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The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2009.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

December 2009

1

• Christoph Budde, 46, German football player (Borussia Mönchengladbach), swine flu. ^[1]
• Maurice Clemmons, 37, American felon, perpetrator of the 2009 shooting of Lakewood, Washington, police officers, shot. ^[2]
• Neil Dougall, 88, British footballer (Plymouth Argyle). ^[3]
• Tommy Henrich, 96, American baseball player (New York Yankees). ^[4]
• Bilal Omer Khan, 55, Pakistani general, victim of December 2009 Rawalpindi terrorist attack ^[5]
• Bill Lister, 86, American honky tonk singer. ^[6]
• Alberto Martínez, 59, Uruguayan football player (FK Austria Wien), heart failure. ^[7]
• Cordelia Oliver, 86, Scottish painter, journalist and art critic. ^[8]
• Ramses Shaffy, 76, Dutch singer and actor, esophageal cancer. ^[9]
• Shilendra Kumar Singh, 77, Indian politician, Governor of Rajasthan (2007–2009). ^[10]
• Éva Szörényi, 92, Hungarian actress, Kossuth Prize winner. ^[11]
• Donald Washington, Sr., 79, American jazz tenor saxophonist, lung cancer. ^[12]

2

• Harold A. Ackerman, 81, American federal judge, natural causes. ^[13]
• Luis María Bandrés, 65, Spanish leader of Basque Nationalist Party. ^[14]
• Elizabeth Berridge, 89, British novelist. ^[15]
• Foge Fazio, 71, American football coach, leukemia. ^[16]
• Shoji Hashimoto, 75, Japanese go master, myocardial infarction. ^[17]
• Ikuo Hirayama, 79, Japanese painter, stroke. ^[18]
• Maggie Jones, 75, British actress ( Coronation Street ). ^[19]
• Jozo Križanović, 65, Bosnian politician, Croat member of the Presidency (2001–2002), complications from surgery. ^[20]
• Brian Morrison, 76, Australian priest and humanitarian. ^[21]
• Luiz Lombardi Neto, 69, Brazilian announcer ( Silvio Santos television program), stroke. ^[22]
• Aaron Schroeder, 83, American songwriter, Alzheimer's disease. ^[23]
• Ian Thompson, 74, Australian politician, member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly (1971–1993). ^[24]
• Vjekoslav Šutej, 58, Croatian conductor, leukemia. ^[25]
• Eric Woolfson, 64, Scottish singer and keyboardist (The Alan Parsons Project), cancer. ^[26]

3

• Ibrahim Hassan Addou, Somali Higher Education Minister, bombing.^{[ citation needed ]}
• Qamar Aden Ali, 52, Somali Health Minister, bombing. ^[27]
• Swadesh Bose, 81, Bangladeshi economist. ^[28]
• Nat Boxer, 84, American Academy Award-winning sound engineer ( Apocalypse Now ), natural causes. ^[29]
• Estêvão Cardoso de Avellar, 92, Brazilian Roman Catholic Bishop of Uberlândia (1978–1992). ^[30]
• Paula Hawkins, 82, American politician, Senator from Florida (1981–1987), complications from a fall. ^[31]
• István Iglódi, 65, Hungarian actor. ^[32]
• Leila Lopes, 50, Brazilian actress, suicide. ^[33]
• Bert Main, 90, Australian zoologist. ^[34]
• Brian Harold Mason, 92, New Zealand scientist, renal failure. ^[35]
• Curtis Nkondo, 81, South African politician, activist and diplomat. ^[36]
• Pat Power, 67, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Council for Jika Jika (1992–1999). ^[37]
• Sam Salt, 69, British rear admiral, captain of HMS Sheffield during the Falklands War. ^[38]
• Peter Scanlon, 78, American accountant and chairman (Coopers & Lybrand), cancer. ^[39]
• Åsmund L. Strømnes, 82, Norwegian educationalist. ^[40]
• Valbjörn Þorláksson, 75, Icelandic decathlete. ^[41]
• Richard Todd, 90, Irish-born British Academy Award-nominated actor ( The Hasty Heart , The Dam Busters ), ( The Longest Day ), cancer. ^[42]
• Ahmed Abdulahi Waayeel, Somali Education Minister, bombing. ^[27]
• Bobby Wayne Woods, 44, American convicted rapist, kidnapper and murderer, execution by lethal injection. ^[43]
• Torrie Zito, 76, American pianist and arranger, emphysema. ^[44]

4

• Richard T. Antoun, 77, American anthropologist and professor, stabbed. ^[45]
• Harold Bell, 90, American marketer, licensing agent and technical advisor, creator of Woodsy Owl. ^[46]
• Liam Clancy, 74, Irish folk singer (The Clancy Brothers), pulmonary fibrosis. ^[47]
• Tim Costello, 64, American labor and anti-globalization advocate, pancreatic cancer. ^[48]
• Matthew Luo Duxi, 90, Chinese Roman Catholic Bishop of Jiading. ^[49]
• Jérôme-Michel-Francis Martin, 68, French Roman Catholic Bishop of Berbérati (1987–1991). ^[50]
• Bryan O'Byrne, 78, American character actor. ^[51]
• Spyridon, 83, Greek Metropolitan Bishop of Lagkadas, after long illness. ^[52]
• Vyacheslav Tikhonov, 81, Russian actor ( Seventeen Moments of Spring ). ^[53]
• Stephen Toulmin, 87, British philosopher and author, heart failure. ^[54]
• Jordi Solé Tura, 79, Spanish politician and lawyer, co-author of Spanish Constitution and Minister of Culture (1991–1993). ^[55]
• Umaga, 36, American professional wrestler, prescription drug overdose. ^[56]
• Mall Vaasma, 64, Estonian mycologist. ^[57]
• Mary Curtis Verna, 88, American operatic soprano (Metropolitan Opera), complications from a broken hip. ^[58]
• Francis Wilford-Smith, 82, British cartoonist. ^[59]

5

• Jerry Birn, 86, American television writer. ^[60]
• Nina Fishman, 63, British historian and political activist, cancer. ^[61]
• Alfred Hrdlicka, 81, Austrian architect and draughtsman. ^[62]
• Otto Graf Lambsdorff, 82, German politician, Minister of Economics (1977–1982; 1982–1984). ^[63]
• William Lederer, 97, American author ( The Ugly American ), respiratory failure. ^[64]
• Kálmán Markovits, 78, Hungarian Olympic gold (1952, 1956) and bronze (1960) medalist in water polo. ^[65]
• Tim "Barrel Man" McKernan, 69, American fan of the Denver Broncos, lung failure. ^[66]
• Garfield Morgan, 78, British actor ( The Sweeney ), cancer. ^[67]
• Malcolm Perry, 80, American attending physician to President John F. Kennedy after his assassination, lung cancer.^{[ citation needed ]}
• Manuel Prado y Colón de Carvajal, 78, Spanish diplomat. ^[68]
• Dumitru Puntea, 66, Moldovan politician. ^[69]
• Jim Rohn, 79, American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker, pulmonary fibrosis. ^[70]
• Jack Rose, 38, American guitarist, heart attack. ^[71]
• Princess Vimolchatra of Thailand, 88, Thai royal, cousin of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, renal failure. ^[72]
• William A. Wilson (diplomat), 95, American Ambassador to the Holy See (1984–1986). ^[73]

6

• Dennis P. Collins, 85, American politician, mayor of Bayonne, New Jersey (1974–1990). ^[74]
• Rupprecht Geiger, 101, German painter. ^[75]
• Dermott Monteith, 66, Irish cricketer. ^[76]
• John Pittenger, 79, American politician, Pennsylvania Secretary of Education (1972–1976), Parkinson's disease. ^[77]
• Bina Rai, 78, Indian actress ( Anarkali ), heart attack. ^[78]
• Daouda Sow, 76, Senegalese politician, President of National Assembly (1984–1998). ^[79]

7

• Bruce C. Allen, 54, American guitarist and vocalist (The Suburbs), organ failure. ^[80]
• Frank M. Coffin, 90, American politician, Representative from Maine (1957–1961), complications of aortic aneurysm surgery. ^[81]
• Royden G. Derrick, 94, American general authority of the LDS Church, natural causes. ^[82]
• Al Dorow, 80, American football player (Washington Redskins, New York Titans), bone cancer. ^[83]
• Shunkichi Hamada, 99, Japanese Olympic silver medal-winning (1932) field hockey player. ^[84]
• Rose Kaufman, 70, American screenwriter, cancer. ^[85]
• Lorenzo Ochoa Salas, Mexican archeologist. ^[86]
• Grady Patterson, 85, American politician, South Carolina state Treasurer (1966–1995; 1999–2007), natural causes. ^[87]
• Carlene Hatcher Polite, 77, American novelist, cancer. ^[88]
• Mark Ritts, 63, American actor and puppeteer ( Beakman's World ), kidney cancer. ^[89]
• Ray Solomonoff, 83, American physicist and artificial intelligence pioneer. ^[90]
• Pyotr Vail, 60, Russian essayist and journalist. ^[91]

8

• James Bingham, 84, British artist. ^[92]
• Kenneth Biros, 51, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection. ^[93]
• Joan Bridge, 97, British costume designer.^{[ citation needed ]}
• Su Cruickshank, 63, Australian jazz singer and actress ( Young Einstein ), heart and kidney failure. ^[94]
• Luis Días, 57, Dominican musician and songwriter, heart attack. ^[95]
• Dean Fasano, 54, American vocalist (Prophet, Message), coronary artery disease. ^[96]
• John Givens, 83, American basketball coach (Kentucky Colonels, 1967). ^[97]
• Arthur Glasser, 95, American missionary and theologian. ^[98]
• Karel Klančnik, 92, Yugoslavian Olympic ski jumper. ^[99]
• Elza Medeiros, 88, Brazilian nurse, World War II veteran. ^[100]
• William C. McInnes, 86, American Jesuit, president of Fairfield University (1964–1973); USF (1973–1976). ^[101]
• Anthony Sanusi, 98, Nigerian Roman Catholic Bishop of Ijebu-Ode (1969–1990). ^[102]
• Fred Sheffield, 86, American basketball player.
• Sir Philip Watson, 90, British admiral. ^[103]

9

• Luiz Carlos Alborghetti, 64, Brazilian television presenter and politician, lung cancer. ^[104]
• Gene Barry, 90, American actor ( The War of the Worlds , Burke's Law , Bat Masterson ), heart failure. ^[105]
• Roger Jacobi, 62, British archaeologist. ^[106]
• Sa'ad Khair, 56, Jordanian secret service chief, heart attack. ^[107]
• Piotr Krzywicki, 45, Polish politician, pancreatic cancer. ^[108]
• Kjell Eugenio Laugerud García, 79, Guatemalan President (1974–1978), complications from cancer. ^[109]
• Rodrigo Carazo Odio, 82, Costa Rican politician, President (1978–1982), heart failure. ^[110]
• Faramarz Payvar, 77, Iranian composer and santur player, brain damage.^{[ citation needed ]}
• Onofre Cândido Rosa, 85, Brazilian Roman Catholic Bishop of Jardim (1981–1999). ^[111]
• Goldie Semple, 56, Canadian stage actor, breast cancer. ^[112]
• Norman Sykes, 83, English footballer (Bristol Rovers). ^[113]

10

• Apolonia Muñoz Abarca, 89, American activist. ^[114]
• Gene Carpenter, 70, American football coach. ^[115]
• Dilip Chitre, 70, Indian poet, cancer. ^[116]
• Kenny Dino, 70, American pop singer. ^[117]
• Jean-Robert Gauthier, 80, Canadian MP for Ottawa East (1972–1974), Ottawa—Vanier (1974–1994); Senator (1994–2004), stroke. ^[118]
• Sir John Gingell, 84, British Air Chief Marshal and Black Rod (1985–1992). ^[119]
• Thomas Hoving, 78, American director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (1967–1977), lung cancer. ^[120]
• Sir Alan Huggins, 88, British jurist, vice-president of the Court of Appeal of Hong Kong (1980–1987). ^[121]
• Colin James, 83, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Winchester (1985–1995), chest infection. ^[122]
• József Kóczián, 83, Hungarian table tennis player. ^[123]
• William L. Reilly, 94, American Jesuit and philosophy professor, President of Le Moyne College (1964–1976). ^[124]

11

• Brindley Benn, 86, Guyanese politician, Deputy Prime Minister, natural causes. ^[125]
• Francisco Piquer, 87, Spanish actor. ^[126]
• Ciarán Mac Mathúna, 84, Irish radio presenter and music collector. ^[127]
• Eric Wrinkles, 49, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection. ^[128]

12

• Val Avery, 85, American actor ( The Killing of a Chinese Bookie). ^[129]
• Klavdiya Boyarskikh, 70, Russian cross-country skier, Olympic gold medalist (1964). ^[130]
• Charles MacAlester Copland, 99, British Anglican priest, Dean of Argyll and The Isles (1977–1979). ^[131]
• Charles Davis, 84, American actor, heart attack. ^[132]
• Ali Gharbi, 54, Tunisian swimmer. ^[133]
• Robert G. Heft, 67, American designer of the 50-star American flag. ^[134]
• Howard Wesley Johnson, 87, American educator, president of MIT (1966–1971). ^[135]
• Napoleon A. Jones Jr., 69, American federal judge. ^[136]
• Manuel Ruiz Sosa, 72, Spanish footballer and coach. ^[137]
• Eugene van Tamelen, 84, American chemist, cancer. ^[138]

13

• Dan Barton, 88, American actor and voice-over actor, heart failure and kidney disease. ^[139]
• Julian Fane, 82, British author. ^[140]
• Moyra Fraser, 86, Australian-born British actress ( As Time Goes By ). ^[141]
• Yvonne King, 89, American singer (The King Sisters). ^[142]
• Börje Langefors, 94, Swedish engineer and computer scientist. ^[143]
• Arne Næss, 84, Norwegian politician, Mayor of Bergen. ^[144]
• Piergiorgio Nesti, 78, Italian Roman Catholic archbishop of Camerino-San Severino Marche. ^[145]
• Paul Samuelson, 94, American economist, Nobel Prize winner (1970). ^[146]
• Sha'ari Tadin, 77, Singaporean educator and public servant, Parkinson's disease. ^[147]
• Thomas F. Stroock, 84, American politician, Ambassador to Guatemala (1989–1992). ^[148]
• Larry Sultan, 63, American photographer, cancer. ^[149]
• Wilton Cezar Xavier, 62, Brazilian footballer. ^[150]

14

• Alan A'Court, 75, English footballer (Liverpool, England), cancer. ^[151]
• Jack Denham, 85, Australian horse trainer, winner of 1997 Caulfield and Melbourne Cup (Might and Power). ^[152]
• Chris Feinstein, 42, American bassist (The Cardinals). ^[153]
• Stocker Fontelieu, 86, American actor and executive director (New Orleans theatre), complications from a fall. ^[154]
• Conard Fowkes, 76, American actor ( Dark Shadows ). ^[155]
• Miodrag Jovanović, 87, Serbian Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) footballer. ^[156]
• George McKinnon, 91, American basketball and baseball coach. ^[157]
• David Pecaut, 54, Canadian municipal entrepreneur, colorectal cancer. ^[158]
• Daniel Piscopo, 89, Maltese politician. ^[159]
• Sol Price, 93, American businessman, founder of Price Club, natural causes. ^[160]

15

• Curtis Allina, 87, American businessman, executive of Pez Candy (1955–1979), heart failure. ^[161]
• C. D. B. Bryan, 73, American author (Friendly Fire), cancer. ^[162]
• Sir Chris Clarke, 68, British politician, leader of Somerset County Council. ^[163]
• Milena Müllerová, 86, Czech gymnast, Olympic champion (1948). ^[164]
• Arnaldo Ribeiro, 79, Brazilian Roman Catholic archbishop of Ribeirão Preto (1988–2006). ^[165]
• Oral Roberts, 91, American evangelist, founder of Oral Roberts University, complications from pneumonia. ^[166]
• James Rossant, 81, American architect, designer of Reston, Virginia, leukemia. ^[167]
• Herbert Spiegel, 95, American psychiatrist. ^[168]

16

• Arturo Beltrán Leyva, 48, Mexican drug lord, shot. ^[169]
• Arthur Cores, 52, American businessman, founder of Boston Market, esophageal cancer. ^[170]
• Drexell R. Davis, 88, American politician, Kentucky Secretary of State and state treasurer. ^[171]
• Roy E. Disney, 79, American entertainment executive (The Walt Disney Company), nephew of Walt Disney, stomach cancer. ^[172]
• Karel Dufek, 93, Czechoslovak diplomat, Spanish Civil War veteran. ^[173]
• Yegor Gaidar, 53, Russian politician, acting Prime Minister (1992), thrombus. ^[174]
• Dennis Herod, 86, English footballer (Stoke City). ^[175]
• Fred Honsberger, 58, American radio personality. ^[176]
• T. G. H. James, 86, British egyptologist. ^[177]
• Kelly Kwalik, 53-54, Indonesian West Papua separatist leader and commander (Free Papua Movement), shot. ^[178]
• Dame Victoire Ridsdale, Lady Ridsdale, 88, British politician, World War II intelligence agent, inspiration for Miss Moneypenny. ^[179]
• Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, 69, South African politician, Minister of Health (1999–2008), complications from a liver transplant. ^[180]
• Vladimir Turchinsky, 46, Russian actor, bodybuilder and showman, heart attack. ^[181]
• Josef Voß, 72, German Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of Munster, Titular Bishop of Thisiduo (since 1988). ^[182]
• Bob Waldmire, 64, American Route 66 artist, cancer. ^[183]

17

• Amin al-Hafiz, 88, Syrian politician, President (1963–1966). ^[184]
• P.R. Anthonis, 98, Sri Lankan surgeon. ^[185]
• Alaina Reed Hall, 63, American actress ( Sesame Street, 227 ), breast cancer. ^[186]
• Chris Henry, 26, American football player (Cincinnati Bengals), blunt force trauma after fall from vehicle. ^[187]
• Warren Hogan, 80, Australian economics professor and government adviser, cancer. ^[188]
• Jennifer Jones, 90, American Academy Award-winning actress ( The Song of Bernadette ), natural causes. ^[189]
• Michel Leblond, 77, French Olympic footballer. ^[190]
• Miljenko Mihić, 75, Serbian football coach. ^[191]
• Dan O'Bannon, 63, American screenwriter ( Alien , Total Recall , Blue Thunder ), Crohn's disease. ^[192]
• Samuel Victor Perry, 91, British biochemist. ^[193]
• Hans Pfenninger, 80, Swiss Olympic cyclist. ^[194]
• Albert Ràfols-Casamada, 86, Spanish artist. ^[195]

18

• Fred Bachrach, 95, Dutch art historian. ^[196]
• Charlie Balun, 61, American artist and journalist, cancer. ^[197]
• José Bardina, 70, Spanish-Venezuelan actor, bladder cancer. ^[198]
• Oskar Danon, 96, Bosnian conductor and composer.^{[ citation needed ]}
• John Henry Fischer, 99, American educator, President of Teachers College, Columbia University (1962–1974), heart failure. ^[199]
• Connie Hines, 78, American actress ( Mister Ed ), heart failure. ^[200]
• Harold Lundrigan, 81, Canadian businessman. ^[201]
• Archimandrite Joasaph, 47, American Head of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem of the ROCOR, cancer. ^[202]
• László Nagy, 88, Hungarian-born Swiss Secretary General of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (1968–1988). ^[203]
• Job (Osacky), 63, American archbishop of the Orthodox Church in America. ^[204]
• Georgina Parkinson, 71, English ballet dancer and ballet mistress, cancer. ^[205]
• Mike Simpson, 47, American politician, Michigan state Representative (since 2006), heart attack. ^[206]
• Del St. John, 78, Canadian-born Austrian ice hockey player. ^[207]
• Bob Willoughby, 82, American photographer, cancer. ^[208]
• Robin Wood, 78, British film critic, leukemia. ^[209]
• Rex Yetman, 76, Canadian bluegrass mandolin player ^[210]
• Jack Zilly, 88, American football player (Los Angeles Rams). ^[211]

19

• Charles Birch, 91, Australian geneticist. ^[212]
• Tony Bukovich, 94, American ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings). ^[213]
• Margaret Christensen, 88, Australian actress. ^[214]
• Edith Diaz, 70, Puerto Rican-born American actress, heart failure. ^[215]
• Lincoln Gordon, 96, American diplomat and academic, Ambassador to Brazil (1961–1966), President of Johns Hopkins University (1967–1971). ^[216]
• Grand Ayatollah Hussein-Ali Montazeri, 87, Iranian cleric and dissident, natural causes. ^[217]
• Zeki Ökten, 68, Turkish film director, heart disease. ^[218]
• Kim Peek, 58, American savant, inspiration for Rain Man , heart attack. ^[219]
• Donald Pickering, 76, British actor. ^[220]
• Roger Rawson, 70, American politician, former majority leader of the Utah House of Representatives, liver disease. ^[221]
• Loren Singer, 86, American novelist ( The Parallax View ). ^[222]

20

• Joan Brosnan Walsh, 71, Irish actress ( Fair City ), motor neurone disease. ^[223]
• Jack Brownsword, 86, British footballer (Scunthorpe United). ^[224]
• Neil Farrington, 38, British drummer (Cerebral Fix). ^[225]
• Erik Gates, 47, American electrician and model rocket expert ( MythBusters ), injuries sustained in a fall from roof. ^[226]
• James Gurley, 69, American guitarist (Big Brother and the Holding Company), heart attack. ^[227]
• Jack Hixon, 88, British football scout. ^[228]
• Arun Krushnaji Kamble, 56, Indian Dalit activist, drowned. ^[229] (body discovered on this date)
• Yiannis Moralis, 93, Greek visual artist. ^[230]
• Brittany Murphy, 32, American actress ( Clueless , King of the Hill , 8 Mile ), pneumonia. ^[231]
• Shari Rhodes, 71, American casting director ( Jaws , Close Encounters of the Third Kind , Breaking Bad ). ^[232]
• Vera Rich, 73, British poet, journalist, historian, and translator. ^[233]
• Lester Rodney, 98, American sports journalist. ^[234]
• Arnold Stang, 91, American actor ( Top Cat , It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World ), pneumonia. ^[235]
• Ira Trombley, 57, American politician, member of the Vermont House of Representatives (since 2002), natural causes. ^[236]

21

• Suryakant Acharya, 80, Indian politician, natural causes. ^[237]
• Jaime Agudelo, 84, Colombian comedian, respiratory failure. ^[238]
• Craigie Aitchison, 83, British painter. ^[239]
• Dick Archer, 82, Australian politician, member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council (1980–1992). ^[240]
• Ann Nixon Cooper, 107, American civil rights activist, mentioned in President Obama's election victory speech. ^[241]
• James Cowley, 90, British recipient of the Distinguished Conduct Medal. ^[242]
• Rick Hube, 62, American politician, member of the Vermont House of Representatives (since 1998). ^[243]
• David Isaacs, 63, Jamaican singer (The Itals). ^[244]
• Pete King, 80, British saxophonist, co-founder of Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club. ^[245]
• Edwin G. Krebs, 91, American Nobel Prize-winning biochemist. ^[246]
• Christos Lambrakis, 75, Greek businessman, publisher and journalist, multiple organ failure. ^[247]
• Marianne Stone, 87, British character actress (Carry On series). ^[248]

22

• Al Bernardin, 81, American restaurateur, inventor of the Quarter Pounder, stroke. ^[249]
• Mick Cocks, 54, Australian guitarist (Rose Tattoo), liver cancer. ^[250]
• Luis Francisco Cuéllar, 69, Colombian politician, Governor of Caqueta, assassination by cut throat. ^[251]
• Michael Currie, 81, American actor ( Dark Shadows , Sudden Impact ). ^[252]
• Bernhard Droog, 88, Dutch actor, pneumonia. ^[253]
• Milena Dvorská, 71, Czech film actress. ^[254]
• Edward Maitland-Makgill-Crichton, 93, British army general. ^[255]
• Andy Manson, 73, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1995–2000). ^[256]
• Duncan Paterson, 66, Scottish rugby union player and administrator. ^[257]
• Sir Bob Phillis, 64, British media executive, cancer. ^[258]
• Albert Scanlon, 74, English footballer (Manchester United), survivor of Munich air disaster. ^[259]
• Piers Wardle, 49, British artist, brain haemorrhage. ^[260]

23

• Lucas Abadamloora, 71, Ghanaian Roman Catholic Bishop of Navrongo-Bolgatanga (1994–2009). ^[261]
• Lilo Allgayer, 94, German Olympic fencer. ^[262]
• Ike Aronowicz, 86, Israeli captain of the SS Exodus. ^[263]
• Grigory Baklanov, 86, Russian novelist. ^[264]
• Charles Bullen, 90, American politician, Utah House of Representatives (1971–1977) and Senate (1977–1985). ^[265]
• Robert L. Howard, 70, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (1971), pancreatic cancer. ^[266]
• Micah Naftalin, 76, American advocate for Soviet Jews. ^[267]
• Ngapoi Ngawang Jigme, 99, Chinese politician, Chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region (1964–1968; 1981–1983). ^[268]
• Peter O'Hagan, Irish politician. ^[269]
• Edward Schillebeeckx, 95, Belgian theologian. ^[270]
• Rainer Zepperitz, 79, Indonesian-born German double bassist. ^[271]

24

• Marcus Bakker, 86, Dutch politician, party leader of the Communist Party of the Netherlands (1963–1982). ^[272]
• Stan Benjamin, 95, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies) and scout (Houston Astros). ^[273]
• Giulio Bosetti, 79, Italian actor and film director, cancer.^{[ citation needed ]}
• Rafael Caldera, 93, Venezuelan politician, President (1969–1974; 1994–1999). ^[274]
• George Cowling, 89, British weatherman. ^[275]
• Victor Khain, 95, Russian geologist. ^[276]
• Terry Lawless, 76, British boxing manager and trainer. ^[277]
• Henry van Lieshout, 77, Dutch-born Papua New Guinean Roman Catholic Bishop of Lae (1966–2007). ^[278]
• George Michael, 70, American sportscaster and disc jockey, chronic lymphocytic leukemia. ^[279]
• Masahiko Shimura, 29, Japanese singer and musician, co-founder of the rock band Fujifabric. ^[280]
• Eysteinn Þórðarson, 75, Icelandic Olympic skier.Eysteinn Þórðarson
• Gero von Wilpert, 76, German literary scientist. ^[281]
• Brian Young, 79, British naval officer. ^[282]

25

• Christopher Bell, 35, American disability studies scholar. ^[283]
• Tony Bellamy, 63, American musician (Redbone), liver failure. ^[284]
• Bill Burich, 92, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies). ^[285]
• Charles Capps, 84, American politician, member of Mississippi House of Representatives (1972–2005). ^[286]
• Asheem Chakravarty, 50, Indian jazz fusion musician (Indian Ocean), heart attack. ^[287]
• Vic Chesnutt, 45, American folk rock musician, muscle relaxant overdose. ^[288]
• Rusty Dedrick, 91, American swing and bebop jazz trumpeter. ^[289]
• Knut Haugland, 92, Norwegian explorer and World War II veteran, last surviving member of the Kon-Tiki expedition. ^[290]
• Rick Kane, 55, American football player (Detroit Lions), pneumonia. ^[291]
• Morris E. Lasker, 92, American federal judge, cancer. ^[292]
• Rachel Wetzsteon, 42, American poet, suicide. ^[293]

26

• Charles F. Baird, 87, American politician. ^[294]
• Dennis Brutus, 85, South African poet and anti-Apartheid activist, prostate cancer. ^[295]
• Giuseppe Chiappella, 85, Italian football player and manager. ^[296]
• Peder Lunde, 91, Norwegian Olympic silver medal-winning (1952) sailor. ^[297]
• Arthur McIntyre, 91, British cricketer. ^[298]
• Yves Rocher, 79, French entrepreneur and mayor of La Gacilly, founder of Yves Rocher Cosmetics. ^[299]
• Ihor Ševčenko, 87, Polish philologist. ^[300]
• Percy Sutton, 89, American civil rights activist, politician and attorney, Manhattan Borough President (1966–1977). ^[301]
• Jacques Sylla, 63, Malagasy politician, Prime Minister of Madagascar (2002–2007). ^[302]
• David Taylor, 63, British politician, MP for North West Leicestershire (since 1997), heart attack. ^[303]
• Norval White, 83, American author (AIA Guide to New York City), heart attack. ^[304]
• Felix Wurman, 51, American cellist, cancer. ^[305]

27

• Maryam Babangida, 61, Nigerian First Lady, wife of former President Ibrahim Babangida, ovarian cancer. ^[306]
• Gunnar Kemnitz, 82, Brazilian Olympic diver. ^[307]
• Terry L. Punt, 60, American politician, Pennsylvania State Senator (1989–2009) and State Representative (1979–1988). ^[308]
• Narra Venkateswara Rao, 62, Indian actor, cancer.^{[ citation needed ]}
• Isaac Schwartz, 86, Russian composer ( White Sun of the Desert ). ^[309]
• Takashi Takabayashi, 78, Japanese footballer. ^[310]

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• Allen Batsford, 77, British football manager (Wimbledon), heart attack. ^[311]
• Habib Bourguiba, Jr., 82, Tunisian diplomat and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1964–1970). ^[312]
• D. F. Cartwright, 93, British businessman. ^[313]
• Sir Jack Harman, 89, British general. ^[314]
• Zoltán Horváth, 30, Romanian-born Hungarian basketball player, car accident. ^[315]
• Terry Matte, 66, Canadian television news producer, cancer. ^[316]
• Manfred R. Schroeder, 83, German physicist. ^[317]
• J. David Singer, 84, American political scientist. ^[318]
• Witold Skulicz, 83, Polish artist. ^[319]
• The Rev, 28, American hard rock and heavy metal drummer (Avenged Sevenfold), drug overdose. ^[320]

29

• Roberto Amadei, 76, Italian Roman Catholic monsignor, bishop of Bergamo (1991–2009). ^[321]
• C. Aswath, 71, Indian Kannada singer, liver and renal failure. ^[322]
• Carlo Cerioni, 84, Italian Olympic basketball player. Carlo Cerioni
• David Levine, 83, American caricaturist ( The New York Review of Books ), prostate cancer. ^[323]
• Paul Sapsford, 60, New Zealand rugby union player (Otago, national team), injuries sustained in a jetboat accident. ^[324]
• Akmal Shaikh, 53, Pakistani-born British drug trafficker, executed by lethal injection. ^[325]
• M. S. Sivasankariah, 82, Indian cricket umpire. ^[326]
• Robert H. Smith, 81, American real estate developer and philanthropist, creator of Crystal City, Virginia, stroke. ^[327]
• Steve Williams, 49, American professional wrestler, throat cancer. ^[328]

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• Anthony Alaimo, 89, American federal judge (Southern District of Georgia). ^[329]
• Bessie Blount Griffin, 95, American inventor and forensic scientist. ^[330]
• Peter Corren, 62, Canadian gay rights activist, cancer. ^[331]
• Adrian Kivumbi Ddungu, 86, Ugandan Roman Catholic Bishop of Masaka. ^[332]
• Maldwyn Evans, 72, Welsh bowler, world champion (1972). ^[333]
• Rowland S. Howard, 50, Australian musician and songwriter (The Birthday Party), liver cancer. ^[334]
• Michelle Lang, 34, Canadian reporter ( Calgary Herald ), IED explosion. ^[335]
• Ruth Lilly, 94, American philanthropist (Eli Lilly and Company), heart failure. ^[336]
• Alberto Lysy, 74, Argentine violinist and composer. ^[337]
• Gloria Nord, 87, American skater. ^[338]
• Walter Pérez, 85, Uruguayan Olympic sprinter. ^[339]
• Vasiliy Shandybin, 68, Russian politician. ^[340]
• Peter Shirayanagi, 81, Japanese Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. ^[341]
• Jacqueline Sturm, 82, New Zealand writer and poet. ^[342]
• Vishnuvardhan, 59, Indian Kannada actor, cardiac arrest. ^[343]
• Abdurrahman Wahid, 69, Indonesian politician, President (1999–2001), heart failure. ^[344]
• Norman Walker, 74, Australian rules footballer. ^[345]
• Perry Wilson, 93, American actress (Fear Strikes Out ). ^[346]
• Leon Yao Liang, 86, Chinese bishop. ^[347]
• Ivan Zulueta, 66, Spanish designer and film director. ^[348]

31

• Arthur E. Bartlett, 76, American realtor, co-founder of Century 21, Alzheimer's disease. ^[349]
• Umalat Magomedov, 30, leader of the Vilayat Dagestan, terrorist, killed by Russian troops.
• Tod Campeau, 86, Canadian ice hockey player. ^[350]
• Giulio Corsini, 76, Italian football player and manager. ^[351]
• John Cushnie, 66, Irish gardening expert and radio presenter, heart attack. ^[352]
• Cahal Daly, 92, Irish Cardinal of the Roman Catholic church, Primate of All Ireland (1990–1996). ^[353]
• Maurice Dupras, 86, Canadian politician. ^[354]
• Ann Linnea Sandberg, 71, American immunologist. ^[355]
• George M. Holmes, 80, American politician, member of the North Carolina General Assembly (1975–1977, 1979–2009). ^[356]
• Ross Johnstone, 83, Canadian ice hockey player. ^[357]
• Rashidi Kawawa, 83, Tanzanian politician, Prime Minister of Tanganyika (1962) and Tanzania (1972–1977). ^[358]
• Justin Keating, 79, Irish humanist and Labour Party politician (Minister for Industry and Commerce, 1973–1977). ^[359]
• Helen Lewis, 93, Czech-born British dancer and concentration camp survivor. ^[360]
• Guido Lorraine, 97, Polish-born British actor. ^[361]
• William May, 56, American-born Australian artistic director ( Walking with Dinosaurs – The Live Experience ), pneumonia. ^[362]
• Glauco Onorato, 73, Italian actor and voice actor.^{[ citation needed ]}
• Bill Powell, 93, American golf course designer, stroke. ^[363]
• Qian Xinzhong, 98, Chinese politician, Minister of Health (1965–1973, 1979–1983). ^[364]
• Youssef Ibrahim Sarraf, 69, Egyptian Chaldean Bishop of Cairo (since 1984). ^[365]
• Frans Seda, 83, Indonesian economist, Minister of Finance (1966–1968). ^[366]
• William Tuohy, 83, American journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent, complications from heart surgery. ^[367]
• Mikhail Vartanov, 72, Russian actor.^{[ citation needed ]}

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