Deaths in January 2011

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

  January 2011

1

• Anna Anni, 84, Italian costume designer.
• Georgiy Ball, 83, Russian writer.
• Branko Bokun, 90, Yugoslavian writer.
• Peter Branson, 86, British admiral.
• Sir Robin Carnegie, 84, British army general.
• Charles Fambrough, 60, American jazz musician and composer.
• Bruce Halliday, 84, Canadian physician and politician, MP for Oxford.
• Gerd Michael Henneberg, 88, German actor.
• Sonia Humphrey, 63, Australian television presenter and journalist.
• Flemming Jørgensen, 63, Danish actor and musician, heart attack.
• Verne Langdon, 69, American musician, record producer and make-up artist.
• Constantin Marin, 85, Romanian musician, conductor and composer.
• John Olguin, 89, American aquarium official, director of the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium.
• Billy Joe Patton, 88, American golfer.
• Louise Reiss, 90, American physician, co-ordinator of the Baby Tooth Survey.
• John Rice, 92, American baseball umpire.
• Faizal Yusof, 32, Malaysian actor, heart attack.

  2

• Bali Ram Bhagat, 88, Indian politician, Speaker of the Lok Sabha and Governor of Rajasthan.
• Kate Ebli, 52, American politician, member of the Michigan House of Representatives.
• Anne Francis, 80, American actress, pancreatic cancer.
• Peter Hobbs, 92, French-born American actor.
• Hans Kalt, 86, Swiss rower, Olympic silver and bronze medalist.
• Émile Masson Jr., 95, Belgian cyclist, winner of Paris–Roubaix and La Flèche Wallonne classic cycle races.
• John Osborne, 74, Montserratian politician, Chief Minister, after long illness.
• Pete Postlethwaite, 64, British actor, pancreatic cancer.
• William R. Ratchford, 76, American politician, U.S. Representative from Connecticut, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Bill Robertson, 93, Australian intelligence officer.
• Miriam Seegar, 103, American silent film actress and interior designer.
• Shen Tianhui, 87, Chinese chemist, academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences.
• Patricia Smith, 80, American actress, heart failure.
• Margot Stevenson, 98, American stage and radio actress.
• Szeto Wah, 79, Hong Kong political activist, lung cancer.
• Robert Trumble, 91, Australian writer and musician.
• Hari Uppal, 84, Indian dancer and dance academy founder.
• Richard Winters, 92, American army officer and World War II veteran, depicted in Band of Brothers, Parkinson's disease.

  3

• Julia Bonds, 58, American activist, cancer.
• Fadil Hadžić, 88, Croatian filmmaker, screenwriter, playwright and journalist.
• Jill Haworth, 65, English actress, natural causes.
• Zbigniew Jaremski, 61, Polish athlete, 1976 Olympic silver medalist.
• Michael Kennelly, 96, Irish-born American Jesuit priest, President of Loyola University New Orleans, founder of Strake [Jesuit College Prep].
• Suchitra Mitra, 86, Indian singer, cardiac arrest.
• Alfred Proksch, 102, Austrian athlete and graphic designer.
• Yosef Shiloach, 69, Israeli actor, cancer.
• Anatoliy Skorokhod, 81, Ukrainian mathematician.
• Paul Soldner, 89, American ceramicist.
• Eva Strittmatter, 80, German writer.
• William Takaku, Papua New Guinean film and theatre actor, screenwriter and theatre director.
• Stanley Tolliver, 85, American attorney and civil rights advocate.
• Nakamura Tomijūrō V, 81, Japanese Kabuki actor, Living National Treasure.
• Alec Woodall, 92, British politician, MP for Hemsworth.

  4

• Mohamed Bouazizi, 26, Tunisian protestor, self-immolation.
• Albert E. Bradbury, 93, American politician.
• Grady Chapman, 81, American doo-wop singer, heart failure.
• Chrysanth Chepil, 73, Russian Orthodox Church|Orthodox] prelate, Metropolitan of Vyatka-Slobodskoy.
• B. H. Friedman, 84, American author and art critic, pneumonia.
• Keki Byramjee Grant, 90, Indian cardiologist.
• Sir John Gray, 92, British physiologist.
• Cyril M. Harris, 93, American acoustical engineer.
• Hadayatullah Hübsch, 64, German journalist.
• Mick Karn, 52, Cypriot-born British musician, cancer.
• Dick King-Smith, 88, British author.
• Gustavo Kupinski, 36, Argentine guitarist, traffic collision.
• Herb Mitchell, 73, American actor.
• Coen Moulijn, 73, Dutch footballer, brain haemorrhage.
• Ali-Reza Pahlavi, 44, Iranian royal, son of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, suicide by gunshot.
• Ronald Parfitt, 97, British Olympic fencer.
• Gerry Rafferty, 63, Scottish singer-songwriter, liver failure.
• Jack Richardson, 90, British chemical engineer.
• Salmaan Taseer, 66, Pakistani politician, Governor of Punjab, shot.
• Bob Usdane, 74, American politician, member of the Arizona Senate, after a short illness.

  5

• Ross Cain, 54, Nauruan politician.
• Jim Duncan, 86, American football player and coach.
• Paul Egertson, 75, American Lutheran bishop, heart attack.
• David Hart, 66, British political activist, author and playwright, motor neurone disease.
• Lily Marinho, 89, Brazilian philanthropist, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, respiratory failure.
• Malangatana Ngwenya, 74, Mozambican poet and painter, after long illness.
• Jack Oliver, 87, American scientist, provided seismic evidence supporting plate tectonics.
• Helene Palmer, 82, British actress.
• Agustin Perdices, 76, Filipino politician, Governor of Negros Oriental, stomach cancer.
• Assar Rönnlund, 75, Swedish cross-country skier, world and Olympic champion.
• Brian Rust, 88, British jazz discographer and music journalist.
• David G. Trager, 73, American jurist, pancreatic cancer.
• Bill Zeller, 27, American computer programmer, complications from a suicide attempt.

  6

• Leovigildo Banaag, 67, Filipino politician, cardiac arrest.
• Rudi Bass, 96, Austrian-born American graphic artist, illustrator and writer.
• John Bendor-Samuel, 81, British missionary and linguist, traffic collision.
• Tom Cavanagh, 28, American ice hockey player, blunt force trauma.
• Susana Chávez, 36, Mexican poet and human rights activist, strangled.
• Francisco de la Rosa, 44, Dominican baseball player, after a long illness.
• Ryne Duren, 81, American baseball player.
• Ohan Durian, 88, Armenian composer.
• Gad Granach, 95, German memoirist, son of Alexander Granach.
• John D. Kendall, 93, American musical educator, complications of a stroke.
• Irving Farmer Kennedy, 88, Canadian World War II fighter pilot.
• Aron Kincaid, 70, American actor, heart failure.
• Gary Mason, 48, British boxer, cycling collision.
• Uche Okafor, 43, Nigerian footballer, murdered.
• Andrzej Przeździecki, 84, Polish Olympic fencer and trainer.
• Anthony S. Seminerio, 75, American politician and convicted felon, member of the New York State Assembly.
• Pyotr Sumin, 64, Russian politician, Governor of Chelyabinsk Oblast.
• Donald J. Tyson, 80, American business executive, Chairman of Tyson Foods, cancer.
• Vang Pao, 81, Lao army general and Hmong community leader, Commander of the Secret Army, pneumonia.
• Reg Ward, 82, British chief executive of London Docklands Development Corporation.
• Dagmar Wilson, 94, American anti-nuclear activist, heart failure.

  7

• Helga Bachmann, 79, Icelandic actress and director.
• Red Borom, 95, American baseball player.
• Eddie Carr, 87, American football player.
• Carlos Castro, 65, Portuguese journalist, bludgeoned.
• Derek Gardner, 79, British vehicle and Formula One car designer.
• Robert P. Hanrahan, 76, American politician, U.S. Representative from Illinois.
• George Harris, 77, American Olympic judoka, leukemia.
• Bill "Tiger" Johnson, 84, American football player and coach.
• Krzysztof Kolberger, 60, Polish actor, cancer.
• Włodzimierz Ławniczak, 51, Polish journalist, Chairman of Telewizja Polska, after long illness.
• Val Puccio, 45, American professional wrestler.
• Richard Bordeaux Parker, 87, American diplomat.
• Bobby Robinson, 93, American record producer.
• Simona Senoner, 17, Italian ski jumper.
• José Vidal, 70, Dominican baseball player, cancer.

  8

• Noel Andrews, 79, Irish boxing commentator.
• Joey Carew, 73, Trinidadian cricketer, arteriosclerosis.
• Willi Dansgaard, 88, Danish paleoclimatologist.
• Jiří Dienstbier, 73, Czech politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs.
• Peter Donaldson, 58, Canadian actor, lung cancer.
• Hans Ulrich Engelmann, 89, German composer.
• Mike Gambrill, 75, British Olympic cyclist, bronze medalist.
• José García, 84, Uruguayan footballer.
• Oleg Grabar, 81, American Islamic art historian, heart failure.
• Ángel Pedraza, 48, Spanish footballer and manager, cancer.
• Manuel Pestana Filho, 82, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Anápolis.
• Juan Piquer Simón, 74, Spanish film director, lung cancer.
• John Roll, 63, American jurist, shot.
• Del Reisman, 86, American television producer and writer, President of WGAW, cardiac arrest.
• Elfa Secioria, 51, Indonesian jazz pianist.
• Thorbjørn Svenssen, 86, Norwegian footballer, record 104 appearances for the national team, stroke.
• Morton Sweig, 95, American businessman.
• Marcia Torres, 60-61, Chilean hairstylist and entertainer, first transgender woman that had a sex reassignment surgery in Latin America.
• Christopher Trumbo, 70, American screenwriter, kidney cancer.
• William F. Walsh, 98, American politician, Mayor of Syracuse, New York, Congressman.
• Moshe Yess, 67, Canadian composer and singer, cancer.

  9

• James Acord, 66, American sculptor, suicide.
• Vítor Alves, 75, Portuguese soldier and politician, member of the MFA, responsible for the Carnation Revolution, cancer.
• Richard Butcher, 29, English footballer, natural causes.
• Ruth Cavin, 92, American mystery novel editor, lung cancer.
• Debbie Friedman, 59, American songwriter, pneumonia.
• Sir Ernest Lee-Steere, 98, Australian horse racing official, Lord Mayor of Perth, Western Australia.
• Makinti Napanangka, 80s, Australian Papunya Tula artist.
• Howard Wallace Pollock, 90, American politician, U.S. Representative from Alaska.
• Dave Sisler, 79, American baseball player, prostate cancer.
• Georges Vanbrabant, 84, Belgian Olympian
• Jerzy Woźniak, 78, Polish footballer.
• Peter Yates, 81, British film director and producer.

  10

• Liana Alexandra, 63, Romanian music educator and composer.
• Naseerullah Babar, 82, Pakistani soldier and politician, Governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Interior Minister.
• Arthur Barrett, 83, English footballer.
• Bill Bower, 93, American aviator, last surviving pilot of Doolittle Raid, complications from a fall.
• John Dye, 47, American actor, heart attack.
• Dorothy Franey, 97, American Olympic speed skater.
• Cookie Gilchrist, 75, American football player, cancer.
• Joe Gores, 79, American novelist and screenwriter.
• John Gross, 75, British literary critic.
• Miklós Hofer, 79, Hungarian architect.
• Bert Kinnear, 87, British Olympic swimmer.
• Bora Kostić, 80, Serbian footballer.
• Shota Kviraia, 58, Georgian politician and security officer.
• Gideon Njoku, 63, Nigerian footballer and coach, cardiac arrest.
• Vivek Shauq, 47, Indian actor, comedian, writer and singer, heart attack.
• A. W. B. Simpson, 79, British legal historian.
• María Elena Walsh, 80, Argentine musician, poet and writer, after long illness.
• John Ward, 90, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles.
• Margaret Whiting, 86, American pop singer, natural causes.
• Lomasontfo Dludlu, Swazi politician.

  11

• Zoltán Berczik, 73, Hungarian table tennis player and coach.
• Ralph Campbell, 64, American politician, North Carolina state auditor, lung cancer.
• Dame Barbara Clayton, 88, British pathologist.
• Zoë Dominic, 90, English photographer.
• Milan Ercegan, 94, Yugoslavian president of the International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles.
• Kozo Haraguchi, 100, Japanese track and field athlete, respiratory failure.
• André Marchand, 84, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec.
• Matti Mattson, 94, American veteran of the Spanish Civil War.
• John Modinos, 84, Cypriot opera baritone, heart failure.
• David Nelson, 74, American actor, colon cancer.
• Knut Olsen, 57, Norwegian journalist and television presenter, cancer.
• Alfio Peraboni, 56, Italian Olympic bronze medal-winning sailor, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Won-il Rhee, 50, South Korean digital art curator, heart attack.
• Ze'ev Segal, 63, Israeli jurist and legal analyst.
• Marcel Trudel, 93, Canadian historian and author, cancer.

  12

• Aswismarmo, 85, Indonesian major general.
• Clemar Bucci, 90, Argentine racing driver.
• Hans Bütikofer, 95, Swiss Olympic silver medal-winning bobsledder.
• Howard Engleman, 91, American college basketball player.
• Paul Picerni, 88, American actor, heart attack.
• Terje Sagvolden, 65, Norwegian neuroscientist.
• Kenneth Stevenson, 61, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Portsmouth, cancer.
• Dawn Sylvia-Stasiewicz, 52, American dog trainer and author, respiratory distress.

  13

• Wali Khan Babar, 29, Pakistani journalist, gunshot.
• Alan Butler, 80, South African priest.
• Frank Calabro, 86, Italian-born Australian transport operator and politician, MLC.
• Mick Cremin, 87, Australian rugby union footballer.
• Egon Drews, 84, German Olympic bronze medal-winning flatwater canoer.
• Tuviah Friedman, 88, Israeli Nazi hunter.
• Michel Gratton, 58, Canadian journalist, Press Secretary to Prime Minister Brian Mulroney.
• Albert Heijn Jr., 83, Dutch entrepreneur, owner of the Albert Heijn supermarket chain.
• Greg Hjorth, 47, Australian mathematician and chess player, heart attack.
• Hellmut Lange, 87, German actor.
• Charles Muscat, 48, Maltese footballer.
• Prabhakar Panshikar, 79, Indian stage actor, after long illness.
• Allen Salter, 74, Canadian Olympic weightlifter.
• Ellen Stewart, 91, American theater director.
• Marian Woyna Orlewicz, 97, Polish cross country skier.

  14

• Eduardo Armella, 82, Argentine Olympic shooter.
• Sun Axelsson, 75, Swedish novelist.
• Julio Barragán, 82, Argentine painter.
• Salvatore Cancemi, 68, Italian mafiosi, stroke.
• Georgia Carroll, 91, American fashion model and actress.
• David Coren, 93, Israeli politician, member of the Knesset.
• Dr. Creep, 69, American television host.
• Stephanie Glaser, 90, Swiss actress.
• Marty Gold, 95, American composer, pianist and bandleader.
• Toshiyuki Hosokawa, 70, Japanese actor, acute subdural hematoma.
• Liu Huaqing, 94, Chinese naval commander.
• Peter Post, 77, Dutch cyclist, winner of the 1964 Paris–Roubaix event.
• Betty Mae Tiger Jumper, 88, American health official and tribal leader, first woman to lead the Seminole tribe.
• Ben Wada, 80, Japanese television director, esophageal cancer.
• Per Olav Wiken, 73, Norwegian Olympic silver medal-winning 1968 sailor.

  15

• Ellen Alaküla, 83, Estonian actress and theatre teacher.
• Gaston Allaire, 94, Canadian musicologist.
• Minhaj Barna, 89, Pakistani journalist.
• Kenneth Grant, 86, British occultist and writer, head of the Typhonian Order.
• Roy Hartsfield, 85, American baseball player and first manager of Toronto Blue Jays, complications of liver cancer.
• Harvey James, 58, Australian musician, lung cancer.
• Michael Langham, 91, English stage director and actor, complications from a chest infection.
• Romulus Linney, 80, American playwright, lung cancer.
• Nat Lofthouse, 85, English footballer, liver cancer.
• Mike Vibert, 60, Jersey politician, Minister for Education, Sport and Culture, heart attack.
• Susannah York, 72, English actress, BAFTA [Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role|BAFTA] winner, bone marrow cancer.
• Hilde Zach, 68, Austrian politician, Mayor of Innsbruck.
• Zeng Xianyi, 74, Chinese professor of legal history.

  16

• Augusto Algueró, 76, Spanish composer and conductor, cardiac arrest.
• Miguel Ángel Álvarez, 88, Puerto Rican comedian and actor, respiratory failure.
• Celestino Armas, 75, Venezuelan engineer and politician, Minister for Energy and Mines.
• Julian Asquith, 2nd [Earl of Oxford and Asquith], 94, British aristocrat and diplomat, Administrator of Saint Lucia, Governor of the Seychelles.
• David Crowley, 72, American politician, cancer.
• Hovhannes Bedros XVIII Kasparian, 83, Egyptian-born Lebanese Armenian Catholic prelate, List of [Armenian Catholic Patriarchs of Cilicia|Patriarch of Cilicia].
• Milton Levine, 97, American entrepreneur, inventor of Uncle Milton's Ant Farm.
• Steve Prestwich, 56, British-born Australian drummer and songwriter, brain tumour.
• Reinaldo Pünder, 72, German-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Coroatá.
• Ye Peida, 95, Chinese telecommunications engineer, President of the Beijing Institute of Posts and Telecommunications.
• Stefka Yordanova, 64, Bulgarian sprinter and middle-distance runner.

  17

• Marina Abroskina, 43, Russian basketball player, brain tumor.
• Jürgen Barth, 67, German Olympic cyclist.
• Marcello Bazzana, 57, Italian Olympic ski jumper.
• Brian Boobbyer, 82, English rugby union player and cricketer.
• David Bradby, 68, British theatre scholar.
• Sjonni Brink, 36, Icelandic musician and singer, complications from a stroke.
• Sir Bernard Crossland, 87, British engineer, Pro-Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University Belfast.
• Perry Currin, 82, American baseball player, heart failure.
• Keith Davey, 84, Canadian politician and campaign organizer, Senator.
• Gita Dey, 79, Indian actress, cardiac arrest.
• Jean Dutourd, 91, French novelist.
• Vern Kaiser, 85, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Don Kirshner, 76, American record producer and songwriter, host of Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, heart failure.
• Robert W. Mackenzie, 82, Canadian labour organizer and politician, Ontario Minister of Labour.
• John Ross, 72, American activist, author and journalist, liver cancer.
• Shinichiro Sakurai, 81, Japanese automotive engineer, heart failure.

  18

• Charlie Cowdrey, 77, American football coach.
• George Crowe, 89, American baseball player.
• Jerre DeNoble, 87, American baseball player.
• Eugenia Escudero, 96, Mexican Olympic fencer.
• Al Grunwald, 80, American baseball player.
• Duncan Hall, 85, Australian rugby league player.
• John Herivel, 92, British codebreaker at Bletchley Park.
• Antonín Kubálek, 75, Czech-born Canadian pianist, complications from a brain tumour.
• Jim McManus, 70, American tennis player.
• Cristian Pațurcă, 46, Romanian composer.
• Milton Rogovin, 101, American documentary photographer.
• Jacques Sarr, 76, Senegalese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Thiès.
• Sargent Shriver, 95, American diplomat and politician, Ambassador to France, List of [United States Democratic Party presidential tickets|vice presidential nominee], complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Edgar Tafel, 98, American architect.

  19

• John Barnes, 94, Australian cricketer.
• Neva Egan, 96, American educator, First Lady of Alaska, widow of William Allen Egan.
• George Franck, 92, American football player.
• Wayne R. Grisham, 88, American politician, Representative from California.
• Mihai Ionescu, 74, Romanian footballer.
• Jose Kusugak, 60, Canadian Inuit leader, bladder cancer.
• James O'Gwynn, 82, American country music singer, pneumonia.
• Bryce Postles, 79, New Zealand cricketer.
• Ramiro Saraiva Guerreiro, 92, Brazilian politician, Minister of External Relations.
• Bob Scott, 79, Australian politician, member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Cook.
• Wilfrid Sheed, 80, English-born American novelist and essayist, urosepsis.
• Carla Swart, 23, South African cyclist, traffic collision.
• Hira Devi Waiba, 71, Nepali folk singer, injuries from a fire.
• Bob Young, 87, American news journalist and anchor.

  20

• Kenth Andersson, 66, Swedish middle-distance runner.
• Maurice Brown, 91, British Royal Air Force fighter pilot.
• José Luis Castro Aguirre, 67, Mexican ichthyologist.
• Eduardo Davino, 81, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Palestrina.
• Bruce Gordon, 94, American actor.
• Ernest McCulloch, 84, Canadian biologist.
• Miesque, 27, French racehorse, euthanized.
• F. A. Nettelbeck, 60, American poet.
• José Ortiz, 63, Puerto Rican baseball player.
• Sonia Peres, 87, Israeli First Lady.
• Reynolds Price, 77, American author, professor at Duke University, heart attack.
• John Jacob Rhodes III, 67, American politician, U.S. Representative from Arizona.
• Eugénio Salessu, 87, Angolan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Malanje.
• Sexy Cora, 23, German pornographic actress, complications from breast enlargement surgery.
• William F. Shipley, 89, American linguist, complications from pneumonia.
• Alan Uglow, 69, British-born American painter, lung cancer.
• Gus Zernial, 87, American baseball player, heart failure.

  21

• Theoni V. Aldredge, 88, Greek-born American costume designer, Oscar winner.
• Robert Cohu, 99, French Olympic basketball player.
• Peter Demos, 87, Australian Olympic basketball player.
• Jay Garner, 82, American actor, respiratory failure.
• Tony Geiss, 86, American television writer and composer, Emmy award winner, complications from a fall.
• Emanuele Gerada, 90, Maltese Roman Catholic prelate, Titular Archbishop of Nomentum, Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland.
• Herb Gray, 76, American-born Canadian football player.
• Barney F. Hajiro, 94, American soldier, formerly the oldest living Medal of Honor recipient.
• Wally Hughes, 76, English football coach.
• Dennis Oppenheim, 72, American artist, liver cancer.
• E. V. V. Satyanarayana, 54, Indian Telugu movie director, throat cancer and cardiac arrest.

  22

• Virgil Akins, 82, American boxer, world welterweight champion.
• Solange Bertrand, 97, French artist.
• Sir Chandos Blair, 91, British army general.
• Ralph Felton, 78, American football player.
• Aslam Khokhar, 91, Pakistani cricketer.
• Quentin Orlando, 91, American politician, Member of the Pennsylvania State Senate.
• Park Wan-suh, 79, South Korean novelist, cancer.
• René Piché, 79, Canadian politician.
• Bobby Poe, 77, American pop singer, songwriter and promoter, blood clot.
• Gary Schreider, 76, Canadian football player.
• William Schreyer, 83, American business executive, chairman and CEO of Merrill Lynch.
• Lois Smith, 81, Canadian dancer.
• Tullia Zevi, 91, Italian journalist and politician, leader of the Italian Jewish community.

  23

• Danny Brabham, 69, American football player.
• Ed Dyas, 71, American football player, member of the College Football Hall of Fame, stomach cancer.
• Peter Gibb, 56, Australian criminal, heart attack.
• Ole Kopreitan, 73, Norwegian political activist.
• Jack LaLanne, 96, American fitness and nutritional expert, pneumonia.
• Poppa Neutrino, 77, American adventurer, crossed Atlantic Ocean on raft made of discarded material, heart failure.
• Louise Raggio, 91, American lawyer.
• Novica Tadić, 62, Yugoslavian poet.
• Neil Truscott, 88, Australian diplomat.

  24

• Alec Boden, 85, Scottish footballer.
• Bernd Eichinger, 61, German film producer, heart attack.
• David Frye, 77, American satirist and Richard Nixon impersonator, cardiopulmonary arrest.
• Phil Gallie, 71, British politician, MP for Ayr, MSP for South of Scotland.
• Barrie Lee Hall Jr., 61, American jazz trumpeter and band leader.
• Basil F. Heath, 93, Canadian-born American Mohawk actor and stuntman.
• Bhimsen Joshi, 88, Indian musician, Bharat Ratna laureate.
• Francisco Mata, 78, Venezuelan folk singer and composer.
• Jack Matheson, 86, Canadian sports journalist.
• Samuel Ruiz, 86, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of San Cristóbal de las Casas.
• Hanna Yablonska, 29, Ukrainian playwright, bombing.

  25

• Daniel Bell, 91, American sociologist.
• Vincent Cronin, 86, British writer.
• Alison Geissler, 103, British glass engraver.
• Bill Holden, 82, English footballer.
• Arto Javanainen, 51, Finnish ice hockey player, after long illness.
• K. Satchidananda Murty, 86, Indian philosopher.
• Ganga Bahadur Thapa, 75–76, Nepalese Olympic runner.

  26

• Anna Avanzini, 93, Italian Olympic gymnast.
• Robert Crook, 81, American politician, member of the Mississippi State Senate.
• Mike DeBardeleben, 70, American criminal, pneumonia.
• John Herbert, 81, Brazilian actor, emphysema.
• Gladys Horton, 65, American R&B singer, complications from a stroke.
• David Kato, 46, Ugandan gay rights activist, bludgeoned with hammer.
• R. F. Langley, 72, British poet and diarist.
• Charlie Louvin, 83, American country music singer, pancreatic cancer.
• María Mercader, 92, Spanish actress.
• Eddie Mordue, 83, British saxophonist.
• Tore Sjöstrand, 89, Swedish Olympic gold medal-winning athlete.

  27

• Charlie Callas, 86, American comedian and actor.
• Liana Dumitrescu, 38, Romanian politician, member of the Chamber of Deputies, stroke.
• William L. Eagleton, 84, American diplomat.
• Mārtiņš Freimanis, 33, Latvian musician and actor, performed at Eurovision Song Contest 2003, influenza.
• Henri Goosen, 84, French Olympic diver.
• Hannemor Gram, 92, Norwegian Olympic alpine skier.
• Boyd Kirkland, 60, American animation producer and director, pulmonary fibrosis.
• Wenceslau Malta, 79, Brazilian Olympic modern pentathlete.
• Vaughn Mancha, 89, American football player, heart failure.
• Svein Mathisen, 58, Norwegian footballer, cancer.
• Butch McCord, 85, American Negro league baseball player.
• Diana Norman, 77, British author and journalist.
• Don Rondo, 81, American singer, lung cancer.
• Tøger Seidenfaden, 53, Danish newspaper editor-in-chief, cancer.
• Guy J. Velella, 66, American politician and convicted criminal, New York State Assemblyman and State Senator, lung cancer.
• Kjeld Vibe, 83, Norwegian diplomat, ambassador to the United States.
• William Williams, 83, Canadian metallurgical engineer.

  28

• Hamida Barmaki, 41, Afghan law professor and human rights activist, suicide bomb attack.
• William Bartley, 94, American pilot.
• Ken Carpenter, 84, American football player.
• Raymond Cohen, 91, British violinist.
• Karen Cromie, 31, British Paralympian, suicide by jumping.
• Sushil Kumar Dhara, 99, Indian revolutionary.
• Dariush Homayoon, 82, Iranian politician and journalist, Minister of Information and Tourism.
• Megan McNeil, 20, Canadian singer, adrenal cancer.
• Dame Margaret Price, 69, British soprano, heart failure.

  29

• Ian Abdulla, 63–64, Australian artist, cancer.
• Hussein El-Alfy, 83, Egyptian rower.
• Milton Babbitt, 94, American composer.
• Zahra Bahrami, 46, Dutch-Iranian protestor and convicted drug trafficker, execution by hanging.
• William J. Bate, 76, American politician.
• José Llopis Corona, 92, Spanish footballer.
• Bruce Jackson, 62, American audio engineer, plane crash.
• Loreen Rice Lucas, 96, Canadian author.
• Hemayel Martina, 20, Curaçaon poet, complications from a traffic collision.
• Raymond McClean, 78, Northern Irish politician and doctor, Mayor of Derry.
• Emilio Ogñénovich, 88, Argentine Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Mercedes-Luján.
• Nora Sun, 72, Chinese-born American diplomat, businesswoman and author, granddaughter of Sun Yat-sen, injuries from car crash.
• Dorothy Thompson, 87, British social historian.
• Emanuel Vardi, 95, Israeli-born American violist, cancer.
• Liza Vorfi, 86, Albanian stage actress, after long illness.
• Norman Wilkinson, 79, English football player.

  30

• Brian Barritt, 76, English author, artist, and counterculture figure.
• John Barry, 77, British film score composer, five-time Oscar winner, heart attack.
• Ajahn Maha Bua, 97, Thai Buddhist monk.
• J. Elliott Burch, 86, American hall of fame racehorse trainer, pneumonia.
• Michael Herzog, 58, Austrian ice hockey player.
• Charles Nolan, 53, American fashion designer, cancer of the head and neck.
• Bernard O'Brien, 96, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
• Ian R. Porteous, 80, British mathematician.
• Hisaye Yamamoto, 89, American author.

  31

• Hernán Alvarado Solano, 65, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Guapi.
• Bartolomeu Anania, 89, Romanian Orthodox Metropolitan of Cluj-Napoca, Alba Iulia, Crişana and Maramureş.
• A. C. Bartulis, 83, American businessman and politician.
• Raymond Challinor, 81, British historian.
• Nikolay Dorizo, 87, Russian poet.
• Zilpha Grant, 91, British Olympic swimmer.
• Stuart Hood, 95, Scottish writer and television executive, controller of BBC Television.
• Charles Kaman, 91, American aeronautical engineer, founder of Kaman Aircraft and Ovation Guitar Company.
• Ningthoukhongjam Khelchandra, 90, Indian writer, lexicographer and historian.
• Tally Monastyryov, 71, Soviet Olympic skier.
• Nildo Parente, 76–77, Brazilian actor, stroke.
• Mark Ryan, 51, British musician, complications from liver damage.
• Charles Sellier, 67, American film and television producer.
• Michael Tolan, 85, American actor, heart disease and renal failure.
• Norman Uprichard, 82, Northern Irish footballer.
• Doc Williams, 96, American country music performer.