Deaths in May 2011

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

May 2011

1

• Spyrydon Babskyi, 52, Ukrainian Orthodox hierarch, Archbishop of Vinnytsia in UOC-KP (1992–1993). (Russian)
• Sir Henry Cooper, 76, British Olympic heavyweight boxer.
• Agustín García-Gasco Vicente, 80, Spanish Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Valencia (1992–2009), cardiac arrest. (Spanish)
• Moshe Landau, 99, Israeli jurist, Chief Justice (1980–1982), presided over Adolf Eichmann's trial (1961).
• Ted Lowe, 90, British snooker commentator.
• Steven Orszag, 68, American mathematician, chronic lymphomic leukemia.
• Anny Rüegg, c. 99, Swiss alpine skier. (German)
• Ivan Slavkov, 70, Bulgarian sports official.
• William O. Taylor II, 78, American journalist and publisher (The Boston Globe), brain tumor.
• J. Ernest Wilkins, Jr., 87, American mathematician and nuclear scientist.

2

• Leonid Abalkin, 80, Russian economist.
• Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, 46, Kuwaiti Al-Qaeda computer expert, shot.
• Robert W. Clower, 85, American economist.
• Danny Kassap, 28, Congolese-born Canadian long-distance runner.
• Abdulla Kurd, 34, Kurdish Islamist militant.
• Osama bin Laden, 54, Saudi founder of Al-Qaeda, planned September 11 attacks, shot.
• Alexander Lazarev, 73, Russian actor. (Russian)
• Eddie Lewis, 76, English footballer (Manchester United, West Ham United), cancer. (death announced on this date)
• Owen Roe McGovern, 93, Irish Gaelic football player.
• René Emilio Ponce, 64, Salvadoran general and defence minister, army chief of staff during the Civil War.
• David Sencer, 86, American public health official, director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (1966–1977), heart disease.
• Shigeo Yaegashi, 78, Japanese footballer. (Japanese)

3

• Paul Ackerley, 61, New Zealand hockey player and coach, skin cancer.
• Frédéric Affo, 77, Beninese politician and football executive. (French)
• Victor Auer, 74, American Olympic silver medal-winning (1972) sport shooter.
• Bob Balog, 86, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers).
• Robert Brout, 82, American-born Belgian theoretical physicist. (French)
• Odell Brown, 70, American jazz organist and songwriter ("Sexual Healing").
• Jackie Cooper, 88, American actor (Skippy, Our Gang, Superman) and director (M*A*S*H).
• C. Rollins Hanlon, 96, American cardiac surgeon, lymphoma.
• Richie Hubbard, 78, Canadian politician.
• Sergo Kotrikadze, 74, Georgian football player and coach, heart attack. (Russian)
• Mildred Robbins Leet, 88, American philanthropist, co-founder of Trickle Up, complications of a fall.
• Larry McCormick, 71, Canadian politician, Member of Parliament for Hastings—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington (1993–2004).
• Marianna Nagy, 82, Hungarian pair skater. (Hungarian)
• Patrick Roy, 53, French politician, pancreatic cancer. (French)
• Peter Urbach, 71, German Cold War informant. (German)
• Thanasis Veggos, 83, Greek actor, stroke.

4

• Lázaro Blanco, 73, Mexican photographer, cancer. (Spanish)
• Frans de Kok, 87, Dutch conductor. (Dutch)
• Jacques Georges Habib Hafouri, 94, Syrian Catholic hierarch, Archbishop of Hassaké-Nisibi (1982–1996).
• Sammy McCrory, 86, Northern Irish footballer.
• Mary Murphy, 80, American actress (The Wild One).
• Thomas G. Nelson, 74, American federal judge, complications from declining health.
• Françoise Olivier-Coupeau, 51, French politician, cancer. (French)
• Emil Reinecke, 78, German cyclist.
• Acacio Valbuena Rodríguez, 88, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Prefect for Western Sahara (1994–2009).
• Frans Sammut, 66, Maltese writer, natural causes.
• Bernard Stasi, 80, French politician, Minister for Overseas Departments and Territories (1973–1974), Alzheimer's disease. (French)
• Richard Steinheimer, 81, American railroad photographer, Alzheimer's disease.
• Sada Thompson, 83, American actress (Family), lung disease.

5

• Leslie Audus, 99, British botany professor (University of London), expert on plant growth hormones.
• Alice Bridges, 94, American Olympic bronze medal-winning (1936) swimmer.
• Claude Choules, 110, British-born Australian veteran, last combat veteran of World War I.
• J. Donald Crump, 78, Canadian commissioner of the Canadian Football League (1990–1991).
• Oliver Elmes, British graphic designer (Doctor Who). (death reported on this date)
• Salomón Hakim, 81, Colombian neurosurgeon, researcher and inventor.
• Arthur Laurents, 93, American playwright, librettist, stage director, and screenwriter (Anastasia, Rope, West Side Story).
• Dougie McCracken, 46, Scottish football player (Ayr United), suspected suicide.
• Yosef Merimovich, 86, Israeli football player and manager. (Hebrew).
• Rolo Puente, 71, Argentine actor, pulmonary emphysema.
• Tommy Wright, 83, Scottish footballer.
• Dana Wynter, 79, German-born British actress (Invasion of the Body Snatchers), heart failure.

6

• Barry Connolly, 72, Australian football player.
• Oniroku Dan, 80, Japanese author, esophageal cancer.
• Sir Geoffrey Dhenin, 93, British air marshal.
• Horace Freeland Judson, 80, American science historian (The Great Betrayal: Fraud In Science), complications of a stroke.
• Antanas Krištopaitis, 89, Lithuanian painter.
• Quazi Nuruzzaman, 86, Bangladeshi veteran of the Liberation War, natural causes.
• Duane Pillette, 88, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies).
• Dick Walsh, 85, American baseball executive, first commissioner of the North American Soccer League.
• Yoon Ki-Won, 24, South Korean football player, suicide by inhaling toxic fumes.

7

• Johnny Albino, 93, Puerto Rican bolero singer, heart attack.
• Seve Ballesteros, 54, Spanish golfer, brain cancer.
• Big George, 53, British broadcaster and music arranger.
• Willard Boyle, 86, Canadian physicist, Nobel laureate (2009).
• Shaukat Galiev, 82, Tatar poet and writer of children books.
• Jack Gordon, 66, American politician, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives (1972–1980), State Senator (1980–1992; 1996–2011), brain cancer.
• Ross Hagen, 72, American actor (Daktari, Speedway).
• Allyson Hennessy, 63, Trinidadian broadcaster.
• Eilert Määttä, 75, Swedish ice hockey player and coach.
• Milan Mišík, 82, Slovak geologist. (Slovak)
• Gunter Sachs, 78, German photographer, author and multi-millionaire industrialist, suicide by gunshot.
• Ella Schuler, 113, American supercentenarian, oldest person from Kansas.
• Robert Stempel, 77, American automobile executive, Chairman and CEO of General Motors (1990–1992).
• Kate Swift, 87, American writer, stomach cancer.
• John Walker, 67, American musician (The Walker Brothers), liver cancer.
• Doric Wilson, 72, American playwright and gay activist.

8

• Huthaifa al-Batawi, Iraqi al-Qaeda leader, shot.
• Hans-Georg Borck, 89, German military officer. (Portuguese)
• Wallace Clark, 84, Northern Irish maritime writer.
• Cornell Dupree, 68, American jazz and R&B guitarist, complications from emphysema.
• Gheorghe Guţiu, 87, Romanian Catholic hierarch, Archbishop of Cluj-Gherla (1994–2002).
• Corwin Hansch, 92, American chemist, pneumonia.
• Li Desheng, 95, Chinese People's Liberation Army general. (Chinese)
• Charles McPhee, 49, American radio host, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Greg Percival, 86, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1977–1978; 1986–1988).
• Soňa Pertlová, 23, Czech chessplayer, cancer.
• Lionel Rose, 62, Australian world champion boxer.
• Hilton Rosemarin, 58, Canadian set decorator (Three Men and a Baby, Cocktail, Jumper), brain cancer.
• Carlos Trillo, 68, Argentine comic book writer (Cybersix). (Spanish)
• Galina Urbanovich, 93, Russian Olympic gold and silver medal-winning (1952) gymnast.
• Arkady Vaksberg, 83, Soviet and Russian lawyer, author, film maker and playwright. (Russian)
• Sir Ronald Waterhouse, 85, British jurist.

9

• David Cairns, 44, British politician, MP for Greenock and Inverclyde (2001–2005) and Inverclyde (since 2005), acute pancreatitis.
• Robert Ellsworth, 84, American politician and diplomat, Representative from Kansas (1961–1967), Ambassador to NATO (1969–1971), complications from pneumonia.
• Epiphanios of Vryoula, 76. American Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Spain and Portugal.
• Henry Feffer, 93, American professor and spine surgeon, treated Saddam Hussein, heart failure.
• Dolores Fuller, 88, American actress (Glen or Glenda), and songwriter ("Rock-A-Hula Baby").
• Jeff Gralnick, 72, American television news producer.
• Lidia Gueiler Tejada, 89, Bolivian politician, acting President (1979–1980), after a long illness.
• Doug Leeds, 63, American executive, vice-chairman of American Theatre Wing, cancer.
• Ivo Pešák, 66, Czech singer, dancer and comic performer.
• Newton Thornburg, 81, American novelist.
• Shailendra Kumar Upadhyaya, 82, Nepali politician, Foreign Minister (1986–1990), altitude sickness.
• Wouter Weylandt, 26, Belgian road bicycle racer, race crash.

10

• Omar Ahmad, 46, American entrepreneur (Napster) and politician, Mayor of San Carlos, California (2010–2011), heart attack.
• Michael Baze, 24, American jockey.
• Bill Bergesch, 89, American baseball executive (Kansas City Athletics, New York Yankees, Cincinnati Reds).
• Frank Boston, 72, American politician, member of the Maryland House of Delegates (1987–1999).
• John S. Carter, 65, American music producer, cancer.
• Mia Amber Davis, 36, American plus-size model and actress (Road Trip), postoperative complications.
• Bill Gallo, 88, American cartoonist and newspaper columnist, complications from pneumonia.
• Patrick Galvin, 83, Irish writer.
• Zim Ngqawana, 51, South African jazz saxophonist, stroke.
• Burt Reinhardt, 91, American broadcast executive, President of CNN (1982–1990), complications from strokes.
• David Weston, 75, British artist.
• Norma Zimmer, 87, American entertainer (The Lawrence Welk Show).

11

• Maurice Goldhaber, 100, American physicist.
• Leo Kahn, 94, American entrepreneur, co-founder of Staples, complications from a series of strokes.
• Albert Kanene Obiefuna, 81, Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Onitsha (1995–2003).
• Reach Sambath, 47, Cambodian journalist, stroke.
• Elisabeth Svendsen, 81, British hotelier and animal welfare campaigner, founder of The Donkey Sanctuary.
• Robert Traylor, 34, American basketball player (Milwaukee Bucks, Cleveland Cavaliers, New Orleans Hornets), suspected heart attack.
• Glyn Williams, 92, Welsh footballer.
• Snooky Young, 92, American jazz trumpeter, complications of a lung ailment.

12

• Harrison Chongo, 41, Zambian football player, malaria.
• Charles F. Haas, 97, American television director (Bonanza, The Outer Limits, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.).
• Mose Jefferson, 68, American businessman, cancer.
• Jack Jones, 86, American Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter (Los Angeles Times), lung disease.
• Lloyd Knibb, 80, Jamaican drummer (The Skatalites), liver cancer.
• Noreen Murray, 76, British geneticist.
• David Orton, 77, Canadian environmentalist, pancreatic cancer.
• Carlos Pascual, 80, Cuban baseball player (Washington Senators).
• Luigi del Gallo Roccagiovine, 88, Italian nobleman and Roman Catholic prelate, Titular Bishop of Camplum (since 1982).
• Ron Springs, 54, American football player (Dallas Cowboys, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), complications from surgery.
• Bill Summers, 75, American car builder (Goldenrod).
• Miyu Uehara, 24, Japanese glamour model, apparent suicide by hanging.
• Jack Wolf, 76, American information theorist, cancer.

13

• Derek Boogaard, 28, Canadian hockey player (Minnesota Wild, New York Rangers), accidental overdose of alcohol and oxycodone.
• Stephen De Staebler, 78, American sculptor and printmaker, complications from cancer.
• Pam Gems, 85, British playwright.
• Bernard Greenhouse, 95, American cellist.
• Bob Litherland, 80, British politician, MP for Manchester Central (1979–1997), cancer.
• Princess Maria Elisabeth of Orléans-Braganza, 96, German noblewoman. (Portuguese)
• Wallace McCain, 81, Canadian businessman, co-founder of McCain Foods, pancreatic cancer.
• Mel Queen, 69, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds, Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim) and pitching coach (Blue Jays).
• Jack Richardson, 81, Canadian record producer (The Guess Who).
• Bruce Ricker, 68, American film documentarian and producer (Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser).
• Badal Sarkar, 85, Indian dramatist, colon cancer.

14

• Ferial Alibali, 78, Albanian actress. (Albanian)
• James Richard Cheek, 74, American diplomat, Ambassador to Sudan (1989–1992) and Argentina (1993–1996).
• Murray Handwerker, 89, American businessman (Nathan's Famous).
• Teuvo Laukkanen, 91, Finnish Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) cross-country skier.
• Michael Onslow, 7th Earl of Onslow, 73, British politician.
• Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, 87, Chinese-born American historian and author.
• Diane Sinclair, 90, American actress and dancer.
• Birgitta Trotzig, 81, Swedish author.
• Ernie Walker, 82, Scottish football administrator.
• Joseph Wershba, 90, American television producer and reporter.

15

• Donald Christian, 52, Antiguan Olympic cyclist.
• John Feikens, 93, American federal judge, after long illness.
• Bob Flanigan, 84, American singer (The Four Freshmen) and musician.
• Pete Lovely, 85, American racecar driver.
• William Pennington, 88, American casino executive (Circus Circus Enterprises), Parkinson's disease.
• Barbara Stuart, 81, American actress (Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.).
• F. Jay Taylor, 87, American academic, President of Louisiana Tech University (1962–1987).
• Mahendra Singh Tikait, 76, Indian farming union leader, bone cancer.
• Samuel Wanjiru, 24, Kenyan Olympic gold medal-winning (2008) marathon runner, fall from balcony.
• Martin Woodhouse, 78, British novelist, screenwriter and inventor.

16

• Ralph Barker, 93, British air gunner and writer.
• Robert Berks, 89, American sculptor, industrial designer and planner.
• Douglas Blubaugh, 76, American Olympic gold-medal winning (1960) wrestler, motorcycle accident.
• Serghei Covaliov, 66, Romanian Olympic gold (1968) and silver (1972) medal-winning canoeist.
• Bob Davis, 82, Australian football player.
• Nathaniel Davis, 86, American diplomat, cancer.
• Edward Hardwicke, 78, British actor (Sherlock Holmes), son of Sir Cedric Hardwicke.
• Kiyoshi Kodama, 77, Japanese actor, stomach cancer.
• Bill Skiles, 79, American comedian (Skiles and Henderson), kidney cancer.

17

• Sean Dunphy, 73, Irish entertainer.
• Joseph Galibardy, 96, Indian Olympic gold medal-winning (1936) field hockey player.
• James M. Hewgley, Jr., 94, American politician, Mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma (1966–1970).
• Harmon Killebrew, 74, American Hall of Fame baseball player (Minnesota Twins, Kansas City Royals), esophageal cancer.
• Thomas MacAnna, 84, Irish director and actor.
• Frank Upton, 76, English footballer (Derby County, Chelsea), after short illness.

18

• Seiseki Abe, 96, Japanese shodo and aikido teacher.
• Marcel De Mulder, 83, Belgian cyclist.
• Edward H. Harte, 88, American newspaper executive (Harte-Hanks).
• Leonard Kastle, 82, American composer and filmmaker (The Honeymoon Killers).
• Wlodzimierz Ksiazek, 60, Polish-born American painter. (body found on this date)
• Dick Wimmer, 74, American author, heart complications.

19

• Phyllis Avery, 88, American actress (Meet Mr. McNutley), heart failure.
• Don H. Barden, 67, American businessman, lung cancer.
• Garret FitzGerald, 85, Irish politician, Taoiseach (1981–1982; 1982–1987) and Minister for Foreign Affairs (1973–1977), after short illness.
• Ivan Gibbs, 83, Australian politician, Queensland MLA for Albert (1974–1989), cancer.
• Jeffrey Catherine Jones, 67, American transgender artist.
• David H. Kelley, 87, American-born Canadian archaeologist.
• Kathy Kirby, 72, British singer, after short illness.
• William Kloefkorn, 78, American poet.
• Alda Noni, 95, Italian coloratura soprano.
• Vladimir Ryzhkin, 80, Russian Olympic gold medal-winning (1956) footballer. (Russian)
• Tom West, 71, American computer hardware engineer, heart attack.

20

• Michael Bell, 74, Irish politician, Teachta Dála for Louth (1982–2002).
• John Cigna, 75, American radio personality (KDKA).
• William Elliott, Baron Elliott of Morpeth, 90, British politician, MP for Newcastle upon Tyne North (1957–1983).
• Arieh Handler, 95, Israeli Zionist leader.
• Eduard Janota, 59, Czech politician, Finance Minister (2009–2010), cardiac arrest. (Czech)
• Donald Krim, 65, American businessman, president of Kino International, cancer.
• Ciril Pelhan, 89, Yugoslav Olympic swimmer.
• Joaquín Pérez, 75, Mexican Olympic double bronze medal-winning (1980) equestrian.
• Steve Rutt, 66, American inventor of early video animation, pancreatic cancer.
• Randy Savage, 58, American professional wrestler (WWF, WCW).

21

• John Delaney, 42, Irish businessman (Intrade).
• Irene Gilbert, 76, American actress and school director, co-founder of Stella Adler Academy of Los Angeles, Alzheimer's disease.
• David J. Hudson, 67, American sound mixer (Beauty and the Beast, The Terminator, The Lion King).
• Bill Hunter, 71, Australian actor (Muriel's Wedding), liver cancer.
• Hiroyuki Nagato, 77, Japanese actor, cerebrovascular disease. (Japanese)
• Pádraig Kennelly, 82, Irish publisher, editor and journalist, founder of Kerry's Eye.
• Gordon McLennan, 87, British politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party (1975–1990), cancer.
• Jim Pyburn, 78, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles), after long illness.
• Bill Rechin, 80, American cartoonist (Crock), complications from esophageal cancer.

22

• Joseph Brooks, 73, American Grammy-winning songwriter ("You Light Up My Life"), suicide by asphyxiation.
• Joëlle Brupbacher, 32, Swiss mountaineer, acute mountain sickness.
• Chidananda Dasgupta, 89, Indian film critic.
• Bill Eaton, 79, Australian politician, member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Mourilyan (1980–1994).
• Alexandru Ene, 82, Romanian football player.
• Matej Ferjan, 34, Slovenian motorcycle speedway rider.
• Bob Gould, 74, Australian activist and bookseller.
• Ralph Hunt, 83, Australian politician, MP for Gwydir (1969–1989).
• Suzanne Mizzi, 43, British glamour model and interior designer, cancer.
• Ronald Naar, 56, Dutch mountaineer.
• Breon O'Casey, 83, British artist.
• Walter Soboleff, 102, American Tlingit scholar and spiritual leader, first Native Alaskan Prebysterian minister, bone and prostate cancer.
• Joe Steffy, 85, American college football player (Army), 1947 Outland Trophy winner.
• George Henry Strohsahl, Jr., 73, American naval officer and former commander of the Pacific Missile Test Center.

23

• Sam Faust, 26, Australian rugby league player, leukemia.
• Michele Fawdon, 63, British-born Australian actress (Cathy's Child), cancer.
• Peter Frelinghuysen, Jr., 95, American politician, U.S. Representative from New Jersey (1953–1975).
• Nasser Hejazi, 61, Iranian football player and manager, cancer.
• Pilu Momtaz, 52, Bangladeshi pop singer.
• Abdias do Nascimento, 97, Brazilian activist and politician. (Portuguese)
• Joseph Nguyên Tich Duc, 73, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ban Me Thuot (2000–2006).
• Karel Otčenášek, 91, Czech Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Hradec Králové (1989–1998).
• Frank S. Petersen, 88, American jurist and politician.
• Harry Redmond, Jr., 101, American special effects artist and producer (King Kong), natural causes.
• Alejandro Roces, 86, Filipino writer and government official, Secretary of Education (1961–1965).
• Roberto Sosa, 81, Honduran poet, heart attack. (Spanish)
• Xavier Tondo, 32, Spanish cyclist, crushed by car.

24

• Huguette M. Clark, 104, American heiress, daughter of William A. Clark.
• José Cláudio Ribeiro da Silva, 54, Brazilian Amazon environmentalist and conservationist, shot.
• Arthur Goldreich, 82, South African-born Israeli political activist.
• Mark Haines, 65, American television anchor (CNBC).
• Imre Nagy, 70, Canadian Olympic fencer.
• Edward Plunkett, 20th Baron of Dunsany, 71, Irish artist.
• Barry Potomski, 38, Canadian ice hockey player (Los Angeles Kings).
• Sir Blair Stewart-Wilson, 81, British courtier.
• Paul Winslow, 82, South African cricketer.
• Stephen K. Yamashiro, 69, American politician, Mayor of Hawaii County (1992–2000), pneumonia.
• Hakim Ali Zardari, 81, Pakistani politician, father of Asif Ali Zardari, after long illness.

25

• Lillian Adams, 89, American actress (The Suite Life on Deck, Bruce Almighty).
• Werner Freiherr von Beschwitz, 96, German military officer.
• Nina Leopold Bradley, 93, American conservationist.
• Leonora Carrington, 94, British-born Mexican painter and novelist.
• Luigi Diligenza, 90, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Capua (1978–1997).
• Roger Gautier, 88, French Olympic silver medal-winning (1952) rower. (French)
• Edwin Honig, 91, American poet and translator, Alzheimer's disease.
• Terry Jenner, 66, Australian Test cricketer and coach.
• Miroslav Opsenica, 29, Serbian footballer, car accident. (Polish)
• Gene Smith, 94, American baseball player (Negro Leagues).
• Paul Splittorff, 64, American baseball player and broadcaster (Kansas City Royals), complications from melanoma.
• Yannis Varveris, 56, Greek poet, critic and translator, cardiac arrest. (Greek)
• Paul J. Wiedorfer, 90, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.
• Edward Żentara, 55, Polish actor.

26

• Arisen Ahubudu, 91, Sri Lankan scholar, author and playwright.
• Flick Colby, 65, American dancer and choreographer (Pan's People), bronchial pneumonia.
• George Heron, 92, American tribal leader, President of the Seneca Nation of New York (1958–1960; 1962–1964).
• Irwin D. Mandel, 89, American dental scientist in preventative dentistry.
• Peter McKechnie, 70, Australian politician, member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Carnarvon (1974–1989).
• Tyler Simpson, 25, Australian soccer player.

27

• Edward a'Beckett, 71, Australian cricketer.
• John W. Bowen, 84, American politician, Member of the Ohio Senate.
• Johnny Brewer, 74, American football player (Cleveland Browns, New Orleans Saints).
• Janet Brown, 87, British actress and impersonator, after short illness.
• Jeff Conaway, 60, American actor (Grease, Taxi, Babylon 5).
• Margo Dydek, 37, Polish basketball player (Utah Starzz, Los Angeles Sparks) and coach, heart attack.
• Johanna Fiedler, 65, American author, daughter of Arthur Fiedler.
• Regalado Maambong, 72, Filipino jurist, member of 1986 Constitutional Commission.
• Prince Ali Mirza Qajar, 81, Iranian royal, Head of the Qajar Imperial Family (since 1988), after long illness. (Persian)
• Joaquín Moya, 79, Spanish Olympic fencer.
• Gil Scott-Heron, 62, American poet, musician and author.
• Jukka Toivola, 61, Finnish Olympic athlete, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. (Finnish)
• Michael Willoughby, 12th Baron Middleton, 90, British aristocrat and politician.

28

• Hermann Bley, 75, German footballer.
• Mohammed Daud Daud, 42, Afghan general, police commander for northern Afghanistan, bombing.
• Bill Harris, 79, Canadian baseball player (Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers).
• Romuald Klim, 78, Belarusian hammer thrower, Olympic gold medalist (1964). (Russian)
• Ann McPherson, 65, British physician and public health campaigner.
• Dame Barbara Mills, 70, British barrister, Director of Public Prosecutions (1992–1998), stroke.
• Leo Rangell, 97, American psychoanalyst, complications from surgery.
• Alys Robi, 88, Canadian singer.
• Martha Rommelaere, 88, Canadian baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).
• John H. Sinfelt, 80, American chemical engineer in unleaded gasoline, congestive heart failure.

29

• Sergei Bagapsh, 62, Abkhazian politician, President (since 2005), complications after surgery.
• Jon Blake, 52, Australian actor, pneumonia.
• Simon Brint, 60, British musician, suicide.
• Bill Clements, 94, American politician, Governor of Texas (1979–1983; 1987–1991).
• Billy Crook, 84, English footballer (Wolverhampton Wanderers).
• Wally Jay, 93, American martial arts teacher, founder of Small Circle JuJitsu, after long illness.
• Ferenc Mádl, 80, Hungarian politician, President of the Republic (2000–2005). (Hungarian)
• Vitaly Margulis, 83, Russian classical pianist.
• Tom Roeser, 82, American political commentator.
• Bill Roycroft, 96, Australian equestrian, five-time Olympian, gold medallist (1960).
• Cosmo Francesco Ruppi, 78, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Termoli-Larino (1980–1988) and Archbishop of Lecce (1988–2009).

30

• Ricky Bruch, 64, Swedish athlete, cancer. (Swedish)
• Henri Chammartin, 92, Swiss dressage equestrian, multiple Olympic medallist. (German)
• Paul B. Ferrara, 68, American scientist and administrator, pioneer of genetic fingerprinting, brain tumor.
• Jung Jong-kwan, 29, South Korean footballer, suspected suicide by hanging.
• Eddie Morrison, 63, Scottish footballer and manager (Kilmarnock).
• Hans Nogler, 91, Austrian Olympic alpine skier. (German)
• Isikia Savua, 59, Fijian diplomat and police commissioner.
• Marek Siemek, 68, Polish philosopher and historian of philosophy. (Polish)
• Clarice Taylor, 93, American actress (Sesame Street, The Cosby Show).
• Giorgio Tozzi, 88, American operatic bass, heart attack.
• Tillmann Uhrmacher, 44, German DJ, music producer and radio host. (German)
• Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, 89, American Nobel laureate.

31

• Pauline Betz, 91, American tennis player.
• Jonas Bevacqua, 33, American fashion designer (Lifted Research Group).
• Conrado Estrella, Sr., 93, Filipino politician, Governor of Pangasinan (1954–1963), Agrarian Reform Minister (1978–1986).
• Derek Hodge, 69, U.S. Virgin Islander politician and attorney, Lieutenant Governor of the United States Virgin Islands (1987–1995), cancer.
• Keith Irvine, 82, British-born American interior designer, cardiac arrest.
• Hans Keilson, 101, German-born Dutch psychoanalyst and novelist.
• Sir John Martin, 93, British admiral, Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey (1974–1980).
• Adolfas Mekas, 85, Lithuanian-born American film director.
• Andy Robustelli, 85, American Hall of Fame football player (Los Angeles Rams, New York Giants).
• Philip Rose, 89, American theatrical producer, stroke.
• Ezzatollah Sahabi, 81, Iranian politician, Member of Parliament (1980–1984), stroke.
• Syed Saleem Shahzad, 40, Pakistani journalist, shot. (body found on this date)
• Hugh Stewart, 100, British film editor and producer.
• Grant Sullivan, 86, American actor (Pony Express), cancer.
• Ram Man Trishit, 70, Nepali lyricist, kidney problems.
• Sølvi Wang, 81, Norwegian singer and actress. (Norwegian)
• Jennifer Worth, 75, British author, esophageal cancer.