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Deaths in January 2017
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The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2017.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.
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January 2017
1
- Sir Tony Atkinson, 72, British economist, multiple myeloma.[1]
- Hilarion Capucci, 94, Syrian Melkite Catholic hierarch, Patriarchal Vicar of Jerusalem (1965–1974).[2]
- Jewel Plummer Cobb, 92, American biologist.[3]
- Bill Craig, 71, American swimmer, Olympic champion (1964), complications from pneumonia.[4]
- Yvon Dupuis, 90, Canadian politician.[5]
- Peter Farmer, 75, British set designer.[6]
- Karl Gerstner, 86, Swiss typographer.[7]
- Stuart Hamilton, 87, Canadian pianist, vocal coach and broadcaster, prostate cancer.[8]
- Aleksander Jackowski, 96, Polish anthropologist and ethnographer.[9]
- Jean Le Lan, 79, French cyclist.[10]
- Lorne Loomer, 79, Canadian rower, Olympic champion (1956).[11]
- Mel Lopez, 81, Filipino politician.[12]
- Bill Marshall, 77, Canadian film and theatre producer, co-founder of the Toronto International Film Festival, cardiac arrest.[13]
- George Miller, 87, Scottish cricketer (national team).[14]
- Memo Morales, 79, Venezuelan singer, heart attack.[15]
- Moruca, 84, Spanish football player and coach (Racing de Santander).[16]
- Yaakov Neeman, 77, Israeli lawyer and politician, Minister of Justice (1996, 2009–2013) and Finance (1997–1998).[17]
- Emmanuel Niyonkuru, 54, Burundian politician, Senator (since 2015) and Minister of Water and Environment (since 2015), shot.[18]
- Derek Parfit, 74, English philosopher (Reasons and Persons).[19]
- Sir Jeremy Reilly, 82, British army general.[20]
- Abis Rizvi, 49, Indian businessman and film producer (Roar: Tigers of the Sundarbans), shot.[21]
- Samuel Schweber, 80, Argentinian chess player, International Master.[22]
- Jeremy Stone, 81, American scientist and arms control activist.[23]
- Aleksander Tšutšelov, 83, Estonian sailor, Olympic silver medalist (1960).[24]
- Talat Tunçalp, 101, Turkish Olympic racing cyclist (1936) and president of the Turkish Cycling Federation (1950–1968).[25]
- Abu Omar al-Turkistani, Chinese Islamist militant.[26]
- Bogdan Tuszyński, 84, Polish sports journalist and reporter (Polskie Radio).[27]
- Sylvester Uphus, 89, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives (1983–1993).[28]
- Robert Vallée, 94, French mathematician.[29]
- Alfonso Wong, 93, Hong Kong cartoonist (Old Master Q), organ failure.[30]
2
- Auriel Andrew, 69, Australian country singer.[31]
- René Ballet, 88, French journalist and author.[32]
- John Berger, 90, English art critic and painter.[33]
- Albert Brewer, 88, American politician, Governor of Alabama (1968–1971).[34]
- François Chérèque, 60, French labor unionist (CFDT), leukemia.[35]
- Ian Davison, 79, English cricketer (Nottinghamshire).[36]
- Barbara Fei, 85, Hong Kong opera singer.[37]
- Richard Gee, 83, Australian federal judge, Family Court (1980–1999), drowning.[38]
- Tom Harpur, 87, Canadian classicist, theologian, priest, and journalist.[39]
- Travis Hirschi, 81, American sociologist.[40]
- Richard Machowicz, 51, American Navy SEAL and television host (Future Weapons, Deadliest Warrior), brain cancer.[41]
- Daryl Spencer, 88, American baseball player (New York/San Francisco Giants, St. Louis Cardinals).[42]
- István Tatár, 58, Hungarian Olympic sprinter (1980, 1988).[43]
- Viktor Tsaryov, 85, Russian football player and coach (Dynamo Moscow, Soviet Union national team).[44]
- Jean Vuarnet, 83, French alpine skier, Olympic champion (1960), stroke.[45]
- Brian Widlake, 85, British broadcaster (The Money Programme).[46]
3
- Vida Alves, 88, Brazilian actress (Sua Vida Me Pertence), multiple organ failure.[47]
- Augusto Barreto, 93, Portuguese Olympic fencer (1952).[48]
- Enzo Benedetti, 85, Italian footballer (Palermo).[49]
- Rodney Bennett, 81, British television director (Doctor Who).[50]
- Martin Brandtner, 78, American Marine Corps general.[51]
- Ivo Brešan, 80, Croatian writer (How the War Started on My Island).[52]
- Mike Buchanan, 84, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks).[53]
- Kevin Casey, 40, Irish broadcaster (WLR FM), cancer.[54]
- Charles J. Colgan, 90, American politician, member of the Virginia Senate (1976–2016), vascular ailment.[55]
- J. Dewey Daane, 98, American economist.[56]
- George M. Dennison, 81, American university administrator, President of the University of Montana (1990–2010), non-Hodgkin lymphoma.[57]
- Cecilia González Gómez, 55, Mexican politician, Deputy of Congress (2012–2015), heart attack.[58]
- Russ Gorman, 90, Australian politician, MHR for Chifley (1983–1984) and Greenway (1984–1996).[59]
- Shigeru Kōyama, 87, Japanese actor (Samurai Rebellion, Black Rain, Beyond Outrage), complications from pneumonia.[60]
- Gilberto Martínez, 82, Colombian Olympian
- Rolf Noskwith, 97, German-born British businessman and codebreaker (World War II).[61]
- Peter Pollen, 89, Canadian politician, Mayor of Victoria, British Columbia (1971–1975, 1981–1985).[62]
- H. S. Mahadeva Prasad, 58, Indian politician, MLA (since 1994), heart attack.[63]
- Rosemary Stevenson, 80, American baseball player (Grand Rapids Chicks).[64]
- Alan Surgal, 100, American screenwriter (Mickey One).[65]
- Igor Volk, 79, Ukrainian-born Russian cosmonaut and test pilot (Soyuz T-12).[66]
4
- Hisham Al-Otaibi, 70, Kuwaiti politician, Minister of Finance (1998–1999).[67]
- Heinz Billing, 102, German physicist and computer scientist.[68]
- William J. Cason, 92, American politician, member of the Missouri Senate (1960–1976).[69]
- John Cummings, 73, British politician, MP for Easington (1987–2010), lung cancer.[70]
- Willie Evans, 79, American football player (University at Buffalo).[71]
- Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan, 89, Indian sitar player and composer, cardiac arrest.[72]
- Bruce Hugo, 71, American politician, member of the Oregon House of Representatives (1983–1993).[73]
- Bade Fateh Ali Khan, 82, Pakistani singer, lung disease.[74]
- Sandra Landy, 78, British contract bridge player, meningitis.[75]
- Carl E. Misch, 69, American prosthodontist, cancer.[76]
- Jordi Pagans i Monsalvatje, 84, Spanish painter.[77]
- Ezio Pascutti, 79, Italian footballer (Bologna).[78]
- Art Pennington, 93, American baseball player (Chicago American Giants, Birmingham Black Barons).[79]
- Georges Prêtre, 92, French orchestral and opera conductor.[80]
- Lois Rice, 83, American business executive.[81]
- Milt Schmidt, 98, Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey player, coach and general manager (Boston Bruins, Washington Capitals), stroke.[82]
- Anna Senkoro, 54, Tanzanian politician.[83]
- Gabriel Tanginye, 66, South Sudanese rebel leader, killed in Civil War.[84]
- Vlastimir Trajković, 69, Serbian composer.[85]
- Anthony Tu Shihua, 97, Chinese prelate from Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association, illegitimate Bishop of Hanyang (since 1959).[86]
- Veronica Steele, 69, Irish cheesemaker.[87]
- Sir Douglas Wass, 93, British civil servant, Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury (1974–1983).[88]
- Paul Went, 67, English footballer (Charlton Athletic, Leyton Orient, Portsmouth).[89]
- Wayne Westner, 55, South African golfer, suicide by gunshot.[90]
5
- David Alexander, 90, British Royal Marines general.[91]
- Graham Atkinson, 73, English footballer (Oxford United), cancer.[92]
- Spartak Belyaev, 93, Russian theoretical physicist.[93]
- Leonardo Benevolo, 93, Italian architect and city planner.[94]
- Géori Boué, 98, French operatic soprano.[95]
- Luc Coene, 69, Belgian economist.[96]
- Tullio De Mauro, 84, Italian linguist and politician, Minister of Education (2000–2001).[97]
- Paul Goble, 83, English-born American author and illustrator (Tipi: Home of the Nomadic Buffalo Hunters, The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses), Parkinson's disease.[98]
- Gangmumei Kamei, 77, Indian academic and politician.[99]
- Gerald E. McClearn, 89, American behavior geneticist.[100]
- Frank Murphy, 69, Irish Olympic middle-distance runner (1968, 1972), European Championship silver medalist (1969).[101]
- Alfonso Humberto Robles Cota, 85, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tepic (1981–2008).[102]
- Stanley Russ, 86, American politician, member of the Arkansas Senate (1975–2001), myeloid leukemia.[103]
- Jorge Sanguinetti, 82, Uruguayan politician, Minister of Transport (1985–1989).[104]
- Jill Saward, 51, British sexual assault awareness campaigner, subarachnoid haemorrhage.[105]
- Marzio Strassoldo, 77, Italian politician, President of the Province of Udine (2001–2007).[106]
- Rafiq Subaie, 86, Syrian actor, writer and director.[107]
- Harry Taylor, 81, English footballer (Newcastle United).[108]
- Christopher Weeramantry, 90, Sri Lankan judge, vice-president of the International Court of Justice (1997–2000).[109]
- Peter Weston, 72, British science fiction fanzine editor, cancer.[110]
- Kurt Wigartz, 83, Swedish Olympic gymnast (1952, 1956, 1960).[111]
- John Wightman, 78, American politician, Mayor of Lexington, Nebraska (1992–1995), member of the Nebraska Legislature (2007–2015).[112]
6
- Yaron Ben-Dov, 46, Israeli footballer (Ironi Rishon LeZion, Maccabi Netanya, Hapoel Tel Aviv).[113]
- Audrey Grevious, 86, American civil rights activist.[114]
- Awad Moukhtar Halloudah, 85, Egyptian Olympic swimmer.[115]
- John Hubbard, 85, American-born British artist.[116]
- Greg Jelks, 55, American-Australian Olympic baseball player (2000), (Philadelphia Phillies).[117]
- Kosei Kamo, 84, Japanese tennis player, winner of the 1955 U.S. Open, heart attack.[118]
- Una Kroll, 91, British nun and Anglican priest.[119]
- Les Lazarowitz, 75, American sound mixer (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Groundhog Day), cancer.[120]
- Joseba Leizaola, 86, Spanish politician, President of the Basque Parliament (1990–1998).[121]
- Octavio Lepage, 93, Venezuelan politician, Acting President (1993).[122]
- Ivar A. Mjør, 83, Norwegian dental researcher.[123]
- Ramón Martínez Pérez, 87, Spanish footballer (Sevilla, Granada, national team).[124]
- Bayezid Osman, 92, Turkish royal, 44th Head of the Imperial House of Osman (since 2009).[125]
- Ghaith Pharaon, 76, Saudi businessman.[126]
- Ricardo Piglia, 75, Argentine author, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.[127]
- Sylvester Potts, 78, American singer and composer (The Contours).[128]
- Om Puri, 66, Indian actor (Ardh Satya, City of Joy, East Is East), heart attack.[129]
- Bob Sadowski, 79, American baseball player (Los Angeles Angels, Chicago White Sox).[130]
- Tilikum, 35, American-held orca, subject of Blackfish, bacterial infection.[131]
- Gavin Whittaker, 46, Australian rugby league footballer (Canterbury Bulldogs, Gold Coast Chargers), stomach cancer.[132]
- Francine York, 80, American actress (Days of Our Lives, Batman, The Family Man), cancer.[133]
7
- Cheick Fantamady Camara, 57, Guinean film director (Il va pleuvoir sur Conakry).[134]
- Bill Champion, 69, American baseball player (Milwaukee Brewers, Philadelphia Phillies).[135]
- Lucina da Costa Gomez-Matheeuws, 87, Dutch Antillean politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles (1977).[136]
- John Deely, 74, American philosopher, cancer.[137]
- Ramanuja Devanathan, 57, Indian Sanskrit scholar.[138]
- Refik Erduran, 88, Turkish playwright, columnist and writer.[139]
- Carlos Fernández Gondín, 78, Cuban politician, Minister of the Interior (since 2015).[140]
- Stein Gauslaa, 68, Norwegian journalist and civil servant.[141]
- Nat Hentoff, 91, American political philosopher, columnist and music critic (The Village Voice, Down Beat).[142]
- Eddie Kamae, 89, American ukuleleist (Sons of Hawaii).[143]
- Jerzy Kossela, 74, Polish guitarist and vocalist (Niebiesko-Czarni, Czerwone Gitary).[144]
- Lelio Lagorio, 91, Italian politician, President of Tuscany (1970–1978), Minister of Defence (1980–1983) and Sport and Spectacles (1983–1986).[145]
- Abdul Hafeez Lakho, 87, Pakistani lawyer.[146]
- Betty Lasky, 94, American film historian, pneumonia.[147]
- Mildred Meacham, 92, American baseball player (AAGBPL).[148]
- Mike Ovey, 58, British Anglican clergyman and academic administrator (Oak Hill College), heart attack.[149]
- Einfrid Perstølen, 99, Norwegian psychiatrist and language proponent.[150]
- Murray Ryan, 94, American politician, member of the New Mexico House of Representatives (1969–1999).[151]
- Michael Scanlan, 85, American Roman Catholic priest and academic administrator.[152]
- Sir Bruce Slane, 85, New Zealand public servant, Privacy Commissioner (1993–2003).[153]
- Mário Soares, 92, Portuguese politician, President (1986–1996) and Prime Minister (1976–1978, 1983–1985).[154]
- Lech Trzeciakowski, 85, Polish historian.[155]
- Alice Whitty, 82, Canadian Olympic high jumper (1956).[156]
- Laurel Woodcock, 56, Canadian artist and academic.[157]
8
- Dominique Appia, 90, Swiss painter.[158]
- Buddy Bregman, 86, American arranger, producer, and composer.[159]
- Jackie Brown, 73, American baseball player and coach (Texas Rangers).[160]
- James C. Christensen, 74, American fantasy artist, cancer.[161]
- Colin Cameron Davies, 92, Spanish-born Kenyan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ngong (1964–2002).[162]
- Jerry DeLucca, 80, American football player (Boston Patriots, Buffalo Bills, Philadelphia Eagles).[163]
- Klaib Al-Fawwaz, 66, Jordanian diplomat and politician, Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs (2011–2012).[164]
- Nicolai Gedda, 91, Swedish operatic tenor.[165]
- Miriam Goldberg, 100, American newspaper publisher (Intermountain Jewish News).[166]
- Mary Ann Green, 52–53, American tribal leader and politician, Chairperson of the Augustine Band of Cahuilla Indians (1988–2016).[167]
- Svennik Høyer, 85, Norwegian political scientist.[168]
- Roy Innis, 82, American civil rights activist, Parkinson's disease.[169]
- Elspeth Kennedy, 85, New Zealand sharebroker and community leader.[170]
- Abdulkadir Kure, 60, Nigerian politician, Governor of Niger State (1999–2007).[171]
- Sir James Mancham, 77, Seychellois politician, President (1976–1977).[172]
- Rod Mason, 76, British jazz trumpeter.[173]
- Jovanka Nikolić, 64, Serbian writer.[174]
- Zacharie Noah, 79, Cameroonian footballer (Stade Saint-Germain, Sedan-Torcy).[175]
- Ruth Perry, 77, Liberian politician, interim Head of State as Chairwoman of the Council of State (1996–1997).[176]
- Pioneer Cabin Tree, c.1000, American giant sequoia tree, storm damage.[177]
- Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, 82, Iranian politician, President (1989–1997).[178]
- Peter Sarstedt, 75, English singer-songwriter ("Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)?"), progressive supranuclear palsy.[179]
- Colin Shortis, 82, British army general.[180]
- Nigel Spearing, 86, British politician, MP for Acton (1970–1974) and Newham South (1974–1979), Alzheimer's disease.[181]
- Laurie Topp, 93, English footballer (Hendon).[182]
- Eli Zelkha, 66, Iranian-born American entrepreneur, inventor of ambient intelligence.[183]
9
- Qari Saifullah Akhtar, Pakistani Al-Qaeda militant.[184]
- Zygmunt Bauman, 91, Polish-British sociologist.[185]
- Jacques F. Benders, 92, Dutch mathematician.[186]
- Rodney H. Brady, 83, American businessman (Deseret Management Corporation) and academic administrator (Weber State University).[187]
- Charles Bragg, 85, American artist.[188]
- Roberto Cabañas, 55, Paraguayan footballer (New York Cosmos, Boca Juniors), cardiac arrest.[189]
- Michael Chamberlain, 72, New Zealand-born Australian pastor, exonerated in the death of Azaria Chamberlain, complications from leukaemia.[190]
- Crazy Toones, 45, American hip-hop record producer and DJ, heart attack.[191]
- Ugo Crescenzi, 86, Italian politician, first President of Abruzzo (1970–1972, 1973–1974), member of the Chamber of Deputies (1987–1992), kidney failure.[192]
- Ulf Dinkelspiel, 77, Swedish politician, Minister of European Affairs and Foreign Trade (1991–1994), cancer.[193]
- Patrick Flores, 87, American Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of San Antonio (1979–2004), pneumonia and heart failure.[194]
- Gerry Glaude, 89, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicoutimi Saguenéens).[195]
- Daan van Golden, 80, Dutch artist.[196]
- Mary Emily Gonsalves, 97, Pakistani Roman Catholic nun.[197]
- Jens Christian Magnus, 96, Norwegian politician and resistance activist.[198]
- Edward Margolies, 91, American author.[199]
- Bob McCullough, 85, Australian sports administrator, President of the Australian Paralympic Committee (1994–1996).[200]
- Terry Ramshaw, 74, English rugby league footballer (Featherstone Rovers, Wakefield Trinity).[201]
- Gerry Rinaldi, 72, Canadian Olympic alpine skier (1968).[202]
- John Sailhamer, 70, American evangelical Old Testament scholar, Parkinson's disease.[203]
- Teresa Ann Savoy, 61, British-born Italian actress (Caligula, Salon Kitty), cancer.[204]
- Ali Shariatmadari, 93, Iranian politician and academic, Minister of Culture (1979).[205]
- Warren Allen Smith, 95, American author, atheist, and gay-rights activist, signatory of Humanist Manifesto II.[206]
- Claude Steiner, 81, French-born American psychologist.[207]
- René Thomas, 88, Belgian biologist.[208]
- Russell Trood, 68, Australian politician and academic, Senator for Queensland (2005–2011), thyroid cancer.[209]
- Brown Turei, 92, New Zealand Anglican co-primate, Archbishop and Pihopa o Aotearoa (since 2006).[210]
- Timothy Well, 55, American professional wrestler (WWF, PNW, WCW), kidney failure.[211]
- T. K. Whitaker, 100, Irish economist and public servant.[212]
10
- Hiag Akmakjian, 91, American author, painter and photographer, lung cancer.[213]
- Horst Astroth, 93, German Olympic racewalker (1960).[214]
- Oddvar Barlie, 87, Norwegian Olympic sport wrestler (1960).[215]
- Ronald Buxton, 93, British politician, MP for Leyton (1965–1966).[216]
- Fernand Decanali, 91, French racing cyclist, Olympic champion (1948).[217]
- Leonard French, 88, Australian glass artist.[218]
- Steve Fryar, 63, American rodeo performer.[219]
- William Goodhart, Baron Goodhart, 83, British lawyer and politician.[220]
- Buddy Greco, 90, American singer, actor (The Girl Who Knew Too Much) and pianist.[221]
- Josef Grumser, 82, Austrian Olympic boxer.[222]
- Roman Herzog, 82, German politician, President (1994–1999), Judge of the Federal Constitutional Court (1983–1994).[223]
- Clare Hollingworth, 105, British journalist (The Daily Telegraph), broke news of German invasion of Poland.[224]
- Achmad Kurniawan, 37, Indonesian footballer (Arema Cronus), complications from a heart attack.[225]
- Claude Lebey, 93, French food critic.[226]
- Steven McDonald, 59, American police detective (NYPD), heart attack.[227]
- Ryszard Parulski, 78, Polish fencer, Olympic silver medalist (1964).[228]
- Võ Quý, 87, Vietnamese zoologist.[229]
- Manlio Rocchetti, 73, Italian make-up artist (Driving Miss Daisy, Lonesome Dove, Gangs of New York), Oscar and Emmy winner (1989).[230]
- Tony Rosato, 62, Italian-born Canadian actor (Saturday Night Live, SCTV, Night Heat), heart attack.[231]
- Oliver Smithies, 91, British-American geneticist, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2007).[232]
- Kenny Wharram, 83, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks).[233]
11
- Tommy Allsup, 85, American rockabilly and swing guitarist, complications from hernia surgery.[234]
- Pierre Arpaillange, 92, French author, senior judge and politician, Minister of Justice (1988–1990).[235]
- Hilary Bailey, 79, British writer.[236]
- Tony Booth, 83, British poster artist (The Beatles), cancer.[237]
- James Fairfax, 83, Australian business executive and philanthropist.[238]
- Peter Fenix, 77, South African cricketer.[239]
- James Ferguson-Lees, 88, British ornithologist (British Birds).[240]
- Brian Fletcher, 69, British jockey, winner of the Grand National (1968, 1973, 1974), cancer.[241]
- Henry Foner, 97, American social activist.[242]
- Katherine Fryer, 106, British artist.[243]
- Victor Griffin, 92, Irish Anglican clergyman and theologian.[244]
- Conrad Hilberry, 88, American poet, complications from cancer and pneumonia.[245]
- Mark Josephson, 73, American cardiologist, cancer.[246]
- Victor Lownes, 88, American businessman (Playboy).[247]
- Charles Lyell, 3rd Baron Lyell, 77, British peer.[248]
- Arthur Manuel, 66, Canadian Neskonlith chief, indigenous rights and environmental activist.[249]
- Nikolay Neprimerov, 95, Russian physicist.[250]
- Robert Pierre Sarrabère, 90, French Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Aire and Dax (1978–2002).[251]
- Adenan Satem, 72, Malaysian politician, Chief Minister of Sarawak (since 2014), heart attack.[252]
- Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui, 78, Pakistani jurist and politician, Governor of Sindh (since 2016).[253]
- Akio Takamori, 66, Japanese-born American sculptor, cancer.[254]
- François Van der Elst, 62, Belgian footballer (Anderlecht, West Ham United, national team), heart attack.[255]
- Christopher Chubasco Wilkins, 48, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.[256]
- Kenyon Wright, 84, Scottish Episcopal priest and political campaigner.[257]
12
- Giulio Angioni, 77, Italian writer (Le fiamme di Toledo, Assandira) and anthropologist.[258]
- Meir Banai, 55, Israeli singer, cancer.[259]
- Eduardo Blasco Ferrer, 60, Spanish-Italian linguist.[260]
- William Peter Blatty, 89, American novelist and screenwriter (The Exorcist, Legion, A Shot in the Dark), Oscar winner (1974), multiple myeloma.[261]
- Gerry Gersten, 89, American cartoonist.[262]
- Robin Hyman, 85, British publisher.[263]
- Anthony King, 82, Canadian-born British political scientist and commentator.[264]
- Milton Metz, 95, American radio and television host.[265]
- Karima Mokhtar, 82, Egyptian actress.[266]
- Vsevolod Murakhovsky, 90, Ukrainian-born Russian politician, First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union (1985–1989).[267]
- Jill Roe, 76, Australian historian and academic.[268]
- Frank Spellman, 94, American weightlifter, Olympic champion (1948).[269]
- Martha Swope, 88, American photographer, Parkinson's disease.[270]
- Graham Taylor, 72, English football player and manager (Watford, Aston Villa, national team), heart attack.[271]
13
- Gilberto Agustoni, 94, Swiss Roman Catholic cardinal, Prefect of Apostolic Signatura (1992–1998).[272]
- Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, 86, English photographer and filmmaker.[273]
- Walter Benz, 85, German mathematician.[274]
- Jerome A. Berson, 92, American chemist.[275]
- Hans Berliner, 87, German-born American computer scientist and chess player.[276]
- Bernard d'Abrera, 76, Australian entomologist.[277]
- Mark Fisher, 48, British writer, cultural theorist and music journalist (The Wire, Fact), suicide by hanging.[278]
- Dick Gautier, 85, American actor and singer (Get Smart, Transformers, When Things Were Rotten).[279]
- Horacio Guarany, 91, Argentine folkloric singer and writer, cardiac arrest.[280]
- Sir John Hanson, 78, British diplomat and historian.[281]
- Robert H. Hughes, 91, American politician.[282]
- Alan Jabbour, 74, American fiddler and folklorist (Library of Congress).[283]
- John Jacobs, 91, English golfer, founder of the PGA European Tour.[284]
- Zainuri Kamaruddin, 50, Malaysian Islamist militant, air strike.[285]
- Magic Alex, 74, Greek electronics engineer (The Beatles, Apple Electronics), complications from pneumonia.[286]
- David Modell, 56, American businessman (Baltimore Ravens), lung cancer.[287]
- Anton Nanut, 84, Slovenian conductor.[288]
- Albert H. Owens Jr., 90, American oncologist.[289]
- Ari Rath, 92, Austrian-born Israeli journalist (The Jerusalem Post).[290]
- Nicodemo Scarfo, 87, American mobster, boss of the Philadelphia crime family (1981–1991).[291]
- Fumiko Shiraga, 49, Japanese-German pianist, breast cancer.[292]
- Jan Stoeckart, 89, Dutch composer, conductor and trombonist.[293]
- Udo Ulfkotte, 56, German political scientist and journalist (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), heart attack.[294]
14
- Surjit Singh Barnala, 91, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Punjab (1985–1987), Governor of Uttarakhand (2000–2003) and Tamil Nadu (2004–2011).[295]
- John Boudreaux, 80, American drummer.[296]
- Barry Cassin, 92, Irish actor (Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog, The Count of Monte Cristo, Byzantium).[297]
- Mohammed bin Faisal Al Saud, 80, Saudi royal and businessman.[298]
- Alex Jones, 75, American Roman Catholic deacon.[299]
- Eldar Kuliev, 65, Kyrgyz-born Russian screenwriter and author.[300]
- Herbert Mies, 87, German politician, Chairman of the Communist Party (1973–1989).[301]
- Deepal Silva, 49, Sri Lankan singer, heart attack.[302]
- Kevin Starr, 76, American historian and librarian, heart attack.[303]
- Yama Buddha, 29, Nepalese rapper, suicide by hanging.[304]
- Yee Tit Kwan, 90, Singaporean Olympian
- Zhou Youguang, 111, Chinese linguist and supercentenarian, developed the pinyin romanization system.[305]
15
- Isidro Baldenegro López, 50, Mexican Rarámuri farmer and environmental leader, shot.[306]
- George Beall, 79, American attorney, prosecuted Spiro Agnew for corruption.[307]
- Ciel Bergman, 78, American painter.[308]
- Babette Cole, 66, English children's author.[309]
- Terry Cryer, 82, British jazz and blues photographer.[310]
- Roman Darowski, 81, Polish philosopher.[311]
- John Davis, 78, British anthropologist.[312]
- Richard Divall, 71, Australian conductor and musicologist.[313]
- Dermot Gallagher, 72, Irish civil servant and diplomat.[314]
- Luis Gámir, 74, Spanish politician, Minister of Trade and Tourism (1980).[315]
- Gorky González Quiñones, 77, Mexican potter.[316]
- Han Peixin, 95, Chinese politician, Governor of Jiangsu (1982–1983).[317]
- Kozo Kinomoto, 68, Japanese footballer and sports executive (Japan Football League), heart failure.[318]
- Thandi Klaasen, 85, South African jazz singer, pancreatic cancer.[319]
- Vicki Lansky, 75, American author and publisher, cirrhosis.[320]
- Eddie Long, 63, American pastor (New Birth Missionary Baptist Church), cancer.[321]
- Mieczyslaw Malinski, 93, Polish theologian.[322]
- Nasir al-Din Nasir Hunzai, 99, Pakistani writer and poet.[323]
- Erwin Obermair, 70, Austrian astronomer.[324]
- Paul C. Paris, 86, American metallurgist.[325]
- David Poythress, 73, American military officer and politician, Secretary of State of Georgia (1979–1983).[326]
- Robert Rodman, 76, American computer scientist, complications from inclusion body myositis.[327]
- Shutaro Shoji, 83, Japanese Olympic basketball player (1956, 1960).[328]
- Dale Smith, 88, American rodeo performer.[329]
- Jimmy Snuka, 73, Fijian-born American professional wrestler (WWF, AWA, PNW), stomach cancer.[330]
- Jan Szczepański, 77, Polish boxer, Olympic champion (1972).[331]
- Greg Trooper, 61, American singer-songwriter, pancreatic cancer.[332]
- Aleksandr Yezhevsky, 101, Soviet engineer and statesman.[333]
16
- Carolyn Allport, 66, Australian historian and trade unionist.[334]
- James R. Ambrose, 94, American aerospace executive (Ford Aerospace).[335]
- Amin Nasir, 48, Singaporean football player (Woodlands Wellington, national team) and manager (Hougang United), colon cancer.[336]
- Gene Cernan, 82, American astronaut (Apollo 10, Apollo 17), last person to walk on the Moon.[337]
- Jack Eames, 94, Australian football player (Richmond).[338]
- Roland Glavany, 94, French army general.[339]
- Gerd Grochowski, 60, German opera singer.[340]
- Phyllis Harrison-Ross, 80, American psychiatrist, lung cancer.[341]
- William A. Hilliard, 89, American journalist (The Oregonian).[342]
- Franz Jarnach, 73, German actor (Dittsche) and keyboardist (The Rattles), heart attack.[343]
- Cuthbert Johnson, 70, British musician, liturgist and Benedictine abbot.[344]
- Peter Jones, 83, Australian politician, member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly (1974–1986).[345]
- Kerry McNamara, 76, Namibian architect and political activist, cancer.[346]
- Jiří Navrátil, 93, Czech Scout leader, President of Junák.[347]
- Dan O'Brien Sr., 87, American baseball executive (Texas Rangers, Seattle Mariners, Cleveland Indians).[348]
- William Onyeabor, 70, Nigerian singer-songwriter.[349]
- Charles "Bobo" Shaw, 69, American jazz drummer.[350]
- C. V. Vishveshwara, 78, Indian physicist.[351]
- Brian Whitehouse, 81, English footballer (West Bromwich Albion, Crystal Palace).[352]
- Steve Wright, 66, American bass guitarist (The Greg Kihn Band), heart attack.[353]
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- M. M. Ruhul Amin, 74, Bangladeshi judge, Chief Justice (2008–2009).[354]
- Brenda C. Barnes, 63, American businesswoman, CEO of PepsiCo (1996–1997) and Sara Lee (2005–2010), stroke.[355]
- Philip Bond, 82, British actor (Doctor Who, The Onedin Line).[356]
- David P. Buckson, 96, American lawyer and politician, Governor of Delaware (1960–1961).[357]
- Tirrel Burton, 86, American football player and coach (Michigan).[358]
- Colo, 60, American-bred western gorilla, oldest gorilla in captivity.[359]
- Mario Fasino, 96, Italian politician, President of Sicily (1969–1972), President of the Sicilian Regional Assembly (1974–1976).[360]
- Heng Freylinger, 90, Luxembourger wrestler, competitor at 1952 Summer Olympics.[361]
- Pascal Garray, 51, Belgian comics artist (Benoît Brisefer, The Smurfs).[362]
- Herbert Gauls, 86, German photographer.[363]
- Alenka Goljevšček, 85, Slovenian writer.[364]
- Tokio Kano, 82, Japanese politician, member of the House of Councillors (since 1998), heart failure.[365]
- Lucy Killea, 94, American politician, member of the California State Senate (1982–1996).[366]
- William Margold, 73, American pornographic actor and director.[367]
- Kenneth McNenny, 81, American politician, member of the South Dakota House of Representatives (1987–2000) and Senate (2005–2008).[368]
- Gene Olaff, 96, American soccer player (Brooklyn Hispano).[369]
- Malcolm Peat, 84, Canadian academic.[370]
- Steven Plaut, 65, American-born Israeli economist and academic.[371]
- Robert Timlin, 84, American federal judge, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (since 1994).[372]
- Daniel Vischer, 67, Swiss politician, member of the National Council (2003–2015), cancer.[373]
18
- Peter Abrahams, 97, South African-born Jamaican writer (Mine Boy).[374]
- Red Adams, 95, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs) and coach (Los Angeles Dodgers).[375]
- María Nsué Angüe, 71–72, Equatorial Guinean writer and politician.[376]
- Yosl Bergner, 96, Austrian-born Israeli painter.[377]
- Ion Besoiu, 85, Romanian actor (Toate pînzele sus).[378]
- Obed Dlamini, 79, Swazi politician, Prime Minister (1989–1993).[379]
- Ed Dyck, 66, Canadian ice hockey player (Vancouver Canucks, Indianapolis Racers), cancer.[380]
- Ronan Fanning, 75, Irish historian, cancer.[381]
- Gullow Gjeseth, 79, Norwegian military officer.[382]
- Rachael Heyhoe Flint, Baroness Heyhoe Flint, 77, English cricketer (women's national team), businesswoman and philanthropist.[383]
- Zohurul Hoque, 90, Indian Islamic scholar.[384]
- Yuji Ijiri, 81, Japanese-born American accounting academic.[385]
- Jung Mikyung, 56, South Korean novelist.[386]
- Mike Kellie, 69, English drummer (Spooky Tooth, The Only Ones) and record producer.[387]
- Peter Kippax, 76, English cricketer (Yorkshire, MCC), Alzheimer's disease.[388]
- Hanns Kreisel, 85, German mycologist.[389]
- John Levee, 92, American painter.[390]
- André Léveillé, 83, Canadian politician.[391]
- John Little, 86, Canadian-born Scottish footballer (Rangers, Morton, Scotland national team).[392]
- Hubert Lucot, 81, French author.[393]
- Lawrence S. Margolis, 81, American judge, United States Court of Federal Claims (1982–1997).[394]
- Władysław Markiewicz, 97, Polish sociologist.[395]
- Harry Minor, 88, American baseball player and manager (New York Mets).[396]
- Ymer Pampuri, 72, Albanian Olympic weightlifter (1972).[397]
- Roberta Peters, 86, American coloratura soprano, Parkinson's disease.[398]
- David Spicer, 70, American organist.[399]
- Dick Starr, 95, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns).[400]
- Juan Thomas, 90, Spanish Olympic sports shooter.[401]
- Samuel Widmer, 69, Swiss physician, psychiatrist and psychotherapist (psycholytic therapy).[402]
- Ståle Wikshåland, 63, Norwegian musicologist, blood clot.[403]
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- Jalal Allakhverdiyev, 87, Azerbaijani mathematician.[404]
- Wayne Barrett, 71, American journalist (The Village Voice), lung cancer.[405]
- Loalwa Braz, 63, Brazilian singer-songwriter ("Lambada"), burns.[406]
- Thibaut Cuisset, 58, French photographer.[407]
- Miguel Ferrer, 61, American actor (RoboCop, Mulan, Twin Peaks), heart failure and complications of throat cancer.[408]
- Eddie Filgate, 101, Irish politician, TD (1977–1982).[409]
- Ralph F. Fiske, 85, Canadian politician, member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly (1970–1974).[410]
- Roderick Ham, 91, British architect.[411]
- Craig Howard, 64, American football coach (Oregon Tech, Southern Oregon).[412]
- Roman Jarymowycz, 72, Austrian-born Canadian soldier and educator.[413]
- Rafael Kadyrov, 47, Russian ice hockey referee, brain tumor.[414]
- Jan Kruis, 83, Dutch cartoonist (Jack, Jacky and the Juniors).[415]
- Ger van Mourik, 85, Dutch footballer (Ajax).[416]
- Joyce Murland, 79, Canadian wheelchair athlete, Paralympic silver medalist (1972, 1976).[417]
- Paul Ornstein, 92, Hungarian-born American psychoanalyst.[418]
- Edwin Pope, 88, American journalist (The Miami Herald, Athens Banner-Herald), cancer.[419]
- Walt Streuli, 81, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).[420]
- Guillaume Van Tongerloo, 83, Belgian Olympic cyclist.[421]
- Giovanni Vastola, 78, Italian footballer (Vicenza, Bologna).[422]
- James S. Vlasto, 82, American public servant.[423]
- H. Boyd Woodruff, 99, American microbiologist.[424]
- Teori Zavascki, 68, Brazilian Supreme Court judge, Operation Car Wash reporter, plane crash.[425]
20
- Bruno Amoroso, 80, Italian-born Danish economist.[426]
- Robert Anker, 70, Dutch writer.[427]
- José Luis Astigarraga Lizarralde, 76, Spanish-born Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Yurimaguas (1991–2016).[428]
- Jack August, 63, American historian, specialist in the history of Arizona, liver failure.[429]
- Leendert Bosch, 92, Dutch biochemist.[430]
- Hans Breukhoven, 70, Dutch businessman, founder of the Free Record Shop, pancreatic cancer.[431]
- Joy Coghill, 90, Canadian actress (Da Vinci's Inquest), heart failure.[432]
- Bill Fischer, 89, American football player (Chicago Cardinals).[433]
- Ahmed Gailani, 84, Afghan Qadiriyya leader and politician, founded National Islamic Front of Afghanistan.[434]
- Michael Goldberg, 73, American sports executive (NBCA).[435]
- Judith Palache Gregory, 84, American writer.[436]
- Klaus Huhn, 88, German sports journalist and writer.[437]
- Naděžda Kavalírová, 93, Czech political prisoner and activist, head of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes (2007–2013).[438]
- Alec Devon Kreider, 25, American convicted murderer, suicide by hanging.[439]
- Charles Liteky, 85, American military chaplain and peace activist.[440]
- Harry J. Middleton, 95, American writer and library director.[441]
- Joey Powers, 82, American singer-songwriter.[442]
- Czesław Rajtar, 87, Polish footballer
- Sergio Reolon, 65, Italian politician.[443]
- Colin Rushmere, 79, South African conservationist and cricketer.[444]
- Carlos Alberto Silva, 77, Brazilian football manager (Guarani, Porto, national team).[445]
- Chuck Stewart, 89, American jazz photographer.[446]
- Tommy Tate, 72, American soul singer and songwriter.[447]
- Emma Tennant, 79, British author, posterior cortical atrophy.[448]
- Frank Thomas, 80, French songwriter.[449]
- John Watkiss, 55, British comic artist (Deadman) and concept artist (Tarzan, Atlantis: The Lost Empire), cancer.[450]
21
- Marc Baecke, 60, Belgian footballer (Beveren, national team).[451]
- Alexinia Baldwin, 91, American educator.[452]
- Biruta Baumane, 94, Latvian artist.[453]
- Mark Baumer, 33, American environmental activist, traffic collision.[454]
- Erika Böhm-Vitense, 93, German-born American astronomer.[455]
- Byron Dobell, 89, American editor and writer, complications from Parkinson's disease.[456]
- Bernd Drechsel, 63, German Olympic wrestler (1972).[457]
- Jamshid Giunashvili, 86, Georgian linguist and Iranologist.[458]
- Vahit Melih Halefoğlu, 97, Turkish diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1983–1987).[459]
- Yuri Karash, 53, Russian journalist, heart attack.[460]
- José de Jesús Madera Uribe, 89, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Fresno (1980–1991) and Auxiliary Bishop for the Military Services, USA (1991–2004).[461]
- Hiroki Matsukata, 74, Japanese actor (Battles Without Honor and Humanity, Shogun's Samurai), complications from lymphoma.[462]
- Walter "Junie" Morrison, 62, American Hall of Fame musician (Ohio Players, Parliament-Funkadelic) and record producer.[463]
- William Albert Norris, 89, American judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1980–1994).[464]
- Shirley Paget, Marchioness of Anglesey, 92, British public servant and writer.[465]
- Ernst Petzold, 87, German theologian.[466]
- Maggie Roche, 65, American singer-songwriter (The Roches), cancer.[467]
- Francesco Saverio Salerno, 88, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Secretary of Apostolic Signatura (1998–2003).[468]
- Dave Shipperley, 64, English footballer (Charlton Athletic, Gillingham).[469]
- Harry E. T. Thayer, 89, American diplomat, Ambassador to Singapore (1980–1985), Director of the American Institute in Taiwan (1984–1986).[470]
- Veljo Tormis, 86, Estonian composer.[471]
- Ken Wright, 70, American baseball player (Kansas City Royals).[472]
22
- Merete Armand, 61, Norwegian actress.[473]
- J. S. G. Boggs, 62, American artist.[474]
- Pietro Bottaccioli, 88, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Gubbio (1989–2004).[475]
- Dan Caspi, 71, Romanian-born Israeli media theorist and academic.[476]
- İlhan Cavcav, 81, Turkish football executive, chairman of Gençlerbirliği S.K. (since 1978), brain hemorrhage.[477]
- Chen Yu-mei, 50, Taiwanese politician.[478]
- Giovanni Corrieri, 96, Italian bicycle racer.[479]
- Søren Elung Jensen, 88, Danish actor (Det støver stadig, King Lear), lung cancer.[480]
- Cristina Adela Foișor, 49, Romanian chess player, International Master.[481]
- Jean Georgakarakos, 76, French music producer.[482]
- Moshe Gershuni, 80, Israeli painter and sculptor.[483]
- Aleksander Kan, 91, Russian-born Swedish historian.[484]
- Evelyn Kawamoto, 83, American swimmer, Olympic bronze medalist (1952).[485]
- Lisbeth Korsmo, 69, Norwegian speed skater, Olympic bronze medalist (1976).[486]
- Jaki Liebezeit, 78, German drummer (Can), pneumonia.[487]
- Naqsh Lyallpuri, 88, Indian poet and songwriter.[488]
- Katharine Macmillan, Viscountess Macmillan of Ovenden, 96, British politician and aristocrat.[489]
- Andy Marte, 33, Dominican baseball player (Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians, Arizona Diamondbacks), traffic collision.[490]
- Masaya Nakamura, 91, Japanese businessman, founder of Namco.[491]
- Lev Navrozov, 88, Russian writer, historian and dissident.[492]
- Werner Nekes, 72, German film director.[493]
- Glenn D. Paige, 87, American political scientist.[494]
- Francisco Palmeiro, 84, Portuguese footballer (Benfica).[495]
- József Torgyán, 84, Hungarian politician, Minister of Agriculture (1998–2001).[496]
- Alexis S. Troubetzkoy, 82, Russian writer and educator.[497]
- Yordano Ventura, 25, Dominican baseball player (Kansas City Royals), traffic collision.[498]
- Pete Overend Watts, 69, English bass guitarist (Mott the Hoople), throat cancer.[499]
- Rudolf Wille, 79, German mathematician.[500]
23
- Volodymyr Bezkorovainy, 72, Ukrainian vice admiral, Commander of the Navy (1993–1996).[501]
- Bimba Bosé, 41, Italian-born Spanish model, designer, singer and actress (El cónsul de Sodoma), breast cancer.[502]
- Kay Cornelius, 84, American novelist.[503]
- Preben Dabelsteen, 91, Danish badminton player, Thomas Cup silver medalist (1949).[504]
- Earl Foreman, 92, American lawyer and sports executive (Washington Whips, Virginia Squires, Major Indoor Soccer League).[505]
- Bobby Freeman, 76, American singer and songwriter ("Do You Want to Dance"), heart attack.[506]
- Dmytro Grabovskyy, 31, Ukrainian bicycle racer, heart attack.[507]
- Ralph Guglielmi, 83, American football player (Washington Redskins, New York Giants).[508]
- Ted Haggis, 92, Canadian sprinter.[509]
- Mustafa Imamović, 76, Bosnian historian.[510]
- Kang Ki-sop, North Korean politician, Director of General Civil Aviation Administration (since 2010).[511] (death announced on this date)
- Leon Katz, 97, American playwright.[512]
- Gorden Kaye, 75, English actor ('Allo 'Allo!, Brazil, Coronation Street), kidney failure.[513]
- Kudditji Kngwarreye, 78, Australian Aboriginal artist.[514]
- Erland Kolding Nielsen, 70, Danish academic, Director General of the Royal Library.[515]
- Leslie Koo, 62, Taiwanese business executive (Taiwan Cement Corporation), fall.[516]
- Boško Krunić, 87, Serbian politician (League of Communists of Yugoslavia), Chairman of the Presidium (1987–1988).[517]
- Li Kwan-ha, 79, Hong Kong police officer, Commissioner of the Royal Hong Kong Police (1989–1994), fall.[518]
- Bernard Redmont, 98, American journalist.[519]
- Douglas Reeman, 92, British author.[520]
- Anatol Roshko, 93, Canadian-born American physicist and engineer.[521]
- Ruth Samuelson, 57, American politician, member of the North Carolina General Assembly (2007–2015), ovarian cancer.[522]
- David Sayer, 80, English cricketer (Kent).[523]
- Franz Schelle, 87, German Olympic bobsledder (1956, 1964).[524]
- Betty Tebbs, 98, British women's rights activist.[525]
- Andrew Telegdi, 70, Hungarian-born Canadian politician, MP for Waterloo (1993–2008).[526]
- Marvell Thomas, 75, American keyboardist.[527]
- Serhiy Tovstoplet, 79, Ukrainian Olympic swimmer (1960).[528]
- Jaroslav Vacek, 73, Czech Indologist.[529]
- Herman Vanden Berghe, 83, Belgian geneticist.[530]
- Mary Webster, 81, American actress (The Delicate Delinquent, The Tin Star, Master of the World).[531]
- G. A. Wells, 90, British professor of German.[532]
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- Dan Adamescu, 68, Romanian businessman (Unirea Shopping Center).[533]
- Fred André, 75, Dutch football player and manager (Telstar).[534]
- Ronald Kent Campbell, 82, American politician.[535]
- Chuck Canfield, 84, American businessman and politician, Mayor of Rochester, Minnesota (1996–2003).[536]
- Lualemaga Faoa, American Samoan judge and politician, Paramount Chief of Aasu, Governor of Western District (since 2013).[537]
- Robert Folsom, 89, American politician, Mayor of Dallas, Texas (1976–1981).[538]
- Helena Kmieć, 25, Polish Roman Catholic missionary.[539]
- Martin Nicholas Lohmuller, 97, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Philadelphia (1970–1994).[540]
- Manu Maniapoto, 81, New Zealand rugby union player (Bay of Plenty, Māori national team).[541]
- Porfirio Méndez, 50, Paraguayan Olympic athlete.[542]
- Gil Ray, 60, American drummer (Game Theory, The Loud Family), cancer.[543]
- Butch Trucks, 69, American drummer (The Allman Brothers Band), suicide by gunshot.[544]
- Carlos Verdejo, 82, Chilean footballer (Santiago Wanderers).[545]
- Chuck Weyant, 93, American racecar driver.[546]
- Adlyn White, 87, Jamaican religious leader.[547]
- Peter Woodman, 73, Irish archaeologist.[548]
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- Arne Asper, 93, Norwegian businessman.[549]
- William Lacy Carter, 91, American politician, member of the Tennessee House of Representatives (1970–1974).[550]
- Stephen P. Cohen, 71, Canadian academic, male breast cancer.[551]
- Ann Dandrow, 80, American politician, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives (1986–2002).[552]
- Ronnie Davis, 66, Jamaican reggae singer.[553]
- Đinh Xuân Lâm, 91, Vietnamese educator and historian.[554]
- Buchi Emecheta, 72, Nigerian novelist (The Bride Price, The Joys of Motherhood, Gwendolen).[555]
- Charles Reis Felix, 93, American writer.[556]
- Shunji Fujimura, 82, Japanese actor (Monkey, Death Note, Black Butler), heart failure.[557]
- Robert Garcia, 84, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 21st congressional district (1978–1990), emphysema-induced infection.[558]
- Kevin Geer, 64, American actor (Twelve Angry Men, The Pelican Brief, The Contender), heart attack.[559]
- Sir John Hurt, 77, British actor (Alien, The Elephant Man, Midnight Express), BAFTA winner (1979, 1981), pancreatic cancer.[560]
- Jun Izumida, 51, Japanese professional wrestler (AJPW, Pro Wrestling Noah), heart attack.[561]
- Katja of Sweden, 97, Swedish fashion designer.[562]
- Jean-Pierre Sohahong-Kombet, 81, Central African diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1981), cancer.[563]
- Nicolae Lupan, 95, Moldovan author and journalist.[564]
- Harry Mathews, 86, American novelist and poet.[565]
- Jack Mendelsohn, 90, American cartoonist and screenwriter (Yellow Submarine, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), lung cancer.[566]
- Mary Tyler Moore, 80, American actress (The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Ordinary People), 7-time Emmy winner, cardiopulmonary arrest.[567]
- Jacques Moreau, 83, French politician, MEP (1979–1984).[568]
- Siewert Öholm, 77, Swedish journalist and television presenter, liver cancer.[569]
- Arturo Pérez de Alejo Rodríguez, 66, Cuban dissident.[570]
- Mike Peyton, 96, British cartoonist.[571]
- Ivan Pritargov, 64, Bulgarian footballer (Chernomorets Burgas, CSKA Sofia, national team), stroke.[572]
- Marcel Prud'homme, 82, Canadian politician, MP (1964–1993) and Senator (1993–2009).[573]
- Sir Nigel Rodley, 75, British human rights professor and lawyer.[574]
- Raúl Valerio, 90, Mexican actor.[575]
- Margaret Wall, Baroness Wall of New Barnet, 75, British trade unionist and peer.[576]
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- Ramdas Agarwal, 79, Indian politician.[577]
- Bakhti Belaïb, 64, Algerian politician, Minister of Trade (1996–1999, and since 2015), cancer.[578]
- Anne-Marie Colchen, 91, French track and field athlete and basketball player, European high jump champion (1946) and basketball world championship bronze medalist (1953).[579]
- Saloua Raouda Choucair, 100, Lebanese painter and sculptor.[580]
- Mike Connors, 91, American actor (Mannix, The Ten Commandments, Tightrope!), leukemia.[581]
- Sir Tam Dalyell, 84, Scottish politician, MP for West Lothian (1962–1983) and Linlithgow (1983–2005), Father of the House (2001–2005).[582]
- Lindy Delapenha, 89, Jamaican football player (Middlesbrough) and sports broadcaster.[583]
- Martin Froy, 90, British painter.[584]
- Hal Geer, 100, American producer and filmmaker (Looney Tunes).[585]
- Raynald Guay, 83, Canadian politician, MP (1963–1980).[586]
- Barbara Hale, 94, American actress (Perry Mason, Airport, The Window), complications from COPD.[587]
- Barbara Howard, 96, Canadian sprinter and educator.[588]
- Montserrat Julió, 87, Spanish film and television actress (A Land for All).[589]
- Alexander Kadakin, 67, Russian diplomat, Ambassador to India (1999–2004, since 2009), heart failure.[590]
- Leonard Linkow, 90, American dentist.[591]
- Paul Lanneau, 91, Belgian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Mechelen-Brussels (1982–2002).[592]
- David Mantell, 82, English cricketer (Sussex).[593]
- Ken Mason, 97, British medical and legal scholar.[594]
- Fred Parslow, 84, Australian stage and television actor (Alvin Purple).[595]
- Mario Quintero, 93, Cuban Olympic basketball player (1948, 1952).[596]
- Luciano Ravaglia, 94, Italian engineer.[597]
- Charles Recher, 66, American artist, stroke.[598]
- David Rose, 92, British television producer (Z-Cars), founder of FilmFour.[599]
- Dame Laurie Salas, 94, New Zealand women's rights and peace activist.[600]
- Miikka Toivola, 67, Finnish footballer (HJK Helsinki, national team).[601]
- Michael Tönnies, 57, German footballer (MSV Duisburg).[602]
27
- Pierre Albertini, 75, French Olympic judoka.[603]
- Wim Anderiesen Jr., 85, Dutch footballer (Ajax).[604]
- Valery Bolotov, 46, Russian-born Ukrainian militant leader, Head of the Lugansk People's Republic (2014).[605]
- Stan Boreson, 91, American comedian and television host.[606]
- Bob Bowman, 86, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).[607]
- Henry-Louis de La Grange, 92, French musicologist, biographer of Gustav Mahler.[608]
- Gwen Gillen, 76, American sculptor, dementia.[609]
- Wanda Hjort Heger, 95, Norwegian resistance activist.[610]
- Bob Holiday, 84, American actor (It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman).[611]
- Atanas Kirov, 70, Bulgarian weightlifter, world champion (1973, 1974, 1975).[612]
- Ján Kobezda, 41, Slovak ice hockey player and coach (HK Dukla Trenčín), heart attack.[613]
- Petr Kop, 79, Czech volleyball player, Olympic silver medalist (1964).[614]
- Robert Ellis Miller, 89, American film director (Reuben, Reuben, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Any Wednesday).[615]
- Yevdokiya Pasko, 97, Russian military officer and pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union.[616]
- Brunhilde Pomsel, 106, German broadcaster and secretary to Joseph Goebbels.[617]
- Geoffrey Raisman, 77, British neuroscientist.[618]
- Tatiana Repeikina, 43, Russian footballer (Ryazan VDV, Zvezda Perm).[619]
- Emmanuelle Riva, 89, French actress (Amour, Thérèse Desqueyroux, Hiroshima mon amour), BAFTA winner (2013), cancer.[620]
- Arthur H. Rosenfeld, 90, American physicist.[621]
- Charles Shackleford, 50, American basketball player (New Jersey Nets, Philadelphia 76ers).[622]
- Billy Simpson, 87, Northern Irish footballer (Linfield, Rangers).[623]
- Gisella Sofio, 85, Italian actress (Accidents to the Taxes!!, La liceale, The Big Heart of Girls).[624]
- Betty Stanhope-Cole, 79, Canadian golfer, cancer.[625]
- Jack Thrasher, 80, American immunotoxicologist.[626]
- Frank Tidy, 84, English cinematographer (The Duellists, Under Siege, Chain Reaction), dementia.[627]
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- Kazem Afrandnia, 71, Iranian actor, stroke.[628]
- Mohammed Bello Abubakar, 93, Nigerian Muslim preacher and polygamist.[629]
- Sir Christopher Bland, 78, British-Irish businessman, Chairman of the BBC (1996–2001), and Olympic fencer, prostate cancer.[630]
- Jean Bogaerts, 92, Belgian racing cyclist.[631]
- Edgar Britt, 103, Australian jockey.[632]
- Iain D. Campbell, 53, British religious leader (Free Church of Scotland), suicide by hanging.[633]
- Renzo Canestrari, 92, Italian psychiatrist.[634]
- Alexander Chancellor, 77, British journalist (The Spectator).[635]
- Lubomír Doležel, 94, Czech literary theorist.[636]
- Sabine Eggerth, 73, German actress.[637]
- Jaakko Elo, 91, Finnish urologist.[638]
- Guitar Gable, 79, American blues musician.[639]
- Sang Chul Lee, 92, Canadian Christian minister, Moderator of the United Church of Canada (1988–1990).[640]
- Charles LeMaistre, 92, American academic administrator, Chancellor of University of Texas System (1971–1978).[641]
- Many Clouds, 9, Irish-bred British-trained racehorse, Grand National winner (2015), pulmonary haemorrhage.[642]
- John N. Mather, 74, American mathematician.[643]
- Bharati Mukherjee, 76, Indian-born American writer (Jasmine) and academic, complications from rheumatoid arthritis and takotsubo cardiomyopathy.[644]
- Sterling Newberry, 101, American inventor.[645]
- Geoff Nicholls, 68, English keyboardist (Black Sabbath, Quartz), lung cancer.[646]
- Lennart Nilsson, 94, Swedish photographer.[647]
- Anthony J. Perpich, 84, American politician, member of the Minnesota Senate (1967–1976).[648]
- Richard Portman, 82, American sound mixer (The Godfather, Star Wars, The Deer Hunter), Oscar winner (1979), complications from a fall.[649]
- Günter Ropohl, 77, German philosopher of technology.[650]
- William Schwarzer, 91, American federal judge.[651]
- Thomas Joseph Simpson, 95, Canadian World War II veteran.[652]
- Dan Spiegle, 96, American comic book artist (Hopalong Cassidy, Scooby-Doo, Jonah Hex).[653]
- John J. Stamos, 92, American judge.[654]
- Darryl Sutton, 64, Australian VFL footballer (North Melbourne), pneumonia.[655]
- Salvatore Tatarella, 69, Italian politician, MEP (1994–1999).[656]
- Alexander Tikhanovich, 64, Belarusian pop singer (Verasy).[657]
- Stuart Timmons, 60, American gay historian and activist, cardiac arrest.[658]
- Ion Ungureanu, 81, Moldovan actor (That Sweet Word: Liberty!) and politician, MP (1990–1994).[659]
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- Sir Harold Atcherley, 98, British businessman and arts administrator.[660]
- Ruslan Barburoș, 38, Moldovan footballer (Sheriff).[661]
- Oscar Bolaño, 65, Colombian footballer.[662]
- Pat Corr, 89, Northern Irish footballer.[663]
- Edmund Eiden, 95, American football player (Detroit Lions).[664]
- Willy Fossli, 85, Norwegian footballer (Asker).[665]
- Harald Friedrich, 69, German physicist.[666]
- Joop Gouweleeuw, 76, Dutch Olympic judoka (1964).[667]
- Joseph Mélèze-Modrzejewski, 86, Polish-French historian.[668]
- Howard Frank Mosher, 74, American author (Where the Rivers Flow North), cancer.[669]
- Ko Ni, 64, Burmese lawyer, shot.[670]
- Boris Nikolov, 87, Bulgarian boxer, Olympic bronze medalist (1952).[671]
- William Owens, 36, American Navy SEAL soldier, shot.[672]
- Stanislaw Padewski, 84, Polish-Ukrainian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia (2002–2009).[673]
- Leonard H. Perroots, 83, American military officer, Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (1985–1988).[674]
- Michael Rainey, 76, Australian-born British fashion designer.[675]
- Elkin Ramírez, 54, Colombian singer-songwriter (Kraken), brain cancer.[676]
- Mario Reading, 63, British writer and translator, cancer.[677]
- Olav Smidsrød, 80, Norwegian biochemist.[678]
- Elliot Sperling, 66, American historian.[679]
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- Dore Ashton, 89, American writer and critic.[680]
- Marta Becket, 92, American dancer.[681]
- Winnett Boyd, 100, Canadian engineer.[682]
- Don Coleman, 88, American football player (Michigan State).[683]
- Carmen Contreras Bozak, 97, American World War II veteran, first Puerto Rican woman to serve in the Women's Army Corps.[684]
- Eiður Svanberg Guðnason, 77, Icelandic politician and diplomat, Ambassador to Australia (2003–2007).[685]
- Walter Hautzig, 95, Austrian-born American pianist.[686]
- Gilbert Henderson, 90, Canadian Olympic sports shooter (1960).[687]
- Doris Lockness, 106, American aviation pioneer.[688]
- Aito Mäkinen, 90, Finnish film director (Onnelliset leikit).[689]
- Mario R. Ramil, 70, Filipino-born American justice, Associate Justice of the Hawaii State Supreme Court (1993–2002), cancer.[690]
- Cesar C. Raval, 92, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bangued (1988–1992).[691]
- Harold Rosen, 90, American electrical engineer, complications from a stroke.[692]
- Johnny Wahlqvist, 43, Swedish powerlifter, heart illness.[693]
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- Konstantin Arsenović, 76, Serbian politician and military official.[694]
- Thomas Barlow, 76, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kentucky's 1st congressional district (1993–1995).[695]
- Grethe Bartram, 92, Danish war criminal.[696]
- John Beasley, 86, Australian racing cyclist.[697]
- Matilde Capuis, 104, Italian organist, pianist and composer.[698]
- Trice Harvey, 80, American politician, member of the California State Assembly (1986–1996), injuries sustained in a fall.[699]
- Kang Bong-kyun, 74, South Korean politician, Minister of Finance (1999–2000).[700]
- Deke Leonard, 72, Welsh rock guitarist (Man).[701]
- Paul McBlane, 53, Australian rugby league referee, heart attack.[702]
- Jim Mitchener, 87, Canadian football player.[703]
- Frank Pellegrino, 72, American actor (Goodfellas, The Sopranos) and restaurateur (Rao's), lung cancer.[704]
- Annie Saumont, 89, French author and translator.[705]
- John Schroeder, 82, British composer, songwriter and record producer (Helen Shapiro, Sounds Orchestral, Status Quo).[706]
- David Shepard, 76, American film preservationist.[707]
- Rob Stewart, 37, Canadian filmmaker (Sharkwater), drowned.[708]
- Bobby Watson, 86, American basketball player (Kentucky Wildcats, Minneapolis Lakers, Milwaukee Hawks).[709]
- John Wetton, 67, British singer-songwriter ("Only Time Will Tell", "Heat of the Moment") and bass guitarist (Asia, King Crimson), colorectal cancer.[710]
- Tokitenkū Yoshiaki, 37, Mongolian sumo wrestler, lymphoma.[711]
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