Deaths in July 2011
The following is a list of notable deaths in July 2011.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship, reason for notability, cause of death, and reference.
July 2011
1
- Jane Baker, 88, American community organizer and politician, first female Mayor of San Mateo, California.
- Leslie Brooks, 89, American actress.
- Edmund Snow Carpenter, 88, American anthropologist.
- Charlie Craig, 73, American songwriter, lung cancer.
- Willie Fernie, 82, Scottish footballer, Alzheimer's disease.
- Bud Grant, 79, American television executive, president of CBS.
- Anne LaBastille, 75, American author and ecologist.
- Bébé Manga, 60, Cameroonian singer, cardiac arrest.
- Bob McCann, 47, American basketball player, heart failure.
- Harold Nelson, 88, New Zealand Olympic runner.
- Paul Romand, 80, French Olympic skier.
- Jean-Louis Rosier, 86, French racecar driver.
2
- Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi', 54–55, Palestinian professor.
- Khalid Aziz, 73, Pakistani cricket umpire.
- Reeve Maclaren Bailey, 100, American ichthyologist.
- Itamar Franco, 81, Brazilian politician, President, leukemia.
- Magnar G. Huseby, 82, Norwegian engineer and politician.
- Olivera Marković, 86, Serbian actress.
- Ross Martin, 68, Australian Olympic cross-country skier, cycling accident.
- Chaturanan Mishra, 86, Indian politician and trade union leader, long illness.
- Sir Oliver Napier, 75, Northern Irish politician, leader of the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland.
- Robert Sklar, 74, American film historian, cycling accident.
- Juno Stover-Irwin, 82, American diver, Olympic silver and bronze medalist.
3
- Abudureyimu Ajiyiming, 68, Chinese politician.
- Ali Bahar, 50, Bahraini singer, guitarist and organ player, kidney failure.
- Theo Beyleveldt, 63, South African politician, retired military officer.
- Iain Blair, 69, British romance novelist, published under the name Emma Blair.
- Martin Crowe, 88, Australian Olympic athlete.
- Francis King, 88, British writer.
- Anna Massey, 73, British actress, cancer.
- Fred Newman, 76, American psychotherapist.
- Sir Roy Redgrave, 85, British Army general.
- Len Sassaman, 31, American cryptographer, suicide.
- John C. Truesdale, 89, American public servant, National Labor Relations Board chairman, cancer.
4
- Şerban Cantacuzino, 70, Romanian actor and nobleman, descendant of Wallachian Prince Şerban Cantacuzino.
- Wes Covington, 79, American baseball player, cancer.
- John Davies Evans, 86, British archaeologist.
- Rusty Farley, 57, American politician, member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives.
- Otto von Habsburg, 98, Austro-Hungarian royal and politician, MEP.
- Billy Hardee, 56, American football player, motorcycle accident.
- Zurab Kapianidze, 74, Georgian actor and politician, MP.
- Scott McLaren, 20, British Army soldier, killed by the Taliban in Afghanistan.
- Pablo McNeil, 71, Jamaican Olympic athlete and coach, long illness.
- Lawrence R. Newman, 86, American advocate for the deaf.
- Éva Sebők-Szalay, 62, Hungarian Olympic volleyball player.
- Jane Scott, 92, American rock music critic.
- William G. Thrash, 94, American Marine Corps lieutenant general.
- Neil Turner, 77, Australian politician, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland ; MLA for Warrego and Nicklin.
- Gerhard Unger, 95, German opera singer.
5
- Hilda Anderson Nevárez, 72, Mexican trade union leader and politician.
- Jaap Blokker, 69, Dutch businessman, cancer.
- Neil Dougherty, 50, American basketball coach.
- Malcolm Forsyth, 74, South African-born Canadian trombonist and composer, pancreatic cancer.
- David Getches, 68, American educator and Native American rights lawyer, pancreatic cancer.
- Armen Gilliam, 47, American basketball player, heart attack.
- George Lang, 86, Hungarian-born American restaurateur and cookbook author, Alzheimer's disease.
- Odd Mæhlum, 89, Norwegian Olympic track and field athlete.
- Fonce Mizell, 68, American jazz and R&B record producer.
- Mika Myllylä, 41, Finnish cross country skier, 1998 Olympic gold medalist.
- Theodore Roszak, 77, American scholar, cancer.
- Hanna Segal, 92, British psychoanalyst.
- John Sweet, 95, American actor.
- Gordon Tootoosis, 69, Canadian actor and activist, pneumonia.
- Cy Twombly, 83, American painter, cancer.
- Shinji Wada, 61, Japanese manga artist, heart disease.
6
- Steve Cardiff, 53, Canadian politician, automobile accident.
- Paul-André Crépeau, 85, Canadian legal academic.
- Daniel Mortimer Friedman, 95, American jurist.
- Mani Kaul, 66, Indian filmmaker, after long illness.
- George Edward Kimball, 67, American boxing columnist, esophageal cancer.
- Marketa Kimbrell, 82, American actress, Alzheimer's disease.
- Warren Leslie, 84, American author, journalist and business executive.
- John Mackey, 69, American Hall of Fame football player.
- Ali Attalah Obeidi, Libyan military officer and rebel commander.
- Josef Suk, 81, Czech violinist, prostate cancer.
- Andreas Waldherr, 43, Austrian rally driver, crushed under car.
- Mark Whitehead, 50, American Olympic cyclist.
- Keith Wilson, 69, British production designer.
- Gabriele Zeilinger, 93, Austrian Olympic fencer.
7
- Ricardo Alegría, 90, Puerto Rican anthropologist, complications of heart disease.
- Peter Aucoin, 67, Canadian educator.
- Bill Boddy, 98, British motor sport journalist.
- Ganapathi Bose, 72, Indian cricketer.
- Frank Brenchley, 93, British diplomat.
- Allan W. Eckert, 80, American historian.
- Manuel Galbán, 80, Cuban guitarist, heart attack.
- Rasika Joshi, 38, Indian actress, leukemia.
- Yuri Kukin, 78, Russian singer-songwriter.
- Humberto Leal Garcia, 38, Mexican murderer, executed by lethal injection.
- José Carlos Martínez, 48, Argentine politician, Senator, traffic collision.
- Rizalino Navarro, 72, Filipino business executive, Secretary of Trade and Industry, heart attack.
- Miguel Purugganan, 79, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ilagan.
- Olav Versto, 60, Norwegian journalist and editor, drowning.
- Dick Williams, 82, American baseball player and manager, National [Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum|Hall of Famer], ruptured aortic aneurysm.
8
- Anthony Aikman, 69, British screenwriter and film director.
- Kenny Baker, 85, American fiddler, complications from a stroke.
- Roberts Blossom, 87, American actor, cerebrovascular disease.
- William R. Corliss, 84, American physicist and writer.
- Sam Denoff, 83, American television writer and actor, four-time Emmy Award|Emmy] winner, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
- Aleksis Dreimanis, 96, Latvian-born Canadian geologist.
- Pete Duranko, 67, American football player, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
- Mary Fenech Adami, 77, Maltese First Lady, wife of Prime Minister Eddie Fenech Adami, heart attack.
- Betty Ford, 93, American First Lady and co-founder of Betty Ford Center.
- Norman Hampson, 89, British historian.
- Paul I. LaMott, 94, American politician.
- Camille Lembi Zaneli, 61, Congolese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Isangi, plane crash.
- George McAnthony, 45, Italian country singer, heart attack.
- Paul Michael, 84, American actor, heart failure.
- Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez, 95, Spanish-born Mexican philosopher, writer and educator.
9
- Don Ackerman, 80, American basketball player.
- Facundo Cabral, 74, Argentine singer and songwriter, shot.
- Ralph Goldston, 82, American football player.
- Carl T. Langford, 92, American politician, Mayor of Orlando, Florida.
- Peter Newmark, 95, British educator and scholar.
- Percy Oliver, 92, Australian Olympic swimmer.
- Arvo Salo, 79, Finnish writer and politician, MP and Minister of Culture.
- Hideo Tanaka, 78, Japanese director, stomach cancer.
- Lee Vines, 92, Canadian-born American television announcer and actor, complications from a fall and pneumonia.
- Würzel, 61, British guitarist, ventricular fibrillation.
10
- Pierrette Alarie, 89, Canadian soprano, wife of tenor Léopold Simoneau.
- Travis Bean, 63, American guitar maker, cancer.
- Roberto Guerrero, 86–87, Argentine Olympic cyclist.
- Ragnar Lundberg, 86, Swedish athlete.
- Frank Mascara, 81, American politician, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania, lung cancer.
- Roland Petit, 87, French ballet dancer and choreographer, leukemia.
- Kelly Thomas, 37, American homeless man, beaten.
- Deacon Turner, 56, American football player, shot.
- Malcolm Wild, 79, Australian soccer player.
11
- Gary Bannerman, 64, Canadian journalist, liver complications.
- Andy Barker, 87, American philanthropist.
- F. C. Barnes, 82, American gospel musician.
- Henry Carlisle, 84, American translator, novelist and anti-censorship activist.
- Helen Crummy, 91, British social activist.
- Michael Evans, 59, British Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of East Anglia, prostate cancer.
- Tom Gehrels, 86, Dutch-born American astronomer.
- Rob Grill, 67, American singer and songwriter.
- Alex Hay, 78, British golf journalist.
- Andreas Ioannides, 53, Cypriot navy chief, explosion.
- Jaroslav Jiřík, 71, Czech hockey player, plane crash.
- George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood, 88, British aristocrat, magazine editor and arts administrator, first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II.
- Herbert Matayoshi, 82, American politician, Mayor of Hawaii County.
- Richard F. Pedersen, 86, American diplomat, President of American University of Cairo.
- Maxhob'ayakhawuleza Sandile, 55, South African monarch, King of Rharhabe.
- Sir Filoimea Telito, 66, Tuvaluan President of the Church of Tuvalu, Governor-General, heart attack.
- Steve Trimble, 53, American football player, heart attack.
12
- Aftab Ahmad Khan, 87, Pakistani military officer, heart attack.
- Premangsu Chatterjee, 83, Indian cricketer.
- Peter Crampton, 79, British politician, member of the European Parliament, suspected brain haemorrhage.
- William Crozier, 81, Irish artist.
- Bob Fraser, 66, American actor, producer and writer, melanoma.
- Bolesław Gładych, 93, Polish World War II flying ace.
- Howard Hilton, 47, American baseball player.
- Ahmed Wali Karzai, 50, Afghan politician, brother of President Hamid Karzai, shot.
- Jokapeci Koroi, 79, Fijian politician, President of Fiji Labour Party.
- Francisco Villagrán Kramer, 84, Guatemalan politician, Vice President.
- Kurt Lundquist, 85, Swedish Olympic bronze medal-winning athlete.
- Charles Asa Schleck, 86, American Roman Catholic prelate, titular archbishop and under-secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
- Rudy Schulze, 82, Canadian Olympic shooter.
- Sherwood Schwartz, 94, American Hall of Fame television producer and writer, Emmy winner.
- Tony Stevens, 63, American choreographer, dancer and actor, Hodgkin's lymphoma.
- Zdeněk Sýkora, 91, Czech abstract painter.
13
- Raymond Beckman, 86, American Olympic soccer player, coronary artery disease.
- Giacomo Benevelli, 86, Italian sculptor.
- Per-Erik Burud, 48, Norwegian businessman, boating accident.
- Al Debbo, 87, South African comedian.
- Allan Jeans, 77, Australian football player and coach, pulmonary fibrosis.
- John Mosca, 86, American restaurateur, prostate cancer.
- Jerry Ragovoy, 80, American songwriter, stroke.
- Heinz Reincke, 86, German actor.
- Niall Shanks, 52, British-born North American philosopher.
14
- Dekha Ibrahim Abdi, 47, Kenyan peace activist, recipient of the Right Livelihood Award, car accident.
- S. George Bankoff, 89, American chemical engineer.
- Sissel Solbjørg Bjugn, 63, Norwegian poet and children's writer.
- Isabel McNeill Carley, 92, American music educator and composer.
- Eric Delaney, 87, British percussionist and band leader.
- William Lockhart Garwood, 79, American jurist, heart attack.
- Noel Gayler, 96, American Navy admiral.
- Otia Ioseliani, 81, Georgian writer and dramatist.
- Leo Kirch, 84, German media entrepreneur.
- Vladimir Kosinsky, 66, Russian swimmer, 1968 Olympic silver and bronze medalist.
- Terrence Lanni, 68, American casino executive, cancer.
- Kennedy Ondiek, 44, Kenyan Olympic athlete.
- Antonio Prieto, 85, Chilean singer and actor, cardiac arrest.
15
- Helen Beverley, 94, American actress, natural causes.
- Luis Enrique Sam Colop, 56, Guatemalan linguist.
- Manuel Corral, 76, Spanish religious leader, Pope of the Palmarian Catholic Church.
- John Crook, 80, British ethologist.
- Cuddly Dudley, 87, British rock and roll singer, natural causes.
- Ed Flesh, 79, American art director, inventor of the Wheel of Fortune wheel, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
- Cornell MacNeil, 88, American operatic baritone.
- Michael Magee, 81, Canadian actor, and author, colitis.
- John S. Toll, 87, American physicist and educational administrator, heart failure.
- Googie Withers, 94, English actress.
16
- Milo Anstadt, 91, Dutch journalist and writer.
- Bertalan Bicskei, 66, Hungarian footballer and coach.
- Forrest Blue, 65, American football player.
- Geraint Bowen, 95, Welsh poet.
- Rouhollah Dadashi, 29, Iranian powerlifter and bodybuilder, stabbed.
- Albin Małysiak, 94, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Kraków.
- Dame Kāterina Mataira, 79, New Zealand educator and Māori language proponent, co-founder of Kura Kaupapa Māori.
- Cesare Mazzolari, 74, Italian-born South Sudanese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Rumbek.
- Joe McNamee, 84, American basketball player.
- Kazimierz Neumann, 77, Polish Olympic rower.
- Keith Smith, 96, Australian engineer.
- Charlie Woollett, 90, English footballer.
17
- Juan Arza, 88, Spanish footballer and coach.
- Dionysios Bairaktaris, 84, Greek Orthodox hierarch, Metropolitan of Chios, Psara and Inousses.
- Juan María Bordaberry, 83, Uruguayan politician and dictator, President, after a long illness.
- Georges Condominas, 90, French anthropologist.
- Aba Dunner, 73, German-born Jewish religious activist.
- Anne Garber, 64, Canadian journalist and writer, cancer.
- Lo' Lo' Mohd Ghazali, 53, Malaysian politician, cancer.
- Jan Mohammad Khan, Afghan presidential adviser, shot.
- Jim Kincaid, 76, American news correspondent, anchorman and essayist, heart attack.
- John Kraaijkamp Sr., 86, Dutch actor and comedian.
- Takaji Mori, 67, Japanese Olympic bronze medal-winning footballer, renal pelvic cancer.
- Joe Morris Sr., 85, American Navajo World War II code talker.
- David Ngoombujarra, 44, Australian actor.
- Graciela Rivera, 90, Puerto Rican opera singer.
- Ștefan Sameș, 59, Romanian footballer, cancer.
- Alex Steinweiss, 94, American graphic designer, inventor of the album cover.
- Taiji, 45, Japanese musician and songwriter, suicide by hanging.
- Mohammed Hashim Watanwal, 58–59, Afghan politician, shot.
- Joe Lee Wilson, 75, American jazz singer.
18
- Nat Allbright, 87, American radio broadcaster, pneumonia.
- Mohammad Taghi Barkhordar, 87, Iranian industrialist and entrepreneur.
- Salvador Bernárdez, 58, Honduran footballer, heart attack.
- Albert Driedger, 75, Canadian politician, stroke.
- Sean Hoare, 47, British journalist, whistleblower of the 2011 phone hacking scandal, natural causes.
- E. A. J. Honigmann, 83, British Shakespearean scholar.
- Magnus Malan, 81, South African politician, Minister of Defence, natural causes.
- Giulio Rinaldi, 76, Italian Olympic boxer.
- Bob Stenehjem, 59, American politician, member of the North Dakota Senate, majority leader, car accident.
- Edson Stroll, 82, American actor, cancer.
- James Wong Kim Min, 89, Malaysian politician, first Deputy Chief Minister of Sarawak, leader of the national Opposition, heart attack.
- Bagley Wright, 87, American developer and philanthropist.
19
- Sheila Burrell, 89, British actress.
- William Leonard D'Mello, 80, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Karwar.
- Remo Gaspari, 90, Italian politician.
- Lil Greenwood, 86, American vocalist.
- Yoshio Harada, 71, Japanese actor, pneumonia.
- Henrique Johannpötter, 78, German-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bacabal.
- Pierre Jonquères d'Oriola, 91, French equestrian, Olympic gold and silver medalist.
- Jacques Jouanneau, 84, French actor.
- Brendan Kehoe, 40, Irish software developer and author, acute myeloid leukemia.
- Karen Khachaturian, 90, Russian composer.
- Roy Meehan, 79, New Zealand Olympic wrestler.
- James T. Molloy, 75, American government officer, last Doorkeeper of the House of Representatives, complications of diabetes.
- Sir Julian Oswald, 77, British admiral.
- Cec Thompson, 85, British rugby league player.
20
- Sudarshan Akarapu, 57, Indian politician, heart attack.
- Armando Martín Borque, 90, Spanish entrepreneur.
- Blaize Clement, 78, American mystery writer and psychologist, cancer.
- Lucian Freud, 88, German-born British painter.
- Isaia Italeli, 51, Tuvaluan Cabinet minister.
- Myra Kraft, 68, American philanthropist.
- Jim Samios, 77, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council.
- Gloria Sawai, 78, American-born Canadian author.
- Mary Simpson, 85, American minister, first woman to be ordained by the American Episcopal Church.
- Mark Anthony Stroman, 41, American convicted spree killer, executed by lethal injection.
- Whetu Tirikatene-Sullivan, 79, New Zealand politician, longest-serving female member of the House of Representatives.
21
- Franz Alt, 100, Austrian-born American mathematician.
- Clément Cailleau, 88, French-born Senegalese Roman Catholic prelate, Prefect of Tambacounda.
- Ashleigh Connor, 21, Australian soccer player, car accident.
- Andrew Grant DeYoung, 37, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
- Pedro Claro Meurice Estiu, 79, Cuban Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Santiago de Cuba.
- Elliot Handler, 95, American businessman, co-founder of Mattel, namer of the Barbie doll, creator of Hot Wheels, heart failure.
- William Hildenbrand, 89, American government officer, Secretary of the United States Senate.
- Yevgeny Lopatin, 93, Russian Olympic silver medal-winning weightlifter.
- Santokh Singh Matharu, 69, Kenyan Olympic hockey player.
- Slavomir Miklovš, 77, Croatian Greek Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Križevci.
- Bruce Sundlun, 91, American politician, Governor of Rhode Island.
- Kazimierz Świątek, 96, Estonian-born Belarusian Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Minsk-Mohilev.
- Jack Thompson, 82, British politician, MP for Wansbeck.
- Len Tolhurst, 85, Australian Olympic shooter.
- Amelia Trice, 75, American Kootenai tribal leader and activist, leader of the last Indian war against the United States, cancer.
- Wang Daheng, 96, Chinese optical physicist.
- Elwy Yost, 86, Canadian television host and writer.
22
- Alex Adams, 76, American basketball coach.
- Tom Aldredge, 83, American actor, lymphoma.
- Linda Christian, 87, Mexican-born American actress, colon cancer.
- Dmitri Furman, 68, Russian historian and philosopher, after long illness.
- Volodymyr Kravets, 81, Ukrainian diplomat, permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Ukrainian SSR.
- Charles Manatt, 75, American lawyer and banker, Chair of Democratic National Committee, Ambassador to Dominican Republic, stroke.
- Malcolm Muir, 96, American jurist.
- Ifti Nasim, 64, Pakistani-born American poet and radio host, heart attack.
- Tex Nelson, 74, American baseball player.
- Wolfram Thiem, 55, German Olympic rower.
- Cees de Wolf, 65, Dutch footballer.
23
- David Aiken, 93, American operatic baritone and opera director.
- Toyoo Ashida, 67, Japanese animator and film director.
- Blair, 43, American poet.
- Terence Boston, Baron Boston of Faversham, 81, British politician, MP for Faversham.
- John Chervokas, 74, American advertising writer.
- Robert Ettinger, 92, American cryonicist, respiratory failure.
- Jack Fitzpatrick, 88, American entrepreneur and politician, co-founder of Country Curtains, Massachusetts State Senator.
- Milton Gwirtzman, 78, American speech writer, advisor to the Kennedy family, metastatic melanoma.
- Fran Landesman, 83, American lyricist and poet.
- Butch Lewis, 65, American boxing promoter, heart attack.
- Christopher Mayer, 57, American actor.
- Conrad Meyer, 89, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Dorchester
- Bill Morrissey, 59, American singer-songwriter.
- Nguyễn Cao Kỳ, 80, Vietnamese air force chief and political leader, Prime Minister of South Vietnam.
- Richard Pike, 61, British chemist.
- Dariush Rezaeinejad, 34, Iranian electrical engineering PhD student.
- John Shalikashvili, 75, Polish-born American army general, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, stroke.
- Elmer B. Staats, 97, American public servant, Comptroller General of the United States.
- Amy Winehouse, 27, British singer-songwriter, accidental alcohol poisoning.
24
- Ron Davies, 85, Australian politician, Opposition (Western Australia)|Western Australian Opposition Leader].
- Kaveinga Faʻanunu, 48, Tongan politician, MP for Tongatapu 9, head and neck cancer.
- Tresa Hughes, 81, American actress.
- Gilbert Luján, 70, American painter, prostate cancer.
- Hideki Irabu, 42, Japanese baseball player, suicide by hanging.
- Paul Marchand, 74, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Timmins.
- Henry Metelmann, 88, German soldier and writer.
- Virgilio Noè, 89, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal, Archpriest of the Basilica of Saint Peter.
- Mike Palm, 86, American baseball player.
- Dan Peek, 60, American singer-songwriter, fibrinous pericarditis.
- David Servan-Schreiber, 50, French physician, neuroscientist and author, cancer.
- G. D. Spradlin, 90, American actor.
- Skip Thomas, 61, American football player, apparent heart attack.
- John Turner, 63, British social psychologist.
- Jane White, 88, American actress.
- Hans-Werner Wohlers, 77, German Olympic boxer.
25
- Norman Aspin, 88, British diplomat.
- Michael Cacoyannis, 89, Cypriot filmmaker.
- Bakır Çağlar, 69–70, Turkish jurist, lawyer and constitutional law professor, bleeding stomach.
- V. S. Krishna Iyer, 89, Indian activist and politician, after long illness.
- Mahmoud Mabsout, 69, Lebanese actor, heart attack.
- Denis Meaney, 74, Australian rugby league player.
- Arthur W. Murray, 92, American test pilot, Alzheimer's disease.
- Jeret Peterson, 29, American free style skier, 2010 Winter Olympics silver medalist, suicide by gunshot.
- Ravichandran, 71, Malaysian-born Indian actor, lung infection.
- David Somerville, 95, Canadian Anglican prelate.
26
- Jay Adcox, 60, American football player and coach, cancer.
- Joe Arroyo, 55, Colombian singer.
- Jacques Fatton, 85, French-born Swiss footballer.
- Frank Foster, 82, American jazz saxophonist and composer, complications from kidney failure.
- Bobby Franklin, 54, American politician, member of the Georgia House of Representatives, apparent heart attack.
- Ahmed al-Gaddafi al-Qahsi, 41, Libyan Army colonel, cousin and son-in-law of Muammar Gaddafi, air strike.
- Richard Harris, 63, American football player and coach, heart attack.
- Madhu Sudan Kanungo, 84, Indian scientist.
- Sakyo Komatsu, 80, Japanese science fiction writer, pneumonia.
- Georges Kwaïter, 83, Syrian-born Lebanese Melkite [Greek Catholic Church|Melkite Catholic] hierarch, Archbishop of Saïdā.
- Elmer Lower, 98, American broadcast executive, president of ABC News.
- Silvio Narizzano, 84, Canadian-born British film and television director.
- Margaret Olley, 88, Australian painter.
- John Read, 88, British documentary producer.
- Josephine C. Reyes, 82, Filipino educator, President of Far Eastern University.
- Denise Scharley, 94, French contralto.
- Howard Stein, 84, American financier, complications of a stroke.
- Luis Ruiz Suárez, 97, Spanish-born Macanese Jesuit priest.
27
- Wilfred Arsenault, 57, Canadian politician, cancer.
- Rudolf Baláž, 70, Slovak Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Banská Bystrica.
- Bejaratana, 85, Thai royal, only daughter of King Vajiravudh of Thailand.
- Richard Chavez, 81, American activist and labor organizer, brother of Cesar Chavez, complications from surgery.
- Clyde Duncan, 57, Guyanese West Indian cricket umpire, cancer.
- Hilary Evans, 82, British picture librarian and author.
- Charles Gittens, 82, American Secret Service agent, first black appointed to that position.
- Ghulam Haider Hamidi, 65, Afghan politician, Mayor of Kandahar, bombing.
- Rei Harakami, 40, Japanese musician, cerebrovascular disease.
- Ágota Kristóf, 75, Hungarian-born French novelist.
- Jerome Liebling, 87, American photographer, filmmaker and academic.
- Polly Platt, 72, American production designer and film producer, complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
- Sir John Rawlins, 89, British naval officer, pioneer of diving medicine.
- Eduard Rozovsky, 84, Russian cinematographer, car accident.
- Richard Rutt, 85, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Leicester
- Pietro Sambi, 73, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, titular archbishop and Apostolic Nuncio to the United States, respiratory failure.
- Judy Sowinski, 71, American roller derby skater and coach.
- Francis John Spence, 85, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Kingston in Canada|Kingston].
- John Stott, 90, British Anglican priest.
28
- Lev Baklyshkin, 77, Soviet Olympic equestrian.
- Frank Bender, 70, American forensic artist, pleural mesothelioma.
- Miguel Chacón Díaz, 81, Spanish cyclist.
- James E. Dyer, 64, American politician, Mayor of Danbury, Connecticut.
- Ahmed Omaid Khpalwak, 25, Afghan journalist, explosion.
- Agapito Lozada, 72, Filipino Olympic swimmer.
- John Marburger, 70, American physicist and presidential adviser, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
- Brian O'Leary, 71, American scientist and NASA astronaut, cancer.
- Christopher Walkden, 73, British Olympic swimmer.
- John Milton Yinger, 95, American sociologist.
- Abdul Fatah Younis, 67, Libyan rebel leader and government official, former Interior Minister, shot.
29
- Elazar Abuhatzeira, 62, Moroccan-born Israeli rabbi, stabbed.
- John Edward Anderson, 93, American businessman and philanthropist, pneumonia.
- Jack Barlow, 87, American country music singer and songwriter.
- Arild Braastad, 64, Norwegian diplomat.
- Joseph V. Brady, 89, American behavioral neuroscientist.
- Enzo Coppini, 91, Italian cyclist.
- Claude Laydu, 84, Belgian actor, heart condition.
- Richard Marsh, Baron Marsh, 83, British politician and businessman, MP for Greenwich, Chairman of British Rail.
- Nella Martinetti, 65, Swiss singer-songwriter, pancreatic cancer.
- Gene McDaniels, 76, American singer-songwriter.
- Ivan Milas, 72, Croatian politician.
- Takeshi Miyaji, 45, Japanese video game designer and business executive.
- Matthew J. Perry, 89, American federal judge.
- Emeric Santo, 90, Australian Olympic fencer.
- Agnes Varis, 81, American philanthropist, cancer.
- Derek Woodhead, 76, Australian cricketer.
30
- Hikmat Abu Zayd, 88, Egyptian politician, first female cabinet minister.
- James Atkinson, 97, English priest, biblical scholar, and theologian.
- R. E. G. Davies, 90, British aviation historian.
- Pêr Denez, 90, French Breton linguist and writer.
- Mario Echandi Jiménez, 96, Costa Rican politician, President, pneumonia.
- Vincent Kympat, 64, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, first Bishop of Jowai.
- Daniel D. McCracken, 81, American computer scientist, cancer.
- Sam Norkin, 94, American caricaturist and illustrator.
- Bob Peterson, 79, American basketball player, cancer.
31
- David R. Adamson, 88, Canadian Air Force officer.
- Eliseo Alberto, 59, Cuban-born Mexican writer, complications from a kidney transplant.
- Dorothy Brunson, 72, American businesswoman, first black woman to own a radio station, ovarian cancer.
- Willie Corbett, 88, Scottish footballer.
- Ian Daglish, 59, British military historian, plane crash.
- Clyde Holding, 80, Australian politician, federal minister.
- John Hoyland, 76, English abstract painter, complications following heart surgery.
- Louis, 59, Serbian singer, car accident.
- Andrea Pazzagli, 51, Italian footballer, stroke.
- Joseph Albert Rosario, 96, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Amravati.
- Carl Steven, 36, American actor, heroin overdose.
- Binka Zhelyazkova, 88, Bulgarian director.