Deaths in May 2010

The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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

 * Danny Aiello III, 53, American stuntman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Shooter, Rescue Me), pancreatic cancer.
 * T. M. Aluko, 91, Nigerian writer.
 * Mohammad Bahmanbeigi, 90, Iranian educator.
 * Don Caruth, 59, American politician, minority leader of the West Virginia Senate, brain cancer.
 * Jean-Louis Dumas, 72, French businessman, Hermès group chairman (1978–2006).
 * Ramakrushna Gouda, 77, Indian politician.
 * Antoine Hayek, 81, Lebanese Melkite Greek Catholic prelate, archbishop of Baniyas (1989–2006).
 * Vytautas Janulionis, 52, Lithuanian glass artist.
 * Zygmunt Kamiński, 77, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Szczecin-Kamień (1999–2009).
 * Dragan Kujović, Montenegrin politician, President (2003).
 * Rob McConnell, 75, Canadian jazz musician, cancer.
 * Lawrence Paul, 84, Canadian Mi'kmaq tribe leader, chief of the Membertou First Nation (1967–1969).
 * Helen Wagner, 91, American actress (As the World Turns), cancer.

2

 * Ann Aldrich, 82, American jurist.
 * Moshe Hirsch, 86, Israeli Neturei Karta rabbi and anti-Zionist, Palestinian National Authority Minister for Jewish Affairs, after long illness.
 * André Lamy, 77, Canadian film producer, after long illness.
 * Andrew McFarlane, 32, Australian motocross racer, accident during practice.
 * Murray Nicoll, 66, Australian journalist and broadcaster, Ash Wednesday fires commentator, leukaemia.
 * Santiago Carlos Oves, 68, Argentine film director.
 * Lynn Redgrave, 67, English actress (Georgy Girl, Gods and Monsters, Tom Jones), breast cancer.

3

 * Mohammed Abed al-Jabri, 73, Moroccan philosopher and writer.
 * M Innas Ali, 93, Bangladeshi physicist.
 * Luigi Amaducci, 86, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Ravenna-Cervia (1990–2000).
 * Florencio Campomanes, 83, Filipino chess player, President of FIDE (1982–1995).
 * Stefan Doernberg, 85, German writer and teacher.
 * Jack Friedman, 70, American businessman, co-founder of Jakks Pacific.
 * Jimmy Gardner, 85, British character actor (The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Finding Neverland).
 * Karl Kasten, 94, American painter.
 * Stephen Ledogar, 80, American arms control negotiator, bladder cancer.
 * Merv McIntosh, 87, Australian football player, heart attack.
 * Bohumil Němeček, 72, Czech boxer, Olympic gold medalist (1960).
 * Peter O'Donnell, 90, British writer (Modesty Blaise).
 * Nick Rogers, 30, American football player (Minnesota Vikings), auto accident.
 * Kinji Shibuya, 88, American professional wrestler and actor (Mr. T and Tina), natural causes.
 * El Supremo, 67, Mexican professional wrestler, heart attack.
 * Garland Warren, 74, Canadian football player (Winnipeg Blue Bombers).
 * Guenter Wendt, 85, German-born American spacecraft engineer (NASA ), heart failure and stroke.

4

 * Sheikh Nur Mohamed Abkey, 51-52, Somalian journalist, shot.
 * David Apter, 85, American political scientist, complications of cancer.
 * Brita Borg, 83, Swedish actress, singer and variety show artist.
 * Danny Chandler, 50, American motocross champion, complications from paralysis.
 * Ángel Cristo, 65, Spanish animal tamer and circus promoter, cardiac arrest.
 * Bill Dale, 93, Canadian track and field athlete.
 * Sheena Duncan, 77, South African anti-apartheid campaigner, leader of Black Sash, after long illness.
 * Ernie Harwell, 92, American baseball sportscaster (Detroit Tigers), cholangiocarcinoma.
 * Peter Heathfield, 81, British trade unionist.
 * Sipho Jele, 35, Swazi politician.
 * Freddy Kottulinsky, 77, German-born Swedish racing driver.
 * William Lubtchansky, 73, French cinematographer, heart disease.
 * Denis Obua, 62, Ugandan footballer.
 * Luigi Poggi, 92, Italian Roman Catholic prelate.
 * Joan Rendell, 89, British writer.
 * Dustin Shuler, 61, American sculptor (Spindle), pancreatic cancer.
 * Hadi Soesastro, 65, Indonesian economist and intellectual, founder of the CSIS, brain hemorrhage.

5

 * Lucho Barrios, 76, Peruvian bolero singer.
 * Louis Bisilliat, 79, French cyclist.
 * Ray Blum, 91, American Olympic speed skater.
 * Alessandra Codazzi, 88, Italian trade unionist, partisan and politician, Senator (1976-1987).
 * Marcello Costalunga, 85, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Titular Archbishop of Aquileia (1991–2001).
 * Joseph Kearney, 83, American athletic director, pancreatic cancer.
 * Alfons Kontarsky, 77, German pianist.
 * Armando Lucero, 68, Argentine sex offender, respiratory infection.
 * Jack MacDonald, 82, Canadian politician, mayor of Hamilton, Ontario (1977–1980).
 * Max Palevsky, 85, American entrepreneur, philanthropist and art collector.
 * Harry Siljander, 87, Finnish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1952) boxer.
 * Giulietta Simionato, 99, Italian mezzo-soprano singer.
 * Gwyn Thomas, 96, Canadian crime reporter (Toronto Star), natural causes.
 * Umaru Yar'Adua, 58, Nigerian politician, President (2007–2010).

6

 * Hoàng Cầm, 88, Vietnamese poet and playwright.
 * Jaroslav Cardal, 91, Czechoslovakian Olympic cross-country skier.
 * David E. Durston, 88, American film director and screenwriter (I Drink Your Blood), complications from pneumonia.
 * Guillermo Meza, 21, Mexican footballer (Pumas Morelos), shot.
 * Giacomo Neri, 94, Italian footballer.
 * Mildred Ellen Orton, 99, American businesswoman, co-founder of the Vermont Country Store.
 * Robin Roberts, 83, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies), Baseball Hall of Fame inductee, natural causes.
 * Robert J. Serling, 92, American author, brother of Rod Serling.
 * Dennis Sharp, 76, British architect, cancer.
 * Tyler Lambert, 25, Mother of Dana Plato committed suicide

7

 * Francisco Aguabella, 84, Cuban-born American jazz percussionist, cancer.
 * Bertha Allen, 75-76, Canadian activist, cancer.
 * Juan Arcocha, 82, Cuban journalist and writer.
 * Rane Arroyo, 55, American poet, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Anders Buraas, 94, Norwegian journalist.
 * Babz Chula, 64, American actress (Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, The X-Files: I Want to Believe, Double Jeopardy), cancer.
 * Dick Flowers, 84, American football player (Baltimore Colts).
 * Pamela Green, 81, British actress and model, leukemia.
 * Wally Hickel, 90, American politician, Secretary of the Interior (1969–1970), Governor of Alaska (1966–1969, 1990–1994), natural causes.
 * Billy Kelly, 78, British boxer, after long illness.
 * Zoran Kurteš, 44, Serbian handball player and coach, cardiac arrest.
 * Adele Mara, 87, American actress (Sands of Iwo Jima), natural causes.
 * Fríða Á. Sigurðardóttir, 69, Icelandic author.
 * Svetozar Stojanović, 78, Serbian philosopher and political theorist.
 * Flora L. Thornton, 96, American arts patron and philanthropist, pulmonary disease.
 * Bert L. Vallee, 90, American professor.

8

 * Bruce Alford, Sr., 87, American football player (New York Yanks), and line judge, cancer.
 * Shadreck Biemba, 45, Zambian footballer, cancer.
 * Joaquín Capilla, 81, Mexican Olympic diving four-time medalist, heart failure.
 * Sir Cecil Clothier, 90, Manx judge and public servant.
 * Willis Eken, 79, American politician and farmer, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives.
 * Andrew Hull, 46, Canadian-born film maker, film director and architect, head injury due to cycling accident.
 * Stefanos Lazaridis, 67, Ethiopian-born Greek stage designer, cancer.
 * Andor Lilienthal, 99, Russian-born Hungarian chess grandmaster.
 * Giuseppe Ogna, 76, Italian Olympic cyclist.
 * Peer Schmidt, 84, German actor, after long illness.
 * Mark Shannon, 58, American radio personality (KTOK), lymphoid leukemia.
 * George Susce, 78, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox).
 * Alan Watkins, 77, British political journalist, renal failure.

9

 * Danger Ashipala, 62, Namibian police advisor.
 * Maksymilian Barański, 84, Polish footballer
 * Erica Blasberg, 25, American golfer, suicide.
 * Raymond Bouchex, 83, French Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Avignon (1978–2002).
 * Dean Cetrulo, 91, American fencer, Olympic bronze medalist (1948 Summer Olympics).
 * Geoffrey Chapman, 80, Australian publisher.
 * Rita Childers, 95, Irish politician, wife of President Erskine Hamilton Childers.
 * Zosima Davydov, 46, Russian Orthodox prelate, bishop of Yakutsk and Lensk (since 2004), heart attack.
 * Hans Dijkstal, 67, Dutch politician, Minister of the Interior and Deputy Prime Minister (1994–1998), cancer.
 * Francisco Andrés Escobar, 67, Salvadoran actor, journalist and writer.
 * Lena Horne, 92, American singer and actress (Stormy Weather, The Wiz).
 * Signe Johansson-Engdahl, 104, Swedish 1924 Olympic diver.
 * Farzad Kamangar, 32, Iranian activist, execution by hanging.
 * Craig Kauffman, 78, American painter and sculptor, complications from a stroke and pneumonia.
 * Teruji Kogake, 77, Japanese Olympic athlete, liver failure.
 * Mahāprajña, 89, Indian Jain religious leader, supreme head of Svetambar Terapanth, cardiac arrest.
 * Otakar Motejl, 77, Czech public official, Ombudsman (since 2000), after short illness.
 * Karl-Heinz Schnibbe, 86, German partisan, World War II resistance fighter.
 * Edward Uhl, 92, American inventor, co-inventor of the bazooka, heart failure.

10

 * Allan Andersson, 79, Swedish Olympic skier.
 * Ike Franklin Andrews, 84, American politician, U.S. Representative from North Carolina (1973–1985).
 * Albert W. Barney, 89, American jurist, Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court (1974–1982).
 * Jack Birkett, 75, British dancer, singer and actor.
 * Giuliana Camerino, 90, Italian handbag designer.
 * Charles Currey, 94, British sailor, silver medallist at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
 * Frank Frazetta, 82, American fantasy and science fiction artist, stroke.
 * Bill Hook, 84, American-born chess player for British Virgin Islands.
 * Margit Hvammen, 77, Norwegian Olympic Alpine skier.
 * John Kempe, 92, British schoolteacher, headmaster of Gordonstoun School.
 * Mac Mohan, 71, Indian actor (Sholay), lung cancer.
 * Volodymyr Ploskina, 55, Ukrainian football manager and former footballer.
 * Robert B. Salter, 85, Canadian surgeon.

11

 * Ian Baker, 86, British architect.
 * Robert H. Burris, 96, American biochemist.
 * John Burton, 85, New Zealand cricketer.
 * John Fugh, 75, American army officer, Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Army, heart attack.
 * Brian Gibson, 82, English footballer (Huddersfield Town).
 * Timothy Grubb, 55, British-born American show jumper, Olympic silver medallist (1984 Summer Olympics), heart failure.
 * Karl-Erik Hult, 74, Swedish football player and manager.
 * Rauf Jabbarov, 74, Azerbaijani boxing manager, heart attack.
 * Josef Keck, 59, German Olympic biathlete.
 * Maciej Kozłowski, 52, Polish actor, complications of hepatitis C.
 * Richard LaMotta, 67, American inventor of the Chipwich ice cream sandwich, heart attack.
 * Bud Mahurin, 91, American flying ace, complications from a stroke.
 * Emmanuel Ngobese, 29, South African footballer, tuberculosis.
 * Jeff Shaw, 60, Australian politician and jurist, NSW Attorney General (1995–2000), Supreme Court judge (2003–2004), pneumonia.
 * Doris Eaton Travis, 106, American performer, last surviving Ziegfeld girl, aneurysm.
 * Bob Watt, 82, Canadian ice hockey player, Olympic gold medalist (1952 Winter Olympics).

12

 * Anthony Andeh, 64, Nigerian Olympic boxer.
 * Dieter Bock, 71, German businessman and multimillionaire, choking.
 * Phyllis Hodges Boyce, 73, American actress (Gone with the Wind, Star Trek).
 * Clive Fairbairn, 90, Australian cricketer.
 * Charlie Francis, 61, Canadian track coach, lymphoma.
 * Edith Keller-Herrmann, 88, German chess Grandmaster.
 * Sione Manu'uli Luani, 50, Tongan politician, governor of Vavaʻu (since 2009).
 * Allan Manings, 86, American television writer (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Good Times), cardiac arrest.
 * Antonio Ozores, 81, Spanish actor, cancer.
 * John Warham, 90, New Zealand ornithologist and photographer.
 * Notable people killed in the crash of Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771:
 * Joëlle van Noppen, 30, Dutch singer.
 * Bree O'Mara, 42, South African novelist.

13

 * Rafael Sanus Abad, 78, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Valencia (1989–2000).
 * Ashaari Mohammad, 73, Malaysian spiritual leader, respiratory infection.
 * Ruth Chew, 90, American children's author, pneumonia.
 * Paul Garabedian, 82, American mathematician.
 * Eddie Garrett, 82, American actor (Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Quincy, M.E.).
 * Cinthia Régia Gomes do Livramento, 46, Brazilian politician, Education Secretary (Amazonas), air crash.
 * Walter Klimmek, 91, German footballer.
 * Klaus Kotter, 75, German bobsleigh official.
 * Richard Movitz, 84, American Olympic skier.
 * Peter Provan, 73, Australian rugby league footballer, Balmain Tigers premiership captain (1969), after long illness.
 * Rosa Rio, 107, American organist (Tampa Theatre).

14

 * Ronald Bailey, 92, British diplomat.
 * Frank J. Dodd, 72, American politician, President of the New Jersey Senate (1974–1975).
 * Goh Keng Swee, 91, Singaporean politician, Deputy Prime Minister (1973–1984), after long illness.
 * Norman Hand, 37, American football player (San Diego Chargers, New Orleans Saints), heart disease.
 * Rūta Jokubonienė, 80, Lithuanian textile artist.
 * Milouš Kvaček, 76, Czech football player and manager.
 * David Maimon, 81, Israeli general, head of Israel Prison Service.
 * Fred O'Donovan, 80, Irish theatre producer, Chairman of RTÉ Authority (1981–1985).
 * Skip Away, 17, American thoroughbred racehorse, heart attack.
 * Edmund Tsaturyan, 73, Armenian politician.
 * Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, 70, South African politician, complications from liver disease.

15

 * Harry Aleman, 71, American gangster and murderer, lung cancer.
 * Frances Alexander, 90, American politician.
 * Gabriel Bien-Aimé, Haitian politician, Minister of Education (2006–2008), heart attack.
 * Armand Caouette, 64, Canadian politician, Member of Parliament (1974–1980).
 * Juan José Carbó, 83, Spanish cartoonist.
 * Moshe Greenberg, 81, American rabbi and biblical scholar.
 * Christian Habicht, 57, German actor, heart attack.
 * Besian Idrizaj, 22, Austrian footballer, heart attack.
 * Loris Kessel, 60, Swiss racing driver, leukemia.
 * Archduke Rudolf of Austria, 90, Austrian nobleman, youngest son of Emperor Charles I and Zita of Bourbon-Parma.
 * John Shepherd-Barron, 84, British inventor, invented the Automatic Teller Machine.
 * Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, 86, Indian politician, Vice-President (2002–2007), respiratory infection.

16

 * Debbie Abono, 80, American band manager.
 * Ronnie James Dio, 67, American heavy metal singer (Black Sabbath, Rainbow, Dio), stomach cancer.
 * Frank Dye, 82, British sailor.
 * Alfonso Escámez, 94, Spanish banker.
 * Hank Jones, 91, American jazz pianist.
 * Oswaldo López Arellano, 88, Honduran politician, President (1963–1971, 1972–1975), prostate cancer.
 * Ingvard Nielsen, 84, Danish Olympic athlete.
 * Stephen Perry, 55, American television writer (ThunderCats, SilverHawks), homicide. (body discovered on this date)

17

 * Víctor Selvino Arenhart, 61, Argentine Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Oberá (since 2009).
 * Trevor Brissett, 49, English footballer (Port Vale), cancer.
 * Judson Crews, 92, American poet.
 * Ludwig von Friedeburg, 85, German politician and sociologist, Hesse Minister for Education (1969–1974).
 * Richard Gregory, 86, British psychologist.
 * Dorothy Kamenshek, 84, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, 1943–1952).
 * Yvonne Loriod, 86, French pianist, composer and teacher, widow of Olivier Messiaen.
 * Mukhran Machavariani, 81, Georgian poet, heart attack.
 * Vasil Manchenko, 79, Bulgarian Olympic basketball player.
 * Rafael Nantes, 53, Filipino politician, helicopter crash.
 * Khattiya Sawasdipol, 58, Thai army general and activist, advisor to the National United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship (Red Shirts), shot.
 * Bobbejaan Schoepen, 85, Belgian singer-songwriter and entrepreneur, cardiac arrest.
 * Fritz Sennheiser, 98, German electrical engineer and entrepreneur, founder of Sennheiser.
 * George Terlep, 87, American football player (Buffalo Bills) and head coach.
 * Walasse Ting, 80, Chinese-born American visual artist.

18

 * Iskender Alptekin, 48, Swiss politician, heart attack.
 * Fedja Anzelewsky, 91, German art historian.
 * Shusaku Arakawa, 73, Japanese artist and architect.
 * Sheila Armstrong, 60, American Olympic fencer.
 * Martha Bielish, 94, Canadian politician, Senator (1979–1990).
 * Don Day, 86, Australian politician, New South Wales Minister for Agriculture (1978–1980).
 * John Gooders, 73, British ornithologist.
 * Karin Iten, 53, Swiss figure skater.
 * Edoardo Sanguineti, 79, Italian poet, complications following abdominal aneurysm surgery.
 * Peter Seaton, 67, American poet, influential in language poetry movement, apparent heart attack.
 * Devendra Singh, 72, Indian-born American psychologist and educator.
 * Snow Chief, 27, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
 * Willie Zapalac, 89, American football coach.

19

 * Martin Cohan, 77, American television writer and producer, creator of Silver Spoons, Who's the Boss?, large cell lymphoma.
 * Larry Dale, 87, American blues singer and guitarist.
 * Pierre-Claver Zeng Ebome, 56, Gabonese politician and musician.
 * Aleksandrs Golubovs, 50-51, Latvian politician, member of the Saeima (since 1995).
 * Horácio Roque, 66, Portuguese financier, founder of Banco Internacional do Funchal, stroke.
 * Moishe Rosen, 78, American Baptist minister, founder of Jews for Jesus, after long illness.
 * Harry Vos, 63, Dutch footballer, cancer.

20

 * Harry C. Aderholt, 90, American Air Force general.
 * Herbert Eldemire, 79, Jamaican politician and medical doctor.
 * Phill Hartsfield, 78, American knifemaker.
 * Gesang Martohartono, 92, Indonesian singer-songwriter.
 * Robert L. McNeil, Jr., 94, American chemist and inventor, creator of paracetamol (acetaminophen), heart failure.
 * Hugh Morris, 80, New Zealand businessman, founder of McDonald's New Zealand.
 * Breandán Ó Buachalla, 74, Irish academic, Irish language scholar, heart attack.
 * Acharya Ramamurti, 97, Indian social activist.
 * Walter Rudin, 89, Austrian-born American mathematician, Parkinson's disease.
 * Robert Tralins, 84, American author.
 * Leonard Wolfson, Baron Wolfson, 82, British businessman, philanthropist and life peer.

21

 * Adrian Cruickshank, 73, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (1984–1999).
 * Stan Jones, 78, American football player (Chicago Bears), member of Pro Football Hall of Fame, complications from a stroke.
 * Anna-Lena Löfgren, 66, Swedish singer.
 * Bill Long, 78, Irish writer and broadcaster, Ireland's longest surviving heart transplant patient.
 * Will Munro, 35, Canadian artist, brain cancer.
 * Howard Post, 83, American cartoonist and animator.
 * Robert Gordon Rogers, 90, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia (1983–1988).
 * Gerald Roush, 68, American Ferrari expert, heart attack.
 * Saeed al-Masri, 54, Egyptian member of al-Qaeda, drone attack.
 * John P. Scott, 76, American politician, member of the New Jersey Senate.
 * Madan Tamang, 62, Nepali politician, President of Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League, stabbed.
 * Driek van Wissen, 66, Dutch poet, intracranial hemorrhage.

22

 * Martin Gardner, 95, American mathematics and science author.
 * Hasri Ainun Habibie, 72, Indonesian First Lady (1998–1999), ovarian cancer.
 * Peter Hall, 88, New Zealand airman, World War II flying ace.
 * Keith Jessop, 77, British deep sea diver and marine treasure hunter.
 * Josef Koukl, 83, Czech Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Litoměřice (1989–2003).
 * Michael Kuchwara, 63, American theater critic (Associated Press), idiopathic ischemic lung disease.
 * Buz Lukens, 79, American politician, U.S. Representative for Ohio (1967–1971; 1987–1990), cancer.
 * Lwandile Zwelenkosi Matanzima, 39, South African clan leader, ruler of Western Thembuland.
 * Martin Mulloy, 58, Irish banjo player, drowning.
 * Gane Todorovski, 81, Macedonian writer and academician.
 * Veturi, 74, Indian poet and lyricist, cardiac arrest.
 * Pierre Zimmer, 82, French actor and film director.

23

 * Princess Leonida Bagration of Mukhrani, 95, Russian Grand Duchess, last Romanov born in Russia.
 * Beaver, 59, New Zealand jazz singer, sarcoma.
 * Beto, 43, Portuguese singer, stroke.
 * Héctor Costa, 80, Uruguayan basketball player, Olympic bronze medalist (1952 and 1956 Summer Olympics).
 * Gregory Evans, 96, Canadian jurist, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ontario (1976–1985).
 * David Ginsburg, 98, American lawyer and political insider, heart failure.
 * José Lima, 37, Dominican baseball player, heart attack.
 * Ashot Mkhitaryan, 51, Armenian weightlifting and television personality, heart attack.
 * Simon Monjack, 40, British screenwriter, suspected heart attack.
 * Marianna O'Gallagher, 81, Canadian Irish Quebecer historian, lung cancer.
 * Eva Ostwalt, 108, German-born American Holocaust survivor.
 * Irwin Rosten, 85, American documentary filmmaker (The Incredible Machine, 1975), after short illness.
 * Wee Willie Webber, 80, American radio and television personality, heart attack.

24

 * Ray Alan, 79, British ventriloquist, respiratory failure.
 * Walter Arnold Baker, 73, American lawyer and politician, cancer.
 * Virendra Bhatia, 63, Indian politician, after short illness.
 * Tony Bentley-Buckle, 88, Kenyan Olympic sailor.
 * Tapen Chatterjee, 72, Indian actor (Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne), cardiac arrest.
 * Maria di Gerlando, 84, American operatic soprano.
 * Paul Gray, 38, American heavy metal bassist (Slipknot), accidental fentanyl and morphine overdose.
 * Alejandro López de Haro, 61, Venezuelan photographer, writer and stock broker, complications from surgery.
 * Raymond V. Haysbert, 90, American business executive and civil rights leader, member of Tuskegee Airmen, heart failure.
 * Baby Islam, 82, Bangladeshi cinematographer.
 * Kambozia Jamali, 71, Iranian Olympic footballer.
 * Morrie Martin, 87, American baseball player, lung cancer.
 * Rogelio Martínez, 91, American baseball player (Washington Senators).
 * Petr Muk, 45, Czech pop singer.
 * Barbara New, 87, British actress (Oh, Doctor Beeching!, You Rang, M'Lord?).
 * Steve New, 50, British guitarist, cancer.
 * Eugenia Paul, 75, American actress (Zorro).
 * Katherine Reback, 59, American screenwriter (Fools Rush In), complications from cancer.
 * Abdolhamid Rigi, 30-31, Iranian militant, execution by hanging.
 * Anneliese Rothenberger, 85, German opera singer.

25

 * Alexander Belostenny, 51, Ukrainian basketball player, lung cancer.
 * Clifford Grodd, 86, American clothier, President and CEO of Paul Stuart, cancer.
 * Arthur Herzog, 83, American writer.
 * Alan Hickinbotham, 84, Australian football player and businessman.
 * Michael H. Jordan, 73, American business executive, complications of cancer.
 * Erih Koš, 97, Serbian writer and translator.
 * Silvius Magnago, 96, Italian politician, Governor of South Tyrol (1960–1989).
 * Robert Muczynski, 81, American composer of classical music.
 * Siphiwo Ntshebe, 35, South African opera singer, meningitis.
 * David Parker, 51, British swimmer, heart attack.
 * Gabriel Vargas, 95, Mexican cartoonist.

26

 * Leo Canjels, 77, Dutch footballer.
 * Jean Constantin, 82, Romanian actor, natural causes.
 * Marie Corridon, 80, American swimmer, gold medalist (1948 Summer Olympics).
 * Jesse Hockett, 26, American sprint car racer, electrocution.
 * John P. Lewis, 89, American economist, expert on economic aid.
 * Art Linkletter, 97, Canadian-born American radio and television personality (House Party, People are Funny), natural causes.
 * Judy Lynn, 74, American country music singer, heart failure.
 * Sir Christopher Moran, 54, British air force officer, Air Chief Marshal of RAF, suspected heart failure.
 * Kieran Phelan, 60, Irish politician, suspected heart attack.
 * Pat Stevens, 64, American actress and voice actress (M*A*S*H, Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo), breast cancer.

27

 * Louise Arnold, 87, American baseball player (AAGPBL)
 * Harry Brown Bainbridge III, 70, American bishop, lung cancer and heart complications.
 * John William Finn, 100, American naval officer, oldest living Medal of Honor recipient.
 * Jerzy Gryt, 88, Polish Olympic wrestler.
 * Peter J. Hall, 84, British-born American costume designer (Dallas Opera).
 * Yvonne Howell, 104, American actress.
 * Jackson Kaujeua, 56, Namibian musician, composer and gospel singer, kidney disease.
 * Peter Keefe, 57, American animation producer and executive (Voltron, Denver, the Last Dinosaur), throat cancer.
 * Roman Kozak, 52, Russian theatre actor and director, after long illness.
 * Payut Ngaokrachang, 81, Thai cartoonist and animator.
 * Thomas Whisenhant, 63, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Reg White, 74, British Olympic gold medal-winning (1976) sailor.

28

 * Eddie Barth, 78, American actor (Simon & Simon, The Amityville Horror, Fame), heart failure.
 * Henry Bramwell, 90, American federal judge.
 * Slim Bryant, 101, American country singer-songwriter.
 * Gary Coleman, 42, American actor (Diff'rent Strokes), intracranial hemorrhage.
 * Sir Hugh Ford, 96, British engineer
 * Ted Innes, 85, Australian politician, member of the Australian House of Representatives (1972–1983).
 * Robert Middlemiss, 75, Canadian engineer and politician.
 * Osama Anwar Okasha, 68, Egyptian screenwriter and journalist.
 * David Sanger, 63, British organist.
 * Leslie Scalapino, 65, American poet, publisher and playwright.
 * Torvald Högström, 84, Finnish Olympic cyclist.

29

 * Akinpelu Oludele Adesola, 82, Nigerian academic.
 * Adrian Freeman, 24, Irish hurler (Mayo), traffic collision.
 * Dennis Hopper, 74, American actor (Speed, Blue Velvet) and film director (Easy Rider), prostate cancer.
 * Paul Müller, 69, German biologist.
 * Jeriome Robertson, 33, American baseball player (Houston Astros, Cleveland Indians), motorcycle collision.
 * Donald L. Staheli, 78, American Mormon leader, general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
 * Randolph Stow, 74, Australian writer, liver cancer.

30

 * José Amedo, 91, Spanish Olympic shooter.
 * Hanji Aoki, 94, Japanese sports official, heart failure.
 * Colm Callan, 87, Irish rugby player (1948 Grand Slam), after long illness.
 * Yuri Chesnokov, 77, Russian Olympic gold medal-winning (1964) volleyball player.
 * Aryeh Eliav, 88, Israeli politician, after long illness.
 * Dame Pat Evison, 85, New Zealand actress.
 * Bruce Harris, 55, British executive director of Casa Alianza (1989–2004), pancreatic cancer.
 * Lester Johnson, 91, American figurative expressionist artist.
 * Peter Orlovsky, 76, American poet, lung cancer.
 * Joan Rhodes, 89, British actress and entertainer.
 * Jeanne Robinson, 62, American dancer and novelist, wife of Spider Robinson, biliary tract cancer.
 * Dufferin Roblin, 92, Canadian politician, Premier of Manitoba (1958–1967), Senator (1978–1992).
 * Vera Beaudin Saeedpour, 80, American Kurdish scholar, founder of the Kurdish Heritage Foundation of America, heart attack.
 * Robert O. Smith, 67, American actor (Dragonball Z, InuYasha, Transformers: Cybertron).
 * Brian Turner, 58, Australian footballer, cancer.
 * Rudi Vis, 69, British politician, MP for Finchley and Golders Green (1997–2010), cancer.
 * Tobi Wong, 35, Canadian designer, suicide.
 * Ali-Ollie Woodson, 58, American soul singer (The Temptations), leukemia.

31

 * İbrahim Bilgen, 61, Turkish politician and engineer, Gaza flotilla raid participant.
 * Louise Bourgeois, 98, French-born American artist and sculptor.
 * Uzra Butt, 93, Indian-born Pakistani actress, after long illness.
 * Emil Clade, 94, German Luftwaffe fighter ace. (exact date of death unknown)
 * Boyd Converse, 78, American college football coach.
 * Furkan Doğan, 19, American student, Gaza flotilla raid participant.
 * Brian Duffy, 76, British photographer, degenerative lung disease.
 * William A. Fraker, 86, American cinematographer, cancer.
 * Chris Haney, 59, Canadian co-inventor of Trivial Pursuit, after long illness.
 * Rubén Juárez, 62, Argentine singer-songwriter and bandoneónist, prostate cancer.
 * Cevdet Kılıçlar, 38, Turkish journalist and photographer, Gaza flotilla raid participant.
 * Benjamin Lees, 86, American composer of classical music, heart failure.
 * Merata Mita, 68, New Zealand filmmaker.
 * Basilio Santiago Romero, 82, Puerto Rican politician, Comptroller (1971–1977).
 * Çetin Topçuoğlu, 54, Turkish taekwondo champion and coach, Gaza flotilla raid participant.
 * Jack Volrich, 82, Canadian politician, Mayor of Vancouver (1976–1980), kidney failure.
 * Donald Windham, 89, American novelist.