Deaths in March 2012

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

March 2012

1

• Blagoje Adžić, 79, Serbian politician.
• Eddie Allen, 93, American football player.
• Phillip R. Allen, 72, American actor.
• Alice Arden, 97, American Olympic high jumper.
• Henryk Bałuszyński, 39, Polish footballer, heart attack.
• Luigi Bazzoni, 82, Italian film director.
• Andrew Breitbart, 43, American publisher and political commentator, heart attack.
• Mushtaque Changezi, 78-79, Pakistani actor.
• Jerome Courtland, 85, American actor, director, and producer, heart disease.
• Lucio Dalla, 68, Italian singer-songwriter and musician, heart attack.
• Jack Fouts, 86, American football player and coach.
• Peter Graeme, 90, British oboist.
• Robert Mills Grant, 85, American rancher and politician, member of the Wyoming House of Representatives.
• Paul Hürlimann, 78, Swiss Olympic equestrian.
• Fathulla Jameel, 69, Maldivian politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs, heart disease.
• 9th Jebtsundamba Khutughtu, 80, Tibetan-born Mongolian Buddhist spiritual leader.
• Archie Kalokerinos, 85, Greek-Australian physician.
• Thomas J. Lydon, 84, American federal judge, sepsis and car accident complications.
• Altamir Heitor Martins, 32, Brazilian footballer.
• Gemma McCluskie, 29, British actress, blunt force trauma.
• Germano Mosconi, 79, Italian sportswriter and news presenter.
• Callan Pinckney, 72, American fitness professional, created Callanetics.
• Randy Primas, 62, American politician, Mayor of Camden, New Jersey, bone marrow cancer.
• Conrad Soares, 72, Bermudan Olympic sailor.

2

• Lawrence Anthony, 61, South African conservationist and environmentalist, heart attack.
• Van T. Barfoot, 92, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient, head injuries from a fall.
• Gerry Bridgwood, 67, English footballer, heart attack.
• Frank Carlucci, 84, American politician.
• Nydia Ecury, 86, Aruban-Dutch writer, translator and actress, Alzheimer's disease.
• George Firestone, 80, American politician, Secretary of State of Florida, Alzheimer's disease.
• Doug Furnas, 52, American professional wrestler, heart disease.
• Vera Galushka-Duyunova, 66, Russian volleyball player, cardiac arrest.
• Brajamohan Jamatia, 106, Indian politician.
• Sir Keith Jones, 100, Australian medical practitioner and surgeon.
• Gary Kubly, 68, American politician, Minnesota State Senator, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Rui Maia, 86, Portuguese Olympian
• José Adolfo Mojica Morales, 75, Salvadoran Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Sonsonate.
• John Panelli, 85, American football player.
• George Reynolds, 83, Australian racing driver.
• Gérard Rinaldi, 69, French actor and singer, lymphoma.
• Norman St John-Stevas, 82, British politician and author, Leader of the House of Commons.
• Stan Stearns, 76, American photographer, lung cancer.
• Frits Wijngaard, 85, Dutch Olympic boxer.
• James Q. Wilson, 80, American political scientist, co-author of the broken windows theory, leukemia.
• Isagani Yambot, 77, Filipino journalist, publisher of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, heart attack.

3

• Fritz Baier, 88, German politician.
• Viv Bingham, 79, British political activist.
• Irvin Borish, 99, American optometrist.
• Steve Bridges, 48, American impressionist, anaphylaxis.
• Dave Charnley, 76, British former European lightweight champion boxer.
• Leonardo Cimino, 94, American actor, COPD.
• Mike Darby, 69, Australian football player.
• A R Shamsud Doha, 83, Bangladeshi politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs.
• Felícia Fuster, 91, Spanish Catalan painter and poet.
• Henryk Grabowski, 82, Polish Olympic athlete.
• Anthony Grainger, 36, English police victim, shot.
• Lloyd Hittle, 88, American baseball player.
• Per J. Husabø, 83, Norwegian politician.
• Lutfullah Khan, 95, Pakistani writer and sound archivist.
• Franklin McMahon, 90, American artist and reporter.
• Ralph McQuarrie, 82, American conceptual designer and illustrator, Oscar winner.
• Frank Marocco, 81, American accordionist, arranger and composer.
• Ronnie Montrose, 64, American guitarist, suicide by gunshot.
• Jim Obradovich, 62, American baseball player.
• Norris Stevenson, 72, American football player, cancer.
• Kason Sugioka, 98, Japanese calligrapher, Order of Culture recipient, heart failure.
• Alex Webster, 80, American football player and coach.

4

• Ali Ahmed Abdi, 26, Somali journalist, shot.
• Maurice De Muer, 90, French cyclist and sports director.
• Christopher Joseph Earl, 86, British neurologist.
• William E. Galbraith, 86, American businessman.
• Bill Green, 50, American sprinter, cancer.
• Robert Brendon Keating, 87, American diplomat, Ambassador to Madagascar and the Comoros, pneumonia.
• Paul McBride, 46, British lawyer.
• Pete McCaffrey, 74, American Olympic gold medal-winning basketball player.
• Don Mincher, 73, American baseball player, President of the Southern League.
• Runako Morton, 33, Nevisian Test cricketer, traffic collision.
• John C. Reiss, 89, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Trenton.
• Shmuel Tankus, 97, Israeli naval officer, fifth commander of the Navy.
• Joan Taylor, 82, American actress, natural causes.

5

• Don Andrews, 82, Australian guitarist.
• Yehuda Ben-Haim, 56, Israeli Olympic boxer.
• Jörg Balke, 75, German Olympic athlete.
• Sobha Brahma, 82, Indian painter and sculptor.
• Willard Cochrane, 97, American agricultural economist.
• Rafael Corporán de los Santos, 71, Dominican television producer, host, and politician, Mayor of Distrito Nacional, heart attack.
• Fernando Da Silva, 91, American painter.
• Paul Haines, 41, New Zealand writer, cancer.
• Zahir Howaida, 67, Afghan singer.
• William Heirens, 83, American serial killer.
• Rushworth Kidder, 67, American ethicist and writer, natural causes.
• Godwin Kotey, 46–47, Ghanaian actor, producer, educator, playwright and director, leukemia.
• Marian Kuszewski, 78, Polish Olympic silver medal-winning fencer.
• Roland Lakes, 72, American football player.
• Philip Madoc, 77, Welsh actor.
• Maurice Pechet, 94, American academic.
• Ken Shipp, 83, American football coach.
• William O. Wooldridge, 89, American army officer.

6

• Marcos Alonso, 78, Spanish football player.
• Francisco Xavier do Amaral, 75, East Timorese politician, President.
• Jaap Boersma, 82, Dutch politician, Minister of Social Affairs, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries.
• Jan Dawidziuk, 74, Polish-born American bishop of the Polish National Catholic Church.
• Antonio Garzya, 85, Italian professor.
• Lucia Mannucci, 91, Italian singer.
• Maurice Moyer, 93, American clergyman and civil rights leader.
• Suwa Nejiko, 92, Japanese violinist.
• Donald M. Payne, 77, American politician, U.S. Representative from New Jersey, colon cancer.
• Frederick M. Reed, 87, American politician, Attorney General of Vermont.
• Robert B. Sherman, 86, American songwriter and composer, Oscar winner.
• Arthur A. Vogel, 88, American bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of West Missouri.
• Helen Walulik, 82, American baseball player.
• Sayuri Yamauchi, 55, Japanese voice actress, cancer.

7

• Jeanne Achterberg, 69, American psychologist, breast cancer.
• Cris Alexander, 92, American actor and photographer.
• Gary DeCramer, 67, American politician, Minnesota state senator.
• Tony Drake, 89, English hiker.
• Harold K. Forsen, 79, American nuclear engineer.
• Gherardo Gnoli, 74, Italian historian.
• Dave Hrechkosy, 60, Canadian ice hockey player, brain cancer.
• Sir Raymond Lygo, 87, British admiral and businessman.
• Félicien Marceau, 98, French novelist, member of the Académie française.
• Marcel Mouchel, 85, French footballer and manager.
• Greg Novak, 61, American writer and wargame designer.
• Big Walter Price, 97, American blues singer, songwriter and pianist.
• Włodzimierz Smolarek, 54, Polish footballer.
• Pierre Tornade, 82, French actor.
• Ramaz Urushadze, 72, Georgian footballer.
• Aníbal Villacís, 85, Ecuadorian painter.

8

• Corinna Adam, 75, British journalist, home fire.
• Kristin Bølgen Bronebakk, 61, Norwegian civil servant.
• LaVerne Carter, 86, American bowler, heart failure.
• S. Henry Cho, 77, Korean martial arts instructor.
• Pat Claridge, 73, Canadian football player, Alzheimer's disease.
• Leslie Cochran, 60, American street personality, activist, and politician, head trauma.
• Simin Daneshvar, 90, Iranian academic, novelist, fiction writer and translator.
• Ursula Dronke, 91, British medievalist.
• Mike Fetchick, 89, American golfer.
• Compton Gonsalves, 85, Trinidad and Tobago Olympic cyclist.
• Bugs Henderson, 68, American blues guitarist, cancer.
• Charlie Hoag, 81, American Olympic gold medal-winning basketball player.
• Scott Huey, 88, Northern Irish cricketer.
• Elena Libera, 94, Italian Olympic fencer.
• Minoru Mori, 77, Japanese businessperson, chairman and executive director of the Mori Building Company, founder of the Mori Art Museum, heart failure.
• Elio Pagliarani, 84, Italian poet and literary critic.
• Jens Petersen, 70, Danish footballer and manager.
• Steven Rubenstein, 49, American anthropologist.
• Mick Walker, 69, British motorcycling writer.

9

• Peter Bergman, 72, American comedian, leukemia.
• Dennis Bowen, 61, American actor.
• Brian Bromley, 65, English footballer.
• Herb Carnegie, 92, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Anton Crișan, 70, Romanian ice hockey player.
• Harry Dagnall, 97, British philatelist.
• Willye Dennis, 85, American civil rights activist and politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives.
• John Holt, 82, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council.
• Thomas Locker, 74, American author and painter.
• Fotis Mavriplis, 92, Greek Olympic skier.
• Joy Mukherjee, 73, Indian actor.
• Zuhir al-Qaisi, 49, Palestinian militant leader, Secretary General of the Popular Resistance Committees, air strike.
• Selma Rubin, 96, American activist and environmentalist.
• Jose Tomas Sanchez, 91, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, Cardinal Priest of San Pio V a Villa Carpegna.
• Terry Teene, 70, American singer and clown, injuries from a traffic collision.
• Bill Wedderburn, Baron Wedderburn of Charlton, 84, British academic and politician.
• Harry Wendelstedt, 73, American baseball umpire, brain tumor.
• Widjojo Nitisastro, 84, Indonesian economist and government minister.

10

• Sukumar Barman, 60, Indian politician.
• George Beattie, 86, Scottish footballer.
• Bert R. Bulkin, 82, American aeronautical engineer.
• Dorrit Cohn, 87, American academic.
• Milton Copolillo, 78, Brazilian footballer.
• Wim De Smet, 79, Flemish zoologist.
• Amina El Filali, 16, Moroccan rape victim, suicide by poisoning.
• Elmer L. Gaden, 88, American biochemist.
• Jean Giraud, 73, French comic book artist and film production designer, cancer.
• Julio César González, 35, Mexican Olympic boxer and former world light heavyweight champion, injuries from a hit and run.
• Robert A. Howie, 88, English petrologist.
• Jay McMullen, 90, American journalist.
• Hermín Negrón Santana, 74, Puerto Rican Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico.
• R. I. Page, 87, British historian and runologist.
• Mykola Plaviuk, 86, Ukrainian politician, last President of the Ukrainian People's Republic in exile.
• Uttamrao Deorao Patil, 67, Indian politician.
• Frank Sherwood Rowland, 84, American chemistry professor, Nobel laureate in Chemistry, Parkinson's disease.
• Domna Samiou, 83, Greek singer and traditional music researcher.
• Tony Silipo, 54, Canadian politician, Ontario Minister of Education and MPP for Dovercourt, brain tumor.
• Jammu Siltavuori, 85, Finnish murderer and sex offender.
• Ruth-Marie Stewart, 84, American Olympic skier.
• John G. Taylor, 80, British physicist.
• Tan Boon Teik, 83, Singaporean lawyer, Attorney-General, internal bleeding.
• Jack Watson, 90, English cricketer, football coach and scout.
• Richard White, 86, New Zealand rugby union player.
• Ethel Winter, 87, American dancer with the Martha Graham Dance Company and teacher at the Juilliard School.
• Nick Zoricic, 29, Canadian ski cross racer, brain injuries from race crash.

11

• Henry Adefope, 85, Nigerian politician, Foreign Minister.
• Hub Andrews, 89, American baseball player.
• Gian Nicola Babini, 67, Italian scientist.
• Faith Brook, 90, British actress.
• Sid Couchey, 92, American comic book artist, Burkitt's lymphoma.
• Alba Encarnación, 56, Puerto Rican activist and teacher.
• Wayne Frazier, 73, American football player.
• Hans G. Helms, 79, German experimental writer.
• Philip Jenkinson, 76, English television presenter.
• María Teresa López Beltrán, 61, Spanish medievalist and academic.
• Tom Manastersky, 83, Canadian football player and hockey player.
• Bogusław Mec, 65, Polish singer, songwriter, composer, and artist.
• James B. Morehead, 95, American World War II flying ace, stroke complications.
• Noverre, 14, American Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the Sussex Stakes.
• Lanier W. Phillips, 88, American civil rights activist.
• Gösta Schwarck, 96, Danish composer and businessman.
• John Souza, 91, American soccer player.
• Leon Spencer, 66, American jazz organist.
• Ghiath Tayfour, 42-43, Syrian boxing champion, shot.
• Ian Turpie, 68, Australian actor and game show host, throat cancer.
• Miomir Vukobratović, 81, Serbian mechanical engineer.
• Tahira Wasti, 68, Pakistani actor.

12

• Mark Aguhar, 24, American activist, writer and multimedia fine artist, suicide.
• Niels Baunsøe, 72, Danish Olympic cyclist.
• Robert Parke Cameron, 91, Canadian diplomat.
• Samuel Glazer, 89, American entrepreneur and businessman, co-developer of Mr. Coffee, leukemia.
• Junus Effendi Habibie, 74, Indonesian diplomat.
• Dick Harter, 81, American basketball coach, cancer.
• Michael Hossack, 65, American drummer, cancer.
• Friedhelm Konietzka, 73, German-born Swiss football player and manager, assisted suicide.
• Erling Stuer Lauridsen, 95, Danish Olympic wrestler.
• Augustin Misago, 69, Rwandan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Gikongoro.
• Wilson Abraham Moncayo Jalil, 67, Ecuadorian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Santo Domingo en Ecuador.
• Tom Murrin, 73, American performance artist and playwright.
• Madeleine Parent, 93, Canadian union leader and women's rights activist.
• Jean-Pierre Salignon, 84, French Olympic basketball player.
• Douglas Scott, 91, Australian politician, member of the Australian Senate.

13

• Vernon Ahmadjian, 81, American lichenologist.
• Abdullah al-Dahdouh, 45–46, Moroccan Muslim, murdered.
• Keith Bannister, 89, English footballer.
• Michael P. Barnett, 82, British theoretical chemist and computer scientist.
• Bengt Beckman, 86, Swedish mathematician.
• Derek Bridge, 90, English cricketer.
• Harvey T. Carter, 83, American rock climber.
• Domitila Chúngara, 74, Bolivian labor leader and feminist, lung cancer.
• Bodjie Dasig, 48, Filipino singer and songwriter, cancer.
• Della Davidson, 60, American modern dancer, choreographer, and dance professor, breast cancer.
• Julius Depaoli, 88, Austrian Olympic water polo player.
• Michel Duchaussoy, 73, French actor, cardiac arrest.
• Jock Hobbs, 52, New Zealand rugby union player and administrator, leukaemia.
• Frank Jordan, 79, Australian Olympic water polo player.
• Tom Johnson, 89, American astronomer and businessman, founder of Celestron.
• Noel Luces, 63, Trinidadian Olympic cyclist, stroke.
• Hans Ludvig Martensen, 84, Danish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Copenhagen.
• Eileen McDonough, 49, American child actress.
• Grete Nordrå, 87, Norwegian actress.
• Karl Roy, 43, Filipino singer, cardiac arrest.
• Lyudmila Shagalova, 88, Russian film actress.
• Cedric Sharpley, 59, South African drummer, cardiac arrest.
• Amusa Shittu, 75, Nigerian footballer, effects of a stroke.
• Jacques Villiers, 87, French aerospace engineer.

14

• Gretl Aicher, 84, Austrian artistic director.
• Liesbeth Baarveld-Schlaman, 77, Dutch politician.
• Ray Barlow, 85, English footballer.
• Vladimir Buslaev, 74, Russian mathematical physicist.
• Valentīna Butāne, 82, Latvian singer.
• Matthew G. Carter, 98, American politician and housing activist, Mayor of Montclair, New Jersey, Alzheimer's disease.
• Kihachi Enomoto, 75, Japanese baseball player, colon cancer.
• Himanish Goswami, 85, Indian writer and cartoonist, prostate cancer.
• Ernst-Günter Habig, 76, German Olympic footballer, stroke.
• Eddie King, 73, American Chicago blues musician.
• Carl Rattray, 82, Jamaican jurist and politician, Attorney General and president of the Court of Appeal.
• Marcel Rohrbach, 78, French cyclist.
• Pierre Schoendoerffer, 83, French director, surgical complications.
• Margareta Sjöstedt, 88, Swedish-born Austrian singer and actress.
• Ted L. Strickland, 79, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Colorado.
• Ċensu Tabone, 98, Maltese politician, President and Minister for Foreign Affairs.

15

• Alice Amsden, 68, American economist and MIT professor.
• Edvard Hagerup Bull, 89, Norwegian composer.
• Mervyn Davies, 65, Welsh rugby union player, cancer.
• Bob Day, 67, American Olympic distance runner, bladder cancer.
• Baby Falak, 2, Indian baby, cardiac arrest.
• Eb Gaines, 84, American businessman and diplomat, Consul General to Bermuda.
• Lily Garafulic, 97, Chilean sculptor and professor.
• Luis Gonzales, 81, Filipino actor, pneumonia.
• Bernardino González Ruiz, 101, Panamanian politician, President.
• Fran Matera, 87, American comic strip artist.
• Nigel Napier, 14th Lord Napier, 81, British soldier and courtier.
• Dave Philley, 91, American baseball player.
• Pepe Rubio, 80, Spanish actor.
• Jean-Marie Souriau, 89, French mathematician.
• Joe Stanley, 104, American World War II pilot, commander of Air Force Base">United States Air Force">Air Force Base.

16

• Aziz Ab'Sáber, 87, Brazilian geologist, heart attack.
• Georges Aber, 81, French singer-songwriter.
• Alexander of Liechtenstein, 82, Liechtenstein royal.
• Lee Balterman, 91, American photographer.
• M. A. R. Barker, 83, American professor, fantasy novelist, and role-playing game creator.
• Estanislau Basora, 85, Spanish footballer.
• John Billman, 92, American football player.
• Bijan Choudhury, 80–81, Indian painter.
• Giancarlo Cobelli, 82, Italian actor and stage director.
• Ed Dahler, 86, American basketball player.
• Ray Gariepy, 83, Canadian ice hockey player.
• John Ghindia, 86, American football player.
• Robert Hails, 89, American air force lieutenant general, vice commander of Tactical Air Command.
• Robert L. Hall, 85, American anthropologist, authority on Native American culture, complications from carcinoid cancer.
• Donald E. Hillman, 93, American World War II flying ace.
• Irvin Iffla, 88, Jamaican cricketer.
• Eldon Nelson, 85, American jockey.
• Bronislav Poloczek, 72, Czech theatre and television actor.
• Peter Serracino Inglott, 75, Maltese philosopher.
• Anita Steckel, 82, American feminist artist.
• Takaaki Yoshimoto, 87, Japanese poet, critic, and professor, pneumonia.
• Dieter Zechlin, 85, German pianist.

17

• Patience Abbe, 87, American children's author.
• Paul Boyer, 76, American historian.
• Rubí Cerioni, 84, Argentine footballer.
• Bernard Cohen, 87, American nuclear physicist.
• Matt Conte, 85, American football player and coach.
• John Cowles Jr., 82, American businessman and philanthropist, lung cancer.
• Bert Demarco, 87, Scottish snooker player and billiard hall owner, stroke.
• John Demjanjuk, 91, Ukrainian Nazi war criminal, natural causes.
• René Fontaine, 78, Canadian politician, Minister of Northern Development.
• John T. Henley, 90, American politician, President pro tempore of the North Carolina Senate.
• Famara Jatta, 53, Gambian government minister and economist, Governor of the Central Bank.
• Jaye Radisich, 35, Australian politician, Western Australian MLA for Swan Hills, cancer.
• Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria, 88, Egyptian Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, prostate cancer.
• Ron Stewart, 79, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Ngaire Thomas, 69, New Zealand author.
• Margaret Whitlam, 92, Australian swimmer and activist, wife of Gough Whitlam, complications from a fall.
• Chaleo Yoovidhya, 88, Thai businessman, natural causes.
• Fakhra Younus, 33, Pakistani acid attack victim, suicide by jumping.

18

• Imra Agotić, 69, Croatian major general, commander of the Air Force.
• Khelifi Ahmed, 90–91, Algerian singer.
• Haim Alexander, 96, German-born Israeli composer.
• Furman Bisher, 93, American sports writer, heart attack.
• William R. Charette, 79, American Medal of Honor recipient.
• Shirley May France, 79, American swimmer.
• António Leitão, 51, Portuguese Olympic bronze medal-winning athlete, iron overload.
• Bob McConnell, 87, American baseball author and researcher, founding member of Society for American Baseball Research.
• William G. Moore Jr., 91, American Air Force general.
• Alan Pegler, 91, British railway preservationist.
• Claudia Pía Baudracco, 41, Argentine women, sexual minorities and LGTBI rights activist.
• Anargyros Printezis, 74, Greek Eastern Catholic hierarch, Apostolic Exarch of Greece.
• Nigel Rusted, 104, Canadian physician.
• István Suti, 72, Hungarian Olympic equestrian.
• George Tupou V, 63, Tongan King.
• Eric Watson, 56, British photographer, heart attack.
• Jalal Zolfonun, 74, Iranian setar player and composer, heart disease.

19

• Verica Barać, 56, Serbian lawyer, cancer.
• Dante Benvenuti, 86, Argentine Olympic cyclist.
• Hanne Borchsenius, 76, Danish actress.
• Jim Case, 84, American television director and producer.
• Jagbir Singh Chhina, 92, Indian freedom fighter.
• Masum Ahmed Chowdhury, 68-69, Bangladeshi diplomat, lung cancer.
• Gene DeWeese, 78, American author.
• Donald Brown Engley, 94, American librarian.
• Ulu Grosbard, 83, Belgian-born American theatre and film director.
• William J. Hibbler, 65, American federal judge, District Judge for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
• Anton Jude, 51, Sri Lankan actor, cardiac arrest.
• Sanford N. McDonnell, 89, American businessman, pancreatic cancer.
• Paul Peter Mostoway, 81, Canadian politician.
• Hugo Munthe-Kaas, 90, Norwegian resistance fighter and politician.
• Karl-Heinz Spickenagel, 80, German footballer.
• George Topolnisky, 95, Canadian politician.
• Knut Erik Tranøy, 93, Norwegian philosopher.

20

• Erlom Akhvlediani, 78, Georgian writer.
• Guy Boucher, 68, French Canadian actor, singer and radio and TV presenter.
• Daishin Noboru, 74, Japanese sumo wrestler.
• Ottorino Enzo, 85, Italian rower.
• Bill Glasson, 87, Australian politician, member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Gregory.
• Lincoln Hall, 56, Australian mountaineer and author, mesothelioma.
• Ralph P. Hummel, 74, American political scientist.
• Noboru Ishiguro, 73, Japanese animator and animation director.
• Ante Jurić, 89, Croatian Roman Catholic prelate, Metropolitan Archbishop of Split and Makarska.
• Abdul Rahman Orfalli, 23, Syrian protest organizer, bombing.
• Mel Parnell, 89, American baseball player, cancer.
• Frits de Ruijter, 94, Dutch Olympic athlete.
• Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg, 101, Polish-born Israeli Haredi rabbi and rosh yeshiva.
• Jim Stynes, 45, Irish-born Australian football player, cancer.
• Allan Tolmich, 93, American athlete, Amateur Athletic Union hurdle champion.
• Bernard Zadi Zaourou, 73, Ivorian politician and author, heart complications.

21

• Shaima Alawadi, 32, American murder victim, head trauma.
• Lacy Banks, 68, American sports columnist and author, heart disease.
• Rekia Boyd, 22, American police victim, shot.
• Christine Brooke-Rose, 89, British writer and literary critic.
• John George Chedid, 88, Lebanese-born American Maronite hierarch, first Bishop of Our Lady of Los Angeles.
• Albrecht Dietz, 86, German entrepreneur and scientist.
• Judy Egerton, 83, Australian-born British art historian and curator.
• Ron Erhardt, 81, American football coach.
• Elisabeth Ettlinger, 96, German-born Swiss archaeologist and academic.
• Robert Fuest, 84, English film director.
• Bruno Giacometti, 104, Swiss architect, brother of Alberto and Diego Giacometti.
• Tonino Guerra, 92, Italian poet and screenwriter.
• Irving Louis Horowitz, 82, American sociologist, surgical complications.
• Mohamed Kassas, 91, Egyptian botanist and environmentalist.
• Murray Lender, 81, American entrepreneur, complications from a fall.
• Yuri Razuvaev, 66, Russian chess player and trainer.
• Matanhy Saldanha, 63, Indian politician and social activist, heart attack.
• Marina Salye, 77, Russian geologist and politician, heart attack.
• Shao Xianghua, 99, Chinese scientist.
• Derick Thomson, 90, Scottish poet.
• Kåre Tveter, 90, Norwegian painter and illustrator.

22

• Joe Blanchard, 83, American football player, professional wrestler and promoter, squamous-cell carcinoma.
• C. K. Chandrappan, 76, Indian politician, Secretary of the Communist Party of India, member of the Lok Sabha, cancer.
• Remmie Colaço, 86, Indian singer, Alzheimer's disease.
• Samuel Collins, 88, American politician.
• Ted Cutting, 85, British automotive engineer, designed Aston Martin DBR1.
• Dhaval Dhairyawan, 32, Indian photographer, after a long illness.
• Hernán Elizondo Arce, 90, Costa Rican novelist and poet.
• Demir Gökgöl, 74, Turkish-born German actor.
• Harry Gunnarsson, 82, Swedish Olympic boxer.
• Johnny McCauley, 86, Irish singer-songwriter.
• Vimal Mundada, 49, Indian politician, cancer.
• Nagnath Naikwadi, 89, Indian independence activist and social worker.
• Jackson Narcomey, 70, American painter.
• Muhammad Ibrahim Nugud, 80, Sudanese politician, Secretary General of the Sudanese Communist Party.
• Kirsten Passer, 82, Danish actress.
• John Payton, 65, American civil rights attorney .
• Matthew White Ridley, 4th Viscount Ridley, 86, British nobleman.
• Edward Sismore, 90, British RAF officer and Distinguished Flying Cross recipient.
• Mickey Sullivan, 80, American baseball coach.
• David Waltz, 68, American computer scientist.
• Neil L. Whitehead, 56, English anthropologist.

23

• Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, 77, Somali politician, President, liver failure.
• Chico Anysio, 80, Brazilian comedian, renal and pulmonary failure.
• Jean-Yves Besselat, 68, French politician.
• Harold Blitman, 82, American basketball coach.
• Jim Duffy, 75, American animator, cancer.
• Jack Ellena, 80, American football player.
• Hynek Hromada, 76, Czech sports shooter.
• Witold Lesiewicz, 89, Polish film director.
• Eric Lowen, 60, American singer and songwriter, complications from ALS.
• Péter Pázmándy, 73, Hungarian-born Swiss footballer and coach.
• Naji Talib, 94, Iraqi politician, Prime Minister.
• Lonnie Wright, 68, American football and basketball player, heart failure.

24

• Iqbal Bahu, 68, Pakistani singer, cardiac arrest.
• Dennis Bennett, 72, American baseball player.
• Vigor Bovolenta, 37, Italian Olympic silver medal-winning volleyball player, heart attack.
• Sir Paul Callaghan, 64, New Zealand physicist, colon cancer.
• Henry Clark, 82, Northern Irish politician, MP for Antrim, North.
• Bill Cutler, 92, American baseball executive.
• Hertha Engelbrecht, 89, German lawyer.
• Pierre Gérald, 105, French actor.
• Vince Lovegrove, 65, Australian musician and journalist, car accident.
• Marion Marlowe, 83, American singer and stage actress, natural causes.
• Edward Henryk Materski, 89, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Radom.
• Nick Noble, 85, American pop and country singer.
• Jose Prakash, 86, Indian actor, heart failure.
• Wolfgang Rennert, 89, German conductor.
• Jocky Wilson, 62, Scottish darts player.

25

• Raymond Bley, 73, Luxembourgish Olympic cyclist.
• Priscilla Buckley, 90, American writer, managing editor of National Review.
• Hal E. Chester, 91, American film producer and former child actor.
• John Crosfield, 96, British businessman.
• Bob DeCourcy, 84, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Tony Gordon, 63, New Zealand rugby league player and coach.
• Edd Gould, 23, British animator, leukemia.
• Russell C. Jordan Jr., 85, American politician.
• Mona Shourie Kapoor, 48, Indian television producer, cancer.
• Ben-Zion Leitner, 85, Israeli soldier, Medal of Valor recipient.
• Lex, 12, American Marine service dog, awarded honorary Purple Heart, cancer.
• Tom Lodge, 75, British radio DJ, cancer.
• Ralph Maxwell, 78, New Zealand politician, MP for Waitakere and Titirangi.
• Roger Molander, 71, American anti-nuclear activist, complications from liver cancer.
• Tony Newton, Baron Newton of Braintree, 74, British politician, Leader of the House of Commons, MP for Braintree.
• Nathalie Perrey, 83, French actress.
• Larry Stevenson, 81, American skateboard innovator, pneumonia and Alzheimer's disease.
• Bertil Ströberg, 79, Swedish Air Force officer and spy, cancer.
• Bert Sugar, 74, American boxing writer and historian, cardiac arrest.
• Antonio Tabucchi, 68, Italian novelist.
• Bill Weston, 70, British stuntman.

26

• Susana Agüero, 68, Argentine ballet dancer.
• Sisto Averno, 86, American football player.
• Michael Begley, 79, Irish politician, TD for Kerry South.
• Thomas M. Cover, 73, American information theorist.
• David Craighead, 88, American organist.
• Manik Sitaram Godghate, 74, Indian poet.
• Jay Holt, 88, American Olympic wrestler.
• Edmond Jacobs, 83, Luxembourgish cyclist.
• Helmer Ringgren, 94, Swedish theologian.
• Stella Tanner, 87, British actress.

27

• Dale Baker, 73, Australian politician, South Australian MHA for MacKillop ; Leader of the Opposition, motor neurone disease.
• Sohen Biln, 72, Canadian Olympic rower.
• Hugo Biermann, 95, South African admiral.
• Roger Cooke, 71, American artist and muralist.
• Millôr Fernandes, 87, Brazilian cartoonist, humorist, and playwright, multiple organ failure.
• Ademilde Fonseca, 91, Brazilian Choro singer.
• Marc Gervais, 82, Canadian Jesuit, writer, and film professor, complications of dementia.
• Larry Haws, 72, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives, brain cancer.
• Harold G. Hillam, 77, American leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
• Anatoly Kikin, 71, Soviet and Russian footballer and coach.
• Hilton Kramer, 84, American art critic, co-founder of The New Criterion.
• Adrienne Rich, 82, American feminist poet and essayist, complications of rheumatoid arthritis.
• Warren Stevens, 92, American actor, lung disease.
• Micah True, 58, American ultramarathon runner.
• Garry Walberg, 90, American actor, COPD and heart failure.
• Daniel Zamudio, 24, Chilean homosexual, beaten.
• Alim Zankishiev, 30, Russian insurgent, leader in the Caucasus Emirate, killed.

28

• Fred Anderson, 78, Australian rugby league player.
• John Arden, 81, English playwright.
• Alexander Arutiunian, 91, Armenian composer.
• Etel Billig, 79, American actress, brain aneurysm.
• Leonard Braithwaite, 88, Canadian lawyer and politician.
• Walker Calhoun, 93, Cherokee musician, dancer, and teacher.
• Jacques Carelman, 83, French painter, illustrator and designer.
• Bernard Combo-Matsiona, 72, Congolese politician.
• Harry Crews, 76, American author, neuropathy.
• T. Damodaran, 77, Indian screenwriter.
• Ruth M. Davis, 83, American computer scientist and civil servant.
• Hans van den Doel, 74, Dutch economist and politician, Member of the House of Representatives.
• Joy G. Dryfoos, 86, American sociologist, cardiac arrest.
• Alberto María Fonrouge, 99, Argentine politician and lawyer.
• Jerry McCain, 81, American blues musician.
• Willie May, 75, American Olympic hurdle medalist, amyloidosis.
• Erkki Nordberg, 65, Finnish colonel and war correspondent.
• Brian Phillips, 80, English footballer.
• William Sampson, 52, Canadian author, heart attack.
• Earl Scruggs, 88, American bluegrass musician, natural causes.
• Sergei Solnechnikov, 31, Russian military officer, grenade explosion.
• Eduard Steinberg, 76, Russian painter, cancer.
• Neil Travis, 75, American film editor, Oscar winner.
• Addie L. Wyatt, 88, American labor and civil rights leader, long illness.

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• Mortimer H. Appley, 90, American psychologist and academic administrator.
• P. S. Appu, 83, Indian civil servant.
• Luke Askew, 80, American actor.
• Ioannis Banias, 72, Greek politician.
• Borgia, 18, German racehorse, euthanized.
• Jonathan Bowden, 49, British politician.
• Bill Brett, Baron Brett, 70, British trade unionist and politician.
• Liv Buck, 83, Norwegian trade unionist.
• Olimpia Cavalli, 81, Italian actress.
• John S. Chase, 87, American architect.
• Pap Cheyassin Secka, 69, Gambian politician.
• Paulino Reale Chirina, 88, Argentine Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Venado Tuerto.
• Lam Cho, 102, Chinese martial artist.
• Gerald Estrin, 90, American computer science pioneer.
• Albert Hadley, 91, American interior decorator, cancer.
• Bill Jenkins, 81, American NHRA drag racer.
• Hone Kaa, 71, New Zealand church leader, cancer.
• Kenneth Libo, 74, American historian of Jewish immigration.
• Oksana Makar, 18, Ukrainian rape and murder victim.
• John Mallison, 82, Australian pastor.
• Montjeu, 16, Irish racehorse, sepsis.
• Ray Narleski, 83, American baseball player, natural causes.
• Joel Olson, 45, American political science professor.
• Michael Peterson, 59, Australian surfer, heart attack.
• Frank H. Strickler, 92, American defense lawyer.
• David Walter, 64, British journalist, cancer.

30

• Janet Anderson Perkin, 90, Canadian baseball player and curler.
• Raja Ashman Shah, 53, Malaysian royal, son of the Sultan of Perak, asthma attack.
• Rex Babin, 49, American cartoonist, cancer.
• Robert Beezer, 83, American federal judge, lung cancer.
• Jorge Carpizo McGregor, 67, Mexican jurist, complications from surgery.
• James Chowning Davies, 93, American sociologist.
• Ron Gaunt, 78, Australian cricketer.
• Kees Guyt, 58, Dutch footballer.
• Rich Jeffries, 73, American television announcer.
• Aquila Berlas Kiani, 90–91, Indian academic.
• Barry Kitchener, 64, English footballer, cancer.
• Viktor Kosichkin, 74, Russian Olympic speed skating gold and silver medalist.
• Francesco Mancini, 43, Italian footballer, heart attack.
• Addie Morrow, 83, Northern Irish politician.
• Emrys Roberts, 82, Welsh poet and author, Archdruid of Wales.
• Granville Semmes, 84, American entrepreneur, founder of 1-800-Flowers.
• Leonid Shebarshin, 77, Russian KGB interim Chairman, suicide by gunshot.
• Tenga Rinpoche, 80, Tibetan lama.
• Ioannis Vasileiadis, 88, Greek politician and admiral, Minister of Public Order.
• Erich Wenk, 86, German bass-baritone.

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• Judith Adams, 68, New Zealand-born Australian politician, Senator for Western Australia, breast cancer.
• Beatrice Brumby, 98, Australian pastoral and tourism pioneer.
• G. Emerson Cole, 93, American radio broadcaster.
• Dale R. Corson, 97, American physicist, President of Cornell University, heart failure.
• Cosmas Desmond, 76, South African priest and activist.
• Grand Slam, 17, American thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the 1997 Belmont Futurity Stakes and Champagne Stakes, heart failure.
• Bernard Gruenke, 99, American stained glass artist.
• Lise London, 96, French resistance fighter, widow of Artur London.
• Jerry Lynch, 81, American baseball player, prostate cancer.
• Galina Savenko, 46, Russian Olympic sprint canoer.
• Alberto Sughi, 83, Italian painter.
• Halbert White, 61, American economist, cancer.