Deaths in January 2019
The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2019.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship, reason for notability, cause of death, and reference.
January 2019
1
- Ludwig W. Adamec, 94, Austrian-born American historian.
- Ross Allen, 90, New Zealand local politician, chair of Taranaki Regional Council, and cricket umpire.
- Yuri Artsutanov, 89, Russian engineer.
- Jamal Ahmad Mohammad Al Badawi, 58, Yemeni militant, airstrike.
- Dagfinn Bakke, 85, Norwegian artist.
- Ed Corney, 85, American bodybuilder.
- Ivan Dimitrov, 83, Bulgarian Olympic footballer.
- Feis Ecktuh, 32, Dutch rapper, shot.
- Elizabeth Edgar, 89, New Zealand botanist.
- Katie Flynn, 82, British author.
- Freddie Glidden, 91, Scottish footballer.
- Ivo Gregurević, 66, Croatian actor.
- Joan Guinjoan, 87, Spanish composer and pianist.
- Ke Hua, 103, Chinese diplomat, ambassador to Guinea, Ghana, the Philippines and the United Kingdom.
- Kris Kelmi, 63, Russian singer-songwriter, heart attack.
- Bernd Kröplin, 74, German engineer and academic.
- Walt McKeel, 46, American baseball player.
- Paul Neville, 78, Australian politician, MP.
- José Antonio Pujante, 54, Spanish politician, member of the Assembly of Murcia, heart attack.
- Raymond Ramazani Baya, 75, Congolese politician, Foreign Minister and Ambassador to France.
- Richard Rifkind, 88, American cancer researcher.
- Steven P. Schinke, 73, American social work scholar.
- Tu Mingjing, 90, Chinese materials scientist, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
- Stephen Twinoburyo, 49, Ugandan mathematician, heart attack.
- María Teresa Uribe, 78, Colombian sociologist and academic.
- Nils Utsi, 75, Norwegian Sámi actor.
- Larry Weinberg, 92, American real estate developer and sports team owner.
- Gilbert Winham, 80, American political scientist.
- Pegi Young, 66, American educator, philanthropist, and singer-songwriter, cancer.
- Perry Deane Young, 77, American journalist and playwright, cancer.
2
- Ramakant Achrekar, 87, Indian cricket coach.
- Kalipada Bauri, Indian politician, MLA.
- Malcolm E. Beard, 99, American politician, member of the Florida Senate and House of Representatives.
- Darwin Bromley, 68, American game designer, founder of Mayfair Games.
- Jerry Buchek, 76, American baseball player.
- Michele Caccavale, 71, Italian politician, Deputy.
- Paulien van Deutekom, 37, Dutch speed skater, world champion, lung cancer.
- Daryl Dragon, 76, American musician and songwriter, renal failure.
- Bob Einstein, 76, American actor and performer, leukemia.
- Bill Elsey, 97, British racehorse trainer.
- Dominic Filiou, 41, Canadian strongman, heart attack.
- Julia Grant, 64, British trans woman pioneer.
- Gu Fangzhou, 92, Chinese virologist credited with eradicating polio in China, President of Peking Union Medical College.
- Bob Hanner, 73, American politician, member of the Georgia House of Representatives.
- Waun Ki Hong, 76, American oncologist.
- Peter Kelly, 74, Irish politician, TD, cancer.
- Geoffrey Langlands, 101, British army officer and educator.
- Jerry Magee, 90, American sportswriter.
- Jim Margraff, 58, American football coach, heart attack.
- Salvador Martínez Pérez, 85, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Huejutla.
- Joe McCabe, 99, Irish hurler.
- Kevin J. McIntyre, 57, American government official, Chairman of the FERC, brain cancer.
- Marko Nikolić, 72, Serbian actor.
- Blake Nordstrom, 58, American businessman, co-president of Nordstrom, lymphoma.
- Gene Okerlund, 76, American Hall of Fame professional wrestling interviewer, complications from a fall.
- Darius Perkins, 54, Australian actor, cancer.
- Samuel Rayan, 98, Indian theologian.
- Otto Schnepp, 93, Austrian-born American scientist.
- Marcellin Theeuwes, 82, Dutch Carthusian monk.
- Jerzy Turonek, 89, Polish-Belarusian historian.
- Tommy Watz, 60, Norwegian translator.
- George Welsh, 85, American football coach.
3
- Hamza Abdullahi, 73, Nigerian politician, Military Governor of Kano State and Minister of Federal Capital Territory.
- Roger Bastié, 86, French rugby union player and coach.
- Richard C. Bradt, 80, American materials engineer.
- Bob Burrow, 84, American basketball player.
- Joe Casely-Hayford, 62, British fashion designer, cancer.
- William Cochran, 84, American politician, member of the Indiana House of Representatives.
- Sylvia Chase, 80, American news anchor and journalist.
- Gordon Crosby, 91, Canadian Olympic sprinter.
- Chandrashekhar Shankar Dharmadhikari, 91, Indian judge and independence activist.
- John Falsey, 67, American writer and producer, fall.
- Jack Fennell, 85, English rugby league footballer.
- Gao Chengyong, 54, Chinese serial killer and rapist, executed.
- Radamel García, 61, Colombian Olympic footballer, heart attack.
- Theodore E. Gildred, 83, American diplomat, Ambassador to Argentina.
- Reg Holland, 78, English footballer.
- Harold A. Hopkins Jr., 88, American Episcopal prelate, bishop of North Dakota.
- Sayed Ashraful Islam, 67, Bangladeshi politician, MP and Minister of Public Administration, lung cancer.
- Kenneth Kauth, 94, American politician, member of the South Dakota House of Representatives.
- Herb Kelleher, 87, American businessman, co-founder of Southwest Airlines.
- William Miller, 62, American football player, cancer.
- Anne-Marie Minvielle, 75, French journalist.
- Dibyendu Palit, 79, Indian writer.
- Steve Ripley, 69, American musician, cancer.
- Christine de Rivoyre, 97, French journalist, writer, and literary editor.
- John Shaw, 70, American-Canadian painter.
- José Vida Soria, 81, Spanish jurist, writer and politician, Deputy and rector of University of Granada, cancer.
- Thais St. Julien, 73, American opera singer, Alzheimer's disease.
- Wulf Steinmann, 88, German physicist.
- William H. Stetson, American Roman Catholic priest.
- Pinaki Thakur, 59, Indian poet, malaria.
- Michael Yeung, 73, Chinese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Hong Kong, liver failure.
4
- Milan Balabán, 89, Czech theologian, Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren pastor and anti-communist dissident.
- Norman Birnbaum, 92, American sociologist, heart disease and sepsis.
- Syed Zulfiqar Bokhari, Pakistani diplomat.
- Ivan Bortnik, 79, Russian actor.
- Harold Brown, 91, American government official and nuclear physicist, Secretary of Defense, pancreatic cancer.
- John Burningham, 82, English author and illustrator, pneumonia.
- Moffatt Burriss, 99, American politician, member of the South Carolina House of Representatives.
- Charles Currie, 88, American Jesuit academic administrator, President of the AJCU, Xavier University, and Wheeling Jesuit University.
- Diana Decker, 93, American-born British actress and singer.
- Harold Demsetz, 88, American economist.
- Peter Doucette, 64, Canadian politician, MLA.
- Leo J. Dulacki, 100, American general.
- Turhan Erdoğan, 81, Turkish civil engineer.
- Miguel Gallastegui, 100, Spanish pelotari.
- David Garman, 96, British inventor and businessman.
- Hakmeen Khan, Pakistani politician, founder of Pakistan Peoples Party.
- Louisa Moritz, 82, Cuban-born American actress, heart failure.
- Frank Mugglestone, 94, English rugby league footballer.
- John Nallen, 86, Irish Gaelic footballer.
- Oldenburg Baby, 21, German abortion survivor, lung infection.
- Francisco Olivencia, 84, Spanish lawyer and politician, Deputy and Senator.
- Jean Revillard, 51, Swiss photojournalist, heart attack.
- Norman Snider, 74, Canadian screenwriter.
- John Thornett, 83, Australian rugby union player.
- Wiet Van Broeckhoven, 69, Belgian radio presenter and writer.
- Zhang Lianwen, 73, Chinese actor.
5
- Emil Brumaru, 80, Romanian writer and poet.
- Sergio Otoniel Contreras Navia, 92, Chilean Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of San Carlos de Ancud and Temuco.
- Mungau Dain, 24, Ni-Vanuatu film actor, sepsis.
- Rick Down, 68, American baseball hitting coach.
- Scott Dozier, 48, American convicted murderer, suicide by hanging.
- Jean-Eudes Dubé, 92, Canadian politician.
- Alvin Fielder, 83, American jazz drummer, complications from heart failure and pneumonia.
- Derek Foster, Baron Foster of Bishop Auckland, 81, British politician, MP for Bishop Auckland and member of the House of Lords, cancer.
- Don Grierson, 77, British music industry executive.
- Eric Haydock, 75, British Hall of Fame bassist.
- Kenneth Hedberg, 98, American chemist.
- Stanley Insler, 81, American philologist.
- Odeen Ishmael, 70, Guyanese diplomat.
- Iftekharul Alam Kislu, 92, Bangladeshi film producer and businessperson.
- John Kouns, 89, American photographer and civil rights activist.
- Aisha Lemu, 79, British-born Nigerian Islamic scholar.
- Alan Wood Lukens, 94, American diplomat.
- Maria Dolores Malumbres, 87, Spanish pianist and composer.
- Pete Manning, 81, American football player.
- Robert Morey, 72, American Baptist minister.
- Alan R. Pearlman, 93, American sound engineer, founder of ARP Instruments.
- Rudolf Raff, 77, American biologist.
- John L. Said, 86, American Episcopal bishop.
- Bernice Sandler, 90, American women's rights activist, cancer.
- Dragoslav Šekularac, 81, Serbian football player and manager.
- Alexis Smirnoff, 71, Canadian professional wrestler, kidney failure.
- James H. Smylie, 93, American church historian.
- Sun Ganqing, 99, Chinese major general, Chief of Staff of the Guangzhou Military Region and the Kunming Military Region.
- Myron Thompson, 82, American-born Canadian politician, MP, cancer.
- Antonio Torres Millera, 54, Spanish politician, member of the Aragonese Corts, heart attack.
6
- Jo Andres, 64, American filmmaker, choreographer and artist, peritoneal sclerosis.
- Alfredo Arpaia, 88, Italian politician, Deputy.
- Joe Belmont, 84, American basketball player and coach.
- Annalise Braakensiek, 46, Australian model and actress.
- Johan Claassen, 89, South African rugby union player and coach.
- Ben Coleman, 57, American basketball player.
- George Crowe, 82, Canadian ice hockey coach.
- Francisco Dela Cruz, 54, Northern Mariana Islands politician, member of the House of Representatives, heart attack.
- Robert J. Doherty, 94, American photographer and graphic designer.
- Odette Drand, 91, French Olympic fencer.
- José Ramón Fernández, 95, Cuban militant, Vice-President of the Council of Ministers.
- Jack Garrick, 92, Australian VFL footballer.
- Lenny Green, 86, American baseball player.
- Roy Hilton, 75, American football player, Alzheimer's disease.
- Ron Hines, 95, Australian VFL footballer.
- Robert L. Kahn, 100, American social psychologist.
- Kwamie Lassiter, 49, American football player, heart attack.
- Gebhardt von Moltke, 80, German diplomat, Ambassador to the UK.
- Derek Piggott, 96, British glider pilot and flight instructor, stroke.
- Ken Preston, 93, English cricketer.
- Gregg Rudloff, 63, American sound mixer, Oscar winner, suicide.
- Lamin Sanneh, 76, Gambian-born American professor, stroke.
- W. Morgan Sheppard, 86, British actor.
- Paul Streeten, 101, Austrian-born British economics professor.
- René Steurbaut, 90, Belgian basketball player.
- Gustav Andreas Tammann, 86, German astronomer.
- Roy Tutty, 88, Australian Olympic speed skater.
- Bea Vianen, 83, Surinamese writer.
- Angelo Ziccardi, 90, Italian politician, Senator.
- Gene Zwozdesky, 70, Canadian politician, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, cancer.
7
- Moshe Arens, 93, Lithuanian-born Israeli aeronautical engineer and politician, Minister of Defense and Foreign Affairs.
- Aristeo Benavídez, 91, Argentine alpine skier.
- Helmut Berding, 88, German historian.
- Barbara Elaine Ruth Brown, 89, American biologist and philanthropist.
- Guy Charmot, 104, French resistance fighter.
- Vytautas Einoris, 88, Lithuanian agronomist and politician.
- Laurie Gilfedder, 83, English rugby league footballer.
- Jimmy Hannan, 84, Australian singer and game show host, Gold Logie winner, cancer.
- Francisco Hernández, 69, Costa Rican football player.
- John Joubert, 91, South African-born British composer.
- Aline Kiner, 59, French journalist and writer.
- Clydie King, 75, American singer.
- Dave Laing, 71, English writer, editor and broadcaster.
- Alanna Lockward, 57, Dominican curator, writer and filmmaker.
- Houari Manar, 38, Algerian raï singer, heart attack.
- Ivan Mašek, 70, Czech dissident, economist and politician, Deputy.
- John Mendelsohn, 82, American pharmacologist, President of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, glioblastoma.
- Harold J. Noah, 93, British-born American educational theorist.
- Theodore K. Rabb, 81, American historian.
- Ronald C. Read, 94, British-born Canadian mathematician.
- Carmencita Reyes, 87, Filipino politician, member of the House of Representatives, Governor of Marinduque.
- A. G. Rigg, 81, British medievalist.
- Tom Rukavina, 68, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives, leukemia.
- Jocelyne Saab, 70, Lebanese journalist and film director, cancer.
- Robert P. Smith, 78, American economist.
- Bernard Tchoullouyan, 65, French judoka, Olympic bronze medalist, heart attack.
8
- Wendy Ashmore, 70, American archaeologist and anthropologist.
- Pierre Barillet, 95, French actor and playwright.
- José Belvino do Nascimento, 86, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Itumbiara and Divinópolis.
- Jayantilal Bhanusali, 54, Indian politician, MLA, shot.
- Antal Bolvári, 86, Hungarian water polo player, Olympic champion.
- Armando Bortolaso, 92, Italian-born Syrian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Aleppo.
- Sir William Cole, 92, Australian public servant, Secretary of the Department of Defence.
- Georges Dimou, 87, Greek singer.
- Stefan Eeckelaert, 54, Belgian darts player.
- Edwin Erickson, 80, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania Senate.
- Gao Changqing, 59, Chinese surgeon, member of the Academy of Engineering.
- Khosro Harandi, 68, Iranian chess master.
- Huang Chin-tao, 93, Taiwanese World War II veteran and resistance fighter.
- Susanne Humphrey, 74, American medical librarian.
- Karsten Jakobsen, 90, Norwegian engineer, rector of the Norwegian Institute of Technology.
- Sergei Khodakov, 52, Russian paralympic athlete.
- Guje Lagerwall, 100, Swedish actress.
- Larry Langford, 72, American politician, Mayor of Birmingham, Alabama.
- Alexia Mupende, 34, Rwandan model, stabbed.
- John Nye, 95, British glaciologist, heart failure.
- Arturo Rojas de la Cámara, 88, Spanish cartoonist.
- Julio Rubiano, 65, Colombian Olympic racing cyclist, heart attack.
- Bijan Samandar, 77, Iranian poet and musician.
- Giorgio Zur, 88, German Roman Catholic prelate, Apostolic Nuncio.
9
- Filipe Abraão, 39, Angolan basketball player.
- Ian Adamson, 74, Northern Irish politician, Lord Mayor of Belfast, MLA.
- Fernando Aiuti, 83, Italian immunologist and politician, fall.
- Gebran Araiji, 67, Lebanese politician.
- Kjell Bäckman, 84, Swedish speed skater, Olympic bronze medalist.
- Verna Bloom, 80, American actress, complications from dementia.
- Pierre de Bané, 80, Palestinian-born Canadian politician, MP.
- Óscar González-Quevedo, 88, Spanish-born Brazilian Jesuit priest and parapsychologist, heart disease.
- Earnest F. Gloyna, 97, American environmental engineer.
- Joseph Lawson Howze, 95, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Biloxi.
- Joseph Jarman, 81, American jazz musician and Shinshu Buddhist priest.
- Conxita Julià, 98, Spanish Catalan poet.
- Paul Koslo, 74, German-Canadian actor pancreatic cancer.
- Matthew Locricchio, 71, American cookbook author and actor.
- Anatoly Lukyanov, 88, Russian politician, Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.
- Mahendra Mewati, 49, Indian actor, blood clot.
- Melvin L. Moeschberger, 78, American biostatistician.
- Milan Pančevski, 83, Macedonian politician, Chairman of the Presidium of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia.
- Paolo Paoloni, 89, Italian actor.
- Don Reynolds, 81, American child actor.
- Thierry Séchan, 69, French novelist.
- James P. Stewart, 94, American military officer.
- Alan Trask, 85, American politician, member of the Florida Senate.
- Lester Wunderman, 98, American Hall of Fame advertising executive, creator of direct marketing.
10
- Theo Adam, 92, German opera singer.
- José Andreu García, 81, Puerto Rican jurist, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
- Erminio Boso, 73, Italian politician, Senator, heart attack.
- Edward F. Burns, 87, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
- Andy de Groat, 72, American choreographer.
- Philippe de Lannoy, 96, Belgian noble.
- Alfredo del Mazo González, 75, Mexican politician, Governor of the State of Mexico and Minister of Energy, Mines and State Industry.
- Deng Tietao, 102, Chinese physician.
- Rick Forzano, 90, American football coach.
- Kevin Fret, 25, Puerto Rican musician, shot.
- Martin Gore, 67, British oncologist, complications following yellow fever vaccination.
- Johnny Hetki, 96, American baseball player.
- Gerd Jaeger, 91, German sculptor and painter.
- Mikel Janku, 77, Albanian footballer.
- Barbara Low, 98, British-American biochemist.
- Patrick Malrieu, 73, French business executive and Breton activist and historian.
- Ross Lowell, 92, American photographer and inventor of gaffer tape.
- John Michels, 87, American football player and coach.
- René Mouille, 94, French aviation engineer.
- Dianne Oxberry, 51, British broadcaster, cancer.
- Lionel Price, 91, British Olympic basketball player.
- Juan Francisco Reyes, 80, Guatemalan politician, Vice President.
- Ron Smith, 94, British comic artist.
- Sir Conrad Swan, 94, Canadian-born British officer of arms.
- Arnold Tucker, 95, American military officer and football player.
11
- Hugo Alarcón, 26, Chilean footballer.
- Sir Michael Atiyah, 89, British mathematician, President of the Royal Society.
- Rafael Arcadio Bernal Supelano, 84, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Arauca and Líbano-Honda.
- Wayne Blair, 70, New Zealand cricketer.
- George Brady, 90, Czech-Canadian Holocaust survivor and businessman.
- Tom Brosius, 69, American track and field athlete, pancreatic cancer.
- Marge Callaghan, 97, Canadian baseball player.
- Walter Chandoha, 98, American photographer.
- Angelo Constantino, 48, Filipino bowler, shot.
- Michel Dejouhannet, 83, French racing cyclist.
- Mark Elliot, 65, Canadian radio host, pneumonia.
- Gus Ganakas, 92, American college basketball coach.
- J. D. Gibbs, 49, American race car driver, co-owner of Joe Gibbs Racing, degenerative neurological disease.
- John G. Gunderson, 76, American psychiatrist, prostate cancer.
- David Hinkley, 74–75, British-born American statistician.
- Khalida Hussain, 82, Pakistani fiction writer.
- Robert Horn, 87, American Olympic water polo player.
- Elaine Koppelman, 81, American mathematician.
- Steffan Lewis, 34, Welsh politician, AM, bowel cancer.
- Fernando Luján, 79, Mexican actor, respiratory failure.
- Andrew MacLachlan, 77, British actor.
- Sue Povey, 76, British geneticist.
- Kishore Pradhan, 82, Indian actor.
- Dinanath Pandey, 85, Indian politician, MLA and.
- Mary Randlett, 94, American photographer.
- Meera Sanyal, 57, Indian banker, cancer.
- Walter V. Shipley, 83, American businessman, CEO of Chase Manhattan Bank.
- Dimitris Sioufas, 75, Greek politician, Speaker of the Parliament.
- Bjørg Skjælaaen, 85, Norwegian Olympic figure skater.
- Charles Soreng, 84, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Daltonganj and Hazaribag.
- Tom Warner, 70, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives, cancer.
- Jumping Johnny Wilson, 91, American basketball player.
12
- George Ball, 92, American entomologist.
- Christian Conrad Blouin, 77, Canadian-born Papua New Guinean Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Lae.
- Bo Hi Pak, 88, South Korean cleric, leader of the Unification Church.
- Anthony Colaizzo, 88, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
- A. Brian Deer, 74, Canadian librarian, developer of the Brian Deer Classification System.
- Paul Englund, 80, American biochemist, Parkinson's disease.
- Bonnie Guitar, 95, American country musician.
- Dennis Marvin Ham, 78, Canadian businessman and politician.
- Javier de Hoz, 78, Spanish philologist and academic.
- Etsuko Ichihara, 82, Japanese actress, heart failure.
- Joe M. Jackson, 95, American Air Force officer, Medal of Honor recipient.
- Linda Kelly, 82, English historian.
- Larry Koentopp, 82, American minor-league baseball executive and athletic director.
- Bob Kuechenberg, 71, American football player.
- Max Deen Larsen, 75, American musicologist.
- Batton Lash, 65, American comic book writer and artist, brain cancer.
- Taw Phaya, 94, Burmese prince, Head of the Royal House of Konbaung.
- Leonard M. Pike, 78, American agricultural scientist, developed the 1015 supersweet onion.
- Jaime Rosenthal, 82, Honduran politician, Third Vice President and MP, heart attack.
- Sanger D. Shafer, 84, American country songwriter.
- John Slim, 2nd Viscount Slim, 91, British peer, member of the House of Lords.
- Takeshi Umehara, 93, Japanese philosopher, pneumonia.
- Mark Urman, 66, American film producer and distributor, respiratory failure.
- Bruno Vanryb, 61, French sound engineer and businessman, traffic collision.
- Patricia Wald, 90, American judge, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, pancreatic cancer.
- Patrick Yu, 96, Hong Kong barrister, city's first Chinese prosecutor.
- Béla Zsitnik, 94, Hungarian rower, Olympic bronze medalist.
13
- Pierre Alard, 81, French Olympic discus thrower.
- Roberto Reinaldo Cáceres González, 97, Argentinian-born Uruguayan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Melo.
- Miguel Civil, 92, Spanish sumerologist.
- Douglas M. Costle, 79, American environmentalist, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, complications from a stroke.
- Sally Fraser, 86, American actress.
- Rajesh Ghodge, 43, Indian cricketer.
- Francine du Plessix Gray, 88, Polish-born American author and critic.
- Luella Klein, 94, American physician.
- Phil Masinga, 49, South African footballer, cancer.
- Willie Murphy, 75, American blues musician, pneumonia.
- Susanne Neumann, 59, German author and trade unionist, cancer.
- Alfred K. Newman, 94, American Navajo code talker.
- Francis W. Nye, 100, American major general in the U.S. Air Force.
- Julen Roselló, 2, Spanish child, fall.
- Serena Rothschild, 83, British racehorse owner.
- Guy Sénac, 86, French footballer.
- Mel Stottlemyre, 77, American baseball player and coach, multiple myeloma.
- Bo Westlake, 91, Canadian Olympic rower.
14
- Ido Abram, 78, Dutch writer and educator.
- Paweł Adamowicz, 53, Polish politician, Mayor of Gdańsk, stabbed.
- Bernardo Benes, 84, Cuban banker and community leader.
- Milton Bluehouse Sr., 82, American politician, President of the Navajo Nation.
- Dick Brodowski, 86, American baseball player.
- Gonzalo Ramiro del Castillo Crespo, 82, Bolivian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Military.
- Jim Clark, 71, American baseball player.
- Roger Cuvillier, 96, French engineer and inventor.
- Shivajirao Deshmukh, 84, Indian politician.
- Eli Grba, 84, American baseball player, pancreatic cancer.
- Del Henney, 83, English actor.
- David N. Levinson, 83, American businessman and politician.
- Peter Nambundunga, 71, Namibian military officer.
- Francisco de Oliveira Dias, 88, Portuguese politician, Speaker of the Assembly and Deputy.
- Raymond G. Perelman, 101, American businessman and philanthropist.
- Lenin Rajendran, 67, Indian film director and screenwriter, complications from liver transplant.
- Wilf Rosenberg, 84, South African rugby league player, stroke.
- Martha Ross, 79, British actress and radio presenter.
- Gavin Smith, 50, Canadian professional poker player.
- Rainer Stadelmann, 85, German Egyptologist.
- Tinca Stegovec, 91, Slovenian artist.
- Devendra Swarup, 93, Indian journalist.
- Julio Vallejo Ruiloba, 73, Spanish psychiatrist.
- Duncan Welbourne, 78, English footballer.
15
- Bill Anagnos, 60, American stuntman and actor.
- Bai Hua, 88, Chinese novelist, playwright and poet.
- Avraham Bendori, 90, Israeli football player and manager.
- Bradley Bolke, 93, American voice actor.
- Jacques Boyon, 84, French politician, Deputy.
- Carol Channing, 97, American Hall of Fame actress, singer and dancer, Tony winner.
- Edyr de Castro, 72, Brazilian actress, and singer, multiple organ failure.
- Giuseppe De Chirico, 84, Italian Olympic sport shooter.
- Xavier Gouyou-Beauchamps, 81, French prefect and director general of France 3.
- Bill Graham, 81, Canadian football player.
- Luis Grajeda, 81, Mexican Olympic basketball player.
- Antonín Kramerius, 79, Czech footballer.
- Mason Lowe, 25, American professional bull rider, chest injuries sustained during a competition.
- Eduardo Martín Toval, 76, Spanish lawyer and politician, Deputy and member of Catalan Parliament.
- Tim Maypray, 30, American football player.
- John J. McKetta, 103, American chemical engineer.
- Mario Monje, 89, Bolivian politician, founder of Communist Party, pneumonia.
- Gabriel Montcharmont, 78, French politician, Deputy.
- Jerónimo Neto, 51, Angolan handball coach, heart attack.
- Miodrag Radovanović, 89, Serbian actor.
- Simone Rignault, 75, French politician Deputy.
- Biraj Kumar Sarma, 70, Indian politician, liver failure.
- Sir Anthony Skingsley, 85, British air chief marshal.
- José Souto, 59, French footballer.
- Espen Thorstenson, 78, Norwegian film director.
- Thelma Tixou, 75, Mexican vedette and actress.
- Bruce Tufeld, 66, American talent agent and manager, liver cancer.
16
- Malik Mazhar Abbas Raan, 65, Pakistani politician, member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab, heart attack.
- Gerard Basset, 61, French-born British sommelier, esophageal cancer.
- John C. Bogle, 89, American investor, founder of The Vanguard Group, cancer.
- François Brune, 87, French Catholic prelate and writer.
- Jean Chatillon, 81, Canadian composer.
- Vishnu Hari Dalmia, 94, Indian industrialist.
- Lorna Doom, 61, American punk rock bassist, breast cancer.
- Tom Hausman, 65, American baseball player.
- Ahmed Hussein-Suale, 31, Ghanaian journalist, shot.
- Shannon M. Kent, 35, American Navy chief cryptologic technician, bombing.
- Grattan Kerans, 78, American politician, member of the Oregon State Senate.
- Alfred Kunz, 89, German-Canadian composer and conductor, heart disease.
- Fernand Labrie, 81, Canadian endocrinologist and medical researcher.
- Hugh Lewin, 79, South African anti-apartheid activist and writer.
- Aya Maasarwe, 21, Israeli exchange student, homicide.
- Hank Norton, 91, American college football coach.
- Mirjam Pressler, 78, German writer.
- Joyce Reopel, 85, American artist.
- Heinrich Schaarschmidt, 88, Finnish Olympic sailor.
- Teddi Sherman, 97, American actress and screenwriter.
- Denis Sire, 65, French comics artist and illustrator.
- Barbara Tsakirgis, 64, American archaeologist.
- Rita Vidaurri, 94, American singer.
- Unto Wiitala, 93, Finnish Hall of Fame ice hockey player and official.
- Chris Wilson, 62, Australian musician, pancreatic cancer.
- Yu Min, 92, Chinese nuclear physicist.
17
- Vicente Álvarez Areces, 75, Spanish politician, President of Asturias, Senator and Mayor of Gijón.
- Babiker Awadalla, 101, Sudanese politician, Prime Minister.
- S. Balakrishnan, 69, Indian film score composer and music director, cancer.
- Eddie Benitez, 62, American guitarist.
- Francis Coutou, 71, French Olympic field hockey player.
- Windsor Davies, 88, Welsh actor.
- Steven B. Dodge, 73, American media executive, traffic collision.
- Michael Hardcastle, 85, British writer of children's literature.
- Ashrafunnesa Mosharraf, 74, Bangladeshi politician, kidney disease.
- Joe O'Donnell, 77, American football player.
- Mary Oliver, 83, American poet, Pulitzer Prize winner, lymphoma.
- Mary Jane Osborn, 91, American biochemist and molecular biologist.
- Garfield Owen, 86, Welsh rugby player, Parkinson's disease.
- Gil Carlos Rodríguez Iglesias, 72, Spanish judge, President of the European Court of Justice.
- Léo Rooman, 90, Belgian Olympic hockey player.
- Sam Savage, 78, American novelist.
- Turk Schonert, 62, American football player, heart attack.
- Tara Simmons, 34, Australian musician, breast cancer.
- Helen Smith, 97, American baseball player.
- Daniel C. Striepeke, 88, American makeup artist.
- Sabrina Vlaškalić, 29, Serbian classical guitarist and teacher, traffic collision.
- Anthony Watsham, 94, British-born Zimbabwean Jesuit monk and entomologist.
- John Welwood, 75, American psychologist.
- Keith White, 70, British sailor.
- Fumiko Yonezawa, 80, Japanese theoretical physicist, heart failure.
- Reggie Young, 82, American musician.
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- Eric Aarons, 99, Australian politician.
- David Abel, 83, Burmese economist and military officer, heart attack.
- Boo, 12, American Pomeranian dog, Facebook celebrity, heart failure.
- Gulab Chandio, 61, Pakistani actor.
- John Coughlin, 33, American figure skater, suicide by hanging.
- Walter Craig, 65, Canadian mathematician.
- Dale Dodrill, 92, American football player.
- Lamia Al-Gailani Werr, 80, Iraqi archaeologist.
- Gary Gutting, 76, American philosopher.
- Cees Haast, 80, Dutch racing cyclist.
- Reg Hart, 83, New Zealand rugby league player.
- Geoffrey Hewitt, 85, British chemical engineer.
- Sylvia Kay, 82, British actress.
- John Krogh, 80, Norwegian footballer.
- Robert Morey, 82, American rower, Olympic champion.
- Dan Orlich, 94, American football player.
- Gilles Paquet, 82, Canadian economist.
- Franco Pian, 96, Italian footballer.
- François Protat, 73–74, Canadian cinematographer.
- Brian Stowell, 82, Manx reporter, linguist, physicist and author, Reih Bleeaney Vanannan winner.
- William A. Thomas, 70, American college football player and coach.
- Etienne Vermeersch, 84, Belgian philosopher, euthanasia.
- Ivan Vutsov, 79, Bulgarian football player and manager.
- Glen Wood, 93, American racing driver, co-founder of Wood Brothers Racing.
- Peter Zander, 96, German-born British actor, complications from a stroke.
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- Atin Bandyopadhyay, 85, Bangladeshi writer, stroke.
- Mario Bertoncini, 86, Italian composer, pianist, and music educator.
- Jagjit Singh Chopra, 84, Indian neurologist, complications from a stroke.
- Gert Frank, 62, Danish cyclist, Olympic bronze medalist, heart attack.
- Robert Furlonger, 97, Australian diplomat.
- Nathan Glazer, 95, American sociologist.
- Thomas Habinek, 65, American classical scholar, liver cancer.
- Henry Horwitz, 80, American historian.
- Barthélémy Kotchy, 84, Ivorian writer and politician.
- Liang Jingkui, 87, Chinese physical chemist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
- Ted McKenna, 68, Scottish drummer, haemorrhage during hernia surgery.
- May Menassa, 80, Lebanese writer and journalist, ruptured aneurysm.
- Tony Mendez, 78, American intelligence officer, subject of Argo, complications from Parkinson's disease.
- Muriel Pavlow, 97, English actress.
- Mark Samson, 63, Sri Lankan actor, heart attack.
- Jaswinder Singh Sandhu, 63, Indian politician, cancer.
- Red Sullivan, 89, Canadian ice hockey player and coach, Alzheimer's disease.
- Henry Sy, 94, Chinese-born Filipino retailer and investor.
- Margaret Wigiser, 94, American baseball player.
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- Tibor Baranski, 96, Hungarian-born American Righteous Among the Nations.
- Paul Barrett, 78, British music manager and agent.
- Rosemarie Bowe, 86, American model and actress.
- Kenneth Bruffee, 84, American academic.
- Fred Castledine, 81, Australian WAFL footballer.
- Ian Dewhirst, 82, British historian.
- Klaus Enders, 81, German sidecar racer, world champion.
- Evloghios, 83, German-born Italian Orthodox bishop, Primate of the Holy Synod of Milan.
- Mustapha Filali, 97, Tunisian politician and union leader, Minister of Agriculture.
- Ging Ginanjar, 54, Indonesian journalist.
- Ronald Hayman, 86, British critic and biographer, pneumonia.
- Norman Itzkowitz, 87, American historian.
- Husain Mohammad Jafri, 84, Pakistani historian.
- Dumisani Kumalo, 71, South African politician and diplomat, UN ambassador, asthma attack.
- Jerry Kupcinet, 74, American director and producer.
- John Mason, 91, American artist.
- Petre Milincovici, 82, Romanian Olympic rower.
- Mudrooroo, 80, Australian writer.
- François Perrot, 94, French actor.
- Leonardo Quisumbing, 79, Filipino judge, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
- Jimmy Rayl, 77, American basketball player.
- Lolo Rico, 84, Spanish writer, television director and journalist.
- Ian Shirley, 78, New Zealand social policy academic.
- Bobby Shows, 80, American politician, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives.
- Andrew G. Vajna, 74, Hungarian-American film producer.
- Mithra Wettimuny, 67, Sri Lankan cricketer.
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- Marcel Azzola, 91, French accordionist.
- Russell Baker, 93, American writer, Pulitzer Prize recipient, complications from a fall.
- Kaye Ballard, 93, American actress and singer, kidney cancer.
- Khandaker Abdul Baten, 72, Bangladeshi guerrilla leader and politician, MP.
- Raghbir Singh Bhola, 91, Indian field hockey player, Olympic champion and silver medalist.
- Edwin Birdsong, 77, American funk keyboardist.
- Trond Botnen, 81, Norwegian artist.
- Maxine Brown, 87, American country singer, complications of heart and kidney disease.
- Mauro Cichero, 67, Italian-born Venezuelan footballer.
- Evening Attire, 20, American racehorse.
- Padraic Fiacc, 94, Irish poet.
- Rosa González Román, 76, Chilean journalist and politician, Deputy.
- Henri, Count of Paris, 85, French noble, Orléanist pretender to the French throne.
- Göran Högberg, 70, Swedish Olympic athlete.
- Nagendra Jamatia, 71, Indian politician, MLA.
- Charles Kettles, 89, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient.
- Lothar Kobluhn, 75, German footballer.
- Roman Kudlyk, 77, Ukrainian poet and literary critic.
- Mike Ledbetter, 33, American blues musician, complications from epilepsy.
- Andrzej Liss, 68, Polish politician, member of Sejm.
- Richard H. Lyon, 89, American acoustical engineer.
- Ismail Mačev, 59, Macedonian Olympic sprinter, lung cancer.
- Pedro Manfredini, 83, Argentine footballer.
- Giuseppe Minardi, 90, Italian racing cyclist.
- Lupando Mwape, 68, Zambian politician, Vice-President.
- Leo Paquette, 84, American chemist, Parkinson's disease.
- John Russell, 83, British rower, Olympic silver medalist.
- Emiliano Sala, 28, Argentine footballer, plane crash.
- Shivakumara Swami, 111, Indian Lingayat spiritual leader and educationist, Seer of Siddaganga Matha, lung infection.
- Yıldırım Uran, 63, Turkish football coach, heart attack.
- Harris Wofford, 92, American attorney and politician, member of the U.S. Senate, complications from a fall.
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- Themos Anastasiadis, 61, Greek journalist and publisher, cancer.
- Koos Andriessen, 90, Dutch politician and economist, Minister of Economic Affairs.
- Ahmed Imtiaz Bulbul, 63, Bangladeshi musician and political activist, heart attack.
- Leonard Dinnerstein, 84, American historian.
- Andrew Fairlie, 55, Scottish chef, brain cancer.
- James Frawley, 82, American television and film director, Emmy winner, heart attack.
- Éric Holder, 58, French novelist.
- Kin Kaung, 55, Burmese comedian and actor.
- A. Kumarathurai, 79, Sri Lankan politician, founder of Kumarapuram.
- John Lindley, 85, English rugby league player.
- Bill Mackrides, 93, American football player.
- Eileen Massey, 83, Australian cricketer.
- Maureen Murphy, 79, American Olympic swimmer, heart attack.
- Bernarr Notley, 100, English cricketer.
- Kiril Petkov, 85, Bulgarian wrestler, Olympic silver medalist.
- Jean-Maurice Rouquette, 87, French historian.
- John M. Smith, 83, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Pensacola–Tallahassee and Trenton.
- Wolfgang Thonke, 80, German military officer.
- Charles Vandenhove, 91, Belgian architect.
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- Steven H. Amick, 71, American politician, member of the Delaware House of Representatives and Senate.
- Diana Athill, 101, British literary editor and novelist.
- Richard Bodycombe, 96, American military officer.
- Jack Brinkley, 88, American politician, educator and lawyer, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia's 3rd district.
- Mervyn Brooker, 64, British cricketer, meningitis.
- Jacqueline Casalegno, 93, French businesswoman.
- Bradnee Chambers, 52, Canadian environmentalist.
- Dick Dolman, 83, Dutch politician, Speaker and member of the House of Representatives, member of the Council of State.
- Ayşen Gruda, 74, Turkish actress and comedian, pancreatic cancer.
- Nils Hasselmo, 87, Swedish-American academic administrator, President of the University of Minnesota and the AAU, prostate cancer.
- Wayne H. Holtzman, 96, American psychologist.
- Howard S. Irwin, 90, American botanist.
- Anthony de Jasay, 93, Hungarian economist and philosopher.
- Lin Ching-hsuan, 65, Taiwanese writer, heart attack.
- Jim McKean, 73, Canadian baseball umpire, heart attack.
- Jonas Mekas, 96, Lithuanian-born American film director and poet.
- Hidekichi Miyazaki, 108, Japanese masters athlete, cerebral hemorrhage.
- Oliver Mtukudzi, 66, Zimbabwean musician, complications from diabetes.
- Georges Nasser, 91, Lebanese film director.
- Norman Orentreich, 96, American dermatologist.
- Aloysius Pang, 28, Singaporean actor, complications from crushed torso.
- Ryszard Peryt, 71, Polish conductor and librettist.
- Volodymyr Sitkin, 84, Ukrainian Olympic athlete.
- Alexandra Svetlitskaya, 47, Russian footballer.
- Sitaram Rao Valluri, 94, Indian-born American engineer.
- Johnny Walker, 90, Scottish footballer.
- Adam Watson, 88, Scottish scientist and mountaineer.
- Jean-Pierre Wintenberger, 64, French mathematician.
- Erik Olin Wright, 71, American Marxist sociologist, acute myeloid leukemia.
- Willie York, 74, American homeless activist, diabetes and prostate cancer.
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- Fernando Sebastián Aguilar, 89, Spanish Roman Catholic cardinal, Bishop of León and Archbishop of Pamplona and Tudela, stroke.
- Vito Andrés Bártoli, 89, Argentine football player and manager.
- Elio Berhanyer, 89, Spanish fashion designer.
- William R. Bradford, 85, American LDS Church general authority.
- Pierre Delaunay, 99, French sports official, General Secretary of UEFA.
- Peter Eele, 83, English cricket player and umpire.
- Norman Goodman, 95, American municipal clerk.
- Jerard Hurwitz, 90, American biochemist.
- Antonio Marchesano, 88, Uruguayan politician, President of the Chamber of Deputies and Interior Minister.
- Rosemary Bryant Mariner, 65, American naval aviator, ovarian cancer.
- Jim McCabe, 96, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly.
- Hugh McIlvanney, 84, Scottish sports writer.
- Alain de Mijolla, 85, French psychoanalyst.
- Robert H. Mounce, 97, American biblical scholar.
- Kiço Mustaqi, 80, Albanian military officer and politician.
- Altino Pinto de Magalhães, 96, Portuguese military officer and politician, President of the Regional Junta of the Azores.
- Gérard Poulain, 82, French Olympic field hockey player.
- Nigel Saddington, 53, English footballer, heart disease.
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- Fatima Ali, 29, Pakistani-born American chef and reality show contestant, Ewing's sarcoma.
- Thomas Andretta, 81, American Union business agent and mob associate.
- Roohi Bano, 68, Pakistani actress, kidney failure.
- Steve Bell, 83, American television anchor and academic.
- Jacques Berthelet, 84, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop and Bishop of Saint-Jean-Longueuil.
- Bruce Corbitt, 56, American musician, esophageal cancer.
- Deng Zongjue, 102, Chinese zoologist.
- Henry C. Dethloff, 84, American historian and professor.
- Albert J. Dunlap, 81, American corporate executive.
- Erik Dwi Ermawansyah, 22, Indonesian footballer, heart attack.
- Mick Ewing, 98, American football coach.
- Stanley Hill, 82, American union leader, pneumonia.
- John Jeffries, 89, New Zealand politician and judge.
- Florence Knoll, 101, American architect and furniture designer.
- Donald N. Langenberg, 86, American academic, Chancellor of the University System of Maryland, aortic aneurysm.
- Erwin Lienhard, 62, Swiss racing cyclist.
- Dušan Makavejev, 86, Serbian film director.
- Anne Marev, 86, Belgian actress.
- George McMahon, 89, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island.
- Vigilio Mario Olmi, 91, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Brescia.
- Renzo Pigni, 93, Italian politician, Deputy and Mayor of Como.
- Meshulam Riklis, 95, Turkish-born American-Israeli businessman.
- Boniface Tshosa Setlalekgosi, 91, Botswanan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Gaborone.
- Krishna Sobti, 93, Indian author.
- Jacqueline Steiner, 94, American folk singer-songwriter and social activist.
- Jaume Traserra Cunillera, 84, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Solsona.
- Michael Trieb, 82, German urban planner.
- Vasillaq Zëri, 66, Albanian footballer.
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- Robert Adams, VI, 55, American politician, cancer.
- Dale Barnstable, 93, American basketball player.
- Duane Benson, 73, American football player and politician, member of the Minnesota Senate, cancer.
- Patrick Bricard, 78, French actor.
- Aleksandr Danilin, 57, Russian Olympic speed skater.
- Boško Đokić, 65, Serbian basketball coach and journalist, heart attack.
- Éric Duyckaerts, 65, Belgian artist.
- Jean Guillou, 88, French composer, organist and pianist.
- Howard Haugerud, 94, American government official.
- Elisabet Helsing, 78, Norwegian nutritional physiologist.
- Nicholas Héroys, 81, English chartered accountant and cricketer.
- Jumani Johansson, 45, Malawian-Swedish possible heir of President Hastings Banda.
- Henrik Jørgensen, 57, Danish Olympic marathon runner, heart attack.
- Michel Legrand, 86, French composer, conductor and jazz pianist, Oscar winner.
- Wilma Lipp, 93, Austrian operatic soprano.
- Mao Dehua, 83, Chinese geographer and politician, Vice Chairman of Xinjiang.
- Luděk Munzar, 85, Czech actor, complications from Parkinson's disease.
- Ndaye Mulamba, 70, Congolese footballer.
- Mick O'Rourke, 72, Irish Gaelic footballer.
- Bill Ortwein, 78, American politician, member of the Tennessee Senate.
- Gerry Plamondon, 95, Canadian ice hockey player.
- Mary Lou Robinson, 92, American senior judge, U.S. District Court Judge for the Northern District of Texas.
- David Sellar, 77, Scottish heraldry regulator, Lord Lyon King of Arms.
- Eka Tjipta Widjaja, 97, Chinese-born Indonesian banker, founder of the Sinar Mas Group.
- Giuseppe Zamberletti, 85, Italian politician, MP, Minister of Public Works and of Protezione Civile.
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- Paul Balta, 89, French journalist.
- Marshall E. Blume, 77, American economist.
- Robert Budak, 26, Croatian actor.
- Joseph Buttigieg, 71, Maltese-American literary scholar.
- Betty Carveth, 93, Canadian baseball player.
- Henry Chapier, 85, Romanian-born French journalist and film critic.
- Nurul Alam Chowdhury, 73, Bangladeshi politician and diplomat.
- Yvonne Clark, 89, American engineer.
- Thomas Jones Enright, 71, American mathematician, complications from Parkinson's disease.
- Sir Reginald Eyre, 94, British politician, MP for Birmingham Hall Green.
- Nina Fyodorova, 71, Russian cross-country skier, Olympic and world champion.
- Bill Goodacre, 67, Canadian politician.
- Mike Harrison, 78, English footballer.
- Emmanuel Hocquard, 78, French poet.
- Peter Magowan, 76, American businessman, co-owner of the San Francisco Giants, CEO and chairman of Safeway, cancer.
- Countess Maya von Schönburg-Glauchau, 60, German socialite, lung cancer.
- Eve Oja, 70, Estonian mathematician.
- Anant Prasad Singh, 92, Indian politician, MLA.
- Matt Turner, 51, American baseball player, Hodgkin's lymphoma.
- Erica Yohn, 88, American actress.
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- Humberto Akʼabal, 66, Guatemalan K'iche' Maya poet.
- Vere Claiborne Chappell, 88, American philosopher.
- Ingvald Godal, 84, Norwegian politician, MP.
- Susan Hiller, 78, American artist.
- Jon T. Hougen, 82, American chemist.
- Antônio Petrus Kalil, 93, Brazilian criminal, pneumonia.
- Kim Bok-dong, 92, South Korean women's rights activist, cancer.
- Jurrie Koolhof, 59, Dutch footballer.
- Mourad Medelci, 75, Algerian politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs.
- Mavis Ngallametta, 75, Australian painter and weaver.
- Noel Rawsthorne, 89, British organist and composer.
- Henry Saavedra, 81, American politician, member of the New Mexico House of Representatives.
- Tahseen Said, 86, Iraqi politician, Mir of the Yazidis.
- Yoskar Sarante, 49, Dominican bachata singer, pulmonary fibrosis.
- Otto Schubiger, 94, Swiss ice hockey player, Olympic bronze medalist.
- Ishtvan Sekech, 79, Hungarian-born Russian football player and manager.
- Wickham Skinner, 94, American business theorist.
- Pepe Smith, 71, Filipino rock musician, heart failure.
- John Raymond Smythies, 96, British neuroscientist.
- Arthur Turner, 98, English footballer.
- Marc Viénot, 90, French banking executive.
- Doris L. Wethers, 91, American pediatrician, complications from a stroke.
- Paul Whaley, 72, American drummer, heart failure.
- Dawit Yohannes, 62, Ethiopian politician, Speaker of the House of People's Representatives.
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- Jane Aamund, 82, Danish author and journalist.
- Dipak Bhattacharjee, 79, Indian politician, MLA.
- Kenneth A. Black Jr., 86, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly.
- Elaine Bonazzi, 89, American opera singer.
- Jean-Pierre Boccardo, 76, French Olympic sprinter.
- Hans Normann Dahl, 81, Norwegian illustrator and painter.
- George Fernandes, 88, Indian politician, Minister of Railways and Defence, MP, complications from swine flu.
- Jean-Marc Fontaine, 74, French mathematician.
- Fernando Gaitán, 58, Colombian screenwriter, heart attack.
- Ian George, 84, Australian Anglican prelate, Archbishop of Adelaide.
- Zdravko Grebo, 71, Bosnian legal scholar.
- Andy Hebenton, 89, Canadian ice hockey player.
- Charles J. Hynes, 83, American lawyer and politician, Kings County District Attorney.
- James Ingram, 66, American R&B singer-songwriter, Grammy winner, brain cancer.
- Jin Guozhang, 91, Chinese pharmacologist, psychopathologist and educator.
- Gerri Lawlor, American actress and voice actress, co-creator of Simlish.
- Muhammad Arshad Khan Lodhi, 81, Pakistani politician, member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab.
- Alf Lüdtke, 75, German historian.
- Antonio Mercader, 74, Spanish-born Uruguayan journalist, lawyer and politician, Minister of Education and Culture.
- Mohammad Nabi Habibi, 73, Iranian politician, Mayor of Tehran, heart attack.
- Aize Obayan, 58, Nigerian academic administrator, Vice Chancellor of Covenant University, cancer.
- Ivan Sergeyevich Obolensky, 93, American financial analyst, naval officer and publisher.
- Egisto Pandolfini, 92, Italian footballer.
- Sanford Sylvan, 65, American baritone, heart attack.
- William Van Alstyne, 84, American legal scholar.
- Jan Wahl, 87, American children's writer, cancer.
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- Nehanda Abiodun, 68, American rap music activist.
- Stewart Adams, 95, British chemist, developer of ibuprofen.
- Harlan Anderson, 89, American computer engineer, co-founder of Digital Equipment Corporation.
- Jaime Ardila Casamitjana, 100, Colombian writer.
- George Austin, 87, British Anglican priest, Archdeacon of York.
- Maureen Brunt, 90, Australian economist.
- Dara Dotiwalla, 85, Indian cricket umpire.
- Tohru Eguchi, 70, Japanese theoretical physicist, heart failure.
- Diane Gaidry, 54, American actress, cancer.
- Alan Hayes, 79, Australian VFL footballer.
- Dame Felicity Hill, 103, British Royal Air Force officer, Director of WRAF.
- Saphira Indah, 32, Indonesian actress, lung infection.
- Per Jorsett, 98, Norwegian freelance sports reporter.
- Jadwiga Książek, 79, Polish volleyball player, Olympic bronze medalist.
- Jean Ledoux, 83, French Olympic rower.
- Peter Mikkelsen, 58, Danish football referee, cancer.
- Dick Miller, 90, American actor.
- Douglas Myall, 96, British civil servant and philatelist.
- Bernard Nevill, 84, British textile designer.
- B. E. Vijayam, 85, Indian geologist.
- Duncan Weldon, 77, English theatre producer, Tony winner.
- Lori Wilson, 81, American politician, member of the Florida Senate.
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- Harold Bradley, 93, American Hall of Fame country musician.
- Candice Earley, 68, American actress, multiple system atrophy.
- A. Ernest Fitzgerald, 92, American engineer and government whistleblower.
- David Hawkins, 81, British Royal Air Force officer.
- Denis Hunt, 81, English football player and manager.
- Kálmán Ihász, 77, Hungarian footballer.
- Ron Joyce, 88, Canadian businessman, co-founder of Tim Hortons.
- Pablo Larios, 58, Mexican footballer, complications from intestinal occlusion.
- Johnny Lion, 77, Dutch singer and actor, lung cancer.
- Pierre Nanterme, 59, French business executive, colon cancer.
- Nancy B. Reich, 94, American musicologist.
- Georges Sarre, 83, French politician, Deputy.
- Graham Stilwell, 73, British tennis player, neuro-muscular disorder.
- Don Storm, 86, American politician, member of the Minnesota Senate.
- Andrzej Wieckowski, 73, Polish-born American chemist.
- William Winegard, 94, Canadian politician, MP.