The following is a list of notable deaths in October 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.

October 2011

1

• Hans Christian Alsvik, 75, Norwegian television presenter.^[1]
• Butch Ballard, 92, American jazz drummer.^[2]
• David Bedford, 74, British composer and musician.^[3]
• Georgina Cookson, 92, British actress.^[4]
• Philo Dibble, 60, American diplomat.^[5]
• Robert Finigan, 68, American wine critic.^[6]
• Ruby Langford Ginibi, 77, Australian author and Aboriginal historian.^[7]
• J. Willis Hurst, 90, American cardiologist.^[8]
• José Ángel Ibáñez, 61, Mexican educator and politician, MP (2003–2006).^[9]
• Paulos Mantovanis, 65, Cypriot Orthodox hierarch, metropolitan bishop of Kyrenia (since 1994).^[10]
• Sholom Rivkin, 85, American rabbi, last chief rabbi of St. Louis, and of a city in the United States.^[11]
• Johnny Schmitz, 90, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Brooklyn Dodgers).^[12]
• George E. Smith, 84, American baseball and basketball player.^[13]
• Sven Tumba, 80, Swedish ice hockey player (world champion 1953, 1957, 1962), footballer and golfer, prostate cancer.^[14]

2

• Anna Adams, 85, English poet and artist.^[15]
• Vasily Aleksanyan, 39, Russian lawyer and businessman, Executive Vice President of Yukos, complications from AIDS.^[16]
• Andrija Fuderer, 80, Croatian-born Belgian chess player.^[17]
• Taha Muhammad Ali, 80, Palestinian poet.^[18]
• Peter Przygodda, 69, German film editor, cancer.^[19]
• Efraín Recinos, 83, Guatemalan architect, muralist and artist, designer of the Centro Cultural Miguel Ángel Asturias.^[20]
• John Romonosky, 82, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Washington Senators).^[21]
• Cindy Shatto, 54, Canadian Olympic diver (1976), lung cancer.^[22]
• Pavlos Tassios, 69, Greek film director.^[23]
• Piero Weiss, 83, Italian pianist and author, pneumonia.^[24]
• Moshe Wertman, 87, Israeli politician.^[25]

3

• Kay Armen, 95, American Armenian singer.^[26]
• Anésio Argenton, 80, Brazilian Olympic cyclist.^[27]
• Aryeh Leib Baron, 99, Canadian rabbi.^[28]
• Jim Conroy, 73, Canadian football player (Ottawa Rough Riders).^[29]
• George Harrison, 72, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1960) swimmer, cancer.^[30]
• Ovidio de Jesús, 78, Puerto Rican Olympic sprinter (1956, 1960).^[31]
• Héctor Martínez Arteche, 77, Mexican painter.^[32]
• Aden Meinel, 88, American astronomer and optical scientist.^[33]
• Jim Neal, 81, American basketball player (Syracuse Nationals, Baltimore Bullets).^[34]
• Zakaria Zerouali, 33, Moroccan footballer.^[35]

4

• Bhagwat Jha Azad, 88, Indian politician.^[36]
• Doris Belack, 85, American actress (Law & Order, One Life to Live, Tootsie), natural causes.^[37]
• Yelena Chernykh, 32, Russian actress, traffic collision.^[38]
• Ruth Currier, 85, American dancer, choreographer and dance teacher.^[39]
• Vittorio Curtoni, 61, Italian science fiction writer and translator.^[40]
• Kenneth H. Dahlberg, 94, American businessman and World War II fighter ace, natural causes.^[41]
• Di Gribble, 69, Australian publisher, pancreatic cancer.^[42]
• Martha Haines, 87, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).^[43]
• Ralph Hodgin, 96, American baseball player (Boston Bees, Chicago White Sox).^[44]
• Hanan Porat, 67, Israeli rabbi, educator and politician, cancer.^[45]
• Shmuel Shilo, 81, Israeli actor and director, cancer.^[46]
• Muzaffer Tema, 92, Turkish actor.^[47]
• Géza Tóth, 79, Hungarian Olympic silver medal-winning (1964) weightlifter.^[48]

5

• Edward Acquah, 76, Ghanaian Olympic footballer (1964).^[49]
• Níver Arboleda, 43, Colombian footballer, heart attack.^[50]
• Derrick Bell, 80, American law professor (Harvard University), originated critical race theory, carcinoid cancer.^[51]
• Anita Caspary, 95, American Catholic nun, founder of the Immaculate Heart Community.^[52]
• Graham Dilley, 52, British cricketer, cancer.^[53]
• Enver Faja, 77, Albanian architect and diplomat, Ambassador to Poland (1992–1996), after long illness.^[54]
• Richard Holmlund, 47, Swedish football manager, car accident.^[55]
• Peter Jaks, 45, Swiss Olympic ice hockey player (1988 Winter Olympics, 1992 Winter Olympics), suicide by standing in front of a train.^[56]
• Bert Jansch, 67, Scottish folk guitarist, singer and songwriter (Pentangle), cancer.^[57]
• Steve Jobs, 56, American computer entrepreneur and inventor, co-founder of Apple Inc., pancreatic cancer.^[58]
• Pietro Lombardi, 89, Italian Olympic gold medal-winning (1948) wrestler.^[59]
• Charles Napier, 75, American actor (Philadelphia, The Blues Brothers, Austin Powers).^[60]
• Fred Shuttlesworth, 89, American civil rights leader.^[61]
• Sarkis Soghanalian, 82, Syrian-born Armenian arms dealer.^[62]
• Leon Walter Tillage, 74, American writer.^[63]

6

• Shareef Allman, 47, American employee, suicide by gunshot.^[64]
• Luis Proto Barbosa, 84, Indian politician.^[65]
• Zdravko Ceraj, 91, Serbian Olympic athlete.^[66]
• Diane Cilento, 78, Australian actress (Tom Jones, The Wicker Man, Hombre), cancer.^[67]
• William S. Dietrich II, 73, American industrialist and philanthropist.^[68]
• Mathur Krishnamurthy, 82, Indian arts patron.^[69]
• Daniel Lind Lagerlöf, 42, Swedish director, presumed drowned.^[70]
• Marilyn Nash, 84, American actress (Monsieur Verdoux, Unknown World).^[71]
• Birgit Rosengren, 98, Swedish actress.^[72]
• Igor Shmakov, 26, Russian actor, leukemia.^[73]
• Neil Street, 80, Australian speedway rider.^[74]
• Alasdair Turner, 41, British scientist, stomach cancer.^[75]
• Phil Walker, 67, British newspaper editor.^[76]

7

• Zaheer Ahmad, 63, Pakistani-born American doctor, brain hemorrhage.^[77]
• John Alderson, 89, British police officer and media commentator, Chief Constable of Devon and Cornwall Constabulary (1973–1982).^[78]
• George Alexander, 93, Canadian football player.^[79]
• Ramiz Alia, 85, Albanian politician, First Secretary of the Party of Labour (1985–1991), President (1991–1992), lung disease.^[80]
• Julien Bailleul, 23, French footballer.^[81]
• George Baker, 80, British actor (I, Claudius, The Ruth Rendell Mysteries), pneumonia following a stroke.^[82]
• Frederick Cardozo, 94, British soldier and SOE veteran.^[83]
• Fernando Charrier, 80, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Alessandria della Paglia (1989–2007).^[84]
• Charles Cuprill Oppenheimer, 95, Puerto Rican major general.^[85]
• David Hess, 75, American actor (The Last House on the Left), singer and songwriter, heart attack.^[86]
• Haji Amir Bux Junejo, 95, Pakistani politician.^[87]
• Paul Kent, 80, American actor (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, T. J. Hooker), multiple myeloma.^[88]
• Fred Kingsbury, 84, American Olympic bronze medal-winning (1948) rower.^[89]
• Andrew Laszlo, 85, Hungarian-born American cinematographer (First Blood, The Warriors, Newsies).^[90]
• David Macey, 62, British historian, complications of lung cancer.^[91]
• Lulama Masikazana, 38, South African cricketer.^[92]
• Enrique Monsonís, 80, Spanish politician, President of the Generalitat Valenciana (1979–1982).^[93]
• Gianni Musy, 80, Italian actor and voice actor.^[94]
• Michel Peissel, 74, French explorer and author, heart attack.^[95]
• Milan Puskar, 77, American pharmacist, co-founder of Mylan, cancer.^[96]
• Julio Mario Santo Domingo, 88, Colombian businessman (SABMiller).^[97]
• Mildred Savage, 92, American author (Parrish).^[98]
• Bill Smith, 75, British fell runner and author.^[99] (body discovered on this date)
• Avner Treinin, 83, Israeli poet and chemist.^[100]

8

• Dragutin Aleksić, 64, Serbian sculptor.^[101]
• Terry Cashion, 90, Australian rules football player.^[102]
• Al Davis, 82, American football coach and team owner (Oakland Raiders), heart failure.^[103]
• José de las Fuentes Rodríguez, 91, Mexican politician and lawyer, Governor of Coahuila (1981–1987).^[104]
• Dorothy Heathcote, 85, British drama teacher and academic.^[105]
• Arthur F. Holmes, 87, American professor of philosophy.^[106]
• Gregory Possehl, 70, American archaeologist.^[107]
• Shirley Prestia, 64, American actress (Home Improvement, Dharma & Greg, What Women Want).^[108]
• Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra, 55, Sri Lankan politician, Member of Parliament (1994–2000), shot.^[109]
• Harold W. Rood, 89, American political scientist and author.^[110]
• Nina Sorokina, 69, Russian principal dancer.^[111]
• Mikey Welsh, 40, American artist and musician (Weezer).^[112]
• Roger Williams, 87, American pianist (Autumn Leaves), pancreatic cancer.^[113]
• Ingvar Wixell, 80, Swedish opera singer.^[114]

9

• Kei Aoyama, 32, Japanese manga artist, suicide by hanging.^[115]
• Ray Aranha, 72, American actor (Dead Man Walking, Die Hard with a Vengeance, Married People).^[116]
• Robert Boochever, 94, American federal judge.^[117]
• Rob Buckman, 63, British-born Canadian oncologist and comedian.^[118]
• Antonis Christeas, 74, Greek basketball player (AEK Athens) and coach.^[119]
• Chauncey Hardy, 23, American basketball player, heart attack following beating.^[120]
• Pavel Karelin, 21, Russian ski jumper, traffic accident.^{[citation needed]}
• Mark Kingston, 77, British actor.^[121]
• Jakkampudi Rammohan Rao, 58, Indian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Andhra Pradesh.^[122]
• Manuel Prado Perez-Rosas, 88, Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Trujillo (1976–1999).^[123]
• James Worrall, 97, Canadian Olympic athlete (1936) and administrator.^[124]

10

• Ray Aghayan, 83, Iranian-born American costume designer (Funny Lady, Doctor Dolittle).^[125]
• Milton Castellanos Everardo, 91, Mexican politician, President of Chamber of Deputies (1951), Governor of Baja California (1971–1977).^[126]
• Alan Fudge, 67, American actor (7th Heaven, Matlock, Hawaii Five-O), lung and liver cancer.^[127]
• Nakamura Shikan VII, 83, Japanese kabuki performer, Living National Treasure.^[128]
• Uno Röndahl, 87, Swedish author.^[129]
• Albert Rosellini, 101, American politician, Governor of Washington (1957–1965), complications from pneumonia.^[130]
• Jagjit Singh, 70, Indian musician, brain haemorrhage.^[131]
• Otto Tausig, 89, Austrian writer, director and actor.^[132]

11

• Amin al-Shami, Yemeni air force colonel, car bomb.^[133]
• Yerahmiel Assa, 92, Israeli politician.^[134]
• Kim Brown, 66, British-born Finnish musician, cancer.^[135]
• George "Mojo" Buford, 81, American blues harmonica player.^[136]
• Cy Buker, 92, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).^[137]
• Justin Canale, 68, American football player.^[138]
• Adrian Cowell, 77, British documentary film maker.^[139]
• Ion Diaconescu, 94, Romanian politician, President of Chamber of Deputies (1996–2000), heart failure.^[140]
• Doctor X, 43, Mexican professional wrestler, shot.^[141]
• Bob Galvin, 89, American businessman, CEO of Motorola (1959–1986).^[142]
• Freddie Gruber, 84, American jazz drummer.^[143]
• Nauman Habib, 32, Pakistani cricketer, murdered.^[144]
• Henk Hofs, 60, Dutch footballer (Vitesse Arnhem).^[145]
• Keith Holman, 84, Australian rugby league player and referee.^[146]
• Dieudonné Kabongo, 61, Congolese-born Belgian comedian, musician and actor (Lumumba).^[147]
• Frank Kameny, 86, American gay rights activist.^[148]
• Paul Martin, 79, American baseball player.^[149]
• Ewald Osers, 94, Czech translator and poet.^[150]
• František Sokol, 72, Czech Olympic bronze medal-winning (1968) volleyball player.^[151]
• Derrick Ward, 76, English footballer.^[152]
• Dino Zucchi, 83, Italian Olympic basketball player.^[153]

12

• Franz Jozef Van Beeck, 81, Dutch author and Christian theologian.^[154]
• Heinz Bennent, 90, German actor.^[155]
• Patricia Breslin, 80, American actress (The People's Choice, Peyton Place, The Twilight Zone), wife of Art Modell, pancreatitis.^[156]
• Joel DiGregorio, 67, American keyboardist (The Charlie Daniels Band), car crash.^[157]
• Peter Hammond, 87, British actor and television director.^[158]
• Lowell H. Harrison, 88, American historian.^[159]
• János Herskó, 85, Hungarian film director and actor.^[160]
• Vitali Kuznetsov, 70, Russian Olympic silver medal-winning (1972) judoka.^[161]
• Paul Leka, 68, American pianist, arranger and songwriter ("Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye", "Green Tambourine").^[162]
• Lewis Mills, 74, American college basketball coach (University of Richmond) and athletic director.^[163]
• Dennis Ritchie, 70, American computer scientist, developer of the C programming language and the Unix operating system.^[164] (body discovered on this date)
• Dick Thornett, 71, Australian triple international sportsman (water polo, rugby union and rugby league), heart disease.^[165]
• Martin White, 102, Irish hurler.^[166]
• Winstone Zulu, 47, Zambian AIDS and tuberculosis activist.^[167]

13

• Sheila Allen, 78, British actress (Bouquet of Barbed Wire, Love Actually, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire).^[168]
• Irén Daruházi-Karcsics, 84, Hungarian Olympic silver (1948, 1952) and bronze (1952) medal-winning gymnast.^[169]
• Chris Doig, 63, New Zealand opera singer and sports administrator, bowel cancer.^[170]
• Hasan Güngör, 77, Turkish Olympic gold (1960) and silver (1964) medal-winning weightlifter.^[171]
• Barbara Kent, 103, Canadian-born American silent film actress.^[172]
• Tufele Liamatua, 71, American Samoan politician and paramount chief, first elected Lieutenant Governor of American Samoa (1978–1985).^[173]
• Abdoulaye Seye, 77, Senegalese Olympic bronze medal-winning (1960) athlete.^[174]

14

• Reg Alcock, 63, Canadian politician, MP for Winnipeg South (1993–2006); President of the Treasury Board (2003–2006), heart attack.^[175]
• Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, 16, American-Yemeni teenager, drone airstrike.^[176]
• Margaret Draper, 94, American radio actress and disc jockey, natural causes.^[177]
• Michael Fitzpatrick, 69, Irish politician, TD for Kildare North (2007–2011), motor neurone disease.^[178]
• Pierangelo Garegnani, 81, Italian economist and professor.^[179]
• Ashawna Hailey, 62, American computer scientist.^[180]
• Adam Hunter, 48, Scottish golfer, leukemia.^[181]
• Arnaud Jacomet, 64, French historian, Secretary-General of the Western European Union (2009–2011), cancer.^[182]
• Laura Pollán, 63, Cuban opposition leader, founder of the Ladies in White, cardiorespiratory arrest.^[183]
• Gunilla von Post, 79, Swedish socialite.^[184]
• Jaladi Raja Rao, 79, Indian film lyricist and playwright.^[185]
• Chuck Ruff, 60, American drummer (Edgar Winter, Sammy Hagar), after long illness.^[186]

15

• Mario Agliati, 89, Swiss-Italian journalist, writer and historian.^[187]
• Martha Aliaga, 73, Argentine statistics educator.^[188]
• Ted Bastin, 85, English physicist and mathematician.^[189]
• David P. Demarest, 79, American academic and writer.^[190]
• Betty Driver, 91, British singer and actress (Coronation Street), pneumonia.^[191]
• Sir Donald Dunstan, 88, Australian military officer, Governor of South Australia (1982–1991).^[192]
• Joan Jaykoski, 78, American AAGPBL baseball player, cancer.^[193]
• Pierre Mamboundou, 65, Gabonese politician, leader of the Union of the Gabonese People (since 1989), heart attack.^[194]
• Matthew G. Martínez, 82, American politician, U.S. Representative from California (1982–2001).^[195]
• Earl McRae, 69, Canadian journalist (Ottawa Sun), apparent heart attack.^[196]
• Sue Mengers, 79, American talent agent, pneumonia.^[197]
• Tongai Moyo, 43, Zimbabwean musician, non Hodgkin's lymphoma.^[198]
• Gerald Shapiro, 61, American fiction writer and academic.^[199]
• Titus Thotawatte, 82, Sri Lankan director.^[200]

16

• Hiroshi Arikawa, 70, Japanese voice actor.^[201]
• Henry Bathurst, 8th Earl Bathurst, 84, British aristocrat and politician.^[202]
• Eusebio Bertrand, 81, Spanish Olympic sailor.^[203]
• Ursula Cain, 84, German dancer and dance teacher.^[204]
• Elouise P. Cobell, 65, American Native rights activist.^[205]
• Donald Davies, 91, American Episcopal bishop of Dallas and Fort Worth.^[206]
• Antony Gardner, 84, British politician, MP for Rushcliffe (1966–1970).^[207]
• Miguel Ángel Granados Chapa, 70, Mexican journalist.^[208]
• Charles Hamm, 86, American musicologist.^[209]
• Rick Huseman, 38, American off-road race truck driver, airplane crash.^[210]
• Virginia Knauer, 96, American consumer advocate and government official.^[211]
• Tony Marchington, 55, English biotechnology entrepreneur and preservationist (Flying Scotsman).^[212]
• Stanley Mitchell, 79, British translator, academic and author.^[213]
• Caerwyn Roderick, 84, British politician, MP for Brecon & Radnor (1970–1979).^[214]
• Pete Rugolo, 95, Italian-born American film and television composer (Kiss Me Kate, The Fugitive).^[215]
• Henning Sjöström, 89, Swedish defense attorney, long illness.^[216]
• Elisabeth Tankeu, 67, Cameroonian politician, Minister for Planning and Regional Development (1988–1992).^[217]
• Dan Wheldon, 33, British IndyCar driver, racing accident.^[218]
• Don Williams, 80, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Kansas City Athletics).^{[citation needed]}

17

• Hameed Akhtar, 87, Pakistani journalist and writer.^[219]
• John Morton Blum, 90, American political historian.^[220]
• Ramaz Chkhikvadze, 83, Georgian-born English stage actor.^[221]
• Barney Danson, 90, Canadian politician, MP for York North (1968–1979), Minister of National Defence (1976–1979).^[222]
• Manfred Gerlach, 83, German politician, last Chairman of the State Council of East Germany (1989–1990).^[223]
• Poul Glargaard, 69, Danish actor.^[224]
• Osvaldo Guidi, 47, Argentine actor, suicide by hanging.^[225]
• Carl Lindner Jr., 92, American businessman (United Dairy Farmers, Cincinnati Reds), cardiac arrest.^[226]
• Elaine Nile, 75, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1988–2002), cancer.^[227]
• Muiris Ó Rócháin, 67, Irish teacher and director of the Willie Clancy Summer School.^[228]
• Ken Rush, 80, American NASCAR driver.^[229]
• Piri Thomas, 83, American writer (Down These Mean Streets) and poet, pneumonia.^[230]
• Edgar Villchur, 94, American inventor of the acoustic suspension loudspeaker.^[231]
• Xin Huguang, 78, Chinese composer.^[232]

18

• Uri Amit, 77, Israeli politician.^[233]
• Bob Brunning, 68, British blues musician (Fleetwood Mac), heart attack.^[234]
• George Chaloupka, 79, Czech-born Australian historian of indigenous art.^[235]
• Ruby Cohn, 89, American theater scholar, Parkinson's disease.^[236]
• Norman Corwin, 101, American radio writer, director and producer.^[237]
• Paul Everac, 87, Romanian writer, cancer.^[238]
• Tommy Grant, 76, Canadian football player (Hamilton Tiger-Cats).^[239]
• Kent Hull, 50, American football player (Buffalo Bills), liver disease.^[240]
• Jan Marian Kaczmarek, 90, Polish engineer and academic.^[241]
• Friedrich Kittler, 68, German literary scholar and media theorist.^[242]
• Lee Soo-Chul, 45, South Korean football manager, suicide.^[243]
• Sir Donald McCallum, 89, British engineer and industrialist.^[244]
• Merritt Ranew, 73, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs)^[245]
• Anita Sleeman, 80, Canadian composer.^[246]
• Michael Staikos, 65, Greek-born Austrian Orthodox hierarch, metropolitan bishop of Austria (since 1991).^[247]
• Jacques Thuillier, 83, French art historian.^[248]
• Andrea Zanzotto, 90, Italian poet.^[249]

19

• Munshi Siddique Ahmad, 87, Bangladeshi rice scientist.^[250]
• Édison Chará, 31, Colombian footballer, shot.^[251]
• Kakkanadan, 76, Indian Malayalam writer.^[252]
• Ken Meyerson, 47, American tennis agent.^[253]
• Bohdan Osadchuk, 91, Ukrainian historian and journalist.^[254]
• Hollis E. Roberts, 68, American politician, Chief of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma (1978–1997), convicted sex offender.^[255]
• Jeff Rudom, 51, American basketball player and actor.^[256]
• Tadeusz Sawicz, 97, Polish World War II fighter pilot.^[257]
• Lars Sjösten, 70, Swedish jazz pianist and composer.^[258]
• Ronald Smith, 67, British Olympic boxer (1964).^[259]
• Jon Weaving, 80, Australian operatic tenor, pancreatic cancer.^[260][261]
• Keith Williams, 82, Australian tourism entrepreneur (Sea World), stroke.^[262]
• James Yannatos, 82, American composer and conductor.^[263]

20

• Ronald Amess, 84, Australian Olympic ice hockey player.^[264]
• Jerzy Bielecki, 90, Polish social worker, survivor of Auschwitz concentration camp, Polish Righteous among the Nations recipient.^[265]
• John Bosco Manat Chuabsamai, 75, Thai Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ratchaburi (1985–2003).^[266]
• Barry Feinstein, 80, American photographer and photojournalist.^[267]
• Yann Fouéré, 101, French Breton nationalist.^[268]
• Mutassim Gaddafi, 36, Libyan Army officer, fifth son of Muammar Gaddafi, shooting.^[269]
• Muammar Gaddafi, 69, Libyan leader (1969–2011), shooting.^[269]
• Gale Gillingham, 67, American football player (Green Bay Packers).^[270]
• Abu-Bakr Yunis Jabr, 59, Libyan military officer and politician, Minister of Defence (1970–2011), shooting.^[271]
• Hunter, 36, Australian rapper, cancer.^[272]
• Sue Lloyd, 72, British actress (The Ipcress File, Crossroads).^[273]
• Antoine Pazur, 80, French footballer.^[274]
• Iztok Puc, 45, Slovenian handball player, only Olympian handball player to represent three countries, lung cancer.^[275]
• Morris Tabaksblat, 74, Dutch industrialist.^[276]
• Roger Tallon, 82, French industrial designer.^[277]
• Peter Taylor, 84-85, British botanist.^[278]

21

• Maikano Abdoulaye, 79, Cameroonian politician.^[279]
• Hikmet Bilâ, 57, Turkish journalist and author, lung cancer.^[280]
• Antonio Cassese, 74, Italian international law expert, Yugoslavian war crimes judge, cancer.^[281]
• George Daniels, 85, British horologist.^[282]
• Thomas Dillon, 61, American serial killer.^[283]
• Chris Dixon, 67–68, Rhodesian Air Force pilot known as "Green Leader".^[284]
• Bertram Herlong, 77, American bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee.^[285]
• Digby Jacks, 66, British president of the National Union of Students (1971–1973).^[286]
• Anis Mansour, 86, Egyptian writer and columnist, pneumonia.^[287]
• Ettore Milano, 86, Italian cyclist.^[288]
• Tone Pavček, 83, Slovenian author and translator.^[289]
• Edmundo Ros, 100, Trinidadian-born British bandleader.^[290]
• Scott White, 41, American politician, member of the Washington House of Representatives (2009–2011) and State Senator (2011), cardiomegaly complications.^[291]

22

• Jan Boye, 49, Danish politician, complications from brain hemorrhage.^[292]
• Jean Dubuisson, 97, French architect.^[293]
• Peter Goldie, 64, British philosopher.^[294]
• Trevor Gordon, 96, Australian cricketer.^[295]
• Kutty, 90, Indian political cartoonist.^[296]
• Roger Moore, 73, American professional poker player.^[297]
• Mullanezhi, 63, Indian poet and actor, heart attack.^[298]
• Cathal O'Shannon, 83, Irish journalist and television presenter.^[299]
• Robert Pierpoint, 86, American broadcast journalist, complications from surgery.^[300]
• Roy Smalley Jr., 85, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Milwaukee Braves, Philadelphia Phillies).^[301]
• Sultan, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, 83, Saudi royal, Minister of Defense and Aviation (since 1962) and Crown Prince (since 2005).^[302]
• Ed Thompson, 66, American politician, Mayor of Tomah, Wisconsin (2008–2010), and gubernatorial candidate, pancreatic cancer.^[303]

23

• Nusrat Bhutto, 82, Iranian-born Pakistani First Lady, widow of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and mother of Benazir Bhutto.^[304]
• John Brown, 81, British Anglican bishop, Bishop in Cyprus and the Gulf (1987–1996)^[305]
• Joseph Dao, 75, Burkinabé-born Malian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Kayes (1978–2011).^[306]
• Oscar Stanley Dawson, 87, Indian admiral, Chief of the Naval Staff (1982–1984), brain haemorrhage.^[307]
• Winston Griffiths, 33, Jamaican footballer.^[308]
• Herbert A. Hauptman, 94, American Nobel Prize-winning chemist (1985).^[309]
• Florence Parry Heide, 92, American children's author.^[310]
• Sir Frank Holmes, 87, New Zealand economist and government advisor.^[311]
• William Franklin Lee III, 82, American music educator, dean of University of Miami School of Music (1964–1982).^[312]
• Bronislovas Lubys, 73, Lithuanian entrepreneur and politician, Prime Minister of Lithuania (1992–1993), heart attack.^[313]
• John Makin, 61, British folk and blues singer (Potverdekke! (It's great to be a Belgian)).^[314]
• Miroslav Proft, 87, Czech Olympic shooter.^[315]
• Amnon Salomon, 71, Israeli cinematographer, cancer.^[316]
• Marco Simoncelli, 24, Italian motorcycle racer, race crash.^[317]
• Tillie Taylor, 88, Canadian judge.^[318]
• Bogdan Zakrzewski, 95, Polish historian and researcher of Polish literature.^[319]

24

• Bob Beaumont, 79, American electric automobile manufacturer (Citicar), emphysema.^[320]
• Margit Brandt, 66, Danish fashion designer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.^[321]
• Robert Bropho, 81, Australian indigenous rights activist and convicted criminal, natural causes.^[322]
• Liviu Ciulei, 88, Romanian actor, writer and director, after long illness.^[323]
• Max Gillett, 84, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Geelong West (1958–1964).^[324]
• Harold Huskilson, 91, Canadian politician, member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly (1970–1993).^[325]
• Kjell Johansson, 65, Swedish table tennis player.^[326]
• Morio Kita, 84, Japanese novelist, essayist and psychiatrist.^[327]
• Héctor López, 44, Mexican boxer, Olympic silver medal-winner (1984), drug overdose.^[328]
• John McCarthy, 84, American computer scientist, creator of LISP and the term AI, heart disease.^[329]
• Pat McNamara, 85, American Olympic speed skater.^[330]
• Alan Morgan, 71, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Sherwood (1989–2004).^[331]
• Crescênzio Rinaldini, 85, Italian-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Araçuaí (1982–2001).^[332]
• Sir Peter Siddell, 76, New Zealand artist, brain tumour.^[333]
• Kirtanananda Swami, 74, American excommunicated Hare Krishna leader and convicted felon, kidney failure.^[334]
• Bruno Weber, 80, Swiss artist and architect.^[335]
• Ken Yamaguchi, 55, Japanese voice actor, illness.^[336]

25

• Leonidas Andrianopoulos, 100, Greek footballer (Olympiacos F.C.).^[337]
• Perkins Bass, 99, American politician, U.S. Representative from New Hampshire (1955–1963).^[338]
• Shirley Becke, 94, British police officer, first female to reach chief officer rank.^[339]
• Bert Cueto, 74, Cuban baseball player (Minnesota Twins).^[340]
• Arved Deringer, 98, German lawyer (Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer) and politician.^[341]
• Donald Foley, 47-48, American actor.^[342]
• Sinikka Keskitalo, 60, Finnish Olympic long-distance runner.^[343]
• Wyatt Knight, 56, American actor (Porky's), suicide by gunshot.^[344]
• Manuel López Ochoa, 77, Mexican actor (Chucho el roto).^[345]
• Tom McNeeley, 74, American boxer, complications from a seizure.^[346]
• Mohan Raghavan, 47, Indian Malayalam film director.^[347]
• Fyodor Reut, 64, Soviet and later Russian military officer.^[348]
• Bernard Verdcourt, 86, British botanist.^[349]
• Howard Wolpe, 71, American politician, U.S. Representative from Michigan (1979–1993).^[350]
• Norrie Woodhall, 105, British stage actress.^[351]

26

• Salvador Bernal, 66, Filipino designer, National Artist of the Philippines.^[352]
• Daniel Burke, 82, American television executive, President of ABC (1986–1994), complications of diabetes.^[353]
• Dave Cole, 81, American baseball player (Boston Braves, Milwaukee Braves, Chicago Cubs).^[354]
• Mickey Kelly, 82, Irish hurler (Kilkenny GAA).^[355]
• Aristide Laurent, 70, American publisher and LGBT civil rights advocate.^[356]
• John Morris, 71, South African cricketer.^[357]
• William A. Niskanen, 78, American economist, member of the Council of Economic Advisors (1981–1985), chairman of the Cato Institute (1985–2008), stroke.^[358]
• Jona Senilagakali, 81, Fijian physician and diplomat, Prime Minister (2006–2007).^[359]
• Jorge Soto, 66, Argentine golfer.^[360]
• Francisco Villar García-Moreno, 63, Spanish politician, President of National Sports Council (1999-2000).^[361]

27

• Tom Brown, 89, American tennis player.^[362]
• T. Max Graham, 70, American actor (Article 99, Eraserhead), cancer.^[363]
• Ronald Greeley, 72, American planetary scientist.^[364]
• James Hillman, 85, American psychologist, proponent of archetypal psychology.^[365]
• Ron Holmes, 48, American football player (Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Denver Broncos).^[366]
• Eduard Kojnok, 78, Slovak Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Rožňava (1990–2008).^[367]
• Allen Mandelbaum, 85, American professor of Italian literature, poet and translator.^[368]
• Robert Pritzker, 85, American billionaire industrialist, Parkinson's disease.^[369]

28

• Ricky Adams, 52, American baseball player (California Angels), cancer.^[370]
• Tom Addington, 92, British soldier.^[371]
• Campbell Christie, 74, Scottish trade unionist.^[372]
• Willy De Clercq, 84, Belgian politician.^[373]
• Beryl Davis, 87, British big band singer and actress.^[374]
• R. Sheldon Duecker, 85, American prelate, bishop of the United Methodist Church.^[375]
• Jiří Gruša, 72, Czech dissident, diplomat and writer.^[376]
• Roger Kerr, 66, New Zealand public policy and business leader, executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, metastatic melanoma.^[377]
• Alvin Schwartz, 94, American comic book writer (Batman, Green Lantern, Superman), heart-related complications.^[378]
• Kan Singh Parihar, 98, Indian jurist.^[379]
• Arnold Ruiner, 74, Austrian Olympic cyclist.^[380]
• Sri Lal Sukla, 85, Indian writer, long illness.^[381]
• Wilmer W. Tanner, 101, American zoologist.^[382]
• Ed Walker, 94, American World War II veteran and writer, last surviving member of Castner's Cutthroats.^[383]

29

• Christine Atallah, 45, Canadian singer-songwriter and writer, complications from a fall.^[384]
• Axel Axgil, 96, Danish gay rights activist.^[385]
• Dolores Dwyer, 76, American Olympic athlete and actress.^[386]
• Lloyd G. Jackson, 93, American politician, President of West Virginia Senate (1969–1971).^[387]
• Robert Lamoureux, 91, French comedian and film director.^[388]
• Yoland Levèque, 74, French Olympic boxer.^[389]
• Elfriede von Nitzsch, 91, German Olympic athlete.^[390]
• Walter Norris, 79, American jazz pianist.^[391]
• R. C. Pitts, 92, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1948) basketball player.^[392]
• Ram Revilla, 22, Filipino actor, shot and stabbed.^[393]
• Sir Jimmy Savile, 84, British disc jockey and television presenter (Top of the Pops, Jim'll Fix It).^[394]
• K. Suppu, 70, Indian politician.^[395]
• Samdup Taso, 83, Indian hereditary priest.^[396]
• Walter Vidarte, 80, Uruguayan actor.^[397]
• Tom Watkins, 74, American football player (Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions), after long illness.^[398]
• Mano Wijeyeratne, 54, Sri Lankan politician.^[399]

30

• John Anderson, 93, British pathologist.^[400]
• Serge Aubry, 69, Canadian ice hockey player (Quebec Nordiques), diabetes.^[401]
• Bob Barry, Sr., 80, American sports commentator.^[402]
• Basile Decortès, 89, French cyclist.^[403]
• T. M. Jacob, 61, Indian politician, member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly.^[404]
• Tom Keith, 64, American radio personality (A Prairie Home Companion).^[405]
• Jonas Kubilius, 90, Lithuanian mathematician.^[406]
• Phyllis Love, 85, American actress (Friendly Persuasion, The Young Doctors), Alzheimer's disease.^[407]
• Christopher J. Mega, 80, American politician and judge.^[408]
• Cyril Parfitt, 97, British artist.^[409]
• Virgilio Salimbeni, 91, Italian cyclist.^[410]
• Mickey Scott, 64, German-born American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles, Montreal Expos).^[411]
• David Utz, 87, American surgeon, removed Ronald Reagan's prostate, heart failure.^[412]
• Richard Walls, 74, New Zealand politician and businessman, MP for Dunedin North (1975–1978) and Mayor of Dunedin (1989–1995).^[413]
• Abbas-Ali Amid Zanjani, 74, Iranian cleric and politician, President of Tehran University (2005–2008), heart failure.^[414]

31

• Flórián Albert, 70, Hungarian footballer, European Footballer of the Year (1967).^[415]
• Alberto Anchart, 80, Argentine actor (Venga a bailar el rock), cancer.^[416]
• Liz Anderson, 81, American country music singer-songwriter, complications from heart and lung disease.^[417]
• Mick Anglo, 95, British comic book writer and artist, creator of Marvelman.^[418]
• Caridad Asensio, 80, Cuban-American migrant worker advocate, seizure.^[419]
• Gilbert Cates, 77, American film director and producer (Telecast of the Academy Awards, Oh, God! Book II), founder of Geffen Playhouse.^[420]
• James Forrester, 74, American physician and politician, North Carolina State Senator (since 1990).^[421]
• Boris de Greiff, 81, Colombian chess master.^[422]
• Alfred Hilbe, 83, Liechtensteiner politician, Prime Minister (1970–1974).^[423]
• Len Killeen, 72, South African rugby league player.^[424]
• Marios Leousis, 75, Greek magician.^[425]
• Ali Saibou, 71, Nigerien politician, President (1987–1993).^[426]