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Deaths in September 2015
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The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2015.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.
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September 2015
1
- Bouteldja Belkacem, 68, Algerian singer and composer.[1]
- Frank Brennan, 67, Irish economist.[2]
- Boomer Castleman, 70, American singer-songwriter and guitarist, inventor of the palm pedal, cancer.[3]
- Dot Coleman, 79, New Zealand fencer.[4]
- Gurgen Dalibaltayan, 89, Armenian colonel-general.[5]
- Eric H. Davidson, 78, American biologist, heart attack.[6]
- Antonio Deinde Fernandez, 79, Nigerian diplomat.[7]
- Izet Haračić, 50, Serbian Olympic bobsledder.[8]
- Richard G. Hewlett, 92, American public historian.[9]
- Don Holder, 86, American Olympic gymnast.[10]
- Dean Jones, 84, American actor (The Love Bug, Company, Beethoven), Parkinson's disease.[11]
- Ben Kuroki, 98, American bomber crewman.[12]
- Jiří Louda, 94, Czech heraldist, designer of the current Coat of arms of the Czech Republic.[13]
- Hanna Mierzejewska, 65, Polish politician.[14]
- Takuma Nakahira, 77, Japanese photographer.[15]
- Antonio Nirta, 96, Italian organized crime boss ('Ndrangheta San Luca).[16]
- Abdul Hafeez Pirzada, 80, Pakistani politician and lawyer.[17]
- William B. Provine, 73, American science historian, brain tumor.[18]
- Robert Ravenstahl, 90, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1975–1978).[19]
- Aleksandar Stipčević, 84, Croatian historian of the Illyrians.[20]
- Jacek Wierzchowiecki, 71, Polish Olympic equestrian.[21]
2
- John E. Boland, 78, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives (1971–1973).[22]
- Suheil Bushrui, 85, Lebanese academic.[23]
- Lindsay Collins, 71, Australian marine geologist.[24]
- Avinash Deobhakta, 78, Indian-born New Zealand jurist.[25]
- Boudjemaâ El Ankis, 88, Algerian musician.[26]
- Ephraim Engleman, 104, American rheumatologist.[27]
- Henry Gleitman, 90, German-born American psychologist.[28]
- Charles Gyamfi, 85, Ghanaian football player (Fortuna Düsseldorf) and coach (national team).[29]
- Stan Kane, 86, Scottish actor (Storm).[30]
- Piero Livi, 90, Italian film director.[31]
- Aleksander Mandziara, 75, Polish football player and coach.[32]
- Stewart McCrae, 85, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta (1973–1982).[33]
- Manos Nathan, 67, New Zealand artist, leukaemia.[34]
- Giuseppe Petitto, 46, Italian film director.[35]
- Brianna Lea Pruett, 32, American singer and songwriter, suicide.[36]
- Tessa Ransford, 77, Scottish poet, cancer.[37]
- William Arbuckle Reid, 82, British curriculum theorist.[38]
- Simo Salminen, 82, Finnish comic actor.[39]
3
- Wayne D. Bennett, 87, American politician, member of the Iowa House of Representatives (1973–1993) and Senate (1993–1997).[40]
- Gabrielle Burton, 76, American novelist, pancreatic cancer.[41]
- Sir Adrian Cadbury, 86, British businessman and rower, chairman of Cadbury.[42]
- Judy Carne, 76, British actress and comedian (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In), pneumonia.[43]
- Robert Commanday, 93, American music critic.[44]
- Stanton R. Cook, 90, American chief executive (Chicago Tribune).[45]
- Chandra Bahadur Dangi, 75, Nepalese primordial dwarf, shortest man in recorded history, pneumonia.[46]
- Harold Drasdo, 85, English rock climber and writer.[47]
- Dan Eley, 100, British chemist (Eley-Rideal mechanism).[48]
- Claude Flahault, 92, French Olympic sailor.[49]
- Giltedge, 29, Irish-born American eventing horse.[50]
- Leon Gorman, 80, American businessman, President (1967–2001) and chairman (2001–2013) of L.L.Bean, cancer.[51]
- William H. Grier, 89, American psychiatrist and author (Black Rage), complications from prostate cancer and a brain lesion.[52]
- Ken Horne, 89, English footballer (Brentford).[53]
- Carter Lay, 44, American businessman and philanthropist, heir to Frito-Lay.[54]
- Leland McPhie, 101, American masters athlete.[55]
- John Noah, 87, American ice hockey player, Olympic silver medalist (1952), Alzheimer's disease.[56]
- Jean-Luc Préel, 74, French politician, member of the French National Assembly for Vendée (1988–2012).[57]
- Andrew Sibley, 81, Australian painter.[58]
- Daniel Thompson, 94, Canadian-born American inventor, creator of the automatic bagel maker and the folding ping pong table.[59]
- Yevgeny Ukhnalyov, 83, Russian artist, co-creator of the current coat of arms of Russia.[60]
- John Waller, 91, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Stafford (1979–1987).[61]
- Binny Yanga, 57, Indian social worker and activist.[62]
- Zhang Zhen, 100, Chinese general.[63]
4
- Geoffrey Bolton, 83, Australian historian.[64]
- Graham Brazier, 63, New Zealand musician and songwriter (Hello Sailor), heart attack.[65]
- Antonio Ciciliano, 82, Italian sailor, Olympic bronze medalist (1960).[66]
- Frédéric Comte, 39, French rally driver, car crash.[67]
- Jean Darling, 93, American silent film actress (Our Gang), radio personality and author.[68]
- Piers Maxwell Dudley-Bateman, 67, Australian landscape painter, boating accident.[69]
- Eldon Johnson, 85, American politician, member of the Oregon House of Representatives (1977–1999), stroke.[70]
- Sylvie Joly, 80, French actress and comedian (Going Places, Get Out Your Handkerchiefs), heart attack.[71]
- Rainer Kirsch, 81, German author and poet.[72]
- Max Kruse, 93, German novelist.[73]
- Sara Little Turnbull, 97, American product designer.[74]
- Claus Moser, Baron Moser, 92, German-born British statistician, stroke.[75]
- Warren Murphy, 81, American author (The Destroyer) and screenwriter (Lethal Weapon 2, The Eiger Sanction).[76]
- Rico Rodriguez, 80, Cuban-born British trombonist (The Specials).[77]
- Joel Rufino dos Santos, 74, Brazilian historian and writer.[78]
- Wilfred de Souza, 88, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Goa (1993–1994, 1998).[79]
- Egon Sundberg, 104, Swedish footballer.[80]
- Andrzej Szal, 73, Polish Olympic ice hockey player.[81]
- Duane Weiman, 69, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan (1982–1986).[82]
- Hal Willis, 82, Canadian country singer (The Lumberjack).[83]
- Jonathan Woolf, 54, British architect.[84]
- Cyril Zuma, 30, South African footballer, traffic collision.[85]
5
- Ilja Bergh, 88, Danish pianist and composer.[86]
- Chen Sho Fa, 86-87, Singaporean Olympic basketball player.[87]
- Antonio Dalmonte, 96, Italian footballer (Juventus FC, Atalanta B.C.).[88]
- Avery Dennis Sr., 86, American tribal politician and substance abuse counselor, Trustee of the Shinnecock Indian Nation.[89]
- Gene Elston, 93, American Major League Baseball broadcaster (Houston Astros).[90]
- Goh Eng Wah, 92, Malaysian-born Singaporean film distributor.[91]
- Denny Greene, 66, American singer (Sha Na Na), actor, movie studio executive and law professor, esophageal cancer.[92]
- Peter D. Hannaford, 82, American public relations consultant.[93]
- Setsuko Hara, 95, Japanese actress, pneumonia.[94]
- Jacques Israelievitch, 67, French-born Canadian violinist.[95]
- Yotaro Kobayashi, 82, English-born Japanese businessman (Fuji Xerox), chronic empyema.[96]
- Cody Ledbetter, 42, American football player (Hamilton Tiger-Cats, Edmonton Eskimos), suicide by hanging.[97]
- Alacid Nunes, 90, Brazilian politician, Governor of Pará (1966–1971, 1979–1983).[98]
- Norman Oakes, 89, Australian public servant.[99]
- Richard Pacheco, 90, American politician.[100]
- Aadesh Shrivastava, 51, Indian composer and singer, cancer.[101]
- Alan Steel, 79, Italian bodybuilder and actor (Samson, The Rebel Gladiators, Hercules Against the Moon Men).[102]
- Chester Stranczek, 85, American politician, Mayor of Crestwood, Illinois (1969–2007).[103]
- Fagaoalii Satele Sunia, 69, American Samoan literacy advocate, First Lady (1997–2003), stroke.[104]
- Peter Alfred Sutton, 80, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Keewatin–Le Pas (1986–2006).[105]
- RO Tambunan, 80, Indonesian lawyer.[106]
- Patricia Canning Todd, 93, American tennis player.[107]
- Ivan Voshchyna, 57, Ukrainian drummer.[108]
6
- John O. Almquist, 94, American scientist.[109]
- Beverly Daggett, 69, American politician, member (1996–2004) and President (2003–2004) of the Maine Senate, polycystic kidney disease.[110]
- Vincenzo Dall'Osso, 86, Italian boxer.[111]
- Bastien Damiens, 20, French canoeist, European kayaking champion (2012), fall.[112]
- Richard E. Flathman, 81, American political theorist.[113]
- R. Hollis Gause, 90, American theologian.[114]
- Åke Hansson, 88, Swedish footballer (Malmö FF).[115]
- Jack Linn, 48, American football player (Detroit Lions), motorcycle accident.[116]
- Thor-Erik Lundby, 78, Norwegian Olympic ice hockey player (1964).[117]
- Herbert Mayr, 72, Italian politician.[118]
- Ralph Milne, 54, Scottish footballer (Dundee United, Manchester United), liver disease.[119]
- Martin Milner, 83, American actor (Adam-12, Route 66, Sweet Smell of Success), heart failure.[120]
- Harald Norbelie, 70, Swedish writer and journalist, prostate cancer.[121]
- Fred Ohr, 96, American World War II flying ace.[122]
- Nelson Peery, 92, American political activist and author.[123]
- John Perreault, 78, American art critic and poet, complications from gastrointestinal surgery.[124]
- Allen Roberts, 92, New Zealand cricketer.[125]
- Barney Schultz, 89, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals).[126]
- Muhammad Shah Rukh, 88, Pakistani Olympic field hockey player (1948) and cyclist (1956).[127]
- Gaylord Shaw, 73, American journalist.[128]
- Calvin J. Spann, 90, American fighter pilot (Tuskegee Airmen).[129]
- Vladislav Timakov, 22, Russian water polo player, heart attack.[130]
- Peter Walker, 65, British Royal Air Force officer, Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey (since 2011).[131]
- Petraq Zoto, 77, Albanian writer.[132]
7
- Susan Allen, 64, American harpist, brain cancer.[133]
- Elena Arnedo, 74, Spanish gynecologist, writer and women's rights activist.[134]
- Cor Edskes, 90, Dutch organ builder and restorer.[135]
- Jorge Alberto Garramuño, 61, Argentine politician, Senator (since 2013).[136]
- Leon Gordis, 81, American epidemiologist.[137]
- George Guida, 93, American Olympic sprinter (1948).[138]
- Alan Heflin, 75, American politician.[139]
- Jane Hill, 79, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Frankston (1982–1985) and Frankston North (1985–1992).[140]
- Dickie Moore, 89, American child actor (Our Gang, Sergeant York, Oliver Twist).[141]
- Sigifredo Nájera Talamantes, Mexican drug cartel leader (Los Zetas), heart attack.[142]
- Candida Royalle, 64, American Hall of Fame pornographic actress, producer and director, ovarian cancer.[143]
- Guillermo Rubalcaba, 88, Cuban pianist, bandleader and composer.[144]
- José María Ruiz-Mateos, 84, Spanish businessman and politician.[145]
- Rebecca Shaw, 83, English author, stroke.[146]
- Sowkoor Jayaprakash Shetty, 80, Indian politician.[147]
- Leonard Silverman, 84, American politician and judge.[148]
- Henry Stallings II, 64, American politician.[149]
- Josef Sterff, 80, German Olympic bobsledder.[150]
- Turdakun Usubaliev, 95, Kyrgyz Soviet politician.[151]
- Mitrasen Yadav, 81, Indian politician, convicted embezzler and pardoned double murderer.[152]
- Voula Zouboulaki, 90, Egyptian-born Greek actress.[153]
8
- Merv Adelson, 85, American television producer, cancer.[154]
- Habil Aliyev, 88, Azerbaijani musician, heart and lung failure.[155]
- Joaquín Andújar, 62, Dominican baseball player (Houston Astros, St. Louis Cardinals), complications from diabetes.[156]
- Ron Beagle, 81, American football player.[157]
- Erlinda Cortes, 91, Filipino actress.[158]
- Willi Fuggerer, 73, German track cyclist, Olympic bronze medalist (1964).[159]
- Ebby Halliday, 104, American realtor and businesswoman.[160]
- Teri Harangozó, 72, Hungarian singer.[161]
- Basil H. Johnston, 86, Canadian writer.[162]
- Ferenc Kiss, 73, Hungarian wrestler, Olympic bronze medalist (1972).[163]
- Andrew Kohut, 73, American political scientist, leukemia.[164]
- Bettina Le Beau, 83, Belgian-born British actress (Dr. No).[165]
- Peeter Luksep, 60, Swedish politician, MP (1991–1994).[166]
- Tyler Sash, 27, American football player (New York Giants), accidental drug overdose.[167]
- Carlo Schäfer, 51, German author.[168]
- Miroslav Josić Višnjić, 69, Serbian writer.[169]
- Smokey Wilson, 79, American blues guitarist.[170]
- Robert Wylie, 67, New Zealand cricketer.[171]
- Joost Zwagerman, 51, Dutch author, suicide.[172]
9
- John Allen, 83, British Anglican priest, Provost of Wakefield (1982–1997).[173]
- Annemarie Bostroem, 93, German writer.[174]
- Lane Bray, 86, American politician, member of the Washington House of Representatives (1991–1995).[175]
- Dan S. Budd, 88, American politician.[176]
- Gabriel Fragnière, 81, Swiss academic.[177]
- Sally Ann Freedman, 75, American beauty queen and model.[178]
- Green Desert, 32, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.[179]
- Charles Hallac, 50, American businessman (BlackRock), colorectal cancer.[180]
- Harold Hardison, 92, American politician.[181]
- Leinaʻala Kalama Heine, 75, American hula dancer.[182]
- Margaret Henry, 81, Australian community activist and politician.[183]
- Dorothy Hey, 83-84, British Olympic gymnast.[184]
- Einar H. Ingman Jr., 85, American Army Medal of Honor recipient (Korean War).[185]
- Bob Jewett, 80, American football player (Toronto Argonauts, Chicago Bears).[186]
- K. Kunaratnam, 81, Sri Lankan academic.[187]
- Fernando Di Laura Frattura, 83, Italian politician, President of Molise (1988–1990), member of the Chamber of Deputies (1992–1994).[188]
- John Pratt-Johnson, 86, Canadian opthamologist.[189]
- Jørgen Sonne, 89, Danish writer.[190]
10
- Philip Amm, 51, South African cricketer.[191]
- John Connell, 91, American actor (Young Doctor Malone, Fail Safe, Family Business).[192]
- Norman Farberow, 97, American psychologist, pioneer of suicidology.[193]
- Adrian Frutiger, 87, Swiss type designer.[194]
- José María Gamazo, 86, Spanish politician.[195]
- Ihab Hassan, 89, Egyptian-born American literary theorist.[196]
- Franco Interlenghi, 83, Italian actor (I Vitelloni, I Vinti).[197]
- Kärt Jänes-Kapp, 55, Estonian journalist and editor.[198]
- Antoine Lahad, 88, Lebanese military officer, leader of South Lebanon Army (1984–2000), heart attack.[199]
- Bengt Nyholm, 85, Swedish footballer.[200]
- Jack Pancott, 82, British Olympic gymnast.[201]
- Radim Palouš, 90, Czech dissident.[202]
- James E. Proctor Jr., 79, American politician, member of the Maryland House of Delegates (since 1990).[203]
- Alberto Schommer, 87, Spanish photographer.[204]
- Colleen Waata Urlich, 75, New Zealand ceramicist.[205]
- Gert Wilden, 98, German film composer.[206]
11
- Hugh Brown Campbell Jr., 78, American judge and politician.[207]
- Rezo Cheishvili, 82, Georgian writer.[208]
- Bárbara Gil, 85, Mexican actress (Seven Women).[209]
- Vernon Hauser, 87, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Council (1970–1982).[210]
- Fred Lucas, 81, English cricketer.[211]
- Roy Marble, 48, American basketball player (Iowa Hawkeyes, Atlanta Hawks, Denver Nuggets), lung cancer.[212]
- Marcelo Moren Brito, 80, Chilean agent of Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional, head of Villa Grimaldi, convicted of crimes against humanity (Caravan of Death), multisystem failure.[213]
- Knut Næss, 88, Norwegian football player and coach (Rosenborg BK).[214]
- Jaswant Singh Neki, 90, Indian academic and poet.[215]
- Lawrence S. Phillips, 88, American philanthropist.[216]
- Alan Purwin, 53, American helicopter pilot and aerial film operator (Transformers, Star Trek, Jurassic World), plane crash.[217]
- Kerry Simon, 60, American chef, multiple system atrophy.[218]
- Ray Smolover, 94, American opera director and hazzan.[219]
- Bruno Stutz, 77, Swiss clown.[220]
12
- Deborah Asnis, 59, American infectious disease specialist, discovered the first cases of West Nile virus in the United States, breast cancer.[221]
- Max Beauvoir, 79, Haitian houngan and biochemist.[222]
- William J. Becker, 88, American theater critic and film distributor (Janus Films), complications of kidney failure.[223]
- Melvin Bernhardt, 84, American theater director, fall.[224]
- Bartl Brötzner, 87, Austrian Olympic wrestler.[225]
- Claudio Candotti, 72, Italian Olympic field hockey player.[226]
- Claudia Card, 74, American philosopher, lung cancer.[227]
- Arrigo Delladio, 86, Italian Olympic cross-country skier (1952).[228]
- Valentin Dzhonev, 63, Bulgarian Olympic athlete.[229]
- John Emerton, 87, British Hebraist, Regius Professor of Hebrew at Cambridge University (1968–1995).[230]
- Frank D. Gilroy, 89, American playwright and screenwriter.[231]
- Malcolm Graham, 81, English footballer (Barnsley, Leyton Orient, Queens Park Rangers).[232]
- Kenneth Leech, 76, British Anglican priest and theologian, founded Centrepoint.[233]
- Maciek Malish, 53, Polish-born American sound editor (The X-Files, Lost, Starship Troopers), traffic collision.[234]
- Bill H. McAfee, 84, American radio (WCGA) and TV (WTVC) broadcaster and politician, member of the Tennessee House of Representatives (1976–2000).[235]
- Bryn Merrick, 56, Welsh bassist (The Damned), cancer.[236]
- Al Monchak, 98, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies) and coach (Pittsburgh Pirates).[237]
- Aronda Nyakairima, 56, Ugandan army officer and politician, Chief of Defence Forces (2003–2013), Minister of Internal Affairs (since 2013), heart attack.[238]
- Neil Rosendorff, 70, South African cricketer.[239]
- Salvo, 68, Italian artist.[240]
- Bernard Secly, 84, French horse trainer.[241]
- Ron Springett, 80, English footballer (Sheffield Wednesday).[242]
- Howard J. Wiarda, 75, American academic.[243]
- Zhang Xu, 101, Chinese telecommunications engineer.[244]
13
- Sir Jim Belich, 88, New Zealand politician, Mayor of Wellington (1986–1992).[245]
- Erma Bergmann, 91, American baseball player (AAGPBL) (1946–1951).[246]
- Brown Panther, 7, British Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized after race injury.[247]
- Brian Close, 84, English cricketer (Yorkshire, Somerset, England).[248]
- Georges de Paris, 81, French-born American tailor.[249]
- Stanley Hoffmann, 86, Austrian-born French scholar.[250]
- Jane Jacobs, 91, American baseball player (AAGPBL).[251]
- Howie Johnson, 90, American golf player.[252]
- Betty Judge, 94, Australian runner and coach.[253]
- Betty Lago, 60, Brazilian actress, gallbladder cancer.[254]
- Moses Malone, 60, American Hall of Fame basketball player (Philadelphia 76ers, Houston Rockets), atherosclerosis.[255]
- Barrie Meyer, 83, English footballer (Bristol Rovers, Bristol City, Plymouth Argyle), cricket player (Gloucestershire) and umpire.[256]
- Raymond Mould, 74, British property developer and racehorse owner.[257]
- Ian Payne, 65, South African cricketer.[258]
- Gord Pennell, 86, Canadian ice hockey player (Buffalo Bisons).[259]
- Jay Scott Pike, 91, American cartoonist and illustrator.[260]
- Gary Richrath, 65, American guitarist and songwriter (REO Speedwagon).[261]
- Kalamandalam Satyabhama, 77, Indian dancer.[262]
- Carl Emil Schorske, 100, American cultural historian, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction (1981).[263]
- Ted Smith, 95, British nature conservationist.[264]
- Paul Takagi, 92, American sociologist and criminologist.[265]
- Vivinho, 54, Brazilian footballer (Vasco).[266]
14
- Davey Browne, 28, Australian boxer, head injuries sustained in a bout.[267]
- Fred DeLuca, 67, American businessman, co-founder of Subway, leukemia.[268]
- Emile Fritz, 95, American football player.[269]
- Bill Golden, 81, American drag racer.[270]
- Indika Gunawardena, 72, Sri Lankan politician, Minister of Higher Education.[271]
- Martin Kearns, 38, British drummer (Bolt Thrower).[272]
- Bob Ledger, 77, English footballer (Huddersfield Town, Oldham Athletic, Mansfield Town).[273]
- Steve Meilinger, 84, American football player (Washington Redskins, Green Bay Packers, Pittsburgh Steelers).[274]
- Joyce Messenger, 84, American baseball player (Grand Rapids Chicks).[275]
- György Mészáros, 82, Hungarian sprint canoeist, Olympic silver medalist (1960).[276]
- Mile Novaković, 65, Serbian major general, Commander of the Republic of Serbian Krajina Army (1992–1994).[277]
- Hugh O'Neil, 79, Canadian politician, MPP of Ontario (1975–1995).[278]
- Ceferino Peroné, 90, Argentine Olympic cyclist.[279]
- Adam Purple, 84, American environmental activist, heart attack.[280]
- Dennis Rampling, 91, English footballer (Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic).[281]
- Willy O. Rossel, 94, Swiss-born American chef.[282]
- Paweł Sobek, 85, Polish international footballer.[283]
- Keith Remfry, 67, British judoka, Olympic silver medallist (1976).[284]
- Corneliu Vadim Tudor, 65, Romanian politician, Member of the European Parliament (2009–2014), journalist and editor (România Liberă, AGERPRES), heart attack.[285]
- Ben Vidricksen, 88, American politician.[286]
- Ali Wardhana, 87, Indonesian economist, Minister of Finance (1966–1983), Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs (1983–1988).[287]
15
- Johnny "Yard Dog" Jones, 74, American blues singer.[288]
- Harry J. Lipkin, 94, Israeli nuclear physicist.[289]
- Cor Melchers, 61, Dutch painter, legionnaires' disease.[290]
- José María Ortiz de Mendíbil, 89, Spanish football referee.[291]
- Meir Pa'il, 89, Israeli politician and military historian, member of the Knesset (1974–1980), complications from Alzheimer's disease.[292]
- Tomas Pontén, 69, Swedish actor and director.[293]
- Tommy Thompson, 86, English footballer (Aston Villa, Preston North End).[294]
- Ian Uttley, 73, New Zealand rugby union player (Auckland, Wellington, Hawke's Bay, national team), traffic collision.[295]
- Bernard Van de Kerckhove, 74, Belgian racing cyclist.[296]
- Mihai Volontir, 81, Moldovan actor (In the Zone of Special Attention).[297]
- Randy Wiles, 64, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox), cancer.[298]
- Malcolm J. Williamson, 64, British mathematician and cryptographer, cancer.[299]
16
- Christophe Agou, 46, French photographer, cancer.[300]
- David Ashby, 65, British motorcycle speedway rider, cancer.[301]
- Guy Béart, 85, French singer-songwriter, heart attack.[302]
- Julio Brady, 73, U.S. Virgin Islander judge and politician, Lieutenant Governor (1983–1987).[303]
- Bob Cleary, 79, American ice hockey player, Olympic gold medalist (1960).[304]
- David Cook, 74, British broadcaster and writer.[305]
- Clóvis Fernandes, 60, Brazilian football fan, cancer.[306]
- Overton James, 90, American educator and politician, Governor of the Chickasaw Nation (1963–1987).[307]
- Peggy Jones, 75, American guitarist (Bo Diddley).[308]
- Abolghasem Khazali, 90, Iranian politician and Shi'i ayatollah, co-author of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran.[309]
- Robert Kilpatrick, Baron Kilpatrick of Kincraig, 89, Scottish physician and life peer.[310]
- Emma Wong Mar, 89, American political activist.[311]
- Terry McCavana, 93, Northern Irish footballer.[312]
- Ossi Mildh, 85, Finnish Olympic hurdler (1952), (1956).[313]
- Peter Molan, 71, Welsh-born New Zealand biochemist, cancer.[314]
- Anthony Kevin Morais, 55, Malaysian public prosecutor, homicide.[315]
- W. H. Oliver, 90, New Zealand historian and poet.[316]
- Kurt Oppelt, 83, Austrian figure skater, Olympic champion (1956).[317]
- Niall O'Shaughnessy, 59, Irish Olympic middle distance runner (1976), brain cancer.[318]
- Joe Morrone, 79, American soccer coach (Connecticut Huskies).[319]
- Helder Torres, 40, Guatemalan Olympic swimmer.[320]
- Ton van de Ven, 71, Dutch industrial designer.[321]
- Allan Wright, 95, British World War II flying ace.[322]
17
- Ingrīda Andriņa, 71, Latvian stage and film actress.[323]
- Peter Barrable, 72, South African cricketer.[324]
- Stojan Batič, 90, Slovene sculptor.[325]
- Valeria Cappellotto, 45, Italian Olympic racing cyclist (1992, 2000).[326]
- Tom Cichowski, 71, American football player (Denver Broncos).[327]
- Eddie Connolly, 29, Irish hurler (Tipperary), brain cancer.[328]
- Dettmar Cramer, 90, German football manager (Bayern Munich).[329]
- Bobby Etheridge, 73, American baseball player (San Francisco Giants).[330]
- Milo Hamilton, 88, American Hall of Fame sportscaster (Houston Astros).[331]
- Sir Peter Heatly, 91, Scottish Olympic diver (1948, 1952), chairman of the Commonwealth Games Federation.[332]
- Danilo Jovanovitch, 96, Australian poet and actor.[333]
- Vadim Kuzmin, 78, Russian theoretical physicist.[334]
- Joe Maiden, 74, British horticulturist, prostate cancer.[335]
- Carlos Manga, 87, Brazilian film director.[336]
- D. M. Marshman Jr., 92, American screenwriter (Sunset Boulevard).[337]
- Bal Pandit, 86, Indian cricket player, writer and commentator.[338]
- Everett Parker, 102, American civil rights activist.[339]
- Mikhail Remizov, 66, Russian actor.
- Nelo Risi, 95, Italian poet and film director (A Season in Hell).[340]
- Bruno Tommasi, 85, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Lucca (1991–2005).[341]
- Sir David Willcocks, 95, British choirmaster, director of music at Choir of King's College, Cambridge.[342]
- Eraclio Zepeda, 78, Mexican author and politician.[343]
18
- Nancy Bernstein, 55, American visual effects and film producer (The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, X-Men, Rise of the Guardians), colorectal cancer.[344]
- Eduardo Bonvallet, 60, Chilean footballer (Universidad de Chile, national team) and commentator, suicide by hanging.[345]
- James R. Houck, 74, American astrophysicist.[346]
- John A. Jane, 84, American neurosurgeon.[347]
- Holger Karlsson, 80, Swedish Olympic ski jumper.[348]
- Moe Mantha Sr., 81, Canadian ice hockey player and politician, MP (1984–1988).[349]
- Mario Menéndez, 85, Argentine military officer, Military Governor of the Falkland Islands (1982).[350]
- William E. Paul, 79, American immunologist and AIDS researcher, acute myeloid leukemia.[351]
- Jim Ross, 87, Australian football player (St Kilda).[352]
- Czesław Ryll-Nardzewski, 88, Polish mathematician.[353]
- Freddy Ternero, 53, Peruvian football player and manager, kidney cancer.[354]
- Anthony C. Winkler, 73, Jamaican novelist and screenwriter (The Annihilation of Fish).[355]
- Marcin Wrona, 42, Polish film and television director (Demon, Medics), suicide by hanging.[356]
19
- Rashid bin Mohammed Al Maktoum, 33, Emirati prince, businessman and endurance runner, heart attack.[357]
- Hannah Idowu Dideolu Awolowo, 99, Nigerian businesswoman and politician.[358]
- Enrique Ballesté, 68, Mexican theatre director.[359]
- James Rodger Brandon, 88, American academic.[360]
- Jake Brewer, 34, American political aide, traffic collision.[361]
- Mishael Cheshin, 79, Israeli judge, member of the Supreme Court (1992–2006), cancer.[362]
- Jackie Collins, 77, British-American novelist, breast cancer.[363]
- Georg Eder, 87, Austrian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Salzburg (1989–2002).[364]
- Todd Ewen, 49, Canadian ice hockey player (St. Louis Blues, Montreal Canadiens, Mighty Ducks of Anaheim), suicide by gunshot.[365]
- Miki Gorman, 80, Japanese-born American marathon runner, cancer.[366]
- Sadhan Gupta, 97, Indian lawyer and politician.[367]
- Joseph C. Johnston, 76, American politician.[368]
- Ismael Kiram II, 76, Philippine sultan, Regent of Sulu (since 2001), kidney failure.[369]
- Bill Larson, 77, American football player (Boston Patriots).[370]
- Alan Magill, 61, American medical researcher.[371]
- Winton W. Marshall, 96, American air force lieutenant general.[372]
- Eugenio Mayer, 75, Italian Olympic skier.[373]
- Hiroshi Motoyama, 89, Japanese parapsychologist.[374]
- Brian Sewell, 84, British art critic.[375]
- Masajuro Shiokawa, 93, Japanese politician, Minister of Finance (2001–2003), pneumonia.[376]
- Herschel Silverman, 89, American Beat poet.[377]
- Marie Tulip, 80, Australian feminist writer and academic.[378]
- Walter Young, 35, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles), heart attack.[379]
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- Carmen Balcells, 85, Spanish literary agent.[380]
- Murdoch Burnett, 61, Canadian poet.[381]
- Dorothy Butler, 90, New Zealand children's author, bookseller and reading advocate.[382]
- Mario Caiano, 82, Italian film director (My Name Is Shanghai Joe, The Terror of Rome Against the Son of Hercules).[383]
- Jagmohan Dalmiya, 75, Indian cricket official, President of International Cricket Council (1997–2000) and Board of Control for Cricket in India (2001–2004), cardiac arrest.[384]
- Giovanni De Vivo, 75, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Pescia (since 1993).[385]
- Siegfried Gottwald, 72, German mathematician.[386]
- Joseph Iannuzzi, 84, American mobster and FBI informant, bone cancer.[387]
- Jack Larson, 87, American playwright and actor (Adventures of Superman).[388]
- Geoffrey Lilley, 95, British aeronautical scientist.[389]
- John Parker, 6th Earl of Morley, 92, British aristocrat, Lord Lieutenant of Devon (1982–1998).[390]
- Richard Riendeau, 82, American football player and coach.[391]
- Franz Surges, 57, German composer and musician.[392]
- Radhika Thilak, 45, Indian singer, cancer.[393]
- C. K. Williams, 78, American poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (2000), multiple myeloma.[394]
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- Ben Cauley, 67, American trumpet player and singer (The Bar-Kays).[395]
- Juliet Clutton-Brock, 82, English zooarchaeologist.[396]
- Honey Lee Cottrell, 68, American photographer and filmmaker.[397]
- N. Patrick Crooks, 77, American judge, Wisconsin Supreme Court justice (since 1996).[398]
- Victor Démé, 53, Burkinabe singer-songwriter, malaria.[399]
- Ivan Dvorny, 63, Russian basketball player, Olympic champion (1972), lung cancer.[400]
- Abdulcadir Gabeire Farah, 59–60, Somali-born Polish social activist and historian, candidate for President of Somalia in 2016, bombing.[401]
- Raphael Michael Fliss, 84, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Superior (1985–2007).[402]
- Esther Golar, 71, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives (since 2006), cancer.[403]
- Yoram Gross, 88, Polish-born Australian animation producer and director (The Adventures of Blinky Bill).[404]
- Vasily Ilyin, 66, Russian Soviet handball player, Olympic champion (1976).[405]
- Kenneth L. Johnson, 90, British engineer.[406]
- Charles Kellogg, 75, American Olympic skier.[407]
- Armen Movsisyan, 53, Armenian politician, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources (2001–2014), cancer.[408]
- Costas Papacostas, 75, Cypriot politician, Minister of Defence (2008–2011).[409]
- Leon Root, 86, American orthopedic surgeon and author, complications of a low blood count.[410]
- Robert E. Simon, 101, American real estate entrepreneur.[411]
- Ray Warleigh, 76, Australian-born British saxophonist and flautist, cancer.[412]
- Richard Williamson, 74, American football player (Alabama Crimson Tide) and coach (Kansas City Chiefs, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Carolina Panthers).[413]
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- Yogi Berra, 90, American Hall of Fame baseball player and manager (New York Yankees, New York Mets), member of 13 World Series championship teams.[414]
- Granger Cobb, 55, American retirement community executive, cancer.[415]
- Richard Dickson Cudahy, 89, American federal judge.[416]
- Edmund Fantino, 76, American neuroscientist, prostate cancer.[417]
- Elizabeth Fink, 70, American defense attorney.[418]
- Nana Gichuru, 28, Kenyan actress, traffic collision.[419]
- George H. Goodrich, 90, American judge and attorney.[420]
- Asako Kishi, 91, Japanese cookery journalist.[421]
- Joe LeSage, 86, American politician.[422]
- Gerard Mach, 89, Polish Olympic sprinter.[423]
- John J. McNeill, 90, American Jesuit priest and gay rights activist.[424]
- Ali Salem, 79, Egyptian writer.[425]
- James David Santini, 78, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Nevada at-large (1975–1983), esophageal cancer.[426]
- Al Seckel, 57, American optical illusion collector and sceptic.[427] (death announced on this date)
- Richard G. Scott, 86, American cleric, Mormon apostle.[428]
- Phyllis Tickle, 81, American religious studies author and lector, lung cancer.[429]
- Derek Ware, 77, British stuntman and actor (Doctor Who, The Italian Job), cancer.[430]
- Mokhtar Yahyaoui, 63, Tunisian judge, cardiac arrest.[431]
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- Carlos Álvarez-Nóvoa, 75, Spanish actor (Solas).[432]
- Tor Arneberg, 87, Norwegian sailor, Olympic silver medalist (1952).[433]
- Adnan Buyung Nasution, 81, Indonesian lawyer and human rights activist, kidney failure.[434]
- Jean-Marie Drot, 86, French writer and documentary filmmaker.[435]
- Joan Duncan, 73, Canadian politician.[436]
- Mike Gibson, 75, Australian sports journalist and broadcaster, suicide.[437]
- Dragan Holcer, 70, Croatian footballer (Hajduk Split).[438]
- Aleksandr Kolpovski, 62, Russian Soviet footballer (CSKA).[439]
- Katsuhiro Nakamura, 66, Japanese baseball player, intracranial hemorrhage.[440]
- Claudia Pasini, 76, Italian Olympian
- Dayananda Saraswati, 85, Indian Hindu monk and teacher (Arsha Vidya Gurukulam).[441]
- Denis Sonet, 89, French Roman Catholic priest and marriage counselor.[442]
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- Mohan Bhandari, Indian actor, brain tumour.[443]
- Paul Carney, 72, Irish judge, High Court judge (1991–2015).[444]
- Uğur Dağdelen, 41, Turkish footballer, suicide by gunshot.[445]
- Bas van Duivenbode, 75, Dutch Olympic boxer.[446]
- Chuck Forsberg, 71, American computer programmer.[447]
- Kikujirō Fukushima, 94, Japanese photographer, stroke.[448]
- Assad Murtaza Gilani, 47, Pakistani politician, Member of National Assembly (2002–2008), Hajj stampede.[449]
- William W. Gullett, 92, American politician.[450]
- Michael Howard, 67, British pagan author and editor (The Cauldron).[451]
- Ellis Kaut, 94, German author (Pumuckl).[452]
- Naomi Kawashima, 54, Japanese actress, bile duct cancer.[453]
- Celina Kombani, 56, Tanzanian politician.[454]
- Alan Moore, 101, Australian war artist.[455]
- Patrick O'Donnell, 75, Canadian general, Vice Chief of the Defence Staff (1993–1995).[456]
- Hugo St-Cyr, 36, Canadian actor (Watatatow, October 1970), bone cancer.[457]
- samfree, 31, Japanese musician and producer.[458]
- Peter P. Sorokin, 84, American physicist.[459]
- Harold Stapleton, 100, Australian cricketer (New South Wales).[460]
- Ed Sukla, 72, American baseball player (California Angels), osteosarcoma.[461]
- Bilkisu Yusuf, 62, Nigerian journalist and editor, Mina stampede.[462]
- Wang Zhongshu, 89, Chinese archaeologist.[463]
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- Carlos Anibal Altamirano Argüello, 73, Ecuadorian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Azogues (since 2004).[464]
- Claudio Baggini, 79, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Vigevano (2000–2011).[465]
- Bill Bridges, 76, American basketball player (Atlanta Hawks, Golden State Warriors).[466]
- Dino Brugioni, 93, American imagery intelligence analyst.[467]
- Martin Colfer, Irish footballer, (Shelbourne, national team).[468]
- Bill Crawford, 79, American politician, member of Indiana House of Representatives (1972–2012).[469]
- Pat Dunne, 72, Irish football player and manager.[470]
- John Galvin, 86, American army general, Supreme Allied Commander Europe (1987–1992).[471]
- Tommie Green, 59, American basketball player (New Orleans Jazz) and college coach (Southern University).[472]
- Terje Gulbrandsen, 70, Norwegian footballer (Skeid, Vålerenga).[473]
- Hugo Gutiérrez Vega, 81, Mexican poet, diplomat and academic, Ambassador to Greece (1987–1994).[474]
- Christopher Jackson, 67, Canadian musician, lung cancer.[475]
- Henry Jacobs, 91, American sound artist and radio presenter.[476]
- Alexandr Jurečka, 24, Czech judoka, scuba diving accident.[477]
- Tom Kelley, 71, American Major League Baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Atlanta Braves).[478]
- Moti Kirschenbaum, 76, Israeli journalist and media personality.[479]
- Morten Krogh, 67, Norwegian Olympic fencer (1972).[480]
- Jim Meadowcroft, 68, English snooker player and commentator.[481]
- Richard M. Moose, 83, American politician.[482]
- Manuel Oltra, 93, Spanish composer, pneumonia.[483]
- Carol Rama, 97, Italian painter.[484]
- David Watt, 98, Australian cricketer.[485]
- Joe Wilson, 78, English footballer (Workington Reds, Wolverhampton Wanderers).[486]
- Zabeel, 28, New Zealand racehorse, leading sire in Australia (1998–1999) and New Zealand (1998–2001), namesake of the Zabeel Classic.[487]
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- Jamal al Barzinji, 75, Iraqi-born American Muslim activist.[citation needed]
- Chng Seng Mok, 65, Singaporean Olympic sports shooter.[488]
- Eugene D. Commins, 83, American physicist.[489]
- Tino García, 80, Nicaraguan-Puerto Rican actor, bone cancer.[490]
- Roy Kelly, 90, Canadian ice hockey player.[491]
- Kazuaki Kimura, 69, Japanese academic.[492]
- Hopingstone Lyngdoh, 86, Indian politician.[493]
- Sidney Phillips, 91, American Marine (1941–1945), physician and author.[494]
- Ulla Puolanne, 84, Finnish politician, Deputy Minister of Finance (1987-1991).[495]
- Paul Reed, 96, American artist.[496]
- Fred Ridgway, 92, English cricketer (Kent, England).[497]
- Homa Rousta, 71, Iranian actress, cancer.[498]
- Ana Seneviratne, 88, Sri Lankan diplomat and Inspector General of Police.[499]
- Toshiya Sukegawa, 85, Japanese composer.[500]
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- Syed Ahmed, 73, Indian politician, Governor of Jharkhand (2011–2015) and Manipur (2015), cancer.[501]
- Howard A. Anderson Jr., 95, American visual effects artist (Star Trek: The Original Series, Tobruk) and title designer (The Brady Bunch).[502]
- Albert Blan, 85, English rugby league player (Swinton, national team).[503]
- Odd Blomdal, 88, Norwegian judge and civil servant.[504]
- Roland Collins, 97, English painter.[505]
- Norm Defelice, 82, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins).[506]
- Wilton Felder, 75, American saxophonist (The Crusaders) and session bassist (Motown).[507]
- John Guillermin, 89, British film director and producer (The Towering Inferno, King Kong, Shaft in Africa), heart attack.[508]
- In Style, 20, Canadian show jumping horse, euthanized.[509]
- Pietro Ingrao, 100, Italian politician, President of the Chamber of Deputies (1976–1979), journalist and partisan.[510]
- Hugh Jackson, 75, Irish golfer.[511]
- Denise Lor, 86, American singer ("If I Give My Heart to You") and actress.[512]
- Kallen Pokkudan, 78, Indian environmental activist and writer.[513]
- Richard Rainwater, 71, American investor.[514]
- Fred Stickel, 93, American newspaper publisher (The Oregonian).[515]
- Frank Tyson, 85, English cricketer (Northamptonshire, England), journalist and commentator.[516]
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- Sir Peter Abbott, 73, British admiral, Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff (1997–2001), cancer.[517]
- Frank Martinus Arion, 78, Dutch Antillean author.[518]
- Siert Bruins, 94, Dutch war criminal.[519]
- Michael Burgess, 70, Canadian tenor, skin cancer.[520]
- Claudia Bär, 35, German slalom canoer, European champion (2008, 2011), leukemia.[521]
- Catherine E. Coulson, 71, American actress and production assistant (Twin Peaks, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Eraserhead), cancer.[522]
- Viren Dangwal, 68, Indian poet, academic, and journalist.[523]
- Louis Armand Desrochers, 87, Canadian lawyer and academic.[524]
- Carlos Diaz, 57, American baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Mets).[525]
- Alexander Faris, 94, Northern Irish composer.[526]
- Frankie Ford, 76, American singer ("Sea Cruise").[527]
- Robert E. Fritts, 81, American diplomat.[528]
- Valerie Ganz, 79, Welsh painter.[529]
- Sjur Hopperstad, 84, Norwegian politician, county mayor of Sogn og Fjordane.[530]
- Walter Dale Miller, 89, American politician, Governor of South Dakota (1993–1995).[531]
- Simo Rinne, 74, Finnish Olympic speed skater.[532]
- Karsten Schwan, 63, American computer scientist, cancer.[533]
- Atanas Tsanov, 87, Bulgarian Olympic footballer.[534]
- Anthony Vollack, 86, American judge.[535]
- Ignacio Zoco, 76, Spanish footballer (Real Madrid).[536]
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- Nawwaf bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 83, Saudi Arabian prince, director of General Intelligence Directorate (2001–2005).[537]
- Sorin Avram, 72, Romanian Olympic football player (1964) and coach (Bacău).[538]
- Al Benecick, 78, American football player (Saskatchewan Roughriders).[539]
- Claude Dubar, 69, French sociologist.[540]
- Mauro Ferri, 95, Italian politician.[541]
- Rick Foley, 70, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks, Philadelphia Flyers, Detroit Red Wings).[542]
- Gillian Gear, 72, English historian and archivist (Barnet Museum).[543]
- Benjamin Hutto, 67, American organist, choirmaster and academic, gallbladder cancer.[544]
- Susumu Ito, 96, American cell biologist and WW2 veteran (442nd Regiment).[545]
- Ram Kapse, 81, Indian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Andaman and Nicobar Islands (2004–2006).[546]
- Hellmuth Karasek, 81, German literary critic and journalist (Der Spiegel).[547]
- William Kerslake, 85, American NASA engineer and wrestler.[548]
- Thomas K. Lalakea, 88, American politician.[549]
- Gilles Mayer, 86, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs).[550]
- Sybil Collins Mobley, 89, American academic.[551]
- Gamaliel Onosode, 82, Nigerian businessman and politician.[552]
- Burton Raffel, 87, American literary translator and writer.[553]
- Soaring Softly, 20, American racehorse, paddock accident.[554]
- Jean Ter-Merguerian, 79, French violinist.[555]
- Pat Woodell, 71, American actress (Petticoat Junction), cancer.[556]
- Phil Woods, 83, American saxophonist ("Just the Way You Are"), emphysema.[557]
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- Allen Aldridge, 71, American football player (Toronto Argonauts, Houston Oilers, Cleveland Browns).[558]
- Guido Altarelli, 74, Italian theoretical physicist.[559]
- Frank Battig, 79, Austrian Olympic modern pentathlete (1960) and fencer (1968).[560]
- Pierre de Bellefeuille, 92, Canadian politician.[561]
- Caio César, 27, Brazilian voice actor (Harry Potter) and policeman, shot.[562]
- Simon Cowe, 67, English guitarist (Lindisfarne).[563]
- Claude Dauphin, 64, French business executive, co-founder and CEO of Trafigura, cancer.[564]
- Morris E. Fine, 97, American scientist.[565]
- Kelly Gissendaner, 47, American convicted malice murderer, executed by lethal injection.[566]
- Göran Hägg, 68, Swedish writer and literary critic, heart attack.[567]
- David W. Harwell, 83, American judge.[568]
- Gerald Hawkins, 72, American politician.[569]
- Antje Huber, 91, German politician, Federal Minister for Youth, Family and Health (1976–1982).[570]
- Svein B. Manum, 89, Norwegian botanist.[571]
- Eric Martin, 90, English cricketer.[572]
- Al Romine, 84, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Chicago Bears, Denver Broncos).[573]
- Donald Seawell, 103, American theater producer and newspaper publisher.[574]
- Alfred Schickel, 82, German historian.[575]
- Rick Talan, 54, Dutch footballer (AZ, Vitesse Arnhem), brain cancer.[576]
- Ian Thwaites, 72, English cricketer.[577]
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