Deaths in August 2019

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship, reason for notability, cause of death, and reference.

  August 2019

1

• Levan Aleksidze, 93, Georgian legal scholar.
• Munir Al Yafi, Yemeni military commander, missile attack.
• Gordon Brand Jnr, 60, Scottish golfer.
• William Brown, 74, British academic, Master of Darwin College.
• Puși Dinulescu, 76, Romanian playwright and film director, heart attack.
• Jack Dolbin, 70, American football player.
• Charles Fadley, 77, American physicist, cancer.
• Ian Gibbons, 67, English keyboardist, bladder cancer.
• Sadou Hayatou, 77, Cameroonian politician, Prime Minister.
• Annemarie Huber-Hotz, 70, Swiss politician, Federal Chancellor and President of the Swiss Red Cross, heart attack.
• Barry Hughart, 85, American author.
• Minoru Kamata, 80, Japanese baseball player, lung cancer.
• Margot Lovejoy, 88, American historian of art and technology, stroke.
• Francis Luiggi, 87, French Olympic bobsledder.
• Martin Mayer, 91, American economist and writer, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Abdirahman Omar Osman, 53, Somali politician, Minister of Commerce and Industry and Mayor of Mogadishu, bombing.
• Marjan Pečar, 78, Slovenian Olympic ski jumper.
• D. A. Pennebaker, 94, American documentary filmmaker.
• Günter Perleberg, 84, German sprint canoeist, Olympic champion.
• Barrington Pheloung, 65, Australian composer ''.
• Maurice Pope, 93, British classical linguist.
• Georgios Pozidis, 63, Greek Olympic wrestler.
• Milovan Minja Prelević, 49, Montenegrin football player and manager.
• Harley Race, 76, American Hall of Fame professional wrestler and trainer, lung cancer.
• Anders P. Ravn, 71, Danish computer scientist.
• Sarat Saikia, 71, Indian politician, Assam Legislative Assembly.
• Llew Summers, 72, New Zealand sculptor.
• R. G. Tiedemann, 78, German historian.
• Jesus Tuquib, 89, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Cagayan de Oro.
• Richard Vyškovský, 90, Czech architect.
• Rodolfo Zapata, 87, Argentine singer.
• Ludwig Zeller, 92, Chilean poet.
• Zha Quanxing, 94, Chinese electrochemist.

  2

• Carl Bell, 71, American physician.
• Gunder Bengtsson, 73, Swedish football manager.
• David Bevington, 88, American literary scholar.
• Roberto Bodegas, 86, Spanish film director and screenwriter.
• Vahakn Dadrian, 93, Armenian-American sociologist and historian.
• Oluf Fuglerud, 94, Norwegian journalist and politician.
• Devadas Kanakala, 74, Indian actor.
• Dawid Kostecki, 38, Polish professional boxer, suicide by hanging.
• Max Marsille, 88, Belgian Olympic boxer.
• Ai Morinaga, 38, Japanese manga artist.
• Gildo Cunha do Nascimento, 79, Brazilian footballer.
• Deepak Obhrai, 69, Tanzanian-born Canadian politician, MP, liver cancer.
• Stuart O'Connell, 84, New Zealand Catholic bishop, Bishop of Rarotonga.
• Schoschana Rabinovici, 86, French-born Lithuanian-Israeli Holocaust survivor and writer.
• Jocelyne Roy-Vienneau, 63, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick, cancer.
• Rob Storey, 83, New Zealand politician, MP, Minister of Transport.
• Alexandra Strelchenko, 82, Russian folk singer, People's Artist of the RSFSR.
• Helen Young, 93, New Zealand broadcasting manager.

  3

• Miklós Ambrus, 86, Hungarian water polo player, Olympic champion.
• Katreese Barnes, 56, American musician, musical director and songwriter, Emmy Award winner, breast cancer.
• Henri Belolo, 82, French music producer and songwriter.
• Jean-Claude Bouttier, 74, French boxer and actor.
• Cliff Branch, 71, American football player.
• Steven Gubser, 47, American physicist, climbing accident.
• Basil Heatley, 85, British athlete, marathon world-record holder and Olympic silver medallist.
• Nikolai Kardashev, 87, Russian astrophysicist, developer of the Kardashev scale.
• Sir Brian Lochore, 78, New Zealand Hall of Fame rugby union player and coach, bowel cancer.
• Joe Longthorne, 64, English singer and impressionist, throat cancer.
• Damien Lovelock, 65, Australian musician, cancer.
• Léon Mbou Yembi, 73, Gabonese politician, Deputy, complications from diabetes.
• Vigilio Mich, 88, Italian Olympic cross-country skier.
• Anne E. Monius, 55, American religious scholar.
• L. Brooks Patterson, 80, American lawyer and politician, County Executive of Oakland County, Michigan, pancreatic cancer.
• Lewis Pérez, 74, Venezuelan politician, Secretary General of Acción Democrática and Senator, heart attack.
• Thomas Remengesau Sr., 89, Palauan politician, President and Vice President.
• John Philip Saklil, 59, Indonesian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Timika.
• Marcel Toader, 56, Romanian rugby union player, heart attack.
• Mike Troy, 78, American swimmer, Olympic champion, world-record holder – 200m butterfly.

  4

• Anwara Begum, 70, Bangladeshi politician, MP.
• Kanti Bhatt, 88, Indian Gujarati author and journalist.
• Norden Tenzing Bhutia, 69, Nepalese musician, throat cancer.
• Ernie Bowman, 84, American baseball player.
• Prudencio Cardona, 67, Colombian boxer, world flyweight champion.
• Jim Donlevy, 82, Canadian football coach.
• Andrea Fraunschiel, 64, Austrian politician, MP.
• André Goosse, 93, Belgian linguist.
• Thomas Gulotta, 75, American government official, County Executive of Nassau County, New York.
• Ivo Lill, 66, Estonian glass artist.
• Jim Morgan, 79, Canadian politician, MHA.
• Ann Nelson, 61, American particle physicist, hiking accident.
• Harald Nickel, 66, German footballer, cancer.
• Nuon Chea, 93, Cambodian politician, Acting Prime Minister and chief ideologist of Khmer Rouge.
• Larry Rakestraw, 77, American football player.
• Stu Rosen, 80, American voice director and actor, cancer.
• Willi Tokarev, 84, Russian-American singer-songwriter.
• Bob Wilber, 91, American jazz clarinetist and bandleader.

  5

• Erwin Bittmann, 91, Austrian Olympic rower.
• Rashiram Debbarma, Indian politician, MLA.
• Salinda Dissanayake, 61, Sri Lankan politician, MP.
• Else Kollerud Furre, 96, Norwegian politician.
• Sidney Goldstein, 92, American demographer.
• Lizzie Grey, 60, American rock musician, complications from Lewy body disease.
• Teresa Ha, 81, Hong Kong actress.
• Jimi Hope, 62, Togolese musician and painter.
• Josef Kadraba, 85, Czech footballer.
• Bjorg Lambrecht, 22, Belgian racing cyclist, race crash.
• John Lowey, 61, English footballer.
• Russell Middlemiss, 90, Australian footballer, stroke.
• Asif Mohseni, 84, Afghani marja'.
• Toni Morrison, 88, American author, Nobel laureate, Pulitzer Prize winner.
• Jeffrey Tarrant, 63, American hedge fund investor, film producer and philanthropist, brain cancer.

  6

• Kamal Boullata, 77, Palestinian artist and art historian.
• Rod Coleman, 93, New Zealand motorcycle racer.
• Krystyna Dańko, 102, Polish humanitarian, Righteous Among the Nations.
• S. A. M. Hussain, 80, Indian politician, MLA.
• Danny Doyle, 79, Irish folk singer.
• Mick Miller, 92, Australian police officer, Chief Commissioner of Victoria Police.
• Mrs YGP, 93, Indian educationist, founder and dean of the Padma Seshadri Bala Bhavan, cardiac arrest.
• Steve Parr, 92, English footballer.
• Alejandro Serrano, 86, Ecuadorian politician, Vice President.
• George F. Simmons, 94, American mathematician.
• Sushma Swaraj, 67, Indian politician, MP, Chief Minister of Delhi, Minister of External Affairs, cardiac arrest.
• George Whaley, 85, Australian actor and film director.
• Zhuo Renxi, 88, Chinese chemist and academician.

  7

• Subby Anzaldo, 86, American politician.
• David Berman, 52, American singer-songwriter and poet, suicide by hanging.
• Helmut Bez, 88, German playwright.
• Chris Birch, 68, American politician, member of the Alaska House of Representatives and Senate, aortic dissection.
• Michel Che, 77, French chemist.
• Barbara Crane, 91, American photographer.
• Orlando Grootfaam, 44, Surinamese footballer.
• Donald Klein, 90, American psychiatrist.
• Patricia Louisianna Knop, 78, American screenwriter.
• Kary Mullis, 74, American biochemist, Nobel laureate, pneumonia.
• J. Om Prakash, 92, Indian film director and producer.
• Nancy Reddin Kienholz, 75, American artist.
• Rostislav Rybakov, 81, Russian writer.
• Herm Urenda, 81, American football player.
• Fabio Zerpa, 90, Uruguayan parapsychologist and ufologist.

  8

• Era. Anbarasu, 78, Indian politician, MP.
• Jacques Arnoux, 81, French Olympic racewalker.
• Shamnad Basheer, 43, Indian legal scholar.
• Cosmas Batubara, 80, Indonesian politician and activist, Minister of Manpower and Housing, and member of People's Representative Council, cancer.
• Ernie Colón, 88, American comic book artist, cancer.
• Theodore L. Eliot Jr., 91, American diplomat, Ambassador to Afghanistan, heart disease.
• Malcolm T. Elliott, 73, Australian radio and television personality.
• Lee Bennett Hopkins, 81, American educator and poet, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
• Stanisław Konturek, 87, Polish physiologist and gastroenterologist.
• Mazhar Krasniqi, 87, Yugoslavian-born New Zealand Muslim community leader.
• Manfred Max-Neef, 86, Chilean economist.
• Jean-Pierre Mocky, 90, French film director, screenwriter and actor.
• Dave Parks, 77, American football player.
• Fabrizio Saccomanni, 76, Italian civil servant and economist, Minister of Economy and Finance, Director General of the Bank of Italy, heart attack.
• Les Strongman, 94, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Marius Todericiu, 49, Romanian football player and manager, suicide.
• Erling Wicklund, 75, Norwegian jazz trombonist and journalist.

  9

• Ahmad Lai Bujang, 69, Malaysian politician, MP.
• José Desmarets, 93, Belgian politician, Minister of Defence.
• Mé Aboubacar Diomandé, 31, Ivorian footballer.
• Rodney Falkson, 77, South African cricketer.
• Paul Findley, 98, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
• Altair Gomes de Figueiredo, 81, Brazilian footballer.
• Ronald Jones, 67, American conceptual artist.
• Fahrudin Jusufi, 79, Serbian football player, Olympic champion and manager.
• Oscar Malbernat, 75, Argentinian football player and manager.
• Bill Mills, 99, American baseball player.
• Huw O. Pritchard, 91, Welsh-born Canadian chemist.
• Barry Stroud, 84, Canadian philosopher, brain cancer.
• Claudio Taddei, 52, Swiss singer and plastic artist.
• Takis, 93, Greek sculptor.
• Sir Michael Uren, 95, British businessman and philanthropist.
• Hendricus Vogels, 76, Dutch-born Australian Olympic cyclist.

  10

• Bao Kexin, 67, Chinese politician and business executive, Vice Governor of Guizhou Province.
• Joseph Begich, 89, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives.
• Freda Dowie, 91, English actress.
• Jeffrey Epstein, 66, American financier, philanthropist and convicted sex offender, suicide by hanging.
• Jim Forbes, 95, Australian politician, MP, Minister for Health and Immigration, Military Cross recipient.
• Michael Hall, 84, English cricketer.
• Edward H. Jennings, 82, American academic administrator, President of the University of Wyoming and the Ohio State University.
• Igor Kachmazov, 50, Russian footballer.
• Aïssata Kane, 80, Mauritanian politician.
• Radoslav Katičić, 89, Croatian linguist.
• Jo Lancaster, 100, British RAF pilot.
• Cándido Sibilio, 60, Dominican-born Spanish Olympic basketball player.
• Ann Barr Snitow, 76, American writer, cancer.
• Piero Tosi, 92, Italian costume designer, Honorary Oscar winner.
• Bernard Unabali, 62, Papua New Guinean Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bougainville.
• Marty Wood, 86, Canadian Hall of Fame rodeo cowboy, cancer.
• Wu Ningkun, 98, Chinese writer and translator.

  11

• Bluey Adams, 84, Australian footballer, cancer.
• Freddy Bannister, 84, English rock concert promoter, cancer.
• Tred Barta, 67, American hunter.
• Doug Clarke, 85, English footballer.
• John Coffey, 101, Irish hurler.
• Jim Cullum Jr., 77, American jazz cornetist, broadcaster and music preservationist.
• Dejan Čurović, 51, Serbian footballer, leukaemia.
• John Dillon, 76, Scottish footballer.
• Kerry Downes, 88, English architectural historian.
• Darryl Drake, 62, American football player and coach.
• Michael E. Krauss, 84, American linguist.
• Ningali Lawford, 52, Australian actress, asthma attack.
• Shelby Lyman, 83, American chess player and commentator.
• Geoff Malcolm, 88, New Zealand physical chemist.
• Barbara March, 65, Canadian actress, cancer.
• Walter Martínez, 37, Honduran footballer, heart attack.
• László Máté, 67, Hungarian politician, MP.
• Gordan Mihić, 80, Serbian screenwriter.
• Sergio Obeso Rivera, 87, Mexican Roman Catholic cardinal, Bishop of Papantla and Archbishop of Xalapa.
• Charles Santore, 84, American children's book and magazine illustrator.
• J. Neil Schulman, 66, American novelist, pulmonary embolism.

  12

• DJ Arafat, 33, Ivorian disc jockey and musician, traffic collision.
• João Carlos Barroso, 69, Brazilian actor, pancreatic cancer.
• José Luis Brown, 62, Argentinian football player and manager, World Cup winner, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Jean-Paul Capelle, 74, French Olympic field hockey player.
• Krishna Chandra Chunekar, 90/91, Indian ayurvedic practitioner.
• Danny Cohen, 81, Israeli-American Hall of Fame computer scientist.
• Florin Halagian, 80, Romanian football player and manager.
• Reuven Hammer, 86, American-Israeli rabbi and journalist.
• Terence Knapp, 87, English actor.
• Rahul Kukreti, 43, American cricketer.
• Robyn Léwis, 89, Welsh author, politician and archdruid, Vice President of Plaid Cymru.
• Lu Yonggen, 88, Chinese agronomist and plant geneticist, President of South China Agricultural University.
• Jim Marsh, 73, American basketball player and broadcaster.
• Paule Marshall, 90, American writer.
• Hussein Salem, 85, Egyptian-Spanish businessman, co-owner of East Mediterranean Gas Company.
• Mizanur Rahman Shelley, 76, Bangladeshi politologist and politician, brain haemorrhage.
• John Michael Sherlock, 93, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of London, Ontario.
• Jan Simonsen, 66, Norwegian politician, MP, cancer.
• Michael T. Sangma, 41, Indian politician, MLA, heart attack.
• Frank Tsao, 94, Chinese-born Malaysian-Singaporean shipping magnate and philanthropist, kidney failure.

  13

• Kip Addotta, 75, American comedian.
• Josette Arène, 95, French Olympic swimmer.
• Cecilia Caballero Blanco, 105, Colombian socialite, First Lady.
• Umesh Bhat Bhavikeri, 72, Indian politician, MLA.
• Guo Zhenqian, 86, Chinese politician and banker, Governor of Hubei, Vice Governor of the People's Bank of China, Auditor General.
• Lily Leung, 90, Hong Kong actress, cancer.
• Tim Means, 75, American environmentalist, complications from diabetes.
• Vladimír Ptáček, 64, Czech Olympic basketball player.
• Brunilda Ruiz, 83, American ballet dancer.
• Carole Satyamurti, 80, British poet.
• René Taelman, 74, Belgian football manager, lung cancer.
• Nadia Toffa, 40, Italian journalist and television presenter, brain cancer.

  14

• Tõnu Aav, 80, Estonian actor.
• Suleiman Bakhit, 41, Jordanian entrepreneur and comics writer.
• Carrol Boyes, 65, South African artist and executive.
• Águeda Dicancro, 80, Uruguayan sculptor.
• Polly Farmer, 84, Australian footballer.
• Brian Job, 67, American swimmer, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Ivo Malec, 94, Croatian-born French composer.
• Karim Olowu, 95, Nigerian Olympic sprinter and long jumper.
• Héctor Rivoira, 59, Argentine football player and manager, cancer.
• Ugo Sansonetti, 100, Italian writer and masters athlete.
• Reginald Scarlett, 84, Jamaican cricketer.
• Ben Unwin, 41, Australian actor.
• Gjergj Xhuvani, 55, Albanian film director screenwriter and producer.

  15

• Lalbihari Bhattacharya, 81, Indian politician, MLA.
• V. B. Chandrasekhar, 57, Indian cricketer, heart attack.
• Claire Cloninger, 77, American Christian songwriter and author.
• Madan Mani Dixit, 96, Nepalese writer, pneumonia.
• Vladimir Fomichyov, 59, Russian footballer.
• Samuel Gelfman, 88, American film producer, complications from heart and respiratory disease.
• Luigi Lunari, 85, Italian writer.
• Eddie Marlin, 89, American professional wrestler and promoter, multiple organ failure.
• Noel Pope, 87, New Zealand politician, Mayor of Tauranga.
• Qin Hanzhang, 111, Chinese engineer and food scientist, heart attack.
• Antonio Rastrelli, 91, Italian politician, MP and President of Campania.
• Vidya Sinha, 71, Indian actress, respiratory failure.
• Glenn Tasker, 67, Australian sports administrator, President of the Australian Paralympic Committee.
• Henrik Westman, 78, Swedish politician.
• Wrestling Pro, 81, American professional wrestler.

  16

• Gustavo Barreiro, 60, Cuban-born American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives, heart attack.
• Roland Brown, 93, American physician.
• Princess Christina of the Netherlands, 72, Dutch royal, bone cancer.
• Bruce Deans, 58, New Zealand rugby union player, cancer.
• Peter Fonda, 79, American actor and screenwriter, lung cancer.
• Felice Gimondi, 76, Italian racing cyclist, Tour de France, Vuelta a España and Giro d'Italia winner, heart attack.
• Jim Hardy, 96, American football player and sporting executive.
• C. S. Holling, 88, Canadian ecologist.
• David Layzer, 93, American astrophysicist.
• Sahura Mallick, 85, Indian politician, MLA, and.
• Faisal Masud, 64, Pakistani doctor and professor, cardiac arrest.
• Mike McGee, 80, American football player, sporting executive and athletic director.
• José Nápoles, 79, Cuban-born Mexican Hall of Fame boxer, world welterweight champion.
• Anna Quayle, 86, British actress, Tony winner, Lewy body dementia.
• Rizia Rahman, 79, Indian-born Bangladeshi novelist.
• Bobby Smith, 78, English footballer.
• Alexandre Soares dos Santos, 83, Portuguese businessman, CEO and President of Jerónimo Martins.
• Penka Stoyanova, 69, Bulgarian basketball player, Olympic silver medallist and bronze medallist.
• Alla Ter-Sarkisiants, 82, Russian historian.
• Richard Williams, 86, Canadian-British animator and director, three-time Oscar winner, cancer.

  17

• Damodar Ganesh Bapat, 84, Indian social worker.
• Cedric Benson, 36, American football player, traffic collision.
• Walter Buser, 93, Swiss politician, Chancellor.
• Allen Church, 91, American alpine skiing sports official.
• Jacques Diouf, 81, Senegalese diplomat, Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization.
• Ronald Gray, 87, Australian Olympic athlete.
• Rosemary Kuhlmann, 97, American mezzo-soprano and actress.
• Donald A. B. Lindberg, 85, American mathematician, Director of the United States National Library of Medicine, fall.
• José A. Martínez Suárez, 93, Argentine film director and screenwriter, pneumonia.
• Bill McDonagh, 91, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Thelma Nava, 87, Mexican poet and journalist.
• Ivan Oman, 89, Slovenian politician, independence key figure and farmer, MP, pneumonia.
• Suffian Rahman, 41, Malaysian footballer, heart attack.
• Neelum Sharma, 50, Indian anchorwoman, cancer.
• Tabu Taid, 77, Indian educationist.
• Lawrence Van Huizen, 89, Malaysian Olympic hockey player.
• Camillo Zanolli, 89, Italian Olympic skier.

  18

• Soma Bhupala, 92, Indian politician, MLA.
• Kathleen Blanco, 76, American politician, Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana, member of the Louisiana House, ocular melanoma.
• Giulio Chierchini, 91, Italian comics writer and artist.
• Gary Cooper, 80, English rugby league football player and coach.
• René Feller, 76, Dutch football manager.
• Helmuth Froschauer, 85, Austrian choral conductor.
• Conrad Gorinsky, 83, Guyanese-born British chemist.
• Gillian Hanna, 75, Irish actress, autoimmune disease.
• Chad Holt, 46, American writer and actor.
• Denis Kuljiš, 67, Croatian writer and journalist.
• Karel Kuklík, 82, Czech photographer.
• Robert Ouko, 70, Kenyan runner, Olympic champion.
• Encarna Paso, 88, Spanish actress, pneumonia.
• Paul Smith, 88, American baseball player.
• Sasson Somekh, 86, Iraqi-born Israeli writer and translator.
• Jack Whitaker, 95, American sportscaster, The NFL Today host.
• Yu Zhengui, 73, Chinese historian and scholar of Islam, Vice President of the Islamic Association of China.

  19

• James R. Alexander, 88, American sound engineer.
• Bai Yan, 99, Chinese-born Singaporean actor, pneumonia.
• Benjamin N. Bellis, 95, American air force lieutenant general.
• Barry Bennett, 63, American football player, shot.
• Paul Connerton, 79, British social anthropologist.
• George Ganchev, 79, Bulgarian politician, MP.
• Zakir Hussain, 85, Pakistani field hockey player, Olympic champion and silver medallist.
• Al Jackson, 83, American baseball player.
• Mohammed Zahur Khayyam, 92, Indian music director and composer, lung infection.
• Enn Kokk, 82, Swedish politician and journalist.
• Lars Larsen, 71, Danish retailer, founder of Jysk, liver cancer.
• Mike Leaf, 58, American college basketball coach.
• Philippe Leroy, 79, French politician, Senator.
• Gina Lopez, 65, Filipino environmentalist, Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources, brain cancer.
• Zbigniew Makowski, 89, Polish painter.
• John Matthews, 91, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council.
• Jagannath Mishra, 82, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Bihar.
• Jack Perkins, 85, American reporter and television host.
• Carlos Porrata, c. 73, Puerto Rican television personality.
• David Rubinstein, 86, American social historian.
• Jan Ruff O'Herne, 96, Australian comfort women rights activist.
• Bette Stephenson, 95, Canadian physician and politician.
• Larry Taylor, 77, American bass guitarist.
• Kazuo Wada, 90, Japanese business executive, Chairman of Yaohan.

  20

• Colin Beard, 77, Australian football player and manager.
• Richard Booth, 80, Welsh bookseller.
• Giovanni Buttarelli, 62, Italian civil servant, European Data Protection Supervisor.
• Russ Conway, 70, American sports journalist and hockey beat writer.
• Rudolf Hundstorfer, 67, Austrian trade unionist and politician, president of the Austrian Trade Union Federation, heart attack.
• Peter Knobel, 76, American rabbi.
• Ernesto Lariosa, 74, Filipino writer and poet, liver failure.
• Li Houwen, 92, Chinese surgeon, President of China Medical University.
• Harry B. Luthi, 85, American businessman, Mayor of Greenville, South Carolina.
• John H. McArthur, 85, Canadian-American academic, Dean of the Harvard Business School.
• Alexandra Nazarova, 79, Russian actress, People's Artist of Russia.
• Lico Reyes, 73, Mexican-American actor and politician.
• Larry Siegel, 93, American humorist, Parkinson's disease.
• Akhilesh Kumar Singh, 59, Indian politician, MLA, cancer.
• Edson Warner, 89, Canadian Olympic sports shooter.
• Kelsey Weems, 51, American basketball player.

  21

• Dina bint Abdul-Hamid, 89, Jordanian princess, Queen consort.
• Ifeanyi Chiejine, 36, Nigerian Olympic footballer,.
• Norma Croker, 84, Australian runner, Olympic champion.
• Julian Daan, 74, Filipino comedian, actor and politician, heart failure.
• Babulal Gaur, 89, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh.
• Richard Gregson, 89, British agent, film producer and screenwriter.
• Paulo Mandlate, 85, Mozambican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tete.
• Jian Ming, 58, Chinese poet, writer and literary critic.
• John W. Neill, 85, British Olympic field hockey player.
• Nguyễn Tiến Sâm, 73, Vietnamese jet fighter pilot.
• Celso Piña, 66, Mexican cumbia singer, composer and accordionist, heart attack.
• Lawrence Reade, 88, New Zealand cricketer.
• Alexander M. Schenker, 94, Polish-American professor of Slavic studies.
• Kurt Stendal, 68, Danish footballer.
• Ines Torelli, 88, Swiss comedian and actress.

  22

• Junior Agogo, 40, Ghanaian footballer.
• Gary Ray Bowles, 57, American serial killer, executed by lethal injection.
• Norman Frederick Charles III, 78, British professional wrestler, cancer.
• Peter Chingoka, 65, Zimbabwean cricket player and administrator.
• Bobby Dillon, 89, American football player.
• Tim Fischer, 73, Australian politician and diplomat, Deputy Prime Minister, Ambassador to the Holy See, acute myeloid leukemia.
• Jimmy Fleming, 90, Scottish footballer.
• Gao Heng, 89, Chinese legal scholar and historian.
• Fulati Gidali, 108, Indian folk singer.
• Werner H. Kramarsky, 93, American public official and art collector.
• Vitaly Logvinovsky, 78, Russian stage actor, People's Artist.
• Tom Nissalke, 87, American basketball coach.
• Yves Oger, 68, French Olympic rower.
• Gerard O'Neill, 76, American investigative journalist and news editor, Pulitzer Prize winner.
• Margarita Plavunova, 25, Russian hurdler and model, heart failure.
• Morton Tubor, 102, American film and sound editor.

  23

• Mary Abbott, 98, American painter.
• Muzaffar Ahmed, 97, Bangladeshi politician.
• John Bluett, 89, English cricketer.
• Larissa Bonfante, 88, Italian-American classicist.
• Clint Conatser, 98, American baseball player.
• Amath Dansokho, 82, Senegalese politician.
• Mario Davidovsky, 85, Argentine-American composer, Pulitzer Prize winner.
• Carlo Delle Piane, 83, Italian actor, Nastro d'Argento winner.
• Leo Gauriloff, 62, Finnish musician.
• Kito Junqueira, 71, Brazilian actor and politician.
• David Koch, 79, American businessman and political financier.
• Rick Loomis, 72, American game designer, founder of Flying Buffalo, lymphatic cancer.
• Massimo Mattioli, 75, Italian cartoonist and comics writer and artist.
• Peter Moscatt, Australian rugby league player.
• Roaring Lion, 4, British racehorse, euthanised.
• Silvia Ruegger, 58, Canadian Olympic marathon runner, cancer.
• Lou Slaby, 77, American football player.
• Sheila Steafel, 84, South African-born British actress, leukemia.
• Walter Thiel, 70, German theoretical chemist, President of the World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists.
• Mike Thomas, 66, American football player.
• Wang Guodong, 88, Chinese painter.
• Tim Wohlforth, 86, American political activist.
• Egon Zimmermann, 80, Austrian ski racer, Olympic champion.

  24

• David Akiba, 78, American photographer.
• Tex Clevenger, 87, American baseball player.
• Michael Eagar, 85, English cricketer.
• Blanca Fernández Ochoa, 56, Spanish alpine ski racer, Olympic bronze medallist.
• Tesfaye Gebreyesus, 84, Ethiopian football referee.
• Stephen S. Goss, 57, American judge, member of the Georgia Court of Appeals, suicide.
• Katherine Graham, 96, American golf administrator.
• Lutz-Michael Harder, 76, German lyric tenor and academic voice teacher.
• Andrew Horn, 66, American film director, producer and screenwriter, cancer.
• Arun Jaitley, 66, Indian politician, MP, Minister of Defence and Finance.
• Peter Kempadoo, 92, Guyanese writer, heart disease.
• Bob Kilcullen, 83, American football player.
• Ia McIlwaine, 84, British librarian.
• Thandi Ndlovu, 65, South African construction executive and philanthropist, traffic collision.
• Tony Nichols, 81, Australian Anglican prelate, Bishop of North West Australia.
• Sidney Rittenberg, 98, American journalist, scholar and linguist.
• Vlado Strugar, 96, Serbian historian.
• Lodewijk Christiaan van Wachem, 88, Dutch executive.
• Dick Woodard, 93, American football player.

  25

• Sheikh Maqsood Ali, 85, Bangladeshi civil servant.
• Herbert Beattie, 93, American opera singer.
• Timothy Bell, Baron Bell, 77, British advertising and public relations executive.
• Clora Bryant, 92, American jazz trumpeter, heart attack.
• Alf Burnell, 95, English rugby league footballer.
• Gül Çiray, 79, Turkish Olympic middle-distance runner.
• Jenaro Flores Santos, 76, Bolivian trade unionist and politician, founder of Unified Syndical Confederation of Rural Workers of Bolivia.
• Sally Floyd, 69, American computer scientist, cancer.
• Reb Foster, 83, American radio DJ and band manager.
• Jonathan Goldstein, 50, British composer, plane crash.
• Al Haynes, 87, American airline pilot, United Airlines Flight 232 crash survivor.
• B. M. Kutty, 89, Pakistani journalist and politician.
• Mona Lisa, 97, Filipino actress.
• Eliseo Mattiacci, 78, Italian artist.
• Bernard Monnereau, 83, French Olympic rower, world champion.
• Vince Naimoli, 81, American businessman, founder of the Tampa Bay Rays.
• Ferdinand Piëch, 82, Austrian Hall of Fame business executive and engineer, Chairman of Volkswagen Group.
• Mitch Podolak, 71, Canadian folk music promoter, co-founder of the Winnipeg Folk Festival, complications from septic shock.
• Anne Grete Preus, 62, Norwegian musician, cancer.
• Jerry Rook, 75, American basketball player.
• Jafar Umar Thalib, 57, Indonesian Islamic militant and teacher, founder of Laskar Jihad.
• Lodewijk Woltjer, 89, Dutch astronomer.
• Fernanda Young, 49, Brazilian novelist, screenwriter and actress, cardiac arrest.

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• Khalilur Rahman Babar, 67, Bangladeshi actor, film director and producer.
• Pal Benko, 91, French-born Hungarian-American chess grandmaster.
• Christian Bonaud, 62, French Islamologist and philosopher, marine accident.
• Neal Casal, 50, American musician, suicide.
• Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya, 72, Indian police officer, Director General of the Uttarakhand Police.
• Chen Jiayong, 97, Chinese metallurgist and chemical engineer.
• Colin Clark, 35, American soccer player, heart attack.
• Richard Conrad, 84, American opera singer and voice teacher.
• Felix Donnelly, 89, New Zealand Roman Catholic priest, academic and talkback host.
• Ray Henwood, 82, Welsh-born New Zealand actor.
• Tom Jordan, 99, American baseball player, complications from a heart attack.
• Dr. Karonte, Mexican professional wrestler.
• Ian Kerr, 54, Canadian academic lawyer, cancer.
• Helmut Krauss, 78, German actor.
• Pita Paraone, 73, New Zealand politician, MP.
• Isabel Toledo, 59, Cuban-born American fashion designer, breast cancer.
• Walmir Alberto Valle, 81, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Zé Doca and Joaçaba, cancer.
• Gavin Watson, 71, South African prison executive, CEO of Bosasa, traffic collision.
• Geoffrey Wraith, 72, English rugby league player and coach.
• Mir Tanha Yousafi, 64, Pakistani poet, novelist and writer.

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• Pedro Bell, 69, American artist and illustrator.
• Nimu Bhowmik, 83, Indian actor.
• Albert Vickers Bryan Jr., 92, American judge, Chief Judge of the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, pneumonia.
• Yigal Cohen-Orgad, 81, Israeli politician, MP and Minister of Finance.
• Jessi Combs, 39, American racer and television host, jet-car crash.
• Frances Crowe, 100, American peace activist.
• Wadie P. Deddeh, 98, Iraqi-born American politician, member of the California State Assembly and Senate.
• Sven Trygve Falck, 76, Norwegian politician, MP.
• Donnie Fritts, 76, American keyboardist and songwriter, complications from heart surgery.
• Saif Ahmad Al Ghurair, 95, Emirati businessman, Chairman of Al Ghurair Group.
• Abel González Chávez, 76, Colombian radio and television host, stroke.
• Sir Dawda Jawara, 95, Gambian politician, Prime Minister and President.
• Kopi John, 25, Papua New Guinean cricketer.
• John Ssenseko Kulubya, 84, Ugandan real estate investor, complications from pneumonia.
• Rajnish Kumar, 59, Indian politician, member of the Punjab Legislative Assembly.
• Philippe Madrelle, 82, French politician, Senator.
• Richard Mamiya, 94, American heart surgeon.
• Paul Meger, 90, Canadian ice hockey player, Stanley Cup champion.
• Stephen O. Murray, 69, American sociologist, lymphoma.
• Sōju Nosaka II, 81, Japanese musician.
• Tom O'Hara, 77, American Olympic middle distance runner.
• Park Han-yong, 68, South Korean businessman, President of POSCO.
• Paul Peterson, 98, Canadian football player.
• Leopoldo Pomés, 87, Spanish photographer and publicist.
• Tahu Potiki, 52, New Zealand Māori leader, chief executive of Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu.
• Thanadsri Svasti, 92, Thai food writer and broadcaster, cholangiocarcinoma.
• Martin Weitzman, 77, American economist.
• Gustav Wiklund, 85, Finnish actor and painter.
• Zhang Zong, 90, Chinese crystallographer, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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• Michel Aumont, 82, French actor.
• Pascal Gnazzo, 98, French racing cyclist.
• Donnie Green, 71, American football player.
• Steve Hiett, 79, British photographer.
• Nancy Holloway, 86, American singer and actress.
• Giuseppe Iamonte, 70, Italian mobster, fall.
• Nicolás Leoz, 90, Paraguayan football executive, President of CONMEBOL.
• Max McDonald, 92, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.
• Nie Yuanzi, 98, Chinese academic administrator, leader of the Red Guards, respiratory failure.
• Sogyal Rinpoche, 72, Tibetan Dzogchen lama and writer, founder of Rigpa organization, pulmonary embolism.
• George P. Schiavelli, 71, American judge.
• Sean Stephenson, 40, American self-help author and motivational speaker, head injury.
• Valeriy Syrov, 72, Russian-born Ukrainian football player and manager.
• Nikola Trojanović, 90, Yugoslav Olympic swimmer.
• Paz Undurraga, 89, Chilean singer and composer.

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• Don Aickin, 84, New Zealand obstetrician and gynaecologist.
• Biba Caggiano, 82, Italian-born American restaurateur and cookbook author.
• Lila Cockrell, 97, American politician, Mayor of San Antonio.
• Terrance Dicks, 84, English screenwriter.
• Nita Engle, 93, American watercolorist.
• Richard Geist, 74, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, heart attack.
• Jean Guillou, 88, French Olympic gymnast.
• Janusz Hajnos, 51, Polish Olympic ice hockey player.
• Guy Innes-Ker, 10th Duke of Roxburghe, 64, British aristocrat.
• Juhani Kärkinen, 83, Finnish Olympic ski jumper, world champion.
• Miklós Kocsár, 85, Hungarian composer.
• Jim Langer, 71, American Hall of Fame football player, heart failure.
• Jim Leavelle, 99, American homicide detective, police escort for Lee Harvey Oswald, heart attack.
• Brad Linaweaver, 66, American science fiction writer, cancer.
• Maria Dolors Renau, 82, Spanish politician, Deputy, MEP and president of Socialist International Women.
• Mohammad Muslim, Indian politician, MLA.
• Randy Romero, 61, American Hall of Fame jockey, stomach cancer.
• Achille Silvestrini, 95, Italian-born Vatican diplomat and Roman Catholic cardinal, Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches.
• Vladimir Veličković, 84, Serbian painter.

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• Chester Aaron, 96, American writer.
• Deyan Ranko Brashich, 78, American attorney and writer.
• Gordon Bressack, 68, American television writer.
• Franco Columbu, 78, Italian bodybuilder and actor, Mr. Olympia winner, heart attack.
• Jim Colvin, 81, American football player.
• Stephen Cretney, 83, British legal scholar.
• Elaine Darling, 83, Australian politician, MP.
• Dennis Fentie, 68, Canadian politician, Premier of Yukon and MLA, cancer.
• Ken France, 78, New Zealand footballer.
• Lamberto Giorgis, 87, Italian football player and manager.
• Bernard F. Grabowski, 96, American politician, member of the House of Representatives.
• A. James Gregor, 90, American historian.
• Valerie Harper, 80, American actress, Emmy Award winner, leptomeningeal carcinomatosis.
• James Cellan Jones, 88, Welsh film and television director, Chairman of BAFTA, stroke.
• Park Taesun, 77, South Korean writer.
• Hans Rausing, 93, Swedish businessman, Chairman of Tetra Pak.
• Udo Schaefer, 92, German lawyer and Bahá'í author.
• Quentin Wilson, 76, American engineer, one of the original Rocket Boys.
• Armando Wridt, 94, Brazilian martial artist.

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• Jeff Blackshear, 50, American football player, pancreatic cancer.
• Ryszard Czerniawski, 67, Polish lawyer and economist, vice-chairman of the board of Warsaw Stock Exchange and vice-ombudsman.
• Leslie H. Gelb, 82, American journalist and government official, Assistant Secretary of State.
• Alec Holowka, 35, Canadian video game developer.
• Anthoine Hubert, 22, French racing driver, GP3 Series champion, race crash.
• William J. Larkin Jr., 91, American politician, member of the New York State Assembly and Senate.
• Michael Lindsay, 56, American voice actor.
• Marita Lorenz, 80, German-born American conspiracy theorist, heart failure.
• Mary Ma, 66, Chinese business executive, CFO of Lenovo, pancreatic cancer.
• Jane Mathews, 78, Australian judge, Supreme Court of New South Wales.
• Wim Statius Muller, 89, Curaçaoan composer and pianist.
• Hal Naragon, 90, American baseball player and coach.
• Jim Pettie, 65, Canadian ice hockey player, cancer.
• Hugo Pfaltz, 87, American politician.
• Earl Ravenal, 88, American foreign policy analyst, academic, and writer.
• Donald Rooum, 91, English cartoonist and activist.
• Agnar Sandmo, 81, Norwegian economist, cancer.
• Mamadou Tew, 59, Senegalese footballer.
• Marshall P. Tulin, 93, American hydrodynamics engineer.
• Immanuel Wallerstein, 88, American sociologist, developer of world-systems theory.
• Wang Buxuan, 97, Chinese thermal physicist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
• Zbigniew Zaleski, 72, Polish politician.