Deaths in December 2024

December 2024

1

• Fahad Ag Almahmoud, Malian Tuareg militant, secretary-general of GATIA, airstrike.
• Vinci Vogue Anžlovar, 61, Slovene film director, complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Niels Arestrup, 75, French actor.
• Jacques Barsamian, 81, French singer, writer, and journalist.
• Alioune Badara Bèye, 79, Senegalese novelist, playwright and publisher.
• Gjorgji Bojadžiev, 74, Macedonian army officer, chief of the general staff.
• Sir Richard Carew Pole, 13th Baronet, 85, British aristocrat.
• Mildred C. Crump, 86, American politician, member of the Municipal Council of Newark.
• Crescenzo D'Amore, 45, Italian road racing cyclist, traffic collision.
• Art Fryslie, 83, American politician, member of the South Dakota House of Representatives and Senate.
• Syed Ali Hassan Gilani, 50, Pakistani politician, MNA, traffic collision.
• Jane Gray, 92–93, British stained glass artist.
• David Griffith, 88, Welsh Anglican priest.
• Terry Griffiths, 77, Welsh snooker player, world champion, complications from dementia.
• Padre Irala, 88, Paraguayan-Brazilian Jesuit priest.
• Fred Jüssi, 89, Estonian biologist, nature writer and photographer.
• Rogério Cezar de Cerqueira Leite, 93, Brazilian physicist and engineer.
• Raj Manchanda, 79, Indian squash player.
• Christa Meier, 82, German politician, member of the Landtag of Bavaria, mayor of Regensburg.
• Khalil Ahmad Mukhlis, 68, Pakistani politician, MP, cardiac arrest.
• Helmut Münch, 85, German politician, member of the Landtag of Saxony.
• Toshifumi Nakamura, 85, Japanese politician, mayor of Hachinohe.
• Jacques Panciatici, 76, French rally driver.
• Kelly Powers, 45, American podiatric surgeon and television commentator, glioblastoma.
• David Prosser Jr., 81, American jurist and politician, justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, cancer.
• Ian Redpath, 83, Australian cricketer.
• Sandra Reyes, 49, Colombian actress, breast cancer.
• Craig Rich, 86, British broadcaster and meteorologist.
• Clive Robertson, 78, Australian radio and television personality.
• Rosalie Wilkins, Baroness Wilkins, 78, British politician, member of the House of Lords.
• Ilke Wyludda, 55, German discus thrower, Olympic champion.
• Kais al-Zubaidi, 85, Iraqi film director.

2

• Ömer Barutçu, 82, Turkish politician, minister of transport and MP.
• Jacques le Berré, 87, French Olympic judoka.
• Ed Botterell, 93, Canadian Olympic sailor.
• Lucjan Brychczy, 90, Polish football player and manager.
• Swadesh Chakraborty, 80, Indian politician, MP.
• Louise Cotnoir, 75, Canadian writer.
• Perry J. Dahl, 101, Canadian-born American air force colonel and World War II flying ace.
• Helmut Duckadam, 65, Romanian footballer.
• Sam Fox, 95, American businessman and diplomat, ambassador to Belgium.
• Neale Fraser, 91, Australian Hall of Fame tennis player, seven-time Davis Cup winner.
• Paul van Gelder, 77, Dutch radio disc jockey.
• Héctor Gutiérrez Pabón, 87, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Cali, bishop of Chiquinquirá and of Engativá.
• Marie E. Howe, 85, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
• Harald Hudak, 67, German middle-distance runner.
• John Hunting, 89, English football referee.
• Heikki Koski, 84, Finnish civil servant and politician, minister of the interior, governor of Western Finland.
• Yevgeni Kryukov, 61, Russian football player and manager.
• Marvin Laird, 85, American composer and conductor.
• Eli Lancman, 88, Israeli historian.
• Liu Chia-chang, Taiwanese songwriter, cancer.
• Paul Maslansky, 91, American film producer.
• David Nething, 91, American politician, member of the North Dakota Senate.
• Marlos Nobre, 85, Brazilian composer.
• Don Ohl, 88, American basketball player.
• José Pinto Paiva, 86, Brazilian chess player.
• Albert Robinson, 85, American politician, member of the Kentucky Senate, two-time member of the Kentucky House of Representatives.
• Michael Ruetz, 84, German artist, photographer and author.
• Monica Rutherford, 80, British Olympic gymnast.
• Giovanni Sabbatucci, 80, Italian journalist and historian.
• Choudhary Piara Singh, Indian politician, Jammu and Kashmir MLA.

3

• Tengiz Beridze, 85, Georgian academic and biochemist.
• Ivor Bird, 80, Antiguan high jumper and broadcasting executive.
• Benjamin B. Blackburn, 97, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
• Jan Bloukaas, 25, South African singer, brain cancer.
• Henze Boekhout, 77, Dutch artist and photographer.
• Henri Borlant, 97, French doctor, writer, and Holocaust survivor.
• Denis Brihat, 96, French photographer.
• René Burkhalter, 90, Swiss Olympic official, president of the Swiss Olympic Association.
• Aileen H. Cowan, 98, Canadian painter and sculptor.
• John Stephen Cummins, 96, American Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Sacramento and bishop of Oakland.
• Dana Dimel, 62, American college football player and coach.
• Philip Hacking, 93, English Anglican priest.
• Frederick Henry, 81, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of London, bishop of Thunder Bay and of Calgary.
• Huang Zhun, 98, Chinese composer.
• Ali Krasniqi, 71–72, Kosovar Roma writer and activist.
• Beatriz Larrotcha Palma, 65, Spanish diplomat, under-secretary of foreign affairs.
• Malcolm Le Grice, 84, British painter, filmmaker and photographer.
• Hans van Leeuwen, 92, Dutch physicist.
• Minny Luimstra-Albeda, 89, Dutch politician, senator.
• Yastur-ul-Haq Malik, 92, Pakistani admiral, chief of the Naval Staff.
• Jon McLachlan, 75, New Zealand rugby union player.
• Yuvanraj Nethrun, 45, Indian actor.
• Ecaterina Oancia, 70, Romanian rower, Olympic champion and silver medallist.
• William H. Perry III, 84, American politician, member of the Missouri House of Representatives.
• David Ratcliff, 87, British Anglican priest.
• Jan Scott-Frazier, 59, American translator and anime producer.
• Tan Howe Liang, 91, Singaporean weightlifter, Olympic silver medallist.
• Israel Vázquez, 46, Mexican super bantamweight boxer, IBF champion and twice WBC champion, sarcoma.
• Mohamed Ali Yusuf, 80, Somali politician, vice president of Puntland and speaker of the Senate.
• Mustapha Zaari, 79, Moroccan actor, prostate cancer.

4

• Ruth Kleppe Aakvaag, 86, Norwegian politician, MP.
• Princess Birgitta of Sweden, 87, Swedish royal, fall.
• Eugenio Borgna, 94, Italian psychiatrist and essayist.
• Francis Caballero, 84, French lawyer and academic.
• M. R. Chandrasekharan, 95, Indian literary critic and author.
• Chiung Yao, 86, Taiwanese novelist, suicide.
• Kamran Hossain Chowdhury, 72, Bangladeshi politician, MP, heart disease.
• Joseph Corozzo, 83, American mobster.
• John Docherty, 84, Scottish football player and manager.
• Guillermo Ferraro, 69, Argentine accountant and politician, minister of infrastructure.
• Al Fitzmorris, 78, American baseball player.
• Joel Flaum, 88, American jurist, judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and the U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois.
• Donnie Gedling, 84, American politician, member of the Kentucky House of Representatives.
• Cherry Hill, 93, English model engineer.
• Roly Horrey, 81, English footballer.
• Yvonne Johnson, 82, American politician, mayor of Greensboro, North Carolina.
• Hisham Kabbani, 79, Lebanese-American Islamic scholar.
• Lucien Kassi-Kouadio, 61, Ivorian footballer.
• Dante Mircoli, 77, Italian-Argentine football player and manager.
• Louis Nelson, 88, American industrial designer and graphic artist, cancer.
• Rafael Nieto Navia, 86, Colombian diplomat and political scientist, president of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
• Seiichi Ota, 79, Japanese politician, MP and minister of agriculture.
• Rafał Piotrowski, 50, Polish footballer.
• Péter Rózsás, 81, Hungarian table tennis player.
• Marshall Rutter, 93, American lawyer and choral administrator.
• Ambroise Sarr, 73, Senegalese four-time Olympic wrestler.
• Rachmadi Bambang Sumadhijo, 84, Indonesian engineer and bureaucrat.
• Gilberto Mendonça Teles, 93, Brazilian writer and literary critic.
• Brian Thompson, 50, American insurance executive, CEO of UnitedHealthcare, shot.
• Trần Anh Khoa, 33, Vietnamese footballer, suicide.
• Jean-Didier Vincent, 89, French neuropsychiatrist, member of the French Academy of Sciences.
• Christopher Wright, 70, British composer, pneumonia.
• César Yanes Urías, 104, Salvadoran naval officer and politician, member of the Junta of Government.
• Tony Young, 71, English footballer.

5

• Wanda Adamska, 80, Polish politician, MP.
• Robin Ayers, 45, Radio Host, Speaker and Author.
• Robert P. Black, 96, American economist, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond.
• Christel Bodenstein, 86, German actress.
• Dominique Brown, 34, American social media influencer, allergic reaction.
• Barbora Bühnová, 43, Czech computer scientist.
• Martin Chevallaz, 76, Swiss military officer and politician, member of the Grand Council of Vaud.
• Thom Christopher, 84, American actor.
• Cyril Dunne, 83, Irish Gaelic footballer.
• Frederik Finisie, 67, Surinamese politician, MP.
• Carol Goldwasser, 67, American casting director, complications following surgery.
• Gongbu, 91, Chinese mountaineer.
• Rodney Jenkins, 80, American Hall of Fame equestrian.
• Hiroshi Kagawa, 99, Japanese Hall of Fame footballer and journalist.
• Jean-Luc Maxence, 78, French poet, publisher, and writer.
• Canaan Mdletshe, 47, South African politician, MP, traffic collision.
• Bill Melton, 79, American baseball player.
• Henry C. Mollett, 86, American politician, member of the Iowa House of Representatives.
• Marthe Katrine Myhre, 39, Norwegian long-distance runner.
• Radovan Pankov, 77–78, Serbian politician, minister of the diaspora.
• Paolo Pillitteri, 84, Italian politician, deputy and mayor of Milan.
• Ron Rhine, 87, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives.
• Jacques Roubaud, 92, French poet, writer, and mathematician.
• David Schweizer, 74, American theatre director.
• István Stefanov, 60, Hungarian footballer.
• David I. Steinberg, 96, American historian.
• Andy Stepp, 66, American politician, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives.
• Julie Stevens, 87, English actress, singer and television presenter, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Mario Tessuto, 81, Italian singer.
• Trần Hanh, 92, Vietnamese air force pilot and military officer.
• Vincenzo Trantino, 90, Italian lawyer and politician, deputy.
• Evgeny Velikhov, 89, Russian physicist, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
• John Williams, 78, South African rugby union player and coach, leukemia.

6

• Abu Zafar, 81, Bangladeshi lyricist and musician.
• Ángela Álvarez, 97, Cuban-born American singer.
• Muyideen Ajani Bello, 84, Nigerian Islamic scholar.
• Andrew Boylan, 85, Irish politician, TD.
• Ronald Brown, 89, English mathematician.
• Jennifer Croxton, 80, British actress.
• Vitaliy Dyrdyra, 86, Ukrainian sailor, Olympic champion.
• Michel Fardeau, 95, French pathologist, myologist, and researcher.
• Jayabharathi, 77, Indian film director.
• Ed Khayat, 89, American football player and coach.
• Theo van de Klundert, 88, Dutch economist.
• John McDermid, 84, Canadian politician, MP, euthanasia.
• Thomas R. Morgan, 94, American general, assistant commandant of the Marine Corps.
• Phelekezela Mphoko, 84, Zimbabwean diplomat and politician, second vice-president and acting president.
• Miho Nakayama, 54, Japanese singer and actress.
• Madhukar Pichad, 83, Indian politician, Maharashtra MLA.
• Jean-Pierre Rioux, 85, French historian.
• Dickie Rock, 88, Irish singer and musician.
• Harshandeep Singh, 20, Indian student, shot.
• Elaine Smith, 78, American politician, member of the Idaho House of Representatives.
• Maggie Tabberer, 87, Australian model and television personality.
• Graham Tainton, 97, South African-born Swedish dancer and choreographer.
• Stanisław Tym, 87, Polish actor, comedian and journalist.

7

• Yevgeni Aleinikov, 57, Russian sport shooter, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Hamida Banu, 64, Indian sprinter.
• Dmitry Buchkin, 97, Russian painter.
• Tyrus W. Cobb, 84, American national security scholar, member of the National Security Council.
• Víctor Amador De Martino, 81, Argentine politician, deputy.
• Jack DiLauro, 81, American baseball player.
• Gordon Graydon, 82, Canadian politician, Alberta MLA, mayor of Grande Prairie.
• Dana Herrmannová, 93, Slovak television presenter.
• Jim Leedman, 86, Australian politician, member of the Australian Capital Territory House of Assembly.
• Daniel Lubetkin, 93, American lawyer and politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly.
• Darrell McGraw, 88, American jurist and politician, justice of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia, West Virginia attorney general, heart attack.
• Vilma Nugis, 66, Estonian Paralympic skier.
• Merv Rettenmund, 81, American baseball player and coach.
• Orlando Rossardi, 86, Cuban poet, playwright, and researcher.
• Kushang Sherpa, 59, Indian Sherpa mountaineer.
• Steady Bongo, 58, Sierra Leonean musician and record producer, traffic collision.
• Doychin Vasilev, 80, Bulgarian mountaineer and cinematographer.
• Iosif Vitebskiy, 86, Ukrainian fencer, Olympic silver medalist.
• Alan Young, 69, Canadian lawyer.

8

• Gérard Bessière, 96, French diarist, poet and priest.
• Anne Hessing Cahn,, German-born American political author and arms control expert.
• Alain Fuchs, 71, Swiss-born French chemist and academic, president of the Paris Sciences et Lettres University.
• Michael Gill, 67, New Zealand cricketer.
• Roberto Gómez, 35, Dominican baseball player, traffic collision.
• Şerif Gören, 80, Turkish film director, complications from a fall.
• Dick Grecni, 86, American football player.
• Alastair Hannay, 92, British-born Norwegian philosopher and academic.
• Jack Hennessy, 73, American politician, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives.
• Yude Henteleff, 97, Canadian lawyer and human rights activist.
• Arild Hiim, 79, Norwegian politician, MP.
• Douglas I. Hunt, 87, American football coach and politician, member of the Utah House of Representatives.
• Jill Jacobson, 70, American actress.
• Jean Keyrouz, 92–93, Lebanese Olympic alpine skier.
• Jean Khamsé Vithavong, 82, Laotian Roman Catholic prelate, vicar apostolic coadjutor and vicar apostolic of Vientiane.
• Tony Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Berwick, 95, British jurist, lord of appeal in ordinary, member of the House of Lords.
• Ihab Makhlouf, 51, Syrian mobile phone industry executive, shot.
• Luigi Manocchio, 97, American mobster.
• Jelena Mašínová, 83, Czech screenwriter.
• Bobby Morrison, 79, American football coach.
• Erwin Nypels, 91, Dutch politician, MP.
• Emerson Pugh, 95, American research engineer and scientist, president of IEEE.
• M. D. R. Ramachandran, 90, Indian politician, chief minister of Puducherry and speaker of the Puducherry Legislative Assembly.
• Clarke Reed, 96, American politician and businessman, complications from pneumonia.
• Leonid Rudnytzky, 89, Polish-born Ukrainian-American linguist.
• Nikos Sarganis, 70, Greek footballer, cancer.
• Manorama Singh, 86, Indian politician, MP.
• Robert Smith, 78, New Zealand cricketer.
• Witthaya Thienthong, 83, Thai politician, MP, senator.
• Tom Voyce, 43, English rugby union player, drowned.
• André Zysberg, 77, French historian and academic.

9

• Sanjit Acharya, 71, Bangladeshi singer, songwriter and playwright.
• Benito Aguas Atlahua, 45, Mexican politician, deputy, shot.
• Will Arnott, 25, British Paralympic boccia player.
• Elisheva Barak-Ussoskin, 88, Israeli jurist, judge and vice president of the National Labor Court.
• Jack Behrens, 89, American-Canadian composer.
• Júlio Costamilan, 90, Brazilian lawyer and politician, deputy, member of the Constituent Assembly.>
• Terry Davis, 86, British politician, MP.
• Friedhelm Farthmann, 94, German politician, MP, member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia.
• Melissa Freeman, 98, American physician.
• Nikki Giovanni, 81, American poet, author and professor, complications from lung cancer.
• Jody Gormley, 53, Irish Gaelic footballer and manager, liver cancer.
• Riley Gunnels, 87, American football player.
• Mazen al-Hamada, 47, Syrian human rights activist.
• Fritz Hari, 96, Swiss politician, MP.
• Gerd Heidemann, 93, German journalist.
• William J. Hennessy Jr., 67, American court sketch artist.
• Thomas Hertel, 73, German composer.
• Uwe Hollweg, 87, German politician, member of the Bürgerschaft of Bremen.
• Sachio Kuwae, 68, Japanese politician, mayor of Okinawa, complications from myelodysplastic syndrome.
• Roger Madec, 74, French politician, senator.
• L. Sandy Maisel, 79, American political scientist, intestinal cancer.
• Sir David McMurtry, 84, Irish metrology industrialist, co-founder of Renishaw plc.
• Joel Mendes, 78, Brazilian footballer, stroke.
• Gérard-Raymond Morin, 84, Canadian politician, Quebec MNA.
• Terry Nicoll, 91, Australian Olympic modern pentathlete.
• Héctor Recalde, 86, Argentine politician, deputy.
• Claude Riveline, 88, French economist and academic.
• Alastair Salvesen, 83, Scottish businessman.
• Axel Schmidt, 83, German oboist.
• Robert Sténuit, 91, Belgian journalist, writer and underwater archaeologist.
• Dalton Trevisan, 99, Brazilian writer, Camões Prize winner.
• Ruut Veenhoven, 82, Dutch sociologist.
• Arnold Yarrow, 104, British actor, screenwriter and novelist.

10

• Always Dreaming, 10, American Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the 2017 Kentucky Derby, colic.
• Madeleine Arbour, 101, Canadian designer, painter, and journalist.
• Josy Arens, 72, Belgian politician, three-time deputy, member of the Parliament of Wallonia, mayor of Attert.
• Donald Bitzer, 90, American Hall of Fame electrical engineer, co-inventor of the plasma display.
• Rocky Colavito, 91, American baseball player, complications from diabetes.
• Michael Cole, 84, American actor.
• Lennie De Ice, 54, British musician.
• Mario Fernández Pelaz, 81, Spanish lawyer and politician, deputy lehendakari and member of the Basque Parliament.
• Mahieddine Khalef, 80, Algerian football player and manager.
• J. Max Kilpatrick, 79, American politician, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives.
• The Amazing Kreskin, 89, American mentalist, complications from dementia.
• S. M. Krishna, 92, Indian politician, minister of external affairs, governor of Maharashtra, and chief minister of Karnataka.
• Morgan Llewellyn, 87, British army officer, general officer commanding Wales, cancer.
• Gary Merrington, 78, Australian footballer.
• José Antonio Naya, 90, Spanish football manager.
• Kenneth Nkhwa, 97, Motswana politician, MP.
• Raghnall Ó Floinn, Irish art historian, director of the National Museum of Ireland.
• Katharyn Powers, 71, American playwright.
• Claus Raidl, 82, Austrian banker, president of the Austrian National Bank.
• Serhiy Ralyuchenko, 62, Ukrainian football player and manager.
• Herb Robertson, 73, American jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist.
• María Socas, 65, Argentine actress.
• Brenda Walker, 67, Australian author, traffic collision.
• Lode Wils, 95, Belgian historian and academic.
• Xu Chao, 30, Chinese racing cyclist.
• Yu Jianhua, 62–63, Chinese politician and diplomat, head of the General Administration of Customs.

11

• Corinne Allal, 69, Tunisian-born Israeli rock musician and music producer, pancreatic cancer.
• Robert Amundson, 86, American judge, justice of the South Dakota Supreme Court.
• Hannes Androsch, 86, Austrian businessman, consultant, and politician, vice-chancellor and minister of finance.
• Kostas Batuvas, 90, Greek politician, MP, minister of transport and communication.
• David Bonderman, 82, American businessman.
• Sandrino Castec, 64, Chilean footballer, complications from septic shock.
• Hugh Cornish, 90, Australian television personality.
• Ranmal Singh Dorwal, 101, Indian politician, Rajasthan MLA.
• Alex Edwards, 78, Scottish footballer.
• Bob Fernandez, 100, American veteran.
• Marguerite Frank, 97, French-born American mathematician.
• Khalil Haqqani, 58, Afghan politician, minister for refugees and repatriation, bombing.
• Syd Hynes, 80, English rugby league player and coach.
• Diether Kunerth, 84, German contemporary artist.
• Jim Leach, 82, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities, complications from a heart attack and stroke.
• António Loja, 90, Portuguese politician and teacher, MP and Madeira MLA.
• Michio Mamiya, 95, Japanese composer, pneumonia.
• Troy Masters, 63, American journalist, suicide.
• Pat McBride, 81, American soccer player.
• Polly Allen Mellen, 100, American stylist and fashion editor.
• Alain Pompidou, 82, French histologist and politician, MEP.
• Miguel Rincón Rincón, 73, Peruvian convicted terrorist, cancer.
• Vladimir Skočajić, 70, Bosnian football player and manager.
• Albert Starr, 98, American cardiovascular surgeon.
• Purushottam Upadhyay, 90, Indian singer.
• Aili Vahtrapuu, 74, Estonian sculptor.
• Olavi Vuorisalo, 91, Finnish Olympic middle-distance runner.
• Jermaine Walker, 47, American basketball player.
• Deleta Williams, 89, American politician, member of the Missouri House of Representatives.
• Marek Żyliński, 72, Polish engineer and politician, MP.

12

• Adolovni Acosta, 77–78, Filipino classical pianist.
• Jeanne Bamberger, 100, American music educator.
• Ernie Beck, 93, American basketball player.
• Wolfgang Becker, 70, German film director and screenwriter.
• Annelie Botes, 67, South African writer.
• Youcef Bouzidi, 67, Algerian football manager.
• Barry Cheatley, 85, Australian footballer.
• Francesco Cinquemani, 57, Italian film director, screenwriter, and journalist.
• Manny Davidson, 93, British businessman.
• R. Keith Dennis, 80, American mathematician.
• Lee Edwards, 92, American academic and political writer, co-founder of the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.
• Steven Englander, 63, American art collective director, lung disease.
• Jörg Fisch, 77, Swiss historian.
• Peter Fraenkel, 98, German-born British journalist and writer.
• Yvon Gattaz, 99, French electronics executive, co-founder and CEO of Radiall, president of the CNPF.
• Vic Gomersall, 82, English footballer.
• Dan Grecu, 74, Romanian gymnast, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Amparo Guillén, 71, Ecuadorian actress, complications from diabetes and COVID-19.
• Fethi Haddaoui, 63, Tunisian actor.
• Phil Hancock, 71, American golfer, complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Tom Harrison, 85, American politician, member of the Montana House of Representatives and Senate.
• Lee Tien-yu, 78, Taiwanese general and politician, minister of national defense and chief of the general staff, pneumonia.
• Marie Manthey, 89, American nurse.
• Alberto Merlati, 81, Italian basketball player.
• Bill Mlkvy, 93, American basketball player.
• Muhamad Said Jonit, 71–72, Malaysian politician, Johor State MLA.
• Duncan Norvelle, 66, English comedian, chest infection and sepsis.
• Daizō Nozawa, 91, Japanese politician, minister of justice and member of the House of Councillors.
• Jean-Marie Pallardy, 84, French film director.
• Amaury Pasos, 89, Brazilian Hall of Fame basketball player, world champion, Olympic bronze medallist.
• Tommy Robb, 90, Northern Irish Grand Prix motorcycle racer.
• Papia Sarwar, 72, Bangladeshi singer, cancer.
• Wayne Simpson, 76, American baseball player.
• Martial Solal, 97, French jazz pianist and composer.
• Wolfgang Steiert, 61, German ski jumper and coach.
• Jim Tunney, 95, American football official.
• David Weatherley, 85, British-born New Zealand actor.

13

• Duane Acker, 93, American academic, president of Kansas State University.
• Derek Ansell, 90, British music critic and jazz writer.
• Koko Ateba, Cameroonian singer and guitarist.
• James Callan, 77, American excommunicated Roman Catholic priest.
• Mihir Kanti Chaudhuri, 77, Indian inorganic chemist and academic administrator, vice-chancellor of Tezpur University.
• Dan Coulter, 49, Canadian politician, British Columbia MLA.
• Diane Delano, 67, American actress, cancer.
• Carter Eckert, 78–79, American historian.
• Dimitrios Grafas, 87, Greek footballer.
• Helal Hafiz, 76, Bangladeshi poet.
• Charles Handy, 92, Irish organizational behaviorist.
• Henk Herrenberg, 86, Surinamese diplomat and politician, minister of foreign affairs.
• Gheorghe Hioară, 76, Moldovan politician and diplomat, MP.
• Raúl Ilaquiche, 51, Ecuadorian lawyer and politician, deputy, traffic collision.
• Jerome H. Kern, 87, American lawyer and investment banker, pancreatic cancer.
• Karloff Lagarde Jr., 54, Mexican professional wrestler.
• Antero Laukkanen, 66, Finnish priest and politician, MP.
• Lemon Drop Kid, 28, American Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the 1999 Belmont Stakes.
• Ron Locke, 85, American baseball player.
• Evelyn Lord, 98, American politician, member of the Delaware Senate, mayor of Beaumont, Texas.
• Mick Minogue, 88, Irish hurling player and coach.
• Joanne Pierce Misko, 83, American FBI agent.
• Lorraine O'Grady, 90, American artist.
• Kay Patterson, 93, American politician, member of the South Carolina House of Representatives and Senate.
• Orrin H. Pilkey, 90, American marine geologist.
• Freddie Strahan, 85, Irish footballer.
• Bill Weber, 67, American sports broadcaster.
• Jimmy Wilkerson, 43, American football player, heart attack.
• Axel Wirtz, 67, German government official and politician, member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia.

14

• Isak Andic, 71, Turkish-born Spanish businessman, founder and chairman of Mango, fall.
• Kevin Andrews, 69, Australian politician, MP, minister for defence and social services, cancer.
• Austin Asche, 99, Australian jurist, administrator and chief justice of the Northern Territory.
• Julio Camacho Aguilera, 100, Cuban politician and military officer.
• Israel Charny, 93, Israeli psychologist and genocide scholar.
• John R. Countryman, 91, American actor and diplomat, ambassador to Oman.
• George Cummings, 86, American guitarist and songwriter.
• Mircea Diaconu, 74, Romanian actor and politician, minister of culture and MEP, colon cancer.
• Rachel Dror, 103, German-Israeli teacher and Holocaust survivor.
• E. V. K. S. Elangovan, 75, Indian politician, MP and Tamil Nadu MLA, lung disease.
• George Eugeniou, 93, Cypriot actor and theatre director.
• Pierre Ferdais, 76, Canadian Olympic handball player.
• Silvino Francisco, 78, South African snooker player, British Open winner.
• Monte Landis, 91, Scottish-American actor.
• Frans Körver, 87, Dutch football player and manager.
• Bill Miller, 84, American football player.
• Pamela Morsi, 73, American author.
• Frank Nabwiso, 84, Ugandan educator and politician, MP.
• Enema Paul, Nigerian politician.
• Lina Sagaral Reyes, 63, Filipino journalist.
• Horst Schild, 82, German politician, MP.
• John Spratt, 82, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Josef Taus, 92, Austrian politician and industrialist, member of the National Council.
• Giacinto Urso, 99, Italian politician, deputy.
• Ed Van Put, 88, American fisherman and author.
• Klaus Wöller, 68, German handball player, Olympic silver medalist.

15

• Jean Adamson, 96, British writer.
• Jodhaiya Bai Baiga, 86, Indian visual artist.
• Aziza Barnes, 32, American poet and playwright, suicide.
• Andrew Bennett, 85, British politician, MP.
• Juan Cárdenas Arroyo, 85, Colombian painter.
• Jaime Córdoba, 74, Curaçaoan politician, member and vice president of the Parliament.
• Loren Graham, 91, American science historian.
• Zakir Hussain, 73, Indian tabla player, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
• Lionel Manga, 69, Cameroonian writer and art critic.
• Sławomir Marczewski, 74, Polish politician, MP.
• David A. McIntee, 55, British writer.
• Robert H. McKercher, 94, Canadian lawyer, president of the Law Society of Saskatchewan and the Canadian Bar Association.
• Chris Murphy, 56, Northern Irish Gaelic footballer.
• Hugh Planche, 93, Canadian politician, Alberta MLA.
• Fada Santoro, 100, Brazilian actress.
• Shigeko Sasamori, 92, Japanese peace activist.
• Luis Suárez Fernández, 100, Spanish historian, member of the Royal Academy of History.
• Ankaralı Turgut, 61, Turkish singer, lung cancer.
• Monique Vézina, 89, Canadian politician, MP, minister of supply and services and twice responsible for La Francophonie.
• Alexandra Zaharias, 95, American ballerina.
• Rezki Zerarti, 86, Algerian painter.

16

• S. M. Akram, 80, Bangladeshi politician, MP.
• Naa Amanua, 75–76, Ghanaian singer.
• Basim Bello, 61, Iraqi politician, mayor of Tel Keppe.
• Thomas Berly, 92, Indian film director and actor.
• Gunnar Breimo, 85, Norwegian politician, MP.
• Anita Bryant, 84, American singer and anti-gay rights activist, cancer.
• Arlene Croce, 90, American dance critic, co-founder of Ballet Review.
• Bob Davis, 83, American politician, member of the Texas House of Representatives.
• Richard Easterlin, 98, American economist.
• Gorica Gajević, 66, Serbian lawyer and politician.
• Tulsi Gowda, 86, Indian environmentalist.
• Enver Hadžihasanović, 74, Bosnian general and convicted war criminal.
• Jean Jennings, 70, American automobile journalist and editor, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• James E. Malone Jr., 67, American politician, member of the Maryland House of Delegates, brain cancer.
• Margarita Mihneva, 72, Bulgarian journalist, cancer.
• Lisa Morris-Julian, 48, Trinidadian politician, MP, fire.
• Khaled Nabhan, 54, Palestinian social media personality, air strike.
• Étienne Nguyễn Như Thể, 89, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, coadjutor archbishop of Huế and archbishop of Huế.
• Rodessa Barrett Porter, 94, American gospel singer, stroke.
• Andrew Radford, 79, British linguist.
• Kader Rahman, 85, Hong Kong Olympic field hockey player.
• Henri Simon, 102, French Marxist militant.
• Prem Lal Singh, 87, Nepali politician, MP and mayor of Kathmandu, stomach disease.
• Eugene Stevens, 85, American chemist.
• Gary Sutherland, 80, American baseball player, cholangiocarcinoma.
• Yoshio Taniguchi, 87, Japanese architect, pneumonia.
• Dick Van Arsdale, 81, American basketball player, kidney failure.
• Wittekind, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, 88, German member of former princely house.

17

• Roshan Lal Anand, 100, Indian sports administrator.
• Alfa Anderson, 78, American singer.
• Gian Paolo Barbieri, 89, Italian fashion photographer.
• Francis Bellotti, 101, American politician, lieutenant governor and attorney general of Massachusetts.
• Mark Braunias, 69, New Zealand painter.
• Mike Brewer, 80, American musician and songwriter.
• David Brodie, 81, British motor racing driver.
• Bill Calhoun, 97, American basketball player.
• Michel del Castillo, 91, French writer.
• Roberto Esteban Chavez, 92, American artist.
• Nicholas Chia, 86, Singaporean Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Singapore.
• Rayful Edmond, 60, American drug trafficker, heart attack.
• Aigars Fadejevs, 48, Latvian athlete, Olympic silver medalist.
• Dmytro Habinet, 41, Ukrainian jurist and politician, governor of Khmelnytskyi Oblast.
• Patricia Johnson, 95, English operatic mezzo-soprano.
• Mary Keir, 112, British supercentenarian, oldest person in Wales.
• Kevin Kelly, 79, Irish Gaelic footballer.
• Hassan Khan, 88, Indian politician, MP.
• Igor Kirillov, 54, Russian military officer, commander of the Russian NBC Protection Troops, bombing.
• Ralph Klemme, 85, American politician, member of the Iowa House of Representatives, cancer.
• Alex Kroll, 87, American football player.
• Nikolai Kryzhanovsky, 87, Belarusian politician, deputy.
• William Labov, 97, American linguist.
• Li Jianping, 64, Chinese politician, executed.
• José Antonio Lopetegui, 94, Spanish harrijasotzaile.
• David Mallett, 73, American singer and songwriter.
• Marcel Marnat, 91, French musicologist, journalist, and radio producer.
• Alphonse S. Marotta, 90, American politician, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives.
• Berrien Moore III, 83, American mathematician and earth scientist.
• Banu Onaral, 75, Turkish biomedical engineer, cancer.
• Marisa Paredes, 78, Spanish actress, heart failure.
• Willie Phua, 96, Singaporean cameraman.
• Beatriz Sarlo, 82, Argentine writer, essayist and literary critic, complications from a stroke.
• Son Se-il, 89, South Korean journalist and politician, MP.
• Roger C. Thomas, 85, British physiologist.
• Colin Tilney, 91, Canadian harpsichordist, pianist and teacher.
• Jānis Timma, 32, Latvian basketball player, suicide.
• Arnold Uhrlass, 93, American Olympic speed skater and cyclist.
• Rik Van Looy, 90, Belgian Hall of Fame racing cyclist, Olympic champion, world champion.

18

• Cosmas Michael Angkur, 87, Indonesian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Bogor.
• Tony Bentley, 84, English footballer.
• Patrick Conolly-Carew, 7th Baron Carew, 86, Irish Olympic equestrian and hereditary peer, member of the House of Lords.
• James Coffey, 85, American politician, member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives.
• Dietmar Constantini, 69, Austrian football player and manager, complications from dementia.
• Joseph Corcoran, 49, American convicted mass murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Carole Crawford, 81, Jamaican model and beauty queen, Miss World.
• Thomas R. DiLuglio, 93, American politician, Rhode Island lieutenant governor.
• Vladimir Dorokhov, 70, Russian volleyball player, Olympic champion.
• Slim Dunlap, 73, American guitarist.
• Gothandaraman, 65, Indian actor.
• Daniel Haller, 95, American film director and art designer.
• Sigrid Kehl, 95, German operatic soprano.
• Frank Kendrick, 74, American basketball player.
• Martin Lodge, 70, New Zealand composer and musicologist.
• Fred Lorenzen, 89, American Hall of Fame racing driver, Daytona 500 winner, complications from dementia.
• John Marsden, 74, Australian writer.
• Marty Mayberry, 38, Australian alpine skier, Paralympic silver medalist.
• Serhiy Olizarenko, 70, Ukrainian Olympic steeplechase runner.
• Hermes Phettberg, 72, Austrian artist, comedian and actor.
• Ann Rockefeller Roberts, 90, American activist for native Americans, complications from surgery.
• Colin P. Rourke, 81, British mathematician.
• Zilia Sánchez Domínguez, 98, Cuban-born Puerto Rican visual artist.
• Bjørn Sand, 96, Norwegian actor.
• Heikki Silvennoinen, 70, Finnish musician, comedian, and actor.
• Sokratis Skartsis, 88, Greek poet, writer, and academic.
• Friedrich St. Florian, 91, Austrian-American architect.
• Pat White, 76, American politician, member of the West Virginia House of Delegates, neuroendocrine carcinoma.
• Klaus Wolfermann, 78, German javelin thrower, Olympic champion.

19

• George L. Bartlett, 100, American marine corps brigadier general.
• Sandra Blain, 82–83, American ceramics artist.
• Stanley Booth, 82, American music journalist.
• Fabrizio Capucci, 85, Italian composer and actor.
• Margalida Castro, 81, Colombian actress, cancer.
• Henry Craft, 75, American politician, member of the Tennessee House of Representatives.
• Shankar Dayal, 54, Indian film director and screenwriter, heart attack.
• Richard E. Fletcher, 89, American politician, member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives.
• Gaboro, 23, Swedish rapper, shot.
• Meena Ganesh, 82, Indian actress, stroke.
• Vakhtang Golandzia, 55, Abkhazian politician, MP, shot.
• Martha Keys, 94, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
• Michael Leunig, 79, Australian cartoonist.
• Barry N. Malzberg, 85, American writer and editor, pneumonia and bacterial infection.
• Federico Mayor Zaragoza, 90, Spanish scientist, academic and politician, director-general of UNESCO, minister of education and science and MEP.
• Darshanam Mogilaiah, 73, Indian tribal musician, kidney disease.
• Martin Óg Morrissey, 90, Irish hurler and Gaelic footballer.
• Francisco Nemenzo Jr., 89, Filipino political scientist, president of the University of the Philippines and chancellor of UP Visayas.
• Patrick O'Donnell, 59, Northern Irish Gaelic footballer.
• Robert Paul, 87, Canadian figure skater, Olympic champion and four-time world champion.
• Patrick Pillay, 75, Seychellois politician, speaker of the National Assembly.
• Art Seaberg, 88, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives.
• Kirsten Simone, 90, Danish ballerina.
• Miet Smet, 81, Belgian politician, senator, MEP, and Flemish MP.
• Paul Szabo, 76, Canadian politician, MP.
• Joanna Tope, 80, English actress.
• Ken Tschumper, 74, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives, cancer.
• Uncle Mo, 16, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
• Kevin Ray Underwood, 45, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Gwen Van Dam, 96, American actress.
• Dennis Wainwright, 89, Bermudian cricketer and footballer.
• Tsuneo Watanabe, 98, Japanese journalist and publisher, pneumonia.
• Ralph Wayne, 92, American politician, member of the Texas House of Representatives.
• Russ Weeks, 82, American politician, member of the West Virginia Senate.
• Wincey Willis, 76, British television and radio broadcaster.
• Xie Fang, 89, Chinese actress.
• Charles Young Jr., 62, American politician, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives.

20

• Tofig Aghababayev, 96, Azerbaijani painter.
• A. F. Hassan Ariff, 83, Bangladeshi lawyer, attorney general, adviser of land and civil aviation and tourism.
• Čedomir Božić, 40, Serbian administrator and politician, mayor of Žabalj, heart attack.
• Om Prakash Chautala, 89, Indian politician, four-time chief minister of Haryana, cardiac arrest.
• Sugar Pie DeSanto, 89, American singer.
• George Eastham, 88, English footballer.
• John Erwin, 88, American voice actor.
• Giovanni Graber, 85, Italian Olympic luger.
• Ann Hartley, 82, New Zealand politician, MP, mayor of North Shore City.
• Rickey Henderson, 65, American Hall of Fame baseball player, World Series champion, pneumonia.
• Jonathan Holden, 83, American poet.
• Thierry Jacob, 59, French boxer, WBC world champion.
• Vilmos Jakab, 72, Hungarian Olympic boxer.
• Zaur Kaziev, 41, Russian footballer.
• June Kreuzer, 80, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives.
• Abigail McGrath, 84, American writer, actor, and playwright.
• Bernard McGurrin, 91, English rugby league player.
• Kurt Laurenz Metzler, 83, Swiss sculptor.
• Raja Mitra, 79, Indian film director, cancer.
• Gearóid Ó Cairealláin, 67, Irish language activist, editor and president of Conradh na Gaeilge.
• Bright Owusu, 26, Ghanaian actor and comedian.
• Shirish B. Patel, 92, Indian civil engineer.
• Rey Misterio, 66, Mexican professional wrestler.
• Leif Silbersky, 86, Swedish lawyer and author.
• Turgut Toydemir, 86, Turkish architect, shot.
• Muriel Stanley Venne, 87, Canadian Métis community leader and Indigenous rights activist.
• C. B. Zaman, 78–79, Bangladeshi film director and actor, heart attack.
• George Zebrowski, 78, Austrian-born American science fiction writer.
• Helena Zeťová, 44, Czech singer.

21

• Godwin Abbe, 75, Nigerian politician, minister of defence and interior, governor of Akwa Ibom State.
• Catherine Aird, 94, English novelist.
• Jack Bond, 87, British film director.
• Michelle Botes, 62, South African actress, cancer.
• Casey Chaos, 59, American punk and metal singer, heart attack.
• Stephen Chmilar, 79, Canadian Ukrainian Catholic hierarch, bishop of Toronto and Eastern Canada.
• Martin Dechev, 34, Bulgarian footballer.
• Art Evans, 82, American actor, complications from diabetes.
• Woody Fraser, 90, American television producer and director.
• Murray H. Goodman, 99, American real estate developer and philanthropist.
• Harvendra Singh Hanspal, 86, Indian politician, MP.
• Max Hayslette, 94, American painter.
• Hannelore Hoger, 82, German actress.
• Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, 90, American World War II internee and author.
• Maïté, 86, French restaurateur and television presenter.
• Don Martina, 89, Curaçaoan politician, prime minister of the Netherlands Antilles.
• Hudson Meek, 16, American actor, traffic collision.
• Rohan Mirchandani, 42, Indian industrialist, cardiac arrest.
• Eric Saarinen, 82, American cinematographer.
• Brian Turner, 91, Australian footballer.
• Bernhard Worms, 94, German politician, member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia, MP.
• Jerome T. Youngman, 73, American musician.

22

• Louis Bechtle, 97, American jurist, judge and chief judge of the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
• Geoffrey Deuel, 81, American actor, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
• David B. Douzanis, 74, American politician, member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives.
• Vincent Fort, 68, American politician, member of the Georgia State Senate, cancer.
• Qamruddin Ahmad Gorakhpuri, 86, Indian Islamic scholar.
• Awang Faroek Ishak, 76, Indonesian politician, governor of East Kalimantan.
• Eduard Kuznetsov, 85, Russian-Israeli dissident, journalist, and writer, co-leader of the Dymshits–Kuznetsov hijacking affair.
• Murray D. Levy, 79, American politician, member of the Maryland House of Delegates.
• Dieter Lindner, 85, German footballer.
• Liu Yuan, 64, Chinese musician, cancer.
• Youssef Nada, 93, Egyptian banker, co-founder of Al Taqwa Bank.
• Marilyn Oshman, 85, American businesswoman.
• Stuart A. Rice, 92, American theoretical and physical chemist.
• Augusto Rollandin, 75, Italian politician, senator and president of Aosta Valley.
• Herbert Rusche, 72, German LGBTQ activist and politician, MP.
• Hans Jörg Schimanek, 84, Austrian journalist and politician, member of the Landtag of Lower Austria.
• Alan Senauke, 77, American Sōtō Zen priest, folk musician, and poet, complications from a heart attack.
• Mykola Soroka, 72, Ukrainian politician, governor of Rivne Oblast and MP.
• Roze Stiebra, 82, Latvian animator.
• Stewart Stover, 86, American football player.

23

• Suvojit Banerjee, 39, Indian cricketer, cardiac arrest.
• Shyam Benegal, 90, Indian film director and politician, MP, kidney disease.
• Dési Bouterse, 79, Surinamese politician, military officer, and convicted murderer, commander of the Armed Forces, chairman of the National Military Council and president, liver failure.
• Vladimir Burakov, 70, Russian politician.
• Michael Burkard, 77, American poet and educator.
• Burt,, Australian saltwater crocodile and animal actor.
• Colin Campbell, 78, British Olympic middle-distance runner and bobsledder.
• Teodoras Četrauskas, 80, Lithuanian writer and literary translator.
• Edward Champlin, 76, American academic.
• Faiz Ali Chishti, 97, Pakistani general, heart and lung disease.
• Gary Cohn, 72, American investigative reporter and academic.
• Timothy Cullen, 80, American politician, member of the Wisconsin Senate, heart condition.
• George DeTitta Sr., 94, American set decorator.
• Tigran Eganyan, 46, Armenian politician, MP.
• Mick Fleming, 91, Irish hurler.
• Brian Freemantle, 88, English writer and journalist, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Thomas Gaither, 86, American botanist and civil rights activist.
• Mihály Gellér, 77, Hungarian Olympic ski jumper.
• Wacław Gluth-Nowowiejski, 98, Polish publicist and author.
• Gerardo Guevara, 94, Ecuadorian composer.
• Sophie Hediger, 26, Swiss Olympic snowboarder, avalanche.
• Earnest Johnson, 72, American politician, member of the Alabama House of Representatives.
• Hanna Katzir, 78, Israeli hostage.
• Anatoly Khvorostov, 84, Russian art historian.
• Angus MacInnes, 77, Canadian actor.
• Pere Moles, 89, Andorran politician and historian, four-time general councillor.
• Dalmacio Negro Pavón, 93, Spanish philosopher, member of the Royal Academy of Moral and Political Sciences.
• Zhaleh Olov, 97, Iranian actress.
• Victor Parsonnet, 100, American cardiac surgeon.
• Gordon Pulley, 88, English footballer.
• Sylvia Rambo, 88, American jurist, judge of the U.S. District Court for Middle Pennsylvania.
• Leigh Robertson, 74, Australian footballer.
• Regina Sarfaty, 90, American opera singer.
• Helmut Schlesinger, 100, German economist, president of the Deutsche Bundesbank.
• Mel Shapiro, 89, American theater director.
• Shi Zhongheng, 94, Chinese engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
• Carole Wilbourn, 84, American cat therapist.

24

• Nils Aaness, 88, Norwegian Olympic speed skater.
• Arlene Agus, 75, American writer.
• Joe Average, 67, Canadian artist.
• Curtis Cheek, 66, American bridge player.
• Jiří Čížek, 86, Czechoslovak-born Canadian chemist.
• Richard M. Cohen, 76, American journalist, television producer, and author, acute respiratory failure.
• Alceu Collares, 97, Brazilian politician, governor of Rio Grande do Sul and mayor of Porto Alegre, pneumonia.
• Constantin Drumen, 74, Romanian politician, deputy.
• Alfredo Fiorito, 71, Argentine disc jockey.
• Edwin Gastanes, 66, Filipino lawyer and sports administrator, general secretary of the Philippine Football Federation and Philippine Olympic Committee.
• Pascal Hervé, 60, French Olympic road racing cyclist.
• Tom Hyland, 72, Irish human rights activist, campaigner for the East Timorese people.
• Akitomo Kaneko, 97, Japanese Olympic gymnast.
• Charles F. Lettow, 83, American lawyer and jurist, judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims.
• Dorthy Moxley, 92, American crime victim advocate, influenza.
• Richard Perry, 82, American record producer.
• George Petak, 75, American politician, member of the Wisconsin Senate, cancer.
• Alfredo Prior, 72, Argentine painter, writer and musician.
• Utz Rothe, 84, Austrian artist, fire.
• Octavio Salazar Miranda, 72, Peruvian politician, MP, minister of the interior.
• Priya Suriyasena, 80, Sri Lankan singer.

25

• Britt Allcroft, 81, English writer.
• Ouanes Amor, 88, French painter.
• Paul Abine Ayah, 74, Cameroonian politician, MP.
• Bill Bergey, 79, American football player, cancer.
• Brent Billingsley, 49, American baseball player.
• Johann Böhm, 95, Romanian-born German historian.
• Jax Dane, 48, American professional wrestler, complications from a heart attack.
• Dulce, 69, Mexican singer and actress, lung cancer.
• Eric Hänni, 86, Swiss judoka, Olympic silver medalist.
• Bernice Heloo, 70, Ghanaian politician, MP.
• Farhad Karibov, 72, Azerbaijani politician, MP.
• María Antonia Morales, 93, Chilean judge, justice of the Supreme Court.
• Mary Murphy, 85, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives, complications from a stroke.
• M. T. Vasudevan Nair, 91, Indian novelist and screenwriter, heart failure.
• Kiriko Nananan, 52, Japanese manga artist.
• Dora Moono Nyambe, 32, Zambian humanitarian and social media personality.
• Brady Paxton, 77, American politician, member of the West Virginia House of Delegates.
• Carlos Pedroso, 57, Cuban fencer, Olympic bronze medallist, burns.
• Bapsi Sidhwa, 86, Pakistani novelist.
• Osamu Suzuki, 94, Japanese automotive industry executive, president and chairman of Suzuki, lymphoma.
• Marie Winn, 88, American author and journalist.
• Notable Azerbaijanis killed in the crash of Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 8243:
• *Hokuma Aliyeva, 33, flight attendant
• *Aleksandr Kalyaninov, 32, pilot
• *Igor Kshnyakin, 62, pilot

26

• Robert Baldwin, 59, Japanese-Canadian actor, colon cancer.
• Sammy Thurman Brackenbury, 91, American Hall of Fame barrel racer.
• Dick Capri, 93, American actor and comedian, aortic dissection.
• John B. Cobb, 99, American environmentalist and theologian.
• Gary Conklin, 92, American documentarian.
• Mary Damron, 70, American missionary, cancer.
• Sabapathy Dekshinamurthy, 61, Indian film director.
• Yoshitaka Egawa, 82, Japanese Olympic basketball player.
• Richard Gibson, 89, British architect.
• Chisako Kakehi, 78, Japanese serial killer.
• Ney Latorraca, 80, Brazilian actor, prostate cancer.
• Daniel Légère, 65, Canadian trade unionist, liver cancer.
• Josef Lewkowicz, 98, Polish-Israeli Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter.
• OG Maco, 32, American rapper, suicide by gunshot.
• Phebe Marr, 93, American historian.
• Salem Masadeh, 94, Jordanian politician.
• Paul Oreffice, 97, Italian-born American businessman.
• Gianpaolo Ormezzano, 89, Italian journalist.
• Richard Parsons, 76, American financial and media executive, chairman of Citigroup, multiple myeloma.
• Akumal Ramachander, 75, Indian art critic and writer.
• Cassandra Salguero, 21, Mexican beach soccer player.
• Tom Seabron, 67, American football player, heart attack.
• Manmohan Singh, 92, Indian politician, prime minister, MP, and minister of finance, heart disease.
• Konstantin Smeshko, 61, Russian military commander.
• Ruslan Solyanyk, 40, Ukrainian footballer.
• Ernst Terhardt, 90, German engineer.
• William E. Thurman, 93, American lieutenant general.
• Sergei Toporov, 53, Russian football player and manager.
• Vladimir Tsyrenov, 83, Russian long-distance and marathon runner.
• Janet Wanja, 40, Kenyan Olympic volleyball player, gallbladder cancer.
• Geoff Wheel, 73, Welsh rugby player, motor neurone disease.

27

• Toshiyuki Adachi, 70, Japanese politician, MP, shipwreck.
• Soraya Bedjora Adiong, 80, Filipino politician, governor of Lanao del Sur.
• Daniele Bagnoli, 71, Italian volleyball coach.
• Paul Bamba, 35, Puerto Rican boxer.
• Arnold M. Brown, 93, American politician, member of the South Dakota House of Representatives and Senate.
• Nigel Buesst, 86, Australian filmmaker.
• Mickey Bullock, 78, English footballer.
• Richard F. Colburn, 74, American politician, member of the Maryland House of Delegates and Senate.
• Kari Dziedzic, 62, American politician, member of the Minnesota Senate, ovarian cancer.
• Tony Geraghty, 92, British journalist and paratrooper.
• Greg Gumbel, 78, American sportscaster, cancer.
• Dayle Haddon, 76, Canadian model and actress, carbon monoxide poisoning.
• Olivia Hussey, 73, British actress, breast cancer.
• Juan Jaime, 37, Dominican baseball player, heart attack.
• Bachuki Kardava, 54, Georgian politician, MP, perforated ulcer.
• Humberto Lepe Lepe, 75, Mexican politician, MP.
• Stavri Lubonja, 89, Albanian football player and manager.
• Geraldo Magela, 89, Brazilian lawyer and politician, attorney general, minister of defence.
• Abdul Rehman Makki, 70, Pakistani Islamist, co-founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba, heart attack.
• Charles C. Mann, 89, American politician, member of the Georgia House of Representatives.
• Charlie Maxwell, 97, American baseball player.
• Lloyd Miller, 86, American jazz musician.
• Ted Mittet, 83, American rower, Olympic bronze medallist.
• Rustam Shah Mohmand, 82, Pakistani diplomat, interior secretary and Chief Secretary of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
• Arnold Orowae, 69, Papua New Guinean Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop, coadjutor bishop and bishop of Wabag.
• Cesare Ragazzi, 83, Italian businessman and television personality.
• David B. Rivkin, 68, American attorney and conservative commentator.
• Svetozar Šapurić, 64, Serbian football player and manager.
• Dame Rosalind Savill, 73, British museum curator, cancer.
• Charles Shyer, 83, American screenwriter and film director.
• Frank Wilson, 80, Welsh rugby union and rugby league player.
• Charlie Wright, 86, Scottish football player and manager.
• Ann Wylie, 102, New Zealand botanist.

28

• Sverre Aarseth, 90, Norwegian astronomer.
• Dick Creed, 93, American football official .
• George W. Davis Jr., 91, American military officer.
• Charles Dolan, 98, American businessman, founder of Cablevision and HBO.
• Pierre-Sylvain Filliozat, 88, French-Indian linguist.
• Nancy Hadley, 94, American actress and model.
• Martin Karplus, 94, Austrian-American theoretical chemist, Nobel Prize laureate, fall.
• Mary Anne Krupsak, 92, American lawyer and politician, New York lieutenant governor, member of the New York State Assembly and Senate.
• Émile Lejeune, 86, Belgian footballer.
• Leonard Lilyholm, 83, American ice hockey player, traffic collision.
• Abdulkadir Aliyu Mahe, 72–73, Nigerian politician.
• Ebadollah S. Mahmoodian, 81, Iranian mathematician.
• Dietrich Möller, 87, German politician, mayor of Marburg and member of the Landtag of Hesse.
• Lars Martin Myhre, 68, Norwegian composer, guitarist and pianist.
• Paavo Nikula, 82, Finnish politician, minister of justice, chancellor of justice, and MP.
• John Nix, 93, Australian footballer.
• Barre Phillips, 90, American jazz musician.
• Rudolf Podgornik, 69, Slovene theoretical physicist.
• Enrico Rabbachin, 81, Italian Olympic sports shooter.
• Walter Saldanha, 93, Indian advertising industry executive.
• Jana Synková, 80, Czech actress.
• János Szerényi, 86, Hungarian Olympic long-distance runner.
• Herbert R. Temple Jr., 96, American military officer, chief of the National Guard Bureau.
• Fran Toy, 90, American Episcopal priest.
• Peter Vail, 94, American geologist and geophysicist.
• Josh White Jr., 84, American musician.
• Virgil Wood, 93, American civil rights activist.
• Yoyo,, Spanish elephant, oldest known living elephant.

29

• Ahmed Adaweyah, 79, Egyptian singer and actor.
• Gladys Afamado, 99, Uruguayan visual artist, engraver and poet.
• Marie-Claude Beaud, 78, French art exhibition curator.
• Simon Baliol Brett, 81, British artist.
• Aaron Brown, 76, American broadcaster.
• Aleksei Bugayev, 43, Russian footballer, killed in action.
• Jim Campbell, 81, American baseball player.
• Eric Carlson, 66, American heavy metal guitarist, cancer.
• Jimmy Carter, 100, American politician and humanitarian, president, governor of Georgia and Nobel Prize laureate.
• Paul D. Cronin, 88, American equestrian.
• George Dames, 87, American politician, member of the Missouri House of Representatives.
• Grigore Eremei, 89, Moldovan politician and diplomat.
• George Folsey Jr., 85, American film producer and editor, pneumonia.
• Elena Fonseca, 94, Uruguayan activist and radio journalist, co-founder of Cotidiano Mujer.
• Han Tong-il, 83, South Korean pianist.
• Tomiko Itooka, 116, Japanese supercentenarian, world's oldest person.
• Kishore Kunal, 74, Indian policeman.
• Jagnula Kunovska, 81, Macedonian jurist, politician, and artist.
• Phil Lang, 95, American politician, member and speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives.
• Linda Lavin, 87, American actress, Tony winner, complications from lung cancer.
• Dada Masilo, 39, South African dancer and choreographer.
• Bob McNeil, 82, New Zealand journalist and news presenter, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Satish Pradhan, 84, Indian politician, MP.
• Lenny Randle, 75, American baseball player.
• Leonard W. Riches, 85, American Anglican clergyman, presiding bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church and bishop ordinary of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, cancer.
• Oscar Schneider, 97, German politician, minister for regional planning, building and urban development and MP.
• Dileep Shankar, 54, Indian actor, director and writer.
• Magnus Sjöberg, 97, Swedish jurist, prosecutor-general.
• Xing Qiuhen, 94, Chinese physicist and academic.

30

• George Alevisatos, 86, Canadian football player.
• Mike Babul, 47, American basketball coach, heart attack.
• Wolfgang de Beer, 60, German footballer.
• Sibusiso Bengu, 90, South African politician, minister of education.
• Bob Bertles, 85, Australian jazz musician.
• Donald Biggs, 94, American politician, member of the Kansas Senate.
• Mark Bradley, 68, American baseball player.
• Richard Brock, 86, British television and film producer.
• John Capodice, 83, American actor.
• Tony Connell, 80, Scottish footballer, fall.
• Loretta Di Franco, 82, American soprano.
• William N. Eschmeyer, 85, American ichthyologist.
• Dave Fagg, 88, American football coach.
• Ruggero Franceschini, 85, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, apostolic vicar of Anatolia and archbishop of İzmir.
• Pippa Garner, 82, American artist, leukemia.
• Sir Peter Graham, 87, British army lieutenant general, GOC Scotland.
• Joe Grech, 90, Maltese singer.
• Émile Idée, 104, French road racing cyclist.
• Jamshid bin Abdullah, 95, Tanzanian Zanzibari royal, sultan.
• Lul Jeylani Ali, 74, Somali singer.
• Kim Soo-han, 96, South Korean politician, speaker of the National Assembly.
• Gennady Kovalev, 79, Russian biathlete, world champion.
• Pascal Lainé, 82, French academic, novelist, and writer.
• Jorge Lanata, 64, Argentine journalist and author, complications from a heart attack.
• Peter Leitch, 80, Canadian jazz guitarist.
• Braulio Rafael León Villegas, 81, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of La Paz en la Baja California Sur and Ciudad Guzmán, liver cancer.
• Adília Lopes, 64, Portuguese poet.
• Sir Anthony May, 84, British judge, president of the Queen's Bench Division.
• James E. McBryde, 74, American businessman and politician, member of the Michigan House of Representatives.
• Jean Milant, 81, American printmaker.
• Michael Newberry, 27, English footballer.
• Clint Nichols, 80, American politician, member of the West Virginia House of Delegates.
• Arshad Pervez, 71, Pakistani cricketer.
• Dax Pierson, 54, American musician.
• Cloyd Robinson, 86, American politician, member of the Iowa Senate.
• Gianni Savio, 76, Italian cycling team manager.
• Diana Scarisbrick, 96, English art historian.
• Mira Shelub, 102, Polish resistance fighter.
• Lee Shulman, 86, American educational psychologist.
• Hugo Sotil, 75, Peruvian footballer, kidney and liver failure.
• Sir Fraser Stoddart, 82, British-American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• Michael Turner, 70, Australian footballer, pancreatic cancer.
• Ronald A. Wait, 80, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives.
• Frederick Werema, 69, Tanzanian jurist, justice of the High Court, attorney general, and MP.

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• Alfonso Adán, 52, Spanish politician, mayor of Binéfar.
• Angelo Amato, 86, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal, prefect of the Causes of Saints and secretary of the Doctrine of the Faith.
• Bob Anderegg, 87, American basketball player.
• Anne Bayley, 90, English surgeon.
• Paolo Benvegnù, 59, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist, heart attack.
• Charlie Calow, 93, Northern Irish footballer.
• Francesco Castiello, 82, Italian politician, senator.
• Nader Fergany, 80, Egyptian sociologist and economist.
• Andrea Galgó Ferenci, 51, Serbian politician, MP.
• Wally Hirsh, 88, German-born New Zealand educator and public servant, race relations conciliator.
• John C. Holstein, 79, American jurist, judge and chief justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri.
• Tom Johnson, 85, American composer and music critic.
• Andreas Laun, 82, Austrian Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Salzburg.
• Buddy MacKay, 91, American politician, governor and lieutenant governor of Florida, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
• James Kirby Martin, 81, American historian.
• Nahit Menteşe, 92, Turkish politician, minister of the interior, deputy prime minister.
• Don Nix, 83, American musician and songwriter.
• Samuel Ocaña García, 93, Mexican physician and politician, governor of Sonora.
• Roger Pratt, 77, British cinematographer.
• Piotr Pytlakowski, 73, Polish journalist.
• Arnold Rüütel, 96, Estonian politician, president, chairman of the Supreme Soviet and the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet.
• Elizabeth Schmitz, 86, Dutch politician, secretary of state for justice, mayor of Haarlem.
• Thomas J. Schriber, 89, American academic.
• Myra Sklarew, 90, American biologist and poet, complications from Crohn's disease.
• Sweet Daddy Siki, 91, American-Canadian wrestler, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Paolo Vitelli, 77, Italian motor yacht industry executive and politician, founder of Azimut Yachts and deputy, fall.
• Johnnie Walker, 79, English disc jockey, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
• Frances Wessells, 105, American dancer.
• Jocelyn Wildenstein, 84, Swiss socialite, pulmonary embolism.