Deaths in 2010
(Redirected from Deaths in April 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.[1]
- Chauncey H. Browning, Jr., 75, American politician, West Virginia Attorney General (1969–1985).[2]
- Jean Carroll, 98, American comedian (The Ed Sullivan Show).[3]
- Periyasamy Chandrasekaran, 52, Sri Lankan politician, Member of Parliament, after short illness.[4]
- Lhasa de Sela, 37, American singer, breast cancer.[5]
- Michael Dwyer, 58, Irish journalist and film critic, lung cancer.[6]
- Alfredo Mario Espósito Castro, 82, Argentinian Roman Catholic Bishop of Zárate-Campana (1976–1991).[7]
- John Freeman, 93, American animator (The Smurfs) and animation director (My Little Pony and Friends).[8]
- Bingo Gazingo, 85, American performance poet, struck by car.[9]
- Adrien Gilbert, 78, Canadian Olympic weightlifter[10]
- Richard Kindleberger, 67, American newspaper reporter (The Boston Globe), brain tumor.[11]
- John Lyon, 58, British cricketer.[12]
- Jack Middleton, 92, British Olympic swimmer.[13]
- Tetsuo Narikawa, 65, Japanese actor (Spectreman) and karate instructor, lung cancer.[14]
- Marlene Neubauer-Woerner, 91, German sculptor.[15]
- Libuše Patočková, 76, Czech Olympic cross-country skier.[16]
- Stanisław Przybylski, 79, Polish modern pentathlete.[17]
- Mohamed Rahmat, 71, Malaysian politician, Information Minister (1978–1982, 1987–1999).[18]
- Faisal Bin Shamlan, 75, Yemeni politician, presidential candidate (2006), cancer.[19]
- Billy Arjan Singh, 92, Indian author.[20]
- Gregory Slay, 40, American rock drummer (Remy Zero), songwriter (Nip/Tuck theme), cystic fibrosis.[21]
- Freya von Moltke, 98, German World War II resistance fighter.[22]
- John Shelton Wilder, 88, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee (1971–2007), stroke.[23]
- Vera Zakharova, 89, first Yakut woman to fly a plane
2
- Johann Frank, 71, Austrian football player (FK Austria Wien).[24]
- David Gerber, 86, American executive producer (Police Story, Police Woman), heart failure.[25]
- William Green, 82, British aviation writer.[26]
- Deborah Howell, 68, American journalist, The Washington Post ombudsman, hit by car.[27]
- René Oreel, 87, Belgian cyclist.[28]
- Augustine Paul, 65, Malaysian Federal Court judge, after chronic illness.[29]
- David R. Ross, 51, Scottish historian, heart attack.[30]
- Rajendra Shah, 96, Indian poet.[31]
3
- Gus Alexander, 75, Scottish footballer (Workington).[32]
- Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt, 84, Chilean composer, lung cancer.[33]
- Margery Beddow, 72, American choreographer and dancer.[34]
- Barry Blair, 56, Canadian comics artist and writer, brain aneurysm.[35]
- Gianni Bonichon, 65, Italian bobsledder, Olympic silver medalist.[36]
- Otto Breg, 60, Austrian Olympic bobsledder.[37]
- Sir Ian Brownlie, 77, British barrister, traffic collision.[38]
- Joyce Collins, 79, American jazz singer and pianist, pulmonary fibrosis.[39]
- Mary Daly, 81, American radical feminist philosopher.[40]
- Francis Gillingham, 93, British neurosurgeon.[41]
- Ali Safi Golpaygani, 96, Iranian Marja', natural causes.[42]
- Billy Harris, 58, American basketball player (Northern Illinois Huskies, San Diego Conquistadors), stroke.[43]
- John Keith Irwin, 80, American sociologist.[44]
- Eunice W. Johnson, 93, American director of Ebony Fashion Fair, widow of John H. Johnson, renal failure.[45]
- Charles Kleibacker, 88, American fashion designer, pneumonia.[46]
- Georges Martin, 94, French cyclist.[47]
- Takis Michalos, 63, Greek Greece men's national water polo team water polo player and coach; cancer.[48]
- Moti Nandi, 79, Indian writer and sports journalist.[49]
- Geoffrey Reeve, 77, British film director.[50]
- Isak Rogde, 62, Norwegian translator.[51]
- Tibet, 78, French comics artist and writer.[52]
- Bobby Wilkins, 87, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).[53]
4
- Olaug Abrahamsen, 81, Norwegian politician.[54]
- Rosalie Abrams, 88, American feminist playwright, actress and activist, Alzheimer's disease.[55]
- Paul Ahyi, 79, Togolese artist, designer of the flag of Togo.[56]
- Lew Allen, 84, American USAF general, NSA Director (1973–1977), USAF Chief of Staff (1978–1982), rheumatoid arthritis.[57]
- Knox Burger, 87, American editor, writer, and literary agent.[58]
- Neil Christian, 66, British singer, cancer.[59]
- Tony Clarke, 68, British musician and record producer (The Moody Blues), emphysema.[60]
- Sandro de América, 64, Argentinian singer, complications from heart and lung transplant surgery.[61]
- Donal Donnelly, 78, English-born Irish actor, cancer[62]
- Hywel Teifi Edwards, 75, Welsh historian and writer, after short illness.[63]
- Johan Ferrier, 99, Surinamese politician, President (1975–1980).[64]
- Tadeusz Góra, 91, Polish pilot.[65]
- Rory Markas, 54, American baseball radio announcer (Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim), heart attack.[66]
- György Mitró, 79, Hungarian Olympic swimmer.[67]
- Ludwig Wilding, 82, German artist.[68]
- Tsutomu Yamaguchi, 93, Japanese survivor of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, stomach cancer.[69]
5
- Abdul Azim al-Deeb, 80, Qatari professor (Qatar University).[70]
- Beverly Aadland, 67, American actress, girlfriend of Errol Flynn, diabetes and heart failure.[71]
- Daniel Kubert, 62, American mathematician.[72]
- Bernard Le Nail, 63, French writer, historian, Breton language and cultural advocate, cerebral hemorrhage.[73]
- Willie Mitchell, 81, American musician and record producer, cardiac arrest.[74]
- Kenneth Noland, 85, American color field painter, kidney cancer.[75]
- Courage Quashigah, 62, Ghanaian politician.[76]
- Philippa Scott, 91, British conservationist.[77]
- George Syrimis, 88, Cypriot finance minister (1988–1993).[78]
- Toni Tecuceanu, 37, Romanian comedy actor, bacterial infection.[79]
- Rolf Thieme, 65, German Olympic hockey player.[80]
- George Willoughby, 95, American Quaker activist.[81]
6
- Philippe Arthuys, 81, French composer and film director.[82]
- David Giles, 83, British television director.[83]
- Michael Goulder, 82, British biblical scholar.[84]
- Michael Harper, 78, British priest of the Church of England and later of the Antiochian Orthodox Church.[85]
- George Leonard, 86, American writer, editor and educator, pioneer of the Human Potential Movement, after long illness.[86]
- Graham Leonard, 88, British Church of England Bishop of London (1981–1991), subsequently a Roman Catholic priest.[87]
- Ivan Medek, 84, Czech music publicist, theorist and critic, collaborator of Václav Talich and Václav Havel.[88]
- Harriet Miller, 90, American politician, mayor of Santa Barbara, California (1995–2001).[89]
- Beniamino Placido, 80, Italian journalist and television critic.[90]
- Hervé Prouzet, 89, French cyclist[91]
- Kittu Suresh, 64, Indian cricketer.[92]
7
- Wendall Anschutz, 71, American television newsman.[93]
- Myrtle Aydelotte, 92, American nurse, professor and hospital administrator.[94]
- Sándor Barcs, 97, Hungarian politician and sport executive, interim President of UEFA (1972–1973).[95]
- Gerald Bordelon, 47, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.[96]
- Alexander Garnet Brown, 79, Canadian politician, member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly (1969–1978).[97]
- Bruria Kaufman, 91, Israeli physicist.[98]
- Stephen Huneck, 61, American wood carving artist, suicide by gunshot.[99]
- Kamal Mahsud, Pakistani Pashto language folk singer, gas leak.[100]
- Alex Parker, 74, Scottish football player (Falkirk, Everton, Southport, Scotland) and manager, heart attack.[101]
- Donald Edmond Pelotte, 64, American Roman Catholic Bishop of Gallup (1990–2008), first Native American bishop.[102]
- James D Robertson, 78, Scottish painter and lecturer.[103]
- Blanca Sánchez, 63, Mexican actress, kidney failure.[104]
- Philippe Séguin, 66, French politician, heart attack.[105]
- Jim White, 67, American professional wrestler, cancer.[106]
- Hardy Williams, 78, American politician, Pennsylvania State Senator (1983–1998), Alzheimer's disease.[107]
8
- Bob Blackburn, 85, American sports commentator (Seattle SuperSonics), pneumonia.[108]
- Jean Charpentier, 74, Canadian journalist, press secretary for Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, cancer.[109]
- Art Clokey, 88, American stop motion animator (Gumby, Davey and Goliath), bladder infection.[110]
- Piero De Bernardi, 83, Italian screenwriter.[111]
- Tony Halme, 47, Finnish professional boxer, actor, wrestler and Member of Parliament (2003–2007), suicide by gunshot.[112]
- Raymond Kamber, 79, Swiss Olympic sprint canoer.[113]
- Slavka Maneva, 75, Macedonian writer and poet.[114]
- Charles Massi, 57, Central African politician and rebel leader.[115]
- Monica Maughan, 76, Australian actress, cancer.[116]
- Jim Rimmer, 75, Canadian graphic designer, cancer.[117]
- Gladstone Robinson, 66, Jamaican cricketer.[118]
- Gerrit de Ruiter, 82, Dutch hockey player[119]
- Otmar Suitner, 87, Austrian conductor.[120]
- Hans L. Trefousse, 88, German-born American historian.[121]
- Amir Vahedi, 48, Iranian-born American poker player, complications of diabetes.[122]
- Sumner G. Whittier, 98, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (1953–1957).[123]
9
- Améleté Abalo, 47, Togolese national football team assistant coach, shot.[124]
- John Ballem, 84, Canadian novelist.[125]
- Amo Bessone, 93, American ice hockey player and coach.[126]
- Juan Bidegaray, 90, Uruguayan Olympic sailor[127]
- Gösta Bredefeldt, 74, Swedish actor.[128]
- Franz-Hermann Brüner, 64, German head of OLAF, after long illness.[129]
- Acúrsio Carrelo, 78, Portuguese footballer.[130]
- Mark Ellidge, 69–70, British press photographer.[131]
- Ken Genser, 59, American politician, mayor of Santa Monica, California, after long illness.[132]
- Per N. Hagen, 73, Norwegian politician.[133]
- Rupert Hamer, 39, British journalist, defence correspondent for the Sunday Mirror, improvised explosive device.[134]
- Fatimah Hashim, 85, Malaysian politician, first female minister in the Malaysian government.[135]
- Laura Chapman Hruska, 74, American writer, co-founder and editor in chief of Soho Press, cancer.[136]
- Jack Kerness, 98, American art director, natural causes.[137]
- Nadav Levitan, 64, Israeli film director and screenwriter, lung disease.[138]
- Ronald Moore, 84, Canadian politician.[139]
- Evgeni Paladiev, 61, Soviet-born Kazakh ice hockey player.[140]
- Diether Posser, 87, German politician.[141]
- Armand Razafindratandra, 84, Malagasy cardinal, archbishop of Antananarivo (1994–2005), fall.[142]
- Vimcy, 84, Indian sports writer.[143]
- Thomas Summers West, 82, Scottish chemist.[144]
10
- Sir Donald Acheson, 83, British physician, Chief Medical Officer of England (1983–1991).[145]
- Sailadhar Baruah, 68, Indian film producer, complications of diabetes.[146]
- Mina Bern, 98, Polish-born American Yiddish theatre actor, heart failure.[147]
- Bert Bushnell, 88, British Olympic gold medal-winning rower (1948).[148]
- Carlos Bonilla Chávez, 86, Ecuadorian classical guitarist.[149]
- Simon Digby, 77, Indian-born British scholar and linguist, pancreatic cancer.[150]
- Danny Fitzgerald, 49–50, Irish hurler and Gaelic football player.[151]
- Jan C. Gabriel, 69, American race track announcer, complications from polycystic kidney disease.[152]
- Donald Goerke, 83, American executive (Campbell's Soup Company), created SpaghettiOs, heart failure.[153]
- Dick Johnson, 84, American big band clarinetist (Artie Shaw Band), after short illness.[154]
- Edward Linde, 67, American businessman, founder of Boston Properties, pneumonia.[155]
- Frances Morrell, 72, British political adviser and educationalist, cancer.[156]
- Ulf Olsson, 58, Swedish murderer, suicide by hanging.[157]
- Bill Patterson, 87, Australian racing driver, natural causes.[158]
- Jayne Walton Rosen, 92, American singer, Lawrence Welk's Champagne Lady (1940–1945), natural causes.[159]
- Moisés Saba, 47, Mexican entrepreneur, helicopter crash.[160]
- Dale Shewalter, 59, American teacher, founder of the Arizona Trail, cancer.[161]
- Mano Solo, 46, French singer, ruptured aneurysm.[162]
- Crispin Sorhaindo, 78, Dominican politician, President (1993–1998), cancer.[163]
- Bojidar Spiriev, 77, Bulgarian-born Hungarian hydrologist and statistician, creator of IAAF scoring tables.[164]
- Torbjørn Yggeseth, 75, Norwegian ski jumping athlete and official.[165]
11
- Juliet Anderson, 71, American pornographic actress and movie producer.[166]
- Aleksandr Androshkin, 62, Soviet Ukrainian sports shooter.[167]
- Francisco Benkö, 99, German-born Argentine chess master.[168]
- Robben Wright Fleming, 93, American president of the University of Michigan (1968–1978).[169]
- Georgy Garanian, 75, Russian jazz saxophonist and bandleader, cardiac arrest.[170]
- Dorothy Geeben, 101, American mayor of Ocean Breeze Park, Florida (since 2001), oldest active mayor in the U.S.[171]
- Miep Gies, 100, Dutch humanitarian, protector of Anne Frank during World War II, complications from a fall.[172]
- Mick Green, 65, British rock and roll guitarist (Johnny Kidd & The Pirates, Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas).[173]
- Andis Hadjicostis, 43, Cypriot CEO of Sigma TV, shot.[174]
- Johnny King, 83, English footballer.[175]
- Kurt Liebhart, 76, Austrian Olympic sprint canoer.[176]
- Harry Männil, 89, Estonian-born Venezuelan businessman.[177]
- Bob Noorda, 82, Dutch-born Italian graphic designer.[178]
- Éric Rohmer, 89, French film director.[179]
- Joe Rollino, 104, American strongman, weightlifter, and boxer, struck by van.[180]
- Ed Scott, 92, American baseball scout.[181]
- Dennis Stock, 81, American photographer (Magnum Photos), colon and liver cancer.[182]
- Gordon Van Tol, 49, Canadian Olympic water polo player, heart attack.[183]
12
- Masoud Alimohammadi, 50, Iranian nuclear scientist, bomb blast.[184]
- Miloslav Bělonožník, 91, Czech Olympic ski jumper.[185]
- Daniel Bensaïd, 63, French philosopher and Trotskyist activist.[186]
- Ken Colbung, 78, Australian Aboriginal elder, after short illness.[187]
- Shirley Bell Cole, 89, American voice actor (Little Orphan Annie).[188]
- Miguel Ángel de la Flor, 85, Peruvian army officer and politician.[189]
- Colin Dettmer, 51, South African cricketer.[190]
- Altan Dinçer, 77, Turkish Olympic basketball player.[191]
- Krisda Arunvongse na Ayudhya, 78, Thai architect, Governor of Bangkok (1996–2001), coronary artery disease.[192]
- Fred Krone, 79, American stuntman, cancer.[193]
- Elizabeth Laverick, 85, British engineer.[194]
- Hillis Layne, 91, American Major League Baseball player (1941, 1944–1945).[195]
- Alastair Martin, 94, American tennis player, member of the Hall of Fame, President of the United States Tennis Association (1969–1970).[196]
- Sir Allen McClay, 77, British pharmaceutical company founder, cancer.[197]
- Elizabeth Moody, 70, New Zealand actress and theatre director, pneumonia.[198]
- Ann Prentiss, 70, American actress (Captain Nice, My Stepmother Is an Alien).[199]
- Art Rust, Jr., 82, American sports commentator, Parkinson's disease.[200]
- Hasib Sabbagh, 89, Palestinian businessman.[201]
- Vanda Skuratovich, 84, Belarusian Roman Catholic activist.[202]
- Vadú, 32, Cape Verdean singer, traffic collision.[203]
- Yabby You, 63, Jamaican reggae singer and producer, stroke.[204]
- Notable people killed in the 2010 Haiti earthquake:
- Georges Anglade, 65, Haitian professor and cabinet minister, co-founder of Université du Québec à Montréal.[205]
- Hédi Annabi, 65, Tunisian diplomat, Head of MINUSTAH.[206]
- Zilda Arns, 75, Brazilian pediatrician and humanitarian.[207]
- Luiz Carlos da Costa, 60, Brazilian diplomat, Deputy Head of MINUSTAH.[208]
- Serge Marcil, 65, Canadian politician, Quebec National Assembly of Quebec (1985–1994), MP for Beauharnois—Salaberry (2000–2004).[209]
- Flo McGarrell, 35, Italian-born American artist.[210]
- Myriam Merlet, 53, Haitian political activist.[211]
- Joseph Serge Miot, 63, Haitian Roman Catholic archbishop of Port-au-Prince.[212]
- Jimmy O, 35, Haitian hip hop musician.[213]
13
- Jack Block, 85, American psychologist, complications of a spinal cord injury.[214]
- Edward Brinton, 86, American marine biologist, after long illness.[215]
- Sir Robin Maxwell-Hyslop, 78, British politician, MP for Tiverton (1960–1992).[216]
- Abdullah Mehdar, Yemeni al-Qaeda terrorist, shot.[217]
- Teddy Pendergrass, 59, American soul singer, complications from colorectal cancer.[218]
- Jay Reatard, 29, American garage punk musician, cocaine toxicity.[219]
- Tommy Sloan, 84, Scottish footballer (Hearts, Motherwell).[220]
- Isamu Tanonaka, 77, Japanese voice actor (GeGeGe no Kitaro), heart attack.[221]
- Ed Thigpen, 79, American jazz drummer, after long illness.[222]
- Edgar Vos, 78, Dutch fashion designer, heart attack.[223]
14
- Ante Babaja, 82, Croatian film director and screenwriter.[224]
- Bobby Charles, 71, American songwriter ("See You Later, Alligator", "(I Don't Know Why) But I Do").[225]
- Antonio Fontán, 86, Spanish politician and journalist.[226]
- Micha Gaillard, 52-53, Haitian politician, earthquake.[227]
- John F. Hayes, 90, American attorney and politician, Kansas House of Representatives (1953–1955; 1967–1979).[228]
- Mark Jones, 70, British actor (The Empire Strikes Back, Doctor Who, Buccaneer).[229]
- Guðmundur Lárusson, 84, Icelandic Olympic sprinter.[230]
- Charles Nolte, 86, American actor, playwright and educator, prostate cancer.[231]
- Otto, 20, British dachshund-terrier, world's oldest dog, euthanised following stomach tumour.[232][233]
- P. K. Page, 93, Canadian poet.[234]
- Chilton Price, 96, American songwriter ("Slow Poke", "You Belong to Me").[235]
- Phoebe Prince, 15, Irish student at South Hadley High School, Massachusetts, bullying victim, suicide by hanging.[236]
- Marika Rivera, 90, French actress, daughter of Diego Rivera.[237]
- James W. Rutherford, 84, American mayor of Flint, Michigan (1975–1983, 2002–2003).[238]
- Katharina Rutschky, 68, German educationalist and author.[239]
- Petra Schürmann, 74, German television presenter, Miss World 1956, after long illness.[240]
- Jessie Tait, 81, British ceramic designer.[241]
- Antonio Vilaplana Molina, 83, Spanish Roman Catholic Bishop of León (1987–2002), renal failure.[242]
- Bernie Voorheis, 87, American basketball player.[243]
- Rowland Wolfe, 95, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1932) gymnast.[244]
15
- Asim Butt, 31, Pakistani artist (Stuckism art movement), suicide by hanging.[245]
- Florence-Marie Cooper, 69, American federal judge, District Court for Central District of California (since 1999), lymphoma.[246]
- Michael Creeth, 85, British biochemist.[247]
- Bahman Jalali, 65, Iranian photographer, pancreatic cancer.[248]
- Detlev Lauscher, 57, German footballer.[249]
- Steve Lovelady, 66, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, throat cancer.[250]
- Mike Osborn, 92, British military officer.[251]
- Marshall Warren Nirenberg, 82, American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (1968), cancer.[252]
- Peter Thomson, 73, Australian Anglican theologian, mentor to Tony Blair.[253]
16
- Glen Bell, 86, American entrepreneur, founder of Taco Bell.[254]
- Judi Chamberlin, 65, American anti-psychiatry activist, lung disease.[255]
- Guy Day, 79, American advertising executive.[256]
- Sam Dixon, 60, American minister, Deputy General Secretary of UMCOR (since 2007), earthquake.[257]
- Robert Gerard, 89, Belgian footballer [1]
- Musa Inuwa, 62, Nigerian politician.[258]
- George Jellinek, 90, American radio personality (WQXR).[259]
- Felice Quinto, 80, Italian photographer.[260]
- Takumi Shibano, 83, Japanese novelist, pneumonia.[261]
- Carl Smith, 82, American country singer-songwriter ("Hey Joe"), after long illness.[262]
- Bernie Weintraub, 76, American talent agent, co-founder of the Paradigm Talent Agency.[263]
- Jimmy Wyble, 87, American guitarist, heart failure.[264]
17
- Gaines Adams, 26, American football player (Chicago Bears, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), cardiac arrest.[265]
- Maki Asakawa, 67, Japanese singer, heart failure.[266]
- Jyoti Basu, 95, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (1977–2000), complications from pneumonia.[267]
- Thomas F. Cowan, 82, American politician, New Jersey State Senator (1984–1994).[268]
- Daisuke Gōri, 57, Japanese voice actor (Dragon Ball, Kinnikuman, Mobile Suit Gundam), suicide by wrist cutting.[269]
- Béla Köpeczi, 88, Hungarian historian and politician, Minister of Education (1982–1988).[270]
- Michalis Papakonstantinou, 91, Greek politician and author, Minister for Foreign Affairs (1992–1993).[271]
- Erich Segal, 72, American professor, author (Love Story), and screenwriter (Yellow Submarine), heart attack.[272]
18
- Ghulam Rabbani Agro, 76, Pakistani writer.[273]
- K. S. Ashwath, 84, Indian actor, multiple organ failure.[274]
- Cyril Burke, 84, Australian rugby union player.[275]
- Herb Grosch, 91, Canadian-born American computer scientist.[276]
- Kate McGarrigle, 63, Canadian folk singer, clear-cell sarcoma.[277]
- Günter Mielke, 67, German Olympic athlete.[278]
- Gladys Morcom, 91, British Olympic swimmer.[279]
- Imari Obadele, 79, American black separatist, stroke.[280]
- Reha Oğuz Türkkan, 90, Turkish writer.[281]
- Kevin O'Shea, 62, Canadian ice hockey player (St. Louis Blues, Buffalo Sabres).[282]
- Robert B. Parker, 77, American detective writer (Spenser series, Jesse Stone novels), heart attack.[283]
- Jörgen Philip-Sörensen, 71, Danish businessman, after long illness.[284]
- Robert D. Rowley, 68, American Episcopal Bishop of Northwestern Pennsylvania (1991–2007).[285]
- Josephus Tethool, 75, Indonesian Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of Amboina (1982–2009).[286]
- Celestino Tugot, 99, Filipino golfer, winner of the Philippine Open (1949, 1955–1958, 1962), lung cancer.[287]
19
- Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, 50, Palestinian leader of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, murdered.[288]
- Frances Buss Buch, 92, American first female television director.[289]
- Christos Chatziskoulidis, 58, Greek footballer (Egaleo F.C.), cancer.[290]
- Ian Christie, 82, British jazz clarinetist.[291]
- Tom Cochran, 85, American football player (Washington Redskins).[292]
- Dan Fitzgerald, 67, American college basketball coach (Gonzaga).[293]
- Vladimir Karpov, 87, Russian writer, Chairman of the USSR Union of Writers (1986–1991).[294]
- Jennifer Lyon, 37, American reality TV personality (Survivor: Palau), breast cancer.[295]
- Ida Mae Martinez, 78, American professional wrestler.[296]
- Bill McLaren, 86, Scottish rugby union commentator.[297]
- Panajot Pano, 70, Albanian footballer.[298]
- Cerge Remonde, 51, Filipino journalist and politician, heart attack.[299]
- Kalthoum Sarrai, 47, Tunisian-born French television presenter (Supernanny), cancer.[300]
- William Vitarelli, 99, American educator and architect.[301]
20
- Enid Campbell, 77, Australian legal scholar.[302]
- Tony Cummins, 103, Irish Roman Catholic priest.[303]
- Patricia Donoho Hughes, 79, American First Lady of Maryland (1979–1987), wife of Harry Hughes, Parkinson's disease.[304]
- John S. Loisel, 89, American fighter ace.[305]
- Bob Minton, 63, American-born Irish banker, critic of Scientology, heart ailment.[306]
- John Francis Moore, 68, Nigerian Roman Catholic Bishop of Bauchi (since 2003).[307]
- Jack Parry, 86, Welsh footballer (Swansea Town, Ipswich Town, Wales).[308]
- John Pawle, 94, English cricketer.[309]
- Derek Prag, 86, British politician, MEP for Hertfordshire (1979–1994).[310]
- Wallace Michael Ross, 89, British organist and choirmaster.[311]
- Abraham Sutzkever, 96, Polish-born Israeli poet.[312]
- Lynn Taitt, 75, Jamaican reggae guitarist, cancer.[313]
21
- Sayeed Ahmed, 79, Bangladeshi playwright.[314]
- Orhan Alp, 90, Turkish engineer and politician.[315]
- Bobby Bragan, 92, American baseball player and manager, heart attack.[316]
- Irwin Dambrot, 81, American basketball player involved in the CCNY Point Shaving Scandal, Parkinson's disease.[317]
- Lawrence Garfinkel, 88, American epidemiologist, cardiovascular disease.[318]
- Knud Gleie, 74, Danish Olympic swimmer.[319]
- Larry Johnson, 62, American film producer, heart attack.[320]
- Chindodi Leela, 72, Indian theatre and film actress, complications from heart attack.[321]
- Robert "Squirrel" Lester, 67, American smooth soul tenor (The Chi-Lites), liver cancer.[322]
- Hal Manders, 92, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).[323]
- Jacques Martin, 88, French comics artist and writer.[324]
- Camille Maurane, 98, French baritone singer.[325]
- Guillermo Abadía Morales, 97, Colombian folklore researcher, indigenous language expert, natural causes.[326]
- Curt Motton, 69, American baseball player, stomach cancer.[327]
- Paul Quarrington, 56, Canadian novelist, musician and screenwriter, lung cancer.[328]
22
- Apache, 45, American rapper.[329]
- Lenna Arnold, 89, American baseball player (AAGPBL)[330]
- Donnis Churchwell, 73, American football player.[331]
- Sir Percy Cradock, 86, British diplomat, after short illness.[332]
- Sir Dermot de Trafford, 85, British aristocrat and businessman.[333]
- Clayton Gerein, 45, Canadian wheelchair sports athlete, seven-time Paralympian, brain tumor.[334]
- Claus Gerson, 92, American Olympic hockey player.[335]
- Louis R. Harlan, 87, American Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, after long illness.[336]
- Iskandar of Johor, 77, Malaysian Yang di-Pertuan Agong (1984–1989), Sultan of Johor (1981–2010).[337]
- Jennifer Lyn Jackson, 40, American Playboy model, drug overdose.[338]
- Andrew E. Lange, 52, American astrophysicist, Big Bang researcher, suicide by asphyxiation.[339]
- Juan Pedro Laporte, 64, Guatemalan archaeologist.[340]
- Janeshwar Mishra, 76, Indian politician, cardiac arrest.[341]
- James Mitchell, 89, American actor (All My Children), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.[342]
- Private Terms, 25, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.[343]
- Gordon Richardson, Baron Richardson of Duntisbourne, 94, British Governor of the Bank of England (1973–1983).[344]
- Godfrey A. Rockefeller, 85, American aviator and conservationist.[345]
- Johnny Seven, 83, American actor (Ironside, The Apartment, Gunfight in Abilene), lung cancer.[346]
- Jean Simmons, 80, British actress (Hamlet, Spartacus, Guys and Dolls), Emmy winner (1983), lung cancer.[347]
- Ruth P. Smith, 102, American pro-choice campaigner.[348]
- Tuanaitau F. Tuia, 89, American Samoan politician and legislator, longest serving member of the American Samoa Fono.[349]
- Betty Wilson, 88, Australian cricketer.[350]
- Tom Wittum, 60, American football player (San Francisco 49ers), cancer.[351]
23
- George C. Baldwin, 92, American physicist.[352]
- Haren S. Gandhi, 68, Indian-born American inventor and engineer.[353]
- Robert Lam, 64, Malaysian news presenter, skin cancer.[354]
- Douglas J. Martin, 82, New Zealand leader in the LDS Church.[355]
- Sam Match, 87, American tennis player.[356]
- Roger Pierre, 86, French actor (Mon oncle d'Amérique), cancer.[357]
- Sir Thomas Prickett, 96, British RAF Air Chief Marshal.[358]
- Kermit Tyler, 96, American pilot, figured in the attack on Pearl Harbor, complications from strokes.[359]
- Oleg Velyky, 32, Ukrainian-born German handball player, melanoma.[360]
- Earl Wild, 94, American classical pianist, heart failure.[361]
24
- Boydson Baird, 91, American basketball player.
- Lawrence Aloysius Burke, 77, Jamaican Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kingston (2004–2008), Nassau (1981–2004), cancer.[362]
- Thomas Cullinan, 63, South African cricketer.[363]
- Donald Dowd, 87, American campaign aide to the Kennedy family.[364]
- Ghazali Shafie, 87, Malaysian politician, Home Minister (1973–1981) and Foreign Minister (1981–1984).[365]
- Irshad Ahmed Haqqani, 81, Pakistani journalist and politician.[366]
- Robert Mosbacher, 82, American politician, Secretary of Commerce (1989–1992), pancreatic cancer.[367]
- Leonid Nechayev, 70, Russian film director, stroke.[368]
- Jim Podoley, 76, American football player (Washington Redskins), melanoma.[369]
- James Henry Quello, 95, American government official, FCC Commissioner (1974–1997), heart and kidney failure.[370]
- FitzRoy Somerset, 5th Baron Raglan, 82, British aristocrat.[371]
- Pernell Roberts, 81, American actor (Bonanza; Trapper John, M.D., Ride Lonesome), pancreatic cancer.[372]
- Peter Wood, 74, Australian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland (1966–1974).[373]
25
- Ali Hassan al-Majid, 68, Iraqi military commander and government minister, execution by hanging.[374]
- Sefis Anastasakos, 68, Greek politician, author, lawyer and activist, cancer.[375]
- Lynn Bayonas, 66, Australian television writer and producer, cancer.[376]
- Orlando Cole, 101, American classical cellist and educator.[377]
- Horace Weldon Gilmore, 91, American federal judge.[378]
- Jane Jarvis, 94, American jazz pianist and organist.[379]
- Pádraig MacKernan, 69, Irish diplomat, Secretary General (Foreign Affairs), Ambassador to France and United States.[380]
- Georgiann Makropoulos, 67, American professional wrestling historian and author, heart attack.[381]
- Iivari Malmikoski, 82, Finnish Olympic boxer.[382]
- Charles Mathias, 87, American politician, Senator from Maryland (1969–1987), complications of Parkinson's disease.[383]
- Gordon Park, 66, British convicted murderer, apparent suicide by hanging.[384]
- Algirdas Petrulis, 95, Lithuanian painter.[385]
- Ivan Prenđa, 70, Croatian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Zadar (since 1990).[386]
- Bill Ritchie, 78, Scottish comic book artist.[387]
- Emilio Vieyra, 88, Argentine film director, actor, screenwriter and producer.[388]
26
- Andon Amaraich, 77, Micronesian Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, pneumonia.[389]
- Louis Auchincloss, 92, American novelist, complications of a stroke.[390]
- Juliusz Bardach, 95, Polish historian.[391]
- Boa Sr., 85, Indian Great Andamanese elder, last speaker of the Bo language.[392]
- Geoffrey Burbidge, 84, British-born American astrophysicist, after long illness.[393]
- Anne Froelick, 96, American blacklisted screenwriter.[394]
- Dag Frøland, 64, Norwegian comedian, singer and variety artist.[395]
- Gummadi, 82, Indian actor.[396]
- Paul R. Jones, 81, American art collector, after short illness.[397]
- Eugenijus Karpavičius, 56, Lithuanian illustrator.[398]
- Inda Ledesma, 83, Argentine actress, cardiac arrest.[399]
- Ajmer Singh, 69, Indian athlete and educator.[400]
- Paul Mbiybe Verdzekov, 79, Cameroonian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bamenda (1970–2006).[401]
- Ken Walters, 76, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).[402]
27
- Harry Alger, 85, Canadian politician.[139]
- Lee Archer, 90, American Air Force pilot (Tuskegee Airman).[403]
- Barry Blitzer, 80, American television writer (Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., The Flintstones, The Jetsons), complications from abdominal surgery.[404]
- Betty Lou Keim, 71, American actress, lung cancer.[405]
- Ruben Kruger, 39, South African rugby union player, brain tumor.[406]
- Eduardo Michaelsen, 89, Cuban exile, painter in the naive art style.[407]
- Shirley Collie Nelson, 78, American country singer, ex-wife of Willie Nelson.[408]
- Zelda Rubinstein, 76, American actress (Poltergeist, Picket Fences, Scariest Places on Earth).[409]
- J. D. Salinger, 91, American author (The Catcher in the Rye).[410]
- Howard Zinn, 87, American historian (A People's History of the United States), civil rights and anti-war activist, heart attack.[411]
28
- A.K.M. Mohiuddin Ahmed, Bangladesh Army officer, hanged.[412]
- Mohammad-Reza Ali-Zamani, app. 38, Iranian activist, hanging.[413]
- Frank Baker Jr., 66, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians), heart failure.[414]
- Larbi Belkheir, 72, Algerian major general, Interior Minister (1991).[415]
- Bill Binder, 94, American restaurateur (Phillippe's).[416]
- Eduardo Catalano, 92, Argentine architect.[417]
- Patricia Clarke, 90, British biochemist.[418]
- José Eugênio Corrêa, 95, Brazilian Roman Catholic Bishop of Caratinga (1957–1978).[419]
- Margaret Dale, 87, British dancer and television director.[420]
- Walter Fondren, 73, American football player and conservationist, heart failure.[421]
- George Hanlon, 92, Australian horse trainer, three-time Melbourne Cup winner, natural causes.[422]
- Mick Higgins, 87, Irish Gaelic footballer, All-Ireland Senior Football Championship winner (Cavan; 1947, 1948, 1952).[423]
- Wilfriede Hoffmann, 77, German Olympic athlete.[424]
- Mohammad Bazlul Huda, Bangladeshi army officer and assassin of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, hanged.[425]
- Alistair Hulett, 57, Scottish-born Australian folk singer, liver failure.[426]
- Robert Joffe, 66, American lawyer, pancreatic cancer.[427]
- Patricia Leonard, 73, British contralto, throat cancer.[428]
- Kazimierz Mijal, 99, Polish politician.[429]
- Bud Millikan, 89, American basketball coach (University of Maryland).[430]
- Sarah Mulvey, 34, British television producer (Channel 4), suspected suicide by opioid overdose.[431]
- Arash Rahmanipour, app. 20, Iranian activist, execution by hanging.[413]
- Seymour Sarason, 91, American psychologist.[432]
- Keiko Tobe, 52, Japanese manga artist (With the Light), mesothelioma.[433]
29
- Evgeny Agranovich, 91, Russian composer and bard.[434]
- Elsa Bakalar, 90–91, English-born American garden designer.[435]
- Tom Brookshier, 78, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles), coach and sportscaster (CBS Sports, WCAU), cancer.[436]
- Adam Alexander Dawson, 96, British film editor.[437]
- Eric Freiwald, 82, American television writer (The Young and the Restless).[438]
- Georgelle Hirliman, 73, American performance artist, cancer.[439]
- Sir Derek Hodgkinson, 92, British air chief marshal.[440]
- Tom Howard, 59, American musician, heart attack.[441]
- Ralph McInerny, 80, American philosopher (University of Notre Dame) and mystery author (Father Dowling Mysteries).[442]
- Ram Niwas Mirdha, 85, Indian politician (Lok Sabha), minister and speaker (Rajasthan Legislative Assembly), multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.[443]
- Wilf Paish, 77, British athletics coach, after long illness.[444]
- Mikael Reuterswärd, 45, Swedish adventurer, first Swede to reach summit of Mount Everest (body found on this date).[445]
- Karen Schmeer, 39, American documentary film editor (The Fog of War), vehicular hit-and-run.[446]
- Zahid Sheikh, 60, Pakistani Olympic silver medal-winning (1972) field hockey player.[447]
- Cameron Snyder, 93, American sports journalist (The Baltimore Sun), won Dick McCann Memorial Award (1982), lung cancer.[448]
- Eckart Viehweg, 61, German mathematician, after short illness.[449]
30
- Rafet Angın, 94, Turkish teacher.[450]
- Erna Baumbauer, 91, German casting agent.[451]
- Ruth Cohn, 97, German psychotherapist.[452]
- Lucienne Day, 93, British textile designer.[453]
- Ron Giles, 90, English cricketer (Nottinghamshire).[454]
- Sølve Grotmol, 70, Norwegian sports commentator.[455]
- Bruce Mitchell, 90, Australian academic.[456]
- Ursula Mommens, 101, British potter.[457]
- Brahmananda Panda, 61, Indian politician.[458]
- Guy Renwick, 73, British Olympic bobsledder.[459]
- Aaron Ruben, 95, American television producer (Andy Griffith Show, Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C., Sanford and Son), pneumonia.[460]
- Tan Eng Yoon, 82, Singaporean Olympic sprinter.[461]
31
- Gunnar Aksnes, 83, Norwegian chemist and poet.[462]
- Kage Baker, 57, American science fiction and fantasy author, uterine cancer.[463]
- Pauly Fuemana, 40, New Zealand musician (OMC), after short illness.[464]
- Henry Fukuhara, 96, American watercolor painter, natural causes.[465]
- Patricia Gage, 69, British actress and voice actress.[466]
- Jiří Havlis, 77, Czech Olympic gold medal-winning (1952) rower.[467]
- Albert Huie, 89, Jamaican painter.[468]
- Edith Josie, 88, Canadian columnist, natural causes.[469]
- Viktor Kaisiepo, 61, Netherlands New Guinean-born Dutch activist for West Papuan independence.[470]
- Thorleif Karlsen, 100, Norwegian police inspector, politician and radio host, natural causes.[471]
- Sanna Kiero, 79, Finnish Olympic cross-country skier.[472]
- Howard Lotsof, 66, American researcher, discovered anti-addictive effects of ibogaine, liver cancer.[473]
- Tomás Eloy Martínez, 75, Argentine writer and journalist, brain tumor.[474]
- Shizuka Miura, 47, Japanese ball-jointed doll maker and musician, suicide.[475]
- John Norris, 76, British-born Canadian publisher (Coda), heart condition.[476]
- Keith Norton, 69, Canadian politician, former MPP for Kingston and the Islands (1975–1985), cancer.[477]
- Paddie O'Neil, 83, British actress and singer.[478]
- Phil Smith, 63, Australian football player, cancer.[479]
- Pierre Vaneck, 78, French actor (The Science of Sleep), complications of heart surgery.[480]
February
1
- Willie Anku, 60, Ghanaian music theorist, ethnomusicologist, composer, and performer, traffic collision.[481]
- Jim Atherton, 86, Welsh footballer.[482]
- Julian Edwin Bailes, Sr., 95, American politician, attorney and judge, stroke.[483]
- Jack Brisco, 68, American professional wrestler, complications from open heart surgery.[484]
- David Brown, 93, American film producer (Jaws, Cocoon, A Few Good Men), renal failure.[485]
- Rodolfo de Anda, 66, Mexican actor, thrombosis.[486]
- Steingrímur Hermannsson, 81, Icelandic politician, Prime Minister (1983–1987, 1988–1991).[487]
- Bobby Kirk, 82, Scottish footballer, dementia.[488]
- Atsushi Kuroi, 40, Japanese professional drifting driver, motorcycle accident.[489]
- Azzeddine Laraki, 80, Moroccan politician, Prime Minister (1986–1992).[490]
- Peter Martell, 71, Italian film actor.[491]
- Justin Mentell, 27, American actor (Boston Legal, G-Force), traffic collision.[492]
- Subir Raha, 61, Indian executive, chairman and managing director of ONGC (2001–2006), lung cancer.[493]
- Jaap van der Poll, 95, Dutch Olympic javelin thrower (1936 Summer Olympics).[494]
2
- Juan del Campo, 87, Spanish Olympic field hockey player.[495]
- Louisa Benson Craig, 68, Burmese-born American beauty queen and community leader.[496]
- Myron Donovan Crocker, 94, American federal judge.[497]
- Cochin Haneefa, 58, Indian Malayalam film actor, multiple organ failure.[498]
- Futa Helu, 75, Tongan philosopher.[499]
- Paul Herlinger, 80, American voice actor,[500]
- Tahir Hussain, 72, Indian film director, producer and writer, cardiac arrest.[501]
- Bernard Kates, 87, American actor, sepsis and pneumonia.[502]
- Svetozar Kurepa, 80, Croatian mathematician.[503]
- Aleen Leslie, 101, American screenwriter (A Date with Judy), pneumonia.[504]
- Rosa Lobato de Faria, 77, Portuguese writer and actress, complications from anemia.[505]
- Eustace Mullins, 86, American political writer, author and biographer, stroke.[506]
- Rex Nettleford, 76, Jamaican scholar and choreographer, heart attack.[507]
- Ng Teng Fong, 82, Chinese-born Singaporean businessman, complications from a cerebral hemorrhage.[508]
- Jens-Anton Poulsson, 91, Norwegian military officer and resistance fighter (heavy water sabotage).[509]
- Srinivas Rangaraj, 77, Indian cricketer.[510]
- Nelli Shkolnikova, 82, Ukrainian-born Australian violinist and educator, cancer.[511]
- Raymond Wang Chong Lin, 88, Chinese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Zhaoxian, cerebral hemorrhage.[512]
- Donald Wiseman, 91, British Assyriologist.[513]
- William Yurko, 83, Canadian politician, MP for Edmonton East (1979–1984).[514]
3
- Faiza Ashraf, 26, Pakistani-Norwegian shop assistant, strangulation.[515]
- Claudio Corti, 81, Italian mountaineer.[516]
- Elazar ben Tsedaka ben Yitzhaq, 83, Palestinian Samaritan High Priest.[517]
- Frank Fasi, 89, American politician, Mayor of Honolulu (1969–1981, 1984–1994), natural causes.[518]
- John McCallum, 91, Australian actor and television producer (Skippy the Bush Kangaroo).[519]
- Dick McGuire, 84, American basketball player, New York Knicks senior consultant, Basketball Hall of Famer, ruptured aortic aneurysm.[520]
- Gil Merrick, 88, English footballer (Birmingham City).[521]
- Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen, 85, German princess, wife of Otto von Habsburg.[522]
- Frances Reid, 95, American actress (Days of Our Lives).[523]
- John Rety, 79, Hungarian-born British poet and anarchist.[524]
- Lindsay Thomas, 31, Canadian stage actress, lung cancer.[525]
- Georges Wilson, 88, French actor and film director.[526]
4
- Kostas Axelos, 85, Greek philosopher.[527]
- Gul Hameed Bhatti, 63, Pakistani journalist and editor, stroke.[528]
- Bill Dudley, 88, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), Pro Football Hall of Famer, stroke.[529]
- Manuel Esteba, 68, Spanish film director.[530]
- Richard Lashof, 87, American mathematician, after long illness.[531]
- Tomás Mac Giolla, 86, Irish politician, after long illness.[532]
- Cecil Heftel, 85, American businessman and politician, U.S. Representative from Hawaii (1977–1986), natural causes.[533]
- D. Van Holliday, 69, American physicist, complications of cardiac surgery.[534]
- Alfred Käärmann, 87, Estonian resistance fighter, member of the Forest Brothers.[535]
- Phillip Martin, 83, American tribal chief (Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians), stroke.[536]
- H. A. Perera, 59, Sri Lankan actor, after short illness.[537]
- Meir Pichhadze, 54, Georgian-born Israeli artist and painter, cancer.[538]
- Joseph Ignace Randrianasolo, 62, Malagasy Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Mahajanga (1999–2010).[539]
- Carl E. Taylor, 93, American physician and expert on international health, prostate cancer.[540]
- Te Wei, 95, Chinese animator, respiratory failure.[541]
- Helen Tobias-Duesberg, 90, Estonian-born American composer.[542]
- Allan Wicks, 86, British organist and choirmaster.[543]
5
- Bayken Ashimov, 92, Kazakh politician.[544]
- Brendan Burke, 21, Canadian-born American ice hockey player, traffic collision.[545]
- Peter Calvocoressi, 97, British historian, publisher and intelligence officer.[546]
- Ian Carmichael, 89, British actor (Lucky Jim, Private's Progress, I'm All Right Jack).[547]
- Mallia Franklin, 57, American singer.[548]
- Galimzyan Khusainov, 72, Russian footballer.[source?]
- Sujit Kumar, 75, Indian actor and producer, cancer.[549]
- Frank Magid, 78, American media consultant, creator of Action News, lymphoma.[550]
- Hiroyuki Oze, 24, Japanese baseball player, suicide by jumping.[551]
- Clarke Scholes, 79, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1952) swimmer, heart failure.[552]
- Harry Schwarz, 85, South African lawyer, politician and diplomat, leader of the anti-apartheid movement, after short illness.[553]
- Brooks Thomas, 78, American publisher (Harper and Row), complications of a brain injury after a fall.[554]
6
- Micky Axton, 91, American aviator (Women Airforce Service Pilots), after short illness.[555]
- Albert Booth, 81, British politician, MP for Barrow-in-Furness (1966–1983), Secretary of State for Employment (1976–1979).[556]
- Robert Dana, 80, American poet, Iowa poet laureate (2004–2008), pancreatic cancer.[557]
- Sir John Dankworth, 82, British jazz musician.[558]
- Richard Delvy, 67, American drummer (The Bel-Airs), composer and record producer, after long illness.[559]
- Brad Ecklund, 87, American football player (New York Yanks), heart failure.[560]
- Ernest van der Eyken, 96, Belgian composer, conductor and violist.[561]
- Kipkemboi Kimeli, 43, Kenyan athlete, 1988 Olympic bronze medalist, complications from pneumonia and tuberculosis.[562]
- Lee Yung-dug, 83, South Korean politician, Prime Minister (1994), pneumonia.[563]
- Henry A. Miley, Jr., 94, American soldier, U.S. Army four-star general.[564]
- Lady Marjorie Nellie Murray, 85, British socialite, witness at the Nuremberg and Tokyo war crimes trials.[565]
- Nancy Sweezy, 88, American folklorist, potter and writer.[566]
- Donald Welsh, 66, American publisher (Outside), drowning.[567]
7
- Lars Aspeflaten, 85, Norwegian barrister and politician.[568]
- Franco Ballerini, 45, Italian road racing cyclist, rally crash.[569]
- Daniel Joseph Bradley, 82, British physicist.[570]
- Jean-Marie Buisset, 71, Belgian Olympic bobsledder and field hockey player, after short illness.[571]
- Bobby Dougan, 83, Scottish footballer.[572]
- André Kolingba, 73, Central African politician, President (1981–1993).[573]
- Paul LaPalme, 86, American baseball player, after long illness.[574]
- Lim Soo-hyeok, 40, South Korean baseball player (Lotte Giants), cardiac dysrhythmia.[575]
- Mihailo Marković, 86, Serbian philosopher.[576]
- Kasturi Rajadhyaksha, 86, Indian physician.[577]
- Robert Roxby, 83, Australian cricketer.[578]
- Oscar da Silva, 89, Brazilian Olympic equestrian.[579]
- William Tenn, 89, American science fiction writer and educator, heart failure.[580]
8
- Angelo Franzosi, 88, Italian footballer.[581]
- David Froman, 71, American actor (The Edge of Night, Matlock), cancer.[582]
- Antonio Giolitti, 94, Italian politician.[583]
- Jimmie Heuga, 66, American Alpine ski racer, 1964 Olympic bronze medalist, multiple sclerosis.[584]
- Robert Hoy, 82, American actor (The Enforcer) and stuntman, cancer.[585]
- Carl Kaysen, 89, American economist, Deputy National Security Advisor (1961–1963), complications from a fall.[586]
- Dieter Klauß, 62, German Olympic hockey player.[587]
- Bernard Lander, 94, American rabbi, founder of Touro College.[588]
- John Murtha, 77, American politician, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (1974–2010), complications of gallbladder surgery.[589]
- Anna Samokhina, 47, Russian actress, stomach cancer.[590]
- Krzysztof Skubiszewski, 83, Polish politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1989–1993).[591]
- Bobby A. Suarez, 67, Filipino film producer, director and screenwriter.[592]
- Wahei Tatematsu, 62, Japanese novelist, multiple organ failure.[source?]
- Bill Utterback, 79, American illustrator and caricaturist.[593]
- Isidoor Van De Wiele, 85, Belgian Olympic sprinter.[594]
9
- Abdul Karim Amu, 76, Nigerian sprinter.[595]
- Chaskel Besser, 86, Polish-born American rabbi.[596]
- John D. Butler, 94, American politician, mayor of San Diego (1951–1955), natural causes.[597]
- Davy Coenen, 29, Belgian mountain biker, brain tumor.[598]
- Alfred Gregory, 96, British mountain climber and photojournalist.[599]
- Phil Harris, 53, American fisherman, reality television participant (Deadliest Catch), stroke.[600]
- Jacques Hétu, 71, Canadian composer, lung cancer.[601]
- Juris Kalniņš, 71, Latvian basketball player.[602]
- Albert Kligman, 93, American dermatologist, inventor of Retin-A, heart attack.[603]
- Walter Frederick Morrison, 90, American inventor, designer of the frisbee.[604]
- Francine Irving Neff, 84, American politician, Treasurer of the United States (1974–1977), heart failure.[605]
- Iza Orjonikidze, 71, Georgian writer and politician, MP (1992–1995), after long illness.[606]
- Hastings Shade, 68, American deputy tribal chief of the Cherokee Nation (1999–2003).[607]
- David W. Slater, 88, Canadian economist, civil servant and President of York University (1970–1973).[608]
- Patricia Travers, 82, American violinist, cancer.[609]
- Malcolm Vaughan, 80, British singer.[610]
- Robert Shaw Sturgis Whitman, 94, American Episcopalian priest.[611]
10
- Yosef Azran, 69, Israeli rabbi and politician, member of the Knesset (1988–1996), liver failure.[612]
- Jack Bownass, 79, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens, New York Rangers).[613]
- Carl Braun, 82, American basketball player (New York Knicks), natural causes.[614]
- Armando Falcão, 90, Brazilian politician, Justice Minister (1974–1979), pneumonia.[615]
- Gabriela Konevska-Trajkovska, 38, Macedonian politician, Deputy Prime Minister (2006–2008), after long illness.[616]
- Judith Paige Mitchell, 77, American television writer (The Client), cancer.[617]
- Michael Palme, 66, German sportswriter and host.[618]
- Orlando Peçanha, 74, Brazilian footballer, heart attack.[619]
- Gireesh Puthenchery, 48, Indian Malayalam lyricist and screenwriter, brain haemorrhage.[620]
- K. N. Raj, 85, Indian economist, after long illness.[621]
- Nelis J. Saunders, 88, American politician.[622]
- Fred Schaus, 84, American basketball player and coach (Los Angeles Lakers).[623]
- Enn Soosaar, 72, Estonian translator, literary critic and publicist.[624]
- José Joaquín Trejos Fernández, 93, Costa Rican President (1966–1970), natural causes.[625]
- David Tyacke, 94, British Army general.[626]
- Eduard Vinokurov, 67, Russian Olympic fencer (1968, 1972, 1976).[627]
- Frederick C. Weyand, 93, American army general, natural causes.[628]
- Charlie Wilson, 76, American politician, U.S. Representative (1973–1997), subject of the book and movie Charlie Wilson's War, pulmonary arrest.[629]
- H. V. F. Winstone, 83, British writer and journalist, lung cancer.[630]
11
- Irina Arkhipova, 85, Russian mezzo-soprano singer, People's Artist of the USSR, cardiac arrest.[631]
- Shahid Azmi, 32, Indian lawyer, shot.[632]
- Jabez Bryce, 75, Tongan-born Anglican prelate, archbishop of Polynesia (since 1975), first Pacific Islander Anglican bishop.[633]
- Iain Burgess, 56, British-born American punk rock record producer, pulmonary embolism.[634]
- Jennifer Daugherty, 30, American torture murder victim.[635]
- Pio Filippani Ronconi, 89, Italian orientalist.[636]
- Walther Fröstell, 96, Swedish Olympic shooter.[637]
- Brian Godfrey, 69, Welsh footballer, leukaemia.[638]
- Heward Grafftey, 81, Canadian politician, MP for Brome—Missisquoi, Parkinson's disease (1958–1968, 1972–1980).[639]
- Arthur H. Hayes, Jr., 76, American public official, Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration (1981–1983), leukemia.[640]
- Mona Hofland, 80, Norwegian actress, after long illness.[641]
- Bo Holmberg, 67, Swedish governor, widower of Anna Lindh.[642]
- Umetsugu Inoue, 86, Japanese film director, cerebral hemorrhage.[643]
- Robert Long, 77, New Zealand cricketer.[644]
- Alexander McQueen, 40, British fashion designer, suicide by hanging.[645]
- Caroline McWilliams, 64, American actress (Benson, Guiding Light, Mermaids), multiple myeloma.[646]
- Paul Rebillot, 78, American psychotherapist, respiratory failure.[647]
- E.H. Roelfzema, 62, Dutch writer, artist, poet, and musician.[648]
- David Severn, 91, British author.[649]
- Yury Sevidov, 68, Russian footballer, Soviet Top League highest goal scorer (1962).[650]
- Gladys Skillett, 91, British nurse, first Guernsey wartime deportee to give birth in captivity.[651]
- Daryle Smith, 46, American football player (Dallas Cowboys).[652]
- Duncan Tanner, 51, British historian.[653]
- Colin Ward, 85, British anarchist writer.[654]
12
- Juan Pedro Amestoy, 84, Uruguayan accountant, politician and ambassador.[655]
- Petar Borota, 56, Serbian footballer (Partizan Belgrade and Chelsea), after long illness.[656]
- Maria Ragland Davis, 52, American biologist, shot.[657]
- Lisa Daniels, 79, British actress.
- Ken Emerson, 82, Australian cartoonist (The Warrumbunglers).[658]
- Jerry Fahr, 85, American baseball player.[659]
- Gino Gardassanich, 87, Italian-born American football player.[660]
- Chhaya Ghosh, 69, Indian politician.[661]
- Sheldon Gilgore, 77, American physician, president of Pfizer (1971–1986) and Searle (1986–1995), pancreatic cancer.[662]
- Jake Hanna, 78, American jazz drummer, blood disease.[663]
- Adriel Johnson, 52, American biologist, shot.[664]
- Athan Karras, 82, Greek-born American advocate of Greek dance, complications from coronary artery bypass surgery.[665]
- Allan Kornblum, 71, American lawyer, counsel to the F.B.I., esophageal cancer.[666]
- Werner Krämer, 70, German footballer.[667]
- Nodar Kumaritashvili, 21, Georgian luger, national team member for the 2010 Winter Olympics, training accident.[668]
- Miro Mihovilović, 94, Croatian Olympic water polo player.[669]
- Luis Molowny, 84, Spanish footballer, heart attack.[670]
- Leroy Nash, 94, American murderer, oldest death row inmate, natural causes.[671]
- Alexis Pappas, 94, Greek-born Norwegian chemist.[672]
- G. K. Podila, 52, Indian-born American biologist, shot.[673]
- Willie Polland, 75, Scottish footballer (Heart of Midlothian).[674]
- Saleban Olad Roble, 46, Somali government minister, injuries sustained in the 2009 Shamo Hotel bombing.[675]
- Bernard Smith, 99, American sailboat designer, liver cancer.[676]
- Grethe Sønck, 80, Danish actress and singer, natural causes.[677]
13
- Muhammad al-Rabou'e, 34, Yemeni journalist, shot.[678]
- Ralph G. Anderson, 86, American engineer and farmer.[679]
- Lucille Clifton, 73, American poet, Poet Laureate of Maryland (1974–1985).[680]
- Jock Ferguson, 64, Scottish-born Australian politician, Western Australian Legislative Council (since 2009), heart attack.[681]
- Werner Forman, 89, Czech-born British photographer.[682]
- Cy Grant, 90, Guyanese-born British actor and activist.[683]
- Dale Hawkins, 73, American rockabilly musician, colorectal cancer.[684]
- James D. Johnson, 85, American politician and jurist, Arkansas Supreme Court Justice (1959–1966), suicide by gunshot.[685]
- Raymond Mason, 87, British sculptor.[686]
- Robert J. Myers, 97, American politician, co-creator of the Social Security program, respiratory failure.[687]
- Jamil Nasser, 77, American jazz musician, cardiac arrest.[688]
- José María Pasquini Durán, 70, Argentine journalist, cardiac arrest.[689]
- John Reed, 94, British actor.[690]
- Red Rocha, 86, American basketball player and coach (Hawaii Rainbow Warriors).[691]
- Roger Thatcher, 83, British statistician.[692]
- Gareth Wigan, 78, British film studio executive (Star Wars, Chariots of Fire), after short illness.[693][694]
14
- Ram Sarup Ankhi, 77, Indian writer, poet, and novelist.[695]
- Audrey Collins, 94, British cricket player and administrator.[696]
- John Downey, 89, British Royal Air Force officer.[697]
- Doug Fieger, 57, American musician (The Knack), lung cancer.[698]
- Dick Francis, 89, British jockey and novelist (Dead Cert).[699]
- Helge Høva, 81, Norwegian politician.[700]
- Amos Funk, 98, American farm preservationist.[701]
- Linnart Mäll, 71, Estonian historian, orientalist, translator and politician, cancer.[702]
- John Ruan, 96, American entrepreneur and philanthropist, Parkinson's disease.[703]
- John Thorbjarnarson, 52, American conservationist and crocodile expert, malaria.[704]
- Jerzy Turek, 76, Polish actor, leukemia.[705]
- Zhang Yalin, 28, Chinese football player, lymphoma.[706]
15
- W. H. Clatworthy, 94, American mathematician.[707]
- Juan Carlos González, 85, Uruguayan football player.[708]
- Ian Gray, 46, Australian football player, homicide by prohibited drug.[709]
- Jeanne M. Holm, 88, American general, pneumonia.[710]
- Bill Kajikawa, 97, American basketball coach (Arizona State Sun Devils).[711]
- Dana Kirk, 74, American basketball coach (Memphis Tigers), heart attack.[712]
- Rigmor Mydtskov, 84, Danish court photographer.[713]
- Fred Peacock, 93, Canadian politician.[714]
- Aníbal Portillo, 95, Salvadoran military officer, head of state (1961–1962).[715]
- Sylvia Pressler, 75, American jurist, lymphoma.[716]
- Alfred Surratt, 87, American baseball player (Kansas City Monarchs), co-founder of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum.[717]
- Art Van Damme, 89, American jazz musician and accordionist, pneumonia.[718]
- George Waring, 84, British actor (Coronation Street), cancer.[719]
- Claud William Wright, 93, British civil servant and scientific expert.[720]
16
- Jim Bibby, 65, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates), bone cancer.[665]
- John Davis Chandler, 73, American actor (Adventures in Babysitting, The Outlaw Josey Wales).[721]
- William E. Gordon, 92, American inventor, designer of the Arecibo Radio Telescope, natural causes.[722]
- Martin Grossman, 45, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.[723]
- Jim Harmon, 76, American science fiction writer, heart attack.[724]
- Ronald Howes, 83, American inventor, designer of Easy-Bake Oven.[725]
- Andrew Koenig, 41, American actor (Growing Pains), suicide by hanging.[726]
- Ino Kolbe, 95, German Esperanto expert.[727]
- Ian Roderick Macneil, 80, American-born lawyer and Scottish clan chief.[728]
- Mike Pittilo, 55, British biologist and educator, Principal of Robert Gordon University.[729]
- Wan Chi Keung, 53, Hong Kong footballer, actor, and businessman, nasopharyngeal carcinoma.[730]
- Jim Waugh, 76, American baseball player.[731]
17
- Roger-Émile Aubry, 86, Swiss-born Bolivian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Reyes (1973–1999).[732]
- Chaturvedi Badrinath, 76, Indian officer and author.[733]
- Lottie Beck, 81, American baseball player (AAGPBL)[734]
- Arnold Beichman, 96, American writer and journalist.[735]
- Bjørn Benkow, 70, Norwegian journalist.[736]
- Giulio de Florian, 74, Italian Olympic cross-country skier.[737]
- Makoto Fujita, 76, Japanese actor and comedian, ruptured artery.[738]
- Kathryn Grayson, 88, American actress and singer.[739]
- Ruby Hunter, 54, Australian singer and musician, heart attack.[740]
- Abdulkhakim Ismailov, 93, Russian Red Army soldier, World War II hero, natural causes.[741]
- David Lelei, 38, Kenyan middle distance runner, traffic collision.[742]
- Ignatius P. Lobo, 90, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Belgaum (1967–1994).[743]
- Martha Mercader, 83, Argentine politician and writer.[744]
- Hans Ørberg, 89, Danish linguist.[745]
- Witold Skaruch, 80, Polish actor.[746]
- Luigi Ulivelli, 74, Italian Olympic athlete.[747]
18
- John Babcock, 109, Canadian soldier, Canada's last surviving World War I veteran.[748]
- Erwin Bachmann, 88, German Waffen-SS officer.[749]
- Asta Backman, 93, Finnish actress.[750]
- Bob Chakales, 82, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians).[751]
- Barton Childs, 93, American physician and geneticist, complications of lung cancer.[752]
- Amlan Datta, 85, Indian economist and teacher.[753]
- Alan Gordon, 65, Scottish football player, cancer.[754]
- Fernando Krahn, 75, Chilean plastic artist and illustrator.[755]
- Emilio Lavazza, 78, Italian businessman, President of Lavazza Coffee (1979–2008).[756]
- Nirmal Pandey, 48, Indian actor, heart attack.[757]
- Richard Proulx, 72, American choral conductor and composer.[758]
- Ariel Ramírez, 88, Argentine composer and pianist, pneumonia.[759]
19
- George Cisar, 99, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).[760]
- Daddy, 16, American Pit Bull Terrier, appeared with owner Cesar Millan in Dog Whisperer, euthanized due to cancer.[761]
- Jamie Gillis, 66, American pornographic film actor, melanoma.[762]
- Bruno Gironcoli, 73, Austrian sculptor, after long illness.[763]
- Lionel Jeffries, 83, British film actor, screenwriter and director.[764]
- Rudy Larriva, 94, American animator and animation director (Looney Tunes, The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Show).[765]
- Rafael Muñoz Núñez, 85, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Zacatecas (1972–1984) and Aguascalientes (1984–1998).[766]
- Elli Parvo, 95, Italian film actress.[767]
- Giovanni Pettenella, 66, Italian Olympic cyclist.[768]
- Walter Plowright, 86, British veterinary scientist.[769]
- Laura Spurr, 64, American chairwoman of the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi since 2003, heart attack.[770]
- Bull Verweij, 100, Dutch businessman, co-founder of Radio Veronica.[771]
- Mladen Veža, 94, Croatian painter.[772]
20
- Chandan Mal Baid, 88, Indian politician.[773]
- Ghantasala Balaramayya, 78, Indian producer, director and actor.[774]
- Bobby Cox, 76, Scottish footballer (Dundee).[775]
- Georges Charachidzé, 80, French scholar of the Caucasian cultures.[776]
- Juanita Goggins, 75, American politician, first black woman in South Carolina Legislature, hypothermia.[777] (estimated date of death)
- Linda Grover, 76, American peace activist, founder of Global Family Day, uterine and ovarian cancer.[778]
- Alexander Haig, 85, American politician and diplomat, Secretary of State (1981–1982), complications from an infection.[779]
- Sam Hamilton, 54, American public official, Director of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service since 2009, heart attack.[780]
- Sandy Kenyon, 87, American character and voice actor (The Twilight Zone, Here Comes Garfield).[781]
- Henry Kučera, 85, Czech-born American linguist.[782]
- Niall McCrudden, 45, Irish optician and socialite.[783]
- Padmanabham, 78, Indian actor, heart attack.[source?]
- Jason Wood, 38, British comedian and reality television contestant (Strictly Come Dancing).[784]
21
- Seth G. Atwood, 92, American industrialist, community leader, and horological collector.[785]
- Bob Doe, 89, British airman, Royal Air Force flying ace.[786]
- Jacek Karpiński, 83, Polish computer scientist.[787]
- Veini Kontinen, 82, Finnish Olympic skier.[788]
- Vladimir Motyl, 82, Russian film director and scenarist, cervical fractures and pneumonia.[source?]
- Albader Parad, Filipino militant (Abu Sayyaf), shot.[789]
- Vesa Pulliainen, 52, Finnish Olympic footballer.[790]
- Casimir Johannes Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, 93, German nobleman, businessman and politician.[791]
- William E. Skillend, 83, British scholar of Korean language.[792]
- George Strickland, 84, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Cleveland Indians).[793]
- James Wieghart, 76, American newspaper editor (New York Daily News), pneumonia.[794]
22
- Juan Angel Belda Dardiñá, 83, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Jaca (1978–1983) and León (1983–1987).[795]
- Michael J. Bradley, 76, British diplomat, Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands (1987–1993).[796]
- Robert Carter, 82, American priest and gay rights activist, a founder of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.[797]
- Fred Chaffart, 74, Belgian businessperson.[798]
- Henry Cosgrove, 87, Australian judge, Judge of the Supreme Court of Tasmania (1977–1988).[799]
- Robin Davies, 56, British actor, lung cancer.[800]
- Hillar Eller, 70, Estonian politician, former chairman of the Estonian Left Party (1995–1996).[801]
- Eugene Lambert, 82, Irish puppeteer and ventriloquist (Wanderly Wagon).[802]
- Nelly Landry, 93, Belgian-born French tennis player.[803]
- Rozy Munir, 67, Indonesian diplomat, ambassador to Qatar, liver cancer.[804]
- Menachem Porush, 93, Israeli politician, Member of Knesset (1959–1975, 1977–1994).[805]
- Bobby Smith, 56, Scottish footballer, cancer.[806]
- Charles Stenvig, 82, American politician, Mayor of Minneapolis (1969–1973, 1975–1977).[807]
- Mohammed Zaman, 44, Afghan political and military leader, victim of suicide bombing.[808]
23
- John Hollings Addison, 80, Canadian politician and business executive.[809]
- Vyacheslav Andreyuk, 64, Soviet Russian football player.[810]
- Clarence R. Autery, 76, American general.[811]
- Bill Burtenshaw, 84, British footballer.[812]
- Michael Clancy, 60, Saint Helena politician and Governor (2004–2007), cancer.[813]
- Mervyn Jones, 87, British journalist, biographer and novelist.[814]
- Abune Zena Markos, 72, Ethiopian Archbishop, complications from pneumonia.[815]
- Wyn Morris, 81, British conductor.[816]
- Gerhardt Neef, 63, German footballer (Rangers), throat cancer.[817]
- Henri Salmide, 90, German World War II naval officer, saved Bordeaux port from destruction.[818]
- Mosi Tatupu, 54, American football player (New England Patriots).[819]
- Derek Vanlint, 78, British-born Canadian cinematographer (Alien), short illness.[820]
- Orlando Zapata, 42, Cuban dissident, hunger strike.[821]
24
- Antonio Alegre, 85, Argentine businessman, President of Boca Juniors (1985–1995).[822]
- Delmo da Silva, 55, Brazilian Olympic sprinter.[823]
- Ang It-hong, 82, Taiwanese singer, songwriter, composer and actor, pancreatic cancer.[824]
- Dawn Brancheau, 40, American SeaWorld trainer, killer whale attack.[825]
- Carlo Cicuttini, 63, Italian neo-fascist and terrorist.[826]
- Jake Elder, 73, American NASCAR crew chief, natural causes.[827]
- Howard George, 75, American Olympic wrestler.[828]
- Richard Gruenwald, 93, Canadian politician, Alberta MLA for Lethbridge-West (1971–1975).[829]
- Dagfin Huseby, 87, Norwegian Olympic wrestler.[830]
- C. R. Johnson, 26, American newschool skier, skiing accident.[831]
- Birgitta Lindqvist, 67, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier.[832]
- Charles MacArthur, 89, Canadian politician, MLA for Inverness (1983–1998).[833]
25
- Henry Barron, 81, Irish jurist, Supreme Court of Ireland (1997–2003), after short illness.[834]
- Ernst Beyeler, 88, Swiss art collector.[835]
- Barbara Bray, 85, British translator.[836]
- Aaron Cohen, 79, American aerospace engineer, Director of Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (1986–1993), after long illness.[837]
- İhsan Doğramacı, 94, Turkish physician and academic, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.[838]
- Vladislav Galkin, 38, Russian actor, heart failure.[839]
- Gheorghe Gaston Marin, 91, Romanian politician.[840]
- Donald Merrifield, 81, American Jesuit, first president of Loyola Marymount University (1973–1984), heart attack.[841]
- John Bernard McDowell, 88, American Roman Catholic prelate, Titular Bishop of Tamazuca (1966–1996).[842]
- Oscar Ravina, 79, Polish-born American violinist.[843]
- David Soyer, 87, American cellist (Guarneri Quartet).[844]
- Efren Torres, 66, Mexican former world flyweight champion boxer, heart attack.[845]
- Ali Tounsi, 76, Algerian police official, Chief of National Police, shot.[846]
- Tuomo Tuormaa, 83, Finnish Olympic sprint canoer.[847]
- Ahmet Vardar, 73, Turkish journalist and writer, pancreatic cancer.[848]
- Frank Williams, 73, American architect (Trump Palace, Four Seasons Hotel New York), esophageal cancer.[849]
26
- María Elisa Álvarez Obaya, 76, Spanish pharmacist.[850]
- Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr., 92, American political photographer (Bachrach Studios).[851]
- Violet Barclay, 87, American comic book artist.[852]
- Tom Bass, 93, Australian sculptor.[853]
- Barry Bowen, 64, Belizean bottling magnate and politician, plane crash.[854]
- Francisco Cabrera Santos, 63, Venezuelan politician, mayor of Valencia, Carabobo.[855]
- Bernard Coutaz, 87, French music publisher, founder of Harmonia Mundi.[856]
- Richard Devon, 83, American character actor (Lassie), vascular disease.[857]
- Charles le Gai Eaton, 89, Swiss-born British diplomat and author.[858]
- Andrew Jaffe, 71, American journalist (Adweek), revived the Clio Awards, multiple myeloma.[859]
- Ivaylo Kirov, 63, Bulgarian Olympic basketball player.[860]
- Robert McCall, 90, American artist, heart failure.[861]
- Nujabes, 36, Japanese hip hop composer (Samurai Champloo), traffic collision.[862]
- Jacques J. Polak, 95, Dutch economist.[863]
- Dave Sheasby, 69, British playwright, radio producer and dramatist.[864]
27
- David Bankier, 63, German-born Israeli Holocaust scholar.[865]
- Black Bear Island, app. 4, Irish Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.[866]
- Larry Cassidy, 56, British bass guitarist and singer (Section 25).[867]
- Charlie Crowe, 85, English footballer (Newcastle United), Alzheimer's disease.[868]
- Frans De Blaes, 100, Belgian Olympic sprint canoer.[869]
- Nanaji Deshmukh, 93, Indian social activist and politician, after long illness.[870]
- Anna Fárová, 81, Czech photography historian and advocate, Charter 77 signatory.[871]
- Madeleine Ferron, 87, Canadian author, Alzheimer's disease.[872]
- Eli Fischer-Jørgensen, 99, Danish linguist and World War II resistance member.[873]
- Rosemary Goldie, 94, Australian Roman Catholic theologian, Under-Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Laity (1967–1976).[874]
- Jonathan May, 51, American cellist and conductor, stroke.[875]
- František Nedvěd, 59, Czech Olympic weightlifter.[876]
- Hank Rosenstein, 89, American basketball player (New York Knicks), heart failure.[877]
- Nathan Scott, 94, American film and television composer (Lassie, The Twilight Zone, Dragnet), natural causes.[878]
- Oleg Stepanov, 70, Russian judoka, 1964 Olympic bronze medal winner.[879]
- Wendy Toye, 92, British filmmaker.[880]
- Roger Veeser, 90, Swiss Olympic athlete.[881]
28
- David Amland, 79, American painter and art educator.[882]
- Edward L. Athey, 88, American football, basketball and baseball player, baseball and basketball coach.[883]
- Martin Benson, 91, British actor (The Omen, Cleopatra, Goldfinger).[884]
- Adam Blacklaw, 72, Scottish footballer (Burnley).[885]
- Gerald Butler, 79, British jurist and broadcaster, heart attack.[886]
- Theodore Cross, 86, American publisher and civil rights activist, heart failure.[887]
- Bohdan Ejmont, 82, Polish actor.[888]
- Rose Gray, 71, British restaurateur (The River Café) and food writer, brain cancer.[889]
- Gene Greytak, 84, American impressionist (Pope John Paul II), cancer.[890]
- Chushiro Hayashi, 89, Japanese astrophysicist, pneumonia.[891]
- Phillip Law, 97, Australian scientist and explorer (Australian Antarctic Territory).[892]
- José Mindlin, 95, Brazilian businessman and bibliophile, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.[893]
- Carlos Montemayor, 62, Mexican writer, stomach cancer.[894]
- Nikolay Surov, 62, Russian Olympic rower.[895]
- Jorge Villamil, 80, Colombian composer, complications from diabetes.[896]
- George Watt, 92, Australian rugby league footballer.[897]
- Tom Wolk, 58, American bass guitarist (Hall & Oates), heart attack.[898]
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.[899]
- March 3 - Michael Foot, 96, British politician.[900]
- March 3 - Keith Alexander, 53, English footballer.[901]
- March 4 - Vladislav Ardzinba, 64, Abkhazian politician.[902]
- March 5 - Philip Langridge, 70, British tenor.[903]
- March 7 - Kenneth Dover, 89, British classicist.[904]
- March 9 - Granny D, 100, American political activist.[905]
- March 10 - Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, 81, Egyptian Muslim cleric.[906]
- March 10 - Corey Haim, 38, Canadian actor, drug overdose.[907]
- March 10 - Dorothy Janis, 100, American actress.[908]
- March 12 - Miguel Delibes, 89, Spanish author and journalist, cancer.[909]
- 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.[910]
- March 16 - Ksenija Pajcin, 32, Serbian musician.
- March 17 - Alex Chilton, 59, American musician.[911]
- March 18 - Fess Parker, 85, American actor.[912]
- March 20 - Stewart Udall, 90, American politician.[913]
- March 20 - Girija Prasad Koirala, 85, Nepalese politician.[914]
- March 20 - Harry Carpenter, 84, British sports commentator.[915]
- March 21 - Wolfgang Wagner, 90, German opera director, grandson of Richard Wagner, great-grandson of Franz Liszt.[916]
- March 22 - Valentina Tolkunova, 63, Russian singer, cancer.[917]
- March 22 - Sir James W. Black, 85, British physician, winner 1988 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.[918]
- March 24 - Robert Culp, 79, American actor, injuries from a fall.[919]
- March 25 - Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, 93, German political scientist.[920]
- March 27 - Stanley Vann, 100, British church musician.[921]
- March 27 - Vasily Smyslov, 89, Soviet, world chess champion.[922]
- March 27 - Peter Herbolzheimer, 74, German jazz musician.[923]
- March 27 - Dick Giordano, 77, American comic book artist.[924]
- March 28 - June Havoc, 97, American actress.[925]
- March 28 - Herb Ellis, 88, American musician.[926]
- March 30 - Martin Sandberger, 98, German military officer.[927]
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.[928]
- April 1 - John Forsythe, 92, American actor, pneumonia.[929]
- April 3 - Eugene Terre'Blanche, 69, South African political activist, beaten.[930]
- April 5 - Vitaly Sevastyanov, 74, Soviet cosmonaut.[931]
- April 6 - Corin Redgrave, 70, British political activist.[932]
- April 7 - Christopher Cazenove, 64, British actor, sepsis.[933]
- April 8 - Malcolm McLaren, 64, British music manager, mesothelioma.[934]
- April 8 - Abel Muzorewa, 84, former bishop and Prime Minister of Zimbabwe.[935]
- April 9 - Meinhardt Raabe, 94, American actor.[936]
- April 10 - Maria Kaczyńska, 67, First Lady of Poland, plane crash.[937]
- April 10 - Lech Kaczynski, 60, President of Poland, plane crash.[938]
- April 10 - Ryszard Kaczorowski, 90, Polish politician, plane crash.[939]
- April 10 - Dixie Carter, 70, American actress, cancer.[940]
- April 12 - Werner Schroeter, 65, German movie director.[941]
- April 14 - Israr Ahmed, 77, Pakistani Islamic scholar, heart attack.[942]
- April 14 - Peter Steele, 48, American gothic metal musician, heart attack.[943]
- April 16 - Carlos Franqui, 88, Cuban writer and political activist.[944]
- April 16 - Tomas Spidlik, 90, Czech cardinal[945]
- April 19 - Guru, 48, American rapper, multiple myeloma.[946]
- April 20 - Dorothy Height, 98, American civil rights activist.[947]
- April 21 - Juan Antonio Samaranch, 89, Spanish former President of the International Olympic Committee[948]
- April 25 - Alan Sillitoe, 82, British writer.[949]
- April 26 - Prabha Rau, 75, Indian politician, heart attack.[950]
- April 30 - Paul Mayer, 98, German cardinal[951]
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.[952]
- May 2 - Lynn Redgrave, 67, Anglo-American actress, breast cancer.[953]
- May 3 - Florencio Campomanes, 83, Filipino chessplayer & President of FIDE.[954]
- May 3 - Guenter Wendt, 86, German-American NASA engineer.[955]
- May 4 - Luigi Poggi, 92, Italian cardinal.[956]
- May 4 - Michael Thalbourne, 55, Australian physician
- May 5 - Giulietta Simionato, 99, Italian opera singer.[957]
- May 5 - Umaru Yar'Adua, 58, President of Nigeria, after long illness.[958]
- May 7 - Wally Hickel, 90, American politician, 2nd Governor of Alaska.[959]
- May 8 - Andor Lilienthal, 99, Hungarian chess player.[960]
- May 9 - Lena Horne, 92, American singer and actress.[961]
- May 9 - Acharya Mahapragya, 89, Indian religious leader (Jainism), heart attack.[962]
- May 10 - Frank Frazetta, 82, American artist.[963]
- May 15 - Besian Idrizaj, 22, Austrian football player, heart attack.[964]
- May 15 - Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, 86, former Vice-President of India.[965]
- May 15 - John Shepherd-Barron, 84, Scottish inventor, invented the ATM.[966]
- May 16 - Oswaldo López Arellano, 88, former President of Honduras.[967]
- May 16 - Hank Jones, 91, American jazz pianist.[968]
- May 16 - Ronnie James Dio, 67, American heavy metal musician, stomach cancer.[969]
- May 17 - Yvonne Loriod, 86, French pianist.[970]
- May 17 - Khattiya Sawasdipol, 58, Thai General, shot.[971]
- May 17 - Bobbejaan Schoepen, 85, Belgian singer.[972]
- May 18 - Edoardo Sanguineti, 79, Italian writer.[973]
- May 20 - Walter Rudin, 89, Austrian-born mathematician.[974]
- May 22 - Martin Gardner, 95, American author.[975]
- May 23 - Leonida Georgievna, 95, Russian Grand Duchess.[976]
- May 24 - Paul Gray, 38, American musician (Slipknot).[977]
- May 25 - Siphiwo Ntshebe, 35, South African singer.[978]
- May 26 - Art Linkletter, 97, Canadian-American television personality.[979]
- May 27 - John William Finn, 100, American Navy officer.[980]
- May 28 - Gary Coleman, 42, American actor, cerebral hemorrhage.[981]
- May 29 - Dennis Hopper, 74, American actor, prostate cancer.[982]
- May 31 - Louise Bourgeois, 98, French-American artist and sculptor.[983]
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.[984]
- June 1 - Andrey Voznesensky, 77, Russian poet.[985]
- June 2 - Giuseppe Taddei, 93, Italian opera singer.[986]
- June 3 - Vladimir Arnold, 72, Russian mathematician.[987]
- June 3 - Rue McClanahan, 76, American actress, stroke.[988]
- June 4 - John Wooden, 99, American basketball player and coach, natural causes.[989]
- June 7 - Mordechai Eliyahu, 81, Israeli rabbi.[990]
- June 7 - Stuart Cable, 40, British drummer.[991]
- June 9 - Marina Semyonova, 101, Russian ballerina.[992]
- June 10 - Ferdinand Oyono, 80, Cameroonian writer.[993]
- June 10 - Sigmar Polke, 69, German painter.[994]
- June 13 - Jimmy Dean, 81, American country music singer.[995]
- June 14 - Leonid Kizim, 68, Soviet cosmonaut.[996]
- June 15 - Heidi Kabel, 95, German actress.[997]
- June 16 - Ronald Neame, 99, British movie director.[998]
- June 18 - Marcel Bigeard, 94, French military officer.[999]
- June 18 - José Saramago, 87, Portuguese writer, winner 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature.[1000]
- June 19 - Manute Bol, 47, Sudanese basketball player, kidney failure.[1001]
- June 19 - Carlos Monsivais, 72, Mexican writer and journalist.[1002]
- June 20 - Roberto Rosato, 66, Italian footballer.[1003]
- June 21 - Stanley Lucas, 110, British supercentenarian, oldest man in Europe at the time of his death.[1004]
- June 23 - Mohamed Mzali, 84, former Prime Minister of Tunisia.[1005]
- June 26 - Algirdas Brazauskas, 77, former President of Lithuania.[1006]
- June 28 - Robert Byrd, 92, American senator.[1007]
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.[1008]
- July 3 - Abu Daoud, 73, Palestinian politician and military commander.[1009]
- July 3 - Herbert Erhardt, 79, German footballer.
- July 4 - Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah, 74, Lebanese spiritual leader.[1010]
- July 5 - David Fanshawe, 68, British composer and explorer.[1011]
- July 5 - Bob Probert, 45, Canadian ice hockey player.[1012]
- July 5 - Cesare Siepi, 87, Italian opera singer.[1013]
- July 5 - Nasr Abu Zayd, 66, Egyptian-Dutch academic.[1014]
- July 6 - Werner Schmalenbach, 89, German art historian and curator.
- July 10 - Sugar Minott, 54, Jamaican reggae singer.[1015]
- July 10 - Raoul Moat, 37, British murderer, suicide by gunshot.[1016]
- July 11 - Bob Sheppard, 99, American public address and baseball announcer, natural causes.[1017]
- July 12 - Günter Behnisch, 88, German architect.[1018]
- July 12 - Harvey Pekar, 70, American comic, writer, and music critic.[1019]
- July 13 - George Steinbrenner, 80, American baseball team owner, heart attack.[1020]
- July 14 - Charles Mackerras, 84, Australian conductor.[1021]
- July 14 - Madalina Manole, 43, Romanian singer.[1022]
- July 17 - Bernard Giraudeau, 63, French actor, director and writer.[1023]
- July 19 - David Warren, 85, Australian inventor.[1024]
- July 20 - Benedikt Sigurdsson Grondal, 86, Icelandic politician.[1025]
- July 21 - Luis Corvalan, 93, Chilean politician.[1026]
- July 21 - Anthony Rolfe Johnson, 69, British operatic tenor[1027]
- July 24 - Theo Albrecht, 88, German businessman (Aldi Nord).[1028]
- July 24 - Alex Higgins, 61, Northern Irish snooker player, throat cancer.[1029]
- July 25 - Vasco de Almeida e Costa, 77, Portuguese politician.[1030]
- July 27 - Maury Chaykin, 61, Canadian actor.[1031]
- July 27 - Wallace Souza, 51, Brazilian entertainer, politician, and criminal.[1032]
- July 29 - Zheng Ji, 110, Chinese supercentenarian, nutritionist and biochemist.[1033]
- July 31 - Suso Cecchi d'Amico, 96, Italian screenwriter.[1034]
- July 31 - Mitch Miller, 99, American music executive and television host.[1035]
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.[1036]
- August 6 - Catfish Collins, 66, American guitarist (James Brown, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Parliament-Funkadelic), cancer.[1037]
- August 6 - Fredrik Ericsson, 35, Swedish climber, fall on K2.[1038]
- August 6 - Tony Judt, 62, British historian.[1039]
- August 7 - Bruno Cremer, 80, French actor.[1040]
- August 8 - Patricia Neal, 84, American actress, lung cancer.[1041]
- August 8 - Massamasso Tchangai, 32, Togolese footballer, heart attack.[1042]
- August 9 - Ted Stevens, 86, United States Senator, plane crash.[1043]
- August 10 - Antonio Pettigrew, 42, American athlete.[1044]
- August 12 - Guido de Marco, 79, former President of Malta.[1045]
- August 13 - Lance Cade, 29, American wrestler.[1046]
- August 14 - Abbey Lincoln, 80, American jazz singer and actress.[1047]
- August 15 - Lionel Regal, 37, French hillclimbing racer.[1048]
- August 16 - Nicola Cabibbo, 75, Italian physicist.[1049]
- August 16 - Dimitrios Ioannidis, 87, Greek military officer.[1050]
- August 17 - Francesco Cossiga, 82, 8th President of Italy.[1051]
- August 18 - Carlos Hugo of Bourbon-Parma, 80, Spanish aristocrat, cancer.[1052]
- August 19 - Ahna Capri, 66, American Actress, car accident.[1053]
- August 21 - Christoph Schlingensief, 49, German movie and theatre director, lung cancer.[1054]
- August 22 - Stjepan Bobek, 86, Croatian footballer.[1055]
- August 23 - Satoshi Kon, 46, Japanese movie director, pancreatic cancer.[1056]
- August 26 - William B. Lenoir, 71, American astronaut, died from head injuries caused by a bicycle accident.[1057]
- August 26 - Raimon Panikkar, 91, Indian-Spanish theologian.[1058]
- August 27 - Anton Geesink, 76, Dutch judoka.[1059]
- August 28 - Sinan Hasani, 88, 10th President of Yugoslavia.
- August 30 - J. C. Bailey, 27, American professional wrestler.[1060]
- August 30 - Alain Corneau, 67, French filmmaker, cancer.[1061]
- August 30 - Francisco Varallo, 100, Argentine footballer.[1062]
- August 31 - Laurent Fignon, 50, French road bicycle racer, cancer.[1063]
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.[1064]
- September 7 - Amar Garibovic, 19, Serbian skier, car crash.
- September 8 - Israel Tal, 85, Israeli general.[1065]
- September 9 - Bent Larsen, 75, Danish chess player.[1066]
- September 11 - Kevin McCarthy, 96, American actor.[1067]
- September 12 - Claude Chabrol, 80, French movie director.[1068]
- September 18 - Egon Klepsch, 80, German politician.[1069]
- September 20 - Fud Leclerc, 86, Belgian singer.[1070]
- September 22 - Eddie Fisher, 82, American singer.[1071]
- September 22 - Jorge Gonzalez, 44, Argentine basketball player and wrestler, diabetes.[1072]
- September 24 - Gennady Yanayev, 73, Soviet politician.[1073]
- September 25 - Art Gilmore, 98, American radio, television announcer.[1074]
- September 26 - Gloria Stuart, 100, American actress.[1075]
- September 28 - Arthur Penn, 88, American director and producer.[1076]
- September 29 - Tony Curtis, 85, American actor.[1077]
- September 29 - Georges Charpak, 86, Polish-born French physicist.[1078]
- September 29 - Greg Giraldo, 44, American comedian, overdose on prescription medication.[1079]
- September 30 - Stephen J. Cannell, 69, American television producer and writer.[1080]
October
Joan Sutherland 1926-2010
Barbara Billingsley 1915-2010
Tom Bosley 1927-2010
Néstor Kirchner 1950-2010
- October 3 - Philippa Foot, 90, British philosopher.[1081]
- October 4 - Norman Wisdom, 95, British actor and comedian.[1082]
- October 5 - Bernard Clavel, 87, French writer.[1083]
- October 7 - Milka Planinc, 85, Yugoslavian politician, former Prime Minister.[1084]
- October 9 - Maurice Allais, 99, French economist, winner 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics, natural causes.[1085]
- October 10 - Solomon Burke, 70, American singer-songwriter, natural causes.[1086]
- October 10 - Hwang Jang-yop, 87, North Korean politician and defector.[1087]
- October 10 - Joan Sutherland, 83, Australian soprano.[1088]
- October 12 - Manuel Alexandre, 92, Spanish actor, cancer.[1089]
- October 14 - Simon MacCorkindale, 58, British actor, bowel cancer.[1090]
- October 14 - Benoit Mandelbrot, 85, French-American mathematician, pancreatic cancer.[1091]
- October 14 - Hermann Scheer, 66, German politician, heart failure.[1092]
- October 16 - Barbara Billingsley, 94, American actress, polymyalgia.[1093]
- October 19 - Tom Bosley, 83, American actor, heart failure.[1094]
- October 20 - Bob Guccione, 79, American founder of Penthouse magazine, lung cancer.[1095]
- October 20 - Sardar Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari, 70, former President of Pakistan.[1096]
- October 21 - Loki Schmidt, 91, German environmentalist and wife of former German chancellor Helmut Schmidt, illness after fall.[1097]
- October 23 - David Thompson, 48, Prime Minister of Barbados, pancreatic cancer.[1098]
- October 25 - Gregory Isaacs, 59, Jamaican musician, lung cancer.[1099]
- October 26 - Paul the Octopus, 2, FIFA World Cup oracle, natural causes.[1100]
- October 27 - Néstor Kirchner, 60, former President of Argentina, heart attack.[1101]
- October 28 - Jonathan Motzfeldt, 72, Greenlandic politician, two-time former Prime Minister, cancer.[1102]
- October 30 - Harry Mulisch, 83, Dutch writer, cancer.[1103]
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.[1104]
- November 2 - Rudolf Barshai, 86, Russian conductor.[1105]
- November 3 - Viktor Chernomyrdin, 72, Russian politician, former Prime Minister, cancer.[1106]
- November 4 - Eugenie Blanchard, 114, French-Caribbean supercentenarian, world's oldest living person.[1107]
- November 5 - Hajo Herrmann, 97, German Luftwaffe pilot.
- November 5 - Jill Clayburgh, 66, American actress, chronic leukemia.[1108]
- November 8 - Emilio Eduardo Massera, 85, Argentine military officer.[1109]
- November 10 - Dino De Laurentiis, 91, Italian movie producer.[1110]
- November 12 - Henryk Gorecki, 76, Polish composer, after long illness.[1111]
- November 13 - Luis Garcia Berlanga, 89, Spanish movie director.[1112]
- November 15 - Larry Evans, 78, American chess player.[1113]
- November 17 - Olavo Rodrigues Barbosa, 87, Brazilian footballer, cancer.[1114]
- November 18 - Gaye Stewart, 87, Canadian ice hockey player.[1115]
- November 21 - David Nolan, 66, American activist and politician.[1116]
- November 22 - Frank Fenner, 95, Australian scientist.[1117]
- November 23 - Ingrid Pitt, 73, Polish-born British actress.[1118]
- November 24 - Huang Hua, 97, Chinese politician.[1119]
- November 27 - Irvin Kershner, 87, American movie director, after long illness.[1120]
- November 28 - Leslie Nielsen, 84, Canadian-born American actor, complications from pneumonia.[1121]
- November 29 - Mario Monicelli, 95, Italian movie director, suicide.[1122]
- November 29 - Maurice Wilkes, 97, British computer scientist.[1123]
- November 29 - Bella Akhmadulina, 73, Russian poet.[1124]
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.[1125]
- December 2 - Ron Santo, 70. American baseball player, cancer.[1126]
- December 2 - Lee Huan, 93, Taiwanese politician, former Premier of the Republic of China.[1127]
- December 3 - Hugues Cuenod, 108, Swiss tenor.[1128]
- December 5 - Don Meredith, 72, American football player and television announcer, brain hemorrhage.[1129]
- December 9 - James Moody, 85, American jazz musician, pancreatic cancer.[1130]
- December 10 - John Bennett Fenn, 93, American chemist, Nobel laureate.[1131]
- December 12 - Tom Walkinshaw, 64, British engineer and racing team owner.[1132]
- December 13 - Richard Holbrooke, 69, American diplomat, complications from a torn aorta.[1133]
- December 15 - Blake Edwards, 88, American movie director, complications from pneumonia[1134]
- December 15 - Bob Feller, 92, American baseball player.[1135]
- December 15 - Jean Rollin, 72, French movie director, actor and writer.[1136]
- December 17 - Captain Beefheart, 69, American musician.[1137]
- December 18 - Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa, 70, Italian banker and politician.[1138]
- December 20 - Brian Hanrahan, 61, British journalist, cancer.[1139]
- December 21 - Enzo Bearzot, 83, Italian footballer and coach.[1140]
- December 23 - K. Karunakaran, 92, Indian-Keralan politician, stroke.[1141]
- December 24 - Elisabeth Beresford, 84, British author.[1142]
- December 24 - Roy Neuberger, 107, American banker and art collector.[1143]
- December 24 - Eino Tamberg, 80, Estonian composer.[1144]
- December 25 - Carlos Andrés Pérez, 88, 55th President of Venezuela, cardiac arrest.[1145]
- December 26 - Teena Marie, 54, American singer-songwriter.[1146]
- December 26 - Salvador Jorge Blanco, 84, 48th President of the Dominican Republic, complications from fall.[1147]
- December 27 - Ronald Lee Herrick, 79, first organ donor, complications from heart surgery.[1148]
- December 28 - Billy Taylor, 89, American jazz musician, cardiac arrest.[1149]
- December 29 - Avi Cohen, 54, Israeli footballer, complications of head injuries.[1150]
- December 30 - Bobby Farrell, 61, Aruban performer.[1151]
- December 30 - Ellis Clarke, 93, 1st President of Trinidad and Tobago, complications from a stroke.[1152]
- December 31 - Syd Ward, 103, New Zealand cricketer.[1153]
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