The following is a list of notabledeaths in May 2011.

Entries for each day are listedalphabetically 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.

• Alex, 52, Indian actor and magician, brief illness.^[1]
• Spyrydon Babskyi, 52, Ukrainian Orthodox hierarch, Archbishop ofVinnytsia inUOC-KP (1992–1993).^[2]
• Schalk Booysen, 83, South African Olympic sprinter.^[3]
• Sir Henry Cooper, 76, British Olympic heavyweight boxer.^[4]
• Brian Evans, 74, Welsh cricketer (Glamorgan).^[5]
• Kim Jun-bong, 58, South Korean taxi driver, suicide by crucifixion.^[6]
• Agustín García-Gasco Vicente, 80, Spanish Roman Catholic cardinal,Archbishop of Valencia (1992–2009), cardiac arrest.^[7]
• Moshe Landau, 99, Israeli jurist,Chief Justice (1980–1982), presided overAdolf Eichmann's trial (1961).^[8]
• Ted Lowe, 90, British snooker commentator.^[9]
• Steven Orszag, 68, American mathematician, chronic lymphocytic leukemia.^[10]
• Anny Rüegg, 98-99, Swiss alpine skier.^[11]
• Ivan Slavkov, 70, Bulgarian sports official.^[12]
• William O. Taylor II, 78, American journalist and publisher (The Boston Globe), brain tumor.^[13]
• J. Ernest Wilkins Jr., 87, American mathematician and nuclear scientist.^[14]

• Leonid Abalkin, 80, Russian economist.^[15]
• Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, 46, KuwaitiAl-Qaeda computer expert,shot.^[16]
• L.V. Banks, 78, American guitarist, singer and songwriter, heart failure.^[17]
• Ion Barbu, 72, Romanian football player.^[18]
• Robert W. Clower, 85, American economist.^[19]
• Lloyd Colteryahn, 79, American football player (Baltimore Colts).^[20]
• Sir Basil Hall, 93, British lawyer and civil servant,Treasury Solicitor (1975–1980).^[21]
• Danny Kassap, 28, Congolese-born Canadian long-distance runner.^[22]
• Osama bin Laden, 54, Saudi founder ofAl-Qaeda, plannedSeptember 11 attacks,shot.^[23]
• Alexander Lazarev, 73, Russian actor.^[24]
• Eddie Lewis, 76, English footballer (Manchester United,West Ham United), cancer.^[25]
• Owen Roe McGovern, 93, Irish Gaelic football player.^[26]
• Lyuben Obretenov, 92, Bulgarian Olympic gymnast.^[27]
• René Emilio Ponce, 64, Salvadoran general and defence minister, army chief of staff during theCivil War.^[28]
• David Sencer, 86, American public health official, director ofCenters for Disease Control and Prevention (1966–1977), heart disease.^[29]
• Shigeo Yaegashi, 78, Japanese footballer.^[30]

• Paul Ackerley, 61, New Zealand hockey player and coach, skin cancer.^[31]
• Frédéric Affo, 68, Beninese politician and football executive.^[32]
• Robert Marshall Anderson, 77, American bishop, pancreatic cancer.^[33]
• Victor Auer, 74, American Olympic silver medal-winning (1972) sports shooter.^[34]
• Bob Balog, 86, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers).^[35]
• Robert Brout, 82, American-born Belgian theoretical physicist.^[36]
• Odell Brown, 70, American jazz organist and songwriter ("Sexual Healing").^[37]
• Jackie Cooper, 88, American actor (Skippy,Our Gang,Superman).^[38]
• C. Rollins Hanlon, 96, American cardiac surgeon, lymphoma.^[39]
• Richie Hubbard, 78, Canadian politician.^[40]
• Sergo Kotrikadze, 74, Georgian football player and coach, heart attack.^[41]
• Abdulla Kurd, 34, Turkish Kurdish Islamist militant.^[42]
• Mildred Robbins Leet, 88, American philanthropist, co-founder ofTrickle Up, complications of a fall.^[43]
• Larry McCormick, 71, Canadian politician,Member of Parliament forHastings—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington (1993–2004).^[44]
• Marianna Nagy, 82, Hungarian pair skater.^[45]
• Patrick Roy, 53, French politician, pancreatic cancer.^[46]
• Peter Urbach, 71, German Cold War informant.^[47]
• Thanasis Veggos, 83, Greek actor, stroke.^[48]
• Armand Van Wambeke, 84, Belgian Olympic basketball player.^[49]
• Des Williams, 83, South African Olympic boxer.^[50]

• James Beggs, 87, American Olympic rower.^[51]
• Lázaro Blanco, 73, Mexican photographer, cancer.^[52]
• Maurice Carpentier, 89, French cyclist.^[53]
• Frans de Kok, 87, Dutch conductor.^[54]
• Oliver Elmes, 76, British graphic designer (Doctor Who).^[55]
• Jacques Georges Habib Hafouri, 94, SyrianCatholic hierarch, Archbishop of Hassaké-Nisibi (1982–1996).^[56]
• Sammy McCrory, 86, Northern Irish footballer.^[57]
• Ronald H. Miller, 73, American professor of religion.^[58]
• Mary Murphy, 80, American actress (The Wild One).^[59]
• Thomas G. Nelson, 74, American federal judge, complications from declining health.^[60]
• Françoise Olivier-Coupeau, 51, French politician, cancer.^[61]
• Emil Reinecke, 78, German cyclist.^[62]
• Acacio Valbuena Rodríguez, 88, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Prefect forWestern Sahara (1994–2009).^[63]
• Frans Sammut, 66, Maltese writer, natural causes.^[64]
• Bernard Stasi, 80, French politician,Minister for Overseas Departments and Territories (1973–1974), Alzheimer's disease.^[65]
• Richard Steinheimer, 81, American railroad photographer, Alzheimer's disease.^[66]
• Sada Thompson, 83, American actress (Family), lung disease.^[67]

• Leslie Audus, 99, British botany professor (University of London), expert on plant growth hormones.^[68]
• Alice Bridges, 94, American Olympic bronze medal-winning (1936) swimmer.^[69]
• Nikolay Chuchalov, 78, Soviet Olympic wrestler.^[70]
• Claude Choules, 110, British-born Australian veteran, last combat veteran of World War I.^[71]
• Donald Crump, 78, Canadian commissioner of theCanadian Football League (1990–1991).^[72]
• Salomón Hakim, 81, Colombian neurosurgeon, researcher and inventor.^[73]
• Al Johnson, 88, American football player and coach.^[74]
• Arthur Laurents, 93, American playwright, librettist, stage director, and screenwriter (Anastasia,Rope,West Side Story).^[75]
• Dougie McCracken, 46, Scottish football player (Ayr United), suspected suicide.^[76]
• Yosef Merimovich, 86, Israeli football player and manager.^[77]
• Rolo Puente, 71, Argentine actor, pulmonary emphysema.^[78]
• Friedrich Rückert, 90, Austrian Olympic hockey player.^[79]
• Tommy Wright, 83, Scottish footballer.^[80]
• Dana Wynter, 79, German-born British actress (Invasion of the Body Snatchers,Airport,The Man Who Never Was), heart failure.^[81]

• Barry Connolly, 72, Australian football player.^[82]
• Oniroku Dan, 80, Japanese author, esophageal cancer.^[83]
• Sir Geoffrey Dhenin, 93, British air marshal.^[84]
• Bill Hopkins, 83, Welsh writer.^[85]
• Horace Freeland Judson, 80, American science historian (The Great Betrayal: Fraud In Science), complications of a stroke.^[86]
• Antanas Krištopaitis, 89, Lithuanian painter.^[87]
• Kazi Nuruzzaman, 86, Bangladeshi veteran of theLiberation War, natural causes.^[88]
• Duane Pillette, 88, American baseball player (New York Yankees,Philadelphia Phillies).^[89]
• Dick Walsh, 85, American baseball executive, first commissioner of theNorth American Soccer League.^[90]
• Yoon Ki-won, 24, South Korean football player, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.^[91]

• Johnny Albino, 93, Puerto Rican bolero singer, heart attack.^[92]
• Seve Ballesteros, 54, Spanish golfer, brain cancer.^[93]
• Big George, 53, British broadcaster and music arranger.^[94]
• Willard Boyle, 86, Canadian physicist,Nobel laureate (2009).^[95]
• Shaukat Galiev, 82, Soviet Tatar poet and writer of children's books.^[96]
• Jack Gordon, 66, American politician, member of theMississippi House of Representatives (1972–1980),State Senator (1980–1992; 1996–2011), brain cancer.^[97]
• Ross Hagen, 72, American actor (Daktari,Speedway).^[98]
• Allyson Hennessy, 63, Trinidadian broadcaster.^[99]
• Eilert Määttä, 75, Swedish ice hockey player and coach.^[100]
• Milan Mišík, 82, Slovak geologist.^[101]
• Gunter Sachs, 78, German photographer, author and multi-millionaire industrialist, suicide by gunshot.^[102]
• Robert Stempel, 77, American automobile executive, chairman and CEO ofGeneral Motors (1990–1992).^[103]
• Kate Swift, 87, American writer, stomach cancer.^[104]
• John Walker, 67, American musician (The Walker Brothers), liver cancer.^[105]
• Doric Wilson, 72, American playwright and gay activist.^[106]

• Huthaifa al-Batawi, Iraqial-Qaeda leader, shot.^[107]
• Wallace Clark, 84, Northern Irish maritime writer.^[108]
• Cornell Dupree, 68, American jazz and R&B guitarist, complications from emphysema.^[109]
• George Guțiu, 87, RomanianCatholic hierarch, Archbishop ofCluj-Gherla (1994–2002).^[110]
• Corwin Hansch, 92, American chemist, pneumonia.^[111]
• Li Desheng, 95, ChinesePeople's Liberation Army general.^[112]
• Charles McPhee, 49, American radio host,amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.^[113]
• Greg Percival, 86, Australian politician, member of theNew South Wales Legislative Council (1977–1978; 1986–1988).^[114]
• Soňa Pertlová, 23, Czech chessplayer, cancer.^[115]
• Lionel Rose, 62, Australian world champion boxer.^[116]
• Hilton Rosemarin, 58, Canadian set decorator (Three Men and a Baby,Cocktail,Jumper), brain cancer.^[117]
• Carlos Trillo, 68, Argentine comic book writer (Cybersix).^[118]
• Galina Urbanovich, 93, Russian Olympic gold and silver medal-winning (1952) gymnast.^[119]
• Arkady Vaksberg, 83, Soviet and Russian lawyer, author, film maker and playwright.^[120]
• Sir Ronald Waterhouse, 85, British jurist.^[121]

• George Allen, 87, American ichthyologist and fisheries scientist.^[122]
• William Y. Anderson, 89, Swedish-born American fighter pilot.^[123]
• David Cairns, 44, British politician,MP forGreenock and Inverclyde (2001–2005) andInverclyde (since 2005), acute pancreatitis.^[124]
• Robert Ellsworth, 84, American politician and diplomat,Representative fromKansas (1961–1967),Ambassador to NATO (1969–1971), complications from pneumonia.^[125]
• Epiphanios of Vryoula, 76, AmericanGreek Orthodox Archbishop of Spain and Portugal.^[126]
• Henry Feffer, 93, American professor and spine surgeon, treatedSaddam Hussein, heart failure.^[127]
• Dolores Fuller, 88, American actress (Glen or Glenda), and songwriter ("Rock-A-Hula Baby").^[128]
• Jeff Gralnick, 72, American television news producer.^[129]
• Lidia Gueiler Tejada, 89, Bolivian politician, actingPresident (1979–1980), after a long illness.^[130]
• Wadel Abdelkader Kamougué, 71–72, Chadian politician and military officer,Vice President of Chad (1979–1982),President of the National Assembly of Chad (1997–2002).^[131]
• Doug Leeds, 63, American executive, vice-chairman of American Theatre Wing, cancer.^[132]
• Ivo Pešák, 66, Czech singer, dancer and comic performer.^[133]
• Roland Spångberg, 88, Swedish Olympic water polo player.^[134]
• Newton Thornburg, 81, American novelist.^[135]
• Shailendra Kumar Upadhyay, 82, Nepali politician,Foreign Minister (1986–1990), altitude sickness.^[136]
• Wouter Weylandt, 26, Belgianroad bicycle racer,race crash.^[137]

• Omar Ahmad, 46, American entrepreneur (Napster) and politician, Mayor ofSan Carlos, California (2010–2011), heart attack.^[138]
• Michael Baze, 24, American jockey, accidental drug overdose.^[139]
• Bill Bergesch, 89, American baseball executive (Kansas City Athletics,New York Yankees,Cincinnati Reds).^[140]
• Frank Boston, 72, American politician, member of theMaryland House of Delegates (1987–1999).^[141]
• John S. Carter, 65, American music producer, cancer.^[142]
• Bill Gallo, 88, American cartoonist and newspaper columnist, complications from pneumonia.^[143]
• Patrick Galvin, 83, Irish writer.^[144]
• Zim Ngqawana, 51, South African jazz saxophonist, stroke.^[145]
• Burt Reinhardt, 91, American broadcast executive, President ofCNN (1982–1990), complications from strokes.^[146]
• David Weston, 75, British artist.^[147]
• Norma Zimmer, 87, American entertainer (The Lawrence Welk Show).^[148]

• Clark Accord, 50, Surinamese–Dutch author and makeup artist, stomach cancer.^[149]
• Maurice Goldhaber, 100, American physicist.^[150]
• Leo Kahn, 94, American entrepreneur, co-founder ofStaples, complications from a series of strokes.^[151]
• Albert Obiefuna, 81, Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop ofOnitsha (1995–2003).^[152]
• Leo Passage, 75, Dutch-born American hairstylist.^[153]
• Reach Sambath, 47, Cambodian journalist, stroke.^[154]
• Elisabeth Svendsen, 81, British hotelier and animal welfare campaigner, founder ofThe Donkey Sanctuary.^[155]
• Robert Traylor, 34, American basketball player (Milwaukee Bucks,Cleveland Cavaliers,New Orleans Hornets), suspected heart attack.^[156]
• Glyn Williams, 92, Welsh footballer.^[157]
• Snooky Young, 92, American jazz trumpeter, complications of a lung ailment.^[158]

• Chen Muhua, 90, Chinese politician.^[159]
• Harrison Chongo, 41, Zambian football player, malaria.^[160]
• Matej Čurko, 42–43, Slovak murderer, cannibal and suspected serial killer, complications from gunshot wounds.^[161]
• Charles F. Haas, 97, American television director (Bonanza,The Outer Limits,The Man from U.N.C.L.E.).^[162]
• Mose Jefferson, 68, American businessman, cancer.^[163]
• Jack Jones, 86, AmericanPulitzer Prize-winning reporter (Los Angeles Times), lung disease.^[164]
• Lloyd Knibb, 80, Jamaican drummer (The Skatalites), liver cancer.^[165]
• Noreen Murray, 76, British geneticist.^[166]
• David Orton, 77, Canadian environmentalist, pancreatic cancer.^[167]
• Carlos Pascual, 80, Cuban baseball player (Washington Senators).^[168]
• Luigi del Gallo Roccagiovine, 88, Italian nobleman and Roman Catholic prelate, Titular Bishop of Camplum (since 1982).^[169]
• Ron Springs, 54, American football player (Dallas Cowboys,Tampa Bay Buccaneers), complications from surgery.^[170]
• Bill Summers, 75, American car builder (Goldenrod).^[171]
• Miyu Uehara, 24, Japanese glamour model, apparent suicide by hanging.^[172]
• Jack Wolf, 76, American information theorist, cancer.^[173]

• Derek Boogaard, 28, Canadian hockey player (Minnesota Wild,New York Rangers), accidental overdose of alcohol and oxycodone.^[174]
• Stephen De Staebler, 78, American sculptor and printmaker, complications from cancer.^[175]
• Chit Estella, 53, Filipino journalist and professor, traffic collision.^[176]
• Pam Gems, 85, British playwright.^[177]
• Bernard Greenhouse, 95, American cellist.^[178]
• Bob Litherland, 80, British politician, MP forManchester Central (1979–1997), cancer.^[179]
• Princess Maria Elisabeth of Bavaria, 96, German noblewoman.^[180]
• Wallace McCain, 81, Canadian businessman, co-founder ofMcCain Foods, pancreatic cancer.^[181]
• Mel Queen, 69, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds,Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim) and pitching coach (Blue Jays).^[182]
• Jack Richardson, 81, Canadian record producer (The Guess Who).^[183]
• Bruce Ricker, 68, American film documentarian and producer (Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser).^[184]
• Badal Sarkar, 85, Indian dramatist, colon cancer.^[185]

• Ferial Alibali, 78, Albanian actress.^[186]
• James Richard Cheek, 74, American diplomat,Ambassador to Sudan (1989–1992) andArgentina (1993–1996).^[187]
• Murray Handwerker, 89, American businessman (Nathan's Famous).^[188]
• Teuvo Laukkanen, 91, Finnish Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) cross-country skier.^[189]
• Michael Onslow, 7th Earl of Onslow, 73, British politician.^[190]
• Nicholas V. Riasanovsky, 87, Chinese-born American historian and author.^[191]
• Birgitta Trotzig, 81, Swedish author.^[192]
• Ernie Walker, 82, Scottish football administrator.^[193]
• Joseph Wershba, 90, American television producer and reporter.^[194]

• Gunnar Alksnis, 79, Latvian-American philosopher and theologian.^[195]
• Maico Buncio, 22, Filipino motorcycle racer, race crash.^[196]
• Donald Christian, 52, Antiguan Olympic cyclist.^[197]
• John Feikens, 93, American senior (former chief) judge of the District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, after long illness.^[198]
• Bob Flanigan, 84, American singer (The Four Freshmen) and musician.^[199]
• Pete Lovely, 85, American racecar driver.^[200]
• William Pennington, 88, American casino executive (Circus Circus Enterprises), Parkinson's disease.^[201]
• Anjuman Shehzadi, 33, Pakistani sage actress.^[202]
• Mahendra Singh Tikait, 76, Indian farming union leader, bone cancer.^[203]
• Samuel Wanjiru, 24, Kenyan Olympic gold medal-winning (2008) marathon runner, fall from balcony.^[204]
• Martin Woodhouse, 78, British novelist, screenwriter and inventor.^[205]

• Ralph Barker, 93, British air gunner and writer.^[206]
• Robert Berks, 89, American sculptor, industrial designer and planner.^[207]
• Douglas Blubaugh, 76, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1960) wrestler, motorcycle accident.^[208]
• Serghei Covaliov, 66, Romanian Olympic gold (1968) and silver (1972) medal-winning canoeist.^[209]
• Bob Davis, 82, Australianfootball player.^[210]
• Nathaniel Davis, 86, American diplomat, cancer.^[211]
• Edward Hardwicke, 78, British actor (Sherlock Holmes).^[212]
• Kiyoshi Kodama, 77, Japanese actor, stomach cancer.
• Bill Skiles, 79, American comedian (Skiles and Henderson), kidney cancer.^[213]

• Sean Dunphy, 73, Irish entertainer.^[214]
• Joseph Galibardy, 96, Indian Olympic gold medal-winning (1936) field hockey player.^[215]
• James M. Hewgley Jr., 94, American politician,Mayor of Tulsa, Oklahoma (1966–1970).^[216]
• Harmon Killebrew, 74, AmericanHall of Fame baseball player (Minnesota Twins,Kansas City Royals), esophageal cancer.^[217]
• Tomás Mac Anna, 84, Irish director and actor.^[218]
• Frank Upton, 76, English footballer (Derby County,Chelsea), after short illness.^[219]

• Seiseki Abe, 96, Japanese shodo and aikido teacher.^[220]
• Marcel De Mulder, 83, Belgian cyclist.^[221]
• Edward H. Harte, 88, American newspaper executive (Harte-Hanks).^[222]
• Leonard Kastle, 82, American composer and filmmaker (The Honeymoon Killers).^[223]
• Wlodzimierz Ksiazek, 60, Polish-born American painter.^[224] (body found on this date)
• Włada Majewska, 100, Polish radio journalist, actress and singer.^[225]
• Hans Sterr, 77, German Olympic wrestler.^[226]
• Antoinette Tubman, 97, Liberian socialite, First Lady (1948–1971).^[227]
• Dick Wimmer, 74, American author, heart complications.^[228]

• Phyllis Avery, 88, American actress, heart failure.^[229]
• Don H. Barden, 67, American businessman, lung cancer.^[230]
• Garret FitzGerald, 85, Irish politician,Taoiseach (1981–1982, 1982–1987),Minister for Foreign Affairs (1973–1977), pneumonia.^[231]
• Ivan Gibbs, 83, Australian politician,QueenslandMLA forAlbert (1974–1989), cancer.^[232]
• Jeffrey Catherine Jones, 67, American transgender artist.^[233]
• David H. Kelley, 87, American-born Canadian archaeologist.^[234]
• Kathy Kirby, 72, British singer, heart attack.^[235]
• William Kloefkorn, 78, American poet.^[236]
• Alda Noni, 95, Italiancoloratura soprano.^[237]
• Vladimir Ryzhkin, 80, Russian Olympic gold medal-winning (1956) footballer.^[238]
• Tom West, 71, American computer hardware engineer, heart attack.^[239]

• Michael Bell, 74, Irish politician,Teachta Dála forLouth (1982–2002).^[240]
• John Cigna, 75, American radio personality (KDKA).^[241]
• William Elliott, Baron Elliott of Morpeth, 90, British politician,MP forNewcastle upon Tyne North (1957–1983).^[242]
• Arieh Handler, 95, Israeli Zionist leader.^[243]
• Eduard Janota, 59, Czech politician,Finance Minister (2009–2010), cardiac arrest.^[244]
• Donald Krim, 65, American businessman, president ofKino International, cancer.^[245]
• Ciril Pelhan, 89, Yugoslav Olympic swimmer.^[246]
• Joaquín Pérez, 75, Mexican Olympic double bronze medal-winning (1980) equestrian.^[247]
• Steve Rutt, 66, American inventor of early video animation, pancreatic cancer.^[248]
• Randy Savage, 58, American professional wrestler (WWF,WCW) and actor (Spider-Man), heart attack.^[249]

• John Delaney, 42, Irish businessman (Intrade).^[250]
• Irene Gilbert, 76, American actress and school director, co-founder ofStella Adler Academy of Los Angeles, Alzheimer's disease.^[251]
• David J. Hudson, 67, American sound mixer (Beauty and the Beast,The Terminator,The Lion King).^[252]
• Bill Hunter, 71, Australian actor (Muriel's Wedding), liver cancer.^[253]
• Pádraig Kennelly, 82, Irish website, editor and journalist, founder ofKerry's Eye.^[254]
• Dieter Klöcker, 75, German clarinetist.^[255]
• Gordon McLennan, 87, British politician, General Secretary of theCommunist Party (1975–1990), cancer.^[256]
• Hiroyuki Nagato, 77, Japanese actor, cerebrovascular disease.^[257]
• Jim Pyburn, 78, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles), after long illness.^[258]
• Bill Rechin, 80, American cartoonist (Crock), complications from esophageal cancer.^[259]
• William White, 98, British sports shooter.^[260]

• Stanislav Batishchev, 70, Soviet Ukrainian weightlifter.^[261]
• Joseph Brooks, 73, American Grammy-winning songwriter ("You Light Up My Life"), suicide by asphyxiation.^[262]
• Joëlle Brupbacher, 32, Swiss mountaineer,acute mountain sickness.^[263]
• Chidananda Dasgupta, 89, Indian film critic.^[264]
• Bill Eaton, 79, Australian politician, member of theQueensland Legislative Assembly forMourilyan (1980–1994).^[265]
• Alexandru Ene, 82, Romanian football player.^[266]
• Matej Ferjan, 34, Slovenian motorcycle speedway rider.^[267]
• Bob Gould, 74, Australian activist and bookseller.^[268]
• Ralph Hunt, 83, Australian politician,MP forGwydir (1969–1989).^[269]
• Suzanne Mizzi, 43, British glamour model and interior designer, cancer.^[270]
• Ronald Naar, 56, Dutch mountaineer.^[271]
• Breon O'Casey, 83, British artist.^[272]
• Govind Chandra Pande, 87, Indian historian.^[273]
• Walter Soboleff, 102, AmericanTlingit scholar and spiritual leader, firstNative AlaskanPrebysterian minister, bone and prostate cancer.^[274]
• Joe Steffy, 85, American college football player (Army), 1947Outland Trophy winner.^[275]
• George Henry Strohsahl, Jr., 73, American naval officer and former commander of the Pacific Missile Test Center.^[276]

• Sam Faust, 26, Australian rugby league player, leukemia.^[277]
• Michele Fawdon, 63, British-born Australian actress (Cathy's Child), cancer.^[278]
• Peter Frelinghuysen Jr., 95, American politician,U.S. Representative fromNew Jersey (1953–1975).^[279]
• Nasser Hejazi, 61, Iranian football player and manager, cancer.^[280]
• Pilu Momtaz, 52, Bangladeshi pop singer.^[281]
• Abdias do Nascimento, 97, Brazilian activist and politician.^[282]
• Joseph Nguyễn Tích Đức, 73, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop ofBan Me Thuot (2000–2006).^[283]
• Karel Otčenášek, 91, Czech Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop ofHradec Králové (1989–1998).^[284]
• Frank S. Petersen, 88, American jurist and politician.^[285]
• Harry Redmond Jr., 101, American special effects artist and producer (King Kong), natural causes.^[286]
• Alejandro Roces, 86, Filipino writer and government official,Secretary of Education (1961–1965).^[287]
• Roberto Sosa, 81, Honduran poet, heart attack.^{[citation needed]}
• John Templeton-Cotill, 90, British admiral.^[288]
• Xavier Tondo, 32, Spanish cyclist, crushed by car.^[289]

• Huguette Clark, 104, American heiress.^[290]
• José Cláudio da Silva, 54, Brazilian Amazon environmentalist and conservationist, shot.^[291]
• Arthur Goldreich, 82, South African-born Israeli political activist.^[292]
• Mark Haines, 65, American television anchor (CNBC).^[293]
• Glyn Hughes, 75, English poet, novelist and artist, cancer.^[294]
• Imre Nagy, 70, Canadian Olympic fencer.^[295]
• Fănuș Neagu, 79, Romanian novelist, journalist, and short story writer.^[296]
• Edward Plunkett, 20th Baron of Dunsany, 71, Irish artist.^[297]
• Barry Potomski, 38, Canadian ice hockey player (Los Angeles Kings).^[298]
• Sir Blair Stewart-Wilson, 81, British courtier.^[299]
• Paul Winslow, 82, South African cricketer.^[300]
• Stephen K. Yamashiro, 69, American politician,Mayor of Hawaii County (1992–2000), pneumonia.^[301]
• Hakim Ali Zardari, 81, Pakistani politician, father ofAsif Ali Zardari, after long illness.^[302]

• Lillian Adams, 89, American actress (Private Benjamin,The Suite Life on Deck,Bruce Almighty).^[303]
• Maurice E. Baringer, 89, American educator and politician.^[304]
• Nina Leopold Bradley, 93, American conservationist.^[305]
• Leonora Carrington, 94, British-born Mexican painter and novelist.^[306]
• Luigi Diligenza, 90, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop ofCapua (1978–1997).^[307]
• Roger Gautier, 88, French Olympic silver medal-winning (1952) rower.^[308]
• Edwin Honig, 91, American poet and translator, Alzheimer's disease.^[309]
• Terry Jenner, 66, Australian Test cricketer and coach.^[310]
• Miroslav Opsenica, 29, Serbian footballer, car accident.^[311]
• Gene Smith, 94, American baseball player (Negro leagues).^[312]
• Paul Splittorff, 64, American baseball player and broadcaster (Kansas City Royals), complications from melanoma.^[313]
• Dimitrios Taliadoros, 85-86, Greek Olympic basketball player.^[314]
• Yannis Varveris, 56, Greek poet, critic and translator, cardiac arrest.^[315]
• Paul J. Wiedorfer, 90, American soldier,Medal of Honor recipient.^[316]
• Edward Żentara, 55, Polish actor.^[317]

• Arisen Ahubudu, 91, Sri Lankan scholar, author and playwright.^[318]
• Flick Colby, 65, American dancer and choreographer (Pan's People), bronchial pneumonia.^[319]
• George Heron, 92, American tribal leader, President of theSeneca Nation of New York (1958–1960; 1962–1964).^[320]
• Irwin D. Mandel, 89, American dental scientist in preventative dentistry.^[321]
• Peter McKechnie, 70, Australian politician, member of theQueensland Legislative Assembly forCarnarvon (1974–1989).^[322]
• Tyler Simpson, 25, Australian soccer player.^[323]

• Sam Alexander, 28, British Royal Marine, shot.^[324]
• María Rosa Alonso, 104, Spanish professor, philologist and essayist.^[325]
• Edward a'Beckett, 71, Australian cricketer.^[326]
• Armando Bandini, 84, Italian actor and voice actor.^[327]
• John W. Bowen, 84, American politician, Member of theOhio Senate.^[328]
• Johnny Brewer, 74, American football player (Cleveland Browns,New Orleans Saints).^[329]
• Janet Brown, 87, British actress and impersonator, after short illness.^[330]
• Jeff Conaway, 60, American actor (Grease,Taxi,Babylon 5).^[331]
• Margo Dydek, 37, Polish basketball player (Utah Starzz,Los Angeles Sparks) and coach, heart attack.^[332]
• Johanna Fiedler, 65, American author, daughter ofArthur Fiedler.^[333]
• Regalado Maambong, 72, Filipino jurist, member of1986 Constitutional Commission.^[334]
• Prince Ali Mirza Qajar, 81, Iranian royal,Head of the Qajar Imperial Family (since 1988), after long illness.^[335]
• Joaquín Moya, 79, Spanish Olympic fencer.^[336]
• Gil Scott-Heron, 62, American poet ("The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"), musician and author.^[337]
• Jukka Toivola, 61, Finnish Olympic athlete,amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.^[338]
• Michael Willoughby, 12th Baron Middleton, 90, British aristocrat and politician.^[339]

• Hermann Bley, 75, German footballer.^[340]
• Mohammed Daud Daud, 42, Afghan general, police commander for northern Afghanistan, bombing.^[341]
• Bill Harris, 79, Canadian baseball player (Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers).^[342]
• Romuald Klim, 78, Belarusian hammer thrower, Olympic gold medalist (1964).^[343]
• Ann McPherson, 65, British physician and public health campaigner.^[344]
• Dame Barbara Mills, 70, British barrister,Director of Public Prosecutions (1992–1998), stroke.^[345]
• Leo Rangell, 97, American psychoanalyst, complications from surgery.^[346]
• Alys Robi, 88, Canadian singer.^[347]
• Martha Rommelaere, 88, Canadian baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).^[348]
• John H. Sinfelt, 80, American chemical engineer in unleaded gasoline, congestive heart failure.^[349]

• Sergei Bagapsh, 62, Abkhazian politician,President (since 2005), complications after surgery.^[350]
• Jon Blake, 52, Australian actor, pneumonia.^[351]
• Simon Brint, 60, British musician, suicide.^[352]
• Bill Clements, 94, American politician,Governor of Texas (1979–1983; 1987–1991).^[353]
• Billy Crook, 84, English footballer (Wolverhampton Wanderers).^[354]
• Wally Jay, 93, American martial arts teacher, founder ofSmall Circle JuJitsu, after long illness.^[355]
• Ferenc Mádl, 80, Hungarian politician,President of the Republic (2000–2005).^[356]
• Vitaly Margulis, 83, Russian classical pianist.^[357]
• Tom Roeser, 82, American political commentator.^[358]
• Bill Roycroft, 96, Australian equestrian, five-time Olympian, gold medallist (1960).^[359]
• Cosmo Francesco Ruppi, 78, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop ofTermoli-Larino (1980–1988) and Archbishop ofLecce (1988–2009).^[360]

• Bill Benulis, 82, American cartoonist.^[361]
• Ricky Bruch, 64, Swedish athlete, cancer.^[362]
• Henri Chammartin, 92, Swiss dressage equestrian, multiple Olympic medallist.^[363]
• Paul B. Ferrara, 68, American scientist and administrator, pioneer ofgenetic fingerprinting, brain tumor.^[364]
• Jung Jong-kwan, 29, South Korean footballer, suspected suicide by hanging.^[365]
• Sudhakar Kulkarni, 73, Indian cricket umpire.^[366]
• Eddie Morrison, 63, Scottish footballer and manager (Kilmarnock).^[367]
• Hans Nogler, 91, Austrian Olympic alpine skier.^[368]
• Isikia Savua, 59, Fijian diplomat and police commissioner.^[369]
• Marek Siemek, 68, Polish philosopher and historian of philosophy.^[370]
• Clarice Taylor, 93, American actress (Sesame Street,The Cosby Show).^[371]
• Giorgio Tozzi, 88, American operatic bass, heart attack.^[372]
• Tillmann Uhrmacher, 44, German DJ, music producer and radio host.^[373]
• Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, 89, American medical physicist,Nobel laureate.^[374]

• Gilberto Aleman, 80, Spanish author and journalist.^[375]
• Pauline Betz, 91, American tennis player.^[376]
• Jonas Bevacqua, 33, American fashion designer (Lifted Research Group).^[377]
• Conrado Estrella Sr., 93, Filipino politician,Governor ofPangasinan (1954–1963),Agrarian Reform Minister (1978–1986).^[378]
• Derek Hodge, 69, U.S. Virgin Islander politician and attorney,Lieutenant Governor of the United States Virgin Islands (1987–1995), cancer.^[379]
• Keith Irvine, 82, British-born American interior designer, cardiac arrest.^[380]
• Hans Keilson, 101, German-born Dutch psychoanalyst and novelist.^[381]
• Sir John Martin, 93, British admiral,Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey (1974–1980).^[382]
• Adolfas Mekas, 85, Lithuanian-born American film director.^[383]
• Andy Robustelli, 85, AmericanHall of Fame football player (Los Angeles Rams,New York Giants).^[384]
• Philip Rose, 89, American theatrical producer, stroke.^[385]
• Ezzatollah Sahabi, 81, Iranian politician,Member of Parliament (1980–1984), stroke.^[386]
• Saleem Shahzad, 40, Pakistani journalist, shot.^[387] (body found on this date)
• Hugh Stewart, 100, British film editor and producer.^[388]
• Grant Sullivan, 86, American actor (Pony Express), cancer.^[389]
• Ram Man Trishit, 70, Nepali lyricist, kidney problems.^[390]
• Sølvi Wang, 81, Norwegian singer and actress.^[391]
• Jennifer Worth, 75, British author, esophageal cancer.^[392]

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