Deaths in January 2010

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

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

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

• Gary Brockette, 62, American actor (The Last Picture Show) and assistant director, cancer.
• Chauncey H. Browning, Jr., 75, American politician, West Virginia Attorney General (1969–1985).
• Jean Carroll, 98, American comedian (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.
• Adrien Gilbert, 78, Canadian Olympic weightlifter
• Richard Kindleberger, 67, American newspaper reporter (The Boston Globe), brain tumor.
• John Lyon, 58, British cricketer.
• Jack Middleton, 92, British Olympic swimmer.
• Tetsuo Narikawa, 65, Japanese actor (Spectreman) and karate instructor, lung cancer.
• Marlene Neubauer-Woerner, 91, German sculptor.
• Libuše Patočková, 76, Czech Olympic cross-country skier.
• Stanisław Przybylski, 79, Polish modern pentathlete.
• 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.
• John Shelton Wilder, 88, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee (1971–2007), stroke.
• Vera Zakharova, 89, first Yakut woman to fly a plane

• Johann Frank, 71, Austrian football player (FK Austria Wien).
• David Gerber, 86, American executive producer (Police Story, Police Woman), heart failure.
• William Green, 82, British aviation writer.
• Deborah Howell, 68, American journalist, The Washington Post ombudsman, hit by car.
• René Oreel, 87, Belgian cyclist.
• Augustine Paul, 65, Malaysian Federal Court judge, after chronic illness.
• David R. Ross, 51, Scottish historian, heart attack.
• Rajendra Shah, 96, Indian poet.

• Gus Alexander, 75, Scottish footballer (Workington).
• Gustavo Becerra-Schmidt, 84, Chilean composer, lung cancer.
• 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.
• Otto Breg, 60, Austrian Olympic bobsledder.
• 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.
• Billy Harris, 58, American basketball player (Northern Illinois Huskies, San Diego Conquistadors), stroke.
• John Keith Irwin, 80, American sociologist.
• Eunice W. Johnson, 93, American director of Ebony Fashion Fair, widow of John H. Johnson, renal failure.
• Charles Kleibacker, 88, American fashion designer, pneumonia.
• Georges Martin, 94, French cyclist.
• Takis Michalos, 63, Greek Greece men's national water polo team water polo player and coach; cancer.
• Moti Nandi, 79, Indian writer and sports journalist.
• Geoffrey Reeve, 77, British film director.
• Isak Rogde, 62, Norwegian translator.
• Tibet, 78, French comics artist and writer.
• Bobby Wilkins, 87, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics).

• Olaug Abrahamsen, 81, Norwegian politician.
• Rosalie Abrams, 88, American feminist playwright, actress and activist, Alzheimer's disease.
• Paul Ahyi, 79, Togolese artist, designer of the flag of Togo.
• 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.
• Sandro de América, 64, Argentinian singer, complications from heart and lung transplant surgery.
• Donal Donnelly, 78, English-born Irish actor, cancer
• Hywel Teifi Edwards, 75, Welsh historian and writer, after short illness.
• Johan Ferrier, 99, Surinamese politician, President (1975–1980).
• Tadeusz Góra, 91, Polish pilot.
• Rory Markas, 54, American baseball radio announcer (Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim), heart attack.
• György Mitró, 79, Hungarian Olympic swimmer.
• Ludwig Wilding, 82, German artist.
• Tsutomu Yamaguchi, 93, Japanese survivor of Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings, stomach cancer.

• Abdul Azim al-Deeb, 80, Qatari professor (Qatar University).
• Beverly Aadland, 67, American actress, girlfriend of Errol Flynn, diabetes and heart failure.
• Daniel Kubert, 62, American mathematician.
• Bernard Le Nail, 63, French writer, historian, Breton language and cultural advocate, cerebral hemorrhage.
• 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.
• Rolf Thieme, 65, German Olympic hockey player.
• George Willoughby, 95, American Quaker activist.

• Philippe Arthuys, 81, French composer and film director.
• 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.
• Harriet Miller, 90, American politician, mayor of Santa Barbara, California (1995–2001).
• Beniamino Placido, 80, Italian journalist and television critic.
• Hervé Prouzet, 89, French cyclist
• Kittu Suresh, 64, Indian cricketer.

• Wendall Anschutz, 71, American television newsman.
• Myrtle Aydelotte, 92, American nurse, professor and hospital administrator.
• Sándor Barcs, 97, Hungarian politician and sport executive, interim President of UEFA (1972–1973).
• Gerald Bordelon, 47, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• 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 (Falkirk, Everton, Southport, Scotland) and manager, heart attack.
• Donald Edmond Pelotte, 64, American Roman Catholic Bishop of Gallup (1990–2008), first Native American bishop.
• James D Robertson, 78, Scottish painter and lecturer.
• 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.

• 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.
• Tony Halme, 47, Finnish professional boxer, actor, wrestler and Member of Parliament (2003–2007), suicide by gunshot.
• Raymond Kamber, 79, Swiss Olympic sprint canoer.
• Slavka Maneva, 75, Macedonian writer and poet.
• Charles Massi, 57, Central African politician and rebel leader.
• Monica Maughan, 76, Australian actress, cancer.
• Jim Rimmer, 75, Canadian graphic designer, cancer.
• Gladstone Robinson, 66, Jamaican cricketer.
• Gerrit de Ruiter, 82, Dutch hockey player
• Otmar Suitner, 87, Austrian conductor.
• 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).

• Améleté Abalo, 47, Togolese national football team assistant coach, shot.
• John Ballem, 84, Canadian novelist.
• Amo Bessone, 93, American ice hockey player and coach.
• Juan Bidegaray, 90, Uruguayan Olympic sailor
• Gösta Bredefeldt, 74, Swedish actor.
• Franz-Hermann Brüner, 64, German head of OLAF, after long illness.
• Acúrsio Carrelo, 78, Portuguese footballer.
• Mark Ellidge, 69–70, British press photographer.
• Ken Genser, 59, American politician, mayor of Santa Monica, California, after long illness.
• Per N. Hagen, 73, Norwegian politician.
• 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.
• Ronald Moore, 84, Canadian politician.
• Evgeni Paladiev, 61, Soviet-born Kazakh ice hockey player.
• Diether Posser, 87, German politician.
• Armand Razafindratandra, 84, Malagasy cardinal, archbishop of Antananarivo (1994–2005), fall.
• Vimcy, 84, Indian sports writer.
• Thomas Summers West, 82, Scottish chemist.

• 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.
• Simon Digby, 77, Indian-born British scholar and linguist, pancreatic cancer.
• Danny Fitzgerald, 49–50, Irish hurler and Gaelic football player.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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, 77, Bulgarian-born Hungarian hydrologist and statistician, creator of IAAF scoring tables.
• Torbjørn Yggeseth, 75, Norwegian ski jumping athlete and official.

• Juliet Anderson, 71, American pornographic actress and movie producer.
• Aleksandr Androshkin, 62, Soviet Ukrainian sports shooter.
• Francisco Benkö, 99, German-born Argentine chess master.
• Robben Wright Fleming, 93, American president of the University of Michigan (1968–1978).
• Georgy 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 during World War II, complications from 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.
• Johnny King, 83, English footballer.
• Kurt Liebhart, 76, Austrian Olympic sprint canoer.
• 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.
• Ed Scott, 92, American baseball scout.
• Dennis Stock, 81, American photographer (Magnum Photos), colon and liver cancer.
• Gordon Van Tol, 49, Canadian Olympic water polo player, heart attack.

• Masoud Alimohammadi, 50, Iranian nuclear scientist, bomb blast.
• Miloslav Bělonožník, 91, Czech Olympic ski jumper.
• Daniel Bensaïd, 63, French philosopher and Trotskyist activist.
• Ken Colbung, 78, Australian Aboriginal elder, after short illness.
• Shirley Bell Cole, 89, American voice actor (Little Orphan Annie).
• Miguel Ángel de la Flor, 85, Peruvian army officer and politician.
• Colin Dettmer, 51, South African cricketer.
• Altan Dinçer, 77, Turkish Olympic basketball player.
• Krisda Arunvongse na Ayudhya, 78, Thai architect, Governor of Bangkok (1996–2001), coronary artery disease.
• Fred Krone, 79, American stuntman, cancer.
• Elizabeth Laverick, 85, British engineer.
• Hillis Layne, 91, American Major League Baseball player (1941, 1944–1945).
• Alastair Martin, 94, American tennis player, member of the Hall of Fame, President of the United States Tennis Association (1969–1970).
• Sir Allen McClay, 77, British pharmaceutical company founder, cancer.
• Elizabeth Moody, 70, New Zealand actress and theatre director, pneumonia.
• Ann Prentiss, 70, American actress (Captain Nice, My Stepmother Is an Alien).
• Art Rust, Jr., 82, American sports commentator, Parkinson's disease.
• Hasib Sabbagh, 89, Palestinian businessman.
• Vanda Skuratovich, 84, Belarusian Roman Catholic activist.
• Vadú, 32, Cape Verdean singer, traffic collision.
• Yabby You, 63, Jamaican reggae singer and producer, stroke.
• Notable people killed in the 2010 Haiti earthquake:
  • Georges Anglade, 65, Haitian professor and cabinet minister, co-founder of Université du Québec à Montréal.
  • Hédi Annabi, 65, Tunisian diplomat, Head of MINUSTAH.
  • Zilda Arns, 75, Brazilian pediatrician and humanitarian.
  • Luiz Carlos da Costa, 60, Brazilian diplomat, Deputy Head of MINUSTAH.
  • Serge Marcil, 65, Canadian politician, Quebec National Assembly of Quebec (1985–1994), MP for Beauharnois—Salaberry (2000–2004).
  • Flo McGarrell, 35, Italian-born American artist.
  • Myriam Merlet, 53, Haitian political activist.
  • Joseph Serge Miot, 63, Haitian Roman Catholic archbishop of Port-au-Prince.
  • Jimmy O, 35, Haitian hip hop musician.

• 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, Scottish footballer (Hearts, Motherwell).
• Isamu Tanonaka, 77, Japanese voice actor (GeGeGe no Kitaro), heart attack.
• Ed Thigpen, 79, American jazz drummer, after long illness.
• Edgar Vos, 78, Dutch fashion designer, heart attack.

• 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 Fontán, 86, Spanish politician and journalist.
• Micha Gaillard, 52-53, Haitian politician, earthquake.
• John F. Hayes, 90, American attorney and politician, Kansas House of Representatives (1953–1955; 1967–1979).
• Mark Jones, 70, British actor (The Empire Strikes Back, Doctor Who, Buccaneer).
• Guðmundur Lárusson, 84, Icelandic Olympic sprinter.
• 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.
• Petra Schürmann, 74, German television presenter, Miss World 1956, after long illness.
• Jessie Tait, 81, British ceramic designer.
• Antonio Vilaplana Molina, 83, Spanish Roman Catholic Bishop of León (1987–2002), renal failure.
• Bernie Voorheis, 87, American basketball player.
• Rowland Wolfe, 95, American Olympic gold medal-winning (1932) gymnast.

• 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.
• Steve Lovelady, 66, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, throat cancer.
• Mike Osborn, 92, British military officer.
• Marshall Warren Nirenberg, 82, American biochemist and geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (1968), cancer.
• Peter Thomson, 73, Australian Anglican theologian, mentor to Tony Blair.

• 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.
• Robert Gerard, 89, Belgian footballer [1]
• Musa Inuwa, 62, Nigerian politician.
• George Jellinek, 90, American radio personality (WQXR).
• Felice Quinto, 80, Italian photographer.
• Takumi Shibano, 83, Japanese novelist, pneumonia.
• 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.

• Gaines Adams, 26, American football player (Chicago Bears, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), cardiac arrest.
• Maki Asakawa, 67, Japanese singer, heart failure.
• 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).
• Michalis Papakonstantinou, 91, Greek politician and author, Minister for Foreign Affairs (1992–1993).
• Erich Segal, 72, American professor, author (Love Story), and screenwriter (Yellow Submarine), heart attack.

• Ghulam Rabbani Agro, 76, Pakistani writer.
• 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.
• Gladys Morcom, 91, British Olympic swimmer.
• Imari Obadele, 79, American black separatist, stroke.
• Reha Oğuz Türkkan, 90, Turkish writer.
• Kevin O'Shea, 62, Canadian ice hockey player (St. Louis Blues, Buffalo Sabres).
• 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, 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 golfer, winner of the Philippine Open (1949, 1955–1958, 1962), lung cancer.

• Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, 50, Palestinian leader of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, murdered.
• Frances Buss Buch, 92, American first female television director.
• Christos Chatziskoulidis, 58, Greek footballer (Egaleo F.C.), cancer.
• Ian Christie, 82, British jazz clarinetist.
• Tom Cochran, 85, American football player (Washington Redskins).
• Dan Fitzgerald, 67, American college basketball coach (Gonzaga).
• Vladimir Karpov, 87, Russian writer, Chairman of the USSR Union of Writers (1986–1991).
• 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.
• Cerge Remonde, 51, Filipino journalist and politician, heart attack.
• Kalthoum Sarrai, 47, Tunisian-born French television presenter (Supernanny), cancer.
• William Vitarelli, 99, American educator and architect.

• 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.
• 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 (Swansea Town, Ipswich Town, Wales).
• John Pawle, 94, English cricketer.
• Derek Prag, 86, British politician, MEP for Hertfordshire (1979–1994).
• Wallace Michael Ross, 89, British organist and choirmaster.
• Abraham Sutzkever, 96, Polish-born Israeli poet.
• Lynn Taitt, 75, Jamaican reggae guitarist, cancer.

• Sayeed Ahmed, 79, Bangladeshi playwright.
• Orhan Alp, 90, Turkish engineer and politician.
• 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.
• Knud Gleie, 74, Danish Olympic swimmer.
• 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.
• Guillermo Abadía Morales, 97, Colombian folklore researcher, indigenous language expert, natural causes.
• Curt Motton, 69, American baseball player, stomach cancer.
• Paul Quarrington, 56, Canadian novelist, musician and screenwriter, lung cancer.

• Apache, 45, American rapper.
• Lenna Arnold, 89, American baseball player (AAGPBL)
• 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.
• Claus Gerson, 92, American Olympic hockey player.
• 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.
• Juan Pedro Laporte, 64, Guatemalan archaeologist.
• 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.
• Gordon Richardson, Baron Richardson of Duntisbourne, 94, British Governor of the Bank of England (1973–1983).
• Godfrey A. Rockefeller, 85, American aviator and conservationist.
• Johnny Seven, 83, American actor (Ironside, The Apartment, Gunfight in Abilene), lung cancer.
• Jean Simmons, 80, British actress (Hamlet, Spartacus, Guys and Dolls), Emmy winner (1983), lung cancer.
• Ruth P. Smith, 102, American pro-choice campaigner.
• 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.

• George C. Baldwin, 92, American physicist.
• Haren S. Gandhi, 68, Indian-born American inventor and engineer.
• 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.
• Sir Thomas Prickett, 96, British RAF 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.
• Earl Wild, 94, American classical pianist, heart failure.

• Boydson Baird, 91, American basketball player.
• Lawrence Aloysius Burke, 77, Jamaican Roman Catholic Archbishop of Kingston (2004–2008), Nassau (1981–2004), cancer.
• Thomas Cullinan, 63, South African cricketer.
• Donald Dowd, 87, American campaign aide to the Kennedy family.
• Ghazali Shafie, 87, Malaysian politician, Home Minister (1973–1981) and Foreign Minister (1981–1984).
• Irshad Ahmed Haqqani, 81, Pakistani journalist and politician.
• Robert Mosbacher, 82, American politician, Secretary of Commerce (1989–1992), pancreatic cancer.
• Leonid Nechayev, 70, Russian film director, stroke.
• 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., Ride Lonesome), pancreatic cancer.
• Peter Wood, 74, Australian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland (1966–1974).

• Ali Hassan al-Majid, 68, Iraqi military commander and government minister, execution by hanging.
• Sefis Anastasakos, 68, Greek politician, author, lawyer and activist, cancer.
• 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.
• Iivari Malmikoski, 82, Finnish Olympic boxer.
• 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.
• Ivan Prenđa, 70, Croatian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Zadar (since 1990).
• Bill Ritchie, 78, Scottish comic book artist.
• Emilio Vieyra, 88, Argentine film director, actor, screenwriter and producer.

• 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.
• 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.
• Gummadi, 82, Indian actor.
• Paul R. Jones, 81, American art collector, after short illness.
• Eugenijus Karpavičius, 56, Lithuanian illustrator.
• Inda Ledesma, 83, Argentine actress, cardiac arrest.
• Ajmer Singh, 69, Indian athlete and educator.
• Paul Mbiybe Verdzekov, 79, Cameroonian Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bamenda (1970–2006).
• Ken Walters, 76, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).

• Harry Alger, 85, Canadian politician.
• Lee Archer, 90, American Air Force pilot (Tuskegee Airman).
• Barry Blitzer, 80, American television writer (Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., The Flintstones, The Jetsons), 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.
• Shirley Collie Nelson, 78, American country singer, ex-wife of Willie Nelson.
• Zelda Rubinstein, 76, American actress (Poltergeist, Picket Fences, Scariest Places on Earth).
• J. D. Salinger, 91, American author (The Catcher in the Rye).
• Howard Zinn, 87, American historian (A People's History of the United States), civil rights and anti-war activist, heart attack.

• A.K.M. Mohiuddin Ahmed, Bangladesh Army officer, hanged.
• Mohammad-Reza Ali-Zamani, app. 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).
• Wilfriede Hoffmann, 77, German Olympic athlete.
• Mohammad Bazlul Huda, Bangladeshi army officer and assassin of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, hanged.
• 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.
• Bud Millikan, 89, American basketball coach (University of Maryland).
• Sarah Mulvey, 34, British television producer (Channel 4), suspected suicide by opioid overdose.
• Arash Rahmanipour, app. 20, Iranian activist, execution by hanging.
• Seymour Sarason, 91, American psychologist.
• Keiko Tobe, 52, Japanese manga artist (With the Light), mesothelioma.

• Evgeny Agranovich, 91, Russian composer and bard.
• Elsa Bakalar, 90–91, English-born American garden designer.
• 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.
• Sir Derek Hodgkinson, 92, British air chief marshal.
• Tom Howard, 59, American musician, heart attack.
• 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), multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
• 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.
• Eckart Viehweg, 61, German mathematician, after short illness.

• Rafet Angın, 94, Turkish teacher.
• Erna Baumbauer, 91, German casting agent.
• Ruth Cohn, 97, German psychotherapist.
• Lucienne Day, 93, British textile designer.
• Ron Giles, 90, English cricketer (Nottinghamshire).
• Sølve Grotmol, 70, Norwegian sports commentator.
• Bruce Mitchell, 90, Australian academic.
• Ursula Mommens, 101, British potter.
• Brahmananda Panda, 61, Indian politician.
• Guy Renwick, 73, British Olympic bobsledder.
• Aaron Ruben, 95, American television producer (Andy Griffith Show, Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C., Sanford and Son), pneumonia.
• Tan Eng Yoon, 82, Singaporean Olympic sprinter.

• Gunnar Aksnes, 83, Norwegian chemist and poet.
• Kage Baker, 57, American science fiction and fantasy author, uterine cancer.
• Pauly Fuemana, 40, New Zealand musician (OMC), after short illness.
• Henry Fukuhara, 96, American watercolor painter, natural causes.
• Patricia Gage, 69, British actress and voice actress.
• Jiří Havlis, 77, Czech Olympic gold medal-winning (1952) rower.
• 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.
• Sanna Kiero, 79, Finnish Olympic cross-country skier.
• Howard Lotsof, 66, American researcher, discovered anti-addictive effects of ibogaine, liver cancer.
• Tomás Eloy Martínez, 75, Argentine writer and journalist, brain tumor.
• Shizuka Miura, 47, Japanese ball-jointed doll maker and musician, suicide.
• 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.

• List of January 2010 deaths at IMDb