Deaths in October 2023

October 2023

1

• Jake Abraham, 56, British actor, prostate cancer.
• Lars Arnesson, 87, Swedish football player and manager.
• Julian Bahula, 85, South African drummer, composer and bandleader.
• Wilf Billington, 93, English footballer.
• Nikolai Bulgakov, 63, Russian football player and manager.
• Eve Bunting, 94, Northern Irish-born American author, pneumonia.
• David Burrell, 90, American academic and theologian.
• Jim Caple, 61, American sports journalist and writer, complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and dementia.
• Russ Francis, 70, football player, plane crash.
• Ron Haffkine, 84, American record producer and music manager, leukemia and kidney failure.
• Kenneth Horsnell, 90, Australian cricketer.
• Patricia Janečková, 25, Slovak soprano, breast cancer.
• Kim Yong-il, 76, North Korean diplomat and politician.
• Theresa Kufuor, 87, Ghanaian nurse, first lady.
• Doug Larsen, 47, American politician, member of the North Dakota Senate, plane crash.
• Richard J. Lesniak, 84, American politician, member of the Indiana House of Representatives.
• Sir Christopher Lewinton, 91, British-American businessman.
• Joyce Currie Little, 89, American computer scientist.
• Frank McDougall, 65, Scottish footballer, heart disease.
• Richard McSpadden, 63, American educator and USAF pilot, commander of Thunderbirds, plane crash.
• Enoch Teye Mensah, 77, Ghanaian politician, MP.
• Robert Misrahi, 97, French philosopher.
• Elinés Olivero, 21, Venezuelan military officer.
• Peter Penfold, 79, British diplomat, governor of the Virgin Islands and high commissioner to Sierra Leone, cancer.
• Nikolay Pivovarov, 92, Russian engineer and politician, member of the Supreme Soviet of Russia.
• George Reed, 83, American Hall of Fame football player.
• Tripurari Sharma, 67, Indian playwright, stage director and screenwriter.
• Roberto Thieme, 80, Chilean political activist.
• Tim Wakefield, 57, American baseball player and commentator, brain cancer.
• John Waring, 81, English cricketer.
• Claudius E. Watts III, 87, American Air Force general, president of The Citadel.
• Beverly Willis, 95, American architect, complications from Parkinson's disease.

2

• Kevin M. Birmingham, 51, American Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Chicago.
• Guy Briet, 87, French football manager.
• Mack C. Chase, 92, American petroleum businessman.
• Casey Cox, 82, American baseball player.
• Marie-Daniel Dadiet, 71, Ivorian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Katiola and archbishop of Korhogo.
• Lynn Eves, 81, Canadian Olympic sprinter.
• Mel Fitzgerald, 70, Canadian wheelchair racer, three-time Paralympic champion, cardiovascular disease.
• Herbert Handt, 97, American operatic tenor and conductor.
• Lefteris Hapsiadis, 69, Greek lyricist.
• Syed Amir Ali Shah Jamote, 82, Pakistani politician, MNA.
• James Jorden, 69, American journalist and music critic.
• Firdaus Khisamitdinova, 73, Russian Bashkir linguist and politician, minister of education of Bashkortostan.
• Josh Kruger, 39, American journalist and activist, shot.
• Trienke Laurie, 77, South African poet.
• Francis Lee, 79, English football player and chairman, cancer.
• David H. Montplaisir, 87, American politician, member of the North Dakota House of Representatives.
• Frangkiskos Papamanolis, 86, Greek Latin Catholic prelate, bishop of Syros and Milos and of Santorini.
• Harriet Pattison, 94, American landscape architect.
• Satyaram Reang, 80, Indian dancer and folk artist.
• Njeri Rionge, 57, Kenyan technology entrepreneur.
• Richard Salzmann, 94, Czech banker and politician, senator.
• Petar Sarić, 86, Serbian poet and prose writer.
• Herbert Schambeck, 89, Austrian legal scholar and politician, MP.
• Alice Shalvi, 96, German-born Israeli professor and educator.
• Umaru Shehu, 92, Nigerian physician and academic administrator, vice-chancellor of the University of Nigeria.
• Hampton Smith, 89, American football coach.
• Naoki Takashima, 73, Japanese politician, president of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly.
• Geneviève Viney, 86, French law professor and jurist.
• Gord Wilson, 91, Canadian ice hockey player.

3

• Arthur Burns, 60, British historian, cancer.
• Joe Christopher, 87, American baseball player.
• Jacqueline Dark, 55, Australian opera singer, cancer.
• Jean-Pierre Elkabbach, 86, French journalist.
• Jennie M. Forehand, 87, American politician, member of the Maryland Senate and House of Delegates, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Thomas Gambino, 94, American mobster.
• Edward Hagedorn, 76, Filipino politician, member of the House of Representatives and mayor of Puerto Princesa, pancreatic cancer.
• Avgust Ipavec, 83, Slovenian-Austrian Roman Catholic priest and composer.
• Johannes Kühn, 89, German poet.
• Patrice Lecornu, 65, French football player and manager.
• Lena McLin, 95, American music teacher, composer and pastor.
• Marina Mizzau, 87, Italian writer and essayist.
• Howard Murphy, 79, American football coach.
• Garry Nehl, 89, Australian politician, MP.
• Hitoshi Nomura, 78, Japanese artist, pneumonia.
• Carlos Oliveira, 80, Portuguese Olympic rower.
• Giulio Quercini, 81, Italian journalist and politician, deputy.
• Harald Tusberg, 88, Norwegian television presenter.
• Jacques Valade, 93, French politician, deputy and senator.
• Bob Wagner, 76, American football coach.
• Khoshbakht Yusifzadeh, 93, Azerbaijani geologist, member of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences.

4

• David Benedictus, 85, English novelist.
• Wayne Comer, 79, American baseball player.
• József Csík, 77, Hungarian Olympic javelin thrower.
• Tracey Freeman, 75, Australian athlete, six-time Paralympic champion.
• Luis Giampietri, 82, Peruvian military officer and politician, first vice president and MP.
• Pat Hays, 76, American politician, mayor of North Little Rock, Arkansas and member of the Arkansas House of Representatives.
• Murílio de Avellar Hingel, 90, Brazilian geographer and politician, minister of education.
• Tommy Hoyland, 91, English footballer.
• Giannis Ioannidis, 78, Greek basketball player and coach.
• P. Jayadevi, Indian film director and screenwriter.
• Sepp Klasen, 88, German lawyer and politician, member of the Landtag of Bavaria.
• Kamchy Kolbayev, 49, Kyrgyz crime boss, shot.
• Yosef Mahalal, 83, Israeli footballer.
• Héctor Mayagoitia Domínguez, 100, Mexican bacteriologist and politician, governor of Durango.
• Rives McBee, 84, American golfer.
• Felice De Nicolò, 81, Italian Olympic alpine skier.
• Ivan Nikitchuk, 79, Russian politician, MP.
• Felix Owusu-Adjapong, 79, Ghanaian politician, MP, minister of transport and energy.
• Dominique Perrier, 72–73, French electronic musician and composer.
• Mahinder Rathipal, 67, Surinamese politician, MP.
• Boris M. Schein, 85, Russian-American mathematician.
• Telesphore Toppo, 83, Indian Roman Catholic cardinal, bishop of Dumka and archbishop of Ranchi.
• Shawna Trpcic, 56, American costume designer.
• George Tyndall, 74, American gynecologist.
• Claus Wisser, 81, German businessman and arts patron.
• Jason Wynyard, 49, New Zealand woodchopper, Burkitt lymphoma.

5

• Ibrahim Amin, Egyptian squash player.
• Anathalavattom Anandan, 86, Indian politician, Kerala MLA.
• Jon Beare, 49, Canadian rower, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Dick Butkus, 80, American Hall of Fame football player and actor.
• Jacques Chonchol, 97, Chilean politician, minister of agriculture.
• Asad Chowdhury, 80, Bangladeshi poet.
• Kevin Coombs, 82, Australian Paralympic wheelchair basketball player.
• Giuseppe Da Prato, 87, Italian academic and mathematician.
• Bruno Filippini, 78, Italian singer.
• David G. Gee, 85, British-born Swedish geologist.
• Robert J. Hermann, 90, American public servant.
• Taj El-Din Hilaly, 82, Egyptian Islamic cleric, grand mufti of Australia.
• Zorica Jevremović, 75, Serbian theatre director, playwright and choreographer.
• Piotr Klemensiewicz, 67, French painter and sculptor.
• Jordan Levy, 79, American radio host and politician, mayor of Worcester, Massachusetts.
• Peter Mack, 68, British scholar, traffic collision.
• Edmund Marshall, 83, British politician, MP.
• Francesco Matrone, 76, Italian mobster.
• Bill Munro, 89, Scottish football player and manager.
• Risto Näätänen, 84, Finnish psychologist.
• Thor Nilsen, 92, Norwegian Olympic rower.
• Larisa Opanasyuk, 60, Russian politician.
• Paul Ramboux, 91, Belgian cartoonist.
• Panny Rhodes, 81, American politician.
• Sir Nicholas Stadlen, 73, British judge, mesothelioma.
• Panos Theodorou, 29, Cypriot footballer.
• Romano Voltolina, 85, Italian footballer.

6

• Moreira Alves, 90, Brazilian academic and magistrate, prosecutor general, justice and president of the Supreme Federal Court.
• Bev Bentley, 96, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Maurice Bourgue, 83, French oboist, composer, and academic teacher.
• Michael Chiarello, 61, American chef, anaphylaxis.
• Mary Chronopoulou, 90, Greek actress, complications from a fall.
• Nicholas Crafts, 74, British economist, sepsis.
• Loren Cunningham, 88, American missionary leader, co-founder of the University of the Nations.
• Đào Nguyên Cát, 96, Vietnamese economist, founder of Vietnam Economic Times.
• Stelios Faitakis, 47, Greek painter and graffiti artist.
• Daniel Giraud, 77, French essayist, poet, and translator, suicide.
• Roger Greenhalgh, 82, British academic and writer.
• Rupert Hoilette, 77, Jamaican Olympic sprinter.
• Tetsundo Iwakuni, 87, Japanese politician, MP.
• Victoire Jasmin, 67, Guadeloupean politician, senator.
• Vilém Mandlík, 87, Czech Olympic sprinter.
• Vincent Patrick, 88, American author and screenwriter, complications from Lewy body dementia.
• Atila Pesyani, 66, Iranian actor, stomach cancer.
• Jim Poole, 57, American baseball player, complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Bodo Schümann, 86, German theologian and politician, member of the Hamburg Parliament.
• Susan Thomas, Baroness Thomas of Walliswood, 87, British businesswoman and politician, member of the House of Lords.
• Esme Timbery, 92, Australian Bidjigal artist and shellworker.
• Francisco Vidal, 82, Spanish actor.
• Dorel Zamfir, 62, Romanian footballer.

7

• Peter Akatsa, 63, Kenyan Olympic field hockey player, colon cancer.
• Marouf al-Bakhit, 76, Jordanian military officer and politician, prime minister.
• Terence Davies, 77, British screenwriter and film director, cancer.
• Awni El-Dous, 12–13, Palestinian YouTuber, airstrike.
• Richard Eppley, 91, American biological oceanographer.
• Reiner Goldberg, 83, German operatic heldentenor.
• Luca Goldoni, 95, Italian writer and journalist.
• Eric Griffin, 55, American Olympic boxer.
• Anna Gutu, 31–32, Ukrainian-born American mountaineer, avalanche.
• Anthony Holden, 76, British writer, broadcaster and critic, brain cancer and complications from a stroke.
• Brian Iwata, 75, American psychologist.
• Loyal Jones, 95, American folklorist.
• Phyllis Latour, 102, South African-born New Zealand intelligence officer.
• Kęstutis Lupeikis, 61, Lithuanian architect and painter.
• Georgina Mello, 69, Cape Verdean economist.
• Noh In-hwan, 91, South Korean politician, MP.
• Chris Ogunbanjo, 99, Nigerian corporate lawyer and philanthropist.
• Park Jong-hwan, 85, South Korean football manager.
• Oldřich Pelčák, 79, Czech cosmonaut.
• Gina Marie Rzucidlo, 45, American mountaineer, avalanche.
• Ted Schwinden, 98, American politician, governor and lieutenant governor of Montana, member of the Montana House of Representatives.
• Omar Abu Shawish, 36, Palestinian poet and novelist, airstrike.
• Tenjen Sherpa, 35, Nepalese mountaineer, avalanche.
• Ellen Tittel, 75, German Olympic runner.
• Tjerk Westerterp, 92, Dutch politician, four-time MP, minister of transport and water management, and MEP.
• Israeli people killed in the 7 October attacks include but not limited to:
• *Lior Asulin, 43, footballer
• *Jayar Davidov, chief superintendent, commander of the Israel Police in Rahat
• *Roy Edan, 45, photojournalist
• *Eli Ginsberg, 42, lieutenant colonel, commander of LOTAR
• *Asaf Hamami, 40, colonel, commander of the Southern Brigade
• *Hayim Katsman, 32, peace activist and academic
• *Tamar Kedem Siman-Tov, 35, artist and political activist
• *Roi Levy, 44, colonel, commander of the Multidimensional Unit
• *Ofir Libstein, 49–50, politician, head of the Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council
• *Shani Louk, 23, tattoo artist and social media influencer
• *Izhar Peled, 61–62, assistant commissioner, commander of Israel Border Police in Judea and Samaria
• *Vivian Silver, 74, peace activist and women's rights activist
• *Yonatan Steinberg, 43, colonel, commander of the Nahal Brigade
• *Yahav Winner, 37, filmmaker

8

• Agneta Andersson, 62, Swedish sprint canoer, three-time Olympic champion, cancer.
• Alcides Báez, 76, Paraguayan footballer.
• Yannick Bodin, 81, French politician, senator.
• Fred Boyd, 73, American basketball player.
• Karlos Callens, 76, Belgian politician, member of the Flemish Parliament.
• Aldo Cosentino, 75, French Olympic boxer.
• David Dollar, 68, American economist.
• Ron Erickson, 90, American politician.
• Gérard Fenouil, 78, French sprinter, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Bret Gilliam, 72, American technical diver, complications from a stroke.
• Maude Jacques, 31, Canadian Paralympic wheelchair basketball player, bacterial infection.
• James P. Kauahikaua, 72, American geophysicist and volcanologist.
• Sir Thomas Legg, 88, British civil servant, Clerk of the Crown in Chancery.
• Jacques Lucan, 75, French academic and architect.
• Marco Martinelli, 60, Italian consultant and politician, deputy.
• Nina Matviienko, 75, Ukrainian singer.
• Billy Emory Maxwell, 80, American track and field coach.
• André Monnier, 97, French Olympic ski jumper.
• Didier Mouly, 72, French lawyer and politician, mayor of Narbonne, cancer.
• Jeff Peterek, 60, American baseball player.
• Herschel Savage, 70, American pornographic actor and director.
• László Sólyom, 81, Hungarian jurist and politician, president and president of the Constitutional Court.
• Shinji Tanimura, 74, Japanese singer-songwriter.
• Dunc Wilson, 75, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Burt Young, 83, American actor, cardiac arrest.

9

• Alim Abdallah, 40, Israeli lieutenant colonel, deputy commander of IDF 91st Division.
• Haluk Akakçe, 53, Turkish contemporary artist, lung cancer.
• Jackson Anthony, 65, Sri Lankan actor and film director, complications from a traffic collision.
• Ottar Befring, 83, Norwegian politician, governor of Møre og Romsdal.
• Andrea Branzi, 84, Italian architect.
• Chau Cham-son, 91, Hong Kong town planner and civil servant, director of Buildings and Lands and chief commissioner of the Scout Association.
• Simone Chapuis-Bischof, 92, Swiss women's rights activist.
• Terry Dischinger, 82, American basketball player, Olympic champion.
• Chuck Feeney, 92, American travel retailer and philanthropist, founder of DFS Group and Atlantic Philanthropies.
• Keith Giffen, 70, American comic book artist and writer, co-creator of Rocket Raccoon, stroke.
• Mikhail Golubovich, 79, Ukrainian actor.
• Gerhard Grimmer, 80, German Olympic cross-country skier.
• Viktor Guz, 52, Russian football player and manager.
• Anthony Hickox, 64, English film director and screenwriter.
• Jorge Lavelli, 90, French theater and opera director.
• Lars Lunøe, 87, Danish actor.
• Steven Lutvak, 64, American musician and composer, pulmonary embolism.
• Mang Hoi, 65, Hong Kong actor, oesophageal cancer.
• Lino Montiel Forzano, 99, Argentine army general, governor of Tucumán Province.
• Mauro Morelli, 88, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Duque de Caxias and auxiliary bishop of São Paulo.
• Jan Needle, 80, English author.
• Raymond O'Connor, 71, American actor, bladder cancer.
• Críostóir Ó Floinn, 95, Irish writer.
• Agnes Odhiambo, Kenyan human rights activist.
• Yulian Panich, 92, Russian actor, television director and journalist.
• Evangelos Pentaris, 90, Greek naval captain and politician, MP.
• Kevin Phillips, 82, American political commentator and writer, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Petar Porobić, 66, Montenegrin water polo player and coach.
• Eleni Potari, 41, Greek Olympic handball player, cancer.
• Henri Serre, 92, French actor.
• Buck Trent, 85, American country musician and television personality.
• Volodymyr Vasylenko, 86, Ukrainian diplomat, ambassador to the United Kingdom.

10

• Karthyayani Amma, 101, Indian mature student, subject of Barefoot Empress.
• Roger Bedford Jr., 67, American politician, member of the Alabama Senate.
• Jeff Burr, 60, American film director, complications from a stroke.
• Jean-Claude Cassini, 55, French cartoonist.
• Robert von Dassanowsky, 58, Austrian-American writer, historian, and film producer.
• Shirley Jo Finney, 74, American actress and stage director, multiple myeloma.
• Mark Goddard, 87, American actor, pulmonary fibrosis.
• Martin Goetz, 93, American software engineer.
• Dawn Josephs, 91, Canadian Olympic athlete.
• Kim Namjo, 96, South Korean poet.
• John Klenke, 65, American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
• Eva Kollisch, 98, Austrian-American lesbian rights activist and writer.
• Dick Leach, 83, American tennis player and coach.
• James Lee, 86, Canadian politician, premier of Prince Edward Island and MLA.
• Paul Leuquet, 90, French painter, cartoonist, and poet.
• Brendan Malone, 81, American basketball coach.
• Louise Meriwether, 100, American author and activist.
• Toshio Naka, 87, Japanese baseball player and manager.
• Dónal O'Neill, 56, Irish Gaelic footballer.
• Gail O'Neill, 61, American model and journalist.
• Willy Pfund, 84, Swiss politician, member of the National Council.
• Olle Wästberg, 78, Swedish journalist, diplomat, and politician, MP.
• Vjeran Zuppa, 83, Croatian dramaturge, literature theorist, and poet.

11

• Martin Aigner, 81, Austrian mathematician.
• Michael P. C. Carns, 86, American general.
• Manuel Chuanguira Machado, 73, Mozambican Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Gurué.
• Doug Clark, 75, American serial killer.
• Phyllis Coates, 96, American actress.
• Walt Garrison, 79, American football player.
• D. J. Gokulakrishnan, 50, Indian cricketer, heart attack.
• Guo Baochang, 83, Chinese film and television director, screenwriter and actor.
• Rainer Gut, 91, Swiss bank manager, chairman of Credit Suisse.
• Samuel C. O. Holt, 87, American radio and television executive.
• Rudolph Isley, 84, American Hall of Fame singer and songwriter, heart attack.
• Pauline Jani, 34, Zimbabwean netball player.
• Jim Jensen, 89, American politician, member of Nebraska Legislature and contractor.
• Mohamed Kabil, 96, Egyptian footballer.
• Virginia Lovo, 31, Nicaraguan footballer, cancer.
• Gérard Murillo, 91, French rugby union player.
• Rosemarie Myrdal, 94, American politician, lieutenant governor of North Dakota.
• Aérea Negrot, 43, Venezuelan electronic musician and singer.
• Audrey Salkeld, 87, English mountaineer and historian.
• Ian Spink, 76, Australian-British choreographer, lung cancer.
• Markku Syrjälä, 68, Finnish Olympic archer.
• Cynthia Whittaker, 82, American academic and author.
• Cal Wilson, 53, New Zealand comedian and voice actress, cancer.

12

• Mir Shamsuddin Adib-Soltani, 92, Iranian philosopher and translator.
• Peter Antoine, 79, German football player and manager, pneumonia.
• Michael Cooper, 71, Jamaican musician, cancer.
• Álvaro Correia, 90, Brazilian journalist and politician, Santa Catarina MLA.
• Howard Forman, 77, American politician, member of the Florida Senate.
• Luis Garavito, 66, Colombian serial killer and rapist.
• René Garrec, 88, French politician, senator.
• Per Egil Hegge, 83, Norwegian journalist.
• Jon Hustad, 55, Norwegian journalist.
• Jang Young-chul, 86, South Korean politician, MP, minister of labor.
• Gunnar Kaiser, 47, German writer and political blogger, cancer.
• Neil Le Bihan, 47, English footballer, suicide.
• Alice Mabota, 74, Mozambican human rights activist.
• Kurt Mattsson, 83, Finnish Olympic boxer.
• Jean-Roger Milo, 66, French actor.
• Hisaya Nakajo, 50, Japanese manga artist, heart disease.
• Tom O'Lincoln, 76, American Marxist historian and author.
• Carol Page, 74, British Olympic sport shooter.
• Lara Parker, 84, American actress, cancer.
• Guy Ravier, 85, French politician, mayor of Avignon.
• Tero Rönni, 69, Finnish politician, MP.
• Colette Rossant, 91, French-American restaurateur, breast cancer.
• Eva Rysová, 91, Slovak actress.
• Sartaj Singh, 83, Indian politician, MP.
• Foster Stockwell, 94, American writer and historian.
• Andriy Vasylyshyn, 90, Ukrainian police officer, minister of the interior.
• Jean-Pierre Versini-Campinchi, 83, French lawyer.
• Igor Yevgrafov, 67, Russian swimmer.

13

• Astrid Achi, 62, Ecuadorian soprano singer, complications from surgery.
• Linda Arkley, 71, British politician, mayor of North Tyneside.
• Benedict Birnberg, 93, British solicitor and human rights activist, pneumonia.
• Michael J. Bragman, 83, American politician, member and majority leader of the New York State Assembly.
• Leo Burke, 89, American baseball player.
• Sonia del Rio, 83, Canadian-Spanish classical dancer and ballerina.
• Ron Eachus, 76, American politician, member of the Oregon House of Representatives, heart failure.
• Sadao Fuchigami, 86, Japanese politician, MP, ureteral cancer.
• P. V. Gangadharan, 80, Indian film producer.
• Louise Glück, 80, American poet, Pulitzer Prize winner, Nobel Prize laureate, cancer.
• Friedrich Grade, 107, German engineer and naval officer.
• Burdette Haldorson, 89, American basketball player, Olympic champion.
• Frank A. Herda, 76, American army soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.
• Jaakko Ihamuotila, 83, Finnish business executive, CEO of Valmet, president and chairman of Neste.
• Princess India, 94, Afghan royal.
• Michel Lapierre, 70, Canadian writer and journalist.
• Garry Mapanzure, 25, Zimbabwean singer, traffic collision.
• Mauricio Molina, 56, Argentine golfer.
• Ronald M. Mottl, 89, American lawyer and politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Ohio House of Representatives and twice of Ohio Senate.
• Loren Parks, 97, American businessman.
• Ellinor Peerschke, 69, German-born American scientist.
• Hubert Reeves, 91, Canadian astrophysicist.
• João Luiz Ribeiro, 64, Brazilian Olympic gymnast.
• Hugh Russell, 63, Northern Irish boxer, Olympic bronze medallist.
• Rein Saluri, 84, Estonian writer and playwright.
• Bud Somerville, 86, American curler, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Glorianne Stromberg, 84, Canadian lawyer.
• Sir Antony Walker, 89, British army general, commandant of the Royal College of Defence Studies, heart failure.
• Lois Wright, 95, American artist.
• Bello Maitama Yusuf, 76, Nigerian politician, minister of interior and commerce, senator.
• People killed in the Gaza war:
• *Issam Abdallah, 37, Lebanese journalist
• *Ali Qadhi, Palestinian militant
• *Wael Al Zard, 50, Palestinian Islamic preacher and university professor

14

• Wadea al-Fayoume, 6, American child, stabbed.
• Lance Armstrong, 83, Australian politician, member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly.
• Andy Bean, 70, American professional golfer, complications from lung replacement surgery.
• María Alejandra Bruzual, 43, Venezuelan jockey, horse-riding accident.
• Giancarlo Cantelmi, 97, Italian lawyer and politician, deputy.
• Rosetta Cutolo, 86, Italian mobster.
• Klaus Höpcke, 89, German politician, member of the Landtag of Thuringia.
• Guy Latraverse, 84, Canadian artist agent, producer and show designer.
• Piper Laurie, 91, American actress, Emmy winner.
• Maurice W. Long, 98, American electrical engineer and physicist.
• Dariush Mehrjui, 83, Iranian filmmaker, stabbed.
• Mei Tsu-lin, 90, Chinese-American linguist, member of Academia Sinica.
• Langhorne A. Motley, 85, American diplomat.
• Park Seo-bo, 91, South Korean painter, lung cancer.
• Joaquín Pérez, 86, Cuban Olympic rower.
• Stanisław Radwan, 84, Polish composer.
• Gwyn Richards, 71, Welsh cricketer.
• Roméo Savoie, 95, Canadian postwar and contemporary artist.
• Teodor Stanca, 90, Romanian engineer and politician, deputy.
• Jean-Charles Thomas, 93, French Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Aire and Dax, bishop of Ajaccio and Versailles.
• Bill Turner, 79, American basketball player.
• Gastón Ugalde, 79, Bolivian visual artist.
• Gembong Warsono, 60, Indonesian politician, member of the Jakarta Regional House of Representatives, heart attack.

15

• Oļegs Antropovs, 75, Latvian volleyball player and coach, Olympic champion.
• Carmen Petra Basacopol, 97, Romanian composer.
• Dick Bielski, 91, American football player and coach.
• Neal Brooks Biggers Jr., 88, American jurist, judge of the U.S. District Court for Southern Mississippi.
• Tod Brown, 86, American Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Boise City and Orange in California.
• Omar Ferwana, 67, Palestinian gynaecologist and researcher, airstrike.
• M. S. Gill, 87, Indian civil servant and politician, chief election commissioner, MP and minister of youth affairs and sports.
• Ghulam Nabi Khayal, 80, Indian poet and essayist.
• Giselle Khoury, 62, Lebanese journalist, cancer.
• Jim Larkin, 77, Canadian politician, Prince Edward Island MLA, complications from Lewy body dementia.
• Carlos López, 97, Spanish Olympic equestrian.
• Joanna Merlin, 92, American actress.
• Milan, 54, Indian art director, heart attack.
• Jacques Pavlovsky, 92, French photojournalist.
• Todd Reynolds, 56, American Olympic pair skater, heart attack.
• Gerry Ryan, 68, Irish footballer.
• Henrique de Carvalho Santos, 83, Angolan politician, co-designer of the flag of Angola.
• Torstein Seiersten, 92, Norwegian Olympic speed skater.
• David Shaffer, 87, South African-born British-American physician and pediatrician, respiratory failure.
• Khamphoui Sisavatdy, 82, Laotian politician, prime minister.
• Suzanne Somers, 76, American actress, breast cancer.
• Teófilo Torres Corzo, 77, Mexican politician, MP and governor of San Luis Potosí.
• Mercedes Vostell, 90, Spanish writer.
• Alvin Yeryomin, 91, Russian economist and politician, member of the Supreme Soviet of Russia.

16

• Martti Ahtisaari, 86, Finnish politician, president, Nobel Prize laureate, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Francisc Balla, 90, Romanian Olympic freestyle wrestler.
• Hatto Beyerle, 90, German-Austrian chamber musician, conductor and academic.
• Paul Bryer, 65, English Anglican clergyman, archdeacon of Cornwall.
• Malick Fall, 54, Senegalese footballer.
• Gennady Gladkov, 88, Russian composer.
• Toon Greebe, 35, Dutch darts player.
• Roland Griffiths, 77, American psychopharmacologist, colon cancer.
• Jorge Guillén, 86, Spanish doctor and Olympic basketball player.
• Jesús Guzmán, 97, Spanish actor.
• Hershel Jick, 91, American medical researcher.
• Geri M. Joseph, 100, American diplomat, ambassador to the Netherlands.
• Gordon Low, 83, Scottish footballer.
• Carlinhos Maracanã, 66, Brazilian footballer, pancreatic cancer.
• Richard Martin, 80, French theater director, playwright, and actor.
• Osama Mazini, 57, Palestinian politician, airstrike.
• Bill McCabe, 88, Australian footballer and Olympic water polo player.
• Chittaranjan Nepali, 92, Nepalese writer and historian.
• Victor Perera, 75, Sri Lankan police officer and politician, inspector general of police and governor of the Northern Province.
• Dimitri Salachas, 84, Greek Byzantine Catholic hierarch, apostolic exarch of Greece.
• Yudhistir Samantray, 70, Indian politician, Odisha MLA.
• Eric Tweedale, 102, Australian rugby union player.
• Steven Weisberg, 68, American film editor, complications from Alzheimer's disease.

17

• Dirk Alvermann, 57, German historian and archivist.
• Syamsul Arifin, 71, Indonesian politician, governor of North Sumatra.
• George Baird, 84, Canadian architect.
• Trevor Beeson, 97, English Anglican clergyman, dean of Winchester.
• Carol Berman, 100, American politician, member of the New York Senate.
• Edward Bleier, 94, American television executive.
• Carla Bley, 87, American jazz composer and musician, brain cancer.
• Robert Camilleri Azzopardi, 72, Maltese Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Comayagua, heart attack.
• Giovanni Chiaramonte, 75, Italian photographer.
• Joan Cribb, 93, Australian botanist.
• Junji Higashi, 77, Japanese politician, MP, pneumonia.
• Kundara Johny, 71, Indian actor, heart attack.
• Geraldine A. Kenney-Wallace, 80, British-Canadian academic.
• Brian Langton, 75, Australian politician, New South Wales MP.
• Ayman Nofal, 57–58, Palestinian militant, Hamas commander, airstrike.
• Kalle Oranen, 77, Dutch footballer.
• Orazio Rancati, 83, Italian football player and manager.
• Tom Rychlec, 89, American football player.
• Franz Karl Stanzel, 100, Austrian literary theorist.
• Aurèle Vandendriessche, 91, Belgian Olympic marathon runner.
• Sir Tim Wallis, 85, New Zealand Hall of Fame aviation entrepreneur, founder of the Alpine Fighter Collection and the Warbirds over Wanaka.
• Vasily Zakharov, 89, Russian economist, minister of culture.

18

• Shafi Bikrampuri, 80, Bangladeshi film director and producer.
• Roger Brown, 73, American basketball player
• Alexander Buzgalin, 69, Russian Marxist economist.
• Marinette Cueco, 89, French plastic artist.
• Osvaldo Desideri, 84, Italian art director, Oscar winner.
• Beverley Dunlop, 88, New Zealand author.
• Tony Husband, 73, British cartoonist, heart attack.
• Alberto Jerez Horta, 96, Chilean lawyer, visual artist and politician, senator and deputy.
• Jaymee Joaquin, 44, Filipina actress, model and host, cancer.
• Henry Kyemba, 84, Ugandan politician, minister of health, complications from diabetes.
• Juanita McNeely, 87, American artist.
• Muanda Nsemi, 77, Congolese politician and religious leader.
• Josef Nüsser, 92, Czech Olympic skier.
• André Palluel-Guillard, 82, French academic and historian.
• Dave Puddington, 95, American football coach.
• Paul Reynolds, 50, English cricket umpire.
• Matías David Rodríguez, 41, Argentine politician, deputy and senator, suicide.
• Mzwakhe Sibisi, 53, South African politician, member of the national assembly.
• Dwight Twilley, 72, American singer-songwriter, stroke.
• David P. Webster, 95, Scottish author, historian, and sports promoter, complications from dementia.

19

• The 45 King, 62, American record producer and DJ.
• Bangaru Adigalar, 82, Indian spiritual leader, founder of ACMEC, heart attack.
• Moe Amery, 69, Canadian politician, Alberta MLA.
• Judy Balaban, 91, American actress and author.
• Alan J. W. Bell, 85, British television producer and director.
• Lasse Berghagen, 78, Swedish singer, songwriter, and television presenter, complications from heart surgery.
• Robert B. Johnston, 86, American lieutenant general.
• Ilona Kerekes, 96, Hungarian table tennis player.
• Langfuhr, 31, Canadian Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse.
• Teresa Magalhães, 79, Portuguese painter, pneumonia.
• Heinrich Messner, 84, Austrian alpine skier, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Summa Navaratnam, 98, Sri Lankan track and field athlete, and rugby union player.
• Gerry Penner, 89, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Fritz Peterson, 82, American baseball player, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Anfisa Reztsova, 58, Russian biathlete and cross-country skier, Olympic champion.
• Carlos Romero Deschamps, 79, Mexican politician, MP.
• Atsushi Sakurai, 57, Japanese musician and singer-songwriter, brain haemorrhage.
• Helmut Seeger, 91, German Olympic sport shooter.
• Shodi Shabdolov, 80, Tajik politician, MP.
• Ilse Steinegger, 98, Austrian Olympic jumper.
• David Turner, 77, British computer scientist.
• Anthony Vidler, 82, English architectural historian.
• Ed Winceniak, 94, American baseball player.
• S. M. Zafar, 92, Pakistani human rights activist, lawyer and politician, senator and minister of justice.
• Palestinians killed in a Gaza war airstrike:
• *Jamila Abdallah Taha al-Shanti, 68, politician, PLC
• *Rafat Abu Hilal, militant, head of military for the Popular Resistance Committees
• *Jihad Muheisen, militant, head of the Palestinian National Security Forces in the Gaza Strip

20

• Akoto Ampaw, 72–73, Ghanaian lawyer and human rights activist.
• Wies Andersen, 87, Belgian actor, television presenter, and director.
• Jack Anderson, 88, American dance critic, sepsis.
• Eduardo Arranz-Bravo, 82, Spanish painter.
• Jack Brennan, 86, American political aide.
• Norbert Buske, 87, German theologian and politician, member of the Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
• Donald Angus Cameron of Lochiel, 77, Scottish clan chief and public servant, Lord Lieutenant of Inverness.
• Robert M. Carmack, 89, American academic anthropologist.
• Giambattista Cescutti, 84, Italian basketball player and head coach, traffic collision.
• Gerry Cranham, 94, English sports photographer.
• Leslie Dayman, 85, Australian actor.
• Haydn Gwynne, 66, English actress, cancer.
• Amber L. Hollibaugh, 77, American writer, filmmaker and activist, complications from diabetes.
• Wolfgang Kaiser, 98, German physicist.
• Vera Klement, 93, American artist and professor, complications from cancer and COVID-19.
• Pete Ladd, 67, American baseball player, cancer.
• Donald Mackay, 86, Scottish-born Canadian chemical engineer.
• Hiba Abu Nada, 32, Palestinian poet, novelist and nutritionist, airstrike.
• Pat Nicol, 88, Canadian politician.
• Richard M. Osgood Jr., 79, American physicist.
• John Thorn, 98, English schoolmaster, writer and educational consultant.
• Franklin T. Tilton, 84, American politician.

21

• Corby Adams, 83, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Ida Applebroog, 93, American multimedia artist.
• Vincent Asaro, 86, American mobster.
• Layla Balabakki, 87, Lebanese novelist and journalist.
• Burak Bekdil, 57, Turkish columnist.
• Lee Eliot Berk, 81, American academic, president of Berklee College of Music.
• Peter Betts, 64, British civil servant, brain tumor.
• Robert K. Bing, 93, American politician, mayor of Burlington.
• Bobi, 31, Portuguese Rafeiro do Alentejo dog, alleged oldest dog ever.
• Reino Börjesson, 94, Swedish footballer.
• Sir Bobby Charlton, 86, English Hall of Fame football player and manager, world champion, fall.
• Carroll Coates, 94, British-American songwriter, composer and lyricist.
• Max Corden, 96, Australian economist.
• Natalie Zemon Davis, 94, American-Canadian historian.
• Joan Evans, 89, American actress.
• Hans Friessen, 74, Mexican footballer.
• Lidia Gall, 89, Russian mass spectrometrist.
• Rob Gardner, 78, American baseball player.
• Bill Gates, 79, English footballer.
• Joseph Bernard Gildenhorn, 94, American diplomat, ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
• Perry Gomez, 76, Bahamian politician, minister of health and MP.
• N. John Habraken, 94, Dutch architect, educator and theorist.
• Bill Hayden, 90, Australian politician, governor-general, minister for foreign affairs, and leader of the opposition.
• Alexander Ilečko, 86, Slovak sculptor.
• Stephen Kandel, 96, American television writer.
• Kim Yeong-do, 99, South Korean mountaineer and politician, MP.
• Lalith Kotelawala, 84, Sri Lankan banker, founder of Seylan Bank and chairman of Ceylinco Consolidated.
• Shahjahan Mia, 83, Bangladeshi politician, state minister of religious affairs, MP.
• Cindy Montañez, 49, American politician, member of the California State Assembly and mayor of San Fernando.
• A. F. M. Fakhrul Islam Munshi, 75, Bangladeshi politician, MP.
• Amusaa Mwanamwambwa, 83, Zambian politician, minister of tourism, member and speaker of the National Assembly.
• Zulkefly Mohamad Omar, 59, Malaysian politician, speaker of the Negeri Sembilan State Legislative Assembly.
• Joseph Ostermann, 85, French politician, senator, mayor of Wasselonne.
• Adrian Puzanovsky, 81, Russian politician, MP.
• Betsy Rawls, 95, American Hall of Fame golfer.
• Sergio Staino, 83, Italian cartoonist, director and founder of Tango.
• Dusty Street, 77, American disc jockey.
• Marzia Ubaldi, 85, Italian actress.
• Alejandra Villafañe, 34, Colombian actress, model and beauty queen, cancer.
• Samantha Woll, 40, American synagogue leader, president of Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue, stabbed.

22

• Amanda Aizpuriete, 67, Latvian poet and translator.
• Jeffrey A. Bader, 78, American diplomat, ambassador to Namibia.
• Mario Benítez, 77, Uruguayan Olympic boxer.
• Kent Bloomer, 88, American sculptor.
• Mounira Chapoutot, 81, Tunisian academic and historian.
• Dave Courtney, 64, English gangster, writer, and actor, suicide by gunshot.
• Janina David, 93, Polish-British Holocaust survivor, writer and translator.
• Vic Fischer, 99, German-born American politician, member of the Alaska Senate.
• Carole E. Handler, 87, American lawyer.
• Don Laughlin, 92, American gambling entrepreneur.
• Raul Machado, 86, Portuguese footballer.
• Enrique Maluenda, 88, Chilean television host.
• Igor Puzanov, 76, Russian general and politician, MP.
• Timo Roos, 87, Finnish teacher and politician, MP.
• Antoine Scopelliti, 84, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, coadjutor bishop of Ambatondrazaka and bishop of Ambatondrazaka.
• David Stafford, 74, English writer and broadcaster, lung cancer.
• Anita Summers, 98, American educator.
• Gregg Sutton, 74, American musician and songwriter.
• Yang Le, 83, Chinese mathematician, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
• Charles E. Young, 91, American academic administrator, president of the University of Florida and chancellor of UCLA.

23

• Chronis Aidonidis, 95, Greek folk singer.
• Ibrahim al-Astal, 62, Palestinian educational theorist and researcher, airstrike.
• Robert Ayres, 91, American physicist and economist.
• Yves Beaumier, 80, Canadian educator and politician, Quebec MNA.
• Bishan Singh Bedi, 77, Indian cricketer.
• Angelo Bruschini, 62, English guitarist, lung cancer.
• Tasha Butts, 41, American basketball player and coach, breast cancer.
• Allan Callow, 94, Australian footballer.
• Rodolfo Cuenca, 95, Filipino building industry executive, chairman of CDCP.
• Birendra Nath Datta, 88, Indian folklorist.
• Desert Crown, 4, British racehorse, Epsom Derby winner, euthanised.
• Robert Eshun, 48, Ghanaian footballer, cardiac arrest.
• Luis González Vales, 93, Puerto Rican military officer and historian, adjutant general and official historian.
• Tuulikki Hämäläinen, 82, Finnish economist and politician, MP.
• Scarlat Iriza, 68, Romanian politician, deputy, senator.
• Bill Kenwright, 78, English theatre producer, film producer and football administrator, chairman of Everton, liver cancer.
• István Láng, 90, Hungarian composer, academic teacher and cultural manager.
• Enrique Macaraeg, 67, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Tarlac, cardiac arrest.
• Tryggve Mettinger, 83, Swedish biblical scholar.
• Bernard Morel, 98, French fencer, Olympic bronze medallist.
• J. Frederick Motz, 80, American jurist, U.S. attorney for the district of Maryland, judge and chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.
• Mirosław Obłoński, 85, Polish writer, poet and singer.
• Bob Perry, 90, American tennis player.
• Harry Porterfield, 95, American newscaster.
• Betty Price, 92, American music teacher, art director and ambassador.
• Aira Samulin, 96, Finnish dance teacher and businesswoman.
• Mervin Shiner, 102, American country singer, songwriter and guitarist.
• David Steiner, 94, American real estate developer.
• Tom Walker, 74, American baseball player, pancreatic cancer.

24

• Lily Afshar, 63, Iranian classical guitarist, cancer.
• Hans Albert, 102, German philosopher.
• Marcel Berthomé, 101, French politician, mayor of Saint-Seurin-sur-l'Isle.
• Brian Broadby, 80, Australian politician, lord mayor of Hobart.
• Imam Uddin Ahmed Chowdhury, 96, Bangladeshi politician, minister of commerce.
• Christiane Collange, 92, French journalist and author.
• Ina Cronjé, 79, South African politician, member of the KwaZulu-Natal Legislature.
• Léon Darnis, 95, French politician, deputy.
• Arnold Diaz, 74, American journalist, cancer.
• Murray Elder, Baron Elder, 73, British politician, member of the House of Lords, heart and kidney failure.
• Carlos Guerini, 74, Argentine footballer.
• Jared Hassin, 33, American football player.
• Niels Holst-Sørensen, 100, Danish Olympic athlete and air force officer.
• Heinz Günther Hüsch, 94, German lawyer and politician, MP.
• Miyuki Ichijo, 76, Japanese voice actress, multiple organ failure.
• Ricardo Iorio, 61, Argentine heavy metal singer and bass guitarist.
• Ibrahima Kaba Bah, 92, Guinean politician and teacher.
• Ron Kee, 84, Australian footballer.
• Ajay Kumar Jena, 80, Indian politician, Odisha MLA.
• Mike Lashuk, 84, Canadian football player.
• Anderl Molterer, 92, Austrian alpine skier, Olympic silver medallist.
• Elwood Plummer, 79, American basketball player and coach.
• Bob Pomphrey, 79, English cricketer.
• Wanda Półtawska, 101, Polish physician, pro-life activist, and Holocaust survivor.
• Steve Riley, 67, American drummer, pneumonia.
• Richard Roundtree, 81, American actor, pancreatic cancer.
• Robin Turner, 81, British Anglican priest, Chaplain-in-Chief of the Royal Air Force.
• P. Veldurai, 73, Indian politician, Tamil Nadu MLA.

25

• Ajith Abeyratne, 75, Sri Lankan rugby union player, coach, and commentator.
• Bertie Bowman, 92, American congressional staffer, complications from heart surgery.
• Helena Carr, 77, Malaysian-born Australian businesswoman, brain aneurysm.
• Max Davidson, 89, Australian footballer.
• Steve Erwin, 63, American comic book artist, heart attack.
• Saleh Al-Gholab, 79, Jordanian politician, minister of culture.
• Giorgos Grammatikakis, 84, Greek physicist, rector of the University of Crete and MEP, respiratory failure.
• Elizabeth Gray, 86, Canadian radio broadcaster, lung cancer.
• Syed Abul Hossain, 72, Bangladeshi politician, minister of communications and ICT, state minister of local government, rural development and co-operatives, brain haemorrhage.
• Robert Irwin, 95, American installation artist, heart failure.
• Lilie James, 21, Australian student and water polo coach, beaten.
• Abdel Kharrazi, 47, Moroccan footballer, complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Zdeněk Mácal, 87, Czech conductor.
• Shena Malsiana, 32, Indonesian singer, complications from lupus.
• Lyn McLain, 95, American music teacher and orchestra leader.
• David V. Mitchell, 79, American newspaper editor, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Hans Mosesson, 79, Swedish actor and musician, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
• Ružica Nikolić, 46–47, Serbian politician, MP.
• Pierre Nzila, 75, Congolese politician, MP, traffic collision.
• Ian Shugart, 66, Canadian politician, senator, clerk of the Privy Council.
• Alan Teasdale, 79, Australian footballer.
• Dobroslav Trnka, 59, Slovak lawyer, cancer.
• Yūji Tsushima, 93, Japanese politician, minister of health and MP.
• Byron Wien, 90, American business investor.

26

• Hélène Alarie, 82, Canadian agronomist and politician, MP.
• Pekka Alonen, 94, Finnish Olympic alpine skier.
• Lionel Balagalle, 75, Sri Lankan military officer, commander of the army and chief of staff.
• Richard R. Bond, 95, American politician, member of the Colorado House of Representatives.
• Ray Brown, 74, American football player.
• Jorge Búcaro, 77, Salvadoran football player and manager.
• John Burnheim, 96, Australian philosopher.
• Guy Camberabero, 87, French rugby union player.
• Prabhatsinh Pratapsinh Chauhan, 82, Indian politician, MP.
• Malay Roy Choudhury, 83, Indian poet, founder of Hungryalist movement.
• Jérôme Christ, 85, French Olympic basketball player.
• Babanrao Dhakne, 85, Indian politician, MP, heart attack.
• Baruch Mordechai Ezrachi, 94, Israeli Haredi rabbi.
• Goa Gil, 72, American musician, DJ, and remixer.
• Bobby Guindon, 80, American baseball player.
• Phillip Isenberg, 84, American politician, mayor of Sacramento and member of the California State Assembly.
• Ralph Kenna, 59, Irish mathematician.
• Youcef Khatib, 90, Algerian military officer and doctor.
• Marion Lerner-Levine, 91, British-born American painter.
• Richard Moll, 80, American actor.
• Harvey Munford, 83, American politician, member of the Nevada Assembly.
• Judy Nugent, 83, American actress, cancer.
• Peter Olausson, 51, Swedish author and webmaster.
• Ove Rullestad, 83, Norwegian politician, mayor of Farsund.
• Ed Sandford, 95, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Nazzareno Simonato, 87, Italian Olympic rower.
• Bingo Smith, 77, American basketball player.
• Rigo Star, 68, Congolese soukous guitarist and composer.
• Margarida Tengarrinha, 95, Portuguese political activist, MP.
• Sir Jon Trimmer, 84, New Zealand ballet dancer, cancer.

27

• Badrul Alam, 75, Bangladeshi air force officer.
• Wenche Blomberg, 80, Norwegian author.
• Denis Carufel, 69, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Axali Doëseb, 69, Namibian composer, complications from diabetes.
• Alexander Vasiliyevich Golovin, 73, Russian diplomat, ambassador to Austria.
• Curtis LeRoy Hansen, 90, American jurist, judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico.
• Anne Heywood, 91, British actress, cancer.
• Gershon Hundert, 78, Canadian historian.
• Hiroshi Inuzuka, 94, Japanese actor and bass guitarist.
• Li Keqiang, 68, Chinese politician, premier and first vice premier, heart attack.
• Viktor Mamatov, 86, Russian biathlete, Olympic champion.
• Ángel Martín Taboas, 105, Puerto Rican jurist and politician, secretary of treasury and justice of the Supreme Court.
• William F. May, 96, American ethicist.
• Swarup Nayak, 76, Indian music director, composer, and actor.
• Henry Ohayon, 89, Moroccan-born Israeli Olympic cyclist.
• Augustus Oldford, 98, Canadian politician.
• Jean Pellissier, 51, Italian ski mountaineer, mountain runner, and sky runner.
• Petros Themelis, 87, Greek archaeologist.
• Jan Veenstra, 81, Dutch footballer.
• Ewald Walch, 83, Austrian luger, Olympic silver medallist.
• John Wilkie, 76, Scottish footballer.
• Wu Zunyou, 60, Chinese epidemiologist, chief epidemiologist at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, pancreatic cancer.

28

• Juan Álvarez, 80, Chilean footballer.
• Erkki Antila, 69, Finnish Olympic biathlete.
• Jim Bennett, 76, British museum curator and science historian, cancer.
• Carl Braaten, 94, American Lutheran theologian and minister.
• Franklin Cisneros, 39, Salvadoran Olympic judoka.
• Daniel Eckenspieller, 91, French politician, senator.
• Vivian Folkenflik, 83, American educator and translator, struck by vehicle.
• Domenico Genovese, 62, English football player and manager.
• Armita Geravand, 17, Iranian student, assault.
• Károly Hauszler, 71, Hungarian water polo player, Olympic bronze medallist.
• Saleemul Huq, 71, British-Bangladeshi climatologist, director of ICCCAD, heart attack.
• Adam Johnson, 29, American ice hockey player, neck cut during game.
• Roland Lajoie, 87, American military major general.
• Svetlana Laukhova, 50, Russian Olympic hurdler.
• Alaba Lawson, 72, Nigerian business magnate and academician.
• Patricia Mahan, 71, American politician, mayor of Santa Clara.
• Matthew Perry, 54, American-Canadian actor, acute ketamine intoxication.
• Bill Rice, 84, American country music singer and songwriter.
• Shahida Qazi, 79, Pakistani journalist.
• Audrey Schuh, 92, American operatic soprano.
• Arthur Britton Smith, 103, Canadian philanthropist, businessman, and writer.
• Mary Lou Walter, 84, American politician, member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives.

29

• Charlie Aitken, 81, Scottish footballer.
• Terry Barrett, 77-78, American art critic.
• Tomás Barris, 93, Spanish Olympic middle-distance runner.
• Robert Brustein, 96, American theater critic, playwright, and political commentator.
• Jimmy Duggan, 93, Irish hurler.
• René Exbrayat, 75, French football player and manager.
• Martha Ezzard, 84, American politician.
• Dick Fontaine, 83–84, English documentary filmmaker.
• Siri Frost Sterri, 79, Norwegian politician, MP.
• Heath, 55, Japanese bass guitarist, colon cancer.
• Trevor Hill, 98, British producer, director and writer.
• Ado Ibrahim, 94, Nigerian traditional ruler, Ohinoyi of Ebiraland.
• Reed McNeil Izatt, 97, American chemist.
• Willard Johnson, 87, American political scientist and Africanist.
• Jerzy Mruk, 85, Polish ice hockey player and coach.
• Joey Paras, 45, Filipino actor and comedian.
• Aldo Pifferi, 85, Italian racing cyclist.
• Thierry Rautureau, 64, French-born American celebrity chef.
• Ronnie Rees, 79, Welsh footballer.
• Ramón Rodríguez Arribas, 89, Spanish judge, member and vice president of the Constitutional Court, justice of the Supreme Court.
• Tony Rohr, 84, Irish actor, prostate cancer.
• Kenneth C. Smith, 91, Canadian electrical engineer and academic.
• Zinnatunnessa Talukdar, 76, Bangladeshi politician, state minister of primary and mass education and MP, heart and lung disease.
• Jeyan Mahfi Tözüm, 95, Turkish actress.
• Herbert Urlacher, 91, American politician, member of the North Dakota Senate.

30

• Walter Adams, 78, German Olympic runner.
• Paul Angenvoorth, 78, German Olympic long-distance runner.
• Sarwat Karim Ansari, 67, Indian politician, Uttarakhand MLA, heart disease.
• Luwalhati Antonino, 80, Filipino politician, representative, chairperson of the MinDA.
• Agha Hasan Askari, 78, Pakistani film director, lung cancer.
• Sam Ball, 79, American football player.
• Sarat Barkotoky, 88, Indian politician, Assam MLA.
• Peter S. Fischer, 88, American television writer.
• Frank Howard, 87, American baseball player, complications from a stroke.
• Edward Kresge, 88, American scientist.
• Laiq Zada Laiq, 64, Pakistani poet, heart attack.
• Gien van Maanen, 87, Dutch handball and football player.
• Vladimir Markelov, 66, Russian gymnast, Olympic champion.
• Barry McKinnon, 79, Canadian poet, multiple organ failure.
• Hans Meiser, 77, German radio and television presenter and journalist.
• Renjusha Menon, 35, Indian actress, suicide by hanging.
• Tim Parenton, 61, American college baseball coach, throat cancer.
• István Pásztor, 67, Serbian politician, president of the Assembly of Vojvodina.
• Lois Galgay Reckitt, 78, American activist and politician, member of the Maine House of Representatives, colon cancer.
• James B. Scanlon, 92, American lieutenant colonel.
• Gary Seitz, 80, American mathematician.
• Mirth Solomon, 84, New Zealand Hall of Fame netball player, world champion.

31

• Lea Ackermann, 86, German Roman Catholic nun and anti-prostitution activist.
• Mohamed Ahmed Alin, 72, Somali military officer and politician, president of Galmudug, stroke.
• Bill Bealles, 60, American football player.
• Jaak Broekx, 109, Belgian centenarian, nation's oldest living man.
• Shepherd Gundu Chengeta, 57, Zimbabwean politician.
• Tyler Christopher, 50, American actor, cardiac arrest.
• Vivian Cobbe, 89, Irish hurler.
• Lawrence Cohn, 91, American lawyer, record company executive, and blues record collector.
• Felipe Diogo, 21, Brazilian footballer, shot.
• José Luis Dolgetta, 53, Venezuelan football player and manager, heart attack.
• Ernesto Ferrero, 85, Italian writer and literary critic.
• Jorge Arturo García Rubí, 75, Mexican lawyer and politician, interim governor of Morelos.
• John Hagedorn, 76, American professor.
• Linda Hirshman, 79, American author, academic, and lawyer, cancer.
• Ernst Hofer, 52, Austrian judoka.
• Séamus Leydon, 81, Irish Gaelic footballer.
• Donald Longmore, 95, British heart surgeon.
• Ken Mattingly, 87, American astronaut.
• Frank H. Mayfield, 84, American politician.
• George W. Owings III, 78, American politician, member of the Maryland House of Delegates.
• Maria Pergay, 93, French furniture designer.
• Oleg Protopopov, 91, Russian pair skater, Olympic champion.
• Mike Reppond, 72, American football player.
• Fabien Roy, 95, Canadian politician, MP and Quebec MNA.
• Heinz Schlaffer, 84, German Germanist and literary scholar.
• Mel Sembler, 93, American diplomat, ambassador to Italy and Australia.
• Clifford W. Trow, 94, American politician, member of the Oregon Senate.
• Elmar Wepper, 79, German actor and voice actor.
• David Wilshire, 80, British politician, MP.
• Hugh Wyllie, 89, Scottish Presbyterian minister, moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
• Koichi Yamamoto, 76, Japanese politician, minister of environment and MP.
• Peter Yeo, 76, Australian footballer.