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The following is a list of deaths in October 2009.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
1
- Otar Chiladze, 76, Georgian writer, heart failure.[1]
- André-Philippe Futa, 66, Congolese politician, Minister of the Economy and Foreign Trade (since 2002).[2]
- Gunnar Haarberg, 92, Norwegian television presenter.[3]
- Syed Kamal, 72, Pakistani actor.[4]
- Lou Moro, 91, Canadian soccer player and coach.[5]
- V. M. Muddiah, 80, Indian cricketer, stroke.[6]
- Bhandit Rittakol, 58, Thai film director, producer and screenwriter, heart failure.[7]
- Cintio Vitier, 88, Cuban poet.[8]
2
- Alain Bernheim, 86, French-born American film producer, complications from dialysis.[9]
- Marek Edelman, 86, Polish political and social activist, cardiologist, last surviving leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.[10]
- Jack Evans, 80, Australian politician, Senator (1983–1984), co-founder of the Australian Democrats, cancer.[11]
- Nat Finkelstein, 76, American photographer and photojournalist.[12]
- Jørgen Jensen, 65, Danish Olympic runner.[13]
- John "Mr. Magic" Rivas, 53, American radio personality, heart attack.[14]
- Saleh Meki, 61, Eritrean cabinet minister and politician, heart attack.[15]
- Peg Mullen, 92, American author, subject of film Friendly Fire.[16]
- Desmond Plummer, Baron Plummer of St. Marylebone, 95, British politician, leader of Greater London Council (1967–1973).[17]
- Rolf Rüssmann, 58, German football manager, prostate cancer.[18]
- Herman D. Stein, 92, American professor (Case Western Reserve University).[19]
- Harvey Veniot, 93, Canadian MLA for Pictou West (1956–1974), Speaker of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly (1961–1968).[20]
- Shaun Wylie, 96, British mathematician and World War II codebreaker.[21]
3
- Aleksandre Basilaia, 67, Georgian composer.[22]
- Vladimir Beekman, 80, Estonian writer and translator.[23]
- Fernando Caldeiro, 51, Argentine-born American astronaut, brain cancer.[24]
- Fatimah el-Sharif, 98, Libyan Queen of Libya (1951–1969), widow of King Idris I.[25]
- Myrtle K. Hilo, 80, Hawaiian taxicab driver and radio personality.[26]
- Will Inman, 86, American poet, Parkinson's disease.[27]
- Robert Kirby, 61, British folk rock arranger.[28]
- Ernie Lopez, 64, American boxer, complications from dementia.[29]
- Reinhard Mohn, 88, German entrepreneur and publisher, founder of Bertelsmann Foundation.[30]
- Michel Nédélec, 69, French Olympic cyclist.[31]
- Vasile Louis Puscas, 94, American Bishop of St George's in Canton in the Romanian Catholic Church.[32]
- Frank Zoppetti, 93, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers).[33]
4
- Koichi Haraguchi, 68, Japanese chief of staff, Imperial House of Japan, heart attack.[34]
- Veikko Huovinen, 82, Finnish writer.[35]
- Fred Kaan, 80, Dutch-born British clergyman and hymn writer.[36]
- Gerhard Kaufhold, 80, German footballer.[37]
- Grace Keagy, 87, American actress, ovarian cancer.[38]
- Ernő Kolczonay, 56, Hungarian Olympic silver medal-winning fencer (1980, 1992).[39]
- James Lin Xili, 91, Chinese underground first Bishop of Wenzhou (since 1992), Alzheimer's disease.[40]
- Shōichi Nakagawa, 56, Japanese politician, Minister of Finance (2008–2009).[41]
- Nikiforos of Didymoteicho, 78, Greek bishop of Didymoteicho.[42]
- Günther Rall, 91, German Luftwaffe flying ace during World War II, heart attack.[43]
- Mercedes Sosa, 74, Argentinian folk singer, liver failure.[44]
- Bronisław Żurakowski, 98, Polish aerospace engineer.[45]
5
- Armando Acosta Cordero, 88, Cuban guerrilla.[46]
- Tommy Capel, 87, English footballer (Nottingham Forest).[47]
- Leon Clarke, 76, American football player (Los Angeles Rams), pancreatitis.[48]
- James Duesenberry, 91, American economist.[49]
- Ron Finley, 76, American football coach (Campbellsville Tigers).[50]
- Israel Gelfand, 96, Russian mathematician.[51]
- Gino Giugni, 82, Italian minister of labor and social security (1993–1994).[52]
- Giselher Klebe, 84, German composer.[53]
- David Lake, 66, American winemaker.[54]
- Sir Hugh Lloyd-Jones, 87, British classical scholar.[55]
- Brian Powell, 35, American baseball player, suicide by gunshot.[56]
- René Sommer, 58, Swiss inventor, co-inventor of the computer mouse.[57]
- Johnny Williams, 77, English rugby union player.[58]
6
- Jimmy Bates, 99, Australian football player, oldest living Australian Football League player.[59]
- Pamela Blake, 94, American actress, natural causes.[60]
- Douglas Campbell, 87, Scottish-born Canadian actor, complications of diabetes and heart disease.[61]
- Raymond Federman, 81, French-born American writer and academic, cancer.[62]
- Aengus Finucane, 77, Irish priest, chief executive of Concern Worldwide (1981–1997).[63]
- Pyarelal Khandelwal, 84, Indian politician, cancer.[64]
- Ruth L. Kirschstein, 82, American pathologist.[65]
- Werner Maihofer, 90, German Minister of the Interior (1974–1978).[66]
- Donna Mae Mims, 82, American race driver, first female SCCA champion, stroke.[67]
- Ramanna Rai, 79, Indian politician.[68]
- Gilberto Zaldívar, 75, American founder of the Repertorio Español, complications of dementia with Lewy bodies.[69]
7
- Ben Ali, 82, American restaurateur (Ben's Chili Bowl), heart failure.[60]
- Bikram Keshari Deo, 58, Indian politician, cardiac arrest.[70]
- Irving Penn, 92, American fashion photographer (Vogue).[71]
- Shelby Singleton, 77, American record producer and record label owner (Sun Records), brain cancer.[72]
- Helen Watts, 81, British contralto.[73]
- Pedro E. Zadunaisky, 91, Argentinian astronomer and mathematician.[74]
8
- Gordon Boyd, 86, British-born Australian television personality.[75]
- James Delgrosso, 66, American politician, mayor of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania (2003–2004), leukemia.[76]
- Gerald Ferguson, 72, American-born Canadian artist.[77]
- Juan Carlos Mareco, 83, Uruguayan actor.[78]
- Alex McCrae, 89, Scottish football player (Middlesbrough) and manager (Falkirk).[79]
- Torsten Reißmann, 53, German Olympic judoka.[80]
- Jean Sage, 68, French racing driver, former sporting director of the Renault F1 team.[81]
- Michael Angelo Saltarelli, 77, American Roman Catholic Bishop of Wilmington (1995–2008), bone cancer.[82]
- Abu Talib, 70, American blues musician, cancer.[83]
- Sir Sydney Walling, 102, Antiguan cricketer.[84]
9
- Arne Bakker, 79, Norwegian football and bandy player.[85]
- Francis Baldacchino, 73, Maltese-born Bishop of Malindi, Kenya.[86]
- Raymond A. Brown, 94, American lawyer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.[87]
- Aldo Buzzi, 99, Italian author and architect.[88]
- Arturo "Zambo" Cavero, 68, Peruvian folk singer, complications from sepsis.[89]
- Jacques Chessex, 75, Swiss author, first non-French recipient of the Prix Goncourt, heart attack.[90]
- Anne Friedberg, 57, American professor (USC School of Cinematic Arts), colorectal cancer[91]
- Vyacheslav Ivankov, 69, Russian crime figure, gunshot wounds.[92]
- Stuart M. Kaminsky, 75, American mystery writer, hepatitis.[93]
- Barry Letts, 84, British television actor, director and producer (Doctor Who).[94]
- John Daido Loori, 78, American Zen Buddhist monk, lung cancer.[95]
- Hermann Raich, 75, Austrian Roman Catholic Bishop of Wabag (1982–2008).[96]
- Louis Sanmarco, 97, French administrator, governor (1954–1957) and High Commissioner (1957–1958) of Ubangi-Shari.[97]
- Richard Sonnenfeldt, 86, German-born American interpreter at the Nuremberg Trials, complications from a stroke.[98]
- Dré Steemans, 55, Belgian television and radio host, cardiac arrest.[99]
- Horst Szymaniak, 75, German footballer.[100]
- Rusty Wier, 65, American country music singer-songwriter, cancer.[101]
10
- Luis Aguilé, 73, Argentine singer and songwriter, stomach cancer.[102]
- Paul Bloom, 70, American lawyer, recovered $6 billion for the Department of Energy, pancreatic cancer.[103]
- Sonny Bradshaw, 83, Jamaican jazz musician, stroke.[104]
- Stephen Gately, 33, Irish pop singer (Boyzone), pulmonary edema.[105]
- Larry Jansen, 89, American baseball player (New York Giants, Cincinnati Reds), heart failure and pneumonia.[106]
- Joan Orenstein, 85, British-born Canadian actress.[107]
- Lionel Pincus, 78, American businessman, founder of Warburg Pincus.[108]
- Jack Rose, 92, British WWII fighter pilot and colonial administrator.[109]
- Carol Tomlinson-Keasey, 66, American psychologist, breast cancer.[110]
11
- Joan Martí i Alanis, 80, Spanish archbishop, Bishop of Urgell and co-Prince of Andorra (1971–2003).[111]
- Peter Callanan, 74, Irish politician, member of the Seanad (since 1997).[112]
- Patrick Hannan, 68, British broadcaster, author and journalist.[113]
- Gustav Kral, 26, Austrian footballer, car accident.[114]
- Abigail McLellan, 40, Scottish artist, multiple sclerosis.[115]
- Veronika Neugebauer, 40, German voice actress, colorectal cancer.[116]
- Alan Peters, 76, British furniture designer.[117]
- Halit Refiğ, 75, Turkish film director, cholangiocarcinoma.[118]
12
- Samy Abu Zaid, 30, Egyptian footballer, car accident.[119]
- Maurice Agis, 77, British sculptor.[120]
- Dietrich von Bothmer, 90, German-born American art historian, curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[121]
- Alberto Castagnetti, 66, Italian Olympic swimmer, complications from cardiac surgery.[122]
- Mildred Cohn, 96, American biochemist.[123]
- Mikheil Kalatozishvili, 50, Russian film director, script writer and producer, heart attack.[124]
- Donald Kaufman, 79, American toy car collector, heart attack.[125]
- Brendan Mullen, 60, American punk impresario and club owner (The Masque), stroke.[126]
- Stan Palk, 87, English footballer (Liverpool, Port Vale).[127]
- Dickie Peterson, 63, American rock singer (Blue Cheer), liver cancer.[128]
- Joe Rosen, 88, American Golden Age comic book letterer.[129]
- Frank Vandenbroucke, 34, Belgian cyclist, pulmonary embolism.[130]
- Ian Wallace, 90, British bass-baritone singer.[131]
13
- Stephen Barnett, 73, American legal scholar, opposed the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970, cardiac arrest.[132]
- Cullen Bryant, 58, American football player (Los Angeles Rams), natural causes.[133]
- Rodger Doxsey, 62, American physicist and astronomer, cancer.[134]
- Richard Foster, 63, American member of the Alaska House of Representatives, heart and kidney disease.[135]
- Eugene Maxwell Frank, 101, American bishop of The Methodist Church.[136]
- Atle Jebsen, 73, Norwegian shipowner and businessman, traffic collision.[137]
- William Wayne Justice, 89, American federal judge.[138]
- Lü Zhengcao, 104, Chinese general, last survivor of the original Shang Jiang.[139]
- Winston Mankunku Ngozi, 66, South African saxophonist[140]
- Al Martino, 82, American singer and actor (The Godfather), first person to top the UK Singles Chart.[141]
- Daniel Melnick, 77, American studio executive, film producer and television producer, lung cancer.[142]
- Paul Barbă Neagră, 80, Romanian film director and essayist.[143]
- Roger Nixon, 88, American composer, complications from leukemia.[144]
- Nan C. Robertson, 83, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author, heart disease.[145]
- Orane Simpson, 26, Jamaican football player, stabbed.[146]
- Richard T. Whitcomb, 88, American aeronautical engineer, pneumonia[147]
- Werner Zandt, 81, German Olympic sprinter.[148]
14
- Lou Albano, 76, American professional wrestler and manager, actor (The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!), heart attack.[149]
- Wilf K. Backhaus, 62, Canadian role-playing game designer.[150]
- Antônio do Carmo Cheuiche, 82, Brazilian Auxiliary Bishop of Santa Maria (1969–1971) and Porto Alegre (1971–2001).[151]
- Fred Cress, 71, British-born Australian artist, Archibald Prize winner (1988), pancreatic cancer.[152]
- Roy Lane, 74, British hillclimbing competitor, peritonitis.[153]
- C. B. Muthamma, 85, Indian first female diplomat and ambassador.[154]
- Willard Varnell Oliver, 88, American Navajo code talker.[155]
- Martyn Sanderson, 71, New Zealand actor (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring).[156]
- Bruce Wasserstein, 61, American investment banker and businessman, arrhythmia.[157]
- Collin Wilcox, 74, American actress (To Kill a Mockingbird), brain cancer.[158]
- Leo Williams, 68, Australian rugby union official.[159]
15
- George P. Jenkins, 94, American chairman of Metlife, assisted expansion of ABC and Pan Am, heart failure.[160]
- Josias Kumpf, 84, Austrian Nazi concentration camp guard.[161]
- Elizabeth Clare Prophet, 70, American New Age religious leader, co-founder of The Summit Lighthouse, Alzheimer's disease.[162]
- Tollak B. Sirnes, 86, Norwegian physician, psychiatrist and pharmacologist.[163]
- George Tuska, 93, American comic book artist (Iron Man, Captain Marvel, Teen Titans).[164]
- Heinz Versteeg, 70, Dutch football player, cancer.[165]
- Philip L. White, 86, American historian, cancer.[166]
16
- Bob Davis, 77, American politician, U.S. Representative for Michigan (1979–1993), heart and kidney failure.[167]
- Inglis Drever, 10, British hurdles racehorse, euthanised.[168]
- Jose Herrera, 67, Venezuelan baseball player.[169]
- Meilė Lukšienė, 96, Lithuanian cultural historian, member of the Sąjūdis.[170]
- Andrés Montes, 53, Spanish sports commentator.[171]
- Marian Przykucki, 85, Polish Roman Catholic Metropolitan Archbishop of Szczecin-Kamień (1992–1999).[172]
- John Ramsden, 61, British historian.[173]
17
- Dame Doreen Blumhardt, 95, New Zealand potter.[174]
- Carla Boni, 84, Italian singer.[175]
- Diana Elles, Baroness Elles, 88, British diplomat and politician.[176]
- Ian Hagemoen, 68, Canadian football player (death announced on this date).[177]
- Jay Johnson, 66, American U.S. Representative for Wisconsin (1997–1999), U.S. Mint Director (2000–2001), heart attack.[178]
- Vladimir Kashpur, 82, Russian film actor, People's Artist of Russia.[179]
- Kazuhiko Katō, 62, Japanese musician (The Folk Crusaders, Sadistic Mika Band), suicide by hanging.[180]
- Louisa Mark, 49, British lovers rock singer, complications from a stomach ulcer.[181]
- Norma Fox Mazer, 78, American author, brain cancer.[182]
- Vic Mizzy, 93, American composer (The Addams Family, Green Acres),[183]
- Rosanna Schiaffino, 69, Italian film actress, cancer.[184]
- Sheldon Segal, 83, American reproductive biologist.[185]
- Michael Shea, 71, British diplomat, press secretary to Queen Elizabeth II (1978–1987), dementia.[186]
- Brian Campbell Vickery, 91, British information scientist.[187]
18
- Ion Cojar, 78, Romanian actor and film director, Parkinson's disease.[188]
- Ruth Duckworth, 90, American sculptor.[189]
- Ha Bik Chuen, 83-84, Hong Kong painter.[190]
- Jasper Howard, 20, American football player, stabbed.[191]
- Lenore Kandel, 77, American poet, lung cancer.[192]
- Leonard B. Keller, 62, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient, motorcycle accident.[193]
- Sir Ludovic Kennedy, 89, British author and journalist, pneumonia.[194]
- Adriaan Kortlandt, 91, Dutch biologist.[195]
- Ovidiu Mușetescu, 54, Romanian politician, cancer.[196]
- Ignacio Ponseti, 95, Spanish physician and inventor (Ponseti method).[197]
- Nancy Spero, 83, American artist, heart failure.[198]
- Basie Vivier, 82, South African rugby union player, captain of the Springboks (1956).[199]
19
- Moni Fanan, 63, Israeli basketball team manager, suicide by hanging.[200]
- Werner Heubeck, 85, German-born British managing director of Ulsterbus and Citybus, cancer.[201]
- Joe Hutton Jr., 81, American basketball player, heart attack.[202]
- Sushila Kerketta, 71, Indian politician, heart attack.[203]
- Vladimír Klokočka, 80, Czech politician and jurist, signatory to Charter 77 manifesto.[204]
- Shlomo Lorincz, 91, Hungarian-born Israeli politician, heart failure.[205]
- Milun Marović, 62, Serbian Olympic basketball player.[206]
- Reg McKay, 56, British journalist and crime fiction writer, brain and lung cancer.[207]
- Angelo Musi, 91, American basketball player.[208]
- Nimma Raja Reddy, 72, Indian politician.[209]
- Alberto Testa, 82, Italian composer and lyricist.[210]
- Radu Timofte, 60, Romanian intelligence officer, director of the Serviciul Român de Informaţii (2001–2006), leukemia.[211]
- Howard Unruh, 88, American spree killer.[212]
- Joseph Wiseman, 91, Canadian actor (Dr. No).[213]
20
- Margaret Bisbrown, 90, British Olympic diver.[214]
- Yvonne Carter, 50, British general practitioner and medical academic, breast cancer.[215]
- Attila Dargay, 83, Hungarian animator.[216]
- Colin Douglas-Smith, 91, Australian Olympic rower.[217]
- Clifford Hansen, 97, American politician, Governor of Wyoming (1963–1967) and U.S. Senator (1967–1978).[218]
- Robert C. Lautman, 85, American architectural photographer.[219]
- Carl Fredrik Lowzow, 82, Norwegian politician.[220]
- Charles Mills, 88, American painter.[221]
- Doreen Reid Nakamarra, 54, Australian Aboriginal artist, pneumonia.[222]
- Jef Nys, 82, Belgian comic book artist (Jommeke).[223]
- Sultan Pepper, 47, American comedy writer, Emmy Award winner (The Ben Stiller Show).[224]
- Yuri Ryazanov, 22, Russian artistic gymnast, traffic collision.[225]
- Winai Senniam, 51, Thai parliamentarian, liver and colon cancer.[226]
21
- Andrey Balashov, 63, Russian Olympic silver (1976) and bronze (1980) medal-winning sailor.[227]
- Louise Cooper, 57, British novelist, aneurysm.[228]
- Lionel Davidson, 87, British novelist, lung cancer.[229]
- Clinton Ford, 77, British singer.[230]
- John Jarman, 78, Welsh football player (Barnsley, Walsall) and coach.[231]
- Iain Macphail, Lord Macphail, 71, British judge and legal scholar.[232]
- Paul Massey, 83, British Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) rower.[233]
- Yōko Minamida, 76, Japanese actress.[234]
- Jack Nelson, 80, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist (1960), pancreatic cancer.[235]
- Redmond O'Neill, 55, British political activist.[236]
- Sirone, 69, American jazz musician.[237]
- Ted Sizer, 77, American education reformer, colorectal cancer.[238]
- Giuliano Vassalli, 94, Italian politician.[239]
22
- Maryanne Amacher, 66, American experimental composer, sound artist, and installation artist, complications from a stroke.[240]
- Paul Andrews, 53, Australian politician, cancer.[241]
- Nicholas Atkin, 49, British historian, meningitis.[242]
- Daniel Bekker, 77, South African boxer, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases.[243]
- Ray B. Browne, 87, American educator, scholar of popular culture.[244]
- Pierre Chaunu, 86, French historian.[245]
- Howard Darwin, 78, Canadian sports promoter, founder of the Ottawa 67's, complications from heart surgery.[246]
- Luther Dixon, 78, American songwriter.[247]
- Evert Heinström, 97, Finnish Olympic athlete.[248]
- Ray Lambert, 87, Welsh footballer (Liverpool, Wales).[249]
- Don Lane, 75, American-born Australian entertainer, Alzheimer's disease.[250]
- Don Ivan Punchatz, 73, American science fiction artist, cardiac arrest.[251]
- Herman Reich, 91, American baseball player (Washington Senators, Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians).[252]
- Maciej Rybiński, 64, Polish journalist and publicist.[253]
- Soupy Sales, 83, American comedian and television host, cancer.[254]
- Enver Shehu, 75, Albanian football player and manager.[255]
- Suchart Chaovisith, 69, Thai politician, Finance Minister (2003–2004) and Deputy Prime Minister (2004), laryngeal cancer.[256]
- Libero Tresoldi, 88, Italian Roman Catholic Bishop of Crema.[257]
- Albert Watson, 91, English footballer (Huddersfield Town, Oldham Athletic).[258]
- Elmer Winter, 97, American founder of Manpower Inc.[259]
- George Patrick Ziemann, 68, American Roman Catholic Bishop of Santa Rosa.[260]
23
- Linda Day, 71, American television director, leukemia and breast cancer.[261]
- Trevor Denning, 86, British artist.[262]
- Suhrab Faqir, 75, Pakistani folk singer, kidney disease.[263]
- Chris Hawk, 58, American surfer, oral cancer.[264]
- Lou Jacobi, 95, Canadian-born American actor (The Diary of Anne Frank).[265]
- Ture Kailo, Vanuatuan politician and member of parliament.[266]
- John Kenley, 103, American summer theater producer, complications of pneumonia.[267]
- Ken Perkins, 83, British army general.[268]
- Jack Poole, 76, Canadian real estate developer, pancreatic cancer.[269]
- Ron Sobieszczyk, 75, American basketball player (DePaul Blue Demons, New York Knicks), degenerative brain disease.[270]
24
- Bill Chadwick, 94, American hockey official and broadcaster.[271]
- Yasuo Iwata, 67, Japanese actor, lung cancer.[272]
- Norman Levitt, 66, American mathematician.[273]
- Karl Reisinger, 73, Austrian Olympic judoka.[274]
25
- Yoshiteru Abe, 68, Japanese professional Go player.[275]
- Dee Anthony, 83, American music manager, pneumonia.[276]
- Maksharip Aushev, 43, Russian political activist and opposition leader in Ingushetia, businessman (Ingushetia.org), shot.[277]
- Adoor Bhavani, 82, Indian actress.[278]
- Billy Bibit, 59, Filipino soldier and coup d'état leader, complications from a stroke.[279]
- Camillo Cibin, 83, Italian former commander of the Corps of Gendarmerie of Vatican City.[280]
- Fritz Darges, 96, German World War II Waffen-SS officer.[281]
- Seymour Fromer, 87, American founder of Judah L. Magnes Museum.[282]
- Leslie A. Geddes, 88, American electrical engineer and physiologist.[283]
- Lawrence Halprin, 93, American architect (Ghirardelli Square, Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial).[284]
- Gerhard Knoop, 88, Norwegian theatre director.[285]
- Chittaranjan Kolhatkar, 86, Indian actor, heart attack.[286]
- S. Ashok Kumar, 62, Indian jurist.[287]
- René Marigil, 81, Spanish cyclist.[288]
- Mike McQueen, 52, American journalist, Associated Press bureau chief for Louisiana and Mississippi, cancer.[289]
- Ingeborg Mello, 90, Argentinian Olympic athlete.[290]
- Heinz-Klaus Metzger, 77, German music critic.[291]
- Lázaro Pérez Jiménez, 66, Mexican Roman Catholic Bishop of Celaya.[292]
- Alexander Piatigorsky, 80, Russian-born British philosopher.[293]
- Jeffry Picower, 67, American philanthropist, associate of Bernard Madoff, drowned after heart attack.[294]
- Kamala Sankrityayan, 89, Indian writer and litterateur.[295]
- Tangi Satyanarayana, 78, Indian politician, speaker of the Vidhan Sabha of Andhra Pradesh (1983–1985).[296]
- Thea Segall, 80, Romanian photographer who lived in Venezuela since 1958 until her death.[297]
- Kevin Widemond, 23, American basketball player, heart attack.[298]
26
- Daniel Acharuparambil, 70, Indian Roman Catholic archbishop of Verapoly (since 1996), kidney failure.[299]
- Teel Bivins, 61, American member of the Texas Senate (1989–2004), Ambassador to Sweden (2004–2006).[300]
- Sabino Fernández Campo, 1st Count of Latores, 91, Spanish Chief of the Royal House, key figure in failed 23-F coup d'état.[301]
- Lea Fite, 54, American politician, member of the Alabama House of Representatives (since 2002), apparent seizure.[302]
- Bill Kirk, 75, American baseball player.[303]
- Fred McCarthy, 91, American cartoonist.[304]
- Yoshirō Muraki, 85, Japanese film production designer and art director, heart failure.[305]
- George Naʻope, 81, American musician and hula expert, founder of the Merrie Monarch Festival, cancer.[306]
- Troy Smith, 87, American businessman, founder of Sonic Drive-In chain, natural causes.[307]
27
- Tapani Aartomaa, 75, Finnish professor and graphic designer.[308]
- Frank Brady Jr., 64, Irish footballer (Shamrock Rovers), cancer.[309]
- John David Carson, 57, American actor (Falcon Crest).[310]
- August Coppola, 75, American writer, literature professor and father of Nicolas Cage, heart attack.[311]
- Roy DeCarava, 89, American photographer.[312]
- Alex Harris, 34, Australian paralympian swimmer, gold medalist (2004), suicide by train.[313]
- David Shepherd, 68, British cricketer and umpire, lung cancer.[314]
- Paul Zamecnik, 96, American molecular biologist.[315]
28
- Olga Kevelos, 85, British motorcycle trials rider.[316]
- Leslie King, 59, Trinidadian Olympic cyclist.[317]
- Paul Manz, 90, American Lutheran organist and composer.[318]
- Taylor Mitchell, 19, Canadian singer–songwriter, coyote attack.[319]
- Jerry Morris, 99, British epidemiologist.[320]
- Ted Nebbeling, 65, Dutch-born Canadian politician, British Columbia MLA (1996–2005), Mayor of Whistler, colon cancer.[321]
29
- Russell L. Ackoff, 90, American organizational theorist, complications from surgery.[322]
- Bei Shizhang, 106, Chinese biologist and educator.[323]
- Jean-François Bergier, 77, Swiss historian.[324]
- Jan Gąsienica Ciaptak, 86, Polish Olympic skier.[325]
- Charles E. Conrad, 84, American acting coach, kidney failure.[326]
- San'yūtei Enraku V, 76, Japanese comedian (Shōten), lung cancer.[327]
- Gino Fracas, 79, Canadian football player.[328]
- Olav Hodne, 88, Norwegian missionary.[329]
- June Maule, 92, American businesswoman, owner of Maule Air.[330]
- John O'Quinn, 68, American lawyer, traffic collision.[331]
- Norman Painting, 85, British radio actor (The Archers), heart failure.[332]
- Jürgen Rieger, 63, German lawyer and politician (NPD), stroke.[333]
- Beat Rüedi, 89, Swiss Olympic bronze medal-winning (1948) ice hockey player.[334]
- Alexander Schure, 89, American academic, founder of NYIT, Chancellor of NSU (1970–1985), Alzheimer's disease.[335]
- Dave Treen, 81, American politician, Governor of Louisiana (1980–1984), respiratory disease.[336]
30
- Juvenal Amarijo, 85, Brazilian football player, respiratory failure.[337]
- Norton Buffalo, 58, American singer-songwriter, blues harmonica player (Steve Miller Band), lung cancer.[338]
- Ramata Diakité, 32–33, Malian Wassoulou musician, hepatitis A.[339]
- Forest Evashevski, 91, American football coach (Iowa Hawkeyes), cancer.[340]
- Claude Lévi-Strauss, 100, French anthropologist and author.[341]
- Michelle Triola Marvin, 76, American plaintiff in landmark 'palimony' lawsuit (Marvin v. Marvin), lung cancer.[342]
- June Middleton, 83, Australian with polio, world's longest survivor in an iron lung.[343]
- Alick Rowe, 70, British television and radio writer, heart attack.[344]
- Howie Schultz, 87, American baseball and basketball player, cancer.[345]
- František Veselý, 65, Czech football player.[346]
- Igor Vyazmikin, 43, Russian ice hockey player.[347]
- Eugenia A. Wordsworth-Stevenson, Liberian diplomat.[348]
31
- Roque Antonio Adames Rodríguez, 81, Dominican Roman Catholic Bishop of Santiago de los Caballeros.[349]
- Tim Bickerstaff, 67, New Zealand radio personality.[350]
- Chen Lin, 39, Chinese pop singer, suicide by jumping.[351]
- Hugh Dinwiddy, 97, British cricketer.[352]
- Stanley Ellis, 83, British linguistics scholar.[353]
- Harry Gauss, 57, Canadian soccer coach, brain cancer.[354]
- Pat Keysell, 83, British television presenter.[355]
- Lee Hu-rak, 85, South Korean spy chief, Director of the National Intelligence Service (1970–1973), brain tumor.[356]
- Mustafa Mahmoud, 87, Egyptian scientist, author and philosopher.[357]
- John Mason, 89, British historian and librarian.[358]
- Qian Xuesen, 97, Chinese scientist and co-founder of the JPL.[359]
- Steve Reid, 94, American football player (Northwestern Wildcats).[360]
- Neguinho do Samba, 54, Brazilian percussionist, founder of Olodum, heart failure.[361]
- Jan Wejchert, 59, Polish businessman and media mogul, co-founder of ITI Group, co-owner of TVN, heart attack.[362]
- Tom Wheatcroft, 87, British businessman, owner of Donington Park race circuit.[363]
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Every time you click a link to Wikipedia, Wiktionary or Wikiquote in your browser's search results, it will show the modern Wikiwand interface.
Wikiwand extension is a five stars, simple, with minimum permission required to keep your browsing private, safe and transparent.
