Deaths in February 2012

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

1

 * Herb Adams, 83, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).
 * Gerlando Alberti, 84, Italian Sicilian Mafioso, cancer.
 * Gerhard Bosse, 90, German violinist and conductor.
 * Robert B. Cohen, 86, American businessman, founder of Hudson News, progressive supranuclear palsy.
 * Herb Conn, 91, American climbing and caving pioneer.
 * Don Cornelius, 75, American television host and producer (Soul Train), suicide by gunshot.
 * Andrij Dobriansky, 81, Ukrainian-born American opera singer, diabetes and heart disease.
 * Angelo Dundee, 90, American boxing trainer (Muhammad Ali).
 * Joe Ekins, 88, British World War II soldier.
 * Fabián Estapé, 88, Spanish economist.
 * Jannatul Ferdous, 74, Bangladeshi teacher and politician.
 * André Génovès, 70, French film producer and director.
 * Tony Giorgio, 88, Italian-American actor and magician, heart failure.
 * Sara González Gómez, 62 or 64, Cuban singer.
 * John Harrison, 87, Australian Olympic rower.
 * Ruth Hausmeister, 99, German actress (Zwei Brüder, The Longest Day).
 * Ladislav Kuna, 64, Slovak football player and manager.
 * Robert Lawless, 74, American anthropologist.
 * Ardath Mayhar, 81, American author.
 * Ingolf Mork, 64, Norwegian Olympic ski jumper.
 * David Peaston, 54, American R&B singer, complications of diabetes.
 * Lutz Philipp, 71, German Olympic athlete.
 * Gilbert Poirot, 67, French Olympic ski jumper.
 * Charlie Spoonhour, 72, American basketball coach (Southwest Missouri State, Saint Louis University), complications from lung disease.
 * Jerry Steiner, 94, American basketball player (Fort Wayne Pistons).
 * Andrzej Sztolf, 70, Polish Olympic ski jumper.
 * Wisława Szymborska, 88, Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature (1996).

2

 * Paramjit Bahia, 61, Indian-born Canadian field hockey player.
 * Joyce Barkhouse, 98, Canadian children's writer (Pit Pony), heart attack.
 * Daphne Brooker, 84, British model, costume designer, and professor, bronchopneumonia.
 * Paul Consbruch, 81, German Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Paderborn (1980–1999).
 * Frederick William Danker, 91, American lexicographer and New Testament scholar.
 * David Edelsten, 78, British writer and army officer.
 * George Esper, 79, American journalist and foreign correspondent (Associated Press).
 * Elwyn Friedrich, 78, Swiss Olympic ice hockey player, myocardial infarction.
 * Luis Javier Garrido, 71, Mexican political analyst.
 * Dorothy Gilman, 88, American spy novelist (The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax), complications of Alzheimer's disease.
 * Jorge Glusberg, 79, Argentine author and curator, director of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes.
 * John Houlder, 95, British engineer.
 * Nassib Lahoud, 67, Lebanese politician.
 * James F. Lloyd, 89, American politician, U.S. Representative from California (1975–1981), stroke.
 * Asko Mäkilä, 67, Finnish footballer

3

 * Steve Appleton, 51, American businessman (Micron Technology), plane crash.
 * Christopher Asir, 64, Indian bishop, cancer.
 * John Christopher, 89, British science fiction author (The Tripods, The Sword of the Spirits).
 * HIM Damsyik, 82, Indonesian dancer and actor.
 * Francis Patrick Donovan, 90, Australian academic, lawyer, and diplomat.
 * Ben Gazzara, 81, American actor (Anatomy of a Murder, The Big Lebowski, Road House), pancreatic cancer.
 * Terence Hildner, 49, American general, commander of the 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary).
 * Raj Kanwar, 50, Indian film director and producer, kidney failure.
 * Karibasavaiah, 52, Indian film actor.
 * Zalman King, 69, American film director (Wild Orchid) and producer (9½ Weeks), cancer.
 * Karlo Maquinto, 21, Filipino boxer.
 * Mart Port, 90, Estonian architect.
 * Jacob Salatun, 84, Indonesian ufologist.
 * Andrzej Szczeklik, 73, Polish physician and educational administrator (Jagiellonian University Medical College).
 * Toh Chin Chye, 90, Singaporean politician, Deputy Prime Minister (1965–1968) and Minister for Health (1975–1981).
 * Wilhelm Wachtmeister, 88, Swedish diplomat, Ambassador to the United States (1974–1989).
 * Norton Zinder, 83, American microbiologist, pneumonia.

4

 * István Csurka, 77, Hungarian playwright and politician, Chairman of the Hungarian Justice and Life Party (since 1993).
 * Robert Daniel, 75, American politician, U.S. Representative from Virginia (1973–1983).
 * Mike deGruy, 60, American documentary filmmaker (Trials of Life, The Blue Planet), helicopter crash.
 * Václav Dosbaba, 67, Czech painter.
 * Nigel Doughty, 54, British businessman, owner (since 1999) and chairman (2001–2011) of Nottingham Forest F.C.
 * George Duncan, 75, Scottish footballer.
 * Soledad Duterte, 95, Filipino teacher and activist.
 * Joseph W. Estabrook, 67, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of the Military Services (since 2004) and Titular Bishop of Flenucleta.
 * Harry F. Franke, Jr., 89, American politician.
 * Robert Glaser, 91, American cognitive psychologist, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
 * Florence Green, 110, British supercentenarian, last surviving veteran of World War I.
 * Fernando Lanhas, 88, Portuguese painter.
 * Hubert Leitgeb, 46, Italian Olympic biathlete, two-time world champion, avalanche.
 * Irene McKinney, 72, American poet, Poet Laureate of West Virginia (since 1994), cancer.
 * Livio Minelli, 85, Italian former European welterweight champion boxer.
 * Wendell Mitchell, 71, American politician, Alabama State Senator (1974–2010), heart failure.
 * Nicolás Moreno, 88, Mexican landscape painter.
 * Jeffrey Perry, 63, British stage and screen actor (The Chronicles of Narnia).
 * Sir Alan Reay, 86, British Army officer, Director General Army Medical Services (1981–1984).
 * Pierre-Eugène Rouanet, 94, French-born Ivorian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Daloa (1956–1975).
 * János Sebestyén, 80, Hungarian organist.
 * Giovanni Volta, 83, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Pavia (1986–2003).
 * Andrew Wight, 51, Australian screenwriter and producer (Sanctum), helicopter crash.
 * Pongphan Wongsuwan, 61, Thai football manager (TOT S.C.).

5

 * José Luis Álvarez, 94, Guatemalan artist.
 * Violeta Autumn, 81, Peruvian-born American architect and artist.
 * Blaine, 74, Canadian editorial cartoonist.
 * Royal Cathcart, 85, American football player.
 * Colin Churchett, 86, Australian footballer.
 * Sam Coppola, 79, American actor (Saturday Night Fever, Fatal Attraction).
 * Jazmín De Grazia, 27, Argentine model and television presenter, cocaine overdose.
 * Al De Lory, 82, American record producer.
 * Lady Ganga, 45, American humanitarian, cervical cancer.
 * Jef Gilson, 85, French musician.
 * Bill Hinzman, 75, American actor (Night of the Living Dead), cancer.
 * Ray Honeyford, 77, English headmaster and writer.
 * William D. Houser, 90, American vice admiral (World War II, Korea, Vietnam), Alzheimer's disease and pneumonia.
 * Jiang Ying, 92, Chinese opera singer and music teacher.
 * Lidiya Khudat Rasulova, 70, Azerbaijani politician, member of Supreme Soviet, Minister of Social Security (1988-1991) and of Education (1993-1997).
 * Peter Kerim, 57, Ugandan military officer.
 * Phil Shanahan, 84, Irish hurler.
 * John Turner Sargent, Sr., 87, American publisher.
 * Lawrence Zhang Wen-Chang, 92, Chinese Roman Catholic priest, Apostolic Administrator of Kunming, Dali, and Zhaotong (since 2000).
 * Jo Zwaan, 89, Dutch Olympic athlete.

6

 * Abdus Sattar Akon, 82-83, Bangladeshi teacher and politician, result of illness.
 * Billy Bean, 78, American jazz guitarist.
 * Jean Bingen, 91, Belgian papyrologist and epigrapher.
 * Peter Breck, 82, American actor (The Big Valley).
 * Roger Chesneau, 86, French steeplechaser.
 * Sharada Dwivedi, 69, Indian historian.
 * Yasuhiro Ishimoto, 90, Japanese photographer, complications following pneumonia and a stroke.
 * Noel Kelehan, 76, Irish musician (RTÉ Concert Orchestra).
 * Jim King, 69, British musician (Family).
 * Jay Lambert, 86, American Olympic boxer.
 * Juan Vicente Lezcano, 74, Paraguayan footballer.
 * Matthew Mbu, 82, Nigerian politician and diplomat, Foreign Minister (1993).
 * Władysław Ogrodziński, 93, Polish historian and writer.
 * Erik Reitzel, 70, Danish civil engineer.
 * Bob Roesner, 85, American baseball umpire.
 * David Rosenhan, 82, American psychologist.
 * Norma Merrick Sklarek, 85, American architect, heart failure.
 * Antoni Tàpies, 88, Spanish painter.
 * István Udvardi, 51, Hungarian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1980) water polo player.
 * Janice E. Voss, 55, American astronaut, breast cancer.
 * David A. Winter, 81, Canadian academic.

7

 * Sam Aluko, 82, Nigerian economist and scholar.
 * Leonard E. Andera, 77, American politician.
 * James Baring, 6th Baron Revelstoke, 73, British aristocrat.
 * Knox Chamblin, 76, American pastor and professor.
 * Danny Clyburn, 37, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles, Tampa Bay Devil Rays), shot.
 * Patricia Stephens Due, 72, American civil rights activist, cancer.
 * Ann Dummett, 81, British activist.
 * Devy Erlih, 83, French violinist.
 * Peter Goddard, 80, New Zealand educationalist.
 * Marie-Louise Haumont, 93, Belgian writer.
 * Florence Holway, 96, American advocate for rape victims.
 * Harry Keough, 84, American soccer player and coach.
 * Sergio Larraín, 81, Chilean photographer.
 * Robert Maxwell, 90, American songwriter and harpist.

8

 * Shane Atwell, 41, Barbadian sailor.
 * Bill Benson, 91, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Theophilus Brown, 92, American painter.
 * Phil Bruns, 80, American actor (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Barney Miller, The Great Waldo Pepper).
 * Dennis Callahan, 70, American politician, Mayor of Annapolis (1985–1989), heart attack.
 * Robert Christie, 69, English cricketer.
 * John Cunningham, 72, Irish journalist, editor of Connacht Tribune (1984–2007), illness.
 * Alain Danilet, 64, French politician.
 * Laurent Desjardins, 88, Canadian politician.
 * Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin, 101, French philologist.
 * John Fairfax, 74, British ocean rower and adventurer.
 * Giangiacomo Guelfi, 87, Italian opera singer.
 * Robert E. Hecht, 92, American antiquities dealer.
 * Lew Hitch, 82, American basketball player (Minneapolis Lakers, Milwaukee Hawks, Philadelphia Warriors).
 * Jorge Salvador Lara, 85, Ecuadorian historian and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1966, 1976–1977).
 * Franca Maï, 52, French actress, cancer.
 * Laurie Main, 89, Australian-born character actor (Welcome to Pooh Corner).
 * Enrique Moreno Bellver, 48, Spanish footballer.
 * Gunther Plaut, 99, German-born Canadian rabbi and author.
 * Jimmy Sabater, 75, American Latin musician.
 * Allan Segal, 70, British documentary maker, cancer.
 * Luis Alberto Spinetta, 62, Argentine musician (Almendra, Pescado Rabioso, Invisible), lung cancer.
 * Irina Turova, 76, Soviet sprinter.
 * Wando, 66, Brazilian singer, cardiorespiratory arrest.
 * Brayim Younisi, 85, Iranian Kurdish writer, novelist and translator.

9

 * Adam Adamowicz, 42, American video game concept artist (The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Fallout 3), cancer.
 * Ole Albrechtsen, 87, Danish Olympic fencer.
 * Robert Baker, 85, American ice hockey player.
 * Jill Kinmont Boothe, 75, American alpine skier.
 * Peggy Crowe, 56, American Olympic speed skater.
 * Susarla Dakshinamurthi, 90, Indian film music director, playback singer, and record producer.
 * Fred Dickson, 74, Canadian lawyer and politician, Senator (since 2009), colon cancer.
 * O. P. Dutta, 90, Indian film director, complications of pneumonia.
 * Josh Gifford, 70, British racehorse jockey and trainer, heart attack.
 * John Hick, 90, English philosopher and theologian.
 * Barbara Marianowska, 64, British-born Polish politician.
 * Joe Moretti, 73, British guitarist, lung cancer.
 * Oscar Núñez, 83, Argentine actor (Good Life Delivery), cancer.
 * Don Panciera, 84, American football player (New York Yankees, Detroit Lions, Chicago Cardinals).

10

 * Ibrahim Al-Faqi, 61, Egyptian-born Canadian neuro-linguistic programming expert, homefire.
 * Chuck Baird, 64, American artist.
 * Geoffrey Cornish, 97, American golf course architect.
 * R. T. France, 73, British New Testament scholar.
 * Ronald Fraser, 81, English historian.
 * John Gage, 73, British art historian.
 * Joseph Gaggero, 84, Gibraltarian businessman.
 * Filippo Giannini, 88, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Rome (1980–1998).
 * Ed Harrison, 84, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers, Boston Bruins).
 * Francisco de Guruceaga Iturriza, 84, Venezuelan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of La Guaira (1973–2001).
 * Brian Jones, 67, British intelligence analyst.
 * Andrey Korotkov, 57, Russian politician, after long illness.
 * Lloyd Morrison, 54, New Zealand businessman (Infratil), leukemia.
 * Wilmot Perkins, 80, Jamaican radio personality.
 * David Anthony Pizzuto, 60, Canadian-born American voice actor (Family Guy, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3).
 * Ivan Pravilov, 48, Ukrainian ice hockey coach, suicide.
 * Refuse To Bend, 11, Irish Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the National Stakes (2002) and 2,000 Guineas Stakes (2003), myocardial infarction.
 * James Riordan, 75, English novelist and academic.
 * Adolfo Schwelm Cruz, 88, Argentine racing driver.
 * Jeffrey Zaslow, 53, American author and columnist, car accident.

11

 * Siri Bjerke, 53, Norwegian politician, Minister of the Environment (2000–2001), cancer.
 * Volodymyr Borysovsky, 78, Ukrainian builder, electrical engineer, and politician.
 * David Craven, 60, American art historian.
 * Gene Crumling, 89, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals).
 * Aharon Davidi, 85, Israeli general.
 * Guido Fanti, 86, Italian politician.
 * Trent Frayne, 93, Canadian sportswriter.
 * Whitney Houston, 48, American singer ("I Will Always Love You") and actress (The Bodyguard), accidental drowning.
 * John Sperry, 87, Canadian Anglican Bishop of the Arctic (1974–1990).

12

 * Galal Amer, 59, Egyptian journalist, heart attack.
 * Zina Bethune, 66, American actress (Sunrise at Campobello), hit-and-run.
 * Nicanor de Guzman Jr., 80, Filipino politician, lingering liver and pancreatic illness.
 * Malcolm Devitt, 75, English footballer.
 * Denis Flannery, 83, Australian rugby league player.
 * Adrian Foley, 8th Baron Foley, 88, British musician and aristocrat.
 * David Kelly, 82, Irish actor (Fawlty Towers, Strumpet City, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory).
 * Gratia Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, 99, Dutch Olympic alpine skier (1936).
 * John Severin, 90, American comic book artist (Hulk), co-founder of Mad magazine.
 * Victor-François, 8th duc de Broglie, 62, French aristocrat.
 * David Alan Walker, 83, British scientist.
 * Howard Zimmerman, 85, American professor of chemistry.

13

 * Wendy Albano, 52, American businesswoman, strangled.
 * Russell Arms, 92, American singer (Your Hit Parade) and actor (The Man Who Came to Dinner).
 * Lillian Bassman, 94, American photographer.
 * Ladislau Biernaski, 74, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of São José dos Pinhais (since 2006), cancer.
 * Frank Braña, 77, Spanish film actor, respiratory failure.
 * Al Brenner, 64, American football player (New York Giants, Hamilton Tiger-Cats).
 * Jodie Christian, 80, American jazz pianist.
 * Louise Cochrane, 93, American-born British television producer.
 * Trevor Davey, 85, New Zealand politician.
 * Eamonn Deacy, 53, Irish footballer, member of Aston Villa championship-winning team (1981), heart attack.
 * Sophie Desmarets, 89, French actress.
 * Humayun Faridi, 59, Bangladeshi actor.
 * Maria Fischer-Slyzh, 89, Ukrainian-Canadian pediatrician and philanthropist.
 * Daniel C. Gerould, 84, American playwright and academic.
 * David Griffiths, 84, British Anglican clergyman, Archdeacon of Berkshire (1987–1992).
 * Kushimaumi Keita, 46, Japanese sumo wrestler and coach (Tagonoura), ischaemic heart disease.
 * Anwar Kamal Khan, 64, Pakistani politician, cardiac failure.
 * Akhlaq Mohammed Khan, 75, Indian poet, lyricist and academic, lung cancer.
 * Isaak B. Klejman, 91, Ukrainian Soviet archaeologist.
 * Mohamed Lamari, 72, Algerian lieutenant general, Chief of Staff of the People's National Army (1993–2004), heart attack.
 * Víctor Manuel Liceaga Ruibal, 77, Mexican politician, Governor of Baja California Sur (1987–1993), respiratory failure.
 * Severo Lombardoni, 62, Italian music producer.
 * Jim O'Brien, 64, Scottish film and television director (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles).
 * Leta Peer, 47, Swiss painter and fine art photographer.
 * Sansón, 87, Spanish football player.
 * Freddie Solomon, 59, American football player (Miami Dolphins, San Francisco 49ers), colon and liver cancer.
 * Edward Groesbeck Voss, 82, American botanist and lepidopterist.

14

 * V. S. Acharya, 71, Indian politician.
 * Mike Bernardo, 42, South African boxer, kickboxer and martial artist.
 * Desmond Carroll, 93, English archdeacon.
 * Zlatko Crnković, 76, Croatian actor, cardiac arrest.
 * Ibragimkhalil Daudov, 51, Russian militant leader of the Vilayat Dagestan, shot.
 * Erwin Fiedor, 68, Polish Olympic ski jumper.
 * Reinhold Frosch, 76, Austrian luger.
 * Gloria Gallardo, 73, American activist.
 * Kim Pong-chol, 69, North Korean politician.
 * Tonmi Lillman, 38, Finnish musician (Ajattara, Sinergy, To/Die/For, Lordi).
 * Earl Lindley, 78, American football player (Edmonton Eskimos).
 * Tom McAnearney, 79, Scottish footballer (Sheffield Wednesday, Peterborough United, Aldershot).
 * Dory Previn, 86, American singer-songwriter (Mythical Kings and Iguanas) and lyricist (Valley of the Dolls, Last Tango in Paris).
 * Péter Rusorán, 71, Hungarian water polo player and coach, Olympic champion.
 * Art Tait, 83, American football player.
 * Alfredo Vega, 77, Paraguayan footballer.

15

 * Tariq al-Dahab, 34-38, Yemeni terrorist, shot.
 * Charles Anthony, 82, American tenor, kidney failure.
 * Ray Bailey, 76, Australian politician, President of the Tasmanian Legislative Council (1997–2002).
 * Sir Alan Cottrell, 92, British metallurgist and physicist.
 * Shannon D. Cramer, 90, American admiral.
 * William H. Dabney, 77, American military officer, awarded Navy Cross.
 * Cyril Domb, 91, British physicist.
 * Jacques Duby, 89, French actor.
 * Joki Freund, 85, German jazz saxophonist.
 * Zelda Kaplan, 95, American socialite and philanthropist.
 * Doug McNichol, 81, Canadian football player (Montreal Alouettes, Toronto Argonauts).
 * Bibudhendra Mishra, 83, Indian politician.
 * Lina Romay, 57, Spanish actress, cancer.
 * Clive Shakespeare, 62, British-born Australian guitarist (Sherbet) and record producer, prostate cancer.
 * James Whitaker, 71, British journalist, royal editor of the Daily Mirror, cancer.
 * Gerrit Ybema, 66, Dutch politician, State Secretary for Economic Affairs (1998–2002), lung cancer.
 * John J. Yeosock, 74, American lieutenant general, lung cancer.

16

 * Duško Antunović, 65, Croatian Olympic water polo player and coach.
 * Gösta Arvidsson, 86, Swedish Olympic athlete.
 * Chikage Awashima, 87, Japanese actress (Takarazuka Revue), pancreatic cancer.
 * Mitja Brodar, 91, Slovenian archaeologist.
 * Tiko Campbell, 64, American author and architect.
 * Gary Carter, 57, American Hall of Fame baseball player (Montreal Expos, New York Mets), brain tumor.
 * Shlomo Cohen-Tzidon, 89, Israeli politician.
 * Donald Henry Colless, 89, Australian entomologist.
 * Israel "Bo" Curtis, 79, American educator and funeral home insurance agent.
 * René Debenne, 97, French cyclist.
 * Sir Baddeley Devesi, 70, Solomon Islander politician, first Governor-General (1978–1988).
 * Jacques Forest, 91, French carcinologist.
 * Warren Hudson, 49, Canadian football player (Toronto Argonauts, Winnipeg Blue Bombers), brain cancer.
 * Elyse Knox, 94, American actress and model, mother of Mark Harmon.
 * Joy Lamason, 96, New Zealand cricketer.
 * Reidar T. Larsen, 88, Norwegian politician, member of parliament (1973–1977).
 * John Macionis, 95, American Olympic silver medal-winning (1936) swimmer.
 * Kathryn McGee, 91, American disability rights advocate.
 * Harry McPherson, 82, American lawyer and lobbyist, advisor to Lyndon B. Johnson, cancer.
 * Geevarghese Mar Osthathios, 93, Indian Orthodox bishop, Senior Metropolitan of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church.
 * Anil Ramdas, 54, Surinamese-born Dutch columnist and journalist (NRC Handelsblad).
 * Ronald Rindestu, 69, Norwegian politician.
 * John Ritchie, 67, English footballer.
 * Anthony Shadid, 43, American journalist, asthma.
 * Ethel Stark, 95, Canadian violinist and conductor.
 * Gene Vance, 88, American basketball player (Chicago Stags, Tri-Cities Blackhawks, Milwaukee Hawks).
 * Dick Anthony Williams, 77, American actor (Edward Scissorhands, The Jerk, Homefront), after long illness.

17

 * Rodolfo Acevedo, 60, Chilean historian.
 * Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn, 93, Dutch mathematician.
 * Robert Carr, Baron Carr of Hadley, 95, British politician, MP for Mitcham (1950–1974) & Carshalton (1974–1976); Home Secretary (1972–1974).
 * Jordan da Costa, 79, Brazilian footballer (Flamengo), diabetes.
 * Clarence Dart, 91, American World War II fighter pilot (Tuskegee Airmen).
 * Michael Davis, 68, American bassist (MC5), liver failure.
 * Winkie Direko, 82, South African politician, Premier of the Free State (1999–2004), stroke.
 * Pierre Francisse, 87, Belgian Olympic fencer.
 * Danny Halloran, 57, Australian footballer (Carlton).
 * Kurt Lehovec, 93, American physicist.
 * Ulric Neisser, 83, American psychologist.
 * Hank Nelson, 74, Australian historian, cancer.
 * Peter Novick, 77, American historian.
 * Howie Nunn, 76, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds).
 * Frank Sanders, 62, American Olympic silver medal-winning (1972) ice hockey player, pancreatic cancer.

18

 * Roald Aas, 83, Norwegian Olympic gold (1960) and bronze (1952) medal-winning speed skater.
 * Alex Anisi, Papua New Guinean politician.
 * Mariam Behruzi, 66-67, Iranian lawyer.
 * József Breznay, 95, Hungarian painter.
 * George Brizan, 69, Grenadian politician, Prime Minister (1995), diabetes.
 * João Viegas Carrascalão, 65, East Timorese politician.
 * Zvezdan Čebinac, 72, Serbian football player and manager.
 * Elizabeth Connell, 65, South African soprano, cancer.
 * Clementina Díaz y de Ovando, 96, Mexican writer and academic.
 * Linda Estrella, 89, Fillipina actress.
 * M. R. D. Foot, 92, English military historian.
 * Ken Goodwin, 78, English comedian (The Comedians), Alzheimer's disease.
 * Peter Halliday, 87, Welsh actor (Doctor Who, The Remains of the Day).
 * Miles Jackson-Lipkin, 87, British barrister, Hong Kong High Court judge (1981–1987), social welfare fraudster.
 * María Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat, 90, Argentine business executive and philanthropist.
 * Matt Lamb, 79, American painter.
 * Bertie Messitt, 81, Irish Olympic athlete (1960).
 * Roger Miner, 77, American senior federal appellate judge, heart failure.
 * Cal Murphy, 79, Canadian football coach and general manager (Winnipeg Blue Bombers).
 * Peter Sharp, 72, New Zealand first class cricketer (Canterbury) and cricket commentator, cancer.
 * Ric Waite, 78, American cinematographer (Red Dawn, Footloose, 48 Hrs.).
 * Mohammed Wardi, 79, Sudanese singer and songwriter, kidney complications.

19

 * Hubert Braun, 72, German Olympic bobsledder.
 * Georgi Cherkelov, 81, Bulgarian actor, stroke.
 * Robin Corbett, Baron Corbett of Castle Vale, 78, British politician, MP for Hemel Hempstead (1974–1979) and Birmingham Erdington (1983–2001), cancer.
 * Renato Dulbecco, 97, Italian-born American virologist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1975).
 * Avraham Fahn, 95, Israeli professor.
 * Vito Giacalone, 88, American mobster.
 * Eric Harris, 56, American football player (Toronto Argonauts, Kansas City Chiefs, Los Angeles Rams), heart attack.
 * J. Paul Hogan, 92, American research chemist.
 * Steve Kordek, 100, American pinball machine designer.
 * Giovanni Lilliu, 97, Italian archeologist.
 * Ruth Barcan Marcus, 90, American philosopher and logician.
 * Walter Schloss, 95, American investor and stock trader, leukemia.
 * Dick Smith, 72, American baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Mets).
 * So Man-sul, 84, North Korean Zainichi activist, Chongryon Central Standing Committee chairman.
 * Frits Staal, 81, Dutch philosopher.
 * Stasys Stonkus, 80, Lithuanian basketball player.
 * Herman G. Tillman, Jr., 89, American pilot (World War II, Korea, Vietnam), liver failure.
 * Jaroslav Velinský, 79, Czech science fiction and detective author.
 * Vitaly Vorotnikov, 86, Soviet politician, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR (1988–1990).

20

 * Foyez Ahmad, 84, Bangladeshi journalist, writer and cultural activist.
 * Clive Baker, 77, English footballer (Halifax Town).
 * Raymond Cicci, 82, French footballer
 * Knut Torbjørn Eggen, 51, Norwegian Olympic football player and coach.
 * Asar Eppel, 77, Russian translator, stroke.
 * Johnny Ezersky, 89, American basketball player.
 * Ra Ganapati, 76, Indian writer.
 * Sebhat Gebre-Egziabher, 76, Ethiopian author.
 * Imanuel Geiss, 81, German historian.
 * Marcel Gerdil, 84, French sprinter.
 * Katie Hall, 73, American politician, U.S. Representative from Indiana (1982–1985).
 * S. N. Lakshmi, 85, Indian actress, cardiac arrest.
 * Lydia Lamaison, 97, Argentine actress (Muñeca Brava).
 * Christoffer Schander, 51, Norwegian marine biologist.
 * Ariyil Shukoor, 24, Indian student, stabbed.
 * Michael Siegal, 61, British developmental psychologist.
 * Adrienne Smith, 78, Australian sport administrator.
 * John Steer, 83, British art historian.
 * Edgardo Gabriel Storni, 75, Argentine Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz (1984–2002).
 * Tamanna Begum, 64, Pakistani actress.
 * Sullivan Walker, 68, Trinidadian actor (The Cosby Show, Get Rich or Die Tryin'), heart attack.

21

 * Ranil Abeynaike, 57, Sri Lankan cricketer and commentator, heart attack.
 * James Blackett-Ord, 90, British judge and churchman.
 * Ajahn Chanda Thawaro, 90, Thai Buddhist monk.
 * Sarbari Roy Choudhury, 79, Indian sculptor, heart attack.
 * H. M. Darmstandler, 89, American Air Force officer.
 * Herman Fialkov, 89, American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and philanthropist.
 * Manuel Franco da Costa de Oliveira Falcão, 89, Portuguese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Beja (1980–1999).
 * Emlyn Hooson, Baron Hooson, 86, British politician, MP for Montgomeryshire (1962–1979).
 * Colin Ireland, 57, British serial killer.
 * Pierre Juneau, 89, Canadian broadcasting executive and cabinet minister, Minister of Communications (1975), namesake of the Juno Awards.
 * Fay Kleinman, 99, American painter, complications of a broken hip.
 * Vera Kublanovskaya, 91, Russian mathematician.
 * Yusuf Kurçenli, 65, Turkish film director, cancer.
 * Tom Martinez, 66, American football coach, heart attack.
 * John Michuki, 79, Kenyan politician, heart attack.
 * Benjamin Romualdez, 81, Filipino politician and diplomat, Governor of Leyte (1967–1986), brother of Imelda Marcos, cancer.
 * Leonard Rosoman, 98, British artist.
 * Barney Rosset, 89, American publisher (Grove Press) and free speech advocate.
 * Eldor Magomatovich Urazbayev, 71, Russian film director.
 * Stanisław Wieśniak, 81, Polish Olympic rower.
 * John Charles Winter, 88, British church organist.

22

 * Ali Abolhassani, 56, Iranian spiritual historiograph, heart failure.
 * Syed Mohammad Izhar Ashraf, 78, Indian imam.
 * Frank Carson, 85, Northern Irish comedian.
 * Marie Colvin, 56, American reporter (The Sunday Times), shelling.
 * Nakamura Jakuemon IV, 91, Japanese kabuki actor, pneumonia.
 * Lyudmila Kasatkina, 86, Russian actress, People's Artist of the USSR.
 * Thabang Lebese, 38, South African footballer, AIDS-related illness.
 * Lorin Levee, 61, American clarinetist (Los Angeles Philharmonic).
 * João Mansur, 88, Brazilian politician, Governor of Paraná (1973).
 * Robert R. McElroy, 84, American photographer.
 * Mike Melvoin, 74, American jazz pianist and composer, cancer.
 * Dmitri Nabokov, 77, American opera singer and translator.
 * Rémi Ochlik, 28, French photographer, shelling.
 * Royal Academy, 25, Irish Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the Breeders' Cup Mile (1990).
 * Haycene Ryan, 60, Montserratian cricketer, cancer.
 * Ian Robertson, 89, British rear admiral.
 * Cuauhtémoc Sandoval Ramírez, 61, Mexican politician, heart attack.
 * Enzo Sellerio, 88, Italian photographer, heart attack.
 * Billy Strange, 81, American songwriter ("Limbo Rock") and music arranger.
 * Sukhbir, 86, Indian writer.

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 * Tasoltan Basiev, 64, Soviet and Russian engineer.
 * Dick Bernard, 94, Scottish lawn bowler.
 * Cathy Campbell, 49, New Zealand broadcaster, brain tumour.
 * Charlie Collins, 66, Canadian football player, car accident.
 * Anne Commire, 72, American playwright.
 * William Gay, 70, American author.
 * Peter King, 47, English footballer.
 * Grigory Kosykh, 79, Soviet sports shooter.
 * Mariuccia Medici, 102, Swiss-born Italian actress.
 * William Raggio, 85, American politician, Nevada State Senator (1972–2011), respiratory illness.
 * David Sayre, 87, American scientist.
 * Marc Soula, 66, French entomologist.
 * Bruce Surtees, 74, American cinematographer (Lenny, Dirty Harry, Beverly Hills Cop).
 * Jan van Borssum Buisman, 92, Dutch painter.
 * Kazimierz Żygulski, 92, Polish sociologist and politician.

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 * Infanta Maria Adelaide of Portugal, 100, Portuguese royal.
 * Tony Aiello, 90, American football player.
 * Agnes Allen, 81, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).
 * István Anhalt, 92, Hungarian-born Canadian composer.
 * Bob Badgley, 83, American jazz double-bassist.
 * Jan Berenstain, 88, American writer and illustrator (Berenstain Bears), stroke.
 * Benedict Freedman, 92, American novelist and mathematician.
 * Njenga Karume, 82, Kenyan businessman and politician, cancer.
 * Theodore Mann, 87, American theatre producer and director.
 * Terry Mathews, 47, American baseball player (Texas Rangers, Florida Marlins, Baltimore Orioles), heart attack.
 * Kenneth Price, 77, American ceramics artist, cancer.
 * Pery Ribeiro, 74, Brazilian singer, myocardial infarction.
 * Eliana Tranchesi, 56, Brazilian chief executive (Daslu).
 * Jay Ward, 73, American baseball player (Minnesota Twins, Cincinnati Reds).
 * Oliver Wrong, 87, British medical academic.

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 * Gloria Alcorta, 96, Argentine writer, poet and sculptor.
 * Maurice André, 78, French classical trumpeter.
 * Dave Cheadle, 60, American baseball player (Atlanta Braves).
 * Lynn Compton, 90, American soldier, inspiration for Band of Brothers, heart attack.
 * Dick Davies, 76, American gold-medal winning Olympic basketball player (1964).
 * Alan Detweiler, 85, Canadian composer, author, and patron of the arts.
 * Lloyd R. George, 85, American politician, member of the Arkansas House of Representatives (1963–1967; 1973–1997).
 * Red Holloway, 84, American jazz saxophonist, stroke and kidney failure.
 * Erland Josephson, 88, Swedish actor and author, leader of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, complications of Parkinson's disease.
 * Louisiana Red, 79, American blues musician, stroke.

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 * Ed Brigadier, 62, American actor (Pushing Daisies, Gilmore Girls).
 * Phyllis Simmons Brooks, 85, Canadian educator.
 * Richard Carpenter, 82, English television screenwriter.
 * Robinson Cavalcanti, 67, Brazilian Anglican bishop, stabbed.
 * Paddy Concannon, 93, Irish politician.
 * Árpád Fekete, 90, Hungarian football player and coach.
 * Mohamed Fourati, 80, Tunisian surgeon.
 * Georg Holzherr, 85, Swiss Roman Catholic prelate, Abbot Ordinary of Territorial Abbacy of Maria Einsiedeln (1969–2001).
 * Don Joyce, 82, American football player (Baltimore Colts, Chicago Cardinals, Minnesota Vikings).
 * Hans Christian Korting, 59, German dermatologist.
 * Kumar Kashyap Mahasthavir, 85, Nepalese Buddhist monk.
 * Trayvon Martin, 17, American teenager, shot.
 * Berto Poosen, 67, Belgian Olympic volleyball player.
 * George E. Terwilleger, 71, American politician.
 * Johannes Vågsnes, 88, Norwegian politician.
 * Yvonne Verbeeck, 98, Belgian actress.
 * Zollie Volchok, 95, American basketball executive.

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 * Ely Bielutin, 86, Russian artist.
 * Louis Bertorelle, 79, French Olympic basketball player.
 * David Bowman, 54, American writer, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Rich Brenner, 65, American sports commentator.
 * Pedro Azabache Bustamante, 94, Peruvian painter.
 * Vince Dantona, 62, American ventriloquist.
 * Leif Eriksen, 93, Norwegian bandy player.
 * Werner Guballa, 67, German Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Mainz (since 2003).
 * Ma Jiyuan, 91, Chinese military leader.
 * Sailen Manna, 87, Indian Olympic footballer.
 * Piotr Pawłowski, 86, Polish actor.
 * Armand Penverne, 85, French football player.
 * Tina Strobos, 91, Dutch psychiatrist and humanitarian, protected Jewish refugees during World War II, cancer.
 * Władysław Tajner, 76, Polish Olympic ski jumper.
 * Helga Vlahović, 67, Croatian journalist, producer and television personality, uterine cancer.

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 * Karl Arnold, 71, German weightlifter.
 * Frisner Augustin, 63, Haitian Vodou drummer.
 * Bai Jing, 29, Chinese actress, stabbed.
 * Anna Lou Dehavenon, 85, American anthropologist.
 * Terri Dial, 62, American banker, pancreatic cancer.
 * Ian Gallahar, 70s, Irish road racing cyclist.
 * Jaime Graça, 70, Portuguese footballer.
 * Jim Green, 68, American-born Canadian politician and activist, lung cancer.
 * Fritz Hakl, 80, Austrian actor.
 * William Hamilton, 87, American theologian.
 * Anders Kulläng, 68, Swedish rally driver, drowning.
 * Antonio Attolini Lack, 80, Mexican architect.
 * Abukar Hassan Mohamoud, 43-49, Somali journalist, shot.
 * Hal Roach, 84, Irish comedian.
 * Murray Sargent, 83, Australian cricketer (South Australia, Leicestershire).

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 * Roland Bautista, 60, American guitarist (Earth, Wind & Fire).
 * Ertjies Bezuidenhout, 56, South African cyclist.
 * Prudence Burns Burrell, 95, American nurse.
 * Gerald Caravelli, 68, American bridge player.
 * Dennis Chinnery, 84, British actor (Doctor Who).
 * Woody Farmer, 76, American wrestler, cancer.
 * Fukuzo Iwasaki, 86, Japanese businessman.
 * Davy Jones, 66, British actor and musician (The Monkees), heart attack.
 * Karl Kodat, 69, Austrian international footballer.
 * Sheldon Moldoff, 91, American comic book artist (Batman, Superman, Blackhawk), kidney failure.
 * Horacio Morales, 68, Filipino economist and politician, Secretary of Agrarian Reform (1998–2001), heart attack.
 * P. K. Narayana Panicker, 81, Indian welfare worker, President of the Nair Service Society.
 * Vasilis Tsivilikas, 70, Greek comic actor, heart attack.