Deaths in February 2013

• Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.

February 2013

1

• Barney, 12, American Scottish Terrier, First Dog of President George W. Bush, lymphoma.
• Gertrude Berman, 88, American politician.
• Rudolf Dašek, 79, Czech guitarist.
• Carol Brewster, 85, American actress and model.
• Gisèle Guillemot, 90, French writer and a member of the French Resistance.
• Helene Hale, 94, American politician, Member of the Hawaii House of Representatives.
• John Hamber, 81, United States Virgin Islands Olympic sailor.
• Rocky Harris, 80, Australian cricket umpire.
• Sir Paul Holmes, 62, New Zealand broadcaster, prostate cancer and heart problems.
• Ed Koch, 88, American politician, U.S. Representative from New York, Mayor of New York City, television judge, heart failure.
• Shanu Lahiri, 85, Indian painter.
• Bert Long Jr., 72, American chef, painter, photographer and sculptor, pancreatic cancer.
• Louis Luyt, 80, South African rugby union administrator and politician.
• Tony Palomo, 81, American Guamanian politician, historian and journalist.
• Robin Sachs, 61, English actor, heart attack.
• Dag Schjelderup-Ebbe, 86, Norwegian musicologist and composer.
• Milan Vápenka, 69, Czech Olympic volleyball player.
• Vladimir Yengibaryan, 80, Armenian light welterweight boxer, Olympic gold medallist for the Soviet Union.

2

• Arlene Ackerman, 66, American educator and public schools superintendent, pancreatic cancer.
• Michael D. Cohen, 67, American academic.
• Winston Derrick, 62, Antiguan journalist.
• Edith Houghton, 100, American baseball player and scout, first female scout in Major League Baseball.
• Abraham Iyambo, 52, Namibian politician, Minister of the Fisheries and Marine Resources ; Minister of Education, stroke.
• John Kerr, 81, American actor.
• Chris Kyle, 38, American author and Navy SEAL sniper, most lethal in U.S. military history, shot.
• Sirajul Haq Memon, 79, Pakistani author, journalist and scholar, cardiac arrest.
• Necdet Menzir, 68, Turkish bureaucrat and politician, Minister of Transport, respiratory failure.
• Lino Oviedo, 69, Paraguayan politician and general, 2008; 2013 presidential candidate; leader of the National Union of Ethical Citizens, helicopter crash.
• Pepper Paire, 88, American AAGPBL baseball player, inspiration for A League of Their Own.
• Tarjei Rygnestad, 58, Norwegian physician.
• P. Shanmugam, 85, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Puducherry, head injuries from a fall.
• Jack Singer, 95, Canadian businessman and philanthropist.
• Frank Stirrup, 88, English rugby league player.
• Walt Sweeney, 71, American football player, pancreatic cancer.
• Kenneth W. Thompson, 91, American academic.
• Guy F. Tozzoli, 90, American architect, lead designer of the World Trade Center.

3

• Wolfgang Abraham, 71, German footballer.
• Jadin Bell, 15, American bullying victim, suicide by hanging.
• B. H. Born, 80, American basketball player.
• Cardiss Collins, 81, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Illinois.
• John Michael D'Arcy, 80, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Fort Wayne-South Bend, lung and brain cancer.
• Steve Demeter, 78, American baseball player, heart disease.
• Deng Wei, 53, Chinese photographer.
• Matija Duh, 23, Slovenian speedway rider, head injuries.
• Joseph Egerega, 72, Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate, Apostolic Vicar of Bomadi.
• Luigi Falco, 61, Italian politician and doctor.
• Oscar Feltsman, 91, Russian composer.
• Peter Gilmore, 81, British actor.
• Ragnar Heurlin, 84, Swedish Olympic sprint cancer.
• Ichikawa Danjūrō XII, 66, Japanese Kabuki actor, pneumonia.
• James Muri, 93, American World War II pilot.
• David Oates, 50, British sports commentator.
• Zlatko Papec, 79, Croatian footballer.
• Ignace Baguibassa Sambar-Talkena, 77, Togolese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Kara.
• Mike Schwartz, 63, American anti-abortion activist, ALS.
• Kåre Syrstad, 73, Norwegian farmers' union leader.
• Robert Anthony Welch, 65, Irish author and academic, cancer.
• Jam Mohammad Yousaf, 58, Pakistani politician, Chief Minister of Balochistan, cardiac arrest.

4

• Kaarina Autio, 71, Finnish Olympic gymnast.
• Dirk Ballendorf, 73, American-born Guamanian historian.
• Donald Byrd, 80, American jazz trumpeter.
• Darlan, 5, British Thoroughbred racehorse, injuries sustained during a race.
• Margaret Frazer, 66, American historical novelist, breast cancer.
• Joe C. Gardner, 68, American politician, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives.
• Richard E. Geis, 85, American science fiction writer.
• Des Raj Goyal, 83–84, Indian journalist, academic and author.
• Pat Halcox, 82, British jazz trumpeter.
• John Baptist Liu Jingshan, 99, Chinese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ningxia.
• Anthony Legge, 73, British archaeologist and academic.
• M. Bhanumathi, 66–67, Indian stage and film actress.
• Leonard Marsak, 88–89, American scholar.
• Achilla Orru, 53, Ugandan musician, heart disease.
• Theresia van der Pant, 88, Dutch sculptor.
• Vernon Robert Pearson, 89, American jurist, Washington Supreme Court Chief Justice, hip surgery complications.
• John M. Peters, 86, American politician, member of the Iowa House of Representatives.
• Reg Presley, 71, British singer and songwriter, lung cancer.
• Mohammad Ali Shah, 66, Pakistani surgeon and politician, Sindh Minister of Sports, heart attack.
• Stewie, 7–8, world's longest domestic cat, cancer.
• P. W. Underwood, 81, American football coach.
• Essie Mae Washington-Williams, 87, American schoolteacher.

5

• Antonino Dos Santos Baptista, 79, Portuguese cyclist.
• Nel Büch, 81, Dutch Olympic sprinter.
• Stuart Freeborn, 98, English make-up artist.
• Reinaldo Gargano, 78, Uruguayan politician, Senator, Minister of Foreign Affairs, heart failure.
• Harrison T. Groutage, 87, American painter and educator.
• Gerry Hambling, 86, English film editor, BAFTA winner.
• Egil Hovland, 88, Norwegian composer.
• Paul Gordon Jarvis, 77, British ecologist.
• Kenneth Jernstedt, 95, American fighter pilot.
• Charles Longbottom, 82, British politician, MP for York.
• Tom McGuigan, 91, New Zealand politician, MP for Lyttelton.
• Marshall Miles, 86, American bridge player and author, complications from a heart attack.
• Leda Mileva, 93, Bulgarian writer, translator and diplomat.
• Marguerite Perrou, 96, French Olympian
• Bazy Tankersley, 91, American newspaper publisher and horse breeder.
• Paul Tanner, 95, American trombonist, one of the last surviving members of the Glenn Miller Orchestra, complications from pneumonia.
• Adrianus Taroreh, 46, Indonesian Olympic boxer.
• Shelby Whitfield, 77, American sports announcer and author.
• Klaus Wyrtki, 87, American oceanographer.
• Derek Yalden, 72, British zoologist.

6

• Ronnie Allen, 74, American pool player.
• Chokri Belaid, 48, Tunisian politician, assassination by shooting.
• Menachem Elon, 89, Israeli jurist, justice on the Supreme Court.
• Arthé Guimond, 81, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Grouard-McLennan.
• Joseph Madec, 89, French Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Fréjus-Toulon.
• Alden Mason, 93, American artist.
• Mo-Do, 46, Italian musician, suicide.
• Walter Nowick, 87, American teacher of Rinzai Zen.
• Ira Rubin, 82, American professional bridge player.
• Yahya Sulong, 84, Malaysian comedian and actor.
• Betty Twarog, 85, American biochemist.
• René Vestri, 74, French politician, Senator for Alpes-Maritimes and Mayor of Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat.
• Adrián Villagómez García, 61, Mexican politician, MP for Nuevo León.
• Douglas Warren, 93, Australian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Wilcannia-Forbes.

7

• William Anthony Hughes, 91, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Covington.
• L. Brent Kington, 78, American blacksmith and educator.
• Nic Knudtzon, 90, Norwegian telecommunications engineer.
• Howard Lassoff, 57, American and Israeli basketball player.
• Like-A-Butterfly, 18, Irish Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare, colic.
• John Livermore, 94, American geologist.
• Niki Marangou, 65, Cypriot writer and painter, traffic collision.
• José Moustache, 80, Guadeloupean politician, President of the Regional Council.
• Amedeus Msarikie, 81, Tanzanian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Moshi.
• K. K. Nayar, 82, Indian politician.
• Aki Orr, 81, German–born Israeli politician and writer.
• Krsto Papić, 79, Croatian screenwriter and film director.
• Peter Steen, 77, Danish actor.
• Elvi Svendsen, 93, Danish Olympic swimmer.
• József Tóth, 72, Hungarian geographer and academic, rector of the University of Pécs.
• Jürgen Untermann, 84, German linguist.

8

• Sam Boaz, 95, American politician, member of Tennessee House of Representatives.
• Ralph Braun, 72, American businessman, founder and CEO of Braun Corporation.
• Chris Brinker, 42, American producer and director, aortic aneurysm.
• Giovanni Cheli, 94, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations, natural causes.
• Claude Covassi, 42, Swiss criminal and spy, drug overdose.
• James DePreist, 76, American conductor, complications from heart attack.
• Herbert C. Dessauer, 91, American biochemist.
• Maureen Dragone, 93, American journalist and author.
• Jan Ellis, 71, South African rugby player, cancer.
• Hiromasa Ezoe, 76, Japanese industrialist, founder of Recruit, pneumonia.
• Ron Hansell, 82, English footballer.
• Kjell Hjertsson, 90, Swedish footballer.
• Marjorie Housepian Dobkin, 90, American academic and author.
• Patricia Hughes, 90, British radio announcer.
• K. Daniel Haley, 83, American politician, member of the New York State Assembly.
• György Kézdy, 76, Hungarian actor.
• Lyle Lahey, 81, American political cartoonist.
• Ian Lister, 66, Scottish footballer.
• Joseph Ma Xue-sheng, 89, Chinese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Zhoucun.
• Mervyn McCord, 83, British army officer.
• Des McGovern, 84, Australian rugby league footballer.
• Jack Dale Mengenen, 91, Australian indigenous artist.
• Motsapi Moorosi, 67, Lesotho Olympic sprinter.
• John Morris, 76, Australian politician, Senator for New South Wales.
• Knut Nesbø, 51, Norwegian footballer, guitarist and sports reporter, cancer.
• Funmilola Ogundana, 32, Nigerian sprinter, died while giving birth.
• Renato Olivieri, 87, Italian giallo novelist.
• Rushdi Said, 92, Egyptian geologist.
• Dieter Schütte, 89, German publisher.
• Nevin S. Scrimshaw, 95, American nutritionist.
• Yodtong Senanan, 75, Thai Muay Thai master and trainer.
• Alan Sharp, 79, Scottish screenwriter.
• Bill Smith, 88, American Olympic swimmer.
• Alfred Sosgórnik, 79, Polish Olympic athlete.
• Jim Sweeney, 83, American football coach.

9

• Richard Artschwager, 89, American painter, sculptor and illustrator, stroke.
• Robert Ashton, 88, British historian.
• Gérard Asselin, 62, Canadian politician, MP for Charlevoix and Manicouagan.
• Mike Banks, 90, British mountaineer and Royal Marines officer.
• Enar Edberg, 76, Swedish Olympic weightlifter.
• Bremer Ehrler, 98, American politician, Secretary of State of Kentucky.
• Keiko Fukuda, 99, Japanese-born American martial artist.
• Afzal Guru, 43, Indian Islamist terrorist, execution by hanging.
• H. Palmer Hall, 70, American poet, fiction writer, essayist, editor, and librarian.
• Bill Irwin, 92, Canadian Olympic skier.
• Miles J. Jones, 60, American forensic pathologist.
• Colin Laverty, 75, Australian doctor and art collector.
• Mark Linz, 77, German publisher.
• Leonardo Polo, 87, Spanish philosopher.
• Phil Remington, 92, American motorsports engineer.
• Jimmy Smyth, 82, Irish hurler.
• Richard Twiss, 58, American educator and author, heart attack.
• Kåre Valebrokk, 72, Norwegian journalist, editor and television executive.

10

• Cornelis Bas, 85, Dutch mycologist.
• W. Watts Biggers, 85, American novelist, creator of Underdog.
• Sara Braverman, 95, Romanian-born Israeli Jewish Parachutists of Mandate Palestine member, co-founder of the IDF Women's Corps.
• Marianne Brenton, 79, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
• Pery Burge, 57, English artist, cancer.
• Marie-Pierre Castel, 64, French actress.
• Norman Crowder, 86, English priest, Archdeacon of Portsmouth.
• Frank Farrelly, 81, American psychologist.
• Baron Fielakepa, 51, Tongan government minister.
• Sir John Gilmour, 4th Baronet, 68, British soldier and aristocrat.
• David Hartman, 81, American-born Israeli rabbi and philosopher.
• Boris Jacobsson, 75, Swedish Olympic sailor.
• Lolong, Filipino-born saltwater crocodile, largest in captivity, pneumonia and cardiac arrest.
• Bill Roost, 88, English footballer.
• Thierry Rupert, 35, French basketball player, complications of a heart attack.
• Jake Thies, 86, American baseball player.
• Eugenio Trías Sagnier, 70, Spanish philosopher.
• Ikuzo Sakurai, 68, Japanese politician.
• Petro Vlahos, 96, American visual effects inventor and designer.
• Zhuang Zedong, 72, Chinese table tennis player, involved in ping-pong diplomacy.

11

• Tom Aspell, 62, New Zealand-born American foreign correspondent, lung cancer.
• Jim Boatwright, 61, American basketball player, liver cancer.
• Oswaldo Brenes Álvarez, 70, Costa Rican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ciudad Quesada.
• Esther Buckley, 64, American educator, member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, traffic collision.
• Wayne Chernecki, 63, Canadian ice hockey player and businessman, lung cancer.
• Mark Dalby, 75, British prelate, Archdeacon of Rochdale.
• Kelefa Diallo, 53, Guinean general, Army chief of staff, plane crash.
• William R. Eadington, 67, American economist.
• Jack Eskridge, 89, American professional basketball player.
• Kevin Gray, 55, American musical theatre actor, heart attack.
• Yasuko Hatoyama, 90, Japanese political financier, MODS.
• Richard Hill, 7th Baron Sandys, 81, British peer and landowner.
• Rick Huxley, 72, English musician.
• Vi Lloyd, 89, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council.
• Teodor Lucuță, 57, Romanian footballer, stroke and heart failure.
• Auguste Mboe, 78, Central African diplomat and politician.
• William D. Metz, 98, American historian.
• Krzysztof Michalski, 64, Polish philosopher.
• Kevin Peek, 66, Australian musician, melanoma.
• Erik Quistgaard, 91, Danish engineer, director general of the European Space Agency.
• Mark Scott, 89, British rower.
• Brooke E. Sheldon, 81, American librarian.
• Zoe Țapu, 78, Romanian agronomist.
• Chrysler Thomas, 78, Grenadian politician, MP and Minister of Agriculture.
• Rem Viakhirev, 78, Russian businessman, Chairman of Gazprom.
• Pavlo Vigderhaus, 87, Ukrainian architect.
• D. Vinayachandran, 66, Indian Malayalam poet.
• Matthew White, 55, American basketball player, stabbing.
• Alfred Zijai, 52, Albanian footballer.

12

• Sattam bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 72, Saudi royal, Governor of Riyadh Province.
• Bill Bell, 81, English businessman, Chairman of Port Vale F.C..
• Marion Bryden, 94, Canadian politician, MPP of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Beaches—Woodbine.
• Barnaby Conrad, 90, American author, heart failure.
• Mal Couch, 74, American theologian.
• Christopher Dorner, 33, American murderer, suicide by gunshot.
• Bobby Gore, 76, American gang leader and activist.
• Brian Langford, 77, English cricketer.
• Jimmy Mulroy, 72, Irish Gaelic football player and manager, member of the Seanad Éireann.
• Richard Orton, 72, British composer and academic.
• C. R. Krishnaswamy Rao Sahib, 86, Indian civil servant.
• Kurt Redel, 94, German musician and conductor.
• Rita Ridley, 66, British middle-distance runner and Commonwealth Games gold medallist, cancer.
• Frank Seator, 37, Liberian footballer.
• Tarmizi Taher, 76, Indonesian naval officer and politician, Minister of Religious Affairs.
• Yasushi Takahashi, 88, Japanese theoretical physicist.
• Reginald Turnill, 97, British aerospace correspondent, heart failure.
• Jim Tysinger, 91, American politician, member of the Georgia Senate, pneumonia.
• Hennadiy Udovenko, 81, Ukrainian politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs, President of the United Nations General Assembly.

13

• John Ammonds, 88, British television producer.
• Gabriele Basilico, 68, Italian photographer, cancer.
• Paul Benzaquin, 90, American broadcaster.
• Gerry Day, 91, American screenwriter.
• George Finch, 82, British architect.
• Izya Gershtein, 89, Kyrgyzstani film director.
• John Holt, 53, American football player.
• Pieter Kooijmans, 79, Dutch jurist, diplomat and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of State.
• Oswald LeWinter, 81, Austrian-born American writer.
• David Lister, 82, British origami historian.
• Andrée Malebranche, 96, Afro-Haitian painter and art instructor.
• Harry Miller, 86, American college basketball coach.
• Mos, 58, Burmese comedian and actor, liver disease.
• Ove Nilsson, 84, Swedish Olympic rower.
• William Randall, 97, American Negro league baseball player.
• Don Scott, 84, British Olympic silver-medalist boxer, Parkinson's disease.
• Robert Senelle, 94, Belgian academic and constitutionalist.
• Yuko Tojo, 73, Japanese political activist, interstitial pneumonia.
• Ivan Večenaj, 92, Croatian painter.
• Stefan Wigger, 80, German television actor.
• Georges Wohlfart, 62, Luxembourgish politician, Minister for Health.
• Tibor Zsíros, 82, Hungarian Olympic basketball player and coach.

14

• Glenn Boyer, 89, American author and Wyatt Earp historian.
• Mary Brave Bird, 58, American Lakota writer and activist.
• Nurit Cohen, 73, Israeli actress, cancer.
• Richard Collins, 98, American screenwriter, pneumonia.
• Luis Cruzado, 71, Peruvian footballer.
• Frank DiPaolo, 106, American political figure and restaurateur.
• Ronald Dworkin, 81, American philosopher and legal scholar, leukemia.
• Walt Easley, 55, American football player.
• Glynn Gregory, 73, American football player.
• Aleksander Gudzowaty, 74, Polish businessman and economist.
• Goldie Harvey, 31, Nigerian R&B and pop singer and television personality, intracerebral hemorrhage.
• Mark Kamins, 57, American disc jockey, discovered Madonna, heart failure.
• Sir Montague Levine, 90, British coroner and physician.
• Fernando Lyra, 74, Brazilian politician, Minister of Justice, cardiopathy.
• Shadow Morton, 72, American songwriter and record producer, cancer.
• Kenneth Nance, 71, American politician, member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, lung infection.
• Friedrich Neznansky, 80, Russian writer.
• Peter Olver, 95, British World War II fighter ace.
• T. L. Osborn, 89, American televangelist and author.
• Glenn Snyder, 88, American author and political scientist.
• Reeva Steenkamp, 29, South African model, shot.
• Tim Dog, 46, American rapper, complications of diabetes.
• Kazuo Tsunoda, 94, Japanese fighter pilot.
• Kimberly Walker, American soldier, strangled.
• Zdeněk Zikán, 75, Czech footballer.

15

• Sheikh Abdulkadir Nur Farah, 73, Somali cleric, preacher, and Islamic scholar known for his contributions to Dawah, Assassinated by Al-Shabab.
• Hector Catling, 88, British archaeologist.
• Cummin Clancy, 90, Irish Olympic discus thrower and businessman.
• Kenneth Dement, 80, American attorney, College Football Hall of Fame player, Southeast Missouri State University Board of Regents president.
• Pat Derby, 70, British–born American animal trainer, throat cancer.
• Alain Desrosières, 72, French statistician.
• Ian Fowler, 73, British journalist, first person to link Moors Murders, Parkinson's disease.
• Giovanni Narcis Hakkenberg, 89, Dutch Sea-lieutenant of the Royal Dutch Marines, decorated war hero and knight of the Military Order of William.
• Earle Howard, 86, American politician, member of the Indiana House of Representatives.
• Carmelo Imbriani, 37, Italian football player and manager, lymphoma.
• Sanan Kachornprasart, 77, Thai general and politician, Deputy Prime Minister, blood infection.
• Ivan Kazanets, 94, Ukrainian politician, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR ; Minister of Ferrous Metallurgy of the Soviet Union.
• Todor Kolev, 73, Bulgarian actor, lung cancer.
• John A. MacNaughton, 67, Canadian financier and executive, Hodgkin's lymphoma.
• Bill Morrison, 84, Australian politician, federal MP for St George, Minister for Defence.
• Dattaji Nalawade, 77, Indian politician, Speaker of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly.
• Alberto Nogar, 78, Filipo weightlifter, natural causes.
• Tony Speller, 83, British politician, MP for North Devon.
• Bill Steltemeier, 83, American executive, President, CEO, and Chairman of Eternal Word Television Network.
• Branford Taitt, 74, Barbadian politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs, President of the Senate.
• Alan Tottoh, 68, British Olympic boxer.
• Alberto Valtierra, 81, Spanish Olympic rower.

16

• John Ayldon, 69, British opera singer.
• Claudette Boyer, 75, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Ottawa—Vanier, intracranial hemorrhage.
• Ken Clark, 46, American football player, heart attack.
• Jan Dahm, 91, Norwegian World War II resistance member.
• Benjamin Dy, 60, Filipino politician, Governor of Isabela, emphysema.
• Colin Edwards, 21, Guyanese footballer, traffic collision.
• Eric Ericson, 94, Swedish choral conductor and teacher.
• Ken Gill, 80, British Anglican bishop, Bishop of Central Karnataka and Assistant Bishop of Newcastle.
• Ennio Girolami, 78, Italian actor.
• Jesús Ramón Martínez de Ezquerecocha Suso, 77, Spanish-born Ecuadorian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Babahoyo.
• Les McNichol, 80, New Zealand rugby league player.
• Grigory Pomerants, 94, Russian philosopher and cultural theorist.
• Paul Rice, 64, English cricketer.
• Edwin Russell, 73, English sculptor.
• Tony Sheridan, 72, English rock and roll singer, early collaborator with The Beatles.
• Harald Siepermann, 50, German animator, cancer.
• Ernie Vossler, 84, American professional golfer and course designer, dementia.
• Markus Zürcher, 66, Swiss artist.

17

• Francis J. Aguilar, 80, American business academic.
• Derek Batey, 84, English quiz show host.
• William Bridges, 79, American author and business consultant, complications of Lewy body disease.
• Richard Briers, 79, British actor, emphysema.
• Manoranjan Das, 89, Indian playwright.
• Debbie Ford, 57, American author, cancer.
• André Gingras, 46, Canadian dancer and choreographer, cancer.
• Milan Gvero, 75, Bosnian Serb general.
• Phil Henderson, 44, American basketball player.
• Shmulik Kraus, 77, Israeli actor and pop rock singer, swine influenza.
• Sophie Kurys, 87, American baseball player, complications from surgery.
• Tony Lorick, 71, American football player.
• Georg Luck, 87, Swiss academic.
• Mindy McCready, 37, American country music singer, suicide by gunshot.
• Luis Paulino Mora Mora, 68, Costa Rican jurist, President of the Supreme Court of Justice of Costa Rica, pneumonia and diabetes.
• Seán Óg Ó Ceallacháin, 89, Irish sports broadcaster.
• Louis Spadia, 92, American football executive, founder of the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame.
• Maretta Taylor, 78, American politician, member of the Georgia House of Representatives.
• Mike Westhues, 64, American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
• David Whitehouse, 71, British-born American museum executive, cancer.

18

• Ahmadullah Affandi, 90, Indian scout leader and footballer.
• Kevin Ayers, 68, English psychedelic rock songwriter and musician.
• Otto Beisheim, 89, German billionaire businessman, founder of Metro AG, suicide.
• Kevin Black, 69, New Zealand radio broadcaster, suspected heart attack.
• Jerry Buss, 80, American entrepreneur, owner of the Los Angeles Lakers, cancer and kidney failure.
• Alger Chapman Jr., 81, American finance executive, CEO and Chairman of the Chicago Board Options Exchange, heart failure.
• Chu Hsing-yu, 56, Taiwanese politician, MLY, heart attack.
• Elspet Gray, Baroness Rix, 83, Scottish actress and philanthropist.
• Damon Harris, 62, American soul and R&B singer, prostate cancer.
• Godfrey Hewitt, 73, British evolutionary geneticist.
• Chieko Honda, 49, Japanese voice actress, cancer.
• James Irvine, 54, British furniture designer.
• Okey Isima, 56, Nigerian Olympic footballer.
• Igal Lichtman, American technology chief executive, cancer.
• Anthony Theodore Lobo, 75, Pakistani Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Islamabad-Rawalpindi.
• Matt Mattox, 91, American jazz and ballet teacher.
• Craig McKinley, 48, Canadian physician and aquanaut.
• Gustaf Adolf Neumann, 88, Austrian journalist.
• Mikhail Pakhomov, 36, Russian politician.
• Otfried Preußler, 89, German children's book author.
• Qian Haiyan, 57, Chinese civil servant and diplomat, cancer.
• Shayle R. Searle, 84, New Zealand-born American statistician, cancer.
• Joel Silberg, 85, Israeli director and screenwriter.
• Pep Simek, 86, American businessman, founder of Tombstone pizza.
• Alan F. Westin, 83, American academic, cancer.
• Hugh E. Wild, 94, American air force general.
• Martin Zweig, 70, American financier.

19

• Armen Alchian, 98, American economist.
• Pete D. Anderson, 81, American jockey and racehorse trainer.
• George Aratani, 95, American entrepreneur and philanthropist, complications of pneumonia.
• Ardyce Bohlke, 69, American politician, member of the Nebraska Legislature, brain tumor.
• John Brascia, 80, American dancer, Parkinson's disease.
• Joaquín Cordero, 89, Mexican actor.
• Elmer Diedtrich, 85, American politician, member of South Dakota House of Representatives and Senate.
• Johnny Downie, 87, Scottish footballer.
• Hans Ernback, 70, Swedish actor.
• Justus Esiri, 70, Nigerian actor, complications of diabetes.
• Gerhard Frey, 80, German financier and politician, Chairman of the German People's Union.
• Börje Jeppsson, 84, Swedish Olympic weightlifter.
• M. Hasan Ali Khan, 63, Bangladeshi naval officer, Chief of Naval Staff.
• Elisa Lam, 21, Canadian student, accidental drowning,.
• Radhakishan Malviya, 69, Indian politician.
• Lou Myers, 77, American actor, complications from pneumonia.
• Jon Odlum, 76, Saint Lucian politician.
• Park Chul-soo, 64, South Korean film director, traffic collision.
• Robert Coleman Richardson, 75, American physicist, winner of Nobel Prize for Physics, complications following heart attack.
• Donald Richie, 88, American-born Japanese film critic and cinematic author.
• G. Ross Roy, 88, Scottish literature scholar.
• Hubert Schieth, 86, German football player and manager.
• Mickey Stubblefield, 86, American baseball player.
• Pedro Lisímaco de Jesús Vílchez Vílchez, 83, Nicaraguan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Jinotega.
• Eugene Whelan, 88, Canadian politician, MP for Essex South, for Essex, Senator for SW Ontario, stroke complications.
• Martin Wilk, 90, Canadian statistician.
• Chip Woodrum, 74, American politician, member of the Virginia General Assembly for Roanoke.
• Jane C. Wright, 93, American oncologist.

20

• Avraham Brandwein, 67, Israeli rabbi.
• Kenji Eno, 42, Japanese video game developer, heart failure.
• Jean Gauthier, 75, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Brima George, Sierra Leonean footballer
• John Finbarr Jones, 83, Irish–born American academic.
• William Letwin, 90, Anglo-American academic.
• Emma McDougall, 21, English footballer, cancer.
• David S. McKay, 77, American astrobiologist.
• Antonio Roma, 80, Argentine footballer.
• Rex Scouten, 88, American civil servant, White House Chief Usher, White House Office of the Curator.
• Yussef Suleiman, 26, Syrian footballer, mortar attack.
• Ozzie Sweet, 94, American film actor and sports photographer.
• Osmo Antero Wiio, 85, Finnish academic and politician, MP.
• Neil Wilson, 77, American baseball player.

21

• John Clappison, 75, English ceramic and glass designer.
• Scott Clark, 43, American comic book artist.
• Raymond Cusick, 84, British TV designer, heart failure.
• Norbert Dorsey, 83, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Orlando, cancer.
• Patrick Ellis, 84, American academic, President of La Salle University and CUA.
• Nazem Ganjapour, 69, Iranian footballer.
• Aleksei Yuryevich German, 74, Russian filmmaker.
• Bob Godfrey, 91, British animator and Academy Award-winning short film maker.
• Willi Gutmann, 85, Swiss sculptor.
• Hasse Jeppson, 87, Swedish footballer.
• Masahiro Kanagawa, 29, Japanese criminal, execution by hanging.
• Kaoru Kobayashi, 44, Japanese criminal, execution by hanging.
• Francisco José Madero González, 82, Mexican politician, Governor of Coahuila.
• Magic Slim, 75, American blues singer and guitarist.
• Bruce Millan, 85, Scottish politician, Secretary of State for Scotland, European Commissioner for Regional Policy, bronchopneumonia.
• Dick Neal Jr., 79, English footballer.
• Louis F. Oberdorfer, 94, American senior judge, United States District Court for the District of Columbia, natural causes.
• Glenn K. Otis, 83, American army general.
• Filoteo Samaniego, 84, Ecuadorian translator and diplomat.
• Yuriy Shulyatytskyi, 70, Ukrainian football coach.
• Cleotha Staples, 78, American gospel singer, member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Alzheimer's disease.
• Del Tenney, 82, American actor and film director.
• Tom Tipps, 90, American politician, member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives and Senate.
• G. Venkatraman, 82, Indian politician.
• Merlin Volzke, 87, American jockey and racing official.
• Zheng Cao, 46, Chinese opera singer, lung cancer.

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• Debi Austin, 62, American anti-smoking advocate, cancer.
• Shu-Park Chan, 83, Chinese–born American academic, founded International Technological University.
• P. Chuba Chang, 47, Indian politician, MLA for Tuensang Sadar-II.
• Bob Corbin, 90, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives.
• Hans Hallén, 77, Swedish Olympic bobsledder.
• George Ives, 87, American actor.
• Ava June, 81, British opera singer.
• Atje Keulen-Deelstra, 74, Dutch quadruple world champion, Olympic silver and bronze medallist, world record holder speed skater, cerebral infarction.
• Neil Mann, 88, Australian VFL football player and coach.
• Jean-Louis Michon, 88, French academic.
• Claude Monteux, 92, American flautist and conductor.
• Enver Ören, 74, Turkish businessman, renal failure.
• Mario Ramírez, 55, Puerto Rican baseball player.
• Wolfgang Sawallisch, 89, German conductor and pianist.
• Hari Shankar Singhania, 79, Indian industrialist.
• Behsat Üvez, 53, Turkish singer and composer, lung cancer.

23

• Viljo Aho, 80, Finnish Olympic boxer.
• José Gustavo Angel Ramírez, 78, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Mitú.
• Benedict Ashley, 97, American theologian and philosopher.
• Eugene Bookhammer, 94, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Delaware.
• Joan Child, 91, Australian politician, MP for Henty, first female Speaker of House of Representatives.
• Jack Choquette, 84, American stock car racing driver.
• Joseph Friedenson, 90, Holocaust survivor, Holocaust historian, Yiddish writer, lecturer and editor.
• Nigel Glendinning, 83, British art historian.
• Donald A. Haggar, 88, American politician, member of the South Dakota House of Representatives.
• George A. Hamid Jr., 94, American entertainment businessman.
• Michael Inchbald, 92, British architectural and interior designer.
• Howard Liddell, 67, British architect, cancer.
• Paul C. P. McIlhenny, 68, American businessman, CEO of Tabasco, heart attack.
• Mary Ann McMorrow, 83, American judge, first female judge for Supreme Court of Illinois ; first female Chief Justice.
• Julien Ries, 92, Belgian Roman Catholic prelate, Cardinal of Sant'Antonio di Padova a Circonvallazione Appia.
• Maurice Rosy, 85, Belgian comics writer.
• Sonny Russo, 83, American jazz trombonist.
• Lotika Sarkar, 90, Indian academic.
• Sylvia Smith, 67, British writer, pulmonary disease.
• Sir Richard Worsley, 89, British Army general.

24

• Roy Brown Jr., 96, American car design engineer, complications from Parkinson's disease and pneumonia.
• Dave Charlton, 76, British-born South African racing driver.
• John Driftmier, 30, Canadian television director, plane crash.
• Paul Enock, 78, Canadian Olympic speed skater.
• Sir Denis Forman, 95, British television executive, Chairman of Granada Television.
• Ralph Hotere, 81, New Zealand artist, pneumonia.
• Farideh Lashai, 68, Iranian contemporary artist, cancer.
• Con Martin, 89, Irish Gaelic and association football player.
• Alexis Nihon Jr., 67, Canadian real estate businessman, Olympic wrestler for The Bahamas, cancer.
• Andrew Nisbet Jr., 91, American politician and military officer, member of the Washington House of Representatives.
• Seamus O'Connell, 83, English footballer.
• Frank Joseph Polozola, 71, American senior judge, US District Court for Middle Louisiana, cancer.
• Mahmoud Salem, 82, Egyptian author, cardiac dysfunction.
• Tjokorda Ngurah Wim Sukawati, 90, Indonesian Balinese royal and diplomat.
• Dick Yelvington, 84, American football player.

25

• Abdelhamid Abou Zeid, 47–48, Algerian al-Qaeda commander, military action.
• Allan B. Calhamer, 81, American boardgame inventor.
• Arnold Coates, 76, English footballer.
• William J. Duffy, 96, American jurist and politician.
• Herb Epp, 78, Canadian politician, MPP of the Ontario Legislature for Waterloo North.
• Stewart "Dirk" Fischer, 88, American jazz musician and composer.
• Claudis James, 69, American football player.
• Samuel Kivuitu, 74, Kenyan election official and politician, MP for Parklands, throat cancer.
• C. Everett Koop, 96, American pediatric surgeon and public health administrator, Surgeon General of the United States.
• Phillip Leishman, 61, New Zealand broadcaster, brain tumour.
• Lennart Lindgren, 93, Swedish Navy captain.
• Doris Lorenz-Müller, 78, German Olympic athlete.
• Ralph P. Martin, 87, British New Testament scholar.
• Carmen Montejo, 87, Cuban-born Mexican actress.
• Ray O'Connor, 86, Australian politician, Premier of Western Australia.
• Willy Rizzo, 84, Italian-born French news and celebrity photographer, and furniture designer.
• Heikki Siren, 94, Finnish architect.
• Dan Toler, 64, American musician, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Milan Velimirović, 60, Serbian chess problemist and publisher.

26

• Marie-Claire Alain, 86, French organist.
• Randolph Bromery, 87, American educator, Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
• Harold G. Clarke, 85, American judge, member of the Georgia Supreme Court, [List of Chief Justices of the Israeli Supreme Court|Supreme Court of Georgia (U.S. state)|Chief Justice].
• Giovanni D'Ascenzi, 93, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Sovana–Pitigliano–Orbetello and Arezzo–Cortona–Sansepolcro.
• Donald R. Deskins Jr., 80, American football player, geographer and sociologist.
• Timothy Donaldson, 79, Bahamian banker, first Governor of the Central Bank, Ambassador to the United States, cancer.
• Ronald Edwards, 95, South African cricketer.
• James Ferguson, 87, Canadian politician.
• Jan Howard Finder, 73, American science fiction writer, renal and liver failure.
• Bert Flugelman, 90, Australian sculptor, complications from polio.
• Tom Griffin, 96, American aviator, member of the Doolittle Raid.
• Herbie Hall, 86, British Olympic wrestler.
• Stéphane Hessel, 95, German-born French author and diplomat, member of the French Resistance, survivor of Buchenwald, Mittelbau-Dora and Bergen-Belsen.
• Adrian Hollis, 72, English correspondence chess grandmaster.
• Huỳnh Văn Cao, 85, Vietnamese politician and major general.
• Simon Li, 90, Hong Kong judge and politician.
• Marco McMillian, 33, American businessman and political candidate, homicide.
• William Perehudoff, 94, Canadian painter.
• Maya Jackson Randall, 33, American financial journalist, leukemia.
• Eugene P. Sheehy, 90, American academic librarian.
• Kaoru Shimamura, 43, Japanese voice actress, breast cancer.
• Sung Chan-gyeong, 82, South Korean poet.
• Donald Thompson, 85, American Olympic fencer and academic.
• Dobrivoje Trivić, 69, Serbian footballer.

27

• María Asquerino, 87, Spanish film actress, respiratory failure.
• Henri Caillavet, 99, French politician, gay rights and pro-choice advocate, Senator, MEP.
• Van Cliburn, 78, American pianist, bone cancer.
• Ramon Dekkers, 43, Dutch kickboxer, eight-time Muay Thai world champion, myocardial infarction.
• David Dewaele, 36, French actor, stroke.
• Robin M. Hochstrasser, 82, Scottish–born American chemist.
• Doreen Kimura, 80, Canadian psychologist.
• Molly Lefebure, 93, British writer.
• Low Meng Tak, 90–91, Chinese Malaysian businessman and philanthropist, leukemia.
• Mike Marienthal, 89, American football player and coach.
• Walter Pierce, 93, American architect.
• Dale Robertson, 89, American actor, lung cancer and pneumonia.
• Jim Starrak, 84, American ice-hockey player.
• Richard Street, 70, American singer, pulmonary embolism.
• Roy Stuart, 92, American football player.
• Terry Twell, 66, English footballer.
• Adolfo Zaldívar, 69, Chilean politician and lawyer, Senator, President of the Senate, Ambassador to Argentina, pancreatic cancer.
• Imants Ziedonis, 79, Latvian poet, natural causes.

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• DJ Ajax, 41, Australian DJ, traffic collision.
• Clarence Atwell Jr., 67, American Tachi Yokuts tribal leader, cancer.
• Theo Bos, 47, Dutch football player and coach, pancreatic cancer.
• William Bennett, 56, American oboist, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Pedro Treto Cisneros, 73, Mexican baseball commissioner.
• Nancy Cooke de Herrera, 90, American socialite and author.
• Daniel Darc, 53, French singer, drug overdose.
• Yo-Yo Davalillo, 81, Venezuelan baseball player.
• Mosese Fotuaika, 20, New Zealand rugby league player, suicide.
• Donald A. Glaser, 86, American physicist and neurobiologist, Nobel Prize in Physics.
• Jean Marcel Honoré, 92, French Roman Catholic prelate, Cardinal of Santa Maria della Salute a Primavalle, Archbishop of Tours.
• Neil McCorkell, 100, English cricketer.
• Moon Mullen, 96, American baseball and basketball player.
• Bruce Reynolds, 81, British criminal, mastermind of the Great Train Robbery.
• Armando Trovajoli, 95, Italian film composer and pianist.
• Jean Van Steen, 83, Belgian footballer.
• Yulian Voronovskyi, 76, Ukrainian Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Ukrainian Catholic Eparchy of Sambir – Drohobych.
• Robert Weimar, 80, German academic.