Deaths in 2010

The following is a list of notable deaths in 2010.

January

1

• Gary Brockette, 67, American actor (The Last Picture Show) and assistant director, cancer.
• Chauncey H. Browning, Jr., 75, American politician, West Virginia Attorney General (1969–1985).
• Jean Carroll, 98, American comedian (The Ed Sullivan Show).
• Periyasamy Chandrasekaran, 52, Sri Lankan politician, Member of Parliament, after short illness.
• Lhasa de Sela, 37, American singer, breast cancer.
• Michael Dwyer, 58, Irish journalist and film critic, lung cancer.
• Alfredo Mario Espósito Castro, 82, Argentinian Roman Catholic Bishop of Zárate-Campana (1976–1991).
• John Freeman, 93, American animator (The Smurfs) and animation director (My Little Pony and Friends).
• Bingo Gazingo, 85, American performance poet, struck by car.
• Adrien Gilbert, 78, Canadian Olympic weightlifter
• Richard Kindleberger, 67, American newspaper reporter (The Boston Globe), brain tumor.
• John Lyon, 58, British cricketer.
• Jack Middleton, 92, British Olympic swimmer.
• Tetsuo Narikawa, 65, Japanese actor (Spectreman) and karate instructor, lung cancer.
• Marlene Neubauer-Woerner, 91, German sculptor.
• Libuše Patočková, 76, Czech Olympic cross-country skier.
• Stanisław Przybylski, 79, Polish modern pentathlete.
• Mohamed Rahmat, 71, Malaysian politician, Information Minister (1978–1982, 1987–1999).
• Faisal Bin Shamlan, 75, Yemeni politician, presidential candidate (2006), cancer.
• Billy Arjan Singh, 92, Indian author.
• Gregory Slay, 40, American rock drummer (Remy Zero), songwriter (Nip/Tuck theme), cystic fibrosis.
• Freya von Moltke, 98, German World War II resistance fighter.
• John Shelton Wilder, 88, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee (1971–2007), stroke.
• Vera Zakharova, 89, first Yakut woman to fly a plane

2

• Johann Frank, 71, Austrian football player (FK Austria Wien).
• David Gerber, 86, American executive producer (Police Story, Police Woman), heart failure.
• William Green, 82, British aviation writer.
• Deborah Howell, 68, American journalist, The Washington Post ombudsman, hit by car.
• René Oreel, 87, Belgian cyclist.
• Augustine Paul, 65, Malaysian Federal Court judge, after chronic illness.
• David R. Ross, 51, Scottish historian, heart attack.
• Rajendra Shah, 96, Indian poet.

3

• Gus Alexander, 75, Scottish footballer (Workington).
• Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt, 84, Chilean composer, lung cancer.
• Margery Beddow, 72, American choreographer and dancer.
• Barry Blair, 56, Canadian comics artist and writer, brain aneurysm.
• Gianni Bonichon, 65, Italian bobsledder, Olympic silver medalist.
• Otto Breg, 60, Austrian Olympic bobsledder.
• Sir Ian Brownlie, 77, British barrister, traffic collision.
• Joyce Collins, 79, American jazz singer and pianist, pulmonary fibrosis.
• Mary Daly, 81, American radical feminist philosopher.
• Francis Gillingham, 93, British neurosurgeon.
• Ali Safi Golpaygani, 96, Iranian Marja', natural causes.
• Billy Harris, 58, American basketball player (Northern Illinois Huskies, San Diego Conquistadors), stroke.
• John Keith Irwin, 80, American sociologist.
• Eunice W. Johnson, 93, American director of Ebony Fashion Fair, widow of John H. Johnson, renal failure.
• Charles Kleibacker, 88, American fashion designer, pneumonia.
• Georges Martin, 94, French cyclist.
• Takis Michalos, 63, Greek Greece men's national water polo team water polo player and coach; cancer.
• Moti Nandi, 79, Indian writer and sports journalist.
• Geoffrey Reeve, 77, British film director.
• Isak Rogde, 62, Norwegian translator.
• Tibet, 78, French comics artist and writer.
• Bobby Wilkins, 87, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).

4

• Olaug Abrahamsen, 81, Norwegian politician.
• Rosalie Abrams, 88, American feminist playwright, actress and activist, Alzheimer's disease.
• Paul Ahyi, 79, Togolese artist, designer of the flag of Togo.
• Lew Allen, 84, American USAF general, NSA Director (1973–1977), USAF Chief of Staff (1978–1982), rheumatoid arthritis.
• Knox Burger, 87, American editor, writer, and literary agent.
• Neil Christian, 66, British singer, cancer.
• Tony Clarke, 68, British musician and record producer (The Moody Blues), emphysema.
• Sandro de América, 64, Argentinian singer, complications from heart and lung transplant surgery.
• Donal Donnelly, 78, English-born Irish actor, cancer
• Hywel Teifi Edwards, 75, Welsh historian and writer, after short illness.
• Johan Ferrier, 99, Surinamese politician, President (1975–1980).
• Tadeusz Góra, 91, Polish pilot.
• Rory Markas, 54, American baseball radio announcer (Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim), heart attack.
• György Mitró, 79, Hungarian Olympic swimmer.
• Ludwig Wilding, 82, German artist.
• Tsutomu Yamaguchi, 93, Japanese survivor of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, stomach cancer.

5

• Abdul Azim al-Deeb, 80, Qatari professor (Qatar University).
• Beverly Aadland, 67, American actress, girlfriend of Errol Flynn, diabetes and heart failure.
• Daniel Kubert, 62, American mathematician.
• Bernard Le Nail, 63, French writer, historian, Breton language and cultural advocate, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Willie Mitchell, 81, American musician and record producer, cardiac arrest.
• Kenneth Noland, 85, American color field painter, kidney cancer.
• Courage Quashigah, 62, Ghanaian politician.
• Philippa Scott, 91, British conservationist.
• George Syrimis, 88, Cypriot finance minister (1988–1993).
• Toni Tecuceanu, 37, Romanian comedy actor, bacterial infection.
• Rolf Thieme, 65, German Olympic hockey player.
• George Willoughby, 95, American Quaker activist.

6

• Philippe Arthuys, 81, French composer and film director.
• David Giles, 83, British television director.
• Michael Goulder, 82, British biblical scholar.
• Michael Harper, 78, British priest of the Church of England and later of the Antiochian Orthodox Church.
• George Leonard, 86, American writer, editor and educator, pioneer of the Human Potential Movement, after long illness.
• Graham Leonard, 88, British Church of England Bishop of London (1981–1991), subsequently a Roman Catholic priest.
• Ivan Medek, 84, Czech music publicist, theorist and critic, collaborator of Václav Talich and Václav Havel.
• Harriet Miller, 90, American politician, mayor of Santa Barbara, California (1995–2001).
• Beniamino Placido, 80, Italian journalist and television critic.
• Hervé Prouzet, 89, French cyclist
• Kittu Suresh, 64, Indian cricketer.

7

• Wendall Anschutz, 71, American television newsman.
• Myrtle Aydelotte, 92, American nurse, professor and hospital administrator.
• Sándor Barcs, 97, Hungarian politician and sport executive, interim President of UEFA (1972–1973).
• Gerald Bordelon, 47, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Alexander Garnet Brown, 79, Canadian politician, member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly (1969–1978).
• Bruria Kaufman, 91, Israeli physicist.
• Stephen Huneck, 61, American wood carving artist, suicide by gunshot.
• Kamal Mahsud, Pakistani Pashto language folk singer, gas leak.
• Alex Parker, 74, Scottish football player (Falkirk, Everton, Southport, Scotland) and manager, heart attack.
• Donald Edmond Pelotte, 64, American Roman Catholic Bishop of Gallup (1990–2008), first Native American bishop.
• James D Robertson, 78, Scottish painter and lecturer.
• Blanca Sánchez, 63, Mexican actress, kidney failure.
• Philippe Séguin, 66, French politician, heart attack.
• Jim White, 67, American professional wrestler, cancer.
• Hardy Williams, 78, American politician, Pennsylvania State Senator (1983–1998), Alzheimer's disease.

8

• Bob Blackburn, 85, American sports commentator (Seattle SuperSonics), pneumonia.
• Jean Charpentier, 74, Canadian journalist, press secretary for Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, cancer.
• Art Clokey, 88, American stop motion animator (Gumby, Davey and Goliath), bladder infection.
• Piero De Bernardi, 83, Italian screenwriter.
• Tony Halme, 47, Finnish professional boxer, actor, wrestler and Member of Parliament (2003–2007), suicide by gunshot.
• Raymond Kamber, 79, Swiss Olympic sprint canoer.
• Slavka Maneva, 75, Macedonian writer and poet.
• Charles Massi, 57, Central African politician and rebel leader.
• Monica Maughan, 76, Australian actress, cancer.
• Jim Rimmer, 75, Canadian graphic designer, cancer.
• Gladstone Robinson, 66, Jamaican cricketer.
• Gerrit de Ruiter, 82, Dutch hockey player
• Otmar Suitner, 87, Austrian conductor.
• Hans L. Trefousse, 88, German-born American historian.
• Amir Vahedi, 48, Iranian-born American poker player, complications of diabetes.
• Sumner G. Whittier, 98, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (1953–1957).

9

• Améleté Abalo, 47, Togolese national football team assistant coach, shot.
• John Ballem, 84, Canadian novelist.
• Amo Bessone, 93, American ice hockey player and coach.
• Juan Bidegaray, 90, Uruguayan Olympic sailor
• Gösta Bredefeldt, 74, Swedish actor.
• Franz-Hermann Brüner, 64, German head of OLAF, after long illness.
• Acúrsio Carrelo, 78, Portuguese footballer.
• Mark Ellidge, 69–70, British press photographer.
• Ken Genser, 59, American politician, mayor of Santa Monica, California, after long illness.
• Per N. Hagen, 73, Norwegian politician.
• Rupert Hamer, 39, British journalist, defence correspondent for the Sunday Mirror, improvised explosive device.
• Fatimah Hashim, 85, Malaysian politician, first female minister in the Malaysian government.
• Laura Chapman Hruska, 74, American writer, co-founder and editor in chief of Soho Press, cancer.
• Jack Kerness, 98, American art director, natural causes.
• Nadav Levitan, 64, Israeli film director and screenwriter, lung disease.
• Ronald Moore, 84, Canadian politician.
• Evgeni Paladiev, 61, Soviet-born Kazakh ice hockey player.
• Diether Posser, 87, German politician.
• Armand Razafindratandra, 84, Malagasy cardinal, archbishop of Antananarivo (1994–2005), fall.
• Vimcy, 84, Indian sports writer.
• Thomas Summers West, 82, Scottish chemist.

10

• Sir Donald Acheson, 83, British physician, Chief Medical Officer of England (1983–1991).
• Sailadhar Baruah, 68, Indian film producer, complications of diabetes.
• Mina Bern, 98, Polish-born American Yiddish theatre actor, heart failure.
• Bert Bushnell, 88, British Olympic gold medal-winning rower (1948).
• Carlos Bonilla Chávez, 86, Ecuadorian classical guitarist.
• Simon Digby, 77, Indian-born British scholar and linguist, pancreatic cancer.
• Danny Fitzgerald, 49–50, Irish hurler and Gaelic football player.
• Jan C. Gabriel, 69, American race track announcer, complications from polycystic kidney disease.
• Donald Goerke, 83, American executive (Campbell's Soup Company), created SpaghettiOs, heart failure.
• Dick Johnson, 84, American big band clarinetist (Artie Shaw Band), after short illness.
• Edward Linde, 67, American businessman, founder of Boston Properties, pneumonia.
• Frances Morrell, 72, British political adviser and educationalist, cancer.
• Ulf Olsson, 58, Swedish murderer, suicide by hanging.
• Bill Patterson, 87, Australian racing driver, natural causes.
• Jayne Walton Rosen, 92, American singer, Lawrence Welk's Champagne Lady (1940–1945), natural causes.
• Moisés Saba, 47, Mexican entrepreneur, helicopter crash.
• Dale Shewalter, 59, American teacher, founder of the Arizona Trail, cancer.
• Mano Solo, 46, French singer, ruptured aneurysm.
• Crispin Sorhaindo, 78, Dominican politician, President (1993–1998), cancer.
• Bojidar Spiriev, 77, Bulgarian-born Hungarian hydrologist and statistician, creator of IAAF scoring tables.
• Torbjørn Yggeseth, 75, Norwegian ski jumping athlete and official.

11

• Juliet Anderson, 71, American pornographic actress and movie producer.
• Aleksandr Androshkin, 62, Soviet Ukrainian sports shooter.
• Francisco Benkö, 99, German-born Argentine chess master.
• Robben Wright Fleming, 93, American president of the University of Michigan (1968–1978).
• Georgy Garanian, 75, Russian jazz saxophonist and bandleader, cardiac arrest.
• Dorothy Geeben, 101, American mayor of Ocean Breeze Park, Florida (since 2001), oldest active mayor in the U.S.
• Miep Gies, 100, Dutch humanitarian, protector of Anne Frank during World War II, complications from a fall.
• Mick Green, 65, British rock and roll guitarist (Johnny Kidd & The Pirates, Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas).
• Andis Hadjicostis, 43, Cypriot CEO of Sigma TV, shot.
• Johnny King, 83, English footballer.
• Kurt Liebhart, 76, Austrian Olympic sprint canoer.
• Harry Männil, 89, Estonian-born Venezuelan businessman.
• Bob Noorda, 82, Dutch-born Italian graphic designer.
• Éric Rohmer, 89, French film director.
• Joe Rollino, 104, American strongman, weightlifter, and boxer, struck by van.
• Ed Scott, 92, American baseball scout.
• Dennis Stock, 81, American photographer (Magnum Photos), colon and liver cancer.
• Gordon Van Tol, 49, Canadian Olympic water polo player, heart attack.

12

• Masoud Alimohammadi, 50, Iranian nuclear scientist, bomb blast.
• Miloslav Bělonožník, 91, Czech Olympic ski jumper.
• Daniel Bensaïd, 63, French philosopher and Trotskyist activist.
• Ken Colbung, 78, Australian Aboriginal elder, after short illness.
• Shirley Bell Cole, 89, American voice actor (Little Orphan Annie).
• Miguel Ángel de la Flor, 85, Peruvian army officer and politician.
• Colin Dettmer, 51, South African cricketer.
• Altan Dinçer, 77, Turkish Olympic basketball player.
• Krisda Arunvongse na Ayudhya, 78, Thai architect, Governor of Bangkok (1996–2001), coronary artery disease.
• Fred Krone, 79, American stuntman, cancer.
• Elizabeth Laverick, 85, British engineer.
• Hillis Layne, 91, American Major League Baseball player (1941, 1944–1945).
• Alastair Martin, 94, American tennis player, member of the Hall of Fame, President of the United States Tennis Association (1969–1970).
• Sir Allen McClay, 77, British pharmaceutical company founder, cancer.
• Elizabeth Moody, 70, New Zealand actress and theatre director, pneumonia.
• Ann Prentiss, 70, American actress (Captain Nice, My Stepmother Is an Alien).
• Art Rust, Jr., 82, American sports commentator, Parkinson's disease.
• Hasib Sabbagh, 89, Palestinian businessman.
• Vanda Skuratovich, 84, Belarusian Roman Catholic activist.
• Vadú, 32, Cape Verdean singer, traffic collision.
• Yabby You, 63, Jamaican reggae singer and producer, stroke.
• Notable people killed in the 2010 Haiti earthquake:
  • Georges Anglade, 65, Haitian professor and cabinet minister, co-founder of Université du Québec à Montréal.
  • Hédi Annabi, 65, Tunisian diplomat, Head of MINUSTAH.
  • Zilda Arns, 75, Brazilian pediatrician and humanitarian.
  • Luiz Carlos da Costa, 60, Brazilian diplomat, Deputy Head of MINUSTAH.
  • Serge Marcil, 65, Canadian politician, Quebec National Assembly of Quebec (1985–1994), MP for Beauharnois—Salaberry (2000–2004).
  • Flo McGarrell, 35, Italian-born American artist.
  • Myriam Merlet, 53, Haitian political activist.
  • Joseph Serge Miot, 63, Haitian Roman Catholic archbishop of Port-au-Prince.
  • Jimmy O, 35, Haitian hip hop musician.

13

• Jack Block, 85, American psychologist, complications of a spinal cord injury.
• Edward Brinton, 86, American marine biologist, after long illness.
• Sir Robin Maxwell-Hyslop, 78, British politician, MP for Tiverton (1960–1992).
• Abdullah Mehdar, Yemeni al-Qaeda terrorist, shot.
• Teddy Pendergrass, 59, American soul singer, complications from colorectal cancer.
• Jay Reatard, 29, American garage punk musician, cocaine toxicity.
• Tommy Sloan, 84, Scottish footballer (Hearts, Motherwell).
• Isamu Tanonaka, 77, Japanese voice actor (GeGeGe no Kitaro), heart attack.
• Ed Thigpen, 79, American jazz drummer, after long illness.
• Edgar Vos, 78, Dutch fashion designer, heart attack.

14

• Ante Babaja, 82, Croatian film director and screenwriter.
• Bobby Charles, 71, American songwriter ("See You Later, Alligator", "(I Don't Know Why) But I Do").
• Antonio Fontán, 86, Spanish politician and journalist.
• Micha Gaillard, 52-53, Haitian politician, earthquake.
• John F. Hayes, 90, American attorney and politician, Kansas House of Representatives (1953–1955; 1967–1979).
• Mark Jones, 70, British actor (The Empire Strikes Back, Doctor Who, Buccaneer).
• Guðmundur Lárusson, 84, Icelandic Olympic sprinter.
• Charles Nolte, 86, American actor, playwright and educator, prostate cancer.
• Otto, 20, British dachshund-terrier, world's oldest dog, euthanised following stomach tumour.
• P. K. Page, 93, Canadian poet.
• Chilton Price, 96, American songwriter ("Slow Poke", "You Belong to Me").
• Phoebe Prince, 15, Irish student at South Hadley High School, Massachusetts, bullying victim, suicide by hanging.
• Marika Rivera, 90, French actress, daughter of Diego Rivera.
• James W. Rutherford, 84, American mayor of Flint, Michigan (1975–1983, 2002–2003).
• Katharina Rutschky, 68, German educationalist and author.
• Petra Schürmann, 74, German television presenter, Miss World 1956, after long illness.
• Jessie Tait, 81, British ceramic designer.
• Antonio Vilaplana Molina, 83, Spanish Roman Catholic Bishop of León (1987–2002), renal failure.
• Bernie Voorheis, 87, American basketball player.
• Rowland Wolfe, 95, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1932) gymnast.

15

• Asim Butt, 31, Pakistani artist (Stuckism art movement), suicide by hanging.
• Florence-Marie Cooper, 69, American federal judge, District Court for Central District of California (since 1999), lymphoma.
• Michael Creeth, 85, British biochemist.
• Bahman Jalali, 65, Iranian photographer, pancreatic cancer.
• Detlev Lauscher, 57, German footballer.
• Steve Lovelady, 66, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, throat cancer.
• Mike Osborn, 92, British military officer.
• Marshall Warren Nirenberg, 82, American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (1968), cancer.
• Peter Thomson, 73, Australian Anglican theologian, mentor to Tony Blair.

16

• Glen Bell, 86, American entrepreneur, founder of Taco Bell.
• Judi Chamberlin, 65, American anti-psychiatry activist, lung disease.
• Guy Day, 79, American advertising executive.
• Sam Dixon, 60, American minister, Deputy General Secretary of UMCOR (since 2007), earthquake.
• Robert Gerard, 89, Belgian footballer [1]
• Musa Inuwa, 62, Nigerian politician.
• George Jellinek, 90, American radio personality (WQXR).
• Felice Quinto, 80, Italian photographer.
• Takumi Shibano, 83, Japanese novelist, pneumonia.
• Carl Smith, 82, American country singer-songwriter ("Hey Joe"), after long illness.
• Bernie Weintraub, 76, American talent agent, co-founder of the Paradigm Talent Agency.
• Jimmy Wyble, 87, American guitarist, heart failure.

17

• Gaines Adams, 26, American football player (Chicago Bears, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), cardiac arrest.
• Maki Asakawa, 67, Japanese singer, heart failure.
• Jyoti Basu, 95, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (1977–2000), complications from pneumonia.
• Thomas F. Cowan, 82, American politician, New Jersey State Senator (1984–1994).
• Daisuke Gōri, 57, Japanese voice actor (Dragon Ball, Kinnikuman, Mobile Suit Gundam), suicide by wrist cutting.
• Béla Köpeczi, 88, Hungarian historian and politician, Minister of Education (1982–1988).
• Michalis Papakonstantinou, 91, Greek politician and author, Minister for Foreign Affairs (1992–1993).
• Erich Segal, 72, American professor, author (Love Story), and screenwriter (Yellow Submarine), heart attack.

18

• Ghulam Rabbani Agro, 76, Pakistani writer.
• K. S. Ashwath, 84, Indian actor, multiple organ failure.
• Cyril Burke, 84, Australian rugby union player.
• Herb Grosch, 91, Canadian-born American computer scientist.
• Kate McGarrigle, 63, Canadian folk singer, clear-cell sarcoma.
• Günter Mielke, 67, German Olympic athlete.
• Gladys Morcom, 91, British Olympic swimmer.
• Imari Obadele, 79, American black separatist, stroke.
• Reha Oğuz Türkkan, 90, Turkish writer.
• Kevin O'Shea, 62, Canadian ice hockey player (St. Louis Blues, Buffalo Sabres).
• Robert B. Parker, 77, American detective writer (Spenser series, Jesse Stone novels), heart attack.
• Jörgen Philip-Sörensen, 71, Danish businessman, after long illness.
• Robert D. Rowley, 68, American Episcopal Bishop of Northwestern Pennsylvania (1991–2007).
• Josephus Tethool, 75, Indonesian Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of Amboina (1982–2009).
• Celestino Tugot, 99, Filipino golfer, winner of the Philippine Open (1949, 1955–1958, 1962), lung cancer.

19

• Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, 50, Palestinian leader of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, murdered.
• Frances Buss Buch, 92, American first female television director.
• Christos Chatziskoulidis, 58, Greek footballer (Egaleo F.C.), cancer.
• Ian Christie, 82, British jazz clarinetist.
• Tom Cochran, 85, American football player (Washington Redskins).
• Dan Fitzgerald, 67, American college basketball coach (Gonzaga).
• Vladimir Karpov, 87, Russian writer, Chairman of the USSR Union of Writers (1986–1991).
• Jennifer Lyon, 37, American reality TV personality (Survivor: Palau), breast cancer.
• Ida Mae Martinez, 78, American professional wrestler.
• Bill McLaren, 86, Scottish rugby union commentator.
• Panajot Pano, 70, Albanian footballer.
• Cerge Remonde, 51, Filipino journalist and politician, heart attack.
• Kalthoum Sarrai, 47, Tunisian-born French television presenter (Supernanny), cancer.
• William Vitarelli, 99, American educator and architect.

20

• Enid Campbell, 77, Australian legal scholar.
• Tony Cummins, 103, Irish Roman Catholic priest.
• Patricia Donoho Hughes, 79, American First Lady of Maryland (1979–1987), wife of Harry Hughes, Parkinson's disease.
• John S. Loisel, 89, American fighter ace.
• Bob Minton, 63, American-born Irish banker, critic of Scientology, heart ailment.
• John Francis Moore, 68, Nigerian Roman Catholic Bishop of Bauchi (since 2003).
• Jack Parry, 86, Welsh footballer (Swansea Town, Ipswich Town, Wales).
• John Pawle, 94, English cricketer.
• Derek Prag, 86, British politician, MEP for Hertfordshire (1979–1994).
• Wallace Michael Ross, 89, British organist and choirmaster.
• Abraham Sutzkever, 96, Polish-born Israeli poet.
• Lynn Taitt, 75, Jamaican reggae guitarist, cancer.

21

• Sayeed Ahmed, 79, Bangladeshi playwright.
• Orhan Alp, 90, Turkish engineer and politician.
• Bobby Bragan, 92, American baseball player and manager, heart attack.
• Irwin Dambrot, 81, American basketball player involved in the CCNY Point Shaving Scandal, Parkinson's disease.
• Lawrence Garfinkel, 88, American epidemiologist, cardiovascular disease.
• Knud Gleie, 74, Danish Olympic swimmer.
• Larry Johnson, 62, American film producer, heart attack.
• Chindodi Leela, 72, Indian theatre and film actress, complications from heart attack.
• Robert "Squirrel" Lester, 67, American smooth soul tenor (The Chi-Lites), liver cancer.
• Hal Manders, 92, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).
• Jacques Martin, 88, French comics artist and writer.
• Camille Maurane, 98, French baritone singer.
• Guillermo Abadía Morales, 97, Colombian folklore researcher, indigenous language expert, natural causes.
• Curt Motton, 69, American baseball player, stomach cancer.
• Paul Quarrington, 56, Canadian novelist, musician and screenwriter, lung cancer.

22

• Apache, 45, American rapper.
• Lenna Arnold, 89, American baseball player (AAGPBL)
• Donnis Churchwell, 73, American football player.
• Sir Percy Cradock, 86, British diplomat, after short illness.
• Sir Dermot de Trafford, 85, British aristocrat and businessman.
• Clayton Gerein, 45, Canadian wheelchair sports athlete, seven-time Paralympian, brain tumor.
• Claus Gerson, 92, American Olympic hockey player.
• Louis R. Harlan, 87, American Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, after long illness.
• Iskandar of Johor, 77, Malaysian Yang di-Pertuan Agong (1984–1989), Sultan of Johor (1981–2010).
• Jennifer Lyn Jackson, 40, American Playboy model, drug overdose.
• Andrew E. Lange, 52, American astrophysicist, Big Bang researcher, suicide by asphyxiation.
• Juan Pedro Laporte, 64, Guatemalan archaeologist.
• Janeshwar Mishra, 76, Indian politician, cardiac arrest.
• James Mitchell, 89, American actor (All My Children), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
• Private Terms, 25, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
• Gordon Richardson, Baron Richardson of Duntisbourne, 94, British Governor of the Bank of England (1973–1983).
• Godfrey A. Rockefeller, 85, American aviator and conservationist.
• Johnny Seven, 83, American actor (Ironside, The Apartment, Gunfight in Abilene), lung cancer.
• Jean Simmons, 80, British actress (Hamlet, Spartacus, Guys and Dolls), Emmy winner (1983), lung cancer.
• Ruth P. Smith, 102, American pro-choice campaigner.
• Tuanaitau F. Tuia, 89, American Samoan politician and legislator, longest serving member of the American Samoa Fono.
• Betty Wilson, 88, Australian cricketer.
• Tom Wittum, 60, American football player (San Francisco 49ers), cancer.

23

• George C. Baldwin, 92, American physicist.
• Haren S. Gandhi, 68, Indian-born American inventor and engineer.
• Robert Lam, 64, Malaysian news presenter, skin cancer.
• Douglas J. Martin, 82, New Zealand leader in the LDS Church.
• Sam Match, 87, American tennis player.
• Roger Pierre, 86, French actor (Mon oncle d'Amérique), cancer.
• Sir Thomas Prickett, 96, British RAF Air Chief Marshal.
• Kermit Tyler, 96, American pilot, figured in the attack on Pearl Harbor, complications from strokes.
• Oleg Velyky, 32, Ukrainian-born German handball player, melanoma.
• Earl Wild, 94, American classical pianist, heart failure.

24

• Boydson Baird, 91, American basketball player.
• Lawrence Aloysius Burke, 77, Jamaican Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kingston (2004–2008), Nassau (1981–2004), cancer.
• Thomas Cullinan, 63, South African cricketer.
• Donald Dowd, 87, American campaign aide to the Kennedy family.
• Ghazali Shafie, 87, Malaysian politician, Home Minister (1973–1981) and Foreign Minister (1981–1984).
• Irshad Ahmed Haqqani, 81, Pakistani journalist and politician.
• Robert Mosbacher, 82, American politician, Secretary of Commerce (1989–1992), pancreatic cancer.
• Leonid Nechayev, 70, Russian film director, stroke.
• Jim Podoley, 76, American football player (Washington Redskins), melanoma.
• James Henry Quello, 95, American government official, FCC Commissioner (1974–1997), heart and kidney failure.
• FitzRoy Somerset, 5th Baron Raglan, 82, British aristocrat.
• Pernell Roberts, 81, American actor (Bonanza; Trapper John, M.D., Ride Lonesome), pancreatic cancer.
• Peter Wood, 74, Australian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland (1966–1974).

25

• Ali Hassan al-Majid, 68, Iraqi military commander and government minister, execution by hanging.
• Sefis Anastasakos, 68, Greek politician, author, lawyer and activist, cancer.
• Lynn Bayonas, 66, Australian television writer and producer, cancer.
• Orlando Cole, 101, American classical cellist and educator.
• Horace Weldon Gilmore, 91, American federal judge.
• Jane Jarvis, 94, American jazz pianist and organist.
• Pádraig MacKernan, 69, Irish diplomat, Secretary General (Foreign Affairs), Ambassador to France and United States.
• Georgiann Makropoulos, 67, American professional wrestling historian and author, heart attack.
• Iivari Malmikoski, 82, Finnish Olympic boxer.
• Charles Mathias, 87, American politician, Senator from Maryland (1969–1987), complications of Parkinson's disease.
• Gordon Park, 66, British convicted murderer, apparent suicide by hanging.
• Algirdas Petrulis, 95, Lithuanian painter.
• Ivan Prenđa, 70, Croatian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Zadar (since 1990).
• Bill Ritchie, 78, Scottish comic book artist.
• Emilio Vieyra, 88, Argentine film director, actor, screenwriter and producer.

26

• Andon Amaraich, 77, Micronesian Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, pneumonia.
• Louis Auchincloss, 92, American novelist, complications of a stroke.
• Juliusz Bardach, 95, Polish historian.
• Boa Sr., 85, Indian Great Andamanese elder, last speaker of the Bo language.
• Geoffrey Burbidge, 84, British-born American astrophysicist, after long illness.
• Anne Froelick, 96, American blacklisted screenwriter.
• Dag Frøland, 64, Norwegian comedian, singer and variety artist.
• Gummadi, 82, Indian actor.
• Paul R. Jones, 81, American art collector, after short illness.
• Eugenijus Karpavičius, 56, Lithuanian illustrator.
• Inda Ledesma, 83, Argentine actress, cardiac arrest.
• Ajmer Singh, 69, Indian athlete and educator.
• Paul Mbiybe Verdzekov, 79, Cameroonian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bamenda (1970–2006).
• Ken Walters, 76, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).

27

• Harry Alger, 85, Canadian politician.
• Lee Archer, 90, American Air Force pilot (Tuskegee Airman).
• Barry Blitzer, 80, American television writer (Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., The Flintstones, The Jetsons), complications from abdominal surgery.
• Betty Lou Keim, 71, American actress, lung cancer.
• Ruben Kruger, 39, South African rugby union player, brain tumor.
• Eduardo Michaelsen, 89, Cuban exile, painter in the naive art style.
• Shirley Collie Nelson, 78, American country singer, ex-wife of Willie Nelson.
• Zelda Rubinstein, 76, American actress (Poltergeist, Picket Fences, Scariest Places on Earth).
• J. D. Salinger, 91, American author (The Catcher in the Rye).
• Howard Zinn, 87, American historian (A People's History of the United States), civil rights and anti-war activist, heart attack.

28

• A.K.M. Mohiuddin Ahmed, Bangladesh Army officer, hanged.
• Mohammad-Reza Ali-Zamani, app. 38, Iranian activist, hanging.
• Frank Baker Jr., 66, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians), heart failure.
• Larbi Belkheir, 72, Algerian major general, Interior Minister (1991).
• Bill Binder, 94, American restaurateur (Phillippe's).
• Eduardo Catalano, 92, Argentine architect.
• Patricia Clarke, 90, British biochemist.
• José Eugênio Corrêa, 95, Brazilian Roman Catholic Bishop of Caratinga (1957–1978).
• Margaret Dale, 87, British dancer and television director.
• Walter Fondren, 73, American football player and conservationist, heart failure.
• George Hanlon, 92, Australian horse trainer, three-time Melbourne Cup winner, natural causes.
• Mick Higgins, 87, Irish Gaelic footballer, All-Ireland Senior Football Championship winner (Cavan; 1947, 1948, 1952).
• Wilfriede Hoffmann, 77, German Olympic athlete.
• Mohammad Bazlul Huda, Bangladeshi army officer and assassin of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, hanged.
• Alistair Hulett, 57, Scottish-born Australian folk singer, liver failure.
• Robert Joffe, 66, American lawyer, pancreatic cancer.
• Patricia Leonard, 73, British contralto, throat cancer.
• Kazimierz Mijal, 99, Polish politician.
• Bud Millikan, 89, American basketball coach (University of Maryland).
• Sarah Mulvey, 34, British television producer (Channel 4), suspected suicide by opioid overdose.
• Arash Rahmanipour, app. 20, Iranian activist, execution by hanging.
• Seymour Sarason, 91, American psychologist.
• Keiko Tobe, 52, Japanese manga artist (With the Light), mesothelioma.

29

• Evgeny Agranovich, 91, Russian composer and bard.
• Elsa Bakalar, 90–91, English-born American garden designer.
• Tom Brookshier, 78, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles), coach and sportscaster (CBS Sports, WCAU), cancer.
• Adam Alexander Dawson, 96, British film editor.
• Eric Freiwald, 82, American television writer (The Young and the Restless).
• Georgelle Hirliman, 73, American performance artist, cancer.
• Sir Derek Hodgkinson, 92, British air chief marshal.
• Tom Howard, 59, American musician, heart attack.
• Ralph McInerny, 80, American philosopher (University of Notre Dame) and mystery author (Father Dowling Mysteries).
• Ram Niwas Mirdha, 85, Indian politician (Lok Sabha), minister and speaker (Rajasthan Legislative Assembly), multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
• Wilf Paish, 77, British athletics coach, after long illness.
• Mikael Reuterswärd, 45, Swedish adventurer, first Swede to reach summit of Mount Everest (body found on this date).
• Karen Schmeer, 39, American documentary film editor (The Fog of War), vehicular hit-and-run.
• Zahid Sheikh, 60, Pakistani Olympic silver medal-winning (1972) field hockey player.
• Cameron Snyder, 93, American sports journalist (The Baltimore Sun), won Dick McCann Memorial Award (1982), lung cancer.
• Eckart Viehweg, 61, German mathematician, after short illness.

30

• Rafet Angın, 94, Turkish teacher.
• Erna Baumbauer, 91, German casting agent.
• Ruth Cohn, 97, German psychotherapist.
• Lucienne Day, 93, British textile designer.
• Ron Giles, 90, English cricketer (Nottinghamshire).
• Sølve Grotmol, 70, Norwegian sports commentator.
• Bruce Mitchell, 90, Australian academic.
• Ursula Mommens, 101, British potter.
• Brahmananda Panda, 61, Indian politician.
• Guy Renwick, 73, British Olympic bobsledder.
• Aaron Ruben, 95, American television producer (Andy Griffith Show, Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C., Sanford and Son), pneumonia.
• Tan Eng Yoon, 82, Singaporean Olympic sprinter.

31

• Gunnar Aksnes, 83, Norwegian chemist and poet.
• Kage Baker, 57, American science fiction and fantasy author, uterine cancer.
• Pauly Fuemana, 40, New Zealand musician (OMC), after short illness.
• Henry Fukuhara, 96, American watercolor painter, natural causes.
• Patricia Gage, 69, British actress and voice actress.
• Jiří Havlis, 77, Czech Olympic gold medal-winning (1952) rower.
• Albert Huie, 89, Jamaican painter.
• Edith Josie, 88, Canadian columnist, natural causes.
• Viktor Kaisiepo, 61, Netherlands New Guinean-born Dutch activist for West Papuan independence.
• Thorleif Karlsen, 100, Norwegian police inspector, politician and radio host, natural causes.
• Sanna Kiero, 79, Finnish Olympic cross-country skier.
• Howard Lotsof, 66, American researcher, discovered anti-addictive effects of ibogaine, liver cancer.
• Tomás Eloy Martínez, 75, Argentine writer and journalist, brain tumor.
• Shizuka Miura, 47, Japanese ball-jointed doll maker and musician, suicide.
• John Norris, 76, British-born Canadian publisher (Coda), heart condition.
• Keith Norton, 69, Canadian politician, former MPP for Kingston and the Islands (1975–1985), cancer.
• Paddie O'Neil, 83, British actress and singer.
• Phil Smith, 63, Australian football player, cancer.
• Pierre Vaneck, 78, French actor (The Science of Sleep), complications of heart surgery.

February

1

• Willie Anku, 60, Ghanaian music theorist, ethnomusicologist, composer, and performer, traffic collision.
• Jim Atherton, 86, Welsh footballer.
• Julian Edwin Bailes, Sr., 95, American politician, attorney and judge, stroke.
• Jack Brisco, 68, American professional wrestler, complications from open heart surgery.
• David Brown, 93, American film producer (Jaws, Cocoon, A Few Good Men), renal failure.
• Rodolfo de Anda, 66, Mexican actor, thrombosis.
• Steingrímur Hermannsson, 81, Icelandic politician, Prime Minister (1983–1987, 1988–1991).
• Bobby Kirk, 82, Scottish footballer, dementia.
• Atsushi Kuroi, 40, Japanese professional drifting driver, motorcycle accident.
• Azzeddine Laraki, 80, Moroccan politician, Prime Minister (1986–1992).
• Peter Martell, 71, Italian film actor.
• Justin Mentell, 27, American actor (Boston Legal, G-Force), traffic collision.
• Subir Raha, 61, Indian executive, chairman and managing director of ONGC (2001–2006), lung cancer.
• Jaap van der Poll, 95, Dutch Olympic javelin thrower (1936 Summer Olympics).

2

• Juan del Campo, 87, Spanish Olympic field hockey player.
• Louisa Benson Craig, 68, Burmese-born American beauty queen and community leader.
• Myron Donovan Crocker, 94, American federal judge.
• Cochin Haneefa, 58, Indian Malayalam film actor, multiple organ failure.
• Futa Helu, 75, Tongan philosopher.
• Paul Herlinger, 80, American voice actor,
• Tahir Hussain, 72, Indian film director, producer and writer, cardiac arrest.
• Bernard Kates, 87, American actor, sepsis and pneumonia.
• Svetozar Kurepa, 80, Croatian mathematician.
• Aleen Leslie, 101, American screenwriter (A Date with Judy), pneumonia.
• Rosa Lobato de Faria, 77, Portuguese writer and actress, complications from anemia.
• Eustace Mullins, 86, American political writer, author and biographer, stroke.
• Rex Nettleford, 76, Jamaican scholar and choreographer, heart attack.
• Ng Teng Fong, 82, Chinese-born Singaporean businessman, complications from a cerebral hemorrhage.
• Jens-Anton Poulsson, 91, Norwegian military officer and resistance fighter (heavy water sabotage).
• Srinivas Rangaraj, 77, Indian cricketer.
• Nelli Shkolnikova, 82, Ukrainian-born Australian violinist and educator, cancer.
• Raymond Wang Chong Lin, 88, Chinese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Zhaoxian, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Donald Wiseman, 91, British Assyriologist.
• William Yurko, 83, Canadian politician, MP for Edmonton East (1979–1984).

3

• Faiza Ashraf, 26, Pakistani-Norwegian shop assistant, strangulation.
• Claudio Corti, 81, Italian mountaineer.
• Elazar ben Tsedaka ben Yitzhaq, 83, Palestinian Samaritan High Priest.
• Frank Fasi, 89, American politician, Mayor of Honolulu (1969–1981, 1984–1994), natural causes.
• John McCallum, 91, Australian actor and television producer (Skippy the Bush Kangaroo).
• Dick McGuire, 84, American basketball player, New York Knicks senior consultant, Basketball Hall of Famer, ruptured aortic aneurysm.
• Gil Merrick, 88, English footballer (Birmingham City).
• Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen, 85, German princess, wife of Otto von Habsburg.
• Frances Reid, 95, American actress (Days of Our Lives).
• John Rety, 79, Hungarian-born British poet and anarchist.
• Lindsay Thomas, 31, Canadian stage actress, lung cancer.
• Georges Wilson, 88, French actor and film director.

4

• Kostas Axelos, 85, Greek philosopher.
• Gul Hameed Bhatti, 63, Pakistani journalist and editor, stroke.
• Bill Dudley, 88, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), Pro Football Hall of Famer, stroke.
• Manuel Esteba, 68, Spanish film director.
• Richard Lashof, 87, American mathematician, after long illness.
• Tomás Mac Giolla, 86, Irish politician, after long illness.
• Cecil Heftel, 85, American businessman and politician, U.S. Representative from Hawaii (1977–1986), natural causes.
• D. Van Holliday, 69, American physicist, complications of cardiac surgery.
• Alfred Käärmann, 87, Estonian resistance fighter, member of the Forest Brothers.
• Phillip Martin, 83, American tribal chief (Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians), stroke.
• H. A. Perera, 59, Sri Lankan actor, after short illness.
• Meir Pichhadze, 54, Georgian-born Israeli artist and painter, cancer.
• Joseph Ignace Randrianasolo, 62, Malagasy Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Mahajanga (1999–2010).
• Carl E. Taylor, 93, American physician and expert on international health, prostate cancer.
• Te Wei, 95, Chinese animator, respiratory failure.
• Helen Tobias-Duesberg, 90, Estonian-born American composer.
• Allan Wicks, 86, British organist and choirmaster.

5

• Bayken Ashimov, 92, Kazakh politician.
• Brendan Burke, 21, Canadian-born American ice hockey player, traffic collision.
• Peter Calvocoressi, 97, British historian, publisher and intelligence officer.
• Ian Carmichael, 89, British actor (Lucky Jim, Private's Progress, I'm All Right Jack).
• Mallia Franklin, 57, American singer.
• Galimzyan Khusainov, 72, Russian footballer.
• Sujit Kumar, 75, Indian actor and producer, cancer.
• Frank Magid, 78, American media consultant, creator of Action News, lymphoma.
• Hiroyuki Oze, 24, Japanese baseball player, suicide by jumping.
• Clarke Scholes, 79, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1952) swimmer, heart failure.
• Harry Schwarz, 85, South African lawyer, politician and diplomat, leader of the anti-apartheid movement, after short illness.
• Brooks Thomas, 78, American publisher (Harper and Row), complications of a brain injury after a fall.

6

• Micky Axton, 91, American aviator (Women Airforce Service Pilots), after short illness.
• Albert Booth, 81, British politician, MP for Barrow-in-Furness (1966–1983), Secretary of State for Employment (1976–1979).
• Robert Dana, 80, American poet, Iowa poet laureate (2004–2008), pancreatic cancer.
• Sir John Dankworth, 82, British jazz musician.
• Richard Delvy, 67, American drummer (The Bel-Airs), composer and record producer, after long illness.
• Brad Ecklund, 87, American football player (New York Yanks), heart failure.
• Ernest van der Eyken, 96, Belgian composer, conductor and violist.
• Kipkemboi Kimeli, 43, Kenyan athlete, 1988 Olympic bronze medalist, complications from pneumonia and tuberculosis.
• Lee Yung-dug, 83, South Korean politician, Prime Minister (1994), pneumonia.
• Henry A. Miley, Jr., 94, American soldier, U.S. Army four-star general.
• Lady Marjorie Nellie Murray, 85, British socialite, witness at the Nuremberg and Tokyo war crimes trials.
• Nancy Sweezy, 88, American folklorist, potter and writer.
• Donald Welsh, 66, American publisher (Outside), drowning.

7

• Lars Aspeflaten, 85, Norwegian barrister and politician.
• Franco Ballerini, 45, Italian road racing cyclist, rally crash.
• Daniel Joseph Bradley, 82, British physicist.
• Jean-Marie Buisset, 71, Belgian Olympic bobsledder and field hockey player, after short illness.
• Bobby Dougan, 83, Scottish footballer.
• André Kolingba, 73, Central African politician, President (1981–1993).
• Paul LaPalme, 86, American baseball player, after long illness.
• Lim Soo-hyeok, 40, South Korean baseball player (Lotte Giants), cardiac dysrhythmia.
• Mihailo Marković, 86, Serbian philosopher.
• Kasturi Rajadhyaksha, 86, Indian physician.
• Robert Roxby, 83, Australian cricketer.
• Oscar da Silva, 89, Brazilian Olympic equestrian.
• William Tenn, 89, American science fiction writer and educator, heart failure.

8

• Angelo Franzosi, 88, Italian footballer.
• David Froman, 71, American actor (The Edge of Night, Matlock), cancer.
• Antonio Giolitti, 94, Italian politician.
• Jimmie Heuga, 66, American Alpine ski racer, 1964 Olympic bronze medalist, multiple sclerosis.
• Robert Hoy, 82, American actor (The Enforcer) and stuntman, cancer.
• Carl Kaysen, 89, American economist, Deputy National Security Advisor (1961–1963), complications from a fall.
• Dieter Klauß, 62, German Olympic hockey player.
• Bernard Lander, 94, American rabbi, founder of Touro College.
• John Murtha, 77, American politician, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (1974–2010), complications of gallbladder surgery.
• Anna Samokhina, 47, Russian actress, stomach cancer.
• Krzysztof Skubiszewski, 83, Polish politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1989–1993).
• Bobby A. Suarez, 67, Filipino film producer, director and screenwriter.
• Wahei Tatematsu, 62, Japanese novelist, multiple organ failure.
• Bill Utterback, 79, American illustrator and caricaturist.
• Isidoor Van De Wiele, 85, Belgian Olympic sprinter.

9

• Abdul Karim Amu, 76, Nigerian sprinter.
• Chaskel Besser, 86, Polish-born American rabbi.
• John D. Butler, 94, American politician, mayor of San Diego (1951–1955), natural causes.
• Davy Coenen, 29, Belgian mountain biker, brain tumor.
• Alfred Gregory, 96, British mountain climber and photojournalist.
• Phil Harris, 53, American fisherman, reality television participant (Deadliest Catch), stroke.
• Jacques Hétu, 71, Canadian composer, lung cancer.
• Juris Kalniņš, 71, Latvian basketball player.
• Albert Kligman, 93, American dermatologist, inventor of Retin-A, heart attack.
• Walter Frederick Morrison, 90, American inventor, designer of the frisbee.
• Francine Irving Neff, 84, American politician, Treasurer of the United States (1974–1977), heart failure.
• Iza Orjonikidze, 71, Georgian writer and politician, MP (1992–1995), after long illness.
• Hastings Shade, 68, American deputy tribal chief of the Cherokee Nation (1999–2003).
• David W. Slater, 88, Canadian economist, civil servant and President of York University (1970–1973).
• Patricia Travers, 82, American violinist, cancer.
• Malcolm Vaughan, 80, British singer.
• Robert Shaw Sturgis Whitman, 94, American Episcopalian priest.

10

• Yosef Azran, 69, Israeli rabbi and politician, member of the Knesset (1988–1996), liver failure.
• Jack Bownass, 79, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers).
• Carl Braun, 82, American basketball player (New York Knicks), natural causes.
• Armando Falcão, 90, Brazilian politician, Justice Minister (1974–1979), pneumonia.
• Gabriela Konevska-Trajkovska, 38, Macedonian politician, Deputy Prime Minister (2006–2008), after long illness.
• Judith Paige Mitchell, 77, American television writer (The Client), cancer.
• Michael Palme, 66, German sportswriter and host.
• Orlando Peçanha, 74, Brazilian footballer, heart attack.
• Gireesh Puthenchery, 48, Indian Malayalam lyricist and screenwriter, brain haemorrhage.
• K. N. Raj, 85, Indian economist, after long illness.
• Nelis J. Saunders, 88, American politician.
• Fred Schaus, 84, American basketball player and coach (Los Angeles Lakers).
• Enn Soosaar, 72, Estonian translator, literary critic and publicist.
• José Joaquín Trejos Fernández, 93, Costa Rican President (1966–1970), natural causes.
• David Tyacke, 94, British Army general.
• Eduard Vinokurov, 67, Russian Olympic fencer (1968, 1972, 1976).
• Frederick C. Weyand, 93, American army general, natural causes.
• Charlie Wilson, 76, American politician, U.S. Representative (1973–1997), subject of the book and movie Charlie Wilson's War, pulmonary arrest.
• H. V. F. Winstone, 83, British writer and journalist, lung cancer.

11

• Irina Arkhipova, 85, Russian mezzo-soprano singer, People's Artist of the USSR, cardiac arrest.
• Shahid Azmi, 32, Indian lawyer, shot.
• Jabez Bryce, 75, Tongan-born Anglican prelate, archbishop of Polynesia (since 1975), first Pacific Islander Anglican bishop.
• Iain Burgess, 56, British-born American punk rock record producer, pulmonary embolism.
• Jennifer Daugherty, 30, American torture murder victim.
• Pio Filippani Ronconi, 89, Italian orientalist.
• Walther Fröstell, 96, Swedish Olympic shooter.
• Brian Godfrey, 69, Welsh footballer, leukaemia.
• Heward Grafftey, 81, Canadian politician, MP for Brome—Missisquoi, Parkinson's disease (1958–1968, 1972–1980).
• Arthur H. Hayes, Jr., 76, American public official, Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (1981–1983), leukemia.
• Mona Hofland, 80, Norwegian actress, after long illness.
• Bo Holmberg, 67, Swedish governor, widower of Anna Lindh.
• Umetsugu Inoue, 86, Japanese film director, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Robert Long, 77, New Zealand cricketer.
• Alexander McQueen, 40, British fashion designer, suicide by hanging.
• Caroline McWilliams, 64, American actress (Benson, Guiding Light, Mermaids), multiple myeloma.
• Paul Rebillot, 78, American psychotherapist, respiratory failure.
• E.H. Roelfzema, 62, Dutch writer, artist, poet, and musician.
• David Severn, 91, British author.
• Yury Sevidov, 68, Russian footballer, Soviet Top League highest goal scorer (1962).
• Gladys Skillett, 91, British nurse, first Guernsey wartime deportee to give birth in captivity.
• Daryle Smith, 46, American football player (Dallas Cowboys).
• Duncan Tanner, 51, British historian.
• Colin Ward, 85, British anarchist writer.

12

• Juan Pedro Amestoy, 84, Uruguayan accountant, politician and ambassador.
• Petar Borota, 56, Serbian footballer (Partizan Belgrade and Chelsea), after long illness.
• Maria Ragland Davis, 52, American biologist, shot.
• Lisa Daniels, 79, British actress.
• Ken Emerson, 82, Australian cartoonist (The Warrumbunglers).
• Jerry Fahr, 85, American baseball player.
• Gino Gardassanich, 87, Italian-born American football player.
• Chhaya Ghosh, 69, Indian politician.
• Sheldon Gilgore, 77, American physician, president of Pfizer (1971–1986) and Searle (1986–1995), pancreatic cancer.
• Jake Hanna, 78, American jazz drummer, blood disease.
• Adriel Johnson, 52, American biologist, shot.
• Athan Karras, 82, Greek-born American advocate of Greek dance, complications from coronary artery bypass surgery.
• Allan Kornblum, 71, American lawyer, counsel to the F.B.I., esophageal cancer.
• Werner Krämer, 70, German footballer.
• Nodar Kumaritashvili, 21, Georgian luger, national team member for the 2010 Winter Olympics, training accident.
• Miro Mihovilović, 94, Croatian Olympic water polo player.
• Luis Molowny, 84, Spanish footballer, heart attack.
• Leroy Nash, 94, American murderer, oldest death row inmate, natural causes.
• Alexis Pappas, 94, Greek-born Norwegian chemist.
• G. K. Podila, 52, Indian-born American biologist, shot.
• Willie Polland, 75, Scottish footballer (Heart of Midlothian).
• Saleban Olad Roble, 46, Somali government minister, injuries sustained in the 2009 Shamo Hotel bombing.
• Bernard Smith, 99, American sailboat designer, liver cancer.
• Grethe Sønck, 80, Danish actress and singer, natural causes.

13

• Muhammad al-Rabou'e, 34, Yemeni journalist, shot.
• Ralph G. Anderson, 86, American engineer and farmer.
• Lucille Clifton, 73, American poet, Poet Laureate of Maryland (1974–1985).
• Jock Ferguson, 64, Scottish-born Australian politician, Western Australian Legislative Council (since 2009), heart attack.
• Werner Forman, 89, Czech-born British photographer.
• Cy Grant, 90, Guyanese-born British actor and activist.
• Dale Hawkins, 73, American rockabilly musician, colorectal cancer.
• James D. Johnson, 85, American politician and jurist, Arkansas Supreme Court Justice (1959–1966), suicide by gunshot.
• Raymond Mason, 87, British sculptor.
• Robert J. Myers, 97, American politician, co-creator of the Social Security program, respiratory failure.
• Jamil Nasser, 77, American jazz musician, cardiac arrest.
• José María Pasquini Durán, 70, Argentine journalist, cardiac arrest.
• John Reed, 94, British actor.
• Red Rocha, 86, American basketball player and coach (Hawaii Rainbow Warriors).
• Roger Thatcher, 83, British statistician.
• Gareth Wigan, 78, British film studio executive (Star Wars, Chariots of Fire), after short illness.

14

• Ram Sarup Ankhi, 77, Indian writer, poet, and novelist.
• Audrey Collins, 94, British cricket player and administrator.
• John Downey, 89, British Royal Air Force officer.
• Doug Fieger, 57, American musician (The Knack), lung cancer.
• Dick Francis, 89, British jockey and novelist (Dead Cert).
• Helge Høva, 81, Norwegian politician.
• Amos Funk, 98, American farm preservationist.
• Linnart Mäll, 71, Estonian historian, orientalist, translator and politician, cancer.
• John Ruan, 96, American entrepreneur and philanthropist, Parkinson's disease.
• John Thorbjarnarson, 52, American conservationist and crocodile expert, malaria.
• Jerzy Turek, 76, Polish actor, leukemia.
• Zhang Yalin, 28, Chinese football player, lymphoma.

15

• W. H. Clatworthy, 94, American mathematician.
• Juan Carlos González, 85, Uruguayan football player.
• Ian Gray, 46, Australian football player, homicide by prohibited drug.
• Jeanne M. Holm, 88, American general, pneumonia.
• Bill Kajikawa, 97, American basketball coach (Arizona State Sun Devils).
• Dana Kirk, 74, American basketball coach (Memphis Tigers), heart attack.
• Rigmor Mydtskov, 84, Danish court photographer.
• Fred Peacock, 93, Canadian politician.
• Aníbal Portillo, 95, Salvadoran military officer, head of state (1961–1962).
• Sylvia Pressler, 75, American jurist, lymphoma.
• Alfred Surratt, 87, American baseball player (Kansas City Monarchs), co-founder of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.
• Art Van Damme, 89, American jazz musician and accordionist, pneumonia.
• George Waring, 84, British actor (Coronation Street), cancer.
• Claud William Wright, 93, British civil servant and scientific expert.

16

• Jim Bibby, 65, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates), bone cancer.
• John Davis Chandler, 73, American actor (Adventures in Babysitting, The Outlaw Josey Wales).
• William E. Gordon, 92, American inventor, designer of the Arecibo Radio Telescope, natural causes.
• Martin Grossman, 45, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Jim Harmon, 76, American science fiction writer, heart attack.
• Ronald Howes, 83, American inventor, designer of Easy-Bake Oven.
• Andrew Koenig, 41, American actor (Growing Pains), suicide by hanging.
• Ino Kolbe, 95, German Esperanto expert.
• Ian Roderick Macneil, 80, American-born lawyer and Scottish clan chief.
• Mike Pittilo, 55, British biologist and educator, Principal of Robert Gordon University.
• Wan Chi Keung, 53, Hong Kong footballer, actor, and businessman, nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
• Jim Waugh, 76, American baseball player.

17

• Roger-Émile Aubry, 86, Swiss-born Bolivian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Reyes (1973–1999).
• Chaturvedi Badrinath, 76, Indian officer and author.
• Lottie Beck, 81, American baseball player (AAGPBL)
• Arnold Beichman, 96, American writer and journalist.
• Bjørn Benkow, 70, Norwegian journalist.
• Giulio de Florian, 74, Italian Olympic cross-country skier.
• Makoto Fujita, 76, Japanese actor and comedian, ruptured artery.
• Kathryn Grayson, 88, American actress and singer.
• Ruby Hunter, 54, Australian singer and musician, heart attack.
• Abdulkhakim Ismailov, 93, Russian Red Army soldier, World War II hero, natural causes.
• David Lelei, 38, Kenyan middle distance runner, traffic collision.
• Ignatius P. Lobo, 90, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Belgaum (1967–1994).
• Martha Mercader, 83, Argentine politician and writer.
• Hans Ørberg, 89, Danish linguist.
• Witold Skaruch, 80, Polish actor.
• Luigi Ulivelli, 74, Italian Olympic athlete.

18

• John Babcock, 109, Canadian soldier, Canada's last surviving World War I veteran.
• Erwin Bachmann, 88, German Waffen-SS officer.
• Asta Backman, 93, Finnish actress.
• Bob Chakales, 82, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians).
• Barton Childs, 93, American physician and geneticist, complications of lung cancer.
• Amlan Datta, 85, Indian economist and teacher.
• Alan Gordon, 65, Scottish football player, cancer.
• Fernando Krahn, 75, Chilean plastic artist and illustrator.
• Emilio Lavazza, 78, Italian businessman, President of Lavazza Coffee (1979–2008).
• Nirmal Pandey, 48, Indian actor, heart attack.
• Richard Proulx, 72, American choral conductor and composer.
• Ariel Ramírez, 88, Argentine composer and pianist, pneumonia.

19

• George Cisar, 99, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).
• Daddy, 16, American Pit Bull Terrier, appeared with owner Cesar Millan in Dog Whisperer, euthanized due to cancer.
• Jamie Gillis, 66, American pornographic film actor, melanoma.
• Bruno Gironcoli, 73, Austrian sculptor, after long illness.
• Lionel Jeffries, 83, British film actor, screenwriter and director.
• Rudy Larriva, 94, American animator and animation director (Looney Tunes, The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show).
• Rafael Muñoz Núñez, 85, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Zacatecas (1972–1984) and Aguascalientes (1984–1998).
• Elli Parvo, 95, Italian film actress.
• Giovanni Pettenella, 66, Italian Olympic cyclist.
• Walter Plowright, 86, British veterinary scientist.
• Laura Spurr, 64, American chairwoman of the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi since 2003, heart attack.
• Bull Verweij, 100, Dutch businessman, co-founder of Radio Veronica.
• Mladen Veža, 94, Croatian painter.

20

• Chandan Mal Baid, 88, Indian politician.
• Ghantasala Balaramayya, 78, Indian producer, director and actor.
• Bobby Cox, 76, Scottish footballer (Dundee).
• Georges Charachidzé, 80, French scholar of the Caucasian cultures.
• Juanita Goggins, 75, American politician, first black woman in South Carolina Legislature, hypothermia. (estimated date of death)
• Linda Grover, 76, American peace activist, founder of Global Family Day, uterine and ovarian cancer.
• Alexander Haig, 85, American politician and diplomat, Secretary of State (1981–1982), complications from an infection.
• Sam Hamilton, 54, American public official, Director of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service since 2009, heart attack.
• Sandy Kenyon, 87, American character and voice actor (The Twilight Zone, Here Comes Garfield).
• Henry Kučera, 85, Czech-born American linguist.
• Niall McCrudden, 45, Irish optician and socialite.
• Padmanabham, 78, Indian actor, heart attack.
• Jason Wood, 38, British comedian and reality television contestant (Strictly Come Dancing).

21

• Seth G. Atwood, 92, American industrialist, community leader, and horological collector.
• Bob Doe, 89, British airman, Royal Air Force flying ace.
• Jacek Karpiński, 83, Polish computer scientist.
• Veini Kontinen, 82, Finnish Olympic skier.
• Vladimir Motyl, 82, Russian film director and scenarist, cervical fractures and pneumonia.
• Albader Parad, Filipino militant (Abu Sayyaf), shot.
• Vesa Pulliainen, 52, Finnish Olympic footballer.
• Casimir Johannes Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, 93, German nobleman, businessman and politician.
• William E. Skillend, 83, British scholar of Korean language.
• George Strickland, 84, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Cleveland Indians).
• James Wieghart, 76, American newspaper editor (New York Daily News), pneumonia.

22

• Juan Angel Belda Dardiñá, 83, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Jaca (1978–1983) and León (1983–1987).
• Michael J. Bradley, 76, British diplomat, Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands (1987–1993).
• Robert Carter, 82, American priest and gay rights activist, a founder of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
• Fred Chaffart, 74, Belgian businessperson.
• Henry Cosgrove, 87, Australian judge, Judge of the Supreme Court of Tasmania (1977–1988).
• Robin Davies, 56, British actor, lung cancer.
• Hillar Eller, 70, Estonian politician, former chairman of the Estonian Left Party (1995–1996).
• Eugene Lambert, 82, Irish puppeteer and ventriloquist (Wanderly Wagon).
• Nelly Landry, 93, Belgian-born French tennis player.
• Rozy Munir, 67, Indonesian diplomat, ambassador to Qatar, liver cancer.
• Menachem Porush, 93, Israeli politician, Member of Knesset (1959–1975, 1977–1994).
• Bobby Smith, 56, Scottish footballer, cancer.
• Charles Stenvig, 82, American politician, Mayor of Minneapolis (1969–1973, 1975–1977).
• Mohammed Zaman, 44, Afghan political and military leader, victim of suicide bombing.

23

• John Hollings Addison, 80, Canadian politician and business executive.
• Vyacheslav Andreyuk, 64, Soviet Russian football player.
• Clarence R. Autery, 76, American general.
• Bill Burtenshaw, 84, British footballer.
• Michael Clancy, 60, Saint Helena politician and Governor (2004–2007), cancer.
• Mervyn Jones, 87, British journalist, biographer and novelist.
• Abune Zena Markos, 72, Ethiopian Archbishop, complications from pneumonia.
• Wyn Morris, 81, British conductor.
• Gerhardt Neef, 63, German footballer (Rangers), throat cancer.
• Henri Salmide, 90, German World War II naval officer, saved Bordeaux port from destruction.
• Mosi Tatupu, 54, American football player (New England Patriots).
• Derek Vanlint, 78, British-born Canadian cinematographer (Alien), short illness.
• Orlando Zapata, 42, Cuban dissident, hunger strike.

24

• Antonio Alegre, 85, Argentine businessman, President of Boca Juniors (1985–1995).
• Delmo da Silva, 55, Brazilian Olympic sprinter.
• Ang It-hong, 82, Taiwanese singer, songwriter, composer and actor, pancreatic cancer.
• Dawn Brancheau, 40, American SeaWorld trainer, killer whale attack.
• Carlo Cicuttini, 63, Italian neo-fascist and terrorist.
• Jake Elder, 73, American NASCAR crew chief, natural causes.
• Howard George, 75, American Olympic wrestler.
• Richard Gruenwald, 93, Canadian politician, Alberta MLA for Lethbridge-West (1971–1975).
• Dagfin Huseby, 87, Norwegian Olympic wrestler.
• C. R. Johnson, 26, American newschool skier, skiing accident.
• Birgitta Lindqvist, 67, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier.
• Charles MacArthur, 89, Canadian politician, MLA for Inverness (1983–1998).

25

• Henry Barron, 81, Irish jurist, Supreme Court of Ireland (1997–2003), after short illness.
• Ernst Beyeler, 88, Swiss art collector.
• Barbara Bray, 85, British translator.
• Aaron Cohen, 79, American aerospace engineer, Director of Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (1986–1993), after long illness.
• İhsan Doğramacı, 94, Turkish physician and academic, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
• Vladislav Galkin, 38, Russian actor, heart failure.
• Gheorghe Gaston Marin, 91, Romanian politician.
• Donald Merrifield, 81, American Jesuit, first president of Loyola Marymount University (1973–1984), heart attack.
• John Bernard McDowell, 88, American Roman Catholic prelate, Titular Bishop of Tamazuca (1966–1996).
• Oscar Ravina, 79, Polish-born American violinist.
• David Soyer, 87, American cellist (Guarneri Quartet).
• Efren Torres, 66, Mexican former world flyweight champion boxer, heart attack.
• Ali Tounsi, 76, Algerian police official, Chief of National Police, shot.
• Tuomo Tuormaa, 83, Finnish Olympic sprint canoer.
• Ahmet Vardar, 73, Turkish journalist and writer, pancreatic cancer.
• Frank Williams, 73, American architect (Trump Palace, Four Seasons Hotel New York), esophageal cancer.

26

• María Elisa Álvarez Obaya, 76, Spanish pharmacist.
• Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr., 92, American political photographer (Bachrach Studios).
• Violet Barclay, 87, American comic book artist.
• Tom Bass, 93, Australian sculptor.
• Barry Bowen, 64, Belizean bottling magnate and politician, plane crash.
• Francisco Cabrera Santos, 63, Venezuelan politician, mayor of Valencia, Carabobo.
• Bernard Coutaz, 87, French music publisher, founder of Harmonia Mundi.
• Richard Devon, 83, American character actor (Lassie), vascular disease.
• Charles le Gai Eaton, 89, Swiss-born British diplomat and author.
• Andrew Jaffe, 71, American journalist (Adweek), revived the Clio Awards, multiple myeloma.
• Ivaylo Kirov, 63, Bulgarian Olympic basketball player.
• Robert McCall, 90, American artist, heart failure.
• Nujabes, 36, Japanese hip hop composer (Samurai Champloo), traffic collision.
• Jacques J. Polak, 95, Dutch economist.
• Dave Sheasby, 69, British playwright, radio producer and dramatist.

27

• David Bankier, 63, German-born Israeli Holocaust scholar.
• Black Bear Island, app. 4, Irish Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
• Larry Cassidy, 56, British bass guitarist and singer (Section 25).
• Charlie Crowe, 85, English footballer (Newcastle United), Alzheimer's disease.
• Frans De Blaes, 100, Belgian Olympic sprint canoer.
• Nanaji Deshmukh, 93, Indian social activist and politician, after long illness.
• Anna Fárová, 81, Czech photography historian and advocate, Charter 77 signatory.
• Madeleine Ferron, 87, Canadian author, Alzheimer's disease.
• Eli Fischer-Jørgensen, 99, Danish linguist and World War II resistance member.
• Rosemary Goldie, 94, Australian Roman Catholic theologian, Under-Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Laity (1967–1976).
• Jonathan May, 51, American cellist and conductor, stroke.
• František Nedvěd, 59, Czech Olympic weightlifter.
• Hank Rosenstein, 89, American basketball player (New York Knicks), heart failure.
• Nathan Scott, 94, American film and television composer (Lassie, The Twilight Zone, Dragnet), natural causes.
• Oleg Stepanov, 70, Russian judoka, 1964 Olympic bronze medal winner.
• Wendy Toye, 92, British filmmaker.
• Roger Veeser, 90, Swiss Olympic athlete.

28

• David Amland, 79, American painter and art educator.
• Edward L. Athey, 88, American football, basketball and baseball player, baseball and basketball coach.
• Martin Benson, 91, British actor (The Omen, Cleopatra, Goldfinger).
• Adam Blacklaw, 72, Scottish footballer (Burnley).
• Gerald Butler, 79, British jurist and broadcaster, heart attack.
• Theodore Cross, 86, American publisher and civil rights activist, heart failure.
• Bohdan Ejmont, 82, Polish actor.
• Rose Gray, 71, British restaurateur (The River Café) and food writer, brain cancer.
• Gene Greytak, 84, American impressionist (Pope John Paul II), cancer.
• Chushiro Hayashi, 89, Japanese astrophysicist, pneumonia.
• Phillip Law, 97, Australian scientist and explorer (Australian Antarctic Territory).
• José Mindlin, 95, Brazilian businessman and bibliophile, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
• Carlos Montemayor, 62, Mexican writer, stomach cancer.
• Nikolay Surov, 62, Russian Olympic rower.
• Jorge Villamil, 80, Colombian composer, complications from diabetes.
• George Watt, 92, Australian rugby league footballer.
• Tom Wolk, 58, American bass guitarist (Hall & Oates), heart attack.

March

Michael Foot 1913-2010

Philip Langridge 1939-2010

Corey Haim 1971-2010

Peter Graves 1926-2010

Fess Parker 1924-2010

Girija Prasad Koirala 1924-2010

Robert Culp 1930-2010

Vasily Smyslov 1921-2010

• March 1 - Vladimir Ilyushin, 82, Russian pilot.
• March 2 - Winston Spencer Churchill, 69, British politician, grandson of former Prime Minister, Winston Churchill.
• March 3 - Michael Foot, 96, British politician.
• March 3 - Keith Alexander, 53, English footballer.
• March 4 - Vladislav Ardzinba, 64, Abkhazian politician.
• March 5 - Philip Langridge, 70, British tenor.
• March 7 - Kenneth Dover, 89, British classicist.
• March 9 - Granny D, 100, American political activist.
• March 10 - Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, 81, Egyptian Muslim cleric.
• March 10 - Corey Haim, 38, Canadian actor, drug overdose.
• March 10 - Dorothy Janis, 100, American actress.
• March 12 - Miguel Delibes, 89, Spanish author and journalist, cancer.
• March 12 - Glauco Villas Boas, 53, Brazilian Cartoonist, Underground comic book illustrator and Cult Leader, Assassination
• March 14 - Peter Graves, 83, American actor, heart attack.
• March 16 - Ksenija Pajcin, 32, Serbian musician.
• March 17 - Alex Chilton, 59, American musician.
• March 18 - Fess Parker, 85, American actor.
• March 20 - Stewart Udall, 90, American politician.
• March 20 - Girija Prasad Koirala, 85, Nepalese politician.
• March 20 - Harry Carpenter, 84, British sports commentator.
• March 21 - Wolfgang Wagner, 90, German opera director, grandson of Richard Wagner, great-grandson of Franz Liszt.
• March 22 - Valentina Tolkunova, 63, Russian singer, cancer.
• March 22 - Sir James W. Black, 85, British physician, winner 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
• March 24 - Robert Culp, 79, American actor, injuries from a fall.
• March 25 - Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, 93, German political scientist.
• March 27 - Stanley Vann, 100, British church musician.
• March 27 - Vasily Smyslov, 89, Soviet, world chess champion.
• March 27 - Peter Herbolzheimer, 74, German jazz musician.
• March 27 - Dick Giordano, 77, American comic book artist.
• March 28 - June Havoc, 97, American actress.
• March 28 - Herb Ellis, 88, American musician.
• March 30 - Martin Sandberger, 98, German military officer.

April

John Forsythe 1918-2010

Vitaly Sevastyanov 1935-2010

Maria Kaczyńska 1942-2010

Lech Kaczyński 1949-2010

Ryszard Kaczorowski 1919-2010

Dixie Carter 1939-2010

Peter Steele 1962-2010

Juan Antonio Samaranch 1920-2010

Alan Sillitoe 1928-2010

• April 1 - Ed Roberts, 68, American computer pioneer.
• April 1 - John Forsythe, 92, American actor, pneumonia.
• April 3 - Eugene Terre'Blanche, 69, South African political activist, beaten.
• April 5 - Vitaly Sevastyanov, 74, Soviet cosmonaut.
• April 6 - Corin Redgrave, 70, British political activist.
• April 7 - Christopher Cazenove, 64, British actor, sepsis.
• April 8 - Malcolm McLaren, 64, British music manager, mesothelioma.
• April 8 - Abel Muzorewa, 84, former bishop and Prime Minister of Zimbabwe.
• April 9 - Meinhardt Raabe, 94, American actor.
• April 10 - Maria Kaczyńska, 67, First Lady of Poland, plane crash.
• April 10 - Lech Kaczynski, 60, President of Poland, plane crash.
• April 10 - Ryszard Kaczorowski, 90, Polish politician, plane crash.
• April 10 - Dixie Carter, 70, American actress, cancer.
• April 12 - Werner Schroeter, 65, German movie director.
• April 14 - Israr Ahmed, 77, Pakistani Islamic scholar, heart attack.
• April 14 - Peter Steele, 48, American gothic metal musician, heart attack.
• April 16 - Carlos Franqui, 88, Cuban writer and political activist.
• April 16 - Tomas Spidlik, 90, Czech cardinal
• April 19 - Guru, 48, American rapper, multiple myeloma.
• April 20 - Dorothy Height, 98, American civil rights activist.
• April 21 - Juan Antonio Samaranch, 89, Spanish former President of the International Olympic Committee
• April 25 - Alan Sillitoe, 82, British writer.
• April 26 - Prabha Rau, 75, Indian politician, heart attack.
• April 30 - Paul Mayer, 98, German cardinal

May

Lynn Redgrave 1943-2010

Lena Horne 1917-2010

Bhairon Singh Shekhawat 1923-2010

Ronnie James Dio 1942-2010

Dennis Hopper 1936-2010

• May 2 - Kama Chinen, 114, Japanese supercentenarian, officially the oldest person in the world at the time of her death.
• May 2 - Lynn Redgrave, 67, Anglo-American actress, breast cancer.
• May 3 - Florencio Campomanes, 83, Filipino chessplayer & President of FIDE.
• May 3 - Guenter Wendt, 86, German-American NASA engineer.
• May 4 - Luigi Poggi, 92, Italian cardinal.
• May 4 - Michael Thalbourne, 55, Australian physician
• May 5 - Giulietta Simionato, 99, Italian opera singer.
• May 5 - Umaru Yar'Adua, 58, President of Nigeria, after long illness.
• May 7 - Wally Hickel, 90, American politician, 2nd Governor of Alaska.
• May 8 - Andor Lilienthal, 99, Hungarian chess player.
• May 9 - Lena Horne, 92, American singer and actress.
• May 9 - Acharya Mahapragya, 89, Indian religious leader (Jainism), heart attack.
• May 10 - Frank Frazetta, 82, American artist.
• May 15 - Besian Idrizaj, 22, Austrian football player, heart attack.
• May 15 - Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, 86, former Vice-President of India.
• May 15 - John Shepherd-Barron, 84, Scottish inventor, invented the ATM.
• May 16 - Oswaldo López Arellano, 88, former President of Honduras.
• May 16 - Hank Jones, 91, American jazz pianist.
• May 16 - Ronnie James Dio, 67, American heavy metal musician, stomach cancer.
• May 17 - Yvonne Loriod, 86, French pianist.
• May 17 - Khattiya Sawasdipol, 58, Thai General, shot.
• May 17 - Bobbejaan Schoepen, 85, Belgian singer.
• May 18 - Edoardo Sanguineti, 79, Italian writer.
• May 20 - Walter Rudin, 89, Austrian-born mathematician.
• May 22 - Martin Gardner, 95, American author.
• May 23 - Leonida Georgievna, 95, Russian Grand Duchess.
• May 24 - Paul Gray, 38, American musician (Slipknot).
• May 25 - Siphiwo Ntshebe, 35, South African singer.
• May 26 - Art Linkletter, 97, Canadian-American television personality.
• May 27 - John William Finn, 100, American Navy officer.
• May 28 - Gary Coleman, 42, American actor, cerebral hemorrhage.
• May 29 - Dennis Hopper, 74, American actor, prostate cancer.
• May 31 - Louise Bourgeois, 98, French-American artist and sculptor.

June

Vladimir Arnold 1937-2010

Rue McClanahan 1934-2010

John Wooden 1910-2010

Jimmy Dean 1928-2010

Leonid Kizim 1941-2010

José Saramago 1922-2010

Algirdas Brazauskas 1932-2010

• June 1 - Kazuo Ohno, 103, Japanese dancer.
• June 1 - Andrey Voznesensky, 77, Russian poet.
• June 2 - Giuseppe Taddei, 93, Italian opera singer.
• June 3 - Vladimir Arnold, 72, Russian mathematician.
• June 3 - Rue McClanahan, 76, American actress, stroke.
• June 4 - John Wooden, 99, American basketball player and coach, natural causes.
• June 7 - Mordechai Eliyahu, 81, Israeli rabbi.
• June 7 - Stuart Cable, 40, British drummer.
• June 9 - Marina Semyonova, 101, Russian ballerina.
• June 10 - Ferdinand Oyono, 80, Cameroonian writer.
• June 10 - Sigmar Polke, 69, German painter.
• June 13 - Jimmy Dean, 81, American country music singer.
• June 14 - Leonid Kizim, 68, Soviet cosmonaut.
• June 15 - Heidi Kabel, 95, German actress.
• June 16 - Ronald Neame, 99, British movie director.
• June 18 - Marcel Bigeard, 94, French military officer.
• June 18 - José Saramago, 87, Portuguese writer, winner 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature.
• June 19 - Manute Bol, 47, Sudanese basketball player, kidney failure.
• June 19 - Carlos Monsivais, 72, Mexican writer and journalist.
• June 20 - Roberto Rosato, 66, Italian footballer.
• June 21 - Stanley Lucas, 110, British supercentenarian, oldest man in Europe at the time of his death.
• June 23 - Mohamed Mzali, 84, former Prime Minister of Tunisia.
• June 26 - Algirdas Brazauskas, 77, former President of Lithuania.
• June 28 - Robert Byrd, 92, American senator.

July

Harvey Pekar 1939-2010

George Steinbrenner 1940-2010

Charles Mackerras 1925-2010

David Warren 1925-2010

• July 2 - Beryl Bainbridge, 77, British writer, cancer.
• July 3 - Abu Daoud, 73, Palestinian politician and military commander.
• July 3 - Herbert Erhardt, 79, German footballer.
• July 4 - Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, 74, Lebanese spiritual leader.
• July 5 - David Fanshawe, 68, British composer and explorer.
• July 5 - Bob Probert, 45, Canadian ice hockey player.
• July 5 - Cesare Siepi, 87, Italian opera singer.
• July 5 - Nasr Abu Zayd, 66, Egyptian-Dutch academic.
• July 6 - Werner Schmalenbach, 89, German art historian and curator.
• July 10 - Sugar Minott, 54, Jamaican reggae singer.
• July 10 - Raoul Moat, 37, British murderer, suicide by gunshot.
• July 11 - Bob Sheppard, 99, American public address and baseball announcer, natural causes.
• July 12 - Günter Behnisch, 88, German architect.
• July 12 - Harvey Pekar, 70, American comic, writer, and music critic.
• July 13 - George Steinbrenner, 80, American baseball team owner, heart attack.
• July 14 - Charles Mackerras, 84, Australian conductor.
• July 14 - Madalina Manole, 43, Romanian singer.
• July 17 - Bernard Giraudeau, 63, French actor, director and writer.
• July 19 - David Warren, 85, Australian inventor.
• July 20 - Benedikt Sigurdsson Grondal, 86, Icelandic politician.
• July 21 - Luis Corvalan, 93, Chilean politician.
• July 21 - Anthony Rolfe Johnson, 69, British operatic tenor
• July 24 - Theo Albrecht, 88, German businessman (Aldi Nord).
• July 24 - Alex Higgins, 61, Northern Irish snooker player, throat cancer.
• July 25 - Vasco de Almeida e Costa, 77, Portuguese politician.
• July 27 - Maury Chaykin, 61, Canadian actor.
• July 27 - Wallace Souza, 51, Brazilian entertainer, politician, and criminal.
• July 29 - Zheng Ji, 110, Chinese supercentenarian, nutritionist and biochemist.
• July 31 - Suso Cecchi d'Amico, 96, Italian screenwriter.
• July 31 - Mitch Miller, 99, American music executive and television host.

August

Patricia Neal 1926-2010

Ted Stevens 1923-2010

Guido de Marco 1931-2010

Abbey Lincoln 1930-2010

Francesco Cossiga 1928-2010

Stjepan Bobek 1923-2010

• August 5 - Godfrey Binaisa, 90, Ugandan politician and former President.
• August 6 - Catfish Collins, 66, American guitarist (James Brown, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Parliament-Funkadelic), cancer.
• August 6 - Fredrik Ericsson, 35, Swedish climber, fall on K2.
• August 6 - Tony Judt, 62, British historian.
• August 7 - Bruno Cremer, 80, French actor.
• August 8 - Patricia Neal, 84, American actress, lung cancer.
• August 8 - Massamasso Tchangai, 32, Togolese footballer, heart attack.
• August 9 - Ted Stevens, 86, United States Senator, plane crash.
• August 10 - Antonio Pettigrew, 42, American athlete.
• August 12 - Guido de Marco, 79, former President of Malta.
• August 13 - Lance Cade, 29, American wrestler.
• August 14 - Abbey Lincoln, 80, American jazz singer and actress.
• August 15 - Lionel Regal, 37, French hillclimbing racer.
• August 16 - Nicola Cabibbo, 75, Italian physicist.
• August 16 - Dimitrios Ioannidis, 87, Greek military officer.
• August 17 - Francesco Cossiga, 82, 8th President of Italy.
• August 18 - Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma, 80, Spanish aristocrat, cancer.
• August 19 - Ahna Capri, 66, American Actress, car accident.
• August 21 - Christoph Schlingensief, 49, German movie and theatre director, lung cancer.
• August 22 - Stjepan Bobek, 86, Croatian footballer.
• August 23 - Satoshi Kon, 46, Japanese movie director, pancreatic cancer.
• August 26 - William B. Lenoir, 71, American astronaut, died from head injuries caused by a bicycle accident.
• August 26 - Raimon Panikkar, 91, Indian-Spanish theologian.
• August 27 - Anton Geesink, 76, Dutch judoka.
• August 28 - Sinan Hasani, 88, 10th President of Yugoslavia.
• August 30 - J. C. Bailey, 27, American professional wrestler.
• August 30 - Alain Corneau, 67, French filmmaker, cancer.
• August 30 - Francisco Varallo, 100, Argentine footballer.
• August 31 - Laurent Fignon, 50, French road bicycle racer, cancer.

September

Bent Larsen 1935-2010

Eddie Fisher 1928-2010

Tony Curtis 1925-2010

Georges Charpak 1924-2010

Greg Giraldo 1965-2010

Stephen J. Cannell 1941-2010

• September 2 - Shmuel Eisenstadt, 86, Israeli sociologist.
• September 5 - Guillaume Cornelis van Beverloo, 88, Dutch painter.
• September 5 - Shoya Tomizawa, 19, Japanese motorcycle racer, motorcycle accident.
• September 7 - Amar Garibovic, 19, Serbian skier, car crash.
• September 8 - Israel Tal, 85, Israeli general.
• September 9 - Bent Larsen, 75, Danish chess player.
• September 11 - Kevin McCarthy, 96, American actor.
• September 12 - Claude Chabrol, 80, French movie director.
• September 18 - Egon Klepsch, 80, German politician.
• September 20 - Fud Leclerc, 86, Belgian singer.
• September 22 - Eddie Fisher, 82, American singer.
• September 22 - Jorge Gonzalez, 44, Argentine basketball player and wrestler, diabetes.
• September 24 - Gennady Yanayev, 73, Soviet politician.
• September 25 - Art Gilmore, 98, American radio, television announcer.
• September 26 - Gloria Stuart, 100, American actress.
• September 28 - Arthur Penn, 88, American director and producer.
• September 29 - Tony Curtis, 85, American actor.
• September 29 - Georges Charpak, 86, Polish-born French physicist.
• September 29 - Greg Giraldo, 44, American comedian, overdose on prescription medication.
• September 30 - Stephen J. Cannell, 69, American television producer and writer.

October

Joan Sutherland 1926-2010

Barbara Billingsley 1915-2010

Tom Bosley 1927-2010

Néstor Kirchner 1950-2010

• October 3 - Philippa Foot, 90, British philosopher.
• October 4 - Norman Wisdom, 95, British actor and comedian.
• October 5 - Bernard Clavel, 87, French writer.
• October 7 - Milka Planinc, 85, Yugoslavian politician, former Prime Minister.
• October 9 - Maurice Allais, 99, French economist, winner 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics, natural causes.
• October 10 - Solomon Burke, 70, American singer-songwriter, natural causes.
• October 10 - Hwang Jang-yop, 87, North Korean politician and defector.
• October 10 - Joan Sutherland, 83, Australian soprano.
• October 12 - Manuel Alexandre, 92, Spanish actor, cancer.
• October 14 - Simon MacCorkindale, 58, British actor, bowel cancer.
• October 14 - Benoit Mandelbrot, 85, French-American mathematician, pancreatic cancer.
• October 14 - Hermann Scheer, 66, German politician, heart failure.
• October 16 - Barbara Billingsley, 94, American actress, polymyalgia.
• October 19 - Tom Bosley, 83, American actor, heart failure.
• October 20 - Bob Guccione, 79, American founder of Penthouse magazine, lung cancer.
• October 20 - Sardar Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari, 70, former President of Pakistan.
• October 21 - Loki Schmidt, 91, German environmentalist and wife of former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt, illness after fall.
• October 23 - David Thompson, 48, Prime Minister of Barbados, pancreatic cancer.
• October 25 - Gregory Isaacs, 59, Jamaican musician, lung cancer.
• October 26 - Paul the Octopus, 2, FIFA World Cup oracle, natural causes.
• October 27 - Néstor Kirchner, 60, former President of Argentina, heart attack.
• October 28 - Jonathan Motzfeldt, 72, Greenlandic politician, two-time former Prime Minister, cancer.
• October 30 - Harry Mulisch, 83, Dutch writer, cancer.

November

Viktor Chernomyrdin 1938-2010

Jill Clayburgh 1944-2010

Dino de Laurentiis 1919-2010

Henryk Gorecki 1933-2010

Leslie Nielsen 1926-2010

Mario Monicelli 1915-2010

Maurice Wilkes 1913-2010

Bella Akhmadulina 1937-2010

• November 1 - Ed Litzenberger, 78, Canadian ice hockey player.
• November 2 - Rudolf Barshai, 86, Russian conductor.
• November 3 - Viktor Chernomyrdin, 72, Russian politician, former Prime Minister, cancer.
• November 4 - Eugenie Blanchard, 114, French-Caribbean supercentenarian, world's oldest living person.
• November 5 - Hajo Herrmann, 97, German Luftwaffe pilot.
• November 5 - Jill Clayburgh, 66, American actress, chronic leukemia.
• November 8 - Emilio Eduardo Massera, 85, Argentine military officer.
• November 10 - Dino De Laurentiis, 91, Italian movie producer.
• November 12 - Henryk Gorecki, 76, Polish composer, after long illness.
• November 13 - Luis Garcia Berlanga, 89, Spanish movie director.
• November 15 - Larry Evans, 78, American chess player.
• November 17 - Olavo Rodrigues Barbosa, 87, Brazilian footballer, cancer.
• November 18 - Gaye Stewart, 87, Canadian ice hockey player.
• November 21 - David Nolan, 66, American activist and politician.
• November 22 - Frank Fenner, 95, Australian scientist.
• November 23 - Ingrid Pitt, 73, Polish-born British actress.
• November 24 - Huang Hua, 97, Chinese politician.
• November 27 - Irvin Kershner, 87, American movie director, after long illness.
• November 28 - Leslie Nielsen, 84, Canadian-born American actor, complications from pneumonia.
• November 29 - Mario Monicelli, 95, Italian movie director, suicide.
• November 29 - Maurice Wilkes, 97, British computer scientist.
• November 29 - Bella Akhmadulina, 73, Russian poet.

December

Adriaan Blaauw 1914-2010

Hugues Cuénod 1902-2010

Don Meredith 1938-2010

John Bennett Fenn 1917-2010

Richard Holbrooke 1941-2010

Enzo Bearzot 1927-2010

Carlos Andrés Pérez 1922-2010

Avi Cohen 1956-2010

Ellis Clarke 1917-2010

• December 1 - Adriaan Blaauw, 96, Dutch astronomer.
• December 2 - Ron Santo, 70. American baseball player, cancer.
• December 2 - Lee Huan, 93, Taiwanese politician, former Premier of the Republic of China.
• December 3 - Hugues Cuenod, 108, Swiss tenor.
• December 5 - Don Meredith, 72, American football player and television announcer, brain hemorrhage.
• December 9 - James Moody, 85, American jazz musician, pancreatic cancer.
• December 10 - John Bennett Fenn, 93, American chemist, Nobel laureate.
• December 12 - Tom Walkinshaw, 64, British engineer and racing team owner.
• December 13 - Richard Holbrooke, 69, American diplomat, complications from a torn aorta.
• December 15 - Blake Edwards, 88, American movie director, complications from pneumonia
• December 15 - Bob Feller, 92, American baseball player.
• December 15 - Jean Rollin, 72, French movie director, actor and writer.
• December 17 - Captain Beefheart, 69, American musician.
• December 18 - Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, 70, Italian banker and politician.
• December 20 - Brian Hanrahan, 61, British journalist, cancer.
• December 21 - Enzo Bearzot, 83, Italian footballer and coach.
• December 23 - K. Karunakaran, 92, Indian-Keralan politician, stroke.
• December 24 - Elisabeth Beresford, 84, British author.
• December 24 - Roy Neuberger, 107, American banker and art collector.
• December 24 - Eino Tamberg, 80, Estonian composer.
• December 25 - Carlos Andrés Pérez, 88, 55th President of Venezuela, cardiac arrest.
• December 26 - Teena Marie, 54, American singer-songwriter.
• December 26 - Salvador Jorge Blanco, 84, 48th President of the Dominican Republic, complications from fall.
• December 27 - Ronald Lee Herrick, 79, first organ donor, complications from heart surgery.
• December 28 - Billy Taylor, 89, American jazz musician, cardiac arrest.
• December 29 - Avi Cohen, 54, Israeli footballer, complications of head injuries.
• December 30 - Bobby Farrell, 61, Aruban performer.
• December 30 - Ellis Clarke, 93, 1st President of Trinidad and Tobago, complications from a stroke.
• December 31 - Syd Ward, 103, New Zealand cricketer.

References

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Succeeded by Deaths in 2011