Deaths in February 2012

The following is a list of notable deaths in February 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).

February 2012

1

• Herb Adams, 83, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).
• Gerlando Alberti, 84, Italian Sicilian Mafioso, cancer.
• Gerhard Bosse, 90, German violinist and conductor.
• Robert B. Cohen, 86, American businessman, founder of Hudson News, progressive supranuclear palsy.
• Herb Conn, 91, American climbing and caving pioneer.
• Don Cornelius, 75, American television host and producer (Soul Train), suicide by gunshot.
• Andrij Dobriansky, 81, Ukrainian-born American opera singer, diabetes and heart disease.
• Angelo Dundee, 90, American boxing trainer (Muhammad Ali).
• Joe Ekins, 88, British World War II soldier.
• Fabián Estapé, 88, Spanish economist.
• Jannatul Ferdous, 74, Bangladeshi teacher and politician.
• André Génovès, 70, French film producer and director.
• Tony Giorgio, 88, Italian-American actor and magician, heart failure.
• Sara González Gómez, 62 or 64, Cuban singer.
• John Harrison, 87, Australian Olympic rower.
• Ruth Hausmeister, 99, German actress (Zwei Brüder, The Longest Day).
• Ladislav Kuna, 64, Slovak football player and manager.
• Robert Lawless, 74, American anthropologist.
• Ardath Mayhar, 81, American author.
• Ingolf Mork, 64, Norwegian Olympic ski jumper.
• David Peaston, 54, American R&B singer, complications of diabetes.
• Lutz Philipp, 71, German Olympic athlete.
• Gilbert Poirot, 67, French Olympic ski jumper.
• Charlie Spoonhour, 72, American basketball coach (Southwest Missouri State, Saint Louis University), complications from lung disease.
• Jerry Steiner, 94, American basketball player (Fort Wayne Pistons).
• Andrzej Sztolf, 70, Polish Olympic ski jumper.
• Wisława Szymborska, 88, Polish poet, Nobel Prize in Literature (1996).

2

• Paramjit Bahia, 61, Indian-born Canadian field hockey player.
• Joyce Barkhouse, 98, Canadian children's writer (Pit Pony), heart attack.
• Daphne Brooker, 84, British model, costume designer, and professor, bronchopneumonia.
• Paul Consbruch, 81, German Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Paderborn (1980–1999).
• Frederick William Danker, 91, American lexicographer and New Testament scholar.
• David Edelsten, 78, British writer and army officer.
• George Esper, 79, American journalist and foreign correspondent (Associated Press).
• Elwyn Friedrich, 78, Swiss Olympic ice hockey player, myocardial infarction.
• Luis Javier Garrido, 71, Mexican political analyst.
• Dorothy Gilman, 88, American spy novelist (The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax), complications of Alzheimer's disease.
• Jorge Glusberg, 79, Argentine author and curator, director of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes.
• John Houlder, 95, British engineer.
• Nassib Lahoud, 67, Lebanese politician.
• James F. Lloyd, 89, American politician, U.S. Representative from California (1975–1981), stroke.
• Asko Mäkilä, 67, Finnish footballer

3

• Steve Appleton, 51, American businessman (Micron Technology), plane crash.
• Christopher Asir, 64, Indian bishop, cancer.
• John Christopher, 89, British science fiction author (The Tripods, The Sword of the Spirits).
• HIM Damsyik, 82, Indonesian dancer and actor.
• Francis Patrick Donovan, 90, Australian academic, lawyer, and diplomat.
• Ben Gazzara, 81, American actor (Anatomy of a Murder, The Big Lebowski, Road House), pancreatic cancer.
• Terence Hildner, 49, American general, commander of the 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary).
• Raj Kanwar, 50, Indian film director and producer, kidney failure.
• Karibasavaiah, 52, Indian film actor.
• Zalman King, 69, American film director (Wild Orchid) and producer (9½ Weeks), cancer.
• Karlo Maquinto, 21, Filipino boxer.
• Mart Port, 90, Estonian architect.
• Jacob Salatun, 84, Indonesian ufologist.
• Andrzej Szczeklik, 73, Polish physician and educational administrator (Jagiellonian University Medical College).
• Toh Chin Chye, 90, Singaporean politician, Deputy Prime Minister (1965–1968) and Minister for Health (1975–1981).
• Wilhelm Wachtmeister, 88, Swedish diplomat, Ambassador to the United States (1974–1989).
• Norton Zinder, 83, American microbiologist, pneumonia.

4

• István Csurka, 77, Hungarian playwright and politician, Chairman of the Hungarian Justice and Life Party (since 1993).
• Robert Daniel, 75, American politician, U.S. Representative from Virginia (1973–1983).
• Mike deGruy, 60, American documentary filmmaker (Trials of Life, The Blue Planet), helicopter crash.
• Václav Dosbaba, 67, Czech painter.
• Nigel Doughty, 54, British businessman, owner (since 1999) and chairman (2001–2011) of Nottingham Forest F.C.
• George Duncan, 75, Scottish footballer.
• Soledad Duterte, 95, Filipino teacher and activist.
• Joseph W. Estabrook, 67, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of the Military Services (since 2004) and Titular Bishop of Flenucleta.
• Harry F. Franke, Jr., 89, American politician.
• Robert Glaser, 91, American cognitive psychologist, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Florence Green, 110, British supercentenarian, last surviving veteran of World War I.
• Fernando Lanhas, 88, Portuguese painter.
• Hubert Leitgeb, 46, Italian Olympic biathlete, two-time world champion, avalanche.
• Irene McKinney, 72, American poet, Poet Laureate of West Virginia (since 1994), cancer.
• Livio Minelli, 85, Italian former European welterweight champion boxer.
• Wendell Mitchell, 71, American politician, Alabama State Senator (1974–2010), heart failure.
• Nicolás Moreno, 88, Mexican landscape painter.
• Jeffrey Perry, 63, British stage and screen actor (The Chronicles of Narnia).
• Sir Alan Reay, 86, British Army officer, Director General Army Medical Services (1981–1984).
• Pierre-Eugène Rouanet, 94, French-born Ivorian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Daloa (1956–1975).
• János Sebestyén, 80, Hungarian organist.
• Giovanni Volta, 83, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Pavia (1986–2003).
• Andrew Wight, 51, Australian screenwriter and producer (Sanctum), helicopter crash.
• Pongphan Wongsuwan, 61, Thai football manager (TOT S.C.).

5

• José Luis Álvarez, 94, Guatemalan artist.
• Violeta Autumn, 81, Peruvian-born American architect and artist.
• Blaine, 74, Canadian editorial cartoonist.
• Royal Cathcart, 85, American football player.
• Colin Churchett, 86, Australian footballer.
• Sam Coppola, 79, American actor (Saturday Night Fever, Fatal Attraction).
• Jazmín De Grazia, 27, Argentine model and television presenter, cocaine overdose.
• Al De Lory, 82, American record producer.
• Lady Ganga, 45, American humanitarian, cervical cancer.
• Jef Gilson, 85, French musician.
• Bill Hinzman, 75, American actor (Night of the Living Dead), cancer.
• Ray Honeyford, 77, English headmaster and writer.
• William D. Houser, 90, American vice admiral (World War II, Korea, Vietnam), Alzheimer's disease and pneumonia.
• Jiang Ying, 92, Chinese opera singer and music teacher.
• Lidiya Khudat Rasulova, 70, Azerbaijani politician, member of Supreme Soviet, Minister of Social Security (1988-1991) and of Education (1993-1997).
• Peter Kerim, 57, Ugandan military officer.
• Phil Shanahan, 84, Irish hurler.
• John Turner Sargent, Sr., 87, American publisher.
• Lawrence Zhang Wen-Chang, 92, Chinese Roman Catholic priest, Apostolic Administrator of Kunming, Dali, and Zhaotong (since 2000).
• Jo Zwaan, 89, Dutch Olympic athlete.

6

• Abdus Sattar Akon, 82-83, Bangladeshi teacher and politician, result of illness.
• Billy Bean, 78, American jazz guitarist.
• Jean Bingen, 91, Belgian papyrologist and epigrapher.
• Peter Breck, 82, American actor (The Big Valley).
• Roger Chesneau, 86, French steeplechaser.
• Sharada Dwivedi, 69, Indian historian.
• Yasuhiro Ishimoto, 90, Japanese photographer, complications following pneumonia and a stroke.
• Noel Kelehan, 76, Irish musician (RTÉ Concert Orchestra).
• Jim King, 69, British musician (Family).
• Jay Lambert, 86, American Olympic boxer.
• Juan Vicente Lezcano, 74, Paraguayan footballer.
• Matthew Mbu, 82, Nigerian politician and diplomat, Foreign Minister (1993).
• Władysław Ogrodziński, 93, Polish historian and writer.
• Erik Reitzel, 70, Danish civil engineer.
• Bob Roesner, 85, American baseball umpire.
• David Rosenhan, 82, American psychologist.
• Norma Merrick Sklarek, 85, American architect, heart failure.
• Antoni Tàpies, 88, Spanish painter.
• István Udvardi, 51, Hungarian Olympic bronze medal-winning (1980) water polo player.
• Janice E. Voss, 55, American astronaut, breast cancer.
• David A. Winter, 81, Canadian academic.

7

• Sam Aluko, 82, Nigerian economist and scholar.
• Leonard E. Andera, 77, American politician.
• James Baring, 6th Baron Revelstoke, 73, British aristocrat.
• Knox Chamblin, 76, American pastor and professor.
• Danny Clyburn, 37, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles, Tampa Bay Devil Rays), shot.
• Patricia Stephens Due, 72, American civil rights activist, cancer.
• Ann Dummett, 81, British activist.
• Devy Erlih, 83, French violinist.
• Peter Goddard, 80, New Zealand educationalist.
• Marie-Louise Haumont, 93, Belgian writer.
• Florence Holway, 96, American advocate for rape victims.
• Harry Keough, 84, American soccer player and coach.
• Sergio Larraín, 81, Chilean photographer.
• Robert Maxwell, 90, American songwriter and harpist.

8

• Shane Atwell, 41, Barbadian sailor.
• Bill Benson, 91, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Theophilus Brown, 92, American painter.
• Phil Bruns, 80, American actor (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Barney Miller, The Great Waldo Pepper).
• Dennis Callahan, 70, American politician, Mayor of Annapolis (1985–1989), heart attack.
• Robert Christie, 69, English cricketer.
• John Cunningham, 72, Irish journalist, editor of Connacht Tribune (1984–2007), illness.
• Alain Danilet, 64, French politician.
• Laurent Desjardins, 88, Canadian politician.
• Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin, 101, French philologist.
• John Fairfax, 74, British ocean rower and adventurer.
• Giangiacomo Guelfi, 87, Italian opera singer.
• Robert E. Hecht, 92, American antiquities dealer.
• Lew Hitch, 82, American basketball player (Minneapolis Lakers, Milwaukee Hawks, Philadelphia Warriors).
• Jorge Salvador Lara, 85, Ecuadorian historian and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1966, 1976–1977).
• Franca Maï, 52, French actress, cancer.
• Laurie Main, 89, Australian-born character actor (Welcome to Pooh Corner).
• Enrique Moreno Bellver, 48, Spanish footballer.
• Gunther Plaut, 99, German-born Canadian rabbi and author.
• Jimmy Sabater, 75, American Latin musician.
• Allan Segal, 70, British documentary maker, cancer.
• Luis Alberto Spinetta, 62, Argentine musician (Almendra, Pescado Rabioso, Invisible), lung cancer.
• Irina Turova, 76, Soviet sprinter.
• Wando, 66, Brazilian singer, cardiorespiratory arrest.
• Brayim Younisi, 85, Iranian Kurdish writer, novelist and translator.

9

• Adam Adamowicz, 42, American video game concept artist (The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Fallout 3), cancer.
• Ole Albrechtsen, 87, Danish Olympic fencer.
• Robert Baker, 85, American ice hockey player.
• Jill Kinmont Boothe, 75, American alpine skier.
• Peggy Crowe, 56, American Olympic speed skater.
• Susarla Dakshinamurthi, 90, Indian film music director, playback singer, and record producer.
• Fred Dickson, 74, Canadian lawyer and politician, Senator (since 2009), colon cancer.
• O. P. Dutta, 90, Indian film director, complications of pneumonia.
• Josh Gifford, 70, British racehorse jockey and trainer, heart attack.
• John Hick, 90, English philosopher and theologian.
• Barbara Marianowska, 64, British-born Polish politician.
• Joe Moretti, 73, British guitarist, lung cancer.
• Oscar Núñez, 83, Argentine actor (Good Life Delivery), cancer.
• Don Panciera, 84, American football player (New York Yankees, Detroit Lions, Chicago Cardinals).

10

• Ibrahim Al-Faqi, 61, Egyptian-born Canadian neuro-linguistic programming expert, homefire.
• Chuck Baird, 64, American artist.
• Geoffrey Cornish, 97, American golf course architect.
• R. T. France, 73, British New Testament scholar.
• Ronald Fraser, 81, English historian.
• John Gage, 73, British art historian.
• Joseph Gaggero, 84, Gibraltarian businessman.
• Filippo Giannini, 88, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Rome (1980–1998).
• Ed Harrison, 84, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers, Boston Bruins).
• Francisco de Guruceaga Iturriza, 84, Venezuelan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of La Guaira (1973–2001).
• Brian Jones, 67, British intelligence analyst.
• Andrey Korotkov, 57, Russian politician, after long illness.
• Lloyd Morrison, 54, New Zealand businessman (Infratil), leukemia.
• Wilmot Perkins, 80, Jamaican radio personality.
• David Anthony Pizzuto, 60, Canadian-born American voice actor (Family Guy, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3).
• Ivan Pravilov, 48, Ukrainian ice hockey coach, suicide by hanging.
• Refuse To Bend, 11, Irish Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the National Stakes (2002) and 2,000 Guineas Stakes (2003), myocardial infarction.
• James Riordan, 75, English novelist and academic.
• Adolfo Schwelm Cruz, 88, Argentine racing driver.
• Jeffrey Zaslow, 53, American author and columnist, car accident.

11

• Siri Bjerke, 53, Norwegian politician, Minister of the Environment (2000–2001), cancer.
• Volodymyr Borysovsky, 78, Ukrainian builder, electrical engineer, and politician.
• David Craven, 60, American art historian.
• Gene Crumling, 89, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals).
• Aharon Davidi, 85, Israeli general.
• Guido Fanti, 86, Italian politician.
• Trent Frayne, 93, Canadian sportswriter.
• Whitney Houston, 48, American singer ("I Will Always Love You") and actress (The Bodyguard), accidental drowning.
• John Sperry, 87, Canadian Anglican Bishop of the Arctic (1974–1990).

12

• Galal Amer, 59, Egyptian journalist, heart attack.
• Zina Bethune, 66, American actress (Sunrise at Campobello), hit-and-run.
• Nicanor de Guzman Jr., 80, Filipino politician, lingering liver and pancreatic illness.
• Malcolm Devitt, 75, English footballer.
• Denis Flannery, 83, Australian rugby league player.
• Adrian Foley, 8th Baron Foley, 88, British musician and aristocrat.
• David Kelly, 82, Irish actor (Fawlty Towers, Strumpet City, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory).
• Gratia Schimmelpenninck van der Oye, 99, Dutch Olympic alpine skier (1936).
• John Severin, 90, American comic book artist (Hulk), co-founder of Mad magazine.
• Victor-François, 8th duc de Broglie, 62, French aristocrat.
• David Alan Walker, 83, British scientist.
• Howard Zimmerman, 85, American professor of chemistry.

13

• Wendy Albano, 52, American businesswoman, strangled.
• Russell Arms, 92, American singer (Your Hit Parade) and actor (The Man Who Came to Dinner).
• Lillian Bassman, 94, American photographer.
• Ladislau Biernaski, 74, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of São José dos Pinhais (since 2006), cancer.
• Frank Braña, 77, Spanish film actor, respiratory failure.
• Al Brenner, 64, American football player (New York Giants, Hamilton Tiger-Cats).
• Jodie Christian, 80, American jazz pianist.
• Louise Cochrane, 93, American-born British television producer.
• Trevor Davey, 85, New Zealand politician.
• Eamonn Deacy, 53, Irish footballer, member of Aston Villa championship-winning team (1981), heart attack.
• Sophie Desmarets, 89, French actress.
• Humayun Faridi, 59, Bangladeshi actor.
• Maria Fischer-Slyzh, 89, Ukrainian-Canadian pediatrician and philanthropist.
• Daniel C. Gerould, 84, American playwright and academic.
• David Griffiths, 84, British Anglican clergyman, Archdeacon of Berkshire (1987–1992).
• Kushimaumi Keita, 46, Japanese sumo wrestler and coach (Tagonoura), ischaemic heart disease.
• Anwar Kamal Khan, 64, Pakistani politician, cardiac failure.
• Akhlaq Mohammed Khan, 75, Indian poet, lyricist and academic, lung cancer.
• Isaak B. Klejman, 91, Ukrainian Soviet archaeologist.
• Mohamed Lamari, 72, Algerian lieutenant general, Chief of Staff of the People's National Army (1993–2004), heart attack.
• Víctor Manuel Liceaga Ruibal, 77, Mexican politician, Governor of Baja California Sur (1987–1993), respiratory failure.
• Severo Lombardoni, 62, Italian music producer.
• Jim O'Brien, 64, Scottish film and television director (The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles).
• Leta Peer, 47, Swiss painter and fine art photographer.
• Sansón, 87, Spanish football player.
• Freddie Solomon, 59, American football player (Miami Dolphins, San Francisco 49ers), colon and liver cancer.
• Edward Groesbeck Voss, 82, American botanist and lepidopterist.

14

• V. S. Acharya, 71, Indian politician.
• Mike Bernardo, 42, South African boxer, kickboxer and martial artist.
• Desmond Carroll, 93, English archdeacon.
• Zlatko Crnković, 76, Croatian actor, cardiac arrest.
• Ibragimkhalil Daudov, 51, Russian militant leader of the Vilayat Dagestan, shot.
• Erwin Fiedor, 68, Polish Olympic ski jumper.
• Reinhold Frosch, 76, Austrian luger.
• Gloria Gallardo, 73, American activist.
• Kim Pong-chol, 69, North Korean politician.
• Tonmi Lillman, 38, Finnish musician (Ajattara, Sinergy, To/Die/For, Lordi).
• Earl Lindley, 78, American football player (Edmonton Eskimos).
• Tom McAnearney, 79, Scottish footballer (Sheffield Wednesday, Peterborough United, Aldershot).
• Dory Previn, 86, American singer-songwriter (Mythical Kings and Iguanas) and lyricist (Valley of the Dolls, Last Tango in Paris).
• Péter Rusorán, 71, Hungarian water polo player and coach, Olympic champion.
• Art Tait, 83, American football player.
• Alfredo Vega, 77, Paraguayan footballer.

15

• Tariq al-Dahab, 34-38, Yemeni terrorist, shot.
• Charles Anthony, 82, American tenor, kidney failure.
• Ray Bailey, 76, Australian politician, President of the Tasmanian Legislative Council (1997–2002).
• Sir Alan Cottrell, 92, British metallurgist and physicist.
• Shannon D. Cramer, 90, American admiral.
• William H. Dabney, 77, American military officer, awarded Navy Cross.
• Cyril Domb, 91, British physicist.
• Jacques Duby, 89, French actor.
• Joki Freund, 85, German jazz saxophonist.
• Zelda Kaplan, 95, American socialite and philanthropist.
• Doug McNichol, 81, Canadian football player (Montreal Alouettes, Toronto Argonauts).
• Bibudhendra Mishra, 83, Indian politician.
• Lina Romay, 57, Spanish actress, cancer.
• Clive Shakespeare, 62, British-born Australian guitarist (Sherbet) and record producer, prostate cancer.
• James Whitaker, 71, British journalist, royal editor of the Daily Mirror, cancer.
• Gerrit Ybema, 66, Dutch politician, State Secretary for Economic Affairs (1998–2002), lung cancer.
• John J. Yeosock, 74, American lieutenant general, lung cancer.

16

• Duško Antunović, 65, Croatian Olympic water polo player and coach.
• Gösta Arvidsson, 86, Swedish Olympic athlete.
• Chikage Awashima, 87, Japanese actress (Takarazuka Revue), pancreatic cancer.
• Mitja Brodar, 91, Slovenian archaeologist.
• Tiko Campbell, 64, American author and architect.
• Gary Carter, 57, American Hall of Fame baseball player (Montreal Expos, New York Mets), brain tumor.
• Shlomo Cohen-Tzidon, 89, Israeli politician.
• Donald Henry Colless, 89, Australian entomologist.
• Israel "Bo" Curtis, 79, American educator and funeral home insurance agent.
• René Debenne, 97, French cyclist.
• Sir Baddeley Devesi, 70, Solomon Islander politician, first Governor-General (1978–1988).
• Jacques Forest, 91, French carcinologist.
• Warren Hudson, 49, Canadian football player (Toronto Argonauts, Winnipeg Blue Bombers), brain cancer.
• Elyse Knox, 94, American actress and model, mother of Mark Harmon.
• Joy Lamason, 96, New Zealand cricketer.
• Reidar T. Larsen, 88, Norwegian politician, member of parliament (1973–1977).
• John Macionis, 95, American Olympic silver medal-winning (1936) swimmer.
• Kathryn McGee, 91, American disability rights advocate.
• Harry McPherson, 82, American lawyer and lobbyist, advisor to Lyndon B. Johnson, cancer.
• Geevarghese Mar Osthathios, 93, Indian Orthodox bishop, Senior Metropolitan of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church.
• Anil Ramdas, 54, Surinamese-born Dutch columnist and journalist (NRC Handelsblad).
• Ronald Rindestu, 69, Norwegian politician.
• John Ritchie, 67, English footballer.
• Anthony Shadid, 43, American journalist, asthma.
• Ethel Stark, 95, Canadian violinist and conductor.
• Gene Vance, 88, American basketball player (Chicago Stags, Tri-Cities Blackhawks, Milwaukee Hawks).
• Dick Anthony Williams, 77, American actor (Edward Scissorhands, The Jerk, Homefront), after long illness.

17

• Rodolfo Acevedo, 60, Chilean historian.
• Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn, 93, Dutch mathematician.
• Robert Carr, Baron Carr of Hadley, 95, British politician, MP for Mitcham (1950–1974) & Carshalton (1974–1976); Home Secretary (1972–1974).
• Jordan da Costa, 79, Brazilian footballer (Flamengo), diabetes.
• Clarence Dart, 91, American World War II fighter pilot (Tuskegee Airmen).
• Michael Davis, 68, American bassist (MC5), liver failure.
• Winkie Direko, 82, South African politician, Premier of the Free State (1999–2004), stroke.
• Pierre Francisse, 87, Belgian Olympic fencer.
• Danny Halloran, 57, Australian footballer (Carlton).
• Kurt Lehovec, 93, American physicist.
• Ulric Neisser, 83, American psychologist.
• Hank Nelson, 74, Australian historian, cancer.
• Peter Novick, 77, American historian.
• Howie Nunn, 76, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds).
• Frank Sanders, 62, American Olympic silver medal-winning (1972) ice hockey player, pancreatic cancer.

18

• Roald Aas, 83, Norwegian Olympic gold (1960) and bronze (1952) medal-winning speed skater.
• Alex Anisi, Papua New Guinean politician.
• Mariam Behruzi, 66-67, Iranian lawyer.
• József Breznay, 95, Hungarian painter.
• George Brizan, 69, Grenadian politician, Prime Minister (1995), diabetes.
• João Viegas Carrascalão, 65, East Timorese politician.
• Zvezdan Čebinac, 72, Serbian football player and manager.
• Elizabeth Connell, 65, South African soprano, cancer.
• Clementina Díaz y de Ovando, 96, Mexican writer and academic.
• Linda Estrella, 89, Fillipina actress.
• M. R. D. Foot, 92, English military historian.
• Ken Goodwin, 78, English comedian (The Comedians), Alzheimer's disease.
• Peter Halliday, 87, Welsh actor (Doctor Who, The Remains of the Day).
• Miles Jackson-Lipkin, 87, British barrister, Hong Kong High Court judge (1981–1987), social welfare fraudster.
• María Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat, 90, Argentine business executive and philanthropist.
• Matt Lamb, 79, American painter.
• Bertie Messitt, 81, Irish Olympic athlete (1960).
• Roger Miner, 77, American senior federal appellate judge, heart failure.
• Cal Murphy, 79, Canadian football coach and general manager (Winnipeg Blue Bombers).
• Peter Sharp, 72, New Zealand first class cricketer (Canterbury) and cricket commentator, cancer.
• Ric Waite, 78, American cinematographer (Red Dawn, Footloose, 48 Hrs.).
• Mohammed Wardi, 79, Sudanese singer and songwriter, kidney complications.

19

• Hubert Braun, 72, German Olympic bobsledder.
• Georgi Cherkelov, 81, Bulgarian actor, stroke.
• Robin Corbett, Baron Corbett of Castle Vale, 78, British politician, MP for Hemel Hempstead (1974–1979) and Birmingham Erdington (1983–2001), cancer.
• Renato Dulbecco, 97, Italian-born American virologist, Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1975).
• Avraham Fahn, 95, Israeli professor.
• Vito Giacalone, 88, American mobster.
• Eric Harris, 56, American football player (Toronto Argonauts, Kansas City Chiefs, Los Angeles Rams), heart attack.
• J. Paul Hogan, 92, American research chemist.
• Steve Kordek, 100, American pinball machine designer.
• Giovanni Lilliu, 97, Italian archeologist.
• Ruth Barcan Marcus, 90, American philosopher and logician.
• Walter Schloss, 95, American investor and stock trader, leukemia.
• Dick Smith, 72, American baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Mets).
• So Man-sul, 84, North Korean Zainichi activist, Chongryon Central Standing Committee chairman.
• Frits Staal, 81, Dutch philosopher.
• Stasys Stonkus, 80, Lithuanian basketball player.
• Herman G. Tillman, Jr., 89, American pilot (World War II, Korea, Vietnam), liver failure.
• Jaroslav Velinský, 79, Czech science fiction and detective author.
• Vitaly Vorotnikov, 86, Soviet politician, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR (1988–1990).

20

• Foyez Ahmad, 84, Bangladeshi journalist, writer and cultural activist.
• Clive Baker, 77, English footballer (Halifax Town).
• Raymond Cicci, 82, French footballer
• Knut Torbjørn Eggen, 51, Norwegian Olympic football player and coach.
• Asar Eppel, 77, Russian translator, stroke.
• Johnny Ezersky, 89, American basketball player.
• Ra Ganapati, 76, Indian writer.
• Sebhat Gebre-Egziabher, 76, Ethiopian author.
• Imanuel Geiss, 81, German historian.
• Marcel Gerdil, 84, French sprinter.
• Katie Hall, 73, American politician, U.S. Representative from Indiana (1982–1985).
• S. N. Lakshmi, 85, Indian actress, cardiac arrest.
• Lydia Lamaison, 97, Argentine actress (Muñeca Brava).
• Christoffer Schander, 51, Norwegian marine biologist.
• Ariyil Shukoor, 24, Indian student, stabbed.
• Michael Siegal, 61, British developmental psychologist.
• Adrienne Smith, 78, Australian sport administrator.
• John Steer, 83, British art historian.
• Edgardo Gabriel Storni, 75, Argentine Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz (1984–2002).
• Tamanna Begum, 64, Pakistani actress.
• Sullivan Walker, 68, Trinidadian actor (The Cosby Show, Get Rich or Die Tryin'), heart attack.

21

• Ranil Abeynaike, 57, Sri Lankan cricketer and commentator, heart attack.
• James Blackett-Ord, 90, British judge and churchman.
• Ajahn Chanda Thawaro, 90, Thai Buddhist monk.
• Sarbari Roy Choudhury, 79, Indian sculptor, heart attack.
• H. M. Darmstandler, 89, American Air Force officer.
• Herman Fialkov, 89, American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and philanthropist.
• Manuel Franco da Costa de Oliveira Falcão, 89, Portuguese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Beja (1980–1999).
• Emlyn Hooson, Baron Hooson, 86, British politician, MP for Montgomeryshire (1962–1979).
• Colin Ireland, 57, British serial killer.
• Pierre Juneau, 89, Canadian broadcasting executive and cabinet minister, Minister of Communications (1975), namesake of the Juno Awards.
• Fay Kleinman, 99, American painter, complications of a broken hip.
• Vera Kublanovskaya, 91, Russian mathematician.
• Yusuf Kurçenli, 65, Turkish film director, cancer.
• Tom Martinez, 66, American football coach, heart attack.
• John Michuki, 79, Kenyan politician, heart attack.
• Benjamin Romualdez, 81, Filipino politician and diplomat, Governor of Leyte (1967–1986), brother of Imelda Marcos, cancer.
• Leonard Rosoman, 98, British artist.
• Barney Rosset, 89, American publisher (Grove Press) and free speech advocate.
• Eldor Magomatovich Urazbayev, 71, Russian film director.
• Stanisław Wieśniak, 81, Polish Olympic rower.
• John Charles Winter, 88, British church organist.

22

• Ali Abolhassani, 56, Iranian spiritual historiograph, heart failure.
• Syed Mohammad Izhar Ashraf, 78, Indian imam.
• Frank Carson, 85, Northern Irish comedian.
• Marie Colvin, 56, American reporter (The Sunday Times), shelling.
• Nakamura Jakuemon IV, 91, Japanese kabuki actor, pneumonia.
• Lyudmila Kasatkina, 86, Russian actress, People's Artist of the USSR.
• Thabang Lebese, 38, South African footballer, AIDS-related illness.
• Lorin Levee, 61, American clarinetist (Los Angeles Philharmonic).
• João Mansur, 88, Brazilian politician, Governor of Paraná (1973).
• Robert R. McElroy, 84, American photographer.
• Mike Melvoin, 74, American jazz pianist and composer, cancer.
• Dmitri Nabokov, 77, American opera singer and translator.
• Rémi Ochlik, 28, French photographer, shelling.
• Royal Academy, 25, Irish Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the Breeders' Cup Mile (1990).
• Haycene Ryan, 60, Montserratian cricketer, cancer.
• Ian Robertson, 89, British rear admiral.
• Cuauhtémoc Sandoval Ramírez, 61, Mexican politician, heart attack.
• Enzo Sellerio, 88, Italian photographer, heart attack.
• Billy Strange, 81, American songwriter ("Limbo Rock") and music arranger.
• Sukhbir, 86, Indian writer.

23

• Tasoltan Basiev, 64, Soviet and Russian engineer.
• Dick Bernard, 94, Scottish lawn bowler.
• Cathy Campbell, 49, New Zealand broadcaster, brain tumour.
• Charlie Collins, 66, Canadian football player, car accident.
• Anne Commire, 72, American playwright.
• William Gay, 70, American author.
• Peter King, 47, English footballer.
• Grigory Kosykh, 79, Soviet sports shooter.
• Mariuccia Medici, 102, Swiss-born Italian actress.
• William Raggio, 85, American politician, Nevada State Senator (1972–2011), respiratory illness.
• David Sayre, 87, American scientist.
• Marc Soula, 66, French entomologist.
• Bruce Surtees, 74, American cinematographer (Lenny, Dirty Harry, Beverly Hills Cop).
• Jan van Borssum Buisman, 92, Dutch painter.
• Kazimierz Żygulski, 92, Polish sociologist and politician.

24

• Infanta Maria Adelaide of Portugal, 100, Portuguese royal.
• Tony Aiello, 90, American football player.
• Agnes Allen, 81, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).
• István Anhalt, 92, Hungarian-born Canadian composer.
• Bob Badgley, 83, American jazz double-bassist.
• Jan Berenstain, 88, American writer and illustrator (Berenstain Bears), stroke.
• Benedict Freedman, 92, American novelist and mathematician.
• Njenga Karume, 82, Kenyan businessman and politician, cancer.
• Theodore Mann, 87, American theatre producer and director.
• Terry Mathews, 47, American baseball player (Texas Rangers, Florida Marlins, Baltimore Orioles), heart attack.
• Kenneth Price, 77, American ceramics artist, cancer.
• Pery Ribeiro, 74, Brazilian singer, myocardial infarction.
• Eliana Tranchesi, 56, Brazilian chief executive (Daslu).
• Jay Ward, 73, American baseball player (Minnesota Twins, Cincinnati Reds).
• Oliver Wrong, 87, British medical academic.

25

• Gloria Alcorta, 96, Argentine writer, poet and sculptor.
• Maurice André, 78, French classical trumpeter.
• Dave Cheadle, 60, American baseball player (Atlanta Braves).
• Lynn Compton, 90, American soldier, inspiration for Band of Brothers, heart attack.
• Dick Davies, 76, American gold-medal winning Olympic basketball player (1964).
• Alan Detweiler, 85, Canadian composer, author, and patron of the arts.
• Lloyd R. George, 85, American politician, member of the Arkansas House of Representatives (1963–1967; 1973–1997).
• Red Holloway, 84, American jazz saxophonist, stroke and kidney failure.
• Erland Josephson, 88, Swedish actor and author, leader of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, complications of Parkinson's disease.
• Louisiana Red, 79, American blues musician, stroke.

26

• Ed Brigadier, 62, American actor (Pushing Daisies, Gilmore Girls).
• Phyllis Simmons Brooks, 85, Canadian educator.
• Richard Carpenter, 82, English television screenwriter.
• Robinson Cavalcanti, 67, Brazilian Anglican bishop, stabbed.
• Paddy Concannon, 93, Irish politician.
• Árpád Fekete, 90, Hungarian football player and coach.
• Mohamed Fourati, 80, Tunisian surgeon.
• Georg Holzherr, 85, Swiss Roman Catholic prelate, Abbot Ordinary of Territorial Abbacy of Maria Einsiedeln (1969–2001).
• Don Joyce, 82, American football player (Baltimore Colts, Chicago Cardinals, Minnesota Vikings).
• Hans Christian Korting, 59, German dermatologist.
• Kumar Kashyap Mahasthavir, 85, Nepalese Buddhist monk.
• Trayvon Martin, 17, American teenager, shot.
• Berto Poosen, 67, Belgian Olympic volleyball player.
• George E. Terwilleger, 71, American politician.
• Johannes Vågsnes, 88, Norwegian politician.
• Yvonne Verbeeck, 98, Belgian actress.
• Zollie Volchok, 95, American basketball executive.

27

• Ely Bielutin, 86, Russian artist.
• Louis Bertorelle, 79, French Olympic basketball player.
• David Bowman, 54, American writer, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Rich Brenner, 65, American sports commentator.
• Pedro Azabache Bustamante, 94, Peruvian painter.
• Vince Dantona, 62, American ventriloquist.
• Leif Eriksen, 93, Norwegian bandy player.
• Werner Guballa, 67, German Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Mainz (since 2003).
• Ma Jiyuan, 91, Chinese military leader.
• Sailen Manna, 87, Indian Olympic footballer.
• Piotr Pawłowski, 86, Polish actor.
• Armand Penverne, 85, French football player.
• Tina Strobos, 91, Dutch psychiatrist and humanitarian, protected Jewish refugees during World War II, cancer.
• Władysław Tajner, 76, Polish Olympic ski jumper.
• Helga Vlahović, 67, Croatian journalist, producer and television personality, uterine cancer.

28

• Karl Arnold, 71, German weightlifter.
• Frisner Augustin, 63, Haitian Vodou drummer.
• Bai Jing, 29, Chinese actress, stabbed.
• Anna Lou Dehavenon, 85, American anthropologist.
• Terri Dial, 62, American banker, pancreatic cancer.
• Ian Gallahar, 70s, Irish road racing cyclist.
• Jaime Graça, 70, Portuguese footballer.
• Jim Green, 68, American-born Canadian politician and activist, lung cancer.
• Fritz Hakl, 80, Austrian actor.
• William Hamilton, 87, American theologian.
• Anders Kulläng, 68, Swedish rally driver, drowning.
• Antonio Attolini Lack, 80, Mexican architect.
• Abukar Hassan Mohamoud, 43-49, Somali journalist, shot.
• Hal Roach, 84, Irish comedian.
• Murray Sargent, 83, Australian cricketer (South Australia, Leicestershire).

29

• Roland Bautista, 60, American guitarist (Earth, Wind & Fire).
• Ertjies Bezuidenhout, 56, South African cyclist.
• Prudence Burns Burrell, 95, American nurse.
• Gerald Caravelli, 68, American bridge player.
• Dennis Chinnery, 84, British actor (Doctor Who).
• Woody Farmer, 76, American wrestler, cancer.
• Fukuzo Iwasaki, 86, Japanese businessman.
• Davy Jones, 66, British actor and musician (The Monkees), heart attack.
• Karl Kodat, 69, Austrian international footballer.
• Sheldon Moldoff, 91, American comic book artist (Batman, Superman, Blackhawk), kidney failure.
• Horacio Morales, 68, Filipino economist and politician, Secretary of Agrarian Reform (1998–2001), heart attack.
• P. K. Narayana Panicker, 81, Indian welfare worker, President of the Nair Service Society.
• Vasilis Tsivilikas, 70, Greek comic actor, heart attack.

External links

• List of February 2012 deaths at IMDb