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Deaths in January 2012

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The following is a list of notable deaths in January 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

  • Gary Ablett, 46, English footballer (Liverpool, Everton, Birmingham City), non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
  • Bob Anderson, 89, British Olympic fencer (1952), film fight choreographer (Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings, The Princess Bride).
  • Alfredo Battisti, 86, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Udine (1972–2000). (Italian)
  • Jorge Andrés Boero, 38, Argentine motorcycle racer, Dakar Rally crash.
  • Elizabeth Brumfiel, 66, American archaeologist.
  • Frank Cioffi, 83, American philosopher.
  • Anders Frandsen, 51, Danish singer and television presenter. (Danish)
  • Rebecca Fromer, 84, American historian and writer, co-founder of the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life.
  • Kiro Gligorov, 94, Macedonian politician, first democratically elected President (1991–1999).
  • Jan Groover, 68, American photographer.
  • Hermann Guggiari, 87, Paraguayan engineer and sculptor. (Spanish)
  • Frank Horwill, 84, British athletics coach.
  • Ed Jenkins, 78, American politician, Representative from Georgia (1977–1993).
  • Alessandro Liberati, 57, Italian medical researcher, cancer.
  • Nay Win Maung, 49, Burmese physician and pro-democracy activist, heart attack.
  • Fred Milano, 72, American doo-wop singer (The Belmonts, Dion and the Belmonts), lung cancer.
  • Tommy Mont, 89, American college football coach and NFL player, heart failure.
  • Marcelle Narbonne, 113, French supercentenarian, oldest person in Europe. (French)
  • Carlos Soria, 63, Argentine politician, Secretary of Intelligence (2002), Governor of Río Negro (since 2011), shot.
  • Yafa Yarkoni, 86, Israeli singer.

    • 2

  • Ian Bargh, 76, British-born Canadian jazz pianist, lung cancer.
  • David W. Barron, 76, British computer scientist. [8]
  • Peg Belson, 90, British health activist.
  • Ivan Călin, 76, Moldovan politician, Acting President of the Moldovan Parliament (2009).
  • William P. Carey, 81, American businessman (W. P. Carey & Co.) and philanthropist.
  • Ioan Drăgan, 46, Romanian footballer (FC Brașov), colorectal cancer.
  • Vivi Friedman, 44, Finnish film director, cancer.
  • Silvana Gallardo, 58, American actress (MacGyver, Starsky and Hutch, Babylon 5), cancer.
  • Yoshiro Hayashi, 89, Japanese golfer.
  • Gordon Hirabayashi, 93, American civil rights activist (Hirabayashi v. United States).
  • Jim Huber, 67, American sports commentator (CNN, TNT).
  • Anatoly Kolesov, 73, Russian wrestler, Olympic gold medalist (1964).
  • Howie Koplitz, 73, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Washington Senators).
  • Helmut Müller-Brühl, 78, German conductor.
  • Larry Reinhardt, 63, American rock guitarist (Iron Butterfly, Captain Beyond), liver cirrhosis.
  • Alan Rowlands, 82, English pianist.
  • Ambjørg Sælthun, 89, Norwegian politician.
  • Otto Scrinzi, 93, Austrian journalist and politician.
  • Paulo Rodrigues da Silva, 25, Brazilian footballer, car crash.
  • H. Edwin Young, 94, American economist, Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1968–1977).

    • 3

  • Charles W. Bailey, 81, American journalist and novelist (Seven Days in May), Parkinson's disease.
  • Gene Bartow, 81, American college basketball coach (UAB, UCLA), stomach cancer.
  • Robert L. Carter, 94, American civil rights activist (Sweatt v. Painter) and judge, complications from a stroke.
  • Ray Costict, 56, American football player (New England Patriots).
  • Miguel Couturier, 61, Mexican actor (Miss Bala, Once Upon a Time in Mexico), cancer.
  • Willi Entenmann, 68, German football player and coach, heart attack.
  • Juan Escudero, 91, Spanish footballer.
  • Fong Fei Fei, 60, Taiwanese singer and actress, lung cancer.
  • Lars Lennart Forsberg, 78, Swedish film director.
  • Selorm Kuadey, 24, Ukrainian-born English rugby union player (Sale Sharks).
  • John David Lewis, 56, American political scientist.
  • Winifred Milius Lubell, 97, American illustrator and writer, heart failure.
  • Joaquín Martínez, 81, Mexican-born American actor (Jeremiah Johnson, Die Another Day), pancreatic cancer.
  • Osamu Matsubara, 94, Japanese businessman, chairman of Books Kinokuniya, heart failure. (Japanese)
  • Stepan Oshchepkov, 77, Russian canoeist, Olympic gold medalist (1964). (Russian)
  • Mikhail Romadin, 71, Russian artist. [9] (Russian)
  • Josef Škvorecký, 87, Czech writer and publisher, cancer.
  • Miguel Terekhov, 83, Uruguayan-born American ballet dancer and teacher, complications of lung fibrosis.
  • Jenny Tomasin, 75, British actress (Upstairs, Downstairs), hypertensive heart disease.
  • Wylie Vale, 70, American endocrinologist.
  • Vicar, 77, Chilean cartoonist.
  • Bob Weston, 64, British guitarist and songwriter (Fleetwood Mac), gastrointestinal hemorrhage. (body found on this date)
  • Harold Zirin, 82, American astronomer.

    • 4

  • Eve Arnold, 99, American photographer.
  • Ruben Ayala, 89, American politician, California State Senator (1974–1998), first elected Mayor of Chino, California (1964–1966).
  • Totti Bergh, 76, Norwegian jazz saxophonist.
  • James F. Crow, 95, American geneticist.
  • Harry Fowler, 85, British character actor.
  • Gatewood Galbraith, 64, American lawyer and author, complications from chronic emphysema.
  • Sir Archibald Glenn, 100, Australian industrialist, Chancellor of La Trobe University.
  • Patricia Mather, 88, Australian zoologist.
  • Kerry McGregor, 37, British singer and reality contestant (The X Factor), bladder cancer.
  • Bob McKenzie, 83, Australian football player.
  • Kalpana Mohan, 65, Indian actress.
  • Carmen Naranjo, 83, Costa Rican novelist, poet and essayist, cancer.
  • Hisako Ōishi, 75, Japanese politician, member of the House of Councillors, respiratory failure.
  • Rod Robbie, 83, Canadian architect.
  • Xaver Unsinn, 82, German Olympic ice hockey player and coach.
  • David Wheeler, 86, American theatrical director.

    • 5

  • Richard Alf, 59, American businessman, co-founder and chairman of San Diego Comic-Con International, pancreatic cancer.
  • Selwyn Baptiste, 75, Trinidadian-born British musician and festival organiser.
  • Gordon W. Bowie, 67, American musician.
  • Don Carter, 85, American professional bowler, complication from pneumonia and emphysema.
  • Samson H. Chowdhury, 86, Bangladeshi businessman.
  • Idwal Fisher, 76, Welsh rugby player.
  • Thelma Forbes, 101, Canadian politician.
  • Hikaru Hayashi, 80, Japanese composer.
  • Frank Ackerman Hill, 92, American U.S. Air Force officer, commander of the 33rd Air Division.
  • Frederica Sagor Maas, 111, American silent film screenwriter (The Plastic Age), playwright, memoirist and author.
  • Isaac Díaz Pardo, 91, Spanish artist.
  • Amit Saigal, 46, Indian rock magazine publisher, concert promoter and musician, drowned.
  • Alexander Sizonenko, 52, Russian basketball player, world's tallest person (1991). (Russian)

    • 6

  • Louise Gibson Annand, 96, Scottish artist.
  • James R. Arnold, 88, American space scientist.
  • Tom Ardolino, 56, American drummer (NRBQ).
  • Roger Boisjoly, 73, American aerospace engineer, anticipated the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, cancer.
  • Harlin Butterley, 84, Australian Anglican priest and Dean of Hobart from 1972–1980.
  • Gabriel Cadis, 60, Israeli attorney, chairman of the Jaffa Orthodox Church Association, stabbed.
  • John Celardo, 93, American comic strip artist (Tarzan, Buz Sawyer).
  • Harry Fearnley, 88, English footballer.
  • Bob Holness, 83, South African-born British quiz show host and actor (Blockbusters).
  • Eleftherios Katsaitis, 82, Greek-born British Orthodox hierarch, Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Great Britain (1987–1994), smothered.
  • W. Francis McBeth, 78, American composer.
  • Frank James McGarr, 90, American federal district judge.
  • Basil Payne, 88, Irish poet.
  • Ellen Pence, 63, American sociologist and social activist, creator of the Duluth Domestic Abuse Intervention Project, breast cancer.
  • Thomas Virgil Pittman, 95, American federal judge.
  • Sybil Plumlee, 100, American teacher and police officer.
  • Spike Pola, 97, Australian football player.
  • John Pollock, 87, English author.
  • Louis Rech, 85, Italian-born Luxembourgian politician, Mayor of Dudelange (1985–1993).
  • Clive Shell, 64, Welsh international rugby player.

    • 7

  • Ibrahim Aslan, 77, Egyptian novelist and short story writer, heart failure.
  • Tony Blankley, 63, British-born American commentator, newspaper editor and child actor, stomach cancer.
  • Karen Ramey Burns, 64, American forensic anthropologist.
  • Milburn E. Calhoun, 72, American book publisher.
  • Francella Mary Griggs, 91, American nun, advocated for federal recognition of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians.
  • George Livingston, 78, American politician, first elected black mayor of Richmond, California (1985–1993), diabetes.
  • Hideaki Nitani, 81, Japanese actor (Tokyo Drifter), pneumonia.
  • Charles Pawsey, 88, English rugby league player.
  • Henri Puppo, 98, French cyclist.
  • Herbert Wilf, 80, American mathematician.

    • 8

  • Jan Håkan Åberg, 95, Swedish organist and composer.
  • Dave Alexander, 73, American blues singer and pianist, suicide by gunshot.
  • Artax, 17, American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the 1999 Breeders' Cup Sprint, Carter Handicap and Vosburgh Stakes.
  • Franz Berger, 71, Austrian Olympic wrestler. (German)
  • Andrea Bosic, 92, Italian actor.
  • Herb Clarke, 84, American television weatherman (WCAU-TV), NATAS Governor's Award winner (2007), Alzheimer's disease.
  • Glenn Cox, 80, American baseball player (Kansas City Athletics).
  • Franz Dorfer, 61, Austrian Olympic boxer (1976).
  • Gunnar Dyrberg, 90, Danish resistance fighter, head of Holger Danske (1943–1945).
  • Edarem, 79, American television presenter and internet celebrity.
  • T. J. Hamblin, 68, British haematologist, cancer.
  • Svetlana Kharitonova, 79, Russian actress, after long illness. [10]
  • Dmitry Machinsky, 74, Russian archaeologist.
  • John Madin, 87, English architect.
  • Charles Morris, 85, British politician, MP for Manchester Openshaw (1963–1983).
  • Clarence C. Pope, 81, American prelate, Episcopal Bishop of Fort Worth (1986–1994).
  • Graham Rathbone, 69, Welsh footballer, dementia.
  • Bernhard Schrader, 80, German theoretical chemist. (German)
  • Alexis Weissenberg, 82, Bulgarian-born French pianist.

    • 9

  • Tubby Bacon, 81, American baseball team owner (Milwaukee Braves) and oenophile.
  • Louis Boekhout, 92, Dutch-born Canadian painter.
  • Ron Caron, 82, Canadian ice hockey administrator, General Manager of the St. Louis Blues (1983–1993, 1996).
  • Ernie Carson, 74, American jazz musician.
  • Brian Curvis, 74, Welsh boxer, leukaemia. (death announced on this date).
  • Alex DeCroce, 75, American politician, New Jersey General Assembly Minority Leader (since 2004).
  • Bill Dickie, 82, Scottish football administrator.
  • Ruth Fernández, 92, Puerto Rican contralto and politician, Senator (1973–1981).
  • Bridie Gallagher, 87, Irish singer.
  • Augusto Gansser-Biaggi, 101, Swiss geologist.
  • Christian-Joseph Guyonvarc'h, 85, French philologist, specializing in Celtic studies.
  • Koizumi Junsaku, 87, Japanese painter and pottery artist, pneumonia.
  • Mae Laborde, 102, American actress (Pineapple Express, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia).
  • Vern McGrew, 82, American Olympic athlete.
  • Robert Nelson, 81, American filmmaker, cancer.
  • John Both Puok, 48, South Sudanese politician.
  • Salvador A. Rodolfo, Sr., 92, Filipino war hero, leukemia.
  • William G. Roll, 85, American psychologist and parapsychologist.
  • Malam Bacai Sanhá, 64, Guinea-Bissauan politician, President (1999–2000; since 2009).
  • Larry Solway, 83, Canadian radio personality and author.
  • László Szekeres, 90, Hungarian physician.
  • Pyotr Vasilevsky, 55, Belarusian football player and coach. (Russian)
  • Aldo Zenhäusern, 60, Swiss Olympic ice hockey player (1976).

    • 10

  • Fred Bateman, 74, American economic historian.
  • Alfonso de Bourbon, 79, American claimant of Spanish royalty, traffic accident.
  • Azeem Daultana, 32, Pakistani politician, Member of the National Assembly, road accident.
  • José Freire de Oliveira Neto, 83, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Mossoró (1984–2004).
  • Vince Gibson, 78, American college football coach.
  • Jack Heron, 85, American college basketball coach (Sacramento State University).
  • Kyra T. Inachin, 43, German historian.
  • Lila Kaye, 82, British actress.
  • Jean Pigott, 87, Canadian politician and businesswoman, MP for Ottawa—Carleton (1976–1979).
  • Cliff Portwood, 74, English footballer and singer, lung disease.
  • Alfred Pyka, 77, German footballer.
  • Mary Raftery, 54, Irish journalist (States of Fear).
  • Takao Sakurai, 70, Japanese boxer, Olympic gold medalist (1964), esophageal cancer.
  • Syed Shah Mardan Shah-II, 83, Pakistani politician and spiritual leader, heart attack.
  • Gevork Vardanyan, 87, Soviet intelligence agent, Hero of the Soviet Union.

    • 11

  • Mostafa Ahmadi-Roshan, 32, Iranian nuclear scientist, car bomb.
  • Richard Bruno, 87, American costume designer (Raging Bull, Goodfellas), kidney failure.
  • Frank Cook, 76, British politician, MP for Stockton North (1983–2010), lung cancer.
  • Bohumil Golián, 81, Slovak volleyball player, Olympic silver (1964) and bronze (1968) medalist.
  • Gilles Jacquier, 43, French journalist, 2003 recipient of the Albert Londres Prize, grenade attack.
  • Edgar Kaiser, Jr, 69, Canadian businessman and philanthropist, owner of the Denver Broncos (1981–1984).
  • V. Madhusudhan Rao, 88, Indian film director.
  • Mario Maranzana, 82, Italian actor and voice actor.
  • Chuck Metcalf, 81, American double-bassist.
  • Wally Osterkorn, 83, American basketball player.
  • Steven Rawlings, 49, British astrophysicist.
  • Ivor Rees, 85, Welsh Anglican prelate, Bishop of St David's (1991–1995).
  • Christoffer Selbekk, 72, Norwegian businessman and ski jumper.
  • Colm Tucker, 59, Irish rugby union player.
  • David Whitaker, 80, English composer and songwriter.

    • 12

  • Bjørn G. Andersen, 87, Norwegian geologist.
  • John Beech Austin, 94, British aviator.
  • Sadao Bekku, 89, Japanese composer, pneumonia.
  • Glenda Dickerson, 66, American theatre director.
  • Brian C. Downey, 61, Canadian politician.
  • Basil Gordon, 80, American mathematician.
  • Reginald Hill, 75, British crime writer (Dalziel and Pascoe).
  • Natalee Holloway, 18 (in 2005), American student, missing since 2005. (declared legally dead on this date)
  • Bill Janklow, 72, American politician, Attorney General (1975–1979) and Governor of South Dakota (1979–1987, 1995–2003); U.S. Representative (2003–2004), brain cancer.
  • Shiv Kumari of Kotah, 95, Indian Hindu royal.
  • MS-1, 55, Mexican professional wrestler, car accident.
  • Charles H. Price II, 80, American businessman and diplomat.
  • Hannes Råstam, 56, Swedish journalist. (Swedish)
  • Rosalind Runcie, 79, British pianist, widow of Robert Runcie.
  • Rubina Shergill, Indian television actress.
  • Jim Stanley, 76, American football coach (Oklahoma State Cowboys), cancer.
  • John G. Watkins, 98, American psychologist.
  • Jorge Wilmot, 83, Mexican potter. (Spanish)

    • 13

  • Anton Blom, 87, Norwegian journalist. (Norwegian)
  • Rauf Denktaş, 87, Cypriot politician, founder and first president of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, multiple organ failure.
  • Guido Dessauer, 96, German paper engineer and art collector. (German)
  • Dilys Elwyn-Edwards, 93, Welsh composer.
  • Felipe Fernández, 78, Argentine basketball player. (Spanish)
  • Morgan Jones, 83, American actor (The Blue Angels, The Twilight Zone).
  • Lefter Küçükandonyadis, 86, Turkish Olympic footballer (Fenerbahçe) and coach, pneumonia.
  • Oscar Valentín Leal Caal, 41, Guatemalan politician, Congressman (since 2008), shot.
  • Artie Levine, 86, American boxer.
  • Billie Love, 88, British actress and photographer.
  • Armand Mercier, 78, American politician.
  • Curt Meyer-Clason, 101, German writer and translator.
  • Miljan Miljanić, 81, Serbian footballer, coach and administrator.
  • Abdollah Mojtabavi, 87, Iranian wrestler.
  • Richard Threlkeld, 74, American television journalist (CBS News), traffic collision.
  • William Robert Wright, 76, American biographer and politician, Chairman of the Utah Republican Party (1977–1979), Alzheimer's disease.
  • Andrzej Krzysztof Wróblewski, 76, Polish journalist. (Polish)

    • 14

  • Janey Buchan, 85, Scottish politician, MEP for Glasgow (1979–1994).
  • Mircea Ciumara, 68, Romanian politician, Minister of Finance (1996–1997), cancer.
  • Ekuikui IV, 98, Angolan king of Bailundo, disease.
  • Dan Evins, 76, American entrepreneur, founder of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store.
  • Robbie France, 52, British drummer (Skunk Anansie, Diamond Head, UFO), ruptured aorta.
  • Charles Howard, 87, Australian Roman Catholic leader, Superior General of the Marist Brothers (1985–1993).
  • Pearse Hutchinson, 84, Irish broadcaster and writer, member of Aosdána.
  • Arfa Karim, 16, Pakistani student, world's youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (2004–2008), idiopathic epilepsy seizures.
  • Lasse Kolstad, 90, Norwegian actor. (Norwegian)
  • Antonio Mistrorigo, 99, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Treviso (1958–1988).
  • Giampiero Moretti, 71, Italian racing driver, winner of the 24 Hours of Daytona (1998), founder of Momo. (Italian)
  • Kaoru Nishimoto, 88, Japanese shogi player, pneumonia.
  • Mila Parély, 94, French actress. (French)
  • Finn Pedersen, 86, Danish Olympic gold medal-winning (1948) rower.
  • Dame Lesley Strathie, 56, British civil servant, Permanent Secretary to HM Revenue and Customs (2008–2011), cancer.
  • Txillardegi, 82, Spanish Basque writer and politician.
  • Rosy Varte, 88, French actress.
  • Zelemkhan Zangiyev, 37, Russian footballer.

    • 15

  • Mika Ahola, 37, Finnish enduro rider, motorcycle crash.
  • Richard Bader, 80, Canadian quantum chemist.
  • Ed Derwinski, 85, American politician, U.S. Representative from Illinois (1959–1983); United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs (1989–1992), merkel cell carcinoma.
  • Claes Egnell, 95, Swedish sport shooter and Olympic silver medal-winning (1952) pentathlete.
  • Manuel Fraga Iribarne, 89, Spanish politician, President of the Xunta of Galicia (1990–2005), founder of the People's Party, heart failure.
  • Sir Robert Freer, 88, British military officer, Deputy Commander of RAF Strike Command (1978–1980).
  • Carlo Fruttero, 85, Italian writer. (Italian)
  • Ben Hana, 54, New Zealand vagrant.
  • Eisuke Hinode, 70, Japanese politician, member of the House of Councillors, gall bladder cancer.
  • Eduard Ivanov, 73, Soviet ice hockey player, World and Olympic champion.
  • Samuel Jaskilka, 92, American Marine Corps general, pneumonia.
  • Matteo La Grua, 97, Italian priest and exorcist.
  • Michael Mussa, 67, American economist, heart failure.
  • Samuel B. Nunez, Jr., 81, American politician, President of the Louisiana State Senate (1983–1988; 1990–1996).
  • Ib Spang Olsen, 90, Danish cartoonist and author, recipient of the Hans Christian Andersen Award.
  • Chris Pavlou, 72, Australian football player.
  • Jerry Poteet, 75, American martial arts instructor.
  • Rafael Rincón González, 89, Venezuelan musician. (Spanish)
  • Jack Roberts, 58, American climber, fall.
  • Hulett C. Smith, 93, American politician, Governor of West Virginia (1965–1969).
  • Peter Veness, 27, Australian journalist, brain cancer.
  • Homai Vyarawalla, 98, Indian photojournalist, first Indian woman to work as a photojournalist.
  • Victor Yngve, 91, American linguist.

    • 16

  • Joe Bygraves, 80, Jamaican boxer.
  • Jimmy Castor, 71, American funk and R&B saxophonist ("Troglodyte (Cave Man)"), heart failure.
  • Mike Current, 66, American football player (Denver Broncos, Miami Dolphins, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), apparent suicide by gunshot.
  • Sigursteinn Gíslason, 43, Icelandic football player and manager.
  • Pierre Goubert, 96, French historian.
  • Lorna Kesterson, 86, American newspaper editor and journalist (Henderson Home News), Mayor of Henderson, Nevada (1985–1993).
  • Dave Lee, 64, British comedian, cancer.
  • Gustav Leonhardt, 83, Dutch harpsichordist and conductor.
  • Juan Carlos Pérez López, 66, Spanish footballer. (Spanish)
  • David Phiri, 74, Zambian businessman, Governor of the Bank of Zambia.
  • The Senator, c. 3500, American pond cypress tree, largest in the world, fire.
  • Valentine, 72, Russian hierarch, Primate of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church (1996–2012).
  • Viktor Vitali, 91, German army officer, awarded Knight's Cross.

    • 17

  • Ernie Alexander, 78, American politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives (2000–2008).
  • Mukarram Khan Atif, Pakistani journalist and reporter, shot.
  • Colin Campbell, 80, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Antigonish (1986–2002).
  • F. Elwood Davis, 96, American lawyer.
  • Aengus Fanning, 69, Irish journalist, editor of the Sunday Independent, cancer.
  • Carlos Guirao, 57, Spanish musician.
  • Julius Meimberg, 95, German air force pilot (Luftwaffe), recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. (Portuguese)
  • Johnny Otis, 90, American R&B singer-songwriter.
  • Piet Römer, 83, Dutch actor (Baantjer).
  • Mohamed Rouicha, 61, Moroccan folk singer.
  • R. W. Schambach, 85, American evangelist, heart failure.
  • Marty Springstead, 74, American baseball umpire, heart attack.
  • Tom Tellefsen, 80, Norwegian actor.
  • Uncle Chichi, 24-26, American dog, unofficial world's oldest dog (2011–2012).

    • 18

  • Karen Brazell, 73, American academic, professor and translator of Japanese.
  • Sir Tom Cowie, 89, British entrepreneur.
  • Thérèse Delpech, 63, French nuclear proliferation expert, apparent heart attack.
  • Carlos Figueroa, 80, Spanish Olympic equestrian.
  • Ray Finch, 97, British studio potter.
  • Mel Goldstein, 66, American television meteorologist (WTNH), multiple myeloma.
  • Anthony Gonsalves, 84, Indian film music composer.
  • Georg Lassen, 96, German naval officer, World War II U-boat commander.
  • Joseph Noiret, 84, French poet.
  • Yuri Rasovsky, 67, American writer and producer, esophageal cancer.
  • Giuseppe Vedovato, 99, Italian politician.

    • 19

  • Peter Åslin, 49, Swedish ice hockey player, Olympic bronze medal-winner (1988), stroke.
  • Giancarlo Bigazzi, 71, Italian composer ("Gloria", "Self Control", "No Me Ames").
  • Sarah Burke, 29, Canadian freestyle skier, world champion (2005), cardiac arrest following skiing accident.
  • Rudi van Dantzig, 78, Dutch choreographer.
  • Giovanni De Andrea, 83, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Vice-President of Labour Office of the Apostolic See (1989–2007).
  • Peter de Francia, 90, British artist.
  • Charles Fecher, 94, American author.
  • Colonel Stone Johnson, 93, American civil rights activist.
  • Beverly McDermott, 85, American casting director (Cocoon, Scarface, Lenny).
  • Gene Methvin, 77, American journalist and magazine editor.
  • Patrick Geoffrey O'Neill, 87, British academic.
  • Winston Riley, 65, Jamaican reggae musician and producer, complications of shooting.
  • On Sarig, 85, Israeli children's book author.
  • Errol Scorcher, 55, Jamaican reggae disc jockey, ruptured blood vessel.
  • Richard Sheirer, 65, American public servant, officer-in-charge of the rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks, pulmonary edema.
  • Gilbert Temmerman, 83, Belgian politician, MP (1971–1989), Mayor of Ghent (1989–1994), Minister of State.

    • 20

  • John F. Baker, Jr., 66, American Medal of Honor recipient.
  • Billy 'Silver Dollar' Baxter, 85, American film producer.
  • Larry Butler, 69, American music producer.
  • Stella Cunliffe, 95, British statistician.
  • Peter Collins Dorsey, 80, American jurist.
  • Lucy Faulkner, 87, Northern Irish journalist, widow of Brian Faulkner.
  • Dolores Guinness, 75, German baroness and socialite.
  • Etta James, 73, American blues singer ("At Last"), leukemia.
  • Nikhat Kazmi, 53, Indian film critic, breast cancer.
  • Ioannis Kefalogiannis, 79, Greek politician, MP (1958–1964; 1974–2004) and Minister of the Interior (1992–1993).
  • John Levy, 99, American jazz double-bassist and manager.
  • Bill Mardo, 88, American sportswriter, Parkinson's disease.
  • M. I. Markose, 89, Indian politician.
  • Marion Mathie, 86, British actress (Lolita).
  • Mario Pastega, 95, American businessman and philanthropist.
  • Jiří Raška, 70, Czech ski jumper, Olympic gold medalist (1968), heart disease.
  • Margaret Renwick, 88, Canadian politician.
  • Alejandro Rodriguez, 93, American psychiatrist and academic.
  • Robert Fortune Sanchez, 77, American Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Santa Fe (1977–1993), Alzheimer's disease.
  • Edna Sheen, 67, American makeup artist (Philadelphia, Courage Under Fire, Akeelah and the Bee).
  • Patrick Shovelton, 92, British civil servant and obituarist.
  • Dudley Thompson, 95, Jamaican politician and diplomat.
  • Michael Welsh, 85, English politician, Member of Parliament (1979–1992).
  • Walter Whitehurst, 77, English footballer.

    • 21

  • Daniel Alba, 71, Mexican Olympic wrestler. (Spanish)
  • Saud Nasser Al-Saud Al-Sabah, 68, Kuwaiti royal, diplomat and politician.
  • J. R. Boone, 86, American football player (Chicago Bears).
  • Roy John Britten, 92, American molecular biologist.
  • Cliff Chambers, 90, American baseball player.
  • Vincenzo Consolo, 78, Italian writer.
  • Emmanuel Cooper, 73, British potter and writer.
  • Ernie Gregory, 90, English footballer.
  • Gerre Hancock, 77, American organist.
  • Troy Herriage, 81, American baseball player (Kansas City Athletics).
  • Jonathan Idema, 55, American scam artist, complications from AIDS.
  • Eiko Ishioka, 72, Japanese art director and designer (Bram Stoker's Dracula, Immortals), pancreatic cancer.
  • Irena Jarocka, 65, Polish singer. (Polish)
  • John D. Lowry, 79, Canadian film restorer.
  • Una Mulzac, 88, American bookseller.
  • Salma Mumtaz, 85, Pakistani actress, diabetes.
  • Jeffrey Ntuka, 26, South African footballer, stabbed.
  • Tang Xiaodan, 101, Chinese film director.
  • Jodie-Anne White, 44, Australian dancer and choreographer, artistic director of the Ballet Theatre of Queensland, cancer.
  • Slavko Ziherl, 66, Slovenian psychiatrist and politician. (Slovenian)

    • 22

  • Massimo Baistrocchi, 69, Italian diplomat and writer, Ambassador to Namibia (2001–2004), heart attack.
  • Sarah Cullen, 62, British radio and television journalist.
  • Jesus Elbinias, 82, Filipino judge.
  • Alfred Gescheidt, 85, American photographer, cancer.
  • Earle R. Gister, 77, American acting teacher.
  • Rita Gorr, 85, Belgian opera singer.
  • André Green, 84, French psychoanalyst.
  • Jim Irwin, 77, American sportscaster (WTMJ), voice of the Green Bay Packers, complications from kidney cancer.
  • Moisés Kaiman, 97, Polish-born Mexican rabbi.
  • Sir Simon Marsden, 63, British photographer.
  • Andy Musser, 74, American sportscaster (Philadelphia Phillies, Philadelphia 76ers).
  • Joe Paterno, 85, American college football coach (Penn State Nittany Lions), lung cancer.
  • Sabrina Rauch, 21, Austrian Austria's Next Topmodel contestant, road accident.[11] (German)
  • Yauhen Shatokhin, 64, Belarusian painter and political activist. [12] (Belarusian)
  • Pierre Sudreau, 92, French politician, inspired The Little Prince.
  • Clarence Tillenius, 98, Canadian artist and conservationist.
  • Dick Tufeld, 85, American voice actor and announcer, voice of Robot B-9 on Lost in Space.

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  • David Atkinson, 71, British politician, MP for Bournemouth East (1977–2005), bowel cancer.
  • Wesley E. Brown, 104, American jurist, federal judge for the District Court for Kansas (since 1962).
  • Anthony Capo, 52, American mobster-turned-informant (DeCavalcante crime family), heart attack.
  • Marge Carey, 73, British union leader, President of USDAW (1997–2006), motor neurone disease.
  • Arne Christiansen, 85, Norwegian judge. (Norwegian)
  • Marcel De Boodt, 85, Belgian academic. (Dutch)
  • Erik Haaest, 76, Danish journalist and author. (Danish)
  • Maurice Meisner, 80, American historian.
  • Miloš Pojar, 71, Czech author and diplomat.
  • Bingham Ray, 57, American independent film executive, complications from strokes.
  • Bill Robb, 84, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Miranda (1978–1984).
  • Gerhard Schröder, 90, German television executive. (German)
  • Slacker, British electronic music producer.
  • Stig Vig, 63, Swedish singer (Dag Vag). (Swedish)

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  • Kurt Adolff, 90, German racing driver.
  • Theodoros Angelopoulos, 76, Greek film director, hit by motorcycle.
  • Sukumar Azhikode, 85, Indian writer, critic, and orator, cancer.
  • James C. Bliss, 78, American electrical engineer and entrepreneur.
  • Antony Barrington Brown, 84, British designer, photographer and explorer.
  • James Farentino, 73, American actor (Dynasty, ER, Melrose Place), sequelae from hip fracture.
  • J. Joseph Garrahy, 81, American politician, Governor of Rhode Island (1977–1985).
  • Vadim Glowna, 70, German actor and film director.
  • Arild Haaland, 92, Norwegian philosopher.
  • Carolina Isakson Proctor, 81, Colombian First Lady (1986–1990).
  • Delma Kollar, 114, American supercentenarian, one of the 100 verified oldest people ever and fourth-oldest in world.
  • Moira Milton, 88, Scottish amateur golfer.
  • Patricia Neway, 92, American operatic soprano and musical theatre actress (The Sound of Music), Tony Award-winner.
  • W. Allen Pepper, Jr., 70, American jurist, federal judge for the Northern District of Mississippi (since 1999), heart attack.
  • Bruce Riutta, 67, American Olympic ice hockey player, complications from heart surgery.
  • Stig Sæterbakken, 46, Norwegian writer.
  • Pierre Sinibaldi, 87, French footballer and manager.
  • Carleton B. Swift Jr., 92, American intelligence officer.
  • Althea Wynne, 75, British sculptor.

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  • Sir Alfred Ball, 91, British air marshal.
  • Paavo Berglund, 82, Finnish conductor.
  • Josef Brunner, 83, German politician.
  • Veronica Carstens, 88, German First Lady (1979–1984). (German)
  • Carlos Escarrá, 57, Venezuelan politician, Attorney General (since 2011), heart attack.
  • Emil Hossu, 70, Romanian actor, cardiac arrest. (Romanian)
  • Kazimierz Jasiński, 65, Polish Olympic cyclist, cancer.
  • Jacques Maisonrouge, 87, French businessman, chairman of IBM World Trade Corporation.
  • Mabel Manzotti, 73, Argentine actress (Besos en la Frente, Vidas robadas), complications from a stroke. (Spanish)
  • Len McIntyre, 78, British rugby league player.
  • Andrew MacNaughtan, 47, Canadian photographer.
  • Merab Megreladze, 55, Georgian football player.
  • Abid Ali Nazish, 40, Afghan actor, shot.
  • Franco Pacini, 72, Italian astronomer.
  • Émile Paganon, 95, French skier.
  • Mark Reale, 56, American heavy metal guitarist (Riot), Crohn's disease.
  • Nick Santino, 47, American actor, suicide by overdose.
  • Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans, 91, American heiress and philanthropist.
  • Robert Sheran, 96, American politician and judge.
  • Charles Stanmore, 87, Australian Olympic fencer.
  • Kosta Tsonev, 82, Bulgarian actor.
  • Jean Wells, 56, American game designer.
  • Alexander Zhitinsky, 71, Russian writer.
  • Guao Zurenuoc, Papua New Guinean politician.

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  • Ian Abercrombie, 77, British actor (Seinfeld, Army of Darkness, Star Wars: The Clone Wars), kidney failure.
  • Dimitra Arliss, 79, American actress (The Sting, General Hospital, Xanadu), complications from a stroke.
  • Iggy Arroyo, 60, Filipino politician, Representative from the 5th District of Negros Occidental (since 2004), cardiac arrest.
  • Alfredo Avelín, 84, Argentine politician, Governor of San Juan (1999–2002), multiple organ failure. (Spanish)
  • Kandi Barbour, 56, American pornographic actress.
  • Bud Byerly, 91, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds).
  • Kartar Singh Duggal, 94, Indian writer.
  • Alex Eadie, 91, British politician, MP for Midlothian (1966–1992).
  • M. O. H. Farook, 74, Indian politician and diplomat, Governor of Kerala (since 2011).
  • Clare Fischer, 83, American composer.
  • Robert Hegyes, 60, American actor (Welcome Back, Kotter; Cagney & Lacey), heart attack.
  • Seui Laau, 69, American Samoan politician.
  • Roberto Mieres, 87, Argentine racing driver.
  • Miguel Nazar Haro, 87, Mexican intelligence chief, head of the Dirección Federal de Seguridad (1978–1982).
  • Stan Smith, 79, Australian VFL football player.
  • Colin Tarrant, 59, British actor (The Bill), suicide.
  • Juan Fremiot Torres Oliver, 86, Puerto Rican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ponce (1964–2000).
  • Robert Turner, 91, Canadian composer.
  • Karin Elisabeth von Schaper, 91, German aristocrat.

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  • Hikmat Mizban Ibrahim al-Azzawi, 80, Iraqi politician, Minister of Finance (1995–2003).
  • Tom Campbell, 84, Canadian politician, Mayor of Vancouver (1967–1972).
  • Greg Cook, 65, American football player (Cincinnati Bengals), complications from pneumonia.
  • Kay Davis, 91, American jazz singer.
  • Ted Dicks, 83, English composer.
  • Evgeny Epov, 23, Russian soldier, Hero of the Russian Federation, grenade explosion.
  • Jeannette Hamby, 78, American politician, Oregon State Senator (1983–1999), stroke complications and cancer.
  • Deepika Joshi-Shah, 35, Indian singer and voice actress.
  • Todd Lynn, 47, American stand-up comedian and actor (My Wife and Kids).
  • James Metcalf, 86, American sculptor.
  • Richard K. Olney, 64, American physician, pioneer in clinical research on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
  • Hermano Pablo, 90, American evangelist and broadcaster.
  • István Rózsavölgyi, 82, Hungarian runner, Olympic bronze medalist (1960), heart problems.
  • Juan Sarrachini, 65, Argentine footballer.
  • Kazimierz Smoleń, 91, Polish museum director and Holocaust survivor.
  • Kevin White, 82, American politician, Mayor of Boston (1968–1984).

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  • Diana Bliss, 57, Australian public relations consultant and theatre producer, wife of Alan Bond.
  • Joseph Curran, 89, American college basketball coach (Canisius).
  • Don Fullmer, 72, American boxer, lymphoid leukemia.
  • Keriman Halis Ece, 98, Turkish beauty pageant queen, pianist and fashion model, Miss Turkey 1932.
  • Roman Juszkiewicz, 59, Polish astrophysicist.
  • Chand Mal Lodha, 93, Indian judge.
  • Andrew McMillan, 54, Australian writer and music journalist.
  • Paul F. O'Rourke, 87, American politician.
  • Don Starkell, 79, Canadian adventurist and author.

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  • Damien Bona, 56, American journalist, writer and film historian, heart attack.
  • John H. Davis, 82, American author, Alzheimer's disease.
  • Ranjit Singh Dyal, 83, Indian Army general.
  • Predrag Dragić, 66, Serbian writer.
  • Nijaz Duraković, 63, Bosnian author and politician.
  • Hellen Huisman, 74, Dutch voice actress.
  • François Migault, 67, French racing driver. (French)
  • Syed Abu Nasar, 79, Indian professor of electrical engineering.
  • Kell Osborne, 72, American singer.
  • Goody Petronelli, 88, American boxing trainer and manager (Marvin Hagler).
  • John Rich, 86, American television director (All in the Family, Benson, The Dick Van Dyke Show), heart failure.
  • Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, 93, Italian politician, Minister of the Interior (1983–1987); President (1992–1999) and Lifetime Senator (since 1999).
  • Gabriel Lawrence Sengol, 83, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tiruchirapalli (1990–1997).
  • J. O. Urmson, 96, British philosopher.
  • Camilla Williams, 92, American opera singer, complications from cancer.

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  • Eladio Acosta Arteaga, 95, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Santa Fe de Antioquia (1988–1992).
  • Frank Aschenbrenner, 86, German-born American football player (Chicago Hornets, Montreal Alouettes).
  • Don Blenkarn, 81, Canadian politician, MP for Mississauga (1972–1974) and Mississauga South (1979–1993).
  • Terence Cowley, 83, Australian cricketer.
  • Klaus Goldschlag, 89, Canadian ambassador.
  • Helmi Höhle, 87, German Olympic fencer. (German)
  • George Lambert, 83, American Olympic silver (1956) and bronze (1960) medal-winning modern pentathlete.
  • Abdelhamid Mehri, 85, Algerian resistance fighter and politician. (French)
  • Doeschka Meijsing, 64, Dutch novelist.
  • Al Rio, 49, Brazilian comic book artist, suicide by hanging.
  • Michael D. Ryan, 66, American jurist, Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court (2002–2010), apparent heart attack.
  • Idichapuli Selvaraj, 73, Indian actor.
  • Frederick Treves, 86, British actor (The Elephant Man).
  • Johann Carl Vogel, 79, South African physicist.
  • Bill Wallace, 64, American author.

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  • Stefano Angeleri, 85, Italian footballer and coach. (Italian)
  • Everardus Antonius M. Baaij, 90, Dutch-born South African Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Aliwal (1973–1981).
  • Mani Ram Bagri, 91, Indian politician.
  • Rick Behenna, 51, American baseball player (Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians), cancer.
  • Anthony Bevilacqua, 88, American Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Philadelphia (1988–2003).
  • Leslie Carter, 25, American singer and reality star (House of Carters), sister of Nick and Aaron Carter, drug overdose.
  • H. John Caulfield, 75, American optical physicist.
  • Tristram Potter Coffin, 89, American folklorist.
  • Felicia Eze, 37, Nigerian Olympic footballer.
  • Ayelet Galena, 2, American child, born with dyskeratosis congenita, lung complications.
  • Juan Carlos Gené, 82, Argentine actor and playwright.
  • John Hughes, 66, American drug counselor.
  • Mikel Japp, 59, Welsh musician and songwriter.
  • Siddika Kabir, 80, Bangladeshi teacher, television show host and cookbook author.
  • Petros Karatroupkos, 82, Greek-born Zambian Orthodox hierarch, Bishop of Zambia (2001–2003). (Greek)
  • Mike Kelley, 57, American artist and musician (Destroy All Monsters), suicide. (body found on this date)
  • Bob LaPointe, 66, American high school and college football coach.
  • Peadar Maher, 87, Irish politician, TD for Laois–Offaly (1951–1961).
  • Clara Nomee, 73, American politician, first female Chairperson of the Crow Nation (1990–2000).
  • Sid Ottewell, 92, English footballer (Nottingham Forest F.C.).
  • Antonio Segura, 64, Spanish comics writer. (Spanish)
  • King Stitt, 71, Jamaican singer, complications from prostate cancer and diabetes.
  • Dorothea Tanning, 101, American surrealist painter, printmaker and sculptor.
  • Bob Thalman, 89, American football player and coach.

    • References

    Deaths in January 2012 Wikipedia
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