Deaths in October 2010

The following is a list of notable deaths in October 2010.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists informitive in which we can use 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

 * Georgy Arbatov, 87, Russian political scientist.
 * Dezső Bundzsák, 82, Hungarian football player and coach.
 * Ian Buxton, 72, English footballer and cricketer, natural causes.
 * Charles Caruana, 77, Gibraltarian Roman Catholic bishop of Gibraltar (1998–2010), complications from a fall.
 * Bobby Craig, 75, Scottish footballer.
 * Audouin Dollfus, 85, French astronomer.
 * Marshall Flaum, 85, American Emmy Award-winning director (The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau), complications from hip surgery.
 * Kilian Hennessy, 103, Irish patriarch of the Hennessy cognac company.
 * Gerard Labuda, 93, Polish historian.
 * Michel Mathieu, 66, French diplomat, cancer.
 * David Aldrich Nelson, 78, American jurist, judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
 * William W. Norton, 85, American screenwriter (Gator, Brannigan), heart attack.
 * William C. Patrick III, 84, American scientist, expert on germs, bladder cancer.
 * Pamela Rooks, Indian film director and screenwriter.
 * Mikhail Roshchin, 77, Russian playwright.
 * Phillips Talbot, 95, American diplomat, Ambassador to Greece (1965–1969), President of the Asia Society (1970–1981).
 * Lan Wright, 87, British science fiction writer.

2

 * David M. Bailey, 44, American singer-songwriter, glioblastoma.
 * Brenda Cowling, 85, British actress.
 * Maurice Foster, 77, Canadian politician, MP for Algoma (1968–1993), pulmonary fibrosis.
 * Robert Goodnough, 92, American abstract expressionist painter, pneumonia.
 * Stephen Griew, 82, Canadian gerontologist.
 * Ruby Heafner, 86, American baseball player.
 * Art Jarvinen, 54, American composer, teacher and musician (The California EAR Unit).
 * Kwa Geok Choo, 89, Singaporean lawyer, wife of Lee Kuan Yew, mother of Lee Hsien Loong.
 * Sam Lesser, 95, British journalist.
 * Gillian Lowndes, 74, British ceramicist.

3

 * Maury Allen, 78, American sportswriter (The New York Post), lymphoma.
 * João Costa, 90, Portuguese Olympic fencer.
 * Philippa Foot, 90, British philosopher.
 * Sir Louis Le Bailly, 95, British admiral, Director-General of Intelligence.
 * Claude Lefort, 86, French philosopher.
 * Ben Mondor, 85, American baseball executive (Pawtucket Red Sox).
 * Eddie Platt, 88, American saxophonist.
 * Abraham Sarmiento, 88, Filipino jurist, Supreme Court Associate Justice (1987–1991).
 * Dianne Whalen, 59, Canadian politician, Newfoundland and Labrador MHA for Conception Bay East and Bell Island (2003–2010), cancer.
 * Ed Wilson, 65, Brazilian singer-songwriter, founder of Renato e Seus Blue Caps, cancer.

4

 * William Birenbaum, 87, American educator (Antioch College), heart failure.
 * Maurice Broomfield, 94, British photographer.
 * Henrique de Senna Fernandes, 86, Macanese author.
 * Gordon Lewis, 86, British aeronautical engineer.
 * Rajan Mehra, 76, Indian cricket umpire.
 * Reinhard Oehme, 82, German-born American particle physicist. (body found on this date)
 * Peter Warr, 72, British racing driver and Formula One team principal (Lotus), heart attack.
 * Brian Williams, 54, British fantasy illustrator
 * Sir Norman Wisdom, 95, British comedian and actor, after long illness.

5

 * Yakov Alpert, 99, Soviet-born American physicist.
 * Roy Axe, 73, British car designer (Talbot Horizon, Rover 800), cancer.
 * Roy Ward Baker, 93, British film director (A Night To Remember).
 * Jack Berntsen, 69, Norwegian folk singer.
 * Stan Bisset, 98, Australian rugby union player and World War II veteran.
 * Alba Bouwer, 90, South African writer (Afrikaans children's literature), natural causes.
 * Bernard Clavel, 87, French writer, natural causes.
 * Mary Leona Gage, 71, American pageant queen, stripped of Miss USA (1957) title, heart failure.
 * Karel Hardeman, 96, Dutch Olympic rower.
 * Josephine Drivinski Hunsinger, 95, American politician. Member of the Michigan House of Representatives for District 1 (1973-1976).
 * Moss Keane, 62, Irish rugby union player, bowel cancer.
 * Jānis Klovāns, 75, Latvian chess master.
 * Steve Lee, 47, Swiss musician (Gotthard), motorcycle accident.
 * Julio Parise Loro, 90, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Napo (1978–96).
 * Karen McCarthy, 63, American politician, U.S. Representative from Missouri (1995–2005), Alzheimer's disease.
 * Børge Raahauge Nielsen, 90, Danish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1948) rower.
 * William Shakespeare, 61, Australian glam rock singer, heart attack.

6

 * Norman Christie, 85, Scottish football player and manager (Montrose F.C.).
 * Jean Debuf, 86, French weightlifter, Olympic bronze medalist (1956).
 * Don Goodsir, 73, Australian educator, author, and environmentalist.
 * Ivor Hale, 88, English cricketer.
 * Rhys Isaac, 72, Australian historian, cancer.
 * Antonie Kamerling, 44, Dutch actor and singer, suicide.
 * Ralph Kercheval, 98, American football player.
 * Gran Naniwa, 33, Japanese professional wrestler, myocardial blockage.
 * Colette Renard, 85, French singer and actress, after long illness.
 * Henry Sommerville, 82, Australian Olympic fencer.
 * Piet Wijn, 81, Dutch comics creator.

7

 * Ashab-ul-Haq, Bangladeshi politician.
 * Metring David, 90, Filipino actress and comedian.
 * Gail Dolgin, 65, American documentary filmmaker (Daughter from Danang), breast cancer.
 * Kristin Johannsen, 52, American author, educator and environmentalist.
 * Ljupčo Jordanovski, 57, Macedonian seismologist and politician, Acting President (2004).
 * Chuck Leo, 76, American football player (Boston Patriots).
 * Ian Morris, 53, New Zealand musician (Th' Dudes) and record producer.
 * Milka Planinc, 85, Yugoslavian politician, Prime Minister (1982–1986).
 * Guy Rouleau, 87, Canadian politician.
 * A. Venkatachalam, 55, Indian politician, stabbed.

8

 * Frank Bourgholtzer, 90, American television reporter, first full-time NBC News White House correspondent.
 * S. S. Chandran, 69, Indian comic actor and politician, member of the Rajya Sabha (2001–2007), heart attack.
 * Jim Fuchs, 82, American shot putter, Olympic bronze medalist (1948, 1952).
 * Nils Hallberg, 89, Swedish actor.
 * John Huchra, 61, American astronomer, heart attack.
 * Ryō Ikebe, 92, Japanese actor (Gorath), blood poisoning.
 * Reg King, 65, British singer (The Action), cancer.
 * Simbara Maki, 71, Ivorian Olympic hurdler.
 * Malcolm Mencer Martin, 89, Austrian-British pediatric endocrinologist, injuries sustained after being hit by car.
 * Sue Miles, 66, British counter-culture activist and restaurateur.
 * David F. Musto, 74, American drug control expert, heart attack.
 * Maurice Neligan, 73, Irish surgeon, performed Ireland's first heart transplant.
 * Linda Norgrove, 36, British aid worker and hostage, killed during rescue attempt.
 * Mohammad Omar, Afghan politician, Governor of Kunduz Province, bomb blast.
 * Pleasant Tap, 23, American thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized due to laminitis.
 * Melvin Lane Powers, 68, American real estate developer, acquitted of murdering his uncle.
 * Karl Prantl, 86, Austrian sculptor, stroke.
 * Neil Richardson, 80, English composer, arranger and conductor.
 * Dale Roberts, 70, American baseball player (New York Yankees).
 * Albertina Walker, 81, American gospel music singer (The Caravans), respiratory failure.

9

 * Maurice Allais, 99, French economist, winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1988).
 * Mashallah Amin Sorour, 79, Iranian cyclist.
 * Edmund Chong Ket Wah, 54, Malaysian politician, Member of Parliament (since 2004), motorcycle accident.
 * Les Fell, 89, English footballer (Charlton Athletic, Crystal Palace).
 * Aleksandr Matveyev, 84, Russian linguist, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, natural causes.
 * Isaia Rasila, 42, Fijian rugby player.
 * Zecharia Sitchin, 90, Azerbaijani-born American author.

10

 * Louis F. Bantle, 81, American chairman of U.S. Tobacco Company, lung cancer and emphysema.
 * Reinhold Brinkmann, 76, German musicologist.
 * Solomon Burke, 70, American R&B singer-songwriter ("Everybody Needs Somebody to Love"), natural causes.
 * Ger Feeney, Irish Gaelic footballer.
 * Les Gibbard, 64, New Zealand-born British political cartoonist, during routine operation.
 * John Graysmark, 75, British production designer and art director (Ragtime, Gorillas in the Mist, Flash Gordon).
 * Hwang Jang-yop, 87, North Korean politician and defector, apparent heart attack.
 * Éric Joisel, 53, French wet-folding origami artist, lung cancer.
 * Richard Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 4th Baron Acton, 69, British politician.
 * David H. McNerney, 79, American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient, lung cancer.
 * Adán Martín Menis, 66, Spanish politician, President of the Canary Islands (2003–2007).
 * Rex Rabanye, 66, jazz, fusion and soulful pop musician.
 * Franz Xaver Schwarzenböck, 87, German Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of München und Freising (1972–1998).
 * Solly Sherman, 93, American football player (Chicago Bears).
 * A. Edison Stairs, 85, Canadian businessman and politician, New Brunswick MLA (1960–1978) and Minister of Finance (1974–1976), natural causes.
 * Walter Staley, 77, American Olympic bronze medal-winning (1952) equestrian.
 * Alison Stephens, 40, British classical mandolinist, cervical cancer.
 * Dame Joan Sutherland, 83, Australian dramatic coloratura soprano.
 * Richard S. Van Wagoner, 64, American historian of Mormonism and Utah.
 * Frank Verpillat, 63, French director and inventor.

11

 * Tomislav Franjković, 79, Croatian Olympic silver medal-winning (1956) water polo player.
 * Bill Harsha, 89, American politician, U.S. Representative from Ohio (1961–1981).
 * Janet MacLachlan, 77, American actress (Archie Bunker's Place, Sounder), cardiovascular complications.
 * Richard Morefield, 81, American embassy worker, hostage during Iran Hostage Crisis.
 * Marian P. Opala, 89, American jurist, Associate Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court (1978–2010), stroke.
 * Claire Rayner, 79, British author.
 * Georges Rutaganda, 51, Rwandan Hutu paramilitary leader, convicted war criminal, after long illness.
 * Robert Tishman, 94, American real estate developer (Tishman Speyer).
 * Donald H. Tuck, 87, Australian science fiction bibliographer.
 * Ian Turner, 85, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1948) rower.

12

 * Abul Hasnat Md. Abdul Hai, Bangladeshi politician.
 * Manuel Alexandre, 92, Spanish actor, cancer.
 * Jorge Ardila Serrano, 85, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Girardot (1988–2001).
 * Austin Ardill, 93, British politician, member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland for Carrick.
 * Challenger, 51, Bangladeshi actor.
 * Michael Galloway, 85, American actor.
 * Michel Hugo, 79, French-born American cinematographer (Dynasty, Melrose Place, Mission: Impossible), lung cancer.
 * Angelo Infanti, 71, Italian actor, cardiac arrest.
 * Lionel W. McKenzie, 91, American economist.
 * Dick Miles, 85, American table tennis player, natural causes.
 * Woody Peoples, 67, American football player (San Francisco 49ers, Philadelphia Eagles).
 * Pepín, 78, Spanish footballer.
 * Belva Plain, 95, American novelist (Evergreen).

13

 * Juan Carlos Arteche, 53, Spanish footballer, cancer.
 * Eddie Baily, 85, English footballer (Tottenham Hotspur).
 * General Johnson, 69, American musician and record producer (Chairmen of the Board), complications of lung cancer.
 * Vernon Biever, 87, American photographer.
 * Khoisan X, 55, South African political activist, stroke.
 * Mary Malcolm, 92, British BBC announcer and television personality.
 * Marzieh, 86, Iranian singer, cancer.
 * Sol Steinmetz, 80, Hungarian-born American lexicographer and linguist, pneumonia.

14

 * Malcolm Allison, 83, English footballer (West Ham United) and manager (Manchester City, Crystal Palace), after long illness.
 * Glenn J. Ames, 55, American historian, cancer.
 * Carla Del Poggio, 84, Italian actress.
 * Louis Henkin, 92, American international human rights law expert and academic (Columbia Law School).
 * Alain Le Bussy, 63, Belgian science fiction author, complications following throat surgery.
 * Simon MacCorkindale, 58, British actor (Falcon Crest, Death on the Nile, Manimal, Casualty), bowel cancer.
 * Benoît Mandelbrot, 85, Polish-born American mathematician, pioneer of the study of fractals, pancreatic cancer.
 * Constance Reid, 92, American mathematics author and biographer.
 * Hermann Scheer, 66, German politician, member of the Bundestag (1980–2010) and Right Livelihood Award laureate (1999), after short illness.
 * Larry Siegfried, 71, American basketball player (Boston Celtics), heart attack.

15

 * Jim Dougal, 65, Northern Irish journalist (BBC News, RTÉ, UTV).
 * Mildred Fay Jefferson, 84, American anti-abortion activist, first black woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School.
 * N. Paul Kenworthy, 85, American cinematographer (The Living Desert, The Vanishing Prairie), thyroid cancer.
 * Georges Mathé, 88, French oncologist and immunologist, bone marrow transplant pioneer.
 * Vera Rózsa, 93, Hungarian voice teacher.
 * Johnny Sheffield, 79, American actor (Tarzan Finds a Son!, Bomba, the Jungle Boy, Knute Rockne All American), heart attack.

16

 * Barbara Billingsley, 94, American actress, polymyalgia (Leave It to Beaver, Airplane!, Muppet Babies).
 * Alfredo Bini, 83, Italian film producer.
 * Jack Butterfield, 91, Canadian-born American sports administrator, President of the American Hockey League (1969–1994).
 * Chao-Li Chi, 83, Chinese-born American actor (Falcon Crest).
 * Giannis Dalianidis, 86, Greek film director and screenwriter (Oi Thalassies oi Hadres, O katergaris), multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
 * Eyedea, 28, American rapper and musician (Eyedea & Abilities).
 * Friedrich Katz, 83, Austrian anthropologist and historian, cancer.
 * Masud Husain Khan, 91, Indian linguist.
 * Ioannis Ladas, 90, Greek army officer, member of the 1967–1974 military junta.
 * Betty S. Murphy, 77, American lawyer, first woman to chair the National Labor Relations Board, pneumonia.
 * Aldo Maria Lazzarín Stella, 83, Italian-born Chilean Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Aysén (1989–1998).
 * Valmy Thomas, 81, Puerto Rican baseball player.
 * Leigh Van Valen, 75, American evolutionary biologist (Red Queen's Hypothesis), respiratory infection.

17

 * Åsmund Apeland, 80, Norwegian politician.
 * Jake Dunlap, 85, Canadian football player (Ottawa Rough Riders), cancer.
 * John Baird Finlay, 81, Canadian politician, MP for Oxford (1993–2004).
 * Emmanuel Lê Phong Thuân, 79, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Cân Tho (since 1990).
 * Joe Lis, 64, American baseball player, prostate cancer.
 * Freddy Schuman, 85, American baseball fan (New York Yankees), heart attack.
 * Michael Tabor, 63, American Black Panther Party member, complications from a stroke.
 * Dennis Taylor, 56, American saxophonist, heart attack.

18

 * Luc Agbala, 63, Togo football player and referee.
 * Marion Brown, 79, American jazz saxophonist.
 * Consuelo Crespi, 82, American-born Italian countess, fashion model and editor, stroke.
 * David Fontana, 75, British psychologist and parapsychologist, pancreatic cancer.
 * Margaret Gwenver, 84, American actress (Guiding Light).
 * Hans Hägele, 70, German footballer, suicide by jumping from bridge.
 * Mel Hopkins, 75, Welsh footballer (Tottenham Hotspur, Brighton & Hove Albion).
 * Yertward Mazamanian, 85, American hippie.
 * Peng Chong, 95, Chinese politician, former National Committee member.
 * Billy Raimondi, 97, American baseball player
 * Doug Wilson, 90, British Olympic athlete.
 * Ken Wriedt, 83, Australian politician, Senator for Tasmania (1967–1980), Leader of the Tasmanian Opposition (1982–1986).

19

 * Tom Bosley, 83, American actor (Happy Days, Father Dowling Mysteries), heart failure.
 * Craig Charron, 42, American ice hockey player, stomach cancer.
 * Graham Crowden, 87, Scottish actor (If...., A Very Peculiar Practice, Waiting For God).
 * André Mahé, 90, French road bicycle racer.
 * Paul Steven Miller, 49, American disability rights leader, cancer.
 * John Waterlow, 94, British physiologist.

20

 * Jean Asfar, 92, Egyptian Olympic fencer.
 * Francisco Batistela, 79, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bom Jesus da Lapa (1990–2009).
 * Otey Clark, 95, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox).
 * W. Cary Edwards, 66, American politician, New Jersey State Assemblyman (1978–1982) and Attorney General (1986–1989), cancer.
 * Herbert Enderton, 74, American mathematician and logician, leukemia.
 * Mariano Ferreyra, 23, Argentine left-wing militant, shot.
 * Bob Guccione, 79, American photographer and founder of Penthouse, lung cancer.
 * Eva Ibbotson, 85, Austrian-born British novelist (Journey to the River Sea, The Secret of Platform 13).
 * Coleman Jacoby, 95, American television comedy writer, pancreatic cancer.
 * D. Geraint James, 88, Welsh doctor.
 * Bill Jennings, 85, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns).
 * Robert Katz, 77, American writer, complications from cancer surgery.
 * Max Kohnstamm, 96, Dutch historian and diplomat.
 * Farooq Leghari, 70, Pakistani politician, President (1993–1997), heart complications.
 * Sir George Mallet, 87, Saint Lucian politician, Governor-General (1996–1997), cancer.
 * Eduard Novák, 63, Czech ice hockey player, Olympic silver (1976) and bronze (1972) medalist.
 * Jenny Oropeza, 53, American politician, California State Assemblywoman (2000–2006) and State Senator (since 2006), after long illness.
 * Robert Paynter, 82, British cinematographer (Trading Places, An American Werewolf in London, Michael Jackson's Thriller).
 * Harvey Phillips, 80, American tuba player, Parkinson's disease.
 * Gilbert Planté, 69, French Olympic footballer.
 * Julian Roberts, 80, British librarian.
 * Tony Roig, 81, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, Washington Senators), after long illness.
 * Parthasarathy Sharma, 62, Indian Test cricketer (1974–1977), cancer.
 * Tikhon Stepanov, 47, Russian Orthodox prelate, Bishop of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogory (since 1996), heart attack.
 * Ari Up, 48, German-born British punk musician (The Slits), cancer.
 * Wendall Woodbury, 68, American television journalist and host (WGAL-TV), lymphoma.

21

 * Antonio Alatorre, 88, Mexican philologist.
 * Mustapha Anane, 60, Algerian footballer, after long illness.
 * A. Ayyappan, 61, Indian poet.
 * José Carbajal, 66, Uruguayan singer, guitarist, and composer (Los Olimareños), cardiac arrest.
 * Sir Leslie Froggatt, 90, British-born Australian business executive, CEO of Shell Australia (1969–1980), complications from Parkinson's disease.
 * Kjell Landmark, 80, Norwegian poet and politician, cancer.
 * James F. Neal, 81, American jurist, prosecuted Watergate figures, cancer.
 * Howard Harry Rosenbrock, 89, British electrical engineer and scientist.
 * Loki Schmidt, 91, German environmentalist, wife of Helmut Schmidt, illness after a fall and complications of a broken foot.
 * Natasha Spender, 91, British musician and writer, widow of Stephen Spender.

22

 * Alex Anderson, 90, American cartoonist, created characters for The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show and Crusader Rabbit.
 * Donald A. Andrews, 69, Canadian correctional psychologist and criminologist.
 * Rune Blomqvist, 85, Swedish Olympic sprint canoer.
 * Arthur M. Brazier, 89, American pastor and civil rights activist.
 * Alí Chumacero, 92, Mexican writer and poet, pneumonia.
 * Bill Henderson, 86, Northern Irish politician and newspaper proprietor.
 * Helen Hunley, 90, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta (1985–1991).
 * Anne McDonald, 49, Australian disability rights activist, heart attack.
 * Franz Raschid, 56, German footballer, pancreatic cancer.
 * Eio Sakata, 90, Japanese professional Go player, aortic aneurysm.
 * Denis Simpson, 59, Canadian actor (Polka Dot Door) and singer, brain hemorrhage.
 * Kjell Stormoen, 89, Norwegian actor and theater director.
 * René Villiger, 79, Swiss painter, cancer.

23

 * Ralph Belknap Baldwin, 98, American planetary scientist.
 * Vince Banonis, 89, American football player (Chicago Cardinals, Detroit Lions).
 * Ior Bock, 68, Finnish actor and tour guide, stabbing.
 * George Cain, 66, American author, kidney failure.
 * Fran Crippen, 26, American swimmer, heart attack.
 * Leo Cullum, 68, American cartoonist (The New Yorker), cancer.
 * Robert Fitzpatrick, 73, American manager and actor, lung disease.
 * S. Neil Fujita, 89, American graphic designer, complications of a stroke.
 * Princess Irmingard of Bavaria, 87, German noblewoman.
 * Donald Leifert, 59, American science fiction actor.
 * Chhewang Nima, 43, Nepalese mountaineer and guide, avalanche.
 * Michael Porter, 59, American wrestling announcer.
 * Stanley Tanger, 87, American businessman, founder of Tanger Factory Outlet Centers.
 * David Thompson, 48, British-born Barbadian politician, Prime Minister (since 2008), pancreatic cancer.
 * Tom Winslow, 69, American folk musician, complications from a stroke.

24

 * Ralph Anderson, 86, American architect, kidney cancer.
 * Les Anthony, 88, Welsh rugby union player.
 * Bob Courtney, 87, British-born South African broadcaster and actor.
 * Mike Esposito, 83, American comic book artist (Spider-Man, The Flash, Wonder Woman).
 * Georges Frêche, 72, French politician, cardiac arrest.
 * Fritz Grösche, 69, German footballer and coach, cancer.
 * Linda Hargrove, 61, American singer-songwriter.
 * Andy Holmes, 51, British Olympic gold (1984, 1988) and bronze (1988) medal-winning rower, leptospirosis.
 * Franciszek Jarecki, 79, Polish-born American jet pilot and defector.
 * Lamont Johnson, 88, American actor and television director (The Twilight Zone, The Execution of Private Slovik), heart failure.
 * Alex Oakley, 84, Canadian Olympic race walker.
 * Pan Jin-yu, 96, Taiwanese last speaker of the Pazeh language.
 * Ignacio Ramírez de Haro, 15th Count of Bornos, 92, Spanish noble, 15th Count of Bornos, Grandee of Spain, legionella.
 * Burton B. Roberts, 88, American judge, New York Supreme Court Justice (1973–1998), respiratory failure.
 * Willie Rutherford, 65, Australian soccer player.
 * Sylvia Sleigh, 94, American painter, complications of a stroke.
 * Jack Stackpoole, 93, Australian cricketer.
 * David Stahl, 60, American conductor, lymphoma.
 * Joseph Stein, 98, American playwright (Fiddler on the Roof, Zorba).

25

 * Hans Arnold, 85, Swiss-born Swedish artist.
 * Sonny Ates, 75, American racecar driver.
 * Lisa Blount, 53, American actress (An Officer and a Gentleman) and film producer (The Accountant).
 * Sonia Burgess, 63, British immigration lawyer.
 * Jeff Carter, 82, Australian photographer and author.
 * Valentina Gaganova, 78, Russian textile worker and politician.
 * Richard T. Gill, 82, American opera singer, heart failure.
 * Douglas Hooper, 83, English psychotherapist, traffic collision.
 * Gregory Isaacs, 59, Jamaican reggae singer, lung cancer.
 * Andreas Maurer, 91, Austrian politician, Landeshauptmann of Lower Austria (1966–1981).
 * Vesna Parun, 88, Croatian writer.
 * Ada Polak, 96, Norwegian art historian.
 * Rudy Rufer, 84, American baseball player (New York Giants).
 * Roy Skinner, 80, American college basketball coach (Vanderbilt), respiratory failure.

26

 * Jaroslava Komárková, 83, Czech Olympic athlete.
 * Glen Little, 84, American circus performer ("Frosty the Clown").
 * Mbah Maridjan, 83, Indonesian spiritual guardian of Mount Merapi (1982–2010), pyroclastic flow from Mount Merapi.
 * Ricardo Montez, 87, Gibraltarian character actor.
 * Paul the Octopus, 2, British-born World Cup oracle octopus (Sea Life Centre in Oberhausen, Germany), natural causes.
 * James Phelps, 78, American gospel and R&B singer, complications of diabetes.
 * Ana María Romero de Campero, 67, Bolivian journalist and politician, President of the Senate of Bolivia (2010), colorectal cancer.
 * Romeu Tuma, 79, Brazilian politician, Senator (1995–2010), multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
 * Ray Watson, 87, Australian judge.

27

 * Mary Emma Allison, 93, American co-creator of Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF.
 * Denise Borino-Quinn, 46, American actress (The Sopranos), liver cancer.
 * Gene Fodge, 79, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs).
 * William Griffiths, 88, British Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) field hockey player.
 * Chris Gulker, 59, American photographer, programmer and writer, brain cancer.
 * Néstor Kirchner, 60, Argentine politician, President (2003–2007), First Gentleman (since 2007), Secretary General of UNASUR (2010), heart attack.
 * Paul Kolton, 87, American chairman of the American Stock Exchange (1972–1977), lymphoma.
 * Luigi Macaluso, 62, Italian businessman, President and Chairman of the Sowind Group, heart attack.
 * Owen B. Pickett, 80, American politician, U.S. Representative from Virginia (1987–2001).
 * Saqr bin Mohammad al-Qassimi, 92, Emirati ruler of Ras al-Khaimah (since 1948).
 * Hall W. Thompson, 87, American developer of a country club that did not admit black members.
 * James Wall, 92, American actor (Captain Kangaroo) and stage manager, after short illness.

28

 * Isabella Abbott, 91, American ethnobotanist, first native Hawaiian to receive a doctorate in science.
 * Ibrahim Ahmad Abd al-Sattar Muhammad, 54, Iraqi general, Armed Forces Chief of Staff (1999–2003), cancer.
 * Harry Baldwin, 90, English footballer.
 * Jack Brokensha, 84, Australian jazz musician, composer and arranger.
 * Jesús Mateo Calderón Barrueto, 90, Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Puno (1972–1998).
 * Robert Dickie, 46, British champion boxer, heart attack.
 * Robert Ellenstein, 87, American character actor.
 * Erling Fløtten, 72, Norwegian politician.
 * Watts Humphrey, 83, American software engineer.
 * Gerard Kelly, 51, British actor (City Lights), brain aneurysm.
 * Liang Congjie, 78, Chinese environmentalist (Friends of Nature), lung infection.
 * James MacArthur, 72, American actor (Hawaii Five-O, Swiss Family Robinson), natural causes.
 * Jonathan Motzfeldt, 72, Greenlandic politician, Prime Minister (1979–1991; 1997–2002), brain hemorrhage.
 * Paddy Mullins, 91, Irish racehorse trainer.
 * Maurice Murphy, 75, British musician (London Symphony Orchestra).
 * Ehud Netzer, 76, Israeli archaeologist, discovered tomb of Herod the Great, injuries from a fall.
 * Walter Payton, 68, American jazz bassist and sousaphonist, complications from a stroke.
 * Anna Prieto Sandoval, 76, American tribal leader (Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation), Native American gaming enterprises pioneer, diabetes.
 * Jean Schmit, 79, Luxembourgian Olympic cyclist.
 * John Sekula, 41, American guitarist (Mushroomhead).

29

 * Gerhard Beyer, 69, German Olympic sports shooter.
 * Marcelino Camacho, 92, Spanish trade unionist.
 * Ronnie Clayton, 76, English footballer (Blackburn Rovers).
 * Geoffrey Crawley, 83, British photographer and editor, debunked Cottingley Fairies mystery.
 * Stefan Florescu, 83, American paralympic swimmer and table tennis player.
 * Mervyn Haisman, 82, British writer (Doctor Who).
 * George Hickenlooper, 47, American documentary filmmaker, accidental drug overdose.
 * Yisrael Katz, 82, Israeli public servant and government minister.
 * Antonio Mariscal, 95, Mexican Olympic diver.
 * Bärbel Mohr, 46, German author.
 * Bernard de Nonancourt, 90, French businessman and member of the French Resistance, owner of Laurent-Perrier.
 * Karlo Sakandelidze, 82, Georgian actor.
 * Takeshi Shudo, 61, Japanese writer, creator of Pokémon, subarachnoid hemorrhage.

30

 * Randall Dale Adams, 61, American anti–death penalty activist, brain tumor.
 * Douglas Argent, 89, British television producer and director (Fawlty Towers).
 * Vladimir Arsenyev, 62, Russian Africanist, ethnographer, and exhibition curator.
 * John Benson, 67, Scottish footballer and manager, after short illness.
 * Romano Bonagura, 80, Italian bobsledder, Olympic silver medalist (1964).
 * Leopoldo Alfredo Bravo, 50, Argentine diplomat, ambassador to Russia, cancer.
 * Édouard Carpentier, 84, French-born Canadian professional wrestler.
 * Ina Clare, 77, British actress (EastEnders).
 * Meta Elste-Neumann, 91, American gymnast, Olympic bronze medalist (1948), cancer.
 * Arthur Bernard Lewis, 84, American television producer and writer (Dallas), complications from pneumonia.
 * Ananías Maidana, 87, Paraguayan teacher and politician, prostate cancer.
 * Harry Mulisch, 83, Dutch writer (The Assault, The Discovery of Heaven), cancer.
 * Nachi Nozawa, 72, Japanese voice actor, lung cancer.
 * Clyde Summers, 91, American academic, complications of a stroke.
 * Mateus Feliciano Augusto Tomás, 52, Angolan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Namibe (since 2009).
 * Howard Van Hyning, 74, American percussionist (New York City Opera), myocardial infarction.

31

 * Michel d'Aillières, 86, French politician.
 * Evelyn Baghtcheban, 82, Turkish-Persian opera singer.
 * Manfred Bock, 69, German Olympic decathlete, heart attack.
 * Max Barandun, 68, Swiss Olympic sprinter.
 * Roger Holloway, 76, British Anglican priest.
 * Dick Loepfe, 88, American football player (Chicago Cardinals).
 * Maurice Lucas, 58, American basketball player (Portland Trail Blazers, Phoenix Suns, Los Angeles Lakers), bladder cancer.
 * John Selfridge, 83, American mathematician.
 * János Simon, 81, Hungarian basketball player, EuroBasket winner (1955).
 * Ted Sorensen, 82, American lawyer, White House counsel (1961–1964), stroke.
 * Artie Wilson, 90, American baseball player (New York Giants, Birmingham Black Barons), Alzheimer's disease.