Deaths in October 2011

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

October 2011

1

• Butch Ballard, 92, American jazz drummer.
• David Bedford, 74, British composer and musician.
• Georgina Cookson, 92, British actress.
• Philo Dibble, 60, American diplomat.
• Robert Finigan, 68, American wine critic.
• Ruby Langford Ginibi, 77, Australian author and Aboriginal historian.
• José Ángel Ibáñez, 61, Mexican educator and politician, MP (2003–2006). (Spanish)
• Paulos Mantovanis, 65, Cypriot Orthodox hierarch, Metropolitan of Kyrenia (since 1994). (Greek)
• Sholom Rivkin, 85, American rabbi, last chief rabbi of St. Louis, and of a city in the United States.
• Johnny Schmitz, 90, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Brooklyn Dodgers).
• George Smith, 84, American baseball and basketball player.
• Sven Tumba, 80, Swedish ice hockey player (world champion 1953, 1957, 1962), footballer and golfer, prostate cancer.

2

• Vasily Aleksanyan, 39, Russian lawyer and businessman, Executive Vice President of Yukos, complications from AIDS.
• Andrija Fuderer, 80, Croatian-born Belgian chess player.
• Don Lapre, 47, American television pitchman, suicide by cutting throat.
• Taha Muhammad Ali, 80, Palestinian poet.
• Peter Przygodda, 69, German film editor, cancer. [http://www.deutsche-filmakademie.de/no_cache/herzlich-willkommen/aktuelles/meldung.html?tx_ttnews[tt_news]=111&cHash=fad6e6ccb34bcc8e941432f62d2d2398] (German)
• Efraín Recinos, 83, Guatemalan architect, muralist and artist, designer of the Centro Cultural Miguel Ángel Asturias.
• John Romonosky, 82, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Washington Senators).
• Cindy Shatto, 54, Canadian Olympic diver (1976), lung cancer.
• Pavlos Tassios, 69, Greek film director. (Greek)
• Piero Weiss, 83, Italian pianist and author, pneumonia.
• Moshe Wertman, 87, Israeli politician.

3

• Anésio Argenton, 80, Brazilian Olympic cyclist.
• Jim Conroy, 73, Canadian football player (Ottawa Rough Riders).
• George Harrison, 72, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1960) swimmer, cancer.
• Ovidio de Jesús, 78, Puerto Rican Olympic sprinter (1956, 1960). (Spanish)
• Aden Meinel, 88, American astronomer and optical scientist.
• Jim Neal, 81, American basketball player (Syracuse Nationals, Baltimore Bullets).
• Zakaria Zerouali, 33, Moroccan footballer. (French)

4

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

5

• Edward Acquah, 76, Ghanaian Olympic footballer (1964).
• Níver Arboleda, 43, Colombian footballer, heart attack. (Spanish)
• Derrick Bell, 80, American law professor (Harvard University), originated critical race theory, carcinoid cancer.
• Anita Caspary, 95, American Catholic nun, founder of the Immaculate Heart Community.
• Graham Dilley, 52, British cricketer, cancer.
• Enver Faja, 77, Albanian architect and diplomat, Ambassador to Poland (1992–1996), after long illness.
• Richard Holmlund, 47, Swedish football manager, car accident. (Swedish)
• Peter Jaks, 45, Swiss Olympic ice hockey player (1998, 1992), suicide by standing in front of a train.
• Bert Jansch, 67, Scottish folk guitarist, singer and songwriter (Pentangle), cancer.
• Steve Jobs, 56, American computer entrepreneur and inventor, co-founder of Apple Inc., pancreatic cancer.
• Pietro Lombardi, 89, Italian Olympic gold medal-winning (1948) wrestler. (Italian)
• Charles Napier, 75, American actor (Philadelphia, The Blues Brothers).
• Fred Shuttlesworth, 89, American civil rights leader.
• Sarkis Soghanalian, 82, Syrian-born Armenian arms dealer.
• Leon Walter Tillage, 74, American writer.

6

• Zdravko Ceraj, 91, Serbian Olympic athlete. (Croatian)
• Diane Cilento, 78, Australian actress (Tom Jones, The Wicker Man), cancer.
• William S. Dietrich II, 73, American industrialist and philanthropist.
• Mathur Krishnamurthy, 82, Indian arts patron.
• Daniel Lind Lagerlöf, 42, Swedish director, presumed drowned.
• Marilyn Nash, 84, American actress (Monsieur Verdoux, Unknown World).
• Birgit Rosengren, 98, Swedish actress.
• Igor Shmakov, 26, Russian actor, leukemia.
• Neil Street, 80, Australian speedway rider.
• Alasdair Turner, 41, British scientist, stomach cancer.
• Phil Walker, 67, British newspaper editor.

7

• Zaheer Ahmad, 63, Pakistani-born American doctor, brain hemorrhage.
• John Alderson, 89, British police officer and media commentator, Chief Constable of Devon and Cornwall Constabulary (1973–1982).
• Ramiz Alia, 85, Albanian politician, First Secretary of the Party of Labour (1985–1991), President (1991–1992), lung disease.
• Julien Bailleul, 23, French footballer.
• George Baker, 80, British actor (I, Claudius, The Ruth Rendell Mysteries), pneumonia following a stroke.
• Frederick Cardozo, 94, British soldier and SOE veteran.
• Fernando Charrier, 80, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Alessandria della Paglia (1989–2007).
• Charles Cuprill Oppenheimer, 95, Puerto Rican general. (Spanish)
• Haji Amir Bux Junejo, 95, Pakistani politician.
• Paul Kent, 80, American actor (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Three's Company), multiple myeloma.
• Fred Kingsbury, 84, American Olympic bronze medal-winning (1948) rower.
• Andrew Laszlo, 85, Hungarian-born American cinematographer (First Blood, The Warriors, Newsies).
• David Macey, 62, British historian, complications of lung cancer.
• Lulama Masikazana, 38, South African cricketer.
• Enrique Monsonís, 80, Spanish politician, President of the Generalitat Valenciana (1979–1982).
• Gianni Musy, 80, Italian actor.
• Michel Peissel, 74, French explorer and author, heart attack.
• Milan Puskar, 77, American pharmacist, co-founder of Mylan, cancer.
• Julio Mario Santo Domingo, 88, Colombian businessman (SABMiller).
• Mildred Savage, 92, American author (Parrish).
• Bill Smith, 75, British fell runner and author. (body discovered on this date)
• Avner Treinin, 83, Israeli poet and chemist.

8

• Al Davis, 82, American football coach and team owner (Oakland Raiders), heart failure.
• José de las Fuentes Rodríguez, 91, Mexican politician and lawyer, Governor of Coahuila (1981–1987).
• Dorothy Heathcote, 85, British drama teacher and academic.
• David Hess, 75, American actor (The Last House on the Left), singer and songwriter, heart attack.
• Arthur F. Holmes, 87, American professor of Philosophy.
• Gregory Possehl, 70, American archaeologist.
• Shirley Prestia, 64, American actress (Home Improvement, Dharma & Greg, What Women Want).
• Bharatha Lakshman Premachandra, 55, Sri Lankan politician, Member of Parliament (1994–2000), shot.
• Harold W. Rood, 89, American political scientist and author. Harold R. Rood (1922–2011)
• Nina Sorokina, 69, Russian principal dancer. (Russian)
• Mikey Welsh, 40, American artist and musician (Weezer).
• Roger Williams, 87, American pianist (Autumn Leaves), pancreatic cancer.
• Ingvar Wixell, 80, Swedish opera singer.

9

• Kei Aoyama, 32, Japanese manga artist, suicide by hanging.
• Ray Aranha, 72, American actor (Dead Man Walking, Die Hard with a Vengeance, Married People).
• Robert Boochever, 94, American federal judge.
• Rob Buckman, 63, British-born Canadian oncologist and comedian.
• Antonis Christeas, 74, Greek basketball player (AEK Athens) and coach. (Greek)
• Chauncey Hardy, 23, American basketball player, heart attack following beating. )
• Pavel Karelin, 21, Russian ski jumper, traffic accident.
• Mark Kingston, 77, British actor.
• Jakkampudi Rammohan Rao, 58, Indian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Andhra Pradesh.
• Manuel Prado Perez-Rosas, 88, Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Trujillo (1976–1999).
• James Worrall, 97, Canadian Olympic athlete (1936) and administrator.

10

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

11

• Amin al-Shami, Yemeni air force colonel, car bomb.
• Yerahmiel Assa, 92, Israeli politician.
• Kim Brown, 66, British-born Finnish musician, cancer. (Finnish)
• George "Mojo" Buford, 81, American blues harmonica player.
• Cy Buker, 92, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).
• Adrian Cowell, 77, British documentary film maker.
• Ion Diaconescu, 94, Romanian politician, President of Chamber of Deputies (1996–2000), heart failure.
• Doctor X, 43, Mexican professional wrestler, shot. (Spanish)
• Bob Galvin, 89, American businessman, CEO of Motorola (1959–1986).
• Freddie Gruber, 84, American jazz drummer.
• Nauman Habib, 32, Pakistani cricketer, murdered.
• Henk Hofs, 60, Dutch footballer (Vitesse Arnhem). (Dutch)
• Keith Holman, 84, Australian rugby league player and referee.
• Dieudonné Kabongo, 61, Congolese-born Belgian comedian, musician and actor (Lumumba).
• Frank Kameny, 86, American gay rights activist.
• Paul Martin, 79, American baseball player.
• Ewald Osers, 94, Czech translator and poet.
• František Sokol, 72, Czech Olympic bronze medal-winning (1968) volleyball player. (Czech)
• Derek Ward, 76. English footballer.

12

• Franz Jozef Van Beeck, 81, Dutch author and Christian theologian.
• Heinz Bennent, 90, German actor. (German)
• Patricia Breslin, 80, American actress (The People's Choice, Peyton Place, The Twilight Zone), wife of Art Modell, pancreatitis.
• Joel DiGregorio, 67, American keyboardist (The Charlie Daniels Band), car crash.
• Peter Hammond, 87, British actor and television director.
• Lowell H. Harrison, 88, American historian.
• János Herskó, 85, Hungarian film director and actor. (Hungarian)
• Vitali Kuznetsov, 70, Russian Olympic silver medal-winning (1972) judoka.
• Paul Leka, 68, American pianist, arranger and songwriter ("Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye", "Green Tambourine").
• Vic Miles, 79, American reporter and news anchor.
• Lewis Mills, 74, American college basketball coach (University of Richmond) and athletic director.
• Dennis Ritchie, 70, American computer scientist, developer of the C programming language and the Unix operating system. (body discovered on this date)
• Dick Thornett, 71, Australian triple international sportsman (water polo, rugby union and rugby league), heart disease.
• Martin White, 102, Irish hurler.
• Winstone Zulu, 47, Zambian AIDS and tuberculosis activist.

13

• Sheila Allen, 78, British actress (Love Actually).
• Irén Daruházi-Karcsics, 84, Hungarian Olympic silver (1948, 1952) and bronze (1952) medal-winning gymnast.
• Chris Doig, 63, New Zealand opera singer and sports administrator, bowel cancer.
• Hasan Güngör, 77, Turkish Olympic gold (1960) and silver (1964) medal-winning weightlifter.
• Barbara Kent, 103, Canadian-born American silent film actress.
• Tufele Liamatua, 71, American Samoan politician and paramount chief, first elected Lieutenant Governor of American Samoa (1978–1985).
• Abdoulaye Seye, 77, Senegalese Olympic bronze medal-winning (1960) athlete. (French)

14

• Reg Alcock, 63, Canadian politician, MP for Winnipeg South (1993–2006); President of the Treasury Board (2003–2006), heart attack.
• Margaret Draper, 94, American radio actress and disc jockey, natural causes.
• Michael Fitzpatrick, 69, Irish politician, TD for Kildare North (2007–2011), motor neurone disease.
• Pierangelo Garegnani, 81, Italian economist and professor.
• Ashawna Hailey, 62, American computer scientist.
• Adam Hunter, 48, Scottish golfer, leukemia.
• Arnaud Jacomet, 64, French historian, Secretary-General of the Western European Union (2009–2011), cancer. (French)
• Laura Pollán, 63, Cuban opposition leader, founder of the Ladies in White, cardiorespiratory arrest.
• Gunilla von Post, 79, Swedish socialite.
• Jaladi Raja Rao, 79, Indian film lyricist and playwright.
• Chuck Ruff, 60, American drummer (Edgar Winter, Sammy Hagar), after long illness.

15

• David P. Demarest, 79, American academic and writer.
• Betty Driver, 91, British singer and actress (Coronation Street), pneumonia.
• Sir Donald Dunstan, 88, Australian military officer, Governor of South Australia (1982–1991).
• Joan Jaykoski, 78, American AAGPBL baseball player, cancer.
• Pierre Mamboundou, 65, Gabonese politician, leader of the Union of the Gabonese People (since 1989), heart attack.
• Matthew G. Martínez, 82, American politician, U.S. Representative from California (1982–2001).
• Earl McRae, 69, Canadian journalist (Ottawa Sun), apparent heart attack.
• Sue Mengers, 79, American talent agent, pneumonia.
• Tongai Moyo, 43, Zimbabwean musician, non Hodgkin's lymphoma.
• Gerald Shapiro, 61, American fiction writer and academic.
• Titus Thotawatte, 82, Sri Lankan director.

16

• Hiroshi Arikawa, 70, Japanese voice actor. (Japanese)
• Henry Bathurst, 8th Earl Bathurst, 84, British aristocrat and politician.
• Ursula Cain, 84, German dancer and dance teacher.
• Elouise P. Cobell, 65, American Native rights activist.
• A. Donald Davies, 91, American Episcopal bishop of Dallas and Fort Worth.
• Antony Gardner, 84, British politician, MP for Rushcliffe (1966–1970).
• Miguel Ángel Granados Chapa, 70, Mexican journalist.
• Charles Hamm, 86, American musicologist.
• Rick Huseman, 38, American off-road race truck driver, airplane crash.
• Virginia Knauer, 96, American consumer advocate and government official.
• Tony Marchington, 55, English biotechnology entrepreneur and preservationist (Flying Scotsman).
• Stanley Mitchell, 69, British translator, academic and author.
• Caerwyn Roderick, 84, British politician, MP for Brecon & Radnor (1970–1979).
• Pete Rugolo, 95, Italian-born American film and television composer (Kiss Me Kate, The Fugitive).
• Henning Sjöström, 89, Swedish defense attorney, long illness. (Swedish)
• Elisabeth Tankeu, 67, Cameroonian politician, Minister for Planning and Regional Development (1988–1992).
• Dan Wheldon, 33, British IndyCar driver, racing accident.
• Don Williams, 80, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Kansas City Athletics).

17

• John Morton Blum, 90, American political historian.
• Ramaz Chkhikvadze, 83, Georgian-born English stage actor.
• Barney Danson, 90, Canadian politician, MP for York North (1968–1979), Minister of National Defence (1976–1979).
• Manfred Gerlach, 83, German politician, last Chairman of the State Council of East Germany (1989–1990).
• Poul Glargaard, 69, Danish actor. (Danish)
• Osvaldo Guidi, 47, Argentine actor, suicide by hanging.
• Carl Lindner, Jr., 92, American businessman (United Dairy Farmers, Cincinnati Reds), cardiac arrest.
• Elaine Nile, 75, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1988–2002), cancer.
• Muiris Ó Rócháin, 67, Irish teacher and director of the Willie Clancy Summer School.
• Ken Rush, 80, American NASCAR driver.
• Piri Thomas, 83, American writer (Down These Mean Streets) and poet, pneumonia.
• Edgar Villchur, 94, American inventor of the acoustic suspension loudspeaker.
• Xin Huguang, 78, Chinese composer. (Chinese)

18

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

19

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

20

• Ronald Amess, 84, Australian Olympic ice hockey player.
• Jerzy Bielecki, 90, Polish social worker, survivor of Auschwitz concentration camp, Polish Righteous among the Nations recipient. (Polish)
• John Bosco Manat Chuabsamai, 75, Thai Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ratchaburi (1985–2003).
• Barry Feinstein, 80, American photographer and photojournalist.
• Mutassim Gaddafi, 34, Libyan Army officer, fifth son of Muammar Gaddafi, shooting.
• Muammar Gaddafi, 69, Libyan leader (1969–2011), shooting.
• Gale Gillingham, 67, American football player (Green Bay Packers).
• Abu-Bakr Yunis Jabr, 59, Libyan military officer and politician, Minister of Defence (1970–2011), shooting.
• Hunter, 36, Australian rapper, cancer.
• Sue Lloyd, 72, British actress (The Ipcress File, Crossroads).
• Iztok Puc, 45, Slovenian handball player, only Olympian handball player to represent three countries, lung cancer.
• Morris Tabaksblat, 74, Dutch industrialist. (Dutch)
• Roger Tallon, 82, French industrial designer. (French)
• Peter Taylor, 84/5, British botanist.

21

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

22

• Jan Boye, 49, Danish politician, complications from brain hemorrhage. (Danish)
• Jean Dubuisson, 97, French architect.
• Peter Goldie, 64, British philosopher.
• Trevor Gordon, 96, Australian cricketer.
• Kutty, 90, Indian political cartoonist.
• Roger Moore, 73, American professional poker player.
• Mullanezhi, 63, Indian poet and actor, heart attack.
• Cathal O'Shannon, 83, Irish journalist and television presenter.
• Robert Pierpoint, 86, American broadcast journalist, complications from surgery.
• Roy Smalley, Jr., 85, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Milwaukee Braves, Philadelphia Phillies).
• Sultan, Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, 83, Saudi royal, Minister of Defense and Aviation (since 1962) and Crown Prince (since 2005).
• Ed Thompson, 66, American politician, Mayor of Tomah, Wisconsin (2008–2010), and gubernatorial candidate, pancreatic cancer.

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• Nusrat Bhutto, 82, Iranian-born Pakistani First Lady, widow of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and mother of Benazir Bhutto.
• John Brown, 81, British Anglican bishop, Bishop in Cyprus and the Gulf (1987–1996)^[1]
• Joseph Dao, 75, Burkinabé-born Malian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Kayes (1978–2011).
• Oscar Stanley Dawson, 87, Indian admiral, Chief of the Naval Staff (1982–1984), brain haemorrhage.
• Winston Griffiths, 33, Jamaican footballer.
• Herbert A. Hauptman, 94, American Nobel Prize-winning chemist (1985).
• Florence Parry Heide, 92, American children's author.
• Sir Frank Holmes, 87, New Zealand economist and government advisor.
• William Franklin Lee III, 82, American music educator, Dean of University of Miami School of Music (1964–1982).
• Bronislovas Lubys, 73, Lithuanian entrepreneur and politician, Prime Minister of Lithuania (1992–1993), heart attack. (Lithuanian)
• John Makin, 61, British folk- and blues singer (Potverdekke! (It's great to be a Belgian)).
• Miroslav Proft, 87, Czech Olympic shooter.
• Amnon Salomon, 71, Israeli cinematographer.
• Marco Simoncelli, 24, Italian motorcycle racer, race crash.
• Tillie Taylor, 88, Canadian judge.
• Bogdan Zakrzewski, 95, Polish historian and researcher of Polish literature. (Polish)

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• Bob Beaumont, 79, American electric automobile manufacturer (Citicar), emphysema.
• Margit Brandt, 66, Danish fashion designer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. (Danish)
• Robert Bropho, 81, Australian indigenous rights activist and convicted criminal, natural causes.
• Liviu Ciulei, 88, Romanian actor, writer and director, after long illness.
• Max Gillett, 84, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Geelong West (1958–1964).
• Harold Huskilson, 91, Canadian politician, member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly (1970–1993).
• Kjell Johansson, 65, Swedish table tennis player.
• Morio Kita, 84, Japanese novelist, essayist and psychiatrist.
• Héctor López, 44, Mexican boxer, Olympic silver medal-winner (1984), drug overdose.
• John McCarthy, 84, American computer scientist, creator of LISP and the term AI, heart disease.
• Pat McNamara, 85, American Olympic speed skater.
• Alan Morgan, 71, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Sherwood (1989–2004).
• Crescênzio Rinaldini, 85, Italian-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Araçuaí (1982–2001).
• Sir Peter Siddell, 76, New Zealand artist, brain tumour.
• Kirtanananda Swami, 74, American excommunicated Hare Krishna leader and convicted felon, kidney failure.
• Bruno Weber, 80, Swiss artist and architect.
• Ken Yamaguchi, 55, Japanese voice actor, illness.

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• Leonidas Andrianopoulos, 100, Greek footballer (Olympiacos F.C.). (Greek)
• Perkins Bass, 99, American politician, U.S. Representative from New Hampshire (1955–1963).
• Shirley Becke, 94, British police officer, first female to reach chief officer rank.
• Bert Cueto, 74, Cuban baseball player (Minnesota Twins).
• Arved Deringer, 98, German lawyer (Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer) and politician.
• Sinikka Keskitalo, 60, Finnish Olympic long-distance runner. (Finnish)
• Wyatt Knight, 56, American actor (Porky's), suicide by gunshot.
• Manuel López Ochoa, 77, Mexican actor.
• Tom McNeeley, 74, American boxer, complications from a seizure.
• Mohan Raghavan, 47, Indian Malayalam film director.
• Fyodor Reut, 64, Soviet and later Russian soldier.
• Bernard Verdcourt, 86, British botanist.
• Howard Wolpe, 71, American politician, U.S. Representative from Michigan (1979–1993).
• Norrie Woodhall, 105, British stage actress.

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• Salvador Bernal, 66, Filipino designer, National Artist of the Philippines.
• Daniel Burke, 82, American television executive, President of ABC (1986–1994), complications of diabetes.
• Dave Cole, 81, American baseball player (Boston Braves, Milwaukee Braves, Chicago Cubs).
• Mickey Kelly, 82, Irish hurler (Kilkenny GAA).
• Aristide Laurent, 70, American publisher and LGBT civil rights advocate.
• John Morris, 71, South African cricketer.
• William A. Niskanen, 78, American economist, member of the Council of Economic Advisors (1981–1985), chairman of the Cato Institute (1985–2008), stroke.
• Jona Senilagakali, 81, Fijian physician and diplomat, Prime Minister (2006–2007).
• Jorge Soto, 66, Argentine golfer. (Spanish)

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• Tom Brown, 89, American tennis player. )
• T. Max Graham, 70, American actor (Article 99, Eraserhead), cancer.
• Ronald Greeley, 72, American planetary scientist.
• James Hillman, 85, American psychologist, proponent of archetypal psychology.
• Ron Holmes, 48, American football player (Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Denver Broncos).
• Eduard Kojnok, 78, Slovak Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Rožňava (1990–2008). (Slovakian)
• Allen Mandelbaum, 85, American professor of Italian literature, poet and translator.
• Robert Pritzker, 85, American billionaire industrialist, Parkinson's disease.

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• Ricky Adams, 52, American baseball player (California Angels), cancer.
• Campbell Christie, 74, Scottish trade unionist.
• Willy De Clercq, 84, Belgian politician.
• Beryl Davis, 87, British big band singer and actress.
• R. Sheldon Duecker, 85, American prelate, bishop of the United Methodist Church.
• Jiří Gruša, 72, Czech dissident, diplomat and writer.
• Roger Kerr, 66, New Zealand public policy and business leader, executive director of the New Zealand Business Roundtable, metastatic melanoma.
• Alvin Schwartz, 94, American comic book writer, heart-related complications.
• Kan Singh Parihar, 98, Indian jurist. (Hindi)
• Arnold Ruiner, 74, Austrian Olympic cyclist.
• Sri Lal Sukla, 85, Indian writer, long illness.
• Wilmer W. Tanner, 101, American zoologist.
• Ed Walker, 94, American World War II veteran and writer, last surviving member of Castner's Cutthroats.

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• Axel Axgil, 96, Danish gay rights activist.
• Dolores Duffy, 76, American Olympic athlete and actress.
• Lloyd G. Jackson, 93, American politician, President of West Virginia Senate (1969–1971).
• Robert Lamoureux, 91, French comedian and film director. (French)
• Yoland Levèque, 74, French Olympic boxer. (French)
• Walter Norris, 79, American jazz pianist.
• R. C. Pitts, 92, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1948) basketball player.
• Ram Revilla, 22, Filipino actor, shot and stabbed.
• Sir Jimmy Savile, 84, British disc jockey, television presenter (Top of the Pops, Jim'll Fix It) and charity fundraiser.
• K. Suppu, 70, Indian politician.
• Samdup Taso, 83, Indian hereditary priest.
• Walter Vidarte, 80, Uruguayan actor. (Spanish)
• Tom Watkins, 74, American football player (Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions), after long illness.
• Mano Wijeyeratne, 54, Sri Lankan politician.

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• Serge Aubry, 69, Canadian ice hockey player (Quebec Nordiques), diabetes. (French)
• Bob Barry, Sr., 80, American sports commentator.
• T. M. Jacob, 61, Indian politician, member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly.
• Tom Keith, 64, American radio personality (A Prairie Home Companion).
• Jonas Kubilius, 90, Lithuanian mathematician. (Lithuanian)
• Phyllis Love, 85, American actress (Friendly Persuasion, The Young Doctors), Alzheimer's disease.
• Giles McCrary, 91, American art collector and museum owner.
• Christopher Mega, 80, American politician and judge.
• Cyril Parfitt, 97, British artist.
• Virgilio Salimbeni, 91, Italian cyclist.
• Mickey Scott, 64, German-born American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles, Montreal Expos).
• David Utz, 87, American surgeon, removed Ronald Reagan's prostate, heart failure.
• Richard Walls, 74, New Zealand politician and businessman, MP for Dunedin North (1975–1978) and Mayor of Dunedin (1989–1995).
• Abbas-Ali Amid Zanjani, 74, Iranian cleric and politician, President of Tehran University (2005–2008), heart failure.

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• Flórián Albert, 70, Hungarian footballer, European Footballer of the Year (1967).
• Alberto Anchart, 80, Argentine actor (Venga a bailar el rock), cancer.
• Liz Anderson, 81, American country music singer-songwriter, mother of Lynn Anderson, complications from heart and lung disease.
• Mick Anglo, 95, British comic book writer and artist, creator of Marvelman.
• Gilbert Cates, 77, American film director and producer (Academy Awards Telecast, Oh, God! Book II), founder of Geffen Playhouse.
• James Forrester, 74, American physician and politician, North Carolina State Senator (since 1990).
• Boris de Greiff, 81, Colombian chess master. (Spanish)
• Alfred Hilbe, 83, Liechtenstein politician, Prime Minister (1970–1974). (German)
• Len Killeen, 72, South African rugby league player.
• Marios Leousis, 85, Greek magician. (Greek)
• Ali Saibou, 71, Nigerien politician, President (1987–1993).

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