The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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).

August 2012

1

• Ülkü Adatepe, 79, Turkish adoptee, adopted daughter of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, road accident.^[1]
• Archie Baxter, 90, Australian footballer.^[2]
• Joan Bernard, 94, British academic, first Principal of Trevelyan College, Durham.^[3]
• Dorothy D'Anna, 94, American actress.^[4]
• Sami Damian, 82, Romanian-born Jewish literary critic and essayist.^[5]
• Don Erickson, 80, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).^[6]
• David Eyton-Jones, 88, British Army officer.^[7]
• Liselotte Funcke, 94, German politician.^[8]
• Aldo Maldera, 58, Italian footballer (AC Milan).^[9]
• Riccardo Ruotolo, 83, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Manfredonia-Vieste-San Giovanni Rotondo (1995–2004).^[10]
• Abel Salinas, 82, Peruvian politician.^[11]
• Douglas Townsend, 90, American composer and musicologist.^[12]
• Barry Trapnell, 88, English cricketer and headmaster.^[13]
• Keiko Tsushima, 86, Japanese actress (Seven Samurai), stomach cancer.^[14]
• Gustavo Vassallo, 92, Argentine fencer.^[15]

2

• Thor Axelsson, 91, Finnish sprint canoer.^[16]
• Alistair Bell, 82, British judge and politician.^[17]
• Jacques Caufrier, 70, Belgian Olympic water polo player (1960 and 1964).^[18]
• Ruy de Freitas, 95, Brazilian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1948) basketball player, multiple organ failure.^[19]
• Felix De Smedt, 88, Belgian pioneer judo teacher.^[20]
• Amos Hakham, 91, Israeli Bible scholar, first winner of the International Bible Contest (1958).^[21]
• Sir Gabriel Horn, 85, British biologist.^[22]
• Magnus Isacsson, 64, Canadian documentary filmmaker (Maxime, McDuff & McDo), cancer.^[23]
• Jimmy Jones, 82, American pop singer ("Handy Man", "Good Timin'").^[24]
• Sir John Keegan, 78, British military historian and journalist.^[25]
• Giovanni Lucchi, 69, Italian bow maker.^[26]
• Jacques Marty, 72, French Olympic boxer.^[27]
• Bernd Meier, 40, German footballer, heart attack.^[28]
• Jean Merrill, 89, American children's author (The Pushcart War), cancer.^[29]
• Marguerite Piazza, 90, American singer, heart failure.^[30]
• Cesare Pinarello, 79, Italian Olympic dual bronze medallist racing cyclist (1952, 1956).^[31]
• Gilbert Prouteau, 95, French poet and film director.^[32]
• William Smith, 4th Viscount Hambleden, 82, British peer, cancer.^[33]
• Jacques-Raymond Tremblay, 88, Canadian politician.^[34]
• Mihaela Ursuleasa, 33, Romanian pianist, cerebral hemorrhage.^[35]
• Herman van Ham, 81, Dutch head chef.^[36]

3

• Jan Muhammad Baloch, 60, Pakistani Olympic boxer.^[37]
• John Berry, 67, English speedway promoter (Ipswich Witches) and national team manager.^[38]
• Garth Burkett, 85, Australian football player.^[39]
• Fernando Cavaleiro, 95, Portuguese Olympic equestrian.^[40]
• Chang Do-yong, 89, South Korean general, politician and professor, dementia.^[41]
• Al Conway, 82, American football player and official.^[42]
• Frank Evans, 90, American Negro league baseball player.^[43]
• Martin Fleischmann, 85, Czech-born British chemist, complications of Parkinson's disease.^[44]
• Giorgi Gomiashvili, 39, Georgian business executive and diplomat, suicide by gunshot.^[45]
• Paul McCracken, 96, American economist, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (1969–1971).^[46]
• John Pritchard, 85, American basketball player.^[47]

4

• István Andrássy, 85, Hungarian nematologist.^[48]
• Johnnie Bassett, 76, American blues musician, cancer.^[49]
• Josy Braun, 74, Luxembourgish writer, journalist and translator.^[50]
• Abdul Matin Chowdhury, 78, Bangladeshi politician, old age complications.^[51]
• Giuseppe Coco, 76, Italian comics artist and illustrator.^[52]
• Brian Crozier, 94, British author and journalist.^[53]
• Metin Erksan, 83, Turkish film director, renal failure.^[54]
• Hanley Funderburk, 81, American academic administrator, President of Auburn University (1980–1983).^[55]
• Con Houlihan, 86, Irish sports journalist.^[56]
• John J. Phelan, Jr., 81, American financier and chief executive (New York Stock Exchange).^[57]
• Bud Riley, 86, American CFL coach (Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Hamilton Tiger-cats).^[58]
• Arnie Risen, 87, American Hall of Fame basketball player (Boston Celtics, Rochester Royals), complications from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer.^[59]
• Henry Scholberg, 91, American bibliographer.^[60]
• Jimmy Thomson, 75, Scottish footballer (Dunfermline Athletic).^[61]

5

• Erwin Axer, 95, Polish theatre director.^[62]
• Michel Daerden, 62, Belgian politician, heart attack.^[63]
• Benjamin W. Heineman, 98, American railroad executive.^[64]
• Fred Matua, 28, American football player, heart failure.^[65]
• Martin E. Segal, 96, Russian-born American entrepreneur (Film Society of Lincoln Center).^[66]
• Sister Boom Boom, 57, American gay rights activist, member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, liver cancer.^[67]
• Kirk Urso, 22, American soccer player, heart failure.^[68]
• Chavela Vargas, 93, Costa Rican-born Mexican singer-songwriter, respiratory arrest.^[69]
• Roland Charles Wagner, 51, French author, traffic collision.^[70]
• Péter Zwack, 85, Hungarian businessman, philanthropist, diplomat and U.S. ambassador.^[71]
• Manie van Zyl, 83, South African Olympic wrestler.^[72]

6

• Míne Bean Uí Chribín, 84, Irish conservative campaigner.^[73]
• Celso Blues Boy, 56, Brazilian singer and guitarist, laryngeal cancer.^[74]
• Valentin Chernykh, 77, Russian screenwriter.^[75]
• Douglas Alan Clark, 95, American pilot.^[76]
• Richard Cragun, 67, American ballet dancer, heart attack.^[77]
• Marvin Hamlisch, 68, American composer and arranger (The Way We Were, A Chorus Line, The Sting), EGOT winner, lung failure.^[78]
• Robert Hughes, 74, Australian art critic and writer (The Fatal Shore).^[79]
• Gerry Kearby, 65, American businessman, traffic collision.^[80]
• Sir Bernard Lovell, 98, British astronomer.^[81]
• Mark O'Donnell, 58, American playwright (Hairspray, Cry-Baby) and author, respiratory arrest.^[82]
• Boris Razinsky, 79, Russian football player.^[83]
• Ruggiero Ricci, 94, American violinist, heart failure.^[84]
• Dan Roundfield, 59, American basketball player (Atlanta Hawks), drowning.^[85]
• Shunpei Ueyama, 91, Japanese philosopher.^[86]
• Godfried van den Boer, 78, Belgian footballer.^[87]
• Eleftherios Veryvakis, 77, Greek politician.^[88]
• Gregor W. Yeates, 68, New Zealand soil zoologist and ecologist.^[89]

7

• Murtuz Alasgarov, 83, Azerbaijani politician, Speaker of the National Assembly (1996–2005).^[90]
• Fritzi Jane Courtney, 89, American actress.^[91]
• George Crawford, 86, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Council for Jika Jika (1985–1992).^[92]
• Judith Crist, 90, American film critic.^[93]
• Luc de Heusch, 85, Belgian filmmaker and academic.^[94]
• Sabahattin Kalender, 93, Turkish composer.^[95]
• Vladimir Kobzev, 52, Russian football player and coach, stroke.^[96]
• Donald C. Paup, 73, American badminton player and academic.^[97]
• Anna Piaggi, 81, Italian fashion writer.^[98]
• Ranking Trevor, 60, Jamaican reggae musician, traffic collision.^[99]
• Veljko Rogošić, 71, Croatian Olympic long-distance swimmer.^[100]
• Hans Hammond Rossbach, 80, Norwegian politician.^[101]
• Samala Sadasiva, 84, Indian writer.^[102]
• Sir John Joseph Swaine, 80, Hong Kong politician and barrister, President of the Legislative Council (1993–1995).^[103]
• Marvin Lee Wilson, 54, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.^[104]
• Mayer Zald, 81, American sociologist.^[105]
• Dušan Zbavitel, 87, Czech Indologist.^[106]

8

• Fay Ajzenberg-Selove, 86, German-born American physicist.^[107]
• Japie Basson, 94, South African politician.^[108]
• Hans Camenzind, 78, Swiss electronics engineer.^[109]
• Aung Shwe Prue Chowdhury, 98, Bangladeshi politician.^[110]
• Lou Costello, 76, English footballer.^[111]
• András Domahidy, 92, Hungarian-Australian novelist and librarian.^[112]
• Ruth Etchells, 81, English poet and college principal.^[113]
• Sancho Gracia, 75, Spanish actor, lung cancer.^[114]
• Azizul Haque, 93, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar and politician.^[115]
• Georgios Katsifaras, 77, Greek politician.^[116]
• Surya Lesmana, 68, Indonesian football player and manager, heart attack.^[117]
• Kurt Maetzig, 101, German film director.^[118]

9

• José Aruego, 80, Filipino children's book author and illustrator.^[119]
• Harry G. Barnes, Jr., 86, American diplomat.^[120]
• Ralph W. Beiting, 88, American priest.^[121]
• Max Bound, 87, Australian environmental activist and trade unionist.^[122]
• Gerard Campbell, 92, American Jesuit and academic, President of Georgetown University (1964–1968).^[123]
• Carnegie, 21, British-bred French-trained Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe (1994), euthanized (death announced on this date).^[124]
• Ananda Dassanayake, 92, Sri Lankan politician.^[125]
• Carl Davis, 77, American record producer ("Duke of Earl", "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher"), lung disease.^[126]
• Tom Dockrell, 88, American ice hockey player and coach.^[127]
• Pyotr Fomenko, 80, Soviet and Russian film and theater director, teacher, and artistic director.^[128]
• Gene F. Franklin, 85, American control theorist, professor emeritus of electrical engineering (Stanford University).^[129]
• Al Freeman, Jr., 78, American actor (Malcolm X, My Sweet Charlie, One Life to Live) and professor.^[130]
• Dale Olson, 78, American publicist, cancer.^[131]
• David Rakoff, 47, Canadian-born American writer and actor (Capote, Strangers with Candy), cancer.^[132]
• Hjalte Rasmussen, 71, Danish academic.^[133]
• Carmen Belen Richardson, 81, Puerto Rican actress and comedian.^[134]
• Jan Sawka, 65, Polish-born American artist and architect, heart attack.^[135]
• Mel Stuart, 83, American film director (If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium; Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory), cancer.^[136]
• Erol Togay, 62, Turkish footballer.^[137]

10

• James Lloyd Abbot, Jr., 94, American U.S. Navy rear admiral.^[138]
• Umar Sulaiman Al-Ashqar, 72, Jordanian academic.^[139]
• Altay Sarsenuly Amanzholov, 78, Kazakh Turkologist.^[140]
• Art Andrew, 81, United States Virgin Islands Olympic sailor.^[141]
• William G. Bade, 88, American mathematician.^[142]
• Robert C. Becklin, 86, American businessman and politician.^[143]
• Billy Bootle, 86, English footballer.^[144]
• Philippe Bugalski, 49, French rally driver, injuries from fall.^[145]
• Suresh Dalal, 79, Indian poet and writer in Gujarati language, heart attack.^[146]
• Amjad Hameed Khan Dasti, 94, Pakistani politician.^[147]
• Ioan Dicezare, 95, Romanian WWII fighter pilot ace.^[148]
• Joe Douse, 82, American Negro League baseball player.^[149]
• Irving Fein, 101, American film and television producer, manager of Jack Benny and George Burns.^[150]
• Madeleine Leininger, 87, American nursing theorist.^[151]
• William W. Momyer, 95, American air force general, heart ailment.^[152]
• Carlo Rambaldi, 86, Italian special effects artist (Alien, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial), Oscar winner (1976, 1980, 1983).^[153]

11

• Red Bastien, 81, American professional wrestler, Alzheimer's disease.^[154]
• Carlo Curley, 59, American classical organist.^[155]
• Michael Dokes, 54, American former WBA heavyweight champion boxer, liver cancer.^[156]
• Marco Antonio Dorantes García, 76, Mexican football referee.^[157]
• Beverly Milton Dyck, 78, Canadian politician, progressive supranuclear palsy.^[158]
• Hans Einstein, 89, American physician.^[159]
• Karl Fleming, 84, American journalist, respiratory complications.^[160]
• Von Freeman, 88, American hard bop jazz tenor saxophonist, heart failure.^[161]
• Lucy Gallardo, 82, Argentine-born Mexican film and telenovela actress (How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.^[162]
• Hilary Gardner, 90, South African cricketer.^[163]
• Heidi Holland, 64, Zimbabwean journalist and author, apparent suicide by hanging.^[164]
• Shafaat Jamil, 72, Bangladesh Army officer.^[165]
• Bhadriraju Krishnamurti, 84, Indian linguist.^[166]
• R. Duncan Luce, 87, American cognitive scientist.^[167]
• Henning Moritzen, 84, Danish actor, heart attack.^[168]
• Dame Simone Prendergast, 82, British public servant and philanthropist.^[169]
• Bill Rafferty, 68, American comedian and television host (Blockbusters, Card Sharks, Real People), heart failure.^[170]
• Stuart Randall, Baron Randall of St Budeaux, 74, British politician, MP for Kingston upon Hull West (1983–1997).^[171]
• Roger Sandall, 79, New Zealand anthropologist and writer.^[172]
• Sid Waddell, 72, British darts commentator and author, bowel cancer.^[173]
• Susan Weiner, 66, American politician, Mayor of Savannah (1992–1996), complications from surgery.^[174]

12

• Eileen Beasley, 91, Welsh teacher and Welsh language campaigner, pancreatic cancer.^[175]
• Ève Cournoyer, 43, Canadian singer-songwriter.^[176]
• Prabuddha Dasgupta, 55, Indian fashion photographer, heart attack.^[177]
• Alex Falconer, 72, Scottish politician, MEP for Mid Scotland and Fife (1984–1999).^[178]
• Pedro Gasset, 88, Spanish Olympic field hockey player.^[179]
• Jerry Grant, 77, American race car driver, liver failure and diabetes.^[180]
• Dominic Hibberd, 71, English biographer, pneumonia-induced corticobasal degeneration.^[181]
• Barbara Kimenye, 82, British-born Ugandan children's author.^[182]
• Joe Kubert, 85, Polish-born American comic book artist (Sgt. Rock, Hawkman), multiple myeloma.^[183]
• Jakov Labura, 74, Croatian Olympic rower.^[184]
• Frank Martin, 73, American defense attorney and politician, Mayor of Columbus, Georgia (1991–1994), pancreatic cancer.^[185]
• Robert W. McNitt, 97, American U.S. Navy rear admiral, dean of admissions at the U.S. Naval Academy, heart failure.^[186]
• Édgar Morales Pérez, Mexican politician, mayor-elect of Matehuala, shooting.^[187]
• Alf Morris, Baron Morris, 84, British politician and disability rights campaigner, MP for Manchester Wythenshawe (1964–1997).^[188]
• Jackie Watters, 92, Scottish footballer (Celtic).^[189]

13

• Hugo Bedau, 85, American philosopher, complications from Parkinson's disease.^[190]
• Beverly Bender, 94, American sculptor.^[191]
• Helen Gurley Brown, 90, American author, publisher, and businesswoman; editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine (1965–1997).^[192]
• Robert Bruce, 96, Scottish composer.^[193]
• Jimmy Carr, 79, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles).^[194]
• Dan Daniels, 90, American sportscaster.^[195]
• Salvador Escudero, 69, Filipino politician, cancer.^[196]
• E. X. Giroux, 88, U.S.-born Canadian writer.^[197]
• Kathi Goertzen, 54, American journalist and television anchor (KOMO-TV), benign brain tumors.^[198]
• Nellie Gray, 88, American anti-abortion activist and lawyer, natural causes. (body discovered on this date)^[199]
• Ray Jordon, 75, Australian cricketer and football coach, cancer.^[200]
• Deborah Scaling Kiley, 54, American shipwreck survivor, sailor, author, motivational speaker and businesswoman.^[201]
• Hervé-Maria Le Cléac'h, 97, French Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Taiohae o Tefenuaenata (1973–1986).^[202]
• W. Michael Mathes, 76, American historian, expert on the history of Baja California.^[203]
• Johnny Munkhammar, 37, Swedish politician, MP (2010–2012) and writer, adenoid cystic carcinoma.^[204]
• Johnny Pesky, 92, American baseball player, manager, and coach (Boston Red Sox).^[205]
• Joan Roberts, 95, American musical theatre actress (Oklahoma!), heart failure.^[206]
• Typhoon Tracy, 6, Australian Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the Coolmore Classic (2009) and Futurity Stakes (2010).^[207]

14

• Maja Bošković-Stulli, 89, Croatian historian, writer, publisher and academic.^[208]
• Remy Charlip, 83, American dancer.^[209]
• Colorspin, 29, French-bred, British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare, suspected heart attack.^[210]
• Vilasrao Deshmukh, 67, Indian politician, kidney and liver failure.^[211]
• Svetozar Gligorić, 89, Serbian chess grandmaster, stroke.^[212]
• Brian Green, 77, British football coach and player.^[213]
• Svein Hansen, 69, Norwegian ice hockey player.^[214]
• Sergey Kapitsa, 84, Russian physicist, demographer, and television host; son of Pyotr Kapitsa.^[215]
• Billy Kerr, 67, Irish Olympic cyclist.^[216]
• Marilyn Leavitt-Imblum, 66, American embroidery designer.^[217]
• Charles Maynard, 42, Bahamian politician, chairman of the opposition Free National Movement (since 2012), apparent heart attack.^[218]
• Anna Orso, 73, Italian actress.^[219]
• Ron Palillo, 63, American actor (Welcome Back, Kotter), heart attack.^[220]
• Al Rabin, 76, American producer and director (Days of Our Lives).^[221]
• Rosemary Rice, 87, American radio and television actress (Archie Andrews, Mama).^[222]
• Smoke, American donkey, therapy animal for the United States Marine Corps.^[223]
• Phyllis Thaxter, 92, American actress (Superman, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo), Alzheimer's disease.^[224]
• Zhou Kehua, 42, Chinese criminal, shooting.^[225]

15

• Elson Iazegi Beyruth, 70, Brazilian footballer, complications of diabetes.^[226]
• Bob Birch, 56, American musician (Elton John), apparent suicide by gunshot.^[227]
• Jeffery Boswall, 81, British naturalist and broadcaster, cancer.^[228]
• Richard B. Brewer, 61, American chief executive officer (Myrexis), cancer.^[229]
• Altamiro Carrilho, 87, Brazilian musician and composer, lung cancer.^[230]
• Enzo Cavazzoni, 80, Italian Olympic water polo player.^[231]
• Biff Elliot, 89, American actor (Alfred Hitchcock Presents, I, the Jury, The Enemy Below).^[232]
• Joaquín Filba, 89, Spanish cyclist.^[233]
• Punch Gunalan, 68, Malaysian badminton player, liver cancer.^[234]
• Harry Harrison, 87, American science fiction writer (Make Room! Make Room!, The Stainless Steel Rat).^[235]
• Henry Herx, 79, American film critic, complications from liver cancer.^[236]
• Ralph Holman, 94, American biochemist.^[237]
• Matthew Ianniello, 92, American mobster, member of the Genovese crime family.^[238]
• Elisabeth von Janota-Bzowski, 99, German graphic artist and postage stamp designer.^[239]
• Müşfik Kenter, 79, Turkish theater actor, lung cancer.^[240]
• Colleen B. Lemmon, 85, American Latter Day Saint counselor.^[241]
• Ashok Mehta, 65, Indian cinematographer (Bandit Queen), lung cancer.^[242]
• Carina Moberg, 46, Swedish politician, MP for Stockholm County (1994–2012), cancer.^[243]
• Albert (Peto) Nicholas, 61, Cook Islands politician, heart attack.^[244]
• Burl Osborne, 75, American publisher, chairman of the Associated Press (2002–2007), after short illness.^[245]
• Mitchell Todd, 21, British rugby player (Nottingham), traffic collision.^[246]
• Sir Ray Whitney, 81, British politician, MP for Wycombe (1978–2001).^[247]
• Heinz Wittig, 74, German Olympic water polo player.^[248]
• Arbën Xhaferi, 64, Macedonian politician and Albanian-rights activist, complications from a stroke.^[249]

16

• Peter Joseph Bis, app. 61, American homeless man, heart attack.^[250]
• Larry R. Brown, 69, American politician, member of the North Carolina House of Representatives (since 2005), heart attack.^[251]
• Candice Cohen-Ahnine, app. 35, French-born former Saudi royal, fall from apartment window.^[252]
• T. G. Kamala Devi, 81, Indian actor and playback singer.^[253]
• Evon Dickson, 77, New Zealand cricketer.^[254]
• Akiva Ehrenfeld, 90, Austrian-born Israeli Orthodox Jewish rabbi.^[255]
• Martine Franck, 74, Belgian photographer, bone marrow cancer.^[256]
• Owsley Brown Frazier, 77, American philanthropist.^[257]
• Jang Hyun-kyu, 30, South Korean footballer, suspected heart attack.^[258]
• Phil Kelly, 73, Irish footballer.^[259]
• William Kent, 93, American artist.^[260]
• Constance Kgosiemang, 66, Namibian politician, paramount chief of the Tswana people, heart attack.^[261]
• Lalla Amina of Morocco, 58, Moroccan royal, daughter of Mohammed V of Morocco, lung cancer.^[262]
• Marvin Meyer, 64, American biblical scholar, cancer.^[263]
• Abune Paulos, 76, Ethiopian patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, heart attack.^[264]
• Bystrík Režucha, 77, Slovak conductor.^[265]
• William Windom, 88, American actor (Murder She Wrote, To Kill a Mockingbird, Star Trek), heart failure.^[266]
• Katsumi Yamauchi, 100, Japanese politician, mayor of Iwata, Shizuoka, natural causes.^[267]

17

• Joan Bielski, 88, Australian activist.^[268]
• Aase Bjerkholt, 97, Norwegian politician and government minister, Minister of Family and Consumer Affairs (1956–1963, 1963–1965).^[269]
• Pál Bogár, 84, Hungarian Olympic basketball player.^[270]
• Amparo Cuevas, 81, Spanish Roman Catholic seer.^[271]
• Axel Edelstam, 88, Swedish diplomat.^[272]
• Joey Kovar, 29, American reality TV star (The Real World: Hollywood, Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew), opiate intoxication.^[273]
• Geoffrey Lees, 92, English cricketer and educator, prolonged illness.^[274]
• John Lynch-Staunton, 82, Canadian politician, Senator (1990–2005), leader of the Conservative Party (2003–2004), heart attack.^[275]
• Willem G. van Maanen, 91, Dutch journalist and writer.^[276]
• Panos Markovic, 87, Greek football coach and player.^[277]
• Lou Martin, 63, Northern Irish musician (Rory Gallagher).^[278]
• Brian Oakley, 84, British civil servant and scientist.^[279]
• Shirley W. Palmer-Ball, 82, American businessman and politician.^[280]
• Veronique Peck, 80, French-born American arts patron, widow of Gregory Peck.^[281]
• Victor Poor, 79, American engineer, co-developer of the microchip and various radio developments, cancer.^[282]
• Patrick Ricard, 67, French entrepreneur (Pernod Ricard), complications from a heart attack.^[283]

18

• Samuel Anderson, 82, Cuban Olympic hurdler.^[284]
• Hisham al-Hayali, Iraqi politician, Governor of Diyala Governorate (2012), traffic collision.^[285]
• Tayseer al-Mashhadani, Iraqi engineer and politician, traffic collision.^[285]
• Alan Bateman, 76, Australian film producer and television screenwriter, cancer.^[286]
• Harrison Begay, 94, American painter.^[287]
• George Bowers, 68, American film editor (A League of Their Own, The Country Bears, Harlem Nights), complications following heart surgery.^[288]
• Lourival Mendes França, Brazilian draughts player.^[289]
• Robert B. Gaither, 83, American mechanical engineer.^[290]
• Les Kaine, 76, Australian footballer (Hawthorn).^[291]
• John Kovatch, 92, American football player (Washington Redskins).^[292]
• Scott McKenzie, 73, American singer ("San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)") and songwriter ("Kokomo"), Guillain–Barré syndrome.^[293]
• Ra. Ki. Rangarajan, 85, Indian Tamil language writer.^[294]
• Jesse Robredo, 54, Filipino politician, Mayor of Naga City (1988–1998, 2001–2010), Secretary of the Interior and Local Government (since 2010), plane crash.^[295]
• Eilif Straume, 83, Norwegian writer and critic.^[296]

19

• Ghazi al-Sadiq, Sudanese politician, Minister of Guidance and Religious Endowments, plane crash.^[297]
• Yuriy Avanesov, 77, Soviet football player and coach.^[298]
• Doug Dench, 82, Australian football player.^[299]
• Hellmut Geissner, 86, German scholar.^[300]
• Donal Henahan, 91, American music critic.^[301]
• Ivar Iversen, 97, Norwegian Olympic sprint canoeist.^[302]
• Laura Latini, 42, Italian voice actress, cancer.^[303]
• Maïté Nahyr, 64, South African-born Belgian actress.^[304]
• Samia Yusuf Omar, 21, Somali Olympic runner, drowning. (death announced on this date)^[305]
• Tony Scott, 68, British film director (Top Gun, True Romance, Man on Fire) and producer, suicide by jumping.^[306]
• Edmund Skellings, 80, American poet.^[307]

20

• Agnes World, 17, American-bred, Japanese-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire.^[308]
• Seweryn Chajtman, 93, Polish scientist.^[309]
• Phyllis Diller, 95, American comedian and actress (The Pruitts of Southampton), natural causes.^[310]
• Virginia Dwyer, 92, American actress (Another World, As the World Turns, Guiding Light).^[311]
• Juan Edmunds Rapahango, 89, Chilean Rapa Nui politician.^[312]
• Daryl Hine, 76, American poet, editor, and translator, intestinal blockage.^[313]
• Jacob Matijevic, 64, American engineer (NASA).^[314]
• Dom Mintoff, 96, Maltese politician, Prime Minister (1955–1958, 1971–1984), natural causes.^[315]
• Len Quested, 87, English footballer.^[316]
• Kapu Rajaiah, 87, Indian painter, complication of Parkinson's disease.^[317]
• Alexander Saxton, 93, American novelist and historian.^[318]
• Mika Yamamoto, 45, Japanese journalist, shooting.^[319]
• Meles Zenawi, 57, Ethiopian politician, President (1991–1995), Prime Minister (since 1995), liver cancer.^[320]

21

• Vinus van Baalen, 70, Dutch Olympic swimmer.^[321]
• Paul Bassim, 89, Lebanese Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Beirut (1974–1999).^[322]
• Joe Cunningham, 80–81, Northern Irish Gaelic footballer.^[323]
• Tissa David, 91, Hungarian-born American animator (Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure), cancer.^[324]
• John Davidson, 87, American politician, member of the Illinois Senate (1973–1993), natural causes.^[325]
• Genoveva Dawson, 94, Argentine botanist, curator, teacher, and explorer.^[326]
• Hans Josephsohn, 92, Swiss sculptor.^[327]
• Delcia Kite, 88, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1976–1995).^[328]
• Kyle Larsen, 62, American contract bridge player.^[329]
• Georg Leber, 91, German politician, Minister of Defence (1972–1978).^[330]
• Gary Mara, 50, Australian rugby league player (Balmain Tigers), traffic collision.^[331]
• Taketoshi Naito, 86, Japanese actor.^[332]
• Don Raleigh, 86, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers), complications of a fall.^[333]
• J. Frank Raley, 85, American politician, member of the Maryland Senate (1963–1966), heart attack.^[334]
• Roy Speer, 80, American businessman (Home Shopping Network).^[335]
• Guy Spitaels, 80, Belgian politician, Leader of the Socialist Party (1981–1992), Minister-President of Wallonia (1992–1994), brain tumor.^[336]
• William Thurston, 65, American mathematician, melanoma.^[337]
• Sergio Toppi, 79, Italian cartoonist, cancer.^[338]
• Ivan the Gorilla, 49–50, gorilla who didn't see his kind for 27 years, chest tumor.^{[citation needed]}

22

• Houcine Anafal, 59, Moroccan footballer, heart attack.^[339]
• Bernie Anderson, 71, Australian footballer.^[340]
• Nina Bawden, 87, British author (Carrie's War).^[341]
• Larry Carp, 86, American attorney and diplomat.^[342]
• David K. Cheng, 94, Chinese-born American professor.^[343]
• Charles Flores, 41, Cuban-born American jazz bassist, throat cancer.^[344]
• José Foralosso, 74, Italian-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Marabá (2000–2012), complications from a stroke.^[345]
• Trevor French, Australian Paralympic swimmer.^[346]
• Guy Landry Hazoumé, 72, Beninese politician and poet.^[347]
• Paulino Matip Nhial, 69-70, South Sudanese military leader and politician, complications of diabetes.^[348]
• Paul Shan Kuo-hsi, 88, Taiwanese Roman Catholic cardinal, Bishop of Kaohsiung (1991–2006), pneumonia.^[349]
• Martin Shikuku, 79, Kenyan politician, MP for Butere (1963–1975, 1979–1988, 1992–1997), cancer.^[350]
• Jeffrey Stone, 85, American actor, model for Prince Charming in Cinderella.^[351]
• András Szennay, 91, Hungarian Roman Catholic prelate, Abbot of the Pannonhalma Archabbey (1973–1991).^[352]

23

• Col Campbell, 78, Australian gardener, cancer.^[353]
• Paul Ch'eng Shih-kuang, 96, Taiwanese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tainan (1966–1990).^[354]
• Jean-Luc Delarue, 48, French television producer and host, stomach cancer.^[355]
• Aubrey Dunn, Sr., 84, American politician, member of the New Mexico Senate (1965–1980), cancer.^[356]
• James Fogle, 75, American author (Drugstore Cowboy), mesothelioma.^[357]
• Byard Lancaster, 70, American jazz multi-instrumentalist, pancreatic cancer.^[358]
• Howard Lee, 77, Bermudian Olympic sailor.^[359]
• Edith Mastenbroek, 37, Dutch politician, Member of the European Parliament (2004–2008), cardiac arrest.^[360]
• Bob Myrick, 59, American baseball player (New York Mets), heart attack.^[361]
• Merv Neagle, 54, Australian AFL football player (Essendon), traffic collision.^[362]
• Jerry Nelson, 78, American puppeteer (The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock), prostate cancer and COPD.^[363]
• James Serrin, 85, American mathematician.^[364]
• Josepha Sherman, 65, American science fiction author.^[365]
• Steve Van Buren, 91, American Hall of Fame football player (Philadelphia Eagles), pneumonia.^[366]

24

• Henry H. Black, 83, American marine.^[367]
• Werner Braun, 86, German musicologist.^[368]
• Cornelia Brierly, 99, American architect.^[369]
• Bud Chamberlain, 92, American baseball player and realtor.^[370]
• Dadullah, app. 47, Pakistani Taliban leader (Bajaur Agency), airstrike.^[371]
• Richard William Davis, 70, American child murderer and rapist, natural causes.^[372]
• Aleksander Donner, 65, Ukrainian handball coach.^[373]
• Lijon Eknilang, 66, Marshallese anti–nuclear weapons activist. (death reported on this date)^[374]
• Pauli Ellefsen, 76, Faroese politician, Prime Minister (1981–1985).^[375]
• Sir Richard Evans, 84, British diplomat, Ambassador to the People's Republic of China (1984–1988).^[376]
• Félix Miélli Venerando, 74, Brazilian footballer, 1970 FIFA World Cup winner, cardiac arrest.^[377]
• Steve Franken, 80, American actor (Bewitched, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis), cancer.^[378]
• Bud Goodall, 59, American scholar and writer, pancreatic cancer.^{[379][circular reference]}
• Gerd Greune, 63, German politician.^[380]
• Zygmunt Kiszkurno, 91, Polish Olympic sport shooter.^[381]
• Claire Malis, 69, American actress (One Life to Live, From Here to Eternity, The Facts of Life), heart failure and pneumonia.^[382]
• Dale Sommers, 68, American radio personality, Addison's disease.^[383]
• Maureen Toal, 82, Irish actress.^[384]
• Krum Yanev, 83, Bulgarian Olympic footballer.^[385]

25

• Florencio Amarilla, 77, Paraguayan footballer, coach and actor.^[386]
• Neil Armstrong, 82, American astronaut, first person to walk on the Moon, complications from surgery.^[387]
• R. Palmer Beasley, 76, American physician, public health educator, and epidemiologist, pancreatic cancer.^[388]
• Ray Booty, 79, English cyclist, British Empire and Commonwealth Games gold medallist (1958), cancer.^[389]
• Stephen Bradford, 48, English cricket player (Lincolnshire).^[390]
• Willard C. Butcher, 85, American banker, cancer.^[391]
• Joshua Casteel, 32, American soldier and playwright, lung cancer.^[392]
• Stanley Crooks, 70, American tribal leader, Chairman of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (1992–2012), respiratory ailment.^[393]
• Wisse Dekker, 88, Dutch businessman, traffic collision.^[394]
• Georg Feuerstein, 65, German-born Canadian scholar of Hinduism.^[395]
• Roger Fisher, 90, American academic.^[396]
• Vesna Girardi-Jurkić, 68, Croatian archeologist and museologist.^[397]
• Roberto González Barrera, 82, Mexican businessman, founder of Gruma, cancer.^[398]
• Donald Gorrie, 79, Scottish politician, MSP for Central Scotland (1999–2007), MP for Edinburgh West (1997–2001).^[399]
• Aurélio Granada Escudeiro, 92, Portuguese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Angra (1979–1996), pneumonia.^[400]
• Angkarn Kalayanapong, 86, Thai poet and artist, heart disease and diabetes.^[401]
• Eduardo Koaik, 86, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Piracicaba (1984–2002), cancer.^[402]
• V. K. Lakshmanan, 80, Indian politician, MP for Coimbatore East (1991–2006).^[403]
• Richard Norris, 80, British Olympic bronze medallist field hockey player (1952).^[404]
• Emilio Pacione, 92, Scottish footballer (Dundee United).^[405]
• Manola Saavedra, 76, Spanish-born Mexican actress.^[406]
• Pontus Schultz, 40, Swedish journalist, ravine fall during 2012 Haute Route bicycle race.^[407]
• Juan Valdez, 74, American land rights activist.^[408]

26

• Russ Alben, 82, American advertising executive.^[409]
• Reginald Bartholomew, 76, American diplomat, cancer.^[410]
• Jacques Bensimon, 69, Canadian film executive, cancer.^[411]
• Gérard Bitsindou, 70, Congolese politician.^[412]
• Viredo Espinosa, 83, Cuban artist, vascular disease.^[413]
• Robert T. Gannett, 94, American politician and lawyer.^[414]
• John Goldkamp, 64, American criminologist, multiple myeloma.^[415]
• George Gunther, 92, American politician.^[416]
• A. K. Hangal, 98, Indian actor, complications from a fall.^[417]
• Countess Alix de Lannoy, 70, Belgian countess, mother of Stéphanie de Lannoy, stroke.^[418]
• Peter L. Shelton, 67, American architect, cancer.^[419]
• Karsten Anker Solhaug, 97, Norwegian salvationist.^[420]
• Alan Steen, 90, English footballer (Wolverhampton Wanderers).^[421]
• Krzysztof Wilmanski, 72, Polish physicist, pancreatic cancer.^[422]

27

• Neville Alexander, 75, South African revolutionary and linguist, cancer.^[423]
• Aurora Bautista, 86, Spanish film actress.^[424]
• Malcolm Browne, 81, American journalist and photographer (1964 Pulitzer Prize), complications of Parkinson's disease.^[425]
• Irwin Cohen, 60, American judoka, amyloidosis and myelodysplastic syndromes.^[426]
• Tony Dumper, 88, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Dudley (1977–1993).^[427]
• Richard L. Fisher, 64, American politician and energy executive, heart attack.^[428]
• Art Heyman, 71, American basketball player (New York Knicks, Philadelphia 76ers).^[429]
• Allan Horsfall, 84, British gay rights activist.^[430]
• Ivica Horvat, 86, Croatian football player and manager.^[431]
• Richard Keyes, 81, American painter.^[432]
• Sir Richard Kingsland, 95, Australian RAAF pilot and public servant.^[433]
• Geliy Korzhev, 87, Russian painter.^[434]
• Karl Lennert, 91, German physician and pathologist.^[435]
• Leonard Linsky, 90, American philosopher.^[436]
• Louis Ncamiso Ndlovu, 67, Swazi Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Manzini (1985–2012), heart failure.^[437]
• Antoine Redin, 77, French footballer and football manager.^[438]
• Aboud Rogo, 44, Kenyan Islamic cleric, shooting.^[439]
• Russell Scott, 91, American clown and television host (Blinky's Fun Club), pneumonia.^[440]
• Tomáš Sedláček, 94, Czech general, anti-Nazi resistance member, and political prisoner, melanoma.^[441]
• Tao Wei, 46, Chinese football player and commentator, heart attack.^[442]
• Roger J. White, 71, British-born American Episcopal prelate, Bishop of Milwaukee (1985–2003), brain aneurysm.^[443]
• Albert George Wilson, 94, American astronomer.^[444]

28

• Akhlakul Hossain Ahmed, 85, Bangladeshi physician and politician.^[445]
• Said Afandi al-Chirkawi, 74, Russian Muslim Sufi leader, suicide bomb attack.^[446]
• Sir Rhodes Boyson, 87, British educator, author and politician, MP for Brent North (1974–1997).^[447]
• Norm Dussault, 86, American ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens).^[448]
• Maffeo Giovanni Ducoli, 93, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Belluno-Feltre (1975–1996).^[449]
• Eva Figes, 80, English author.^[450]
• Shulamith Firestone, 67, Canadian-born American feminist writer (The Dialectic of Sex).^[451]
• Dave Fredrickson, 85, American archaeologist, anthropologist, and folk singer.^[452]
• William Pascal Kikoti, 55, Tanzanian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Mpanda (since 2000), complications of high blood pressure.^[453]
• Dick McBride, 84, American beat poet.^[454]
• Saul Merin, 79, Israeli ophthalmologist.^[455]
• K. Pankajakshan, 84, Indian politician, MLA in Kerala (1971–1977, 1980–1991), cardiac arrest.^[456]
• Alfred Schmidt, 81, German philosopher.^[457]
• Ramón Sota, 74, Spanish golfer, pneumonia.^[458]

29

• Said Aburish, 77, Palestinian journalist.^[459]
• Margie Foote, 82, American politician.^[460]
• Ruth Goldbloom, 88, Canadian philanthropist, co-founder of the Pier 21 museum, cancer.^[461]
• Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, 59, British academic and author (The Occult Roots of Nazism), cancer.^[462]
• Shoshichi Kobayashi, 80, Japanese mathematician.^[463]
• Anne McKnight, 88, American opera singer.^[464]
• Les Moss, 87, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns).^[465]
• Daniel O'Keefe, 84, American author and editor (Reader's Digest), inventor of Festivus.^[466]
• Sergei Ovchinnikov, 43, Russian volleyball coach (women's national team), suspected suicide by hanging.^[467]
• Jeremy Pope, 76, New Zealand activist and lawyer.^[468]
• Donald Edgar Tewes, 96, American businessman and politician, Representative from Wisconsin (1957–1959).^[469]
• Valyra, 3, British-bred French-trained Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the Prix de Diane (2012), euthanized.^[470]

30

• Bernardo Bonezzi, 48, Spanish film music composer.^[471]
• Daire Brehan, 55, Irish broadcaster, actress and barrister, cancer.^[472]
• L. Macon Epps, 92, American engineer, inventor, author and poet.^[473]
• Gaeton Fonzi, 76, American investigative journalist, complications from Parkinson's disease.^[474]
• Kristian Fougner, 93, Norwegian engineer and resistance member.^[475]
• Paul Friedrichs, 72, German motocross racer.^[476]
• Bill Kini, 75, New Zealand boxer and rugby player, cancer.^[477]
• Igor Kvasha, 79, Russian actor.^[478]
• Carlos Larrañaga, 75, Spanish actor, cardiac decompensation.^[479]
• Chris Lighty, 44, American talent manager, co-founder of Violator Entertainment, suicide by gunshot.^[480]
• Nat Peeples, 86, American professional baseball player.^[481]
• Don Richard Riso, 66, American teacher and author, cancer.^[482]
• Jacek Sempoliński, 85, Polish painter, art professor, critic, and essayist.^[483]
• Anton Skulberg, 90, Norwegian scientist and politician, MP for Østfold (1969–1972, 1974–1977).^[484]
• Vidar Theisen, 79, Norwegian meteorologist and weather presenter, Parkinson's disease.^[485]
• Gabriel Vahanian, 85, French Christian theologian.^[486]
• Christopher Williams, 85, British Olympic bobsledder.^[487]
• Xin Kegui, 61, Chinese academic and civil engineer.^[488]

31

• Cornelis Christiaan Berg, 78, Dutch botanist.^[489]
• Max Bygraves, 89, British singer, variety performer, and TV game show host (Family Fortunes), complications from Alzheimer's disease.^[490]
• Lucas Luis Dónnelly, 91, Argentine Roman Catholic prelate.^[491]
• Mark J. Dworkin, 66, Canadian writer.^[492]
• Rajvinder Kaur Gill, 40, Canadian banker, strangulation.^[493]
• Tom Keating, 69, American football player (Oakland Raiders), prostate cancer.^[494]
• Alan M. Kriegsman, 84, American dance critic (1976 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism), heart disease.^[495]
• Franz Kieslich, 99, German air force officer, awarded Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.^[496]
• Kris Kin, 12, American-bred British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of The Derby (2003), cervical fracture. (death announced on this date)^[497]
• Joe Lewis, 68, American martial arts master, actor, brain tumor.^[498]
• Carlo Maria Martini, 85, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Cardinal Archbishop of Milan (1979–2002), Parkinson's disease.^[499]
• Frank B. McDonald, 87, American astrophysicist.^[500]
• Pedro Medina Avendaño, 96, Colombian poet.^[501]
• Steven Smith Mijiga, 74, Malawian civil servant, Post Master General.^[502]
• A. Mathias Mundadan, 88, Indian priest.^[503]
• Kashiram Rana, 74, Indian politician, MLA for Surat East (1975–1980) and MP for Surat (1989–2009), heart attack.^[504]
• Heraldine Rock, 79, Saint Lucian educator and politician.^[505]
• John C. Shabaz, 81, American judge and politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly (1964–1979).^[506]
• Sergey Sokolov, 101, Soviet military commander, Marshal of the Soviet Union, Minister of Defense of the Soviet Union (1984–1987).^[507]
• Theatrical, 30, Irish-bred American Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the Breeders' Cup Turf (1987), euthanized.^[508]
• Edward Vincent, 78, American politician, first African-American Mayor of Inglewood, California (1983–1996), member of the California State Assembly (1996–2000).^[509]
• Norbert Walter, 67, German economist.^[510]
• Mahmoud El-Gohary, 74, Egyptian football player and coach, complications of a stroke.^[511]