Deaths in August 2011

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship, reason for notability, cause of death, and reference.

August 2011

1

• Concha Alós, 85, Spanish writer.
• Stan Barstow, 83, English novelist.
• Joe Caffie, 80, American baseball player.
• Carmela Marie Cristiano, 83, American Roman Catholic nun, first nun to seek political office in New Jersey.
• Florentina Gómez Miranda, 99, Argentine lawyer and women's rights activist.
• Gamini Goonesena, 80, Sri Lankan cricketer.
• Chieko N. Okazaki, 84, American Mormon women's leader, first non-Caucasian woman to hold a senior position in the LDS church, heart failure.
• Ken Payne, 60, American football player.
• Alex Pitko, 97, American baseball player.
• Zhanna Prokhorenko, 71, Russian film actress.

2

• Leslie Esdaile Banks, 51, American author, adrenal cancer.
• Baruj Benacerraf, 90, Venezuelan-born American immunologist, Nobel laureate.
• Ralph Berkowitz, 100, American composer.
• Igor Chepusov, 61, Soviet and American producer, script writer and director.
• Meldric Daluz, 90, Indian Olympic gold medal-winning field hockey player.
• Al Federoff, 87, American baseball player.
• Asadullo Gulomov, 58, Tajik politician, Deputy Prime Minister.
• Andrey Kapitsa, 80, Russian geographer and explorer, discovered and named Lake Vostok.
• Clarence E. Miller, 93, American politician, U.S. Representative from Ohio, pneumonia.
• Attilio Pavesi, 100, Italian Olympic cyclist, oldest living Olympic champion.
• Richard Pearson, 93, Welsh actor.
• José Sanchis Grau, 79, Spanish comic book artist.
• James Ford Seale, 76, American murderer, Ku Klux Klan member.
• Markku Yli-Isotalo, 58, Finnish Olympic wrestler

3

• Rudolf Brazda, 98, German concentration camp prisoner, last known survivor of pink triangle homosexual deportation.
• Richard Cates, 85, American lawyer.
• Annette Charles, 63, American actress, complications from lung cancer.
• Antonio Diaz, 83, Filipino politician, Representative from Zambales.
• Jackie Hudson, 76, American nun and peace activist.
• Ingrid Luterkort, 101, Swedish actress.
• Simona Monyová, 44, Czech writer, stabbed.
• Ray Patterson, 89, American basketball executive.
• Nikolai Arnoldovich Petrov, 68, Russian pianist, People's Artist of the USSR, stroke.
• José Ignacio Rivero, 90, Cuban journalist.
• William Sleator, 66, American science fiction writer.
• Bubba Smith, 66, American football player and actor.
• Mohsen Koochebaghi Tabrizi, 87, Iranian Shi'ite Muslim marja, heart attack.
• Allan Watkins, 89, Welsh cricketer, after short illness.

4

• David B. Barrett, 83, American professor.
• Alan Blackshaw, 78, English mountaineer and civil servant, cancer.
• Michael Bukht, 69, British radio executive, television personality and chef who worked as Michael Barry.
• Mark Duggan, 29, British crime suspect, shot.
• Naoki Matsuda, 34, Japanese footballer, suspected heart attack.
• Conrad Schnitzler, 74, German musician, stomach cancer.
• Erika Thijs, 51, Belgian politician, Senator, cancer.
• Sherman White, 82, American basketball player.

5

• Jean-Claude Bajeux, 79, Haitian activist and scholar, lung cancer.
• Gerry Davidson, 90, American masters athlete, stroke.
• Erol Erduran, 78, Cypriot educator and writer.
• Dudley E. Faver, 94, American Air Force major general and academic.
• Marion D. Hanks, 89, American Mormon leader.
• Grahame Jarratt, 82, New Zealand rower.
• Hazel Johnson-Brown, 83, American Army nurse and general, Alzheimer's disease.
• Andrzej Lepper, 57, Polish politician, suspected suicide by hanging.
• Elphas Mukonoweshuro, 58, Zimbabwean academic and politician.
• Gary Nixon, 70, American motorcycle racer, complications from a heart attack.
• Francesco Quinn, 48, Italian-born American actor, heart attack.
• Aziz Shavershian, 22, Australian bodybuilder and model, heart attack.
• Adi Talmor, 58, Israeli journalist and news presenter, assisted suicide.
• Stan Willemse, 86, British footballer.

6

• Bernadine Healy, 67, American cardiologist, director of the National Institutes of Health, brain cancer.
• Fred Imus, 69, American songwriter and radio talk show host.
• Kuno Klötzer, 89, German football coach.
• Fe del Mundo, 99, Filipino pediatrician, National Scientist of the Philippines, heart attack.
• Roman Opałka, 79, French-born Polish painter.
• John W. Ryan, 81, American academic administrator, President of Indiana University.
• Jerry Smith, 80, American football player and coach.
• John Wood, 81, English actor, Tony winner.

7

• Eric Anthony Abrahams, 71, Jamaican public servant.
• Joseph Candolfi, 89, Swiss Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Basel.
• Hugh Carey, 92, American politician, Governor of New York and U.S. Representative.
• Rocco Colonna, 77, American politician, Member of the Ohio House of Representatives.
• Charles Coventry, 52, Zimbabwean cricket umpire.
• Cornelius Elanjikal, 92, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Verapoly.
• Eddie Gibbins, 85, English footballer.
• Marshall Grant, 83, American double bassist.
• F. M. Hardacre, 96, American academic and college football coach.
• Mark Hatfield, 89, American politician, Governor of Oregon and U.S. Senator.
• Harri Holkeri, 74, Finnish politician, Prime Minister, after long illness.
• Paul Meier, 87, American mathematician, complications from a stroke.
• George Naghi, 59, Romanian businessman, founder of Aldis SRL, boating accident.
• Tom Radney, 79, American politician, member of the Alabama Senate, after long illness.
• Jiří Traxler, 99, Czech-born Canadian jazz pianist.
• Nancy Wake, 98, New Zealand-born Australian French Resistance leader, chest infection.
• Charles Wyly, 77, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Michaels Stores, automobile accident.
• Joe Yamanaka, 64, Japanese rock singer, lung cancer.

8

• Neal Abberley, 67, English cricketer, heart and lung condition.
• Ray Anderson, 77, American entrepreneur, cancer.
• Mike Barrett, 67, American Olympic and professional basketball player.
• Ruth Brinker, 89, American AIDS and nutrition activist, founder of Project Open Hand, vascular dementia.
• Royal Copeland, 86, Canadian football player, Alzheimer's disease.
• Cem Erman, 64, Turkish actor and composer.
• Fred Ingaldson, 78, Canadian Olympic basketball player.
• Kurt Johansson, 97, Swedish Olympic sport shooter.
• Anastasios Peponis, 87, Greek politician and author, heart problems.
• Federico Richter Fernandez-Prada, 89, Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Ayacucho/Huamanga.
• Hind Rostom, 81, Egyptian actress, heart attack.
• Jiřina Švorcová, 83, Czech actress and pro-Communist activist.
• Chandrashekhar Vijay, 77, Indian Jain Monk.
• Harry H. Wellington, 84, American lawyer, Dean of Yale Law School and New York Law School, brain tumor.
• Guillermo Zarur, 79, Mexican actor, complications of kidney and heart disease.

9

• Wendy Babcock, 32, Canadian advocate for the rights of prostitutes, suspected suicide.
• Roberto Busa, 97, Italian Jesuit priest, pioneer in Digital Humanities.
• Adolphe-Maria Gustave Hardy, 91, French Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Beauvais.
• Yoshihiro Hamaguchi, 85, Japanese Olympic swimmer, heart failure.
• Jimmy Harris, 76, American football player, natural causes.
• Kolapo Ishola, 77, Nigerian politician, Governor of Oyo State.
• Eleanor Josaitis, 79, American activist, co-founder of Focus: HOPE, peritoneal cancer.
• Julian Kenny, 81, Trinidadian zoologist, environmentalist and politician, Senator.
• Mimi Lee, 91, American chemist, First Lady of Maryland, heart failure.
• Werner W. Wallroth, 81, German film director.

10

• P. C. Alexander, 90, Indian politician, Governor of Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Goa.
• Moraíto Chico II, 54, Spanish musician, cancer.
• Arnaud Desjardins, 86, French philosopher.
• Norton Fredrick, 73, Sri Lankan cricketer, illness.
• Billy Grammer, 85, American country singer.
• Selwyn Griffith, 83, Welsh poet.
• Oldřich Machač, 65, Czech Olympic silver and bronze medal-winning ice hockey player, heart failure.
• Babak Masoumi, 39, Iranian futsal player and coach, blood cancer.
• Lilia Michel, 85, Mexican actress.
• Mark Sinyangwe, 31, Zambian footballer.

11

• Agustín Romualdo Álvarez Rodríguez, 88, Spanish-born Venezuelan Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Machiques.
• V. R. Athavale, 92, Indian singer.
• Robert Breer, 84, American experimental filmmaker.
• Don Chandler, 76, American football player.
• George Devol, 99, American inventor, creator of Unimate, the first industrial robot.
• Ignacio Flores, 58, Mexican football player, shot.
• Mateo Flores, 89, Guatemalan Olympic athlete.
• Noach Flug, 86, Polish-born Israeli economist, advocate for rights of Holocaust survivors.
• Richard Floyd, 80, American politician and lawmaker.
• Clair George, 81, American CIA officer, cardiac arrest.
• David Holbrook, 88, English writer and academic.
• Jani Lane, 47, American musician, acute alcohol poisoning.
• Scott LeDoux, 62, American boxer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Karen Overington, 59, Australian politician, Victorian MLA for Ballarat West.
• Bob Shamansky, 84, American politician, U.S. Representative from Ohio.
• Johann Traxler, 52, Austrian Olympic cyclist.
• Joe Trimble, 80, American baseball player.
• Paul Wilkinson, 74, British academic, expert on the study of terrorism.
• Bob Will, 80, American baseball player.

12

• Patricia Acioli, 47, Brazilian judge and feminist, shot.
• Austin-Emile Burke, 89, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Halifax.
• Ernie Johnson, 87, American baseball player and broadcaster.
• Karl Kittsteiner, 91, German cyclist and National Champion.
• Charles P. Murray Jr., 89, American Army colonel, Medal of Honor recipient, heart failure.
• Robert Robinson, 83, English radio and television presenter.
• Francisco Solano López, 83, Argentine comics artist, complications from a stroke.
• Pierpaolo Spangaro, 69, Italian Olympic swimmer.

13

• Álvaro Lara, 26, Chilean footballer, traffic collision.
• Chris Lawrence, 78, British racing driver and engineer, cancer.
• Ctirad Mašín, 81, Czech resistance fighter.
• Tareque Masud, 54, Bangladeshi independent film director, traffic collision.
• Mishuk Munier, 52, Bangladeshi journalist, photography director, media specialist and cinematographer, traffic collision.
• Jesús del Pozo, 65, Spanish fashion designer, pulmonary emphysema.
• Topi Sorsakoski, 58, Finnish singer, lung cancer.
• Ellen Winther, 78, Danish opera singer and actress.

14

• Fritz Bach, 77, Austrian-born American transplant physician and immunologist.
• Jonathan Bacon, 30, American gangster, shot.
• Albert Brown, 105, American World War II veteran, oldest survivor of Bataan Death March.
• Kase2, 52, graffiti writer and contributor to the hip-hop movement.
• Yekaterina Golubeva, 44, Russian actress.
• Shammi Kapoor, 79, Indian film actor and director, renal failure.
• Fritz Korbach, 66, German football player and manager, laryngeal cancer.
• Paul Reeves, 78, New Zealand Anglican archbishop, Primate, Governor-General, cancer.
• Friedrich Schoenfelder, 94, German actor.
• Shawn Tompkins, 37, Canadian kickboxer and mixed martial artist, suspected heart attack.

15

• Nenad Bijedić, 51, Bosnian football manager, cancer.
• Colin Harvey, 50, British science fiction writer and editor, stroke.
• Michael Legat, 88, British author and publisher.
• Peter Mair, 60, Irish political scientist.
• Solomon Mujuru, 62, Zimbabwean military officer and politician, injuries from a fire.
• Wim Peeters, 85, South African Olympic shooter.
• Hugo Perié, 67, Argentine politician, MP, Montoneros militant, lung disease.
• Sif Ruud, 95, Swedish actress.
• Rick Rypien, 27, Canadian ice hockey player, suicide.
• Tōru Shōriki, 92, Japanese baseball team owner, sepsis.
• Betty Thatcher, 67, British lyricist, cancer.

16

• Vladimir Antakov, 54, Soviet Olympic hockey player.
• Andrej Bajuk, 67, Slovenian politician and economist, Prime Minister, stroke.
• Mihri Belli, 96, Turkish politician and writer, respiratory failure.
• Creed Black, 86, American newspaper publisher.
• Huw Ceredig, 69, Welsh actor.
• Albert Facchiano, 101, American mobster.
• Akiko Futaba, 96, Japanese ryūkōka singer.
• Ahmet Kıbıl, 58, Turkish Olympic skier.
• Bruno Monti, 81, Italian Olympic cyclist.
• Frank Munro, 63, Scottish footballer, heart attack.
• Pete Pihos, 87, American Hall of Fame football player, Alzheimer's disease.
• Leo Rodríguez, 82, Mexican baseball player.
• Ramesh Saxena, 66, Indian cricketer, brain haemorrhage.
• Bernard William Schmitt, 82, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Wheeling-Charleston.
• Aud Talle, 65, Norwegian social anthropologist.

17

• Augustus Aikhomu, 72, Nigerian admiral and politician, Vice President.
• Hrach Bartikyan, 84, Armenian academician.
• Vasyl Dzharty, 53, Ukrainian politician, Prime Minister of Crimea, cancer.
• Gualtiero Jacopetti, 91, Italian documentary film director.
• Michel Mohrt, 97, French writer, member of the Académie française.
• Pierre Quinon, 49, French pole vaulter and Olympic champion, suicide by self-defenestration.
• Bill Robinson, 72, New Zealand scientist.

18

• John Bean, 48, Australian cinematographer, helicopter crash.
• Samir Chanda, 53, Indian art film director, cardiac arrest.
• Peter George Davis, 87, English Royal Marine officer,
• Simon De Jong, 69, Canadian politician, MP for Regina East and Regina—Qu'Appelle, leukemia.
• Bill Gray, 88, American football player.
• Johnson, 58, Indian film music composer, cardiac arrest.
• Paul Lockyer, 61, Australian journalist, helicopter crash.
• Herb Pfuhl, 83, American politician, longest-serving mayor of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
• Maurice M. Rapport, 91, American neuroscience biochemist.
• Scotty Robertson, 81, American basketball coach, cancer.
• Jerome Shestack, 88, American human rights activist and attorney, President of American Bar Association.
• Jean Tabary, 81, French comic strip artist.
• Norm Willey, 83, American football player.

19

• John Abley, 81, Australian football player, cardiac arrest.
• Hendrina Afrikaner, 58–59, Namibian politician, car accident.
• Merv Brooks, 92, Australian footballer.
• Gil Courtemanche, 68, Canadian journalist and novelist, cancer.
• Gun Hägglund, 79, Swedish television personality, Sweden's first female television news presenter, after short illness.
• Kerima Polotan Tuvera, 85, Filipino author and journalist.
• Brian Pope, 100, English rugby union player.
• Raúl Ruiz, 70, Chilean film director, pulmonary infection.
• Jimmy Sangster, 83, British director and screenwriter.
• Vilem Sokol, 96, American conductor and music professor, cancer.
• Vladimir Torban, 78, Soviet basketballer, 1956 Olympic silver medalist, two-times European champion.
• Yevhen Yevseyev, 24, Ukrainian footballer, car accident.

20

• George C. Axtell, 90, American military officer, United States Marine Corps lieutenant-general.
• Reza Badiyi, 81, Iranian-born American television director.
• Ross Barbour, 82, American singer, last founding member of The Four Freshmen, lung cancer.
• Marty Bergmann, 55, Canadian scientist and public servant, plane crash.
• Fred Fay, 66, American leader in the disability rights movement.
• Charles Gubser, 95, American politician, U.S. Representative from California.
• Rafael Halperin, 87, Israeli businessman and professional wrestler.
• Patricia Hardy, 79, American actress, colon cancer.
• Chal Port, 80, American baseball coach.
• Jethu Singh Rajpurohit, 90, Indian politician.
• Angelo Maria Rivato, 86, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ponta de Pedras.
• Ram Sharan Sharma, 91, Indian historian.
• Vernon Stratton, 83, British Olympic sailor.

21

• Dharani Dhar Awasthi, 88, Indian botanist, taxonomist, and lichenologist.
• Dame Christine Cole Catley, 88, New Zealand journalist, publisher and author, lung cancer.
• Sir Donald Farquharson, 83, British jurist.
• Patrick Guillemin, 60, French actor and voice actor, heart attack.
• Brian Harrison, 89, Australian-born British politician and businessman, MP for Maldon.
• Budd Hopkins, 80, American artist and UFO researcher, liver cancer.
• John R. Hubbard, 92, American diplomat, President of University of Southern California, United States Ambassador to India.
• John J. Kelley, 80, American Olympic long-distance runner, winner of the 1957 Boston Marathon.
• Irène Pittelioen, 84, French Olympic gymnast.
• Ezra Sued, 88, Argentine footballer, infection.
• Muga Takewaki, 67, Japanese actor, cerebrovascular disease.
• Edith Tiempo, 92, Filipino author, National Artist of the Philippines, heart attack.

22

• Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, 40, Libyan-born Afghan Al-Qaeda leader.
• Abdul Aziz Abdul Ghani, 72, Yemeni politician, Prime Minister.
• Ray Abruzzese, 73, American football player.
• Nickolas Ashford, 70, American R&B singer and songwriter, throat cancer.
• John Howard Davies, 72, English television producer and director, former child actor, cancer.
• Kamal el-Shennawi, 89, Egyptian actor.
• Joan Gerber, 76, American voice actress.
• Jesper Klein, 66, Danish actor, liver cancer.
• Jack Layton, 61, Canadian politician, Leader of the Official Opposition and New Democratic Party, cancer.
• Jerry Leiber, 78, American songwriter, cardiopulmonary failure.
• Loriot, 87, German cartoonist and actor.
• Samuel Menashe, 85, American poet, natural causes.
• Žarko Nikolić, 74, Serbian footballer.
• Casey Ribicoff, 88, American socialite and philanthropist, lung cancer.
• Michael Showers, 45, American actor, drowned.
• Thomas Syme, 83, British Olympic ice hockey player.

23

• Akhtaruzzaman, 65, Bangladeshi film director.
• J.C. Daniel, 84, Indian naturalist, lung cancer.
• Paul Francis Duffy, 79, American-born Zambian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Mongu.
• Clare Hodges, 54, British campaigner for the medical use of cannabis, multiple sclerosis.
• Sybil Jason, 83, American child actress.
• David Lunn-Rockliffe, 86, British businessman co-founder of the River and Rowing Museum, heart failure.
• Jim Peckham, 81, American Olympic wrestler.
• Frank Potenza, 77, American police officer and actor, cancer.
• Hasballah M. Saad, 63, Indonesian politician, Human Rights Minister.
• Peter Terpeluk Jr., 63, American diplomat, Ambassador to Luxembourg, heart attack.
• June Wayne, 93, American artist and print maker.
• Willie Williams, 86, American Negro league baseball player.

24

• Frank DiLeo, 63, American music industry executive and actor, heart complications.
• Esther Gordy Edwards, 91, American Motown executive, creator of Hitsville U.S.A. museum.
• Seyhan Erözçelik, 49, Turkish poet.
• Mike Flanagan, 59, American baseball player, suicide by gunshot.
• Frederick A. Fox, 80, American composer and music educator.
• Jenő Gerbovits, 86, Hungarian politician, minister without portfolio, tractor accident.
• Paul Harney, 82, American golfer.
• Jack Hayes, 92, American composer and orchestrator, natural causes.
• Clemente Isnard, 94, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Nova Friburgo.
• George Knight, 90, English footballer.
• Joyce McDougall, 91, New Zealand-French psychoanalyst.
• Graeme Moody, 60, New Zealand sports broadcaster, drowned.
• Yacoub Romanos, 76, Lebanese Olympic wrestler.
• Alfons Van Brandt, 84, Belgian footballer.

25

• Bandi Rajan Babu, 73, Indian photographer.
• A. A. Birch Jr., 78, American lawyer and judge, Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court.
• Donna Christanello, 69, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
• Jyles Coggins, 90, American politician, Mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina.
• Elliott Johnston, 93, Australian jurist, Judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia.
• Lazar Mojsov, 90, Macedonian politician, 10th. President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia.
• Eugene Nida, 96, American linguist and bible translator.
• Anne Sharp, 94, Scottish coloratura soprano.
• Ruth Thomas, 84, British writer.

26

• Aloysius Ambrozic, 81, Slovenian-born Canadian Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Toronto.
• George Band, 82, British mountaineer.
• C. K. Barrett, 94, British theologian.
• Josephine Figlo, 88, American baseball player.
• Patrick C. Fischer, 75, American computer scientist and Unabomber target.
• Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, 71, American novelist and educator, complications of a stroke.
• John McAleese, 61, British SAS soldier involved in the Iranian Embassy Siege.
• Elvis Reifer, 50, Barbadian cricketer.
• Manuel Saavedra, 70, Chilean footballer
• Donn A. Starry, 86, American army officer, Commanding General, TRADOC.
• B. Jeff Stone, 75, American rockabilly singer-songwriter.
• Nadine Winter, 87, American politician, member of the Council of the District of Columbia.

27

• Heribert Barrera, 94, Spanish politician, President of the Parliament of Catalonia.
• Eve Brent, 82, American actress.
• Frank Fanovich, 88, American baseball player.
• Lykourgos Kallergis, 97, Greek actor, director and politician.
• Stetson Kennedy, 94, American folklorist and civil rights activist.
• Kim Tai-chung, 54, Korean actor and martial artist, internal stomach bleeding.
• Nico Minardos, 81, Greek actor, natural causes.
• John Parke, 74, Northern Irish footballer, Alzheimer's disease.
• Tapio Pöyhönen, 83, Finnish Olympic basketball player
• Iya Savvina, 75, Russian actress, People's Artist of the USSR.
• N. F. Simpson, 92, British dramatist.
• Keith Tantlinger, 92, American mechanical engineer and inventor.
• Pat Villani, 57, American computer programmer

28

• Theo Blankenaauw, 87, Dutch track cyclist.
• Billy Drake, 93, British fighter pilot.
• Bernie Gallacher, 44, British footballer.
• Bruno Gamberini, 61, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Campinas.
• Len Ganley, 68, Northern Irish snooker referee.
• George Green, 59, American songwriter, lung cancer.
• Leonard Harris, 81, American actor, arts and theater critic, complications of pneumonia.
• Leonidas Kyrkos, 87, Greek politician, after short illness.
• Dmitri Royster, 87, American hierarch, Archbishop of the Diocese of the South.
• Tony Sale, 80, British computer scientist.
• Necip Torumtay, 84–85, Turkish general, Chief of the General Staff.

29

• Ebenezer Adam, 91–92, Ghanaian teacher and politician.
• Pauline Morrow Austin, 94, American physicist and meteorologist.
• Jim Baechtold, 83, American basketball player.
• John Bancroft, 82, British architect.
• David "Honeyboy" Edwards, 96, American blues guitarist and singer, heart failure.
• Khamis Gaddafi, 28, Libyan seventh son of Muammar Gaddafi, commander of the Khamis Brigade, airstrike.
• R. B. McDowell, 97, Irish historian.
• Mark Ovendale, 37, English footballer, cancer.
• David P. Reynolds, 96, American businessman and Thoroughbred racehorse breeder.
• George Sutor, 67, American basketball player.
• Junpei Takiguchi, 80, Japanese voice actor and narrator, stomach cancer.
• Ayala Zacks-Abramov, 99, Israeli art patron.

30

• Alla Bayanova, 97, Russian singer, People's Artist of Russia, cancer.
• Faye Blackstone, 96, American rodeo star, cancer.
• Ronald N. Hartman, 76, American professor of astronomy, planetarium director.
• Revo Jõgisalu, 35, Estonian rapper, melanoma.
• Peggy Lloyd, 98, American stage actress.
• Wambui Otieno, 75, Kenyan politician.
• João Carlos Batista Pinheiro, 79, Brazilian footballer, prostate cancer.
• Cactus Pryor, 88, American broadcaster, Alzheimer's disease.

31

• Paul Abisheganaden, 97, Singaporean music conductor and Cultural Medallion recipient.
• Wade Belak, 35, Canadian ice hockey player, suicide.
• Cal Christensen, 84, American basketball player, heart failure.
• Denis Collins, 58, Australian football player, heart attack.
• Abderrahmane Mahjoub, 82, Moroccan-born French footballer.
• Robert Muir, 91, Canadian politician, MP and Senator.
• Dave Petrie, 64, Scottish politician, Member of the Scottish Parliament for Highlands and Islands.
• Valery Rozhdestvensky, 72, Soviet cosmonaut.
• Betty Skelton, 85, American aerobatics pilot and Women Airforce Service Pilots veteran.
• Jack Stephens, 78, American basketball player.
• Radoslav Stojanović, 81, Serbian politician and law expert, co-founder of the Democratic Party.
• Peter Twiss, 90, British test pilot.
• Frank Warner, 85, American sound editor.
• Rosel Zech, 69, German actress, cancer.