Deaths in May 2024

May 2024

1

• Chauhdry Abdul Rashid, 83, Pakistani-born English politician, lord mayor of Birmingham.
• Hasna El-Bacharia, 74, Algerian musician.
• Michael Brown, 86, Canadian Olympic sprint canoer.
• Chen Junwu, 97, Chinese petroleum engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
• Richard E. Cook, 93, American Mormon general authority, member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy, CFO of Perpetual Education Fund.
• Pierre Claver Damiba, 87, Burkinabè economist and politician, MP.
• Michael D'Arcy, 90, Irish politician, senator, minister of state of fisheries, and three-times TD.
• Ildefonso Dell'Olmo, 67, Spanish politician and bullfighting arena president, member of the Andalusian parliament.
• Danilo Dončić, 54, Serbian football player and manager, heart attack.
• Dominique Dupuy, 93, French dancer and choreographer.
• Tibor Hollo, 96, Hungarian-born American real estate developer and Holocaust survivor.
• Erik Jayme, 89, Canadian-born German jurist.
• Abu Ahmed Zahirul Amin Khan, 79, Bangladeshi major general.
• Jacques Lepatey, 94, French rugby union player.
• Miroslav Macek, 79, Czech politician and writer, MP.
• Richard Maloof, 84, American musician.
• Terry Medwin, 91, Welsh football player and manager.
• Ian Mellor, 74, English footballer, amyloidosis.
• J. George Mikelsons, 87, Latvian-American airline founder and pilot.
• Tahnoun bin Mohammed Al Nahyan, 82, Emirati royal and politician, ruler's representative of the Al Ain Region.
• Doyle Niemann, 77, American prosecutor, public administrator, and politician, member of the Maryland House of Delegates.
• Massimo Nistri, 68, Italian Olympic backstroke swimmer.
• Takayasu Okushima, 85, Japanese academic and scouting administrator, president of Hakuoh University and chief scout of the Scout Association of Japan, pneumonia.
• Dallas Penn, 53, American fashion designer, musician and internet personality.
• Juzefs Petkēvičs, 83, Latvian chess grandmaster.
• Victoria Prego, 75, Spanish journalist and television presenter.
• Uma Ramanan, 69, Indian playback singer.
• Barry Romo, 76, American antiwar activist, heart attack.
• Austin Savage, 84, Welsh Olympic field hockey player.
• Joe Shipley, 88, American baseball player.
• Richard Tandy, 76, English Hall of Fame musician.
• William Toye, 97, Canadian author and editor, co-founder of the Tamarack Review.
• Elmer Yanga, 78, Filipino sports executive.

2

• A. J. Mohammad Ali, 73, Bangladeshi lawyer, attorney general.
• Derek Angus, 86, New Zealand politician, MP.
• Bruce Arnold, 87, English journalist and author, pneumonia.
• Josh Baker, 20, English cricketer, heart defect.
• Sofia Berezanska, 99, Ukrainian archaeologist.
• Susan Buckner, 71, American actress.
• Mary Collins, 88, American theologian.
• Nalin de Silva, 79, Sri Lankan philosopher and political analyst.
• Sjoukje Dijkstra, 82, Dutch figure skater, Olympic champion.
• Earl Edwards, 78, American football player.
• Winfried Fockenberg, 79, German jurist and politician, MP.
• Derek Forster, 75, English footballer.
• Skip Foster, 63, American football coach, cancer.
• Brian Halfpenny, 87, English Anglican priest and military chaplain.
• Ian Hayden, 83, Australian footballer.
• Herbert J. Hoelter, 73, American criminal justice consultant and prison consultant, heart failure.
• David Konstan, 83, American classicist.
• Manca Košir, 76, Slovene journalist and actress.
• Edgar Lansbury, 94, British-American theatre producer, Tony winner.
• Adolpho Lindenberg, 99, Brazilian civil engineer, architect and writer.
• Derrick Lonsdale, 100, British-born American pediatrician.
• Darius Morris, 33, American basketball player, coronary artery disease.
• Ana María Navarro, 94, Spanish academic.
• Peter Oosterhuis, 75, English golfer and broadcaster, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• John Pisano, 93, American jazz guitarist.
• Lou-Ann Preble, 94, American politician, member of the Arizona House of Representatives.
• Adrian Prosser, 67, Canadian Olympic cyclist.
• Roxanne, 95, American model and actress.
• Tito Steiner, 72, Paraguayan-Argentine Olympic decathlete, pneumonia.
• Eloína Suárez, 101, Spanish politician, mayor of Oviedo.
• Bobby Tait, 85, Scottish footballer.
• Werner Weinhold, 74, German deserter and convicted murderer.

3

• Kazuo Aichi, 86, Japanese politician, director-general of the Defence Agency and MP, COVID-19.
• Atul Kumar Anjan, 69, Indian political activist.
• Issam al-Attar, 97, Syrian political dissident.
• Tony Bleasdale, 77, English-born Australian politician, mayor of Blacktown.
• Mayotte Bollack, 95, French academic and philologist.
• Dorothy Bromiley, 93, British actress.
• Géraldine Carré, 54, French journalist and television presenter.
• Obi Ezeh, 36, American football player.
• Victor Farrant, 74, English convicted murderer and rapist, cancer.
• Roger Fortson, 23, American Air Force serviceman, shot.
• Kailash Chandra Gahtori, 55, Indian politician, Uttarakhand MLA.
• Paul-Henry Gendebien, 84, Belgian economist and politician, member of the Chamber of Representatives and MEP.
• László Hammerl, 82, Hungarian sport shooter, Olympic champion.
• Avraham Harshalom, 99, Czech-Israeli businessman and Holocaust survivor.
• Helmut Howiller, 80, German Olympic judoka.
• Moorhead C. Kennedy Jr., 93, American Foreign Service officer and hostage survivor.
• Imerio Massignan, 87, Italian road racing cyclist.
• Jim Mills, 57, American banjo player, heart attack.
• Mustafa Mkulo, 77, Tanzanian economist and politician, MP and minister of finance.
• Terezinha Rêgo, 91, Brazilian botanist, respiratory failure.
• Jim Rodger, 90, Scottish footballer.
• Sum Ronghang, 61, Indian politician, Assam MLA, multiple organ failure.
• Dick Rutan, 85, American aviator, complications from COVID-19.
• Frank Shrontz, 92, American corporate executive, CEO of Boeing and assistant secretary of defense for sustainment.
• Denis Trento, 41, Italian ski mountaineer, fall.
• Yashwant Trivedi, 89, Indian poet, pneumonia.
• Germain Viatte, 84, Canadian-born French art historian and museum curator.

4

• Bob Avellini, 70, American football player, cancer.
• Mikhail Banshchikov, 75, Russian politician, MP, traffic collision.
• Ignacio Bayón, 80, Spanish politician, minister of industry and energy.
• Derek Birdsall, 89, British graphic designer.
• Guy Deutscher, 88, Israeli experimental physicist.
• Dagoberto Fontes, 80, Uruguayan footballer.
• Gangadhar Gade, 85, Indian politician, Maharashtra MLA.
• Judith G. Garber, 62, American diplomat, ambassador to Latvia and Cyprus.
• Han Zhenxiang, 93, Chinese electrical engineer and academic administrator, president of Zhejiang University and member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
• Narcisa Hirsch, 96, German-born Argentine filmmaker.
• Foivos Ioannidis, 88, Greek lawyer and politician, MP.
• Jūrō Kara, 84, Japanese playwright.
• Tekin Kartal, 33–34, Turkish-German drug trafficker, shot.
• Ron Kavana, 73, Irish singer-songwriter.
• Judith Medlicott, 82, New Zealand lawyer and advocate, New Zealand Mastermind champion, chancellor of the University of Otago.
• David Messina, 92, Italian sports journalist and television presenter.
• Carola Miró, 58, Spanish teacher and political consort, cancer.
• Anna Panagiotopoulou, 78, Greek actress, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Giusto Pellanera, 86, Italian Olympic basketball player and coach.
• Yechiel Perr, 89, American rabbi.
• Anthony Pascal Rebello, 74, Kenyan Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Francistown.
• Karl Ringel, 91, German footballer.
• Badr bin Abdul Mohsen Al Saud, 75, Saudi prince and poet.
• Alaa Shreiteh, 44, Palestinian militant, killed.
• Frank Stella, 87, American painter, sculptor, and printmaker, lymphoma.

5

• Belinda Bellville, 94, British fashion designer.
• Belgacem Bouguenna, 61, Tunisian singer and teacher.
• Milagros Cámere, 51, Peruvian Olympic volleyball player.
• Columba Cryan, 94, Irish Gaelic footballer.
• Fred Dewilde, 58, French comics artist, suicide.
• Jeannie Epper, 83, American stuntwoman.
• Lizzy Evoeme, 81, Nigerian actress.
• Bernard Hill, 79, English actor.
• Phil Hoadley, 72, English footballer.
• Willie Hona, 70, New Zealand Hall of Fame musician, pancreatic cancer.
• Jose Kattukkaran, 92, Indian politician, mayor of Thrissur.
• Etelka Kenéz Heka, 87, Hungarian writer, poet and singer.
• Eiji Kiyokawa, 62, Japanese baseball player, cancer.
• Vladimir Kuznetsov, 96, Russian archeologist and historian.
• Fernand Lalonde, 91, Canadian lawyer and politician, Quebec MNA.
• Frank Leeflang, 87, Surinamese jurist, diplomat, and politician, minister of justice.
• Horace Locklear, 81, American politician, member of the North Carolina House of Representatives.
• Kelath Aravindakshan Marar, 82, Indian chenda player.
• Olivier Masurel, 44, French aerobatic pilot, plane crash.
• César Luis Menotti, 85, Argentine football player and manager, world champion, anemia.
• Isabel Miralles González, Spanish academic, road traffic accident.
• Ngoy Nsumbu, 51, Congolese footballer, complications from cancer.
• Oleksandr Pielieshenko, 30, Ukrainian Olympic weightlifter and serviceman, killed in action.
• Simona Postlerová, 59, Czech actress.
• Alexander Reichenberg, 31, Swedish-Norwegian ice hockey player.
• David Shapiro, 77, American poet, literary critic, and art historian, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Gloria Stroock, 99, American actress.
• Zbigniew Szałajda, 89, Polish engineer and politician.
• Robert Zawada, 79, Polish Olympic handball player.

6

• Haerul Amri, 51, Indonesian politician, MP, heart attack.
• Joe Collier, 91, American football coach.
• Judy Devlin, 88, Canadian-born English-American Hall of Fame badminton player, cancer.
• Bella Feldman, 94, American sculptor.
• Ian Gelder, 74, British actor, bile duct cancer.
• Kristin Hallenga, 38, English breast cancer awareness activist, breast cancer.
• Kevin Hardy, 78, American football player.
• Harikumar, 68, Indian film director, cancer.
• Steve Harney, 73, English footballer.
• Bill Holman, 96, American jazz composer and saxophonist.
• Wayland Holyfield, 82, American songwriter.
• Hootie Ingram, 90, American football player, coach, and athletic director.
• Kanakalatha, 63, Indian actress, complications from dementia.
• Marie A. Kelleher, 53, American medieval scholar.
• Rudolf Keszthelyi, 89, Hungarian Olympic gymnast.
• Susanna Kubelka, 81, Austrian-born French writer.
• Takaharu Kyōgoku, 86, Japanese Shinto priest, chief priest of Yasukuni Shrine, epidural hematoma.
• Robert Logan Jr., 82, American actor.
• Mike Nugent, 77, Australian athlete and wheelchair manufacturer, Paralympic champion.
• Tony Parkes, 74, American folk dancer and choreographer.
• Don Penny, 91, American actor and comedian.
• Heinrich Pfusterschmid-Hardtenstein, 97, Austrian diplomat.
• Bernard Pivot, 89, French journalist and talk show host, chairman of the Académie Goncourt, cancer.
• Petya Stavreva, 47, Bulgarian journalist and politician, MEP, MP.
• Christiane Stefanski, 74, Belgian singer.
• Andy Stoglin, 81, American basketball coach.
• André Trigano, 98, French camping industry executive and politician, mayor of Pamiers.
• Johnnie Walker, 79, Australian racing driver.
• Brian Wenzel, 94, Australian actor.

7

• Evald Aavik, 83, Estonian actor.
• Steve Albini, 61, American musician and record producer, heart attack.
• Isabelle Becker, 59, French singer.
• Salam Bin Razzaq, 83, Indian writer and translator.
• Martin Cearns, 79, English football executive, chairman of West Ham United.
• John Charles, 83, New Zealand film composer, conductor, and orchestrator.
• Basit Ahmed Dar, 22, Indian Kashmiri militant commander.
• Jim Flegg, 87, British horticulturalist and broadcaster.
• Thurley Fowler, 99, Australian author.
• Fabio Gallia, 60, Italian banker, CEO of BNP Paribas.
• Neil Grant, 85, New Zealand potter.
• Paul Holmes, 56, English footballer, cancer.
• Ronald Alan Hurst, 94, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives.
• Jan Helge Jansen, 86, Norwegian politician, MP.
• Ignatius Jones, 66–67, Australian-Filipino singer and journalist.
• Kim Ki-nam, 94, North Korean politician, director of the Propaganda and Agitation Department of the Workers' Party of Korea, multiple organ failure.
• Leo Kogeldans, 93, Surinamese footballer.
• Antonio Mentor, 74, Brazilian businessman and politician, São Paulo MLA.
• Reid Morden, 82, Canadian diplomat and civil servant, director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
• Paul Parkman, 91, American physician, lymphoblastic leukemia.
• Joan Rigol, 81, Spanish politician, president of the parliament of Catalonia, Catalan minister of employment and culture.
• Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, 95, American landscape architect and graphic designer.
• Phil Wiggins, 69, American blues musician, cancer.
• Jan Ptaszyn Wróblewski, 88, Polish jazz musician, composer and arranger.

8

• Ifigeneia Asteriadi, 57, Greek actress, cancer.
• K. Vasantha Bangera, 78, Indian politician, Karnataka MLA.
• John Barbata, 79, American rock drummer.
• Colleen Barrett, 79, American airline executive, president of Southwest Airlines.
• Saudade Braga, 75, Brazilian politician, mayor of Nova Friburgo.
• Viv Busby, 74, English football player and manager.
• Chris Cannon, 73, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
• Gérard César, 89, French politician, three-time deputy, senator.
• Lázaro Chiappe, 87, Argentine lawyer and politician, senator and vice-governor of Corrientes Province.
• Graham Cooper, 83, British Olympic rower.
• Jean Emelina, 90, French academic and writer.
• Grace Chijimma Ezema, 81, Nigerian electrical engineer.
• Vicente Fernández-Capel, 76, Spanish lawyer and politician, member of the Andalusian parliament, multiple contusions.
• Ramón Fonseca Mora, 71, Panamanian lawyer and novelist, co-founder of Mossack Fonseca.
• Oleg Gudymo, 79, Transnistrian politician.
• Thomas M. Holcomb, 78, American politician, member of the Michigan House of Representatives.
• Art Jimmerson, 60, American boxer and mixed martial artist.
• Jimmy Johnson, 86, American Hall of Fame football player.
• Terrol Dew Johnson, 51–52, American Tohono Oʼodham basket weaver.
• Carolyn J. Krysiak, 84, American politician, member of the Maryland House of Delegates.
• George Lavery, 93, Northern Irish Gaelic footballer.
• Jean Lavoué, 69, French author, poet and essayist.
• Jan Lundqvist, 97, Swedish academic and geologist.
• Giovanna Marini, 87, Italian singer-songwriter.
• Pete McCloskey, 96, American politician and activist, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, heart and kidney failure.
• Brian Phelan, 89, Irish actor, dramatist and screenwriter.
• Jack Quinn, 74, American lawyer, White House counsel and chief of staff to the vice president, complications from a double-lung transplant.
• Moosa Raza, 87, Indian civil servant.
• Julio Salazar, 89, Peruvian army general and convicted murderer, defence minister and head of the national intelligence service.
• Frank P. Simoneaux, 90, American politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives.
• Sangeeth Sivan, 65, Indian film director and screenwriter.
• Julia Trashlieva, 88, Bulgarian rhythmic gymnast.
• C. Velayudham, 73, Indian politician, Tamil Nadu MLA.
• Wang Geng, 96, Chinese scientist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
• Shirley Warren, 84, New Zealand politician.
• K. P. Yohannan, 74, Indian Christian prelate, metropolitan bishop of Believers Eastern Church, traffic collision.

9

• Barry Axelrod, 77, American sports agent.
• Ibrahim Babangida, 47, Nigerian footballer, traffic collision.
• Bai Yilong, 83, Chinese mechanist and academic.
• Avner Ben-Gal, 57, Israeli painter and artist.
• Colin Breed, 77, British politician, MP.
• Sean Burroughs, 43, American baseball player, Olympic champion, heart attack.
• Dame Shirley Conran, 91, British writer and journalist, pneumonia.
• Roger Corman, 98, American film director and producer.
• Henri Coupon, 94, French lawyer, author and screenwriter.
• Vladimir Dorofeev, 86–87, Russian politician, deputy.
• Silvio Fazio, 72, Italian-French novelist.
• Gary Greaves, 88, American football player.
• James Gregory, 78, American comedian, cardiac complications.
• Rosemary Haughton, 97, British Catholic lay theologian.
• Nonny Hogrogian, 92, American writer and illustrator, cancer.
• Bobby Hooper, 77, American basketball player.
• Tozammel Tony Huq, 84, Bangladeshi-British diplomat and civil servant.
• Ivan Ivanji, 95, Serbian author.
• Akmal Lewaney, 78, Pakistani Pashto poet.
• Cam McCarthy, 29, Australian footballer.
• Yvonne Mokgoro, 73, South African jurist, judge of the Constitutional Court, injuries sustained in a traffic collision.
• Rex Murphy, 77, Canadian commentator and writer, cancer.
• Kurt Narvesen, 75, Norwegian poet and translator.
• Larry Polansky, 69, American composer and musician.
• Toini Pöysti, 90, Finnish cross-country skier, Olympic bronze medallist.
• Raúl Sanz Jiménez, 74, Spanish businessman and politician, member of the Parliament of La Rioja.
• Tore Schweder, 81, Norwegian statistician.
• Buzz Stephen, 79, American baseball player.
• Philip Tagg, 80, British musicologist, writer, and educator.
• Dennis Thompson, 75, American Hall of Fame drummer, complications from a heart attack.
• Jon Urbanchek, 87, Hungarian-born American Hall of Fame swimming coach, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Andrés Vega Delfín, 93, Mexican folk guitarist.

10

• Svetomir Arsić-Basara, 95, Serbian sculptor and writer.
• Mary Banotti, 84, Irish politician, MEP.
• Bob Bruggers, 80, American football player and professional wrestler.
• Kostas Chatzimichail, 92, Greek football player and manager.
• Geir Dahlen, 63, Norwegian Olympic road racing cyclist.
• Isa Dongoyaro, 46, Nigerian politician, member of the house of representatives.
• Christopher Edley Jr., 71, American legal scholar, complications from surgery.
• Hugh Edwards, 90, Australian journalist, writer, and marine photographer.
• Gao Hongbin, 71, Chinese government official, vice minister of agriculture.
• Ranjith Kumara, 77, Sri Lankan film journalist.
• Bruce Maccabee, 82, American physicist and ufologist.
• Tom Marshall, 93, American basketball player.
• Richard McClure, 89, Canadian rower, Olympic silver medallist.
• Gerhard Müller, 95, German theologian and clergyman, bishop of the Lutheran Church in Brunswick, bishop of the VELKD.
• Mutang Tagal, 69, Malaysian politician, MP and president of the Dewan Negara.
• Barbara Nawratowicz, 91, Polish actress, journalist, and cabaret artist.
• Patrick Nilan, 82, Australian field hockey player, Olympic bronze and silver medalist.
• Janis Paterson, 78, New Zealand psychologist and academic.
• Jim Peterson, 82, Canadian politician, MP and minister of international trade diversification, heart attack.
• Sam Rubin, 64, American entertainment journalist, heart attack.
• Karen Saribekyan, 60, Armenian technician and politician, MP.
• Bodo Seidenthal, 76, German engineer and politician, MP.
• Frank Sibley, 76, English footballer, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• André Simonazzi, 55, Swiss politician and journalist.
• Jim Simons, 86, American mathematician, and hedge fund manager, founder of Renaissance Technologies.
• Ali Suheimat, 87–88, Jordanian politician and engineer, mayor of Amman.
• Jan Svanberg, 88, Swedish art historian.
• Alan Unwin, 82, Canadian politician, mayor of St. Catharines.
• Renaud Van Ruymbeke, 71, French magistrate, cancer.
• Hans Wahlgren, 86, Swedish actor.
• Corey Williams, 46, American basketball player, colon cancer.
• Martin Young, 76, British television reporter and investigative journalist, liver cancer.
• Vladimir Zharikov, 85, Russian actor, stuntman and stunt coordinator.

11

• Steve Andrascik, 75, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Susan Backlinie, 77, American actress, heart attack.
• Joël Beaugendre, 74, French politician, member of the National Assembly.
• Terry Blair, 62, American convicted serial killer.
• Kevin Brophy, 70, American actor.
• Luc Bürgin, 53, Swiss writer, publicist, and journalist.
• John Barnard Bush, 87, British farmer and public servant, lord lieutenant of Wiltshire.
• Peter C. Eagler, 69, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly.
• Ron Ellis, 79, Canadian ice hockey player, Stanley Cup champion.
• Tito Gotti, 96, Italian orchestra conductor, musicologist, and essayist.
• Rudolf Kučera, 84, Czech footballer.
• Rubén Monasterios, 86, Venezuelan writer and theatre critic.
• Colin Moyle, 94, New Zealand politician, MP and two-time minister of agriculture.
• Jajang Paliama, 39, Indonesian footballer, traffic collision.
• Surjit Patar, 79, Indian writer and poet.
• Dave Pivec, 80, American football player.
• David Redden, 75, American auctioneer, complications from amyotropic lateral sclerosis.
• Haider Akbar Khan Rono, 81, Bangladeshi political activist.
• Richard Slayman, 62, American transplant patient.
• Juan María Traverso, 73, Argentine racing driver, esophageal cancer.
• Ray Vandeveer, 70, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives and Senate.
• Per Walsøe, 80, Danish badminton player and jurist.
• Mary Wells Lawrence, 95, American advertising executive.
• Jasper White, 69, American chef, restaurateur and cookbook author, brain aneurysm.
• John A. Wickham Jr., 95, American military officer, chief of staff.
• Vladimir Yastrebchak, 44, Transnistrian politician, minister of foreign affairs.

12

• Michael Brudenell-Bruce, 8th Marquess of Ailesbury, 98, British hereditary peer, army officer and stockbroker, member of the House of Lords, fall.
• T. D. Allman, 79, American historian and writer, pneumonia.
• Cuno Barragan, 91, American baseball player, heart failure.
• Amália Barros, 39, Brazilian politician and journalist, federal deputy, complications from surgery.
• Reg Burgess, 89, Australian footballer.
• Mark Damon, 91, American actor and film producer.
• Dame Elizabeth Fradd, 75, British nursing administrator.
• Pavithra Jayaram, 53, Indian actress, traffic collision.
• Sir Clive Johnstone, 60, British Royal Navy officer.
• Tapiwa Kumbuyani, 41, Zimbabwean footballer, liver cancer.
• Stig Lindewall, 87, Swedish Olympic gymnast.
• Ron Lynch, 84, Australian rugby league player and coach.
• Javier Manterola, 87, Spanish civil engineer, member of the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.
• Franca Nuti, 95, Italian actress.
• Luko Paljetak, 80, Croatian poet, writer, and puppeteer.
• Joy Parr, 74–75, Canadian historian, winner of the J.B. Tyrrell Historical Medal.
• Paulo César Pereio, 83, Brazilian actor.
• Jason Pickleman, 59, American graphic designer and artist.
• David Sanborn, 78, American alto saxophonist and television host, six-time Grammy winner, prostate cancer.
• A. J. Smith, 75, American football player, coach and executive, prostate cancer.
• Igor Sysoyev, 43, Russian Olympic triathlete, traffic collision.
• James Williams, 57, British Olympic fencer.

13

• Talal Abu Zarifa, Palestinian communist militant and politician, airstrike.
• Richard Bolton, 80, New Zealand rugby league player and coach.
• Yevgeniy Brago, 95, Russian rower, Olympic silver medalist.
• Berkley Cox, 90, Australian footballer.
• Dai Lixin, 99, Chinese chemist and academician.
• Joseph G. Di Pinto, 92, American politician, member of the Delaware House of Representatives.
• Christian Escoudé, 76, French Gypsy jazz guitarist.
• Bill Friday, 91, Canadian ice hockey referee, cancer.
• Iswar Prasanna Hazarika, 87, Indian politician, MP, heart disease.
• Arthur Irving, 93, Canadian petroleum executive, chairman of Irving Oil.
• Albert C. Jones, 79, American politician, member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives.
• Fred Kajoba, 54, Ugandan football player and coach.
• Waibhav Anil Kale, 46, Indian army officer and United Nations peacekeeper, killed.
• Endel Kiisa, 86, Estonian motorcycle racer.
• Boniface Madubunyi, 90, Nigerian businessman.
• Lucien Mias, 93, French rugby union player.
• Josef Michl, 85, Czech-American chemist, Schrödinger Medal and James Flack Norris Award recipient.
• Sushil Kumar Modi, 72, Indian politician, Bihar MLA, [List of Chamber of Deputies of Chile|deputy chief ministers of Bihar|deputy chief minister of Bihar], and twice MP, cancer.
• Alice Munro, 92, Canadian short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate, complications from dementia.
• Billy Murphy, 80, American baseball player.
• Native Upmanship, 31, Irish racehorse.
• Susanne Page, 86, American photographer.
• Marius Peiris, 82, Sri Lankan Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Colombo.
• Joseph E. Potter, American sociologist.
• Birubala Rabha, 70, Indian human rights activist, esophageal cancer.
• Loftus Roker, 88, Bahamian politician.
• Clarence Sasser, 76, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.
• M. Selvarasu, 67, Indian politician, MP.
• Luis María Serra, 82, Argentine musician and composer.
• Uta Titze-Stecher, 81, German schoolteacher and politician, MP.
• Cyril Wecht, 93, American forensic pathologist, Allegheny County Medical Examiner.
• Samm-Art Williams, 78, American playwright, actor and television producer.

14

• Édgar Alarcón, 63, Peruvian politician, deputy, traffic collision.
• Bob Ashley, 70, American politician, member of the West Virginia House of Delegates and Senate.
• Sue K. Brown, 75, American diplomat, ambassador Montenegro.
• Fabián Cancelarich, 58, Argentine footballer, heart attack.
• Norman L. Crabill, 97, American aerospace engineer.
• Diane Deans, 65, Canadian politician, member of Ottawa City Council, ovarian cancer.
• Ayten Gökçer, 84, Turkish actress.
• Harchibald, 25, Irish racehorse.
• Baiba Indriksone, 92, Latvian actress.
• Jimmy James, 83, Jamaican-British singer, complications from Parkinson's disease and a heart condition.
• Narong Kittikachorn, 90, Thai politician, MP.
• Maxim Kononenko, 53, Russian journalist and political activist, internal bleeding.
• Jacques Monet, 94, Canadian historian and Roman Catholic priest.
• Dene O'Kane, 61, New Zealand snooker player, fall.
• Don Perlin, 94, American comic book artist, co-creator of Moon Knight.
• Mélanie Renaud, 42, Canadian singer, ovarian cancer.
• Ramón Rocha, 84, Spanish politician, member of the Assembly of Extremadura and mayor of Olivenza.
• Netiporn Sanesangkhom, 28, Thai political activist, cardiac arrest.
• Ian Stirling, 82, Canadian biologist.
• Owen John Thomas, 84, Welsh politician, AM.
• Doug Underwood, 77, Australian motorcycle speedway rider.
• Gudrun Ure, 98, Scottish actress.
• Nicholas A. Veliotes, 95, American diplomat, ambassador to Jordan and Egypt.
• Trudi Walend, 80, American politician, member of the North Carolina House of Representatives, complications from a fall.
• Mark Wells, 66, American ice hockey player, Olympic champion.
• Tony Windis, 91, American basketball player.

15

• Abdellatif Abdelhamid, 70, Syrian film director.
• Hisham Arafat, 60, Egyptian politician, minister of transport, cancer.
• Kamla Beniwal, 97, Indian politician, governor of Tripura, Gujarat, and Mizoram.
• Jeanne Bisgood, 100, English amateur golfer.
• Karin Bohle-Lawrenz, 66, German schoolteacher and politician, member of the Bürgerschaft of Bremen.
• Ron Brewer, 87, Canadian football player.
• Frederic J. Brown III, 89, American lieutenant general.
• Imma Costa, 62, Spanish politician, senator and mayor of El Montmell.
• Richard Duncan-Jones, 86, British historian.
• Darren Dutchyshen, 57, Canadian sportscaster, prostate cancer.
• Barbra Fuller, 102, American actress.
• Vlastimil Harapes, 77, Czech actor, ballet dancer and choreographer, lung cancer.
• John Hastings, 82, Canadian politician, Ontario MPP and Toronto District School Board trustee.
• John Hawken, 84, English keyboardist, melanoma.
• Komao Hayashi, 87, Japanese dollmaker.
• Malti Joshi, 89, Indian novelist.
• Barry Kemp, 84, English archaeologist and Egyptologist.
• Tates Locke, 87, American basketball coach.
• Bob McCreadie, 73, American racing driver.
• June Mendoza, 99, Australian portrait painter, stroke.
• Patrick Moenaert, 75, Belgian politician, mayor of Bruges, cancer.
• Elda Peralta, 91, Mexican actress.
• Yvon Picotte, 82, Canadian politician, Quebec MNA.
• Ahmed Piro, 92, Moroccan singer.
• Washington Rodrigues, 87, Brazilian football color commentator.
• James R. Roebuck Jr., 79, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, complications from hypertension and diabetes.
• Katherine Wei-Sender, 93, Chinese-American bridge player and author.
• Hans-Georg Wieck, 96, German diplomat.
• Heinz Zander, 84, German painter.
• Joe Zucker, 83, American artist, multiple organ failure.

16

• Carmen Berenguer, 77, Chilean poet.
• John Brown, 76, English footballer.
• Montserrat Casas, 90, Spanish Roman Catholic nun, abbess of the Royal Monastery of Santa Maria de Pedralbes.
• Dabney Coleman, 92, American actor, Emmy winner, cardiac arrest.
• Randy Fuller, 80, American singer, songwriter and bass guitarist.
• Vishwas Gangurde, Indian politician, Maharashtra MLA.
• Ken Gardner, 74, American basketball player.
• Eddie Gossage, 65, American motorsports promoter, cancer.
• Zari Khoshkam, 76, Iranian actress.
• Silvio Luiz, 89, Brazilian sports commentator, stroke.
• Enrique Méndez Jr., 92, Puerto Rican major general.
• Akira Nakao, 81, Japanese actor, heart failure.
• Vineet Nayyar, 85, Indian information technology executive, chairman of Mahindra Satyam.
• Greg Newman, 38, American college football player.
• Park Myeong-seo, 85, South Korean politician, MP.
• Dale Power, 74, Canadian tennis player, blood and bladder cancer.
• Jaye Robinson, 61, Canadian politician, member of Toronto City Council, breast cancer.
• Carmen Sheila, 79, Brazilian voice actress.
• Dharmapaal Barsingh Thapa, 85, Nepali military officer, chief of Army Staff, lung disease.
• Verónica Toussaint, 48, Mexican actress and television presenter, breast cancer.

17

• John Alksne, 90, American neurosurgeon and academic.
• Bud Anderson, 102, American Air Force colonel and flying ace.
• Steve Baer, 85, American inventor.
• Gordon Bell, 89, American electrical engineer, aspiration pneumonia.
• Thaneswar Boro, 85, Indian politician, Assam MLA, heart disease.
• Pat Buckley, 72, Irish independent Catholic bishop.
• Charlie Colin, 57, American bassist and guitarist, fall.
• Graham Cox, 65, English footballer.
• Mahlon DeLong, 86, American neurologist.
• Isabella Dryden, 106, Canadian educator.
• Garba Duba, 82, Nigerian army general and politician, governor of Sokoto State and Bauchi State.
• Tony Ekubia, 64, Nigerian-British boxer.
• Sid Going, 80, New Zealand Hall of Fame rugby union player.
• Anthony Haswell, 93, American attorney and passenger rail advocate.
• Malcolm Hill, 85, Australian rules footballer.
• James Hubbell, 92, American visual artist.
• Pål Johannessen, 65, Norwegian actor, heart attack.
• Schuyler Jones, 94, American archaeologist and anthropologist.
• Avtandil Jorbenadze, 73, Georgian politician, minister of health and social affairs.
• Yukio Kurita, 94, Japanese politician, governor of Fukui Prefecture.
• Lou Lieberman, 85, Australian politician, Victoria MLA and MP.
• Roberta Marrero, 52, Spanish artist, singer and actress, suicide.
• Bette Nash, 88, American flight attendant and Guinness World Record holder, breast cancer.
• Benny Petrus, 67, American politician, member of the Arkansas House of Representatives.
• Gene E. K. Pratter, 75, American jurist, judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
• Aminur Rahman, 69, Bangladeshi footballer, heart failure.
• Stephen J. Rivele, 75, American screenwriter.
• Anne deBlois Smart, 88, American-born Canadian librarian and politician, Saskatchewan MLA.
• Príamo Tejeda, 90, Dominican Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Santo Domingo and bishop of Baní.
• Hideyuki Umezu, 68, Japanese voice actor, pneumonia.
• Denys Vasyliuk, 31, Ukrainian fighter pilot, shot down.
• Sharkey Ward, 80, British Royal Navy officer and aviator, heart attack.
• Peter Weber, 85, German gymnast, Olympic bronze medalist.

18

• Edgeir Benum, 84, Norwegian historian.
• Willi Brokmeier, 96, German tenor.
• Peter Buxtun, 86, Czech-born American whistleblower, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Palle Danielsson, 77, Swedish jazz double bassist.
• Yael Dayan, 85, Israeli writer and politician, MK, lung disease.
• Joseph Suren Gomes, 80, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Krishnagar, heart failure.
• Patrick Gottsch, 70, American media executive.
• Geane Herrera, 33, American mixed martial artist, traffic collision.
• Frank Ifield, 86, Australian singer.
• John Koerner, 85, American songwriter and guitarist, bile duct cancer.
• Andrey Kudriashov, 32, Russian motorcycle speedway racer, skin cancer.
• Araceli Limcaco-Dans, 94, Filipino painter and educator.
• Agustín Ramón Martínez, 62, Israeli-Paraguayan serial killer and fraudster.
• Jerrold Northrop Moore, 90, American-born British musicologist.
• Luis Moroder, 83, Italian peptide chemist.
• Ivan Mráz, 82, Slovak football player and manager, Olympic silver medalist.
• Janice K. Nicolay, 82, American politician, member of the South Dakota House of Representatives.
• Bruce Nordstrom, 90, American retail executive, chairman of Nordstrom.
• Sir Tony O'Reilly, 88, Irish media executive, owner of Mediahuis Ireland, and rugby union player.
• George Papageorgiou, 68, American college football player and coach.
• Pequeño Nitro, 40, Mexican professional wrestler.
• Alberto Piazza, 82, Italian geneticist.
• Claude Pujade-Renaud, 92, Tunisian-born French writer.
• Fred Roos, 89, American film producer, Oscar winner.
• Salim Haji Said, 80, Indonesian journalist and academician.
• Tim Seely, 88, English actor.
• Jerald D. Slack, 88, American air force major general, cancer.
• Alice Stewart, 58, American political commentator.
• Guy R. Strong, 93, American college basketball coach.
• Md. Wali Ullah, 87, Bangladeshi politician, MP.
• Narayanan Vaghul, 88, Indian banker, chairman of the Bank of India.
• Francisco Villagrán de León, 70, Guatemalan diplomat, academic and presidential advisor, ambassador to the United States, complications from a fall.
• Harrison White, 94, American sociologist.
• Rahmatullo Zoirov, 67, Tajik legal scholar and human rights activist.

19

• Bola Afonja, 81, Nigerian politician, minister of labour.
• Marshall Allen, 52, American journalist, heart attack.
• Larry Bensky, 87, American journalist and radio host.
• Prataprao Baburao Bhosale, 89, Indian politician, MP and Maharashtra MLA.
• Peggi Blu, 77, American singer and vocal coach.
• Caroline Dawson, 45, Chilean-born Canadian writer, bone cancer.
• Peder Falk, 76, Swedish actor.
• Richard Foronjy, 86, American actor.
• Sir Cyril Fountain, 94, Bahamian judge and lawyer, chief justice.
• Franchino, 71, Italian disc jockey, complications from a heart attack.
• H. Bruce Franklin, 90, American scholar, corticobasal degeneration.
• Aloísio Teixeira Garcia, 80, Brazilian academic and politician, Minas Gerais MLA.
• James L. Greenfield, 99, American newspaper editor and government official, assistant secretary of state for public affairs, kidney failure.
• Ian Hamilton, 73, English footballer.
• Sjef Hensgens, 76, Dutch Olympic middle-distance runner.
• Kwassi Klutse, 78, Togolese politician, prime minister.
• Ali Al-Kourani, 79, Lebanese Islamic cleric, heart attack.
• Dick Kuiper, 85, Dutch academic and politician, senator.
• Christian Malanga, 41, Congolese politician and military officer, leader of the 2024 Democratic Republic of the Congo coup attempt, shot.
• Jim Otto, 86, American Hall of Fame football player.
• Sigmund Rolat, 93, Polish philanthropist, art collector, and Holocaust survivor, founding donor of POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews.
• Bruno Siebert, 91, Chilean Army general and politician, minister of public works and senator.
• Stephen Smalley, 93, British religious leader, Dean of Chester.
• Claude Villeneuve, 69, Canadian academic and biologist.
• Bill Wood, 88, Australian politician, Queensland MP, ACT MLA.
• Iranian politicians killed in the 2024 Varzaqan helicopter crash:
• *Mohammad Ali Ale-Hashem, 61, representative of the Supreme Leader in East Azerbaijan
• *Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, 60, minister of foreign affairs, ambassador to Bahrain
• *Malek Rahmati, 41–42, governor-general of East Azerbaijan
• *Ebrahim Raisi, 63, president, chief justice, and prosecutor-general

20

• Bad Bones, 40, German professional wrestler, heart attack.
• Ivan Boesky, 87, American insider trader.
• Kevin Burns, 63, New Zealand cricketer.
• Sam Butcher, 85, American artist.
• Gerry Collins, 69, Scottish football player and manager.
• Aida Cruz, 101, Filipino architect, heart failure.
• Ellis Douek, 90, Egyptian-born British surgeon.
• Jean-Claude Gaudin, 84, French politician, senator, minister of the city, and mayor of Marseille.
• Gebhard Halder, 81, Austrian farmer and politician, president of the Landtag of Vorarlberg.
• John E. Hales Jr., 81, American meteorologist, bladder cancer.
• Emmanuel Hendrickx, 84, Belgian lawyer and politician, governor of Walloon Brabant.
• Hossain Uddin Hossain, 83, Bangladeshi essayist and novelist.
• Thomas W. Long, 94, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly.
• Fernando Martínez Castellano, 82, Spanish politician, mayor of Valencia.
• Eiko Masuyama, 88, Japanese voice actress.
• Bertus Mulder, 95, Dutch architect.
• Gary Okihiro, 79, American academic.
• David Penny, 85, New Zealand evolutionary biologist, Rutherford Medal, Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.
• Fran Rooney, 67, Irish footballer and businessman, cancer.
• Karl-Heinz Schnellinger, 85, German footballer.
• Bill Serong, 88, Australian footballer.
• Ewa Sikorska-Trela, 81, Polish trade unionist and politician, MP.
• Perrette Souplex, 94, French actress.
• Hans Joachim Specht, 87, German nuclear physicist.
• Edward Trobaugh, 91, American army major general.
• Frank Yandrisevits, 69, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
• Vladimir Yereshchenko, 61, Russian Olympic boxer.

21

• Vladimir Agapov, 90, Russian football player and manager.
• Sajjad Akbar, 63, Pakistani cricketer, heart attack.
• Louis Bergaud, 95, French road bicycle racer.
• Robert Castelli, 74, American security consultant and politician, member of the New York State Assembly.
• Ralph Chapoteau, 69, Haitian painter, cancer.
• Joan Cushing, 77, American political satirist, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Richard Ellis, 86, American marine biologist, cardiac arrest.
• Hank Foiles, 94, American baseball player.
• Frank Galle, 87, Australian rules footballer.
• Stanley P. Goldstein, 89, American businessman, co-founder of CVS Health, cancer.
• Werner Hink, 81, Austrian violinist.
• Gene Nora Jessen, 87, American aviator.
• Jan A. P. Kaczmarek, 71, Polish film composer, Oscar winner, complications from multiple system atrophy.
• Ona Kreivytė-Naruševičienė, 88, Lithuanian ceramic artist.
• Heljä Liukko-Sundström, 85, Finnish artist.
• Manu Majumdar, 64, Bangladeshi politician, MP.
• Leocadio Marín, 81, Spanish politician, mayor of Baeza and member of the Andalusian parliament.
• Florence Minor, 74, American children's author.
• Carlos Paravís, 56, Uruguayan physician and folk singer, esophageal cancer.
• Bastiaan Poortenaar, 55, Dutch Olympic field hockey player, cardiac arrest.
• Pendyala Venkata Krishna Rao, 84, Indian politician, member of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly.
• James Selfe, 68, South African politician, MP.
• Erdoğan Şuhubi, 89, Turkish mathematician and engineer.
• Günter Weitling, 89, Danish theologian, historian, and author.
• Danny Wells, 84, American politician, member of the West Virginia House of Delegates.
• Gary Willard, 64, English football referee, leukaemia.
• Kiane Zawadi, 91, American jazz trombonist and euphonium player.

22

• Md. Anwarul Azim Anar, 56, Bangladeshi politician, MP.
• Zoraya ter Beek, 29, Dutch psychiatric patient, euthanized.
• Rolf-Ernst Breuer, 86, German businessman and jurist, CEO of Deutsche Bank.
• Diana Cabeza, 69, Argentine architect and designer, cancer.
• Barry Davis, 80, Australian footballer.
• Margaret Bryan Davis, 92, American palynologist and paleoecologist.
• Gaetano Di Vaio, 56, Italian actor, screenwriter and producer, traffic collision.
• Peter Dusek, 79, Austrian historian, archivist, and journalist.
• John England, 83, New Zealand cricketer.
• Marie-France Garaud, 90, French politician and political advisor, MEP.
• Bob Grant, 77, American football player.
• L. Martin Griffin, 103, American environmentalist.
• Darryl Hickman, 92, American actor.
• Toni Montano, 62, Serbian rock musician.
• Hiroshi Nakamura, 93–94, Japanese dissident.
• Mimoza Nestorova-Tomić, 94–95, Macedonian architect, planner, and urban designer.
• Othon, 79, Brazilian football player and manager.
• Silvia Reyes, 75, Spanish LGBTI rights activist.
• Brian Ridley, 93, British physicist.
• Dorothy Ross, 87, American historian.
• Iqbal Ahmed Saradgi, 79, Indian politician, MP.
• Shin Kyeong-nim, 88, South Korean poet, cancer.
• Petri Sulonen, 60, Finnish footballer, complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• John Upham, 83, Canadian baseball player.
• Paul Vermeulen, 86, French racing cyclist.
• Manfried Welan, 86, Austrian lawyer and politician, third president of the Municipal Council and Landtag of Vienna.
• Vic White, 92, English motorcycle speedway rider, promoter and manager.
• David Wilkie, 70, Scottish swimmer, Olympic champion, world champion, cancer.
• Brian Denis Wilson, 99, British Army officer and colonial administrator.

23

• Franco Anelli, 60, Italian academic administrator, rector of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, suicide by jumping.
• Nabam Atum, 76, Indian social activist, throat cancer.
• Sir John Boardman, 96, British archaeologist and art historian.
• Caleb Carr, 68, American author, cancer.
• Marc Camille Chaimowicz, 77, French artist.
• Valery Chtak, 42, Russian conceptual artist.
• Destiny Deacon, 67, Australian indigenous photographer.
• Travis Flores, 33, American writer, activist, and motivational speaker, complications from cystic fibrosis.
• Ángeles Flórez Peón, 105, Spanish socialist militant, writer and Civil War veteran.
• Russell Fraser, 90, Canadian politician, British Columbia MLA.
• Alan B. Handler, 92, American judge, justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court.
• Ibrahim Haydari, 88, Iraqi sociologist.
• Janusz Mazurek, 80, Polish politician, senator.
• Sonja Morawetz Sinclair, 102, Czechoslovak-born Canadian journalist, author, and cryptographer.
• P. N. Patil, 71, Indian politician, Maharashtra MLA, fall.
• Greg Philo, 76, English sociologist.
• John Albert Raven, 82, British botanist.
• Terry Robards, 84, American wine critic.
• John Maddox Roberts, 76, American author.
• Harry John Roland, 70, American orator, heart attack.
• Emanuel Schegloff, 86, American linguist and sociologist.
• Rudolf Spoor, 85, Dutch television director.
• Morgan Spurlock, 53, American film director, cancer.
• Eric Upton, 71, Canadian football player.
• Virginia V. Weldon, 88, Canadian-born American pediatric endocrinologist.

24

• Leslie Adams, 91, American composer.
• Minerva Allen, 90, American poet.
• Jorge Arganis Díaz Leal, 81, Mexican civil engineer, secretary of infrastructure, communications and transport.
• Heather Ayrton, 89–90, New Zealand coroner and journalist.
• Ayo Banjo, 90, Nigerian academic administrator, vice-chancellor of the University of Ibadan.
• Stuart Borrowman, 71, Scottish politician, stroke.
• George William Coleman, 85, American Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Fall River.
• Júlio Sarmento da Costa, 64, East Timorese politician, MP.
• Ena Cremona, 88, Maltese jurist.
• Cynthia DeFelice, 72, American author.
• Rosemary Deloford, 96, British squash and tennis player.
• Nasrullah Gadani, 40, Pakistani journalist and social media activist, shot.
• Angela Gentzmer, 94, German author and songwriter.
• Mark Gormley, 67, American singer-songwriter.
• Jean-Marc Hamel, 99, Canadian civil servant, chief electoral officer.
• Hildegard Hammerschmidt-Hummel, 80, German Shakespearean scholar.
• James A. Herrick, 69, American academic.
• Fred Hissong, 92, American general.
• Doug Ingle, 78, American musician and songwriter.
• Kabosu, 18, Japanese Shiba Inu dog and Internet meme, leukemia.
• Jan Kačer, 87, Czech actor, theatre director and politician, MP.
• Walter Kappacher, 85, Austrian writer.
• Anna Mahase, 91, Trinidadian educator.
• Derek Morgan, 88, Welsh-English rugby union player.
• José Antonio Murgas, 94, Colombian politician, governor of Cesar and minister of labour.
• Abdulmalik Jauro Musa, Nigerian politician, member of the Adamawa State House of Assembly.
• Nor Zamri Latiff, 55, Malaysian politician, Penang MLA, stomach disease.
• Richard Pascale, 85, American academic, management theorist and business advisor.
• Paul Paviour, 93, English organist, composer and conductor.
• Qiu Weiliu, 91, Chinese engineer.
• Santiago Omar Riveros, 100, Argentine general, clandestine detention center commander and convicted criminal.
• Christian Rudzki, 77, Argentine footballer.
• Lew Stansby, 83, American bridge player.
• David Teacher, 100, British World War II veteran.
• David Walker, 82, Australian racing driver.
• Xavier Sylvestre Yangongo, 77, Central African general and politician, minister of justice.
• Janusz Edmund Zimniak, 90, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Katowice and Bielsko and Żywiec.

25

• Laurie Ackermann, 90, South African judge.
• Mohammad Anwarul Haque, 77, Bangladeshi jurist, justice of the supreme court.
• Carlo J. Caparas, 80, Filipino comics artist and film director.
• Mike Cotten, 84, American college football player.
• Rakesh Daultabad, 45, Indian politician, Haryana MLA, heart attack.
• Madge Elliot, 95, Scottish rail activist, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Hugues Gall, 84, French opera administrator, director of the Paris Opera.
• Gary Gubner, 81, American athlete and Olympic weightlifter.
• Janisa Johnson, 32, American volleyball player, cancer.
• Chip Kell, 75, American Hall of Fame football player, pneumonia.
• Franciscus Kuijpers, 83, Dutch chess player.
• Ibrahim Lamorde, 61, Nigerian police officer, chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
• Leah Levin, 98, British human rights activist.
• Richard Mazza, 84, American politician, member of the Vermont House of Representatives and Senate.
• Gladys Smuckler Moskowitz, 96, American singer, composer and teacher.
• Grayson Murray, 30, American golfer, two-time PGA Tour winner, suicide.
• Johnny Ngan, 71, Hong Kong actor, squamous-cell carcinoma.
• Ōshio Kenji, 76, Japanese sumo wrestler.
• Mathias Asoma Puozaa, 76, Ghanaian politician, MP.
• Peter Rosenthal, 82, American-Canadian mathematician, lawyer, and activist, complications from COVID-19.
• Albert S. Ruddy, 94, American film and television producer, Oscar winner.
• Richard M. Sherman, 95, American film songwriter, Oscar winner.
• Sanford L. Smith, 84, American businessman, founder of the Outsider Art Fair, heart failure.
• Johnny Wactor, 37, American actor, shot.

26

• John Adams, 85, British geographer.
• Georgie Campbell, 37, British event rider, fall.
• Eduardo Contreras Mella, 84, Chilean politician, deputy.
• Samuel Lewis Galindo, 96, Panamanian businessman, politician, and author.
• Scott Ginsburg, 71, American businessman.
• Talat Hussain, 83, Pakistani actor.
• Klaus Kilimann, 85, German physicist and politician, lord mayor of Rostock.
• Leary Lentz, 79, American basketball player.
• John MacBean, 88, Australian trade unionist, secretary of Labor Council of New South Wales, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Bertien van Manen, 89, Dutch photographer.
• Devadass Ambrose Mariadoss, 76, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Tanjore.
• Carol McFarlane, 73, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives.
• Tony Scott, 72, American baseball player.
• Vinay Shakya, 54, Indian politician, Uttar Pradesh MLA.
• Caroline Sinavaiana-Gabbard, 78, American Samoan academic and writer, stabbed.
• Anant Solkar, 72, Indian cricketer.
• Goran Stanisavljević, 60, Serbian football player and manager.
• Don Webb, 89, British playwright and script writer, prostate cancer.
• Scott Williams, 67, American stencil artist.
• Ludwika Wujec, 83, Polish physicist, politician, and anti-Communist dissident.

27

• Ghigo Agosti, 87, Italian singer-songwriter.
• Salah Omar al-Ali, 85, Iraqi diplomat and politician.
• Ștefan Birtalan, 75, Romanian handball player, coach and sports official, Olympic silver medallist.
• Alan Choe, 93, Singaporean architect and urban planner.
• Joseph A. Day, 79, Canadian politician, senator.
• Rodger Fox, 71, New Zealand jazz trombonist, educator and bandleader.
• Orlando J. George Jr., 79, American academic administrator and politician, member and speaker of the Delaware House of Representatives, president of DTCC.
• Butch Johnson, 68, American archer, Olympic champion and bronze medalist.
• Jan Kieniewicz, 85, Polish historian.
• Elizabeth MacRae, 88, American actress.
• David Mayne, 94, South African-born British academic.
• Nancy Norman, 99, American singer.
• Ivan O'Neal, Vincentian politician.
• Otoni de Paula Pai, 71, Brazilian politician, Rio de Janeiro MLA, liver cancer.
• Francesco Petrozzi, 62, Peruvian lyric tenor and politician, MP.
• Surya Prakash, Indian film director.
• Bill Walton, 71, American Hall of Fame basketball player, and sportscaster, colorectal cancer.

28

• Róbert Cvi Bornstein, 98, Slovak resistance fighter and Holocaust survivor.
• Richard Cusimano, 84, American historian.
• Malcolm Fairley, 72, British criminal and sex offender.
• Sverre M. Fjelstad, 93, Norwegian zoologist, photographer, and non-fiction writer.
• Manuel Franquelo, 71, Spanish painter and sculptor.
• Elinor Fuchs, 91, American theatre scholar and critic.
• Bob Gunderman, 89, American football player.
• Pauline Harrison, 97, British protein crystallographer.
• Georgette Ioup, 84, American linguist.
• Charles Lindsay Longest, 91, American Episcopal prelate, bishop of Maryland.
• Oleksandr Martynenko, 63, Ukrainian journalist and presidential press secretary, deputy chief of the Presidential Administration.
• Jan van Munster, 84, Dutch sculptor and installation artist.
• Mary O'Rourke, Irish barrister.
• George Provopoulos, 74, Greek economist, governor of the Bank of Greece, cancer.
• Hub Reed, 89, American basketball player.
• Morley Rosenberg, 87, Canadian lawyer and politician, mayor of Kitchener.
• John E. Rouille, 92, American law enforcement officer, U.S. Marshal for Vermont.
• Dadash Rzayev, 88, Azerbaijani major general, minister of defence.
• Russell T. Scott Jr., 85, American classicist and historian.
• Bill Spence, 101, English writer.
• Ken Tucker, 89, Australian cycling coach.
• Jac Venza, 97, American television producer.

29

• Hank Allen, 83, American baseball player.
• Ron Ayers, 92, English engineer.
• Sir Mansel Aylward, 81, Welsh physician and academic, chair of Public Health Wales.
• John Beckwith, 91, Australian rules footballer.
• Margot Benacerraf, 97, Venezuelan film director.
• Steve Blyth, 69, Australian rugby league player, complications from dementia.
• John Burnside, 69, Scottish writer and poet.
• Larry Cannon, 77, American basketball player.
• Cayouche, 75, Canadian singer-songwriter, cancer.
• Jack Clemons, 80, American aerospace engineer.
• Gerald Dawe, 72, Irish poet, academic and literary critic.
• André Dupré, 93, French racing cyclist.
• Franziskus Eisenbach, 81, German Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Mainz.
• Pierre Flor-Henry, 90, Canadian psychiatrist.
• Bishop Harris, 82, American football coach.
• Thomas Heise, 68, German documentary filmmaker.
• Larry R. Hicks, 80, American jurist, judge of the U.S. District Court for Nevada, traffic collision.
• Nora Houfová, 99, Austrian actress.
• Qayum Karzai, 77, Afghan politician, MP.
• Bob Mackowycz, 55, Canadian musician, writer and broadcaster.
• Henri Nallet, 85, French politician, minister for justice and agriculture.
• Alberto Robol, 79, Italian politician, senator.
• Bob Rogers, 97, Australian disc jockey and radio broadcaster.
• Erich Sackmann, 90, German biophysicist.
• Mansour Seck, 69, Senegalese singer and musician.
• Inna Solovyova, 96, Russian film and theatre critic.
• Arjen Teeuwissen, 53, Dutch equestrian, Olympic silver medalist.
• Claude Torracinta, 89, French-born Swiss journalist.
• Leslie Watson, 67, New Zealand cricketer, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Manfred Wolke, 81, German boxer, Olympic champion.
• Anastasia Zavorotnyuk, 53, Russian actress and television presenter, glioblastoma.

30

• Thumma Bala, 80, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, archbishop of Hyderabad.
• Mitchell Block, 73, American film producer.
• Tom Bower, 86, American actor.
• Ron Branton, 90, Australian footballer.
• Nora Cortiñas, 94, Argentine social psychologist and human rights activist, co-founder of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo.
• Doug Dagger, 56, American punk rock singer, cancer.
• Trevor Edwards, 87, Welsh footballer.
• Kelvin Felix, 91, Dominican Roman Catholic cardinal, archbishop of Castries.
• Danny Fife, 74, American baseball player, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Dolores Warwick Frese, 88, American medievalist and writer.
• Geneviève de Galard, 99, French nurse.
• Drew Gordon, 33, American basketball player, traffic collision.
• Hugh Graham, 90, American figure skater.
• Manjur Hossain, 68, Bangladesh politician, MP.
• Kalev Kallo, 75, Estonian politician and convicted criminal.
• Austin Lewis, 91, Australian politician, senator.
• Courtenay Meredith, 97, Welsh rugby player.
• John A. Moses, 93, Australian historian and Anglican priest.
• Jon T. Pitts, 76, American mathematician.
• Shelton Premaratne, 94, Sri Lankan composer and instrumentalist.
• Pekka Salminen, 86, Finnish architect.
• Gordon Shrake, 87, Canadian politician, Alberta MLA.
• Kate Tiller, 74–75, British academic.
• Carl A. Trocki, 84, American historian.

31

• Amaral, 69, Brazilian footballer, cancer.
• Richard Bawden, 88, English painter, printmaker and designer.
• Peter Beal, 80, British manuscript expert and indexer, pneumonia.
• Elvedin Begić, 63, Bosnian football executive, president of the Football Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina, cancer.
• Berthé Aïssata Bengaly, 67, Malian politician and nutrition researcher.
• Adelaide Carpenter, 79, American fruit fly geneticist.
• Lionel Dyck, 79–80, Zimbabwean mercenary and soldier, cancer.
• Ronald A. Edmonds, 77, American photojournalist, Pulitzer Prize winner, pneumonia.
• John Goold, 82, Australian footballer, cancer.
• David Grimmond, 80, Australian rugby union player.
• John G. Hutchinson, 89, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
• Alexander Lang, 82, German actor and stage director.
• Ed Mann, 69, American drummer and keyboardist.
• Peter Morris, 90, Australian rules footballer.
• Ron Morris, 89, American pole vaulter, Olympic silver medalist.
• Yuka Motohashi, 46, Japanese actress, cancer.
• Robert Pickton, 74, Canadian serial killer, complications from stab wounds.
• Rafael Quevedo Flores, 87–88, Peruvian politician and engineer, minister of agriculture.
• Lindsay Reeler, 63, Zambian-born Australian cricketer.
• Marian Robinson, 86, American secretary.
• Syed Mumtaz Ali Shah, 91, Pakistani actor.
• Seán Óg Sheehy, 85, Irish Gaelic footballer.
• Kent Shelhamer, 99, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
• Martin Starger, 92, American entertainment executive and film and television producer.
• William W. Taft, 91, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives and Senate.
• Kátya Tompos, 41, Hungarian actress and singer, cancer.
• Scott Wampler, 43–44, American podcaster and film journalist.
• Ruiko Yoshida, 89, Japanese photojournalist.