Deaths in April 2023

April 2023

1

• Leonard Abrams, 68, American journalist, heart attack.
• Lúcio Ignácio Baumgaertner, 91, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Toledo and archbishop of Cascavel.
• Kwame Brathwaite, 85, American photojournalist and activist.
• Ken Buchanan, 77, Scottish boxer, undisputed world lightweight champion, complications from dementia.
• Christopher Budd, 85, British Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Plymouth, cancer.
• Dario Campeotto, 84, Danish singer, actor, and entertainer, cancer.
• Hans Ettmayer, 76, Austrian football player and manager.
• Ken Girard, 86, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Amarasiri Kalansuriya, 82, Sri Lankan actor.
• Yasumichi Kushida, 46, Japanese voice actor.
• Michael Lipton, 86, British economist.
• Luo Zhijun, 71, Chinese politician, chairman of the agriculture and rural affairs committee, governor of Jiangsu and mayor of Nanjing.
• Fay Miller, 75, Australian politician, Northern Territory MLA, primary myelofibrosis.
• Albert Ndele, 92, Congolese economist and politician, chairman of the board of commissioners-general and minister of finance.
• Swarna Ram, 83, Indian politician, Punjab MLA.
• Red Robinson, 86, Canadian disc jockey.
• John Sainty, 77, English footballer and manager.
• Włodzimierz Schmidt, 79, Polish chess grandmaster.
• Moshe Shaul, 93, Turkish-born Israeli journalist and researcher.
• Alicia Shepard, 69, American journalist and writer, complications from lung cancer.
• Klaus Teuber, 70, German board game designer.
• Trần Quang Khôi, 93, Vietnamese military officer.
• Roger Vinson, 83, American jurist, judge and chief judge of the U.S. District Court for Northern Florida, prostate cancer.

2

• Jean Argles, 97, British World War II cryptographer.
• Gilbert Bailliu, 86, Belgian footballer.
• José Jovêncio Balestieri, 83, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Humaitá, coadjutor bishop and bishop of Rio do Sul.
• Bushwhacker Butch, 78, New Zealand Hall of Fame professional wrestler.
• Rochelle Chronister, 83, American politician, member of the Kansas House of Representatives.
• Max Crabtree, 90, English professional wrestler and promoter.
• Salim Durani, 88, Afghan-born Indian cricketer, cancer.
• Toni Elling, 94, American burlesque dancer.
• Judy Farrell, 84, American actress and television writer, complications from a stroke.
• Gail D. Fosler, 75, American businesswoman.
• Greg Francis, 48, Canadian Olympic basketball player.
• Wolfgang Gerz, 70, German Olympic sailor.
• Frank Gilliam, 89, American football player.
• Evert Gummesson, 87, Swedish marketing and management professor.
• Stefán Arnar Gunnarsson, 45, Icelandic handball player and coach.
• Aram Karam, 93, Iraqi footballer.
• Haziqul Khairi, 91, Pakistani jurist, chief justice of the Federal Shariat Court.
• Pedro Lavirgen, 92, Spanish tenor.
• Hans Edvard Nørregård-Nielsen, 78, Danish art historian.
• Raúl Padilla López, 68, Mexican academic, rector of the University of Guadalajara, suicide by gunshot.
• William Persson, 95, British Anglican prelate, bishop of Doncaster.
• Luigi Raffin, 86, Italian football player and manager.
• Norman Reynolds, 89, British production designer, Oscar winner.
• Michael Saywell, 80, British Olympic equestrian.
• Seymour Stein, 80, American Hall of Fame music executive, co-founder of Sire Records, cancer.
• Garn Stephens, 78, American actress.
• Vladlen Tatarsky, 40, Russian blogger, explosion.
• Igor Vysotsky, 69, Russian boxer.
• Ian Watson, 88, Canadian politician, MP.

3

• William M. Barker, 81, American jurist, chief justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court.
• Nigel Lawson, Baron Lawson of Blaby, 91, British politician, chancellor of the Exchequer, MP and member of the House of Lords, bronchopneumonia.
• Neal Boenzi, 97, American photographer.
• Mario Božić, 39, Bosnian footballer.
• Nico Cirasola, 71, Italian film director, screenwriter and actor.
• Tom Dimmick, 91, American football player.
• David Finfer, 80, American film editor, complications from a heart attack.
• Heklina, 55, American drag queen and actor.
• Rena Koumioti, 81, Greek new wave singer.
• Jane LaTour, 76, American labor activist and journalist, lung cancer.
• Roy McGrath, 53, American public official and fugitive, chief of staff to the governor of Maryland, shot.
• Enrique Mendoza, 77, Venezuelan politician, governor of Miranda and mayor of Sucre Municipality, leukemia.
• Wallace Mgoqi, 73, South African lawyer and activist.
• Kristaq Mitro, 77, Albanian film director.
• T. B. Radhakrishnan, 63, Indian jurist, judge of the Kerala High Court, chief justice of Calcutta High Court and Chhattisgarh High Court.
• Michael Roberts, 75, British fashion journalist.
• Gershon Rorich, 49, South African Olympic volleyball player, cancer.
• Herb Rule, 87, American politician, member of the Arkansas House of Representatives.
• Konstantinos Staikos, 80, Greek architect and historian.
• Tu Tongjin, 108, Chinese military officer and neurosurgeon, president of the Academy of Military Medical Sciences.
• Jack Vreeswijk, 59, Swedish singer and composer, colon cancer.
• Neeraj Yadav, Indian politician, Bihar MLA, heart attack.
• Galarrwuy Yunupingu, 74, Australian indigenous land rights activist.
• Marjorie Ziff, 93, British philanthropist.

4

• Rockstar Ramani Ammal, 69, Indian playback singer.
• David Bartholomae, 75, American scholar, head and neck cancer.
• Bokito, 27, German-born Dutch western gorilla, heart failure.
• Ethan Boyes, 44, American track cyclist, traffic collision.
• Craig Breedlove, 86, American racecar driver, cancer.
• Suneet Chopra, 81, Indian trade unionist.
• Cui Naifu, 94, Chinese politician, minister of civil affairs.
• R. H. W. Dillard, 85, American poet, author and critic.
• Andrés García, 81, Dominican-Mexican actor.
• Wellborn Jack Jr., 86, American attorney.
• Birger Jensen, 72, Danish footballer.
• Bob Lee, 43, American tech executive, founder of Cash App, stabbed.
• Marian Marzyński, 85, Polish-American documentary filmmaker.
• Tea Petrin, 78, Slovenian economist, politician, and diplomat, minister of economic affairs, ambassador to the Netherlands.
• Maria Sebaldt, 92, German actress.
• Vivian Trimble, 59, American musician, cancer.
• Billy Waugh, 93, American Special Forces army soldier.

5

• Albert Edward Baharagate Akiiki, 93, Ugandan Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Hoima.
• Malika El Aroud, 64, Belgian-Moroccan jihadist.
• Harrison Bankhead, 68, American jazz double bassist.
• Lowell S. Brown, 89, American theoretical physicist.
• Bill Butler, 101, American cinematographer.
• Daylami, 28, Irish-bred French Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the Breeders' Cup Turf, Cartier Horse of the Year.
• Nancy Detert, 78, American politician, member of the Florida Senate and House of Representatives.
• Jan Dorrestein, 77, Dutch golfer.
• Paul Dundas, 71, British Indologist.
• Anne Agius Ferrante, 97, Maltese politician, MP.
• Bernard Ford, 75, English Olympic ice dancer.
• Duško Gojković, 91, Serbian jazz trumpeter, composer, and arranger.
• Sergio Gori, 77, Italian footballer.
• Masanori Hata, 87, Japanese zoologist, essayist and film director.
• Cedric Henderson, 57, American basketball player.
• Ismail Mahmud Hurre, 80, Somali politician, minister of foreign affairs.
• Leon Levine, 85, American businessman, founder of Family Dollar.
• Bennett L. Lewis, 96, American Army lieutenant general.
• Ian McIntosh, 84, Zimbabwean rugby union coach, cancer.
• Ross Murray, 89, New Zealand amateur golfer.
• Khalid Naciri, 77, Moroccan politician, minister of communications.
• Sudhir Naik, 78, Indian cricketer.
• Booker Newberry III, 67, American singer and keyboardist.
• Martin Polden, 94, English solicitor.
• Kiumars Pourahmad, 73, Iranian film director, screenwriter, and producer, suicide by hanging.
• Rokia Afzal Rahman, 82, Bangladeshi women's rights activist.
• Alan Ramsbottom, 86, English racing cyclist.
• Hugo Rodríguez Chinchilla, 47, Guatemalan politician, deputy, pneumonia.

6

• Jim Caldwell, 80, American basketball player, heart condition.
• Paul Cattermole, 46, English singer.
• Rawle Douglin, 90, Trinidadian Anglican clergyman, bishop of Trinidad and Tobago.
• Juanjo Ferreiro Suárez, 79, Spanish union leader and politician, member of the Parliament of Catalonia and City Council of Barcelona.
• Nora Forster, 80, German music promoter, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Bill Hellmuth, 69, American architect, chairman of HOK.
• Nicola Heywood-Thomas, 67, Welsh broadcaster and journalist.
• Ingvar Hirdwall, 88, Swedish actor, suicide.
• Ewan Hooper, 87, Scottish actor.
• Hobie Landrith, 93, American baseball player.
• Jagarnath Mahto, 56, Indian politician, Jharkhand MLA, complications from lung transplant.
• Jim McKeever, 92, Northern Irish Gaelic footballer.
• Nei Paulo Moretto, 86, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Cruz Alta, coadjutor bishop and bishop of Caxias do Sul.
• Kent C. Nelson, 85, American businessman, CEO of United Parcel Service, complications from COVID-19.
• Bruce Petty, 93, Australian cartoonist and animator.
• Josep Piqué, 68, Spanish businessman and politician, minister of foreign affairs and twice of industry, chairman of Vueling, cancer.
• Mimi Sheraton, 97, American food critic.
• Volodymyr Stretovych, 64, Ukrainian politician, MP, traffic collision.
• Taeko Tomioka, 87, Japanese writer.
• Howard E. Wasdin, 61, American naval sailor and author, plane crash.

7

• Pam Alexander, 68, British businesswoman, ovarian cancer.
• Ian Bairnson, 69, Scottish musician.
• Larisa Bergen, 73, Kazakh volleyball player, Olympic silver medallist.
• Hannelore Bollmann, 97, German film actress.
• Philippe Bouvatier, 58, French Olympic cyclist, complications from a stroke.
• Hans Capel, 86, Dutch theoretical physicist.
• Kalamandalam Devaki, 76, Indian Ottan Thullal dancer.
• Ben Ferencz, 103, Hungarian-American lawyer.
• Carl Fischer, 98, American art director and photographer.
• Susan Frykberg, 68, New Zealand electroacoustic composer.
• Prabir Ghosh, 78, Indian writer and skeptic, founder of the Science and Rationalists' Association of India.
• Billy Hahn, 69, American basketball coach.
• Bruce Haigh, 77, Australian diplomat and political commentator, cancer.
• Tracy Johnson, 56, American football player, cancer.
• Kidd Jordan, 87, American jazz saxophonist.
• William Myles Knighton, 91, British civil servant.
• Elisabeth Kopp, 86, Swiss politician, member of the Federal Council and minister of justice and police.
• Harry Lorayne, 96, American magician.
• Peter Hugoe Matthews, 89, British linguist and historian.
• Steve H. Murdock, 74, American sociologist, director of the United States Census Bureau.
• Elizabeth Murray, 63, British medical practitioner and academic, breast cancer.
• Jim Pines, 77, American-British film historian, author, and filmmaker.
• Rachel Pollack, 77, American author and comic book writer, Hodgkin lymphoma.
• John Regan, 71, American bass guitarist.
• Gareth Richards, 43, British comedian and radio host, injuries sustained in a traffic collision.
• Inés Sánchez, 91, Cuban-Costa Rican journalist.
• Charles Scriver, 92, Canadian pediatrician and geneticist.
• Priyani Soysa, 97, Sri Lankan paediatrician.
• Antonio Tarín García, 47, Mexican politician, suicide by jumping.
• James W. Valentine, 96, American evolutionary biologist.
• Lasse Wellander, 70, Swedish guitarist.
• Wolfgang Wild, 92, German nuclear physicist and academic administrator, president of the Technical University of Munich.

8

• Bola Ajibola, 89, Nigerian jurist, minister of justice and attorney general, judge of the International Court of Justice.
• Walter Asbil, 90, Canadian Anglican clergyman, bishop of Niagara.
• Matt Baldwin, 96, Canadian curler.
• Deborah Brown, 95, Northern Irish sculptor.
• Dan Callikan, 75, Mauritian politician, political adviser, and author, director general of the Mauritius Broadcasting Corporation.
• Djene Kaba Condé, 62–63, Guinean socialite, first lady.
• Simon France, 64, New Zealand jurist, judge of the High Court and Court of Appeal.
• Bob Heatlie, 76, Scottish songwriter and record producer.
• Elizabeth Hubbard, 89, American actress, cancer.
• Khalil Hachimi Idrissi, 66, Moroccan journalist, director of the Maghreb Arabe Press.
• Michael Lerner, 81, American actor, complications from brain seizures.
• Frankie Lucas, 69, Vincentian boxer.
• Kenneth McAlpine, 102, English racing driver.
• Rami Meir, 60, Azerbaijani-born Israeli artist, poet, and singer.
• Andreas K. W. Meyer, 64, German dramaturge, playwright and opera manager, heart failure.
• Judith Miller, 71, British antiques expert and broadcaster.
• William Newton-Smith, 79, Canadian philosopher, throat cancer.
• Valérie Oka, 56, Ivorian artist and designer.
• Edward L. Rissien, 98, American production company executive and producer.
• Paulo de Tarso Sanseverino, 63, Brazilian judge and academic, magistrate of the Superior Court of Justice, cancer.
• Mickey Slaughter, 81, American football player.
• Otto Thomas Solbrig, 92, Argentine evolutionary biologist and botanist.
• Norman H. Stahl, 92, American jurist, judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and the U.S. District Court for New Hampshire.
• Rebecka Teper, 50, Swedish actress.
• Isi Yanouka, Israeli diplomat, ambassador to Ivory Coast and Cameroon.
• András Zsinka, 75, Hungarian Olympic middle-distance runner.

9

• Baker Abdel Munem, 80, Palestinian diplomat, ambassador to Japan and Canada.
• Dario Acquaroli, 48, Italian mountain bike racer, heart attack.
• Muhammad Rapsel Ali, 51, Indonesian businessman and politician, MP, heart attack.
• Jere L. Bacharach, 84, American historian.
• Nicolás Eduardo Becerra, 80, Argentine attorney.
• Karl Berger, 88, German-American jazz pianist, composer, and educator.
• Bruria David, 84, American-Israeli rebbetzin, founder of Beth Jacob Jerusalem.
• Valter Dešpalj, 75, Croatian cellist.
• Alexander J. Dessler, 94, American planetary scientist.
• Donald W. Ernst, 89, American film editor and producer.
• Ettore Fiorini, 89, Italian physicist.
• Roberto Frigerio, 84, Swiss footballer.
• Max Hazelton, 95, Australian aviator and businessman, founder of Hazelton Airlines.
• Paul Hinrichs, 97, American baseball player.
• Claire Lamont, 81, British academic, complications from vascular dementia.
• Anatoly Makagonov, 90, Russian volleyball player and coach.
• Jaap Murre, 93, Dutch mathematician.
• Richard Ng, 83, Hong Kong actor, cardiac arrest.
• Huub Oosterhuis, 89, Dutch theologian and poet.
• Fred Pancoast, 90, American football coach.
• Albert Podell, 86, American magazine editor and writer.
• Valda Setterfield, 88, British-born American dancer, pneumonia.
• Dick Springer, 75, American politician, member of the Oregon House of Representatives and Senate, heart attack.
• Andrew Phillips, Baron Phillips of Sudbury, 84, British solicitor and politician, member of the House of Lords, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Holger Sundström, 97, Swedish sailor, Olympic bronze medallist.
• Wladimir Tchertkoff, 87–88, Italian journalist.
• James Timlin, 95, American Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop and bishop of Scranton.
• Jalabala Vaidya, 86, Indian stage actress, respiratory failure.
• Philip Wilcocks, 69, British Royal Navy rear admiral.
• Gayatri Devi Yadav, Indian politician, Bihar MLA.
• Hidehiko Yamamoto, 87, Japanese politician, governor of Yamanashi Prefecture, mayor of Kōfu.
• Tom Yurkovich, 87, American Olympic ice hockey player.

10

• Gad Barzilai, 65, Israeli lawyer and political scientist.
• Andrzej Bławdzin, 84, Polish Olympic cyclist.
• Nimi Briggs, 79, Nigerian academic.
• Jane Davis Doggett, 93, American graphic designer.
• Paul Furlan, 60, Belgian politician, Wallonia MP, cancer.
• Richard Ieyoub, 78, American politician, attorney general of Louisiana.
• Al Jaffee, 102, American cartoonist, multiple organ failure.
• Pierre Lacotte, 91, French ballet dancer and choreographer, sepsis.
• Frank Lasky, 81, American football player.
• Pat Magner, 82, Irish politician, senator.
• Alphonse Mattia, 75–76, American furniture designer.
• Anne Perry, 84, British author and convicted murderer.
• Fernando Sánchez Dragó, 86, Spanish writer and journalist, heart attack.
• Raymond Sawada, 38, Canadian ice hockey player, heart attack.
• Stephen Stiles, 88, Canadian politician, Alberta MLA, complications from multiple system atrophy.
• John Joe Walsh, 82, Irish Gaelic footballer.
• Ronald Whyte, 80, American jurist, judge of the U.S. District Court for Northern California.
• Rick Wolff, 71, American writer and radio host, brain cancer.

11

• Bob Alligood, 90, American politician.
• George Bobolas, 95, Greek media executive.
• Zafrullah Chowdhury, 81, Bangladeshi public health activist.
• Joan Clark, 88, Canadian author.
• Isiya Danwasa, Nigerian bandit leader, shot.
• Miguel Escobar, 77, Colombian footballer.
• Archibald Hardy, 86, American politician, member of the South Carolina House of Representatives, stroke.
• Alan Herbert, 78, Canadian politician, member of the Vancouver City Council.
• Emlain Kabua, 95, Marshallese artist, first lady and designer of the national flag.
• Lotti Krekel, 81, German actress and singer.
• Carol Locatell, 82, American actress, cancer.
• Jerry Mander, 86, American activist and author.
• Chinwoke Mbadinuju, 77, Nigerian politician, governor of Anambra State.
• Jim McManus, 82, British actor.
• Dana Němcová, 89, Czech psychologist and dissident.
• John Olsen, 95, Australian visual artist.
• John O'Shaughnessy, 95, British academic.
• Lou Pappan, 92, Greek-born American restaurateur.
• Freddie Scappaticci, 76, Northern Irish PIRA leader.
• Meir Shalev, 74, Israeli author and newspaper columnist, cancer.
• Donald Voet, 84, American biochemist.
• Maya Wildevuur, 78, Dutch painter.

12

• Ivo Babuška, 97, Czech-American mathematician.
• Eduard Bagirov, 47, Russian writer, radio presenter, and politician, multiple organ failure.
• Carolyn Long Banks, 82, American civil rights activist and politician, member of the Atlanta City Council.
• Uttara Baokar, 79, Indian actress.
• James Bradley, 67, American basketball player.
• Ambra Danon, 75, Italian costume designer, cancer.
• Michael Denneny, 80, American author and editor.
• Alan Frost, 80, Australian historian.
• Jacques Gaillot, 87, French Roman Catholic prelate and social activist, bishop of Évreux.
• Louis Gaskin, 56, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Salem Abdul Salem Ghereby, 62, Libyan Guantanamo Bay detainee, complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Michael L. Grieco, 88, American politician, member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives.
• David Hurles, 78, American gay pornography distributor.
• Radoslav Kunzo, 48, Slovak footballer.
• Tibisay Lucena, 63, Venezuelan civil servant, president of the national electoral council.
• Keshub Mahindra, 99, Indian automotive executive, chairman of Mahindra Group.
• Tamilla Nasirova, 86, Azerbaijiani mathematician.
• Rustem Nureev, 72, Russian scientist and economist.
• Senan Louis O'Donnell, 96, Irish Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Maiduguri.
• Bryn Parry, 66, British cartoonist and charity worker, co-founder of Help for Heroes, pancreatic cancer.
• Jeffrey Burton Russell, 88–89, American historian and religious studies scholar.
• Jah Shaka, 75, Jamaican dub and reggae sound system operator.
• Yō Takeyama, 76, Japanese screenwriter, septic shock.
• Megan Terry, 90, American playwright.
• Blair Tindall, 63, American oboist and journalist, heart disease.
• G. I. Williamson, 97, American theologian, pastor, and author.
• Takaaki Yamazaki, 79, Japanese politician, mayor of Kōtō.

13

• Rodney Bagley, 88, American engineer, co-inventor of the catalytic converter.
• Mike Baxes, 92, American baseball player.
• Len Beel, 77, English footballer.
• Craig Breen, 33, Irish rally driver, rally car collision.
• Michael W. Bruford, 59, Welsh molecular ecologist and conservation biologist.
• Willie Callaghan, 56, Scottish footballer.
• Nanette Cameron, 95, New Zealand interior designer.
• Tibor Debreceni, 76, Hungarian Olympic road racing cyclist.
• Eduardo Heras León, 82, Cuban writer.
• Lorenzo Holzknecht, 38, Italian ski mountaineer, world champion, avalanche.
• Nizar Issaoui, 35, Tunisian footballer, self-immolation.
• Julia Ituma, 18, Italian volleyball player, fall.
• Norm Kent, 73, American attorney and gay rights activist, pancreatic cancer.
• Stanko Klinar, 89, Slovenian writer and translator.
• Eberhard W. Kornfeld, 99, Swiss auctioneer, author, and art dealer.
• Larry LeGrande, 83, American baseball player.
• Don Leppert, 91, American baseball player.
• Marilyn McReavy, 78, American Olympic volleyball player.
• Rabey Hasani Nadwi, 93, Indian Islamic scholar, chancellor of Darul Uloom Nadwatul Ulama and president of AIMPLB.
• Dame Mary Quant, 93, British fashion designer.
• Josef Schütz, 102, Lithuanian-born German Nazi concentration camp guard.
• Robert C. Smith, 76, American political scientist.
• Helen Thorington, 94, American radio artist and composer, founder of New Radio and Performing Arts.
• Thubten Zopa Rinpoche, 76, Nepali Tibetan Buddhist lama, founder of FPMT, respiratory failure.

14

• Egil Abrahamsen, 100, Norwegian marine engineer.
• Emad Afroogh, 65, Iranian sociologist and politician, MP, cancer.
• Ken Archer, 95, Australian cricketer and broadcaster, heart failure.
• Mark Arneson, 73, American football player.
• Juan Avilés Farré, 73, Spanish historian, cancer.
• Irma Blank, 88, German-Italian painter and graphic artist.
• Enore Boscolo, 93, Italian footballer.
• Bill Bradbury, 73, American politician, secretary of state of Oregon, member and president of the State Senate.
• Voldemar Dundur, 85, Russian Olympic rower.
• Emmanuel Ebiede, 45, Nigerian footballer.
• Sylvie Fanchon, 70, Kenyan-born French contemporary painter.
• Shane Gough, 5th Viscount Gough, 81, British hereditary peer, member of the House of Lords.
• George van Heukelom, 73, Dutch politician, member of the provincial executive of Zeeland.
• Hsu Su-yeh, 89, Taiwanese politician, member of the Legislative Yuan.
• Ed Koren, 87, American cartoonist, lung cancer.
• Peter Lin Jiashan, 88, Chinese Roman Catholic prelate, coadjutor bishop and archbishop of Fuzhou.
• Joan McCall, 83, American screenwriter, producer and actress.
• Luigi Mele, 85, Italian racing cyclist.
• Murray Melvin, 90, English actor.
• Kensei Mizote, 80, Japanese politician, MP, complications from a stroke.
• Lonnie Napier, 82, American politician, member of the Kentucky House of Representatives.
• Abel Posse, 89, Argentine novelist and diplomat, ambassador to Peru and Spain.
• Luc Sala, 73, Dutch businessman and writer.
• Mark Sheehan, 46, Irish guitarist and songwriter.
• James M. Skibo, 63, American archaeologist.
• Bernadine Strik, 60, Dutch-born Canadian-American horticulturalist, ovarian cancer.
• Marilyn Ruth Take, 95, Canadian Olympic figure skater.
• George Verwer, 84, American evangelist, founder of Operation Mobilisation, sarcoma.
• Bob Vidler, 66, Australian cricketer, motor neuron disease.
• Yorick Wilks, 83, British computer scientist.
• Vanik Zakaryan, 87, Armenian mathematician and chess player.

15

• Atiq Ahmed, 60, Indian politician and gangster, MP and Uttar Pradesh MLA, shot.
• Khalid Azim, Indian politician and gangster, Uttar Pradesh MLA, shot.
• Peter Badie, 97, American jazz bass player.
• James Credle, 78, American veterans and LGBT rights activist.
• Mario Fratti, 95, Italian playwright.
• Maryellen Goodwin, 58, American politician, member of the Rhode Island Senate, colorectal cancer.
• Roger Hambright, 74, American baseball player.
• Doktor Haze, 66, British circus owner and performer.
• Bob Higgins, 97, American jazz trumpeter and songwriter.
• Marie C. Ingalls, 87, American politician, member of the South Dakota House of Representatives.
• Celedonia Jones, 93, American historian.
• Johannes Karavidopoulos, 86, Greek biblical scholar.
• Heinrich Köberle, 76, German athlete, four-time Paralympic marathon gold medalist.
• Beatrice Marshoff, 65, South African politician, MP and premier of the Free State.
• Harold Mockford, 91, English artist.
• Lynda Myles, 83, American television writer, actress and playwright.
• Hugh Paul Nuckolls, 81, American politician.
• Abdul Shakoor, 55, Pakistani politician, minister for religious affairs and inter-faith harmony and MP, traffic collision.
• Bill Thomas, 91, American college basketball coach.
• Faith Thomas, 90, Australian cricketer.
• Kanithi Viswanatham, 90, Indian politician, MP.
• Francisco Viti, 89, Angolan Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Menongue and archbishop of Huambo.
• Rebekah Williams, 73, Canadian politician, Nunavut MLA, cancer.
• Zuiho Yamaguchi, 97, Japanese Buddhologist and Tibetologist, pneumonia.

16

• Paul Aizley, 87, American politician, member of the Nevada Assembly.
• Robert Bruce, 74, Canadian politician, Yukon MLA.
• Chuck Ciprich, 81, American racing driver, cancer.
• Eddie Colquhoun, 78, Scottish footballer.
• Gary Eddy, 78, Australian Olympic sprinter.
• Rod Hebron, 80, Canadian Olympic alpine skier.
• Ahmad Jamal, 92, American jazz pianist, prostate cancer.
• Brian V. Johnstone, 84, Australian priest and theologian.
• Slobodan Lalović, 68, Serbian politician, minister of labour, employment, and social policy.
• Darryl Lenox, 57, American comedian, heart attack.
• Harry J. Mott III, 93, American brigadier general.
• Antônio Celso Queiroz, 89, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of São Paulo and bishop of Catanduva.
• Bernice Rose, 87, American art historian and curator.
• Gregorios Elias Tabé, 82, Syrian Syriac Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop, coadjutor archbishop and archbishop of Damascus.
• Pat Wright, 82, English footballer.

17

• Oleh Barna, 55, Ukrainian human rights activist and politician, MP, shot.
• Bob Berry, 81, American football player.
• Ivan Conti, 76, Brazilian drummer and composer.
• Viktoriya Divak, 29, Russian handball player, fall.
• Valerii Dorokhov, 31, Ukrainian entrepreneur and soldier, military combat.
• Josip Duvančić, 87, Croatian football player and manager.
• Dave Frost, 70, American baseball player.
• Rein Jansma, 63, Dutch architect.
• Maxine Klibingaitis, 58, Australian actress.
• Lázár Lovász, 80, Hungarian hammer thrower, Olympic bronze medallist.
• James Melcher, 83, American hedge fund manager and Olympic fencer.
• Peter Miller, 89, American photographer and writer.
• Ernst Oberaigner, 90, Austrian Olympic alpine skier.
• Randy Seiler, 76, American attorney, U.S. attorney for the district of South Dakota, complications from a heart attack.
• Pavlo Shkapenko, 50, Ukrainian footballer.
• Chris Smith, 31, American football player.
• April Stevens, 93, American singer, Grammy winner.
• Nikita Storojev, 73, Russian-American operatic singer.
• Ronald R. Thomas, 74, American academic administrator, president of the University of Puget Sound.
• Virgilio Tosi, 97, Italian documentary filmmaker.
• Bente Træen, 64, Norwegian sexologist, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Shlomo Yitzhaki, 79, Iraqi-born Israeli economist, director of the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics.

18

• Väino Aren, 89, Estonian actor and ballet dancer.
• Abdul Azeem, 62, Indian cricketer, kidney failure.
• Joe Cattini, 100, British soldier.
• Stephan Cohen, 51, French pocket billiards player, heart attack.
• Boris Fausto, 92, Brazilian historian.
• Alfred L. Goldberg, 80, American biochemist and academic.
• Pablo González Casanova, 101, Mexican lawyer, sociologist, and historian.
• Terrence Hardiman, 86, English actor.
• Stephen Hill, 77, British academic.
• Evan Jones, 95, Jamaican poet, playwright and screenwriter.
• Koko Da Doll, 35, American rapper, subject of Kokomo City, shot.
• Víctor Marrero Padilla, 84, Puerto Rican politician, senator.
• Willie McCarter, 76, American basketball player and coach.
• Don McIlhenny, 88, American football player.
• Nimrod Mkono, 79, Tanzanian politician, MP.
• Chandita Mukherjee, 70, Indian documentary film director.
• Colm Murphy, 70, Irish republican and convicted arms trafficker, degenerative lung disease.
• Sammy Nicholl, 88, Maltese footballer and sports journalist.
• Harold Riley, 88, English painter.
• Albert del Rosario, 83, Filipino diplomat, secretary of foreign affairs and ambassador to the United States.
• Anita Sanders, 81, Swedish actress and model.
• Vadym Shevchenko, 66, Ukrainian football player and referee.
• Ajai Singh, 88, Indian military officer, governor of Assam.
• Charles Stanley, 90, American pastor and televangelist, president of the Southern Baptist Convention and founder of In Touch Ministries.
• Mickey Wernick, 78, English professional poker player.
• Lensley Wolfe, 85, Jamaican jurist, chief justice.

19

• Boris Bjarni Akbashev, 89, Soviet-born Icelandic handball player and coach.
• Alfonso Araújo Cotes, 99, Colombian politician, governor of Cesar Department.
• Emilio Berroa, 76, Dominican Olympic weightlifter.
• Bob Berry, 81, American football player.
• Finbar Cafferkey, 45, Irish political activist and soldier, mortar fire.
• Robert Dean, 67, American Olympic handball player.
• Walter Demel, 77, German four-time Olympic cross-country skier.
• Yehonatan Geffen, 76, Israeli author, poet and songwriter.
• Todd Haimes, 66, American artistic director.
• Ron Hamilton, 72, American Christian singer-songwriter, preacher, and voice actor.
• Lee Harding, 86, Australian photographer and writer.
• Elain Harwood, 64, English architectural historian.
• Marvin L. Kay, 84, American football coach.
• Shahidul Haque Khan, 74, Bangladeshi film director and lyricist, cancer.
• Michael A. Lebowitz, 85, American-born Canadian economist.
• Lin Hui, 21, Chinese-born Thai giant panda.
• Bob Maguire, 88, Australian Roman Catholic priest, subject of In Bob We Trust.
• Peter Martin, 81, English actor.
• Volodymyr Melnychenko, 91, Ukrainian visual artist, sculptor, and architect.
• Moonbin, 25, South Korean singer, actor and dancer.
• John Newman, 86, English architectural historian.
• Jeremy Nobis, 52, American Olympic alpine skier.
• Harriet Nordlund, 68, Swedish actress.
• Charles-Ferdinand Nothomb, 86, Belgian politician, twice president of the Chamber of Representatives, minister of foreign affairs and the interior.
• Robert O'Neill, 86, Australian historian.
• Coulter Osborne, 88, Canadian Olympic basketball player and arbitrator, integrity commissioner of Ontario.
• Elena Pampoulova, 50, Bulgarian Olympic tennis player.
• Dmitry Petrov, 33, Russian anarchist activist, ethnographer and historian.
• Martin Petzold, 67, German classical tenor.
• Ed Picson, 69, Filipino sportscaster, sports administrator, and columnist.
• Luc Portelance, 63, Canadian police officer, president of the Canada Border Services Agency.
• Richard Riordan, 92, American investment banker, businessman and politician, mayor of Los Angeles.
• Federico Salvatore, 63, Italian singer-songwriter and comedian, complications from a cerebal haemorrhage.
• Takeo Shiina, 93, Japanese business executive.
• Bud Shuster, 91, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, complications from a fractured hip.
• Ann M. Torr, 88, American politician, member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives.
• Gloria Cranmer Webster, 91, Canadian writer, activist, and museum curator.
• I Ketut Wiana, 77, Indonesian Hindu scholar.
• Dave Wilcox, 80, American Hall of Fame football player.
• Richard Woldendorp, 96, Dutch-born Australian aerial photographer.

20

• Sir Frank Blackman, 96, Barbadian civil servant.
• Pamela Chopra, 75, Indian playback singer, pneumonia.
• David Ellis, 90, English composer.
• Marek Fila, 63, Slovak mathematician.
• Josep Maria Fusté, 82, Spanish footballer.
• Salma Khadra Jayyusi, 95, Palestinian poet and anthropologist, founder of PROTA.
• Ivar Kristianslund, 89, Norwegian preacher and politician, leader of the New Future Coalition Party.
• Margaret Nielsen, 90, New Zealand pianist.
• Khalil Oghab, 99, Iranian wrestler and circus performer.
• Roy Tuckman, 84, American radio host.
• John Wright, 79, American film editor, cancer.
• Andy Wyper, 83, Scottish boxer.
• Kenji Yonekura, 88, Japanese Olympic boxer.

21

• Enver Baig, 77, Pakistani politician, senator and chairperson of the BISP.
• Ernie Barrett, 93, American basketball player.
• Ernő Béres, 94, Hungarian Olympic long-distance runner.
• James B. Busey IV, 90, American admiral.
• Mahulena Čejková, 86, Czech physician and politician, MP.
• Maria Charles, 93, English actress.
• Peter Cole, 81, American linguist.
• Kandy Cordova, 86, American politician, member of the New Mexico House of Representatives.
• Mike Coulman, 78, English rugby league and union player.
• John A. Curry, 88, American academic administrator, president of Northeastern University.
• Stanley Deser, 92, Polish-born American physicist.
• Dream Alliance, 22, British Thoroughbred racehorse, Welsh Grand National winner.
• Cornell Fleischer, 72, American historian.
• Mirella Giai, 93, Italian politician, senator.
• Trilochan Kanungo, 82, Indian politician, MP.
• Dalia Kuodytė, 61, Lithuanian historian and politician, MP.
• Emily Meggett, 90, American chef and author.
• Ivan Moscovich, 96, Yugoslav-born Dutch toy and game designer and Holocaust survivor.
• Viktor Olsen, 99, Norwegian Olympic long-distance runner.
• John O'Sullivan, 90, Australian Olympic cyclist.
• Ken Potts, 102, American World War II veteran, survivor of the attack on the USS Arizona.
• Sergio Rendine, 68, Italian composer, cultural manager and theatre director.
• Ted Richards, 76, American cartoonist, lung cancer.
• Jane Ritchie, 87, New Zealand academic.
• Roy G. Saltman, 90, American electrical engineer.
• Juan Carlos Sarnari, 81, Argentine footballer.
• Kate Saunders, 62, English author, journalist and actress, cancer.
• Mark Stewart, 62, English musician and songwriter.
• Tasileta Teevale, 50, Samoan-born New Zealand academic, cancer.
• John Tranter, 79, Australian poet, founder of Jacket.

22

• Edward S. Ayensu, 87, Ghanaian environmental scientist.
• Mudar Badran, 89, Jordanian politician, prime minister.
• Sir Alan Bailey, 91, British civil servant.
• István Bajkai, 59, Hungarian politician, MP.
• Hugh Byrne, 83, Irish politician, TD.
• Ron Cahute, 68, Canadian singer-songwriter and accordionist.
• James Chan Soon Cheong, 96, Malaysian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Melaka-Johor.
• Herb Douglas, 101, American long jumper, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Bernard Geary, 89, Irish composer, teacher and pianist.
• Marcela González Salas, 75, Mexican politician, president of the Chamber of Deputies, cancer.
• Len Goodman, 78, English ballroom dancer, television presenter, and coach, bone cancer.
• Greg Howard, 58, American Chapman Stick player.
• Barry Humphries, 89, Australian comedian and actor, complications from hip surgery.
• Ju Ming, 85, Taiwanese sculptor, suicide.
• Rambahadur Limbu, 83, Nepali soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross, heart and kidney failure.
• Mick Loftus, 93, Irish Gaelic footballer and sports administrator, president of the Gaelic Athletic Association.
• Dale Meeks, 48, English actor, heart failure.
• Catherine Morris, 94, British figure skater.
• Sunil Kumar Podder, 86, Indian molecular biologist and biophysicist.
• Frank Shu, 79, Chinese-American astrophysicist, president of the National Tsing Hua University and member of the National Academy of Sciences.
• Emanuel V. Soriano, 86, Filipino engineer and academic administrator, president of the University of the Philippines.
• Ulf Sundqvist, 78, Finnish politician, minister of education and trade.
• Art Uytendaal, 92, Dutch-born Australian equestrian.
• Werner Voigt, 75, German football player and coach.
• Juhn Atsushi Wada, 99, Japanese-born Canadian neurologist.
• Carol Wall, 69–70, Canadian labor and social justice activist.

23

• Anatoly Akentyev, 81, Russian Olympic cross-country skier.
• Nikolay Bortsov, 77, Russian politician, MP.
• Tori Bowie, 32, American athlete, Olympic champion, complications from childbirth.
• Robert Forrest-Webb, 94, British author and journalist.
• Keith Gattis, 52, American country music singer, songwriter, and producer, tractor accident.
• Randor Guy, 85, Indian lawyer, columnist and film historian.
• Yvonne Jacquette, 88, American painter.
• Zahoor Hussain Khoso, Pakistani politician, speaker of the Provincial Assembly of Balochistan, lung cancer.
• Alton H. Maddox Jr., 77, American lawyer.
• Boris Markarov, 88, Russian water polo player, Olympic bronze medallist.
• John Miller, 79, American baseball player.
• Warren Monson, 48, Australian sidecar speedway racer, race collision.
• Billy Oatman, 57, American ten-pin bowler, complications from a stroke.
• Rainer Osselmann, 62, German water polo player, Olympic bronze medallist.
• Robert Patrick, 85, American playwright, poet, and lyricist.
• Jej Perfekcyjność, Polish sociologist, author, and social activist.
• Gemini Shankaran, 98, Indian circus owner.
• Dick Towers, 92, American football coach.
• Dzhasharbek Uzdenov, 56, Russian politician, MP.
• Frank Welsh, 91, British historian and writer.

24

• Tomas Alibegov, 85, Russian banker, director general of Eurobank.
• Alfredo Arreguín, 88, Mexican-American painter.
• David E. Carter, 80, American entrepreneur and writer, lymphoma.
• Șerban Ciochină, 83, Romanian Olympic triple jumper.
• Ann Crowley, 93, American singer and actress.
• Fumio Demura, 84, Japanese martial artist.
• José Aníbal Díaz, 52, Puerto Rican politician, member of the House of Representatives, cancer.
• Peter Enahoro, 88, Nigerian journalist.
• Tarek Fatah, 73, Pakistani-Canadian journalist and writer, cancer.
• Aftandil Israfilov, 82, Azerbaijani garmon player.
• Senahid Halilović, 65, Bosnian linguist, member of the ANUBH.
• Alejandro Hamed, 89, Paraguayan diplomat and politician, minister of foreign affairs.
• Ernst Huberty, 96, German-Luxembourgish sports journalist.
• Donald Lambro, 82, American journalist.
• Sir Basil Markesinis, 78, Greek-British legal scholar, complications from dementia.
• Brian Frank Martin, 86, Australian judge, chief justice of the Northern Territory.
• Arlie Neaville, 85, American singer and songwriter.
• Joe Novsek, 83, American football player.
• Mike Pride, 76, American journalist and writer.
• Ove Krogh Rants, 96, Danish Olympic cyclist.
• Dennis Ribant, 81, American baseball player.
• Gilbert Sheldon, 96, American Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Steubenville and auxiliary bishop of Cleveland.
• Casper R. Taylor Jr., 88, American politician, speaker and member of the Maryland House of Delegates.
• Chai-Shin Yu, 91, Korean-born Canadian professor of Korean studies

25

• Sir Norman Adsetts, 92, British businessman.
• Frank Agrama, 93, American film director and producer, founder of Harmony Gold USA.
• Parkash Singh Badal, 95, Indian politician, minister of agriculture and four-time chief minister of Punjab, complications from bronchial asthma.
• Harry Belafonte, 96, American Hall of Fame musician, actor, and civil rights activist, heart failure.
• Sir Winfried Bischoff, 81, German-born British banker, chairman of Citigroup and Lloyds Banking Group.
• Gennadi Bogachyov, 78, Russian actor.
• Himangshu Mohan Choudhury, 83, Indian civil servant.
• John Cockcroft, 88, English journalist and politician, MP.
• Letty Eisenhauer, 87, American artist.
• Billy "The Kid" Emerson, 97, American singer-songwriter.
• Obaro Ikime, 86, Nigerian historian.
• Hanna Johansen, 83, German-born Swiss writer.
• Vera Krepkina, 90, Ukrainian long jumper, Olympic champion.
• François Léotard, 81, French politician, minister of culture and defence.
• Alapati Lui Mataeliga, 70, Samoan Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Samoa-Apia and superior of Tokelau.
• Robin Mathews, 91, Canadian poet and activist.
• Earl F. Palmer, 91, American Presbyterian minister.
• Edwin Teague, 88, American Olympic sport shooter.
• Pamela Turnure, 85, American press secretary, lung cancer.
• John J. Uicker, 84, American mechanical engineer, lung cancer.
• Paul van Vliet, 87, Dutch comedian and UNICEF goodwill ambassador.
• Barry Webster, 88, English footballer.
• Manfred Weiss, 88, German composer.
• Morison Zuill, 86, Scottish cricketer.

26

• Jerry Apodaca, 88, American politician, governor of New Mexico and chair of the PCPFS.
• Željko Bilecki, 72, Canadian soccer player.
• Michel Biron, 89, Canadian politician, senator.
• Ronald Bradley, 93, British physician and inventor.
• Boris Budnikov, 81, Russian sailor, Olympic silver medallist.
• Chandan Ram Das, 65, Indian politician, Uttarakhand MLA, cardiac arrest.
• Cilia van Dijk, 81, Dutch film producer, Oscar winner.
• Tony Dreyfus, 84, French lawyer and politician, deputy.
• Eqtidaar, 7, Irish-bred British Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the Commonwealth Cup, euthanized.
• Isidore Fernandes, 76, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Allahabad, heart attack.
• Stefano Gentili, 65, Italian politician, president of the Province of Grosseto.
• Sonny Gordon, 57, American football player, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• George Greenamyer, 83, American sculptor.
• Doris Gregory, 102, Canadian writer and activist.
• Maja Hug, 95, Swiss Olympic figure skater.
• A. Majeed Khan, 93, Bangladeshi politician and diplomat, minister of education.
• Sami Khayat, 79, Lebanese stage actor and comedian, bone cancer.
• Roger Lise, 95, French politician, senator.
• Martin Lönnebo, 93, Swedish Lutheran clergyman, bishop of Linköping.
• Jay Mala, 64, Indian political activist, fall.
• Mamukkoya, 76, Indian actor and comedian, heart attack.
• Robert Meeks, 89, American politician.
• Stina Rautelin, 59, Finnish-Swedish actress.
• Adela Ringuelet, 93, Argentine astronomer.
• Alzira Rufino, 73, Brazilian writer and social activist.
• Samarveer Singh, 33, Indian academic, suicide by hanging.
• Abbas-Ali Soleimani, 75, Iranian ayatollah, member of the Assembly of Experts, shot.
• Tangaraju Suppiah, 46, Singaporean drug trafficker, execution by hanging.
• Too Too, 32, Burmese Lethwei fighter.
• Wang Shaojun, 67, Chinese military officer, director of the Central Guard Bureau and deputy.
• Dee Dee Wood, 95, American choreographer.
• Belén Clarisa Velutini, 99, Venezuelan businesswoman and banker.
• Dimitris Xistras, 68, Cypriot actor.
• Zhang Jihui, 96, Chinese air force officer, deputy commander of PLAAF.

27

• David Henry Breaux, 50, American unhoused man, stabbed.
• Banko Brown, 24, American homeless transgender man, shot.
• John Cash, 88, American football player.
• Neville Chesters, 77, American rock music manager and road manager.
• Dick Chrobak, 81, Canadian football player.
• Jean-Paul Costa, 81, French jurist, president of the European Court of Human Rights.
• Dame Rosemary Cramp, 93, English archaeologist and academic.
• Ólafur Garðar Einarsson, 90, Icelandic politician, member and speaker of the Althing, minister of education, science and culture.
• Girma Yeshitila, Ethiopian politician, shot.
• Dick Groat, 92, American baseball and basketball player, World Series champion, complications from a stroke.
• Wee Willie Harris, 90, English rock and roll singer.
• Dominic Kwiatkowski, 69, English medical researcher and geneticist.
• Giovanni Lombardo Radice, 68, Italian actor.
• Francis Macnab, 91, Australian Christian minister and psychologist, founder of the Cairnmillar Institute.
• Ray Minus, 58, Bahamian boxer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Gerald Nesbitt, 91, American football player.
• Ramiro Oliveros, 82, Spanish actor.
• Beata Maria Kitsikis Panagopoulos, 97, Greek-born American professor of art.
• Dennis Reid, 80, Canadian art historian and curator, heart failure.
• Kaur Singh, 74, Indian boxer.
• Jerry Springer, 79, British-born American television host and politician, mayor of Cincinnati, pancreatic cancer.
• Wiktor Wysoczański, 84, Polish Old Catholic prelate, superior of the Polish Catholic Church.
• Gayle Graham Yates, 82, American academic.
• Barbara Young, 92, English actress.

28

• Andrea Augello, 62, Italian politician, senator.
• Tim Bachman, 71, Canadian guitarist.
• LeRoy Carhart, 81, American physician, subject of After Tiller.
• Agnes G. Doody, 93, American academic.
• Helge Engelke, 61, German guitarist, colon cancer.
• Renyldo Ferreira, 99, Brazilian four-time Olympic equestrian.
• Jim Fox, 81, British modern pentathlete, Olympic champion.
• Martyn Gough, 57, British Anglican priest.
• Robson Gracie, 88, Brazilian jujutsu master.
• Claude Gray, 91, American country music singer-songwriter.
• Ranajit Guha, 99, Indian historian.
• David Jacobs, 45, Indonesian table tennis player, Paralympic bronze medallist.
• Taini Jamison, 95, New Zealand netball coach.
• Harold Kushner, 88, American rabbi and author.
• Peter Lilienthal, 93, German film director.
• Bengt Lindqvist, 89, Swedish Olympic ice hockey player.
• Sergio Ottolina, 80, Italian Olympic sprinter.
• Yuri Petrov, 48, Russian footballer.
• Vincent Stewart, 64, Jamaican-born American Marine Corps general, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.
• Ben Tompkins, 93, American football referee.
• Ferry Torrez, 54, Danish circus performer, cancer.
• Ken Westbury, 96, British cinematographer.

29

• Sylvia Bacon, 91, American judge, associate judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, pulmonary fibrosis.
• Adam Brace, 43, British playwright and director, complications from a stroke.
• S. S. Chakravarthy, 55, Indian film producer, cancer.
• Padma Desai, 91, Indian-American development economist.
• Edward J. Garcia, 94, American jurist, judge of the U.S. District Court for Eastern California.
• Janet G. Mullins Grissom, 73, American lobbyist, White House director of political affairs, assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs.
• David L. Holmes, 90, American church historian.
• Rod Kedward, 86, British historian.
• Desmond Kelly, 86, Sri-Lankan born Australian musician and actor.
• Hermann Kerckhoff, 85, German-born Canadian Olympic slalom canoeist.
• Sergei Kolesnikov, 68, Russian actor and television presenter.
• Yuri Korolyov, 60, Russian artistic gymnast, nine-time world champion.
• Nicolae Neagoe, 81, Romanian bobsledder, Olympic bronze medallist.
• Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi, Islamist militant, caliph of the Islamic State.
• Larry Rivers, 73, American basketball player, cancer.
• Eero Saari, 94, Finnish Olympic ice hockey player.
• Don Sebesky, 85, American composer, arranger, and conductor.
• Mike Shannon, 83, American baseball player and broadcaster, World Series champion, stroke.
• Ralph Taaviri, 68, French Polynesian trade unionist, independence activist, and environmentalist.
• István Vágó, 74, Hungarian television host and political activist.
• Ralfe Whistler, 92, British naturalist.
• Richard B. Woodward, 70, American arts critic, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.

30

• Ralph Boston, 83, American long jumper, Olympic champion, stroke.
• Elizabeth Scott, Duchess of Buccleuch, 68, Scottish noble and philanthropist.
• Ian Crowden, 90, Australian cricketer.
• Tony Doyle, 64, British racing cyclist, pancreatic cancer.
• George I. Fujimoto, 102, American chemist.
• Patricia Hamilton, 86, Canadian actress.
• Havre de Grace, 16, American Thoroughbred racehorse.
• Ron Hazelton, 80, American television host.
• Ntate Daniel Kgwadi, 55–56, South African academic administrator, rector and vice-chancellor of the North-West University.
• Luis Larrosa, 65, Uruguayan Olympic basketball player.
• Albert Lightfoot, 87, English cricketer.
• Chris Qua, 71, Australian jazz musician.
• Broderick Smith, 75, English-born Australian musician and actor.
• Lance Ten Broeck, 67, American professional golfer and caddie.
• Mihails Vasiļonoks, 74, Latvian ice hockey player, coach, and executive.
• Vyacheslav Zaitsev, 85, Russian fashion designer, gastrointestinal disease.
• Jock Zonfrillo, 46, Scottish-Australian chef and television presenter.