Deaths in April 2012

The following is a list of notable deaths in April 2012.

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).

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1

 * Nancy Beckage, 61, American entomologist.
 * Ekrem Bora, 78, Turkish actor, pulmonary edema.
 * Alvin J. Boutte, 82, American banker and businessman.
 * Lionel Bowen, 89, Australian politician, MP for Kingsford-Smith (1969–1990); Deputy Prime Minister (1983–1990), pneumonia.
 * Sauro Bufalini, 70, Italian Olympic basketball player.
 * Chang Mei-yao, 71, Taiwanese actress.
 * Giorgio Chinaglia, 65, Italian footballer (Lazio, New York Cosmos), heart attack.
 * Miguel de la Madrid, 77, Mexican politician, President (1982–1988), complications of pulmonary emphysema.
 * Leila Denmark, 114, American supercentenarian, author, and physician, credited with developing a whooping cough vaccine.
 * Peter M. Douglas, 69, German American environmental activist, lung and throat cancer.
 * Klaus Dylewski, 95, German SS officer.
 * Jamaa Fanaka, 68, American filmmaker.
 * Sir Stan Yapp, 70, English politician.

2

 * Jesús Aguilarte, 53, Venezuelan politician, Governor of Apure State (1999–2000; 2004–2011), shot.
 * Russell Allen, 99, American cyclist.
 * Benhuan, 104, Chinese Buddhist master, honorary president of the Buddhist Association of China.
 * Rosario Bentivegna, 89, Italian partisan and doctor.
 * Warren Bonython, 95, Australian conservationist, explorer, author, and chemical engineer.
 * Roger Breske, 73, American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Senate (1990–2008).
 * Elizabeth Catlett, 96, American-born Mexican artist.
 * Allie Clark, 88, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Philadelphia Athletics).
 * Jim Delaney, 91, American Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) shot putter.
 * Sarah Dreher, 75, American novelist and playwright.
 * Pilar Fuertes Ferragut, 49, Spanish diplomat.
 * Rychard Karpov, 80, Ukrainian Olympic boxer.
 * John Kuenster, 87, American sportswriter, editor of Baseball Digest.
 * Mauricio Lasansky, 97, Argentinian-born American printmaker.
 * Jimmy Little, 75, Australian singer.
 * Felice Ludovisi, 94, Italian painter.
 * Alan Ruddock, 68, Irish martial artist and teacher.
 * M. Saroja, 79, Indian film actress.
 * Neslişah Sultan, 91, Turkish-born Ottoman and Egyptian royal, heart attack.

3

 * Amer Al Midani, 55, Lebanese businessman.
 * Lorne Benson, 81, Canadian football player (Winnipeg Blue Bombers).
 * Arduino Bertoldo, 79, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Foligno (1992–2008).
 * Michael Bzdel, 81, Canadian Ukrainian Catholic hierarch, Metropolitan of Winnipeg (1992–2006).
 * Richard Descoings, 53, French academic director (Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris).
 * Frank Fucarino, 91, American basketball player (Toronto Huskies).
 * Nicholas King, 79, American actor, preserved the Watts Towers.
 * Efraím Basílio Krevey, 83, Brazilian Ukrainian Catholic hierarch, Bishop of São João Batista em Curitiba (1978–2006).
 * Mingote, 93, Spanish cartoonist, writer, and journalist.
 * Govind Narain, 95, Indian civil servant, Governor of Karnataka (1977–1983).
 * Airton Pavilhão, 77, Brazilian footballer.
 * Xenia Stad-de Jong, 90, Dutch Olympic gold medal-winning (1948) athlete.
 * Chief Jay Strongbow, 83, American professional wrestler (WWF).
 * José María Zárraga, 81, Spanish footballer and manager.

4

 * Muhammad Afrizal, 30, Indonesian boxer, PABA featherweight champion (2008), injuries sustained from bout.
 * A. Dean Byrd, 64, American psychologist.
 * Dimitris Christoulas, 77, Greek pensioner, suicide.
 * Eugénie De Keyser, 93, Belgian writer and art critic.
 * Joe Doyle, 78–79, Irish cyclist.
 * Anne Karin Elstad, 74, Norwegian author, stroke.
 * Ficre Ghebreyesus, 50, Eritrean-American artist, heart failure.
 * Josiah Henson, 90, American Olympic bronze medal-winning (1952) wrestler, stroke and myocardial infarction.
 * Aminul Islam, 40, Bangladeshi trade union leader.
 * Nikolay Krasovsky, 87, Russian mathematician.
 * Claude Miller, 70, French director, producer, and screenwriter.
 * Helge Sverre Nesheim, 92, Norwegian broadcaster.
 * Richard Okada, 66, American linguist, Professor of Japanese at Princeton University.
 * Dubravko Pavličić, 44, Croatian footballer.
 * Roberto Rexach Benítez, 82, Puerto Rican politician, President of the Senate (1993–1996).

5

 * Keith Adams, 85, Australian adventurer and filmmaker.
 * Abd al-Rahim Aqiqi Bakhshayishi, 70, Iranian jurist, writer, journalist and translator.
 * Joe Avezzano, 68, American football player (Boston Patriots) and coach (Dallas Cowboys, Oakland Raiders), heart attack.
 * David Axon, 61, British astrophysicist.
 * Pedro Bartolomé Benoit, 91, Dominican military general, Provisional President (1965).
 * Angelo Castro, Jr., 67, Filipino journalist, The World Tonight anchor (1986–2009, 2011–2012), lung cancer.
 * Cynthia Dall, 41, American musician.
 * Attila Hazai, 44, Hungarian writer, suicide.
 * Jim Herr, 87, American businessman, founder of Herr's Snacks.
 * Jimmy Lawlor, 78, Irish footballer.
 * Jim Marshall, 88, English businessman, founder of Marshall Amplification.
 * Barney McKenna, 72, Irish musician (The Dubliners).
 * Bingu wa Mutharika, 78, Malawian politician, President (since 2004), heart attack.
 * Gil Noble, 80, American television reporter and host (Like It Is).
 * Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, 76, German designer.
 * Siegbert Salomon Prawer, 87, German-born British academic and writer.
 * Bernard Rapoport, 94, American businessman and philanthropist.
 * Regal Classic, 27, Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
 * A. G. L. Shaw, 96, Australian historian.
 * Stanislav Strnad, 81, Czech film director.
 * Sir Peter Tapsell, 82, New Zealand politician, Speaker of the House of Representatives (1993–1996).
 * Dick Wearmouth, 85, Australian football player.
 * Christer Zetterberg, 70, Swedish businessman.

6

 * Boraî Bashir, 80, Sudanese footballer.
 * Larry Canning, 86, English footballer (Aston Villa) and broadcaster, vascular dementia.
 * Karl P. Cohen, 99, American mathematical physicist.
 * Robin Denniston, 85, British book publisher.
 * Fang Lizhi, 76, Chinese political activist and astrophysicist.
 * Felipe Fernández García, 76, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ávila (1976–1991) and San Cristóbal de La Laguna o Tenerife (1991–2005).
 * Promode Gogoi, 82, Indian politician.
 * Roland Guilbault, 77, American rear admiral who commanded the USS Ticonderoga (CG-47), the first Aegis cruiser.
 * Dermot Hannafin (Snr), 84, Irish football player.
 * Theunis Jonck, 86, South African Olympic weightlifter.
 * Thomas Kinkade, 54, American painter, overdose of alcohol and Valium.
 * Thomas Sancton, Sr., 97, American novelist and journalist.
 * Michael Sands, 66, American show business publicist and alleged CIA operative, choked.
 * Arnold Saul, 87, American tennis player and coach.
 * Sheila Scotter, 91, Australian fashion editor (Vogue Australia).
 * Reed Whittemore, 92, American poet.

7

 * Michaelina Bellamy, 59, American singer, dancer, and actress, acute myeloid leukemia.
 * Arthur Budd, 66, Australian footballer.
 * Dennis De Souza, 77, Guyanese musician.
 * Steven Kanumba, 28, Tanzanian actor and director.
 * Alexander Leslie-Melville, 14th Earl of Leven, 87, Scottish peer and soldier, Lord Lieutenant of Nairn (1969–1999).
 * Miss Read, 98, English writer.
 * Satsue Mito, 97, Japanese zoologist.
 * Ignatius Moses I Daoud, 81, Syrian Catholic cardinal, Patriarch of Antioch (1998–2001), stroke complications.
 * David E. Pergrin, 94, American soldier, led the most decorated World War II engineering battalion.
 * Bashir Ahmed Qureshi, 54, Pakistani politician, cardiac arrest.
 * Tom Runnels, 78, American football player (Washington Redskins).
 * Harold Robert Steacy, 88, Canadian mineralogist.
 * Serafym (Verzun), 62, Ukrainian Orthodox hierarch, Bishop of Zhytomyr (1992–1995), Archbishop of Rivne (1995–2000) and Kirovohrad (2002–2008).
 * Anders Thor, 76, Swedish scientist and educator.
 * Mike Wallace, 93, American news correspondent (60 Minutes).
 * Jamshid Zokirov, 63, Uzbek actor.

8

 * Mark Ayers, 63, American labor leader.
 * Gordon Bagier, 87, British politician, MP for Sunderland South (1964–1987).
 * Bram Bart, 49, Dutch voice actor, pancreatic cancer.
 * Pat Carlin, 82, English footballer.
 * Juventino Castro y Castro, 93, Mexican judge and politician.
 * John Egan, 59, Irish Gaelic footballer.
 * June Gibbs, 89, American politician, cancer.
 * George Wilberforce Kakoma, 89, Ugandan musician, composer of the Ugandan national anthem.
 * Blair Kiel, 50, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Indianapolis Colts, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), heart attack.
 * Donal O'Brien, 72, Irish hurler.
 * Anatoly Ravikovich, 75, Russian film actor (The Pokrovsky Gate), cancer.
 * Jack Tramiel, 83, Polish-born American businessman, founder of Commodore and CEO of Atari.
 * Al Veigel, 95, American baseball player (Boston Braves).
 * Rikiya Yasuoka, 64, Japanese actor and singer, heart failure.
 * Janusz K. Zawodny, 90, Polish-born American historian, World War II resistance fighter.

9

 * Carol Adams, 94, American actress and dancer.
 * Takeshi Aono, 75, Japanese voice actor (Dragon Ball, One Piece), post-operative multiple cerebral infarction.
 * Reginald Askew, 83, British priest and academic.
 * Richard Beyer, 85, American sculptor.
 * Lester Breslow, 97, American physician.
 * François Brigneau, 92, French journalist and author.
 * Barry Cahill, 90, Canadian-born American actor (Grand Theft Auto, Sweet Bird of Youth).
 * Dick Cullum, 81, English footballer.
 * Chanig ar Gall, 89, French broadcaster, entertainer, and writer.
 * John Golding, 82, British artist, art scholar and curator.
 * José Guardiola, 81, Spanish singer (Eurovision Song Contest 1963).
 * Ismail Haron, 66, Singaporean singer.
 * Mark Lenzi, 43, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1992) diver, hypotension.
 * Wiebo Ludwig, 70, Canadian environmental activist and convicted bomber, esophageal cancer.
 * Miriam Mafai, 86, Italian journalist (La Repubblica), author and politician.
 * Ivan Nagel, 80, German theater director.
 * Simo Nikolić, 71, Croatian Olympic sailor.
 * Meral Okay, 53, Turkish actress and screenwriter (Muhteşem Yüzyıl), cancer.
 * Boris Parygin, 81, Russian philosopher and sociologist.
 * Don Reed, 92, American football coach (Long Beach State 49ers), natural causes.
 * Robert R. Sokal, 86, Austrian-born American biostatistician and entomologist.
 * Malcolm Thomas, 82, Welsh rugby union player.

10

 * Svein Aasmundstad, 77, Norwegian civil servant.
 * John Anderson, 69, Northern Irish bioengineer.
 * Luis Aponte Martínez, 89, Puerto Rican Roman Catholic prelate and first cardinal, Metropolitan Archbishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico (1964–1999).
 * Erdoğan Arıca, 57, Turkish football coach, lung cancer.
 * Raymond Aubrac, 97, French WWII resistance fighter.
 * Leonardo Mario Bernacchi, 79, Italian-born Bolivian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Camiri (1993–2009).
 * Frank Bochow, 74, German trade unionist and diplomat.
 * Barbara Buchholz, 52, German musician and composer, cancer.
 * Virginia Spencer Carr, 82, American biographer.
 * Maria-Pia Casilio, 76, Italian film actress.
 * Lili Chookasian, 90, American opera singer.
 * Kurt Crain, 47, American football player (Houston Oilers, Green Bay Packers).
 * Dorothy Dermody, 102, Irish Olympic (1948) fencer.
 * Zvi Dinstein, 86, Israeli politician, MK (1965–1974), pulmonary embolism.
 * Carl Gatto, 74, American politician, member of the Alaska House of Representatives (since 2003), prostate cancer.
 * Tichaona Mudzingwa, 69, Zimbabwean politician.
 * Odd Rikard Olsen, 64, Norwegian newspaper editor and politician.
 * Akin Omoboriowo, 81, Nigerian lawyer and politician.
 * Andy Replogle, 58, American baseball player (Milwaukee Brewers).
 * Afewerk Tekle, 80, Ethiopian artist, complications of stomach ulcer.
 * Grant Tilly, 74, New Zealand actor (30 Days of Night).
 * Carlos Truan, 76, American politician.
 * N. Varadarajan, 88, Indian politician.
 * John Weaver, 92, American sculptor.

11

 * Julio Alemán, 79, Mexican actor, cancer.
 * Ghamar Ariyan, 90, Iranian researcher and author.
 * Ahmed Ben Bella, 93, Algerian politician, Prime Minister (1962–1963); President (1963–1965).
 * Misbach Yusa Biran, 78, Indonesian film director.
 * Roger Caron, 73, Canadian author, prison escape artist, and bank robber, infection.
 * Eugene V. Clark, 86, American Roman Catholic priest.
 * Steve Cokely, 59, American political researcher and lecturer.
 * Tippy Dye, 97, American college athlete, coach, and athletic director.
 * Peter Gerber, 88, Swiss politician.
 * Gustaf Jansson, 90, Swedish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1952) athlete.
 * Keith Leeson, 83, Australian Olympic hockey player.
 * Bob Lewis, 86, American college basketball player (University of Utah).
 * Gianni Marchetti, 78, Italian composer and songwriter.
 * Moses Majekodunmi, 95, Nigerian politician, Minister of Health (1960–66).
 * Hal McKusick, 87, American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and flautist, natural causes.
 * Yolanda Mérida, 82, Mexican actress.
 * Rainer Penkert, 90, German actor.
 * Agustin Roman, 83, Cuban-born American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Miami (1979–2003), heart attack.

12

 * Uno Anton, 70, Estonian politician.
 * Vladimir Astapovsky, 65, Soviet Olympic bronze medal-winning (1976) footballer.
 * Kellon Baptiste, 38, Grenadian footballer, cancer.
 * Mohit Chattopadhyay, 77, Indian playwright, dramatist, and poet, cancer.
 * Linda Cook, 63, American actress.
 * Nico dei Gabbiani, 67, Italian singer.
 * Elizabeth Ferris, 71, British Olympic bronze medal-winning (1960) diver.
 * James Gallen, 83, American politician, complications from appendicitis.
 * David Alan Gore, 58, American convicted serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Rodgers Grant, 76, American jazz pianist, cancer.
 * Steinbjørn B. Jacobsen, 74, Faroese poet and writer, Faroese Literature Prize recipient.
 * Robert Kennedy, 73, Canadian publisher, complications from skin cancer.
 * Andrew Love, 70, American saxophonist (The Memphis Horns), complications of Alzheimer's disease.
 * Masakre, 57, Mexican professional wrestler, cancer.
 * Bruce Morrison, 88, Australian football player.
 * Manfred Orzessek, 78, German footballer.
 * Amy Tryon, 42, American Olympic bronze medal-winning (2004) equestrian, accidental drug overdose.

13

 * Miguel Albareda Creus, 93, Spanish chess player.
 * Eunice Alberts, 84–85, American contralto.
 * Victor Arnold, 75, American actor.
 * Irving K. Barber, 89, Canadian forester and philanthropist.
 * John Blane, 82, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Rwanda (1982–1985); Chad (1985–1988).
 * William B. Buffum, 90, American diplomat, US Ambassador to Lebanon (1970–1974), natural causes.
 * Cecil Chaudhry, 70, Pakistani fighter pilot, school principal, and activist, lung cancer.
 * Florin Constantiniu, 79, Romanian historian.
 * Erland Cullberg, 81, Swedish artist.
 * William Alden Edson, 99, American scientist and engineer.
 * Avraham Goldberg, 99, American-born Israeli Talmud scholar.
 * Verónica Gómez, 26, Venezuelan volleyball player, heart failure.
 * Shūichi Higurashi, 75, Japanese manga illustrator, painted cover for Big Comic (1970–2011), pneumonia.
 * Ruth Davis Kohrt, 90, American librarian and novelist.
 * Marilyn Lovell Matz, 81, American actress (Ghosts of Mississippi), therapist and activist.
 * Peter Mullins, 86, Australian Olympic decathlete (1948), basketball player, and coach.
 * Lewis Nordan, 72, American writer, pneumonia.
 * Mario Rizzi, 86, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Titular Archbishop of Bagnoregio (since 1991), Apostolic Nuncio to Bulgaria (1991–1996).
 * David S. Smith, 94, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Sweden (1976–1977).
 * Robert Wigmore, 62, Cook Islands politician.

14

 * Celal Başkale, Turkish Kurdish politician, killed.
 * Émile Bouchard, 92, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens), member of the Hockey Hall of Fame.
 * Tom Farrell, 87, Canadian politician.
 * William Finley, 69, American actor (Phantom of the Paradise), complications from surgery.
 * C. Miller Fisher, 98, Canadian neurologist.
 * Jonathan Frid, 87, Canadian actor (Dark Shadows), natural causes.
 * Bela Gold, 97, Hungarian-born American businessman and professor.
 * Ma Jaya, 71, American spiritual teacher, pancreatic cancer.
 * Lee Kyung-hwan, 24, South Korean footballer (Suwon Bluewings), suicide by jumping.
 * Eddie May, 68, English football player and manager.
 * Piermario Morosini, 25, Italian footballer (Livorno), cardiac arrest.
 * Martin Poll, 89, American film producer (The Lion in Winter), natural causes.
 * Edward Purrington, 82, American opera director.
 * Paulo César Saraceni, 78, Brazilian film director.
 * Vincent F. Seyfried, 93, American historian.
 * Per G. Stavnum, 70, Norwegian diplomat, ambassador to Lithuania (1991–1996); Vietnam (2000–2005).
 * Synchronised, 9, Irish racehorse, euthanised after race fall.
 * Viro the Virus, 33, American hip hop artist.
 * Mikhail Voronin, 73, Ukrainian fashion designer.
 * Cathie Wright, 82, American politician, California State Senator (1992–2000).

15

 * Fred Birchmore, 100, American adventurer.
 * Paul Bogart, 92, American Emmy Award-winning television director (All in the Family), natural causes.
 * Jesús Giles Sánchez, 50, Mexican politician, cancer.
 * Hans Johansson, 85, Swedish Olympic equestrian.
 * Peter McKenzie, 59, New Zealand conservationist, cancer.
 * Yasushi Mieno, 88, Japanese banker, Governor of the Bank of Japan (1989–1994), cardiac arrest.
 * Jenny Olsson, 32, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier, cancer.
 * Bob Perani, 69, Italian-born American ice hockey player (Flint Generals).
 * Aleksandr Porokhovshchikov, 73, Russian actor, complications from diabetes and stroke.
 * Murray Rose, 73, Australian Olympic gold medal-winning (1956, 1960) swimmer, leukaemia.
 * Samir Said, 48, Kuwaiti footballer, traffic collision.
 * Rich Saul, 64, American football player (Los Angeles Rams), leukemia.
 * Dwayne Schintzius, 43, American basketball player (New Jersey Nets), respiratory failure.
 * James Shaner, 75, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1995–2006).
 * Joan Tozzer, 90, American figure skater.
 * Bob Wright, 86, American college basketball coach (Morehead State University).
 * Tadashi Yamamoto, 76, Japanese businessman, founder of the Japan Center for International Exchange, gall bladder cancer.

16

 * Sári Barabás, 98, Hungarian-born German opera singer, stroke.
 * Marian Biskup, 89, Polish historian.
 * Laura Bornholdt, 93, American historian and academic administrator.
 * Ernest Callenbach, 83, American writer and environmentalist.
 * Teddy Charles, 84, American jazz musician and composer.
 * Jack Cohen, 93, American rabbi.
 * Ray Davey, 97, Northern Irish Presbyterian minister, founder of the Corrymeela Community.
 * Jean Fréchaut, 97, French cyclist.
 * Margalith Galun, 85, Israeli lichenologist, after a lengthy illness.
 * Alan Hacker, 73, British clarinetist.
 * George Kunda, 56, Zambian politician, Vice President (2008–2011), anaemia.
 * A.F. Millidge, 98, British arachnologist.
 * Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, 98, Danish shipping magnate.
 * Antoine Hamid Mourany, 82, Lebanese-born Syrian Maronite hierarch, Metropolitan of Damascus (1989–1999).
 * Arthur Nadel, 80, American fund manager and convicted embezzler.
 * Ngô Đình Lệ Quyên, 53, South Vietnamese-born Italian lawyer, daughter of Madame Nhu, traffic collision.
 * Oyalı, 4, Turkish sheep, first cloned animal in Turkey, lung disease.
 * Carlo Petrini, 64, Italian footballer.
 * Graham Simpson, 68, British musician (Roxy Music).
 * Randy Starkman, 51, Canadian sports journalist, pneumonia.
 * Jack Streidl, 93, American football coach.

17

 * Alexander Appleford, 90, English pilot.
 * Barry Askew, 75, British newspaper editor (News of the World).
 * Walter M. Baker, 84, American politician.
 * Leila Berg, 94, British children's author.
 * J. Quinn Brisben, 77, American civil rights activist and Socialist candidate for U.S. President in 1992.
 * Jake Carter, 87, American basketball player.
 * Tim Collins, 66, American golfer.
 * Michael Green, New Zealand diplomat, cancer. (death announced on this date)
 * Stan Johnson, 75, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Kansas City Athletics).
 * Almasbei Kchach, 53, Abkhazian politician, suicide.
 * Sukenobu Kudō, 84, Japanese speed skater (1952 Winter Olympics), renal failure.
 * Irving Millman, 88, American virologist and microbiologist.
 * Dimitris Mitropanos, 64, Greek singer, pulmonary edema.
 * Nityananda Mahapatra, 99, Indian politician, poet, and journalist, natural causes.
 * Jonathan V. Plaut, 69, American rabbi.
 * Ben H. Procter, 85, American author and football player (Los Angeles Rams), Parkinson's disease.
 * Stanley Rogers Resor, 94, American lawyer, Secretary of the Army (1965–1971).
 * Jane Schaberg, 74, American biblical scholar.
 * Dom Valentino, 83, American sports broadcaster.
 * Louis Vorster, 45, South African-born Namibian cricketer, shot.

18

 * Pavol Bencz, 75, Czechoslovak footballer.
 * Arthur Bottom, 82, English footballer (York City).
 * José Cerviño Cerviño, 91, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tui-Vigo (1976–1996).
 * Dick Clark, 82, American television host and producer (American Bandstand, Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, Pyramid), heart attack.
 * Peter Collis, 82, English artist.
 * Graham Cooper, 75, English cricketer.
 * Hillman Curtis, 51, American graphic designer and filmmaker, colon cancer.
 * Tina De Mola, 88, Italian actress, singer and television personality.
 * John Anthony Golding, 91, Turks and Caicos Islands administrator.
 * René Lépine, 82, Canadian real estate developer, prostate cancer.
 * Kristian Lund, 80, Norwegian military officer, engineer and politician.
 * John O'Neil, 91, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).
 * Robert O. Ragland, 80, American film score composer.
 * Sterling Ridge, 75, American politician, Mayor of Glendale, Arizona (1976–1980), three-term member of the Arizona House of Representatives.
 * Col Saddington, 74, Australian football player.
 * Naum Shopov, 78, Bulgarian actor.
 * Åge Storhaug, 74, Norwegian Olympic (1960, 1964) gymnast, cancer.
 * Fritz Theilen, 84, German resistance member.
 * K. D. Wentworth, 61, American science fiction author, cancer and pneumonia.

19

 * Muhammad Mustafa Badawi, 86, Egyptian academic.
 * Allison Baden-Clay, 43, Australian executive, murdered.
 * Leopold David de Rothschild, 84, British financier and philanthropist.
 * Richard T. Drinnon, 87, American historian.
 * Ray Easterling, 62, American football player (Atlanta Falcons), suicide by gunshot.
 * Greg Ham, 58, Australian musician (Men at Work).
 * Levon Helm, 71, American musician (The Band) and actor (Coal Miner's Daughter), throat cancer.
 * Mansur Kamaletdinov, 86, Russian ballet dancer and teacher.
 * Ken Lowrie, 85, Australian politician, member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council (1968–1986).
 * Jacques Martin, 52, Canadian Paralympian, gold medalist (1984, 1988, 1992, 1996), heart attack.
 * Enrico Pedrini, 72, Italian art theorist.
 * Murtaza Razvi, 47, Pakistani journalist, strangled.
 * Chitturi Satyanarayana, 98, Indian surgeon.
 * Meenakshi Thapar, 27, Indian actress (404), strangled.
 * Mabel Van Camp, 91, Canadian judge, first woman on the Supreme Court of Ontario.
 * Valeri Vasiliev, 62, Russian Olympic gold (1972, 1976) and silver (1980) medal-winning ice hockey player.
 * Zozo Zarpa, 73, Greek actress, heart failure.

20

 * Mario Arturo Acosta Chaparro, 70, Mexican army general, shot.
 * Ayten Alpman, 82, Turkish singer, respiratory failure.
 * Jack Ashley, Baron Ashley of Stoke, 89, British politician and disability campaigner, MP for Stoke-on-Trent South (1966–1992).
 * Alfie Biggs, 76, English footballer.
 * Brian Boland, 80, Australian footballer.
 * Matt Branam, 57, American academic, President of Rose–Hulman Institute of Technology (since 2009).
 * Craig Cameron, 66, American ice hockey player.
 * Peter Carsten, 83, German actor.
 * George Cowan, 92, American physical chemist and member of Manhattan Project, injuries from a fall.
 * Clément Haeyen, 84, Belgian Olympic (1960) weightlifter.
 * Shannon Johnson, 28, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Mike Lipari, 79, Canadian Olympic weightlifter.
 * Joe Muranyi, 84, American jazz musician.
 * Don Wedge, 82, American football referee (1972–1995).
 * Bert Weedon, 91, English guitarist and composer.

21

 * John S. Ballard, 89, American politician.
 * Doris Betts, 79, American author, lung cancer.
 * Ramón Búa Otero, 78, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tarazona (1982–1989) and Calahorra y La Calzada-Logroño (1989–2003).
 * Charles Colson, 80, American White House Counsel convicted in Watergate scandal, evangelist, founder of Prison Fellowship, brain hemorrhage.
 * Albert Falco, 84, French sea captain and scuba diver.
 * Wim Franken, 90, Dutch composer and pianist.
 * Lenny Gault, 78, American country music singer, cancer.
 * Harry Heslet, 92, American baseball player.
 * Brian Heward, 76, English footballer.
 * Charles Higham, 81, English-born American biographer, heart attack.
 * Heinz Jentzsch, 92, German racehorse trainer.
 * Peter Milano, 82, American businessman.
 * Frank Odoi, 64, Kenyan cartoonist, road accident.
 * Jerry Toppazzini, 80, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins, Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings).

22

 * John Amabile, 73, American football scout (New York Giants), coach and player (Boston College).
 * Gunnar Göransson, 78, Swedish Olympic cyclist.
 * Bill Granger, 70, American author and columnist.
 * Matti Kuosku, 71, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier.
 * Petr Lisičan, 49, Czech Olympic cross-country skier.
 * Buzz Potamkin, 66, American television producer.
 * George Rathmann, 84, American businessman, first chief executive of Amgen, kidney failure.
 * Aristarkh (Stankevich), 70, Belarusian Orthodox hierarch, Archbishop of Gomel and Zhlobin (since 1990).

23

 * Navodaya Appachan, 81, Indian film producer, cancer.
 * Lillemor Arvidsson, 68, Swedish trade union leader and politician, Governor of Gotland (1998–2004).
 * Breda Beban, 59, Serbian film and video artist.
 * Eunice Bommelyn, 85, American Tolowa cultural advocate, Tolowa language proponent, and historian.
 * Peter Boothman, 68–69, Australian guitarist, composer, and educator.
 * Hacho Boyadzhiev, 80, Bulgarian television and film director.
 * Michael Brinton, 70, British businessman, Lord Lieutenant of Worcestershire (since 2001), cancer.
 * Yvonne Brown, 59, American politician, cancer.
 * Billy Bryans, 64, Canadian musician and producer (Parachute Club), lung cancer.
 * Carmen Bunster, 94, Chilean actress.
 * Chang Myung-sam, 48, Korean taekwondo practitioner, car accident.
 * Roland Dale, 84, American football player (Washington Redskins).
 * Michael DeBose, 58, American politician, Member of the Ohio House of Representatives (2002–2010), complications of Parkinson's disease.
 * Chris Ethridge, 65, American country rock bassist (International Submarine Band, The Flying Burrito Brothers), pancreatic cancer.
 * Veriano Luchetti, 73, Italian opera singer.
 * Tommy Marth, 33, American musician (The Killers), suicide.
 * Raymond Thorsteinsson, 91, Canadian geologist.
 * LeRoy T. Walker, 93, American track coach, Chairman of the US Olympic Committee (1992–1996).
 * Flo Whyard, 95, Canadian politician, Mayor of Whitehorse (1981–1983), Yukon territorial minister (1975–1978), editor of the Whitehorse Star.

24

 * Svetlana Berzina, 80, Russian Egyptologist.
 * Sheena Bora, 25, Indian executive, strangulation.
 * Fred Bradley, 91, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).
 * William A. Campbell, 95, American USAF colonel, member of the Tuskegee Airmen.
 * William Chapman, 88, American operatic baritone and stage actor.
 * Nell Ginjaar-Maas, 80, Dutch politician, State Secretary for Education and Science (1982–1989).
 * Daniel McGillivray Brown, 89, Scottish chemist.
 * Erast Parmasto, 83, Estonian mycologist.
 * Miguel Portas, 53, Portuguese politician, Member of the European Parliament for Portugal (since 2004), lung cancer.
 * Eusebio Razo, Jr., 46, Mexican-born American jockey, explosion.
 * Shireen Ritchie, Baroness Ritchie of Brompton, 67, British peer, councillor for Brompton ward, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (since 1998).
 * Yugo Sako, 84, Japanese movie director, aspiration pneumonia.
 * Village Kid, 31, Australian standardbred racehorse.
 * Amos Vogel, 91, Austrian-born American film scholar, founder of the New York Film Festival and Cinema 16.
 * George Vujnovich, 96, American OSS agent and leader of Operation Halyard, natural causes.
 * Ambrose Weekes, 93, British Anglican bishop, first Suffragan Bishop in Europe.
 * Thomas Christian Wyller, 89, Norwegian political scientist.

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 * Gerry Bahen, 83, Australian football player and administrator.
 * Ben Blacknall, 65, American football player and coach.
 * Rolando Ramos Dizon, 67, Filipino educator, Chairman of the Commission on Higher Education (2003–2004).
 * Ben Gabriel, 94, Australian actor and director.
 * Sir Brandon Gough, 74, British businessman, Chancellor of the University of East Anglia (since 2003).
 * Harry Hicks, 86, British Olympic runner.
 * Denny Jones, 101, American politician, member of the Oregon House of Representatives (1973–1999).
 * Moscelyne Larkin, 87, American ballerina.
 * Louis le Brocquy, 95, Irish painter.
 * Stephen Maxwell, 69, Scottish politician.
 * Hysni Milloshi, 66, Albanian politician.
 * Ian Oswald, 82, Scottish sleep researcher.
 * Paul L. Smith, 75, American actor (Popeye, Dune, Maverick).
 * Jan Bernard Szlaga, 71, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Pelplin (since 1992), duodenal ulcer hemorrhage.
 * Brij Bhushan Tiwari, 71, Indian politician, heart attack.

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 * Roy Claughton, 84, Australian politician.
 * Clarence Cormier, 81, Canadian politician.
 * Pete Fornatale, 66, American radio disc jockey (WNEW-FM, WFUV), brain aneurysm.
 * Franco Fraticelli, 83, Italian film editor.
 * Floyd D. Hall, 96, American pilot, chairman and chief executive of Eastern Air Lines.
 * Ardian Klosi, 55, Albanian political analyst, publicist, and writer, suicide.
 * Ted Newall, 76, Canadian businessman.
 * José Martins Ribeiro Nunes, 85, Brazilian naval pilot.
 * Terence Spinks, 74, British Olympic gold medal-winning (1956) boxer.
 * Margie Stewart, 92, American model and actress.
 * Chut Wutty, 40, Cambodian environmental activist, shot.

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 * Wayne Aiken, 76, Canadian football player.
 * Ron Ballatore, 71, American swimming coach, bone cancer.
 * Daniel Boatwright, 82, American politician, California State Senator (1980–1996).
 * Anatoly Lebed, 48, Russian army officer, Hero of the Russian Federation.
 * Takayoshi Nagamine, 66, Japanese karate master and trainer.
 * František Procházka, 50, Czech Olympic bronze medal-winning (1992) ice hockey player.
 * Ari Magder, 28, Canadian child actor (Shining Time Station), complications from pneumonia.
 * Harold Pupkewitz, 96, Lithuanian-born Namibian businessman, heart attack.
 * René Rouffeteau, 86, French Olympic bronze medal-winning (1948) cyclist.
 * Bill Skowron, 81, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Chicago White Sox), heart failure.
 * Allen Tough, 76, Canadian scientist, complications of multiple system atrophy.
 * Abu Mohammad Jawad Walieddine, 96, Lebanese Druze religious leader.
 * David Weiss, 65, Swiss artist (Peter Fischli & David Weiss).

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 * Sir Fred Allen, 92, New Zealand rugby player, captain, and coach, leukemia.
 * Bobby Alto, 73, American actor, comedian and performer, complications of stroke.
 * Charles Barron, 76, Scottish writer, playwright, teacher and lecturer, multi-organ failure.
 * Harald Bergseth, 88, Norwegian soil scientist.
 * John Birch, 82, British musician.
 * Matilde Camus, 92, Spanish poet.
 * H. Fred Clark, 75, American pediatrician, medical scientist, and social activist.
 * Giorgio Consolini, 91, Italian singer.
 * Jim Downing, 65–66, Irish Gaelic footballer.
 * Joaquín Dualde, 79, Spanish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1960) field hockey player.
 * Al Ecuyer, 74, American-born Canadian football player (Edmonton Eskimos).
 * Stein Johnson, 90, Norwegian Olympic (1948, 1952) discus thrower.
 * Jackie Kelso, 90, American jazz musician.
 * Walter Mathews, 85, American actor (General Hospital).
 * Patricia Medina, 92, British actress, natural causes.
 * Dudley Peake, 77, Welsh footballer.
 * Milan N. Popović, 87, Serbian psychiatrist and author.
 * Sir John Quinton, 82, British banker (Barclays).
 * Aberdeen Shikoyi, 27, Kenyan rugby player, spinal cord injury sustained in match play.
 * Tom Spence, 50, Scottish footballer, suspected heart failure.
 * Geoffrey Tyler, 91, British educationalist.
 * Ervin Zádor, 76, Hungarian water polo player, Olympic gold medalist (1956).

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 * Amarillo Slim, 83, American professional gambler, winner of the 1972 World Series of Poker main event, colon cancer.
 * Éric Charden, 69, French singer, lymphoma.
 * Wiesław Chrzanowski, 88, Polish politician and professor, Marshal of the Sejm (1991–1993).
 * Jean Desmasures, 83, French Olympic field hockey player.
 * Dynaformer, 27, American racehorse and sire, euthanized.
 * Shukri Ghanem, 69, Libyan politician, Prime Minister (2003–2006) and Minister of Oil (2006–2011).
 * Joel Goldsmith, 54, American film and television composer (Stargate), son of Jerry Goldsmith.
 * Daisy Junor, 92, Canadian baseball player (AAGPBL).
 * Joram Lindenstrauss, 75, Israeli mathematician.
 * Jim McCrary, 72, American photographer.
 * Roland Moreno, 66, French inventor, creator of the smart card.
 * Kenny Roberts, 84, American country music singer and yodeler.
 * Jean Tschabold, 86, Swiss Olympic silver medal-winning (1952) gymnast.
 * Idar Ulstein, 78, Norwegian businessman, cancer.

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 * Cliff Ashby, 92, British poet and novelist.
 * Finn Benestad, 82, Norwegian musicologist.
 * Ernst Bolldén, 45, Swedish wheelchair table tennis player and Paralympian gold (1996) and bronze (1996, 2000) medalist, bladder cancer.
 * Tomás Borge, 81, Nicaraguan politician and poet, founder of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, pneumonia.
 * Alexander Dale Oen, 26, Norwegian Olympic silver medal-winning (2008) swimmer, cardiac arrest.
 * Alexandru Dincă, 66, Romanian handball player.
 * Bob Finkel, 94, American producer and director, age-related illnesses.
 * Giannis Gravanis, 54, Greek footballer (Panionios F.C.).
 * Andrew Levane, 92, American basketball player (Syracuse Nationals, Milwaukee Hawks) and coach (New York Knicks, St. Louis Bombers).
 * William Burley Lockwood, 95, British linguist.
 * George Murdock, 81, American actor (Barney Miller, Battlestar Galactica, The X-Files), cancer.
 * Billy Neighbors, 72, American football player (Boston Patriots, Miami Dolphins), heart attack.
 * Benzion Netanyahu, 102, Israeli historian, academic, and Revisionist Zionist activist, father of Benjamin Netanyahu.
 * Arturo Andrés Roig, 89, Argentine philosopher.
 * Achala Sachdev, 91, Indian actress.
 * Sicelo Shiceka, 45, South African politician, Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (since 2009).