Deaths in October 2011

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The following is a list of notable deaths in October 2011.

October 2011

31

• Flórián Albert, Sr., 70, Hungarian footballer, European Footballer of the Year (1967). [1]
• Alberto Anchart, 80, Argentine actor (Venga a bailar el rock), cancer. [2] (Spanish)
• Liz Anderson, 81, American country music singer-songwriter, mother of Lynn Anderson, complications from heart and lung disease. [3]
• Mick Anglo, 96, British comic book writer and artist, creator of Marvelman. [4]
• Gilbert Cates, 77, American film director and producer (Academy Awards Telecast, Oh, God! Book II), founder of Geffen Playhouse. [5]
• James Forrester, 74, American physician and politician, North Carolina State Senator (since 1990). [6]
• Boris de Greiff, 81, Colombian chess master. [7] (Spanish)
• Alfred Hilbe, 83, Liechtenstein politician, Prime Minister (1970–1974). [8] (German)
• Len Killeen, 72, South African rugby league player. [9]
• Marios Leousis, 85, Greek magician. [10] (Greek)
• Bořivoj Navrátil, 78, Czech actor. [11] (Czech)
• José Reyez Meza, 86, Mexican muralist, stomach cancer. [12] (Spanish)
• Ali Saibou, 71, Nigerien politician, President (1987–1993). [13]

30

• Serge Aubry, 69, Canadian ice hockey player (Quebec Nordiques), diabetes. [14] (French)
• Bob Barry, Sr., 80, American sports commentator. [15]
• T. M. Jacob, 61, Indian politician, member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly. [16]
• Tom Keith, 64, American radio personality (A Prairie Home Companion). [17]
• Jonas Kubilius, 90, Lithuanian mathematician. [18] (Lithuanian)
• Phyllis Love, 85, American actress (Friendly Persuasion, The Young Doctors), Alzheimer's disease. [19]
• Giles McCrary, 91, American art collector and museum owner. [20]
• Christopher Mega, 80, American politician and judge. [21]
• Jiří Winter Neprakta, 87, Czech cartoonist. [22] (Czech)
• George Rountree, 61, American bandleader and composer. [23]
• Mickey Scott, 64, German-born American baseball player (Orioles, Expos, Angels). [24]
• David Utz, 87, American surgeon, removed Ronald Reagan's prostate, heart failure. [25]
• Richard Walls, 74, New Zealand politician and businessman, MP for Dunedin North (1975–1978) and Mayor of Dunedin (1989–1995). [26]
• Abbas-Ali Amid Zanjani, 74, Iranian cleric and politician, President of Tehran University (2005–2008), heart failure. [27]

29

• Axel Axgil, 96, Danish gay rights activist. [28]
• Dolores Dwyer Duffy, 76, American actress and Olympic athlete. [29]
• Yngve Holmberg, 86, Swedish politician, leader of the Moderate Party (1965–1970). [30] (Swedish)
• Lloyd G. Jackson, 93, American politician, President of West Virginia Senate (1969–1971). [31]
• Robert Lamoureux, 91, French comedian and film director. [32] (French)
• Yoland Levèque, 74, French Olympic boxer. [33] (French)
• Sakhat Muradov, 79, Russian-born Turkmen politician, Chairman of the Assembly of Turkmenistan (1992–2001). [34] (Russian)
• Robert Pitts, 92, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1948) basketball player. [35]
• Ram Revilla, 22, Filipino actor, shot and stabbed. [36]
• Sir Jimmy Savile, 84, British disc jockey, television presenter (Top of the Pops, Jim'll Fix It) and charity fundraiser. [37]
• K. Suppu, 70, Indian politician. [38]
• Samdup Taso, 83, Indian hereditary priest. [39]
• Walter Vidarte, 80, Uruguayan actor. [40] (Spanish)
• Tom Watkins, 74, American football player (Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions), after long illness. [41]
• Mano Wijeyeratne, 54, Sri Lankan politician. [42]

28

• Ricky Adams, 52, American baseball player (California Angels), cancer. [43]
• Campbell Christie, 74, Scottish trade unionist. [44]
• Willy De Clercq, 84, Belgian politician. [45] (Dutch)
• Beryl Davis, 87, British big band singer and actress. [46]
• R. Sheldon Duecker, 85, American prelate, bishop of the United Methodist Church. [47]
• Thanasis Fabas, 89, Greek painter and sculptor. [48] (Greek)
• Jiří Gruša, 72, Czech dissident, diplomat and writer. [49]
• Bernardo Jablonski, 59, Brazilian actor, theatre director and writer. [50] (Portuguese)
• Roger Kerr, 66, New Zealand public policy and business leader, executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, metastatic melanoma. [51]
• Walter Norris, 79, American jazz pianist. [52]
• Giorgos Papagiavis, 100, Greek politician. [53] (Greek)
• Alvin Schwartz, 94, American comic book writer. [54]
• Ed Walker, 94, American World War II veteran and writer, last surviving member of Castner's Cutthroats. [55]

27

• Tom Brown, 89, American tennis player. [56]
• Tom Donovan, 89, American film director and producer. [57]
• Sergei Govorukhin, 50, Ukrainian-born Russian film director, brain hemorrhage. [58] (Russian)
• T. Max Graham, 70, American actor (Article 99, Eraserhead), cancer. [59]
• Ronald Greeley, 72, American planetary scientist. [60]
• James Hillman, 85, American psychologist, proponent of archetypal psychology. [61]
• Ron Holmes, 48, American football player (Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Denver Broncos). [62]
• Sirazhudin Israfilov, 57, Russian Islamic leader, shot. [63] (Russian)
• Eduard Kojnok, 78, Slovak Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Rožňava (1990–2008). [64] (Slovakian)
• Allen Mandelbaum, 85, American professor of Italian literature, poet, and translator. [65]
• Robert Pritzker, 85, American billionaire industrialist, Parkinson's disease. [66]
• David Wicks, 31, American actor and stuntman, explosion. [67]

26

• Salvador Bernal, 66, Filipino designer, National Artist of the Philippines. [68]
• Daniel Burke, 82, American television executive, President of ABC (1986–1994), complications of diabetes. [69]
• Dave Cole, 81, American baseball player (Boston Braves, Milwaukee Braves, Chicago Cubs). [70]
• Mickey Kelly, Irish hurler (Kilkenny GAA). [71]
• Wyatt Knight, 56, American actor (Porky's), suicide by gunshot. [72] (body discovered this date)
• Yaropolk Lapshyn, 91, Ukrainian-born Russian film director, long illness. [73] (Russian)
• Aristide Laurent, 70, American publisher and LGBT civil rights advocate. [74]
• Erich Loewy, 83, Austrian-born American cardiologist and bioethicist. [75]
• Janko Messner, 89, Austrian writer, pulmonary infarction. [76] (German)
• William A. Niskanen, 78, American economist, member of the Council of Economic Advisors (1981–1985), chairman of the Cato Institute (1985–2008), stroke. [77]
• Carl Rutherford. 90, American military veteran. [78]
• Jona Senilagakali, 81, Fijian physician and diplomat, Prime Minister (2006–2007). [79]

25

• Leonidas Andrianopoulos, 100, Greek footballer (Olympiacos F.C.). [80] (Greek)
• Perkins Bass, 99, American politician, U.S. Representative from New Hampshire (1955–1963). [81]
• Shirley Becke, 94, British police officer, first female to reach chief officer rank. [82]
• Bert Cueto, 74, Cuban baseball player (Minnesota Twins). [83]
• Arved Deringer, 98, German lawyer (Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer) and politician. [84]
• Sinikka Keskitalo, 60, Finnish Olympic long-distance runner. [85] (Finnish)
• Héctor López, 44, Mexican boxer, Olympic silver medal-winner (1984), drug overdose. [86]
• Tom McNeeley, 74, American boxer, complications from a seizure. [87]
• Mohan Raghavan, 47, Indian Malayalam film director. [88]
• Bernard Verdcourt, 86, British botanist. [89]
• Howard Wolpe, 71, American politician, U.S. Representative from Michigan (1979–1993). [90]
• Norrie Woodhall, 105, British stage actress. [91]

24

• Bob Beaumont, 79, American electric automobile manufacturer (Citicar), emphysema. [92]
• Margit Brandt, 66, Danish fashion designer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. [93] (Danish)
• Robert Bropho, 81, Australian indigenous rights activist and convicted criminal, natural causes. [94]
• Liviu Ciulei, 88, Romanian actor, writer and director, after long illness. [95]
• Harold Huskilson, 91, Canadian politician, member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly (1970–1993). [96]
• Kjell Johansson, 65, Swedish table tennis player. [97]
• Morio Kita, 84, Japanese novelist, essayist and psychiatrist. [98]
• John McCarthy, 84, American computer scientist, creator of LISP and the term AI, heart disease. [99]
• Pat McNamara, 85, American Olympic speed skater. [100]
• Sarantis Michalopoulos, 72, Greek journalist and news anchorman. [101] (Greek)
• Alan Morgan, 71, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Sherwood (1989–2004). [102]
• Peter Rhodes, 90, British football referee, Parkinson's disease. [103] (death announced on this date)
• Crescênzio Rinaldini, 85, Italian-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Araçuaí (1982–2001). [104]
• Sir Peter Siddell, 76, New Zealand artist, brain tumour. [105]
• Kirtanananda Swami, 74, American excommunicated Hare Krishna leader and convicted felon, kidney failure. [106]
• Oleh Vitovych, 44, Ukrainian politician, MP (1994–1998) and Leader of UNA-UNSO (1994–1999). [107] (Ukrainian)
• Bruno Weber, 80, Swiss artist and architect. [108] (German)
• Ken Yamaguchi, 55, Japanese voice actor, illness. [109]

23

• Nusrat Bhutto, 82, Iranian-born Pakistani First Lady, widow of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and mother of Benazir Bhutto. [110]
• Joseph Dao, 75, Burkinabé-born Malian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Kayes (1978–2011). [111]
• Oscar Stanley Dawson, 87, Indian admiral, Chief of the Naval Staff (1982–1984), brain haemorrhage. [112]
• Winston Griffiths, 33, Jamaican footballer. [113]
• Herbert A. Hauptman, 94, American Nobel Prize-winning chemist (1985). [114]
• Florence Parry Heide, 92, American children's author. [115]
• Sir Frank Holmes, 87, New Zealand economist and government advisor. [116]
• William Franklin Lee III, 82, American music educator, Dean of University of Miami School of Music (1964–1982). [117]
• Bronislovas Lubys, 73, Lithuanian entrepreneur and politician, Prime Minister of Lithuania (1992–1993), heart attack. [118] (Lithuanian)
• Amnon Salomon, 71, Israeli cinematographer. [119]
• Marco Simoncelli, 24, Italian motorcycle racer, race crash. [120]
• Tillie Taylor, 88, Canadian judge. [121]
• Bogdan Zakrzewski, 95, Polish historian and researcher of Polish literature. [122] (Polish)

22

• Jan Boye, 49, Danish politician, complications from brain hemorrhage. [123] (Danish)
• Jean Dubuisson, 97, French architect. [124]
• Peter Goldie, 64, British philosopher. [125]
• Kutty, 90, Indian political cartoonist. [126]
• Roger Moore, 73, American professional poker player. [127]
• Mullanezhi, 63, Indian poet and actor, heart attack. [128]
• Cathal O'Shannon, 83, Irish journalist and television presenter. [129]
• Robert Pierpoint, 86, American broadcast journalist, complications from surgery. [130]
• Roy Smalley, Jr., 85, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Milwaukee Braves, Philadelphia Phillies). [131]
• Sultan, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, 83, Saudi royal, Minister of Defense and Aviation (since 1962) and Crown Prince (since 2005). [132]
• Ed Thompson, 66, American politician, Mayor of Tomah, Wisconsin (2008–2010), and gubernatorial candidate, pancreatic cancer. [133]

21

• Hikmet Bilâ, 57, Turkish journalist and author, lung cancer. [134]
• Antonio Cassese, 74, Italian international law expert, Yugoslavian war crimes judge, cancer. [135]
• George Daniels, 85, British horologist. [136]
• Thomas Dillon, 61, American serial killer. [137]
• Yann Fouéré, 101, French Breton nationalist. [138]
• Bertram Nelson Herlong, 77, American bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee. [139]
• Digby Jacks, 66, British president of the National Union of Students (1971–1973). [140]
• Anis Mansour, 86, Egyptian writer and columnist, pneumonia. [141]
• Tone Pavček, 83, Slovenian author and translator. [142]
• Edmundo Ros, 100, Trinidadian bandleader. [143]
• Scott White, 41, American politician, member of the Washington House of Representatives (2009–2011) and State Senator (2011), cardiomegaly complications. [144]

20

• Jerzy Bielecki, 90, Polish social worker, survivor of Auschwitz concentration camp, Polish Righteous among the Nations recipient. [145] (Polish)
• John Bosco Manat Chuabsamai, 75, Thai Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ratchaburi (1985–2003). [146]
• Barry Feinstein, 80, American photographer and photojournalist. [147]
• Moatassem Gaddafi 34, Libyan Army officer, fifth son of Muammar Gaddafi, shot. [148]
• Muammar Gaddafi, 69, Libyan leader (1969–2011), shot. [149]
• Gale Gillingham, 67, American football player (Green Bay Packers). [150]
• Abu-Bakr Yunis Jabr, 59, Libyan defence minister, shot. [151]
• Hunter, 36, Australian rapper, cancer. [152]
• Sue Lloyd, 72, British actress (The Ipcress File, Crossroads). [153]
• Iztok Puc, 45, Slovenian handball player, only Olympian handball player to represent three countries, lung cancer. [154]
• Morris Tabaksblat, 74, Dutch industrialist. [155] (Dutch)
• Roger Tallon, 82, French industrial designer. [156] (French)

19

• Édison Chará, 31, Colombian footballer, shot. [157]
• Kakkanadan, 76, Indian Malayalam writer. [158]
• Ken Meyerson, 47, American tennis agent. [159]
• Bohdan Osadchuk, 91, Ukrainian historian and journalist. [160] (Polish)
• Hollis E. Roberts, 68, American politician, Chief of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma (1978–1997), convicted sex offender. [161]
• Jeff Rudom, 51, American basketball player and actor . [162]
• Tadeusz Sawicz, 97, Polish World War II fighter pilot. [163]
• Lars Sjösten, 70, Swedish jazz pianist and composer. [164] (Swedish)
• Ronald Smith, 67, British Olympic boxer (1964). [165]
• Jon Weaving, 80, Australian operatic tenor, pancreatic cancer. [166] [167]
• James Yannatos, 82, American composer and conductor. [168]

18

• Bob Brunning, 68, British blues musician (Fleetwood Mac), heart attack. [169]
• George Chaloupka, 79, Czech-born Australian historian of indigenous art. [170]
• Ruby Cohn, 89, American theater scholar, Parkinson's disease. [171]
• Norman Corwin, 101, American radio writer, director and producer. [172]
• Paul Everac, 87, Romanian writer, cancer. [173] (Romanian)
• Tommy Grant, 76, Canadian football player (Hamilton Tiger-Cats). [174]
• Kent Hull, 50, American football player (Buffalo Bills), liver disease. [175]
• Jan Marian Kaczmarek, 90, Polish engineer and academic. [176] (Polish)
• Friedrich Kittler, 68, German literary scholar and media theorist. [177]
• Lee Soo-Chul, 45, South Korean football manager, suicide. [178]
• Merritt Ranew, 73, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs) [179]
• Michael Staikos, 65, Greek-born Austrian Orthodox hierarch, Metropolitan of Austria (since 1991). [180] (German)
• Jacques Thuillier, 83, French art historian. [181] (French)
• Andrea Zanzotto, 90, Italian poet. [182] (Italian)

17

• John Morton Blum, 90, American political historian. [183]
• Ramaz Chkhikvadze, 83, Georgian-born English stage actor. [184]
• Barney Danson, 90, Canadian politician, MP for York North (1968–1979), Minister of National Defence (1976–1979). [185]
• Manfred Gerlach, 83, German politician, last Chairman of the State Council of East Germany (1989–1990). [186]
• Poul Glargaard, 69, Danish actor. [187] (Danish)
• Osvaldo Guidi, 47, Argentine actor, suicide by hanging. [188] (Spanish)
• Carl Lindner, Jr., 92, American businessman (United Dairy Farmers, Cincinnati Reds), cardiac arrest. [189]
• Elaine Nile, 75, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1988–2002), cancer. [190]
• Muiris Ó Rócháin, 67, Irish teacher and director of the Willie Clancy Summer School. [191]
• Ken Rush, 80, American NASCAR driver. [192]
• Piri Thomas, 83, American writer (Down These Mean Streets) and poet, pneumonia. [193]
• Edgar Villchur, 94, American inventor of the acoustic suspension loudspeaker. [194]

16

• Hiroshi Arikawa, 50, Japanese voice actor. [195] (Japanese)
• Henry Bathurst, 8th Earl Bathurst, 84, British aristocrat and politician. [196]
• Ursula Cain, 84, German dancer and dance teacher. [197]
• Elouise P. Cobell, 65, American Native American rights activist. [198]
• A. Donald Davies, 91, American Episcopal bishop of Dallas and Fort Worth. [199]
• Antony Gardner, 84, British politician, MP for Rushcliffe (1966–1970). [200]
• Miguel Ángel Granados Chapa, 70, Mexican journalist. [201]
• Charles Hamm, 86, American musicologist. [202]
• Virginia Knauer, 96, American consumer advocate and government official. [203]
• Tony Marchington, 55, English biotechnology entrepreneur and preservationist (Flying Scotsman). [204]
• Stanley Mitchell, 69, British translator, academic and author. [205]
• Pete Rugolo, 95, Italian-born American film and television composer (Kiss Me Kate, The Fugitive). [206]
• Henning Sjöström, 89, Swedish defense attorney, long illness. [207] (Swedish)
• Elisabeth Tankeu, 67, Cameroonian politician, Minister for Planning and Regional Development (1988–1992). [208]
• Dan Wheldon, 33, British IndyCar driver, racing accident. [209]
• Don Williams, 80, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Kansas City Athletics). [210]

15

• David P. Demarest, 79, American academic and writer. [211]
• Betty Driver, 91, British singer and actress (Coronation Street), pneumonia. [212]
• Sir Donald Dunstan, 88, Australian military officer, Governor of South Australia (1982–1991). [213]
• Pierre Mamboundou, 65, Gabonese politician, leader of the Union of the Gabonese People (since 1989), heart attack. [214]
• Matthew G. Martínez, 82, American politician, U.S. Representative from California (1982–2001). [215]
• Earl McRae, 69, Canadian journalist (Ottawa Sun), apparent heart attack. [216]
• Sue Mengers, 79, American talent agent, pneumonia. [217]
• Tongai Moyo, 43, Zimbabwean musician, non Hodgkin's lymphoma. [218]
• Gerald Shapiro, 61, American fiction writer and academic. [219]
• Titus Thotawatte, 82, Sri Lankan director. [220]

14

• Reg Alcock, 63, Canadian politician, MP for Winnipeg South (1993–2006); President of the Treasury Board (2003–2006), heart attack. [221]
• Margaret Draper, 94, American radio actress and disc jockey, natural causes. [222]
• Michael Fitzpatrick, 69, Irish politician, TD for Kildare North (2007–2011), motor neurone disease. [223]
• Pierangelo Garegnani, 81, Italian economist and professor. [224] (Italian)
• Ashawna Hailey, 62, American computer scientist. [225]
• Adam Hunter, 48, Scottish golfer, leukemia. [226]
• Laura Pollán, 63, Cuban opposition leader, founder of the Ladies in White, cardiorespiratory arrest. [227]
• Gunilla von Post, 79, Swedish socialite. [228]
• Jaladi Raja Rao, 79, Indian film lyricist and playwright. [229]
• Chuck Ruff, 60, American drummer (Edgar Winter, Sammy Hagar), after long illness. [230]

13

• Sheila Allen, 78, British actress (Love Actually). [231]
• Chris Doig, 63, New Zealand opera singer and sports administrator, bowel cancer. [232]
• Barbara Kent, 103, Canadian-born American silent film actress. [233]
• Tufele Liamatua, 71, American Samoan politician and paramount chief, first elected Lieutenant Governor of American Samoa (1978–1985). [234]
• Abdoulaye Seye, 77, Senegalese Olympic bronze medal-winning (1960) athlete. [235] (French)

12

• Franz Jozef Van Beeck, 81, Dutch author and Christian theologian. [236]
• Heinz Bennent, 90, German actor. [237] (German)
• Patricia Breslin, 80, American actress (The People's Choice, Peyton Place, The Twilight Zone), wife of Art Modell, pancreatitis. [238]
• Joel DiGregorio, 67, American keyboardist (The Charlie Daniels Band), car crash. [239]
• Peter Hammond, 87, British actor and television director. [240]
• Lowell H. Harrison, 88, American historian. [241]
• János Herskó, 85, Hungarian film director and actor. [242] (Hungarian)
• Paul Leka, 68, American pianist, arranger and songwriter ("Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye", "Green Tambourine"). [243]
• Vic Miles, 79, American reporter and news anchor. [244]
• Lewis Mills, 74, American college basketball coach (University of Richmond) and athletic director. [245]
• Dennis Ritchie, 70, American computer scientist, developer of C programming language. [246] (body discovered on this date)
• Dick Thornett, 71, Australian triple international sportsman (water polo, rugby union and rugby league), heart disease. [247]
• Martin White, 102, Irish hurler. [248]
• Winstone Zulu, Zambian AIDS and tuberculosis activist. [249]

11

• Amin al-Shami, Yemeni air force colonel, car bomb. [250]
• Kim Brown, 66, British-born Finnish musician, cancer. [251] (Finnish)
• George "Mojo" Buford, 81, American blues harmonica player. [252]
• Cy Buker, 92, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers). [253]
• Ion Diaconescu, 94, Romanian politician, President of Chamber of Deputies (1996–2000), heart failure. [254] (Romanian)
• Doctor X, 43, Mexican professional wrestler, shot. [255] (Spanish)
• Bob Galvin, 89, American businessman, CEO of Motorola (1959–1986). [256]
• Freddie Gruber, 84, American jazz drummer. [257]
• Nauman Habib, 32, Pakistani cricketer, murdered. [258]
• Henk Hofs, 60, Dutch footballer (Vitesse). [259] (Dutch)
• Keith Holman, 84, Australian rugby league player and referee. [260]
• Dieudonné Kabongo, 61, Congolese-born Belgian comedian, musician and actor (Lumumba). [261]
• Frank Kameny, 86, American gay rights activist. [262]
• Ewald Osers, 94, Czech translator and poet. [263]

10

• Ray Aghayan, 83, Iranian-born American costume designer (Funny Lady, Doctor Dolittle). [264]
• Milton Castellanos Everardo, 91, Mexican politician, President of Chamber of Deputies (1951), Governor of Baja California (1971–1977). [265] (Spanish)
• Alan Fudge, 67, American actor (7th Heaven, Matlock, Hawaii 5-O), lung and liver cancer. [266]
• Shikan Nakamura VII, 83, Japanese kabuki performer, Living National Treasure. [267]
• Uno Röndahl, 87, Swedish author. [268] (Danish)
• Albert Rosellini, 101, American politician, Governor of Washington (1957–1965), complications from pneumonia. [269]
• Jagjit Singh, 70, Indian musician, brain haemorrhage. [270]
• Otto Tausig, 89, Austrian writer, director and actor. [271] (German)

9

• Kei Aoyama, 32, Japanese mangaka, suicide by hanging. [272]
• Ray Aranha, 72, American actor (Dead Man Walking, Die Hard with a Vengeance, Married People). [273]
• Robert Boochever, 94, American federal judge. [274]
• Bill Brown, 69, American disc jockey (WCBS-FM). [275]
• Rob Buckman, 63, British-born Canadian oncologist and comedian. [276]
• Antonis Christeas, 74, Greek basketball player (AEK Athens) and coach. [277] (Greek)
• Chauncey Hardy, 23, American basketball player, heart attack following beating. [278])
• Pavel Karelin, 21, Russian ski jumper, traffic accident. [279] (Russian)
• Mark Kingston, 77, British actor. [280]
• Jakkampudi Rammohan Rao, Indian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Andhra Pradesh. [281]
• Manuel Prado Perez-Rosas, 88, Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Trujillo (1976–1999). [282]
• James Worrall, 97, Canadian Olympic athlete (1936) and administrator. [283]

8

• Al Davis, 82, American football coach and team owner (Oakland Raiders), heart failure. [284]
• José de las Fuentes Rodríguez, 91, Mexican politician and lawyer, Governor of Coahuila (1981–1987). [285]
• Dorothy Heathcote, 85, British drama teacher and academic. [286]
• David Hess, 75, American actor (The Last House on the Left), singer and songwriter, heart attack. [287]
• Ovidio de Jesús, 78, Puerto Rican Olympic sprinter (1956, 1960). [288] (Spanish) (death announced on this date)
• Gregory Possehl, 70, American archaeologist. [289]
• Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra, 55, Sri Lankan politician, Member of Parliament (1994–2000), shot. [290]
• Harold W. Rood, American political scientist and author. [291]
• Mikey Welsh, 40, American artist and musician (Weezer). [292]
• Roger Williams, 87, American pianist, pancreatic cancer. [293]
• Ingvar Wixell, 80, Swedish opera singer. [294] (Swedish)

7

• Zaheer Ahmad, 63, Pakistani-born American doctor, brain hemorrhage. [295]
• John Alderson, 89, British police officer and media commentator, Chief Constable of Devon and Cornwall Constabulary (1973–1982). [296]
• Ramiz Alia, 85, Albanian politician, First Secretary of the Party of Labour (1985–1991), President (1991–1992), lung disease. [297]
• Julien Bailleul, 23, French footballer. [298]
• George Baker, 80, British actor (I, Claudius, The Ruth Rendell Mysteries), pneumonia following a stroke. [299]
• Frederick Cardozo, 94, British soldier and SOE veteran. [300]
• Fernando Charrier, 80, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Alessandria della Paglia (1989–2007). [301]
• Charles Cuprill Oppenheimer, 95, Puerto Rican general. [302] (Spanish)
• Haji Amir Bux Junejo, 95, Pakistani politician. [303]
• Paul Kent, 80, American actor (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Three's Company), multiple myeloma. [304]
• Fred Kingsbury, 84, American Olympic bronze medal-winning (1948) rower. [305]
• Andrew Laszlo, 85, Hungarian-born American cinematographer (First Blood, The Warriors, Newsies). [306]
• Lulama Masikazana, 38, South African cricketer. [307]
• Enrique Monsonís, 80, Spanish politician, President of the Generalitat Valenciana (1979–1982). [308]
• Michel Peissel, 74, French explorer and author, heart attack. [309]
• Milan Puskar, 77, American pharmacist, co-founder of Mylan, cancer. [310]
• Julio Mario Santo Domingo, 88, Colombian businessman (SABMiller). [311] (Spanish)
• Mildred Savage, 92, American author (Parrish). [312]
• Bill Smith, 75, British fell runner and author. [313] (body discovered on this date)
• Avner Treinin, 83, Israeli poet and chemist. [314]

6

• Diane Cilento, 78, Australian actress (Tom Jones, The Wicker Man), cancer. [315]
• William S. Dietrich II, 73, American industrialist and philanthropist. [316]
• Mathur Krishnamurthy, 82, Indian arts patron. [317]
• Daniel Lind Lagerlöf, 42, Swedish director, presumed drowned. [318] (Swedish)
• Marilyn Nash, 84, American actress (Monsieur Verdoux, Unknown World). [319]
• Birgit Rosengren, 98, Swedish actress. [320] (Swedish)
• Neil Street, 80, Australian speedway rider. [321]
• Phil Walker, 67, British newspaper editor. [322]

5

• Edward Acquah, 76, Ghanaian Olympic footballer (1964). [323]
• Níver Arboleda, 43, Colombian footballer, heart attack. [324] (Spanish)
• Derrick Bell, 80, American law professor (Harvard University), originated critical race theory, carcinoid cancer. [325]
• Anita Caspary, 95, American Catholic nun, founder of the Immaculate Heart Community. [326]
• Graham Dilley, 52, British cricketer, cancer. [327]
• Enver Faja, 77, Albanian architect and diplomat, Ambassador to Poland (1992–1996), after long illness. [328]
• Richard Holmlund, 47, Swedish football manager, car accident. [329] (Swedish)
• Peter Jaks, 45, Swiss Olympic ice hockey player (1998, 1992), suicide by standing in front of a train. [330]
• Bert Jansch, 67, Scottish folk guitarist, singer and songwriter (Pentangle), cancer. [331]
• Steve Jobs, 56, American computer entrepreneur and inventor, co-founder of Apple Inc., pancreatic cancer. [332]
• Charles Napier, 75, American actor (The Silence of the Lambs, The Blues Brothers). [333]
• Fred Shuttlesworth, 89, American civil rights leader. [334]
• Sarkis Soghanalian, 82, Syrian-born Armenian arms dealer. [335]

4

• Doris Belack, 85, American actress (Law & Order, One Life to Live, Tootsie), natural causes. [336]
• Yelena Chernykh, 32, Russian actress, traffic collision. [337] (Russian)
• Ruth Currier, 85, American dancer, choreographer and dance teacher. [338]
• Vittorio Curtoni, 61, Italian science fiction writer and translator. [339] (Italian)
• Kenneth H. Dahlberg, 94, American businessman and World War II fighter ace, natural causes. [340]
• Diana Gribble, 69, Australian publisher (McPhee Gribble), cancer. [341]
• Ralph Hodgin, 96, American baseball player (Boston Bees, Chicago White Sox). [342]
• Hanan Porat, 67, Israeli rabbi, educator and politician, cancer. [343]
• Shmuel Shilo, 81, Israeli actor and director, cancer. [344]
• Muzaffer Tema, 92, Turkish actor. [345] (Turkish)
• Géza Tóth, 79, Hungarian Olympic silver medal-winning (1964) weightlifter. [346]

3

• George Harrison, 72, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1960) swimmer, cancer. [347]
• Aden Meinel, 88, American astronomer and optical scientist. [348]
• Jim Neal, 81, American basketball player (Syracuse Nationals, Baltimore Bullets). [349]
• Zakaria Zerouali, 33, Moroccan footballer. [350] (French)

2

• Vasily Aleksanyan, 39, Russian lawyer and businessman, Executive Vice President of Yukos, complications from AIDS. [351]
• Andrija Fuderer, 80, Croatian-born Belgian chess player. [352]
• Don Lapre, 47, American television pitchman, suicide by cutting throat. [353]
• Taha Muhammad Ali, 80, Palestinian poet. [354]
• Peter Przygodda, 69, German film editor, cancer. [355] (German)
• Efraín Recinos, 83, Guatemalan architect, muralist and artist, designer of the Centro Cultural Miguel Ángel Asturias. [356]
• John Romonosky, 82, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Washington Senators). [357]
• Cindy Shatto, 54, Canadian Olympic diver (1976), lung cancer. [358]
• Pavlos Tassios, 69, Greek film director. [359] (Greek)
• Piero Weiss, 83, Italian pianist and author, pneumonia. [360]
• Moshe Wertman, 87, Israeli politician. [361]

1

• Butch Ballard, 92, American jazz drummer. [362]
• David Bedford, 74, British composer and musician. [363]
• Len Castle, 86, New Zealand potter. [364]
• Georgina Cookson, 92, British actress. [365]
• Philo Dibble, 60, American diplomat. [366]
• Robert Finigan, 68, American wine critic. [367])
• Ruby Langford Ginibi, 77, Australian author and Aboriginal historian. [368]
• Paulos Mantovanis, 65, Cypriot Orthodox hierarch, Metropolitan of Kyrenia (since 1994). [369] (Greek)
• Sholom Rivkin, 85, American rabbi, last chief rabbi of St. Louis and the United States. [370]
• Johnny Schmitz, 90, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Brooklyn Dodgers). [371]
• Sven Tumba, 80, Swedish ice hockey player (world champion 1953, 1957, 1962), footballer and golfer, prostate cancer. [372]