Deaths in October 2009

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The following is a list of deaths in October 2009.

October 2009

31

• 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]

30

• 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)

29

• 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 (Shōten), lung cancer. [32]
• Gino Fracas, 79, Canadian football player. [33]
• Jan Gąsienica 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]

28

• 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]

27

• 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]

26

• 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)
• Yoshirō 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)

25

• 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]

24

• 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]

23

• 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]

22

• 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]

21

• 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]
• Yōko 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)

20

• 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, Daytime 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]
• Alberto Testa, 82, Italian composer and lyricist. [147] (Italian)

19

• Dame Doreen Blumhardt, 95, New Zealand potter. [148]
• Moni Fanan, 63, Israeli basketball team manager, suicide by hanging. [149]
• Kirill Glazunov, 85, Russian actor. [150] (Russian)
• Werner Heubeck, 85, German-born British managing director of Ulsterbus and Citybus, cancer. [151]
• Joe Hutton, 81, American basketball player, heart attack. [152]
• Sushila Kerketta, 71, Indian politician, heart attack. [153]
• Vladimír Klokočka, 80, Czech politician and jurist, signatory to Charter 77 manifesto. [154]
• Paul Lagos, American drummer (Kaleidoscope, John Mayall, Shuggie Otis, Pure Food and Drug Act). [155]
• Kirill Laskari, 73, Russian choreographer. [156] (Russian)
• Shlomo Lorincz, 91, Hungarian-born Israeli politician, heart failure. [157]
• Reg McKay, 56, British journalist and crime fiction writer, brain and lung cancer. [158]
• Radu Timofte, 60, Romanian intelligence officer, director of the Serviciul Român de Informaţii (2001–2006), leukemia. [159]
• Howard Unruh, 88, American spree killer. [160]
• Joseph Wiseman, 91, Canadian actor (Dr. No). [161]

18

• Ion Cojar, 78, Romanian actor and film director, Parkinson's disease. [162] (Romanian)
• Ruth Duckworth, 90, American sculptor, after short illness. [163]
• Jasper Howard, 20, American football player, stabbed. [164]
• Lenore Kandel, 77, American poet, lung cancer. [165]
• Leonard B. Keller, 62, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient, motorcycle accident. [166]
• Sir Ludovic Kennedy, 89, British author and journalist, pneumonia. [167]
• Adriaan Kortlandt, 91, Dutch biologist. [168] (Dutch)
• Ovidiu Muşetescu, 54, Romanian politician, cancer. [169] (Romanian)
• Ignacio Ponseti, 95, Spanish physician and inventor (Ponseti method). [170]
• Nancy Spero, 83, American artist, heart failure. [171]
• Basie Vivier, 82, South African rugby union player, captain of the Springboks (1956). [172]

17

• Carla Boni, 84, Italian singer, after long illness. [173] (Italian)
• Diana Elles, Baroness Elles, 88, British diplomat and politician. [174]
• Jay W. Johnson, 66, American U.S. Representative for Wisconsin (1997–1999), U.S. Mint Director (2000–2001), heart attack. [175]
• Vladimir Kashpur, 82, Russian film actor, People's Artist of Russia. [176] (Russian)
• Kazuhiko Kato, 62, Japanese musician (The Folk Crusaders, Sadistic Mika Band), suicide by hanging. [177]
• Louisa Mark, 49, British lovers rock singer. [178]
• Norma Fox Mazer, 78, American author, brain cancer. [179]
• Vic Mizzy, 93, American composer (The Addams Family, Green Acres), [180]
• Rosanna Schiaffino, 69, Italian film actress, cancer. [181] (Italian)
• Sheldon Segal, 83, American reproductive biologist. [182]
• Michael Shea, 71, British diplomat, press secretary to Queen Elizabeth II (1978–1987), dementia. [183]

16

• Bob Davis, 77, American politician, U.S. Representative for Michigan (1979–1993), heart and kidney failure. [184]
• Inglis Drever, 10, British hurdles racehorse, euthanised. [185]
• Meilė Lukšienė, 96, Lithuanian cultural historian, member of the Sąjūdis. [186] (Lithuanian)
• Andrés Montes, 53, Spanish sports commentator. [187] (Spanish)
• Marian Przykucki, 85, Polish Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archbishop of Szczecin-Kamień (1992–1999). [188] (Polish)

15

• George P. Jenkins, 94, American chairman of Metlife, assisted expansion of ABC and Pan Am, heart failure. [189]
• Josias Kumpf, 84, Austrian Nazi concentration camp guard. [190] (German)
• Elizabeth Clare Prophet, 70, American New Age religious leader, co-founder of The Summit Lighthouse, Alzheimer's disease. [191]
• Tollak B. Sirnes, 86, Norwegian physician, psychiatrist and pharmacologist. [192] (Norwegian)
• George Tuska, 93, American Golden Age comic book artist (Iron Man). [193]
• Heinz Versteeg, 70, Dutch football player, cancer. [194] (German)

14

• Lou Albano, 76, American professional wrestler and manager, actor (The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!), natural causes. [195]
• Antônio do Carmo Cheuiche, 82, Brazilian Auxiliary Bishop of Santa Maria (1969–1971) and Porto Alegre (1971–2001). [196]
• Fred Cress, 71, British-born Australian artist, Archibald Prize winner (1988), pancreatic cancer. [197]
• Albert Elms, 89, British composer. [198]
• Johnny Jones, 73, American R&B guitarist and bandleader (Johnny Jones and the King Casuals). [199]
• Roy Lane, 74, British hillclimbing competitor, peritonitis. [200]
• C. B. Muthamma, 88, Indian first female diplomat and ambassador. [201]
• Willard Varnell Oliver, 88, American Navajo code talker. [202]
• Martyn Sanderson, 71, New Zealand actor. [203]
• Bruce Wasserstein, 61, American investment banker and businessman. [204]
• Collin Wilcox, 74, American actress (To Kill a Mockingbird), brain cancer. [205]

13

• Stephen Barnett, 73, American legal scholar, opposed the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970, cardiac arrest. [206]
• Cullen Bryant, 58, American football player (Los Angeles Rams), natural causes. [207]
• Rodger Doxsey, 62, American physicist and astronomer, cancer. [208]
• Richard Foster, 63, American member of the Alaska House of Representatives, heart and kidney disease. [209]
• Grietje Jansen-Anker, 112, Dutch supercentenarian. [210] (Dutch)
• Atle Jebsen, 73, Norwegian shipowner and businessman, car crash. [211] (Norwegian)
• William Wayne Justice, 89, American federal judge. [212]
• Lü Zhengcao, 104, Chinese general, last survivor of the original Shang Jiang. [213]
• Winston Ngozi Mankunku, 66, South African saxophone player. [214]
• Al Martino, 82, American singer and actor (The Godfather), first person to top the UK Singles Chart. [215]
• Daniel Melnick, 77, American studio chief (MGM, Columbia), television producer, executive producer (That's Entertainment!). [216]
• Paul Barbă Neagră, 80, Romanian film director and essayist. [217] (Romanian)
• Roger Nixon, 88, American composer, complications from leukemia. [218]
• Nan C. Robertson, 83, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, heart disease. [219]
• Oraine Simpson, 26, Jamaican football player, stabbed. [220]
• Richard T. Whitcomb, 88, American aeronautical engineer. pneumonia [221]
• Leo Williams, 68, Australian rugby union official. [222]

12

• Maurice Agis, 77, British sculptor. [223]
• Dietrich von Bothmer, 90, German-born American art historian, curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [224]
• Alberto Castagnetti, 66, Italian Olympic swimmer, complications from cardiac surgery. [225] (Italian)
• Mildred Cohn, 96, American biochemist. [226]
• Mikheil Kalatozishvili, 50, Russian film director, script writer and producer. [227] (Russian)
• Donald Kaufman, 79, American toy car collector, heart attack. [228]
• Brendan Mullen, 60, American punk impresario and club owner (The Masque), stroke. [229]
• Stan Palk, 87, British footballer. [230]
• Dickie Peterson, 63, American rock singer (Blue Cheer), liver cancer. [231]
• Joe Rosen, 88, American Golden Age comic book letterer. [232]
• Frank Vandenbroucke, 34, Belgian cyclist, pulmonary embolism. [233]
• Ian Wallace, 90, British bass-baritone singer, after long illness. [234]

11

• Joan Martí i Alanis, 80, Spanish archbishop, Bishop of Urgell and co-Prince of Andorra (1971–2003), after long illness. [235]
• Peter Callanan, 74, Irish politician, member of the Seanad (since 1997). [236]
• Patrick Hannan, 68, British broadcaster, author and journalist, after short illness. [237]
• Gustav Kral, 26, Austrian footballer, car accident. [238] (German)
• Abigail McLellan, 40, Scottish artist, multiple sclerosis. [239]
• Veronika Neugebauer, 39, German actress, voice actress and singer. [240] (German)
• Alan Peters, 76, British furniture designer, after long illness. [241]
• Halit Refiğ, 75, Turkish film director, cholangiocarcinoma. [242] (Turkish)

10

• Luis Aguilé, 73, Argentinian singer and songwriter, stomach cancer. [243] (Spanish)
• Paul Bloom, 70, American lawyer, recovered $6 billion for the Department of Energy, pancreatic cancer. [244]
• Sonny Bradshaw, 83, Jamaican jazz musician, stroke. [245]
• Stephen Gately, 33, Irish pop singer (Boyzone), pulmonary oedema. [246]
• Larry Jansen, 89, American baseball player (New York Giants, Cincinnati Reds), heart failure and pneumonia. [247]
• Joan Orenstein, 85, British-born Canadian actress. [248]
• Lionel Pincus, 78, American businessman, founder of Warburg Pincus, after long illness. [249]
• Carol Tomlinson-Keasey, 66, American psychologist, breast cancer. [250]

9

• Arne Bakker, 79, Norwegian football and bandy player. [251] (Norwegian)
• Francis Baldacchino, 73, Maltese-born Bishop of Malindi, Kenya. [252]
• Raymond A. Brown, 94, American lawyer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. [253]
• Aldo Buzzi, 99, Italian author and architect. [254]
• Arturo "Zambo" Cavero, 68, Peruvian folk singer, complications of sepsis. [255]
• Jacques Chessex, 75, Swiss author, first non-French recipient of the Prix Goncourt, heart attack. [256]
• Marvin Fishman, 84, American businessman, original owner of Milwaukee Bucks, stroke. [257]
• Anne Friedberg, 57, American professor (USC School of Cinematic Arts), colorectal cancer[258]
• Vyacheslav Ivankov, 69, Russian crime figure, gunshot wounds. [259] (Russian)
• Stuart M. Kaminsky, 75, American mystery writer, hepatitis. [260]
• Barry Letts, 84, British television actor, director and producer (Doctor Who). [261]
• John Daido Loori, 78, American Zen Buddhist monk, lung cancer. [262]
• Hermann Raich, 75, Austrian Roman Catholic Bishop of Wabag (1982–2008). [263]
• Louis Sanmarco, 97, French administrator, Governor (1954–1957) and High Commissioner (1957–1958) of Ubangi-Shari. [264]
• Richard Sonnenfeldt, 86, German-born American interpreter at the Nuremberg Trials, complications from a stroke. [265]
• Dré Steemans, 55, Belgian television and radio host, cardiac arrest. [266] (Dutch)
• Horst Szymaniak, 75, German footballer, after long illness. [267] (German)
• Rusty Wier, 65, American country music singer-songwriter, cancer. [268]

8

• Gordon Boyd, 86, British-born Australian television personality, after short illness. [269]
• James Delgrosso, 66, American politician, Mayor of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (2003–2004), leukemia. [270]
• Gerald Ferguson, 72, American-born Canadian artist. [271]
• Juan Carlos Mareco, 83, Uruguayan actor. [272]
• Torsten Reißmann, 56, German Olympic judoka. [273] (German)
• Jean Sage, 68, French racing driver, former sporting director of the Renault F1 team. [274]
• Michael Angelo Saltarelli, 77, American Roman Catholic Bishop of Wilmington (1995–2008), bone cancer. [275]
• Abu Talib, 70, American blues musician, cancer. [276]
• Sir Sydney Walling, 102, Antiguan cricketer. [277]

7

• Bikram Keshari Deo, 58, Indian politician, cardiac arrest. [278]
• Steve Ferguson, 60, American guitarist (NRBQ), cancer. [279]
• Irving Penn, 92, American fashion photographer (Vogue). [280]
• Shelby Singleton, 77, American record producer and record label owner (Sun Records), brain cancer. [281]
• Helen Watts, 81, British contralto. [282]
• Pedro E. Zadunaisky, 91, Argentinian astronomer and mathematician. [283]

6

• Jimmy Bates, 99, Australian football player, oldest living VFL player. [284]
• Pamela Blake, 94, American actress, natural causes. [285]
• Douglas Campbell, 87, Scottish-born Canadian actor, complications of diabetes and heart disease. [286]
• Raymond Federman, 81, French-born American writer and academic, cancer. [287]
• Aengus Finucane, 77, Irish priest, Chief Executive of Concern Worldwide (1981–1997), after short illness. [288]
• Pyarelal Khandelwal, 80, Indian politician, cancer. [289]
• Werner Maihofer, 90, German Minister of the Interior (1974–1978). [290] (German)
• Donna Mae Mims, 82, American race driver, first female SCCA champion, stroke. [291]
• Gilberto Zaldívar, 75, American founder of the Repertorio Español, complications of Lewy body disease. [292]

5

• Mike Alexander, 32, British bassist (Evile), cerebral haemorrhage. [293]
• Leon Clarke, 76, American football player (Los Angeles Rams), pancreatitis. [294]
• Israel Gelfand, 96, Russian mathematician. [295]
• Giselher Klebe, 84, German composer. [296] (German)
• David Lake, 66, American winemaker. [297]
• Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones, 87, British classical scholar. [298]
• Brian Powell, 35, American baseball player, self-inflicted gunshot wound. [299]
• René Sommer, 58, Swiss co-inventor of the computer mouse. [300]
• Aisling Symes, 2, New Zealand child whose disappearance initiated major search, drowned. [301].

4

• Koichi Haraguchi, 68, Japanese chief of staff, Imperial House of Japan, heart attack. [302] (Japanese)
• Veikko Huovinen, 82, Finnish writer. [303] (Finnish)
• Grace Keagy, 87, American actress, ovarian cancer. [304]
• Ernő Kolczonay, 56, Hungarian Olympic silver medal-winning fencer (1980, 1992). [305] (Hungarian)
• James Lin Xili, 91, Chinese underground first Bishop of Wenzhou (since 1992), Alzheimer’s disease. [306]
• Shōichi Nakagawa, 56, Japanese politician, Minister of Finance (2008–2009). [307]
• Nikiforos, 78, Greek Bishop of Didymoteicho, after long illness. [308] (Greek)
• Günther Rall, 91, German Luftwaffe flying ace during WWII, heart attack. [309]
• Mercedes Sosa, 74, Argentinian folk singer, liver failure. [310]

3

• Alexander Basilaia, 67, Georgian composer, after long illness. [311]
• Vladimir Beekman, 80, Estonian writer and translator. [312] (Estonian)
• Fernando Caldeiro, 51, Argentine-born American astronaut, brain cancer. [313]
• Fatima of Libya, 98, Queen of Libya (1951–1969), widow of King Idris I. [314] (Arabic)
• Robert Kirby, 61, British folk rock arranger, after short illness. [315]
• Ernie Lopez, 64, American boxer, complications from dementia. [316]
• Reinhard Mohn, 88, German entrepreneur and publisher, founder of Bertelsmann Foundation. [317] (German)
• Vasile Louis Puscas, 94, American Bishop of St George's in Canton in the Romanian Catholic Church. [318]

2

• Alain Bernheim, 86, French-born American film producer, complications of dialysis. [319]
• Marek Edelman, 86, Polish political and social activist, cardiologist, last surviving leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. [320]
• Jack Evans, 80, Australian politician, Senator (1983–1984), co-founder of the Australian Democrats, cancer. [321]
• Nat Finkelstein, 76, American photographer and photojournalist. [322]
• John "Mr. Magic" Rivas, 53, American radio personality, heart attack. [323]
• Saleh Meki, 61, Eritrean cabinet minister and politician, heart attack. [324]
• Peg Mullen, 92, American author, subject of film Friendly Fire. [325]
• Desmond Plummer, Baron Plummer of St. Marylebone, 95, British politician, leader of Greater London Council (1967–1973). [326]
• Rolf Rüssmann, 58, German football manager, prostate cancer. [327]
• Herman D. Stein, 92, American professor (Case Western Reserve University). [328]
• Harvey Veniot, 93, Canadian MLA for Pictou West (1956–1974), Speaker of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly (1961–1968). [329]
• Shaun Wylie, 96, British mathematician and World War II codebreaker. [330]

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• Otar Chiladze, 76, Georgian writer, heart failure. [331] (Georgian)
• André-Philippe Futa, 66, Congolese politician, Minister of the Economy and Foreign Trade (since 2002). [332]
• Gunnar Haarberg, 92, Norwegian television presenter. [333] (Norwegian)
• Syed Kamal, 72, Pakistani actor, after long illness. [334]
• Lou Moro, 91, Canadian footballer and football coach. [335]
• V. M. Muddiah, 80, Indian cricketer, stroke. [336]
• Bhandit Rittakol, 58, Thai film director, producer and screenwriter, heart failure. [337]
• Cintio Vitier, 88, Cuban poet. [338]