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Who died on 2 January?
Celebrities who died on 2 January
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Thomas S. Monson
president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Fausto Coppi
Italian cycling champion
Richard Leakey
Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist, and politician
Pete Postlethwaite
British actor
John Berger
British painter, writer and art critic
John Baldessari
American artist
Patrick O'Brian
English novelist
Paul Westphal
American basketball player, coach, and commentator
Alan Hale, Jr.
actor
Bill Veeck
United States baseball executive
Tex Ritter
American country musician
Dick Powell
American singer, actor, film producer, film director and studio head
Sam Wyche
American football player and coach
Emily Dole
American athlete, actress and professional wrestler
Patricia Pearcy
actress
Geoffrey Langlands
retired British Major
Rick Hall
American record producer, songwriter, music publisher and musician
Patricia Driscoll
Irish actress
Lincoln Almond
American attorney, politician, and member of the Republican Party
Jack Carson
Canadian-born American-based film actor
Bob Einstein
American actor
Anne Francis
American actress
Gerda Lerner
women's history scholar
Gene Okerlund
American professional wrestling interviewer and announcer
Sun Qiaolu
Chinese actress
Emil Jannings
German actor
Una Merkel
American actress
Brian Urquhart
British international civil servant
Teddy Kollek
Israeli politician
Buta Singh
Indian politician
Erroll Garner
American musician
Kerstin Isedal
Swedish actress
Peter Haas
German author and writer
Basti Vaman Shenoy
Indian writer
Daryl Dragon
American musician, songwriter; member of musical duo Captain & Tennille
Dick Emery
Comedian and character actor
Charles Njonjo
former Attorney General of Kenya
Nancy Kelly
actress
Georges Vitaly
French actor
Shen Yi-ming
Taiwanese general
Yukiko Miyake
Japanese politician
Suzy McKee Charnas
American writer
Ali Akbar Moinfar
Iranian politician
Pierantonio Costa
Italian businessman
Inger Christensen
poet, novelist, essayist, editor
Larry Biittner
American baseball player
Subiakto Tjakrawerdaya
Indonesian politician
Paulien van Deutekom
Dutch speed skater