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The following is a list of notable deaths in 2012.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference (and language of reference, if not English).

May 2012

4

Felix Werder, 90, German-born Australian composer. [1] (death announced on this date)

3

Edith Bliss, 52, Australian pop singer and television presenter. [2]
Lloyd Brevett, 80, Jamaican double bassist (The Skatalites), complications from stroke. [3]
Gabriel Huge, Mexican photojournalist (Vera Cruz News), tortured and dismembered. [4] (body discovered on this date)
Jorge Illueca, 93, Panamanian politician, President (1984), respiratory failure. [5] (Spanish)
Nenad Šarić, 65, Croatian drummer and musician, stroke. [6] (Croatian)
František Tondra, 75, Slovak Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Spiš (1989–2011), heart failure. [7] (Slovak)
Lourdes Valera, 48, Venezuelan actress, lung cancer. [8] (Spanish)
Guillermo Luna Varela, Mexican freelance photojournalist, tortured and dismembered. [9] (body discovered on this date)
Digby Wolfe, 82, Australian actor and screenwriter, cancer. [10]

2

Nélida Gómez de Navajas, 76, Argentine human rights activist (Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo). [11] (Spanish)
Fernando Lopes, 76, Portuguese film director, throat cancer. [12] (Portuguese)
James Marker, 90, Canadian businessman, inventor of Cheezies. [13]
Tufan Miñnullin, 76, Russian Tatar writer and playwright, heart attack. [14] (Russian)
Seiryū Ōta, 84, Japanese calligrapher, heart failure. [15] (Japanese)
Junior Seau, 43, American football player (San Diego Chargers, Miami Dolphins, New England Patriots), suicide. [16]
Endang Rahayu Sedyaningsih, 57, Indonesian physician, Minister of Health (2009–2012), cancer. [17]
J. T. Ready, 39, American border militia leader, suicide. [18]
Akira Tonomura, 70, Japanese physicist, pancreatic cancer. [19] (Japanese)
Emma Yong, 36, Singaporean stage actress (Dim Sum Dollies), stomach cancer. [20]
Jun Nagara, 74, Japanese entertainments promoter, golf cart accident. [21] (Japanese)
Zvi Zeitlin, 90, Russian classical violinist, pneumonia. [22]

1

Gogó Andreu, 92, Argentine comedian and actor. [23] (Spanish)
Linda Georgian, 66, American author and psychic, co-host of Psychic Friends Network, multiple myeloma. [24]
Greg Jackson, 60, American basketball player (New York Knicks, Phoenix Suns). [25]
Eric James, 87, British Anglican clergyman and broadcaster. [26]
Charles Pitts, 65, American soul musician, guitarist for Isaac Hayes, lung cancer. [27]
Earl Rose, 85, American medical examiner in Dallas, Texas, tried to autopsy President Kennedy after assassination, Parkinson's disease. [28]
Mordechai Virshubski, 82, Israeli politician, Deputy Speaker of the Knesset (1988–1992). [29]
Shanmugasundari, 75, Indian film actress, heart attack. [30]

April 2012

30

Ernst Bolldén, 45, Swedish wheelchair table tennis player and Paralympian gold (1996) and bronze (1996, 2000) medalist, bladder cancer. [31] (Swedish)
Tomás Borge, 81, Nicaraguan politician and poet, founder of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, pneumonia. [32]
Rob van den Broeck, 71, Dutch jazz pianist and painter [33] (Dutch)
Alexander Dale Oen, 26, Norwegian Olympic silver medal-winning (2008) swimmer, cardiac arrest. [34]
Giannis Gravanis, 54, Greek footballer (Panionios F.C.). [35] (Greek)
Taneo Ishida, 83, Japanese dancer and choreographer, lung cancer. [36] (Japanese)
Radovan Kuchař, 83, Czech mountain climber (voted "Czech mountaineer of the 20th century"). [37]
Andrew Levane, 92, American basketball player (Rochester Royals, Syracuse Nationals, Milwaukee Hawks) and coach (Milwaukee Hawks, New York Knicks, St. Louis Bombers). [38]
George Murdock, 81, American actor (Barney Miller, Battlestar Galactica, The X-Files), cancer. [39]
Billy Neighbors, 72, American football player (Boston Patriots, Miami Dolphins), heart attack. [40]
Benzion Netanyahu, 102, Israeli historian, academic, and Revisionist Zionist activist, father of Benjamin Netanyahu. [41]
Achala Sachdev, 91, Indian actress. [42]
Sicelo Shiceka, 45, South African politician, Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (since 2009). [43]

29

Eric Charden, 69, French singer, lymphoma. [44] (Dutch)
Wiesław Chrzanowski, 88, Polish politician and professor, Marshal of the Sejm (1991–1993). [45] (Polish)
Khalil Dale, 60, British aid worker, beheaded. [46]
Dynaformer, 27, American racehorse and sire, euthanized. [47]
Shukri Ghanem, 69, Libyan politician, Prime Minister (2003–2006) and Minister of Oil (2006–2011). [48]
Joel Goldsmith, 54, American film and television composer (Stargate), son of Jerry Goldsmith. [49]
Joram Lindenstrauss, 75, Israeli mathematician. [50]
Regina Martínez, Mexican journalist (Proceso), asphyxiation. [51]
Roland Moreno, 66, French inventor, creator of the chipcard. [52] (French)
Eitarō Nomura, 83, Japanese journalist, president of Kyoto Shimbun, cerebral hemorrhage. [53] (Japanese)
Kenny Roberts, 84, American country music singer and yodeler. [54]
Kei Shibusawa, 63, Japanese artist, Nichiren Buddhist monk, and guest professor (Minobusan University), acute myocardial infarction. [55] (Japanese)
Aberdeen Shikoyi, Kenyan rugby player, spinal cord injury sustained in match play. [56]
Amarillo Slim, 83, American professional gambler (winner of the 1972 World Series of Poker Main Event), colon cancer. [57]
Idar Ulstein, 78, Norwegian businessman, cancer. [58] (Norwegian)
Ervin Zádor, 76, Hungarian water polo player, Olympic gold medalist (1956). [59] (Hungarian)

28

Sir Fred Allen, 92, New Zealand rugby player, captain, and coach, leukemia. [60]
John Birch, 82, British musician. [61]
Dik Bruynesteyn, 84, Dutch cartoonist. [62] (Dutch)
Matilde Camus, 92, Spanish poet. [63] (Spanish)
Joaquín Dualde, 79, Spanish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1960) field hockey player. [64] (Spanish)
Stein Johnson, 90, Norwegian Olympic (1948, 1952) discus thrower. [65] (Norwegian)
Kiyoshi Koike, 80, Japanese announcer (Mainichi Broadcasting System) and master of ceremonies (Up-Down Quiz), pneumonia. [66] (Japanese)
Pierre Magnan, 89, French author. [67] (French)
Patricia Medina, 92, British actress, natural causes. [68]
Milan N. Popović, 87, Serbian psychiatrist and author. [69] (Serbian)
Tom Spence, 50, Scottish footballer, suspected heart failure. [70]
Masaaki Yana, 67, Japanese actor, esophageal cancer. [71] (Japanese)

27

Daniel E. Boatwright, 82, American politician, California State Senator (1980–1996). [72]
Yūichirō Kominami, 88, Japanese editor-in-chief (Asahi Journal). [73] (Japanese)
Takayoshi Nagamine, 66, Japanese karate master and trainer. [74]
František Procházka, 50, Czech Olympic bronze medal-winning (1992) ice hockey player. [75] (Czech)
Harold Pupkewitz, 96, Lithuanian-born Namibian businessman, heart attack. [76]
Bill Skowron, 81, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Chicago White Sox), heart failure. [77]
Allen Tough, 76, Canadian scientist, complications of multiple system atrophy. [78]
Abu Mohammad Jawad Walieddine, 96, Lebanese Druze religious leader. [79]
David Weiss, 65, Swiss artist (Peter Fischli & David Weiss). [80] (German)

26

Pete Fornatale, 66, American radio disc jockey (WNEW-FM, WFUV), brain aneurysm. [81]
Wim Franken, 90, Dutch composer and pianist. [82] (Dutch)
Floyd D. Hall, 96, American pilot, chairman and chief executive of Eastern Air Lines. [83]
Azuma Karahashi, 99, Japanese politician, councillor (Japan Social Democratic Party), and mayor of Kitakata, Fukushima, bronchial pneumonia. [84] (Japanese)
Ardian Klosi, 55, Albanian political analyst, publicist, and writer, suicide. [85] (Albanian)
Ted Newall, 76, Canadian businessman. [86]
José Martins Ribeiro Nunes, 85, Brazilian naval pilot. [87] (Portuguese)
Terence Spinks, 74, British Olympic gold medal-winning (1956) boxer. [88]
Walter Tucker, 79, Canadian marijuana activist, Church of the Universe founder. [89]
Chut Wuthy, 40, Cambodian environmental activist, shot. [90]

25

Louis le Brocquy, 95, Irish painter. [91]
Rolando Ramos Dizon, 67, Filipino educator, Chairman of the Commission on Higher Education (2003–2004). [92]
Sir Brandon Gough, 74, British businessman, Chancellor of the University of East Anglia (since 2003). [93]
Denny Jones, 101, American politician, member of the Oregon House of Representatives (1973–1999). [94]
Moscelyne Larkin, 87, American ballerina. [95]
Stephen Maxwell, 69, Scottish politician. [96]
Jan Bernard Szlaga, 71, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Pelplin (since 1992), duodenal ulcer hemorrhage. [97] (Polish)
Brij Bhushan Tiwari, 71, Indian politician, heart attack. [98]

24

Ubaldo de Lío, 83, Argentine tango guitarist. [99] (Spanish)
Nell Ginjaar-Maas, 80, Dutch politician, State Secretary for Education and Science (1982–1989). [100] (Dutch)
Wim Hoddes, 93, Dutch actor, natural causes. [101] (Dutch)
Fumihiko Nakatsu, 70, Japanese novelist, liver failure. [102] (Japanese)
Erast Parmasto, 83, Estonian mycologist. [103] (Estonian)
Miguel Portas, 53, Portuguese politician, Member of the European Parliament for Portugal (since 2004), lung cancer. [104] (Portuguese)
Aase Rasmussen, 90, Danish-born Dutch actress and radio host. [105] (Dutch)
Eusebio Razo, Jr., 46, Mexican-born American jockey, explosion. [106]
Shireen Ritchie, Baroness Ritchie of Brompton, 67, British peeress, councillor for Brompton ward, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (since 1998). [107]
Yugo Sako, 84, Japanese movie director, aspiration pneumonia. [108] (Japanese)
Seiki Tsuchida, 43, Japanese manga artist, cirrhosis. [109]
Amos Vogel, 91, Austrian-born American film scholar, founder of the New York Film Festival and Cinema 16. [110]
George Vujnovich, 96, American OSS agent and leader of Operation Halyard, natural causes. [111]
Ambrose Weekes, 93, British Anglican bishop. [112]

23

Navodaya Appachan, 81, Indian film producer, cancer. [113]
Lillemor Arvidsson, 68, Swedish trade union leader and politician, Governor of Gotland (1998–2004). [114] (Swedish)
Ferenc Boday, 72, Hungarian footballer, winner of 1961 national championship (Vasas SC). [115] (Hungarian)
Hacho Boyadzhiev, 80, Bulgarian television and film director. [116]
Michael Brinton, 70, British businessman, Lord Lieutenant of Worcestershire (since 2001), cancer. [117]
Billy Bryans, 62, Canadian musician and producer (Parachute Club), lung cancer. [118]
Roland Dale, 84, American football player (Washington Redskins). [119]
Michael DeBose, 58, American politician, Member of the Ohio House of Representatives (2002–2010), complications of Parkinson's disease. [120]
Chris Ethridge, 65, American country rock bassist (International Submarine Band, The Flying Burrito Brothers). [121]
Ryūichirō Kanazawa, 71, Japanese businessman, managing director of TV Tokyo, pancreatic cancer. [122] (Japanese)
Laura Lamb, 67, American actress (They Shoot Horses, Don't They?) and ballerina. [123]
Tommy Marth, 33, American musician (The Killers), suicide. [124]
Decio Sa, Brazilian journalist, shot. [125]
Kishiko Wakamatsu, 96, Japanese pianist, pneumonia. [126] (Japanese)
LeRoy T. Walker, 93, American track coach, Chairman of the US Olympic Committee (1992–1996). [127]
George Ward, 79, British businessman, key figure in the Grunwick dispute. [128]
Flo Whyard, 95, Canadian politician, Mayor of Whitehorse (1981–1983), Yukon territorial minister (1975–1978), editor of the Whitehorse Star. [129]

22

John Amabile, 73, American football scout (New York Giants), coach and player (Boston College). [130]
Bill Granger, 70, American author and columnist. [131]
Koichi Iwashiro, 81, Japanese composer, lung cancer. [132] (Japanese)
Matti Kuosku, 71, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier. [133] (Swedish)
José Llompart, 82, Japanese professor (Sophia University), acute heart failure. [134] (Japanese)
George Rathmann, 84, American businessman, first chief executive of Amgen, kidney failure. [135]
Claire Squires, 30, British hairdresser, collapsed while running London Marathon. [136]
Aristarkh Stankevich, 70, Belarusian Orthodox hierarch, Archbishop of Gomel and Zhlobin (since 1990). [137] (Russian)
Jan Suzin, 82, Polish television announcer and actor, after long illness. [138] (Polish)

21

Doris Betts, 79, American author, lung cancer. [139]
Ramón Búa Otero, 78, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tarazona (1982–1989) and Calahorra y La Calzada-Logroño (1989–2003). [140]
Charles Colson, 80, American White House Counsel convicted in Watergate scandal, evangelist, founder of Prison Fellowship, brain hemorrhage. [141]
Albert Falco, 84, French sea captain and scuba diver. [142] (French)
Charles Higham, 81, Anglo-American biographer, heart attack. [143]
Iküzöne, 46, Japanese bassist (Dragon Ash), acute cardiac insufficiency. [144]
Heinz Jentzsch, 92, German racehorse trainer. [145] (German)
Leonid Menaker, 82, Russian film director. [146] (Russian)
Jerry Toppazzini, 80, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins, Chicago Black Hawks, Detroit Red Wings). [147]

20

Mario Arturo Acosta Chaparro, 70, Mexican army general, shot. [148]
Ayten Alpman, 82, Turkish singer, respiratory failure. [149]
Jack Ashley, Baron Ashley of Stoke, 89, British politician and disability campaigner, MP for Stoke-on-Trent South (1966–1992). [150]
Alfie Biggs, 76, English footballer. [151]
Matt Branam, 57, American academic, President of Rose–Hulman Institute of Technology (since 2009). [152]
Peter Carsten, 83, German actor. [153]
George Cowan, 92, American physical chemist and member of Manhattan Project, injuries from a fall. [154]
Clément Haeyen, 84, Belgian Olympic (1960) weightlifter. [155] (Dutch)
Yasunobu Hagino, 74, Japanese television producer (NHK), pneumonia. [156] (Japanese)
Heihachirō Kimoto, 85, Japanese politician, member of the House of Councillors, heart failure. [157] (Japanese)
Joe Muranyi, 84, American jazz musician. [158]
Takis Voulalas, 69, Greek actor, heart failure. [159] (Greek)
Bert Weedon, 91, English guitarist and composer. [160]

19

Leopold David de Rothschild, 84, British financier and philanthropist. [161]
Ray Easterling, 62, American football player (Atlanta Falcons), suicide by gunshot. [162]
Ágoston Garamvölgyi, 84, Hungarian footballer. [163] (Hungarian)
Greg Ham, 58, Australian musician (Men at Work). [164] (body found on this date)
Levon Helm, 71, American musician (The Band) and actor (Coal Miner's Daughter), throat cancer. [165]
Jacques Martin, 52, Canadian Paralympian, gold medalist (1984, 1988, 1992, 1996), heart attack. [166]
Fredrik Karlsson, 27, Swedish cross-country skier, snowmobile accident. [167] (Swedish)
David Lilienfeld, 20, South African bodyboarder, shark attack. [168]
Enrico Pedrini, 72, Italian art theorist. [169] (Italian)
Murtaza Razvi, 48, Pakistani journalist, strangled. [170]
Holger Schmezer, 65, German dressage coach. [171]
Valeri Vasiliev, 62, Russian Olympic gold (1972, 1976) and silver (1980) medal-winning ice hockey player. [172]
Zozo Zarpa, 73, Greek actress, heart failure. [173] (Greek)

18

Arthur Bottom, 82, English footballer (York City). [174]
Liv Buck, 83, Norwegian trade unionist. [175] (Norwegian)
José Cerviño Cerviño, 91, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tui-Vigo (1976–1996). [176]
Dick Clark, 82, American television host and producer (American Bandstand, Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, Pyramid), heart attack. [177]
Hillman Curtis, 51, American graphic designer and filmmaker, colon cancer. [178]
Cora Hansen, 113, American-born Canadian supercentenarian. [179]
René Lépine, 82, Canadian real estate developer, prostate cancer. [180]
John O'Neil, 91, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies). [181]
Robert O. Ragland, 80, American film score composer. [182]
Col Saddington, 74, Australian football player. [183]
Bob Smith, 78, American inventor and businessman, complications related to heart surgery. [184]
Åge Storhaug, 74, Norwegian Olympic (1960, 1964) gymnast, cancer. [185] (Norwegian)
Afewerk Tekle, 80, Ethiopian artist, complications of stomach ulcer. [186]
Dimitris Thanos, 36, Greek politician. [187] (Greek)
Fritz Theilen, 84, German resistance member. [188]
K. D. Wentworth, 61, American science fiction author, cancer and pneumonia. [189]

17

Chōichi Aida, 90, Japanese baseball coach, director of the Tokyo Big6 Baseball League, senility. [190] (Japanese)
Leila Berg, 94, British children's author. [191]
Michael Green, New Zealand diplomat, cancer. [192] (death announced on this date)
Dagmar Hochová, 86, Czech photographer. [193] (death announced on this date)
Stan Johnson, 75, American baseball player. (Chicago White Sox, Kansas City Athletics). [194]
Zsuzsa Koncz, 71, Hungarian photographer. [195] (Hungarian)
Sukenobu Kudō, 84, Japanese speed skater (1952 Winter Olympics), renal failure. [196] (Japanese)
Dimitris Mitropanos, 64, Greek singer, pulmonary edema. [197]
Nityananda Mohapatra, 99, Indian politician, poet, and journalist, natural causes. [198]
Donal O'Brien, 72, Irish hurler. [199] (death announced on this date)
Kiyoshi Onosaka, 69, Japanese baseball player (Osaka Kintetsu Buffaloes), lung cancer. [200] (Japanese)
Jonathan V. Plaut, 69, American rabbi. [201]
Ben H. Procter, 85, American author and football player (Los Angeles Rams), Parkinson's disease. [202]
Stanley Rogers Resor, 94, American lawyer, Secretary of the Army (1965–1971). [203]
Meenakshi Thapar, 26, Indian actress (404), strangled and beheaded. [204]
Louis Vorster, 45, South African-born Namibian cricketer, shot. [205]
Teruko Yoshitake, 80, Japanese critic and non-fiction writer, pneumonia. [206] (Japanese)

16

Barry Askew, 75, British newspaper editor (News of the World). [207]
Sári Barabás, 98, Hungarian-born German opera singer, stroke. [208] (German)
Marian Biskup, 89, Polish historian. [209] (Polish)
Ernest Callenbach, 83, American writer and environmentalist. [210]
Teddy Charles, 84, American jazz musician and composer. [211]
Jack Cohen, 93, American rabbi. [212]
Ray Davey, 97, Northern Irish Presbyterian minister, founder of the Corrymeela Community. [213]
Alan Hacker, 73, British clarinetist. [214]
Shūho Katō, 76, Japanese racehorse trainer (Japan Racing Association). [215] (Japanese)
George Kunda, 56, Zambian politician, Vice President (2008–2011), anaemia. [216]
Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, 98, Danish shipping magnate. [217]
Antoine Hamid Mourany, 82, Lebanese-born Syrian Maronite hierarch, Metropolitan of Damascus (1989–1999). [218]
Arthur Nadel, 80, American fund manager and convicted embezzler. [219]
Ngô Đình Lệ Quyên, 53, South Vietnamese-born Italian lawyer, daughter of Madame Nhu, traffic collision. [220]
György Palásthy, 81, Hungarian director. [221] (Hungarian)
Carlo Petrini, 64, Italian footballer. [222]
Ageeth Scherphuis, 79, Dutch journalist and broadcaster. [223] (Dutch)
Terry Lloyd Schmidt, 66, American songwriter. [224]
Randy Starkman, 51, Canadian sports journalist, pneumonia. [225]
Jack Streidl, 93, American football coach. [226]

15

Paul Bogart, 92, American Emmy Award-winning television director (All in the Family), natural causes. [227]
Lee Jin-hee, 82, South Korean historian and writer (Wako University), lung cancer. [228] (Japanese)
Hans Johansson, 85, Swedish Olympic equestrian. [229] (Swedish)
Peter McKenzie, 59, New Zealand conservationist, cancer. [230]
Yasushi Mieno, 88, Japanese banker, Governor of the Bank of Japan (1989–1994), cardiac arrest. [231]
Jenny Olsson, 32, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier, cancer. [232] (Swedish)
Bob Perani, 69, Italian-born American ice hockey player (Flint Generals). [233]
Aleksandr Porokhovshchikov, 73, Russian actor, complications from diabetes and stroke. [234] (Russian)
Sterling Ridge, 75, American politician, Mayor of Glendale, Arizona (1976–1980), three-term member of the Arizona House of Representatives. [235]
Murray Rose, 73, Australian Olympic gold medal-winning (1956, 1960) swimmer, leukaemia. [236]
Samir Said, 58, Kuwaiti footballer, traffic collision. [237]
Rich Saul, 64, American football player (Los Angeles Rams), leukemia. [238]
Dwayne Schintzius, 43, American basketball player (New Jersey Nets), respiratory failure. [239]
James Shaner, 75, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1995–2006). [240]
Adriano Stuart, 68, Brazilian actor and director. [241] (Portuguese)
Bob Wright, 86, American college basketball coach (Morehead State University). [242]
Tadashi Yamamoto, 76, Japanese businessman, chairman of the Japan Cultural Exchange Center, gall bladder cancer. [243] (Japanese)

14

Shigeru Araki, 63, Japanese actor (Kamen Rider Stronger) and drummer, pneumonia. [244] (Japanese)
Émile Bouchard, 92, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens), member of the Hockey Hall of Fame. [245]
Florin Constantiniu, 79, Romanian historian and academic. [246] (Romanian)
Tom Farrell, 87, Canadian politician. [247]
William Finley, 69, American actor (Phantom of the Paradise), complications from surgery. [248]
Stefano De Fiores, 78, Italian Roman Catholic priest and Mariologist. [249] (Italian)
Miller Fisher, 98 Canadian neurologist. [250]
Norimasa Fukuda, 82, Japanese yobidashi (Japan Sumo Association), heart failure. [251] (Japanese)
Bela Gold, 97, Hungarian-born American businessman and professor. [252]
Verónica Gómez, 26, Venezuelan volleyballer, heart failure. [253] (Dutch)
Velimir Habrun, 22, Croatian footballer, car accident. [254] (Croatian)
Lee Kyung-Hwan, 24, South Korean footballer (Suwon Bluewings), suicide by jumping. [255]
Eddie May, 68, English football player and manager. [256]
Glenn McWhinney, 81, Canadian football player (Edmonton Eskimos, Winnipeg Blue Bombers). [257]
Piermario Morosini, 25, Italian footballer (Livorno), cardiac arrest. [258]
Martin Poll, 89, American film producer (The Lion in Winter), natural causes. [259]
Edward Purrington, 82, American opera director. [260]
Paulo Cézar Saraceni, 79, Brazilian actor and filmmaker, multiple organ failure. [261] (Portuguese)
Vincent F. Seyfried, 93, American historian. [262]
Eiichi Shiga, 74, Japanese businessman, chairman of the Japan East Rugby Football Union, heart failure. [263] (Japanese)
Per G. Stavnum, 70, Norwegian diplomat. [264] (Norwegian)
Synchronised, 9, Irish racehorse, euthanised after race fall. [265]
Masakazu Uchida, 73, Japanese boxing referee, chairman of the Japan Boxing Commission, pneumonitis. [266] (Japanese)
Mikhail Voronin, 73, Ukrainian fashion designer. [267]
Cathie Wright, 82, American politician, California State Senator (1992–2000). [268]

13

Irving K. Barber, 89, Canadian forester and philanthropist. [269]
John Blane, American diplomat. [270]
Inge Bråten, 63, Norwegian cross-country skiing coach. [271]
William B. Buffum, 90, American diplomat, US Ambassador to Lebanon (1970–1974), natural causes. [272]
Cecil Chaudhry, 70, Pakistani fighter pilot, school principal, and activist, lung cancer. [273]
Jonathan Frid, 87, Canadian actor (Dark Shadows), natural causes. [274] (date of death April 13 or April 14, 2012; sources differ)
Avraham Goldberg, 99, American-born Israeli Talmud scholar. [275]
Shūichi Higurashi, 75, Japanese manga illustrator, painted cover for Big Comic (1970–2011), pneumonia. [276]
Ryōhei Komiyama, 95, Japanese businessman and editor, senility. [277] (Japanese)
Margarita Lilova, 76, Bulgarian-born Austrian opera singer. [278]
Marilyn Lovell Matz, 81, American actress (The Ghosts of Mississippi), therapist and activist. [279]
Peter Mullins, 86, Australian Olympic decathlete (1948), basketball player, and coach. [280]
Lewis Nordan, 72, American writer, pneumonia. [281]
Mario Rizzi, 86, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Titular Archbishop of Bagnoregio (since 1991), Apostolic Nuncio to Bulgaria (1991–1996). [282]
David S. Smith, 94, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Sweden (1976–1977). [283]
Petr Tučný, 91, Czech architect and designer, after short illness. [284] (Czech)

12

Vladimir Astapovsky, 65, Soviet Olympic bronze medal-winning (1976) footballer. [285] (Russian)
Kellon Baptiste, 38, Grenadian footballer, cancer. [286]
Marly Bueno, 78, Brazilian actress, complications after surgery. [287] (Portuguese)
Mohit Chattopadhyay, 77, Indian playwright, dramatist, and poet, cancer. [288]
Linda Cook, 55, American actress. [289]
Elizabeth Ferris, 71, British Olympic bronze medal-winning (1960) diver. [290]
Rodgers Grant, 76. American jazz pianist, cancer. [291]
Tony Hunter-Choat, 76, British military officer, commander of the Sultan of Oman's special forces. [292]
Steinbjørn B. Jacobsen, 74, Faroese poet and writer. [293] (Faroese)
Robert Kennedy, 73, Canadian publisher, complications from skin cancer. [294]
Andrew Love, 70, American saxophonist (The Memphis Horns), complications of Alzheimer's disease. [295]
Masakre, 57, Mexican professional wrestler, cancer. [296]
Stefánia Moldován, 80, Hungarian opera singer. [297] (Hungarian)
Bruce Morrison, 88, Australian football player. [298]
Manfred Orzessek, 78, German footballer. [299] (German)
Gabriel Țepelea, 96, Romanian politician, MP (1990–2000), natural causes. [300] (Romanian)
Amy Tryon, 42, American Olympic bronze medal-winning (2004) equestrian. [301]
Vladimir Ukhin, 81, Russian broadcaster. [302] (Russian)

11

Julio Alemán, 79, Mexican actor, cancer. [303] (Spanish)
Ahmed Ben Bella, 93, Algerian politician, Prime Minister (1962–1963); President (1963–1965). [304]
Misbach Yusa Biran, 78, Indonesian film director. [305]
Roger Caron, 73, Canadian author, prison escape artist, and bank robber, infection. [306]
Tippy Dye, 97, American college athlete, coach, and athletic director. [307]
Gustaf Jansson, 90, Swedish Olympic bronze medal-winning (1952) athlete. [308] (Swedish)
Moses Majekodunmi, 95, Nigerian politician, Minister of Health (1960–1966). [309]
Hal McKusick, 87, American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, and flautist, natural causes. [310]
Yolanda Mérida, 82, Mexican actress. [311] (Spanish)
Agustin Roman, 83, Cuban-born American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Miami (1979–2003), heart attack. [312]
Grant Tilly, 74, New Zealand actor. [313]

10

Luis Aponte Martínez, 89, Puerto Rican Roman Catholic prelate and first cardinal, Metropolitan Archbishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico (1964–1999). [314] (Spanish)
Erdoğan Arıca, 57, Turkish football coach, lung cancer. [315]
Raymond Aubrac, 97, French WWII resistance fighter. [316]
René Berange, 72, French footballer. [317] (French)
Leonardo Mario Bernacchi, 79, Italian-born Bolivian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Camiri (1993–2009). [318]
Barbara Buchholz, 52, German musician and composer, cancer. [319] (German)
Virginia Spencer Carr, 82, American biographer. [320]
Maria-Pia Casilio, 76, Italian film actress. [321] (Italian)
Lili Chookasian, 90, American opera singer. [322]
Kurt Crain, 47, American football player (Houston Oilers, Green Bay Packers). [323]
Dorothy Dermody, 102, Irish Olympic (1948) fencer. [324]
Zvi Dinstein, 86, Israeli politician, MK (1965–1974), pulmonary embolism. [325] (Hebrew)
Carl Gatto, 74, American politician, member of the Alaska House of Representatives (since 2003), prostate cancer. [326]
David Holtzman, Canadian gay activist, heart attack. [327]
Karyn Kay, 63, American author and screenwriter, beaten. [328]
Isamu Miyazaki, 92, Japanese fighter pilot and midshipman (Imperial Japanese Navy). [329] (Japanese)
Tichaona Mudzingwa, 69, Zimbabwean politician. [330]
Ivan Oliger, 102, Russian zoologist and entomologist. [331]
Andy Replogle, 58, American baseball player (Milwaukee Brewers). [332]
Yoshikazu Shimizu, 58, Japanese journalist and editorial writer (Tokyo Shimbun), pancreatic cancer. [333] (Japanese)
Richie Teeter, 61, American drummer (The Dictators, Twisted Sister), esophageal cancer. [334]
Carlos Truan, 76, American politician. [335]
Eiichi Uchiyama, 100, Japanese politician, mayor of Taitō, Tokyo, senility. [336] (Japanese)
N. Varadarajan, 87, Indian politician. [337]

9

Carol Adams, 94, American actress (Our Gang). [338]
Takeshi Aono, 75, Japanese voice actor (Dragon Ball, One Piece), post-operative multiple cerebral infarction. [339] (Japanese)
Barry Cahill, 90, Canadian-born American actor (Grand Theft Auto, Sweet Bird of Youth). [340]
Ismail Haron, 66, Singaporean singer. [341]
José Guardiola, 81, Spanish singer (Eurovision Song Contest 1963). [342]
Mark Lenzi, 43, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1992) diver, hypotension. [343]
Wiebo Ludwig, 70, Canadian environmental activist and convicted bomber, esophageal cancer. [344]
Ivan Nagel, 80, German theater director. [345] (German)
Simo Nikolić, 71, Croatian Olympic sailor. [346] (Croatian)
Jim Niven, Australian musician (The Captain Matchbox Whoopee Band, The Sports), cancer. [347]
Meral Okay, 53, Turkish actress and screenwriter (Muhteşem Yüzyıl), cancer. [348]
Boris Parygin, 81, Russian philosopher and sociologist. [349] (Russian)
Don Reed, 92, American football coach (Long Beach State 49ers), natural causes. [350]
Cleo Smith, 93, American television producer (Here's Lucy). [351]
Malcolm Thomas, 82, Welsh rugby union player. [352]
Mitsunori Tozawa, 79, Japanese archaeologist, Principal of Meiji University (1996–2000). [353] (Japanese)

8

Gordon Bagier, 87, British politician, MP for Sunderland South (1964–1987). [354]
Bram Bart, 49, Dutch voice actor, pancreatic cancer. [355] (Dutch)
Minakshi Goswami, 78, Indian actress, heart attack. [356]
George Wilberforce Kakoma, 89, Ugandan musician, composer of the Ugandan national anthem. [357]
Blair Kiel, 50, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Indianapolis Colts, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), suspected heart attack. [358]
Graciano Ravelo, 77, Venezuelan baseball player and coach (Tiburones de La Guaira), cancer. [359] (Spanish)
Anatoly Ravikovich, 75, Russian film actor (The Pokrovsky Gate), cancer. [360] (Russian)
Jack Tramiel, 83, Polish-born American businessman, founder of Commodore and CEO of Atari. [361]
Al Veigel, 95, American baseball player (Boston Braves). [362]
Rikiya Yasuoka, 64, Japanese actor and singer, heart failure. [363] (Japanese)
Janusz K. Zawodny, 90, Polish-born American historian, World War II resistance fighter. [364] (Polish)

7

John Egan, 59, Irish Gaelic footballer. [365]
Steve Fredericks, 72, American sports journalist, pancreatic cancer. [366]
Scott Getzinger, 46, American prop master (Road to Perdition, The Truman Show), traffic collision. [367]
Kyūichi Hayashida, 90, Japanese politician, mayor of Minakuchi, Shiga, pneumonia. [368] (Japanese)
Kaku Mo-rin, 90, Taiwanese architect. [369] (Japanese)
Kofuku Kaminarimon, 77, Japanese rakugo storyteller, pharyngeal cancer. [370] (Japanese)
Steven Kanumba, 28, Tanzanian actor and director. [371]
Alexander Leslie-Melville, 14th Earl of Leven, 87, Scottish peer and soldier, Lord Lieutenant of Nairn (1969–1999). [372]
Satsue Mito, 97, Japanese zoologist. [373] (Japanese)
Miss Read, 98, English writer. [374]
Ignatius Moses I Daoud, 81, Syrian Catholic cardinal, Patriarch of Antioch (1998–2001), stroke complications. [375]
David E. Pergrin, 94, American soldier, led the most decorated WWII engineering battalion. [376]
Bashir Ahmed Qureshi, 54, Pakistani politician, cardiac arrest. [377]
Tom Runnels, 78, American football player (Washington Redskins). [378]
Serafym Verzun, 62, Ukrainian Orthodox hierarch, Bishop of Zhytomyr (1992–1995), Archbishop of Rivne (1995–2000) and Kirovohrad (2002–2008). [379] (Ukrainian)
Mike Wallace, 93, American news correspondent (60 Minutes). [380]
Yūichi Yamada, 81, Japanese teacher and professor, Principal of Meiji University (2000–2004). [381] (Japanese)
Jamshid Zokirov, 63, Uzbek actor. [382] (Uzbek)

6

Larry Canning, 86, English footballer (Aston Villa) and broadcaster, vascular dementia. [383]
Fang Lizhi, 76, Chinese political activist and astrophysicist. [384]
Felipe Fernández García, 76, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ávila (1976–1991) and San Cristóbal de La Laguna o Tenerife (1991–2005). [385]
Promode Gogoi, 82, Indian politician. [386]
Thomas Kinkade, 54, American painter, natural causes. [387]
Tōru Maeara, 88, Japanese teacher, Kikuchi Kan Prize winner, cerebral hemorrhage. [388] (Japanese)
Janet Roberts, 110, Scottish supercentenarian, oldest person in Scotland, granddaughter of William Grant. [389]
Hilde Sacré, 73, Belgian actress. [390] (Dutch)
Thomas Sancton, Sr., 97, American novelist and journalist. [391]
Michael Sands, 66, American show business publicist and alleged CIA operative, choked. [392]
Sheila Scotter, 91, Australian fashion editor (Vogue Australia). [393]
Dick Wearmouth, 85, Australian football player. [394]
Jose Wejebe, 54, Cuban-born American television and sports fishing personality, plane crash. [395]
Reed Whittemore, 92, American poet. [396]

5

Joe Avezzano, 68, American football player (Boston Patriots) and coach (Dallas Cowboys, Oakland Raiders), heart attack. [397]
David Axon, 61, British astrophysicist. [398]
Pedro Bartolomé Benoit, 91, Dominican military general, Provisional President (1965). [399] (Spanish)
Angelo Castro, Jr., 67, Filipino journalist, The World Tonight anchor (1986–2009, 2011), lung cancer. [400]
Cynthia Dall, 41, American musician. [401]
Attila Hazai, 44, Hungarian writer. [402] (Hungarian)
James S. Herr, 87, American businessman, founder of Herr's Snacks. [403]
Kunio Hiraki, 87, Japanese writer, kidney failure. [404]^{[dead link]} (Japanese)
Aminul Islam, 40, Bangladeshi trade union leader. [405]
Jimmy Lawlor, 78, Irish footballer. [406]
Jim Marshall, 88, English businessman, founder of Marshall Amplification. [407]
Barney McKenna, 72, Irish musician (The Dubliners). [408]
Bingu wa Mutharika, 78, Malawian politician, President (since 2004), heart attack. [409]
Gil Noble, 80, American television reporter and host (Like It Is). [410]
Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, 76, German designer. [411]
Bernard Rapoport, 94, American businessman and philanthropist. [412]
A. G. L. Shaw, 96, Australian historian. [413]
Sir Peter Tapsell, 82, New Zealand politician, Speaker of the House of Representatives (1993–1996). [414]
Christer Zetterberg, 70, Swedish businessman. [415] (Swedish)

4

Muhammad Afrizal, 30, Indonesian boxer, PABA featherweight champion (2008), injuries sustained from bout. [416]
A. Dean Byrd, 64, American psychologist. [417]
Anne Karin Elstad, 74, Norwegian author, stroke. [418] (Norwegian)
Josiah Henson, 90, American Olympic bronze medal-winning (1952) wrestler, stroke and myocardial infarction. [419]
Nikolay Krasovsky, 87, Russian mathematician. [420] (Russian)
Claude Miller, 70, French director, producer, and screenwriter. [421]
Helge Sverre Nesheim, 92, Norwegian broadcaster. [422] (Norwegian)
Richard Okada, 66, American linguist, Professor of Japanese at Princeton University. [423]
Dubravko Pavličić, 44, Croatian footballer. [424] (Croatian)
Roberto Rexach Benítez, 82, Puerto Rican politician, President of the Senate (1993–1996). [425] (Spanish)

3

Lorne Benson, 81, Canadian football player (Winnipeg Blue Bombers). [426]
Arduino Bertoldo, 79, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Foligno (1992–2008). [427]
Michael Bzdel, 81, Canadian Ukrainian Catholic hierarch, Metropolitan of Winnipeg (1992–2006). [428]
Richard Descoings, 53, French academic director (Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris). [429]
Nicholas King, 79, American actor, preserved the Watts Towers. [430]
Efraím Basílio Krevey, 83, Brazilian Ukrainian Catholic hierarch, Bishop of São João Batista em Curitiba (1978–2006). [431]
Mingote, 93, Spanish cartoonist, writer, and journalist. [432]
Govind Narain, 95, Indian civil servant, Governor of Karnataka (1977–1983). [433]
Airton Pavilhão, 77, Brazilian footballer. [434] (Portuguese)
Xenia Stad-de Jong, 90, Dutch Olympic gold medal-winning (1948) athlete. [435] (Dutch)
Chief Jay Strongbow, 83, American professional wrestler. [436]
José María Zárraga, 81, Spanish footballer and manager. [437] (Spanish)

2

Jesús Aguilarte, 53, Venezuelan politician, Governor of Apure State (1999–2000; 2004–2011), shot. [438]
Warren Bonython, 95, Australian conservationist, explorer, author, and chemical engineer. [439]
Roger Breske, 73, American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Senate (1990–2008). [440]
Elizabeth Catlett, 96, American-born Mexican artist. [441]
Allie Clark, 88, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Philadelphia Athletics). [442]
Jim Delaney, 91, American Olympic silver medal-winning (1948) shot putter. [443]
Sarah Dreher, 75, American novelist and playwright. [444]
Ben Huan, 105, Chinese Buddhist master, honorary president of the Buddhist Association of China. [445]
Mauricio Lasansky, 97, Argentinian-born American printmaker. [446]
Jimmy Little, 75, Australian singer. [447]
Fatma Neslişah, 91, Turkish-born Ottoman and Egyptian royal, heart attack. [448]
M. Saroja, 79, Indian film actress. [449]

1

Ekrem Bora, 78, Turkish actor, pulmonary edema. [450] (Turkish)
Lionel Bowen, 89, Australian politician, MP for Kingsford-Smith (1969–1990); Deputy Prime Minister (1983–1990), pneumonia. [451]
Sauro Bufalini, 70, Italian Olympic basketball player. [452] (Italian)
Giorgio Chinaglia, 65, Italian footballer (Lazio, New York Cosmos), heart attack. [453]
Miguel de la Madrid, 77, Mexican politician, President (1982–1988), complications of pulmonary emphysema. [454]
Leila Denmark, 114, American supercentenarian, author, and physician, credited with developing a whooping cough vaccine. [455]
Jamaa Fanaka, 68, American filmmaker. [456]
N. K. P. Salve, 91, Indian politician. [457]
Stan Yapp, 70, English politician. [458]