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Deaths in September 2010

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The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2010.

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  • Tomás Pedro Barbosa da Silva Nunes, 67, Portuguese Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Lisboa (since 1998).
  • Sir Colville Barclay, 97, British painter and botanist.
  • Bob Cutler, 96, American Olympic rower.
  • Wakanohana Kanji I, 82, Japanese sumo wrestler, kidney cancer.
  • Cammie King, 76, American actress (Gone with the Wind), lung cancer. [320]
  • Don Lang, 95, American baseball player, after long illness.
  • Jean Nelissen, 74, Dutch cycling journalist. (Dutch)
  • 2

  • Trevor Beard, 90, Australian physician.
  • Germán Dehesa, 66, Mexican journalist, writer and announcer, cancer.
  • Shmuel Eisenstadt, 86, Israeli sociologist.
  • Bob Loveless, 81, American knife maker and manufacturer.
  • Katarina Marinič, 110, Slovenian supercentenarian.
  • Eileen Nearne, 89, British Special Operations Executive agent in World War II. (body discovered on this date)
  • Pedro Marcos Ribeiro da Costa, 88, Angolan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Saurímo (1977–1997).
  • Jackie Sinclair, 67, Scottish footballer (Dunfermline Athletic, Newcastle United), cancer.
  • Leo Trepp, 97, German-born American rabbi, last surviving German rabbinical witness to the Holocaust.
  • Morgan White, 86, American actor and children's television host.
  • 3

  • Larry Ashmead, 78, American book editor. [321]
  • Micky Burn, 97, British writer and poet.
  • David Bushnell, 86, American historian, expert on Colombia, cancer. (Spanish)
  • Mike Edwards, 62, English cellist (Electric Light Orchestra), car accident.
  • Noah Howard, 67, American jazz saxophonist.
  • Robert Schimmel, 60, American stand-up comedian (The Howard Stern Show), car accident.
  • Sir Cyril Smith, 82, British politician, Member of Parliament for Rochdale (1972–1992).
  • José Augusto Torres, 71, Portuguese football player and coach, heart failure.
  • Annie Turnbull, 111, British supercentenarian, oldest person in the UK.
  • 4

  • Francis Gerard Brooks, 86, Northern Irish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Dromore (1976–1999).
  • Paul Conrad, 86, American Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist (Los Angeles Times).
  • John Gouriet, 75, British political campaigner (The Freedom Association) and author.
  • Kálmán Kulcsár, 82, Hungarian jurist and politician, Minister of Justice (1988–1990). (Hungarian)
  • 5

  • Hedley Beare, 77, Australian education leader.
  • Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, 88, Dutch artist.
  • David Dortort, 93, American television producer and writer (Bonanza, The High Chaparral).
  • Ludvig Eikaas, 89, Norwegian artist. (Norwegian)
  • Elizabeth Jenkins, 104, English author.
  • Lewis Nkosi, 73, South African writer.
  • Homi Sethna, 86, Indian nuclear scientist and chemical engineer.
  • R. Smith Simpson, 103, American Foreign Service Officer.
  • Jefferson Thomas, 67, American civil rights pioneer, member of the Little Rock Nine, pancreatic cancer.
  • Shoya Tomizawa, 19, Japanese Moto2 motorcycle racer, race crash.
  • Angelo Vassallo, 56, Italian politician, Mayor of Pollica, shot.
  • 6

  • Clive Donner, 84, British film director (The Caretaker, What's New Pussycat?), Alzheimer's disease.
  • Bob Jencks, 69, American football player (Chicago Bears), heart attack.
  • John McKellar, 80, Australian comedy writer.
  • Yvonne O'Neill, 74, Canadian politician, MPP for Ottawa–Rideau (1987–1995), cancer.
  • 7

  • Claude Béchard, 41, Canadian politician, MNA for Kamouraska-Témiscouata (1997–2010), cancer.
  • Eberhard von Brauchitsch, 83, German industrial manager, suicide.
  • Klaus Feldt, 98, German World War II Korvettenkapitän (corvette captain).
  • Amar Garibović, 19, Serbian Olympic cross-country skier, traffic collision. (Serbian)
  • William H. Goetzmann, 80, American historian.
  • Barbara Holland, 77, American author, lung cancer.
  • Jack Kershaw, 96, American attorney who represented James Earl Ray.
  • John Kluge, 95, German-born American entrepreneur and billionaire, richest person in the United States (1989–1990).
  • Brendan Lyons, 83, Australian politician, member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly for Bass (1982–1986).
  • Riad al-Saray, 35, Iraqi television presenter, shot.
  • Joaquín Soler Serrano, 91, Spanish journalist, Alzheimer's disease. (Spanish)
  • Glenn Shadix, 58, American actor (Beetlejuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas), fall.
  • Wilebaldo Solano, 94, Spanish communist activist during the Spanish Civil War. (Spanish)
  • Lucius Walker, 80, American pastor, heart attack.
  • 8

  • Jenny Alpha, 100, Martinique-born French actress and singer. (French)
  • Hadley Caliman, 78, American jazz saxophonist, liver cancer.
  • Rich Cronin, 36, American pop singer and songwriter (LFO), stroke related to acute myelogenous leukemia.
  • Allen Dale June, 91, American original Navajo code talker.
  • Thomas Guinzburg, 84, American editor, co-creator and co-founder of The Paris Review, complications from heart bypass surgery.
  • Safah Abdul Hameed, Iraqi journalist, shot.
  • Bernice Lapp, 92, American Olympic bronze medal-winning (1936) swimmer.
  • Murali, 46, Indian Tamil actor, heart attack.
  • Irwin Silber, 84, American writer and journalist, complications of Alzheimer's disease.
  • Israel Tal, 86, Israeli general.
  • George C. Williams, 84, American evolutionary biologist, Parkinson's disease. [322]
  • 9

  • Gene Case, 72, American advertising executive, heart attack.
  • Heriberto Correa Yepes, 94, Colombian Vicar Apostolic of Buenaventura (1973–1996). (Spanish)
  • Bent Larsen, 75, Danish chess grandmaster.
  • Rauno Mäkinen, 79, Finnish wrestler and Olympic gold medalist. (Finnish)
  • Venu Nagavally, 61, Indian actor and screenwriter.
  • Eddie Phillips, 80, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals).
  • Mary Richard, 70, Canadian aboriginal activist and politician.
  • Riccardo Sarfatti, 70, Italian businessman, car accident. (Italian)
  • Kamilla Składanowska, 62, Polish Olympic fencer.
  • Frank Wanlass, 77, American electrical engineer.
  • 10

  • Juan Mari Brás, 82, Puerto Rican independence advocate.
  • Gizela Dali, 70, Greek actress, cancer. (Greek)
  • Willian Lara, 53, Venezuelan journalist and politician, Governor of Guárico, drowned.
  • Fridrikh Maryutin, 85, Russian Olympic footballer. (Russian)
  • Billie Mae Richards, 88, Canadian voice actress (The Care Bears Movie, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Rudolph's Shiny New Year), stroke.
  • Andrei Timoshenko, 41, Russian football player. (Russian)
  • Edwin Charles Tubb, 90, British science fiction author.
  • Ron Walters, 72, American scholar and civil rights activist, cancer.
  • 11

  • Opal Wilcox Barron, 95, American First Lady of West Virginia (1961–1965).
  • Thomas Bingham, Baron Bingham of Cornhill, 76, British judge and Law Lord, cancer.
  • Bärbel Bohley, 65, German artist and opposition figure, lung cancer.
  • Hugh Clark, 86, British army officer.
  • King Coleman, 78, American rhythm and blues singer ("Do the Mashed Potatoes"), heart failure.
  • Harold Gould, 86, American actor (The Sting, Rhoda, The Golden Girls), prostate cancer. [323]
  • Gunnar Hoffsten, 86, Swedish jazz musician. (Swedish)
  • Ron Kramer, 75, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Detroit Lions), heart attack.
  • Kevin McCarthy, 96, American actor (Invasion of the Body Snatchers), natural causes.
  • Fathi Osman, 82, Egyptian author, heart failure.
  • Taavi Peetre, 27, Estonian shot putter, drowning.
  • Diego Rodríguez Cano, 22, Uruguayan footballer (Club Nacional de Football), car accident. (Spanish)
  • Mike Shaw, 53, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
  • Kei Tani, 78, Japanese comedian.
  • 12

  • Charles Ansbacher, 67, American conductor.
  • Nduka Anyanwu, 30, Nigerian footballer. (German)
  • Val Belcher, 56, American-born Canadian football player (Ottawa Rough Riders), heart failure.
  • Pietro Calabrese, 66, Italian journalist (Il Messaggero, La Gazzetta dello Sport, Panorama), lung cancer. (Italian)
  • Claude Chabrol, 80, French film director (Madame Bovary, Story of Women).
  • Kalman J. Cohen, American economist.
  • Honor Frost, 92, British underwater archaeologist.
  • Varnette Honeywood, 59, American painter, cancer.
  • Argiris Kavidas, 34, Greek actor (Strella), cardiac arrest. (Greek)
  • La Fiera, 49, Mexican professional wrestler, stabbed.
  • Wesley Duke Lee, 78, Brazilian visual artist, heart failure. (Portuguese)
  • Judith Merkle Riley, 68, American professor and author, ovarian cancer.
  • Swarnalatha, 37, Indian playback singer, lung infection.
  • Joe Tarnowski, 88, Polish-born Scottish electronics engineer and intelligence officer.
  • 13

  • John Arundel Barnes, 92, Australian-born British social anthropologist.
  • Stan Gooch, 78, British psychologist.
  • Don Goodson, 77, English cricketer (Leicestershire).
  • Lorne Greenaway, 77, Canadian politician, MP for Cariboo—Chilcotin (1979–1988), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
  • Jim Greenwood, 81, Scottish rugby player.
  • Jarosław Kukulski, 66, Polish composer, cancer. (Polish)
  • Robert W. McCollum, 85, American virologist, made discoveries relating to polio and hepatitis, heart failure.
  • Robert Rompre, 81, American ice hockey player.
  • Barbara B. Smith, 88, American religious leader, pulmonary fibrosis.
  • Gus Williams, 73, Australian Aboriginal leader and country music singer.
  • 14

  • Mohammed Arkoun, 82, Algerian-born French Islamic philosopher, professor at Sorbonne.
  • Caterina Boratto, 95, Italian film actress.
  • Sir James Cleminson, 89, British soldier and businessman.
  • Ralph T. Coe, 81, American art museum director and Native American advocate, natural causes.
  • Gennadi Gerasimov, 80, Russian diplomat, Soviet Ambassador to Portugal (1990–1995). (Russian)
  • José Janene, 55, Brazilian politician involved in Mensalão scandal, septic shock. (Portuguese)
  • Frederick Jelinek, 77, Czech-born American speech recognition researcher.
  • Paulo Machado de Carvalho Filho, 86, Brazilian businessman, founder of Jovem Pan Radio. (Portuguese)
  • Francis Mansour Zayek, 89, American Maronite Catholic prelate, founding Archbishop of Saint Maron of Brooklyn.
  • Dodge Morgan, 78, American businessman, fourth person in history to circumnavigate globe alone, cancer.
  • Francisco Ribeiro, 45, Portuguese musician (Madredeus), liver cancer. (Portuguese)
  • Nicholas Selby, 85, British actor.
  • James E. Winner Jr., 81, American entrepreneur, inventor of The Club, car accident.
  • 15

  • Arrow, 60, Montserratian soca musician ("Hot Hot Hot"), complications from brain cancer.
  • Angidi Chettiar, 82, Mauritian politician, President (2002) and Vice President (1997–2002; since 2007).
  • Bettie Cilliers-Barnard, 95, South African artist, natural causes.
  • Frank Jarvis, 70, British character actor (The Italian Job, A Bridge Too Far).
  • Alvin Krenzler, 89, American judge and real estate developer.
  • Al LaMacchia, 89, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns) and executive, stroke.
  • Richard Livsey, Baron Livsey of Talgarth, 75, British politician, MP for Brecon and Radnorshire (1985–1992; 1997–2001).
  • Peter Stebler, 83, Swiss Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) rower.
  • 16

  • Victor Adibe Chikwe, 72, Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate, first Bishop of Ahiara (since 1988).
  • Berni Collas, 56, Belgian politician, Senator (since 2007).
  • James Dillion, 81, American Olympic bronze medal-winning (1952) discus thrower.
  • Helen Escobedo, 76, Mexican artist and sculptor, cancer. (Spanish)
  • Imran Farooq, 50, Pakistani politician (1992–2010), stabbed.
  • Friedrich Wilhelm, Prince of Hohenzollern, 86, German Head of the House of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (since 1965). (German)
  • John D. Goeken, 80, American entrepreneur, founder of MCI Communications, cancer.
  • Tsvetan Golomeev, 49, Bulgarian Olympic swimmer. [324]
  • Keiju Kobayashi, 86, Japanese actor, heart failure.
  • Mickey Mangham, 71, American football player.
  • George N. Parks, 57, American college band director (University of Massachusetts Amherst), heart attack.
  • Mario Rodríguez Cobos, 72, Argentine politician, writer and religious leader.
  • John F. Sullivan, 75, American basketball player and labor lobbyist, septic shock.
  • Noble Threewitt, 99, American racehorse trainer.
  • Guido Turchi, 93, Italian composer. (Italian)
  • Wayne Twitchell, 62, American baseball player (Milwaukee Brewers, New York Mets), cancer.
  • Robert J. White, 84, American neurosurgeon.
  • 17

  • Robert Babington, 90, British politician, member of the House of Commons of Northern Ireland for North Down (1969–1972).
  • Gloria Colón, 79, Puerto Rican Olympic fencer.
  • Puttaraj Gawai, 96, Indian Hindustani singer.
  • Whitey Grant, 94, American guitarist (Whitey and Hogan).
  • Bill Littlejohn, 96, American animator (Tom and Jerry, Peanuts), natural causes.
  • Jean-Marcel Jeanneney, 99, French politician, Minister of Justice (1969). (French)
  • Louis Marks, 82, British script writer and producer.
  • Vojteh Ravnikar, 67, Slovenian architect.
  • Robert Truax, 93, American Navy captain and rocket engineer, prostate cancer.
  • Wayne Winterrowd, 68, American gardening expert.
  • 18

  • James Bacon, 96, American author, journalist and actor (Escape from the Planet of the Apes, Meteor), heart failure.
  • Øystein Gåre, 56, Norwegian football coach (Bodø/Glimt, Norway U21), after short illness. (Norwegian)
  • Aubrey Jackman, 89, British army officer, hotelier and military tattoo producer.
  • Jill Johnston, 81, American lesbian feminist and writer, stroke.
  • Egon Klepsch, 80, German politician, President of the European Parliament (1992–1994). (German)
  • Sam Kooistra, 75, American Olympic water polo player.
  • Will Renfro, 78, American football player (Washington Redskins), complications following heart surgery.
  • Mohinder Singh Pujji, 92, Indian fighter pilot, Squadron Leader (World War II), stroke.
  • Irving Schwartz, 81, Canadian businessman.
  • Bobby Smith, 77, English footballer (Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur).
  • Inge Steensland, 86, Norwegian resistance leader and shipping magnate, complications from a stroke. (Norwegian)
  • Ingjald Ørbeck Sørheim, 73, Norwegian jurist and politician, complications from a stroke. (Norwegian)
  • Wallace Turner, 89, American Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter (The Oregonian).
  • Austin Volk, 91, American politician and historian, Mayor of Englewood, New Jersey (1960–1963, 1966–1968).
  • Walter Womacka, 84, German painter.
  • 19

  • Howard Brodie, 94, American courtroom sketch artist.
  • Ray Coleman, 88, American baseball player (Browns, Philadelphia A's, White Sox). [325]
  • Buddy Collette, 89, American jazz saxophonist.
  • Bob Crossley, 98, British abstract artist.
  • Edward Fenlon, 106, American judge.
  • Sergey Gomonov, 49, Soviet and Belarusian footballer and coach. (Russian)
  • José de Jesús Gudiño Pelayo, 67, Mexican jurist, associate justice of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation, heart attack.
  • Stoo Hample, 84, American cartoonist (Inside Woody Allen), cancer.
  • Chrysostomos II Kioussis, 89, Greek Archbishop of Athens and of all Greece (Old Calendarists).
  • Ivan Kirkov, 78, Bulgarian painter, lung cancer. (Bulgarian)
  • José Antonio Labordeta, 75, Spanish songwriter, professor, writer, presenter and politician. (Spanish)
  • László Polgár, 63, Hungarian opera singer, Grammy Award winner.
  • Irving Ravetch, 89, American Academy Award-nominated screenwriter (Hud, Norma Rae), pneumonia.
  • Max Salazar, 78, American author on Latin jazz.
  • Murray Sayle, 84, Australian journalist and war correspondent, Parkinson's disease.
  • 20

  • Jack Cassini, 90, American baseball player.
  • Fud Leclerc, 86, Belgian singer, first person to score nul points at the Eurovision Song Contest.
  • Jakob Mayr, 86, Austrian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Salzburg. (German)
  • Kenny McKinley, 23, American football player (Denver Broncos), suicide by gunshot.
  • Al Pilarcik, 80, American baseball player (Kansas City Athletics, Baltimore Orioles and Chicago White Sox).
  • Jennifer Rardin, 45, American author, known for the Jaz Parks series of fantasy novels.
  • Leonard Skinner, 77, American school teacher, namesake of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Alzheimer's disease.
  • Kenneth Weaver, 94, American science writer (National Geographic Magazine).
  • 21

  • Grace Bradley, 97, American actress (The Big Broadcast of 1938), widow of William Boyd.
  • Geoffrey Burgon, 69, British composer.
  • John Crawford, 90, American actor (The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno, The Waltons), stroke.
  • Wes Davoren, 82, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Lakemba (1984–1995).
  • Vinnie Doyle, 72, Irish journalist, editor of the Irish Independent, after short illness.
  • Mickey Freeman, 93, American comedian and television actor (The Phil Silvers Show). [326]
  • Bernard Genoud, 68, Swiss Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Lausanne, Genève et Fribourg (1999–2010), lung cancer.
  • Sindi Hawkins, 52, Canadian politician, MLA for Okanagan West (1996–2001) and Kelowna-Mission (2001–2009), leukemia.
  • Jerrold E. Marsden, 68, Canadian mathematician.
  • James Edward Michaels, 84, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Wheeling-Charleston (1973–1987)
  • Sandra Mondaini, 79, Italian actress, after long illness. (Italian).
  • Kenneth North, 80, American Air Force general.
  • Don Partridge, 68, British musician and one-man band, heart attack.
  • Shabtai Rosenne, 93, Israeli jurist and diplomat, cardiac arrest.
  • Bouk Schellingerhoudt, 91, Dutch cyclist.
  • Rual Yarbrough, 80, American banjo player, pulmonary fibrosis.
  • 22

  • Jackie Burroughs, 71, English-born Canadian actress (Road to Avonlea, The Care Bears Movie, Willard), stomach cancer.
  • Ray Bussard, 82, American swimming coach, member of the International Swimming Hall of Fame.
  • Mike Celizic, 62, American sportswriter and author, T-cell lymphoma.
  • Tyler Clementi, 18, American college student, suicide by jumping.
  • Apostolos Dimelis, 88, Greek Hierarch in Patriarchate of Constantinople, Metropolitan of Rhodes (1988–2004). (Greek)
  • Don Doll, 84, American football player and assistant coach (Detroit Lions).
  • Eddie Fisher, 82, American singer and entertainer, complications from hip surgery.
  • Eleuterio Francesco Fortino, 72, Italian Archimandrite of the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church (Eparchy of Lungro), Under Secretary of PCPCU (since 1987).
  • Jorge González, 44, Argentine basketball player and professional wrestler, complications from diabetes.
  • Graeme Hunt, 58, New Zealand journalist.
  • Bridget O'Connor, 49, British playwright and screenwriter (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), cancer.
  • Alan Rudkin, 68, British boxing champion.
  • Van Snowden, 71, American puppeteer (Child's Play, H.R. Pufnstuf, Tales from the Crypt), cancer.
  • Víctor Julio Suárez Rojas, 57, Colombian guerrilla (FARC), air strike.
  • Vyacheslav Tsaryov, 39, Russian football player. (Russian)
  • James Tunney, 83, Canadian dairy farmer and politician, Senator from Ontario (2001–2002).
  • 23

  • Malcolm Douglas, 69, Australian bushman and documentary maker, traffic collision.
  • Arthur Holch, 86, American Emmy Award-winning television director and producer, heart failure.
  • Gerald S. Lesser, 84, American psychologist, chief advisor to Sesame Street, cerebral hemorrage.
  • Teresa Lewis, 41, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
  • Clinton Manges, 87, American football team owner (San Antonio Gunslingers) and oil tycoon, cancer.
  • Fernando Riera, 90, Chilean football player and coach, heart attack.
  • Bob Shaw, 77, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox), liver cancer.
  • K. B. Tilak, 84, Indian independence activist and director, after long illness.
  • Catherine Walker, 65, British fashion designer, cancer.
  • 24

  • George Ballis, 85, American photographer, cancer.
  • Dick Griffey, 71, American record executive, founder of SOLAR Records, complications from heart surgery.
  • William Harrison, 75, American obstetrician, leukemia.
  • Oswalt Kolle, 81, German sex educator.
  • Olga C. Nardone, 89, American actress (The Wizard of Oz).
  • Gilda O'Neill, 59, British novelist and historian, side effects of medication.
  • Jure Robič, 45, Slovenian cyclist, five-time winner of the Race Across America, traffic collision.
  • Gennady Yanayev, 73, Russian politician, Vice President of the USSR (1990–1991), nominal head of GKChP (1991), lung cancer.
  • 25

  • Sir Vincent Floissac, 82, Saint Lucian jurist and politician, Governor-General of Saint Lucia (1987–1988), cancer.
  • Art Gilmore, 98, American actor and voice actor, President of AFTRA (1961–1963), natural causes.
  • Arne Isacsson, 93, Swedish painter. (Swedish)
  • Delbert Lamb, 95, American Olympic speed skater (1936, 1948), Alzheimer's disease.
  • Zoltán Pálkovács, 29, Slovak Olympic judoka, car accident. (Slovakian)
  • Sir Donald Tebbit, 90, British diplomat.
  • Karlo Umek, 93, Slovenian Olympic shooter. (Slovenian)
  • 26

  • Victor Calvo, 86, American politician, California State Assemblyman (1974–1980), Mayor of Mountain View, California, prostate cancer.
  • Stanley Chais, 84, American investor involved in Madoff investment scandal, blood disorder.
  • Johnny Edgecombe, 77, British jazz promoter, inadvertently alerted authorities to the Profumo Affair, lung cancer.
  • Stan Heath, 83, American football player (Green Bay Packers) and CFL player (Calgary Stampeders), throat cancer.
  • Jimi Heselden, 62, British businessman, owner of Hesco Bastion and Segway, drove Segway off a cliff.
  • Patrick Lee, 79, Canadian Anglican prelate, Bishop of Rupert's Land (1994–1999).
  • Terry Newton, 31, British rugby league player, apparent suicide by hanging. (body found on this date)
  • Arjun Kumar Sengupta, 73, Indian politician.
  • James Stovall, 52, American stage actor.
  • Gloria Stuart, 100, American film actress (The Invisible Man, Titanic), respiratory failure.
  • 27

  • Carmelo Arden Quin, 97, Uruguayan poet, painter and sculptor. (Portuguese)
  • George Blanda, 83, American Hall of Fame football player (Chicago Bears, Houston Oilers, Oakland Raiders).
  • Dieudonné Cédor, 85, Haitian painter. (French)
  • Michael Gizzi, 61, American poet.
  • Pierre Guffroy, 84, French film production designer and art director. (French)
  • Le Sang, 90, Vietnamese martial arts master.
  • Ahmed Maher, 75, Egyptian politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (2001–2004).
  • Kenny Marino, 66, American actor (Death Wish 3, Prince of the City).
  • Sally Menke, 56, American film editor (Inglourious Basterds, Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction), suspected heat exhaustion.
  • Carlos Mercader, 87, Uruguayan Olympic modern pentathlete.
  • Buddy Morrow, 91, American jazz musician and bandleader.
  • Real Quiet, 15, American thoroughbred racehorse, winner of 1998 Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes, broken neck following a fall.
  • Trevor Taylor, 73, British racing driver, cancer.
  • Frank Turner, 87, British Olympic gymnast.
  • Ed Wiley, Jr., 80, American jazz and R&B saxophonist and singer, injury from a fall.
  • 28

  • Norman Atkins, 76, Canadian political strategist and politician, senator from Ontario (1986–2009).
  • Orvin Cabrera, 33, Honduran footballer, member of national team, liver cancer. (Spanish)
  • Héctor Croxatto, 102, Chilean scientist. (Spanish)
  • Sir Trevor Holdsworth, 83, British businessman.
  • Arthur Penn, 88, American film director and producer (Bonnie and Clyde, The Missouri Breaks), heart failure.
  • Gisèle Vallerey, 80, French Olympic swimmer.
  • Dolores Wilson, 82, American opera singer, natural causes.
  • Romina Yan, 36, Argentine actress (Chiquititas), cardiac arrest.
  • Tadeusz Zagajewski, 97, Polish electronics engineer and scientist. (Polish)
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  • Andy Albeck, 89, American film executive, President of United Artists (1978–1981), heart failure.
  • Richard Abruzzo, 47, American balloonist.
  • Georges Charpak, 86, Polish-born French physicist, Nobel laureate. [327]
  • Vincenzo Crocitti, 61, Italian actor (An Average Little Man). (Italian)
  • Tony Curtis, 85, American actor (Some Like It Hot, Spartacus, The Defiant Ones), cardiac arrest.
  • Carol Rymer Davis, 65, American balloonist.
  • Herm Fuetsch, 92, American basketball player (Baltimore Bullets).
  • Greg Giraldo, 44, American comedian (Friday Night Stand-Up with Greg Giraldo), accidental prescription drug overdose.
  • Clifford B. Hicks, 90, American writer and editor (Popular Mechanics, Alvin Fernald series).
  • Voki Kostić, 79, Serbian composer. (Serbian)
  • Armindo Lopes Coelho, 78, Portuguese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Porto (1997–2007).
  • Sherman J. Maisel, 92, American government official, Federal Reserve governor, respiratory failure.
  • Joe Mantell, 94, American character actor (Marty, Chinatown, The Twilight Zone), pneumonia.
  • David Marques, 77, British rugby union player, cancer.
  • Nick Nicholson, 84, American college football coach.
  • Mary Rundle, 103, British government official, superintendent in the Women's Royal Naval Service.
  • Rao Sikandar Iqbal, 67, Pakistani politician, Defense Minister (2002–2007).
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  • Stephen J. Cannell, 69, American TV producer and writer (The A-Team, The Rockford Files, 21 Jump Street), complications from melanoma.
  • Ed Henry, 89, American politician and academic, Mayor of St. Cloud, Minnesota (1964–1970).
  • Martin Ljung, 93, Swedish actor and comedian. (Swedish)
  • Sir Robert Mark, 93, British police officer, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police (1972–1977).
  • Aaron-Carl Ragland, 37, American electronic dance musician, lymphoma.
  • Tor Richter, 72, Norwegian Olympic shooter.
  • Joseph Sobran, 64, American political writer, diabetes.
  • Tony Thibodeaux, 72, American cajun musician.
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