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Deaths 1 - 56 of 56

1st - Sir Kyffin Williams, Welsh landscape painter (b. 1918)
1st - Bob O'Connor, mayor of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (b. 1944)
1st - Nellie Connally, wife of Texas governor John Connally (b. 1919)
1st - Warren Mitofsky, American pollster (b. 1934)
2nd - Bob Mathias, American athlete and congressman (b. 1930)
2nd - Willi Ninja, dancer and choreographer (b. 1961)
4th - Colin Thiele, Australian author and educator (b. 1920)
4th - Steve Irwin, Australian naturalist and television personality (b. 1962)
4th - Astrid Varnay, Swedish-born soprano (b. 1918)
4th - Giacinto Facchetti, Italian footballer (b. 1942)
8th - Hilda Bernstein, English-born South African author, artist, and activist (b. 1915)
8th - Peter Brock, Australian racecar driver (b. 1945)
8th - Frank Middlemass, actor (b. 1919)
8th - Erk Russell, American football coach (b. 1923)
9th - Gérard Brach, French screenwriter (b. 1927)
9th - Richard Burmer, American composer and musician (b. 1955)
9th - William B. Ziff, Jr., American publishing executive (b. 1930)
9th - Matt Gadsby, English footballer (b. 1979)
10th - Patty Berg, American golf player (b. 1918)
10th - King Taufa'ahau Tupou IV of Tonga (b. 1918)
11th - William Auld, Scottish poet, writer and supporter of Esperanto (b. 1924)
11th - Pat Corley, American actor (b. 1930)
11th - Joachim Fest, German journalist and author (b. 1926)
11th - Johannes Bob van Benthem, Dutch lawyer (b. 1921)
13th - Ann Richards, 46th Governor of Texas (b. 1933)
14th - Mickey Hargitay, Hungarian actor and bodybuilder (b. 1926)
14th - Esme Melville, Australian actress (b. 1918)
15th - Raymond Baxter, British television presenter (b. 1922)
15th - Oriana Fallaci, Italian journalist and writer (b. 1929)
15th - Pablo Santos, Mexican actor (b. 1987)
16th - Rob Levin, creator of Freenode (b. 1955)
16th - Floyd Curry, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1925)
17th - Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American socialite (b. 1924)
18th - Edward J. King, 66th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1925)
19th - Elizabeth Allen, American actress (b. 1929)
19th - Roy Schuiten, Dutch cyclist (b. 1950)
19th - Chuck Rio, American singer and saxophonist (The Champs) (b. 1929)
19th - Hugh Kawharu, New Zealander Ngāti Whātua Māori chief (b. 1927)
19th - Martha Holmes, American photographer (b. 1923)
20th - Armin Jordan, Swiss conductor (b. 1932)
20th - John W. Peterson, American songwriter (b. 1921)
21st - Boz Burrell, English rock musician (b. 1946)
22nd - Edward Albert, American actor (b. 1951)
22nd - Carla Benschop, Dutch basketball player (b. 1950)
23rd - Sir Malcolm Arnold, English composer and professional trumpeter (b. 1921)
23rd - Etta Baker, American blues guitarist (b.1913)
25th - Jeff Cooper, American firearms expert (b. 1920)
25th - John M. Ford, American author and poet (b. 1957)
Gymnast Sofia Muratova (25th) 25th - Sofia Muratova, Russian Olympic gold winning Gymnast, dies at 77
26th - Byron Nelson, American golfer (b. 1912)
26th - Iva Toguri D'Aquino, alleged Tokyo Rose (b. 1916)
29th - Michael A. Monsoor, a United States Navy SEAL killed in Iraq and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.
29th - Jan Werner Danielsen, Norwegian singer (b. 1976)
29th - Khalique Ibrahim Khalique, Pakistani journalist and Urdu poet and critic (b. 1926)
29th - Louis-Albert Cardinal Vachon, French Canadian Catholic archbishop of Quebec (b. 1912)
29th - Walter Hadlee, New Zealand cricketer (b. 1915)

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