Deaths in 2012

1 May 2012
- 1.1 24
- 1.2 23
- 1.3 22
- 1.4 21
- 1.5 20
- 1.6 19
- 1.7 18
- 1.8 17
- 1.9 16
- 1.10 15
- 1.11 14
- 1.12 13
- 1.13 12
- 1.14 11
- 1.15 10
- 1.16 9
- 1.17 8
- 1.18 7
- 1.19 6
- 1.20 5
- 1.21 4
- 1.22 3
- 1.23 2
- 1.24 1
2 April 2012
3 March 2012
4 February 2012
5 January 2012
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The following is a list of notable deaths in 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).

May 2012

24

23

Shane Hidalgo, 24, American professional skateboarder, car accident. [1]
Barbara Holborow, 81, Australian magistrate, NSW Senior Australian of the Year (2012), cancer. [2]
Dave Mann, 79, American football player (Chicago Cardinals, Toronto Argonauts), complications from dementia. [3]

22

Muzaffar Ahmed, 79, Bangladeshi economist, natural causes. [4]
Otis Clark, 109, American survivor of the Tulsa race riot (1921) and the butler for Clark Gable, Charlie Chaplin and Joan Crawford, natural causes. [5]
Yasuko Minorikawa, 66, Japanese stylist, cancer. [6] (Japanese)
Alan Thorne, Australian anthropologist, developer of the theory of multiregional origin of modern humans, Alzheimers Disease. [7]
Aleksey Vanin, 87, Russian film actor. [8] (Russian)

21

Kyūya Arai, 80, Japanese businessman, executive vice-president of the Broadcasting System of Niigata. [9] (Japanese)
Eddie Blazonczyk, 70, American polka musician, natural causes. [10]
Constantine of Irinoupolis, 75, American Orthodox hierarch, Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA (since 1993). [11]
Roman Dumbadze, 48, Georgian rebel commander, shot. [12]
Ezell Lee, 74, American politician, Mississippi State Representative (1988–1992) and Mississippi State Senator (1992–2012), cancer. [13]
Juan Manuel Montero Vázquez, 64, Spanish military surgeon. [14] (Spanish)
Akira Ōmori, 85, Japanese politician, member of the House of Councillors, brain tumor. [15] (Japanese)
Douglas Rodríguez, 61, Cuban boxer, heart attack. [16] (death announced on this date)
Bill Stewart, 59, American college football coach (West Virginia University), apparent heart attack. [17]
Rodolfo Félix Valdés, 86, Mexican politician, Governor of Sonora (1985–1991). [18] (Spanish)

20

Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, 60, Libyan terrorist, convicted of bombing Pan Am Flight 103, prostate cancer. [19]
Bob Bethell, 69, American politician, member of the Kansas House of Representatives (since 1999), car accident. [20]
Geoffrey Evans, 69, Irish serial killer. [21]
John George, 81, Scottish officer of arms. [22]
Robin Gibb, 62, British singer and songwriter (Bee Gees), colon and liver cancer. [23]
Eugene Polley, 96, American engineer, inventor of the wireless TV remote control. [24]
Andrew B. Steinberg, 53, American lawyer. [25]

19

Bob Boozer, 75, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1960) basketball player (Cincinnati Royals, New York Knicks, Chicago Bulls), brain aneurysm. [26]
Mark Buckley, 35, Scottish motorcycle racer, crash during 2012 North West 200 Races. [27]
Ian Burgess, 81, British racing driver. [28]
Paul Cyr, 48, Canadian hockey player (Buffalo Sabres, New York Rangers, Hartford Whalers), heart failure. [29] (death announced on this date)
Isak Doera, 80, Philippine-born Indonesian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Sintang (1976–1996). [30]
Phil Lamason, 93, New Zealand Air Force officer. [31]
Mauro Pichini, 33, Argentine racing driver, plane crash. [32] (Spanish)
Willie Robinson, 70, American drag racer and promoter, after long illness. [33]
Heiichi Sugiyama, 97, Japanese poet and film critic, pneumonia. [34] (Japanese)
Kōichi Toda, 71, Japanese painter, rectal cancer. [35] (Japanese)

18

Marco Antonio Ávila García, 39, Mexican journalist. [36] (body discovered on this date)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, 86, German baritone and conductor. [37]
Kōsō Fujimoto, 86, Japanese calligrapher, senility. [38] (Japanese)
Jai Gurudev, 116 (unverified), Indian religious leader. [39]
Peter Jones, 49, British-born Australian drummer (Crowded House), brain cancer. [40]
Alan Oakley, 85, British designer of Raleigh Chopper bicycle, cancer. [41]
Paul O'Sullivan, 48, Canadian comedian and actor, car accident. [42]
Gavin Packard, 48, British-born Indian Bollywood film actor, respiratory disease. [43]
Joe Sampite, 81, American politician, Mayor of Natchitoches, Louisiana (1980–2000). [44]
A. Teeuw, 90, Dutch critic of Indonesian literature. [45]

17

Warda Al-Jazairia, 72, Algerian singer, cardiac arrest. [46]
Agron Aliaj, Albanian ballet master and choreographer, complications from a car accident. [47] (Albanian)
Herbert Breslin, 87, American music industry executive, heart attack. [48]
Sophia Brown, 30, British reality show contestant (Big Brother 10). [49]
France Clidat, 79, French classical pianist. [50] (French)
Gideon Ezra, 74, Israeli politician, MK (since 1996), lung cancer. [51]
Patrick Mafisango, 32, Congolese-born Rwandan footballer, car accident. [52]
Nobuyuki Morikawa, 79, Japanese saxophonist, lung cancer. [53] (Japanese)
Derek Round, 77, New Zealand journalist, injuries following assault. [54] (body discovered on this date)
Ron Shock, 69, American stand-up comedian, urethral cancer. [55]
Donna Summer, 63, American singer ("Bad Girls", "Hot Stuff", "Last Dance", "I Feel Love"), lung cancer. [56]
Moti Tikaram, 87 Fijian judge and ombudsman, [57]

16

Patricia Aakhus, 59, Irish novelist, cancer. [58]
James Abdnor, 89, American politician, U.S. Representative (1973–1981) and U.S. Senator (1981–1987) from South Dakota. [59]
Maria Bieşu, 76, Moldovan opera singer, leukemia. [60] (Russian)
Chuck Brown, 75, American singer and musician ("Bustin' Loose"), the "Godfather of Go-Go", multiple organ failure. [61]
Ernie Chan, 71, Filipino-born American comic book artist. [62]
Pat Dickie, 93, Australian politician. [63]
Doug Dillard, 75, American bluegrass musician (The Dillards) and actor (The Andy Griffith Show), lung infection. [64]
Kurt Felix, 71, Swiss television presenter, thymoma. [65] (German)
Kevin Hickey, 56, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Baltimore Orioles), complications of a seizure. [66]
Ikuya Katō, 83, Japanese haiku poet and critic, heart failure. [67] (Japanese)
Mary Richardson Kennedy, 52, American architect, estranged wife of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., suicide by hanging. [68]
Susumu Kobayashi, 58, Japanese actor, tarento, and member of the owarai group Hipup, gastric cancer. [69] (Japanese)
Andrei Mylnikov, 93, Russian painter. [70] (Russian)
Thad Tillotson, 71, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Nakai Hawks). [71]
Yonghan Qiu, 89, Taiwanese businessperson and author. [72] (Chinese)

15

Henry Denker, 99, American novellist and playwright, lung cancer. [73]
Carlos Fuentes, 83, Panamanian-born Mexican novelist, internal hemorrhage. [74]
Jean Craighead George, 92, American children's author (My Side of the Mountain). [75]
Peter Koslowski, 59, German philosopher and academic. [76] (German)
Arno Lustiger, 88, Upper Silesian-born German writer and Judaic historian. [77]
Zakaria Mohieddin, 93, Egyptian politician and military officer, Vice President (1961–1964, 1965–1968), Prime Minister (1965–1966). [78]
John Murray, 11th Duke of Atholl, 83, South African-born hereditary peer of the Peerage of Scotland. [79]
Sanae Nakahara, 76, Japanese actress, heart failure. [80] (Japanese)
Sir Roy Shaw, 93, British arts administrator. [81]
Frederick E. Smith, 93, British author (633 Squadron), heart attack. [82]
Betty Miller Unterberger, 89, Scottish-born American historian. [83]
Alfredo Villatoro, Honduran journalist. [84] (body found on this date)
George Wyllie, 90, Scottish sculptor. [85]

14

Vladimer Aptsiauri, 50, Georgian Olympic gold medal-winning (1988) fencer. [86]
Tor Marius Gromstad, 22, Norwegian footballer (Stabæk), fall. [87] (Norwegian) (body discovered on this date)
Mitchell Guist, 48, American reality series cast member (Swamp People), natural causes. [88]
Derek Hammond-Stroud, 86, English opera singer. [89]
Ernst Hinterberger, 80, Austrian author and screenwriter (Kaisermühlen Blues, Ein echter Wiener geht nicht unter). [90] (German)
Maude Aimee Humbard, 89, American gospel singer, widow of televangelist Rex Humbard, complications from Alzheimer's disease. [91]
Chōseki Kanō, 82, Japanese calligrapher, pneumonia. [92] (Japanese)
Taruni Sachdev, 14, Indian film actress (Paa), plane crash. [93]
Mario Trejo, 86, Argentine poet. [94] (Spanish)
Belita Woods, 63, American singer, heart failure. [95]
Tatsuya Yoshimura, 60, Japanese author, stomach cancer. [96] (Japanese)

13

Trond Bråthen, 35, Norwegian singer and guitarist (Urgehal). [97]
Arsala Rahmani Daulat, Afghan politician (Afghan High Peace Council member), shot. [98]
Donald "Duck" Dunn, 70, American bass guitarist (The Blues Brothers, Booker T. & the M.G.'s). [99]
Katya Filipova, 63, Bulgarian pop singer, pulmonary embolism. [100]
Jin Chang-hyun, 82, South Korean violin manufacturer, colorectal cancer. [101] (Japanese)
Les Leston, 91, British racing driver. [102]
Jean McFarlane, Baroness McFarlane of Llandaff, 86, British nurse and peeress. [103]
Lee Richardson, 33, British speedway rider, in-race crash. [104]
Nolan Richardson III, 47, American college basketball coach (Tennessee State University). [105]
Don Ritchie, 85, Australian volunteer, rescued 160 people from suicide. [106]
Antoine Nguyễn Văn Thiện, 106, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Vinh Long (1960–1968). [107]
Bill Walsh, 84, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers). [108]

12

Jan Bens, 91, Dutch footballer (Feyenoord). [109]
Paul Dee, 65, American lawyer and athletic director (University of Miami). [110]
Ernst Josef Fittkau, 75, German entomologist. [111] (German)
Ruth Foster, 92, American actress (Little House on the Prairie). [112]
Terry Martin, 74, American surfboard shaper. [113]
Neil McKenty, 87, Canadian radio talk-show host and author. [114]
Eddy Paape, 91, Belgian comics artist (Luc Orient). [115] (Dutch)
Harold Arthur Poling, 86, American businessman, CEO and Chairman of Ford Motor Company (1990–1993). [116]
Ken Selby, 76, American businessman, founder of Mazzio's, complications from lung cancer. [117]
Fritz Ursell, 89, German-born British mathematician (Ursell number). [118]

11

Jack Benaroya, 90, American real estate developer. [119]
Patrick Bosch, 47, Dutch footballer (FC Twente), car accident. [120] (Dutch)
Stanislav Brebera, 86, Czech chemist. [121] (Czech)
Massimo Cenci, 68, Italian Roman Catholic priest, deputy secretary of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, heart attack. [122]
Tony DeZuniga, 79, Filipino comic book artist and co-creator of Jonah Hex and Black Orchid, complications from stroke. [123]
Rodolfo Kappenberger, 95, Swiss footballer. [124]
Sir Michael Kerry, 88, British public servant. [125]
Ramesh Mehta, 78, Indian comedian, playwright, director, and actor. [126]
Martin Stovold, 56, English cricketer, lung disease. [127]
Travis H. Tomlinson, 98, American politician. [128]
Frank Wills, 53, American baseball player (Toronto Blue Jays, Kansas City Royals, Cleveland Indians). [129]

10

Horst Faas, 79, German photojournalist (Associated Press). [130]
Ranjitsinh Pratapsinh Gaekwad, 74, Indian politician, member of the Lok Sabha (1980–1989), Maharaja of Baroda (since 1988). [131]
Evelyn Johnson, 102, American aviator. [132]
Miyozō Katō, 100, Japanese painter, senility. [133] (Japanese)
April Kauffman, 47, American radio personality, homicide by firearm. [134]
Günther Kaufmann, 64, German film actor, heart attack. [135]
Hiroshi Kimura, 82, Japanese entrepreneur, managing director of the Earth Chemical Company, prostate cancer. [136] (Japanese)
Pekka Marjamäki, 64, Finnish Olympic ice hockey player, heart attack. [137]
Adam Christopher Mayes, 35, American FBI Top Ten Fugitive, suicide. [138]
Kōichi Nakamoto, 75, Japanese politician, mayor of Ikoma, Nara, liver cancer. [139] (Japanese)
Eddie Perkins, 75, American boxer. [140]
Joyce Redman, 96, Anglo-Irish actress (Othello, Tom Jones), pneumonia. [141]
Bernardo Sassetti, 41, Portuguese jazz pianist and film composer, fall. [142] (Portuguese)
Carroll Shelby, 89, American automobile racer and designer. [143]
Umeko Shimomura, 100, Japanese haiku poet, pneumonia. [144] (Japanese)
Andreas Shipanga, 80, Namibian politician, Chairman of the Transitional Government of National Unity (1987, 1988), heart attack. [145]
Gunnar Sønsteby, 94, Norwegian resistance movement member. [146] (Norwegian)
Yasutomo Watanabe, 95, Japanese painter, acute heart failure. [147] (Japanese)
Walter Wink, 76, American theologian, complications of dementia. [148]
Gulumbu Yunupingu, 69, Australian Aboriginal artist. [149]

9

Carl Beane, 59, American sports broadcaster and public address announcer (Fenway Park), heart attack while driving. [150]
Celso Chavez, 44, American guitarist (Possum Dixon), pneumonia. [151]
Bertram Cohler, 73, American psychologist. [152]
Alain Fossoul, 83, Belgian footballer, [153] (French)
Sir Geoffrey Henry, 71, Cook Islands politician, Prime Minister (1983, 1989–1999), and Speaker of Parliament (since 2011), cancer. [154]
Yoshiyuki Nagatake, 73, Japanese opera researcher and critic, prostate cancer. [155] (Japanese)
Vidal Sassoon, 84, British hairstylist, leukemia. [156]
Ingvald M. Smith-Kielland, 92, Norwegian royal servant. [157]
Shizuteru Usui, 74, Japanese physician and author, president of the Hiroshima Prefectural Medical Association. [158] (Japanese)

8

Ampon Tangnoppakul, 64, Thai detainee. [159]
William Aquin Carew, 89, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Apostolic Nuncio to Japan (1983–1997). [160]
Junichi Itō, 63, Japanese banker, president of the Daisan Bank. [161] (Japanese)
Nicholas Katzenbach, 90, American lawyer, United States Attorney General (1965–1966). [162]
Lau Teng Chuan, 83, Singaporean sports administrator, stomach cancer. [163]
Everett Lilly, 87, American bluegrass musician (The Lilly Brothers). [164]
Carlos Loiseau ("Caloi"), 63, Argentine cartoonist, cancer. [165]
Bob Marshall, 77, American politician. Mayor of San Bruno, California (1980–1991). [166]
Jerry McMorris, 71, American baseball executive (Colorado Rockies), pancreatic cancer. [167]
Kiyoko Ōtani, 93, Japanese soprano, respiratory failure. [168] (Japanese)
Frank Parr, 83, English cricketer and jazz musician. [169]
Louis H. Pollak, 89, American federal judge. [170]
Stacy Robinson, 50, American football player (New York Giants), cancer. [171]
Minoru Sano, 85, Japanese businessperson, founder and president of Nipro, heart failure. [172] (Japanese)
Maurice Sendak, 83, American author and illustrator (Where the Wild Things Are, Little Bear), complications of a stroke. [173]
Roman Totenberg, 101, Polish-born American violinist, renal failure. [174]
Jan van der Velden, 71, Dutch footballer, [175] (Dutch)

7

Ferenc Bartha, 68, Hungarian economist, Governor of the National Bank of Hungary (1988–1990), suicide. [176] (Hungarian)
Stevan Bena, 76, Serbian footballer. [177] (Serbian)
Jules Bocandé, 53, Senegalese footballer, complications of surgery and stroke. [178]
Rich Buhler, 65, American Christian radio broadcast pioneer (KBRT), pancreatic cancer. [179]
R. Michael Canjar, 58, American mathematician. [180]
Robert Everett Coyle, 82, American federal judge. [181]
Andrea Crisanti, 75, Italian production designer and art director. [182]
Dennis E. Fitch, 69, American pilot (United Airlines Flight 232), brain cancer. [183]
Keitarō Hanaya, 66, Japanese novelist, lung cancer. [184] (Japanese)
Hirotada Hayase, 71, Japanese track and field athlete (1960 Summer Olympics, 1964 Summer Olympics), blood poisoning. [185] (Japanese)
Masaki Ikuta, 89, Japanese jurist (Keio University), pneumonia. [186] (Japanese)
Alexander Keynan, 90, Israeli microbiologist, co-founder and the first director of Israel Institute for Biological Research. [187] (Hebrew)
Toshiaki Nagasaki, 71, Japanese theater director, bone tumor and lung cancer. [188] (Japanese)
Michal Pešek, 53, Czech actor, presenter, entrepreneur, and politician, lung cancer. [189] (Czech)
Lizzie Watkins, 24, Australian hockey player (North Coast Raiders), on field accident. [190]

6

Fahd al-Quso, 37, Yemeni militant, al-Qaeda member, airstrike. [191]
Lautaro Bugatto, 20, Argentine footballer, shot. [192]
Michael Burks, 54, American blues musician, heart attack. [193]
Pat Frink, 67, American basketball player (Cincinnati Royals), automobile accident. [194]
Iraj Ghaderi, 77, Iranian film director and actor. [195] (Persian)
Kåre Øistein Hansen, 88, Norwegian politician. [196]
James Isaac, 51, American film director (Jason X) and special effects supervisor, blood cancer. [197]
Ryūichi Kajiki, 101, Japanese English scholar (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies), heart failure. [198] (Japanese)
Kostas Karras, 76, Greek actor, MP (2000–2007), prostate cancer. [199] (Greek)
Félix Kouadjo, 73, Ivorian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bondoukou (since 1996). [200]
Jean Laplanche, 87, French psychoanalyst, pulmonary fibrosis, [201] (French)
George Lindsey, 83, American actor (The Andy Griffith Show, Mayberry R.F.D., Hee Haw), after brief illness. [202]
Georgi Lozanov, 85, Bulgarian educator, developed Suggestopedia. [203]
KM Mathew, 77, Indian writer. [204]
Marika Mitsotakis, 82, Greek politician, wife of the Greek Prime Minister Konstantinos Mitsotakis (1990–1993), complications of poliomyelitis. [205]
Keizō Miyashita, 75, Japanese German scholar (Keio University), bile duct cancer. [206] (Japanese)
Yale Summers, 78, American actor (Daktari). [207]
Tran Dinh Truong, 80, Vietnamese businessman. [208] (Vietnamese)
Jan Trøjborg, 56, Danish politician, member of the Folketing (1987–2005), and Defence Minister (2000–2001), heart failure. [209] (Danish)
Fumio Yamashita, 87, Japanese politician, member of the Akechi, Gifu Diet, pneumonia. [210] (Japanese)

5

Count Carl Johan Bernadotte of Wisborg, 95, Swedish royal, youngest son of King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden. [211]
James R. Browning, 93, American judge. [212]
Aatos Erkko, 79, Finnish journalist and publisher, after long illness. [213]
Jōya Kagemaru, 72 Japanese manga artist, created series that inspired the live-action movie Champion of Death, pancreatic cancer. [214]
George Knobel, 89, Dutch football manager, complications of Alzheimer's disease. [215] (Dutch)
Stephen Lord, 85, American television writer (CHiPs, Bonanza). [216]
Miguel Mora Gornals, 75, Spanish Olympic cyclist. [217] (Spanish)
Yukio Narita, 92, Japanese politician, mayor of Kizukuri, Aomori, member of the Aomori Prefecture Diet, senility. [218] (Japanese)
Roy Padayachie, 62, South African politician. [219]
'Sweet Joe' Russell, 72, American singer (The Persuasions). [220]
Surendranath, 75, Indian cricketer. [221]
Ali Uras, 88, Turkish Olympic basketball player and president of Galatasaray S.K. (1979–1986). [222] (Turkish)
Takayoshi Yamanaka, 85, Japanese politician, member of the Kyoto Prefecture Diet, pneumonia. [223] (Japanese)

4

Haukur Angantýsson, 63, Icelandic chess player. [224] (Icelandic)
T P Chandrasekharan, 51, Indian politician. [225]
Alexander Chikvaidze, 74, Georgian diplomat. [226] (Georgian)
Charlotte Hawkins Flowers, 112, American supercentenarian, kidney failure. [227]
Angelica Garnett, 93, British writer and painter. [228]
Mort Lindsey, 89, American orchestra leader and composer. [229]
Anthony Joseph O’Connell, 73, Irish-born American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Knoxville (1988–1998) and Palm Beach (1998–2002). [230]
Rich Ramirez, 57, American stand-up comedian, traumatic head injury. [231]
Keiichirō Shinohara, 77, Japanese politician, mayor of Arita, Saga, malignant lymphoma. [232] (Japanese)
Edward Short, Baron Glenamara, 99, British politician, Deputy Leader of the Labour Party (1972–1976), MP for Newcastle upon Tyne Central (1951–1976). [233]
Bob Stewart, 91, American television game show producer (Password, To Tell the Truth, The Price Is Right), natural causes. [234]
Adam Yauch, 47, American musician (Beastie Boys) and film director (Gunnin' for That No. 1 Spot), salivary gland cancer. [235]
Rashidi Yekini, 48, Nigerian footballer. [236]

3

Dick Beam, 75, American football executive (Los Angeles Rams, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), cancer. [237]
Edith Bliss, 52, Australian pop singer and television presenter. [238]
Lloyd Brevett, 80, Jamaican double bassist (The Skatalites), complications from stroke. [239]
Peter K. Cullins, 83, American admiral, first commander of the Naval Data Automation Command, complications from hepatitis B. [240]
John Miles Foley, 65, American folklorist and literary scholar. [241]
Gabriel Huge, Mexican photojournalist (Vera Cruz News), tortured and dismembered. [242] (body discovered on this date)
Jorge Illueca, 93, Panamanian politician, President (1984), respiratory failure. [243] (Spanish)
Willie French Lowery, 68, American composer and musician. [244]
Nenad Šarić, 65, Croatian drummer and musician, stroke. [245] (Croatian)
Kōsuke Takeuchi, 65, Japanese sports journalist, wrestling commentator, and newspaper editor, ileus following a stroke. [246] (Japanese)
František Tondra, 75, Slovak Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Spiš (1989–2011), heart failure. [247] (Slovak)
Lourdes Valera, 48, Venezuelan actress, lung cancer. [248] (Spanish)
Guillermo Luna Varela, Mexican freelance photojournalist, tortured and dismembered. [249] (body discovered on this date)
Felix Werder, 90, German-born Australian composer. [250]

2

Peter Connolly, 77, British historian. [251]
Emmanuelle de Dampierre, 99, Italian noblewoman, former wife of Infante Jaime, Duke of Segovia. [252] (French)
Nélida Gómez de Navajas, 76, Argentine human rights activist (Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo). [253] (Spanish)
Mark Deutch, 67, Russian journalist, drowned. [254] (Russian)
Fernando Lopes, 76, Portuguese film director, throat cancer. [255] (Portuguese)
James Marker, 90, American-born Canadian businessman, inventor of Cheezies. [256]
Tufan Miñnullin, 76, Russian Tatar writer and playwright, heart attack. [257] (Russian)
Les Mogg, 82, Australian football player. [258]
Jun Nagara, 74, Japanese entertainments promoter, golf cart accident. [259] (Japanese)
Seiryū Ōta, 84, Japanese calligrapher, heart failure. [260] (Japanese)
Donald L. Owens, 82, American military officer. [261]
Junior Seau, 43, American football player (San Diego Chargers, Miami Dolphins, New England Patriots), suicide. [262]
Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih, 57, Indonesian physician, Minister of Health (2009–2012), cancer. [263]
Larry Sjaastad, 77, American economist at the University of Chicago. [264]
J. T. Ready, 39, American border militia leader, former neo-Nazi, suicide. [265]
Akira Tonomura, 70, Japanese physicist, pancreatic cancer. [266] (Japanese)
Digby Wolfe, 82, British actor and screenwriter (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In), cancer. [267]
Emma Yong, 37, Singaporean stage actress (Dim Sum Dollies), stomach cancer. [268]
Zvi Zeitlin, 90, Belorussian-born American classical violinist, pneumonia. [269]

1

Gonçalo Amorim, 39, Portuguese Olympic cyclist. [270] (Portuguese)
Gogó Andreu, 92, Argentine comedian and actor. [271] (Spanish)
Triță Făniță, 83, Romanian politician, Senator (1996–2004) and businessman. [272] (Romanian)
Linda Georgian, 66, American author and psychic, co-host of Psychic Friends Network, multiple myeloma. [273]
John Spencer Hardy, 98, American lieutenant general, NATO commander for Southern Europe. [274]
Harold K. Hoskins, 85, American pilot, Tuskegee Airman, Congressional Gold Medal winner, complications from a fall. [275]
Greg Jackson, 60, American basketball player (New York Knicks, Phoenix Suns), heart attack. [276]
Eric James, 87, British Anglican clergyman and broadcaster. [277]
Senteza Kajubi, 86, Ugandan university administrator and academic. [278]
James Kinley, 86, Canadian engineer and industrialist, Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia (1994–2000). [279]
Charles Pitts, 65, American soul musician, guitarist for Isaac Hayes, lung cancer. [280]
Earl Rose, 85, American medical examiner, attempted to autopsy President Kennedy after assassination in Dallas, Texas, Parkinson's disease. [281]
Mordechai Virshubski, 82, Israeli politician, MK (1977–1992) and Deputy Speaker of the Knesset (1988–1992). [282]
Shanmugasundari, 75, Indian film actress, heart attack. [283]