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

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.

April 2010

1

• Morag Beaton, 83, Scottish-born Australian operatic soprano.^[1]
• Vito De Grisantis, 68, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ugento-Santa Maria di Leuca (2000–2010).^[2]
• Anders Eklund, 52, Swedish boxer.^[3]
• John Forsythe, 92, American actor (Bachelor Father, Charlie's Angels, Dynasty), complications from pneumonia.^[4]
• Paul Fry, 45, British motorcycle speedway rider.^[5]
• Buddy Gorman, 88, American actor (Bowery Boys, Dead End Kids), natural causes.^[6]
• Julia Lang, 88, British actress, radio presenter.^[7]
• Yuri Maslyukov, 72, Russian politician, Vice Premier of Soviet Union (1988–1990) and Russia (1998–1999).^[8]
• Lek Nana, 85, Thai businessman and politician, heart failure.^[9]
• Ed Roberts, 68, American computer pioneer, pneumonia.^[10]
• Tzannis Tzannetakis, 82, Greek politician, Prime Minister (1989).^[11]

2

• Israr Ahmad, 69, Indian nuclear physicist.^[12]
• Butch Allison, 65, American football player.^[13]
• Roman Bannwart, 90, Swiss theologian and musician.^[14]
• Din Beramboi, 43, Malaysian comedian, actor and radio DJ, hemorrhagic dengue fever.^[15]
• Mike Cuellar, 72, Cuban Major League Baseball player, stomach cancer.^[16]
• Ashari Danudirdjo, 87, Indonesian Olympic sailor.^[17]
• Edward Dmytro, 78, Canadian jurist, Chief Justice of Saskatchewan (1981–2006).^[18]
• Dávid Daróczi, 37, Hungarian journalist, suicide.^[19]
• David Halliday, 94, American physicist.^[20]
• Arne Høyer, 81, Danish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1960) sprint canoer.^[21]
• Chris Kanyon, 40, American professional wrestler (WCW, WWF), suicide by drug overdose.^[22]
• Per Lyngemark, 68, Danish Olympic gold medal-winning (1968) cyclist.^[23]
• Sonia McMahon, Lady McMahon, 77, Australian socialite, widow of former Prime Minister Sir William McMahon, cancer.^[24]
• Thomas J. Moyer, 70, American jurist, Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court (1987–2010).^[25]
• Carolyn Rodgers, 69, American poet, cancer.^[26]
• Wendy Jo Schwarz, 38, American mother, Cancer. ^[27]
• William Soeryadjaya, 87, Indonesian businessman, founder of Astra International.^[28]
• Frances Claudia Wright, 91, Sierra Leonean barrister.^[29]
• Mike Zwerin, 79, American jazz musician and jazz critic, after long illness.^[30]

3

• Romano Alquati, 75, Italian sociologist, political theorist and activist.^[31]
• Crosaire, 92, Irish-born Zimbabwean compiler of the Irish Times crossword since 1943.^[32]
• Oleg Kopayev, 72, Russian footballer, Soviet Top League top scorer (1963, 1965).^[33]
• Roland MacLeod, 74, British actor (Coronation Street, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin).^[34]
• Ian McKay, 87, Australian footballer.^[35]
• Craig Noel, 94, American theatre producer, director and administrator of the Old Globe Theatre, natural causes.^[36]
• Jim Pagliaroni, 72, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Oakland Athletics), cancer.^[37]
• Ferdinand Simoneit, 84, German journalist, author and World War II veteran.^[38]
• Eugène Terre'Blanche, 69, South African white separatist leader, beating.^[39]
• Jesús Vásquez, 89, Peruvian singer.^[40]
• Yasunori Watanabe, 35, Japanese rugby player, hit by train.^[41]

4

• Mahmoud Abdel-Aal, 81, Egyptian gymnast.^[42]
• Lajos Bálint, 80, Hungarian-born Romanian Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Alba Iulia (1990–1993).^[43]
• Sir Alec Bedser, 91, English cricketer.^[44]
• Matt Cook, 22, Canadian ice sledge hockey player, bone cancer.^[45]
• Clifford M. Hardin, 94, American politician, Secretary of Agriculture (1969–1971), natural causes.^[46]
• Rudy Kousbroek, 80, Dutch essayist.^[47]
• Lori Martin, 62, American actor (Cape Fear, National Velvet), suicide by gunshot.^[48]
• Kelly Moran, 49, American motorcycle speedway racer, complications from emphysema.^[49]
• Abubakar Rimi, 70, Nigerian politician.^[50]
• Shio Satō, 59, Japanese manga artist, brain tumor.^[51]
• Henry Scarpelli, 79, American comic book artist (Archie), after long illness.^[52]
• Friedrich Wilhelm Schäfke, 87, German mathematician and academic.^[53]
• Erich Zenger, 70, German Roman Catholic theologian and Bible scholar.^[54]

5

• Jim Edwards, 83, New Zealand politician.^[55]
• Jerry Elliott, 73, American jurist, Kansas Court of Appeals (since 1987), cancer.^[56]
• Lothar Engelhardt, 70, German military scientist.^[57]
• Günther C. Kirchberger, 81, German academic and painter.^[58]
• William Neill, 88, British poet.^[59]
• Helen Ranney, 89, American hematologist.^[60]
• Molefi Sefularo, 52, South African politician, car crash.^[61]
• Vitaly Sevastyanov, 74, Russian Soviet cosmonaut.^[62]
• Gisela Trowe, 86, German actress.^[63]

6

• Janet Adelman, 69, American literary critic.^[64]
• James Aubrey, 62, British actor (Lord of the Flies, Bouquet of Barbed Wire, Spy Game), pancreatitis.^[65]
• Eddie Carroll, 76, Canadian voice actor (Jiminy Cricket).^[66]
• Vinnie Chas, 47, American bassist (Pretty Boy Floyd).^[67]
• Anatoly Dobrynin, 90, Russian diplomat and politician, Soviet Ambassador to the United States (1962–1986).^[68]
• Jack Flannery, 57, American off-road racer, cancer.^[69]
• Ricardo Lavié, 87, Argentine actor, after long illness.^[70]
• Guillermo Luca de Tena, 82, Spanish journalist.^[71]
• Tony MacGibbon, 85, New Zealand cricketer.^[72]
• Wilma Mankiller, 64, American activist, first female Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation (1985–1995), pancreatic cancer.^[73]
• Katsumi Nishikawa, 91, Japanese film director, pneumonia.^[74]
• Grete Olsen, 98, Danish Olympic fencer.^[75]
• David Quayle, 73, British businessman (B&Q).^[76]
• Tom Ray, 90, American animator (Looney Tunes, Tom and Jerry, Animaniacs).^[77]
• Corin Redgrave, 70, British actor and political activist, after short illness.^[78]
• Hans Schröder, 79, German sculptor and painter.^[79]
• Herbert Spiro, 85, German-born American political scientist, United States Ambassador to Cameroon (1975–1977)^[80]
• Sid Storey, 90, English footballer.^[81]
• Dimitris Tsiogas, 54, Greek politician, member of Parliament (2001–2008), cancer.^[82]
• Luigi Waites, 82, American jazz drummer and vibraphonist.^[83]

7

• Christopher Cazenove, 64, English actor (Dynasty, A Knight's Tale, Zulu Dawn), sepsis.^[84]
• Dixieland Band, 30, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.^[85]
• Hermina Franks, 95, American baseball player (AAGPBL).^[86]
• Graciela, 94, Cuban singer, renal and pulmonary failure.^[87]
• Eddie Johnson, 89, American jazz musician, pneumonia.^[88]
• Takuya Kimura, 37, Japanese baseball player and coach, subarachnoid hemorrhage.^[89]
• Oscar Kramer, 74, Argentine film producer, after long illness.^[90]
• Chris Limahelu, 59, American football place kicker (USC), prostate cancer.^[37]
• J. Bruce Llewellyn, 82, American businessman and activist, a founder of 100 Black Men of America, renal failure.^[91]
• George Nissen, 96, American gymnast, co-inventor of the trampoline, pneumonia.^[92]
• Betty Paraskevas, 81, American writer and lyricist, pancreatic cancer.^[93]
• Ramchandra Siras, 62, Indian linguist and author.^[94]
• Valentin Turchin, 79, Russian-born American computer scientist and human rights activist.^[95]

8

• Babá, 75, Brazilian footballer.^[96]
• Mark Colville, 4th Viscount Colville of Culross, 76, British judge and hereditary peer.^[97]
• Willie Farrell, 81, Irish politician.^[98]
• Antony Flew, 87, British philosopher, after long illness.^[99]
• Guy Kewney, 63, British technology journalist (Personal Computer World), colorectal cancer.^[100]
• Aladár Kovácsi, 77, Hungarian modern pentathlete, Olympic gold medalist (Helsinki 1952).^[101]
• Andreas Kunze, 57, German actor, heart failure.^[102]
• Malcolm McLaren, 64, British musician and band manager (Sex Pistols, New York Dolls, Bow Wow Wow), mesothelioma.^[103]
• Abel Muzorewa, 84, Zimbabwean Methodist bishop and politician, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe Rhodesia (1979).^[104]
• Richard Olasz, 79, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1981–1998).^[105]
• Personal Ensign, 26, American Thoroughbred racehorse, Hall of Famer, natural causes.^[106]
• Al Prince, 67, American-born French Polynesian journalist and tourism expert, after long illness.^[107]
• Jean-Paul Proust, 70, Monégasque politician, Minister of State (2005–2010).^[108]
• John Schoenherr, 74, American illustrator, Caldecott Medal winner, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.^[109]
• Teddy Scholten, 83, Dutch singer.^[110]

9

• Bob Franks, 58, American politician, member of the House of Representatives from New Jersey (1993–2001), cancer.^[111]
• Alastair Dowell, 89, Scottish cricketer.^[112]
• John Griffiths, 57, Welsh museum curator.^[113]
• Hisashi Inoue, 75, Japanese pacifist playwright, lung cancer.^[114]
• Meir Just, 101, Dutch rabbi, Chief Rabbi of the Netherlands.^[115]
• Robert Lau, 68, Malaysian politician, Deputy Minister for Transport, liver cancer.^[116]
• Gisela Karau, 78, German author, editor and columnist, after long illness.^[117]
• Dario Mangiarotti, 94, Italian fencer, Olympic gold (1952) and silver (1948, 1952) medalist.^[118]
• Kenneth McKellar, 82, Scottish singer, pancreatic cancer.^[119]
• Jacob O. Meyer, 75, American religious sect leader (Assemblies of Yahweh).^[120]
• Meinhardt Raabe, 94, American actor (The Wizard of Oz), heart attack.^[121]
• Peter Ramsbotham, 3rd Viscount Soulbury, 90, British diplomat and politician, Governor of Bermuda (1977–1980).^[122]
• Lou Ritter, 84, American politician, Mayor of Jacksonville, Florida (1965–1967), cancer.^[123]
• Guyford Stever, 93, American educator and science adviser, President of Carnegie Mellon University (1965–1972).^[124]
• Kerstin Thorvall, 84, Swedish author, illustrator and journalist, after long illness.^[125]
• Pierre Trottier, 85, Canadian novelist.^[126]
• Zoltán Varga, 65, Hungarian footballer.^[127]

10

• Dixie Carter, 70, American actress (Designing Women, Diff'rent Strokes, Family Law), endometrial cancer.^[128]
• Sudhir Dhagamwar, 59, Indian cricketer.^[129]
• Jim Eames, 92, British Lord Mayor of Birmingham (1974–1975).^[130]
• David Harvey, 73, British paediatrician.^[131]
• Arnold Kanter, 65, American diplomat, acute myelogenous leukemia.^[132]
• Charles Meade, 93, American pastor, founder of Meade Ministries.^[133]
• Arthur Mercante, Sr., 90, American boxing referee.^[134]
• Hiro Muramoto, 43, Japanese news cameraman (Reuters), shot.^[135]
• Martin Ostwald, 88, German-born American classics scholar.^[136]
• Manfred Reichert, 69, German footballer, after long illness.^[137]
• Sir Gordon Shattock, 81, British politician, survivor of the Brighton hotel bombing.^[138]
• William Walker, 78, American opera singer.^[139]
• Notable Polish people killed in the Polish Air Force Tu-154 plane crash:^[140]
  • Joanna Agacka-Indecka, 45, attorney, President of the Bar Council (since 2007).
  • Ewa Bąkowska, 47, librarian and activist.
  • Andrzej Błasik, 47, general, Chief of the Air Force (since 2007).
  • Krystyna Bochenek, 56, senator, vice president of Senate.
  • Tadeusz Buk, 49, general, head of Land Forces.
  • Miron Chodakowski, 52, Orthodox prelate, archbishop of military ordinariate of Poland (since 1998).
  • Czesław Cywiński, 84, President of the Association of Armia Krajowa Soldiers.
  • Leszek Deptuła, 57, member of the Sejm.
  • Grzegorz Dolniak, 50, member of the Sejm.
  • Janina Fetlińska, 57, senator.
  • Franciszek Gągor, 58, general, Chief of the General Staff (since 2006).
  • Grażyna Gęsicka, 58, politician, Minister of Regional Development (2006–2007).
  • Kazimierz Gilarski, 54, Commander of the Warsaw Garrison.
  • Przemysław Gosiewski, 45, member of the Sejm, Deputy Prime Minister (2007).
  • Mariusz Handzlik, 44, diplomat, Undersecretary of State in the Office of the President.
  • Izabela Jaruga-Nowacka, 59, member of the Sejm, Deputy Prime Minister (2004–2005).
  • Ryszard Kaczorowski, 90, politician, President in exile (1989–1990).
  • Maria Kaczyńska, 67, First Lady of Poland (since 2005), wife of Lech Kaczyński.
  • Lech Kaczyński, 60, President of Poland (since 2005).
  • Sebastian Karpiniuk, 37, member of the Sejm.
  • Andrzej Karweta, 51, Vice Admiral, commander-in-chief of the Navy.
  • Mariusz Kazana, 49, diplomat, Director of Diplomatic Protocol in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
  • Janusz Kochanowski, 69, lawyer and diplomat, Commissioner for Civil Rights Protection (Ombudsman) (since 2006).
  • Stanisław Komornicki, 85, general, Chancellor of the Order Virtuti Militari.
  • Stanisław Komorowski, 56, Deputy Defense Minister (since 2007), Ambassador to Holland (1994–1998) and UK (1999–2004).
  • Andrzej Kremer, 48, lawyer and diplomat, Deputy Foreign Minister (since 2008).
  • Janusz Kurtyka, 49, historian, president of the Institute of National Remembrance.
  • Bronisław Kwiatkowski, 59, general, Commander of the Armed Forces Operational Command.
  • Tomasz Merta, 44, Deputy Minister of Culture and National Heritage.
  • Aleksandra Natalli-Świat, 51, member of the Sejm.
  • Piotr Nurowski, 64, sports administrator, head of the Polish Olympic Committee (since 2005).
  • Bronisława Orawiec-Löffler, 81, dentist and activist.
  • Maciej Płażyński, 52, member of the Sejm.
  • Tadeusz Płoski, 54, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of military ordinariate of Poland (since 2004).
  • Włodzimierz Potasiński, 53, Commander of the Special Forces.
  • Andrzej Przewoźnik, 46, Secretary-General of the Council for the Protection of Struggle and Martyrdom Sites.
  • Krzysztof Putra, 52, politician, Vice-Marshal of the Sejm (since 2007).
  • Ryszard Rumianek, 62, rector of the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw.
  • Arkadiusz Rybicki, 57, member of the Sejm.
  • Wojciech Seweryn, 70, Polish-born American sculptor.
  • Sławomir Skrzypek, 46, banker, President of National Bank of Poland.
  • Władysław Stasiak, 44, Chief of the Office of the President.
  • Aleksander Szczygło, 46, politician, Minister of Defence (2007), chief of the National Security Bureau (since 2009).
  • Jerzy Szmajdziński, 58, politician, Minister of Defence (2001–2005), Vice-Marshal of the Sejm (since 2007).
  • Jolanta Szymanek-Deresz, 55, member of the Sejm.
  • Anna Walentynowicz, 80, trade unionist whose 1980 firing led to the creation of the Solidarity movement.
  • Zbigniew Wassermann, 60, member of the Sejm.
  • Wiesław Woda, 63, member of the Sejm.
  • Edward Wojtas, 55, member of the Sejm.
  • Paweł Wypych, 42, politician, Secretary of State (since 2009).
  • Stanisław Zając, 60, senator.
  • Janusz Zakrzeński, 74, actor.

11

• George Roberts Andrews, 78, American diplomat.^[141]
• John Batchelor, 51, British racing driver and politician, liver disease.^[142]
• Jean Boiteux, 76, French swimmer, Olympic gold and bronze medalist (1952), fall from a tree.^[143]
• James Brody, 68, American composer, traffic collision.^[144]
• Rosa Roberto Carter, 80, Guamanian educator, president of the University of Guam (1977–1983).^[145]
• Vicki Draves, 85, American Olympic diver, pancreatic cancer.^[146]
• Gerhard Geise, 80, German mathematician, after long illness.^[147]
• Hans-Joachim Göring, 86, German footballer and coach.^[148]
• Gert Haller, 65, German business manager, lobbyist and politician, after long illness.^[149]
• Theodor Homann, 61, German footballer, heart failure.^[150]
• Egon Hugenschmidt, 84, German jurist and politician.^[151]
• Franz Kamin, 68, American composer, traffic collision.^[144]
• Alby Linton, 83, Australian footballer.^[152]
• John B. McCue, 88, American politician, Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.^[153]
• Ruben Mendoza, 78, American soccer player, cerebral hemorrhage.^[154]
• Duane D. Pearsall, 88, American inventor of the battery-powered smoke detector.^[155]
• Julia Tsenova, 61, Bulgarian composer and musician, cancer.^[156]
• Paz Yrarrázabal, 78, Chilean actress, rheumatoid arthritis.^[157]

12

• Alper Balaban, 22, German-born Turkish footballer, car accident.^[158]
• María Aurelia Bisutti, 79, Argentine actress, dementia.^[159]
• Andrea Cassone, 81, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Rossano-Cariati (1992–2006).^[160]
• Michel Chartrand, 93, Canadian activist, kidney cancer.^[161]
• Miguel Cinches, 78, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Surigao (1973–2001).^[162]
• Ambrosius Eßer, 76, German Dominican clergy and church historian, pulmonary disease.^[163]
• Wolfgang Graßl, 40, German skier and coach, heart failure.^[164]
• Peter Haskell, 75, American actor (Child's Play 2).^[165]
• Edward Huni'ehu, 54, Solomon Islander politician and minister, after long illness.^[166]
• Běla Kolářová, 87, Czech photographer.^[167]
• James F. Masterson, 84, American psychiatrist, complications of pneumonia.^[168]
• Palito, 75, Filipino comedian, respiratory disease.^[169]
• Robert Pound, 90, Canadian-born American physicist.^[170]
• Stuart Robbins, 33, British basketball player.^[171]
• Werner Schroeter, 65, German film director, after long illness.^[172]
• Arnold Spohr, 86, Canadian artistic director (Royal Winnipeg Ballet), chronic kidney disease.^[173]
• David B. Stone, 82, American businessman, principal founder of the New England Aquarium, complications from a stroke.^[174]
• Dale N. Van Vyven, 74, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives (1978–2000).^[175]
• Udaya Wickramasinghe, 70, Sri Lankan cricket umpire.^[176]

13

• André Bedoglouyan, 90, Lebanese Eastern Catholic prelate, bishop of Comana Armeniae (1971–1994).^[177]
• Alexander Bernstein, Baron Bernstein of Craigweil, 74, British television executive and life peer.^[178]
• Jorge Bontemps, 32, Argentine footballer, lung cancer.^[179]
• Luis Antonio Chávez, 22, Honduran journalist and children's radio host, shot.^[180]
• Billy Gore, 90, Welsh rugby player.^[181]
• Santhosh Jogi, 35, Indian actor, suicide by hanging.^[182]
• Bernie Kilgariff, 86, Australian politician, Senator (1975–1987).^[183]
• David C. Knapp, 82, American educator.^[184]
• Nahid al-Rayyis, 73, Palestinian politician and poet.^[185]
• Steve Reid, 66, American jazz drummer, throat cancer.^[186]
• Gerald Stapleton, 89, British airman, RAF fighter ace during World War II.^[187]
• Charlie Timmins, 87, English footballer (Coventry City), cancer.^[188]

14

• Israr Ahmed, 77, Indian-born Pakistani Islamic scholar, cardiac arrest.^[189]
• Binyamin Balanero, 68, Israeli footballer.^[190]
• René Brunelle, 90, Canadian politician.^[191]
• Erika Burkart, 88, Swiss author.^[192]
• Aubrey Cummings, 62, Guyanese musician, heart problems.^[193]
• Tom Ellis, 86, British politician, MP for Wrexham (1970–1983), founding member of the SDP.^[194]
• Vicente Haro, 79, Spanish actor.^[195]
• Gene Kiniski, 81, Canadian professional wrestler, cancer.^[196]
• Lars-Jacob Krogh, 71, Norwegian anchorman and television presenter, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.^[197]
• Alice Miller, 87, Polish-born Swiss author and psychologist.^[198]
• Russell Olson, 86, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin (1979–1983).^[199]
• Baruch Poupko, 92, Russian-born American rabbi.^[200]
• Stefan Schmitt, 46, German jurist and politician, leukemia.^[201]
• Mississippi Slim, 66, American blues singer, heart attack.^[202]
• Greville Starkey, 70, British jockey, cancer.^[203]
• Peter Steele, 48, American rock singer and bassist (Type O Negative), aortic aneurysm.^[204]
• Gerhard Zemann, 70, Austrian actor, heart attack.^[205]

15

• Telman Adigozalov, 56, Azerbaijani actor, heart attack.^[206]
• Joseph Azzolina, 84, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly (1992–2006), pancreatic cancer.^[207]
• Ian Brewer, 73, Australian footballer.^[208]
• Robert Brubaker, 93, American actor (Gunsmoke).^[209]
• Bill DuBay, 62, American comic book editor, writer, and artist.^[210]
• Jack Herer, 70, American cannabis activist, complications from heart attack.^[211]
• Benjamin Hooks, 85, American civil rights leader, executive director of the NAACP (1977–1992), after long illness.^[212]
• Wilhelm Huxhorn, 54, German footballer, leukemia.^[213]
• Paul Reeves, 91, American Episcopal prelate, Bishop of Georgia (1969–1985)^[214]
• Michael Pataki, 72, American character actor and voice actor (George Liquor), cancer.^[215]
• Peter-Josef Schallberger, 78, Swiss farmer and politician.^[216]
• Raimondo Vianello, 87, Italian comedian and television personality.^[217]
• Spann Watson, 93, American airman (Tuskegee Airmen) and civil rights advocate.^[218]
• Sir Edward Woodward, 81, Australian jurist.^[219]

16

• Sid Conrad, 86, American actor (The Young and the Restless).^[220]
• Balthasar Burkhard, 65, Swiss photographer.^[221]
• Rasim Delić, 61, Bosnian army officer and Chief of Staff, probable heart attack.^[222]
• Shirlee Emmons, 86, American soprano, voice teacher, and writer.^[223]
• Ibrahima Fofana, 57, Guinean trade unionist, car accident.^[224]
• Carlos Franqui, 89, Cuban writer and activist.^[225]
• Daryl Gates, 83, American police official, chief of police of the Los Angeles Police Department (1978–1992), bladder cancer.^[226]
• Bryn Knowelden, 90, British rugby league player.^[227]
• Marion Ladewig, 95, American professional bowler.^[228]
• Norman Francis McFarland, 88, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Reno (1976–1986) and Orange (1986–1998).^[229]
• R. D. Middlebrook, 80, British electrical engineer.^[230]
• Grigorijs Ņemcovs, 61, Latvian politician, Vice Mayor of Daugavpils, shot.^[231]
• Muhammad Noer, 92, Indonesian politician, governor of East Java (1967–1976), complications during a medical procedure.^[232]
• C. K. Prahalad, 68, Indian business consultant and management theorist, natural causes.^[233]
• C. P. Rele, 82, Indian classical singer.^[234]
• Arturo Rodríguez Fernández, 62, Dominican author, film critic and playwright, heart failure.^[235]
• Tomáš Špidlík, 90, Czech Roman Catholic prelate and Cardinal.^[236]
• John W. Vogt, Jr., 90, American Air Force general.^[237]

17

• Dede Allen, 86, American film editor (Bonnie and Clyde, Dog Day Afternoon, The Breakfast Club), stroke.^[238]
• Abdul Rahman Ahmed Jibril Baroud, 73, Palestinian poet, heart attack.^[239]
• Edmund Fitzgibbon, 85, Irish-born Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Warri (1991–1997).^[240]
• Josef W. Janker, 87, German author, journalist and World War II veteran.^[241]
• Ferenc Kellner, 77, Hungarian Olympic boxer.^[242]
• Sotigui Kouyaté, 74, Malian-born Burkinabé actor.^[243]
• Carl Macek, 58, American anime writer and producer (Robotech), heart attack.^[244]
• Thomas Mikolajcik, 63, American air force general (1992–1996), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.^[245]
• Alexandru Neagu, 61, Romanian footballer (FC Rapid București).^[246]
• Alejandro Robaina, 91, Cuban tobacco grower, cancer.^[247]
• John Carl Warnecke, 91, American architect (John F. Kennedy Eternal Flame), complications of pancreatic cancer.^[248]

18

• Michael Adams, 60, American actor and stunt coordinator (Commando, WarGames, In the Line of Fire), stroke.^[249]
• Abu Abdullah al-Rashid al-Baghdadi, 50-51, Iraqi terrorist (al-Qaeda), airstrike.^[250]
• Abu Ayyub al-Masri, 42-43, Egyptian terrorist (al-Qaeda), airstrike.^[250]
• William Grant Bangerter, 91, American Mormon leader, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.^[251]
• Paul Bisciglia, 81, French actor.^[252]
• Julius Chigbolu, 81, Nigerian Olympic athlete.^[253]
• Mieczysław Cieślar, 60, Polish Lutheran bishop, car accident.^[254]
• Ambrose D'Mello, 87, Indian Jesuit priest, first Jesuit Provincial of India, cancer.^[255]
• Tom Fleming, 82, Scottish actor.^[256]
• John Forde, Irish Gaelic footballer (Mayo).^[257]
• Noel Hall, 96, Australian Olympic sport shooter.^[258]
• Ron Miller, 80, Canadian Olympic athlete.^[259]
• Allen Swift, 86, American voice actor (Underdog, Howdy Doody, Tom and Jerry ), natural causes.^[260]
• Viewed, 6, Australian Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanised following a twisted bowel.^[261]
• William Yates, 88, British-born Australian politician.^[262]

19

• Manfred Angerer, 56, Austrian musicologist.^[263]
• José Bernal, 85, Cuban artist, complications from Parkinson's disease.^[264]
• William Donald Borders, 96, American Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Baltimore (1974–1989).^[265]
• Guru, 48, American rapper (Gang Starr), multiple myeloma.^[266]
• Hamideh Kheirabadi, 85, Iranian actress, stroke.^[267]
• Dylan Meier, 26, American college football player, climbing accident.^[268]
• György Schwajda, 67, Hungarian dramatist and theatre director, after long illness.^[269]
• George H. Scithers, 80, American science fiction editor, Hugo Award winner, heart attack.^[270]
• Albert Szatola, 83, Hungarian Olympic equestrian.^[271]
• Edwin Valero, 28, Venezuelan undefeated former WBA super featherweight and WBC lightweight champion boxer, suicide by hanging.^[272]
• Carl Williams, 39, Australian criminal, prison assault.^[273]
• Burkhard Ziese, 66, German football manager.^[274]

20

• Jimmy Baker, 95, Australian Aboriginal artist.^[275]
• Floyd Dominy, 100, American public servant, commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation (1959–1969).^[276]
• Sanford Friedman, 81, American novelist.^[277]
• Heinz Gappmayr, 84, Austrian artist.^[278]
• Dorothy Height, 98, American civil rights activist.^[279]
• M. K. Kamalam, 86, Indian actress.^[280]
• Keli McGregor, 47, American baseball executive (Colorado Rockies), viral myocarditis.^[281]
• Walter F. Murphy, 80, American political scientist and author, cancer.^[282]
• Robert Natkin, 79, American abstract painter, bacterial blood infection.^[283]
• Georgino Orellana, 48, Honduran journalist, shot.^[284]
• Ahmad Sa'd, 64, Israeli politician, Member of Knesset (1996–1999).^[285]
• George Torode, 63, Guernseyan author.^[286]
• Andrea West, 57, Australian politician, member of the House of Representatives (1996–1998), breast cancer.^[287]
• Myles Wilder, 77, American television comedy writer, diverticulitis.^[288]
• Lorette Wood, 94, American politician, first female mayor of Santa Cruz, California (1971–1972).^[289]
• Purvis Young, 67, American painter, cardiac arrest and pulmonary edema.^[290]

21

• Akua Asabea Ayisi, 83, Ghanaian journalist.^[291]
• Sammy Baird, 79, Scottish football player and manager.^[292]
• Krishan Lal Balmiki, 67, Indian politician.^[293]
• Whitney Robson Harris, 97, American lawyer, last surviving American prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials, complications from cancer.^[294]
• Tony Ingham, 85, English footballer, after short illness.^[295]
• Manfred Kallenbach, 68, German footballer, heart failure.^[296]
• Gustav Lorentzen, 62, Norwegian singer and entertainer (Knutsen & Ludvigsen).^[297]
• Mr. Hito, 67, Japanese wrestler.^[22]
• Sir Laurence Muir, 85, Australian philanthropist and businessman.^[298]
• Sir Idwal Pugh, 92, British civil servant, Permanent Secretary to the Welsh Office and Health Service Commissioner.^[299]
• Deborah Remington, 79, American artist, cancer.^[300]
• Juan Antonio Samaranch, 89, Spanish Olympic official, president of the International Olympic Committee (1980–2001), heart failure.^[301]

22

• Sparky Adams, 79, American football and baseball coach.^[302]
• Theodore C. Almquist, 68, American general, colon cancer.^[303]
• Emilio Álvarez, 71, Uruguayan footballer.^[304]
• Richard Barrett, 67, American lawyer and white nationalist, stabbed.^[305]
• Pete Castiglione, 89, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates).^[306]
• Peter B. Denyer, 56, British engineer, cancer.^[307]
• Dick Kenworthy, 69, American baseball player.^[308]
• Gene Lees, 82, Canadian jazz historian and critic, heart disease.^[309]
• Lina Marulanda, 29, Colombian model, suicide by jumping.^[310]
• Victor Nurenberg, 79, Luxembourgian footballer.^[311]
• Ambrose Olsen, 24, American fashion model, suicide.^[312]
• Fred Panopio, 71, Filipino folk singer, cardiac arrest.^[313]
• Alicia Parlette, 28, American journalist and copy editor, alveolar soft part sarcoma.^[314]
• Piet Steenbergen, 81, Dutch footballer (Feyenoord and The Netherlands).^[315]
• Jean Vergnes, 88, French-born American chef.^[316]
• Arthur Winograd, 90, American cellist and music director, complications of pneumonia.^[317]

23

• Lorne Atkinson, 88, Canadian Olympic cyclist.^[318]
• Jan Balabán, 49, Czech writer, recipient of the Magnesia Litera award.^[319]
• Shay Duffin, 79, Irish-born American actor (The Departed, Leprechaun, Seabiscuit), complications from heart surgery.^[320]
• Natalia Lavrova, 25, Russian rhythmic gymnast, Olympic gold medalist (2000, 2004), car accident.^[321]
• Georgia Lee, 89, Australian jazz and blues singer.^[322]
• Edward Lyons, 83, British politician, MP for Bradford East (1966–1974) and Bradford West (1974–1983).^[323]
• Peter Porter, 81, Australian-born British poet, liver cancer.^[324]
• Alan Rich, 85, American classical music critic, natural causes.^[325]
• Alexander Sliussarev, 65, Russian photographer and translator.^[326]
• Sreenath, 52, Indian actor, apparent suicide.^[327]
• George Townshend, 7th Marquess Townshend, 93, British peer and businessman.^[328]

24

• Jens Andersen, 80, Danish boxer.^[329]
• Harry Ashby, 63, English golfer.^[330]
• Harry Conroy, 67, British journalist and trade unionist.^[331]
• Denis Guedj, 70, French novelist and academic.^[332]
• Pierre Hadot, 88, French philosopher.^[333]
• Bo Hansson, 67, Swedish keyboardist.^[334]
• Leo Löwenstein, 43, German VLN racing driver, race accident.^[335]
• Angus Maddison, 84, British economist.^[336]
• Giuseppe Panza, 87, Italian art collector.^[337]
• Elizabeth Post, 89, American etiquette expert.^[338]
• Paul Schäfer, 88, German religious sect founder and former Nazi, heart failure.^[339]
• Wojciech Siemion, 81, Polish actor and film director (The Promised Land, Heroism), car accident.^[340]
• Rudy Thompson, 80, United States Virgin Islands Olympic sailor.^[341]
• W. Willard Wirtz, 98, American politician, Secretary of Labor (1962–1969), last surviving member of the Kennedy Cabinet.^[342]

25

• Ali Aliu, 85, Kosovo Albanian writer, economist, teacher, and political prisoner.^[343]
• Ugo Anzile, 79, French cyclist.^[344]
• Joseph Bessala, 69, Cameroonian welterweight boxer, Olympic silver medalist (1968), after short illness.^[345]
• Ian Lawther, 70, Northern Irish footballer (Sunderland, Blackburn Rovers).^[346]
• Franklin Mieuli, 89, American businessman, owner of the Golden State Warriors (1962–1985), natural causes.^[347]
• Dorothy Provine, 75, American actress, (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, That Darn Cat!, The Great Race), emphysema.^[348]
• Susan Reed, 84, American folk singer and actress, natural causes.^[349]
• Kevin Restani, 58, American basketball player (Milwaukee Bucks), heart attack.^[350]
• Volf Roitman, 79, Uruguayan-born American sculptor, painter, novelist, cineaste and poet.^[351]
• Evry Schatzman, 89, French astrophysicist.^[352]
• Alan Sillitoe, 82, British writer (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning).^[353]
• Jeremaia Waqanisau, 62, Fijian soldier and diplomat, heart attack.^[354]

26

• Mariam A. Aleem, 79, Egyptian artist.^[355]
• Aminulrasyid Amzah, 14, Malaysian student and victim, shot.^[356]
• Roy Baird, 76, English production manager, assistant director and producer.^[357]
• Bus Boyk, 92, American fiddler.^[358]
• Leslie Buck, 87, American Anthora coffee cup designer, Parkinson's disease.^[359]
• Ljiljana Buttler, 65, Yugoslavian singer, cancer.^[360]
• Daniel of Erie, 79, American Orthodox prelate (ROCOR), Titular Bishop of Erie, natural causes.^[361]
• Paul Engo, 89, Cameroonian diplomat, judge and Olympic athlete.^[362]
• Denzil Freeth, 85, British politician, MP for Basingstoke (1955–1964).^[363]
• Luigi Gui, 95, Italian politician, Minister of the Interior (1974–1976).^[364]
• Fred Halliday, 64, Irish academic, scholar of international relations, cancer.^[365]
• Derek Hayward, 86, British Anglican priest, Archdeacon of Middlesex (1974–1975).^[366]
• Frank Olsson, 87, Swedish Olympic rower.^[367]
• Varkala Radhakrishnan, 82, Indian politician, complications from a road accident.^[368]
• Prabha Rau, 75, Indian politician, Governor of Rajasthan (since 2009), heart attack.^[369]
• Joseph W. Sarno, 89, American film director and screenwriter, after short illness.^[370]
• Alberto Vitoria, 54, Spanish footballer, heart attack.^[371]
• Yuri Vshivtsev, 70, Russian footballer.^[372]
• William Arthur Watts, 79, Irish botanist and academic administrator, Provost of Trinity College Dublin (1981–1991).^[373]
• Aksel C. Wiin-Nielsen, 86, Danish academic, professor of meteorology.^[374]

27

• Elisabeth Ahlgren, 84, Swedish swimmer.^[375]
• Robert J. Alexander, 91, American academic.^[376]
• David Martin Baker, 86, American politician and judge, member of the West Virginia House of Delegates (1953–1954, 1957–1958).^[377]
• Alberta Cariño, Mexican humanitarian, shot.^[378]
• Peter Cheeseman, 78, British theatre director, Parkinson's disease.^[379]
• Stanley Greenspan, 68, American academic, clinical professor of psychiatry.^[380]
• George Gross, 69, American football player (San Diego Chargers).^[381]
• Jyri Jaakkola, 33, Finnish humanitarian, shot.^[378]
• Tanie Kitabayashi, 98, Japanese actress (My Neighbour Totoro), pneumonia.^[382]
• Bevil Mabey, 94, British businessman.^[383]
• Morris Pert, 62, British musician.^[384]
• Nossrat Peseschkian, 76, Iranian-born German psychotherapist.^[385]
• Armando Sanchez, 57, Filipino politician, governor of Batangas (2004–2007), stroke.^[386]
• Heini Weber, 86, German Olympic wrestler.^[387]

28

• Muhammad al-Banki, 47, Bahraini philosopher and writer.^[388]
• Evelyn Cunningham, 94, American journalist, natural causes.^[389]
• Julio San Emeterio, 80, Spanish cyclist.^[390]
• Stefania Grodzieńska, 95, Polish writer and actress.^[391]
• Elma Maua, 61, Cook Islands-born New Zealand journalist and editor, after long illness.^[392]
• Pierre-Jean Rémy, 73, French writer and diplomat.^[393]
• Furio Scarpelli, 90, Italian screenwriter (Big Deal on Madonna Street, Casanova 70, Il Postino).^[394]
• Ian Valz, 52, Guyanese actor and playwright, cancer.^[395]

29

• Jojo Acuin, 63, Filipino psychic.^[396]
• Avigdor Arikha, 81, Romanian-born Israeli painter, complications of cancer.^[397]
• Damodar Chaudhary, 63, Nepalese politician, member of the Constituent Assembly since 2007.^[398]
• Sandy Douglas, 88, British computer scientist, pneumonia.^[399]
• Kevin Humphreys, 80, Australian rugby league administrator, after long illness.^[400]
• Walter Sear, 79, American recording engineer.^[401]
• Audrey Williamson, 83, British athlete, Olympic silver medalist (1948).^[402]

30

• Manuel Alvarado, 62, Guatemalan-born British academic.^[403]
• Tadahiro Ando, 69, Japanese politician, governor of Miyazaki Prefecture (2003–2006), lymphoma.^[404]
• Cristina Corrales, 47, Bolivian journalist, broadcaster and politician.^[405]
• Harry Eccleston, 87, British artist and banknote designer.^[406]
• Jordi Estadella, 61, Spanish voice actor, radio and television personality (Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez), liver cancer.^[407]
• Ron Fimrite, 79, American sports journalist (Sports Illustrated), pancreatic cancer.^[408]
• José Fragelli, 95, Brazilian politician, governor of Mato Grosso (1970–1974) and Senate president (1985–1987).^[409]
• Carmelita González, 81, Mexican actress, pneumonia.^[410]
• Antony Grey, 82, British gay rights activist, leukaemia.^[411]
• Khalid Khawaja, Pakistani military and intelligence officer, shot.^[412] (body found on this date)
• Paul Mayer, 98, German Roman Catholic prelate and cardinal.^[413]
• Owsley, 44, American musician, apparent suicide.^[414]
• Jorma Peltonen, 66, Finnish ice hockey player.^[415]
• Gwyn Rowlands, 81, English-born rugby football player for Wales.^[416]
• Gerry Ryan, 53, Irish disc jockey and radio/television presenter.^[417]
• Wendell J. Westcott, 99, American carillonneur.^[418]