Deaths in June 2010

The following is a list of notable deaths in June 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

 * Omar Andréen, 87, Norwegian painter, graphic artist, and illustrator.
 * Freddie Burdette, 73, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs).
 * Vladimír Bystrov, 74, Czech writer and translator, recipient of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk.
 * Chinook Pass, 31, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
 * Arturo Falaschi, 77, Italian geneticist.
 * John Hagart, 72, Scottish football player and manager.
 * Heather the Leather, 50, British scaleless carp, old age.
 * Arthur A. Link, 96, American politician. U.S. Representative (1971–1973), Governor of North Dakota (1973–1981).
 * Roger Manderscheid, 77, Luxembourgian author.
 * Miss Ellie, 17, American Chinese Crested Dog, winner of title World's Ugliest Dog.
 * Kazuo Ohno, 103, Japanese dancer, respiratory failure.
 * Frank Pike, 80, Canadian football player and manager, heart failure.
 * Joseph Strick, 86, American film director and producer, heart failure.
 * Lobi Traoré, 48, Malian musician.
 * Andrei Voznesensky, 77, Russian poet and writer.

2

 * Dick Bird, 77, British Anglican priest.
 * Eleanor Taylor Bland, 65, American crime fiction writer.
 * Floribert Chebeya, 46, Congolese human rights activist.
 * Dorothy DeBorba, 85, American actress (Our Gang), emphysema and lung disease.
 * Tony DiPreta, 88, American cartoonist, (Joe Palooka, Rex Morgan, M.D.), respiratory and cardiac arrest.
 * John W. Douglas, 88, American civil rights advocate, complications from a stroke.
 * Joe Gardi, 71, American football coach, stroke.
 * Kovilan, 86, Indian novelist, respiratory disease.
 * Marguerite Narbel, 92, Swiss biologist and politician, member of the Grand Council of Vaud.
 * Garry Purdham, 31, English rugby league player (Workington Town), shot.
 * Ri Je-gang, 80, North Korean politician, First Deputy Head of the Organization and Guidance Department of the Workers' Party of Korea, car accident.
 * John Richardson, 77, Canadian politician, MP for Perth—Wellington—Waterloo (1993–1997); Perth—Middlesex (1997–2002), Alzheimer's disease.
 * António Alva Rosa Coutinho, 84, Portuguese admiral and politician, Governor-General of Angola, after long illness.
 * Michael Schildberger, 72, Australian journalist, prostate cancer.
 * Gabriele Sella, 47, Italian Olympic cyclist.
 * Giuseppe Taddei, 93, Italian opera singer.
 * Yoo Chang-soon, 92, South Korean politician, Prime Minister (1982).

3

 * João Aguiar, 66, Portuguese writer and journalist.
 * Vladimir Arnold, 72, Russian mathematician, peritonitis.
 * Frank Bernasko, 79, Ghanaian soldier and politician.
 * Bill Clark, 80, New Zealand rugby player, after long illness.
 * Frank Evans, 86, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Colorado (1965–1979).
 * John Hedgecoe, 78, British photographer.
 * Robert Hudson, 90, British broadcaster.
 * Paul Malliavin, 84, French mathematician, creator of Malliavin calculus.
 * Rue McClanahan, 76, American actress (The Golden Girls, Maude, Starship Troopers), Emmy winner (1987), stroke.
 * Luigi Padovese, 63, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar of Anatolia and chairman of the Turkish Bishops' Conference (since 2004), stabbed.
 * Pance Pondaag, 59, Indonesian pop singer and songwriter, complications from a stroke.
 * Pétur Sigurgeirsson, 91, Icelandic prelate, Bishop of Iceland (1981–1989).
 * Emory C. Swank, 88, American diplomat, Ambassador to Cambodia (1970–1973).
 * Hasan Tiro, 84, Indonesian politician, founder of the Free Aceh Movement, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
 * Leonard S. Unger, 92, American diplomat, Ambassador to Laos (1962–1964), Thailand (1967), and the Republic of China (1974–1979).
 * Charlie Wedemeyer, 64, American football player and coach, complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

4

 * Raymond Allchin, 86, British archaeologist.
 * Bill Ashenfelter, 85, American Olympic athlete.
 * Frank Ballard, 80, American puppeteer and educator, complications from Parkinson's disease.
 * Himan Brown, 99, American radio producer (CBS Radio Mystery Theater).
 * Jim Copeland, 65, American football player, cancer.
 * Marianne Elser Crowder, 104, American oldest Girl Scout, pancreatic cancer.
 * Amado Crowley, 80, British occult writer and magician. (Death announced by this date)
 * Richard Dunn, 73, American character actor (Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!), stroke.
 * David Foster, 90, British naval pilot.
 * Jack Harrison, 97, British air force officer, last survivor of Stalag Luft III.
 * Richard P. Lindsay, 84, American Mormon leader and politician (Utah House of Representatives, 1972–1977), cancer.
 * Syd Luyt, 84, South African Olympic runner.
 * David Markson, 82, American writer (Wittgenstein's Mistress).
 * William Miranda Marín, 69, Puerto Rican politician, mayor of Caguas (1997–2010), pancreatic cancer.
 * Andi Meriem Matalatta, 52, Indonesian pop singer, complications from diabetes.
 * Carlos Francisco Martins Pinheiro, 85, Portuguese Roman Catholic prelate.
 * Hennadiy Popovych, 37, Ukrainian footballer (Zenit, Shakhtar), cardiac arrest.
 * Norman Rothfield, 98, Australian peace and labour activist.
 * Ray Smith, 80, Australian Olympic athlete.
 * Chuck Taliano, 65, American marine, featured on recruitment poster, multiple myeloma.
 * Eddie Washington, 56, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives (2003–2010), heart attack.
 * John Werket, 85, American Olympic speed skater.
 * John Wooden, 99, American basketball coach (UCLA, 1948–1975).

5

 * Esma Agolli, 81, Albanian actress, cardiac arrest.
 * Braulio Alonso, 93, American educator.
 * Sir Neil Anderson, 83, New Zealand admiral, Chief of Defence Staff (1980–1983).
 * Danny Bank, 87, American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and flautist.
 * Robert C. Bergenheim, 86, American founder of Boston Business Journal.
 * Angus Douglas-Hamilton, 15th Duke of Hamilton, 71, British peer and racing driver, dementia.
 * Robert Healy, 84, American journalist, executive editor (The Boston Globe), stroke.
 * Stephen Clancy Hill, 34, American pornographic actor and murderer, suicide by jumping from cliff.
 * Jacob Milgrom, 87, American rabbi and biblical scholar, brain hemorrhage.
 * Finian Monahan, 86, Irish Roman Catholic friar and priest, Superior General (1973–1979), pneumonia.
 * Arne Nordheim, 78, Norwegian contemporary classical composer.
 * Tony Peluso, 60, American musician and record producer (The Carpenters), heart disease.
 * Steven Reuther, 58, American film producer (Dirty Dancing, Pretty Woman, The Ugly Truth), cancer.
 * Robert Wussler, 73, American businessman, co-founder of CNN, after long illness.

6

 * Mabi de Almeida, 46, Angolan football manager, after long illness.
 * Jack Beeson, 88, American contemporary classical music composer, heart failure.
 * Marvin Isley, 56, American bassist (The Isley Brothers, Isley-Jasper-Isley), complications of diabetes.
 * Dana Key, 56, American musician (DeGarmo and Key), ruptured blood clot.
 * Abraham Nathanson, 80, American graphic designer and author, co-inventor of Bananagrams, cancer.
 * Robert B. Radnitz, 85, American film producer (Cross Creek, My Side of the Mountain, Sounder), complications from a stroke.
 * Ladislav Smoljak, 78, Czech film and theatre director, after long illness.
 * Jerry Stephenson, 66, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox), lung cancer.
 * Paul Wunderlich, 83, German artist.

7

 * José Albi, 88, Spanish poet.
 * Paul Bell, 59, American politician, member of the Iowa House of Representatives (since 1993), stomach cancer.
 * Stuart Cable, 40, Welsh drummer (Stereophonics), accidental asphyxiation.
 * Chai Zemin, 93, Chinese diplomat.
 * Mordechai Eliyahu, 81, Israeli rabbi, Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel (1983–1993).
 * Jorge Ginarte, 70, Argentine football manager.
 * Ndoc Gjetja, 66, Albanian poet, after long illness.
 * Alex Hastie, 74, British rugby player.
 * Eric Mason, 83, British actor (Hot Fuzz, A Man for All Seasons, Doctor Who).
 * Arsen Naydyonov, 68, Russian football coach (Zhemchuzhina, Novorossiysk).
 * Oliver N'Goma, 51, Gabonese singer and guitarist, renal failure.
 * Omar Rayo, 82, Colombian painter and sculptor, heart attack.
 * Viana Júnior, 68, Brazilian comedian, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
 * Adriana Xenides, 54, Argentine-born Australian television personality (Wheel of Fortune), ruptured intestine.

8

 * Tony Cennamo, 76, American disc jockey (WBUR), after long illness.
 * Margaret Delacourt-Smith, Baroness Delacourt-Smith of Alteryn, 94, British politician and life peer.
 * Dan Eastman, 64, American politician and businessman, Utah State Senator (2000–2008), heart failure.
 * Joan Hinton, 88, American nuclear physicist, abdominal aneurysm.
 * Porfi Jiménez, 82, Dominican-born Venezuelan musician, arranger, composer and bandleader.
 * Plamen Maslarov, 60, Bulgarian film director.
 * Stephen Rivers, 55, American publicist and political activist, prostate cancer.
 * Ismael Blas Rolón Silvero, 96, Paraguayan Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Asunción (1970–1989).
 * Crispian St. Peters, 71, British pop singer ("The Pied Piper", "You Were on My Mind"), after long illness.
 * Andreas Voutsinas, 79, Greek actor and stage director.

9

 * Epaminondas José de Araújo, 88, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Palmeira dos Índios (1978–1984).
 * Ken Brown, 70, British guitarist (The Quarrymen).
 * Fadzil Mahmood, 73, Malaysian politician, speaker of the Perlis State Assembly (1986–1990).
 * Melbert Ford, 49, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Christine Johnson, 98, American opera singer and actress.
 * Bobby Kromm, 82, Canadian ice hockey coach (Detroit Red Wings, Winnipeg Jets), complications from colorectal cancer.
 * Joseph Crescent McKinney, 81, American Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of Grand Rapids (1968–2001).
 * Marina Semyonova, 101, Russian prima ballerina (Bolshoi Ballet).
 * Mohamed Sylla, 39, Guinean footballer (Willem II, Martigues, Guinea), cancer.
 * Oleksandr Zinchenko, 53, Ukrainian politician.

10

 * David Ellison, 70, British actor (Juliet Bravo).
 * Ginette Garcin, 82, French actress, cancer.
 * Ferdinand Oyono, 80, Cameroonian writer and government minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1992–1997).
 * Sigmar Polke, 69, German painter and photographer, cancer.
 * Basil Schott, 70, American Byzantine Catholic friar, Metropolitan of the Byzantine Catholic Archeparchy of Pittsburgh (since 2002), cancer.

11

 * Bernie Andrews, 76, British radio producer.
 * Maria Aurora, 72, Portuguese journalist, poet, novelist, children's writer and television presenter.
 * Henri Cuq, 68, French politician.
 * Shunsuke Ikeda, 68, Japanese actor (Kikaider 01, Ultraman Mebius & Ultraman Brothers), stomach cancer.
 * Kip Deville, 7, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
 * Norman Macrae, 86, British journalist, deputy editor of The Economist (1965–1988).
 * William J. Mitchell, 65, American architect and urban designer (MIT Media Lab), complications of cancer.
 * Johnny Parker, 80, British jazz pianist ("Bad Penny Blues").
 * Andrzej Piątkowski, 75, Polish sabreur, Olympic medallist (1956, 1960 and 1964).
 * Fred Plum, 86, American neurologist, developed the term "persistent vegetative state", primary progressive aphasia.
 * Badal Rahman, 61, Bangladeshi film director and political activist.
 * Dariusz Ratajczak, 47, Polish holocaust denier (body discovered on this date).
 * Bus Whitehead, 82, American basketball player (Nebraska Cornhuskers)
 * James N. Wood, 69, American museum director.

12

 * Anne Chapman, 88, French-born American ethnologist.
 * John Crampton, 88, British RAF pilot.
 * Daisy D'ora, 97, German actress and socialite.
 * Richard Keynes, 90, British physiologist.
 * Rik Levins, 60, American comic book artist (Captain America, The Avengers).
 * Chuck Lyda, 57, American slalom and sprint canoer, stomach cancer.
 * Félix Maldonado, 72, American baseball player and scout (Boston Red Sox), cancer.
 * Fuat Mansurov, 82, Kazakh-born Russian conductor (Bolshoi Theatre).
 * Les Richter, 79, American football player (Los Angeles Rams), member of Pro Football Hall of Fame, and auto racing official, NASCAR head of operations, brain aneurysm.
 * Egon Ronay, 94, Hungarian-born British restaurateur and restaurant critic.
 * Philip Selznick, 91, American lawyer, author and sociologist.
 * Grizzly Smith, 77, American professional wrestler, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Jerzy Stefan Stawiński, 88, Polish screenwriter and film director.
 * Al Williamson, 79, American comic book artist (Secret Agent X-9, Superman, Flash Gordon).

13

 * Combo Ayouba, 57-58, Comorian army officer, Coordinator of the Transitional Military Committee (1995), shot.
 * E. F. Bleiler, 90, American science fiction author.
 * Thomas S. Buechner, 83, American museum director, lymphoma.
 * Dave Broda, 65, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta (1997–2004), car crash.
 * Jimmy Dean, 81, American country music singer (Big Bad John), actor and businessman (Jimmy Dean Foods), natural causes.
 * Abbas Djoussouf, 68, Comorian politician, Prime Minister (1998–1999).
 * Ernest Fleischmann, 85, German-born American impresario, executive director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
 * Ernie Johnson, 84, American football and basketball player (UCLA).
 * Emilio Macias, 76, Filipino politician, Governor of Negros Oriental, liver cancer.
 * F. James McDonald, 87, American businessman, President of General Motors (1981–1987).
 * Tom Stith, 71, American basketball player (New York Knicks).
 * Sergei Tretyakov, 53, Russian intelligence officer and defector, former SVR agent.
 * Nelson Wallulatum, 84, American Wasco tribe leader, chief of the Wasco Indians (since 1959), founder of The Museum at Warm Springs.
 * Jonathan Wolken, 60, American artistic director, co-founder of Pilobolus, complications from stem cell transplant.

14

 * Oscar Azócar, 45, Venezuelan baseball player (New York Yankees, San Diego Padres).
 * Teshome Gabriel, 70, Ethiopian-born American cinema scholar, cardiac arrest.
 * Resi Hammerer, 85, Austrian Olympic alpine skier, bronze medalist (1948 Winter Olympics).
 * Richard Herrmann, 90, Norwegian journalist, writer and radio personality (NRK), after long illness.
 * Jiří Kavan, 66, Czech Olympic silver medal-winning (1972) handball player.
 * Leonid Kizim, 68, Ukrainian Soviet cosmonaut.
 * Ted Lowry, 90, American boxer, heart failure.
 * Manohar Malgonkar, 96, Indian author.
 * Luis Arturo Mondragón, 53, Honduran journalist, shot.
 * Giacinto Prandelli, 96, Italian operatic tenor.
 * Damian Silvera, 35, American Olympic soccer player.
 * Jaroslav Škarvada, 85, Czech Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Prague (1982–2002).

15

 * Thomas L. Ashley, 87, American politician, U.S. Representative for Ohio (1955–1981).
 * Charles Thomas Beer, 94, Canadian chemist.
 * Brian Bethell, 45, American spree killer.
 * Bekim Fehmiu, 74, Serbian actor (I Even Met Happy Gypsies), suspected suicide by gunshot.
 * Phil Gordon, 94, American character actor and dialect coach (The Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, Petticoat Junction).
 * Charlie Hickcox, 63, American Olympic swimmer, gold and silver medalist (1968 Summer Olympics), cancer.
 * Heidi Kabel, 95, German stage actress.
 * Tadashi Kawashima, 41, Japanese manga artist (Alive: The Final Evolution), liver cancer.
 * Arnold Kramish, 87, American physicist, neurological disorder.
 * Wendell Logan, 69, American composer.
 * Busi Mhlongo, 62, South African musician, cancer.
 * Natalia Tolstaya, 67, Russian writer and translator.

16

 * Joselito Agustin, 37, Filipino journalist, shot.
 * Marc Bazin, 78, Haitian politician, Acting President and Prime Minister (1992–1993).
 * Peter Brunette, 66, American film critic (The Hollywood Reporter), heart attack.
 * Bill Dixon, 84, American jazz musician.
 * Maureen Forrester, 79, Canadian opera singer, complications of Alzheimer's disease.
 * Amedeo Guillet, 101, Italian army officer.
 * Bob Hartman, 72, American baseball player, post-surgical infection.
 * Allen Hoey, 57, American poet, Pulitzer Prize nominee, heart attack.
 * Ronald Neame, 99, British film director (The Poseidon Adventure) and screenwriter.
 * Jim Nestor, 90, Australian Olympic cyclist.
 * Corso Salani, 48, Italian actor and film director, stroke.
 * Garry Shider, 56, American musician (Parliament-Funkadelic), complications from brain and lung cancer.
 * P. G. Viswambharan, 63, Indian film director, after long illness.

17

 * Hannah Atkins, 86, American politician, Secretary of State of Oklahoma (1987–1991) and State Representative (1969–1981), cancer.
 * Elżbieta Czyżewska, 72, Polish-born American actress, esophageal cancer.
 * Hans Dichand, 89, Austrian journalist and newspaper publisher.
 * Sebastian Horsley, 47, British artist, heroin overdose.
 * Anjali Mendes, 64, Indian model.
 * K. S. Rajah, 80, Singaporean juridical official, Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court, cancer.
 * Andy Ripley, 62, British rugby player, prostate cancer.

18

 * Trent Acid, 29, American professional wrestler, accidental drug overdose.
 * Marcel Bigeard, 94, French general and politician.
 * Bogdan Bogdanović, 87, Serbian architect, urbanist, and politician, Mayor of Belgrade (1982–1986), heart attack.
 * Waldemar Ciesielczyk, 51, Polish Olympic fencer.
 * Joe Deal, 62, American photographer, bladder cancer.
 * Bidya Debbarma, 94, Indian politician.
 * Robert Galambos, 96, American neuroscientist, discovered how bats navigate, heart failure.
 * Ronnie Lee Gardner, 49, American convicted murderer, executed by firing squad.
 * Tom Nicon, 22, French model, suicide by jumping.
 * Kalmen Opperman, 90, American clarinetist, heart failure.
 * José Saramago, 87, Portuguese novelist, playwright and journalist, Nobel Prize winner for literature, cancer.
 * Hans Joachim Sewering, 94, German physician, member of the Waffen-SS (1933–1945).
 * Hadelin Viellevoye, 95, Belgian footballer

19

 * Manute Bol, 47, Sudanese basketball player and activist, kidney failure and Stevens–Johnson syndrome.
 * Anwar Chowdhry, 86, Pakistani sports official, President of the International Boxing Association (1986–2006), heart attack.
 * Jack Cloud, 85, American football player.
 * Ned Endress, 92, American basketball player.
 * Marvin L. Esch, 82, American politician, U.S. Representative from Michigan (1967–1977).
 * John Ferruggio, 84, American in-flight director, led evacuation of Pan Am Flight 93, organ failure.
 * Mohammed Ali Hammadi, 46, Lebanese militant (Hezbollah), drone strike.
 * Robin Matthews, 83, British economist and chess problemist.
 * Carlos Monsiváis, 72, Mexican writer and journalist, respiratory failure.
 * Vince O'Brien, 91, American character actor (Dark Shadows, Guiding Light, Law & Order).
 * Alfred Parsons, 85, Australian diplomat, High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (1983–1987).
 * Anthony Quinton, Baron Quinton, 85, British philosopher and life peer.
 * Jesús Manuel Lara Rodríguez, 48, Mexican politician, mayor of Guadalupe, Chihuahua, shot.
 * Dame Angela Rumbold, 77, British politician, MP for Mitcham and Morden (1982–1997).
 * Nico Smith, 81, South African minister and anti-apartheid activist, heart attack.
 * Ken Talbot, 59, Australian businessman, CEO of Macarthur Coal (1995–2008), plane crash.
 * Paul Thiebaud, 49, American gallerist, colon cancer.
 * Ursula Thiess, 86, German artist and actress (Bengal Brigade).
 * Jack Tobin, 90, American anthropologist, expert on the Marshall Islands.
 * Chris Welles, 72, American business journalist, Alzheimer's disease.

20

 * Dwight Armstrong, 58, American anti-Vietnam War protester, Sterling Hall bomber, lung cancer.
 * Sir William Boulton, 3rd Baronet, 98, British barrister.
 * Vladimír Dlouhý, 52, Czech actor.
 * Lai Sun Cheung, 59, Hong Kong football coach, lung cancer.
 * Raymond Parks, 96, American auto racer, two-time NASCAR car owner points champion.
 * Abdolmalek Rigi, 27, Iranian Sunni Islamist militant, leader of Jundallah, execution by hanging.
 * Roberto Rosato, 66, Italian footballer.
 * Gundibail Sunderam, 80, Indian cricketer, after a short illness.
 * Albert Webster, 85, British Olympic athlete.
 * Harry B. Whittington, 94, British palaeontologist.

21

 * Jesús Álvarez Amaya, 84, Mexican painter and graphic artist, cancer.
 * Russell Ash, 64, British writer and publisher (The Top 10 of Everything).
 * Irwin Barker, 58, Canadian comedian and television writer (This Hour Has 22 Minutes, Rick Mercer Report), leiomyosarcoma.
 * Wilfried Feldenkirchen, 62, German economic historian and project manager (Siemens), car crash.
 * Rosemary Gillespie, 69, Australian human rights activist and lawyer, stroke.
 * Bob Greene, 92, American Makah tribe elder, natural causes.
 * Hector Laing, Baron Laing of Dunphail, 87, British businessman and life peer.
 * Allison Parks, 68, American model (Playboy, October 1965) and actress.
 * Ingeborg Pertmayr, 63, Austrian Olympic diver.
 * Henrique Walter Pinotti, 81, Brazilian physician, cancer.
 * William S. Richardson, 90, American jurist and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii (1962–1966), Chief Justice (Hawaii Supreme Court, 1966–1982).
 * Hermann Gonçalves Schatzmayr, 75, Brazilian virologist, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz researcher, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
 * İlhan Selçuk, 85, Turkish lawyer, journalist and writer, editor-in-chief of Cumhuriyet, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
 * Chris Sievey, 54, British comedian and musician (Frank Sidebottom), lung cancer.
 * Tam White, 67, British musician and actor, heart attack.
 * With Approval, 24, Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse, Canadian Triple Crown winner (1989), euthanized.
 * Larry Jon Wilson, 69, American songwriter and musician, stroke.

22

 * Pamela Ascherson, 87, British sculptor, painter and illustrator.
 * Peppy Blount, 85, American football player (Texas Longhorns) and line judge.
 * Robin Bush, 67, British historian (Time Team).
 * Gerald Heaney, 92, American jurist, United States Court of Appeals (1966–2006).
 * Marie-Luise Jahn, 92, German activist, member of the anti-Nazi resistance movement White Rose.
 * Aileen Osofsky, 83, American community leader, philanthropist and bridge player (ACBL), complications from leukemia.
 * Amokrane Oualiken, 77, Algerian footballer.
 * Pennant Roberts, 69, British television director.
 * Manfred Römbell, 68, German writer, after long illness.
 * Wayne Stephenson, 65, Canadian professional and Olympic bronze medal-winning (1968) ice hockey player.
 * Levern Tart, 68, American basketball player (Oakland Oaks, New York Nets).
 * Tracy Wright, 50, Canadian actress, pancreatic cancer.

23

 * Anthony Adrian Allen, 96, British entomologist.
 * Ron Atchison, 80, Canadian football player (Saskatchewan Roughriders), heart failure.
 * Jörg Berger, 65, German football manager, bowel cancer.
 * John Burton, 95, Australian diplomat and academic.
 * Michael Cobb, 93, British Army officer and railway historian.
 * Dermot Earley, 62, Irish Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces (2004–2010), after short illness.
 * Allyn Ferguson, 85, American television composer (Barney Miller, Charlie's Angels), natural causes.
 * Frank Giering, 38, German actor (Funny Games).
 * Pavel Lyubimov, 71, Russian film director.
 * Vernon Mendis, 84, Sri Lankan diplomat.
 * Mohammed Mzali, 84, Tunisian politician, Prime Minister (1980–1986).
 * Hiromu Naruse, 66, Japanese chief test driver for Toyota Motor Company, car crash.
 * Pete Quaife, 66, British bassist (The Kinks), kidney failure.
 * Peter Walker, Baron Walker of Worcester, 78, British politician and life peer, MP for Worcester (1961–1992), cancer.

24

 * Toni Adams, 45, American professional wrestling manager, former wife of Chris Adams, heart attack.
 * Sadri Ahmeti, 71, Albanian painter and poet.
 * Fred Anderson, 81, American jazz tenor saxophonist.
 * Rawshan Ara, 69, Bangladeshi film actress.
 * Armand Bernard, 82, Canadian Olympic wrestler.
 * JoJo Billingsley, 58, American back-up singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd), cancer.
 * Elise M. Boulding, 89, American sociologist, liver failure.
 * Lorn Brown, 71, American sports commentator (Chicago White Sox), heart failure.
 * Shirley Carr, 81, Canadian president of the Labour Congress.
 * Cherubim Dambui, 62, Papua New Guinean Premier of East Sepik (1976–1983), auxiliary bishop of Port Moresby (since 2000), kidney failure.
 * Digvijay Singh, 54, Indian politician.
 * Francis Dreyfus, 70, French record producer (Disques Dreyfus).
 * Harry Enns, 78, Canadian politician, MLA for Rockwood-Iberville/Lakeside (1966–2003).
 * Don Enoch, 94, American politician, Mayor of Wichita, Kansas (1969–1970).
 * Bill Hudson, 77, American photojournalist, heart failure.
 * Alan Krueck, 70, American musicologist.
 * Kazimierz Paździor, 75, Polish Olympic gold medal-winning (1960) boxer.
 * Jean-Léonard Rugambage, Rwandan journalist, shot.
 * Walter Shorenstein, 95, American real estate developer and baseball team owner (San Francisco Giants), natural causes.
 * Ben Sonnenberg, 73, American journalist, multiple sclerosis.
 * Jean-Luc Tricoire, 57, French Olympic sports shooter.

25

 * Viveka Babajee, 37, Mauritian-born Indian model and actress, suicide by hanging.
 * Brian Flowers, Baron Flowers, 85, British physicist, academic and life peer.
 * F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, 62, Welsh science fiction author, suicide.
 * Robert Nyman, 49, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (since 1999), drowning.
 * Alan Plater, 75, English television writer, cancer.
 * Richard B. Sellars, 94, American Chairman and CEO of Johnson & Johnson.
 * Peter Sliker, 86, American bass-baritone at the Metropolitan Opera
 * John A. Willis, 93, American editor of Theatre World.
 * Wu Guanzhong, 90, Chinese painter.

26

 * Algirdas Brazauskas, 77, Lithuanian politician, President (1993–1998); Prime Minister (2001–2006), lymphoma.
 * D. Page Elmore, 71, American politician, member of the Maryland House of Delegates (2003–2010), cancer.
 * Aldo Giuffrè, 86, Italian actor, peritonitis.
 * Alberto Guzik, 66, Brazilian actor and writer, stomach cancer.
 * Paulo Teixeira Jorge, 82, Angolan politician, Minister of External Relations (1976–1984).
 * Charles Spencer King, 85, English automotive engineer (Rover SD1, Range Rover), complications following a traffic accident.
 * Harald Keres, 97, Estonian physicist.
 * Shoista Mullojonova, 84, Tajik singer, heart attack.
 * Akira Nakamura, 76, Japanese historian.
 * Adoor Pankajam, 81, Indian actress.
 * Conrad Poe, 62, Filipino actor, stroke.
 * Benny Powell, 80, American jazz trombonist (April in Paris), heart attack following spinal surgery.
 * Jonathan Smith, 43, British games developer.
 * D. Sudarsanam, 68, Indian politician, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
 * Sergio Vega, 40, Mexican banda singer, shot.
 * Stanley Wagner, 83, American winemaker.
 * Sir John Ward, 85, British politician, MP for Poole (1979–1997).
 * Vasyl Yevseyev, 47, Ukrainian football coach, suicide by jumping.

27

 * Corey Allen, 75, American actor (Rebel Without a Cause), film and television director, complications of Parkinson's disease.
 * Leif Alsheimer, 57, Swedish lawyer, lecturer and author.
 * Dolph Briscoe, 87, American politician, Governor of Texas (1973–1979), kidney failure and pneumonia.
 * Ken Coates, 79, British politician and writer, suspected heart attack.
 * Édgar García de Dios, 32, Mexican footballer, shot.
 * João Gonçalves Filho, 75, Brazilian Olympic swimmer and water polo player.
 * Martin D. Ginsburg, 78, American attorney, husband of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, cancer.
 * Edo Mulahalilović, 46, Bosnian musician.
 * Andreas Okopenko, 80, Austrian writer.

28

 * Claude Anderson, 86, Australian footballer.
 * Bill Aucoin, 66, American band manager (Kiss), complications from prostate cancer.
 * Leo Bernier, 81, Canadian politician.
 * Peter Bowers, 80, Australian journalist, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Robert Byrd, 92, American politician, U.S. Representative (1953–1959), Senator from West Virginia (1959–2010).
 * Clement Finch, 94, American hematologist.
 * Nicolas Hayek, 82, Swiss entrepreneur, founder and chairman of The Swatch Group, heart failure.
 * Kirsten Heisig, 48, German politician and juvenile magistrate, suicide.
 * Willie Huber, 52, German-born Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings), heart attack.
 * Chandrakant Kamat, 76, Indian Hindustani classical tabla player, heart attack.
 * Louis Moyroud, 96, French-born American inventor of phototypesetting.
 * Rammellzee, 49, American hip hop musician and graffiti artist, after long illness.
 * Joya Sherrill, 85, American jazz vocalist, leukemia.
 * William L. Taylor, 78, American attorney and civil rights advocate, complications from a fall.
 * Rodolfo Torre Cantú, 46, Mexican politician, candidate for Governor of Tamaulipas, shot.

29

 * Blair Barnes, 49, Canadian ice hockey player (Los Angeles Kings), heart attack.
 * Ron Gans, 79, American voice actor (Transformers, Welcome to Pooh Corner, Dumbo's Circus), complications from pneumonia.
 * Rudolf Leopold, 85, Austrian art collector.
 * Doug Ohlson, 73, American painter, complications from a fall.
 * Queen Jane, 45, Kenyan musician, meningitis.
 * Chandgi Ram, 72, Indian Olympic wrestler, cardiac arrest.
 * Frank Rigney, 74, American-born Canadian football player (Winnipeg Blue Bombers).
 * Pietro Taricone, 35, Italian actor and reality show contestant (Grande Fratello), parachute accident.

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 * Brian Ash, 73-74, British writer, scientific journalist, and editor.
 * Bruno Côté, 69, Canadian landscape painter, prostate cancer.
 * Ditta Zusa Einzinger, 79, Austrian singer (Lolita), cancer.
 * Elliott Kastner, 80, American film producer (Where Eagles Dare), cancer.
 * Harry Klein, 81, British jazz saxophonist.
 * Juhani Kyöstilä, 78, Finnish Olympic basketball player.
 * Noel Marshall, 79, American film director and producer.
 * Serigne Mouhamadou Lamine Bara Mbacké, 85, Senegalese Grand Marabout of the Mourides.
 * Denny Moyer, 70, American world light middleweight champion boxer.
 * Gordon Mulholland, 89, British actor.
 * Park Yong-ha, 32, South Korean actor and singer, suicide by hanging.