Deaths in September 2023

September 2023

1

• Dennis Austin, 76, American computer programmer, co-creator of Microsoft PowerPoint, lung cancer.
• Ken Bennett, 83, Australian footballer.
• Jimmy Buffett, 76, American singer-songwriter, founder of Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville, Merkel-cell carcinoma.
• Gerald P. Carmen, 93, American diplomat, representative to the European Office of the UN and administrator of the GSA.
• Alwyn Davies, 97, British chemist.
• Olav Eikeland, 67, Norwegian philosopher and employment researcher.
• Elton Gissendanner, 95, American veterinarian and politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives.
• Hadino Hishongwa, 80, Namibian politician, MP.
• Karim Al Iraqi, 68, Iraqi poet, cancer.
• Lennart Jonsson, 90, Swedish Olympic sprinter.
• Charles Joseph Knight, 91, Canadian doctor, surgeon general.
• J. Landis Martin, 77, American lawyer and businessman.
• Jelaing Mersat, 74, Malaysian politician, MP.
• Raymond Moriyama, 93, Canadian architect.
• Shozaburo Nakamura, 89, Japanese politician, minister of justice and MP.
• Olivier Picard, 83, French Hellenist.
• Bill Richardson, 75, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, UN ambassador, governor of New Mexico.
• Yvonne Shima, 88, Canadian actress and singer.
• Sitt Nyein Aye, 67, Burmese artist and political activist.
• Nels J. Smith, 84, American politician, member and speaker of the Wyoming House of Representatives, traffic collision.
• Milka Stojanović, 86, Serbian operatic soprano.
• Amin Syam, 77, Indonesian politician, governor of South Sulawesi, kidney failure.
• Tempt One, 54, American graffiti artist, complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Ludovic Vaty, 34, French basketball player, complications from a heart attack.
• Karl Wöllert, 81, Austrian politician, member of the Federal Council.

2

• Walter Arlen, 103, Austrian-born American composer and music critic.
• Naldo Dasso, 92, Argentine Olympic equestrian.
• Terry Dempsey, 91, American politician.
• Bill R. Fuller, 85, American politician, member of the Kansas House of Representatives.
• Jack Golson, 96, British-born Australian archaeologist.
• Max Gomez, 72, Cuban-born American medical journalist.
• Salif Keïta, 76, Malian footballer.
• Michael Klar, 80, German graphic artist.
• Robert A. Lamb, 72, British-American virologist.
• Arnfinn Larsen, 93, Norwegian Olympic rower.
• Paul Kazuhiro Mori, 84, Japanese Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Tokyo.
• Michele Miraglia, 88, Italian politician, senator.
• Ilija Mitić, 83, Serbian-American footballer.
• Surjya Narayan Patro, 74, Indian politician, speaker of the Odisha Legislative Assembly.
• Adrien Ouellette, 83, Canadian politician, MNA.
• Mark Pearson, 83, English footballer.
• Morteza Poursamadi, 70, Iranian cinematographer.
• Marcia de Rousse, 70, American actress.
• R. S. Shivaji, 66, Indian actor.
• Shannon Wilcox, 80, American actress.

3

• Francois Barrie, 79, Dominican politician.
• Jean Bergougnoux, 83, French businessman, president of the SNCF.
• Ruschell Boone, 48, Jamaican-born American newscaster, pancreatic cancer.
• Yolanda Ciani, 85, Mexican actress.
• Amando de Miguel, 86, Spanish sociologist.
• Gerry Doherty, 70, British trade unionist, general secretary of TSSA.
• José Gregori, 92, Brazilian jurist and politician, minister of justice.
• Peter Gustavsson, 65, Swedish ice hockey player.
• Miklós Hanó, 66, Hungarian politician, MP.
• Stephen Herbert, 71–72, British visual media historian, pancreatic cancer.
• Gilberto Hernández, 26, Panamanian footballer, shot.
• Carme Junyent, 68, Spanish Catalan linguist, pancreatic cancer.
• Brad Maxwell, 66, Canadian ice hockey player, lung cancer.
• Jingles Pereira, 77, Portuguese-born South African football player and manager.
• Piloo Reporter, 84, Indian cricket umpire.
• Paul Roach, 95, American football coach.
• Morgan Samuelsson, 55, Swedish ice hockey player and coach.
• José Sébéloué, 74, French singer and musician.
• Heath Streak, 49, Zimbabwean cricketer, liver cancer.
• Yarol Tafur, 22, Ecuadorian footballer, shot.
• John F. C. Turner, 96, British architect and theorist.
• David Watkins, 81, Welsh rugby league and rugby union player.

4

• Danas Andriulionis, 71, Lithuanian painter.
• Yunus Bandu, 81, Indonesian military officer and politician, regent of Sidenreng Rappang and Luwu.
• Guðbergur Bergsson, 90, Icelandic writer.
• Wilma Briggs, 92, American baseball player.
• Teté Caturla, 85, Cuban singer.
• Edward J. Early Jr., 92, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and mayor of Lowell, Massachusetts.
• Jonty Farmer, 78, New Zealand Olympic sailor.
• Edith Grossman, 87, American literary translator, pancreatic cancer.
• Murray G. Hall, 76, Canadian Germanist and specialist in literature.
• Helmut Halupka, 74, German engineer and politician, member of the Landtag of Saxony-Anhalt.
• Steve Harwell, 56, American singer, liver failure.
• Hameur Hizem, 85, Tunisian football manager.
• Sherali Joʻrayev, 76, Uzbek singer, actor, and politician, MP.
• Tail Dragger Jones, 82, American Chicago blues singer.
• Tirso del Junco, 98, Cuban-American politician and Olympic rower.
• Muthoni Kirima, 92, Kenyan guerrilla fighter.
• Eero Laine, 89, Finnish Olympic rower.
• Peter Lashley, 86, Barbadian cricketer.
• Alex McIntosh, 89, Canadian politician, member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly.
• Patricia McNulty, 80, American actress.
• Eddie Meador, 86, American football player.
• Ireneusz Michaś, 85, Polish veterinarian and politician, senator.
• Filip Minařík, 48, Czech jockey, suicide.
• Violeta Mițul, 26, Moldovan footballer, fall.
• Mick Molloy, 85, Irish Olympic long-distance runner.
• Denis Monette, 86, Canadian writer and journalist.
• Ferid Murad, 86, American physician and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• Gérard Orth, 87, French virologist.
• Napoleon Pop, 78, Romanian economist and politician, deputy.
• Brayley Reynolds, 88, Welsh footballer.
• Jurate Rosales, 93, Lithuanian-born Venezuelan journalist and amateur historian.
• Doug Shanks, 76, American college baseball coach.
• E. Mary Smallwood, 103, British historian and academic.
• Kuniji Toda, 88, Japanese engineer and politician, member of the House of Councillors.
• Anton Tus, 91, Croatian military officer, chief of the general staff.
• John Wolfe Jr., 69, American attorney and politician.
• Gary Wright, 80, American singer-songwriter and musician, Parkinson's disease and Lewy body dementia.
• Jim Yeats, 87, American football player.

5

• Ronald K. Anderson, 89, American trumpeter.
• Albert Azaryan, 94, Armenian gymnast, Olympic champion.
• Otta Bednářová, 96, Czech journalist and dissident, co-founder of VONS.
• David Black, 95, American sculptor.
• María Teresa Campos, 82, Spanish journalist and television presenter, respiratory failure.
• Pierre Camu, 100, Canadian geographer and civil servant.
• Necmettin Cevheri, 93, Turkish politician, minister of tourism and MP.
• Larry Chance, 82, American doo-wop singer.
• Jürgen Claus, 88, German artist and author.
• Christopher Coker, 70, British political scientist and philosopher.
• Kenneth M. Dye, 87, Canadian accountant and civil servant, auditor general.
• Adam Exner, 94, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Kamloops, archbishop of Winnipeg and Vancouver.
• Joe Fagin, 83, British singer.
• Enrique Forero, 80, Colombian botanist.
• Antonio Galves, 76, Brazilian mathematician, member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences.
• Charles Gayle, 84, American jazz saxophonist and pianist.
• Robin Gladwin, 83, English footballer.
• Bruce Guthro, 62, Canadian singer-songwriter and musician, cancer.
• Lee Halliday, 95, American singer and record producer.
• Erkki Hautamäki, 93, Finnish Olympic decathlete and historian.
• Molly Holzschlag, 60, American author and lecturer.
• Yuri Kondratiev, 69, Ukrainian academic and mathematician.
• Richard Laviolette, 41, Canadian singer-songwriter, assisted suicide.
• George Lefont, 85, American movie theater owner.
• Bernard de Marcken de Mercken, 88, Belgian baron and politician, member of the Parliament of the Brussels-Capital Region.
• Hassan Rahnavardi, 96, Iranian physician, politician and weightlifter, twice MP.
• Shabtai Shavit, 84, Israeli intelligence officer, director of Mossad.
• John Stevenson, 86, British television writer, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Ivan Šuker, 65, Croatian politician and economist, minister of finance.
• Anatol Ugorski, 80, Russian-born German pianist, cancer.
• Corinna Werwigk-Hertneck, 70, German lawyer and politician.

6

• Raymond Ackerman, 92, South African business retailer, chairman of Checkers and Pick n Pay Stores.
• José María Agüero, 76, Costa Rican footballer.
• Didi Biçaku, 99, Albanian historian and partisan.
• Marc Bohan, 97, French fashion designer.
• Marcel Boiteux, 101, French economist, mathematician, and civil servant.
• Robyn Broughton, 80, New Zealand netball coach.
• John Cairney, 93, Scottish actor, author and painter.
• Julie Cassidy, 58, Australian legal scholar.
• Ebadur Rahman Chowdhury, 76, Bangladeshi politician, MP.
• Richard Davis, 93, American jazz bassist.
• Richard M. Dellinger, 87, American politician, member of the Indiana House of Representatives.
• John Winston Foran, 71, Canadian politician and police officer, New Brunswick MLA, pancreatic cancer.
• Alberto Ginulfi, 81, Italian footballer.
• Ian Hamilton, 55, English footballer.
• Denis Herard, 79, Canadian politician, Alberta MLA.
• Lucrecia Hernández Mack, 49, Guatemalan politician, MP, cancer.
• Jeong Si-chae, 87, South Korean politician, MNA, minister of agriculture, forestry and fisheries.
• Adnan Al-Kaissie, 84, Iraqi professional wrestler.
• Dermot Keogh, 78, Irish historian.
• Kim No-sik, 78, South Korean politician, MNA.
• Hans-Ulrich Klose, 86, German politician, MP and mayor of Hamburg, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Lothar Koch, 83, German politician, member of the Landtag of Lower Saxony.
• Ihor Kozlovskyi, 69, Ukrainian historian and theologian, heart attack.
• Gullan Lindblad, 90, Swedish nurse and politician, MP.
• Gareth Miles, 85, Welsh author and translator.
• Kjell-Rune Milton, 75, Swedish ice hockey player.
• David O. Moberg, 101, American sociologist of religion.
• Giuliano Montaldo, 93, Italian film director, screenwriter and actor.
• Silas Muriuki, 74, Kenyan politician, MP.
• Malini Rajurkar, 82, Indian classical singer.
• Steve Roden, 59, American contemporary artist and musician.
• Irene Schuch, 87, German Olympic discus thrower.
• Aditya Dicky Singh, 57, Indian wildlife conservationist and photographer, heart attack.
• Louis Vitale, 91, American Franciscan friar and peace activist, co-founder of Nevada Desert Experience.
• Whitey Von Nieda, 101, American basketball player.

7

• Oraldo Britos, 90, Argentine politician, MP and minister of labour.
• Oded Eran, 82, Israeli diplomat, ambassador to Jordan and the European Union, head negotiator for the Israeli–Palestinian peace process.
• Marie-Thérèse Gantenbein-Koullen, 85, Luxembourgish politician, deputy.
• Wayne Greenstreet, 74, New Zealand cricketer.
• Jean-Christian Grinevald, 78, French stage director.
• Geechy Guy, 59, American stand-up comedian.
• Frédérique Hébrard, 96, French screenwriter and actress.
• Edward Hide, 86, British jockey.
• Wanda Janicka, 100, Polish architect, participant in the Warsaw Uprising.
• María Jiménez, 73, Spanish singer.
• Enver Mamedov, 100, Russian diplomat and mass media manager, first deputy chairman of the State Committee of Television and Radio Broadcasting of the Soviet Union.
• Johnny Mathis, 80, American basketball player.
• Ginger Mayson, 68, American college volleyball coach.
• Edgar Moron, 82, German politician, member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia.
• Peter C. Newman, 94, Canadian journalist, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Akira Nishimura, 69, Japanese composer, jaw cancer.
• Eberhard Otto, 75, German entrepreneur and politician, MP.
• Guido Rhodio, 87, Italian politician, president of Calabria.
• Margherita Rinaldi, 88, Italian lyric soprano.
• Raimundo Varela, 75, Brazilian broadcaster, politician, and television presenter.

8

• Daniel Alicea, 50, Puerto Rican boxer, leukemia.
• Monique Bégin, 87, Canadian politician, MP, minister of national revenue and twice of health.
• Didier Berthet, 61, French Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Saint-Dié.
• James M. Brown, 81, American trial attorney.
• Dave Browning, 90, Australian footballer.
• William Derek Clayton, 97, British botanist.
• Ronald Creagh, 94, French sociologist.
• Karowei Dorgu, 65, Nigerian-born English bishop, pneumonia.
• Stan Dromisky, 92, Canadian politician, MP.
• Leopold Grausam, 80, Austrian football player and manager.
• Sašo Hribar, 63, Slovenian radio and television personality, heart attack.
• Richard Hu, 96, Singaporean politician, MP, minister of health and finance.
• Jacques Julliard, 90, French historian, columnist and essayist.
• John Kelly, 75, Irish hurler.
• Shoukat Ali Laleka, 62, Pakistani politician, member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab.
• Mylon LeFevre, 78, American Christian rock singer, cancer.
• Lisa Lyon, 70, American bodybuilder and photography model, stomach cancer.
• G. Marimuthu, 56, Indian film director and actor, heart attack.
• Tunku Ampuan Najihah, 100, Malaysian royal, Raja Permaisuri Agong.
• Ajit Ninan, 68, Indian political cartoonist.
• Miodrag Novaković, 82–83, Serbian cineast, writer, and film director.
• Dolores Nunes, 82, Brazilian lawyer and politician, deputy, COVID-19.
• Brett Sawyer, 63, American professional wrestler.
• Nancy Storrs, 73, American Olympic rower.
• Anthony Sully, 79, American serial killer.
• Leaena Tambyah, 86, Singaporean special education advocate, stroke.
• Felicia Taylor, 59, American news correspondent and anchor.
• Buichi Terasawa, 68, Japanese manga artist, heart attack.
• Keith Usherwood Ingold, 94, British-Canadian chemist.
• Norma O. Walker, 95, American politician, mayor of Aurora, Colorado.
• Adi Winarso, 72, Indonesian politician, mayor of Tegal.
• Mike Yarwood, 82, English comedian, impressionist and actor.

9

• Erik Aschengreen, 88, Danish historian and dance critic.
• William B. Black, 81, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives.
• Olav Boksasp, 65, Norwegian football administrator.
• Mangosuthu Buthelezi, 95, South African politician and Zulu prince, minister of home affairs, MP and chief minister of KwaZulu.
• Amara Camara, Guinean diplomat and aid worker.
• Rubén Carolini, 79, Argentine paleontologist, discoverer of the Giganotosaurus.
• Louis Ciccarello, 84, American politician.
• Pierre Claisse, 99, French veterinarian and politician, deputy.
• Domenico De Masi, 85, Italian sociologist and academic.
• John Harris, 84, English footballer.
• Christian Lara, 84, Guadeloupean film director.
• Peter McKenzie, New Zealand actor.
• Jerzy Orzeł, 70, Polish entrepreneur and politician, MP.
• Max Simeoni, 94, French Corsican politician, MEP.
• Rainer Troppa, 65, German footballer.
• Yuan Renguo, 66, Chinese liquor industry executive, politician, and convicted embezzler, chairman of Maotai and deputy, cerebral hemorrhage.

10

• Nana Akosua Akyamaa III, 97, Ghanaian traditional royal, queen mother of the Ashanti people in Juaben.
• Chowdhury Khurshid Alam, 83, Bangladeshi politician, MP.
• Colin Ayre, 67, English footballer.
• Robert S. Bennett, 84, American attorney, kidney failure.
• Evgeny Brazhnik, 78, Russian conductor.
• Hernán Carrasco, 100, Chilean football manager.
• Brendan Croker, 70, English musician, leukaemia.
• Lloyd Hines, 72, Canadian politician, Nova Scotia MLA.
• Hamidou Laanigri, 84, Moroccan intelligence officer, director of the DGSN.
• Nico Ladenis, 89, British chef and restaurateur.
• Don Nicholls, 86, Australian footballer.
• Hans Plenk, 85, German luger, Olympic bronze medallist.
• Charlie Robison, 59, American singer-songwriter, cardiac arrest.
• Pierre Trần Thanh Chung, 95, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Kon Tum.
• Mabel Walker, 94, American Olympic sprinter.
• Sir Ian Wilmut, 79, British embryologist, complications from Parkinson's disease.

11

• Gérald Bataille, 69, Haitian evangelical pastor and community leader.
• Dick Bertel, 92, American radio and television personality.
• Benito Castro, 77, Mexican musician, comedian and actor, fall.
• Éva Fahidi, 97, Hungarian Holocaust survivor and author.
• Dedi Graucher, 62, Israeli singer, cancer.
• Martin Hámor, 80, Slovak Olympic archer.
• Juan C. Harriott Jr., 86, Argentine polo player.
• Gordon Kennett, 70, English motorcycle speedway racer.
• Lee Sang-hoon, 90, South Korean military officer and politician, minister of national defense.
• Hal Nerdal, 95, Australian Olympic skier.
• Point Given, 25, American Hall of Fame Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes.
• Manfred Poschenreider, 85, German motorcycle racer.
• Yvonne Přenosilová, 76, Czech singer.
• Ronald L. Rencher, 82, American politician, member and speaker of the Utah House of Representatives, U.S. attorney for the District of Utah.
• Howard Safir, 81, American law enforcement official, New York City police and fire commissioner, sepsis.
• Bruce Stavert, 83, Canadian Anglican bishop, metropolitan of Canada and bishop of Quebec.
• Jan Tabachnyk, 78, Ukrainian variety composer, accordionist and politician, MP.
• Mary Terrall, 71, American academic and science historian.
• Endel Tulving, 96, Estonian-born Canadian psychologist and neuroscientist.
• Uwe Wesel, 90, German academic, lawyer and legal historian.
• Adolf Weinacker, 94, American Olympic racewalker.
• Akintola Williams, 104, Nigerian chartered accountant, co-founder of the Nigerian Stock Exchange.

12

• Rana Maqbool Ahmad, Pakistani politician, senator.
• Roser Amadó, 79, Spanish architect.
• Beytocan, 67, Turkish-born Swedish Kurdish singer and musician, cancer.
• Olof Björner, 80, Swedish researcher.
• Jean Boht, 91, English actress, complications from dementia.
• Benedetto Capizzi, 79, Italian mobster.
• Román Chalbaud, 91, Venezuelan film director.
• Dominique Colonna, 95, French football player and manager.
• Damian Evans, Australian-Canadian archeologist, discovered medieval cities surrounding Angkor Wat.
• Julian Gloag, 93, English novelist.
• Brandon Hunter, 42, American basketball player.
• Elizabeth Jeffreys, 82, British Byzantine scholar, complications from a stroke.
• Kariman, 86, Egyptian actress.
• Roy Kidd, 91, American Hall of Fame college football coach.
• Pete Kozachik, 72, American visual effects artist and animation cinematographer, complications from primary progressive aphasia.
• László Kutas, 87, Hungarian sculptor.
• Kwak Soon-ok, 91, South Korean singer.
• Petur-Emil Mitev, 87, Bulgarian sociologist and politician, deputy.
• MohBad, 27, Nigerian rapper, singer and songwriter.
• Subaschandra Nemwang, 70, Nepalese politician, chairman of the Constituent Assembly, heart attack.
• Kurt Raaflaub, 82, Swiss academic and historian.
• Schelto van Heemstra, 82, Dutch diplomat.
• Dione Venables, 92, English novelist and publisher, founder of The Orwell Society.
• Mike Williams, 36, American football player, sepsis.
• Zeus, 3, American Great Dane dog, world's tallest dog, pneumonia following cancer surgery.

13

• Manik Bhide, 88, Indian Hindustani classical singer.
• Renato Calligaro, 95, Italian painter and cartoonist.
• Tu'uakitau Cokanauto, 78, Fijian politician, MP.
• Ichikawa En'ō II, 83, Japanese kabuki actor, arrhythmia.
• Sir William Gage, 85, British judge, lord justice of appeal, complications from vascular dementia.
• Jose Harris, 82, British historian.
• Narie Hem, 86, Cambodian actress.
• James E. Kieffer, 80, American politician, member of the North Dakota House of Representatives.
• Joseph J. Kohn, 91, Czechoslovakian-born American academic and mathematician.
• Lee Sang-hee, 85, South Korean politician, MNA, minister of science and technology.
• Perrie Mans, 82, South African snooker player.
• John McDonald, 79, Australian rugby league player and coach.
• Marvin E. Newman, 95, American photographer.
• Buzzy Peltola, 58, American politician, plane crash.
• Liudvikas Narcizas Rasimavičius, 84, Lithuanian politician, MP.
• Olga Scheltema-de Nie, 84, Dutch politician, MP.
• Bill Smith, 84, American basketball player.
• Mircea Snegur, 83, Moldovan politician, president and MP, cancer.
• Sohanur Rahman Sohan, 62, Bangladeshi film director, stroke.
• Pepe Soriano, 93, Argentine actor.
• Teng Rujun, 76, Chinese actor, Golden Rooster winner.
• Roger Whittaker, 87, British singer-songwriter.
• Jan Wieczorek, 88, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Opole and bishop of Gliwice.
• Archduchess Yolande of Austria, 100, Austrian aristocrat.

14

• Marcel Honorat Léon Agboton, 82, Beninese Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Kandi and Porto Novo, and archbishop of Cotonou.
• Sir Rudolph Agnew, 89, British business executive.
• Liliana Albertini, 77, Italian politician, deputy.
• Robert Addison Day, 79, American businessman, founder of the TCW Group.
• Pearl Bowser, 92, American film historian and director.
• Robert Tree Cody, 72, American musician.
• Lauch Faircloth, 95, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate and North Carolina secretary of commerce.
• Bjarni Felixson, 86, Icelandic footballer.
• Laurence Gavron, 67–68, French-Senegalese film director, writer, and photographer.
• Luca Giustolisi, 53, Italian water polo player, Olympic bronze medallist, cancer.
• Carol Harter, 82, American academic administrator, president of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
• Herman Høst, 97, Norwegian physician.
• Kim Il-chol, 90, North Korean military officer, minister of defence and member of the National Defence Commission.
• Rob Langer, 74, Australian cricketer.
• Joseph Massino, 80, American mobster.
• Michael McGrath, 65, American actor, Tony winner.
• Pat Nebo, Nigerian production designer and art director.
• Francine Oputa, 70, American scholar.
• Roy Roper, 100, New Zealand rugby union player.
• Marc Simmons, 86, American historian.
• Scott Taylor, 78, American Olympic pentathlete.
• Brian Thrush, 95, British physical chemist and academic.
• Basil van Rooyen, 84, South African racing driver, mesothelioma.
• Antoni Vila Casas, 92, Spanish pharmaceutical executive and philanthropist, founder of Fundació Vila Casas.

15

• Gökhan Abur, 80, Turkish musician, meteorologist and weather presenter.
• Ivan Bondarchuk, 79, Ukrainian politician, deputy.
• Fernando Botero, 91, Colombian painter and sculptor, complications from pneumonia.
• Claude Cormier, 63, Canadian landscape architect, complications from Li–Fraumeni syndrome.
• Hana Doušová, 74, Czech Olympic basketball player.
• Paulo Goulart, 68, Brazilian footballer.
• Maria Huybrechts, 93, Belgian Olympic swimmer.
• Michel Jager, 79, Dutch politician, Queen's commissioner of Flevoland.
• Ady Jung, 84, Luxembourgish businessman and politician, deputy, president of the Benelux Interparliamentary Consultative Council.
• Rolf Koltzsch, 95, German politician, MP.
• Robert A. Kraft, 89, American religious historian.
• Tony Kreft, 78, New Zealand rugby union player.
• Franco Migliacci, 92, Italian lyricist and actor.
• Christopher Miles, 84, British film director, producer and writer, cancer.
• Billy Miller, 43, American actor, suicide by gunshot.
• Burhan Sargun, 94, Turkish footballer.
• Suzanne Sarroca, 96, French operatic soprano.
• Alexander Shishlyannikov, 72, Tajik military officer, minister of defence.
• Vanessa Show, 72, Argentine travesti performer, heart attack.
• Theo Toemion, 66, Indonesian economist and politician, member of the House of Representatives.
• Yoshiko Tsuchida, 75, Japanese manga artist.
• Michael Yessis, 91, American sports performance trainer.

16

• Jean Allouch, 84, French psychologist and psychoanalyst.
• Ron Barassi, 87, Australian Hall of Fame football player and coach, complications from a fall.
• Barry Bennell, 69, English football coach and convicted sex offender, cancer.
• Echo Brown, 39, American author.
• Julian J. Bussgang, 98, Polish-born American mathematician and author.
• Nikolai Dobronravov, 94, Russian poet, lyricist, and actor.
• David Fennario, 76, Canadian playwright.
• Victor Fuchs, 99, American health economist.
• Tulio Hernández Gómez, 85, Mexican politician, two-term deputy, delegate of Azcapotzalco and governor of Tlaxcala.
• Dagmar R. Henney, 92, German-born American mathematician.
• Arild Hetleøen, 80, Norwegian footballer.
• Tom Holmes, 88, American politician, member of the Texas House of Representatives.
• Milo Hrnić, 73, Croatian pop singer, infection.
• Thomas M. Humphrey, 88, American economist.
• Helvi Jürisson, 94, Estonian poet, translator and children's book author.
• Murat Karayılan, 69, Turkish Kurdish militant, commander of the People's Defence Forces, shot.
• Agnes Kwaje Lasuba, 75, South Sudanese politician.
• Torsti Lehtinen, 81, Finnish writer and philosopher.
• John Marshall, 82, English drummer.
• Gita Mehta, 80, Indian-American writer and filmmaker.
• Lionel Morgan, 85, Australian rugby league player.
• Colin Murphy, 79, English football player and manager.
• Abdul Ati al-Obeidi, 83, Libyan politician and diplomat, prime minister, head of state and twice minister of foreign affairs, heart attack.
• C. R. Omanakuttan, 80, Indian writer and humorist, haemorrhage.
• Sir Horace Ové, 86, Trinidadian-born British film director and writer.
• Mubarak Qazi, 67, Pakistani poet.
• Handry Satriago, 54, Indonesian conglomerate executive.
• Qasem Taei, 63, Iraqi grand ayatollah, heart disease.
• Frank Tuerkheimer, 84, American lawyer, academic and prosecutor, U.S. attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin.
• Wimie Wilhelm, 62, Dutch actress, cancer.

17

• Catherine May Atlani, 77, French dancer, choreographer, and musician.
• Emily Banks, 90, American actress.
• Sheldon Baugh, 80, American politician.
• Pepe Domingo Castaño, 80, Spanish radio and television presenter, singer and writer.
• Joy Chambers, 76, Australian actress.
• Petr Charvát, 74, Czech historian, archaeologist and academic.
• Ethel Cook, 72, American Odawa politician.
• Emile Duprée, 86, Canadian professional wrestler and promoter.
• Louis Gooren, 79, Dutch endocrinologist.
• Chuck Hamilton, 84, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Roric Harrison, 76, American baseball player.
• Ryszard Jedliński, 70, Polish Olympic handball player.
• Barry M. Jensen, 78, American politician, member of the South Dakota House of Representatives.
• Muhammad Mahdi al-Khorasani, 94, Iraqi grand ayatollah.
• Aleksandr Khvan, 65, Russian film director and actor.
• Robert Knapp, 77, American classicist, pancreatic cancer.
• Hennadiy Lahuta, 49, Ukrainian politician, governor of Kherson Oblast.
• Roger Lemelin, 69, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Arthur Longbottom, 90, English footballer.
• Sami Azara al-Majun, 91, Iraqi politician.
• Harris Mayer, 102, American physicist.
• John McDonough, 71, British construction industry executive, chairman of Carillion.
• Ronnie McKinnon, 83, Scottish footballer.
• Bengt Nåjde, 81, Swedish Olympic runner.
• Kevin Neale, 78, Australian football player and coach, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Sikkil Neela, 85, Indian flutist.
• Willi Padge, 79, German rower, Olympic champion.
• Aníbal de Peña, 90, Dominican singer, pianist and composer.
• Ali Asghar Rahmani Khalili, 79, Iranian politician, MP.
• Rudolf Wickel, 90, German engineer and politician, member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia.

18

• Riaz Ahmed, 84, Indian volleyball player.
• Harold Baker, 93, American jurist, judge of the U.S. District Court for Eastern Illinois and Central Illinois, and the FISA Court.
• Evgeny Bazhanov, 76, Russian political scientist and diplomat.
• Henry Boucha, 72, American ice hockey player, Olympic silver medalist.
• Krzysztof Bujar, 61, Polish Olympic ice hockey player.
• Byun Hee-bong, 81, South Korean actor, pancreatic cancer.
• Constance Clayton, 89, American educator and civic leader.
• Leina'ala Drummond, 77, American model, Miss Hawaii, cancer.
• Felice Farina, 69, Italian film director.
• Edward Ferry, 82, American rower, Olympic champion.
• Jürgen Grimming, 85, German businessman and politician, MP.
• Grimanesa Jiménez, 86, Chilean actress.
• Brereton C. Jones, 84, American horse breeder and politician, lieutenant governor and governor of Kentucky.
• Frieder Lippmann, 87, German politician, member of the Landtag of Thuringia.
• Seiji Mataichi, 79, Japanese politician, MP.
• Joe Matt, 60, American cartoonist, heart attack.
• Peter W. Mullin, 82, American businessman, founder of M Financial Group.
• Chandran Nair, 77–78, Singaporean poet, heart attack.
• Zdeněk Návrat, 92, Czech Olympic ice hockey player.
• Rolf Olander, 89, Swedish Olympic swimmer.
• Tarachand Patel, 81, Indian politician, MP.
• Marinho Peres, 76, Brazilian football player and manager.
• Kate de Romero, 86, Puerto Rican first lady.
• Syed Salahuddin Zaki, 77, Bangladeshi film director and screenwriter.

19

• Babu, 60, Indian actor.
• Serhiy Bashkyrov, 64, Ukrainian football player and manager.
• Rónán Mac Aodha Bhuí, 53, Irish broadcaster.
• Jimmy Brohan, 88, Irish hurler.
• Romeo Callejo Sr., 86, Filipino judge, associate justice of the Supreme Court.
• Slobodan Čendić, 85, Serbian football manager.
• Billy Chemirmir, 50, Kenyan convicted murderer, homicide.
• Lou Deprijck, 77, Belgian singer-songwriter, musician and record producer.
• Brendan Devlin, 92, Irish language scholar.
• Vitaly Dubko, 87, Russian Olympic trampolining coach.
• JoAnne A. Epps, 72, American legal scholar, president of Temple University.
• Per Gahrton, 80, Swedish politician, MP and MEP, founder of the Green Party.
• Stephen Gould, 61, American heldentenor, cholangiocarcinoma.
• James F. Hoge Jr., 87, American journalist and publisher.
• Egil Johansen, 61, Norwegian footballer, complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Severino Lojodice, 89, Italian footballer.
• Donlin Long, 89, American neurosurgeon.
• Johannes Moe, 97, Norwegian engineer.
• Likpalimor Kwajo Tawiah, 63, Ghanaian politician, MP.
• Hildegarde Neil, 84, British actress, cancer.
• Ellis Sandoz, 92, American academic and political scientist.
• G. Peter Scott, 78–79, British-American mathematician, cancer.
• Buddy Teevens, 66, American football coach, injuries sustained in a traffic collision.
• Sir John Ure, 92, British diplomat, ambassador to Cuba, Brazil and Sweden.
• Gianni Vattimo, 87, Italian philosopher and politician, MEP.
• E. J. Wells, 67, American musician and songwriter, cardiac arrest.

20

• Erika Anderson, 34, American mechanical engineer.
• Katherine Anderson, 79, American singer.
• Zeenat Barkatullah, Bangladeshi dancer and television actress.
• Yaacov Bergman, 78, Israeli conductor.
• Martin Bielz, 87, Romanian Olympic rower.
• Josef Bugl, 90, German politician, MP.
• Enzo Cavalli, 86, Italian Olympic triple jumper.
• Dick Clark, 95, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate.
• Maddy Cusack, 27, English footballer, suicide.
• Elaine Devry, 93, American actress.
• Camille Dimmer, 84, Luxembourgish footballer and politician, deputy.
• Bobby Durnbaugh, 90, American baseball player.
• Stephen Erickson, 83, American philosopher, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Herbert Faust, 96, German politician, member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia.
• Ruth Fuchs, 76, German politician and athlete, Olympic champion.
• Renée Hudon, 81, Canadian radio and television journalist.
• Shuntarō Itō, 93, Japanese science historian.
• Jerzy Kowalski, 86, Polish Olympic sprinter.
• David Mack, 69, American politician, member of the South Carolina House of Representatives.
• Lucy Morgan, 82, American journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner, complications from a fall.
• Erwin Olaf, 64, Dutch photographer, complications from a lung transplant and emphysema.
• Graeme Page, 80, Australian politician, member and speaker of the Tasmanian House of Assembly.
• Odilon Polleunis, 80, Belgian footballer, heart failure.
• Jack Sandlin, 72, American politician, member of the Indiana Senate.
• Phil Sellers, 69, American basketball player, stroke.
• Thet Lwin, 83, Burmese politician, minister of ethnic affairs, heart attack.
• Hollis Watkins, 82, American civil rights activist.

21

• Yoel Alroy, 93, Israeli footballer and politician, mayor of Netanya.
• Sabine Bothe, 63, German Olympic handball player.
• Kevin Byrne, 73–74, Australian politician, mayor of Cairns.
• Alexandra Can, 70, Moldovan politician.
• Linda Cardozo, 73, British gynaecologist.
• John Donald, 94, British jeweller.
• Arlen Erdahl, 92, American politician, Minnesota secretary of state, member of the Minnesota and U.S. House of Representatives, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Stevie Faye, 95, British comedian.
• Maya Georgieva, 68, Bulgarian volleyball player, Olympic bronze medallist.
• Hubert Ginn, 76, American football player.
• José Lemos, 61, Spanish footballer.
• Brian Merrett, 78, Canadian architect and activist, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Akhil Mishra, 67, Indian actor, fall.
• Aldo Neri, 92, Argentine doctor and politician, minister of health and social action.
• Walewska Oliveira, 43, Brazilian volleyball player, Olympic champion.
• Barry Palmer, 83, American politician, member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, cancer.
• Luigi Rinaldi, 85, Italian trade unionist and politician, deputy.
• Ruth Ryste, 91, Norwegian trade unionist and politician, minister of social affairs.
• Anthony Castillo Sanchez, 44, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
• Jeremy Silman, 69, American chess master.
• Robert W. Smith, 64, American trumpeter and composer, complications from heart surgery.
• Gaetano Tanti, 66, Maltese trade unionist, president of the UHM.
• Saroja Vaidyanathan, 86, Indian Bharatanatyam dancer and choreographer, cancer.
• Ignacio Vázquez Torres, 84, Mexican politician, three-term deputy, gubernatorial candidate, and senator.
• Eugenia Viteri, 95, Ecuadorian writer and women's rights activist.

22

• Maria Carmem Barbosa, 76, Brazilian playwright and screenwriter.
• Khemraj Bhatta 'Mayalu', 76, Nepalese politician, MP, cancer.
• Peter Brand, 76, British politician, MP.
• Olga Chorens, 99, Cuban singer and actress.
• Bernardino Fabbian, 73, Italian footballer.
• Bayani Fernando, 77, Filipino politician, chairman of the MMDA, member of the House of Representatives and secretary of public works and highways, fall.
• Bob Glasgow, 81, American politician, member of the Texas Senate.
• François Glorieux, 91, Belgian conductor, composer, and musicologist.
• Sharar Haidar, 52, Iraqi football player and executive, chairman of Al-Karkh, heart attack.
• Mike Henderson, 70, American singer-songwriter and musician.
• Sir Patu Hohepa, 87, New Zealand Māori language academic.
• Peter Horton, 82, Austrian guitarist, composer and singer.
• Evelyn Fox Keller, 87, American physicist, author, and feminist.
• Stan Klees, 91, Canadian businessman.
• Pava LaPere, 26, American businesswoman and entrepreneur, blunt force trauma.
• Giovanni Lodetti, 81, Italian footballer.
• Américo Lopes, 90, Portuguese footballer.
• Geir Lundestad, 78, Norwegian historian, member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute.
• Mark Manges, 67, American football player.
• Alejandro Meerapfel, 54, Argentine operatic baritone, heart attack.
• Cristina Morán, 93, Uruguayan actress, television presenter and journalist.
• Giorgio Napolitano, 98, Italian politician, president, minister of the interior and president of the Chamber of Deputies.
• Joseph D. Novak, 92, American educator and professor.
• Boris Ostanin, 76, Russian writer and essayist, co-founder of the Andrei Bely Prize.
• Jeff Ragsdale, 51, American author and filmmaker, cancer.
• Dame Teresa Rees, 74, British social scientist, cancer.
• Selwyn Romilly, 83, Canadian judge, justice of the Supreme Court and Provincial Court of British Columbia.
• Bruce Russett, 88, American political scientist.
• Dieter Schneider, 86, German lyricist.
• Wallace B. Smith, 94, American Community of Christ preacher, prophet-president.
• Vladimir Sokhov, 84, Russian politician, MP.
• Sergey Solovyov, 68, Russian mathematician.
• Murray Stenson, 74, American bartender.
• Goodloe Sutton, 84, American newspaper editor, publisher and owner.
• Bernard Toublanc-Michel, 95, French film director and screenwriter.
• Joanne Verger, 93, American politician.

23

• Daniel Okyem Aboagye, 49, Ghanaian politician, MP.
• Edwin Nicholas Arnold, 82, British herpetologist, heart failure.
• Jim Courtney, 87, American politician, member of the Montana House of Representatives.
• Eugenio Elorduy Walther, 82, Mexican politician, governor of Baja California.
• Lucie Julia, 96, Guadeloupean writer, women's rights activist and social worker.
• Nic Kerdiles, 29, American ice hockey player, traffic collision.
• Terry Kirkman, 83, American musician and songwriter, heart failure.
• Víctor Manuel López Forero, 92, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Socorro y San Gil, archbishop of Nueva Pamplona and Bucaramanga.
• Danny Morris, 77, American baseball player.
• Cheryl Murray, 71, English actress.
• Toivo Öhman, 90, Swedish Olympic diver.
• John S. Saul, 85, Canadian academic and activist, cancer.
• Noël Tijou, 81, French Olympic long-distance runner.
• Skadi Walter, 59, German Olympic speed skater.
• Paul Woodruff, 80, American classicist and academic, bronchiectasis.
• Chloe Wright, 75, New Zealand businesswoman and philanthropist.

24

• Ray Anderson, 96, American journalist.
• Felix Ayo, 90, Spanish-born Italian violinist.
• Keith Baxter, 90, Welsh actor, heart attack.
• Viktor Belenko, 76, Russian-born American fighter pilot.
• Fritz Bing, 89, South African cricketer.
• Dorra Bouzid, 90, Tunisian feminist and art critic.
• Roland Cantzler, 92, German jurist and politician, MP.
• Léon Fatous, 97, French politician, MEP and senator.
• Alfonso Ferrufino, 81, Bolivian lawyer, sociologist, and politician, minister of government.
• Tim Foley, 75, American football player.
• K. G. George, 77, Indian film director and screenwriter, stroke.
• Ced Gyles, 96, Canadian football player.
• John Hayes, 84, Australian rugby league player.
• Zvi Hecker, 92, Polish-born Israeli architect.
• Silvi Liiva, 82, Estonian printmaker.
• Hani Naqshabandi, 60, Saudi journalist, writer and novelist.
• Barry Olivier, 87, American guitar instructor, founder of the Berkeley Folk Music Festival.
• Leon Phillips, 88, New Zealand chemist.
• Steven Pim, Papua New Guinean politician, MP, heart attack.
• Ray Reynolds, 87, Australian cricketer.
• Keith Riglin, 66, British Anglican bishop, bishop of Argyll and The Isles.
• Chuck Romine, 87, American politician, member of the West Virginia House of Delegates.
• William B. Russel, 77, American chemical engineer.
• James Skala, 93, American basketball player and coach.
• Reiky de Valk, 23, Dutch actor, suicide.
• Allan Weisbecker, 75, American surfer, novelist, and screenwriter.

25

• Mubarak Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, 93, Kuwaiti politician.
• Burkey Belser, 76, American graphic designer, bladder cancer.
• Eugenio Calabi, 100, Italian-born American mathematician.
• Bob Dahl, 54, American football player.
• Atis Deksnis, 50, Latvian politician, MP.
• Ron D. Givens, 71, American politician, member of the Texas House of Representatives.
• Gualberto Gutiérrez, 83, Uruguayan Olympic boxer.
• Andriy Ivanchuk, 50, Ukrainian politician, MP, thrombosis.
• Makoto Katamine, 67, Japanese politician.
• György Kottán, 76, Hungarian-Austrian football player and manager.
• Severino Lucini, 93, Italian Olympic rower.
• Zoleka Mandela, 43, South African writer, cancer.
• Harry Marsh, 97, English chemist.
• David McCallum, 90, Scottish actor and musician.
• Osman Mema, 84, Albanian footballer.
• Matteo Messina Denaro, 61, Italian mobster, head of the Sicilian Mafia, colon cancer.
• Luigi Minchillo, 68, Italian Olympic boxer, heart attack.
• Seth Walker Norman, 89, American judge and politician.
• Harry Poole, 88, English footballer.
• Juhani Salovaara, 91, Finnish Olympic sailor.
• Gerry Shamray, 66, American comic book artist.
• Nevenka Tadić, 97, Serbian neuropsychiatrist.
• Anneke Uittenbosch, 93, Dutch harpsichordist.
• Obie Wilchcombe, 64, Bahamian politician.
• Yevgeny Yasin, 89, Russian economist, minister of economy.

26

• Raynald Blais, 69, Canadian politician, MP.
• Sir Michael Bonallack, 88, English golf administrator.
• Vittoria Cesarini, 91, Italian Olympic sprinter.
• Asgeir Dølplads, 91, Norwegian ski jumper.
• Sandra Dorsey, 83, American actress, director and writer, pancreatic cancer.
• Teri Hope, 85, American model and actress.
• David Hughes, 65, English footballer.
• Serhii Kondratevskyi, 58, Ukrainian businessman and politician, people's deputy.
• Maurice Leitch, 90, Northern Irish author.
• Bruce McWilliams, 67, American business executive.
• Hisae Mitsuishi, 96, Japanese politician, member of the House of Councillors.
• Geof Motley, 88, Australian football player and coach.
• Jayantha Paranathala, 72, Sri Lankan cricketer and police officer.
• Henri Perly, 95, French road racing cyclist.
• Manfred Pointner, 80, German lawyer and politician, member of the Landtag of Bavaria.
• Brooks Robinson, 86, American Hall of Fame baseball player, World Series champion, heart disease.
• Stanisław Szymecki, 99, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Kielce and archbishop of Białystok.
• Hıfzı Topuz, 100, Turkish journalist, travel writer and novelist.
• Thelma Turner, 94, New Zealand netball player.

27

• Jesús Aranzabal, 83, Spanish racing cyclist.
• Pat Arrowsmith, 93, English peace activist, co-founder of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
• Donna Becker, 91, American baseball player.
• Bob Blasi, 93, American football coach.
• Christoph Prinz zu Schleswig-Holstein, 74, German aristocrat, head of the House of Oldenburg.
• Sabina Citron, 95, Polish-Canadian Holocaust survivor.
• Hezekiah Leonard Clark Jr., 86, American master sergeant.
• Ralph B. D'Agostino, 83, American biostatistician.
• Dom Famularo, 70, American drummer.
• Ed Fancher, 100, American newspaper publisher and psychologist.
• Seda Fettahoğlu, 44, Turkish actress.
• Jim Forrest, 79, Scottish footballer.
• Djovi Gally, 67, Togolese human rights lawyer and politician.
• Sir Michael Gambon, 82, Irish-born British actor, four-time BAFTA winner, pneumonia.
• Volodymyr Koman, 59, Ukrainian footballer.
• Urszula Koszut, 82, Polish operatic soprano.
• Catherine Lachens, 78, French actress.
• Aziz Pahad, 82, South African anti-apartheid activist and politician, MP.
• Fayez Rashid, 73, Palestinian political writer.
• John Roncz, 75, American aerodynamicist.
• Soumendu Roy, 90, Indian cinematographer.
• Bob Sheridan, 79, American boxing and MMA commentator.
• Gary Simpson, 64, English footballer.
• Donal Smith, 89, New Zealand Olympic athlete and academic of English literature.
• Slobodan Štambuk, 82, Croatian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Hvar-Brač-Vis.
• John Tembo, 91, Malawian economist and politician, minister of finance and governor of the Reserve Bank, pneumonia.
• Christine Terraillon, 80, French Olympic alpine skier.
• Wang Wen-hsing, 84, Taiwanese novelist.
• Ryuzo Yanagimachi, 95, Japanese-born American embryologist.
• Vasily Zimenok, 89, Kazakh miner and politician, member of the Soviet of the Union.

28

• Stephen Ackles, 57, Norwegian musician.
• J. Scott Armstrong, 86, American futurologist and author.
• Ted Bachman, 72, American football player.
• John Bandler, 81, Canadian electrical engineer and academic.
• Louis Bernatchez, 63, Canadian geneticist.
• Sir Mervyn Brown, 100, British historian and diplomat, ambassador to Madagascar, high commissioner to Tanzania and Nigeria.
• Glenn Bujnoch, 69, American football player.
• Marshall Cook, 83, New Zealand architect.
• Ashwin Dani, 79, Indian paint industry businessman, co-founder of Asian Paints.
• Ion Druță, 95, Moldovan writer and poet, member of the Romanian Academy.
• Lois Fowler, 68, Canadian curler, ovarian cancer.
• Eric Hammill, 91, Canadian politician, Prince Edward Island MLA.
• Dean House, 85, American politician.
• Sissel Lange-Nielsen, 92, Norwegian writer.
• Viliami Moala, 30, American football player.
• Ganira Pashayeva, 48, Azerbaijani politician and poet, MP.
• Bob Priddy, 83, American baseball player.
• Gennady Raikov, 84, Russian politician, MP.
• Najah Salam, 92, Lebanese singer and actress.
• M. S. Swaminathan, 98, Indian agronomist and geneticist, MP.

29

• Roy Boudreau, 76, Canadian teacher and politician, speaker of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick.
• Demetrio Carceller Coll, 93, Portuguese beverage industry executive.
• Mayra Copas, 28, Bolivian beauty pageant titleholder, pancreatic cancer.
• Bob Coronado, 87, American football player.
• Rawdon Dalrymple, 92, Australian public servant and diplomat, ambassador to the United States.
• Jon Fausty, 74, American sound and recording engineer.
• Dianne Feinstein, 90, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate, mayor of San Francisco.
• Hernando Guerra García, 60, Peruvian businessman and politician, MP.
• Michał Głowiński, 88, Polish philologist, member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and of Arts and Sciences.
• Joyce Grable, 70, American professional wrestler.
• Neville Harper, 97, Australian politician, Queensland MLA.
• Saad Eddin Ibrahim, 84, Egyptian sociologist.
• Joseph E. Johnson, 90, American academic, president of the University of Tennessee system.
• Lucjan Józefowicz, 88, Polish Olympic track cyclist.
• Anne Kahane, 99, Austrian-born Canadian sculptor.
• Richie Poulton, 61, New Zealand clinical psychologist, director of the Dunedin Study, salivary gland cancer.
• Maurice Racca, 100, French Olympic sport shooter.
• Harpal Randhawa, Indian investor and businessman, plane crash.
• Kamal Ruhayyim, 76, Egyptian writer.
• Kurt Schumacher, 70, American football player.
• Ed Young, 91, Chinese-born American illustrator.
• Yu Zhenwu, 92, Chinese air force general, commander of PLAAF.

30

• Youssouf Bakayoko, 80, Ivorian politician and diplomat, minister of foreign affairs.
• Russell Batiste Jr., 57, American drummer, heart attack.
• Praful Bhavsar, 97, Indian rocket scientist.
• Abdus Sattar Bhuiyan, 84, Bangladeshi politician, MP.
• Thomas Danneberg, 81, German actor and dubber, stroke.
• Ron East, 80, American football player.
• Michael Flynn, 75, American author.
• Gene W. Glenn, 94, American politician, member of the Iowa House of Representatives and Iowa Senate.
• Galip Haktanır, 102, Turkish footballer.
• Ove Johansson, 75, Swedish-born American football player.
• A. K. M. Shahjahan Kamal, 73, Bangladeshi politician, minister of civil aviation and tourism and MP.
• Khaled Khalifa, 59, Syrian novelist, screenwriter, and poet, heart attack.
• Vitali Konyayev, 86, Russian actor.
• Erick Morillo, 23, Peruvian footballer, traffic collision.
• Dame Alison Quentin-Baxter, 93, New Zealand lawyer.
• Russell Sherman, 93, American classical pianist.
• Chris Snow, 42, Canadian ice hockey executive, complications from amyotropic lateral sclerosis.
• Wichit Srisa-an, 88, Thai academic administrator and politician, minister of education, rector of Thammasat University and Khon Kaen University.
• Sukumar, 91, Indian satirist and cartoonist.
• Eurico dos Santos Veloso, 90, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Juiz de Fora, bishop of Luz and archbishop of Juiz de Fora.