Deaths in January 2012

The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2012.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference (and language of reference, if not English).

January 2012

1

• Gary Ablett, 46, English footballer (Liverpool, Everton, Birmingham City), non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
• Bob Anderson, 89, British Olympic fencer (1952) and fight choreographer (Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings, The Princess Bride).
• Alfredo Battisti, 86, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Udine (1972–2000).
• Jorge Andrés Martínez Boero, 38, Argentine motorcycle racer, Dakar Rally crash.
• Elizabeth Brumfiel, 66, American archaeologist.
• Frank Cioffi, 83, American philosopher.
• Diego Cuenca, 84, Spanish footballer.
• Alvin Devane, 88, American soldier.
• Marino Di Teana, 91, Italian Argentine sculptor.
• Hilda Feste, 98, Norwegian woman, murdered.
• Ingeborg Finke-Siegmund, 92, German pianist and piano teacher.
• Anders Frandsen, 51, Danish singer and television presenter.
• Rebecca Fromer, 84, American historian and writer, co-founder of the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life.
• Kiro Gligorov, 94, Macedonian politician, first democratically elected President (1991–1999).
• Jan Groover, 68, American photographer.
• Hermann Guggiari, 87, Paraguayan engineer and sculptor.
• Frank Horwill, 84, British athletics coach.
• Ed Jenkins, 78, American politician, Representative from Georgia (1977–1993).
• Alessandro Liberati, 57, Italian medical researcher, cancer.
• Nay Win Maung, 49, Burmese physician and pro-democracy activist, heart attack.
• Fred Milano, 72, American doo-wop singer (The Belmonts, Dion and the Belmonts), lung cancer.
• Tommy Mont, 89, American college football coach and NFL player, heart failure.
• Marcelle Narbonne, 113, French supercentenarian, oldest European living person.
• Carlos Soria, 63, Argentine politician, Secretary of Intelligence (2002), Governor of Río Negro (since 2011), shot.
• Yafa Yarkoni, 86, Israeli singer, Alzheimer's disease.

2

• Beatriz Bandeira, 102, Brazilian communist, human rights activist, poet and writer.
• Ian Bargh, 76, British-born Canadian jazz pianist, lung cancer.
• Alicia Baro, 93, American human rights activist.
• David W. Barron, 76, British computer scientist.
• Peg Belson, 90, British health activist.
• Ivan Călin, 76, Moldovan politician, Acting President of the Moldovan Parliament (2009).
• William P. Carey, 81, American businessman (W. P. Carey & Co.) and philanthropist.
• Joseph Henry Condon, 76, American computer scientist, engineer and physicist.
• Ioan Drăgan, 46, Romanian footballer (FC Brașov), colorectal cancer.
• Vivi Friedman, 44, Finnish film director, cancer.
• Silvana Gallardo, 58, American actress (MacGyver, Starsky and Hutch, Babylon 5), cancer.
• Liv Godin, 93, Norwegian missionary.
• Yoshiro Hayashi, 89, Japanese golfer.
• Gordon Hirabayashi, 93, American civil rights activist (Hirabayashi v. United States).
• Jim Huber, 67, American sports commentator (CNN, TNT).
• Anatoly Kolesov, 73, Russian wrestler, Olympic gold medalist (1964).
• Howie Koplitz, 73, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Washington Senators).
• Helmut Müller-Brühl, 78, German conductor.
• Larry Reinhardt, 63, American rock guitarist (Iron Butterfly, Captain Beyond), liver cirrhosis.
• Alan Rowlands, 82, English pianist.
• Ambjørg Sælthun, 89, Norwegian politician.
• Otto Scrinzi, 93, Austrian journalist and politician.
• Hans Schepers, 81, German Olympic water polo player.
• Paulo Rodrigues da Silva, 25, Brazilian footballer, car crash.
• H. Edwin Young, 94, American economist, Chancellor of the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1968–1977).

3

• Charles W. Bailey II, 81, American journalist and novelist (Seven Days in May), Parkinson's disease.
• Gene Bartow, 81, American college basketball coach (UAB, UCLA), stomach cancer.
• Gordon Buttrey, 85, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Robert L. Carter, 94, American civil rights activist (Sweatt v. Painter) and judge, complications from a stroke.
• Minnie Sue Coleman, 85, American artist.
• Ray Costict, 56, American football player (New England Patriots).
• Miguel Couturier, 61, Mexican actor (Miss Bala, Once Upon a Time in Mexico), cancer.
• Ellen Currie, 81, American writer and advertising executive.
• Willi Entenmann, 68, German football player and coach, heart attack.
• Juan Escudero, 91, Spanish footballer.
• Margaret Feeny, 94, British councillor.
• Fong Fei-fei, 60, Taiwanese singer and actress, lung cancer.
• Lars Lennart Forsberg, 78, Swedish film director.
• Mounir Fourar, 39, Algerian man, one of the tallest men in the world.
• Bryan Hickman, 30, American football linebacker, suicide.
• John David Lewis, 56, American political scientist.
• Winifred Milius Lubell, 97, American illustrator and writer, heart failure.
• Joaquín Martínez, 81, Mexican-born American actor (Jeremiah Johnson, Die Another Day), pancreatic cancer.
• Osamu Matsubara, 94, Japanese businessman, chairman of Books Kinokuniya, heart failure.
• Stepan Oshchepkov, 77, Russian canoeist, Olympic gold medalist (1964).
• Mikhail Romadin, 71, Russian artist.
• Josef Škvorecký, 87, Czech writer and publisher, cancer.
• Miguel Terekhov, 83, Uruguayan-born American ballet dancer and teacher, complications of lung fibrosis.
• Jenny Tomasin, 75, British actress (Upstairs, Downstairs), hypertensive heart disease.
• Wylie Vale, 70, American endocrinologist.
• Vicar, 77, Chilean cartoonist.
• Bob Weston, 64, British guitarist and songwriter (Fleetwood Mac), gastrointestinal hemorrhage. (body found on this date)
• Harold Zirin, 82, American astronomer.

4

• Eve Arnold, 99, American photographer.
• Ruben Ayala, 89, American politician, California State Senator (1974–1998), first elected Mayor of Chino, California (1964–1966).
• Jiří Bárta, 76, Czech pianist and composer.
• Totti Bergh, 76, Norwegian jazz saxophonist.
• C.O.D., American musician, stroke.
• James F. Crow, 95, American geneticist.
• Angela von den Driesch, 77, German archaeologist and veterinarian.
• Stephen M. DuBrul Jr., 82, American businessman.
• Harry Fowler, 85, British character actor.
• Gatewood Galbraith, 64, American lawyer and author, complications from chronic emphysema.
• Sinake Giregire, 74, Papua New Guinean businessman and politician.
• Sir Archibald Glenn, 100, Australian industrialist, Chancellor of La Trobe University.
• Patricia Mather, 88, Australian zoologist.
• Kerry McGregor, 37, British singer and reality contestant (The X Factor), bladder cancer.
• Bob McKenzie, 83, Australian football player.
• Kalpana Mohan, 65, Indian actress.
• Carmen Naranjo, 83, Costa Rican novelist, poet and essayist, cancer.
• Hisako Ōishi, 75, Japanese politician, member of the House of Councillors, respiratory failure.
• Rod Robbie, 83, Canadian architect.
• Xaver Unsinn, 82, German Olympic ice hockey player and coach.
• Hans Wahli, 84, Swiss Olympic athlete.
• David Wheeler, 86, American theatrical director.

5

• Richard Alf, 59, American businessman, co-founder and chairman of San Diego Comic-Con, pancreatic cancer.
• François-Marie Algoud, 91, French royalist and author.
• Selwyn Baptiste, 75, Trinidadian-born British musician and festival organiser.
• Sigurður Bjarnason, 96, Icelandic politician and diplomat.
• Gordon W. Bowie, 67, American musician.
• Don Carter, 85, American professional bowler, complication from pneumonia and emphysema.
• Samson H. Chowdhury, 86, Bangladeshi businessman.
• George Dargo, 76, American legal scholar, skin cancer.
• Mirtha Dermisache, 71, Argentine artist.
• Hilmar Duerbeck, 63, German astronomer.
• Idwal Fisher, 76, Welsh rugby player.
• Thelma Forbes, 101, Canadian politician.
• Hikaru Hayashi, 80, Japanese composer.
• Frank Ackerman Hill, 92, American U.S. Air Force officer, commander of the 33rd Air Division.
• Frederica Sagor Maas, 111, American silent film screenwriter (The Plastic Age), playwright, memoirist and author.
• Isaac Díaz Pardo, 91, Spanish artist.
• Amit Saigal, 46, Indian rock magazine publisher, concert promoter and musician, drowned.
• Alexander Sizonenko, 52, Russian basketball player, world's tallest person (1991).

6

• Kenneth Andrews, 90, British historian.
• Louise Gibson Annand, 96, Scottish artist.
• James R. Arnold, 88, American space scientist.
• Tom Ardolino, 56, American drummer (NRBQ).
• Roger Boisjoly, 73, American aerospace engineer, anticipated the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, cancer.
• Azer Bülbül, 44, Turkish singer and actor, heart attack.
• Harlin Butterley, 84, Australian Anglican priest and Dean of Hobart from 1972 to 1980.
• Gabriel Cadis, 60, Israeli attorney, chairman of the Jaffa Orthodox Church Association, stabbed.
• John Celardo, 93, American comic strip artist (Tarzan, Buz Sawyer).
• Harry Fearnley, 88, English footballer.
• Bob Holness, 83, South African-born British quiz show host and actor (Blockbusters).
• Eleutherios Katsaitis, 82, Greek-born British Orthodox hierarch, Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Great Britain (1987–1994), smothered.
• W. Francis McBeth, 78, American composer.
• Frank James McGarr, 90, American former senior (and chief) judge of the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
• Basil Payne, 88, Irish poet.
• Ellen Pence, 63, American sociologist and social activist, creator of the Duluth Domestic Abuse Intervention Project, breast cancer.
• Thomas Virgil Pittman, 95, American senior (former chief) judge of the District Court for the Southern District of Alabama and judge for the Middle District of Alabama.
• Sybil Plumlee, 100, American teacher and police officer.
• Spike Pola, 97, Australian football player.
• John Pollock, 87, English author.
• Louis Rech, 85, Italian-born Luxembourgish politician, Mayor of Dudelange (1985–1993).
• Clive Shell, 64, Welsh international rugby player.

7

• Ibrahim Aslan, 77, Egyptian novelist and short story writer, heart failure.
• Tony Blankley, 63, British-born American commentator, newspaper editor and child actor, stomach cancer.
• Karen Ramey Burns, 64, American forensic anthropologist.
• Glenn Cox, 80, American baseball player (Kansas City Athletics).
• Bert Daikeler, 83, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
• George Gabin, 80, American artist and art educator.
• Francella Mary Griggs, 91, American nun, advocated for federal recognition of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians.
• George Livingston, 78, American politician, first elected black mayor of Richmond, California (1985–1993), diabetes.
• Hideaki Nitani, 81, Japanese actor (Tokyo Drifter), pneumonia.
• Charlie Pawsey, 88, English rugby league player.
• Henri Puppo, 98, French cyclist.
• Herbert Wilf, 80, American mathematician.

8

• Jan Håkan Åberg, 95, Swedish organist and composer.
• Dave Alexander, 73, American blues singer and pianist, suicide by gunshot.
• Artax, 17, American Champion Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the 1999 Breeders' Cup Sprint, Carter Handicap and Vosburgh Stakes.
• Franz Berger, 71, Austrian Olympic wrestler.
• Andrea Bosic, 92, Italian actor.
• Françoise Christophe, 88, French actress.
• Herb Clarke, 84, American television weatherman (WCAU-TV), NATAS Governor's Award winner (2007), Alzheimer's disease.
• Franz Dorfer, 61, Austrian Olympic boxer (1976).
• Gunnar Dyrberg, 90, Danish resistance fighter, head of Holger Danske (1943–1945).
• Edarem, 79, American television presenter and internet celebrity.
• Israel Getzler, 91, Jewish-British historian.
• T. J. Hamblin, 68, British haematologist, cancer.
• Svetlana Kharitonova, 79, Russian actress, after long illness.
• Dmitry Machinsky, 74, Russian archaeologist.
• John Madin, 87, English architect.
• Charles Morris, 85, British politician, MP for Manchester Openshaw (1963–1983).
• Clarence C. Pope, 81, American prelate, Episcopal Bishop of Fort Worth (1986–1994).
• Graham Rathbone, 69, Welsh footballer, dementia.
• Bernhard Schrader, 80, German theoretical chemist.
• Alexis Weissenberg, 82, Bulgarian-born French pianist.

9

• Rebeca Anchondo Fernández, 85, Mexican politician.
• Tubby Bacon, 81, American baseball team owner (Milwaukee Braves) and oenophile.
• Louis Boekhout, 92, Dutch-born Canadian painter.
• Paul Rice Camp, 92, American academic.
• Ron Caron, 82, Canadian ice hockey administrator, General Manager of the St. Louis Blues (1983–1993, 1996).
• Ernie Carson, 74, American jazz musician.
• Jock Collaquo, 77, Hong Kong hockey player.
• Brian Curvis, 74, Welsh former Commonwealth welterweight champion boxer, leukaemia.
• Alex DeCroce, 75, American politician, New Jersey General Assembly Minority Leader (since 2004).
• Bill Dickie, 82, Scottish football administrator.
• Ruth Fernández, 92, Puerto Rican contralto and politician, Senator (1973–1981).
• Takashi Fujinama, 80, Japanese translator, pneumonia.
• Bridie Gallagher, 87, Irish singer.
• Augusto Gansser-Biaggi, 101, Swiss geologist.
• Floro Garrido, 59, Spanish soccer player and manager, multiple organ failure.
• Francis Golffing, 101, Austrian-American poet, essayist, teacher, and translator.
• Christian-Joseph Guyonvarc'h, 85, French philologist, specializing in Celtic studies.
• Junsaku Koizumi, 87, Japanese painter and pottery artist, pneumonia.
• Mae Laborde, 102, American actress (Pineapple Express, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia).
• Vern McGrew, 82, American Olympic athlete.
• Robert Nelson, 81, American filmmaker, cancer.
• John Both Puok, 48, South Sudanese politician.
• Salvador A. Rodolfo, Sr., 92, Filipino war hero, leukemia.
• William G. Roll, 85, American psychologist and parapsychologist.
• Malam Bacai Sanhá, 64, Guinea-Bissauan politician, President (1999–2000; since 2009).
• Larry Solway, 83, Canadian radio personality and author.
• László Szekeres, 90, Hungarian physician.
• Pyotr Vasilevsky, 55, Belarusian football player and coach.
• Aldo Zenhäusern, 60, Swiss Olympic ice hockey player (1976).

10

• Fred Bateman, 74, American economic historian.
• Paul Antoine Bohoun Bouabré, 54, Ivorian politician and economist, kidney problems.
• Alfonso de Bourbon, 79, American claimant of Spanish royalty, traffic accident.
• Jim Congrove, 65, American politician, heart complications.
• Maurice Dantin, 82, American attorney and politician.
• Azeem Daultana, 32, Pakistani politician, Member of the National Assembly, road accident.
• José Freire de Oliveira Neto, 83, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Mossoró (1984–2004).
• Vince Gibson, 78, American college football coach.
• Jack Heron, 85, American college basketball coach (Sacramento State University).
• Kyra T. Inachin, 43, German historian.
• Lila Kaye, 82, British actress.
• Isi Metzstein, 83, German-born British architect.
• Jean Pigott, 87, Canadian politician and businesswoman, MP for Ottawa—Carleton (1976–1979).
• Pir of Pagaro VII, 83, Pakistani politician and spiritual leader, heart attack.
• Cliff Portwood, 74, English footballer and singer, lung disease.
• Alfred Pyka, 77, German footballer.
• Mary Raftery, 54, Irish journalist (States of Fear).
• Takao Sakurai, 70, Japanese boxer, Olympic gold medalist (1964), esophageal cancer.
• Gevork Vartanian, 87, Soviet intelligence agent, Hero of the Soviet Union.

11

• Fatima al-Aqel, 54, Yemeni human rights activist.
• Sarah E. Beard, 90, American medical researcher.
• Richard Bruno, 87, American costume designer (Raging Bull, Goodfellas, The Color of Money), kidney failure.
• Frank Cook, 76, British politician, MP for Stockton North (1983–2010), lung cancer.
• Bohumil Golián, 81, Slovak volleyball player, Olympic silver (1964) and bronze (1968) medalist.
• Gilles Jacquier, 43, French journalist, 2003 recipient of the Albert Londres Prize, grenade attack.
• Edgar Kaiser, Jr, 69, Canadian businessman and philanthropist, owner of the Denver Broncos (1981–1984).
• V. Madhusudhana Rao, 88, Indian film director.
• Mario Maranzana, 82, Italian actor and voice actor.
• Chuck Metcalf, 81, American double-bassist.
• Wally Osterkorn, 83, American basketball player.
• Steven Rawlings, 49, British astrophysicist.
• Ivor Rees, 85, Welsh Anglican prelate, Bishop of St David's (1991–1995).
• Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, 32, Iranian nuclear scientist, car bomb.
• Christoffer Selbekk, 72, Norwegian businessman and ski jumper.
• Colm Tucker, 59, Irish rugby union player.
• David Whitaker, 80, English composer and songwriter.
• Ross Wightman, 82, New Zealand rugby union player.

12

• Bjørn G. Andersen, 87, Norwegian geologist.
• John Beech Austin, 94, British aviator.
• Sadao Bekku, 89, Japanese composer, pneumonia.
• Glenda Dickerson, 66, American theatre director.
• Brian C. Downey, 61, Canadian politician.
• Basil Gordon, 80, American mathematician.
• Reginald Hill, 75, British crime writer (Dalziel and Pascoe).
• Natalee Holloway, 18 (in 2005), American student, missing since 2005. (declared legally dead on this date)
• Bill Janklow, 72, American politician, Attorney General (1975–1979) and Governor of South Dakota (1979–1987, 1995–2003); U.S. Representative (2003–2004), brain cancer.
• Shiv Kumari of Kotah, 95, Indian Hindu royal.
• MS-1, 55, Mexican professional wrestler, car accident.
• Charles H. Price II, 80, American businessman and diplomat.
• Hannes Råstam, 56, Swedish journalist.
• Rosalind Runcie, 79, British pianist, widow of Robert Runcie.
• Rubina Shergill, 29, Indian television actress.
• Jim Stanley, 76, American football coach (Oklahoma State Cowboys), cancer.
• John G. Watkins, 98, American psychologist.
• Jorge Wilmot, 83, Mexican potter.

13

• Anton Blom, 87, Norwegian journalist.
• Rauf Denktaş, 87, Cypriot politician, founder and first president of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, multiple organ failure.
• Guido Dessauer, 96, German paper engineer and art collector.
• Dilys Elwyn-Edwards, 93, Welsh composer.
• Felipe Fernández, 78, Argentine basketball player.
• Morgan Jones, 83, American actor (The Twilight Zone).
• Lefter Küçükandonyadis, 86, Turkish Olympic footballer (Fenerbahçe) and coach, pneumonia.
• Oscar Valentín Leal Caal, 41, Guatemalan politician, Congressman (since 2008), shot.
• Artie Levine, 86, American boxer.
• Billie Love, 88, British actress and photographer.
• Armand Mercier, 78, American politician, Mayor of Lowell, Massachusetts (2004–2006).
• Curt Meyer-Clason, 101, German writer and translator.
• Miljan Miljanić, 81, Serbian footballer, coach and administrator.
• Abdollah Mojtabavi, 87, Iranian wrestler.
• Richard Threlkeld, 74, American television journalist (CBS News), traffic collision.
• Bob Wright, 76, American biographer and politician, Chairman of the Utah Republican Party (1977–1979), Alzheimer's disease.
• Andrzej Krzysztof Wróblewski, 76, Polish journalist.

14

• Howard H. Bell, 98, American historian.
• Charles E. Bishop, 90, American academic.
• Janey Buchan, 85, Scottish politician, MEP for Glasgow (1979–1994).
• Anthony J. Calio, 82, American physicist and businessman, congestive heart failure and lung cancer.
• Mircea Ciumara, 68, Romanian politician, Minister of Finance (1996–1997), cancer.
• Joseph T. Collins, 72, American herpetologist.
• Carol Creiniceanu, 72, Romanian football player.
• Ekuikui IV, 98, Angolan king of Bailundo, disease.
• Dan Evins, 76, American entrepreneur, founder of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store.
• Robbie France, 52, British drummer (Skunk Anansie, Diamond Head, UFO), ruptured aorta.
• Charles Howard, 87, Australian Roman Catholic leader, Superior General of the Marist Brothers (1985–1993).
• Pearse Hutchinson, 84, Irish broadcaster and writer, member of Aosdána.
• Arfa Karim, 16, Pakistani student, world's youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (2004–2008), idiopathic epilepsy seizures.
• Lasse Kolstad, 90, Norwegian actor.
• Antonio Mistrorigo, 99, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Treviso (1958–1988).
• Giampiero Moretti, 71, Italian racing driver, winner of the 24 Hours of Daytona (1998), founder of Momo.
• Kaoru Nishimoto, 88, Japanese shogi player, pneumonia.
• Mila Parély, 94, French actress.
• Finn Pedersen, 86, Danish Olympic gold medal-winning (1948) rower.
• Dame Lesley Strathie, 56, British civil servant, Permanent Secretary to HM Revenue and Customs (2008–2011), cancer.
• Txillardegi, 82, Spanish writer and politician.
• Rosy Varte, 88, French actress.
• Zelemkhan Zangiyev, 37, Russian footballer.

15

• Mika Ahola, 37, Finnish enduro rider, motorcycle crash.
• Richard Bader, 80, Canadian quantum chemist.
• Gelareh Bagherzadeh, 30, Iranian student, shot.
• Ed Derwinski, 85, American politician, U.S. Representative from Illinois (1959–1983); United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs (1989–1992), merkel cell carcinoma.
• Claes Egnell, 95, Swedish sport shooter and Olympic silver medal-winning (1952) pentathlete.
• Manuel Fraga, 89, Spanish politician, President of the Xunta of Galicia (1990–2005), founder of the People's Party and co-father of Spanish Constitution, heart failure.
• Sir Robert Freer, 88, British military officer, Deputy Commander of RAF Strike Command (1978–1980).
• Carlo Fruttero, 85, Italian writer.
• Ben Hana, 54, New Zealand vagrant.
• Eisuke Hinode, 70, Japanese politician, member of the House of Councillors, gall bladder cancer.
• Eduard Ivanov, 73, Soviet ice hockey player, World and Olympic champion.
• Samuel Jaskilka, 92, American Marine Corps general, pneumonia.
• Matteo La Grua, 97, Italian priest and exorcist.
• Pirkko Länsivuori, 85, Finnish Olympic sprinter.
• Michael Mussa, 67, American economist, heart failure.
• Samuel B. Nunez, Jr., 81, American politician, President of the Louisiana State Senate (1983–1988; 1990–1996).
• Ib Spang Olsen, 90, Danish cartoonist and author, recipient of the Hans Christian Andersen Award.
• Chris Pavlou, 72, Australian football player.
• Jerry Poteet, 75, American martial arts instructor.
• Rafael Rincón González, 89, Venezuelan musician.
• Jack Roberts, 58, American climber, fall.
• Hulett C. Smith, 93, American politician, Governor of West Virginia (1965–1969).
• Peter Veness, 27, Australian journalist, brain cancer.
• Homai Vyarawalla, 98, Indian photojournalist, first Indian woman to work as a photojournalist.
• Victor Yngve, 91, American linguist.

16

• Mohammed al-Awwad, 53–54, Syrian general, shot.
• Joe Bygraves, 80, Jamaican born British former British Empire heavyweight champion boxer.
• Juan Carlos, 66, Spanish footballer.
• Jimmy Castor, 71, American funk and R&B saxophonist ("Troglodyte (Cave Man)"), heart failure.
• L. Ted Coneybeare, 86, Canadian TV producer and educational consultant.
• Mike Current, 66, American football player (Denver Broncos, Miami Dolphins, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), apparent suicide by gunshot.
• Efron Etkin, 59, Israeli actor and voice actor, cancer.
• Sigursteinn Gíslason, 43, Icelandic football player and manager, cancer.
• Pierre Goubert, 96, French historian.
• Lorna Kesterson, 86, American newspaper editor and journalist (Henderson Home News), Mayor of Henderson, Nevada (1985–1993).
• Dave Lee, 64, British comedian, cancer.
• Gustav Leonhardt, 83, Dutch harpsichordist and conductor.
• David Phiri, 74, Zambian businessman, Governor of the Bank of Zambia.
• The Senator, c. 3500, American pond cypress tree, largest in the world, fire.
• Valentine Rusantsov, 72, Russian hierarch, Primate of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church (1996–2012).
• Viktor Vitali, 91, German army officer, awarded Knight's Cross.

17

• Mukarram Khan Atif, Pakistani journalist and reporter, shot.
• Kearney Barton, 80, American record producer.
• Colin Campbell, 80, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Antigonish (1986–2002).
• F. Elwood Davis, 96, American lawyer.
• Aengus Fanning, 69, Irish journalist, editor of the Sunday Independent, cancer.
• Janet Folkes, 52, English academic, cancer.
• Carlos Guirao, 57, Spanish musician.
• Julius Meimberg, 95, German air force pilot (Luftwaffe), recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.
• Johnny Otis, 90, American R&B singer-songwriter.
• Piet Römer, 83, Dutch actor (Baantjer).
• Mohamed Rouicha, 61, Moroccan folk singer.
• R. W. Schambach, 85, American evangelist, heart failure.
• Marty Springstead, 74, American baseball umpire, heart attack.
• Tom Tellefsen, 80, Norwegian actor.
• Uncle Chichi, 24–26, American dog, unofficial world's oldest dog (2011–2012).

18

• Karen Brazell, 73, American academic, professor and translator of Japanese.
• Sir Tom Cowie, 89, British entrepreneur.
• Thérèse Delpech, 63, French nuclear proliferation expert, apparent heart attack.
• Carlos Figueroa, 80, Spanish Olympic equestrian.
• Ray Finch, 97, British studio potter.
• Tom Gilmartin, 87, American politician.
• Mel Goldstein, 66, American television meteorologist (WTNH), multiple myeloma.
• Anthony Gonsalves, 84, Indian film music composer.
• Georg Lassen, 96, German naval officer, World War II U-boat commander.
• Joseph Noiret, 84, French poet.
• Yuri Rasovsky, 67, American writer and producer, esophageal cancer.
• Giuseppe Vedovato, 99, Italian politician.

19

• Peter Åslin, 49, Swedish ice hockey player, Olympic bronze medal-winner (1988), stroke.
• Giancarlo Bigazzi, 71, Italian composer ("Gloria", "Self Control", "No Me Ames").
• Sarah Burke, 29, Canadian freestyle skier, world champion (2005), cardiac arrest following skiing accident.
• Maurice Casey, 88, New Zealand judge.
• Elena Catena, 91, Spanish academic and feminist.
• Rudi van Dantzig, 78, Dutch choreographer.
• Giovanni De Andrea, 83, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, vice-president of Labour Office of the Apostolic See (1989–2007).
• Peter de Francia, 90, British artist.
• Charles Fecher, 94, American author.
• Colonel Stone Johnson, 93, American civil rights activist.
• Beverly McDermott, 85, American casting director (Cocoon, Scarface, Lenny).
• Gene Methvin, 77, American journalist and magazine editor.
• Patrick Geoffrey O'Neill, 87, British academic.
• Gert Puzicha, 67, German boxer.
• Winston Riley, 65, Jamaican reggae musician and producer, complications of shooting.
• On Sarig, 85, Israeli children's book author.
• Errol Scorcher, 55, Jamaican reggae disc jockey, ruptured blood vessel.
• Richard Sheirer, 65, American public servant, officer-in-charge of the rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks, pulmonary edema.
• Gilbert Temmerman, 83, Belgian politician, MP (1971–1989), Mayor of Ghent (1989–1994), Minister of State.
• Jacqueline Grennan Wexler, 85, American Roman Catholic nun and university president.

20

• Enenche Akogwu, 31, Nigerian journalist and cameraman, shot.
• John F. Baker, Jr., 66, American Medal of Honor recipient.
• Billy 'Silver Dollar' Baxter, 85, American film producer.
• Ruthilde Boesch, 94, Austrian singer.
• Edna Bourque, 96, Canadian volunteer.
• Larry Butler, 69, American music producer.
• Stella Cunliffe, 95, British statistician.
• Peter Collins Dorsey, 80, American jurist.
• Lucy Faulkner, 87, Northern Irish journalist.
• Dolores Guinness, 75, German baroness and socialite.
• Etta James, 73, American blues singer ("At Last"), leukemia.
• Nikhat Kazmi, 53, Indian film critic, breast cancer.
• Ioannis Kefalogiannis, 79, Greek politician, MP (1958–1964; 1974–2004) and Minister of the Interior (1992–1993).
• John Levy, 99, American jazz double-bassist and manager.
• Bill Mardo, 88, American sportswriter, Parkinson's disease.
• M. I. Markose, 89, Indian politician.
• Marion Mathie, 86, British actress (Lolita).
• Mario Pastega, 95, American businessman and philanthropist.
• Jiří Raška, 70, Czech ski jumper, Olympic gold medalist (1968), heart disease.
• Margaret Renwick, 88, Canadian politician.
• Alejandro Rodriguez, 93, American psychiatrist and academic.
• Robert Fortune Sanchez, 77, American Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Santa Fe (1977–1993), Alzheimer's disease.
• Edna Sheen, 67, American makeup artist (Philadelphia, Courage Under Fire, Akeelah and the Bee).
• Patrick Shovelton, 92, British civil servant and obituarist.
• Dudley Thompson, 95, Jamaican politician and diplomat.
• Michael Welsh, 85, English politician, Member of Parliament (1979–1992).
• Walter Whitehurst, 77, English footballer.

21

• Daniel Alba, 71, Mexican Olympic wrestler.
• Bilal al-Berjawi, 27, Lebanese terrorist, drone strike.
• Saud Nasser Al-Saud Al-Sabah, 68, Kuwaiti royal, diplomat and politician.
• Stan Austman, 75, Canadian curler, cancer.
• Albert Baskakov, 83, Russian physicist.
• J. R. Boone, 86, American football player (Chicago Bears).
• Roy John Britten, 92, American molecular biologist.
• Cliff Chambers, 90, American baseball player.
• Chea Soth, 83, Cambodian politician.
• Vincenzo Consolo, 78, Italian writer.
• Emmanuel Cooper, 73, British potter and writer.
• Ernie Gregory, 90, English footballer.
• Gerre Hancock, 77, American organist.
• Troy Herriage, 81, American baseball player (Kansas City Athletics).
• Jonathan Idema, 55, American scam artist, complications from AIDS.
• Eiko Ishioka, 72, Japanese costume designer (Bram Stoker's Dracula, Immortals, The Cell), Oscar winner (1993), pancreatic cancer.
• Irena Jarocka, 65, Polish singer.
• John D. Lowry, 79, Canadian film restorer.
• Una Mulzac, 88, American bookseller.
• Salma Mumtaz, 85, Pakistani actress, diabetes.
• Jeffrey Ntuka, 26, South African footballer, stabbed.
• Vasco Ramires Sr., 72, Portuguese Olympic equestrian.
• Tang Xiaodan, 101, Chinese film director.
• Jodie-Anne White, 44, Australian dancer and choreographer, artistic director of the Ballet Theatre of Queensland, cancer.
• Slavko Ziherl, 66, Slovenian psychiatrist and politician.

22

• Massimo Baistrocchi, 69, Italian diplomat and writer, Ambassador to Namibia (2001–2004), heart attack.
• Sarah Cullen, 62, British radio and television journalist.
• Jesus Elbinias, 82, Filipino judge.
• Roy Ewans, 94, British aerodynamicist.
• Alfred Gescheidt, 85, American photographer, cancer.
• Earle R. Gister, 77, American acting teacher.
• Rita Gorr, 85, Belgian opera singer.
• André Green, 84, French psychoanalyst.
• Jim Irwin, 77, American sportscaster (WTMJ), voice of the Green Bay Packers, complications from kidney cancer.
• Moisés Kaiman, 97, Polish-born Mexican rabbi.
• Sir Simon Marsden, 63, British photographer.
• Andy Musser, 74, American sportscaster (Philadelphia Phillies, Philadelphia 76ers).
• Joe Paterno, 85, American college football coach (Penn State Nittany Lions), lung cancer.
• Yauhen Shatokhin, 64, Belarusian painter and political activist.
• Pierre Sudreau, 92, French politician, inspired The Little Prince.
• Clarence Tillenius, 98, Canadian artist and conservationist.
• Dick Tufeld, 85, American voice actor and announcer, voice of Robot B-9 on Lost in Space.

23

• David Atkinson, 71, British politician, MP for Bournemouth East (1977–2005), bowel cancer.
• Jeanne Quint Benoliel, 92, American nurse.
• Viviana Bontacchio, 52, Italian football player.
• Amol Bose, 69, Bangladeshi actor, heart attack.
• Wesley E. Brown, 104, American jurist, senior (former chief) judge of the District Court for Kansas (since 1962).
• Anthony Capo, 52, American mobster-turned-informant (DeCavalcante crime family), heart attack.
• Marge Carey, 73, British union leader, President of USDAW (1997–2006), motor neurone disease.
• Arne Christiansen, 85, Norwegian judge.
• Ovidiu Constantinescu, 79, Romanian mycologist.
• Marcel De Boodt, 85, Belgian academic.
• Erik Haaest, 76, Danish journalist and author.
• Jugal Kishore, 98, Indian physician.
• Maurice Meisner, 80, American historian.
• Miloš Pojar, 71, Czech author and diplomat.
• Bingham Ray, 57, American independent film executive, complications from strokes.
• Bill Robb, 84, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Miranda (1978–1984).
• Gerhard Schröder, 90, German television executive.
• Slacker, British electronic music producer.
• Stig Vig, 63, Swedish singer (Dag Vag).

24

• Kurt Adolff, 90, German racing driver.
• Theodoros Angelopoulos, 76, Greek film director, hit by motorcycle.
• Sukumar Azhikode, 85, Indian writer, critic, and orator, cancer.
• Jane Bashara, 56, American marketing manager, strangulation.
• James C. Bliss, 78, American electrical engineer and entrepreneur.
• Antony Barrington Brown, 84, British designer, photographer and explorer.
• James Farentino, 73, American actor (Dynasty, ER, Melrose Place), sequelae from hip fracture.
• J. Joseph Garrahy, 81, American politician, Governor of Rhode Island (1977–1985).
• Vadim Glowna, 70, German actor and film director.
• Paul S. Goodman, 74, American organizational theorist.
• Arild Haaland, 92, Norwegian philosopher.
• Carolina Isakson Proctor, 81, Colombian First Lady (1986–1990).
• Moira Milton, 88, Scottish amateur golfer.
• Patricia Neway, 92, American operatic soprano and musical theatre actress (The Sound of Music), Tony Award-winner.
• W. Allen Pepper, Jr., 70, American jurist, federal judge for the Northern District of Mississippi (since 1999), heart attack.
• Bruce Riutta, 67, American Olympic ice hockey player, complications from heart surgery.
• Stig Sæterbakken, 46, Norwegian writer.
• Pierre Sinibaldi, 87, French footballer and manager.
• William Crossley, 3rd Baron Somerleyton, 83, British aristocrat and courtier, Master of the Horse (1991– 1999).
• Carleton B. Swift Jr., 92, American intelligence officer.
• Gyula Tarr, 80, Hungarian Olympic wrestler.
• Althea Wynne, 75, British sculptor.

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• Sir Alfred Ball, 91, British air marshal.
• Jane Bashara, 56, American marketing manager, strangulation.
• Paavo Berglund, 82, Finnish conductor.
• Josef Brunner, 83, German politician.
• Veronica Carstens, 88, German First Lady (1979–1984).
• Carlos Escarrá, 57, Venezuelan politician, Attorney General (since 2011), heart attack.
• Emil Hossu, 70, Romanian actor, cardiac arrest.
• Kazimierz Jasiński, 65, Polish Olympic cyclist, cancer.
• Jacques Maisonrouge, 87, French businessman, chairman of IBM World Trade Corporation.
• Mabel Manzotti, 73, Argentine actress (Besos en la Frente, Vidas robadas), complications from a stroke.
• Len McIntyre, 78, British rugby league player.
• Andrew MacNaughtan, 47, Canadian photographer.
• Merab Megreladze, 55, Georgian football player.
• Abid Ali Nazish, 40, Afghan actor, shot.
• Franco Pacini, 72, Italian astronomer.
• Émile Paganon, 95, French skier.
• Mark Reale, 56, American heavy metal guitarist (Riot), Crohn's disease.
• Nick Santino, 47, American actor, suicide by drug overdose.
• Mary Semans, 91, American heiress and philanthropist.
• Robert Sheran, 96, American politician and judge.
• Charles Stanmore, 87, Australian Olympic fencer.
• Kosta Tsonev, 82, Bulgarian actor.
• Jean Wells, 56, American game designer.
• Alexander Zhitinsky, 71, Russian writer.

26

• Ian Abercrombie, 77, British actor (Seinfeld, Army of Darkness, Star Wars: The Clone Wars), kidney failure.
• Dimitra Arliss, 79, American actress (The Sting, General Hospital, Xanadu), complications from a stroke.
• Iggy Arroyo, 60, Filipino politician, Representative from the 5th District of Negros Occidental (since 2004), cardiac arrest.
• Alfredo Avelín, 84, Argentine politician, Governor of San Juan (1999–2002), multiple organ failure.
• Valentin Blazhes, 75, Soviet and Russian folklorist and literary scholar.
• Bud Byerly, 91, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds).
• Kartar Singh Duggal, 94, Indian writer.
• Alex Eadie, 91, British politician, MP for Midlothian (1966–1992).
• M. O. H. Farook, 74, Indian politician and diplomat, Governor of Kerala (since 2011).
• Clare Fischer, 83, American composer.
• Robert Hegyes, 60, American actor (Welcome Back, Kotter; Cagney & Lacey), heart attack.
• Seui Laau, 69, American Samoan politician.
• Roberto Mieres, 87, Argentine racing driver.
• Miguel Nazar Haro, 87, Mexican intelligence chief, head of the Dirección Federal de Seguridad (1978–1982).
• Stan Smith, 79, Australian VFL football player.
• Colin Tarrant, 59, British actor (The Bill), suicide by exsanguination.
• Juan Fremiot Torres Oliver, 86, Puerto Rican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ponce (1964–2000).
• Robert Turner, 91, Canadian composer.

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• Hikmat Mizban Ibrahim al-Azzawi, 80, Iraqi politician, Minister of Finance (1995–2003).
• Russ Arnold, 90, American bridge player.
• Fernanza Burgess, 51, American football player.
• Tom Campbell, 84, Canadian politician, Mayor of Vancouver (1967–1972).
• Chen Chuanxi, 95, Chinese conductor.
• Greg Cook, 65, American football player (Cincinnati Bengals), complications from pneumonia.
• Kay Davis, 91, American jazz singer.
• Reza de Wet, 59, South African playwright, leukaemia.
• Ted Dicks, 83, English composer.
• Thomas Fennell, 84, Canadian politician.
• Jeannette Hamby, 78, American politician, Oregon State Senator (1983–1999), stroke complications and cancer.
• Deepika Joshi-Shah, 35, Indian singer and voice actress.
• Todd Lynn, 47, American stand-up comedian and actor (My Wife and Kids).
• James Metcalf, 86, American sculptor.
• Richard K. Olney, 64, American physician, pioneer in clinical research on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Hermano Pablo, 90, American evangelist and broadcaster.
• Bogusława Pietkiewicz, 67, Polish Olympic diver.
• István Rózsavölgyi, 82, Hungarian runner, Olympic bronze medalist (1960), heart problems.
• Juan Sarrachini, 65, Argentine footballer.
• Kazimierz Smoleń, 91, Polish museum director and Holocaust survivor.
• Kevin White, 82, American politician, Mayor of Boston (1968–1984).
• Yevgeny Yepov, 23, Russian soldier, Hero of the Russian Federation, grenade explosion.

28

• Bob Armstrong, 50, American ice hockey player.
• Diana Bliss, 57, Australian public relations consultant and theatre producer, wife of Alan Bond.
• Joseph Curran, 89, American college basketball coach (Canisius).
• Don Fullmer, 72, American boxer, lymphoid leukemia.
• Keriman Halis Ece, 98, Turkish beauty pageant queen, pianist and fashion model, Miss Turkey 1932.
• Roman Juszkiewicz, 59, Polish astrophysicist.
• Chand Mal Lodha, 93, Indian judge.
• Andrew McMillan, 54, Australian writer and music journalist.
• Paul F. O'Rourke, 87, American politician.
• Don Starkell, 79, Canadian adventurist and author.

29

• Karin Aasma, 85, Estonian-Swedish art historian.
• Lee Adler, 88, American historic preservationist. owners of Adler's department store on Broughton Street. He was named for his paternal grandfather, Leopold I, a native of Austria.
• Yomi Bankole, 52, Nigerian table tennis player.
• L. Basavaraju, 92, Indian scholar.
• Damien Bona, 56, American journalist, writer and film historian, heart attack.
• Henrique da Silva Horta, 91, Portuguese vice admiral and colonial administrator.
• John H. Davis, 82, American author, Alzheimer's disease.
• Tatiana Dorofeeva, 64, Russian linguist, orientalist and translator.
• Predrag Dragić, 66, Serbian writer.
• Nijaz Duraković, 63, Bosnian author and politician.
• Ranjit Singh Dyal, 83, Indian Army general.
• Borys Fedorenko, 65, Ukrainian painter.
• Hellen Huisman, 74, Dutch voice actress.
• François Migault, 67, French racing driver.
• Syed Abu Nasar, 79, Indian professor of electrical engineering.
• Kell Osborne, 72, American singer.
• Goody Petronelli, 88, American boxing trainer and manager (Marvin Hagler).
• John Rich, 86, American television director (All in the Family, Benson, The Dick Van Dyke Show), heart failure.
• Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, 93, Italian politician, Minister of the Interior (1983–1987); President (1992–1999) and Lifetime Senator (since 1999).
• Gabriel Lawrence Sengol, 83, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tiruchirapalli (1990–1997).
• J. O. Urmson, 96, British philosopher.
• Camilla Williams, 92, American opera singer, complications from cancer.

30

• Eladio Acosta Arteaga, 95, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Santa Fe de Antioquia (1988–1992).
• Rolf Appel, 90, German chemist.
• Frank Aschenbrenner, 86, German-born American football player (Chicago Hornets, Montreal Alouettes).
• Don Blenkarn, 81, Canadian politician, MP for Mississauga (1972–1974) and Mississauga South (1979–1993).
• Terence Cowley, 83, Australian cricketer.
• Klaus Goldschlag, 89, Canadian ambassador.
• Helmi Höhle, 87, German Olympic fencer.
• George Lambert, 83, American Olympic silver (1956) and bronze (1960) medal-winning modern pentathlete.
• Abdelhamid Mehri, 85, Algerian resistance fighter and politician.
• Doeschka Meijsing, 64, Dutch novelist.
• Michael D. Ryan, 66, American jurist, Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court (2002–2010), apparent heart attack.
• Idichapuli Selvaraj, 73, Indian actor.
• Frederick Treves, 86, British actor (The Elephant Man).
• Johann Carl Vogel, 79, South African physicist.
• Bill Wallace, 64, American author.

31

• Stefano Angeleri, 85, Italian footballer and coach.
• Everardus Antonius M. Baaij, 90, Dutch-born South African Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Aliwal (1973–1981).
• Mani Ram Bagri, 91, Indian politician.
• Rick Behenna, 51, American baseball player (Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians), cancer.
• Anthony Bevilacqua, 88, American Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Philadelphia (1988–2003).
• Leslie Carter, 25, American singer and reality star (House of Carters), sister of Nick and Aaron Carter, drug overdose.
• H. John Caulfield, 75, American optical physicist.
• Bob Citron, 79, American entrepreneur and aerospace engineer, prostate cancer.
• Tristram P. Coffin, 89, American folklorist.
• Zelda Curtis, 88, British journalist and feminist.
• Stacy Doris, 49, American poet, cancer.
• Felicia Eze, 37, Nigerian Olympic footballer.
• Ayelet Galena, 2, American child, born with dyskeratosis congenita, lung complications.
• Juan Carlos Gené, 82, Argentine actor and playwright.
• John Hughes, 66, American drug counselor.
• Mikel Japp, 59, Welsh musician and songwriter.
• Siddika Kabir, 80, Bangladeshi teacher, television show host and cookbook author.
• Petros Karatroupkos, 82, Greek-born Zambian Orthodox hierarch, Bishop of Zambia (2001–2003).
• Mike Kelley, 57, American artist and musician (Destroy All Monsters), suicide. (body found on this date)
• Bob LaPointe, 66, American high school and college football coach.
• Peadar Maher, 87, Irish politician, TD for Laois–Offaly (1951–1961).
• Clara Nomee, 73, American politician, first female Chairperson of the Crow Nation (1990–2000).
• Sid Ottewell, 92, English footballer (Nottingham Forest F.C.).
• Al Rio, 49, Brazilian comic book artist, suicide by hanging.
• Antonio Segura, 64, Spanish comics writer.
• King Stitt, 71, Jamaican singer, complications from prostate cancer and diabetes.
• Dorothea Tanning, 101, American surrealist painter, printmaker and sculptor.
• Bob Thalman, 89, American football player and coach.

External links

• List of January 2012 deaths at IMDb