Deaths in December 2020

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship, reason for notability, cause of death, and reference.

December 2020

1

• Loris Abate, 92, Italian jewellery designer.
• Norman Abramson, 88, American engineer and computer scientist, developer of ALOHAnet, skin cancer.
• Faustino Amiano, 76, Spanish Olympic coxswain.
• G. Ross Anderson, 91, American jurist, judge of the U.S. District Court for South Carolina.
• Hasna Begum, 85, Bangladeshi philosopher and feminist, COVID-19.
• June Rose Bellamy, 88, Burmese aristocrat and socialite, first lady.
• Abhay Bharadwaj, 66, Indian politician, MP, COVID-19.
• Keith Buckley, 79, English actor.
• Russell Catley, 47, English cricketer, brain cancer.
• Jean Cottard, 94, French fencer and fencing master.
• Eric Engstrom, 55, American software engineer, hepatotoxicity.
• Todd Gibson, 83, American racing driver.
• Judy Gordon, 72, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.
• Luciano Guerzoni, 82, Italian politician, deputy.
• Juan Hormaechea, 81, Spanish politician, president of Cantabria and mayor of Santander.
• Maria Itkina, 88, Russian Olympic runner.
• Nina Ivanova, 86, Russian actress.
• Brian Kerr, Baron Kerr of Tonaghmore, 72, British jurist, [Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland|lord List of chief justices of Malta|chief justice of Northern Ireland] and justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
• Mana Kinjo, 24, Japanese actress.
• Jean-Pierre Lola Kisanga, 51, Congolese politician, COVID-19.
• Paul Kishindo, 68, Malawian sociologist.
• Evelyn Konou, 72, Marshallese politician.
• Frank Kramer, 73, Dutch footballer, television presenter and football commentator.
• Li Guanxing, 80, Chinese nuclear material engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
• Eduardo Lourenço, 97, Portuguese philosopher and writer.
• Mohammad Maleki, 87, Iranian academic, chancellor of the University of Tehran.
• Denis Menke, 80, American baseball player.
• Leonardo Fernandes Moreira, 46, Brazilian politician, Minas Gerais MLA, heart attack.
• Nomula Narsimhaiah, 64, Indian politician, Telangana MLA, complications from COVID-19.
• Timoteo Ofrasio, 72, Filipino Jesuit priest and liturgist, COVID-19.
• Thelma Pepper, 100, Canadian artist.
• Thomas Morrow Reavley, 99, American politician and jurist, secretary of state of Texas and judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
• Arnie Robinson, 72, American athlete, Olympic champion, COVID-19.
• Erlend Rian, 79, Norwegian politician, mayor of Tromsø.
• Tommy Sandt, 69, American baseball player and coach.
• Kelvin Scarborough, 56, American basketball player.
• Joseph Sledge, 76, American wrongly imprisoned prisoner.
• Hanna Stadnik, 91, Polish World War II combatant, acting president of World Association of Home Army Soldiers.
• Henri Teissier, 91, French-Algerian Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Algiers, stroke.
• Sol Tolchinsky, 91, Canadian Olympic basketball player, complications of COVID-19.
• Raymond Wolters, 82, American historian.

2

• Mohamed Abarhoun, 31, Moroccan footballer, stomach cancer.
• Jean René Allard, 90, Canadian politician, member of the Manitoba Legislature.
• Warren Berlinger, 83, American actor, cancer.
• Frank Carney, 82, American entrepreneur, co-founder of Pizza Hut, pneumonia.
• Richard Corben, 80, American illustrator and comic book artist, complications from heart surgery.
• Bronisław Dankowski, 76, Polish politician and trade union activist, member of the Sejm.
• Koba Davitashvili, 49, Georgian politician, MP, ankylosing spondylitis.
• Franco Giraldi, 89, Italian film director and screenwriter, COVID-19.
• Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 94, French politician, president of France and co-prince of Andorra, minister of the economy and finance, complications from COVID-19.
• Satpal Gosain, 85, Indian politician, Punjab MLA.
• Kazuo Hiramatsu, 73, Japanese accountant, president of the Kwansei Gakuin University.
• Zafarullah Khan Jamali, 76, Pakistani politician, prime minister and chief minister of Balochistan, heart attack.
• Rafer Johnson, 86, American athlete and actor, Olympic champion, complications from a stroke.
• Kenneth V. Jones, 96, British composer, conductor and music teacher.
• Hugh Keays-Byrne, 73, English-Australian actor.
• Sergey Kiselnikov, 62, Russian footballer.
• Alanna Knight, 97, British writer.
• Alfred Kucharczyk, 83, Polish Olympic gymnast, COVID-19.
• David C. Lewis, 85, American medical researcher.
• Karin Lindberg, 91, Swedish gymnast, Olympic champion.
• Enrique Lingenfelder, 92, Argentine Olympic rower.
• Geoffrey Massey, 96, Canadian architect, pneumonia.
• Aldo Moser, 86, Italian racing cyclist, COVID-19.
• Pat Patterson, 79, Canadian-American Hall of Fame professional wrestler and producer, liver failure.
• Boris Plotnikov, 71, Russian actor, COVID-19.
• Karim Salman, 55, Iraqi Olympic footballer, COVID-19.
• David Sheehan, 82, American reporter, prostate cancer.
• Bill Spanswick, 82, American baseball player.
• Lalit Surjan, 74, Indian journalist and editor, stroke.
• Pamela Tiffin, 78, American actress and model.
• Bernard Vogler, 85, French historian and academic.
• Walter E. Williams, 84, American economist and academic.

3

• Noah Creshevsky, 75, American composer, cancer.
• Fred DeBernardi, 71, American football player and discus thrower, cancer.
• Bill Fitsell, 97, Canadian sports journalist and historian.
• Paudie Fitzgerald, 87, Irish racing cyclist.
• Maria Fyfe, 82, Scottish politician, MP.
• André Gagnon, 84, Canadian pianist, composer and conductor, Lewy body dementia.
• Dharampal Gulati, 97, Indian spice executive, CEO of MDH, cardiac arrest.
• Dadang Hawari, 80, Indonesian psychiatrist, COVID-19.
• Mian Muhammad Afzal Hayat, Pakistani politician, chief minister of Punjab.
• Steve Heimkreiter, 63, American football player, cancer.
• Bill Holmes, 94, English footballer.
• Volodymyr Huba, 81, Ukrainian composer and poet.
• Kaj Ikast, 84, Danish politician, MF, minister of transport.
• Vicente Iborra, 88, Spanish football player and manager, dementia.
• Adil Ismayilov, 63, Azerbaijani lawyer, jurist, and investigator, COVID-19.
• William King, 90, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.
• Kiptarus Arap Kirior, Kenyan politician, MP.
• Jutta Lampe, 82, German actress.
• Alison Lurie, 94, American novelist, Pulitzer Prize winner.
• Mario Maraschi, 81, Italian football player and manager.
• Marv Marinovich, 81, American football player.
• Patricia Marmont, 99, American-born British actress.
• Ron Mathewson, 76, Scottish jazz double bassist and bass guitarist, COVID-19.
• Dronamraju Krishna Rao, 83, Indian geneticist.
• Albert Salvadó, 69, Andorran writer and industrial engineer.
• Scott Marshall Smith, 62, American screenwriter.
• Bill Spencer, 84, American Olympic biathlon skier.
• Betsy Wade, 91, American journalist, colon cancer.
• Bobby Wishart, 87, Scottish footballer.
• Ian Yule, 87, British-born South African actor.

4

• Josette Banzet, 73, French-American actress.
• Franco Bolignari, 91, Italian singer.
• Peter DiFronzo, 87, American mobster, complications from COVID-19.
• Larry Dixon, 78, American politician, member of the Alabama Senate and House of Representatives, COVID-19.
• Ole Espersen, 85, Danish politician, minister of justice.
• Gérard Gourgue, 95, Haitian politician, member of the National Council of Government.
• Cliff Green, 85, Australian screenwriter.
• Goldie Hershon, 79, Canadian civil rights activist, president of the Canadian Jewish Congress.
• Narinder Singh Kapany, 94, Indian-American physicist.
• William Kittredge, 88, American writer.
• Grace Knowlton, 88, American sculptor, complications from dementia.
• David Lander, 73, American actor, complications from multiple sclerosis.
• François Leterrier, 91, French film director and actor.
• Antonín J. Liehm, 96, Czech writer, publisher and translator, founder of Lettre International.
• Madeleine Mathiot, 93, American linguist.
• Larry Mavety, 78, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
• Jayant Meghani, 82, Indian book editor and translator.
• Alexander Nikolayevich Mikhailov, 69, Russian politician, deputy and governor of Kursk Oblast.
• James Odongo, 89, Ugandan Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Tororo.
• Huba Rozsnyai, 77, Hungarian Olympic sprinter, COVID-19.
• Bassam Saba, 61, Lebanese musician, complications from COVID-19.
• Jackie Saccoccio, 56, American abstract painter, cancer.
• Anatoly Samoilenko, 82, Ukrainian mathematician, director of the NASU Institute of Mathematics.
• Victor Scantlebury, 75, Ecuadorian bishop.
• John Sherwood, 87, English physical chemist.
• Suhaila Siddiq, 71, Afghan politician, minister of public health, complications from COVID-19.
• Dineshwar Sharma, 66, Indian police officer, director of the Intelligence Bureau and administrator of Lakshadweep, lung disease.
• Anand Singh, 72, Fijian politician, MP and attorney general.
• Kinuko Tanida, 81, Japanese volleyball player, Olympic champion, brain hemorrhage.
• Ferenc Tóth, 69, Hungarian politician, MP, COVID-19.
• Weston E. Vivian, 96, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
• Neville Wanless, 89, English broadcaster.
• Ed Xiques, 81, American jazz saxophonist.

5

• Peter Abbs, 78, English poet and academic.
• Peter Alliss, 89, English Hall of Fame golfer and commentator, British PGA champion.
• Pierre Bernard, 86, French politician, deputy.
• Mickaël Bethe-Selassié, 69, Ethiopian-born French sculptor.
• Belinda Bozzoli, South African politician, MP, cancer.
• Robert Castel, 87, French actor.
• Dolf de Vries, 83, Dutch actor.
• Des Ferrow, 87, New Zealand cricketer.
• John Harvey, 82, Australian racing driver, Bathurst 1000 winner, lung cancer.
• Paul Howard, 70, American football player.
• Louis Iribarne, 80, American-born Canadian translator.
• Ron Irwin, 84, Canadian politician and diplomat, minister of Indian and Northern Affairs, ambassador to Ireland, MP.
• Henryk Kukier, 90, Polish Olympic boxer, COVID-19.
• Anusuya Prasad Maikhuri, 59, Indian politician, Uttarakhand MLA, complications from COVID-19.
• Sherbaz Khan Mazari, 90, Pakistani politician, leader of the opposition.
• Sakae Menda, 95, Japanese exonerated prisoner and anti-death penalty activist.
• Ildikó Pécsi, 80, Hungarian actress and politician, MP.
• Viktor Ponedelnik, 83, Russian football player and manager.
• Geoff Pryce, 59, English rugby league player, COVID-19.
• Martin Sandoval, 56, American politician, member of the Illinois Senate, COVID-19.
• Erode Soundar, 63, Indian film writer and director, kidney-related illness.
• Xu Shousheng, 67, Chinese politician, governor of Gansu, governor and Communist Party secretary of Hunan.
• Mincho Yovchev, 78, Bulgarian politician, deputy prime minister.
• Wojciech Zabłocki, 89, Polish architect and fencer, Olympic silver and bronze medalist.
• Theodore Ziolkowski, 88, American scholar.

6

• Neil Armstrong, 87, Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey linesman.
• Kent R. Brown, 79, American playwright.
• Jairo Castillo, 31, Dominican baseball player and scout, COVID-19.
• Dejan Dabović, 76, Montenegrin water polo player, Olympic champion, COVID-19.
• Muslihan DS, 74, Indonesian army officer and politician, regent of North Bengkulu and Rejang Lebong, COVID-19.
• T. B. Ekanayake, 66, Sri Lankan politician, MP.
• Jaromír Kohlíček, 67, Czech politician, MP, MEP.
• László Kuncz, 63, Hungarian water polo player, Olympic bronze medallist.
• Li Ligong, 95, Chinese politician, member of the Central Committee, delegate to the National People's Congress and CCP Party Chief of Shanxi.
• Monu Mukhopadhyay, 90, Indian actor.
• Soedardjat Nataatmadja, 82, Indonesian politician, MP, vice governor of Irian Jaya and regent of Bogor.
• Klaus Ofczarek, 81, Austrian actor and opera singer.
• Ravi Patwardhan, 84, Indian actor.
• Jacques Puisais, 93, French oenologist, COVID-19.
• Dennis Ralston, 78, American Hall of Fame tennis player, Davis Cup winner, cancer.
• Džej Ramadanovski, 56, Serbian singer, heart attack.
• Neil Robbins, 91, Australian Olympic steeplechase runner.
• Paul Sarbanes, 87, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate, Chair of the Senate Banking Committee.
• Jack Scarbath, 90, American Hall of Fame football player.
• Paul W. Schroeder, 93, American historian.
• Eugenia Tsoumani-Spentza, Greek lawyer and politician, MP.
• Tabaré Vázquez, 80, Uruguayan politician, president, president pro tempore of UNASUR and Intendant of Montevideo, lung cancer.
• Senta Wengraf, 96, Austrian actress.
• Ali-Asghar Zarei, 64, Iranian military officer and politician, MP.

7

• Udyavara Madhava Acharya, 79, Indian writer and poet.
• Fred Akers, 82, American football coach.
• Dick Allen, 78, American baseball player.
• Akito Arima, 90, Japanese nuclear physicist and politician, MP.
• Tihomir Arsić, 63, Serbian actor.
• Joseph Arvay, 71, Canadian lawyer, heart attack.
• LD Beghtol, 55, American musician and writer.
• Divya Bhatnagar, 34, Indian actress, COVID-19.
• Joselyn Cano, 30, American model, complications from cosmetic surgery.
• Jean-François Charbonnier, 61, French footballer and manager.
• Natalie Desselle-Reid, 53, American actress, colon cancer.
• Pumza Dyantyi, 72, South African politician and anti-apartheid activist, MP and Eastern Cape MPL.
• Clem Eischen, 93, American Olympic middle-distance runner.
• Phyllis Eisenstein, 74, American science fiction author, stroke complications and COVID-19.
• Eduardo Galvão, 58, Brazilian actor, COVID-19.
• Aleksandr Gordon, 88, Russian film director and actor.
• İrfan Gürpınar, 77, Turkish politician, minister of tourism, COVID-19.
• Sheila A. Hellstrom, 85, Canadian military officer.
• Walter Hooper, 89, American literary editor, complications from COVID-19.
• Zar Wali Khan, 67, Pakistani Islamic scholar.
• Masao Komatsu, 78, Japanese actor and comedian, liver cancer.
• Katarzyna Łaniewska, 87, Polish actress and political activist.
• Marilyn Lewis, 89, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
• Dawn Lindberg, 75, South African folk singer, actress and theatre producer, COVID-19.
• Mrigendra Nath Maiti, 77, Indian politician, West Bengal MLA.
• Sean Malone, 50, American progressive metal bassist, suicide.
• Lidia Menapace, 96, Italian partisan and politician, senator, COVID-19.
• Roger Moret, 71, Puerto Rican baseball player, cancer.
• Vadim Petrov, 88, Czech composer and pianist.
• Joseph Sanda, 35, Cameroonian racing cyclist.
• Janusz Sanocki, 66, Polish politician and journalist, mayor of Nysa, deputy, COVID-19.
• Doug Scott, 79, English mountaineer and philanthropist, cerebral lymphoma.
• Malcolm Simpson, 87, New Zealand Olympic cyclist.
• Ildegarda Taffra, 86, Italian Olympic cross-country skier, COVID-19.
• Tasiman, Indonesian politician, regent of Pati, COVID-19.
• Howard Wales, 77, American keyboardist, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Gary Wisener, 82, American football player.
• Chuck Yeager, 97, American Hall of Fame pilot, first person to exceed the speed of sound.

8

• Phil Albert, 76, American football coach, cancer.
• Arthur, Ecuadorian stray dog.
• Gladys Beckwith, 91, American academic and women's rights activist, COVID-19.
• Harold Budd, 84, American avant-garde composer and poet, complications from COVID-19.
• John Cash, 84, Scottish physician, president of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
• Lay Nam Chang, 77, American theoretical physicist, COVID-19.
• Tony Curcillo, 89, American football player, complications from COVID-19.
• Aslanbek Fidarov, 47, Ukrainian Olympic wrestler, COVID-19.
• Johnny Jacobsen, 65, Danish footballer.
• Goo Kennedy, 71, American basketball player.
• Sidney Knott, 87, South African cricketer.
• Walter Lechner, 71, Austrian racing driver.
• Tom Louderback, 87, American football player.
• Jordi Nadal, 91, Spanish historian and economist.
• Klaus Pagh, 85, Danish actor.
• Shankar Painter, 74, Indian poet.
• Raffaele Pinto, 75, Italian rally driver, European Rally champion.
• Elmira Ramazanova, 86, Azerbaijani geologist, member of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences.
• Alejandro Sabella, 66, Argentine football player and manager, heart failure.
• Yevgeny Shaposhnikov, 78, Russian military officer, minister of defence, commander-in-chief of the Air Force and secretary of the SCRF, COVID-19.
• Anthony Veasna So, 28, Cambodian-American writer, accidental drug overdose.
• Kurt Stettler, 88, Swiss footballer, COVID-19.
• Gerard Stokes, 65, New Zealand rugby league player and coach, brain cancer.
• Sudjati, 66, Indonesian politician, regent of Bulungan, COVID-19.
• Graeme Tarr, 84, New Zealand cricketer.
• Siraj Kassam Teli, 67, Pakistani industrialist, pneumonia.
• Allen Trovillion, 94, American politician.
• Roberto Ulloa, 96, Argentine politician and naval officer, governor of Salta Province.
• Ralph K. Winter Jr., 85, American jurist, judge and chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
• Wang Yupu, 64, Chinese oil executive and politician, minister of emergency management, chairman of Sinopec and member of the CAE, cancer.

9

• Christopher Campling, 95, British Anglican priest, dean of Ripon.
• V. J. Chitra, 28, Indian actress, suicide by hanging.
• Osvaldo Cochrane Filho, 87, Brazilian Olympic water polo player, COVID-19.
• Manglesh Dabral, 72, Indian poet, complications from COVID-19.
• Nabil Farouk, 64, Egyptian novelist, heart attack.
• Gordon Forbes, 86, South African tennis player, COVID-19.
• Dick Hinch, 71, American politician, member and speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, COVID-19.
• Raymond Hunter, 86, Northern Irish cricketer and rugby union player.
• Alan Igbon, 68, British actor.
• Vyacheslav Kebich, 84, Belarusian politician, prime minister, COVID-19.
• Phil Linz, 81, American baseball player.
• Mungo Wentworth MacCallum, 78, Australian political journalist and commentator.
• John J. McNichols, 93, American politician.
• Marc Meneau, 77, French chef.
• Brian H. Murdoch, 90, English-born Irish mathematician.
• Alex Olmedo, 84, Peruvian-American Hall of Fame tennis player.
• Ray Perkins, 79, American football player and coach, heart disease.
• Paolo Rossi, 64, Italian footballer, world champion, lung cancer.
• Vishnu Savara, 70, Indian politician, Maharashtra MLA, cirrhosis.
• Jason Slater, 49, American rock bassist, liver failure.
• Stanley Smith, 71, American racing driver, interstitial pneumonia.
• Mohammad Yazdi, 89, Iranian Islamic cleric, chairman of the Assembly of Experts, chief justice and MP, digestive disease.
• Chowdhury Kamal Ibne Yusuf, 80, Bangladeshi politician, MP, minister of disaster management and food, COVID-19.

10

• Maroof Afzal, Pakistani civil servant, cabinet secretary, COVID-19.
• Kenneth Alwyn, 95, English conductor.
• Brandon Bernard, 40, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Wallace Barnes, 94, American politician, member of the Connecticut Senate.
• Rafael Ramón Conde Alfonzo, 77, Venezuelan Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Maracay and Margarita, pancreatic cancer.
• Don Marion Davis, 103, American child actor.
• Astad Deboo, 73, Indian dancer and choreographer, subdural haematoma.
• Billy DeMars, 95, American baseball player and coach.
• Dudu Duswara, 69, Indonesian jurist, justice of Supreme Court, COVID-19.
• Jim Fleming, 78, Scottish footballer.
• Cal Hockley, 85, Canadian ice hockey player.
• João Jens, 76, Brazilian Olympic volleyball player.
• Tommy Lister Jr., 62, American actor and professional wrestler, cardiovascular disease.
• Rita Martinez, 65, Chicana activist, COVID-19.
• Nemanja Miljković, 30, Serbian basketball player.
• Victor Newman, Ghanaian politician.
• Juan Pérez-Giménez, 79, American jurist, judge and chief judge of the U.S. District Court for Puerto Rico.
• Ram Lal Rahi, 86, Indian politician, MP and minister of state for home affairs, complications from COVID-19.
• Odette Richard, 32, South African Olympic rhythmic gymnast.
• Garry Runciman, 3rd Viscount Runciman of Doxford, 86, British historical sociologist.
• José Mario Ruiz Navas, 90, Ecuadorian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Latacunga and archbishop of Portoviejo.
• Joseph Safra, 82, Lebanese-Brazilian banker and venture capitalist, founder of Banco Safra.
• Iman Budhi Santosa, 72, Indonesian author, heart attack.
• Myriam Sienra, 81, Paraguayan actress and journalist.
• Andrzej Skowroński, 67, Polish Olympic rower.
• Carol Sutton, 76, American actress, complications from COVID-19.
• Bryan Sykes, 73, British geneticist.
• Dame Barbara Windsor, 83, English actress, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Barry Wynks, 68, New Zealand lawn bowler.
• Rahnaward Zaryab, 76, Afghan novelist, journalist, and literary critic, COVID-19.

11

• Alfred Bourgeois, 56, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Jim Burns, 75, American basketball player and Illinois inspector general.
• Per Carlsen, 72, Danish diplomat, ambassador to Lithuania, Russia and Belarus and Latvia.
• Artyom Chernov, 38, Russian ice hockey player, heart attack.
• Beryl Cunningham, 74, Jamaican actress and model.
• Farid Abraão David, 76, Brazilian politician, mayor of Nilópolis, COVID-19.
• Roy Douglas, 95, British academic and political activist.
• D. E. Ethiraj, 86, Indian footballer.
• Gotthilf Fischer, 92, German choral conductor.
• James Flynn, 86, American-born New Zealand intelligence researcher.
• Đurđa Ivezić, 84, Croatian actress, COVID-19.
• Carol R. Johnson, 91, American landscape architect.
• Ian Johnston, 91, Canadian Olympic field hockey player.
• Boniface Kabaka, Kenyan politician, senator, stroke.
• Kim Ki-duk, 59, South Korean film director, complications from COVID-19.
• Alva Hugh Maddox, 90, American jurist, justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama.
• Malik, 72, Belgian comic book artist.
• Sam Nda-Isaiah, 58, Nigerian political columnist, entrepreneur and journalist, founder of Leadership.
• Joseph Nyagah, 72, Kenyan politician, COVID-19.
• Assad Rizk, 89, Lebanese physician and politician.
• Sven Sachsalber, 33, Italian artist.
• Lev Shcheglov, 74, Russian sexologist and psychotherapist, COVID-19.
• Charlotte Tillar Schexnayder, 96, American politician, member of the Arkansas House of Representatives.
• Mongkol Na Songkhla, 79, Thai politician, minister of public health, cancer.
• Andrzej Tomaszewicz, 77, Polish historian and politician, Solidarity activist, senator.
• Richard Tötterman, 94, Finnish diplomat.
• Leslie Ungerleider, 74, American experimental psychologist and neuroscientist.
• Irena Veisaitė, 92, Lithuanian theatre scholar and human rights activist, COVID-19.

12

• James Atwell, 74, British Anglican priest, dean of St Edmundsbury and Winchester.
• Bird Averitt, 68, American basketball player, ABA champion.
• Ronald James Baker, 96, Canadian academic administrator, president of the University of Prince Edward Island.
• Claude Castonguay, 91, Canadian politician, educator and businessman, senator and Quebec MNA.
• Nicolas Chumachenco, 76, Polish violinist.
• Escurinho, 90, Brazilian footballer.
• Valentin Gaft, 85, Russian actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR.
• Alfonso Gagliano, 78, Canadian politician, MP, minister of labour and public works and government services.
• Victor Gnanapragasam, 80, Sri Lankan Roman Catholic prelate, vicar apostolic of Quetta, heart attack.
• Anneli Haaranen, 86, Finnish Olympic swimmer.
• Terry Kay, 82, American author, liver cancer.
• U. A. Khader, 85, Indian author, lung cancer.
• Damir Kukuruzović, 45, Croatian jazz guitarist, COVID-19.
• John le Carré, 89, British-Irish author, pneumonia.
• Motjeka Madisha, 25, South African footballer, traffic collision.
• John McSeveney, 89, Scottish football player and manager.
• Janos Mohoss, 84, Swiss Olympic fencer, COVID-19.
• Dick Murphy, 89, American baseball player.
• Dennis Parmenter, 69, American politician.
• Ferruccio Pisoni, 84, Italian politician, deputy.
• Jerzy Mikułowski Pomorski, 83, Polish sociologist, rector of the Kraków University of Economics.
• Charley Pride, 86, American Hall of Fame singer and baseball player, complications from COVID-19.
• Ann Reinking, 71, American choreographer and actress, Tony winner.
• Jack Steinberger, 99, German-born American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• Alex Treves, 91, Italian-born American Olympic fencer.
• Gene Tyranny, 75, American avant-garde composer and pianist, diabetes.
• Gloria Vaughn, 84, American politician, member of the New Mexico House of Representatives.
• John Ffowcs Williams, 85, British engineer.
• Fikre Selassie Wogderess, 75, Ethiopian politician, prime minister, complications from diabetes.
• Ruhollah Zam, 42, Iranian political activist and journalist, execution by hanging.

13

• Joseph Bachelder III, 88, American lawyer.
• Amedeo Baldizzone, 60, Italian football player and coach.
• Frank Baumann, 87, American baseball player.
• Laszlo Berkowits, 92, Hungarian-born American Reform rabbi and Holocaust survivor.
• Otto Barić, 87, Croatian football player and manager, COVID-19.
• Robert Bloxom, 83, American politician, Virginia Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry and member of the House of Delegates.
• Dirk Bolt, 90, Dutch architect and urban planner.
• Jorge Bruni, 79, Uruguayan politician and lawyer, minister of the interior.
• Greg Burdine, 61, American politician, member of the Alabama House of Representatives.
• Carlos Eduardo Cadoca, 80, Brazilian lawyer and politician, member of the Chamber of Deputies, COVID-19.
• Al Cohen, 94, American magician.
• Jimmy Collins, 74, American basketball player and coach, complications from heart surgery.
• Ambrose Mandvulo Dlamini, 52, Swazi politician, prime minister, COVID-19.
• John H. Elliott, 85, American biblical scholar.
• Bannanje Govindacharya, 84, Indian literary scholar.
• R. Heli, 86, Indian agriculturalist and journalist, heart attack.
• Noer Muhammad Iskandar, 65, Indonesian Islamic cleric.
• Nur Hossain Kasemi, 75, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar, co-chair of Al-Haiatul Ulya, secretary general of Jamiat Ulema and Hefazat, respiratory failure.
• Yevgeny Khoroshevtsev, 76, Russian announcer and actor, complications from COVID-19.
• P. Krishnamoorthy, 77, Indian art director and costume designer.
• Pierre Lacroix, 72, Canadian ice hockey executive, president of the Quebec Nordiques and Colorado Avalanche, COVID-19.
• Catie Lazarus, 44, American comedian, writer, and podcaster, breast cancer.
• Shahid Mahmood, 81, Pakistani cricketer.
• Minoru Makihara, 90, English-born Japanese business executive, heart failure.
• Philip Martin, 82, English television writer.
• Jimmy McLane, 90, American swimmer, Olympic champion.
• Helena de Menezes, 93, Brazilian Olympic sprinter.
• Jaroslav Mostecký, 57, Czech science fiction writer, COVID-19.
• Leith Mullings, 75, Jamaican-born American anthropologist, president of the American Anthropological Association, cancer.
• William Imon Norwood, 79, American pediatric cardiac surgeon and physician.
• Rose Ochi, 81, Japanese-American attorney and civil rights activist, complications from COVID-19.
• Rose Pere, 83, New Zealand educationalist and conservationist.
• Radhika Ranjan Pramanik, 87, Indian politician, MP.
• Sal Rocca, 74, Italian-born American politician, member of the Michigan House of Representatives, COVID-19.
• Barry Sonshine, 72, Canadian Olympic equestrian.
• Pauline Anna Strom, 74, American electronic music producer.
• Paul Wass, 95, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
• Reginald Wilson, 93, American psychologist.

14

• Elbrus Abbasov, 69–70, Azerbaijani footballer and manager, COVID-19.
• Benjamin Abeles, 95, Austrian physicist.
• Herman Asaribab, 56, Indonesian army officer, deputy chief of staff, commander of Cendrawasih and Tanjungpura.
• Mamye BaCote, 81, American politician, member of the Virginia House of Delegates.
• Claudio Baiocchi, 80, Italian mathematician.
• Marvin Bell, 83, American professor and poet, poet laureate of Iowa.
• Jim Berry, 75, Canadian soccer player, Parkinson's disease and heart failure.
• Alpha Boucher, 77, Canadian actor, cancer.
• Don Calhoun, 68, American football player.
• Demetrios James Caraley, 88, American political scientist.
• Vera Carstairs, 95, British social scientist.
• Paul M. Cook, 96, American businessman, founder of Raychem.
• Eric Freeman, 76, Australian cricketer, heart attack.
• Joe Frickleton, 85, Scottish football player and manager, complications from dementia.
• Segundo Galicia Sánchez, 82, Peruvian professor and sociologist.
• Gérard Houllier, 73, French football manager, complications from heart surgery.
• Huang Zongying, 95, Chinese actress.
• Earl Hutto, 94, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives and Florida House of Representatives.
• Benichandra Jamatia, 90, Indian writer.
• Lamine Khene, 89, Algerian politician.
• Richard Laird, 81, American politician, member of the Alabama House of Representatives, COVID-19.
• Michael F. Land, 78, British neurobiologist.
• Piotr Machalica, 65, Polish actor, COVID-19.
• Tony Morrin, 74, English footballer.
• Jeannie Morris, 85, American sports journalist and author, appendix cancer.
• Roddam Narasimha, 87, Indian aerospace engineer and fluid dynamicist, brain hemorrhage.
• Milomir Odović, 65, Bosnian football player and manager.
• Jack Page, 70, American politician, member of the Alabama House of Representatives, COVID-19.
• Paulo César dos Santos, 68, Brazilian musician, complications from COVID-19.
• Günter Sawitzki, 88, German footballer.
• George Sharples, 77, English footballer, esophageal cancer.
• Hanna Stankówna, 82, Polish actress.
• Dennis B. Sullivan, 93, American brigadier general.
• José María de la Torre Martín, 68, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Aguascalientes, COVID-19.
• Totilas, 20, Dutch dressage horse, world championship winner, colic.
• Darold Treffert, 87, American psychiatrist and research director.
• Seppo Vainio, 83, Finnish Olympic ice hockey player.
• Marcelo Veiga, 56, Brazilian football player and manager, complications from COVID-19.
• Tarcisius Gervazio Ziyaye, 71, Malawian Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Lilongwe.

15

• John Aldred, 99, English sound engineer.
• Awesome Again, 26, Canadian Hall of Fame racehorse and sire.
• Ungku Abdul Aziz, 98, Malaysian economist, vice-chancellor of the University of Malaya.
• Irving Banister, 87, American guitarist.
• Anthony Casso, 78, American mobster, COVID-19.
• Caroline Cellier, 75, French actress.
• Sudhir Chakraborty, 86, Indian anthropologist, heart attack.
• Frank Christopherson Jr., 93, American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and the Senate.
• Manuel Costas, 78, Spanish footballer.
• Orlando Duarte, 88, Brazilian sports journalist, COVID-19.
• Feng Duan, 97, Chinese physicist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and delegate to the National People's Congress.
• Paul Foreman, 81, Jamaican Olympic long jumper, Commonwealth Games gold medalist.
• Donald Fowler, 85, American politician, chair of the Democratic National Committee, leukemia complicated by COVID-19.
• Jorge García, 63, Spanish footballer.
• George Gibbs, 83, British special effects artist, Oscar winner.
• Jim Gorst, 98, Canadian politician.
• Alejandro Grullón, 91, Dominican banker.
• Fati Habib-Jawula, 78, Ghanaian diplomat.
• James Havard, 83, American painter.
• Rita Houston, 59, American DJ, ovarian cancer.
• Paul Lamey, 81, American Olympic bobsledder.
• Jean-Pierre Lux, 74, French rugby union player and administrator.
• Ken Muggleston, 90, Australian set decorator, Oscar winner.
• Paul Nihill, 81, British race walker, Olympic silver medallist, COVID-19.
• Tommy Ord, 68, English footballer.
• Zoltan Sabo, 48, Serbian-Hungarian football player and manager, pulmonary embolism.
• Noureddine Saïl, 73, Moroccan film critic and writer, COVID-19.
• Bruce Seals, 67, American basketball player.
• Lerrel Sharp, 87, Australian footballer.
• Charles Shere, 85, American composer.
• Petro Slobodyan, 67, Ukrainian football player and manager.
• Saufatu Sopoanga, 68, Tuvaluan politician, prime minister.

16

• Yaakov Agmon, 91, Israeli theatre producer, manager and director.
• Ian Armstrong, 83, Australian politician, NSW MP and deputy premier of New South Wales.
• Waldemaro Bartolozzi, 93, Italian racing cyclist.
• William Beaty Boyd, 97, American academic administrator, president of Central Michigan University and University of Oregon.
• Emil Cadkin, 100, American composer.
• Jeff Clayton, 66, American jazz saxophonist, complications from kidney cancer.
• Flavio Cotti, 81, Swiss politician, president and member of the Federal Council, COVID-19.
• Marcus D'Amico, 55, German-born British actor, pneumonia.
• Tesfaye Gessesse, 83, Ethiopian actor, general director of the Hager Fikir Theatre.
• Jean Graetz, 90, American civil rights activist, lung cancer.
• Bill Holm, 95, American art historian and author.
• Irfan Husain, 76, Pakistani newspaper columnist and civil servant.
• Steve Ingle, 74, English footballer, COVID-19.
• Peter Yariyok Jatau, 89, Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Kaduna.
• Lenn Keller, 69, American photographer and archivist, cancer.
• Valentyn Khodukin, 81, Ukrainian football player and manager.
• Joseph Kyeong Kap-ryong, 90, South Korean Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Daejeon.
• Leticia Lee, 56, Hong Kong pro-establishment activist, COVID-19.
• Otto Leodolter, 84, Austrian ski jumper, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Carl Mann, 78, American rockabilly singer.
• Elizabeth Meckes, 40, American mathematician, colon cancer.
• Brian Pickworth, 91, New Zealand Olympic fencer.
• Kálmán Sóvári, 79, Hungarian footballer.
• Wacław Szybalski, 99, Polish biotechnologist and oncologist.
• Lorenzo Taliaferro, 28, American football player, heart attack.
• Stephen Tjephe, 65, Burmese Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Loikaw.
• Adela de Torrebiarte, 71, Guatemalan politician, deputy, president of the National Football Federation and minister of the interior, lung cancer.
• Renê Weber, 59, Brazilian football player and manager, COVID-19.

17

• Namat Abdullah, 74, Malaysian footballer, colorectal cancer.
• Franck Balandier, 68, French writer.
• Donato Bilancia, 69, Italian serial killer, COVID-19.
• Hacke Björksten, 86, Finnish-Swedish jazz bandleader and saxophonist.
• Paddy Blagden, 85, British army officer.
• Abdelwahab Bouhdiba, 88, Tunisian academic and sociologist.
• Jeremy Bulloch, 75, English actor, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Krzysztof Bulski, 33, Polish chess player.
• Pierre Buyoya, 71, Burundian politician, president, COVID-19.
• Kim Chernin, 80, American feminist writer and poet, COVID-19.
• Stanley Cowell, 79, American jazz pianist, co-founder of Strata-East Records, hypovolemic shock.
• Doug Crane, 85, American animator, cancer.
• Rod Crewther, 75, Australian physicist.
• Les Dicker, 93, English footballer.
• Allen Dines, 99, American politician, member of the Colorado House of Representatives, Senate and speaker.
• Enrico Ferri, 78, Italian jurist and politician, minister of public works, deputy and MEP.
• Jim Fives, 91, Irish hurler and Gaelic footballer.
• Maciej Grubski, 52, Polish politician, senator, COVID-19.
• Arnold D. Gruys, 92, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives, complications from COVID-19.
• Tom Hanneman, 68, American broadcaster and sports commentator.
• Jacó Roberto Hilgert, 94, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Cruz Alta.
• W. Nathaniel Howell, 81, American diplomat, ambassador to Kuwait.
• John Barnard Jenkins, 87, Welsh nationalist.
• Ejner Jensen, 91, Danish footballer.
• Valentin Kasabov, 62, Bulgarian politician, MP, COVID-19.
• Hennadiy Kernes, 61, Ukrainian politician, mayor of Kharkiv, complications from COVID-19.
• Iqbal Ahmad Khan, 66, Indian classical vocalist.
• Tuncay Mataracı, 85, Turkish politician, minister of customs and monopolies, COVID-19.
• Spencer MacCallum, 88, American anthropologist.
• Dawson McAllister, 74, American radio host and author.
• Leif Mills, 84, British trade unionist, president of the Trades Union Congress, vascular disease.
• Lorraine Monk, 98, Canadian photographer.
• Benny Napoleon, 65, American police officer, sheriff of Wayne County, Michigan, complications from COVID-19.
• Ed Nichols, 97, British-born New Zealand Paralympic alpine skier.
• Tim de Paravicini, 75, English audio designer.
• Rod Perry, 86, American actor.
• Ignaz Puschnik, 86, Austrian footballer.
• Harold E. Robinson, 88, American botanist and entomologist.
• Christina Rodrigues, 57, Brazilian actress, complications from COVID-19.
• Giovanni Sacco, 77, Italian footballer, COVID-19.
• Freddie Santos, 64, Filipino theatre and concert director.
• Srđan Savić, 89, Bosnian Olympic sprinter.
• R. N. Shetty, 92, Indian entrepreneur and philanthropist, heart attack.
• Satya Deo Singh, 75, Indian politician, MP, cardiac arrest and COVID-19.
• Bolivia Suárez, 63, Venezuelan politician, deputy, COVID-19.
• Bill Sveinson, 74, Canadian poker player and politician.
• Pelle Svensson, 77, Swedish wrestler and lawyer, Olympic silver medallist, cancer.

18

• Roger Berlind, 90, American theatre producer, 25-time Tony winner, cardiopulmonary arrest.
• Charlie Brooker, 88, Canadian ice hockey player, Olympic bronze medallist.
• Bill Bullard Jr., 77, American politician, member of the Michigan Senate and House of Representatives, complications from COVID-19 and cancer.
• Pete Cassidy, 86, American college basketball coach.
• William J. Castagna, 96, American jurist, judge of the U.S. District Court for Middle Florida.
• Joan Dougherty, 93, Canadian politician, Quebec MNA, complications from COVID-19.
• Han Grijzenhout, 87, Dutch football manager.
• John Harbison, 84, Irish pathologist.
• Armin Hofmann, 100, Swiss graphic designer.
• Michael Jeffery, 83, Australian military officer, governor of Western Australia and governor-general.
• Eddie Lee Jackson, 71, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives, COVID-19.
• Peter Lamont, 91, British art director and production designer, Oscar winner.
• Michał Marusik, 69, Polish politician, MEP.
• Aminul Islam Mintu, 81, Bangladeshi film editor, COVID-19.
• Peter M. Neumann, 79, British mathematician, COVID-19.
• Rahah Noah, 87, Malaysian socialite, spouse of the deputy prime minister and of the [Spouse of the Prime Minister of Pakistan|prime minister of Malaysia|prime minister].
• John Obiero Nyagarama, 74, Kenyan politician, governor of Nyamira County, COVID-19.
• Peter Takeo Okada, 79, Japanese Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Tokyo, esophageal cancer.
• José Vicente Rangel, 91, Venezuelan politician, vice president and minister of foreign affairs, cardiac arrest.
• Òscar Ribas Reig, 84, Andorran politician, prime minister.
• Jerry Relph, 76, American politician, member of the Minnesota Senate, complications from COVID-19.
• Ray Rogers, 89, American politician, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives.
• Aristóteles Sandoval, 46, Mexican politician, Governor of Jalisco, shot.
• Joseph L. Scanlan, 91, American film director.
• Robina Sentongo, Ugandan politician, MP, COVID-19.
• Tim Severin, 80, British explorer, historian and writer, cancer.
• Valentin Shurchanov, 73, Russian politician and journalist, deputy, COVID-19.
• Victor Snieckus, 83, Lithuanian-born Canadian synthetic organic chemist.
• Sun Weiben, 92, Chinese politician, Communist Party secretary of Liaoning and Heilongjiang.
• William Winter, 97, American politician, governor and lieutenant governor of Mississippi, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives.
• Yazid Zerhouni, 83, Tunisian-born Algerian politician.

19

• Shirley Abrahamson, 87, American jurist, justice and chief justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, pancreatic cancer.
• John Ahern, 86, American politician, member of the Washington House of Representatives.
• Doc Ayers, 98, American football coach.
• Art Berglund, 80, American ice hockey coach and executive.
• Anthony Birley, 83, British ancient historian and archaeologist, lung cancer.
• Peter Boddington, 78, British boxer, COVID-19.
• Mile Bogović, 81, Croatian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Gospić-Senj, COVID-19.
• Barbara M. Byrne, 85, Canadian quantitative psychologist.
• Nedo Fiano, 95, Italian writer and Holocaust survivor.
• Joan Milke Flores, 84, American politician, member of the Los Angeles City Council, complications from myelodysplastic syndrome.
• David Giler, 77, American screenwriter and film producer, cancer.
• Paul Hänni, 93, Swiss Olympic wrestler.
• Kirunda Kivejinja, 85, Ugandan politician, minister of East African Community Affairs, COVID-19.
• Rosalind Knight, 87, British actress.
• Marjan Lazovski, 58, Macedonian basketball player and coach, COVID-19.
• Judith Loganbill, 67, American politician, member of the Kansas House of Representatives.
• Sir Mekere Morauta, 74, Papua New Guinean politician, prime minister, cancer.
• Märta Norberg, 98, Swedish Olympic cross-country skier.
• Leo Panitch, 75, Canadian political philosopher, viral pneumonia from COVID-19.
• Maria Piątkowska, 89, Polish Olympic athlete, COVID-19.
• Hermina Pipinić, 92, Croatian actress.
• Eileen Pollock, 73, Northern Irish actress.
• Carmen Quidiello, 105, Cuban-born Dominican playwright and poet, first lady of the Dominican Republic.
• Mohan Rawale, 72, Indian politician, MP.
• Narindar Saroop, 91, Indian-born British businessman.
• Elaine Stack, 89, American judge, justice of the Supreme Court of New York, COVID-19.
• Margaret Tebbit, Lady Tebbit, 86, English nurse.
• Themie Thomai, 75, Albanian politician, minister of agriculture, COVID-19.
• Alberto Valdés Jr., 70, Mexican equestrian, Olympic bronze medallist.
• Bram van der Vlugt, 86, Dutch actor, COVID-19.
• Elmar Zeitler, 93, German physicist.

20

• Samsuddin Ahmed, 75, Bangladeshi politician, MP, COVID-19.
• Raymon Anning, 90, British police officer, commissioner of police of Hong Kong.
• Doug Anthony, 90, Australian politician, deputy prime minister and MP.
• Anthony Banzi, 74, Tanzanian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Tanga.
• Nicette Bruno, 87, Brazilian actress, complications from COVID-19.
• Arthur Campbell, 95, New Zealand analytical chemist.
• Zee Edgell, 80, Belizean-born American novelist, cancer.
• Bill Groethe, 97, American photographer.
• Billy Harris, 77, American baseball player.
• Svatopluk Karásek, 78, Czech Evangelical priest, politician, and dissident, deputy.
• Gogi Kavtaradze, 80, Georgian actor.
• David Knight, 92, American actor.
• Delfino López Aparicio, 60, Mexican politician, deputy, COVID-19.
• Susan Moore, 52, American physician, complications from COVID-19.
• Monzur-I-Mowla, 80, Bangladeshi poet, director general of the Bangla Academy, COVID-19.
• Inés Moreno, 88, Argentine actress.
• Florencio Olvera Ochoa, 87, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Cuernavaca.
• Rukhshana, 80, Afghan singer.
• Nasser Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, 72, Kuwaiti royal, minister of defense.
• Yvonne Sandberg-Fries, 70, Swedish politician, MEP, MR.
• Julius Schachter, 84, American microbiologist, COVID-19.
• Romolo Tavoni, 94, Italian motor racing executive.
• Richard Vande Hoef, 95, American politician, member of the Iowa Senate and House of Representatives.
• Ezra Vogel, 90, American scholar, complications from surgery.
• Lee Wallace, 90, American actor.
• Dame Fanny Waterman, 100, English pianist, founder of the Leeds International Piano Competition.
• Dietrich Weise, 86, German football player and manager.
• Peter Williams, 81, British motorcycle racer.
• Ned Wynn, 79, American actor, complications from Parkinson's disease.

21

• Hank Adams, 77, American Native American rights activist.
• Ronald Anderson, 79, American sociologist.
• Boris Bushmelev, 83, Russian film director.
• Urso Chappell, 53, American graphic designer and world's fair historian, cirrhosis.
• Ikenwoli Godfrey Emiko, 65, Nigerian traditional ruler, olu of Warri, COVID-19.
• Gilberto Ensástiga, 57, Mexican politician, MP, COVID-19.
• John Fitzpatrick, 74, Scottish footballer.
• Donald A. S. Fraser, 95, Canadian statistician.
• Tadeusz Górczyk, 59, Polish politician and journalist, deputy.
• Sandy Grant Gordon, 89, Scottish distiller.
• Kevin Greene, 58, American Hall of Fame football player and coach, heart attack.
• Dorothy Henry, 95, American newspaper artist and cartoonist.
• Sir John Hills, 66, British social scientist, cancer.
• Aleksandr Kurlyandsky, 82, Russian screenwriter and author.
• Tommie Lindström, 82, Swedish Olympic swimmer.
• Hamish McLachlan, 53, Australian Olympic rower and stock market fraudster.
• Julian Moti, 55, Fijian-born Australian lawyer, attorney general of Solomon Islands.
• K. T. Oslin, 78, American country singer-songwriter, Grammy winner, COVID-19.
• Kalsoom Perveen, 75, Pakistani politician, senator, COVID-19.
• Richard Rominger, 93, American politician, heart attack.
• Karel Vachek, 80, Czech documentary film director and FAMU educator.
• Motilal Vora, 92, Indian politician, minister of health and family welfare, MP and CM of Madhya Pradesh, complications from COVID-19.
• Eleanor Wadsworth, 103, English aviator.
• Sir Arnold Wolfendale, 93, British astronomer, Astronomer Royal.

22

• Karima Baloch, 37, Pakistani human rights activist.
• Joachim Bäse, 81, German footballer.
• Wojciech Borowik, 64, Polish politician, Solidarity activist, deputy, COVID-19.
• Claude Brasseur, 84, French actor.
• Norma Cappagli, 81, Argentine model, Miss World, traffic collision.
• Pierre Chappuis, 90, Swiss poet.
• Edmund M. Clarke, 75, American computer scientist, COVID-19.
• James D. Fowler, 86, American politician.
• Ed Gomes, 84, American politician, member of the Connecticut State Senate, injuries sustained in a traffic collision.
• Leo Goodman, 92, American statistician, COVID-19.
• Kevin Hartley, 86, Australian amateur golfer.
• Erkki Hytönen, 87, Finnish Olympic ice hockey player.
• H. L. Jensen, 91, American politician.
• Bonnie Ladwig, 81, American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, COVID-19.
• Lam Phương, 83, Vietnamese-American songwriter, complications from a stroke.
• Jack Lenor Larsen, 93, American textile designer.
• Paul Loridant, 72, French politician, mayor of Les Ulis.
• Ron Lurie, 79, American politician, mayor of Las Vegas, COVID-19.
• John Maltby, 84, English sculptor and potter.
• Muhammad Mustafa Mero, 79, Syrian politician, prime minister, COVID-19.
• Phil Rogers, 69, Welsh studio potter.
• George Spriggs, 83, American baseball player.
• Özkan Sümer, 80, Turkish football player and manager.
• Stella Tennant, 50, British model, suicide.
• Rubén Tierrablanca González, 68, Mexican-born Turkish Roman Catholic prelate, apostolic vicariate of Istanbul, COVID-19.
• Tuck Tucker, 59, American animator.
• Antonio Vacca, 86, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Alghero-Bosa, throat cancer.
• Jay Walljasper, 65, American writer and editor, kidney cancer.
• Alan Warren, 88, English priest.
• Dwight Wise, 90, American politician.

23

• Arkady Andreasyan, 73, Armenian football player and manager, Olympic bronze medallist.
• Lars Arge, 53, Danish computer scientist, kidney cancer.
• Irani Barbosa, 70, Brazilian politician, deputy, COVID-19.
• Charles Campion, 69, English food critic.
• Desmond Carnelley, 91, English archdeacon.
• Richard N. Cooper, 86, American economist.
• John Edrich, 83, English cricketer, Waldenström's macroglobulinemia.
• James E. Gunn, 97, American science fiction author.
• Lyle Hanson, 85, American politician, member of the North Dakota House of Representatives.
• Yehuda Henkin, 75, Israeli Orthodox rabbi and posek.
• Mannan Hira, 64, Bangladeshi playwright and film director, heart attack.
• Issaka Assane Karanta, 75, Nigerien politician, Mayor of Commune I and Commune III of Niamey, governor of Niamey Capital District, COVID-19.
• Pero Kvrgić, 93, Croatian actor.
• Lonnie Laffen, 62, American politician, member of the North Dakota Senate, heart attack.
• Rebecca Luker, 59, American actress, complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Makosso IV, 76, Congolese royal, king of Loango.
• Santé Marcuzzi, 86, French Olympic rower.
• Eddie McLaren, 91, Scottish footballer.
• Dave McNary, 69, American film journalist, complications from a stroke.
• Mićo Mićić, 64, Bosnian politician, mayor of Bijeljina, COVID-19.
• Brian Morrison, 82, Australian footballer.
• Loyiso Mpumlwana, South African politician, member of the National Assembly, COVID-19.
• Rei Nakanishi, 82, Japanese novelist and songwriter, heart attack.
• Kay Purcell, 57, English actress, liver cancer.
• Frankie Randall, 59, American boxer, WBC light welterweight champion.
• Madan Lal Sharma, 68, Indian politician, MP.
• Gilbert Shea, 92, American tennis player.
• Sugathakumari, 86, Indian poet and social activist, COVID-19.
• Swami Sundaranand, 94, Indian yogi, photographer, and mountaineer.
• Monika Tilley, 86, Austrian-born American fashion designer.
• Leslie West, 75, American singer and guitarist, heart attack.
• Ron Widby, 75, American basketball and football player.
• Joel Yanofsky, 65, Canadian novelist, cancer.
• Rika Zaraï, 82, Israeli singer and writer.

24

• Mouloud Achour, 76, Algerian writer.
• Mitsumasa Anno, 94, Japanese children's author and illustrator, cirrhosis.
• Mohamad Aziz, 80, Malaysian politician, MP and Johor State MLA, kidney failure.
• Ben Binnendijk, 93, Dutch Olympic rower.
• Benedicto Bravo, 58, Mexican footballer, COVID-19.
• Carl Olaf Bue Jr., 98, American jurist, judge of the U.S. District Court for Southern Texas.
• Michael J. Byrne, 79, Australian physician.
• Vince Carillot, 93, American football coach.
• Roland Cedermark, 82, Swedish musician.
• Hubert Chesshyre, 80, British officer of arms, Clarenceux king of arms.
• John Cremona, 102, Maltese civil servant, chief justice and acting president.
• Braswell Deen Jr., 95, American politician.
• Ernie Duplechin, 88, American football coach and athletics administrator.
• Ivry Gitlis, 98, Israeli violinist.
• M. A. Hashem, 78, Bangladeshi businessman and politician, MP, COVID-19.
• Danny Hodge, 88, American Hall of Fame wrestler and boxer, Olympic silver medallist, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• AKM Jahangir Hossain, 66, Bangladeshi politician, MP, complications from COVID-19.
• Aleksandar Ivoš, 89, Serbian footballer.
• Milorad Janković, 80, Serbian footballer.
• Pir Noor Muhammad Shah Jeelani, 69, Pakistani politician, MNA, COVID-19.
• Freshta Kohistani, 29, Afghan women's rights activist, shot.
• Ahmed Lemu, 91, Nigerian Islamic scholar and jurist.
• William Magee, 81, American politician, member of the New York State Assembly.
• B. J. Marsh, 80, American politician, member of the Missouri House of Representatives, complications from COVID-19.
• Vincent Mhlanga, Swazi politician, acting prime minister, COVID-19.
• Bernard Mvondo-Etoga, 37, Cameroonian Olympic judoka.
• Jack Myers, 96, American football player.
• Adramé Ndiaye, 62, Senegalese Olympic basketball player, COVID-19.
• Idongesit Nkanga, 68, Nigerian air officer and politician, COVID-19.
• Tho. Paramasivan, 69, Indian anthropologist, complications from diabetes.
• Thomas W. Parks, 81, American electrical engineer.
• Burt Pugach, 93, American lawyer and convicted felon.
• Armando Romero, 60, Mexican footballer, complications from COVID-19.
• Benhur Salimbangon, 75, Filipino politician, member of the House of Representatives, cancer.
• Mojmir Sepe, 90, Slovenian composer and conductor.
• Guy N. Smith, 81, British horror writer.
• Davie Sneddon, 84, Scottish footballer.
• Geoff Stephens, 86, English songwriter and record producer.
• Siv Widerberg, 89, Swedish writer and journalist.

25

• Michael Alig, 54, American club promoter and convicted killer, heroin overdose.
• Djalma Bastos de Morais, 83, Brazilian politician, minister of communications and president of CEMIG, COVID-19.
• William Bentsen, 90, American Olympic sailing champion.
• Brian Binley, 78, British politician, MP.
• Ivan Bogdan, 92, Ukrainian wrestler, Olympic champion.
• Soumaïla Cissé, 71, Malian politician, MP and minister of finance, COVID-19.
• Chico Ejiro, Nigerian film producer and director, seizure.
• Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, 85, Indian poet and literary critic.
• Reginald Foster, 81, American Roman Catholic priest and Latinist, complications from COVID-19.
• Antonio Gento, 80, Spanish footballer.
• Rich Herrin, 87, American college basketball coach.
• Tomás Irribarra, 85, Chilean politician, mayor of Quirihue and deputy.
• Robin Jackman, 75, English cricketer, complications from COVID-19.
• K. C. Jones, 88, American Hall of Fame basketball player and coach, Olympic champion and NBA champion.
• Ty Jordan, 19, American college football player, shot.
• Jamal Khwaja, 92, Indian philosopher and politician, MP.
• Martin Lambie-Nairn, 75, English graphic designer.
• Carlos Levy, 78, Argentine writer, narrator and editor, COVID-19.
• Barry Lopez, 75, American author, prostate cancer.
• Edgar Meddings, 97, British Olympic bobsledder.
• Genevieve Musci, 106, American internet celebrity.
• Anil Nedumangad, 48, Indian actor, drowned.
• Engin Nurşani, 36, Turkish-German folk musician, lung infection and cancer.
• Jaan Rääts, 88, Estonian composer.
• Tony Rice, 69, American Hall of Fame bluegrass guitarist.
• Barbara Rose, 84, American art historian, breast cancer.
• Arne Skotte, 70, Swedish footballer.
• David Thorns, 77, British-born New Zealand sociologist.
• Maksim Tsyhalka, 37, Belarusian footballer.
• Scott Vermillion, 44, American soccer player, acute alcohol and prescription drug poisoning.

26

• Derek Aucoin, 50, Canadian baseball player, brain cancer.
• Milka Babović, 92, Croatian sprinter, hurdler and journalist, COVID-19.
• Eddie Blair, 93, Scottish jazz trumpeter
• George Blake, 98, British spy and double agent.
• Leslie D. Campbell Jr., 95, American politician.
• George Robert Carruthers, 81, American physicist and inventor.
• Víctor Cuica, 71, Venezuelan saxophonist and actor.
• Pat Childers, 79, American politician, member of the Wyoming House of Representatives.
• Harper Davis, 95, American football player.
• Johnson Gicheru, 79, Kenyan judge, chief justice.
• Patrick Harris, 86, English bishop.
• Kadambur R. Janarthanan, 91, Indian politician, MP.
• Railey Jeffrey, 75, Malaysian politician, MP.
• Phil Jones, 74, American football coach.
• Abdul Kader, 69, Bangladeshi actor, cancer.
• Bronisława Kowalska, 65, Polish politician and political scientist, deputy, MEP, COVID-19.
• Sir Peter Lachmann, 89, British immunologist.
• Brodie Lee, 41, American professional wrestler, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
• Govind Prasad Lohani, 93, Nepali diplomat and economist, respiratory failure.
• Theodore Lumpkin, 100, American pilot, complications from COVID-19.
• Jim McLean, 83, Scottish football player and manager, complications from dementia.
• Chic McLelland, 67, Scottish football player and manager.
• John Miller, 88, British journalist and author.
• Aubrey Mokoape, 76, South African anti-apartheid activist, COVID-19.
• Gilbert Naccache, 81, Tunisian writer and far-left militant.
• Cirilo Nelson, 82, Honduran botanist.
• Phil Niekro, 81, American Hall of Fame baseball player, cancer.
• Maximiliano Pereira, 27, Uruguayan footballer, drowned.
• Sergio Pintor, 83, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Ozieri.
• Tito Rojas, 65, Puerto Rican salsa singer, heart attack.
• Gregorio Salvador Caja, 93, Spanish linguist.
• Nomvuzo Shabalala, 60, South African politician, MP, COVID-19-related illness.
• Bill Sheridan, 78, American basketball coach.
• Peter Schmidhuber, 89, German politician, deputy.
• William Starr, 97, American violinist.
• Vic Stelly, 79, American politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, COVID-19.
• Mike Sutton, 76, English footballer, complications from dementia.
• Shirley Young, 85, American businesswoman.

27

• Rolf Aggestam, 79, Swedish poet and translator.
• Arthur Berckmans, 91, Belgian comics author.
• Maria Gąsienica Bukowa-Kowalska, 84, Polish Olympic cross-country skier.
• José Luiz Carbone, 74, Brazilian football player and manager, liver cancer.
• Florentino Domínguez Ordóñez, 58, Mexican politician, deputy, COVID-19.
• Gus Ferguson, 80, Scottish-born South African poet and cartoonist.
• Ed Finn, 94, Canadian politician and trade unionist.
• Giorgio Galli, 92, Italian historian and political analyst.
• Yuichiro Hata, 53, Japanese politician, minister of land, infrastructure, transport and tourism and member of the House of Councillors, COVID-19.
• Marian Jochman, 85, Polish Olympic long-distance runner.
• Roberto Junguito, 77, Colombian economist, diplomat and politician, minister of finance and public credit  and of agriculture and rural development.
• Mustafa Kandıralı, 90, Turkish clarinetist.
• Sunil Kothari, 87, Indian dance historian, cardiac arrest.
• Saidu Kumo, 61, Nigerian politician, COVID-19.
• Vikram Lall, Indian architect.
• Li Guang, 106, Chinese military officer, founding major general of the PLA.
• William Link, 87, American television writer, Emmy winner, heart failure.
• Manukura, 9, New Zealand North Island brown kiwi.
• Klavio Meça, 24, Albanian swimmer.
• Mieczysław Morański, 60, Polish actor, COVID-19.
• Ladislav Mrkvička, 81, Czech actor, Thalia Award and Czech Lion winner.
• Gunga Mwinga, 45, Kenyan politician, MP.
• Mohamed El Ouafa, 72, Moroccan diplomat and politician, ambassador to India, Iran, and Brazil, minister of education, COVID-19.
• Loyd Phillips, 75, American Hall of Fame football player.
• Zbigniew Pocialik, 75, Polish footballer.
• Germán Rama, 88, Uruguayan historian and academic.
• Osvaldo Rivera Cianchini, 80, Puerto Rican judge, COVID-19.
• Zouheïra Salem, 80, Tunisian singer.
• Harold Spinka, 75, American particle physicist.
• Seymour Van Gundy, 89, American nematologist.
• Ken Unwin, 94, English archdeacon.
• Antonio Velasco Piña, 85, Mexican novelist, spiritual writer and essayist.
• D. Yasodha, 74, Indian politician, Tamil Nadu MLA.

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• Arun Alexander, 47, Indian actor, heart attack.
• Csaba Ali, 74, Hungarian Olympic swimmer.
• Jack Arthurs, 98, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
• Marc Basnight, 73, American politician, President pro tempore and member of the North Carolina Senate, progressive bulbar palsy.
• John R. Bentson, 83, American neuroradiologist, complications from COVID-19.
• Moshe Brawer, 101, Israeli geographer.
• Romell Broom, 64, American convicted murderer, COVID-19.
• Johnny Clark, 73, British boxer, European bantamweight champion.
• Othón Cuevas Córdova, 55, Mexican politician, deputy, COVID-19.
• S. L. Dharmegowda, 65, Indian politician, deputy chairman of the Karnataka Legislative Council, suicide by train.
• Paul-Heinz Dittrich, 90, German composer.
• Tom Docherty, 96, English footballer.
• Jean-Marc Forneri, 61, French financier, heart attack.
• Fou Ts'ong, 86, Chinese-born British pianist, COVID-19.
• H. Jack Geiger, 95, American physician.
• Christopher Greet, 88, Sri Lankan-born British actor.
• Paul Sueo Hamaguchi, 72, Japanese Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Oita.
• Jyrki Heliskoski, 75, Finnish football coach.
• Paul Heller, 93, American film producer.
• George Hudson, 83, English footballer.
• Roy B. B. Janis, 63, Indonesian politician, MP.
• Valentin Lazarov, 89, Bulgarian Hall of Fame basketball referee.
• Armando Manzanero, 85, Mexican singer-songwriter, Grammy winner, COVID-19.
• Frank Hampton McFadden, 95, American jurist, judge and chief judge of the U.S. District Court for Northern Alabama.
• David Medalla, 82, Filipino sculptor.
• Luis Enrique Mercado, 68, Mexican writer, journalist and politician, deputy, COVID-19.
• Cy McClairen, 89, American football player, coach and administrator.
• Nolan Mettetal, 75, American politician, member of the Mississippi State Senate and House of Representatives, COVID-19.
• Wilma Pelly, 83, Canadian actress.
• John Fulton Reid, 64, New Zealand cricketer.
• Madelyn Reiter, 78, American politician, member of the Minnesota Senate.
• Les Riggs, 85, English football player and manager.
• Adele Rose, 87, English television writer, pneumonia.
• Arianna W. Rosenbluth, 93, American physicist, complications from COVID-19.
• Mahinder Watsa, 96, Indian sexologist.
• Colin Withers, 80, English footballer.
• Zou Deci, 86, Chinese engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

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• Hatem Ali, 58, Syrian television director and actor, heart attack.
• Claude Bolling, 90, French jazz pianist and composer.
• David Britton, 75, British author and publisher.
• Jessica Campbell, 38, American actress.
• Pierre Cardin, 98, French-Italian fashion designer.
• Richard Choruma, 42, Zimbabwean footballer, kidney failure.
• Joe Louis Clark, 82, American school principal, subject of Lean on Me.
• Hugh Davidson, 92, American football player, coach, and head scout.
• Josefina Echánove, 93, Mexican actress, model and journalist.
• Norman Golb, 92, American Semitics scholar.
• Agitu Ideo Gudeta, 42, Ethiopian goat breeder and activist, beaten.
• Miguel Ángel Gutiérrez Machado, 60, Mexican politician, deputy, COVID-19.
• James Hardy, 64, American basketball player, heart attack.
• Arne A. Jensen, 66, Norwegian media and corporate executive, CEO of TV 2 and Braathens.
• Michael Julien, 93, British songwriter, COVID-19.
• Dzhambulat Khatokhov, 21, Russian sumo wrestler and record holder, world's heaviest child, kidney failure.
• Yevheniia Kucherenko, 98, Ukrainian pedagogue.
• Alexi Laiho, 41, Finnish death metal singer-songwriter and guitarist, alcohol-related cirrhosis and pancreatitis.
• Joey LaMotta, 95, American boxer and manager.
• Amelia Lapeña-Bonifacio, 90, Filipino puppeteer, National Artist of the Philippines.
• Luke Letlow, 41, American politician, U.S. Representative-elect, complications from COVID-19.
• Hugh X. Lewis, 90, American country singer, complications from COVID-19.
• Gösta Linderholm, 79, Swedish singer and composer, stroke.
• René Lotti, 91, French Olympic rower.
• Elaine McCoy, 74, Canadian politician, Senator and Alberta MLA.
• Phyllis McGuire, 89, American singer.
• Simo Mfayela, South African politician, member of the National Council of Provinces.
• Nikhil Nandy, 88, Indian Olympic footballer.
• Jerry O'Riordan, 81, Irish Gaelic footballer.
• Gregory Ochiagha, 89, Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Orlu.
• Corrado Olmi, 94, Italian actor and comedian, COVID-19.
• Daniel S. Paletko, 70, American politician, mayor of Dearborn Heights, Michigan, member of the Michigan House of Representatives, COVID-19.
• Serafim Papakostas, 61, Greek Orthodox prelate, metropolitan of Kastoria, COVID-19.
• John Paul Jr., 60, American racing driver and convicted criminal, Huntington's disease.
• Geoffrey Robinson, 83, Australian Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Sydney.
• Vincenzo Rosito, 81, Italian footballer.
• Howard J. Rubenstein, 88, American lawyer and public relations expert.
• Rudy Salas, 71, American musician.
• Shabba Doo, 65, American dancer and actor.
• Luigi Snozzi, 88, Swiss architect, COVID-19.
• Jeanine Toulouse, 97, French Olympic sprinter.
• Tommy Turtle, 70, British soldier, cancer.
• Jean Valentine, 86, American poet, New York State Poet Laureate, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Indira Joseph Venniyoor, 94, Indian broadcaster.
• Kees Verkade, 79, Dutch sculptor and artist.
• John Waine, 90, English bishop.
• Sofia Zhukova, 81, Russian serial killer, COVID-19.

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• Aldo Andretti, 80, Italian-born American racing driver, COVID-19.
• Guillem Areny, 89, Andorran politician, mayor of La Massana and member of the Council General.
• Ronald Atkins, 104, British politician, MP.
• Brenda Banks, 72, American animator.
• Ivan Baumgartner, 86, Australian footballer.
• Bob Bessoir, 88, American college basketball coach.
• George Blasse, 86, Dutch chemist.
• Jos Compaan, 62, Dutch Olympic rower.
• Josep Corominas i Busqueta, 81, Spanish doctor and politician, deputy and grand master of the Grand Lodge of Spain.
• Peter Craze, 74, British actor.
• Seaman Dan, 91, Australian musician.
• Eugene Peyton Deatrick, 96, American Air Force colonel and test pilot.
• Grace L. Drake, 94, American politician, member of the Ohio Senate.
• Robert A. Frosch, 92, American scientist, administrator of NASA.
• Gaztelu, 74, Spanish footballer.
• Andrew Han Jingtao, 99, Chinese Roman Catholic clandestine prelate, bishop of Sipingjie.
• Frank Kimbrough, 64, American post-bop jazz pianist.
• Samuel Little, 80, American serial killer.
• Milan Lučanský, 51, Slovak police general, president of the Slovak Police Force, suicide by hanging.
• Yehoshua Matza, 89, Israeli politician, member of the Knesset.
• Metin Orgarun, 60, Turkish Olympic judoka.
• Panusunan Pasaribu, 74, Indonesian civil servant and politician, regent of Central Tapanuli.
• Stephen Prince, 65, American film critic and historian.
• Alto Reed, 72, American saxophonist, colon cancer.
• LaWanna Shurtliff, 85, American politician, member of the Utah House of Representatives, pneumonia.
• Lois Sasson, 80, American jewelry designer and gay rights activist, complications from COVID-19.
• Alexander Spirin, 89, Russian biochemist.
• Victor Stacey, 76, Irish Church of Ireland clergyman, dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.
• Gennady Strakhov, 76, Russian freestyle wrestler, Olympic silver medalist, COVID-19.
• Anton Strout, 50, American author and podcaster.
• Dawn Wells, 82, American actress, COVID-19.
• Richard Gilbert West, 94, British botanist and geologist.
• Eugene Wright, 97, American jazz bassist.

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• Constantin Bosânceanu, 54, Romanian footballer.
• Jeremy Burnham, 89, British television actor and screenwriter.
• Ralph C. Capparelli, 96, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives.
• John Cardos, 91, American film director and actor.
• Maxine Cheshire, 90, American journalist, cardiovascular disease.
• Tommy Docherty, 92, Scottish football player and manager.
• Paul Etiang, 82, Ugandan politician, deputy prime minister, COVID-19.
• Jolanta Fedak, 60, Polish politician, minister of family, labour and social policy and member of the Sejm, cancer.
• Ernesto Gismondi, 89, Italian designer, founder of Artemide.
• Robert Hossein, 93, French film director, actor and writer, COVID-19.
• Dušan Jovanović, 81, Serbian-born Slovene theatre director, playwright, and essayist.
• Richard M. Kenan, 80, American politician.
• Michael Kindo, 73, Indian field hockey player, Olympic bronze medallist.
• Gary Howard Klar, 73, American actor.
• Emília Kováčová, 89, Slovak economist and academic, first lady.
• Narendra Kumar, 87, Indian military officer and mountaineer.
• Maureen Lee, 88, British author.
• Olli Lehto, 95, Finnish mathematician.
• Marian Leszczyński, 84, Polish Olympic rower.
• Inke Maris, 72, Indonesian journalist.
• Muladi, 77, Indonesian jurist and politician, justice of the Supreme Court, minister of justice, MP, COVID-19.
• Joe Neal, 85, American politician, member of the Nevada Senate.
• Olivier Royant, 58, French journalist, director of Paris Match.
• Johnny Sands, 87, Canadian Olympic speed skater.
• Joan Micklin Silver, 85, American film director, vascular dementia.
• Dick Thornburgh, 88, American lawyer and politician, U.S. Attorney General and governor of Pennsylvania.
• Narsing Yadav, 57, Indian actor, kidney disease.