Deaths in December 2022

December 2022

1

• Ferry Mursyidan Baldan, 61, Indonesian politician, minister of land and spatial planning and MP
• Ercole Baldini, 89, Italian cyclist, Olympic champion.
• Steffen Basho-Junghans, 69, German guitarist and composer, cancer.
• Gerardo Bianco, 91, Italian politician, minister of education and deputy.
• Norm Brown, 79, Australian footballer.
• Kypros Chrysostomides, 80, Cypriot lawyer and politician, MP.
• Skip Cleaver, 78, American politician, member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives.
• Thomas C. Corrigan, 84, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
• Mylène Demongeot, 87, French actress, primary peritoneal carcinoma.
• J. C. Heywood, 81, Canadian artist.
• Hannes Keller, 88, Swiss mathematician and deep diver.
• Igor Krichever, 72, Russian academic and mathematician.
• Gary LaPaille, 68, American politician, member of the Illinois Senate, complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Sylvia La Torre, 89, Filipino actress and singer.
• Quentin Oliver Lee, 34, American baritone and actor, colon cancer.
• Lu Zhuguo, 94, Chinese screenwriter and writer.
• Yadollah Maftun Amini, 96, Iranian poet, cardiac arrest.
• Abdul Hamid Pawanteh, 78, Malaysian politician, twice MP, Menteri Besar of Perlis and president of the Dewan Negara.
• Roni Peiponen, 25, Finnish footballer.
• Ludwik Peretz, 99, French architect.
• Gaylord Perry, 84, American Hall of Fame baseball player, complications from COVID-19.
• Vasu Pisharody, 79, Indian Kathakali actor, heart disease.
• Dorothy Pitman Hughes, 84, American feminist.
• Julia Reichert, 76, American documentarian, Oscar winner, bladder cancer.
• Alain Sailhac, 87, French chef.
• Harald Schießl, 48, German jurist, judge of the Federal Fiscal Court.
• Eve Shapiro, 92, South African-born American theatre director.
• Haralds Sīmanis, 71, Latvian singer.
• Samresh Singh, 81, Indian politician, Jharkhand and four-time Bihar MLA.
• Andrew Speight, 58, Australian-born American saxophonist, struck by train.
• Ken Stephanson, 81, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Omar Trujillo, 45, Mexican footballer, cardiac arrest.
• Bridgette Wimberly, 68, American playwright and librettist, complications from strokes.
• Yoo Jae-geon, 85, South Korean politician, MNA.

2

• Afzaal Ahmad, 52, Pakistani actor, brain haemorrhage.
• Assem Allam, 83, Egyptian-British football executive, chairman of Hull City, cancer.
• Tony Allen, 83, English footballer.
• Imran Aslam, 70, Pakistani journalist, screenwriter and media personality.
• Mahmoud Bayati, 94, Iranian football player and manager.
• Walter Broadnax, 78, American academic administrator and professor of politics.
• Jaume Camps i Rovira, 78, Spanish lawyer and politician, member of the Catalan parliament.
• Daniel Catovsky, 85, Argentine-born British cancer researcher.
• Choi Byung-ryeol, 84, South Korean politician, mayor of Seoul.
• Joseph Cigana, 89, French racing cyclist.
• Sam A. Crow, 96, American jurist, judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas.
• Jharana Das, 82, Indian actress and radio announcer.
• Phil Edmonston, 78, American-born Canadian consumer advocate and politician, MP.
• Dick Enthoven, 85, South African insurance executive, owner of Nando's, cancer.
• Jeffrey Friedman, 63, American political scientist.
• Tukaram Gangadhar Gadakh, 69, Indian politician, MP, heart failure.
• Danny Goldring, 76, American actor.
• Carolyn Grace, 70, Australian-British pilot, traffic collision.
• Raúl Guerra Garrido, 87, Spanish writer.
• Najma Hameed, 78, Pakistani politician, senator.
• Doreen Hamilton, 71, Canadian politician, Saskatchewan MLA and mayor of Regina, cancer.
• Jill Jolliffe, 77, Australian journalist and author.
• Yoshio Kikugawa, 78, Japanese football player and manager, pneumonia.
• Dominique Lapierre, 91, French writer.
• Floris Maljers, 89, Dutch business executive, CEO of Unilever.
• Louis Negin, 93, British-born Canadian actor.
• Jo Carol Pierce, 78, American singer-songwriter and playwright, cancer.
• Qerlos, 94, Eritrean prelate, patriarch of the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church.
• Duncan Robinson, 79, British art historian and academic.
• Gaddis Smith, 90, American historian and foreign policy expert.
• Laila Storch, 101, American oboist.
• Al Strobel, 82, American actor.
• Tiit-Rein Viitso, 84, Estonian linguist.

3

• Guy Benveniste, 95, French-born American organization theorist.
• Willi Blodt, 93, German politician, member of the Landtag of Hesse.
• Gordon Bradt, 98, American art designer.
• Paul Broughton, 91, Australian rugby league player and coach.
• Kenneth O. Chilstrom, 101, American air force colonel and test pilot.
• Michael Collins, 82, Irish politician, TD.
• John Edward Critien, 73, Maltese Roman Catholic official, grand chancellor of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
• Jamie Freeman, 57, British singer and songwriter, brain cancer.
• Milton Gómez, 74, Bolivian mining union leader and politician, minister of labor, employment, and social security.
• Ursula Hayden, 56, American professional wrestler and actress, cancer.
• Svenne Hedlund, 77, Swedish singer.
• Sonny Holland, 84, American football player and coach.
• Leslie Houlden, 93, British Anglican priest and academic.
• Antigone Kefala, 87, Romanian-born Australian poet.
• Jim Kolbe, 80, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives and Arizona Senate, stroke.
• Volodymyr Kozhukhar, 81, Ukrainian classical conductor.
• Ann MacIntosh Duff, 97, Canadian artist.
• Angelo Marciani, 94, Italian Olympic water polo player.
• Colin McLay, 80, New Zealand marine biologist.
• A. B. M. Ghulam Mostafa, 88, Bangladeshi businessman and politician, MP.
• Bobby Naughton, 78, American jazz vibraphonist and pianist.
• Annie Yellowe Palma, 60, British poet, author and child protection advocate.
• Kochu Preman, 67, Indian actor and comedian.
• Gina Romand, 84, Cuban-Mexican actress.
• Ilya Shtemler, 89, Russian writer, COVID-19.
• Svyatoslav Sokol, 76, Russian politician, deputy, heart attack.
• Hari Vairavan, Indian actor, kidney failure.
• Eduardo Vio Grossi, 78, Chilean lawyer and academic, judge of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
• Alfons Vogtel, 70, German businessman and politician, member of the Landtag of Saarland.
• Tony Waldrop, 70, American middle-distance runner and academic administrator, president of the University of South Alabama.
• Alexandre Zelkine, 84, French folk music singer and rail transport modelist.
• Alzhan Zharmukhamedov, 78, Kazakh basketball player and coach, Olympic champion.

4

• Amable Aristy, 73, Dominican politician, member and president of the senate, cardiac arrest.
• Bruce M. Bailey, 87, American author.
• Jerry Berndt, 84, American football coach.
• June Blair, 90, American model and actress.
• Nick Bollettieri, 91, American Hall of Fame tennis coach.
• Hamadi Bousbiaâ, 88, Tunisian businessman and sporting director.
• Saïd Chibane, 97, Algerian doctor and politician, minister of religious affairs and endowments.
• Yuriy Dubrovin, 83, Russian-Ukrainian actor.
• Horst Faber, 101, German figure skater.
• Mofeed Fawzy, 89, Egyptian journalist and television presenter.
• Barry Fraser, 82, Canadian ice hockey executive.
• Manuel Göttsching, 70, German musician and composer.
• Peter Hedger, 82, British racehorse trainer.
• Saeed Mohammad Khan, 87, Pakistani naval officer, chief of naval staff and chairman of PNSC.
• Kevin Kilmurray, 72, Irish Gaelic footballer.
• Magomedali Magomedov, 92, Russian politician, chairman of the State Council of Dagestan.
• Bob McGrath, 90, American actor and singer, complications from a stroke.
• Karl Merkatz, 92, Austrian actor.
• Norm Pattiz, 79, American broadcaster and business executive.
• Patrick Peacock, 79, Canadian lawyer, president of the Canadian Bar Association.
• Pablo Puente, 91, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, apostolic nuncio to Indonesia, Lebanon and Kuwait.
• Antonio Recalcati, 84, Italian painter and sculptor.
• Jacqueline Rigaud, 97, French resistance fighter, Righteous Among the Nations.
• Gino Scarpa, 98, Italian-born Norwegian painter, printmaker and sculptor.
• Alex Sherzer, 51, American chess grandmaster and physician.
• Patrick Tambay, 73, French racing driver, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Robert E. Tranquada, 92, American physician and academic administrator.
• Jeffrey James West, 72, British Anglican priest.

5

• Kirstie Alley, 71, American actress, Emmy winner, colon cancer.
• Ahmad Ali Barqi Azmi, 67, Indian poet.
• John Beckwith, 95, Canadian composer, writer and pianist.
• Georges Caudron, 70, French actor and artistic director.
• František Dostál, 84, Czech photographer.
• L. Patrick Engel, 90, American politician, member of the Nebraska Legislature.
• Hamsou Garba, 63, Nigerien singer.
• Jay Goldberg, 89, American lawyer and author.
• Mária Kráľovičová, 95, Slovak actress.
• John McGeever, 83, American football player.
• Jost Meier, 83, Swiss composer and orchestral conductor.
• Anthea Millett, 81, British educator.
• Marie-Édouard Mununu, 86, Congolese Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop and bishop of Kikwit.
• Dominga Neculmán, 84-85, Chilean Mapuche potter.
• Terrence O'Hara, 76, American television director, cancer.
• Eduard Ovčáček, 89, Czech graphic artist.
• Éric Pfrunder, 74, French artistic director.
• Bernd Rohr, 85, German racing cyclist.
• Hélène Roussel, 90, French actress.
• Bernadette Carey Smith, 83, American journalist.
• Jim Stewart, 92, American Hall of Fame record producer, co-founder of Stax Records.
• Sahibzada Nazir Sultan, 78, Pakistani politician, MNA.
• Ronaldo Veitía, 75, Cuban judo coach, complications from diabetes.
• Sam Wakim, 85, Canadian lawyer and politician, MP.

6

• Yoginder K Alagh, 83, Indian economist, chairman of IRMA.
• Risto Alapuro, 78, Finnish sociologist.
• James Alty, 83, British computer scientist.
• Miha Baloh, 94, Slovenian actor.
• Jet Black, 84, English drummer.
• Antonio D'Amico, 63, Italian fashion designer.
• Andrée Damant, 93, French actress.
• Jan-Åke Edvinsson, 81, Swedish Hall of Fame ice hockey administrator, general secretary of IIHF.
• Ward Elliott, 85, American political scientist.
• Alain Fousseret, 66, French politician, member of the Regional Council of Franche-Comté.
• Beto Fuscão, 72, Brazilian footballer, stomach cancer.
• Pavel Gajdoš, 86, Czech Olympic gymnast.
• Ronald Harkai, 76, American drummer.
• Huang Kezhi, 95, Chinese physicist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
• Hamish Kilgour, 65, New Zealand musician.
• Hy Kloc, 75, German-born American politician, member of the Idaho House of Representatives, heart attack.
• Edino Krieger, 94, Brazilian composer and conductor.
• Mills Lane, 85, American boxing referee and television personality.
• David Lifton, 83, American author.
• S. A. Malek, 86, Bangladeshi politician, MP.
• Pavao Miljavac, 69, Croatian politician, minister of defence.
• Ichirou Mizuki, 74, Japanese composer and voice actor, lung cancer.
• John Neter, 99, German-born American statistician.
• Worthy Patterson, 91, American basketball player.
• Jacques Pousaz, 75, Swiss Olympic ice hockey player, heart attack.
• Salinero, 28, Dutch dressage horse, Olympic champion.
• Adolfas Šleževičius, 74, Lithuanian politician, prime minister.
• François Tanguy, 64, French theatre director.
• Omar Varela, 65, Uruguayan playwright and stage actor, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Bart de Vries, 57, Dutch actor, COVID-19.

7

• Karim Bavi, 57, Iranian footballer, bladder cancer.
• Jaroslav Bogdálek, 93, Czech Olympic alpine skier.
• Bernhard Brinkmann, 70, German politician, MP.
• Jacques Ciron, 94, French actor.
• Margaret Davis, 89, Australian politician, New South Wales MLA.
• Manohar Devadoss, 86, Indian visual artist and writer.
• John Dodge, 89, British paediatrician.
• Jim Fosgate, 85, American inventor and engineer.
• Armando González, 91, Spanish Olympic rower.
• Carl Hewitt, 77, American computer scientist.
• W. Kenneth Holditch, 89, American literature scholar.
• Clive Inman, 86, Sri Lankan cricketer.
• Roddy Jackson, 80, American rockabilly singer, songwriter and pianist.
• Jann-Peter Janssen, 77, German politician, MP.
• Johnny Johnson, 101, British Royal Air Force officer.
• Ákos Kertész, 90, Hungarian writer and screenwriter.
• George Kuwayama, 97, American art curator.
• Richard C. Macke, 84, American naval admiral.
• George Marinkovich, 93, American football player and coach.
• Jan Nowicki, 83, Polish actor.
• Rubby Opio Aweri, 69, Ugandan jurist, justice of the Supreme Court.
• Ronald Sherr, 70, American painter.
• Helen Slayton-Hughes, 92, American actress.
• Herbert Volney, 69, Trinidadian jurist and politician, judge of the Supreme Court, MP.
• Stevan Vrbaški, 81–82, Serbian politician, mayor of Novi Sad.
• Harry Yee, 104, American bartender, inventor of the Blue Hawaii.

8

• Jean-Louis Bourgeois, 82, American author.
• Albert Brenner, 96, American production designer.
• David J. A. Clines, 84, Australian biblical scholar.
• John T. C. B. Collins, 97, British Anglican priest.
• Elinor G. Constable, 88, American diplomat.
• Djalma Corrêa, 80, Brazilian percussionist and composer, pancreatic cancer.
• Patrick Delsemme, 48, Belgian snooker player.
• Tom Flanigan, 88, American baseball player.
• Sylvia Flores, 71, Belizean politician, speaker of the House of Representatives and president of the Senate.
• Gary Fox, 78, Canadian politician, Ontario MPP, cancer.
• Rostam Ghasemi, 58, Iranian military officer and politician, minister of petroleum and roads, cancer.
• Aldona Gustas, 90, Lithuanian-German poet and illustrator.
• Martha Hildebrandt, 97, Peruvian linguist and politician, member and president of the congress.
• Ian Hunter, 83, New Zealand naval officer, chief of naval staff.
• Miodrag Ješić, 64, Serbian football player and manager, traffic collision.
• Yitzhak Klepter, 72, Israeli singer-songwriter, composer and guitarist.
• Leno, 73, Brazilian singer, composer, and guitarist, cancer.
• Lee Lorenz, 90, American cartoonist and editor.
• Albert Madansky, 88, American statistician.
• Jackie McLeod, 92, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
• Richard Miller, 80, American visual effects artist.
• Rizong Rinpoche, 94, Tibetan Buddhist monk, Ganden Tripa.
• Maurice Robert, 92, French academic and ethnologist.
• Max van Rooy, 80, Dutch writer and journalist.
• Lidia Elsa Satragno, 87, Argentine actress and politician, deputy.
• Kevin Schamehorn, 66, Canadian ice hockey player.
• René Snelders, 85, Belgian footballer and businessman.
• Kent Stermon, 50, American businessman and political activist, suicide by gunshot.
• Kayf Tara, 28, British Thoroughbred racehorse.
• Todor Todorov, 94, Bulgarian Olympic gymnast.
• Martha Urioste, 85, American school principal.
• Erasmus Desiderius Wandera, 92, Ugandan Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Soroti.
• Yoshishige Yoshida, 89, Japanese film director and screenwriter, pneumonia.

9

• Pedro Miguel Arce, 46, Nicaraguan-born Canadian actor, cancer.
• Jovit Baldivino, 29, Filipino singer and actor, intracranial aneurysm.
• Scott M. Bennett, 45, American politician, member of the Illinois Senate, complications from a brain tumor.
• John Burton, 95, Canadian politician, MP.
• Virginia Carver, 87, American baseball player.
• Bob Cooper, 67, Australian rugby league player, cancer.
• Patricia Daly, 66, American nun.
• Herbert Deutsch, 90, American composer, co-inventor of the Moog synthesizer.
• Gene Edwards, 90, American house church planter.
• Martin Forde, 99, Irish-born American labor union activist.
• Ademar José Gevaerd, 60, Brazilian ufologist, complications from a fall.
• Jonathan Goldberg, 79, American literary theorist.
• Qamar Gula, 70, Afghan singer, cancer.
• Mihály Huszka, 89, Hungarian Olympic weightlifter.
• Joseph Kittinger, 94, American air force officer and command pilot, lung cancer.
• Judith Lauand, 100, Brazilian painter and printmaker.
• Ruth Madoc, 79, British actress, and singer.
• Daniel Micallef, 94, Maltese diplomat and politician, speaker of the House of Representatives.
• Lucien Mongrain, 90, Canadian politician, mayor of Trois-Rives.
• Abraham Nehmé, 95, Syrian Melkite Greek Catholic prelate, archbishop of Homs.
• Christopher Nigel Page, 80, English botanist.
• Txomin Peillen, 90, French writer, linguist, and biologist.
• Soko Shimabuku, 96, Japanese politician, member of the House of Councillors.
• Barrington Tabb, 88, English painter.
• Fredrick Terna, 99, Austrian-born American painter and Holocaust survivor.
• Jean-Nickolaus Tretter, 76, American LGBTQ activist and archivist.
• Milton Viorst, 92, American journalist, complications from COVID-19.
• Wes Wise, 94, American politician, mayor of Dallas.
• David Young, Baron Young of Graffham, 90, British politician, secretary of state for trade and industry and employment, member of the House of Lords.

10

• John Aler, 73, American lyric tenor.
• John Allen, 80, British rugby union player and administrator.
• J. J. Barnes, 79, American R&B singer.
• Walter Bénéteau, 50, French racing cyclist.
• Richard Bober, 79, American artist.
• Dave Bolen, 98, American Olympic sprinter and diplomat, ambassador to Botswana, Lesotho and East Germany.
• Sulochana Chavan, 89, Indian Marathi singer.
• Salah Fadl, 84, Egyptian writer and translator.
• John Fogarty, 75, New Zealand jurist, king's counsel, judge of the High Court.
• Charles E. Grainger, 85, American politician, member of the Alabama House of Representatives.
• Dame Beryl Grey, 95, English ballerina.
• Tracy Hitchings, 60, English singer, cancer.
• Georgia Holt, 96, American singer and actress, subject of Dear Mom, Love Cher.
• Gabor Kalman, 92, Hungarian-American physicist.
• Tony Lancaster, 84, British-American Bayesian econometrician.
• Victor Lewis-Smith, 65, British writer and producer.
• Antonio Mazzone, 87, Italian lawyer and politician, deputy, MEP.
• John Molyneux, 74, British Trotskyist.
• Tshala Muana, 64, Congolese singer.
• Rocky Pamplin, 73, American model and bodyguard.
• Aziouz Raïs, 68, Algerian chaabi singer.
• Otto Seidl, 90, German judge, vice-president of the Federal Constitutional Court.
• Paul Silas, 79, American basketball player and coach, cardiac arrest.
• José Ángel Trelles, 78, Argentine singer, musician and composer.
• Soňa Valentová, 76, Slovak actress.
• Kihnu Virve, 94, Estonian folk singer.
• Grant Wahl, 49, American sports journalist and author, aortic aneurysm.
• David L. Wilkinson, 86, American politician, attorney general of Utah.
• Ryuji Yamane, 74, Japanese politician, member of the House of Councillors, lung cancer.

11

• Angelo Badalamenti, 85, American film and television composer, Grammy winner.
• Pravrajika Bhaktiprana, 102, Indian Hindu nun, president of Sri Sarada Math.
• Chris Boucher, 79, British television screenwriter and novelist.
• Petr Čech, 78, Czech Olympic hurdler.
• Munzur Çem, 77, Turkish writer and journalist.
• Geoff Doidge, 68, South African politician, minister of public works.
• Wolf Erlbruch, 74, German illustrator and writer.
• Peter Ester, 69, Dutch sociologist and politician, senator.
• Joke Folmer, 99, Dutch resistance fighter.
• Ed Goorjian, 96, American college basketball coach.
• Frances Hesselbein, 107, American management consultant, CEO of Girl Scouts of the USA.
• Mel James, 74, Welsh rugby union and league player.
• Neal Jimenez, 62, American film director and screenwriter.
• Effie Kapsalis, 51, American open access advocate, suicide.
• Abigail Kinoiki Kekaulike Kawānanakoa, 96, American Hawaiian royal princess, complications of a stroke.
• Joseph Kromelis, 75, American street vendor, complications from burn injuries.
• Klemens Ludwig, 66, German astrologist and writer, complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Adrienne Mancia, 95, American film curator.
• Bruce J. McFarlane, 84, Australian economist.
• Moshe Mizrahi, 72, Israeli politician, MK.
• Kenneth Powell, 82, Indian Olympic sprinter.
• T. Radhakrishnan, 67, Indian politician, MP, heart attack.
• Pieter ter Veer, 77, Dutch politician, MP.

12

• Jonas Abib, 85, Brazilian Roman Catholic priest, founder of Canção Nova, multiple myeloma.
• Alberto Alessi, 83, Italian politician, deputy.
• Janet Beavin Bavelas, 82, American-born Canadian experimental social psychologist.
• Norman Bogner, 87, American author.
• Ekambi Brillant, 74, Cameroonian makossa singer.
• Jim Carr, 71, Canadian politician, MP, minister of natural resources and international trade diversification, multiple myeloma.
• Don Christopher, 87, American garlic farmer, founder of Christopher Ranch.
• Drucilla Cornell, 72, American philosopher and feminist theorist.
• Philippa Roe, Baroness Couttie, 60, British politician, leader of Westminster City Council and member of the House of Lords, cancer.
• Ciro Cruz Zepeda, 77, Salvadoran politician, president of the Legislative Assembly.
• William P. Curlin Jr., 89, American politician, member of the Kentucky and United States House of Representatives.
• Maurice Desnoyers, 95, Canadian architect.
• Assunção dos Anjos, 76, Angolan diplomat, minister of external relations, heart attack.
• José Esquivel, 87, American painter.
• Iván Faragó, 76, Hungarian chess grandmaster.
• Alexander Floyd, 96, Australian botanist.
• Charles Fulton, 84, American minister.
• John Gregory, 84, American football coach.
• Mirosław Hermaszewski, 81, Polish cosmonaut.
• Michael Hodgetts, 86, English Catholic historian.
• Ralph Hooper, 96, English aeronautical engineer.
• Chaudhry Saeed Iqbal, 56, Pakistani politician, MNA, cardiac arrest.
• Mohan Jena, 65, Indian politician, MP.
• Zoe Klusáková-Svobodová, 97, Czech economist, academic and author.
• Lado Kralj, 84, Slovenian theatre critic and literary historian.
• Mike Leach, 61, American college football coach, heart disease.
• Kurt Linder, 89, German football player and manager.
• Grenville Llewellyn Lucas, 86, British botanist and conservationist.
• Stuart Margolin, 82, American actor, Emmy winner, pancreatic cancer.
• Kim Mohan, 73, American game designer.
• Claude Mossé, 97, French historian.
• Hermann Nuber, 87, German footballer.
• Gosaku Ota, 74, Japanese manga artist, COVID-19.
• Latinka Perović, 89, Serbian historian and politician.
• Sheila Russell, 87, American politician, mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• Josef Schagerl, 99, Austrian sculptor.
• Anton Šoltýs, 85, Slovak Olympic alpine skier.
• Jacqueline Stanley, 94, British-Irish painter.
• Remy Sylado, 77, Indonesian author.
• Teh Hong Piow, 92, Malaysian banker, founder of Public Bank Berhad.
• Erik Tønseth, 76, Norwegian industrialist, CEO of Kværner.
• Zbigniew Wawer, 66, Polish academic and historian.
• Wolfgang Ziffer, 81, German actor and radio personality.

13

• Alauddin Ahammad, 74, Bangladeshi academic administrator and politician, MP, vice-chancellor of Jahangirnagar University.
• Miguel Barbosa Huerta, 63, Mexican politician, governor of Puebla, deputy and senator.
• Lauri Bergqvist, 92, Finnish Olympic cross-country skier.
• Mary Holiday Black, 84, American Navajo basket maker and textile weaver.
• Stephen "tWitch" Boss, 40, American dancer, television personality and actor, suicide by gunshot.
• Willard L. Boyd, 95, American academic administrator, president of the University of Iowa.
• Ranjit Singh Brahmpura, 85, Indian politician, MP and Punjab MLA.
• Ronnie R. Campbell, 68, American politician, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, cancer.
• Paul Chollet, 94, French politician, deputy, mayor of Agen.
• Luis "Checho" González, 89, Chilean musician.
• Grand Daddy I.U., 54, American rapper.
• Geoffrey Wilson Greenwood, 93, British materials scientist.
• Ludwig Hoffmann-Rumerstein, 85, Austrian Roman Catholic official, grand commander and lieutenant ad interim of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
• Jean Landis, 104, American World War II aviator.
• Alejandro Luna, 83, Mexican scenographer.
• Sir John MacDermott, 95, Northern Irish jurist, judge of the high court.
• Sylvester Mubayi, 80, Zimbabwean sculptor.
• Mikhail Musatov, 72, Russian politician, deputy.
• Nihal Nelson, 76, Sri Lankan vocalist and songwriter, heart attack.
• Maxine Neuman, 74, American cellist, cancer.
• Bayan Northcott, 82, English music critic and composer.
• Han Peekel, 75, Dutch television presenter, heart failure.
• David Ramsbotham, Baron Ramsbotham, 88, British military officer and life peer, member of the House of Lords, fall.
• Lalo Rodríguez, 64, Puerto Rican salsa singer.
• Leo Rosschou, 93, Danish Olympic racewalker.
• Frank Salemme, 89, American mobster.
• Adrian Shooter, 74, British transport executive, founder of Vivarail and member of the Royal Academy of Engineering, assisted suicide.
• Kim Simmonds, 75, British rock guitarist, colon cancer.
• Curt Simmons, 93, American baseball player, World Series champion.
• Michael Vickery, 75, British colonel.
• Richard Wurtman, 86, American neuroscientist.

14

• Bert Beverly Beach, 94, Swiss-born American Adventist theologian.
• Constantin Dinu, 77, Romanian rugby union player.
• Djene Djento, 58–59, Cameroonian singer-songwriter.
• Alex Duchart, 89, Scottish footballer.
• Karel van Eerd, 84, Dutch businessman.
• Fritz Feuz, 91, Swiss Olympic gymnast.
• Jean Franco, 98, British-born American academic and literary critic.
• Riccardo Giovanelli, 76, Italian-born American astronomer.
• John Hughes, 92, British-born American journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner.
• Kornélia Ihász, 85, Hungarian Olympic speed skater.
• Roch Kereszty, 89, Hungarian-American monk and scholar.
• Wulf Kirsten, 88, German poet, novelist, and publisher.
• Franz Kurzreiter, 78, Austrian politician, member of the Landtag of Lower Austria.
• Jacob Luitjens, 103, Dutch Nazi collaborator.
• Alfons Messerschmitt, 79, German Olympic sport shooter.
• Charlene Mitchell, 92, American labor and civil rights activist and politician.
• Billie Moore, 79, American Hall of Fame basketball coach, multiple myeloma.
• Herbert Morris, 94, American philosopher.
• Mike Nish, 63, American racing driver.
• Haydée Padilla, 86, Argentine actress.
• Sinnayah Sabapathy, 75, Malaysian Olympic sprinter.
• Sir Sydney Samuelson, 97, British cinematographer.
• Cecil T. Sandifer, 99, American politician, member of the South Carolina House of Representatives.
• Frank J. Shakespeare, 97, American diplomat and media executive, ambassador to Portugal and the Holy See.
• Georgi Stoilov, 93, Bulgarian architect and politician, MP, mayor of Sofia.
• Don L. Taylor, 91, Canadian politician, MP.
• Christopher Tucker, 81, British make-up artist, strep infection.
• Salim Zanoun, 88, Palestinian politician, chairman of the PNC.

15

• Luis Aguilar, 53, Mexican writer and poet.
• Karel Anthierens, 87, Belgian journalist.
• Sulamita Aronovsky, 93, Soviet-born British classical pianist and teacher.
• Ken Balcomb, 82, American cetologist, prostate cancer.
• Istvan Banyai, 73, Hungarian illustrator and animator.
• Idrio Bui, 90, Italian racing cyclist.
• Dick Burrows, 81, Australian footballer.
• Calpurnio, 63, Spanish comics artist and illustrator, cancer.
• Renée Colliard, 89, Swiss alpine skier, Olympic champion.
• Dino Danelli, 78, American Hall of Fame drummer, coronary artery disease and heart failure.
• Shirley Eikhard, 67, Canadian singer-songwriter.
• Sylvie Genty, 67, French writer and actress.
• Walter J. Husak, 80, American aerospace components manufacturer.
• Håkan Lindquist, 64, Swedish writer.
• Veronica Linklater, Baroness Linklater of Butterstone, 79, British politician, member of the House of Lords, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Liu Mingjiu, 88, Chinese translator.
• Shepherd Makunura, 46, Zimbabwean cricket player and coach.
• Vikramjeet Maurya, 63, Indian politician, Uttar Pradesh MLA, heart attack.
• Belinda Douglas-Scott-Montagu, Baroness Montagu of Beaulieu, 90, British embroiderer.
• James J. Murakami, 91, American art director and production designer, Emmy winner, complications from a fall.
• Jerôme Mvondo, 85–86, Cameroonian journalist and politician.
• Eliyahu Offer, 78, Israeli football player and manager.
• Louis Orr, 64, American basketball player and coach, pancreatic cancer.
• Oqtay Radjabov, 81, Azerbaijani academic and composer.
• Michael Reed, 93, British cinematographer.
• Orlando Sanchez, 40, American martial artist, accidental drug overdose.
• Ademola Rasaq Seriki, 63, Nigerian politician, MP.
• Swami Shilananda, 97, Spanish Jesuit missionary.
• William G. Steiner, 85, American politician.
• Aki Takejo, 75, Japanese actress, colon cancer.
• Endre Tihanyi, 77, Hungarian Olympic gymnast.
• Joseph Torg, 88, American orthopedic surgeon.
• John Uelses, 85, American pole vaulter, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Barry West, 64, English snooker player.
• Zhao Zisen, 90, Chinese engineer and politician, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, deputy.

16

• Robert Adamson, 79, Australian poet and publisher.
• Elia Alessandrini, 25, Swiss footballer, drowned.
• Huzihiro Araki, 90, Japanese mathematical physicist and mathematician, co-founder of Reviews in Mathematical Physics.
• Henry Berg-Brousseau, 24, American transgender rights activist, suicide.
• Doreen Brownstone, 100, British-born Canadian actress.
• Petre Constantin Buchwald, 85, Romanian politician, senator.
• Masud Choudhary, 78, Indian police officer and academic administrator, vice-chancellor of Baba Ghulam Shah Badshah University.
• Jean-Paul Corbineau, 74, French singer-songwriter, leukemia.
• Barry Cullen, 87, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Peter Daly, 82, Irish Gaelic footballer.
• Paul De Keersmaeker, 93, Belgian politician, minister of agriculture, MP and MEP.
• Ernest Fernando, 84, Sri Lankan Olympic wrestler.
• Daniela Giordano, 75, Italian actress.
• Burkhard Gladigow, 83, German scholar.
• Charlie Gracie, 86, American rock and roll singer, complications from COVID-19.
• Hans Peter Hallwachs, 84, German actor.
• Sue Hardesty, 89, American novelist, cancer.
• Jinks Holton, 97, American public servant, First Lady of Virginia.
• Elliott H. Levitas, 91, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Georgia House of Representatives.
• Robin Ligus, 70, English serial killer.
• Bogdan Łysak, 86, Polish politician and economist, deputy, deputy president of the Supreme Audit Office.
• Klaus Mayer, 99, German Roman Catholic priest.
• Denise Meunier, 104, French resistant.
• Siniša Mihajlović, 53, Serbian football player and manager, leukaemia.
• Elizabeth Parrish, 97, American actress.
• Mohammad Sadeq Rouhani, 96, Iranian Shia marja.
• Jane Sherwin, 88, British actress.
• Jose Maria Sison, 83, Filipino writer and political activist, founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines.
• Song Young-jin, 75, South Korean politician, MNA.
• Tang Hongxiao, 91, Chinese engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
• Emil R. Unanue, 88, Cuban-American immunologist, glioblastoma.
• Edward Weldon, 86, American archivist and government administrator.

17

• Lawrence Costa, 52, Australian politician, Northern Territory MLA.
• Eloy Fernández Clemente, 80, Spanish economist and historian.
• Steven Goldberg, 81, American anthropologist and sociologist.
• Drew Griffin, 60, American newscaster, cancer.
• Nicholas Herbert, 3rd Baron Hemingford, 88, British journalist, editor and peer, member of the House of Lords.
• Dieter Henrich, 95, German philosopher.
• Blanca Heredia, 88, Venezuelan beauty queen, Miss Venezuela winner.
• Mike Hodges, 90, British screenwriter and director.
• Wilbur Howard, 73, American baseball player.
• Elayne Jones, 94, American timpanist.
• Elmar Kunauer, 82, Austrian Olympic sprinter.
• Werner Leich, 95, German Protestant clergyman, bishop of the Evangelical Church in Thuringia.
• Liu Dalin, 90, Chinese sexologist.
• Archer Maclean, 60, British video game programmer.
• George M. Martin, 95, American biogerontologist.
• Maria Helena de Moura Neves, 91, Brazilian linguist, stroke.
• Manuel Muñoz, 94, Chilean footballer.
• Anders Nyström, 89, Swedish actor.
• Soumanou Oke, 67, Beninese military officer.
• P-22, 12, American mountain lion, euthanized.
• Philip Pearlstein, 98, American painter.
• Nélida Piñon, 85, Brazilian-Spanish writer, president of the Academia Brasileira de Letras.
• Severino Poletto, 89, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal, bishop of Fossano and Asti, archbishop of Turin.
• Clyde L. Reese, 64, American jurist, judge of the Georgia Court of Appeals.
• Albert Reichmann, 93, Austrian-born Canadian real estate executive.
• Christian Saulsberry, 25, American football player, shot.
• Marie-Luise Scherer, 84, German writer and journalist.
• Mario Sconcerti, 74, Italian sports journalist and writer.
• Urmas Sisask, 62, Estonian composer.
• Ann Stephens, 89, New Zealand squash and badminton player.
• Eero Tapio, 81, Finnish Olympic wrestler.
• Philippe Tillous-Borde, 76, French entrepreneur and engineer.
• Sunday Tuoyo, 84, Nigerian military officer and politician, governor of Ondo State.

18

• Lyudmila Agranovskaya, 90, Russian mountain climber.
• Hilda Augustovičová, 88, Slovak actress.
• Stephanie Bissonnette, 32, American dancer and choreographer, medulloblastoma.
• Maurice Briand, 73, French lawyer and politician, deputy, mayor of Guingamp.
• Steve Brooks, 72, American basketball player.
• Lando Buzzanca, 87, Italian actor, complications from a fall.
• Peter Darby, 84, Irish Gaelic footballer and hurler.
• Martin Duffy, 55, English keyboardist, complications from a fall.
• Maggie Eisner, 75, British general practitioner, glioblastoma.
• Janine Ghobert, 91, Belgian judge and politician, senator, MP.
• Juan Giaconi Gandolfo, 77, Chilean doctor and politician, minister of public health.
• Thea Gregory, 96, British actress.
• Hans Grosheide, 92, Dutch politician, MP, state secretary for education and justice.
• Terry Hall, 63, English singer and songwriter, pancreatic cancer.
• Ivan Hamaliy, 66, Ukrainian football player and manager.
• Wim Henderickx, 60, Belgian composer and teacher.
• Robert P. Higgins, 90, American systematic invertebrate zoologist and ecologist.
• Gavin Hunter, 81, British racehorse trainer.
• Nicholas Kehoe, 79, American lieutenant general, blood cancer.
• Rebecca Lorch, 32, American weightlifter, suicide.
• Don McKenney, 88, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
• Manfred Messerschmidt, 96, German historian.
• Mikhail Moiseev, 83, Russian military officer and politician, chief of the general staff.
• Greetje den Ouden-Dekkers, 82, Dutch politician, MP.
• Ken Pears, 88, Canadian soccer player.
• Emilio Pegoraro, 101, Italian partisan and politician, senator and deputy.
• Petro Pylypchuk, 75, Ukrainian judge, chairman of the Supreme Court.
• Galust Sahakyan, 73, Armenian politician, member and president of the National Assembly.
• Laith Shubeilat, 80, Jordanian politician, MP, heart attack.
• Carol Teichrob, 83, Canadian politician, Saskatchewan MLA.
• Maggie Thrett, 76, American actress.
• Rosalba Todaro, Chilean economist.
• Ladislav Trojan, 90, Czech actor.
• Gavin Weightman, 77, British journalist and documentary filmmaker.
• Xi Xi, 85, Hong Kong novelist and poet, heart failure.

19

• H. Norman Abramson, 96, American engineer and scientist.
• Ali Ahmed Aslam, 77, Pakistani-born Scottish chef and restaurateur, credited with inventing chicken tikka masala, septic shock and organ failure.
• Henriette Bernier, 85, French novelist.
• Jonas Algimantas Boruta, 78, Lithuanian Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Vilnius and bishop of Telšiai.
• Gerald Brennan, 84, Australian rules footballer.
• Max Brito, 54, Ivorian rugby union player.
• Tom Browning, 62, American baseball player, World Series champion.
• Claudisabel, 46, Portuguese singer, traffic collision.
• Luc De Schepper, 65, Belgian physicist and academic administrator, rector of Hasselt University.
• Stanley Drucker, 93, American clarinetist.
• Mircea Dușa, 67, Romanian politician, minister of national defence, cancer.
• Sonya Eddy, 55, American actress, infection after surgery.
• Sandy Edmonds, 74, British-born New Zealand pop singer.
• Erwin Josef Ender, 85, German Roman Catholic prelate, apostolic nuncio to Estonia and the Czech Republic, apostolic delegate to Somalia.
• Khalaf Al-Enezi, 76, Kuwaiti politician, MP.
• Iraj Etesam, 91, Iranian architect.
• Valentina Firsova, 85, Russian Soviet politician, people's deputy.
• Joseph Gao Hongxiao, 77, Chinese Roman Catholic prelate, coadjutor bishop and bishop of Kaifeng.
• Encarna Hernández, 105, Spanish basketball player and coach.
• Gary Knafelc, 90, American football player, NFL champion.
• Jamila Ksiksi, 54, Tunisian politician, MP, traffic collision.
• Gilbert Lascault, 88, French writer and art critic.
• Per-Ola Lindberg, 82, Swedish Olympic swimmer.
• Aonghas MacNeacail, 80, Scottish Gaelic writer.
• Iván Mesías, 87, Chilean businessman and politician, deputy.
• Yasuo Minagawa, 75, Japanese baseball player.
• Graham Oakley, 93, English children's author.
• Ladislav Pazdera, 86, Czech Olympic gymnast.
• Jason Pearson, 52, American comic book artist and writer.
• Gerry Perry, 92, American football player.
• Alexandr Rodin, 75, Belarusian contemporary painter.
• Al Smith, 75, American basketball player, suicide by gunshot.
• Steve Smoger, 72, American Hall of Fame boxing referee.
• Andrei Svislotski, 62, Russian animator.
• Herman Timme, 89, Dutch Olympic decathlete.
• Anthony Whetstone, 95, British naval admiral.
• Salam al-Zaubai, 63, Iraqi politician, MP.

20

• Nasser Abu Hamid, 50, Palestinian prisoner, lung cancer.
• Charles Edwin Brown, 86, American football player.
• Oleh Bobalo, 44, Ukrainian director and soldier, shot.
• Chia Boon Leong, 97, Singaporean-Chinese Olympic footballer.
• Barry Brown, 88, American Olympic volleyball player.
• Denny Doyle, 78, American baseball player.
• Ronald Feldman, 84, American art dealer.
• Sir Robert Gerken, 90, British naval admiral.
• Franco Harris, 72, American Hall of Fame football player, four-time Super Bowl champion.
• Ray Herbert, 93, American baseball player, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Brian Horlock, 91, English Anglican priest, dean of Gibraltar.
• James R. Houghton, 86, American business executive.
• Lech Kuropatwiński, 75, Polish politician and entrepreneur, deputy.
• Vladimír Krčméry, 62, Slovak physician, pneumonia.
• Taisto Laitinen, 89, Finnish Olympic pole vaulter.
• Zoran Lakić, 89, Montenegrin historian, member of the Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts.
• Solomon Lee, 86, Hong Kong Olympic sport shooter.
• Barbara Noack, 98, German writer.
• Paul Ormonde, 91, Australian journalist.
• Laura Podestà, 68, Italian Olympic swimmer.
• John M. Radosevich, 92, American politician.
• Quinn Redeker, 86, American actor and screenwriter.
• Luigi Stucchi, 81, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Milan.
• Subroto, 99, Indonesian administrator and economist, secretary general of OPEC.
• Brenda Swinbank, 93, British archaeologist.
• Toru Takahashi, 81, Japanese computer scientist.
• Dejan Tiago-Stanković, 57, Serbian-Portuguese writer and translator.
• Tadeusz Werno, 91, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Koszalin-Kołobrzeg.
• Maya Widmaier-Picasso, 87, French art curator, pulmonary complications.
• Zhu Zhihong, 89, Chinese politician, CPPCC chairman of Jiangxi.

21

• Alberto Asor Rosa, 89, Italian literary critic, historian, and politician, deputy, cardiac arrest.
• Amangeldy Aytaly, 83, Kazakh academic and politician, MP.
• Doug Baker, 93, English rugby union player.
• Tony Barry, 81, Australian actor, melanoma.
• John Berchmans Conway, 93, Irish Roman Catholic religious sister.
• Aminah Cendrakasih, 84, Indonesian actress.
• Christopher Dowling, 78, Maltese Olympic swimmer.
• Franz Gertsch, 92, Swiss painter.
• Gordy Giovanelli, 97, American rower, Olympic champion.
• Ron Hein, 73, American politician, member of the Kansas Senate and House of Representatives.
• Ronnie Hillman, 31, American football player, Super Bowl champion, complications from renal medullary carcinoma.
• Roger Jenkins, 91, British theatre and television director.
• H. R. Keshava Murthy, 88, Indian gamaka artist.
• Bilqees Khanum, 73, Pakistani classical singer.
• Noreen Kokoruda, 75, American politician, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives.
• Lajos Koutny, 83, Hungarian Olympic ice hockey player.
• Frank I. Marcus, 94, American cardiologist.
• Diane McBain, 81, American actress, liver cancer.
• Milan, 24, British Thoroughbred racehorse.
• Éric Molinié, 62, French businessman.
• Mixie Palmer, 95, Irish Gaelic footballer.
• Gary Ridley, 77, American engineer and politician, Oklahoma secretary of transportation.
• R. L. Shep, 89, American artist and writer.
• Nancy Guttmann Slack, 92, American plant ecologist.
• Ludwik Synowiec, 64, Polish Olympic ice hockey player.
• György Tumpek, 93, Hungarian swimmer, Olympic bronze medallist.
• Shigeru Uchida, 83, Japanese politician, chairman of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly.
• Zhang Guocheng, 91, Chinese engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
• Simon Yaxley, 53, British radio broadcaster and actor.
• Zhao Yijun, 92, Chinese engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

22

• Thom Bell, 79, Jamaican-born American songwriter, arranger and record producer.
• Big Scarr, 22, American rapper, drug overdose.
• Stephan Bonnar, 45, American mixed martial artist and professional wrestler, fentanyl overdose.
• William Dimma, 94, Canadian academic and business executive.
• John Moffat Fugui, 61, Solomon Islands politician, MP, cardiac arrest.
• Odd-Bjørn Fure, 80, Norwegian historian and political scientist.
• Gu Zhen'an, 86, Chinese engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
• Gui Yufang, 92, Chinese translator.
• Alikram Hummatov, 74, Azerbaijani political activist, president of the Talysh-Mughan Autonomous Republic.
• Concha Ibáñez, 93, Spanish painter and writer.
• Ze'ev Iviansky, 99, Israeli political scientist.
• Ronnie Lamont, 81, Irish rugby union player.
• Long Yuqiu, 96, Chinese engineer and academic, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
• Heidy Mader, 61, British physicist, cancer.
• Joyce Meskis, 80, American bookseller.
• Maria Nowak, 87, Polish economist.
• Burton Pike, 92, American translator.
• Julieta Pinto, 101, Costa Rican educator and writer.
• Ron Richmond, 81, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives.
• James Rosecrans, 69, American football player.
• Victor Scherrer, 79, Belgian-born French industrialist, art collector, and essayist.
• Abbas Sheibani, 91, Iranian politician, member of the City Council of Tehran and MP.
• Mukta Tilak, 57, Indian politician, Maharashtra MLA, cancer.
• Anton Tkáč, 71, Slovak racing cyclist, Olympic champion.
• Ronan Vibert, 58, British actor.
• Walter "Wolfman" Washington, 79, American blues singer and guitarist, cancer.
• James Kinnier Wilson, 101, British Assyriologist.
• Ken Wilson, 70, Australian rugby league player, cancer.

23

• Su'ad al-Fatih al-Badawi, 90, Sudanese politician, MP.
• Karnendu Bhattacharjee, 84, Indian politician, MP and Assam MLA.
• George Cohen, 83, English footballer, world champion.
• Cue Card, 16, British Thoroughbred racehorse, heart attack.
• David Dalton, 88, American violist and author.
• Cotton Davidson, 91, American football player.
• Jean-Robert de Cavel, 61, French-American chef, leiomyosarcoma.
• Trevor Fancutt, 88, South African tennis player.
• József Fitos, 63, Hungarian football player and manager.
• Odette Roy Fombrun, 105, Haitian writer and intellectual.
• Spyridon Galinos, 70, Greek politician, mayor of Lesbos and MP, cancer.
• Stephen Greif, 78, British actor.
• Jiang Hualiang, 57, Chinese pharmaceutical scientist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
• Colin Jillings, 91, New Zealand Hall of Fame horse trainer.
• Emine Kara, Turkish Kurdish militant and activist, shot.
• John Kinch, 68, Canadian football player, cancer.
• Marion W. La Follette, 96, American politician.
• Li Wenhua, 90, Chinese ecologist, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
• Lu Qiang, 86, Chinese engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
• Ma Jianzhang, 85, Chinese zoologist, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
• Michael Marrus, 81, Canadian historian.
• Maxi Jazz, 65, English musician and songwriter.
• Claire McLintock, 57, Scottish-born New Zealand haematologist and obstetric physician.
• Brandon Montrell, 43, American TikTok personality and comedian.
• Christopher Needler, 78, British businessman, chairman of Hull City A.F.C..
• Sir Ashok Rabheru, 70, Tanzanian-born British businessman.
• Txetxu Rojo, 75, Spanish football player and manager.
• Jerry Roth, 81, American boxing judge.
• Kaikala Satyanarayana, 87, Indian actor and politician, MP.
• Massimo Savić, 60, Croatian singer, lung cancer.
• Genaro Sermeño, 74, Salvadoran football player and manager, complications from diabetes.
• Willie Sims, 64, American-Israeli basketball player, complications from a heart attack.
• Philippe Streiff, 67, French racing driver.
• Germán Tena Orozco, 89, Mexican businessman and politician, deputy.
• Ella Tengbom-Velander, 101, Swedish politician, municipal commissioner of Helsingborg.
• Lutz Ulbricht, 80, German rower, Olympic champion.
• Ed Updegraff, 100, American golfer and urologist.
• Mark Warkentien, 69, American basketball executive.
• Michael Wertheimer, 95, German-born American psychologist, complications from a fall.
• Zhang Youshang, 97, Chinese biochemist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

24

• Vittorio Adorni, 85, Italian road racing cyclist, Giro d'Italia winner.
• William C. Agee, 86, American art curator.
• William Anthony, 88, American painter, injuries sustained in house fire.
• Pavel Antov, 65, Russian businessman and politician, deputy, fall from a hotel window.
• V. K. Bali, 77, Indian jurist, judge of the Punjab and Haryana and Rajasthan high courts, chief justice of the Kerala High Court.
• Elena Gianini Belotti, 93, Italian writer, teacher, and activist.
• John Bird, 86, English actor and comedian, stroke complications.
• Ray Boughen, 85, Canadian politician, MP.
• Kenton Edelin, 60, American basketball player.
• John Eldridge, 86, British sociologist, president of the British Sociological Association.
• Franco Frattini, 65, Italian politician and magistrate, twice minister of foreign affairs, twice of public administration, European commissioner for justice, cancer.
• Don Gorton, 62, American lawyer and tax judge.
• Colleen House, 70, American politician, member of the Michigan House of Representatives.
• Demetrious Johnson, 61, American football player.
• Franjo Jurjević, 90, Croatian Olympic gymnast.
• Edie Landau, 95, American film and television producer and executive.
• Madosini, 78, South African musician.
• Jean Paré, 95, Canadian caterer and cookbook author.
• Andrzej Pstrokoński, 86, Polish Olympic basketball player.
• Chalapathi Rao, 78, Indian actor, heart attack.
• Martin Ravallion, 70, Australian economist.
• Mario Rosa, 90, Italian historian.
• Freddie Roulette, 83, American blues guitarist and singer, complications from dementia.
• Barry Round, 72, Australian footballer, organ failure.
• Royal Applause, 29, British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire.
• John Howard Sanden, 87, American portrait artist.
• Keith Sanderson, 82, English footballer, traffic collision.
• Tunisha Sharma, 20, Indian actress, suicide by hanging.
• Tom Stacey, 92, British novelist, publisher, and journalist, pneumonia.
• Larry Starcher, 80, American jurist, member of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia.
• Bill Uhl, 89, American basketball player.
• Irène K:son Ullberg, 92, Swedish painter.
• Kathy Whitworth, 83, American Hall of Fame professional golfer.
• Zhang Jinzhe, 102, Chinese paediatric surgeon, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

25

• Sir Michael Armitage, 92, British air force commander.
• Camilo Azuquita, 76, Panamanian singer and composer.
• Mira Bellwether, 40, American sex educator and writer, complications from lung cancer.
• Jean Blondel, 93, French political scientist.
• Françoise Bourdin, 70, French novelist.
• Godfrey Bradman, 86, British property developer.
• Pierre Brocheux, 91, Vietnamese-French historian.
• Brian Cassar, 86, British rock and roll singer and guitarist.
• Daniel E. Cassell, 56, Liberian psychologist and politician.
• Claudio Donelli, 94, Italian politician, deputy, senator.
• Haim Drukman, 90, Polish-born Israeli Orthodox rabbi and politician, MK, complications from COVID-19.
• Paul Fox, 68, American record producer, complications from Alzheimer's Disease.
• Michael Fuchs, 73, German politician, MP.
• Claire Gagnier, 98, Canadian singer.
• Micheline Gary, 97, French actress.
• Joop Glimmerveen, 94, Dutch political activist.
• Luc Marius Ibriga, 66, Ivorian-born Burkinabé academic and jurist.
• Jo Sehui, 80, South Korean writer, complications from COVID-19.
• Luther Johnson, 83, American blues musician.
• John Leddy, 92, Dutch actor.
• Wellington Lee, 97, Australian pharmacist and politician, deputy lord mayor of Melbourne.
• Abraham Levy, 83, English Orthodox rabbi.
• Li Ziliu, 90, Chinese politician, mayor of Guangzhou, COVID-19.
• Bogusław Litwiniec, 91, Polish theatre director and politician, senator and MEP.
• Rodney Loudon, 88, British physicist.
• Alice Mahon, 85, British politician, MP.
• Alexey Maslov, 69, Russian military officer, commander-in-chief of the Russian Ground Forces.
• John H. McBryde, 91, American jurist, judge of the U.S. District Court for Northern Texas.
• Evgeny Moiseev, 74, Russian mathematician, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
• Yuji Nunokawa, 75, Japanese animator, founder of Pierrot.
• Fabián O'Neill, 49, Uruguayan footballer, complications from liver disease.
• Kevin Payne, 69, American soccer executive.
• Ridwan Saidi, 80, Indonesian politician, member of the People's Representative Council.
• Simon Sargon, 84, American composer.
• K. P. Sasi, 64, Indian film director.
• Ken Sidwell, 86, American college basketball and baseball coach.
• Henryk Szordykowski, 78, Polish Olympic runner.
• Tong Tanjun, 88, Chinese oncologist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, fall.
• Rita Walter, 71, American actress.
• Wang Wenjiao, 89, Chinese badminton player and coach.
• Wang Zhongqi, 90, Chinese engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
• Kyoji Watanabe, 92, Japanese historian.
• Wu Chengkang, 93, Chinese engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

26

• Ronald E. Asher, 96, British linguist and educator.
• Hazel Beard, 92, American politician, mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana.
• Alain Bernheim, 91, French classical pianist.
• Penda Dallé, 64, Cameroonian artist and musician.
• Tom Danby, 96, English rugby union and league player.
• Stephen Allen Davis, 73, American songwriter.
• Sergey Dmitriyev, 58, Russian football player and manager.
• António Mega Ferreira, 73, Portuguese writer and journalist.
• Blasco Giurato, 81, Italian cinematographer.
• Guan Qiao, 87, Chinese engineer and politician, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, deputy.
• Guan Zhaoye, 93, Chinese architect, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
• Dorothy Iannone, 89, American visual artist.
• Cosimo Izzo, 79, Italian lawyer and politician, senator.
• Bojan Jamina, 43, Bosnian footballer.
• Konrad Kruis, 92, German lawyer, judge of the Federal Constitutional Court.
• Victoria Lee, 18, American mixed martial artist, suicide.
• Li Qingzhong, 92, Chinese engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
• Si Litvinoff, 93, American film producer and lawyer.
• Lasse Lönndahl, 94, Swedish singer and actor.
• Thomas Meaney, 92, Irish politician, TD.
• No Kum-sok, 90, North Korean pilot and defector.
• George Obiozor, 80, Nigerian professor and diplomat.
• Ghulam Dastagir Panjsheri, 89, Afghan politician.
• Munira al-Qubaysi, 89, Syrian Islamic scholar, founder of Al-Qubaysiat.
• Christian Roberts, 78, British actor, cancer.
• Nicola Signorello, 96, Italian politician, senator, mayor of Rome and twice minister of tourism.
• Fred Valentine, 87, American baseball player.
• Gio Wiederhold, 86, Italian-born American computer scientist.

27

• Kenneth Bagshawe, 97, British oncologist.
• Dominique Bentejac, 78, French Olympic equestrian.
• Pat Briggs, 58, American musician.
• Simon Clarke, 76, British sociologist.
• Brian Davies, 87, British animal welfare activist, founder of the International Fund for Animal Welfare.
• René Deleris, 96, French rugby union player.
• Arnie Ferrin, 97, American basketball player.
• Alfred Goodwin, 99, American jurist, judge and chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, judge of the U.S. District Court for Oregon.
• John Grazier, 76, American realist artist.
• Timo Grönlund, 68, Finnish four-time Olympic sprint canoer, traffic collision.
• Thad Heartfield, 82, American jurist, judge and chief judge of the U.S. District Court for Eastern Texas.
• Andrzej Iwan, 63, Polish footballer.
• Howard John Lloyd, 92, Canadian politician.
• Jo Mersa Marley, 31, Jamaican-American musician, asthma attack.
• Rodolfo Micheli, 92, Argentine footballer, kidney failure.
• André Miquel, 93, French Arabist and historian.
• Gerald Moore, 98, British scholar of poetry.
• Stewart Albert Newblatt, 95, American jurist, judge of the U.S. District Court for Eastern Michigan.
• George J. O'Shea Jr., 93, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
• Herbert Permillion, 79, American typewriter repairman.
• Maximilien Polak, 92, Canadian jurist and politician, Quebec MNA.
• Dave Richardson, 82, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Cervin Robinson, 94, American photographer and author.
• Peter Roussel, 81, American political consultant, cancer.
• Luann Ryon, 69, American archer, Olympic champion.
• Giorgio Salmoiraghi, 86, Italian painter.
• Harry Sheppard, 94, American jazz vibraphonist.
• Imre Szöllősi, 81, Hungarian sprint canoeist, double Olympic silver medallist.
• Tibor Viniczai, 66, Hungarian agricultural engineer and politician, mayor of Székesfehérvár.
• Ray Young, 88, English footballer.

28

• Draga Ahačič, 98, Slovenian actress, film director and translator.
• Sir Leonard Allinson, 96, British civil servant and diplomat.
• Bernard Barsi, 80, French Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Monaco, heart attack.
• Félix Alberto Beltrán Concepción, 84, Cuban graphic designer and engraver.
• Italo Bettiol, 96, Italian-French film director.
• Black Stalin, 81, Trinidadian calypso musician.
• Thomas B. Bruton, 92, American major general.
• Alan Copeland, 96, American vocal conductor and singer.
• Jess E. DuBois, 88, American artist.
• Dick Flavin, 86, American poet.
• Akira Fujii, 81, Japanese astronomer.
• Abdul Hamid, 74, Indonesian voice actor.
• Arata Isozaki, 91, Japanese architect and urban planner, Pritzker Prize winner.
• František Jursa, 89, Czech Olympic cyclist.
• Derrick Knight, 93, British film director and producer.
• Volodymyr Kvurt, 55, Ukrainian entrepreneur and politician, member of the Lviv Oblast Council.
• Li Tianchu, 77, Chinese metrologist and academic, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
• Bennett McCallum, 87, American monetary economist.
• Jaishankar Menon, 66, Indian-American computer scientist, stroke.
• Avrion Mitchison, 94, British zoologist and immunologist.
• Harold Lloyd Murphy, 95, American jurist, judge of the U.S. District Court for Northern Georgia.
• Vladimir Nesterov, 73, Russian engineer, director of Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Center.
• Germain Anouman Ollo, 71, Ivorian businessman and politician, vice-president of the Senate.
• Valda Osborn, 88, British Olympic figure skater.
• Sun Jingliang, 92, Chinese rocket engineer and academic, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
• Linda de Suza, 74, Portuguese singer, COVID-19.
• Joan Sydney, 83, British-born Australian actress.
• Tony Vaccaro, 100, American photographer.
• Sribhashyam Vijayasarathi, 86, Indian writer, Sanskrit grammarian, and literary critic.
• Stefan Wever, 64, German-born American baseball player.

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• Eduard Artemyev, 85, Russian composer, People's Artist of Russia, complications from pneumonia.
• Pierre Bouladou, 97, French Olympic weightlifter.
• John Burnett, 87, English rugby league player.
• Keenan Cahill, 27, American internet celebrity, complications from heart surgery.
• Miroslav Číž, 68, Slovak politician, MEP and MP.
• Dave Davis, 80, American ten-pin bowler.
• Noël Dejonckheere, 67, Belgian road racing cyclist.
• Ruggero Deodato, 83, Italian film director, screenwriter and actor.
• Margriet Eshuijs, 70, Dutch singer.
• Gerry Gravelle, 88, Canadian Olympic ski jumper.
• Gerold Grodsky, 95, American biochemist.
• John Jackson, 80, English footballer.
• Catherine Kasavuli, 60, Kenyan news presenter, cervical cancer.
• Mihalj Kertes, 75, Serbian politician, minister without portfolio.
• Maximilian, Margrave of Baden, 89, German aristocrat, head of the house of Baden.
• Marion Meade, 88, American biographer and novelist.
• Norman A. Mordue, 80, American jurist, judge and chief judge of the U.S. District Court for Northern New York.
• Jackie Overfield, 90, English footballer.
• Pelé, 82, Brazilian footballer, world champion, multiple organ failure as complications from colon cancer.
• Prakash Poddar, 82, Indian cricketer.
• Rebecca Pratt, 55, American radio presenter.
• Shabana Rehman Gaarder, 46, Pakistani-born Norwegian stand-up comedian and columnist, pancreatic cancer.
• Mikko Saarinen, 76, Finnish Olympic boxer.
• Subrata Saha, 69, Indian politician, West Bengal MLA, complications from gallbladder surgery.
• Edgar Savisaar, 72, Estonian politician, prime minister of the interim government, minister of the interior and twice mayor of Tallinn.
• Jaysin Strife, 37, American professional wrestler.
• Dany Theis, 55, Luxembourgish football player and manager, complications from a heart attack and a fall.
• Joseph Ti-kang, 94, Taiwanese Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Taipei, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Ian Tyson, 89, Canadian singer and songwriter.
• Harry L. Van Trees, 92, American scientist.
• János Varga, 83, Hungarian wrestler, Olympic champion.
• Edward Weidenfeld, 79, American lawyer.
• Dame Vivienne Westwood, 81, British fashion designer.

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• Vladimer Barkaia, 85, Georgian footballer.
• Lino Benech, 75, Uruguayan Olympic cyclist.
• Graham Boal, 79, British judge and author, throat cancer.
• Peter G. Callas, 96, American politician, member of the Maryland House of Delegates.
• Włodzimierz Danek, 79, Polish Olympic sport shooter.
• Sir John Dellow, 91, British police officer.
• Robert Dowling, 83, American magazine publisher, cancer.
• Miklós Duray, 77, Slovak politician, Hungarian minority political representative in Slovakia, MP.
• Willard Gaylin, 97, American bioethicist and physician, co-founder of the Hastings Center.
• Brian Glencross, 81, Australian Olympic field hockey player, bronze medallist, silver medallist and coach.
• Rex Hartwig, 93, Australian tennis player.
• James Henderson Jr., 80, American politician, member of the Arizona Senate.
• Maurice Horn, 91, French-American comics historian and author.
• Tonya Ingram, 31, American poet, author and disability activist.
• Jian Xianfo, 107, Chinese revolutionary, lung infection.
• Raymond Lalonde, 82, American politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives.
• Li Jing, 92, Chinese military officer, commander of PLANAF.
• Richard J. Macy, 92, American jurist, chief justice of the Wyoming Supreme Court.
• Uche Nwaneri, 38, American football player.
• Terence O'Brien, 86, English-born New Zealand diplomat, ambassador to Belgium.
• Johnny Powers, 79, Canadian professional wrestler.
• Bruce Roberts, 80, American Hall of Fame curler, world champion.
• Jerry Siebert, 84, American Olympic runner.
• Eric Thomas, 49, American Olympic hurdler.
• Shmuel Toledano, 101, Israeli intelligence officer and politician, MK.
• Barbara Walters, 93, American Hall of Fame television journalist and talk show host.
• John Quinn Weitzel, 94, American Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Samoa-Pago Pago.
• Don West, 59, American commentator and pitchman, lymphoma.
• Don Williams, 100, American traditional pop singer.
• Janez Zemljarič, 94, Slovenian politician, prime minister of the Socialist Republic.

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• Sergei Bautin, 55, Russian ice hockey player, Olympic champion.
• Pope Benedict XVI, 95, German Roman Catholic prelate and theologian, pope, archbishop of Munich and Freising, cardiogenic shock from respiratory failure.
• Mohamed Cherkaoui, 101, Moroccan politician, minister of foreign affairs.
• Ginny Redington Dawes, 77, American songwriter, complications from cirrhosis.
• Brenda Dervin, 84, American mathematician.
• Barnabás Ferkó, 66, Slovak politician, MP.
• Jeremiah Green, 45, American indie rock drummer, cancer.
• Knut Hanselmann, 76, Norwegian politician, MP, cancer.
• Edward I-hsin Chen, 72, Taiwanese politician, MP.
• W. Stine Isenhower, 95, American politician, member of the North Carolina House of Representatives.
• Jiang Long, 89, Chinese physical chemist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
• Tom Karen, 96, Austrian-born British industrial designer.
• Kim Jung-man, 68, South Korean photographer, pneumonia.
• Daniel Labille, 90, French Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Soissons and Créteil.
• Barry Lane, 62, English golfer, cancer.
• Jaffar Khan Leghari, 81, Pakistani politician, MNA.
• Ralph Lenhart, 92, American politician, member of the Montana House of Representatives.
• John Martin-Dye, 82, British Olympic swimmer, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Dori Monson, 61, American radio host and actor.
• Anita Pointer, 74, American singer, cancer.
• Salvador Sánchez-Terán, 88, Spanish lawyer and politician, minister of transport and communications and of labour, deputy.
• Herb Snitzer, 90, American photographer, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Pietro Spada, 87, Italian pianist and musicologist.
• David Swinford, 81, American politician, member of the Texas House of Representatives.
• Miroslav Vacek, 87, Czech army general and politician, minister of national defense of Czechoslovakia, chief of the general staff of the Czechoslovak People's Army.
• Bert-Åke Varg, 90, Swedish actor and singer, heart attack.
• Wang Fosong, 89, Chinese polymer chemist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
• Darren Watts, 53, American game designer, complications from a heart attack.
• Karla Wilson, 88, American politician, member of the Washington House of Representatives.
• Cary Young, 83, New Zealand-born Australian game show host.
• Yu Dequan, 90, Chinese pharmaceutical chemist, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.