Deaths in January 2012

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

  January 2012

1

• Gary Ablett, 46, English footballer, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
• Bob Anderson, 89, British Olympic fencer and fight choreographer .
• Alfredo Battisti, 86, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Udine.
• Jorge Andrés Martínez Boero, 38, Argentine motorcycle racer, Dakar Rally crash.
• Elizabeth Brumfiel, 66, American archaeologist.
• Pauli Burman, 78, Finnish journalist and politician.
• Frank Cioffi, 83, American philosopher.
• Diego Cuenca, 84, Spanish footballer.
• Alvin Devane, 88, American soldier.
• Marino Di Teana, 91, Italian Argentine sculptor.
• Hilda Feste, 98, Norwegian woman, murdered.
• Ingeborg Finke-Siegmund, 92, German pianist and piano teacher.
• Anders Frandsen, 51, Danish singer and television presenter.
• Rebecca Fromer, 84, American historian and writer, co-founder of the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life.
• Kiro Gligorov, 94, Macedonian politician, first democratically elected President.
• Jan Groover, 68, American photographer.
• Hermann Guggiari, 87, Paraguayan engineer and sculptor.
• Frank Horwill, 84, British athletics coach.
• Ed Jenkins, 78, American politician, Representative from Georgia.
• Alessandro Liberati, 57, Italian medical researcher, cancer.
• Nay Win Maung, 49, Burmese physician and pro-democracy activist, heart attack.
• Fred Milano, 72, American doo-wop singer, lung cancer.
• Tommy Mont, 89, American college football coach and NFL player, heart failure.
• Marcelle Narbonne, 113, French supercentenarian, oldest European living person.
• Carlos Soria, 63, Argentine politician, Secretary of Intelligence, Governor of Río Negro, shot.
• Yafa Yarkoni, 86, Israeli singer, Alzheimer's disease.

  2

• Beatriz Bandeira, 102, Brazilian communist, human rights activist, poet and writer.
• Ian Bargh, 76, British-born Canadian jazz pianist, lung cancer.
• Alicia Baro, 93, American human rights activist.
• David W. Barron, 76, British computer scientist.
• Peg Belson, 90, British health activist.
• Ivan Calin, 76, Moldovan politician, Acting President of the Moldovan Parliament.
• William P. Carey, 81, American businessman and philanthropist.
• Joseph Henry Condon, 76, American computer scientist, engineer and physicist.
• Ioan Drăgan, 46, Romanian footballer, colorectal cancer.
• Vivi Friedman, 44, Finnish film director, cancer.
• Silvana Gallardo, 58, American actress, cancer.
• Liv Godin, 93, Norwegian missionary.
• Yoshiro Hayashi, 89, Japanese golfer.
• Gordon Hirabayashi, 93, American civil rights activist.
• Jim Huber, 67, American sports commentator.
• Anatoly Kolesov, 73, Russian wrestler, Olympic gold medalist.
• Howie Koplitz, 73, American baseball player.
• Helmut Müller-Brühl, 78, German conductor.
• Larry Reinhardt, 63, American rock guitarist, liver cirrhosis.
• Alan Rowlands, 82, English pianist.
• Ambjørg Sælthun, 89, Norwegian politician.
• Otto Scrinzi, 93, Austrian journalist and politician.
• Hans Schepers, 81, German Olympic water polo player.
• Paulo Rodrigues, 25, Brazilian footballer, car crash.
• H. Edwin Young, 94, American economist, Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

  3

• Charles W. Bailey II, 81, American journalist and novelist, Parkinson's disease.
• Gene Bartow, 81, American college basketball coach, stomach cancer.
• Gordon Buttrey, 85, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Jack R. Carl, 92, American football, basketball, and track coach.
• Robert L. Carter, 94, American civil rights activist and judge, complications from a stroke.
• Minnie Sue Coleman, 85, American artist.
• Ray Costict, 56, American football player.
• Miguel Couturier, 61, Mexican actor, cancer.
• Ellen Currie, 81, American writer and advertising executive.
• Willi Entenmann, 68, German football player and coach, heart attack.
• Juan Escudero, 91, Spanish footballer.
• Margaret Feeny, 94, British councillor.
• Fong Fei-fei, 60, Taiwanese singer and actress, lung cancer.
• Lars Lennart Forsberg, 78, Swedish film director.
• Mounir Fourar, 39, Algerian man, one of the tallest men in the world.
• Bryan Hickman, 30, American football player, suicide.
• John David Lewis, 56, American political scientist.
• Winifred Milius Lubell, 97, American illustrator and writer, heart failure.
• Joaquín Martínez, 81, Mexican-born American actor, pancreatic cancer.
• Osamu Matsubara, 94, Japanese businessman, chairman of Books Kinokuniya, heart failure.
• Stepan Oshchepkov, 77, Russian canoeist, Olympic gold medalist.
• Mikhail Romadin, 71, Russian artist.
• Josef Škvorecký, 87, Czech writer and publisher, cancer.
• Miguel Terekhov, 83, Uruguayan-born American ballet dancer and teacher, complications of lung fibrosis.
• Jenny Tomasin, 73, British actress, hypertensive heart disease.
• Wylie Vale, 70, American endocrinologist.
• Vicar, 77, Chilean cartoonist.
• Bob Weston, 64, British guitarist and songwriter, gastrointestinal hemorrhage.
• Harold Zirin, 82, American astronomer.

  4

• Eve Arnold, 99, American photographer.
• Ruben Ayala, 89, American politician, California State Senator, first elected Mayor of Chino, California.
• Jiří Bárta, 76, Czech pianist and composer.
• Totti Bergh, 76, Norwegian jazz saxophonist.
• C.O.D., American musician, stroke.
• James F. Crow, 95, American geneticist.
• Angela von den Driesch, 77, German archaeologist and veterinarian.
• Stephen M. DuBrul Jr., 82, American businessman.
• Harry Fowler, 85, British character actor.
• Gatewood Galbraith, 64, American lawyer and author, complications from chronic emphysema.
• Sinake Giregire, 74, Papua New Guinean businessman and politician.
• Sir Archibald Glenn, 100, Australian industrialist, Chancellor of La Trobe University.
• Patricia Mather, 88, Australian zoologist.
• Kerry McGregor, 37, British singer and reality contestant , bladder cancer.
• Bob McKenzie, 83, Australian football player.
• Kalpana Mohan, 65, Indian actress.
• Carmen Naranjo, 83, Costa Rican novelist, poet and essayist, cancer.
• Hisako Ōishi, 75, Japanese politician, member of the House of Councillors, respiratory failure.
• Rod Robbie, 83, Canadian architect.
• Xaver Unsinn, 82, German Olympic ice hockey player and coach.
• Hans Wahli, 84, Swiss Olympic athlete.
• David Wheeler, 86, American theatrical director.

  5

• Richard Alf, 59, American businessman, co-founder and chairman of San Diego Comic-Con, pancreatic cancer.
• François-Marie Algoud, 91, French royalist and author.
• Selwyn Baptiste, 75, Trinidadian-born British musician and festival organiser.
• Sigurður Bjarnason, 96, Icelandic politician and diplomat.
• Gordon W. Bowie, 67, American musician.
• Don Carter, 85, American professional bowler, complication from pneumonia and emphysema.
• Samson H. Chowdhury, 86, Bangladeshi businessman.
• George Dargo, 76, American legal scholar, skin cancer.
• Mirtha Dermisache, 71, Argentine artist.
• Hilmar Duerbeck, 63, German astronomer.
• Idwal Fisher, 76, Welsh rugby player.
• Thelma Forbes, 101, Canadian politician.
• Hikaru Hayashi, 80, Japanese composer.
• Frank Ackerman Hill, 92, American U.S. Air Force officer, commander of the 33rd Air Division.
• Frederica Sagor Maas, 111, American silent film screenwriter, playwright, memoirist and author.
• Isaac Díaz Pardo, 91, Spanish artist.
• Amit Saigal, 46, Indian rock magazine publisher, concert promoter and musician, drowned.
• Alexander Sizonenko, 52, Russian basketball player, world's tallest person.

  6

• Kenneth Andrews, 90, British historian.
• Louise Gibson Annand, 96, Scottish artist.
• James R. Arnold, 88, American space scientist.
• Tom Ardolino, 56, American drummer.
• Roger Boisjoly, 73, American aerospace engineer, anticipated the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, cancer.
• Azer Bülbül, 44, Turkish singer and actor, heart attack.
• Harlin Butterley, 84, Australian Anglican priest and Dean of Hobart from 1972 to 1980.
• Gabriel Cadis, 60, Israeli attorney, chairman of the Jaffa Orthodox Church Association, stabbed.
• John Celardo, 93, American comic strip artist.
• Harry Fearnley, 88, English footballer.
• Bob Holness, 83, South African-born British quiz show host and actor.
• Eleutherios Katsaitis, 82, Greek-born British Orthodox hierarch, Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Great Britain, smothered.
• W. Francis McBeth, 78, American composer.
• Frank James McGarr, 90, American former senior judge of the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
• Basil Payne, 88, Irish poet.
• Ellen Pence, 63, American sociologist and social activist, creator of the Duluth Domestic Abuse Intervention Project, breast cancer.
• Thomas Virgil Pittman, 95, American senior judge of the District Court for the Southern District of Alabama and judge for the Middle District of Alabama.
• Sybil Plumlee, 100, American teacher and police officer.
• Spike Pola, 97, Australian football player.
• John Pollock, 87, English author.
• Louis Rech, 85, Italian-born Luxembourgish politician, Mayor of Dudelange.
• Clive Shell, 64, Welsh international rugby player.

  7

• Ibrahim Aslan, 77, Egyptian novelist and short story writer, heart failure.
• Tony Blankley, 63, British-born American commentator, newspaper editor and child actor, stomach cancer.
• Karen Ramey Burns, 64, American forensic anthropologist.
• Glenn Cox, 80, American baseball player.
• Bert Daikeler, 83, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
• George Gabin, 80, American artist and art educator.
• Francella Mary Griggs, 91, American nun, advocated for federal recognition of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians.
• George Livingston, 78, American politician, first elected black mayor of Richmond, California, diabetes.
• Hideaki Nitani, 81, Japanese actor, pneumonia.
• Charlie Pawsey, 88, English rugby league player.
• Henri Puppo, 98, French cyclist.
• Herbert Wilf, 80, American mathematician.