Deaths in December 2025

December 2025

1

• Ann Bedsole, 95, American politician, member of the Alabama Senate.
• John Boulter, 94, British tenor.
• Elden Campbell, 57, American basketball player, drowned.
• R. V. Devraj, 67, Indian politician, Karnataka MLA and chairman of the KSRTC, cardiac arrest.
• Denis Durnian, 75, English golfer.
• Anicet Ekane, 74, Cameroonian politician.
• Ebo Elder, 46, American boxer, glioblastoma.
• Patrick Galan, 75, French journalist, photographer and historian.
• Osvaldo Giuntini, 89, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop, coadjutor bishop and bishop of Marília.
• Hawk Wing, 26, American-bred Thoroughbred racehorse and sire, colic.
• Michel van Hulten, 95, Dutch politician and social geographer, state secretary for transport and water management, MP, prostate cancer.
• Assusete Magalhães, 76, Brazilian magistrate, judge of the Superior Court of Justice.
• Solan Mirisim, 47, Papua New Guinean politician.
• Gabriel Moiceanu, 91, Romanian Olympic cyclist.
• Volodymyr Muntyan, 79, Ukrainian football player and manager.
• Bruce Niemi, 76, American politician, member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives.
• Nicola Pietrangeli, 92, Italian Hall of Fame tennis player.
• Poorstacy, 26, American musician, suicide by gunshot.
• Coleen Seng, 89, American politician, mayor of Lincoln, Nebraska.
• Luci Shaw, 96, British-American poet and essayist.
• Robin Smith, 62, South African-born English cricketer.
• Michael Turner, 91, British illustrator, skin cancer.
• Uthopia, 24, British dressage horse, Olympic champion, euthanised.
• Valegro, 23, British dressage horse, Olympic champion, euthanised.
• Antonio Vargiu, 88, Italian Olympic field hockey player, injuries sustained in a traffic collision.
• Hugh Wallace, 68, Irish architect.
• Hennie van Zyl, 89, South African rugby union player.
• Vũ Ngọc Hải, 94, Vietnamese politician, minister of industry and trade.

2

• Moustafa Ali, 59, Egyptian-born Canadian football player, complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Michael Annett, 39, American racing driver.
• Anatoli Belyayev, 73, Belarusian ice hockey player.
• Olga Cardoso, 91, Portuguese radio announcer, television presenter, and singer.
• José Luis Cienfuegos, 60–61, Spanish festival programmer and cultural manager, aneurysm.
• Claude, 30, American albino alligator, liver cancer.
• Ena Collymore-Woodstock, 108, Jamaican barrister and magistrate.
• Constança Cunha e Sá, 67, Portuguese journalist and political commentator.
• Daniel Dagallier, 99, French fencer, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Darwin Deason, 85, American information technology services founder.
• Marvin Hinton, 85, English footballer.
• Kseniya Kachalina, 54, Russian actress.
• Essau Kanyenda, 43, Malawian footballer, liver cancer.
• Marianne Larsen, 74, Danish poet and writer.
• David Matalon, 82, American film producer, co-founder of TriStar Pictures.
• Arnfinn Nesset, 89, Norwegian convicted serial killer.
• James H. Payne, 84, American jurist, judge of the U.S. District Courts of Eastern, [United States District Court for the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma|Northern District of Oklahoma|Northern] and Western Oklahoma and chief judge of the U.S. District Court of Eastern Oklahoma.
• Adrian Pleșca, 64, Romanian singer, stroke.
• Sir Alec Reed, 91, British recruitment executive and philanthropist, founder of Reed and The Big Give.
• Rudi Tröger, 96, German painter and academic.
• Arcadio Venturi, 96, Italian footballer.
• Lesley Walker, 80, British film editor.
• Alice S. Whittemore, 89, American epidemiologist and biostatistician.
• Margaret Jane Wray, 62, American soprano.

3

• Levi Aron, 49, American convicted killer.
• Devin Battley, 75, American motorcycle racer and businessman.
• Wojciech Błasiak, 73, Polish politician, MP.
• Jaakko Blomberg, 83, Finnish diplomat.
• Luigi Bonazzi, 77, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, apostolic nuncio to Haiti, Canada and Albania.
• Bernard Charlot, 81, French academic and educational scientist.
• D. L. Coburn, 87, American playwright, colon cancer.
• Kevin Coe, 78, American serial rapist.
• Steve Cropper, 84, American Hall of Fame guitarist, songwriter and record producer, two-time Grammy winner.
• Jean-Jacques Croteau, 95, Canadian politician, Quebec MNA.
• R. Bruce Dold, 70, American journalist, esophageal cancer.
• Brian Havelock, 83, British motorcycle speedway rider.
• Moisés Fontela, 87, Argentine engineer and politician, deputy and mayor of Castelli Partido.
• Epy Kusnandar, 61, Indonesian actor, brainstem stroke.
• Beena Masroor, 67, Pakistani actress, writer and director.
• Dave Monk, 72, British broadcaster, pancreatic cancer.
• Whitney Paul, 72, American football player.
• Ted Pickering, 86, Australian politician, New South Wales MLC.
• Theodor Pištěk, 93, Czech artist and costume designer, Oscar winner.
• Mohammed Rahmatullah, 87, Indian football player and manager.
• Nadiya Sabeh, 32, Ivorian actress and content creator, breast cancer.
• Abdulaziz Sachedina, 83, Tanzanian-born American Islamic scholar.
• Charles Norman Shay, 101, American army medic and writer.
• Rodica Stănoiu, 86, Romanian jurist and politician, senator.
• Maurizio Thermes, 86, Italian footballer.
• Naĭden Vŭlchev, 98, Bulgarian poet and translator.

4

• José Luis Alonso Coomonte, 93, Spanish sculptor and academic.
• Muho Asllani, 88, Albanian politician, MP.
• Mabel Bocchi, 72, Italian Hall of Fame basketball player.
• Giuseppe Caroli, 93, Italian politician, deputy.
• Sergey Dubinin, 74, Russian economist and politician, minister of finance, president of the Central Bank of Russia.
• Ted Egan, 93, Australian folk singer and civil servant, administrator of the Northern Territory.
• Robert B. Fiske, 94, American trial attorney, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, pancreatic cancer.
• Steve Hertz, 80, American baseball player.
• Claire Ortiz Hill, 74, American scholar and translator.
• Nihal Fernando, 71, Sri Lankan actor.
• Swaraj Kaushal, 73, Indian lawyer and politician, MP and governor of Mizoram.
• Faouzi Khidr, 75, Egyptian journalist and writer.
• Rafał Kołsut, 35, Polish voice actor.
• Roy Kramer, 96, American college football coach and athletics administrator.
• Roger Lumont, 91, French artistic director and actor.
• Ivan Makedonskyi, 83, Ukrainian politician, deputy.
• Eduardo Manzano, 87, Mexican comedian and actor.
• Budoy Marabiles, 54, Filipino reggae singer.
• Sir Patrick McNair-Wilson, 96, British politician, MP.
• Pops Mohamed, 75, South African jazz musician.
• Charles Mullins, 91, American physician.
• Milan Nakonečný, 93, Czech psychologist, historian and academic.
• Arunee Nanthiwat, 69, Thai voice actress.
• Paolo Nuvoli, 90, Italian politician, president of Molise.
• Edward Gabriel Risi, 76, South African Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Keimoes–Upington.
• Emile van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal, 86, Dutch constitutional lawyer and Africanist.
• M. Saravanan, 85, Indian film producer.
• Yasser Abu Shabab, 31, Palestinian militia leader, shot.
• Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, 75, American actor, complications from a stroke.
• Lee Wright, 81, Canadian Olympic field hockey player, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Tetsu Yamauchi, 79, Japanese bassist.

5

• Josh Becker, 67, American film and television director and screenwriter.
• Claude Boucher, 83, Canadian politician, Quebec MNA.
• Mario Busquets Jordá, 90, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Territorial Prelature of Chuquibamba.
• Vasile Carauș, 37, Moldovan footballer, cancer.
• Chen Chin-hsing, 90, Taiwanese politician, MP and magistrate of Hsinchu County.
• Bruce Eastick, 98, Australian politician, speaker of the South Australian House of Assembly.
• Kenneth W. Ford, 99, American theoretical physicist and writer.
• Frank Gehry, 96, Canadian-American architect, respiratory illness.
• Sandro Giacobbe, 75, Italian singer-songwriter, prostate cancer.
• Patrik Hezucký, 55, Czech radio presenter, liver cancer.
• Nick Joanides, 55, American racing driver.
• Kris Kalifatidis, 67, Australian soccer player.
• Camryn Magness, 26, American singer, injuries sustained in traffic collision.
• Mark Jay Mirsky, 86, American writer and academic, co-founder of Fiction.
• Bung Moktar Radin, 66, Malaysian politician, MP and Sabah State MLA, kidney failure and lung infection.
• David Mulwa, 80, Kenyan writer.
• Alex R. Munson, 84, American jurist, judge and chief judge of the District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands.
• Wolfgang Petrick, 86, German painter.
• Jürgen Raps, 74, German pilot and aviation manager.
• Herbert W. Roesky, 90, German chemist.
• Alex Sánchez, 95, Costa Rican footballer.
• Gerhard Scheu, 82, German politician, MP.
• Dirk Schreyer, 81, German rower, Olympic champion.
• Matti Sundelin, 91, Finnish footballer.
• Simone Tata, 95, Swiss-born Indian cosmetics and retail industry executive, chairwoman of Lakmé Cosmetics and Trent Limited.
• Alfonso Ussía, 77, Spanish writer and journalist.
• Marius van der Merwe, 40–41, South African security company owner, shot.
• Wang Xun, 91, Chinese academic and physicist.

6

• Khosrow Alikordi, 46, Iranian lawyer and human rights activist, cardiac arrest.
• Kate Allsop, 71, British politician, mayor of Mansfield.
• Patrick Cooney, 94, Irish politician, senator, minister for defence and justice.
• Fiorenza de Bernardi, 97, Italian commercial airline pilot, co-founder of Aertirrena.
• Erzsébet Csajbók, 72, Hungarian Olympic handball player.
• Christian de Chalonge, 88, French film director and screenwriter.
• Alfredo Díaz Figueroa, 56, Venezuelan politician, governor of Nueva Esparta, heart attack.
• Oľga Feldeková, 82, Slovak writer.
• Reounodji Gabin, 38, Chadian painter and artist, traffic collision.
• Pierre-Paul Geoffroy, 81, Canadian Quebec nationalist militant.
• Denar Joseph Hamisi, 56, Kenyan politician, MP.
• Tom Hicks, 79, American sports owner and private equity investor, co-founder of HM Capital Partners.
• Henry Howes, 96, British Olympic speed skater.
• Rafael Ithier, 99, Puerto Rican salsa musician.
• Jerry Kasenetz, 82, American music producer, fall.
• Jonah Kinigstein, 102, American artist.
• Byron Knutson, 96, American politician, member of the North Dakota House of Representatives.
• Viacheslav Kryshtofovych, 78, Ukrainian film director, screenwriter and actor.
• Aleksandr Matsegora, 70, Russian diplomat, ambassador to North Korea.
• Viktor Miroshnichenko, 66, Ukrainian boxer, Olympic silver medallist.
• Martin Parr, 73, British photographer and photojournalist, cancer.
• Abdul Rashid, 46, Pakistani Olympic hurdler, heart attack.
• Esko Seppänen, 79, Finnish politician, MP and MEP.
• Bevan Spencer von Einem, 79, Australian convicted child murderer.
• Dan J. Stein, 63, South African psychiatrist and academic.
• Bill Sutton, 81, British-born New Zealand politician, MP.
• Tito Topin, 93, French writer and illustrator.
• Manolo Villanova, 83, Spanish football player and manager.

7

• Marc Alyn, 88, French poet and writer.
• Joseph Sirima Bissiri, 72, Burkinabé politician, Burkina Faso MNA.
• Rachael Carpani, 45, Australian actress.
• Kalyan Chatterjee, 83, Indian actor, complications from typhoid fever.
• Christine Choy, 73, American filmmaker.
• Piotr Cieplak, 65, Polish stage director.
• Glen De Boeck, 54, Belgian football player and manager, cerebral haemorrhage.
• Thomas E. Dewberry, 74, American politician and judge, member of the Maryland House of Delegates, complications from heart disease and pneumonia.
• Anita Guerreiro, 89, Portuguese actress and fado singer.
• Tiit Härm, 79, Estonian ballet dancer, master and choreographer.
• Sven Hotz, 96, Swiss property dealer and football club president.
• Sandra Segal Ikuta, 71, American jurist, judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, pancreatic cancer.
• Rolf Jähnichen, 86, German politician, member of the Landtag of Saxony.
• Peg Kehret, 89, American author.
• Irène Lindon, 74, French publisher, director of Les Éditions de Minuit.
• Jean-Gilles Malliarakis, 81, French politician and writer.
• Jimmy Mariano, 84, Filipino basketball player and coach.
• Lajos Marton, 94, Hungarian anti-communist activist.
• Adnan Mroueh, 89, Lebanese physician and politician, minister of public health and tourism.
• Nala, 5–6, British tabby cat.
• Stephen Pearton, 68, Australian-born American materials scientist.
• C. Rajadurai, 98, Sri Lankan politician, MP.
• Matylda Růžičková-Šínová, 92, Czech gymnast, Olympic silver medallist and bronze medallist.
• Volodymyr Sysenko, 63, Ukrainian football player and manager.
• Ramón Trujillo Carreño, 94, Spanish linguist.
• Frans Weisz, 87, Dutch film director, complications from Alzheimer's disease.

8

• Baba Adhav, 95, Indian social and labor activist and author.
• Poul Andersen, 73, Danish politician, MP.
• Wolfgang Baake, 75, German theologian and journalist.
• Tom Copeland, 101, American politician, member and speaker of the Washington House of Representatives.
• Iain Douglas-Hamilton, 83, British zoologist and wildlife conservationist.
• Detlef Enge, 73, German footballer.
• Gordon Goodwin, 70, American musician, composer and conductor, four-time Grammy Award winner, pancreatic cancer.
• Masato Harada, 76, Japanese film director and actor.
• Bill Hauritz, 73, Australian festival director.
• Kate Ho, 53, British-American economist, cancer.
• Hiroaki Inoue, 81, Japanese baseball player, hypovolemic shock.
• Arthur Konrad, 91, Liechtensteiner politician, mayor of Vaduz.
• Jaroslav Kubín, 78, Czech politician, senator, member of the Zlín Regional Assembly.
• Rosa Leal de Pérez, 71, Guatemalan psychologist, first lady.
• Félix Leyzour, 93, French politician, deputy and mayor of Callac.
• Raul Malo, 60, American musician and songwriter, Grammy winner, colon and leptomeningeal cancer.
• Eamon Melaugh, 92, Irish political activist.
• José Filomeno Monteiro, 70, Cape Verdean diplomat and politician, minister of foreign affairs.
• George C. Pratt, 97, American jurist, judge of the U.S. District Court for Eastern New York and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
• Bill Ratliff, 89, American politician, [Lieutenant Governor of Texas|lieutenant Governor of North Carolina|governor of Texas] and member of the Texas Senate.
• Hans Roericht, 93, German designer.
• Eila Roine, 94, Finnish actress.
• Ioan Sdrobiș, 79, Romanian football manager.
• Jubilant Sykes, 71, American baritone, stabbed.
• Radu Theodoru, 101, Romanian general, writer and Holocaust denier.
• Wang Bingqian, 100, Chinese economist and politician, minister of finance, state councillor, and vice chairperson of the SCNPC.
• Cora Weiss, 91, American human rights activist.
• John Noble Wilford, 92, American journalist and author, prostate cancer.
• William Yap, 24, Malaysian actor.
• Yun Il-bong, 91, South Korean actor.

9

• Bob Allen, 79, American basketball player.
• Ludovic Assemoassa, 45, Togolese footballer.
• Bai Tianhui, 47, Chinese politician, execution.
• David Best, 82, English footballer.
• Frank Bruneel, 90, American politician, member of the Idaho House of Representatives.
• Arthur L. Carter, 93, American banker, publisher and visual artist.
• Marcelo Nascimento da Rocha, 49, Brazilian business consultant, complications from cirrhosis.
• Dixie Deans, 79, Scottish footballer.
• Octave Houdégbé, 80, Beninese politician, deputy.
• Jorge Ilegal, 70, Spanish musician, pancreatic cancer.
• Kym Ireland, 70, Australian Olympic field hockey player, cancer.
• Kim Ji-mee, 85, South Korean actress, complications from shingles.
• D. G. Martin, 85, American lawyer and politician.
• George Mira, 83, American football player.
• Ross Morrison, 88, New Zealand cricketer and tennis administrator.
• Rod Paige, 92, American academic, football coach and government official, U.S. secretary of education.
• Béatrice Picard, 96, Canadian actress.
• Clara Pinto-Correia, 65, Portuguese novelist and journalist.
• Pablo Rodríguez Grez, 87, Chilean politician and lawyer, founder of Fatherland and Liberty.
• Ilya M. Sobol', 99, Russian mathematician.
• Ueli Sutter, 78, Swiss Olympic cyclist.
• Nobuhiro Takashiro, 71, Japanese baseball player and coach, esophageal cancer.
• Jeff Thorne, 52, American college football coach, stomach cancer.
• Jeff Wexler, 78, American sound engineer, kidney disease.
• Jean-Pierre Winter, 74, French psychoanalyst and writer.
• Rodolfo Wirz, 83, German-born Uruguayan Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Maldonado-Punta del Este.

10

• Rafael Leónidas Felipe y Núñez, 87, Dominican Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Barahona.
• Lewis Entz, 94, American politician, member of the Colorado House of Representatives and Senate.
• Sergio Flamigni, 100, Italian politician, deputy and senator, and writer.
• Jeff Garcia, 50, American comedian and actor, complications from a collapsed lung.
• Efraín Goldenberg, 95, Peruvian politician, prime minister, minister of economy and foreign affairs.
• Richard Grégoire, 81, Canadian film and television composer.
• Roberto Iniesta, 63, Spanish singer.
• Manit Jitchan-Klab, 87, Thai politician.
• Sophie Kinsella, 55, English novelist, glioblastoma.
• Robbie Kondor, 70, American film composer, arranger and session musician, prion disease.
• Marian Kotleba, 73, Slovak basketball player.
• Annemarie Kuhn, 88, German politician, MEP.
• Lee Hae-gu, 88, South Korean politician, MP.
• Manfrini, 75, Brazilian footballer.
• Carmelo Miceli, 67, Italian footballer, heart attack.
• Jacques Morier-Genoud, 91, Swiss politician, member of the Grand Council of Vaud and the Council of States.
• Jacques Nadeau, 72, Canadian photojournalist, cancer.
• Bernardo P. Pardo, 93, Filipino jurist, associate justice of the Supreme Court and Chairman of the Commission on Elections.
• Ingrid Seeler, 97, German politician, member of the Hamburg Parliament.
• Michelle Simson, 72, Canadian politician, MP.
• Eddie Thornton, 94, Jamaican trumpeter.
• John Varley, 78, American author.
• Jim Ward, 66, American voice actor and radio personality, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Christopher Wegelius, 81, Finnish Olympic equestrian.

11

• Stanley Baxter, 99, Scottish actor and comedian, BAFTA winner.
• Jean Bedford, 79, English-born Australian writer.
• May Britt, 91, Swedish actress.
• Stan Brookes, 72, English footballer.
• John Carey, 91, British literary critic.
• Chuzo, 85, Spanish footballer.
• Harouna Coulibaly, 63, Nigerien writer and film director.
• Jean Dupont, 87, French racing cyclist.
• Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, 60, Nigerian politician, senator.
• John Fentener van Vlissingen, 86, Dutch businessman.
• Janet Fish, 87, American realist artist.
• Ceal Floyer, 57, Pakistani-born British visual artist.
• David Gold, 75, American talk radio host.
• Siegfried Herrmann, 83, Austrian politician, member of the Landtag of Styria, member of the Federal Council.
• Kim Woo-Nam, 70, South Korean politician, MP, heart attack.
• Junior King, 28–29, South African dancer, TikTok personality and rapper, traffic collision.
• Glória de Matos, 89, Portuguese actress, heart failure.
• Ernest McCarty, 84, American bass player.
• Gerald McCormick, 63, American politician, member of the Tennessee House of Representatives, complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Jenista Mhagama, 58, Tanzanian politician, MNA.
• Meja Mwangi, 76, Kenyan writer.
• Harold Wayne Nichols, 64, American serial rapist and convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Guy Pessiot, 76, French journalist and politician.
• Susana Rossberg, 80, Brazilian-born Belgian film editor.
• Patrick Rylands, 83, English toy designer, vascular dementia.
• Władysław Siemaszko, 106, Polish publicist, lawyer, and author.
• Boris Skrynnik, 77, Russian bandy player and executive, president of the FIB.
• Sam Sommers, 86, American racing driver.
• Georg Springer, 79, Austrian cultural manager.
• Keith Suter, 77, Australian social scientist.
• Joanna Trollope, 82, English novelist.
• Nermin Abadan Unat, 104, Turkish sociologist and politician, senator.
• Charles Weissmann, 94, Hungarian-Swiss molecular biologist.

12

• Ernesto Acher, 86, Argentine comedian, musician, and actor.
• Ahmad Alizadeh, 86, Iranian politician, MP.
• Adamu Baikie, 94, Nigerian educationist.
• Rolf Becker, 90, German actor.
• Amato Berardi, 67, Italian-American politician, deputy, heart attack.
• Laila Bokhari, 51, Norwegian political scientist and politician, member of the Gjørv Report commission.
• Françoise Brion, 92, French actress.
• Bob Burns III, 90, American actor, archivist and historian.
• David Carlin, 87, American politician, member of the Rhode Island Senate.
• Arthur Cohn, 98, Swiss film producer.
• Adolfo Fernández, 67, Spanish actor.
• Werner Ferrari, 78, Swiss serial killer.
• Susie Figgis, 77, British casting director, cancer.
• James H. Flatley III, 91, American naval rear admiral.
• Hans Flock, 85, Norwegian judge.
• Pere Font Moles, 99, Andorran politician, cultural activist and printing businessman, member of the General Council.
• Ken Greatorex, 89, English rugby league player.
• Peter Greene, 60, American actor.
• Manny Guerra, 85, American Tejano musician and record producer, cancer.
• Stepan Hiha, 66, Ukrainian composer and singer.
• Edmond Lauret, 76, French politician, senator.
• Barry Martin, 82, British artist.
• Marilyn Mazur, 70, American-born Danish percussionist.
• Sergio Miceli, 80, Brazilian sociologist.
• Leonard Morse, 96, American physician and public health official.
• Paul de Nooijer, 82, Dutch photographer and filmmaker.
• Chelliah Paramalingam, 90, Malaysian Olympic field hockey player.
• Shivraj Patil, 90, Indian politician, minister of home affairs, member and speaker of the Lok Sabha.
• Bolesław Rakoczy, 82, Polish historian, member of the Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit.
• Helge Skoog, 87, Swedish actor and comedian, normal pressure hydrocephalus.
• Anatoly Shevtsov, 92, Russian politician, deputy.
• Philip D. Shutler, 99, American marine lieutenant general.
• Greg Thayer, 76, American baseball player.
• Jayne Trcka, 62, American bodybuilder, fitness model and actress.
• Magda Umer, 76, Polish singer and author.
• Gennady Ustyugov, 89, Russian painter.
• Franco Vaccari, 89, Italian artist and photographer.
• Paul Wiggin, 91, American Hall of Fame football player, coach and executive, NFL champion.

13

• Héctor Alterio, 96, Argentine actor.
• Jose Bantolo, 65, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Masbate.
• Bruno Baveni, 85, Italian football player and manager.
• Richard Bell, 88, American football coach.
• Mary Salifu Boforo, 74, Ghanaian politician, MP.
• Anda-Louise Bogza, 60, Romanian opera singer.
• Carl Carlton, 73, American singer and songwriter, heart problems.
• Haroldo Costa, 95, Brazilian actor.
• Tonny Eyk, 85, Dutch composer, arranger and pianist.
• Ernesto Figueiredo, 88, Portuguese footballer.
• Yves Fréville, 91, French politician, senator.
• Cyrus Jirongo, 64, Kenyan politician, MP, traffic collision.
• Vladimír Matejička, 69, Slovak politician, MP.
• Ryan McDonough, 46, American cardiologist and member of the Alaska State Medical Board, suicide by firearm.
• Alf Meakin, 87, British Olympic sprinter and rugby league player.
• Filipp Naumenko, 39, Russian politician, mayor of Reutov, traffic collision.
• Ian Neale, 71, British Olympic gymnast.
• Kerry O'Brien, 79, Australian Olympic long-distance runner.
• Levon Oganezov, 84, Russian musician, composer and actor.
• Al Ousseynou Sène, Senegalese footballer.
• Abraham Quintanilla, 86, American musician and talent manager.
• Kazi Fazlur Rahman, 93, Bangladeshi civil servant, minister of fisheries and livestock.
• Harry Roberts, 89, English convicted murderer.
• Bobby Rousseau, 85, Canadian ice hockey player, four-time Stanley Cup champion, Olympic silver medalist.
• Gary Rowell, 68, English footballer and newspaper columnist, leukaemia.
• Ra'ad Sa'ad, 53, Palestinian commander, airstrike.
• Robert J. Samuelson, 79, American journalist.
• Mohammad Shafiq, 91, Pakistani army general, governor of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
• Mohammad Shahcheraghi, 91, Iranian ayatollah, member of the Assembly of Experts.
• Garry Smith, 84, New Zealand rugby league player.
• Gregory So, 67, Hong Kong politician, secretary for Commerce and Economic Development.
• Dave Ward, 86, American broadcast journalist.
• Sir Gerald Watt, 86, Antiguan politician, MP and speaker of the House of Representatives.
• Juan José Zerboni, 72, Mexican actor.

14

• Ahmed Abodehman, 76, Saudi writer and journalist.
• Riyad Naasan Agha, 78, Syrian philosopher and diplomat, minister of culture.
• Prafulla Govinda Baruah, 93, Indian journalist, editor and owner of The Assam Tribune.
• Garrett Ford Sr., 80, American football player.
• Paul Gagné, 63, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
• Anthony Geary, 78, American actor, complications from surgery.
• Eva Giberti, 96, Argentine psychologist and academic.
• Jozef Gruska, 92, Slovak computer scientist and academic.
• Bob Hannah, 93, American college baseball coach.
• Nicholas Hum, 32, Australian long jumper, Paralympic bronze medallist.
• Ryō Ishihara, 94, Japanese voice actor and narrator, heart failure.
• Roger Laboureur, 90, Belgian sports journalist.
• Dame Shân Legge-Bourke, 82, Welsh landowner and royal lady-in-waiting, Lord Lieutenant of Powys.
• Timothy Light, 87, American sinologist.
• Zulfiqar Ahmad Naqshbandi, 72, Pakistani Islamic scholar.
• Ángel Paz, 93, Spanish footballer.
• Michele Singer Reiner, 70, American photographer and film producer, stabbed.
• Rob Reiner, 78, American actor and film director, Emmy winner, stabbed.
• Shamanuru Shivashankarappa, 94, Indian politician, MP and Karnataka MLA, multiple organ failure.
• Solomon Grundy, 64, American professional wrestler.
• Kōichi Sueyoshi, 91, Japanese politician, mayor of Kitakyushu.
• Amod Prasad Upadhyay, 89, Nepali politician, MP.
• Mike White, 89, American football coach.
• Yang Hsien, 75, Taiwanese folk singer, complications from a stroke.
• Ahmed Zamzam, Palestinian ministry of interior officer, shot.

15

• Jack Abendschan, 82, American football player.
• John Antrobus, 92, British playwright and screenwriter.
• Zarifou Ayéva, 83, Togolese politician, minister of foreign affairs.
• William J. Bauer, 99, American jurist, judge of the U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois and judge and chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
• Ali Aref Bourhan, 91, Djiboutian politician, head of state.
• Ettore Bucciero, 87, Italian politician, senator.
• Mike Campbell, 61, American baseball player, heart attack.
• Roderick Chase, 58, Barbadian Olympic cyclist.
• Frank C. Cooksey, 92, American politician and activist, mayor of Austin, Texas, complications from a fall.
• Joe Ely, 78, American musician, complications from Lewy body dementia, Parkinson's disease and pneumonia.
• Ángel González-Adrio, 94, Spanish basketball player.
• Josef Horešovský, 79, Czech ice hockey player and coach, Olympic silver and bronze medalist.
• Kim Mi-sub, 52, South Korean Olympic modern pentathlete.
• Komafudō Daisuke, 60, Japanese sumo wrestler, heart failure.
• Viktor Kotsemyr, 73, Ukrainian politician, governor of Vinnytsia Oblast, governor of Khmelnytskyi Oblast.
• Rudy Kuechenberg, 82, American football player.
• Thomas Johannes Mayer, 56, German operatic baritone.
• Lane Rogers, 31, American pornographic actor, traffic collision.
• Anna Rusticano, 71, Italian singer, pneumonia.
• Peter Ryan, 81, British-born Australian police officer, commissioner of New South Wales police.
• Somachandra de Silva, 83, Sri Lankan cricketer.
• Therrell C. Smith, 108, American ballet dancer.
• Steve Taneyhill, 52, American football player.
• Ram Vilas Vedanti, 67, Indian politician and Hindu religious leader, MP.
• Mandus Verlinden, 88, Belgian politician, MFP, senator.
• Kowit Wattana, 78, Thai police officer and politician, twice deputy prime minister, minister of interior, and commissioner general of the Royal Thai Police.

16

• Yitzchak Abadi, 92, Venezuelan-born American Orthodox rabbi.
• Lewis Berman, 90, American veterinarian.
• Richard Browning, 73, American politician, member of the West Virginia House of Delegates and Senate.
• Marcel de Sade, 91, Danish imposter and convicted embezzler, subject of The Reluctant Sadist.
• DJ Warras, 40, South African radio and club DJ, shot.
• Lusanda Dumke, 29, South African rugby union player, stomach cancer.
• Édika, 84, Egyptian-born French comics artist.
• Gil Gerard, 82, American actor, cancer.
• Vítor Gonçalves, 81, Portuguese footballer.
• Albert Hall, 67, American baseball player.
• Nuno Loureiro, 47, Portuguese plasma physicist, shot.
• Alan Marley, 74, New Zealand footballer.
• Henry Moore, 102, English Anglican cleric, bishop of Cyprus and the Gulf.
• Tanko Muhammad, 71, Nigerian jurist, chief justice and justice of the supreme court.
• Chuck Neinas, 93, American athletics administrator, commissioner of the Big Eight Conference.
• Norman Podhoretz, 95, American magazine editor and writer, editor-in-chief of Commentary, pneumonia.
• Antony Price, 80, English fashion designer.
• Abdel Gadir Salim, 79, Sudanese singer and bandleader.
• Anatoly Sergeyev, 85, Russian military officer, commander of the Volga–Ural Military District and the Volga Military District.
• David Stokes, 79, Guatemalan footballer.
• Maria Trayner, 89, Spanish activist.
• Chris Wallace-Crabbe, 91, Australian poet and academic.
• Bob Wong, 84, Canadian politician, Ontario MPP, minister of energy and citizenship.
• Manzoor Wattoo, 86, Pakistani politician, chief minister of Punjab and minister of industry and production.

17

• Oscar Allain, 103, Peruvian painter.
• Kevin Arkadie, 68, American television writer and producer.
• Peter Arnett, 91, New Zealand-born American journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner, prostate cancer.
• Ismail Ayob, 83, South African anti-apartheid lawyer.
• Elías Barreiro, 95, Cuban guitarist and academic.
• Ruth Bourne, 99, British codebreaker and World War II veteran.
• Sir Humphrey Burton, 94, British television and radio presenter.
• Elof Axel Carlson, 94, American geneticist.
• Max Eider, British guitarist and songwriter.
• Juli Erickson, 86, American actress.
• Victor Grossman, 97, American publicist and author.
• Robert Heide, 91, American playwright and author.
• Mohamed Khadhar Ibrahim, 69, Kenyan jurist, justice of the supreme court.
• Dmitry Kachin, 96, Russian politician, member of the Soviet of the Union.
• Theo Kelchtermans, 82, Belgian politician, senator.
• Verena Keller, 83, German operatic mezzosoprano.
• Bushi Kozu, 98, Japanese politician, mayor of Saku City.
• Liu Minfu, 87, Chinese politician.
• Günter Lyhs, 91, German gymnast, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Hans van Manen, 93, Dutch ballet dancer, choreographer and photographer.
• Eduardo Mendieta, 61, Colombian philosopher and academic.
• Miss Janeth, 52, Mexican professional wrestler.
• Barry Mitchell, 60, American basketball player, heart attack.
• Sarath Chandrasiri Muthukumarana, 72, Sri Lankan politician, MP.
• Eugenio Perico, 74, Italian football player and manager.
• Mario Pineida, 33, Ecuadorian footballer, shot.
• Vivian Polania, 37, Colombian lawyer and social media influencer.
• Rosa von Praunheim, 83, German filmmaker and gay rights activist.
• Anatoliy Romanenko, 97, Ukrainian politician, minister of health of the Ukrainian SSR.
• William Rush, 31, British actor.
• Eddie Sotto, 67, American experiential designer, mixed-media producer and conceptualist.
• Alexandra Wedgwood, 87, British architectural historian.

18

• Rochelle Abramson, American violinist.
• Slavko Aleksić, 69, Bosnian Serb paramilitary army commander.
• Greg Biffle, 55, American racing driver, plane crash.
• František Bočko, 84, Slovak Olympic gymnast.
• Rodrigo Borja Cevallos, 90, Ecuadorian politician, president.
• Mircea Coșea, 83, Romanian politician, deputy and MEP.
• Michele Dancelli, 83, Italian road racing cyclist.
• Richard Dimitri, 83, American actor.
• Alfred Esmatges, 93, Spanish racing cyclist.
• Roger Ewing, 83, American actor.
• Robert Goodman, 72, British child psychiatrist.
• Osman Hadi, 32, Bangladeshi politician and activist, injuries sustained from gunshot.
• Åge Hareide, 72, Norwegian football player and coach, brain cancer.
• Alan Harper, 68, American politician, member of the Alabama House of Representatives.
• Jim Hunt, 88, American politician, governor and lieutenant governor of North Carolina.
• Toranosuke Katayama, 90, Japanese politician, MP, minister for internal affairs and communications.
• Peter Kupferschmidt, 83, German footballer.
• Bethanne McCarthy Patrick, 55, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly.
• Rita Mensah-Amendah, 85, Togolese teacher and writer.
• Stanislav Moskvin, 86, Russian cyclist, Olympic bronze medalist and cycling coach.
• Héctor Luis Lucas Peña Gómez, 96, Cuban Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Santiago de Cuba and bishop of Holguín.
• Máirín Quill, 89, Irish politician, TD and senator.
• René Racine, 86, Canadian astronomer and academic.
• Boyan Radev, 83, Bulgarian wrestler, Olympic champion.
• Arnulf Rainer, 96, Austrian painter.
• Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos, 75, Angolan politician, prime minister, vice president and twice president of the National Assembly.
• Terry O'Malley Seidler, 92, American businesswoman, owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
• Wilma M. Sherrill, 86, American politician, member of the North Carolina House of Representatives.
• Helen Siff, 88, American actress, complications from surgery.
• Ram V. Sutar, 100, Indian sculptor.
• Miroslav Vondřička, 92, Czech basketball coach.
• Frank A. Walls, 58, American convicted serial killer, execution by lethal injection.

19

• Mick Abrahams, 82, English guitarist and singer.
• Arthur Arntzen, 88, Norwegian humorist and actor.
• Richard Barnes, 81, British singer and actor.
• Roland Bock, 81, German Olympic wrestler.
• Natalya Boyarskaya, 79, Russian violinist.
• Amanda Brotchie, 57, Australian film and television director, cancer.
• Cathy Cabral, 63, Filipino civil engineer and government official.
• Lou Cannon, 92, American journalist and presidential biographer.
• Lorraine Cheshire, 65, English actress.
• Dooz Kawa, 45, French rapper.
• Cosimo Filane, 86, Canadian singer.
• Terence M. Green, 78, Canadian science fiction writer.
• Harald Grytten, 87, Norwegian historian.
• Andy Kosco, 84, American baseball player.
• Maciej Łasicki, 60, Polish Olympic rower.
• Robert Lindsey, 90, American author.
• Cynthia Mailman, 82, American painter, pancreatic cancer.
• Mikhail Malyshev, 60, Russian convicted murderer and cannibal.
• Akira Mitsutake, 94, Japanese politician, MP.
• Robert Mnuchin, 92, American art dealer and banker.
• Peter Nwaoboshi, 67, Nigerian politician, senator.
• Janine O'Leary Cobb, 92, Canadian women's health activist.
• Konrad Osterwalder, 83, Swiss mathematician and physicist.
• Palpu Pushpangadan, 81, Indian botanist.
• Tatiana Radziwiłł, 86, French-Polish princess, bacteriologist and nurse.
• James Ransone, 46, American actor, suicide by hanging.
• Oscar da Costa Ribeiro, 89, Brazilian politician, Mato Grosso MLA.
• Annie Salager, 91, French poet.

20

• Romeo Acop, 78, Filipino police officer and politician, representative, heart attack.
• Celso Bugallo, 78, Spanish actor.
• Lindomar Castilho, 85, Brazilian singer.
• Ronald Chase, 91, American artist, photographer and film director.
• Bayard D. Clarkson, 99, American physician, hematologist and oncologist.
• Jean-Michel Couve, 85, French cardiologist and politician, deputy and mayor of Saint-Tropez.
• George Cowden, 94, American politician, member of the Texas House of Representatives and chairman of the Public Utility Commission of Texas.
• Steve Ford, 66, English footballer.
• Katina,, Icelandic captive orca.
• A. K. Khandker, 95, Bangladeshi air force officer and politician, chief of air staff, minister of finance and twice MP.
• Charles F. G. Kuyk, 99, American Air Force general.
• Jean Laudet, 95, French sprint canoeist, Olympic champion.
• Mohamed Lekkak, 88, Algerian football player and manager.
• Anatoly Lobotsky, 66, Russian actor, lung cancer.
• Rich McGeorge, 77, American Hall of Fame football player and coach.
• Zbigniew Mikołajów, 72, Polish footballer.
• Seiichi Motohashi, 85, Japanese photographer and film director.
• Shalini Patil, 94, Indian politician, MP and Maharashtra MLA.
• Mama Qadeer, 85, Pakistani human rights activist.
• Ira "Ike" Schab, 105, American Navy sailor, survivor of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
• Sreenivasan, 69, Indian film actor, director, and screenwriter.
• Michał Urbaniak, 82, Polish jazz musician.

21

• Sigmund Abeles, 91, American artist.
• Asanali Ashimov, 88, Kazakh actor, film director and screenwriter.
• Rob Burgess, 68, Canadian software executive.
• Aggrey Burke, 82, Jamaican-born British psychiatrist and academic.
• María Victoria Calle, 66, Colombian jurist, justice of the Constitutional Court.
• Loren Carpenter, 78, American animator and visual effects artist.
• Renfrew Christie, 76, South African scholar and anti-apartheid activist.
• Robert A. Flaten, 91, American diplomat, ambassador to Rwanda.
• Colin Ford, 91, British photographic curator.
• Joel Gougeon, 82, American politician, member of the Michigan Senate.
• Sebastian Hertner, 34, German footballer, fall.
• Rowell Huesmann, 82, American academic.
• Irfan Shafi Khokhar, 45, Pakistani politician, Punjab MPA, heart attack.
• Anne Madden, 93, English-born Irish painter.
• Clifton McNeil, 86, American football player, NFL champion.
• Patricia Montandon, 96, American author and socialite.
• Sumiko Mori, 113, Japanese supercentenarian.
• Peng Peiyun, 96, Chinese politician, vice chairperson of the SCNPC, chairperson of the Red Cross Society of China and the NPFPC.
• Giorgio Rumignani, 86, Italian football player and manager.
• Claudio Segovia, 92, Argentine theatre director and designer.
• Edmilson Soares, 73, Brazilian politician, Paraíba MLA.
• Betty Reid Soskin, 104, American park ranger.
• Andrei Stocker, 83, Romanian footballer.
• Taisto Tähkämaa, 101, Finnish politician, MP, minister of defense and agriculture.
• Ortrun Wenkel, 83, German operatic contralto.
• Wayne F. Whittow, 92, American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly and Senate.
• Stefano Vavoli, 64, Italian footballer.
• Vince Zampella, 55, American video game developer, traffic collision.
• Justus Zeyen, 62, German pianist and accompanist.

22

• Adam the Woo, 51, American YouTuber, complications from cardiovascular disease.
• Norton Barnhill, 72, American basketball player.
• Alan Black, 82, Scottish footballer.
• Frédéric Brun, 68, French racing cyclist.
• Buddy the Beefalo, 7, American beefalo.
• John P. Connolly, 75, English businessman.
• Richard Cramb, 62, Scottish rugby union player, cancer.
• Gathie Falk, 97, Canadian painter and sculptor.
• Pat Finn, 60, American actor, bladder cancer.
• Michael F. Flaherty Sr., 89, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
• Jean Gainche, 93, French road bicycle racer.
• Sukumar Ranjan Ghosh, 73, Bangladeshi politician, MP, pneumonia.
• Jonathan Hawkins, 42, English chess grandmaster, neuroendocrine cancer.
• Rajesh Juwantha, 49, Indian politician, Uttarakhand MLA.
• Uwe Kockisch, 81, German actor.
• Valentina Kozlovskaya, 87, Russian chess player.
• Tom Maentz, 91, American football player and manufacturing company owner.
• Syed Shahid Mahdi, 85–86, Indian civil servant and academic.
• Tommy E. Mitchum, 76, American politician, member of the Arkansas House of Representatives.
• David Pinner, 85, British actor and novelist.
• Chris Rea, 74, English singer-songwriter.
• Marc Rivière, 75, French film director.
• Christian Rovsing, 89, Danish politician, MEP.
• Mohammad-Sadegh Salehimanesh, 66, Iranian Islamic cleric and politician, governor of Qom province, cardiac arrest.
• Fanil Sarvarov, 56, Russian general, car bombing.
• Walter Schultheiß, 101, German actor.
• Kazuhiro Sugita, 84, Japanese police officer, deputy chief cabinet secretary.
• Howard Tucker, 103, American neurologist, world's oldest practicing doctor.
• Robin Turner, 70, English footballer.
• Iêda Maria Vargas, 80, Brazilian actress and beauty queen, Miss Universe 1963.

23

• Sylva Akrita, 97, Greek politician and political activist, MP, deputy minister of health, welfare and social insurance.
• Katie Allen, 59, Australian politician, MP, cholangiocarcinoma.
• Hisham N. Ashkouri, 77, American architect.
• Sivert Guttorm Bakken, 27, Norwegian biathlete.
• Anatoliy Bondarchuk, 85, Ukrainian hammer thrower, Olympic champion.
• Maria Bonghi Jovino, 93–94, Italian archaeologist.
• Roberto Buitrago, 88, Colombian Olympic cyclist.
• Sathischandra Edirisinghe, 84, Sri Lankan actor.
• Allan Gilliver, 81, English footballer, complications from dementia.
• Gines Gonzalez, 87, French footballer.
• Mohammed al-Haddad, 57–58, Libyan army general, plane crash.
• Brian Hlongwa, South African politician, Gauteng MEC.
• Paa Kow, Ghanaian drummer and composer.
• Jimmy Miller, 72, Scottish footballer.
• Masashi Ozaki, 78, Japanese Hall of Fame professional golfer, colorectal cancer.
• Zeferino Peña Cuéllar, Mexican drug lord, shot.
• Josef Ratzenböck, 96, Austrian politician, governor of Upper Austria.
• Vasil Ringov, 70, Macedonian footballer.
• Dick Schulze, 96, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, heart failure.
• Vinod Kumar Shukla, 88, Indian writer.
• Robert Smellie, 95, New Zealand jurist, judge of the High Court.
• Orville Smidt, 83, American politician, member of the South Dakota Senate and House of Representatives.
• Carl J. Stewart Jr., 89, American politician, member and speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives.
• D. Tokijan, 62, Singaporean footballer.
• Clyde Werner, 78, American football player.

24

• Mohammad Bakri, 72, Palestinian film director and actor, heart disease.
• Perry Bamonte, 65, English Hall of Fame rock musician.
• Carolyn R. Dimmick, 96, American jurist, justice of the Washington Supreme Court, judge and chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington.
• Annette Dionne, 91, Canadian media personality, last surviving member of the Dionne quintuplets.
• Larry J. Edgell, 79, American politician, member of the West Virginia Senate.
• Neil Frank, 94, American meteorologist, director of the National Hurricane Center.
• Isaiah Jackson, 80, American conductor.
• Carmen A. Kasperbauer, 90, Guamanian nurse and politician, senator.
• Howie Klein, 77, American record label executive and activist, cancer.
• Vincent Lardo, 94, American novelist.
• Najih al-Mamouri, 81, Iraqi novelist.
• Isabelle Marciniak, 18, Brazilian gymnast, cancer.
• Tony McKenna, 86, Irish politician, senator.
• Surupsingh Hirya Naik, 87, Indian politician, MP and three-time Maharashtra MLA.
• Uichiro Niwa, 86, Japanese businessman and diplomat, ambassador to China.
• M. Ravi, 56, Singaporean human rights activist.
• Manjula Sood, 80, Indian-born British politician, lord mayor of Leicester.
• Ken White, 82, English muralist and illustrator.
• David Young, 89, American-British lawyer and academic.

25

• Vera Alentova, 83, Russian actress.
• Andrew Arbuckle, 81, Scottish journalist and politician, MSP.
• Steve Baer, 66, American political activist.
• Ada Balcácer, 95, Dominican multimedia visual artist.
• Dado Banatao, 79, Filipino technology industry executive, chairman of Ikanos Communications, neurological disorder.
• Teuda Bara, 84, Brazilian actress.
• Nick Bolkus, 75, Australian politician, senator, minister for immigration and ethnic affairs.
• Frank Craighill, 86, American sports agent.
• Warwick Gould, 78, Australian-born British literary scholar.
• Daniel Walker Howe, 88, American historian.
• Geeske Krol-Benedictus, 94, Dutch politician and Frisian cultural advocate, member of the Provincial Council of Friesland.
• Francis Marmande, 80, French author, musician and journalist, cancer.
• Cláudio Mortari, 77, Brazilian basketball player and coach.
• Mart-Olav Niklus, 91, Estonian politician, MP.
• Stu Phillips, 92, Canadian-American country singer.
• Amos Poe, 76, American film director, producer, and screenwriter, cancer.
• John Robertson, 72, Scottish footballer.
• David Rosen, 95, American businessman, co-founder of Sega.
• Yuriy Sadovenko, 56, Russian army officer.
• Peter Sattmann, 77, German actor and musician.
• Shirin Yazdanbakhsh, 76, Iranian actress, complications from a stroke.
• Miroslav Zeman, 79, Czech wrestler, Olympic bronze medalist.

26

• Maria Sole Agnelli, 100, Italian philanthropist and politician, mayor of Campello sul Clitunno.
• Radu F. Alexandru, 82, Romanian playwright, prose writer and politician, senator.
• Carlos Anderson, 65, Peruvian politician and economist, deputy.
• Sady Baby, 71, Brazilian actor and director, traffic collision.
• Melanie Watson Bernhardt, 57, American actress.
• Bahram Beyzai, 87, Iranian film director and playwright.
• Pierre Bordage, 70, French science fiction author.
• Stephen Boyden, 100, British-Australian scientist and writer.
• Aldo Maria Brachetti Peretti, 93, Italian oil industry executive, chairman of Gruppo API.
• Don Bryant, 83, American rhythm and blues singer and songwriter.
• Miguel Caviedes, 95, Chilean Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Osorno and of Los Ángeles.
• Coqui Calderón, 88, Panamanian visual artist.
• Desiré Dubounet, 74, American alternative medicine inventor and filmmaker.
• Jim Flanigan Sr., 80, American football player.
• Jean-Louis Gasset, 72, French football player and manager.
• Robert Gaudreau, 81, American Olympic ice hockey player.
• Kristina Gjerde, 68, American ocean conservationist, pancreatic cancer.
• Bill Hagerty, 86, British journalist and newspaper editor.
• Emma Johnston, 52, Australian marine ecologist and academic administrator, vice-chancellor of the University of Melbourne, cancer.
• Kim Chang-son, 81, North Korean politician, deputy.
• Juanan López, 91, Spanish footballer.
• Issam Makhoul, 73, Israeli politician, MK.
• Robert Massard, 100, French operatic baritone.
• Pate Mustajärvi, 69, Finnish musician.
• Leonard Nolens, 78, Belgian poet and diary writer.
• Allen I. Olson, 87, American politician, governor of North Dakota.
• Karl Quade, 71, German volleyball player and doctor, Paralympic champion.
• Serge Roy, 93, French footballer.
• Biswa Bandhu Sen, 72, Indian politician, member, deputy speaker and speaker of the Tripura Legislative Assembly, complications from a brain haemorrhage.

27

• Allwell Ademola, 43, Nigerian actress, screenwriter and film director, heart attack.
• Shamshad Akhtar, 70, Pakistani economist and politician, minister of finance and governor of the State Bank of Pakistan.
• Marco Antonio Bernal, 72, Mexican politician, Peace Commissioner for Chiapas, senator, and deputy.
• Carlos Cardoso, 80, Portuguese football player and manager.
• Amelia del Castillo, 82, Spanish football club president.
• Fernanda Contri, 90, Italian jurist and politician, judge and vice president of the Constitutional Court.
• Dave Downey, 84, American basketball player.
• Fanny, 46, French singer, cancer.
• Miklós Fazekas, 92, Hungarian steeplechase runner.
• Lou Gerstner, 83, American technology executive, CEO of IBM.
• Gary Graffman, 97, American classical pianist.
• Jeffrey R. Holland, 85, American LDS Church leader, member, acting president, and president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, kidney disease.
• Suad Kalesić, 71, Bosnian footballer.
• Jean Le Gac, 89, French painter and photographer.
• Fernando Martín, 44, Spanish footballer, shipwreck.
• Colin Pickthall, 81, British politician, MP.
• Richard Pollak, 91, American journalist.
• Jonathan Powell, 56, British pianist and musicologist.
• Gaspar Quintana Jorquera, 89, Chilean Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Copiapó.
• John Roberts, 101, British naval rear-admiral.
• Marcia Rodd, 87, American singer and actress.
• Daoud Abdel Sayed, 79, Egyptian film director and screenwriter.
• Ants Soots, 69, Estonian conductor.
• Laurence Thomas, 76, American philosopher.
• Garrick Tremain, 84, New Zealand cartoonist.
• Rafael Viteri, 73, Spanish footballer.
• Latha Walpola, 91, Sri Lankan singer.
• Richard D. Young, 83, American politician, member of the Indiana Senate.

28

• Brigitte Bardot, 91, French actress and animal rights activist, cancer.
• Tony Bond, 72, English rugby union player.
• Gustave Botiaux, 99, French operatic tenor.
• Daniel Brélaz, 75, Swiss mathematician and politician, MP.
• Monic Cecconi-Botella, 89, French pianist, composer and academic.
• Stewart Cheifet, 87, American television host.
• Guy Chouinard, 69, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
• Thomas J. Fogarty, 91, American surgeon and inventor.
• Joel Habener, 88, American physician.
• Hedva Harechavi, 84, Israeli poet, cancer.
• Silvan Kindle, 89, Liechtenstein Olympic alpine skier.
• S. Krishnaswamy, 87, Indian documentarist, heart disease.
• Lowell MacDonald, 84, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Dikeledi Magadzi, 75, South African politician, MP.
• Pablo Moret, 92, Argentine actor.
• Hugh Morris, 62, Welsh cricketer, bowel cancer.
• Maria Pellegrini, 86, Canadian operatic soprano.
• Seyyed Ali Shafiei, 85, Iranian Twelver Shia scholar, member of the Assembly of Experts.
• Santiago Sinclair, 97, Chilean Army general and convicted criminal, member of the government junta and senator.
• Rudi Spring, 63, German composer, pianist, and academic.
• Iulian Vladu, 64, Romanian politician, deputy, cancer.
• Ruth Wagner, 85, German politician, member of the Landtag of Hesse, Hessian minister of education, research and arts.
• Ed Wallace, 72, American radio personality.

29

• James Akins, 69, American tubist and academic.
• Francisco Barrio, 75, Mexican politician, governor of Chihuahua, complications from cardiac surgery.
• Rhoda Billings, 88, American lawyer and justice, chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.
• Pedro Camus, 70, Spanish Olympic footballer.
• Tudorița Chidu, 58, Romanian middle-distance runner.
• Enrique Collar, 91, Spanish footballer.
• Carmen de Lavallade, 94, American dancer and choreographer.
• Kristaq Eksarko, 66, Albanian footballer.
• Gordon Jones, 82, English footballer.
• Michael Lahti, 80, American politician, member of the Michigan House of Representatives, heart attack.
• Michael Lippman, 79, American music manager.
• Abu Walid al-Masri, 80, Egyptian journalist and Islamic militant.
• John Mulrooney, 67, American comedian.
• Patrice Péron, 76, French rugby union player.
• Syed Mukhtaruddin Shah, 74–75, Pakistani Islamic scholar.
• Davide Tizzano, 57, Italian rower, Olympic champion.
• Wu Feng, 74, Chinese material scientist and engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

30

• Julius Berman, 90, American rabbi and attorney.
• Mary Bradley, 83, Northern Irish politician, MLA.
• Thomas W. Bradshaw, 87, American politician, mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina.
• Joe Byrne, 72, Northern Irish politician, MLA.
• Ben Nighthorse Campbell, 92, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.
• Raúl Corriveau, 95, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, coadjutor bishop and bishop of Choluteca.
• Jacqueline de Ribes, 96, French fashion designer.
• Francisco Fernández Marugán, 79, Spanish politician and economist, acting Ombudsman and deputy.
• Akshu Fernando, 34, Sri Lankan cricketer.
• Tetsuzo Fuwa, 95, Japanese politician, MP.
• David Heap, 76, English-born Ireland-based actor.
• Tim Kask, 76, American editor and writer.
• Mate Meštrović, 95, Croatian-American journalist, lobbyist and politician.
• K. K. Narayanan, 77, Indian politician, Kerala MLA.
• Sharif Nazarov, 79, Tajik football player and manager.
• Margarete Palz, 88, German textile artist.
• Pavel Schenk, 84, Czech volleyball player, Olympic silver and bronze medalist.
• Tatiana Schlossberg, 35, American journalist, acute myeloid leukemia.
• Richard Smallwood, 77, American gospel singer, kidney failure.
• Emilija Soklič, 107, Slovene electrical engineer.
• Monique Tepe, 39, American early childhood educator, shot.
• Spencer Tepe, 37, American dentist, shot.
• Jerry Welsh, 89, American college basketball coach.
• Isiah Whitlock Jr., 71, American actor.
• Khaleda Zia, 79, Bangladeshi politician, prime minister, first lady, and three-time MP.

31

• Godiya Akwashiki, 52, Nigerian politician, senator.
• Billy Ray Barnes, 90, American football player.
• Jerry Bledsoe, 84, American author.
• Marijan Čerček, 76, Croatian footballer.
• Nick Eddy, 81, American football player, cardiac arrest.
• Bobby Gosh, 89, American musician and singer-songwriter.
• Peter-Lukas Graf, 96, Swiss flautist, conductor and academic.
• Francis Hallé, 87, French botanist and biologist.
• Enno Hallek, 94, Swedish artist and academic.
• Mahmudul Hasan, 89, Bangladeshi major general and politician, minister of home affairs and MP.
• Paul Idlout, 90, Canadian Inuk Anglican bishop.
• Dean C. Jessee, 96, American historian.
• Pasha Kasanov, 72, Ukrainian football player and manager.
• Jon Korkes, 80, American actor.
• Oscar Maroni, 74, Brazilian night club owner.
• Gökmen Özdenak, 78, Turkish footballer.
• Harvey Pratt, 84, American forensic and Native American artist.
• Eric Redrobe, 81, English footballer.
• Yuri Sudakov, 77, Russian boxer.
• Hayden Thompson, 87, American rockabilly musician.
• Dame Gillian Wagner, 98, British writer and philanthropist, chair of Barnardo's.
• Dick Zimmer, 81, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
• Jiří Zubrický, 61, Czech Olympic weightlifter.