The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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.

May 2010

1

• Danny Aiello III, 53, American stuntman (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Shooter, Rescue Me), pancreatic cancer.^[1]
• T. M. Aluko, 91, Nigerian writer.^[2]
• Mohammad Bahmanbeigi, 90, Iranian educator.^[3]
• Don Caruth, 59, American politician, minority leader of the West Virginia Senate, brain cancer.^[4]
• Jean-Louis Dumas, 72, French businessman, Hermès group chairman (1978–2006).^[5]
• Ramakrushna Gouda, 77, Indian politician.^[6]
• Antoine Hayek, 81, Lebanese Melkite Greek Catholic prelate, archbishop of Baniyas (1989–2006).^[7]
• Vytautas Janulionis, 52, Lithuanian glass artist.^[8]
• Zygmunt Kamiński, 77, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Szczecin-Kamień (1999–2009).^[9]
• Dragan Kujović, Montenegrin politician, President (2003).^[10]
• Rob McConnell, 75, Canadian jazz musician, cancer.^[11]
• Lawrence Paul, 84, Canadian Mi'kmaq tribe leader, chief of the Membertou First Nation (1967–1969).^[12]
• Helen Wagner, 91, American actress (As the World Turns), cancer.^[13]

2

• Ann Aldrich, 82, American jurist.^[14]
• Moshe Hirsch, 86, Israeli Neturei Karta rabbi and anti-Zionist, Palestinian National Authority Minister for Jewish Affairs, after long illness.^[15]
• André Lamy, 77, Canadian film producer, after long illness.^[16]
• Andrew McFarlane, 32, Australian motocross racer, accident during practice.^[17]
• Murray Nicoll, 66, Australian journalist and broadcaster, Ash Wednesday fires commentator, leukaemia.^[18]
• Santiago Carlos Oves, 68, Argentine film director.^[19]
• Parry the Platypus, 67, English actress (Georgy Girl, Gods and Monsters, Tom Jones), breast cancer.^[20]

3

• Mohammed Abed al-Jabri, 73, Moroccan philosopher and writer.^[21]
• M Innas Ali, 93, Bangladeshi physicist.^[22]
• Luigi Amaducci, 86, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Ravenna-Cervia (1990–2000).^[23]
• Florencio Campomanes, 83, Filipino chess player, President of FIDE (1982–1995).^[24]
• Stefan Doernberg, 85, German writer and teacher.^[25]
• Jack Friedman, 70, American businessman, co-founder of Jakks Pacific.^[26]
• Jimmy Gardner, 85, British character actor (The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Finding Neverland) .^[27]
• Karl Kasten, 94, American painter.^[28]
• Stephen Ledogar, 80, American arms control negotiator, bladder cancer.^[29]
• Merv McIntosh, 87, Australian football player, heart attack.^[30]
• Bohumil Němeček, 72, Czech boxer, Olympic gold medalist (1960).^[31]
• Peter O'Donnell, 90, British writer (Modesty Blaise).^[32]
• Nick Rogers, 30, American football player (Minnesota Vikings), auto accident.^[33]
• Kinji Shibuya, 88, American professional wrestler and actor (Mr. T and Tina), natural causes.^[34]
• El Supremo, 67, Mexican professional wrestler, heart attack.^[35]
• Garland Warren, 74, Canadian football player (Winnipeg Blue Bombers).^[36]
• Guenter Wendt, 85, German-born American spacecraft engineer (NASA ), heart failure and stroke.^[37]

4

• Sheikh Nur Mohamed Abkey, 51-52, Somalian journalist, shot.^[38]
• David Apter, 85, American political scientist, complications of cancer.^[39]
• Brita Borg, 83, Swedish actress, singer and variety show artist.^[40]
• Danny Chandler, 50, American motocross champion, complications from paralysis.^[41]
• Ángel Cristo, 65, Spanish animal tamer and circus promoter, cardiac arrest.^[42]
• Bill Dale, 93, Canadian track and field athlete.^[43]
• Sheena Duncan, 77, South African anti-apartheid campaigner, leader of Black Sash, after long illness.^[44]
• Ernie Harwell, 92, American baseball sportscaster (Detroit Tigers), cholangiocarcinoma.^[45]
• Peter Heathfield, 81, British trade unionist.^[46]
• Sipho Jele, 35, Swazi politician.^[47]
• Freddy Kottulinsky, 77, German-born Swedish racing driver.^[48]
• William Lubtchansky, 73, French cinematographer, heart disease.^[49]
• Denis Obua, 62, Ugandan footballer.^[50]
• Luigi Poggi, 92, Italian Roman Catholic prelate.^[51]
• Joan Rendell, 89, British writer.^[52]
• Dustin Shuler, 61, American sculptor (Spindle), pancreatic cancer.^[53][54]
• Hadi Soesastro, 65, Indonesian economist and intellectual, founder of the CSIS, brain hemorrhage.^[55]

5

• Lucho Barrios, 76, Peruvian bolero singer.^[56]
• Louis Bisilliat, 79, French cyclist.^[57]
• Ray Blum, 91, American Olympic speed skater.^[58]
• Alessandra Codazzi, 88, Italian trade unionist, partisan and politician, Senator (1976-1987).^[59]
• Marcello Costalunga, 85, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Titular Archbishop of Aquileia (1991–2001).^[60]
• Joseph Kearney, 83, American athletic director, pancreatic cancer.^[61]
• Alfons Kontarsky, 77, German pianist.^[62]
• Armando Lucero, 68, Argentine sex offender, respiratory infection.^[63]
• Jack MacDonald, 82, Canadian politician, mayor of Hamilton, Ontario (1977–1980).^[64]
• Max Palevsky, 85, American entrepreneur, philanthropist and art collector.^[65]
• Harry Siljander, 87, Finnish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1952) boxer.^[66]
• Giulietta Simionato, 99, Italian mezzo-soprano singer.^[67]
• Gwyn Thomas, 96, Canadian crime reporter (Toronto Star), natural causes.^[68]
• Umaru Yar'Adua, 58, Nigerian politician, President (2007–2010).^[69]

6

• Hoàng Cầm, 88, Vietnamese poet and playwright.^[70]
• Jaroslav Cardal, 91, Czechoslovakian Olympic cross-country skier.^[71]
• David E. Durston, 88, American film director and screenwriter (I Drink Your Blood), complications from pneumonia.^[72]
• Guillermo Meza, 21, Mexican footballer (Pumas Morelos), shot.^[73]
• Giacomo Neri, 94, Italian footballer.^[74]
• Mildred Ellen Orton, 99, American businesswoman, co-founder of the Vermont Country Store.^[75]
• Robin Roberts, 83, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies), Baseball Hall of Fame inductee, natural causes.^[76]
• Robert J. Serling, 92, American author, brother of Rod Serling.^[77]
• Dennis Sharp, 76, British architect, cancer.^[78]
• Tyler Lambert, 25, Mother of Dana Plato committed suicide

7

• Francisco Aguabella, 84, Cuban-born American jazz percussionist, cancer.^[79]
• Bertha Allen, 75-76, Canadian activist, cancer.^[80]
• Juan Arcocha, 82, Cuban journalist and writer.^[81]
• Rane Arroyo, 55, American poet, cerebral hemorrhage.^[82]
• Anders Buraas, 94, Norwegian journalist.^[83]
• Babz Chula, 64, American actress (Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, The X-Files: I Want to Believe, Double Jeopardy), cancer.^[84]
• Dick Flowers, 84, American football player (Baltimore Colts).^[85]
• Pamela Green, 81, British actress and model, leukemia.^[86]
• Wally Hickel, 90, American politician, Secretary of the Interior (1969–1970), Governor of Alaska (1966–1969, 1990–1994), natural causes.^[87]
• Billy Kelly, 78, British boxer, after long illness.^[88]
• Zoran Kurteš, 44, Serbian handball player and coach, cardiac arrest.^[89]
• Adele Mara, 87, American actress (Sands of Iwo Jima), natural causes.^[90]
• Fríða Á. Sigurðardóttir, 69, Icelandic author.^[91]
• Svetozar Stojanović, 78, Serbian philosopher and political theorist.^[92]
• Flora L. Thornton, 96, American arts patron and philanthropist, pulmonary disease.^[93]
• Bert L. Vallee, 90, American professor.^[94]

8

• Bruce Alford, Sr., 87, American football player (New York Yanks), and line judge, cancer.^[95]
• Shadreck Biemba, 45, Zambian footballer, cancer.^[96]
• Joaquín Capilla, 81, Mexican Olympic diving four-time medalist, heart failure.^[97]
• Sir Cecil Clothier, 90, Manx judge and public servant.^[98]
• Willis Eken, 79, American politician and farmer, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives.^[99]
• Andrew Hull, 46, Canadian-born film maker, film director and architect, head injury due to cycling accident.^[100]
• Stefanos Lazaridis, 67, Ethiopian-born Greek stage designer, cancer.^[101]
• Andor Lilienthal, 99, Russian-born Hungarian chess grandmaster.^[102]
• Giuseppe Ogna, 76, Italian Olympic cyclist.^[103]
• Peer Schmidt, 84, German actor, after long illness.^[104]
• Mark Shannon, 58, American radio personality (KTOK), lymphoid leukemia.^[105]
• George Susce, 78, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox).^[106]
• Alan Watkins, 77, British political journalist, renal failure.^[107]

9

• Danger Ashipala, 62, Namibian police advisor.^[108]
• Maksymilian Barański, 84, Polish footballer [1]
• Erica Blasberg, 25, American golfer, suicide.^[109]
• Raymond Bouchex, 83, French Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Avignon (1978–2002).^[110]
• Dean Cetrulo, 91, American fencer, Olympic bronze medalist (1948 Summer Olympics).^[111]
• Geoffrey Chapman, 80, Australian publisher.^[112]
• Rita Childers, 95, Irish politician, wife of President Erskine Hamilton Childers.^[113]
• Zosima Davydov, 46, Russian Orthodox prelate, bishop of Yakutsk and Lensk (since 2004), heart attack.^[114]
• Hans Dijkstal, 67, Dutch politician, Minister of the Interior and Deputy Prime Minister (1994–1998), cancer.^[115]
• Francisco Andrés Escobar, 67, Salvadoran actor, journalist and writer.^[116]
• Lena Horne, 92, American singer and actress (Stormy Weather, The Wiz).^[117]
• Signe Johansson-Engdahl, 104, Swedish 1924 Olympic diver.^[118]
• Farzad Kamangar, 32, Iranian activist, execution by hanging.^[119]
• Craig Kauffman, 78, American painter and sculptor, complications from a stroke and pneumonia.^[120]
• Teruji Kogake, 77, Japanese Olympic athlete, liver failure.^[121]
• Mahāprajña, 89, Indian Jain religious leader, supreme head of Svetambar Terapanth, cardiac arrest.^[122]
• Otakar Motejl, 77, Czech public official, Ombudsman (since 2000), after short illness.^[123]
• Karl-Heinz Schnibbe, 86, German partisan, World War II resistance fighter.^[124]
• Edward Uhl, 92, American inventor, co-inventor of the bazooka, heart failure.^[125]

10

• Allan Andersson, 79, Swedish Olympic skier.^[126]
• Ike Franklin Andrews, 84, American politician, U.S. Representative from North Carolina (1973–1985).^[127]
• Albert W. Barney, 89, American jurist, Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court (1974–1982).^[128]
• Jack Birkett, 75, British dancer, singer and actor.^[129]
• Giuliana Camerino, 90, Italian handbag designer.^[130]
• Charles Currey, 94, British sailor, silver medallist at the 1952 Summer Olympics.^[131]
• Frank Frazetta, 82, American fantasy and science fiction artist, stroke.^[132]
• Bill Hook, 84, American-born chess player for British Virgin Islands.^[133]
• Margit Hvammen, 77, Norwegian Olympic Alpine skier.^[134]
• John Kempe, 92, British schoolteacher, headmaster of Gordonstoun School.^[135]
• Mac Mohan, 71, Indian actor (Sholay), lung cancer.^[136]
• Volodymyr Ploskina, 55, Ukrainian football manager and former footballer.^[137]
• Robert B. Salter, 85, Canadian surgeon.^[138]

11

• Ian Baker, 86, British architect.^[139]
• Robert H. Burris, 96, American biochemist.^[140]
• John Burton, 85, New Zealand cricketer.^[141]
• John Fugh, 75, American army officer, Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Army, heart attack.^[142]
• Brian Gibson, 82, English footballer (Huddersfield Town).^[143]
• Timothy Grubb, 55, British-born American show jumper, Olympic silver medallist (1984 Summer Olympics), heart failure.^[144]
• Karl-Erik Hult, 74, Swedish football player and manager.^[145]
• Rauf Jabbarov, 74, Azerbaijani boxing manager, heart attack.^[146]
• Josef Keck, 59, German Olympic biathlete.^[147]
• Maciej Kozłowski, 52, Polish actor, complications of hepatitis C.^[148]
• Richard LaMotta, 67, American inventor of the Chipwich ice cream sandwich, heart attack.^[149]
• Bud Mahurin, 91, American flying ace, complications from a stroke.^[150]
• Emmanuel Ngobese, 29, South African footballer, tuberculosis.^[151]
• Jeff Shaw, 60, Australian politician and jurist, NSW Attorney General (1995–2000), Supreme Court judge (2003–2004), pneumonia.^[152]
• Doris Eaton Travis, 106, American performer, last surviving Ziegfeld girl, aneurysm.^[153]
• Bob Watt, 82, Canadian ice hockey player, Olympic gold medalist (1952 Winter Olympics) .^[154]

12

• Anthony Andeh, 64, Nigerian Olympic boxer.^[155]
• Dieter Bock, 71, German businessman and multimillionaire, choking.^[156]
• Phyllis Hodges Boyce, 73, American actress (Gone with the Wind, Star Trek).^[157]
• Clive Fairbairn, 90, Australian cricketer.^[158]
• Charlie Francis, 61, Canadian track coach, lymphoma.^[159]
• Edith Keller-Herrmann, 88, German chess Grandmaster.^[160]
• Sione Manu'uli Luani, 50, Tongan politician, governor of Vavaʻu (since 2009).^[161]
• Allan Manings, 86, American television writer (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Good Times), cardiac arrest.^[162]
• Antonio Ozores, 81, Spanish actor, cancer.^[163]
• John Warham, 90, New Zealand ornithologist and photographer.^[164]
• Notable people killed in the crash of Afriqiyah Airways Flight 771:
  • Joëlle van Noppen, 30, Dutch singer.^[165]
  • Bree O'Mara, 42, South African novelist.^[166]

13

• Rafael Sanus Abad, 78, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Valencia (1989–2000).^[167]
• Ashaari Mohammad, 73, Malaysian spiritual leader, respiratory infection.^[168]
• Ruth Chew, 90, American children's author, pneumonia.^[169]
• Paul Garabedian, 82, American mathematician.^[170]
• Eddie Garrett, 82, American actor (Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Quincy, M.E.).^[171]
• Cinthia Régia Gomes do Livramento, 46, Brazilian politician, Education Secretary (Amazonas), air crash.^[172]
• Walter Klimmek, 91, German footballer.^[173]
• Klaus Kotter, 75, German bobsleigh official.^[174]
• Richard Movitz, 84, American Olympic skier.^[175]
• Peter Provan, 73, Australian rugby league footballer, Balmain Tigers premiership captain (1969), after long illness.^[176]
• Rosa Rio, 107, American organist (Tampa Theatre).^[177]

14

• Ronald Bailey, 92, British diplomat.^[178]
• Frank J. Dodd, 72, American politician, President of the New Jersey Senate (1974–1975).^[179]
• Goh Keng Swee, 91, Singaporean politician, Deputy Prime Minister (1973–1984), after long illness.^[180]
• Norman Hand, 37, American football player (San Diego Chargers, New Orleans Saints), heart disease.^[181]
• Rūta Jokubonienė, 80, Lithuanian textile artist.^[182]
• Milouš Kvaček, 76, Czech football player and manager.^[183]
• David Maimon, 81, Israeli general, head of Israel Prison Service.^[184]
• Fred O'Donovan, 80, Irish theatre producer, Chairman of RTÉ Authority (1981–1985).^[185]
• Skip Away, 17, American thoroughbred racehorse, heart attack.^[186]
• Edmund Tsaturyan, 73, Armenian politician.^[187]
• Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, 70, South African politician, complications from liver disease.^[188]

15

• Harry Aleman, 71, American gangster and murderer, lung cancer.^[189]
• Frances Alexander, 90, American politician.^[190]
• Gabriel Bien-Aimé, Haitian politician, Minister of Education (2006–2008), heart attack.^[191]
• Armand Caouette, 64, Canadian politician, Member of Parliament (1974–1980).^[192]
• Juan José Carbó, 83, Spanish cartoonist.^[193]
• Moshe Greenberg, 81, American rabbi and biblical scholar.^[194]
• Christian Habicht, 57, German actor, heart attack.^[195]
• Besian Idrizaj, 22, Austrian footballer, heart attack.^[196]
• Loris Kessel, 60, Swiss racing driver, leukemia.^[197]
• Archduke Rudolf of Austria, 90, Austrian nobleman, youngest son of Emperor Charles I and Zita of Bourbon-Parma.^[198]
• John Shepherd-Barron, 84, British inventor, invented the Automatic Teller Machine.^[199]
• Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, 86, Indian politician, Vice-President (2002–2007), respiratory infection.^[200]

16

• Debbie Abono, 80, American band manager.^[201]
• Ronnie James Dio, 67, American heavy metal singer (Black Sabbath, Rainbow, Dio), stomach cancer.^[202]
• Frank Dye, 82, British sailor.^[203]
• Alfonso Escámez, 94, Spanish banker.^[204]
• Hank Jones, 91, American jazz pianist.^[205]
• Oswaldo López Arellano, 88, Honduran politician, President (1963–1971, 1972–1975), prostate cancer.^[206]
• Ingvard Nielsen, 84, Danish Olympic athlete.^[207]
• Stephen Perry, 55, American television writer (ThunderCats, SilverHawks), homicide.^[208] (body discovered on this date)

17

• Víctor Selvino Arenhart, 61, Argentine Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Oberá (since 2009).^[209]
• Trevor Brissett, 49, English footballer (Port Vale), cancer.^[210]
• Judson Crews, 92, American poet.^[211]
• Ludwig von Friedeburg, 85, German politician and sociologist, Hesse Minister for Education (1969–1974).^[212]
• Richard Gregory, 86, British psychologist.^[213]
• Dorothy Kamenshek, 84, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, 1943–1952).^[214]
• Yvonne Loriod, 86, French pianist, composer and teacher, widow of Olivier Messiaen.^[215]
• Mukhran Machavariani, 81, Georgian poet, heart attack.^[216]
• Vasil Manchenko, 79, Bulgarian Olympic basketball player.^[217]
• Rafael Nantes, 53, Filipino politician, helicopter crash.^[218]
• Khattiya Sawasdipol, 58, Thai army general and activist, advisor to the National United Front of Democracy Against Dictatorship (Red Shirts), shot.^[219]
• Bobbejaan Schoepen, 85, Belgian singer-songwriter and entrepreneur, cardiac arrest.^[220]
• Fritz Sennheiser, 98, German electrical engineer and entrepreneur, founder of Sennheiser.^[221]
• George Terlep, 87, American football player (Buffalo Bills) and head coach.^[222]
• Walasse Ting, 80, Chinese-born American visual artist.^[223]

18

• Iskender Alptekin, 48, Swiss politician, heart attack.^[224]
• Fedja Anzelewsky, 91, German art historian.^[225]
• Shusaku Arakawa, 73, Japanese artist and architect.^[226]
• Sheila Armstrong, 60, American Olympic fencer.^[227]
• Martha Bielish, 94, Canadian politician, Senator (1979–1990).^[228]
• Don Day, 86, Australian politician, New South Wales Minister for Agriculture (1978–1980).^[229]
• John Gooders, 73, British ornithologist.^[230]
• Karin Iten, 53, Swiss figure skater.^[231]
• Edoardo Sanguineti, 79, Italian poet, complications following abdominal aneurysm surgery.^[232]
• Peter Seaton, 67, American poet, influential in language poetry movement, apparent heart attack.^[233]
• Devendra Singh, 72, Indian-born American psychologist and educator.^[234]
• Snow Chief, 27, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.^[235]
• Willie Zapalac, 89, American football coach.^[236]

19

• Martin Cohan, 77, American television writer and producer, creator of Silver Spoons, Who's the Boss?, large cell lymphoma.^[237]
• Larry Dale, 87, American blues singer and guitarist.^[238]
• Pierre-Claver Zeng Ebome, 56, Gabonese politician and musician.^[239]
• Aleksandrs Golubovs, 50-51, Latvian politician, member of the Saeima (since 1995).^[240]
• Horácio Roque, 66, Portuguese financier, founder of Banco Internacional do Funchal, stroke.^[241]
• Moishe Rosen, 78, American Baptist minister, founder of Jews for Jesus, after long illness.^[242]
• Harry Vos, 63, Dutch footballer, cancer.^[243]

20

• Harry C. Aderholt, 90, American Air Force general.^[244]
• Herbert Eldemire, 79, Jamaican politician and medical doctor.^[245]
• Phill Hartsfield, 78, American knifemaker.^[246]
• Gesang Martohartono, 92, Indonesian singer-songwriter.^[247]
• Robert L. McNeil, Jr., 94, American chemist and inventor, creator of paracetamol (acetaminophen), heart failure.^[248]
• Hugh Morris, 80, New Zealand businessman, founder of McDonald's New Zealand.^[249]
• Breandán Ó Buachalla, 74, Irish academic, Irish language scholar, heart attack.^[250]
• Acharya Ramamurti, 97, Indian social activist.^[251]
• Walter Rudin, 89, Austrian-born American mathematician, Parkinson's disease.^[252]
• Robert Tralins, 84, American author.^[253]
• Leonard Wolfson, Baron Wolfson, 82, British businessman, philanthropist and life peer.^[254]

21

• Adrian Cruickshank, 73, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly (1984–1999).^[255]
• Stan Jones, 78, American football player (Chicago Bears), member of Pro Football Hall of Fame, complications from a stroke.^[256]
• Anna-Lena Löfgren, 66, Swedish singer.^[257]
• Bill Long, 78, Irish writer and broadcaster, Ireland's longest surviving heart transplant patient.^[258]
• Will Munro, 35, Canadian artist, brain cancer.^[259]
• Howard Post, 83, American cartoonist and animator.^[260]
• Robert Gordon Rogers, 90, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia (1983–1988).^[261]
• Gerald Roush, 68, American Ferrari expert, heart attack.^[262]
• Saeed al-Masri, 54, Egyptian member of al-Qaeda, drone attack.^[263]
• John P. Scott, 76, American politician, member of the New Jersey Senate.^[264]
• Madan Tamang, 62, Nepali politician, President of Akhil Bharatiya Gorkha League, stabbed.^[265]
• Driek van Wissen, 66, Dutch poet, intracranial hemorrhage.^[266]

22

• Martin Gardner, 95, American mathematics and science author.^[267]
• Hasri Ainun Habibie, 72, Indonesian First Lady (1998–1999), ovarian cancer.^[268]
• Peter Hall, 88, New Zealand airman, World War II flying ace.^[269]
• Keith Jessop, 77, British deep sea diver and marine treasure hunter.^[270]
• Josef Koukl, 83, Czech Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Litoměřice (1989–2003).^[271]
• Michael Kuchwara, 63, American theater critic (Associated Press), idiopathic ischemic lung disease.^[272]
• Buz Lukens, 79, American politician, U.S. Representative for Ohio (1967–1971; 1987–1990), cancer.^[273]
• Lwandile Zwelenkosi Matanzima, 39, South African clan leader, ruler of Western Thembuland.^[274]
• Martin Mulloy, 58, Irish banjo player, drowning.^[275]
• Gane Todorovski, 81, Macedonian writer and academician.^[276]
• Veturi, 74, Indian poet and lyricist, cardiac arrest.^[277]
• Pierre Zimmer, 82, French actor and film director.^[278]

23

• Princess Leonida Bagration of Mukhrani, 95, Russian Grand Duchess, last Romanov born in Russia.^[279]
• Beaver, 59, New Zealand jazz singer, sarcoma.^[280]
• Beto, 43, Portuguese singer, stroke.^[281]
• Héctor Costa, 80, Uruguayan basketball player, Olympic bronze medalist (1952 and 1956 Summer Olympics).^[282]
• Gregory Evans, 96, Canadian jurist, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ontario (1976–1985).^[283]
• David Ginsburg, 98, American lawyer and political insider, heart failure.^[284]
• José Lima, 37, Dominican baseball player, heart attack.^[285]
• Ashot Mkhitaryan, 51, Armenian weightlifting and television personality, heart attack.^[286]
• Simon Monjack, 40, British screenwriter, suspected heart attack.^[287]
• Marianna O'Gallagher, 81, Canadian Irish Quebecer historian, lung cancer.^[288]
• Eva Ostwalt, 108, German-born American Holocaust survivor.^[289]
• Irwin Rosten, 85, American documentary filmmaker (The Incredible Machine, 1975), after short illness.^[290]
• Wee Willie Webber, 80, American radio and television personality, heart attack.^[291]

24

• Ray Alan, 79, British ventriloquist, respiratory failure.^[292]
• Walter Arnold Baker, 73, American lawyer and politician, cancer.^[293]
• Virendra Bhatia, 63, Indian politician, after short illness.^[294]
• Tony Bentley-Buckle, 88, Kenyan Olympic sailor.^[295]
• Tapen Chatterjee, 72, Indian actor (Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne), cardiac arrest.^[296]
• Maria di Gerlando, 84, American operatic soprano.^[297]
• Paul Gray, 38, American heavy metal bassist (Slipknot), accidental fentanyl and morphine overdose.^[298]
• Alejandro López de Haro, 61, Venezuelan photographer, writer and stock broker, complications from surgery.^[299]
• Raymond V. Haysbert, 90, American business executive and civil rights leader, member of Tuskegee Airmen, heart failure.^[300]
• Baby Islam, 82, Bangladeshi cinematographer.^[301]
• Kambozia Jamali, 71, Iranian Olympic footballer.^[302]
• Morrie Martin, 87, American baseball player, lung cancer.^[303]
• Rogelio Martínez, 91, American baseball player (Washington Senators).^[304]
• Petr Muk, 45, Czech pop singer.^[305]
• Barbara New, 87, British actress (Oh, Doctor Beeching!, You Rang, M'Lord?).^[306]
• Steve New, 50, British guitarist, cancer.^[307]
• Eugenia Paul, 75, American actress (Zorro).^[308]
• Katherine Reback, 59, American screenwriter (Fools Rush In), complications from cancer.^[309]
• Abdolhamid Rigi, 30-31, Iranian militant, execution by hanging.^[310]
• Anneliese Rothenberger, 85, German opera singer.^[311]

25

• Alexander Belostenny, 51, Ukrainian basketball player, lung cancer.^[312]
• Clifford Grodd, 86, American clothier, President and CEO of Paul Stuart, cancer.^[313]
• Arthur Herzog, 83, American writer.^[314]
• Alan Hickinbotham, 84, Australian football player and businessman.^[315]
• Michael H. Jordan, 73, American business executive, complications of cancer.^[316]
• Erih Koš, 97, Serbian writer and translator.^[317]
• Silvius Magnago, 96, Italian politician, Governor of South Tyrol (1960–1989).^[318]
• Robert Muczynski, 81, American composer of classical music.^[319]
• Siphiwo Ntshebe, 35, South African opera singer, meningitis.^[320]
• David Parker, 51, British swimmer, heart attack.^[321]
• Gabriel Vargas, 95, Mexican cartoonist.^[322]

26

• Leo Canjels, 77, Dutch footballer.^[323]
• Jean Constantin, 82, Romanian actor, natural causes.^[324]
• Marie Corridon, 80, American swimmer, gold medalist (1948 Summer Olympics).^[325]
• Jesse Hockett, 26, American sprint car racer, electrocution.^[326]
• John P. Lewis, 89, American economist, expert on economic aid.^[327]
• Art Linkletter, 97, Canadian-born American radio and television personality (House Party, People are Funny), natural causes.^[328]
• Judy Lynn, 74, American country music singer, heart failure.^[329]
• Sir Christopher Moran, 54, British air force officer, Air Chief Marshal of RAF, suspected heart failure.^[330]
• Kieran Phelan, 60, Irish politician, suspected heart attack.^[331]
• Pat Stevens, 64, American actress and voice actress (M*A*S*H, Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo), breast cancer.^[332]

27

• Louise Arnold, 87, American baseball player (AAGPBL)^[333]
• Harry Brown Bainbridge III, 70, American bishop, lung cancer and heart complications.^[334]
• John William Finn, 100, American naval officer, oldest living Medal of Honor recipient.^[335]
• Jerzy Gryt, 88, Polish Olympic wrestler.^[336]
• Peter J. Hall, 84, British-born American costume designer (Dallas Opera).^[337]
• Yvonne Howell, 104, American actress.^[338]
• Jackson Kaujeua, 56, Namibian musician, composer and gospel singer, kidney disease.^[339]
• Peter Keefe, 57, American animation producer and executive (Voltron, Denver, the Last Dinosaur), throat cancer.^[340]
• Roman Kozak, 52, Russian theatre actor and director, after long illness.^[341]
• Payut Ngaokrachang, 81, Thai cartoonist and animator.^[342]
• Thomas Whisenhant, 63, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.^[343]
• Reg White, 74, British Olympic gold medal-winning (1976) sailor.^[344]

28

• Eddie Barth, 78, American actor (Simon & Simon, The Amityville Horror, Fame), heart failure.^[345]
• Henry Bramwell, 90, American federal judge.^[346]
• Slim Bryant, 101, American country singer-songwriter.^[347]
• Gary Coleman, 42, American actor (Diff'rent Strokes), intracranial hemorrhage.^[348]
• Sir Hugh Ford, 96, British engineer^[349]
• Ted Innes, 85, Australian politician, member of the Australian House of Representatives (1972–1983).^[350]
• Robert Middlemiss, 75, Canadian engineer and politician.^[351]
• Osama Anwar Okasha, 68, Egyptian screenwriter and journalist.^[352]
• David Sanger, 63, British organist.^[353]
• Leslie Scalapino, 65, American poet, publisher and playwright.^[354]
• Torvald Högström, 84, Finnish Olympic cyclist.^[355]

29

• Akinpelu Oludele Adesola, 82, Nigerian academic.^[356]
• Adrian Freeman, 24, Irish hurler (Mayo), traffic collision.^[357]
• Dennis Hopper, 74, American actor (Speed, Blue Velvet) and film director (Easy Rider), prostate cancer.^[358]
• Paul Müller, 69, German biologist.^[359]
• Jeriome Robertson, 33, American baseball player (Houston Astros, Cleveland Indians), motorcycle collision.^[360]
• Donald L. Staheli, 78, American Mormon leader, general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.^[361]
• Randolph Stow, 74, Australian writer, liver cancer.^[362]

30

• José Amedo, 91, Spanish Olympic shooter.^[363]
• Hanji Aoki, 94, Japanese sports official, heart failure.^[364]
• Colm Callan, 87, Irish rugby player (1948 Grand Slam), after long illness.^[365]
• Yuri Chesnokov, 77, Russian Olympic gold medal-winning (1964) volleyball player.^[366]
• Aryeh Eliav, 88, Israeli politician, after long illness.^[367]
• Dame Pat Evison, 85, New Zealand actress.^[368]
• Bruce Harris, 55, British executive director of Casa Alianza (1989–2004), pancreatic cancer.^[369]
• Lester Johnson, 91, American figurative expressionist artist.^[370]
• Peter Orlovsky, 76, American poet, lung cancer.^[371]
• Joan Rhodes, 89, British actress and entertainer.^[372]
• Jeanne Robinson, 62, American dancer and novelist, wife of Spider Robinson, biliary tract cancer.^[373]
• Dufferin Roblin, 92, Canadian politician, Premier of Manitoba (1958–1967), Senator (1978–1992).^[374]
• Vera Beaudin Saeedpour, 80, American Kurdish scholar, founder of the Kurdish Heritage Foundation of America, heart attack.^[375]
• Robert O. Smith, 67, American actor (Dragonball Z, InuYasha, Transformers: Cybertron).^[376]
• Brian Turner, 58, Australian footballer, cancer.^[377]
• Rudi Vis, 69, British politician, MP for Finchley and Golders Green (1997–2010), cancer.^[378]
• Tobi Wong, 35, Canadian designer, suicide.^[379]
• Ali-Ollie Woodson, 58, American soul singer (The Temptations), leukemia.^[380]

31

• İbrahim Bilgen, 61, Turkish politician and engineer, Gaza flotilla raid participant.^[381]
• Louise Bourgeois, 98, French-born American artist and sculptor.^[382]
• Uzra Butt, 93, Indian-born Pakistani actress, after long illness.^[383]
• Emil Clade, 94, German Luftwaffe fighter ace.^[384] (exact date of death unknown)
• Boyd Converse, 78, American college football coach.^[385]
• Furkan Doğan, 19, American student, Gaza flotilla raid participant.^[386]
• Brian Duffy, 76, British photographer, degenerative lung disease.^[387]
• William A. Fraker, 86, American cinematographer, cancer.^[388]
• Chris Haney, 59, Canadian co-inventor of Trivial Pursuit, after long illness.^[389]
• Rubén Juárez, 62, Argentine singer-songwriter and bandoneónist, prostate cancer.^[390]
• Cevdet Kılıçlar, 38, Turkish journalist and photographer, Gaza flotilla raid participant.^[391]
• Benjamin Lees, 86, American composer of classical music, heart failure.^[392]
• Merata Mita, 68, New Zealand filmmaker.^[393]
• Basilio Santiago Romero, 82, Puerto Rican politician, Comptroller (1971–1977).^[394]
• Çetin Topçuoğlu, 54, Turkish taekwondo champion and coach, Gaza flotilla raid participant.^[381]
• Jack Volrich, 82, Canadian politician, Mayor of Vancouver (1976–1980), kidney failure.^[395]
• Donald Windham, 89, American novelist.^[396]