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The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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

  • Faruq Z. Bey, 70, American jazz saxophonist, emphysema.
  • Pádraig Faulkner, 94, Irish politician, TD for Louth (1957–1987), Minister for Defence (1979–1980), Ceann Comhairle (1980–1981).
  • Milan Gaľa, 59, Slovak politician.
  • Avram Goldstein, 92, American pharmacologist.
  • Nick Knilans, 94, American bomber pilot.
  • Marion Sandler, 81, American businesswoman (Golden West Financial).
  • Brahmeshwar Singh, 67, Indian militia chief, head of Ranvir Sena, shooting.
  • Juozas Tunaitis, 83, Lithuanian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Vilnius (1991–2010).

    • 2

  • Avraham Botzer, 83, Israeli general, Commander of the Navy (1968–1972).
  • Adolfo Calero, 80, Nicaraguan businessman, leader of the Democratic Force, pneumonia and kidney failure.
  • Richard Dawson, 79, English-born American actor (Hogan's Heroes) and host (Family Feud), esophageal cancer.
  • LeRoy Ellis, 72, American basketball player (Los Angeles Lakers, Philadelphia 76ers, Baltimore Bullets), prostate cancer.
  • Héctor García Cobo, 88, Mexican photo-journalist.
  • David C. Garrett, Jr., 90, American businessman, CEO of Delta Air Lines.
  • Jan Gmelich Meijling, 76, Dutch politician, Mayor of Castricum (1978–1985) and Den Helder (1985–1994), State Secretary for Defence (1994–1998).
  • Kathryn Joosten, 72, American actress (Desperate Housewives, The West Wing), lung cancer.
  • Frazier Mohawk, 71, American record producer (Buffalo Springfield, The Byrds).
  • Soini Nikkinen, 88, Finnish Olympic javelin thrower.
  • Oliver, c. 55, Congolese-born common chimpanzee noted for his upright stature and humanlike traits.
  • Genichi Taguchi, 88, Japanese engineer and statistician.

    • 3

  • Carol Ann Abrams, 69, American film producer (The Ernest Green Story) and author, mother of J. J. Abrams, cancer.
  • Rosa Guy, 89, Trinidadian-born American author, cancer.
  • Andy Hamilton, 94, Jamaican-born British saxophonist and composer.
  • Rajsoomer Lallah, 79, Mauritian lawyer and judge.
  • Alphonse Le Gastelois, 97, British recluse.
  • John Lang, 84, British Anglican priest and broadcaster, Dean of Lichfield (1980–1993).
  • Mary Perry, 69, American Olympic volleyball player, neurodegenerative disease.
  • Hugh Poole, 86, New Zealand Olympic sailor.
  • Jean-Louis Richard, 85, French film director.
  • Roy Salvadori, 90, British Formula One race car driver.
  • Sir Brian Talboys, 90, New Zealand politician, MP for Wallace (1957–1981), Deputy Prime Minister (1975–1981).
  • Roel de Wit, 85, Dutch politician, Mayor of Alkmaar (1970–1976), Queen's Commissioner of North Holland (1976–1992).

    • 4

  • Peter Beaven, 86, New Zealand architect, cancer.
  • J. C. Bhattacharyya, 81, Indian astronomer.
  • Bobby Black, 85, Scottish football player.
  • Pedro Borbón, 65, Dominican Republic-born American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds), cancer.
  • Jim Fitzgerald, 86, American businessman, majority owner of the Milwaukee Bucks (1976–1985) and Golden State Warriors (1986–1995).
  • Ireneo García Alonso, 89, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Albacete (1968–1980).
  • Barney Gibbens, 77, British businessman.
  • Bernard Jean, 87, Canadian lawyer and politician, member (1960–1970) and Speaker (1963–1966) of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick.
  • Stan Jolley, 86, American art director and production designer (Witness, Superman, Caddyshack).
  • Eduard Khil, 77, Russian singer ("Trololo"), stroke.
  • Abu Yahya al-Libi, 49, Libyan terrorist, senior member of al-Qaeda, drone strike.
  • Lim Hock Siew, 81, Singaporean doctor, politician, and political prisoner.
  • Rodolfo Quezada Toruño, 80, Guatemalan Roman Catholic prelate, Cardinal Archbishop of Guatemala (2001–2010), intestinal blockage.
  • Herb Reed, 83, American singer (The Platters).
  • Philip Snow, 96, British cricketer and administrator.
  • Per Sunderland, 87, Norwegian actor.

    • 5

  • Carl Bledsoe, 88, American politician, Colorado State Representative (1973–1991).
  • Ray Bradbury, 91, American science fiction and fantasy author (Fahrenheit 451, Something Wicked This Way Comes).
  • Steve Buttle, 59, English football player and coach, cancer.
  • Keith Coster, 92, South African army officer.
  • John Hinrichs, 78, American welding engineer, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
  • David Hodgson, 73, Australian judge.
  • Caroline John, 71, British actress (Doctor Who, Love Actually).
  • Hal Keller, 83, American baseball player (Washington Senators) and executive (Seattle Mariners, Texas Rangers), esophageal cancer.
  • Lucky Diamond, c. 15, American Maltese dog, Guinness World Record holder (dog most photographed with celebrities), cancer.
  • Mihai Pătraşcu, 29, Romanian computer scientist, brain cancer.
  • Athinodoros Prousalis, 86, Greek film and television actor, heart attack.
  • Charlie Sutton, 88, Australian football player and coach (Footscray).
  • Chris Thompson, 52, English footballer.
  • Barry Unsworth, 81, British novelist, lung cancer.

    • 6

  • Frank Barsotti, 74, American photographer.
  • Mohamed Elrawi, 77, Egyptian academic.
  • Lillian Gallo, 84, American television producer.
  • Jiang Minkuan, 82, Chinese politician, Governor of Sichuan.
  • Vladimir Krutov, 52, Russian ice hockey player (CSKA Moscow, Vancouver Canucks) and Olympic medal-winner (1980, 1984, 1988), internal bleeding and liver failure.
  • Li Wangyang, 62, Chinese labour rights activist, hanging.
  • Jean-Louis Loday, 66, French mathematician.
  • Nolan Miller, 79, American fashion designer, lung cancer.
  • Manuel Preciado Rebolledo, 54, Spanish football player and coach (Sporting Gijón, Racing Santander), heart attack.
  • Agostinho José Sartori, 83, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Palmas–Francisco Beltrão (1970–2005), complications of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases.
  • Prince Tomohito of Mikasa, 66, Japanese royal, cancer.
  • Mykola Volosyanko, 40, Ukrainian football player, heart failure.

    • 7

  • Walter Becker, 79, German racing cyclist.
  • F. Herbert Bormann, 90, American ecologist, discovered acid rain.
  • William Cartwright, 89, Bahamian politician and publisher, co-founder of the Progressive Liberal Party.
  • John T. Cunningham, 96, American historian, journalist, and writer.
  • David Gibson, 76, English cricketer.
  • Peter Gray, 85, British chemist.
  • Ping-ti Ho, 95, Chinese-born American historian.
  • Mervin Jackson, 65, American basketball player (Utah Stars).
  • Lil Phat, 19, American rap artist ("Independent"), shooting.
  • Abid Hamid Mahmud, 55, Iraqi military officer, bodyguard and personal secretary of Saddam Hussein, execution by hanging.
  • John Medlin, 78, American banker, CEO of Wachovia (1977–1993), heart attack.
  • Cotton Owens, 88, American Hall of Fame NASCAR driver and owner, lung cancer.
  • J. Michael Riva, 63, American production designer (The Color Purple, A Few Good Men, Iron Man), stroke.
  • Rupert Scotland, 74, Bermudian cricketer, long illness.
  • Chuck Share, 85, American basketball player (Fort Wayne Pistons, St. Louis Hawks, Minneapolis Lakers).
  • Phillip V. Tobias, 86, South African palaeoanthropologist.
  • Robert L. Washington III, 47, American comic book writer, co-creator of Static.
  • Bob Welch, 66, American musician (Fleetwood Mac, Paris) and songwriter ("Sentimental Lady"), suicide by gunshot.

    • 8

  • Luis Aloy Vidal, 82, Spanish football player (FC Barcelona, Real Oviedo).
  • Baku Akae, 79, Japanese novelist.
  • Marie-Thérèse Bardet, 114, French supercentenarian, oldest person in Europe.
  • Pete Brennan, 75, American basketball player (New York Knicks), prostate cancer.
  • Frank Cady, 96, American actor (Green Acres, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Petticoat Junction).
  • K. S. R. Das, 76, Indian film director.
  • Bengt Fröbom, 85, Swedish Olympic cyclist.
  • Robert Galley, 91, French politician, Mayor of Troyes (1972–1995), Minister of Transport (1972–1973), Compagnon de la Libération.
  • Nikolay Ivanov, 62, Russian Olympic gold medal-winning (1976) rower.
  • Ivan Lessa, 77, Brazilian journalist, pulmonary emphysema.
  • Patrick Morgan Mahoney, 83, Canadian businessman, politician, and judge, MP for Calgary South (1968–1972), General Manager of the Calgary Stampeders (1965).
  • Charles E. M. Pearce, 72, New Zealand-born Australian mathematician, traffic collision.
  • Ghassan Tueni, 86, Lebanese journalist and politician, Ambassador to the United Nations (1977–1982).

    • 9

  • Hans Abramson, 82, Swedish film director.
  • Audrey Arno, 70, German pop singer.
  • Régis Clère, 55, French Olympic (1980) road bicycle racer.
  • Don Durbridge, 73, British broadcaster.
  • Masahisa Fukase, 78, Japanese photographer, cerebral hemorrhage.
  • Paul Jenkins, 88, American abstract expressionist painter.
  • Thomas Kalman, 94, American politician.
  • John Maples, Baron Maples, 69, British politician and life peer, MP for Lewisham West (1983–1992) and Stratford-on-Avon (1997–2010), cancer.
  • Ivan Minatti, 88, Slovenian poet and translator.
  • Georges Sarri, 87, Greek author and actress.
  • Hawk Taylor, 73, American baseball player (Milwaukee Braves, New York Mets, Kansas City Royals).
  • Abram Wilson, 38, American jazz trumpeter, cancer.

    • 10

  • Piero Bellugi, 87, Italian conductor.
  • Eivind Bolle, 88, Norwegian politician.
  • Jimmy Elledge, 69, American singer, complications following a stroke.
  • Judy Freudberg, 62, American television (Sesame Street) and film (The Land Before Time, An American Tail) writer, brain tumor.
  • Warner Fusselle, 68, American sportscaster (Brooklyn Cyclones, This Week in Baseball), heart attack.
  • Will Hoebee, 64, Dutch music producer, cancer.
  • Richard L. Hoffman, 84, American zoologist.
  • Sixten Isberg, 90, Swedish alpine skier.
  • Maria Keil, 97, Portuguese artist.
  • Georges Mathieu, 91, French artist.
  • Dante Micheli, 73, Italian football player.
  • Ruby Monaghan, 96, Australian cricketer. [1]
  • Joshua Orwa Ojode, 53, Kenyan politician, MP for Ndhiwa (since 1994), Assistant Minister for Internal Security, helicopter crash.
  • Elvis J. Perrodin, 55, American jockey, cancer.
  • George Saitoti, 66, Kenyan politician, MP for Kajiado North (since 1988), Vice-President (1989–1997, 1999–2002), helicopter crash.
  • Sudono Salim, 95, Chinese-born Indonesian businessman (Salim Group).
  • Eugene Selznick, 82, American Hall of Fame volleyball player and Olympic (1964, 1996, 2000) coach, pneumonia.
  • Gérard Théodore, 91, French Compagnon de la Libération.
  • Hugo Thiemann, 95, Swiss businessman, co-founded Club of Rome.
  • Daya-Nand Verma, 78, Indian mathematician (Verma modules).
  • Gordon West, 69, English football player (Everton), cancer.

    • 11

  • Lee Allen, 77, American Olympic wrestler (1956, 1960) and coach (1980), heart failure.
  • Kinsey Anderson, 85, American professor of physics (University of California at Berkeley).
  • Hector Bianciotti, 82, Argentine-born French writer, member of the Académie française.
  • Dave Boswell, 67, American baseball player (Minnesota Twins), heart attack.
  • Samanunu Cakobau-Talakuli, 72, Fijian chief and politician.
  • Raymond Eid, 81, Syrian Maronite Catholic hierarch, Metropolitan of Damascus (1999–2005).
  • Anthony Hancock, 65, British publisher.
  • Masazumi Harada, 77, Japanese doctor, researcher of Minamata disease, acute myeloid leukemia.
  • Norman F. Lent, 81, American politician, U.S. Representative from New York (1971–1993), cancer.
  • A.M. Parkin, 68, English artist.
  • Reggie Pearman, 89, American middle distance runner.
  • Ann Rutherford, 94, Canadian-born American actress (Gone with the Wind, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty), heart disease.
  • Stay High 149, 61, American graffiti artist, complications of liver disease.
  • Teófilo Stevenson, 60, Cuban Olympic gold medal-winning (1972, 1976, 1980) boxer, heart attack.
  • Berthold Wulf, 85, German priest, poet and philosopher.

    • 12

  • Marwan Arafat, 67, Syrian footballer and referee.
  • Philip H. Corboy, 87, American lawyer.
  • Darara, 29, Irish-bred French-trained Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the 1986 Prix de Psyché and Prix Vermeille. (death announced on this date)
  • Henry Hill, 69, American mobster, inspiration for the movie Goodfellas, heart condition.
  • Mukhtar Mohamed Hussein, 99 or 100, Somali politician, Interim President (1969).
  • Annie B. Martin, 91, American civil rights activist.
  • Margarete Mitscherlich-Nielsen, 94, Danish-born German psychoanalyst and feminist.
  • Elinor Ostrom, 78, American economist and Nobel laureate (Economics, 2009), pancreatic cancer.
  • Mercedes Otero, Puerto Rican politician, member of Senate (1993 to 2001).
  • Pahiño, 89, Spanish footballer.
  • Aldo Ronconi, 93, Italian racing cyclist.
  • Frank Walker, 69, Australian politician, MP for Robertson (1990–1996), and judge, cancer.
  • Don Woods, 84, American meteorologist and cartoonist, cancer.

    • 13

  • James Ashworth, 23, English soldier, awarded Victoria Cross, shot.
  • Sam Beddingfield, 78, American aerospace engineer, lung cancer.
  • Graeme Bell, 97, Australian jazz musician and composer, stroke.
  • Roger Garaudy, 98, French philosopher, author, and Holocaust denier.
  • Luiz Gonzaga Bergonzini, 76, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Guarulhos (1991–2011).
  • Mehdi Hassan, 84, Pakistani ghazal singer, chest infection.
  • Jože Humer, 76, Slovenian composer, cancer.
  • William Standish Knowles, 95, American chemist and Nobel laureate (Chemistry, 2001), complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
  • Dawid Kruiper, 71, South African tribal leader, tuberculosis.
  • Hannu Posti, 86, Finnish long-distance runner and biathlete.
  • Giacinto Santambrogio, 67, Italian professional bicycle racer.
  • Michael Sokolski, 85, Polish-born American design engineer, founder of Scantron, heart failure.
  • Gladys Widdiss, 97, American tribal historian and potter, President of the Aquinnah Wampanoag of Gay Head (1978–1987).

    • 14

  • Peter Archer, Baron Archer of Sandwell, 85, British politician, MP for Rowley Regis and Tipton (1966–1974) and Warley West (1974–1992).
  • Al Brancato, 93, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).
  • Bob Chappuis, 89, American AAFC football player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Chicago Hornets), complications of a fall.
  • Anadi Sankar Gupta, 79, Indian mathematician.
  • Bob Hank, 88, Australian SANFL footballer (West Torrens), ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm.
  • Margie Hyams, 91, American jazz musician, renal failure.
  • Karl-Heinz Kämmerling, 82, German classical pianist and teacher.
  • Hassan Kassai, 83, Iranian musician.
  • Jesse Powell, 65, American football player (Miami Dolphins).
  • Kaka Radhakrishnan, 86, Indian actor, respiratory failure.
  • Carlos Reichenbach, 67, Brazilian filmmaker, cardiac arrest.
  • Erik Rhodes, 30, American pornographic actor, heart attack.
  • Jean Robieux, 86, French physicist.
  • Jaroslav Šabata, 84, Czech politologist and dissident.
  • Gitta Sereny, 91, Austrian-born British author.
  • Juha Sihvola, 54, Finnish historian and philosopher.
  • Mundia Sikatana, 74, Zambian politician and diplomat.
  • Mako Tabuni, Indonesian separatist leader, deputy chairman of the National Committee for West Papua, shooting.
  • Jerry Tubbs, 77, American football player (Dallas Cowboys, Chicago Cardinals, San Francisco 49ers).
  • Yvette Wilson, 48, American comedian and actress (Moesha, The Parkers), cervical cancer.

    • 15

  • Anouar Abdel-Malek, 88, Egyptian-born French political scientist.
  • Francis Bonaert, 97, Belgian architect.
  • Phillip D. Cagan, 85, American economist.
  • Capitola Dickerson, 98, American piano instructor.
  • Günther Domenig, 77, Austrian architect.
  • Rune Gustafsson, 78, Swedish jazz guitarist and composer.
  • George Kerr, 74, Jamaican athlete, heart attack.
  • Barry MacKay, 76, American tennis player and commentator.
  • Albino Mamede Cleto, 77, Portuguese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Coimbra (2001–2011).
  • Israel Nogueda Otero, 77, Mexican politician and economist, Governor of Guerrero (1971–1975), heart attack.
  • Carl Julius Norstrøm, 76, Norwegian economist.
  • Alan Saunders, 58, English-born Australian broadcaster and philosopher, pneumonia.
  • Simon Tortell, 52, Maltese football player.
  • Pasa Tosusu, 54, Vanuatuan civil servant.
  • Albert Joseph Tsiahoana, 84, Malagasy Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Antsiranana (1967–1998).
  • Arthur Henry Winnington Williams, 99, Jamaican parliamentarian.
  • Angus Wright, 78, British television producer.

    • 16

  • Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud, 78, Saudi royal, Governor of Riyadh (1953–1955), Minister of Interior (since 1975), and Crown Prince (since 2011).
  • Jaroslava Adamová, 87, Czech actress.
  • Giuseppe Bertolucci, 65, Italian film director.
  • Howie Chizek, 65, American public address announcer (Cleveland Cavaliers, Cleveland Force) and talk radio host (WNIR), heart attack.
  • Dan Dorfman, 80, American financial journalist (CNN, CNBC), cardiogenic shock.
  • Nils Karlsson, 94, Swedish Olympic gold medal-winning (1948) cross-country skier.
  • Jorge Lankenau, 68, Mexican banker.
  • Sławomir Petelicki, 65, Polish army officer (JW GROM), suspected suicide by gunshot.
  • Stanley Pinker, 87, South African painter and printmaker.
  • Thierry Roland, 74, French sports journalist, stroke.
  • Susan Tyrrell, 67, American actress (Cry-Baby, Fat City, The Chipmunk Adventure).

    • 17

  • Stéphane Brosse, 40, French ski mountaineer, climbing accident.
  • Patricia Brown, 81, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League) and professor (Suffolk University).
  • Chen Din Hwa, 89, Chinese industrialist, prostate cancer.
  • Nathan Divinsky, 87, Canadian mathematician, author, and chess master.
  • Brian Hibbard, 65, Welsh actor and singer (The Flying Pickets), prostate cancer.
  • Anthony Ekezia Ilonu, 74, Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Okigwe (1981–2006).
  • Raivo Järvi, 57, Estonian artist, radio personality, and politician, member of the Riigikogu (since 2003).
  • Rodney King, 47, American victim of videotaped police beating that sparked the 1992 Los Angeles riots, accidental drowning.
  • Walo Lüönd, 85, Swiss actor.
  • Don Owen, 82, American news anchor (KSLA).
  • R. C. Owens, 77, American football player (San Francisco 49ers, Baltimore Colts, New York Giants) and executive (San Francisco 49ers).
  • Bernard Prior, 78, English rugby league player.
  • Fauzia Wahab, 56, Pakistani politician, complications of gall bladder surgery.

    • 18

  • Don Charlwood, 96, Australian author.
  • Horacio Coppola, 105, Argentine photographer and filmmaker.
  • Lina Haag, 105, German anti-fascist activist.
  • Dennis Hamilton, 68, American basketball player (Los Angeles Lakers), cancer.
  • Ghazala Javed, 24, Pakistani singer, shooting.
  • Erica Kennedy, 42, American author and columnist. (death announced on this date)
  • Eva Klepáčová, 79, Czech actress.
  • Tom Maynard, 23, Welsh cricketer, electrocution.
  • Luis Edgardo Mercado Jarrín, 92, Peruvian politician, Prime Minister (1973–1975).
  • Jim Packard, 70, American public radio announcer (Whad'Ya Know?), cardiopulmonary disease.
  • Alketas Panagoulias, 78, Greek football player and manager.
  • Salem Ali Qatan, Yemeni general, explosion.
  • Victor Spinetti, 82, Welsh comic actor (A Hard Day's Night, Help!, Magical Mystery Tour), prostate cancer.
  • William Van Regenmorter, 73, American politician, Michigan State Senator (1991–2003) and State Representative (1983–1991, 2003–2007), Parkinson's disease.
  • Bernard Vifian, 67, Swiss cyclist. [2]
  • Judith Wallerstein, 90, American psychologist and anti-divorce activist.
  • Ralph Wenzel, 69, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers, San Diego Chargers), complications from dementia.

    • 19

  • Anthony Bate, 84, British actor (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy).
  • Gerry Bron, 79, British record producer and manager (Uriah Heep, Motörhead).
  • Jim Drake, 83, American aeronautical engineer, inventor of the windsurfer, complications from lung disease.
  • Walter Haefner, 101, Irish businessman and Thoroughbred owner.
  • Gerhard Kallmann, 97, German-born American architect (Boston City Hall), co-founder of Kallmann McKinnell & Wood.
  • Luuk Kroon, 69, Dutch naval officer, Commander of the Royal Netherlands Navy (1995–1998), Chief of the Netherlands Defence Staff (1998–2004).
  • Aloysio José Leal Penna, 79, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Botucatu (2000–2008).
  • Richard Lynch, 72, American actor (Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek: The Next Generation).
  • Tale Ognenovski, 90, Macedonian musician.
  • Sir Michael Palliser, 90, British diplomat, Head of the Diplomatic Service (1975–1982).
  • Ronald Roberts, 89, British Olympic swimmer. [3]
  • Harold H. Seward, 81, American computer scientist.
  • Joan LaCour Scott, 91, American screenwriter (The Waltons, Lassie).
  • Emili Teixidor, 78, Spanish writer and journalist, cancer.
  • Norbert Tiemann, 87, American politician, Governor of Nebraska (1967–1971).
  • Kevin M. Tucker, 71, American police commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department (1986–1988), brain tumor.

    • 20

  • Judy Agnew, 91, American Second Lady (1969–1973), widow of former Vice President Spiro Agnew.
  • Frieda Berryhill, 90, American anti–nuclear power activist.
  • William W. Cooper, 97, American management scientist.
  • Robert J. Kelleher, 99, American tennis player and federal judge.
  • Alistair Vane-Tempest-Stewart, 9th Marquess of Londonderry, 74, British nobleman.
  • Alcides Mendoza Castro, 84, Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Cuzco (1983–2003).
  • LeRoy Neiman, 91, American artist.
  • Heinrich IV, Prince Reuss of Köstritz, 92, German noble.
  • Andrew Sarris, 83, American film critic, complications from a fall.
  • Michael Westmacott, 87, British mountaineer, member of 1953 British Mount Everest Expedition.

    • 21

  • J. Michael Adams, 64, American professor, President of Fairleigh Dickinson University (since 1999), acute myeloid leukemia.
  • Richard Adler, 90, American Tony Award-winning producer and composer (Damn Yankees, The Pajama Game).
  • William Stewart, Lord Allanbridge, 86, Scottish judge and politician.
  • Abid Hussain, 85, Indian civil servant and diplomat, heart attack.
  • Sunil Janah, 94, Indian photographer.
  • Viggo Johannessen, 76, Norwegian civil servant.
  • Joviano de Lima Júnior, 70, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Ribeirão Preto (since 2006).
  • Sir Sandy Macara, 80, British doctor and medical administrator.
  • Shōgyo Ōba, 96, Japanese lacquer artist (Maki-e), Living National Treasure.
  • Radha Vinod Raju, 62, Indian police chief, lung infection and multiple organ failure.
  • Gilbert Blaize Rego, 90, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Simla and Chandigarh (1971–1999).
  • Anna Schwartz, 96, American economist and author (A Monetary History of the United States).
  • Teddy Scott, 83, Scottish footballer (Aberdeen).
  • Ramaz Shengelia, 55, Georgian football player, heart attack.
  • Drew Turnbull, 82, British rugby player, complications of Alzheimer's disease.

    • 22

  • Obaidullah Baig, 76, Pakistani writer and television personality, cancer.
  • Barry Becher, 71, American marketing expert (Ginsu knife), cancer.
  • María Teresa Castillo, 103, Venezuelan journalist and activist, founder of the Caracas Athenaeum.
  • Edward N. Costikyan, 87, American politician and author.
  • DS Ravindra Doss, 67, Indian journalist and union leader.
  • Mary Fedden, 96, British painter.
  • Fernie Flaman, 85, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs) and Hall of Fame member.
  • Juan Luis Galiardo, 72, Spanish actor (Antony and Cleopatra, Tango), lung cancer.
  • Sergio Goretti, 83, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Assisi-Nocera Umbra-Gualdo Tadino (1980–2005).
  • Edmund Kornfeld, 93, American organic chemist.
  • Jackie Neilson, 83, Scottish footballer (St Mirren).
  • Mirjam Polkunen, 86, Finnish writer.
  • Rolly Tasker, 86, Australian Olympic silver medal-winning (1956) sailor, cancer.
  • Hans Villius, 88, Swedish historian, television and radio personality, complications of diabetes.
  • Margaret Wright, 72, British politician, Principal Speaker of the Green Party (1999–2003), cancer.

    • 23

  • Hamza Banoub, 28, Algerian football player, heart attack.
  • Marjorie Chibnall, 96, British medievalist.
  • Franz Crass, 84, German singer. (German)
  • Count Robin de la Lanne-Mirrlees, 87, British author, soldier, and officer of arms.
  • James Durbin, 88, British statistician and econometrician.
  • Brigitte Engerer, 59, French pianist, cancer.
  • Arne Wegner Haaland, 88, Norwegian engineer.
  • Ken Hargreaves, 73, British politician, MP for Hyndburn (1983–1992), cancer.
  • Hollywood Wildcat, 22, American Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the Breeders' Cup Distaff (1993) and Gamely Stakes (1994), cancer.
  • Robert G. Marotz, 90, American politician, Wisconsin State Assemblyman (1949–1959) and Speaker (1957–1959).
  • Alan McDonald, 48, Northern Irish football player and manager, apparent heart attack.
  • Frank Chee Willeto, 87, American Navajo code talker in World War II, Congressional Silver Medal recipient, Vice President of the Navajo Nation (1998–1999).
  • Walter J. Zable, 97, American founder and CEO of Cubic Corporation.

    • 24

  • Darrel Akerfelds, 50, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies) and coach (San Diego Padres), pancreatic cancer.
  • Gad Beck, 88, German educator, author, and gay Holocaust survivor.
  • Jean Cox, 90, American opera singer.
  • Youssef Dawoud, 74, Egyptian actor.
  • Ralph Elliott, 90, German-born Australian professor of English and runologist.
  • Karnail Gill, 70, Indian folk singer, cancer.
  • James Grout, 84, English actor (Inspector Morse).
  • Ruth Grulkowski, 81, American Olympic gymnast.
  • Gu Chaohao, 86, Chinese mathematician.
  • Karl Guðmundsson, Icelandic football player and manager.
  • Heino Kruus, 85, Estonian Olympic silver medal-winning (1952) basketball player.
  • Lonesome George, 100+, Ecuadorian Pinta Island tortoise endling, apparent heart failure.
  • Ted Luckenbill, 72, American basketball player (Philadelphia Warriors), cancer.
  • Miki Roqué, 23, Spanish footballer, cancer.
  • Ann C. Scales, 60, American lawyer and law professor, complications of a fall.
  • Rudolf Schmid, 97, Swiss-born German Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Augsburg (1972–1990).
  • Claude Sumner, 92, Canadian philosopher.

    • 25

  • Shigemitsu Dandō, 98, Japanese jurist and Supreme Court judge.
  • Norman Felton, 99, British-born American television producer (The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) .
  • Yitzhak Galanti, 75, Israeli politician.
  • Campbell Gillies, 21, Scottish jockey, swimming pool accident.
  • George Randolph Hearst, Jr., 84, American businessman (Hearst Corporation), complications from a stroke.
  • Vyacheslav Ionov, 71, Russian Olympic gold medal-winning (1964) sprint canoer.
  • Lucella MacLean, 91, Canadian baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).
  • Edgar Ross, 63, American boxer.
  • Doris Schade, 88, German television actress.

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  • Sverker Åström, 96, Swedish diplomat.
  • Daniel Batman, 31, Australian Olympic (2000) sprinter, traffic collision.
  • Miloš Blagojević, 81, Serbian historian.
  • Pat Cummings, 55, American basketball player (New York Knicks, Miami Heat).
  • Angelo Cuniberti, 91, Italian-born Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Florencia (1961–1978).
  • Ann Curtis, 86, American Olympic gold and silver medal-winning (1948) swimmer.
  • Juan Carlos Dyrzka, 71, Argentine Olympic (1964, 1968) hurdler, heart failure.
  • Harry Edwards, 85, Australian politician, member of the Australian House of Representatives for Berowra (1972–1993).
  • Nora Ephron, 71, American screenwriter and film director (When Harry Met Sally..., Sleepless in Seattle, Bewitched), pneumonia.
  • José García Ortíz, 63, Mexican politician, MP (2003–2006).
  • Amar Goswami, 66, Indian writer and journalist.
  • Harry W. Kvebæk, 87, Norwegian musician.
  • Harry Levinson, 90, American psychologist.
  • Howard Michell, 98, Australian businessman and philanthropist.
  • Mario O'Hara, 68, Filipino film director, leukemia.
  • Doris Singleton, 92, American actress (I Love Lucy, My Three Sons).
  • Risley C. Triche, 84, American attorney and politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives (1955–1976).

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  • Jerónimo Tomás Abreu Herrera, 81, Dominican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Mao-Monte Cristi (1978–2006).
  • Dénes Berényi, 83, Hungarian physicist.
  • Stan Cox, 93, British Olympic athlete (1948, 1952).
  • Rosemary Dobson, 92, Australian poet.
  • Jesse Glover, 77, American martial arts instructor, cancer.
  • Don Grady, 68, American actor (My Three Sons, The Mickey Mouse Club), cancer.
  • Eddie Jones, 74, American football executive (Miami Dolphins).
  • Iurie Miterev, 37, Moldovan international footballer, leukemia.
  • George Rorrer, 79, American sportswriter and author.
  • Konstantinos Triaridis, 74, Greek politician, Minister for Macedonia-Thrace (1993–1996), cancer.
  • Algimantas Vincas Ulba, 73, Lithuanian politician.

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  • Stephen Dwoskin, 73, American experimental filmmaker.
  • Éric Gaudibert, 75, Swiss composer.
  • Richard Isay, 77, American psychiatrist, cancer.
  • Ivan Karp, 86, American art dealer, natural causes.
  • Leontine T. Kelly, 92, American Methodist bishop.
  • Ron Lynch, 89, English cricketer, long illness.
  • Gabriel G. Nahas, 92, American physician.
  • Robert Sabatier, 88, French writer.
  • Chris Sanderson, 38, Canadian lacrosse player and coach, cancer.
  • Doris Sams, 85, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).
  • Norman Sas, 87, American entrepreneur, inventor of Electric football, stroke.
  • Herb Scherer, 83, American basketball player (Tri-Cities Blackhawks, New York Knicks).
  • Paul Stassino, 82, Greek-Cypriot actor (Thunderball).
  • Zhang Ruifang, 94, Chinese film actress.

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  • Takeo Chii, 70, Japanese actor, heart failure.
  • Verna Harrah, 67, American film producer (Anaconda).
  • Graham Horn, 57, English footballer (Luton Town).
  • Mogale Paul Nkhumishe, 74, South African Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Witbank (1984–2000) and Polokwane (2000–2011).
  • Vincent Ostrom, 92, American political scientist.
  • Juan Reccius, 101, Chilean Olympic athlete (1936), South American champion (1935).
  • Floyd Temple, 86, American baseball coach (University of Kansas).
  • José Sótero Valero Ruz, 76, Venezuelan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Guanare (2001–2011).
  • Yong Nyuk Lin, 94, Singaporean politician.

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  • Michael Abney-Hastings, 14th Earl of Loudoun, 69, British Australian peer.
  • Miguel S. Demapan, 59, American jurist, Chief Justice of the Northern Mariana Islands Supreme Court (1999–2011).
  • Richard Eardley, 83, American politician, Mayor of Boise, Idaho (1974–1986), heart attack.
  • Marilyn Houlberg, American anthropologist.
  • Jacqueline Law, 45, Hong Kong actress, pancreatic cancer.
  • Joyce D. Miller, 84, American union activist.
  • Armando Montaño, 22, American student and journalist.
  • Ivan Sekyra, 59, Czech guitarist (Abraxas).
  • Yitzhak Shamir, 96, Israeli politician, Prime Minister (1983–1984, 1986–1992), Alzheimer's disease.
  • Yomo Toro, 78, Puerto Rican cuatro player, kidney failure.
  • Michael J. Ybarra, 45, American journalist and author, climbing accident.

    • References

    Deaths in June 2012 Wikipedia
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