Deaths in October 2011

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

  October 2011

1

• Hans Christian Alsvik, 75, Norwegian television presenter.
• Butch Ballard, 92, American jazz drummer.
• David Bedford, 74, British composer and musician.
• Georgina Cookson, 92, British actress.
• Philo Dibble, 60, American diplomat.
• Robert Finigan, 68, American wine critic.
• Ruby Langford Ginibi, 77, Australian author and Aboriginal historian.
• J. Willis Hurst, 90, American cardiologist.
• José Ángel Ibáñez, 61, Mexican educator and politician, MP.
• Paulos Mantovanis, 65, Cypriot Orthodox hierarch, metropolitan bishop of Kyrenia.
• Sholom Rivkin, 85, American rabbi, last chief rabbi of St. Louis.
• Johnny Schmitz, 90, American baseball player.
• George Smith, 84, American baseball and basketball player.
• Sven Tumba, 80, Swedish ice hockey player, footballer and golfer, prostate cancer.

  2

• Anna Adams, 85, English poet and artist.
• Vasily Aleksanyan, 39, Russian lawyer and businessman, Executive Vice President of Yukos, complications from AIDS.
• Andrija Fuderer, 80, Croatian-born Belgian chess player.
• Taha Muhammad Ali, 80, Palestinian poet.
• Peter Przygodda, 69, German film editor, cancer.
• Efraín Recinos, 83, Guatemalan architect, muralist and artist, designer of the Centro Cultural Miguel Ángel Asturias.
• John Romonosky, 82, American baseball player.
• Cindy Shatto, 54, Canadian Olympic diver, lung cancer.
• Pavlos Tassios, 69, Greek film director.
• Piero Weiss, 83, Italian pianist and author, pneumonia.
• Moshe Wertman, 87, Israeli politician.

  3

• Kay Armen, 95, American Armenian singer.
• Anésio Argenton, 80, Brazilian Olympic cyclist.
• Aryeh Leib Baron, 99, Canadian rabbi.
• Jim Conroy, 73, Canadian football player.
• George Harrison, 72, American Olympic gold medal-winning swimmer, cancer.
• Ovidio de Jesús, 78, Puerto Rican Olympic sprinter.
• Héctor Martínez Arteche, 77, Mexican painter.
• Aden Meinel, 88, American astronomer and optical scientist.
• Jim Neal, 81, American basketball player.
• Zakaria Zerouali, 33, Moroccan footballer.

  4

• Bhagwat Jha Azad, 88, Indian politician.
• Doris Belack, 85, American actress.
• Yelena Chernykh, 32, Russian actress, traffic collision.
• Ruth Currier, 85, American dancer, choreographer and dance teacher.
• Vittorio Curtoni, 61, Italian science fiction writer and translator.
• Kenneth H. Dahlberg, 94, American businessman and World War II fighter ace, natural causes.
• Di Gribble, 69, Australian publisher, pancreatic cancer.
• Martha Haines, 87, American baseball player.
• Ralph Hodgin, 96, American baseball player.
• Hanan Porat, 67, Israeli rabbi, educator and politician, cancer.
• Shmuel Shilo, 81, Israeli actor and director, cancer.
• Muzaffer Tema, 92, Turkish actor.
• Géza Tóth, 79, Hungarian Olympic silver medal-winning weightlifter.

  5

• Edward Acquah, 76, Ghanaian Olympic footballer.
• Níver Arboleda, 43, Colombian footballer, heart attack.
• Derrick Bell, 80, American law professor, originated critical race theory, carcinoid cancer.
• Anita Caspary, 95, American Catholic nun, founder of the Immaculate Heart Community.
• Graham Dilley, 52, British cricketer, cancer.
• Enver Faja, 77, Albanian architect and diplomat, Ambassador to Poland, after long illness.
• Richard Holmlund, 47, Swedish football manager, car accident.
• Peter Jaks, 45, Swiss Olympic ice hockey player, suicide by train.
• Bert Jansch, 67, Scottish folk guitarist, singer and songwriter, cancer.
• Steve Jobs, 56, American computer entrepreneur and inventor, co-founder of Apple Inc., pancreatic cancer.
• Pietro Lombardi, 89, Italian Olympic gold medal-winning wrestler.
• Charles Napier, 75, American actor.
• Fred Shuttlesworth, 89, American civil rights leader.
• Sarkis Soghanalian, 82, Syrian-born Armenian arms dealer.
• Leon Walter Tillage, 74, American writer.

  6

• Luis Proto Barbosa, 84, Indian politician.
• Zdravko Ceraj, 91, Serbian Olympic athlete.
• Diane Cilento, 78, Australian actress, cancer.
• William S. Dietrich II, 73, American industrialist and philanthropist.
• Mathur Krishnamurthy, 82, Indian arts patron.
• Daniel Lind Lagerlöf, 42, Swedish director, presumed drowned.
• Marilyn Nash, 84, American actress.
• Birgit Rosengren, 98, Swedish actress.
• Igor Shmakov, 26, Russian actor, leukemia.
• Neil Street, 80, Australian speedway rider.
• Alasdair Turner, 41, British scientist, stomach cancer.
• Phil Walker, 67, British newspaper editor.

  7

• Zaheer Ahmad, 63, Pakistani-born American doctor, brain hemorrhage.
• John Alderson, 89, British police officer and media commentator, Chief Constable of Devon and Cornwall Constabulary.
• George Alexander, 93, Canadian football player.
• Ramiz Alia, 85, Albanian politician, First Secretary of the Party of Labour, President, lung disease.
• Julien Bailleul, 23, French footballer.
• George Baker, 80, British actor, pneumonia following a stroke.
• Frederick Cardozo, 94, British soldier and SOE veteran.
• Fernando Charrier, 80, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Alessandria della Paglia.
• Charles Cuprill Oppenheimer, 95, Puerto Rican major general.
• David Hess, 75, American actor, singer and songwriter, heart attack.
• Haji Amir Bux Junejo, 95, Pakistani politician.
• Paul Kent, 80, American actor, multiple myeloma.
• Fred Kingsbury, 84, American Olympic bronze medal-winning rower.
• Andrew Laszlo, 85, Hungarian-born American cinematographer.
• David Macey, 62, British historian, complications of lung cancer.
• Lulama Masikazana, 38, South African cricketer.
• Enrique Monsonís, 80, Spanish politician, President of the Generalitat Valenciana.
• Gianni Musy, 80, Italian actor and voice actor.
• Michel Peissel, 74, French explorer and author, heart attack.
• Milan Puskar, 77, American pharmacist, co-founder of Mylan, cancer.
• Julio Mario Santo Domingo, 88, Colombian businessman.
• Mildred Savage, 92, American author.
• Bill Smith, 75, British fell runner and author.
• Avner Treinin, 83, Israeli poet and chemist.

  8

• Dragutin Aleksić, 64, Serbian sculptor.
• Terry Cashion, 90, Australian rules football player.
• Al Davis, 82, American football coach and team owner, heart failure.
• José de las Fuentes Rodríguez, 91, Mexican politician and lawyer, Governor of Coahuila.
• Dorothy Heathcote, 85, British drama teacher and academic.
• Arthur F. Holmes, 87, American professor of philosophy.
• Gregory Possehl, 70, American archaeologist.
• Shirley Prestia, 64, American actress.
• Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra, 55, Sri Lankan politician, Member of Parliament, shot.
• Harold W. Rood, 89, American political scientist and author.
• Nina Sorokina, 69, Russian principal dancer.
• Mikey Welsh, 40, American artist and musician.
• Roger Williams, 87, American pianist, pancreatic cancer.
• Ingvar Wixell, 80, Swedish opera singer.

  9

• Kei Aoyama, 32, Japanese manga artist, suicide by hanging.
• Ray Aranha, 72, American actor.
• Robert Boochever, 94, American federal judge.
• Rob Buckman, 63, British-born Canadian oncologist and comedian.
• Antonis Christeas, 74, Greek basketball player and coach.
• Chauncey Hardy, 23, American basketball player, heart attack following beating.
• Pavel Karelin, 21, Russian ski jumper, traffic accident.
• Mark Kingston, 77, British actor.
• Jakkampudi Rammohan Rao, 58, Indian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Andhra Pradesh.
• Manuel Prado Perez-Rosas, 88, Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Trujillo.
• James Worrall, 97, Canadian Olympic athlete and administrator.

  10

• Ray Aghayan, 83, Iranian-born American costume designer.
• Milton Castellanos Everardo, 91, Mexican politician, President of Chamber of Deputies, Governor of Baja California.
• Alan Fudge, 67, American actor, lung and liver cancer.
• Rod McGaughy, 87, American actor.
• Nakamura Shikan VII, 83, Japanese kabuki performer, Living National Treasure.
• Uno Röndahl, 87, Swedish author.
• Albert Rosellini, 101, American politician, Governor of Washington, complications from pneumonia.
• Jagjit Singh, 70, Indian musician, brain haemorrhage.
• Otto Tausig, 89, Austrian writer, director and actor.

  11

• Amin al-Shami, Yemeni air force colonel, car bomb.
• Yerahmiel Assa, 92, Israeli politician.
• Kim Brown, 66, British-born Finnish musician, cancer.
• George "Mojo" Buford, 81, American blues harmonica player.
• Cy Buker, 92, American baseball player.
• Justin Canale, 68, American football player.
• Adrian Cowell, 77, British documentary film maker.
• Ion Diaconescu, 94, Romanian politician, President of Chamber of Deputies, heart failure.
• Doctor X, 43, Mexican professional wrestler, shot.
• Bob Galvin, 89, American businessman, CEO of Motorola.
• Freddie Gruber, 84, American jazz drummer.
• Nauman Habib, 32, Pakistani cricketer, murdered.
• Henk Hofs, 60, Dutch footballer.
• Keith Holman, 84, Australian rugby league player and referee.
• Dieudonné Kabongo, 61, Congolese-born Belgian comedian, musician and actor.
• Frank Kameny, 86, American gay rights activist.
• Paul Martin, 79, American baseball player.
• Ewald Osers, 94, Czech translator and poet.
• František Sokol, 72, Czech Olympic bronze medal-winning volleyball player.
• Derrick Ward, 76, English footballer.
• Dino Zucchi, 83, Italian Olympic basketball player.

  12

• Franz Jozef van Beeck, 81, Dutch author and Christian theologian.
• Heinz Bennent, 90, German actor.
• Patricia Breslin, 85, American actress, wife of Art Modell, pancreatitis.
• Joel DiGregorio, 67, American keyboardist, car crash.
• Peter Hammond, 87, British actor and television director.
• Lowell H. Harrison, 88, American historian.
• János Herskó, 85, Hungarian film director and actor.
• Vitali Kuznetsov, 70, Russian Olympic silver medal-winning judoka.
• Paul Leka, 68, American pianist, arranger and songwriter.
• Lewis Mills, 74, American college basketball coach and athletic director.
• Dennis Ritchie, 70, American computer scientist, developer of the C programming language and the Unix operating system.
• Dick Thornett, 71, Australian triple international sportsman, heart disease.
• Martin White, 102, Irish hurler.
• Winstone Zulu, 47, Zambian AIDS and tuberculosis activist.

  13

• Sheila Allen, 78, British actress.
• Irén Daruházi-Karcsics, 84, Hungarian Olympic silver and bronze medal-winning gymnast.
• Chris Doig, 63, New Zealand opera singer and sports administrator, bowel cancer.
• Hasan Güngör, 77, Turkish Olympic gold and silver medal-winning weightlifter.
• Barbara Kent, 103, Canadian-born American silent film actress.
• Tufele Liamatua, 71, American Samoan politician and paramount chief, first elected Lieutenant Governor of American Samoa.
• Abdoulaye Seye, 77, Senegalese Olympic bronze medal-winning athlete.

  14

• Reg Alcock, 63, Canadian politician, MP for Winnipeg South ; President of the Treasury Board, heart attack.
• Abdulrahman al-Awlaki, 16, American-Yemeni teenager, drone airstrike.
• Margaret Draper, 94, American radio actress and disc jockey, natural causes.
• Michael Fitzpatrick, 69, Irish politician, TD for Kildare North, motor neurone disease.
• Pierangelo Garegnani, 81, Italian economist and professor.
• Ashawna Hailey, 62, American computer scientist.
• Hunter (golfer)|Adam Hunter], 48, Scottish golfer, leukemia.
• Arnaud Jacomet, 64, French historian, Secretary-General of the Western European Union, cancer.
• Laura Pollán, 63, Cuban opposition leader, founder of the Ladies in White, cardiorespiratory arrest.
• Gunilla von Post, 79, Swedish socialite.
• Jaladi Raja Rao, 79, Indian film lyricist and playwright.
• Chuck Ruff, 60, American drummer, after long illness.

  15

• Mario Agliati, 89, Swiss-Italian journalist, writer and historian.
• Martha Aliaga, 73, Argentine statistics educator.
• Ted Bastin, 85, English physicist and mathematician.
• David P. Demarest, 79, American academic and writer.
• Betty Driver, 91, British singer and actress, pneumonia.
• Sir Donald Dunstan, 88, Australian military officer, Governor of South Australia.
• Joan Jaykoski, 78, American AAGPBL baseball player, cancer.
• Pierre Mamboundou, 65, Gabonese politician, leader of the Union of the Gabonese People, heart attack.
• Matthew G. Martínez, 82, American politician, U.S. Representative from California.
• Earl McRae, 69, Canadian journalist, apparent heart attack.
• Sue Mengers, 79, American talent agent, pneumonia.
• Tongai Moyo, 43, Zimbabwean musician, non Hodgkin's lymphoma.
• Gerald Shapiro, 61, American fiction writer and academic.
• Titus Thotawatte, 82, Sri Lankan director.

  16

• Hiroshi Arikawa, 70, Japanese voice actor.
• Henry Bathurst, 8th Earl Bathurst, 84, British aristocrat and politician.
• Eusebio Bertrand, 81, Spanish Olympic sailor.
• Ursula Cain, 84, German dancer and dance teacher.
• Elouise P. Cobell, 65, American Native rights activist.
• Donald Davies, 91, American Episcopal bishop of Dallas and Fort Worth.
• Antony Gardner, 84, British politician, MP for Rushcliffe.
• Miguel Ángel Granados Chapa, 70, Mexican journalist.
• Charles Hamm, 86, American musicologist.
• Rick Huseman, 38, American off-road race truck driver, airplane crash.
• Virginia Knauer, 96, American consumer advocate and government official.
• Tony Marchington, 55, English biotechnology entrepreneur and preservationist.
• Stanley Mitchell, 79, British translator, academic and author.
• Caerwyn Roderick, 84, British politician, MP for Brecon & Radnor.
• Pete Rugolo, 95, Italian-born American film and television composer.
• Henning Sjöström, 89, Swedish defense attorney, long illness.
• Elisabeth Tankeu, 67, Cameroonian politician, Minister for Planning and Regional Development.
• Dan Wheldon, 33, British IndyCar driver, 2011 IZOD [IndyCar World Championship#Lap 11 crash – Death of Dan Wheldon|racing accident].
• Don Williams, 80, American baseball player.

  17

• Hameed Akhtar, 87, Pakistani journalist and writer.
• John Morton Blum, 90, American political historian.
• Ramaz Chkhikvadze, 83, Georgian-born English stage actor.
• Barney Danson, 90, Canadian politician, MP for York North, Minister of National Defence.
• Manfred Gerlach, 83, German politician, last Chairman of the State Council of East Germany.
• Poul Glargaard, 69, Danish actor.
• Osvaldo Guidi, 47, Argentine actor, suicide by hanging.
• Carl Lindner Jr., 92, American businessman, cardiac arrest.
• Elaine Nile, 75, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council, cancer.
• Muiris Ó Rócháin, 67, Irish teacher and director of the Willie Clancy Summer School.
• Ken Rush, 80, American NASCAR driver.
• Piri Thomas, 83, American writer and poet, pneumonia.
• Edgar Villchur, 94, American inventor of the acoustic suspension loudspeaker.
• Xin Huguang, 78, Chinese composer.

  18

• Uri Amit, 77, Israeli politician.
• Bob Brunning, 68, British blues musician, heart attack.
• George Chaloupka, 79, Czech-born Australian historian of indigenous art.
• Ruby Cohn, 89, American theater scholar, Parkinson's disease.
• Norman Corwin, 101, American radio writer, director and producer.
• Paul Everac, 87, Romanian writer, cancer.
• Tommy Grant, 76, Canadian football player.
• Kent Hull, 50, American football player, liver disease.
• Jan Marian Kaczmarek, 90, Polish engineer and academic.
• Friedrich Kittler, 68, German literary scholar and media theorist.
• Lee Soo-chul, 45, South Korean football manager, suicide.
• Sir Donald McCallum, 89, British engineer and industrialist.
• Merritt Ranew, 73, American baseball player
• Anita Sleeman, 80, Canadian composer.
• Michael Staikos, 65, Greek-born Austrian Orthodox hierarch, metropolitan bishop of Austria.
• Jacques Thuillier, 83, French art historian.
• Andrea Zanzotto, 90, Italian poet.

  19

• Munshi Siddique Ahmad, 87, Bangladeshi rice scientist.
• Édison Chará, 31, Colombian footballer, shot.
• Kakkanadan, 76, Indian Malayalam writer.
• Ken Meyerson, 47, American tennis agent.
• Bohdan Osadchuk, 91, Ukrainian historian and journalist.
• Hollis E. Roberts, 68, American politician, Chief of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, convicted sex offender.
• Jeff Rudom, 51, American basketball player and actor.
• Tadeusz Sawicz, 97, Polish World War II fighter pilot.
• Lars Sjösten, 70, Swedish jazz pianist and composer.
• Ronald Smith, 67, British Olympic boxer.
• Jon Weaving, 80, Australian operatic tenor, pancreatic cancer.
• Keith Williams, 82, Australian tourism entrepreneur, stroke.
• James Yannatos, 82, American composer and conductor.

  20

• Ronald Amess, 84, Australian Olympic ice hockey player.
• Jerzy Bielecki, 90, Polish social worker, survivor of Auschwitz concentration camp, Polish Righteous among the Nations recipient.
• John Bosco Manat Chuabsamai, 75, Thai Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ratchaburi.
• Barry Feinstein, 80, American photographer and photojournalist.
• Yann Fouéré, 101, French Breton nationalist.
• Mutassim Gaddafi, 36, Libyan Army officer, fifth son of Muammar Gaddafi, shooting.
• Muammar Gaddafi, 69, Libyan leader, shooting.
• Gale Gillingham, 67, American football player.
• Abu-Bakr Yunis Jabr, 59, Libyan military officer and politician, Minister of Defence, shooting.
• Hunter, 36, Australian rapper, cancer.
• Sue Lloyd, 72, British actress.
• Antoine Pazur, 80, French footballer.
• Iztok Puc, 45, Slovenian handball player, only Olympian handball player to represent three countries, lung cancer.
• Morris Tabaksblat, 74, Dutch industrialist.
• Roger Tallon, 82, French industrial designer.
• Peter Taylor, 84-85, British botanist.

  21

• Maikano Abdoulaye, 79, Cameroonian politician.
• Hikmet Bilâ, 57, Turkish journalist and author, lung cancer.
• Antonio Cassese, 74, Italian international law expert, Yugoslavian war crimes judge, cancer.
• George Daniels, 85, British horologist.
• Thomas Dillon, 61, American serial killer.
• Chris Dixon, 67–68, Rhodesian Air Force pilot known as "Green Leader".
• Bertram Herlong, 77, American bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee.
• Digby Jacks, 66, British president of the National Union of Students.
• Anis Mansour, 86, Egyptian writer and columnist, pneumonia.
• Ettore Milano, 86, Italian cyclist.
• Tone Pavček, 83, Slovenian author and translator.
• Edmundo Ros, 100, Trinidadian-born British bandleader.
• Scott White, 41, American politician, member of the Washington House of Representatives and State Senator, cardiomegaly complications.

  22

• Jan Boye, 49, Danish politician, complications from brain hemorrhage.
• Kristoffer Domeij, 29, United States Army soldier, killed in action.
• Jean Dubuisson, 97, French architect.
• Peter Goldie, 64, British philosopher.
• Trevor Gordon, 96, Australian cricketer.
• Kutty, 90, Indian political cartoonist.
• Roger Moore, 73, American professional poker player.
• Mullanezhi, 63, Indian poet and actor, heart attack.
• Cathal O'Shannon, 83, Irish journalist and television presenter.
• Robert Pierpoint, 86, American broadcast journalist, complications from surgery.
• Roy Smalley Jr., 85, American baseball player.
• Sultan bin Abdulaziz, 83, Saudi royal, Minister of Defense and Aviation and Crown Prince.
• Ed Thompson, 66, American politician, Mayor of Tomah, Wisconsin, and gubernatorial candidate, pancreatic cancer.

  23

• Nusrat Bhutto, 82, Iranian-born Pakistani First Lady, widow of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and mother of Benazir Bhutto.
• John Brown, 81, British Anglican bishop, Bishop in Cyprus and the Gulf
• Joseph Dao, 75, Burkinabé-born Malian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Kayes.
• Oscar Stanley Dawson, 87, Indian admiral, Chief of the Naval Staff, brain haemorrhage.
• Winston Griffiths, 33, Jamaican footballer.
• Herbert A. Hauptman, 94, American Nobel Prize-winning chemist.
• Florence Parry Heide, 92, American children's author.
• Sir Frank Holmes, 87, New Zealand economist and government advisor.
• William Franklin Lee III, 82, American music educator, dean of University of Miami School of Music.
• Bronislovas Lubys, 73, Lithuanian entrepreneur and politician, Prime Minister of Lithuania, heart attack.
• John Makin, 61, British folk and blues singer.
• Miroslav Proft, 87, Czech Olympic shooter.
• Amnon Salomon, 71, Israeli cinematographer, cancer.
• Marco Simoncelli, 24, Italian motorcycle racer, race crash.
• Tillie Taylor, 88, Canadian judge.
• Bogdan Zakrzewski, 95, Polish historian and researcher of Polish literature.

  24

• Bob Beaumont, 79, American electric automobile manufacturer, emphysema.
• Margit Brandt, 66, Danish fashion designer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
• Robert Bropho, 81, Australian indigenous rights activist and convicted criminal, natural causes.
• Liviu Ciulei, 88, Romanian actor, writer and director, after long illness.
• Max Gillett, 84, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Geelong West.
• Harold Huskilson, 91, Canadian politician, member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly.
• Kjell Johansson, 65, Swedish table tennis player.
• Morio Kita, 84, Japanese novelist, essayist and psychiatrist.
• Héctor López, 44, Mexican boxer, Olympic silver medal-winner, drug overdose.
• John McCarthy, 84, American computer scientist, creator of LISP and the term AI, heart disease.
• Pat McNamara, 85, American Olympic speed skater.
• Alan Morgan, 71, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Sherwood.
• Crescênzio Rinaldini, 85, Italian-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Araçuaí.
• Sir Peter Siddell, 76, New Zealand artist, brain tumour.
• Kirtanananda Swami, 74, American excommunicated Hare Krishna leader and convicted felon, kidney failure.
• Bruno Weber, 80, Swiss artist and architect.
• Ken Yamaguchi, 55, Japanese voice actor, illness.

  25

• Leonidas Andrianopoulos, 100, Greek footballer.
• Perkins Bass, 99, American politician, U.S. Representative from New Hampshire.
• Shirley Becke, 94, British police officer, first female to reach chief officer rank.
• Bert Cueto, 74, Cuban baseball player.
• Arved Deringer, 98, German lawyer and politician.
• Donald Foley, 47-48, American actor.
• Sinikka Keskitalo, 60, Finnish Olympic long-distance runner.
• Wyatt Knight, 56, American actor, suicide by gunshot.
• Manuel López Ochoa, 77, Mexican actor.
• Tom McNeeley, 74, American boxer, complications from a seizure.
• Mohan Raghavan, 47, Indian Malayalam film director.
• Fyodor Reut, 64, Soviet and later Russian military officer.
• Bernard Verdcourt, 86, British botanist.
• Howard Wolpe, 71, American politician, U.S. Representative from Michigan.
• Norrie Woodhall, 105, British stage actress.

  26

• Salvador Bernal, 66, Filipino designer, National Artist of the Philippines.
• Daniel Burke, 82, American television executive, President of ABC, complications of diabetes.
• Dave Cole, 81, American baseball player.
• Mickey Kelly, 82, Irish hurler.
• Aristide Laurent, 70, American publisher and LGBT civil rights advocate.
• John Morris, 71, South African cricketer.
• William A. Niskanen, 78, American economist, member of the Council of Economic Advisors, chairman of the Cato Institute, stroke.
• Jona Senilagakali, 81, Fijian physician and diplomat, Prime Minister.
• Jorge Soto, 66, Argentine golfer.
• Francisco Villar García-Moreno, 63, Spanish politician, President of National Sports Council.

  27

• Tom Brown, 89, American tennis player.
• T. Max Graham, 70, American actor, cancer.
• Ronald Greeley, 72, American planetary scientist.
• James Hillman, 85, American psychologist, proponent of archetypal psychology.
• Ron Holmes, 48, American football player.
• Eduard Kojnok, 78, Slovak Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Rožňava.
• Allen Mandelbaum, 85, American professor of Italian literature, poet and translator.
• Robert Pritzker, 85, American billionaire industrialist, Parkinson's disease and member of the Pritzker family.

  28

• Ricky Adams, 52, American baseball player, cancer.
• Tom Addington, 92, British soldier.
• Campbell Christie, 74, Scottish trade unionist.
• Willy De Clercq, 84, Belgian politician.
• Beryl Davis, 87, British big band singer and actress.
• R. Sheldon Duecker, 85, American prelate, bishop of the United Methodist Church.
• Jiří Gruša, 72, Czech dissident, diplomat and writer.
• Roger Kerr, 66, New Zealand public policy and business leader, executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, metastatic melanoma.
• Alvin Schwartz, 94, American comic book writer, heart-related complications.
• Kan Singh Parihar, 98, Indian jurist.
• Arnold Ruiner, 74, Austrian Olympic cyclist.
• Sri Lal Sukla, 85, Indian writer, long illness.
• Wilmer W. Tanner, 101, American zoologist.
• Ed Walker, 94, American World War II veteran and writer, last surviving member of Castner's Cutthroats.

  29

• Christine Atallah, 45, Canadian singer-songwriter and writer, complications from a fall.
• Axel Axgil, 96, Danish gay rights activist.
• Dolores Dwyer, 76, American Olympic athlete and actress.
• Lloyd G. Jackson, 93, American politician, President of West Virginia Senate.
• Robert Lamoureux, 91, French comedian and film director.
• Yoland Levèque, 74, French Olympic boxer.
• Elfriede von Nitzsch, 91, German Olympic athlete.
• Walter Norris, 79, American jazz pianist.
• R. C. Pitts, 92, American Olympic gold medal-winning basketball player.
• Ram Revilla, 22, Filipino actor, shot and stabbed.
• Sir Jimmy Savile, 84, British disc jockey and television presenter.
• K. Suppu, 70, Indian politician.
• Samdup Taso, 83, Indian hereditary priest.
• Walter Vidarte, 80, Uruguayan actor.
• Tom Watkins, 74, American football player, after long illness.
• Mano Wijeyeratne, 54, Sri Lankan politician.

  30

• John Anderson, 93, British pathologist.
• Serge Aubry, 69, Canadian ice hockey player, diabetes.
• Bob Barry Sr., 80, American sports commentator.
• Basile Decortès, 89, French cyclist.
• T. M. Jacob, 61, Indian politician, member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly.
• Tom Keith, 64, American radio personality.
• Jonas Kubilius, 90, Lithuanian mathematician.
• Phyllis Love, 85, American actress, Alzheimer's disease.
• Christopher J. Mega, 80, American politician and judge.
• Cyril Parfitt, 97, British artist.
• Virgilio Salimbeni, 91, Italian cyclist.
• Mickey Scott, 64, German-born American baseball player.
• David Utz, 87, American surgeon, removed Ronald Reagan's prostate, heart failure.
• Richard Walls, 74, New Zealand politician and businessman, MP for Dunedin North and Mayor of Dunedin.
• Abbas-Ali Amid Zanjani, 74, Iranian cleric and politician, President of Tehran University, heart failure.

  31

• Flórián Albert, 70, Hungarian footballer, European Footballer of the Year.
• Alberto Anchart, 80, Argentine actor, cancer.
• Liz Anderson, 84, American country music singer-songwriter, complications from heart and lung disease.
• Mick Anglo, 95, British comic book writer and artist, creator of Marvelman.
• Caridad Asensio, 80, Cuban-American migrant worker advocate, seizure.
• Gilbert Cates, 77, American film director and producer, founder of Geffen Playhouse.
• James Forrester, 74, American physician and politician, North Carolina State Senator.
• Boris de Greiff, 81, Colombian chess master.
• Alfred Hilbe, 83, Liechtensteiner politician, Prime Minister.
• Len Killeen, 72, South African rugby league player.
• Marios Leousis, 75, Greek magician.
• Ali Saibou, 71, Nigerien politician, President.