Deaths in January 2013
The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2013.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.
January 2013
1
- Moses Anderson, 84, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Detroit, cardiac arrest.
- Lory Blanchard, 88, New Zealand rugby league player and coach.
- Robert J. Callahan, 82, American jurist, Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court, Parkinson's disease.
- Michael Patrick Cronan, 61, American graphic designer and artist, named TiVo, Amazon Kindle, colon cancer.
- Jack Davis, 80, American football player.
- Ross Davis, 94, American Negro league baseball player.
- Lucio Dell'Angelo, 74, Italian footballer.
- Paul du Feu, 77, Welsh painter, builder, cartoonist and model.
- Lloyd Hartman Elliott, 94, American educator, President of George Washington University.
- Avrohom Yaakov Friedman, 84, Austrian–born Israeli rabbi.
- Hugh Gillis, 94, American politician, member of the Georgia House of Representatives and Senate.
- Allan Hancox, 80, British-born Kenyan justice, Chief Justice.
- Roz Howard, 91, American racing driver.
- Christopher Martin-Jenkins, 67, British cricket journalist and BBC radio commentator, cancer.
- Alois Moser, 82, Canadian Olympic ski jumper.
- Louis J. Nigro Jr., 65, American diplomat, cancer.
- Patti Page, 85, American singer and actress, heart and lung disease.
- Slobodan Rakitić, 72, Serbian writer and politician.
- Mojtaba Tehrani, 79, Iranian Twelver Marja'.
- Brihaspati Dev Triguna, 92, Indian traditional healer.
- Barbara Werle, 84, American actress.
- Phyllis Wiener, 91, American artist.
- Zhang Wenbin, 93, Chinese politician, Vice Minister of the Petroleum Industry.
- Wendell Young III, 76, American labor leader, Liver cancer
2
- Yuri Alexandrov, 49, Russian boxer, heart attack.
- Charles W. Blackwell, 70, American Chickasaw Nation diplomat, Ambassador to the United States.
- Wren Blair, 87, Canadian ice hockey coach and manager.
- Beatrice Bolam, 93, English politician and magistrate.
- Jim Boyd, 79, American actor.
- Margaret A. Brewer, 82, American USMC brigadier general.
- Council Cargle, 77, American stage and film actor.
- Karel Čáslavský, 75, Czech film historian and television host, pneumonia.
- Charles Chilton, 95, British BBC Radio writer, producer and presenter, pneumonia.
- Angelo Coia, 74, American football player.
- John Commins, 71, South African cricketer.
- Lee Eilbracht, 88, American baseball coach .
- Zaharira Harifai, 83, Israeli actress, cancer.
- Merv Hunter, 86, Australian politician, New South Wales MLA for Lake Macquarie.
- Géza Koroknay, 64, Hungarian actor.
- Gerda Lerner, 92, Austrian-born American feminist historian.
- Ladislao Mazurkiewicz, 67, Uruguayan footballer, respiratory illness.
- Joe McGrath, Irish Gaelic football and hurling coach.
- Ian McKeever, 42, Irish mountaineer and Seven Summits record holder, lightning strike.
- Maulvi Nazir, 37–38, Pakistani militant commander, drone strike.
- Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, 53, American psychologist and author, complications from heart surgery.
- Jamie Oglesby, 84, American politician.
- Kishore Pawar, 86, Indian political and trade union leader.
- Stephen Resnick, 74, American economist, leukemia.
- Alexei Rudeanu, 73, Romanian writer.
- Richard Shenton, 86, Jersey politician.
- Renzo Soldani, 87, Italian cyclist.
- Rudolf Szanwald, 81, Austrian footballer.
- Teresa Torańska, 69, Polish journalist and writer.
- Wen-Ying Tsai, 84, Chinese–born American artist.
- Ned Wertimer, 89, American actor, complications from a fall.
3
- Lars T. Bjella, 90, Norwegian politician.
- Sir Robert Clark, 88, British naval officer and businessman.
- George Falconer, 66, Scottish footballer, heart attack.
- Alfie Fripp, 98, British RAF airman, longest-serving British POW during World War II.
- Ted Godwin, 79, Canadian artist, complications from heart attack.
- M. S. Gopalakrishnan, 81, Indian violinist.
- Marianne Grunberg-Manago, 91, Russian-born French biochemist.
- Jimmy Halliday, 85, Scottish politician, National Chairman of the Scottish National Party.
- Robert C. Holland, 87, American economist, member of Federal Reserve Board of Governors, dementia.
- Kanang anak Langkau, 67, Malaysian soldier, Seri Pahlawan Gagah Perkasa recipient, heart attack.
- Richard A. Long, 85, American author and historian.
- Ivan Mackerle, 70, Czech cryptozoologist.
- William Maxson, 82, American military commander, complications from heart surgery.
- John McAndrew, 85, Gaelic footballer.
- Preben Munthe, 90, Norwegian economist.
- Sergiu Nicolaescu, 82, Romanian film director, actor and Senator, cardiac arrest.
- Andrew P. O'Rourke, 79, American politician and judge.
- Jaime Ortiz-Patiño, 82, French-born Spanish golf promoter, creator of Valderrama Golf Club, President of the World Bridge Federation.
- Shikaripura Ranganatha Rao, 90, Indian archeologist.
- Vladimir Sargsyan, 77, Armenian scientist.
- Hisayuki Sasaki, 48, Japanese golfer, cardiac arrest.
- Thomas Schäuble, 64, German politician, complications following a heart attack.
- Selkirk, 24, English champion racehorse, natural causes.
- Patty Shepard, 67, American-born Spanish movie actress, heart attack.
- Burry Stander, 25, South African Olympic mountain biker, traffic collision.
- Paul Taff, 92, American television executive and executive producer.
4
- Mohammad Aeltemesh, 64, Indian lawyer.
- Bashir Ahmed, 88, Indian cricketer.
- Sir Geoffrey de Bellaigue, 81, British Surveyor of the Queen's Works of Art.
- Bhanumati Devi, 78, Burmese-born Indian actress, heart failure.
- Frank Eke, 81, Nigerian medical doctor and politician.
- Pete Elliott, 86, American Hall of Fame college football player, Executive Director of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
- Ed Emory, 75, American football coach.
- Wally Feurzeig, 85, American computer scientist, invented Logo.
- Pir Gohar, 81, Pakistani poet, songwriter, critic and freedom activist, cardiac arrest.
- Murray Henderson, 91, Canadian hockey player.
- Thomas Holtzmann, 85, German stage and film actor.
- Nilmar Janbu, 91, Norwegian engineer and geotechnician.
- Sammy Johns, 66, American singer-songwriter.
- Derek Kevan, 77, English footballer.
- Salik Lucknawi, 99, Indian Urdu poet.
- Tony Lip, 82, American actor.
- Vittorio Missoni, 58, Italian fashion designer, CEO of Missoni, plane crash.
- Lassaâd Ouertani, 32, Tunisian footballer, traffic collision.
- Yevgeny Pepelyaev, 94, Russian Soviet-era fighter pilot, Korean War flying ace.
- Robert Phelps, 86, American mathematician.
- John Saban, 84, American football player.
- Nikos Samaras, 42, Greek volleyball player, brain aneurysm.
- Gene Segerblom, 94, American politician, member of the Nevada State Assembly.
- Şenay, 62, Turkish singer, respiratory failure.
- Anwar Shamim, 81, Pakistani Air Force air marshal, Chief of Air Staff.
- Amanda Stassart, 89, Belgian resistance member.
- Bryan Stoltenberg, 40, American football player, injuries sustained in traffic collision.
- Sándor Szoboszlai, 87, Hungarian actor.
- Jim Watson, 95, English politician, Mayor of Blackburn, pneumonia.
- Zoran Žižić, 61, Montenegrin politician, Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
5
- Haradhan Banerjee, 86, Indian actor, pneumonia.
- Piet de Bekker, 91, Dutch politician.
- Gwendoline Butler, 90, British author.
- Anders Carlberg, 69, Swedish politician, writer and social worker.
- Pierre Cogan, 98, French racing cyclist.
- T. S. Cook, 65, American screenwriter, cancer.
- Willi Dreesen, 84, Swiss painter and sculptor.
- Dave Edwards, 74, American politician, member of the Wyoming House of Representatives, complications from a stroke.
- Trygve Goa, 87, Norwegian printmaker.
- Martha Greenhouse, 91, American actress, Screen Actors Guild official.
- Abraham Hecht, 90, American rabbi and sect leader.
- Joselo, 76, Venezuelan actor, liver illness.
- Leung Ping-kwan, 63, Hong Kong poet, novelist, essayist, translator, teacher, and scholar, lung cancer.
- Jeff Lewis, 39, American football player, accidental drug overdose.
- Ann-Britt Leyman, 90, Swedish Olympic athlete.
- Bruce McCarty, 92, American architect.
- Mary Susan McIntosh, 76, British sociologist, feminist and political activist, stroke.
- Richard McWilliam, 59, American entrepreneur, co-founder of Upper Deck Company, alcohol poisoning.
- Yvonne Marie Louise Odette Renée Ménard, 83, French burlesque dancer
- Fitzroy Newsum, 94, American military pilot.
- Joe Padilla, 48, American baseball umpire.
- Joseph-Aurèle Plourde, 97, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Ottawa.
- Fay Bellamy Powell, 74, American civil rights activist.
- Claude Préfontaine, 79, Canadian comedian.
- Thomas Schmidt-Kowalski, 63, German composer.
- Marie-Hélène Schwartz, 99, French mathematician.
- Harry Searson, 88, English footballer, cancer.
- Vladimir Šenauer, 82, Croatian footballer.
- Chandler Williams, 27, American football player.
- Sol Yurick, 87, American author, lung cancer.
6
- Neil Adcock, 81, South African cricketer, bowel cancer.
- Qazi Hussain Ahmad, 74, Pakistani politician, Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami, cardiac arrest.
- Cho Sung-min, 39, South Korean baseball player, suicide by hanging.
- Paul Grundy, 77, Australian civil engineer and academic.
- Gerard Helders, 107, Dutch politician, Minister of Colonial Affairs, Member of the Council of State, nation's oldest living man.
- John Ingram, 83, American politician, North Carolina Commissioner of Insurance, heart attack.
- Metin Kaçan, 51, Turkish novelist, suicide by jumping.
- Jon Ander López, 36, Spanish footballer, heart attack.
- Jeffrey O'Connell, 84, American legal expert, professor and attorney, champion of no-fault insurance.
- Madanjeet Singh, 88, Indian diplomat, artist, writer and philanthropist, stroke.
- Luigi Spaventa, 78, Italian politician and academic, MP, Minister of Treasury, Minister of Budget.
- Ruth Carter Stevenson, 89, American museum founder, President of the Amon Carter Museum.
- Myron Stolaroff, 92, American psychedelic researcher.
- Bart Van den Bossche, 48, Belgian singer and television presenter, aortic aneurysm.
- Roy Walker, 81, British production designer, Oscar winner.
- Dalia Wood, 88, Canadian politician.
7
- Nancy Burley, 82, Australian Olympic figure skater.
- Larry Clapp, 66, American politician, member of Wyoming House of Representatives, suicide by gunshot.
- Stanley Cohen, 70, British sociologist, Parkinson's disease.
- Jim Cosman, 69, American baseball player, Alzheimer's disease.
- Richard Ben Cramer, 62, American journalist, author and Pulitzer Prize winner, lung cancer.
- Maria de Fátima Silva de Sequeira Dias, 54, Portuguese Azorean historian and academic.
- Birck Elgaaen, 95, Norwegian Olympic equestrian.
- David R. Ellis, 60, American stuntman and film director.
- Jeremy Hindley, 69, British horse trainer, motor neurone disease.
- Huell Howser, 67, American television personality and actor, prostate cancer.
- Ada Louise Huxtable, 91, American architecture critic and Pulitzer Prize winner, cancer.
- Kabir Ahmad Jaisi, 78, Indian academic.
- Jiřina Jirásková, 81, Czech actress and UNICEF Czech Committee President.
- Maruša Krese, 65, Slovene poet, writer and journalist.
- Louise Laurin, 77, Canadian educator and activist.
- Mary Madkour, 85, American politician.
- Epifanie Norocel, 80, Romanian archbishop of Buzău and Vrancea, myocardial infarction.
- Gonzalo Puyat II, 79, Filipino sport administrator and politician, President of FIBA, cardiac arrest.
- Joseph Roney, 77, Haitian politician.
- Harvey Shapiro, 88, American poet and newspaper editor, complications from surgery.
- Fred L. Turner, 80, American restaurant industry executive, CEO of McDonald's, Chairman, complications of pneumonia.
- Dorothy Vest, 93, American tennis player.
- Nadeane Walker, 91, American journalist, fashion editor and foreign correspondent.
- Zvi Yavetz, 87, Romanian-born Israeli historian and Israel Prize winner.
8
- Asbjørn Aarnes, 89, Norwegian literary historian.
- Tandyn Almer, 70, American musician.
- Kenojuak Ashevak, 85, Canadian Inuk artist, lung cancer.
- Mike Brannan, 57, American golf player, kidney cancer.
- Bernard Delcampe, 80, French footballer.
- Matthew Dickens, 51, American actor and choreographer, cancer.
- Antonio Frasconi, 93, Argentine-born American woodcut artist and educator.
- Otto Hornung, 92, Czech philatelist and journalist.
- Jeanne Manford, 92, American gay rights activist.
- Shirley Matthews, 70, Canadian pop singer.
- Alasdair Milne, 82, British television producer, Director-General of the BBC, stroke.
- Manuel Mota, 46, Spanish fashion designer, suicide by exsanguination.
- Watson Parker, 88, American historian and author, specialist on the Black Hills.
- Cornel Pavlovici, 70, Romanian footballer, Liga I top scorer in 1964.
- Ole A. Sæther, 76, Norwegian entomologist.
- Ten Most Wanted, 12, American thoroughbred racehorse, winner of Travers Stakes.
- A. K. Warder, 88, Canadian academic.
- Percy White, 96, British chemist and nuclear scientist.
9
- Werner Altegoer, 77, German businessman and football administrator.
- Brigitte Askonas, 89, Austrian-born British immunologist.
- Samuel E. Blum, 92, American chemist and physicist.
- Vivian Brown, 85, American media personality.
- James M. Buchanan, 93, American economist, Nobel Prize.
- Sakine Cansız, 54–55, Turkish Kurdish activist, shooting.
- Peter Carson, 74, English publisher, editor and translator.
- Anscar Chupungco, 73, Filipino Benedictine monk and liturgist.
- Juan Curet, 84, Puerto Rican Olympic boxer.
- Frank Esposito, 84, American politician, Mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut.
- Jim Godbolt, 90, British jazz writer and historian.
- Hoàng Hiệp, 81, Vietnamese songwriter.
- Charly Jacobs, 64, Belgian footballer
- Katchit, 9, Irish Thoroughbred hurdler, colic.
- Tarsem King, Baron King of West Bromwich, 75, British Labour politician and peer, suspected heart attack.
- Ralph G. Martin, 92, American journalist.
- Rizana Nafeek, 24, Sri Lankan domestic helper, convicted of murder in Saudi Arabia, execution by beheading.
- Edward Odell, 65, American mathematician.
- Willis Page, 94, American symphony orchestra conductor.
- Robert L. Rock, 85, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Indiana.
- Rex Trailer, 84, American television host and musician, pneumonia.
- John Wise, 77, Canadian politician, MP for Elgin ; Minister of Agriculture.
10
- Christel Adelaar, 77, Dutch actress, lung cancer.
- Delmo Alberghini, 90, American athlete.
- Jimmy Bishop, 71, American politician.
- Antonino Calderone, 77, Italian criminal, Sicilian Mafioso.
- Geoffrey Coates, 95, English chemist.
- Evan S. Connell, 88, American novelist, poet, and short story-writer.
- Ted Cooke-Yarborough, 94, English physicist and engineer.
- James Draper, 87, South African cricket umpire.
- Bob Fenton, 89, New Zealand politician, MP for Hastings.
- Peter Fitz, 81, German stage and film actor.
- Trevor Gordon, 64, British–born Australian singer.
- George Gruntz, 80, Swiss jazz musician.
- Jay Handlan, 84, American basketball player.
- Michael Hofbauer, 49, Czech film actor, cancer.
- Karl-Erik Israelsson, 83, Swedish long jumper.
- Luigi Kuveiller, 85, Italian cinematographer.
- Franz Lehrndorfer, 84, German organist.
- Daniel McCarthy, 86, Canadian television producer.
- Claude Nobs, 76, Swiss founder and general manager of Montreux Jazz Festival, complications from skiing accident.
- Lucien Poirier, 94, French Army general.
- Jean R. Preston, 77, American politician and teacher, member of the North Carolina General Assembly, complications from a fall.
- Jorge Selarón, 65, Chilean-born Brazilian painter and ceramist.
- Vincent Sombrotto, 89, American union official, president of NALC.
- Zhang Yongming, 56, Chinese murderer, executed.
11
- Thomas Bourgin, 26, French motorcycle racer, traffic collision.
- Gordon Chavunduka, 81, Zimbabwean sociologist and traditional healer.
- Dave Chisnall, 64, English rugby league player.
- Guido Forti, 72, Italian motor racing team owner.
- Claude Fredericks, 89, American playwright and memoirist.
- Sam Halloin, 89, American politician, longest-serving mayor of Green Bay, Wisconsin.
- Brian Heffel, 68, Canadian Olympic wrestler.
- D. Brainerd Holmes, 91, American aeronautics executive, NASA Director of Manned Space Flight, complications from pneumonia.
- Sergei Issakov, 81, Estonian literary scholar, politician, and professor.
- Corinne Jacker, 79, American playwright and screenwriter.
- Robert Kee, 93, British writer, journalist and broadcaster.
- Liz Lands, 73, American soul singer.
- Paul J. Lunardi, 91, American politician.
- James Charles Macnab of Macnab, 86, Scottish aristocrat, chief of Clan MacNab.
- Ba Mamadou Mbaré, 67, Mauritanian politician, President of the Senate, Interim President.
- Mariangela Melato, 71, Italian actress, pancreatic cancer.
- Khushi Murali, 49, Indian pop singer, cardiac arrest.
- Nguyễn Khánh, 85, Vietnamese politician and military leader, President of South Vietnam, illnesses related to diabetes.
- Tatsuji Nomura, 90, Japanese scientist.
- Jimmy O'Neill, 73, American disc jockey and television host, diabetes and heart complications.
- Tom Parry Jones, 77, Welsh inventor.
- Murray Merle Schwartz, 81, American senior judge.
- Alemayehu Shumye, 24, Ethiopian long-distance runner, traffic collision.
- W. Reece Smith Jr., 87, American lawyer and academic.
- Aaron Swartz, 26, American programmer and internet activist, co-creator of Reddit, suicide by hanging.
- Fred Talbot, 71, American baseball player.
- Billy Varga, 94, American professional wrestler and actor, Alzheimer's disease.
- Lars Werner, 77, Swedish politician, leader of the Left Party, heart failure.
- John Wilkinson, 67, American rhythm guitarist, cancer.
12
- Guy de Alwis, 53, Sri Lankan cricketer, cancer.
- Gregory Victor Babic, 49, Australian writer.
- Precious Bryant, 71, American blues and country musician, complications of diabetes and heart failure.
- Anthony Cavendish, 85, English MI6 officer.
- Flor María Chalbaud, 91, First Lady of Venezuela.
- Harold Crowchild, 97, Canadian Tsuu T'ina elder and soldier, last Treaty 7 World War II veteran.
- William J. Cullerton, 90, American fighter pilot, World War II flying ace.
- Chuck Dalton, 85, Canadian basketball player, member of Olympic team.
- John Martin Darko, 67, Ghanaian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Sekondi-Takoradi.
- Helen Elliot, 85, Scottish table tennis player, world champion.
- Harry Fearnley, 77, English footballer.
- Emmett Forrest, 85, American collector, founder of the Andy Griffith Museum.
- Bubba Harris, 86, American baseball player.
- Jake Hartford, 63, American radio personality, heart attack.
- Delilah Jackson, 84, American historian.
- Jean Krier, 64, Luxembourgish poet.
- Leon Leyson, 83, Polish-American Holocaust survivor.
- Anna Lizaran, 68, Spanish actress, cancer.
- William Andrew MacKay, 83, Canadian academic, President of Dalhousie University.
- Hasan Mahdi, 76, Indian anatomist.
- Walt McPherson, 96, American basketball coach, Commissioner of the WCC.
- Ourasi, 32, French Trotter harness racing horse, winner of Prix d'Amérique.
- Eugene Patterson, 89, American newspaper editor, Pulitzer Prize winner, cancer.
- Viktor Platan, 93, Finnish Olympic pentathlete.
- Norma Redpath, 84, Australian artist.
- Roxana Ng, 61, Canadian academic, cancer.
- John C. Rule, 83, American historian.
- Yuri Schmidt, 76, Russian lawyer and human rights activist, cancer.
- Roy Sinclair, 68, English footballer.
- Steven Utley, 64, American science-fiction writer, cancer.
13
- Diogenes Allen, 80, American philosopher.
- Bille Brown, 61, Australian actor, bowel cancer.
- Stanley Caine, 76, English actor.
- Andrea Carrea, 88, Italian road bicycle racer.
- Jacki Clérico, 83, French businessman, owner of the Moulin Rouge, cancer.
- Rodney Mims Cook Sr., 88, American politician.
- David Gibbs, 76, American politician, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives, cancer.
- Enzo Hernández, 63, Venezuelan baseball player, suicide.
- Jürgen Himmelbauer, 54, Austrian politician.
- Mykhailo Horyn, 82, Ukrainian politician, prisoner of conscience and member of Soviet dissidents movement.
- Itaru Ishida, 33, Japanese Magic: The Gathering player.
- Kari Jormakka, 53, Finnish architect, historian, theoretician, critic and teacher, heart attack.
- Riki Kawara, 75, Japanese politician, Director General of the Defense Agency, pneumonia.
- Deyan Kolev, 47, Bulgarian Olympic gymnast.
- Sanivalati Laulau, 61, Fijian rugby union player.
- Gordon Lee, 54, American comic book store owner, complications from a stroke.
- H. Craig Lewis, 68, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania State Senate, heart attack.
- Chia-Chiao Lin, 96, Chinese-born American applied mathematician and professor.
- Benny Luke, 73, American-French actor and dancer.
- Alfred K. Mann, 92, American physicist.
- Gerald McKee, 83, American construction management executive.
- Jack Recknitz, 81, German actor.
- Jerry Sisk Jr., 59, American gemologist, co-founder of Jewelry Television.
- Rusi Surti, 76, Indian cricketer, complications from a stroke.
- Katie Stewart, 78, British cookery writer.
- Balagangadharanatha Swamiji, 67, Indian religious sect leader, multiple organ failure.
- Joseph Syoz, 75, French Olympic boxer.
- Geoff Thomas, 64, Welsh footballer.
- Arthur Wightman, 90, American mathematical physicist.
14
- Giorgio Alverà, 69, Italian world champion and Olympic bobsledder.
- Conrad Bain, 89, Canadian-born American actor, complications from a stroke.
- Danny Beath, 52, British photographer and botanist, heart attack.
- Yehudith Birk, 86, Israeli biochemist.
- Yaakov Blau, 84, Israeli rabbi.
- Neville Bonitto, 88, Jamaica cricketer.
- Tony Conran, 81, Welsh poet and translator.
- Paul Droubay, 86, American radio broadcaster, fought the U.S. Federal Communications Commission over expanded area radio coverage.
- Fred Flanagan, 88, Australian VFL football player, Hall of Fame member.
- Prospero Gallinari, 62, Italian terrorist.
- John P. Gaston, 82, American politician.
- John McKinlay, 80, American Olympic rower.
- Maharani Gina Narayan, 82, British-born Indian royal.
- Eric Norstad, 88, American potter and architect.
- José Posada, 72, Spanish politician and entrepreneur, president of Galician Coalition, MEP.
- Vic Rowen, 93, American football coach.
- Jasuben Shilpi, 64, Indian sculptor, cardiac arrest.
15
- Daphne Anderson, 90, British actress and singer.
- Princess Margarita of Baden, 80, German aristocrat.
- Wickrama Bogoda, 72, Sri Lankan movie actor.
- Jennings Michael Burch, 71, American writer.
- Maurice Camyré, 97, Canadian Olympic boxer.
- Carlos Castillo Medrano, 39, Guatemalan politician, shot.
- Chucho Castillo, 68, Mexican boxer, WBA and WBC Bantamweight Champion, heart attack.
- Zakiah Daradjat, 86, Indonesian psychologist.
- Aida Desta, 85, Ethiopian royal.
- Daniel Edelman, 92, American public relations executive, founder of Edelman, heart failure.
- Generous, 24, Irish Thoroughbred horse, winner of the Irish Derby, Epsom Derby and King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes.
- Bill Glynn, 87, American baseball player.
- George Gund III, 75, American sports franchise co-owner, cancer.
- Eifan Saadoun Al Issawi, 37, Iraqi politician, MP for Fallujah, bombing.
- Balthazar Korab, 86, Hungarian-born American architectural photographer.
- Magomed Gadjievich Magomedov, 55, Russian judge, member of the Supreme Court of Dagestan, shot.
- Susan Manning, 59, Scottish academic.
- Ferenc Nádasdy, 75, Hungarian aristocrat, last male member of the House of Nádasdy.
- Nagisa Oshima, 80, Japanese director and screenwriter.
- Michel Pollien, 75, French Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Paris.
- Zurab Popkhadze, 40, Georgian footballer and manager, suicide by hanging.
- Robert Gordon Robertson, 95, Canadian civil servant, 7th Commissioner of the Northwest Territories.
- Aron Schvartzman, 104, Argentine chess master.
- Clayton Silva, 74, Brazilian actor and comedian, cancer.
- Nii Tackie Tawiah III, 72, Ghanaian royal, Ga Mantse.
- John Thomas, 71, American Olympic high-jumper.
- Yuli Turovsky, 73, Russian-born Canadian conductor and cellist.
- Dharam Singh Uppal, 53, Indian international track and field athlete, cardiac arrest.
- Yang Baibing, 92, Chinese military leader and politician.
16
- Wayne D. Anderson, 82, American baseball and basketball coach.
- Peter Barnes, 50, British pilot, helicopter crash.
- Peter Boyle, 61, Scottish-born Australian association footballer.
- Gerry Brisson, 75, Canadian ice hockey player.
- André Cassagnes, 86, French electrical engineer, inventor of the Etch A Sketch.
- Robert Citron, 87, American politician.
- Burhan Doğançay, 83, Turkish artist and photographer.
- Jake Froese, 87, Canadian politician, MP for Niagara Falls, Lord Mayor of Niagara-on-the-Lake.
- Robert Gleason, 42, American convicted murderer, execution by electric chair.
- Noé Hernández, 34, Mexican Olympic silver medal-winning race walker, cardiac arrest.
- Ralph B. Hodges, 82, American politician.
- Sir Barry Holloway, 78, Australian-born Papua New Guinean politician, Speaker of the National Parliament.
- Samson Kimobwa, 57, Kenyan long-distance runner, stomach ailment.
- Yevdokiya Mekshilo, 81, Russian cross-country skier, Olympic champion.
- Gussie Moran, 89, American tennis player.
- Isidro Pérez, 48, Mexican boxer, WBO Flyweight Champion.
- Pauline Phillips, 94, American advice columnist, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
- Kroum Pindoff, 97, Greek-born Canadian businessman and philanthropist.
- James W. Plummer, 92, American aerospace engineer, United States Under Secretary of the Air Force.
- Nic Potter, 61, British bassist, pneumonia.
- Perrette Pradier, 74, French actress, heart attack.
- Glen P. Robinson, 89, American businessman, founded Scientific Atlanta.
- Hōō Tomomichi, 56, Japanese sumo wrestler, heart disease.
- Aslan Usoyan, 75, Georgian-born Russian mobster, shooting.
- Dick Westcott, 85, Portuguese-born South African cricketer.
17
- Mehmet Ali Birand, 71, Turkish journalist, columnist and documentarian, cardiac arrest.
- Bill Albright, 83, American football player.
- Ilmar Aluvee, 43, Estonian Olympic skier, fall.
- Jakob Arjouni, 48, German author, cancer.
- Tissa Balasuriya, 89, Sri Lankan Roman Catholic priest and theologian.
- Claude Black, 80, American jazz pianist, cancer.
- Robert F. Chew, 52, American actor, heart attack.
- Yves Debay, 58, Belgian journalist, shot.
- Fernando Guillén, 80, Spanish actor.
- Eric Handley, 86, British classical scholar.
- Sophiya Haque, 41, English actress, singer and dancer, cancer.
- James Hood, 70, American civil rights pioneer, among first African Americans to register at the University of Alabama.
- Homayoun Khorram, 82, Iranian violinist, colorectal cancer.
- Fred J. Lincoln, 75, American actor, director and pornographic director.
- Linh Quang Viên, 94, Vietnamese army general.
- Tony Martin, 70, Trinidadian-born American historian.
- Paul McKeever, 57, British police officer, Chairman of the Police Federation of England and Wales, embolism.
- Eng Abner Nangwale, 79, Ugandan politician.
- John Nkomo, 78, Zimbabwean politician, Second Vice President, cancer.
- John R. Powers, 67, American author, heart attack.
- Guram Sagharadze, 84, Georgian actor.
- Sumihiro Tomii, 63, Japanese Olympic skier.
- Michael Triplett, 48, American journalist, cancer.
- Lizbeth Webb, 86, English soprano and stage actress.
18
- Martin Barbarič, 42, Czech footballer, suicide by gunshot.
- Bobby Bennett, 74, American musician, member of singing group The Famous Flames.
- Walmor Chagas, 82, Brazilian actor, apparent suicide by gunshot.
- Sean Fallon, 90, Irish association footballer.
- Jim Horning, 70, American computer scientist.
- Ken Jones, 77, Welsh footballer.
- Wolfgang Ilgenfritz, 56, Austrian politician.
- Alfons Lemmens, 93, Dutch footballer.
- David Lewis, 85, Zimbabwean cricketer.
- Wilhelm Löwinger, 96, Austrian Olympic speed skater.
- Jon Mannah, 23, Australian rugby league player, Hodgkin's lymphoma.
- Lewis Marnell, 30, Australian skateboarder, diabetes.
- Harold Marshall, 94, Canadian military veteran.
- Morné van der Merwe, 39, South African rugby union player, brain cancer.
- Ron Nachman, 70, Israeli politician and Knesset member, cancer.
- Borghild Niskin, 88, Norwegian Olympic alpine skier and Holmenkollen medalist.
- Jacques Sadoul, 78, French writer and book editor.
- Gordon Snee, 82, British abstract painter.
- Theodore Stern, 100, American educator.
- Lynn Willis, American game designer.
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- Toktamış Ateş, 68, Turkish academic, political commentator and writer, multiple organ failure.
- Anatoly Bannik, 91, Ukrainian chess player.
- Mehnaz Begum, 63, Pakistani singer.
- Gayle Bluth, 87, Mexican Olympic basketball player.
- Milt Bolling, 82, American baseball player, complications from heart surgery.
- John Braheny, 74, American songwriter.
- Nick Broad, 38, English football nutritionist, traffic collision.
- Michael Colley, 74, American navy officer and politician.
- Happy Fernandez, 74, American political activist and Philadelphia City Councilwoman, stroke.
- Abderrahim Goumri, 36, Moroccan Olympic long-distance runner, traffic collision.
- Viggo Hagstrøm, 58, Norwegian legal scholar.
- Basil Hirschowitz, 87, American gastroenterologist.
- İsmet Hürmüzlü, 75, Iraqi Turkmen actor, screenwriter and director.
- Steve Knight, 77, American musician and councilman, complications from Parkinsons disease.
- Taihō Kōki, 72, Japanese sumo wrestler, ventricular tachycardia.
- Michel Las Vergnas, 72, French mathematician.
- Li Minhua, 95, Chinese physicist, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
- Jim Marking, 85, American college basketball coach.
- Hans Massaquoi, 87, German-born American journalist and author.
- Steven Muller, 85, American educator, President of Johns Hopkins University, respiratory failure.
- Stan Musial, 92, American Hall of Fame baseball player, Alzheimer's disease.
- Julia Penelope, 71, American linguist, author, and philosopher.
- Mary Jane Phillips-Matz, 86, American music historian, heart failure.
- Frank Pooler, 86, American choirmaster and composer.
- Andrée Putman, 87, French interior and product designer.
- A. Rafiq, 64, Indonesian singer and actor.
- Marcel Sisniega Campbell, 53, Mexican chess player and film director, heart attack.
- John Trim, 88, British linguist.
- Earl Weaver, 82, American Hall of Fame baseball manager, apparent heart attack.
- Ian Wells, 48, English footballer.
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- Ron Fraser, 79, American Hall of Fame college baseball coach.
- Richard Garneau, 82, Canadian sports journalist.
- Matilde Lindo, 58, Nicaraguan feminist and activist, heart attack.
- Pavlos Matesis, 80, Greek writer.
- Donald Oesterling, 85, American politician.
- Dolores Prida, 69, Cuban-born American advice columnist.
- Toyo Shibata, 101, Japanese poet.
- Helen Wyatt Snapp, 94, American aviator, complications of a broken hip.
- Adusumilli Srikrishna, 58, Indian organic chemist.
- Tracy Sugarman, 91, American illustrator.
- John Melville Turner, 90, Canadian politician.
- Freddie Williams, 86, Welsh motorcycle speedway world champion, stroke.
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- Kamal Basu, 94, Indian politician, Mayor of Calcutta.
- Alden W. Clausen, 89, American banking executive, President of the World Bank, complications from pneumonia.
- David Coe, 58, Australian businessman, suspected heart attack.
- Riccardo Garrone, 76, Italian entrepreneur, cancer.
- Jean Giambrone, 91, American sportswriter, first female writer awarded full press credentials at The Masters, blood clot in lung.
- Zina Harman, 98, British-born Israeli politician.
- Donald Hornig, 92, American chemist, explosives expert, Manhattan Project member, teacher and presidential science advisor, President of Brown University.
- Ahmet Mete Işıkara, 72, Turkish professor of geology and earthquake expert, respiratory failure.
- Geoffrey Matthews, 89, British ornithologist.
- Inez McCormack, 69, Northern Irish trade union leader and human rights campaigner, cancer.
- Jake McNiece, 93, American World War II paratrooper, leader of the Filthy Thirteen.
- Chumpol Silpa-archa, 72, Thai politician, Minister of Tourism and Sports, Deputy Prime Minister, renal failure.
- M. S. Udayamurthy, 85, Indian Tamil language writer.
- Andrew Weekes, 72, Kittitian cricket umpire.
- Michael Winner, 77, British film director and food critic, liver disease.
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- Said Ali al-Shihri, 41–42, Saudi Al-Qaeda leader, drone strike.
- Kevin Ash, 53, British motorcycling journalist, traffic collision.
- Ignacio Barrios, 82, Mexican painter.
- Robert Bonnaud, 83, French anti-colonialist historian.
- William J. Breed, 84, American geologist.
- Zulema Castro de Peña, 92, Argentine human rights activist.
- John Cheng, 52, Singaporean getai performer and actor, apparent heart attack.
- Jean-Léon Destiné, 94, Haitian-born American dancer and choreographer.
- Leslie Frankenheimer, 64, American set decorator, leukemia.
- Anna Litvinova, 29, Russian fashion model, won Miss Russia (Miss Universe competition), cancer.
- George H. Ludwig, 85, American space scientist.
- Günther Maritschnigg, 79, German Olympic wrestler.
- Lídia Mattos, 88, Brazilian actress, pneumonia.
- Hinton Mitchem, 74, American politician, Alabama Senate, Alzheimer's disease.
- Jimmy Payne, 86, English footballer.
- Ted Talbert, 70, American documentary filmmaker, heart attack.
- Margareta Teodorescu, 80, Romanian chess player.
- Lucyna Winnicka, 84, Polish actress.
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- Ismail al-Armouti, 80, Jordanian politician, Minister of Municipal and Rural Affairs.
- Ed Bouchee, 79, American baseball player.
- Józef Glemp, 83, Polish Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Warsaw and Primate of Poland, lung cancer.
- Jacques Grimonpon, 87, French footballer.
- Tom Jankiewicz, 49, American screenwriter.
- Made Katib, 71, Malaysian Anglican prelate, Bishop of the Diocese of Kuching.
- Janice Knickrehm, 87, American actress.
- Jan Ormerod, 66, Australian illustrator of children's books, cancer.
- Lucien Paiement, 80, Canadian politician, Mayor of Laval.
- Dolours Price, 61, Irish republican political activist and PIRA volunteer, toxic prescription drugs mix.
- Mike Rashkow, 71, American songwriter and advertising executive.
- Jonathan Rendall, 48, English author.
- Juan Carlos Rosero, 50, Ecuadorian Olympic and professional cyclist.
- Susan Douglas Rubeš, 87, Austrian-born Canadian actress.
- Tatsuo Sato, 75, Japanese politician.
- Peter van der Merwe, 75, South African cricketer.
- Jean-Félix-Albert-Marie Vilnet, 90, French Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Saint-Dié and Lille.
- John Wood, 62, Canadian Olympic canoeist, suicide.
- Frank Zakem, 81, Canadian politician and businessman, Mayor of Charlottetown.
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- Yemi Ajibade, 83, Nigerian–born British playwright and actor.
- Kevin Ashley, 71, Australian rugby league player.
- Zózimo Bulbul, 75, Brazilian actor and filmmaker, heart attack.
- José Colomer, 77, Spanish Olympic field hockey player.
- Graeme Fellowes, 78, Australian football player.
- Khuseyn Gakayev, 42, Chechen nationalist military leader, shot.
- Emanuel R. Gold, American lawyer and politician.
- Dave Harper, 74, English footballer.
- Nurul Islam, 84, Bangladeshi physician and educator.
- Miroslav Janů, 53, Czech footballer, heart attack.
- Kristján Jóhannsson 83, Icelandic Olympic athlete.
- Gottfried Landwehr, 83, German physicist.
- Barbara Leonard, 88, American politician, Secretary of State of Rhode Island.
- Jim Line, 87, American basketball player.
- Umashanker Singh, 73, Indian politician, lung infection.
- Richard G. Stern, 84, American writer, cancer.
- Lucien Stryk, 88, American poet and translator.
- Harry Taylor, 77, American baseball player.
- Jim Wallwork, 93, British World War II glider pilot.
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- Martial Asselin, 88, Canadian politician, MP for Charlevoix, Minister, Senator and Lieutenant Governor of Quebec.
- Leila Buckley, 96, British poet, novelist and translator.
- Rade Bulat, 92, Croatian politician and partisan.
- Gregory Carroll, 83, American R&B singer and songwriter, aneurysm.
- Normand Corbeil, 56, Canadian composer, pancreatic cancer.
- Kevin Heffernan, 83, Irish Gaelic football player and manager.
- Max Kampelman, 92, American diplomat, heart failure.
- Frank Keating, 75, English sports writer, pneumonia.
- Irene Koumarianou, 82, Greek actress, cardiac arrest.
- Aase Nordmo Løvberg, 89, Norwegian opera singer.
- Lloyd Phillips, 63, South African-born New Zealand producer, heart attack.
- Pepe Pimentel, 83, Filipino television presenter.
- Shozo Shimamoto, 85, Japanese artist.
- Cecil Womack, 65, American singer-songwriter.
- Oleg Vassiliev, 81, Russian painter.
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- Peter Beales, 76, British rosarian, author and lecturer.
- Ann Bartlett, 92, American politician and political campaign chairwoman, First Lady of Oklahoma.
- Leroy "Sugarfoot" Bonner, 69, American funk singer and guitarist, cancer.
- Gökhan Budak, 45, Turkish academic administrator and professor of quantum physics, suicide by exsanguination and jumping.
- Lesley Fitz-Simons, 51, Scottish actress, cancer.
- Christine M. Jones, 83, American politician, member of Maryland House of Delegates.
- Sukekiyo Kameyama, 58, Japanese voice actor, pneumonia.
- Gour Khyapa, 65, Indian Baul singer, traffic collision.
- Stefan Kudelski, 81, Polish audio engineer, inventor of the Nagra recorder.
- Hans Ulrich Lehmann, 75, Swiss classical composer.
- Daurene Lewis, 69, Canadian politician, nation's first black female mayor.
- Patricia Lovell, 83, Australian television host and film producer, liver cancer.
- Hiroshi Nakajima, 84, Japanese physician, Director-General of the World Health Organization.
- Acer Nethercott, 35, British coxswain, Olympic silver medallist and two-time Boat Race winner, cancer.
- Padma Kant Shukla, 62, Indian physicist, heart attack.
- James Stewart, 78, Irish politician, chair of the Communist Party of Ireland.
- Shōtarō Yasuoka, 92, Japanese writer.
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- Thakurdas Bang, 95, Indian Gandhian economist.
- Ivan Bodiul, 95, Soviet politician, First Secretary of the Moldovan Communist Party, Deputy Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers.
- Éamon de Buitléar, 83, Irish filmmaker.
- Harry L. Carrico, 96, American lawyer and state judge, Senior Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia.
- Geoffrey Connard, 87, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Council.
- Joanne Conte, 79, American transgender politician.
- Gérard Dufresne, 94, Canadian politician and military officer.
- Lou Fitzgerald, 93, American professional baseball player, scout and manager.
- Chuck Hinton, 78, American baseball player.
- M Sirajul Islam, 77, Bangladeshi politician.
- Stanley Karnow, 87, American journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, heart failure.
- John Makumbe, 63, Zimbabwean political scientist and activist.
- Barney Mussill, 93, American baseball player.
- Phạm Duy, 91, Vietnamese songwriter.
- Sally Starr, 90, American actress and television personality.
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- Paul J. Achtemeier, 85, American biblical scholar.
- Brian Brown, 79, Australian jazz musician.
- Eddy Choong, 81, Malaysian badminton player.
- Émmanuel Ducher, 41, French Olympic water polo player.
- Trevor Elliott, 63, British geoscientist and professor.
- Florentino Fernández, 76, Cuban boxer, heart attack.
- Lonnie Goldstein, 94, American baseball player.
- Charlie Green, 80, Scottish amateur golfer.
- Hattie N. Harrison, 84, American politician, Member of the Maryland House of Delegates.
- Bernard Horsfall, 82, British actor.
- John Karlin, 94, South African industrial psychologist.
- Doug Kenna, 88, American football player.
- Oldřich Kulhánek, 72, Czech painter and graphic designer, designer of Czech banknotes and postage stamps.
- Michael D. Lett, 74, Grenadian politician, prostate cancer.
- Herbert Loebl, 89, British businessman and philanthropist.
- Keith Marsh, 86, English actor.
- Dan Massey, 70, American sexual freedom activist.
- Victor Ntoni, 65, South African musician, heart attack.
- Mark Palmer, 71, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Hungary.
- Ladislav Pavlovič, 86, Slovak footballer.
- Ceija Stojka, 79, Austrian Romani writer, painter, musician and Holocaust survivor.
- Earl Williams, 64, American baseball player, leukemia.
- Xu Liangying, 92, Chinese physicist, translator, historian and philosopher.
- Benedict Zilliacus, 92, Finnish writer.
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- Ferris Ashton, 86, Australian rugby league player.
- Malcolm Brodie, 86, British sports journalist.
- Kenneth Clark, 90, English priest.
- Kerry Goulstone, 76, Welsh priest.
- Frank Hahn, 87, British economist.
- Anselm Hollo, 78, Finnish poet and translator, pneumonia.
- William Ingram, 72–73, Welsh writer and actor.
- Reg Jenkins, 74, English footballer.
- Augusto César Leal Angulo, 81, Mexican politician and chemist, member of the Senate.
- Louis Lesser, 96, American businessman.
- Garrett Lewis, 77, American set decorator.
- Jan Lužný, 86, Czech plant-breeder.
- Gordon H. Mansfield, 71, American military veteran, United States Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
- John Martinis, 82, American politician.
- Borislav Milošević, 78, Serbian diplomat, Yugoslav ambassador to Russia, heart-related problems.
- Butch Morris, 65, American jazz cornetist, conductor and composer, lung cancer.
- Said al-Muragha, 86, Palestinian militant, cancer.
- László Nyers, 78, Hungarian Olympic wrestler.
- Arif Peçenek, 53, Turkish footballer and manager, heart attack.
- Hadiya Pendleton, 15, American student, shot.
- Johan de Ridder, 86, South African architect.
- Ferrol Sams, 90, American author and physician, natural causes.
- Reinhold Stecher, 91, Austrian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Innsbruck.
- David Taylor, 78, British veterinarian and television personality.
- John Young, 76–77, Australian cyclist.
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- Herluf Andersen, 81, Danish Olympian.
- Patty Andrews, 94, American singer, last surviving member of The Andrews Sisters, natural causes.
- Alexandre Denguet Atiki, 76, Congolese politician.
- Gamal al-Banna, 92, Egyptian author and scholar, pneumonia.
- Frank Kell Cahoon, 78, American businessman and politician.
- José Cardona, 73, Honduran footballer, heart attack.
- Harvey Einbinder, 86, American physicist and author.
- Georg Gaertner, 92, German soldier and escapee.
- Shirley Luhtala, 79, American baseball player.
- Diane Marleau, 69, Canadian politician, MP for Sudbury and government minister, colorectal cancer.
- Ann Rabson, 67, American blues singer and musician, cancer.
- Roger Raveel, 91, Belgian painter, pneumonia.
- Christopher Van Hollen Sr., 90, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Sri Lanka and the Maldives, Alzheimer's disease.
- George Witt, 81, American baseball player.
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- Rubén Bonifaz Nuño, 89, Mexican poet and classicist.
- Amina Cachalia, 82, South African activist and politician.
- Joseph Cassidy, 79, Irish Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Tuam.
- R. Gilbert Clayton, 90, American set designer.
- Nolan Frizzelle, 91, American politician, Member of the California State Assembly, heart failure.
- Hassan Habibi, 76, Iranian politician and scholar, Minister of Justice ; First Vice President, heart attack.
- Sir Ron Hadfield, 73, British police officer, Chief Constable of West Midlands Police.
- Keith Joubert, 65, South African artist and conservationist.
- Larry Killick, 90, American basketball player.
- Bob Lacourse, 86, Canadian Olympic cyclist.
- Mohammad Mahseiri, Jordanian politician, Member of the House of Representatives, heart attack.
- Brett Matthews, 50, South African cricketer, traffic collision.
- Caleb Moore, 25, American snowmobile competitor, complications from a collision during competition.
- Jacques Nguyễn Văn Mầu, 99, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Vĩnh Long.
- Tony Pierce, 67, American baseball player.
- Timir Pinegin, 85, Soviet sports sailor and Olympic gold medallist.
- Edward Stankiewicz, 92, American linguist of Polish descent.
- Ingo Swann, 79, American parapsychologist.
- Shail Upadhya, 77, Nepalese United Nations disarmament official, fashion designer and socialite.
- Fred Whitfield, 75, American baseball player.
- Diane Wolkstein, 70, American storyteller, during emergency heart surgery.