Deaths in October 2011

The following is a list of notable deaths in October 2011.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
 * Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

1

 * Hans Christian Alsvik, 75, Norwegian television presenter.
 * Butch Ballard, 92, American jazz drummer.
 * David Bedford, 74, British composer and musician.
 * Georgina Cookson, 92, British actress.
 * Philo Dibble, 60, American diplomat.
 * Robert Finigan, 68, American wine critic.
 * Ruby Langford Ginibi, 77, Australian author and Aboriginal historian.
 * J. Willis Hurst, 90, American cardiologist.
 * José Ángel Ibáñez, 61, Mexican educator and politician, MP (2003–2006).
 * Paulos Mantovanis, 65, Cypriot Orthodox hierarch, metropolitan bishop of Kyrenia (since 1994).
 * Sholom Rivkin, 85, American rabbi, last chief rabbi of St. Louis, and of a city in the United States.
 * Johnny Schmitz, 90, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Brooklyn Dodgers).
 * George E. Smith, 84, American baseball and basketball player.
 * Sven Tumba, 80, Swedish ice hockey player (world champion 1953, 1957, 1962), footballer and golfer, prostate cancer.

2

 * Anna Adams, 85, English poet and artist.
 * Vasily Aleksanyan, 39, Russian lawyer and businessman, Executive Vice President of Yukos, complications from AIDS.
 * Andrija Fuderer, 80, Croatian-born Belgian chess player.
 * Taha Muhammad Ali, 80, Palestinian poet.
 * Peter Przygodda, 69, German film editor, cancer.
 * Efraín Recinos, 83, Guatemalan architect, muralist and artist, designer of the Centro Cultural Miguel Ángel Asturias.
 * John Romonosky, 82, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Washington Senators).
 * Cindy Shatto, 54, Canadian Olympic diver (1976), lung cancer.
 * Pavlos Tassios, 69, Greek film director.
 * Piero Weiss, 83, Italian pianist and author, pneumonia.
 * Moshe Wertman, 87, Israeli politician.

3

 * Kay Armen, 95, American Armenian singer.
 * Anésio Argenton, 80, Brazilian Olympic cyclist.
 * Aryeh Leib Baron, 99, Canadian rabbi.
 * Jim Conroy, 73, Canadian football player (Ottawa Rough Riders).
 * George Harrison, 72, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1960) swimmer, cancer.
 * Ovidio de Jesús, 78, Puerto Rican Olympic sprinter (1956, 1960).
 * Héctor Martínez Arteche, 77, Mexican painter.
 * Aden Meinel, 88, American astronomer and optical scientist.
 * Jim Neal, 81, American basketball player (Syracuse Nationals, Baltimore Bullets).
 * Zakaria Zerouali, 33, Moroccan footballer.

4

 * Bhagwat Jha Azad, 88, Indian politician.
 * Doris Belack, 85, American actress (Law & Order, One Life to Live, Tootsie), natural causes.
 * Yelena Chernykh, 32, Russian actress, traffic collision.
 * Ruth Currier, 85, American dancer, choreographer and dance teacher.
 * Vittorio Curtoni, 61, Italian science fiction writer and translator.
 * Kenneth H. Dahlberg, 94, American businessman and World War II fighter ace, natural causes.
 * Di Gribble, 69, Australian publisher, pancreatic cancer.
 * Martha Haines, 87, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).
 * Ralph Hodgin, 96, American baseball player (Boston Bees, Chicago White Sox).
 * Hanan Porat, 67, Israeli rabbi, educator and politician, cancer.
 * Shmuel Shilo, 81, Israeli actor and director, cancer.
 * Muzaffer Tema, 92, Turkish actor.
 * Géza Tóth, 79, Hungarian Olympic silver medal-winning (1964) weightlifter.

5

 * Edward Acquah, 76, Ghanaian Olympic footballer (1964).
 * Níver Arboleda, 43, Colombian footballer, heart attack.
 * Derrick Bell, 80, American law professor (Harvard University), originated critical race theory, carcinoid cancer.
 * Anita Caspary, 95, American Catholic nun, founder of the Immaculate Heart Community.
 * Graham Dilley, 52, British cricketer, cancer.
 * Enver Faja, 77, Albanian architect and diplomat, Ambassador to Poland (1992–1996), after long illness.
 * Richard Holmlund, 47, Swedish football manager, car accident.
 * Peter Jaks, 45, Swiss Olympic ice hockey player (1988 Winter Olympics, 1992 Winter Olympics), suicide by standing in front of a train.
 * Bert Jansch, 67, Scottish folk guitarist, singer and songwriter (Pentangle), cancer.
 * Steve Jobs, 56, American computer entrepreneur and inventor, co-founder of Apple Inc., pancreatic cancer.
 * Pietro Lombardi, 89, Italian Olympic gold medal-winning (1948) wrestler.
 * Charles Napier, 75, American actor (Philadelphia, The Blues Brothers, Austin Powers).
 * Fred Shuttlesworth, 89, American civil rights leader.
 * Sarkis Soghanalian, 82, Syrian-born Armenian arms dealer.
 * Leon Walter Tillage, 74, American writer.

6

 * Shareef Allman, 47, American employee, suicide by gunshot.
 * Luis Proto Barbosa, 84, Indian politician.
 * Zdravko Ceraj, 91, Serbian Olympic athlete.
 * Diane Cilento, 78, Australian actress (Tom Jones, The Wicker Man, Hombre), cancer.
 * William S. Dietrich II, 73, American industrialist and philanthropist.
 * Mathur Krishnamurthy, 82, Indian arts patron.
 * Daniel Lind Lagerlöf, 42, Swedish director, presumed drowned.
 * Marilyn Nash, 84, American actress (Monsieur Verdoux, Unknown World).
 * Birgit Rosengren, 98, Swedish actress.
 * Igor Shmakov, 26, Russian actor, leukemia.
 * Neil Street, 80, Australian speedway rider.
 * Alasdair Turner, 41, British scientist, stomach cancer.
 * Phil Walker, 67, British newspaper editor.

7

 * Zaheer Ahmad, 63, Pakistani-born American doctor, brain hemorrhage.
 * John Alderson, 89, British police officer and media commentator, Chief Constable of Devon and Cornwall Constabulary (1973–1982).
 * George Alexander, 93, Canadian football player.
 * Ramiz Alia, 85, Albanian politician, First Secretary of the Party of Labour (1985–1991), President (1991–1992), lung disease.
 * Julien Bailleul, 23, French footballer.
 * George Baker, 80, British actor (I, Claudius, The Ruth Rendell Mysteries), pneumonia following a stroke.
 * Frederick Cardozo, 94, British soldier and SOE veteran.
 * Fernando Charrier, 80, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Alessandria della Paglia (1989–2007).
 * Charles Cuprill Oppenheimer, 95, Puerto Rican major general.
 * David Hess, 75, American actor (The Last House on the Left), singer and songwriter, heart attack.
 * Haji Amir Bux Junejo, 95, Pakistani politician.
 * Paul Kent, 80, American actor (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, T. J. Hooker), multiple myeloma.
 * Fred Kingsbury, 84, American Olympic bronze medal-winning (1948) rower.
 * Andrew Laszlo, 85, Hungarian-born American cinematographer (First Blood, The Warriors, Newsies).
 * David Macey, 62, British historian, complications of lung cancer.
 * Lulama Masikazana, 38, South African cricketer.
 * Enrique Monsonís, 80, Spanish politician, President of the Generalitat Valenciana (1979–1982).
 * Gianni Musy, 80, Italian actor and voice actor.
 * Michel Peissel, 74, French explorer and author, heart attack.
 * Milan Puskar, 77, American pharmacist, co-founder of Mylan, cancer.
 * Julio Mario Santo Domingo, 88, Colombian businessman (SABMiller).
 * Mildred Savage, 92, American author (Parrish).
 * Bill Smith, 75, British fell runner and author. (body discovered on this date)
 * Avner Treinin, 83, Israeli poet and chemist.

8

 * Dragutin Aleksić, 64, Serbian sculptor.
 * Terry Cashion, 90, Australian rules football player.
 * Al Davis, 82, American football coach and team owner (Oakland Raiders), heart failure.
 * José de las Fuentes Rodríguez, 91, Mexican politician and lawyer, Governor of Coahuila (1981–1987).
 * Dorothy Heathcote, 85, British drama teacher and academic.
 * Arthur F. Holmes, 87, American professor of philosophy.
 * Gregory Possehl, 70, American archaeologist.
 * Shirley Prestia, 64, American actress (Home Improvement, Dharma & Greg, What Women Want).
 * Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra, 55, Sri Lankan politician, Member of Parliament (1994–2000), shot.
 * Harold W. Rood, 89, American political scientist and author.
 * Nina Sorokina, 69, Russian principal dancer.
 * Mikey Welsh, 40, American artist and musician (Weezer).
 * Roger Williams, 87, American pianist (Autumn Leaves), pancreatic cancer.
 * Ingvar Wixell, 80, Swedish opera singer.

9

 * Kei Aoyama, 32, Japanese manga artist, suicide by hanging.
 * Ray Aranha, 72, American actor (Dead Man Walking, Die Hard with a Vengeance, Married People).
 * Robert Boochever, 94, American federal judge.
 * Rob Buckman, 63, British-born Canadian oncologist and comedian.
 * Antonis Christeas, 74, Greek basketball player (AEK Athens) and coach.
 * Chauncey Hardy, 23, American basketball player, heart attack following beating.
 * Pavel Karelin, 21, Russian ski jumper, traffic accident.
 * Mark Kingston, 77, British actor.
 * Jakkampudi Rammohan Rao, 58, Indian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Andhra Pradesh.
 * Manuel Prado Perez-Rosas, 88, Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Trujillo (1976–1999).
 * James Worrall, 97, Canadian Olympic athlete (1936) and administrator.

10

 * Ray Aghayan, 83, Iranian-born American costume designer (Funny Lady, Doctor Dolittle).
 * Milton Castellanos Everardo, 91, Mexican politician, President of Chamber of Deputies (1951), Governor of Baja California (1971–1977).
 * Alan Fudge, 67, American actor (7th Heaven, Matlock, Hawaii Five-O), lung and liver cancer.
 * Nakamura Shikan VII, 83, Japanese kabuki performer, Living National Treasure.
 * Uno Röndahl, 87, Swedish author.
 * Albert Rosellini, 101, American politician, Governor of Washington (1957–1965), complications from pneumonia.
 * Jagjit Singh, 70, Indian musician, brain haemorrhage.
 * Otto Tausig, 89, Austrian writer, director and actor.

11

 * Amin al-Shami, Yemeni air force colonel, car bomb.
 * Yerahmiel Assa, 92, Israeli politician.
 * Kim Brown, 66, British-born Finnish musician, cancer.
 * George "Mojo" Buford, 81, American blues harmonica player.
 * Cy Buker, 92, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).
 * Justin Canale, 68, American football player.
 * Adrian Cowell, 77, British documentary film maker.
 * Ion Diaconescu, 94, Romanian politician, President of Chamber of Deputies (1996–2000), heart failure.
 * Doctor X, 43, Mexican professional wrestler, shot.
 * Bob Galvin, 89, American businessman, CEO of Motorola (1959–1986).
 * Freddie Gruber, 84, American jazz drummer.
 * Nauman Habib, 32, Pakistani cricketer, murdered.
 * Henk Hofs, 60, Dutch footballer (Vitesse Arnhem).
 * Keith Holman, 84, Australian rugby league player and referee.
 * Dieudonné Kabongo, 61, Congolese-born Belgian comedian, musician and actor (Lumumba).
 * Frank Kameny, 86, American gay rights activist.
 * Paul Martin, 79, American baseball player.
 * Ewald Osers, 94, Czech translator and poet.
 * František Sokol, 72, Czech Olympic bronze medal-winning (1968) volleyball player.
 * Derrick Ward, 76, English footballer.
 * Dino Zucchi, 83, Italian Olympic basketball player.

12

 * Franz Jozef Van Beeck, 81, Dutch author and Christian theologian.
 * Heinz Bennent, 90, German actor.
 * Patricia Breslin, 80, American actress (The People's Choice, Peyton Place, The Twilight Zone), wife of Art Modell, pancreatitis.
 * Joel DiGregorio, 67, American keyboardist (The Charlie Daniels Band), car crash.
 * Peter Hammond, 87, British actor and television director.
 * Lowell H. Harrison, 88, American historian.
 * János Herskó, 85, Hungarian film director and actor.
 * Vitali Kuznetsov, 70, Russian Olympic silver medal-winning (1972) judoka.
 * Paul Leka, 68, American pianist, arranger and songwriter ("Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye", "Green Tambourine").
 * Lewis Mills, 74, American college basketball coach (University of Richmond) and athletic director.
 * Dennis Ritchie, 70, American computer scientist, developer of the C programming language and the Unix operating system. (body discovered on this date)
 * Dick Thornett, 71, Australian triple international sportsman (water polo, rugby union and rugby league), heart disease.
 * Martin White, 102, Irish hurler.
 * Winstone Zulu, 47, Zambian AIDS and tuberculosis activist.

13

 * Sheila Allen, 78, British actress (Bouquet of Barbed Wire, Love Actually, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire).
 * Irén Daruházi-Karcsics, 84, Hungarian Olympic silver (1948, 1952) and bronze (1952) medal-winning gymnast.
 * Chris Doig, 63, New Zealand opera singer and sports administrator, bowel cancer.
 * Hasan Güngör, 77, Turkish Olympic gold (1960) and silver (1964) medal-winning weightlifter.
 * Barbara Kent, 103, Canadian-born American silent film actress.
 * Tufele Liamatua, 71, American Samoan politician and paramount chief, first elected Lieutenant Governor of American Samoa (1978–1985).
 * Abdoulaye Seye, 77, Senegalese Olympic bronze medal-winning (1960) athlete.

14

 * Reg Alcock, 63, Canadian politician, MP for Winnipeg South (1993–2006); President of the Treasury Board (2003–2006), heart attack.
 * Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, 16, American-Yemeni teenager, drone airstrike.
 * Margaret Draper, 94, American radio actress and disc jockey, natural causes.
 * Michael Fitzpatrick, 69, Irish politician, TD for Kildare North (2007–2011), motor neurone disease.
 * Pierangelo Garegnani, 81, Italian economist and professor.
 * Ashawna Hailey, 62, American computer scientist.
 * Adam Hunter, 48, Scottish golfer, leukemia.
 * Arnaud Jacomet, 64, French historian, Secretary-General of the Western European Union (2009–2011), cancer.
 * Laura Pollán, 63, Cuban opposition leader, founder of the Ladies in White, cardiorespiratory arrest.
 * Gunilla von Post, 79, Swedish socialite.
 * Jaladi Raja Rao, 79, Indian film lyricist and playwright.
 * Chuck Ruff, 60, American drummer (Edgar Winter, Sammy Hagar), after long illness.

15

 * Mario Agliati, 89, Swiss-Italian journalist, writer and historian.
 * Martha Aliaga, 73, Argentine statistics educator.
 * Ted Bastin, 85, English physicist and mathematician.
 * David P. Demarest, 79, American academic and writer.
 * Betty Driver, 91, British singer and actress (Coronation Street), pneumonia.
 * Sir Donald Dunstan, 88, Australian military officer, Governor of South Australia (1982–1991).
 * Joan Jaykoski, 78, American AAGPBL baseball player, cancer.
 * Pierre Mamboundou, 65, Gabonese politician, leader of the Union of the Gabonese People (since 1989), heart attack.
 * Matthew G. Martínez, 82, American politician, U.S. Representative from California (1982–2001).
 * Earl McRae, 69, Canadian journalist (Ottawa Sun), apparent heart attack.
 * Sue Mengers, 79, American talent agent, pneumonia.
 * Tongai Moyo, 43, Zimbabwean musician, non Hodgkin's lymphoma.
 * Gerald Shapiro, 61, American fiction writer and academic.
 * Titus Thotawatte, 82, Sri Lankan director.

16

 * Hiroshi Arikawa, 70, Japanese voice actor.
 * Henry Bathurst, 8th Earl Bathurst, 84, British aristocrat and politician.
 * Eusebio Bertrand, 81, Spanish Olympic sailor.
 * Ursula Cain, 84, German dancer and dance teacher.
 * Elouise P. Cobell, 65, American Native rights activist.
 * Donald Davies, 91, American Episcopal bishop of Dallas and Fort Worth.
 * Antony Gardner, 84, British politician, MP for Rushcliffe (1966–1970).
 * Miguel Ángel Granados Chapa, 70, Mexican journalist.
 * Charles Hamm, 86, American musicologist.
 * Rick Huseman, 38, American off-road race truck driver, airplane crash.
 * Virginia Knauer, 96, American consumer advocate and government official.
 * Tony Marchington, 55, English biotechnology entrepreneur and preservationist (Flying Scotsman).
 * Stanley Mitchell, 79, British translator, academic and author.
 * Caerwyn Roderick, 84, British politician, MP for Brecon & Radnor (1970–1979).
 * Pete Rugolo, 95, Italian-born American film and television composer (Kiss Me Kate, The Fugitive).
 * Henning Sjöström, 89, Swedish defense attorney, long illness.
 * Elisabeth Tankeu, 67, Cameroonian politician, Minister for Planning and Regional Development (1988–1992).
 * Dan Wheldon, 33, British IndyCar driver, racing accident.
 * Don Williams, 80, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Kansas City Athletics).

17

 * Hameed Akhtar, 87, Pakistani journalist and writer.
 * John Morton Blum, 90, American political historian.
 * Ramaz Chkhikvadze, 83, Georgian-born English stage actor.
 * Barney Danson, 90, Canadian politician, MP for York North (1968–1979), Minister of National Defence (1976–1979).
 * Manfred Gerlach, 83, German politician, last Chairman of the State Council of East Germany (1989–1990).
 * Poul Glargaard, 69, Danish actor.
 * Osvaldo Guidi, 47, Argentine actor, suicide by hanging.
 * Carl Lindner Jr., 92, American businessman (United Dairy Farmers, Cincinnati Reds), cardiac arrest.
 * Elaine Nile, 75, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1988–2002), cancer.
 * Muiris Ó Rócháin, 67, Irish teacher and director of the Willie Clancy Summer School.
 * Ken Rush, 80, American NASCAR driver.
 * Piri Thomas, 83, American writer (Down These Mean Streets) and poet, pneumonia.
 * Edgar Villchur, 94, American inventor of the acoustic suspension loudspeaker.
 * Xin Huguang, 78, Chinese composer.

18

 * Uri Amit, 77, Israeli politician.
 * Bob Brunning, 68, British blues musician (Fleetwood Mac), heart attack.
 * George Chaloupka, 79, Czech-born Australian historian of indigenous art.
 * Ruby Cohn, 89, American theater scholar, Parkinson's disease.
 * Norman Corwin, 101, American radio writer, director and producer.
 * Paul Everac, 87, Romanian writer, cancer.
 * Tommy Grant, 76, Canadian football player (Hamilton Tiger-Cats).
 * Kent Hull, 50, American football player (Buffalo Bills), liver disease.
 * Jan Marian Kaczmarek, 90, Polish engineer and academic.
 * Friedrich Kittler, 68, German literary scholar and media theorist.
 * Lee Soo-Chul, 45, South Korean football manager, suicide.
 * Sir Donald McCallum, 89, British engineer and industrialist.
 * Merritt Ranew, 73, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs)
 * Anita Sleeman, 80, Canadian composer.
 * Michael Staikos, 65, Greek-born Austrian Orthodox hierarch, metropolitan bishop of Austria (since 1991).
 * Jacques Thuillier, 83, French art historian.
 * Andrea Zanzotto, 90, Italian poet.

19

 * Munshi Siddique Ahmad, 87, Bangladeshi rice scientist.
 * Édison Chará, 31, Colombian footballer, shot.
 * Kakkanadan, 76, Indian Malayalam writer.
 * Ken Meyerson, 47, American tennis agent.
 * Bohdan Osadchuk, 91, Ukrainian historian and journalist.
 * Hollis E. Roberts, 68, American politician, Chief of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma (1978–1997), convicted sex offender.
 * Jeff Rudom, 51, American basketball player and actor.
 * Tadeusz Sawicz, 97, Polish World War II fighter pilot.
 * Lars Sjösten, 70, Swedish jazz pianist and composer.
 * Ronald Smith, 67, British Olympic boxer (1964).
 * Jon Weaving, 80, Australian operatic tenor, pancreatic cancer.
 * Keith Williams, 82, Australian tourism entrepreneur (Sea World), stroke.
 * James Yannatos, 82, American composer and conductor.

20

 * Ronald Amess, 84, Australian Olympic ice hockey player.
 * Jerzy Bielecki, 90, Polish social worker, survivor of Auschwitz concentration camp, Polish Righteous among the Nations recipient.
 * John Bosco Manat Chuabsamai, 75, Thai Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ratchaburi (1985–2003).
 * Barry Feinstein, 80, American photographer and photojournalist.
 * Yann Fouéré, 101, French Breton nationalist.
 * Mutassim Gaddafi, 36, Libyan Army officer, fifth son of Muammar Gaddafi, shooting.
 * Muammar Gaddafi, 69, Libyan leader (1969–2011), shooting.
 * Gale Gillingham, 67, American football player (Green Bay Packers).
 * Abu-Bakr Yunis Jabr, 59, Libyan military officer and politician, Minister of Defence (1970–2011), shooting.
 * Hunter, 36, Australian rapper, cancer.
 * Sue Lloyd, 72, British actress (The Ipcress File, Crossroads).
 * Antoine Pazur, 80, French footballer.
 * Iztok Puc, 45, Slovenian handball player, only Olympian handball player to represent three countries, lung cancer.
 * Morris Tabaksblat, 74, Dutch industrialist.
 * Roger Tallon, 82, French industrial designer.
 * Peter Taylor, 84-85, British botanist.

21

 * Maikano Abdoulaye, 79, Cameroonian politician.
 * Hikmet Bilâ, 57, Turkish journalist and author, lung cancer.
 * Antonio Cassese, 74, Italian international law expert, Yugoslavian war crimes judge, cancer.
 * George Daniels, 85, British horologist.
 * Thomas Dillon, 61, American serial killer.
 * Chris Dixon, 67–68, Rhodesian Air Force pilot known as "Green Leader".
 * Bertram Herlong, 77, American bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee.
 * Digby Jacks, 66, British president of the National Union of Students (1971–1973).
 * Anis Mansour, 86, Egyptian writer and columnist, pneumonia.
 * Ettore Milano, 86, Italian cyclist.
 * Tone Pavček, 83, Slovenian author and translator.
 * Edmundo Ros, 100, Trinidadian-born British bandleader.
 * Scott White, 41, American politician, member of the Washington House of Representatives (2009–2011) and State Senator (2011), cardiomegaly complications.

22

 * Jan Boye, 49, Danish politician, complications from brain hemorrhage.
 * Jean Dubuisson, 97, French architect.
 * Peter Goldie, 64, British philosopher.
 * Trevor Gordon, 96, Australian cricketer.
 * Kutty, 90, Indian political cartoonist.
 * Roger Moore, 73, American professional poker player.
 * Mullanezhi, 63, Indian poet and actor, heart attack.
 * Cathal O'Shannon, 83, Irish journalist and television presenter.
 * Robert Pierpoint, 86, American broadcast journalist, complications from surgery.
 * Roy Smalley Jr., 85, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Milwaukee Braves, Philadelphia Phillies).
 * Sultan, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, 83, Saudi royal, Minister of Defense and Aviation (since 1962) and Crown Prince (since 2005).
 * Ed Thompson, 66, American politician, Mayor of Tomah, Wisconsin (2008–2010), and gubernatorial candidate, pancreatic cancer.

23

 * Nusrat Bhutto, 82, Iranian-born Pakistani First Lady, widow of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and mother of Benazir Bhutto.
 * John Brown, 81, British Anglican bishop, Bishop in Cyprus and the Gulf (1987–1996)
 * Joseph Dao, 75, Burkinabé-born Malian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Kayes (1978–2011).
 * Oscar Stanley Dawson, 87, Indian admiral, Chief of the Naval Staff (1982–1984), brain haemorrhage.
 * Winston Griffiths, 33, Jamaican footballer.
 * Herbert A. Hauptman, 94, American Nobel Prize-winning chemist (1985).
 * Florence Parry Heide, 92, American children's author.
 * Sir Frank Holmes, 87, New Zealand economist and government advisor.
 * William Franklin Lee III, 82, American music educator, dean of University of Miami School of Music (1964–1982).
 * Bronislovas Lubys, 73, Lithuanian entrepreneur and politician, Prime Minister of Lithuania (1992–1993), heart attack.
 * John Makin, 61, British folk and blues singer (Potverdekke! (It's great to be a Belgian)).
 * Miroslav Proft, 87, Czech Olympic shooter.
 * Amnon Salomon, 71, Israeli cinematographer, cancer.
 * Marco Simoncelli, 24, Italian motorcycle racer, race crash.
 * Tillie Taylor, 88, Canadian judge.
 * Bogdan Zakrzewski, 95, Polish historian and researcher of Polish literature.

24

 * Bob Beaumont, 79, American electric automobile manufacturer (Citicar), emphysema.
 * Margit Brandt, 66, Danish fashion designer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
 * Robert Bropho, 81, Australian indigenous rights activist and convicted criminal, natural causes.
 * Liviu Ciulei, 88, Romanian actor, writer and director, after long illness.
 * Max Gillett, 84, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Geelong West (1958–1964).
 * Harold Huskilson, 91, Canadian politician, member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly (1970–1993).
 * Kjell Johansson, 65, Swedish table tennis player.
 * Morio Kita, 84, Japanese novelist, essayist and psychiatrist.
 * Héctor López, 44, Mexican boxer, Olympic silver medal-winner (1984), drug overdose.
 * John McCarthy, 84, American computer scientist, creator of LISP and the term AI, heart disease.
 * Pat McNamara, 85, American Olympic speed skater.
 * Alan Morgan, 71, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Sherwood (1989–2004).
 * Crescênzio Rinaldini, 85, Italian-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Araçuaí (1982–2001).
 * Sir Peter Siddell, 76, New Zealand artist, brain tumour.
 * Kirtanananda Swami, 74, American excommunicated Hare Krishna leader and convicted felon, kidney failure.
 * Bruno Weber, 80, Swiss artist and architect.
 * Ken Yamaguchi, 55, Japanese voice actor, illness.

25

 * Leonidas Andrianopoulos, 100, Greek footballer (Olympiacos F.C.).
 * Perkins Bass, 99, American politician, U.S. Representative from New Hampshire (1955–1963).
 * Shirley Becke, 94, British police officer, first female to reach chief officer rank.
 * Bert Cueto, 74, Cuban baseball player (Minnesota Twins).
 * Arved Deringer, 98, German lawyer (Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer) and politician.
 * Donald Foley, 47-48, American actor.
 * Sinikka Keskitalo, 60, Finnish Olympic long-distance runner.
 * Wyatt Knight, 56, American actor (Porky's), suicide by gunshot.
 * Manuel López Ochoa, 77, Mexican actor (Chucho el roto).
 * Tom McNeeley, 74, American boxer, complications from a seizure.
 * Mohan Raghavan, 47, Indian Malayalam film director.
 * Fyodor Reut, 64, Soviet and later Russian military officer.
 * Bernard Verdcourt, 86, British botanist.
 * Howard Wolpe, 71, American politician, U.S. Representative from Michigan (1979–1993).
 * Norrie Woodhall, 105, British stage actress.

26

 * Salvador Bernal, 66, Filipino designer, National Artist of the Philippines.
 * Daniel Burke, 82, American television executive, President of ABC (1986–1994), complications of diabetes.
 * Dave Cole, 81, American baseball player (Boston Braves, Milwaukee Braves, Chicago Cubs).
 * Mickey Kelly, 82, Irish hurler (Kilkenny GAA).
 * Aristide Laurent, 70, American publisher and LGBT civil rights advocate.
 * John Morris, 71, South African cricketer.
 * William A. Niskanen, 78, American economist, member of the Council of Economic Advisors (1981–1985), chairman of the Cato Institute (1985–2008), stroke.
 * Jona Senilagakali, 81, Fijian physician and diplomat, Prime Minister (2006–2007).
 * Jorge Soto, 66, Argentine golfer.
 * Francisco Villar García-Moreno, 63, Spanish politician, President of National Sports Council (1999-2000).

27

 * Tom Brown, 89, American tennis player.
 * T. Max Graham, 70, American actor (Article 99, Eraserhead), cancer.
 * Ronald Greeley, 72, American planetary scientist.
 * James Hillman, 85, American psychologist, proponent of archetypal psychology.
 * Ron Holmes, 48, American football player (Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Denver Broncos).
 * Eduard Kojnok, 78, Slovak Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Rožňava (1990–2008).
 * Allen Mandelbaum, 85, American professor of Italian literature, poet and translator.
 * Robert Pritzker, 85, American billionaire industrialist, Parkinson's disease.

28

 * Ricky Adams, 52, American baseball player (California Angels), cancer.
 * Tom Addington, 92, British soldier.
 * Campbell Christie, 74, Scottish trade unionist.
 * Willy De Clercq, 84, Belgian politician.
 * Beryl Davis, 87, British big band singer and actress.
 * R. Sheldon Duecker, 85, American prelate, bishop of the United Methodist Church.
 * Jiří Gruša, 72, Czech dissident, diplomat and writer.
 * Roger Kerr, 66, New Zealand public policy and business leader, executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, metastatic melanoma.
 * Alvin Schwartz, 94, American comic book writer (Batman, Green Lantern, Superman), heart-related complications.
 * Kan Singh Parihar, 98, Indian jurist.
 * Arnold Ruiner, 74, Austrian Olympic cyclist.
 * Sri Lal Sukla, 85, Indian writer, long illness.
 * Wilmer W. Tanner, 101, American zoologist.
 * Ed Walker, 94, American World War II veteran and writer, last surviving member of Castner's Cutthroats.

29

 * Christine Atallah, 45, Canadian singer-songwriter and writer, complications from a fall.
 * Axel Axgil, 96, Danish gay rights activist.
 * Dolores Dwyer, 76, American Olympic athlete and actress.
 * Lloyd G. Jackson, 93, American politician, President of West Virginia Senate (1969–1971).
 * Robert Lamoureux, 91, French comedian and film director.
 * Yoland Levèque, 74, French Olympic boxer.
 * Elfriede von Nitzsch, 91, German Olympic athlete.
 * Walter Norris, 79, American jazz pianist.
 * R. C. Pitts, 92, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1948) basketball player.
 * Ram Revilla, 22, Filipino actor, shot and stabbed.
 * Sir Jimmy Savile, 84, British disc jockey and television presenter (Top of the Pops, Jim'll Fix It).
 * K. Suppu, 70, Indian politician.
 * Samdup Taso, 83, Indian hereditary priest.
 * Walter Vidarte, 80, Uruguayan actor.
 * Tom Watkins, 74, American football player (Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions), after long illness.
 * Mano Wijeyeratne, 54, Sri Lankan politician.

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 * John Anderson, 93, British pathologist.
 * Serge Aubry, 69, Canadian ice hockey player (Quebec Nordiques), diabetes.
 * Bob Barry, Sr., 80, American sports commentator.
 * Basile Decortès, 89, French cyclist.
 * T. M. Jacob, 61, Indian politician, member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly.
 * Tom Keith, 64, American radio personality (A Prairie Home Companion).
 * Jonas Kubilius, 90, Lithuanian mathematician.
 * Phyllis Love, 85, American actress (Friendly Persuasion, The Young Doctors), Alzheimer's disease.
 * Christopher J. Mega, 80, American politician and judge.
 * Cyril Parfitt, 97, British artist.
 * Virgilio Salimbeni, 91, Italian cyclist.
 * Mickey Scott, 64, German-born American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles, Montreal Expos).
 * David Utz, 87, American surgeon, removed Ronald Reagan's prostate, heart failure.
 * Richard Walls, 74, New Zealand politician and businessman, MP for Dunedin North (1975–1978) and Mayor of Dunedin (1989–1995).
 * Abbas-Ali Amid Zanjani, 74, Iranian cleric and politician, President of Tehran University (2005–2008), heart failure.

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 * Flórián Albert, 70, Hungarian footballer, European Footballer of the Year (1967).
 * Alberto Anchart, 80, Argentine actor (Venga a bailar el rock), cancer.
 * Liz Anderson, 81, American country music singer-songwriter, complications from heart and lung disease.
 * Mick Anglo, 95, British comic book writer and artist, creator of Marvelman.
 * Caridad Asensio, 80, Cuban-American migrant worker advocate, seizure.
 * Gilbert Cates, 77, American film director and producer (Telecast of the Academy Awards, Oh, God! Book II), founder of Geffen Playhouse.
 * James Forrester, 74, American physician and politician, North Carolina State Senator (since 1990).
 * Boris de Greiff, 81, Colombian chess master.
 * Alfred Hilbe, 83, Liechtensteiner politician, Prime Minister (1970–1974).
 * Len Killeen, 72, South African rugby league player.
 * Marios Leousis, 75, Greek magician.
 * Ali Saibou, 71, Nigerien politician, President (1987–1993).