Deaths in January 2014
The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2014.
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.
January 2014
1
- Peter Austin, 92, British brewer.
- Traian T. Coșovei, 59, Romanian poet.
- Herman Pieter de Boer, 85, Dutch writer, lyricist and journalist.
- Pete DeCoursey, 52, American political journalist, pancreatic and lung cancer.
- Michael Glennon, 69, Australian Roman Catholic priest and convicted child molester.
- James H. Harless, 94, American industrialist and philanthropist.
- Higashifushimi Kunihide, 103, Japanese Buddhist monk.
- Milan Horvat, 94, Croatian conductor.
- Jamal al-Jamal, 56, Palestinian diplomat, Ambassador to the Czech Republic, injuries sustained in an explosion.
- Jorge Jottar, 84, Chilean Olympic skeet shooter, heart attack.
- Billy McColl, 62, Scottish actor.
- William Mgimwa, 63, Tanzanian politician, MP, Minister of Finance.
- Therese Mills, 85, Trinidad journalist and editor.
- Juanita Moore, 99, American actress.
- Jafar Namdar, 79, Iranian Olympic and World Cup football referee.
- Dean Nyquist, 78, American politician and lawyer.
- Josep Seguer, 90, Spanish footballer.
- Cal Swenson, 65, Canadian ice hockey player.
- Tabby Thomas, 84, American blues musician.
- Sam Ulano, 93, American drummer.
- Tokuo Yamashita, 94, Japanese politician, Minister of Health, Labour, and Welfare
2
- Terry Biddlecombe, 72, English National Hunt jockey.
- Jeanne Brabants, 93, Belgian dancer, choreographer and teacher.
- Terry Magaoa Chapman, 69, Niuean civil servant.
- Anne Dorte of Rosenborg, 66, Danish countess, respiratory illness.
- Louis George, 63, Saint Lucian politician, Minister of Education.
- Bernard Glasser, 89, American film producer.
- Patrick Heron, 61, Irish author, cancer.
- Elizabeth Jane Howard, 90, English novelist.
- R. Crosby Kemper, Jr., 86, American banker and civic philanthropist.
- Thomas Kurzhals, 60, German composer and musician, liver cirrhosis.
- Li Tai-hsiang, 72, Taiwanese composer and folk songwriter, multiple organ failure.
- Ian Mackley, 71, British diplomat, High Commissioner to Ghana.
- Dhananjay Mahato, 94, Indian politician.
- Franciszek Malinowski, 82, Polish scholar and journalist.
- Michael J. Matthews, 79, American politician and convicted criminal, Mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey.
- Yōko Mitsui, 78, Japanese poet, liver failure.
- Hal Newton, 80, Canadian football player.
- Harald Nugiseks, 92, Estonian war veteran and anti-communism activist.
- Oiteyama Hirokuni, 75, Japanese sumo wrestler.
- Dirk Sager, 73, German journalist.
- Arnold A. Saltzman, 97, American businessman and diplomat.
- Viktor Talyanov, 79, Soviet Olympic skier.
- Jay Traynor, 70, American singer, liver cancer.
3
- Larry Arndt, 50, American baseball player.
- Guillermo Arriaga Fernández, 87, Mexican dancer, composer and choreographer, pneumonia.
- Eric Barnes, 76, English footballer.
- Sylvia Bassot, 73, French politician, member of the National Assembly.
- Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y García-Menocal, 77, Cuban theologian and writer.
- Leon de Wolff, 65, Dutch journalist and media consultant, multiple system atrophy.
- Robert Diligent, 89, French journalist.
- Phil Everly, 74, American singer and musician, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
- Donald Forst, 81, American newspaper editor, cancer.
- John M. Freeman, 80, American pediatric neurologist.
- George Goodman, 83, American economics commentator, myelofibrosis.
- László Helyey, 65, Hungarian actor.
- Sir Michael Neubert, 80, British politician, MP for Romford.
- Alicia Rhett, 98, American actress and portrait painter.
- Jennie Robak, 81, American politician, Nebraska State Senator, traffic collision.
- Wilson Allen Shoffner, 75, American soldier.
- George Wilson, 93, Australian rules footballer.
- Larry Vognild, 81, American politician, Washington State Senator, heart failure.
- David Whitefield, 77, South African cricketer.
- Yashiki Takajin, 64, Japanese singer-songwriter and television presenter, esophageal cancer.
- Saul Zaentz, 92, American film producer, Alzheimer's disease.
4
- Bill Abington, 92, American politician, member of the Texas House of Representatives.
- Ahmad A'zam, 64, Uzbek writer.
- Caixa Eletronica, 9, American racehorse, training collision.
- Mrinal Das, 66, Indian trade unionist, heart attack.
- Irving Fishman, 92, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, Senator.
- Gabe Gabler, 83, American baseball player.
- Andy Holden, 65, English Olympic long distance runner.
- Shirley Jeffrey, 74, Australian marine biologist.
- Chris Karras, 89, American painter.
- Sergey Kozlov, 53, Russian football player and coach.
- Jean Metellus, 76, Haitian poet and writer.
- Josef Staribacher, 92, Austrian politician, pneumonia.
5
- M'hamed Benguettaf, 75, Algerian actor and playwright.
- Philippe Boiry, 86, French pretender to the throne of the Kingdom of Araucania and Patagonia.
- Jerry Coleman, 89, American baseball player, manager and broadcaster and Marine aviator, complications from brain bleeding and surgery.
- Eusébio, 71, Portuguese footballer, top goalscorer at the 1966 World Cup, heart failure.
- Arthur Gietzelt, 93, Australian politician, Senator for New South Wales, Minister for Veterans' Affairs.
- Augusto Graziani, 80, Italian economist.
- Slamet Gundono, 47, Indonesian puppeteer.
- Brian Hart, 77, British racing driver and engineer.
- Simon Hoggart, 67, English journalist, pancreatic cancer.
- Govert Huijser, 82, Dutch general, Chief of the Defence Staff.
- Annamária Kinde, 57, Romanian poet, journalist and editor.
- Uday Kiran, 33, Indian film actor, suicide by hanging.
- János Kristófi, 88, Romanian painter.
- E. J. Lowe, 63, British philosopher.
- Alma Muriel, 62, Mexican actress, heart attack.
- Nelson Ned, 66, Brazilian singer, pneumonia.
- Mogens E. Pedersen, 85, Danish journalist.
- Tom Quinn, 79, American actor, diabetes.
- Peter Rull Sr., 91, Hong Kong Olympic sport shooter.
- Rod Searle, 93, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives, Speaker.
- Sissel Sellæg, 85, Norwegian actress.
- Endre Senkálszky, 99, Romanian actor and director.
- K. P. Udayabhanu, 77, Indian playback singer.
- David Maxwell Walker, 93, Scottish lawyer and academic.
- Ray Williams, 86, Welsh rugby union player.
- Carmen Zapata, 86, American actress, heart disease.
- Mustapha Zitouni, 85, French-Algerian footballer.
6
- Jim Appleby, 79, English footballer.
- John Ash, 88, English ornithologist.
- Bob Bolen, 87, American politician and businessman, Mayor of Fort Worth, Texas.
- Don Chuy, 72, American football player.
- Herbert Fries, 88, German Oberfähnrich in the Fallschirmjäger during World War II.
- Rashaad Galant, 66, South African cricketer.
- Marina Ginestà, 94, French veteran of the Spanish Civil War.
- Karel Gut, 86, Czech ice hockey player and manager, member of the International Ice Hockey Federation Hall of Fame.
- Aitzaz Hasan, 17, Pakistani schoolboy, intercepted suicide bomber at school, injuries sustained in bombing.
- Frank Illiano, 86, American criminal, infection.
- Larry D. Mann, 91, Canadian-born American actor.
- Pedro Mayorga, 93, Argentine Olympic equestrian and sports official.
- Thomas Patrick Melady, 86, American educator and diplomat, Ambassador to Burundi, Uganda and the Holy See.
- Čika Mišo, 82, Bosnian shoeshiner, heart attack.
- James Moorhouse, 90, British politician, Member of the European Parliament.
- Hector Munro, 93, English cricketer.
- Carlos Padilla Velásquez, 79, Honduran football manager.
- H. Owen Reed, 103, American composer, conductor and educator.
- Bishop Robinson, 86, American police chief, Commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department, Alzheimer's disease.
- Julian Rotter, 97, American psychologist.
- Lena Smedsaas, 62, Swedish journalist, cancer.
- Mónica Spear, 29, Venezuelan actress and beauty pageant winner, shot.
- Don Ward, 78, Canadian ice hockey player.
- Todd Williams, 35, American football player.
7
- AKM Nazir Ahmed, 74, Bangladeshi politician.
- Jerald C. Anderson, 79, American politician, Minnesota State Senator.
- Alvin Aubert, 83, American poet.
- Giuseppe Frascarelli, 90, Italian footballer.
- Ivan Ladislav Galeta, 66, Croatian multimedia artist.
- Paul Goggins, 60, British politician, MP for Wythenshawe and Sale East, brain haemorrhage.
- Maureen Gray, 65, American songwriter and doo-wop singer, bile duct cancer.
- Bakhtiyar Gulamov, 64, Azerbaijani footballer.
- Thomas V. Jones, 93, American businessman, CEO of Northrop Corporation, pulmonary fibrosis.
- Willy Köstinger, 73, Austrian Olympic skier.
- Peter Moraites, 91, American politician.
- Vilard Normcharoen, 51, Thai footballer.
- Emiel Pauwels, 95, Belgian athlete.
- Phil Ryan, 98, Australian football player and administrator.
- Sir Run Run Shaw, 106, Hong Kong media mogul and philanthropist.
- Sunshine Forever, 29, American racehorse.
- Roy Warhurst, 87, English footballer.
8
- Vicente T. Blaz, 85, American USMC general and politician, delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives from Guam.
- Vishwanath Bondre, 77, Indian cricketer.
- Charles Casali, 90, Swiss footballer.
- Maciej Dunal, 60, Polish actor and singer.
- André Gernez, 90, French physician.
- Madeline Gins, 72, American poet, painter and architect, cancer.
- Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher, 88, Dutch Olympic swimmer.
- Adrian Holmes, 88, Australian Olympic boxer.
- Levon Khechoyan, 58, Armenian writer.
- Josef Lammerz, 83, German composer and organist.
- Jacques Lazarus, 97, Swiss-born French military officer, Jewish resistance leader in France during World War II.
- José Luis Martinez, 87, Spanish Olympic sports shooter.
- Armen Mazmanyan, 53, Armenian theater director and actor.
- Edward N. Ney, 88, American business executive and diplomat, CEO of Young & Rubicam, Ambassador to Canada.
- Robert Pastor, 66, American academic and national security advisor, colon cancer.
- Antonino P. Roman, 74, Filipino politician, member of the House of Representatives, multiple organ failure.
- Selçuk Uluergüven, 73, Turkish actor.
9
- Amiri Baraka, 79, American poet, writer and activist, Poet Laureate of New Jersey.
- Charlie Bazzano, 90, Australian Olympic cyclist.
- Rynn Berry, 68, American vegetarian activist and author, heart attack.
- Roy Campbell, Jr., 61, American jazz trumpeter, hypertensive atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.
- Cliff Carpenter, 98, American actor.
- Josep Maria Castellet, 87, Spanish writer, publisher and editor.
- Bill Conlin, 79, American sports columnist.
- Lorella De Luca, 73, Italian actress, brain tumour.
- Paul du Toit, 48, South African artist, cancer.
- Luis García, 84, Venezuelan professional baseball player, cerebrovascular disease.
- Yuri Golov, 77, Russian footballer.
- Patrick J. Hannifin, 90, American naval officer.
- Winfried Hassemer, 73, German judge and academic.
- Michael Hemmingson, 47, American writer, cardiac arrest.
- Chaudhry Aslam Khan, 46-47, Pakistani police chief, bombing.
- Salvador Llopis, 63, Spanish footballer.
- Hans Lund-Andersen, 92, Norwegian mining engineer and businessperson.
- Franklin McCain, 73, American civil rights leader, member of the Greensboro Four.
- Albert McCann, 72, English footballer.
- D. Harold McNamara, 90, American astronomer.
- Jean-Jacques Moreau, 90, French mathematician.
- Dale T. Mortensen, 74, American economist, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, cancer.
- Eric Palante, 50, Belgian motorcycle rally rider, race collision.
- Věra Tichánková, 93, Czech actress.
- Bill Woodhouse, 77, American sprinter.
- Marc Yor, 64, French mathematician.
10
- Joel Barkan, 72, American political scientist, pulmonary embolism.
- Sam Berns, 17, American high school student, progeria sufferer and documentary subject, progeria.
- Ike Borsavage, 89, American basketball player.
- Elliot Eisner, 80, American academic.
- Kathryn Findlay, 60, British architect, brain tumour.
- Aram Gharabekian, 58, Armenian conductor.
- Anthony J. Hederman, 92, Irish judge, Attorney General.
- Petr Hlaváček, 63, Czech academic and shoe expert.
- Frouwke Laning-Boersema, 76, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives.
- Margo Maeckelberghe, 81, British artist.
- Marly Marley, 75, Brazilian vedette and actress, pancreatic cancer.
- Jean-Claude Roger Mbede, 34, Cameroonian prisoner, imprisoned for homosexuality.
- Zbigniew Messner, 84, Polish politician, Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Poland.
- Donald Morton, 79, American oncologist, heart failure.
- Salvatore Nicolosi, 91, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Lipari and Noto.
- Ian Redford, 53, Scottish footballer.
- Larry Speakes, 74, American journalist, de facto White House Press Secretary, Alzheimer's disease.
- Hadi Thayeb, 91, Indonesian diplomat, co-founder of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Industry, Governor of Aceh.
- Jack Tuell, 90, American Methodist minister and equal-rights advocate, Bishop of Los Angeles.
- Allard van der Scheer, 85, Dutch actor.
11
- Keiko Awaji, 80, Japanese actress, esophageal cancer.
- Jophery Brown, 68, American baseball player and stuntman, complications from cancer.
- Chai Trong-rong, 78, Taiwanese politician, stroke.
- Zoltán Pál Dienes, 97, Hungarian mathematician and educationalist.
- Bryan Fairfax, 88, Australian conductor.
- Arnoldo Foà, 97, Italian actor, voice actor and director, respiratory failure.
- Vugar Gashimov, 27, Azerbaijani chess player, complications from a brain tumour.
- Muhammad Habibur Rahman, 85, Bangladeshi judge and jurist, Chief Justice, Chief Advisor.
- Michael Jacobs, 61, British writer, cancer.
- Joe Junkin, 67, Canadian ice hockey player, cancer.
- Dick Miller, 55, American basketball player, heart attack.
- Volodymyr Raskatov, 56, Ukrainian Soviet Olympic silver and bronze medallist swimmer.
- Ariel Sharon, 85, Israeli politician and general, Minister of Defense, Prime Minister, heart failure.
- Sitaram Singh, 65, Indian politician.
- Alphonsus Augustus Sowada, 80, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Agats.
- Stanley Uys, 91, South African journalist, heart attack.
- Jerome Willis, 85, British actor.
- Mora Windt-Martini, 76, Romanian world champion field handball team player.
12
- Heinz Angelmaier, 95, German soldier, Hauptmann in World War II, awarded Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.
- Neal Barrett, Jr., 84, American author.
- Alexandra Bastedo, 67, British actress and animal welfare advocate, breast cancer.
- Nick Bevan, 71, British rowing coach.
- Connie Binsfeld, 89, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Michigan.
- John Button, 70, British racing driver, suspected heart attack.
- Halet Çambel, 97, Turkish Olympic fencer and archaeologist.
- George Dement, 91, American innkeeper, restaurateur and politician, Mayor of Bossier City, Louisiana.
- François Joseph Pierre Deniau, 77, French Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Nevers.
- William Feindel, 95, Canadian neurosurgeon.
- Tony Harding, 72, British comics artist.
- Ángel Herrero, 71, Spanish footballer, pulmonary edema.
- Patrick Horsbrugh, 93, British architecture professor.
- John Horsley, 93, British actor.
- E. Holman Jones, 87, American newspaper publisher and politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives.
- Burton Lifland, 84, American judge, pneumonia.
- Frank Marth, 91, American actor, heart failure and Alzheimer's disease.
- Robert H. Quinn, 85, American attorney and politician, Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, President of the NAAG.
- Armando Rodriguez, 96, Cuban-born American grocer.
- Sir Robert Scholey, 92, British business executive, Chairman of British Steel.
- Zdenko Škrabalo, 84, Serbian-born Croatian academician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs.
- Michael L. Strang, 84, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Colorado.
- Tsunetoshi Tanaka, 88, Japanese politician, member of the House of Representatives.
- Gyula Török, 75, Hungarian Olympic champion boxer.
13
- Don Asmonga, 85, American basketball player and teacher.
- Patricia Boyle, 76, American federal judge, U.S. District Court Justice, Michigan Supreme Court Justice, respiratory failure.
- Ulysse Bozonnet, 92, French soldier and Olympic skier.
- Bobby Collins, 82, Scottish footballer.
- Anjali Devi, 86, Indian actress and film producer.
- Mihai Fotino, 83, Romanian actor.
- Gatluak Deng Garang, 59, South Sudanese general and politician, Governor of Upper Nile, cancer.
- Gary Grimshaw, 67, American rock concert graphic poster artist.
- Amos Hadar, 90, Israeli politician.
- Kees IJmkers, 89, Dutch politician, member of the Senate.
- Bruce Jones, 68, American surfboard shaper, heart attack.
- Ronny Jordan, 51, English jazz guitarist.
- Eric Khoo Heng-Pheng, 57, Malaysian scout leader, heart attack.
- Bennie Lands, 92, Canadian Olympic basketball player.
- Thomas McCloy, 86, Irish cricketer.
- Norm Parker, 72, American college football coach, defensive coordinator of the Iowa Hawkeyes.
- Randal Tye Thomas, 35, American politician, Mayor of Gun Barrel City, Texas.
- Michael Tshele, 64, South African photographer and community activist, shot.
- Waldemar von Gazen, 96, German officer in the Wehrmacht during World War II and Iron Cross recipient.
- Menachem Zilberman, 67, Israeli comedian and songwriter, heart attack.
14
- Rex Adams, 85, English footballer.
- Marian Ewurama Addy, 72, Ghanaian scientist.
- Issa Benyamin, 89, Iranian Assyrian calligrapher and educator.
- Jon Bing, 69, Norwegian writer and legal scholar.
- Alan Blackburn, 78, English footballer.
- Pierre F. Brault, 74, Canadian composer.
- Fernand Brosius, 79, Luxembourgian footballer.
- Sir Nicholas Browne, 66, British diplomat, Ambassador to Iran and Denmark.
- Juan Gelman, 83, Argentine poet, winner of the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, myelodysplastic syndrome.
- Jerry Marciniak, 76, Canadian football player.
- Eric James Mellon, 88, English ceramic artist.
- Ole Moe, 95, Norwegian newspaper editor and politician.
- Eric Paterson, 84, Canadian Olympic champion ice hockey player.
- Bernard Perlin, 95, American painter.
- Esther Ann Reeser, 86, American baseball player.
- Richard Shepherd, 86, American film producer, kidney failure.
- St Nicholas Abbey, 6, Irish racehorse, euthanised due to complications from colic surgery.
- Flavio Testi, 91, Italian composer and musicologist.
- Michalis Vardanis, 78, Greek Army officer and lawyer, major figure in the resistance against the military junta.
- Mae Young, 90, American Hall of Fame professional wrestler.
15
- Mallikarjun Bande, 39, Indian police officer, shot.
- Curtis Bray, 43, American football player and coach, pulmonary embolism.
- Joan Brickhill, 89, South African actress and producer.
- A. Lorne Campbell, 83, Canadian lawyer.
- George Chalhoub, 82, Egyptian Olympic basketball player.
- Namdeo Dhasal, 64, Indian poet and activist, colon cancer.
- John Dobson, 98, American astronomer.
- Don Engel, 84, American lawyer, leukemia.
- Marion Faller, 72, American photographer.
- José de Jesús García Ayala, 103, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Campeche.
- Elena Gorokhova, 80, Russian painter.
- Liam Hogan, 74, Irish hurler.
- Karl Hudson-Phillips, 80, Trinidadian judge and politician, Attorney General.
- Roger Lloyd-Pack, 69, English actor, pancreatic cancer.
- Gennadi Matveyev, 76, Russian football player and manager.
- Tor Milde, 61, Norwegian journalist and writer.
- Reid Patterson, 81, American Olympic swimmer, Georgia Sports Hall of Fame inductee.
- Maya Romanoff, 72, American interior designer.
- Stanford Tischler, 92, American film editor and producer.
- Hiroshi Yoshino, 87, Japanese poet, pneumonia.
16
- Cosimo Antonelli, 87, Italian Olympic water polo player.
- Gary Arlington, 75, American author, editor and publisher, key figure in the underground comix movement.
- Harvey Bernhard, 89, American film producer.
- Patrick Chabal, 63, British political scientist.
- John G. Cleary, 64, New Zealand computer scientist.
- Douglas Davis, 80, American art critic and artist.
- Ruth Duccini, 95, American actress.
- Russell Johnson, 89, American actor, kidney failure.
- Vladimír Krajňák, 86, Slovak Olympic skier.
- Dave Madden, 82, Canadian-born American actor, heart and kidney failure.
- Hiroo Onoda, 91, Japanese Imperial Army World War II intelligence officer, did not surrender until 1974.
- Bence Rakaczki, 20, Hungarian footballer, leukemia.
- José Sulaimán, 82, Mexican boxing official, President of the World Boxing Council, International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee.
- Hal Sutherland, 84, American animator, co-founder of Filmation.
- Chris Ullo, 85, American politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives and Senate, heart failure.
- Stan Watson, 76, British footballer.
17
- Martin Barratt, 77, British paediatrician.
- Nadia Boudesoque, 97, Mexican actress and Olympic fencer.
- Salvador Breglia, 78, Paraguayan football player and coach.
- Mohammed Burhanuddin, 98, Indian Islamic spiritual leader, 52nd Da'i al-Mutlaq of the Dawoodi Bohras, heart attack.
- Frank Cockett, 97, British surgeon and art historian.
- Niels Lauritz Dahl, 87, Norwegian diplomat.
- Joe Evans, 97, American jazz alto saxophonist.
- Holger Hansson, 86, Swedish Olympic bronze-medalist football player and coach.
- Seizō Katō, 86, Japanese voice actor, bladder cancer.
- Saizo Kishimoto, 85, Japanese yakuza.
- Francine Lalonde, 73, Canadian politician, MP for Mercier and La Pointe-de-l'Île, cancer.
- Kong Le, 79, Laotian military leader.
- James Lockhart, 80, American historian.
- Alistair McAlpine, Baron McAlpine of West Green, 71, British businessman, politician and author, Treasurer of the Conservative Party.
- John J. McGinty III, 73, American Marine Corps officer, recipient of the Medal of Honor.
- Alexandros Petersen, 29, American academic, writer and geopolitical energy specialist, bombing.
- Sunanda Pushkar, 49, Indian-born Canadian businesswoman and entrepreneur, drug overdose.
- Suchitra Sen, 82, Indian actress, heart attack.
18
- Kathryn Abbe, 94, American photographer.
- Robert A. Alberty, 92, American biophysical chemist.
- Tommaso Bisagno, 78, Italian politician, member of the Chamber of Deputies.
- W. Robert Blair, 83, American lawyer, businessman and politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives.
- Michael Botmang, 76, Nigerian politician, Governor of Plateau State, kidney disease.
- Peadar Clohessy, 80, Irish politician, TD for Limerick East.
- Herbert Dodkins, 84, English Olympic footballer.
- Komla Dumor, 41, Ghanaian journalist and news presenter, heart attack.
- Dennis Frederiksen, 62, American rock singer, liver cancer.
- Andy Graver, 86, English footballer.
- Takao Iwami, 78, Japanese political pundit, pneumonia.
- Trevor Jacobs, 67, English footballer.
- Milan Kajkl, 63, Czech Olympic silver-medalist ice hockey player.
- Sarah Marshall, 80, British actress, cancer.
- Eugenio Cruz Vargas, 90, Chilean poet and painter.
- Frans Vermeyen, 70, Belgian footballer, stroke.
19
- Azaria Alon, 95, Ukrainian-born Israeli environmentalist.
- Sir Christopher Chataway, 82, British athlete, broadcaster, politician and businessman, MP for Lewisham North and Chichester, cancer.
- Steven Fromholz, 68, American entertainer, singer and songwriter, Poet Laureate of Texas, accidental shooting.
- Aslan Gahramanly, 74, Azerbaijani playwright, renal failure.
- Gordon Hessler, 88, British film director and screenwriter.
- Michał Joachimowski, 63, Polish Olympic triple jumper.
- Tim Jones, 57, Canadian paramedic, cardiac arrest.
- Udo Kasemets, 94, Estonian-born Canadian composer.
- Al Lerner, 94, American pianist and composer.
- Erik Nord, 95, Norwegian politician.
- Michael Sporn, 67, American film animator, pancreatic cancer.
- Ben Starr, 92, American television producer, creator, comedy writer and playwright.
- Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah, 85, Sri Lankan anthropologist.
- Bert Williams, 93, English footballer.
20
- Claudio Abbado, 80, Italian conductor.
- Wistin Abela, 80, Maltese politician, Deputy Prime Minister, Finance Minister.
- Vern Benson, 89, American baseball player and manager.
- Win Borden, 70, American politician, Minnesota State Senator.
- Ubaldo Continiello, 72, Italian film composer.
- Graeme Dallow, 84, New Zealand police officer.
- Lance E. Davis, 85, American economic historian.
- Armen Hovhannisyan, 19, Armenian Nagorno-Karabakh soldier, shot.
- Kiyoharu Ishiwata, 73, Japanese politician, member of the House of Councillors, heart failure.
- James Jacks, 66, American film producer, heart attack.
- José Isabel Jiménez, 98, Mexican baseball journalist.
- Jumber Lominadze, 83, Georgian physicist.
- John Mackey, 96, Irish-born New Zealand Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Auckland.
- Hans Meuer, 77, German computer scientist.
- Otis G. Pike, 92, American politician, United States Representative from New York.
- George Scott, 84, Scottish-born Canadian wrestler, lung cancer.
- Pete Titanic, 93, Canadian football player.
- Jonas Trinkūnas, 74, Lithuanian ethnologist and religion folklorist, founder of Romuva.
- Michael Vosse, 72, American writer and publicist.
21
- Dieter Bortfeldt, 72, British graphic designer and philatelist.
- G. Thompson Brown, 92, American missionary and theologian.
- Tony Crook, 93, English racing driver.
- Jocelyn Hay, 86, British broadcasting campaigner.
- Tim Hosley, 66, American baseball player.
- Solomon Tilewa Johnson, 59, Gambian Anglican prelate, Archbishop of West Africa.
- Bill Kresse, 80, American cartoonist.
- Warren Lamb, 90, British management consultant.
- René Maury, 85, French lawyer and economist.
- Wilford Moore, 94, American college football coach.
- Natalie Myburgh, 73, South African Olympic swimmer.
- Marcel Ostiguy, 84, Canadian politician.
- Tony Pabón, 74, American singer, trumpeter and bandleader.
- Joel L. Shin, 45, American lawyer and policy adviser, heart attack.
- Dick Shrider, 90, American college basketball coach and athletic director.
- Georgi Slavkov, 55, Bulgarian footballer, heart attack.
- Rhonda Small, 88, Australian filmmaker.
- Graham Stevenson, 58, English cricketer, complications from stroke.
- Roar Woldum, 81, Norwegian Olympic swimmer.
- George C. Wortley, 87, American politician, United States Representative from New York.
22
- Luis Ávalos, 67, Cuban-born American actor, heart failure.
- Arthur Bellamy, 71, English footballer.
- Charles A. Berg, 87, American politician.
- Martin S. Bergmann, 100, American psychology professor and actor.
- Fred Bertelmann, 88, German singer and actor.
- Alice Besseling, 69, Dutch politician.
- Patrick Brooking, 76, British army major general.
- Saidi Bwanamdogo, 45, Tanzanian politician, MP for Chalinze.
- Roy Cicala, 74, American record producer and sound engineer.
- Chet Curtis, 74, American television anchor, pancreatic cancer.
- François Deguelt, 81, French singer.
- Robert Domergue, 92, French football player and manager.
- Pierre Jalbert, 89, Canadian actor and skier, heart attack.
- John Kabaireho, 91, Ugandan politician, Prime Minister of dependent Ankole Kingdom.
- Manuel Leguineche, 72, Spanish journalist.
- Carlo Mazzacurati, 57, Italian film director.
- Serhiy Nigoyan, 20, Ukrainian protester, shot.
- Maziar Partow, 81, Iranian cinematographer, heart disease.
- Akkineni Nageswara Rao, 90, Indian actor and film producer, Dadasaheb Phalke Award, cancer.
- Dhirubhai Thaker, 95, Indian Gujarati writer, multiple ailments.
- Wando, 13, Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse, heart attack.
23
- Henri Ackermann, 91, Luxembourgian cyclist.
- Ted Bottiger, 81, American politician, Washington State Senator, State Representative.
- Robert Coldsnow, 89, American politician, member of the Kansas House of Representatives.
- Violetta Ferrari, 83, Hungarian actress.
- Franz Gabl, 93, Austrian Olympic alpine skier.
- Moshe Gil, 92, Israeli historian.
- Yuri Izrael, 83, Russian meteorologist.
- Khin Yu May, 76, Burmese actress and singer.
- Katsuyo Kobayashi, 76, Japanese food critic, multiple organ failure.
- Mille Marković, 52, Yugoslav-born Swedish sex club owner, convicted criminal and boxer, shot.
- Uroš Marović, 68, Yugoslav Olympic champion water polo player.
- Kazys Morkūnas, 88, Lithuanian stained glass artist.
- Lew Massey, 57, American basketball player.
- Ivar Moe, 91, Norwegian lawyer and politician.
- Riz Ortolani, 87, Italian film composer.
- Charlie Osgood, 87, American baseball player.
- Jan Pesman, 82, Dutch Olympic bronze-medalist speed skater.
- Eugene Schlickman, 84, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives.
- S. Sriskandarajah, 60, Sri Lankan judge and lawyer.
- Béla Várady, 60, Hungarian Olympic silver medallist footballer.
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- Shulamit Aloni, 85, Israeli politician, leader of the Meretz party.
- Jay S. Amyx, 90, American politician, Mayor of Boise.
- Knut Aukland, 84, Norwegian physiologist.
- Igor Badamshin, 47, Russian Olympic cross-country skier, heart attack.
- Curt Brasket, 81, American chess player.
- Lisa Daniely, 84, British actress.
- Abdelkader El Brazi, 49, Moroccan footballer, cancer.
- Aguinaldo Fonseca, 91, Cape Verdean poet.
- Joseph Kalite, Central African health minister, machete attack.
- Sahal Mahfudz, 76, Indonesian spiritual leader.
- Boyd Oxlade, 70, Australian author and screenwriter, cancer.
- Rafael Pineda Ponce, 83, Honduran educator and politician, President of the National Congress, kidney failure.
- Maren-Sofie Røstvig, 93, Norwegian literary historian.
25
- Bruce Barmes, 84, American baseball player.
- Marcelino Bilbao Bilbao, 94, Spanish military officer.
- David Cairns, 88, English cricketer.
- Arthur Doyle, 69, American jazz musician.
- Robert F. Goldsworthy, 96, American politician.
- Eric Green, South African rear admiral, Flag Officer Fleet, aortic aneurysm.
- Heini Halberstam, 88, Czech-born British mathematician.
- John R. Huizenga, 92, American physicist, heart failure.
- Kurt Krenn, 77, Austrian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Sankt Pölten.
- Jacques Meslier, 85, French Olympic water polo player
- Nasser Minachi, 82, Iranian politician.
- John Robertson, 79, Canadian journalist.
- Milan Ružić, 58, Croatian footballer.
- Emanuel Saldaño, 28, Argentine cyclist, national road race champion, traffic collision.
- Dave Strack, 90, American basketball player and coach, pneumonia.
- Gyula Sax, 62, Hungarian chess player, heart attack.
- Pius Tirkey, 85, Indian politician, MLA for Alipurduars.
- Morrie Turner, 90, American cartoonist.
- Dennis Wirgowski, 66, American football player.
26
- Stephen Clapp, 74, American violinist and music educator, Dean of the Juilliard School.
- Renzo Colzi, 76, French Olympic cyclist.
- Ollie Conmy, 74, Irish footballer.
- Tom Gola, 81, American basketball player and politician.
- Paula Gruden, 92, Australian poet and translator.
- Oleg Imrekov, 51, Russian football player and manager.
- Paavo Kotila, 86, Finnish Olympic long-distance runner.
- Margery Mason, 100, English actress.
- John Farquhar Munro, 79, Scottish politician, MSP for Ross, Skye and Inverness West.
- Tom Nyuma, Sierra Leonean politician and military officer.
- José Emilio Pacheco, 74, Mexican poet, essayist and novelist, winner of the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, heart attack.
- Gino Polidori, 72, American politician, member of the Michigan House of Representatives, prostate cancer.
- Miguel Romero, 68–69, Spanish politician and activist, cancer.
- Mario Santos, Jr., 73, American sheriff.
- Karl Slym, 51, British business executive, Managing Director of Tata Motors, self-defenestration.
- Patrick D. Smith, 87, American author.
- Ralph T. Troy, 79, American politician and mortgage banker, Mayor of Monroe, Louisiana, cancer.
- Gerald B. Whitham, 86, British applied mathematician.
- Rusty York, 78, American musician.
- Doris Witiuk, 84, American AAGPBL baseball player.
27
- Haji Bakr, Iraqi militant, shot.
- Masako Bandō, 55, Japanese novelist, winner of the Naoki Prize, tongue cancer.
- Georges Breitman, 93, French Olympic athlete.
- Ann Carter, 77, American child actress, ovarian cancer.
- Stepan Chapman, 63, American author.
- Edmond Classen, 75, Dutch actor.
- Brian Gibbs, 77, English footballer and manager.
- Mahalingum Govender, 67-68, South African cricketer.
- Richard Grossman, 92, American publisher.
- Leen Jansen, 83, Dutch Olympic middleweight boxer.
- Dinesh Medh, 85-86, Indian cricketer.
- Ichirō Nagai, 82, Japanese voice actor, heart attack.
- R. A. Padmanabhan, 97, Indian journalist and historian.
- Pete Seeger, 94, American folk singer and songwriter.
- Hashem Shabani, 32, Iranian activist, hanging.
- Alan Townsend, 92, English cricketer.
- Masaaki Tsukada, 74, Japanese voice actor.
- Epimaco Velasco, 79, Filipino politician, Director of the NBI.
- Paul Zorner, 93, German night fighter pilot during World War II.
28
- John Bothwell, 87, Canadian Anglican bishop.
- Frédéric Bruly Bouabré, 91, Ivorian artist.
- John Cacavas, 83, American television score composer.
- Harry Gamble, 82, American football executive and head coach.
- Gennady Grushevoy, 63, Belarusian philosopher and politician.
- Dwight Gustafson, 83, American composer and conductor.
- Pravin Hansraj, 75, Indian cricketer.
- Gulzar Hussain, Indian police officer, shot.
- Hans Huber, 84, German Olympic ice hockey player.
- Nigel Jenkins, 64, Welsh poet, pancreatic cancer.
- Herb Kirsh, 84, American politician, member of the South Carolina House of Representatives.
- John Kreamcheck, 88, American football player.
- Sven Kullander, 78, Swedish physicist.
- Fernand Leduc, 97, Canadian abstract painter, cancer.
- Ted Nealon, 84, Irish journalist and politician, TD for Sligo–Leitrim.
- Gudō Wafu Nishijima, 94, Japanese Zen Buddhist priest and teacher.
- Jorge Obeid, 66, Argentine politician, Governor of Santa Fe, pulmonary embolism.
- Blas Piñar, 95, Spanish politician, founder of New Force.
- Bill Pritchett, 92, Australian public servant, Secretary of the Department of Defence.
- Veikko Rantanen, 82, Finnish Olympic wrestler.
- Kenneth Rose, 89, British journalist and author.
- Kazuhiko Sakazaki, 76, Japanese baseball player, stomach cancer.
- Tom Sherak, 68, American film producer and studio executive, President of AMPAS, prostate cancer.
- António Soares Carneiro, 86, Portuguese politician and military officer.
- Barry Spacks, 82, American poet.
- Sue Wallis, 56, American politician, member of the Wyoming House of Representatives.
- Stevie Woods, 62, American R&B singer, complications from diabetes.
- Renzo Zanazzi, 89, Italian cyclist.
29
- Johnny Allen, 96, American music arranger, complications from pneumonia.
- Ashutosh, 68, Indian religious leader, heart attack.
- Biko, 30, American Olympic eventing horse, euthanized.
- François Cavanna, 90, French author and satirical newspaper editor.
- Colonel Meow, 2, American Himalayan-Persian cat, Guinness World Record holder for longest fur.
- Lars Andreas Larssen, 78, Norwegian actor, Alzheimer's disease.
- Zoe MacKinnon, 55, Canadian Olympic field hockey player, cancer.
- Jim Mansfield, 74, Irish businessman.
- Theodore Millon, 85, American psychologist, heart disease.
- Aïché Nana, 77, Turkish showgirl and actress.
- Vytautas Norkus, 93, Lithuanian-born American basketball player.
- Robert Resnick, 91, American physicist, educator and author.
- Jim Rone, 78, British Anglican clergy, Archdeacon of Wisbech.
- Ildefonso P. Santos, Jr., 84, Filipino landscape architect, heart failure.
- Tarit Kumar Sett, 83, Indian Olympic cyclist.
- Jack Stoddard, 87, Canadian ice hockey player.
- Piers Wedgwood, 4th Baron Wedgwood, 59, British aristocrat, cardiac failure.
30
- Jean Babilée, 90, French dancer and choreographer.
- Stefan Bałuk, 100, Polish general and photographer.
- Krzysztof Birula-Białynicki, 69, Polish Olympic ice hockey player.
- John Branthwaite, 86, New Zealand Anglican priest.
- John Carty, 63, Irish politician, TD for Mayo, Senator.
- Danielle Downey, 33, American golfer and coach, traffic collision.
- Greater, c. 83, Australian greater flamingo, world's oldest flamingo, euthanized.
- Campbell Lane, 78, Canadian actor, lung cancer.
- The Mighty Hannibal, 74, American R&B, soul and funk singer, songwriter and record producer.
- William Motzing, 77, American-born Australian composer, conductor and arranger.
- Marioara Murărescu, 66, Romanian television producer.
- Mr Tiz, 29, New Zealand racehorse.
- Benedict John Osta, 82, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Patna.
- Jim Parsley, 86, American stock car racing driver.
- Cornelius Pasichny, 86, Canadian Ukrainian Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Saskatoon and Toronto.
- Arthur Rankin, Jr., 89, American director, producer and writer, co-founder of Rankin/Bass Productions.
- Helmut Röhrl, 86, German mathematician.
- Suzanne Scotchmer, 64, American economist, intestinal cancer.
- Bishwonath Upadhyaya, 83, Nepalese judge and jurist, Chief Justice, brain haemorrhage.
31
- Adegboyega Folaranmi Adedoyin, 91, Nigerian-born British Olympic athlete.
- Inatio Akaruru, 76, Cook Islands politician.
- Nina Andrycz, 101, Polish actress and poet.
- Sebastian Barker, 68, British poet, cardiac arrest.
- Deborah Blackwell, 63, American cable network executive and talent agent, Pick's disease.
- Gundi Busch, 78, German world champion and Olympic figure skater.
- Emilio Del Giudice, 74, Italian biophysicist.
- Bob DePratu, 74, American politician, member of the Montana Senate.
- Francis M. Fesmire, 54, American cardiologist and emergency physician.
- Mike Flanagan, 85, British-born Israeli soldier.
- Anna Gordy Gaye, 92, American songwriter, co-founder of Anna Records.
- Bruce Groves, 66, South African cricketer.
- Carsten Hopstock, 89, Norwegian historian.
- Jaime Huélamo, 65, Spanish Olympic cyclist.
- Abdirizak Haji Hussein, 89, Somali politician, Prime Minister.
- Alexander Ivashkin, 65, Russian cellist, cancer.
- Miklós Jancsó, 92, Hungarian director and screenwriter.
- Joseph Willcox Jenkins, 85, American composer and academic.
- Christopher Jones, 72, American actor, cancer.
- Hans Methlie Michelsen, 93, Norwegian judge and Holocaust survivor, Attorney General of Norway.
- Thomas Montemage, 87, American Olympic cyclist.
- Baden Powell, 82, British footballer.
- Sir David Price, 89, British politician, MP for Eastleigh.
- Mike Reed, 39, American football player, cancer.
- Kenneth Saggers, 77, South African cricketer.
- Giorgio Stracquadanio, 54, Italian politician and journalist, lung cancer.
- Kura Strickland, 84, Cook Islands politician.
- Wong Choon Wah, 66, Malaysian Olympic footballer.