Deaths in January 2010

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

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

1

 * Gary Brockette, 62, American actor (The Last Picture Show) and assistant director, cancer.
 * Chauncey H. Browning, Jr., 75, American politician, West Virginia Attorney General (1969–1985).
 * Jean Carroll, 98, American comedian (The Ed Sullivan Show).
 * Periyasamy Chandrasekaran, 52, Sri Lankan politician, Member of Parliament, after short illness.
 * Lhasa de Sela, 37, American singer, breast cancer.
 * Michael Dwyer, 58, Irish journalist and film critic, lung cancer.
 * Alfredo Mario Espósito Castro, 82, Argentinian Roman Catholic Bishop of Zárate-Campana (1976–1991).
 * John Freeman, 93, American animator (The Smurfs) and animation director (My Little Pony and Friends).
 * Bingo Gazingo, 85, American performance poet, struck by car.
 * Adrien Gilbert, 78, Canadian Olympic weightlifter
 * Richard Kindleberger, 67, American newspaper reporter (The Boston Globe), brain tumor.
 * John Lyon, 58, British cricketer.
 * Jack Middleton, 92, British Olympic swimmer.
 * Tetsuo Narikawa, 65, Japanese actor (Spectreman) and karate instructor, lung cancer.
 * Marlene Neubauer-Woerner, 91, German sculptor.
 * Libuše Patočková, 76, Czech Olympic cross-country skier.
 * Stanisław Przybylski, 79, Polish modern pentathlete.
 * Mohamed Rahmat, 71, Malaysian politician, Information Minister (1978–1982, 1987–1999).
 * Faisal Bin Shamlan, 75, Yemeni politician, presidential candidate (2006), cancer.
 * Billy Arjan Singh, 92, Indian author.
 * Gregory Slay, 40, American rock drummer (Remy Zero), songwriter (Nip/Tuck theme), cystic fibrosis.
 * Freya von Moltke, 98, German World War II resistance fighter.
 * John Shelton Wilder, 88, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee (1971–2007), stroke.
 * Vera Zakharova, 89, first Yakut woman to fly a plane

2

 * Johann Frank, 71, Austrian football player (FK Austria Wien).
 * David Gerber, 86, American executive producer (Police Story, Police Woman), heart failure.
 * William Green, 82, British aviation writer.
 * Deborah Howell, 68, American journalist, The Washington Post ombudsman, hit by car.
 * René Oreel, 87, Belgian cyclist.
 * Augustine Paul, 65, Malaysian Federal Court judge, after chronic illness.
 * David R. Ross, 51, Scottish historian, heart attack.
 * Rajendra Shah, 96, Indian poet.

3

 * Gus Alexander, 75, Scottish footballer (Workington).
 * Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt, 84, Chilean composer, lung cancer.
 * Margery Beddow, 72, American choreographer and dancer.
 * Barry Blair, 56, Canadian comics artist and writer, brain aneurysm.
 * Gianni Bonichon, 65, Italian bobsledder, Olympic silver medalist.
 * Otto Breg, 60, Austrian Olympic bobsledder.
 * Sir Ian Brownlie, 77, British barrister, traffic collision.
 * Joyce Collins, 79, American jazz singer and pianist, pulmonary fibrosis.
 * Mary Daly, 81, American radical feminist philosopher.
 * Francis Gillingham, 93, British neurosurgeon.
 * Ali Safi Golpaygani, 96, Iranian Marja', natural causes.
 * Billy Harris, 58, American basketball player (Northern Illinois Huskies, San Diego Conquistadors), stroke.
 * John Keith Irwin, 80, American sociologist.
 * Eunice W. Johnson, 93, American director of Ebony Fashion Fair, widow of John H. Johnson, renal failure.
 * Charles Kleibacker, 88, American fashion designer, pneumonia.
 * Georges Martin, 94, French cyclist.
 * Takis Michalos, 63, Greek Greece men's national water polo team water polo player and coach; cancer.
 * Moti Nandi, 79, Indian writer and sports journalist.
 * Geoffrey Reeve, 77, British film director.
 * Isak Rogde, 62, Norwegian translator.
 * Tibet, 78, French comics artist and writer.
 * Bobby Wilkins, 87, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).

4

 * Olaug Abrahamsen, 81, Norwegian politician.
 * Rosalie Abrams, 88, American feminist playwright, actress and activist, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Paul Ahyi, 79, Togolese artist, designer of the flag of Togo.
 * Lew Allen, 84, American USAF general, NSA Director (1973–1977), USAF Chief of Staff (1978–1982), rheumatoid arthritis.
 * Knox Burger, 87, American editor, writer, and literary agent.
 * Neil Christian, 66, British singer, cancer.
 * Tony Clarke, 68, British musician and record producer (The Moody Blues), emphysema.
 * Sandro de América, 64, Argentinian singer, complications from heart and lung transplant surgery.
 * Donal Donnelly, 78, English-born Irish actor, cancer
 * Hywel Teifi Edwards, 75, Welsh historian and writer, after short illness.
 * Johan Ferrier, 99, Surinamese politician, President (1975–1980).
 * Tadeusz Góra, 91, Polish pilot.
 * Rory Markas, 54, American baseball radio announcer (Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim), heart attack.
 * György Mitró, 79, Hungarian Olympic swimmer.
 * Ludwig Wilding, 82, German artist.
 * Tsutomu Yamaguchi, 93, Japanese survivor of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, stomach cancer.

5

 * Abdul Azim al-Deeb, 80, Qatari professor (Qatar University).
 * Beverly Aadland, 67, American actress, girlfriend of Errol Flynn, diabetes and heart failure.
 * Daniel Kubert, 62, American mathematician.
 * Bernard Le Nail, 63, French writer, historian, Breton language and cultural advocate, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Willie Mitchell, 81, American musician and record producer, cardiac arrest.
 * Kenneth Noland, 85, American color field painter, kidney cancer.
 * Courage Quashigah, 62, Ghanaian politician.
 * Philippa Scott, 91, British conservationist.
 * George Syrimis, 88, Cypriot finance minister (1988–1993).
 * Toni Tecuceanu, 37, Romanian comedy actor, bacterial infection.
 * Rolf Thieme, 65, German Olympic hockey player.
 * George Willoughby, 95, American Quaker activist.

6

 * Philippe Arthuys, 81, French composer and film director.
 * David Giles, 83, British television director.
 * Michael Goulder, 82, British biblical scholar.
 * Michael Harper, 78, British priest of the Church of England and later of the Antiochian Orthodox Church.
 * George Leonard, 86, American writer, editor and educator, pioneer of the Human Potential Movement, after long illness.
 * Graham Leonard, 88, British Church of England Bishop of London (1981–1991), subsequently a Roman Catholic priest.
 * Ivan Medek, 84, Czech music publicist, theorist and critic, collaborator of Václav Talich and Václav Havel.
 * Harriet Miller, 90, American politician, mayor of Santa Barbara, California (1995–2001).
 * Beniamino Placido, 80, Italian journalist and television critic.
 * Hervé Prouzet, 89, French cyclist
 * Kittu Suresh, 64, Indian cricketer.

7

 * Wendall Anschutz, 71, American television newsman.
 * Myrtle Aydelotte, 92, American nurse, professor and hospital administrator.
 * Sándor Barcs, 97, Hungarian politician and sport executive, interim President of UEFA (1972–1973).
 * Gerald Bordelon, 47, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Alexander Garnet Brown, 79, Canadian politician, member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly (1969–1978).
 * Bruria Kaufman, 91, Israeli physicist.
 * Stephen Huneck, 61, American wood carving artist, suicide by gunshot.
 * Kamal Mahsud, Pakistani Pashto language folk singer, gas leak.
 * Alex Parker, 74, Scottish football player (Falkirk, Everton, Southport, Scotland) and manager, heart attack.
 * Donald Edmond Pelotte, 64, American Roman Catholic Bishop of Gallup (1990–2008), first Native American bishop.
 * James D Robertson, 78, Scottish painter and lecturer.
 * Blanca Sánchez, 63, Mexican actress, kidney failure.
 * Philippe Séguin, 66, French politician, heart attack.
 * Jim White, 67, American professional wrestler, cancer.
 * Hardy Williams, 78, American politician, Pennsylvania State Senator (1983–1998), Alzheimer's disease.

8

 * Bob Blackburn, 85, American sports commentator (Seattle SuperSonics), pneumonia.
 * Jean Charpentier, 74, Canadian journalist, press secretary for Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, cancer.
 * Art Clokey, 88, American stop motion animator (Gumby, Davey and Goliath), bladder infection.
 * Piero De Bernardi, 83, Italian screenwriter.
 * Tony Halme, 47, Finnish professional boxer, actor, wrestler and Member of Parliament (2003–2007), suicide by gunshot.
 * Raymond Kamber, 79, Swiss Olympic sprint canoer.
 * Slavka Maneva, 75, Macedonian writer and poet.
 * Charles Massi, 57, Central African politician and rebel leader.
 * Monica Maughan, 76, Australian actress, cancer.
 * Jim Rimmer, 75, Canadian graphic designer, cancer.
 * Gladstone Robinson, 66, Jamaican cricketer.
 * Gerrit de Ruiter, 82, Dutch hockey player
 * Otmar Suitner, 87, Austrian conductor.
 * Hans L. Trefousse, 88, German-born American historian.
 * Amir Vahedi, 48, Iranian-born American poker player, complications of diabetes.
 * Sumner G. Whittier, 98, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (1953–1957).

9

 * Améleté Abalo, 47, Togolese national football team assistant coach, shot.
 * John Ballem, 84, Canadian novelist.
 * Amo Bessone, 93, American ice hockey player and coach.
 * Juan Bidegaray, 90, Uruguayan Olympic sailor
 * Gösta Bredefeldt, 74, Swedish actor.
 * Franz-Hermann Brüner, 64, German head of OLAF, after long illness.
 * Acúrsio Carrelo, 78, Portuguese footballer.
 * Mark Ellidge, 69–70, British press photographer.
 * Ken Genser, 59, American politician, mayor of Santa Monica, California, after long illness.
 * Per N. Hagen, 73, Norwegian politician.
 * Rupert Hamer, 39, British journalist, defence correspondent for the Sunday Mirror, improvised explosive device.
 * Fatimah Hashim, 85, Malaysian politician, first female minister in the Malaysian government.
 * Laura Chapman Hruska, 74, American writer, co-founder and editor in chief of Soho Press, cancer.
 * Jack Kerness, 98, American art director, natural causes.
 * Nadav Levitan, 64, Israeli film director and screenwriter, lung disease.
 * Ronald Moore, 84, Canadian politician.
 * Evgeni Paladiev, 61, Soviet-born Kazakh ice hockey player.
 * Diether Posser, 87, German politician.
 * Armand Razafindratandra, 84, Malagasy cardinal, archbishop of Antananarivo (1994–2005), fall.
 * Vimcy, 84, Indian sports writer.
 * Thomas Summers West, 82, Scottish chemist.

10

 * Sir Donald Acheson, 83, British physician, Chief Medical Officer of England (1983–1991).
 * Sailadhar Baruah, 68, Indian film producer, complications of diabetes.
 * Mina Bern, 98, Polish-born American Yiddish theatre actor, heart failure.
 * Bert Bushnell, 88, British Olympic gold medal-winning rower (1948).
 * Carlos Bonilla Chávez, 86, Ecuadorian classical guitarist.
 * Simon Digby, 77, Indian-born British scholar and linguist, pancreatic cancer.
 * Danny Fitzgerald, 49–50, Irish hurler and Gaelic football player.
 * Jan C. Gabriel, 69, American race track announcer, complications from polycystic kidney disease.
 * Donald Goerke, 83, American executive (Campbell's Soup Company), created SpaghettiOs, heart failure.
 * Dick Johnson, 84, American big band clarinetist (Artie Shaw Band), after short illness.
 * Edward Linde, 67, American businessman, founder of Boston Properties, pneumonia.
 * Frances Morrell, 72, British political adviser and educationalist, cancer.
 * Ulf Olsson, 58, Swedish murderer, suicide by hanging.
 * Bill Patterson, 87, Australian racing driver, natural causes.
 * Jayne Walton Rosen, 92, American singer, Lawrence Welk's Champagne Lady (1940–1945), natural causes.
 * Moisés Saba, 47, Mexican entrepreneur, helicopter crash.
 * Dale Shewalter, 59, American teacher, founder of the Arizona Trail, cancer.
 * Mano Solo, 46, French singer, ruptured aneurysm.
 * Crispin Sorhaindo, 78, Dominican politician, President (1993–1998), cancer.
 * Bojidar Spiriev, 77, Bulgarian-born Hungarian hydrologist and statistician, creator of IAAF scoring tables.
 * Torbjørn Yggeseth, 75, Norwegian ski jumping athlete and official.

11

 * Juliet Anderson, 71, American pornographic actress and movie producer.
 * Aleksandr Androshkin, 62, Soviet Ukrainian sports shooter.
 * Francisco Benkö, 99, German-born Argentine chess master.
 * Robben Wright Fleming, 93, American president of the University of Michigan (1968–1978).
 * Georgy Garanian, 75, Russian jazz saxophonist and bandleader, cardiac arrest.
 * Dorothy Geeben, 101, American mayor of Ocean Breeze Park, Florida (since 2001), oldest active mayor in the U.S.
 * Miep Gies, 100, Dutch humanitarian, protector of Anne Frank during World War II, complications from a fall.
 * Mick Green, 65, British rock and roll guitarist (Johnny Kidd & The Pirates, Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas).
 * Andis Hadjicostis, 43, Cypriot CEO of Sigma TV, shot.
 * Johnny King, 83, English footballer.
 * Kurt Liebhart, 76, Austrian Olympic sprint canoer.
 * Harry Männil, 89, Estonian-born Venezuelan businessman.
 * Bob Noorda, 82, Dutch-born Italian graphic designer.
 * Éric Rohmer, 89, French film director.
 * Joe Rollino, 104, American strongman, weightlifter, and boxer, struck by van.
 * Ed Scott, 92, American baseball scout.
 * Dennis Stock, 81, American photographer (Magnum Photos), colon and liver cancer.
 * Gordon Van Tol, 49, Canadian Olympic water polo player, heart attack.

12

 * Masoud Alimohammadi, 50, Iranian nuclear scientist, bomb blast.
 * Miloslav Bělonožník, 91, Czech Olympic ski jumper.
 * Daniel Bensaïd, 63, French philosopher and Trotskyist activist.
 * Ken Colbung, 78, Australian Aboriginal elder, after short illness.
 * Shirley Bell Cole, 89, American voice actor (Little Orphan Annie).
 * Miguel Ángel de la Flor, 85, Peruvian army officer and politician.
 * Colin Dettmer, 51, South African cricketer.
 * Altan Dinçer, 77, Turkish Olympic basketball player.
 * Krisda Arunvongse na Ayudhya, 78, Thai architect, Governor of Bangkok (1996–2001), coronary artery disease.
 * Fred Krone, 79, American stuntman, cancer.
 * Elizabeth Laverick, 85, British engineer.
 * Hillis Layne, 91, American Major League Baseball player (1941, 1944–1945).
 * Alastair Martin, 94, American tennis player, member of the Hall of Fame, President of the United States Tennis Association (1969–1970).
 * Sir Allen McClay, 77, British pharmaceutical company founder, cancer.
 * Elizabeth Moody, 70, New Zealand actress and theatre director, pneumonia.
 * Ann Prentiss, 70, American actress (Captain Nice, My Stepmother Is an Alien).
 * Art Rust, Jr., 82, American sports commentator, Parkinson's disease.
 * Hasib Sabbagh, 89, Palestinian businessman.
 * Vanda Skuratovich, 84, Belarusian Roman Catholic activist.
 * Vadú, 32, Cape Verdean singer, car accident.
 * Yabby You, 63, Jamaican reggae singer and producer, stroke.
 * Notable people killed in the 2010 Haiti earthquake:
 * Georges Anglade, 65, Haitian professor and cabinet minister, co-founder of Université du Québec à Montréal.
 * Hédi Annabi, 65, Tunisian diplomat, Head of MINUSTAH.
 * Zilda Arns, 75, Brazilian pediatrician and humanitarian.
 * Luiz Carlos da Costa, 60, Brazilian diplomat, Deputy Head of MINUSTAH.
 * Serge Marcil, 65, Canadian politician, Quebec National Assembly of Quebec (1985–1994), MP for Beauharnois—Salaberry (2000–2004).
 * Flo McGarrell, 35, Italian-born American artist.
 * Myriam Merlet, 53, Haitian political activist.
 * Joseph Serge Miot, 63, Haitian Roman Catholic archbishop of Port-au-Prince.
 * Jimmy O, 35, Haitian hip hop musician.

13

 * Jack Block, 85, American psychologist, complications of a spinal cord injury.
 * Edward Brinton, 86, American marine biologist, after long illness.
 * Sir Robin Maxwell-Hyslop, 78, British politician, MP for Tiverton (1960–1992).
 * Abdullah Mehdar, Yemeni al-Qaeda terrorist, shot.
 * Teddy Pendergrass, 59, American soul singer, complications from colorectal cancer.
 * Jay Reatard, 29, American garage punk musician, cocaine toxicity.
 * Tommy Sloan, 84, Scottish footballer (Hearts, Motherwell).
 * Isamu Tanonaka, 77, Japanese voice actor (GeGeGe no Kitaro), heart attack.
 * Ed Thigpen, 79, American jazz drummer, after long illness.
 * Edgar Vos, 78, Dutch fashion designer, heart attack.

14

 * Ante Babaja, 82, Croatian film director and screenwriter.
 * Bobby Charles, 71, American songwriter ("See You Later, Alligator", "(I Don't Know Why) But I Do").
 * Antonio Fontán, 86, Spanish politician and journalist.
 * Micha Gaillard, 52-53, Haitian politician, earthquake.
 * John F. Hayes, 90, American attorney and politician, Kansas House of Representatives (1953–1955; 1967–1979).
 * Mark Jones, 70, British actor (The Empire Strikes Back, Doctor Who, Buccaneer).
 * Guðmundur Lárusson, 84, Icelandic Olympic sprinter.
 * Charles Nolte, 86, American actor, playwright and educator, prostate cancer.
 * Otto, 20, British dachshund-terrier, world's oldest dog, euthanised following stomach tumour.
 * P. K. Page, 93, Canadian poet.
 * Chilton Price, 96, American songwriter ("Slow Poke", "You Belong to Me").
 * Phoebe Prince, 15, Irish student at South Hadley High School, Massachusetts, bullying victim, suicide by hanging.
 * Marika Rivera, 90, French actress, daughter of Diego Rivera.
 * James W. Rutherford, 84, American mayor of Flint, Michigan (1975–1983, 2002–2003).
 * Katharina Rutschky, 68, German educationalist and author.
 * Petra Schürmann, 74, German television presenter, Miss World 1956, after long illness.
 * Jessie Tait, 81, British ceramic designer.
 * Antonio Vilaplana Molina, 83, Spanish Roman Catholic Bishop of León (1987–2002), renal failure.
 * Bernie Voorheis, 87, American basketball player.
 * Rowland Wolfe, 95, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1932) gymnast.

15

 * Asim Butt, 31, Pakistani artist (Stuckism art movement), suicide by hanging.
 * Florence-Marie Cooper, 69, American federal judge, District Court for Central District of California (since 1999), lymphoma.
 * Michael Creeth, 85, British biochemist.
 * Bahman Jalali, 65, Iranian photographer, pancreatic cancer.
 * Detlev Lauscher, 57, German footballer.
 * Steve Lovelady, 66, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, throat cancer.
 * Mike Osborn, 92, British military officer.
 * Marshall Warren Nirenberg, 82, American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (1968), cancer.
 * Peter Thomson, 73, Australian Anglican theologian, mentor to Tony Blair.

16

 * Glen Bell, 86, American entrepreneur, founder of Taco Bell.
 * Judi Chamberlin, 65, American anti-psychiatry activist, lung disease.
 * Guy Day, 79, American advertising executive.
 * Sam Dixon, 60, American minister, Deputy General Secretary of UMCOR (since 2007), earthquake.
 * Robert Gerard, 89, Belgian footballer
 * Musa Inuwa, 62, Nigerian politician.
 * George Jellinek, 90, American radio personality (WQXR).
 * Felice Quinto, 80, Italian photographer.
 * Takumi Shibano, 83, Japanese novelist, pneumonia.
 * Carl Smith, 82, American country singer-songwriter ("Hey Joe"), after long illness.
 * Bernie Weintraub, 76, American talent agent, co-founder of the Paradigm Talent Agency.
 * Jimmy Wyble, 87, American guitarist, heart failure.

17

 * Gaines Adams, 26, American football player (Chicago Bears, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), cardiac arrest.
 * Maki Asakawa, 67, Japanese singer, heart failure.
 * Jyoti Basu, 95, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (1977–2000), complications from pneumonia.
 * Thomas F. Cowan, 82, American politician, New Jersey State Senator (1984–1994).
 * Daisuke Gōri, 57, Japanese voice actor (Dragon Ball, Kinnikuman, Mobile Suit Gundam), suicide by wrist cutting.
 * Béla Köpeczi, 88, Hungarian historian and politician, Minister of Education (1982–1988).
 * Michalis Papakonstantinou, 91, Greek politician and author, Minister for Foreign Affairs (1992–1993).
 * Erich Segal, 72, American professor, author (Love Story), and screenwriter (Yellow Submarine), heart attack.

18

 * Ghulam Rabbani Agro, 76, Pakistani writer.
 * K. S. Ashwath, 84, Indian actor, multiple organ failure.
 * Cyril Burke, 84, Australian rugby union player.
 * Herb Grosch, 91, Canadian-born American computer scientist.
 * Kate McGarrigle, 63, Canadian folk singer, clear-cell sarcoma.
 * Günter Mielke, 67, German Olympic athlete.
 * Gladys Morcom, 91, British Olympic swimmer.
 * Imari Obadele, 79, American black separatist, stroke.
 * Reha Oğuz Türkkan, 90, Turkish writer.
 * Kevin O'Shea, 62, Canadian ice hockey player (St. Louis Blues, Buffalo Sabres).
 * Robert B. Parker, 77, American detective writer (Spenser series, Jesse Stone novels), heart attack.
 * Jörgen Philip-Sörensen, 71, Danish businessman, after long illness.
 * Robert D. Rowley, 68, American Episcopal Bishop of Northwestern Pennsylvania (1991–2007).
 * Josephus Tethool, 75, Indonesian Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of Amboina (1982–2009).
 * Celestino Tugot, 99, Filipino golfer, winner of the Philippine Open (1949, 1955–1958, 1962), lung cancer.

19

 * Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, 50, Palestinian leader of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, murdered.
 * Frances Buss Buch, 92, American first female television director.
 * Christos Chatziskoulidis, 58, Greek footballer (Egaleo F.C.), cancer.
 * Ian Christie, 82, British jazz clarinetist.
 * Tom Cochran, 85, American football player (Washington Redskins).
 * Dan Fitzgerald, 67, American college basketball coach (Gonzaga).
 * Vladimir Karpov, 87, Russian writer, Chairman of the USSR Union of Writers (1986–1991).
 * Jennifer Lyon, 37, American reality TV personality (Survivor: Palau), breast cancer.
 * Ida Mae Martinez, 78, American professional wrestler.
 * Bill McLaren, 86, Scottish rugby union commentator.
 * Panajot Pano, 70, Albanian footballer.
 * Cerge Remonde, 51, Filipino journalist and politician, heart attack.
 * Kalthoum Sarrai, 47, Tunisian-born French television presenter (Supernanny), cancer.
 * William Vitarelli, 99, American educator and architect.

20

 * Enid Campbell, 77, Australian legal scholar.
 * Tony Cummins, 103, Irish Roman Catholic priest.
 * Patricia Donoho Hughes, 79, American First Lady of Maryland (1979–1987), wife of Harry Hughes, Parkinson's disease.
 * John S. Loisel, 89, American fighter ace.
 * Bob Minton, 63, American-born Irish banker, critic of Scientology, heart ailment.
 * John Francis Moore, 68, Nigerian Roman Catholic Bishop of Bauchi (since 2003).
 * Jack Parry, 86, Welsh footballer (Swansea Town, Ipswich Town, Wales).
 * John Pawle, 94, English cricketer.
 * Derek Prag, 86, British politician, MEP for Hertfordshire (1979–1994).
 * Wallace Michael Ross, 89, British organist and choirmaster.
 * Abraham Sutzkever, 96, Polish-born Israeli poet.
 * Lynn Taitt, 75, Jamaican reggae guitarist, cancer.

21

 * Sayeed Ahmed, 79, Bangladeshi playwright.
 * Orhan Alp, 90, Turkish engineer and politician.
 * Bobby Bragan, 92, American baseball player and manager, heart attack.
 * Irwin Dambrot, 81, American basketball player involved in the CCNY Point Shaving Scandal, Parkinson's disease.
 * Lawrence Garfinkel, 88, American epidemiologist, cardiovascular disease.
 * Knud Gleie, 74, Danish Olympic swimmer.
 * Larry Johnson, 62, American film producer, heart attack.
 * Chindodi Leela, 72, Indian theatre and film actress, complications from heart attack.
 * Robert "Squirrel" Lester, 67, American smooth soul tenor (The Chi-Lites), liver cancer.
 * Hal Manders, 92, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).
 * Jacques Martin, 88, French comics artist and writer.
 * Camille Maurane, 98, French baritone singer.
 * Guillermo Abadía Morales, 97, Colombian folklore researcher, indigenous language expert, natural causes.
 * Curt Motton, 69, American baseball player, stomach cancer.
 * Paul Quarrington, 56, Canadian novelist, musician and screenwriter, lung cancer.

22

 * Apache, 45, American rapper.
 * Lenna Arnold, 89, American baseball player (AAGPBL)
 * Donnis Churchwell, 73, American football player.
 * Sir Percy Cradock, 86, British diplomat, after short illness.
 * Sir Dermot de Trafford, 85, British aristocrat and businessman.
 * Clayton Gerein, 45, Canadian wheelchair sports athlete, seven-time Paralympian, brain tumor.
 * Claus Gerson, 92, American Olympic hockey player.
 * Louis R. Harlan, 87, American Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, after long illness.
 * Iskandar of Johor, 77, Malaysian Yang di-Pertuan Agong (1984–1989), Sultan of Johor (1981–2010).
 * Jennifer Lyn Jackson, 40, American Playboy model, drug overdose.
 * Andrew E. Lange, 52, American astrophysicist, Big Bang researcher, suicide by asphyxiation.
 * Juan Pedro Laporte, 64, Guatemalan archaeologist.
 * Janeshwar Mishra, 76, Indian politician, cardiac arrest.
 * James Mitchell, 89, American actor (All My Children), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
 * Private Terms, 25, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
 * Gordon Richardson, Baron Richardson of Duntisbourne, 94, British Governor of the Bank of England (1973–1983).
 * Godfrey A. Rockefeller, 85, American aviator and conservationist.
 * Johnny Seven, 83, American actor (Ironside, The Apartment, Gunfight in Abilene), lung cancer.
 * Jean Simmons, 80, British actress (Hamlet, Spartacus, Guys and Dolls), Emmy winner (1983), lung cancer.
 * Ruth P. Smith, 102, American pro-choice campaigner.
 * Tuanaitau F. Tuia, 89, American Samoan politician and legislator, longest serving member of the American Samoa Fono.
 * Betty Wilson, 88, Australian cricketer.
 * Tom Wittum, 60, American football player (San Francisco 49ers), cancer.

23

 * George C. Baldwin, 92, American physicist.
 * Haren S. Gandhi, 68, Indian-born American inventor and engineer.
 * Robert Lam, 64, Malaysian news presenter, skin cancer.
 * Douglas J. Martin, 82, New Zealand leader in the LDS Church.
 * Sam Match, 87, American tennis player.
 * Roger Pierre, 86, French actor (Mon oncle d'Amérique), cancer.
 * Sir Thomas Prickett, 96, British RAF Air Chief Marshal.
 * Kermit Tyler, 96, American pilot, figured in the attack on Pearl Harbor, complications from strokes.
 * Oleg Velyky, 32, Ukrainian-born German handball player, melanoma.
 * Earl Wild, 94, American classical pianist, heart failure.

24

 * Boydson Baird, 91, American basketball player.
 * Lawrence Aloysius Burke, 77, Jamaican Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kingston (2004–2008), Nassau (1981–2004), cancer.
 * Thomas Cullinan, 63, South African cricketer.
 * Donald Dowd, 87, American campaign aide to the Kennedy family.
 * Ghazali Shafie, 87, Malaysian politician, Home Minister (1973–1981) and Foreign Minister (1981–1984).
 * Irshad Ahmed Haqqani, 81, Pakistani journalist and politician.
 * Robert Mosbacher, 82, American politician, Secretary of Commerce (1989–1992), pancreatic cancer.
 * Leonid Nechayev, 70, Russian film director, stroke.
 * Jim Podoley, 76, American football player (Washington Redskins), melanoma.
 * James Henry Quello, 95, American government official, FCC Commissioner (1974–1997), heart and kidney failure.
 * FitzRoy Somerset, 5th Baron Raglan, 82, British aristocrat.
 * Pernell Roberts, 81, American actor (Bonanza; Trapper John, M.D., Ride Lonesome), pancreatic cancer.
 * Peter Wood, 74, Australian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland (1966–1974).

25

 * Ali Hassan al-Majid, 68, Iraqi military commander and government minister, execution by hanging.
 * Sefis Anastasakos, 68, Greek politician, author, lawyer and activist, cancer.
 * Lynn Bayonas, 66, Australian television writer and producer, cancer.
 * Orlando Cole, 101, American classical cellist and educator.
 * Horace Weldon Gilmore, 91, American federal judge.
 * Jane Jarvis, 94, American jazz pianist and organist.
 * Pádraig MacKernan, 69, Irish diplomat, Secretary General (Foreign Affairs), Ambassador to France and United States.
 * Georgiann Makropoulos, 67, American professional wrestling historian and author, heart attack.
 * Iivari Malmikoski, 82, Finnish Olympic boxer.
 * Charles Mathias, 87, American politician, Senator from Maryland (1969–1987), complications of Parkinson's disease.
 * Gordon Park, 66, British convicted murderer, apparent suicide by hanging.
 * Algirdas Petrulis, 95, Lithuanian painter.
 * Ivan Prenđa, 70, Croatian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Zadar (since 1990).
 * Bill Ritchie, 78, Scottish comic book artist.
 * Emilio Vieyra, 88, Argentine film director, actor, screenwriter and producer.

26

 * Andon Amaraich, 77, Micronesian Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, pneumonia.
 * Louis Auchincloss, 92, American novelist, complications of a stroke.
 * Juliusz Bardach, 95, Polish historian.
 * Boa Sr., 85, Indian Great Andamanese elder, last speaker of the Bo language.
 * Geoffrey Burbidge, 84, British-born American astrophysicist, after long illness.
 * Anne Froelick, 96, American blacklisted screenwriter.
 * Dag Frøland, 64, Norwegian comedian, singer and variety artist.
 * Gummadi, 82, Indian actor.
 * Paul R. Jones, 81, American art collector, after short illness.
 * Eugenijus Karpavičius, 56, Lithuanian illustrator.
 * Inda Ledesma, 83, Argentine actress, cardiac arrest.
 * Ajmer Singh, 69, Indian athlete and educator.
 * Paul Mbiybe Verdzekov, 79, Cameroonian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bamenda (1970–2006).
 * Ken Walters, 76, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).

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 * Harry Alger, 85, Canadian politician.
 * Lee Archer, 90, American Air Force pilot (Tuskegee Airman).
 * Barry Blitzer, 80, American television writer (Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., The Flintstones, The Jetsons), complications from abdominal surgery.
 * Betty Lou Keim, 71, American actress, lung cancer.
 * Ruben Kruger, 39, South African rugby union player, brain tumor.
 * Eduardo Michaelsen, 89, Cuban exile, painter in the naive art style.
 * Shirley Collie Nelson, 78, American country singer, ex-wife of Willie Nelson.
 * Zelda Rubinstein, 76, American actress (Poltergeist, Picket Fences, Scariest Places on Earth).
 * J. D. Salinger, 91, American author (The Catcher in the Rye).
 * Howard Zinn, 87, American historian (A People's History of the United States), civil rights and anti-war activist, heart attack.

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 * A.K.M. Mohiuddin Ahmed, Bangladesh Army officer, hanged.
 * Mohammad-Reza Ali-Zamani, app. 38, Iranian activist, hanging.
 * Frank Baker Jr., 66, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians), heart failure.
 * Larbi Belkheir, 72, Algerian major general, Interior Minister (1991).
 * Bill Binder, 94, American restaurateur (Phillippe's).
 * Eduardo Catalano, 92, Argentine architect.
 * Patricia Clarke, 90, British biochemist.
 * José Eugênio Corrêa, 95, Brazilian Roman Catholic Bishop of Caratinga (1957–1978).
 * Margaret Dale, 87, British dancer and television director.
 * Walter Fondren, 73, American football player and conservationist, heart failure.
 * George Hanlon, 92, Australian horse trainer, three-time Melbourne Cup winner, natural causes.
 * Mick Higgins, 87, Irish Gaelic footballer, All-Ireland Senior Football Championship winner (Cavan; 1947, 1948, 1952).
 * Wilfriede Hoffmann, 77, German Olympic athlete.
 * Mohammad Bazlul Huda, Bangladeshi army officer and assassin of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, hanged.
 * Alistair Hulett, 57, Scottish-born Australian folk singer, liver failure.
 * Robert Joffe, 66, American lawyer, pancreatic cancer.
 * Patricia Leonard, 73, British contralto, throat cancer.
 * Kazimierz Mijal, 99, Polish politician.
 * Bud Millikan, 89, American basketball coach (University of Maryland).
 * Sarah Mulvey, 34, British television producer (Channel 4), suspected suicide.
 * Arash Rahmanipour, app. 20, Iranian activist, hanging.
 * Seymour Sarason, 91, American psychologist.
 * Keiko Tobe, 52, Japanese manga artist (With the Light), mesothelioma.

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 * Evgeny Agranovich, 91, Russian composer and bard.
 * Elsa Bakalar, 90–91, English-born American garden designer.
 * Tom Brookshier, 78, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles), coach and sportscaster (CBS Sports, WCAU), cancer.
 * Adam Alexander Dawson, 96, British film editor.
 * Eric Freiwald, 82, American television writer (The Young and the Restless).
 * Georgelle Hirliman, 73, American performance artist, cancer.
 * Sir Derek Hodgkinson, 92, British air chief marshal.
 * Tom Howard, 59, American musician, heart attack.
 * Ralph McInerny, 80, American philosopher (University of Notre Dame) and mystery author (Father Dowling Mysteries).
 * Ram Niwas Mirdha, 85, Indian politician (Lok Sabha), minister and speaker (Rajasthan Legislative Assembly), multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
 * Wilf Paish, 77, British athletics coach, after long illness.
 * Mikael Reuterswärd, 45, Swedish adventurer, first Swede to reach summit of Mount Everest (body found on this date).
 * Karen Schmeer, 39, American documentary film editor (The Fog of War), vehicular hit-and-run.
 * Zahid Sheikh, 60, Pakistani Olympic silver medal-winning (1972) field hockey player.
 * Cameron Snyder, 93, American sports journalist (The Baltimore Sun), won Dick McCann Memorial Award (1982), lung cancer.
 * Eckart Viehweg, 61, German mathematician, after short illness.

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 * Rafet Angın, 94, Turkish teacher.
 * Erna Baumbauer, 91, German casting agent.
 * Ruth Cohn, 97, German psychotherapist.
 * Lucienne Day, 93, British textile designer.
 * Ron Giles, 90, English cricketer (Nottinghamshire).
 * Sølve Grotmol, 70, Norwegian sports commentator.
 * Bruce Mitchell, 90, Australian academic.
 * Ursula Mommens, 101, British potter.
 * Brahmananda Panda, 61, Indian politician.
 * Guy Renwick, 73, British Olympic bobsledder.
 * Aaron Ruben, 95, American television producer (Andy Griffith Show, Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C., Sanford and Son), pneumonia.
 * Tan Eng Yoon, 82, Singaporean Olympic sprinter.

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 * Gunnar Aksnes, 83, Norwegian chemist and poet.
 * Kage Baker, 57, American science fiction and fantasy author, uterine cancer.
 * Pauly Fuemana, 40, New Zealand musician (OMC), after short illness.
 * Henry Fukuhara, 96, American watercolor painter, natural causes.
 * Patricia Gage, 69, British actress and voice actress.
 * Jiří Havlis, 77, Czech Olympic gold medal-winning (1952) rower.
 * Albert Huie, 89, Jamaican painter.
 * Edith Josie, 88, Canadian columnist, natural causes.
 * Viktor Kaisiepo, 61, Netherlands New Guinean-born Dutch activist for West Papuan independence.
 * Thorleif Karlsen, 100, Norwegian police inspector, politician and radio host, natural causes.
 * Sanna Kiero, 79, Finnish Olympic cross-country skier.
 * Howard Lotsof, 66, American researcher, discovered anti-addictive effects of ibogaine, liver cancer.
 * Tomás Eloy Martínez, 75, Argentine writer and journalist, brain tumor.
 * Shizuka Miura, Japanese ball-jointed doll maker and musician, suicide.
 * John Norris, 76, British-born Canadian publisher (Coda), heart condition.
 * Keith Norton, 69, Canadian politician, former MPP for Kingston and the Islands (1975–1985), cancer.
 * Paddie O'Neil, 83, British actress and singer.
 * Phil Smith, 63, Australian football player, cancer.
 * Pierre Vaneck, 78, French actor (The Science of Sleep), complications of heart surgery.