The following is a list of notable deaths in May 2011.

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 2011

1

• Alex, 52, Indian actor and magician, brief illness.^[1]
• Spyrydon Babskyi, 52, Ukrainian Orthodox hierarch, Archbishop of Vinnytsia in UOC-KP (1992–1993).^[2]
• Schalk Booysen, 83, South African Olympic sprinter.^[3]
• Sir Henry Cooper, 76, British Olympic heavyweight boxer.^[4]
• Brian Evans, 74, Welsh cricketer (Glamorgan).^[5]
• Agustín García-Gasco Vicente, 80, Spanish Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Valencia (1992–2009), cardiac arrest.^[6]
• Moshe Landau, 99, Israeli jurist, Chief Justice (1980–1982), presided over Adolf Eichmann's trial (1961).^[7]
• Ted Lowe, 90, British snooker commentator.^[8]
• Steven Orszag, 68, American mathematician, chronic lymphomic leukemia.^[9]
• Anny Rüegg, 98-99, Swiss alpine skier.^[10]
• Ivan Slavkov, 70, Bulgarian sports official.^[11]
• William O. Taylor II, 78, American journalist and publisher (The Boston Globe), brain tumor.^[12]
• J. Ernest Wilkins, Jr., 87, American mathematician and nuclear scientist.^[13]

2

• Leonid Abalkin, 80, Russian economist.^[14]
• Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, 46, Kuwaiti Al-Qaeda computer expert, shot.^[15]
• L.V. Banks, 78, American guitarist, singer and songwriter, heart failure.^[16]
• Ion Barbu, 72, Romanian football player.^[17]
• Robert W. Clower, 85, American economist.^[18]
• Lloyd Colteryahn, 79, American football player (Baltimore Colts).^[19]
• Sir Basil Hall, 93, British lawyer and civil servant, Treasury Solicitor (1975–1980).^[20]
• Danny Kassap, 28, Congolese-born Canadian long-distance runner.^[21]
• Osama bin Laden, 54, Saudi founder of Al-Qaeda, planned September 11 attacks, shot.^[22]
• Alexander Lazarev, 73, Russian actor.^[23]
• Eddie Lewis, 76, English footballer (Manchester United, West Ham United), cancer.^[24]
• Owen Roe McGovern, 93, Irish Gaelic football player.^[25]
• Lyuben Obretenov, 92, Bulgarian Olympic gymnast.^[26]
• René Emilio Ponce, 64, Salvadoran general and defence minister, army chief of staff during the Civil War.^[27]
• David Sencer, 86, American public health official, director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (1966–1977), heart disease.^[28]
• Shigeo Yaegashi, 78, Japanese footballer.^[29]

3

• Paul Ackerley, 61, New Zealand hockey player and coach, skin cancer.^[30]
• Frédéric Affo, 68, Beninese politician and football executive.^[31]
• Robert Marshall Anderson, 77, American bishop, pancreatic cancer.^[32]
• Victor Auer, 74, American Olympic silver medal-winning (1972) sports shooter.^[33]
• Bob Balog, 86, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers).^[34]
• Robert Brout, 82, American-born Belgian theoretical physicist.^[35]
• Odell Brown, 70, American jazz organist and songwriter ("Sexual Healing").^[36]
• Jackie Cooper, 88, American actor (Skippy, Our Gang, Superman).^[37]
• C. Rollins Hanlon, 96, American cardiac surgeon, lymphoma.^[38]
• Richie Hubbard, 78, Canadian politician.^[39]
• Sergo Kotrikadze, 74, Georgian football player and coach, heart attack.^[40]
• Abdulla Kurd, 34, Turkish Kurdish Islamist militant.^[41]
• Mildred Robbins Leet, 88, American philanthropist, co-founder of Trickle Up, complications of a fall.^[42]
• Larry McCormick, 71, Canadian politician, Member of Parliament for Hastings—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington (1993–2004).^[43]
• Marianna Nagy, 82, Hungarian pair skater.^[44]
• Patrick Roy, 53, French politician, pancreatic cancer.^[45]
• Peter Urbach, 71, German Cold War informant.^[46]
• Thanasis Veggos, 83, Greek actor, stroke.^[47]
• Armand Van Wambeke, 84, Belgian Olympic basketball player.^[48]
• Des Williams, 83, South African Olympic boxer.^[49]

4

• James Beggs, 87, American Olympic rower.^[50]
• Lázaro Blanco, 73, Mexican photographer, cancer.^[51]
• Maurice Carpentier, 89, French cyclist.^[52]
• Frans de Kok, 87, Dutch conductor.^[53]
• Oliver Elmes, 76, British graphic designer (Doctor Who).^[54]
• Jacques Georges Habib Hafouri, 94, Syrian Catholic hierarch, Archbishop of Hassaké-Nisibi (1982–1996).^[55]
• Sammy McCrory, 86, Northern Irish footballer.^[56]
• Ronald H. Miller, 73, American professor of religion.^[57]
• Mary Murphy, 80, American actress (The Wild One).^[58]
• Thomas G. Nelson, 74, American federal judge, complications from declining health.^[59]
• Françoise Olivier-Coupeau, 51, French politician, cancer.^[60]
• Emil Reinecke, 78, German cyclist.^[61]
• Acacio Valbuena Rodríguez, 88, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Prefect for Western Sahara (1994–2009).^[62]
• Frans Sammut, 66, Maltese writer, natural causes.^[63]
• Bernard Stasi, 80, French politician, Minister for Overseas Departments and Territories (1973–1974), Alzheimer's disease.^[64]
• Richard Steinheimer, 81, American railroad photographer, Alzheimer's disease.^[65]
• Sada Thompson, 83, American actress (Family), lung disease.^[66]

5

• Leslie Audus, 99, British botany professor (University of London), expert on plant growth hormones.^[67]
• Alice Bridges, 94, American Olympic bronze medal-winning (1936) swimmer.^[68]
• Nikolay Chuchalov, 78, Soviet Olympic wrestler.^[69]
• Claude Choules, 110, British-born Australian veteran, last combat veteran of World War I.^[70]
• Donald Crump, 78, Canadian commissioner of the Canadian Football League (1990–1991).^[71]
• Salomón Hakim, 81, Colombian neurosurgeon, researcher and inventor.^[72]
• Al Johnson, 88, American football player and coach.^[73]
• Arthur Laurents, 93, American playwright, librettist, stage director, and screenwriter (Anastasia, Rope, West Side Story).^[74]
• Dougie McCracken, 46, Scottish football player (Ayr United), suspected suicide.^[75]
• Yosef Merimovich, 86, Israeli football player and manager.^[76]
• Rolo Puente, 71, Argentine actor, pulmonary emphysema.^[77]
• Friedrich Rückert, 90, Austrian Olympic hockey player.^[78]
• Tommy Wright, 83, Scottish footballer.^[79]
• Dana Wynter, 79, German-born British actress (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Airport, The Man Who Never Was), heart failure.^[80]

6

• Barry Connolly, 72, Australian football player.^[81]
• Oniroku Dan, 80, Japanese author, esophageal cancer.^[82]
• Sir Geoffrey Dhenin, 93, British air marshal.^[83]
• Bill Hopkins, 83, Welsh writer.^[84]
• Horace Freeland Judson, 80, American science historian (The Great Betrayal: Fraud In Science), complications of a stroke.^[85]
• Antanas Krištopaitis, 89, Lithuanian painter.^[86]
• Kazi Nuruzzaman, 86, Bangladeshi veteran of the Liberation War, natural causes.^[87]
• Duane Pillette, 88, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies).^[88]
• Dick Walsh, 85, American baseball executive, first commissioner of the North American Soccer League.^[89]
• Yoon Ki-Won, 24, South Korean football player, suicide by inhaling toxic fumes.^[90]

7

• Johnny Albino, 93, Puerto Rican bolero singer, heart attack.^[91]
• Seve Ballesteros, 54, Spanish golfer, brain cancer.^[92]
• Big George, 53, British broadcaster and music arranger.^[93]
• Willard Boyle, 86, Canadian physicist, Nobel laureate (2009).^[94]
• Shaukat Galiev, 82, Soviet Tatar poet and writer of children's books.^[95]
• Jack Gordon, 66, American politician, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives (1972–1980), State Senator (1980–1992; 1996–2011), brain cancer.^[96]
• Ross Hagen, 72, American actor (Daktari, Speedway).^[97]
• Allyson Hennessy, 63, Trinidadian broadcaster.^[98]
• Eilert Määttä, 75, Swedish ice hockey player and coach.^[99]
• Milan Mišík, 82, Slovak geologist.^[100]
• Gunter Sachs, 78, German photographer, author and multi-millionaire industrialist, suicide by gunshot.^[101]
• Robert Stempel, 77, American automobile executive, chairman and CEO of General Motors (1990–1992).^[102]
• Kate Swift, 87, American writer, stomach cancer.^[103]
• John Walker, 67, American musician (The Walker Brothers), liver cancer.^[104]
• Doric Wilson, 72, American playwright and gay activist.^[105]

8

• Huthaifa al-Batawi, Iraqi al-Qaeda leader, shot.^[106]
• Hans-Georg Borck, 89, German military officer.^[107]
• Wallace Clark, 84, Northern Irish maritime writer.^[108]
• Cornell Dupree, 68, American jazz and R&B guitarist, complications from emphysema.^[109]
• George Guțiu, 87, Romanian Catholic hierarch, Archbishop of Cluj-Gherla (1994–2002).^[110]
• Corwin Hansch, 92, American chemist, pneumonia.^[111]
• Li Desheng, 95, Chinese People's Liberation Army general.^[112]
• Charles McPhee, 49, American radio host, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.^[113]
• Greg Percival, 86, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1977–1978; 1986–1988).^[114]
• Soňa Pertlová, 23, Czech chessplayer, cancer.^[115]
• Lionel Rose, 62, Australian world champion boxer.^[116]
• Hilton Rosemarin, 58, Canadian set decorator (Three Men and a Baby, Cocktail, Jumper), brain cancer.^[117]
• Carlos Trillo, 68, Argentine comic book writer (Cybersix).^[118]
• Galina Urbanovich, 93, Russian Olympic gold and silver medal-winning (1952) gymnast.^[119]
• Arkady Vaksberg, 83, Soviet and Russian lawyer, author, film maker and playwright.^[120]
• Sir Ronald Waterhouse, 85, British jurist.^[121]

9

• George Allen, 87, American ichthyologist and fisheries scientist.^[122]
• William Y. Anderson, 89, Swedish-born American fighter pilot.^[123]
• David Cairns, 44, British politician, MP for Greenock and Inverclyde (2001–2005) and Inverclyde (since 2005), acute pancreatitis.^[124]
• Robert Ellsworth, 84, American politician and diplomat, Representative from Kansas (1961–1967), Ambassador to NATO (1969–1971), complications from pneumonia.^[125]
• Epiphanios of Vryoula, 76, American Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Spain and Portugal.^[126]
• Henry Feffer, 93, American professor and spine surgeon, treated Saddam Hussein, heart failure.^[127]
• Dolores Fuller, 88, American actress (Glen or Glenda), and songwriter ("Rock-A-Hula Baby").^[128]
• Jeff Gralnick, 72, American television news producer.^[129]
• Lidia Gueiler Tejada, 89, Bolivian politician, acting President (1979–1980), after a long illness.^[130]
• Doug Leeds, 63, American executive, vice-chairman of American Theatre Wing, cancer.^[131]
• Ivo Pešák, 66, Czech singer, dancer and comic performer.^[132]
• Roland Spångberg, 88, Swedish Olympic water polo player.^[133]
• Newton Thornburg, 81, American novelist.^[134]
• Shailendra Kumar Upadhyaya, 82, Nepali politician, Foreign Minister (1986–1990), altitude sickness.^[135]
• Wouter Weylandt, 26, Belgian road bicycle racer, race crash.^[136]

10

• Omar Ahmad, 46, American entrepreneur (Napster) and politician, Mayor of San Carlos, California (2010–2011), heart attack.^[137]
• Michael Baze, 24, American jockey, accidental drug overdose.^[138]
• Bill Bergesch, 89, American baseball executive (Kansas City Athletics, New York Yankees, Cincinnati Reds).^[139]
• Frank Boston, 72, American politician, member of the Maryland House of Delegates (1987–1999).^[140]
• John S. Carter, 65, American music producer, cancer.^[141]
• Bill Gallo, 88, American cartoonist and newspaper columnist, complications from pneumonia.^[142]
• Patrick Galvin, 83, Irish writer.^[143]
• Zim Ngqawana, 51, South African jazz saxophonist, stroke.^[144]
• Burt Reinhardt, 91, American broadcast executive, President of CNN (1982–1990), complications from strokes.^[145]
• David Weston, 75, British artist.^[146]
• Norma Zimmer, 87, American entertainer (The Lawrence Welk Show).^[147]

11

• Clark Accord, 50, Surinamese–Dutch author and makeup artist, stomach cancer.^[148]
• Maurice Goldhaber, 100, American physicist.^[149]
• Leo Kahn, 94, American entrepreneur, co-founder of Staples, complications from a series of strokes.^[150]
• Albert Kanene Obiefuna, 81, Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Onitsha (1995–2003).^[151]
• Leo Passage, 75, Dutch-born American hairstylist.^[152]
• Reach Sambath, 47, Cambodian journalist, stroke.^[153]
• Elisabeth Svendsen, 81, British hotelier and animal welfare campaigner, founder of The Donkey Sanctuary.^[154]
• Robert Traylor, 34, American basketball player (Milwaukee Bucks, Cleveland Cavaliers, New Orleans Hornets), suspected heart attack.^[155]
• Glyn Williams, 92, Welsh footballer.^[156]
• Snooky Young, 92, American jazz trumpeter, complications of a lung ailment.^[157]

12

• Chen Muhua, 90, Chinese politician.^[158]
• Harrison Chongo, 41, Zambian football player, malaria.^[159]
• Charles F. Haas, 97, American television director (Bonanza, The Outer Limits, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.).^[160]
• Mose Jefferson, 68, American businessman, cancer.^[161]
• Jack Jones, 86, American Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter (Los Angeles Times), lung disease.^[162]
• Lloyd Knibb, 80, Jamaican drummer (The Skatalites), liver cancer.^[163]
• Noreen Murray, 76, British geneticist.^[164]
• David Orton, 77, Canadian environmentalist, pancreatic cancer.^[165]
• Carlos Pascual, 80, Cuban baseball player (Washington Senators).^[166]
• Luigi del Gallo Roccagiovine, 88, Italian nobleman and Roman Catholic prelate, Titular Bishop of Camplum (since 1982).^[167]
• Ron Springs, 54, American football player (Dallas Cowboys, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), complications from surgery.^[168]
• Bill Summers, 75, American car builder (Goldenrod).^[169]
• Miyu Uehara, 24, Japanese glamour model, apparent suicide by hanging.^[170]
• Jack Wolf, 76, American information theorist, cancer.^[171]

13

• Derek Boogaard, 28, Canadian hockey player (Minnesota Wild, New York Rangers), accidental overdose of alcohol and oxycodone.^[172]
• Stephen De Staebler, 78, American sculptor and printmaker, complications from cancer.^[173]
• Pam Gems, 85, British playwright.^[174]
• Bernard Greenhouse, 95, American cellist.^[175]
• Bob Litherland, 80, British politician, MP for Manchester Central (1979–1997), cancer.^[176]
• Princess Maria Elisabeth of Bavaria, 96, German noblewoman.^[177]
• Wallace McCain, 81, Canadian businessman, co-founder of McCain Foods, pancreatic cancer.^[178]
• Mel Queen, 69, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim) and pitching coach (Blue Jays).^[179]
• Jack Richardson, 81, Canadian record producer (The Guess Who).^[180]
• Bruce Ricker, 68, American film documentarian and producer (Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser).^[181]
• Badal Sarkar, 85, Indian dramatist, colon cancer.^[182]
• Chit Estella, 53, Filipino journalist and professor, traffic collision.^[183]

14

• Ferial Alibali, 78, Albanian actress.^[184]
• James Richard Cheek, 74, American diplomat, Ambassador to Sudan (1989–1992) and Argentina (1993–1996).^[185]
• Murray Handwerker, 89, American businessman (Nathan's Famous).^[186]
• Teuvo Laukkanen, 91, Finnish Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) cross-country skier.^[187]
• Michael Onslow, 7th Earl of Onslow, 73, British politician.^[188]
• Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, 87, Chinese-born American historian and author.^[189]
• Birgitta Trotzig, 81, Swedish author.^[190]
• Ernie Walker, 82, Scottish football administrator.^[191]
• Joseph Wershba, 90, American television producer and reporter.^[192]

15

• Gunnar Alksnis, 79, Latvian-American philosopher and theologian.^[193]
• Maico Buncio, 22, Filipino motorcycle racer, race crash.^[194]
• Donald Christian, 52, Antiguan Olympic cyclist.^[195]
• John Feikens, 93, American senior (former chief) judge of the District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, after long illness.^[196]
• Bob Flanigan, 84, American singer (The Four Freshmen) and musician.^[197]
• Pete Lovely, 85, American racecar driver.^[198]
• William Pennington, 88, American casino executive (Circus Circus Enterprises), Parkinson's disease.^[199]
• Anjuman Shehzadi, 33, Pakistani sage actress.^[200]
• Mahendra Singh Tikait, 76, Indian farming union leader, bone cancer.^[201]
• Samuel Wanjiru, 24, Kenyan Olympic gold medal-winning (2008) marathon runner, fall from balcony.^[202]
• Martin Woodhouse, 78, British novelist, screenwriter and inventor.^[203]

16

• Ralph Barker, 93, British air gunner and writer.^[204]
• Robert Berks, 89, American sculptor, industrial designer and planner.^[205]
• Douglas Blubaugh, 76, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1960) wrestler, motorcycle accident.^[206]
• Serghei Covaliov, 66, Romanian Olympic gold (1968) and silver (1972) medal-winning canoeist.^[207]
• Bob Davis, 82, Australian football player.^[208]
• Nathaniel Davis, 86, American diplomat, cancer.^[209]
• Edward Hardwicke, 78, British actor (Sherlock Holmes), son of Sir Cedric Hardwicke.^[210]
• Kiyoshi Kodama, 77, Japanese actor, stomach cancer.
• Bill Skiles, 79, American comedian (Skiles and Henderson), kidney cancer.^[211]

17

• Sean Dunphy, 73, Irish entertainer.^[212]
• Joseph Galibardy, 96, Indian Olympic gold medal-winning (1936) field hockey player.^[213]
• James M. Hewgley, Jr., 94, American politician, Mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma (1966–1970).^[214]
• Harmon Killebrew, 74, American Hall of Fame baseball player (Minnesota Twins, Kansas City Royals), esophageal cancer.^[215]
• Tómas Mac Anna, 84, Irish director and actor.^[216]
• Frank Upton, 76, English footballer (Derby County, Chelsea), after short illness.^[217]

18

• Seiseki Abe, 96, Japanese shodo and aikido teacher.^[218]
• Marcel De Mulder, 83, Belgian cyclist.^[219]
• Edward H. Harte, 88, American newspaper executive (Harte-Hanks).^[220]
• Leonard Kastle, 82, American composer and filmmaker (The Honeymoon Killers).^[221]
• Wlodzimierz Ksiazek, 60, Polish-born American painter.^[222] (body found on this date)
• Włada Majewska, 100, Polish radio journalist, actress and singer.^[223]
• Hans Sterr, 77, German Olympic wrestler.^[224]
• Antoinette Tubman, 97, Liberian socialite, First Lady (1948–1971).^[225]
• Dick Wimmer, 74, American author, heart complications.^[226]

19

• Phyllis Avery, 88, American actress, heart failure.^[227]
• Don H. Barden, 67, American businessman, lung cancer.^[228]
• Garret FitzGerald, 85, Irish politician, Taoiseach (1981–1982, 1982–1987), Minister for Foreign Affairs (1973–1977), pneumonia.^[229]
• Ivan Gibbs, 83, Australian politician, Queensland MLA for Albert (1974–1989), cancer.^[230]
• Jeffrey Catherine Jones, 67, American transgender artist.^[231]
• David H. Kelley, 87, American-born Canadian archaeologist.^[232]
• Kathy Kirby, 72, British singer, heart attack.^[233]
• William Kloefkorn, 78, American poet.^[234]
• Alda Noni, 95, Italian coloratura soprano.^[235]
• Vladimir Ryzhkin, 80, Russian Olympic gold medal-winning (1956) footballer.^[236]
• Tom West, 71, American computer hardware engineer, heart attack.^[237]

20

• Michael Bell, 74, Irish politician, Teachta Dála for Louth (1982–2002).^[238]
• John Cigna, 75, American radio personality (KDKA).^[239]
• William Elliott, Baron Elliott of Morpeth, 90, British politician, MP for Newcastle upon Tyne North (1957–1983).^[240]
• Arieh Handler, 95, Israeli Zionist leader.^[241]
• Eduard Janota, 59, Czech politician, Finance Minister (2009–2010), cardiac arrest.^[242]
• Donald Krim, 65, American businessman, president of Kino International, cancer.^[243]
• Ciril Pelhan, 89, Yugoslav Olympic swimmer.^[244]
• Joaquín Pérez, 75, Mexican Olympic double bronze medal-winning (1980) equestrian.^[245]
• Steve Rutt, 66, American inventor of early video animation, pancreatic cancer.^[246]
• Randy Savage, 58, American professional wrestler (WWF, WCW) and actor (Spider-Man), heart attack.^[247]

21

• John Delaney, 42, Irish businessman (Intrade).^[248]
• Irene Gilbert, 76, American actress and school director, co-founder of Stella Adler Academy of Los Angeles, Alzheimer's disease.^[249]
• David J. Hudson, 67, American sound mixer (Beauty and the Beast, The Terminator, The Lion King).^[250]
• Bill Hunter, 71, Australian actor (Muriel's Wedding), liver cancer.^[251]
• Pádraig Kennelly, 82, Irish website, editor and journalist, founder of Kerry's Eye.^[252]
• Dieter Klöcker, 75, German clarinetist.^[253]
• Gordon McLennan, 87, British politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party (1975–1990), cancer.^[254]
• Hiroyuki Nagato, 77, Japanese actor, cerebrovascular disease.^[255]
• Jim Pyburn, 78, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles), after long illness.^[256]
• Bill Rechin, 80, American cartoonist (Crock), complications from esophageal cancer.^[257]
• William White, 98, British sports shooter.^[258]

22

• Stanislav Batishchev, 70, Soviet Ukrainian weightlifter.^[259]
• Joseph Brooks, 73, American Grammy-winning songwriter ("You Light Up My Life"), suicide by asphyxiation.^[260]
• Joëlle Brupbacher, 32, Swiss mountaineer, acute mountain sickness.^[261]
• Chidananda Dasgupta, 89, Indian film critic.^[262]
• Bill Eaton, 79, Australian politician, member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Mourilyan (1980–1994).^[263]
• Alexandru Ene, 82, Romanian football player.^[264]
• Matej Ferjan, 34, Slovenian motorcycle speedway rider.^[265]
• Bob Gould, 74, Australian activist and bookseller.^[266]
• Ralph Hunt, 83, Australian politician, MP for Gwydir (1969–1989).^[267]
• Suzanne Mizzi, 43, British glamour model and interior designer, cancer.^[268]
• Ronald Naar, 56, Dutch mountaineer.^[269]
• Breon O'Casey, 83, British artist.^[270]
• Govind Chandra Pande, 87, Indian historian.^[271]
• Walter Soboleff, 102, American Tlingit scholar and spiritual leader, first Native Alaskan Prebysterian minister, bone and prostate cancer.^[272]
• Joe Steffy, 85, American college football player (Army), 1947 Outland Trophy winner.^[273]
• George Henry Strohsahl, Jr., 73, American naval officer and former commander of the Pacific Missile Test Center.^[274]

23

• Sam Faust, 26, Australian rugby league player, leukemia.^[275]
• Michele Fawdon, 63, British-born Australian actress (Cathy's Child), cancer.^[276]
• Peter Frelinghuysen, Jr., 95, American politician, U.S. Representative from New Jersey (1953–1975).^[277]
• Nasser Hejazi, 61, Iranian football player and manager, cancer.^[278]
• Pilu Momtaz, 52, Bangladeshi pop singer.^[279]
• Abdias do Nascimento, 97, Brazilian activist and politician.^[280]
• Joseph Nguyên Tich Duc, 73, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ban Me Thuot (2000–2006).^[281]
• Karel Otčenášek, 91, Czech Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Hradec Králové (1989–1998).^[282]
• Frank S. Petersen, 88, American jurist and politician.^[283]
• Harry Redmond, Jr., 101, American special effects artist and producer (King Kong), natural causes.^[284]
• Alejandro Roces, 86, Filipino writer and government official, Secretary of Education (1961–1965).^[285]
• Roberto Sosa, 81, Honduran poet, heart attack.^{[citation needed]}
• John Templeton-Cotill, 90, British admiral.^[286]
• Xavier Tondo, 32, Spanish cyclist, crushed by car.^[287]

24

• Huguette Clark, 104, American heiress, daughter of William A. Clark.^[288]
• José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva, 54, Brazilian Amazon environmentalist and conservationist, shot.^[289]
• Arthur Goldreich, 82, South African-born Israeli political activist.^[290]
• Mark Haines, 65, American television anchor (CNBC).^[291]
• Glyn Hughes, 75, English poet, novelist and artist, cancer.^[292]
• Imre Nagy, 70, Canadian Olympic fencer.^[293]
• Edward Plunkett, 20th Baron of Dunsany, 71, Irish artist.^[294]
• Barry Potomski, 38, Canadian ice hockey player (Los Angeles Kings).^[295]
• Sir Blair Stewart-Wilson, 81, British courtier.^[296]
• Paul Winslow, 82, South African cricketer.^[297]
• Stephen K. Yamashiro, 69, American politician, Mayor of Hawaii County (1992–2000), pneumonia.^[298]
• Hakim Ali Zardari, 81, Pakistani politician, father of Asif Ali Zardari, after long illness.^[299]

25

• Lillian Adams, 89, American actress (The Suite Life on Deck, Bruce Almighty).^[300]
• Maurice E. Baringer, 89, American educator and politician.^[301]
• Werner Freiherr von Beschwitz, 96, German military officer in World War II, Iron Cross recipient.^[302]
• Nina Leopold Bradley, 93, American conservationist.^[303]
• Leonora Carrington, 94, British-born Mexican painter and novelist.^[304]
• Luigi Diligenza, 90, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Capua (1978–1997).^[305]
• Roger Gautier, 88, French Olympic silver medal-winning (1952) rower.^[306]
• Edwin Honig, 91, American poet and translator, Alzheimer's disease.^[307]
• Terry Jenner, 66, Australian Test cricketer and coach.^[308]
• Miroslav Opsenica, 29, Serbian footballer, car accident.^[309]
• Gene Smith, 94, American baseball player (Negro leagues).^[310]
• Paul Splittorff, 64, American baseball player and broadcaster (Kansas City Royals), complications from melanoma.^[311]
• Dimitrios Taliadoros, 85-86, Greek Olympic basketball player.^[312]
• Yannis Varveris, 56, Greek poet, critic and translator, cardiac arrest.^[313]
• Paul J. Wiedorfer, 90, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.^[314]
• Edward Żentara, 55, Polish actor.^[315]

26

• Arisen Ahubudu, 91, Sri Lankan scholar, author and playwright.^[316]
• Flick Colby, 65, American dancer and choreographer (Pan's People), bronchial pneumonia.^[317]
• George Heron, 92, American tribal leader, President of the Seneca Nation of New York (1958–1960; 1962–1964).^[318]
• Irwin D. Mandel, 89, American dental scientist in preventative dentistry.^[319]
• Peter McKechnie, 70, Australian politician, member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Carnarvon (1974–1989).^[320]
• Tyler Simpson, 25, Australian soccer player.^[321]

27

• Sam Alexander, 28, British Royal Marine, shot.^[322]
• María Rosa Alonso, 104, Spanish professor, philologist and essayist.^[323]
• Edward a'Beckett, 71, Australian cricketer.^[324]
• Armando Bandini, 84, Italian actor and voice actor.^[325]
• John W. Bowen, 84, American politician, Member of the Ohio Senate.^[326]
• Johnny Brewer, 74, American football player (Cleveland Browns, New Orleans Saints).^[327]
• Janet Brown, 87, British actress and impersonator, after short illness.^[328]
• Jeff Conaway, 60, American actor (Grease, Taxi, Babylon 5).^[329]
• Margo Dydek, 37, Polish basketball player (Utah Starzz, Los Angeles Sparks) and coach, heart attack.^[330]
• Johanna Fiedler, 65, American author, daughter of Arthur Fiedler.^[331]
• Regalado Maambong, 72, Filipino jurist, member of 1986 Constitutional Commission.^[332]
• Prince Ali Mirza Qajar, 81, Iranian royal, Head of the Qajar Imperial Family (since 1988), after long illness.^[333]
• Joaquín Moya, 79, Spanish Olympic fencer.^[334]
• Gil Scott-Heron, 62, American poet, musician and author.^[335]
• Jukka Toivola, 61, Finnish Olympic athlete, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.^[336]
• Michael Willoughby, 12th Baron Middleton, 90, British aristocrat and politician.^[337]

28

• Hermann Bley, 75, German footballer.^[338]
• Mohammed Daud Daud, 42, Afghan general, police commander for northern Afghanistan, bombing.^[339]
• Bill Harris, 79, Canadian baseball player (Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers).^[340]
• Romuald Klim, 78, Belarusian hammer thrower, Olympic gold medalist (1964).^[341]
• Ann McPherson, 65, British physician and public health campaigner.^[342]
• Dame Barbara Mills, 70, British barrister, Director of Public Prosecutions (1992–1998), stroke.^[343]
• Leo Rangell, 97, American psychoanalyst, complications from surgery.^[344]
• Alys Robi, 88, Canadian singer.^[345]
• Martha Rommelaere, 88, Canadian baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).^[346]
• John H. Sinfelt, 80, American chemical engineer in unleaded gasoline, congestive heart failure.^[347]

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• Sergei Bagapsh, 62, Abkhazian politician, President (since 2005), complications after surgery.^[348]
• Jon Blake, 52, Australian actor, pneumonia.^[349]
• Simon Brint, 60, British musician, suicide.^[350]
• Bill Clements, 94, American politician, Governor of Texas (1979–1983; 1987–1991).^[351]
• Billy Crook, 84, English footballer (Wolverhampton Wanderers).^[352]
• Wally Jay, 93, American martial arts teacher, founder of Small Circle JuJitsu, after long illness.^[353]
• Ferenc Mádl, 80, Hungarian politician, President of the Republic (2000–2005).^[354]
• Vitaly Margulis, 83, Russian classical pianist.^[355]
• Tom Roeser, 82, American political commentator.^[356]
• Bill Roycroft, 96, Australian equestrian, five-time Olympian, gold medallist (1960).^[357]
• Cosmo Francesco Ruppi, 78, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Termoli-Larino (1980–1988) and Archbishop of Lecce (1988–2009).^[358]

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• Bill Benulis, 82, American cartoonist.^[359]
• Ricky Bruch, 64, Swedish athlete, cancer.^[360]
• Henri Chammartin, 92, Swiss dressage equestrian, multiple Olympic medallist.^[361]
• Paul B. Ferrara, 68, American scientist and administrator, pioneer of genetic fingerprinting, brain tumor.^[362]
• Jung Jong-kwan, 29, South Korean footballer, suspected suicide by hanging.^[363]
• Sudhakar Kulkarni, 73, Indian cricket umpire.^[364]
• Eddie Morrison, 63, Scottish footballer and manager (Kilmarnock).^[365]
• Hans Nogler, 91, Austrian Olympic alpine skier.^[366]
• Isikia Savua, 59, Fijian diplomat and police commissioner.^[367]
• Marek Siemek, 68, Polish philosopher and historian of philosophy.^[368]
• Clarice Taylor, 93, American actress (Sesame Street, The Cosby Show).^[369]
• Giorgio Tozzi, 88, American operatic bass, heart attack.^[370]
• Tillmann Uhrmacher, 44, German DJ, music producer and radio host.^[371]
• Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, 89, American medical physicist, Nobel laureate.^[372]

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• Gilberto Aleman, 80, Spanish author and journalist.^[373]
• Pauline Betz, 91, American tennis player.^[374]
• Jonas Bevacqua, 33, American fashion designer (Lifted Research Group).^[375]
• Conrado Estrella, Sr., 93, Filipino politician, Governor of Pangasinan (1954–1963), Agrarian Reform Minister (1978–1986).^[376]
• Derek Hodge, 69, U.S. Virgin Islander politician and attorney, Lieutenant Governor of the United States Virgin Islands (1987–1995), cancer.^[377]
• Keith Irvine, 82, British-born American interior designer, cardiac arrest.^[378]
• Hans Keilson, 101, German-born Dutch psychoanalyst and novelist.^[379]
• Sir John Martin, 93, British admiral, Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey (1974–1980).^[380]
• Adolfas Mekas, 85, Lithuanian-born American film director.^[381]
• Andy Robustelli, 85, American Hall of Fame football player (Los Angeles Rams, New York Giants).^[382]
• Philip Rose, 89, American theatrical producer, stroke.^[383]
• Ezzatollah Sahabi, 81, Iranian politician, Member of Parliament (1980–1984), stroke.^[384]
• Saleem Shahzad, 40, Pakistani journalist, shot.^[385] (body found on this date)
• Hugh Stewart, 100, British film editor and producer.^[386]
• Grant Sullivan, 86, American actor (Pony Express), cancer.^[387]
• Ram Man Trishit, 70, Nepali lyricist, kidney problems.^[388]
• Sølvi Wang, 81, Norwegian singer and actress.^[389]
• Jennifer Worth, 75, British author, esophageal cancer.^[390]