Tuesday, December 28

Celebrities deaths in January 2010

The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2010.


January 31
Kage Baker, 57, American science fiction and fantasy author, uterine cancer. 
Erna Baumbauer, 91, German casting agent. 
Robert DeBlieux, 77, American politician, Mayor of Natchitoches, Louisiana (1976–1980), cerebral hemorrhage. 
Pauly Fuemana, 40, New Zealand musician (OMC), after short illness. 
Henry Fukuhara, 96, American watercolor painter, natural causes. 
Albert Huie, 89, Jamaican painter. 
Edith Josie, 88, Canadian columnist, natural causes. 
Viktor Kaisiepo, 61, Netherlands New Guinean-born Dutch activist for West Papuan independence. 
Thorleif Karlsen, 100, Norwegian police inspector, politician and radio host, natural causes.  (Norwegian)
Howard Lotsof, 66, American researcher, discovered anti-addictive effects of ibogaine, liver cancer. 
Tomás Eloy Martínez, 75, Argentine writer and journalist, brain tumor.  (Spanish)
John Norris, 76, British-born Canadian publisher (Coda), heart condition. 
Keith Norton, 69, Canadian politician, former MPP for Kingston and the Islands (1975–1985), cancer. 
Paddie O'Neil, 83, British actress and singer. 
Phil Smith, 63, Australian football player, cancer. 
Pierre Vaneck, 78, French actor (The Science of Sleep), complications of heart surgery.  (French)
January 30
Ruth Cohn, 97, German psychotherapist.  (German)
Sam Conn, 47, American journalist and actor.
Lucienne Day, 93, British textile designer. 
Sølve Grotmol, 70, Norwegian sports commentator.  (Norwegian)
Bruce Mitchell, 90, Australian academic. 
Ursula Mommens, 101, British potter. 
Brahmananda Panda, 61, Indian politician.
Aaron Ruben, 95, American television producer (Andy Griffith Show, Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C., Sanford and Son), pneumonia. 
January 29
Evgeny Agranovich, 91, Russian composer and bard.  (Russian)
Tom Brookshier, 78, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles), coach and sportscaster (CBS Sports, WCAU), cancer. 
Adam Alexander Dawson, 96, British film editor. 
Eric Freiwald, 82, American television writer (The Young and the Restless). 
Georgelle Hirliman, 73, American performance artist, cancer.
Derek Hodgkinson, 92, British air chief marshal.
Tom Howard, 59, American musician, myocardial infarction.
Ralph McInerny, 80, American philosopher (University of Notre Dame) and mystery author (Father Dowling Mysteries).
Ram Niwas Mirdha, 85, Indian politician (Lok Sabha), minister and speaker (Rajasthan Legislative Assembly), MODS. 
Wilf Paish, 77, British athletics coach, after long illness. 
Mikael Reuterswärd, 45, Swedish adventurer, first Swede to reach summit of Mount Everest (body found on this date).
Karen Schmeer, 39, American documentary film editor (The Fog of War), vehicular hit-and-run. 
Zahid Sheikh, 60, Pakistani Olympic silver medal-winning (1972) field hockey player. 
Cameron Snyder, 93, American sports journalist (The Baltimore Sun), won Dick McCann Memorial Award (1982), lung cancer.
January 28
Mohammad-Reza Ali-Zamani, c.38, Iranian activist, hanging. 
Frank Baker Jr., 66, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians), heart failure.
Larbi Belkheir, 72, Algerian major general, Interior Minister (1991).
Bill Binder, 94, American restaurateur (Phillippe's). 
Eduardo Catalano, 92, Argentine architect. 
Patricia Clarke, 90, British biochemist.
José Eugênio Corrêa, 95, Brazilian Roman Catholic Bishop of Caratinga (1957–1978). 
Margaret Dale, 87, British dancer and television director.
Walter Fondren, 73, American football player and conservationist, heart failure. 
George Hanlon, 92, Australian horse trainer, three-time Melbourne Cup winner, natural causes. 
Mick Higgins, 87, Irish Gaelic footballer, All-Ireland Senior Football Championship winner (Cavan; 1947, 1948, 1952). 
Alistair Hulett, 57, Scottish-born Australian folk singer, liver failure.
Robert Joffe, 66, American lawyer, pancreatic cancer.
Patricia Leonard, 73, British contralto, throat cancer. 
Kazimierz Mijal, 99, Polish politician.  (Polish)
Bud Millikan, 89, American basketball coach (University of Maryland). 
Sarah Mulvey, 34, British television producer (Channel 4), suspected suicide. 
Arash Rahmanipour, c.20, Iranian activist, hanging. 
Seymour Sarason, 91, American psychologist.
Keiko Tobe, 52, Japanese mangaka (With the Light). 
January 27
Lee Archer, 90, American Air Force pilot (Tuskegee Airman). 
Barry Blitzer, 80, American television writer (Get Smart, The Flintstones), complications from abdominal surgery.
Betty Lou Keim, 71, American actress, lung cancer. 
Ruben Kruger, 39, South African rugby union player, brain tumor.
Eduardo Michaelsen, 89, Cuban exile, painter in the naive art style.  (Spanish)
Shirley Collie Nelson, 78, American country singer, ex-wife of Willie Nelson. 
Zelda Rubinstein, 76, American actress (Poltergeist, Picket Fences), natural causes. 
J. D. Salinger, 91, American author (The Catcher in the Rye), natural causes. 
Howard Zinn, 87, American historian (A People's History of the United States), civil rights and antiwar activist, heart attack. 
January 26
Andon Amaraich, 77, Micronesian Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, pneumonia.
Louis Auchincloss, 92, American novelist, complications of a stroke. 
Juliusz Bardach, 95, Polish historian.  (Polish)
Boa Sr., 85, Indian Great Andamanese elder, last speaker of the Bo language. 
Geoffrey Burbidge, 84, British-born American astrophysicist, after long illness. 
Anne Froelick, 96, American blacklisted screenwriter. 
Dag Frøland, 64, Norwegian comedian, singer and variety artist.  (Norwegian)
Paul R. Jones, 81, American art collector, after short illness. 
Eugenijus Karpavičius, 56, Lithuanian illustrator.  (Lithuanian)
Inda Ledesma, 83, Argentine actress, cardiac arrest.  (Spanish)
Gummadi Venkateswara Rao, 82, Indian character actor, multiple organ failure. 
Paul Verdzekov, 79, Cameroonian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bamenda (1970–2006). 
Ken Walters, 76, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies). 
January 25
Ali Hassan al-Majid, 68, Iraqi military commander and government minister, execution by hanging. 
Lynn Bayonas, 66, Australian television writer and producer, cancer. 
Orlando Cole, 101, American classical cellist and educator. 
Horace Weldon Gilmore, 91, American federal judge. 
Jane Jarvis, 94, American jazz pianist and organist. 
Pádraig MacKernan, 69, Irish diplomat, Secretary General (Foreign Affairs), Ambassador to France and United States.
Georgiann Makropoulos, 67, American professional wrestling historian and author, heart attack. 
Charles Mathias, 87, American politician, Senator from Maryland (1969–1987), complications of Parkinson's disease. 
Gordon Park, 66, British convicted murderer, apparent suicide by hanging. 
Algirdas Petrulis, 95, Lithuanian painter. (Lithuanian)
Ivan Prenđa, 70, Croatian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Zadar (since 1990). (Croatian)
Bill Ritchie, 78, Scottish comic book artist.
Emilio Vieyra, 88, Argentine film director, actor, screenwriter and producer.(Spanish)
January 24
Lawrence Aloysius Burke, 77, Jamaican Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kingston (2004–2008); Nassau (1981–2004), cancer. 
Donald Dowd, 87, American campaign aide to the Kennedy family. 
Ghazali Shafie, 87, Malaysian politician, Home Minister (1973–1981) and Foreign Minister (1981–1984).
Robert Mosbacher, 82, American politician, Secretary of Commerce (1989–1992), pancreatic cancer. 
Leonid Nechayev, 70, Russian film director, stroke.  (Russian)
Jim Podoley, 76, American football player (Washington Redskins), melanoma. 
James Henry Quello, 95, American government official, FCC Commissioner (1974–1997), heart and kidney failure. 
FitzRoy Somerset, 5th Baron Raglan, 82, British aristocrat.
Pernell Roberts, 81, American actor (Bonanza; Trapper John, M.D.), pancreatic cancer. 
January 23
Robert Lam, 64, Malaysian news presenter, skin cancer. 
Douglas J. Martin, 82, New Zealand leader in the LDS Church.
Sam Match, 87, American tennis player.
Roger Pierre, 86, French actor (Mon oncle d'Amérique), cancer.  (French)
Sir Thomas Prickett, 96, British Royal Air Force Air Chief Marshal. 
Kermit Tyler, 96, American pilot, figured in the attack on Pearl Harbor, complications from strokes. 
Oleg Velyky, 32, Ukrainian-born German handball player, melanoma.  (German)
Earl Wild, 94, American classical pianist, heart failure. 
January 22
Apache, 45, American rapper, after long illness. 
Donnis Churchwell, 73, American football player.
Sir Percy Cradock, 86, British diplomat, after short illness. 
Sir Dermot de Trafford, 85, British aristocrat and businessman.
Clayton Gerein, 45, Canadian wheelchair sports athlete, seven-time Paralympian, brain tumor. 
Louis R. Harlan, 87, American Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, after long illness. 
Iskandar of Johor, 77, Malaysian Yang di-Pertuan Agong (1984–1989), Sultan of Johor (1981–2010). 
Jennifer Lyn Jackson, 40, American Playboy model, drug overdose. 
Andrew E. Lange, 52, American astrophysicist, Big Bang researcher, suicide by asphyxiation. 
Janeshwar Mishra, 76, Indian politician, cardiac arrest. 
James Mitchell, 89, American actor (All My Children), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. 
Private Terms, 25, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized. 
Maggie Renfro, 114, American supercentenarian, fourth-oldest person in the world, pneumonia. 
Gordon Richardson, Baron Richardson of Duntisbourne, 94, British Governor of the Bank of England (1973–1983). 
Johnny Seven, 83, American character actor (Ironside), lung cancer.
Jean Simmons, 80, British-born American actress (Hamlet, Spartacus), lung cancer. 
Tuanaitau F. Tuia, 89, American Samoan politician and legislator, longest serving member of the American Samoa Fono. 
Betty Wilson, 88, Australian cricketer. 
Tom Wittum, 60, American football player (San Francisco 49ers), cancer.
January 21
Bobby Bragan, 92, American baseball player and manager, heart attack. 
Irwin Dambrot, 81, American basketball player involved in the CCNY Point Shaving Scandal, Parkinson's disease. 
Lawrence Garfinkel, 88, American epidemiologist, cardiovascular disease. 
Larry Johnson, 62, American film producer, heart attack. 
Chindodi Leela, 72, Indian theatre and film actress, complications from heart attack. 
Robert "Squirrel" Lester, 67, American smooth soul tenor (The Chi-Lites), liver cancer. 
Hal Manders, 92, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers). 
Jacques Martin, 88, French comics artist and writer. 
Camille Maurane, 98, French baritone singer.  (French)
Guillermo Abadía Morales, 97, Colombian folklore researcher, indigenous language expert, natural causes.  (Spanish)
Curt Motton, 69, American baseball player, stomach cancer. 
Paul Quarrington, 56, Canadian novelist, musician and screenwriter, lung cancer. 
January 20
Enid Campbell, 77, Australian legal scholar. 
Tony Cummins, 103, Irish Roman Catholic priest. 
Patricia Donoho Hughes, 79, American First Lady of Maryland (1979–1987), wife of Harry Hughes, Parkinson's disease. 
John S. Loisel, 89, American fighter ace. 
Calvin Maglinger, 85, American painter. 
Bob Minton, 63, American-born Irish banker, critic of Scientology, heart ailment. 
John Francis Moore, 68, Nigerian Roman Catholic Bishop of Bauchi (since 2003). 
Jack Parry, 86, Welsh footballer. 
Abraham Sutzkever, 96, Polish-born Israeli poet.
Lynn Taitt, 75, Jamaican reggae guitarist, cancer.
January 19
Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, 50, Palestinian leader of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, murdered. 
Frances Buss Buch, 92, American first female television director. 
Ian Christie, 82, British jazz clarinetist. 
Tom Cochran, 85, American football player (Washington Redskins). 
Dan Fitzgerald, 67, American college basketball coach (Gonzaga). 
Danny Fitzgerald, Irish hurler and Gaelic football player.  (death announced on this date)
Christos Hatziskoulidis, 58, Greek footballer (Egaleo F.C.), cancer.  (Greek)
Vladimir Karpov, 87, Russian writer, Chairman of the USSR Union of Writers (1986–1991).  (Russian)
Jennifer Lyon, 37, American reality TV personality (Survivor: Palau), breast cancer. 
Ida Mae Martinez, 78, American professional wrestler. 
Bill McLaren, 86, Scottish rugby union commentator.
Panajot Pano, 70, Albanian footballer.  (Albanian)
Cerge Remonde, 51, Filipino press secretary, heart attack.
Kalthoum Sarrai, 47, Tunisian-born French television presenter (Supernanny), cancer. 
January 18
K. S. Ashwath, 84, Indian actor, multiple organ failure. 
Cyril Burke, 84, Australian rugby union player.
Herb Grosch, 91, Canadian-born American computer scientist. 
Kate McGarrigle, 63, Canadian folk singer, clear-cell sarcoma.
Günter Mielke, 67, German Olympic athlete.  (German)
Imari Obadele, 79, American black separatist, stroke.
Kevin O'Shea, 62, Canadian ice hockey player.
Robert B. Parker, 77, American detective writer (Spenser series, Jesse Stone novels), heart attack. 
Jörgen Philip-Sörensen, 71, Danish businessman, after long illness. 
Robert D. Rowley, Jr., 68, American Episcopal Bishop of Northwestern Pennsylvania (1991–2007). 
Josephus Tethool, 75, Indonesian Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of Amboina (1982–2009). 
Celestino Tugot, 99, Filipino [golf]er, winner of the Philippine Open (1949, 1955–1958, 1962), lung cancer. 
January 17
Gaines Adams, 26, American football player (Chicago Bears, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), cardiac arrest.
Maki Asakawa, 67, Japanese singer, heart failure.  (Japanese)
Jyoti Basu, 95, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (1977–2000), complications from pneumonia. 
Thomas F. Cowan, 82, American politician, New Jersey State Senator (1984–1994). 
Daisuke Gōri, 57, Japanese voice actor (Dragon Ball, Kinnikuman, Mobile Suit Gundam), suicide by wrist cutting. 
Béla Köpeczi, 88, Hungarian historian and politician, Minister of Education (1982–1988).  (Hungarian)
Michalis Papakonstantinou, 91, Greek politician and author, Minister for Foreign Affairs (1992–1993).  (Greek)
Erich Segal, 72, American professor, author (Love Story), and screenwriter (Yellow Submarine), heart attack. 
January 16
Glen Bell, 86, American entrepreneur, founder of Taco Bell. 
Judi Chamberlin, 65, American anti-psychiatry activist, lung disease.

Guy Day, 79, American advertising executive. 
Sam Dixon, 60, American minister, Deputy General Secretary of UMCOR (since 2007), earthquake.
Musa Inuwa, 62, Nigerian politician. 
George Jellinek, 90, American radio personality (WQXR). 
Stephen Morse, 65, American poet, complications from colon and lung cancer. 
Felice Quinto, 80, Italian photographer. 
Takumi Shibano, 83, Japanese novelist, pneumonia. (Japanese)
Carl Smith, 82, American country singer-songwriter (Hey Joe), after long illness. 
Bernie Weintraub, 76, American talent agent, co-founder of the Paradigm Talent Agency.
Jimmy Wyble, 87, American guitarist, heart failure. 
January 15
Asim Butt, 31, Pakistani artist (Stuckism art movement), suicide by hanging. 
Florence-Marie Cooper, 69, American federal judge, District Court for Central District of California (since 1999), lymphoma. 
Michael Creeth, 85, British biochemist. 
Bahman Jalali, 65, Iranian photographer, pancreatic cancer. 
Detlev Lauscher, 57, German footballer.  (German)
Steve Lovelady, 66, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, throat cancer. 
Marshall Warren Nirenberg, 82, American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (1968), cancer. 
Peter Thomson, 73, Australian Anglican theologian, mentor to Tony Blair.
January 14
Ante Babaja, 82, Croatian film director and screenwriter. 
Bobby Charles, 71, American songwriter ("See You Later, Alligator", "(I Don't Know Why) But I Do"). 
Antonio Fontan, 86, Spanish politician and journalist.  (Spanish)
Micha Gaillard, Haitian politician, earthquake. 
John F. Hayes, 90, American attorney and politician, Kansas House of Representatives (1953–1955; 1967–1979). 
Mark Jones, 70, British actor. 
Charles Nolte, 86, American actor, playwright and educator, prostate cancer. 
Otto, 20, British dachshund-terrier, world's oldest dog, euthanised following stomach tumour. 
P. K. Page, 93, Canadian poet. 
Chilton Price, 96, American songwriter ("Slow Poke", "You Belong to Me"). 
Phoebe Prince, 15, Irish student at South Hadley High School, Massachusetts, bullying victim, suicide by hanging. 
Marika Rivera, 90, French actress, daughter of Diego Rivera. 
James W. Rutherford, 84, American Mayor of Flint, Michigan (1975–1983, 2002–2003). 
Katharina Rutschky, 68, German educationalist and author. (German)
Petra Schürmann, 74, German television presenter, Miss World 1956, after long illness.  (German)
Jessie Tait, 81, British ceramic designer. 
Antonio Vilaplana Molina, 83, Spanish Roman Catholic Bishop of León (1987–2002), renal failure. (Spanish)
Bernie Voorheis, 87, American basketball player. 
Rowland Wolfe, 95, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1932) gymnast. 
January 13
Jack Block, 85, American psychologist, complications of a spinal cord injury. 
Edward Brinton, 86, American marine biologist, after long illness. 
Sir Robin Maxwell-Hyslop, 78, British politician, MP for Tiverton (1960–1992). 
Abdullah Mehdar, Yemeni Al-Qaeda terrorist, shot. 
Teddy Pendergrass, 59, American soul singer, complications from colorectal cancer. 
Jay Reatard, 29, American garage punk musician, cocaine toxicity. 
Tommy Sloan, 84, British footballer. 
Isamu Tanonaka, 77, Japanese seiyū (GeGeGe no Kitaro), heart attack. 
Ed Thigpen, 79, American jazz drummer, after long illness.
Edgar Vos, 78, Dutch fashion designer, heart attack.
January 12
Masoud Alimohammadi, 50, Iranian nuclear scientist, bomb blast. 
Georges Anglade, 65, Haitian professor and cabinet minister, co-founder of Université du Québec à Montréal, earthquake. 
Hédi Annabi, 65, Tunisian diplomat, Head of MINUSTAH, earthquake. 
Zilda Arns, 75, Brazilian pediatrician and humanitarian, earthquake.  (Portuguese)
Daniel Bensaïd, 63, French philosopher and Trotskyist activist. (French)
Ken Colbung, 78, Australian Aboriginal elder, after short illness. 
Shirley Bell Cole, 89, American voice actor (Little Orphan Annie).
Luiz Carlos da Costa, 60, Brazilian diplomat, Deputy Head of MINUSTAH, earthquake.  (Portuguese)
Antoine Craan‎, 78, Haitiian-born Canadian footballer, earthquake. 
Brian Damage, 46, American punk and rock drummer (Misfits), complications of colorectal cancer. 
Miguel Ángel de la Flor, 85, Peruvian army officer and politician. Spanish)
Ralph S. Johnson, 103, American aviation pioneer. 
Kritsada Arunwong na Ayutthaya, 78, Thai architect, Governor of Bangkok (1996–2001), coronary artery disease. 
Fred Krone, 79, American stuntman, cancer.
Hillis Layne, 91, American Major League Baseball player (1941, 1944–1945). 
Serge Marcil, 65, Canadian politician, Quebec MNA (1985–1994), MP for Beauharnois—Salaberry (2000–2004), earthquake. 
Alastair Martin, 94, American tennis player, member of the Hall of Fame, President of the USTA (1969–1970).
Sir Allen McClay, 77, British founder of pharmaceutical company Almac, cancer. 
Flo McGarrell, 35, Italian-born American artist, earthquake. 
Myriam Merlet, 53, Haitian political activist, earthquake. 
Joseph Serge Miot, 63, Haitian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Port-au-Prince, earthquake. 
Elizabeth Moody, 70, New Zealand actress and theatre director, pneumonia. 
Jimmy O, 35, Haitian hip hop musician, earthquake. 
Ann Prentiss, 70, American actress. 
Art Rust, Jr., 82, American sports commentator, Parkinson's disease. 
Hasib Sabbagh, 89, Palestinian businessman. 
Vanda Skuratovich, 84, Belarusian Roman Catholic activist. (Russian)
Yabby You, 63, Jamaican reggae singer and producer, stroke. 
January 11
Juliet Anderson, 71, American pornographic actress and movie producer.
Francisco Benkö, 99, German-born Argentine chess master. (Spanish)
Robben Wright Fleming, 93, American president of the University of Michigan (1968–1978). 
George Garanian, 75, Russian jazz saxophonist and bandleader, cardiac arrest. 
Dorothy Geeben, 101, American Mayor of Ocean Breeze Park, Florida (since 2001), oldest active mayor in the U.S.
Miep Gies, 100, Dutch humanitarian, protector of Anne Frank and her family during WWII, complications following a fall.
Mick Green, 65, British rock and roll guitarist (Johnny Kidd & The Pirates, Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas). 
Andis Hadjicostis, 43, Cypriot CEO of Sigma TV, shot.  (Greek)
Kurt Liebhart, 76, Austrian Olympic sprint canoer.  (German)
Harry Männil, 89, Estonian-born Venezuelan businessman. 
Bob Noorda, 82, Dutch-born Italian graphic designer.
Éric Rohmer, 89, French film director. 
Joe Rollino, 104, American strongman, weightlifter, and boxer, struck by van. 
Dennis Stock, 81, American photographer (Magnum Photos), colon and liver cancer. 
Gordon Van Tol, 49, Canadian Olympic water polo player, heart attack. 
January 10
Sir Donald Acheson, 83, British physician, Chief Medical Officer of England (1983–1991). 
Sailadhar Baruah, 68, Indian film producer, complications of diabetes.
Mina Bern, 98, Polish-born American Yiddish theatre actor, heart failure. 
Bert Bushnell, 88, British Olympic gold medal-winning rower (1948). 
Carlos Bonilla Chávez, 86, Ecuadorian classical guitarist. ] (Spanish)
Simon Digby, 77, Indian-born British scholar and linguist, pancreatic cancer. 
Jan C. Gabriel, 69, American race track announcer, complications from polycystic kidney disease. 
Donald Goerke, 83, American executive (Campbell's Soup Company), created SpaghettiOs, heart failure. 
Dick Johnson, 84, American big band clarinetist (Artie Shaw Band), after short illness. 
Edward Linde, 67, American businessman, founder of Boston Properties, pneumonia. 
Frances Morrell, 72, British political adviser and educationalist, cancer. 
Ulf Olsson, 58, Swedish murderer, suicide by hanging.  (Swedish).
Bill Patterson, 87, Australian racing driver, natural causes. 
Jayne Walton Rosen, 92, American singer, Lawrence Welk's Champagne Lady (1940–1945), natural causes. 
Moisés Saba, 47, Mexican entrepreneur, helicopter crash. (Spanish)
Dale Shewalter, 59, American teacher, founder of the Arizona Trail, cancer.
Mano Solo, 46, French singer, ruptured aneurysm. 
Crispin Sorhaindo, 78, Dominican politician, President (1993–1998), cancer. 
Bojidar Spiriev, 78, Bulgarian-born Hungarian hydrologist and statistician, creator of IAAF scoring tables. 
Torbjørn Yggeseth, 75, Norwegian ski jumping athlete and official.  (Norwegian)
January 9
Améleté Abalo, 47, Togolese national football team assistant coach, shot. 
Christopher Shaman Abba, 74, Nigerian Roman Catholic Bishop of Yola (since 1996), Bishop of Minna (1973–1996). 
Amo Bessone, 93, American ice hockey player and coach. 
Gösta Bredefeldt, 74, Swedish actor.  (Swedish)
Franz-Hermann Brüner, 64, German head of OLAF, after long illness. 
Acúrsio Carrelo, 78, Portuguese footballer.  (Portuguese)
Mark Ellidge, British press photographer. 
Ken Genser, 59, American politician, Mayor of Santa Monica, California, after long illness. 
Per N. Hagen, 73, Norwegian politician.  (Norwegian)
Rupert Hamer, 39, British journalist, defence correspondent for the Sunday Mirror, improvised explosive device.
Fatimah Hashim, 85, Malaysian politician, first female minister in the Malaysian government.
Laura Chapman Hruska, 74, American writer, co-founder and editor in chief of Soho Press, cancer.
Jack Kerness, 98, American art director, natural causes. 
Nadav Levitan, 64, Israeli film director and screenwriter, lung disease.
Yevgeny Paladiev, 61, Soviet-born Kazakh ice hockey player. (Russian)
Diether Posser, 87, German politician.  (German)
Armand Razafindratandra, 84, Malagasy cardinal, Archbishop of Antananarivo (1994–2005), fall. 
Vimcy, 84, Indian sports writer. 
January 8
Bob Blackburn, 85, American sports commentator (Seattle SuperSonics), pneumonia. 
Jean Charpentier, 74, Canadian journalist, press secretary for Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, cancer. 
Art Clokey, 88, American stop motion animator (Gumby, Davey and Goliath), bladder infection. 
Piero De Bernardi, 83, Italian screenwriter.  (Italian)
Tony Halme, 47, Finnish professional boxer, actor, wrestler and Member of Parliament (2003–2007), suicide by gunshot.  (Finnish)
Slavka Maneva, 75, Macedonian writer and poet.  (Macedonian)
Charles Massi, 57, Central African politician and rebel leader.
Monica Maughan, 76, Australian actress, cancer. 
Jim Rimmer, 75, Canadian graphic designer, cancer. 
Otmar Suitner, 87, Austrian conductor.  (German)
Hans L. Trefousse, 88, German-born American historian.
Amir Vahedi, 48, Iranian-born American poker player, complications of diabetes. 
Sumner G. Whittier, 98, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (1953–1957). 

January 7
Alexander Garnet Brown, 79, Canadian politician, member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly (1969–1978). 
Bruria Kaufman, 91, Israeli physicist. 
Stephen Huneck, 61, American wood carving artist, suicide by gunshot. 
Kamal Mahsud, Pakistani Pashto language folk singer, gas leak. 
Alex Parker, 74, Scottish football player and manager, heart attack. 
Donald Edmond Pelotte, 64, American Roman Catholic Bishop of Gallup (1990–2008), first Native American bishop. 
Blanca Sánchez, 63, Mexican actress, kidney failure. 
Philippe Séguin, 66, French politician, heart attack. 
Jim White, 67, American professional wrestler, cancer.
Hardy Williams, 78, American politician, Pennsylvania State Senator (1983–1998), Alzheimer's disease. 
January 6
David Giles, 83, British television director.
Michael Goulder, 82, British biblical scholar. 
Michael Harper, 78, British priest of the Church of England and later of the Antiochian Orthodox Church. 
George Leonard, 86, American writer, editor and educator, pioneer of the Human Potential Movement, after long illness. 
Graham Leonard, 88, British Church of England Bishop of London (1981–1991), subsequently a Roman Catholic priest.
Ivan Medek, 84, Czech music publicist, theorist and critic, collaborator of Václav Talich and Václav Havel.  (Czech)
Harriet Miller, 90, American politician, Mayor of Santa Barbara, California (1995–2001). 
Beniamino Placido, 80, Italian journalist and television critic. 
James von Brunn, 89, American white supremacist, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting suspect. 
January 5
Abdul Azim al-Deeb, 80, Qatari professor (Qatar University). 
Beverly Aadland, 67, American actress, girlfriend of Errol Flynn, diabetes and heart failure. 
Bernard Le Nail, 63, French writer, historian, Breton language and cultural advocate, cerebral hemorrhage.  (French)
Willie Mitchell, 81, American musician and record producer, cardiac arrest. 
Kenneth Noland, 85, American color field painter, kidney cancer. 
Courage Quashigah, 62, Ghanaian politician.
Philippa Scott, 91, British conservationist. 
George Syrimis, 88, Cypriot finance minister (1988–1993).
Toni Tecuceanu, 37, Romanian comedy actor, bacterial infection. 
George Willoughby, 95, American Quaker activist. 
January 4
Paul Ahyi, 79, Togolese artist, designer of the flag of Togo.  (French)
Lew Allen, 84, American USAF general, NSA Director (1973–1977), USAF Chief of Staff (1978–1982), rheumatoid arthritis. 
Knox Burger, 87, American editor, writer, and literary agent. 
Neil Christian, 66, British singer, cancer. 
Tony Clarke, 68, British musician and record producer (The Moody Blues), emphysema. 
Donal Donnelly, 78, English-born Irish actor, cancer 
Hywel Teifi Edwards, 74, Welsh historian and writer, after short illness. 
Johan Ferrier, 99, Surinamese politician, President (1975–1980). 
Tadeusz Góra, 91, Polish pilot. (Polish)
Casey Johnson, 30, American socialite, Johnson & Johnson heiress, diabetic ketoacidosis. 
Rory Markas, 54, American baseball radio announcer (Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim), heart attack. 
Sandro de América, 64, Argentinian singer, complications from heart and lung transplant surgery.
Ludwig Wilding, 82, German artist.  (German)
Tsutomu Yamaguchi, 93, Japanese survivor of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, stomach cancer. 
January 3
Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt, 84, Chilean composer, lung cancer. (Spanish)
Margery Beddow, 72, American choreographer and dancer.
Barry Blair, 56, Canadian comics artist and writer, brain aneurysm. 
Gianni Bonichon, 65, Italian bobsledder, Olympic silver medalist.  (Italian)
Sir Ian Brownlie, 77, British barrister, traffic collision. 
Joyce Collins, 79, American jazz singer and pianist, pulmonary fibrosis. 
Mary Daly, 81, American radical feminist philosopher. 
Francis Gillingham, 93, British neurosurgeon. 
Ali Safi Golpaygani, 96, Iranian Marja', natural causes.  (Persian)
Billy Harris, 58, American basketball player (Northern Illinois Huskies, San Diego Conquistadors), stroke. 
John Keith Irwin, 80, American sociologist. 
Eunice Walker Johnson, 93, American director of Ebony Fashion Fair, widow of John H. Johnson, renal failure. 
Charles Kleibacker, 88, American fashion designer, pneumonia. 
Takis Michalos, 63, Greek national team water polo player and coach, cancer. (Greek)
Moti Nandi, 79, Indian writer and sports journalist. 
Geoffrey Reeve, 77, British film director. 
Isak Rogde, 62, Norwegian translator.  (Norwegian)
Tibet, 78, French comics artist and writer. 
Bobby Wilkins, 87, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).
January 2
Johann Frank, 71, Austrian football player (FK Austria Wien).  (German)
David Gerber, 86, American executive producer (Police Story, Police Woman), heart failure. 
Deborah Howell, 68, American journalist, Washington Post ombudsman, hit by car. 
Augustine Paul, 65, Malaysian Federal Court judge, after chronic illness. 
David R. Ross, 51, Scottish historian, heart attack. 
Rajendra Keshavlal Shah, 96, Indian poet. 

January 1
Gary Brockette, 62, American actor and assistant director, cancer.
Chauncey H. Browning, Jr., 75, American politician, West Virginia Attorney General (1969–1985).
Jean Carroll, 98, American comedienne (The Ed Sullivan Show). 
Periyasamy Chandrasekaran, 52, Sri Lankan politician, Member of Parliament, after short illness. 
Lhasa de Sela, 37, American singer, breast cancer. 
Michael Dwyer, 58, Irish journalist and film critic, lung cancer. 
Alfredo Mario Espósito Castro, 82, Argentinian Roman Catholic Bishop of Zárate-Campana (1976–1991). 
John Freeman, 93, American animator (The Smurfs) and animation director (My Little Pony and Friends). 
Bingo Gazingo, 85, American performance poet, struck by car.
Richard Kindleberger, 67, American newspaper reporter (The Boston Globe), brain tumor. 
John Lyon, 58, British cricketer. 
Tetsuo Narikawa, 65, Japanese actor (Spectreman) and karate instructor. 
Marlene Neubauer-Woerner, 91, German sculptor.  (German)
Mohamed Rahmat, 71, Malaysian politician, Information Minister (1978–1982, 1987–1999). 
Faisal Bin Shamlan, 75, Yemeni politician, presidential candidate (2006), cancer. 
Billy Arjan Singh, 92, Indian author. 
Gregory Slay, 40, American rock drummer (Remy Zero), songwriter (Nip/Tuck theme), cystic fibrosis. 
Freya von Moltke, 98, German World War II resistance fighter.
Tom Walsh, 67, American politician, member of the Wyoming House of Representatives (2003–2008), leukemia. 
John Shelton Wilder, 88, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee (1971–2007), stroke.

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