Deaths in September 2021

September 2021

1

• Assyr Abdulle, 50, Swiss mathematician.
• Janet Adam, 81, Scottish potter and sculptor.
• Adalberto Álvarez, 72, Cuban pianist, COVID-19.
• Eiliv Anderson, 87, Canadian politician, Saskatchewan MLA.
• Jean-Denis Bredin, 92, French attorney, founder of Bredin Prat and member of the Académie Française.
• Anna Cataldi, 81, Italian journalist and humanitarian.
• Paul Chillan, 85, French footballer.
• Jürgen Ciezki, 69, German Olympic weightlifter.
• Daffney, 46, American professional wrestler, suicide by gunshot.
• Noel Dellow, 92, New Zealand cricketer.
• Giles Easterbrook, 72, British music publisher and composer.
• Charles Ford, 90, American politician.
• Carol Fran, 87, American soul blues singer, pianist, and songwriter, complications from COVID-19.
• Jim Fuller, 76, American football player and coach, complications from COVID-19.
• Syed Ali Shah Geelani, 91, Indian Kashmiri separatist leader, Jammu and Kashmir MLA.
• Alison Gray, 78, New Zealand writer and social researcher, motor neuron disease.
• Doug Green, 66, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives, COVID-19.
• José Gonçalves Heleno, 93, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, coadjutor bishop and bishop of Governador Valadares.
• Waldo Holmes, 92, American trumpeter and songwriter.
• Norbert Klein, 65, Dutch politician, MP.
• Catherine MacPhail, 75, Scottish author.
• George Martin, 83, Spanish actor.
• Chandan Mitra, 65, Indian journalist and politician, MP.
• David Moursund, 84, American mathematician and computer scientist.
• Norberto Mario Oyarbide, 70, Argentine judge, justice of the Supreme Court, COVID-19.
• Allison Payne, 57, American news anchor.
• Juan Rodríguez Vega, 77, Chilean footballer.
• Leopoldo Serantes, 59, Filipino boxer, Olympic bronze medallist, COPD.
• Margaret Stone, Australian judge, inspector-general of intelligence and security.
• Dan Swecker, 74, American politician, member of the Washington State Senate, complications from COVID-19.
• Carlos Thorne, 98, Peruvian novelist and lawyer.
• Sid Watson, 93, English footballer.
• Kurt Zwikl, 72, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.

2

• Hans Antonsson, 86, Swedish wrestler, Olympic bronze medallist.
• Efren Arroyo, 68, Puerto Rican journalist, COVID-19.
• Baron Browne, 66, American bass guitarist.
• Michel Corboz, 87, Swiss conductor.
• Manuel Soares Costa, 88, Portuguese politician, minister of agriculture.
• Daniele Del Giudice, 72, Italian author and lecturer, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Alemayehu Eshete, 80, Ethiopian singer.
• Donald Harkness, 90, Australian cricketer.
• Ruth Bradley Holmes, 96, American Cherokee language linguist and educator.
• Vladimír Hubáček, 89, Czech rally driver.
• Aydin Ibrahimov, 82, Azerbaijani wrestler, Olympic bronze medallist, COVID-19.
• Gurbanmuhammet Kasymow, 67, Turkmen politician and lawyer, minister of internal affairs, defense, and justice, COVID-19.
• Bobby Lackey, 83, American football player.
• Steve Lawler, 56, American professional wrestler and trainer, COVID-19.
• Mad Clip, 34, Greek rapper, traffic collision.
• Keith McCants, 53, American football player.
• Josephine Medina, 51, Filipino table tennis player, Paralympic bronze medallist.
• Ataullah Mengal, 92, Pakistani politician, chief minister of Balochistan, heart attack.
• Isabel da Nóbrega, 96, Portuguese writer.
• David Patten, 47, American football player, traffic collision.
• Stanley Rachman, 87, Canadian psychologist.
• Ryan Sakoda, 48, Japanese-American professional wrestler.
• Sidharth Shukla, 40, Indian actor and reality show contestant, heart attack.
• Hashibur Rahman Swapon, 67, Bangladeshi politician, MP, COVID-19.
• Mikis Theodorakis, 96, Greek composer, MP.
• Frederick L. Van Sickle, 78, American jurist, judge and chief judge of the U.S. District Court for Eastern Washington.
• Joan Washington, 74, British dialect coach, lung cancer.
• Frankie Welch, 97, American fashion designer, dementia.
• John M. Williams, 85, American college football coach.
• Anne Wingate, 77, American author.

3

• Muhammad Saeed al-Hakim, 85, Iraqi marja', heart attack.
• Atanas Atanasov, 85, Bulgarian Olympic basketball player.
• Beryl Atkins, 90, British lexicographer.
• Ljubo Bešlić, 63, Bosnian politician, mayor of Mostar.
• David Borwein, 97, Canadian mathematician.
• Raghunath Chandorkar, 100, Indian cricketer.
• Marian Collier, 90, American actress.
• Janet Doub Erickson, 97, American graphic artist and writer.
• Hassan Firouzabadi, 70, Iranian military officer, chief of staff of the Armed Forces, COVID-19.
• Barbara Inkpen, 71, British Olympic high jumper.
• Philip Jamison, 96, American watercolorist.
• Juan Kahnert, 93, Argentine Olympic shot putter.
• Irma Kalish, 96, American television writer and producer, complications from pneumonia.
• Yolanda López, 78, American painter, printmaker, and film producer, cancer.
• Sérgio Mamberti, 82, Brazilian actor, multiple organ failure.
• Attilio Maseri, 85, Italian cardiologist.
• Bernadetta Matuszczak, 84, Polish composer.
• Enrique Molina, 77, Cuban actor, COVID-19.
• Ruth Olay, 97, American jazz singer.
• Ahamed Samsudeen, 32, Sri Lankan terrorist, shot.
• Shinichiro Sawai, 83, Japanese film director, multiple organ failure.
• Nestor Soriano, 67, Filipino Olympic sailor, COVID-19.
• Henriette Valium, 62, Canadian comic book artist and painter.
• Abram van Heerden, South African Olympic sprinter.
• Andrew Walker, 67, Scottish murderer, respiratory infection.
• John Watkins, 98, South African cricketer, COVID-19.
• Robert C. Wetenhall, 86, American executive of Canadian football, owner of the Montreal Alouettes.
• Betty Wood, 76, British historian and academic, cancer.

4

• Billy Cafaro, 84, Argentine singer.
• Bohumil Cepák, 70, Czech Olympic handball player.
• Paula Clayton, 86, American psychiatrist.
• Gerhard Erber, 86, German classical pianist.
• Dell Furano, 70, American music industry executive and entrepreneur, CEO of Live Nation Entertainment.
• Rune Gerhardsen, 75, Norwegian politician and sports executive, mayor of Oslo, leader of the AUF, and three-time chairman of the NSF.
• Albert Giger, 74, Swiss cross country skier, Olympic bronze medalist, cancer.
• Léonard Groguhet, 82, Ivorian actor and comedian.
• Bernard Holdridge, 86, British Anglican priest, archdeacon of Doncaster.
• Derek Hole, 87, British Anglican priest, provost of Leicester Cathedral.
• Tunch Ilkin, 63, Turkish-born American football player and broadcaster, complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Christian Lenglolo, 39, Cameroonian footballer, heart attack.
• David Pallister, 76, British investigative journalist.
• Mort Ransen, 88, Canadian film director and screenwriter, dementia.
• Nicole Saeys, 97, Belgian Olympic javelin thrower.
• Jörg Schlaich, 86, German structural engineer.
• Willard Scott, 87, American weatherman, creator of Ronald McDonald.
• Martin Thompson, 65, New Zealand artist.
• Greta Tomlinson, 94, English artist.
• Alberto Vilar, 80, American investment manager, arts patron and convicted fraudster.
• Lydia Wevers, 71, Dutch-born New Zealand literary critic, editor and historian.

5

• Carmen Balthrop, 73, American operatic soprano.
• Eugene N. Borza, 86, American historian.
• Ion Caramitru, 79, Romanian actor and politician, minister of culture.
• Chung Jen-pi, 88–89, Chinese potehi puppeteer.
• Ezio Della Savia, 79, Italian Olympic swimmer.
• Keshav Desiraju, 66, Indian bureaucrat and mental health advocate, cardiac arrest.
• Christian Dutoit, 80, French journalist.
• Sándor Egeresi, 57, Serbian politician, president of the Assembly of Vojvodina.
• Muhammad Fahim Dashti, 48, Afghan journalist and resistance leader, spokesperson for the National Resistance Front, shot.
• Marcel Garrouste, 100, French politician, mayor of Penne-d'Agenais and deputy.
• Sarah Harding, 39, English singer and actress, breast cancer.
• Jan Hecker, 54, German lawyer and diplomat, judge of the Federal Administrative Court and ambassador to China.
• Leni Hofknecht, 92, German Olympic long jumper.
• Robert P. Hollenbeck, 89, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly.
• Ralph Irizarry, 67, American percussionist and bandleader, multiple organ failure.
• Susana Lanteri, 86, Argentine actress.
• Jonah Lwanga, 76, Ugandan [Greek Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria|Orthodox Church of Alexandria|Orthodox] prelate, metropolitan of Kampala and all Uganda.
• Matej Marin, 41, Slovenian racing cyclist.
• Jerry Mertens, 85, American football player.
• Jonathan Mirsky, 88, American journalist and historian.
• Donncha Ó Dúlaing, 88, Irish broadcaster.
• Ivan Patzaichin, 71, Romanian sprint canoeist and coach, four-time Olympic champion, lung cancer.
• Živko Radišić, 84, Bosnian politician, chairman of the Presidency and mayor of Banja Luka.
• João Sayad, 75, Brazilian economist, blood cancer.
• Tony Selby, 83, English actor, COVID-19.
• Nell Sjöström, 88, Swedish Olympic sprinter.
• Viv Stephens, 67, New Zealand cricket player and administrator.
• John A. Terry, 88, American jurist, judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, heart failure.
• Roger Weissberg, 69, American psychologist, cancer.

6

• Jean-Pierre Adams, 73, French footballer.
• Billy Apple, 85, New Zealand painter and sculptor.
• Peter Arnold, 94, New Zealand cricketer.
• Claude Azéma, 78, French Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Montpellier.
• Adam Baumann, 73, Polish actor.
• Jean-Paul Belmondo, 88, French actor, César winner.
• Peter Bentley, 91, Austrian-born Canadian businessman.
• Stanley J. Brasher, 93, American politician.
• Nino Castelnuovo, 84, Italian actor.
• Thierry Choffat, 53, French political scientist.
• Cockie van der Elst, 93, Dutch Olympic speed skater.
• Yolanda Fernández de Cofiño, 86, Guatemalan businesswoman and philanthropist.
• Jennifer Fiori, 35, Italian racing cyclist, traffic collision.
• Enrique González Pedrero, 91, Mexican politician, senator and governor of Tabasco.
• Derek Goodrich, 94, British Anglican clergyman, dean of St. George's Cathedral, Georgetown.
• Anthony Johnson, 55, American actor and comedian, multiple organ failure.
• Zanele kaMagwaza-Msibi, 59, South African politician, MP, cardiac arrest from COVID-19.
• Tomasz Knapik, 77, Polish film, radio, and television reader.
• Eberhard Kulenkampff, 93, German-Namibian architect and city planner.
• Dick Parfitt, 90, American college basketball coach.
• Pedrés, 89, Spanish bullfighter.
• Sunil Perera, 68, Sri Lankan vocalist, complications from COVID-19.
• Frank Russell, 72, American basketball player, complications from COVID-19.
• Todd Scully, 72, American Olympic racewalker, traffic collision.
• Hadj Smaine Mohamed Seghir, 88, Algerian actor.
• Alec Smith, 91, British trade unionist, president of the Trades Union Congress.
• Adlai Stevenson III, 90, American politician, senator, member of the Illinois House of Representatives, and Illinois Treasurer, complications from dementia.
• Anthony Ukpo, 74, Nigerian politician, military governor of Rivers State.
• Károly Vass, 77, Hungarian Olympic handballer.
• Iván Vitányi, 96, Hungarian philosopher and politician, MP.
• Ernst Walder, 93, Austrian actor.
• Michael K. Williams, 54, American actor, accidental drug overdose.
• Severian Yakymyshyn, 91, Canadian Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch, bishop of New Westminster.
• Donald Zec, 102, British journalist.
• Sabina Zimering, 98, Polish-American ophthalmologist and memoirist.

7

• Noubir Amaoui, 85, Moroccan trade unionist.
• Rick Arrington, 74, American football player.
• Edward Barnes, 92, British television executive and producer, co-creator of Blue Peter.
• Richard Batterham, 85, British potter.
• Carl Bean, 77, American Protestant church leader, singer and LGBT rights activist.
• Terry Brennan, 93, American college football player and coach.
• Jahangir Butt, 78, Pakistani field hockey player, Olympic champion.
• Elizabeth A. Clark, 82, American patrologist.
• Sam Cunningham, 71, American football player.
• Sir John Herbecq, 99, British civil servant.
• Alan Hofmann, 90, American physiologist and biochemist.
• Amanda Holden, 73, British musician, librettist and translator.
• Daikichi Irokawa, 96, Japanese historian.
• Elaine Kasimatis, 69, American mathematician.
• Issei Kitagawa, 78, Japanese politician, member of the House of Councillors, prostate cancer.
• Jay Leiderman, 50, American lawyer, heart attack.
• Steve Pugh, 60, American politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives.
• Martha Patricia Ramírez Lucero, 69, Mexican lawyer and politician, deputy.
• Thanwa Raseetanu, 50, Thai luk thung singer, COVID-19.
• Diem Saunders, 29, Canadian writer and activist.
• Phil Schaap, 70, American disc jockey and jazz historian.
• Badri Spanderashvili, 51, Georgian football player and manager.
• Warren Storm, 84, American swamp pop singer and drummer.
• Antoni Tołkaczewski, 87, Polish Olympic swimmer.
• Bill White, 76, American professional wrestler.
• Eiichi Yamamoto, 80, Japanese film director and screenwriter.
• Ameer Zaman, 65, Pakistani politician, MP and minister of postal services, complications from diabetes.

8

• Sir Antony Acland, 91, British diplomat, ambassador to the United States.
• Abbas Ansarifard, 65, Iranian football executive, chairman of Persepolis, COVID-19.
• Derek Bailey, 48, American tribal leader and convicted sex offender, chairman of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians.
• Guido Caroli, 94, Italian Olympic speed skater.
• José Augusto Delgado, 83, Brazilian jurist, judge of the Superior Court of Justice.
• Gérard Farison, 77, French footballer.
• Big Daddy Graham, 68, American radio presenter and comedian, heart failure.
• Franco Graziosi, 92, Italian actor.
• Charles Richard Harington, 88, Canadian zoologist.
• Amy Hawkins, 110, Welsh supercentenarian, nation's oldest person.
• M. Staser Holcomb, 89, American vice admiral.
• Betty Karnette, 89, American politician, member of the California State Assembly and Senate.
• Guido Lanfranco, 90, Maltese writer.
• Mark Litchman, 96, American politician, member of the Washington House of Representatives.
• Uno Loop, 91, Estonian singer and musician.
• Juan Guillermo López Soto, 74, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Cuauhtémoc-Madera, COVID-19.
• Dietmar Lorenz, 70, German judoka, Olympic champion.
• Aleksandr Melnik, 63, Russian film director and screenwriter, fall.
• Art Metrano, 84, American actor and comedian.
• Amobé Mévégué, 52, Cameroonian journalist and radio host, malaria.
• Claude Montmarquette, 78, Canadian economist.
• Robert Prizeman, 68, British composer.
• Pulamaipithan, 85, Indian lyricist.
• Jordi Rebellón, 64, Spanish actor, stroke.
• Robert A. Rovner, 77, American politician and lawyer, member of the Pennsylvania State Senate.
• Igor Shklyarevsky, 83, Russian poet and translator, COVID-19.
• Sadanand Singh, 78, Indian politician, Bihar MLA.
• Neddy Smith, 76, Australian serial criminal.
• Matthew Strachan, 50, English composer and singer-songwriter.
• Ludovico Vico, 69, Italian politician, deputy.
• Luis Villafuerte, 86, Filipino politician, minister of trade, governor of Camarines Sur and deputy.
• Yevgeny Zinichev, 55, Russian politician and military and intelligence officer, minister of emergency situations, fall.

9

• Borhane Alaouié, 80, Lebanese film director.
• Marianne Battani, 77, American jurist, judge of the U.S. District Court for Eastern Michigan, cancer.
• Urbain Braems, 87, Belgian football player and manager.
• Sir Timothy Colman, 91, British businessman, Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk.
• Narvel J. Crawford, 91, American politician.
• Marian Duś, 83, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Warsaw.
• Caspar Einem, 73, Austrian politician, minister of the interior and science, traffic and the arts, member of the National Council.
• Harold Franklin, 88, American lecturer.
• Wiesław Gołas, 90, Polish actor.
• Jon Gregory, 77, British film editor.
• Magda Harout, 95, American actress.
• Jean-Claude van Itallie, 85, Belgian-born American playwright, pneumonia.
• Alicia Iturrioz, 94, Spanish painter and author.
• Jean-Paul Jeannotte, 95, Canadian operatic tenor and artistic director.
• Elizabeth Ireland McCann, 90, American theatre producer, nine-time Tony winner.
• Bruce McFee, 60, Scottish politician, MSP, complications from a stroke.
• Richard McGeagh, 77, American water polo player and Olympic swimmer, COVID-19.
• Lucette Michaux-Chevry, 92, Guadeloupean politician, deputy and senator of France.
• Leif Frode Onarheim, 87, Norwegian businessman and politician, MP.
• Tarcísio Padilha, 93, Brazilian philosopher, COVID-19.
• Hans Pfann, 100, German Olympic gymnast.
• Danilo Popivoda, 74, Slovenian football player and manager.
• Ferry Radax, 89, Austrian filmmaker.
• Helm Stierlin, 95, German psychiatrist.
• Albert Kakou Tiapani, 77, Ivorian politician, minister of housing and urban planning.
• Trilochan Singh Wazir, 67, Indian politician, Jammu and Kashmir MLC.
• Rahimullah Yusufzai, 66, Pakistani journalist, cancer.

10

• Charles Konan Banny, 78, Ivorian politician, prime minister, COVID-19.
• Denys Barvinko, 27, Ukrainian footballer.
• Ben Best, 46, American screenwriter and actor.
• Les Bettinson, 86, English rugby league player.
• Donald A. Bonner, 86, American politician.
• Mike Boyle, 77, American politician, mayor of Omaha, Nebraska, pneumonia.
• Michael Chapman, 80, English singer-songwriter and guitarist.
• Jack Egers, 72, Canadian ice hockey player, pulmonary fibrosis.
• Allan Egolf, 83, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
• Stephen H. Grimes, 93, American jurist, justice of the Supreme Court of Florida.
• Chet Hanulak, 88, American football player.
• Michael Hoey, 73, British linguist.
• Roger Kangni, 77, Togolese Olympic middle-distance runner.
• Bulaimu Muwanga Kibirige, 67, Ugandan hotel executive.
• Gene Littles, 78, American basketball player and coach.
• Luigi Napoleoni, 84, Italian Olympic boxer.
• Raymond E. Peet, 100, American vice admiral, commander of the First Fleet.
• Concepción Ramírez, 79, Guatemalan Tzʼutujil peace activist.
• Jorge Sampaio, 81, Portuguese lawyer and politician, president, mayor of Lisbon and high-representative for the Alliance of Civilizations, respiratory failure.
• Dalal bint Saud Al Saud, 63–64, Saudi royal and philanthropist, cancer.
• Lars-Henrik Schmidt, 68, Danish philosopher and educator.
• Nadir Shah, 57, Bangladeshi cricket umpire, cancer.
• Jón Sigurðsson, 75, Icelandic politician, minister of industry and commerce and governor of the Central Bank of Iceland, prostate cancer.
• Byther Smith, 89, American blues musician.
• Gordon Spice, 81, British racing driver and car constructor, cancer.
• Erika Strößenreuther, 83, German Olympic javelin thrower.
• Syntar Klas Sunn, 62, Indian politician, Meghalaya MLA, COVID-19.
• Oscar Velasquez, 77, American artist.
• Saadi Yacef, 93, Algerian independence fighter and actor.
• Duygun Yarsuvat, 84, Turkish lawyer and football executive, chairman of Galatasaray.
• André Zacharow, 82, Brazilian politician, economist, and lawyer, deputy, COVID-19.

11

• Minna Aaltonen, 54, Finnish actress and television host, complications from surgery.
• Carlo Alighiero, 94, Italian actor and voice actor.
• Joan Berger, 87, American baseball player.
• Ruth Cameron, 74, Canadian-born American jazz singer and record producer.
• Shoshanna Evers, 41, American author, complications from heart failure.
• Mick Flannelly, 91, Irish hurler.
• William Dunavant, 88, American businessman.
• Abimael Guzmán, 86, Peruvian Maoist leader and convicted terrorist, founder of Shining Path.
• Audrey Haine, 94, American baseball player.
• Aziz Hajini, 64, Indian poet and writer.
• Tommy Hazouri, 76, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives and mayor of Jacksonville, lung disease.
• Vilma Hollingbery, 89, British character actress.
• Stephan Koranyi, 64, German philologist, lecturer, and editor.
• Nikolai Kozyrev, 87, Russian diplomat, Soviet and Russian ambassador to Ireland.
• Giulia Daneo Lorimer, 89, Italian violinist and singer.
• María Mendiola, 69, Spanish singer.
• Antonio Montilla, 85, Venezuelan Olympic cyclist.
• Radmilo Pavlović, 40, Serbian footballer,.
• Roger Sénié, 101, French politician, mayor of La Bastide-de-Bousignac.
• Catherine Sheldrick Ross, 75, Canadian academic, bile duct cancer.
• Simon Shnoll, 91, Russian biophysicist and science historian.
• Terence Smith, 88, British sailor, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Gerald Stone, 89, British linguist and literary scholar.
• Kerry Teague, 60, American racing driver.
• Phùng Quang Thanh, 72, Vietnamese military officer and politician, chief of the general staff of the Army and minister of defence.
• Mick Tingelhoff, 81, American Hall of Fame football player.
• Nicolás Villamil, 56, Argentine footballer, heart attack.
• Gloria Warren, 95, American actress and singer.

12

• Kristin Kuhns Alexandre, 73, American screenwriter.
• Fran Bennett, 84, American actress ''.
• Bernardino Cano Radil, 65, Paraguayan politician and diplomat, deputy and ambassador to Cuba, COVID-19.
• Carlo Chendi, 88, Italian cartoonist.
• Marc Clark, 97, British-born Australian sculptor and printmaker.
• Thom van Dijck, 92, Dutch Olympic field hockey player.
• Jack D. Dunitz, 98, Scottish chemist.
• Bob Enyart, 62, American talk radio host and pastor, COVID-19.
• Clive Finkelstein, 80s, Australian computer scientist.
• Guang Gao, 76, Chinese computer scientist.
• Andreas Herczog, 74, Hungarian-born Swiss politician, national councillor, COVID-19.
• Sondra James, 82, American sound designer and actress, lung cancer.
• Djohari Kahar, 89, Indonesian politician, MP.
• Russ Kick, 52, American writer, editor and publisher.
• Michel Maïque, 73, French rugby league player and politician, mayor of Lézignan-Corbières, pancreatitis.
• Wendell Wise Mayes Jr., 97, American radio and cable television executive.
• Nicolás Naranjo, 31, Argentine road racing cyclist, traffic collision.
• Richard P. Nathan, 85, American writer.
• Joachim Rother, 73, German Olympic swimmer.
• James Snyder Jr., 76, American author, attorney and politician, member of the North Carolina House of Representatives.
• John Shelby Spong, 90, American Episcopal prelate, bishop of Newark.
• Bruce Spraggins, 82, American basketball player.
• Fabio Taborre, 36, Italian road racing cyclist.
• Giannis Theonas, 81, Greek politician, MEP.
• Gunnar Utterberg, 78, Swedish sprint canoer, Olympic champion.
• Antonio Verini, 85, Italian politician, deputy, complications from surgery.
• William G. Wagner, 71, American historian.
• Owain Williams, 56, Welsh rugby union player, cancer.

13

• Masuda M Rashid Chowdhury, 70, Bangladeshi politician, MP.
• Ruly Carpenter, 81, American baseball executive, president of the Philadelphia Phillies.
• Reg Chrimes, 96, British politician.
• Don Collier, 92, American actor, lung cancer.
• Oscar Fernandes, 80, Indian politician, MP and minister of road transport and highways, complications from a fall.
• Bob Faehn, 63, American politician, member of the South Dakota House of Representatives, cancer.
• Olivier Giscard d'Estaing, 93, French politician, deputy and co-founder of INSEAD.
• Rafiq Hajat, 65, Malawian civil rights activist, heart attack.
• Parys Haralson, 37, American football player, stroke.
• Antony Hewish, 97, British radio astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate.
• Charlotte Johnson Wahl, 79, British painter, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Borisav Jović, 92, Serbian politician, president of the Presidency of Yugoslavia and secretary general of the Non-Aligned Movement, COVID-19.
• Leroy Lewis, 76, Costa Rican football player and coach, prostate cancer.
• Andrey Makeyev, 69, Russian basketball player, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Baruch Nachshon, 82, Israeli artist.
• Kathleen Partridge, 57, Australian field hockey player, Olympic champion.
• Fern Perrault, 94, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Margaret Purves, 86, British nurse, recipient of the Albert Medal for Lifesaving.
• Ruben Reyes, 82, Filipino jurist, associate justice of the Supreme Court.
• Rizabawa, 54, Indian actor, kidney failure.
• Fred Stanfield, 77, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Thommayanti, 85, Thai novelist.
• Amédée Turner, 92, British politician, MEP.
• Colin Urquhart, 81, British neocharismatic preacher, cancer.
• Tom Vraalsen, 85, Norwegian politician and diplomat, minister of international development, ambassador to the UK and the US.
• George Wein, 95, American festival promoter and jazz pianist, founder of the Newport Jazz Festival, Newport Folk Festival, and New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.
• Earl P. Yates, 97, American navy rear admiral.

14

• Joseba Arregui Aramburu, 75, Spanish theologian, academic and politician, member of the Basque Parliament.
• Zaitoon Bano, 83, Pakistani feminist writer, poet and broadcaster.
• Ansis Bērziņš, 81, Latvian film director and producer.
• Irene Brietzke, 76, Brazilian actress.
• Caressing, 23, American racehorse and broodmare, complications from laminitis.
• David Yonggi Cho, 85, South Korean Christian minister and convicted embezzler, co-founder of Yoido Full Gospel Church, complications from a stroke.
• Rob Duhamel, 66, Jersey politician, member of the States Assembly and minister of planning and environment.
• George Ferencz, 74, American theatre director.
• Ralph Grasso, 87, American guitarist, complications following heart surgery.
• James G. Howes, 75, American businessman, heart attack.
• Dave Jenks, 79, American author and real estate mogul.
• Viktor Kazantsev, 75, Russian military officer, envoy to the Southern Federal District.
• Reuben Klamer, 99, American board game inventor.
• Cees Koch, 85, Dutch Olympic shot putter and discus thrower.
• Hubert de Lapparent, 102, French actor.
• Fjodor Lishajko, 89, Ukrainian-born Swedish biochemist.
• Ladislav Lubina, 54, Czech ice hockey player, Olympic bronze medallist, brain cancer.
• Lung Shao-hua, 68, Taiwanese actor and television host.
• Norm Macdonald, 61, Canadian comedian, actor, and screenwriter, leukemia.
• Catherine Machado, 85, American Olympic figure skater.
• Antonio Martínez Sarrión, 82, Spanish poet and translator, heart attack.
• Ida Nudel, 90, Russian-Israeli civil rights activist.
• Guillermo Ortiz Mondragón, 74, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Cuautitlán.
• János Pintér, 84, Hungarian Olympic long-distance runner.
• Józef Polonek, 72, Polish footballer.
• Yuriy Sedykh, 66, Ukrainian hammer thrower, Olympic champion.
• Vicente Zarzo Pitarch, 83, Spanish horn player and writer.

15

• Philippe Adrien, 81, French actor and playwright.
• Lou Angotti, 83, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
• Fazlul Haque Aspia, 85, Bangladeshi politician, MP, dengue virus.
• Norman Bailey, 88, British-born American opera singer.
• Stephen J. Bonner Jr., 103, American World War II flying ace.
• Alastair Brindle, 82, English rugby league player.
• Fernando Mario Chávez Ruvalcaba, 88, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Zacatecas, COVID-19.
• Shaaron Claridge, 82, American police radio dispatcher and voice actress.
• Carl DePasqua, 93, American college football player and coach.
• Leta Powell Drake, 83, American broadcaster and television executive.
• Ephraim Einhorn, 103, Austrian-born British Orthodox rabbi.
• Robert Fyfe, 90, Scottish actor, kidney disease.
• Leonard Gibbs, 73, American percussionist, prostate cancer.
• Elinor Miller Greenberg, 88, American author.
• Penny Harrington, 79, American police officer.
• Satoshi Hirayama, 91, American baseball player.
• Justín Javorek, 85, Slovak football player and manager.
• Žana Lelas, 51, Croatian basketball player, Olympic silver medalist.
• Enrique Lucca, 97, Venezuelan Olympic sport shooter.
• Mary Mahoney, 81, Australian physician.
• Marthe Mercadier, 92, French actress.
• Frank Mitchell, 95, Canadian politician, British Columbia MLA.
• W. Tayloe Murphy Jr., 88, American politician, member of the Virginia House of Delegates and Virginia secretary of natural resources.
• Gavan O'Herlihy, 70, Irish-born American actor.
• Doris Piserchia, 92, American science fiction writer.
• Joel Rapp, 87, American film director and television writer.
• Thomas Ryan, 91, Irish artist and designer.
• Bill Sudakis, 75, American baseball player.
• Dany Toussaint, 64, Haitian military officer and politician, senator.

16

• Sir Silas Atopare, 70, Papua New Guinean politician, governor-general.
• Vilborg Dagbjartsdóttir, 91, Icelandic writer.
• Boet van Dulmen, 73, Dutch motorcycle road racer, traffic collision.
• Charlie Evans, 79, Australian rules footballer.
• Sverre Fornes, 89, Norwegian footballer.
• Alan Fox, 85, Welsh footballer.
• Dušan Ivković, 77, Serbian Hall of Fame basketball player and coach, pulmonary edema.
• Geir Johnson, 68, Norwegian composer and writer.
• Kohwe, 75, Ghanaian actor and comedian, complications from a stroke.
• Hicham El-Mashtoub, 49, Lebanese-born Canadian football player, cancer.
• František Maxa, 98, Czech Olympic sport shooter.
• Peter C. McCarthy, 80, American politician.
• Hlengiwe Mkhize, 69, South African politician, MP, minister of home affairs and higher education.
• George Mraz, 77, Czech-born American jazz musician.
• Casimir Oyé-Mba, 79, Gabonese politician, prime minister, COVID-19.
• Margarita Ponomaryova, 58, Russian Olympic hurdler.
• Jane Powell, 92, American actress, singer and dancer.
• Juli Reding, 85, American actress.
• Steve Riley, 68, American football player.
• John Ruggie, 76, American political scientist.
• Graciete Santana, 40, Brazilian Olympic long-distance runner, melanoma.
• Sir Clive Sinclair, 81, English entrepreneur and inventor, founder of Sinclair Radionics, Sinclair Research and Sinclair Vehicles.
• David Stenshoel, 71, American musician
• Ruth C. Sullivan, 97, American autism advocate.
• David Sweeney, 61, American-born Canadian Olympic sailor.
• Tim Thorne, 77, Australian poet.
• Alexandra Vydrina, 33, Russian linguist.

17

• Angela Ballara, 77, New Zealand historian.
• Abdelaziz Bouteflika, 84, Algerian politician, president, minister of foreign affairs and president of the U.N. General Assembly, cardiac arrest.
• Ted E. Brewerton, 96, Canadian-born American missionary, general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
• Roger Brown, 84, American Hall of Fame football player.
• Rafael Consuegra, 80, Cuban sculptor.
• Jonathan Cooper, 58, British barrister and human rights activist, co-founder of the Human Dignity Trust.
• Russ Dallen, 58, American economist.
• Dottie Dodgion, 91, American drummer and singer, complications from a stroke.
• Tim Donnelly, 77, American actor.
• Patricia DuBose Duncan, 89, American artist.
• Avril Elgar, 89, English actress.
• Carlos Gianelli, 73, Uruguayan lawyer and diplomat, ambassador to the United States, heart attack.
• Basil Hoffman, 83, American actor.
• Kemal Kurspahić, 74, Bosnian journalist and diplomat.
• Albert Linder, 25, Kazakhstani weightlifter.
• Murtaza Lodhgar, 45, Indian cricketer, heart attack.
• Alban Lynch, 91, Australian mining engineer.
• Alfred Miodowicz, 92, Polish trade unionist and politician, deputy.
• Barry Norsworthy, 69, Australian footballer.
• Constantin Olteanu, 75, Romanian footballer, Olympic team.
• Thanu Padmanabhan, 64, Indian theoretical physicist, heart attack.
• Ronald Paris, 88, German painter and graphic artist.
• Alfonso Sastre, 95, Spanish playwright, essayist, and critic.
• Tony Scott, 80, English footballer.
• J. V. Smith, 95, English rugby union player.
• Minja Subota, 82, Serbian television host.
• Wataru Takeshita, 74, Japanese politician, member of the House of Representatives, esophageal cancer.
• Michał Turkiewicz, 64, Polish politician and teacher, deputy.

18

• Julos Beaucarne, 85, Belgian singer, writer and actor.
• Jean-Patrice Brosse, 71, French harpsichordist and organist.
• Mario Camus, 86, Spanish film director and screenwriter.
• Anna Chromý, 81, Czech painter and sculptor.
• Iris Davis, 71, American Olympic sprinter.
• Leo De Lyon, 95, American actor.
• Aquilino Duque, 90, Spanish poet and writer.
• Anto Finnegan, 48, Northern Irish Gaelic footballer, motor neurone disease.
• José-Augusto França, 98, Portuguese historian, art critic and professor.
• Ali Kalora, 40, Indonesian Islamic militant, leader of the East Indonesia Mujahideen, shot.
• Jolidee Matongo, 46, South African politician, mayor of Johannesburg, traffic collision.
• Neil McCarthy, 81, American college basketball coach.
• Mick McGinty, 68, American artist, lung cancer.
• Fakhreddin Mousavi, 90–91, Iranian judge and politician, three-time MP and member of the Assembly of Experts.
• Soni Oyekan, 75, Nigerian-born American chemical engineer and inventor.
• Albert J. Raboteau, 78, American religion scholar, dean of Princeton University Graduate School.
• Gudmund Restad, 83, Norwegian politician, MP and minister of finance.
• Christoph Schwöbel, 66, German theologian.
• Charles Scot-Brown, 98, Canadian World War II veteran, Legion of Honour recipient.
• Kumiko Serizawa, 92, Japanese-American dollmaker.
• Chris Anker Sørensen, 37, Danish road racing cyclist, traffic collision.
• Kristoffer Stensrud, 67, Norwegian investor.

19

• Godil Prasad Anuragi, 92, Indian politician, MP.
• Ama Benyiwa-Doe, 71, Ghanaian politician, MP.
• Françoise Bernard, 100, French gastronomic author and television presenter.
• James Bilbray, 83, American politician and postal executive, member of the U.S. House of Representatives and chairman of the Board of Governors of the USPS.
• Richard Buckley, 72, American journalist and writer.
• Sylvano Bussotti, 89, Italian composer, poet, and artistic director.
• John Carroll, 91, American lawyer and politician, member of the Hawaii House of Representatives and Senate.
• John Challis, 79, English actor and comedian, cancer.
• Cheung Yan-lung, 99, Hong Kong businessman and politician, member of the Legislative Council, chairman of the Regional Council and the HYK.
• Stephen Critchlow, 54, British actor.
• Steve Davisson, 63, American politician, member of the Indiana House of Representatives, cancer.
• Nilay Dutta, 68, Indian lawyer, cricket administrator, and umpire.
• Dame Jocelyn Fish, 90, New Zealand women's rights advocate.
• Terry Garland, 68, American blues guitarist and songwriter.
• Jimmy Greaves, 81, English Hall of Fame footballer, world champion.
• Richard Lachmann, 65, American sociologist.
• András Ligeti, 68, Hungarian violinist and conductor.
• Terry Long, 86, English football player and coach.
• Luis Gustavo, 87, Brazilian actor, cancer.
• Obadiah Mailafia, 64, Nigerian economist and politician, deputy governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria.
• Joan Martínez Vilaseca, 78, Spanish football player and manager.
• Ole Nordhaug, 96, Norwegian Lutheran clergyman, bishop of Møre.
• Mats Paulson, 83, Swedish singer-songwriter and painter.
• Morris Perry, 96, English actor.
• Gabby Petito, 22, American vandweller, homicide.
• Michèle Pialat, 79, French Olympic swimmer.
• Jim Preuitt, 86, American politician.
• Ronald F. Probstein, 93, American engineer.
• Tomáš Prokop, 27, Czech ice hockey player.
• María del Carmen Rovira Gaspar, 98, Spanish historian, researcher and academic.
• Allan Slaight, 90, Canadian magician, media mogul, and philanthropist.
• Dinky Soliman, 68, Filipino politician, secretary of social welfare and development, complications from kidney and heart failure.
• Willie Spencer, 68, American football player.
• Marina Tucaković, 67, Serbian lyricist, complications from cancer and COVID-19.
• Charles Vardis, 35, Ghanaian footballer.
• Petter Vennerød, 72, Norwegian film director.
• Liam Walsh, 23, English rugby league player, traffic collision.
• Max Wiltshire, 83, Welsh rugby union player.

20

• Colin Bailey, 87, English-born American jazz drummer, post-COVID-19 pneumonia.
• Sherwood Boehlert, 84, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives and chair of the House Science Committee.
• Cloyd Boyer, 94, American baseball player.
• Peter Bunnell, 83, American author, scholar and photography historian.
• Angelo Codevilla, 78, Italian-born American international relations scholar, traffic collision.
• Sarah Dash, 76, American singer.
• Jackie De Caluwé, 87, Belgian footballer.
• Robert Deyber, 66, American painter, suicide.
• Guy Friedrich, 93, French footballer.
• Chauncey Howell, 86, American journalist.
• Willy Holzmüller, 90, German footballer.
• Roland Jaccard, 79, Swiss writer, journalist and literary critic, suicide by barbiturate overdose.
• Jan Jindra, 89, Czech rower, Olympic champion.
• Aloys Jousten, 83, Belgian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Liège.
• Vidyadhar Karmakar, 96, Indian actor.
• Claude Lombard, 76, Belgian singer.
• Keith Macdonald, 88, Scottish rugby union player.
• Billy Maxwell, 92, American golfer, U.S. Amateur winner.
• Charles W. Mills, 70, Jamaican philosopher.
• Rosemary Mitchell, 54, British historian, cancer.
• Mat Noh, 67, Singaporean footballer.
• Helmut Oberlander, 97, Ukrainian-born Canadian World War II soldier, member of the Einsatzgruppen.
• Raymond Reaux, 80, French Olympic cyclist.
• Marcia H. Rioux, 74, Canadian legal scholar.
• Dean Shek, 72, Hong Kong film actor and producer.
• Yudhvir Singh Judev, 39, Indian politician, Chhattisgarh MLA.
• Henry Stelling, 97, American Army major general.
• Pavel Țugui, 99, Romanian political activist and literary historian.
• Jim Van Engelenhoven, 78, American politician, member of the Iowa House of Representatives.
• John Vermillion, 99, American politician.
• John H. Walter, 93, American mathematician.
• Hans Wagener, 90, Dutch Olympic field hockey player.
• Ken Worden, 78, English football player and manager.

21

• Aharon Abuhatzira, 82, Israeli politician and convicted fraudster, member of the Knesset, minister of religions and labor.
• Kurt Boese, 91, German-born Canadian Olympic wrestler.
• Enea Cerquetti, 83, Italian politician, mayor of Cinisello Balsamo and of Cusano Milanino.
• Dallas Dempster, 80, Australian property developer, traffic collision.
• Constance van Eeden, 94, Dutch mathematical statistician.
• Romano Fogli, 83, Italian football player and manager.
• Marcia Freedman, 83, American-Israeli peace activist, MK.
• Willie Garson, 57, American actor, pancreatic cancer.
• Rae German, 80, Canadian football player.
• Marilyn Golden, 67, American disability advocate.
• Al Harrington, 85, Samoan-American actor, stroke.
• Rumi Kazama, 55, Japanese professional wrestler, promoter and kickboxer.
• Sir Maurice King, 85, Barbadian lawyer and politician, minister of foreign affairs, foreign trade and international business.
• Richard H. Kirk, 65, English electronic musician and songwriter.
• Leo Koceski, 92, American football player.
• La Prieta Linda, 88, Mexican singer and actress.
• Joan Howard Maurer, 94, American writer and actress.
• John Brendan McCormack, 86, American Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Manchester.
• Jack Minore, 82, American politician, member of the Michigan House of Representatives.
• Violet Oaklander, 94, American psychotherapist.
• Janet G. Osteryoung, 82, American chemist.
• Peter Palmer, 90, American actor.
• George R. Pettit, 92, American chemist.
• Anthony Pilla, 88, American Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop and bishop of Cleveland.
• Frank Pratt, 79, American politician, member of the Arizona House of Representatives and Senate.
• Carlos Ramos Núñez, 61, Peruvian jurist and academic, justice of the Constitutional Court, cardiac arrest.
• Gwyn Singleton, 87, Scottish medical researcher.
• Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, 85, Egyptian field marshal and politician, chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces and minister of defense.
• Melvin Van Peebles, 89, American film director, actor and playwright.
• Günter Wienhold, 73, German Olympic footballer.

22

• Eric Alfasi, 49, Israeli basketball player and coach, COVID-19.
• Dawn Pawson Bean, 94, American synchronized swimmer.
• Pieter Beelaerts van Blokland, 88, Dutch politician, deputy, mayor of Amstelveen and Hengelo.
• Abdelkader Bensalah, 79, Algerian politician, acting head of state, president of the Transitional Council/People's Assembly and the Council of the Nation, cancer complicated by COVID-19.
• Odile Caradec, 96, French poet.
• Tom Carroll, 85, American baseball player.
• Magi Dodd, 44, Welsh radio broadcaster.
• Huang Hongjia, 97, Chinese physicist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
• Axel Gehrke, 79, German politician, MP.
• Lois Horton, 78, American historian, stroke.
• Peter Howitt, 93, English set decorator.
• Manuel Ibarburu, 84, Spanish Olympic rower.
• Tari Ito, 70, Japanese performance artist, complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Colin Jones, 85, English photographer and ballet dancer, COVID-19.
• Doğan Kuban, 95, Turkish architectural historian.
• Laura Marcus, 65, British literature scholar, pancreatic cancer.
• Orlando Martínez, 77, Cuban boxer, Olympic champion.
• Roger Michell, 65, South African-born British film director.
• Bob Moore, 88, American Hall of Fame session bassist and orchestra leader.
• Nenad Nenadović, 56, Serbian actor and television host, COVID-19.
• Ulf Nilsson, 73, Swedish children's author.
• Mike Overy, 70, American baseball player.
• Jim Pehler, 79, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives and Senate.
• Floyd Sagely, 89, American football player.
• Jay Sandrich, 89, American Hall of Fame television director, 4-time Emmy winner.
• Gil C. Silva, 78, American politician, member of the Hawaii House of Representatives.
• Jan Stanienda, 68, Polish violinist and conductor.
• Jüri Tamm, 64, Estonian politician and hammer thrower, Olympic bronze medalist, MP.
• André Vauchez, 82, French politician, mayor of Tavaux and deputy.
• Eliyantha White, 48, Sri Lankan spiritual healer, COVID-19.

23

• Kjell Askildsen, 91, Norwegian writer.
• Pål Benum, 86, Norwegian Olympic runner.
• Jules Chametzky, 93, American literary critic and writer.
• David H. DePatie, 91, American film and television producer, co-founder of DePatie–Freleng Enterprises.
• Andy Douglas, 89, American jurist, justice of the Supreme Court of Ohio, pulmonary fibrosis.
• John Elliott, 79, Australian businessman, president of the Carlton Football Club, complications from a fall.
• Pee Wee Ellis, 80, American saxophonist, composer and arranger.
• Taito Phillip Field, 68, Samoan-born New Zealand politician, MP.
• Bruce Fleisher, 72, American golfer, U.S. Amateur winner, cancer.
• Edward Janiak, 69, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Wrocław and bishop of Kalisz, lung cancer.
• Natalie Meyer, 91, American politician, secretary of state of Colorado.
• Daniel Mio, 80, French teacher and politician, mayor of Rieulay.
• John Mitchell, 80, New Zealand historian.
• Hans Nordin, 90, Swedish Olympic ski jumper.
• Billa O'Connell, 91, Irish pantomimer.
• Jan Piecyk, 81, Polish footballer.
• Gholamali Raisozzakerin, 82, Iranian anthropologist, poet, and singer.
• Sharad Ranpise, 70, Indian politician, Maharashtra MLC.
• Roberto Roena, 81, Puerto Rican salsa percussionist, orchestra leader, and dancer.
• Charles Grier Sellers, 98, American historian.
• Gerald Sveen, 96, American politician, member of the North Dakota House of Representatives.
• John August Swanson, 83, American visual artist.
• Mervyn Taylor, 89, Irish politician, TD and minister for labour.
• Sue Thompson, 96, American pop and country singer.
• Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino, 79, Venezuelan Roman Catholic cardinal, archbishop of Valencia and Caracas, COVID-19.
• Nino Vaccarella, 88, Italian racecar driver.
• Yogendra Vyas, 80, Indian Gujarati-language writer and linguist, suicide by hanging.
• Andrew Webster, 69–70, British sociologist.

24

• Emmanuel Agassi, 90, Iranian-American Olympic boxer.
• Julhas Uddin Ahmed, 87, Bangladeshi Nazrul Geet singer and teacher, dengue virus.
• Robert Altman, 76, American photographer.
• Eric Cassell, 93, American physician and bioethicist.
• Ihor Cherkun, 56, Ukrainian football player and manager.
• Cornelia Clark, 71, American jurist, justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court, cancer.
• William E. Davis, 92, American academic administrator, president of Idaho State University and University of New Mexico.
• Eugeniusz Faber, 82, Polish footballer.
• Gomaa Frahat, 80, Egyptian political cartoonist.
• Freddie Fu, 70, Hong Kong-American orthopaedic surgeon, melanoma.
• Jitender Mann Gogi, 38, Indian mobster, shot.
• Grey Gowrie, 81, British politician, businessman, and arts administrator, chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
• Ishfaq Nadeem Ahmad, Pakistani military officer, chief of general staff, cardiac arrest.
• Diana Natalicio, 82, American academic administrator, president of the University of Texas at El Paso.
• Waka Nathan, 81, New Zealand rugby union player.
• Ota, 67, Brazilian cartoonist.
• Raymundo Joseph Peña, 87, American Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of El Paso and Brownsville.
• Lenka Peterson, 95, American actress.
• Paul Quilès, 79, French politician, deputy, minister of defence and the interior, cancer.
• Takao Saito, 84, Japanese manga artist, pancreatic cancer.
• Staffan Skott, 78, Swedish writer and journalist.
• Valeriy Skvortsov, 76, Ukrainian Olympic high jumper.
• Harold Tanasichuk, 83, Canadian curler.
• Tony Torchia, 77, American baseball coach.
• Jorge Velasco Mackenzie, 72, Ecuadorian writer.
• Robert R. Weber, 95, American politician, member of the South Dakota House of Representatives.

25

• Terry K. Amthor, 62, American game designer.
• Len Ashurst, 82, English football player and manager.
• Théoneste Bagosora, 80, Rwandan military officer and convicted war criminal, organiser of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.
• Jimmy Bales, 85, American politician.
• Dean Berta Viñales, 15, Spanish motorcycle racer, race collision.
• Kamla Bhasin, 75, Indian feminist activist.
• Swapan Kumar Chakravorty, 67, Indian academic, chairman of CSSSC, complications from COVID-19.
• Henri Cirelli, 86, Luxembourgish footballer.
• Franco Di Giuseppe, 79, Italian politician, deputy, complications from traffic collision.
• Marcello Diomedi, 78, Italian footballer.
• Richard J. Eden, 99, British theoretical physicist.
• Soren Edsberg, 75, Danish-born American painter.
• Antonio Franco, 74, Spanish journalist.
• Elmer Fung, 73, Taiwanese politician, member of the Legislative Yuan, cancer.
• Hassan Hassanzadeh Amoli, 92, Iranian Islamic scholar, lung disease.
• Reed Henderson, 87, American football player.
• Bo Kaiser, 91, Swedish Olympic sailor.
• Lam Yuen-yee, 36–37, Hong Kong marine police officer, drowned.
• Patricio Manns, 84, Chilean singer, composer and writer, heart failure.
• Greg Miskiw, 71, British journalist, lung cancer.
• Pierre Montastruc, 89, French politician, deputy.
• Carlos Neder, 67, Brazilian politician and physician, São Paulo MLA, COVID-19.
• Greg Parke, 73, Australian footballer.
• Al Ramsawack, 91, Trinidadian folklorist.
• Ian Riddell, 82–84, Scottish footballer.
• Walter Scott Jr., 90, American civil engineer, CEO of Kiewit Corporation.
• Sergei Shuvalov, 70, Russian politician, chairman of the Saratov Oblast Duma and senator, COVID-19.
• Thomas A. Waldmann, 91, American immunologist.
• Gerhard Weidner, 88, German Olympic racewalker.
• Marie Wilcox, 87, American lexicographer, last fluent speaker of the Wukchumni dialect.
• Valree Fletcher Wynn, 99, American academic.
• Mehdi Yaghoubi, 91, Iranian wrestler, Olympic silver medallist, heart disease.

26

• Siamak Atlasi, 85, Iranian actor, COVID-19.
• Joe Amstutz, 86, American football player.
• Jaison Barreto, 88, Brazilian physician and politician, deputy and senator.
• Ann Breault, 82, Canadian politician, New Brunswick MLA.
• Eliécer Cárdenas, 70, Ecuadorian novelist.
• McDonald Craig, 90, American folk musician.
• Myron Dewey, 49, American filmmaker, traffic collision.
• José Freire Falcão, 95, Brazilian Roman Catholic cardinal, bishop of Limoeiro do Norte, archbishop of Teresina and Brasília, COVID-19.
• Frances Farenthold, 94, American politician, member of the Texas House of Representatives, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Zumrud Gulu-zade, 89, Azerbaijani philosopher.
• Karl-Sören Hedlund, 83, Swedish ice hockey player.
• Syarhey Herasimets, 55, Belarusian football player and manager.
• Kjersti Holmen, 65, Norwegian actress.
• Alan Lancaster, 72, English rock bassist, complications from multiple sclerosis.
• Al Mantello, 87, Australian footballer.
• Ndakasi, 14, Congolese mountain gorilla.
• Manus O'Riordan, 72, Irish trade union leader and political activist.
• Heini Paas, 102, Estonian art historian.
• Jean-Pierre Pénicaut, 84, French politician, deputy.
• Paddy Prendergast, 95, Irish Gaelic footballer.
• Kirill Razlogov, 75, Russian film critic and cultural researcher.
• Herzl Shafir, 92, Israeli general, commissioner of Israel Police.
• Mark Strudwick, 76, British military officer, general officer commanding Scotland.
• Pearl Tytell, 104, American criminologist.
• Bobby Zarem, 84, American publicist, lung cancer.

27

• Martin Burleigh, 70, English footballer.
• B. B. Dutta, 83, Indian politician, MP.
• François Florent, 84, French theatre actor, founder of the Cours Florent.
• Francisco Franco del Amo, 61, Spanish academic and author.
• Rudy Haluza, 90, American Olympic race walker.
• Gordon Hudson, 59, American football player.
• Roger Hunt, 83, English Hall of Fame footballer, world champion.
• Bengt K. Å. Johansson, 84, Swedish politician, minister of consumer affairs and public administration, governor of Älvsborg County.
• David Komansky, 82, American investment management executive, CEO of Merrill Lynch.
• Pocha Lamadrid, 76, Argentine anti-racism activist.
• Heinz Lieven, 93, German actor.
• Egil Lillestøl, 83, Norwegian particle physicist.
• Cecilia Lindqvist, 89, Swedish sinologist.
• Andrea Martin, 49, American singer-songwriter, and record producer.
• James L. Mathewson, 83, American politician, member of the Missouri House of Representatives and Senate.
• Ibrahim Mbombo Njoya, 83, Cameroonian politician and royal, king of the Bamum people, COVID-19.
• Viktor Mikhailov, 97, Russian military officer, head of the Riga Higher Military Political School.
• Boban Petrović, 64, Serbian basketball player.
• Frederick L. Pratt, 93, American politician.
• Sam Riddle, 85, American disc jockey and television producer, complications from Lewy body dementia.
• Madeleine Tchicaya, 91, Ivorian politician.
• R. R. Venkat, 54, Indian film producer, kidney disease.
• Ülo Vilimaa, 80, Estonian dancer, choreographer, and painter.

28

• Nana Ampadu, 76, Ghanaian musician.
• Karan Armstrong, 79, American operatic soprano.
• Nasser al-Awlaki, 74–75, Yemeni academic and politician, president of Sanaa University and minister of agriculture.
• Will Bagley, 71, American historian and writer.
• Bala V. Balachandran, 84, Indian educationist, founder of the Great Lakes Institute of Management.
• Ed Beauvais, 84, American airline executive.
• James Buswell, 74, American violinist.
• Robert Jay Charlson, 84, American atmospheric scientist, climate scientist.
• Steve Davis, 61, American baseball player, cancer.
• Robert Gibanel, 89, French racing cyclist.
• Paul Girod, 90, French politician, mayor of Droizy and senator.
• Wajid Shamsul Hasan, Pakistani diplomat.
• Edward Helfrick, 93, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and Senate.
• Eberhard Jüngel, 86, German theologian.
• Tommy Kirk, 79, American actor.
• Princess Lalla Malika of Morocco, 88, Moroccan royal.
• Bienvenido Lumbera, 89, Filipino poet, critic, and dramatist.
• Farida Majid, 79, Bangladeshi poet, translator, and academic, cancer.
• Ed Mason, 75, Canadian newscaster, complications from surgery.
• Vassi Naidoo, 66, South African businessman.
• Phi Nhung, 51, Vietnamese-American singer and actress, COVID-19.
• Achille Pace, 98, Italian painter.
• Bruno Pavelić, 84, Serbian basketball player.
• B. Satyaji Rao, 91, Indian cricket umpire.
• Mike Renzi, 80, American composer and music director.
• Maria Roka, 81, Hungarian Olympic sprint canoer.
• Barry Ryan, 72, British pop singer and photographer.
• Lonnie Smith, 79, American jazz musician, pulmonary fibrosis.
• Ray Snell, 63, American football player.
• Moshe David Tendler, 95, American rabbi and biologist.
• Stephen Thega, 75, Kenyan Olympic boxer.
• Michael Tylo, 73, American actor.
• Jacques Vivier, 90, French racing cyclist.
• Wang Jianmin, 78, Chinese shàngjiàng, commander of the Chengdu Military Region.
• Fred Woudhuizen, 62, Dutch philologist.
• Alan Woods, 84, English footballer.
• Andrei Zeltser, 31, Belarusian IT worker, shot.

29

• Kune Amini, 56, Papua New Guinean cricketer.
• Ottavio Compagnoni, 95, Italian Olympic cross-country skier.
• Joe Davis, 98, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives.
• Alexandre José Maria dos Santos, 97, Mozambican Roman Catholic cardinal, archbishop of Maputo.
• Gene Dresselhaus, 91, American condensed matter physicist.
• Carsten Eggers, 64, German sculptor and painter.
• Benno Friesen, 92, Canadian politician, MP.
• Antonio Gasset, 75, Spanish journalist and television host.
• Hayko, 48, Armenian singer and songwriter, COVID-19.
• Maeve Ingoldsby, 73-74, Irish television writer.
• Ravil Isyanov, 59, Russian-born American actor, cancer.
• Nicholas Krawciw, 85, American major general.
• Bronius Kutavičius, 89, Lithuanian composer.
• Olivier Libaux, 57, French record producer and musician.
• Chuck Lindstrom, 85, American baseball player.
• Lee Vernon McNeill, 56, American Olympic sprinter, COVID-19.
• Glyn Moses, 93, Welsh rugby league player.
• Barrie Nelson, 88, Canadian animator.
• Julia Nixon, 66, American singer, complications from COVID-19.
• Ayoub Pourtaghi, 48, Iranian Olympic boxer.
• Lee Quarnstrom, 81, American journalist.
• Koteswara Rao, 91, Indian engineer.
• Heiko Salzwedel, 64, German racing cyclist and manager.
• Jim Service, 88, Australian company director.
• Sabam Sirait, 84, Indonesian politician, five-time MP.
• Ivan Tasovac, 55, Serbian pianist, manager, and politician, minister of culture and information and deputy.
• Mohib Ullah, 46, Burmese Rohingya rights advocate, shot.
• Claire Van Ummersen, 86, American scholar and academic administrator, president of Cleveland State University, traffic collision.
• Jim Ursel, 84, Canadian curler, cancer.
• Angelo Vasta, 80, Australian judge, member of the Supreme Court of Queensland.
• François Vérove, 59, French serial killer and police officer, suicide by barbiturate overdose.

30

• Lennart Åberg, 79, Swedish jazz saxophonist and composer.
• Betty Amos, 87, American musician.
• Beatrix, Countess of Schönburg-Glauchau, 91, Hungarian-born German aristocrat and socialite.
• Jacques Bellanger, 90, French politician, senator.
• Aboagye Brenya, 83, Ghanaian actor.
• Dorothea Brown, 83, New Zealand librarian.
• Clement Chiwaya, 50, Malawian politician, MP, suicide by gunshot.
• Luigi Conti, 80, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Macerata-Tolentino-Recanati-Cingoli-Treia and archbishop of Fermo.
• Isabel Cruz, Portuguese-born American computer scientist.
• Carlisle Floyd, 95, American opera composer.
• Greg Gilbert, 44, British musician, bowel cancer.
• Jenny Kirk, 76, New Zealand politician, MP.
• Vladislav Lemish, 51, Azerbaijani footballer.
• Xicoténcatl Leyva Mortera, 81, Mexican politician, governor of Baja California, lung cancer.
• Hassan Tarighat Monfared, 75, Iranian physician and politician, minister of health and medical education, fall.
• Donna Nalewaja, 81, American politician, member of the North Dakota House of Representatives and Senate, COVID-19.
• John B. MacChesney, 92, American chemist.
• Philip Owen, 88, Canadian politician, mayor of Vancouver, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• José Pérez Francés, 84, Spanish road racing cyclist.
• Palmer Pyle, 84, American football player.
• John Rigas, 96, American cable television executive and convicted fraudster, co-founder of the Adelphia Communications Corporation and owner of the Buffalo Sabres.
• Ary Rigo, 74, Brazilian politician, vice-governor of Mato Grosso do Sul, complications from a fall.
• Adelina Rodriguez, 101, Filipino politician, mayor of Quezon City.
• Koichi Sugiyama, 90, Japanese composer, conductor, and orchestrator, septic shock.
• Thora Whitehead, 85, Chilean-born Australian malacologist.