The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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 (and language of reference, if not English).
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April 2012
1
- Nancy Beckage, 61, American entomologist.[1]
- Ekrem Bora, 78, Turkish actor, pulmonary edema.[2]
- Alvin J. Boutte, 82, American banker and businessman.[3]
- Lionel Bowen, 89, Australian politician, MP for Kingsford-Smith (1969–1990); Deputy Prime Minister (1983–1990), pneumonia.[4]
- Sauro Bufalini, 70, Italian Olympic basketball player.[5]
- Chang Mei-yao, 71, Taiwanese actress.[6]
- Giorgio Chinaglia, 65, Italian footballer (Lazio, New York Cosmos), heart attack.[7]
- Miguel de la Madrid, 77, Mexican politician, President (1982–1988), complications of pulmonary emphysema.[8]
- Leila Denmark, 114, American supercentenarian, author, and physician, credited with developing a whooping cough vaccine.[9]
- Peter M. Douglas, 69, German American environmental activist, lung and throat cancer.[10]
- Klaus Dylewski, 95, German SS officer.[11]
- Jamaa Fanaka, 68, American filmmaker.[12]
- Sir Stan Yapp, 70, English politician.[13]
2
- Jesús Aguilarte, 53, Venezuelan politician, Governor of Apure State (1999–2000; 2004–2011), shot.[14]
- Russell Allen, 99, American cyclist.[15]
- Benhuan, 104, Chinese Buddhist master, honorary president of the Buddhist Association of China.[16]
- Rosario Bentivegna, 89, Italian partisan and doctor.[17]
- Warren Bonython, 95, Australian conservationist, explorer, author, and chemical engineer.[18]
- Roger Breske, 73, American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Senate (1990–2008).[19]
- Elizabeth Catlett, 96, American-born Mexican artist.[20]
- Allie Clark, 88, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Philadelphia Athletics).[21]
- Jim Delaney, 91, American Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) shot putter.[22]
- Sarah Dreher, 75, American novelist and playwright.[23]
- Pilar Fuertes Ferragut, 49, Spanish diplomat.[24]
- Rychard Karpov, 80, Ukrainian Olympic boxer.[25]
- John Kuenster, 87, American sportswriter, editor of Baseball Digest.[26]
- Mauricio Lasansky, 97, Argentinian-born American printmaker.[27]
- Jimmy Little, 75, Australian singer.[28]
- Felice Ludovisi, 94, Italian painter.[29]
- Alan Ruddock, 68, Irish martial artist and teacher.[30]
- M. Saroja, 79, Indian film actress.[31]
- Neslişah Sultan, 91, Turkish-born Ottoman and Egyptian royal, heart attack.[32]
3
- Amer Al Midani, 55, Lebanese businessman.[33]
- Lorne Benson, 81, Canadian football player (Winnipeg Blue Bombers).[34]
- Arduino Bertoldo, 79, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Foligno (1992–2008).[35]
- Michael Bzdel, 81, Canadian Ukrainian Catholic hierarch, Metropolitan of Winnipeg (1992–2006).[36]
- Richard Descoings, 53, French academic director (Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris).[37]
- Frank Fucarino, 91, American basketball player (Toronto Huskies).[38]
- Nicholas King, 79, American actor, preserved the Watts Towers.[39]
- Efraím Basílio Krevey, 83, Brazilian Ukrainian Catholic hierarch, Bishop of São João Batista em Curitiba (1978–2006).[40]
- Mingote, 93, Spanish cartoonist, writer, and journalist.[41]
- Govind Narain, 95, Indian civil servant, Governor of Karnataka (1977–1983).[42]
- Airton Pavilhão, 77, Brazilian footballer.[43]
- Xenia Stad-de Jong, 90, Dutch Olympic gold medal-winning (1948) athlete.[44]
- Chief Jay Strongbow, 83, American professional wrestler (WWF).[45]
- José María Zárraga, 81, Spanish footballer and manager.[46]
4
- Muhammad Afrizal, 30, Indonesian boxer, PABA featherweight champion (2008), injuries sustained from bout.[47]
- A. Dean Byrd, 64, American psychologist.[48]
- Dimitris Christoulas, 77, Greek pensioner, suicide.[49]
- Eugénie De Keyser, 93, Belgian writer and art critic.[50]
- Joe Doyle, 78–79, Irish cyclist.[51]
- Anne Karin Elstad, 74, Norwegian author, stroke.[52]
- Ficre Ghebreyesus, 50, Eritrean-American artist, heart failure.[53]
- Josiah Henson, 90, American Olympic bronze medal-winning (1952) wrestler, stroke and myocardial infarction.[54]
- Aminul Islam, 40, Bangladeshi trade union leader.[55]
- Nikolay Krasovsky, 87, Russian mathematician.[56]
- Claude Miller, 70, French director, producer, and screenwriter.[57]
- Helge Sverre Nesheim, 92, Norwegian broadcaster.[58]
- Richard Okada, 66, American linguist, Professor of Japanese at Princeton University.[59]
- Dubravko Pavličić, 44, Croatian footballer.[60]
- Roberto Rexach Benítez, 82, Puerto Rican politician, President of the Senate (1993–1996).[61]
5
- Keith Adams, 85, Australian adventurer and filmmaker.[62]
- Abd al-Rahim Aqiqi Bakhshayishi, 70, Iranian jurist, writer, journalist and translator.[63]
- Joe Avezzano, 68, American football player (Boston Patriots) and coach (Dallas Cowboys, Oakland Raiders), heart attack.[64]
- David Axon, 61, British astrophysicist.[65]
- Pedro Bartolomé Benoit, 91, Dominican military general, Provisional President (1965).[66]
- Angelo Castro, Jr., 67, Filipino journalist, The World Tonight anchor (1986–2009, 2011–2012), lung cancer.[67]
- Cynthia Dall, 41, American musician.[68]
- Attila Hazai, 44, Hungarian writer, suicide.[69]
- Jim Herr, 87, American businessman, founder of Herr's Snacks.[70]
- Jimmy Lawlor, 78, Irish footballer.[71]
- Jim Marshall, 88, English businessman, founder of Marshall Amplification.[72]
- Barney McKenna, 72, Irish musician (The Dubliners).[73]
- Bingu wa Mutharika, 78, Malawian politician, President (since 2004), heart attack.[74]
- Gil Noble, 80, American television reporter and host (Like It Is).[75]
- Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, 76, German designer.[76]
- Siegbert Salomon Prawer, 87, German-born British academic and writer.[77]
- Bernard Rapoport, 94, American businessman and philanthropist.[78]
- Regal Classic, 27, Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.[79]
- A. G. L. Shaw, 96, Australian historian.[80]
- Stanislav Strnad, 81, Czech film director.[81]
- Sir Peter Tapsell, 82, New Zealand politician, Speaker of the House of Representatives (1993–1996).[82]
- Dick Wearmouth, 85, Australian football player.[83]
- Christer Zetterberg, 70, Swedish businessman.[84]
6
- Boraî Bashir, 80, Sudanese footballer.[85]
- Larry Canning, 86, English footballer (Aston Villa) and broadcaster, vascular dementia.[86]
- Karl P. Cohen, 99, American mathematical physicist.[87]
- Robin Denniston, 85, British book publisher.[88]
- Fang Lizhi, 76, Chinese political activist and astrophysicist.[89]
- Felipe Fernández García, 76, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ávila (1976–1991) and San Cristóbal de La Laguna o Tenerife (1991–2005).[90]
- Promode Gogoi, 82, Indian politician.[91]
- Roland Guilbault, 77, American rear admiral who commanded the USS Ticonderoga, the first Aegis cruiser.[92]
- Dermot Hannafin (Snr), 84, Irish football player.[93]
- Theunis Jonck, 86, South African Olympic weightlifter.[94]
- Thomas Kinkade, 54, American painter, overdose of alcohol and Valium.[95]
- Thomas Sancton, Sr., 97, American novelist and journalist.[96]
- Michael Sands, 66, American show business publicist and alleged CIA operative, choked.[97]
- Arnold Saul, 87, American tennis player and coach.[98]
- Sheila Scotter, 91, Australian fashion editor (Vogue Australia).[99]
- Reed Whittemore, 92, American poet.[100]
7
- Michaelina Bellamy, 59, American singer, dancer, and actress, acute myeloid leukemia.[101]
- Arthur Budd, 66, Australian footballer.[102]
- Dennis De Souza, 77, Guyanese musician.[103]
- Steven Kanumba, 28, Tanzanian actor and director.[104]
- Alexander Leslie-Melville, 14th Earl of Leven, 87, Scottish peer and soldier, Lord Lieutenant of Nairn (1969–1999).[105]
- Miss Read, 98, English writer.[106]
- Satsue Mito, 97, Japanese zoologist.[107]
- Ignatius Moses I Daoud, 81, Syrian Catholic cardinal, Patriarch of Antioch (1998–2001), stroke complications.[108]
- David E. Pergrin, 94, American soldier, led the most decorated World War II engineering battalion.[109]
- Bashir Ahmed Qureshi, 54, Pakistani politician, cardiac arrest.[110]
- Tom Runnels, 78, American football player (Washington Redskins).[111]
- Harold Robert Steacy, 88, Canadian mineralogist.[112]
- Serafym (Verzun), 62, Ukrainian Orthodox hierarch, Bishop of Zhytomyr (1992–1995), Archbishop of Rivne (1995–2000) and Kirovohrad (2002–2008).[113]
- Anders Thor, 76, Swedish scientist and educator.[114]
- Mike Wallace, 93, American news correspondent (60 Minutes).[115]
- Jamshid Zokirov, 63, Uzbek actor.[116]
8
- Mark Ayers, 63, American labor leader.[117]
- Gordon Bagier, 87, British politician, MP for Sunderland South (1964–1987).[118]
- Bram Bart, 49, Dutch voice actor, pancreatic cancer.[119]
- Pat Carlin, 82, English footballer.[120]
- Juventino Castro y Castro, 93, Mexican judge and politician.[121]
- John Egan, 59, Irish Gaelic footballer.[122]
- June Gibbs, 89, American politician, cancer.[123]
- George Wilberforce Kakoma, 89, Ugandan musician, composer of the Ugandan national anthem.[124]
- Blair Kiel, 50, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Indianapolis Colts, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), heart attack.[125]
- Donal O'Brien, 72, Irish hurler.[126]
- Anatoly Ravikovich, 75, Russian film actor (The Pokrovsky Gate), cancer.[127]
- Jack Tramiel, 83, Polish-born American businessman, founder of Commodore and CEO of Atari.[128]
- Al Veigel, 95, American baseball player (Boston Braves).[129]
- Rikiya Yasuoka, 64, Japanese actor and singer, heart failure.[130]
- Janusz K. Zawodny, 90, Polish-born American historian, World War II resistance fighter.[131]
9
- Carol Adams, 94, American actress and dancer.[132]
- Takeshi Aono, 75, Japanese voice actor (Dragon Ball, One Piece), post-operative multiple cerebral infarction.[133]
- Reginald Askew, 83, British priest and academic.[134]
- Richard Beyer, 85, American sculptor.[135]
- Lester Breslow, 97, American physician.[136]
- François Brigneau, 92, French journalist and author.[137]
- Barry Cahill, 90, Canadian-born American actor (Grand Theft Auto, Sweet Bird of Youth).[138]
- Dick Cullum, 81, English footballer.[139]
- Chanig ar Gall, 89, French broadcaster, entertainer, and writer.[140]
- John Golding, 82, British artist, art scholar and curator.[141]
- José Guardiola, 81, Spanish singer (Eurovision Song Contest 1963).[142]
- Ismail Haron, 66, Singaporean singer.[143]
- Mark Lenzi, 43, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1992) diver, hypotension.[144]
- Wiebo Ludwig, 70, Canadian environmental activist and convicted bomber, esophageal cancer.[145]
- Miriam Mafai, 86, Italian journalist (La Repubblica), author and politician.[146]
- Ivan Nagel, 80, German theater director.[147]
- Simo Nikolić, 71, Croatian Olympic sailor.[148]
- Meral Okay, 53, Turkish actress and screenwriter (Muhteşem Yüzyıl), cancer.[149]
- Boris Parygin, 81, Russian philosopher and sociologist.[150]
- Don Reed, 92, American football coach (Long Beach State 49ers), natural causes.[151]
- Robert R. Sokal, 86, Austrian-born American biostatistician and entomologist.[152]
- Malcolm Thomas, 82, Welsh rugby union player.[153]
10
- Svein Aasmundstad, 77, Norwegian civil servant.[154]
- John Anderson, 69, Northern Irish bioengineer.[155]
- Luis Aponte Martínez, 89, Puerto Rican Roman Catholic prelate and first cardinal, Metropolitan Archbishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico (1964–1999).[156]
- Erdoğan Arıca, 57, Turkish football coach, lung cancer.[157]
- Raymond Aubrac, 97, French WWII resistance fighter.[158]
- Leonardo Mario Bernacchi, 79, Italian-born Bolivian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Camiri (1993–2009).[159]
- Frank Bochow, 74, German trade unionist and diplomat.[160]
- Barbara Buchholz, 52, German musician and composer, cancer.[161]
- Virginia Spencer Carr, 82, American biographer.[162]
- Maria-Pia Casilio, 76, Italian film actress.[163]
- Lili Chookasian, 90, American opera singer.[164]
- Kurt Crain, 47, American football player (Houston Oilers, Green Bay Packers).[165]
- Dorothy Dermody, 102, Irish Olympic (1948) fencer.[166]
- Zvi Dinstein, 86, Israeli politician, MK (1965–1974), pulmonary embolism.[167]
- Carl Gatto, 74, American politician, member of the Alaska House of Representatives (since 2003), prostate cancer.[168]
- Tichaona Mudzingwa, 69, Zimbabwean politician.[169]
- Odd Rikard Olsen, 64, Norwegian newspaper editor and politician.[170]
- Akin Omoboriowo, 81, Nigerian lawyer and politician.[171]
- Andy Replogle, 58, American baseball player (Milwaukee Brewers).[172]
- Afewerk Tekle, 80, Ethiopian artist, complications of stomach ulcer.[173]
- Grant Tilly, 74, New Zealand actor (30 Days of Night).[174]
- Carlos Truan, 76, American politician.[175]
- N. Varadarajan, 88, Indian politician.[176]
- John Weaver, 92, American sculptor.[177]
11
- Julio Alemán, 79, Mexican actor, cancer.[178]
- Ghamar Ariyan, 90, Iranian researcher and author.[179]
- Ahmed Ben Bella, 93, Algerian politician, Prime Minister (1962–1963); President (1963–1965).[180]
- Misbach Yusa Biran, 78, Indonesian film director.[181]
- Roger Caron, 73, Canadian author, prison escape artist, and bank robber, infection.[182]
- Eugene V. Clark, 86, American Roman Catholic priest.[183]
- Steve Cokely, 59, American political researcher and lecturer.[184]
- Tippy Dye, 97, American college athlete, coach, and athletic director.[185]
- Peter Gerber, 88, Swiss politician.[186]
- Gustaf Jansson, 90, Swedish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1952) athlete.[187]
- Keith Leeson, 83, Australian Olympic hockey player.[188]
- Bob Lewis, 86, American college basketball player (University of Utah).[189]
- Gianni Marchetti, 78, Italian composer and songwriter.[190]
- Moses Majekodunmi, 95, Nigerian politician, Minister of Health (1960–66).[191]
- Hal McKusick, 87, American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and flautist, natural causes.[192]
- Yolanda Mérida, 82, Mexican actress.[193]
- Rainer Penkert, 90, German actor.[194]
- Agustin Roman, 83, Cuban-born American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Miami (1979–2003), heart attack.[195]
12
- Uno Anton, 70, Estonian politician.[196]
- Vladimir Astapovsky, 65, Soviet Olympic bronze medal-winning (1976) footballer.[197]
- Kellon Baptiste, 38, Grenadian footballer, cancer.[198]
- Mohit Chattopadhyay, 77, Indian playwright, dramatist, and poet, cancer.[199]
- Linda Cook, 63, American actress.[200]
- Nico dei Gabbiani, 67, Italian singer.[201]
- Elizabeth Ferris, 71, British Olympic bronze medal-winning (1960) diver.[202]
- James Gallen, 83, American politician, complications from appendicitis.[203]
- David Alan Gore, 58, American convicted serial killer, execution by lethal injection.[204]
- Rodgers Grant, 76, American jazz pianist, cancer.[205]
- Steinbjørn B. Jacobsen, 74, Faroese poet and writer, Faroese Literature Prize recipient.[206]
- Robert Kennedy, 73, Canadian publisher, complications from skin cancer.[207]
- Andrew Love, 70, American saxophonist (The Memphis Horns), complications of Alzheimer's disease.[208]
- Masakre, 57, Mexican professional wrestler, cancer.[209]
- Bruce Morrison, 88, Australian football player.[210]
- Manfred Orzessek, 78, German footballer.[211]
- Amy Tryon, 42, American Olympic bronze medal-winning (2004) equestrian, accidental drug overdose.[212]
13
- Miguel Albareda Creus, 93, Spanish chess player.[213]
- Eunice Alberts, 84–85, American contralto.[214]
- Victor Arnold, 75, American actor.[215]
- Irving K. Barber, 89, Canadian forester and philanthropist.[216]
- John Blane, 82, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Rwanda (1982–1985); Chad (1985–1988).[217]
- William B. Buffum, 90, American diplomat, US Ambassador to Lebanon (1970–1974), natural causes.[218]
- Cecil Chaudhry, 70, Pakistani fighter pilot, school principal, and activist, lung cancer.[219]
- Florin Constantiniu, 79, Romanian historian.[220]
- Erland Cullberg, 81, Swedish artist.[221]
- William Alden Edson, 99, American scientist and engineer.[222]
- Avraham Goldberg, 99, American-born Israeli Talmud scholar.[223]
- Verónica Gómez, 26, Venezuelan volleyball player, heart failure.[224]
- Shūichi Higurashi, 75, Japanese manga illustrator, painted cover for Big Comic (1970–2011), pneumonia.[225]
- Ruth Davis Kohrt, 90, American librarian and novelist.[226]
- Marilyn Lovell Matz, 81, American actress (Ghosts of Mississippi), therapist and activist.[227]
- Peter Mullins, 86, Australian Olympic decathlete (1948), basketball player, and coach.[228]
- Lewis Nordan, 72, American writer, pneumonia.[229]
- Mario Rizzi, 86, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Titular Archbishop of Bagnoregio (since 1991), Apostolic Nuncio to Bulgaria (1991–1996).[230]
- David S. Smith, 94, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Sweden (1976–1977).[231]
- Robert Wigmore, 62, Cook Islands politician.[232]
14
- Celal Başkale, Turkish Kurdish politician, killed.[233]
- Émile Bouchard, 92, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens), member of the Hockey Hall of Fame.[234]
- Tom Farrell, 87, Canadian politician.[235]
- William Finley, 69, American actor (Phantom of the Paradise), complications from surgery.[236]
- C. Miller Fisher, 98, Canadian neurologist.[237]
- Jonathan Frid, 87, Canadian actor (Dark Shadows), natural causes.[238]
- Bela Gold, 97, Hungarian-born American businessman and professor.[239]
- Ma Jaya, 71, American spiritual teacher, pancreatic cancer.[240]
- Lee Kyung-hwan, 24, South Korean footballer (Suwon Bluewings), suicide by jumping.[241]
- Eddie May, 68, English football player and manager.[242]
- Piermario Morosini, 25, Italian footballer (Livorno), cardiac arrest.[243]
- Martin Poll, 89, American film producer (The Lion in Winter), natural causes.[244]
- Edward Purrington, 82, American opera director.[245]
- Paulo César Saraceni, 78, Brazilian film director.[246]
- Vincent F. Seyfried, 93, American historian.[247]
- Per G. Stavnum, 70, Norwegian diplomat, ambassador to Lithuania (1991–1996); Vietnam (2000–2005).[248]
- Synchronised, 9, Irish racehorse, euthanised after race fall.[249]
- Viro the Virus, 33, American hip hop artist.[250]
- Mikhail Voronin, 73, Ukrainian fashion designer.[251]
- Cathie Wright, 82, American politician, California State Senator (1992–2000).[252]
15
- Fred Birchmore, 100, American adventurer.[253]
- Paul Bogart, 92, American Emmy Award-winning television director (All in the Family), natural causes.[254]
- Jesús Giles Sánchez, 50, Mexican politician, cancer.[255]
- Hans Johansson, 85, Swedish Olympic equestrian.[256]
- Peter McKenzie, 59, New Zealand conservationist, cancer.[257]
- Yasushi Mieno, 88, Japanese banker, Governor of the Bank of Japan (1989–1994), cardiac arrest.[258]
- Jenny Olsson, 32, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier, cancer.[259]
- Bob Perani, 69, Italian-born American ice hockey player (Flint Generals).[260]
- Aleksandr Porokhovshchikov, 73, Russian actor, complications from diabetes and stroke.[261]
- Murray Rose, 73, Australian Olympic gold medal-winning (1956, 1960) swimmer, leukaemia.[262]
- Samir Said, 48, Kuwaiti footballer, traffic collision.[263]
- Rich Saul, 64, American football player (Los Angeles Rams), leukemia.[264]
- Dwayne Schintzius, 43, American basketball player (New Jersey Nets), respiratory failure.[265]
- James Shaner, 75, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1995–2006).[266]
- Joan Tozzer, 90, American figure skater.[267]
- Bob Wright, 86, American college basketball coach (Morehead State University).[268]
- Tadashi Yamamoto, 76, Japanese businessman, founder of the Japan Center for International Exchange, gall bladder cancer.[269]
16
- Sári Barabás, 98, Hungarian-born German opera singer, stroke.[270]
- Marian Biskup, 89, Polish historian.[271]
- Laura Bornholdt, 93, American historian and academic administrator.[272]
- Ernest Callenbach, 83, American writer and environmentalist.[273]
- Teddy Charles, 84, American jazz musician and composer.[274]
- Jack Cohen, 93, American rabbi.[275]
- Ray Davey, 97, Northern Irish Presbyterian minister, founder of the Corrymeela Community.[276]
- Jean Fréchaut, 97, French cyclist.[277]
- Margalith Galun, 85, Israeli lichenologist, after a lengthy illness.[278]
- Alan Hacker, 73, British clarinetist.[279]
- George Kunda, 56, Zambian politician, Vice President (2008–2011), anaemia.[280]
- A.F. Millidge, 98, British arachnologist.[281]
- Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, 98, Danish shipping magnate.[282]
- Antoine Hamid Mourany, 82, Lebanese-born Syrian Maronite hierarch, Metropolitan of Damascus (1989–1999).[283]
- Arthur Nadel, 80, American fund manager and convicted embezzler.[284]
- Ngô Đình Lệ Quyên, 53, South Vietnamese-born Italian lawyer, daughter of Madame Nhu, traffic collision.[285]
- Oyalı, 4, Turkish sheep, first cloned animal in Turkey, lung disease.[286]
- Carlo Petrini, 64, Italian footballer.[287]
- Graham Simpson, 68, British musician (Roxy Music).[288]
- Randy Starkman, 51, Canadian sports journalist, pneumonia.[289]
- Jack Streidl, 93, American football coach.[290]
17
- Alexander Appleford, 90, English pilot.[291]
- Barry Askew, 75, British newspaper editor (News of the World).[292]
- Walter M. Baker, 84, American politician.[293]
- Leila Berg, 94, British children's author.[294]
- J. Quinn Brisben, 77, American civil rights activist and Socialist candidate for U.S. President in 1992.[295]
- Jake Carter, 87, American basketball player.[296]
- Tim Collins, 66, American golfer.[297]
- Michael Green, New Zealand diplomat, cancer.[298] (death announced on this date)
- Stan Johnson, 75, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Kansas City Athletics).[299]
- Almasbei Kchach, 53, Abkhazian politician, suicide.[300]
- Sukenobu Kudō, 84, Japanese speed skater (1952 Winter Olympics), renal failure.[301]
- Irving Millman, 88, American virologist and microbiologist.[302]
- Dimitris Mitropanos, 64, Greek singer, pulmonary edema.[303]
- Nityananda Mahapatra, 99, Indian politician, poet, and journalist, natural causes.[304]
- Jonathan V. Plaut, 69, American rabbi.[305]
- Ben H. Procter, 85, American author and football player (Los Angeles Rams), Parkinson's disease.[306]
- Stanley Rogers Resor, 94, American lawyer, Secretary of the Army (1965–1971).[307]
- Jane Schaberg, 74, American biblical scholar.[308]
- Dom Valentino, 83, American sports broadcaster.[309]
- Louis Vorster, 45, South African-born Namibian cricketer, shot.[310]
18
- Pavol Bencz, 75, Czechoslovak footballer.[311]
- Arthur Bottom, 82, English footballer (York City).[312]
- José Cerviño Cerviño, 91, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tui-Vigo (1976–1996).[313]
- Dick Clark, 82, American television host and producer (American Bandstand, Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, Pyramid), heart attack.[314]
- Peter Collis, 82, English artist.[315]
- Graham Cooper, 75, English cricketer.[316]
- Hillman Curtis, 51, American graphic designer and filmmaker, colon cancer.[317]
- Tina De Mola, 88, Italian actress, singer and television personality.[318]
- John Anthony Golding, 91, Turks and Caicos Islands administrator.[319]
- René Lépine, 82, Canadian real estate developer, prostate cancer.[320]
- Kristian Lund, 80, Norwegian military officer, engineer and politician.[321]
- John O'Neil, 91, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).[322]
- Robert O. Ragland, 80, American film score composer.[323]
- Sterling Ridge, 75, American politician, Mayor of Glendale, Arizona (1976–1980), three-term member of the Arizona House of Representatives.[324]
- Col Saddington, 74, Australian football player.[325]
- Naum Shopov, 78, Bulgarian actor.[326]
- Åge Storhaug, 74, Norwegian Olympic (1960, 1964) gymnast, cancer.[327]
- Fritz Theilen, 84, German resistance member.[328]
- K. D. Wentworth, 61, American science fiction author, cancer and pneumonia.[329]
19
- Muhammad Mustafa Badawi, 86, Egyptian academic.[330]
- Allison Baden-Clay, 43, Australian executive, murdered.[331]
- Leopold David de Rothschild, 84, British financier and philanthropist.[332]
- Richard T. Drinnon, 87, American historian.[333]
- Ray Easterling, 62, American football player (Atlanta Falcons), suicide by gunshot.[334]
- Greg Ham, 58, Australian musician (Men at Work).[335]
- Levon Helm, 71, American musician (The Band) and actor (Coal Miner's Daughter), throat cancer.[336]
- Mansur Kamaletdinov, 86, Russian ballet dancer and teacher.[337]
- Ken Lowrie, 85, Australian politician, member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council (1968–1986).[338]
- Jacques Martin, 52, Canadian Paralympian, gold medalist (1984, 1988, 1992, 1996), heart attack.[339]
- Enrico Pedrini, 72, Italian art theorist.[340]
- Murtaza Razvi, 48, Pakistani journalist, strangled.[341]
- Chitturi Satyanarayana, 99, Indian surgeon.[342]
- Meenakshi Thapar, 26, Indian actress (404), strangled.[343]
- Mabel Van Camp, 91, Canadian judge, first woman on the Supreme Court of Ontario.[344]
- Valeri Vasiliev, 62, Russian Olympic gold (1972, 1976) and silver (1980) medal-winning ice hockey player.[citation needed]
- Zozo Zarpa, 73, Greek actress, heart failure.[345]
20
- Mario Arturo Acosta Chaparro, 70, Mexican army general, shot.[346]
- Ayten Alpman, 82, Turkish singer, respiratory failure.[347]
- Jack Ashley, Baron Ashley of Stoke, 89, British politician and disability campaigner, MP for Stoke-on-Trent South (1966–1992).[348]
- Alfie Biggs, 76, English footballer.[349]
- Brian Boland, 80, Australian footballer.[350]
- Matt Branam, 57, American academic, President of Rose–Hulman Institute of Technology (since 2009).[351]
- Craig Cameron, 66, American ice hockey player.[352]
- Peter Carsten, 83, German actor.[353]
- George Cowan, 92, American physical chemist and member of Manhattan Project, injuries from a fall.[354]
- Clément Haeyen, 84, Belgian Olympic (1960) weightlifter.[355]
- Shannon Johnson, 28, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.[356]
- Mike Lipari, 79, Canadian Olympic weightlifter.[357]
- Joe Muranyi, 84, American jazz musician.[358]
- Don Wedge, 82, American football referee (1972–1995).[359]
- Bert Weedon, 91, English guitarist and composer.[360]
21
- John S. Ballard, 89, American politician.[361]
- Doris Betts, 79, American author, lung cancer.[362]
- Ramón Búa Otero, 78, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tarazona (1982–1989) and Calahorra y La Calzada-Logroño (1989–2003).[363]
- Charles Colson, 80, American White House Counsel convicted in Watergate scandal, evangelist, founder of Prison Fellowship, brain hemorrhage.[364]
- Albert Falco, 84, French sea captain and scuba diver.[365]
- Wim Franken, 90, Dutch composer and pianist.[366]
- Lenny Gault, 78, American country music singer, cancer.[367]
- Harry Heslet, 92, American baseball player.[368]
- Brian Heward, 76, English footballer.[369]
- Charles Higham, 81, English-born American biographer, heart attack.[370]
- Heinz Jentzsch, 92, German racehorse trainer.[371]
- Peter Milano, 82, American businessman.[372]
- Frank Odoi, 64, Kenyan cartoonist, road accident.[373]
- Jerry Toppazzini, 80, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins, Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings).[374]
22
- John Amabile, 73, American football scout (New York Giants), coach and player (Boston College).[375]
- Gunnar Göransson, 78, Swedish Olympic cyclist.[376]
- Bill Granger, 70, American author and columnist.[377]
- Matti Kuosku, 71, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier.[378]
- Petr Lisičan, 49, Czech Olympic cross-country skier.[379]
- Buzz Potamkin, 66, American television producer.[380]
- George Rathmann, 84, American businessman, first chief executive of Amgen, kidney failure.[381]
- Aristarkh (Stankevich), 70, Belarusian Orthodox hierarch, Archbishop of Gomel and Zhlobin (since 1990).[382]
23
- Navodaya Appachan, 81, Indian film producer, cancer.[383]
- Lillemor Arvidsson, 68, Swedish trade union leader and politician, Governor of Gotland (1998–2004).[384]
- Breda Beban, 59, Serbian film and video artist.[385]
- Eunice Bommelyn, 85, American Tolowa cultural advocate, Tolowa language proponent, and historian.[386]
- Peter Boothman, 68–69, Australian guitarist, composer, and educator.[387]
- Hacho Boyadzhiev, 80, Bulgarian television and film director.[388]
- Michael Brinton, 70, British businessman, Lord Lieutenant of Worcestershire (since 2001), cancer.[389]
- Yvonne Brown, 59, American politician, cancer.[390]
- Billy Bryans, 64, Canadian musician and producer (Parachute Club), lung cancer.[391]
- Carmen Bunster, 94, Chilean actress.[392]
- Chang Myung-sam, 48, Korean taekwondo practitioner, car accident.[393]
- Roland Dale, 84, American football player (Washington Redskins).[394]
- Michael DeBose, 58, American politician, Member of the Ohio House of Representatives (2002–2010), complications of Parkinson's disease.[395]
- Chris Ethridge, 65, American country rock bassist (International Submarine Band, The Flying Burrito Brothers), pancreatic cancer.[396]
- Veriano Luchetti, 73, Italian opera singer.[397]
- Tommy Marth, 33, American musician (The Killers), suicide.[398]
- Raymond Thorsteinsson, 91, Canadian geologist.[399]
- LeRoy T. Walker, 93, American track coach, Chairman of the US Olympic Committee (1992–1996).[400]
- Flo Whyard, 95, Canadian politician, Mayor of Whitehorse (1981–1983), Yukon territorial minister (1975–1978), editor of the Whitehorse Star.[401]
24
- Svetlana Berzina, 80, Russian Egyptologist.[402]
- Sheena Bora, 25, Indian executive, strangulation.[403]
- Fred Bradley, 91, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).[404]
- William A. Campbell, 95, American USAF colonel, member of the Tuskegee Airmen.[405]
- William Chapman, 88, American operatic baritone and stage actor.[406]
- Nell Ginjaar-Maas, 80, Dutch politician, State Secretary for Education and Science (1982–1989).[407]
- Daniel McGillivray Brown, 89, Scottish chemist.[408]
- Erast Parmasto, 83, Estonian mycologist.[409]
- Miguel Portas, 53, Portuguese politician, Member of the European Parliament for Portugal (since 2004), lung cancer.[410]
- Eusebio Razo, Jr., 46, Mexican-born American jockey, explosion.[411]
- Shireen Ritchie, Baroness Ritchie of Brompton, 67, British peer, councillor for Brompton ward, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (since 1998).[412]
- Yugo Sako, 84, Japanese movie director, aspiration pneumonia.[413]
- Village Kid, 31, Australian standardbred racehorse.[414]
- Amos Vogel, 91, Austrian-born American film scholar, founder of the New York Film Festival and Cinema 16.[415]
- George Vujnovich, 96, American OSS agent and leader of Operation Halyard, natural causes.[416]
- Ambrose Weekes, 93, British Anglican bishop, first Suffragan Bishop in Europe.[417]
- Thomas Christian Wyller, 89, Norwegian political scientist.[418]
25
- Gerry Bahen, 83, Australian football player and administrator.[419]
- Ben Blacknall, 65, American football player and coach.[420]
- Rolando Ramos Dizon, 67, Filipino educator, Chairman of the Commission on Higher Education (2003–2004).[421]
- Ben Gabriel, 94, Australian actor and director.[422]
- Sir Brandon Gough, 74, British businessman, Chancellor of the University of East Anglia (since 2003).[423]
- Harry Hicks, 86, British Olympic runner.[424]
- Denny Jones, 101, American politician, member of the Oregon House of Representatives (1973–1999).[425]
- Moscelyne Larkin, 87, American ballerina.[426]
- Louis le Brocquy, 95, Irish painter.[427]
- Stephen Maxwell, 69, Scottish politician.[428]
- Hysni Milloshi, 66, Albanian politician.[429]
- Ian Oswald, 82, Scottish sleep researcher.[430]
- Paul L. Smith, 75, American actor (Popeye, Dune, Maverick).[431]
- Jan Bernard Szlaga, 71, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Pelplin (since 1992), duodenal ulcer hemorrhage.[432]
- Brij Bhushan Tiwari, 71, Indian politician, heart attack.[433]
26
- Roy Claughton, 84, Australian politician.[434]
- Clarence Cormier, 81, Canadian politician.[435]
- Pete Fornatale, 66, American radio disc jockey (WNEW-FM, WFUV), brain aneurysm.[436]
- Franco Fraticelli, 83, Italian film editor.[437]
- Floyd D. Hall, 96, American pilot, chairman and chief executive of Eastern Air Lines.[438]
- Ardian Klosi, 55, Albanian political analyst, publicist, and writer, suicide.[439]
- Ted Newall, 76, Canadian businessman.[440]
- José Martins Ribeiro Nunes, 85, Brazilian naval pilot.[441]
- Terence Spinks, 74, British Olympic gold medal-winning (1956) boxer.[442]
- Margie Stewart, 92, American model and actress.[443]
- Chut Wutty, 40, Cambodian environmental activist, shot.[444]
27
- Wayne Aiken, 76, Canadian football player.[445]
- Ron Ballatore, 71, American swimming coach, bone cancer.[446]
- Daniel Boatwright, 82, American politician, California State Senator (1980–1996).[447]
- Anatoly Lebed, 48, Russian army officer, Hero of the Russian Federation.[448]
- Takayoshi Nagamine, 66, Japanese karate master and trainer.[449]
- František Procházka, 50, Czech Olympic bronze medal-winning (1992) ice hockey player.[450]
- Ari Magder, 28, Canadian child actor (Shining Time Station), complications from pneumonia.[451]
- Harold Pupkewitz, 96, Lithuanian-born Namibian businessman, heart attack.[452]
- René Rouffeteau, 86, French Olympic bronze medal-winning (1948) cyclist.[453]
- Bill Skowron, 81, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Chicago White Sox), heart failure.[454]
- Allen Tough, 76, Canadian scientist, complications of multiple system atrophy.[455]
- Abu Mohammad Jawad Walieddine, 96, Lebanese Druze religious leader.[456]
- David Weiss, 65, Swiss artist (Peter Fischli & David Weiss).[457]
28
- Sir Fred Allen, 92, New Zealand rugby player, captain, and coach, leukemia.[458]
- Bobby Alto, 73, American actor, comedian and performer, complications of stroke.[459]
- Charles Barron, 76, Scottish writer, playwright, teacher and lecturer, multi-organ failure.[460]
- Harald Bergseth, 88, Norwegian soil scientist.[461]
- John Birch, 82, British musician.[462]
- Matilde Camus, 92, Spanish poet.[463]
- H. Fred Clark, 75, American pediatrician, medical scientist, and social activist.[464]
- Giorgio Consolini, 91, Italian singer.[465]
- Jim Downing, 65–66, Irish Gaelic footballer.[466]
- Joaquín Dualde, 79, Spanish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1960) field hockey player.[467]
- Al Ecuyer, 74, American-born Canadian football player (Edmonton Eskimos).[468]
- Stein Johnson, 90, Norwegian Olympic (1948, 1952) discus thrower.[469]
- Jackie Kelso, 90, American jazz musician.[470]
- Walter Mathews, 85, American actor (General Hospital).[471]
- Patricia Medina, 92, British actress, natural causes.[472]
- Dudley Peake, 77, Welsh footballer.[473]
- Milan N. Popović, 87, Serbian psychiatrist and author.[474]
- Sir John Quinton, 82, British banker (Barclays).[475]
- Aberdeen Shikoyi, 27, Kenyan rugby player, spinal cord injury sustained in match play.[476]
- Tom Spence, 50, Scottish footballer, suspected heart failure.[477]
- Geoffrey Tyler, 91, British educationalist.[478]
- Ervin Zádor, 76, Hungarian water polo player, Olympic gold medalist (1956).[479]
29
- Amarillo Slim, 83, American professional gambler, winner of the 1972 World Series of Poker main event, colon cancer.[480]
- Éric Charden, 69, French singer, lymphoma.[481]
- Wiesław Chrzanowski, 88, Polish politician and professor, Marshal of the Sejm (1991–1993).[482]
- Jean Desmasures, 83, French Olympic field hockey player.[483]
- Dynaformer, 27, American racehorse and sire, euthanized.[484]
- Shukri Ghanem, 69, Libyan politician, Prime Minister (2003–2006) and Minister of Oil (2006–2011).[485]
- Joel Goldsmith, 54, American film and television composer (Stargate), son of Jerry Goldsmith.[486]
- Daisy Junor, 92, Canadian baseball player (AAGPBL).[487]
- Joram Lindenstrauss, 75, Israeli mathematician.[488]
- Jim McCrary, 72, American photographer.[489]
- Roland Moreno, 66, French inventor, creator of the smart card.[490]
- Kenny Roberts, 84, American country music singer and yodeler.[491]
- Jean Tschabold, 86, Swiss Olympic silver medal-winning (1952) gymnast.[492]
- Idar Ulstein, 78, Norwegian businessman, cancer.[493]
30
- Cliff Ashby, 92, British poet and novelist.[494]
- Finn Benestad, 82, Norwegian musicologist.[495]
- Ernst Bolldén, 45, Swedish wheelchair table tennis player and Paralympian gold (1996) and bronze (1996, 2000) medalist, bladder cancer.[496]
- Tomás Borge, 81, Nicaraguan politician and poet, founder of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, pneumonia.[497]
- Alexander Dale Oen, 26, Norwegian Olympic silver medal-winning (2008) swimmer, cardiac arrest.[498]
- Alexandru Dincă, 66, Romanian handball player.[499]
- Bob Finkel, 94, American producer and director, age-related illnesses.[500]
- Giannis Gravanis, 54, Greek footballer (Panionios F.C.).[501]
- Andrew Levane, 92, American basketball player (Syracuse Nationals, Milwaukee Hawks) and coach (New York Knicks, St. Louis Bombers).[502]
- William Burley Lockwood, 95, British linguist.[503]
- George Murdock, 81, American actor (Barney Miller, Battlestar Galactica, The X-Files), cancer.[504]
- Billy Neighbors, 72, American football player (Boston Patriots, Miami Dolphins), heart attack.[505]
- Benzion Netanyahu, 102, Israeli historian, academic, and Revisionist Zionist activist, father of Benjamin Netanyahu.[506]
- Arturo Andrés Roig, 89, Argentine philosopher.[507]
- Achala Sachdev, 91, Indian actress.[508]
- Sicelo Shiceka, 45, South African politician, Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (since 2009).[509]
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