Deaths in May 2023

May 2023

1

• Per Åhlin, 91, Swedish animator.
• Lotta Bouvin-Sundberg, 63, Swedish journalist and news presenter, cancer.
• Dick Burwell, 83, American baseball player.
• M. Chandran, 76, Indian politician, Kerala MLA.
• Felipe Colares, 29, Brazilian mixed martial artist, traffic collision.
• Moustafa Darwish, 43, Egyptian actor.
• Calvin Davis, 51, American hurdler, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Andrew Delaplaine, 73, American novelist and screenwriter, stomach cancer.
• John Dunmore, 99, French-born New Zealand academic, historian and author.
• Llambi Gegprifti, 81, Albanian politician, mayor of Tirana.
• Paul Giambarba, 94, American graphic designer and cartoonist.
• Gordon Lightfoot, 84, Canadian Hall of Fame singer-songwriter.
• Jordan Neely, 30, American subway passenger, compression of the neck.
• G. R. Perera, 83, Sri Lankan actor.
• Pugh Rogefeldt, 76, Swedish musician, complications from corticobasal degeneration.
• Eileen Saki, 79, Japanese-American actress, cancer.
• Marshall S. Smith, 85, American educator.
• Everett M. Snortland, 86, American politician, member of the Montana House of Representatives.
• Brendan Walsh, 50, Irish hurler.
• Duncan Wright, 82, Australian footballer.

2

• Khader Adnan, 45, Palestinian activist, hunger strike.
• Eugeniusz Bedeniczuk, 62, Polish Olympic triple jumper.
• Matahi Brothers, 62, French Polynesian businessman.
• Barbara Bryne, 94, British-American actress.
• Gabrielle Carey, 64, Australian author.
• Alice Coleman, 99, British geographer.
• Charles Engola, 64, Ugandan politician, MP, shot.
• Heidy Forster, 92, Swiss-German actress.
• Arun Manilal Gandhi, 89, Indian-American author and political activist.
• Christian Larièpe, 63, French footballer and sporting director, malaria.
• Mzwandile Masala, 85, South African politician, MNA, ambassador to Zambia.
• Sid Ali Mazif, 79, Algerian film director.
• Albert Narath, 90, German-born American chemist.
• Frank Phillips, 90, Australian golfer.
• Mike Pinner, 89, English footballer.
• Ruth Porta, 66, Spanish politician, senator.
• Michael Roskin, 84, American political scientist.
• Souli Sabah, 91, Greek singer and actress.
• Guido Sacconi, 74, Italian politician, MEP.
• Damir Šolman, 74, Croatian basketball player, Olympic silver medallist.
• Achmad Sujudi, 82, Indonesian physician, minister of health.
• Giovanni Urbinati, 76, Italian ceramist and sculptor.
• Valentin Yudashkin, 59, Russian fashion designer, kidney cancer.

3

• Asia Abdelmajid, 80, Sudanese actress and teacher, shot.
• Lance Blanks, 56, American basketball player and general manager, suicide.
• Bear F. Braumoeller, 55, American political scientist.
• Dean Corren, 67, American politician, member of the Vermont House of Representatives, heart attack.
• Alessandro D'Alatri, 68, Italian film director, screenwriter and actor.
• Gustaf Douglas, 85, Swedish aristocrat and investment executive, founder of Investment AB Latour and member of the IVA.
• John Edmunds, 94, British television presenter and academic.
• Allan Gyngell, 75, Australian public servant and diplomat.
• Kabir Hossain, 84, Bangladeshi politician, MP.
• Razie Jachya, 92, Indonesian politician, governor of Bengkulu.
• Josef Jařab, 85, Czech academic, rector of Palacký University Olomouc and senator.
• Howard Krongard, 82, American Hall of Fame lacrosse player, attorney, and government official, inspector general of the Department of State, cancer.
• Ronald Rene Lagueux, 91, American jurist, judge of the U.S. District Court for Rhode Island.
• Bernard Lapasset, 75, French rugby union administrator, chairman of the International Rugby Board, Alzheimer's disease.
• Josef Lenz, 88, German luger.
• Linda Lewis, 72, English singer-songwriter.
• Manobala, 69, Indian film director and actor, liver failure.
• Vicky Neale, 39, British mathematician, cancer.
• Michael O'Halloran, 86, Irish politician and trade unionist, Lord Mayor of Dublin.
• Francisco Paesa, 87, Spanish spy, banker and businessman.
• Roland Pattillo, 89, American physician.
• Carl Reissigl, 98, Austrian politician, member and president of the Landtag of Tyrol.
• Don Short, 90, British writer and journalist, heart failure.
• Franc Škerlj, 81, Slovenian Olympic cyclist.
• Tony Staley, 83, Australian politician, MP, minister for the Capital Territory and post and telecommunications.
• Jasmin Stavros, 68, Croatian pop musician.
• Muhammad Taufik, 66, Indonesian politician, member and deputy speaker of the Jakarta Regional People's Representative Council, lung cancer.
• Gail Tremblay, 77, American writer and artist.
• Nikica Valentić, 72, Croatian politician, prime minister.
• Neil Wheelwright, 90, American college football coach.

4

• Sir John Aird, 4th Baronet, 83, British aristocrat and businessman.
• Joop van den Berg, 81, Dutch politician, MP.
• Robert Carswell, Baron Carswell, 88, Northern Irish jurist, lord chief justice.
• Bruce Childs, 88, Australian politician, senator.
• Henri Coulonges, 86, French writer.
• John C. Cushman III, 82, American real estate executive, national president of the Boy Scouts.
• Rafael Guillén, 90, Spanish poet, stroke.
• Stewart Harris, 74, American songwriter.
• Iain Johnstone, 80, English author, broadcaster and television producer.
• Frank Keefe, 85, American swimming coach.
• Petr Klíma, 58, Czech ice hockey player, Stanley Cup champion.
• Hans-Jörg Krüger, 81, German Olympic basketball player.
• Rob Laakso, 44, American musician, cholangiocarcinoma.
• Karaikudi Mani, 77, Indian mridangam player.
• Bill Mondt, 88, American college football player and coach.
• Achmad Mubarok, 77, Indonesian academic and politician, MP.
• Rifat Rastoder, 72, Montenegrin politician, writer, and journalist, acting president.
• Chris Reynolds, 63, Welsh comics author.
• Tom Spencer, 75, British politician, MEP, progressive supranuclear palsy.
• Michael Squire, 77, British architect.
• Georgi Stoykovski, 81, Bulgarian Olympic triple jumper.
• Diane Stratas, 90, Canadian politician, MP.
• Terry Vaughn, 50, American soccer referee, complications from Huntington's disease.
• Robert E. Wade, 89, Canadian politician, mayor of Hamilton.

5

• Martti Aiha, 70, Finnish sculptor.
• Valeriy Baranov, 66, Ukrainian politician, MP, governor of Zaporizhzhia Oblast.
• Gloria Belle, 83, American bluegrass vocalist and musician.
• Fortunato Benavides, 76, American jurist, judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
• Ilse Buding, 83, Romanian-born German tennis player.
• Richard E. Carver, 85, American politician, SAF/FM, mayor of Peoria, Illinois and president of the USCM.
• Michel Cordes, 77, French actor, author and stage director, suicide by gunshot.
• Samuel T. Durrance, 79, American astronaut, complications from a fall.
• Gary Finch, 79, American politician, member of the New York State Assembly.
• George Fouché, 57, South African racecar driver, complications from a fall.
• Haidar Haidar, 87, Syrian novelist.
• Arsenio Iglesias, 92, Spanish football player and manager.
• Marc Jeuniau, 95, Belgian sports journalist.
• Terry Lewis, 95, Australian convicted corrupt police officer, commissioner of the Queensland Police Force.
• Christopher William Long, 85, British diplomat, ambassador to Switzerland, Egypt and Hungary.
• Jesús Mancha, 81, Spanish politician, senator, deputy.
• Fozi el-Mardi, 69–70, Sudanese football player, coach, and administrator.
• Bruce McCall, 87, Canadian author and illustrator, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Brian McKenna, 77, Canadian filmmaker and producer.
• Pauline Newstone, 79, Canadian actress.
• Carlos Padilla, 78, Filipino politician, three-time member of the House of Representatives, governor of Nueva Vizcaya, heart attack.
• Mary Price, 79, English lawn bowler.
• Siiri Rantanen, 98, Finnish cross-country skier, Olympic champion.
• Gerald Rose, 87, British illustrator.
• Robert C. Shinn Jr., 85, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly and commissioner of the NJDEP.
• Amy Silverstein, 59, American writer, cancer.
• Philippe Sollers, 86, French writer and literary critic, founder of Tel Quel and L'Infini, subject of Writer Sollers.
• Chris Strachwitz, 91, American record company founder and executive.
• Beverly Torok-Storb, 75, American physician.
• Sophia Vari, 82–83, Greek painter and sculptor.
• Ján Vilikovský, 85, Slovak translator and diplomat, ambassador to the United Kingdom.
• Brian Warner, 83, British-South African astronomer.
• Jack Wilkins, 78, American jazz guitarist.
• Ian Witten, 76, English-born New Zealand computer scientist.

6

• Pietro Barucci, 100, Italian architect and urban planner.
• Ivan Bizjak, 67, Slovenian mathematician and politician, minister of the interior and of justice.
• Vida Blue, 73, American baseball player, three-time World Series champion.
• Anthony Cartwright, 82, New Zealand cricketer.
• Habib Chaab, 49, Iranian-Swedish political activist, founder of the ASMLA, execution by hanging.
• Jim Copeland, 84, Canadian football player.
• Sam Gross, 89, American cartoonist.
• Norman Hill, 87, English cricketer.
• Hadley Hinds, 76, Barbadian Olympic sprinter.
• Tom Hornbein, 92, American mountaineer.
• Derek Keating, 67, Irish politician, TD.
• Ulrich F. Kocks, 93, German-born American physicist.
• Frank Kozik, 61, American artist and graphic designer.
• Marc Lalonde, 93, Canadian politician, MP, minister of finance and justice.
• Néstor Matamala, 82, Chilean football manager.
• Eugeniusz Matyjas, 71, Polish politician, voivode of Leszno Voivodeship.
• Newton N. Minow, 97, American attorney, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, heart attack.
• Paulus Moa, 82, Indonesian bureaucrat and politician, regent of Sikka.
• Raimo Partanen, 82, Finnish Olympic skier.
• Hanna Fenichel Pitkin, 91, German-born American political theorist.
• Gary Prado Salmón, 84, Bolivian military officer and diplomat, ambassador to Mexico.
• Menahem Pressler, 99, German-born Israeli-American pianist.
• Erika Raue, 85, German Olympic javelin thrower.
• Petruška Šustrová, 75, Czech dissident, journalist, and translator.
• Gianluca Tonetti, 56, Italian road racing cyclist, heart attack.
• Nabeesa Ummal, 92, Indian politician, Kerala MLA.
• Joe Young, 89, Irish Gaelic footballer and hurler.

7

• David Albiston, 78, Australian footballer.
• Jerry Armstrong, 86, American Olympic boxer, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Ingrid Arvidsson, 103, Swedish poet, author, and diplomat.
• Balarama, 67, Indian elephant.
• Byrna Barclay, 82, Canadian writer and editor.
• Albert Borgmann, 85, German-born American philosopher.
• Gail Bromley, 72–73, English botanist.
• Grace Bumbry, 86, American operatic mezzo-soprano, complications from a stroke.
• Soňa Červená, 97, Czech operatic mezzo-soprano.
• Ralph Cotterill, 91, Australian actor.
• Lindsay Crocker, 64, New Zealand cricketer and sports administrator.
• Viktor Djalilov, 71, Uzbek football player and manager.
• Jay P. Dolan, 87, American historian and priest.
• Vladimir Dybo, 92, Russian linguist, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
• Ray Fortin, 82, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Aase Foss Abrahamsen, 92, Norwegian writer.
• Larry Foster, 85, American baseball player.
• Hassan Idrissi, 46, Belgian politician, Walloon deputy, suicide.
• Don January, 93, American golfer, PGA Championship winner.
• Deacon Jones, 89, American baseball player and coach.
• Seán Keane, 76, Irish fiddler.
• James Kerr, 82, American Olympic fencer.
• Jan Klein, 87, Czech-American immunologist.
• Larry Mahan, 79, American Hall of Fame rodeo cowboy, subject of The Great American Cowboy.
• Patrick J. McGrath, 77, Irish Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of San Francisco, coadjutor bishop and bishop of San José in California.
• Yaseen Akhtar Misbahi, 69, Indian Islamic scholar.
• Saint Obi, 57, Nigerian actor and film producer.
• Palmirinha Onofre, 91, Brazilian television chef and presenter.
• Filippo Ottoni, 84, Italian film director, screenwriter and dubbing director.
• John Roland, 81, American news presenter, complications from a stroke.
• Fred Siegel, 78, American historian and conservative writer.
• Boris Sket, 86, Slovenian zoologist and speleobiologist.
• Vic Stasiuk, 93, Canadian ice hockey player and coach, Stanley Cup champion.
• Ronald Steel, 92, American author and biographer.
• Alexandros Varitimiadis, 28, Greek basketball player, cancer.
• Bobby Wilson, 57, American football player.
• Myron Worobec, 78, Austrian-born American soccer player.
• Peter Zeindler, 89, Swiss journalist, writer, and playwright.

8

• Tinagaran Baskeran, 32, Malaysian footballer, bone cancer.
• K. Patricia Cross, 97, American education scholar.
• Kemal Derviş, 74, Turkish economist and politician, minister of economic affairs and administrator of the UNDP.
• Sergey Dreyden, 81, Russian actor.
• Wilfried Erdmann, 83, German sailor and author.
• Sidney Fraleigh, 92, Canadian politician, MP.
• Vern Holtgrave, 80, American baseball player.
• Joe Kapp, 85, American Hall of Fame football player, coach and executive.
• Rita Lee, 75, Brazilian singer, lung cancer.
• Vishwanath Mahadeshwar, 63, Indian politician, mayor of Mumbai.
• Samaresh Majumdar, 79, Indian writer, complications from COPD.
• Erzsi Máthé, 95, Hungarian actress.
• Neil Matthews, 56, English footballer, cancer.
• Jorge Niosi, Argentine-born Canadian academic.
• Benito Pavoni, 86, Italian politician, deputy.
• Robert L. Peters, 68, Canadian graphic designer.
• Stanton Samenow, 81, American psychologist and writer.
• Jerzy Szteliga, 69, Polish politician, MP.
• Pema Tseden, 53, Chinese film director, heart attack.
• Iranian blasphemers, hanged:
• *Yousef Mehrdad
• *Sadrollah Fazeli Zare

9

• Heather Armstrong, 47, American blogger, suicide by gunshot.
• John Bland, 77, South African golfer.
• Antonio Carbajal, 93, Mexican football player and manager.
• Denny Crum, 86, American Hall of Fame basketball coach.
• Edward Cullen, 90, American Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Philadelphia and bishop of Allentown.
• Josef Ehmer, 74, Austrian historian.
• Blanche Gates, 105, Canadian Anglican liturgist.
• Nurul Islam, 94, Bangladeshi economist.
• Ludwig Koenen, 92, German-born American papyrologist and classical philologist.
• Anna Kolbrún Árnadóttir, 53, Icelandic politician, member of the Althing.
• Liudmila Kovnatskaya, 82, Russian musicologist.
• Jerome B. Lammers, 85, American politician.
• Sir Richard Lawson, 95, British general, commander-in-chief of AFNORTH.
• Wilferd Madelung, 92, German-British author and scholar of Islamic history.
• Mohan Maharishi, 83, Indian theatre director and playwright.
• Eric McCormack, 85, Scottish-born Canadian author.
• David Miranda, 37, Brazilian politician, deputy, gastrointestinal infection.
• Moon Fun Chin, 110, Taiwanese-American supercentenarian, last surviving CNAC pilot.
• Jon Povey, 80, English drummer and keyboardist.
• Terje Rafdal, 58, Norwegian Paralympic wheelchair curler.
• Joaquin Romaguera, 90, American tenor and actor.
• Allan Sobocinski, 91, Brazilian Olympic sport shooter.
• Arman Soldin, 32, Bosnian-born French journalist, rocket explosion.
• Carl F. Ullrich, 94, American rowing coach and academic administrator.
• Günter Wewel, 88, German operatic bass and television presenter.
• Tadayoshi Yokota, 75, Japanese volleyball player, Olympic champion.
• Jacklyn Zeman, 70, American actress, cancer.

10

• Utz Aichinger, 84, German Olympic field hockey player.
• Carlos Jesús Patricio Baladrón Valdés, 78, Cuban Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of San Cristóbal de la Habana and bishop of Guantánamo-Baracoa.
• Hugo Burge, 51, British businessman.
• Massimo Cavezzali, 73, Italian comic book artist.
• Rosemary Crossley, 78, Australian author.
• Vandana Das, 22, Indian surgeon, stabbed.
• Mike Feldman, 95, Canadian politician, Toronto city councillor and deputy mayor of Toronto.
• Ed Flanagan, 79, American football player.
• Virginia von Fürstenberg, 48, Italian artist, poet and fashion designer, fall.
• Ian Hacking, 87, Canadian philosopher and author.
• Rolf Harris, 93, Australian entertainer, singer, and convicted sex offender, neck cancer.
• Donald Kirkland, 61, American lieutenant general.
• Gioacchino Lanza Tomasi, 89, Italian musicologist.
• Loonkito, 19, Kenyan lion, speared.
• Jan Lundin, 80, Swedish Olympic swimmer.
• Russ Nicholson, British illustrator.
• Colette Nucci, 73, French actress and director, cancer.
• Enrico Oldoini, 77, Italian film director and screenwriter, complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Thelston Payne, 66, Barbadian cricketer, pancreatic cancer.
• Metello Savino, 59, Italian Olympic swimmer.
• Arne Strand, 79, Norwegian journalist, cancer.
• Sun Jiulin, 85, Chinese engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
• Martin Wiehle, 96, German historian.
• Albert Zwaveling, 95, Dutch surgeon.

11

• András Adorján, 73, Hungarian chess grandmaster and author.
• Kenneth Anger, 96, American filmmaker and writer.
• Ana Paula Borgo, 29, Brazilian volleyball player, stomach cancer.
• Nedeljko Bulatović, 84, Serbian footballer.
• Hodding Carter III, 88, American journalist and spokesman, U.S. State Department spokesperson.
• Leon Comber, 101, British military officer and author.
• Stanley Engerman, 87, American economist and historian, myelodysplastic syndrome.
• Joe A. Garcia, 70, American indigenous political activist and musician, president of the National Congress of American Indians.
• Guido Gorgatti, 103, Italian-born Argentine actor.
• Lloyd Inman Hendricks, 81, American politician, member of the South Carolina House of Representatives.
• Beverley Holloway, 91, New Zealand entomologist.
• Karl Sverre Klevstad, 96, Norwegian politician, mayor of Vestvågøy Municipality.
• Marcel Lagorce, 90, French classical trumpeter.
• Long Boi, British Mallard-Indian Runner duck cross.
• Teina Maraeura, 72, French Polynesian politician, deputy and mayor of Rangiroa.
• Sue Maroroa, 32, New Zealand-English chess player, complications following childbirth.
• Futoshi Nakanishi, 90, Japanese baseball player and manager, heart failure.
• Barry Newman, 92, American actor.
• Shaun Pickering, 61, Welsh Olympic shot putter.
• Andy Provan, 79, Scottish footballer, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Jean-Paul Savoie, 76, Canadian social worker and politician, New Brunswick MLA.
• Michael Waterfield, 81, British biochemist.
• Martha Zelt, 92, American printmaker.

12

• Thembinkosi Apleni, 49, South African politician, delegate to the National Council of Provinces.
• Alfonso Buonocore, 90, Italian Olympic swimmer and water polo player.
• Leroy Cooper, 62, Jamaican-born British photographer.
• Jonathan Crenshaw, 51, American artist, esophageal varices.
• Owen Davidson, 79, Australian Hall of Fame tennis player.
• Don Denkinger, 86, American baseball umpire.
• Shaden Gardood, Sudanese singer, mortar fire.
• Ísak Harðarson, 66, Icelandic poet and translator.
• Gerry Hart, 75, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Michael J. Juneau, 60, American jurist, judge of the U.S. District Court for Western Louisiana.
• Hirut Bekele, 80, Ethiopian singer.
• Aleksandr Karakin, 32, Russian footballer, traffic collision.
• Ralph Lee, 87, American puppeteer and special effects artist.
• Bernard Membe, 69, Tanzanian diplomat and politician, MP and minister of foreign affairs.
• Judy Messer, 89, Australian conservationist.
• Francis Monkman, 73, English musician, songwriter and composer, cancer.
• Jacques Mouilleron, 82, French footballer.
• Joe Mpisi, 56, South African politician, Gauteng MPL.
• Michael Norell, 85, American actor and television writer.
• David Pollock, 81, British humanist.
• Jethabhai Rathod, 86, Indian politician, Gujarat MLA.
• Bruce Robertson, 71, New Zealand rugby union player.
• Christine Savage, 91, American politician, member of the Maine Senate.
• Fanta Singhateh, 93, Gambian socialite, first lady.
• David Stripp, 88, English cricketer.
• Ruth Carol Taylor, 91, American flight attendant.
• Umar Apong, 83, Bruneian nobleman and police officer, commissioner of the Royal Brunei Police Force.

13

• Tayeb Belaiz, 74, Algerian jurist, minister of justice.
• Giotto Bizzarrini, 96, Italian automobile engineer.
• Harry Bentley Bradley, 83, American car and toy car designer.
• Peter Brooke, Baron Brooke of Sutton Mandeville, 89, British politician, secretary of state for Northern Ireland and national heritage, MP.
• Yaqoob Atif Bulbula, 76, Pakistani singer and actor.
• John Flood, 90, English footballer.
• Bob Garibaldi, 81, American baseball player.
• Johan Gullichsen, 86, Finnish Olympic sailor.
• Tommy Hays, 93, American guitarist.
• Bill Kelly, 75, American college football coach, pneumonia.
• Rahmatollah Khosravi, 72, Iranian politician, MP.
• Sibylle Lewitscharoff, 69, German writer.
• Phil Nuytten, 81, Canadian entrepreneur.
• Weldon Olson, 90, American ice hockey player, Olympic champion.
• Mary Parker, 92, English-born Australian actress and television presenter.
• Douglas Rowe, 85, American actor.
• Eduard Sagalaev, 76, Russian media executive, founder of TV-6 and chairman of the VGTRK.
• Ram G. Takwale, 90, Indian academic administrator, vice-chancellor of YCMOU and IGNOU.
• Keiko Tanaka-Ikeda, 89, Japanese gymnast, Olympic bronze medallist, brain cancer.
• Jürgen Trumpf, 91, German diplomat and politician, secretary-general of the European Council.
• Carl Yankowski, 74, American businessman.

14

• József Ács, 92, Hungarian sculptor.
• Billy Wayne Bailey, 65, American politician, member of the West Virginia Senate.
• Doyle Brunson, 89, American Hall of Fame poker player, WSOP champion.
• Guerrino Riccardo Brusati, 78, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Caetité and Janaúba.
• Loris Chobanian, 90, Armenian-American composer.
• Cornelius, 87, Greek Orthodox prelate.
• Garðar Cortes, 82, Icelandic operatic tenor singer and opera director, founder of The Icelandic Opera.
• Joe Gayton, 66, American screenwriter and television producer, prostate cancer.
• John Giblin, 71, Scottish bass player, sepsis.
• Ingrid Haebler, 93, Austrian pianist.
• Christian Hansen Jr., 91, American politician, member of the Vermont House of Representatives, U.S. Marshal for Vermont.
• Karl Hesse, 86, German Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop and archbishop of Rabaul, bishop of Kavieng.
• Dame Rosie Horton, 83, New Zealand philanthropist.
• Omar A. Jallow, 76, Gambian politician, leader of the People's Progressive Party, minister of agriculture.
• Billy Masetlha, 68, South African intelligence officer, director of the National Intelligence Agency.
• Gloria Molina, 74, American politician, member of the California State Assembly and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.
• Ferran Olivella, 86, Spanish footballer.
• Craig Puki, 66, American football player.
• Regīna Razuma, 71, Latvian actress.
• John Refoua, 58, American film editor, complications from bile duct cancer.
• Lamin Swann, 45, American politician, member of the Kentucky House of Representatives.
• John Teague, 78, American politician, member of the Alabama House of Representatives and Alabama Senate, cancer.
• Albert Vecten, 97, French politician, senator.
• Marco Warren, 29, Bermudan footballer, traffic collision.
• Samantha Weinstein, 28, Canadian actress, ovarian cancer.
• Walter Murray Wonham, 88, Canadian mathematician.

15

• Stanley Appel, 89, British television producer and director.
• Bruce Bould, 73, English actor.
• Madjiguène Cissé, 71, Senegalese activist.
• Essambo Ewane, 70, Cameroonian Olympic judoka.
• Giuseppe Fallarini, 89, Italian racing cyclist.
• Sharon Farrell, 82, American actress.
• Farooque, 74, Bangladeshi actor and politician, MP.
• Belmar Gunderson, 88, American tennis player.
• Billy Guyton, 33, New Zealand rugby union player.
• Hassan Hallak, 77, Lebanese historian.
• Shoaib Hashmi, 87, Pakistani playwright, complications from a stroke.
• Fahd Al-Hayyan, 52, Saudi Arabian actor.
• Deborra Hope, 67, Canadian journalist and news anchor, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Zbigniew Kaczmarek, 76, Polish weightlifter, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Eugene Kozlovsky, 76, Russian writer, screenwriter, theatre and film director.
• Robert Lucas Jr., 85, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• Marty Lynch, 59, Northern Irish Gaelic footballer and association footballer, complications from motor neurone disease.
• Chow Tewa Mein, 80, Indian politician, Arunachal Pradesh MLA.
• Paris Moayedi, 84, Iranian-British businessman.
• Ron Northcott, 87, Canadian Hall of Fame curler.
• Valentin Pozaić, 77, Croatian Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Zagreb.
• Bernt Rosengren, 85, Swedish jazz tenor saxophonist.
• Peter Scott, 92, Australian footballer.
• Jitka Svobodová, 81, Czech painter, sculptor and academic.
• Anyimchukwu Ude, 81, Nigerian politician, senator.
• Marko Zalaznik, 28, Slovenian footballer.

16

• Akwaboah Snr., Ghanaian singer-songwriter.
• Iñaki Alkiza, 89, Spanish politician and footballer, mayor of San Sebastián.
• Lynne Allsup, 74, American Olympic swimmer.
• Rodrigo Barnes, 73, American football player.
• Frédéric Bastien, 53, Canadian historian and journalist, cardiac arrest.
• Barry Dwolatzky, 71, South African software engineer.
• Mark Gietzen, 69, American anti-abortion and political activist, plane crash.
• Norm Green, 90, American long-distance runner.
• Marlene Hagge, 89, American Hall of Fame golfer, co-founder of the LPGA, complications from a fall.
• Ron Hargrave, 93, American ukulele player and actor.
• Ulf Högberg, 77, Swedish Olympic runner.
• Ian Jarvie, 85, British-born Canadian philosopher.
• Uwe Kitzinger, 95, English economist and political adviser, heart attack.
• Dorothy Knowles, 96, Canadian visual artist.
• Richard Landis, 77, American singer-songwriter, record producer, and music executive.
• Sunday Mbang, 86, Nigerian Methodist prelate.
• Maria Mies, 92, German sociologist.
• Mike the Juggler, 67, New Zealand busker, house fire.
• Dame Patricia Morgan-Webb, 79, British educator and academic.
• Cyril Agodi Onwumechili, 91, Nigerian physicist and academic administrator, member of the Nigerian Academy of Science.
• Reiji Oyama, 96, Japanese pastor, founder of The Biblical Church.
• Pale Male, 32–33, American red-tailed hawk.
• Daniel Paul, 79, French politician, deputy.
• Bill Perkins, 74, American politician, member of the New York State Senate and City Council.
• P. K. R. Pillai, 92, Indian film producer.
• Per Røntved, 74, Danish footballer.
• Nelsinho Rosa, 85, Brazilian football player and manager.
• Inger Sandberg, 92, Swedish children's author.
• Nikolay Shaklein, 79, Russian politician, senator, governor of Kirov Oblast and deputy prosecutor general.
• Andy Smart, 63, English comedian, actor and writer.
• Lester Sterling, 87, Jamaican saxophonist.
• Hari Shankar Tiwari, 89, Indian gangster and politician, Uttar Pradesh MLA, kidney failure.

17

• Ray Austin, 90, British stuntman and director.
• Livia Bitton-Jackson, 92, Czechoslovak-born American-Israeli author and Holocaust survivor.
• Creative Force, 5, Irish-bred British Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the British Champions Sprint Stakes.
• Alicia Dussán de Reichel, 102, Colombian anthropologist.
• David Gardner, 82, English cricketer.
• Graham Gipson, 90, Australian sprinter, Olympic silver medalist.
• "Superstar" Billy Graham, 79, American Hall of Fame professional wrestler, multiple organ failure.
• James Hartle, 83, American physicist, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• S. P. Hinduja, 87, Indian-born British businessman and philanthropist, complications from Lewy body dementia.
• Dvora Kedar, 98, Israeli actress.
• Liu Feng-shueh, 97, Taiwanese choreographer.
• Jean Madelain, 99, French politician, senator and mayor of Fougères.
• Jovo Mišeljić, 55, Bosnian footballer.
• Chiara Moretti, 67, Italian actress.
• Johnny Morgan, 76, American politician, member of the Mississippi Senate, plane crash.
• Telésforo Pedraza Ortega, 77, Colombian diplomat and politician, deputy.
• Jean-Louis Pesch, 94, French cartoonist.
• Marion Rothman, 94, American film editor.
• Sir Brian Smith, 89, English physical chemist.
• Eddie Southern, 85, American hurdler, Olympic silver medallist.
• Charles Stenholm, 84, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
• Marge Summit, 87, American LGBT rights activist.
• Kacper Tekieli, 38, Polish alpinist, avalanche.
• Jorrit Tornquist, 85, Austrian-Italian visual artist, color consultant, and theorist.
• Dinmukhammed Ulysbayev, 24, Kazakh road racing cyclist, heart failure.
• Algy Ward, 63, English heavy metal bassist.
• Norman Wood, 76, Scottish golfer.
• Lee Yoder, 92, American Olympic hurdler.

18

• Helmut Berger, 78, Austrian actor.
• Albert Bregman, 86, Canadian psychologist and academic.
• Jim Brown, 87, American Hall of Fame football player, actor, and civil rights activist.
• Rashid Buttar, 57, American physician and conspiracy theorist.
• Giuseppe Casale, 99, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Foggia-Bovino and bishop of Vallo della Lucania.
• Marlene Clark, 85, American actress and model.
• Frank A. DeMarco, 102, Italian-born Canadian chemical engineer and academic administrator, co-founder of the University of Windsor.
• Jimmy Dimos, 84, American politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives.
• Wolf-Dieter Hauschild, 85, German conductor, choirmaster and composer.
• Roger C. Heath, 80, American politician, member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives and senate, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Harald Jährling, 68, German rower, Olympic champion.
• Rattan Lal Kataria, 71, Indian politician, MP and [Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment|minister of state for social Ministry of Justice (Slovenia)|justice and empowerment], pneumonia.
• Hugh Maguire, 90, American actor.
• Mao Jiangsen, 89, Chinese virologist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
• Buddy Melges, 93, American sailor, Olympic champion.
• Hasanuddin Murad, 65, Indonesian politician, MP.
• Masatoshi Nei, 92, Japanese-born American evolutionary biologist.
• Dick Nourse, 83, American television news anchor.
• Jan Olsson, 79, Swedish footballer.
• Mehmet Özyürek, 73, Turkish record holder, heart attack.
• Jasaral Quanyşälin, 74, Kazakh politician and journalist, member of the Supreme Council of Kazakhstan, stroke.
• Ray Wilkie, 98, Australian meteorologist and television weather presenter.
• Sam Zell, 81, American businessman.

19

• Lena Adler, 81, Swedish Olympic gymnast.
• Sir Martin Amis, 73, British novelist, oesophageal cancer.
• Subomi Balogun, 89, Nigerian banker, founder of FCMB.
• Marion Berry, 80, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
• Cyril Birch, 98, British-American sinologist and translator.
• Brian Booth, 89, Australian cricketer and Olympic field hockey player.
• Pete Brown, 82, English poet, lyricist and singer, cancer.
• Augusto Góngora, 71, Chilean journalist, subject of The Eternal Memory, complications from Alzheimer's Disease.
• Arturo Grávalos, 25, Spanish road racing cyclist, brain tumor.
• Kevin Ireland, 89, New Zealand poet, cancer.
• Dževad Karahasan, 70, Bosnian writer, essayist and philosopher.
• Gordon Keddie, 78, Scottish-born American pastor and theologian, prostate cancer.
• Tim Keller, 72, American pastor and author, pancreatic cancer.
• Winfield M. Kelly Jr., 87, American politician, secretary of state of Maryland.
• David Lambert, 89, British trade unionist, president of the National Union of Hosiery and Knitwear Workers.
• Ronald S. W. Lew, 81, American jurist, judge of the U.S. District Court for Central California.
• Seán McCormack, 79, Irish Gaelic footballer.
• Véra Norman, 98, French actress.
• Mirko Ramovš, 87, Slovenian ethnochoreologist.
• Bernhard Rohloff, 73, German bicycle engineer, founder of Rohloff, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Andy Rourke, 59, English bassist, pancreatic cancer.
• Sir Derek Spencer, 87, British politician, solicitor general for England and Wales and MP.
• Ella Stack, 94, Australian politician, mayor and lord mayor of Darwin.
• Sergei Vorzhev, 73, Russian painter.

20

• Christian Aaron Boulogne, 60, French photographer, actor and writer, drug overdose.
• Mike Carey, 87, British sports presenter.
• Edna Child, 100, British Olympic diver.
• Noel Clough, 86, Australian track and field athlete.
• Paul Desenne, 63, Venezuelan cellist and composer, heart attack.
• Marv Edwards, 88, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Tony Eggleton, 91, Australian political operative, federal director of the Liberal Party.
• Benjamin Harjo Jr., 77, American painter.
• Rick Hummel, 77, American sportswriter and author.
• Seigo Kitamura, 76, Japanese politician, MP.
• Györgyi Lang, 66, Hungarian actress and singer.
• John Loveday, 74, New Zealand rugby union player.
• Terry McDermott, 82, American speed skater, Olympic champion.
• Edmond J. Muniz, 83, American politician, founder of Krewe of Endymion and mayor of Kenner, Louisiana.
• Sven Nyhus, 90, Norwegian folk musician.
• Valentin Petit, 32, French filmmaker, plane crash.
• Jim Powell, 74, British novelist.
• Sante Ranucci, 89, Italian racing cyclist.
• Tom Sawyer, 77, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives and Ohio Senate, mayor of Akron.
• Brian Shul, 75, American Air Force major and aerial photographer.
• Doris Sikosana, 80–81, South African politician and anti-apartheid activist, MNA.
• Veno Taufer, 90, Slovenian poet, translator and playwright.
• Luis Walton, 73, Mexican politician, senator and municipal president of Acapulco.
• Zohar Zisapel, 74, Israeli entrepreneur, co-founder of RAD Group, cancer.

21

• Alma Adamkienė, 96, Lithuanian philologist and philanthropist, first lady, stroke.
• Ed Ames, 95, American singer and actor.
• Margaret Archer, 80, English sociologist.
• Antón Arrufat, 87, Cuban writer and poet, bronchopneumonia.
• C. Donald Bateman, 91, Canadian electrical engineer, inventor of the ground proximity warning system.
• David Brandt, 76, American farmer, traffic collision.
• Brad Crawford, 67, American football player.
• Chungkhokai Doungel, 82, Indian politician.
• Jonty Driver, 83, South African anti-apartheid activist.
• Sir Matthew Farrer, 93, British solicitor.
• C. Boyden Gray, 80, American lawyer and diplomat, White House counsel, ambassador to the EU and special envoy for Eurasian energy, heart failure.
• Kathryn Jones Harrison, 99, American tribal leader.
• Jim Hubble, 80, Australian cricketer.
• Leon Ichaso, 74, Cuban-American film director, heart attack.
• David M. Jennings, 74, American politician, member and speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives.
• Tze Leung Lai, 77, American statistician.
• George Logan, 78, British actor, composer and screenwriter.
• Donald Macleod, 82, Scottish theologian.
• Valentyna Maslovska, 86, Ukrainian Olympic sprinter.
• Claude Noel, 74, Trinidadian boxer, WBA world lightweight champion.
• Lew Palter, 94, American actor and acting teacher, lung cancer.
• Victoriano Sánchez Arminio, 80, Spanish football referee.
• Sam Slom, 81, American politician, member of the Hawaii Senate.
• Thotakura Somaraju, 68, Indian film music composer, singer-songwriter and record producer.
• Dougie Squires, 91, English choreographer.
• Ray Stevenson, 58, Northern Irish actor.
• Jason Twist, 55, English pool player.

22

• Sarath Babu, 71, Indian actor, multiple organ failure.
• George E. Bemi, 96, Canadian architect.
• Vágner Benazzi, 68, Brazilian football player and manager.
• Carlos Borcosque Jr., 79, Argentine film director, screenwriter and producer.''
• Daniel Brooks, 64, Canadian theater director.
• Michael E. Dreher, 79, Swiss politician, MP.
• Patrick Edgeworth, 90, English screenwriter.
• Antoni Flores Ardiaca, 60, Spanish engineer and politician, member of the Parliament of Catalonia.
• Ildar Garifullin, 59, Russian Olympic Nordic combined skier.
• Candace Introcaso, 69, American nun and academic administrator, president of La Roche University.
• Ismail Kassim, 63, Malaysian politician, Perlis State MLA, MP and senator, heart attack.
• Peggy Lee Leather, 64, American professional wrestler.
• Jeff Machado, 44, Brazilian journalist and actor, asphyxiated.
• Ferus Mustafov, 72, Macedonian saxophonist.
• Chas Newby, 81, British bassist.
• Mosobalaje Oyawoye, 95, Nigerian geologist.
• George J. Pedersen, 87, American government contracting pioneer, co-founder of ManTech International.
• Erick Pohlhammer, 68, Chilean poet, complications from a stroke.
• Aditya Singh Rajput, 32, Indian actor.
• Kethu Viswanatha Reddy, 83, Indian writer.
• Elias Saba, 90, Lebanese politician and economist, minister of finance and defense.
• Wahid Satay, 93, Singaporean actor, comedian and singer, complications from diabetes.
• Hugh Strachan, 84, Scottish footballer.
• Wim Udenhout, 85, Surinamese politician, prime minister.
• Vaibhavi Upadhyay, 38, Indian actress, traffic collision.
• John A. Walker, 84, British art critic and historian.
• Zheng Zhenyao, 86, Chinese actress.

23

• Javier Álvarez, 67, Mexican composer.
• Andrew Burke, 78–79, Australian poet.
• Magdy Conyd, 83, Egyptian-born Canadian Olympic fencer.
• Neil Dansie, 94, Australian cricketer.
• Arno Dübel, 67, German unemployed person.
• John Dunning, 81, American author.
• Fusaichi Pegasus, 26, American Thoroughbred racehorse.
• Guan Xingya, 91, Chinese petroleum engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
• Jean Haudry, 88, French linguist.
• Redd Holt, 91, American jazz drummer.
• Aida Khasanova, 39, Uzbek fencer and international fencing referee, complications from plastic surgery.
• Novak Kilibarda, 89, Montenegrin politician, professor and literary historian, deputy prime minister.
• Sergei Kulbach, 30, Ukrainian skater, suffocated.
• Jaromír Málek, 79, Czech Egyptologist.
• David Mitogo, 32, Equatorial Guinean footballer.
• Cotton Nash, 80, American basketball and baseball player.
• Floyd Newman, 91, American saxophonist.
• Nitesh Pandey, 50, Indian actor, heart attack.
• Sheldon Reynolds, 63, American guitarist.
• Pedro N. Rivera, 76, Puerto Rican brigadier general.
• Radullan Sahiron, Filipino Islamic militant.
• Alojz Tkáč, 89, Slovak Roman Catholic prelate, bishop and archbishop of Košice.
• Robert Zimmer, 75, American mathematician and academic administrator, president of the University of Chicago, brain cancer.

24

• Emerson Allsworth, 96, American lawyer and politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives.
• Cotton Tree, 400, Sierra Leonean kapok tree, felled.
• Đặng Văn Thân, 90, Vietnamese politician.
• Hans-Peter Feldmann, 82, German visual artist.
• İlham Gencer, 97, Turkish pianist.
• David Grove, 87, American anthropologist and archaeologist.
• Jack Martin Händler, 75, Slovak conductor and violinist.
• Dano Heriban, 43, Slovak actor, heart attack.
• Jerry Krause, 87, American Hall of Fame basketball coach, colon cancer.
• Bill Lee, 94, American jazz musician and film composer.
• George Maharis, 94, American actor and singer, hepatitis.
• Norbaiti Isran Noor, 54, Indonesian politician, MP, brain cancer.
• Clare Nowland, 95, Australian aged care resident, complications from Tasering.
• Peter Oliphant, 72, American video game designer and actor.
• Ergun Öztuna, 85, Turkish footballer.
• Dennis L. Riley, 77, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly.
• Adil Serdar Saçan, 60, Turkish police chief, lung cancer.
• Robert J. Shelley, 81, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives.
• Rolf Skår, 82, Norwegian computer engineer.
• Tina Turner, 83, American-born Swiss Hall of Fame singer and actress, eight-time Grammy winner.

25

• Robert William Bradford, 99, Canadian aviation artist.
• Glenn Farr, 77, American film editor, Oscar winner, brain tumor.
• Mac Gudgeon, 74, Australian screenwriter.
• Riad Haidar, 71, Syrian-born Polish politician and physician, MP.
• Frank Handlen, 106, American painter and sculptor.
• Jalna Hanmer, 91, British feminist.
• Ahmad Johar, 65, Kuwaiti actor, writer and television director.
• Ahmad Kamal, 85, Pakistani diplomat, permanent representative to the United Nations.
• Gary Kent, 89, American actor and stuntman.
• Maciej Kujawski, 70, Polish actor.
• Wolfgang Lakenmacher, 79, German Olympic handball player.
• Karen Lumley, 59, British politician, MP.
• C. Steven McGann, 71, American diplomat.
• Joy McKean, 93, Australian country singer and songwriter, cancer.
• Jens Jørn Mortensen, 96, Danish Olympic weightlifter.
• Jean-Louis Murat, 71, French singer-songwriter.
• Ning Cai, 75, Chinese mathematician and electrical engineer.
• Alice Palmer, 83, American politician, member of the Illinois Senate.
• Denny Stolz, 89, American college football coach.

26

• J. J. Bittenbinder, 80, American police officer and television host.
• Aaron Brink, 48, American mixed martial artist and pornographic actor.
• French Chang-Him, 85, Seychellois Anglican clergyman, bishop of Seychelles, archbishop of the Indian Ocean.
• Roberto Cicciomessere, 76, Italian politician, MEP.
• Kay B. Cobb, 81, American jurist and politician, justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi and member of the Mississippi State Senate.
• Andrew Evans, 87, Australian Assemblies of God pastor and politician, member of the South Australian Legislative Council.
• Flemensfirth, 31, American-born British Thoroughbred racehorse, Prix Lupin winner.
• Pedro González Ramos, 88, Puerto Rican doctor and educator.
• Kathryn Harries, 72, British operatic soprano.
• Nils Henriksson, 94, Finnish Olympic cyclist.
• László Hódi, 88, Hungarian-Australian Olympic basketball player.
• Micky Jagtiani, 70, Indian businessman, founder of Landmark Group.
• Mohammad Jamal, 84, Lebanese singer, composer and actor.
• Kalanisi, 27, Irish Thoroughbred racehorse.
• Saul Kent, 83, American life extension activist, co-founder of Biomedical Research & Longevity Society.
• Samuel Kiplimo Kosgei, 37, Kenyan-born American long-distance runner, traffic collision.
• Sheldon Lavin, 89, American businessman.
• Jack Lee, 71, American songwriter and musician, colon cancer.
• Lin Wenyue, 89, Taiwanese writer and translator.
• Meco, 83, American musician, arranger and producer.
• Marilyn R. N. Mollicone, 94, American botanist.
• Emily Morgan, 45, British journalist, lung cancer.
• Govindray H. Nayak, 89, Indian writer and professor.
• Hans Palmer, 89, American economist.
• Igor Vasilyev, 57, Russian handball player, Olympic champion.
• K. Vasu, 72, Indian film director, screenwriter and producer.
• Lawrence Williams, 76, Welsh cricketer.
• Reuben Wilson, 88, American jazz organist.

27

• Engin Ardıç, 71, Turkish journalist and columnist.
• Miroslav Belanský, 81, Slovak agronomist, minister of agriculture.
• Hans Bosse, 84, German anthropologist, sociologist, and social psychologist.
• Anita Cornwell, 99, American author and activist.
• Jayantha Dhanapala, 84, Sri Lankan diplomat, member of the constitutional council and ambassador to the United States.
• Màrius Díaz, 89, Spanish politician, mayor of Badalona and member of the Parliament of Catalonia.
• Uali Elamanov, 70, Kazakh military officer, commander of the Air Assault Forces.
• Lahouari Godih, 94, Algerian boxer and political activist.
• Jacqueline S. Ismael, 80, American-born Canadian political sociologist.
• Seemin Jamali, 61, Pakistani physician, colon cancer.
• Ilya Kabakov, 89, Russian-American conceptual artist.
• Graham Knuttel, 69, Irish painter and sculptor.
• Héctor Lacognata, 60, Paraguayan diplomat and politician, minister of foreign affairs.
• Jan Mrvík, 84, Czech rower, Olympic bronze medallist.
• Odette Nilès, 100, French Resistance militant.
• Tyrone O'Sullivan, 77, Welsh trade unionist.
• Robin Page, 80, English journalist, politician and television presenter, pancreatic cancer.
• Mordechai Rechtman, 97, German-born Israeli bassoonist, conductor and teacher.
• Claudia Rosett, 67, American journalist.
• Modesto Sandoval, 82, Paraguayan footballer.
• Giulia Tramontano, 29, Italian murder victim, stabbing.
• Stephen Waddams, 80, English-born Canadian legal scholar.
• James G. Watt, 85, American politician, secretary of the interior.
• Whisnu Sakti Buana, 48, Indonesian politician, mayor of Surabaya, heart attack.

28

• Kjell Aartun, 97, Norwegian theologian and linguist.
• Frédéric Barbier, 70, French historian.
• Isa Barzizza, 93, Italian actress.
• Ernest Bertrand Boland, 97, American Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Multan.
• Sir David Brewer, 83, British businessman and politician, lord mayor of London, lord-lieutenant of Greater London.
• George Cassidy, 86, Northern Irish jazz musician and music teacher.
• Choi Il-nam, 90, South Korean writer.
• Carlos Alberto Prates Correia, 81, Brazilian film director, producer and screenwriter.
• Jean-Claude Cros, 80, French rugby league footballer.
• Alexander W. Dreyfoos Jr., 91, American businessman and philanthropist.
• Antonio Gala, 92, Spanish poet, playwright and writer.
• Owen Gingerich, 93, American astronomer.
• Mike de la Hoz, 84, Cuban baseball player.
• Matti Kilpiö, 83, Finnish philologist.
• Kim Seok-hun, 93, South Korean actor.
• Milt Larsen, 92, American actor and magician, creator of the Magic Castle.
• Hein Schreuder, 71, Dutch economist and business executive.
• Sergey Sirotkin, 71, Russian politician, MP.
• Mele Siuilikutapu, 75, Tongan royal and politician, first female MP.
• Alan Smith, 74, English physiotherapist.
• Karim Tizouiar, 60, Algerian Kabyle singer.
• Mike Young, 63, American baseball player, heart attack.
• Piet de Zoete, 79, Dutch footballer.
• Harald zur Hausen, 87, German virologist, Nobel Prize laureate.

29

• Thomas Buergenthal, 89, Czechoslovak-born American international lawyer and law school dean, judge of the International Court of Justice.
• Shaw Clifton, 77, Irish minister, general of the Salvation Army.
• Carroll Cooley, 87, American police detective.
• Michel Côté, 72, Canadian actor, bone marrow disease.
• Raymond Dokpesi, 71, Nigerian media executive, founder of AIT, stroke.
• Victor Galeone, 87, American Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of St. Augustine.
• Pierre Gaudot, 95, French racing cyclist.
• Asad Gulzoda, 88, Tajik poet and linguist.
• Claes Insulander, 78, Swedish sailor and organist.
• Vítězslav Mácha, 75, Czech wrestler, Olympic champion.
• Mirosława Masłowska, 79, Polish politician, MP.
• Bernadette Menu, 85, French Egyptologist.
• William O'Neil, 90, American businessman, stockbroker and writer.
• Teppo Rastio, 89, Finnish ice hockey and football player.
• Peter Simonischek, 76, Austrian actor.
• Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, 82, Finnish linguist.
• Jacob Turkel, 88, Israeli jurist, justice of the Supreme Court.
• Robin Wagner, 89, American set designer, Tony winner.
• Javier Yacuzzi, 43, Argentine footballer, virus.

30

• John Beasley, 79, American actor.
• Don Bonker, 86, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, gallbladder cancer.
• Peggy Brock, 75, Australian historian.
• Suresh Dhanorkar, 47, Indian politician, MP and Maharashtra MP, complications from kidney stones.
• Gershon Edelstein, 100, Soviet-born Israeli rabbi.
• Karl-Heinz Ferschl, 78, German footballer.
• Fiorente, 15, Irish-bred Australian Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the Melbourne Cup and Australian Cup.
• Joe Gaines, 86, American baseball player.
• Peter Harbison, 84, Irish archaeologist.
• Mike Hoban, 71, American football player.
• Jessie Maple, 76, American cinematographer and film director.
• Lou Marcon, 88, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Bill McGovern, 60, American football coach, cancer.
• Eusebius McKaiser, 45, South African political analyst and journalist.
• Nice Nature, 35, Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse, Takamatsunomiya Kinen winner.
• Raisa O'Farrill Bolanos, 51, Cuban volleyball player, Olympic champion, cancer.
• Mina Pandey, 71, Nepali politician, MP.
• Harvey Pitt, 78, American lawyer, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
• Paolo Portoghesi, 91, Italian architect.
• Peter Pouncey, 85, British-American author and classicist, president of Amherst College.
• Rite Of Passage, 19, British Thoroughbred racehorse.
• Gurdial Singh, 99, Indian mountaineer, complications from a broken hip.
• Michael Viney, 90, British-born Irish journalist.
• Wan Zhexian, 95, Chinese mathematician, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
• Milka Zimková, 71, Slovak actress and screenwriter.

31

• Agnes Abuom, 73, Kenyan Anglican theologian.
• Ama Ata Aidoo, 81, Ghanaian author, playwright, and politician, minister of education.
• Vellayani Arjunan, 90, Indian literary scholar.
• Andrew Bellucci, 59, American pizza chef, heart attack.
• Lewis M. Branscomb, 96, American physicist, director of the National Institute of Standards.
• Donald D. Brown, 91, American professor and developmental biologist.
• Sergio Calderón, 77, Mexican-born American actor.
• Brian Chisholm, 85, Australian footballer.
• Harry R. Clements, 94, American engineer and businessman.
• Edward Czernik, 82, Polish Olympic high jumper.
• Patricia Dainton, 93, British actress.
• Luca Di Fulvio, 66, Italian writer, actor and playwright, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Amitai Etzioni, 94, Israeli-American sociologist.
• Ramon Farolan, 88, Philippine general, commanding general of the Philippine Air Force.
• Ved Kumari Ghai, 91, Indian Sanskrit scholar.
• Peter K. Machamer, 80, American philosopher and historian.
• Theodoros Pangalos, 84, Greek politician, deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs.
• Vera Putina, 96, Georgian woman, claimed to be the mother of Vladimir Putin.
• Gene Rogers, 93, American politician, member of the North Carolina House of Representatives.
• Katakam Sudarshan, Indian communist militant, heart attack.
• Gabi Tolkowsky, 84, Belgian diamond cutter.
• Kurt Widmer, 82, Swiss baritone and voice teacher.
• Stanley Wojcicki, 86, Polish-American physicist, heart failure.
• Viktor Zubarev, 62, Russian politician, MP.