Deaths in December 2011

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

  December 2011

1

• Solomon Abera, 43, Eritrean journalist.
• Shingo Araki, 72, Japanese animation artist and character designer.
• Eric Arnott, 82, British eye surgeon.
• Arthur Beetson, 66, Australian rugby league footballer, first Indigenous Australian to captain a national team in any sport, heart attack.
• Andrei Blaier, 78, Romanian film director and screenwriter, after long illness.
• Martina Davis-Correia, 44, American civil rights activist, breast cancer.
• Ragnhild Hveger, 90, Danish swimmer, Olympic silver medalist.
• Ted Lapka, 91, American football player.
• François Lesage, 82, French embroidery designer.
• Bill McKinney, 80, American actor, esophageal cancer.
• Mr. Ebbo, 37, Tanzanian rapper, leukemia.
• Purificacion Quisumbing, 77, Filipino human rights advocate, Chairperson of Commission on Human Rights, multiple myeloma.
• Louis Silverstein, 92, American artist and graphic designer.
• Alan Sues, 85, American actor and comedian, heart attack.
• Hippolyte Van den Bosch, 85, Belgian footballer.
• Christa Wolf, 82, German writer.
• Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, 65, American psychoanalyst, biographer of Hannah Arendt, pulmonary embolism.

  2

• Robert Lawrence Balzer, 99, American wine journalist.
• Bruno Bianchi, 56, French cartoonist and animator.
• Laurent Fuahea, 84, Tongan-born Wallisian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Wallis et Futuna.
• Pavle Jurina, 56, Croatian handball player and coach.
• Christopher Logue, 85, British poet.
• David Montgomery, 84, American historian, brain hemorrhage.
• Artur Quaresma, 94, Portuguese footballer.
• Patrick Sheridan, 89, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of New York.
• Bill Tapia, 103, American ukulelist.
• Howard Tate, 72, American soul singer.

  3

• Jalal Alamgir, 40, Bangladeshi academic, drowning.
• Dev Anand, 88, Indian actor, cardiac arrest.
• James A. Barclay, 88, Scottish Canadian engineer and executive, golfer, and golf historian, natural causes.
• Louky Bersianik, 81, Canadian novelist.
• Philip "Fatis" Burrell, 57, Jamaican record producer, stroke.
• Ernst-Jürgen Dreyer, 77, German writer.
• Sabri Godo, 82, Albanian politician, writer and scriptwriter, founder and president of the Republican Party of Albania, lung cancer.
• Karl-Axel Karlsson, 72, Swedish Olympic sport shooter.
• Sam Loxton, 90, Australian cricketer, Australian rules footballer and politician, Victorian MLA for Prahran.
• Larry Rickles, 41, American Emmy Award-winning producer, pneumonia.
• Rafael Rodríguez Barrera, 74, Mexican politician, Governor of Campeche, President of the Institutional Revolutionary Party.
• Rob Schroeder, 85, American racing driver.

  4

• Ahmed Haji Abdirahman, 54, Somali cleric, preacher, and Islamic scholar known for his contributions to Dawah, Assassinated by Al-Shabab.
• Mary Ellen Avery, 84, American pediatrician.
• Antonio Barone, 72, Italian physicist.
• Allan Cameron, 94, Scottish soldier and curler.
• Ambika Charan Choudhury, 81, Indian writer.
• Marion Dougherty, 88, American casting director.
• Patricia C. Dunn, 58, American businesswoman, Chairman of Hewlett-Packard, ovarian cancer.
• Adam Hanuszkiewicz, 87, Polish actor and theatre director.
• Matti Yrjänä Joensuu, 63, Finnish crime fiction writer.
• Besim Kabashi, 35, Albanian kickboxer, heart attack.
• Dimitrios Kalligeris, 62, Greek footballer, traffic collision.
• Alamein Kopu, 68, New Zealand politician, List MP.
• Jim Malosky, 82, American football coach, respiratory failure.
• Sonia Pierre, 48, Dominican Republic human rights advocate, winner of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, heart attack.
• RJ Rosales, 37, Filipino-born Australian singer and actor.
• Sócrates, 57, Brazilian footballer, septic shock.
• Hubert Sumlin, 80, American blues guitarist, heart failure.
• Andrei Tverdokhlebov, 71, Soviet dissident.

  5

• Dan Biggers, 80, American actor.
• Michel Descombey, 81, French choreographer.
• Paul M. Doty, 91, American scientist.
• Tetsuzo Fuyushiba, 75, Japanese politician, Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, acute pneumonia.
• Peter Gethin, 71, British Formula One driver.
• Jorge Hourton, 85, French-born Chilean Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Temuco.
• Anatoly Klebanov, 59, Soviet Olympic water polo player.
• Gennady Logofet, 69, Russian footballer.
• Joe Lonnett, 84, American baseball player and coach.
• Dan Mills, 80, American animator.
• Daisy Myers, 86, African-American educator.
• Pusuke, 26, Japanese dog, world's oldest known living dog at time of death.
• Bill Stits, 80, American football player, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Darrell K. Sweet, 77, American artist.
• Georges Talbourdet, 60, French cyclist.
• Violetta Villas, 73, Belgian-born Polish singer.
• Celia Whitelaw, Viscountess Whitelaw, 94, British ATS volunteer, philanthropist/charity worker and horticulturist.

  6

• Günter Altner, 75, German interdisciplinary scientist.
• Giancarlo Badessi, 83, Italian actor, heart attack.
• John Banks, 89, American Negro league baseball player.
• Brent Darby, 30, American basketball player, blood clots.
• Tony Fell, 79, British music publisher.
• Ron Fletcher, 90, American dancer and pilates teacher, heart failure.
• Dobie Gray, 71, American singer, cancer.
• Barbara Orbison, 61, German-born American record producer and music publisher, pancreatic cancer.
• Paul Ramírez, 25, Venezuelan footballer, stroke.
• Lawrie Tierney, 52, Scottish footballer.

  7

• Pearse Cahill, 95, Irish aviation pioneer.
• Peter Croker, 89, English footballer.
• Teresa Hsu, 113, Chinese-born Singaporean social worker and supercentenarian.
• Tom Kennedy, 63, American film trailer producer.
• Nuno Viriato Tavares de Melo Egídio, 89, Portuguese general, Governor of Macau.
• Harry Morgan, 96, American actor, pneumonia.
• Elizabeth Ann Ray, 98, American USAF officer.
• Jerry Robinson, 89, American comic book artist, co-creator of Robin and The Joker.
• T. A. Springer, 85, Dutch mathematician.

  8

• Gilbert Adair, 66, Scottish author, film critic and journalist, brain haemorrhage.
• Mihai Botez, 89, Romanian Olympic gymnast.
• Peter Brown, 77, English footballer.
• Robert Brown, 61, American politician, Georgia State Senator, suicide by gunshot.
• Lewis Bush, 42, American football player, apparent heart attack.
• Sir Zelman Cowen, 92, Australian constitutional lawyer and academic, 19th Governor-General of Australia.
• Vinko Cuzzi, 72, Croatian footballer.
• Ladislas de Hoyos, 72, French journalist and news anchor.
• Đơn Dương, 54, Vietnamese-born American actor, heart failure and brain hemorrhage.
• Gene Huff, 82, American politician, member of the Kentucky House of Representatives and State Senator, lung disease.
• Peggy Makins, 95, British agony aunt.
• Giorgio Mariani, 65, Italian footballer.
• Minoru Miki, 81, Japanese composer.
• Andrew Pataki, 84, American Eastern Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Parma for Ruthenian and Passaic for Ruthenian.
• Joe Restic, 85, American NCAA and CFL football coach.
• Charles Ritcheson, 86, American historian and diplomat.
• Nakdimon Rogel, 86, Israeli journalist and broadcaster, author of the Nakdi Report.
• Anthony Harbord-Hamond, 11th Baron Suffield, 89, British soldier and aristocrat.

  9

• Alf R. Bjercke, 90, Norwegian business magnate.
• Jacques Debary, 97, French actor.
• Pushpa Hans, 94, Indian playback singer and actress.
• Davida Karol, 94, Israeli actress.
• João Pereira dos Santos, 93, Brazilian martial artist.
• Len Phillips, 89, English footballer.
• Richard J. Rabbitt, 76, American politician, Speaker of the Missouri House of Representatives, heart failure.
• Roy Tattersall, 89, British Test cricketer.
• Myra Taylor, 94, American jazz singer.

  10

• Cary D. Allred, 64, American politician, member of the North Carolina Senate and North Carolina House of Representatives.
• Jean Baucus, 94, American author, historian and arts patron, mother of Max Baucus.
• Hamilton Bobby, 44, Indian footballer, heart attack.
• Alan D. B. Clarke, 89, British psychologist.
• John Gower, 70, American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
• Vida Jerman, 72, Croatian actress, lung cancer.
• Albert Overhauser, 86, American physicist.
• Stephen Schlossberg, 90, American union leader.
• Ernst Specker, 91, Swiss mathematician.
• Frank Stephens, 98, Australian surgeon.

  11

• Rodolfo Bottino, 52, Brazilian actor and chef, pulmonary embolism.
• Phillip Cottrell, 43, British born New Zealand journalist, assaulted.
• Mimi Darwish, 69, Egyptian Olympic footballer.
• John Patrick Foley, 76, American Roman Catholic Cardinal and Grand Master Emeritus of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, leukemia.
• Susan Gordon, 62, American child actress, thyroid cancer.
• J. Lynn Helms, 86, American Marine Corps officer, Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, cardiopulmonary failure and pneumonia.
• Mabel Holle, 91, American baseball player.
• Hans Heinz Holz, 84, German Marxist philosopher.
• Harold Hopkins, 67, Australian actor, mesothelioma.
• Eric Howlett, 84, American inventor.
• Ke Yan, 82, Chinese poet and writer.
• Ahmed İhsan Kırımlı, 91, Turkish doctor, politician, poet and philanthropist.
• Leonida Lari, 62, Moldovan-born Romanian writer and politician, member of the Supreme Soviet and Romanian Parliament, breast cancer.
• Mario Miranda, 85, Indian cartoonist.
• Bonnie Prudden, 97, American rock climber and physical fitness advocate.
• M. S. Reddy, 87, Indian film producer, long illness.

  12

• Sunday Bada, 42, Nigerian Olympic sprinter, gold medalist.
• Clyde Conner, 78, American football player.
• John Gardner, 94, British classical music composer.
• Heini Lohrer, 93, Swiss Olympic ice hockey player.
• Alberto de Mendoza, 88, Argentine actor.
• Mălina Olinescu, 37, Romanian singer, suicide by jumping.
• Sir Robert Peliza, 91, Gibraltarian politician, Chief Minister.
• Bert Schneider, 78, American film and television producer.
• Randy Stein, 58, American baseball player.
• Gene Summers, 83, American architect, liver disease.

  13

• David Allen, 74, Northern Irish politician, stroke.
• Nordine Amrani, 33, Belgian-Moroccan terrorist, suicide by gunshot.
• T. J. Bass, 79, American writer.
• Graham Brown, 87, American actor, pulmonary failure.
• Kabir Chowdhury, 88, Bangladeshi writer.
• Russell Hoban, 86, American writer.
• Park Tae-joon, 84, South Korean businessman, Prime Minister, breathing difficulties.
• Klaus-Dieter Sieloff, 69, German footballer.
• Erica Wilson, 83, British-born American embroidery designer.

  14

• Roy Ash, 93, American businessman and public official, Director of the Office of Management and Budget.
• Graham Booth, 71, British politician, Member of the European Parliament for England (European Parliament constituency)|South West England].
• Luigi Carpaneda, 86, Italian Olympic fencer, gold medalist.
• Boris Chertok, 99, Soviet and Russian rocket designer.
• Pedro Febles, 53, Venezuelan footballer and manager.
• Karl-Heinrich von Groddeck, 75, German Olympic rower, gold medalist.
• Thomas C. Kelly, 80, American Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Louisville.
• Arthur King, 84, Canadian boxer.
• Carol Murphy, 79, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly.
• Mark Francis Schmitt, 88, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Marquette.
• Don Sharp, 90, Australian-born British film director.
• Joe Simon, 98, American comic book writer.
• Billie Jo Spears, 73, American country music singer, cancer.
• George Whitman, 98, American bookstore proprietor, complications of a stroke.
• James A. Zimble, 78, American Navy officer, Surgeon General of the United States Navy.

  15

• Eduardo Barreto, 57, Uruguayan comic book artist.
• Emmett L. Bennett Jr., 93, American classicist whose cataloging of Linear B led to its decipherment.
• Bob Brookmeyer, 81, American jazz valve trombonist, cardiopulmonary arrest.
• Adriano Capuzzo, 84, Italian Olympic equestrian
• Andy Carey, 80, American baseball player.
• Walter Giller, 84, German actor.
• Christopher Hitchens, 62, British writer and commentator, esophageal cancer.
• Paula Hyman, 65, American professor of modern Jewish history.
• Ricardo Ibarra, 61, Argentine Olympic rower.
• Guy Ignolin, 75, French professional cyclist.
• Gadzhimurat Kamalov, 46, Russian journalist, shot.
• Herbert Kesel, 80, German Olympic rower.
• Nur Khan, 88, Pakistani air marshal, Chief of Air Staff and Governor of West Pakistan.
• Frank X. McDermott, 87, American politician, President of the New Jersey Senate.
• James M. Quigley, 93, American politician, Representative from Pennsylvania.
• Jason Richards, 35, New Zealand race car driver, adrenocortical carcinoma.
• Carmen Rupe, 75, New Zealand transsexual entertainer, kidney failure.
• Fevzi Şeker, 49, Turkish wrestler, heart attack.
• Mario Tovar González, 78, Mexican Olympic wrestler, respiratory complications.

  16

• Ulf Aas, 92, Norwegian illustrator.
• Franghiz Ahmadova, 83, Azerbaijani operatic soprano and music teacher.
• Robert Easton, 81, American dialect coach and actor.
• Dan Frazer, 90, American actor, cardiac arrest.
• Alice Glenn, 89, Irish politician, TD for Dublin Central.
• Chubee Kagita, 54, Japanese politician, heart failure.
• Henry Kitchener, 3rd Earl Kitchener, 92, British soldier and aristocrat.
• Mark Kopytman, 82, Ukrainian-born Israeli composer.
• Bert Muhly, 88, American politician and academic, Mayor of Santa Cruz, California, heart failure.
• Patrick V. Murphy, 91, American police chief, New [York City Police Commissioner], heart attack.
• Michele O'Callaghan, 48, American makeup artist, cancer.
• Shimshon Rozen, 59, Israeli air force officer, plane crash.
• Pae Ruha, 80, New Zealand Māori leader.
• Keith W. Wilcox, 90, American architect and politician, member of the [Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints|LDS] priesthood.
• Nicol Williamson, 75, Scottish actor, esophageal cancer.

  17

• Michael Gower Coleman, 72, South African Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Port Elizabeth.
• Eva Ekvall, 28, Venezuelan TV news anchor and model, Miss Venezuela 2000, breast cancer.
• Cesária Évora, 70, Cape Verdean singer, heart failure.
• Maurice Huggett, 66, English nightclub proprietor.
• Kim Jong Il, 69 or 70, North Korean Supreme Leader, heart attack.
• Harley Sewell, 80, American football player.
• Marian Wohlwender, 89, American AAGPBL baseball player.

  18

• Doe Avedon, 86, American actress and model, pneumonia.
• Cor Bakker, 93, Dutch cyclist.
• Jean Boucher, 85, Canadian politician, Member of Parliament for Châteauguay—Huntingdon—Laprairie.
• Henry E. Catto Jr., 81, American public servant and diplomat, complications of leukemia.
• Jeremy Doyle, 28, Australian wheelchair basketball player, Paralympic gold medalist, bladder cancer.
• Václav Havel, 75, Czech playwright and politician, President of Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic.
• Warren Hellman, 77, American investor, founder of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festivals, complications from leukemia treatment.
• Evans Knowles, 97, Canadian politician, Member of Parliament for Norfolk.
• Ralph MacDonald, 67, American percussionist and songwriter, lung cancer.
• Ted Markland, 78, American actor.
• Donald Neilson, 75, English serial killer.
• Vaso Radić, 88, Yugoslav/Bosnian politician, mayor of Sarajevo.
• John Rex, 86, South African-born British sociologist.
• Johnny Silvo, 75, British folk and blues singer.
• Brian Sparkes, 70, Canadian biochemist.
• Ronald Wolfe, 89, British television writer, complications from a fall.
• Marijan Žužej, 77, Croatian Olympic silver medal-winning water polo player.
• Lorenzo de Rodas, 81, Spanish-Mexican actor.

  19

• George Athor, 49, South Sudanese rebel leader, shot.
• Thomas H. Campbell III, 79, American politician.
• Gerard Louis Goettel, 83, American senior judge of the District Court for the Southern District of New York.
• Luciano Magistrelli, 73, Italian Olympic footballer, heart attack.
• Kathleen Malach, 85, American AAGPBL baseball player.
• Héctor Núñez, 75, Uruguayan footballer, after long illness.
• William G. Robinson, 85, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
• Ron Smith, 70, American radio host, pancreatic cancer.

  20

• Robert Ader, 79, American psychologist, co-founder of psychoneuroimmunology.
• Hana Andronikova, 44, Czech writer and playwright, cancer.
• Sean Bonniwell, 71, American guitarist, singer and songwriter, lung cancer.
• Howard P. Boyd, 97, American naturalist.
• Hugh Carless, 86, British diplomat and explorer.
• Jack Goldman, 90, American physicist, chief scientist at Xerox Corporation.
• Khalifa Kambi, 56, Gambian politician, Deputy Minister of Agriculture.
• George Lundy, 64, American priest and academic, President of Wheeling Jesuit University, stroke.
• Yoshimitsu Morita, 61, Japanese film director, liver failure.
• Tushar Ranganath, 37, Indian film director, heart attack.
• Barry Reckord, 85, Jamaican playwright.
• Leopold Unger, 89, Polish journalist.
• Kenchappa Varadaraj, 89, Indian Olympic footballer.
• Václav Zítek, 79, Czech opera singer.

  21

• Ann-Mari Adamsson, 77, Swedish actor.
• Patrick Bashford, 82, Polish-born British professor of classical guitar.
• Bud Bloomfield, 75, American baseball player.
• Francis Braganza, 89, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Baroda.
• John Chamberlain, 84, American sculptor.
• P. K. Iyengar, 80, Indian nuclear scientist.
• Alastair Maitland, 95, British diplomat.
• Werner Otto, 102, German entrepreneur.
• Olavi Rokka, 86, Finnish Olympic modern pentathlete, bronze medalist.
• Yevhen Rudakov, 69, Russian Olympic bronze medal-winning football goalkeeper.
• Robert Simons, 89, English cricketer.
• Jonathan Stephenson, 61, English-born Northern Irish politician.
• Roberto Szidon, 70, Brazilian classical pianist, heart attack.
• Umanosuke Ueda, 71, Japanese professional wrestler and actor, respiratory failure.
• Jean-Pierre Urkia, 93, French-born Laotian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Paksé.
• Yuval Zamir, 48, Israeli actor, voice actor, director and singer, diabetes.

  22

• Per Berlin, 90, Swedish Olympic silver and bronze medal-winning wrestler.
• Richard Bessière, 88, French author.
• Emanuel Bosák, 87, Czech sports official.
• Bettye Danoff, 88, American golfer, founding member of the LPGA.
• William Duell, 88, American singer and actor.
• Bennie Ellender, 86, American college football coach, Alzheimer's disease.
• Michael von Grünau, 67, Canadian psychologist and neurophysiologist.
• Vasant Ranjane, 74, Indian cricketer.
• Rogelio Sánchez González, 90, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Colima.
• Marion Segal Freed, 77, American film producer, editor and screenwriter.
• Zithulele Sinqe, 48, South African Olympic long-distance runner, car accident.
• Ernest A. Watkinson, 99, Canadian politician.

  23

• Merrill Kenneth Albert, 88, American author and trial lawyer, heart disease.
• Denise Darcel, 87, French actress, aneurysm.
• Neil Davids, 56, English footballer.
• Cees van Dongen, 79, Dutch motorcycle road racer.
• Evelyn Handler, 78, American academic, President of the University of New Hampshire and Brandeis University, traffic collision.
• Bill Klatt, 64, American ice hockey player, leukemia.
• Francis Nigel Lee, 77, British-born American theologian, motor neurone disease.
• Tripuraneni Maharadhi, 82, Indian screenwriter.
• Aydın Menderes, 65, Turkish politician, son of Adnan Menderes.
• Norayr Musheghyan, 76, Armenian wrestler, coach and public activist, world champion.
• Abdur Razzaq, 69, Bangladeshi politician.
• Bruce Ruxton, 85, Australian veterans' representative and advocate, President of the Victorian RSL.
• Muhammad Afzal Zullah, 83, Pakistani jurist, Chief Justice.

  24

• Monte Amundsen, 81, American opera and musical singer.
• M. Salah Baouendi, 74, Tunisian-born American mathematician.
• Armando Brambilla, 69, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Rome.
• Sergio Buso, 61, Italian footballer and coach.
• Peggy R. Cook, 73, American politician.
• José Andrés Corral Arredondo, 65, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Parral, heart attack.
• Bernard Gert, 77, American philosopher.
• Johannes Heesters, 108, Dutch actor and singer, stroke.
• István Jutasi, 82, Hungarian Olympic sailor
• Marvin Knopp, 78, American mathematician.
• Zsuzsi Mary, 64, Hungarian pop singer, suicide by drug overdose.
• Jody Rainwater, 92, American bluegrass musician and radio personality, heart disease.
• John N. Ross, 91, Irish politician.
• Lynn Samuels, 69, American radio personality.
• Walter Söhne, 98, German agronomist.
• Henri Sitek, 82, Polish-French cyclist.
• Vitaly Tseshkovsky, 67, Russian chess Grandmaster.

  25

• Alhaj Mutalib Baig, Afghan politician, suicide bombing.
• Israel Baker, 92, American violinist and concertmaster, stroke.
• Giorgio Bocca, 91, Italian essayist and journalist.
• Ben Breedlove, 18, American Internet personality, cardiac arrest.
• Sue Carroll, 58, British journalist, pancreatic cancer.
• Adrienne Cooper, 65, American klezmer and Yiddish vocalist, adrenal cancer.
• Satyadev Dubey, 75, Indian actor, playwright and director.
• Thomas Finnegan, 86, Irish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Killala.
• Seán French, 80, Irish politician, Lord Mayor of Cork and TD.
• Jack Fulbeck, 95, American poet and academic.
• Habib Galhia, 70, Tunisian boxer, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Andrew Geller, 87, American architect, kidney failure.
• Lex Gigeroff, 49, Canadian writer, actor and producer, heart attack.
• Khalil Ibrahim, 53–54, Sudanese Darfuri rebel leader, air strike.
• Sir Roger Jowell, 69, British social statistician.
• John Christoffel Kannemeyer, 72, South African writer, authority on Afrikaans literature.
• Christophe Laigneau, 46, French footballer.
• Alexander Melnikov, 81, Soviet and Russian politician.
• Sir Moses Pitakaka, 66, Solomon Islander politician, Governor-General.
• George Robb, 85, English footballer, dementia.
• Ferenc Schmidt, 70, Hungarian politician.
• Jim Sherwood, 69, American musician.
• Simms Taback, 79, American author, graphic artist and illustrator.

  26

• Kennan Adeang, 69, Nauruan politician, President.
• Houston Antwine, 72, American football player, AFL All-Star, heart failure.
• Pedro Armendáriz Jr., 71, Mexican actor, cancer.
• Sarekoppa Bangarappa, 79, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Karnataka.
• Joe Bodolai, 63, American television writer and producer, suicide by poisoning.
• Sean Collins, 59, American surfer and surf forecaster, heart attack.
• Fred Fono, 49, Solomon Islander politician, Deputy Prime Minister and MP for Central Kwara'ae.
• John Mackintosh Howie, 75, Scottish mathematician.
• Kiyonori Kikutake, 83, Japanese architect.
• Barbara Lea, 82, American jazz singer and actress, Alzheimer's disease.
• Lloyd Madden, 93, American football player.
• Sam Rivers, 88, American jazz musician and composer, pneumonia.
• James Rizzi, 61, American pop artist.
• Constantine Sidamon-Eristoff, 81, American-born Georgian aristocrat, New York City highway commissioner, esophageal cancer.

  27

• Frank Bourke, 89, Australian football player.
• Catê, 38, Brazilian footballer, car accident.
• Sir Clifford Darling, 89, Bahamian politician, Governor-General.
• Sir Michael Dummett, 86, British philosopher.
• Helen Frankenthaler, 83, American artist.
• Julia Sampson Hayward, 77, American tennis player, won Australian Open doubles and mixed doubles.
• Rusty Hevelin, 89, American science fiction fanzine publisher.
• Mykola Koltsov, 75, Russian-born Ukrainian footballer and youth trainer.
• Meral Menderes, 78, Turkish opera singer.
• Thinley Norbu, 81, Tibetan Buddhist writer and teacher.
• Sir Iwan Raikes, 90, British vice admiral and naval secretary.
• Betty Jane Rhodes, 90, American actress.
• Martino Scarafile, 84, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Castellaneta.
• Thomas Michael Shanahan, 77, American senior judge of the District Court for the District of Nebraska.
• Dan Terry, 87, American jazz trumpeter and big band leader.
• Anne Tyng, 91, American architect.
• Dennis Utter, 72, American politician, Nebraska State Senator.
• Johnny Wilson, 82, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.

  28

• James Earl Baumgartner, 68, American mathematician.
• Bruce Fine, 74, American sports team part-owner.
• Larry Hamilton, 60, American blues singer and songwriter.
• Charlotte Kerr, 84, German film director and producer.
• Razia Khan, 75, Bangladeshi writer and educationist.
• Don Mueller, 84, American baseball player, MLB All-Star.
• Hasan Mutlucan, 85, Turkish folk singer.
• Lucia Rikaki, 50, Greek stage, film and television director, cancer.
• Jon Roberts, 63, American drug trafficker, cancer.
• Myron Roderick, 77, American Olympic wrestler and coach.
• Kaye Stevens, 79, American singer and actress, breast cancer and blood clots.
• Teruo Sugihara, 74, Japanese golfer, prostate cancer.

  29

• Ivan Andonov, 77, Bulgarian film director and actor.
• Paul Antaki, 84, Egyptian Melkite Catholic hierarch, Auxiliary Archbishop of Antioch.
• Rosman García, 32, Venezuelan baseball player, traffic collision.
• Leopold Hawelka, 100, Austrian coffee house owner.
• John Robert Holmes, 84, Canadian politician, MP for Lambton—Kent.
• Ron Howells, 84, Welsh footballer.
• Ken Johnson, 80, English footballer.
• Aamir Hayat Khan Rokhri, 55, Pakistani politician, heart attack.
• Svein Krøvel, 65, Norwegian cinematographer.
• Tyron Perez, 26, Filipino actor, shot.
• Amichand Rajbansi, 69, South African politician, Minister without portfolio, Leader of the Minority Front.
• Bob Wasserman, 77, American police chief and politician, Mayor of Fremont, California, respiratory complications.
• Milton Wong, 72, Canadian businessman and philanthropist, pancreatic cancer.

  30

• Ted Beard, 90, American baseball player.
• Garnet Campbell, 84, Canadian curler.
• Mike Colalillo, 86, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.
• Dezső Garas, 77, Hungarian actor.
• Mona Guérin, 77, Haitian writer and playwright.
• Muhammad Hamidullah Khan, 74, Bangladeshi politician.
• Sir Robert Horton, 72, British businessman.
• Kim Geun-tae, 64, South Korean politician, Ministry of [Health and Welfare (South Korea)|Minister of Health and Welfare], pneumonia and kidney failure.
• Richard Lainhart, 58, American artist and composer, complications after surgery.
• Ricardo Legorreta, 80, Mexican architect, UIA Gold Medal recipient, cancer.
• Ronald Searle, 91, British cartoonist.
• Doug Sellars, 50, Canadian television executive, heart attack.
• Vasily Starodubtsev, 80, Russian politician, Governor of Tula Oblast, member of the Gang of Eight.
• Eleanor Ross Taylor, 91, American poet.
• Mirko Tremaglia, 85, Italian politician, Minister without portfolio.
• Eva Zeisel, 105, Hungarian-born American ceramic artist and designer.

  31

• Kanati Allen, 64, American Olympic gymnast.
• Murray Barnes, 57, Australian soccer player, national captain.
• Celia Dale, 99, British crime writer.
• Alfonso Gómez-Lobo, 71, Chilean-born American academic, professor of metaphysics and moral philosophy.
• Roy Greenwood, 80, English footballer.
• Sir David Hirst, 86, British jurist.
• Rex Jackson, 83, Australian politician and convicted criminal, New South Wales MLA for Bulli and Heathcote.
• Penny Jordan, 65, British romantic novelist.
• Jerzy Kluger, 90, Polish businessman, bronchitis.
• Stanley Kwan, 86, Hong Kong banker, creator of the Hang Seng Index, heart failure.
• Glenn Lord, 80, American editor.
• Michael Mann, 87, British Anglican prelate, Dean of Windsor.