Deaths in December 2015

• Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.

  December 2015

1

• Edwar al-Kharrat, 89, Egyptian novelist, pneumonia.
• Rob Blokzijl, 72, Dutch physicist and computer scientist.
• Marc Breslow, 89, American game show director.
• Joseph Engelberger, 90, American engineer and inventor.
• Leoni Franco, 73, Uruguayan musician, composer and guitarist.
• Robert E. Glennen, 82, American academic, President of Emporia State University.
• Shirley Gunter, 81, American R&B singer.
• John F. Kurtzke, 89, American neurologist.
• Jim Loscutoff, 85, American basketball player, NBA champion, complications of pneumonia and Parkinson's disease.
• Trevor Obst, 75, Australian football player.
• Xavier Olea Muñoz, 92, Mexican lawyer and politician, Governor of Guerrero.
• Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye, 87, English-born Kenyan writer.
• V. Ramachandran, 84, Indian civil servant.
• Antonio Troyo Calderón, 92, Costa Rican Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of San José de Costa Rica.

  2

• Sandy Berger, 70, American political consultant, United States National Security Advisor, cancer.
• Theodor Borchgrevink, 92, Norwegian civil engineer.
• Bryony Brind, 55, English ballerina, heart attack.
• John Eaton, 81, American composer, brain hemorrhage.
• Gabriele Ferzetti, 90, Italian actor.
• Ray Gandolf, 85, American sportscaster.
• Shelby Highsmith, 86, American federal judge, adrenal cancer.
• Sam Ibiam, 90, Nigerian footballer.
• Portia James, 62, American curator and historian.
• Ferenc Juhász, 87, Hungarian poet.
• Wim Kolijn, 71, Dutch politician.
• Ernst Larsen, 89, Norwegian runner, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Bob Martyn, 85, American baseball player.
• Will McMillan, 71, American actor, producer, and director.
• Joan L. Mitchell, 68, American computer scientist, co-inventor of JPEG.
• Sir John Osborn, 92, British politician, Member of Parliament for Sheffield Hallam.
• M. A. M. Ramaswamy, 84, Indian industrialist and politician.
• John Rassias, 90, American language professor.
• Wally Roker, 78, American R&B singer and music executive, complications following brain surgery.
• George T. Sakato, 94, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.
• A. Sheriff, 74, Indian screenwriter.
• Thom Thomas, 80, American playwright, leukemia.
• Anthony Valentine, 76, British actor, Parkinson's disease.
• Luz Marina Zuluaga, 77, Colombian beauty queen, Miss Universe.
• Perpetrators of the 2015 San Bernardino attack shot dead by police:
• *Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, American.
• *Tashfeen Malik, 29, Pakistani.

  3

• Omar Ali, 76, Bangladeshi poet.
• Gladstone Anderson, 81, Jamaican musician.
• Willie Burden, 64, Canadian football player and sports administrator.
• Roy Evans, 84, Welsh trade union leader.
• Sunil Hettiarachchi, 78, Sri Lankan actor.
• Eevi Huttunen, 93, Finnish speed skater, world champion, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Lawrence Pugh, 82, American businessman, chief executive of VF Corporation.
• Shared Belief, 4, American racehorse, colic.
• Arthur R. Taylor, 80, American businessman, president of CBS.
• Scott Weiland, 48, American musician, accidental drug and alcohol overdose.
• Howard West, 84, American television producer.
• Melvin Williams, 73, American drug trafficker and actor, cancer.
• Michael Wilson, 75, New Zealand cricketer.

  4

• Jaime Camino, 79, Spanish film director.
• Erik De Vlaeminck, 70, Belgian cyclist, seven-time world-champion cyclo-cross.
• Norman Engleback, 88, British architect.
• John Glad, 73, American academic and translator.
• Ricardo Guízar Díaz, 82, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Tlalnepantla.
• Henry Hall, 87, British physicist.
• Robert Loggia, 85, American actor, Alzheimer's disease.
• Rodney Milnes, 79, British opera critic.
• Karen Montgomery, 66, American actress and film producer, breast cancer.
• Irakli Ochiauri, 91, Georgian sculptor.
• Takamasa Sakurai, 49, Japanese author and popular culture expert, proponent of anime for cultural exchange, hit by train.
• Yossi Sarid, 75, Israeli politician, member of Knesset, Minister of Environment and Education.
• Dmitry Shumkov, 43, Russian lawyer and investor, asphyxiation.
• Dag Skogheim, 87, Norwegian writer.
• Lajos Takács, 91, Hungarian mathematician.
• Xu Ming, 44, Chinese entrepreneur and billionaire.

  5

• Zafar Altaf, 74, Pakistani cricketer, administrator and civil servant, heart attack.
• Willie Coburn, 74, Scottish footballer.
• Peter Cochrane, 96, Scottish World War II army officer.
• Luigi Conti, 86, Italian-born Vatican diplomat, Apostolic nuncio.
• Ray Crooke, 93, Australian artist, winner of the Archibald Prize.
• Kiki Divaris, 90, Greek fashion designer, complications from pneumonia.
• Vic Eliason, 79, American Christian broadcaster, cancer.
• Marty Feldman, 93, American football coach and Marine.
• Markku Häkkinen, 69, Finnish botanist.
• Yolande Henderson, 81, Pakistani teacher, intestinal cancer.
• William McIlvanney, 79, Scottish novelist and poet.
• Hack Meyers, 41, American professional wrestler, complications from brain surgery.
• Marília Pêra, 72, Brazilian actress, lung cancer.
• Dimitar Iliev Popov, 88, Bulgarian politician, Prime Minister.
• Tibor Rubin, 86, Hungarian-born American Medal of Honor recipient and Holocaust survivor.
• Wolfgang Sandner, 66, German physicist.
• Siddhi Savetsila, 96, Thai politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Deputy Prime Minister.
• Dave Scholz, 67, American basketball player.
• Horst Schuldes, 76, German Olympic ice hockey player,.
• Franz Speta, 74, Austrian botanist.
• Chuck Williams, 100, American business executive and author, founder of Williams Sonoma.
• Bruce Yorke, 91, Canadian politician.

  6

• Dale Anderson, 83, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Ken Beatrice, 72, American radio personality, complications from pneumonia.
• Ian Burns, 76, Scottish footballer.
• Max Hauri, 73, Swiss Olympic equestrian.
• Mack Herron, 67, American football player.
• Ko Chun-hsiung, 70, Taiwanese actor, director and politician, member of the Legislative Yuan, lung cancer.
• Franzl Lang, 84, German yodeler.
• Liu Juying, 98, Chinese politician and army general.
• Mariuccia Mandelli, 90, Italian fashion designer, founder of Krizia.
• Mike Mangold, 60, American commercial and aerobatics pilot, world champion, plane crash.
• Mick McLaughlin, 72, Welsh footballer.
• John L. Myers, 68, American politician.
• Jaafar Mohammed Saad, Yemeni politician and general, Governor of Aden, car bombing.
• Georg Smefjell, 78, Norwegian Olympic ice hockey player,.
• Nicholas Smith, 81, British actor, complications from a fall.
• Zoltán Szabó, 86, Hungarian cardiac surgeon, performed nation's first successful heart transplant.
• Tomi Taira, 87, Japanese actress, respiratory failure.
• Holly Woodlawn, 69, Puerto Rican-born American actress and Warhol superstar, brain and liver cancer.
• Wu Te-mei, 68, Taiwanese politician, MLY, kidney failure caused by diabetes.

  7

• Betty Bourke, 91, New Zealand health administrator.
• Martin E. Brooks, 90, American actor.
• Lolita Aniyar de Castro, 78, Venezuelan politician.
• Horn Chen, 83, American businessman.
• Jesse C. Deen, 93, American politician.
• Heinz Fricke, 88, German conductor and music director.
• Hoàng Hà Giang, 24, Vietnamese Taekwondo athlete, silver medalist at the 2006 Asian Games.
• Gerhard Lenski, 91, American sociologist.
• Rrok Mirdita, 76, Montenegrin-born Albanian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Tiranë-Durrës.
• Virginia A. Myers, 88, American artist, professor and printmaker.
• Kenneth Partridge, 89, English interior decorator.
• Elaine Riley, 98, American actress.
• Hyron Spinrad, 81, American astronomer.
• Shirley Stelfox, 74, British actress, cancer.
• Jennifer Taylor, 80, Australian architect and academic.
• Peter Westbury, 77, British racing driver.

  8

• Mattiwilda Dobbs, 90, American coloratura soprano, cancer.
• Gus Gil, 76, Venezuelan baseball player.
• Alan Hodgkinson, 79, English footballer.
• Derek Hyatt, 84, English landscape painter.
• Bonnie Lou, 91, American country singer, dementia.
• Gary Marker, 72, American bassist and recording engineer, stroke.
• Johnny More, 81, English impressionist, leukaemia.
• J. Hugh Nichols, 85, American politician.
• Anthony Francis Sharma, 77, Nepalese Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Nepal.
• Jokelyn Tienstra, 45, Dutch handball player, brain tumor.
• Douglas Tompkins, 72, American conservationist and businessman, co-founder of The North Face and Esprit, hypothermia following kayak accident.
• Ross Turnbull, 81, Canadian-born American ice hockey player.
• John Trudell, 69, American Indian activist and poet, cancer.
• Elsie Tu, 102, English-born Hong Kong social activist, member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong.
• Ramashankar Yadav, 58, Indian poet and activist.

  9

• Soshana Afroyim, 88, Austrian painter.
• Norman Breslow, 74, American statistician and medical researcher, prostate cancer.
• John Cockerton, 88, British Anglican priest and academic.
• Carlo Furno, 94, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Cardinal and Apostolic nuncio.
• Robert Grant, 67, American politician, member of the Kansas House of Representatives.
• Gheorghe Gruia, 75, Romanian handball player, world champion, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Rusty Jones, 73, American jazz drummer.
• Juvenal Juvêncio, 81, Brazilian lawyer and sports director.
• Akiyuki Nosaka, 85, Japanese novelist.
• Igino Rizzi, 91, Italian Olympic ski jumper.
• Henry Rowan, 92, American philanthropist and engineer.
• Matthew Shija, 91, Tanzanian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Kahama.
• Julio Terrazas Sandoval, 79, Bolivian Roman Catholic prelate, Cardinal and Archbishop of Santa Cruz de la Sierra.
• Jenny Wormald, 73, Scottish historian.

  10

• Klaus Baumgartner, 77, Swiss politician.
• Ian Bell, 59, Scottish journalist and author.
• Rainer Bloss, 69, German electronic musician.
• Ron Bouchard, 67, American NASCAR driver, cancer.
• Walter Fawcett, 86, Northern Irish cricketer.
• Maurice Graham, 83, Australian rugby union player.
• Denis Héroux, 75, Canadian film director and producer.
• Dermot Patrick O'Mahony, 80, Irish Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Dublin.
• Arnold Peralta, 26, Honduran footballer, shot.
• Desmond Robinson, 87, British Olympic cyclist.
• Dolph Schayes, 87, American Hall of Fame basketball player and coach, NBA champion, cancer.
• Barry Schweid, 83, American news correspondent, neurological disease.
• Donald J. Stohr, 81, American federal judge, U.S. District Court Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri.

  11

• Mihai Adam, 75, Romanian footballer.
• Harry Butler, 85, Australian naturalist and conservationist, cancer.
• Samir Chakrabarti, 72, Indian cricketer.
• Steve Chimombo, 70, Malawian writer.
• Lloyd Dane, 90, American racing driver.
• Neville De Souza, 87, Jamaican religious figure, Bishop of Jamaica and the Cayman Islands.
• Jake Howard, 70, Australian rugby union player.
• Igor Kashintsev, 83, Soviet and Russian actor.
• Abish Kekilbayev, 76, Kazakh politician and academic.
• Sir Roderick McSween, 80, Scottish pathologist.
• Altaff Mungrue, 81, Trinidadian-born English cricketer.
• Jiří Paďour, 72, Czech Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of České Budějovice.
• Gaston Salvatore, 74, Chilean writer.
• H. Arnold Steinberg, 82, Canadian business and educational administrator, Chancellor of McGill University.
• Hema Upadhyay, 43, Indian artist, bludgeoned.
• John "Hot Rod" Williams, 53, American basketball player, prostate cancer.
• Zyx, 65, Canadian cartoonist and publisher.

  12

• Luis Bermejo, 84, Spanish cartoonist and illustrator.
• Ignacio Carrau, 92, Spanish politician and lawyer.
• Jon Gadsby, 62, British-born New Zealand writer and comedian, cancer.
• Gösta Gärdin, 92, Swedish modern pentathlete, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Frans Geurtsen, 73, Dutch footballer.
• Sir Peter Gregson, 79, British civil servant.
• Ken Johnson, 87, British Olympic steeplechase athlete.
• Sharad Anantrao Joshi, 80, Indian politician and social activist, prostate cancer.
• Federico Kirbus, 84, Argentine author.
• Evelyn S. Lieberman, 71, American public affairs professional, White House Deputy Chief of Staff, pancreatic cancer.
• I. Howard Marshall, 81, Scottish theologian, pancreatic cancer.
• Yuri Marushkin, 71, Russian football player and manager.
• Gene Ready, 74, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives, cancer.
• John Scott-Scott, 81, British aerospace engineer.
• Rose Siggins, 43, American actress, infection.
• Yashpal Singh, 94, Indian politician
• Gregory Baker Wolfe, 93, American diplomat and academic.

  13

• Benedict Anderson, 79, American academic and writer, heart failure.
• John Bannon, 72, Australian politician, Premier of South Australia, cancer.
• Albert Bontridder, 94, Belgian architect and writer.
• Luigi Creatore, 93, American songwriter and record producer, pneumonia.
• James Gillies, 91, Canadian politician.
• Marleen de Pater-van der Meer, 65, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives.
• Phil Pepe, 80, American sportswriter, heart attack.
• Gretchen Quie, 88, American artist, First Lady of Minnesota, restored the Minnesota Governor's Residence, Parkinson's disease.
• Peter Ryan, 92, Australian newspaper columnist.
• Donald Weinstein, 89, American historian.

  14

• Terry Backer, 61, American politician, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives, brain cancer.
• Sian Blake, 43, British actress, stabbed.
• Armando Cossutta, 89, Italian politician, member of the European Parliament.
• Johnny Egan, 76, Irish Gaelic football player.
• Kathryn H. Kidd, 65, American author.
• Herbert Kiesel, 84, Swiss bobsledder
• Joe Lancaster, 89, English football player and trainer.
• Edmund Lyndeck, 90, American singer and actor.
• Scat Daddy, 11, American Thoroughbred racehorse.
• Leander J. Shaw Jr., 85, American politician, Chief Justice of Florida Supreme Court.
• Glen Sonmor, 86, Canadian ice hockey player and head coach, pneumonia.
• Mick Twomey, 84, Australian football player.
• Vadym Tyshchenko, 52, Ukrainian football player and manager, Olympic champion.
• Lillian Vernon, 88, German-born American businesswoman, founder of Lillian Vernon.
• Aleš Veselý, 80, Czech sculptor.

  15

• Tom Arden, 54, Australian-born British author, cancer.
• Milton Ballantyne, 87, Australian politician, member of the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly.
• Stella Doufexis, 47, German mezzo-soprano, cancer.
• Licio Gelli, 96, Italian financier, Venerable Master of the Propaganda Due lodge.
• Charles C. Lanham, 87, American politician, member of West Virginia Senate.
• Ken Pogue, 81, Canadian actor, cancer.
• Kathy Secker, 70, British television presenter.
• Harry Zvi Tabor, 98, British-born Israeli physicist.
• H. Paul Varley, 84, American historian.

  16

• Noboru Ando, 89, Japanese actor and yakuza.
• Svein Bakke, 62, Norwegian footballer.
• John Bates, 77, American college basketball coach, heart attack.
• Peter Dickinson, 88, British author.
• Khodadad Mirza Farman Farmaian, 87, Iranian Qajar dynasty royal and banker.
• Gabre Gabric, 101, Croatian-born Italian Olympic track and field athlete,.
• Snuff Garrett, 76, American record producer, cancer.
• Aafje Heynis, 91, Dutch contralto.
• Brian Keeble, 77, English footballer.
• Bob Krause, 70, American college athletic director, cancer.
• Heinz-Otto Kreiss, 85, German-born Swedish mathematician.
• Lizmark, 64, Mexican professional wrestler, respiratory failure.
• Jim McAnany, 79, American baseball player.
• Anthony Muto, 81, American fashion designer, heart failure.
• Zoulikha Nasri, 70, Moroccan politician, Secretary of State for National Cooperation.
• George Earl Ortman, 89, American artist.
• Ray Price, 78, American motorcycle builder and racer.
• René Saorgin, 87, French organist.
• Ilie Savel, 88, Romanian Olympic hurdler.
• Harry Scott, 78, British boxer.
• Joseph Tellechéa, 89, French footballer.
• Enoch Thorsgard, 98, American politician.

  17

• Hal Brown, 91, American baseball player.
• Serge Devèze, 59, French football manager.
• Zaevion Dobson, 15, American football player, shot.
• Osamu Hayaishi, 95, Japanese biochemist.
• Buckshot Hoffner, 91, American politician.
• Vladimir Kostyukov, 61, Belarusian football coach and player.
• Kamal Ahmed Rizvi, 85, Pakistani actor and writer, heart attack.
• Joseph Roduit, 76, Swiss Roman Catholic prelate, Abbot of Saint-Maurice d'Agaune.
• Michael Wyschogrod, 87, German-born American Jewish theologian.

  18

• Luc Brewaeys, 56, Belgian composer and musician, cancer.
• Florentino Broce, 72, Filipino football player and coach.
• Slobodan Čašule, 70, Macedonian politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs.
• Yūzan Fujita, 66, Japanese politician, Governor of Hiroshima Prefecture.
• Carl Furlonge, 83, Trinidadian cricketer.
• Joe Gilmore, 93, British barman.
• Evelio Hernández, 84, Cuban baseball player.
• Vittore Gottardi, 74, Swiss footballer.
• Stuart Milton Hodgson, 91, Canadian politician, Commissioner of the Northwest Territories.
• Martin Jære, 95, Norwegian Olympic skier.
• Daifallah Masadeh, 76–77, Jordanian politician, State Minister for Legal Affairs.
• Léon Mébiame, 81, Gabonese politician, Prime Minister.
• Howell W. Melton, 92, American lawyer and judge.
• Placidus Nkalanga, 96, Tanzanian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bukoba.
• Andreja Preger, 104, Hungarian-born Serbian pianist and Holocaust survivor.
• Mogens Rukov, 72, Danish screenwriter.
• Jesús Samper, 65, Spanish businessman, owner of Real Murcia.
• Helge Solum Larsen, 46, Norwegian politician, deputy leader of Venstre, aneurysm.
• Jean-Luc Vilmouth, 63, French artist.

  19

• Bets Borm-Luijkx, 97, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives.
• Peter Broggs, 61, Jamaican reggae musician.
• Douglas Dick, 95, American actor.
• Louis DiGiaimo, 77, American casting director and film producer, stroke.
• Maurice Grace, 86, Australian Olympic rower.
• Chris Harris, 67, American politician, member of the Texas House of Representatives and Senate.
• Jimmy Hill, 87, English footballer and manager, trade union leader and TV presenter, Alzheimer's disease.
• Harry Hyams, 87, British property developer.
• Greville Janner, 87, British politician, MP for Leicester North West and Leicester West, Alzheimer's disease.
• Stephen Jelicich, 92, Croatian-born New Zealand architect.
• Mabuni Kenei, 97, Japanese martial arts expert.
• Samir Kuntar, 53, Lebanese convicted murderer, member of Hezbollah, longest-held Lebanese prisoner in Israel, missile strike.
• Alan Lee, 61, British cricket and horse racing journalist.
• Madame Claude, 92, French procurer.
• Kurt Masur, 88, German conductor, Parkinson's disease.
• Dickie Moore, 84, Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey player, Stanley Cup winner, prostate cancer.
• Carlos Païta, 83, Argentine conductor.
• Ranganath, 66, Indian Telugu actor, suicide by hanging.
• Selma Reis, 55, Brazilian actress and singer, brain cancer.
• Ozell Sutton, 90, American civil rights activist.
• Karin Söder, 87, Swedish politician, leader of the Centre Party, Minister for Health and Social Affairs, Minister for Foreign Affairs.
• Dick Wathika, 42, Kenyan politician, Mayor of Nairobi.

  20

• Aldo Baito, 95, Italian cyclist.
• George Burpo, 93, American baseball player.
• Rudi Ceyssens, 53, Belgian Olympic cyclist.
• Patricia Elliott, 77, American actress, Tony Award winner, leiomyosarcoma.
• Gevorg Geodakyan, 87, Armenian musicologist.
• Robert Hayling, 86, American civil rights activist.
• Alain Jouffroy, 87, French surrealist poet and art critic.
• Ray Mathews, 86, American football player.
• Angela McEwan, 81, American actress, lung cancer.
• Wayne Robinson, 85, American football player.
• Kjell Bloch Sandved, 93, Norwegian-born American author and nature photographer.
• Jim West, 61, Australian boxer, national flyweight/super featherweight and Commonwealth flyweight champion.

  21

• Rimma Bilunova, 75, Russian chess player and coach.
• Dejan Brđović, 49, Serbian volleyball player, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Abune Dioskoros, 80, Eritrean prelate, Patriarch of the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church.
• Sam Dockery, 86, American jazz pianist.
• David Emms, 90, British educationalist.
• Timothy Foote, 89, American editor and writer.
• Jan Góra, 67, Polish Roman Catholic Dominican priest.
• Jupiter Apple, 47, Brazilian singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, multiple organ failure.
• Vilgot Larsson, 83, Swedish Olympic ice hockey player,, world champion.
• Richelieu Levoyer, 85, Ecuadorian army general and politician.
• Lim Eng Beng, 64, Filipino basketball player, liver cancer.
• Bob Suci, 76, American football player.
• Andrei Troschinsky, 37, Kazakhstani ice hockey player, Asian champion, heart attack.
• Ernesto Mayz Vallenilla, 90, Venezuelan philosopher.
• Emmanuel Yarbrough, 51, American mixed martial artist.

  22

• Arlin M. Adams, 94, American judge.
• Rolf Bossi, 92, German lawyer.
• Carol Burns, 68, Australian actress, cancer.
• Daisy Elliott, 98, American politician and realtor.
• Derek Ezra, Baron Ezra, 96, British coal industry administrator, Chairman of the National Coal Board.
• Nabil Al Fadl, 66, Kuwaiti politician.
• Billy Glaze, 72, American serial killer, lung cancer.
• Marijane Landis, 87, American broadcaster and television host.
• Joseph Leopold Imesch, 84, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Joliet.
• Peter Lundblad, 65, Swedish singer, prostate cancer.
• V. S. Malimath, 86, Indian judge, Chief Justice of Karnataka and Kerala.
• Riley Martin, 69, American author and radio host.
• Brooke McCarter, 52, American model and actor, alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency.
• Freda Meissner-Blau, 88, Austrian politician, founder of The Greens – The Green Alternative.
• Dom O'Grady, 34, American mixed martial artist, heart attack.
• Carson Van Osten, 70, American artist, Disney Legend.

  23

• Hocine Aït Ahmed, 89, Algerian politician, founder and leader of Socialist Forces Front.
• Carlos Cano, 60, Peruvian actor, cancer.
• Chen Luyun, 38, Chinese basketball player, colon cancer.
• Henry Crichton, 6th Earl Erne, 78, British peer.
• Michael Earl, 56, American puppeteer, colon cancer.
• Alfred G. Gilman, 74, American pharmacologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate, pancreatic cancer.
• Grégoire Haddad, 91, Lebanese Melkite Greek Catholic hierarch, Archbishop of Beirut and Byblos.
• Hatidža Hadžiosmanović, 78, Bosnian jurist, President of the Constitutional Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• Don Howe, 80, English footballer and coach.
• Ablie Jagne, 62, Gambian footballer.
• Joe Jamail, 90, American attorney and billionaire.
• Jean-Marie Pelt, 82, French biologist.
• Igor Persiantsev, 78, Russian figure skater.
• Sławomir Pstrong, 39, Polish film and television director, screenwriter, and author of short stories.
• Taklung Tsetrul Rinpoche, 89, Tibetan lama, Supreme Head of the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism.
• Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, 85, German-born American political scientist.
• Bill Subritzky, 90, New Zealand property developer and evangelist.
• Sir Brian Tovey, 89, British civil servant, Director of the Government Communications Headquarters.
• Bülent Ulusu, 92, Turkish politician, Prime Minister.

  24

• Romeo Anaya, 69, Mexican boxer, WBA Bantamweight Champion.
• László Bánhegyi, 84, Hungarian Olympic basketball player.
• Turid Birkeland, 53, Norwegian politician, Minister of Culture, myelofibrosis.
• Jim Carlton, 80, Australian politician, member of the Australian Parliament, Minister for Health.
• Suprovat Chakravarty, 86, Indian Olympic cyclist, heart attack.
• David C. Clark, 89, American politician.
• Michael W. Davidson, 65, American microscopist.
• Eugène Dodeigne, 92, Belgian-born French sculptor.
• Robert S. Folkenberg, 75, Puerto Rican Seventh-day Adventist leader, President of the General Conference.
• Dennis Griffiths, 82, British newspaper executive and press historian.
• William Guest, 74, American R&B singer, heart failure.
• Mel Holmes, 65, American football player.
• Ron Jacobs, 72, American basketball coach, complications from a stroke.
• Jin Xiang, 80, Chinese composer and music critic.
• Takeharu Kunimoto, 55, Japanese musician, acute respiratory failure.
• Letty Jimenez Magsanoc, 74, Filipino journalist, cardiac arrest.
• Adriana Olguín, 104, Chilean lawyer and politician, Minister of Justice.

  25

• Manuel Agujetas, 76, Spanish flamenco singer.
• Zahran Alloush, 44, Syrian rebel commander, founder of Jaysh al-Islam, airstrike.
• Sir Clifford Boulton, 85, British public servant, Clerk of the House of Commons
• Ali Eid, 75, Lebanese politician, General Secretary of the Arab Democratic Party.
• George Evans, 74, Australian rugby league player.
• Karen Friesicke, 53, German comedian and actress, suicide.
• Leonid Gofshtein, 62, Israeli chess grandmaster.
• Ottavio Jemma, 90, Italian screenwriter.
• George Clayton Johnson, 86, American writer, prostate and bladder cancer.
• Eric Philpott, 69, Irish Gaelic footballer.
• Ignacio Rupérez, 72, Spanish author and diplomat, Ambassador to Iraq and Honduras.
• Acharya S, 54, American religious author, breast cancer.
• Sadhana Shivdasani, 74, Indian film actress.
• Robert Spitzer, 83, American psychiatrist, heart disease.
• Jason Wingreen, 95, American actor.

  26

• Nasser al-Bahri, 43, Saudi-born Yemeni Islamist militant and bodyguard.
• Tony Buffery, 76, British actor, comedian and writer.
• Ogwyn Davies, 90, Welsh painter.
• Bobby Dews, 76, American baseball player and coach.
• Ed Dobson, 65, British-born American theologian, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Ståle Eskeland, 72, Norwegian jurist, cancer.
• Robert Austin Larter, 90, Canadian politician.
• Emory Melton, 92, American politician, Missouri State Senator.
• William O'Callaghan, 94, Irish Army lieutenant general, Force Commander.
• Jim O'Toole, 78, American baseball player.
• Mac Otten, 90, American basketball player.
• Jamie Parsons, 74, American politician, Mayor of Juneau, cancer.
• Frank B. Salisbury, 89, American plant physiologist.
• Mary Scranton, 97, American community advocate and philanthropist, First Lady of Pennsylvania, Alzheimer's disease.
• Tongdaeng, 17, Thai dog, pet of King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
• Sten Wickbom, 84, Swedish politician, Governor of Kronoberg County, Minister for Justice.

  27

• Naji al Jerf, 37, Syrian journalist and filmmaker, shot.
• Christopher N. L. Brooke, 88, British medieval historian.
• Stein Eriksen, 88, Norwegian alpine skier, Olympic champion and triple world champion.
• Franco Giacobini, 89, Italian actor.
• Dave Henderson, 57, American baseball player, World Series champion, heart attack.
• Aidan Higgins, 88, Irish writer.
• Ellsworth Kelly, 92, American artist.
• Meadowlark Lemon, 83, American Hall of Fame basketball player.
• Sidney Mintz, 93, American anthropologist.
• Alfredo Pacheco, 33, Salvadoran footballer, shot.
• Carlos Rosales Mendoza, 52, Mexican drug lord, founder of La Familia Michoacana.
• Andy M. Stewart, 63, Scottish folk singer.
• Roy Swinbourne, 86, English footballer.
• Gabriel Tambon, 85, French politician, Mayor of Le Castellet, Var.
• Brian Turner, 77, English cricketer.
• Wilbur Volz, 91, American football player.
• Berenado Vunibobo, 83, Fijian politician and diplomat.
• Haskell Wexler, 93, American cinematographer and director, Oscar winner.
• Stevie Wright, 68, English-born Australian singer.
• Youhannes Ezzat Zakaria Badir, 66, Egyptian Coptic Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Ismayliah and Luqsor.

  28

• Ann Arnold, 79, English artist.
• Chris Barnard, 76, South African author, heart attack.
• Robert O. Blake, 94, American diplomat, Ambassador to Mali, prostate cancer.
• John Bradbury, 62, English drummer.
• Nancy Randall Clark, 77, American politician.
• Rick Cluchey, 82, American playwright.
• Bram de Does, 81, Dutch typographer.
• Maggie Deahm, 77, Australian politician, member of the Australian House of Representatives for Macquarie.
• Guru Josh, 51, Jersey musician, suicide.
• Joe Houston, 89, American jazz and R&B saxophonist.
• Eloy Inos, 66, Northern Mariana Islands politician, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, complications after heart surgery.
• Eiji Kimizuka, 63, Japanese general, Chief of Staff Ground Self-Defense Force, lung cancer.
• Lemmy, 70, English rock musician, complications from prostate cancer.
• Tiffany Leong, 30, Malaysian actress, liver cancer.
• Aura Lewis, 68, South African reggae singer.
• Ian Murdock, 42, American software engineer, founder of the Debian Project, suicide by hanging.
• Åge Nordkild, 63, Norwegian politician, member of the Sami Parliament.
• Tone Nyhagen, 52, Norwegian dancer.
• Landon H. Rowland, 78, American businessman.
• Pierre-Marie Rudelle, 83, French painter.
• Allen Sapp, 87, Canadian painter.
• Sylvester Stein, 95, South African writer and athlete.
• Sean Whitesell, 52, American actor and television producer, cancer.

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• Sabino Acquaviva, 88, Italian sociologist.
• Billie Allen, 90, American actress, one of the first black performers on U.S. television.
• Aslam Azhar, 83, Pakistani television executive.
• Wanda Harper Bush, 84, American barrel racer, heart attack.
• Tony Carroll, 74, American psychotherapist.
• Patrick Curtin, 26, Irish Gaelic footballer, head injuries after falling from a vehicle.
• Edward Hugh, 67, British economist, gallbladder and liver cancer.
• Kim Yang-gon, 73, North Korean senior politician, traffic collision.
• Elżbieta Krzesińska, 81, Polish track and field athlete, Olympic champion.
• Om Prakash Malhotra, 93, Indian Army general.
• Frank Malzone, 85, American baseball player.
• Master Blaster, 28–29, Ugandan dancehall musician, shot.
• Ed Mayer, 84, American baseball player.
• Pavel Srníček, 47, Czech footballer, European Championship runner-up, complications from heart attack.

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• George Andreadis, 79, Greek author.
• Doug Atkins, 85, American football player, NFL champion.
• Víctor Santiago Díaz, Puerto Rican politician, cancer.
• Howard Davis, Jr., 59, American boxer, Olympic champion, lung cancer.
• Chatral Sangye Dorje, 102, Tibetan yogi.
• George Elsey, 97, American military adviser.
• Mangesh Padgaonkar, 86, Indian poet.
• Howard Pawley, 81, Canadian politician, Premier of Manitoba.
• Luis Silva Parra, 84, Ecuadorian jazz saxophonist.
• Yuhanon Philoxenos, 74, Indian Syriac Orthodox bishop.
• Zjef Vanuytsel, 70, Belgian folk and kleinkunst singer.
• Fritz Wechselberger, 77, Austrian Olympic ice hockey player.

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• Roman Bartoszcze, 69, Polish politician.
• Helen Blatch, 82, British actress, cancer.
• Wesley Burrowes, 85, Irish playwright.
• Natalie Cole, 65, American Grammy-winning singer and actress, heart failure.
• Bronislav Danda, 85, Czech ice hockey player, bronze medalist at the 1955 World Ice Hockey Championships.
• Steve Gohouri, 34, Ivorian footballer.
• Geoffrey Hawthorn, 74, British sociologist.
• Beth Howland, 74, American actress, lung cancer.
• Marion James, 81, American blues singer.
• Donal Leahy, 77, Irish footballer.
• Marvin Panch, 89, American racing driver, natural causes.
• Felix Pirani, 87, British theoretical physicist.
• Dino Pompanin, 85, Italian Olympic skier.
• Vern Rapp, 87, American baseball manager.
• Dal Richards, 97, Canadian big band leader, prostate cancer.
• Wayne Rogers, 82, American actor, complications from pneumonia.
• Daniel L. Ryan, 85, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Springfield in Illinois.
• Richard Sapper, 83, German industrial designer.
• Peter Wight, 85, Guyanese-born English cricketer and umpire.