The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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.

February 2010

1

• Willie Anku, 60, Ghanaian music theorist, ethnomusicologist, composer, and performer, motor accident.^[1]
• Jim Atherton, 86, Welsh footballer.^[2]
• Julian Edwin Bailes, Sr., 95, American politician, attorney and judge, stroke.^[3]
• Jack Brisco, 68, American professional wrestler, complications from open heart surgery.^[4]
• David Brown, 93, American film producer (Jaws, Cocoon, A Few Good Men), renal failure.^[5]
• Rodolfo de Anda, 66, Mexican actor, thrombosis.^[6]
• Steingrímur Hermannsson, 81, Icelandic politician, Prime Minister (1983–1987, 1988–1991).^[7]
• Bobby Kirk, 82, Scottish footballer, dementia.^[8]
• Atsushi Kuroi, 40, Japanese professional drifting driver, motorcycle accident.^[9]
• Azzeddine Laraki, 80, Moroccan politician, Prime Minister (1986–1992).^[10]
• Peter Martell, 71, Italian film actor.^[11]
• Justin Mentell, 27, American actor (Boston Legal, G-Force), car accident.^[12]
• Subir Raha, 61, Indian executive, chairman and managing director of ONGC (2001–2006), lung cancer.^[13]
• Jaap van der Poll, 95, Dutch Olympic javelin thrower (1936 Summer Olympics).^[14]

2

• Juan del Campo, 87, Spanish Olympic field hockey player.^[15]
• Louisa Benson Craig, 68, Burmese-born American beauty queen and community leader.^[16]
• Myron Donovan Crocker, 94, American federal judge.^[17]
• Cochin Haneefa, 58, Indian Malayalam film actor, multiple organ failure.^[18]
• Futa Helu, 75, Tongan philosopher.^[19]
• Paul Herlinger, 80, American voice actor,^[20]
• Tahir Hussain, 72, Indian film director, producer and writer, cardiac arrest.^[21]
• Bernard Kates, 87, American actor, sepsis and pneumonia.^[22]
• Svetozar Kurepa, 80, Croatian mathematician.^[23]
• Aleen Leslie, 101, American screenwriter (A Date with Judy), pneumonia.^[24]
• Rosa Lobato de Faria, 77, Portuguese writer and actress, complications from anemia.^[25]
• Eustace Mullins, 86, American political writer, author and biographer, stroke.^[26]
• Rex Nettleford, 76, Jamaican scholar and choreographer, heart attack.^[27]
• Ng Teng Fong, 82, Chinese-born Singaporean businessman, complications from a cerebral hemorrhage.^[28]
• Jens-Anton Poulsson, 91, Norwegian military officer and resistance fighter (heavy water sabotage).^[29]
• Srinivas Rangaraj, 77, Indian cricketer.^[30]
• Nelli Shkolnikova, 82, Ukrainian-born Australian violinist and educator, cancer.^[31]
• Raymond Wang Chong Lin, 88, Chinese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Zhaoxian, cerebral hemorrhage.^[32]
• Donald Wiseman, 91, British Assyriologist.^[33]
• William Yurko, 83, Canadian politician, MP for Edmonton East (1979–1984).^[34]

3

• Faiza Ashraf, 26, Pakistani-Norwegian shop assistant, strangulation.^[35]
• Claudio Corti, 81, Italian mountaineer.^[36]
• Elazar ben Tsedaka ben Yitzhaq, 83, Palestinian Samaritan High Priest.^[37]
• Frank Fasi, 89, American politician, Mayor of Honolulu (1969–1981, 1984–1994), natural causes.^[38]
• John McCallum, 91, Australian actor and television producer (Skippy the Bush Kangaroo).^[39]
• Dick McGuire, 84, American basketball player, New York Knicks senior consultant, Basketball Hall of Famer, ruptured aortic aneurysm.^[40]
• Gil Merrick, 88, English footballer (Birmingham City).^[41]
• Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen, 85, German princess, wife of Otto von Habsburg.^[42]
• Frances Reid, 95, American actress (Days of Our Lives).^[43]
• John Rety, 79, Hungarian-born British poet and anarchist.^[44]
• Lindsay Thomas, 31, Canadian stage actress, lung cancer.^[45]
• Georges Wilson, 88, French actor and film director.^[46]

4

• Kostas Axelos, 85, Greek philosopher.^[47]
• Gul Hameed Bhatti, 63, Pakistani journalist and editor, stroke.^[48]
• Bill Dudley, 88, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), Pro Football Hall of Famer, stroke.^[49]
• Manuel Esteba, 68, Spanish film director.^[50]
• Richard Lashof, 87, American mathematician, after long illness.^[51]
• Tomás Mac Giolla, 86, Irish politician, after long illness.^[52]
• Cecil Heftel, 85, American businessman and politician, U.S. Representative from Hawaii (1977–1986), natural causes.^[53]
• D. Van Holliday, 69, American physicist, complications of cardiac surgery.^[54]
• Alfred Käärmann, 87, Estonian resistance fighter, member of the Forest Brothers.^[55]
• Phillip Martin, 83, American tribal chief (Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians), stroke.^[56]
• H. A. Perera, 59, Sri Lankan actor, after short illness.^[57]
• Meir Pichhadze, 54, Georgian-born Israeli artist and painter, cancer.^[58]
• Joseph Ignace Randrianasolo, 62, Malagasy Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Mahajanga (1999–2010).^[59]
• Carl E. Taylor, 93, American physician and expert on international health, prostate cancer.^[60]
• Te Wei, 95, Chinese animator, respiratory failure.^[61]
• Helen Tobias-Duesberg, 90, Estonian-born American composer.^[62]
• Allan Wicks, 86, British organist and choirmaster.^[63]

5

• Bayken Ashimov, 92, Kazakh politician.^[64]
• Brendan Burke, 21, Canadian-born American ice hockey player, car accident.^[65]
• Peter Calvocoressi, 97, British historian, publisher and intelligence officer.^[66]
• Ian Carmichael, 89, British actor (Lucky Jim, Private's Progress, I'm All Right Jack).^[67]
• Mallia Franklin, 57, American singer.^[68]
• Galimzyan Khusainov, 72, Russian footballer.^{[citation needed]}
• Sujit Kumar, 75, Indian actor and producer, cancer.^[69]
• Frank Magid, 78, American media consultant, creator of Action News, lymphoma.^[70]
• Hiroyuki Oze, 24, Japanese baseball player, suicide by jumping.^[71]
• Clarke Scholes, 79, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1952) swimmer, heart failure.^[72]
• Harry Schwarz, 85, South African lawyer, politician and diplomat, leader of the anti-apartheid movement, after short illness.^[73]
• Brooks Thomas, 78, American publisher (Harper and Row), complications of a brain injury after a fall.^[74]

6

• Micky Axton, 91, American aviator (Women Airforce Service Pilots), after short illness.^[75]
• Albert Booth, 81, British politician, MP for Barrow-in-Furness (1966–1983), Secretary of State for Employment (1976–1979).^[76]
• Robert Dana, 80, American poet, Iowa poet laureate (2004–2008), pancreatic cancer.^[77]
• Sir John Dankworth, 82, British jazz musician.^[78]
• Richard Delvy, 67, American drummer (The Bel-Airs), composer and record producer, after long illness.^[79]
• Brad Ecklund, 87, American football player (New York Yanks), heart failure.^[80]
• Ernest van der Eyken, 96, Belgian composer, conductor and violist.^[81]
• Kipkemboi Kimeli, 43, Kenyan athlete, 1988 Olympic bronze medalist, complications from pneumonia and tuberculosis.^[82]
• Lee Yung-dug, 84, South Korean politician, Prime Minister (1994), pneumonia.^[83]
• Henry A. Miley, Jr., 94, American soldier, U.S. Army four-star general.^[84]
• Lady Marjorie Nellie Murray, 85, British socialite, witness at the Nuremberg and Tokyo war crimes trials.^[85]
• Nancy Sweezy, 88, American folklorist, potter and writer.^[86]
• Donald Welsh, 66, American publisher (Outside), drowning.^[87]

7

• Lars Aspeflaten, 85, Norwegian barrister and politician.^[88]
• Franco Ballerini, 45, Italian road racing cyclist, rally car accident.^[89]
• Daniel Joseph Bradley, 82, British physicist.^[90]
• Jean-Marie Buisset, 71, Belgian Olympic bobsledder and field hockey player, after short illness.^[91]
• Bobby Dougan, 83, Scottish footballer.^[92]
• André Kolingba, 73, Central African politician, President (1981–1993).^[93]
• Paul LaPalme, 86, American baseball player, after long illness.^[94]
• Lim Soo-hyeok, 40, South Korean baseball player (Lotte Giants), cardiac dysrhythmia.^[95]
• Mihailo Marković, 86, Serbian philosopher.^[96]
• Kasturi Rajadhyaksha, 86, Indian physician.^[97]
• Robert Roxby, 83, Australian cricketer.^[98]
• Oscar da Silva, 89, Brazilian Olympic equestrian.^[99]
• William Tenn, 89, American science fiction writer and educator, heart failure.^[100]

8

• Angelo Franzosi, 88, Italian footballer.^[101]
• David Froman, 71, American actor (The Edge of Night, Matlock), cancer.^[102]
• Antonio Giolitti, 94, Italian politician.^[103]
• Jimmie Heuga, 66, American Alpine ski racer, 1964 Olympic bronze medalist, multiple sclerosis.^[104]
• Robert Hoy, 82, American actor (The Enforcer) and stuntman, cancer.^[105]
• Carl Kaysen, 89, American economist, Deputy National Security Advisor (1961–1963), complications from a fall.^[106]
• Dieter Klauß, 62, German Olympic hockey player.^[107]
• Bernard Lander, 94, American rabbi, founder of Touro College.^[108]
• John Murtha, 77, American politician, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (1974–2010), complications of gallbladder surgery.^[109]
• Anna Samokhina, 47, Russian actress, stomach cancer.^[110]
• Krzysztof Skubiszewski, 83, Polish politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1989–1993).^[111]
• Bobby A. Suarez, 67, Filipino film producer, director and screenwriter.^[112]
• Wahei Tatematsu, 62, Japanese novelist, multiple organ failure.^{[citation needed]}
• Bill Utterback, 79, American illustrator and caricaturist.^[113]
• Isidoor Van De Wiele, 85, Belgian Olympic sprinter.^[114]

9

• Abdul Karim Amu, 76, Nigerian sprinter.^[115]
• Chaskel Besser, 86, Polish-born American rabbi.^[116]
• John D. Butler, 94, American politician, Mayor of San Diego (1951–1955), natural causes.^[117]
• Davy Coenen, 29, Belgian mountain biker, brain tumor.^[118]
• Alfred Gregory, 96, British mountain climber and photojournalist.^[119]
• Phil Harris, 53, American fisherman, reality television participant (Deadliest Catch), stroke.^[120]
• Jacques Hétu, 71, Canadian composer, lung cancer.^[121]
• Juris Kalniņš, 71, Latvian basketball player.^[122]
• Albert Kligman, 93, American dermatologist, inventor of Retin-A, heart attack.^[123]
• Walter Frederick Morrison, 90, American inventor, designer of the frisbee.^[124]
• Francine Irving Neff, 84, American politician, Treasurer of the United States (1974–1977), heart failure.^[125]
• Iza Orjonikidze, 71, Georgian writer and politician, MP (1992–1995), after long illness.^[126]
• Hastings Shade, 68, American deputy tribal chief of the Cherokee Nation (1999–2003).^[127]
• David W. Slater, 88, Canadian economist, civil servant and President of York University (1970–1973).^[128]
• Patricia Travers, 82, American violinist, cancer.^[129]
• Malcolm Vaughan, 80, British singer.^[130]
• Robert Shaw Sturgis Whitman, 94, American Episcopalian priest.^[131]

10

• Yosef Azran, 69, Israeli rabbi and politician, member of the Knesset (1988–1996), liver failure.^[132]
• Jack Bownass, 79, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers).^[133]
• Carl Braun, 82, American basketball player (New York Knicks), natural causes.^[134]
• Armando Falcão, 90, Brazilian politician, Justice Minister (1974–1979), pneumonia.^[135]
• Gabriela Konevska-Trajkovska, 38, Macedonian politician, Deputy Prime Minister (2006–2008), after long illness.^[136]
• Judith Paige Mitchell, 77, American television writer (The Client), cancer.^[137]
• Michael Palme, 66, German sportswriter and host.^[138]
• Orlando Peçanha, 74, Brazilian footballer, heart attack.^[139]
• Gireesh Puthenchery, 48, Indian Malayalam lyricist and screenwriter, brain haemorrhage.^[140]
• K. N. Raj, 85, Indian economist, after long illness.^[141]
• Nelis J. Saunders, 88, American politician.^[142]
• Fred Schaus, 84, American basketball player and coach (Los Angeles Lakers).^[143]
• Enn Soosaar, 72, Estonian translator, literary critic and publicist.^[144]
• José Joaquín Trejos Fernández, 93, Costa Rican President (1966–1970), natural causes.^[145]
• David Tyacke, 94, British Army general.^[146]
• Eduard Vinokurov, 67, Russian Olympic fencer (1968, 1972, 1976).^[147]
• Frederick C. Weyand, 93, American army general, natural causes.^[148]
• Charlie Wilson, 76, American politician, U.S. Representative (1973–1997), subject of the book and movie Charlie Wilson's War, pulmonary arrest.^[149]
• H. V. F. Winstone, 83, British writer and journalist, lung cancer.^[150]

11

• Irina Arkhipova, 85, Russian mezzo-soprano singer, People's Artist of the USSR, cardiac arrest.^[151]
• Shahid Azmi, 32, Indian lawyer, shot.^[152]
• Jabez Bryce, 75, Tongan-born Anglican prelate, archbishop of Polynesia (since 1975), first Pacific Islander Anglican bishop.^[153]
• Iain Burgess, 56, British-born American punk rock record producer, pulmonary embolism.^[154]
• Jennifer Daugherty, 30, American torture murder victim.^[155]
• Pio Filippani Ronconi, 89, Italian orientalist.^[156]
• Walther Fröstell, 96, Swedish Olympic shooter.^[157]
• Brian Godfrey, 69, Welsh footballer, leukaemia.^[158]
• Heward Grafftey, 81, Canadian politician, MP for Brome—Missisquoi, Parkinson's disease (1958–1968, 1972–1980).^[159]
• Arthur H. Hayes, Jr., 76, American public official, Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (1981–1983), leukemia.^[160]
• Mona Hofland, 80, Norwegian actress, after long illness.^[161]
• Bo Holmberg, 67, Swedish governor, widower of Anna Lindh.^[162]
• Umetsugu Inoue, 86, Japanese film director, cerebral hemorrhage.^[163]
• Robert Long, 77, New Zealand cricketer.^[164]
• Alexander McQueen, 40, British fashion designer, suicide by hanging.^[165]
• Caroline McWilliams, 64, American actress (Benson, Guiding Light, Mermaids), multiple myeloma.^[166]
• Paul Rebillot, 78, American psychotherapist, respiratory failure.^[167]
• E.H. Roelfzema, 62, Dutch writer, artist, poet, and musician.^[168]
• David Severn, 91, British author.^[169]
• Yury Sevidov, 68, Russian footballer, Soviet Top League highest goal scorer (1962).^[170]
• Gladys Skillett, 91, British nurse, first Guernsey wartime deportee to give birth in captivity.^[171]
• Daryle Smith, 46, American football player (Dallas Cowboys).^[172]
• Duncan Tanner, 51, British historian.^[173]
• Colin Ward, 85, British anarchist writer.^[174]

12

• Juan Pedro Amestoy, 84, Uruguayan accountant, politician and ambassador.^[175]
• Petar Borota, 56, Serbian footballer (Partizan Belgrade and Chelsea), after long illness.^[176]
• Maria Ragland Davis, 52, American biologist, shot.^[177]
• Ken Emerson, 82, Australian cartoonist (The Warrumbunglers).^[178]
• Jerry Fahr, 85, American baseball player.^[179]
• Gino Gardassanich, 87, Italian-born American football player.^[180]
• Chhaya Ghosh, 69, Indian politician.^[181]
• Sheldon Gilgore, 77, American physician, president of Pfizer (1971–1986) and Searle (1986–1995), pancreatic cancer.^[182]
• Jake Hanna, 78, American jazz drummer, blood disease.^[183]
• Adriel Johnson, 52, American biologist, shot.^[184]
• Athan Karras, 82, Greek-born American advocate of Greek dance, complications from coronary artery bypass surgery.^[185]
• Allan Kornblum, 71, American lawyer, counsel to the F.B.I., esophageal cancer.^[186]
• Werner Krämer, 70, German footballer.^[187]
• Nodar Kumaritashvili, 21, Georgian luger, national team member for the 2010 Winter Olympics, training accident.^[188]
• Miro Mihovilović, 94, Croatian Olympic water polo player.^[189]
• Luis Molowny, 84, Spanish footballer, heart attack.^[190]
• Leroy Nash, 94, American murderer, oldest death row inmate, natural causes.^[191]
• Alexis Pappas, 94, Greek-born Norwegian chemist.^[192]
• G. K. Podila, 52, Indian-born American biologist, shot.^[193]
• Willie Polland, 75, Scottish footballer (Heart of Midlothian).^[194]
• Saleban Olad Roble, 46, Somali government minister, injuries sustained in the 2009 Shamo Hotel bombing.^[195]
• Bernard Smith, 99, American sailboat designer, liver cancer.^[196]
• Grethe Sønck, 80, Danish actress and singer, natural causes.^[197]

13

• Ralph G. Anderson, 86, American engineer and farmer.^[198]
• Lucille Clifton, 73, American poet, Poet Laureate of Maryland (1974–1985).^[199]
• Jock Ferguson, 64, Scottish-born Australian politician, Western Australian Legislative Council (since 2009), heart attack.^[200]
• Werner Forman, 89, Czech-born British photographer.^[201]
• Cy Grant, 90, Guyanese-born British actor and activist.^[202]
• Dale Hawkins, 73, American rockabilly musician, colorectal cancer.^[203]
• James D. Johnson, 85, American politician and jurist, Arkansas Supreme Court Justice (1959–1966), suicide by gunshot.^[204]
• Raymond Mason, 87, British sculptor.^[205]
• Robert J. Myers, 97, American politician, co-creator of the Social Security program, respiratory failure.^[206]
• Jamil Nasser, 77, American jazz musician, cardiac arrest.^[207]
• José María Pasquini Durán, 70, Argentine journalist, cardiac arrest.^[208]
• John Reed, 94, British actor.^[209]
• Red Rocha, 86, American basketball player and coach (Hawaii Rainbow Warriors).^[210]
• Roger Thatcher, 83, British statistician.^[211]
• Gareth Wigan, 78, British film studio executive (Star Wars, Chariots of Fire), after short illness.^[212][213]

14

• Ram Sarup Ankhi, 77, Indian writer, poet, and novelist.^[214]
• Audrey Collins, 94, British cricket player and administrator.^[215]
• John Downey, 89, British Royal Air Force officer.^[216]
• Doug Fieger, 57, American musician (The Knack), lung cancer.^[217]
• Dick Francis, 89, British jockey and novelist (Dead Cert).^[218]
• Helge Høva, 81, Norwegian politician.^[219]
• Amos Funk, 98, American farm preservationist.^[220]
• Linnart Mäll, 71, Estonian historian, orientalist, translator and politician, cancer.^[221]
• John Ruan, 96, American entrepreneur and philanthropist, Parkinson's disease.^[222]
• John Thorbjarnarson, 52, American conservationist and crocodile expert, malaria.^[223]
• Jerzy Turek, 76, Polish actor.^[224]
• Zhang Yalin, 28, Chinese football player, lymphoma.^[225]

15

• W. H. Clatworthy, 94, American mathematician.^[226]
• Juan Carlos González, 85, Uruguayan football player.^[227]
• Ian Gray, 46, Australian football player, homicide by prohibited drug.^[228]
• Jeanne M. Holm, 88, American general, pneumonia.^[229]
• Bill Kajikawa, 97, American basketball coach (Arizona State Sun Devils).^[230]
• Dana Kirk, 74, American basketball coach (Memphis Tigers), heart attack.^[231]
• Rigmor Mydtskov, 84, Danish court photographer.^[232]
• Fred Peacock, 93, Canadian politician.^[233]
• Aníbal Portillo, 95, Salvadoran military officer, head of state (1961–1962).^[234]
• Sylvia Pressler, 75, American jurist, lymphoma.^[235]
• Alfred Surratt, 87, American baseball player (Kansas City Monarchs), co-founder of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.^[236]
• Art Van Damme, 89, American jazz musician and accordionist, pneumonia.^[237]
• George Waring, 84, British actor (Coronation Street), cancer.^[238]
• Claud William Wright, 93, British civil servant and scientific expert.^[239]

16

• Jim Bibby, 65, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates), bone cancer.^[185]
• John Davis Chandler, 73, American actor (Adventures in Babysitting, The Outlaw Josey Wales).^[240]
• William E. Gordon, 92, American inventor, designer of the Arecibo Radio Telescope, natural causes.^[241]
• Martin Grossman, 45, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.^[242]
• Jim Harmon, 76, American science fiction writer, heart attack.^[243]
• Ronald Howes, 83, American inventor, designer of Easy-Bake Oven.^[244]
• Andrew Koenig, 41, American actor (Growing Pains), suicide.^[245]
• Ino Kolbe, 95, German Esperanto expert.^[246]
• Ian Roderick Macneil, 80, American-born lawyer and Scottish clan chief.^[247]
• Mike Pittilo, 55, British biologist and educator, Principal of Robert Gordon University.^[248]
• Wan Chi Keung, 53, Hong Kong footballer, actor, and businessman, nasopharyngeal carcinoma.^[249]
• Jim Waugh, 76, American baseball player.^[250]

17

• Roger-Émile Aubry, 86, Swiss-born Bolivian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Reyes (1973–1999).^[251]
• Chaturvedi Badrinath, 76, Indian officer and author.^[252]
• Lottie Beck, 81, American baseball player (AAGPBL)^[253]
• Arnold Beichman, 96, American writer and journalist.^[254]
• Bjørn Benkow, 70, Norwegian journalist.^[255]
• Giulio de Florian, 74, Italian Olympic cross-country skier.^[256]
• Makoto Fujita, 76, Japanese actor and comedian, ruptured artery.^[257]
• Kathryn Grayson, 88, American actress and singer.^[258]
• Ruby Hunter, 54, Australian singer and musician, heart attack.^[259]
• Abdulkhakim Ismailov, 93, Russian Red Army soldier, World War II hero, natural causes.^[260]
• David Lelei, 38, Kenyan middle distance runner, car accident.^[261]
• Ignatius P. Lobo, 90, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Belgaum (1967–1994).^[262]
• Martha Mercader, 83, Argentine politician and writer.^[263]
• Hans Ørberg, 89, Danish linguist.^[264]
• Witold Skaruch, 80, Polish actor.^[265]
• Luigi Ulivelli, 74, Italian Olympic athlete.^[266]

18

• John Babcock, 109, Canadian soldier, Canada's last surviving World War I veteran.^[267]
• Erwin Bachmann, 88, German Waffen-SS officer.^[268]
• Asta Backman, 93, Finnish actress.^[269]
• Bob Chakales, 82, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians).^[270]
• Barton Childs, 93, American physician and geneticist, complications of lung cancer.^[271]
• Amlan Datta, 85, Indian economist and teacher.^[272]
• Alan Gordon, 65, Scottish football player, cancer.^[273]
• Fernando Krahn, 75, Chilean plastic artist and illustrator.^[274]
• Emilio Lavazza, 78, Italian businessman, President of Lavazza Coffee (1979–2008).^[275]
• Nirmal Pandey, 48, Indian actor, heart attack.^[276]
• Richard Proulx, 72, American choral conductor and composer.^[277]
• Ariel Ramírez, 88, Argentine composer and pianist, pneumonia.^[278]

19

• George Cisar, 99, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).^[279]
• Daddy, 16, American Pit Bull Terrier, appeared with owner Cesar Millan in Dog Whisperer, euthanized due to cancer.^[280]
• Jamie Gillis, 66, American pornographic film actor, melanoma.^[281]
• Bruno Gironcoli, 73, Austrian sculptor, after long illness.^[282]
• Lionel Jeffries, 83, British film actor, screenwriter and director.^[283]
• Rudy Larriva, 94, American animator and animation director (Looney Tunes, The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show).^[284]
• Rafael Muñoz Núñez, 85, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Zacatecas (1972–1984) and Aguascalientes (1984–1998).^[285]
• Elli Parvo, 95, Italian film actress.^[286]
• Giovanni Pettenella, 66, Italian Olympic cyclist.^[287]
• Walter Plowright, 86, British veterinary scientist.^[288]
• Laura Spurr, 64, American chairwoman of the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi since 2003, heart attack.^[289]
• Bull Verweij, 100, Dutch businessman, co-founder of Radio Veronica.^[290]
• Mladen Veža, 94, Croatian painter.^[291]

20

• Chandan Mal Baid, 88, Indian politician.^[292]
• Ghantasala Balaramayya, 78, Indian producer, director and actor.^[293]
• Bobby Cox, 76, Scottish footballer (Dundee).^[294]
• Georges Charachidzé, 80, French scholar of the Caucasian cultures.^[295]
• Juanita Goggins, 75, American politician, first black woman in South Carolina Legislature, hypothermia.^[296] (estimated date of death)
• Linda Grover, 76, American peace activist, founder of Global Family Day, uterine and ovarian cancer.^[297]
• Alexander Haig, 85, American politician and diplomat, Secretary of State (1981–1982), complications from an infection.^[298]
• Sam Hamilton, 54, American public official, Director of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service since 2009, heart attack.^[299]
• Sandy Kenyon, 87, American character and voice actor (The Twilight Zone, Here Comes Garfield).^[300]
• Henry Kučera, 85, Czech-born American linguist.^[301]
• Niall McCrudden, 45, Irish optician and socialite.^[302]
• Padmanabham, 78, Indian actor, heart attack.^{[citation needed]}
• Jason Wood, 38, British comedian and reality television contestant (Strictly Come Dancing).^[303]

21

• Seth G. Atwood, 92, American industrialist, community leader, and horological collector.^[304]
• Bob Doe, 89, British airman, Royal Air Force flying ace.^[305]
• Jacek Karpiński, 83, Polish computer scientist.^[306]
• Veini Kontinen, 82, Finnish Olympic skier.^[307]
• Vladimir Motyl, 82, Russian film director and scenarist, cervical fractures and pneumonia.^{[citation needed]}
• Albader Parad, Filipino militant (Abu Sayyaf), shot.^[308]
• Vesa Pulliainen, 52, Finnish Olympic footballer.^[309]
• Casimir Johannes Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, 93, German nobleman, businessman and politician.^[310]
• William E. Skillend, 83, British scholar of Korean language.^[311]
• George Strickland, 84, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Cleveland Indians).^[312]
• James Wieghart, 76, American newspaper editor (New York Daily News), pneumonia.^[313]

22

• Juan Angel Belda Dardiñá, 83, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Jaca (1978–1983) and León (1983–1987).^[314]
• Michael J. Bradley, 76, British diplomat, Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands (1987–1993).^[315]
• Robert Carter, 82, American priest and gay rights activist, a founder of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.^[316]
• Fred Chaffart, 74, Belgian businessperson.^[317]
• Henry Cosgrove, 87, Australian judge, Judge of the Supreme Court of Tasmania (1977–1988).^[318]
• Robin Davies, 56, British actor, lung cancer.^[319]
• Hillar Eller, 70, Estonian politician, former chairman of the Estonian Left Party (1995–1996).^[320]
• Eugene Lambert, 82, Irish puppeteer and ventriloquist (Wanderly Wagon).^[321]
• Nelly Landry, 93, Belgian-born French tennis player.^[322]
• Rozy Munir, 67, Indonesian diplomat, ambassador to Qatar, liver cancer.^[323]
• Menachem Porush, 93, Israeli politician, Member of Knesset (1959–1975, 1977–1994).^[324]
• Bobby Smith, 56, Scottish footballer, cancer.^[325]
• Charles Stenvig, 82, American politician, Mayor of Minneapolis (1969–1973, 1975–1977).^[326]
• Mohammed Zaman, 44, Afghan political and military leader, victim of suicide bombing.^[327]

23

• John Hollings Addison, 80, Canadian politician and business executive.^[328]
• Vyacheslav Andreyuk, 64, Soviet Russian football player.^[329]
• Clarence R. Autery, 76, American general.^[330]
• Bill Burtenshaw, 84, British footballer.^[331]
• Michael Clancy, 60, Saint Helena politician and Governor (2004–2007), cancer.^[332]
• Mervyn Jones, 87, British journalist, biographer and novelist.^[333]
• Abune Zena Markos, 72, Ethiopian Archbishop, complications from pneumonia.^[334]
• Wyn Morris, 81, British conductor.^[335]
• Gerhardt Neef, 63, German footballer (Rangers), throat cancer.^[336]
• Henri Salmide, 90, German World War II naval officer, saved Bordeaux port from destruction.^[337]
• Mosi Tatupu, 54, American football player (New England Patriots).^[338]
• Derek Vanlint, 78, British-born Canadian cinematographer (Alien), short illness.^[339]
• Orlando Zapata, 42, Cuban dissident, hunger strike.^[340]

24

• Antonio Alegre, 85, Argentine businessman, President of Boca Juniors (1985–1995).^[341]
• Delmo da Silva, 55, Brazilian Olympic sprinter.^[342]
• Ang It-hong, 82, Taiwanese singer, songwriter, composer and actor, pancreatic cancer.^[343]
• Dawn Brancheau, 40, American SeaWorld trainer, killer whale attack.^[344]
• Carlo Cicuttini, 63, Italian neo-fascist and terrorist.^[345]
• Jake Elder, 73, American NASCAR crew chief, natural causes.^[346]
• Howard George, 75, American Olympic wrestler.^[347]
• Richard Gruenwald, 93, Canadian politician, Alberta MLA for Lethbridge-West (1971–1975).^[348]
• Dagfin Huseby, 87, Norwegian Olympic wrestler.^[349]
• C. R. Johnson, 26, American newschool skier, skiing accident.^[350]
• Birgitta Lindqvist, 67, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier.^[351]
• Charles MacArthur, 89, Canadian politician, MLA for Inverness (1983–1998).^[352]

25

• Henry Barron, 81, Irish jurist, Supreme Court of Ireland (1997–2003), after short illness.^[353]
• Ernst Beyeler, 88, Swiss art collector.^[354]
• Barbara Bray, 85, British translator.^[355]
• Aaron Cohen, 79, American aerospace engineer, Director of Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (1986–1993), after long illness.^[356]
• İhsan Doğramacı, 94, Turkish physician and academic, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.^[357]
• Vladislav Galkin, 38, Russian actor, heart failure.^[358]
• Gheorghe Gaston Marin, 91, Romanian politician.^[359]
• Donald Merrifield, 81, American Jesuit, first president of Loyola Marymount University (1973–1984), heart attack.^[360]
• John Bernard McDowell, 88, American Roman Catholic prelate, Titular Bishop of Tamazuca (1966–1996).^[361]
• Oscar Ravina, 79, Polish-born American violinist.^[362]
• David Soyer, 87, American cellist (Guarneri Quartet).^[363]
• Efren Torres, 66, Mexican former world flyweight champion boxer, heart attack.^[364]
• Ali Tounsi, 76, Algerian police official, Chief of National Police, shot.^[365]
• Tuomo Tuormaa, 83, Finnish Olympic sprint canoer.^[366]
• Ahmet Vardar, 73, Turkish journalist and writer, pancreatic cancer.^[367]
• Frank Williams, 73, American architect (Trump Palace, Four Seasons Hotel New York), esophageal cancer.^[368]

26

• María Elisa Álvarez Obaya, 76, Spanish pharmacist.^[369]
• Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr., 92, American political photographer (Bachrach Studios).^[370]
• Violet Barclay, 87, American comic book artist.^[371]
• Tom Bass, 93, Australian sculptor.^[372]
• Barry Bowen, 64, Belizean bottling magnate and politician, plane crash.^[373]
• Francisco Cabrera Santos, 63, Venezuelan politician, mayor of Valencia, Carabobo.^[374]
• Bernard Coutaz, 87, French music publisher, founder of Harmonia Mundi.^[375]
• Richard Devon, 84, American character actor (Lassie), vascular disease.^[376]
• Charles le Gai Eaton, 89, Swiss-born British diplomat and author.^[377]
• Andrew Jaffe, 71, American journalist (Adweek), revived the Clio Awards, multiple myeloma.^[378]
• Ivaylo Kirov, 63, Bulgarian Olympic basketball player.^[379]
• Robert McCall, 90, American artist, heart failure.^[380]
• Nujabes, 36, Japanese hip hop composer (Samurai Champloo), car accident.^[381]
• Jacques J. Polak, 95, Dutch economist.^[382]
• Dave Sheasby, 69, British playwright, radio producer and dramatist.^[383]

27

• David Bankier, 63, German-born Israeli Holocaust scholar.^[384]
• Black Bear Island, app. 4, Irish Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.^[385]
• Larry Cassidy, 56, British bass guitarist and singer (Section 25).^[386]
• Charlie Crowe, 85, English footballer (Newcastle United), Alzheimer's disease.^[387]
• Frans De Blaes, 100, Belgian Olympic sprint canoer.^[388]
• Nanaji Deshmukh, 93, Indian social activist and politician, after long illness.^[389]
• Anna Fárová, 81, Czech photography historian and advocate, Charter 77 signatory.^[390]
• Madeleine Ferron, 87, Canadian author, Alzheimer's disease.^[391]
• Eli Fischer-Jørgensen, 99, Danish linguist and World War II resistance member.^[392]
• Rosemary Goldie, 94, Australian Roman Catholic theologian, Under-Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Laity (1967–1976).^[393]
• Jonathan May, 51, American cellist and conductor, stroke.^[394]
• František Nedvěd, 59, Czech Olympic weightlifter.^[395]
• Hank Rosenstein, 89, American basketball player (New York Knicks), heart failure.^[396]
• Nathan Scott, 94, American film and television composer (Lassie, The Twilight Zone, Dragnet), natural causes.^[397]
• Oleg Stepanov, 70, Russian judoka, 1964 Olympic bronze medal winner.^[398]
• Wendy Toye, 92, British filmmaker.^[399]
• Roger Veeser, 90, Swiss Olympic athlete.^[400]

28

• David Amland, 79, American painter and art educator.^[401]
• Edward L. Athey, 88, American football, basketball and baseball player, baseball and basketball coach.^[402]
• Martin Benson, 91, British actor (The Omen, Cleopatra, Goldfinger).^[403]
• Adam Blacklaw, 72, Scottish footballer (Burnley).^[404]
• Gerald Butler, 79, British jurist and broadcaster, heart attack.^[405]
• Theodore Cross, 86, American publisher and civil rights activist, heart failure.^[406]
• Bohdan Ejmont, 82, Polish actor.^[407]
• Rose Gray, 71, British restaurateur (The River Café) and food writer, brain cancer.^[408]
• Gene Greytak, 84, American impressionist (Pope John Paul II), cancer.^[409]
• Chushiro Hayashi, 89, Japanese astrophysicist, pneumonia.^[410]
• Phillip Law, 97, Australian scientist and explorer (Australian Antarctic Territory).^[411]
• José Mindlin, 95, Brazilian businessman and bibliophile, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.^[412]
• Carlos Montemayor, 62, Mexican writer, stomach cancer.^[413]
• Nikolay Surov, 62, Russian Olympic rower.^[414]
• Jorge Villamil, 80, Colombian composer, complications from diabetes.^[415]
• George Watt, 92, Australian rugby league footballer.^[416]
• Tom Wolk, 58, American bass guitarist (Hall & Oates), heart attack.^[417]