Deaths in November 2012

The following is a list of notable deaths in November 2012.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
 * Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.

1

 * Mary Applebey, 96, English civil servant and mental health campaigner, fall.
 * Brad Armstrong, 50, American professional wrestler (WWE, WCW, NWA, SMW).
 * John Lee Armstrong, 79, American football player and coach.
 * Chen Zude, 68, Chinese Go player, cancer.
 * Chong Chee Kin, 39, Singaporean journalist, heart failure.
 * Mir Abdolrez Daryabeigi, 82, Iranian artist.
 * Stan Enebo, 87, American politician and electrician.
 * Agustín García Calvo, 86, Spanish academic, respiratory failure.
 * Geoffrey Lofthouse, Baron Lofthouse of Pontefract, 86, British politician, MP for Pontefract and Castleford (1978–1997).
 * Jan Louwers, 82, Dutch footballer (FC Eindhoven).
 * Mitch Lucker, 28, American musician and singer (Suicide Silence), traffic collision.
 * Pascual Pérez, 55, Dominican baseball player (Atlanta Braves, Montreal Expos), bludgeoning.
 * Omry Ronen, 75, Ukrainian-born American Slavist, stroke.
 * Jonathan Street, 69, British novelist and public relations executive, fall.
 * Edwin Q. White, 90, American journalist, Saigon bureau chief for the Associated Press (1965–1975), heart failure.

2

 * Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar, 82, Indian mathematician.
 * Annette Baier, 83, New Zealand philosopher.
 * Herman Bank, 96, American mechanical engineer (JPL).
 * Milt Campbell, 78, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1956) decathlete, prostate cancer and diabetes.
 * David L. Cornwell, 67, American politician, U.S. Representative from Indiana (1977–1979), kidney cancer.
 * Peter B. Dews, 89–90, American psychologist and pharmacologist.
 * Robert Morton Duncan, 85, American federal judge (Armed Forces Court of Appeals, Southern Ohio District Court).
 * Dusty Ellis, 59, American whistleblower, cancer.
 * Joe Ginsberg, 86, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians, Detroit Tigers).
 * Han Suyin, 95, Chinese-born British writer (A Many-Splendoured Thing).
 * Emilio Homps, 98, Argentine Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) sailor.
 * Just A Dash, 35, Australian Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the 1981 Melbourne Cup and Adelaide Cup, euthanized.
 * Hans Lindgren, 80, Swedish actor.
 * Mohammed Rafeh, 30, Syrian actor, shot.
 * Pino Rauti, 85, Italian politician.
 * János Rózsás, 86, Hungarian writer.
 * Ken Stephinson, 79, British television director and producer.
 * John C. Tyson, 86, American judge (Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals), natural causes.
 * Roger Wood, 87, Belgian-born American editor and journalist (Daily Express, New York Post), cancer.
 * Kinjarapu Yerran Naidu, 55, Indian politician, MP for Srikakulam (1996–2009), traffic collision.

3

 * Carmélia Alves, 89, Brazilian baião singer, multiple organ seizure.
 * Hans Henrik Andersen, 75, Danish nuclear physicist.
 * Fotis Balopoulos, 68, Greek footballer.
 * Sattar Beheshti, 35, Iranian blogger.
 * Marie Bell, 90, New Zealand educationalist.
 * Anne-Lise Berntsen, 69, Norwegian soprano singer.
 * Odd Børretzen, 85, Norwegian author and singer, pneumonia.
 * George Chesterton, 90, British cricketer.
 * Duke Vin, 84, Jamaican-born British disk jockey and sound system operator.
 * Franz Dumont, 67, German historian.
 * Tommy Godwin, 91, British Olympic bronze medal-winning (1948) track cyclist.
 * Evelyn Byrd Harrison, 82, American classical scholar and archaeologist.
 * Mükerrem Hiç, 83, Turkish academic and politician.
 * Greg King, 43, New Zealand lawyer, suicide.
 * Thomas K. McCraw, 72, American scholar (Harvard University) and author (Prophets of Regulation).
 * Kailashpati Mishra, 89, Indian politician, Governor of Gujarat and Rajasthan (2003–04), asthma.
 * Eugenija Pleškytė, 74, Lithuanian actress.
 * Charles Schwartz, Jr., 90, American senior federal judge (US District Court of Eastern Louisiana).
 * Ingegerd Troedsson, 83, Swedish politician, MP for Uppsala County (1974–1994), first female Speaker of the Riksdag (1991–1994).
 * Vasily Vladimirov, 89, Russian mathematician.

4

 * Anne-Marie Albiach, 75, French poet and translator, following a long illness.
 * Mildred Vorpahl Baass, 95, American poet, Poet Laureate of Texas (1993–1995).
 * Akhtaruzzaman Chowdhury Babu, 67, Bangladeshi politician, kidney disease.
 * Pier Cesare Bori, 75, Italian professor.
 * J. H. Burns, 90, Scottish historian.
 * Fabio Castillo Figueroa, 91, Salvadoran politician.
 * Ted Curson, 77, American jazz trumpeter, heart attack.
 * Jim Durham, 65, American sportscaster, heart attack.
 * Samuel S. Freedman, 85, American politician (Connecticut House, 1972–1978), judge (Connecticut Superior Court, 1978–2010); professor (Quinnipiac).
 * Mike L. Fry, 61, American businessman and entertainer, immune disorder.
 * Dan Gavriliu, 97, Romanian surgeon.
 * Beverley Goodway, 69, British glamour photographer, prostate cancer.
 * Frances Hashimoto, 69, American businesswoman and civic leader, inventor of mochi ice cream, lung cancer.
 * Marit Henie, 87, Norwegian Olympic (1948) figure skater.
 * Eiji Hosoya, 67, Japanese businessman, Chairman of Resona Holdings.
 * Jane Holtz Kay, 74, American architecture and urban design critic and author.
 * Peter O'Donohue, 89, Australian VFL football player (Hawthorn).
 * Reg Pickett, 85, English footballer (Portsmouth, Ipswich Town).
 * Kirk Reeves, 56, American street entertainer, suicide by gunshot.
 * David Resnick, 88, Brazilian-born Israeli architect and town planner.
 * Jacob Sahaya Kumar Aruni, 38, Indian restaurateur and television show host, heart attack.
 * Glen Morgan Williams, 92, American senior federal judge, Western District Court of Virginia (1976–2010).
 * Verle Wright Jr., 84, American Olympic sports shooter.

5

 * Assem Salam, 87–88, Lebanese civil engineer.
 * Umesh Chandra Banerjee, 74, Indian judge.
 * Bernard Bierman, 104, American composer.
 * Joseph Oliver Bowers, 102, Dominican-born Antiguan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Accra, Ghana (1953–1971), and Saint John's – Basseterre (1971–1981).
 * Olympe Bradna, 92, French-born American dancer and actress (College Holiday, Souls at Sea, The Night of Nights).
 * Julia Britton, 98, Australian playwright.
 * Charles V. Bush, 72, American air force officer, first African American to graduate from the US Air Force Academy, colon cancer.
 * Elliott Carter, 103, American composer, natural causes.
 * Frank Cope, 83, English weightlifter.
 * Paul L. Douglas, 85, American lawyer and politician.
 * James R. Dumpson, 103, American public servant, Commissioner of the New York City Department of Welfare (1959–1965), stroke.
 * Leonardo Favio, 74, Argentine singer, actor, and film director (Chronicle of a Boy Alone, Juan Moreira, Nazareno Cruz and the Wolf), polyneuritis melaminosa and HCV.
 * Bob Kaplan, 75, Canadian politician, oversaw creation of CSIS, Solicitor General (1980–1984), MP for Don Valley (1968–1972) and York Centre (1974–1993), cancer.
 * Razaullah Khan, 75, Pakistani cricketer.
 * Reis Leming, 81, American George Medal-winning airman.
 * Margaret Nichols, 82, American animator and executive of I.A.T.S.E.
 * Louis Pienaar, 86, South African lawyer and diplomat, Administrator-General of Namibia (1985–1990).
 * Keith Ripley, 77, English footballer.
 * Sikandar Sanam, 48, Pakistani actor and comedian, liver cancer.
 * Stalking Cat, 54, American body modifier.
 * Jimmy Stephen, 90, Scottish footballer.
 * Bertram Wyatt-Brown, 80, American historian and author, pulmonary fibrosis.

6

 * Larry Alexander, 62, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House (1979–1990).
 * Aloysius Balina, 67, Tanzanian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Geita (1984–1997) and Shinyanga (since 1997), liver cancer.
 * Hetty Blok, 92, Dutch actress, comedian, singer and director.
 * Ron Braden, 64, American football and baseball coach.
 * Joel Connable, 39, American journalist, diabetic seizure.
 * Charles Delporte, 83, Belgian painter and sculptor.
 * Bo Dickinson, 77, American football player.
 * Clive Dunn, 92, British actor (Dad's Army) and singer ("Grandad"), complications following operation.
 * Samuel Guo Chuan-zhen, 94, Chinese Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Jinan (1997–2000).
 * Vladimír Jiránek, 74, Czech cartoonist and animator.
 * Theodore T. Jones, 68, American judge, NY Court of Appeals (since 2007), apparent heart attack.
 * Carmen Martínez Sierra, 108, Spanish actress.
 * Ernest Mateen, 46, American boxer, shot.
 * Maxim of Bulgaria, 98, Bulgarian Orthodox hierarch, Patriarch of All Bulgaria (since 1971), heart ailment.
 * Panbanisha, 26, American bonobo involved in language studies (Great Ape Trust), common cold.
 * Ivor Powell, 96, Welsh footballer (Queens Park Rangers, Aston Villa) and coach (Carlisle United, Team Bath).
 * Frank J. Prial, 82, American journalist and wine critic (The New York Times), complications of prostate cancer.
 * Damaskinos Roumeliotis, 92, Greek Orthodox hierarch, Metropolitan of Maronia and Komotini (1974–2012), multiple organ failure.
 * Bohdan Tsap, 71, Ukrainian footballer and youth football trainer.
 * Carmen Warschaw, 95, American politician and philanthropist, natural causes.

7

 * Carmen Basilio, 85, American dual world champion boxer, pneumonia.
 * Ray Beckwith, 100, South Australian wine chemist.
 * Aleksandr Berkutov, 80, Russian Olympic gold medal-winning (1956, 1960) rower.
 * Heinz-Jürgen Blome, 65, German footballer (VfL Bochum).
 * Murray Byrne, 84, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Council for Ballarat Province (1958–1976).
 * Henry Colman, 89, American producer and screenwriter.
 * Alan Coxon, 82, English cricketer.
 * Ellen Douglas, 91, American writer, heart failure.
 * Kevin O'Donnell, Jr., 61, American science fiction author, lung cancer.
 * David Olive, 75, British theoretical physicist.
 * Glenys Page, 72, New Zealand cricketer.
 * Sandy Pearson, 94, Australian major general, Commander of the 1st Australian Task Force (1968–1969).
 * Frank Peppiatt, 85, Canadian-born American television writer and producer, co-creator of Hee Haw, bladder cancer.
 * Richard Robbins, 71, American musician and score writer (Howards End, Remains of the Day, A Room with a View), Parkinson's disease.
 * Darrell Royal, 88, American football coach (University of Texas), Alzheimer's disease.
 * Arthur K. Snyder, 79, American politician, Los Angeles City Councilman (1967–1985).
 * Elliott Stein, 83, American film critic and historian.

8

 * Péricles Azambuja, 85, Brazilian historian, writer and journalist.
 * Lucille Bliss, 96, American voice actress (Crusader Rabbit, The Smurfs, Invader Zim), natural causes.
 * Robert McCallum Blumenthal, 81, American mathematician.
 * Herbert Carter, 93, American pilot (Tuskegee Airmen).
 * György Danis, 67, Hungarian politician.
 * Bruce Evans, 87, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Gippsland East (1961–1992).
 * Bobby Gilfillan, 74, Scottish footballer (Doncaster Rovers), prostate cancer.
 * Gerard Gramse, 68, Polish sprinter.
 * Roger Hammond, 76, British actor (The King's Speech, Around the World in 80 Days), cancer.
 * Cornel Lucas, 92, British photographer.
 * Lee MacPhail, 95, American baseball Hall of Fame general manager (Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees), American League President (1973–1984), natural causes.
 * Pete Namlook, 51, German electronic musician, producer and composer, founder of FAX music label, heart attack.
 * Patrick Francis Sheehan, 80, Irish-born Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Yola (1970–1996) and Kano (1996–2008).
 * Robert Swenning, 88, American figure skater.

9

 * Pirkko Aro, 89, Finnish journalist and politician.
 * John Attenborough, 84, English businessman, brother of Richard Attenborough and David Attenborough.
 * Leaford Bearskin, 91, American tribal leader, Chief of the Wyandotte Nation (1983–2011).
 * Roger Blais, 95, Canadian film director and producer.
 * Aïssatou Boiro, 57–58, Guinean civil servant, murdered.
 * William Brandon Lacy Campos, 35, African American poet, HIV and gay rights activist.
 * Nora Bustamante Luciani, 88, Venezuelan physician, historian, writer and intellectual.
 * Milan Čič, 80, Slovak lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the Slovak Socialist Republic (1989–1990), complications from a stroke.
 * Iurie Darie, 83, Romanian actor (A Bomb Was Stolen), complications from a stroke.
 * Joseph D. Early, 79, American politician, member of the House of Representatives from Massachusetts (1975–1993).
 * Valerie Eliot, 86, British editor, widow of T. S. Eliot.
 * Isaac Fadoyebo, 86, Nigerian soldier.
 * Harold Gould, 88, American baseball player (Philadelphia Stars).
 * Major Harris, 65, American R&B singer ("Love Won't Let Me Wait"), member of The Delfonics, heart and lung failure.
 * Bobbi Jordan, 75, American actress (General Hospital, Mame), heart attack.
 * Will van Kralingen, 61, Dutch actress (Havinck, Temmink: The Ultimate Fight), cancer.
 * Herbie Kronowitz, 89, American boxer.
 * Helen Mussallem, 97, Canadian nurse.
 * Sergey Nikolsky, 107, Russian mathematician.
 * Billy O'Brien, 83, American politician, member of the Virginia House (1974–1992).
 * Bernard Perera, 56, Sri Lankan cricketer.
 * Paul Petrie, 84, American poet and academic.
 * Pat Renella, 83, American actor (Bullitt, General Hospital, The New Phil Silvers Show).
 * Jim Sinclair, 79, Canadian non-status Indian aboriginal activist and politician, cancer.
 * Malcolm Smith, 80, South African cricketer.
 * James L. Stone, 89, American army officer and prisoner of war, recipient of the Medal of Honor.
 * Bill Tarmey, 71, British actor (Coronation Street), heart attack.
 * Hubert Zimmermann, 71, French computer scientist.

10

 * Witkop Badenhorst, 71–72, South African Army general, pneumonia and heart failure.
 * Robert Carter, 102, British Royal Air Force officer.
 * Isabel Coe, 61, Australian rights activists.
 * John Louis Coffey, 90, American federal judge (U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals).
 * Eric Day, 91, English footballer (Southampton F.C.).
 * Eric Devenport, 86, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Dunwich (1980–1992).
 * Stuart Freedman, 68, American physicist.
 * Kekoo Gandhy, 92, Indian art gallerist, art collector and art connoisseur, pancreatic cancer.
 * Gilbert Geis, 87, American criminologist.
 * Wilhelm Hennis, 89, German political scientist.
 * Sándor Kiss, 71, Hungarian Olympic gymnast.
 * Marian Lines, 78, British writer and actress.
 * Mitsuko Mori, 92, Japanese actress, heart failure.
 * Mynavathi, 78, Indian actress, cardiac arrest.
 * Ricky Naputi, 39, Guamanian obese man, heaviest in world.
 * Alexander Perepilichny, 44, Russian businessman and whistleblower.
 * Piet van Zeil, 85, Dutch politician, State Secretary for Economic Affairs (1981–1986) and Social Affairs (1982), Mayor of Heerlen (1986–1992).

11

 * Lam Adesina, 73, Nigerian politician, Governor of Oyo State (1999–2003).
 * Edith Anrep, 100, Swedish lawyer and feminist.
 * Joe Egan, 93, British rugby league footballer.
 * Tomaž Ertl, 79, Slovenian communist-era politician.
 * Alex Esclamado, 84, Filipino-born American media and civic leader, pneumonia.
 * David Gwynne-James, 75, Welsh first-class cricketer, British Army officer and military historian, head injuries sustained after a heart attack.
 * Iqbal Haider, 67, Pakistani politician, Law Minister (1993–1994), lung disease.
 * Sir Rex Hunt, 86, British diplomat and colonial administrator, Governor of the Falkland Islands (1980–1982, 1982–1985).
 * Farish Jenkins, 72, American palaeontologist, complications of pneumonia.
 * Jalal Mansouri, 82, Iranian Olympic weightlifter.
 * Victor Mees, 85, Belgian footballer (Royal Antwerp F.C.).
 * Patricia Monaghan, 66, American author.
 * Ilya Oleynikov, 65, Russian comedian and actor, cardiovascular disease.
 * Johnny Prescott, 74, English boxer.
 * Harry Wayland Randall, 96, American World War II veteran and war photographer.
 * Tarachand Sahu, 65, Indian politician, MP for Durg (1996–2009), multiple organ failure.
 * Hal Ziegler, 80, American politician, member of the Michigan House (1966–1974), Michigan Senate (1975–1978), heart attack.

12

 * Charles Kofi Agbenaza, 80–81, Ghanaian politician.
 * Coty Beavers, 28, American murder victim, shot.
 * Arthur Bialas, 81, German footballer.
 * Marshall Bouldin III, 89, American portrait painter.
 * Dave Cahill, 71, American football player.
 * Robert J. Cotter, 69, American chemist and mass spectrometrist, heart failure.
 * Angela Cropper, 66, Trinidadian diplomat and politician.
 * Anthony di Bonaventura, 83, American pianist and academic.
 * Bob French, 74, American jazz musician and radio show host, dementia and diabetes.
 * Hans Hammarskiöld, 87, Swedish photographer, after a brief illness.
 * Alan Hopkins, 86, British politician, complications following a heart operation.
 * Michel Hrynchyshyn, 83, Canadian-born French Ukrainian Catholic hierarch, Apostolic Exarch in France, Benelux and Switzerland (1982–2012).
 * Harry McShane, 92, Scottish footballer.
 * Mario Murillo, 85, Costa Rican footballer.
 * Sergio Oliva, 71, Cuban-born American bodybuilder, Mr. Olympia (1967–1969).
 * Fred Ridgeway, 59, English actor, motor neurone disease.
 * Daniel Stern, 78, American psychiatrist, heart failure.
 * Ronald Stretton, 82, English Olympic bronze medal-winning (1952) track cyclist.
 * Willis Whitfield, 92, American physicist and inventor (Cleanroom).
 * John Winter, 82, British architect, respiratory failure.
 * Wilbur Woo, 96, Chinese-born American politician and community leader, complications from stroke and pneumonia.
 * Walt Zeboski, 83, American photographer (Associated Press), pneumonia.

13

 * Murray Arnold, 74, American basketball coach (Chattanooga Mocs, Perth Wildcats), cancer.
 * Will Barnet, 101, American painter.
 * Naima Bayari, Moroccan Muay Thai kickboxer, gas leak.
 * Bryce Bayer, 83, American scientist (Bayer filter).
 * Ray Carter, 79, English cricketer.
 * Erazm Ciołek, 75, Polish photojournalist.
 * Kenneth Cragg, 99, British Anglican priest and scholar.
 * Robert Shirley, 13th Earl Ferrers, 83, British peer, Deputy Leader of the House of Lords (1979–1983, 1988–1997).
 * Jack Gilbert, 87, American poet, pneumonia with complications from Alzheimer's disease.
 * Milan Horálek, 80, Czech economist and politician, Minister of Labour and Social Affairs (1990–1992).
 * John Kelly, 82, Irish Olympic racewalker.
 * Manuel Peña Escontrela, 46, Spanish footballer (Real Zaragoza, Real Valladolid), cancer.
 * John Sheridan, 78, English rugby league footballer (Castleford).
 * Yao Defen, 40, Chinese record holder, world's tallest woman.
 * Ray Zone, 65, American cinema historian, adaptor and 3D expert, heart attack.

14

 * Alex Alves, 37, Brazilian footballer (Hertha BSC), leukemia.
 * Enrique Beech, 92, Filipino Olympic shooter.
 * Harold G. Christensen, 86, American attorney, cancer.
 * William Cusano, 69, Italian-born Canadian politician, complications from surgery.
 * Mildred Inks Davidson Dalrymple, 92, American military aviator.
 * Brian Davies, 82, Australian rugby league footballer.
 * Martin Fay, 76, Irish musician (The Chieftains).
 * Wendell Garrett, 83, American historian, appraiser on Antiques Roadshow, natural causes.
 * Joe Gilliam, Sr., 89, American football coach (Tennessee State).
 * Daniel Goodman, 67, American ecologist and biologist, complications from surgery.
 * Norman Greenwood, 87, Australian-born British chemist.
 * Gail Harris, 81, American baseball player (New York Giants, Detroit Tigers).
 * Ramon Torres Hernandez, 41, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Ahmed Jabari, 52, Palestinian military leader (Hamas), airstrike.
 * Lucien Laferte, 93, Canadian ski jumper.
 * Bertram McLean, 64, Jamaican musician.
 * Paddy Meegan, 90, Irish football player (Meath GAA).
 * Luíz Eugênio Pérez, 84, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Jales (1970–1981) and Jaboticabal (1981–2003), complications following surgery.
 * Olusola Saraki, 79, Nigerian politician.
 * Stanley Smith, 75, English rugby league footballer.
 * Adrián Silva Moreno, 34, Mexican journalist, shot.

15

 * Théophile Abega, 58, Cameroonian footballer (Canon Yaoundé, Toulouse F.C.), cardiac arrest.
 * Kader Bhayat, 76, Mauritian lawyer and politician.
 * Luis Carreira, 35, Portuguese motorcycle racer, race collision.
 * Harry Christiani, 87, Guyanese cricketer.
 * Harvey Tristan Cropper, 81, American painter, cancer.
 * Pete Eneh, 67-68, Nigerian actor, after leg amputation.
 * María Santos Gorrostieta Salazar, 36, Mexican politician, Mayor of Tiquicheo (2008–2011), beating and stabbing.
 * Khin Maung Toe, 62, Burmese singer–songwriter, cancer.
 * Josef Kloimstein, 84, Austrian Olympic silver (1960) and bronze (1956) medal-winning rower.
 * Maleli Kunavore, 29, Fijian rugby player (Toulouse), cardiac arrest.
 * Moosa Mangera, 67, South African cricketer.
 * Gerrit Oosting, 71, Dutch politician.
 * K. C. Pant, 81, Indian politician, Minister of Defence (1987–1989), heart attack.
 * David Oliver Relin, 49, American journalist and author, suicide by blunt force head injury.
 * José Song Sui-Wan, 71, Chinese-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of São Gabriel da Cachoeira (2002–2009), Parkinson's disease and liver tumor.
 * Frode Thingnæs, 72, Norwegian jazz musician ("The First Day of Love", "Mata Hari"), complications from a heart attack.
 * William Turnbull, 90, Scottish artist.

16

 * Stuart Babbage, 96, Australian Anglican priest, Dean of Sydney (1947–1953) and Melbourne (1953–1962).
 * Leo Blair, 89, British academic.
 * David Bolt, 84, English novelist and literary agent.
 * Alby Broadby, 95, Australian politician, member (1968–1988) and President (1984–1988) of the Tasmanian Legislative Council.
 * Eric Burgin, 88, British cricketer (Yorkshire).
 * Fernando Casanova, 86, Mexican actor, prostate cancer.
 * John Chapman, 82, Australian evangelist, multiple organ failure.
 * Luis de los Cobos, 85, Spanish composer.
 * Louis Tom Dragna, 92, Italian-American mobster.
 * Subhash Dutta, 82, Bangladeshi filmmaker, heart disease.
 * Patrick Edlinger, 52, French climber, fall.
 * Kayode Eso, 87, Nigerian jurist.
 * Jefferson Kaye, 75, American radio, television, and film announcer, cancer.
 * Aliu Mahama, 66, Ghanaian politician, Vice President (2001–2009), complications from a stroke.
 * Hubert Meyer, 98, German army officer.
 * Helen Milliken, 89, American First Lady of Michigan (1969–1983), ovarian cancer.
 * James W. Moseley, 81, American ufologist.
 * Eliyahu Nawi, 92, Israeli politician and jurist, Mayor of Beersheba (1963–1986).
 * Bob Scott, 91, New Zealand rugby union player.
 * Bob Wiggins, 79, American Negro American League baseball outfielder.

17

 * Sushila Adivarekar, 89, Indian politician.
 * Nina Aleshina, 88, Russian architect.
 * Ingrid Bruce, 72, Swedish engineer.
 * Ponty Chadha, 55, Indian businessman, shot.
 * Armand Desmet, 81, Belgian professional cyclist.
 * Branko Elsner, 82, Slovenian footballer and coach.
 * Richard Felt, 79, American football player (New York Titans, Boston Patriots), natural causes.
 * Bonnie Lynn Fields, 68, American actress (Angel in My Pocket, Bye Bye Birdie, Funny Girl) and Mouseketeer, throat cancer.
 * Kathleen Fowler, 87, Australian military officer.
 * Christian Godefroy, 64, French author.
 * Lea Gottlieb, 94, Israeli fashion designer.
 * Henryk Grzybowski, 78, Polish footballer (Legia Warsaw).
 * Katherine Kath, 92, French ballerina turned actress.
 * Robert Lin, 70, Chinese-born American professor and experimental physicist, stroke.
 * Arnaud Maggs, 86, Canadian artist and photographer.
 * Eduardo Morales Miranda, 102, Chilean educator, co-founder of the Universidad Austral de Chile.
 * Cliff Pilkey, 90, Canadian politician and trade union leader.
 * Freddy Schmidt, 96, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs).
 * Billy Scott, 70, American singer, pancreatic and liver cancer.
 * David Speer, 61, American businessman, CEO of Illinois Tool Works, cancer.
 * Bal Thackeray, 86, Indian politician, cardio-respiratory arrest.
 * Margaret Yorke, 88, British crime fiction writer.

18

 * Graham Anderson, 83, British-born Canadian heraldic scholar and officer of arms.
 * Emilio Aragón Bermúdez, 83, Spanish clown, accordionist, and singer.
 * Alan Barblett, 83, Australian Olympic hockey player.
 * Burke Deadrich, 67, American wrestler.
 * Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya, 55, Russian-born American chess grandmaster, brain cancer.
 * David Eaton, 78, South African cricketer.
 * Stan Greig, 82, Scottish pianist, drummer, and bandleader, Parkinson's disease.
 * Phoebe Hearst Cooke, 85, American businesswoman (Hearst Corporation) and philanthropist, pneumonia.
 * Francis D. Imbuga, 65, Kenyan playwright and academic, stroke.
 * Ian Kirkpatrick, 82, South African rugby union player and coach.
 * Neva Jane Langley, 79, American beauty pageant queen, Miss America (1953), cancer.
 * Sir Philip Ledger, 74, British classical musician and academic.
 * William McCarthy, Baron McCarthy, 87, British politician and life peer.
 * Kenny Morgans, 73, Welsh footballer (Manchester United), Munich air disaster survivor.
 * Kyrillos Oikonomopoulos, 82, Cypriot-born Zimbabwean Orthodox hierarch, Metropolitan of Zimbabwe (2001–2002).
 * Ed Richards, 83, American Olympic fencer (1964).
 * Helmut Sonnenfeldt, 86, German-born American foreign policy official, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Don R. Swanson, 88, American information scientist.

19

 * James Bassham, 89, American scientist.
 * David G. Cantor, 77, American mathematician.
 * Ken Charlton, 89, Australian rugby league footballer.
 * John Cooper, 90, Australian cricketer.
 * Omar Abdallah Dakhqan, Jordanian politician, Agriculture Minister.
 * Bill Durkin, 90, American basketball player.
 * John Hefin, 71, Welsh television director and producer (Pobol y Cwm, The Life and Times of David Lloyd George), cancer.
 * Viter Juste, 87, Haitian-born American community leader, coined the term "Little Haiti", dementia and diabetes.
 * Magnus Lindgren, 30, Swedish chef, traffic collision.
 * Hannie Lips, 88, Dutch television announcer.
 * Shiro Miya, 69, Japanese enka singer.
 * Pete La Roca, 74, American jazz drummer, lung cancer.
 * Joe Riordan, 82, Australian politician, member of the House of Representatives for Phillip (1972–1975), Minister for Housing and Construction (1975).
 * Warren Rudman, 82, American politician, Senator from New Hampshire (1980–1993), lymphoma.
 * Boris Strugatsky, 79, Russian science fiction author, pneumonia.
 * George D. Weber, 87, American politician, member of the Missouri House of Representatives (1965–1967), lymphoma.

20

 * Kaspars Astašenko, 37, Latvian ice hockey player (Tampa Bay Lightning).
 * Pedro Bantigue y Natividad, 92, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of San Pablo (1967–1995), internal bleeding.
 * Jersey Bridgeman, 6, American murder victim, strangulation.
 * David C. Copley, 60, American publishing heir (Copley Press) and socialite, apparent heart attack.
 * Michael Dunford, 68, English musician.
 * Louis O. Giuffrida, 92, American army general, Director of Federal Emergency Management Agency (1981–1985).
 * Redd Griffin, 73, American politician, member of Illinois General Assembly (1980–1983).
 * William Grut, 98, Swedish Olympic gold medal-winning (1948) modern pentathlete.
 * Gary Ingham, 48, English footballer (Doncaster Rovers).
 * Ivan Kušan, 80, Croatian writer.
 * David O'Brien Martin, 68, American politician, member of the House of Representatives from New York (1981–1993), cancer.
 * Flora Martirosian, 55, Armenian singer, complications following gall bladder surgery.
 * Mike Ryan, 77, Irish-born American soccer coach and first head coach of the US women's national team, aplastic anemia.

21

 * Stephen Abrams, 74, American-born British drug policy activist.
 * Berthold Albrecht, 58, German businessman.
 * Mladen Bašić, 95, Croat pianist and conductor.
 * Roland Baudric, 87, French wrestler.
 * Dann Cahn, 89, American film and television editor (I Love Lucy), natural causes.
 * Charles Denman, 5th Baron Denman, 96, British businessman and peer.
 * Nick Discepola, 62, Italian-born Canadian politician, MP for Vaudreuil (1993–1997) and Vaudreuil-Soulanges (1997–2004), pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor.
 * Harold Fiskari, 84, Canadian ice hockey player.
 * Mr. Food, 81, American television chef (Mr. Food), pancreatic cancer.
 * Șerban Ionescu, 62, Romanian actor, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
 * Ajmal Kasab, 25, Pakistani gunman involved in 2008 Mumbai attacks, execution by hanging.
 * Ernesto McCausland, 51, Colombian journalist and filmmaker, cancer.
 * Vladka Meed, 90, Polish Jewish resistance member (Warsaw Ghetto Uprising survivor), Alzheimer's disease.
 * Edwarda O'Bara, 59, American medical patient, died after 42 years in a diabetic coma.
 * Nedu Onyeuku, 29, Nigerian basketball player, shot.
 * Austin Peralta, 22, American jazz musician and composer.
 * Deborah Raffin, 59, American actress (Once Is Not Enough, Death Wish 3, 7th Heaven), leukemia.
 * Stein Schjærven, 78, Norwegian marketing agent.
 * Rashid Sharafetdinov, 69, Russian Olympic long-distance runner.
 * Eugene Smith, 94, American pilot (Tuskegee Airmen) and attorney.
 * Algirdas Šocikas, 84, Lithuanian Olympic boxer.
 * Emily Squires, 71, American television director (Sesame Street) and scriptwriter (Guiding Light, As the World Turns).
 * Mack B. Stokes, 100, American bishop in the United Methodist Church.
 * Wang Houjun, 69, Chinese footballer (Shanghai Shenhua) and coach (Shanghai Pudong), uremia.

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 * Frank Barsalona, 74, American talent agent and concert promoter, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Peter Bennett, 77, American music promoter, heart attack.
 * Bob Burtwell, 85, Canadian Olympic basketball player.
 * Pearl Laska Chamberlain, 103, American aviator.
 * John Earl Coleman, 82, American Vipassana meditation teacher.
 * Bryce Courtenay, 79, South African-born Australian novelist (The Power of One), stomach cancer.
 * Weldon Drew, 77, American basketball coach, automobile accident.
 * Raimund Krauth, 59, German footballer (Eintracht Frankfurt, Karlsruher SC).
 * Bennie McRae, 72, American football player (Chicago Bears).
 * Yashar Nuri, 60, Azerbaijani actor.
 * P. Govinda Pillai, 86, Indian politician.
 * Fahimeh Rastkar, 80, Iranian actress and voice dubbing artist, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Ken Rowe, 78, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles, Los Angeles Dodgers), pneumonia.
 * Lyubov Sadchikova, 61, Russian Olympic speed skater.
 * Mel Shaw, 97, American design artist (Fantasia, Bambi, The Fox and the Hound, The Lion King), heart failure.
 * K. H. Ting, 97, Chinese Anglican bishop.
 * Jan Trefulka, 83, Czech writer and dissident, signatory of the Charter 77, renal failure and pneumonia.

23

 * Veerapandy S. Arumugam, 75, Indian politician, respiratory failure.
 * Sava Babić, 78, Serbian writer, poet, translator and university professor.
 * John Bara, 85, American politician.
 * José Luis Borau, 83, Spanish filmmaker, throat cancer.
 * Noel Botham, 72, British journalist and author.
 * Jordan Davis, 17, American student, shot.
 * Peter Dawson, 66, English cricketer.
 * Akkamma Devi, 94, Indian politician, MP for Nilgiris (1962–1967), first Badaga woman to graduate from college.
 * Chuck Diering, 89, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals), cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Gray Foy, 90, American artist.
 * Go Native, 9, Irish Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the 2009 Fighting Fifth Hurdle and Christmas Hurdle.
 * Lawrence Guyot, 73, American civil rights activist, heart disease and diabetes.
 * Larry Hagman, 81, American actor (Dallas, I Dream of Jeannie, Nixon), complications from throat cancer.
 * Diana, Lady Isaac, 91, English-born New Zealand environmentalist and arts patron.
 * John Kemeny, 87, Hungarian-born Canadian film producer (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, Atlantic City), cancer.
 * Tadeusz Kwapień, 89, Polish cross country skier.
 * Alfonso Montemayor, 90, Mexican footballer (Club León).
 * Giuseppe Nahmad, 80, Syrian art dealer.
 * Adolph Peschke, 98, American outdoorsman, author and project designer in the Boy Scouts of America.
 * Nelson Prudêncio, 68, Brazilian Olympic silver (1968) and bronze (1972) medal-winning triple jumper, complications from lung cancer.
 * Goffredo Stabellini, 87, Italian footballer.
 * Robert O. Swados, 93, American attorney and businessman.
 * Hal Trosky, Jr., 76, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox), lung cancer.

24

 * Marcel Beaudry, 79, Canadian lawyer, politician and public official, cancer.
 * Héctor Camacho, 50, Puerto Rican former triple world champion boxer, injuries from gunshot.
 * Alec Campbell, 80, British-born Botswanan archaeologist and historian, leukemia.
 * Ian Campbell, 79, British folk musician (Ian Campbell Folk Group), cancer.
 * Ardeshir Cowasjee, 86, Pakistani newspaper columnist (Dawn), chest ailment.
 * G. Edward Haynsworth, 90, American Episcopal prelate, missionary to Nicaragua.
 * Antoine Kohn, 79, Luxembourgian football player and manager.
 * Tony Leblanc, 90, Spanish actor, heart attack.
 * Shawn Little, 48, Canadian politician, heart failure.
 * Frank Pittman, 77, American psychiatrist and author (Private Lies: Infidelity and Betrayal of Intimacy), cancer.
 * Joan Shepherd, 88, British athlete.
 * Chris Stamp, 70, British music producer and manager (The Who), cancer.
 * Jimmy Stewart, 73, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds, Houston Astros).
 * Moniek Toebosch, 64, Dutch actress, artist and musician, enthusasia.
 * Nicholas Turro, 74, American chemist, pancreatic cancer.
 * Ernie Warlick, 80, American football player (Buffalo Bills, Calgary Stampeders).

25

 * Juan Carlos Calderón, 74, Spanish composer and conductor.
 * Earl Carroll, 75, American singer (The Cadillacs, The Coasters), complications of a stroke and diabetes.
 * Clifford Digre, 89, American entrepreneur.
 * Guilherme Espírito Santo, 93, Portuguese footballer and athlete.
 * Simeon ten Holt, 89, Dutch contemporary classical composer.
 * Lars Hörmander, 81, Swedish mathematician.
 * Hans Kuhn, 92, Swiss physical chemist.
 * Bert Linnecor, 78, English footballer.
 * Luo Yang, 51, Chinese engineer, developer of the Shenyang J-15 program, heart attack.
 * Mark Meier, 86, American glaciologist and academic.
 * Juan Pereda, 81, Bolivian military leader, President (1978).
 * Tom Robinson, 74, Bahamian Olympic sprinter (1956, 1960, 1964, 1968).
 * Roy Thomas Severn, 83, British civil engineer.
 * Dave Sexton, 82, English footballer and manager (Chelsea, Manchester United).
 * Dinah Sheridan, 92, English actress (The Railway Children).
 * Martin Smyth, 76, Irish Olympic boxer.
 * Lary J. Swoboda, 73, American politician, member of Wisconsin State Assembly (1970–1994), heart attack.
 * Jim Temp, 79, American football player (Green Bay Packers), heart disease.
 * Carlisle Towery, 92, American basketball player (Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons).

26

 * Celso Ad. Castillo, 69, Filipino director and actor, cardiac arrest.
 * Theo Brandmüller, 64, German composer.
 * Jim Brewington, 73, American football player.
 * Paul Neeley Brown, 86, American senior judge of the District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.
 * Denis Haynes, 88, English cricketer (Staffordshire).
 * Bill Hollar, 74, American racing driver.
 * Edward R. Kirkland, 89, American politician.
 * Joe Kulbacki, 74, American football player (Buffalo Bills).
 * Mike Kume, 86, American Major League Baseball player.
 * Peter Marsh, 64, Australian paralympian.
 * Joseph Murray, 93, American doctor and Nobel laureate (1990), performed first kidney transplantation, hemorrhagic stroke.
 * Peter C. Myers, 81, American politician, member of the Missouri House of Representatives (1998–2006), Deputy Secretary of the USDA (1982–1989).
 * P. K. Venukuttan Nair, 81, Indian actor (Oolkatal, Swapnadanam).
 * M. C. Nambudiripad, 93, Indian science writer.
 * Kuno Pajula, 88, Estonian Evangelical Lutheran prelate, Archbishop (1987–1994).
 * Martin Richards, 80, American Broadway and film producer (Chicago, La Cage aux Folles), cancer.
 * Buddy Roberts, 67, American professional wrestler, member of the Fabulous Freebirds, pneumonia.
 * César Sánchez, 77, Bolivian footballer.
 * David Schwendeman, 87, American taxidermist (American Museum of Natural History).
 * Hans Jørgen Walle-Hansen, 100, Norwegian businessman.
 * Richard Wilkins, 59, American lawyer.

27

 * Maddela Abel, 88, Indian political scientist.
 * Mickey Baker, 87, American guitarist (Mickey & Sylvia) and songwriter ("Love Is Strange"), heart and kidney failure.
 * Viacheslav Belavkin, 66, Russian-British mathematician.
 * Gilbert Clements, 84, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island (1995–2001).
 * Pat Connolly, 84, Canadian sports broadcaster, throat cancer and melanoma.
 * Theophilus Danzy, 82, American football coach.
 * Jim Davis, 84, American politician, member of the Indiana House of Representatives (1982–1998).
 * Ab Fafié, 71, Dutch footballer and coach.
 * Érik Izraelewicz, 58, French media executive (Le Monde), heart attack.
 * Pascal Kalemba, 33, Congolese footballer.
 * Bob Kellett, 84, English film and television director.
 * Ladislas Kijno, 91, Polish-born French painter.
 * Jorma Limmonen, 78, Finnish Olympic boxer.
 * Marvin Miller, 95, American union leader, executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association (1966–1982), liver cancer.
 * Herbert Oberhofer, 57, Austrian footballer (Admira Wacker).
 * Chris Odera, 48, Kenyan Olympic boxer, kidney failure.
 * Lennart Samuelsson, 88, Swedish footballer.
 * Assane Seck, 93, Senegalese politician, Foreign Minister (1973–1978).
 * Bennie Turner, 64, American politician and lawyer, member of the Mississippi State Senate (since 1992), brain cancer.
 * Jack Wishna, 54, American businessman, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.

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 * Evelyn Ackerman, 88, American industrial designer.
 * Ahmed bin Hamed al Hamed, 82–83, Emirati politician.
 * Knut Ahnlund, 89, Swedish literary historian, writer, member of the Swedish Academy.
 * Shahid Akbar, 54, Indian cricketer, multiple organ failure.
 * Tarquinio Angiolin, 84, Italian rower.
 * Sir William Bulmer, 92, British businessman, Lord Lieutenant of West Yorkshire (1978–1985).
 * Gloria Davy, 81, American opera singer.
 * José Maria Fidélis dos Santos, 68, Brazilian footballer (Bangu Atlético Clube), cancer.
 * Jerry Finkelstein, 96, American media mogul and businessman (The Hill, New York Law Journal).
 * Jakes Gerwel, 66, South African academic and corporate executive, complications following heart surgery.
 * Tom Hardman, 21, English cricketer.
 * Ray Heffner, 87, American academic, president of Brown University (1966–1969).
 * James Day Hodgson, 96, American politician, Secretary of Labor (1970–1974) and Ambassador to Japan (1974–1977).
 * Jerry D. Mahlman, 72, American meteorologist.
 * Philip Mastin, 82, American politician, member of Michigan House of Representatives (1970–1976) and the Michigan Senate (1983), first Michigan Senator to be recalled.
 * Cosimo Nocera, 74, Italian footballer (Foggia Calcio).
 * Don Rhymer, 51, American film (Big Momma's House, Surf's Up, Rio) and television writer (Evening Shade), complications of head and neck cancer.
 * Spain Rodriguez, 72, American underground cartoonist, cancer.
 * Albie Thoms, 71, Australian film director, writer, and producer.
 * Franco Ventriglia, 90, American opera singer.
 * Zig Ziglar, 86, American author and motivational speaker, pneumonia.

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 * Velia Abdel-Huda, 96, Egyptian art historian and socialite.
 * Joelmir Beting, 75, Brazilian journalist and writer, stroke.
 * Eldon Edge, 86, American politician.
 * Maddalena Fagandini, 83, British electronic musician and television producer.
 * Bo Lozoff, 65, American writer and interfaith humanitarian, traffic collision.
 * Susan Luckey, 74, American actress (The Music Man, Carousel), natural causes.
 * Sherab Palden Beru, 100-101, Tibetan thangka artist.
 * Marie-Jacques Perrier, 88, French singer and fashion journalist.
 * Merv Pregulman, 90, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Detroit Lions, New York Bulldogs), steel executive and philanthropist.
 * Klaus Schütz, 86, German politician, Mayor of West Berlin (1967–1977), President of the Bundesrat (1967–1968).
 * Werner Seibold, 64, German Olympic bronze medallist sport shooter (1976).
 * Joyce Spiliotis, 65, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (since 2003), cancer.
 * Benjamin Tatar, 82, American actor (The Wind and the Lion, The Piano Lesson), chronic pulmonary disease.
 * Ronald Frank Thiemann, 66, American professor and author, pancreatic cancer.
 * Zora Wolfová, 84, Czech translator.
 * Cuthbert Woodroffe, 94, Barbadian prelate, Primate of the West Indies (1980–1986).

30

 * Rogelio Álvarez, 74, Cuban-born American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds), complications of kidney disease.
 * Mario Ardizzon, 74, Italian footballer.
 * Barry Berkus, 77, American architect, author and art collector.
 * Lars-Gunnar Björklund, 75, Swedish radio and TV journalist.
 * Rick Blackburn, 70, American music executive.
 * Roman Butenko, 32, Ukrainian football player, car crash.
 * Gregory S. Clark, 65, American politician.
 * Kélétigui Diabaté, 81, Malian musician.
 * Dolores Donlon, 92, American model and actress.
 * Jacqueline Duc, 90, French actress.
 * Jamelle Folsom, 85, American First Lady of Alabama (1948–1951, 1955–1959), mother of Jim Folsom, Jr., cancer.
 * Stephen Gray, 89, English musical administrator, managed the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic.
 * I. K. Gujral, 92, Indian politician, Prime Minister (1997–1998), multiple organ failure.
 * Munir Malik, 78, Pakistani cricketer.
 * Dolores Mantez, 76, British television actress (UFO).
 * Jeff Millar, 70, American film critic (Houston Chronicle) and comic strip writer (Tank McNamara), bile duct cancer.
 * Susil Moonesinghe, 82, Sri Lankan politician and diplomat.
 * Homer R. Warner, 90, American cardiologist, father of medical informatics, complications of pancreatitis.
 * Athar Zaidi, 66, Pakistani Test cricket umpire.