Deaths in June 2016

• Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.

  June 2016

1

• William Harrison Bell, 89, American surgeon.
• Leonard Boyle, 85, New Zealand Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Dunedin.
• Agostino Coletto, 88, Italian racing cyclist.
• David Daniell, 87, English literary scholar.
• Roger Enrico, 71, American businessman, snorkeling incident.
• Razak Khan, 65, Indian film actor |Baadshah], Hello Brother, heart attack.
• [Boyce F. Martin Jr., 80, American judge, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, brain cancer.
• Richard B. McHugh, 92, American statistician.
• Grigore Obreja, 48, Romanian sprint canoeist, world champion, Olympic bronze medallist.
• Kosit Panpiemras, 73, Thai banker, cancer.
• Bob Rumball, 86, Canadian pastor and deaf rights advocate.
• John Simpson, 89, Australian Olympic fencer.
• Dalpat Singh Paraste, 66, Indian politician, MP for Shahdol, brain hemorrhage.
• David Spielberg, 77, American actor |Christine], Wiseguy, John Taylor, 87, British Anglican bishop and theologian.
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• [Wang Jui, 85, Taiwanese actor, Golden Bell winner.

  2

• Klaus Biemann, 89, Austrian-born American biochemist.
• Walter Curley, 93, American diplomat, Ambassador to Ireland and France.
• Alvin J. DeGrow, 90, American politician.
• Donny Everett, 19, American baseball player, drowned.
• Fulvio Galimi, 89, Argentine Olympic fencer.
• Darko Grubor, 53, Serbian executive.
• Don Hardeman, 63, American football player.
• Sir Tom Kibble, 83, British physicist.
• Wayne Kingery, 88, American football player.
• Pál Koczka, 77, Hungarian Olympic basketball player.
• Keith Lawrence, 96, New Zealand-born British flight lieutenant during World War II, surviving member of The Few.
• Yevhen Lemeshko, 85, Ukrainian football coach.
• Abderrahmane Meziani, 74, Algerian footballer.
• Dan Henry Nicolson, 82, American botanist.
• Andrzej Niemczyk, 72, Polish volleyball coach, European champion.
• Sir John Pidgeon, 89, Australian property developer.
• Ulrik Plesner, 85, Danish architect.
• Lee Pfund, 96, American baseball player and college baseball and basketball coach.
• Willis Pyle, 101, American animator.
• Brian Reidy, 77, New Zealand rugby league player.
• Helen Renton, 85, British air force officer, director of the WRAF.
• Kat Teasdale, 51, Canadian racing driver and businesswoman.
• Renato Valentini, 69, Italian Olympic ski jumper.
• Freddie Wadling, 64, Swedish singer and songwriter.
• Häns'che Weiss, 64–65, German jazz guitarist.

  3

• Yevgeny Agureyev, 65, Russian field hockey player and administrator.
• Muhammad Ali, 74, American boxer, Olympic gold medalist, three-time WBC world heavyweight champion, septic shock.
• Balu Anand, 61, Indian actor, heart attack.
• Szabolcs Baranyi, 72, Hungarian tennis player.
• Sreten Asanović, 85, Montenegrin author.
• Adolph Cornelis van Bruggen, 86, Dutch malacologist.
• Henry Childs, 65, American football player, heart attack.
• Mac Cocker, 74, English-born Australian radio presenter.
• Stephen Gasiorowicz, 87, American theoretical physicist.
• George R. Grosse, 86, American politician.
• Bernard Gotfryd, 92, Polish-born American photographer.
• Vladimir Ivanovsky, 68, Russian diplomat, Ambassador to Turkey.
• Morris Jennings, 77, American drummer.
• Jocelyn Lovell, 65, Canadian Olympic cyclist, Commonwealth and Pan American Games gold medalist.
• Sten Lundin, 84, Swedish motocross racer, world champion.
• Leonard Marchand, 82, Canadian politician, Minister of Environment, Senator, first Aboriginal federal cabinet minister.
• Jeff W. Mathis III, 60, American major general.
• Joseph Michel, 90, Belgian politician, President of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives, Minister of the Interior.
• Ken Morioka, 49, Japanese musician and composer, heart failure.
• J. Keith Murnighan, 67, American social scientist and author.
• Murray Murrell, 93, Australian football player.
• Victor Reux, 86, French Saint Pierre and Miquelon politician.
• Luis Salom, 24, Spanish motorcycle racer, race collision.
• Sabam Siagian, 84, Indonesian journalist, editor-in-chief of The Jakarta Post, Ambassador to Australia.
• Arve Solstad, 80, Norwegian newspaper editor.
• Dave Swarbrick, 75, British folk musician and singer-songwriter, emphysema.
• Dennis Tedlock, 76, American anthropologist.
• Henrique N'zita Tiago, 88, Angolan separatist politician, President of the Armed Forces of Cabinda.

  4

• Jeff Alltus, 61, American politician.
• Gil Bartosh, 86, American football player and coach.
• Frank Brown, 79, American Olympic skier.
• Annie Castledine, 77, British theatre director.
• Eamonn Cooke, 79, Irish DJ and criminal.
• Phyllis Curtin, 94, American soprano.
• Bobby Curtola, 73, Canadian singer.
• Sulabha Deshpande, 79, Indian actress.
• István Halász, 64, Hungarian footballer.
• Antti Hyry, 84, Finnish writer.
• Geirmund Ihle, 81, Norwegian politician, MP.
• Nicky Jennings, 70, English footballer.
• Rodney Johnson, 88, Australian Olympic sports shooter.
• Zoya Klyuchko, 83, Ukrainian entomologist.
• Piero Leddi, 85, Italian painter.
• Erich Linemayr, 83, Austrian football referee.
• Norman Longmate, 90, English historian.
• Sir Brian McGrath, 90, British courtier, private secretary to the Duke of Edinburgh.
• Carmen Pereira, 79, Bissau-Guinean politician, acting President.
• Pulu Poumele, 44, American football player.
• Alan Rathbone, 57, English rugby league player.
• Bill Richmond, 94, American television writer and screenwriter.
• Farid Seiful-Mulyukov, 85, Uzbek-born Russian journalist and writer.
• Bill Snowden, 81, New Zealand rugby league player.
• Nicola Tanda, 87, Italian literary critic and philologist.
• William Wright, 85, American author.
• Mustafa Zalmi, 92, Iraqi Kurdish Muslim scholar.

  5

• Manohar Aich, 104, Indian bodybuilder, Mr. Universe.
• Gianluca Buonanno, 50, Italian politician, MEP, traffic collision.
• Jerome Bruner, 100, American psychologist.
• David Gilkey, 50, American photojournalist, grenade explosion.
• Frank Griffin, 98, Irish judge.
• Julio Henri, Argentine Olympic equestrian.
• Taomati Iuta, 77, I-Kiribati politician, Vice President and Speaker of the House, diabetes.
• David Lamb, 76, American war correspondent and journalist.
• Abu Layla, 32, Syrian military commander, shot.
• Ortensia, 10, Australian thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
• Jarbas Passarinho, 96, Brazilian politician, Minister of Justice, Senate |Senate President], Governor of Pará.
• Cedric Robinson, 76, American political scientist.
• Patti Grace Smith, 68, American Federal Aviation Administration official, pancreatic cancer.
• Rick Speare, 68, Australian public health physician, traffic collision.
• Eleanor Zelliot, 89, American scholar.
• Aleksei Zharkov, 68, Russian actor, liver disease.

  6

• Stuart Anderson, 93, American restaurateur.
• Rhoda Blumberg, 98, American author.
• Theresa Poh Lin Chan, 72, Singaporean writer and actress, lung cancer.
• Helen Fabela Chávez, 88, American labor unionist.
• Hélio Garcia, 85, Brazilian politician, Governor of Minas Gerais.
• Harry Gregory, 72, English footballer.
• John Harding, 2nd Baron Harding of Petherton, 88, British army officer and peer.
• Ayaz Jani, 48, Pakistani poet and journalist.
• Viktor Korchnoi, 85, Russian-born Swiss chess player.
• Basil McKenzie, 89, Jamaican Olympic sprinter.
• Remi Nadeau, 95, American historian.
• Federico José Pagura, 93, Argentinian Protestant minister, Bishop of the Evangelical Methodist Church of Argentina.
• Steve Pisanos, 96, Greek-born American air force officer.
• Theresa Saldana, 61, American actress, renal failure.
• Rolf Schweizer, 80, German composer.
• Sir Peter Shaffer, 90, British playwright |Amadeus], Equus, Tony and Oscar winner.
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• [Kimbo Slice, 42, Bahamian-born American mixed martial artist, boxer and actor, heart failure.
• Keith Smith, 87, New Zealand cricketer.
• Tunga, 64, Brazilian sculptor and performance artist, cancer.
• André Warusfel, 79, French mathematician and writer.
• Jimmy Williams, 90, Canadian baseball player and manager.
• Héctor Zumbado, 84, Cuban writer and comedian.

  7

• Leandro Ribera Abad, 81, Spanish Olympic water polo player.
• Børge Bach, 71, Danish footballer.
• Åke Berntsson, 81, Swedish Olympic rower.
• Bretagne, 16, American Golden Retriever rescue dog, euthanized after kidney failure.
• Johnny Brooks, 84, English footballer.
• John H. Eicher, 95, American scientist and author.
• Tanju Gürsu, 77, Turkish actor and film director, respiratory failure.
• Amber Gurung, 78, Nepalese musician and composer.
• Frans Harjawiyata, 84, Indonesian Roman Catholic abbot.
• Robert Hall, 85, Canadian politician.
• Leonard Hill, 68, American television executive and writer, property developer.
• Peter Jost, 95, British mechanical engineer.
• Stephen Keshi, 54, Nigerian football player and manager, heart attack.
• Sir Graham Latimer, 90, New Zealand Māori leader and politician.
• Marita Lindquist, 97, Finnish writer.
• Mary MacLeod, 78, English-born Scottish actress |Enigma], Thomas Perkins, 84, American businessman.
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• [Anatoliy Polishchuk, 66, Soviet-Ukrainian volleyball player, Olympic silver medalist.
• Rubén Quevedo, 37, Venezuelan baseball player, heart attack.
• Elayne Rapping, 77, American writer, breast cancer.
• Sean Rooks, 46, American basketball player, heart disease.
• Didargylyç Urazow, 39, Turkmen footballer, stroke.
• Bryan Wiedmeier, 56, American sports executive, brain cancer.
• Rod Zimmer, 73, Canadian politician, Senator for Manitoba, complications from esophageal cancer and pneumonia.

  8

• Smart Akraka, 82, Nigerian Olympic sprinter.
• Ted Atkinson, 95, Australian rules footballer.
• Pierre Aubert, 89, Swiss politician, President.
• Terje Fjærn, 73, Norwegian musician and conductor.
• Sascha Lewandowski, 44, German football manager.
• Qahhor Mahkamov, 84, Tajik politician, President.
• Philip Majerus, 79, American biochemist, prostate cancer.
• Marina Malfatti, 83, Italian actress.
• Michael Manser, 87, British architect, complications from a stroke.
• Ngala Mwendwa, 94, Kenyan politician.
• William Smith, 62, Northern Irish paramilitary and politician.
• Robert Sussman, 74, American anthropologist, stroke.

  9

• Hamza Ali, 20, English cricketer, drowning.
• Michael Baldasaro, 67, Canadian sect leader and political candidate, cancer.
• Stepan Bondarev, 93, Belarusian Soviet army general.
• Alex Tamba Brima, 44, Sierra Leonean military commander, convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Civil War.
• Stéphane Dumas, 46, Canadian astrophysicist, complications from influenza.
• Carillo Gritti, 74, Italian-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Territorial Prelate of Itacoatiara.
• T. S. John, 76, Indian politician, chairman of the Kerala Congress.
• J. Reilly Lewis, 71, American choral conductor and Baroque music specialist, heart attack.
• James Lewis, 85, American politician, member of the Indiana Senate and House of Representatives.
• Hassan Muhammad Makki, 82, Yemeni politician, Prime Minister.
• Panagiotis Mavrikos, 42, Greek newspaper publisher, traffic collision.
• Jim Plyler, 91, American football player.
• Bernard Shrimsley, 85, British newspaper editor.
• Brooks Thompson, 45, American basketball player and coach, multiple organ failure.
• A. Gordon Wetmore, 84, American theologian, President of the Northwest Nazarene College.
• Madeleen de Wijkerslooth de Weerdesteyn, 80, Dutch politician, member of the Senate and Council of State.
• John Giffen Weinmann, 87, American diplomat.

  10

• Shuaibu Amodu, 58, Nigerian football coach.
• Robert C. Beckham, 81, American politician.
• Ángel Cuetos, 79, Spanish Olympic wrestler.
• Mary Feik, 92, American aviator.
• Alexander Gorlov, 85, Russian mechanical engineer.
• Alex Govan, 86, Scottish footballer.
• Christina Grimmie, 22, American singer-songwriter and talent show participant, shot.
• Gopal Gurung, 80, Nepali politician and author.
• Habib, 68, Iranian singer, heart attack.
• Margaret Vinci Heldt, 98, American hairstylist, creator of the beehive hairstyle.
• Ambrose Hickey, 71, Irish Gaelic footballer.
• Desmond Heeley, 85, British set and costume designer.
• John Horgan, 66, Irish hurler.
• Gordie Howe, 88, Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey player.
• Giannis Michalopoulos, 89, Greek actor.
• Ronald Nabakowski, 74, American politician, complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Mimmo Palmara, 87, Italian actor.
• Alfred Oftedal Telhaug, 81, Norwegian educationalist.
• Giuseppe Virgili, 80, Italian footballer.
• Derek Wilson, 93, New Zealand architect and environmentalist.

  11

• Rudi Altig, 79, German cyclist, winner of the 1962 Vuelta a España, world champion, cancer.
• Asghar Bichareh, 89, Iranian photographer and actor.
• Gilbert Blue, 82, American Catawba chief, mesothelioma.
• Stacey Castor, 48, American convicted murderer, heart attack.
• Chico Fernández, 84, Cuban baseball player, complications from a stroke.
• Paolo Leon, 81, Italian post-Keynesian economist.
• Inder Malhotra, 86, Indian journalist, editor and columnist.
• Moonist, 5, American racehorse, complications of colic.
• Alberto Remedios, 81, British operatic tenor.
• Bryan Robinson, 41, American football player, heart disease.
• Trudi Roth, 86, Swiss actress, dementia.
• Thomas Skidmore, 83, American historian.
• Lars Skytøen, 86, Norwegian politician, Minister of Industry.
• Veijo Valtonen, 80, Finnish footballer.

  12

• Abdullah Ahmad, 79, Malaysian newspaper editor, journalist and politician, cancer.
• Georgia Apostolou, 43, Greek actress, heart attack.
• David K. Backus, 63, American economist, leukemia.
• Charles Briles, 70, American actor, heart failure.
• Donald Carr, 89, English cricketer and administrator.
• Michelle Cliff, 69, Jamaican-born American writer, liver failure.
• Gordon Connell, 93, American actor.
• Vladimir Dolgopolov, 54, Soviet and Russian football player, complications from a stroke.
• Robert F. Dorr, 76, American writer and diplomat, brain tumor.
• Franco Faggi, 90, Italian rower, Olympic gold medalist.
• Earl Faison, 77, American football player.
• Dagfinn Gedde-Dahl, 79, Norwegian physician.
• Dana Giacchetto, 53, American stockbroker and convicted fraudster.
• Gunnar Gran, 84, Norwegian media executive.
• P. V. Guharaj, 91, Indian police surgeon.
• Curley Johnson, 80, American football player, Super Bowl winner.
• Danny Kopec, 62, American chess player, pancreatic cancer.
• Harold La Borde, 82, Trinidadian sailor, fall.
• Achyut Lahkar, 85, Indian actor and playwright.
• Rodney Leach, Baron Leach of Fairford, 82, British banker and politician.
• Tom Leppard, 80, British tattooed man.
• Omar Mateen, 29, American mass murderer, shot.
• Michu Meszaros, 76, Hungarian-born American actor.
• Elín Ortiz, 81, Puerto Rican actor, comedian, and producer, Alzheimer's disease.
• Fabrizio Pirovano, 56, Italian motorcycle road racer, tumour.
• Alfonso Portugal, 82, Mexican footballer.
• Jerry Vaflor, 76, Filipino football player and coach, pneumonia.
• George Voinovich, 79, American politician, Senator from Ohio, Governor of Ohio, Mayor of Cleveland.
• Janet Waldo, 96, American actress and voice artist.
• Chris Warren, 49, American musician.
• Cezary Wodziński, 57, Polish philosopher, historian, essayist and translator.

  13

• Anahid Ajemian, 92, American violinist.
• Uriah Asante, 24, Ghanaian footballer, heart attack.
• John Arnold Baker, 90, British judge and politician.
• Irene Bauer, 71, Norwegian politician.
• Tony Byrne, 70, Irish footballer.
• Tet Garcia, 75, Filipino politician.
• Gladys Gunzer, 76, American sculptor.
• Ofelya Hambardzumyan, 91, Armenian folk singer.
• Oleg Karavaychuk, 88, Soviet and Russian composer.
• Joshua Wanume Kibedi, 74, Ugandan diplomat and politician, Foreign Minister, Ambassador to the United Nations.
• Randy Jones, 72, British-born American jazz musician, heart failure.
• Ron Mason, 76, Canadian ice hockey coach and university administrator.
• Mohammad Moniruzzaman Miah, 81, Bangladeshi academic.
• Chips Moman, 79, American songwriter and record producer, Grammy winner.
• Mudrarakshas, 82, Indian Hindi author.
• Robert T. Paine, 83, American ecologist, acute myeloid leukemia.
• Gregory Rabassa, 94, American literary translator.
• Gerald J. Wasserburg, 89, American geologist.

  14

• Lidia Biondi, 75, Italian actress |Casanova], Rome.
• [Roger Breeze, 69, English veterinary scientist.
• Robert Després, 91, Canadian businessman, lung cancer.
• Anatol Dumitraș, 60, Moldovan singer, cancer.
• Melvin Dwork, 94, American interior designer and gay rights activist.
• Ronnie Claire Edwards, 83, American actress, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
• Fanchon Fröhlich, 88, American artist.
• Anatoli Grishin, 76, Russian sprint canoeist, Olympic champion.
• Ann Morgan Guilbert, 87, American actress, pancreatic cancer.
• Per Hovdenakk, 80, Norwegian art historian.
• OJB Jezreel, 49, Nigerian singer and record producer, complications from kidney failure.
• Gertrude Kerbis, 89, American architect, liver cancer.
• Pamela Kurrell, 77, American Olympic discus thrower.
• Gilles Lamontagne, 97, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Quebec, MP, Mayor of Quebec City.
• Ali Lazrak, 68, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives, lung cancer.
• Henry McCullough, 72, Northern Irish guitarist.
• Samuel Mumbengegwi, 73, Zimbabwean politician.
• Ken Orr, 77, American software engineer.
• Irma Roy, 84, Argentine actress and politician, national deputy.
• Ovie Scurlock, 97, American jockey.
• Yumi Shirakawa, 79, Japanese actress.

  15

• Somawansa Amarasinghe, 73, Sri Lankan politician, leader of Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna, stroke.
• Anton Barten, 86, Dutch economist.
• Nicholas Clinch, 85, American mountaineer and lawyer.
• Claude Confortès, 88, French actor.
• Lois Duncan, 82, American author.
• Aslam Farrukhi, 92, Pakistani writer and critic.
• Gypsy Joe, 82, Puerto Rican professional wrestler.
• David Hall, 88, New Zealand chemistry academic.
• Roland Hardy, 90, British Olympic race walker.
• Bob Holman, 79, British academic and community worker, motor neurone disease.
• Joaquin Jackson, 80, American Texas Ranger.
• Fred James, 71, Canadian football player.
• Ladislav Kupkovič, 80, Slovak composer and conductor.
• Richard O. Linke, 98, American television producer.
• Milorad Mandić, 55, Serbian actor, heart attack.
• Hiroshi Minatoya, 72, Japanese judoka, world champion.
• Alavi Moulana, 84, Sri Lankan politician, Ministry of [Labour and Trade Union Relations|Minister of Labour], Governor of Western Province.
• Harry Moule, 94, English cricketer.
• Richard Selzer, 87, American surgeon and author.
• Giuseppe Spagnulo, 79, Italian sculptor.
• A. C. Tirulokchandar, 86, Indian film director.
• John Tremelling, 86, Australian Olympic sports shooter.
• Elaina Marie Tuttle, 52, ornithologist and behavioral geneticist

  16

• Sulo Aittoniemi, 79, Finnish politician, MP.
• Bill Berkson, 76, American poet and art critic, heart attack.
• Doug Cherry, 83, Canadian politician.
• Jo Cox, 41, British politician, MP for Batley and Spen, shot and stabbed.
• Manimala Devi, 84, Indian actress.
• Wayne Dowd, 74, American politician, member of the Arkansas Senate, cancer.
• Anjan Dutta, 64, Indian politician.
• Rolland V. Heiser, 91, American lieutenant general.
• Hans Lipschis, 96, Lithuanian-born German military officer.
• Luděk Macela, 65, Czech footballer, Olympic gold medalist.
• Irving Moskowitz, 88, American businessman and philanthropist.
• Candy Ruff, 65, American politician, member of the Kansas House of Representatives.
• Bernard Skinner, 85, Canadian Olympic sailor.
• Pat Suggate, 94, British-born New Zealand geologist.
• Jerome Teasley, 67, American drummer, complications from liver and lung cancer.
• Charles Thompson, 98, American pianist.
• Marilyn Wood, 86–87, American choreographer.

  17

• Rubén Aguirre, 82, Mexican actor.
• Willy Andresen, 94, Norwegian jazz pianist.
• Attrell Cordes, 46, American rhythm and blues singer, renal disease.
• Angel Gelmi Bertocchi, 78, Italian-born Bolivian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Cochabamba.
• Audrey Disbury, 82, English cricketer.
• Peter Feuchtwanger, 76, German-born British pianist, composer and piano teacher.
• Thomas Ashley Graves Jr., 91, American academic, President of the College of William & Mary.
• Bud Gregory, 90, Canadian politician.
• Phil Hennigan, 70, American baseball player, lung cancer.
• Sam Beaver King, 90, Jamaican-born British political activist, Mayor of Southwark, co-founder of the Notting Hill Carnival.
• Reidar Kvaal, 100, Norwegian World War II military officer.
• Ron Lester, 45, American actor |Varsity Blues], Popular, liver and kidney failure.
• [David Morgenthaler, 96, American businessman.
• Loretto Petrucci, 86, Italian racing cyclist.
• Tenor Fly, 48, English rapper and ragga vocalist.
• Wang Sichao, 77, Chinese astronomy scholar, cerebral hemorrhage.

  18

• Paul Cox, 76, Dutch-born Australian film director, liver cancer.
• Sharon Douglas, 95, American actress.
• Susana Duijm, 79, Venezuelan beauty queen, Miss World winner.
• Alejandro Jano Fuentes, 45, American singer, shot.
• Graham Gibbons, 96, Bermudian businessman and politician, Mayor of Hamilton, Bermuda.
• Jim Harrison, 80, American writer and artist, heart attack.
• Curt Hofstad, 70, American politician, member of the North Dakota House of Representatives, heart attack.
• Väinö Huhtala, 80, Finnish cross-country skier, Olympic champion.
• Jeppiaar, 85, Indian educationist, founder and chancellor of Sathyabama University.
• Sverre Kjelsberg, 69, Norwegian musician.
• William J. Livsey, 85, American army general.
• Sibe Mardešić, 89, Croatian mathematician.
• Rachel McCulloch, 74, American economist.
• Vittorio Merloni, 83, Italian entrepreneur and industrialist, founder of Indesit.
• Robert L. Moore, 73, American psychologist.
• Kitty Rhoades, 65, American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, pneumonia.
• Stanisław Romik, 90, Polish shooter.
• Joe Schaffernoth, 78, American baseball player, cancer.
• Edith Turner, 95, English-born American anthropologist.
• Wu Jianmin, 77, Chinese diplomat, Ambassador to France and the Netherlands, traffic collision.

  19

• Mihnea Berindei, 68, Romanian-born French historian.
• Nicolae Bocșan, 68, Romanian historian.
• Michael Brewster, 69, American artist.
• Laurie Evans, 82, Canadian politician.
• Nicolás García Uriburu, 78, Argentine artist and landscape architect.
• Götz George, 77, German actor.
• Fan Ho, 84, Chinese photographer, film director and actor, pneumonia.
• David Johnson, 83, Australian-born American business executive.
• John Love, 73, British-born Australian scientist.
• Marjorie Lynn, 94, American singer.
• Ricardo Obregón Cano, 99, Argentine politician, Governor of Córdoba.
• Allan Paivio, 91, Canadian psychologist.
• Ixora Rojas Paz, 60, Venezuelan lawyer and politician, president of the Chamber of Deputies.
• Alan Saville, 69, British archaeologist and museum curator, cancer.
• Victor Stănculescu, 88, Romanian general and politician, Minister of National Defence.
• Norbert Thériault, 95, Canadian politician, MLA and Senator for New Brunswick.
• Niki Tobi, 75, Nigerian judge, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
• Randolph Vigne, 87, South African political activist.
• Anton Yelchin, 27, Soviet-born American actor |Star Trek], Alpha Dog, Fright Night, blunt traumatic asphyxia.

  20

• [Ann Atwater, 80, American civil rights activist.
• Frank Chapot, 84, American equestrian, Olympic silver medalist.
• Fiqre Crockwell, 30, Bermudian cricket player, shot.
• Eamonn Dolan, 48, Irish football player and coach, cancer.
• Alvin Endt, 82, American politician, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives.
• Alan Epstein, 66, American author.
• Benoîte Groult, 96, French journalist, writer and feminist activist.
• Bill Ham, 79, American band manager.
• Barry Hanson, 72, British film producer.
• Goro Hasegawa, 83, Japanese board game designer.
• Hal Holman, 93, Australian artist.
• Michał Józefczyk, 69, Polish Roman Catholic priest.
• Aulis Kähkönen, 85, Finnish Olympic swimmer.
• Helen S. Lang, 69, American philosopher, brain cancer.
• Willie Logie, 83, Scottish footballer.
• Ernesto Maceda, 81, Filipino politician, Senate President, Senator and columnist, multiple organ failure.
• Dan Maraya, 69, Nigerian griot.
• Rich Olive, 66, American politician, member of the Iowa Senate, cancer.
• Edgard Pisani, 97, French politician, philosopher and writer, President of the AWI, High Commissioner of New Caledonia, Minister of Agriculture.
• William Craig Rice, 61, American academic.
• Chayito Valdez, 71, Mexican-born American folk singer and actress, complications from a cerebral hemorrhage.
• James Victor, 76, American actor.

  21

• Guda Anjaiah, 60, Indian poet, singer and lyricist, kidney ailment.
• Jim Boyd, 60, American singer-songwriter.
• Karl Dallas, 85, British journalist, author and campaigner, cancer.
• Dan Daniel, 82, American radio personality |WMCA], Bryan Edwards, 85, British footballer.
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• [Helen T. Edwards, 80, American physicist.
• Pat Friday, 94, American singer.
• Jack Fuller, 69, American journalist and publisher, cancer.
• Kunio Hatoyama, 67, Japanese politician.
• Henk Hofland, 88, Dutch journalist, columnist and writer.
• Al Howie, 70, Canadian long-distance runner.
• Wayne Jackson, 74, American musician, heart failure.
• Shem Kellogg, 34, American politician.
• Pierre Lalonde, 75, Canadian singer and television host, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Roger Margerum, 86, American architect, complications from a stroke.
• Kenworth Moffett, 81, American art curator, museum director and writer.
• Mohammed Nizamuddin, 83, Indian trade unionist and politician.
• Jim Randell, 87, Australian politician, member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Mirani.

  22

• Joan Acker, 92, American sociologist.
• John William Ashe, 61, Antiguan diplomat, President of the United Nations General Assembly, heart attack.
• Vasily Bochkaryov, 67, Russian politician.
• Steve French, 56, American gospel singer, suicide by jumping.
• John Garrow, 87, British nutritionist and physician.
• Luis Gutiérrez Martín, 84, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Segovia.
• Mike Hart, 72, British singer-songwriter.
• David J. Hickson, 85, British organisational theorist.
• Mohammad Kilani, Jordanian politician, Water Minister.
• Andrzej Kondratiuk, 79, Polish film director, screenwriter, actor and cinematographer.
• Roberto Lovera, 93, Uruguayan basketball player, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Melânia Luz, 88, Brazilian Olympic sprinter.
• Alan Mitchell, 55, English comic book writer.
• J. V. Ramana Murthi, 83, Indian actor.
• Yaşar Nuri Öztürk, 71, Turkish theologian and politician, stomach cancer.
• William Patrick, 84, Canadian Olympic diver.
• Harry Rabinowitz, 100, British film composer and conductor.
• Samir Roychoudhury, 82, Indian writer.
• Tokia Russell, 38, Bermudian footballer, traffic collision.
• Amjad Sabri, 45, Pakistani qawwali singer, shot.

  23

• Eoin Cameron, 65, Australian radio presenter and politician, MP for Stirling, heart attack.
• Earle M. Chiles, 83, American businessman and philanthropist.
• Mike Flynn, 48, American online journalist and conservative activist.
• Arie Gluck, 86, Israeli Olympic runner.
• James Green, 71, American historian, leukemia.
• Michael Herr, 76, American author and screenwriter.
• Shirley Fenton Huie, 91, Australian author.
• Jin Yaqin, 91, Chinese actress, cancer.
• Shelley Moore, 84, British-born American jazz singer.
• Stanley Mandelstam, 87, American theoretical physicist.
• Peter Morley, 91, German-born British filmmaker.
• Stuart Nisbet, 82, American actor |Casino], In the [Heat of the Night.
• Robert Clifford Pelletier, 83, American businessman.
• Ralph Stanley, 89, American bluegrass musician, Grammy winner, skin cancer.
• Peter Tennant, 74, English cricketer.
• Rane Vaskivuori, 49, Finnish designer.

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• Dick Bensfield, 90, American television writer.
• Francisco Ivens de Sá Dias Branco, 81, Brazilian billionaire businessman.
• Charles Chaynes, 90, French composer.
• Robert A. Duin, 91, American rear admiral.
• Tony Feher, 60, American sculptor, liver cancer.
• Asım Can Gündüz, 60, Turkish rock guitarist, heart attack.
• Steven Hancock, 58, British Olympic kayaker and business executive, traffic collision.
• Chaim Avrohom Horowitz, 83, American Chasidic rabbi of the Boston Hasidic dynasty.
• Donald Jelinek, 82, American civil rights lawyer, lung disease.
• Allah Dino Khaskheli, 50, Pakistani singer, traffic collision.
• Andries Kinsbergen, 89, Belgian politician, Governor of Antwerp.
• James Lee, 36, American football player, complications from diabetes.
• Kelly Mader, 64, American rancher and politician, heart attack.
• Edoardo Müller, 78, Italian opera conductor.
• Oscar Obert, 85, American handball player.
• Greg Pierce, 66, Australian rugby league player and captain, cancer.
• Dalma Takács, 83, Hungarian-born author.
• Gerald Walpin, 84, American attorney and author.
• Bernie Worrell, 72, American musician, lung cancer.

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• Raymond Bateman, 88, American politician, New Jersey state senator.
• Percy Beake, 99, Canadian-born British World War II fighter pilot.
• Benjamin Bistline, 81, American historian.
• Antonin Canavese, 87, French cyclist.
• Nicole Courcel, 84, French actress.
• Jack Cropp, 89, New Zealand yachtsman, Olympic gold medalist.
• Bill Cunningham, 87, American fashion photographer.
• Maurice G. Dantec, 57, French science fiction writer and musician.
• Giuseppe Ferrara, 83, Italian film director.
• Steve Ferrughelli, 67, Canadian football player.
• Shōichi Fujimori, 89, Japanese royal steward.
• Jim Hickman, 79, American baseball player.
• Peter Hutton, 71, American film director, cancer.
• Farrakh Khan, 77, Pakistani army general, Chief of General Staff.
• Chester Krause 92, American author and numismatist, heart failure.
• Hal Lear, 81, American basketball player.
• Patrick Mayhew, Baron Mayhew of Twysden, 86, British barrister and politician, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
• Mohapatra Nilamani Sahoo, 89, Indian writer, multiple organ failure.
• Ben Patterson, 82, American artist and musician.
• Julie Plawecki, 54, American politician, member of the Michigan House of Representatives, heart attack.
• Wolfgang Richter, 89, Brazilian Olympic sailor.
• Adam Small, 79, South African writer and poet, complications from surgery.
• Ermin Smrekar, 85, Italian architect.
• Trevor Steedman, 62, British actor and stuntman |Aliens], Snatch, complications from a stroke.
• [Elliot Wolff, 61, American songwriter and music producer.

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• Jürgen von Beckerath, 96, German Egyptologist.
• Austin Clarke, 81, Canadian novelist.
• Sergei Cortez, 81, Chilean-born Belarusian composer.
• Kristiina Elstelä, 73, Finnish actress.
• Gerhard Gehring, 71, German Olympic skier.
• Jona Goldrich, 88, Polish-born American real estate developer and philanthropist.
• Barbara Goldsmith, 85, American author, heart failure.
• Samuel L. Green Jr., 89, American pastor and bishop.
• Andrés Hernández Ros, 67, Spanish politician, President of the Region of Murcia.
• Henrietta Rach Hoernle, 103, German-born American philanthropist.
• Ryan Jimmo, 34, Canadian mixed martial artist, vehicular homicide.
• Kim Sung-min, 43, South Korean actor, suicide by hanging.
• Anatoliy Kutsev, 57, Moldovan-born Ukrainian football player, referee and manager.
• Alexander Litaay, 67, Indonesian ambassador, Ambassador to Croatia, heart attack.
• Hazel Newhook, 101, Canadian politician, MHA for Gander, Mayor of Gander.
• Kavalam Narayana Panicker, 88, Indian dramatist, theatre director and poet.
• Mike Pedicin, 98, American jazz bandleader.
• William Rohwer, 78, American educational psychologist.
• John J. Santucci, 85, American lawyer and politician, New York state senator.
• Gino Sovran, 91, Canadian basketball player.
• Chineko Sugawara, 77, Japanese actress.
• William C. Waterhouse, 74, American mathematician.
• Rostislav Yankovsky, 86, Belarusian film and stage actor, People's Artist of the USSR.

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• Franz Cibulka, 69, Austrian composer.
• Adelmar Faria Coimbra-Filho, 92, Brazilian biologist.
• Caçapava, 61, Brazilian footballer.
• Elmer Cravalho, 90, American politician, Speaker of the Hawaii House of Representatives, Mayor of Maui.
• Henry Sebastian D'Souza, 90, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Calcutta.
• Xerxes Desai, 79, Indian executive.
• Ronald Falk, 80, Australian actor.
• Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen, 83, Danish composer, cancer.
• Harry Halbreich, 85, Belgian musicologist.
• Dave Heath, 85, American photographer.
• Dame Grace Hollander, 94, New Zealand community leader.
• Aharon Ipalé, 74, Moroccan-born Israeli actor |The Mummy], Fiddler on the Roof, Alias, cancer.
• [Arthur Lavine, 93, American photojournalist, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• George W. Miller, 75, American federal judge.
• Oh Se-jong, 33, South Korean short track speed skater, Olympic champion, traffic collision.
• Simon Ramo, 103, American engineer, businessman and author.
• Mack Rice, 82, American songwriter and singer, complications of Alzheimer's disease.
• Edward D. Sheafer Jr., 75, American naval officer.
• Bud Spencer, 86, Italian actor and swimmer.
• Amar Suloev, 40, Armenian mixed martial artist, stomach cancer.
• Alvin Toffler, 87, American writer and futurist.

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• Leland Bardwell, 94, Irish poet, novelist and playwright.
• Theo Dilissen, 62, Belgian basketball player and businessman.
• Christer Ericsson, 74, Swedish businessman, drowning.
• Freddie Gilroy, 80, Northern Irish bantamweight boxer, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Allan Greenshields, 90, Australian football player.
• André Guelfi, 97, French racing driver.
• Darell Koons, 91, American painter.
• George Matsumoto, 93, American architect.
• Joseph Atsumi Misue, 80, Japanese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Hiroshima.
• Scotty Moore, 84, American guitarist.
• Fabiane Niclotti, 31, Brazilian model, Miss Universo Brasil 2004.
• Buddy Ryan, 85, American football head coach and defensive coordinator.
• Michel Soutif, 94, French physicist.
• Pat Summitt, 64, American basketball coach, dementia.
• Zurlon Tipton, 26, American football player, shot.
• Keith Vickerman, 83, British zoologist, Regius Professor of Zoology.

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• Elechi Amadi, 82, Nigerian writer.
• Margaret Bakkes, 84, South African author.
• Inocente Carreño, 96, Venezuelan composer.
• James Cooley, 89, American mathematician.
• Giuseppe De Andrea, 86, Italian-born American Roman Catholic prelate, Apostolic Nuncio to Bahrain, Kuwait, and Yemen, Qatar.
• John Farquharson, 86, Australian journalist.
• Gunnar Garbo, 92, Norwegian politician, MP.
• Stanley Gault, 90, American businessman, CEO of Rubbermaid and Goodyear.
• Robert Marie Gay, 89, Canadian-born Ugandan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Kabale.
• Irving Gottesman, 85, American psychologist.
• Holsey G. Handyside, 88, American diplomat.
• Carl Haas, 86, American car racing team owner.
• Stan Harper, 94, American virtuoso harmonica player.
• Jan Hettema, 82, South African Olympic cyclist and rally driver, shot.
• Ojo Maduekwe, 71, Nigerian politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs.
• Frode Nilsen, 92, Norwegian diplomat.
• Veena Sahasrabuddhe, 67, Indian singer and composer.
• Edward L. Salmon Jr., 82, American Episcopal prelate, Bishop of Episcopal [Diocese of South Carolina |South Carolina].
• Douglas W. Schwartz, 86, American archaeologist.
• Vasyl Slipak, 41, Ukrainian opera singer, shot.
• K. G. Subramanyan, 92, Indian artist.
• Arthur Underwood, 88, English cricketer.
• Rob Wasserman, 64, American musician, cancer.
• Xu Jiatun, 100, Chinese politician and dissident, Governor of Jiangsu.

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• Charlie Akers, 76, American Olympic biathlete.
• Ann Cartwright DeCouto, 75, Bermudian politician, Deputy Premier.
• Don Friedman, 81, American jazz pianist.
• Paul T. Gillcrist, 87, American rear admiral.
• Gian Corrado Gross, 74, Italian Olympic swimmer.
• Juan Habichuela, 83, Spanish flamenco guitarist.
• Sir Geoffrey Hill, 84, British poet.
• Quasar Khanh, 82, Vietnamese inventor and designer.
• Al Libous, 88, American politician, Mayor of Binghamton, New York.
• Tupay Loong, 69, Filipino politician, Governor of Sulu, liver cancer.
• Martin Lundström, 98, Swedish cross-country skier, Olympic champion.
• Gordon Murray, 95, British puppeteer and television producer.
• Don Parmley, 82, American bluegrass musician.
• Joe Scott, 90, American football player.
• Robert Squires, 89, British vice admiral.
• Thunder, 34, Australian professional wrestler, stomach cancer.
• Witold Zagórski, 85, Polish basketball player and coach.