Deaths in May 2011

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

  May 2011

1

• Alex, 52, Indian actor and magician, brief illness.
• Spyrydon Babskyi, 52, Ukrainian Orthodox hierarch, Archbishop of Vinnytsia in UOC-KP.
• Schalk Booysen, 83, South African Olympic sprinter.
• Sir Henry Cooper, 76, British Olympic heavyweight boxer.
• Brian Evans, 74, Welsh cricketer.
• Kim Jun-bong, 58, South Korean taxi driver, suicide by crucifixion.
• Agustín García-Gasco Vicente, 80, Spanish Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Valencia, cardiac arrest.
• Moshe Landau, 99, Israeli jurist, Chief Justice, presided over Adolf Eichmann's trial.
• Ted Lowe, 90, British snooker commentator.
• Steven Orszag, 68, American mathematician, chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
• Anny Rüegg, 98-99, Swiss alpine skier.
• Ivan Slavkov, 70, Bulgarian sports official.
• William O. Taylor II, 78, American journalist and publisher, brain tumor.
• J. Ernest Wilkins Jr., 87, American mathematician and nuclear scientist.

  2

• Leonid Abalkin, 80, Russian economist.
• Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, 46, Kuwaiti Al-Qaeda computer expert, shot.
• L.V. Banks, 78, American guitarist, singer and songwriter, heart failure.
• Ion Barbu, 72, Romanian football player.
• Robert W. Clower, 85, American economist.
• Lloyd Colteryahn, 79, American football player.
• Sir Basil Hall, 93, British lawyer and civil servant, Treasury Solicitor.
• Danny Kassap, 28, Congolese-born Canadian long-distance runner.
• Osama bin Laden, 54, Saudi founder of Al-Qaeda, planned September 11 attacks, shot.
• Alexander Lazarev, 73, Russian actor.
• Eddie Lewis, 76, English footballer, cancer.
• Owen Roe McGovern, 93, Irish Gaelic football player.
• Lyuben Obretenov, 92, Bulgarian Olympic gymnast.
• René Emilio Ponce, 64, Salvadoran general and defence minister, army chief of staff during the Civil War.
• David Sencer, 86, American public health official, director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, heart disease.
• Shigeo Yaegashi, 78, Japanese footballer.

  3

• Paul Ackerley, 61, New Zealand hockey player and coach, skin cancer.
• Frédéric Affo, 68, Beninese politician and football executive.
• Robert Marshall Anderson, 77, American bishop, pancreatic cancer.
• Victor Auer, 74, American Olympic silver medal-winning sports shooter.
• Bob Balog, 86, American football player.
• Robert Brout, 82, American-born Belgian theoretical physicist.
• Odell Brown, 70, American jazz organist and songwriter.
• Jackie Cooper, 88, American actor.
• C. Rollins Hanlon, 96, American cardiac surgeon, lymphoma.
• Richie Hubbard, 78, Canadian politician.
• Sergo Kotrikadze, 74, Georgian football player and coach, heart attack.
• Abdulla Kurd, 34, Turkish Kurdish Islamist militant.
• Mildred Robbins Leet, 88, American philanthropist, co-founder of Trickle Up, complications of a fall.
• Larry McCormick, 71, Canadian politician, Member of Parliament for Hastings—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington.
• Marianna Nagy, 82, Hungarian pair skater.
• Patrick Roy, 53, French politician, pancreatic cancer.
• Peter Urbach, 71, German Cold War informant.
• Thanasis Veggos, 83, Greek actor, stroke.
• Armand Van Wambeke, 84, Belgian Olympic basketball player.
• Des Williams, 83, South African Olympic boxer.

  4

• James Beggs, 87, American Olympic rower.
• Lázaro Blanco, 73, Mexican photographer, cancer.
• Maurice Carpentier, 89, French cyclist.
• Frans de Kok, 87, Dutch conductor.
• Oliver Elmes, 76, British graphic designer.
• Jacques Georges Habib Hafouri, 94, Syrian Catholic hierarch, Archbishop of Hassaké-Nisibi.
• Sammy McCrory, 86, Northern Irish footballer.
• Ronald H. Miller, 73, American professor of religion.
• Mary Murphy, 80, American actress.
• Thomas G. Nelson, 74, American federal judge, complications from declining health.
• Françoise Olivier-Coupeau, 51, French politician, cancer.
• Emil Reinecke, 78, German cyclist.
• Acacio Valbuena Rodríguez, 88, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Prefect for Western Sahara.
• Frans Sammut, 66, Maltese writer, natural causes.
• Bernard Stasi, 80, French politician, Minister for Overseas Departments and Territories, Alzheimer's disease.
• Richard Steinheimer, 81, American railroad photographer, Alzheimer's disease.
• Sada Thompson, 83, American actress, lung disease.

  5

• Leslie Audus, 99, British botany professor, expert on plant growth hormones.
• Alice Bridges, 94, American Olympic bronze medal-winning swimmer.
• Nikolay Chuchalov, 78, Soviet Olympic wrestler.
• Claude Choules, 110, British-born Australian veteran, last combat veteran of World War I.
• Donald Crump, 78, Canadian commissioner of the Canadian Football League.
• Salomón Hakim, 81, Colombian neurosurgeon, researcher and inventor.
• Al Johnson, 88, American football player and coach.
• Arthur Laurents, 93, American playwright, librettist, stage director, and screenwriter.
• Dougie McCracken, 46, Scottish football player, suspected suicide.
• Yosef Merimovich, 86, Israeli football player and manager.
• Rolo Puente, 71, Argentine actor, pulmonary emphysema.
• Friedrich Rückert, 90, Austrian Olympic hockey player.
• Tommy Wright, 83, Scottish footballer.
• Dana Wynter, 79, German-born British actress, heart failure.

  6

• Barry Connolly, 72, Australian football player.
• Oniroku Dan, 80, Japanese author, esophageal cancer.
• Sir Geoffrey Dhenin, 93, British air marshal.
• Bill Hopkins, 83, Welsh writer.
• Horace Freeland Judson, 80, American science historian, complications of a stroke.
• Antanas Krištopaitis, 89, Lithuanian painter.
• Kazi Nuruzzaman, 86, Bangladeshi veteran of the Liberation War, natural causes.
• Duane Pillette, 88, American baseball player.
• Dick Walsh, 85, American baseball executive, first commissioner of the North American Soccer League.
• Yoon Ki-won, 24, South Korean football player, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.

  7

• Johnny Albino, 93, Puerto Rican bolero singer, heart attack.
• Seve Ballesteros, 54, Spanish golfer, brain cancer.
• Big George, 53, British broadcaster and music arranger.
• Willard Boyle, 86, Canadian physicist, Nobel laureate.
• Shaukat Galiev, 82, Soviet Tatar poet and writer of children's books.
• Jack Gordon, 66, American politician, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives, State Senator, brain cancer.
• Ross Hagen, 72, American actor.
• Allyson Hennessy, 63, Trinidadian broadcaster.
• Eilert Määttä, 75, Swedish ice hockey player and coach.
• Milan Mišík, 82, Slovak geologist.
• Gunter Sachs, 78, German photographer, author and multi-millionaire industrialist, suicide by gunshot.
• Robert Stempel, 77, American automobile executive, chairman and CEO of General Motors.
• Kate Swift, 87, American writer, stomach cancer.
• John Walker, 67, American musician, liver cancer.
• Doric Wilson, 72, American playwright and gay activist.

  8

• Huthaifa al-Batawi, Iraqi al-Qaeda leader, shot.
• Wallace Clark, 84, Northern Irish maritime writer.
• Cornell Dupree, 68, American jazz and R&B guitarist, complications from emphysema.
• George Guțiu, 87, Romanian Catholic hierarch, Archbishop of Cluj-Gherla.
• Corwin Hansch, 92, American chemist, pneumonia.
• Li Desheng, 95, Chinese People's Liberation Army general.
• Charles McPhee, 49, American radio host, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Greg Percival, 86, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council.
• Soňa Pertlová, 23, Czech chessplayer, cancer.
• Lionel Rose, 62, Australian world champion boxer.
• Hilton Rosemarin, 58, Canadian set decorator, brain cancer.
• Carlos Trillo, 68, Argentine comic book writer.
• Galina Urbanovich, 93, Russian Olympic gold and silver medal-winning gymnast.
• Arkady Vaksberg, 83, Soviet and Russian lawyer, author, film maker and playwright.
• Sir Ronald Waterhouse, 85, British jurist.

  9

• George Allen, 87, American ichthyologist and fisheries scientist.
• William Y. Anderson, 89, Swedish-born American fighter pilot.
• David Cairns, 44, British politician, MP for Inverclyde (UK Parliament constituency)|Greenock and Inverclyde] and Inverclyde, acute pancreatitis.
• Robert Ellsworth, 84, American politician and diplomat, Representative from Kansas, Representative to NATO|Ambassador to NATO], complications from pneumonia.
• Epiphanios of Vryoula, 76, American Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Spain and Portugal.
• Henry Feffer, 93, American professor and spine surgeon, treated Saddam Hussein, heart failure.
• Dolores Fuller, 88, American actress, and songwriter.
• Jeff Gralnick, 72, American television news producer.
• Lidia Gueiler Tejada, 89, Bolivian politician, acting President, after a long illness.
• Doug Leeds, 63, American executive, vice-chairman of American Theatre Wing, cancer.
• Ivo Pešák, 66, Czech singer, dancer and comic performer.
• Roland Spångberg, 88, Swedish Olympic water polo player.
• Newton Thornburg, 81, American novelist.
• Shailendra Kumar Upadhyay, 82, Nepali politician, Foreign Minister, altitude sickness.
• Wouter Weylandt, 26, Belgian road bicycle racer, race crash.

  10

• Omar Ahmad, 46, American entrepreneur and politician, Mayor of San Carlos, California, heart attack.
• Michael Baze, 24, American jockey, accidental drug overdose.
• Bill Bergesch, 89, American baseball executive.
• Frank Boston, 72, American politician, member of the Maryland House of Delegates.
• John S. Carter, 65, American music producer, cancer.
• Bill Gallo, 88, American cartoonist and newspaper columnist, complications from pneumonia.
• Patrick Galvin, 83, Irish writer.
• Zim Ngqawana, 51, South African jazz saxophonist, stroke.
• Burt Reinhardt, 91, American broadcast executive, President of CNN, complications from strokes.
• David Weston, 75, British artist.
• Norma Zimmer, 87, American entertainer.

  11

• Clark Accord, 50, Surinamese–Dutch author and makeup artist, stomach cancer.
• Maurice Goldhaber, 100, American physicist.
• Leo Kahn, 94, American entrepreneur, co-founder of Staples, complications from a series of strokes.
• Albert Obiefuna, 81, Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Onitsha.
• Leo Passage, 75, Dutch-born American hairstylist.
• Reach Sambath, 47, Cambodian journalist, stroke.
• Elisabeth Svendsen, 81, British hotelier and animal welfare campaigner, founder of The Donkey Sanctuary.
• Robert Traylor, 34, American basketball player, suspected heart attack.
• Glyn Williams, 92, Welsh footballer.
• Snooky Young, 92, American jazz trumpeter, complications of a lung ailment.

  12

• Chen Muhua, 90, Chinese politician.
• Harrison Chongo, 41, Zambian football player, malaria.
• Matej Čurko, 42–43, Slovak murderer, cannibal and suspected serial killer, complications from gunshot wounds.
• Charles F. Haas, 97, American television director.
• Mose Jefferson, 68, American businessman, cancer.
• Jack Jones, 86, American Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, lung disease.
• Lloyd Knibb, 80, Jamaican drummer, liver cancer.
• Noreen Murray, 76, British geneticist.
• David Orton, 77, Canadian environmentalist, pancreatic cancer.
• Carlos Pascual, 80, Cuban baseball player.
• Luigi del Gallo Roccagiovine, 88, Italian nobleman and Roman Catholic prelate, Titular Bishop of Camplum.
• Ron Springs, 54, American football player, complications from surgery.
• Bill Summers, 75, American car builder.
• Miyu Uehara, 24, Japanese glamour model, apparent suicide by hanging.
• Jack Wolf, 76, American information theorist, cancer.

  13

• Derek Boogaard, 28, Canadian hockey player, accidental overdose of alcohol and oxycodone.
• Stephen De Staebler, 78, American sculptor and printmaker, complications from cancer.
• Chit Estella, 53, Filipino journalist and professor, traffic collision.
• Pam Gems, 85, British playwright.
• Bernard Greenhouse, 95, American cellist.
• Bob Litherland, 80, British politician, MP for Manchester Central, cancer.
• Princess Maria Elisabeth of Bavaria, 96, German noblewoman.
• Wallace McCain, 81, Canadian businessman, co-founder of McCain Foods, pancreatic cancer.
• Mel Queen, 69, American baseball player and pitching coach.
• Jack Richardson, 81, Canadian record producer.
• Bruce Ricker, 68, American film documentarian and producer.
• Badal Sarkar, 85, Indian dramatist, colon cancer.

  14

• Ferial Alibali, 78, Albanian actress.
• James Richard Cheek, 74, American diplomat, Ambassador to Sudan and Argentina.
• Murray Handwerker, 89, American businessman.
• Teuvo Laukkanen, 91, Finnish Olympic silver medal-winning cross-country skier.
• Michael Onslow, 7th Earl of Onslow, 73, British politician.
• Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, 87, Chinese-born American historian and author.
• Birgitta Trotzig, 81, Swedish author.
• Ernie Walker, 82, Scottish football administrator.
• Joseph Wershba, 90, American television producer and reporter.

  15

• Gunnar Alksnis, 79, Latvian-American philosopher and theologian.
• Maico Buncio, 22, Filipino motorcycle racer, race crash.
• Donald Christian, 52, Antiguan Olympic cyclist.
• John Feikens, 93, American senior judge of the District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, after long illness.
• Bob Flanigan, 84, American singer and musician.
• Pete Lovely, 85, American racecar driver.
• William Pennington, 88, American casino executive, Parkinson's disease.
• Anjuman Shehzadi, 33, Pakistani sage actress.
• Mahendra Singh Tikait, 76, Indian farming union leader, bone cancer.
• Samuel Wanjiru, 24, Kenyan Olympic gold medal-winning marathon runner, fall from balcony.
• Martin Woodhouse, 78, British novelist, screenwriter and inventor.

  16

• Ralph Barker, 93, British air gunner and writer.
• Robert Berks, 89, American sculptor, industrial designer and planner.
• Douglas Blubaugh, 76, American Olympic gold medal-winning wrestler, motorcycle accident.
• Serghei Covaliov, 66, Romanian Olympic gold and silver medal-winning canoeist.
• Bob Davis, 82, Australian football player.
• Nathaniel Davis, 86, American diplomat, cancer.
• Edward Hardwicke, 78, British actor.
• Kiyoshi Kodama, 77, Japanese actor, stomach cancer.
• Bill Skiles, 79, American comedian, kidney cancer.

  17

• Sean Dunphy, 73, Irish entertainer.
• Joseph Galibardy, 96, Indian Olympic gold medal-winning field hockey player.
• James M. Hewgley Jr., 94, American politician, Mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
• Harmon Killebrew, 74, American National [Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum|Hall of Fame] baseball player, esophageal cancer.
• Tomás Mac Anna, 84, Irish director and actor.
• Frank Upton, 76, English footballer, after short illness.

  18

• Seiseki Abe, 96, Japanese shodo and aikido teacher.
• Marcel De Mulder, 83, Belgian cyclist.
• Edward H. Harte, 88, American newspaper executive.
• Leonard Kastle, 82, American composer and filmmaker.
• Wlodzimierz Ksiazek, 60, Polish-born American painter.
• Włada Majewska, 100, Polish radio journalist, actress and singer.
• Hans Sterr, 77, German Olympic wrestler.
• Antoinette Tubman, 97, Liberian socialite, First Lady.
• Dick Wimmer, 74, American author, heart complications.

  19

• Phyllis Avery, 88, American actress, heart failure.
• Don H. Barden, 67, American businessman, lung cancer.
• Garret FitzGerald, 85, Irish politician, Taoiseach, Minister for Foreign Affairs, pneumonia.
• Ivan Gibbs, 83, Australian politician, Queensland MLA for Albert, cancer.
• Jeffrey Catherine Jones, 67, American transgender artist.
• David H. Kelley, 87, American-born Canadian archaeologist.
• Kathy Kirby, 72, British singer, heart attack.
• William Kloefkorn, 78, American poet.
• Alda Noni, 95, Italian coloratura soprano.
• Vladimir Ryzhkin, 80, Russian Olympic gold medal-winning footballer.
• Tom West, 71, American computer hardware engineer, heart attack.

  20

• Michael Bell, 74, Irish politician, Teachta Dála for Louth.
• John Cigna, 75, American radio personality.
• William Elliott, Baron Elliott of Morpeth, 90, British politician, MP for Newcastle upon Tyne North.
• Arieh Handler, 95, Israeli Zionist leader.
• Eduard Janota, 59, Czech politician, Finance Minister, cardiac arrest.
• Donald Krim, 65, American businessman, president of Kino International, cancer.
• Ciril Pelhan, 89, Yugoslav Olympic swimmer.
• Joaquín Pérez, 75, Mexican Olympic double bronze medal-winning equestrian.
• Steve Rutt, 66, American inventor of early video animation, pancreatic cancer.
• Randy Savage, 58, American professional wrestler and actor, heart attack.

  21

• John Delaney, 42, Irish businessman.
• Irene Gilbert, 76, American actress and school director, co-founder of Stella Adler Academy of Los Angeles, Alzheimer's disease.
• David J. Hudson, 67, American sound mixer.
• Bill Hunter, 71, Australian actor, liver cancer.
• Pádraig Kennelly, 82, Irish website, editor and journalist, founder of Kerry's Eye.
• Dieter Klöcker, 75, German clarinetist.
• Gordon McLennan, 87, British politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party, cancer.
• Hiroyuki Nagato, 77, Japanese actor, cerebrovascular disease.
• Jim Pyburn, 78, American baseball player, after long illness.
• Bill Rechin, 80, American cartoonist, complications from esophageal cancer.
• William White, 98, British sports shooter.

  22

• Stanislav Batishchev, 70, Soviet Ukrainian weightlifter.
• Joseph Brooks, 73, American Grammy-winning songwriter, suicide by asphyxiation.
• Joëlle Brupbacher, 32, Swiss mountaineer, acute mountain sickness.
• Chidananda Dasgupta, 89, Indian film critic.
• Bill Eaton, 79, Australian politician, member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Mourilyan.
• Alexandru Ene, 82, Romanian football player.
• Matej Ferjan, 34, Slovenian motorcycle speedway rider.
• Bob Gould, 74, Australian activist and bookseller.
• Ralph Hunt, 83, Australian politician, MP for Gwydir.
• Suzanne Mizzi, 43, British glamour model and interior designer, cancer.
• Ronald Naar, 56, Dutch mountaineer.
• Breon O'Casey, 83, British artist.
• Govind Chandra Pande, 87, Indian historian.
• Walter Soboleff, 102, American Tlingit scholar and spiritual leader, first Native Alaskan Prebysterian minister, bone and prostate cancer.
• Joe Steffy, 85, American college football player, 1947 Outland Trophy winner.
• George Henry Strohsahl, Jr., 73, American naval officer and former commander of the Pacific Missile Test Center.

  23

• Sam Faust, 26, Australian rugby league player, leukemia.
• Michele Fawdon, 63, British-born Australian actress, cancer.
• Peter Frelinghuysen Jr., 95, American politician, U.S. Representative from New Jersey.
• Nasser Hejazi, 61, Iranian football player and manager, cancer.
• Pilu Momtaz, 52, Bangladeshi pop singer.
• Abdias do Nascimento, 97, Brazilian activist and politician.
• Joseph Nguyễn Tích Đức, 73, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ban Me Thuot.
• Karel Otčenášek, 91, Czech Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Hradec Králové.
• Frank S. Petersen, 88, American jurist and politician.
• Harry Redmond Jr., 101, American special effects artist and producer, natural causes.
• Alejandro Roces, 86, Filipino writer and government official, Secretary of Education.
• Roberto Sosa, 81, Honduran poet, heart attack.
• John Templeton-Cotill, 90, British admiral.
• Xavier Tondo, 32, Spanish cyclist, crushed by car.

  24

• Huguette Clark, 104, American heiress.
• José Cláudio da Silva, 54, Brazilian Amazon environmentalist and conservationist, shot.
• Arthur Goldreich, 82, South African-born Israeli political activist.
• Mark Haines, 65, American television anchor.
• Glyn Hughes, 75, English poet, novelist and artist, cancer.
• Imre Nagy, 70, Canadian Olympic fencer.
• Fănuș Neagu, 79, Romanian novelist, journalist, and short story writer.
• Edward Plunkett, 20th Baron of Dunsany, 71, Irish artist.
• Barry Potomski, 38, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Sir Blair Stewart-Wilson, 81, British courtier.
• Paul Winslow, 82, South African cricketer.
• Stephen K. Yamashiro, 69, American politician, Mayor of Hawaii County, pneumonia.
• Hakim Ali Zardari, 81, Pakistani politician, father of Asif Ali Zardari, after long illness.

  25

• Lillian Adams, 89, American actress.
• Maurice E. Baringer, 89, American educator and politician.
• Nina Leopold Bradley, 93, American conservationist.
• Leonora Carrington, 94, British-born Mexican painter and novelist.
• Luigi Diligenza, 90, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Capua.
• Roger Gautier, 88, French Olympic silver medal-winning rower.
• Edwin Honig, 91, American poet and translator, Alzheimer's disease.
• Terry Jenner, 66, Australian Test cricketer and coach.
• Miroslav Opsenica, 29, Serbian footballer, car accident.
• Gene Smith, 94, American baseball player.
• Paul Splittorff, 64, American baseball player and broadcaster, complications from melanoma.
• Dimitrios Taliadoros, 85-86, Greek Olympic basketball player.
• Yannis Varveris, 56, Greek poet, critic and translator, cardiac arrest.
• Paul J. Wiedorfer, 90, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.
• Edward Żentara, 55, Polish actor.

  26

• Arisen Ahubudu, 91, Sri Lankan scholar, author and playwright.
• Flick Colby, 65, American dancer and choreographer, bronchial pneumonia.
• George Heron, 92, American tribal leader, President of the Seneca Nation of New York.
• Irwin D. Mandel, 89, American dental scientist in preventative dentistry.
• Peter McKechnie, 70, Australian politician, member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Carnarvon.
• Tyler Simpson, 25, Australian soccer player.

  27

• Sam Alexander, 28, British Royal Marine, shot.
• María Rosa Alonso, 104, Spanish professor, philologist and essayist.
• Edward a'Beckett, 71, Australian cricketer.
• Armando Bandini, 84, Italian actor and voice actor.
• John W. Bowen, 84, American politician, Member of the Ohio Senate.
• Johnny Brewer, 74, American football player.
• Janet Brown, 87, British actress and impersonator, after short illness.
• Jeff Conaway, 60, American actor.
• Margo Dydek, 37, Polish basketball player and coach, heart attack.
• Johanna Fiedler, 65, American author, daughter of Arthur Fiedler.
• Regalado Maambong, 72, Filipino jurist, member of 1986 Constitutional Commission.
• Prince Ali Mirza Qajar, 81, Iranian royal, Head of the Qajar Imperial Family, after long illness.
• Joaquín Moya, 79, Spanish Olympic fencer.
• Gil Scott-Heron, 62, American poet, musician and author.
• Jukka Toivola, 61, Finnish Olympic athlete, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Michael Willoughby, 12th Baron Middleton, 90, British aristocrat and politician.

  28

• Hermann Bley, 75, German footballer.
• Mohammed Daud Daud, 42, Afghan general, police commander for northern Afghanistan, bombing.
• Bill Harris, 79, Canadian baseball player.
• Romuald Klim, 78, Belarusian hammer thrower, Olympic gold medalist.
• Ann McPherson, 65, British physician and public health campaigner.
• Dame Barbara Mills, 70, British barrister, Director of Public Prosecutions, stroke.
• Leo Rangell, 97, American psychoanalyst, complications from surgery.
• Alys Robi, 88, Canadian singer.
• Martha Rommelaere, 88, Canadian baseball player.
• John H. Sinfelt, 80, American chemical engineer in unleaded gasoline, congestive heart failure.

  29

• Sergei Bagapsh, 62, Abkhazian politician, President, complications after surgery.
• Jon Blake, 52, Australian actor, pneumonia.
• Simon Brint, 60, British musician, suicide.
• Bill Clements, 94, American politician, Governor of Texas.
• Billy Crook, 84, English footballer.
• Wally Jay, 93, American martial arts teacher, founder of Small Circle JuJitsu, after long illness.
• Ferenc Mádl, 80, Hungarian politician, President of the Republic.
• Vitaly Margulis, 83, Russian classical pianist.
• Tom Roeser, 82, American political commentator.
• Bill Roycroft, 96, Australian equestrian, five-time Olympian, gold medallist.
• Cosmo Francesco Ruppi, 78, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Termoli-Larino and Archbishop of Lecce.

  30

• Bill Benulis, 82, American cartoonist.
• Ricky Bruch, 64, Swedish athlete, cancer.
• Henri Chammartin, 92, Swiss dressage equestrian, multiple Olympic medallist.
• Paul B. Ferrara, 68, American scientist and administrator, pioneer of genetic fingerprinting, brain tumor.
• Jung Jong-kwan, 29, South Korean footballer, suspected suicide by hanging.
• Sudhakar Kulkarni, 73, Indian cricket umpire.
• Eddie Morrison, 63, Scottish footballer and manager.
• Hans Nogler, 91, Austrian Olympic alpine skier.
• Isikia Savua, 59, Fijian diplomat and police commissioner.
• Marek Siemek, 68, Polish philosopher and historian of philosophy.
• Clarice Taylor, 93, American actress.
• Giorgio Tozzi, 88, American operatic bass, heart attack.
• Tillmann Uhrmacher, 44, German DJ, music producer and radio host.
• Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, 89, American medical physicist, Nobel laureate.

  31

• Gilberto Aleman, 80, Spanish author and journalist.
• Pauline Betz, 91, American tennis player.
• Jonas Bevacqua, 33, American fashion designer.
• Conrado Estrella Sr., 93, Filipino politician, Governor of Pangasinan, Agrarian Reform Minister.
• Derek Hodge, 69, U.S. Virgin Islander politician and attorney, Lieutenant [Governor of the United States Virgin Islands], cancer.
• Keith Irvine, 82, British-born American interior designer, cardiac arrest.
• Hans Keilson, 101, German-born Dutch psychoanalyst and novelist.
• Sir John Martin, 93, British admiral, Governor of Guernsey">Governor of Pangasinan">Governor of Guernsey.
• Adolfas Mekas, 85, Lithuanian-born American film director.
• Andy Robustelli, 85, American Hall of Fame football player.
• Philip Rose, 89, American theatrical producer, stroke.
• Ezzatollah Sahabi, 81, Iranian politician, Member of Parliament, stroke.
• Saleem Shahzad, 40, Pakistani journalist, shot.
• Hugh Stewart, 100, British film editor and producer.
• Grant Sullivan, 86, American actor, cancer.
• Ram Man Trishit, 70, Nepali lyricist, kidney problems.
• Sølvi Wang, 81, Norwegian singer and actress.
• Jennifer Worth, 75, British author, esophageal cancer.