Deaths in October 2010

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

October 2010

31

• Manfred Bock, 69, German Olympic decathlete, heart attack. [1]
• Roger Holloway, 76, British Anglican priest. [2]
• Dick Loepfe, 88, American football player (Chicago Cardinals). [3]
• Maurice Lucas, 58, American basketball player (Portland Trail Blazers, Phoenix Suns, Los Angeles Lakers), bladder cancer. [4]
• John Selfridge, 83, American mathematician. [5]
• János Simon, 81, Hungarian basketball player, EuroBasket winner (1955). [6] (Hungarian) (death announced on this date)
• Ted Sorensen, 82, American lawyer, White House counsel (1961–1964), stroke. [7]
• Artie Wilson, 90, American baseball player (New York Giants, Birmingham Black Barons), Alzheimer's disease. [8]

30

• Douglas Argent, 89, British television producer and director (Fawlty Towers). [9]
• John Benson, 67, Scottish footballer and manager, after short illness. [10]
• Romano Bonagura, 80, Italian bobsledder, Olympic silver medalist (1964). [11] (Italian)
• Leopoldo Alfredo Bravo, 50, Argentine diplomat, ambassador to Russia, cancer. [12] (Spanish)
• Édouard Carpentier, 84, French-born Canadian professional wrestler. [13]
• Ina Clare, 77, British actress (EastEnders). [14]
• Meta Elste-Neumann, 91, American gymnast, Olympic bronze medalist (1948), cancer. [15]
• Arthur Bernard Lewis, 84, American television producer and writer (Dallas), complications from pneumonia. [16]
• Ananías Maidana, 87, Paraguayan teacher and politician, prostate cancer. [17] (Spanish)
• Harry Mulisch, 83, Dutch writer (The Assault, The Discovery of Heaven), cancer. [18]
• Nachi Nozawa, 72, Japanese voice actor, lung cancer. [19] (Japanese)
• Clyde Summers, 91, American academic, complications of a stroke. [20]
• Mateus Feliciano Augusto Tomás, 52, Angolan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Namibe (since 2009). [21]
• Howard Van Hyning, 74, American percussionist (New York City Opera), myocardial infarction. [22]

29

• Marcelino Camacho, 92, Spanish trade unionist. [23] (Spanish)
• Ronnie Clayton, 76, English footballer (Blackburn Rovers). [24]
• Geoffrey Crawley, 83, British photographer and editor, debunked Cottingley Fairies mystery. [25]
• Mervyn Haisman, British writer (Doctor Who). [26]
• George Hickenlooper, 47, American documentary filmmaker, heart attack. [27]
• Yisrael Katz, 82, Israeli public servant and government minister. [28]
• Antonio Mariscal, 95, Mexican Olympic diver. [29] (Spanish)
• Bärbel Mohr, 46, German author. [30] (German)
• Bernard de Nonancourt, 90, French businessman and member of the French Resistance, owner of Laurent-Perrier. [31] (French)
• Karlo Sakandelidze, 82, Georgian actor. [32]
• Takeshi Shudo, 61, Japanese writer, creator of Pokémon, subarachnoid hemorrhage. [33]

28

• Isabella Abbott, 91, American ethnobotanist, first native Hawaiian to receive a doctorate in science. [34]
• Ibrahim Ahmad Abd al-Sattar Muhammad, 54, Iraqi general, Armed Forces Chief of Staff (1999–2003), cancer. [35]
• Jack Brokensha, 84, Australian jazz musician, composer and arranger. [36]
• Jesús Mateo Calderón Barrueto, 90, Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Puno (1972–1998). [37]
• Robert Ellenstein, 87, American character actor. [38]
• Erling Fløtten, 72, Norwegian politician. [39] (Norwegian)
• Watts Humphrey, 83, American software engineer. [40] (German)
• Gerard Kelly, 51, British actor (City Lights), brain aneurysm. [41]
• Liang Congjie, 78, Chinese environmentalist (Friends of Nature), lung infection. [42]
• James MacArthur, 72, American actor (Hawaii Five-O, Swiss Family Robinson), natural causes. [43]
• Jonathan Motzfeldt, 72, Greenlandic politician, Prime Minister (1979–1991; 1997–2002), brain hemorrhage. [44]
• Paddy Mullins, 91, Irish racehorse trainer. [45]
• Maurice Murphy, 75, British musician (London Symphony Orchestra). [46]
• Ehud Netzer, 76, Israeli archaeologist, discovered tomb of Herod the Great, injuries from a fall. [47]
• Walter Payton, 68, American jazz bassist and sousaphonist, complications from a stroke. [48]
• Anna Prieto Sandoval, 76, American tribal leader (Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation), Native American gaming enterprises pioneer, diabetes. [49]
• John Sekula, 41, American guitarist (Mushroomhead). [50]

27

• Mary Emma Allison, 93, American co-creator of Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF. [51]
• Denise Borino-Quinn, 46, American actress (The Sopranos), liver cancer. [52]
• Gene Fodge, 79, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs). [53]
• William Griffiths, 88, British Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) field hockey player. [54]
• Chris Gulker, 59, American photographer, programmer and writer, brain cancer. [55]
• Néstor Kirchner, 60, Argentine politician, President (2003–2007), First Gentleman (2007–2010), Secretary General of UNASUR (2010), heart attack. [56]
• Paul Kolton, 87, American chairman of the American Stock Exchange (1972–1977), lymphoma. [57]
• Luigi Macaluso, 62, Italian businessman, President and Chairman of the Sowind Group, heart attack. [58]
• Owen B. Pickett, 80, American politician, U.S. Representative from Virginia (1987–2001). [59]
• Saqr bin Mohammad al-Qassimi, 92, Emirati ruler of Ras al-Khaimah (since 1948). [60]
• Hall Thompson, 87, American developer of a country club that did not admit black members. [61]
• James Wall, 92, American actor (Captain Kangaroo) and stage manager, after short illness. [62]

26

• Glen Little, 84, American circus performer (Frosty the Clown). [63]
• Mbah Maridjan, 83, Indonesian spiritual guardian of Mount Merapi (1982–2010), pyroclastic flow from Mount Merapi. [64]
• Ricardo Montez, 87, Gibraltarian character actor. [65]
• Paul the Octopus, 2, British-born World Cup oracle octopus (Sea Life Centre in Oberhausen, Germany), natural causes. [66]
• James Phelps, 78, American gospel and R&B singer, complications of diabetes. [67]
• Ana María Romero de Campero, 67, Bolivian journalist and politician, President of the Senate of Bolivia (2010), colorectal cancer. [68]
• Billy Ruane, 52, American concert promoter and manager, heart attack. [69]
• Romeu Tuma, 79, Brazilian politician, Senator (1995–2010), multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. [70] (Portuguese)

25

• Hans Arnold, 85, Swiss-born Swedish artist. [71] (Swedish)
• Lisa Blount, 53, American actress (An Officer and a Gentleman) and film producer (The Accountant). [72]
• David Burgess, 63, British immigration lawyer. [73]
• Jeff Carter, 82, Australian photographer and author. [74]
• Richard T. Gill, 82, American opera singer, heart failure. [75]
• Gregory Isaacs, 59, Jamaican reggae singer, lung cancer. [76]
• Andreas Maurer, 91, Austrian politician, Landeshauptmann of Lower Austria (1966–1981). [77] (German)
• Vesna Parun, 88, Croatian writer. [78] (Croatian)
• Rudy Rufer, 84, American baseball player (New York Giants). [79]
• Roy Skinner, 80, American college basketball coach (Vanderbilt), respiratory failure. [80]

24

• Bob Courtney, 87, British-born South African broadcaster and actor. [81]
• Mike Esposito, 83, American comic book artist. [82]
• Georges Frêche, 72, French politician, cardiac arrest. [83] (French)
• Fritz Grösche, 69, German footballer and coach, cancer. [84] (German)
• Andy Holmes, 51, British Olympic gold (1984, 1988) and bronze (1988) medal-winning rower, leptospirosis. [85]
• Franciszek Jarecki, 79, Polish-born American jet pilot and defector. [86]
• Lamont Johnson, 88, American actor and television director (The Twilight Zone, The Execution of Private Slovik), heart failure. [87]
• Alex Oakley, 84, Canadian Olympic race walker. [88]
• Pan Jin-yu, 96, Taiwanese last speaker of the Pazeh language. [89]
• Philibert Parnasse, 109, French centenarian, oldest man in France and Guadeloupe. [90]
• Ignacio Ramírez de Haro, 15th Count of Bornos, 92, Spanish noble, 15th Count of Bornos, Grandee of Spain, father-in-law of Esperanza Aguirre, legionella. [91] (Spanish)
• Burton B. Roberts, 88, American judge, New York Supreme Court Justice (1973–1998), respiratory failure. [92]
• Willie Rutherford, 65, Australian soccer player. [93]
• Sylvia Sleigh, 94, American painter, complications of a stroke. [94]
• David Stahl, 60, American conductor, lymphoma. [95]
• Joseph Stein, 98, American playwright (Fiddler on the Roof, Zorba). [96]

23

• Vince Banonis, 89, American football player (Chicago Cardinals, Detroit Lions). [97]
• Ior Bock, 68, Finnish actor and tour guide, stabbing. [98] (Finnish)
• George Cain, 66, American author, kidney failure. [99]
• Fran Crippen, 26, American swimmer, heart attack. [100]
• Leo Cullum, 68, American cartoonist (The New Yorker), cancer. [101]
• Robert Fitzpatrick, 73, American manager and actor, lung disease. [102]
• S. Neil Fujita, 89, American graphic designer, complications of a stroke. [103]
• Princess Irmingard of Bavaria, 87, German noblewoman. [104] (German)
• Donald Leifert, 59, American science fiction actor.[105]
• Chhewang Nima, 43, Nepalese mountaineer and guide, avalanche. [106]
• Stanley Tanger, 87, American businessman, founder of Tanger Factory Outlet Centers. [107]
• David Thompson, 48, British-born Barbadian politician, Prime Minister (since 2008), pancreatic cancer. [108]
• Tom Winslow, 69, American folk musician, complications from a stroke. [109]

22

• Alex Anderson, 90, American cartoonist, created characters for The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show and Crusader Rabbit. [110]
• Rune Blomqvist, 85, Swedish Olympic sprint canoer. [111] (Swedish)
• Arthur M. Brazier, 89, American pastor and civil rights activist. [112]
• Alí Chumacero, 92, Mexican writer and poet, pneumonia. [113]
• Bill Henderson, 86, Northern Irish politician and newspaper proprietor. [114]
• Helen Hunley, 90, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta (1985–1991). [115]
• Anne McDonald, 49, Australian disability rights activist, heart attack. [116]
• Franz Raschid, 56, German footballer, pancreatic cancer. [117] (German)
• Eio Sakata, 90, Japanese professional Go player, aortic aneurysm. [118] (Japanese)
• Denis Simpson, 59, Canadian actor (Polka Dot Door) and singer, brain hemorrhage. [119]
• Kjell Stormoen, 89, Norwegian actor and theater director. [120]
• René Villiger, 79, Swiss painter, cancer. [121] (German)

21

• Antonio Alatorre, 88, Mexican philologist. [122] (Spanish)
• Mustapha Anane, 60, Algerian footballer, after long illness. [123] (French)
• A. Ayyappan, 61, Indian poet. [124]
• José Carbajal, 66, Uruguayan singer, guitarist, and composer (Los Olimareños), cardiac arrest. [125]
• Sir Leslie Froggatt, 90, British-born Australian business executive, CEO of Shell Australia (1969–1980), complications from Parkinson's disease. [126]
• Kjell Landmark, 80, Norwegian poet and politician, cancer. [127] (Norwegian)
• James F. Neal, 81, American jurist, prosecuted Watergate figures, cancer. [128]
• Loki Schmidt, 91, German environmentalist, wife of Helmut Schmidt, illness after a fall and complications of a broken foot. [129] (German)
• Natasha Spender, 91, British musician and writer, widow of Stephen Spender. [130]

20

• Jean Asfar, 92, Egyptian Olympic fencer. [131]
• Francisco Batistela, 79, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bom Jesus da Lapa (1990–2009). [132]
• Otey Clark, 95, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox). [133]
• W. Cary Edwards, 66, American politician, New Jersey State Assemblyman (1978–1982) and Attorney General (1986–1989), cancer. [134]
• Herbert Enderton, 74, American mathematician and logician, leukemia. [135]
• Mariano Ferreyra, 23, Argentine left-wing militant, shot. [136]
• Bob Guccione, 79, American publisher, founder of Penthouse, lung cancer. [137]
• Eva Ibbotson, 85, Austrian-born British novelist (Journey to the River Sea, The Secret of Platform 13). [138]
• Coleman Jacoby, 95, American television comedy writer, pancreatic cancer. [139]
• Bill Jennings, 85, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns). [140]
• Robert Katz, 77, American writer, complications from cancer surgery. [141]
• Max Kohnstamm, 96, Dutch historian and diplomat. [142] (Dutch)
• Farooq Leghari, 70, Pakistani politician, President (1993–1997), heart complications. [143]
• Sir George Mallet, 87, Saint Lucian politician, Governor-General (1996–1997), cancer. [144]
• Eduard Novák, 63, Czech ice hockey player, Olympic silver (1976) and bronze (1972) medalist. [145] (Czech)
• Jenny Oropeza, 53, American politician, California State Assemblywoman (2000–2006) and State Senator (since 2006), after long illness. [146]
• Robert Paynter, 82, British cinematographer (Michael Jackson's Thriller). [147]
• Harvey Phillips, 80, American tuba player, Parkinson's disease. [148]
• Julian Roberts, 80, British librarian. [149]
• Tony Roig, 81, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, Washington Senators), after long illness. [150]
• Parthasarathy Sharma, 62, Indian Test cricketer (1974–1977), cancer. [151]
• Tikhon Stepanov, 47, Russian Orthodox prelate, Bishop of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogory (since 1996), heart attack. [152] (Russian)
• Ari Up, 48, German-born British punk musician (The Slits), cancer. [153]
• Wendall Woodbury, 68, American television journalist and host (WGAL-TV), lymphoma. [154]

19

• Tom Bosley, 83, American actor (Happy Days, Father Dowling Mysteries), heart failure. [155]
• Craig Charron, 42, American ice hockey player, stomach cancer. [156]
• Graham Crowden, 87, Scottish actor (If...., A Very Peculiar Practice, Waiting For God). [157]
• André Mahé, 90, French road bicycle racer. [158]
• Paul Steven Miller, 49, American disability rights leader, cancer. [159]
• John Waterlow, 94, British physiologist. [160]

18

• Marion Brown, 79, American jazz saxophonist. [161]
• Consuelo Crespi, 82, American-born Italian countess, fashion model and editor, stroke. [162]
• David Fontana, British psychologist and parapsychologist, pancreatic cancer. [163]
• Margaret Gwenver, 84, American actress (Guiding Light). [164]
• Hans Hägele, 70, German footballer, suicide by jumping from bridge. [165] (German)
• Mel Hopkins, 75, Welsh footballer (Tottenham Hotspur, Brighton & Hove Albion). [166]
• Yertward Mazamanian, 85, American hippie. [167]
• Peng Chong, 95, Chinese politician, former National Committee member. [168]
• Hans B. Ringger, 84, Swiss religious leader (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints). [169]
• Elsie Steele, 111, British supercentenarian. [170]
• Doug Wilson, 90, British Olympic athlete. [171]

17

• Jake Dunlap, 85, Canadian football player (Ottawa Rough Riders), cancer. [172]
• John Baird Finlay, 81, Canadian politician, MP for Oxford (1993–2004). [173]
• Emmanuel Lê Phong Thuân, 79, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Cân Tho (since 1990). [174]
• Joe Lis, 64, American baseball player, prostate cancer. [175]
• Freddy Schuman, 85, American baseball fan (New York Yankees), heart attack. [176]
• Michael Tabor, 63, American Black Panther Party member, complications from a stroke. [177]
• Dennis Taylor, 56, American saxophonist, heart attack. [178]
• Ken Wriedt, 83, Australian politician, Senator for Tasmania (1967–1980), Leader of the Tasmanian Opposition (1982–1986). [179]

16

• Barbara Billingsley, 94, American actress (Leave It to Beaver). [180]
• Alfredo Bini, 83, Italian film producer. [181]
• Jack Butterfield, 91, Canadian-born American sports administrator, President of the American Hockey League (1969–1994). [182]
• Chao-Li Chi, 83, Chinese-born American actor (Falcon Crest). [183]
• Giannis Dalianidis, 86, Greek film director and screenwriter (Oi Thalassies oi Hadres, O katergaris), multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. [184]
• Eyedea, 28, American rapper and musician (Eyedea & Abilities). [185]
• Friedrich Katz, 83, Austrian anthropologist and historian, cancer. [186]
• Ioannis Ladas, 90, Greek army officer, member of the 1967–1974 military junta. [187] (Greek)
• Betty S. Murphy, 77, American lawyer, first woman to chair the National Labor Relations Board, pneumonia. [188]
• Aldo Maria Lazzarín Stella, 83, Italian-born Chilean Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Aysén (1989–1998). [189]
• Valmy Thomas, 81, Puerto Rican baseball player. [190]
• Leigh Van Valen, 75, American evolutionary biologist (Red Queen's Hypothesis), respiratory infection. [191]

15

• Jim Dougal, 65, Northern Irish journalist (BBC News, RTÉ, UTV). [192]
• Mildred Fay Jefferson, 84, American pro-life activist, first black woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School. [193]
• N. Paul Kenworthy, 85, American cinematographer (The Living Desert, The Vanishing Prairie), thyroid cancer. [194]
• Georges Mathé, 88, French oncologist and immunologist, bone marrow transplant pioneer. [195]
• Vera Rózsa, 93, Hungarian voice teacher. [196]
• Johnny Sheffield, 79, American actor (Tarzan Finds a Son!, Bomba, the Jungle Boy, Knute Rockne All American), heart attack. [197]

14

• Malcolm Allison, 83, English footballer (West Ham United) and manager (Manchester City, Crystal Palace), after long illness. [198]
• Carla Del Poggio, 84, Italian actress. [199] (Italian)
• Louis Henkin, 92, American international human rights law expert and academic (Columbia Law School). [200]
• Alain Le Bussy, 63, Belgian science fiction author, complications following throat surgery. [201]
• Simon MacCorkindale, 58, British actor (Falcon Crest, Death on the Nile, Manimal, Casualty), bowel cancer. [202]
• Benoît Mandelbrot, 85, Polish-born American mathematician, pioneer of the study of fractals, pancreatic cancer. [203]
• Constance Reid, 92, American mathematics author and biographer. [204]
• Hermann Scheer, 66, German politician, member of the Bundestag (1980–2010) and Right Livelihood Award laureate (1999), after short illness. [205]
• Larry Siegfried, 71, American basketball player (Boston Celtics), heart attack. [206]

13

• Juan Carlos Arteche, 53, Spanish footballer, cancer. [207]
• Eddie Baily, 85, English footballer (Tottenham Hotspur). [208]
• Ulrik Cold, 71, Danish opera singer. [209]
• General Johnson, 69, American musician and record producer (Chairmen of the Board), complications of lung cancer. [210]
• Khoisan X, 55, South African political activist, stroke. [211]
• Mary Malcolm, 92, British BBC announcer and television personality. [212]
• Marzieh, 86, Iranian singer, cancer. [213]
• Sol Steinmetz, 80, Hungarian-born American lexicographer and linguist, pneumonia. [214]
• Donald H. Tuck, 87, Australian science fiction bibliographer. [215]

12

• Manuel Alexandre, 92, Spanish actor, cancer. [216]
• Jorge Ardila Serrano, 85, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Girardot (1988–2001). [217]
• Austin Ardill, 93, British politician, member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland for Carrick. [218]
• Michael Galloway, 85, American actor (The Blue Angels). [219]
• Michel Hugo, 79, French-born American cinematographer (Dynasty, Melrose Place, Mission: Impossible), lung cancer. [220]
• Angelo Infanti, 71, Italian actor, cardiac arrest. [221] (Italian)
• Lionel W. McKenzie, 91, American economist. [222]
• Dick Miles, 85, American table tennis player, natural causes. [223]
• Woody Peoples, 67, American football player (San Francisco 49ers, Philadelphia Eagles). [224]
• Pepín, 78, Spanish footballer. [225] (Spanish)
• Belva Plain, 95, American novelist (Evergreen). [226]

11

• Tomislav Franjković, 79, Croatian Olympic silver medal-winning (1956) water polo player. [227] (Croatian)
• Bill Harsha, 89, American politician. U.S. Representative from Ohio (1961–1981). [228]
• Janet MacLachlan, 77, American actress (Archie Bunker's Place, Sounder), cardiovascular complications. [229]
• Richard Morefield, 81, American embassy worker, hostage during Iran Hostage Crisis. [230]
• Marian P. Opala, 89, American jurist, Associate Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court (1978–2010), stroke. [231]
• Claire Rayner, 79, British author. [232]
• Georges Rutaganda, 51, Rwandan Hutu paramilitary leader, convicted war criminal, after long illness. [233] (French)
• Robert Tishman, 94, American real estate developer (Tishman Speyer). [234]
• Ian Turner, 85, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1948) rower. [235]

10

• Louis F. Bantle, 81, American chairman of U.S. Tobacco Company, lung cancer and emphysema. [236]
• Reinhold Brinkmann, 76, German musicologist. [237] (German)
• Solomon Burke, 70, American R&B singer-songwriter ("Everybody Needs Somebody to Love"), natural causes. [238]
• Les Gibbard, 64, New Zealand-born British political cartoonist, during routine operation. [239]
• John Graysmark, 75, British production designer and art director (Ragtime). [240]
• Hwang Jang-yop, 87, North Korean politician and defector, apparent heart attack. [241]
• Eric Joisel, 53, French wet-folding origami artist, lung cancer. [242]
• Richard Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 4th Baron Acton, 69, British politician. [243]
• David H. McNerney, 79, American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient, lung cancer. [244]
• Adán Martín Menis, 66, Spanish politician, President of the Canary Islands (2003–2007). [245] (Spanish)
• Franz Xaver Schwarzenböck, 87, German Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of München und Freising (1972–1998). [246]
• Solly Sherman, 93, American football player (Chicago Bears). [247]
• A. Edison Stairs, 85, Canadian businessman and politician, New Brunswick MLA (1960–1978) and Minister of Finance (1974–1976), natural causes. [248]
• Walter Staley, 77, American Olympic bronze medal-winning (1952) equestrian. [249]
• Alison Stephens, 40, British classical mandolinist, cervical cancer. [250]
• Dame Joan Sutherland, 83, Australian dramatic coloratura soprano. [251]
• Richard S. Van Wagoner, 64, American historian of Mormonism and Utah. [252]
• Frank Verpillat, 63, French director and inventor. [253]

9

• Maurice Allais, 99, French economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1988). [254]
• Edmund Chong Ket Wah, 54, Malaysian politician, Member of Parliament (since 2004), motorcycle accident. [255]
• Les Fell, 89, British footballer, FA cup finalist (1946). [256]
• Aleksandr Matveyev, 84, Russian linguist, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, natural causes. [257] (Russian)
• Isaia Rasila, 42, Fijian rugby player. [258]
• Zecharia Sitchin, 90, Azerbaijani-born American author. [259]

8

• Frank Bourgholtzer, 90, American television reporter, first full-time NBC News White House correspondent. [260]
• S. S. Chandran, 69, Indian comic actor and politician, member of the Rajya Sabha (2001–2007), heart attack. [261]
• Jim Fuchs, 82, American shot putter, Olympic bronze medalist (1948, 1952). [262]
• Nils Hallberg, 89, Swedish actor. [263] (Swedish)
• John Huchra, 61, American astronomer, heart attack. [264]
• Ryō Ikebe, 92, Japanese actor (Gorath), blood poisoning. [265]
• Reg King, 65, British singer (The Action), cancer. [266]
• David F. Musto, 74, American drug control expert, heart attack. [267]
• Maurice Neligan, 73, Irish surgeon, performed Ireland's first heart transplant. [268]
• Linda Norgrove, 36, British aid worker and hostage, killed during rescue attempt. [269]
• Mohammad Omar, Afghan politician, Governor of Kunduz Province, bomb blast. [270]
• Pleasant Tap, 23, American thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized due to laminitis. [271]
• Melvin Lane Powers, 68, American real estate developer, acquitted of murdering his uncle. [272]
• Karl Prantl, 86, Austrian sculptor, stroke. [273] (German)
• Neil Richardson, 80, English composer, arranger and conductor. [274]
• Dale Roberts, 70, American baseball player (New York Yankees). [275]
• Albertina Walker, 81, American gospel music singer (The Caravans), respiratory failure. [276]

7

• Metring David, 90, Filipino actress and comedian. [277]
• Gail Dolgin, 65, American documentary filmmaker (Daughter from Danang), breast cancer. [278]
• Rhys Isaac, 72, Australian historian, cancer. [279]
• Ljupčo Jordanovski, 57, Macedonian seismologist and politician, Acting President (2004). [280]
• T Lavitz, 54, American musician. [281]
• Chuck Leo, 76, American football player (Boston Patriots). [282]
• Ian Morris, 53, New Zealand musician (Th' Dudes) and record producer. [283]
• Milka Planinc, 85, Yugoslavian politician, Prime Minister (1982–1986). [284]
• A. Venkatachalam, 55, Indian politician, stabbed. [285]

6

• Norman Christie, 85, Scottish football player and manager (Montrose F.C.). [286]
• Jean Debuf, 86, French weightlifter, Olympic bronze medalist (1956). [287] (French)
• Don Goodsir, 73, Australian educator, author, and environmentalist. [288]
• Antonie Kamerling, 44, Dutch actor and singer, suicide. [289] (Dutch)
• Ralph Kercheval, 98, American football player. [290]
• Gran Naniwa, 33, Japanese professional wrestler, myocardial blockage. [291]
• Colette Renard, 85, French singer and actress, after long illness. [292] (French)
• Piet Wijn, 81, Dutch comics creator. [293] (Dutch)

5

• Roy Axe, 73, British car designer (Talbot Horizon, Rover 800), cancer. [294]
• Roy Ward Baker, 93, British film director (A Night To Remember). [295]
• Jack Berntsen, 69, Norwegian folk singer. [296] (Norwegian)
• Stan Bisset, 98, Australian rugby union player and World War II veteran. [297]
• Alba Bouwer, 90, South African writer (Afrikaans children's literature), natural causes. [298]
• Bernard Clavel, 87, French writer, natural causes. [299]
• Mary Leona Gage, 71, American pageant queen, stripped of Miss USA (1957) title, heart failure. [300]
• Moss Keane, 62, Irish rugby union player, bowel cancer. [301]
• Jānis Klovāns, 75, Latvian chess master. [302] (Latvian)
• Steve Lee, 47, Swiss musician (Gotthard), motorcycle accident. [303]
• Julio Parise Loro, 90, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Napo (1978–1996). [304]
• Karen McCarthy, 63, American politician, U.S. Representative from Missouri (1995–2005), Alzheimer's disease. [305]
• Børge Raahauge Nielsen, 90, Danish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1948) rower. [306] (Danish)
• William Shakespeare, 61, Australian glam rock singer, heart attack. [307]

4

• William Birenbaum, 87, American educator (Antioch College), heart failure. [308]
• Henrique de Senna Fernandes, 86, Macanese author. [309] (Portuguese)
• Gordon Lewis, 86, British aeronautical engineer. [310]
• Reinhard Oehme, 82, German-born American particle physicist. [311] (body found on this date)
• Peter Warr, 72, British racing driver and Formula One team principal (Lotus), heart attack. [312]
• Sir Norman Wisdom, 95, British comedian and actor, after long illness. [313]

3

• Maury Allen, 78, American sportswriter (The New York Post), lymphoma. [314]
• João Costa, 90, Portuguese Olympic fencer. [315] (Portuguese)
• Philippa Foot, 90, British philosopher. [316]
• Sir Louis Le Bailly, 95, British admiral, Director-General of Intelligence. [317]
• Claude Lefort, 86, French philosopher. [318] (French)
• Ben Mondor, 85, American baseball executive (Pawtucket Red Sox). [319]
• Eddie Platt, 88, American saxophonist. [320]
• Abraham Sarmiento, 88, Filipino jurist, Supreme Court Associate Justice (1987–1991). [321]
• Dianne Whalen, 59, Canadian politician, Newfoundland and Labrador MHA for Conception Bay East and Bell Island (2003–2010), cancer. [322]
• Ed Wilson, 65, Brazilian singer-songwriter, founder of Renato e Seus Blue Caps, cancer. [323] (Portuguese)

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• David M. Bailey, 44, American singer-songwriter, glioblastoma. [324]
• Brenda Cowling, 85, British actress. [325]
• Maurice Foster, 77, Canadian politician, MP for Algoma (1968–1993), pulmonary fibrosis. [326]
• Robert Goodnough, 92, American abstract expressionist painter, pneumonia. [327]
• Stephen Griew, 82, Canadian gerontologist. [328]
• Art Jarvinen, 54, American composer, teacher and musician (The California EAR Unit). [329]
• Kwa Geok Choo, 89, Singaporean lawyer, wife of Lee Kuan Yew, mother of Lee Hsien Loong. [330]
• Sam Lesser, 95, British journalist. [331]
• Gillian Lowndes, 74, British ceramicist. [332]

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• Georgy Arbatov, 87, Russian political scientist. [333]
• Dezső Bundzsák, 82, Hungarian football player and coach. [334] (Hungarian)
• Ian Buxton, 72, English footballer and cricketer, natural causes. [335]
• Charles Caruana, 77, Gibraltarian Roman Catholic bishop of Gibraltar (1998–2010), complications from a fall. [336] (Spanish)
• Bobby Craig, 75, Scottish footballer. [337]
• Audouin Dollfus, 85, French astronomer. [338] (French)
• Marshall Flaum, 85, American Emmy Award-winning director (The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau), complications from hip surgery. [339]
• Kilian Hennessy, 103, Irish patriarch of the Hennessy cognac company. [340]
• Gerard Labuda, 93, Polish historian. [341] (Polish)
• Michel Mathieu, 66, French diplomat, cancer. [342] (French)
• William W. Norton, 85, American screenwriter (Gator, Brannigan), heart attack. [343]
• William C. Patrick III, 84, American scientist, expert on germs, bladder cancer. [344]
• Mikhail Roshchin, 77, Russian playwright. [345] (Russian)
• Phillips Talbot, 95, American diplomat, Ambassador to Greece (1965–1969), President of the Asia Society (1970–1981). [346]
• Lan Wright, 87, British science fiction writer. [347]