Deaths in July 2012
The following is a list of notable deaths in July 2012.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.
July 2012
1
- José Míguez Bonino, 88, Argentine theologian.
- Joseph Cropsey, 92, American political philosopher.
- Dennis Eagan, 85, British hockey player and soldier.
- Loyd Gentry Jr., 87, American horse trainer.
- Peter E. Gillquist, 73, American archpriest, melanoma.
- Mike Hershberger, 72, American baseball player.
- Ossie Hibbert, 62, Jamaican musician, heart attack.
- Evelyn Lear, 86, American opera singer.
- Walter Lienert, 87, American Olympic gymnastics coach and judge.
- Fritz Pauer, 68, Austrian jazz pianist and composer.
- Alan G. Poindexter, 50, American NASA astronaut, jet ski accident.
- Jack Richardson, 78, American playwright and author.
- Odd Todnem, 89, Norwegian engineer.
2
- Usman Albishir, 67, Nigerian senator, car accident.
- Jack A. Beaver, 93, American soldier.
- John E. Brooks, 88, American priest and educator, President of the College of the Holy Cross, lymphoma.
- Maurice Chevit, 88, French actor.
- Lisbet Dæhlin, 90, Danish-born Norwegian ceramist.
- Bhanwar Singh Dangawas, 91, Indian politician.
- Ben Davidson, 72, American football player and actor, prostate cancer.
- Edith Newman Devlin, 85, Irish lecturer.
- Gunnar Eide, 92, Norwegian actor and theatre director.
- Julian Goodman, 90, American broadcasting executive, President of NBC.
- Tsutomu Koyama, 75, Japanese volleyball player and coach, Olympic bronze medalist, esophageal cancer.
- Angelo Mangiarotti, 91, Italian architect and industrial designer.
- Betty Meggers, 90, American archaeologist.
- Ed Stroud, 72, American baseball player.
- Ben Van Os, 67, Dutch production designer and art director, throat cancer.
3
- Dave Allan, 47, British auto racing driver, car accident.
- William Biddick Jr., 92, American politician.
- Nguyễn Hữu Có, 87, Vietnamese general and political prisoner, Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister of South Vietnam, diabetes.
- Andy Griffith, 86, American actor, heart attack.
- Hugó Gruber, 74, Hungarian actor.
- Leo Kersley, 92, British dancer and teacher.
- Yvonne B. Miller, 77, American politician, first African-American female legislator of Virginia, stomach cancer.
- Sergio Pininfarina, 85, Italian senator for life and automotive designer.
- Hollie Stevens, 30, American pornographic actress and model, cancer.
- Richard A. Tonry, 77, American politician and lawyer, U.S. Representative from Louisiana, natural causes.
- Joseph Triay, 80, Gibraltarian lawyer and politician.
- Daphne Zepos, 52, Greek-born American author and chef, lung cancer.
4
- Fareeda Kokikhel Afridi, 25, Pakistani women's rights activist, shot.
- Robert P. Atkinson, 84, American bishop.
- Peter Bennett, 85, Australian football player and Olympic water polo player.
- Hiren Bhattacharyya, 80, Indian poet, lung infection.
- Paul Birch, 56, British scientist and author.
- Jimmy Bivins, 92, American heavyweight boxer, pneumonia.
- J.D. Garrett, 70, American football player.
- Benedetto Ghiglia, 90, Italian composer, conductor and pianist.
- Vinzenz Guggenberger, 83, German Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Regensburg.
- Jeong Min-hyeong, 25, South Korean football player, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.
- Karen R. Keesling, 65, American civil servant, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force.
- Sam Ojebode, 67, Nigerian footballer.
- Scamper, 35, American barrel racing horse.
- Eric Sykes, 89, British writer and actor.
5
- Barun Biswas, 39, Indian school teacher and activist, shot.
- Howard Dorgan, 80, American academic.
- Rob Goris, 30, Belgian ice hockey player and cyclist, heart attack.
- Dick Greco, 87, American baseball player.
- Ruud van Hemert, 73, Dutch film director, cancer.
- Roland Hyatt, 50, Australian cricketer.
- Gerrit Komrij, 68, Dutch writer, cancer.
- Angeliki Koutsonikoli, 23, Greek cyclist.
- Colin Marshall, Baron Marshall of Knightsbridge, 78, British businessman and life peer.
- Bob Rowland Smith, 86, Australian politician, NSW Minister for Sport and Recreation.
- Márta Tolnai-Erdős, 70, Hungarian Olympic gymnast.
6
- Ibrahim Balandiya, Sudanese politician, shot.
- Betty Buehler, 90, American actress.
- Charles Drake, 30, American football player.
- Charles David Ganao, 85, Congolese politician, Prime Minister.
- Hani al-Hassan, 74, Palestinian politician and diplomat, complications of a stroke.
- Bruce B. Kendall, 93, American hotelier and politician.
- Alice Koroma, 80, Sierra Leonean politician, mother of president Ernest Bai Koroma.
- James McKinley, 67, American football coach and businessman.
- Bill Norrie, 83, Canadian politician and educator, Mayor of Winnipeg, Chancellor of the University of Manitoba, respiratory failure.
- Angelo Paternoster, 93, American football player.
- Sebastijan Pečjak, 35, Slovenian darts player, traffic collision.
- Anthony Sedlak, 29, Canadian chef, suicide by drug overdose.
- Al Ulbrickson, 81, American rower.
- Skylar Annette Neese, 16, American honors student, homicide by stabbing.
7
- David Baldwin, 90, New Zealand bowls player.
- Renato Beghe, 79, American judge.
- Paul Coussa, 94, Syrian-born Iraqi Armenian Catholic hierarch, Archbishop of Baghdad.
- Ronaldo Cunha Lima, 76, Brazilian poet and politician, Governor of Paraíba, lung cancer.
- Mouss Diouf, 47, Senegalese-born French comedian, complications of a stroke.
- Tatsuo Endō, 85, Japanese actor.
- Dennis Flemion, 57, American rock musician, drowned.
- Colin Lamont, 70, Australian politician, member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
- Ralph Raymond Loffmark, 92, Canadian politician.
- Luis López, 88, Chilean footballer.
- Doris Neal, 83, American baseball player.
- Jerry Norman, 75, American sinologist and linguist, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
- José Pauwels, 84, Belgian Olympic cyclist.
- Alf Pearson, 102, British variety performer with his brother Bob as half of Bob and Alf Pearson.
- Leon Schlumpf, 87, Swiss politician, Member of the Federal Council, President of the Confederation.
- Jimmy Tansey, 83, English football player.
8
- Muhammed bin Saud Al Saud, 78, Saudi royal and politician, Minister of Defense, Governor of Al Baha.
- Chris Barber, 91, British businessman, chairman of Oxfam.
- Lionel Batiste, 81, American jazz musician.
- John Nelson Battenberg, 80, American sculptor.
- Leszek Berger, 87, Polish herpetologist and malacologist.
- Osvaldo Blasi, 84, Argentine Olympic wrestler.
- Ernest Borgnine, 95, American actor, Oscar winner, renal failure.
- Claudio Carudel, 74, French-born Spanish jockey.
- Henry Chilver, Baron Chilver, 86, British engineer and politician.
- Aleksandr Chumakov, 64, Russian Soviet football player.
- Gyang Dalyop Datong, 53, Nigerian politician, Member of the House of Representatives, Senator, heart attack.
- Dick Fowler, 80, Canadian politician, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.
- Philip L. Fradkin, 77, American historian and author, cancer.
- Arnold B. Grobman, 93, American zoologist.
- Rodger Head, 73, Australian football player.
- William Innes Homer, 82, American art historian.
- Martin Pakledinaz, 58, American costume designer, cancer.
- Stuart R. Schram, 88, American physicist and political scientist.
- Boris Shramko, 92, Ukrainian historian.
- John Williams, 64, American football player.
9
- Azah Aziz, 83, Malaysian cultural figure, stroke.
- Dino Cassio, 78, Italian actor and singer.
- Mario de Leon Baltazar, 85, Filipino Roman Catholic priest, Prelate of Batanes and the Babuyan Islands.
- Kenny Heitz, 65, American basketball player, cancer.
- Chick King, 81, American baseball player.
- Sir Terepai Maoate, 78, Cook Islands politician, Prime Minister, prostate cancer.
- Jacqueline Mazéas, 91, French Olympic bronze medallist discus athlete.
- Miinnehoma, 29, Irish-bred racehorse, winner of the 1994 Grand National.
- René Joseph Rakotondrabé, 79, Malagasy Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Toamasina.
- Denise René, 99, French art dealer.
- Zsuzsi Roboz, 72, Hungarian painter.
- Eugênio Sales, 91, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Cardinal Protopriest, Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro, heart failure.
- Shin Jae-chul, 75, South Korean-born American martial artist.
- Brian Thomas, 72, Welsh rugby union player and manager.
- Isuzu Yamada, 95, Japanese actress, multiple organ failure.
10
- Maria Cole, 89, American jazz singer, widow of Nat King Cole, cancer.
- Michele Columbu, 98, Italian politician and writer.
- Lol Coxhill, 79, English jazz saxophonist, after short illness.
- Dolphy, 83, Filipino actor and comedian, multiple organ failure.
- Marian Filar, 94, Polish-born American concert pianist.
- Peter Fisher, 68, American author and gay rights activist, suicide.
- Cheryll Heinze, 65, American politician, member of the Alaska House of Representatives, plane crash.
- Peter Kyros, 86, American politician, Representative from Maine.
- Gaylon Lawrence, 78, American businessman.
- Berthe Meijer, 74, Dutch author, cancer.
- Viktor Suslin, 70, Russian composer.
11
- Jean Allister, 80, English opera singer.
- Bjørn Blakstad, 86, Norwegian diplomat.
- Dewayne Bunch, 50, American politician, member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, head injuries.
- Art Ceccarelli, 82, American baseball player, cancer.
- Héctor Cornejo Chávez, 93, Peruvian politician.
- Marion Cunningham, 90, American cookbook author, complications of Alzheimer's disease.
- Sir Carron Greig, 87, British business executive.
- Rutger Kopland, 77, Dutch poet, writer, and psychiatrist.
- Joe McBride, 74, Scottish football player, complications of a stroke.
- Bobby Nicol, 76, Scottish football player.
- Richard Scudder, 99, American newspaper pioneer, founder of MediaNews Group.
- Harold Shukman, 81, British historian.
- André Simon, 92, French racing driver.
- Donald J. Sobol, 87, American writer, gastric lymphoma.
- Sir Saxon Tate, 80, British businessman.
- Marvin Traub, 87, American business executive, CEO of Bloomingdale's, bladder cancer.
12
- Joan Albert, 69, American artist, heart attack.
- Alimuddin, 81, Pakistani Test cricketer.
- Cassandra Balchin, 50, British journalist and women's rights campaigner, cancer.
- Eddy Brown, 86, English footballer.
- Hattie Canty, 79, American labor activist.
- Fest Cotton, 62, American football player.
- Cleveland Elam, 60, American football player.
- Maita Gomez, 65, Filipino beauty queen and activist, Miss Philippines–World, heart attack.
- Pier Luigi Mazzoni, 79, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Gaeta.
- Else Holmelund Minarik, 91, Danish-born American author, complications from a heart attack.
- Roger Payne, 55, British mountaineer, avalanche.
- M. Anto Peter, 45, Indian computer scientist and technical writer, heart attack.
- Hamid Samandarian, 81, Iranian film and theater director, liver cancer.
- Dara Singh, 84, Indian wrestler and actor, multiple organ failure.
- George C. Stoney, 96, American documentary filmmaker and pioneer of public-access television.
- Denis Warner, 94, Australian journalist and historian.
13
- Bucky Adams, 75, Canadian saxophonist.
- Shlomo Bentin, 65, Israeli neuropsychologist, recipient of the 2012 Israel Prize in psychology, traffic collision.
- Harry Betts, 89, American jazz composer and trombonist.
- Polde Bibič, 79, Slovenian actor and politician.
- Sir Christopher Booth, 88, British clinician and medical historian.
- Robert Werner Duemling, 83, American diplomat.
- Warren Jabali, 65, American basketball player, heart failure.
- Jerzy Kulej, 71, Polish politician, Olympic gold medal-winning boxer, heart attack.
- Ian Little, 93, British economist.
- Wayne Massarelli, 62, American makeup artist, liver cancer.
- Rolf Nilssen, 84, Norwegian politician.
- Pan Jiazheng, 84, Chinese hydraulic engineer.
- Hanifa Safi, Afghan politician, bomb blast.
- Sage Stallone, 36, American actor, heart attack.
- Jerold Starr, 71, American sociologist.
- Ginny Tyler, 86, American voice actress.
- Richard D. Zanuck, 77, American film producer, Oscar winner, heart attack.
14
- John Arbuthnott, 16th Viscount of Arbuthnott, 87, Scottish peer.
- Barton Biggs, 79, American businessman, bacterial infection.
- Don Brinkley, 91, American television writer, natural causes.
- Frank R. Burns, 84, American football player and coach, natural causes.
- Ennio Cardoni, 83, Italian footballer.
- Bohuslav Ceplecha, 35, Czech rally co-driver, race incident.
- Philip Crosland, 93, British journalist.
- Mohamed el-Bisatie, 74, Egyptian novelist and short story writer, liver disease.
- Victor Gaskin, 77, American jazz bassist.
- King Hill, 75, American football player, cancer.
- Sir David House, 89, British Army lieutenant general, Military Cross recipient and Black Rod.
- Sixten Jernberg, 83, Swedish cross-country skier, Olympic gold medalist, cancer.
- Ahmad Khan Samangani, 54–55, Afghan politician, member of the House of the People, bomb blast.
- Roy Shaw, 76, British businessman and boxer.
- Enrique Silva Cimma, 93, Chilean politician, Foreign Minister, bronchial obstruction.
- Sidney Oslin Smith Jr., 88, American former chief judge of the District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, cancer.
15
- Wahab Ashrafi, 76, Indian literary critic.
- Jerry H. Bentley, 62, American academic and professor, pancreatic cancer.
- Boris Cebotari, 37, Moldovan footballer, apparent suicide by jumping.
- Tsilla Chelton, 93, French actress.
- Manuel Eguiguren Galarraga, 82, Spanish-born Bolivian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Vicar Apostolic of El Beni.
- Grant Feasel, 52, American football player.
- Sir David Fraser, 91, British Army general.
- Ovadia Harari, 68, Israeli engineer, Israel Prize recipient.
- Celeste Holm, 95, American actress, Oscar winner. complications from a heart attack.
- Muzharul Islam, 88, Bangladeshi architect and urban planner, natural causes.
- Sadamu Komachi, 92, Japanese fighter pilot.
- Jacqueline Piatigorsky, 100, French-born American chess and tennis player, author and sculptor.
- Anne Spencer, 73, British naval officer and aide-de-camp to Queen Elizabeth II.
- Yoichi Takabayashi, 81, Japanese film director, pneumonia.
16
- William Asher, 90, American television writer and director, Emmy winner, Alzheimer's disease.
- Linus Asong, 64–65, Cameroonian novelist.
- Bob Babbitt, 74, American bass guitarist, brain cancer.
- Jean Baud, 92, French businessman.
- Paul Collins, 89, American football player.
- Stephen Covey, 79, American writer, complications after a bicycle accident.
- Gilbert Esau, 92, American politician.
- James F. Goodrich, 99, American businessman, Under Secretary of the Navy.
- Edward E. Hammer, 80, American electrical engineer.
- Antonín Holý, 75, Czech scientist, created most effective drugs for AIDS treatment, after long illness.
- Ben-Ami Kadish, 88, Israeli-American mechanical engineer and spy.
- Martin Kenzie, 56, British second unit director and cinematographer.
- Taras Kiktyov, 25, Ukrainian football player, after long illness.
- Ed Lincoln, 80, Brazilian composer and musician, respiratory failure.
- Jon Lord, 71, English composer and musician, pulmonary embolism.
- Masaharu Matsushita, 99, Japanese businessman, President of Panasonic, natural causes.
- Joseph Nduhirubusa, 74, Burundian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ruyigi.
- Wendy Law Suart, 85, Australian travel writer.
- Giora Tzahor, 70, Israeli intelligence agent, traffic collision.
- Henryk Wasilewski, 59, Polish middle-distance runner.
- Kitty Wells, 92, American country music singer, complications after a stroke.
- Sir David Williams, 91, British admiral, Governor of Gibraltar.
17
- Ottorino Pietro Alberti, 84, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Spoleto-Norcia and Cagliari.
- Balavant Apte, 73, Indian politician, chronic lung disease.
- Rebecca Brooke, 60, American pornographic film actress and model, drowning.
- Thomas John Curran, 88, American senior judge of the District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin.
- Larry Dodge, 69, American businessman, aneurysm.
- Richard Evatt, 38, British boxer.
- Mrinal Gore, 84, Indian politician, cardiac arrest.
- Paul Langlois, 85, Canadian politician.
- Jorge Legorreta, 62, Mexican architect and urbanist, stroke.
- Forrest S. McCartney, 81, American USAF lieutenant general, director of the Kennedy Space Center.
- Jean-François Mertens, 66, Belgian mathematician.
- İlhan Mimaroğlu, 86, Turkish-born American composer and record producer, pneumonia.
- Ms. Melodie, 43, American rapper.
- Morgan Paull, 67, American actor, stomach cancer.
- William Raspberry, 76, American journalist and newspaper columnist, prostate cancer.
- Marsha Singh, 57, British politician, MP for Bradford West.
- Wahengbam Nipamacha Singh, 82, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Manipur.
- Iet van Feggelen, 90, Dutch backstroke swimmer and world record holder.
- William L. Wainwright, 64, American politician, member of the North Carolina House of Representatives, cancer.
18
- Yassin Affandi, 90, Bruneian politician.
- A. Lee Chandler, 89, American jurist, Chief Justice of South Carolina.
- Robert Creamer, 90, American sportswriter and author, prostate cancer.
- Yosef Shalom Eliashiv, 102, Israeli rabbi, leader of Orthodox Judaism, heart failure.
- Jean François-Poncet, 83, French politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs, stroke.
- Aston Greathead, 91, New Zealand artist.
- Harvey Hess, 73, American poet and arts critic.
- Rajesh Khanna, 69, Indian actor and film producer, cancer.
- Robert Kurz, 68, German philosopher.
- Seppo Liitsola, 79, Finnish ice hockey player and coach.
- Günther Maleuda, 81, German politician, President of the People's Chamber.
- Pancho Martin, 86, Cuban racehorse trainer.
- Isidoro Martínez-Vela, 87, Spanish Olympic swimmer.
- Jack Matthews, 92, Welsh rugby union player and doctor.
- Dawoud Rajiha, 65, Syrian politician, Minister of Defense, bomb blast.
- Assef Shawkat, 62, Syrian politician, deputy Minister of Defense, bomb blast.
- Ernest Toovey, 90, Australian cricketer and baseball player.
- Sir Geofroy Tory, 99, British diplomat, High Commissioner to Malaya and Malta and Ambassador to Ireland.
- Hasan Turkmani, 77, Syrian politician, Minister of Defense, Chief of Crisis Operations, bomb blast.
19
- Humayun Ahmed, 63, Bangladeshi writer, colorectal cancer.
- Tom Davis, 59, American comedian and television writer, four-time Emmy winner, throat and neck cancer.
- P. N. Dhar, 94, Indian economist.
- Brian Dobson, 80, English archaeologist.
- Klaus Eyferth, 83, German psychologist.
- George French, 85, English footballer.
- Mohammad Hassan Ganji, 100, Iranian meteorologist and academic, brain hemorrhage.
- Archer King, 95, American theatrical agent.
- Anthony Melio, 80, American politician, Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, complications from an appendectomy.
- Hans Nowak, 75, German footballer.
- William Staub, 96, American engineer, developer of the commercial treadmill.
- Omar Suleiman, 76, Egyptian general and politician, Vice President, heart attack.
- E. V. Thompson, 81, British author.
- Sylvia Woods, 86, American restaurateur, founder of Sylvia's Restaurant of Harlem, Alzheimer's disease.
- Valiulla Yakupov, 48, Russian Tatar Islamic cleric, shot.
20
- Karin Andersson, 93, Swedish politician, Minister for Gender Equality.
- Margaret Bhatty, 81, Indian schoolteacher, freelance journalist and writer.
- Sir Alastair Burnet, 84, British journalist and broadcaster, complications following strokes.
- Andrew Davidson, 2nd Viscount Davidson, 83, British peer and politician.
- Jack Davis, 81, American Olympic silver medal-winning hurdler, complications from a fall.
- Aharon Dolgopolsky, 81, Russian-born Israeli linguist.
- Tony Epper, 73, American actor and stuntman, cancer.
- Tommy Farrell, 74-75, Irish footballer.
- José Hermano Saraiva, 92, Portuguese historian and jurist.
- Hisham Ikhtiyar, 70–71, Syrian military and security official, injuries from bomb blast.
- Ahmed Jdey, 61, Tunisian author, historian, and professor.
- Émile Kets, 88, Belgian Olympic basketball player.
- Max Leo, 70–71, German Olympic luger.
- Lit de Justice, 22, American Thoroughbred racehorse, infirmities of old age.
- John Monteith, 81, British academic.
- Hanne Marthe Narud, 54, Norwegian political scientist, cancer.
- Fioravante Perrotta, 80, American lawyer and political aide.
- Dorothy Germain Porter, 88, American golfer.
- Goldie Rogers, 61, Canadian professional wrestler, stroke.
- Simon Ward, 70, English actor.
21
- Alexander Cockburn, 71, Scottish political journalist and writer, cancer.
- Michael Crozier, 75, New Zealand politician and physicist.
- Jessica Dublin, 94, American actress.
- Jean Ferniot, 93, French journalist and novelist.
- Annie France, 97, French actress.
- Geoffrey Hattersley-Smith, 89, British glaciologist.
- Ismail Hutson, 73, Malaysian actor, heart complications.
- Richard Jessup, 87, American Olympic sailor.
- Marie Kruckel, 88, American baseball player.
- Andrzej Łapicki, 87, Latvian-born Polish actor.
- Susanne Lothar, 51, German actress.
- Mike Lynn, 76, American football executive.
- Ali Podrimja, 69, Albanian poet.
- James D. Ramage, 96, American naval aviator.
- Angharad Rees, 68, Welsh actress, pancreatic cancer.
- Gene Stipe, 85, American politician, Oklahoma State Senator.
- Vida Stout, 82, New Zealand academic.
- Don Wilson, 74, English cricketer.
22
- Leonard Alexander, 90, Australian cricketer.
- Miguel Arteche, 86, Chilean poet and novelist.
- Eric Bell, 82, English footballer, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
- James F. Brandau, 79, American aviator.
- Charles Bray, 89–90, British painter and glass sculptor.
- Jim Carlen, 79, American college football player and coach.
- Giorgos Chatziioannidis, 52, Greek footballer.
- Ding Guangen, 82, Chinese politician, Minister of Railways.
- Miguel Gaspar, 84, Mexican baseball player.
- Tommy Higginson, 75, English footballer.
- Kashinath Jalmi, 62, Indian politician.
- Ernie Machin, 68, English footballer.
- Nan Merriman, 92, American opera singer.
- George Armitage Miller, 92, American psychologist.
- Vincent O'Keefe, 92, American Jesuit cleric, President of Fordham University.
- Oswaldo Payá, 60, Cuban dissident, recipient of the 2002 Sakharov Prize, traffic collision.
- Fern Persons, 101, American actress.
- Frank Pierson, 87, American film director and screenwriter, Oscar winner.
- Håkon Randal, 82, Norwegian politician.
- Roberto Sebastian, 68, Filipino government official, heart attack.
- Ed Stevens, 87, American baseball player.
- Bohdan Stupka, 70, Ukrainian actor, People's Artist of USSR, bone cancer.
- Herbert Vogel, 89, American modern art collector and philanthropist, natural causes.
- Warren Winkelstein, 90, American epidemiologist.
23
- Lars Ardelius, 85, Swedish psychologist and novelist, heart failure.
- Eddie Barker, 84, American reporter, natural causes.
- Björn Folkow, 90, Swedish physiologist.
- Mirjana Gross, 90, Croatian historian.
- Graham Jackson, 45, British conductor and music director.
- Margaret Mahy, 76, New Zealand children's author, cancer.
- Maria Emanuel, Margrave of Meissen, 86, German noble.
- Louise Nippert, 100, American baseball team owner and arts patron.
- Peaks and Valleys, 20, Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the Molson Export Million Stakes.
- Sally Ride, 61, American physicist and astronaut, first American woman in space, pancreatic cancer.
- Lakshmi Sahgal, 97, Indian politician, army officer and revolutionist of the Indian independence movement, cardiac arrest.
- John Treloar, 84, Australian Olympic sprinter, Commonwealth Games gold medalist.
- Esther Tusquets, 75, Spanish publisher, writer and essayist, pneumonia.
- José Luis Uribarri, 75, Spanish television presenter and director, cerebral hemorrhage.
- Duane Wood, 74, American football player.
24
- Jerry Ahern, 66, American writer.
- Hamlet Bareh, 81, Indian writer, historian and film director.
- Donald Baxter, 85, Canadian neurologist.
- Nevin Çokay, 82, Turkish painter and teacher.
- Kenneth Crook, 91, British diplomat, Ambassador to Afghanistan.
- Chad Everett, 75, American actor, lung cancer.
- Irvin Faust, 88, American author and educator, stroke.
- Thelma Glass, 96, American civil rights leader, academic and geographer, last surviving member of the Women's Political Council.
- Philip Hearnshaw, 59, Australian filmmaker
- Sherman Hemsley, 74, American actor, superior vena cava syndrome.
- Kuga, 5, Belgian Malinois military dog, complications from the wounds.
- Robert Ledley, 86, American scientist, inventor of the full-body CT scanner, Alzheimer's disease.
- Themo Lobos, 83, Chilean comic book writer and artist, respiratory failure.
- John Atta Mills, 68, Ghanaian politician, President.
- Nancy Mudge, 82, American baseball player.
- Mavelikkara Velukkutty Nair, 85, Indian musician.
- Michael H. Nash, 66, American historian, pulmonary embolism.
- Gregorio Peces-Barba, 74, Spanish politician and jurist, President of the Congress of Deputies and co-author of Spanish Constitution, renal failure.
- Prime Defender, 8, British racehorse, winner of the Duke of York Stakes, myocardial infarction.
- Hernán Raffo, 83, Chilean Olympic basketball player.
- Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche, 57, Tibetan lama and teacher.
- Thanasis Tribonias, 28, Greek footballer, traffic collision.
- James West, 98, American psychiatrist and surgeon, co-founder of the Betty Ford Center.
25
- David Barby, 63, British antiques expert, stroke.
- James Coward, 97, British military aviator.
- Eugene Forrester, 86, American general.
- Paul Frieden, 87, Luxembourgish Olympic athlete.
- Suzy Gershman, 64, American author, widow of Michael Gershman, brain cancer.
- B. R. Ishara, 77, Indian film director, tuberculosis.
- Barry Langford, 86, British television director and producer.
- Bruno Mazza, 88, Italian football player.
- Greg Mohns, 62, American CFL coach and executive, throat cancer.
- Marceau Stricanne, 92, French footballer.
- Franz West, 65, Austrian artist, liver disease.
26
- Hüseyin Aktaş, 71, Turkish Olympic marathon runner.
- Don Bagley, 84, American jazz bassist and composer.
- Miriam Ben-Porat, 94, Israeli Supreme Court judge, State Comptroller.
- Karl Benjamin, 86, American painter, heart failure.
- Clayton Droullard, 87, American football coach.
- M. Patton Echols, 86, American attorney and politician.
- Joyce Fitch, 90, Australian tennis player.
- John Gerassi, 81, French-American journalist.
- Walter Goss, 84, American sound engineer.
- Lupe Ontiveros, 69, American actress, liver cancer.
- Pat Porter, 53, American Olympic distance runner, plane crash.
- Neil Reed, 36, American basketball player involved in Bob Knight controversy, heart attack.
- Ralph Slatyer, 83, Australian biologist, Chief Scientist.
- Mary Tamm, 62, English actress, cancer.
- James D. Watkins, 85, American Naval officer and cabinet member, Chief of Naval Operations, Chair of the President's Commission on the HIV Epidemic, Secretary of Energy, heart failure.
27
- Norman Alden, 87, American actor.
- Mati Angel, 73, Israeli paralympic athlete.
- R. G. Armstrong, 95, American actor and playwright, natural causes.
- Stefano Bemer, 48, Italian shoemaker.
- Darryl Cotton, 62, Australian singer and television host, liver cancer.
- Joe Crousen, 71, American football player and coach.
- Geraldine L. Daniels, 78, American politician.
- Brian Dorman, 75, Australian football player.
- Geoffrey Hughes, 68, English actor, prostate cancer.
- Art Malone, 64, American football player.
- Tony Martin, 98, American actor and singer, widower of Cyd Charisse, natural causes.
- Russ Mayberry, 86, Scottish-born American television director.
- Bruce Schultz, 80, Australian Anglican prelate, Bishop of Grafton.
- Hans Svedberg, 80, Swedish ice hockey player.
- Jack Taylor, 82, English football referee, officiated 1974 FIFA World Cup Final.
- Jan Trąbka, 81, Polish academic.
- Carl-Ludwig Wagner, 82, German politician, Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate.
28
- Vartan Achkarian, 76, Lebanese Armenian Catholic hierarch, Auxiliary Bishop of Beirut.
- María Colina Lozano, 90, Peruvian politician.
- Adam Cullen, 46, Australian painter.
- Phyllis Deane, 93, British economic historian.
- Amos Degani, 86, Israeli politician.
- Peter Evans-Freke, 11th Baron Carbery, 92, Anglo-Irish peer.
- Abu Fuard, 75, Sri Lankan cricket player and administrator.
- Suzanne Giese, 66, Danish writer and women's rights activist, after a short illness.
- Colin Horsley, 92, New Zealand-born British classical pianist.
- Carol Kendall, 94, American author.
- James Marriott, 39, British film critic and author.
- Sepp Mayerl, 75, Austrian mountaineer, climbing incident.
- William F. Milliken Jr., 101, American aerospace engineer, automotive engineer and racecar driver.
- Ruth Mott, 95, British television cook.
- Kazimiera Rykowska, 85, Polish Olympic athlete.
- Víctor Saucedo, 92-93, Mexican Olympic equestrian.
- David Thomas, 53, English cricketer, complications of multiple sclerosis.
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- Norman Blake, 78, British academic and scholar.
- Chavis Carter, 21, American arrestant, suicide by gunshot.
- Tatiana Egorova, 42, Russian football manager and player.
- Osvaldo Fattoruso, 64, Uruguayan musician, cancer.
- John Finnegan, 85, American actor, complications from pneumonia.
- August Kowalczyk, 90, Polish actor, last survivor of 1942 Auschwitz concentration camp breakout.
- Chris Marker, 91, French writer, photographer, documentary film director and multimedia artist.
- Suzanne Martel, 87, Canadian writer.
- James Mellaart, 87, English archaeologist, excavator of Çatalhöyük.
- Sluggy Ranks, 45, Jamaican dancehall musician, injuries sustained in a car crash.
- Vempati Chinna Satyam, 82, Indian dancer and teacher, multiple organ failure.
- Heinz Staab, 86, German chemist.
- John Stampe, 55, Danish footballer, cancer.
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- Donald J. Berthrong, 89, American historian, pneumonia.
- Maeve Binchy, 72, Irish novelist, columnist and public speaker, heart attack.
- George F. Cahill Jr., 85, American scientist.
- Bill Doss, 43, American rock singer and guitarist, aneurysm.
- Elbert Allen Drummond, 68, American heir, businessman and philanthropist.
- Stig Ossian Ericson, 88, Swedish actor and script writer.
- Christopher Evans, 102, English chaplain and theologian.
- Les Green, 70, English footballer and manager, cancer.
- Jonathan Hardy, 71, New Zealand actor and screenwriter.
- József Hunics, 76, Hungarian Olympic sprint canoer.
- Bill Kitchen, 51, Canadian ice hockey player, heart attack.
- Mary Louise Rasmuson, 101, American philanthropist.
- Héctor Tizón, 82, Argentinian writer and diplomat.
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- César Amaro, 64, Uruguayan classical guitarist.
- David W. Ames, 90, American ethnomusicologist and anthropologist.
- Kevin Best, 80, Australian artist.
- Marie Brenden, 74, Norwegian politician.
- Roy Bryce-Laporte, 78, American sociologist.
- John P. Corderman, 70, American politician and judge.
- Lucien Daloz, 81, French Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Besançon.
- Tatiana de la tierra, 51, Colombian writer.
- Ben Donnell, 76, American football player.
- Bobby Edwards, 86, American singer.
- Raúl Fajardo Moreno, 82, Colombian architect.
- Mollie Hunter, 90, Scottish writer.
- Iryna Kalynets, 72, Ukrainian writer and Soviet dissident, wife of Ihor Kalynets, after long illness.
- Sydney Knowles, 90, British Royal Navy frogman.
- Rudolf Kreitlein, 92, German football referee.
- Eleanor Krohn Herrmann, 77, American nursing educator and historian.
- Curt Levine, 64, American politician and attorney.
- Tess Mallos, 79, Australian cookbook author.
- Abdi Jeylani Malaq Marshale, app. 43, Somali journalist and comedian, shot.
- Mutsuko Miki, 95, Japanese activist, widow of former Prime Minister Takeo Miki, colon cancer.
- Ítalo Piaggi, 77, Argentine army officer.
- Lucio Quarantotto, 55, Italian songwriter and composer, suicide by defenestration.
- Alfredo Ramos, 87, Brazilian footballer and coach.
- Ardalion Rastov, 86, Russian engineer and military designer.
- Stefan Siczek, 74, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Radom.
- Tony Sly, 41, American punk rock singer and guitarist.
- Gore Vidal, 86, American writer, political commentator and actor, pneumonia.