Deaths in May 2011

1

Spyrydon Babskyi, 52, Ukrainian Orthodox hierarch, Archbishop of Vinnytsia in UOC-KP (1992–1993). [1] (Russian)

Sir Henry Cooper, 76, British Olympic heavyweight boxer. [2]

Agustín García-Gasco Vicente, 80, Spanish Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Valencia (1992–2009), cardiac arrest. [3] (Spanish)

Moshe Landau, 99, Israeli jurist, Chief Justice (1980–1982), presided over Adolf Eichmann's trial (1961). [4]

Ted Lowe, 90, British snooker commentator. [5]

Steven Orszag, 68, American mathematician, chronic lymphomic leukemia. [6]

Anny Rüegg, c. 99, Swiss alpine skier. [7] (German)

Ivan Slavkov, 70, Bulgarian sports official. [8]

William O. Taylor II, 78, American journalist and publisher (The Boston Globe), brain tumor. [9]

J. Ernest Wilkins, Jr., 87, American mathematician and nuclear scientist. [10]

2

Leonid Abalkin, 80, Russian economist. [11]

Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, 46, Kuwaiti Al-Qaeda computer expert, shot. [12]

Robert W. Clower, 85, American economist. [13]

Danny Kassap, 28, Congolese-born Canadian long-distance runner. [14]

Abdulla Kurd, 34, Turkish Kurdish Islamist militant. [15]

Osama bin Laden, 54, Saudi founder of Al-Qaeda, planned September 11 attacks, shot. [16]

Alexander Lazarev, 73, Russian actor. [17] (Russian)

Eddie Lewis, 76, English footballer (Manchester United, West Ham United), cancer. [18] (death announced on this date)

Owen Roe McGovern, 93, Irish Gaelic football player. [19]

René Emilio Ponce, 64, Salvadoran general and defence minister, army chief of staff during the Civil War. [20]

David Sencer, 86, American public health official, director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (1966–1977), heart disease. [21]

Shigeo Yaegashi, 78, Japanese footballer. [22] (Japanese)

3

Paul Ackerley, 61, New Zealand hockey player and coach, skin cancer. [23]

Frédéric Affo, 68, Beninese politician and football executive. [24] (French)

Victor Auer, 74, American Olympic silver medal-winning (1972) sport shooter. [25]

Bob Balog, 86, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers). [26]

Robert Brout, 82, American-born Belgian theoretical physicist. [27] (French)

Odell Brown, 70, American jazz organist and songwriter ("Sexual Healing"). [28]

Jackie Cooper, 88, American actor (Skippy, Our Gang, Superman) and director (M*A*S*H). [29]

C. Rollins Hanlon, 96, American cardiac surgeon, lymphoma. [30]

Richie Hubbard, 78, Canadian politician. [31]

Sergo Kotrikadze, 74, Georgian football player and coach, heart attack. [32] (Russian)

Mildred Robbins Leet, 88, American philanthropist, co-founder of Trickle Up, complications of a fall. [33]

Larry McCormick, 71, Canadian politician, Member of Parliament for Hastings—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington (1993–2004). [34]

Marianna Nagy, 82, Hungarian pair skater. [35] (Hungarian)

Patrick Roy, 53, French politician, pancreatic cancer. [36] (French)

Peter Urbach, 71, German Cold War informant. [37] (German)

Thanasis Veggos, 83, Greek actor, stroke. [38]

4

Lázaro Blanco, 73, Mexican photographer, cancer. [39] (Spanish)

Frans de Kok, 87, Dutch conductor. [40] (Dutch)

Jacques Georges Habib Hafouri, 94, Syrian Catholic hierarch, Archbishop of Hassaké-Nisibi (1982–1996). [41]

Sammy McCrory, 86, Northern Irish footballer. [42]

Mary Murphy, 80, American actress (The Wild One). [43]

Thomas G. Nelson, 74, American federal judge, complications from declining health. [44]

Françoise Olivier-Coupeau, 51, French politician, cancer. [45] (French)

Emil Reinecke, 78, German cyclist. [46]

Acacio Valbuena Rodríguez, 88, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Prefect for Western Sahara (1994–2009). [47]

Frans Sammut, 66, Maltese writer, natural causes. [48]

Bernard Stasi, 80, French politician, Minister for Overseas Departments and Territories (1973–1974), Alzheimer's disease. [49] (French)

Richard Steinheimer, 81, American railroad photographer, Alzheimer's disease. [50]

Sada Thompson, 83, American actress (Family), lung disease. [51]

5

Leslie Audus, 99, British botany professor (University of London), expert on plant growth hormones. [52]

Alice Bridges, 94, American Olympic bronze medal-winning (1936) swimmer. [53]

Claude Choules, 110, British-born Australian veteran, last combat veteran of World War I. [54]

J. Donald Crump, 78, Canadian commissioner of the Canadian Football League (1990–1991). [55]

Oliver Elmes, British graphic designer (Doctor Who). [56] (death reported on this date)

Salomón Hakim, 81, Colombian neurosurgeon, researcher and inventor. [57]

Arthur Laurents, 93, American playwright, librettist, stage director, and screenwriter (Anastasia, Rope, West Side Story). [58]

Dougie McCracken, 46, Scottish football player (Ayr United), suspected suicide. [59]

Yosef Merimovich, 86, Israeli football player and manager. [60] (Hebrew)

Rolo Puente, 71, Argentine actor, pulmonary emphysema. [61]

Tommy Wright, 83, Scottish footballer. [62]

Dana Wynter, 79, German-born British actress (Invasion of the Body Snatchers), heart failure. [63]

6

Barry Connolly, 72, Australian football player. [64]

Oniroku Dan, 80, Japanese author, esophageal cancer. [65]

Sir Geoffrey Dhenin, 93, British air marshal. [66]

Horace Freeland Judson, 80, American science historian (The Great Betrayal: Fraud In Science), complications of a stroke. [67]

Antanas Krištopaitis, 89, Lithuanian painter. [68]

Quazi Nuruzzaman, 86, Bangladeshi veteran of the Liberation War, natural causes. [69]

Duane Pillette, 88, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies). [70]

Dick Walsh, 85, American baseball executive, first commissioner of the North American Soccer League. [71]

Yoon Ki-Won, 24, South Korean football player, suicide by inhaling toxic fumes. [72]

7

Johnny Albino, 93, Puerto Rican bolero singer, heart attack. [73]

Seve Ballesteros, 54, Spanish golfer, brain cancer. [74]

Big George, 53, British broadcaster and music arranger. [75]

Willard Boyle, 86, Canadian physicist, Nobel laureate (2009). [76]

Shaukat Galiev, 82, Soviet Tatar poet and writer of children books. [77]

Jack Gordon, 66, American politician, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives (1972–1980), State Senator (1980–1992; 1996–2011), brain cancer. [78]

Ross Hagen, 72, American actor (Daktari, Speedway). [79]

Allyson Hennessy, 63, Trinidadian broadcaster. [80]

Eilert Määttä, 75, Swedish ice hockey player and coach. [81]

Milan Mišík, 82, Slovak geologist. [82] (Slovak)

Gunter Sachs, 78, German photographer, author and multi-millionaire industrialist, suicide by gunshot. [83]

Ella Schuler, 113, American supercentenarian, oldest person from Kansas. [84]

Robert Stempel, 77, American automobile executive, Chairman and CEO of General Motors (1990–1992). [85]

Kate Swift, 87, American writer, stomach cancer. [86]

John Walker, 67, American musician (The Walker Brothers), liver cancer. [87]

Doric Wilson, 72, American playwright and gay activist. [88]

8

Huthaifa al-Batawi, Iraqi al-Qaeda leader, shot. [89]

Hans-Georg Borck, 89, German military officer. [90] (Portuguese)

Wallace Clark, 84, Northern Irish maritime writer. [91]

Cornell Dupree, 68, American jazz and R&B guitarist, complications from emphysema. [92]

Gheorghe Guţiu, 87, Romanian Catholic hierarch, Archbishop of Cluj-Gherla (1994–2002). [93]

Corwin Hansch, 92, American chemist, pneumonia. [94]

Li Desheng, 95, Chinese People's Liberation Army general. [95] (Chinese)

Charles McPhee, 49, American radio host, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [96]

Greg Percival, 86, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1977–1978; 1986–1988). [97]

Soňa Pertlová, 23, Czech chessplayer, cancer. [98]

Lionel Rose, 62, Australian world champion boxer. [99]

Hilton Rosemarin, 58, Canadian set decorator (Three Men and a Baby, Cocktail, Jumper), brain cancer. [100]

Carlos Trillo, 68, Argentine comic book writer (Cybersix). [101] (Spanish)

Galina Urbanovich, 93, Russian Olympic gold and silver medal-winning (1952) gymnast. [102]

Arkady Vaksberg, 83, Soviet and Russian lawyer, author, film maker and playwright. [103] (Russian)

Sir Ronald Waterhouse, 85, British jurist. [104]

9

David Cairns, 44, British politician, MP for Greenock and Inverclyde (2001–2005) and Inverclyde (since 2005), acute pancreatitis. [105]

Robert Ellsworth, 84, American politician and diplomat, Representative from Kansas (1961–1967), Ambassador to NATO (1969–1971), complications from pneumonia. [106]

Epiphanios of Vryoula, 76, American Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Spain and Portugal. [107]

Henry Feffer, 93, American professor and spine surgeon, treated Saddam Hussein, heart failure. [108]

Dolores Fuller, 88, American actress (Glen or Glenda), and songwriter ("Rock-A-Hula Baby"). [109]

Jeff Gralnick, 72, American television news producer. [110]

Lidia Gueiler Tejada, 89, Bolivian politician, acting President (1979–1980), after a long illness. [111]

Doug Leeds, 63, American executive, vice-chairman of American Theatre Wing, cancer. [112]

Ivo Pešák, 66, Czech singer, dancer and comic performer. [113]

Newton Thornburg, 81, American novelist. [114]

Shailendra Kumar Upadhyaya, 82, Nepali politician, Foreign Minister (1986–1990), altitude sickness. [115]

Wouter Weylandt, 26, Belgian road bicycle racer, race crash. [116]

10

Omar Ahmad, 46, American entrepreneur (Napster) and politician, Mayor of San Carlos, California (2010–2011), heart attack. [117]

Michael Baze, 24, American jockey. [118]

Bill Bergesch, 89, American baseball executive (Kansas City Athletics, New York Yankees, Cincinnati Reds). [119]

Frank Boston, 72, American politician, member of the Maryland House of Delegates (1987–1999). [120]

John S. Carter, 65, American music producer, cancer. [121]

Mia Amber Davis, 36, American plus-size model and actress (Road Trip), postoperative complications. [122]

Bill Gallo, 88, American cartoonist and newspaper columnist, complications from pneumonia. [123]

Patrick Galvin, 83, Irish writer. [124]

Zim Ngqawana, 51, South African jazz saxophonist, stroke. [125]

Burt Reinhardt, 91, American broadcast executive, President of CNN (1982–1990), complications from strokes. [126]

David Weston, 75, British artist. [127]

Norma Zimmer, 87, American entertainer (The Lawrence Welk Show). [128]

11

Maurice Goldhaber, 100, American physicist. [129]

Leo Kahn, 94, American entrepreneur, co-founder of Staples, complications from a series of strokes. [130]

Albert Kanene Obiefuna, 81, Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Onitsha (1995–2003). [131]

Reach Sambath, 47, Cambodian journalist, stroke. [132]

Elisabeth Svendsen, 81, British hotelier and animal welfare campaigner, founder of The Donkey Sanctuary. [133]

Robert Traylor, 34, American basketball player (Milwaukee Bucks, Cleveland Cavaliers, New Orleans Hornets), suspected heart attack. [134]

Glyn Williams, 92, Welsh footballer. [135]

Snooky Young, 92, American jazz trumpeter, complications of a lung ailment. [136]

12

Harrison Chongo, 41, Zambian football player, malaria. [137]

Charles F. Haas, 97, American television director (Bonanza, The Outer Limits, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.). [138]

Mose Jefferson, 68, American businessman, cancer. [139]

Jack Jones, 86, American Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter (Los Angeles Times), lung disease. [140]

Lloyd Knibb, 80, Jamaican drummer (The Skatalites), liver cancer. [141]

Noreen Murray, 76, British geneticist. [142]

David Orton, 77, Canadian environmentalist, pancreatic cancer. [143]

Carlos Pascual, 80, Cuban baseball player (Washington Senators). [144]

Luigi del Gallo Roccagiovine, 88, Italian nobleman and Roman Catholic prelate, Titular Bishop of Camplum (since 1982). [145]

Ron Springs, 54, American football player (Dallas Cowboys, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), complications from surgery. [146]

Bill Summers, 75, American car builder (Goldenrod). [147]

Miyu Uehara, 24, Japanese glamour model, apparent suicide by hanging. [148]

Jack Wolf, 76, American information theorist, cancer. [149]

13

Derek Boogaard, 28, Canadian hockey player (Minnesota Wild, New York Rangers), accidental overdose of alcohol and oxycodone. [150]

Stephen De Staebler, 78, American sculptor and printmaker, complications from cancer. [151]

Pam Gems, 85, British playwright. [152]

Bernard Greenhouse, 95, American cellist. [153]

Bob Litherland, 80, British politician, MP for Manchester Central (1979–1997), cancer. [154]

Princess Maria Elisabeth of Orléans-Braganza, 96, German noblewoman. [155] (Portuguese)

Wallace McCain, 81, Canadian businessman, co-founder of McCain Foods, pancreatic cancer. [156]

Mel Queen, 69, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim) and pitching coach (Blue Jays). [157]

Jack Richardson, 81, Canadian record producer (The Guess Who). [158]

Bruce Ricker, 68, American film documentarian and producer (Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser). [159]

Badal Sarkar, 85, Indian dramatist, colon cancer. [160]

14

Ferial Alibali, 78, Albanian actress. [161] (Albanian)

James Richard Cheek, 74, American diplomat, Ambassador to Sudan (1989–1992) and Argentina (1993–1996). [162]

Murray Handwerker, 89, American businessman (Nathan's Famous). [163]

Teuvo Laukkanen, 91, Finnish Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) cross-country skier. [164]

Michael Onslow, 7th Earl of Onslow, 73, British politician. [165]

Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, 87, Chinese-born American historian and author. [166]

Diane Sinclair, 90, American actress and dancer. [167]

Birgitta Trotzig, 81, Swedish author. [168]

Ernie Walker, 82, Scottish football administrator. [169]

Joseph Wershba, 90, American television producer and reporter. [170]

15

Maico Buncio, 22, Filipino motorcycle racer and bike accident. [171]

Donald Christian, 52, Antiguan Olympic cyclist. [172]

John Feikens, 93, American federal judge, after long illness. [173]

Bob Flanigan, 84, American singer (The Four Freshmen) and musician. [174]

Pete Lovely, 85, American racecar driver. [175]

William Pennington, 88, American casino executive (Circus Circus Enterprises), Parkinson's disease. [176]

Barbara Stuart, 81, American actress (Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.). [177]

F. Jay Taylor, 87, American academic, President of Louisiana Tech University (1962–1987). [178]

Mahendra Singh Tikait, 76, Indian farming union leader, bone cancer. [179]

Samuel Wanjiru, 24, Kenyan Olympic gold medal-winning (2008) marathon runner, fall from balcony. [180]

Martin Woodhouse, 78, British novelist, screenwriter and inventor. [181]

16

Ralph Barker, 93, British air gunner and writer. [182]

Robert Berks, 89, American sculptor, industrial designer and planner. [183]

Douglas Blubaugh, 76, American Olympic gold-medal winning (1960) wrestler, motorcycle accident. [184]

Serghei Covaliov, 66, Romanian Olympic gold (1968) and silver (1972) medal-winning canoeist. [185]

Bob Davis, 82, Australian football player. [186]

Nathaniel Davis, 86, American diplomat, cancer. [187]

Edward Hardwicke, 78, British actor (Sherlock Holmes), son of Sir Cedric Hardwicke. [188]

Kiyoshi Kodama, 77, Japanese actor, stomach cancer. [189]

Bill Skiles, 79, American comedian (Skiles and Henderson), kidney cancer. [190]

17

Sean Dunphy, 73, Irish entertainer. [191]

Joseph Galibardy, 96, Indian Olympic gold medal-winning (1936) field hockey player. [192]

James M. Hewgley, Jr., 94, American politician, Mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma (1966–1970). [193]

Harmon Killebrew, 74, American Hall of Fame baseball player (Minnesota Twins, Kansas City Royals), esophageal cancer. [194]

Thomas MacAnna, 84, Irish director and actor. [195]

Frank Upton, 76, English footballer (Derby County, Chelsea), after short illness. [196]

18

Seiseki Abe, 96, Japanese shodo and aikido teacher. [197]

Marcel De Mulder, 83, Belgian cyclist. [198]

Edward H. Harte, 88, American newspaper executive (Harte-Hanks). [199]

Leonard Kastle, 82, American composer and filmmaker (The Honeymoon Killers). [200]

Wlodzimierz Ksiazek, 60, Polish-born American painter. [201] (body found on this date)

Dick Wimmer, 74, American author, heart complications. [202]

19

Phyllis Avery, 88, American actress (Meet Mr. McNutley), heart failure. [203]

Don H. Barden, 67, American businessman, lung cancer. [204]

Garret FitzGerald, 85, Irish politician, Taoiseach (1981–1982; 1982–1987) and Minister for Foreign Affairs (1973–1977), after short illness. [205]

Ivan Gibbs, 83, Australian politician, Queensland MLA for Albert (1974–1989), cancer. [206]

Jeffrey Catherine Jones, 67, American transgender artist. [207]

David H. Kelley, 87, American-born Canadian archaeologist. [208]

Kathy Kirby, 72, British singer, after short illness. [209]

William Kloefkorn, 78, American poet. [210]

Alda Noni, 95, Italian coloratura soprano. [211]

Vladimir Ryzhkin, 80, Russian Olympic gold medal-winning (1956) footballer. [212] (Russian)

Tom West, 71, American computer hardware engineer, heart attack. [213]

20

Michael Bell, 74, Irish politician, Teachta Dála for Louth (1982–2002). [214]

John Cigna, 75, American radio personality (KDKA). [215]

William Elliott, Baron Elliott of Morpeth, 90, British politician, MP for Newcastle upon Tyne North (1957–1983). [216]

Arieh Handler, 95, Israeli Zionist leader. [217]

Eduard Janota, 59, Czech politician, Finance Minister (2009–2010), cardiac arrest. [218] (Czech)

Donald Krim, 65, American businessman, president of Kino International, cancer. [219]

Ciril Pelhan, 89, Yugoslav Olympic swimmer.[220]

Joaquín Pérez, 75, Mexican Olympic double bronze medal-winning (1980) equestrian. [221]

Steve Rutt, 66, American inventor of early video animation, pancreatic cancer. [222]

Randy Savage, 58, American professional wrestler (WWF, WCW). [223]

21

John Delaney, 42, Irish businessman (Intrade). [224]

Irene Gilbert, 76, American actress and school director, co-founder of Stella Adler Academy of Los Angeles, Alzheimer's disease. [225]

David J. Hudson, 67, American sound mixer (Beauty and the Beast, The Terminator, The Lion King). [226]

Bill Hunter, 71, Australian actor (Muriel's Wedding), liver cancer. [227]

Hiroyuki Nagato, 77, Japanese actor, cerebrovascular disease. [228] (Japanese)

Pádraig Kennelly, 82, Irish publisher, editor and journalist, founder of Kerry's Eye. [229]

Gordon McLennan, 87, British politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party (1975–1990), cancer. [230]

Jim Pyburn, 78, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles), after long illness. [231]

Bill Rechin, 80, American cartoonist (Crock), complications from esophageal cancer. [232]

22

Joseph Brooks, 73, American Grammy-winning songwriter ("You Light Up My Life"), suicide by asphyxiation. [233]

Joëlle Brupbacher, 32, Swiss mountaineer, acute mountain sickness. [234]

Chidananda Dasgupta, 89, Indian film critic. [235]

Bill Eaton, 79, Australian politician, member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Mourilyan (1980–1994). [236]

Alexandru Ene, 82, Romanian football player. [237]

Matej Ferjan, 34, Slovenian motorcycle speedway rider. [238]

Bob Gould, 74, Australian activist and bookseller. [239]

Ralph Hunt, 83, Australian politician, MP for Gwydir (1969–1989). [240]

Suzanne Mizzi, 43, British glamour model and interior designer, cancer. [241]

Ronald Naar, 56, Dutch mountaineer. [242]

Breon O'Casey, 83, British artist. [243]

Walter Soboleff, 102, American Tlingit scholar and spiritual leader, first Native Alaskan Prebysterian minister, bone and prostate cancer. [244]

Joe Steffy, 85, American college football player (Army), 1947 Outland Trophy winner. [245]

George Henry Strohsahl, Jr., 73, American naval officer and former commander of the Pacific Missile Test Center. [246]

23

Sam Faust, 26, Australian rugby league player, leukemia. [247]

Michele Fawdon, 63, British-born Australian actress (Cathy's Child), cancer. [248]

Peter Frelinghuysen, Jr., 95, American politician, U.S. Representative from New Jersey (1953–1975). [249]

Nasser Hejazi, 61, Iranian football player and manager, cancer. [250]

Pilu Momtaz, 52, Bangladeshi pop singer. [251]

Abdias do Nascimento, 97, Brazilian activist and politician. [252] (Portuguese)

Joseph Nguyên Tich Duc, 73, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ban Me Thuot (2000–2006). [253]

Karel Otčenášek, 91, Czech Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Hradec Králové (1989–1998). [254]

Frank S. Petersen, 88, American jurist and politician. [255]

Harry Redmond, Jr., 101, American special effects artist and producer (King Kong), natural causes. [256]

Alejandro Roces, 86, Filipino writer and government official, Secretary of Education (1961–1965). [257]

Roberto Sosa, 81, Honduran poet, heart attack. [258] (Spanish)

Xavier Tondo, 32, Spanish cyclist, crushed by car. [259]

24

Huguette M. Clark, 104, American heiress, daughter of William A. Clark. [260]

José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva, 54, Brazilian Amazon environmentalist and conservationist, shot. [261]

Arthur Goldreich, 82, South African-born Israeli political activist. [262]

Mark Haines, 65, American television anchor (CNBC). [263]

Imre Nagy, 70, Canadian Olympic fencer. [264]

Edward Plunkett, 20th Baron of Dunsany, 71, Irish artist. [265]

Barry Potomski, 38, Canadian ice hockey player (Los Angeles Kings). [266]

Sir Blair Stewart-Wilson, 81, British courtier. [267]

Paul Winslow, 82, South African cricketer. [268]

Stephen K. Yamashiro, 69, American politician, Mayor of Hawaii County (1992–2000), pneumonia. [269]

Hakim Ali Zardari, 81, Pakistani politician, father of Asif Ali Zardari, after long illness. [270]

25

Lillian Adams, 89, American actress (The Suite Life on Deck, Bruce Almighty). [271]

Werner Freiherr von Beschwitz, 96, German military officer. [272]

Nina Leopold Bradley, 93, American conservationist. [273]

Leonora Carrington, 94, British-born Mexican painter and novelist. [274]

Luigi Diligenza, 90, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Capua (1978–1997). [275]

Roger Gautier, 88, French Olympic silver medal-winning (1952) rower. [276] (French)

Edwin Honig, 91, American poet and translator, Alzheimer's disease. [277]

Terry Jenner, 66, Australian Test cricketer and coach. [278]

Miroslav Opsenica, 29, Serbian footballer, car accident. [279] (Polish)

Gene Smith, 94, American baseball player (Negro Leagues). [280]

Paul Splittorff, 64, American baseball player and broadcaster (Kansas City Royals), complications from melanoma. [281]

Yannis Varveris, 56, Greek poet, critic and translator, cardiac arrest. [282] (Greek)

Paul J. Wiedorfer, 90, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient. [283]

Edward Żentara, 55, Polish actor. [284]

26

Arisen Ahubudu, 91, Sri Lankan scholar, author and playwright. [285]

Flick Colby, 65, American dancer and choreographer (Pan's People), bronchial pneumonia. [286]

George Heron, 92, American tribal leader, President of the Seneca Nation of New York (1958–1960; 1962–1964). [287]

Irwin D. Mandel, 89, American dental scientist in preventative dentistry. [288]

Peter McKechnie, 70, Australian politician, member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Carnarvon (1974–1989). [289]

Tyler Simpson, 25, Australian soccer player. [290]

27

Edward a'Beckett, 71, Australian cricketer. [291]

John W. Bowen, 84, American politician, Member of the Ohio Senate. [292]

Johnny Brewer, 74, American football player (Cleveland Browns, New Orleans Saints). [293]

Janet Brown, 87, British actress and impersonator, after short illness. [294]

Jeff Conaway, 60, American actor (Grease, Taxi, Babylon 5). [295]

Margo Dydek, 37, Polish basketball player (Utah Starzz, Los Angeles Sparks) and coach, heart attack. [296]

Johanna Fiedler, 65, American author, daughter of Arthur Fiedler. [297]

Regalado Maambong, 72, Filipino jurist, member of 1986 Constitutional Commission. [298]

Prince Ali Mirza Qajar, 81, Iranian royal, Head of the Qajar Imperial Family (since 1988), after long illness. [299] (Persian)

Joaquín Moya, 79, Spanish Olympic fencer. [300]

Gil Scott-Heron, 62, American poet, musician and author. [301]

Jukka Toivola, 61, Finnish Olympic athlete, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. [302] (Finnish)

Michael Willoughby, 12th Baron Middleton, 90, British aristocrat and politician. [303]

28

Hermann Bley, 75, German footballer. [304]

Mohammed Daud Daud, 42, Afghan general, police commander for northern Afghanistan, bombing. [305]

Bill Harris, 79, Canadian baseball player (Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers). [306]

Romuald Klim, 78, Belarusian hammer thrower, Olympic gold medalist (1964). [307] (Russian)

Ann McPherson, 65, British physician and public health campaigner. [308]

Dame Barbara Mills, 70, British barrister, Director of Public Prosecutions (1992–1998), stroke. [309]

Leo Rangell, 97, American psychoanalyst, complications from surgery. [310]

Alys Robi, 88, Canadian singer. [311]

Martha Rommelaere, 88, Canadian baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League). [312]

John H. Sinfelt, 80, American chemical engineer in unleaded gasoline, congestive heart failure. [313]

29

Sergei Bagapsh, 62, Abkhazian politician, President (since 2005), complications after surgery. [314]

Jon Blake, 52, Australian actor, pneumonia. [315]

Simon Brint, 60, British musician, suicide. [316]

Bill Clements, 94, American politician, Governor of Texas (1979–1983; 1987–1991). [317]

Billy Crook, 84, English footballer (Wolverhampton Wanderers). [318]

Wally Jay, 93, American martial arts teacher, founder of Small Circle JuJitsu, after long illness. [319]

Ferenc Mádl, 80, Hungarian politician, President of the Republic (2000–2005). [320] (Hungarian)

Vitaly Margulis, 83, Russian classical pianist. [321]

Tom Roeser, 82, American political commentator. [322]

Bill Roycroft, 96, Australian equestrian, five-time Olympian, gold medallist (1960). [323]

Cosmo Francesco Ruppi, 78, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Termoli-Larino (1980–1988) and Archbishop of Lecce (1988–2009). [324]

30

Ricky Bruch, 64, Swedish athlete, cancer. [325] (Swedish)

Henri Chammartin, 92, Swiss dressage equestrian, multiple Olympic medallist. [326] (German)

Paul B. Ferrara, 68, American scientist and administrator, pioneer of genetic fingerprinting, brain tumor. [327]

Jung Jong-kwan, 29, South Korean footballer, suspected suicide by hanging. [328]

Eddie Morrison, 63, Scottish footballer and manager (Kilmarnock). [329]

Hans Nogler, 91, Austrian Olympic alpine skier. [330] (German)

Isikia Savua, 59, Fijian diplomat and police commissioner. [331]

Marek Siemek, 68, Polish philosopher and historian of philosophy. [332] (Polish)

Clarice Taylor, 93, American actress (Sesame Street, The Cosby Show). [333]

Giorgio Tozzi, 88, American operatic bass, heart attack. [334]

Tillmann Uhrmacher, 44, German DJ, music producer and radio host. [335] (German)

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, 89, American Nobel laureate. [336]

31

Pauline Betz, 91, American tennis player. [337]

Jonas Bevacqua, 33, American fashion designer (Lifted Research Group). [338]

Conrado Estrella, Sr., 93, Filipino politician, Governor of Pangasinan (1954–1963), Agrarian Reform Minister (1978–1986). [339]

Derek Hodge, 69, U.S. Virgin Islander politician and attorney, Lieutenant Governor of the United States Virgin Islands (1987–1995), cancer. [340]

Keith Irvine, 82, British-born American interior designer, cardiac arrest. [341]

Hans Keilson, 101, German-born Dutch psychoanalyst and novelist. [342]

Sir John Martin, 93, British admiral, Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey (1974–1980). [343]

Adolfas Mekas, 85, Lithuanian-born American film director. [344]

Andy Robustelli, 85, American Hall of Fame football player (Los Angeles Rams, New York Giants). [345]

Philip Rose, 89, American theatrical producer, stroke. [346]

Ezzatollah Sahabi, 81, Iranian politician, Member of Parliament (1980–1984), stroke. [347]

Syed Saleem Shahzad, 40, Pakistani journalist, shot. [348] (body found on this date)

Hugh Stewart, 100, British film editor and producer. [349]

Grant Sullivan, 86, American actor (Pony Express), cancer. [350]

Ram Man Trishit, 70, Nepali lyricist, kidney problems. [351]

Sølvi Wang, 81, Norwegian singer and actress. [352] (Norwegian)

Jennifer Worth, 75, British author, esophageal cancer. [353]