Deaths in March 2010

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The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2010.

March 2010

31

• Eugene Allen, 90, American White House butler (1952–1986), renal failure. [1]
• Arlette Franco, 70, French politician, complications from brain tumor. [2] (French)
• Paul Fry, 45, British motorcycle speedway rider. [3]
• Burton Joseph, 79, American First Amendment lawyer, brain cancer. [4]
• Tina Leung, 65, Hong Kong actress. [5]
• Syed Qasim Mahmood, 82, Pakistani Urdu writer and encyclopedist, heart condition. [6] (Urdu)
• Ludwig Martin, 100, German lawyer, Attorney General of Germany (1963–1974). [7] (German)
• Coots Matthews, 86, American oil well firefighter (Boots & Coots), respiratory problems. [8]
• Shirley Mills, 83, American actress (The Grapes of Wrath), pneumonia. [9]
• Jerald terHorst, 87, American White House Press Secretary (1974), heart failure. [10]

30

• Alfred Ambs, 87, German World War II flying ace. [11]
• Thomas Angove, 92, Australian winemaker, inventor of the wine cask. [12]
• John Bunch, 88, American jazz pianist, melanoma. [13]
• Juan Carlos Caballero Vega, 109, Mexican revolutionary, driver of Pancho Villa. [14]
• Jaime Escalante, 79, American mathematics teacher, inspiration for film Stand and Deliver, bladder cancer. [15]
• John Fethers, 80, Australian Olympic fencer (1952). [16]
• Peter Flinsch, 89, German-born Canadian artist. [17]
• Josef Homeyer, 80, German Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Hildesheim (1983–2004). [18] (German)
• Morris R. Jeppson, 87, American Army Air Corps officer, assistant weaponeer on the Enola Gay. [19]
• David Mills, 48, American author, journalist and television writer (NYPD Blue, The Corner, Kingpin), brain aneurysm. [20]
• Malcolm Poindexter, 84, American journalist and reporter (KYW-TV), Alzheimer's disease. [21]
• Martin Sandberger, 98, German Nazi leader and Holocaust perpetrator. [22] (French)
• Harriet Shetler, 92, American advocate, a founder of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. [23]
• Bill Smith, 94, American politician, Member of the New York Senate (1963–1987). [24]
• Jadin Wong, 96, American dancer, comedian and talent agent. [25]

29

• Tom Burton, American professional wrestler. [26]
• Choi Jin-yeong, 39, South Korean actor and singer, brother of Choi Jin Sil, suicide by hanging. [27]
• Marcel Cosmat, 99, French Olympic bronze medal-winning (1936) rower. [28] (French)
• Kurt Hockerup, 65, Danish politician, cardiac arrest. [29] (Danish)
• Alan Isler, 75, British-born American novelist and professor, after long illness. [30]
• János Kass, 82, Hungarian artist. [31]
• Jenne Langhout, 91, Dutch Olympic field hockey player. [32] (Dutch)
• Sam Menning, 85, American character actor and photographer (My Name Is Earl, The Prestige), emphysema. [33]
• Armando Nogueira, 83, Brazilian sports journalist. [34] (Portuguese)
• Elliot Willensky, 66, American songwriter, stroke. [35]

28

• Fred Ascani, 92, American Air Force test pilot, lung cancer. [36]
• David Carnegie, 14th Earl of Northesk, 55, Scottish peer, member of the House of Lords. [37]
• Sir Gaven Donne, 95, New Zealand jurist, former Chief Justice of various Pacific nations. [38]
• Dan Duncan, 77, American businessman, oil company executive and billionaire, cerebral hemorrhage. [39]
• Herb Ellis, 88, American jazz guitarist, Alzheimer's disease. [40]
• Derlis Florentín, 26, Paraguayan football player, car accident. [41] (Spanish)
• Joe Gates, 55, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox) and coach (Gary SouthShore RailCats), heart failure. [42]
• June Havoc, 97, Canadian-born American actress, natural causes. [43]
• Aly Ibrahim, 38, Egyptian Olympic rower, traffic collision. [44]
• John Lawrenson, 88, British rugby league player. [45]
• John Purdin, 67, American baseball player. [46]
• Agim Qirjaqi, 59, Albanian actor and television director. [47] (Albanian)
• Zofia Romanowiczowa, 87, Polish writer and translator. [48] (Polish)
• Asbjørn Sjøthun, 82, Norwegian politician, Mayor of Balsfjord (1962–1969), MP (1969–1989). [49] (Norwegian)
• Eric Tunney, 45, Canadian comedian (Brain Candy). [50]

27

• Dick Giordano, 77, American comic book artist and editor (Batman, Green Lantern), complications from pneumonia. [51]
• Zbigniew Gut, 60, Polish footballer. [52] (Polish)
• Peter Herbolzheimer, 74, German jazz musician. [53]
• Colm Kiernan, 78, Australian historian, biographer of Irish Australians. [54]
• Eva Markvoort, 25, Canadian blogger and subject of 65_Redroses, cystic fibrosis. [55]
• Stanford Parris, 80, American politician, Representative from Virginia (1973–1975, 1981–1991), heart disease. [56]
• Vasily Smyslov, 89, Russian chess grandmaster, World Champion (1957–1958), heart failure. [57]
• Stanley Vann, 100, British organist and composer, complications following a fall. [58]

26

• Ahmed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, 41, Emirati managing director of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, glider crash. [59]
• Franklin D. Burgess, 75, American federal judge, cancer. [60]
• Lara Jones, 34, British children's author and illustrator, melanoma. [61]
• Manuel de Jesús Juárez, 55, Honduran journalist, shot. [62]
• Shemuel Katz, 83, Israeli caricaturist and illustrator. [63]
• Kwon Hyi-ro, 81, Japanese-born Korean murderer, prostate cancer. [64]
• José Bayardo Mairena Ramírez, 52, Honduran journalist, shot. [65]
• Rocco Pantaleo, 53, Italian-born Australian owner of La Porchetta, motorcycle accident. [66]
• Charles Ryskamp, 81, American art collector and museum director (Frick Collection, Pierpont Morgan Library), cancer. [67]
• Max Whitehead, 87, Australian rugby league player, model and professional wrestler, complications following a hip operation. [68]

25

• B W Aston, 73, American historian, after long illness. [69]
• Pål Bang-Hansen, 72, Norwegian film director, actor and film critic, skin cancer. [70] (Norwegian)
• Ben Gascoigne, 94, New Zealand-born Australian optical astronomer. [71]
• Kit Horn, 80, American surfer, non-Hodgkins lymphoma. [72]
• Des Hoysted, 86, Australian radio broadcaster and horse racing commentator. [73]
• Marty Lederhandler, 92, American photographer (Associated Press), stroke. [74]
• John P. McGarr, 45, American actor and film producer, traffic accident. [75]
• Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, 93, German political scientist. [76] (German)
• José Antonio Peteiro Freire, 73, Moroccan Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Tanger (1983–2005). [77]
• Marshall Plummer, 62, American first Vice President of the Navajo Nation (1991–1994), lung disease. [78]
• Michael S. Rosenfeld, 75, American talent agent, co-founder of Creative Artists Agency. [79]
• Chet Simmons, 81, American sports broadcasting executive, first president of ESPN, Commissioner (USFL), natural causes. [80]
• Zainal Abidin Ahmad, 71, Malaysian politician, brain cancer. [81]

24

• Elijah Alexander, 39, American football player (Indianapolis Colts), multiple myeloma. [82]
• Anzor Astemirov, 33, Russian insurgent, leader of the 2005 Nalchik raid, shot. [83]
• Robert Culp, 79, American actor (I Spy, The Greatest American Hero, Everybody Loves Raymond), heart attack. [84]
• Martin Elliott, 63, British photographer (Tennis Girl), cancer. [85]
• Oswaldo Frota-Pessoa, 93, Brazilian geneticist and academic. [86] (Portuguese)
• Ron Hamence, 94, Australian cricketer. [87]
• Colleen Kay Hutchins, 83, American actress, Miss America (1952), mother of Kiki Vandeweghe. [88]
• Johnny Maestro, 70, American singer (The Crests, The Brooklyn Bridge), cancer. [89]
• Jim Marshall, 74, American photographer. [90]
• William Mayne, 82, British children's author. [91]
• Harold McGraw, Jr., 92, American businessman, CEO of McGraw-Hill (1975–1983). [92]
• Otto Otepka, 94, American Deputy Director of the Department of State's Office of Security (1959–1962). [93]
• Daphne Park, Baroness Park of Monmouth, 88, British spy (MI6), after long illness. [94]
• Mortimer Sackler, 93, American physician and philanthropist. [95]
• Elena Tairova, 18, Russian chess player, woman grandmaster and international master, after long illness. [96]

23

• Edith Barney, 87, American baseball player. [97]
• Midge Costanza, 77, American social and political activist, advisor to President Jimmy Carter, cancer. [98]
• Alan King-Hamilton, 105, British judge. [99]
• Lauretta Masiero, 80, Italian actress. [100] (Italian)
• Jiro Nagasawa, 78, Japanese Olympic swimmer and national coach, throat cancer. [101]
• Wayne Patrick, 63, American football player (Buffalo Bills), kidney disease. [102]
• Kaljo Põllu, 75, Estonian artist. [103] (Estonian)
• Kanu Sanyal, 78, Indian revolutionary, Naxal leader, suicide by hanging. [104]
• Alex Seith, 75, American politician. [105]
• Sulaiman Daud, 77, Malaysian politician, minister (1981–1999), liver cancer. [106]
• Blanche Thebom, 94, American mezzo-soprano, pneumonia. [107]
• James Williamson, 26, Australian mountain biker and journalist. [108]
• Marva Wright, 62, American blues singer, complications from a stroke. [109]

22

• Sir James Black, 85, British physician, Nobel Laureate in Medicine (1988). [110]
• Özhan Canaydın, 67, Turkish basketball player, president of Galatasaray S.K. (2002–2008), pancreatic cancer. [111] (Turkish)
• Diz Disley, 78, Canadian-born British jazz guitarist. [112]
• Ky Fan, 95, American mathematician. [113]
• Ella Mae Johnson, 106, American social worker and author. [114]
• Leroy Matthiesen, 88, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Amarillo (1980–1997). [115]
• Emil Schulz, 71, German boxer. [116] (German)
• Valentina Tolkunova, 63, Russian singer, People's Artist of RSFSR, brain tumor. [117] (Russian)

21

• Vivian Blake, 53, Jamaican drug lord, heart attack. [118]
• Franco Gualdrini, 86, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Terni-Narni-Amelia (1983–2000). [119]
• Lou Jankowski, 78, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings). [120]
• Takeo Kimura, 91, Japanese art director. [121]
• Brownie Ledbetter, 77, American civil rights activist. [122]
• Margaret Moth, 58, New Zealand photojournalist (CNN), colorectal cancer. [123]
• Wolfgang Wagner, 90, German director (Bayreuth Festival), natural causes. [124]
• Susana, Lady Walton, 83, Argentine writer, widow of composer Sir William Walton, natural causes. [125]

20

• István Bilek, 77, Hungarian chess grandmaster. [126] (Hungarian)
• Harry Carpenter, 84, British sports commentator and television presenter. [127]
• Liz Carpenter, 89, American feminist author, press secretary to Lady Bird Johnson (1963–1969), pneumonia. [128]
• Claiborne Cary, 78, American actress and cabaret performer, complications from Parkinson's disease. [129]
• Clodomiro Castilla, 50, Colombian journalist, shot. [130]
• Dorothy Corrigan, 96, Canadian politician, first female Mayor of Charlottetown (1968–1972). [131]
• Chicka Dixon, 81, Australian Aboriginal activist, asbestosis. [132]
• Ebet Kadarusman, 73, Indonesian television and radio presenter, stroke. [133]
• Ray Fonseca, 56, American hula master, heart attack. [134]
• Fred Heineman, 80, American politician, Representative from North Carolina (1995–1997), natural causes. [135]
• John Eric Holmes, 80, American science fiction and fantasy author. [136]
• Girija Prasad Koirala, 85, Nepalese politician, Prime Minister (four terms), multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. [137]
• Ian Knight, 69, British stage designer, cancer. [138]
• Naim Krieziu, 92, Albanian footballer. [139] (Italian)
• Erwin Lehn, 90, German musician and conductor. [140]
• Robin Milner, 76, British computer scientist, heart attack. [141]
• Ai Ogawa, 62, American poet, breast cancer. [142]
• Fernando Iório Rodrigues, 80, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Palmeira dos Índios (1985–2006). [143]
• Mikel Scicluna, 80, Canadian professional wrestler, liver cancer. [144]
• Stewart Udall, 90, American politician, Secretary of the Interior (1961–1969), natural causes. [145]
• Yang Lina, 47, Singaporean actress (Samsui Women), uterine cancer. [146]

19

• Carlo Chenis, 55, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Civitavecchia-Tarquinia (since 2006). [147]
• Bob Curtis, 60, English footballer (Charlton Athletic, Mansfield Town), motor neurone disease. [148]
• Gerald Drucker, 84, British double bass player. [149]
• Wayne S. Ewing, 81, American politician. [150]
• John Hicklenton, 42, British comics artist (2000 AD), assisted suicide. [151]
• Ted Hooper, 91, British bee keeper. [152]
• George Lane, 95, Hungarian-born British World War II commando, pneumonia. [153]
• Roberto de la Madrid, 88, Mexican politician, Governor of Baja California (1977-1983), first American-born governor of a Mexican state. [154]
• Bill McIntyre, 80, American actor (Dallas), natural causes. [155]
• Elinor Smith, 98, American aviator. [156]
• Dottie Thompson, 88, American festival organizer, co-founder of the Merrie Monarch Festival, complications from pneumonia. [157]
• Raúl de la Torre, 72, Argentine film director (Pobre mariposa, Funes, un gran amor), cardiac arrest. [158] (Spanish)

18

• Amanda Castro, 47, Honduran poet, respiratory disease. [159] (Spanish)
• Júlio Correia da Silva, 90, Portuguese footballer. [160] (Portuguese)
• Herb Denenberg, 80, American journalist (WCAU), consumer advocate, Pennsylvania insurance commissioner, heart attack. [161]
• Donald P. Kelly, 88, American leveraged buyout investor (Beatrice Foods), cancer. [162]
• Chick Lang, Sr., 83, American businessman, general manager of Maryland Jockey Club, natural causes. [163]
• Herbert Lewin, 95, American politician, candidate in the 1988 Presidential election, heart failure. [164]
• Pak Nam-gi, 76, North Korean public official, executed by firing squad. [165] (death announced on this date)
• Fess Parker, 85, American actor (Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone), natural causes. [166]
• Zygmunt Pawłowicz, 82, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Gdańsk (1985–2005). [167]
• William Wolfe, 86, Scottish politician, National Chairman of the Scottish National Party (1969–1979). [168]
• Konstantin Yeryomenko, 39, Russian futsal player, European champion (1999), heart attack. [169]
• Jerry York, 71, American businessman, Executive Director for Apple Inc., cerebral hemorrhage. [170]

17

• Abdellah Blinda, 58, Moroccan footballer, heart attack. [171] (Arabic)
• Tim Chadwick, 47, New Zealand artist, traffic collision. [172]
• Alex Chilton, 59, American musician (Big Star, The Box Tops), heart attack. [173]
• Wayne Collett, 60, American athlete, 1972 Summer Olympics silver medalist, cancer. [174]
• Sid Fleischman, 90, American children's writer, cancer. [175]
• Van Fletcher, 85, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers). [176]
• Charlie Gillett, 68, British radio presenter, music writer and record producer, after long illness. [177]
• Peter Gowland, 93, American glamour photographer and actor. [178]
• Ştefan Gheorghiu, 83, Romanian violinist. [179] (Romanian)
• Johnnie High, 80, American country music impresario, heart failure. [180]
• Robert Michael White, 85, American X-15 test pilot. [181]

16

• Herb Cohen, 77, American record company executive, manager of Frank Zappa. [182]
• Billy Hoeft, 77, American Major League Baseball All-Star pitcher. [183]
• Kayode Irekperu, 23, Nigerian footballer, Malaria. [184]
• Filip Kapisoda, 22, Montenegrin model, suicide by gunshot. [185]
• Hachiro Maekawa, 97, Japanese baseball player (Yomiuri Giants), respiratory failure. [186]
• Ksenija Pajčin, 32, Serbian pop singer, shot. [187] (Serbian)
• Jane Sherman, 101, American writer and dancer. [188]

15

• Charlie Ashcroft, 83, English footballer (Liverpool F.C.). [189]
• Emilia Boncodin, 55, Filipino Secretary of DBM (1998, 2001–2005), ZTE scandal whistleblower, cardiac arrest. [190]
• Bill Burtenshaw, 84, British footballer. [191] (death announced on this date)
• Joseph Galdon, 81, Filipino writer and academic. [192]
• Günther Heidemann, 77, German Olympic bronze medal-winning (1952) boxer. [193] (German)
• Robert Hodgins, 89, South African artist, lung cancer. [194]
• Ken Holcombe, 91, American baseball player. [195]
• Ashok Kumar, 53, British MP for Langbaurgh (1991–1992) and MSEC (1997–2010), natural causes. [196]
• Ron Lundy, 75, American radio disc jockey (WABC, WCBS-FM), heart attack. [197]
• Sam Mtukudzi, 21, Zimbabwean musician, car accident. [198]
• David J. Steinberg, 45, American actor (Willow). [199]
• Patricia Wrightson, 88, Australian children's writer. [200]

14

• Chimen Abramsky, 93, British historian, expert in Jewish studies and Hebrew literature. [201]
• Nahúm Elí Palacios Arteaga, 36, Honduran journalist and television news director, shot. [202]
• Carmen Capalbo, 84, American theater director, emphysema. [203]
• Junior Collins, 82, American horn player. [204]
• Corsica Joe, 90, American professional wrestler. [205]
• Cherie DeCastro, 87, American singer (The DeCastro Sisters), pneumonia. [206]
• Edmund Dinis, 85, American prosecutor, investigated Chappaquiddick incident, complications of treatment for lymphoma. [207]
• Pat Fanning, 91, Irish hurler (Waterford), President of the Gaelic Athletic Association (1970–1973). [208]
• Peter Graves, 83, American actor (Mission: Impossible, Airplane!), heart attack. [209]
• Vinda Karandikar, 91, Indian poet and writer, after short illness. [210]
• Arnold Loxam, 93, British organist. [211]
• Konrad Ruhland, 78, German musicologist. [212] (German)
• Felipe Sapag, 93, Argentine politician. [213] (Spanish)
• Der Scutt, 75, American architect (Trump Tower, One Astor Plaza, Reading Public Museum), liver failure. [214]
• Janet Simpson, 65, British Olympic track and field athlete, heart attack. [215]
• Altie Taylor, 62, American football player (Detroit Lions). [216]
• Buddy Tudor, 74, American businessman, cancer. [217]
• Lisle Wilson, 66, American actor. [218]

13

• Jerry Adler, 91, American harmonicist, prostate cancer. [219]
• Sir Michael Angus, 79, British businessman, Chairman of Unilever (1986–1992). [220]
• Sir Ian Axford, 76, New Zealand space scientist, after long illness. [221]
• Jean Ferrat, 79, French singer, after long illness. [222]
• Momcilo Gavrić, 71, Croatian-born American football player (San Francisco 49ers). [223]
• He Pingping, 21, Chinese dwarf, shortest man who was able to walk, heart complications. [224]
• Terry Heffernan, 58, New Zealand politician, cancer. [225]
• Édouard Kargu, 84, French footballer. [226] (French)
• Cliff Livingston, 79, American football player (N.Y. Giants) and stuntman, complications from DLB and Parkinson's disease. [227]
• Leon Manley, 83, Canadian football player (Edmonton Eskimos). [228]
• Andrzej Marcinkowski, 81, Polish lawyer and politician, acting Minister of Justice (1991), after long illness. [229] (Polish)
• Gary Mittelholtz, 55, Canadian journalist (CBC Radio), heart attack. [230]

12

• David Ahenakew, 76, Canadian First Nations leader and politician, cancer. [231]
• Bob Attersley, 76, Canadian ice hockey player, 1960 Winter Olympics silver medalist. [232]
• Miguel Delibes, 89, Spanish author, journalist and scholar, colorectal cancer. [233]
• Lesley Duncan, 66, British singer-songwriter, cerebrovascular disease. [234]
• Hanna-Renate Laurien, 81, German politician. [235] (German)
• Fatima Meer, 81, South African academic, screenwriter and anti-apartheid activist, stroke. [236]
• Aleksandr Minayev, 51, Russian football player and coach. [237] (Russian)
• Charles Muscatine, 89, American Chaucer scholar and advocate for education reform, lung infection. [238]
• Hugh Robertson, 70, Scottish footballer (Dundee F.C.). [239]
• Glauco Villas Boas, 53, Brazilian cartoonist (Geraldão), shot. [240] (Portuguese)

11

• Walter Aronson, 92, Swedish Olympic bobsledder. [241] (Swedish)
• Paul Dunlap, 90, American film composer. [242]
• John Hill, 68, Canadian professional wrestler, Alzheimer's disease. [243]
• Louis Holmes, 99, British-born Canadian ice hockey player and coach. [244]
• Matilde Elena López, 91, Salvadoran poet, essayist and playwright. [245] (Spanish)
• Willie MacFarlane, 79, Scottish footballer and manager. [246]
• David Meza, 51, Honduran journalist, shot. [247]
• Hans van Mierlo, 78, Dutch politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1994–1998), founder of political party D66. [248]
• Charles Moore, 79, American photographer. [249]
• Bernard Novak, 90, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1969–1980). [250]
• Merlin Olsen, 69, American football player (L.A. Rams) and actor (Little House on the Prairie, Father Murphy), mesothelioma. [251]
• Arnall Patz, 89, American ophthalmologist, heart disease. [252]
• Leena Peltonen-Palotie, 57, Finnish geneticist, bone cancer. [253]
• Elena Schwarz, 61, Russian poet. [254]
• Sandy Scott, 75, Canadian professional wrestler, pancreatic cancer. [255]
• Elisabeth de Stroumillo, 83, British journalist, scooter accident. [256]
• Colin Wells, 76, British historian and archaeologist. [257]

10

• Truddi Chase, 74, American autobiographical author. [258]
• Leeann Chin, 77, Chinese-born American restaurateur, founder of Leeann Chin restaurants, after long illness. [259]
• Evelyn Dall, 92, American singer and actress, after long illness. [260]
• Björn von der Esch, 80, Swedish politician. [261] (Swedish)
• Corey Haim, 38, Canadian actor (Lucas, The Lost Boys, License to Drive), pneumonia. [262]
• Tim Holland, 79, American backgammon player, emphysema. [263]
• Dorothy Janis, 98, American silent film actress. [264]
• Micky Jones, 63, Welsh singer and guitarist (Man), brain tumour. [265]
• Vincent Mensah, 85, Beninese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Porto Novo (1970–2000). [266] (French)
• Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, 81, Egyptian Muslim cleric, Grand Imam (Al-Azhar Mosque), heart attack. [267]
• George Webb, 92, British traditional jazz musician [268]

9

• Antoine Choueiri, 70, Lebanese businessman and media magnate, after long illness. [269]
• Gheorghe Constantin, 77, Romanian footballer and manager. [270] (Romanian)
• Lionel Cox, 80, Australian road bicycle racer, pneumonia. [271]
• Willie Davis, 69, American baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers), natural causes. [272]
• Dulmatin, 39, Indonesian terrorist, 2002 Bali bombings planner, shot. [273]
• Teresa Gutiérrez, 81, Colombian actress, natural causes. [274] (Spanish)
• Doris Haddock, 100, American political activist, complications of respiratory disease. [275]
• Catherine Itzin, 65, American feminist academic, honorary research fellow (University of Bradford), duodenal cancer. [276]
• Jean Kerebel, 91, French Olympic silver (1948) medal-winning athlete. [277] (French)
• Bernard Narokobi, 72, Papua New Guinean politician, diplomat, lawyer and philosopher, after short illness. [278]
• Richard Edwin Parris Jr., 46, American musician (Animal Bag), ruptured ulcer. [279]
• Wilfy Rebimbus, 67, Indian musician, lung cancer. [280]
• Alda Neves da Graça do Espírito Santo, 83, Santomean poet. [281] (Portuguese)
• Henry Wittenberg, 91, American wrestler, 1948 Olympic gold medalist. [282]

8

• Albert P. Clark, 96, American Air Force officer. [283]
• Tony Imi, 72, British cinematographer. [284]
• David Kimche, 82, Israeli diplomat, Mossad spy (1953–1980), brain cancer. [285]
• Vit Klemes, 77, Czech-born Canadian hydrologist. [286]
• Guy Lapébie, 93, French road bicycle racer. [287] (German)
• Benjamin Rubin, 93, American microbiologist, inventor of the bifurcated vaccination needle. [288]
• Jerry E. Smith, 59, American author, pancreatic cancer. [289]
• Gale Thomson, 90, American First Lady of New Hampshire (1973–1979), wife of Meldrim Thomson, Jr., heart failure. [290]
• Mahama Johnson Traoré, 68, Senegalese film director, after long illness. [291]
• Georgiy Zatsepin, 92, Russian astrophysicist. [292] (Russian)

7

• Daisey Bailey, 113, American supercentenarian, second-oldest person in U.S. and fourth-oldest in world. [293]
• Sir Kenneth Dover, 89, British classicist, President of the British Academy (1978–1981). [294]
• Newton Kulundu, 61, Kenyan politician, Minister of Labour (2006–2008), after long illness. [295]
• Sergo Mikoyan, 80, Russian historian, specialist on Latin America, leukemia. [296]
• Ida Bagus Oka, 74, Indonesian Governor of Bali, heart disease. [297]
• Mary Josephine Ray, 114, Canadian-born American supercentenarian, oldest person in U.S. and second-oldest in world. [298]
• Richard Stites, 78, American historian and author, complications from cancer. [299]
• Patrick Topaloff, 65, French actor and humorist, heart attack. [300] (French)
• Ben Westlund, 60, American politician, Oregon State Treasurer (2009–2010), lung cancer. [301]

6

• Mansour Amir-Asefi, 76, Iranian Olympic footballer, cancer. [302]
• Cho Gyeong-chul, 80, South Korean astronomer, heart attack. [303]
• Fiennes Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, 88, British aristocrat. [304]
• Bruce Graham, 84, American architect (Willis Tower, John Hancock Center), Alzheimer's disease. [305]
• Endurance Idahor, 25, Nigerian footballer, heart attack. [306]
• H.M. Koutoukas, 72, American playwright (Medea in the Laundromat), complications of diabetes. [307]
• Mark Linkous, 47, American singer-songwriter (Sparklehorse), suicide by gunshot. [308]
• Carol Marsh, 83, British actress. [309]
• Dener Pacheco, 27, Brazilian actor, stomach and lung cancer. [310] (Portuguese)
• Ronald Pettersson, 74, Swedish ice hockey player. [311] (Swedish)
• Jim Roland, 67, American Major League Baseball player. [312]
• Sydney Tierney, 86, British politician, MP for Birmingham Yardley (1974–1979). [313]
• Nigel Trench, 7th Baron Ashtown, 93, British diplomat. [314]

5

• Aminah Assilmi, c.65, American Muslim lecturer, writer and women's rights activist, car accident. [315]
• Donald N. Frey, 87, American product planning manager, co-creator of Ford Mustang, stroke. [316]
• Aleksandr Grave, 89, Russian actor. [317] (Russian)
• Herta Haas, 96, Slovenian-born Yugoslav Partisan, second wife of Josip Broz Tito. [318]
• Philip Langridge, 70, British tenor, colorectal cancer. [319]
• Andrée Peel, 105, French patriot, World War II Resistance member. [320]
• Charles B. Pierce, 71, American film director (The Legend of Boggy Creek). [321]
• Alberto Ronchey, 83, Italian politician and journalist. [322] (Italian)
• Wolfgang Schenck, 97, German airman, Luftwaffe flying ace. [323] (Portuguese)
• Richard Stapley, 86, British-born American actor (The Three Musketeers), renal failure. [324]
• Edgar Wayburn, 103, American environmentalist and conservationist. [325]

4

• Raimund Abraham, 76, Austrian-born American architect (Austrian Cultural Forum New York), car accident. [326]
• Johnny Alf, 80, Brazilian singer and composer, prostate cancer. [327]
• Vladislav Ardzinba, 64, Georgian politician, separatist President of Abkhazia (1994–2005). [328]
• Ron Banks, 58, American singer (The Dramatics), heart attack. [329]
• Big Truck, c.5, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized. [330]
• André Bouchard, 54, Canadian ecologist and environmentalist, heart attack. [331]
• Etta Cameron, 70, Bahamian-born Danish gospel singer, after long illness. [332]
• Hilario Chávez Joya, 82, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Nuevo Casas Grandes (1977–2004). [333]
• Amalie Christie, 96, Norwegian pianist. [334] (Norwegian)
• Samuel J. Eldersveld, 92, American political scientist and politician. [335]
• Joaquim Fiúza, 102, Portuguese sailor, 1952 Olympic bronze medalist. [336] (Portuguese)
• Tetsuo Kondo, 80, Japanese politician, Minister of Labour (1991–1992). [337]
• Nan Martin, 82, American actress (The Drew Carey Show), emphysema. [338]
• Roger Newman, 69, British-born American actor and television writer (Guiding Light, Passions), cancer. [339]
• Angelo Poffo, 84, American professional wrestler. [340]
• Tony Richards, 76, British footballer. [341]
• Joanne Simpson, 86, American meteorologist, first woman to earn a doctorate in meteorology. [342]
• Lolly Vegas, 70, American singer (Redbone), lung cancer. [343]
• Fred Wedlock, 67, British folk musician, complications from pneumonia. [344]

3

• Keith Alexander, 53, British footballer (Saint Lucia) and manager, brain aneurysm. [345]
• Johnny Allen, 76, American football player (Washington Redskins), Alzheimer's disease. [346]
• Frank Bertaina, 65, American Major League Baseball player, heart attack. [347]
• Mariya Dolina, 87, Ukrainian dive bomber pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union. [348] (Ukrainian)
• Michael Foot, 96, British politician, Leader of the Labour Party (1980–1983). [349]
• Marie-Christine Gessinger, 17, Austrian fashion model, car accident. [350] (German)
• Momo Kapor, 72, Serbian writer and painter. [351]
• Big Tiny Little, 79, American musician (The Lawrence Welk Show). [352]
• Yuri Stepanov, 42, Russian actor, car accident. [353] (Russian)
• John Strohmeyer, 85, American journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner, heart failure. [354]
• Oleg Tyurin, 72, Russian rower, 1964 Olympic gold medalist. [355]. (Russian)

2

• Francisco Ada, 75, Northern Mariana Islands politician, first Lieutenant Governor (1978–1982). [356]
• Syed Ali, 67, Indian Olympic gold medal-winning (1964) field hockey player. [357]
• Josef Allerberger, 85, Austrian World War II sniper. [358] (German)
• Melva Blancett, 85, American actress. [359]
• Judith Bumpus, 70, British arts radio producer. [360]
• Winston Churchill, 69, British politician, MP for Stretford (1970–1983) and Davyhulme (1983–1997), prostate cancer. [361]
• Paul Drayton, 70, American athlete, 1964 Olympic gold and silver medalist, cancer. [362]
• Emil Forselius, 35, Swedish actor, suicide. [363] (Swedish)
• Jón Hnefill Aðalsteinsson, 82, Icelandic scholar. [364] (Icelandic)
• Don Kent, 92, American meteorologist (WBZ-TV), natural causes. [365]
• Ibragim Khasanov, 72, Russian Olympic sprint canoer. [366] (Russian)
• Charles B. Moore, 89, American physicist, engineer and meteorologist. [367]
• Geoff Myburgh, 81, South African Olympic sailor. [368]
• Nikolay Surov, 62, Russian Olympic rower. [369] (Russian)

1

• Perry Brooks, 55, American football player (Washington Redskins). [370]
• Kristian Digby, 32, British television presenter and director (To Buy or Not to Buy), accidental suffocation. [371]
• Clifton Forbes, 64, Jamaican Olympic athlete, after long illness. [372]
• Slavko Fras, 81, Slovenian journalist and editor. [373]
• Barry Hannah, 67, American novelist and short story writer (Geronimo Rex), heart attack. [374]
• Vladimir Ilyushin, 82, Russian test pilot. [375] (German)
• Paul Kim Ok-kyun, 84, South Korean Roman Catholic prelate, Titular Bishop of Girba (1985–2001). [376]
• Ruth Kligman, 80, American abstract painter, muse of Jackson Pollock. [377]
• Joseph Hernández Ochoa, 26, Honduran journalist, shot. [378]