Notable Deaths In October 2009

by CJ on Nov.19, 2009, under Celebrity Death, Celebrity Obituaries

October 2009

* Roque Antonio Adames Rodríguez, 81, Dominican Roman Catholic Bishop of Santiago de los Caballeros. [1] (Spanish)
* Tim Bickerstaff, 67, New Zealand talkback radio personality, heart attack. [2]
* Chen Lin, 39, Chinese pop singer, suicide by jumping. [3] (Chinese)
* Hugh Dinwiddy, 97, British cricketer. [4]
* Stanley Ellis, 83, British linguistics scholar. [5]
* Lee Hu-rak, 85, South Korean spy chief, Director of the National Intelligence Service (1970–1973), age-related causes. [6]
* Mustafa Mahmud, 87, Egyptian scientist, author and philosopher. [7] (Arabic)
* Qian Xuesen, 97, Chinese scientist and co-founder of the JPL. [8]
* Gary Rabin, 57, Australian talent manager, heart attack. [9]
* Steve Reid, 94, American football player (Northwestern Wildcats). [10]
* Jan Wejchert, 59, Polish businessman and media mogul, co-founder of ITI Group, co-owner of TVN. [11] (Polish)
* Tom Wheatcroft, 87, British businessman, owner of Donington Park race circuit, after long illness. [12]

* Juvenal Amarijo, 85, Brazilian football player. [13]
* Jan-Erik Brohede, 48, Swedish Member of Parliament, heart attack and swine flu. [14](Swedish)
* Norton Buffalo, 58, American singer-songwriter, blues harmonica player (Steve Miller Band), lung cancer. [15]
* L. Travis Clark, 59, American television writer and producer (A Man Called Hawk, Tour of Duty), heart failure. [16]
* Forest Evashevski, 91, American football coach (Iowa Hawkeyes), cancer. [17]
* Josef Karlík, 81, Czech actor, member of the National Theatre in Brno. [18] (Czech)
* Claude Lévi-Strauss, 100, French anthropologist and author (The Savage Mind). [19]
* June Middleton, 83, Australian polio victim, world's longest survivor in an iron lung. [20]
* Marita Nordberg, 80, Finnish actress. [21] (Finnish)
* Cristina Pereira, 41, Portuguese Olympic beach volleyball player, cancer. [22] (Portuguese)
* Howie Schultz, 87, American baseball and basketball player, cancer. [23]
* Michelle Triola, 76, American plaintiff in landmark "palimony" lawsuit (Marvin v. Marvin), lung cancer. [24]
* Anton Turner, 38, British television presenter (Serious Explorers), trampled by elephant. [25]
* František Veselý, 65, Czech football player. [26] (German)
* Igor Vyazmikin, 43, Russian ice hockey player. [27] (Russian)

* Russell L. Ackoff, 90, American organizational theorist, complications from surgery. [28]
* Bei Shizhang, 106, Chinese biologist and educator. [29]
* Jean-François Bergier, 77, Swiss historian. [30]
* Charles E. Conrad, 84, American acting coach, kidney failure. [31]
* Sanyutei Enraku, 76, Japanese comedian (Sh?ten), lung cancer. [32]
* Gino Fracas, 79, Canadian football player. [33]
* Jan G?sienica Ciaptak, 86, Polish Olympic alpine skier. [34] (Polish)
* Olav Hodne, 88, Norwegian missionary. [35] (Norwegian)
* June Maule, 92, American businesswoman, owner of Maule Air. [36]
* John O'Quinn, 68, American lawyer, car accident. [37]
* Norman Painting, 85, British radio actor (The Archers), heart failure. [38]
* Jürgen Rieger, 63, German lawyer and politician (NPD), stroke. [39] (German)
* Dave Treen, 81, American politician, Governor of Louisiana (1980–1984), respiratory disease. [40]

* Ingvar Carlsson, 62, Swedish rally driver. [41]
* Ilarion Dorostolski, Bulgarian metropolitan. [42] (Bulgarian)
* Mykola Kasyan, 72, Ukrainian doctor, manual therapist. [43] (Russian)
* Paul Manz, 90, American Lutheran organist and composer. [44]
* Taylor Mitchell, 19, Canadian singer–songwriter, coyote attack. [45]
* Ted Nebbeling, 65, Dutch-born Canadian politician, British Columbia MLA (1996–2005), Mayor of Whistler, colon cancer. [46]

* Tapani Aartomaa, 75, Finnish professor and graphic designer. [47] (Finnish)
* Frank Brady, Jr., 64, Irish footballer, cancer. [48]
* Judith Chacón, 23, Venezuelan Olympic weightlifter, pregnancy-related complications. [49] (Spanish)
* August Coppola, 75, American writer, literature professor and father of Nicolas Cage, heart attack. [50]
* Roy DeCarava, 89, American photographer. [51]
* Leonard Drohan, 86, American author, complications from Alzheimer’s disease. [52]
* Alex Harris, 34, Australian paralympian swimmer, gold medalist (2004), suicide by train. [53]
* Calvin Houghland, 93, American steeplechase rider. [54]
* Damien Michaels, 53, American pornographic actor, stabbed. [55]
* Elli Pappa, 89, Greek journalist, author and political activist. [56] (Greek)
* Marat Romashkin, 54, Russian businessman, General Director of S-Air, plane crash. [57]
* Stacy Rowles, 54, American jazz musician, complications from car accident. [58]
* David Shepherd, 68, British cricketer and umpire, lung cancer. [59]
* Paul Zamecnik, 96, American molecular biologist. [60]

* Daniel Acharuparambil, 70, Indian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Verapoly (since 1996), kidney failure. [61]
* Teel Bivins, 61, American member of the Texas Senate (1989–2004), Ambassador to Sweden (2004–2006), after long illness. [62]
* Sabino Fernández Campo, 91, Spanish Chief of the Royal House, key figure in failed 23-F coup d'état. [63] (Spanish)
* Lea Fite, 59, American politician, member of the Alabama House of Representatives (since 2002), apparent seizure. [64]
* Shota Gogokhia, 89, Georgian physician, Minister of Health of the Abkhaz ASSR (1950–1973), natural causes. [65] (Georgian)
* Yoshir? Muraki, 85, Japanese film production designer and art director, heart failure. [66]
* George Na'ope, 81, American musician and hula expert, founder of the Merrie Monarch Festival, cancer. [67]
* Troy Smith, 87, American businessman, founder of Sonic Drive-In chain, natural causes. [68]
* Miloslav Švandrlík, 77, Czech writer. [69] (Czech)

* Dee Anthony, 83, American music manager, pneumonia. [70]
* Maksharip Aushev, 43, Russian political activist and opposition leader in Ingushetia, businessman (Ingushetia.org), shot. [71]
* Adoor Bhavani, 82, Indian actress, after long illness. [72]
* Billy Bibit, 59, Filipino soldier and coup d'etat leader, complications from a stroke. [73]
* Camillo Cibin, 83, Italian former commander of the Corps of Gendarmerie of Vatican City. [74] (German)
* Fritz Darges, 96, German World War II Waffen-SS officer. [75] (German)
* Seymour Fromer, 87, American founder of Judah L. Magnes Museum, after long illness. [76]
* Leslie A. Geddes, 88, American electrical engineer and physiologist. [77]
* Lawrence Halprin, 93, American architect. [78]
* Gerhard Knoop, 88, Norwegian theatre director. [79] (Norwegian)
* Chittaranjan Kolhatkar, 86, Indian actor, heart attack. [80]
* Mike McQueen, 52, American journalist, Associated Press bureau chief for Louisiana and Mississippi, cancer. [81]
* Ingeborg Mello, 90, Argentinian Olympic athlete. [82] (Spanish)
* Heinz-Klaus Metzger, 77, German music critic. [83] (German)
* Lázaro Pérez Jiménez, 66, Mexican Roman Catholic Bishop of Celaya. [84] (Spanish)
* Alexander Piatigorsky, 80, Russian-born British philosopher. [85] (Russian)
* Jeffry Picower, 67, American philanthropist, associate of Bernard Madoff, drowned after heart attack. [86]
* Kamala Sankrityayan, 89, Indian writer and litterateur. [87]
* Tangi Satyanarayana, 84, Indian politician, Speaker of the Vidhan Sabha of Andhra Pradesh (1983–1985), after long illness. [88]
* Sebastiano Scamporlino, 46, Italian rally driver, car accident. [89] (Polish)
* Kevin Widemond, 23, American basketball player, heart attack. [90]

* Bill Chadwick, 94, American hockey official and broadcaster. [91]
* George Dobie, 86, Canadian journalist, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. [92]
* Victor Miguel Gálvez Pérez, Guatemalan trade unionist and human rights activist, shot. [93] (Spanish)
* Yasuo Iwata, 67, Japanese actor, lung cancer. [94] (Japanese)
* Jay Lasslo, 84, American radio personality. [95]

* Ture Cailo, Vanuatuan politician and member of parliament. [96]
* Linda Day, 71, American television director, leukemia and breast cancer. [97]
* Trevor Denning, 86, British artist. [98]
* Sohrab Fakir, 75, Pakistani folk singer, kidney disease. [99]
* Chris Hawk, 58, American surfer, oral cancer. [100]
* Lou Jacobi, 95, Canadian-born American actor (The Diary of Anne Frank). [101]
* John Kenley, 103, American summer theater producer, complications of pneumonia. [102]
* Shiloh Pepin, 10, American girl with rare sirenomelia condition, pneumonia. [103]
* Jack Poole, 76, Canadian real estate developer, pancreatic cancer. [104]
* Ron Sobieszczyk, 75, American basketball player (DePaul Blue Demons, New York Knicks), degenerative brain disease. [105]

* Maryanne Amacher, 66, American experimental composer, sound artist, and installation artist, complications after a stroke. [106]
* Paul Andrews, 53, Australian politician, cancer. [107]
* Daniel Bekker, 77, South African boxer, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases. [108]
* Ray B. Browne, 87, American educator, scholar of popular culture. [109]
* Pierre Chaunu, 86, French historian. [110] (French)
* Howard Darwin, 78, Canadian sports promoter, founder of the Ottawa 67's, complications from heart surgery. [111]
* Ray Lambert, 87, British footballer. [112]
* Don Lane, 75, American-born Australian entertainer, Alzheimer's disease. [113]
* Dmitry Potapov, 25, Russian circus director, bear attack. [114]
* Don Ivan Punchatz, 73, American science fiction artist, cardiac arrest. [115]
* Herman Reich, 91, American baseball player (Washington Senators, Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians). [116]
* Soupy Sales, 83, American comedian and television host, cancer. [117]
* Suchart Chaovisith, 69, Thai politician, Finance Minister (2003–2004) and Deputy Prime Minister (2004), laryngeal cancer. [118]
* Libero Tresoldi, 88, Italian Roman Catholic Bishop of Crema. [119] (Italian)
* Elmer Winter, 97, American founder of Manpower Inc. [120]
* George Patrick Ziemann, 68, American Roman Catholic Bishop of Santa Rosa. [121]

* Ranjan Das, 42, Indian CEO of SAP India, cardiac arrest. [122]
* Louise Cooper, 57, British novelist, aneurysm. [123]
* Lionel Davidson, 87, British novelist. [124]
* Clinton Ford, 77, British singer, after long illness. [125]
* John Jarman, 78, British footballer and coach, after short illness. [126]
* Iain Macphail, Lord Macphail, 71, British judge and legal scholar. [127]
* Y?ko Minamida, 76, Japanese actress. [128]
* Jack Nelson, 80, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist (1960), pancreatic cancer. [129]
* Redmond O'Neill, 55, British political activist. [130]
* Bill Poole, 87, American sport fisherman, lung cancer. [131]
* Sirone, 69, American jazz musician. [132]
* Ted Sizer, 77, American education reformer, colorectal cancer. [133]
* Giuliano Vassalli, 94, Italian politician, illness. [134] (Italian)

* Yvonne Carter, 50, British general practitioner and medical academic, breast cancer. [135]
* Attila Dargay, 83, Hungarian animator. [136] (Hungarian)
* Margaret Fitzgerald, 113, Canadian supercentenarian, natural causes. [137]
* Clifford Hansen, 97, American politician, Governor of Wyoming (1963–1967) and U.S. Senator (1967–1978). [138]
* Yasuko Harada, 81, Japanese novelist. [139] (Japanese)
* Liam Maher, 41, British singer (Flowered Up). [140]
* Charles Mills, 88, American painter. [141]
* Doreen Reid Nakamarra, 50, Australian Aboriginal artist, pneumonia. [142]
* Jef Nys, 82, Belgian comic book artist (Jommeke). [143] (Dutch)
* Sultan Pepper, 47, American comedy writer, Emmy Award winner (The Ben Stiller Show). [144]
* Yuri Ryazanov, 22, Russian artistic gymnast, car accident. [145]
* Winai Senniam, 51, Thai parliamentarian, liver and colon cancer. [146]

* Dame Doreen Blumhardt, 95, New Zealand potter. [147]
* Moni Fanan, 63, Israeli basketball team manager, suicide by hanging. [148]
* Werner Heubeck, 85, German-born British managing director of Ulsterbus and Citybus, cancer. [149]
* Joe Hutton, 81, American basketball player, heart attack. [150]
* Sushila Kerketta, 71, Indian politician, heart attack. [151]
* Vladimír Kloko?ka, 80, Czech politician and jurist, signatory to Charter 77 manifesto. [152]
* Shlomo Lorincz, 91, Hungarian-born Israeli politician, heart failure. [153]
* Reg McKay, 56, British journalist and crime fiction writer, brain and lung cancer. [154]
* Alberto Testa, 82, Italian composer and lyricist. [155] (Italian)
* Radu Timofte, 60, Romanian intelligence officer, director of the Serviciul Român de Informa?ii (2001–2006), leukemia. [156]
* Howard Unruh, 88, American spree killer. [157]
* Joseph Wiseman, 91, Canadian actor (Dr. No). [158]

* Ion Cojar, 78, Romanian actor and film director, Parkinson's disease. [159] (Romanian)
* Ruth Duckworth, 90, American sculptor, after short illness. [160]
* Jasper Howard, 20, American football player, stabbed. [161]
* Lenore Kandel, 77, American poet, lung cancer. [162]
* Leonard B. Keller, 62, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient, motorcycle accident. [163]
* Sir Ludovic Kennedy, 89, British author and journalist, pneumonia. [164]
* Adriaan Kortlandt, 91, Dutch biologist. [165] (Dutch)
* Ovidiu Mu?etescu, 54, Romanian politician, cancer. [166] (Romanian)
* Ignacio Ponseti, 95, Spanish physician and inventor (Ponseti method). [167]
* Nancy Spero, 83, American artist, heart failure. [168]
* Basie Vivier, 82, South African rugby union player, captain of the Springboks (1956). [169]

* Carla Boni, 84, Italian singer, after long illness. [170] (Italian)
* Diana Elles, Baroness Elles, 88, British diplomat and politician. [171]
* Jay W. Johnson, 66, American U.S. Representative for Wisconsin (1997–1999), U.S. Mint Director (2000–2001), heart attack. [172]
* Vladimir Kashpur, 82, Russian film actor, People's Artist of Russia. [173] (Russian)
* Kazuhiko Kato, 62, Japanese musician (The Folk Crusaders, Sadistic Mika Band), suicide by hanging. [174]
* Louisa Mark, 49, British lovers rock singer. [175]
* Norma Fox Mazer, 78, American author, brain cancer. [176]
* Vic Mizzy, 93, American composer (The Addams Family, Green Acres), [177]
* Rosanna Schiaffino, 69, Italian film actress, cancer. [178] (Italian)
* Sheldon Segal, 83, American reproductive biologist. [179]
* Michael Shea, 71, British diplomat, press secretary to Queen Elizabeth II (1978–1987), dementia. [180]

* Bob Davis, 77, American politician, U.S. Representative for Michigan (1979–1993), heart and kidney failure. [181]
* Inglis Drever, 10, British hurdles racehorse, euthanised. [182]
* Meil? Lukšien?, 96, Lithuanian cultural historian, member of the S?j?dis. [183] (Lithuanian)
* Andrés Montes, 53, Spanish sports commentator. [184] (Spanish)
* Marian Przykucki, 85, Polish Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archbishop of Szczecin-Kamie? (1992–1999). [185] (Polish)

* George P. Jenkins, 94, American chairman of Metlife, assisted expansion of ABC and Pan Am, heart failure. [186]
* Josias Kumpf, 84, Austrian Nazi concentration camp guard. [187] (German)
* Elizabeth Clare Prophet, 70, American New Age religious leader, co-founder of The Summit Lighthouse, Alzheimer's disease. [188]
* Tollak B. Sirnes, 86, Norwegian physician, psychiatrist and pharmacologist. [189] (Norwegian)
* George Tuska, 93, American Golden Age comic book artist (Iron Man). [190]
* Heinz Versteeg, 70, Dutch football player, cancer. [191] (German)

* Lou Albano, 76, American professional wrestler and manager, actor (The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!), natural causes. [192]
* Antônio do Carmo Cheuiche, 82, Brazilian Auxiliary Bishop of Santa Maria (1969–1971) and Porto Alegre (1971–2001). [193]
* Fred Cress, 71, British-born Australian artist, Archibald Prize winner (1988), pancreatic cancer. [194]
* Albert Elms, 89, British composer. [195]
* Johnny Jones, 73, American R&B guitarist and bandleader (Johnny Jones and the King Casuals). [196]
* Roy Lane, 74, British hillclimbing competitor, peritonitis. [197]
* C. B. Muthamma, 88, Indian first female diplomat and ambassador. [198]
* Willard Varnell Oliver, 88, American Navajo code talker. [199]
* Martyn Sanderson, 71, New Zealand actor. [200]
* Bruce Wasserstein, 61, American investment banker and businessman. [201]
* Collin Wilcox, 74, American actress (To Kill a Mockingbird), brain cancer. [202]

* Stephen Barnett, 73, American legal scholar, opposed the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970, cardiac arrest. [203]
* Cullen Bryant, 58, American football player (Los Angeles Rams), natural causes. [204]
* Rodger Doxsey, 62, American physicist and astronomer, cancer. [205]
* Richard Foster, 63, American member of the Alaska House of Representatives, heart and kidney disease. [206]
* Grietje Jansen-Anker, 112, Dutch supercentenarian. [207] (Dutch)
* Atle Jebsen, 73, Norwegian shipowner and businessman, car crash. [208] (Norwegian)
* William Wayne Justice, 89, American federal judge. [209]
* Lü Zhengcao, 104, Chinese general, last survivor of the original Shang Jiang. [210]
* Winston Ngozi Mankunku, 66, South African saxophone player. [211]
* Al Martino, 82, American singer and actor (The Godfather), first person to top the UK Singles Chart. [212]
* Daniel Melnick, 77, American studio chief (MGM, Columbia), television producer, executive producer (That's Entertainment!). [213]
* Paul Barb? Neagr?, 80, Romanian film director and essayist. [214] (Romanian)
* Roger Nixon, 88, American composer, complications from leukemia. [215]
* Nan C. Robertson, 83, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, heart disease. [216]
* Oraine Simpson, 26, Jamaican football player, stabbed. [217]
* Richard T. Whitcomb, 88, American aeronautical engineer. pneumonia [218]
* Leo Williams, 68, Australian rugby union official. [219]

* Maurice Agis, 77, British sculptor. [220]
* Dietrich von Bothmer, 90, German-born American art historian, curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [221]
* Alberto Castagnetti, 66, Italian Olympic swimmer, complications from cardiac surgery. [222] (Italian)
* Mildred Cohn, 96, American biochemist. [223]
* Mikheil Kalatozishvili, 50, Russian film director, script writer and producer. [224] (Russian)
* Donald Kaufman, 79, American toy car collector, heart attack. [225]
* Brendan Mullen, 60, American punk impresario and club owner (The Masque), stroke. [226]
* Stan Palk, 87, British footballer. [227]
* Dickie Peterson, 63, American rock singer (Blue Cheer), liver cancer. [228]
* Joe Rosen, 88, American Golden Age comic book letterer. [229]
* Frank Vandenbroucke, 34, Belgian cyclist, pulmonary embolism. [230]
* Ian Wallace, 90, British bass-baritone singer, after long illness. [231]

* Joan Martí i Alanis, 80, Spanish archbishop, Bishop of Urgell and co-Prince of Andorra (1971–2003), after long illness. [232]
* Peter Callanan, 74, Irish politician, member of the Seanad (since 1997). [233]
* Patrick Hannan, 68, British broadcaster, author and journalist, after short illness. [234]
* Gustav Kral, 26, Austrian footballer, car accident. [235] (German)
* Abigail McLellan, 40, Scottish artist, multiple sclerosis. [236]
* Veronika Neugebauer, 39, German actress, voice actress and singer. [237] (German)
* Alan Peters, 76, British furniture designer, after long illness. [238]
* Halit Refi?, 75, Turkish film director, cholangiocarcinoma. [239] (Turkish)

* Luis Aguilé, 73, Argentinian singer and songwriter, stomach cancer. [240] (Spanish)
* Paul Bloom, 70, American lawyer, recovered $6 billion for the Department of Energy, pancreatic cancer. [241]
* Sonny Bradshaw, 83, Jamaican jazz musician, stroke. [242]
* Stephen Gately, 33, Irish pop singer (Boyzone), pulmonary oedema. [243]
* Larry Jansen, 89, American baseball player (New York Giants, Cincinnati Reds), heart failure and pneumonia. [244]
* Joan Orenstein, 85, British-born Canadian actress. [245]
* Lionel Pincus, 78, American businessman, founder of Warburg Pincus, after long illness. [246]
* Carol Tomlinson-Keasey, 66, American psychologist, breast cancer. [247]

* Arne Bakker, 79, Norwegian football and bandy player. [248] (Norwegian)
* Francis Baldacchino, 73, Maltese-born Bishop of Malindi, Kenya. [249]
* Raymond A. Brown, 94, American lawyer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. [250]
* Aldo Buzzi, 99, Italian author and architect. [251]
* Arturo "Zambo" Cavero, 68, Peruvian folk singer, complications of sepsis. [252]
* Jacques Chessex, 75, Swiss author, first non-French recipient of the Prix Goncourt, heart attack. [253]
* Marvin Fishman, 84, American businessman, original owner of Milwaukee Bucks, stroke. [254]
* Anne Friedberg, 57, American professor (USC School of Cinematic Arts), colorectal cancer[255]
* Vyacheslav Ivankov, 69, Russian crime figure, gunshot wounds. [256] (Russian)
* Stuart M. Kaminsky, 75, American mystery writer, hepatitis. [257]
* Barry Letts, 84, British television actor, director and producer (Doctor Who). [258]
* John Daido Loori, 78, American Zen Buddhist monk, lung cancer. [259]
* Hermann Raich, 75, Austrian Roman Catholic Bishop of Wabag (1982–2008). [260]
* Louis Sanmarco, 97, French administrator, Governor (1954–1957) and High Commissioner (1957–1958) of Ubangi-Shari. [261]
* Richard Sonnenfeldt, 86, German-born American interpreter at the Nuremberg Trials, complications from a stroke. [262]
* Dré Steemans, 55, Belgian television and radio host, cardiac arrest. [263] (Dutch)
* Horst Szymaniak, 75, German footballer, after long illness. [264] (German)
* Rusty Wier, 65, American country music singer-songwriter, cancer. [265]

* Gordon Boyd, 86, British-born Australian television personality, after short illness. [266]
* James Delgrosso, 66, American politician, Mayor of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (2003–2004), leukemia. [267]
* Gerald Ferguson, 72, American-born Canadian artist. [268]
* Juan Carlos Mareco, 83, Uruguayan actor. [269]
* Torsten Reißmann, 56, German Olympic judoka. [270] (German)
* Jean Sage, 68, French racing driver, former sporting director of the Renault F1 team. [271]
* Michael Angelo Saltarelli, 77, American Roman Catholic Bishop of Wilmington (1995–2008), bone cancer. [272]
* Abu Talib, 70, American blues musician, cancer. [273]
* Sir Sydney Walling, 102, Antiguan cricketer. [274]

* Bikram Keshari Deo, 58, Indian politician, cardiac arrest. [275]
* Steve Ferguson, 60, American guitarist (NRBQ), cancer. [276]
* Irving Penn, 92, American fashion photographer (Vogue). [277]
* Shelby Singleton, 77, American record producer and record label owner (Sun Records), brain cancer. [278]
* Helen Watts, 81, British contralto. [279]
* Pedro E. Zadunaisky, 91, Argentinian astronomer and mathematician. [280]

* Jimmy Bates, 99, Australian football player, oldest living VFL player. [281]
* Pamela Blake, 94, American actress, natural causes. [282]
* Douglas Campbell, 87, Scottish-born Canadian actor, complications of diabetes and heart disease. [283]
* Raymond Federman, 81, French-born American writer and academic, cancer. [284]
* Aengus Finucane, 77, Irish priest, Chief Executive of Concern Worldwide (1981–1997), after short illness. [285]
* Pyarelal Khandelwal, 80, Indian politician, cancer. [286]
* Werner Maihofer, 90, German Minister of the Interior (1974–1978). [287] (German)
* Donna Mae Mims, 82, American race driver, first female SCCA champion, stroke. [288]
* Gilberto Zaldívar, 75, American founder of the Repertorio Español, complications of Lewy body disease. [289]

* Mike Alexander, 32, British bassist (Evile), cerebral haemorrhage. [290]
* Leon Clarke, 76, American football player (Los Angeles Rams), pancreatitis. [291]
* Israel Gelfand, 96, Russian mathematician. [292]
* Giselher Klebe, 84, German composer. [293] (German)
* David Lake, 66, American winemaker. [294]
* Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones, 87, British classical scholar. [295]
* Brian Powell, 35, American baseball player, self-inflicted gunshot wound. [296]
* René Sommer, 58, Swiss co-inventor of the computer mouse. [297]
* Aisling Symes, 2, New Zealand child whose disappearance initiated major search, drowned. [298].

* Koichi Haraguchi, 68, Japanese chief of staff, Imperial House of Japan, heart attack. [299] (Japanese)
* Veikko Huovinen, 82, Finnish writer. [300] (Finnish)
* Grace Keagy, 87, American actress, ovarian cancer. [301]
* Ern? Kolczonay, 56, Hungarian Olympic silver medal-winning fencer (1980, 1992). [302] (Hungarian)
* James Lin Xili, 91, Chinese underground first Bishop of Wenzhou (since 1992), Alzheimer’s disease. [303]
* Sh?ichi Nakagawa, 56, Japanese politician, Minister of Finance (2008–2009). [304]
* Nikiforos, 78, Greek Bishop of Didymoteicho, after long illness. [305] (Greek)
* Günther Rall, 91, German Luftwaffe flying ace during WWII, heart attack. [306]
* Mercedes Sosa, 74, Argentinian folk singer, liver failure. [307]

* Alexander Basilaia, 67, Georgian composer, after long illness. [308]
* Vladimir Beekman, 80, Estonian writer and translator. [309] (Estonian)
* Fernando Caldeiro, 51, Argentine-born American astronaut, brain cancer. [310]
* Fatima of Libya, 98, Queen of Libya (1951–1969), widow of King Idris I. [311] (Arabic)
* Robert Kirby, 61, British folk rock arranger, after short illness. [312]
* Ernie Lopez, 64, American boxer, complications from dementia. [313]
* Reinhard Mohn, 88, German entrepreneur and publisher, founder of Bertelsmann Foundation. [314] (German)
* Vasile Louis Puscas, 94, American Bishop of St George's in Canton in the Romanian Catholic Church. [315]

* Alain Bernheim, 86, French-born American film producer, complications of dialysis. [316]
* Marek Edelman, 86, Polish political and social activist, cardiologist, last surviving leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. [317]
* Jack Evans, 80, Australian politician, Senator (1983–1984), co-founder of the Australian Democrats, cancer. [318]
* Nat Finkelstein, 76, American photographer and photojournalist. [319]
* John "Mr. Magic" Rivas, 53, American radio personality, heart attack. [320]
* Saleh Meki, 61, Eritrean cabinet minister and politician, heart attack. [321]
* Peg Mullen, 92, American author, subject of film Friendly Fire. [322]
* Desmond Plummer, Baron Plummer of St. Marylebone, 95, British politician, leader of Greater London Council (1967–1973). [323]
* Rolf Rüssmann, 58, German football manager, prostate cancer. [324]
* Herman D. Stein, 92, American professor (Case Western Reserve University). [325]
* Harvey Veniot, 93, Canadian MLA for Pictou West (1956–1974), Speaker of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly (1961–1968). [326]
* Shaun Wylie, 96, British mathematician and World War II codebreaker. [327]

* Otar Chiladze, 76, Georgian writer, heart failure. [328] (Georgian)
* André-Philippe Futa, 66, Congolese politician, Minister of the Economy and Foreign Trade (since 2002). [329]
* Gunnar Haarberg, 92, Norwegian television presenter. [330] (Norwegian)
* Syed Kamal, 72, Pakistani actor, after long illness. [331]
* Lou Moro, 91, Canadian footballer and football coach. [332]
* V. M. Muddiah, 80, Indian cricketer, stroke. [333]
* Bhandit Rittakol, 58, Thai film director, producer and screenwriter, heart failure. [334]
* Cintio Vitier, 88, Cuban poet. [335]