Deaths in April 2025

April 2025

1

• Miguel Ángel Aguilar Miranda, 85, Ecuadorian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Guaranda and Military Ordinariate of Ecuador.
• Deepak Bohara, 74, Nepalese politician, MP.
• Arsenio Campos, 79, Mexican actor.
• Peter Catt, 88, British plant breeder.
• Leandro Domingues, 41, Brazilian footballer, testicular cancer.
• George Freeman, 97, American jazz guitarist.
• Wayne Handy, 89, American rock and roll singer.
• He Zhukang, 93, Chinese politician, deputy, governor of Henan and Jilin.
• Michael Hurley, 83, American folk singer-songwriter.
• Stanley O. Ikenberry, 90, American academic, president of the University of Illinois System.
• Charles H. Jacoby Jr., 70, American general.
• Alfi Kabiljo, 89, Croatian composer and musician.
• Dean T. Kashiwagi, 72, American economist.
• Val Kilmer, 65, American actor, pneumonia.
• Gerald Luss, 98, American architect.
• Sergey Mavrin, 73, Russian jurist, judge and deputy president of the Constitutional Court.
• Luc Michel, 67, Belgian political activist.
• Yahyah Michot, 72, Belgian Islamologist and academic.
• Nancy Huddleston Packer, 99, American writer.
• María del Carmen Pinete Vargas, 64, Mexican politician, four-term deputy, vice president of the Chamber.
• Alfred Recours, 80, French politician, mayor of Conches-en-Ouche and deputy.
• Dave Täht, 59, American network engineer.
• Johnny Tillotson, 86, American singer-songwriter, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• John Vella, 74, American football player, Super Bowl champion.
• Clare Westcott, 100, Canadian political consultant and police commissioner.
• Roger J-B Wets, 88, Belgian mathematician.
• Faramarz Zelli, 82, Iranian footballer.

2

• Omar Aktouf, 80, Algerian-born Canadian consultant and academic.
• Judith Billings, 81, American judge, judge of the Utah Court of Appeals.
• Gregor Formanek, 100, Romanian German Nazi soldier.
• Teresa González Murillo, 52–53, Mexican human rights activist, shot.
• William D. Graves, 87, American politician, member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives.
• Matt Hassett, 93, Irish hurler.
• Bob Holladay, 93, American football player.
• Johnny King, 92, English footballer.
• Petra Krause, 86, German-Italian communist militant and weapons smuggler.
• Carl M. Kuttler Jr., 85, American academic administrator, president of St. Petersburg College.
• Winifred W. Logan, 98, British nurse theorist.
• Fábio Marcelino, 52, Brazilian Olympic volleyball player.
• Don Mattson, 69, Australian footballer.
• M. Hasna Maznavi, 39, American writer, director and activist, founder of the Women's Mosque of America, complications from diabetes.
• Don Moon, 89, American academic administrator, president of Shimer College.
• Peter Pearson, 87, Canadian film director and screenwriter.
• Zdravko Pečar, 75, Slovenian Olympic discus thrower.
• Suzanne Rand, 75, American actress and comedian, cardiopulmonary arrest.
• Curtis R. Reitz, 95, American legal scholar.
• Roy Sinclair, 96, Scottish Hall of Fame curler, president of the World Curling Federation.
• Khamtai Siphandone, 101, Laotian politician, president, prime minister, and chairman of the Revolutionary Party.
• Franklin Stahl, 95, American molecular biologist, heart failure.
• Alois Švehlík, 85, Czech actor and theater pedagogue.
• Greg Zito, 72, American politician, member of the Illinois Senate and House of Representatives.

3

• Andreas Prinz von Sachsen-Coburg und Gotha, 82, German landowner, head of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha.
• Alfredo Bianchini, 84, Italian politician, deputy.
• Knut Brofoss, 76, Norwegian civil servant, director of the National Insurance Court.
• Wanda Chase, 74, Brazilian journalist and Black activist.
• Floyd Clack, 84, American politician, member of the Michigan House of Representatives.
• Jenni L. Evans, 63, Australian-born American meteorologist and academic.
• Anthony V. Gazzara, 87, American lawyer and politician, member of the New York State Assembly and senate.
• Eunice Golden, 98, American painter.
• Farooq Hamid, 80, Pakistani cricketer.
• Stephen Mo Hanan, 78, American actor, heart attack.
• Ted Hipkiss, 78, New Zealand cricketer.
• Ivan Kley, 66, Brazilian tennis player and coach.
• Daniel Kluger, 73, Israeli writer.
• Jiří Kochta, 78, Czech ice hockey player, Olympic silver medallist.
• Jesse Kornbluth, 79, American journalist and author, Lewy body dementia.
• Theodore McCarrick, 94, American laicized Roman Catholic cardinal, archbishop of Newark and Washington.
• Paulo Mendo, 92, Portuguese doctor and politician, minister of health, MP.
• Mirawas, 69–70, Pakistani comedian.
• Frank Moberg, 85, Finnish ice hockey executive.
• Mick O'Dwyer, 88, Irish Gaelic football player and manager.
• Ladislas Orsy, 103, Hungarian theologian.
• Seyit Halil Özsoy, 76–77, Turkish politician, MP.
• David Paton, 94, American ophthalmologist, co-founder of Orbis International.
• Amphon Phongsuwan, 60, Thai civil servant.
• Juan Andrés Ramírez, 77, Uruguayan politician, minister of the interior, cancer.
• John Saint Ryan, 72, English actor and equestrian, heart attack.
• Amália Sterbinszky, 74, Hungarian handball player, Olympic bronze medallist.
• Idris Abdul'aziz Dutsen Tanshi, 67–68, Nigerian imam.
• Dean Wells, 54, American football player, acute lymphoblastic leukemia.
• Andy Wharton, 63, English footballer.
• Margarita Xhepa, 93, Albanian actress.

4

• Amadou Bagayoko, 70, Malian musician.
• Marion Blackburn, 86, American tennis player and entrepreneur.
• Jim Brandenburg, 79, American environmentalist and wildlife photographer.
• Vicki Brick, 43, American basketball player, ovarian cancer.
• Perri Cutten, 73, Australian fashion designer.
• Barbara Everett, 92, British academic.
• Paul Fierlinger, 89, Czech-American animator and director.
• John A. Galloway, 96, American endocrinologist.
• Ron Gardin, 80, American football player, Super Bowl champion.
• Petro Georgiou, 77, Greek-born Australian politician, MP.
• Ataullah Hafezzi, 77, Bangladeshi Islamist leader and politician.
• Aanund Hylland, 75, Norwegian economist.
• Paul Karo, 89, Scottish-born Australian actor.
• Manoj Kumar, 87, Indian actor.
• Larisa Maksimova, 81, Russian mathematician.
• Edgar Yves Monnou, 72, Beninese politician, minister of foreign affairs.
• Friðrik Ólafsson, 90, Icelandic chess grandmaster, president of FIDE.
• Kate Orchard, 102, British World War II veteran.
• Eraslan Özkaya, 85, Turkish judge, president of the Court of Cassation.
• Ravikumar, 71, Indian actor, lung cancer.
• Bernard Ringeissen, 90, French classical pianist.
• Tony Rundle, 86, Australian politician, premier of Tasmania.
• Frank Rusagara, 69–70, Rwandan political prisoner.
• Ray Seals, 59, American football player.
• Paul Strassmann, 96, Czech-born American information technology executive.
• Peter Turang, 78, Indonesian Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Kupang.
• Gene Ward, 82, American politician, member of the Hawaii House of Representatives.
• Chris Youlden, 82, English blues rock singer, bronchial pneumonia.
• Kazuyuki Yukawa, 75, Japanese politician, MP, aspiration pneumonia.
• Connie Zehr, 87, American installation artist.

5

• Dave Allen, 69, English bassist and record label executive.
• Mouhcine Bouhlal, 54, Moroccan footballer.
• Corrin Brooks-Meade, 37, English-born Montserratian footballer.
• Cedric Dempsey, 92, American sports administrator, executive director of the NCAA.
• Antonello Fassari, 72, Italian actor and comedian.
• Colin Fox, 86, Canadian actor.
• Nasiru Sulemana Gbadegbe, 74, Ghanaian jurist, justice of the Supreme Court.
• Georg Gölter, 86, German politician, MP, member of the Landtag of Rhineland-Palatinate.
• Heikki Hasu, 99, Finnish Nordic skier, Olympic champion, and politician, MP.
• Shigeaki Hattori, 61, Japanese racing driver and team owner, traffic collision.
• Raymond Hawthorne, 88, New Zealand stage actor and theatre director.
• Thomas W. Hoover, 92, American politician, member of the New Mexico House of Representatives.
• Harry Humes, 89, American poet.
• Julian Jacobs, 87, American judge.
• Philip W. Johnston, 80, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and Senate, stroke.
• Di McCarthy, New Zealand neuroscientist and science administrator, chief executive of the Royal Society of New Zealand.
• Bob McManus, 81, American newspaper editor.
• Lu Long Ogburn Medlin, 92, American beauty queen.
• Luigi Nocera, 70, Italian politician, deputy.
• Nate Oliver, 84, American baseball player.
• Pasha Technique, 40, Russian rapper and music producer, complications from drug overdose.
• Hans-Peter Repnik, 77, German politician, MP.
• Enrique Sánchez de León, 90, Spanish politician, minister of health and social security.
• David A. Siegel, 89, American hotelier, founder of Westgate Resorts.
• Harmen Siezen, 84, Dutch newsreader and journalist.
• Billy Smith, 70, American baseball player.
• Peter Stuhlmacher, 93, German Protestant theologian and biblical scholar.
• Philip Sunshine, 94, American neonatologist.
• Birger Vestermo, 95, Norwegian Olympic cross-country skier.
• Carl Warwick, 88, American baseball player, World Series champion.
• Derek Whitehead, 81, English rugby league footballer.
• Avigdor Yitzhaki, 75, Israeli politician, MK.

6

• Ronald Appleton, 97, Northern Irish prosecutor.
• Ken Beck, 84, Australian footballer.
• Jorge Bolaño, 47, Colombian footballer, heart attack.
• Clem Burke, 70, American Hall of Fame drummer, cancer.
• Robert Corbett, 86, Canadian politician, MP.
• Roberto De Simone, 91, Italian stage director and composer.
• Adel Dridi, Tunisian businessman and convicted criminal.
• Peter Geiger, 82, Liechtensteiner historian.
• Joseph Grodin, 94, American lawyer and jurist, associate justice of the California Supreme Court.
• Chaudhry Arshad Javaid Warraich, 68, Pakistani politician, Punjab MPA.
• Kosala Jayaweera, 38, Sri Lankan politician, MP, heart attack.
• Brian Jones, 89, Welsh rugby union player.
• Percy Knight, 70, Australian rugby footballer.
• Max Kozloff, 91, American art historian, art critic and photographer.
• Lee Ek Tieng, 91, Singaporean bureaucrat.
• Peter McEvoy, 72, British golfer.
• Avis McIntosh, 86, New Zealand Olympic hurdler and sprinter.
• John Mills, 86, British businessman, founder of JML.
• Dan Murray, 90, Irish Gaelic footballer.
• Jay North, 73, American actor, colorectal cancer.
• Victor Omololu Olunloyo, 89, Nigerian mathematician and politician, governor of Oyo State.
• Jeremiah P. Ostriker, 87, American astrophysicist, renal disease.
• Rémy Pautrat, 85, French civil servant, director of the Direction de la surveillance du territoire.
• Claude Saurel, 76, French rugby union player and manager.
• Momodou Lamin Sedat Jobe, 80, Gambian politician, minister of foreign affairs.
• Anna Slováčková, 29, Czech singer and actress, breast cancer.
• Ollie Taylor, 78, American basketball player.
• Paschal Topno, 92, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Ambikapur and archbishop of Bhopal.
• Albert Vanucci, 77, French footballer.
• Willie Vassallo, 75, Maltese footballer.
• Cecilia Villalobos, 63, Chilean politician and academic, governor of Colchagua Province.
• Marlene Warfield, 83, American actress, lung cancer.
• Pongsri Woranuch, 85, Thai luk thung singer, lung disease.
• Sam Pee Yalley, Ghanaian lawyer and government official.
• Barbara Yeaman, 100, American conservationist.
• Sami Zubaida, 88, Iraqi scholar.

7

• Kenny Adams, 84, American Hall of Fame boxing trainer.
• Sir Christopher Airy, 91, British army officer and courtier, Major-General commanding the Household Division and private secretary to the Prince of Wales.
• Evelyn Bacon, 75, Canadian politician, Saskatchewan MLA.
• Keith Bakker, 64, American-Dutch mental health practitioner and convicted criminal, heart failure.
• Edward Belfort, 59, Surinamese politician, minister of justice and police, MP.
• Mike Bradwell, 76, British theatre director and playwright.
• Paul Breza, 87, American Roman Catholic priest and Kashubian American activist.
• Marcel Cupák, 51, Czech footballer.
• Andy Dindar, 82, South African-born English cricketer.
• Alex Faulkner, 88, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Elsa Honig Fine, 94, American art historian.
• William Finn, 73, American composer, Tony Award winner, pulmonary fibrosis.
• John Haiman, 79, American linguist.
• Hinewhare Harawira, 71, New Zealand Māori activist, cancer.
• Raghbir Lal, 95, Indian field hockey player, Olympic champion.
• Marvin Levy, 96, American film publicist.
• Roland Mall, 73, German footballer.
• Greg Millen, 67, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster, heart attack.
• Kishna Ram Nai, 90, Indian politician, Rajasthan MLA, kidney disease.
• Edith Nawakwi, 65, Zambian economist and politician, minister of finance.
• Colman O'Donovan, 97, Irish hurler and Roman Catholic priest.
• Laura Pantelakos, 89, American politician, member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives.
• Jüri Põld, 68, Estonian judge, justice of the supreme court.
• Murdaya Poo, 84, Indonesian businessman and politician, member of the House of Representatives, cancer.
• David Renneberg, 82, Australian cricketer.
• Dan Sullivan, 85, American football player.
• Kathleen Thomerson, 91, American organist.
• Joey D. Vieira, 80, American actor.
• Dimitris Vounatsos, 81–82, Greek lawyer and politician, MP.
• Drew Zingg, 68, American guitarist.

8

• Richard Appignanesi, 84, Canadian writer.
• Cathy Bernheim, 78, French novelist and journalist.
• Teresina Bodkin, Montserratian civil servant, speaker of the Legislative Council.
• Jacqueline Brisepierre, 79, French Olympic gymnast.
• Herman E. Brockman, 91, American geneticist.
• Wilhelm Burgsmüller, 93, German footballer.
• Pascal Dozie, 85, Nigerian businessman and banker, founder of Diamond Bank.
• Carl-Göran Ekerwald, 101, Swedish novelist and literary critic.
• Amara Essy, 80, Ivorian diplomat and politician, president of the UNGA, acting secretary-general of the Organization of African Unity and minister of foreign affairs.
• Enzo Flego, 84, Italian politician, deputy.
• Svetlana Gerasimenko, 80, Tajikistani astronomer.
• Taj Haider, 83, Pakistani politician, playwright, and mathematician, senator, cancer.
• Vahdettin İşsever, 56, Turkish Olympic boxer.
• Nicky Katt, 54, American actor, suicide by hanging.
• John Koech, 78–79, Kenyan politician, MP.
• Manga, 87, Brazilian footballer, cancer.
• Sutton Marks, 96, American politician, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives.
• Faleh Al-Nasser, Jordanian politician, minister of health.
• Pere Palau Torres, 78, Spanish politician, member of the Parliament of the Balearic Islands, traffic collision.
• Ram Sahay Panday, 92, Indian Rai folk dancer.
• Dominique Pasquier, French sociologist.
• Aurélio Pereira, 77, Portuguese football coach and youth player scout.
• Elspeth Probyn, 67, Australian academic.
• Manfred Schüler, 93, German economist and politician.
• Pjotr Sunin, 66, Russian ski jumper.
• Teresa del Valle, 88, Spanish anthropologist.
• Dieter Versen, 79, German footballer.
• Lenny Welch, 86, American pop singer.
• Martin Windrow, 80–81, British historian.
• Keith Windschuttle, 82–83, Australian historian.
• Notable Dominicans killed in the Jet Set nightclub roof collapse:
• *Tony Blanco, 44, baseball player
• *Nelsy Cruz, 42, politician, governor of Monte Cristi Province
• *Octavio Dotel, 51, baseball player
• *Rubby Pérez, 69, merengue singer

9

• Kumari Ananthan, 92, Indian politician, MP.
• Authentic, 29, Dutch show jumping horse, Olympic champion.
• Naïma Ben Ali, 80, Tunisian First Lady.
• Roberto Cani, 57, Italian violinist, pancreatic cancer.
• Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien, 97, Canadian media proprietor.
• Eamon Farrell, 83, Irish footballer.
• Eid Al-Fayez, 79, Jordanian politician, minister of interior.
• Juan Manuel Gastélum, 70, Mexican politician, deputy and municipal president of Tijuana.
• Andrew Gross, 72, American author, bladder cancer.
• Kim Shin-jo, 82, North Korean soldier, defector and pastor, participant of the 1968 Blue House raid.
• Sean King, 60, Australian footballer, cancer.
• Fred Macquire, 88, Australian rules footballer.
• Ángel L. Malavé Zayas, 86, Puerto Rican politician, mayor of Cidra.
• Roland Mall, 73, German footballer.
• Carlos Montaldo, 85, Argentine Olympic rower.
• Moon Byung-nam, 63, South Korean ballet dancer.
• Luis Felipe Noé, 91, Argentine painter and writer.
• Mel Novak, 90, American actor.
• Sir Andrew Ogilvy-Wedderburn, 7th Baronet, 72, British Olympic bobsledder.
• Phan Lương Cầm, 82, Vietnamese electrochemist.
• Frédéric Randriamamonjy, 92, Malagasy diplomat and politician, MP.
• Abel Rodríguez, Colombian indigenous visual artist and plant expert.
• Peter Rühring, 82, German actor.
• David Sassoon, 92, British fashion designer.
• Sybil Shainwald, 96, American lawyer and women's health activist.
• Ray Shero, 62, American ice hockey executive, Stanley Cup champion.
• Vera Sidorova, 90, Kazakh politician.
• Vitali Tasenko, 50, Russian footballer.
• John Van Seters, 89, Canadian Biblist and religious studies scholar.
• Terje Venaas, 78, Norwegian jazz bass player.

10

• Roshdi Abdullah Altway, 65, Singaporean convicted murderer and drug trafficker, hanged.
• Leo Beenhakker, 82, Dutch football manager.
• Alex Bryce, 80, Scottish footballer.
• Rosemary Candlin, 98, English crystallographer.
• John de León, 63, Cuban-American attorney.
• Audrey Capel Doray, 93–94, Canadian artist.
• René Marie Albert Dupont, 95, French Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Andong, cerebral infarction.
• Niklas Eklund, 56, Swedish trumpeter.
• Agustín Escobar, 49, Spanish businessman, president and CEO of Siemens in Spain, helicopter crash.
• Douglas John Hall, 97, Canadian academic.
• Arne Hamarsland, 91, Norwegian Olympic middle-distance runner, cancer.
• Jan Ivarsson, 93, Swedish academic.
• Marijan Jantoljak, 85, Croatian footballer.
• Christoph Kohl, 64, Italian-German architect and urban planner.
• Oleksandr Kosevych, 59, Ukrainian football player, manager and executive.
• Ted Kotcheff, 94, Canadian-Bulgarian film director, heart failure.
• Bruce Logan, 78, British-born American visual effects artist and cinematographer.
• Looks Like Trouble, 32, Irish thoroughbred racehorse.
• Peter Lovesey, 88, British writer.
• Clifford Lynch, 70, American computer scientist.
• Lucy Markovic, 27, Australian model and reality television show contestant, cerebral arteriovenous malformation.
• Kenneth Mast, 99, American college athletics coach.
• Alexis Noble, 61, Uruguayan footballer.
• Titiek Puspa, 87, Indonesian singer and songwriter, intracerebral hemorrhage.
• Doug Ringholt, 82, Australian footballer.
• John Russell, 93, Australian Olympic runner.
• Mario Ernesto Sánchez, 78, Cuban-American actor and businessman, founder and director of Teatro Avante.
• Anne Scargill, 83, British community organizer and activist.
• Ibitola Adebisi Sotuminu, 85, Nigerian jurist.
• Susumu Sugiyama, 93, Japanese Olympic alpine skier.
• Nino Tempo, 90, American singer and saxophonist.
• Mike Wood, 72, American toy executive, co-founder of LeapFrog Enterprises, complications from Alzheimer's disease.

11

• Mike Berry, 82, English singer and actor.
• Ray Bluth, 97, American ten-pin bowler.
• Joe Eaton, 93, English footballer.
• Akbar Etemad, 95, Iranian electrical engineer, president of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran.
• Alberto Franceschini, 77, Italian communist militant.
• Øyunn Grindem Mogstad, 37, Norwegian high jumper.
• Laurin L. Henry, 103, American academic.
• Alice Johnson, 84, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives and Minnesota Senate.
• Robyn Kahukiwa, 87, Australian-born New Zealand artist.
• John LaFalce, 85, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, New York Senate, and State Assembly.
• Petra Laseur, 85, Dutch actress.
• Mikal Mahdi, 42, American convicted spree killer, execution by firing squad.
• Gerry McNamara, 90, Canadian ice hockey player and general manager.
• Don Mischer, 85, American television producer.
• Abdur Razzak Molla, 80, Indian politician, West Bengal MLA.
• Max Romeo, 80, Jamaican reggae musician, heart complications.
• Riet Roosen-van Pelt, 91, Dutch politician, MP.
• Gretchen Dow Simpson, 86, American artist.
• Michelangelo Riccardo Maria Tiribilli, 88, Italian Roman Catholic priest, abbot of Territorial Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore.
• Michele Traversa, 76, Italian politician, president of the Province of Catanzaro, deputy.
• Ernest Volkman, 84, American journalist and author.

12

• Shamsunnahar Khwaja Ahsanullah, 90, Bangladeshi politician, MP.
• Vic Allred, 62, American politician, member of the Missouri House of Representatives.
• Steindór Andersen, 70, Icelandic musician.
• Roy Thomas Baker, 78, English record producer.
• Luc Réné Bell, 77, Cameroonian politician, governor of Northwest Region, senator.
• Jean Breuer, 87, German motor-paced racing cyclist, world champion.
• Christian Chukwu, 74, Nigerian football player and manager.
• Asdrubal Colmenarez, 88, Venezuelan-French contemporary artist.
• Pilita Corrales, 85, Filipino singer and actress.
• Bilal al-Droubi, Syrian military commander, shot.
• Johan Fredrik Grøgaard, 90, Norwegian dentist and author.
• Lionel Justier, 68, French footballer.
• E. Jay Krause, 98, American art director and production designer, Emmy winner.
• Kyren Lacy, 24, American football player, suicide by gunshot.
• Kumudini Lakhia, 94, Indian Kathak dancer.
• Julian L. McPhillips, 78, American attorney and politician.
• Graziano Mesina, 83, Italian bandit, cancer.
• Andrea Blaugrund Nevins, 63, American film director, breast cancer.
• José Pliva, 58, Beninese actor, stage director, and playwright.
• Daripalli Ramaiah, 87, Indian social worker and environmental activist, heart attack.
• Pradip Shumsher J.B.R., 78, Nepalese police officer, inspector general.
• Ibrahim Shika, 28, Egyptian footballer, rectal cancer.
• Zsolt Tiffán, 59, Hungarian winemaker and politician, MP.
• Jennifer Toth, 57, American journalist and writer, respiratory complications.
• Mathias Wenda, 104, Indonesian separatist militant, Commander of West Papua Revolutionary Army.
• Mary Zoghby, 91, American politician, member of the Alabama Legislature.

13

• Khurshid Ahmad, 93, Pakistani economist and politician, senator and co-founder of The Islamic Foundation.
• Richard Armitage, 79, American diplomat and government official, deputy secretary of state, pulmonary embolism.
• Bruce Caldwell, 77, American Episcopal clergyman, bishop of Wyoming.
• Chuck Connelly, 70, American painter, prostate cancer.
• Miguel Cortés Miranda, 40, Mexican chemist and charged serial killer.
• Enrico Dioli, 77, Italian politician, president of the Province of Sondrio.
• Larry Donovan, 84, American football coach.
• Bob Garretson, 92, American racing driver.
• Charles A. Hartke, 80, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives.
• Simon Haykin, 94, Canadian academic and electrical engineer.
• Tommy Helms, 83, American baseball player.
• Paddy Higson, 83, Scottish film producer and production supervisor.
• Bank Janardhan, 74, Indian actor and comedian.
• Salleh Kalbi, 60, Malaysian politician, MP.
• Amber Kelleher-Andrews, 56, American relationship matchmaker, CEO of Kelleher International.
• Javed Kodu, Pakistani actor and comedian.
• Gabriel Laiseca, 88, Spanish Olympic sailor.
• Jean Marsh, 90, English actress and television writer, Emmy winner, complications from dementia.
• Carlos Petroni, 77, Argentine human rights activist.
• Dina Popova, 47, Ukrainian finance manager, head of Kyiv History Museum, cancer.
• Albert Privet Thévenot, 79, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Prince Albert.
• Geraldo de Souza Rodrigues, 61, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Januária.
• Kalaipuli G. Sekaran, 73, Indian film director, actor, and producer.
• Shigeru Sugita, 78, Japanese bodybuilder.
• Inoke Takiveikata, 77, Fijian high chief and politician, Qaranivalu.
• Lawrence Urquhart, 89, Scottish businessman.
• Mario Vargas Llosa, 89, Peruvian writer, Nobel Prize laureate.
• Roland Vími, 55, Slovak Olympic table tennis player.
• Ray White, 75, American football player.
• Bob Wood, 85, Canadian politician, MP.

14

• Irene Aderenti, 70, Swiss-born Italian politician, senator.
• Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, 85, Malaysian politician, prime minister, minister of foreign affairs, and MP, multiple organ failure.
• Bob Bennett, 75, Canadian Anglican bishop of Huron.
• Leandro Civil, 77, Cuban Olympic middle-distance runner.
• Joseph Csatari, 96, American artist.
• Filip David, 84, Serbian author and screenwriter.
• Francis Davis, 78, American author and journalist.
• Carlton Fairweather, 63, English football player and manager, pancreatic cancer.
• Feng Shuyu, 100, Chinese engineer and academic.
• Joaquín Galera, 85, Spanish road bicycle racer.
• Maarten van Gent, 78, Dutch basketball coach, manager, and businessman.
• Art Green, 83, American artist, founder of The Hairy Who.
• Vernon L. Grose, 96, American aerospace engineer.
• Don Hasselbeck, 70, American football player, Super Bowl champion, cardiac arrest.
• Ahmad Shamsul Islam, 100, Bangladeshi botanist.
• Jed the Fish, 69, American radio DJ, lung cancer.
• Aliza Magen-Halevi, 87, Israeli intelligence officer, deputy director of Mossad.
• Slobodan Milosavljević, 81, Yugoslav-born French footballer and manager.
• Seán Murphy, 93, Irish Gaelic footballer.
• Sophie Nyweide, 24, American actress.
• Bill Oliver, 85, American football coach.
• Christian Reim, 79, Norwegian jazz musician.
• Alexander Ruttkay, 83, Slovak archaeologist and historian.
• Peter Seiffert, 71, German operatic tenor.
• Seo Jeong-in, 88, South Korean writer.
• Jan Shipps, 95, American historian.
• Jan Sovák, 72, Czech paleoartist.
• Piotr Turzyński, 60, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Radom, cancer.
• Elaine Wynn, 82, American businesswoman.

15

• Patrick Adiarte, 82, Filipino-American actor.
• Stuart Barclay, 75, Australian rules footballer.
• Angélico Sândalo Bernardino, 92, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of São Paulo and bishop of Blumenau.
• Richard K. Bernstein, 90, American physician.
• Jean-Pierre Bonnefous, 82, French ballet dancer and instructor.
• Claire Callender, 71, British academic, lung cancer.
• Wayne Clifford, 80, Canadian poet and academic.
• Mike DeBord, 69, American football coach.
• Karen Durbin, 80, American journalist, heart failure.
• Marshall Edwards, 72, American baseball player.
• Grant Erickson, 77, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Robert Eric Frykenberg, 94, American historian and scholar.
• John Goldschmidt, 81, British-Austrian film director and producer.
• Madeline Hunter, 72, American author.
• Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak, 74, Polish actress.
• Carl M. Johnson, 91, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives.
• Anton Keller, 90, Swiss politician, MP.
• Shūhei Kishimoto, 68, Japanese politician, MP and governor of Wakayama Prefecture, septic shock.
• Joel Krosnick, 84, American cellist.
• Norman Major, 91, American politician, member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives.
• Wink Martindale, 91, American disc jockey, game show host and singer, lymphoma.
• Billy Montgomery, 87, American politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives.
• Bill Morrisette, 93, American politician, member of the Oregon Senate and House of Representatives, mayor of Springfield, Oregon.
• John L. Ray, 81, American politician, member of the Council of the District of Columbia.
• S. S. Stanley, 57, Indian film director and actor.
• John Strzemp, 73, American poker player.
• Werner Thissen, 86, German Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Münster and archbishop of Hamburg.
• Reuma Weizman, 99, Israeli socialite, first lady.
• Leonard Zeskind, 75, American human rights activist.

16

• Bill Aitken, 90, Scottish-born Indian travel writer, complications from a fall.
• Mohammed bin Ali Al Fayez, 87–88, Saudi politician, minister of civil service.
• Nora Aunor, 71, Filipino actress and singer, acute respiratory failure.
• Bill Balas, 51, American television writer and producer.
• Aaron Boupendza, 28, Gabonese footballer, fall.
• Tomasz Burghardt, 59, Polish Catholic priest.
• Francesco Calvanese, 78, Italian politician, deputy.
• Dwayne Collins, 37, American basketball player.
• João Cravinho, 88, Portuguese politician, MEP and three-time MP.
• Mac Gayden, 83, American singer and songwriter, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Artak Ghulyan, 66, Armenian architect.
• Joanne Gilbert, 92, American actress.
• Iain Gillies, 89, Scottish-born New Zealand footballer.
• Wilfrid Harrington, 96, Irish Dominican priest and biblical scholar.
• Ena Hartman, 93, American actress.
• Fatima Hassouna, 26, Palestinian photojournalist, missile strike.
• Roar Jens Haugen, 82, Norwegian major general.
• Konstantin Kedrov, 82, Russian poet, philosopher, and literary critic.
• Jai Kishan, 66, Indian politician, Delhi MLA, heart attack.
• Ed Lumley, 85, Canadian politician, MP.
• Steve Mapsalak, 68, Canadian politician, Nunavut MLA.
• Roger McLachlan, 71, New Zealand bass guitarist, complications from pancreatic cancer.
• Don Mlangeni Nawa, 65, South African actor.
• Birger A. Pearson, 90, American academic.
• Robert Earl Price, 83, American playwright and poet.
• Ann B. Ross, 91, American author.
• Kimmo Sasi, 73, Finnish politician, MP.
• Hotma Sitompul, 68, Indonesian lawyer.

17

• Ita Aber, 93, American multimedia textile artist and art curator.
• Peter Ablinger, 66, Austrian composer.
• Josep Arnau i Figuerola, 82, Spanish engineer and politician, deputy and president of the Province of Girona.
• Tetiana Barantsova, 51, Ukrainian disability rights activist.
• Colin Berry, 79, British radio disc jockey, presenter and newsreader.
• Chuck Ferries, 85, American Olympic alpine skier.
• Holly Humphrey, 68, American pulmonologist and academic.
• Mizuki Itagaki, 24, Japanese actor.
• Rose Kerketta, 84, Indian writer, poet and tribal rights activist.
• Peter Kostelka, 78, Austrian politician, member of the Federal Council and the National Council.
• Simon Lehoko, 74, South African footballer.
• Roberto Muñoz, 73, German-born Canadian film producer and director, colon cancer.
• Álamo Pérez-Luna, 61, Peruvian journalist and television presenter.
• Ronald Scott, 107, Argentine naval aviator.
• Ljubomir Simović, 89, Serbian writer, playwright, and scriptwriter, member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
• Jaromír Štětina, 82, Czech journalist, writer and politician, MEP and senator, cardiac arrest.
• Joe Thompson, 36, English footballer, lymphoma.
• Xu Lianjie, 72, Chinese businessman, co-founder of Hengan International.
• Angelo Zgorelec, 84–85, Croatian publisher, founder of Personal Computer World.

18

• A. P. Balachandran, 87, Indian theoretical physicist.
• Ray Baughman, 82, American chemist and nanotechnologist.
• James Bieri, 97, American psychologist and biographer.
• Christiane Brunner, 78, Swiss politician, MP.
• Mike Chase, 73, American stock car racing driver.
• Jean Chérasse, 92, French film director, writer, and producer.
• Suliman Eid, 63, Egyptian actor.
• Ollie Gene Embry, 96, American bank robber.
• Gerhard Hager, 82, Austrian politician, MEP.
• Patricio Infante Alfonso, 95, Chilean Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Santiago de Chile and archbishop of Antofagasta.
• Zsuzsa Kakuk, 99, Hungarian linguist and Turkologist.
• Mathew Kalarickal, 77, Indian cardiologist.
• Masaaki Koyama, 90, Japanese baseball player and coach.
• Irwin Lachman, 94, American engineer, co-inventor of the catalytic converter.
• Harry T. Lemmon, 94, American judge, justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court.
• Lars Gunnar Lie, 86, Norwegian politician, minister of transport and communications, MP.
• Joseph M. Marshall III, 80, American historian.
• Mick McGrath, 89, Irish footballer.
• George McMillan, 81, American politician, lieutenant governor of Alabama, complications from surgery.
• Stina Oscarson, 49, Swedish theater director, author and debater, anorexia nervosa.
• Jean Paelinck, 94, Belgian economist.
• Julia Mary Parsons, 104, American cryptanalyst.
• Gys Pitzer, 85, South African rugby union player.
• Nikola Pokrivač, 39, Croatian footballer, traffic collision.
• Paul Rinaldi, 63, American visual artist, cancer.
• Clodagh Rodgers, 78, Northern Irish singer.
• William Sheret, 96, Scottish showjumper and trainer.
• Julieta Szönyi, 75, Romanian actress.
• Damien Thomas, 83, English actor, progressive supranuclear palsy.
• Erich Tomek, 94, Austrian production manager, screenwriter, and film producer.
• Henri Torre, 92, French politician, deputy and senator.
• Rodolfo Torres Medina, 76, Mexican politician, mayor of Chihuahua and rector of the Autonomous University of Chihuahua, cancer.
• Takashi Yamaguchi, 88, Japanese actor, lung cancer.
• Aimé Emmanuel Yoka, 93, Congolese politician, mayor of Brazzaville.
• Billy Young, 87, Irish football player and manager.
• Noreen Young, 85, Canadian puppeteer, stroke.

19

• Wayne Angell, 94, American economist, member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.
• George Barr, 88, American science fiction artist.
• Bev Beaver, 77, Canadian ice hockey player and bowler.
• Julian Benson, 54, Australian-born Irish choreographer, complications from cystic fibrosis.
• Damien Broderick, 80, Australian author.
• Jacques Camatte, 89–90, French writer and philosopher.
• Rodney Francis Cameron, 72, Australian serial killer, cancer.
• Aurelio Costarella, 60, Australian fashion designer, complications from Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.
• Colette Durruti, Spanish-born French businesswoman and activist.
• József Garami, 85, Hungarian football player and manager.
• Peter Hilt, 83, New Zealand politician, MP.
• Barry Hoban, 85, English Olympic racing cyclist.
• Ron Hood, 55, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives.
• Karen Johnson, 81, American politician, member of the Florida Senate.
• Jaroslav Kubečka, 90, Slovak economist and politician.
• Alan Lamb, 81, Scottish-born Australian artist and composer.
• Christian Langballe, 58, Danish politician, MP, brain cancer.
• Meir Mazuz, 80, Tunisian-born Israeli rabbi.
• Herbert Migdoll, 90, American painter.
• Alan Harris Nevas, 97, American jurist and politician, judge of the U.S. District Court for Connecticut and member of the Connecticut House of Representatives.
• Meir Nitzan, 93, Romanian-born Israeli politician, mayor of Rishon LeZion.
• Henry Phillips, 78, Panamanian Olympic weightlifter.
• Bill Ramos, 69, American politician, member of the Washington House of Representatives and State Senate.
• Carlo Senaldi, 83, Italian politician, deputy.
• Jay Sigel, 81, American golfer, pancreatic cancer.
• Niwat Srisawat, 77, Thai footballer.
• Dragoljub Stamenković, 70, Serbian politician, MP.
• Chum Taylor, 98, Australian motorcycle speedway rider.
• Tassilo Thierbach, 68, German Olympic pair skater, world champion.
• Guy Ullens, 90, Belgian art collector and philanthropist.
• Aaron Woods, 75, American politician, member of the Oregon Senate, pancreatic cancer.

20

• Ulrich Aron, 80, Surinamese politician, chairman of the National Assembly.
• Jeremy Bernstein, 95, American physicist.
• Black Terry, 72, Mexican professional wrestler.
• Cristina Buarque, 74, Brazilian singer and composer.
• Russell Doust, 97, Australian librarian.
• Jeff Evans, 70, Welsh cricket umpire.
• Kristin Feireiss, 82, German architect and curator, director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute.
• Bob Filner, 82, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives and mayor of San Diego.
• Hugo Gatti, 80, Argentine footballer, infection following hip surgery.
• Albertus Geldermans, 90, Dutch racing cyclist.
• Pieta Greaves, 46, British archaeologist and conservator.
• Kari Kaaja, 84, Finnish Olympic modern pentathlete.
• John Bashaija Kazoora, 66, Ugandan soldier and politician.
• János Kocsis, 74, Hungarian Olympic wrestler.
• George Lee, 90, American ballet dancer.
• Juan José Llach, 80, Argentine economist and sociologist, minister of education.
• Werner Lorant, 76, German football player and manager.
• Chito Martínez, 59, Belizean-American baseball player, heart attack.
• Neža Maurer, 94, Slovene poet and writer.
• David Norman, 83, Australian footballer.
• Nana Osei Bonsu II, 85, Ghanaian traditional ruler, regent of Asante.
• Mike Patrick, 80, American sports broadcaster.
• Vladimír Popovič, 85, Slovak painter, visual artist, and academic.
• Kimble Rendall, 67–68, Australian musician and film director.
• Tes Sambath, 24, Cambodian footballer, drowned.
• Mariya Shubina, 94, Russian sprint canoer, Olympic champion.
• Krishan Chandra Singhal, 83, Indian pharmacologist.
• Arild Underdal, 78, Norwegian political scientist, rector of the University of Oslo.
• Richard B. Wilke, 94, American Methodist bishop.

21

• Hajji Alejandro, 70, Filipino singer and actor, colon cancer.
• Peter B. Andrews, 87, American mathematician.
• Michel Anglade, 78, French rugby union and league player.
• Ruth Beaglehole, 81, New Zealand-born American educator.
• Urszula Figwer, 93, Polish Olympic javelin thrower.
• Peter Fleming, 66–67, British medieval historian.
• Pope Francis, 88, Argentine Roman Catholic prelate, pope, archbishop of Buenos Aires, stroke and cardio-circulatory collapse.
• Walter Frankenstein, 100, German-born Swedish engineer and Holocaust survivor.
• Herbert J. Gans, 97, German-born American sociologist.
• Harold Hair, 92, American baseball player.
• Cyril Höschl, 75, Czech psychiatrist and academic.
• Will Hutchins, 94, American actor, respiratory failure.
• Cecil Irwin, 83, English footballer.
• Gerard Kennedy, 93, Australian actor.
• Peter von Matt, 87, Swiss philologist and author.
• Johanna Matz, 92, Austrian actress.
• Josep Montserrat i Torrents, 92, Spanish writer, philosopher and historian.
• Volodymyr Moroz, 57, Ukrainian power plant executive and politician, MP.
• Sarmad Jalal Osmany, 74, Pakistani jurist, justice of the Supreme Court, justice and chief justice of the Sindh High Court, cancer.
• Zakir Qureshi, 58, Pakistani television chef.
• Dominick J. Ruggerio, 76, American politician, member and president of the Rhode Island Senate, member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives, cancer.
• Hisashi Shinma, 90, Japanese Hall of Fame professional wrestling booker and promoter, co-founder of Universal Lucha Libre.
• Tilakdhari Singh, 87, Indian politician, MP.
• Clarence O. Smith, 92, American media executive, co-founder of Essence.
• Ed Smylie, 95, American aerospace engineer.
• James L. Swanson, 66, American historian, brain cancer.
• Odile de Vasselot, 103, French resistance fighter.
• Alexander Vika, 91, Slovak sculptor.
• Francis Zammit Dimech, 70, Maltese politician, minister of foreign affairs and MEP, cancer.

22

• Puan Noor Aishah, 91, Singaporean activist and scouting leader, spouse of the president.
• David Briggs, 82, American Hall of Fame keyboardist and record producer.
• David Clunie, 77, Scottish footballer.
• Alexandra Fröhlich, 58, German journalist and writer, shot.
• Odd Magne Gridseth, 65, Norwegian jazz bassist.
• Dilyana Grozdanova, 67, Bulgarian politician, MP.
• Kenneth Hodges, 73, American politician, member of the South Carolina House of Representatives.
• Kang Ji-yong, 35, South Korean footballer.
• Jules Maidoff, 91, American artist.
• V. Y. Mudimbe, 83, Congolese philosopher.
• Michael O'Brien, 91, Irish politician and activist.
• Lar Park Lincoln, 63, American actress.
• Erik Ruus, 62, Estonian actor.
• Keith Stackpole, 84, Australian cricketer.
• Tibor Szász, 76, Hungarian pianist and author.
• Edwin F. Taylor, 93, American physicist.
• Durlav Kumar Thapa, 95, Nepalese police officer, inspector general.
• Zurab Tsereteli, 91, Russian-Georgian sculptor, painter, and architect, president of the Russian Academy of Arts, cardiac arrest.
• Sinamandla Zondi, 22, South African footballer.

23

• Eugène Koffi Adoboli, 90, Togolese politician, prime minister.
• Shuaibu Babas, Nigerian politician, member of the Adamawa State House of Assembly.
• Hilson Baptiste, 77, Antiguan politician, member of the House of Representatives.
• Barry Benepe, 96, American urban planner.
• Jonnie Boer, 60, Dutch chef and restaurant owner, pulmonary embolism.
• Tom Brown, 84, American football player and baseball player, complications from dementia.
• Chris Cauwenberghs, 78, Belgian actor, complications from heart failure.
• Chozin Chumaidy, 76, Indonesian politician, member of the West Java Regional House of Representatives and House of Representatives.
• Robert S. Douglas, 93, American sailor, founder of The Black Dog.
• Waltraut Haas, 97, Austrian actress.
• Ilyas Halil, 94, Turkish-born Canadian banker.
• E. L. Henry, 89, American politician, member and speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives.
• Jim Herriot, 85, Scottish footballer.
• Billy Joe MacLean, 88, Canadian politician, Nova Scotia MLA and mayor of Port Hawkesbury, Group A streptococcal infection.
• Steve McMichael, 67, American Hall of Fame football player and professional wrestler, Super Bowl champion, complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Fouad Mebazaa, 91, Tunisian politician, speaker of the Chamber of Deputies and acting president.
• Jaromír Paciorek, 45, Czech footballer.
• Frank Parker, 85, American football player.
• Lana du Pont, 85, American Olympic equestrian eventer.
• Lulu Roman, 78, American comedian and gospel singer.
• James M. Stayer, 90, Canadian historian.
• Peter Taaffe, 83, British Marxist militant.
• Angela Tillmann, 68, German politician, member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia.
• David Thomas, 71, American singer and songwriter.
• Jai Verma, 75, Indian-born British writer and poet.
• Wen Junfeng, 96, Chinese aircraft engine designer and academic.

24

• Michel Aglietta, 87, French economist and academic.
• Lúcia Alves, 76, Brazilian actress, pancreatic cancer.
• Friedrich Baumbach, 89, German chess player.
• Rita Briansky, 99, Polish-born Canadian painter and printmaker.
• Vladimir Burkov, 85, Russian control theorist and academic.
• Bruce Cline, 93, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Randolph Coleman, 87, American composer.
• Sandra Domínguez, 36–37, Mexican Mixe indigenous women rights activist.
• Trish Fraser, 59, New Zealand soil scientist, brain cancer.
• Giancarlo Gentilini, 95, Italian politician, mayor of Treviso.
• Jean-Claude Germain, 85, Canadian playwright, author, and journalist.
• Happy Clapper, 14, Australian Thoroughbred racehorse, colic.
• Rob Holland, 50, American aerobatic pilot, plane crash.
• Daniela Kaneva, 87, Bulgarian journalist.
• Jack Katz, 97, American comic book artist.
• Steve Kiner, 77, American Hall of Fame football player.
• Daniel L. Kinnaman, 92, American politician, member of the Wyoming House of Representatives.
• Caroline Knox, 88, American poet.
• Kari Løvaas, 85, Norwegian opera singer.
• David McDowall, 70, British major general.
• Jamie McMann, 48, American record producer.
• María del Carmen Morales, 43, Mexican human rights activist, shot.
• Greg Olejack, 70, American college football player and coach.
• Roy Phillips, 83, British musician.
• Ladislav Polka, 73, Slovak politician, MP.
• Nicola Rivelli, 69, Italian politician, deputy.
• Ivan Sotirov, 90, Bulgarian footballer.
• Edy Star, 87, Brazilian singer-songwriter, actor, and visual artist.

25

• Joey Archer, 87, American boxer.
• Donald W. Bennett, 97, American major general.
• Sir Derek Boorman, 94, British lieutenant general, chief of Defence Intelligence.
• Tom R. Burns, 88, American sociologist.
• Richard E. Carey, 97, American Marine Corps Lieutenant General.
• Arthur Charbonneau, 85, Canadian politician, British Columbia MLA.
• Bob Cleroux, 87, Canadian boxer.
• Michael Hely-Hutchinson, 8th Earl of Donoughmore, 97, Irish peer, member of the House of Lords.
• John S. Foster Jr., 102, American physicist, under secretary of defense for research and engineering.
• Virginia Giuffre, 41, American-Australian justice advocate, suicide.
• Alexis Herman, 77, American politician and social worker, secretary of labor.
• Walt Jocketty, 74, American baseball executive.
• Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan, 84, Indian space scientist and politician, chairperson of the Indian Space Research Organisation and MP.
• Greg King, 60, American historian and author.
• Angela Lemaire, 80, British artist and printmaker.
• Philip Lowrie, 88, English actor.
• Noël Minga, 77, Congolese football player and manager.
• Yaroslav Moskalik, 58, Russian general, car bombing.
• Malcolm Potts, 90, British human reproductive scientist.
• Hans-Günter Richardi, 85, German author and journalist.
• Pere Sampol, 73, Spanish politician, vice president of the Balearic Islands and senator.
• Peter Sarkisian, 60, American artist.
• J. C. Snead, 84, American golfer, cancer.
• Stanley Tshosane, 68, Botswanan football manager.
• Richard Wernick, 91, American composer, Pulitzer Prize for Music.
• Wu Guixian, 87, Chinese politician, vice premier.

26

• Charles Beare, 87, British violin expert and craftsman.
• Andy Bey, 85, American jazz singer and pianist.
• Max Bolkart, 92, German Olympic ski jumper.
• José Carlos, 83, Portuguese football player and manager.
• Joshua Clover, 62, American poet and writer.
• Michele Di Ruberto, 90, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, secretary for the Causes of Saints.
• Donato Giuliani, 78, Italian racing cyclist.
• Daud Haider, 73, Bangladeshi poet.
• Vic Harris, 75, American baseball player.
• Jair da Costa, 84, Brazilian footballer, world champion.
• Bernhard Korte, 86, German mathematician and computer scientist.
• M. G. S. Narayanan, 92, Indian historian, chairman of the Indian Council of Historical Research.
• S. Pattabhiraman, 79, Indian lieutenant general, vice chair of the army staff.
• Rogelio Rivas, 80, Spanish Olympic sprinter.
• Donald Ross, Lord Ross, 98, Scottish judge, Lord Justice Clerk
• David Trotman, 73, British mathematician.

27

• Saadallah Agha al-Qalaa, 74, Syrian politician, minister of tourism.
• Antonio Avelar, 66, Mexican boxer, WBC world flyweight champion.
• Dick Barnett, 88, American basketball player, NBA champion.
• Jiggly Caliente, 44, Filipino-American drag performer and actress, sepsis.
• Giuseppe Cavallotto, 85, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Cuneo and Fossano.
• Cora Sue Collins, 98, American actress, complications from a stroke.
• Saman de Silva, 69, Sri Lankan singer.
• Kamalini Dutt, 74, Indian television producer and dancer.
• Rita Flores de Wallace, 88, Mexican folklorist.
• John Gregson, 85, English football player.
• Ken Hancock, 87, English football player and manager.
• Wizz Jones, 86, English acoustic guitarist and singer-songwriter.
• Michelle Marder Kamhi, 87, American independent scholar and critic.
• Suki Seokyeong Kang, 48, South Korean visual artist.
• Liberty Island, 5, Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
• Paul Lewis, 92, American racing driver.
• Stan Love, 76, American basketball player.
• Petr Neuman, 47, Czech chess grandmaster.
• Ed Pink, 94, American Hall of Fame drag racing engine builder.
• James Swetnam, 97, American Jesuit priest and biblical scholar.
• Jorge Traverso, 80, Uruguayan journalist, complications from heart surgery.
• François-Xavier Villain, 74, French politician, mayor of Cambrai and deputy.

28

• Arvo Aalto, 92, Finnish politician, minister of labour.
• Karl Ameriks, 77, American philosopher.
• Peter Bosustow, 67, Australian footballer.
• Brendan Comiskey, 89, Irish Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Ferns.
• Owen Dolan, 96, New Zealand Roman Catholic prelate, coadjutor bishop of Palmerston North.
• Jane Gardam, 96, English writer.
• Juana Gutierrez, 93, Mexican-American political activist.
• George Holmes, 98, British civil servant and forester.
• Andrew Karpen, 59, American independent film studio executive, glioblastoma.
• Shaji N. Karun, 73, Indian film director.
• Dick Lasse, 89, American football player.
• Giovanni Lievore, 93, Italian Olympic javelin thrower.
• Mike Peters, 66, Welsh rock singer and songwriter, chronic lymphocytic leukaemia.
• Priscilla Pointer, 100, American actress.
• Lupe Sanchez, 63, American football player.
• Stanley Girard Schlarman, 91, American Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Dodge City and auxiliary bishop of Belleville.
• Ron Sigsworth, 63, Australian rugby league footballer.
• Mary Bowes-Lyon, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne, 92, British peeress and châtelaine of Glamis Castle.
• Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, 93, Japanese actor.
• John Twomey, 101, American track and field athlete.
• Richard Vines, 71, British food critic.

29

• James Cacheris, 91, American jurist, three-time judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
• Robert Campbell, 88, American architect and architecture critic, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Choi Gwi-seung, 83, South Korean Olympic modern pentathlete.
• Roy Cooper, 69, American rodeo cowboy, house fire.
• Ron Curl, 75, American football player.
• Chuck Ehin, 63, American football player, pancreatic cancer.
• Samuel Escobar, 90, Peruvian theologian.
• Edgardo Espiritu, 89, Filipino politician, secretary of finance.
• Angela Francese, 75, Italian politician, deputy, traffic collision.
• Bernard Garfield, 100, American bassoonist, composer and teacher.
• David Horowitz, 86, American writer and activist, founder of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, cancer.
• Tommy Keenan, 81, Irish Gaelic football player and coach.
• Charles Mayer, 89, Canadian politician, MP and minister of agriculture.
• Ferenc Mohácsi, 95, Hungarian sprint canoeist, Olympic bronze medallist.
• Robert A. G. Monks, 91, American shareholder activist and politician.
• Paul Omu, 84, Nigerian general and politician, governor of Cross River State.
• Christfried Schmidt, 92, German composer and arranger.
• Álvaro Silva, 60, Portuguese Olympic sprinter.
• Valeriu Tabără, 75, Romanian politician, deputy, cardiac arrest.
• John Thornton, 55, American football player.
• David Tracy, 86, American Catholic theologian and priest.
• Jyoti Prakash Tamang, 63, Indian microbiologist and academic.
• Ed Van Impe, 84, Canadian ice hockey player.

30

• Ramdas Ambatkar, 64, Indian politician, Maharashtra MLC.
• Ferdinand Botsy, 84, Malagasy Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Ambanja.
• Peter Burridge, 91, English footballer.
• Warren I. Cohen, 90, American historian, pneumonia.
• Joseph H. Eberly, 89, American physicist and academic.
• Henry Friesen, 90, Canadian endocrinologist.
• George Hacker, 97, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Penrith.
• Ben Harbin, 61, American politician, member of the Georgia House of Representatives.
• Zeno Hastenteufel, 78, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Frederico Westphalen and Novo Hamburgo.
• Ruth Hieronymi, 77, German politician, MEP.
• Susan Holmes, 82, American politician, member of the Georgia House of Representatives and mayor of Monticello.
• Rafiz Ismayilov, 86, Azerbaijani film director and screenwriter.
• William Kund, 79, American Olympic cyclist.
• Inah Canabarro Lucas, 116, Brazilian supercentenarian, world's oldest living person.
• Thomas M. T. Niles, 85, American diplomat, ambassador to Canada, the European Union, and Greece, cancer.
• Park Hee-gon, 56, South Korean film director.
• Karel Paukert, 90, Czech-born American organist, choir director and educator.
• D. Gregory Powell, 77, Canadian emergency medicine physician.
• Nahid Rachlin, 85, Iranian-born American novelist, stroke.
• Jerome Ringo, 70, American environmentalist.
• Phil Roberto, 76, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Frits Roessel, 88, Dutch chess player.
• Bahman Salehnia, 86, Iranian football coach.
• Ronald Sapa Tlau, 71, Indian politician, MP.
• Seán Sherwin, 78–79, Irish politician, TD.
• Jeff Sperbeck, 62, American sports agent, fall.
• Sunny Thomas, 83, Indian sport shooting coach.
• Joe Louis Walker, 75, American blues musician.
• Charles Ong'ondo, Kenyan politician, member of the National Assembly, shot.
• Jules Wijdenbosch, 83, Surinamese politician, president and prime minister.