Deaths in April 2010

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

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
 * Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

1

 * Morag Beaton, 83, Scottish-born Australian operatic soprano.
 * Vito De Grisantis, 68, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ugento-Santa Maria di Leuca (2000–2010).
 * Anders Eklund, 52, Swedish boxer.
 * John Forsythe, 92, American actor (Bachelor Father, Charlie's Angels, Dynasty), complications from pneumonia.
 * Paul Fry, 45, British motorcycle speedway rider.
 * Buddy Gorman, 88, American actor (Bowery Boys, Dead End Kids), natural causes.
 * Julia Lang, 88, British actress, radio presenter.
 * Yuri Maslyukov, 72, Russian politician, Vice Premier of Soviet Union (1988–1990) and Russia (1998–1999).
 * Lek Nana, 85, Thai businessman and politician, heart failure.
 * Ed Roberts, 68, American computer pioneer, pneumonia.
 * Tzannis Tzannetakis, 82, Greek politician, Prime Minister (1989).

2

 * Israr Ahmad, 69, Indian nuclear physicist.
 * Butch Allison, 65, American football player.
 * Roman Bannwart, 90, Swiss theologian and musician.
 * Din Beramboi, 43, Malaysian comedian, actor and radio DJ, hemorrhagic dengue fever.
 * Mike Cuellar, 72, Cuban Major League Baseball player, stomach cancer.
 * Ashari Danudirdjo, 87, Indonesian Olympic sailor.
 * Edward Dmytro, 78, Canadian jurist, Chief Justice of Saskatchewan (1981–2006).
 * Dávid Daróczi, 37, Hungarian journalist, suicide.
 * David Halliday, 94, American physicist.
 * Arne Høyer, 81, Danish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1960) sprint canoer.
 * Chris Kanyon, 40, American professional wrestler (WCW, WWF), suicide by drug overdose.
 * Per Lyngemark, 68, Danish Olympic gold medal-winning (1968) cyclist.
 * Sonia McMahon, Lady McMahon, 77, Australian socialite, widow of former Prime Minister Sir William McMahon, cancer.
 * Thomas J. Moyer, 70, American jurist, Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court (1987–2010).
 * Carolyn Rodgers, 69, American poet, cancer.
 * Wendy Jo Schwarz, 38, American mother, Cancer.
 * William Soeryadjaya, 87, Indonesian businessman, founder of Astra International.
 * Frances Claudia Wright, 91, Sierra Leonean barrister.
 * Mike Zwerin, 79, American jazz musician and jazz critic, after long illness.

3

 * Romano Alquati, 75, Italian sociologist, political theorist and activist.
 * Crosaire, 92, Irish-born Zimbabwean compiler of the Irish Times crossword since 1943.
 * Oleg Kopayev, 72, Russian footballer, Soviet Top League top scorer (1963, 1965).
 * Roland MacLeod, 74, British actor (Coronation Street, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin).
 * Ian McKay, 87, Australian footballer.
 * Craig Noel, 94, American theatre producer, director and administrator of the Old Globe Theatre, natural causes.
 * Jim Pagliaroni, 72, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Oakland Athletics), cancer.
 * Ferdinand Simoneit, 84, German journalist, author and World War II veteran.
 * Eugène Terre'Blanche, 69, South African white separatist leader, beating.
 * Jesús Vásquez, 89, Peruvian singer.
 * Yasunori Watanabe, 35, Japanese rugby player, hit by train.

4

 * Mahmoud Abdel-Aal, 81, Egyptian gymnast.
 * Lajos Bálint, 80, Hungarian-born Romanian Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Alba Iulia (1990–1993).
 * Sir Alec Bedser, 91, English cricketer.
 * Matt Cook, 22, Canadian ice sledge hockey player, bone cancer.
 * Clifford M. Hardin, 94, American politician, Secretary of Agriculture (1969–1971), natural causes.
 * Salomón Jaar, 48, bishop of Tamarindo Ward in Choluteca Honduras Stake.
 * Rudy Kousbroek, 80, Dutch essayist.
 * Lori Martin, 62, American actor (Cape Fear, National Velvet), suicide by gunshot.
 * Kelly Moran, 49, American motorcycle speedway racer, complications from emphysema.
 * Abubakar Rimi, 70, Nigerian politician.
 * Shio Satō, 59, Japanese manga artist, brain tumor.
 * Henry Scarpelli, 79, American comic book artist (Archie), after long illness.
 * Friedrich Wilhelm Schäfke, 87, German mathematician and academic.
 * Erich Zenger, 70, German Roman Catholic theologian and Bible scholar.

5

 * Jim Edwards, 83, New Zealand politician.
 * Jerry Elliott, 73, American jurist, Kansas Court of Appeals (since 1987), cancer.
 * Lothar Engelhardt, 70, German military scientist.
 * Günther C. Kirchberger, 81, German academic and painter.
 * William Neill, 88, British poet.
 * Helen Ranney, 89, American hematologist.
 * Molefi Sefularo, 52, South African politician, car crash.
 * Vitaly Sevastyanov, 74, Russian Soviet cosmonaut.
 * Gisela Trowe, 86, German actress.

6

 * Janet Adelman, 69, American literary critic.
 * James Aubrey, 62, British actor (Lord of the Flies, Bouquet of Barbed Wire, Spy Game), pancreatitis.
 * Eddie Carroll, 76, Canadian voice actor (Jiminy Cricket).
 * Vinnie Chas, 47, American bassist (Pretty Boy Floyd).
 * Anatoly Dobrynin, 90, Russian diplomat and politician, Soviet Ambassador to the United States (1962–1986).
 * Jack Flannery, 57, American off-road racer, cancer.
 * Ricardo Lavié, 87, Argentine actor, after long illness.
 * Guillermo Luca de Tena, 82, Spanish journalist.
 * Tony MacGibbon, 85, New Zealand cricketer.
 * Wilma Mankiller, 64, American activist, first female Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation (1985–1995), pancreatic cancer.
 * Katsumi Nishikawa, 91, Japanese film director, pneumonia.
 * Grete Olsen, 98, Danish Olympic fencer.
 * David Quayle, 73, British businessman (B&Q).
 * Tom Ray, 90, American animator (Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, Animaniacs).
 * Corin Redgrave, 70, British actor and political activist, after short illness.
 * Hans Schröder, 79, German sculptor and painter.
 * Herbert Spiro, 85, German-born American political scientist, United States Ambassador to Cameroon (1975–1977)
 * Sid Storey, 90, English footballer.
 * Dimitris Tsiogas, 54, Greek politician, member of Parliament (2001–2008), cancer.
 * Luigi Waites, 82, American jazz drummer and vibraphonist.

7

 * Christopher Cazenove, 64, English actor (Dynasty, A Knight's Tale, Zulu Dawn), sepsis.
 * Dixieland Band, 30, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
 * Hermina Franks, 95, American baseball player (AAGPBL).
 * Graciela, 94, Cuban singer, renal and pulmonary failure.
 * Eddie Johnson, 89, American jazz musician, pneumonia.
 * Takuya Kimura, 37, Japanese baseball player and coach, subarachnoid hemorrhage.
 * Oscar Kramer, 74, Argentine film producer, after long illness.
 * Chris Limahelu, 59, American football place kicker (USC), prostate cancer.
 * J. Bruce Llewellyn, 82, American businessman and activist, a founder of 100 Black Men of America, renal failure.
 * George Nissen, 96, American gymnast, co-inventor of the trampoline, pneumonia.
 * Betty Paraskevas, 81, American writer and lyricist, pancreatic cancer.
 * Ramchandra Siras, 62, Indian linguist and author.
 * Valentin Turchin, 79, Russian-born American computer scientist and human rights activist.

8

 * Babá, 75, Brazilian footballer.
 * Mark Colville, 4th Viscount Colville of Culross, 76, British judge and hereditary peer.
 * Willie Farrell, 81, Irish politician.
 * Antony Flew, 87, British philosopher, after long illness.
 * Guy Kewney, 63, British technology journalist (Personal Computer World), colorectal cancer.
 * Aladár Kovácsi, 77, Hungarian modern pentathlete, Olympic gold medalist (Helsinki 1952).
 * Andreas Kunze, 57, German actor, heart failure.
 * Malcolm McLaren, 64, British musician and band manager (Sex Pistols, New York Dolls, Bow Wow Wow), mesothelioma.
 * Abel Muzorewa, 84, Zimbabwean Methodist bishop and politician, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia (1979).
 * Richard Olasz, 79, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1981–1998).
 * Personal Ensign, 26, American Thoroughbred racehorse, Hall of Famer, natural causes.
 * Al Prince, 67, American-born French Polynesian journalist and tourism expert, after long illness.
 * Jean-Paul Proust, 70, Monégasque politician, Minister of State (2005–2010).
 * John Schoenherr, 74, American illustrator, Caldecott Medal winner, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
 * Teddy Scholten, 83, Dutch singer.

9

 * Bob Franks, 58, American politician, member of the House of Representatives from New Jersey (1993–2001), cancer.
 * Alastair Dowell, 89, Scottish cricketer.
 * John Griffiths, 57, Welsh museum curator.
 * Hisashi Inoue, 75, Japanese pacifist playwright, lung cancer.
 * Meir Just, 101, Dutch rabbi, Chief Rabbi of the Netherlands.
 * Robert Lau, 68, Malaysian politician, Deputy Minister for Transport, liver cancer.
 * Gisela Karau, 78, German author, editor and columnist, after long illness.
 * Dario Mangiarotti, 94, Italian fencer, Olympic gold (1952) and silver (1948, 1952) medalist.
 * Kenneth McKellar, 82, Scottish singer, pancreatic cancer.
 * Jacob O. Meyer, 75, American religious sect leader (Assemblies of Yahweh).
 * Meinhardt Raabe, 94, American actor (The Wizard of Oz), heart attack.
 * Peter Ramsbotham, 3rd Viscount Soulbury, 90, British diplomat and politician, Governor of Bermuda (1977–1980).
 * Lou Ritter, 84, American politician, Mayor of Jacksonville, Florida (1965–1967), cancer.
 * Guyford Stever, 93, American educator and science adviser, President of Carnegie Mellon University (1965–1972).
 * Kerstin Thorvall, 84, Swedish author, illustrator and journalist, after long illness.
 * Pierre Trottier, 85, Canadian novelist.
 * Zoltán Varga, 65, Hungarian footballer.

10

 * Dixie Carter, 70, American actress (Designing Women, Diff'rent Strokes, Family Law), endometrial cancer.
 * Sudhir Dhagamwar, 59, Indian cricketer.
 * Jim Eames, 92, British Lord Mayor of Birmingham (1974–1975).
 * David Harvey, 73, British paediatrician.
 * Arnold Kanter, 65, American diplomat, acute myelogenous leukemia.
 * Charles Meade, 93, American pastor, founder of Meade Ministries.
 * Arthur Mercante, Sr., 90, American boxing referee.
 * Hiro Muramoto, 43, Japanese news cameraman (Reuters), shot.
 * Martin Ostwald, 88, German-born American classics scholar.
 * Manfred Reichert, 69, German footballer, after long illness.
 * Sir Gordon Shattock, 81, British politician, survivor of the Brighton hotel bombing.
 * William Walker, 78, American opera singer.
 * Notable Polish people killed in the Polish Air Force Tu-154 plane crash:
 * Joanna Agacka-Indecka, 45, attorney, President of the Bar Council (since 2007).
 * Ewa Bąkowska, 47, librarian and activist.
 * Andrzej Błasik, 47, general, Chief of the Air Force (since 2007).
 * Krystyna Bochenek, 56, senator, vice president of Senate.
 * Tadeusz Buk, 49, general, head of Land Forces.
 * Miron Chodakowski, 52, Orthodox prelate, archbishop of military ordinariate of Poland (since 1998).
 * Czesław Cywiński, 84, President of the Association of Armia Krajowa Soldiers.
 * Leszek Deptuła, 57, member of the Sejm.
 * Grzegorz Dolniak, 50, member of the Sejm.
 * Janina Fetlińska, 57, senator.
 * Franciszek Gągor, 58, general, Chief of the General Staff (since 2006).
 * Grażyna Gęsicka, 58, politician, Minister of Regional Development (2006–2007).
 * Kazimierz Gilarski, 54, Commander of the Warsaw Garrison.
 * Przemysław Gosiewski, 45, member of the Sejm, Deputy Prime Minister (2007).
 * Mariusz Handzlik, 44, diplomat, Undersecretary of State in the Office of the President.
 * Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka, 59, member of the Sejm, Deputy Prime Minister (2004–2005).
 * Ryszard Kaczorowski, 90, politician, President in exile (1989–1990).
 * Maria Kaczyńska, 67, First Lady of Poland (since 2005), wife of Lech Kaczyński.
 * Lech Kaczyński, 60, President of Poland (since 2005).
 * Sebastian Karpiniuk, 37, member of the Sejm.
 * Andrzej Karweta, 51, Vice Admiral, commander-in-chief of the Navy.
 * Mariusz Kazana, 49, diplomat, Director of Diplomatic Protocol in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
 * Janusz Kochanowski, 69, lawyer and diplomat, Commissioner for Civil Rights Protection (Ombudsman) (since 2006).
 * Stanisław Komornicki, 85, general, Chancellor of the Order Virtuti Militari.
 * Stanisław Komorowski, 56, Deputy Defense Minister (since 2007), Ambassador to Holland (1994–1998) and UK (1999–2004).
 * Andrzej Kremer, 48, lawyer and diplomat, Deputy Foreign Minister (since 2008).
 * Janusz Kurtyka, 49, historian, president of the Institute of National Remembrance.
 * Bronisław Kwiatkowski, 59, general, Commander of the Armed Forces Operational Command.
 * Tomasz Merta, 44, Deputy Minister of Culture and National Heritage.
 * Aleksandra Natalli-Świat, 51, member of the Sejm.
 * Piotr Nurowski, 64, sports administrator, head of the Polish Olympic Committee (since 2005).
 * Bronisława Orawiec-Löffler, 81, dentist and activist.
 * Maciej Płażyński, 52, member of the Sejm.
 * Tadeusz Płoski, 54, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of military ordinariate of Poland (since 2004).
 * Włodzimierz Potasiński, 53, Commander of the Special Forces.
 * Andrzej Przewoźnik, 46, Secretary-General of the Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Sites.
 * Krzysztof Putra, 52, politician, Vice-Marshal of the Sejm (since 2007).
 * Ryszard Rumianek, 62, rector of the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw.
 * Arkadiusz Rybicki, 57, member of the Sejm.
 * Wojciech Seweryn, 70, Polish-born American sculptor.
 * Sławomir Skrzypek, 46, banker, President of National Bank of Poland.
 * Władysław Stasiak, 44, Chief of the Office of the President.
 * Aleksander Szczygło, 46, politician, Minister of Defence (2007), chief of the National Security Bureau (since 2009).
 * Jerzy Szmajdziński, 58, politician, Minister of Defence (2001–2005), Vice-Marshal of the Sejm (since 2007).
 * Jolanta Szymanek-Deresz, 55, member of the Sejm.
 * Anna Walentynowicz, 80, trade unionist whose 1980 firing led to the creation of the Solidarity movement.
 * Zbigniew Wassermann, 60, member of the Sejm.
 * Wiesław Woda, 63, member of the Sejm.
 * Edward Wojtas, 55, member of the Sejm.
 * Paweł Wypych, 42, politician, Secretary of State (since 2009).
 * Stanisław Zając, 60, senator.
 * Janusz Zakrzeński, 74, actor.

11

 * George Roberts Andrews, 78, American diplomat.
 * John Batchelor, 51, British racing driver and politician, liver disease.
 * Jean Boiteux, 76, French swimmer, Olympic gold and bronze medalist (1952), fall from a tree.
 * James Brody, 68, American composer, traffic collision.
 * Rosa Roberto Carter, 80, Guamanian educator, president of the University of Guam (1977–1983).
 * Vicki Draves, 85, American Olympic diver, pancreatic cancer.
 * Gerhard Geise, 80, German mathematician, after long illness.
 * Hans-Joachim Göring, 86, German footballer and coach.
 * Gert Haller, 65, German business manager, lobbyist and politician, after long illness.
 * Theodor Homann, 61, German footballer, heart failure.
 * Egon Hugenschmidt, 84, German jurist and politician.
 * Franz Kamin, 68, American composer, traffic collision.
 * Alby Linton, 83, Australian footballer.
 * John B. McCue, 88, American politician, Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
 * Ruben Mendoza, 78, American soccer player, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Duane D. Pearsall, 88, American inventor of the battery-powered smoke detector.
 * Julia Tsenova, 61, Bulgarian composer and musician, cancer.
 * Paz Yrarrázabal, 78, Chilean actress, rheumatoid arthritis.

12

 * Alper Balaban, 22, German-born Turkish footballer, car accident.
 * María Aurelia Bisutti, 79, Argentine actress, dementia.
 * Andrea Cassone, 81, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Rossano-Cariati (1992–2006).
 * Michel Chartrand, 93, Canadian activist, kidney cancer.
 * Miguel Cinches, 78, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Surigao (1973–2001).
 * Ambrosius Eßer, 76, German Dominican clergy and church historian, pulmonary disease.
 * Wolfgang Graßl, 40, German skier and coach, heart failure.
 * Peter Haskell, 75, American actor (Child's Play 2).
 * Edward Huni'ehu, 54, Solomon Islander politician and minister, after long illness.
 * Běla Kolářová, 87, Czech photographer.
 * James F. Masterson, 84, American psychiatrist, complications of pneumonia.
 * Palito, 75, Filipino comedian, respiratory disease.
 * Robert Pound, 90, Canadian-born American physicist.
 * Stuart Robbins, 33, British basketball player.
 * Werner Schroeter, 65, German film director, after long illness.
 * Arnold Spohr, 86, Canadian artistic director (Royal Winnipeg Ballet), chronic kidney disease.
 * David B. Stone, 82, American businessman, principal founder of the New England Aquarium, complications from a stroke.
 * Dale N. Van Vyven, 74, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives (1978–2000).
 * Udaya Wickramasinghe, 70, Sri Lankan cricket umpire.

13

 * André Bedoglouyan, 90, Lebanese Eastern Catholic prelate, bishop of Comana Armeniae (1971–1994).
 * Alexander Bernstein, Baron Bernstein of Craigweil, 74, British television executive and life peer.
 * Jorge Bontemps, 32, Argentine footballer, lung cancer.
 * Luis Antonio Chávez, 22, Honduran journalist and children's radio host, shot.
 * Billy Gore, 90, Welsh rugby player.
 * Santhosh Jogi, 35, Indian actor, suicide by hanging.
 * Bernie Kilgariff, 86, Australian politician, Senator (1975–1987).
 * David C. Knapp, 82, American educator.
 * Nahid al-Rayyis, 73, Palestinian politician and poet.
 * Steve Reid, 66, American jazz drummer, throat cancer.
 * Gerald Stapleton, 89, British airman, RAF fighter ace during World War II.
 * Charlie Timmins, 87, English footballer (Coventry City), cancer.

14

 * Israr Ahmed, 77, Indian-born Pakistani Islamic scholar, cardiac arrest.
 * Binyamin Balanero, 68, Israeli footballer.
 * René Brunelle, 90, Canadian politician.
 * Erika Burkart, 88, Swiss author.
 * Aubrey Cummings, 62, Guyanese musician, heart problems.
 * Tom Ellis, 86, British politician, MP for Wrexham (1970–1983), founding member of the SDP.
 * Vicente Haro, 79, Spanish actor.
 * Gene Kiniski, 81, Canadian professional wrestler, cancer.
 * Lars-Jacob Krogh, 71, Norwegian anchorman and television presenter, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
 * Alice Miller, 87, Polish-born Swiss author and psychologist.
 * Russell Olson, 86, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin (1979–1983).
 * Baruch Poupko, 92, Russian-born American rabbi.
 * Stefan Schmitt, 46, German jurist and politician, leukemia.
 * Mississippi Slim, 66, American blues singer, heart attack.
 * Greville Starkey, 70, British jockey, cancer.
 * Peter Steele, 48, American rock singer and bassist (Type O Negative), aortic aneurysm.
 * Gerhard Zemann, 70, Austrian actor, heart attack.

15

 * Telman Adigozalov, 56, Azerbaijani actor, heart attack.
 * Joseph Azzolina, 84, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly (1992–2006), pancreatic cancer.
 * Ian Brewer, 73, Australian footballer.
 * Robert Brubaker, 93, American actor (Gunsmoke).
 * Bill DuBay, 62, American comic book editor, writer, and artist.
 * Jack Herer, 70, American cannabis activist, complications from heart attack.
 * Benjamin Hooks, 85, American civil rights leader, executive director of the NAACP (1977–1992), after long illness.
 * Wilhelm Huxhorn, 54, German footballer, leukemia.
 * Paul Reeves, 91, American Episcopal prelate, Bishop of Georgia (1969–1985)
 * Michael Pataki, 72, American character actor and voice actor (George Liquor), cancer.
 * Peter-Josef Schallberger, 78, Swiss farmer and politician.
 * Raimondo Vianello, 87, Italian comedian and television personality.
 * Spann Watson, 93, American airman (Tuskegee Airmen) and civil rights advocate.
 * Sir Edward Woodward, 81, Australian jurist.

16

 * Sid Conrad, 86, American actor (The Young and the Restless).
 * Balthasar Burkhard, 65, Swiss photographer.
 * Rasim Delić, 61, Bosnian army officer and Chief of Staff, probable heart attack.
 * Shirlee Emmons, 86, American soprano, voice teacher, and writer.
 * Ibrahima Fofana, 57, Guinean trade unionist, car accident.
 * Carlos Franqui, 89, Cuban writer and activist.
 * Daryl Gates, 83, American police official, chief of police of the Los Angeles Police Department (1978–1992), bladder cancer.
 * Bryn Knowelden, 90, British rugby league player.
 * Marion Ladewig, 95, American professional bowler.
 * Norman Francis McFarland, 88, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Reno (1976–1986) and Orange (1986–1998).
 * R. D. Middlebrook, 80, British electrical engineer.
 * Grigorijs Ņemcovs, 61, Latvian politician, Vice Mayor of Daugavpils, shot.
 * Muhammad Noer, 92, Indonesian politician, governor of East Java (1967–1976), complications during a medical procedure.
 * C. K. Prahalad, 68, Indian business consultant and management theorist, natural causes.
 * C. P. Rele, 82, Indian classical singer.
 * Arturo Rodríguez Fernández, 62, Dominican author, film critic and playwright, heart failure.
 * Tomáš Špidlík, 90, Czech Roman Catholic prelate and Cardinal.
 * John W. Vogt, Jr., 90, American Air Force general.

17

 * Dede Allen, 86, American film editor (Bonnie and Clyde, Dog Day Afternoon, The Breakfast Club), stroke.
 * Abdul Rahman Ahmed Jibril Baroud, 73, Palestinian poet, heart attack.
 * Edmund Fitzgibbon, 85, Irish-born Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Warri (1991–1997).
 * Josef W. Janker, 87, German author, journalist and World War II veteran.
 * Ferenc Kellner, 77, Hungarian Olympic boxer.
 * Sotigui Kouyaté, 74, Malian-born Burkinabé actor.
 * Carl Macek, 58, American anime writer and producer (Robotech), heart attack.
 * Thomas Mikolajcik, 63, American air force general (1992–1996), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
 * Alexandru Neagu, 61, Romanian footballer (FC Rapid București).
 * Alejandro Robaina, 91, Cuban tobacco grower, cancer.
 * John Carl Warnecke, 91, American architect (John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame), complications of pancreatic cancer.

18

 * Michael Adams, 60, American actor and stunt coordinator (Commando, WarGames, In the Line of Fire), stroke.
 * Abu Abdullah al-Rashid al-Baghdadi, 50-51, Iraqi terrorist (al-Qaeda), airstrike.
 * Abu Ayyub al-Masri, 42-43, Egyptian terrorist (al-Qaeda), airstrike.
 * William Grant Bangerter, 91, American Mormon leader, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
 * Paul Bisciglia, 81, French actor.
 * Julius Chigbolu, 81, Nigerian Olympic athlete.
 * Mieczysław Cieślar, 60, Polish Lutheran bishop, car accident.
 * Ambrose D'Mello, 87, Indian Jesuit priest, first Jesuit Provincial of India, cancer.
 * Tom Fleming, 82, Scottish actor.
 * John Forde, Irish Gaelic footballer (Mayo).
 * Noel Hall, 96, Australian Olympic sport shooter.
 * Ron Miller, 80, Canadian Olympic athlete.
 * Allen Swift, 86, American voice actor (Underdog, Howdy Doody, Tom and Jerry ), natural causes.
 * Viewed, 6, Australian Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanised following a twisted bowel.
 * William Yates, 88, British-born Australian politician.

19

 * Manfred Angerer, 56, Austrian musicologist.
 * José Bernal, 85, Cuban artist, complications from Parkinson's disease.
 * William Donald Borders, 96, American Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Baltimore (1974–1989).
 * Guru, 48, American rapper (Gang Starr), multiple myeloma.
 * Hamideh Kheirabadi, 85, Iranian actress, stroke.
 * Dylan Meier, 26, American college football player, climbing accident.
 * György Schwajda, 67, Hungarian dramatist and theatre director, after long illness.
 * George H. Scithers, 80, American science fiction editor, Hugo Award winner, heart attack.
 * Albert Szatola, 83, Hungarian Olympic equestrian.
 * Edwin Valero, 28, Venezuelan undefeated former WBA super featherweight and WBC lightweight champion boxer, suicide by hanging.
 * Carl Williams, 39, Australian criminal, prison assault.
 * Burkhard Ziese, 66, German football manager.

20

 * Jimmy Baker, 95, Australian Aboriginal artist.
 * Floyd Dominy, 100, American public servant, commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation (1959–1969).
 * Sanford Friedman, 81, American novelist.
 * Heinz Gappmayr, 84, Austrian artist.
 * Dorothy Height, 98, American civil rights activist.
 * M. K. Kamalam, 86, Indian actress.
 * Keli McGregor, 47, American baseball executive (Colorado Rockies), viral myocarditis.
 * Walter F. Murphy, 80, American political scientist and author, cancer.
 * Robert Natkin, 79, American abstract painter, bacterial blood infection.
 * Georgino Orellana, 48, Honduran journalist, shot.
 * Ahmad Sa'd, 64, Israeli politician, Member of Knesset (1996–1999).
 * George Torode, 63, Guernseyan author.
 * Andrea West, 57, Australian politician, member of the House of Representatives (1996–1998), breast cancer.
 * Myles Wilder, 77, American television comedy writer, diverticulitis.
 * Lorette Wood, 94, American politician, first female mayor of Santa Cruz, California (1971–1972).
 * Purvis Young, 67, American painter, cardiac arrest and pulmonary edema.

21

 * Akua Asabea Ayisi, 83, Ghanaian journalist.
 * Sammy Baird, 79, Scottish football player and manager.
 * Krishan Lal Balmiki, 67, Indian politician.
 * Whitney Robson Harris, 97, American lawyer, last surviving American prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials, complications from cancer.
 * Tony Ingham, 85, English footballer, after short illness.
 * Manfred Kallenbach, 68, German footballer, heart failure.
 * Gustav Lorentzen, 62, Norwegian singer and entertainer (Knutsen & Ludvigsen).
 * Mr. Hito, 67, Japanese wrestler.
 * Sir Laurence Muir, 85, Australian philanthropist and businessman.
 * Sir Idwal Pugh, 92, British civil servant, Permanent Secretary to the Welsh Office and Health Service Commissioner.
 * Deborah Remington, 79, American artist, cancer.
 * Juan Antonio Samaranch, 89, Spanish Olympic official, president of the International Olympic Committee (1980–2001), heart failure.

22

 * Sparky Adams, 79, American football and baseball coach.
 * Theodore C. Almquist, 68, American general, colon cancer.
 * Emilio Álvarez, 71, Uruguayan footballer.
 * Richard Barrett, 67, American lawyer and white nationalist, stabbed.
 * Pete Castiglione, 89, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates).
 * Peter B. Denyer, 56, British engineer, cancer.
 * Dick Kenworthy, 69, American baseball player.
 * Gene Lees, 82, Canadian jazz historian and critic, heart disease.
 * Lina Marulanda, 29, Colombian model, suicide by jumping.
 * Victor Nurenberg, 79, Luxembourgian footballer.
 * Ambrose Olsen, 24, American fashion model, suicide.
 * Fred Panopio, 71, Filipino folk singer, cardiac arrest.
 * Alicia Parlette, 28, American journalist and copy editor, alveolar soft part sarcoma.
 * Piet Steenbergen, 81, Dutch footballer (Feyenoord and The Netherlands).
 * Jean Vergnes, 88, French-born American chef.
 * Arthur Winograd, 90, American cellist and music director, complications of pneumonia.

23

 * Lorne Atkinson, 88, Canadian Olympic cyclist.
 * Jan Balabán, 49, Czech writer, recipient of the Magnesia Litera award.
 * Shay Duffin, 79, Irish-born American actor (The Departed, Leprechaun, Seabiscuit), complications from heart surgery.
 * Natalia Lavrova, 25, Russian rhythmic gymnast, Olympic gold medalist (2000, 2004), car accident.
 * Georgia Lee, 89, Australian jazz and blues singer.
 * Edward Lyons, 83, British politician, MP for Bradford East (1966–1974) and Bradford West (1974–1983).
 * Peter Porter, 81, Australian-born British poet, liver cancer.
 * Alan Rich, 85, American classical music critic, natural causes.
 * Alexander Sliussarev, 65, Russian photographer and translator.
 * Sreenath, 52, Indian actor, apparent suicide.
 * George Townshend, 7th Marquess Townshend, 93, British peer and businessman.

24

 * Jens Andersen, 80, Danish boxer.
 * Harry Ashby, 63, English golfer.
 * Harry Conroy, 67, British journalist and trade unionist.
 * Denis Guedj, 70, French novelist and academic.
 * Pierre Hadot, 88, French philosopher.
 * Bo Hansson, 67, Swedish keyboardist.
 * Leo Löwenstein, 43, German VLN racing driver, race accident.
 * Angus Maddison, 84, British economist.
 * Giuseppe Panza, 87, Italian art collector.
 * Elizabeth Post, 89, American etiquette expert.
 * Paul Schäfer, 88, German religious sect founder and former Nazi, heart failure.
 * Wojciech Siemion, 81, Polish actor and film director (The Promised Land, Heroism), car accident.
 * Rudy Thompson, 80, United States Virgin Islands Olympic sailor.
 * W. Willard Wirtz, 98, American politician, Secretary of Labor (1962–1969), last surviving member of the Kennedy Cabinet.

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 * Ali Aliu, 85, Kosovo Albanian writer, economist, teacher, and political prisoner.
 * Ugo Anzile, 79, French cyclist.
 * Joseph Bessala, 69, Cameroonian welterweight boxer, Olympic silver medalist (1968), after short illness.
 * Ian Lawther, 70, Northern Irish footballer (Sunderland, Blackburn Rovers).
 * Franklin Mieuli, 89, American businessman, owner of the Golden State Warriors (1962–1985), natural causes.
 * Dorothy Provine, 75, American actress, (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, That Darn Cat!, The Great Race), emphysema.
 * Susan Reed, 84, American folk singer and actress, natural causes.
 * Kevin Restani, 58, American basketball player (Milwaukee Bucks), heart attack.
 * Volf Roitman, 79, Uruguayan-born American sculptor, painter, novelist, cineaste and poet.
 * Evry Schatzman, 89, French astrophysicist.
 * Alan Sillitoe, 82, British writer (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning).
 * Jeremaia Waqanisau, 62, Fijian soldier and diplomat, heart attack.

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 * Mariam A. Aleem, 79, Egyptian artist.
 * Aminulrasyid Amzah, 14, Malaysian student and victim, shot.
 * Roy Baird, 76, English production manager, assistant director and producer.
 * Bus Boyk, 92, American fiddler.
 * Leslie Buck, 87, American Anthora coffee cup designer, Parkinson's disease.
 * Ljiljana Buttler, 65, Yugoslavian singer, cancer.
 * Daniel of Erie, 79, American Orthodox prelate (ROCOR), Titular Bishop of Erie, natural causes.
 * Paul Engo, 89, Cameroonian diplomat, judge and Olympic athlete.
 * Denzil Freeth, 85, British politician, MP for Basingstoke (1955–1964).
 * Luigi Gui, 95, Italian politician, Minister of the Interior (1974–1976).
 * Fred Halliday, 64, Irish academic, scholar of international relations, cancer.
 * Derek Hayward, 86, British Anglican priest, Archdeacon of Middlesex (1974–1975).
 * Frank Olsson, 87, Swedish Olympic rower.
 * Varkala Radhakrishnan, 82, Indian politician, complications from a road accident.
 * Prabha Rau, 75, Indian politician, Governor of Rajasthan (since 2009), heart attack.
 * Joseph W. Sarno, 89, American film director and screenwriter, after short illness.
 * Alberto Vitoria, 54, Spanish footballer, heart attack.
 * Yuri Vshivtsev, 70, Russian footballer.
 * William Arthur Watts, 79, Irish botanist and academic administrator, Provost of Trinity College Dublin (1981–1991).
 * Aksel C. Wiin-Nielsen, 86, Danish academic, professor of meteorology.

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 * Elisabeth Ahlgren, 84, Swedish swimmer.
 * Robert J. Alexander, 91, American academic.
 * David Martin Baker, 86, American politician and judge, member of the West Virginia House of Delegates (1953–1954, 1957–1958).
 * Alberta Cariño, Mexican humanitarian, shot.
 * Peter Cheeseman, 78, British theatre director, Parkinson's disease.
 * Stanley Greenspan, 68, American academic, clinical professor of psychiatry.
 * George Gross, 69, American football player (San Diego Chargers).
 * Jyri Jaakkola, 33, Finnish humanitarian, shot.
 * Tanie Kitabayashi, 98, Japanese actress (My Neighbour Totoro), pneumonia.
 * Bevil Mabey, 94, British businessman.
 * Morris Pert, 62, British musician.
 * Nossrat Peseschkian, 76, Iranian-born German psychotherapist.
 * Armando Sanchez, 57, Filipino politician, governor of Batangas (2004–2007), stroke.
 * Heini Weber, 86, German Olympic wrestler.

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 * Muhammad al-Banki, 47, Bahraini philosopher and writer.
 * Evelyn Cunningham, 94, American journalist, natural causes.
 * Julio San Emeterio, 80, Spanish cyclist.
 * Stefania Grodzieńska, 95, Polish writer and actress.
 * Elma Maua, 61, Cook Islands-born New Zealand journalist and editor, after long illness.
 * Pierre-Jean Rémy, 73, French writer and diplomat.
 * El Risitas, 65, Spanish comedian and actor.
 * Furio Scarpelli, 90, Italian screenwriter (Big Deal on Madonna Street, Casanova 70, Il Postino).
 * Ian Valz, 52, Guyanese actor and playwright, cancer.

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 * Jojo Acuin, 63, Filipino psychic.
 * Avigdor Arikha, 81, Romanian-born Israeli painter, complications of cancer.
 * Damodar Chaudhary, 63, Nepalese politician, member of the Constituent Assembly since 2007.
 * Sandy Douglas, 88, British computer scientist, pneumonia.
 * Kevin Humphreys, 80, Australian rugby league administrator, after long illness.
 * Walter Sear, 79, American recording engineer.
 * Audrey Williamson, 83, British athlete, Olympic silver medalist (1948).

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 * Manuel Alvarado, 62, Guatemalan-born British academic.
 * Tadahiro Ando, 69, Japanese politician, governor of Miyazaki Prefecture (2003–2006), lymphoma.
 * Cristina Corrales, 47, Bolivian journalist, broadcaster and politician.
 * Harry Eccleston, 87, British artist and banknote designer.
 * Jordi Estadella, 61, Spanish voice actor, radio and television personality (Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez), liver cancer.
 * Ron Fimrite, 79, American sports journalist (Sports Illustrated), pancreatic cancer.
 * José Fragelli, 95, Brazilian politician, governor of Mato Grosso (1970–1974) and Senate president (1985–1987).
 * Carmelita González, 81, Mexican actress, pneumonia.
 * Antony Grey, 82, British gay rights activist, leukaemia.
 * Khalid Khawaja, Pakistani military and intelligence officer, shot. (body found on this date)
 * Paul Mayer, 98, German Roman Catholic prelate and cardinal.
 * Owsley, 44, American musician, apparent suicide.
 * Jorma Peltonen, 66, Finnish ice hockey player.
 * Gwyn Rowlands, 81, English-born rugby football player for Wales.
 * Gerry Ryan, 53, Irish disc jockey and radio/television presenter.
 * Wendell J. Westcott, 99, American carillonneur.