Deaths in December 2023

December 2023

1

• Ezan Akélé, 85, Ivorian politician.
• Tony Allen, 78, English comedian and writer, co-founder of Alternative Cabaret.
• Shlomo Avineri, 90, Israeli political scientist.
• Burny Bos, 79, Dutch film producer, screenwriter and children's author, mesothelioma.
• Gérard Bramoullé, 78, French economist and politician.
• Shaun Davis, 57, British bodybuilder, Mr. Universe winner.
• Leena de Silva, 87, Sri Lankan actress.
• Bruce Dickson, 92, Canadian ice hockey player, Olympic champion.
• Carissa Etienne, 71, Dominican physician, director of PAHO.
• Kiki Fatmala, 56, Indonesian actress, lung cancer.
• Brigit Forsyth, 83, Scottish actress.
• Heinz Gstrein, 81, Austrian-Swiss Oriental Orthodox theologian, foreign correspondent, and lecturer.
• Douglas Gutwein, 75, American politician.
• Hamish Hardie, 95, British Olympic sailor.
• Amira Hess, 80, Israeli poet, cancer.
• Joanne Hewson, 93, Canadian Olympic alpine skier.
• Viktor Kalashnikov, 83, Russian politician, governor of Voronezh Oblast.
• Daniel Langlois, 66, Canadian computer graphics pioneer and businessman, founder of Excentris and Softimage.
• Michel Le Milinaire, 92, French football player and manager.
• Richard McKenzie, 93, American actor.
• Sandra Day O'Connor, 93, American jurist, [Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States|associate Ministry of Justice (Israel)|justice of the Supreme Court], member of the Arizona Senate and chancellor of W&M, complications from dementia and respiratory illness.
• Charles Officer, 48, Canadian film director, screenwriter and actor.
• Winston Churchill Rea, 72, Northern Irish loyalist paramilitary commander.
• Lakhbir Singh Rode, 71, Indian Khalistani separatist, heart attack.
• Jerome K. Sherman, 98, American biologist.
• Lyle Elmer Strom, 98, American jurist, judge and chief judge of the U.S. District Court for Nebraska.
• Vivi-Anne Wassdahl, 91, Swedish Olympic alpine skier.
• Badar uz Zaman, 83, Pakistani classical singer.

2

• Medea Amiranashvili, 93, Georgian opera singer.
• Luís Araújo, 74, Portuguese military officer, chief of the general staff.
• Neville Callaghan, 77, Irish racehorse trainer.
• Maria Lisa Cinciari Rodano, 102, Italian politician, MP and MEP.
• A. Deivanayagam, 88, Indian politician, Tamil Nadu MLA.
• Felo García, 95, Costa Rican footballer, painter, and architect.
• Roy Gerson, 64, American jazz pianist.
• Stanley Graham, 97, American psychologist, president of the American Psychological Association.
• Walter Harms, 61, Paraguayan politician, deputy, plane crash.
• Joe Hicks, 91, American baseball player.
• Wolfgang Hollegha, 94, Austrian painter.
• Clarence Kelly, 82, American sedevacantist traditionalist Catholic prelate, superior general of the Society of Saint Pius V, cancer.
• V. Lakshmibai, 78, Indian mathematician.
• Maria Martin, 72, Mexican-American radio journalist, complications from surgery.
• Mike Maxfield, 79, English songwriter and guitarist.
• Janet Panetta, 74, American dancer and choreographer, brain cancer.
• Roberto Pazzi, 77, Italian novelist and poet.
• Saulius Pečeliūnas, 67, Lithuanian politician, MP and signatory of the act of re-establishment.
• Edwin J. Peterson, 93, American jurist, justice and chief justice of the Oregon Supreme Court.
• Jean Ristat, 80, French poet and writer.
• Sufian Tayeh, 52, Palestinian scientist, president of the Islamic University of Gaza, airstrike.
• Faustin Twagiramungu, 78, Rwandan politician, prime minister.
• Jun Urbano, 84, Filipino actor, film director and screenwriter, ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm.
• Concha Velasco, 84, Spanish actress, singer and television presenter.
• Ingrid Wigernæs, 95, Norwegian Olympic cross-country skier.
• Edwin Wilson, 96, American theater critic.

3

• Avraham Avi-hai, 92, Israeli civil servant, journalist and author.
• Giuseppe Germano Bernardini, 95, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of İzmir.
• Klaus Bernbacher, 92, German conductor.
• Chua Jui Meng, 80, Malaysian politician, minister of health and MP, heart attack.
• Peter d'Hamecourt, 77, Dutch journalist and writer, heart attack.
• Thanga Darlong, 103, Indian folk musician.
• Claude Engle, 85, American electrical engineer.
• Malin Falkenmark, 98, Swedish hydrologist.
• Andrea Fay Friedman, 53, American actress, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Léonard Gianadda, 88, Swiss journalist, engineer, and philanthropist, bone cancer.
• Gil Brother, 66, Brazilian humorist, actor, and Internet personality, complications from prostate and bladder cancer.
• Gaetano Giuliano, 94, Italian politician, acting president of Sicily.
• Myles Goodwyn, 75, Canadian musician and songwriter.
• Major Hazelton, 80, American football player.
• Sigurður Helgason, 96, Icelandic mathematician.
• Elsi Hetemäki, 96, Finnish politician, MP.
• Kim Soo-yong, 94, South Korean film director.
• Glenys Kinnock, Baroness Kinnock of Holyhead, 79, British politician, MEP, member of the House of Lords, and minister of state for Europe, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Ma Sen, 91, Taiwanese playwright and literary critic.
• Terry Maple, 77, American ethologist.
• Doni Monardo, 60, Indonesian military officer, head of the NADC, commander of Kodam III/Siliwangi and Kodam XVI/Pattimura, complications from a stroke.
• Jerome O'Neill, 77, American attorney, U.S. attorney for the District of Vermont, cancer.
• Martin Patching, 65, English footballer.
• Santo Pezzutti, 101, Italian-American artist.
• Leontiy Sandulyak, 86, Ukrainian political figure, scientist, and diplomat.
• Yacouba Sawadogo, 77, Burkinabé farmer and agronomist.
• Lawrence Sifuna, 77, Kenyan politician, MP.
• James Robert Slagle, 89, American computer scientist.
• Idrissa Traoré, 79, Burkinabé footballer.
• Valery Vishnichenko, 74, Kazakh politician, MP.

4

• Abang Abu Bakar, 82, Malaysian politician, MP.
• Peter R. Adam, 66, German film editor.
• Zdzisław Antolski, 70, Polish poet.
• Suren Babayan, 73, Armenian film director and actor.
• Juanita Castro, 90, Cuban political dissident.
• David Colander, 76, American economist.
• Gerald Comeau, 77, Canadian politician, MP and senator, cancer.
• Lütfi Doğan, 93, Turkish theologian and politician, senator and MP, president of the Diyanet.
• James L. Easton, 88, American businessman, philanthropist, and Hall of Fame archer, president of the World Archery Federation.
• Marius Frattini, 82, French rugby league player.
• Erol Madison Gwion, 59, Liberian politician, member of the House of Representatives.
• Hadžem Hajdarević, 67, Bosnian writer.
• Grete Knudsen, 83, Norwegian politician, MP, minister of social affairs and three-times of trade.
• Sakari Knuuttila, 93, Finnish politician, MP.
• Queta Lavat, 94, Mexican actress.
• Stefano Menicacci, 92, Italian politician, deputy.
• Peta Murphy, 50, Australian politician, MP, breast cancer.
• Norman F. Ness, 90, American geophysicist.
• David Powell, 79, Welsh footballer.
• Vlado Pravdić, 73, Bosnian keyboardist.
• Suminda Sirisena, 75, Sri Lankan actor.
• Josef Vacenovský, 86, Czech footballer.
• Volodia Vaisman, 85, Romanian-born French chess player.
• Edgar S. Woolard Jr., 89, American businessman.

5

• Juan Pablo Adame, 38, Mexican politician, deputy, stomach cancer.
• Prince Constantin of Liechtenstein, 51, Liechtensteiner royal.
• Lionel Dahmer, 87, American chemist and writer, heart attack.
• Richard J. Daschbach, 87, American politician, commissioner of the Federal Maritime Commission and member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives.
• Mama Diabaté, 63, Guinean singer and musician.
• Paul Dibble, 80, New Zealand sculptor.
• Ron Fernandes, 72, American football player.
• Jean Garnault, 98, French politician, mayor of Auxerre.
• Vojislav Govedarica, 82–83, Serbian-American actor.
• Mirush Kabashi, 75, Albanian actor.
• Denny Laine, 79, English Hall of Fame musician and songwriter, interstitial lung disease.
• Norman Lear, 101, American Hall of Fame television writer and producer, cardiac arrest.
• Abdul Malik, 94, Bangladeshi cardiac surgeon, minister of health and family welfare, national professor.
• Lawrence Steven Meyers, 67, American actor and film producer.
• Kojiro Nakamura, 87, Japanese Islamic scholar, subdural hematoma.
• Dinesh Phadnis, 57, Indian actor, liver damage.
• John Poston, 65, American politician, complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• John Rumble, 90, Canadian equestrian, Olympic bronze medallist.
• Rosemary Smith, 86, Irish rally driver, cancer.
• Ranjit Singh Talwandi, 67, Indian politician, Punjab MLA.
• Aatqall Taúaa, 74, Iraqi sculptor, film critic and novelist.
• Wolfgang Wieland, 75, German lawyer and politician, MP.

6

• Refaat Alareer, 44, Palestinian writer, professor and activist, airstrike.
• Tore Aleksandersen, 55, Norwegian volleyball coach, prostate cancer.
• Joseph Bernardo, 94, French swimmer, Olympic bronze medallist.
• Fran Bladel, 90, Australian politician, Tasmania MHA.
• Natalya Bogomolova, 83, Russian animator.
• Alfredo Bonanno, 86, Italian anarchist.
• Ennio Candotti, 81, Italian-born Brazilian physicist and scientific leader.
• Dean Crawford, 65, Canadian rower, Olympic champion.
• Cilly Dartell, 66, Dutch television presenter and actress, lung cancer.
• Vic Davalillo, 84, Venezuelan baseball player.
• Emmanuelle Debever, 60, French actress, drowned.
• Edmundo Desnoes, 93, Cuban writer.
• Amos Ettinger, 86, Israeli poet, songwriter, and radio presenter.
• Neville Hayes, 88, Australian rules footballer.
• Jack Hogan, 94, American actor.
• Ellen Holly, 92, American actress.
• Arve Johnsen, 89, Norwegian politician and industrial executive, chief executive of Statoil.
• Noël Kinsella, 84, Canadian politician, senator and speaker of the Senate.
• Michael A. Knibb, 84, English biblical scholar.
• Mirosława Krajewska, 83, Polish actress.
• Illia Kyva, 46, Ukrainian politician, people's deputy, shot.
• Barbara Levick, 92, British historian and epigrapher.
• Marisa Pavan, 91, Italian actress.
• Richard Pilbrow, 90, British stage lighting designer, author and theatre design consultant.
• Michel Sardaby, 88, French jazz pianist.
• John Brooks Slaughter, 89, American electrical engineer.
• Michael H. Stone, 90, American forensic psychiatrist and writer, complications from a stroke.
• Jimmy Villotti, 79, Italian musician.
• Mike Wegener, 77, American baseball player, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
• Dave Wehrmeister, 71, American baseball player.
• Kevin Wylie, 90, Australian footballer.
• Yang Ching-shun, 45, Taiwanese pool player, world champion, cancer.
• Nur Yasin, 69, Indonesian politician, MP.

7

• Bijan Allipour, 74, Iranian petroleum executive, chairman of NISOC.
• Ramón Ayala, 96, Argentine poet, singer and writer, pneumonia.
• Terry Baucom, 71, American bluegrass singer and banjo player, Lewy body dementia.
• Pierre Berthelot, 80, French mathematician.
• Christopher Bulstrode, 72, British academic.
• Zita Carno, 88, American pianist.
• Lola Dee, 95, American singer.
• Aleksandr Dronov, 77, Russian chess grandmaster.
• Jacques Duquesne, 83, Belgian footballer.
• David Ellenson, 76, American rabbi and academic administrator, president of HUC-JIR.
• Bent Fuglede, 98, Danish mathematician.
• George Goninon, 96, Australian rules footballer.
• Hamka Haq, 71, Indonesian academician and politician, MP.
• Ann Hardy, 90, American computer programmer.
• Ernst Jansen Steur, 78, Dutch neurologist, pneumonia.
• Bob Jones, 72, American football player.
• Thomas Kilroy, 89, Irish playwright and novelist.
• Ken Long, 70, American football player.
• Alan Longhurst, 98, British-born Canadian oceanographer.
• John McBeth, 79, New Zealand author and journalist.
• Jacqueline Mesmaeker, 93, Belgian plastic artist.
• Emiko Miyamoto, 86, Japanese volleyball player, Olympic champion, sepsis.
• Vera Molnár, 99, Hungarian media artist.
• Gerhard Reber, 86, German organizational theorist and professor of management and organizational behavior.
• Stan Rogow, 75, American television producer.
• Alberto Ruz Buenfil, 78, Mexican environmental activist.
• Sang Guowei, 82, Chinese pharmacologist and politician, vice chairperson of the SCNPC and member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
• Guy Stern, 101, German-American intelligence officer.
• Şükrü Yürür, 79, Turkish politician and economist, minister of industry and technology, MP.
• Benjamin Zephaniah, 65, British poet, writer and actor, brain tumour.

8

• Clyde Butts, 66, Guyanese cricketer, traffic collision.
• Itziar Castro, 46, Spanish actress, cardiac arrest.
• Michel Dovaz, 95, Swiss wine critic and food writer.
• Frank Fiscalini, 101, American politician and educator.
• David Gell, 94, Canadian radio and television presenter.
• Carlos Jurado, 76, Uruguayan football player and manager, cardiac arrest.
• Richard Kerr, 78, English singer, songwriter and composer.
• Peter-Michael Kolbe, 70, German rower, Olympic silver medalist.
• Leelavathi, 86, Indian actress.
• Charles A. Legge, 93, American jurist, judge and of the U.S. District Court for Northern California.
• Jack Martin, 83, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Marlene McDonald, 64, Trinidadian politician, MP
• Junior Mehmood, 67, Indian actor and singer, stomach cancer.
• Luigi Milan, 85, Italian footballer and manager.
• Jean-Pierre Moulin, 101, Swiss journalist, writer and author.
• Ryan O'Neal, 82, American actor and boxer, congestive heart failure.
• Kanam Rajendran, 73, Indian politician, Kerala MLA, heart attack.
• Alan Raph, 90, American trombonist, composer and arranger, traffic collision.
• Mohan Singh Rawat, Indian politician, Uttarakhand MLA.
• Joe Solomon, 93, Guyanese cricketer.
• Speightstown, 25, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
• Tony Tarantino, 83, American actor and producer.
• Len Templar, 92, Australian rules footballer.
• Yayu Unru, 61, Indonesian actor and acting coach.
• Paul Unruh, 95, American college basketball player.
• Paul Webb, 94, American college basketball coach.
• Wei Jinshan, 96, Chinese vice admiral, political commissioner of PLAN, and deputy.

9

• Rehmat Shah Afridi, 74, Pakistani journalist.
• Gene Aubry, 88, American architect.
• Edward Baugh, 87, Jamaican poet and scholar.
• George Getzel Cohen, 96, South African-Australian radiologist.
• Paul F. Crowley, 89, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
• Mort Engelberg, 86, American film producer and advance man.
• Larisa Gershtein, 72, Soviet-born Israeli politician, deputy mayor of Jerusalem.
• Raymond E. Goedert, 96, American Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Chicago.
• Dærick Gröss Sr., 76, American illustrator and writer, cancer.
• Maxim Gustik, 35, Belarusian Olympic freestyle skier, traffic collision.
• Mary Ann Handley, 87, American politician, member of the Connecticut State Senate.
• Thomas Haug, 96, Norwegian-Swedish electrical engineer.
• Jim Heighton, 79, Canadian football player, complications from dementia.
• Mainul Hosein, 83, Bangladeshi lawyer and politician, MP, cancer.
• Walter Leiser, 92, Swiss rower, Olympic silver medalist.
• Willie McCulloch, 75, Scottish football player and manager.
• Hartland Monahan, 72, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Carles Soler Perdigó, 91, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Barcelona and bishop of Girona.
• Graham Petrie, 83, Scottish-Canadian author and academic.
• Kenneth Ringsrød, 54, Norwegian footballer.
• Reiner Stenzel, 84, German-born American plasma physicist.
• Mike Urquhart, 65, Canadian-British Hall of Fame ice hockey player.
• Gordon Vejprava, 90, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Charlie Wallace, 75, American basketball player.
• Frank Wycheck, 52, American football player, complications from a fall.

10

• Michel Bertraneu, 74, French Olympic equestrian.
• Michael Blakemore, 95, Australian theatre director.
• Philip Bushill-Matthews, 80, British businessman and politician, MEP.
• Julian Carroll, 92, American politician, governor and lieutenant governor of Kentucky, member of the Kentucky Senate.
• Chen Lip Keong, 75, Malaysian gambling industry executive, founder of NagaCorp.
• Michael L. Cowan, 78, American navy admiral.
• David Drake, 78, American writer.
• James P. Dunleavy, 84, American politician.
• Shirley Anne Field, 87, English actress.
• Gao Yaojie, 95, Chinese gynecologist and dissident.
• Barbara Iglewski, 85, American microbiologist.
• Jonathan Irwin, 82, British-Irish auctioneer and philanthropist.
• Orland Lindsay, 95, Antiguan Anglican clergyman, bishop of Antigua and archbishop of the West Indies.
• Graziella Magherini, 96, Italian psychiatrist.
• Edna Mazia, 74, Israeli playwright.
• Bill McCarthy, 87, Irish hurler and Gaelic footballer.
• Syd Millar, 89, Northern Irish rugby union player, coach, and executive, chairman of the IRB.
• Theo Öhlinger, 84, Austrian constitutional scholar and educator.
• Mariya Pisareva, 90, Russian athlete, Olympic silver medallist.
• James L. Robertson, 83, American jurist, justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.
• Melker Schörling, 76, Swedish businessman.
• Cliff Simpson, 95, New Zealand middle-distance runner.
• Bert Stenfeldt, 90, Swedish Air Force officer.
• Chuck Stern, 44, American composer, musician, and writer.
• Mark Villiger, 73, Swiss judge, justice of the European Court of Human Rights.
• Norby Walters, 91, American music and sports agent.

11

• Shūji Abe, 74, Japanese film producer.
• Mahlon Apgar IV, 82, American government and business consultant, cancer.
• Andre Braugher, 61, American actor, Emmy winner, lung cancer.
• Ivan Čeliković, 34, Croatian footballer.
• Alain Chartrand, 77, Canadian film director and screenwriter.
• Paul Chevigny, 88, American lawyer and author.
• Kathy Chow, 57, Hong Kong actress and singer, lupus.
• Phil Cooley, 72, Australian rugby league referee.
• Jeffrey Foskett, 67, American singer, songwriter, and producer, thyroid cancer.
• Ian Gibson, 77, British comic book artist, cancer.
• Kenny Graham, 82, American football player.
• Abdelhafid Kadiri, 96, Moroccan politician, minister of youth and sport.
• Ferdinand Keller, 77, German footballer.
• Ken Kelsch, 76, American cinematographer, COVID-19 and pneumonia.
• Osamu Kido, 73, Japanese professional wrestler, cancer.
• Randy Legge, 77, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Essra Mohawk, 75, American singer-songwriter.
• Paulin Obame-Nguema, 88, Gabonese politician, prime minister.
• Jim Paronto, 80, American football player and coach.
• Edgar Quinteros, 83, Bolivian footballer.
• Renée, 94, New Zealand feminist writer and playwright.
• Eduard Rius, 70, Spanish physician, minister of health and social assistance of Catalonia and member of the Catalan parliament.
• Ahmad Salim, 78, Pakistani poet and literary scholar.
• John "Rambo" Stevens, 66, English music producer and manager, aortic dissection.
• Camden Toy, 68, American actor and film editor, pancreatic cancer.
• Frank Twomey, 68, Irish children's television entertainer.
• Zahara, 36, South African singer, liver disease.

12

• Bob Allen, 86, American baseball player.
• Johari Amini, 88, American author and poet.
• Babken Ararktsyan, 79, Armenian politician, president of the National Assembly and chairman of the Supreme Council.
• Jean-François Bach, 83, French medical professor, biologist and immunologist.
• Shirley Barber, 88, English author.
• Yevgeny Belousov, 61, Russian luger, Olympic silver medallist.
• Yitzhak Ben-Bashat, 44, Israeli IDF officer, killed in action.
• Ama Bame Busia, 87, Ghanaian politician, member of the Council of State.
• William G. Connolly, 86, American newspaper editor, complications from a fall.
• Jakob Margido Esp, 80, Norwegian actor and writer.
• Richard Gaddes, 81, English arts administrator.
• Hiroshi Hasegawa, 89, Japanese Grand Prix motorcycle racer.
• Zurab Karumidze, 66, Georgian writer and culturologist.
• Adriano Marques de Magallanes, 98, Spanish businessman, diplomat and politician, deputy and senator.
• Larry Miggins, 98, American baseball player.
• Kostas Nestoridis, 93, Greek football player and manager.
• Ole Paus, 76, Norwegian singer and songwriter.
• J. G. A. Pocock, 99, New Zealand historian of political thought.
• Albert Stone, 95, American businessman and philanthropist.
• Mario Valdemarin, 96, Italian actor, COVID-19.
• Craig Watkins, 56, American lawyer and politician, district attorney for Dallas County, Texas.

13

• Charlie Allan, 84, Scottish farmer, athlete and economist.
• Yılmaz Atadeniz, 91, Turkish film director, producer and screenwriter, COVID-19.
• Hermann Brede, 100, German architect.
• Bill Burgess, 82, American football player and coach.
• Gene Carr, 72, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Anda Caropol, 84, Romanian actress.
• Kenny DeForest, 37, American comedian, traffic collision.
• Julia Gentleman, 92, American politician, member of the Iowa State House of Representatives and Iowa State Senate.
• Wolfgang Glück, 94, Austrian film director and screenwriter.
• Peter Godsoe, 85, Canadian banker, CEO of Scotiabank.
• Mike Grgich, 100, Croatian-American winemaker.
• Ernő Gubányi, 73, Hungarian Olympic handball player.
• Antonio Juliano, 80, Italian footballer.
• Steve Junker, 88, American football player.
• Lech Konopiński, 92, Polish poet and writer.
• K. Kunhiraman, 80, Indian politician, Kerala MLA.
• Wojciech Łazarek, 86, Polish footballer and football manager.
• Paul Litjens, 76, Dutch Olympic field hockey player.
• Wilf Lunn, 81, British inventor, prop maker and TV presenter.
• Roger McMurrin, 84, American conductor and pastor.
• Zofia Merle, 85, Polish actress.
• Ted Morgan, 91, French-American historian, complications from dementia.
• Verica Nedeljković, 94, Serbian chess player.
• Ann Newdigate, 89, South African-born Canadian fibre artist.
• Maâmar Ousser, 88, Algerian footballer.
• Geraldine Peten, 75, American politician, member of the Arizona House of Representatives.
• Ram Prakash, 84, Indian politician, MP and Haryana MLA.
• Arfanul Haque Rifat, 65, Bangladeshi politician, mayor of Cumilla.
• Maria Rozanova, 93, Russian publisher, editor, and political dissident.
• Derek Stirling, 62, New Zealand cricketer, cancer.
• Dick Tommel, 81, Dutch politician, MP.
• Ramón Enrique Torres, 71, Puerto Rican journalist and news anchor, throat cancer.
• John Wade, 95, American Olympic rower.
• Wolfram Waibel Sr., 76, Austrian five-time Olympic sports shooter.
• Des White, 96, New Zealand Hall of Fame rugby league player and coach.
• Margaret Whiting, 90, British actress.

14

• Selma Archerd, 98, American actress.
• Qapik Attagutsiak, 103, Canadian Inuit World War II war effort contributor.
• Cari Beauchamp, 74, American author, journalist, and documentary filmmaker.
• Clyde Berry, 92, American football and baseball player and coach.
• Hasan Bitmez, 53, Turkish politician, MP, complications from a heart attack.
• Curt Brunnée, 95, German physicist.
• Chen Wen-hui, 80, Taiwanese educator and politician, member of the Legislative Yuan, liver cancer.
• Betty Cooper Hearnes, 96, American politician, first lady of Missouri and member of the Missouri House of Representatives.
• Ghislain de Diesbach, 92, French writer and biographer.
• Willie Dunne, 90, Irish Olympic runner.
• Chukwuemeka Ezeife, 86, Nigerian politician, governor of Anambra State.
• Rudolf Hrubý, 69, Slovak businessman, president of HC Slovan Bratislava, stroke.
• Tomáš Janovic, 86, Slovak writer, playwright and poet.
• Allen Kerr, 97, Scottish-born Australian biologist.
• Lance Kinder, 88, British tennis player.
• Liu Ho-chien, 97, Taiwanese admiral, commander of the navy and chief of the general staff.
• Ken MacKenzie, 89, Canadian baseball player.
• Hanzala Malik, 67, Scottish politician, MSP.
• George McGinnis, 73, American Hall of Fame basketball player, complications from cardiac arrest.
• Gus Morrison, 88, American politician, mayor of Fremont, California.
• Yevgeniy Perventsev, 97, Russian government official, head of the KGB of the Tajik SSR.
• Lee Redmond, 82, American world record holder, longest fingernails on both hands.
• Ra. Sankaran, 92, Indian film director and actor.
• James Templer, 87, British Olympic equestrian and army officer, complications of Alzheimer's disease.
• Amerigo Thodé, 73, Curaçaoan politician, president of the Parliament.
• Marge Villa, 98, American baseball player.
• Howard Weaver, 73, American journalist and newspaper executive, Pulitzer Prize winner, pancreatic cancer.
• Yehuda Yannay, 86, Israeli composer.

15

• Samer Abu Daqqa, 46, Palestinian-Belgian video journalist, airstrike.
• Jim Ashmore, 88, American basketball player.
• Abdulaziz Al-Babtain, 87, Kuwaiti poet.
• Sir Tim Brighouse, 83, British educator.
• Anup Ghoshal, 78, Indian playback singer and film composer.
• Steve Halliwell, 77, English actor and singer.
• Bob Johnson, 79, British guitarist, singer and songwriter.
• Sherryl Jordan, 74, New Zealand writer.
• Guy Marchand, 86, French actor, musician and singer.
• Bruno Santon, 81, Italian footballer.
• Hans Selander, 78, Swedish football player and manager.
• Tang Xiao'ou, 55, Chinese computer scientist, founder of SenseTime.
• Hannu Vaahtoranta, 80, Finnish Olympic swimmer.
• K. P. Viswanathan, 83, Indian politician.

16

• Óscar Agudelo, 91, Colombian musician, complications from Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases.
• Sailakshmi Balijepally, 48, Indian paediatrician.
• Colin Burgess, 77, Australian rock drummer.
• Peter Bush, 93, New Zealand photographer and sportswriter.
• Ann Elizabeth Carson, 94, Canadian poet.
• Jayanta Das, 54, Indian actor, liver disease.
• Beatriz Abril de Leal, 84, Colombian politician and lawyer, governor of Meta Department.
• Larry V. Faircloth, 75, American politician, member of the West Virginia House of Delegates.
• Joseph Finnegan, 81, Irish jurist, judge and president of the High Court, judge of the Supreme Court.
• Rolando Garbey, 76, Cuban boxer, Olympic silver medalist, amateur world champion, cardiac arrest.
• Richard Hunt, 88, American sculptor.
• Scott Lautenbaugh, 59, American politician, member of the Nebraska Legislature.
• Sebastiano Lo Monaco, 65, Italian actor.
• Carlos Lyra, 90, Brazilian singer and composer.
• Mike McRae, 68, American Olympic long jumper.
• Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, 86, Kuwaiti royal, emir.
• Antonio Negri, 90, Italian philosopher and politician, deputy and founder of Potere Operaio.
• Rosita Pelayo, 64, Mexican actress, colon cancer.
• Bert Peletier, 86, Dutch mathematician.
• Lorenzo Riva, 85, Italian fashion designer.
• Oleg Ryakhovskiy, 90, Russian triple jumper.
• Kenpachiro Satsuma, 76, Japanese actor and stuntman, pneumonia.
• Mathieu Segers, 47, Dutch historian, colorectal cancer.
• Bernd Siebert, 74, German politician, MP.
• Gyula Szabó Nagy, 79, Hungarian Olympic boxer.
• Theodore Y. Wu, 99, Chinese-born American engineer.

17

• José Luis Abellán, 90, Spanish philosopher.
• John Ashford, 79, British theatre director, prostate cancer.
• Norma Barzman, 103, American screenwriter.
• John Biehl, 84, Chilean lawyer, political scientist, and diplomat, minister secretary-general of the Presidency.
• Florence de la Courtie-Billat, 88, French tennis player.
• Linda van Dyck, 75, Dutch actress.
• Amp Fiddler, 65, American musician, composer, and record producer.
• Gurdev Singh Gill, 92, Indian-born Canadian physician.
• Otar Iosseliani, 89, Georgian film director and screenwriter.
• Reggie Lacefield, 78, American basketball player.
• Jim Ladd, 75, American disc jockey, radio producer and writer, heart attack.
• Hwa-Wei Lee, 92, Chinese-born American librarian.
• Kuntoro Mangkusubroto, 76, Indonesian politician, minister of energy and mineral resources.
• Philippe Martin, 57, French economist, chairman of the Conseil d'Analyse Économique.
• James McCaffrey, 65, American actor, multiple myeloma.
• Eric Montross, 52, American basketball player, cancer.
• Nikola Padevsky, 90, Bulgarian chess grandmaster.
• Camillus Perera, 84, Sri Lankan cartoonist.
• Roy Roebuck, 94, British journalist and politician, MP.
• Sam Silas, 83, American football player.
• Maureen Flavin Sweeney, 100, Irish postmistress.
• Terao Tsunefumi, 60, Japanese sumo wrestler.
• Ronaldo Valdez, 76, Filipino actor, suicide by gunshot.
• Robert Wahl, 96, American football player.
• Lionel Wickrama, 77, Sri Lankan actor.

18

• Sulaiman Abdullah, 77, Malaysian lawyer.
• Giovanni Anselmo, 89, Italian visual artist.
• Sir Norman Arthur, 92, British military officer and Olympic equestrian, GOC Scotland and Lord Lieutenant of Kirkcudbright.
• Ronnie Caryl, 70, English guitarist.
• Olive Clarke, 101, English farmer.
• Irwin Cohen, 90, American real estate developer.
• Bronislovas Genzelis, 89, Lithuanian politician, MP and signatory of the Act of Re-Establishment.
• John Godfrey, 81, Canadian politician, MP.
• Dan Greenburg, 87, American writer, complications from a stroke.
• Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila, 60, Finnish Islamic scholar.
• Dmitry Krasilov, 29, Russian dancer, endocrinopathy.
• Valery Lagunov, 81, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer.
• Lao Rongzhi, 48, Chinese serial killer, executed.
• Bo Larsson, 79, Swedish footballer.
• David Maxwell, 72, British rower, Olympic silver medalist.
• Arno J. Mayer, 97, Luxembourgish-born American historian.
• Abderrahim Ouakili, 53, Moroccan footballer.
• Susanna Parigi, 62, Italian singer-songwriter and pianist.
• Lewis Pragasam, 66, Malaysian jazz fusion drummer, heart attack.
• Brian Price, 86, Welsh rugby union player.

19

• Ed Budde, 83, American football player.
• Andy Clements, 68, English footballer.
• Frank Collazo Jr., 92, American politician, member of the Texas House of Representatives.
• Darryl Cowie, 62, Australian footballer.
• Giulio De Stefano, 94, Italian sailor, Olympic bronze medallist.
• Mark Elvin, 85, Australian Sinologist.
• Oliver Emanuel, 43, English playwright and radio dramatist, brain cancer.
• Gunther Emmerlich, 79, German operatic bass and television presenter.
• Bruce Gilberd, 85, New Zealand Anglican clergyman, bishop of Auckland.
• V. Mohini Giri, 85, Indian social worker, chairperson of the National Commission for Women.
• Janusz Gortat, 75, Polish boxer, Olympic bronze medallist.
• Lyda Green, 85, American politician, member and president of the Alaska Senate.
• Edith Hemenway, 96, American composer and pianist.
• Charles H. Holbrow, 88, American physicist.
• Bram Inscore, 41, American musician, songwriter and producer, suicide.
• Jiang Ping, 93, Chinese legal scholar, president of the CUPL.
• Boro Jovanović, 84, Croatian tennis player.
• Stefan Olszowski, 92, Polish politician, minister of foreign affairs.
• K. M. Peyton, 94, British author.
• Joseph Henry Smith, 78, Ghanaian military officer and diplomat, minister for defence and chief of army staff.
• Bryan Thomas, 95, English architect.
• Karl Volkmer, 101, Swiss Olympic sprinter.

20

• Dennis Avoth, 76, Welsh boxer.
• Andrea Barberi, 44, Italian sprinter.
• Carl Barzilauskas, 72, American football player.
• Mohammad Youssef Beydoun, 92, Lebanese politician.
• Antonio Burgos, 80, Spanish journalist, novelist, and multi-media writer.
• Franco Cozzo, 88, Italian-Australian businessman.
• Khadijo Mohamed Diriye, 74, Somali politician, minister for women and human rights and youth and sports.
• Johnny Flaherty, 74, Irish hurler.
• Philip H. Hayes, 83, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives and Indiana Senate.
• Tambusamy Krishnan, 79, Malaysian Olympic sprinter.
• James Kelsey McConica, 93, Canadian Roman Catholic priest and academic.
• Eric Moyo, 41, Zimbabwean gospel singer, brain bleed.
• Jeff Oaks, 59, American poet and essayist.
• Yıldıray Pağda, 85, Turkish Olympic athlete.
• Pat Quartermain, 86, English footballer.
• Atiqur Rahman, 92, Bangladeshi lieutenant general, chief of army staff and director general of Bangladesh Rifles, heart attack.
• Frank Riggs, 73, American politician and charter school executive, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
• Harrie Smeets, 63, Dutch Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Roermond, brain tumour.
• Torben Ulrich, 95, Danish tennis player, writer and musician.

21

• Carmen Barros, 98, Chilean actress, singer and theatre director.
• David Donachie, 79, British historical novelist, cancer.
• Martin Feeley, 73, Irish Olympic rower and surgeon.
• Rebekka Habermas, 64, German historian.
• Robert Harland, 88, American actor.
• Lenka Hlávková, 49, Czech musicologist, music historian and academic, shot.
• Camille Huyghe, 93, French racing cyclist.
• Norbert Kindlmann, 79, German Olympic rower.
• John C. Kornblum, 80, American diplomat, ambassador to Germany.
• Paula Murphy, 95, American Hall of Fame racing driver.
• David L. Norvell, 88, American politician, attorney general of New Mexico and member of the New Mexico House of Representatives.
• Cristina Pacheco, 82, Mexican journalist and television presenter.
• Roger Pomerleau, 76, Canadian politician, MP.
• Frederic Raurell, 93, Spanish Capuchin and theologian, co-founder of the Catalan Journal of Theology.
• Josefa Saniel, 98, Filipino scholar, dean of University of the Philippines Asian Center.
• Robert Solow, 99, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• Alexei Starobinsky, 75, Russian astrophysicist and cosmologist.
• Ricardo Taja Ramírez, 40, Mexican politician, deputy, shot.
• Dick Thoenen, 79, American baseball player.
• Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova, 86, Salvadoran military officer, head of the national guard and minister of national defense.
• Carl Webb, 42, Australian rugby league player, complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

22

• Tom Bogs, 79, Danish Olympic boxer.
• Andy Brandt, 85, Canadian politician, Ontario MPP.
• Frank Cassenti, 78, French stage and film director and screenwriter.
• Jorge Cauas, 89, Chilean economist and politician, minister of finance and ambassador to the United States.
• Aleksei Chernavskii, 85, Russian mathematician.
• Oliver Everett, 80, British diplomat and public servant, Royal Librarian.
• Howard Fargo, 95, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
• Dimas Filgueiras, 79, Brazilian Olympic footballer.
• Eva Hauserová, 69, Czech journalist and writer.
• Imroz, 97, Indian visual artist and poet.
• Sajid Khan, 71, Indian actor and singer, cancer.
• John Mairai, 78, French Polynesian poet, actor, and playwright.
• Micha Michaely, 95, Israeli economist.
• Heike Matthiesen, 59, German classical guitarist, cancer.
• Ryan Minor, 49, American baseball player, colon cancer.
• Ian Punnett, 63, American radio broadcaster, author and academic, liver disease.
• Armando Sardi, 83, Italian Olympic sprinter.
• Ruth Seymour, 88, American radio executive.
• Garly Sojo, 24, Venezuelan basketball player, complications from an epileptic seizure.
• Pratap Narayanrao Sonawane, 75, Indian politician, MP and Maharashtra MLC.
• Ingrid Steeger, 76, German actress, intestinal obstruction.
• Naser Tahmasb, 84, Iranian actor and voice actor, stroke.
• Giancarlo Tesini, 94, Italian politician, minister of transport and deputy.
• Thomas Williams, 93, New Zealand Roman Catholic cardinal, archbishop of Wellington.
• Zhu Ling, 50, Chinese thallium poisoning victim, brain cancer.

23

• Iván Almeida, 45, Paraguayan football player and manager, complications from aortic valve surgery.
• Hugh Aynesworth, 92, American journalist and author.
• Bernard Bem, 87, Polish footballer.
• Paul Cameron, 91, American football player.
• Izabella Cywińska, 88, Polish theater and film director, and film critic.
• John Greenwood, 89, Australian politician.
• Fredrik Heffermehl, 85, Norwegian peace activist, president of the Norwegian Peace Council.
• Murad Kajlayev, 92, Russian composer and conductor, People's Artist of the USSR.
• Rihupisa Justus Kandando, 60, Namibian politician, president of SWANU.
• Roman Krutsyk, 78, Ukrainian politician, MP, director of Museum of Soviet Occupation.
• Dejumo Lewis, 80, Nigerian actor.
• Samboy Lim, 61, Filipino basketball player.
• Lynn Loring, 80, American actress and television and film producer.
• Bonda Mani, 60, Indian actor and comedian, kidney failure.
• David W. McAlpin, 78, American linguist.
• Lisandro Meza, 86, Colombian singer and accordionist, complications from a stroke.
• Mike Nussbaum, 99, American actor.
• Frank Okey, 104, American tennis and squash player.
• Harold Osher, 99, American cardiologist.
• William Pope.L, 68, American visual artist.
• Michael Radulescu, 80, Romanian-German composer.
• M. M. Rajendran, 88, Indian civil servant, governor of Odisha.
• Richard Rampton, 82, British libel lawyer.
• Richard Romanus, 80, American actor.
• Peter Schiller, 92, German-born American neuroscientist.
• Yoshikatsu Takeiri, 97, Japanese politician, MP, pneumonia.
• James Weldishofer, 94, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives.
• Lynne Zylstra, 78, New Zealand artist.

24

• Cheri Barry, 68, American politician, mayor of Meridian, Mississippi.
• Joseph Berger, 99, American sociologist and social psychologist.
• David Bookbinder, 82, British politician.
• Richard Bowes, 79, American science fiction author.
• Len Cella, 86, American actor and director, traffic collision.
• Tibor Czibere, 93, Hungarian engineer, university professor, minister of education.
• Troy Dargan, 26, Australian rugby league player, traffic collision.
• Mary Dawson, 81, Canadian lawyer and civil servant, conflict of interest and ethics commissioner.
• Kamar de los Reyes, 56, Puerto Rican actor, cancer.
• Naomi Feil, 91, American gerontologist.
• Richard Franklin, 87, English actor, writer and director.
• Eveline Gottzein, 92, German engineer and university professor.
• José Haring, 83, German Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Limoeiro do Norte.
• Vasilis Karras, 70, Greek laïko singer, complications from cancer and COVID-19.
• Rex Kodippili, 85, Sri Lankan actor.
• Miro Kwasnica, 88, Canadian politician.
• David Leland, 82, British film director, screenwriter, BAFTA winner, and actor.
• David Libai, 89, Israeli jurist and politician, MK, minister of justice and interior.
• Melika Mohammadi, 23, Iranian footballer, traffic collision.
• Ron Nelson, 94, American composer.
• Ngethe Njoroge, 95, Kenyan diplomat, high commissioner to the United Kingdom.
• Alice Parker, 98, American composer, arranger, and choral conductor.
• Nisar Qadri, 82, Pakistani actor.
• Kazimieras Ragulskis, 97, Lithuanian engineer, member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences.
• Harry Rosen, 92, Canadian menswear retailer, founder of Harry Rosen Inc.
• Hazel Rossotti, 93, British chemist.
• Willie Ruff, 92, American jazz musician and educator.
• Reggie Savage, 53, Canadian ice hockey player, cancer.
• Bjørn Skogstad Aamo, 77, Norwegian politician and economist, director of the Financial Supervisory Authority of Norway.
• Sherif Sonbol, 67, Egyptian photographer.
• Paul Tapponnier, 76, French geologist.
• Mike Weston, 85, English rugby union player.
• Milan Zeleny, 81, Czech-American economist.

25

• Yehoshua Ben-Arieh, 95, Israeli geographer, rector of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
• Frieder Birzele, 83, German politician, member of the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg.
• Anthony Dias Blue, 82, American author and columnist.
• Jim Breaks, 83, British professional wrestler.
• Vinie Burrows, 99, American stage actress.
• Pamela Cluff, 92, British-born Canadian architect.
• Élise Fischer, 75, French writer, journalist and novelist.
• David Freeman, 84, American record label owner and music historian, Alzheimer's disease.
• Bill Granger, 54, Australian chef and food writer, cancer.
• Alain Laurier, 79, French Olympic football player and manager.
• Razi Mousavi, 59–60, Iranian major general, airstrike.
• Robert Porter, 81, Australian rules footballer.
• Tom Priestley, 91, British film and sound editor.
• Eugenio Riccomini, 87, Italian art historian.
• Henry Sandon, 95, English antique expert, stroke.
• Susan K. Sell, 65, American scholar.
• Thanh Điền, 56, Vietnamese guitarist, anemia.
• Larry Walker, 88, American visual artist.
• Thomas Walter Warnes, 84–85, English gastroenterologist.

26

• Edwin Amidon, 89, American politician.
• Bandit, 38, Thai drag queen, costume designer, and stylist.
• Jolly Bastian, 57, Indian stunt director, heart attack.
• Patrick Buisson, 74, French journalist and political advisor.
• Lukas Enembe, 56, Indonesian politician, governor of Papua, kidney failure.
• John Fernandez, 82, Malaysian politician, MP.
• Armando Guadiana Tijerina, 77, Mexican politician, member of the Congress of Coahuila and senator, prostate cancer.
• Joseph Hendrie, 98, American physicist, chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
• David Kernan, 85, British actor.
• Riaz Khokhar, 80, Pakistani diplomat, foreign secretary, ambassador to the United States and China.
• Elsa Lystad, 93, Norwegian actress.
• Salmi Manja, 86, Malaysian novelist, poet, and journalist.
• Lesley McNaught-Mändli, 59, British-born Swiss show jumper, Olympic silver medallist.
• Ronald Mehlich, 54, Polish athlete.
• Yaşar Okuyan, 73, Turkish politician, writer, and journalist, minister of labour and social security and MP, lung disease.
• Tony Oxley, 85, English free improvising drummer, co-founder of Incus Records.
• Sir Gurney Pease, 5th Baronet, 96, British hotelier and politician.
• Noel Peyton, 88, Irish footballer.
• James Ray, 66, American basketball player, complications from surgery.
• Bobby Rivers, 70, American television personality, cancer.
• Wolfgang Schäuble, 81, German politician and lawyer, minister of finance, president and member of the Bundestag, cancer.
• Tom Smothers, 86, American comedian, musician and actor, lung cancer.

27

• Rotimi Akeredolu, 67, Nigerian lawyer and politician, governor of Ondo State, leukemia.
• Yuri Arabov, 69, Russian screenwriter, writer and poet.
• Ken Bowman, 81, American football player.
• Juliette Carré, 90, French actress.
• Jackie D'Amico, 87, American mobster.
• Darchhawna, 87, Indian writer.
• Jacques Delors, 98, French economist and politician, minister of finance, MEP, and president of the European Commission.
• Éamonn Draper, 83, Irish actor.
• Patricia Ferreira, 65, Spanish film and television director and screenwriter.
• Forestry, 27, American Thoroughbred racehorse.
• Gaston Glock, 94, Austrian engineer and weapons industry executive, founder of Glock.
• Martin Hatcher, 96, American politician.
• Fred Kaufman, 99, Canadian jurist, judge of the Quebec Court of Appeal and acting chief justice of Quebec.
• Herb Kohl, 88, American politician, businessman, and sports team owner, member of the U.S. Senate.
• Maria Laina, 76, Greek poet.
• Sir Martin Laing, 81, British construction executive.
• Lee Sun-kyun, 48, South Korean actor, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.
• Itzhak Levanon, 79, Israeli diplomat, ambassador to Egypt.
• Ignacio E. Lozano Jr., 96, American diplomat, ambassador to El Salvador.
• Jack McLean, 77, Scottish journalist and art teacher.
• Ghali Umar Na'Abba, 65, Nigerian politician, speaker of the House of Representatives.
• Mbongeni Ngema, 68, South African playwright, traffic collision.
• Michael Kwabena Ntumy, 65, Ghanaian Pentecostal televangelist, chairman of the Church of Pentecost.
• Bob Panasik, 82, Canadian golfer.
• Robert Andrew Parker, 96, American illustrator.
• Lydia Puccinelli, 93, American artist and art curator.
• Frederick Sachs, 82, American biologist.
• Odete Santos, 82, Portuguese politician, MP.
• María Seoane, 75, Argentine economist, journalist, and writer, director of LRA Radio Nacional.
• Leonard Singer, 80, British-born Manx politician, member of the House of Keys.
• PC Siqueira, 37, Brazilian Internet personality, actor, and television presenter, suicide by hanging.

28

• Shaharuddin Abdullah, 75, Malaysian footballer.
• Ahmad Khair Al Din, 29 or 30, Palestinian photojournalist for Al-Aqsa TV, drone strike.
• Norair Arakelian, 87, Armenian mathematician.
• Elmer Austin, 74, American basketball player
• Dave Bailey, 97, American jazz drummer.
• François Bracci, 72, French football player and manager.
• Francis Dhomont, 97, French composer.
• Kelly Doran, 66, American businessman and real estate developer, cancer.
• Alda Grimaldi, 104, Italian television director and actress.
• Hardi, 72, Indonesian visual artist.
• Günter Hirschmann, 88, German footballer.
• Frank Kaderabek, 94, American trumpeter.
• Eduard Khamitov, 86, Russian scientist and politician, MP.
• Tandy Marlin, 53, American racing driver.
• Hernán Martínez, 81, Colombian chemical engineer and politician, minister of mines and energy.
• Dick Marty, 78, Swiss politician, member of the Council of States.
• Jacquelyn Mattfeld, 98, American musicologist and academic administrator.
• Bill McColl, 93, American football player.
• Dermot Meagher, 83, American lawyer and judge.
• Sanford K. Moats, 102, American lieutenant general.
• Per Myrberg, 90, Swedish actor.
• Carlos Pulido, 52, Venezuelan baseball player.
• Herman Raucher, 95, American writer.
• Michael Sacco, 86, American labor leader.
• Abubakar Siddique, 89, Bangladeshi poet, writer and critic.
• Pedro Suárez-Vértiz, 54, Peruvian singer-songwriter, heart attack.
• Tommy Talton, 74, American guitarist.
• Vijayakanth, 71, Indian actor and politician, Tamil Nadu MLA, pneumonia and COVID-19.
• Bill Voss, 80, American baseball player.
• Kurt Wagner, 70, German actor, cancer.
• Patrick Walsh, 92, Northern Irish Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Down and Connor.
• Lloyd R. Welch, 96, American information theorist.
• Donald Wildmon, 85, American United Methodist minister, author, and radio host, founder of the American Family Association, Lewy body dementia.

29

• Mike Barnett, 77, English-born Australian politician, member and speaker of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly, complications from dementia.
• Hermann Baumann, 89, German horn player.
• Greg Boester, 55, American Olympic ski jumper.
• John M. Burns, 84–85, English comics artist.
• Kurtis Chapman, 26, English professional wrestler.
• Gustavo Cisneros, 78, Venezuelan conglomerate industry executive, president of Grupo Cisneros.
• Gil de Ferran, 56, French-born Brazilian racing driver, CART champion, 2003 Indianapolis 500 winner, heart attack.
• Sir Michael Hardie Boys, 92, New Zealand lawyer, jurist, and vice-regal representative, judge of the High Court, governor-general, privy counsellor.
• Maurice Hines, 80, American dancer, singer and actor.
• Killer Khan, 76, Japanese professional wrestler, aortic dissection.
• Marceli Kosman, 83, Polish historian.
• Roland Leong, 78, American drag racer.
• Les McCann, 88, American jazz pianist, pneumonia.
• Rossy Mendoza, 80, Mexican vedette, actress, and dancer, heart attack.
• Joey Meyer, 74, American basketball coach.
• Khaled Nezzar, 86, Algerian military officer, chief of staff.
• Sandra Reaves-Phillips, 79, American actress, writer, and singer.
• Lammie Robertson, 76, Scottish footballer, prostate cancer.
• A. Kimball Romney, 98, American social sciences professor, co-founder of cognitive anthropology.
• Toshio Sakata, 82, Japanese comedian.
• Ramzi T. Salamé, 70, Lebanese writer and artist.
• Ron Stockman, 89, Australian rules footballer.
• Ron Taylor, 91, Australian rugby league player.
• Mosese Tikoitoga, Fijian soldier and diplomat, commander of the Military Forces.
• Roger Vowles, 91, English cricketer.

30

• Bryan Ansell, 68, British game designer.
• Paul Buysse, 78, Belgian businessman.
• Jean-Gabriel Castel, 95, French-Canadian law professor.
• Nelma Costa, 101, Brazilian actress.
• Martha Diamond, 79, American painter.
• Dennis Edney, 77, Scottish-born Canadian lawyer, complications from dementia.
• Bernie Fagan, 74, English footballer.
• Keith Fowler, 84, American actor.
• Chuck Harrison, 82, American baseball player.
• Yehudith Huebner, 102, Austrian-born Israeli civil servant and diplomat.
• Norma Izard, 90, English cricketer.
• Khachim Karmokov, 82, Russian politician, MP and senator.
• Roger E. Kirk, 93, American psychologist.
• Luboš Kohoutek, 88, Czech astronomer, discoverer of Comet Kohoutek.
• Harvey S. Leff, 86, American physicist.
• Robin McEwan, Lord McEwan, 80, Scottish judge, senator of the College of Justice.
• Cindy Morgan, 69, American actress.
• Paddy Murphy, 89, Irish Gaelic footballer.
• Red Paden, 67, American juke joint owner, complications following heart surgery.
• Douglas J. J. Peters, 60, American politician, member and majority leader of the Maryland Senate, multiple myeloma.
• John Pilger, 84, Australian documentary filmmaker and journalist, pulmonary fibrosis.
• Leo Prabhu, 90, Indian dramatist, playwright and novelist.
• Pierre Pranchère, 96, French politician, deputy and MEP.
• Ali Sharif al-Rifi, Libyan major general, commander of the Libyan Air Force.
• Bhavani Shankar, 66–67, Indian pakhawaj drum player, cardiac arrest.
• Sir Moray Stewart, 85, British civil servant, Second Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence.
• Mick Wheble, 74, British racing manager, author and charity advocate, oesophageal cancer.
• Tom Wilkinson, 75, British actor, BAFTA winner, cardiac arrest.
• Ian Wingrove, 79, British visual effects artist.
• Aki Yashiro, 73, Japanese singer, interstitial pneumonia.

31

• Luís Blanco Vila, 87, Spanish journalist.
• June Jackson Christmas, 99, American psychiatrist, heart failure.
• Jay Clayton, 82, American jazz vocalist, small-cell lung cancer.
• Colita, 83, Spanish photographer, peritonitis.
• Shecky Greene, 97, American comedian and actor.
• Edith Halbert, 92, American physicist.
• Kariman Hamza, 81, Egyptian journalist and presenter.
• Dale Hodges, 82, Canadian politician, Calgary city councillor.
• Melissa Hoskins, 32, Australian Olympic cyclist, traffic collision.
• Eddie Bernice Johnson, 88, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives and Texas Senate.
• Amir Banoo Karimi, 92, Iranian academic, pulmonary heart disease.
• Mathieu Khedimi, 59, French rugby league footballer and coach.
• Benjamin Kiplagat, 34, Ugandan Olympic long-distance runner, stabbed.
• Maunu Kurkvaara, 97, Finnish film director and producer.
• Jaerock Lee, 80, South Korean Christian pastor and convicted sex offender, founder of the Manmin Central Church.
• Erik Meyn, 68, Norwegian journalist and television director.
• Ana Ofelia Murguía, 90, Mexican actress.
• Susi Newborn, 73, New Zealand environmental activist.
• Oscar Quitak, 97, British actor.
• Pranab K. Sen, 87, Indian-American statistician and academic.
• O. S. Thyagarajan, 76, Indian Carnatic musician.
• Cale Yarborough, 84, American Hall of Fame racing driver and founder of Cale Yarborough Motorsports, NASCAR Cup Series champion.