • Royal Academy, 25, Irish Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the Breeders' Cup Mile (1990).
  • Haycene Ryan, 60, Montserratian cricketer, cancer.
  • Ian Robertson, 89, British admiral.
  • Cuauhtémoc Sandoval Ramírez, 61, Mexican politician, heart attack. (Spanish)
  • Enzo Sellerio, 88, Italian photographer, heart attack.
  • Billy Strange, 81, American songwriter ("Limbo Rock") and music arranger.
  • Sukhbir, 86, Indian writer.

    • 23

  • Cathy Campbell, 49, New Zealand broadcaster, brain tumour.
  • Anne Commire, 72, American playwright.
  • William Gay, 70, American author.
  • Peter King, 47, English footballer.
  • Grigory Kosykh, 79, Soviet sports shooter.
  • Mariuccia Medici, 102, Swiss-born Italian actress.
  • Stella Nardari-Vecchiato, 113, Italian supercentenarian.
  • William Raggio, 85, American politician, Nevada State Senator (1972–2011), respiratory illness.
  • David Sayre, 87, American scientist.
  • Marc Soula, 66, French entomologist.
  • Bruce Surtees, 74, American cinematographer (Lenny, Dirty Harry, Beverly Hills Cop).
  • Jan van Borssum Buisman, 92, Dutch painter.
  • Kazimierz Żygulski, 92, Polish sociologist and politician.

    • 24

  • Infanta Maria Adelaide of Portugal, 100, Portuguese royal.
  • Agnes Allen, 81, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).
  • István Anhalt, 92, Hungarian-born Canadian composer.
  • Jan Berenstain, 88, American writer and illustrator (Berenstain Bears), stroke.
  • Benedict Freedman, 92, American novelist and mathematician.
  • Njenga Karume, 82, Kenyan businessman and politician, cancer.
  • Theodore Mann, 87, American theatre producer and director.
  • Terry Mathews, 47, American baseball player (Texas Rangers, Florida Marlins, Baltimore Orioles), heart attack.
  • Kenneth Price, 77, American ceramics artist, cancer.
  • Pery Ribeiro, 74, Brazilian singer, myocardial infarction.
  • Eliana Tranchesi, 56, Brazilian chief executive (Daslu).
  • Jay Ward, 73, American baseball player (Minnesota Twins, Cincinnati Reds).
  • Oliver Wrong, 87, British medical academic.

    • 25

  • Maurice André, 78, French classical trumpeter.
  • Dave Cheadle, 60, American baseball player (Atlanta Braves).
  • Lynn Compton, 90, American soldier, inspiration for Band of Brothers, heart attack.
  • Dick Davies, 76, American gold-medal winning Olympic basketball player (1964).
  • Lloyd R. George, 85, American politician, member of the Arkansas House of Representatives (1963–1967; 1973–1997).
  • Red Holloway, 84, American jazz saxophonist, stroke and kidney failure.
  • Erland Josephson, 88, Swedish actor and author, leader of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, complications of Parkinson's disease.
  • Louisiana Red, 79, American blues musician, stroke.

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  • Ed Brigadier, 62, American actor (Pushing Daisies, Gilmore Girls).
  • Richard Carpenter, 82, English television screenwriter.
  • Paddy Concannon, 93, Irish politician.
  • Árpád Fekete, 90, Hungarian football player and coach.
  • Georg Holzherr, 85, Swiss Roman Catholic prelate, Abbot Ordinary of Territorial Abbacy of Maria Einsiedeln (1969–2001).
  • Don Joyce, 82, American football player (Baltimore Colts, Chicago Cardinals, Minnesota Vikings).
  • Hans Christian Korting, 59, German dermatologist.
  • Kumar Kashyap Mahasthavir, 85, Nepalese Buddhist monk.
  • Trayvon Martin, 17, American teenager, shooting.
  • Berto Poosen, 67, Belgian Olympic volleyball player.
  • George E. Terwilleger, 71, American politician.
  • Johannes Vågsnes, 88, Norwegian politician.
  • Yvonne Verbeeck, 98, Belgian actress.
  • Zollie Volchok, 95, American basketball executive.

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  • Ely Bielutin, 86, Russian artist.
  • Louis Bertorelle, 79, French Olympic basketball player.
  • Pedro Azabache Bustamante, 94, Peruvian painter.
  • Vince Dantona, 62, American ventriloquist.
  • Werner Guballa, 67, German Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Mainz (since 2003).
  • Anders Kulläng, 68, Swedish rally driver, drowning.
  • Ma Jiyuan, 91, Chinese military leader.
  • Sailen Manna, 87, Indian Olympic footballer.
  • Armand Penverne, 85, French football player.
  • Tina Strobos, 91, Dutch psychiatrist and humanitarian, protected Jewish refugees during World War II, cancer.
  • Władysław Tajner, 76, Polish Olympic ski jumper.
  • Helga Vlahović, 67, Croatian journalist, producer and television personality, uterine cancer.

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  • Frisner Augustin, 63, Haitian Vodou drummer.
  • Bai Jing, 29, Chinese actress, stabbed.
  • Jaime Graça, 70, Portuguese footballer.
  • Jim Green, 68, American-born Canadian politician and activist, lung cancer.
  • Fritz Hakl, 80, Austrian actor.
  • William Hamilton, 87, American theologian.
  • Antonio Attolini Lack, 80, Mexican architect.
  • Abukar Hassan Mohamoud, c. 46, Somali journalist, shot.
  • Hal Roach, 84, Irish comedian.

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  • Roland Bautista, 60, American guitarist (Earth, Wind & Fire).
  • Ertjies Bezuidenhout, 56, South African cyclist.
  • Dennis Chinnery, 84, British actor (Doctor Who).
  • Fukuzo Iwasaki, 86, Japanese businessman. (Japanese)
  • Davy Jones, 66, British actor and musician (The Monkees), heart attack.
  • Karl Kodat, 69, Austrian international footballer.
  • Sheldon Moldoff, 91, American comic book artist (Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman), kidney failure.
  • Horacio Morales, 68, Filipino economist and politician, Secretary of Agrarian Reform (1998–2001), heart attack.
  • P. K. Narayana Panicker, 81, Indian welfare worker, President of the Nair Service Society.
  • Violet Wood, 112, British supercentenarian, oldest person in the United Kingdom.

    • References

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