Deaths in May 2013
The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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.
May 2013
1
- Martin Kevan, 66, Kenyan-born Canadian film and voice actor and author, cancer.
- Massimo Mollica, 84, Italian actor and stage director.
- Pierre Pleimelding, 60, French football player and manager.
- Henry Hope Reed Jr., 97, American architecture critic.
- Gregory Rogers, 55, Australian children's book writer, cancer.
- Ruby Stone, 89, American politician, member of the Idaho House of Representatives.
- Stuart Wilde, 66, British writer and metaphysical teacher, heart attack.
- Chob Yodkaew, 78, Thai economist and politician, stroke.
2
- Sir Terence Beckett, 89, British businessman, Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry.
- Marcel Bélanger, 92, Canadian academic.
- Roddy Blackjack, 86, Canadian Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation elder and chief, architect of Yukon Land Claims agreement.
- Elbert Crawford, 46, American football offensive lineman, heart attack.
- Mihail Dolgan, 85, Moldovan professor.
- Boris Elik, 83, Canadian ice hockey player.
- Ernie Field, 70, English boxer, cancer.
- Jeff Hanneman, 49, American guitarist, liver failure.
- Ken Lippiatt, 93, Australian rules footballer.
- Joseph P. McFadden, 65, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Harrisburg, heart attack.
- Allen McKay, 86, British politician, MP for Penistone and Barnsley West and Penistone.
- Tancred Melis, 79, South African cricketer.
- Danny Ray Mitchell, 69, American pastor, businessman and politician.
- Dvora Omer, 80, Israeli author, recipient of the Israel Prize.
- Jo Pitt, 34, Scottish paralympic equestrian, pulmonary veno-occlusive disease.
- Bob Rafkin, 69, American singer songwriter, cancer.
- James E. Ramsey, 81, American politician, member of North Carolina House of Representatives, Speaker, complications from a stroke.
- Harry Randall Jr., 86, American politician.
- Sylvester Sanfilippo, 87, American pediatrician.
- Gordon Sherwood, 83, American classical composer.
- Sarabjit Singh, 49, Indian convicted spy, injuries sustained from blunt force trauma.
- Ronald Thresher, 82, English cricketer.
- Ivan Turina, 32, Croatian footballer, cardiac dysrhythmia.
- Selma Urfer, 85, Swiss author and actress.
- Lefteris Voyatzis, 68, Greek theater actor and director, cancer.
- Charles Banks Wilson, 94, American artist.
3
- Joe Astroth, 90, American baseball player.
- Herbert Blau, 87, American theater director, scholar and theorist, sarcomatoid carcinoma of the chest.
- Cedric Brooks, 70, Jamaican musician, cardiac arrest.
- Keith Carter, 88, American Olympic silver medalist swimmer.
- Bruno Chersicla, 75, Italian painter and sculptor.
- Walt Clay, 89, American football player.
- Brad Drewett, 54, Australian tennis player and administrator, ATP Executive Chairman, motor neurone disease.
- David Morris Kern, 103, American pharmacist, developed Orajel to fight toothaches.
- Curtis Rouse, 52, American football player.
- Branko Vukelić, 55, Croatian politician, Minister of Defence, pancreatic cancer.
- Sir David Innes Williams, 93, British paediatric urologist.
4
- Bobbie Banda, 66, American Juaneño elder and activist, stroke.
- Otis Bowen, 95, American politician, Governor of Indiana, Secretary of Health and Human Services.
- Christian de Duve, 95, Belgian cytologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate, euthanasia.
- Javier Diez Canseco, 65, Peruvian politician and sociologist, MP, pancreatic cancer.
- Frederic Franklin, 98, British-born American ballet dancer and director, complications from pneumonia.
- Sylvi Keskinen, 79, Finnish Olympic hurdler.
- Ed Kringstad, 76, American politician, member of the North Dakota Senate.
- Len Legault, 80, Canadian Football League player.
- Alton Lemon, 84, American civil rights activist, Alzheimer's disease.
- Fredric Lieberman, American ethnomusicologist, composer, music professor, and author, cardiac arrest.
- Mario Machado, 78, American news anchor, journalist and actor, Parkinson's disease.
- Jack Makari, 95, Lebanese-American cancer immunologist.
- Sir Morgan Morgan-Giles, 98, British Royal Navy officer and politician, MP for Winchester.
- David Noriega Rodríguez, 68, Puerto Rican politician and lawyer, member of the House of Representatives, pancreatic cancer.
- César Portillo de la Luz, 90, Cuban Filin composer and interpreter.
- Arquímedes Puccio, 83, Argentinian gang leader and serial killer, stroke.
- Jacques Stockman, 74, Belgian footballer.
- John Swaim, 64, American attorney, Pennsylvania state legislator.
- Wilbur Zelinsky, 91, American cultural geographer.
5
- Jürg Amann, 65, Swiss author and dramatist.
- Alan Arnell, 79, English footballer.
- Sir Richard Barratt, 84, British police officer, Chief Inspector of Constabulary.
- Peter Curtis, 83, Australian public servant and diplomat.
- Lotfi Dziri, 67, Tunisian actor.
- Rossella Falk, 86, Italian actress.
- William Havens, 94, American Olympic canoer.
- Grady Hunt, 91, American costume designer.
- Dean Jeffries, 80, American car customizer, painter and stuntman.
- Mazin Abu Kalal, Iraqi politician, bombing.
- Sarah Kirsch, 78, German poet.
- G. X. McSherry, 88, American politician, member of the New Mexico House of Representatives.
- Tore Magnussen, 74, Norwegian boxer.
- Eugene Millerick, 88, American politician, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives.
- Bill Orr, 78, American insurance executive, First Gentleman of Nebraska, COPD.
- Leif Preus, 85, Norwegian photographer, founder of the Preus Museum.
- Greg Quill, 66, Australian roots musician and entertainment critic, pneumonia.
- Robert Ressler, 76, American criminologist.
- Hayri Sezgin, 52, Turkish Olympic wrestler.
- Peu Sousa, 35, Brazilian guitarist and record producer, suicide by hanging.
- Dirk Vekeman, 52, Belgian footballer.
- Helmin Wiels, 54, Curaçaoan politician, leader of Pueblo Soberano in the Estates of Curaçao, shot.
- Menachem Yedid, 95, Israeli politician, member of the Knesset.
6
- Diana Keppel, Dowager Countess of Albemarle, 103, British aristocrat.
- Giulio Andreotti, 94, Italian politician, Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Lifetime Senator.
- Yordan Angelov, 59, Bulgarian Olympic silver medallist volleyball player.
- Severo Aparicio Quispe, 89, Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Cuzco.
- Steve Carney, 55, English footballer, pancreatic cancer.
- Jānis Eglītis, 52, Latvian politician.
- Fatima Grimm, 78, German translator, author and speaker.
- Michel Knuysen, 83, Belgian Olympic silver medallist rower.
- Ian MacLeod, 53, Scottish footballer.
- Esperanza Magaz, 91, Cuban-born Venezuelan television actress, cancer.
- Steve Martland, 58, English composer, heart attack.
- Arnaldo Ninchi, 77, Italian actor, voice actor and basketball player.
- Michelangelo Spensieri, 64, Canadian politician and lawyer, member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Yorkview.
- Anne-Lise Stern, 91, French psychoanalyst and Holocaust survivor.
- Yang Tzuo-chow, 84, Taiwanese politician, MLY.
7
- Al Fritz, 88, American bicycle developer and inventor, complications from a stroke.
- Ray Harryhausen, 92, American stop-motion animator.
- Kozo Igarashi, 87, Japanese politician, member of the House of Representatives, Chief Cabinet Secretary, pneumonia.
- Balbino Jaramillo, 61, Colombian Olympic cyclist.
- Gunnel Johansson, 90, Swedish artistic gymnast.
- Joseba Larrinaga, 45, Spanish Paralympic athlete, traffic collision.
- P. G. Lim, 96, British-born Malaysian diplomat and lawyer, Ambassador to the United Nations, Yugoslavia, Austria and the European Economic Community.
- Ferruccio Mazzola, 65, Italian football player and manager.
- Teri Moïse, 43, American singer, suicide.
- Mark Perakh, 88, American scientist and blogger.
- Peter Rauhofer, 48, Austrian DJ, remixer and record producer, Grammy Award, brain cancer.
- Romanthony, 45, American DJ, record producer and singer, complications from kidney disease.
- Herbert Romerstein, 82, American anti–communist writer.
- Mairuth Sarsfield, 88, Canadian broadcaster and author.
- George Sauer Jr., 69, American football player, heart failure.
- Terezo, 59, Brazilian Olympic footballer.
- Wiktor Tołkin, 91, Polish sculptor and architect.
- Jan Villerius, 74, Dutch footballer, cancer.
- Aubrey Woods, 85, British actor.
8
- Dan Adkins, 76, American comic book artist.
- Jeanne Cooper, 84, American actress.
- Zia Fariduddin Dagar, 80, Indian dhrupad vocalist, musician and maestro.
- Bryan Forbes, 86, British actor, film director and screenwriter.
- Ralph Homan, 84, American politician, member of the South Dakota House of Representatives.
- Brita Malmer, 87, Swedish numismatist.
- Taylor Mead, 88, American writer and actor, stroke.
- Juan José Muñoz, 62, Argentine businessman, President of Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata, renal failure.
- André Sana, 92, Iraqi Chaldean Catholic hierarch, Archbishop of Kirkuk.
- Asaph Schwapp, 26, American football player, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
- Hugh J. Silverman, 67, American philosopher, cancer.
- Géza Vermes, 88, Hungarian-born British theologian and Dead Sea Scrolls scholar, cancer.
- Ken Whaley, 67, British rock musician, lung cancer.
- Dallas Willard, 77, American author and philosopher, cancer.
- Ernie Winchester, 68, Scottish footballer.
9
- Alan Abelson, 87, American financial writer, editor and columnist, heart attack.
- Fred Ashton, 82, American politician, Mayor of Easton, Pennsylvania.
- Ramón Blanco, 61, Spanish football player and manager, cerebral infarction.
- Grete Dollitz, 88, German–born American radio presenter and classical guitarist.
- Sanaullah Haq, 52, Pakistani convict, beaten.
- Patterson Hume, 90, Canadian professor and science educator.
- Bonnie Huy, 77, American politician, member of the Kansas House of Representatives.
- Alfredo Landa, 80, Spanish actor, Alzheimer's disease.
- George M. Leader, 95, American politician, Governor of Pennsylvania.
- Humberto Lugo Gil, 79, Mexican politician, Governor of Hidalgo.
- Dave Lyon, 74, Canadian Olympic track and field coach.
- Ottavio Missoni, 92, Italian fashion designer and Olympic hurdler.
- Paul Tangi Mhova Mkondo, 67, Zimbabwean businessman, cancer.
- Huguette Oligny, 91, Canadian theatre actress.
- Malcolm Shabazz, 28, American Islamist, grandson of Malcolm X, beaten.
- Andrew Simpson, 36, British Olympic champion sailor, catamaran capsize.
- Joseph A. Steger, 76, American psychologist and academic, President of the University of Cincinnati.
- Julia Tashjian, 74, American politician, Secretary of the State of Connecticut, heart attack.
- Sadegh Tirafkan, 47, Iranian contemporary artist, brain cancer.
- Ron Weaver, 75, American Emmy Award-winning television producer.
10
- Félix Agramont Cota, 95, Mexican politician and agricultural engineer, first Governor of Baja California Sur, myocardial infarction.
- Barbara Brenner, 61, American health activist, executive director of Breast Cancer Action, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
- Sir John Bush, 98, British Royal Navy admiral, Commander-in-Chief Western Fleet.
- Barbara Callcott, 66, Australian actress, cancer.
- Malcolm Clarke, 82, British marine biologist.
- Jean Delobel, 80, French politician.
- Vincent Dowling, 83, Irish actor and theatre director, complications following surgery.
- Laurence Haddon, 90, American actor, Lewy body disease.
- Brigitte Kiesler, 88, German Olympic gymnast.
- Aleksey Komarov, 91, Russian Olympic rower.
- Boicho Kokinov, 52, Bulgarian cognitive scientist.
- Hugh Mackay, 14th Lord Reay, 75, British peer, Member of the European Parliament, member of the House of Lords.
- Philippe Malivoire, 70, French rower.
- Per Maurseth, 80, Norwegian historian and politician.
- Malcolm Parkes, 83, English academic.
- John Shea Jr., 84, American politician, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives.
- Wanade, 71, Kenyan television actress, cancer.
- Al-Haj Suliman Yari, 76, Afghan politician.
11
- Johnny Bos, 61, American boxer and author, heart failure.
- Jack Butler, 85, American Hall of Fame football player, complications from a staph infection.
- Emmanuelle Claret, 44, French biathlete, world champion, leukemia.
- Mike Davison, 67, American baseball player.
- Joe Farman, 82, British physicist, identified ozone hole.
- Marianne Ferber, 90, Czech-born American feminist economist and author.
- Doug Finley, 66, Canadian politician, Senator for Ontario, Campaign Director during the 2006 and 2008 elections, colorectal cancer.
- Ollie Mitchell, 86, American big band musician, cancer.
- Arnold Peters, 87, British actor, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
- Lenny Yochim, 84, American baseball player, heart failure.
12
- Judit Ágoston-Mendelényi, 76, Hungarian Olympic champion fencer.
- Samuel Aguilar, 80, Paraguayan footballer.
- Sergei Alexeyev, 88, Russian politician, author of the Constitution of Russia, heart attack.
- Daisy Avellana, 96, Filipino stage actor and director, National Artist of the Philippines for Theater and Film.
- Doug Beasy, 83, Australian football player.
- Olaf B. Bjørnstad, 82, Norwegian ski jumper.
- José García, 82, Chilean Olympic footballer.
- George William Gray, 86, British scientist, recipient of the 1995 Kyoto Prize for Advanced Technology.
- Mr. Kenneth, 86, American hairdresser, recipient of the Coty Award.
- Gerd Langguth, 66, German politician and political scientist.
- Daniel W. LeBlanc, 82, American judge, member of Louisiana Court of Appeals, cancer.
- Toni Linhart, 70, Austrian-born American football player, cancer.
- Julian Malonso, 89, Filipino military man, educator and sports executive, lingering illness.
- Bill Miles, 82, American documentary filmmaker.
- Félix Ramananarivo, 78, Malagasy Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Antsirabe.
- Francesco Renda, 91, Italian historian and politician.
- Constantino Romero, 65, Spanish voice actor, television and radio host, motor neuron disease.
- K. Bikram Singh, 75, Indian filmmaker, complications from liver failure.
- Max Stadler, 64, German politician, member of the Bundestag.
- Kenneth Waltz, 88, American political scientist.
- Peter Worthington, 86, Canadian journalist and editor-in-chief.
13
- Hedda Bolgar, 103, American psychoanalyst.
- André Bord, 90, French politician, Veterans Minister, President of the Alsace Regional Council.
- Joyce Brothers, 85, American psychologist, newspaper columnist, and actress, respiratory failure.
- André Denys, 65, Belgian politician, Governor of East Flanders.
- Dave Everett, 51, Australian criminal, cancer.
- Otto Herrigel, 75, Namibian politician, cancer.
- Enio Iommi, 87, Argentinian sculptor.
- Jill Kitson, 74, Australian radio broadcaster and literary journalist.
- Kennett Love, 88, American journalist, respiratory failure.
- Luciano Lutring, 75, Italian criminal, painter and author.
- Jagdish Mali, 59, Indian fashion photographer, multiple organ failure.
- Chuck Muncie, 60, American football player, heart attack.
- Daniel Offer, 83, American psychiatrist.
- Sir Ellison Pogo, 66, Solomon Islands Anglican primate, Archbishop of Melanesia, lymphoma.
- Lilo Ramdohr, 99, German Resistance fighter, member of the White Rose.
- Vladimir Romanovsky, 56, Soviet Olympic sprint canoer .
- Derrick Thomas, 69, British agricultural researcher, cancer.
- Fyodor Tuvin, 39, Russian footballer.
- Lynne Woolstencroft, 69, Canadian politician, Mayor of Waterloo, Ontario, cancer.
14
- Joy Baluch, 80, Australian politician, Mayor of Port Augusta.
- Wayne Brown, 76, American politician, Mayor of Mesa, Arizona.
- Arsen Chilingaryan, 47, Armenian football player and manager.
- Asghar Ali Engineer, 74, Indian writer and activist.
- Billie Sol Estes, 88, American businessman and convicted con man.
- Ray Guy, 74, Canadian humorist, writer and journalist, cancer.
- Mohammad Ezodin Hosseini Zanjani, 92, Iranian Islamic prelate, Grand Ayatollah, complications from surgery.
- Marian Jeżak, 84, Polish ice hockey player.
- Margaret Rayburn, 86, American politician, member of the Washington House of Representatives.
- Sardar Arif Shahid, Pakistani Kashmiri politician, shot.
- Harvansh Singh, 64, Indian politician, Madhya Pradesh MLA for Keolari, cardiac arrest.
- Ingrid Visser, 35, Dutch Olympic volleyball player, homicide.
- Lubomír Zajíček, 67, Czech Olympic bronze medallist volleyball player.
15
- Nasser al-Rashed, 20, Kuwaiti squash player, heart attack.
- Noelle Barker, 84, British soprano and singing teacher.
- Paddy Buggy, 84, Irish hurler and sport executive, President of the GAA.
- Linden Chiles, 80, American actor, fall.
- Raul Gonzalez, 78, Filipino journalist, Press Secretary for Diosdado Macapagal, cancer.
- Robert Hunt, 77, British police officer.
- Gábor Gellért Kis, 66, Hungarian journalist, MP for Monor.
- Albert Lance, 87, Australian-born French opera singer.
- Thomas M. Messer, 93, Czechoslovak-born American museum director.
- Bill O'Hagan, 68, British journalist and sausage maker.
- Jens Elmegård Rasmussen, 69, Danish linguist and Indo-Europeanist.
- Billy Raymond, 75, Scottish-born Australian entertainer, lung cancer.
- Henrique Rosa, 67, Bissau-Guinean politician, Acting President, lung cancer.
- James Stuart-Smith, 93, British judge and army officer, Advocate General of the Armed Forces.
- Darrell Tryon, 70, New Zealand linguistics professor and Pacific Islands language specialist, melanoma.
- Fred White, 76, American sports broadcaster, complications from melanoma.
- Harold Whitfield, 94, South African cricketer.
16
- Richard Andriamanjato, 82, Malagasy politician.
- Carl Bennett, 97, American basketball executive, coach and GM of Detroit Pistons.
- Félix Bonnat, 92, French bobsledder.
- Kristen Kyrre Bremer, 87, Norwegian theologian and bishop.
- Mario Brescia Cafferata, 83, Peruvian billionaire financial and industrial executive.
- Angelo Errichetti, 84, American politician, Mayor of Camden, New Jersey ; member of the New Jersey Senate.
- Fiona Gore, Countess of Arran, 94, Scottish powerboating racer.
- Geoffrey Gowan, 83, Canadian sports broadcaster and executive, Parkinson's disease.
- Frank Nigel Hepper, 84, English botanist.
- Bryan Illerbrun, 56, Canadian football player.
- Ivar Kallion, 81, Estonian Communist politician, chairman of the executive committee of Tallinn.
- Valtr Komárek, 82, Czech politician, complications following cardiac surgery.
- Frankie Librán, 65, American Puerto Rican baseball player, complications from diabetes.
- Maurice Marshall, 86, New Zealand Olympic middle-distance athlete.
- Heinrich Rohrer, 79, Swiss physicist, Nobel laureate.
- Paul Shane, 72, British actor and comedian.
- Max Schirschin, 92, German football player and manager.
- Dick Trickle, 71, American NASCAR driver, suicide by gunshot.
- Bernard Waber, 88, American children's author, kidney failure.
17
- Dominic Kodwo Andoh, 84, Ghanaian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Accra, heart-related ailment.
- Philippe Gaumont, 40, French Olympic racing cyclist, heart failure.
- John Goddard, 88, American adventurer, cancer.
- Penne Hackforth-Jones, 63, American-born Australian actress, lung cancer.
- Elijah Harper, 64, Canadian Cree politician and band chief, Manitoba MLA for Rupertsland, MP for Churchill, heart failure.
- Jack Hawkins, 96, American Marine Corps officer.
- Lola Hendricks, 80, American activist.
- Tauatomo Mairau, French Polynesian royal claimant.
- Alan O'Day, 72, American singer-songwriter, brain cancer.
- Jérôme Reehuis, 73, Dutch actor.
- Colin A. Russell, 84, British historian.
- Peter Schulz, 83, German politician, First Mayor of Hamburg.
- Albert Seedman, 94, American police officer.
- Harold Shapero, 93, American composer and pianist, complications from pneumonia.
- Taronda Spencer, 54, American archivist, heart attack.
- Sir Rodney Sweetnam, 86, British surgeon, President of the Royal College of Surgeons.
- Anthony Trickett, 73, British doctor, Lord Lieutenant of Orkney.
- Don Tonry, 77, American Olympic gymnast.
- Ken Venturi, 82, American golfer and golf analyst, winner of the U.S. Open, World Golf Hall of Fame inductee, multiple infections.
- Jorge Rafael Videla, 87, Argentine military lieutenant general and politician, President, complications from a fall.
18
- Aleksei Balabanov, 54, Russian filmmaker, seizure.
- Jo Benkow, 88, Norwegian writer and politician, President of the Parliament.
- Isabel Benham, 103, American railroad businesswoman.
- Neil Chrisley, 81, American baseball player.
- Steve Forrest, 87, American actor.
- Zahra Shahid Hussain, 69, Pakistani politician, shot.
- Marek Jackowski, 66, Polish rock musician.
- Ernst Klee, 71, German historian and writer.
- Arthur Malet, 85, English actor.
- Max, 29, beagle, dachshund and terrier mix, world's oldest dog, Tonic–clonic seizure.
- David McMillan, 31, American football player, shot.
- Nam Duck-woo, 89, South Korean politician, Prime Minister, testicular cancer.
- Newton Russell, 85, American politician, member of the California State Assembly and California Senate, lung cancer.
- Lothar Schmid, 85, German chess grandmaster.
- Harold Sossen, 88, American businessman.
- Claramae Turner, 92, American opera singer.
19
- Sasanka Chandra Bhattacharyya, 94, Indian natural product chemist.
- Leonard Erickson, 66, American oncologist.
- Bella Flores, 84, Filipino actress, complications from hip surgery.
- G. Sarsfield Ford, 79, American judge, member of the Connecticut Supreme Court.
- Michael Kpakala Francis, 77, Liberian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Monrovia.
- Leonard Harbin, 98, Trinidad cricketer.
- Robin Harrison, 80, Canadian pianist and composer, heart attack.
- Vuyo Mbuli, 46, South African television personality and news presenter, pulmonary embolism.
- Carlo Monni, 69, Italian character actor.
- Murat Öztürk, 60, Turkish aerobatics pilot, plane crash.
- Neil Reynolds, 72, Canadian newspaper editor, cancer.
- Mirek Smíšek, 88, Czech-born New Zealand potter.
- Ally Sykes, 86, Tanzanian politician.
- Franklin White, 90, British ballet dancer.
- Alexey Dobrovolsky, 74, Russian ideologue of neo-paganism.
20
- Yohanan Cohen, 95, Israeli politician and diplomat.
- Dave Costa, 71, American football player.
- Flavio Costantini, 86, Italian artist.
- Billie Dawe, 88, Canadian ice hockey player.
- Anders Eliasson, 66, Swedish composer.
- Ari Huumonen, 57, Finnish discus thrower.
- Miloslav Kříž, 88, Czech basketball player and coach.
- Ray Manzarek, 74, American rock musician, bile duct cancer.
- Jevan Maseko, 70, Zimbabwean military officer, Governor of Matabeleland North Province, Ambassador to Algeria, Russia and Cuba, diabetes and kidney failure.
- Idriss Ndélé Moussa, 54, Chadian politician, President of Pan African Parliament, traffic collision.
- Sir Denys Roberts, 90, British colonial official and judge, Chief Justice of Hong Kong.
- Harry Schuh, 70, American football player.
- Zach Sobiech, 18, American pop singer and viral video performer, osteosarcoma.
- Dominik Sucheński, 86, Polish Olympic sprinter.
21
- Trevor Bolder, 62, British musician, cancer.
- Antoine Bourseiller, 82, French comedian and opera director.
- Eddie Braben, 82, British comedy writer.
- Evelyne Bradley, 88, American Navajo judge, District Court judge.
- Robert Chambers, 59, New Zealand judge, member of the Supreme Court.
- Frank Comstock, 90, American composer.
- Cot Deal, 90, American baseball player.
- Peter Ellis, 66, Australian football player.
- Zsolt Erőss, 45, Hungarian mountaineer.
- Mick Grambeau, 83, Australian rules footballer.
- Mohammad Khaled Hossain, 34, Bangladeshi mountaineer and film director.
- Keith Jukes, 59, English Anglican clergyman, Dean of Ripon, stomach cancer.
- Harold Long, 72, Canadian politician, British Columbia MLA for Mackenzie and Powell River-Sunshine Coast, plane crash.
- Louis de Cartier de Marchienne, 91, Belgian baron and businessman.
- Hank Kozloski, 85, American sportswriter.
- Leonard Marsh, 80, American beverage executive, co-founder of Snapple.
- Vernon McGarity, 91, American soldier, recipient of the Medal of Honor.
- Fred Mitchell, 89, American artist.
- Edna Moyle, 71, Caymanian politician, MLA for North Side, Speaker, cancer.
- Charley Reese, 76, American newspaper columnist, respiratory failure.
- Count Christian of Rosenborg, 70, Danish royal.
- Anand Shetty, 52, Indian sprinter, car accident.
- Mykola Simkaylo, 60, Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Kolomyia – Chernivtsi.
- Bob Thompson, 88, American composer and orchestra leader.
- Dominique Venner, 78, French historian, journalist and essayist, suicide by gunshot.
22
- Bill Austin, 84, American football player, coach.
- Dick Barry, 87, American politician, member of the Tennessee House of Representatives, Speaker.
- Wayne Cottrell, 69, New Zealand rugby union player.
- Henri Dutilleux, 97, French composer.
- Andrea Gallo, 84, Italian presbyter.
- Brian Greenhoff, 60, English footballer.
- Sarah P. Harkness, 98, American architect.
- Usha Rani Hooja, 90, Indian sculptor.
- William Douglas Lansford, 90, American writer.
- Elizabeth Mavor, 85, British writer.
- Mick McManus, 93, English professional wrestler.
- Wayne F. Miller, 94, American photographer.
- Lawrence Pope, 73, American politician and academic, member of the Iowa House of Representatives, renal cancer.
- Éric Remacle, 52, Belgian scientist.
- Pat Shea, 73, American football player.
- Sigurd Schmidt, 91, Russian historian and ethnographer.
- Richard Thorp, 81, English actor.
- Ibragim Todashev, 27, Chechen–born American mixed martial artist, shot.
- Teruto Tsubota, 90, American marine.
23
- John Antonio, 83, American advertising executive, created Clemson University tiger paw logo, cancer.
- William Demby, 90, American writer.
- Dick Evey, 72, American football player.
- Richard G. Fallon, 89, American academic and theatre director.
- Lenin Gani, 45, Bangladeshi sports journalist, pulmonary hypertension.
- Epy Guerrero, 71, Dominican Major League Baseball scout, kidney failure.
- Hazel Hawke, 83, Australian social activist and National Treasure, first wife of Prime Minister Bob Hawke, complications of dementia.
- Harry L. Harris, 86, American politician.
- In Excess, 26, Irish-born American Thoroughbred racehorse.
- J. Christopher Jaffe, 85, American acoustical engineer.
- Hayri Kozakçıoğlu, 75, Turkish politician, shot.
- Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse, 86, German prince and Head of the House of Hesse.
- William J. Lashua, 92, American World War II veteran.
- Michael Lev, 95, Ukrainian-born Israeli writer.
- Georges Moustaki, 79, Egyptian-born French singer and songwriter.
- Gerry Peacocke, 81, Australian politician, NSW MLA for Dubbo.
- Flynn Robinson, 72, American basketball player, multiple myeloma.
- Brian Sternberg, 69, American pole vaulter, quadriplegic complications.
- Jim Zabel, 91, American sports broadcaster.
- Luis Zuloaga, 90, Venezuelan baseball player.
24
- Françoise Blanchard, 58, French actress.
- Elsa Bornemann, 61, Argentine children's writer.
- Helmut Braunlich, 84, American composer.
- Michel Crozier, 90, French sociologist.
- Ron Davies, 70, Welsh footballer Norwich, Southampton.
- John F. Dolan, 90, American politician.
- Gabriel Fernandez, 8, American child murder victim.
- Gotthard Graubner, 82, German painter.
- Huang Yu, 96, Chinese film director, screenwriter and actor.
- Haynes Johnson, 81, American journalist, winner of Pulitzer Prize, heart attack.
- Yevgeny Kychanov, 80, Russian orientalist.
- John Lucas, 92, British Army officer.
- Lorene Mann, 76, American country music singer and songwriter.
- Arnoldo Martínez Verdugo, 88, Mexican politician.
- Godwin Mawuru, 52, Zimbabwean filmmaker and television producer, complications from diabetes.
- John Miles, 90, American Negro league baseball player.
- Sir Garth Morrison, 70, British scouter, Chief Scout.
- Ralph Perlman, 96, American public official, Louisiana budget director.
- Antonio Puchades, 87, Spanish footballer, Alzheimer's disease.
- Ed Shaughnessy, 84, American drummer, heart attack.
- Rob Smith, 61, Australian footballer.
- John Sumner, 88, Australian founder and artistic director of the Melbourne Theatre Company.
- Pyotr Todorovsky, 87, Ukrainian-born Russian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer, heart attack.
- Tripura, 84, Indian writer.
- Erling Welle-Strand, 96, Norwegian writer and resistance member.
25
- Mohammed Rashad Abdulle, 79, Ethiopian academic.
- Gordon Berg, 85, American politician, member of the North Dakota House of Representatives.
- Harry Birrell, 85, American radio news broadcaster, interstitial lung disease.
- Tyrone Brunson, 57, American musician.
- Walt Budko, 87, American basketball player.
- Gene Burns, 72, American political radio broadcaster and food critic, complications from a stroke.
- Paul Cuprowski, 73, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly.
- Larry Johnson, 62, American baseball player.
- Mahendra Karma, 62, Indian political leader, founder of Salwa Judum, shot.
- Jan Kinder, 68, Norwegian Olympic ice hockey player.
- Marshall Lytle, 79, American rock and roll musician, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, lung cancer.
- Uday Mudliyar, Indian politician, Chhattisgarh MLA for Rajnandgaon, shot.
- Nand Kumar Patel, 59, Indian politician, Chhattisgarh MLA for Kharsia, shot.
- Ronald Payne, 87, British journalist and war correspondent.
- T. M. Soundararajan, 91, Indian playback singer.
- Jimmy Wray, 78, British politician, MP for Glasgow Provan and Glasgow Baillieston.
- Lewis Yocum, 66, American orthopedist, specialist in Tommy John surgery, liver cancer.
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- Ray Barnhart, 85, American businessman and politician, Director of the Federal Highway Administration.
- John Bierwirth, 89, American aircraft executive, Chairman of Grumman.
- Roberto Civita, 76, Italian-born Brazilian businessman, CEO of Grupo Abril, heart failure.
- Mbuya Dyoko, 68, Zimbabwean musician, cirrhosis.
- Héctor Garza, 43, Mexican professional wrestler, lung cancer.
- Graham Leggett, 92, British RAF squadron leader, youngest surviving pilot of the Battle of Britain.
- Tom Lichtenberg, 72, American football coach, cancer.
- Charles M. McGowan, 89, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
- Otto Muehl, 87, Austrian painter and activist, Parkinson's disease and cardiac ailment.
- José María Pérez Gay, 70, Mexican journalist, academic and diplomat, Ambassador to Portugal, National Journalism Prize.
- Happy Pieterse, 70, South African boxer, complications of diabetes.
- Martha Nelson Thomas, 62, American folk artist, ovarian cancer.
- Jack Vance, 96, American science fiction author.
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- György Bárdy, 92, Hungarian actor.
- Jean Bach, 94, American filmmaker.
- Nazmiye Demirel, 86, Turkish first lady, wife of Süleyman Demirel, Alzheimer's disease.
- Cullen Finnerty, 30, American football player, pneumonia.
- Steven Klepper, 64, American economist.
- Muttanisseril Koyakutty, 86, Indian Islamic scholar and writer.
- Little Tony, 72, Italian-born Sammarinese pop singer and actor, lung cancer.
- Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri, 96, Indian politician.
- Bill Pertwee, 86, British radio and television actor and author.
- Abdoulaye Sékou Sow, 83, Malian politician, Prime Minister.
- Giacomo Soffiantino, 84, Italian painter and artist.
- Beverley Taylor Sorenson, 89, American education philanthropist.
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- Silvério Paulo de Albuquerque, 96, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Caetité and Feira de Santana.
- Eddi Arent, 88, German actor.
- Nino Bibbia, 91, Italian Olympic skeleton racer and bobsledder.
- Robert Chalmers, 67, South African cricketer.
- Abigail Heyman, 70, American feminist journalist, heart failure.
- Viktor Kulikov, 91, Russian military officer, Marshal of the Soviet Union, Warsaw Pact commander-in-chief.
- R. Travis Osborne, 99, American psychologist and professor emeritus.
- Fotis Polymeris, 93, Greek musician.
- William Earl Reid, 78, Canadian politician, Minister of Tourism for British Columbia.
- Eddie Romero, 88, Filipino film director, blood clot and prostate cancer.
- Gerd Schmückle, 95, German general.
- Caesar Trunzo, 87, American politician, member of the New York Senate.
- Masuko Ushioda, 71, Japanese violinist, acute leukemia.
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- Werner Andermatt, 96, Swiss painter.
- Ramón Aguirre Suárez, 68, Argentine footballer.
- Richard Ballantine, 72, British cycling writer.
- Nino Baragli, 88, Italian film editor.
- Donald Bevan, 93, American author.
- Mike Carrell, 69, American politician, member of the Washington House and Washington State Senate, myelodysplastic syndrome.
- Juan Américo Díaz, 68, Bolivian footballer.
- Jabulani Dube, Zimbabwean politician, MP-elect for Insiza South.
- Andrew Greeley, 85, American Roman Catholic priest, author and columnist, complications from skull fracture.
- Mamman Kontagora, 69, Nigerian military officer and politician.
- Cliff Meely, 65, American basketball player, blood infection.
- Mulgrew Miller, 57, American jazz pianist, stroke.
- Henry Morgentaler, 90, Polish-born Canadian physician, abortion advocate, Holocaust survivor, heart attack.
- Franca Rame, 83, Italian theatre actress, playwright, political activist, and wife of Dario Fo.
- Dame Margaret Shields, 71, New Zealand politician, MP for Kapiti, dementia and Parkinson's disease.
- Ludwig G. Strauss, 63, German physician and academic, cancer.
- Wali-ur-Rehman, 42, Pakistani Taliban militant, military action.
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- Dean Brooks, 96, American physician and actor.
- Elliot del Borgo, 74, American composer.
- Michael Baillie, 3rd Baron Burton, 88, British aristocrat.
- Harold A. Carter, 76, American pastor, cancer.
- Güzin Dino, 102, Turkish literary scholar.
- Raymond Evans, 92, United States Coast Guardsman.
- Rituparno Ghosh, 49, Indian filmmaker, cardiac arrest.
- Ted Gorin, 89, Welsh professional footballer.
- Helen Hanft, 79, American actress, intestinal complications.
- Arquímedes Herrera, 77, Venezuelan Olympic track and field athlete.
- Tamás Homonnay, 87, Hungarian Olympic athlete.
- Jayalath Jayawardena, 59, Sri Lankan politician, physician and human rights campaigner, heart disease.
- Larry Jones, 79, American football player and coach.
- Kyprianos Koutsoumpas, 78, Greek Orthodox hierarch, Metropolitan of Oropos and Fili, President of Synod of the Old Calendarist Church of Greece, stroke.
- Vina Mazumdar, 86, Indian academic and women's activist, lung tumour.
- Andrzej Nowak, 57, Polish ice hockey player.
- Péter Szilágyi, 59, Hungarian conductor and politician, MP for Berettyóújfalu.
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- Mufti Abdullah, 82, Pakistani politician, Gilgit-Baltistan MLA for Khaplu.
- Eelco van Asperen, 48, Dutch computer scientist.
- Jeff Berry, 64, American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan leader, lung cancer.
- Gerald E. Brown, 86, American theoretical physicist.
- Elvin Feltner, 83, American broadcaster and film producer.
- Abir Goswami, 38, Indian television actor, heart attack.
- Tommy Henderson, 85, English footballer.
- Jeffrey Hunker, 56, American cyber security expert and academic.
- Frederic Lindsay, 79, Scottish novelist.
- Miguel Méndez, 82, American author.
- Jairo Mora, 26, Costa Rican environmentalist, shot.
- Richie Phillips, 72, American baseball umpire union official, cardiac arrest.
- Marta Romero, 85, American Puerto Rican actress and singer.
- Tim Samaras, 55, American tornado chaser, crushed vehicle tornado injuries.
- Jean Stapleton, 90, American actress, Emmy winner.