Deaths in May 2012

The following is a list of notable deaths in May 2012.

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

• Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference (and language of reference, if not English).

May 2012

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1

• Gonçalo Amorim, 39, Portuguese Olympic cyclist.
• Gogó Andreu, 92, Argentine comedian and actor.
• Cali Carranza, 59, American Tejano musician, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Harold L. Colburn Jr., 86, American physician and politician.
• Gale Dixon, 65–66, American actress and singer, pancreatic cancer.
• Joseph Erhardy, 83, American sculptor.
• Gord Fashoway, 85, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Rufina Gasheva, 90, Soviet Russian flight navigator.
• John Spencer Hardy, 98, American lieutenant general, NATO commander for Southern Europe.
• Harold K. Hoskins, 85, American pilot, Tuskegee Airman, Congressional Gold Medal winner, complications from a fall.
• Greg Jackson, 60, American basketball player (New York Knicks, Phoenix Suns), heart attack.
• Eric James, 87, British Anglican clergyman and broadcaster.
• Senteza Kajubi, 86, Ugandan university administrator and academic.
• James Kinley, 86, Canadian engineer and industrialist, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (1994–2000).
• Daniel Mulumba, 49, Ugandan Olympic swimmer.
• Viktoras Petkus, 83, Lithuanian political activist and dissident.
• Charles Pitts, 65, American soul musician, guitarist for Isaac Hayes, lung cancer.
• Harriet Presser, 76, American sociologist and demographer.
• Earl Rose, 85, American medical examiner, attempted to autopsy President Kennedy after assassination, Parkinson's disease.
• Shanmugasundari, 75, Indian film actress, heart attack.
• Mordechai Virshubski, 82, Israeli politician, MK (1977–1992) and Deputy Speaker of the Knesset (1988–1992).
• Arnold Manaaki Wilson, 83, New Zealand artist and educator.

2

• Bram Bogart, 90, Dutch-born Belgian painter.
• Michel Boudart, 87, American chemical engineer.
• William Francis Brace, 85, American geophysicist.
• Ranjit Cheema, Canadian gangster and drug trader, shot.
• Razia Matin Chowdhury, 87, Bangladeshi politician, old age complications.
• Peter Connolly, 77, British historian.
• Shirin Darasha, 73, Indian theatre director, pulmonary fibrosis.
• Mark Deutch, 67, Russian journalist, drowned.
• Andrew Ganigan, 59, American former NABF lightweight champion boxer, cancer.
• Nélida Gómez de Navajas, 84, Argentine human rights activist (Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo).
• Fernando Lopes, 76, Portuguese film director, throat cancer.
• Zenaida Manfugás, 80, Cuban-born American pianist.
• James Marker, 90, American-born Canadian businessman, inventor of Cheezies.
• Charlotte Mitchell, 85, British actress.
• Tufan Miñnullin, 76, Russian Tatar writer and playwright, heart attack.
• Les Mogg, 82, Australian football player.
• Donald L. Owens, 82, American military officer.
• Ernst Rau, 85, German Olympic fencer.
• J. T. Ready, 39, American border militia leader, former neo-Nazi, suicide by gunshot.
• Tracy Reed, 69, English actress (Dr. Strangelove, Casino Royale), cancer.
• Junior Seau, 43, American football player (San Diego Chargers, Miami Dolphins, New England Patriots), suicide by gunshot.
• Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih, 57, Indonesian physician, Minister of Health (2009–2012), cancer.
• Akira Tonomura, 70, Japanese physicist, pancreatic cancer.
• Lourdes Valera, 58, Venezuelan actress, lung cancer.
• Digby Wolfe, 82, British actor and screenwriter (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In), cancer.
• Zvi Zeitlin, 90, Belarusian-born American classical violinist, pneumonia.

3

• Edith Bliss, 52, Australian pop singer and television presenter, lung cancer.
• Lloyd Brevett, 80, Jamaican double bassist (The Skatalites), complications from stroke.
• Elizabeth Busche, 20, American curler, cancer.
• Peter K. Cullins, 83, American admiral, first commander of the Naval Data Automation Command, complications from hepatitis B.
• John Miles Foley, 65, American folklorist and literary scholar.
• Jorge Illueca, 93, Panamanian politician, President (1984), respiratory failure.
• Andrew Suknaski, 69, Canadian poet and visual artist.
• Richie Thomson, 71, New Zealand Olympic cyclist.
• František Tondra, 75, Slovak Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Spiš (1989–2011), heart failure.
• Tú Duyên, 96, Vietnamese painter.
• Felix Werder, 90, German-born Australian composer.

4

• Haukur Angantýsson, 63, Icelandic chess player.
• Harriet Berger, 94, American political scientist.
• T. P. Chandrasekharan, 51, Indian politician, assassinated (hacked).
• Aleksandre Chikvaidze, 74, Georgian diplomat.
• Neville Coleman, 74, Australian underwater nature photographer.
• Gert Frischmuth, 79, German choral conductor and music educator.
• Angelica Garnett, 93, British writer and painter.
• Crawford Hallock Greenewalt, Jr., 74, American archaeologist.
• Mort Lindsey, 89, American orchestra leader and composer.
• Anthony O'Connell, 73, Irish-born American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Knoxville (1988–1998) and Palm Beach (1998–2002).
• Edward Short, Baron Glenamara, 99, British politician, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party (1972–1976), MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central (1951–1976).
• Bob Stewart, 91, American television game show producer (Password, To Tell the Truth, The Price Is Right), natural causes.
• Adam Yauch, 47, American musician (Beastie Boys) and film director (Gunnin' for That No. 1 Spot), salivary gland cancer.
• Rashidi Yekini, 48, Nigerian footballer.

5

• Ramón Arano, 72, Mexican baseball player.
• Stevan Bena, 76, Serbian footballer.
• Frederick J. Brown, 67, American artist.
• Count Carl Johan Bernadotte of Wisborg, 95, Swedish royal, youngest son of King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden.
• James R. Browning, 93, American senior (former chief) judge of the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
• Marguerite S. Chang, 88, Chinese-born American research chemist and inventor.
• Reg Cutler, 77, English footballer.
• Aatos Erkko, 79, Finnish journalist and publisher, after long illness.
• Florida Pearl, 20, Irish racehorse, winner of the Champion Bumper (1997), euthanized.
• George Knobel, 89, Dutch football manager, complications of Alzheimer's disease.
• Don Leshnock, 65, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).
• Michail Markov, 73, Russian cyclist and coach.
• Meow, app. 2, American cat, heaviest cat at his time of death, lung failure.
• Miguel Mora Gornals, 75, Spanish Olympic cyclist.
• Roy Padayachie, 62, South African politician.
• Mendel Sachs, 85, American theoretical physicist.
• Ivica Šangulin, 75, Croatian football player and manager.
• Surendranath, 75, Indian cricketer.
• Ali Uras, 88, Turkish Olympic basketball player and president of Galatasaray S.K. (1979–1986).

6

• Lubna Agha, 63, Pakistani-American artist, cancer.
• Fahd al-Quso, 37, Yemeni militant, al-Qaeda member, airstrike.
• Vagn Andersen, 74, Danish sports shooter.
• Tyrone Breuninger, 73, American trombonist.
• Michael Burks, 54, American blues musician, heart attack.
• François Chevalier, 98, French historian.
• Ekalavyan, 77, Indian writer.
• Pat Frink, 67, American basketball player (Cincinnati Royals), automobile accident.
• Jerry H. Geisler, 77, American lawyer and politician.
• Iraj Ghaderi, 77, Iranian film director and actor.
• Kåre Øistein Hansen, 84, Norwegian politician.
• James Isaac, 51, American film director, producer (Jason X, Skinwalkers) and special effects supervisor, multiple myeloma and blood cancer.
• Kostas Karras, 76, Greek actor, MP (2000–2007), prostate cancer.
• Félix Kouadjo, 73, Ivorian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bondoukou (since 1996).
• Jean Laplanche, 87, French psychoanalyst, pulmonary fibrosis
• George Lindsey, 83, American actor (The Andy Griffith Show, Mayberry R.F.D., Hee Haw), after brief illness.
• Georgi Lozanov, 85, Bulgarian educator, developed Suggestopedia.
• Marika Mitsotakis, 82, Greek politician, wife of the Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Mitsotakis (1990–1993), complications of poliomyelitis.
• John Slack, 81, English cricketer and judge.
• Yale Summers, 78, American actor (Daktari).
• Tran Dinh Truong, 80, Vietnamese businessman.
• Jan Trøjborg, 56, Danish politician, member of the Folketing (1987–2005), and Defence Minister (2000–2001), heart failure.
• John Worrall, 84, New Zealand cricketer.

7

• Ivan Allen, 81, American ballet dancer (Metropolitan Opera).
• Ferenc Bartha, 68, Hungarian economist, Governor of the National Bank of Hungary (1988–1990), suicide.
• Sammy Barr, 80, Scottish trade union leader.
• Norbert Becker, 74, German agricultural scientist.
• Jules Bocandé, 53, Senegalese footballer, complications of surgery and stroke.
• Rich Buhler, 65, American radio personality, pancreatic cancer.
• R. Michael Canjar, 58, American mathematician.
• Robert Everett Coyle, 82, American senior (former chief) judge of the District Court for the Eastern District of California.
• Andrea Crisanti, 75, Italian production designer and art director.
• Dennis E. Fitch, 69, American pilot (United Airlines Flight 232), brain cancer.
• Virgil Frye, 81, American actor and boxer, Pick's Disease.
• Kimitada Hayase, 71, Japanese track and field athlete (1960 Summer Olympics, 1964 Summer Olympics), blood poisoning.
• Alexander Keynan, 90, Israeli microbiologist, co-founder and the first director of Israel Institute for Biological Research.
• Eva Rausing, 48, American philanthropist.
• Gene Visich, 85, American AAGPBL baseball player.

8

• Ampon Tangnoppakul, 64, Thai detainee, cancer.
• Bobby Bulch, 79, English footballer.
• Oscar M. Corbin Jr., 94, American politician.
• Yves Courrière, 76, French writer, biographer and journalist.
• Aimée Danis, 82, Canadian film director and producer.
• Isabel Gago, 98, Portuguese engineer.
• Nan Giese, 90, Australian educator and artist.
• Nicholas Katzenbach, 90, American lawyer, United States Attorney General (1965–1966).
• Lau Teng Chuan, 83, Singaporean sports administrator, stomach cancer.
• Everett Lilly, 87, American bluegrass musician (The Lilly Brothers).
• Frank Parr, 83, English cricketer and jazz musician.
• Louis H. Pollak, 89, American senior judge of the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
• Ingvill Raaum, 76, Norwegian politician.
• George Stephen Ritchie, 97, British war hero and hydrographer.
• Stacy Robinson, 50, American football player (New York Giants), cancer.
• Robert de La Rochefoucauld, 88, French Resistance member.
• Maurice Sendak, 83, American author and illustrator (Where the Wild Things Are, Little Bear), complications of a stroke.
• Roman Totenberg, 101, Polish-born American violinist, renal failure.
• Vo Rogue, 28, Australian Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the Australian Cup (1989, 1990).
• Garth Webb, 93, Canadian soldier and museum founder (Juno Beach Centre).

9

• Carl Beane, 59, American sports broadcaster and public address announcer (Fenway Park), heart attack.
• James Carter, 100, American basketball coach (University of Dayton).
• Bertram Cohler, 73, American psychologist.
• Danilo De Girolamo, 56, Italian voice actor, heart attack.
• Alfred Doll-Steinberg, 78, Austrian-born British chemical engineer.
• Gunnar Dybwad, 83, Norwegian footballer.
• Alain Fossoul, 83, Belgian footballer,
• Hernán Haddad, 83, Chilean Olympic athlete.
• Sir Geoffrey Henry, 71, Cook Islands politician, Prime Minister (1983, 1989–1999), and Speaker of Parliament (since 2011), cancer.
• Constantin Piron, 80, Belgian physicist.
• Vidal Sassoon, 84, British hairstylist, leukemia.
• Ingvald M. Smith-Kielland, 92, Norwegian royal servant.
• Lajos Somodi, Sr., 83, Hungarian Olympic bronze medallist fencer (1956).

10

• Edward Abramson, 91, American politician.
• George Birimisa, 88, American playwright, actor, and director.
• Ningali Cullen, 69–70, Australian activist.
• Barbara D'Arcy, 84, American visual merchandiser.
• Evelyn Bryan Johnson, 102, American aviator.
• Günther Kaufmann, 64, German film actor, heart attack.
• Pekka Marjamäki, 64, Finnish Olympic ice hockey player, heart attack.
• Eddie Perkins, 75, American former world light welterweight champion boxer.
• Joyce Redman, 96, Irish-born British actress (Othello, Tom Jones), pneumonia.
• Bernardo Sassetti, 41, Portuguese jazz pianist and film composer, fall.
• Carroll Shelby, 89, American automobile racer and designer.
• Andreas Shipanga, 80, Namibian politician, Chairman of the Transitional Government of National Unity (1987, 1988), heart attack.
• Gunnar Sønsteby, 94, Norwegian resistance movement member.
• Walter Wink, 76, American theologian, complications of dementia.
• Paul Winslow, 74, American football player and NFL defensive back (Green Bay Packers)
• Gulumbu Yunupingu, 69, Australian Aboriginal artist.

11

• Soungalo Bagayogo, 70, Malian Olympic boxer.
• Alma Bella, 102, Filipino actress.
• Jack Benaroya, 90, American real estate developer.
• Sherman A. Bernard, 86, American businessman.
• Patrick Bosch, 47, Dutch footballer (FC Twente), car accident.
• Stanislav Brebera, 86, Czech chemist.
• Les Carr, 82, Australian football player.
• Sheila Conroy, 94, Irish trade union leader and activist.
• Dankwart Danckwerts, 79, German sociologist.
• Alfred Diamant, 94, Austrian-born American political scientist.
• Leela Roy Ghosh, 64, Indian actress and voice-dubbing artist, complications of liver transplant surgery.
• Rose Mary Glaser, 90, American AAGPBL baseball player.
• Grant Jeffrey, 63, Canadian Bible teacher and writer.
• Rodolfo Kappenberger, 95, Swiss footballer.
• László Seregi, 82, Hungarian dancer and choreographer.
• Roland Shaw, 91, British bandleader and music arranger.
• Martin Stovold, 56, English cricketer.

12

• Jan Bens, 91, Dutch footballer (Feyenoord).
• Frank Bethwaite, 91, New Zealand boat designer, author and meteorologist.
• Ferrin C. Campbell, 88, American politician.
• Paul Cyr, 48, Canadian hockey player (Buffalo Sabres, New York Rangers, Hartford Whalers), heart failure.
• Ruth Foster, 92, American actress (Little House on the Prairie).
• Richard Gerrard-Wright, 82, British Army officer.
• Terry Martin, 74, American surfboard shaper.
• Neil McKenty, 87, Canadian radio talk-show host and author.
• Donald Nicholson, 96, British biochemist.
• Eddy Paape, 91, Belgian comics artist (Luc Orient).
• Harold Arthur Poling, 86, American businessman, CEO and Chairman of Ford Motor Company (1990–1993).
• Sam Porcello, 76, American food scientist, created the Oreo cookie filling.
• Fritz Ursell, 89, German-born British mathematician (Ursell number).

13

• Trond Bråthen, 34, Norwegian singer and guitarist (Urgehal), natural causes.
• William G. Braud, 69, American psychologist and parapsychologist.
• Marek Cichosz, 32, Polish cyclist.
• Arsala Rahmani Daulat, Afghan politician, Afghan High Peace Council member, shot.
• Donald "Duck" Dunn, 70, American bass guitarist (The Blues Brothers, Booker T. & the M.G.'s).
• Paul Engstad, 85, Norwegian writer and politician.
• Lee Richardson, 33, British speedway rider, race crash.
• Nolan Richardson III, 47, American college basketball coach (Tennessee State University).
• Don Ritchie, 85, Australian volunteer, rescued 160 people from suicide.
• Jack Simcock, 82, British artist.
• Bill Walsh, 84, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers).
• Trevor Young, 86, New Zealand politician, MP for Hutt (1968–1978); Eastern Hutt (1978–1990).

14

• Vladimer Aptsiauri, 50, Georgian Olympic gold medal-winning (1988) fencer.
• Burgess Carr, 76, Liberian-born American priest, religious leader, and professor, Lewy bodies disease.
• Joséphine Catapano, 93, American perfumer.
• Horia Damian, 90, Romanian painter and sculptor.
• Tor Marius Gromstad, 22, Norwegian footballer (Stabæk), fall.
• Mitchell Guist, 48, American reality series cast member (Swamp People), natural causes.
• Derek Hammond-Stroud, 86, English opera singer.
• Ernst Hinterberger, 80, Austrian author and screenwriter (Kaisermühlen Blues, Ein echter Wiener geht nicht unter).
• Taruni Sachdev, 14, Indian film actress (Paa), plane crash.
• Mario Trejo, 86, Argentine poet.

15

• Donald S. Bryan, 90, American Air Force pilot and flying ace.
• Henry Denker, 99, American novelist and playwright, lung cancer.
• Carlos Fuentes, 83, Panamanian-born Mexican novelist, internal hemorrhage.
• Jean Craighead George, 92, American children's author (Julie of the Wolves, My Side of the Mountain), heart failure.
• Peter Koslowski, 59, German philosopher and academic.
• Arno Lustiger, 88, Upper Silesian-born German writer and Judaic historian.
• Zakaria Mohieddin, 93, Egyptian politician and military officer, Vice President (1961–1964, 1965–1968), Prime Minister (1965–1966).
• John Murray, 11th Duke of Atholl, 83, South African-born hereditary peer of the Peerage of Scotland.
• Sir Roy Shaw, 93, British arts administrator.
• Frederick E. Smith, 93, British author (633 Squadron), heart attack.
• Ángel Alfredo Villatoro, 47, Honduran journalist and radio personality, killed.
• Horst Walter, 75, German artist.
• George Wyllie, 90, Scottish sculptor.

16

• Patricia Aakhus, 59, American novelist, cancer.
• Dwight Bentel, 103, American journalist and professor.
• Jože Bertoncelj, 90, Slovenian alpine skier.
• Maria Bieşu, 76, Moldovan opera singer, leukemia.
• Barry Blaikie, 77, Australian politician.
• Chuck Brown, 75, American singer and musician ("Bustin' Loose"), multiple organ failure.
• Warren Bruno, 63, American restaurateur.
• Ernie Chan, 71, Filipino-born American comic book artist (Batman, Doctor Strange, Conan the Barbarian).
• Doug Dillard, 75, American bluegrass musician (The Dillards) and actor (The Andy Griffith Show), lung infection.
• Kurt Felix, 71, Swiss television presenter, thymoma.
• Hans Geister, 83, German Olympic bronze medallist relay runner (1952).
• Hugo Gottfrit, 61, Argentine football player.
• Kevin Hickey, 56, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Baltimore Orioles), complications of a seizure.
• Andrei Mylnikov, 93, Russian painter.
• Thad Tillotson, 71, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Nakai Hawks).
• Anne Warner, 71, British biologist, cerebral haemorrhage.
• Brixton Karnes, 52, American actor ("Team Knight rider"), pneumonia.

17

• Warda Al-Jazairia, 72, Algerian singer, cardiac arrest.
• Marion C. Bascom, 87, American civil rights leader, heart attack.
• France Clidat, 79, French classical pianist.
• James Doss, 73, American writer.
• Patrick Mafisango, 32, Congolese-born Rwandan footballer, car accident.
• Stepan Pogosyan, 80, Armenian historian and politician.
• Derek Round, 77, New Zealand journalist, injuries following assault.
• Ron Shock, 69, American stand-up comedian, urethral cancer.
• Donna Summer, 63, American singer ("Bad Girls", "Hot Stuff", "Last Dance", "I Feel Love"), lung cancer.

18

• Arthur Bertram Court, 84, Australian botanist.
• Dick Everitt, 90, English footballer.
• Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, 86, German baritone and conductor.
• Tom Fuentes, 63, American political leader, Orange County Republican Party chairman (1985–2004), liver cancer.
• Marco Antonio Ávila García, 39, Mexican crime reporter, strangulation.
• Peter Jones, 49, British drummer (Crowded House), brain cancer.
• Justo Justo, 70, Filipino columnist and politician.
• Alan Oakley, 85, British designer of Raleigh Chopper bicycle, cancer.
• Paul O'Sullivan, 48, Canadian comedian and actor, car accident.
• Gavin Packard, 48, British-born Indian Bollywood film actor, respiratory disease.
• A. Teeuw, 90, Dutch critic of Indonesian literature.

19

• Willard Bond, 85, American painter.
• Bob Boozer, 75, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1960) basketball player (New York Knicks, Chicago Bulls), brain aneurysm.
• Rudolf Braun, 82, Swiss historian.
• Tamara Brooks, 70, American choral conductor, heart attack.
• Ian Burgess, 81, British racing driver.
• Muriel Cerf, 61, French writer, cancer.
• Jacques Clancy, 92, French actor.
• John Guest, 73, British geologist.
• Ranjit Kumar Gupta, 93, Indian police chief.
• Gerhard Hetz, 69, German Olympic silver and bronze medal-winning (1964) swimmer.
• Ann Rosener, 97, American photojournalist.

20

• Safiuddin Ahmed, 89, Bangladeshi painter and printmaker.
• Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, 60, Libyan terrorist, convicted of bombing Pan Am Flight 103, prostate cancer.
• Jacqueline Ayer, 82, American author, illustrator, fashion and textile designer.
• Bob Bethell, 69, American politician, Kansas State Representative (since 1999), car accident.
• Alan Britton, 89, New Zealand cricketer.
• Louis F. Burns, 92, American tribal and Osage Nation historian.
• Leela Dube, 89, Indian anthropologist.
• Geoffrey Evans, 69, Irish serial killer.
• John George, 81, Scottish officer of arms.
• Robin Gibb, 62, British singer and songwriter (Bee Gees), liver and kidney failure.
• Ernestine Glossbrenner, 79, American educator and politician.
• Nils Jernsletten, 77, Norwegian linguist.
• David Littman, 78, British historian and human rights activist.
• Bholabhai Patel, 77, Indian Gujarati author.
• Eugene Polley, 96, American engineer, inventor of the wireless TV remote control.
• Howie Richmond, 94, American music publisher and executive.
• David Ridgway, 74, British archaeologist.
• Raul Rojas, 70, American former WBA featherweight champion boxer.
• Carrie Smith, 86, American blues and jazz singer.
• Andrew B. Steinberg, 53, American lawyer.
• Sultana Zaman, 76, Bangladeshi actress.

21

• Kateryna Adamenko, 93, Ukrainian athlete and coach, atherosclerosis.
• Bahram Alivandi, 83–84, Iranian-born Austrian artist.
• Andreas Arntzen, 83, Norwegian barrister.
• C.C. Banana, 43, American comedian, suicide.
• Kevin Barry, 62, New Zealand rugby league player.
• Eddie Blazonczyk, 70, American polka musician, natural causes.
• Heiko Daxl, 54, German media artist.
• Roman Dumbadze, 48, Georgian rebel commander, shooting.
• Giovinella Gonthier, 63, Seychellian teacher, concierge, diplomat, author, and consultant.
• Heinrich Holland, 84, German-born American scientist.
• Ezell Lee, 74, American politician, Mississippi State Representative (1988–1992) and State Senator (1992–2012), cancer.
• Master Oats, 26, British Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the Cheltenham Gold Cup (1995), myocardial infarction.
• Juan Manuel Montero Vázquez, 64, Spanish military surgeon.
• Douglas Rodríguez, 61, Cuban boxer, heart attack.
• Bill Stewart, 59, American football coach (West Virginia University), apparent heart attack.
• Alan Thorne, 73, Australian anthropologist, developer of the theory of multiregional origin of modern humans, Alzheimer's disease.
• Rodolfo Félix Valdés, 86, Mexican politician, Governor of Sonora (1985–1991).

22

• Muzaffar Ahmed, 79, Bangladeshi economist, natural causes.
• Muzafar Bhutto, 41, Pakistani Sindhi nationalist politician.
• Juanita Boisseau, 100, American dancer.
• Michael Bryson, 69, American reporter.
• Janet Carroll, 71, American singer and actress (Risky Business, Married... with Children, Murphy Brown), brain cancer.
• Daehaeng, 85, Korean Buddhist nun.
• Chico Formiga, 81, Brazilian footballer and manager, heart attack.
• Shiu-Ying Hu, 102, Chinese botanist.
• Henrik Kalocsai, 71, Hungarian Olympic track and field athlete.
• Flinder Anderson Khonglam, 67, Indian politician and physician, Chief Minister of Meghalaya (2001–2003).
• Albion W. Knight, Jr., 87, American army officer, bishop and politician.
• Dave Mann, 79, American football player (Chicago Cardinals, Toronto Argonauts), complications from dementia.
• Hazel Monteith, 94, Jamaican consumer rights advocate.
• John Moores, Jr., 83, English businessman, Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University (1994–1999).
• Elaine Mulqueen, 80, American children's television host and personality.
• Edmund Potrzebowski, 85, Polish Olympic athlete.
• Janet Lees Price, 69, British actress (Blakes 7, Z-Cars).
• Ernie Smith, 81, American Negro league baseball player.
• Mike Voight, 58, American football player.
• Sir Derek Wanless, 64, British banker and public policy adviser, pancreatic cancer.
• Hidekazu Yoshida, 98, Japanese music critic and literary critic.

23

• Aub Carrigan, 94, Australian cricketer.
• Gyula Elek, 80, Hungarian handball player and coach.
• Sattareh Farmanfarmaian, 91, Iranian writer and princess.
• Paul Fussell, 88, American literary scholar and social critic, natural causes.
• Millie Goldsholl, 92, American film director and producer.
• Hal Jackson, 96, American disc jockey and radio personality.
• Leonel Mitchell, 81, American liturgical scholar.
• William C. Wampler, 86, American politician, U.S. Representative for Virginia (1953–1955, 1967–1983).

24

• Ursula Arnold, 83, German photographer.
• George Ceithaml, 81, American football player.
• Klaas Carel Faber, 90, Dutch-born Nazi war criminal, kidney failure.
• Kathi Kamen Goldmark, 63, American writer, cancer.
• James Arnot Hamilton, 89, British aircraft designer.
• Jacqueline Harpman, 82, Belgian writer.
• Juan Francisco Lombardo, 86, Argentine football player.
• Toby Maduot, 78, Sudanese politician.
• Ndombe Opetum, 68, Congolese musician.
• William Rathje, 66, American archaeologist.
• Lee Rich, 93, American television executive and producer (The Waltons, Dallas), co-founder of Lorimar Television, lung cancer.

25

• R. Dilip, 56, Indian actor, heart attack.
• Robert Fossier, 84, French historian.
• Alistair Hamilton, 77, Scottish lawyer, scout leader and banker.
• William Hanley, 80, American screenwriter and playwright.
• Peter D. Sieruta, 63, American writer and critic, complications due to a fall.
• Beatrice Sparks, 95, American therapist and writer.
• Doug Walton, 65–66, English rugby league player.
• Lou Watson, 88, American basketball player and coach (Indiana University).

26

• Zvi Aharoni, 91, German-born Israeli Mossad agent.
• Orhan Boran, 84, Turkish television host, bone marrow cancer.
• Arthur Decabooter, 75, Belgian professional racing cyclist, heart attack.
• Leo Dillon, 79, American comic book illustrator (Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears), complications from lung surgery.
• Anna-Lisa Eriksson, 83, Swedish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1956) cross-country skier.
• Omar Muhammad Farah, 36–37, Somali teacher and politician, road accident.
• Hiroshi Miyazawa, 90, Japanese politician, Minister of Justice (1995), Governor of Hiroshima Prefecture (1973–1981), natural causes.
• Jean Morton, 91, British television presenter.
• Hans Schmidt, 87, Canadian professional wrestler.
• Jim Unger, 75, English-born Canadian cartoonist (Herman).
• Roy Wilson, 72, Jamaican singer (Higgs and Wilson).

27

• Dee Caruso, 83, American television writer (Get Smart, The Monkees), pneumonia.
• Simeon Daniel, 77, Kittitian politician, first Premier of Nevis (1983–1992).
• Octiabr' Emelianenko, 85, Soviet Russian physicist.
• Friedrich Hirzebruch, 84, German mathematician.
• Zita Kabátová, 99, Czech actress.
• William Lee Miller, 86, American historian.
• David Rimoin, 75, American geneticist, pancreatic cancer.
• Earl Shorris, 75, American writer and social critic.
• Johnny Tapia, 45, American former triple world champion boxer.
• Jan de Vries, 88, Canadian army veteran.

28

• Pierre Allès, 95, Algerian racing cyclist.
• Don Anthony, 83, British Olympic hammer thrower.
• Gregorio Baro, 83, Argentine chemist.
• Ed Burton, 72, American basketball player.
• Hugh Dawnay, 79, English soldier and polo player.
• Rheta DeVries, 75, American psychologist.
• Bob Edwards, 86, British journalist.
• Richard Killen, 82, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1981–1991).
• Judith Nelson, 72, American opera singer.
• Ludovic Quistin, 28, Guadeloupean footballer (Tamworth), traffic accident.
• Yuri Susloparov, 53, Ukrainian-born Russian football player and coach.
• Emmanuel David Tannenbaum, 33, Israeli scientist.
• Matthew Yuricich, 89, American special effects artist (Field of Dreams, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Blade Runner).

29

• Toni Arden, 88, American singer.
• André Bernier, 81, Canadian politician and accountant.
• Frederick Gehring, 64, American mathematician.
• Dick Beals, 85, American voice actor (Davey and Goliath, Speedy Alka-Seltzer).
• Vince Cardell, 73, American pianist.
• Maureen Dunlop de Popp, 91, Argentinian-born British aviator.
• Elizabeth Ewen, American historian.
• John Fredriksson, 88, Swedish alpine skier.
• Nasir Gadžihanov, 45, Macedonian Olympic wrestler.
• Cassandra Jardine, 57, British journalist, cancer.
• Mark Minkov, 67, Russian composer.
• Mohamed Taieb Naciri, 73, Moroccan lawyer and politician.
• Jim Paratore, 58, American television producer (TMZ, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Rosie O'Donnell Show), heart attack.
• Ivor Porter, 98, British diplomat.
• Ola O. Røssum, 86, Norwegian politician.
• Kaneto Shindo, 100, Japanese film director, natural causes.
• Doc Watson, 89, American folk and bluegrass musician, complications following surgery.

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• Zahir Alam, 42, Indian cricketer, liver ailment.
• Barton Lidice Beneš, 69, American artist.
• Jerry Blemker, 67, American baseball coach.
• Duane Bryers, 100, American painter, illustrator, and sculptor.
• Pierre Ceyrac, 98, French Jesuit missionary.
• Tomas Fernandez Concepcion, 78, Filipino politician.
• Aldo Conterno, 81, Italian winemaker.
• Pete Cosey, 68, American guitarist.
• Edi Federer, 57, Austrian ski jumper, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• John Fox, 59, American comedian, colon cancer.
• Buddy Freitag, 80, American Broadway theatre producer (Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Catch Me If You Can), brain tumor.
• Farideh Mashini, Iranian feminist activist.
• Hamza Ben Driss Ottmani, 72, Moroccan economist and writer.
• Mr. Imagination, 64, American outsider artist, blood infection.
• Gerhard Pohl, 74, German politician, drowning.
• Rekin Teksoy, 84, Turkish lawyer, author and translator.

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• Natasha Borovsky, 87, Russian American poet and novelist.
• Christopher Challis, 93, British cinematographer (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Top Secret!, Mary, Queen of Scots).
• John H. Ewing, 93, American politician.
• Desmond Fernando, 81, Sri Lankan doctor and inventor.
• Roger Fournier, 82, Canadian writer and television director.
• Farid Habib, 77, Lebanese politician, MP for El Koura (since 2005), illness.
• Nélson Jacobina, 58, Brazilian songwriter ("Maracatu Atômico"), lung cancer.
• Randall B. Kester, 95, American attorney and judge.
• Mark Midler, 80, Russian Olympic gold medal-winning (1960, 1964) foil fencer.
• Paul Pietsch, 100, German Formula One and Grand Prix race car driver, first to reach the age of 100, pneumonia.
• Paul Sussman, 45, British journalist (CNN), archaeologist, and author, ruptured aneurysm.
• Gareth Walters, 83, Welsh musician.
• Orlando Woolridge, 52, American basketball player (Chicago Bulls) and coach (Los Angeles Sparks), heart disease.
• Zhou Ruchang, 94, Chinese academic and redologist.