Deaths in June 2010

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

  June 2010

1

• Omar Andréen, 87, Norwegian painter, graphic artist, and illustrator.
• Freddie Burdette, 73, American baseball player.
• Vladimír Bystrov, 74, Czech writer and translator, recipient of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk.
• Chinook Pass, 31, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
• Arturo Falaschi, 77, Italian geneticist.
• John Hagart, 72, Scottish football player and manager.
• Heather the Leather, 50, British scaleless carp, old age.
• Arthur A. Link, 96, American politician. U.S. Representative, Governor of North Dakota.
• Roger Manderscheid, 77, Luxembourgish author.
• Miss Ellie, 17, American Chinese Crested Dog, winner of title World's Ugliest Dog.
• Kazuo Ohno, 103, Japanese dancer, respiratory failure.
• Frank Pike, 80, Canadian football player and manager, heart failure.
• Joseph Strick, 86, American film director and producer, heart failure.
• Lobi Traoré, 48, Malian musician.
• Andrei Voznesensky, 77, Russian poet and writer.

  2

• Dick Bird, 77, British Anglican priest.
• Eleanor Taylor Bland, 65, American crime fiction writer.
• Floribert Chebeya, 46, Congolese human rights activist.
• Dorothy DeBorba, 85, American actress, emphysema and lung disease.
• Tony DiPreta, 88, American cartoonist,, respiratory and cardiac arrest.
• John W. Douglas, 88, American civil rights advocate, complications from a stroke.
• Joe Gardi, 71, American football coach, stroke.
• Kovilan, 86, Indian novelist, respiratory disease.
• Marguerite Narbel, 92, Swiss biologist and politician, member of the Grand Council of Vaud.
• Garry Purdham, 31, English rugby league player, shot.
• Ri Je-gang, 80, North Korean politician, First Deputy Head of the Organization and Guidance Department of the Workers' Party of Korea, car accident.
• John Richardson, 77, Canadian politician, MP for Perth—Wellington—Waterloo ; Perth—Middlesex, Alzheimer's disease.
• António Alva Rosa Coutinho, 84, Portuguese admiral and politician, Governor-General of Angola, after long illness.
• Michael Schildberger, 72, Australian journalist, prostate cancer.
• Gabriele Sella, 47, Italian Olympic cyclist.
• Giuseppe Taddei, 93, Italian opera singer.
• Yoo Chang-soon, 92, South Korean politician, Prime Minister.

  3

• João Aguiar, 66, Portuguese writer and journalist.
• Vladimir Arnold, 72, Russian mathematician, peritonitis.
• Frank Bernasko, 79, Ghanaian soldier and politician.
• Bill Clark, 80, New Zealand rugby player, after long illness.
• Frank Evans, 86, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Colorado.
• John Hedgecoe, 78, British photographer.
• Robert Hudson, 90, British broadcaster.
• K. M. M. B. Kulatunga, Sri Lankan puisne justice of the Supreme Court
• Paul Malliavin, 84, French mathematician, creator of Malliavin calculus.
• Rue McClanahan, 76, American actress |Maude], Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series|Emmy] winner, stroke.
• Luigi Padovese, 63, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar of Anatolia and chairman of the Turkish Bishops' Conference, stabbed.
• Pance Pondaag, 59, Indonesian pop singer and songwriter, complications from a stroke.
• Pétur Sigurgeirsson, 91, Icelandic prelate, Bishop of Iceland.
• Emory C. Swank, 88, American diplomat, Ambassador to Cambodia.
• Hasan Tiro, 84, Indonesian politician, founder of the Free Aceh Movement, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
• Leonard S. Unger, 92, American diplomat, Ambassador to Laos, Thailand, and the Republic of China.
• Charlie Wedemeyer, 64, American football player and coach, complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

  4

• Raymond Allchin, 86, British archaeologist.
• Bill Ashenfelter, 85, American Olympic athlete.
• Frank Ballard, 80, American puppeteer and educator, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Himan Brown, 99, American radio producer.
• Jim Copeland, 65, American football player, cancer.
• Marianne Elser Crowder, 104, American oldest Girl Scout, pancreatic cancer.
• Amado Crowley, 80, British occult writer and magician.
• Richard Dunn, 73, American character actor, stroke.
• David Foster, 90, British naval pilot.
• Jack Harrison, 97, British air force officer, last survivor of Stalag Luft III.
• Richard P. Lindsay, 84, American Mormon leader and politician, cancer.
• Syd Luyt, 84, South African Olympic runner.
• David Markson, 82, American writer.
• William Miranda Marín, 69, Puerto Rican politician, mayor of Caguas, pancreatic cancer.
• Andi Meriem Matalatta, 52, Indonesian pop singer, complications from diabetes.
• Carlos Francisco Martins Pinheiro, 85, Portuguese Roman Catholic prelate.
• Hennadiy Popovych, 37, Ukrainian footballer, cardiac arrest.
• Norman Rothfield, 98, Australian peace and labour activist.
• Ray Smith, 80, Australian Olympic athlete.
• Chuck Taliano, 65, American marine, featured on recruitment poster, multiple myeloma.
• Eddie Washington, 56, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives, heart attack.
• John Werket, 85, American Olympic speed skater.
• John Wooden, 99, American basketball coach.

  5

• Esma Agolli, 81, Albanian actress, cardiac arrest.
• Braulio Alonso, 93, American educator.
• Sir Neil Anderson, 83, New Zealand admiral, Chief of Defence Staff.
• Danny Bank, 87, American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and flautist.
• Robert C. Bergenheim, 86, American founder of Boston Business Journal.
• Angus Douglas-Hamilton, 15th Duke of Hamilton, 71, British peer and racing driver, dementia.
• Robert Healy, 84, American journalist, executive editor, stroke.
• Stephen Clancy Hill, 34, American pornographic actor and murderer, suicide by jumping.
• Jacob Milgrom, 87, American rabbi and biblical scholar, brain hemorrhage.
• Finian Monahan, 86, Irish Roman Catholic friar and priest, Superior General, pneumonia.
• Arne Nordheim, 78, Norwegian contemporary classical composer.
• Tony Peluso, 60, American musician and record producer, heart disease.
• Steven Reuther, 58, American film producer, cancer.
• Robert Wussler, 73, American businessman, co-founder of CNN, after long illness.

  6

• Mabi de Almeida, 46, Angolan football manager, after long illness.
• Jack Beeson, 88, American contemporary classical music composer, heart failure.
• Marvin Isley, 56, American bassist, complications of diabetes.
• Dana Key, 56, American musician, ruptured blood clot.
• Abraham Nathanson, 80, American graphic designer and author, co-inventor of Bananagrams, cancer.
• Robert B. Radnitz, 85, American film producer |Cross Creek], My Side of the Mountain, Sounder, complications from a stroke.
• [Ladislav Smoljak, 78, Czech film and theatre director, after long illness.
• Jerry Stephenson, 66, American baseball player, lung cancer.
• Paul Wunderlich, 83, German artist.

  7

• José Albi, 88, Spanish poet.
• Paul Bell, 59, American politician, member of the Iowa House of Representatives, stomach cancer.
• Stuart Cable, 40, Welsh drummer, accidental asphyxiation.
• Chai Zemin, 93, Chinese diplomat.
• Mordechai Eliyahu, 81, Israeli rabbi, Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel.
• Jorge Ginarte, 70, Argentine football manager.
• Ndoc Gjetja, 66, Albanian poet, after long illness.
• Alex Hastie, 74, British rugby player.
• Eric Mason, 83, British actor.
• Arsen Naydyonov, 68, Russian football coach.
• Oliver N'Goma, 51, Gabonese singer and guitarist, renal failure.
• Omar Rayo, 82, Colombian painter and sculptor, heart attack.
• Viana Júnior, 68, Brazilian comedian, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
• Adriana Xenides, 54, Argentine-born Australian television personality, ruptured intestine.

  8

• Tony Cennamo, 76, American disc jockey, after long illness.
• Margaret Delacourt-Smith, Baroness Delacourt-Smith of Alteryn, 94, British politician and life peer.
• Dan Eastman, 64, American politician and businessman, Utah State Senator, heart failure.
• Joan Hinton, 88, American nuclear physicist, abdominal aneurysm.
• Porfi Jiménez, 82, Dominican-born Venezuelan musician, arranger, composer and bandleader.
• Plamen Maslarov, 60, Bulgarian film director.
• Stephen Rivers, 55, American publicist and political activist, prostate cancer.
• Ismael Blas Rolón Silvero, 96, Paraguayan Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Asunción.
• Crispian St. Peters, 71, British pop singer, after long illness.
• Andreas Voutsinas, 79, Greek actor and stage director.

  9

• Epaminondas José de Araújo, 88, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Palmeira dos Índios.
• Ken Brown, 70, British guitarist.
• Fadzil Mahmood, 73, Malaysian politician, speaker of the Perlis State Assembly.
• Melbert Ford, 49, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Christine Johnson, 98, American opera singer and actress.
• Bobby Kromm, 82, Canadian ice hockey coach, complications from colorectal cancer.
• Joseph Crescent McKinney, 81, American Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of Grand Rapids.
• Marina Semyonova, 101, Russian prima ballerina.
• Mohamed Sylla, 39, Guinean footballer, cancer.
• Oleksandr Zinchenko, 53, Ukrainian politician.

  10

• David Ellison, 70, British actor.
• Ginette Garcin, 82, French actress, cancer.
• Ferdinand Oyono, 80, Cameroonian writer and government minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs.
• Sigmar Polke, 69, German painter and photographer, cancer.
• Basil Schott, 70, American Byzantine Catholic friar, Metropolitan of the Byzantine Catholic Archeparchy of Pittsburgh, cancer.

  11

• Bernie Andrews, 76, British radio producer.
• Maria Aurora, 72, Portuguese journalist, poet, novelist, children's writer and television presenter.
• Henri Cuq, 68, French politician.
• Shunsuke Ikeda, 68, Japanese actor, stomach cancer.
• Kip Deville, 7, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
• Teresa Jungman, 102, English socialite.
• Norman Macrae, 86, British journalist, deputy editor of The Economist.
• William J. Mitchell, 65, American architect and urban designer, complications of cancer.
• Johnny Parker, 80, British jazz pianist.
• Andrzej Piątkowski, 75, Polish sabreur, Olympic medallist.
• Fred Plum, 86, American neurologist, developed the term "persistent vegetative state", primary progressive aphasia.
• Badal Rahman, 61, Bangladeshi film director and political activist.
• Dariusz Ratajczak, 47, Polish holocaust denier.
• Bus Whitehead, 82, American basketball player
• James N. Wood, 69, American museum director.

  12

• Anne Chapman, 88, French-born American ethnologist.
• John Crampton, 88, British RAF pilot.
• Daisy D'ora, 97, German actress and socialite.
• Richard Keynes, 90, British physiologist.
• Ko Tun-hwa, 89, Taiwanese vice admiral and politician.
• Rik Levins, 60, American comic book artist.
• Chuck Lyda, 57, American slalom and sprint canoer, stomach cancer.
• Félix Maldonado, 72, American baseball player and scout, cancer.
• Fuat Mansurov, 82, Kazakh-born Russian conductor.
• Les Richter, 79, American football player, member of Pro Football Hall of Fame, and auto racing official, NASCAR head of operations, brain aneurysm.
• Egon Ronay, 94, Hungarian-born British restaurateur and restaurant critic.
• Philip Selznick, 91, American lawyer, author and sociologist.
• Grizzly Smith, 77, American professional wrestler, Alzheimer's disease.
• Jerzy Stefan Stawiński, 88, Polish screenwriter and film director.
• Al Williamson, 79, American comic book artist.

  13

• Combo Ayouba, 57-58, Comorian army officer, Coordinator of the Transitional Military Committee, shot.
• E. F. Bleiler, 90, American science fiction author.
• Thomas S. Buechner, 83, American museum director, lymphoma.
• Dave Broda, 65, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, car crash.
• Jimmy Dean, 81, American country music singer, actor and businessman, natural causes.
• Abbas Djoussouf, 68, Comorian politician, Prime Minister.
• Ernest Fleischmann, 85, German-born American impresario, executive director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
• Ernie Johnson, 84, American football and basketball player.
• Emilio Macias, 76, Filipino politician, Governor of Negros Oriental, liver cancer.
• F. James McDonald, 87, American businessman, President of General Motors.
• Tom Stith, 71, American basketball player.
• Sergei Tretyakov, 53, Russian intelligence officer and defector, former SVR agent.
• Nelson Wallulatum, 84, American Wasco tribe leader, chief of the Wasco Indians, founder of The Museum at Warm Springs.
• Jonathan Wolken, 60, American artistic director, co-founder of Pilobolus, complications from stem cell transplant.

  14

• Oscar Azócar, 45, Venezuelan baseball player.
• Teshome Gabriel, 70, Ethiopian-born American cinema scholar, cardiac arrest.
• Resi Hammerer, 85, Austrian Olympic alpine skier, bronze medalist.
• Richard Herrmann, 90, Norwegian journalist, writer and radio personality, after long illness.
• Jiří Kavan, 66, Czech Olympic silver medal-winning handball player.
• Leonid Kizim, 68, Ukrainian Soviet cosmonaut.
• Ted Lowry, 90, American boxer, heart failure.
• Manohar Malgonkar, 96, Indian author.
• Luis Arturo Mondragón, 53, Honduran journalist, shot.
• Giacinto Prandelli, 96, Italian operatic tenor.
• Damian Silvera, 35, American Olympic soccer player.
• Jaroslav Škarvada, 85, Czech Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Prague.

  15

• Thomas L. Ashley, 87, American politician, U.S. Representative for Ohio.
• Charles Thomas Beer, 94, Canadian chemist.
• Brian Bethell, 45, American spree killer.
• Bekim Fehmiu, 74, Serbian actor, suspected suicide by gunshot.
• Phil Gordon, 94, American character actor and dialect coach.
• Charlie Hickcox, 63, American Olympic swimmer, gold and silver medalist, cancer.
• Heidi Kabel, 95, German stage actress.
• Tadashi Kawashima, 41, Japanese manga artist, liver cancer.
• Arnold Kramish, 87, American physicist, neurological disorder.
• Wendell Logan, 69, American composer.
• Busi Mhlongo, 62, South African musician, cancer.
• Natalia Tolstaya, 67, Russian writer and translator.

  16

• Joselito Agustin, 37, Filipino journalist, shot.
• Marc Bazin, 78, Haitian politician, Acting President and Prime Minister.
• Peter Brunette, 66, American film critic, heart attack.
• Bill Dixon, 84, American jazz musician.
• Maureen Forrester, 79, Canadian opera singer, complications of Alzheimer's disease.
• Amedeo Guillet, 101, Italian army officer.
• Bob Hartman, 72, American baseball player, post-surgical infection.
• Allen Hoey, 57, American poet, Pulitzer Prize nominee, heart attack.
• Ronald Neame, 99, British film director and screenwriter.
• Jim Nestor, 90, Australian Olympic cyclist.
• Corso Salani, 48, Italian actor and film director, stroke.
• Garry Shider, 56, American musician, complications from brain and lung cancer.
• P. G. Viswambharan, 63, Indian film director, after long illness.

  17

• Hannah Atkins, 86, American politician, Secretary of State of Oklahoma and State Representative, cancer.
• Elżbieta Czyżewska, 72, Polish-born American actress, esophageal cancer.
• Hans Dichand, 89, Austrian journalist and newspaper publisher.
• Sebastian Horsley, 47, British artist, heroin overdose.
• Anjali Mendes, 64, Indian model.
• K. S. Rajah, 80, Singaporean juridical official, Judicial Commissioner of the Supreme Court, cancer.
• Andy Ripley, 62, British rugby player, prostate cancer.

  18

• Trent Acid, 29, American professional wrestler, accidental drug overdose.
• Marcel Bigeard, 94, French general and politician.
• Bogdan Bogdanović, 87, Serbian architect, urbanist, and politician, Mayor of Belgrade, heart attack.
• Waldemar Ciesielczyk, 51, Polish Olympic fencer.
• Joe Deal, 62, American photographer, bladder cancer.
• Bidya Debbarma, 94, Indian politician.
• Robert Galambos, 96, American neuroscientist, discovered how bats navigate, heart failure.
• Ronnie Lee Gardner, 49, American convicted murderer, executed by firing squad.
• Tom Nicon, 22, French model, suicide by jumping.
• Kalmen Opperman, 90, American clarinetist, heart failure.
• José Saramago, 87, Portuguese novelist, playwright and journalist, Nobel Prize winner for literature, cancer.
• Hans Joachim Sewering, 94, German physician, member of the Waffen-SS.
• Hadelin Viellevoye, 95, Belgian footballer

  19

• Manute Bol, 47, Sudanese basketball player and activist, kidney failure and Stevens–Johnson syndrome.
• Anwar Chowdhry, 86, Pakistani sports official, President of the International Boxing Association, heart attack.
• Jack Cloud, 85, American football player.
• Ned Endress, 92, American basketball player.
• Marvin L. Esch, 82, American politician, U.S. Representative from Michigan.
• John Ferruggio, 84, American in-flight director, led evacuation of Pan Am Flight 93, organ failure.
• Mohammed Ali Hammadi, 46, Lebanese militant, drone strike.
• Robin Matthews, 83, British economist and chess problemist.
• Carlos Monsiváis, 72, Mexican writer and journalist, respiratory failure.
• Vince O'Brien, 91, American character actor.
• Alfred Parsons, 85, Australian diplomat, High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.
• Anthony Quinton, Baron Quinton, 85, British philosopher and life peer.
• Jesús Manuel Lara Rodríguez, 48, Mexican politician, mayor of Guadalupe, Chihuahua, shot.
• Dame Angela Rumbold, 77, British politician, MP for Mitcham and Morden.
• Nico Smith, 81, South African minister and anti-apartheid activist, heart attack.
• Ken Talbot, 59, Australian businessman, CEO of Macarthur Coal, plane crash.
• Paul Thiebaud, 49, American gallerist, colon cancer.
• Ursula Thiess, 86, German artist and actress.
• Jack Tobin, 90, American anthropologist, expert on the Marshall Islands.
• Chris Welles, 72, American business journalist, Alzheimer's disease.

  20

• Dwight Armstrong, 58, American anti-Vietnam War protester, Sterling Hall bomber, lung cancer.
• Sir William Boulton, 3rd Baronet, 98, British barrister.
• Vladimír Dlouhý, 52, Czech actor.
• Lai Sun Cheung, 59, Hong Kong football coach, lung cancer.
• Raymond Parks, 96, American auto racer, two-time NASCAR car owner points champion.
• Abdolmalek Rigi, 27, Iranian Sunni Islamist militant, leader of Jundallah, execution by hanging.
• Roberto Rosato, 66, Italian footballer.
• Gundibail Sunderam, 80, Indian cricketer, after a short illness.
• Albert Webster, 85, British Olympic athlete.
• Harry B. Whittington, 94, British palaeontologist.

  21

• Jesús Álvarez Amaya, 84, Mexican painter and graphic artist, cancer.
• Russell Ash, 64, British writer and publisher.
• Irwin Barker, 58, Canadian comedian and television writer, leiomyosarcoma.
• Wilfried Feldenkirchen, 62, German economic historian and project manager, car crash.
• Rosemary Gillespie, 69, Australian human rights activist and lawyer, stroke.
• Bob Greene, 92, American Makah tribe elder, natural causes.
• Hector Laing, Baron Laing of Dunphail, 87, British businessman and life peer.
• Allison Parks, 68, American model and actress.
• Ingeborg Pertmayr, 63, Austrian Olympic diver.
• Henrique Walter Pinotti, 81, Brazilian physician, cancer.
• William S. Richardson, 90, American jurist and politician, Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii, Chief Justice.
• Hermann Gonçalves Schatzmayr, 75, Brazilian virologist, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz researcher, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
• İlhan Selçuk, 85, Turkish lawyer, journalist and writer, editor-in-chief of Cumhuriyet, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
• Chris Sievey, 54, British comedian and musician, lung cancer.
• Tam White, 67, British musician and actor, heart attack.
• With Approval, 24, Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse, Canadian Triple Crown winner, euthanized.
• Larry Jon Wilson, 69, American songwriter and musician, stroke.

  22

• Pamela Ascherson, 87, British sculptor, painter and illustrator.
• Peppy Blount, 85, American football player and line judge.
• Robin Bush, 67, British historian .
• Gerald Heaney, 92, American jurist, United States Court of Appeals.
• Marie-Luise Jahn, 92, German activist, member of the anti-Nazi resistance movement White Rose.
• Aileen Osofsky, 83, American community leader, philanthropist and bridge player, complications from leukemia.
• Amokrane Oualiken, 77, Algerian footballer.
• Pennant Roberts, 69, British television director.
• Manfred Römbell, 68, German writer, after long illness.
• Wayne Stephenson, 65, Canadian professional and Olympic bronze medal-winning ice hockey player.
• Levern Tart, 68, American basketball player.
• Tracy Wright, 50, Canadian actress, pancreatic cancer.

  23

• Anthony Adrian Allen, 96, British entomologist.
• Ron Atchison, 80, Canadian football player, heart failure.
• Jörg Berger, 65, German football manager, bowel cancer.
• John Burton, 95, Australian diplomat and academic.
• Michael Cobb, 93, British Army officer and railway historian.
• Dermot Earley, 62, Irish Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces, after short illness.
• Allyn Ferguson, 85, American television composer, natural causes.
• Frank Giering, 38, German actor.
• Pavel Lyubimov, 71, Russian film director.
• Vernon Mendis, 84, Sri Lankan diplomat.
• Mohammed Mzali, 84, Tunisian politician, Prime Minister.
• Hiromu Naruse, 66, Japanese chief test driver for Toyota Motor Company, car crash.
• Pete Quaife, 66, British bassist, kidney failure.
• Peter Walker, Baron Walker of Worcester, 78, British politician and life peer, MP for Worcester, cancer.

  24

• Toni Adams, 45, American professional wrestling manager, former wife of Chris Adams, heart attack.
• Sadri Ahmeti, 71, Albanian painter and poet.
• Fred Anderson, 81, American jazz tenor saxophonist.
• Rawshan Ara, 69, Bangladeshi film actress.
• Armand Bernard, 82, Canadian Olympic wrestler.
• JoJo Billingsley, 58, American back-up singer, cancer.
• Elise M. Boulding, 89, American sociologist, liver failure.
• Lorn Brown, 71, American sports commentator, heart failure.
• Shirley Carr, 81, Canadian president of the Labour Congress.
• Cherubim Dambui, 62, Papua New Guinean Premier of East Sepik, auxiliary bishop of Port Moresby, kidney failure.
• Digvijay Singh, 54, Indian politician.
• Francis Dreyfus, 70, French record producer.
• Harry Enns, 78, Canadian politician, MLA for Rockwood-Iberville/Lakeside.
• Don Enoch, 94, American politician, Mayor of Wichita, Kansas.
• Bill Hudson, 77, American photojournalist, heart failure.
• Alan Krueck, 70, American musicologist.
• Kazimierz Paździor, 75, Polish Olympic gold medal-winning boxer.
• Jean-Léonard Rugambage, Rwandan journalist, shot.
• Walter Shorenstein, 95, American real estate developer and baseball team owner, natural causes.
• Ben Sonnenberg, 73, American journalist, multiple sclerosis.
• Jean-Luc Tricoire, 57, French Olympic sports shooter.
• Daniel Williams, 77, American archivist and historian.

  25

• Viveka Babajee, 37, Mauritian-born Indian model and actress, suicide by hanging.
• Brian Flowers, Baron Flowers, 85, British physicist, academic and life peer.
• F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre, 62, Welsh science fiction author, suicide by self-immolation.
• Robert Nyman, 49, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, drowning.
• Alan Plater, 75, English television writer, cancer.
• Richard B. Sellars, 94, American Chairman and CEO of Johnson & Johnson.
• Peter Sliker, 86, American bass-baritone at the Metropolitan Opera
• John A. Willis, 93, American editor of Theatre World.
• Wu Guanzhong, 90, Chinese painter.

  26

• Algirdas Brazauskas, 77, Lithuanian politician, President ; Prime Minister, lymphoma.
• D. Page Elmore, 71, American politician, member of the Maryland House of Delegates, cancer.
• Aldo Giuffrè, 86, Italian actor, peritonitis.
• Alberto Guzik, 66, Brazilian actor and writer, stomach cancer.
• Paulo Teixeira Jorge, 82, Angolan politician, Minister of External Relations.
• Charles Spencer King, 85, English automotive engineer, complications following a traffic accident.
• Harald Keres, 97, Estonian physicist.
• Shoista Mullojonova, 84, Tajik singer, heart attack.
• Akira Nakamura, 76, Japanese historian.
• Adoor Pankajam, 81, Indian actress.
• Conrad Poe, 62, Filipino actor, stroke.
• Benny Powell, 80, American jazz trombonist, heart attack following spinal surgery.
• Jonathan Smith, 43, British games developer.
• D. Sudarsanam, 68, Indian politician, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
• Sergio Vega, 40, Mexican banda singer, shot.
• Stanley Wagner, 83, American winemaker.
• Sir John Ward, 85, British politician, MP for Poole.
• Vasyl Yevseyev, 47, Ukrainian football coach, suicide by jumping.

  27

• Corey Allen, 75, American actor, film and television director, complications of Parkinson's disease.
• Leif Alsheimer, 57, Swedish lawyer, lecturer and author.
• Dolph Briscoe, 87, American politician, Governor of Texas, kidney failure and pneumonia.
• Ken Coates, 79, British politician and writer, suspected heart attack.
• Édgar García de Dios, 32, Mexican footballer, shot.
• João Gonçalves Filho, 75, Brazilian Olympic swimmer and water polo player.
• Martin D. Ginsburg, 78, American attorney, husband of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, cancer.
• Edo Mulahalilović, 46, Bosnian musician.
• Andreas Okopenko, 80, Austrian writer.

  28

• Claude Anderson, 86, Australian footballer.
• Bill Aucoin, 66, American band manager, complications from prostate cancer.
• Leo Bernier, 81, Canadian politician.
• Peter Bowers, 80, Australian journalist, Alzheimer's disease.
• Robert Byrd, 92, American politician, U.S. Representative, Senator from West Virginia, and President pro tempore.
• Clement Finch, 94, American hematologist.
• Nicolas Hayek, 82, Swiss entrepreneur, founder and chairman of The Swatch Group, heart failure.
• Kirsten Heisig, 48, German politician and juvenile magistrate, suicide.
• Willie Huber, 52, German-born Canadian ice hockey player, heart attack.
• Chandrakant Kamat, 76, Indian Hindustani classical tabla player, heart attack.
• Louis Moyroud, 96, French-born American inventor of phototypesetting.
• Rammellzee, 49, American hip hop musician and graffiti artist, after long illness.
• Joya Sherrill, 85, American jazz vocalist, leukemia.
• William L. Taylor, 78, American attorney and civil rights advocate, complications from a fall.
• Rodolfo Torre Cantú, 46, Mexican politician, candidate for Governor of Tamaulipas, shot.

  29

• Blair Barnes, 49, Canadian ice hockey player, heart attack.
• Ron Gans, 79, American voice actor, complications from pneumonia.
• Rudolf Leopold, 85, Austrian art collector.
• Doug Ohlson, 73, American painter, complications from a fall.
• Queen Jane, 45, Kenyan musician, meningitis.
• Chandgi Ram, 72, Indian Olympic wrestler, cardiac arrest.
• Frank Rigney, 74, American-born Canadian football player.
• Pietro Taricone, 35, Italian actor and reality show contestant, parachute accident.

  30

• Brian Ash, 73-74, British writer, scientific journalist, and editor.
• Bruno Côté, 69, Canadian landscape painter, prostate cancer.
• Elliott Kastner, 80, American film producer, cancer.
• Harry Klein, 81, British jazz saxophonist.
• Juhani Kyöstilä, 78, Finnish Olympic basketball player.
• Noel Marshall, 79, American film director and producer.
• Serigne Mouhamadou Lamine Bara Mbacké, 85, Senegalese Grand Marabout of the Mourides.
• Denny Moyer, 70, American world light middleweight champion boxer.
• Gordon Mulholland, 89, British actor.
• Park Yong-ha, 32, South Korean actor and singer, suicide by hanging.