Deaths in 2026

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent nationality, what subject was noted for, cause of death, and a reference.

February

3

• S. P. Venkatesh, 70, Indian film score composer, cardiac arrest.

2

• Miguel Ángel Alba Díaz, 75, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Antequera and bishop of La Paz en la Baja California Sur.
• Valentin Balakhnichev, 76, Russian athletics coach and sports official, president of the All-Russian Athletics Federation.
• Hem Singh Bhadana, 55, Indian politician, Rajasthan MLA, cancer.
• Ranjit Das, 93, Bangladeshi football player and manager, cardiac arrest.
• Horst Gallert, 88, German politician, member of the Landtag of Saxony.
• Józef Gąsienica-Sobczak, 91, Polish skier, four-time Olympic competitor.
• Nicolas Giani, 39, Italian footballer.
• Marian Kasprzyk, 86, Polish welterweight boxer, Olympic champion.
• Miroslav Košuta, 89, Slovenian poet.
• John MacDonald, 89, Hong Kong racing car driver.
• Chuck Negron, 83, American singer, heart failure and COPD.
• Ahmad Obeidat, 87, Jordanian politician, prime minister.
• Maria Rita Parsi, 78, Italian psychotherapist.
• Yuan Wei-jen, 57, Taiwanese singer-songwriter.

1

• Fernando Esteso, 80, Spanish comedian, actor, and singer, respiratory failure.
• Rafael Hui, 77, Hong Kong civil servant and criminal, secretary for financial services, chief secretary for administration, and unofficial MEC.
• Mostafa Kamal, 88, Bangladeshi volleyball player, coach, and footballer.
• , 84, Japanese journalist and novelist.
• Tony Pigott, 67, English cricketer, heart attack.
• Nicola Salerno, 69, Italian football sporting director.
• Rita Süssmuth, 88, German politician, president of the Bundestag and federal minister for youth, family and health.
• Sushila Tiriya, 69, Indian politician, MP.
• Steve Washington, 67, American musician.
• Lucien Weiler, 74, Luxembourgish politician, deputy and president of the Chamber of Deputies.

January

31

• Ismael Ahmed, 79, American health official, director of the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.
• Maximilian Aichern, 93, Austrian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Linz.
• Nataša Bokal, 58, Slovenian Olympic skier, cancer.
• Francesco Calogero, 90, Italian physicist and peace activist, secretary-general of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs.
• Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry, 71, Pakistani politician, president and prime minister of Azad Kashmir.
• , 80, Italian politician.
• Spiro Debarski, 92, Bulgarian football player and manager.
• , 78, Hungarian singer, songwriter and musician, complications from pneumonia.
• Kazuhiko Hasegawa, 80, Japanese film director, multiple organ failure complicated by pneumonia.
• Fathi Kameel, 70, Kuwaiti footballer.
• Mingo Lewis, 72, American percussionist and drummer.
• , 81, Albanian actor.
• , 78, Spanish politician, president of the Island Council of Tenerife.
• , 74, Indonesian military officer and politician, vice governor of West Sulawesi, member of the House of Representatives.
• Billy Bass Nelson, 75, American Hall of Fame bass guitarist.
• Raghunatha Reddy, 82, Indian actor.
• Rick Renick, 81, American baseball player.
• Gustavo Sánchez Vásquez, 62, Mexican politician, municipal president of Mexicali and senator.
• , 69, Italian journalist.
• Gerardo Taracena, 55, Mexican actor.

30

• Mohammad-Hadi Abdekhodaei, 87, Iranian ayatollah, MP and member of the Assembly of Experts.
• Geraldine Barniville, 83, Irish squash and tennis player.
• Abdelhadi Belkhayat, 85, Moroccan singer.
• Arthur P. Dempster, 96, American mathematician.
• Diana Ferrus, 72, South African writer.
• Florentina Filipovici, 32, Romanian rower.
• Henner Hofmann, 75, Mexican cinematographer and film producer.
• Parthenon Huxley, 70, American musician.
• Ain-Elmar Kaasik, 91, Estonian neurologist and neurosurgeon.
• X. J. Kennedy, 96, American poet.
• Mark Marquess, 78, American college baseball coach.
• Flavien Joseph Melki, 94, Syrian Syriac Catholic hierarch, auxiliary bishop and curial bishop of Antioch.
• Catherine O'Hara, 71, Canadian-American actress, Emmy Award|Emmy] winner.
• H. Robert Reynolds, 91, American musician and conductor.
• Hernán Rodríguez, 92, Chilean footballer.
• David Triesman, Baron Triesman, 82, British politician and trade union leader, member of the House of Lords.
• , 59, Turkish singer and actor, complications from a heart attack.
• Praski Vitti, 89, Russian Chuvash artist, painter, and muralist.
• Demond Wilson, 79, American actor and author, complications from cancer.

29

• , 81, French journalist and humanitarian.
• , 41, Israeli model and actress, traffic collision.
• Kai Budde, 46, German Hall of Fame card game player, cancer.
• Marco Bülow, 54, German journalist and politician, MP.
• Eric Cameron, 90, Canadian artist.
• João Canijo, 68, Portuguese film director.
• Graham E. Fuller, 89, American political analyst, heart-related problems.
• , 93, French politician, MP and mayor of the 15th arrondissement of Paris.
• Ecaterina Roșianu Horsa, 89, Romanian tennis player.
• Woodie King Jr., 88, American theatre director, founder of the New Federal Theatre, complications from heart surgery.
• Scott Laidlaw, 72, American football player, Super Bowl champion.
• Peter Lee, 80, English cricketer.
• Wojciech Michniewski, 78, Polish composer and conductor.
• Stig Millehaugen, 56, Norwegian convicted murderer.
• Philippe Morillon, 90, French general and politician, commander of the United Nations Forces in Bosnia and MEP.
• Michael Nobbs, 72, Australian field hockey player and coach.
• Georghios Pikis, 87, Cypriot judge, president of the Supreme Court and judge of the ICC.
• , 63, Japanese-American musician, DJ and broadcaster, esophageal cancer.
• Sentoryū Henri, 56, Japanese martial artist and sumo wrestler, lung disease.
• , 87, Syrian actress.
• Raimonds Staprans, 99, Latvian-American visual artist and playwright.
• Jim Wallace, Baron Wallace of Tankerness, 71, Scottish politician, deputy first minister, member of the House of Lords, and twice acting first minister, complications from surgery.

28

• Antoine Bangui, 92, Chadian politician and author.
• Maroochy Barambah, 70, Australian Turrbal elder and mezzo-soprano singer.
• Nilton César, 86, Brazilian singer.
• Chung Sanghwa, 93, South Korean dansaekhwa painter.
• Cezary Jędrzycki, 57, Polish Olympic rower.
• Ji Han-jae, 89, South Korean hapkido martial artist.
• Vénus Khoury-Ghata, 88, French-Lebanese poet and writer.
• Thomas Kunnunkal, 99, Indian Jesuit priest and educationist, chairman of the Central Board of Secondary Education.
• Bryan Loren, 59, American songwriter.
• Dan McQuade, 43, American journalist and writer, cancer.
• Franco Menichelli, 84, Italian gymnast, Olympic champion.
• Brian O'Shea, 81, Irish politician, senator and TD.
• Adekunle Ojora, 93, Nigerian oil and gas executive.
• Ajit Pawar, 66, Indian politician, deputy chief ministers of Maharashtra|deputy chief minister of Maharashtra], plane crash.
• Robert W. Pratt, 78, American jurist, judge and chief judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa.
• Diógenes Quintero, 36, Colombian lawyer, human rights defender and politician, member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia, plane crash.
• Jean de Dieu Razafimahatratra, 78, Malagasy Olympic judoka.
• Eric Russell, 89, Scottish cricketer.
• Dominick Salvatore, 85, American economist.
• Isabelo San Luis, 81, Filipino Catholic priest and media personality.
• , 86, Japanese economist.
• Charles Victor Thompson, 55, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• , 81, Hungarian actress.

27

• David Andrews, 90, British actor and director.
• Robert G. Bottoms, 81, American education executive.
• Brad Branson, 67, American basketball player.
• António Chainho, 88, Portuguese fado guitarist.
• Vladislav Chernushenko, 90, Russian conductor.
• Ernie Fage, 72, Canadian politician, Nova Scotia MLA.
• James Ferguson, 85, Australian diplomat, ambassador to Peru.
• , 86, Czech social activist and Romani scholar.
• , 88, Tunisian novelist and poet.
• Joan Hall, 90, British politician, MP.
• Boris Ignatyev, 85, Russian football player and manager, stomach cancer.
• Akira Iriye, 91, Japanese-American historian.
• Günter Kilian, 75, German Olympic water polo player.
• , 89, South Korean lawyer.
• , 79, Japanese baseball player.
• Fernando Mamede, 74, Portuguese Olympic athlete.
• , 93, Spanish lexicographer and bibliologist.
• Gerald M. McCue, 97, American architect, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
• Dennis Milton, 64, American boxer.
• , 95, Russian politician.
• Parviz Nouri, 87, Iranian film critic, screenwriter and director.
• Nigel Ogden, 71, British theatre organist and radio presenter.
• John Overington, 79, American politician, member of the West Virginia House of Delegates.
• Neil Pappalardo, 83, American technology businessman, cofounder of Meditech.
• , 88, Andorran politician and businessman, mayor of Sant Julià de Lòria and member of the General Council.
• Shirley Raines, 58, American non-profit founder.
• James Sallis, 81, American writer, poet and biographer.
• Paul Sample, 78, British cartoonist and illustrator.
• Tato, 64, Brazilian footballer, esophageal cancer.
• Rado Vidošić, 64, Croatian-Australian football manager, cancer.
• Gloria Wade-Gayles, 88, American educator and author.

26

• , 85, Italian-born Colombian actor, film director and producer.
• Richie Beirach, 78, American jazz pianist and composer.
• Arie van den Brand, 74, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives.
• Maria Constantinescu, 91, Romanian handballer, world champion.
• Danny Coughlan, British singer and guitarist.
• Sly Dunbar, 73, Jamaican drummer, record producer, and songwriter, cancer.
• Kirsty Duncan, 59, Canadian politician, MP, minister of science and sport, cancer.
• Sia Figiel, 59, Samoan writer, painter and alleged murderer.
• , 48, Danish journalist, cancer.
• Khalid Hafeez, 90, Pakistani actor and comedian.
• , 81, Swiss musician and painter.
• Myint Htwe, 78, Burmese politician, minister of health and sport.
• , 65, Hungarian jazz bassist.
• Chuck Lefley, 76, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Ian McDougall, 87, Canadian jazz trombonist and academic.
• Robert Nazaryan, 69, Armenian politician, mayor of Yerevan.
• Produce Pete, 80, American chef and television personality.
• Carole Sabiston, 86, English-born Canadian textile artist.
• , 96, Moldovan physicist, member of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova.
• Len Simms, 81, Canadian politician, Newfoundland and Labrador MHA.
• N. Sundaram, 72, Indian politician, Tamil Nadu MLA, fall.
• Tan Yee Khan, 85, Malaysian badminton player.
• Clendon Thomas, 90, American football player.
• Maggie Van Ostrand, 92, American writer, humorist and columnist.

25

• Michael F. Adams, 77, American political staffer and educator, president of the University of Georgia.
• Robert Joseph Banks, 97, American Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Boston and bishop of Green Bay.
• Inderjit Singh Bindra, 84, Indian sports administrator, president of the BCCI.
• Seyni Awa Camara, 81, Senegalese sculptor.
• Jean Cussac, 103, French baritone and music director.
• Gong Ro-myung, 93, South Korean diplomat and politician, minister of foreign affairs.
• Eric L. Huntley, 96, Guyanese-born British activist, publisher and educator.
• Philip G. Killey, 84, American air force general.
• , 93, Indian Syro-Malabar Catholic prelate, bishop of Gorakhpur.
• Lee Hae-chan, 73, South Korean politician, prime minister, minister of education and MNA, cardiac arrest.
• Gabe Lopez, 31, American songwriter and producer, lymphoma.
• Abhijit Majumdar, 54, Indian composer and music director, liver disease.
• Geoffrey Mason, 85, American television producer.
• Rafael Pineda, 88, Cuban-American journalist and television news reporter.
• Chet Raymo, 89, American writer.
• Marie Rouanet, 89, French singer and writer.
• Harilyn Rousso, 79, American disability rights activist.
• Orest Salamakha, 34, Ukrainian politician, MP, traffic collision.
• Dede Sulaeman, 69, Indonesian footballer, heart attack.
• , 72, Japanese racing driver, traffic collision.
• Sir Mark Tully, 90, British journalist and writer.
• Frederick Vreeland, 98, American politician and diplomat, ambassador to Morocco.
• , 49, Indonesian actor, singer, and songwriter, complications from tuberculosis.
• Kazuhito Yamashita, 64, Japanese guitarist.

24

• David Abulafia, 76, British historian.
• Michel Barbey, 98, French actor.
• Sefer Baygın, 83, Turkish Olympic wrestler.
• Boris Belousov, 91, Russian politician, Soviet minister of defense industry.
• Sal Buscema, 89, American comic book artist.
• Noel W. Campbell, 84, American politician, member of the Arizona House of Representatives, traffic collision.
• Nazzareno Canuti, 70, Italian footballer.
• Paul William Coteus, 72, American electrical engineer, pancreatic cancer.
• Steve Dennis, 74, Canadian football player.
• Howard Flight, Baron Flight, 77, British politician, MP and member of the House of Lords.
• Lee Fobbs, 75, American football player and coach.
• William Foege, 89, American physician and epidemiologist, director of the CDC, heart failure.
• , 67, Spanish diplomat, ambassador to the Holy See and Portugal.
• Bob Jones, 80, Canadian ice hockey player.
• William M. Keys, 88, American Marine general.
• Faruk Kulenović, 74, Bosnian-Croatian basketball player and coach.
• Aleksandr Oleinikov, 60, Russian film director, screenwriter and producer.
• Constantino de Oliveira Júnior, 57, Brazilian airline executive, founder and CEO of Gol Linhas Aéreas, cancer.
• Michael Parenti, 92, American political scientist and academic historian.
• Alex Pretti, 37, American nurse, shot.
• Peter Ryan, 95, English rugby union player.
• Yuri Rymanov, 69, Russian guitarist.
• Iain Sharp, 72, British-born New Zealand poet, librarian and journalist, cancer.
• Peter Unwin, 93, British diplomat, ambassador to Hungary and Denmark.
• Mark Dundas, 4th Marquess of Zetland, 88, British hereditary peer, member of the House of Lords.

23

• Robert A. Baines, 79, American politician, mayor of Manchester, New Hampshire, complications from a medical procedure.
• , 80, Peruvian politician, minister of foreign affairs.
• Terry Boers, 75, American radio host.
• John Brodie, 90, American football player.
• Dalibor Brun, 81, Croatian singer.
• Carlo Cecchi, 86, Italian actor.
• Giancarlo Cella, 85, Italian football player and manager.
• Brian Crowley, 61, Irish politician, senator and MEP.
• Jean Dorion, 83, Canadian politician, MP, complications from Parkinson's disease and prostate cancer.
• Ed Doyle, 90, Canadian politician, Ontario MPP.
• Otto Duecker, 77, American painter.
• , 90, Spanish politician.
• Phil Griego, 77, American politician, member of the New Mexico Senate.
• Albert Holt, 89, Australian Bidjara elder.
• Roland Huntford, 98, British polar historian and biographer.
• Ðani Kovač, 86, Serbian Olympic sprinter.
• Alena Kučerová, 90, Czech printmaker.
• , 26, Indonesian social media personality, singer, and actress.
• Fenwick Lawson, 93, English sculptor.
• Maurice Le Coutour, 111, French supercentenarian.
• Helen Leach, 80, New Zealand food anthropologist, Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.
• Liao Xilong, 85, Chinese general, head of GLD and commander of the Chengdu Military Region.
• , 92, South Korean basketball player and manager.
• Yvonne Lime, 90, American actress.
• , 70, Spanish journalist.
• Donald John Roberts, 80, Canadian-American economist.
• Margaret Ross, 83, American singer.
• Selim Sadak, 71, Turkish politician, MP and mayor of Siirt, cancer.
• , 91, German philosopher.
• Anda Zaice, 84, Latvian actress.
• Ota Zaremba, 68, Czech weightlifter, Olympic champion.

22

• John L. Allen Jr., 61, American journalist, stomach cancer.
• Raoul Aragon, 78, Filipino actor.
• Abdul Salam Azimi, 90, Afghan judge, chief justice.
• Linden Bateman, 85, American politician, member of the Idaho House of Representatives.
• , 70, French riding instructor and author.
• Francis Buchholz, 71, German bass guitarist, cancer.
• , 100, Thai politician, minister of defence.
• André Burguière, 87, French historian and academic.
• Eldaafer, 20, American Thoroughbred racehorse.
• Pedro Pablo Elizondo, 76, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Cancún-Chetumal, heart attack.
• Ernesto Gil Elorduy, 82, Mexican politician, senator.
• Marian Goodman, 97, American art dealer.
• J. S. Guleria, 98, Indian physician and cardiologist.
• Guy Hovis, 84, American singer.
• Andrzej Januszajtis, 97, Polish physicist and politician, chairman of the city council of Gdańsk.
• Hifumi Katō, 86, Japanese shogi player.
• Alicja Kędzia, 84, Polish neurologist and anatomist.
• Květoslava Kořínková, 85, Czech politician, deputy.
• Marcel Loncle, 90, French footballer.
• Francesco Mariotti, 82, Swiss artist and cultural activist.
• Walter Martínez, 84, Venezuelan journalist.
• Laurentine Mbede, Cameroonian politician, member of the National Assembly.
• Alain Monney, 74, Swiss comedian and actor, brain tumour.
• , 85, Spanish politician and writer.
• Ilyas Pasha, 61, Indian footballer.
• Antonio Rodríguez Rodríguez, 81, Spanish politician, deputy, senator.
• William Safran, 95, American academic and Holocaust survivor.
• Joël Schmidt, 88, French novelist, historian and editor.
• E. A. Siddiq, 88, Indian agricultural scientist.
• , Italian actress and singer.
• Hudson Talbott, 76, American children's author and illustrator.
• Kalin Terziyski, 55, Bulgarian writer.
• Dino Turcato, 79, Italian Olympic weightlifter.
• Floyd Vivino, 74, American actor, comedian, and television host.
• Hilton Woods, 57, American-Dutch Olympic swimmer.

21

• István Antal, 77, Romanian politician, deputy.
• Mark Batzer, 64, American geneticist and academic.
• Stephen Baxter, 56, British medieval historian.
• Allan Chapman, 79, British science historian.
• Yuriy Chonka, 34, Ukrainian footballer.
• José Cuéllar, 85, American anthropologist and musician, lung cancer.
• Princess Désirée, Baroness Silfverschiöld, 87, Swedish royal.
• Haldun Dormen, 97, Turkish actor.
• Bobby Duncum, 81, American professional wrestler.
• Rüdiger Erben, 58, German politician, member of the Landtag of Saxony-Anhalt.
• , 88, Indian Catholic priest.
• Colette Flesch, 88, Luxembourgish Olympic fencer and politician, mayor of Luxembourg City, deputy prime minister and three-time MEP.
• Stanley Gerzofsky, 81, American politician, member of the Maine Senate.
• Raúl Guglielminetti, 84, Argentine intelligence officer and convicted criminal.
• Yōichi Higashi, 91, Japanese film director.
• Eric L. Huntley, 96, Guyanese-born British activist, publisher and educator, stroke.
• Ilias Javed, 82, Bangladeshi actor and choreographer.
• Kevin Johnson, 55, American football player, blunt head trauma and stab wounds.
• M. Hafizuddin Khan, 89, Bangladeshi bureaucrat.
• Linda Kohen, 101, Italian-born Uruguayan painter.
• Petr Krill, 84, Czech politician, deputy.
• Ian Macowat, 60, English footballer.
• Rob Maurer, 59, American baseball player.
• Raja Nadir Pervez, 83, Pakistani politician, MNA, minister of communications.
• Reza Rooygari, 79, Iranian actor, heart attack.
• Kamal Roy, 54, Indian actor.
• Jan Nico Scholten, 93, Dutch politician, member of the Senate and four-time MP.
• Aleksandr Shavlokhov, 86, South Ossetian politician, prime minister.
• Peter Squires, 74, English cricket and rugby union player.
• Kristinn Svavarsson, 78, Icelandic saxophonist.
• Anthony P. Vainieri, 97, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly.

20

• Rifaat al-Assad, 88, Syrian politician, vice president, complications from influenza.
• Dame Marie Bashir, 95, Australian psychiatrist and viceroy, governor of New South Wales.
• Håkan Bengtsson, 83, Swedish Olympic swimmer.
• John H. Beyer, 92, American architect.
• Barbara Aronstein Black, 92, American legal scholar.
• Eugen Botez, 77, Romanian sprint canoer.
• Phillip Boudreault, 50, Canadian boxer and outlaw biker.
• Tommie Brown, 91, American politician, member of the Tennessee House of Representatives, plaintiff in Brown v. Board of Commissioners of the City of Chattanooga.
• Deborah Cameron, 67, British linguist and feminist, pancreatic cancer.
• Thadeu Gomes Canellas, 95, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Porto Alegre and bishop of Osório.
• Piotr Chojnacki, 80, Polish politician, senator, MP.
• Louva Dahozy, 99, American Navajo rights activist.
• Daiwa Major, 24, Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse.
• , 92, Argentine actress.
• Rob Hirst, 70, Australian Hall of Fame musician and songwriter, pancreatic cancer.
• Robert E. Hunter, 85, American foreign policy advisor, ambassador to NATO.
• Ronald Joseph, 81, American figure skater, Olympic bronze medallist, complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Susan Leeman, 95, American endocrinologist.
• Li Chang-su, 58, North Korean judoka, heart attack.
• Lucien Muller, 91, French football player and manager.
• Alan Musgrave, 85, British-born New Zealand philosopher, Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand.
• Park Wan-gyu, 83, South Korean politician, MP.
• Maria Pilar Riba Font, 81, Andorran politician, member of the General Council.
• Klaus Rinke, 86, German artist.
• Gordon L. Rottman, 78, American author and military historian.
• Yaw Sarpong, 66, Ghanaian gospel musician and songwriter.
• , 84, Portuguese writer and literary critic.
• Bernice Shedrick, 85, American politician, member of the Oklahoma Senate.
• Kōzō Shioya, 71, Japanese voice actor, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Arvo Siikamäki, 82, Finnish sculptor.
• Bob Valentine, 85, Australian motorcycle speedway rider.
• Tommy Wright, 81, English footballer.

19

• Mladen Bartolović, 48, Bosnian football player and manager.
• Roger-Maurice Bonnet, 88, French astrophysicist and academic.
• John Cenci, 92, American football player.
• Ralph Assheton, 2nd Baron Clitheroe, 96, British businessman and politician, member of the House of Lords.
• , 86, Italian football player and manager.
• Roy Erskine, 94, Scottish footballer.
• Norman Gifford, 85, English cricketer.
• Paul F. Gorman, 98, American Army general.
• Stefan Gossler, 70, German actor and voice actor.
• Patsy King, 95, Australian actress.
• Mikalay Korbut, 77, Belarusian politician, minister of finance.
• , 70, Czech actor, musician and host.
• , 97, Hungarian painter.
• Eitan Na'eh, 62, Israeli diplomat, ambassador to Turkey and Bahrain.
• Billy Parker, 88, American country music singer and DJ.
• Lucyna Pietrzyk, 69, Polish politician, MP.
• Peter Radunski, 86, German politician and political consultant, member of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin.
• Muhammad Bashir Saliu, 75, Nigerian Islamic scholar.
• Dave Schmidt, 69, American baseball player.
• Valentino, 93, Italian fashion designer, founder of Valentino.
• , 89, Bosnian actress.
• Kim Vo, 55, American hairstylist, colorectal cancer.
• Richard Wixon, 68, New Zealand cricketer.
• Muhammad Yousuf, 74, Pakistani politician, MNA.

18

• John 'Oke Afareha, 78, Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop and bishop ordinary of Warri.
• , 75, Egyptian actor.
• Georges Borchardt, 97, American literary agent.
• Stephen "Cat" Coore, 69, Jamaican guitarist and cellist.
• H. K. Edgerton, 77, American neo-Confederate activist.
• , 83, Spanish businessman and politician.
• , 86, Polish film director and screenwriter.
• Joe Gadston, 80, English football player and manager, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Gao Dezhan, 93, Chinese politician, governor of Jilin and director of the National Forestry and Grassland Administration.
• Diana Green, 71, American cartoonist.
• Nandana Gunathilake, 63, Sri Lankan politician, MP.
• Stephen H. Hess, 92, American political scientist, prostate cancer.
• , 56, South Korean chef and theatre actor.
• Raul Jungmann, 73, Brazilian politician, twice deputy, minister of defence and public security, pancreatic cancer.
• Frank Kolb, 80, German historian and academic.
• Kuncoro, 52, Indonesian football player and manager, heart attack.
• Liang Dongcai, 93, Chinese molecular biophysicist, politician, and member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
• Liu Thai Ker, 87, Singaporean architect and urban planner, complications from a fall.
• Anders Möller, 63, Swedish musician, cancer.
• Zach Monroe, 94, American baseball player, World Series champion.
• Jean-Jacques Naudet, 81, French photographer, heart attack.
• Hristina Obradović, 94, Serbian hegumenia, abbess of Ljubostinja.
• , 85, Italian designer.
• Raj K. Purohit, 70, Indian politician, Maharashtra MLA.
• Ford C. Quillen, 87, American politician, member of the Virginia House of Delegates.
• Jaan Ross, 68, Estonian musicologist and psychologist.
• Alexander Ryazanov, 93, Russian air defense designer.
• Sławomir Sadowski, 77, Polish politician, senator.
• David Thomas, 83, British crown jeweller, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Ralph Towner, 85, American jazz multi-instrumentalist.
• Jim Vargas, 78, American newscaster.
• Arnaldo Vianna, 78, Brazilian politician, mayor of Campos dos Goytacazes, deputy.
• David Young, 80, English footballer.

17

• Roger Allers, 76, American film director, animator and story artist.
• David Annoussamy, 98, Indian jurist, judge of the Madras High Court.
• Stella Isodo Apolot, 51, Ugandan politician, MP.
• Zara Aramyan, 55, Armenian actress and journalist.
• Ann Ashmead, 96, American archaeologist.
• Dino Attanasio, 100, Italian-born Belgian cartoonist.
• Ali Salem al-Beidh, 86, Yemeni politician, vice president.
• Thierry Cazeneuve, 74, French journalist and writer, director of Critérium du Dauphiné.
• Travis Curtis, 60, American football player, Super Bowl champion.
• , 84, Spanish academic.
• Monique Freres, 68, Belgian Olympic gymnast.
• Johannes Fried, 83, German historian.
• Claude "Hoot" Gibson, 86, American football player and coach.
• Phil Goyette, 92, Canadian ice hockey player and coach, four-time Stanley Cup champion.
• Leopold Herz, 72, German politician, member of the Landtag of Bavaria.
• Marie-Rose Kasa-Vubu Kiatazabu, 80, Congolese politician, deputy.
• Nicholas Krall, 93, American physicist.
• Sani Lakatani, 89, Niuean politician, prime minister and deputy.
• Jaan Leetsar, 79, Estonian politician, MP and minister of agriculture.
• Barbara McNamara, 83, American linguist.
• Marikena Monti, 82, Argentine actress and singer.
• Ivan Nestorov, 92, Bulgarian actor.
• Phyllis Papps, 81, Australian librarian and activist.
• S. V. Adinarayana Rao, 86, Indian orthopaedic surgeon.
• Guillermo Salatino, 80, Argentine sports journalist.
• Alan Sanches, 58, Brazilian politician, Bahia MLA.
• Artur Shamrin, 56, Russian footballer.
• Lazar Shvets, 86, Ukrainian-Russian Orthodox prelate, metropolitan of Simferopol and Crimea.
• , 96, Belgian actress.
• Gladys West, 95, American mathematician.
• Wilbur Wood, 84, American baseball player.
• Tucker Zimmerman, 84, American singer-songwriter, smoke inhalation.
• , 91, Slovenian humanitarian and educational theorist.

16

• , 62, Israeli sculptor.
• Grant Batty, 74, New Zealand rugby union player.
• François Bazaramba, 75, Rwandan convicted war criminal.
• Bruce Bilson, 97, American television director, Emmy winner.
• Morris Bodnar, 77, Canadian politician, MP.
• Peer Bork, 62, German bioinformatician.
• Mickey Brady, 75, Northern Irish politician, MLA and MP.
• Chet Brooks, 60, American football player, Super Bowl champion, cancer.
• Serafín Cartagena Ocaña, 101, Ecuadorian Roman Catholic prelate, vicar apostolic of Zamora in Ecuador.
• Rocco B. Commisso, 76, Italian-born American businessman and football team owner.
• Ioan Crâsnic, 96, Romanian wrestler and wrestling coach.
• Tony Dallara, 89, Italian singer, respiratory illness.
• , 94, Spanish painter.
• Osvaldo Díaz, 76, Chilean singer.
• Luísa Diogo, 67, Mozambican economist and politician, prime minister and minister of planning and finance.
• Pierre Ducimetière, 83, French epidemiologist.
• Bob Duffy, 85, American basketball player.
• Jógvan Durhuus, 87, Faroese politician, member of the Løgting.
• , 95, Spanish academic and journalist.
• Mieczysław Furmanek, 89, Polish politician, MP.
• José Antonio Gallego, 83, Spanish politician, deputy, senator.
• Evelyn Gigantes, 83, Canadian politician, Ontario MPP.
• Gregory Gregoriadis, 91, Greek-born British biochemist.
• Ha Sun-bong, 84, South Korean politician, MP.
• Joachim Hagenauer, 84, German information theorist.
• Murad Hasratyan, 90, Armenian architectural historian.
• Olena Hrechanina, 90, Ukrainian geneticist.
• Joel T. Johnson, 89, American politician, member of the Nebraska Legislature.
• Mark Jones, 72, American screenwriter and film director.
• Bheemanna Khandre, 100, Indian politician, Karnataka MLA, respiratory failure.
• Tom Kim, 81, North Korean-born American physician.
• János Koltai, 90, Hungarian actor.
• Jefery Levy, 67, American filmmaker.
• , 63, Spanish choral conductor, composer and musicologist.
• Robert Macklin, 84, Australian journalist and author, assisted suicide.
• , 83, Finnish Lutheran preacher.
• Valère Novarina, 83, Swiss choreographer and photographer.
• Ratbek hadji Nysanbayev, 85, Kazakh Islamic jurist, supreme mufti of Kazakhstan.
• , 37, Slovak radio presenter and music concert host.
• Erzsebet Palatinus, 66, Serbian table tennis player.
• Alexandros Papadogonas, 94, Greek politician, MP.
• Frank Pitts, 82, American football player.
• , 90, Colombian composer and organist.
• , 79, Portuguese sculptor.
• Carl Sommer, 95, American author, educator and businessman.
• , 40, South Korean voice actress.
• , 68, Italian footballer.
• Julio Terán Dutari, 92, Panamanian-born Ecuadorian academic and Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Ibarra.
• Kianna Underwood, 33, American actress, traffic collision.
• Netsanet Workneh, 42, Ethiopian actor, filmmaker and television host.
• Yury Yemelyanov, 88, Russian historian and author.
• Yoichiro Yoshikawa, 68, Japanese composer, bile duct cancer.
• , 90, Russian cinematographer, photographer and writer.
• , 92, Greek actress.

15

• Abdullahi Abubakar, 90, Nigerian Islamic cleric and humanitarian.
• , 93, Russian scientist.
• Raju Bandara, 65, Sri Lankan singer, kidney disease.
• Anouschka Bernhard, 55, German footballer.
• Ray Crone, 94, American baseball player, and scout.
• Nabaloum Dramane, 58, Ivorian-born Burkinabe boxer, ABU featherweight champion.
• Guillermo Fonseca Álvarez, 92, Mexican politician, mayor of San Luis Potosí, governor of San Luis Potosí and two-time deputy.
• Ante Grgurević, 50, Croatian basketball player and coach.
• Alfred Grimm, 82, German object artist, sculptor and painter.
• , 87, Italian architect.
• Angelo Gugel, 90, Italian papal assistant.
• Rafael Gvaladze, 78, Azerbaijani jurist, judge of the Constitutional Court.
• Kevin Healy, 88, Australian footballer.
• Bill Hembree, 59, American politician, member of the Georgia House of Representatives.
• Princess Irene of Greece and Denmark, 83, Greek-Spanish royal.
• André Jammes, 98, French bookseller and photography historian.
• Wim Kelleners, 75, Dutch racing cyclist.
• Kim Sin-yong, 80, South Korean writer.
• Paul Larivaille, 93, French literary critic and academic, president of Paris Nanterre University.
• Marceau Mairesse, 80, Belgian politician, senator and MP.
• Mutumwa Mawere, 66, Zimbabwean-South African mining industry executive.
• , 90, Italian politician, mayor of Bari.
• Mohammed Mohsin, Bangladeshi diplomat, permanent representative to the United Nations.
• Kenny Morris, 68, English drummer.
• Harry Olmer, 98, Polish-born British Holocaust survivor and educator.
• , 69, Argentine singer.
• Hermann Peter Piwitt, 90, German writer.
• , 80, Spanish journalist.
• Edgar Salvé, 79, Belgian Olympic middle-distance runner.
• George Speake, 81, English art historian and archaeologist.
• Ajay Varma, 62, Indian cricketer.
• Pertti Voutilainen, 85, Finnish banker and businessman.
• Wei Fulin, 87, Chinese army general, commander of the Chengdu Military Region.
• Alan Woods, 83, English Anglican priest, dean of Gibraltar.
• Gagik Yeganyan, 69, Armenian politician.

14

• Layonel Adams, 31, Russian footballer, fall.
• Dmitri Akimov, 45, Russian footballer.
• Aroha Awarau, 49, New Zealand playwright and journalist.
• Namirembe Bitamazire, 84, Ugandan academic and politician, MP.
• Alfonso Castellanos, 91, Colombian radio broadcaster and journalist.
• Jean Chollet, 89, French scenographer and journalist.
• Jean-Hugues Colonna, 91, French politician, deputy.
• Donald Douglas, 92, Scottish actor.
• Valeria Fedeli, 76, Italian politician, minister of education and senator.
• Osvaldas Jablonskis, 81, Lithuanian painter.
• Oleksandr Kabanov, 52, Ukrainian politician, deputy.
• Kim Min-jae, 53, South Korean baseball player and coach, cancer.
• Richard Larn, 94, British businessman and maritime history writer.
• Bruce Leung, 77, Hong Kong martial artist and actor, heart failure.
• Rick Link, 66, American professional wrestler, trainer and promoter.
• Mieczysław Mąkosza, 91, Polish organic chemist, co-discoverer of the vicarious nucleophilic substitution.
• Brian McGowan, 88, Australian footballer.
• Nie Weiping, 73, Chinese Go player.
• , 76, Argentine singer.
• Ricard Pérez Casado, 80, Spanish politician, mayor of Valencia and deputy.
• Seppo Reijonen, 81, Finnish Olympic ski jumper.
• Jean Rossier, 81, Belgian biologist and academic.
• Ernestine Russell, 87, Canadian Olympic gymnast.
• Ado Schlier, 90, German radio personality.
• Vera Valdez, 89, Brazilian model.
• Quemil Yambay, 87, Paraguayan musician and composer.
• Klaus Zillich, 83, German architect, urban planner and academic.
• Igor Zolotovitskiy, 64, Russian actor, academic and television director, cancer.

13

• Scott Adams, 68, American cartoonist, prostate cancer.
• Juan Antonio de Andrés, 83, Spanish politician, president of the Government of Aragon.
• Iqbal Athas, 81, Sri Lankan journalist.
• , 87, Italian actress.
• Alfred Blumstein, 95, American scientist.
• , 73, Italian footballer.
• , 102, Thai monk.
• David Collier, 70, English sports administrator, chief executive of the England and Wales Cricket Board.
• Claudette Colvin, 86, American civil rights activist.
• Indira Devi Dhanrajgir, 95, Indian poet and socialite.
• Peter Duesberg, 89, German-American molecular biologist and academic, kidney failure.
• Catherine Duprat, 89, French historian.
• Barbara Eustachiewicz, 87, Polish Olympic gymnast.
• Jesse Flis, 92, Canadian politician, MP.
• Bir Bhadra Hagjer, 75, Indian politician, Assam MLA.
• Ali Hassan, 61, Mozambican footballer, cancer.
• Hun Yuan, 81, Taiwanese religious leader, founder of Weixinism.
• Heiki Kranich, 64, Estonian politician, twice MP, minister of finance and environment.
• Jason Lafreniere, 59, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Blanche Marvin, 100, American-born British theatre critic, producer and writer.
• Doug McConnell, 80, American television journalist.
• Bruce McLeod, 96, Canadian clergyman, moderator of the United Church of Canada.
• Rolando Nannicini, 79, Italian politician, deputy.
• Seán Ó Sé, 89, Irish tenor singer.
• Ivan Onufriyev, 58, Russian footballer.
• Sara Jane Paez, 57, Filipino beauty queen.
• Laslo Pavlik, 79–80, Serbian road racing cyclist.
• Annemarie Prins, 93, Dutch actress, director and writer.
• , 82, Italian footballer.
• José Rodrigo, 91, Portuguese politician, MP.
• Stu Tate, 63, American baseball player, heart attack.
• Jean-Loup Trassard, 92, French photographer.
• Rudolf Urc, 88, Slovak film director and academic.
• George Vassiliou, 94, Cypriot politician, president and MP, respiratory infection.
• David Webb, 60, British-born Hong Kong activist investor, prostate cancer.
• , 75, Swedish actor, complications from a brain injury.
• Brian Wilshire, 81, Australian radio broadcaster.
• Razmik Zohrabyan, 75, Armenian politician, MP.

12

• Oba C. D. Akran, 89, Nigerian politician and traditional ruler.
• Mahmoud Al-Astal, Palestinian police chief, shot.
• Sheila Bernette, 94, English singer and actress.
• Mark Brnovich, 59, American politician and attorney, Arizona attorney general, heart attack.
• Paul Clauson, 76, Australian politician, Queensland MP, attorney-general.
• Rolland Courbis, 72, French football player and manager.
• Bill Courtney, 55, American college basketball coach.
• Mochammad Djamhari, 82, Indonesian military officer and politician, regent of Bekasi.
• Henri Dorion, 90, Canadian academic and geographer.
• John Forté, 50, American rapper and producer.
• Rick Garcia, 69, American LGBTQ activist.
• Mohammad Ilyas, 79, Pakistani cricketer, cancer.
• Leonard D. Jacoby, 83, American attorney.
• Asda Jayanama, 84, Thai diplomat.
• Robert Jensen, 52, Dutch television personality, cardiac arrest.
• Jayashree Kabir, 73, Indian actress.
• Robert V. Kohn, 72, American mathematician, cancer.
• Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin, 26, British guitarist.
• Robert H. Liebeck, 87, American aerodynamicist, academic and aerospace engineer.
• Jan Mårtenson, 92, Swedish author and diplomat, ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
• Eddie McCreadie, 85, Scottish football player and manager.
• Luigi Nicolais, 83, Italian engineer and politician, minister for public administration, deputy, and president of the National Research Council.
• Alain Orsoni, 71, French politician, Corsican independence militant and football executive, shot.
• John A. Pollock, 89, Canadian electronics executive, president of Electrohome.
• Mario Rigutti, 99, Italian astronomer.
• Roland Riz, 98, Italian politician, deputy, senator.
• Catherine Samie, 92, French actress.
• Michel Tombereau, 80, French painter, complications from influenza.
• José Eduardo Velásquez Tarazona, 78, Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop and bishop of Huaraz.
• Arend Vermaat, 86, Dutch politician, MP, senator.
• Karen Vold, 86, American Hall of Fame trick rider.
• Martin Willich, 80, German politician, member of the Hamburg Parliament.
• Isaac Witz, 91, Austrian-born Israeli immunologist.
• Benjaminas Zelkevičius, 81, Lithuanian football player and manager.

11

• Pavel Akishev, 42, Russian baseball player.
• Gabriel Barkay, 81, Israeli archaeologist.
• Alberto Benzoni, 90, Italian journalist and politician.
• Louis E. Brus, 82, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate, myelodysplastic syndrome.
• Thomas Causey, 76, American sound engineer.
• Giancarlo Cauteruccio, 69, Italian theatre actor and director.
• Richard Codey, 79, American politician, governor of New Jersey, member of the New Jersey Senate.
• Patrick Corrigan, 69, American psychologist and writer.
• René V. Dawis, 97, American psychologist.
• William Gazecki, 69, American film director.
• Marcus Gilbert, 67, British actor, throat cancer.
• Dave Giusti, 86, American baseball player, World Series champion.
• Robert Hopkins, 64, English footballer.
• Samak Jalikula, 86, Thai politician, member of the House of Representatives.
• Bennie Carlton Keel, 91, American archaeologist.
• Ueli Kestenholz, 50, Swiss snowboarder, Olympic bronze medallist, avalanche.
• Mukharby Kirzhinov, 77, Russian weightlifter, Olympic champion.
• Kōtarō Kodama, 91, Japanese politician, mayor of Akitakata.
• Nelson Manrique, 78, Peruvian historian and sociologist.
• Titina Medeiros, 48, Brazilian actress, pancreatic cancer.
• Ahmad Melli, 76–77, Syrian actor.
• Miquel Naudí, 77, Andorran hotelier and politician, member of the General Council.
• Takashi Ono, 97, Japanese-born American mathematician.
• Park Soon-yong, 81, South Korean lawyer, prosecutor general.
• Miroslava Pešíková, 79, Czech dancer and ballet master.
• William E. Peterson, 89, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives and Senate.
• Clarence Pierce, 97, American politician, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives.
• Eugen Pojoni, 84, Romanian footballer.
• Laumatiamanu Ringo Purcell, Samoan politician, MLA.
• Samir Putatundu, 73, Indian politician.
• Grete Salomonsen, 74, Norwegian film director.
• Robert G. Shulman, 101, American biophysicist.
• Aniceto Sobrepeña, 77, Filipino banker and public servant.
• Prashant Tamang, 43, Indian singer and actor, cardiac arrest.
• Sergio Tarquinio, 100, Italian painter.
• Trevor A. Toussaint, 65, British actor.
• John Wallace, 76, Scottish trumpeter, composer and arts educator.
• Herman Wouters, 85, Belgian politician, mayor of Grobbendonk.
• Vitalie Zagaievschi, 81, Moldovan writer and journalist.

10

• Willie Allan, 83, Scottish footballer.
• Sturla Böðvarsson, 80, Icelandic politician, minister of communications and transportation, president of the Althing.
• Manoel Carlos, 92, Brazilian television writer.
• Ann Clark, 103, American singer.
• Daniel Colson, 82, French sociologist and academic.
• Yolande Viviane Compaoré, Burkinabe politician, governor of Nord Region.
• Erich von Däniken, 90, Swiss author and ufologist.
• Roseanne Diab, 76, South African atmospheric scientist.
• Oskár Elschek, 94, Slovak ethnomusicologist.
• Distorted Humor, 32, American Thoroughbred racehorse and sire, euthanized.
• Sergey Galkov, 60, Russian Olympic sprint canoeist.
• Ziyad Halab, 37–38, Syrian Kurdish military commander.
• Jim Hartung, 65, American gymnast, Olympic champion, and coach.
• , 79, Paraguayan footballer.
• Włodzimierz Jakubowski, 86, Polish football player and manager.
• Kathy Javner, 52, American politician, member of the Maine House of Representatives, breast cancer.
• Yeison Jiménez, 34, Colombian singer, plane crash.
• Deirdre Jordan, 99, Australian academic and educator.
• Václav Klučka, 72, Czech politician, deputy.
• Robert W. Kostelka, 92, American judge and politician, member of the Louisiana State Senate.
• Lu Hsin-min, 85, Taiwanese politician, member of the Legislative Yuan.
• Derek Martin, 92, British actor.
• Marco Proaño Maya, 80, Ecuadorian politician, three-time deputy.
• Ritsuko Nagao, 92, Japanese politician, member of the House of Councillors and minister of justice.
• Karl Riha, 90, German poet, writer and literary scholar.
• Davinder Singh, 73, Indian field hockey player, Olympic champion.
• , 91, Czech entomologist.
• Ivan Štampach, 79, Czech religionist and theologian.
• Thierry Steimetz, 42, French footballer, cancer.
• Orazio Svelto, 89, Italian physicist.
• Isabel Veloso, 19, Brazilian social media influencer, complications from bone marrow transplant.
• Manolo Villaverde, 91, Cuban-American actor.
• Prawase Wasi, 93, Thai hematologist.
• Bob Weir, 78, American Hall of Fame musician and songwriter, complications from cancer.
• Robert Wolgemuth, 77, American author, chairman of the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association.

9

• Ai, 49, Japanese Western chimpanzee, subject of cognition studies, multiple organ failure.
• Zeno Bianu, 75, French writer.
• Andrés Caniulef, 48, Chilean journalist, heart attack.
• T. K. Carter, 69, American actor.
• Patrick Skene Catling, 100, British journalist, author and critic.
• Robert Croft, 91, American freediver.
• Jean-Louis Duplat, 88, Belgian magistrate.
• Frank J. Frost, 96, American scholar and politician.
• Beatriz González, 93, Colombian painter, sculptor and art historian.
• Ulf Granberg, 80, Swedish comics creator and editor.
• Jitka Gruntová, 80, Czech politician, deputy.
• Hans Herrmann, 97, German racing driver.
• Sandra Hester, 68, American socio-political activist.
• Nessa Hyams, 84, American casting director and television director.
• Pirkko Ikonen, 98, Finnish politician, MP.
• Manfred Kuhmichel, 82, German politician, member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia.
• Lê Văn Dũng, 80, Vietnamese military officer and politician, chief of the general staff.
• Khawlhring Lalremruata, 38, Indian cricketer, heart attack.
• Bill Millar, 79, English visual effects artist, Emmy winner.
• Daniel Moerman, 84, American medical anthropologist and ethnobotanist.
• Diane Munday, 94, British political activist, co-founder of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service.
• , 59, Russian biathlete.
• Tina Packer, 87, British actress and stage director, co-founder of Shakespeare & Company.
• , 77, Yugoslav-born Italian footballer.
• Larry Snook, 84, American politician.
• Terry Sullivan, 87, British drummer.
• Gilbert Thompson, 93, British physician.
• Josep Maria Triginer, 82, Spanish politician, deputy.
• Eleni Varikas, 76, Greek-born French political philosopher and academic, lung cancer.
• Georg Winter, 84, German businessman and environmentalist.
• Yao Chiang-lin, 75, Taiwanese politician, member of the National Assembly.
• Vincenzo Zarri, 96, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Bologna and bishop of Forlì-Bertinoro.
• Jaro Zawislan, 55, American college soccer coach.

8

• Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki, 96, British occult writer.
• Musa Gibril Bala Gaye, 79, Gambian economist and politician, minister of finance and foreign affairs.
• Murat Bisembin, 53, Kazakh actor, cancer.
• Loraine Braham, 87, Australian politician, member and speaker of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly.
• Günther Brendel, 95, German painter, graphic artist and academic.
• Heloísa de Carvalho, 56, Brazilian writer and political activist.
• Václav Cigler, 96, Czech sculptor and visual artist.
• Conrado Corsalette, 47, Brazilian journalist.
• Mieczysław Czerniawski, 77, Polish politician, MP.
• Nelly Chatué Diop, 41, Cameroonian computer scientist.
• Jean-Luc Domenach, 80, French historian, sinologist and political scientist.
• Ian Fraser, 93, Canadian army colonel and military event organiser.
• Jim Furlong, 85, Canadian football player.
• Sergio Goizauskas, 69, Argentine-born French cartoonist.
• Vijay Singh Gond, 68, Indian politician, Uttar Pradesh MLA, kidney failure.
• Dave Hitchcock, 76, English record producer and accountant.
• , 96, Chinese academic.
• Philippe Junot, 85, French venture capitalist and property developer.
• Madalitso Kazombo, 46, Malawian politician, first deputy speaker of the National Assembly, asthma attack.
• Dieudonné Larose, 80, Haitian singer.
• , 81, Portuguese actress.
• Marie-Thérèse Lorcin, 93, French historian and academic.
• Evgeny Lyubivyi, 51, Russian politician.
• Antonino Mangano, 75, Italian marathon and middle-distance runner.
• Michael McElroy, 86, American scientist.
• Guy Moon, 63, American composer, traffic collision.
• Jafar Nainggolan, 79, Indonesian politician, MP.
• Hiroshi Nakamura, 93, Japanese surrealist painter, pancreatic cancer.
• Álvaro Peña-Rojas, 82, Chilean-German singer and songwriter.
• Helen Peters, 83, Canadian academic.
• Jürgen Plagemann, 89, German rower, Olympic silver medalist.
• Siegfried Radandt, 90, German Olympic bobsledder.
• Howard Riley, 87, English footballer.
• Astrid Roemer, 78, Surinamese-Dutch writer and teacher.
• Kjersti Scheen, 82, Norwegian journalist and writer.
• Uljana Semjonova, 73, Latvian basketball player, Olympic champion.
• Sir Tim Shadbolt, 78, New Zealand politician, mayor of Waitemata City and Invercargill.
• Meinam Bhorot Singh, 75, Indian politician, Manipur MLA.
• Mojtaba Tarshiz, 47, Iranian footballer, shot.
• Matthew Taylor, 57–58, American musician and artist, heart attack.
• Wim Van Belleghem, 62, Belgian Olympic rower, world champion.
• Paul Calvin Visser, 89, American politician, mayor of Flint, Michigan.
• Sir Christopher White, 95, British art historian and curator.
• Terry Yorath, 75, Welsh football player and manager.

7

• Ali Ardestani, Iranian convicted spy, execution by hanging.
• Madjoulba Batocfetou, Togolese agronomic engineer.
• Ihor Blazhkov, 89, Ukrainian conductor.
• Albert Bourgi, 90, French jurist.
• Raffaella Bragazzi, 66, Italian television presenter and radio host.
• Frank S. Cerveny, 92, American Episcopalian clergyman, bishop of Florida.
• Camilo Isaac Chavarría, 27, Panamanian model and reality show contestant, heart attack.
• Martin Chivers, 80, English footballer.
• Ángel Coerezza, 92, Argentine football referee.
• John W. Derr, 84, American politician, member of the Maryland Senate, cancer.
• Hiroya Ebina, 67, Japanese politician, mayor of Kushiro, member of the Hokkaido Legislative Assembly, cardiac arrest.
• Tony Field, 79, English footballer.
• Vera Frances, 95, English actress.
• Madhav Gadgil, 83, Indian ecologist.
• Renée Good, 37, American poet and writer, shot.
• Domenico Graziani, 81, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Cassano all'Jonio and archbishop of Crotone-Santa Severina.
• Glenn Hall, 94, Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey player, Stanley Cup champion.
• Sidney de Jong, 46, Dutch Olympic baseball player.
• Rebecca Kilgore, 76, American jazz vocalist.
• John Levra, 88, American college football player and coach.
• Jon Lindsay, 90, American politician, member of the Texas Senate.
• Uri Lupolianski, 74, Israeli politician, mayor of Jerusalem and founder of Yad Sarah.
• Ian McCrae, 84, Scottish rugby union player.
• Randy McMillan, 67, American football player.
• Roberto Mondragón, 85, American politician, lieutenant governor of New Mexico.
• Nancy Skinner Nordhoff, 93, American philanthropist and environmentalist.
• Jervis Percy, 97, British Olympic modern pentathlete.
• Kabindra Purkayastha, 94, Indian politician, MP.
• Howard Sanderford, 90, American politician, member of the Alabama House of Representatives.
• Dietrich Stratmann, 88, German politician, member of the Landtag of Lower Saxony.
• Seydou Madani Sy, 92, Senegalese jurist and politician, minister of justice.
• Kim Thorson, 93, Canadian politician, Saskatchewan MLA.
• Billy Truax, 82, American football player.
• Chiara Valentini, 84, Italian journalist and writer.
• Murad Wahba, 99, Egyptian writer, philosopher and academic.
• Athol Webb, 90, Australian footballer.

6

• , 65, Chinese academic.
• Joe Arlooktoo, 86, Canadian visual artist and politician, Northwest Territories MLA.
• Odette Bergoffen, 101, French resistance fighter.
• Andrzej Bogusławski, 94, Polish philologist and semanticist.
• Ron Boswell, 85, Australian politician, senator.
• John Cunningham, 93, American actor.
• Dick Dull, 80, American athletic director.
• V. K. Ebrahimkunju, 73, Indian politician, Kerala MLA.
• , 75, German politician, mayor of Deggendorf.
• Johannes Fabian, 88, German anthropologist.
• Alex Felipe, 32, Brazilian futsal player.
• Angella D. Ferguson, 100, American pediatrician.
• Edith M. Flanigen, 96, American chemist.
• Robert Goebbels, 81, Luxembourgish politician, minister for the economy and energy, signatory of the Schengen Agreement.
• Richard Hynes, 81, British biologist.
• Suresh Kalmadi, 81, Indian politician and sports administrator, MP and president of the IOA.
• Doug LaMalfa, 65, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, heart attack.
• József Láyer, 70, Hungarian politician, MP.
• Rhoda Levine, 93, American opera director and choreographer.
• Jim McBride, 78, American country music songwriter.
• Jack McGregor, 91, American politician and sports team owner, member of the Pennsylvania State Senate and founder of the Pittsburgh Penguins.
• Kathleen Muxel, 54, German politician, member of the Landtag of Brandenburg.
• Raffaele Nogaro, 92, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Sessa Aurunca and of Caserta.
• John F. O'Donohue, 79, American actor.
• James E. O'Grady, 96, American law enforcement officer, Cook County sheriff.
• Saeid Pirdoost, 85, Iranian actor, cancer.
• Claude Pivi, 66, Guinean military officer, complications from diabetes.
• Jaap Pop, 84, Dutch politician, mayor of Haarlem.
• David Quail, 88, South African politician and educator, member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature.
• Nihal Seneviratne, 91, Sri Lankan civil servant, secretary general of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.
• Baghir Suleimanov, 66, Azerbaijani petroleum scientist.
• Béla Tarr, 70, Hungarian film director.
• Stuart Tave, 102, American literary scholar.
• Justin Taylor, 82, New Zealand priest and historian.
• Jerry Thomas, 90, American baseball player.
• , 85, Italian magistrate.
• Robert Vicot, 94, French football player and manager.
• Anatoly Yevtushenko, 91, Russian handball coach, Olympic champion.
• , 90, Chinese scholar.
• , 94, Chinese electro-optics professor.

5

• Ahn Sung-ki, 74, South Korean actor, blood cancer.
• Aldrich Ames, 84, American counterintelligence officer and convicted Soviet-era spy.
• Bonifacio Ávila, 75, Colombian Olympic boxer.
• Herbert Beck, 84, German art historian.
• Andrew Bodnar, 71, English bass guitarist and songwriter.
• Andrew Carter, 86, English composer and conductor.
• Tom Cherones, 86, American television director, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• , 102, Spanish dancer.
• Jim Dennison, 87, American football coach.
• Marian Diamond, 89, English actress.
• Miklós Dudás, 34, Hungarian Olympic sprint canoeist, world champion.
• Mike Embro, 63, Canadian drummer.
• Aoi Fujino, 27, Japanese gravure idol, rhabdomyosarcoma.
• Paolo Gillet, 96, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Albano.
• Pier Francesco Guarguaglini, 88, Italian defense industry executive, chairman of Finmeccanica.
• Bruce Hammock, 78, American entomologist.
• Andrew Hichens, 89, English cricketer.
• Ad van Kempen, 81, Dutch actor, prostate cancer.
• Wiktor Kinecki, 96, Polish politician, MP.
• José Mingorance, 87, Spanish football player and manager.
• Reza Moradi Abdolvand, 18, Iranian protester, shot.
• Jawann Oldham, 68, American basketball player.
• Induratana Paribatra, 103, Thai royal.
• Molly Parkin, 93, Welsh painter, novelist and journalist.
• , 83, Greek actor.
• Bob Pulford, 89, Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey player, coach, and executive, NHLPA president, four-time Stanley Cup champion.
• Cosimo Scaglioso, 89, Italian politician, senator.
• Elle Simone, 49, American chef and food stylist.
• , 77, Czech footballer.
• Elsje de Wijn, 82, Dutch actress and singer.
• Ken Wilcock, 91, British sprinter.
• Mike Wilson, 66, British kart racer, six-time world champion.
• , 84, Czech academic and rector of ČVUT.
• , 105, Chinese politician.

4

• Forest Able, 93, American basketball player.
• Ali Abu al-Ragheb, 79, Jordanian politician, prime minister.
• Fazl-ur-Raheem Ashrafi, 81, Pakistani Islamic scholar, patron of Wifaq-ul-Madaris al-Arabia.
• Céline Bellot, 55, Canadian criminologist and academic, breast cancer.
• , 85, Italian basketball player.
• Bob Boyer, 93, Canadian professional wrestler.
• David Branch, 77, Canadian ice hockey administrator, commissioner of the OHL and president of the CHL.
• Calbo, 52, French rapper.
• Chandrasena Thalangama, 81, Sri Lankan journalist and lyricist.
• Germaine Cousin-Zermatten, 100, Swiss herbalist.
• , 84, Belgian basketball player.
• Frank Dunlop, 98, British theatre director.
• Manuel Fernández Ilarraza, 85, Spanish gynaecologist and politician, president of the Parliament of La Rioja.
• Miloslav Fiala, 97, Czech Roman Catholic priest.
• Andy Friendly, 74, American television producer.
• L. Ganesan, 91, Indian politician, MP.
• Anne-Claire Goulon, 51, French businesswoman, breast cancer.
• Vicki L. Gregory, 75, American academic and librarian.
• Michel Griffon, 77, French agronomist.
• Roger Guesnerie, 82, French economist and academic.
• Denise Harlow, 55, American politician, member of the Maine House of Representatives, cancer.
• Bobby Holmes, 93, Scottish footballer.
• Nora Ikstena, 56, Latvian writer and cultural manager.
• Klaus Keitel, 86, German politician, member and president of the Landtag of Saxony-Anhalt.
• John Kershaw, 4th Baron Kershaw, 89, British hereditary peer, member of the House of Lords.
• , 85, South Korean actor.
• Graham Knight, 94, Australian footballer.
• Milorad Kosanović, 75, Serbian football player and manager.
• Bernard Lemoux, 83, French businessman, president of Stade Rennais FC.
• George C. Lodge, 98, American politician.
• Oscar Lofton, 87, American football player and coach.
• Naser Toure Mahama, 60, Ghanaian politician, MP.
• Miloslav Masopust, 101, Czech general.
• , 74, Greek journalist and television presenter, heart attack.
• Daniel Pelletti, 77, Belgian painter.
• Jules Radich, 71, New Zealand politician, mayor of Dunedin, heart attack.
• Michael Reagan, 80, American political commentator.
• Marissa Sanchez, 69, Filipino tennis player.
• Jacqueline Schaeffer, 91, French psychoanalyst.
• Steve Sheetz, 77, American convenience store operator, CEO and president of Sheetz, Inc..
• Jitamitra Prasad Singh Deo, 79, Indian historian and archaeologist.
• Ralph L. Thomas, 86, Brazilian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter, complications from heart disease.
• Horacio Usandizaga, 85, Argentine politician, senator and mayor of Rosario, complications from multiple strokes.
• Mary White, 81, Irish businesswoman and politician, senator.
• Xiao Zhuang, 93, Chinese photographer.
• Teresa Zalewska, 83, Polish politician, MP.

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• Hushang Ansary, 98, Iranian-American diplomat and politician, minister of finance and information, ambassador to the United States, cardiac arrest.
• Jamil Azar, 89, Jordanian journalist and broadcaster, founder of Al Jazeera.
• Dietmar Bachmann, 91, Austrian politician, member of the Landtag of Tyrol.
• Claude-Inga Barbey, 64, Swiss comedian, writer, and actress.
• Stephen E. Braude, 80, American philosopher.
• Natale Carlotto, 94, Italian politician, senator and deputy.
• Francesco Paolo Casavola, 94, Italian jurist, president of the Constitutional Court.
• Frédéric Cerdal, 81, French actor and stage director.
• Maria Eugènia Cuenca, 78, Spanish politician, member of the Catalan parliament and the Congress of Deputies.
• Anthony Fletcher, 84, British historian.
• Gerry Gable, 88, British political activist and magazine editor.
• Franz Herre, 99, German journalist and biographer.
• Marvalene Hughes, 88, American educator and academic administrator, president of California State University, Stanislaus and Dillard University.
• Mesut İktu, 78, Turkish operatic baritone.
• Hernán Giraldo Jaramillo, 89, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Pereira, bishop of Málaga–Soatá and of Buga.
• Nalani Kanakaʻole, 79, American kumu hula.
• Latif Karimi, Iranian protester, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps brigadier general, shot.
• David M. Maddox, 87, American army general.
• Guðmundur Oddur Magnússon, 70, Icelandic artist and academic.
• Sir Graham McCamley, 93, Australian beef producer.
• John Meredith, 85, English footballer.
• Errol Moorcroft, 85, South African politician, member of the House of Assembly and National Assembly.
• Ahmed Moujahid, Moroccan footballer.
• Dastagir Hossain Nira, 60, Bangladeshi footballer, cardiac arrest.
• Pa O'Dwyer, 40, Irish strongman.
• Sverre Anker Ousdal, 81, Norwegian actor.
• Andrzej Paczkowski, 87, Polish historian.
• Dimitar Penev, 80, Bulgarian football player and manager.
• Jenny Plocki, 100, French women's rights activist.
• Rolf Riehm, 88, German composer, oboist and academic.
• Randy Riley, 63, American librarian.
• Eva Schloss, 96, Austrian-British Holocaust survivor and memoirist.
• Robert K. Tanenbaum, 83, American trial attorney and novelist, mayor of Beverly Hills, California, cancer.
• Nam Singh Thapa, 79, Nepali Olympic boxer, cancer.
• Samuel O. Thier, 88, American doctor and academic, president of Brandeis University.
• Ivan Varshavsky, 87, Russian engineer and railway track foreman.
• Wang Zheng, 64, Chinese vice admiral.
• Terry Wharton, 83, English footballer.
• William H. Yohn Jr., 90, American jurist and politician, judge of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
• Amal Fathullah Zarkasyi, 76, Indonesian Muslim scholar.
• , 78, Chinese Peking opera actor.

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• Ritva Auvinen, 93, Finnish opera singer.
• Ian Balding, 87, British horse trainer.
• Sukumar Barua, 87, Bangladeshi poet.
• Shyam Bihari Lal, 60, Indian politician, Uttar Pradesh MLA, heart attack.
• Carmen Arnold Biucchi, 78, Swiss numismatist and archaeologist.
• Dominique Bucchini, 82, French politician, MEP and mayor of Sartène.
• Tony Carr, 98, Maltese session drummer and percussionist.
• Jean-Max Causse, 85, French actor.
• Bohdan Chufus, 75, Ukrainian journalist, actor and singer.
• Jenny Collins, 83, English radio presenter.
• Sir Patrick Duffy, 105, British politician, MP and president of the NATO Assembly.
• Toshio Fujii, 83, Japanese politician, member of the House of Councillors, heart failure.
• Francis Grant, 101, British marine and World War II veteran.
• Stephen E. Haggerty, 87, American geophysicist.
• Evan Hammond, 45, Canadian radio host and sports broadcaster, stroke.
• Sidney Kibrick, 97, American actor.
• Kristi Kiick, 58, American academic.
• Elbert Kimbrough, 87, American football player.
• Anna Kurek, 96, Polish nurse and Warsaw Uprising participant.
• Paul C. Lambert, 97, American diplomat, ambassador to Ecuador.
• Barbara Lawrence, 82, American talent manager.
• Johnny Legend, 77, American rockabilly musician, film producer and wrestling manager, stroke and heart failure.
• Vladimir Lukić, 92, Bosnian Serb politician, prime minister of Republika Srpska.
• Ashok Gajanan Modak, 85, Indian politician and academic, Maharashtra MLC.
• Con Pederson, 91, American visual effects artist.
• Valery Fyodorovich Plotnikov, 82, Russian photographer.
• Tim Robertson, 81, English-born Australian actor.
• Lajos Rovátkay, 92, Hungarian-born German harpsichordist and musicologist.
• Saleh Rusheidat, 80, Jordanian politician, member of the House of Representatives and Senate.
• Edith Renfrow Smith, 111, American supercentenarian.
• Phoenix Spicer, 23, Australian footballer, brain aneurysm.
• Bob Taylor, 94, Australian footballer.
• Ivanne Trebbi, 97, Italian partisan and politician, deputy.
• Jim Willis, 98, American baseball player.
• Horst Witzler, 93, German football manager.
• Robert Wolski, 43, Polish Olympic high jumper, traffic collision.
• Nellie Wong, 91, American poet.
• , 88, Polish social activist.

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• Stuart Altman, 88, American economist.
• Marat Amankulov, 55, Kyrgyz politician, MP.
• Yvan Aumont, 87, French engineer and journalist.
• Alan Baker, 81, English footballer.
• Allyn Bromley, 97, American visual artist and art educator.
• Xesús Cañedo, 67, Spanish politician, co-founder of the Partíu Asturianista.
• Lana Chornohorska, 26, Ukrainian soldier.
• Diane Crump, 77, American jockey and horse trainer, glioblastoma.
• Nexhat Daci, 81, Kosovan politician, acting president and chairman of the Assembly.
• Brian Doyle, 90, Canadian writer.
• Yehezkel Dror, 97, Austrian-born Israeli political scientist.
• Imants Freibergs, 91, Latvian computer scientist, first gentleman.
• James Grauerholz, 72, American writer, pneumonia.
• Mohamed Harbi, 92, Algerian historian.
• Huang Dongbi, 86, Chinese diplomat.
• Victoria Jones, 34, American actress.
• Morris Kahn, 95, South African-born Israeli telecommunications industry executive, founder of Golden Pages, Amdocs and the Aurec Group.
• Harvey C. Krautschun, 76, American politician, member of the South Dakota House of Representatives.
• Hiroshi Kume, 81, Japanese television host, lung cancer.
• John Langdon, 79, American typographer and graphic designer.
• Arno Liiver, 71, Estonian actor.
• Arnold Long, 85, British cricketer, cancer.
• Volodymyr Marchenko, 103, Ukrainian mathematician.
• Hélio Mauro, 83, Brazilian politician, deputy, mayor of Goiânia, cardiac arrest.
• Paul McCullagh Jr., 25, Northern Irish boxer, bone cancer.
• Colin McDonald, 95, English footballer.
• Enric Mestre, 89, Spanish sculptor.
• Mukhsin Mukhamadiev, 59, Tajik-Russian football player and manager.
• Sir James Munby, 77, English judge, president of the Family Division.
• Hubertus von Pilgrim, 94, German sculptor.
• Gregory de Polnay, 82, English actor.
• Dame Karen Poutasi, 76, New Zealand public health official, director general of health.
• Candy Raymond, 75, Australian actress.
• Amit Saar, 47, Israeli intelligence officer, head of the Military Intelligence Research Department, brain cancer.
• Roland Schäfer, 76, German politician, mayor of Bergkamen.
• Serafim Shyngo-Ya-Hombo, 80, Angolan Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Luanda and bishop of Mbanza Congo.
• Margaret Anne Staggers, 79, American politician, member of the West Virginia House of Delegates.
• Hessy Levinsons Taft, 91, German chemist and child model.
• Linda S. Wilson, 89, American academic administrator, president of Radcliffe College.
• Ruben Yesayan, 79, Russian-Armenian test pilot.
• Yuen Cheung-yan, 68, Hong Kong actor, director, and martial arts choreographer.
• Valentin Zakharov, 92, Russian figure skater.