NOTABLE DEATHS IN NOVEMBER 2009
November 2009
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* George Atkins, 92, Canadian radio and TV presenter (CBC), founder of Farm Radio International, kidney failure. [32]
* Asim Butt, 42, Pakistani-born British cricketer. [33]
* Emile Eid, 84, Lebanese Roman Catholic titular bishop of Sarepta dei Maroniti. [34]
* Brent Green, 33, Australian football player, drowned. [35]
* Milorad Pavi?, 80, Serbian writer, heart failure. [36]
* Ahmet Ulucay, 55, Turkish film director, pneumonia. [37] (Turkish)
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* Prince Alexander of Belgium, 67, Belgian royal, pulmonary embolism. [38] (French)
* Nora David, Baroness David, 96, British politician, member of the House of Lords. [39]
* Gilbert-Antoine Duchêne, 90, French Bishop of Saint-Claude (1975–1994). [40]
* Princess Farial of Egypt, 71, Egyptian royal, oldest child of King Farouk, stomach cancer. [41]
* Robert Holdstock, 61, British science fiction author, Escherichia coli infection. [42]
* Solange Magnano, 38, Argentinian beauty queen (Miss Argentina, 1994), pulmonary embolism. [43]
* Lee Pelty, 74, American stage actor, lung cancer. [44]
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* Erich Böhme, 79, German journalist, editor of Der Spiegel (1973–1989), cancer. [45]
* Gilles Carle, 81, Canadian film director and screenwriter, complications from Parkinson's disease. [46]
* Bjartmar Gjerde, 78, Norwegian politician, cabinet minister and broadcasting executive. [47] (Norwegian)
* Jeff Hoover, 41, American football coach (Eastern Illinois University), car accident. [48]
* Bob Keane, 87, American music producer and manager, founder of Del-Fi Records, renal failure. [49]
* Eric Waldram Kemp, 94, British Church of England theologian, Bishop of Chichester (1974–2001). [50]
* Tony Kendall, 73, Italian actor, played Kommissar X, after short illness. [51]
* Patrick Konchellah, 41, Kenyan runner, after long illness. [52]
* Koichi Saito, 80, Japanese film director and photographer, pneumonia. [53]
* Joaquín Vargas Gómez, 84, Mexican media owner, founder of MVS Comunicaciones, natural causes. [54] (Spanish)
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* Al Alberts, 87, American singer (The Four Aces), kidney failure. [55]
* Jacques Baratier, 91, French film director and screenwriter. [56] (French)
* Jacques Braunstein, 78, Romanian-born Venezuelan economist, publicist and jazz disc jockey, heart failure. [57] (Spanish)
* William J. Bresnan, 75, American businessman, founder of Bresnan Communications, cancer. [58]
* Bess Lomax Hawes, 88, American folklorist and musician, stroke. [59]
* Geneviève Joy, 90, French pianist. [60]
* Alice McGrath, 92, American activist (Sleepy Lagoon murder trial), infection from a chronic illness. [61]
* György Melis, 86, Hungarian opera singer. [62]
* Mike Penner, 52, American sportswriter (Los Angeles Times), suicide. [63]
* Larry Turner, 70, American politician, member of the Tennessee House of Representatives (since 1985), after long illness. [64]
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* Pia Beck, 84, Dutch jazz pianist and singer, heart attack. [65]
* Bernard Birnbaum, 89, American television producer (CBS News), heart attack. [66]
* Peter Forakis, 82, American artist. [67]
* Robert J. Fox, 81, American Catholic priest, cancer. [68]
* Nikola Kovachev, 75, Bulgarian football player and manager. [69] (Bulgarian)
* Lis Løwert, 89, Danish film actress. [70] (Danish)
* Geoffrey Moorhouse, 77, British journalist and author, stroke. [71]
* Lexi Pillman, 26, American wrestling manager, stepdaughter of Brian Pillman, automobile accident. [72]
25
* Giorgio Carbone, 73, Italian self-proclaimed head of state of the Principality of Seborga micronation. [73]
24
* José Arraño, 88, Chilean writer. [74] (Spanish)
* Amy Black, 36, British mezzo-soprano opera singer. [75]
* Chan Hung Lit, 66, Hong Kong actor, heart failure. [76]
* Francis French, 7th Baron de Freyne, 82, Irish aristocrat. [77]
* Mike LeBell, 79, American professional wrestling promoter, older brother of Gene LeBell, respiratory failure. [78]
* Abe Pollin, 85, American businessman, owner of Washington Wizards and Washington Capitals, corticobasal degeneration. [79]
* Hale Smith, 84, American composer and arranger, complications of a stroke. [80]
* Squingy, 37, Jamaican disc jockey (Bass Odyssey), HIV/AIDS. [81]
* Samak Sundaravej, 74, Thai politician, Prime Minister (2008), liver cancer. [82]
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* Víctor Brizuela, 77, Argentinian sports commentator, complications following kidney transplant. [83] (Spanish)
* Robert Degen, 104, American songwriter (Hokey Pokey). [84]
* Pim Koopman, 56, Dutch progressive rock drummer (Kayak). [85]
* Richard Meale, 77, Australian composer. [86]
* Lennart Olsson, 67, Swedish eccentric football fan, cancer. [87] (Swedish)
* Joe Papa, American musician (Controlled Bleeding), heart attack. [88]
* Tony Parry, 64, British footballer (Hartlepool United), pneumonia. [89]
* Pat Quinn, 74, Irish businessman, founder of the Quinnsworth supermarket chain, renal failure. [90]
* Yang Xianyi, 94, Chinese translator. [91]
22
* Billy Joe Daugherty, 57, American Christian minister, lymphoma. [92]
* Sir John Grugeon, 81, British politician. [93]
* Jeong Nam-kyu, 40, South Korean serial killer, suicide by hanging. [94]
* B.Z. Kastler, 89, American businessman, former CEO of (Questar Corporation). [95]
* Ali Kordan, 51, Iranian politician, Minister of the Interior (2008), multiple myeloma. [96]
* Art Lake, 85, American news presenter and weatherman (WJAR-TV). [97]
* Juan Carlos Muñoz, 90, Argentinian footballer, heart attack. [98] (Spanish)
* Haydain Neale, 39, Canadian singer–songwriter (jacksoul), lung cancer. [99]
* Iraklis Papasideris, 80, Greek lyricist. [100] (Greek)
* Francisco Rodriguez, 25, American Golden Gloves boxer, brain injury sustained during match. [101]
* Emile Vanfasse, 69, French Polynesian politician, Finance Minister (2004–2006). [102]
21
* Gerhard Aspheim, 79, Norwegian jazz trombonist. [103] (Norwegian)
* Bernard Bonnin, 70, Filipino actor, diabetes. [104]
* Konstantin Feoktistov, 83, Russian cosmonaut and aerospace engineer. [105] (Russian)
* Ira Hanford, 91, American jockey, winner of the 1936 Kentucky Derby, after long illness. [106]
* Tom Janik, 69, American football player (Denver Broncos, Buffalo Bills). [107]
* Rena Kanokogi, 74, American judoka, multiple myeloma. [108]
* Ken Krueger, 83, American co-founder of San Diego Comic-Con International, heart attack. [109]
* Paige Palmer, 93, American fitness trainer. [110]
* Celso Pitta, 63, Brazilian politician, Mayor of São Paulo (1997–2000), colorectal cancer. [111]
* Jaan-Mati Punning, 69, Estonian ecologist. [112] (Estonian)
* Allen Shelton, 73, American banjo player, leukemia. [113]
* Panos Tzanetis, 69, Greek singer, cancer. [114] (Greek)
20
* Martino Gomiero, 85, Italian Roman Catholic Bishop of Adria-Rovigo. [115]
* Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi, 78, Pakistani politician, Chief Minister of Sindh (1973–1977); Prime Minister (1990), after long illness. [116]
* Lino Lacedelli, 83, Italian mountaineer, first man to reach the summit of K2. [117]
* H. C. Robbins Landon, 83, American musicologist. [118]
* Herbert Richers, 86, Brazilian filmmaker and voice artist, kidney failure. [119] (Portuguese)
* Max Robertson, 94, British radio broadcaster. [120]
* Alejandro R. Ruiz, 85, American World War II Medal of Honor recipient. [121]
* Lester Shubin, 84, American developer of the bulletproof Kevlar vest, heart attack. [122]
* Elisabeth Söderström, 82, Swedish soprano, complications from a stroke. [123]
* Daniil Sysoev, 35, Russian Orthodox priest, shot. [124]
* Roman Trakhtenberg, 41, Russian actor, television and radio presenter, heart attack. [125]
* Charis Wilson, 95, American model and writer. [126]
19
* Frank Beattie, 76, Scottish footballer (Kilmarnock F.C.), after long illness. [127]
* Johnny Delgado, 61, Filipino actor, lymphoma. [128]
* Erika Haggi, 87, Estonian sculptor. [129] (Estonian)
* Daul Kim, 20, South Korean fashion model, suicide by hanging. [130]
* Pat Mackie, 95, New Zealand-born Australian trade unionist. [131]
* Denis McNamara, 83, British Olympic wrestler, prostate cancer and liver failure. [132]
* Sir Noel Power, 79, Australian acting Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong (1996–1997), heart attack. [133]
* Chiyo Shiraishi, 114, Japanese supercentenarian, fourth-oldest person in the world. [134] (Japanese)
* Nao Takasugi, 87, American politician, member of the California State Assembly (1993–1999), stroke. [135]
* Uga VII, 4, American English bulldog mascot (University of Georgia), heart attack. [136]
18
* Johnny Almond, 63, British jazz and rock musician (Mark-Almond), cancer. [137]
* Abrar Alvi, 82, Indian film director and screenwriter (Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam), stomach complications. [138].
* Albert Crewe, 82, British-born American physicist, invented scanning transmission electron microscope, Parkinson's disease. [139]
* Jeanne-Claude, 74, French environmental artist (The Gates), complications from a ruptured brain aneurysm. [140]
* Ömer Lütfi Mete, 59, Turkish journalist, heart attack. [141] (Turkish)
* Red Robbins, 65, American basketball player, cancer. [142]
* Salem Saad, 31, Emirati footballer (Al-Nasr SC), heart attack. [143]
17
* John Craxton, 87, British painter. [144]
* Niku Kheradmand, 77, Iranian actress, complications of a heart attack. [145]
* Nikolay Olyalin, 68, Russian actor. [146] (Russian)
* Sy Syms, 83, American entrepreneur, founder and chairman of off-price clothier SYMS, heart failure. [147]
* Josine van Dalsum, 61, Dutch actress, brain tumor. [148] (Dutch)
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* Eddie Bell, 78, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles, New York Titans), heart failure. [149]
* Jeff Clyne, 72, British jazz bassist, heart attack. [150]
* Antonio de Nigris, 31, Mexican football player, heart failure. [151]
* Robert J. Frankel, 68, American thoroughbred horse trainer, leukemia. [152]
* Ken Kirk, 71, American football player, after short illness. [153]
* Kevin Knox, 53, American comedian, melanoma. [154]
* Jan Leighton, 87, American actor, complications from a stroke. [155]
* Michael Scott, 60, American Chicago Board of Education president, suicide by gunshot. [156]
* Jack Wong Sue, 84, Australian Z Special Unit member and businessman. [157]
* Olivia Patricia Thomas, 114, American supercentenarian, third-oldest person in the world. [158]
* Bucky Williams, 102, American baseball player, second-oldest Negro League Baseball player. [159]
* Edward Woodward, 79, British film and television actor, natural causes. [160]
15
* Derek B, 44, British rapper, heart attack. [161]
* Tia Barrett, 62, New Zealand ambassador and diplomat, High Commissioner to the Cook Islands (2009), after short illness. [162]
* Richard Carlyle, 95, Canadian actor. [163]
* Ray Charnley, 74, English footballer (Blackpool, Morecambe), after long illness. [164]
* Dennis Cole, 69, American actor. [165]
* Andriy Fedchuk, 29, Ukrainian Olympic bronze medal-winning boxer (2000), traffic collision. [166] (Russian)
* Pierre Harmel, 98, Belgian politician, Prime Minister (1965–1966). [167] (Dutch)
* Natalicio Lima, 91, Brazilian guitarist (Los Indios Tabajaras), stomach cancer. [168]
* Ambrose Mathalaimuthu, 84, Indian Bishop of Coimbatore. [169]
* Hans Matthöfer, 84, German politician, Minister of Finance (1978–1982). [170] (German)
* Allan Murdmaa, 75, Estonian architect. [171] (Estonian)
* Ken Ober, 52, American comedian and game show host (Remote Control). [172]
* Patriarch Pavle, 95, Serbian 44th Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church, cardiac arrest. [173]
* Jocelyn Quivrin, 30, French actor, car accident. [174] (French)
14
* Nikolay Anikin, 77, Russian-born American Olympic gold medal skiing champion (1956 Olympics), cancer. [175]
* Moshe Gidron, 84, Israeli Major General. [176]
* John David McWilliam, 68, British politician, Member of Parliament for Blaydon (1979–2005). [177]
* Lewis Millett, 88, American Medal of Honor recipient. [178]
* Indrek Martinson, 77, Estonian physicist. [179] (Swedish)
* David A. Olsen, 71, American businessman, after short illness. [180]
* Mizuki ?ura, 53, Japanese actress, lung cancer. [181] (Japanese)
* Ladislav Sitenský, 90, Czech photographer. [182]
* Klaus Steilmann, 80, German entrepreneur. [183] (German)
13
* Woodie Assaf, 92, American television weatherman, heart failure. [184]
* Micha? Gajownik, 27, Polish Olympic sprint canoer, traffic collision. [185] (Polish)
* Ueli Gegenschatz, 38, Swiss BASE jumper, jumping accident. [186] (German)
* Dell Hymes, 82, American anthropologist, linguist and folklorist, complications of Alzheimer's disease. [187]
* Bruce King, 85, American politician, three-term Governor of New Mexico, complications from heart procedure. [188]
* Ron Klimkowski, 65, American baseball player, heart failure. [189]
* Mara Manzan, 57, Brazilian actress, lung cancer. [190] (Portuguese)
* Tamaz Ninua, 67, Georgian former Minister for State Security, shot. [191]
* John J. O'Connor, 76, American television critic (The New York Times), lung cancer. [192]
* Armen Takhtajan, 99, Soviet botanist. [193] (Russian)
12
* Mohamed Abdi Aware, Somali judge, Chief Justice of Puntland, shot. [194]
* Vagrich Bakhchanyan, 71, Ukrainian-born American painter, apparent suicide. [195] (Russian)
* Dámaso Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer, 60, Spanish judge, Advocate-General of the European Court of Justice. [196]
* Howard Jacobs, 45, American HIV/AIDS activist, liver cancer. [197]
* Robert Kendall, 82, American actor, heart attack. [198]
* Willy Kernen, 80, Swiss footballer, participated in World Cup (1950, 1954, 1962). [199]
* Bernard Kolélas, 76, Congolese politician, Mayor of Brazzaville, Prime Minister (1997). [200]
* James R. Lilley, 81, American diplomat, ambassador to South Korea and China, complications linked to prostate cancer. [201]
* Iakovos Protolatis, 78, Greek journalist. [202] (Greek)
* Henri Sérandour, 72, French IOC member, former head of the French National Olympic Committee. [203]
* Josef Singer, 86, Israeli professor emeritus of aeronautics, president of Technion (1982–1986). [204]
* Eliahu Speiser, 79, Israeli politician and former Member of Knesset. [205]
* Giorgos Thimis, 84, Greek pianist and composer. [206] (Greek)
* Paul Wendkos, 87, American television and film director (Gidget), complications of a stroke. [207]
* Orig Williams, 78, British wrestler (El Bandito), footballer (Oldham Athletic), television personality and newspaper columnist. [208]
* Emanuel Zisman, 74, Israeli politician, Member of Knesset (1988–1999). [209]
11
* Tony Anselmo, 91, Canadian football executive (Calgary Stampeders). [210]
* Bernd Dittrich, 21, Austrian Canadian football player (Simon Fraser Clan). [211]
* Ehsan Fatahian, 28, Iranian Kurdish activist, executed by hanging. [212]
* Naftali Feder, 89, Polish-born Israeli politician and Member of Knesset. [213]
* Savvas Hatziioannou, 67, Greek footballer (PAOK F.C.), cancer. [214] (Greek)
* Irving Kriesberg, 90, American expressionist artist, complications from Parkinson's disease. [215]
* Tom Merriman, 85, American jingle composer, complications from a fall. [216]
* Marvin Minoff, 78, American film and television producer (The Nixon Interviews, Patch Adams). [217]
* John Jay O'Connor, 79, American lawyer, husband of Sandra Day O'Connor, Alzheimer's disease. [218]
* Leo Osgood, 63, American basketball player (Northeastern University), basketball coach and dean of MIT, after long illness. [219]
* Helge Reiss, 81, Norwegian actor. [220] (Norwegian)
* Alexandros Tambouras, 97, Greek insurer and businessman. [221] (Greek)
10
* Gheorghe Dinic?, 75, Romanian actor, cardiac arrest. [222] (Romanian)
* Robert Enke, 32, German footballer, suicide by train impact. [223]
* William Ganz, 90, Slovakian-born American cardiologist, co-inventor of the pulmonary artery catheter, natural causes. [224]
* Tomaž Humar, 40, Slovenian mountaineer, mountaineering accident. [225]
* Simple Kapadia, 51, Indian actress and costume designer, cancer. [226]
* Dick Katz, 85, American jazz pianist and arranger, lung cancer. [227]
* David Lloyd, 75, American comedy writer ("Chuckles Bites the Dust"), prostate cancer. [228]
* Uolevi Manninen, 72, Finnish Olympic basketball player. [229] (Finnish)
* Hisaya Morishige, 96, Japanese actor, natural causes. [230]
* John Allen Muhammad, 48, American spree killer (Beltway Sniper), execution by lethal injection. [231]
* Anne Mustoe, 76, British headmistress, cyclist and writer. [232]
* Ramin Pourandarjani, 26, Iranian doctor, whistleblower on use of torture, poisoned. [233]
* José Afonso Ribeiro, 80, Brazilian Roman Catholic Bishop of Borba. [234] (Portuguese)
* Stratos Stasinos, 65, Greek animation director. [235] (Greek)
* Ken Wlaschin, 75, American film historian, after short illness. [236]
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* Sedley Andrus, 94, British herald. [237]
* Al Cervi, 92, American basketball player and coach (Rochester Royals, Syracuse Nationals). [238]
* Earl Cooley, 98, American smokejumper. [239]
* Clen Denning, 98, Australian footballer, oldest surviving VFL player. [240]
* Henry L. Kimelman, 88, American Ambassador to Haiti (1980–1981), heart failure. [241]
* Earsell Mackbee, 68, American football player (Minnesota Vikings), complications following a stroke. [242]
* Notis Pergialis, 89, Greek actor, author and lyricist. [243] (Greek)
* Nelson Javier Portillo, Honduran mayor, shot. [244] (Spanish)
* Mehdi Sahabi, 66, Iranian writer and translator, heart attack. [245]
* Charles Proctor Sifton, 74, American federal judge, sarcoidosis. [246]
* Stephen Edmund Verney, 90, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Repton (1977–1985). [247]
* Nick Waterlow, 69, British-born Australian artistic director and curator, stabbed. [248]
8
* Jerry Fuchs, 34, American drummer (Maserati, !!!), fall. [249]
* Armin Gessert, 46, German video game developer, heart attack. [250]
* Vitaly Ginzburg, 93, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate. [251]
* Burleigh Hines, 77, American journalist. [252]
* Karl Kroeber, 83, American literary scholar of Native American literature, cancer. [253]
* Malcolm Laycock, 71, British radio DJ. [254]
* Arda Mandikian, 85, Greek soprano, after long illness. [255] (Greek)
* Amir Qavidel, 62, Iranian film director, liver failure. [256]
* Igor Starygin, 63, Russian actor, complications of a stroke. [257] (Russian)
* Peter Storer, 81, American broadcasting executive (Storer Communications) and philanthropist, cardiovascular disease. [258]
7
* Alyona Bondarchuk, 47, Russian actress, cancer. [259] (Russian)
* Vic Davies, 55, Australian radio presenter, lung cancer. [260]
* Bob Dillinger, 91, American baseball player. [261]
* Anselmo Duarte, 89, Brazilian actor, screenwriter and film director, complications of a stroke. [262] (Portuguese)
* Bernardo Garza Sada, 79, Mexican businessman, founder of ALFA. [263]
* Donald Harington, 73, American author, cancer. [264]
* Chris Harman, 66, British socialist journalist and activist. [265]
* Billy Ingham, 57, British footballer (Burnley), after long illness. [266]
* Joe Maross, 86, American actor, cardiac arrest. [267]
* Allan Mulder, 81, Australian politician, MP (1972–1975). [268]
* May Nilsson, 88, Swedish Olympic alpine skier. [269] (Swedish)
* Humberto Luis Rivas, 72, Argentinian photographer. [270]
6
* Manuel Arvizu, 90, Mexican Roman Catholic Bishop of Jesús María del Nayar. [271]
* István Belovai, 71, Hungarian double agent. [272] (German)
* Bachir Boumaza, 82, Algerian politician. [273] (French)
* Marion Coles, 94, American dancer. [274]
* Nick Counter, 69, American film executive and lawyer. [275]
* Dimitri De Fauw, 28, Belgian track cyclist, suicide. [276]
* Abraham Escudero Montoya, 69, Colombian Roman Catholic Bishop of Palmira. [277] (Spanish)
* Jacno, 52, French musician, cancer. [278] (French)
* Otomar Krej?a, 87, Czech theatre director. [279] (Czech)
* Hans Lund, 59, American poker player, cancer. [280]
* Antonio Rosario Mennonna, 103, Italian Prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. [281] (German)
* Thomas O'Malley, 94, American aerospace engineer. [282]
* Günter Naumann, 83, German actor. [283] (German)
* Tommy Reis, 95, American baseball player. [284]
* Manuel Solís, 91, Panamanian President (1988–1989), pulmonary edema. [285] (Spanish)
* Ron Sproat, 77, American television writer (Dark Shadows), heart attack. [286]
5
* Evan Chandler, 65, American father of Michael Jackson molestation accuser, suicide by gunshot. [287]
* Peter Chen Bolu, 96, Chinese Roman Catholic Bishop of Daming. [288]
* Adam Firestorm, 32, New Zealand-born Canadian professional wrestler, suicide. [289]
* Félix Luna, 84, Argentinian historian, after long illness. [290]
* Barrie Rickards, 71, British palaeontologist and angler, cancer. [291]
4
* Win Aung, 65, Burmese politician and military officer, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1998–2004). [292]
* William H. Avery, 98, American politician, Representative for Kansas (1955–1965), Governor of Kansas (1965–1967). [293]
* Don Beaven, 85, New Zealand scientist and diabetes researcher, house fire. [294]
* Ivan Biakov, 65, Russian Olympic gold medal-winning biathlete (1972, 1976). [295] (Ukrainian)
* Hubertus Brandenburg, 85, German-born Roman Catholic Bishop of Stockholm (1977–1998). [296] (Swedish).
* Stefano Chiodi, 52, Italian footballer. [297] (Italian)
* Art D'Lugoff, 85, American jazz nightclub owner (The Village Gate), heart attack. [298]
* Kabun Mut?, 82, Japanese politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs (1993), pancreatic cancer. [299]
* Thomas P. O'Malley, 79, American academic, President of Loyola Marymount University (1991–1999), heart attack. [300]
* Antonio Pelle, 77, Italian 'Ndrangheta boss, heart attack. [301]
* David Tree, 94, British actor. [302]
3
* Charles August, 90, American businessman, founder of Monro Muffler and Brake. [303]
* Francisco Ayala, 103, Spanish novelist, natural causes. [304] (Spanish)
* Archie Baird, 90, Scottish footballer (Aberdeen). [305]
* Carl Ballantine, 92, American actor (McHale's Navy), natural causes. [306]
* Brother Blue, 88, American storyteller, performance artist, after short illness. [307]
* Dodo Chichinadze, 84, Georgian actress. [308]
* Shel Dorf, 76, American founder of the San Diego Comic-Con, diabetes-related complications. [309]
* Parry Gordon, 64, English rugby league player. [310]
* Tamás Lossonczy, 105, Hungarian abstract painter. [311] (Hungarian)
* Lorissa McComas, 38, American softcore model and actress, after long illness. [312]
* Toshiyuki Mimura, 61, Japanese baseball player and manager (Hiroshima Toyo Carp). [313]
2
* Princess Haya bint Abdulaziz, 80, Saudi royal, sister of King Abdullah. [314]
* Nien Cheng, 94, Chinese author and political prisoner. [315]
* Lou Filippo, 83, American boxing referee and judge, member of the World Boxing Hall of Fame, stroke. [316]
* Ida Frabboni, 113, Italian supercentenarian. [317] (Italian)
* Evelyn Hofer, 87, German-born photographer. [318]
* Brian James, 91, Australian actor, complications after a fall. [319]
* Shabattai Kalmanovich, 61, Russian former KGB spy, President of WBC Spartak Moscow Region, shot. [320]
* Keith Kettleborough, 74, British footballer (Sheffield United) [321]
* Phil Lumpkin, 57, American NBA player and high school basketball coach, pneumonia. [322]
* Ron Moeller, 71, American baseball player. [323]
* Beverley O'Sullivan, 28, Irish singer, car crash. [324]
* Amir Pnueli, 68, Israeli computer scientist and Turing Award winner. [325]
* Glenn Remick, 58, American founder of American Darters Association, member of National Darts Hall of Fame, amyloidosis. [326]
* Mark Smith, 49, British bassist (The Waterboys) and record producer. [327]
* Leonard Steinberg, Baron Steinberg, 73, British businessman and life peer. [328]
* José Luis López Vázquez, 87, Spanish actor, after long illness. [329] (Spanish)
1
* Sakher Habash, 69, Palestinian party official (Fatah), stroke. [330]
* Seán Mac Fhionnghaile, 57, Irish actor, cancer. [331]
* Endel Laas, 94, Estonian forest scientist. [332] (Estonian)
* Arturo Salazar Mejía, 88, Colombian Roman Catholic Bishop of Pasto. [333] (Spanish)
* Alda Merini, 78, Italian poet. [334] (Italian)
* Gopal Mishra, 77, Indian journalist, after short illness. [335]
* Gus Mitges, 90, Canadian politician, MP for Grey—Simcoe (1972–1988) and Bruce—Grey (1988–1993). [336]
* Alan Ogg, 42, American basketball player (Miami Heat), complications from staphylococcal infection. [337]
* Robert H. Rines, 87, American scientist, inventor, composer and Loch Ness Monster expert, heart failure. [338]
* Achim Stocker, 74, German football official, Chairman of SC Freiburg, heart attack. [339] (German)
* George Zoritch, 92, Russian-born American dancer. [340