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Originally Posted by Patrick

who's died this year?

* Andy Irons, 32, American professional surfer, dengue fever.[1]


* Mihai Chiţac, 82, Romanian general, Minister of Interior (1989–1990), after long illness. [2]
* Georgios Economou, 77, Greek journalist. [3] (Greek)
* Monica Johnson, 54, American novelist and screenwriter (Lost in America, Modern Romance), esophageal cancer. [4]
* Shannon Tavarez, 11, American child actress (The Lion King), leukemia. [5]

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* Maurice Lucas, 58, American basketball player (Portland Trail Blazers, Los Angeles Lakers), bladder cancer. [6]
* Charlie O'Donnell, 78, American announcer (Wheel of Fortune), heart failure. [7]
* Heinrich Riebesehl, 72, German photographer, was suffering from Parkinson's disease. [8] (German)
* Bruce Robinson, 65, Canadian businessman and sports official, President of Winnipeg Blue Bombers (1992–1994), genetic disorder. [9]
* Ted Sorensen, 82, American White House counsel (1961–1964), stroke. [10]
* Branco Weiss, 81, Yugoslavian-born Swiss entrepreneur, founder of Kontron AG, after short illness. [11] (German)
* Artie Wilson, 90, American baseball player (New York Giants, Birmingham Black Barons), Alzheimer's disease. [12]

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* Kirk Abella, 32, Filipino actor, shot. [13]
* Leopoldo Alfredo Bravo, 50, Argentine ambassador to Russia, cancer. [14] (Spanish)
* John Benson, 67, Scottish football player and manager, after short illness. [15]
* Édouard Carpentier, 84, French-born Canadian professional wrestler. [16]
* Ina Clare, 77, British actress (EastEnders). [17]
* Arthur Bernard Lewis, 84, American television producer and writer (Dallas), complications from pneumonia. [18]
* Ananías Maidana, 87, Paraguayan teacher and politician, prostate cancer. [19] (Spanish)
* Harry Mulisch, 83, Dutch writer (The Assault, The Discovery of Heaven), cancer. [20]
* Nachi Nozawa, 72, Japanese voice actor, lung cancer. [21] (Japanese)
* Simos Varsamidis, 68, Greek television and documentary film director. [22] (Greek)

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* Marcelino Camacho, 92, Spanish trade unionist. [23] (Spanish)
* Ronnie Clayton, 76, English footballer (Blackburn Rovers). [24]
* Yevgeny Golovin, 72, Russian writer and philosopher. [25] (Russian)
* George Hickenlooper, 47, American documentary filmmaker, heart attack. [26]
* Jim Hunter, 71, American NASCAR official, cancer. [27]
* Yisrael Katz, 82, Israeli public servant and government minister. [28]
* Antonio Mariscal, 95, Mexican Olympic diver. [29] (Spanish)
* Bernard de Nonancourt, 90, French businessman, owner of Laurent-Perrier. [30] (French)
* George Poulos, 85, American arsonist and author. [31]
* Karlo Sakandelidze, 82, Georgian actor. [32]
* Takeshi Shudo, 61, Japanese writer (Pokémon), subarachnoid hemorrhage. [33] (Japanese)

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* Isabella Abbott, 91, American ethnobotany professor, first native Hawaiian to receive a doctorate in science. [34]
* Jack Brokensha, 84, Australian jazz musician, composer and arranger. [35]
* Jesús Mateo Calderón Barrueto, 90, Peruvian Roman Catholic Bishop of Puno (1972–1998). [36]
* Erling Fløtten, 72, Norwegian politician. [37] (Norwegian)
* Fernando Garavito, 66, Colombian journalist and lawyer. [38] (Spanish)
* Watts Humphrey, 83, American software engineer. [39] (German)
* Gerard Kelly, 51, British actor (City Lights), brain aneurysm. [40]
* Liang Congjie, 78, Chinese environmentalist (Friends of Nature), lung infection. [41]
* James MacArthur, 72, American actor (Hawaii Five-O, Swiss Family Robinson), natural causes. [42]
* Jonathan Motzfeldt, 72, Greenlandic politician, Prime Minister (1979–1991; 1997–2002), brain hemorrhage. [43]
* Paddy Mullins, 91, Irish racehorse trainer. [44]
* Walter Payton Jr., 68, American jazz bassist and sousaphonist. [45]
* Yiannis Sakellarakis, 74, Greek archaeologist. [46] (Greek)
* Jängy Schmit, 79, Luxembourgian Olympic cyclist. [47] (German)
* Johnny van Rensburg, 78, South African Olympic boxer. [48]

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* Mary Emma Allison, 93, American co-creator of Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF. [49]
* Denise Borino, 46, American actress (The Sopranos), liver cancer. [50]
* Chris Gulker, 59, American photographer, programmer and writer, brain cancer. [51]
* Hugh Hayden, 66, British motor racing team owner, heart attack. [52]
* Néstor Kirchner, 60, Argentine politician, President (2003–2007), First Gentleman (2007–2010), Secretary General of UNASUR (2010), heart attack. [53]
* Paul Kolton, 87, American chairman of the American Stock Exchange (1972–1977), lymphoma. [54]
* Luigi Macaluso, 62, Italian businessman, President and Chairman of the Sowind Group. [55]
* Ehud Netzer, 76, Israeli archaeologist, injuries from a fall. [56]
* Charis Patsis, 97, Greek educator, writer and editor. [57] (Greek)
* Owen B. Pickett, 80, American politician, U.S. Representative from Virginia (1987–2001). [58]
* Saqr bin Mohammad al-Qassimi, 92, Emirati ruler of Ras al-Khaimah (since 1948). [59]
* Hall Thompson, 87, American developer of a whites-only country club. [60]
* James Wall, 92, American actor (Captain Kangaroo) and stage manager, after short illness. [61]

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* Mbah Maridjan, 83, Indonesian spiritual guardian of Mount Merapi (1982-2010), pyroclastic flow from Mount Merapi. [62]
* Paul the Octopus, 2, British-born World Cup oracle octopus (Sea Life Centre in Oberhausen, Germany), natural causes. [63]
* James Phelps, 78, American gospel and R&B singer, complications of diabetes. [64]
* Ana María Romero de Campero, 67, Bolivian journalist and politician, President of the Senate of Bolivia (2010), colorectal cancer. [65]
* Billy Ruane, 52, American concert promoter and manager. [66]
* Bill Shannon, 69, American author and baseball historian, injuries from a fire. [67]
* Romeu Tuma, 79, Brazilian politician, Senator (1995-2010), multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. [68] (Portuguese)

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* Hans Arnold, 85, Swiss-born Swedish artist. [69] (Swedish)
* Lisa Blount, 53, American actress (An Officer and a Gentleman) and Academy Award-winning film producer (The Accountant). [70]
* Gregory Isaacs, 59, Jamaican reggae singer, lung cancer. [71]
* Andreas Maurer, 91, Austrian politician, Landeshauptmann of Lower Austria (1966–1981). [72] (German)
* Vesna Parun, 88, Croatian writer. [73] (Croatian)
* Rudy Rufer, 84, American baseball player (New York Giants). [74]
* Roy Skinner, 80, American college basketball coach (Vanderbilt), respiratory failure. [75]

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* Keti Chomata, 64, Greek singer, cancer. [76] (Greek)
* Ignacio Ramírez de Haro, 92, Spanish noble, 15th Count of Bornos, Grandee of Spain, father-in-law of Esperanza Aguirre, legionella. [77] (Spanish)
* Mike Esposito, 83, American comic book artist. [78]
* Georges Frêche, 72, French politician, cardiac arrest. [79] (French)
* Fritz Grösche, 69, German footballer and coach, cancer. [80] (German)
* Linda Hargrove, 61, American country singer and songwriter ("Just Get Up and Close the Door"), complications from a bone marrow transplant. [81]
* Andy Holmes, 51, British Olympic gold (1984, 1988) and bronze (1988) medal-winning rower, leptospirosis. [82]
* Pan Jin-yu, 96, Taiwanese last remaining speaker of the Pazeh language. [83]
* Lamont Johnson, 88, American actor and television director (The Twilight Zone, The Execution of Private Slovik), heart failure. [84]
* Philibert Parnasse, 109, French centenarian, oldest man in France. [85]
* Burton B. Roberts, 88, American judge, New York Supreme Court Justice (1973–1998), respiratory failure. [86]
* Willie Rutherford, 65, Australian soccer player. [87]
* Sylvia Sleigh, 94, American painter, complications of a stroke. [88]
* Joseph Stein, 98, American playwright (Fiddler on the Roof, Zorba). [89]

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* Vince Banonis, 89, American football player (Chicago Cardinals, Detroit Lions). [90]
* Ior Bock, 68, Finnish actor and tour guide, stabbing. [91] (Finnish)
* George Cain, 66, American author, kidney failure. [92]
* Bob Courtney, 87, South African broadcaster and actor. [93]
* Fran Crippen, 26, American swimmer, heart attack. [94]
* Leo Cullum, 68, American cartoonist (The New Yorker), cancer. [95]
* S. Neil Fujita, 89, American graphic designer, complications of a stroke. [96]
* Dieter Heistermann, 74, German politician, member of the Bundestag (1980–1998), after short illness. [97] (German)
* Princess Irmingard of Bavaria, 87, German noblewoman. [98] (German)
* Lennart Johansson, 69, Swedish ice hockey player and trainer, 1964 Olympic silver medallist. [99] (Swedish)
* Donald Leifert, 59, American science fiction actor.[100]
* Chhewang Nima, 43, Nepalese mountaineer and guide, avalanche. [101]
* Charles Stisted, 47, British Chief Executive of the Guards Polo Club, helicopter accident. [102]
* Stanley Tanger, 87, American businessman, founder of Tanger Outlets. [103]
* David Thompson, 48, British-born Barbadian politician, Prime Minister (since 2008), pancreatic cancer. [104]

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* Alex Anderson, 90, American cartoonist, created characters for The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show and Crusader Rabbit. [105]
* Arthur M. Brazier, 89, American pastor and civil rights activist. [106]
* Alí Chumacero, 92, Mexican writer and poet, pneumonia. [107] (Spanish)
* Harry Cooper, 98, American internet personality, heart disease. [108]
* Helen Hunley, 90, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta (1985–1991). [109]
* Anne McDonald, 49, Australian disability rights activist, heart attack. [110]
* Franz Raschid, 56, German footballer, pancreatic cancer. [111] (German)
* Eio Sakata, 90, Japanese professional Go player, aortic aneurysm. [112] (Japanese)
* Denis Simpson, 59, Canadian actor (Polka Dot Door) and singer, brain hemorrhage. [113]
* Kjell Stormoen, 89, Norwegian actor and theater director. [114]
* René Villiger, 79, Swiss painter, cancer. [115] (German)

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* Antonio Alatorre, 88, Mexican philologist. [116] (Spanish)
* Uccio Aloisi, 82, Italian traditional music singer. [117] (Italian)
* Mustapha Anane, 60, Algerian footballer. [118] (French)
* A. Ayyappan, 61, Indian poet. [119]
* José Carbajal, 66, Uruguayan singer, guitarist, and composer (Los Olimareños), cardiac arrest. [120]
* Hermann Eberlein, 93, German long-distance runner, German Master (1939, 1946 & 1950). [121] (German)
* Sir Leslie Froggatt, 90, British-born Australian business executive, CEO of Shell Australia (1969–1980), complications from Parkinson's disease. [122]
* Christian Kandlbauer, 22, Austrian automotive mechanic, first human with thought-controlled bionic prosthesis, car accident. [123] (German)
* Kjell Landmark, 80, Norwegian poet and politician, cancer. [124] (Norwegian)
* James F. Neal, 81, American jurist, prosecuted Watergate figures, cancer. [125]
* Loki Schmidt, 91, German environmentalist, wife of Helmut Schmidt, illness after a fall and complications of a broken foot. [126] (German)
* Natasha Spender, 91, British musician and writer, widow of Stephen Spender. [127]

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* Ari Up, 48, German-born British punk musician (The Slits), cancer. [128]
* Alfred Backs, 60, German CEO of media group Merkur/tz, heart attack. [129] (German)
* Francisco Batistela, 79, Brazilian Roman Catholic bishop of Bom Jesus da Lapa (1990–2009). [130]
* Otey Clark, 95, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox). [131]
* W. Cary Edwards, 66, American politician, New Jersey State Assemblyman (1978–1982) and Attorney General (1986–1989), cancer. [132]
* Herbert Enderton, 74, American mathematician and logician. [133]
* Luis María Fernández Basualdo, 62, Argentine politician, member of the Chamber of Deputies (2007–2010), cardiac arrest. [134]
* Bob Guccione, 79, American publisher, founder of Penthouse, lung cancer. [135]
* Eva Ibbotson, 85, Austrian-born British novelist (Journey to the River Sea, The Secret of Platform 13). [136]
* Bill Jennings, 85, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns). [137]
* Robert Katz, 77, American writer. [138]
* Max Kohnstamm, 96, Dutch historian and diplomat. [139] (Dutch)
* Nikos Legakis, 70, Greek physician and politician. [140] (Greek)
* Farooq Leghari, 70, Pakistani politician, President (1993–1997). [141]
* Sir George Mallet, 87, Saint Lucian politician, Governor-General (1996–1997), cancer. [142]
* Alexander Moksel, 92, German entrepreneur, founder of Moksel AG. [143] (German)
* Eduard Novák, 63, Czech Olympic silver (1976) and bronze (1972) medal-winning ice hockey player. [144] (Czech)
* Jenny Oropeza, 53, American politician, California State Assemblywoman (2000–2006) and State Senator (since 2006), after long illness. [145]
* Robert Paynter, 82, British cinematographer (Michael Jackson's Thriller). [146]
* Harvey Phillips, 80, American tuba player, Parkinson's disease. [147]
* Tony Roig, 81, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, Washington Senators), after long illness. [148]
* Parthasarathy Sharma, 62, Indian Test cricketer (1974–1977), cancer. [149]
* Tikhon Stepanov, 47, Russian Orthodox bishop of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogory (since 1996), heart attack. [150] (Russian)
* Wendall Woodbury, 68, American television journalist and host (WGAL-TV), lymphoma. [151]

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* Tom Bosley, 83, American actor (Happy Days, Father Dowling Mysteries), heart failure. [152]
* Craig Charron, 42, American ice hockey player, stomach cancer. [153]
* Graham Crowden, 87, Scottish actor (If...., A Very Peculiar Practice, Waiting For God). [154]
* Stathi Katsidis, 31, Australian jockey. [155]
* André Mahé, 90, French road bicycle racer. [156]

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* Marion Brown, 79, American jazz saxophonist. [157]
* Consuelo Crespi, 82, American-born Italian countess, fashion model and editor, stroke. [158]
* David Fontana, British psychologist and parapsychologist, pancreatic cancer. [159]
* Margaret Gwenver, American actress (Guiding Light). [160]
* Hans Hägele, 70, German footballer, jump from Koersch Valley Bridge. [161] (German)
* Mel Hopkins, 75, Welsh footballer (Tottenham Hotspur, Brighton & Hove Albion). [162]
* Yertward Mazamanian, 85, "Eight Finger Eddie", American hippie of Armenian descent. [163]
* Peng Chong, 95, Chinese politician, former National Committee member. [164]
* Elsie Steele, 111, British supercentenarian. [165]
* Doug Wilson, 90, British Olympic athlete. [166]

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* John Baird Finlay, 81, Canadian politician, MP for Oxford (1993–2004). [167]
* Adam Brodecki, 61, Polish Olympic figure skater. [168] (Polish)
* Jake Dunlap, 85, Canadian football player (Ottawa Rough Riders), cancer. [169]
* Horst Fritsch, 79, German poet, painter and politician, member of the Bundestag (1986–1987). [170] (German)
* Karlheinz Gieseler, 85, German sports official, CEO of Deutscher Sportbund (1964–1989). [171] (German)
* Rito Grado Serrano, 56, Mexican politician, Mayor of Práxedis G. Guerrero, shot. [172]
* Ted Hallaman, 83, American disc jockey, after long illness. [173]
* Emmanuel Lê Phong Thuân, 79, Vietnamese Roman Catholic Bishop of Cân Tho (since 1990). [174]
* Joe Lis, 64, American baseball player, prostate cancer. [175]
* Bruno H. Schubert, 90, German businessman and conservationist, owner of Henninger Brewery (1945–1979), co-founder of WWF Germany. [176] (German)
* Freddy Schuman, 85, American Yankees fan, heart attack. [177]
* Michael Tabor, 63, American Black Panther Party member, complications from a stroke. [178]
* Dennis Taylor, 56, American saxophonist, heart attack. [179]
* Ken Wriedt, 83, Australian politician, Senator for Tasmania (1967–1980), Leader of the Tasmanian Opposition (1982–1986). [180]

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* Barbara Billingsley, 94, American actress (Leave It to Beaver). [181]
* Jack Butterfield, 91, Canadian-born sports administrator, President of the American Hockey League (1969–1994). [182]
* Chao-Li Chi, 83, Chinese-born American actor (Falcon Crest). [183]
* Giannis Dalianidis, 86, Greek film director and screenwriter (Oi Thalassies oi Hadres, O katergaris), multiple organ dysfunction syndrome. [184]
* Eyedea, 28, American rapper and musician (Eyedea & Abilities). [185]
* Nikos Fasouras, 42, Greek basketball player (Peristeri B.C., Maroussi B.C.), cancer. [186] (Greek)
* José Angelo Gaiarsa, 90, Brazilian psychiatrist and writer. [187] (Portuguese)
* Friedrich Katz, 83, Austrian anthropologist and historian, cancer. [188]
* Ioannis Ladas, 90, Greek colonel, member of the 1967–1974 military junta. [189] (Greek)
* Aldo Maria Lazzarín Stella, 83, Italian-born Chilean Roman Catholic Vicar Apostolic of Aysén (1989–1998). [190]
* Valmy Thomas, 81, Puerto Rican baseball player. [191]
* Leigh Van Valen, 75, American evolutionary biologist (Red Queen's Hypothesis), respiratory infection. [192]

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* Jim Dougal, 65, Northern Irish journalist (BBC News, RTÉ, UTV). [193]
* Mildred Fay Jefferson, 84, American pro-life activist, first African-American woman to graduate from Harvard Medical School. [194].
* N. Paul Kenworthy, 85, American cinematographer (The Living Desert, The Vanishing Prairie), thyroid cancer. [195]
* Georges Mathé, 88, French bone marrow transplant pioneer. [196]
* Zofia Morawska, 105, Polish social worker and humanitarian. [197] (Polish)
* Vera Rózsa, 93, Hungarian voice teacher. [198]
* Johnny Sheffield, 79, American actor (Tarzan Finds a Son!, Bomba, the Jungle Boy, Knute Rockne All American), heart attack. [199]
* Adolfo Torres, 67, Argentine dentist, rector of National University of the Northeast, cardiac arrest. [200] (Spanish)

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* Malcolm Allison, 83, English football player (West Ham United) and manager (Manchester City, Crystal Palace), after long illness. [201]
* Carla Del Poggio, 84, Italian actress. [202] (Italian)
* Louis Henkin, 92, American international human rights law expert and academic (Columbia Law School). [203]
* Alain Le Bussy, 63, Belgian science fiction author, complications following throat surgery. [204]
* Johannes Leobacher, 45, Austrian banker, head of investment (Erste Group Bank AG). [205]
* Simon MacCorkindale, 58, British actor (Falcon Crest, Death on the Nile, Manimal, Casualty), bowel cancer. [206]
* Benoît Mandelbrot, 85, Polish-born French-American mathematician, pioneer of the study of fractals, pancreatic cancer. [207]
* Carlos Quintanar, 71, Mexican Olympic basketball player. [208] (Spanish)
* Constance Reid, 92, American mathematics author and biographer. [209]
* Hermann Scheer, 66, German politician, member of the Bundestag (1980–2010) and Right Livelihood Award laureate (1999), after short illness. [210]
* Larry Siegfried, 71, American basketball player (Boston Celtics), heart attack. [211]

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* Makis Apostolatos, 62, Greek poet, after long illness. [212] (Greek)
* Juan Carlos Arteche, 53, Spanish footballer, cancer. [213]
* Eddie Baily, 85, English footballer (Tottenham Hotspur). [214]
* Huddy Combs, American rapper (Harlem World), car accident. [215]
* General Norman Johnson, 69, American musician and record producer (Chairmen of the Board), complications of lung cancer. [216]
* Kostas Kafasis, 70, Greek actor and singer, cancer. [217] (Greek)
* Khoisan X, 55, South African political activist, stroke. [218]
* Jiří Křižan, 68, Czech screenwriter and presidential adviser, heart attack. [219]
* Mary Malcolm, 92, British BBC announcer and television personality. [220]
* Jerry Marshall, 91, American disc jockey. [221]
* Marzieh, 86, Iranian singer, cancer. [222]
* Betty S. Murphy, 77, American trial lawyer, first woman to chair the National Labor Relations Board, pneumonia. [223]
* Sol Steinmetz, 80, Hungarian-born American lexicographer and linguist, pneumonia. [224]
* Donald H. Tuck, 87, Australian science fiction bibliographer. [225]

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* Manuel Alexandre, 92, Spanish actor, cancer. [226]
* Jorge Ardila Serrano, 85, Colombian Roman Catholic bishop of Girardot (1988–2001). [227]
* Austin Ardill, 93, British politician, member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland for Carrick. [228]
* Michael Galloway, 85, American actor (The Blue Angels). [229]
* Michel Hugo, 79, French-born American cinematographer (Dynasty, Melrose Place, Mission: Impossible), lung cancer. [230]
* Angelo Infanti, 71, Italian actor, cardiac arrest. [231] (Italian)
* Lionel W. McKenzie, 91, American economist. [232]
* Dick Miles, 85, American table tennis player, won 10 national championships, natural causes. [233]
* Woody Peoples, 67, American football player (San Francisco 49ers, Philadelphia Eagles). [234]
* Pepín, 78, Spanish international footballer. [235] (Spanish)
* Belva Plain, 95, American novelist (Evergreen). [236]
* Mark Stevens, 76, American radio personality (KLOL), Alzheimer’s disease. [237]
* Faye Williams, 84, American actress, brain tumor. [238]

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* Nikolaos Artemiadis, 93, Greek mathematician and academic, chairman of the Athens Academy (2000). [239] (Greek)
* Carla Cohen, 74, American bookstore owner, cholangiocarcinoma. [240]
* Bill Harsha, 89, American politician. U.S. Representative from Ohio (1961–1981). [241]
* Gordon Lang, 66, British expert in ceramics, appraiser on Antiques Roadshow. [242]
* Marcel Lapierre, 60, French organic winemaker, cancer. [243]
* Janet MacLachlan, 77, American actress (Archie Bunker's Place, Sounder), cardiovascular complications. [244]
* Richard H. Morefield, 81, American hostage during Iran Hostage Crisis. [245]
* Marian P. Opala, 89, Polish-American jurist, Associate Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court (1978–2010), stroke. [246]
* Claire Rayner, 79, British author and agony aunt. [247]
* Georges Rutaganda, 51, Rwandan Hutu paramilitary and war criminal, after long illness. [248] (French)
* Robert Tishman, 94, American real estate developer (Tishman Speyer). [249]

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* Louis F. Bantle, 81, American chairman of U.S. Tobacco Company, lung cancer and emphysema. [250]
* Reinhold Brinkmann, 76, German musicologist. [251] (German)
* Solomon Burke, 70, American R&B singer-songwriter ("Everybody Needs Somebody to Love"), natural causes. [252]
* Les Gibbard, 64, New Zealand-born British political cartoonist, during routine operation. [253]
* John Graysmark, 75, British art director (Ragtime). [254]
* José de Jesús Gudiño Pelayo, 67, Mexican associate justice of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation (1995–2010), heart attack. [255]
* Paul Hutchinson, 52, British murderer (Colette Aram), probable suicide by overdose. [256]
* Hwang Jang-yop, 87, North Korean politician and defector, apparent heart attack. [257]
* Eric Joisel, 53, French wet-folding origami artist, lung cancer. [258]
* Gary E. Lee, 65, American hostage during Iran Hostage Crisis. [259]
* Richard Lyon-Dalberg-Acton, 4th Baron Acton, 69, British politician. [260]
* David H. McNerney, 79, American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient, lung cancer. [261]
* Adán Martín Menis, 66, Spanish politician, President of the Canary Islands (2003–2007). [262] (Spanish)
* Isaia Rasila, 42, Fijian rugby player. [263]
* Franz Xaver Schwarzenböck, 87, German Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop of München und Freising (1972–1998). [264]
* Solly Sherman, 93, American football player (Chicago Bears). [265]
* A. Edison Stairs, 85, Canadian businessman and politician, New Brunswick MLA (1960–1978) and Minister of Finance (1974–1976), natural causes. [266]
* Walter Staley, 77, American Olympic bronze medal-winning (1952) equestrian. [267]
* Alison Stephens, 40, British classical mandolinist, cervical cancer. [268]
* Dame Joan Sutherland, 83, Australian dramatic coloratura soprano. [269]

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* Maurice Allais, 99, French economist, Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1988). [270]
* S. S. Chandran, 69, Indian comic actor and politician, member of the Rajya Sabha (2001–2007), heart attack. [271]
* Edmund Chong Ket Wah, 54, Malaysian politician, Member of Parliament (since 2004), motorcycle accident. [272]
* Les Fell, 89, British football player, FA cup finalist (1946). [273]
* Aleksandr Matveyev, 84, Russian linguist, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, natural causes. [274] (Russian)
* Zecharia Sitchin, 90, Azerbaijani-born American author. [275]

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* Antonio Jiménez Baños, 47, Mexican politician, Mayor-elect of Mártires de Tacubaya, shot. [276]
* Frank Bourgholtzer, 90, American television reporter, first full-time NBC News White House correspondent. [277]
* Oswaldo Osorio Canales, 71, Venezuelan lawyer and real estate agent, heart attack. [278] (Spanish)
* Jim Fuchs, 82, American Olympic medal-winning shot putter. [279]
* Nils Hallberg, 89, Swedish actor. [280] (Swedish)
* John Huchra, 61, American astronomer and professor, heart attack. [281]
* Ryō Ikebe, 92, Japanese actor (Gorath), blood poisoning. [282]
* David F. Musto, 74, American drug control expert, heart attack. [283]
* Maurice Neligan, 73, Irish surgeon, performed Ireland's first heart transplant. [284]
* Linda Norgrove, 36, British aid worker and Taliban hostage, killed during rescue attempt. [285]
* Mohammad Omar, Afghan Governor of Kunduz Province, bomb blast. [286]
* Pleasant Tap, 23, American thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized due to laminitis. [287]
* Melvin Lane Powers, 68, American real estate developer, acquitted of murdering his uncle. [288]
* Karl Prantl, 86, Austrian sculptor, stroke. [289] (German)
* Neil Richardson, 80, English composer, arranger and conductor. [290]
* Dale Roberts, 70, American baseball player (New York Yankees). [291]
* Albertina Walker, 81, American gospel music singer (The Caravans), respiratory failure. [292]

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* Metring David, 90, Filipino actress and comedian. [293]
* Gail Dolgin, 65, American Academy-Award nominated documentary filmmaker (Daughter from Danang), breast cancer. [294]
* Abe Gustin, 75, American founder of Applebee's International. [295]
* Rhys Isaac, 72, Australian historian and professor, cancer. [296]
* Ljupčo Jordanovski, 57, Macedonian seismologist and politician, Acting President (2004). [297]
* T Lavitz, 54, American musician. [298]
* Chuck Leo, 76, American football player (Boston Patriots). [299]
* Ian Morris, 53, New Zealand musician (Th' Dudes) and record producer. [300]
* Keiji Ohsawa, 78, Japanese baseball player. [301] (Japanese)
* Milka Planinc, 85, Yugoslavian politician, Prime Minister (1982–1986). [302]
* A. Venkatachalam, 55, Indian politician, stabbed. [303]

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* Jean Debuf, 86, French Olympic bronze medal-winning (1956) weightlifter. [304] (French)
* Serge Ermoll, 67, Australian jazz pianist and composer. [305]
* Don Goodsir, 73, Australian teacher, school administrator, author and environmentalist. [306]
* Antonie Kamerling, 44, Dutch actor and singer, suicide. [307] (Dutch)
* Ralph Kercheval, 98, American football player. [308]
* Horacio Larrosa, 66, Argentine journalist, cardiac arrest. [309] (Spanish)
* Colette Renard, 85, French singer and actress, after long illness. [310] (French)
* Jay Roberts, 68, Canadian football player, lung cancer. [311]
* Piet Wijn, 81, Dutch comics creator. [312] (Dutch)

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* Roy Axe, 73, British car designer (Talbot Horizon, Rover 800), cancer. [313]
* Roy Ward Baker, 93, British film director (A Night To Remember). [314]
* Jack Berntsen, 69, Norwegian folk singer. [315] (Norwegian)
* Stan Bisset, 98, Australian rugby union player and World War II veteran. [316]
* Alba Bouwer, 90, South African writer of Afrikaans children's literature, natural causes. [317]
* Hanno Brühl, 73, German regisseur. [318] (German)
* Bernard Clavel, 87, French writer, natural causes. [319]
* Mary Leona Gage, 71, American pageant queen, stripped of Miss USA (1957) title, heart failure. [320]
* Moss Keane, 62, Irish rugby union player, bowel cancer. [321]
* Jānis Klovāns, 75, Latvian chess master. [322] (Latvian)
* Steve Lee, 47, Swiss musician (Gotthard), motorcycle accident. [323]
* Julio Parise Loro, 90, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Napo (1978–1996). [324]
* Karen McCarthy, 63, American politician, U.S. Representative from Missouri (1995–2005), Alzheimer's disease. [325]
* Georges Salomon, 85, French entrepreneur, inventor of modern ski binding, co-founder of Salomon Group. [326] (German)
* William Shakespeare, 61, Australian glam rock singer, heart attack. [327]

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* William Birenbaum, 87, American educator and college administrator (Antioch College), heart failure. [328]
* Henrique de Senna Fernandes, 86, Macanese author. [329] (Portuguese)
* Claude Lefort, 86, French philosopher. [330] (French)
* Gregorio Ros, 58, Spanish make-up artist, complications from a degenerative disease. [331] (Spanish)
* Alberto Alves da Silva, 89, Brazilian artist and musician, respiratory failure. [332] (Portuguese)
* Peter Warr, 72, British racing driver and Formula One team principal (Lotus), heart attack. [333]
* Sir Norman Wisdom, 95, British comedian and actor, after long illness. [334]

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* Maury Allen, 78, American sportswriter (The New York Post), lymphoma. [335]
* Aécio Ferreira da Cunha, 83, Brazilian politician, father of Aécio Neves. [336] (Portuguese)
* Eric Establie, 45, French cave diver. [337]
* Philippa Foot, 90, British philosopher. [338]
* Campbell Scotty Hood, 76, American jazz bassist. [339]
* Sir Louis Le Bailly, 95, British admiral, Director-General of Intelligence. [340]
* Franz Mack, 89, German entrepreneur, owner of MACK Rides and founder of Europa-Park. [341] (German)
* Ben Mondor, 85, American baseball executive (Pawtucket Red Sox). [342]
* Walter Nones, 39, Italian mountaineer and extreme climber, climbing accident. [343]
* Eddie Platt, 88, American saxophonist. [344]
* Steve Richko, 33, American jazz pianist. [345]
* Abraham Sarmiento, 88, Filipino lawyer, Supreme Court Associate Justice (1987–1991). [346]
* Dianne Whalen, 59, Canadian politician, Newfoundland and Labrador MHA for Conception Bay East and Bell Island (2003–2010), cancer. [347]
* Ed Wilson, 65, Brazilian singer-songwriter, founder of Renato e Seus Blue Caps, cancer. [348] (Portuguese)

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* David M. Bailey, 44, American singer-songwriter, glioblastoma. [349]
* Brenda Cowling, 85, British actress. [350]
* Maurice Foster, 77, Canadian politician, MP for Algoma (1968–1993), pulmonary fibrosis. [351]
* Robert Goodnough, 92, American abstract expressionist painter, pneumonia. [352]
* Art Jarvinen, 54, American composer, teacher and musician (The California EAR Unit). [353]
* Kwa Geok Choo, 89, Singaporean lawyer, wife of Lee Kuan Yew, mother of Lee Hsien Loong. [354]
* Sam Lesser, 95, British journalist. [355]
* Gillian Lowndes, 74, British ceramicist. [356]

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* Georgy Arbatov, 87, Russian political scientist. [357]
* Dezső Bundzsák, 82, Hungarian football player and coach. [358] (Hungarian)
* Ian Buxton, 72, English footballer and cricketer, natural causes. [359]
* Charles Caruana, 77, Gibraltarian Roman Catholic bishop of Gibraltar (1998–2010), complications from a fall. [360] (Spanish)
* Audouin Dollfus, 85, French astronomer. [361] (French)
* Marshall Flaum, 85, American Emmy Award-winning director (The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau), complications from hip surgery. [362]
* Kilian Hennessy, 103, Irish patriarch of the Hennessy cognac company. [363]
* Gerard Labuda, 93, Polish historian. [364] (Polish)
* Michel Mathieu, 66, French diplomat, cancer. [365] (French)
* William W. Norton, 85, American screenwriter (Gator, Brannigan), heart attack. [366]
* William C. Patrick III, 84, American scientist, expert on germs, bladder cancer. [367]
* Mikhail Roshchin, 77, Russian playwright. [368] (Russian)
* Phillips Talbot, 95, American diplomat, Ambassador to Greece (1965–1969), President of the Asia Society (1970–1981). [369]