Deaths in May 2013

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The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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 May 2013

May 2013

1

• Chris Kelly, 34, American rap artist (Kris Kross), drug overdose.
• Martin Kevan, 66, Kenyan-born Canadian film and voice actor (Far Cry 3) and author, cancer.
• Massimo Mollica, 84, Italian actor and stage director.
• Pierre Pleimelding, 60, French football player (national team) and manager (SAS Épinal, Ivory Coast, FCSR Haguenau).
• Henry Hope Reed, Jr., 97, American architecture critic.
• Gregory Rogers, 55, Australian children's book writer, cancer.
• Ruby Stone, 89, American politician, member of the Idaho House of Representatives (1986-2002).
• Stuart Wilde, 66, British writer and metaphysical teacher.
• Chob Yodkaew, 78, Thai economist and politician, stroke.

2

• Sir Terence Beckett, 89, British businessman, Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry.
• Roddy Blackjack, 86, Canadian Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation elder and chief, architect of Yukon Land Claims agreement.
• Mihail Dolgan, 85, Moldovan professor.
• Boris Elik, 83, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings).
• Ernie Field, 70, English boxer, cancer.
• Jeff Hanneman, 49, American guitarist (Slayer), liver failure.
• Joseph P. McFadden, 65, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Harrisburg (since 2010), heart attack.
• Allen McKay, 86, British politician, MP for Penistone (1978-1983) and Barnsley West and Penistone (1983-1992).
• Tancred Melis, 79, South African cricketer.
• Danny Ray Mitchell, 69, American pastor, businessman and politician.
• Dvora Omer, 80, Israeli author, recipient of the Israel Prize (2006).
• Patrick Henry Omlor, 82, American traditionalist Catholic author.
• Jo Pitt, 34, Scottish paralympic equestrian, pulmonary veno-occlusive disease.
• Bob Rafkin, 69, American singer songwriter.
• James E. Ramsey, 81, American politician, member of North Carolina House of Representatives (1963-1974), Speaker (1973-1974), complications from a stroke.
• Harry Randall, Jr., 86, American politician.
• Sylvester Sanfilippo, 87, American pediatrician.
• Gordon Sherwood, 83, American classical composer.
• Sarabjit Singh, 49, Indian convicted spy, injuries sustained from blunt force trauma.
• Ronald Thresher, 82, English cricketer.
• Ivan Turina, 32, Croatian footballer (AIK Stockholm), suspected heart failure.
• Selma Urfer, 85, Swiss author and actress.
• Lefteris Vogiatzes, 68, Greek theater actor and director.
• Charles Banks Wilson, 94, American artist.

3

• Joe Astroth, 90, American baseball player (Philadelphia/Kansas City Athletics).
• Herbert Blau, 87, American theater director, scholar and theorist, sarcomatoid carcinoma of the chest.
• Cedric Brooks, 70, Jamaican musician (The Skatalites), cardiac arrest.
• Keith Carter, 88, American Olympic silver medalist swimmer (1948).
• Bruno Chersicla, 75, Italian painter and sculptor.
• Brad Drewett, 54, Australian tennis player and administrator, ATP Executive Chairman (2012-2013), motor neurone disease.
• David Morris Kern, 103, American pharmacist, developed Orajel to fight toothaches.
• Curtis Rouse, 52, American football player (Minnesota Vikings, San Diego Chargers).
• Branko Vukeli?, 55, Croatian politician, Minister of Defence (2008-2010), pancreatic cancer.
• Sir David Innes Williams, 93, British paediatric urologist.

4

• Bobbie Banda, 66, American Juaneño elder and activist, stroke.
• Otis R. Bowen, 95, American politician, Governor of Indiana (1973-1981), Secretary of Health and Human Services (1985-1989).
• Christian de Duve, 95, Belgian cytologist and biochemist, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1974), euthanasia.
• Javier Díez Canseco, 65, Peruvian politician and sociologist, MP (1995-2000, 2001-2006, since 2011), pancreatic cancer.
• Frederic Franklin, 98, British-born American ballet dancer and director, complications from pneumonia.
• Sylvi Keskinen, 79, Finnish Olympic hurdler [1]
• Ed Kringstad, 76, American politician, member of the North Dakota Senate (1995-2006).
• Mario Machado, 78, American news anchor, journalist and actor (Scarface, RoboCop, St. Elmo's Fire), Parkinson's disease.
• Sir Morgan Morgan-Giles, 98, British Royal Navy officer and politician, MP for Winchester (1964-1979).
• David Noriega Rodríguez, 68, Puerto Rican politician and lawyer, member of the House of Representatives (1984-1996), pancreatic cancer.
• César Portillo de la Luz, 90, Cuban Filin composer and interpreter.
• Jacques Stockman, 74, Belgian footballer (R.S.C. Anderlecht).
• John Swaim, 64, American attorney, Pennsylvania state legislator.
• Wilbur Zelinsky, 91, American cultural geographer.

5

• Jürg Amann, 65, Swiss author and dramatist.
• Alan Arnell, 79, English footballer (Liverpool).
• Sir Richard Barratt, 84, British police officer, Chief Inspector of Constabulary (1987-1990).
• Lotfi Dziri, 67, Tunisian actor.
• Rossella Falk, 86, Italian actress (8½, Modesty Blaise, The Legend of Lylah Clare).
• William Havens, 94, American Olympic canoer (1948).
• Dean Jeffries, 80, American car customizer, painter and stuntman (The Fugitive, Fletch).
• Mazin Abu Kalal, Iraqi politician, bombing.
• Sarah Kirsch, 78, German poet.
• G. X. McSherry, 88, American politician, member of the New Mexico House of Representatives (1982-1998).
• Tore Magnussen, 74, Norwegian boxer.
• Eugene Millerick, 88, American politician, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives (1986-1994).
• Bill Orr, 78, American insurance executive, First Gentleman of Nebraska (1987-1991), COPD.
• Leif Preus, 85, Norwegian photographer, founder of the Preus Museum.
• Greg Quill, 66, Australian roots musician and entertainment critic (Toronto Star), pneumonia.
• Robert Ressler, 76, American criminologist.
• Hayri Sezgin, 52, Turkish wrestler.
• Dirk Vekeman, 52, Belgian footballer (RSC Anderlecht).
• Helmin Wiels, 54, Curaçaoan politician, leader of Pueblo Soberano in the Estates of Curaçao (since 2010), shot.
• Menachem Yedid, 95, Israeli politician, member of the Knesset (1965-1977).

6

• Diana Keppel, Dowager Countess of Albemarle, 103, British aristocrat.
• Giulio Andreotti, 94, Italian politician, Prime Minister (1972-1973, 1976-1979, 1989-1992), Minister of Foreign Affairs (1983-1989) and Lifetime Senator (since 1991).
• Yordan Angelov, 59, Bulgarian Olympic volleyball player (1980).
• Severo Aparicio Quispe, 89, Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Cuzco (1978-1999).
• Steve Carney, 55, English footballer (Newcastle United), pancreatic cancer.
• Michel Knuysen, 83, Belgian rower.
• Ian MacLeod, 53, Scottish footballer (Motherwell).
• Esperanza Magaz, 91, Cuban-born Venezuelan television actress (RCTV), cancer.
• Steve Martland, 58, English composer.
• Michelangelo Spensieri, 64, Canadian politician and lawyer, member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Yorkview (1981-1985).

7

• Al Fritz, 88, American bicycle developer and inventor (Schwinn Sting-Ray), complications from a stroke.
• Ray Harryhausen, 92, American stop-motion animator (Jason and the Argonauts, Clash of the Titans).
• Kozo Igarashi, 87, Japanese politician, member of the House of Representatives, Chief Cabinet Secretary (1994-1995), pneumonia.
• Gunnel Johansson, 90, Swedish artistic gymnast.
• Joseba Larrinaga, 45, Spanish Paralympic athlete, traffic collision.
• P. G. Lim, 96, British-born Malaysian diplomat and lawyer, Ambassador to the United Nations, Yugoslavia, Austria and the European Economic Community.
• Ferruccio Mazzola, 65, Italian football player and manager.
• Teri Moïse, 43, American singer, apparent suicide.
• Mark Perakh, 88, American scientist and blogger.
• Peter Rauhofer, 48, Austrian DJ, remixer and record producer, Grammy Award (2000), brain cancer.
• Romanthony, 45, American DJ, record producer and singer ("One More Time", "Make This Love Right").
• Herbert Romerstein, 82, American anti-communist writer.
• Mairuth Sarsfield, 88, Canadian broadcaster and author (No Crystal Stair).
• George Sauer, Jr., 69, American football player (New York Jets), heart failure.
• Wiktor To?kin, 91, Polish sculptor and architect.
• Jan Villerius, 74, Dutch footballer, cancer.
• Aubrey Woods, 85, British actor (Doctor Who, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory).

8

• Dan Adkins, 76, American comic book artist (The Avengers, Doctor Strange).
• Jeanne Cooper, 84, American actress (The Young and the Restless).
• Zia Fariduddin Dagar, 80, Indian dhrupad vocalist, musician and maestro.
• Bryan Forbes, 86, British actor (The League of Gentlemen), film director (The Stepford Wives) and screenwriter (Chaplin).
• Ralph Homan, 84, American politician, member of the South Dakota House of Representatives (1983-1986).
• Taylor Mead, 88, American writer and actor (Coffee and Cigarettes), stroke.
• Juan José Muñoz, 62, Argentine businessman, President of Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata, renal failure.
• André Sana, 92, Iraqi Chaldean Catholic hierarch, Archbishop of Kirkuk (1977-2003).
• Asaph Schwapp, 26, American football player (Hartford Colonials), non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
• Hugh J. Silverman, 67, American philosopher.
• Géza Vermes, 88, Hungarian-born British theologian and Dead Sea Scrolls scholar, cancer.
• Ken Whaley, 67, British rock musician (Man, Ducks Deluxe, Help Yourself), lung cancer.
• Dallas Willard, 77, American author and philosopher, cancer.
• Ernie Winchester, 68, Scottish footballer.

9

• Alan Abelson, 87, American financial writer, editor and columnist (Barron's), heart attack.
• Fred Ashton, 82, American politician, Mayor of Easton, Pennsylvania (1968-1976).
• Ramón Blanco Rodríguez, 61, Spanish football player and manager (RCD Mallorca, Cadiz), cerebral infarction.
• Grete Dollitz, 88, German-born American radio presenter and classical guitarist.
• Sanaullah Haq, 52, Pakistani convict, beaten.
• Bonnie Huy, 77, American politician, member of the Kansas House of Representatives (2001-2006).
• Alfredo Landa, 80, Spanish actor.
• George M. Leader, 95, American politician, Governor of Pennsylvania (1955-1959).
• Humberto Lugo Gil, Mexican politician, Governor of Hidalgo (1998-1999).
• Dave Lyon, 74, Canadian Olympic track and field coach (1984, 1988, 1992, 2000).
• Ottavio Missoni, 92, Italian fashion designer and Olympic hurdler (1948).
• Paul Tangi Mhova Mkondo, 67, Zimbabwean businessman, cancer.
• Huguette Oligny, 91, Canadian theatre actress.
• Malcolm Shabazz, 28, American Islamist, grandson of Malcolm X, beaten.
• Andrew Simpson, 36, British Olympic champion sailor (2008, 2012), yacht capsize.
• Joseph A. Steger, 76, American psychologist and academic, President of the University of Cincinnati (1984-2003).
• Julia Tashjian, 74, American politician, Secretary of the State of Connecticut (1983-1991), heart attack.
• Sadegh Tirafkan, 47, Iranian contemporary artist.
• Ron Weaver, 75, American Emmy Award-winning television producer (The Bold and the Beautiful, Sesame Street).

10

• Félix Agramont Cota, 95, Mexican politician and agricultural engineer, first Governor of Baja California Sur (1970-1975), myocardial infraction.
• Barbara Brenner, 61, American health activist, Executive Director of Breast Cancer Action (1993-2010), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Sir John Bush, 98, British Royal Navy admiral, Commander-in-Chief Western Fleet (1967-1970).
• Barbara Callcott, 66, Australian actress.
• Malcolm Clarke, 82, British marine biologist.
• Jean Delobel, 80, French politician.
• Vincent Dowling, 83, Irish actor and theatre director (The Playboy of the Western World), complications following surgery.
• Laurence Haddon, 90, American actor (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Dallas, Knots Landing), Lewy body disease.
• Aleksei Komarov, 91, Russian Olympic rower (1952).
• Boicho Kokinov, 52, Bulgarian cognitive scientist.
• Hugh Mackay, 14th Lord Reay, 75, British peer, Member of the European Parliament (1973-1979), member of the House of Lords (since 1964).
• Per Maurseth, 80, Norwegian historian and politician.
• Malcolm Parkes, 83, English academic.
• John Shea, Jr., 84, American politician, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives (1961-1962).
• Wanade, 71, Kenyan television actress, cancer.
• Al-Haj Suliman Yari, 76, Afghan politician.

11

• Johnny Bos, 61, American boxer and author, heart failure.
• Jack Butler, 85, American Hall of Fame football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), complications from a staph infection.
• Emmanuelle Claret, 44, French biathlete, world champion (1996), leukemia.
• Mike Davison, 67, American baseball player (San Francisco Giants).
• Joe Farman, 82, British physicist, identified ozone hole.
• Marianne Ferber, 90, Czech-born American feminist economist and author.
• Doug Finley, 66, Canadian politician, Senator for Ontario (since 2009), Campaign Director during the 2006 and 2008 elections, colorectal cancer.
• Ollie Mitchell, 86, American big band musician (The Wrecking Crew), cancer.
• Arnold Peters, 87, British actor (The Archers), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Lenny Yochim, 84, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates), heart failure.

12

• Judit Ágoston-Mendelényi, 76, Hungarian Olympic champion fencer (1964).
• Samuel Aguilar, 80, Paraguayan footballer.
• Sergei Alexeyev, 88, Russian politician, author of the Constitution of Russia, heart attack.
• Daisy Avellana, 96, Filipino stage actor and director, National Artist of the Philippines for Theater and Film.
• Doug Beasy, 83, Australian football player (Carlton).
• Olaf B. Bjørnstad, 82, Norwegian ski jumper.
• George William Gray, 86, British scientist, recipient of the 1995 Kyoto Prize for Advanced Technology.
• Kenneth, 86, American hairdresser (Jacqueline Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe), recipient of the Coty Award (1961).
• Gerd Langguth, 66, German politician and political scientist.
• Daniel W. LeBlanc, 82, American judge, member of Louisiana Court of Appeals, cancer.
• Toni Linhart, 70, Austrian-born American football player (Baltimore Colts), cancer.
• Bill Miles, 82, American documentary filmmaker.
• Félix Ramananarivo, 78, Malagasy Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Antsirabé (1994-2009).
• Francesco Renda, 91, Italian historian and politician.
• Constantino Romero, 65, Spanish voice actor, television and radio host, neurodegenerative disease.
• K Bikram Singh, 75, Indian filmmaker, complications from liver failure.
• Max Stadler, 64, German politician, member of the Bundestag (since 1994).
• Kenneth Waltz, 88, American political scientist.
• Peter Worthington, 86, Canadian journalist (Toronto Telegram) and editor-in-chief (Toronto Sun).

13

• Hedda Bolgar, 103, American psychoanalyst.
• André Bord, 90, French politician, Veterans Minister (1972-1974), President of the Alsace Regional Council (1973-1977).
• Joyce Brothers, 85, American psychologist, newspaper columnist, and actress (Loaded Weapon 1, Spy Hard), respiratory failure.
• André Denys, 65, Belgian politician, Governor of East Flanders (2004-2013).
• Otto Herrigel, 75, Namibian politician, cancer.
• Enio Iommi, 87, Argentinian sculptor.
• Jill Kitson, 74, Australian radio broadcaster and literary journalist.
• Kennett Love, 88, American journalist (The New York Times), respiratory failure.
• Luciano Lutring, 75, Italian criminal, painter and author.
• Jagdish Mali, 59, Indian fashion photographer, multiple organ failure.
• Chuck Muncie, 60, American football player (New Orleans Saints, San Diego Chargers), heart attack.
• Sir Ellison Pogo, 66, Solomon Islands Anglican primate, Archbishop of Melanesia (1994-2008), lymphoma.
• Lilo Ramdohr, 99, German Resistance fighter, member of the White Rose.
• Vladimir Romanovsky, 56, Soviet sprint canoer and Olympic medalist.
• Derrick Thomas, 69, British agricultural researcher, cancer.
• Fyodor Tuvin, 39, Russian footballer.
• Lynne Woolstencroft, 69, Canadian politician, Mayor of Waterloo, Ontario (2000-2003), cancer.

14

• Joy Baluch, 80, Australian politician, Mayor of Port Augusta (1981-1993, since 1995).
• Wayne Brown, 76, American politician, Mayor of Mesa, Arizona (1996-2000).
• Arsen Chilingaryan, 47, Armenian football player and manager.
• Asghar Ali Engineer, 74, Indian writer and activist.
• Billie Sol Estes, 88, American businessman and convicted con man.
• Ray Guy, 74, Canadian humorist, writer and journalist, cancer.
• Mohammad Ezodin Hosseini Zanjani, 92, Iranian Islamic prelate, Grand Ayatollah, complications from surgery.
• Sardar Arif Shahid, Pakistani Kashmiri politician, shot.
• Margaret Rayburn, 86, American politician, member of the Washington House of Representatives (1985-1995).
• Harvansh Singh, 64, Indian politician, Madhya Pradesh MLA for Keolari (since 1993), cardiac arrest.
• Lubomír Zají?ek, 67, Czech volleyball player.

15

• Nasser al-Rashed, 20, Kuwaiti squash player, heart attack.
• Noelle Barker, 84, British soprano and singing teacher.
• Paddy Buggy, 84, Irish hurler (Kilkenny) and sport executive, President of the GAA (1982-1985).
• Linden Chiles, 80, American actor (Quincy, M.E., Barnaby Jones, Perry Mason), fall.
• Raul Gonzalez, 78, Filipino journalist, Press Secretary for Diosdado Macapagal (1961-1965), cancer.
• Robert Hunt, 77, British police officer.
• Gábor Gellért Kis, 66, Hungarian journalist, MP for Monor (1994-1998).
• Albert Lance, 87, Australian-born French opera singer.
• Thomas M. Messer, 93, Czechoslovakian-born American museum director (Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation).
• Bill O'Hagan, 68, British journalist and sausage maker.
• Jens Elmegård Rasmussen, 69, Danish linguist and Indo-Europeanist.
• Billy Raymond, 75, Scottish-born Australian entertainer, lung cancer.
• Henrique Rosa, 67, Bissau-Guinean politician, Acting President (2003-2005), lung cancer.
• James Stuart-Smith, 93, British judge and army officer, Advocate General of the Armed Forces (1984-1991).
• Darrell Tryon, 70, New Zealand linguistics professor and Pacific Islands language specialist.
• Fred White, 76, American sports broadcaster (Kansas City Royals), complications from melanoma.
• Harold Whitfield, 94, South African cricketer. [2]

16

• Richard Andriamanjato, 82, Malagasy politician.
• Carl Bennett, 97, American basketball executive, coach and GM of Detroit Pistons.
• Kristen Kyrre Bremer, 87, Norwegian theologian and bishop.
• Mario Brescia, 83, Peruvian billionaire financial and industrial executive.
• Angelo Errichetti, 84, American politician, Mayor of Camden, New Jersey (1973-1981); member of the New Jersey Senate (1976-1981).
• Geoffrey Gowan, 83, Canadian sports broadcaster (CBC) and executive (CAC), Parkinson's disease.
• Frank Nigel Hepper, 84, English botanist.
• Bryan Illerbrun, 56, Canadian football player (Saskatchewan Roughriders).
• Valtr Komárek, 82, Czech politician, complications following cardiac surgery.
• Frankie Librán, 65, American Puerto Rican baseball player (San Diego Padres), complications from diabetes.
• Maurice Marshall, 86, New Zealand Olympic middle-distance athlete (1952).
• Heinrich Rohrer, 79, Swiss physicist, Nobel laureate (1986).
• Paul Shane, 72, British actor and comedian (Hi-de-Hi!, You Rang, M'Lord?).
• Max Schirschin, 92, German football player and manager (Rouen, Le Havre, Metz).
• Dick Trickle, 71, American NASCAR driver, suicide by gunshot.
• Bernard Waber, 88, American children's author (Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile), kidney failure.

17

• Dominic Kodwo Andoh, 84, Ghanaian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Accra (1971-2005), heart-related ailment.
• Philippe Gaumont, 40, French Olympic racing cyclist (1992), heart failure.
• John Goddard, 88, American adventurer, cancer.
• Penne Hackforth-Jones, 63, American-born Australian actress (Mao's Last Dancer), lung cancer.
• Elijah Harper, 64, Canadian Cree politician and band chief, Manitoba MLA for Rupertsland (1981-1992), MP for Churchill (1993-1997), heart failure.
• Jack Hawkins, 96, American Marine Corps officer (Bay of Pigs Invasion).
• Monroe Hopper, 86, American gospel musician (The Hoppers), Gospel Music Hall of Fame inductee (2012).
• Tauatomo Mairau, French Polynesian royal claimant.
• Alan O'Day, 72, American singer-songwriter ("Undercover Angel", "Angie Baby"), brain cancer.
• Jérôme Reehuis, 73, Dutch actor.
• Peter Schulz, 83, German politician, First Mayor of Hamburg (1971-1974).
• Albert Seedman, 94, American police officer.
• Harold Shapero, 93, American composer and pianist (Symphony for Classical Orchestra), complications from pneumonia.
• Anthony Trickett, 73, British doctor, Lord Lieutenant of Orkney (since 2007).
• Sir Rodney Sweetnam, 86, British surgeon, President of the Royal College of Surgeons (1995-1998).
• Ken Venturi, 82, American golfer and golf analyst, winner of the U.S. Open (1964), World Golf Hall of Fame inductee (2013), multiple infections.
• Jorge Rafael Videla, 87, Argentine military general and politician, President (1976-1981), complications from a fall.

18

• Aleksei Balabanov, 54, Russian filmmaker, seizure.
• Jo Benkow, 88, Norwegian writer and politician, President of the Parliament (1985-1993).
• Isabel Benham, 103, American railroad businesswoman.
• Neil Chrisley, 81, American baseball player (Washington Senators, Detroit Tigers).
• Steve Forrest, 87, American actor (Dallas, North Dallas Forty, S.W.A.T).
• Zahra Shahid Hussain, 69, Pakistani politician, shot.
• Marek Jackowski, 66, Polish rock musician (Maanam). (Polish)
• Ernst Klee, 71, German historian and writer.
• Arthur Malet, 85, English actor (Mary Poppins, Halloween, In the Heat of the Night, Anastasia).
• David McMillan, 31, American football player (Cleveland Browns), shot.
• Nam Duck-woo, 89, South Korean politician, Prime Minister (1980-1982), testicular cancer.
• Newton Russell, 85, American politician, member of the California State Assembly (1964-1974) and California Senate (1974-1996), lung cancer.
• Lothar Schmid, 85, German chess grandmaster.
• Harold Sossen, 88, American businessman.
• Claramae Turner, 92, American opera singer (Carousel, The Medium)

19

• Bella Flores, 84, Filipino actress, complications from hip surgery.
• G. Sarsfield Ford, 79, American judge, member of the Connecticut Supreme Court.
• Michael Kpakala Francis, 77, Liberian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Monrovia (1981-2011).
• Leonard Harbin, 98, Trinidad cricketer. [3]
• Robin Harrison, 80, Canadian pianist and composer, heart attack.
• Carlo Monni, 69, Italian character actor.
• Murat Öztürk, 60, Turkish aerobatics pilot, plane crash.
• Neil Reynolds, 72, Canadian newspaper editor (The Ottawa Citizen), cancer.
• Mirek Smí?ek, 88, Czech-born New Zealand potter.
• Ally Sykes, 86, Tanzanian politician.
• Franklin White, 90, British ballet dancer.

20

• Yohanan Cohen, 95, Israeli politician and diplomat.
• Dave Costa, 71, American football player (Oakland Raiders, Denver Broncos).
• Flavio Costantini, 86, Italian artist.
• Billie Dawe, 88, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Anders Eliasson, 66, Swedish composer.
• Ari Huumonen, 57, Finnish discus thrower.
• Miloslav K?í?, 88, Czech basketball coach.
• Ray Manzarek, 74, American rock musician (The Doors), bile duct cancer.
• Jevan Maseko, 70, Zimbabwean military officer, Governor of Matabeleland North Province, Ambassador to Algeria, Russia and Cuba, diabetes and kidney failure.
• Idriss Ndélé Moussa, 54, Chadian politician, President of Pan African Parliament (2009-2012), traffic collision.
• Sir Denys Roberts, 90, British colonial official and judge, Chief Justice of Hong Kong (1979-1988).
• Harry Schuh, 70, American football player (Oakland Raiders, University of Memphis).
• Zach Sobiech, 18, American pop singer and viral video performer, osteosarcoma.
• Dominik Suche?ski, 86, Polish Olympic sprinter. [4]

21

• Trevor Bolder, 62, British musician (David Bowie, Uriah Heep), cancer.
• Antoine Bourseiller, 82, French comedian and opera director.
• Eddie Braben, 82, British comedy writer (Morecambe and Wise, Ken Dodd).
• Evelyne Bradley, 88, American Navajo judge, District Court judge (1984-1995).
• Robert Chambers, 59, New Zealand judge, member of the Supreme Court (since 2011).
• Frank Comstock, 90, American composer.
• Cot Deal, 90, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, St. Louis Cardinals).
• Peter Ellis, 66, Australian football player.
• Zsolt Er?ss, 45, Hungarian mountaineer.
• Mohammad Khaled Hossain, 34, Bangladeshi mountaineer and film director.
• Keith Jukes, 59, English Anglican clergyman, Dean of Ripon (since 2007), stomach cancer.
• Harold Long, 72, Canadian politician, British Columbia MLA for Mackenzie (1986-1991) and Powell River-Sunshine Coast (2001-2005), plane crash.
• Louis de Cartier de Marchienne, 91, Belgian baron and businessman.
• Hank Kozloski, 85, American sportswriter.
• Leonard Marsh, 80, American beverage executive, co-founder of Snapple.
• Vernon McGarity, 91, American soldier (Battle of the Bulge), recipient of the Medal of Honor (1946).
• Fred Mitchell, 89, American artist.
• Edna Moyle, 71, Caymanian politician, MLA for North Side (1992-2009), Speaker (2001-2009), cancer.
• Charley Reese, 76, American newspaper columnist, respiratory failure.
• Count Christian of Rosenborg, 70, Danish royal.
• Anand Shetty, 52, Indian sprinter.
• Mykola Simkaylo, 60, Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Kolomyia - Chernivtsi (since 2005).
• Bob Thompson, 88, American composer and orchestra leader.
• Dominique Venner, 78, French historian, journalist and essayist, suicide by gunshot.
• David Voelker, 60, American entrepreneur and philanthropist, pulmonary disease and failed lung transplant.

22

• Bill Austin, 84, American football player (New York Giants).
• Dick Barry, 87, American politician, member of the Tennessee House of Representatives (1954-1967), Speaker (1963-1967).
• Henri Dutilleux, 97, French composer.
• Andrea Gallo, 84, Italian presbyter.
• Brian Greenhoff, 60, English footballer (Manchester United).
• Sarah P. Harkness, 98, American architect.
• Usha Rani Hooja, 90, Indian sculptor.
• William Douglas Lansford, 90, American writer.
• Elizabeth Mavor, 85, British writer.
• Mick McManus, 93, English professional wrestler.
• Wayne F. Miller, 94, American photographer.
• Lawrence Pope, 73, American politician and academic, member of the Iowa House of Representatives (1979-1983), renal cancer.
• Eric Remacle, 52, Belgian scientist.
• Pat Shea, 73, American football player (San Diego Chargers).
• Sigurd Ottovich Schmidt, 91, Russian historian and ethnographer.
• Richard Thorp, 81, English actor (Emmerdale).
• Ibragim Todashev, 27, Chechen-born American mixed martial artist, shot.
• Teruto Tsubota, 90, American marine (Battle of Okinawa).

23

• John Antonio, 83, American advertising executive, created Clemson University tiger paw logo, cancer.
• William Demby, 90, American writer.
• Dick Evey, 72, American football player (Chicago Bears, University of Tennessee).
• Richard G. Fallon, 89, American academic and theatre director (Asolo Repertory Theatre).
• Lenin Gani, 45, Bangladeshi sports journalist.
• Epy Guerrero, 71, Dominican Major League Baseball scout (Houston Astros, New York Yankees, Toronto Blue Jays), kidney failure.
• Hazel Hawke, 83, Australian social activist and National Treasure, first wife of Prime Minister Bob Hawke, complications of dementia.
• In Excess, 26, Irish-born American Thoroughbred racehorse. (death announced on this date)
• Hayri Kozakç?o?lu, 75, Turkish politician, shot.
• Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse, 86, German prince and Head of the House of Hesse
• Michael Lev, 95, Ukrainian-born Israeli writer.
• Georges Moustaki, 79, Egyptian-born French singer and songwriter.
• Gerry Peacocke, 81, Australian politician, NSW MLA for Dubbo (1981-1999).
• Flynn Robinson, 72, American basketball player (Los Angeles Lakers, Milwaukee Bucks), multiple myeloma.
• James Sisnett, 113, Barbadian supercentenarian, world's second oldest man.
• Brian Sternberg, 69, American pole vaulter.
• Jim Zabel, 91, American sports broadcaster (University of Iowa).
• Luis Zuloaga, 90, Venezuelan baseball player (Leones del Caracas).

24

• Elsa Bornemann, 61, Argentine children's writer.
• Helmut Braunlich, 84, American composer.
• Michel Crozier, 90, French sociologist.
• Ron Davies, 70, Welsh footballer Norwich, Southampton.
• John F. Dolan, 90, American politician.
• Gotthard Graubner, 82, German painter.
• Haynes Johnson, 81, American journalist (The Washington Post, Washington Evening Star), winner of Pulitzer Prize (1966), heart attack.
• Yevgeny Kychanov, 80, Russian orientalist.
• Lorene Mann, 76, American country music singer and songwriter.
• Arnoldo Martínez Verdugo, 88, Mexican politician.
• Godwin Mawuru, 52, Zimbabwean filmmaker and television producer, complications from diabetes.
• John "Mule" Miles, 90, American Negro League baseball player.
• Sir Garth Morrison, 70, British scouter, Chief Scout (1988-1996).
• Ralph Perlman, 96, American public official, Louisiana budget director (1967-1988).
• Antonio Puchades, 87, Spanish footballer (Valencia CF), Alzheimer's disease.
• R. T. V. K. Rao, 84, Indian writer.
• Ed Shaughnessy, 84, American drummer (The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson), heart attack.
• John Sumner, 88, Australian founder and artistic director of the Melbourne Theatre Company.
• Pyotr Todorovsky, 87, Ukrainian-born Russian film director (Wartime Romance), screenwriter (What a Wonderful Game) and cinematographer, heart attack.
• Erling Welle-Strand, 96, Norwegian writer and resistance member.

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• Mohammed Rashad Abdulle, 79, Ethiopian academic.
• Gordon Berg, 85, American politician, member of the North Dakota House of Representatives (1977-1991).
• Harry Birrell, 85, American radio news broadcaster (KNX (AM)), interstitial lung disease.
• Tyrone Brunson, 57, American musician.
• Walt Budko, 87, American basketball player.
• Gene Burns, 72, American political radio broadcaster and food critic, complications from a stroke.
• Paul Cuprowski, 73, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly (1983-1985).
• Larry Johnson, 62, American baseball player.
• Mahendra Karma, Indian political leader, founder of Salwa Judum, shot.
• Jan Kinder, 68, Norwegian ice hockey player.
• Marshall Lytle, 79, American rock and roll musician (Bill Haley & His Comets), Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee (2012), lung cancer.
• Uday Mudliyar, Indian politician, Chhattisgarh MLA for Rajnandgaon (1993-1998), shot.
• Nand Kumar Patel, 59, Indian politician, Chhattisgarh MLA for Kharsia (since 1990), shot.
• T. M. Soundararajan, 91, Indian playback singer.
• Jimmy Wray, 78, British politician, MP for Glasgow Provan (1987-1997) and Glasgow Baillieston (1997-2005).
• Lewis Yocum, 66, American orthopedist, specialist in Tommy John surgery, liver cancer.

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• Ray Barnhart, 85, American businessman and politician, Director of the Federal Highway Administration (1981-1987).
• John Bierwirth, 89, American aircraft executive, Chairman of Grumman (1972-1988).
• Roberto Civita, 76, Italian-born Brazilian businessman, CEO of Grupo Abril, heart failure.
• Mbuya Dyoko, 68, Zimbabwean musician, cirrhosis.
• Héctor Garza, 43, Mexican professional wrestler, lung cancer.
• Graham Leggett, 92, British RAF squadron leader, youngest surviving pilot of the Battle of Britain.
• Tom Lichtenberg, 72, American football coach (University of Maine, Ohio University), cancer.
• Charles M. McGowan, 89, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1968-1978).
• Otto Muehl, 87, Austrian painter and activist, Parkinson's disease and cardiac ailment.
• José María Pérez Gay, 70, Mexican journalist, academic and diplomat, Ambassador to Portugal, National Journalism Prize (1996).
• Happy Pieterse, 70, South African boxer, complications of diabetes.
• Jack Vance, 96, American science fiction author.

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• György Bárdy, 92, Hungarian actor.
• Jean Bach, 94, American filmmaker (A Great Day in Harlem).
• Nazmiye Demirel, 86, Turkish first lady, wife of Süleyman Demirel, Alzheimer's disease.
• Cullen Finnerty, 30, American football player (Grand Valley State University).
• Steven Klepper, 64, American economist.
• Muttanisseril Koyakutty, 86, Indian Islamic scholar and writer.
• Little Tony, 72, Italian-born Sammarinese pop singer and actor, lung cancer.
• Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri, 96, Indian politician.
• Bill Pertwee, 86, British radio and television actor (Dad's Army, You Rang, M'Lord?) and author.
• Abdoulaye Sékou Sow, 83, Malian politician, Prime Minister (1993-1994).
• Ingrid Visser, 35, Dutch Olympic volleyball player (1996). (body found on this date)

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• Silvério Paulo de Albuquerque, 96, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Caetité (1970-1973) and Feira de Santana (1973-1995).
• Eddi Arent, 88, German actor.
• Nino Bibbia, 91, Italian Olympic skeleton racer and bobsledder (1948).
• Robert Chalmers, 67, South African cricketer. [5]
• Abigail Heyman, 70, American feminist journalist, heart failure.
• Viktor Kulikov, 91, Russian military officer, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1977), Warsaw Pact commander-in-chief (1977-1989).
• R. Travis Osborne, 99, American psychologist and professor emeritus.
• Fotis Polymeris, 93, Greek musician.
• William Earl Reid, 78, Canadian politician, Minister of Tourism for British Columbia (1986-1989).
• Eddie Romero, 88, Filipino film director, blood clot and prostate cancer.
• Gerd Schmückle, 95, German general.
• Caesar Trunzo, 87, American politician, member of the New York Senate (1972-2008).

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• Werner Andermatt, 96, Swiss painter.
• Ramón Aguirre Suárez, 68, Argentine footballer (Estudiantes de La Plata).
• Richard Ballantine, 72, British cycling writer.
• Nino Baragli, 88, Italian film editor (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West).
• Donald Bevan, 93, American author.
• Françoise Blanchard, 58, French actress (La Morte Vivante).
• Mike Carrell, 69, American politician, member of the Washington House (1994-2004) and Washington State Senate (since 2004), myelodysplastic syndrome.
• Jabulani Dube, Zimbabwean politician, MP-elect for Insiza South.
• Andrew Greeley, 85, American Roman Catholic priest, author (The Cardinal Sins) and columnist (Chicago Sun-Times), complications from skull fracture.
• Mamman Kontagora, 69, Nigerian military officer and politician.
• Cliff Meely, 65, American basketball player (University of Colorado, Houston Rockets), blood infection.
• Mulgrew Miller, 57, American jazz pianist, stroke.
• Henry Morgentaler, 90, Polish-born Canadian physician, abortion advocate, Holocaust survivor, heart attack.
• Franca Rame, 83, Italian theatre actress, playwright, political activist, and wife of Dario Fo
• William Earl Reid, 78, Canadian politician, British Columbia MLA for Surrey (1983-1986) and Surrey-White Rock-Cloverdale (1986-1991), cancer.
• Dame Margaret Shields, 71, New Zealand politician, MP for Kapiti (1981-1990), dementia and Parkinson's disease.
• Ludwig G. Strauss, 63, German physician and academic.
• Wali-ur-Rehman, 42, Pakistani Taliban militant, military action.

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• Dean Brooks, 96, American physician and actor (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest).
• Elliot del Borgo, 74, American composer.
• Michael Baillie, 3rd Baron Burton, 88, British aristocrat.
• Harold A. Carter, 76, American pastor, cancer.
• Güzin Dino, 102, Turkish literary scholar.
• Rituparno Ghosh, 49, Indian filmmaker, cardiac arrest.
• Helen Hanft, 79, American actress (Manhattan), intestinal complications.
• Arquímedes Herrera, 77, Venezuelan Olympic track and field athlete (1964).
• Tamás Homonnay, 87, Hungarian Olympic athlete.[6]
• Jayalath Jayawardena, 59, Sri Lankan politician, physician and human rights campaigner, heart disease.
• Larry Jones, 79, American football player and coach (Florida State University, 1971-1973).
• Kyprianos Koutsoumpas, 78, Greek Orthodox hierarch, Metropolitan of Oropos and Fili, President of Synod of the Old Calendarist Church of Greece, stroke.
• Vina Mazumdar, 86, Indian academic and women's activist, lung tumour.
• Reveille VII, 12, American collie, mascot for Texas A&M University, euthanized.
• Péter Szilágyi, 59, Hungarian conductor and politician, MP for Berettyóújfalu (1994-2002).

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• Mufti Abdullah, 82, Pakistani politician, Gilgit-Baltistan MLA for Khaplu.
• Eelco van Asperen, 48, Dutch computer scientist. [7]
• Gerald E. Brown, 86, American theoretical physicist.
• Elvin Feltner, 83, American broadcaster and film producer (Carnival Magic).
• Abir Goswami, 37, Indian television actor, heart attack.
• Tommy Henderson, 85, English footballer (Burnley F.C.).
• Jeffrey Hunker, 56, American cyber security expert and academic.
• Frederic Lindsay, 79, Scottish novelist.
• Miguel Méndez, 82, American author.
• Jairo Mora, 26, Costa Rican environmentalist, shot.
• Richie Phillips, 72, American baseball umpire union official, cardiac arrest.
• Marta Romero, 85, American Puerto Rican actress and singer.
• Tim Samaras, 55, American tornado chaser (Storm Chasers, TWISTEX), tornado injuries.
• Jean Stapleton, 90, American actress (All in the Family, You've Got Mail, Michael).

Maps Deaths in May 2013

References

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