Deaths in July 2011

The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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

 * Jane Baker, 88, American community organizer and politician, first female Mayor of San Mateo, California.
 * Leslie Brooks, 89, American actress.
 * Edmund Snow Carpenter, 88, American anthropologist.
 * Charlie Craig, 73, American songwriter ("She's Single Again", "The Generation Gap"), lung cancer.
 * Willie Fernie, 82, Scottish footballer, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Bud Grant, 79, American television executive, president of CBS (1980–1987).
 * Anne LaBastille, 75, American author and ecologist.
 * Bébé Manga, 60, Cameroonian singer, cardiac arrest.
 * Bob McCann, 47, American basketball player (Minnesota Timberwolves, Washington Bullets), heart failure.
 * Harold Nelson, 88, New Zealand Olympic runner.
 * Paul Romand, 80, French Olympic skier.
 * Jean-Louis Rosier, 86, French racecar driver.

2

 * Ibrahim Abu-Rabiʽ, 54–55, Palestinian professor.
 * Khalid Aziz, 73, Pakistani cricket umpire.
 * Reeve Maclaren Bailey, 100, American ichthyologist.
 * Itamar Franco, 81, Brazilian politician, President (1992–1995), leukemia.
 * Magnar G. Huseby, 82, Norwegian engineer and politician.
 * Olivera Marković, 86, Serbian actress.
 * Ross Martin, 68, Australian Olympic cross-country skier, cycling accident.
 * Chaturanan Mishra, 86, Indian politician and trade union leader, after long illness.
 * Sir Oliver Napier, 75, Northern Irish politician, leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland (1972–1984).
 * Robert Sklar, 74, American film historian, cycling accident.
 * Juno Stover-Irwin, 82, American diver, Olympic silver (1956) and bronze (1952) medalist.

3

 * Abdurehim Haji Amin, 68, Chinese politician.
 * Ali Bahar, 50, Bahraini singer, guitarist and organ player, kidney failure.
 * Iain Blair, 69, British romance novelist, published under the name Emma Blair.
 * Martin Crowe, 88, Australian Olympic athlete.
 * Francis King, 88, British writer.
 * Anna Massey, 73, British actress (Frenzy, Hotel du Lac), cancer.
 * Fred Newman, 76, American psychotherapist.
 * Sir Roy Redgrave, 85, British Army general.
 * Len Sassaman, 31, American cryptographer, suicide.
 * John C. Truesdale, 89, American public servant, National Labor Relations Board chairman (1998–2000), cancer.

4

 * Şerban Cantacuzino, 70, Romanian actor and nobleman, descendant of Wallachian Prince Şerban Cantacuzino.
 * Wes Covington, 79, American baseball player (Milwaukee Braves, Kansas City Athletics, Philadelphia Phillies), cancer.
 * John Davies Evans, 86, British archaeologist.
 * Rusty Farley, 57, American politician, member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives (2011).
 * Otto von Habsburg, 98, Austro-Hungarian royal and politician, MEP (1979–1999).
 * Billy Hardee, 56, American football player (Denver Broncos, Ottawa Rough Riders), motorcycle accident.
 * Zurab Kapianidze, 74, Georgian actor and politician, MP (1999–2003).
 * Scott McLaren, 20, British Army soldier who was killed by the Taliban in Afghanistan.
 * Pablo McNeil, 71, Jamaican Olympic athlete and coach, after long illness.
 * Lawrence R. Newman, 86, American advocate for the deaf.
 * Éva Sebők-Szalay, 62, Hungarian Olympic volleyball player.
 * Jane Scott, 92, American rock music critic.
 * William G. Thrash, 94, American Marine Corps lieutenant general.
 * Neil Turner, 77, Australian politician, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland (1996–1998); MLA for Warrego (1974–1986) and Nicklin (1990–1998).
 * Gerhard Unger, 95, German opera singer.

5

 * Hilda Anderson Nevárez, 72, Mexican trade union leader and politician.
 * Jaap Blokker, 69, Dutch businessman, cancer.
 * Neil Dougherty, 50, American basketball coach (TCU).
 * Malcolm Forsyth, 74, South African-born Canadian trombonist and composer, pancreatic cancer.
 * David Getches, 68, American educator and Native American rights lawyer, pancreatic cancer.
 * Armen Gilliam, 47, American basketball player (Phoenix Suns, New Jersey Nets, Milwaukee Bucks), heart attack.
 * George Lang, 86, Hungarian-born American restaurateur and cookbook author, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Odd Mæhlum, 89, Norwegian Olympic track and field athlete.
 * Fonce Mizell, 68, American jazz and R&B record producer (Mizell Brothers).
 * Mika Myllylä, 41, Finnish cross country skier, 1998 Olympic gold medalist. (body found on this date)
 * Theodore Roszak, 77, American scholar (The Making of a Counter Culture), cancer.
 * Hanna Segal, 92, British psychoanalyst.
 * John Sweet, 95, American actor (A Canterbury Tale).
 * Gordon Tootoosis, 69, Canadian actor (Pocahontas, Legends of the Fall) and activist, pneumonia.
 * Cy Twombly, 83, American painter, cancer.
 * Shinji Wada, 61, Japanese manga artist (Sukeban Deka), heart disease.

6

 * Steve Cardiff, 53, Canadian politician, automobile accident.
 * Paul-André Crépeau, 85, Canadian legal academic.
 * Daniel Mortimer Friedman, 95, American jurist.
 * Mani Kaul, 66, Indian filmmaker, after long illness.
 * George Edward Kimball, 67, American boxing columnist (Boston Herald), esophageal cancer.
 * Marketa Kimbrell, 82, American actress, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Warren Leslie, 84, American author, journalist and business executive.
 * John Mackey, 69, American Hall of Fame football player (Baltimore Colts, San Diego Chargers).
 * Josef Suk, 81, Czech violinist, prostate cancer.
 * Andreas Waldherr, 43, Austrian rally driver, workshop accident.
 * Mark Whitehead, 50, American Olympic cyclist.
 * Keith Wilson, 69, British production designer (Space: 1999).
 * Gabriele Zeilinger, 93, Austrian Olympic fencer.

7

 * Ricardo Alegría, 90, Puerto Rican anthropologist, complications of heart disease.
 * Peter Aucoin, 67, Canadian educator (Dalhousie University).
 * Bill Boddy, 98, British motor sport journalist.
 * Ganapathi Bose, 72, Indian cricketer.
 * Frank Brenchley, 93, British diplomat.
 * Allan W. Eckert, 80, American historian.
 * Manuel Galbán, 80, Cuban guitarist (Buena Vista Social Club), heart attack.
 * Rasika Joshi, 39, Indian actress, leukemia.
 * Yuri Kukin, 78, Russian singer-songwriter.
 * Humberto Leal Garcia, 38, Mexican murderer, executed by lethal injection.
 * José Carlos Martínez, 48, Argentine politician, Senator (since 2007), traffic collision.
 * Rizalino Navarro, 72, Filipino business executive, Secretary of Trade and Industry (1992–1996), heart attack.
 * Miguel Gatan Purugganan, 79, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ilagan (1974–1999).
 * Olav Versto, 60, Norwegian journalist and editor (Verdens Gang), drowning.
 * Dick Williams, 82, American baseball player and manager (Oakland Athletics), Hall of Famer, ruptured aortic aneurysm.

8

 * Anthony Aikman, 69, British screenwriter and film director.
 * Kenny Baker, 85, American fiddler, complications from a stroke.
 * Roberts Blossom, 87, American actor (Home Alone, Escape from Alcatraz, Doc Hollywood), cerebrovascular disease.
 * William R. Corliss, 84, American physicist and writer.
 * Sam Denoff, 83, American Emmy Award-winning television writer (The Dick Van Dyke Show, That Girl), Alzheimer's disease.
 * Aleksis Dreimanis, 96, Latvian-born Canadian geologist.
 * Pete Duranko, 67, American football player (Denver Broncos), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
 * Mary Fenech Adami, 77, Maltese First Lady (2004–2009), wife of Prime Minister Eddie Fenech Adami, heart attack.
 * Betty Ford, 93, American First Lady (1974–1977) and co-founder of Betty Ford Center.
 * Norman Hampson, 89, British historian.
 * Camille Lembi Zaneli, 61, Congolese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Isangi (since 2000), plane crash.
 * George McAnthony, 45, Italian country singer, heart attack.
 * Paul Michael, 84, American actor, heart failure.
 * Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez, 95, Spanish-born Mexican philosopher, writer and educator.

9

 * Don Ackerman, 80, American basketball player (New York Knicks).
 * Facundo Cabral, 74, Argentine singer and songwriter, shot.
 * Ralph Goldston, 82, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles, Hamilton Tiger-Cats).
 * Carl T. Langford, 92, American politician, Mayor of Orlando, Florida (1967–1980).
 * Peter Newmark, 95, British educator and scholar.
 * Percy Oliver, 92, Australian Olympic swimmer.
 * Arvo Salo, 79, Finnish writer and politician, MP (1966–1970, 1979–1983) and Minister of Culture (1982–1983).
 * Hideo Tanaka, 78, Japanese director (Sukeban Deka The Movie), stomach cancer.
 * Lee Vines, 92, Canadian-born American television announcer (What's My Line?) and actor, complications from a fall and pneumonia.
 * Würzel, 61, British guitarist (Motörhead), ventricular fibrillation.

10

 * Pierrette Alarie, 89, Canadian soprano, wife of tenor Léopold Simoneau.
 * Travis Bean, 63, American guitar maker, cancer.
 * Roberto Guerrero, 86–87, Argentine Olympic cyclist.
 * Ajit Das Gupta, 86, Indian cricketer.
 * Ragnar Lundberg, 86, Swedish athlete.
 * Frank Mascara, 81, American politician, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (1995–2003), lung cancer.
 * Roland Petit, 87, French ballet dancer and choreographer, leukemia.
 * Kelly Thomas, 37, American homeless man, beaten.
 * Deacon Turner, 56, American football player (Cincinnati Bengals), shot.
 * Malcolm Wild, 79, Australian soccer player.

11

 * Gary Bannerman, 64, Canadian journalist, liver complications.
 * Andy Barker, 87, American philanthropist.
 * F. C. Barnes, 82, American gospel musician.
 * Henry Carlisle, 84, American translator, novelist and anti-censorship activist.
 * Helen Crummy, 91, British social activist.
 * Michael Evans, 59, British Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of East Anglia (since 2003), prostate cancer.
 * Tom Gehrels, 86, Dutch-born American astronomer.
 * Rob Grill, 67, American singer and songwriter (The Grass Roots).
 * Alex Hay, 78, British golf journalist.
 * Andreas Ioannides, 53, Cypriot navy chief, explosion.
 * Jaroslav Jiřík, 71, Czech hockey player (St. Louis Blues), plane crash.
 * George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood, 88, British aristocrat, magazine editor and arts administrator, first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II.
 * Herbert Matayoshi, 82, American politician, Mayor of Hawaii County (1974–1984).
 * Richard F. Pedersen, 86, American diplomat, President of American University of Cairo (1977–1990).
 * Maxhob'ayakhawuleza Sandile, 55, South African monarch, King of Rharhabe.
 * Sir Filoimea Telito, 66, Tuvaluan President of the Church of Tuvalu, Governor-General (2005–2010), heart attack.
 * Steve Trimble, 53, American football player (Denver Broncos), heart attack.

12

 * Aftab Ahmad Khan, 87, Pakistani military officer, heart attack.
 * Premangsu Chatterjee, 83, Indian cricketer.
 * Peter Crampton, 79, British politician, member of the European Parliament (1989–1999), suspected brain haemorrhage.
 * William Crozier, 81, Irish artist.
 * Bob Fraser, 66, American actor, producer and writer, melanoma.
 * Bolesław Gładych, 93, Polish World War II flying ace.
 * Howard Hilton, 47, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals).
 * Ahmed Wali Karzai, 50, Afghan politician, brother of President Hamid Karzai, shot.
 * Jokapeci Koroi, 79, Fijian politician, President of Fiji Labour Party (1991–2011).
 * Francisco Villagrán Kramer, 84, Guatemalan politician, Vice President (1978–1980).
 * Kurt Lundquist, 85, Swedish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1948) athlete.
 * Charles Asa Schleck, 86, American Roman Catholic prelate, titular archbishop and under-secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples (1995–2000).
 * Rudy Schulze, 82, Canadian Olympic shooter.
 * Sherwood Schwartz, 94, American television producer and writer (The Brady Bunch, Gilligan's Island, I Married Joan).
 * Tony Stevens, 63, American choreographer, dancer and actor, Hodgkin's lymphoma.
 * Zdeněk Sýkora, 91, Czech abstract painter.

13

 * Raymond Beckman, 86, American Olympic soccer player, coronary artery disease.
 * Giacomo Benevelli, 86, Italian sculptor.
 * Per-Erik Burud, 48, Norwegian businessman, boating accident.
 * Al Debbo, 87, South African comedian.
 * Allan Jeans, 77, Australian football player and coach, pulmonary fibrosis.
 * John Mosca, 86, American restaurateur (Mosca's), prostate cancer.
 * Jerry Ragovoy, 80, American songwriter ("Time Is on My Side"), stroke.
 * Heinz Reincke, 86, German actor.
 * Niall Shanks, 52, British-born North American philosopher.

14

 * Dekha Ibrahim Abdi, 47, Kenyan peace activist, recipient of the Right Livelihood Award, car accident.
 * S. George Bankoff, 89, American chemical engineer.
 * Sissel Solbjørg Bjugn, 63, Norwegian poet and children's writer.
 * Isabel McNeill Carley, 92, American music educator and composer.
 * Eric Delaney, 87, British percussionist and band leader.
 * William Lockhart Garwood, 79, American jurist (United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit), heart attack.
 * Noel Gayler, 96, American Navy admiral.
 * Otia Ioseliani, 81, Georgian writer and dramatist.
 * Leo Kirch, 84, German media entrepreneur.
 * Vladimir Kosinsky, 66, Russian swimmer, 1968 Olympic silver and bronze medalist.
 * Terrence Lanni, 68, American casino executive, cancer.
 * Kennedy Ondiek, 44, Kenyan Olympic athlete.
 * Antonio Prieto, 85, Chilean singer and actor, cardiac arrest.

15

 * Helen Beverley, 94, American actress (Green Fields), natural causes.
 * Luis Enrique Sam Colop, 56, Guatemalan linguist.
 * Manuel Corral, 76, Spanish religious leader, Pope of the Palmarian Catholic Church (since 2005).
 * John Crook, 80, British ethologist.
 * Cuddly Dudley, 87, British rock and roll singer, natural causes.
 * Ed Flesh, 79, American art director, inventor of the Wheel of Fortune wheel, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
 * Cornell MacNeil, 88, American operatic baritone.
 * Michael Magee, 81, Canadian actor (The Raccoons, Yes You Can), and author, colitis.
 * John S. Toll, 87, American physicist and educational administrator, heart failure.
 * Googie Withers, 94, English actress.

16

 * Milo Anstadt, 91, Dutch journalist and writer.
 * Bertalan Bicskei, 66, Hungarian footballer and coach.
 * Forrest Blue, 65, American football player (San Francisco 49ers, Baltimore Colts).
 * Geraint Bowen, 95, Welsh poet.
 * Rouhollah Dadashi, 30, Iranian powerlifter and bodybuilder, stabbed.
 * Albin Małysiak, 94, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Kraków (1970–1993).
 * Dame Katerina Mataira, 79, New Zealand educator and Māori language proponent, co-founder of Kura Kaupapa Māori.
 * Cesare Mazzolari, 74, Italian-born South Sudanese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Rumbek (since 1998).
 * Joe McNamee, 84, American basketball player (Rochester Royals, Baltimore Bullets).
 * Kazimierz Neumann, 77, Polish Olympic rower.
 * Keith Smith, 96, Australian engineer.
 * Charlie Woollett, 90, English footballer (Bradford City).

17

 * Juan Arza, 88, Spanish footballer and coach.
 * Dionysios Bairaktaris, 84, Greek Orthodox hierarch, Metropolitan of Chios, Psara and Inousses (since 1979).
 * Juan María Bordaberry, 83, Uruguayan politician and dictator, President (1972–1976), after a long illness.
 * Georges Condominas, 90, French anthropologist.
 * Aba Dunner, 73, German-born Jewish religious activist.
 * Anne Garber, 64, Canadian journalist and writer, cancer.
 * Lo' Lo' Mohd Ghazali, 53, Malaysian politician, cancer.
 * Jan Mohammad Khan, Afghan presidential adviser, shot.
 * Jim Kincaid, 76, American news correspondent (ABC News), anchorman (WVEC) and essayist, heart attack.
 * John Kraaijkamp, Sr., 86, Dutch actor and comedian.
 * Takaji Mori, 67, Japanese Olympic bronze medal-winning (1968) footballer, renal pelvic cancer.
 * Joe Morris, Sr., 85, American Navajo World War II code talker.
 * David Ngoombujarra, 44, Australian actor (Kangaroo Jack, Australia, Ned Kelly).
 * Graciela Rivera, 90, Puerto Rican opera singer.
 * Ştefan Sameş, 59, Romanian footballer (Steaua București), cancer.
 * Alex Steinweiss, 94, American graphic designer, inventor of the album cover.
 * Taiji, 45, Japanese musician and singer-songwriter (X Japan), suicide by hanging.
 * Mohammed Hashim Watanwal, 58–59, Afghan politician, shot.
 * Joe Lee Wilson, 75, American jazz singer.

18

 * Nat Allbright, 87, American radio broadcaster, pneumonia.
 * Mohammad Taghi Barkhordar, 87, Iranian industrialist and entrepreneur.
 * Salvador Bernárdez, 58, Honduran footballer, heart attack.
 * Albert Driedger, 75, Canadian politician, stroke.
 * Sean Hoare, 47, British journalist (News of the World), whistleblower of the 2011 phone hacking scandal, natural causes. (body found on this date)
 * E. A. J. Honigmann, 83, British Shakespearean scholar.
 * Magnus Malan, 81, South African politician, Minister of Defence (1980–1991), natural causes.
 * Giulio Rinaldi, 76, Italian Olympic boxer.
 * Bob Stenehjem, 59, American politician, member of the North Dakota Senate (since 1993), majority leader (since 2001), car accident.
 * Edson Stroll, 82, American actor (McHale's Navy), cancer.
 * James Wong Kim Min, 89, Malaysian politician, first Deputy Chief Minister of Sarawak, leader of the national Opposition (1974), heart attack.
 * Bagley Wright, 87, American developer and philanthropist.

19

 * Sheila Burrell, 89, British actress.
 * William Leonard D'Mello, 80, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Karwar (1976–2007).
 * Remo Gaspari, 90, Italian politician.
 * Lil Greenwood, 86, American vocalist (Duke Ellington Orchestra).
 * Yoshio Harada, 71, Japanese actor, pneumonia.
 * Henrique Johannpötter, 78, German-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bacabal (1989–1997).
 * Pierre Jonquères d'Oriola, 91, French equestrian, Olympic gold (1952, 1964) and silver (1964, 1968) medalist.
 * Jacques Jouanneau, 84, French actor.
 * Brendan Kehoe, 40, Irish software developer and author, acute myeloid leukemia.
 * Karen Khachaturian, 90, Russian composer.
 * Roy Meehan, 79, New Zealand Olympic wrestler.
 * James T. Molloy, 75, American government officer, last Doorkeeper of the House of Representatives (1974–1993), complications of diabetes.
 * Sir Julian Oswald, 77, British admiral.
 * Cec Thompson, 85, British rugby league player.

20

 * Sudarshan Akarapu, 57, Indian politician, heart attack.
 * Armando Martín Borque, 90, Spanish entrepreneur.
 * Blaize Clement, 78, American mystery writer and psychologist, cancer.
 * Lucian Freud, 88, German-born British painter.
 * Isaia Italeli, 51, Tuvaluan Cabinet minister. (body found on this date)
 * Myra Kraft, 68, American philanthropist, wife of New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, cancer.
 * Jim Samios, 77, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1984–2003).
 * Gloria Sawai, 78, American-born Canadian author.
 * Mary Simpson, 85, American minister, first woman to be ordained by the American Episcopal Church.
 * Mark Anthony Stroman, 41, American convicted spree killer, executed by lethal injection.
 * Whetu Tirikatene-Sullivan, 79, New Zealand politician, longest-serving female member of the House of Representatives (1967–1996).

21

 * Franz Alt, 100, Austrian-born American mathematician.
 * Clément Cailleau, 88, French-born Senegalese Roman Catholic prelate, Prefect of Tambacounda (1970–1986).
 * Ashleigh Connor, 21, Australian soccer player, car accident.
 * Andrew Grant DeYoung, 37, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
 * Pedro Claro Meurice Estiu, 79, Cuban Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba (1970–2007).
 * Elliot Handler, 95, American businessman, co-founder of Mattel, namer of the Barbie doll, creator of Hot Wheels, heart failure.
 * William Hildenbrand, 89, American government officer, Secretary of the United States Senate (1981–1985).
 * Yevgeny Lopatin, 93, Russian Olympic silver medal-winning (1952) weightlifter.
 * Santokh Singh Matharu, 69, Kenyan Olympic hockey player.
 * Slavomir Miklovš, 77, Croatian Greek Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Križevci (1983–2009).
 * Bruce Sundlun, 91, American politician, Governor of Rhode Island (1991–1995).
 * Kazimierz Świątek, 96, Estonian-born Belarusian Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Minsk-Mohilev (1991–2006).
 * Jack Thompson, 82, British politician, MP for Wansbeck (1983–1997).
 * Len Tolhurst, 85, Australian Olympic shooter.
 * Amelia Trice, 75, American Kootenai tribal leader and activist, leader of the last Indian war against the United States, cancer.
 * Wang Daheng, 96, Chinese optical physicist.
 * Elwy Yost, 86, Canadian television host and writer.

22

 * Alex Adams, 76, American basketball coach.
 * Tom Aldredge, 83, American actor (The Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire), lymphoma.
 * Linda Christian, 87, Mexican-born American actress, first Bond girl (1954 television adaptation of Casino Royale), colon cancer.
 * Dmitri Furman, 68, Russian historian and philosopher, after long illness.
 * Volodymyr O. Kravets, 81, Ukrainian diplomat, permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR.
 * Charles Manatt, 75, American lawyer and banker, Chair of Democratic National Committee (1981–1985), Ambassador to Dominican Republic (1999–2001), stroke.
 * Malcolm Muir, 96, American jurist.
 * Ifti Nasim, 64, Pakistani-born American poet and radio host, heart attack.
 * Tex Nelson, 74, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles).
 * Wolfram Thiem, 55, German Olympic rower.
 * Cees de Wolf, 65, Dutch footballer (Ajax Amsterdam).

23

 * David Aiken, 93, American operatic baritone and opera director.
 * Toyoo Ashida, 67, Japanese animator and film director (Fist of the North Star).
 * Mathilde Aussant, 113, French supercentenarian, France's oldest woman.
 * Blair, 43, American poet.
 * Terence Boston, Baron Boston of Faversham, 81, British politician, MP for Faversham (1964–1970).
 * John Chervokas, 74, American advertising writer.
 * Robert Ettinger, 92, American cryonicist, respiratory failure.
 * Jack Fitzpatrick, 88, American entrepreneur and politician, co-founder of Country Curtains, Massachusetts State Senator (1973–1980).
 * Milton Gwirtzman, 78, American speech writer, advisor to the Kennedy family, metastatic melanoma.
 * Fran Landesman, 83, American lyricist and poet.
 * Butch Lewis, 65, American boxing promoter, heart attack.
 * Christopher Mayer, 57, American actor (The Dukes of Hazzard, Santa Barbara, Liar Liar).
 * Conrad Meyer, 89, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Dorchester (1979–1988)
 * Bill Morrissey, 59, American singer-songwriter.
 * Nguyễn Cao Kỳ, 80, Vietnamese air force chief and political leader, Prime Minister of South Vietnam (1965–1967).
 * Richard Pike, 61, British chemist.
 * Darioush Rezaeinejad, 35, Iranian nuclear scientist, shot.
 * John Shalikashvili, 75, Polish-born American army general, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1993–1997), stroke.
 * Elmer B. Staats, 97, American public servant, Comptroller General of the United States (1966–1981).
 * Amy Winehouse, 27, British singer-songwriter ("Rehab", "Stronger Than Me", "Take the Box"), accidental alcohol poisoning.

24

 * Ron Davies, 85, Australian politician, Western Australian Opposition Leader (1978–1981).
 * Kaveinga Faʻanunu, 48, Tongan politician, MP for Tongatapu 9 (since 2010), head and neck cancer.
 * Tresa Hughes, 81, American actress (Another World, Don Juan DeMarco, Fame).
 * Gilbert Luján, 70, American painter, prostate cancer.
 * Hideki Irabu, 42, Japanese baseball player (Chiba Lotte Marines, New York Yankees, Montreal Expos), suicide by hanging.
 * Paul Marchand, 74, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Timmins (since 1999).
 * Henry Metelmann, 88, German soldier and writer.
 * Virgilio Noè, 89, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal, Archpriest of the Basilica of Saint Peter (1991–2002).
 * Mike Palm, 86, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox).
 * Dan Peek, 60, American singer-songwriter (America), fibrinous pericarditis.
 * David Servan-Schreiber, 50, French physician, neuroscientist and author, cancer.
 * G. D. Spradlin, 90, American actor (North Dallas Forty, The Godfather Part II, Apocalypse Now).
 * Skip Thomas, 61, American football player (Oakland Raiders), apparent heart attack.
 * John Turner, 63, British social psychologist.
 * Jane White, 88, American actress (Beloved, Klute, Once Upon a Mattress).
 * Hans-Werner Wohlers, 77, German Olympic boxer.

25

 * Norman Aspin, 88, British diplomat.
 * Michael Cacoyannis, 89, Cypriot filmmaker (Zorba the Greek).
 * Bakır Çağlar, 69–70, Turkish jurist, lawyer and constitutional law professor, bleeding stomach.
 * V. S. Krishna Iyer, 89, Indian activist and politician, after long illness.
 * Mahmoud Mabsout, 69, Lebanese actor, heart attack.
 * Denis Meaney, 74, Australian rugby league player.
 * Arthur W. Murray, 92, American test pilot, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Jeret Peterson, 29, American free style skier, 2010 Winter Olympics silver medalist, suicide by gunshot.
 * Ravichandran, 71, Malaysian-born Indian actor, lung infection.
 * David Somerville, 95, Canadian Anglican prelate.

26

 * Jay Adcox, 60, American football player and coach, cancer.
 * Joe Arroyo, 55, Colombian singer.
 * Jacques Fatton, 85, French-born Swiss footballer.
 * Frank Foster, 82, American jazz saxophonist and composer, complications from kidney failure.
 * Bobby Franklin, 54, American politician, member of the Georgia House of Representatives (since 1997), apparent heart attack.
 * Ahmed al-Gaddafi al-Qahsi, 41, Libyan Army colonel, cousin and son-in-law of Muammar Gaddafi, air strike.
 * Richard Harris, 63, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles, Seattle Seahawks) and coach (Winnipeg Blue Bombers), heart attack.
 * Madhu Sudan Kanungo, 84, Indian scientist.
 * Sakyo Komatsu, 80, Japanese science fiction writer, pneumonia.
 * Georges Kwaïter, 83, Syrian-born Lebanese Melkite Catholic hierarch, Archbishop of Saïdā (1987–2006).
 * Elmer Lower, 98, American broadcast executive, president of ABC News (1963–1974).
 * Silvio Narizzano, 84, Canadian-born British film and television director.
 * Margaret Olley, 88, Australian painter.
 * John Read, 88, British documentary producer.
 * Josephine C. Reyes, 82, Filipino educator, President of Far Eastern University (1985–1989).
 * Denise Scharley, 94, French contralto.
 * Howard Stein, 84, American financier, complications of a stroke.
 * Luis Ruiz Suarez, 97, Spanish-born Macanese Jesuit priest.

27

 * Wilfred Arsenault, 57, Canadian politician, cancer.
 * Rudolf Baláž, 70, Slovak Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Banská Bystrica (since 1990).
 * Bejaratana, 85, Thai royal, only daughter of King Vajiravudh of Thailand.
 * Richard Chavez, 81, American activist and labor organizer, brother of Cesar Chavez, complications from surgery.
 * Clyde Duncan, 57, Guyanese West Indian cricket umpire, cancer.
 * Hilary Evans, 82, British picture librarian and author.
 * Charles Gittens, 82, American Secret Service agent, first black appointed to that position.
 * Ghulam Haider Hamidi, 65, Afghan politician, Mayor of Kandahar (since 2007), bombing.
 * Rei Harakami, 40, Japanese musician, cerebrovascular disease.
 * Agota Kristof, 75, Hungarian-born French novelist.
 * Jerome Liebling, 87, American photographer, filmmaker and academic (Hampshire College).
 * Polly Platt, 72, American film producer (Say Anything...), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
 * Sir John Rawlins, 89, British naval officer, pioneer of diving medicine.
 * Eduard Rozovsky, 84, Russian cinematographer (Amphibian Man, White Sun of the Desert), car accident.
 * Richard Rutt, 85, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Leicester (1979–1991)
 * Pietro Sambi, 73, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, titular archbishop and Apostolic Nuncio to the United States (since 2005), respiratory failure.
 * Judy Sowinski, 71, American roller derby skater and coach.
 * Francis John Spence, 85, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Kingston (1982–2002).
 * John Stott, 90, British Anglican priest.

28

 * Lev Baklyshkin, 77, Soviet Olympic equestrian.
 * Frank Bender, 70, American forensic artist, pleural mesothelioma.
 * Miguel Chacón Díaz, 81, Spanish cyclist.
 * James E. Dyer, 64, American politician, Mayor of Danbury, Connecticut (1979–1987).
 * Ahmed Omaid Khpalwak, 25, Afghan journalist (BBC News), explosion.
 * Agapito Lozada, 72, Filipino Olympic swimmer.
 * John Marburger, 70, American physicist and presidential adviser, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
 * Brian O'Leary, 71, American scientist and NASA astronaut, cancer.
 * Christopher Walkden, 73, British Olympic swimmer.
 * John Milton Yinger, 95, American sociologist.
 * Abdul Fatah Younis, 67, Libyan rebel leader and government official, former Interior Minister, shot.

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 * Elazar Abuhatzeira, 62, Moroccan-born Israeli rabbi, stabbed.
 * John Edward Anderson, 93, American businessman and philanthropist, pneumonia.
 * Jack Barlow, 87, American country music singer and songwriter.
 * Arild Braastad, 64, Norwegian diplomat.
 * Joseph V. Brady, 89, American behavioral neuroscientist.
 * Enzo Coppini, 91, Italian cyclist.
 * Claude Laydu, 84, Belgian actor, heart condition.
 * Richard Marsh, Baron Marsh, 83, British politician and businessman, MP for Greenwich (1959–1971), Chairman of British Rail (1971–1976).
 * Nella Martinetti, 65, Swiss singer-songwriter, pancreatic cancer.
 * Gene McDaniels, 76, American singer-songwriter.
 * Ivan Milas, 72, Croatian politician.
 * Takeshi Miyaji, 45, Japanese video game designer and business executive (GunGriffon, Grandia).
 * Matthew J. Perry, 89, American federal judge.
 * Emeric Santo, 90, Australian Olympic fencer.
 * Agnes Varis, 81, American philanthropist, cancer.
 * Derek Woodhead, 76, Australian cricketer.

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 * Hikmat Abu Zayd, 88, Egyptian politician, first female cabinet minister.
 * James Atkinson, 97, English priest, biblical scholar, and theologian.
 * R.E.G. Davies, 90, British aviation historian.
 * Pêr Denez, 90, French Breton linguist and writer.
 * Clifton Hurburgh, 94, Australian cricketer.
 * Mario Echandi Jiménez, 96, Costa Rican politician, President (1958–1962), pneumonia.
 * Vincent Kympat, 64, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, first Bishop of Jowai (since 2006).
 * Daniel D. McCracken, 81, American computer scientist, cancer.
 * Sam Norkin, 94, American caricaturist and illustrator.
 * Bob Peterson, 79, American basketball player (New York Knicks, Baltimore Bullets, Milwaukee Hawks), cancer.

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 * David R. Adamson, 88, Canadian Air Force officer.
 * Eliseo Alberto, 59, Cuban-born Mexican writer, complications from a kidney transplant.
 * Dorothy Brunson, 72, American businesswoman, first black woman to own a radio station, ovarian cancer.
 * Willie Corbett, 88, Scottish footballer (Celtic).
 * Clyde Holding, 80, Australian politician, federal minister (1984–1990).
 * John Hoyland, 76, English abstract painter, complications following heart surgery.
 * Louis, 59, Serbian singer, car accident.
 * Andrea Pazzagli, 51, Italian footballer (A.C. Milan), stroke.
 * Joseph Albert Rosario, 96, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Amravati (1955–1995).
 * Carl Steven, 36, American actor (Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, A Pup Named Scooby-Doo), heroin overdose.
 * Binka Zhelyazkova, 88, Bulgarian director.