Les Blank
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- Les Blank, 77, American documentary filmmaker (Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe, Burden of Dreams), bladder cancer.
- Andy Johns, 61, British record producer (Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones).
- Bigas Luna, 67, Spanish film director (Anguish, Yo soy la Juani), cancer.
- Roger Ebert, 70, American film critic (Chicago Sun-Times, Siskel & Ebert), thyroid cancer.
- Jesús Franco, 82, Spanish film director and screenwriter (Count Dracula).
- Joe Weider, 93, Canadian-born American bodybuilder and publisher.
- Emílio Santiago, 66, Brazilian singer, complications from a stroke ("Bananeira").
- Damiano Damiani, 90, Italian film director (The Empty Canvas).
- Hugo Chávez, 58, Venezuelan politician and military officer, President (since 1999), cancer.
- Jérôme Savary, 70, Argentine-born French theater director and actor, cancer.
- Kevin Ayers, 68, English psychedelic rock songwriter and musician (Soft Machine, Wilde Flowers).
- Otfried Preußler, 89, German children's book author (Krabat).
- Donald Byrd, 80, American jazz trumpeter.
- Reg Presley, 71, British singer and musician (The Troggs), lung cancer.
- Cecil Womack, 65, American musician and singer.
- Michel Guiomar, 92, French writer.
- Roger Raveel, 91, Belgian painter, pneumonia.
- Jacques Sadoul, 78, French writer and book editor.
- Michael Winner, 77, British film director (Death Wish) and food critic.
- Nagisa Oshima, 80, Japanese director and screenwriter (Empire of Passion).
- Ada Louise Huxtable, 91, American architecture critic.
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