Deaths in December 2013

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The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2013.

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.

Video Deaths in December 2013

December 2013

1

• Heinrich Boere, 92, Dutch-German convicted war criminal, member of the Waffen-SS.
• Maria Mambo Café, 68, Angolan politician, Minister of Social Affairs (1982-1986), Governor of Cabinda (1990).
• Maurice Cockrill, 78, British artist.
• Stirling Colgate, 88, American physicist.
• Richard Coughlan, 66, English drummer (Caravan), pneumonia.
• Sylvester Dias, 76, Sri Lankan cricketer.
• Walter E. Ellis, 53, American serial killer.
• T. R. Fehrenbach, 88, American author and historian.
• Lino Grech, 83, Maltese actor, writer and director.
• Edward Heffron, 90, American World War II veteran, portrayed in Band of Brothers.
• Jerzy Mata?owski, 65, German-born Polish actor.
• Fernando Sabogal Viana, 72, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Bogotá (since 1996).
• André Schiffrin, 78, French-born American publisher and editor.
• Martin Sharp, 71, Australian artist, emphysema.
• Antônio Lino da Silva Dinis, 70, Portuguese-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Itumbiara (since 1999).
• Dany Vandenbossche, 57, Belgian politician, member of the Federal Parliament (1995-1999) and Flemish Parliament for East Flanders (1999-2009).
• James von der Heydt, 94, American lawyer and judge.

2

• William Allain, 85, American politician, Governor of Mississippi (1984-1988), Attorney General (1980-1984).
• Antonio Ansola, 82, Spanish footballer (Real Sociedad).
• Iván Bächer, 56, Hungarian writer and journalist.
• Bill Beckwith, 38, American contractor (Curb Appeal), motorcycle collision.
• Jean-Claude Beton, 88, Algerian-born French businessman, founder of Orangina.
• Liam O'Connor, 58, Irish Gaelic football player (Offaly).
• Eva Davies, 88, British Olympic fencer.
• Marcelo Déda, 53, Brazilian politician, Governor of Sergipe (since 2007), cancer.
• John Ewbank, 64, British-born Australian rock climber.
• Rex Garvin, 73, American R&B musician.
• Brian Hitchen, 77, British journalist, Editor of the Daily Star (1987-1994) and Sunday Express (1994-1995), traffic collision.
• Salim Kallas, 77, Syrian actor and politician.
• Toshiko Karasawa, 102, Japanese politician, member of the House of Representatives (1946-1952).
• Gary Leadston, 72, Canadian politician, cancer.
• Junior Murvin, 67, Jamaican reggae singer ("Police and Thieves").
• Joseph Napolitan, 84, American political consultant.
• Mary Riggans, 78, Scottish actress (Take the High Road, Balamory, Dear Frankie), complications of a stroke.
• Pedro Rocha, 70, Uruguayan footballer (Peñarol, São Paulo FC).
• Katsumi Sat?, 84, Japanese human rights activist, pneumonia.
• Vernon Shaw, 83, Dominican politician, President (1998-2003).
• Ray Weeks, 83, English cricketer (Warwickshire).
• Christopher Evan Welch, 48, American actor (Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Lincoln, Silicon Valley), lung cancer.
• Pawe? Zenon Wo?, 92, Polish World War II veteran.

3

• John Albery, 77, British chemist and academic, Master of University College, Oxford (1989-1997).
• Fernando Argenta, 68, Spanish journalist, musician and presenter, pancreatic cancer.
• Paul Aussaresses, 95, French army general.
• Gene Clair, 73, American sound engineer.
• Dick Greuel, 85, American politician, member of the Alaska House of Representatives (1953-1961), Speaker (1957-1959).
• Khalid Hasan, 76, Pakistani cricket player.
• Ronald Hunter, 70, American actor (Along Came Polly, Law & Order, The Big Bang Theory), heart and kidney failure.
• Kiptalam Keter, 80/81, Kenyan Olympic sprinter. [1]
• Niilo Koponen, 85, American politician, member of the Alaska House of Representatives (1983-1993).
• Norbert Kuchinke, 73, German journalist and actor (Autumn Marathon).
• Reda Mahmoud Hafez Mohamed, 61, Egyptian military leader, Commander of the Egyptian Air Force (2008-2012), Minister of Military Production (2013).
• Ahmed Fouad Negm, 84, Egyptian vernacular poet.
• Avo Paistik, 77, Estonian cartoonist, film director and painter.
• Edo Patregnani, 75, Italian footballer.
• Ida Pollock, 105, British romance novelist.
• Bill Porter, 81, American door-to-door salesman, subject of Door to Door.
• Sefi Rivlin, 66, Israeli actor and comedian, throat cancer.
• Frank Rozendaal, 56, Dutch ornithologist.
• Sacha Sosno, 76, French sculptor and painter.

4

• Hassan al-Laqqis, Lebanese paramilitary officer, senior commander of Hezbollah, shot.
• Robert Allman, 86, Australian operatic baritone.
• McDonald Bailey, 92, British Olympic sprinter (1948), bronze medalist (1952).
• Henry Cubitt, 4th Baron Ashcombe, 89, British peer.
• Charles Grigg, 97, British comics artist (Korky the Cat, Desperate Dan).
• José Esteban Muñoz, 46, Cuban-born American academic.
• Paddy O'Byrne, 83, Irish broadcaster (Radio 702) and actor.
• Joana Raspall i Juanola, 100, Spanish Catalan writer.
• Alexander Rennie, 54, South African Olympic slalom canoer (1992), plane crash.
• Murarilal Singh, 61, Indian politician.

5

• Pierre Aliker, 106, French Martinican politician and independence activist, complications from a fall.
• Fred Bassetti, 96, American architect.
• Jean-Luc Benoziglio, 72, Swiss writer.
• Friedrich Carl, 97, German Major in the Heer during World War II.
• Iryna Charnushenka-Stasiuk, 34, Belarusian Olympic long jumper (2008).
• Robert Doerr, 99, American politician and educator, Mayor of San Jose, California (1956-1958).
• William B. Edmondson, 86, American diplomat, Ambassador to South Africa (1978-1981).
• Günther Förg, 61, German artist.
• Monte Fresco, 77, British sports photographer.
• Ruperto Inchausti, 95, Bolivian footballer (The Strongest, national team).
• Barry Jackson, 75, English actor (Doctor Who, Wimbledon, Midsomer Murders).
• Nelson Mandela, 95, South African anti-apartheid activist and politician, President (1994-1999), lung infection.
• Danny Matt, 85, Israeli major-general.
• Vincent Mayers, 79, Guyanese cricketer.
• Joe Palumbo, 84, American football player (Virginia Cavaliers), member of College Football Hall of Fame.
• Brenda Reneau, 59, American politician.
• Cynthia Eagle Russett, 76, American historian, multiple myeloma.
• David Vestal, 89, American photographer, educator, and author.
• Colin Wilson, 82, English writer.

6

• Georges Baal, 75, Hungarian psychoanalyst, director, actor, theater therapist and professor, heart attack.
• Eddie Britt, 87, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Willoughby (1978-1981).
• Jean-Pierre Desthuilliers, 74, French poet.
• Philippe Favre, 51, Swiss racing driver, skiing accident.
• Hakem al-Fayez, Jordanian politician.
• Louis Jacobson, 95, Irish cricket player.
• Tom Krause, 79, Finnish opera singer.
• Gail Collins Pappalardi, 72, American artist and songwriter (Strange Brew).
• Peeter Mudist, 71, Estonian painter.
• Nya Quesada, 94, Argentine actress.
• Alan Robinson, 65, Canadian politician.
• Stan Tracey, 86, British jazz pianist.
• M. K. Turk, 71, American college basketball coach (Southern Miss).
• Louis Waldon, 78, American actor (Lonesome Cowboys, Blue Movie, Flesh), stroke.
• Kate Williamson, 82, American actress (Ellen, Disclosure, Dahmer).

7

• Vinay Apte, 62, Indian actor.
• Juan Carlos Argeñal, 43, Honduran journalist, shot.
• Sir Hugh Bidwell, 79, British businessman, Lord Mayor of London (1990).
• Alan Bridges, 86, English film and television director (The Shooting Party).
• Nadezhda Ilyina, 64, Russian Soviet Olympic bronze-medalist athlete (1976), traffic collision.
• Eero Kolehmainen, 95, Finnish Olympic silver-medalist cross country skier (1952).
• Józef Kowalski, 113, Polish soldier, last surviving veteran of the Polish-Soviet War.
• Jacob Matlala, 51, South African WBO flyweight and light flyweight champion boxer (1993, 1995).
• Édouard Molinaro, 85, French film director and screenwriter (La Cage aux Folles).
• Allen Rosenberg, 82, American Olympic rowing coach.
• Esther Streit-Wurzel, 81, Israeli author.
• Dharmavarapu Subramanyam, 53, Indian comic actor.
• Kei Suma, 78, Japanese actor, liver cancer.
• Michael Vetter, 70, German composer and novelist.
• Chick Willis, 79, American blues singer, cancer.

8

• Orlando Álvarez, 78, Chilean lawyer and writer, Judge of the Supreme Court (1998-2009).
• Leonid Baranovskyi, 60, Ukrainian Soviet footballer (Chornomorets).
• Sir John Cornforth, 96, Australian-British chemist, laureate of the Nobel Prize (1975).
• Shirley E. Flynn, 84, American historian (Cheyenne Frontier Days).
• Hung Sin-nui, 88, Chinese Cantonese opera singer and actress.
• Lynne Kieran, 53, British-born Austrian singer (The Rounder Girls).
• Mado Maurin, 98, French actress and comedian.
• Maurice J. McCauley, 90, American teacher and politician, Member of the Minnesota House of Representatives.
• José Mercado, 75, Mexican Olympic cyclist.
• Don Mitchell, 70, American actor (Ironside, I Dream of Jeannie, CHiPs).
• Donn Robins, 79, Australian cricketer (South Australia).
• Luis Saavedra, 78, Spanish footballer (Tenerife).
• Ernest Sauter, 85, German composer.
• Sándor Szokolay, 82, Hungarian composer and professor.
• Edward Williams, 92, English composer (Life on Earth).
• Richard S. Williamson, 64, American lawyer and diplomat, United States ambassador to the United Nations for Special Political Affairs.

9

• Dame Florence Baron, 61, British jurist.
• Kees Brusse, 88, Dutch actor and film director.
• Shane del Rosario, 30, American mixed martial artist and kickboxer, complications from cardiac arrest.
• Pat Flaherty, 89, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Granville (1962-1984).
• Alberto Foguelman, 90, Argentine chess master.
• John Gabbert, 104, American judge, California Appellate Court (1970-1974) and Superior Court (1949-1970).
• Norman Harding, 84, British trade unionist and political activist.
• Joe Black Hayes, 98, American football player (Tennessee Volunteers).
• Barbara Hesse-Bukowska, 83, Polish classical pianist.
• Takeshi Miura, 75, Japanese actor, pneumonia.
• Eleanor Parker, 91, American actress (The Sound of Music, Detective Story), pneumonia.
• Lloyd Pye, 67, American author and paranormal researcher.
• Shiva Regmi, 49, Nepali film director, kidney failure.
• Peter Urban, 72, German translator.
• Jacq Firmin Vogelaar, 69, Dutch writer.
• Avtandil Tskitishvili, 63, Georgian general, Chief of General Staff (1992-1993).
• Thomson M. Whitin, 90, American economist.
• John Wilbur, 70, American football player (Dallas Cowboys, Los Angeles Rams, Washington Redskins).

10

• Mary Allitt, 80, Australian cricket player.
• Jimmy Amadie, 76, American jazz musician.
• Maurice Benoit, 81, Canadian ice hockey player (Dayton Gems).
• The Child of Lov, 26, Belgian-born Dutch pop musician, complications from surgery.
• Alan Coleman, 76, English-born Australian television director and producer (The Young Doctors, Neighbours).
• John Didion, 66, American football player (Washington Redskins, New Orleans Saints).
• Peter Drummond, 82, Australian politician, member of the Australian House of Representatives for Forrest (1972-1987).
• Skeets Gallacher, 88, British boxer.
• Jim Hall, 83, American jazz guitarist, composer and arranger.
• Don Lund, 90, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).
• William L. Mallory, Sr., 82, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives (1967-1994) and House Majority Leader (1974-1994).
• Herbert J. McChrystal, 89, American army general.
• Pete Naton, 82, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates).
• Rossana Podestà, 79, Italian actress (Helen of Troy).
• Ravella Venkatarama Rao, 86, Indian writer.
• David Thurston, 95, American aircraft designer.
• Srikantadatta Narasimharaja Wadiyar, 60, Indian politician, leader of Mysore Kingdom and Wadiyar dynasty (since 1974), heart attack.

11

• Nadir Afonso, 93, Portuguese geometric abstractionist painter.
• Kate Barry, 46, British photographer, fall.
• Barbara Branden, 84, Canadian biographer, lung infection.
• George H. Buck, Jr., 84, American music industry executive.
• Regina Derieva, 64, Russian poet.
• Frederick Fox, 82, Australian-born British milliner.
• Loretta Fuddy, 65, American health official, director of the Hawaii Department of Health (since 2011), Mayor of Kalawao County (since 2011), plane crash.
• Javier Jáuregui, 40, Mexican professional boxer, stroke.
• Patrick Kavanagh, 90, British police officer, Deputy Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis (1977-1983).
• Luigi Menti, 79, Italian footballer.
• Garry Robbins, 56, Canadian professional wrestler and actor (Wrong Turn, The Love Guru, Narc).
• Musa Shariefi, 71, Indian Islamic religious scholar.

12

• Molly Allott, 95, British Women's Royal Air Force officer.
• Chabua Amirejibi, 92, Georgian writer.
• Stephen Bruce, 59, South African cricketer.
• Jim Burton, 64, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox).
• Bernard Conlan, 90, British politician, MP for Gateshead East (1964-1987).
• Krisztina Dobos, 64, Hungarian politician and economist.
• Jang Sung-taek, 67, North Korean politician, Vice-Chairman of the National Defence Commission (2010-2013), executed.
• David Jones, 73, English footballer (Millwall).
• Zbigniew Karkowski, 55, Polish composer.
• Tom Laughlin, 82, American actor (Billy Jack), complications from pneumonia.
• Maria Lidka, 99, German-born British violinist.
• Mac McGarry, 87, American television quiz show host (It's Academic), pneumonia.
• Angelo Menon, 94, Italian cyclist. [2]
• Abdul Quader Molla, 65, Bangladeshi politician, execution by hanging.
• Lee Raymond, 59, American stock car racing driver, cancer.
• Leo Sachs, 89, Israeli molecular biologist.
• Ezra Sellers, 45, American IBO cruiserweight champion boxer (2001-2002), heart failure.
• Audrey Totter, 95, American actress (The Postman Always Rings Twice; Medical Center), stroke.
• Charles M. Vest, 72, American academic, President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1990-2004).
• Séry Wawa, 70, Ivorian footballer (Africa Sports, national team).
• Rae Woodland, 91, British soprano.

13

• Marcel Cellier, 88, Swiss organist and musicologist.
• Daniel Escobar, 49, American actor (Lizzie McGuire, Dharma & Greg, Blow), complications of diabetes.
• Vivian Kellogg, 91, American AAGPBL baseball player (Fort Wayne Daisies).
• Kim Kuk-tae, 89, North Korean politician and party secretary, heart failure.
• Harvey Littleton, 91, American glass artist.
• Zafar Mahmood, 65, Pakistani cricketer.
• Claudio Nasco, 37, Cuban journalist and newscaster, stabbed.
• Hugh Nissenson, 80, American novelist.
• Zafer Önen, 92, Turkish film actor, heart failure.
• Andrew Plain, 60, Australian sound editor (The Truman Show, Babe, Knowing), melanoma.
• Wyn Roberts, Baron Roberts of Conwy, 83, Welsh politician, MP for Conwy (1970-1997).
• James Schroder, 95, Canadian politician, MP for Guelph (1980-1984).
• Horst Tomayer, 75, German poet, columnist, and actor, complications from cancer.

14

• Janet Abu-Lughod, 85, American sociologist.
• Lou Angeli, 62, American writer and filmmaker, subarachnoid hemorrhage.
• G. W. S. Barrow, 89, British historian.
• Janet Dailey, 69, American romance writer.
• Judi Hofer, 73, American business executive.
• C. N. Karunakaran, 73, Indian painter.
• Teoman Koman, 77, Turkish army general.
• Junji Kunishige, 71, Japanese scholar of American literature, hepatocellular carcinoma.
• Dennis Lindley, 90, British statistician.
• Frank Maznicki, 93, American football player (Chicago Bears, Boston Yanks).
• Peter O'Toole, 81, British-Irish actor (Lawrence of Arabia, The Lion in Winter, Troy), BAFTA winner (1963).
• Neil Robson, 85, Australian politician.
• France Roche, 92, French actress.
• George Rodrigue, 69, American painter, lung cancer.
• Bill Troup, 62, American football player (Baltimore Colts, Green Bay Packers).

15

• Sandeep Acharya, 29, Indian singer.
• Harold Camping, 92, American evangelist (Family Radio) and doomsday predictor, complications from a fall.
• Frank Meidell Falch, 93, Norwegian media director.
• Joan Fontaine, 96, British-American actress (Rebecca, Suspicion, Ivanhoe), Oscar winner (1942), natural causes.
• Helmar Frank, 80, German mathematician.
• Gennaro Langella, 74, American mobster.
• Viking Mestad, 83, Norwegian banker and politician.
• Dyron Nix, 46, American basketball player (Indiana Pacers), pneumonia.
• Sis Ram Ola, 86, Indian politician, Minister of Labour and Employment (2004, 2013), Minister of Mines (2004-2009).
• Valentin Pashin, 76, Russian naval constructor, Hero of the Russian Federation.
• Yevgeny Yatsinenko, 88, Russian Soviet Olympic sprint canoer (1956).

16

• James Isbell Armstrong, 94, American academic, President of Middlebury College (1963-1975).
• Arnoldo Castro, 74, Mexican baseball player.
• Eric Chekoloka, Zambian footballer.
• James Flint, 100, British Royal Air Force officer.
• Stuart Hilborn, 96, Canadian automotive engineer.
• Conn McCluskey, 99, Irish civil rights activist.
• Ray Price, 87, American singer ("Heartaches by the Number", "For the Good Times"), pancreatic cancer.
• Madhusudan Rege, 89, Indian cricket player (Maharashtra).
• Marta Russell, 62, American writer and disability rights activist.
• Lolita Sevilla, 78, Spanish actress and singer.
• Michiaki Takahashi, 85, Japanese virologist (chickenpox vaccine), heart failure.
• Uthradom Thirunal Marthanda Varma, 91, Indian titular Maharaja of Travancore (since 1991), heart failure.
• Arie Vermeer, 91, Dutch footballer.
• Zvi Yanai, 78, Israeli publicist and philosopher.

17

• Alfred Bates, 69, British politician, MP for Bebington and Ellesmere Port (1974-1979).
• Richard Britnell, 69, British historian.
• Fred Bruemmer, 84, Canadian nature photographer.
• ?rvaldis Andrejs Brumanis, 87, Latvian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Liep?ja (1995-2001).
• Ricardo María Carles Gordó, 87, Spanish Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Barcelona (1990-2004).
• Kelly Clark, 56, American attorney.
• Rudolf Filkus, 86, Slovak politician.
• Richard Heffner, 88, American historian and television host (The Open Mind), cerebral hemorrhage.
• Azean Irdawaty, 63, Malaysian actress, liver failure.
• Tetsur? Kashibuchi, 63, Japanese musician, composer (Tsuribaka Nisshi), and producer (Yukiko Okada), esophageal cancer.
• Janet Rowley, 88, American cancer researcher, complications of ovarian cancer.
• Eyad al-Sarraj, 70, Palestinian human rights campaigner, leukemia.
• Frank Sheehan, 80, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Lincoln (1995-1999), cancer.
• Conny van Rietschoten, 87, Dutch yacht racer.

18

• Ronnie Biggs, 84, English criminal (Great Train Robbery) and fugitive.
• Harry Boland, 88, Irish Olympic basketball player (1948).
• Sir Christopher Curwen, 84, British Head of the Secret Intelligence Service (1985-1989).
• Ken Hutcherson, 61, American football player and anti-gay activist, prostate cancer.
• Gonzalo Inzunza Inzunza, 42, Mexican drug lord and Sinaloa Cartel leader, shot.
• Boyuk Jeddikar, 84, Iranian footballer (Esteghlal F.C., national team), Alzheimer's disease.
• Martin Koeman, 75, Dutch footballer.
• Larry Lujack, 73, American disc jockey, esophageal cancer.
• Graham Mackay, 64, South African businessman (SABMiller).
• Titus Munteanu, 72, Romanian television producer (TVR), director and filmmaker, respiratory disease.
• Donald Roe Ross, 91, American federal judge.
• Brunon Synak, 70, Polish sociologist and politician.
• Paul Torday, 67, British author.

19

• Valeria Borza, 29, Romanian table tennis player, bacterial meningitis.
• Winton Dean, 97, English musicologist.
• Herb Geller, 85, American jazz saxophonist, pneumonia.
• Al Goldstein, 77, American publisher and pornographer, renal failure.
• José de Jesús Gutiérrez Rebollo, 79, Mexican general and drug trafficker, brain cancer.
• Marty Hornstein, 76, American film producer (Star Trek: First Contact, Along Came a Spider).
• Ralph Howard, 82, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Council (1976-1982).
• Hideo Kanaya, 68, Japanese motorcycle racer.
• Leon Kuhn, 59, British political cartoonist.
• Nae L?z?rescu, 72, Romanian actor and comedian, chronic liver disease.
• Krzysztof Marcinkowski, 53, Polish footballer (Lech Poznan).
• Pedro Septién, 97, Mexican sports broadcaster, pneumonia.
• Ru?ica Soki?, 79, Serbian actress, Alzheimer's disease.
• Ned Vizzini, 32, American novelist (It's Kind of a Funny Story), suicide by jumping.
• Günther Ziegler, 80, German Olympic cyclist.

20

• Amand Audaire, 89, French cyclist.
• Pyotr Bolotnikov, 83, Soviet Olympic champion athlete (1960).
• Harji Ram Burdak, 82, Indian politician.
• Yuri Dubinin, 83, Russian diplomat, Ambassador to the United States (1986-1990).
• Barbara Farnsworth Heslop, 88, New Zealand immunologist.
• Lord Infamous, 40, American rapper (Three 6 Mafia), heart attack.
• Gyula Maár, 79, Hungarian film director.
• Didi Menosi, 85, Israeli dramatist, journalist and songwriter, Parkinson's disease.
• Nelly Omar, 102, Argentine actress and singer, cardiac arrest.
• Masafumi ?ura, 44, Japanese volleyball player (national team), stomach cancer.
• David Richards, 57, British record producer (Queen, Iggy Pop).
• Reginaldo Rossi, 69, Brazilian singer-songwriter, lung cancer.
• Vivian St. John, 63, American professional wrestler.
• Jeff Shannon, 52, American film critic and writer (The Seattle Times).
• Syeda Zohra Tajuddin, 80, Bangladeshi politician.

21

• Trigger Alpert, 97, American jazz double-bassist (Glenn Miller band).
• Ahmed Asmat Abdel-Meguid, 89, Egyptian diplomat.
• Eli Beeding, 85, American scientist and test pilot.
• Edgar Bronfman Sr., 84, Canadian businessman (Seagram) and activist for Jewish and Israeli causes.
• Bethine Clark Church, 90, American political activist.
• David Coleman, 87, British television sports commentator and presenter.
• Treffor Davies, 75, British cricketer (Worcestershire).
• Lars Edlund, 91, Swedish composer and organist.
• John Eisenhower, 91, American historian and diplomat, Ambassador to Belgium (1969-1971).
• Peter Geach, 97, British philosopher.
• Richard Hart, 96, Jamaican historian and politician.
• Rodolfo P. Hernández, 82, American soldier, recipient of the Medal of Honor (1952).
• Ina Scot, 24, Swedish racehorse, winner of Prix d'Amérique (1995), euthanized.
• Björn J:son Lindh, 69, Swedish musician and composer, brain tumor.
• Bernard Henry McGinn, 56, Irish republican and IRA member, convicted of conspiracy to murder and firearms possession. (body discovered on this date)
• Bronzell Miller, 42, American football player and actor (Bringing Down the House, Mr. 3000), multiple myeloma.
• El Perlo de Triana, 87, Spanish singer and poet.
• Aristóteles Picho, 56, Peruvian actor, director and drama teacher, heart attack.
• Lentxu Rubial, 68, Spanish politician, Senator (2004-2011).
• Geoff Stirling, 92, Canadian businessman (CJON-DT, CHOZ-FM) and publisher (Newfoundland Herald).
• Kobus Van Rensburg, 61, South African televangelist and author, cancer.
• Kazutami Watanabe, 81, Japanese scholar of French literature, sepsis.
• Woon Sui Kut, 84, Singaporean sports official.

22

• Muriel Abdurahman, 75, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Clover Bar-Fort Saskatchewan (1993-1997).
• Pran Chopra, 92, Indian journalist and newspaper editor (The Statesman).
• Diomedes Díaz, 56, Colombian vallenato musician.
• Shem Downey, 91, Irish hurler (Kilkenny).·
• R. A. Foakes, 90, British author and Shakespearean scholar.
• John Grefe, 66, American chess player, liver cancer.
• Ed Herrmann, 67, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox), prostate cancer.
• Hans Hækkerup, 68, Danish politician, Defence Minister (1993-2000), MP (1979-2001), multiple system atrophy.
• Keith McGowan, 70, Australian radio presenter (3AW), stroke.
• Oscar Peer, 85, Swiss writer.
• Lázaro Rivas, 38, Cuban Olympic wrestler (1996, 2000, 2004).
• William Rosales, 59, Puerto Rican politician, Mayor of Camuy (1989-2002).
• Bill Tremel, 84, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs).
• Marco Zappia, 76, American television editor (Home Improvement, All in the Family, Who's the Boss?).

23

• Stan Brooks, 86, American radio broadcaster (WINS).
• Alan Burns, 83, English author.
• Chryssa, 79, Greek-American artist.
• Addison Cresswell, 53, British comedy agent and manager.
• Mikhail Kalashnikov, 94, Russian weapons designer (AK-47, AK-74).
• Yusef Lateef, 93, American Grammy Award-winning saxophonist (Yusef Lateef's Little Symphony).
• Juris Lauci??, 56, Latvian actor, throat cancer.
• Ricky Lawson, 59, American drummer (Michael Jackson, Phil Collins), brain aneurysm.
• José Ortiz, 81, Spanish comics artist (Hombre, Tex Willer).
• András Pándy, 86, Hungarian-born Belgian serial killer, natural causes.
• Chuck Patterson, 68, American actor (Law & Order).
• Raymond Paul, 85, British Olympic fencer (1952, 1956).
• Jeff Pollack, 54, American director and producer (Booty Call, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air), natural causes.
• Ted Richmond, 103, American film producer (Papillon).
• Vito Rizzuto, 67, Canadian mafia leader.
• Viktor Sarianidi, 84, Russian archaeologist.
• G. S. Shivarudrappa, 87, Indian Kannada language poet.
• Francisco Manuel Vieira, 88, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Osasco (1989-2002).
• Robert W. Wilson, 86, American multimillionaire philanthropist, suicide by jumping.

24

• Rex Armistead, 83, American private detective and police officer (Arkansas Project).
• Eric Auld, 82, Scottish artist.
• Frédéric Back, 89, Canadian animator (Crac, The Man Who Planted Trees), cancer.
• Ian Barbour, 90, American scholar and author, stroke.
• Sir Michael Butler, 86, British diplomat, Permanent Representative to the European Economic Community (1979-1985).
• Germán Coppini, 52, Spanish pop musician and singer (Siniestro Total, Golpes Bajos), hepatic cancer.
• André Dreiding, 94, Swiss chemist.
• Gunnar Ericsson, 94, Swedish politician and sports official.
• Patrick Etolu, 78, Ugandan high jumper.
• Soane Lilo Foliaki, 80, Tongan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tonga (1994-2008).
• John M. Goldman, 75, British medical scientist.
• Stuart Jakeman, 70, English cricket player (Northants).
• Raino Koskenkorva, 87, Finnish cyclist.
• Allan McKeown, 67, British film producer (Tracey Takes On...), prostate cancer.
• Ron Noades, 76, British football chairman (Crystal Palace), lung cancer.
• Helga M. Novak, 78, German-Icelandic writer.
• Walter Oi, 84, American economist.
• Jean Rustin, 85, French painter.
• Valter Santos, 59, Brazilian actor.
• R.A. Shooter, 97, British microbiologist.
• Serghei Stroenco, 46, Moldovan football player (national team) and manager.
• Edward Williams, 88, English cricketer.

25

• Don Adams, 66, American basketball player.
• Kaj Backlund, 68, Finnish jazz trumpeter (UMO Jazz Orchestra).
• Anthony J. Bryant, 52, American author.
• Birger Gerhardsson, 87, Swedish Biblical scholar.
• Luis Humberto Gómez Gallo, 51, Colombian industrial engineer, Senator (1994-2008), heart attack.
• Wayne Harrison, 46, English footballer.
• David R. Harris, 83, British geographer, anthropologist and archaeologist.
• Mike Hegan, 71, American baseball player (Milwaukee Brewers, New York Yankees) and announcer (Cleveland Indians), heart failure.
• Jorge Loring Miró, 92, Spanish Jesuit priest, stroke.
• Andy Malcolm, 80, English footballer (West Ham United).
• Mel Mathay, 80, Filipino politician, Mayor of Quezon City (1992-2001), heart attack.
• John Rutherford, 78, English cricketer.
• Cliff Salmond, 85, Canadian Olympic athlete. [3]
• Viktor Savelyev, 85, Russian surgeon, Hero of Socialist Labor, recipient of the Demidov Prize in Medicine (2002).
• Adnan ?enses, 78, Turkish musician and actor, stomach cancer.
• Wilbur Thompson, 92, American Olympic champion shot putter (1948).
• Art Weiner, 87, American football player.
• Slim Williamson, 86, American recording executive.

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• Malena Alvarado, 59, Venezuelan actress, complications during surgery.
• Albino Aroso, 90, Portuguese doctor and politician.
• Paul Blair, 69, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees).
• E. Otis Charles, 87, American clergyman and activist, Espiscopal Bishop of Utah (1971-1993).
• Dinu Cocea, 84, Romanian director and screenwriter, heart failure.
• Dr. Tangalanga, 97, Argentine comedian.
• Marta Eggerth, 101, Hungarian-born American singer and actress.
• Theo Lalleman, 67, Dutch writer.
• Herbert F. Travers, Jr., 85, American attorney and judge.
• Sally Vincent, 76, British journalist.
• Harold Whitaker, 93, British animator (Animal Farm, Heavy Metal).

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• Richard Ambler, 80, British chemist.
• Carter Camp, 72, American activist, chair of the American Indian Movement (1973).
• Mohamad Chatah, 62, Lebanese politician, Minister of Finance (2008-2009), Ambassador to the United States (1997-2000), car bomb.
• Patrick Crowby, 55, Ni-Vanuatu politician, Interior Minister (2008, 2011, 2013).
• Alexander Lamb Cullen, 93, British electrical engineer.
• Gianna D'Angelo, 84, American opera singer.
• Boyd Lee Dunlop, 87, American jazz pianist.
• Rollo Gebhard, 92, German circumnavigator and author.
• Peter Hall, 83, British Anglican bishop, Bishop of Woolwich in the Diocese of Southwark, England (1984-1996)
• Peter John Harding, 73, British Royal Air Force officer, Defence Services Secretary (1994-1998).
• John Matheson, 96, Canadian lawyer, judge and politician, MP for Leeds (1961-1968).
• Åke Nordin, 77, Swedish entrepreneur, founder of Fjällräven outdoor equipment.
• Gunn Olsen, 61, Norwegian politician. MP for Telemark (1997-2013), cancer.
• Elvira Quintillá, 85, Spanish actress.
• Alan Richards, 91, New Zealand cricketer.
• Farooq Sheikh, 65, Indian actor, heart attack.
• Keegan Taylor, 29, Zimbabwean cricketer.
• Fernando Ureña Rib, 62, Dominican painter.

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• Halton Arp, 86, American astronomer.
• Jack S. Blanton, 86, American businessman and philanthropist.
• Esther Borja, 100, Cuban singer.
• Robert Boscawen, 90, British politician, MP for Wells (1970-1983), Somerton and Frome (1983-1992).
• Laurent Chappis, 98, French architect and town planner.
• Aníbal Delgado Fiallos, 77, Honduran politician.
• Doe B, 22, American rapper, shot.
• Harry C. Goode, Jr., 75, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives (1986-2000), Mayor of Melbourne (1979-1986, 2004-2012).
• Sheila Guyse, 88, American actress and singer, Alzheimer's disease.
• Andrew Jacobs, Jr., 81, American politician, member of the House of Representatives from Indiana (1965-1973, 1975-1997), natural causes.
• Margrit Kennedy, 74, German architect and academic.
• Kazuyoshi Kino, 91, Japanese Buddhist scholar, pneumonia.
• Alfred Marshall, 94, American clothing retailer, founder of Marshalls.
• Eleanor Montgomery, 67, American Olympic high jumper.
• Joseph Ruskin, 89, American actor (The Magnificent Seven, The Scorpion King, Alias), natural causes.
• Yosef Shapira, 87, Israeli politician, minister without portfolio (1984-1988).
• Harold Simmons, 82, American businessman and philanthropist.
• Ilya Tsymbalar, 44, Ukrainian-born Russian footballer, Footballer of the Year in Russia (1995), heart disease.

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• Alevtina Aparina, 72, Russian politician.
• Paul Comstive, 52, English footballer, heart attack.
• Benjamin Curtis, 35, American rock musician (Tripping Daisy, Secret Machines, School of Seven Bells), lymphoma.
• Connie Dierking, 77, American basketball player (Philadelphia 76ers, Cincinnati Royals).
• Andy Granatelli, 90, American motorsport promoter and businessman, CEO of STP, heart failure.
• C. T. Hsia, 92, Chinese literary critic and academic.
• Wojciech Kilar, 81, Polish composer (Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Pianist), brain tumor.
• Besik Kudukhov, 27, Russian Olympic wrestler (2008, 2012), traffic collision.
• Henri Lazarof, 81, Bulgarian composer, Alzheimer's disease.
• Kay Mander, 98, British film director and shooting continuity specialist
• Jagadish Mohanty, 62, Indian Oriya language writer, hit by train.
• Mike O'Connor, 67, American journalists' advocate, heart attack.
• William Overstreet Jr., 92, American WWII flying ace.
• Khushi Ram, 77, Indian basketball player.
• Ari Romero, 62, Mexican professional wrestler, liver cancer.
• Paul Sally, 80, American mathematics professor.
• Armando Villegas, 87, Peruvian-Colombian painter.
• Mary Wibberley, 79, British novelist.

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• Akeem Adams, 22, Trinidadian footballer, stroke.
• Katja Andy, 106, German-born American classical pianist.
• Martin Berkofsky, 70, American classical pianist.
• W. Harrison Daniel, 91, American author and history professor.
• John Dominis, 92, American photojournalist, complications from heart attack.
• Kenneth C. Edelin, 74, American physician and patient rights advocate.
• Charlie Hill, 62, American Oneida-Mohawk-Cree comedian, lymphoma.
• Sjoerd Huisman, 27, Dutch long distance ice-skater, cardiac arrest.
• Kinnaird R. McKee, 84, American United States Navy admiral.
• José María Maguregui, 79, Spanish football player (Athletic Bilbao) and coach (Racing de Santander).
• Eero Mäntyranta, 76, Finnish Olympic champion (1960, 1964) cross-country skier.
• Tito Mora, 73, Spanish pop singer, pulmonary illness.
• Gerald Mortimer, 77, British author and sports journalist (Derby Telegraph).
• G. Nammalvar, 75, Indian agronomist and sustainability activist, cardiac arrest.
• Eiichi Ohtaki, 65, Japanese musician (Happy End), choking.
• Jaime Quijandría Salmón, 70, Peruvian economist and politician, Minister of Energy (2001-2003, 2004), Minister of Economy (2003-2004), pulmonary fibrosis.
• Haakon Sandberg, 89, Norwegian film director.
• Lakshmi Shankar, 87, Indian classical vocalist.
• Ayhan Sökmen, 84, Turkish composer and physician.
• Jan Steyn, 85, South African judge, Supreme Court Justice (1964-1977).
• Ibrahima Sylla, 57, Ivorian record producer.
• Geoffrey Wheeler, 83, British broadcaster (Songs of Praise, Top of the Form, Winner Takes All).
• Larry Yaji, 87, American baseball player (Nishitetsu Lions).

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• Antonio Allocca, 76, Italian actor.
• James Avery, 68, American actor (The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Closer), complications from surgery.
• Roberto Ciotti, 60, Italian bluesman and composer (Marrakech Express).
• Puccio Corona, 71, Italian journalist.
• Jim Coutts, 75, Canadian lawyer, businessman and advisor to two prime ministers, cancer.
• John Fortune, 74, British comedian (Bremner, Bird and Fortune) and actor (Match Point), leukaemia.
• Joaquim Gonçalves, 77, Portuguese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Vila Real (1991-2011).
• Bob Grant, 84, American radio talk show host.
• Sigrid Kahle, 85, French-born Swedish journalist and writer.
• Patrick Karegeya, 53, Rwandan dissident, Director-General (External Intelligence) of the Defence Force (1994-2004), strangulation.
• Irina Korschunow, 88, German writer.
• Hermann Müller, 78, German politician, Mayor of Idstein (1978-2002).
• T.C. Narendran, 69, Indian taxonomist, heart attack.
• Johnny Orr, 86, American basketball player and coach (University of Michigan, Iowa State University).
• Al Porcino, 88, American jazz trumpeter, fall.
• Ljubomir Tadi?, 88, Serbian academic.
• Lidiya Vertinskaya, 90, Russian actress.
• Werner Wittig, 83, German painter and printmaker.

Maps Deaths in December 2013

References

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