Deaths in May 2011

The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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

 * Alex, 52, Indian actor and magician, brief illness.
 * Spyrydon Babskyi, 52, Ukrainian Orthodox hierarch, Archbishop of Vinnytsia in UOC-KP (1992–1993).
 * Schalk Booysen, 83, South African Olympic sprinter.
 * Sir Henry Cooper, 76, British Olympic heavyweight boxer.
 * Brian Evans, 74, Welsh cricketer (Glamorgan).
 * Agustín García-Gasco Vicente, 80, Spanish Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Valencia (1992–2009), cardiac arrest.
 * Moshe Landau, 99, Israeli jurist, Chief Justice (1980–1982), presided over Adolf Eichmann's trial (1961).
 * Ted Lowe, 90, British snooker commentator.
 * Steven Orszag, 68, American mathematician, chronic lymphomic leukemia.
 * Anny Rüegg, 98-99, Swiss alpine skier.
 * Ivan Slavkov, 70, Bulgarian sports official.
 * William O. Taylor II, 78, American journalist and publisher (The Boston Globe), brain tumor.
 * J. Ernest Wilkins, Jr., 87, American mathematician and nuclear scientist.

2

 * Leonid Abalkin, 80, Russian economist.
 * Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, 46, Kuwaiti Al-Qaeda computer expert, shot.
 * L.V. Banks, 78, American guitarist, singer and songwriter, heart failure.
 * Ion Barbu, 72, Romanian football player.
 * Robert W. Clower, 85, American economist.
 * Lloyd Colteryahn, 79, American football player (Baltimore Colts).
 * Sir Basil Hall, 93, British lawyer and civil servant, Treasury Solicitor (1975–1980).
 * Danny Kassap, 28, Congolese-born Canadian long-distance runner.
 * Osama bin Laden, 54, Saudi founder of Al-Qaeda, planned September 11 attacks, shot.
 * Alexander Lazarev, 73, Russian actor.
 * Eddie Lewis, 76, English footballer (Manchester United, West Ham United), cancer.
 * Owen Roe McGovern, 93, Irish Gaelic football player.
 * Lyuben Obretenov, 92, Bulgarian Olympic gymnast.
 * René Emilio Ponce, 64, Salvadoran general and defence minister, army chief of staff during the Civil War.
 * David Sencer, 86, American public health official, director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (1966–1977), heart disease.
 * Shigeo Yaegashi, 78, Japanese footballer.

3

 * Paul Ackerley, 61, New Zealand hockey player and coach, skin cancer.
 * Frédéric Affo, 68, Beninese politician and football executive.
 * Robert Marshall Anderson, 77, American bishop, pancreatic cancer.
 * Victor Auer, 74, American Olympic silver medal-winning (1972) sports shooter.
 * Bob Balog, 86, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers).
 * Robert Brout, 82, American-born Belgian theoretical physicist.
 * Odell Brown, 70, American jazz organist and songwriter ("Sexual Healing").
 * Jackie Cooper, 88, American actor (Skippy, Our Gang, Superman).
 * C. Rollins Hanlon, 96, American cardiac surgeon, lymphoma.
 * Richie Hubbard, 78, Canadian politician.
 * Sergo Kotrikadze, 74, Georgian football player and coach, heart attack.
 * Abdulla Kurd, 34, Turkish Kurdish Islamist militant.
 * Mildred Robbins Leet, 88, American philanthropist, co-founder of Trickle Up, complications of a fall.
 * Larry McCormick, 71, Canadian politician, Member of Parliament for Hastings—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington (1993–2004).
 * Marianna Nagy, 82, Hungarian pair skater.
 * Patrick Roy, 53, French politician, pancreatic cancer.
 * Peter Urbach, 71, German Cold War informant.
 * Thanasis Veggos, 83, Greek actor, stroke.
 * Armand Van Wambeke, 84, Belgian Olympic basketball player.
 * Des Williams, 83, South African Olympic boxer.

4

 * James Beggs, 87, American Olympic rower.
 * Lázaro Blanco, 73, Mexican photographer, cancer.
 * Maurice Carpentier, 89, French cyclist.
 * Frans de Kok, 87, Dutch conductor.
 * Oliver Elmes, 76, British graphic designer (Doctor Who).
 * Jacques Georges Habib Hafouri, 94, Syrian Catholic hierarch, Archbishop of Hassaké-Nisibi (1982–1996).
 * Sammy McCrory, 86, Northern Irish footballer.
 * Ronald H. Miller, 73, American professor of religion.
 * Mary Murphy, 80, American actress (The Wild One).
 * Thomas G. Nelson, 74, American federal judge, complications from declining health.
 * Françoise Olivier-Coupeau, 51, French politician, cancer.
 * Emil Reinecke, 78, German cyclist.
 * Acacio Valbuena Rodríguez, 88, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Prefect for Western Sahara (1994–2009).
 * Frans Sammut, 66, Maltese writer, natural causes.
 * Bernard Stasi, 80, French politician, Minister for Overseas Departments and Territories (1973–1974), Alzheimer's disease.
 * Richard Steinheimer, 81, American railroad photographer, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Sada Thompson, 83, American actress (Family), lung disease.

5

 * Leslie Audus, 99, British botany professor (University of London), expert on plant growth hormones.
 * Alice Bridges, 94, American Olympic bronze medal-winning (1936) swimmer.
 * Nikolay Chuchalov, 78, Soviet Olympic wrestler.
 * Claude Choules, 110, British-born Australian veteran, last combat veteran of World War I.
 * Donald Crump, 78, Canadian commissioner of the Canadian Football League (1990–1991).
 * Salomón Hakim, 81, Colombian neurosurgeon, researcher and inventor.
 * Al Johnson, 88, American football player and coach.
 * Arthur Laurents, 93, American playwright, librettist, stage director, and screenwriter (Anastasia, Rope, West Side Story).
 * Dougie McCracken, 46, Scottish football player (Ayr United), suspected suicide.
 * Yosef Merimovich, 86, Israeli football player and manager.
 * Rolo Puente, 71, Argentine actor, pulmonary emphysema.
 * Friedrich Rückert, 90, Austrian Olympic hockey player.
 * Tommy Wright, 83, Scottish footballer.
 * Dana Wynter, 79, German-born British actress (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Airport, The Man Who Never Was), heart failure.

6

 * Barry Connolly, 72, Australian football player.
 * Oniroku Dan, 80, Japanese author, esophageal cancer.
 * Sir Geoffrey Dhenin, 93, British air marshal.
 * Bill Hopkins, 83, Welsh writer.
 * Horace Freeland Judson, 80, American science historian (The Great Betrayal: Fraud In Science), complications of a stroke.
 * Antanas Krištopaitis, 89, Lithuanian painter.
 * Kazi Nuruzzaman, 86, Bangladeshi veteran of the Liberation War, natural causes.
 * Duane Pillette, 88, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies).
 * Dick Walsh, 85, American baseball executive, first commissioner of the North American Soccer League.
 * Yoon Ki-Won, 24, South Korean football player, suicide by inhaling toxic fumes.

7

 * Johnny Albino, 93, Puerto Rican bolero singer, heart attack.
 * Seve Ballesteros, 54, Spanish golfer, brain cancer.
 * Big George, 53, British broadcaster and music arranger.
 * Willard Boyle, 86, Canadian physicist, Nobel laureate (2009).
 * Shaukat Galiev, 82, Soviet Tatar poet and writer of children's books.
 * Jack Gordon, 66, American politician, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives (1972–1980), State Senator (1980–1992; 1996–2011), brain cancer.
 * Ross Hagen, 72, American actor (Daktari, Speedway).
 * Allyson Hennessy, 63, Trinidadian broadcaster.
 * Eilert Määttä, 75, Swedish ice hockey player and coach.
 * Milan Mišík, 82, Slovak geologist.
 * Gunter Sachs, 78, German photographer, author and multi-millionaire industrialist, suicide by gunshot.
 * Robert Stempel, 77, American automobile executive, chairman and CEO of General Motors (1990–1992).
 * Kate Swift, 87, American writer, stomach cancer.
 * John Walker, 67, American musician (The Walker Brothers), liver cancer.
 * Doric Wilson, 72, American playwright and gay activist.

8

 * Huthaifa al-Batawi, Iraqi al-Qaeda leader, shot.
 * Hans-Georg Borck, 89, German military officer.
 * Wallace Clark, 84, Northern Irish maritime writer.
 * Cornell Dupree, 68, American jazz and R&B guitarist, complications from emphysema.
 * George Guțiu, 87, Romanian Catholic hierarch, Archbishop of Cluj-Gherla (1994–2002).
 * Corwin Hansch, 92, American chemist, pneumonia.
 * Li Desheng, 95, Chinese People's Liberation Army general.
 * Charles McPhee, 49, American radio host, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
 * Greg Percival, 86, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1977–1978; 1986–1988).
 * Soňa Pertlová, 23, Czech chessplayer, cancer.
 * Lionel Rose, 62, Australian world champion boxer.
 * Hilton Rosemarin, 58, Canadian set decorator (Three Men and a Baby, Cocktail, Jumper), brain cancer.
 * Carlos Trillo, 68, Argentine comic book writer (Cybersix).
 * Galina Urbanovich, 93, Russian Olympic gold and silver medal-winning (1952) gymnast.
 * Arkady Vaksberg, 83, Soviet and Russian lawyer, author, film maker and playwright.
 * Sir Ronald Waterhouse, 85, British jurist.

9

 * George Allen, 87, American ichthyologist and fisheries scientist.
 * William Y. Anderson, 89, Swedish-born American fighter pilot.
 * David Cairns, 44, British politician, MP for Greenock and Inverclyde (2001–2005) and Inverclyde (since 2005), acute pancreatitis.
 * Robert Ellsworth, 84, American politician and diplomat, Representative from Kansas (1961–1967), Ambassador to NATO (1969–1971), complications from pneumonia.
 * Epiphanios of Vryoula, 76, American Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Spain and Portugal.
 * Henry Feffer, 93, American professor and spine surgeon, treated Saddam Hussein, heart failure.
 * Dolores Fuller, 88, American actress (Glen or Glenda), and songwriter ("Rock-A-Hula Baby").
 * Jeff Gralnick, 72, American television news producer.
 * Lidia Gueiler Tejada, 89, Bolivian politician, acting President (1979–1980), after a long illness.
 * Doug Leeds, 63, American executive, vice-chairman of American Theatre Wing, cancer.
 * Ivo Pešák, 66, Czech singer, dancer and comic performer.
 * Roland Spångberg, 88, Swedish Olympic water polo player.
 * Newton Thornburg, 81, American novelist.
 * Shailendra Kumar Upadhyaya, 82, Nepali politician, Foreign Minister (1986–1990), altitude sickness.
 * Wouter Weylandt, 26, Belgian road bicycle racer, race crash.

10

 * Omar Ahmad, 46, American entrepreneur (Napster) and politician, Mayor of San Carlos, California (2010–2011), heart attack.
 * Michael Baze, 24, American jockey, accidental drug overdose.
 * Bill Bergesch, 89, American baseball executive (Kansas City Athletics, New York Yankees, Cincinnati Reds).
 * Frank Boston, 72, American politician, member of the Maryland House of Delegates (1987–1999).
 * John S. Carter, 65, American music producer, cancer.
 * Bill Gallo, 88, American cartoonist and newspaper columnist, complications from pneumonia.
 * Patrick Galvin, 83, Irish writer.
 * Zim Ngqawana, 51, South African jazz saxophonist, stroke.
 * Burt Reinhardt, 91, American broadcast executive, President of CNN (1982–1990), complications from strokes.
 * David Weston, 75, British artist.
 * Norma Zimmer, 87, American entertainer (The Lawrence Welk Show).

11

 * Clark Accord, 50, Surinamese–Dutch author and makeup artist, stomach cancer.
 * Maurice Goldhaber, 100, American physicist.
 * Leo Kahn, 94, American entrepreneur, co-founder of Staples, complications from a series of strokes.
 * Albert Kanene Obiefuna, 81, Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Onitsha (1995–2003).
 * Leo Passage, 75, Dutch-born American hairstylist.
 * Reach Sambath, 47, Cambodian journalist, stroke.
 * Elisabeth Svendsen, 81, British hotelier and animal welfare campaigner, founder of The Donkey Sanctuary.
 * Robert Traylor, 34, American basketball player (Milwaukee Bucks, Cleveland Cavaliers, New Orleans Hornets), suspected heart attack.
 * Glyn Williams, 92, Welsh footballer.
 * Snooky Young, 92, American jazz trumpeter, complications of a lung ailment.

12

 * Chen Muhua, 90, Chinese politician.
 * Harrison Chongo, 41, Zambian football player, malaria.
 * Charles F. Haas, 97, American television director (Bonanza, The Outer Limits, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.).
 * Mose Jefferson, 68, American businessman, cancer.
 * Jack Jones, 86, American Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter (Los Angeles Times), lung disease.
 * Lloyd Knibb, 80, Jamaican drummer (The Skatalites), liver cancer.
 * Noreen Murray, 76, British geneticist.
 * David Orton, 77, Canadian environmentalist, pancreatic cancer.
 * Carlos Pascual, 80, Cuban baseball player (Washington Senators).
 * Luigi del Gallo Roccagiovine, 88, Italian nobleman and Roman Catholic prelate, Titular Bishop of Camplum (since 1982).
 * Ron Springs, 54, American football player (Dallas Cowboys, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), complications from surgery.
 * Bill Summers, 75, American car builder (Goldenrod).
 * Miyu Uehara, 24, Japanese glamour model, apparent suicide by hanging.
 * Jack Wolf, 76, American information theorist, cancer.

13

 * Derek Boogaard, 28, Canadian hockey player (Minnesota Wild, New York Rangers), accidental overdose of alcohol and oxycodone.
 * Stephen De Staebler, 78, American sculptor and printmaker, complications from cancer.
 * Pam Gems, 85, British playwright.
 * Bernard Greenhouse, 95, American cellist.
 * Bob Litherland, 80, British politician, MP for Manchester Central (1979–1997), cancer.
 * Princess Maria Elisabeth of Bavaria, 96, German noblewoman.
 * Wallace McCain, 81, Canadian businessman, co-founder of McCain Foods, pancreatic cancer.
 * Mel Queen, 69, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim) and pitching coach (Blue Jays).
 * Jack Richardson, 81, Canadian record producer (The Guess Who).
 * Bruce Ricker, 68, American film documentarian and producer (Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser).
 * Badal Sarkar, 85, Indian dramatist, colon cancer.
 * Chit Estella, 53, Filipino journalist and professor, traffic collision.

14

 * Ferial Alibali, 78, Albanian actress.
 * James Richard Cheek, 74, American diplomat, Ambassador to Sudan (1989–1992) and Argentina (1993–1996).
 * Murray Handwerker, 89, American businessman (Nathan's Famous).
 * Teuvo Laukkanen, 91, Finnish Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) cross-country skier.
 * Michael Onslow, 7th Earl of Onslow, 73, British politician.
 * Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, 87, Chinese-born American historian and author.
 * Birgitta Trotzig, 81, Swedish author.
 * Ernie Walker, 82, Scottish football administrator.
 * Joseph Wershba, 90, American television producer and reporter.

15

 * Gunnar Alksnis, 79, Latvian-American philosopher and theologian.
 * Maico Buncio, 22, Filipino motorcycle racer, race crash.
 * Donald Christian, 52, Antiguan Olympic cyclist.
 * John Feikens, 93, American senior (former chief) judge of the District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, after long illness.
 * Bob Flanigan, 84, American singer (The Four Freshmen) and musician.
 * Pete Lovely, 85, American racecar driver.
 * William Pennington, 88, American casino executive (Circus Circus Enterprises), Parkinson's disease.
 * Anjuman Shehzadi, 33, Pakistani sage actress.
 * Mahendra Singh Tikait, 76, Indian farming union leader, bone cancer.
 * Samuel Wanjiru, 24, Kenyan Olympic gold medal-winning (2008) marathon runner, fall from balcony.
 * Martin Woodhouse, 78, British novelist, screenwriter and inventor.

16

 * Ralph Barker, 93, British air gunner and writer.
 * Robert Berks, 89, American sculptor, industrial designer and planner.
 * Douglas Blubaugh, 76, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1960) wrestler, motorcycle accident.
 * Serghei Covaliov, 66, Romanian Olympic gold (1968) and silver (1972) medal-winning canoeist.
 * Bob Davis, 82, Australian football player.
 * Nathaniel Davis, 86, American diplomat, cancer.
 * Edward Hardwicke, 78, British actor (Sherlock Holmes), son of Sir Cedric Hardwicke.
 * Kiyoshi Kodama, 77, Japanese actor, stomach cancer.
 * Bill Skiles, 79, American comedian (Skiles and Henderson), kidney cancer.

17

 * Sean Dunphy, 73, Irish entertainer.
 * Joseph Galibardy, 96, Indian Olympic gold medal-winning (1936) field hockey player.
 * James M. Hewgley, Jr., 94, American politician, Mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma (1966–1970).
 * Harmon Killebrew, 74, American Hall of Fame baseball player (Minnesota Twins, Kansas City Royals), esophageal cancer.
 * Tómas Mac Anna, 84, Irish director and actor.
 * Frank Upton, 76, English footballer (Derby County, Chelsea), after short illness.

18

 * Seiseki Abe, 96, Japanese shodo and aikido teacher.
 * Marcel De Mulder, 83, Belgian cyclist.
 * Edward H. Harte, 88, American newspaper executive (Harte-Hanks).
 * Leonard Kastle, 82, American composer and filmmaker (The Honeymoon Killers).
 * Wlodzimierz Ksiazek, 60, Polish-born American painter. (body found on this date)
 * Włada Majewska, 100, Polish radio journalist, actress and singer.
 * Hans Sterr, 77, German Olympic wrestler.
 * Antoinette Tubman, 97, Liberian socialite, First Lady (1948–1971).
 * Dick Wimmer, 74, American author, heart complications.

19

 * Phyllis Avery, 88, American actress, heart failure.
 * Don H. Barden, 67, American businessman, lung cancer.
 * Garret FitzGerald, 85, Irish politician, Taoiseach (1981–1982, 1982–1987), Minister for Foreign Affairs (1973–1977), pneumonia.
 * Ivan Gibbs, 83, Australian politician, Queensland MLA for Albert (1974–1989), cancer.
 * Jeffrey Catherine Jones, 67, American transgender artist.
 * David H. Kelley, 87, American-born Canadian archaeologist.
 * Kathy Kirby, 72, British singer, heart attack.
 * William Kloefkorn, 78, American poet.
 * Alda Noni, 95, Italian coloratura soprano.
 * Vladimir Ryzhkin, 80, Russian Olympic gold medal-winning (1956) footballer.
 * Tom West, 71, American computer hardware engineer, heart attack.

20

 * Michael Bell, 74, Irish politician, Teachta Dála for Louth (1982–2002).
 * John Cigna, 75, American radio personality (KDKA).
 * William Elliott, Baron Elliott of Morpeth, 90, British politician, MP for Newcastle upon Tyne North (1957–1983).
 * Arieh Handler, 95, Israeli Zionist leader.
 * Eduard Janota, 59, Czech politician, Finance Minister (2009–2010), cardiac arrest.
 * Donald Krim, 65, American businessman, president of Kino International, cancer.
 * Ciril Pelhan, 89, Yugoslav Olympic swimmer.
 * Joaquín Pérez, 75, Mexican Olympic double bronze medal-winning (1980) equestrian.
 * Steve Rutt, 66, American inventor of early video animation, pancreatic cancer.
 * Randy Savage, 58, American professional wrestler (WWF, WCW) and actor (Spider-Man), heart attack.

21

 * John Delaney, 42, Irish businessman (Intrade).
 * Irene Gilbert, 76, American actress and school director, co-founder of Stella Adler Academy of Los Angeles, Alzheimer's disease.
 * David J. Hudson, 67, American sound mixer (Beauty and the Beast, The Terminator, The Lion King).
 * Bill Hunter, 71, Australian actor (Muriel's Wedding), liver cancer.
 * Pádraig Kennelly, 82, Irish website, editor and journalist, founder of Kerry's Eye.
 * Dieter Klöcker, 75, German clarinetist.
 * Gordon McLennan, 87, British politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party (1975–1990), cancer.
 * Hiroyuki Nagato, 77, Japanese actor, cerebrovascular disease.
 * Jim Pyburn, 78, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles), after long illness.
 * Bill Rechin, 80, American cartoonist (Crock), complications from esophageal cancer.
 * William White, 98, British sports shooter.

22

 * Stanislav Batishchev, 70, Soviet Ukrainian weightlifter.
 * Joseph Brooks, 73, American Grammy-winning songwriter ("You Light Up My Life"), suicide by asphyxiation.
 * Joëlle Brupbacher, 32, Swiss mountaineer, acute mountain sickness.
 * Chidananda Dasgupta, 89, Indian film critic.
 * Bill Eaton, 79, Australian politician, member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Mourilyan (1980–1994).
 * Alexandru Ene, 82, Romanian football player.
 * Matej Ferjan, 34, Slovenian motorcycle speedway rider.
 * Bob Gould, 74, Australian activist and bookseller.
 * Ralph Hunt, 83, Australian politician, MP for Gwydir (1969–1989).
 * Suzanne Mizzi, 43, British glamour model and interior designer, cancer.
 * Ronald Naar, 56, Dutch mountaineer.
 * Breon O'Casey, 83, British artist.
 * Govind Chandra Pande, 87, Indian historian.
 * Walter Soboleff, 102, American Tlingit scholar and spiritual leader, first Native Alaskan Prebysterian minister, bone and prostate cancer.
 * Joe Steffy, 85, American college football player (Army), 1947 Outland Trophy winner.
 * George Henry Strohsahl, Jr., 73, American naval officer and former commander of the Pacific Missile Test Center.

23

 * Sam Faust, 26, Australian rugby league player, leukemia.
 * Michele Fawdon, 63, British-born Australian actress (Cathy's Child), cancer.
 * Peter Frelinghuysen, Jr., 95, American politician, U.S. Representative from New Jersey (1953–1975).
 * Nasser Hejazi, 61, Iranian football player and manager, cancer.
 * Pilu Momtaz, 52, Bangladeshi pop singer.
 * Abdias do Nascimento, 97, Brazilian activist and politician.
 * Joseph Nguyên Tich Duc, 73, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ban Me Thuot (2000–2006).
 * Karel Otčenášek, 91, Czech Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Hradec Králové (1989–1998).
 * Frank S. Petersen, 88, American jurist and politician.
 * Harry Redmond, Jr., 101, American special effects artist and producer (King Kong), natural causes.
 * Alejandro Roces, 86, Filipino writer and government official, Secretary of Education (1961–1965).
 * Roberto Sosa, 81, Honduran poet, heart attack.
 * John Templeton-Cotill, 90, British admiral.
 * Xavier Tondo, 32, Spanish cyclist, crushed by car.

24

 * Huguette Clark, 104, American heiress, daughter of William A. Clark.
 * José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva, 54, Brazilian Amazon environmentalist and conservationist, shot.
 * Arthur Goldreich, 82, South African-born Israeli political activist.
 * Mark Haines, 65, American television anchor (CNBC).
 * Glyn Hughes, 75, English poet, novelist and artist, cancer.
 * Imre Nagy, 70, Canadian Olympic fencer.
 * Fănuș Neagu, 79, Romanian novelist, journalist, and short story writer.
 * Edward Plunkett, 20th Baron of Dunsany, 71, Irish artist.
 * Barry Potomski, 38, Canadian ice hockey player (Los Angeles Kings).
 * Sir Blair Stewart-Wilson, 81, British courtier.
 * Paul Winslow, 82, South African cricketer.
 * Stephen K. Yamashiro, 69, American politician, Mayor of Hawaii County (1992–2000), pneumonia.
 * Hakim Ali Zardari, 81, Pakistani politician, father of Asif Ali Zardari, after long illness.

25

 * Lillian Adams, 89, American actress (The Suite Life on Deck, Bruce Almighty).
 * Maurice E. Baringer, 89, American educator and politician.
 * Werner Freiherr von Beschwitz, 96, German military officer in World War II, Iron Cross recipient.
 * Nina Leopold Bradley, 93, American conservationist.
 * Leonora Carrington, 94, British-born Mexican painter and novelist.
 * Luigi Diligenza, 90, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Capua (1978–1997).
 * Roger Gautier, 88, French Olympic silver medal-winning (1952) rower.
 * Edwin Honig, 91, American poet and translator, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Terry Jenner, 66, Australian Test cricketer and coach.
 * Miroslav Opsenica, 29, Serbian footballer, car accident.
 * Gene Smith, 94, American baseball player (Negro leagues).
 * Paul Splittorff, 64, American baseball player and broadcaster (Kansas City Royals), complications from melanoma.
 * Dimitrios Taliadoros, 85-86, Greek Olympic basketball player.
 * Yannis Varveris, 56, Greek poet, critic and translator, cardiac arrest.
 * Paul J. Wiedorfer, 90, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.
 * Edward Żentara, 55, Polish actor.

26

 * Arisen Ahubudu, 91, Sri Lankan scholar, author and playwright.
 * Flick Colby, 65, American dancer and choreographer (Pan's People), bronchial pneumonia.
 * George Heron, 92, American tribal leader, President of the Seneca Nation of New York (1958–1960; 1962–1964).
 * Irwin D. Mandel, 89, American dental scientist in preventative dentistry.
 * Peter McKechnie, 70, Australian politician, member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Carnarvon (1974–1989).
 * Tyler Simpson, 25, Australian soccer player.

27

 * Sam Alexander, 28, British Royal Marine, shot.
 * María Rosa Alonso, 104, Spanish professor, philologist and essayist.
 * Edward a'Beckett, 71, Australian cricketer.
 * Armando Bandini, 84, Italian actor and voice actor.
 * John W. Bowen, 84, American politician, Member of the Ohio Senate.
 * Johnny Brewer, 74, American football player (Cleveland Browns, New Orleans Saints).
 * Janet Brown, 87, British actress and impersonator, after short illness.
 * Jeff Conaway, 60, American actor (Grease, Taxi, Babylon 5).
 * Margo Dydek, 37, Polish basketball player (Utah Starzz, Los Angeles Sparks) and coach, heart attack.
 * Johanna Fiedler, 65, American author, daughter of Arthur Fiedler.
 * Regalado Maambong, 72, Filipino jurist, member of 1986 Constitutional Commission.
 * Prince Ali Mirza Qajar, 81, Iranian royal, Head of the Qajar Imperial Family (since 1988), after long illness.
 * Joaquín Moya, 79, Spanish Olympic fencer.
 * Gil Scott-Heron, 62, American poet, musician and author.
 * Jukka Toivola, 61, Finnish Olympic athlete, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
 * Michael Willoughby, 12th Baron Middleton, 90, British aristocrat and politician.

28

 * Hermann Bley, 75, German footballer.
 * Mohammed Daud Daud, 42, Afghan general, police commander for northern Afghanistan, bombing.
 * Bill Harris, 79, Canadian baseball player (Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers).
 * Romuald Klim, 78, Belarusian hammer thrower, Olympic gold medalist (1964).
 * Ann McPherson, 65, British physician and public health campaigner.
 * Dame Barbara Mills, 70, British barrister, Director of Public Prosecutions (1992–1998), stroke.
 * Leo Rangell, 97, American psychoanalyst, complications from surgery.
 * Alys Robi, 88, Canadian singer.
 * Martha Rommelaere, 88, Canadian baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).
 * John H. Sinfelt, 80, American chemical engineer in unleaded gasoline, congestive heart failure.

29

 * Sergei Bagapsh, 62, Abkhazian politician, President (since 2005), complications after surgery.
 * Jon Blake, 52, Australian actor, pneumonia.
 * Simon Brint, 60, British musician, suicide.
 * Bill Clements, 94, American politician, Governor of Texas (1979–1983; 1987–1991).
 * Billy Crook, 84, English footballer (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
 * Wally Jay, 93, American martial arts teacher, founder of Small Circle JuJitsu, after long illness.
 * Ferenc Mádl, 80, Hungarian politician, President of the Republic (2000–2005).
 * Vitaly Margulis, 83, Russian classical pianist.
 * Tom Roeser, 82, American political commentator.
 * Bill Roycroft, 96, Australian equestrian, five-time Olympian, gold medallist (1960).
 * Cosmo Francesco Ruppi, 78, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Termoli-Larino (1980–1988) and Archbishop of Lecce (1988–2009).

30

 * Bill Benulis, 82, American cartoonist.
 * Ricky Bruch, 64, Swedish athlete, cancer.
 * Henri Chammartin, 92, Swiss dressage equestrian, multiple Olympic medallist.
 * Paul B. Ferrara, 68, American scientist and administrator, pioneer of genetic fingerprinting, brain tumor.
 * Jung Jong-kwan, 29, South Korean footballer, suspected suicide by hanging.
 * Sudhakar Kulkarni, 73, Indian cricket umpire.
 * Eddie Morrison, 63, Scottish footballer and manager (Kilmarnock).
 * Hans Nogler, 91, Austrian Olympic alpine skier.
 * Isikia Savua, 59, Fijian diplomat and police commissioner.
 * Marek Siemek, 68, Polish philosopher and historian of philosophy.
 * Clarice Taylor, 93, American actress (Sesame Street, The Cosby Show).
 * Giorgio Tozzi, 88, American operatic bass, heart attack.
 * Tillmann Uhrmacher, 44, German DJ, music producer and radio host.
 * Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, 89, American medical physicist, Nobel laureate.

31

 * Gilberto Aleman, 80, Spanish author and journalist.
 * Pauline Betz, 91, American tennis player.
 * Jonas Bevacqua, 33, American fashion designer (Lifted Research Group).
 * Conrado Estrella, Sr., 93, Filipino politician, Governor of Pangasinan (1954–1963), Agrarian Reform Minister (1978–1986).
 * Derek Hodge, 69, U.S. Virgin Islander politician and attorney, Lieutenant Governor of the United States Virgin Islands (1987–1995), cancer.
 * Keith Irvine, 82, British-born American interior designer, cardiac arrest.
 * Hans Keilson, 101, German-born Dutch psychoanalyst and novelist.
 * Sir John Martin, 93, British admiral, Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey (1974–1980).
 * Adolfas Mekas, 85, Lithuanian-born American film director.
 * Andy Robustelli, 85, American Hall of Fame football player (Los Angeles Rams, New York Giants).
 * Philip Rose, 89, American theatrical producer, stroke.
 * Ezzatollah Sahabi, 81, Iranian politician, Member of Parliament (1980–1984), stroke.
 * Saleem Shahzad, 40, Pakistani journalist, shot. (body found on this date)
 * Hugh Stewart, 100, British film editor and producer.
 * Grant Sullivan, 86, American actor (Pony Express), cancer.
 * Ram Man Trishit, 70, Nepali lyricist, kidney problems.
 * Sølvi Wang, 81, Norwegian singer and actress.
 * Jennifer Worth, 75, British author, esophageal cancer.