Deaths in March 2010

The following is a list of notable deaths in March 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

 * Tadur Bala Goud, 78, Indian politician.
 * Mary Barr, 84, first female aviator in the US Forest Service.
 * Perry Brooks, 55, American football player (Washington Redskins).
 * Robert Clarkson, 62, American tax protestor.
 * Kristian Digby, 32, British television presenter and director (To Buy or Not to Buy), accidental suffocation.
 * Clifton Forbes, 64, Jamaican Olympic athlete.
 * Emil Forselius, 35, Swedish actor, suicide.
 * Slavko Fras, 81, Slovenian journalist and editor.
 * Barry Hannah, 67, American novelist and short story writer, heart attack.
 * Vladimir Ilyushin, 82, Russian test pilot.
 * Paul Kim Ok-kyun, 84, South Korean Roman Catholic prelate, Titular Bishop of Girba (1985–2001).
 * Ruth Kligman, 80, American abstract painter, muse of Jackson Pollock.

2

 * Francisco Ada, 75, Northern Mariana Islands politician, first Lieutenant Governor (1978–1982).
 * Syed Ali, 67, Indian Olympic gold medal-winning (1964) field hockey player.
 * Alexander Tikhomirov, 28, Russian/Islamist militant leader, ideologue leader of the Islamist rebels, killed by Russian troops.
 * Melva Blancett, 85, American actress.
 * Judith Bumpus, 70, British arts radio producer.
 * Winston Churchill, 69, British politician, MP for Stretford (1970–1983) and Davyhulme (1983–1997), prostate cancer.
 * Paul Drayton, 70, American athlete, 1964 Olympic gold and silver medalist, cancer.
 * Jón Hnefill Aðalsteinsson, 82, Icelandic scholar.
 * Don Kent, 92, American meteorologist (WBZ-TV), natural causes.
 * Miloslav Loos, 96, Czech Olympic cyclist.
 * Ibragim Khasanov, 72, Russian Olympic sprint canoer.
 * Charles B. Moore, 89, American physicist, engineer and meteorologist.
 * Eric Morse, 91, Australian cricketer.
 * Geoff Myburgh, 81, South African Olympic sailor.
 * Joseph Hernández Ochoa, 26, Honduran journalist, shot.
 * Omar Pound, 83, American writer and translator.
 * Horst Urban, 73, Czech Olympic luger.

3

 * Keith Alexander, 53, British footballer (Saint Lucia) and manager, brain aneurysm.
 * Johnny Allen, 76, American football player (Washington Redskins), Alzheimer's disease.
 * Stefan Bengtsson, 55, Swedish Olympic sailor.
 * Frank Bertaina, 65, American Major League Baseball player, heart attack.
 * Mariya Dolina, 87, Ukrainian dive bomber pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union.
 * Franz Eibler, 85, Austrian Olympic weightlifter.
 * Michael Foot, 96, British politician, Leader of the Labour Party (1980–1983).
 * Marie-Christine Gessinger, 17, Austrian fashion model, car accident.
 * Momo Kapor, 72, Serbian writer and painter.
 * Big Tiny Little, 79, American musician (The Lawrence Welk Show).
 * Yuri Stepanov, 42, Russian actor, car accident.
 * John Strohmeyer, 85, American journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner, heart failure.
 * Oleg Tyurin, 72, Russian rower, 1964 Olympic gold medalist.

4

 * Raimund Abraham, 76, Austrian-born American architect (Austrian Cultural Forum New York), car accident.
 * Johnny Alf, 80, Brazilian singer and composer, prostate cancer.
 * Vladislav Ardzinba, 64, Georgian politician, separatist President of Abkhazia (1994–2005).
 * Big Truck, app. 5, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
 * André Bouchard, 64, Canadian ecologist and environmentalist, heart attack.
 * Etta Cameron, 70, Bahamian-born Danish gospel singer, cancer.
 * Hilario Chávez Joya, 82, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Nuevo Casas Grandes (1977–2004).
 * Amalie Christie, 96, Norwegian pianist.
 * Samuel J. Eldersveld, 92, American political scientist and politician.
 * Joaquim Fiúza, 102, Portuguese sailor, 1952 Olympic bronze medalist.
 * Tetsuo Kondo, 80, Japanese politician, Minister of Labour (1991–1992).
 * Nan Martin, 82, American actress (The Drew Carey Show, Cast Away, Shallow Hal), emphysema.
 * Roger Newman, 69, British-born American actor and television writer (Guiding Light, Passions), cancer.
 * Angelo Poffo, 84, American professional wrestler.
 * Tony Richards, 76, English footballer (Walsall).
 * Joanne Simpson, 86, American meteorologist, first woman to earn a doctorate in meteorology.
 * Lolly Vegas, 70, American singer (Redbone), lung cancer.
 * Fred Wedlock, 67, British folk musician, complications from pneumonia.

5

 * Obaidullah Akhund, Afghan Taliban leader, heart disease.
 * Aminah Assilmi, 64-65, American Muslim lecturer, writer and women's rights activist, car accident.
 * Donald N. Frey, 87, American product planning manager, co-creator of Ford Mustang, stroke.
 * Aleksandr Grave, 89, Russian actor.
 * Herta Haas, 96, Slovenian-born Yugoslav Partisan, second wife of Josip Broz Tito.
 * Philip Langridge, 70, British tenor, colorectal cancer.
 * Andrée Peel, 105, French patriot, World War II Resistance member.
 * Charles B. Pierce, 71, American film director (The Legend of Boggy Creek).
 * Alberto Ronchey, 83, Italian politician and journalist.
 * Wolfgang Schenck, 97, German airman, Luftwaffe flying ace.
 * Richard Stapley, 86, British-born American actor (The Three Musketeers), renal failure.
 * Hal Trumble, 83, American ice hockey administrator and referee.
 * Edgar Wayburn, 103, American environmentalist and conservationist.
 * Jan Wilson, 70, Australian politician, Victorian MLA for Dandenong North (1985–1999).
 * Makoto Yuki, 17,Japanese High Schooler,Gekkoukan High for Nyx S.E.E.S Annihilation (1993–2010)

6

 * Mansour Amirasefi, 76, Iranian Olympic footballer, cancer.
 * Cho Gyeong-chul, 80, South Korean astronomer, heart attack.
 * Fiennes Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, 88, British aristocrat.
 * Bruce Graham, 84, American architect (Willis Tower, John Hancock Center), Alzheimer's disease.
 * Endurance Idahor, 25, Nigerian footballer, heart attack.
 * H.M. Koutoukas, 72, American playwright (Medea in the Laundromat), complications of diabetes.
 * Mark Linkous, 47, American singer-songwriter (Sparklehorse), suicide by gunshot.
 * Carol Marsh, 83, British actress.
 * Ifedayo Oladapo, 77, Nigerian engineer.
 * Ronald Pettersson, 74, Swedish ice hockey player.
 * Jim Roland, 67, American Major League Baseball player.
 * Syd Tierney, 86, British politician, MP for Birmingham Yardley (1974–1979).
 * Nigel Trench, 7th Baron Ashtown, 93, British diplomat.

7

 * Sir Kenneth Dover, 89, British classicist, President of the British Academy (1978–1981).
 * Ken Dyer, 63, American football player (Cincinnati Bengals).
 * Newton Kulundu, 61, Kenyan politician, Minister of Labour (2006–2008), after long illness.
 * Sergo Mikoyan, 80, Russian historian, specialist on Latin America, leukemia.
 * Carlos Moratorio, 80, Argentine Olympic silver medal-winning (1964) equestrian.
 * Ida Bagus Oka, 74, Indonesian politician, Governor of Bali (1988–1993), heart disease.
 * Richard Stites, 78, American historian and author, complications from cancer.
 * Tom Thurber, 75, Canadian politician.
 * Patrick Topaloff, 65, French actor and humorist, heart attack.
 * Ben Westlund, 60, American politician, Oregon State Treasurer (2009–2010), lung cancer.
 * William Proctor Wilson, 88, American businessman and philanthropist.

8

 * Albert P. Clark, 96, American Air Force officer.
 * Tony Imi, 72, British cinematographer (Enemy Mine, Buster, The Sea Wolves).
 * David Kimche, 82, Israeli diplomat, Mossad spy (1953–1980), brain cancer.
 * Vit Klemes, 77, Czech-born Canadian hydrologist.
 * Guy Lapébie, 93, French road bicycle racer.
 * Benjamin Rubin, 93, American microbiologist, inventor of the bifurcated vaccination needle.
 * Gale Thomson, 90, American First Lady of New Hampshire (1973–1979), wife of Meldrim Thomson, Jr., heart failure.
 * Mahama Johnson Traoré, 68, Senegalese film director, after long illness.
 * Georgy Zatsepin, 92, Russian astrophysicist.

9

 * Antoine Choueiri, 70, Lebanese businessman and media magnate, after long illness.
 * Paul Collier, 46, Australian disability advocate, brain haemorrhage.
 * Gheorghe Constantin, 77, Romanian footballer and manager.
 * Lionel Cox, 80, Australian road bicycle racer, pneumonia.
 * Willie Davis, 69, American baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers), natural causes.
 * Dulmatin, 39, Indonesian terrorist, 2002 Bali bombings planner, shot.
 * Elizabeth Farrow, 83, American baseball player (AAGPBL).
 * Teresa Gutiérrez, 81, Colombian actress, natural causes.
 * Doris Haddock, 100, American political activist, complications of respiratory disease.
 * Catherine Itzin, 65, American feminist academic, honorary research fellow (University of Bradford), duodenal cancer.
 * Jean Kerebel, 91, French Olympic silver (1948) medal-winning athlete.
 * Bernard Narokobi, 67, Papua New Guinean politician, diplomat, lawyer and philosopher, after short illness.
 * Wilfy Rebimbus, 67, Indian musician, lung cancer.
 * Alda Neves da Graça do Espírito Santo, 83, Santomean poet.
 * Ricardo Vidal, 79, Chilean Olympic runner.
 * Henry Wittenberg, 91, American wrestler, 1948 Olympic gold medalist.

10

 * Nate Beasley, 56, American football player.
 * Truddi Chase, 74, American autobiographical author.
 * Leeann Chin, 77, Chinese-born American restaurateur, founder of Leeann Chin restaurants, after long illness.
 * Evelyn Dall, 92, American singer and actress, after long illness.
 * Björn von der Esch, 80, Swedish politician.
 * Bill Fisher, 84, Australian judge, President of the New South Wales Industrial Commission (1981–1998).
 * Corey Haim, 38, Canadian actor (Lucas, The Lost Boys, License to Drive), pneumonia.
 * Tim Holland, 79, American backgammon player, emphysema.
 * Dorothy Janis, 98, American silent film actress.
 * Vincent Mensah, 85, Beninese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Porto Novo (1970–2000).
 * Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, 81, Egyptian Muslim cleric, Grand Imam (Al-Azhar Mosque), heart attack.
 * George Webb, 92, British traditional jazz musician

11

 * Walter Aronsson, 92, Swedish Olympic bobsledder.
 * Paul Dunlap, 90, American film composer.
 * John Durr, 79, South African Olympic swimmer.
 * John Hill, 68, Canadian professional wrestler, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Louis Holmes, 99, British-born Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
 * Matilde Elena López, 91, Salvadoran poet, essayist and playwright.
 * Willie MacFarlane, 79, Scottish footballer and manager.
 * David Meza, 51, Honduran journalist, shot.
 * Hans van Mierlo, 78, Dutch politician, Minister of Defence (1981–1982), Minister of Foreign Affairs (1994–1998), Deputy Prime Minister (1994–1998).
 * Charles Moore, 79, American photographer.
 * Bernard Novak, 90, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1969–1980).
 * Merlin Olsen, 69, American football player (Los Angeles Rams), member of Pro Football Hall of Fame, and actor (Little House on the Prairie, Father Murphy), mesothelioma.
 * Arnall Patz, 89, American ophthalmologist, heart disease.
 * Leena Peltonen-Palotie, 57, Finnish geneticist, bone cancer.
 * Sandy Scott, 75, Canadian professional wrestler, pancreatic cancer.
 * Turhan Selçuk, 87, Turkish cartoonist.
 * Elena Shvarts, 61, Russian poet.
 * Elisabeth de Stroumillo, 83, British journalist, scooter accident.
 * Colin Wells, 76, British historian and archaeologist.

12

 * David Ahenakew, 76, Canadian First Nations leader and politician, cancer.
 * Moulana Hameed Uddin Husami Aqil Sahab, 77, Indian Islamic scholar.
 * Bob Attersley, 76, Canadian ice hockey player, 1960 Winter Olympics silver medalist.
 * Miguel Delibes, 89, Spanish author, journalist and scholar, colorectal cancer.
 * Lesley Duncan, 66, British singer-songwriter, cerebrovascular disease.
 * Hanna-Renate Laurien, 81, German politician.
 * Fatima Meer, 81, South African academic, screenwriter and anti-apartheid activist, stroke.
 * Aleksandr Minayev, 51, Russian football player and coach.
 * Charles Muscatine, 89, American Chaucer scholar and advocate for education reform, lung infection.
 * Hugh Robertson, 70, Scottish footballer (Dundee F.C.).
 * Hamish Scott, 86, Scottish rugby union player (North of Scotland, national team).
 * Ian Sinfield, 75, Australian Olympic runner.
 * Glauco Villas Boas, 53, Brazilian cartoonist (Geraldão), shot.

13

 * Jerry Adler, 91, American harmonicist, prostate cancer.
 * Sir Michael Angus, 79, British businessman, Chairman of Unilever (1986–1992).
 * Charlie Ashcroft, 83, English footballer (Liverpool F.C.).
 * Sir Ian Axford, 76, New Zealand space scientist, after long illness.
 * Jean Ferrat, 79, French singer, cancer.
 * Momčilo Gavrić, 71, Croatian-born American football player (San Francisco 49ers).
 * Peter Harburn, 78, English football player (Brighton & Hove Albion).
 * He Pingping, 21, Chinese dwarf, shortest man who was able to walk, heart complications.
 * Terry Heffernan, 58, New Zealand politician, cancer.
 * Édouard Kargu, 84, French footballer.
 * Cliff Livingston, 79, American football player (N.Y. Giants) and stuntman, complications from dementia with Lewy bodies and Parkinson's disease.
 * Leon Manley, 83, Canadian football player (Edmonton Eskimos).
 * Andrzej Marcinkowski, 81, Polish lawyer and politician, acting Minister of Justice (1991), after long illness.
 * Neville Meade, 61, Jamaican-born British boxer.
 * Gary Mittelholtz, 55, Canadian journalist (CBC Radio), heart attack
 * Fouad Zakariyya, 82-83, Egyptian philosopher.

14

 * Chimen Abramsky, 93, British historian, expert in Jewish studies and Hebrew literature.
 * Nahúm Elí Palacios Arteaga, 36, Honduran journalist and television news director, shot.
 * Hale Ashcraft, 89, American politician.
 * Marcel Bacou, 74, French football referee.
 * Carmen Capalbo, 84, American theater director, emphysema.
 * Edward Eugene Claplanhoo, 81, American Makah leader and veteran, first Makah college graduate, founder of the Makah Museum.
 * Junior Collins, 82, American horn player.
 * Corsica Joe, 90, American professional wrestler.
 * Cherie DeCastro, 87, American singer (The DeCastro Sisters), pneumonia.
 * Edmund Dinis, 85, American prosecutor, investigated Chappaquiddick incident, complications of treatment for lymphoma.
 * Pat Fanning, 91, Irish hurler (Waterford), President of the Gaelic Athletic Association (1970–1973).
 * Gumersindo Gómez, 81, Argentine Olympic runner.
 * Peter Graves, 83, American actor (Mission: Impossible, Airplane!, Stalag 17), heart attack.
 * Vinda Karandikar, 91, Indian poet and writer, after short illness.
 * Hernán Llerena, 81, Peruvian Olympic cyclist.
 * Arnold Loxam, 93, British organist.
 * Konrad Ruhland, 78, German musicologist.
 * Felipe Sapag, 93, Argentine politician.
 * Der Scutt, 75, American architect (Trump Tower, One Astor Plaza, Reading Public Museum), liver failure.
 * Janet Simpson, 65, British Olympic track and field athlete, heart attack.
 * Altie Taylor, 62, American football player (Detroit Lions).
 * Lisle Wilson, 66, American actor.

15

 * W. H. Atkinson, 75, American racing driver.
 * Emilia Boncodin, 55, Filipino Secretary of DBM (1998, 2001–2005), ZTE scandal whistleblower, cardiac arrest.
 * Joseph Galdon, 81, Filipino writer and academic.
 * Günther Heidemann, 77, German Olympic bronze medal-winning (1952) boxer.
 * Robert Hodgins, 89, South African artist, lung cancer.
 * Ken Holcombe, 91, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).
 * Ashok Kumar, 53, British MP for Langbaurgh (1991–1992) and MSEC (1997–2010), natural causes.
 * Ron Lundy, 75, American radio disc jockey (WABC, WCBS-FM), heart attack.
 * Sam Mtukudzi, 21, Zimbabwean musician, car accident.
 * Patricia Wrightson, 88, Australian children's writer.

16

 * Abdul Haq Baloch, 63, Pakistani scholar and politician.
 * Herb Cohen, 77, American record company executive, manager of Frank Zappa.
 * Billy Hoeft, 77, American Major League Baseball All-Star pitcher (Detroit Tigers, Baltimore Orioles).
 * Filip Kapisoda, 22, Montenegrin model, suicide by gunshot.
 * Hachiro Maekawa, 97, Japanese baseball player (Yomiuri Giants), respiratory failure.
 * Ksenija Pajčin, 32, Serbian pop singer, shot.
 * Jane Sherman, 101, American writer and dancer.
 * David J. Steinberg, 45, American actor (Willow, Epic Movie), suicide by hanging.
 * Elena Tairova, 18, Russian chess player, woman grandmaster and international master, after long illness.
 * Juan Adolfo Turri, 59, Argentine Olympic athlete.

17

 * Abdellah Blinda, 58, Moroccan footballer, heart attack.
 * Tim Chadwick, 47, New Zealand artist, traffic collision.
 * Alex Chilton, 59, American musician (Big Star, The Box Tops), heart attack.
 * Wayne Collett, 60, American athlete, 1972 Summer Olympics silver medalist, cancer.
 * Sid Fleischman, 90, American children's writer, cancer.
 * Van Fletcher, 85, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).
 * Charlie Gillett, 68, British radio presenter, music writer and record producer, after long illness.
 * Peter Gowland, 93, American glamour photographer and actor, hip surgery.
 * Ștefan Gheorghiu, 83, Romanian violinist.
 * Johnnie High, 80, American country music impresario, heart failure.
 * Pak Nam-gi, 76, North Korean public official, executed by firing squad.
 * Robert Michael White, 85, American X-15 test pilot.

18

 * Amanda Castro, 47, Honduran poet, respiratory disease.
 * Julinho, 90, Portuguese footballer.
 * Herb Denenberg, 80, American journalist (WCAU), consumer advocate, Pennsylvania insurance commissioner, heart attack.
 * Donald P. Kelly, 88, American leveraged buyout investor (Beatrice Foods), cancer.
 * Chick Lang, Sr., 83, American businessman, general manager of Maryland Jockey Club, natural causes.
 * Herbert G. Lewin, 95, American politician, candidate in the 1988 Presidential election, heart failure.
 * Fess Parker, 85, American actor (Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone), natural causes.
 * Zygmunt Pawłowicz, 82, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Gdańsk (1985–2005).
 * Paul Warner Powell, 31, American convicted murderer, executed by electric chair.
 * William Wolfe, 86, Scottish politician, National Chairman of the Scottish National Party (1969–1979).
 * Konstantin Yeryomenko, 39, Russian futsal player, European champion (1999), heart attack.
 * Jerry York, 71, American businessman, executive director of Apple Inc., cerebral hemorrhage.

19

 * Carlo Chenis, 55, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Civitavecchia-Tarquinia (since 2006).
 * Bob Curtis, 60, English footballer (Charlton Athletic, Mansfield Town), motor neurone disease.
 * Gerald Drucker, 84, British double bass player.
 * Wayne S. Ewing, 81, American politician.
 * John Hicklenton, 42, British comics artist (2000 AD), assisted suicide.
 * Ted Hooper, 91, British beekeeper.
 * George Lane, 95, Hungarian-born British World War II commando, pneumonia.
 * Roberto de la Madrid, 88, Mexican politician, Governor of Baja California (1977–1983), first American-born governor of a Mexican state.
 * Bill McIntyre, 80, American actor (Dallas), natural causes.
 * Elinor Smith, 98, American aviator.
 * Dottie Thompson, 88, American festival organizer, co-founder of the Merrie Monarch Festival, complications from pneumonia.
 * Raúl de la Torre, 72, Argentine film director (Pobre mariposa, Funes, un gran amor), cardiac arrest.

20

 * Susanna Amatuni, 86, Soviet Armenian art critic and musicologist.
 * István Bilek, 77, Hungarian chess grandmaster.
 * Alan Cameron, 80, Australian rugby union player, national team.
 * Harry Carpenter, 84, British sports commentator and television presenter.
 * Liz Carpenter, 89, American feminist author, press secretary to Lady Bird Johnson (1963–1969), pneumonia.
 * Claiborne Cary, 78, American actress and cabaret performer, complications from Parkinson's disease.
 * Clodomiro Castilla, 50, Colombian journalist, shot.
 * Dorothy Corrigan, 96, Canadian politician, first female Mayor of Charlottetown (1968–1972).
 * Chicka Dixon, 81, Australian Aboriginal activist, asbestosis.
 * Ebet Kadarusman, 73, Indonesian television and radio presenter, stroke.
 * Ray Fonseca, 56, American hula master, heart attack.
 * Fred Heineman, 80, American politician, Representative from North Carolina (1995–1997), natural causes.
 * John Eric Holmes, 80, American science fiction and fantasy author.
 * Girija Prasad Koirala, 85, Nepalese politician, Prime Minister (four terms), multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
 * Ian Knight, 69, British stage designer, cancer.
 * Rihards Kotāns, 54, Latvian Olympic bobsledder.
 * Naim Kryeziu, 92, Albanian footballer.
 * Erwin Lehn, 90, German musician and conductor.
 * Robin Milner, 76, British computer scientist, heart attack.
 * Ai Ogawa, 62, American poet, breast cancer.
 * Otto Otepka, 94, American Deputy Director of the Department of State's Office of Security (1959–1962).
 * Fernando Iório Rodrigues, 80, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Palmeira dos Índios (1985–2006).
 * Mikel Scicluna, 80, Canadian professional wrestler, liver cancer.
 * Stewart Udall, 90, American politician, Secretary of the Interior (1961–1969), fall.
 * Yang Lina, 47, Singaporean actress (Samsui Women), uterine cancer.

21

 * Vivian Blake, 53, Jamaican drug lord, heart attack.
 * Franco Gualdrini, 86, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Terni-Narni-Amelia (1983–2000).
 * Lou Jankowski, 78, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings).
 * Takeo Kimura, 91, Japanese art director.
 * Brownie Ledbetter, 77, American civil rights activist.
 * Margaret Moth, 58, New Zealand photojournalist (CNN), colorectal cancer.
 * Wolfgang Wagner, 90, German director (Bayreuth Festival), natural causes.
 * Susana, Lady Walton, 83, Argentine writer, widow of composer Sir William Walton, natural causes.

22

 * Sir James Black, 85, British physician, Nobel Laureate in Medicine (1988).
 * Özhan Canaydın, 67, Turkish basketball player, president of Galatasaray S.K. (2002–2008), pancreatic cancer.
 * Diz Disley, 78, Canadian-born British jazz guitarist.
 * Ky Fan, 95, American mathematician.
 * Ella Mae Johnson, 106, American social worker and author.
 * Leroy Matthiesen, 88, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Amarillo (1980–1997).
 * Emil Schulz, 71, German boxer.
 * Valentina Tolkunova, 63, Russian singer, People's Artist of RSFSR, brain tumor.

23

 * Bob Abbott, 77, American judge.
 * Nail Bakirov, 57, Russian statistician, car accident.
 * Edith Barney, 87, American baseball player.
 * Midge Costanza, 77, American social and political activist, advisor to President Jimmy Carter, cancer.
 * Alan King-Hamilton, 105, British judge.
 * Lauretta Masiero, 82, Italian actress, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Jiro Nagasawa, 78, Japanese Olympic swimmer and national coach, throat cancer.
 * Wayne Patrick, 63, American football player (Buffalo Bills), kidney disease.
 * Kaljo Põllu, 75, Estonian artist.
 * Kanu Sanyal, 78, Indian revolutionary, Naxal leader, suicide by hanging.
 * Alex Seith, 75, American politician.
 * Sulaiman Daud, 77, Malaysian politician, minister (1981–1999), liver cancer.
 * Blanche Thebom, 94, American mezzo-soprano, pneumonia.
 * Fritz Wagnerberger, 72, German Olympic skier.
 * James Williamson, 26, Australian mountain biker and journalist.
 * Marva Wright, 62, American blues singer, complications from a stroke.

24

 * Elijah Alexander, 39, American football player (Indianapolis Colts), multiple myeloma.
 * Anzor Astemirov, 33, Russian insurgent, leader of the 2005 Nalchik raid, shot.
 * Robert Culp, 79, American actor (I Spy, The Greatest American Hero, The Pelican Brief), heart attack.
 * Martin Elliott, 63, British photographer (Tennis Girl), cancer.
 * Oswaldo Frota-Pessoa, 93, Brazilian geneticist and academic.
 * Ron Hamence, 94, Australian cricketer.
 * Colleen Kay Hutchins, 83, American actress, Miss America (1952), mother of Kiki Vandeweghe.
 * Jim Marshall, 74, American photographer.
 * William Mayne, 82, British children's author.
 * Harold McGraw, Jr., 92, American businessman, CEO of McGraw-Hill (1975–1983).
 * Daphne Park, Baroness Park of Monmouth, 88, British spy (MI6), after long illness.
 * Mortimer Sackler, 93, American physician and philanthropist.
 * Eric Sunderland, 80, Welsh anthropologist and academic administrator, Vice Chancellor of Bangor University (1984–1995).

25

 * Alberto Arroyo, 94, American runner.
 * Pål Bang-Hansen, 72, Norwegian film director, actor and film critic, skin cancer.
 * Ben Gascoigne, 94, New Zealand-born Australian optical astronomer.
 * Kit Horn, 80, American surfer, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
 * Des Hoysted, 87, Australian radio broadcaster and horse racing commentator.
 * Marty Lederhandler, 92, American photographer (Associated Press), stroke.
 * John P. McGarr, 45, American actor and film producer, traffic accident.
 * Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, 93, German political scientist.
 * José Antonio Peteiro Freire, 73, Moroccan Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Tanger (1983–2005).
 * Marshall Plummer, 62, American first Vice President of the Navajo Nation (1991–1994), lung disease.
 * Martin Řehák, 76, Czech Olympic athlete.
 * Michael S. Rosenfeld, 75, American talent agent, co-founder of Creative Artists Agency.
 * Robert Sandager, 95, American Olympic shooter.
 * Chet Simmons, 81, American sports broadcasting executive, first president of ESPN, Commissioner (USFL), natural causes.
 * Václav Syrový, 75, Czech Olympic weightlifter.
 * Zainal Abidin Ahmad, 71, Malaysian politician, brain cancer.
 * Zhang Tingfa, 91, Chinese general, commander of the PLA Air Force.
 * Kyohei Ushio, 75, Japanese Olympic sprinter.

26

 * Ahmed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, 41, Emirati managing director of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, glider crash.
 * Abeywardena Balasuriya, 63, Sri Lankan musician, playback singer, writer and a television program producer.
 * Frank Burgess, 75, American federal judge and basketball player, cancer.
 * Lara Jones, 34, British children's author and illustrator, melanoma.
 * Manuel de Jesús Juárez, 55, Honduran journalist, shot.
 * Shmuel Katz, 83, Israeli caricaturist and illustrator.
 * Ruy Kopper, 79, Brazilian Olympic rower.
 * Kwon Hyi-ro, 81, Japanese-born Korean murderer, prostate cancer.
 * Heinz Laufer, 84, German Olympic athlete.
 * José Bayardo Mairena Ramírez, 52, Honduran journalist, shot.
 * Rocco Pantaleo, 53, Italian-born Australian owner of La Porchetta, motorcycle accident.
 * Charles Ryskamp, 81, American art collector and museum director (Frick Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library), cancer.
 * George X. Schwartz, 96, American politician.
 * Max Whitehead, 87, Australian rugby league player, model and professional wrestler, complications following a hip operation.

27

 * Dick Giordano, 77, American comic book artist and editor (Batman, Wonder Woman, Thor), complications from pneumonia.
 * Zbigniew Gut, 60, Polish footballer.
 * Peter Herbolzheimer, 74, German jazz musician.
 * Stephen Hearst, 90, Austrian-born British television and radio executive.
 * Colm Kiernan, 78, Australian historian, biographer of Irish Australians.
 * Eva Markvoort, 25, Canadian blogger and subject of 65_Redroses, cystic fibrosis.
 * Stanford Parris, 80, American politician, Representative from Virginia (1973–1975, 1981–1991), heart disease.
 * Vasily Smyslov, 89, Russian chess grandmaster, World Champion (1957–1958), heart failure.
 * Stanley Vann, 100, British organist and composer, complications following a fall.

28

 * Fred Ascani, 92, American Air Force test pilot, lung cancer.
 * David Carnegie, 14th Earl of Northesk, 55, Scottish peer, member of the House of Lords.
 * Preeda Chullamondhol, 64, Thai Olympic cyclist.
 * Sir Gaven Donne, 95, New Zealand jurist, former Chief Justice of various Pacific nations.
 * Dan Duncan, 77, American businessman oil company executive and billionaire, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Herb Ellis, 88, American jazz guitarist, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Derlis Florentín, 26, Paraguayan football player, car accident.
 * Joe Gates, 55, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox) and coach (Gary SouthShore RailCats), heart failure.
 * June Havoc, 97, Canadian-born American actress, natural causes.
 * Ali Ibrahim, 38, Egyptian Olympic rower, traffic collision.
 * Johnny Lawrenson, 88, British rugby league player.
 * John Purdin, 67, American baseball player.
 * Agim Qirjaqi, 59, Albanian actor and television director.
 * Zofia Romanowicz, 87, Polish writer and translator.
 * Asbjørn Sjøthun, 82, Norwegian politician, Mayor of Balsfjord Municipality (1962–1969), MP (1969–1989).
 * Eric Tunney, 45, Canadian comedian (Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy).

29

 * Tom Burton, 46, American professional wrestler.
 * Choi Jin-young, 39, South Korean actor and singer, brother of Choi Jin-sil, suicide by hanging.
 * Jean Cosmat, 99, French Olympic bronze medal-winning (1936) rower.
 * Kurt Hockerup, 65, Danish politician, cardiac arrest.
 * Alan Isler, 75, British-born American novelist and professor, after long illness.
 * János Kass, 82, Hungarian artist.
 * Jenne Langhout, 91, Dutch Olympic field hockey player.
 * Sam Menning, 85, American actor (The Prestige), emphysema.
 * Armando Nogueira, 83, Brazilian sports journalist.
 * Elliot Willensky, 66, American songwriter, stroke.

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 * Franklin DeWayne Alix, 34, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Alfred Ambs, 87, German World War II flying ace.
 * Thomas Angove, 92, Australian winemaker, inventor of the wine cask.
 * Laszlo Antal, 73, Hungarian born English sport shooter.
 * Nicola Arigliano, 86, Italian jazz singer, musician, and actor.
 * John Bunch, 88, American jazz pianist, melanoma.
 * Juan Carlos Caballero Vega, 109, Mexican revolutionary, driver of Pancho Villa.
 * Jaime Escalante, 79, American mathematics teacher, inspiration for film Stand and Deliver, bladder cancer.
 * John Fethers, 80, Australian Olympic fencer (1952).
 * Peter Flinsch, 89, German-born Canadian artist.
 * Josef Homeyer, 80, German Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Hildesheim (1983–2004).
 * Morris R. Jeppson, 87, American Army Air Corps officer, assistant weaponeer on the Enola Gay.
 * David Mills, 48, American author, journalist and television writer (NYPD Blue, ER, The Wire), brain aneurysm.
 * Malcolm Poindexter, 84, American journalist and reporter (KYW-TV), Alzheimer's disease.
 * Martin Sandberger, 98, German Nazi leader and Holocaust perpetrator.
 * Harriet Shetler, 92, American journalist and advocate, a founder of the National Alliance on Mental Illness.
 * William T. Smith, 94, American politician, Member of the New York Senate (1963–1987).
 * H. Clyde Wilson Jr., 83, American anthropologist and politician.
 * Jadin Wong, 96, American dancer, comedian and talent agent.

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 * Eugene Allen, 90, American White House butler (1952–1986), renal failure.
 * Marcelle Arnold, 92, French actress.
 * Arlette Franco, 70, French politician, complications from brain tumor.
 * Burton Joseph, 79, American First Amendment lawyer, brain cancer.
 * Tina Leung, 65, Hong Kong actress.
 * Ludwig Martin, 100, German lawyer, Attorney General of Germany (1963–1974).
 * Shirley Mills, 83, American actress (The Grapes of Wrath), pneumonia.
 * Jerald terHorst, 87, American White House Press Secretary (1974), heart failure.
 * Qasim Mahmood, 81, Pakistani intellectual and foremost encyclopedist, heart failure.