Deaths in February 2011

The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2011.

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

 * Ernst Badian, 85, Austrian classical scholar and history professor (Harvard University), complications from a fall.
 * Lennox Fyfe, Baron Fyfe of Fairfield, 69, British politician.
 * Daniele Formica, 61, Irish-born Italian actor, theatre director and playwright, pancreatic cancer.
 * Douglas Haig, 90, American child actor.
 * Stanisław Michalski, 78, Polish actor.
 * Derek Rawcliffe, 89, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway (1981–1991).
 * Knut Risan, 80, Norwegian actor.
 * Husik Santurjan, 91, Turkish-born Armenian archbishop of Armenian Apostolic Church.
 * Les Stubbs, 81, British footballer.

2

 * Geoff Ainsworth, 64, Australian football player, cancer.
 * Edward Amy, 92, Canadian brigadier general.
 * Ian Anderson, 57, British politician, brain tumour.
 * Darrel Baldock, 72, Australian football player and coach, member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly (1972–1987) and Minister (1975–1982), stroke.
 * Harriett Ball, 64, American educator, heart attack.
 * Armando Chin Yong, 53, Malaysian opera singer, heart disease.
 * Jimmy Fell, 75, British footballer (Grimsby Town).
 * Bill Foster, 78, American television director (Benson, Full House, The Mystery of Al Capone's Vaults), cancer.
 * Defne Joy Foster, 31, Turkish actress, presenter and VJ.
 * Awal Gul, 48, Afghan detainee in Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, heart attack.
 * Douglas M. Head, 80, American politician, Minnesota Attorney General (1967–1971).
 * Rodney Hill, 89, British mathematician.
 * Clark Hulings, 88, American realist painter and physicist.
 * Margaret John, 84, British actress (High Hopes, Gavin & Stacey, Game of Thrones), liver cancer.
 * Durga Mukherjee, 77, Indian cricketer.
 * Eric Nicol, 91, Canadian writer.
 * René Verdon, 86, French-born American White House Executive Chef, leukemia.

3

 * Ajib Ahmad, 63, Malaysian politician, Chief Minister of Johor (1982–1986).
 * Édouard Glissant, 82, Martinican poet and writer.
 * LeRoy Grannis, 93, American surfing photographer.
 * Tony Levin, 71, British jazz drummer.
 * Ron Piché, 75, Canadian baseball player (Atlanta Braves, St. Louis Cardinals), cancer.
 * Maria Schneider, 58, French actress (Last Tango in Paris), cancer.
 * Tatyana Shmyga, 82, Russian operetta singer and film actress (Hussar Ballad), People's Artist of the USSR, vascular disease.
 * Machan Varghese, 50, Indian Malayalam film actor, cancer.
 * Neil Young, 66, British footballer (Manchester City), cancer.
 * Robert Young, 95, American Olympic silver medal-winning (1936) athlete.

4

 * Lu Bain, 68, Canadian football player.
 * Martial Célestin, 97, Haitian lawyer and diplomat, Prime Minister (1988).
 * Woodie Fryman, 70, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Montreal Expos).
 * Michael Habeck, 66, German actor, after short illness.
 * Dame Olga Lopes-Seale, 92, Guyanese-born Barbadian broadcaster and singer.
 * Ahmed Mohamed Mahmoud, 37, Egyptian journalist, shot.
 * Lena Nyman, 66, Swedish actress (I Am Curious (Yellow), I Am Curious (Blue), Autumn Sonata), cancer.
 * Vasile Paraschiv, 82, Romanian political activist and dissident.
 * Tura Satana, 72, American actress (Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!), heart failure.
 * Earl Irvin West, 90, American church historian.
 * Lee Winfield, 64, American basketball player (Seattle SuperSonics, Buffalo Braves), colon cancer.

5

 * Fanizani Akuda, 78, Zimbabwean sculptor.
 * Omar Amiralay, 66, Syrian filmmaker, heart attack.
 * Eugeniusz Czajka, 83, Polish Olympic field hockey player.
 * Ruth H. Funk, 93, American LDS Church youth leader (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints).
 * John Paul Getty III, 54, American heir and kidnapping victim, grandson of J. Paul Getty and father of Balthazar Getty, after long illness.
 * Miriam Hansen, 61, American cinema scholar and professor (University of Chicago), cancer.
 * Brian Jacques, 71, British fantasy author (Redwall), heart attack.
 * Adjie Massaid, 43, Indonesian actor, under-23 national football team manager and politician, heart attack.
 * Hiroko Nagata, 65, Japanese radical and murderer, vice-chairman of United Red Army.
 * Donald Peterman, 79, American cinematographer (Flashdance, Men in Black, Cocoon), complications from myelodysplastic syndrome.
 * Pertti Purhonen, 68, Finnish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1964) boxer, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Martin Quigley, Jr., 93, American publisher, spy and author.
 * Peggy Rea, 89, American character actress (Grace Under Fire, The Dukes of Hazzard, Step by Step, The Waltons), heart failure.
 * Charles E. Silberman, 86, American journalist and author (Criminal Violence, Criminal Justice), heart attack.
 * Pavel Vondruška, 85, Czech conductor and actor, accidental fall.
 * Albert Yator, 17, Kenyan long-distance runner, world junior steeplechase medallist, bronchopneumonia.

6

 * Andrée Chedid, 90, Egyptian-born French poet and novelist.
 * Isabelle Corey, 71, French film actress, cancer.
 * Billy Gallier, 78, British footballer (Tamworth) and manager.
 * Josefa Iloilo, 90, Fijian politician, President (2000–2006; 2007–2009).
 * Gary Moore, 58, Irish rock guitarist and singer (Thin Lizzy), heart attack.
 * William Morais, 19, Brazilian footballer (América-MG), shot.
 * John Nisby, 74, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers, Washington Redskins), pneumonia.
 * Ken Olsen, 84, American engineer, co-founder of Digital Equipment Corporation.
 * Aurel Smith, 95, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.
 * James Watson, 59, British trumpeter, heart attack.

7

 * Maria Altmann, 94, Austrian-born American art heiress, after long illness.
 * Jerry Ames, 80, American tapdancer and choreographer.
 * Peter Feteris, 58, Dutch footballer.
 * Hysen Hakani, 78, Albanian screenwriter and director, directed first Albanian short film.
 * Bobby Kuntz, 79, American CFL player (Toronto Argonauts, Hamilton Tiger-Cats), Parkinson's disease.
 * Eric Parsons, 87, British footballer.
 * Ralph Pöhland, 64, German Olympic skier.
 * Frank Roberts, 65, Australian boxer, first Australian Aboriginal Olympian (1964), heart attack.

8

 * Nick Arundel, 83, American journalist and publisher, pulmonary failure.
 * Roza Baglanova, 89, Kazakh singer, People's Artist of the USSR.
 * Luiz Bueno, 74, Brazilian race car driver, cancer.
 * Elaine Crowley, 83, Irish author.
 * Cliff Dapper, 91, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).
 * Bradley C. Livezey, 56, American ornithologist, car accident.
 * Tony Malinosky, 101, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).
 * Marie-Rose Morel, 38, Belgian politician, cancer.
 * Jorma Ojaharju, 72, Finnish author.
 * Charles O. Perry, 81, American sculptor, stomach cancer.
 * Angelo Reyes, 65, Filipino general and politician, suicide by gunshot.
 * Cesare Rubini, 87, Italian basketball player and coach, water polo player.
 * Donald S. Sanford, 92, American film and television writer (Midway).
 * Marvin Sease, 64, American blues singer, pneumonia.
 * Ferbent Shehu, 78, Albanian dancer and choreographer, heart attack.
 * Eugenio Toussaint, 56, Mexican composer and jazz musician, heart attack.

9

 * Olga de Angulo, 55, Colombian Olympic swimmer.
 * Miltiadis Evert, 71, Greek politician and minister, Mayor of Athens (1987–1989) and President of New Democracy (1993–1997).
 * Leroy R. Hassell, Sr., 55, American jurist, Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court (since 1989) and Chief Justice (2003–2011).
 * David Sánchez Juliao, 65, Colombian author.
 * Jimmy Lemi Milla, 62, Southern Sudanese politician, shot.
 * Alicia Pietri, 87, Venezuelan First Lady (1969–1974; 1994–1999), widow of President Rafael Caldera.
 * Ronald Walker, 85, Australian cricketer.

10

 * Trevor Bailey, 87, British Test cricketer and BBC radio broadcaster (Test Match Special), house fire.
 * Emory Bellard, 83, American college football coach (Texas A&M University, Mississippi State University), creator of wishbone offense, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
 * Doug Davis, 66, American football player (Minnesota Vikings).
 * Claus Helmut Drese, 88, German theatre and opera administrator.
 * Saad el-Shazly, 88, Egyptian military leader.
 * Michael Harsgor, 86, Israeli historian.
 * Bill Justice, 97, American animator (Peter Pan, Bambi, Alice in Wonderland).
 * Blanche Honegger Moyse, 101, American conductor.
 * Oleg Lavrentiev, 84, Russian nuclear physicist.
 * Jon Petrovich, 63, American journalist, executive at CNN, cancer.
 * Sam Plank, 62, British radio broadcaster, cancer.
 * Fred Speck, 63, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings).
 * Lynne Walker, 54, British music and theatre critic, cancer.
 * Józef Życiński, 62, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Lublin (since 1997), myocardial infarction.

11

 * Nubia Barahona, 10, American child abuse victim, beaten.
 * Reynaldo de Barros, 79, Brazilian politician, mayor of São Paulo (1979–1982).
 * Bad News Brown, 33, Canadian rapper and harmonica player, beaten and shot.
 * Sir Arthur Bryan, 87, British businessman.
 * Tom Carnegie, 91, American sports announcer (Indianapolis Motor Speedway).
 * Bo Carpelan, 84, Finnish poet and author.
 * John Clay, 86, English cricketer.
 * Steve Dacri, 58, American magician, cancer.
 * Joe R. Greenhill, 96, American attorney, Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court (1972–1982).
 * Roy Gussow, 92, American sculptor (Infinity), heart attack.
 * Gerry Huth, 77, American football player (New York Giants, Philadelphia Eagles, Minnesota Vikings).
 * Christian J. Lambertsen, 93, American diving engineer, inventor of first SCUBA device, renal failure.
 * Earle Morris, Jr., 82, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina (1971–1975).
 * Josef Pirrung, 61, German footballer, cancer.
 * Chuck Tanner, 82, American baseball manager (Chicago White Sox, Pittsburgh Pirates) and player (Los Angeles Dodgers), after long illness.

12

 * Peter Alexander, 84, Austrian actor and singer.
 * Kevin Barry, Sr., 74, New Zealand boxing coach, after long illness.
 * Gino Cimoli, 81, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates), heart and kidney complications.
 * Mato Damjanović, 83, Croatian chess grandmaster.
 * Hal Dean, 89, American football player (Los Angeles Rams).
 * Ernesto De Pascale, 52, Italian music promoter, producer and critic.
 * Mark C. Ebersole, 89, American educator.
 * James Elliott, 82, British-born Australian actor (Number 96), Lewy body dementia.
 * Betty Garrett, 91, American actress, singer and dancer (On the Town, All in the Family, Laverne & Shirley), aortic aneurysm.
 * Fedor den Hertog, 64, Dutch cyclist and Olympic medallist, prostate cancer.
 * Andrzej Kłopotowski, 75, Polish Olympic swimmer.
 * Konstantinos Kosmopoulos, 83, Greek politician, Mayor of Thessaloniki (1989–1999).
 * Kenneth Mars, 75, American actor (Young Frankenstein, The Producers, The Little Mermaid), pancreatic cancer.
 * John Monson, 11th Baron Monson, 78, British aristocrat and politician, head injuries following a fall.
 * Kyllikki Naukkarinen, 85, Finnish Olympic hurdler
 * Saleh Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi, 90, Saudi Arabian businessman, founder of Al-Rajhi Bank, heart attack.
 * Bridgett Rollins, 54, American model (Playboy), cancer.
 * Joanne Siegel, 93, American widow of Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel, reported model for the character of Lois Lane.
 * Vipindas, 72, Indian cinematographer and director, short illness.
 * Frank Whitten, 68, New Zealand actor (Outrageous Fortune), cancer.

13

 * Arnfinn Bergmann, 82, Norwegian ski jumper and Olympic champion, after brief illness.
 * Bustanil Arifin, 85, Indonesian politician.
 * Manuel Esperón, 99, Mexican composer and actor.
 * Louis Grisius, 74, Luxembourgian Olympic cyclist.
 * Oakley Hall III, 60, American playwright, heart attack.
 * Dona Hardy, 98, American actress (The Truman Show, When Harry Met Sally..., Superbad).
 * Inese Jaunzeme, 78, Latvian javelin thrower and Olympic gold medalist (1956 Melbourne).
 * Nobutoshi Kihara, 84, Japanese electronics engineer for Sony.
 * Paul Marcus, 56, British television producer, cancer.
 * T. P. McKenna, 81, Irish actor (The Avengers, Doctor Who).
 * Brian Shaw, 79/80, British rugby league player.
 * Shi Yafeng, 91, Chinese geologist.

14

 * Sean Boru, 57, Irish actor and author.
 * Paul Briggs, 90, American football player (Detroit Lions).
 * Tommy Burns, 88, Australian boxer.
 * David F. Friedman, 87, American film producer (Blood Feast), heart failure.
 * Cecil Kaiser, 94, American Negro league baseball player, injuries from a fall.
 * Catherine Clark Kroeger, 85, American author, professor and New Testament scholar, Pneumonia.
 * Ali Abdulhadi Mushaima, 21, Bahraini protester, gunshot.
 * Peter Pilkington, Baron Pilkington of Oxenford, 77, British academic and life peer, Chairman of the BCC (1992–1996).
 * Sir George Shearing, 91, British-born American jazz pianist (Lullaby of Birdland), heart failure.
 * John Strauss, 90, American film and television composer (Car 54, Where Are You?), Parkinson's disease.

15

 * Liliane Atlan, 79, French Jewish writer, cancer.
 * Dame Judith Binney, 70, New Zealand historian and author.
 * Charles Epstein, 77, American geneticist and Unabomber victim, pancreatic cancer.
 * Joe Frazier, 88, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals) and manager (New York Mets).
 * Dorian Gray, 83, Italian actress, suicide by gunshot.
 * Sidney Harth, 85, American violinist and conductor, respiratory complications.
 * Olavi Manninen, 82, Finnish Olympic runner.
 * George Marsaglia, 87, American mathematician and computer scientist. developed diehard tests, heart attack.
 * Fadhel Al-Matrook, 31, Bahraini protester, gunshot.
 * François Nourissier, 83, French journalist and writer, complications from Parkinson's disease.
 * Frank Nyangweso, 71, Ugandan Olympic boxer.
 * Cyril Stein, 82, British businessman.

16

 * Hans Joachim Alpers, 67, German writer and editor of science fiction and fantasy.
 * Neal Amundson, 95, American chemical engineer.
 * William A. Bablitch, 69, American politician, Wisconsin State Senator (1983–2003) and Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice (1983–2002).
 * Alfred Burke, 92, British actor (Public Eye, Enemy at the Door), chest infection.
 * Jack Calfee, 69, American economist and author, heart attack.
 * Tonny van Ede, 86, Dutch football player (Sparta Rotterdam).
 * Len Lesser, 88, American actor (Seinfeld, Everybody Loves Raymond, Kelly's Heroes), cancer-related pneumonia.
 * Justinas Marcinkevičius, 80, Lithuanian poet and playwright.
 * Santi Santamaria, 53, Spanish chef, heart attack.
 * David Shapiro, 58, American jazz musician, atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.
 * Tu Jida, 83, Chinese aircraft designer (Nanchang CJ-6, Shenyang J-5A, Chengdu JJ-5, Chengdu J-7).

17

 * Hilal Al-Ahmadi, 56–57, Iraqi journalist, shot.
 * John Stanley Beard, 95, British-born Australian forester and ecologist.
 * Ricky Bell, 36, American football player (Chicago Bears, Jacksonville Jaguars, Winnipeg Blue Bombers).
 * George Clarke, 89, British footballer (Ipswich Town).
 * Dave Duerson, 50, American football player (Chicago Bears, Phoenix Cardinals, New York Giants), suicide by gunshot.
 * Francis Anthony Gomes, 79, Bangladeshi Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Mymensingh (1987–2006).
 * Ron Hickman, 78, South African-born British inventor (Black & Decker Workmate, Lotus Elan).
 * Steve Horn, 79, American politician, U.S. Representative from California (1993–2003), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
 * Augustine Hu Daguo, 88, Chinese Roman Catholic underground bishop of Guiyang.
 * George Lewis, 93, Trinidad and Tobago Olympic track and field athlete.
 * James McLure, 59, American playwright.
 * Michelle Monkhouse, 19, Canadian fashion model, car accident.
 * Bill Monroe, 90, American journalist, host of Meet the Press (1975–1984), complications from hypertension.
 * Perry Moore, 39, American author (Hero) and film producer (The Chronicles of Narnia), apparent drug overdose.
 * Vivien Noakes, 74, British literary critic, cancer.
 * Gustave Olombe Atelumbu Musilamu, 83, Congolese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Wamba (1968–1990).

18

 * Paulo de Tarso Alvim, 91–92, Brazilian biologist.
 * Cayle Chernin, 63, Canadian actress (Goin' Down the Road), cancer.
 * Chloe Dzubilo, 50, American artist, musician and activist.
 * John M. Falcone, 44, American police officer Poughkeepsie, New York, shot.
 * Len Gilmore, 93, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates).
 * Spook Jacobs, 85, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics/Kansas City Athletics, Pittsburgh Pirates).
 * Catherine Jourdan, 62, French actress, pulmonary embolism.
 * Buddy Lewis, 94, American baseball player (Washington Senators), cancer.
 * Abdost Rind, 27, Pakistani journalist, shot.
 * Walter Seltzer, 96, American film producer (Soylent Green, The Omega Man, The Last Hard Men).
 * Marshall Stoneham, 70, British physicist, complications of surgery.
 * Bob Tanna, c. 96, Indian amateur radio operator.
 * Tykhon Zhylyakov, 42, Ukrainian Orthodox Bishop of Kremenchuk and Lubny (since 2009).

19

 * Suresh Babu, 58, Indian Olympic athlete, cirrhosis.
 * Florinda Chico, 84, Spanish actress, respiratory disease.
 * Norman Corner, 68, British footballer.
 * Donald L. Cox, 74, American leader of the Black Panther Party.
 * Ollie Matson, 80, American Hall of Fame football player (St. Louis Rams, Philadelphia Eagles), complications from dementia.
 * Anson Rainey, 81, American academic and author, pancreatic cancer.
 * Ernő Solymosi, 70, Hungarian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1960) football player.
 * Dietrich Stobbe, 72, German politician, Mayor of West Berlin (1977–1981).
 * David R. Thompson, 80, American federal judge.
 * Max Wilk, 90, American playwright, screenwriter and author.
 * Richard L. Williams, 87, American jurist, senior District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia (1980–2011).
 * Yuan Xuefen, 88, Chinese Yue opera actress.

20

 * Ted Bates, 84, American politician.
 * Drew Baur, 66, American banker, co-owner of the St. Louis Cardinals, heart attack.
 * Eddie Brandt, 90, American composer and songwriter.
 * Raphaël Bretton, 91, French set decorator (Hello, Dolly!, The Towering Inferno, The Poseidon Adventure), Oscar winner (1970).
 * Barbara Harmer, 57, British aviator, first female Concorde pilot, cancer.
 * Betty Hicks, 90, American golfer (LPGA Tour), Alzheimer's disease.
 * Troy Jackson, 35, American basketball player (AND1 Mixtape Tour).
 * Tony Kellow, 58, British footballer (Exeter City).
 * Jay Landesman, 91, American publisher, writer and nightclub proprietor, husband of Fran Landesman.
 * Frank A. McClintock, 90, American mechanical engineer.
 * Sir Fred Phillips, 92, Kittitian politician, Administrator (1966–1967) and Governor of Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla (1967–1969).
 * Helmut Ringelmann, 84, German film and television producer, organ failure.
 * Noemí Simonetto de Portela, 85, Argentine Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) athlete.
 * Malaysia Vasudevan, 66, Indian actor and playback singer, heart failure.
 * Mehdi Mohammed Zeyo, 49, Libyan activist, explosion.

21

 * Robert Albo, 78, American physician, surgeon and amateur illusionist.
 * Odón Alonso, 85, Spanish conductor and composer.
 * Jean Baeza, 68, French footballer.
 * Wolfgang Baumgart, 61, German hockey player.
 * Bob Boyd, 55, American professional golfer, leukemia.
 * Ben Fricke, 35, American football player (Dallas Cowboys), colon cancer.
 * Edwin D. Kilbourne, 90, American research scientist and influenza vaccine expert.
 * Dick Klugman, 87, Australian politician, member of the House of Representatives (1969–1990).
 * Anne Mathams, 97, Scottish education and disability campaigner.
 * Dwayne McDuffie, 49, American comic book writer (Static Shock, Damage Control) and television writer (Justice League), complications following heart surgery.
 * Bernard Nathanson, 84, American pro-choice activist and co-founder of NARAL, later anti-abortion activist and writer, cancer.
 * Jerzy Nowosielski, 88, Polish painter, graphic artist, scenographer and illustrator.
 * Russell W. Peterson, 94, American politician, Governor of Delaware (1969–1973), stroke.
 * Kenneth Pillar, 86, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Hertford (1982–1989).
 * Aranmula Ponnamma, 96, Indian actress.
 * Swami Premananda, 59, Sri Lankan-born Indian religious leader, convicted rapist and murderer.
 * Haila Stoddard, 97, American actress and Broadway producer.
 * Judith Sulzberger, 87, American physician, pancreatic cancer.
 * Antonín Švorc, 77, Czech operatic bass-baritone.

22

 * Kjell Bjartveit, 83, Norwegian physician and politician.
 * Brian Bonsor, 84, Scottish composer and music teacher.
 * George Buksar, 84, American football player (Chicago Hornets, Washington Redskins).
 * Nicholas Courtney, 81, British actor (Doctor Who, Then Churchill Said to Me, Bullseye!).
 * Bill Deck, 95, American Negro league baseball player.
 * Beau Dollar, 69, American singer and drummer, long illness.
 * Jean Dinning, 86, American songwriter ("Teen Angel"), sister of Mark Dinning.
 * Jo Giles, 61, New Zealand television personality and sportswoman, earthquake.
 * Chari Gómez Miranda, 80, Spanish journalist and television presenter.
 * Ion Hobana, 80, Romanian science fiction author.
 * Amanda Hooper, 30, New Zealand field hockey representative, earthquake.
 * Jud McAtee, 91, Canadian-born American ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Blackhawks).
 * James R. McCartney, 90, American politician, Secretary of State of West Virginia (1975–1977).
 * Bill Nimmo, 93, American radio and television announcer (Who Do You Trust?, The Jackie Gleason Show) and game show host (Keep It in the Family).
 * Ivo Pavelić, 103, Croatian footballer and Olympic swimmer.

23

 * Matthew Carr, 57, British figurative artist, leukaemia.
 * James Damman, 78, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Michigan (1975–1979), cancer.
 * Joseph Flom, 87, American corporate lawyer, heart failure.
 * Rebekah Johansson, 29, Swedish model, apparent suicide.
 * Gustav Just, 89, German journalist and politician.
 * Jean Lartéguy, 90, French soldier, war correspondent and writer.
 * Frank Prout, 89, British Olympic sprint canoer and businessman.
 * Nirmala Srivastava, 87, Indian spiritual leader, founder of Sahaja Yoga religious movement.
 * Mike Zimring, 94, American radio actor and theatrical agent.

24

 * Margaret Hope Bacon, 89, American Quaker historian, author and lecturer.
 * Yozhef Betsa, 81, Ukrainian Olympic gold medal-winning (1956) footballer.
 * Jerrold Kessel, 66, South African-born Israeli journalist (CNN), cancer.
 * Anant Pai, 81, Indian educator and comics creator (Amar Chitra Katha).
 * Mullapudi Venkata Ramana, 80, Indian Telugu screenplay writer.
 * Robert Reguly, 80, Canadian journalist (Toronto Star), heart disease.
 * Attila Takács, 82, Hungarian Olympic gymnast.
 * Harry Walsh, 97, Canadian lawyer, complications from a fall.
 * Jens Winther, 50, Danish jazz trumpet player, stroke.
 * A. Wayne Wymore, 84, American mathematician and systems engineer.

25

 * Isidora Aguirre, 91, Chilean writer, internal hemorrhage.
 * Kamil Altan, 86, Turkish footballer.
 * Frank Bare Sr., 80, American gymnast.
 * John Thomas Chambers, Jr., 82, American politician, only African-American Mayor of Annapolis (1981), heart attack.
 * Rick Coonce, 64, American drummer (The Grass Roots).
 * Aminath Faiza, 86, Maldivian poet and author.
 * Emanuel Fried, 97, American playwright and actor.
 * Peter Hildreth, 82, British Olympic hurdler, 1950 European Championships medalist.
 * István Jenei, 57, Hungarian Olympic sports shooter.
 * John Miner, 92, American attorney, prosecutor responsible for investigating the death of Marilyn Monroe.
 * Richard J. Naughton, 64, American vice admiral, Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy (2002–2003).
 * Eneas Perdomo, 80, Venezuelan folk singer.
 * Suze Rotolo, 67, American artist, lung cancer.
 * Carola Scarpa, 39, Brazilian socialite, multiple organ failure.

26

 * Abbas Amiri Moghaddam, 67, Iranian actor, car accident.
 * Kostas Andriopoulos, 26, Greek footballer (PAOK, Veria), leukemia.
 * María Azambuya, 66, Uruguayan actress and theatre director.
 * Judith Coplon, 89, American political analyst, convicted of espionage.
 * Susan Crosland, 84, American journalist, widow of Anthony Crosland.
 * Richard F. Daines, 60, American physician, Commissioner of the New York State Department of Health (2007–2010).
 * Jon Fitch, 60, American politician, Arkansas State Representative (1979–1983) and State Senator (1983–2002), complications of a stroke.
 * Eugene Fodor, 60, American violinist, cirrhosis.
 * Ed Frutig, 92, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Detroit Lions).
 * Greg Goossen, 65, American baseball player (New York Mets) and actor (Wyatt Earp, Unforgiven).
 * Bill Grigsby, 89, American radio sportscaster (Kansas City Chiefs), prostate cancer and fall.
 * Cynthia Holcomb Hall, 82, American circuit judge for the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1984–1997), cancer.
 * Shawn Lee, 44, American football player (Miami Dolphins, Chicago Bears).
 * Arnošt Lustig, 84, Czech writer and Holocaust survivor, cancer.
 * James A. McClure, 86, American politician, U.S. Representative (1967–1973) and Senator from Idaho (1973–1991), following multiple strokes.
 * Dean Richards, 36, British footballer (Bradford City, Wolverhampton, Southampton, Tottenham).
 * Jorge Santoro, 66, Brazilian footballer, heart attack.
 * Roch Thériault, 63, Canadian cult leader and convicted murderer, murdered in prison.
 * Mark Tulin, 62, American bass player (The Electric Prunes, The Smashing Pumpkins), heart attack.
 * Zhu Guangya, 86, Chinese nuclear physicist, helped develop nation's first atomic bomb.

27

 * Frank Alesia, 67, American actor and director (Pajama Party, Riot on Sunset Strip, C'mon, Let's Live a Little).
 * Frank Buckles, 110, American supercentenarian soldier, last living U.S. World War I veteran.
 * J. Elliot Cameron, 88, American educator and religious leader.
 * Margaret Eliot, 97, British music teacher and musician.
 * Necmettin Erbakan, 84, Turkish politician, Prime Minister (1996–1997).
 * James Gruber, 82, American teacher and early gay rights activist, last surviving member of the Mattachine Society.
 * Maurice Guigue, 98, French football referee (1958 FIFA World Cup Final).
 * Eddie Kirkland, 88, American blues guitarist, car accident.
 * Oto Mádr, 94, Czech theologian and dissident.
 * Amparo Muñoz, 56, Spanish actress, Miss Universe 1974.
 * Skonk Nicholson, 94, South African teacher and rugby union coach (Maritzburg College, 1948–1982).
 * Emerson Rodwell, 89, Australian cricketer and soldier.
 * Moacyr Scliar, 73, Brazilian physician and writer, stroke.
 * Duke Snider, 84, American Baseball Hall of Famer (Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Mets, San Francisco Giants).
 * Gary Winick, 49, American film director (13 Going on 30, Letters to Juliet, Charlotte's Web), pneumonia.

28

 * Netiva Ben-Yehuda, 82, Israeli author and radio personality.
 * Scott Cary, 87, American baseball player (Washington Senators).
 * Harvey Dorfman, 75, American sports psychologist.
 * Ernest Eastman, 83, Liberian diplomat, Foreign Minister (1983–1986), Secretary General of the Mano River Union.
 * John Ellis, 72, British trade unionist.
 * Emmy, 21, Albanian singer, vehicular homicide.
 * Annie Girardot, 79, French actress, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Peter J. Gomes, 69, American preacher, theologian and author, professor at Harvard Divinity School, brain aneurysm and heart attack.
 * Stan Holmes, 51, American baseball player, cancer.
 * Nick LaTour, 82, American singer and actor (Jingle All The Way, Don Juan DeMarco, Deep Cover), complications from cancer.
 * Jozef Massy, 96, Belgian Olympic sprint canoer.
 * Günter Mast, 84, German businessman (Jägermeister).
 * Aracy de Carvalho Guimarães Rosa, 102, Brazilian diplomatic clerk.
 * Jane Russell, 89, American actress (The Outlaw, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Las Vegas Story), respiratory illness.
 * Jan van Schijndel, 83, Dutch footballer (1952 Summer Olympics).
 * Allan Williams, 88, Canadian politician, Attorney General of British Columbia (1979–1983), after long illness.
 * Wally Yonamine, 85, American baseball (Yomiuri Giants, Chunichi Dragons) and football player (San Francisco 49ers), prostate cancer.
 * Doyald Young, 84, American logotype designer, complications of heart surgery.