Deaths in October 2009

The following is a list of deaths in October 2009.

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

 * Otar Chiladze, 76, Georgian writer, heart failure.
 * André-Philippe Futa, 66, Congolese politician, Minister of the Economy and Foreign Trade (since 2002).
 * Gunnar Haarberg, 92, Norwegian television presenter.
 * Syed Kamal, 72, Pakistani actor.
 * Lou Moro, 91, Canadian soccer player and coach.
 * V. M. Muddiah, 80, Indian cricketer, stroke.
 * Bhandit Rittakol, 58, Thai film director, producer and screenwriter, heart failure.
 * Cintio Vitier, 88, Cuban poet.

2

 * Alain Bernheim, 86, French-born American film producer, complications from dialysis.
 * Marek Edelman, 86, Polish political and social activist, cardiologist, last surviving leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
 * Jack Evans, 80, Australian politician, Senator (1983–1984), co-founder of the Australian Democrats, cancer.
 * Nat Finkelstein, 76, American photographer and photojournalist.
 * Jørgen Jensen, 65, Danish Olympic runner.
 * John "Mr. Magic" Rivas, 53, American radio personality, heart attack.
 * Saleh Meki, 61, Eritrean cabinet minister and politician, heart attack.
 * Peg Mullen, 92, American author, subject of film Friendly Fire.
 * Desmond Plummer, Baron Plummer of St. Marylebone, 95, British politician, leader of Greater London Council (1967–1973).
 * Rolf Rüssmann, 58, German football manager, prostate cancer.
 * Herman D. Stein, 92, American professor (Case Western Reserve University).
 * Harvey Veniot, 93, Canadian MLA for Pictou West (1956–1974), Speaker of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly (1961–1968).
 * Shaun Wylie, 96, British mathematician and World War II codebreaker.

3

 * Aleksandre Basilaia, 67, Georgian composer.
 * Vladimir Beekman, 80, Estonian writer and translator.
 * Fernando Caldeiro, 51, Argentine-born American astronaut, brain cancer.
 * Fatimah el-Sharif, 98, Libyan Queen of Libya (1951–1969), widow of King Idris I.
 * Robert Kirby, 61, British folk rock arranger.
 * Ernie Lopez, 64, American boxer, complications from dementia.
 * Reinhard Mohn, 88, German entrepreneur and publisher, founder of Bertelsmann Foundation.
 * Michel Nédélec, 69, French Olympic cyclist.
 * Vasile Louis Puscas, 94, American Bishop of St George's in Canton in the Romanian Catholic Church.
 * Frank Zoppetti, 93, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers).

4

 * Koichi Haraguchi, 68, Japanese chief of staff, Imperial House of Japan, heart attack.
 * Veikko Huovinen, 82, Finnish writer.
 * Fred Kaan, 80, Dutch-born British clergyman and hymn writer.
 * Grace Keagy, 87, American actress, ovarian cancer.
 * Ernő Kolczonay, 56, Hungarian Olympic silver medal-winning fencer (1980, 1992).
 * James Lin Xili, 91, Chinese underground first Bishop of Wenzhou (since 1992), Alzheimer's disease.
 * Shōichi Nakagawa, 56, Japanese politician, Minister of Finance (2008–2009).
 * Nikiforos of Didymoteicho, 78, Greek bishop of Didymoteicho.
 * Günther Rall, 91, German Luftwaffe flying ace during World War II, heart attack.
 * Mercedes Sosa, 74, Argentinian folk singer, liver failure.
 * Bronisław Żurakowski, 98, Polish aerospace engineer.

5

 * Armando Acosta Cordero, 88, Cuban guerrilla.
 * Tommy Capel, 87, English footballer (Nottingham Forest).
 * Leon Clarke, 76, American football player (Los Angeles Rams), pancreatitis.
 * James Duesenberry, 91, American economist.
 * Ron Finley, 76, American football coach (Campbellsville Tigers).
 * Israel Gelfand, 96, Russian mathematician.
 * Gino Giugni, 82, Italian minister of labor and social security (1993–1994).
 * Giselher Klebe, 84, German composer.
 * David Lake, 66, American winemaker.
 * Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones, 87, British classical scholar.
 * Brian Powell, 35, American baseball player, suicide by gunshot.
 * René Sommer, 58, Swiss inventor, co-inventor of the computer mouse.
 * Johnny Williams, 77, English rugby union player.

6

 * Jimmy Bates, 99, Australian football player, oldest living Australian Football League player.
 * Pamela Blake, 94, American actress, natural causes.
 * Douglas Campbell, 87, Scottish-born Canadian actor, complications of diabetes and heart disease.
 * Raymond Federman, 81, French-born American writer and academic, cancer.
 * Aengus Finucane, 77, Irish priest, chief executive of Concern Worldwide (1981–1997).
 * Pyarelal Khandelwal, 84, Indian politician, cancer.
 * Werner Maihofer, 90, German Minister of the Interior (1974–1978).
 * Donna Mae Mims, 82, American race driver, first female SCCA champion, stroke.
 * Ramanna Rai, 79, Indian politician.
 * Gilberto Zaldívar, 75, American founder of the Repertorio Español, complications of dementia with Lewy bodies.

7

 * Ben Ali, 82, American restaurateur (Ben's Chili Bowl), heart failure.
 * Bikram Keshari Deo, 58, Indian politician, cardiac arrest.
 * Irving Penn, 92, American fashion photographer (Vogue).
 * Shelby Singleton, 77, American record producer and record label owner (Sun Records), brain cancer.
 * Helen Watts, 81, British contralto.
 * Pedro E. Zadunaisky, 91, Argentinian astronomer and mathematician.

8

 * Gordon Boyd, 86, British-born Australian television personality.
 * James Delgrosso, 66, American politician, mayor of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (2003–2004), leukemia.
 * Gerald Ferguson, 72, American-born Canadian artist.
 * Juan Carlos Mareco, 83, Uruguayan actor.
 * Alex McCrae, 89, Scottish football player (Middlesbrough) and manager (Falkirk).
 * Torsten Reißmann, 53, German Olympic judoka.
 * Jean Sage, 68, French racing driver, former sporting director of the Renault F1 team.
 * Michael Angelo Saltarelli, 77, American Roman Catholic Bishop of Wilmington (1995–2008), bone cancer.
 * Abu Talib, 70, American blues musician, cancer.
 * Sir Sydney Walling, 102, Antiguan cricketer.

9

 * Arne Bakker, 79, Norwegian football and bandy player.
 * Francis Baldacchino, 73, Maltese-born Bishop of Malindi, Kenya.
 * Raymond A. Brown, 94, American lawyer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
 * Aldo Buzzi, 99, Italian author and architect.
 * Arturo "Zambo" Cavero, 68, Peruvian folk singer, complications from sepsis.
 * Jacques Chessex, 75, Swiss author, first non-French recipient of the Prix Goncourt, heart attack.
 * Anne Friedberg, 57, American professor (USC School of Cinematic Arts), colorectal cancer
 * Vyacheslav Ivankov, 69, Russian crime figure, gunshot wounds.
 * Stuart M. Kaminsky, 75, American mystery writer, hepatitis.
 * Barry Letts, 84, British television actor, director and producer (Doctor Who).
 * John Daido Loori, 78, American Zen Buddhist monk, lung cancer.
 * Hermann Raich, 75, Austrian Roman Catholic Bishop of Wabag (1982–2008).
 * Louis Sanmarco, 97, French administrator, governor (1954–1957) and High Commissioner (1957–1958) of Ubangi-Shari.
 * Richard Sonnenfeldt, 86, German-born American interpreter at the Nuremberg Trials, complications from a stroke.
 * Dré Steemans, 55, Belgian television and radio host, cardiac arrest.
 * Horst Szymaniak, 75, German footballer.
 * Rusty Wier, 65, American country music singer-songwriter, cancer.

10

 * Luis Aguilé, 73, Argentine singer and songwriter, stomach cancer.
 * Paul Bloom, 70, American lawyer, recovered $6 billion for the Department of Energy, pancreatic cancer.
 * Sonny Bradshaw, 83, Jamaican jazz musician, stroke.
 * Stephen Gately, 33, Irish pop singer (Boyzone), pulmonary edema.
 * Larry Jansen, 89, American baseball player (New York Giants, Cincinnati Reds), heart failure and pneumonia.
 * Joan Orenstein, 85, British-born Canadian actress.
 * Lionel Pincus, 78, American businessman, founder of Warburg Pincus.
 * Jack Rose, 92, British WWII fighter pilot and colonial administrator.
 * Carol Tomlinson-Keasey, 66, American psychologist, breast cancer.

11

 * Joan Martí i Alanis, 80, Spanish archbishop, Bishop of Urgell and co-Prince of Andorra (1971–2003).
 * Peter Callanan, 74, Irish politician, member of the Seanad (since 1997).
 * Patrick Hannan, 68, British broadcaster, author and journalist.
 * Gustav Kral, 26, Austrian footballer, car accident.
 * Abigail McLellan, 40, Scottish artist, multiple sclerosis.
 * Veronika Neugebauer, 40, German voice actress, colorectal cancer.
 * Alan Peters, 76, British furniture designer.
 * Halit Refiğ, 75, Turkish film director, cholangiocarcinoma.

12

 * Samy Abu Zaid, 30, Egyptian footballer, car accident.
 * Maurice Agis, 77, British sculptor.
 * Dietrich von Bothmer, 90, German-born American art historian, curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
 * Alberto Castagnetti, 66, Italian Olympic swimmer, complications from cardiac surgery.
 * Mildred Cohn, 96, American biochemist.
 * Mikheil Kalatozishvili, 50, Russian film director, script writer and producer, heart attack.
 * Donald Kaufman, 79, American toy car collector, heart attack.
 * Brendan Mullen, 60, American punk impresario and club owner (The Masque), stroke.
 * Stan Palk, 87, English footballer (Liverpool, Port Vale).
 * Dickie Peterson, 63, American rock singer (Blue Cheer), liver cancer.
 * Joe Rosen, 88, American Golden Age comic book letterer.
 * Frank Vandenbroucke, 34, Belgian cyclist, pulmonary embolism.
 * Ian Wallace, 90, British bass-baritone singer.

13

 * Stephen Barnett, 73, American legal scholar, opposed the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970, cardiac arrest.
 * Cullen Bryant, 58, American football player (Los Angeles Rams), natural causes.
 * Rodger Doxsey, 62, American physicist and astronomer, cancer.
 * Richard Foster, 63, American member of the Alaska House of Representatives, heart and kidney disease.
 * Eugene Maxwell Frank, 101, American bishop of The Methodist Church.
 * Atle Jebsen, 73, Norwegian shipowner and businessman, traffic collision.
 * William Wayne Justice, 89, American federal judge.
 * Lü Zhengcao, 104, Chinese general, last survivor of the original Shang Jiang.
 * Winston Mankunku Ngozi, 66, South African saxophonist
 * Al Martino, 82, American singer and actor (The Godfather), first person to top the UK Singles Chart.
 * Daniel Melnick, 77, American studio executive, film producer and television producer, lung cancer.
 * Paul Barbă Neagră, 80, Romanian film director and essayist.
 * Roger Nixon, 88, American composer, complications from leukemia.
 * Nan C. Robertson, 83, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, heart disease.
 * Orane Simpson, 26, Jamaican football player, stabbed.
 * Richard T. Whitcomb, 88, American aeronautical engineer, pneumonia
 * Werner Zandt, 81, German Olympic sprinter.

14

 * Lou Albano, 76, American professional wrestler and manager, actor (The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!), heart attack.
 * Wilf K. Backhaus, 62, Canadian role-playing game designer.
 * Antônio do Carmo Cheuiche, 82, Brazilian Auxiliary Bishop of Santa Maria (1969–1971) and Porto Alegre (1971–2001).
 * Fred Cress, 71, British-born Australian artist, Archibald Prize winner (1988), pancreatic cancer.
 * Roy Lane, 74, British hillclimbing competitor, peritonitis.
 * C. B. Muthamma, 85, Indian first female diplomat and ambassador.
 * Willard Varnell Oliver, 88, American Navajo code talker.
 * Martyn Sanderson, 71, New Zealand actor (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring).
 * Bruce Wasserstein, 61, American investment banker and businessman, arrhythmia.
 * Collin Wilcox, 74, American actress (To Kill a Mockingbird), brain cancer.
 * Leo Williams, 68, Australian rugby union official.

15

 * George P. Jenkins, 94, American chairman of Metlife, assisted expansion of ABC and Pan Am, heart failure.
 * Josias Kumpf, 84, Austrian Nazi concentration camp guard.
 * Elizabeth Clare Prophet, 70, American New Age religious leader, co-founder of The Summit Lighthouse, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Tollak B. Sirnes, 86, Norwegian physician, psychiatrist and pharmacologist.
 * George Tuska, 93, American comic book artist (Iron Man, Captain Marvel, Teen Titans).
 * Heinz Versteeg, 70, Dutch football player, cancer.
 * Philip L. White, 86, American historian, cancer.

16

 * Bob Davis, 77, American politician, U.S. Representative for Michigan (1979–1993), heart and kidney failure.
 * Inglis Drever, 10, British hurdles racehorse, euthanised.
 * Jose Herrera, 67, Venezuelan baseball player.
 * Meilė Lukšienė, 96, Lithuanian cultural historian, member of the Sąjūdis.
 * Andrés Montes, 53, Spanish sports commentator.
 * Marian Przykucki, 85, Polish Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archbishop of Szczecin-Kamień (1992–1999).
 * John Ramsden, 61, British historian.

17

 * Dame Doreen Blumhardt, 95, New Zealand potter.
 * Carla Boni, 84, Italian singer.
 * Diana Elles, Baroness Elles, 88, British diplomat and politician.
 * Jay Johnson, 66, American U.S. Representative for Wisconsin (1997–1999), U.S. Mint Director (2000–2001), heart attack.
 * Vladimir Kashpur, 82, Russian film actor, People's Artist of Russia.
 * Kazuhiko Katō, 62, Japanese musician (The Folk Crusaders, Sadistic Mika Band), suicide by hanging.
 * Louisa Mark, 49, British lovers rock singer, complications from a stomach ulcer.
 * Norma Fox Mazer, 78, American author, brain cancer.
 * Vic Mizzy, 93, American composer (The Addams Family, Green Acres),
 * Rosanna Schiaffino, 69, Italian film actress, cancer.
 * Sheldon Segal, 83, American reproductive biologist.
 * Michael Shea, 71, British diplomat, press secretary to Queen Elizabeth II (1978–1987), dementia.
 * Brian Campbell Vickery, 91, British information scientist.

18

 * Ion Cojar, 78, Romanian actor and film director, Parkinson's disease.
 * Ruth Duckworth, 90, American sculptor.
 * Jasper Howard, 20, American football player, stabbed.
 * Lenore Kandel, 77, American poet, lung cancer.
 * Leonard B. Keller, 62, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient, motorcycle accident.
 * Sir Ludovic Kennedy, 89, British author and journalist, pneumonia.
 * Adriaan Kortlandt, 91, Dutch biologist.
 * Ovidiu Mușetescu, 54, Romanian politician, cancer.
 * Ignacio Ponseti, 95, Spanish physician and inventor (Ponseti method).
 * Nancy Spero, 83, American artist, heart failure.
 * Basie Vivier, 82, South African rugby union player, captain of the Springboks (1956).

19

 * Moni Fanan, 63, Israeli basketball team manager, suicide by hanging.
 * Werner Heubeck, 85, German-born British managing director of Ulsterbus and Citybus, cancer.
 * Joe Hutton Jr., 81, American basketball player, heart attack.
 * Sushila Kerketta, 71, Indian politician, heart attack.
 * Vladimír Klokočka, 80, Czech politician and jurist, signatory to Charter 77 manifesto.
 * Shlomo Lorincz, 91, Hungarian-born Israeli politician, heart failure.
 * Milun Marović, 62, Serbian Olympic basketball player.
 * Reg McKay, 56, British journalist and crime fiction writer, brain and lung cancer.
 * Angelo Musi, 91, American basketball player.
 * Nimma Raja Reddy, 72, Indian politician.
 * Alberto Testa, 82, Italian composer and lyricist.
 * Radu Timofte, 60, Romanian intelligence officer, director of the Serviciul Român de Informaţii (2001–2006), leukemia.
 * Howard Unruh, 88, American spree killer.
 * Joseph Wiseman, 91, Canadian actor (Dr. No).

20

 * Margaret Bisbrown, 90, British Olympic diver.
 * Yvonne Carter, 50, British general practitioner and medical academic, breast cancer.
 * Attila Dargay, 83, Hungarian animator.
 * Colin Douglas-Smith, 91, Australian Olympic rower.
 * Clifford Hansen, 97, American politician, Governor of Wyoming (1963–1967) and U.S. Senator (1967–1978).
 * Robert C. Lautman, 85, American architectural photographer.
 * Carl Fredrik Lowzow, 82, Norwegian politician.
 * Charles Mills, 88, American painter.
 * Doreen Reid Nakamarra, 54, Australian Aboriginal artist, pneumonia.
 * Jef Nys, 82, Belgian comic book artist (Jommeke).
 * Sultan Pepper, 47, American comedy writer, Emmy Award winner (The Ben Stiller Show).
 * Yuri Ryazanov, 22, Russian artistic gymnast, traffic collision.
 * Winai Senniam, 51, Thai parliamentarian, liver and colon cancer.

21

 * Andrey Balashov, 63, Russian Olympic silver (1976) and bronze (1980) medal-winning sailor.
 * Louise Cooper, 57, British novelist, aneurysm.
 * Lionel Davidson, 87, British novelist, lung cancer.
 * Clinton Ford, 77, British singer.
 * John Jarman, 78, Welsh football player (Barnsley, Walsall) and coach.
 * Iain Macphail, Lord Macphail, 71, British judge and legal scholar.
 * Paul Massey, 83, British Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) rower.
 * Yōko Minamida, 76, Japanese actress.
 * Jack Nelson, 80, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist (1960), pancreatic cancer.
 * Redmond O'Neill, 55, British political activist.
 * Sirone, 69, American jazz musician.
 * Ted Sizer, 77, American education reformer, colorectal cancer.
 * Giuliano Vassalli, 94, Italian politician.

22

 * Maryanne Amacher, 66, American experimental composer, sound artist, and installation artist, complications from a stroke.
 * Paul Andrews, 53, Australian politician, cancer.
 * Nicholas Atkin, 49, British historian, meningitis.
 * Daniel Bekker, 77, South African boxer, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases.
 * Ray B. Browne, 87, American educator, scholar of popular culture.
 * Pierre Chaunu, 86, French historian.
 * Howard Darwin, 78, Canadian sports promoter, founder of the Ottawa 67's, complications from heart surgery.
 * Luther Dixon, 78, American songwriter.
 * Evert Heinström, 97, Finnish Olympic athlete.
 * Ray Lambert, 87, Welsh footballer (Liverpool, Wales).
 * Don Lane, 75, American-born Australian entertainer, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Don Ivan Punchatz, 73, American science fiction artist, cardiac arrest.
 * Herman Reich, 91, American baseball player (Washington Senators, Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians).
 * Maciej Rybiński, 64, Polish journalist and publicist.
 * Soupy Sales, 83, American comedian and television host, cancer.
 * Enver Shehu, 75, Albanian football player and manager.
 * Suchart Chaovisith, 69, Thai politician, Finance Minister (2003–2004) and Deputy Prime Minister (2004), laryngeal cancer.
 * Libero Tresoldi, 88, Italian Roman Catholic Bishop of Crema.
 * Albert Watson, 91, English footballer (Huddersfield Town, Oldham Athletic).
 * Elmer Winter, 97, American founder of Manpower Inc.
 * George Patrick Ziemann, 68, American Roman Catholic Bishop of Santa Rosa.

23

 * Linda Day, 71, American television director, leukemia and breast cancer.
 * Trevor Denning, 86, British artist.
 * Suhrab Faqir, 75, Pakistani folk singer, kidney disease.
 * Chris Hawk, 58, American surfer, oral cancer.
 * Lou Jacobi, 95, Canadian-born American actor (The Diary of Anne Frank).
 * Ture Kailo, Vanuatuan politician and member of parliament.
 * John Kenley, 103, American summer theater producer, complications of pneumonia.
 * Ken Perkins, 83, British army general.
 * Jack Poole, 76, Canadian real estate developer, pancreatic cancer.
 * Ron Sobieszczyk, 75, American basketball player (DePaul Blue Demons, New York Knicks), degenerative brain disease.

24

 * Bill Chadwick, 94, American hockey official and broadcaster.
 * Yasuo Iwata, 67, Japanese actor, lung cancer.
 * Karl Reisinger, 73, Austrian Olympic judoka.

25

 * Yoshiteru Abe, 68, Japanese professional Go player.
 * Dee Anthony, 83, American music manager, pneumonia.
 * Maksharip Aushev, 43, Russian political activist and opposition leader in Ingushetia, businessman (Ingushetia.org), shot.
 * Adoor Bhavani, 82, Indian actress.
 * Billy Bibit, 59, Filipino soldier and coup d'état leader, complications from a stroke.
 * Camillo Cibin, 83, Italian former commander of the Corps of Gendarmerie of Vatican City.
 * Fritz Darges, 96, German World War II Waffen-SS officer.
 * Seymour Fromer, 87, American founder of Judah L. Magnes Museum.
 * Leslie A. Geddes, 88, American electrical engineer and physiologist.
 * Lawrence Halprin, 93, American architect (Ghirardelli Square, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial).
 * Gerhard Knoop, 88, Norwegian theatre director.
 * Chittaranjan Kolhatkar, 86, Indian actor, heart attack.
 * S. Ashok Kumar, 62, Indian jurist.
 * René Marigil, 81, Spanish cyclist.
 * Mike McQueen, 52, American journalist, Associated Press bureau chief for Louisiana and Mississippi, cancer.
 * Ingeborg Mello, 90, Argentinian Olympic athlete.
 * Heinz-Klaus Metzger, 77, German music critic.
 * Lázaro Pérez Jiménez, 66, Mexican Roman Catholic Bishop of Celaya.
 * Alexander Piatigorsky, 80, Russian-born British philosopher.
 * Jeffry Picower, 67, American philanthropist, associate of Bernard Madoff, drowned after heart attack.
 * Kamala Sankrityayan, 89, Indian writer and litterateur.
 * Tangi Satyanarayana, 78, Indian politician, speaker of the Vidhan Sabha of Andhra Pradesh (1983–1985).
 * Thea Segall, 80, Romanian photographer who lived in Venezuela since 1958 until her death.
 * Kevin Widemond, 23, American basketball player, heart attack.

26

 * Daniel Acharuparambil, 70, Indian Roman Catholic archbishop of Verapoly (since 1996), kidney failure.
 * Teel Bivins, 61, American member of the Texas Senate (1989–2004), Ambassador to Sweden (2004–2006).
 * Sabino Fernández Campo, 1st Count of Latores, 91, Spanish Chief of the Royal House, key figure in failed 23-F coup d'état.
 * Lea Fite, 54, American politician, member of the Alabama House of Representatives (since 2002), apparent seizure.
 * Fred McCarthy, 91, American cartoonist.
 * Yoshirō Muraki, 85, Japanese film production designer and art director, heart failure.
 * George Naʻope, 81, American musician and hula expert, founder of the Merrie Monarch Festival, cancer.
 * Troy Smith, 87, American businessman, founder of Sonic Drive-In chain, natural causes.

27

 * Tapani Aartomaa, 75, Finnish professor and graphic designer.
 * Frank Brady Jr., 64, Irish footballer (Shamrock Rovers), cancer.
 * John David Carson, 57, American actor (Falcon Crest).
 * August Coppola, 75, American writer, literature professor and father of Nicolas Cage, heart attack.
 * Roy DeCarava, 89, American photographer.
 * Alex Harris, 34, Australian paralympian swimmer, gold medalist (2004), suicide by train.
 * David Shepherd, 68, British cricketer and umpire, lung cancer.
 * Paul Zamecnik, 96, American molecular biologist.

28

 * Olga Kevelos, 85, British motorcycle trials rider.
 * Leslie King, 59, Trinidadian Olympic cyclist.
 * Paul Manz, 90, American Lutheran organist and composer.
 * Taylor Mitchell, 19, Canadian singer–songwriter, coyote attack.
 * Jerry Morris, 99, British epidemiologist.
 * Ted Nebbeling, 65, Dutch-born Canadian politician, British Columbia MLA (1996–2005), Mayor of Whistler, colon cancer.

29

 * Russell L. Ackoff, 90, American organizational theorist, complications from surgery.
 * Bei Shizhang, 106, Chinese biologist and educator.
 * Jean-François Bergier, 77, Swiss historian.
 * Jan Gąsienica Ciaptak, 86, Polish Olympic skier.
 * Charles E. Conrad, 84, American acting coach, kidney failure.
 * San'yūtei Enraku V, 76, Japanese comedian (Shōten), lung cancer.
 * Gino Fracas, 79, Canadian football player.
 * Olav Hodne, 88, Norwegian missionary.
 * June Maule, 92, American businesswoman, owner of Maule Air.
 * John O'Quinn, 68, American lawyer, traffic collision.
 * Norman Painting, 85, British radio actor (The Archers), heart failure.
 * Jürgen Rieger, 63, German lawyer and politician (NPD), stroke.
 * Beat Rüedi, 89, Swiss Olympic bronze medal-winning (1948) ice hockey player.
 * Alexander Schure, 89, American academic, founder of NYIT, Chancellor of NSU (1970–1985), Alzheimer's disease.
 * Dave Treen, 81, American politician, Governor of Louisiana (1980–1984), respiratory disease.

30

 * Juvenal Amarijo, 85, Brazilian football player, respiratory failure.
 * Norton Buffalo, 58, American singer-songwriter, blues harmonica player (Steve Miller Band), lung cancer.
 * Ramata Diakité, 32–33, Malian Wassoulou musician, hepatitis A.
 * Forest Evashevski, 91, American football coach (Iowa Hawkeyes), cancer.
 * Claude Lévi-Strauss, 100, French anthropologist and author.
 * Michelle Triola Marvin, 76, American plaintiff in landmark 'palimony' lawsuit (Marvin v. Marvin), lung cancer.
 * June Middleton, 83, Australian with polio, world's longest survivor in an iron lung.
 * Alick Rowe, 70, British television and radio writer, heart attack.
 * Howie Schultz, 87, American baseball and basketball player, cancer.
 * František Veselý, 65, Czech football player.
 * Igor Vyazmikin, 43, Russian ice hockey player.
 * Eugenia A. Wordsworth-Stevenson, Liberian diplomat.

31

 * Roque Antonio Adames Rodríguez, 81, Dominican Roman Catholic Bishop of Santiago de los Caballeros.
 * Tim Bickerstaff, 67, New Zealand radio personality.
 * Chen Lin, 39, Chinese pop singer, suicide by jumping.
 * Hugh Dinwiddy, 97, British cricketer.
 * Stanley Ellis, 83, British linguistics scholar.
 * Harry Gauss, 57, Canadian soccer coach, brain cancer.
 * Pat Keysell, 83, British television presenter.
 * Lee Hu-rak, 85, South Korean spy chief, Director of the National Intelligence Service (1970–1973), brain tumor.
 * Mustafa Mahmoud, 87, Egyptian scientist, author and philosopher.
 * John Mason, 89, British historian and librarian.
 * Qian Xuesen, 97, Chinese scientist and co-founder of the JPL.
 * Steve Reid, 94, American football player (Northwestern Wildcats).
 * Neguinho do Samba, 54, Brazilian percussionist, founder of Olodum, heart failure.
 * Jan Wejchert, 59, Polish businessman and media mogul, co-founder of ITI Group, co-owner of TVN, heart attack.
 * Tom Wheatcroft, 87, British businessman, owner of Donington Park race circuit.