Deaths in July 2019

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

  July 2019

1

• Ezzat Abou Aouf, 70, Egyptian actor, liver and heart failure.
• Joseph Bolangi Egwanga Ediba Tasame, 81, Congolese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Budjala.
• Bob Collymore, 61, Guyanese-born British telecom executive, CEO of Safaricom, acute myeloid leukaemia.
• Nikola Dagorov, 94, Bulgarian Olympic triple jumper.
• Renato Dehò, 72, Italian footballer.
• Norman Geisler, 86, American theologian.
• Osvalda Giardi, 86, Italian high jumper and pentathlete.
• Dave Gilbert, 84, Canadian politician, MHA.
• Rolland Golden, 87, American artist.
• Ennio Guarnieri, 88, Italian cinematographer.
• Pierre Lenhardt, 91, French Roman Catholic theologian.
• Jackie Mekler, 87, South African long-distance runner, British Empire and Commonwealth silver medalist.
• Derrill Osborn, 76, American fashion executive.
• Al Picard, 96, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Sándor Popovics, 80, Hungarian football player and manager.
• Ludy Pudluk, 76, Canadian politician, MLA.
• Khalid bin Sultan Al Qasimi, 39, Emirati royal and fashion designer.
• Sid Ramin, 100, American composer, Oscar and Grammy winner.
• Jacques Rougeau Sr., 89, Canadian professional wrestler.
• Bogusław Schaeffer, 90, Polish composer, musicologist and graphic artist.
• Jerry Seltzer, 87, American roller derby promoter.
• Tyler Skaggs, 27, American baseball player, drug overdose.
• Ulrike Stanggassinger, 51, German Olympic alpine skier.

  2

• Don Ballard, 95, American politician, member of the Georgia House of Representatives and Senate.
• Leila Leah Bronner, 89, American Jewish historian and Bible scholar.
• Élie Brousse, 97, French rugby league player.
• Michael Colgrass, 87, American-born Canadian composer, Pulitzer Prize winner, skin cancer.
• Costa Cordalis, 75, Greek-born German schlager singer.
• Suzanne Eaton, 59, American biologist, asphyxiation.
• Hugh Edighoffer, 90, Canadian politician.
• Diana Henderson, 72, British solicitor, army officer and historian.
• Lee Iacocca, 94, American automobile executive and writer, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Li Zuixiong, 78, Chinese conservation scientist, Vice President of the Dunhuang Research Academy.
• Michelle Medina, 32, Ecuadorian singer, athlete and TV presenter, skin cancer.
• José Luis Merino, 92, Spanish film director.
• W. Thomas Molloy, 78, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan, pancreatic cancer.
• Rabin Mondal, 90, Indian painter.
• Mr. Two Bits, 96, American cheerleader.
• Francesco Pontone, 92, Italian politician, Senator.
• Jaime Posada Díaz, 94, Colombian writer and politician, Minister of National Education and Governor of Cundinamarca Department.
• George Barclay Richardson, 94, British economist, Warden of Keble College, Oxford.
• Richmond Shepard, 90, American theater director and mime.
• Lis Verhoeven, 88, German actress and theatre director.
• Bruce Wallrodt, 67, Australian shot putter and javelin thrower, Paralympic champion.

  3

• Sudarshan Agarwal, 88, Indian politician, Governor of Uttarakhand and Sikkim.
• Perro Aguayo, 73, Mexican professional wrestler, heart attack.
• Koldo Aguirre, 80, Spanish football player and manager.
• June Bacon-Bercey, 90, American meteorologist, frontotemporal dementia.
• Jacek Baluch, 79, Polish literary scholar.
• Basant Kumar Birla, 98, Indian businessman, Chairman of B.K. Birla Institute of Engineering & Technology.
• Christopher Booker, 81, British journalist.
• Pol Cruchten, 55, Luxembourgish film director.
• Julia Farron, 96, English ballerina.
• Mitsuo Itoh, 82, Japanese Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.
• Arte Johnson, 90, American comedian and actor, Emmy Award winner, bladder and prostate cancer.
• Gary Kolb, 79, American baseball player.
• Peter Lahdenpera, 91, American Olympic skier.
• Malva Landa, 100, Ukrainian-born Russian geologist and human rights activist.
• Li Xintian, 90, Chinese novelist.
• Jared Lorenzen, 38, American football player, infection.
• Arseny Mironov, 101, Russian aeronautical engineer.
• Nisar Nasik, 76, Pakistani poet.
• Tony Robichaux, 57, American baseball player and coach, complications from a heart attack.
• Alan Rogan, 68, British guitar technician, cancer.
• Thomas Shardelow, 87, South African cyclist, Olympic silver medallist.
• Edward Shotter, 86, British Anglican priest and author, Dean of Rochester.
• Vasco Tagliavini, 81, Italian football player and manager.
• Raymond Tarcy, 82, French politician, Senator.

  4

• Robert A. Bernhard, 91, American banker.
• H. Gopal Bhandary, 66, Indian politician, member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly, heart attack.
• Chris Cline, 60, American billionaire mining entrepreneur, helicopter crash.
• Eduardo Fajardo, 94, Spanish actor.
• Arturo Fernández Rodríguez, 90, Spanish actor, stomach cancer.
• Héctor Huerta Ríos, Mexican criminal, shot.
• Munshi Mohammad Fazle Kader, 90, Indian citizen, awarded Friends of Liberation War Honour.
• Holger Kirschke, 71, German Olympic swimmer.
• Eva Mozes Kor, 85, Romanian-born American Holocaust survivor and author, founder of CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center.
• Leon Kossoff, 92, British painter.
• Pierre Lhomme, 89, French cinematographer.
• Robert F. Marx, 85, American scuba diver.
• Wayne Mass, 73, American football player, heart attack.
• Vernon McArley, 95, New Zealand cricketer.
• Vivian Perlis, 91, American musicologist.
• André Pinçon, 88, French politician, Mayor of Laval.
• Jean Royer, 81, Canadian poet.

  5

• Marie Borroff, 95, American poet and translator.
• Dorothy Buckland-Fuller, 97, Australian sociologist.
• Douglas Crimp, 74, American art historian, writer and curator, multiple myeloma.
• Tzemach Cunin, 43, American rabbi.
• Mohan Das, Indian politician, MLA.
• Neil Davey, 98, Australian public servant, oversaw currency decimalisation.
• Gerry Fairhead, 96, Canadian Olympic sailor.
• Joel Filártiga, 86, Paraguayan human rights activist and doctor.
• Andrew Graham-Yooll, 75, Argentine journalist and writer.
• Ugo Gregoretti, 88, Italian television and film director.
• Eberhard Havekost, 52, German painter.
• Kevin Higgins, 68, Australian footballer.
• Hu Maozhou, 91, Chinese politician, Mayor of Chengdu.
• Sir Wynn Hugh-Jones, 95, British diplomat and politician.
• Mokhtar Kechamli, 56, Algerian football player and manager, heart attack.
• Lewis Lloyd, 60, American basketball player.
• John McCririck, 79, British horse racing journalist, lung cancer.
• Lis Mellemgaard, 95, Danish insurgent spy and ophthamologist.
• José Muñoz Sánchez, 57, Spanish politician, Senator.
• Adila Mutallibova, 81, Azerbaijani socialite, First Lady.
• Marie Ponsot, 98, American poet and literary critic.
• Klaus Sahlgren, 90, Finnish diplomat.
• Kathleen Sims, 77, American politician, member of the Idaho Senate and House of Representatives.
• Paolo Vinaccia, 65, Italian jazz percussionist, pancreatic cancer.
• Robert M. Young, 83, American author and academic.
• Zhang Baifa, 84, Chinese politician, Vice Mayor and Executive Vice Mayor of Beijing.

  6

• Paco Alonso, 67, Mexican wrestling executive and promoter.
• Patrícia Araújo, 37, Brazilian actress and model.
• Cameron Boyce, 20, American actor, epileptic seizure.
• Bill Casimaty, 83, Australian farmer.
• Martin Charnin, 84, American lyricist and theatre director, heart attack.
• Seydi Dinçtürk, 97, Turkish Olympic sprinter.
• João Gilberto, 88, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist, pioneer of bossa nova music style.
• Elka Gilmore, 59, American chef.
• Peter Hamilton, 62, Australian footballer.
• Charles Hardnett, 80, American basketball player and coach.
• Ragnar Hoen, 78, Norwegian chess master.
• Parviz Jalayer, 79, Iranian weightlifter, Olympic silver medalist and Asian Games champion.
• Eddie Jones, 84, American actor.
• Arman Kirakossian, 62, Armenian diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs, ambassador to the United States and United Kingdom.
• Mandla Maseko, 30, South African candidate astronaut, motorcycle crash.
• Denis Pain, 83, New Zealand jurist, District Court judge, and Olympic eventing chef d'équipe.
• Calvin Quate, 95, American electrical engineer.
• K. L. Shivalinge Gowda, 93, Indian politician, MLA.
• Lucio Soravito de Franceschi, 79, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Adria-Rovigo.
• Yannis Spathas, 68, Greek guitarist.
• Gus Stager, 96, American swimming coach.
• John Waddington, 81, Australian footballer.

  7

• Edna Anderson, 96, Canadian politician, MP.
• Salvatore Angerami, 62, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Naples.
• Artur Brauner, 100, Polish-born German film producer.
• Jean Buckley, 87, American baseball player.
• Steve Cannon, 84, American novelist, playwright, and arts impresario, sepsis.
• Bob Fouts, 97, American broadcaster and sports reporter.
• Patricia Gallerneau, 64, French politician, Deputy, cancer.
• Rolf Gehlhaar, 75, American composer.
• Jonathan Hodge, 78, British composer, multiple organ failure.
• Jeff Ingber, 83, English table tennis player.
• Greg Johnson, 48, Canadian ice hockey player, Olympic silver medalist, suicide by gunshot.
• Wolfgang Joklik, 92, Austrian-born American virologist.
• Joe Kadenge, 84, Kenyan football player and manager, complications from a stroke.
• Elizabeth Killick, 94, British naval electronics engineer, heart attack.
• Ekaterina Koroleva, 20, Russian handballer, drowned.
• Stefan Kwoczała, 85, Polish speedway rider, national individual champion.
• Liu Wenxi, 85, Chinese painter, Vice Chairman of the China Artists Association.
• Ora Namir, 88, Israeli politician and diplomat, member of the Knesset, Minister of Labor, ambassador to China and Mongolia.
• Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, 49, Indonesian civil servant and academic, Head of Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management Public Relations, lung cancer.
• Ramón Héctor Ponce, 71, Argentine footballer.
• R. Ramakrishnan, 73, Indian businessman and politician, MP.
• Vlassis G. Rassias, 60, Greek writer, publisher and pagan revivalist.
• Mohammad Hussaini Shahroudi, 93, Iraqi Marja'.
• James D. Wallace, 82, American philosopher.
• Barbara Zatler, 38, Danish model and actress.

  8

• Nick Garratt, 71, Australian rowing coach.
• Jan Mokkenstorm, 57, Dutch psychiatrist.
• Neil Oliver, 85, Australian politician, member of the Western Australian Legislative Council.
• Rosie Ruiz, 66, American runner, 1980 Boston Marathon cheat, cancer.
• Arthur Ryan, 83, Irish clothier, founder and chairman of Primark.
• Paul Schramka, 91, American baseball player.
• Michael Seidenberg, 64, American bookseller and writer, heart failure.
• Zhai Xiangjun, 80, Chinese translator and educator.

  9

• Husaini Abdullahi, 80, Nigerian vice admiral, Military Governor of Bendel State.
• John Bailey, 74, Irish politician, member of the Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council, motor neuron disease.
• Rushema Begum, 85, Bangladeshi teacher and politician.
• Domenico Bova, 72, Italian politician, Deputy.
• Miriam Butterworth, 101, American politician and educator.
• William E. Dannemeyer, 89, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives and the California State Assembly.
• Phil Freelon, 66, American architect, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Neil Greatrex, 68, British trade unionist and convicted fraudster, President of the Union of Democratic Mineworkers, complications from brain haemorrhage.
• Christian Guilleminault, 80, French medical researcher.
• Freddie Jones, 91, British actor.
• Johnny Kitagawa, 87, Japanese-American talent manager, founder and president of Johnny & Associates, stroke.
• Glenn Mickens, 88, American baseball player, pneumonia.
• Heather Nicholson, 88, New Zealand geologist and author.
• Ross Perot, 89, American billionaire businessman, philanthropist and presidential candidate, founder of Electronic Data Systems and the Reform Party, leukemia.
• Aaron Rosand, 92, American violinist.
• Fernando de la Rúa, 81, Argentine lawyer and academic, President, heart and kidney failure.
• Marian Spencer, 99, American politician, Vice Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio.
• Zaheen Tahira, 79, Pakistani actress, complications from a heart attack.
• Rip Torn, 88, American actor, Emmy winner.

  10

• Paulo Henrique Amorim, 77, Brazilian journalist.
• Reinhard Bortfeld, 92, German geophysicist.
• Jim Bouton, 80, American baseball player, writer, and actor, cerebral amyloid angiopathy.
• Valentina Cortese, 96, Italian actress.
• Lutz Fleischer, 63, German painter and graphic artist.
• Karen R. Hitchcock, 76, American biologist and university administrator.
• Amirali Karmali, 89, Ugandan businessman, CEO of Mukwano Group.
• Lucette Lagnado, 62, Egyptian-born American journalist, complications from cancer.
• Jerry Lawson, 75, American a cappella singer, Guillain–Barré syndrome.
• Motto McLean, 93, Scottish-born Canadian ice hockey player.
• Walt Michaels, 89, American football player and coach.
• Denise Nickerson, 62, American actress, seizure.
• Amit Purohit, 32, Indian actor.
• Nino Randazzo, 86, Italian-Australian politician, Senator.
• Albert Shepherd, 82, British actor.
• James Small, 50, South African rugby player, heart attack.
• Danny Gordon Taylor, 69, American visual effects artist, heart attack.
• Dorothy Toy, 102, American tap dancer.
• Gerald Weissmann, 88, Austrian-born American physician, editor-in-chief of The FASEB Journal.
• Noel Whelan, 50, Irish politician and writer.

  11

• Claude Blanchard, 74, French Olympic ice hockey player.
• Jack Bond, 87, English cricketer.
• Robert Francis Christian, 70, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco.
• Mike Christie, 69, American ice hockey player, kidney disease.
• Robert Entwistle, 77, English cricketer.
• Neil Estern, 93, American sculptor.
• Héctor Figueroa, 57, American labor leader, president of SEIU 32BJ, heart attack.
• Dengir Mir Mehmet Fırat, 76, Turkish politician, MP, lung cancer.
• John Gardner, 54, Scottish legal philosopher, oesophageal cancer.
• Brendan Grace, 68, Irish comedian and singer, lung cancer.
• Séamus Hetherton, 89, Irish Gaelic footballer.
• Soumendranath Kundu, 77, Indian cricketer.
• Vincent Lambert, 42, French quadriplegic and vegetative state right-to-die figure, court assisted starvation.
• Théodore Mel Eg, 67, Ivorian politician, Minister of Culture and Francophonie and of City and Salubrity.
• Sufi Muhammad, 86, Pakistani cleric and Islamist militant, founder and leader of Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi.
• Arto Nilsson, 71, Finnish boxer, Olympic bronze medallist.
• Pepita Pardell, 91, Spanish cinema animator pioneer, cartoonist and illustrator.
• Siegfried Strohbach, 89, German composer and conductor.
• Rumen Surdzhiyski, 75, Bulgarian film director.
• Mark E. Talisman, 78, American legislative aide and Jewish activist.
• William H. Walls, 86, American senior judge of the District Court for the District of New Jersey.

  12

• Jorge Aguado, 93, Argentine politician and ruralist, de facto Governor of Buenos Aires Province and Minister of Agriculture and Livestock.
• Georgios Anastassopoulos, 83, Greek journalist and politician, MEP and Vice President.
• Fernando J. Corbató, 93, American computer scientist, developer of Multics, complications from diabetes.
• Franz Eisl, 98. Austrian Olympic sailor.
• David L. Ferguson, 69, American academic.
• Joe Grzenda, 82, American baseball player.
• Abdul Hamid, 92, Pakistani field hockey player, Olympic champion and silver medallist, lung injury.
• Emily Hartridge, 35, British television presenter and internet personality, traffic collision.
• Eberhard Kummer, 78, Austrian singer.
• Arno Marsh, 91, American jazz saxophonist.
• Hodan Nalayeh, 42, Somali-Canadian media executive and activist, shot.
• Claudio Naranjo, 86, Chilean psychiatrist, co-developer of the Enneagram of Personality.
• M. J. Radhakrishnan, 61, Indian cinematographer, heart attack.
• Sadie Roberts-Joseph, 75, American civil rights advocate and museum founder, asphyxiation.
• Joseph Rouleau, 90, Canadian bass opera singer.
• Diane Ellingson Smith, 60, American gymnast and teacher.
• Russell Smith, 70, American singer-songwriter, cancer.
• Richard M. Thorne, 76, American physicist.
• Matthew Trundle, 53, British-born New Zealand classics and ancient history academic, leukemia.
• Stéphanie Windisch-Graetz, 79, Austrian photographer.
• Jean-Pierre Worms, 84, French sociologist and politician, Deputy.

  13

• Abu Bakar, 66, Indonesian politician, regent of West Bandung.
• Bob Bastian, 80, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, crushed by tractor.
• Richard Carter, 65, Australian actor.
• Cyril Edwards, 71, British medievalist and translator.
• Augusto Fantozzi, 79, Italian lawyer and politician, Minister of Economy and Finance.
• June Felter, 99, American painter.
• Joginder Singh Gharaya, 92, Indian army lieutenant general.
• Sadashiv Vasantrao Gorakshkar, 86, Indian writer and art curator.
• Terry Hodgkinson, 70, British land developer, Chairman of Yorkshire Forward.
• Harlan Lane, 82, American psychologist.
• Charles Levin, 70, American actor.
• Bill Luxton, 92, Canadian actor and announcer.
• Isaac Lesiba Maphotho, 88, South African revolutionary and politician, MPL.
• Paul F. Markham, 89, American attorney, U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, key figure in the Chappaquiddick incident.
• Kerry Reed-Gilbert, 62, Australian author and Aboriginal rights activist.
• Rod Richards, 72, Welsh politician, MP for Clwyd North West, Leader of the Welsh Conservative Party, cancer.
• Paolo Sardi, 84, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal, Patron of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
• Aleksandr Shumidub, 55, Belarusian Olympic ice hockey player and manager.
• Victor Sosnora, 83, Russian poet and playwright.
• Wang Jiafu, 88, Chinese legal scholar, Director of the Institute of Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
• Ida Wyman, 93, American photographer.

  14

• Carl Bertil Agnestig, 95, Swedish music teacher and composer.
• Frieder Burda, 83, German art collector.
• Rahul Desikan, 41, Indian-born American neuroscientist, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Claire Dwyer, 55, British geographer, cancer.
• Robert Elgie, 54, Irish academic.
• Hussain Muhammad Ershad, 89, Bangladeshi military officer and politician, Chief of Army Staff and President, Leader of the Opposition, MDS.
• Hoàng Tụy, 91, Vietnamese mathematician.
• Charlee Jacob, 67, American author.
• Nereo Laroni, 76, Italian politician, Mayor of Venice and MEP, complications from heart surgery.
• Margaret Mascarenhas, American author.
• Mike Maser, 72, American football coach.
• Ernie Mims, 86, American television host.
• Lavenia Padarath, 74, Fijian politician, MP and President of the Labour Party.
• Karl Shiels, 47, Irish actor.
• Ray Skelly, 78, Canadian politician.
• James Taylor, 89, Scottish cricketer.
• Bella Tovey, 92, Polish Holocaust survivor.
• Sterling Tucker, 95, American politician and civil rights activist, Chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia, heart and kidney failure.
• Arvind Varma, 71, Indian-born American chemical engineer.
• Pernell Whitaker, 55, American boxer, four-weight world champion, Olympic champion, traffic collision.
• Yu Dunkang, 89, Chinese philosopher and historian of philosophy.
• Paul Albert Zipfel, 83, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bismarck.

  15

• Frank Ackerman, 72, American economist.
• Marc Batchelor, 49, South African footballer, shot.
• Brian Coote, 89, New Zealand legal academic.
• Mortimer Caplin, 103, American lawyer and educator, IRS Commissioner.
• Ousmane Tanor Dieng, 72, Senegalese politician, Vice-president of the Socialist International.
• Craig Fallon, 36, British judoka, world champion.
• Feng Yuanwei, 88, Chinese politician.
• Harald Fereberger, 90, Austrian Olympic sailor.
• Doug Flett, 83, Australian songwriter.
• Alexis Galanos, 78, Cypriot politician, president of the House of Representatives and Mayor-in-exile of Famagusta.
• Edith Irby Jones, 91, American physician.
• Raymond Choo Kong, 70, Trinidad and Tobago actor, stabbed.
• Bruce Laingen, 96, American diplomat, Ambassador to Malta, captive during the Iran hostage crisis, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Sir Fergus Millar, 84, British ancient historian, Camden Professor of Ancient History.
• Werner Müller, 73, German businessman and politician, Federal Minister for Economics and Technology.
• Johanna Narten, 88, German linguist.
• Sir Rex Richards, 96, British chemist and academic.
• Joe Rayment, 84, English footballer.
• Byambasuren Sharav, 66, Mongolian composer and pianist.
• Thorsteinn I. Sigfusson, 65, Icelandic physicist.
• Hugo Tolentino Dipp, 88, Dominican politician, President of the Chamber of Deputies.
• Margaret Todd, 101, Canadian golfer and BC Sports Hall of Fame inductee.
• Olga Vyalikova, 65, Russian actress.

  16

• Judit Bar-Ilan, 60, Israeli computer scientist.
• Adam Bob, 51, American football player, liver disease.
• Rosa María Britton, 82, Panamanian doctor and novelist.
• Ernie Broglio, 83, American baseball player, cancer.
• Daniel Callahan, 88, American philosopher.
• Don Chelf, 87, American football player, stroke.
• Chung Doo-un, 62, South Korean politician, Vice-Mayor of Seoul, MP, suicide.
• Johnny Clegg, 66, British-born South African singer and musician, pancreatic cancer.
• Barry Coe, 84, American actor, myelodysplastic syndrome.
• Raja Dhale, 78, Indian writer and anti-caste discrimination activist, co-founder of Dalit Panthers.
• Howard Engel, 88, Canadian author, pneumonia.
• Michael English, 88, British politician, MP for Nottingham West.
• Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy, 86, British author.
• Sonia Infante, 75, Mexican actress, cardiac arrest.
• Terry Isaac, 60, American painter.
• Pat Kelly, 74, Jamaican rocksteady and reggae singer, complications of kidney disease.
• James Moeller, 85, American jurist, Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court.
• Claude-Hélène Perrot, 90, French Africanist and academic.
• Himayat Ali Shair, 93, Pakistani poet and writer.
• John Paul Stevens, 99, American judge, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, complications from a stroke.
• Su Shuyang, 81, Chinese playwright, novelist, and screenwriter.
• John Tanton, 85, American anti-immigration activist.
• Bill Vitt, American drummer.

  17

• Andrea Camilleri, 93, Italian writer and television writer, complications from a heart attack.
• Ismail Changezi, 65, Pakistani actor.
• Warren Cole, 78, New Zealand rower, Olympic champion.
• Swarup Dutta, 78, Indian actor.
• Pumpsie Green, 85, American baseball player.
• Nikola Hajdin, 96, Serbian civil engineer, president of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
• S. R. Mehrotra, 88, Indian historian.
• Giuseppe Merlo, 91, Italian tennis player.
• Ian Murphy, 40, American journalist and satirist.
• Duane Mutch, 94, American politician, member of the North Dakota Senate.
• Wesley Pruden, 83, American journalist and editor.
• Dragomir Racić, 72, Serbian footballer.
• Donald W. Thompson, 81, American film director, producer and writer.
• Boris Vorobyov, 69, Soviet Olympic rower.
• Robert Waseige, 79, Belgian footballer and coach.

  18

• Yukiya Amano, 72, Japanese diplomat, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
• André Bradford, 48, Portuguese politician and journalist, Azores MLA, MEP, cardiac arrest.
• Charles Ceccaldi-Raynaud, 94, French lawyer and politician, Senator, Deputy, Mayor of Puteaux.
• Luciano De Crescenzo, 90, Italian writer, actor and film director, lung disease.
• Yves Forest, 98, Canadian politician, MP.
• Bob Frank, 75, American singer-songwriter.
• Rosemary Ellen Guiley, 69, American paranormal investigator.
• David Hedison, 92, American actor.
• Kurt Julius Isselbacher, 93, German-born American gastroenterologist, author and researcher, stroke.
• Ben Kinchlow, 82, American author, minister and televangelist, co-host of The 700 Club.
• Robert Milli, 86, American actor.
• Macy Morse, 98, American peace and anti-nuclear activist.
• Roelof Nelissen, 88, Dutch politician and banker, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance, CEO of the AMRO Bank.
• Mitch Petrus, 32, American football player, heatstroke.
• P. Rajagopal, 72, Indian restaurateur and convicted murderer, founder of Saravana Bhavan, complications from a heart attack.
• Darlene Tompkins, 78, American actress, stroke.
• Zhao Meng, 62, Chinese sculptor.
• Japanese victims of the Kyoto Animation arson attack:
• *Naomi Ishida, 49, colorist.
• *Yoshiji Kigami, 61, animation director.
• *Futoshi Nishiya, 37, animator and character designer ''.
• *Yasuhiro Takemoto, 47, animation director.

  19

• Arswendo Atmowiloto, 70, Indonesian journalist and writer, prostate cancer.
• Inger Berggren, 85, Swedish schlager singer.
• John Elya, 90, Lebanese-born American Melkite Greek Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Newton.
• Emanuel Hatzofe, 90, Israeli sculptor.
• Rutger Hauer, 75, Dutch actor.
• Ágnes Heller, 90, Hungarian philosopher and political theorist, drowned.
• David Hunt, 84, Australian judge, member of the Supreme Court of New South Wales.
• Jeremy Kemp, 84, British actor.
• William Morton, 58, Scottish cricketer.
• Don Mossi, 90, American baseball player.
• César Pelli, 92, Argentine architect.
• Bert Rechichar, 89, American football player.
• Dixon Seeto, Fijian hotelier and politician, Senator, complications from a traffic collision.
• Jerome B. Simandle, 70, American senior judge, liver cancer.
• Godfried Toussaint, 75, Canadian computer scientist.
• Marylou Whitney, 93, American socialite, philanthropist and Thoroughbred racehorse breeder.
• Patrick Winston, 76, American computer scientist, Director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
• Yao Lee, 96, Chinese singer.

  20

• Leif Jørgen Aune, 94, Norwegian politician, Minister of Local Government.
• Paul Barker, 83, British journalist.
• Paddy Bassett, 101, New Zealand agricultural scientist, first female graduate of Massey University.
• Antonino Cuffaro, 87, Italian politician, MP.
• Sheila Dikshit, 81, Indian politician, MP, Chief Minister of Delhi and Governor of Kerala, cardiac arrest.
• Roberto Fernández Retamar, 89, Cuban poet and essayist.
• R. James Harvey, 97, American politician and judge, member of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan.
• Peter McNamara, 64, Australian tennis player and coach, prostate cancer.
• Marisa Merz, 93, Italian artist.
• Ilaria Occhini, 85, Italian actress.
• Lance Pearson, 82, New Zealand cricketer.
• Liane Russell, 95, Austrian-born American geneticist and conservationist.

  21

• Eddie Bohan, 86, Irish politician, Senator.
• Hugo Cóccaro, 65, Argentine politician, Governor of Tierra del Fuego.
• José Manuel Estepa Llaurens, 93, Spanish Roman Catholic cardinal, Military Ordinary of Spain.
• Mange Ram Garg, 83, Indian politician, member of the Delhi Legislative Assembly.
• Trish Godman, 79, Scottish politician, MSP.
• Francisco Grau, 72, Spanish military officer and composer, Director of the Musical Unit of the Royal Guard.
• Yelena Grigoryeva, 41, Russian LGBT activist, stabbed and strangled.
• Nick Harrison, 37, American racing crew chief.
• Laurie Hergenhan, 88, Australian literary scholar.
• Ben Johnston, 93, American microtonal composer.
• Mark Kleiman, 68, American criminologist.
• Paul Krassner, 87, American writer and political activist.
• Yaakov Malkin, 92, Israeli writer and literary critic.
• Juan Carlos Márquez, 48, Spanish-Venezuelan businessman.
• Robert Morgenthau, 99, American lawyer, New York County District Attorney and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
• Ann Moyal, 93, Australian historian.
• Éric Névé, 57, French film producer.
• Ram Chandra Paswan, 57, Indian politician, MP, heart attack.
• Claro Pellosis, 84, Filipino Olympic sprinter, cardiac arrest.
• Peter Ramsay, 79, New Zealand educationalist and daffodil breeder.
• A. K. Roy, 90, Indian politician, MP.
• Wong Po-yan, 96, Hong Kong industrialist and politician, member of the Legislative Council and chairman of the Airport Authority.
• Adel Zaky, 71, Egyptian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Alexandria.
• Michael Zearott, 81, American conductor and composer.

  22

• Dan Clemens, 74, American politician, member of the Missouri Senate.
• Daniel Rae Costello, 58, Fijian-born Samoan guitarist, cancer.
• Petra Fuhrmann, 63, German politician, member of Landtag of Hesse.
• Peter Hamm, 82, German poet and writer.
• Christopher C. Kraft Jr., 95, American aerospace engineer, Director of Johnson Space Center.
• Brigitte Kronauer, 78, German writer.
• Hans Lagerqvist, 79, Swedish Olympic pole vaulter, brain cancer.
• Juan Rodolfo Laise, 93, Argentine Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of San Luis.
• Li Peng, 90, Chinese politician, Premier, Vice Premier, and Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress.
• Richard A. Macksey, 87, American academic.
• Leon Marr, 71, Canadian film director.
• Nikos Milas, 91, Greek Olympic basketball player.
• Giuliana Morandini, 81, Italian writer and literary critic.
• Viktor Musiyaka, 73, Ukrainian politician, Deputy, leader of the Forward, Ukraine! party.
• Art Neville, 81, American singer-songwriter and keyboardist.
• Michael Nauenberg, 84, German-born American theoretical physicist.
• Sea of Class, 4, Irish racehorse, euthanised for abdominal cancer.
• Bill Schulz, 80, American journalist.
• Wayne See, 95 American basketball player.
• Bassam Shakaa, 89, Palestinian politician, mayor of Nablus.
• Hilary Squires, 86, South African judge and barrister.
• Gunilla Tjernberg, 68, Swedish politician.

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• Khwaja Muhammad Aslam, 97, Pakistani Olympic athlete.
• Rella Braithwaite, 96, Canadian author.
• Cao Shuangming, 89, Chinese general, Commander of the PLA Air Force.
• Chaser, 15, American Border Collie with the largest-tested non-human memory.
• Aleksandr Chumakov, 92, Russian Olympic sailor.
• Maxim Dadashev, 28, Russian NABF super lightweight champion boxer, head injuries sustained in match.
• Ruth Gotlieb, 96, British-born New Zealand politician, Wellington City Councillor.
• Jan Hrbatý, 77, Czech ice hockey player, Olympic silver medallist.
• Peter Horn, 84, Czech-born South African writer and critic, cancer.
• Danny Keogh, 71, Ugandan-born South African actor.
• Gabe Khouth, 46, Canadian actor, cardiac arrest.
• Pavel Kučera, 79, Czech lawyer and judge, vice president of the Supreme Court of the Czech Republic.
• Danika McGuigan, 33, Irish actress, cancer.
• Charan Narzary, 86, Indian politician, MP, complications from a fall.
• Dorothy Olsen, 103, American aviatrix.
• Bobby Park, 73, English footballer, cancer.
• Michael Roth, 83, German engineer.
• Sir Patrick Sheehy, 88, British businessman.
• Yuriy Shlyakhov, 36, Ukrainian Olympic diver, heart disease.
• Barney Smith, 98, American plumber, artist and museum curator.
• Ferdinand von Bismarck, 88, German landowner and lawyer.
• Thomas Milton Weatherald, 81, Canadian politician, MLA.
• Lois Wille, 87, American journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner, stroke.

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• Claes Andersson, 82, Finnish writer, psychiatrist and politician, MP.
• David Caplan, 54, Canadian politician, MPP.
• Sammy Chapman, 81, Northern Irish football player and manager.
• Chen Hu, 57, Chinese military physician and stem cell researcher, heart attack.
• Mathias J. DeVito, 88, American lawyer and businessman, CEO of The Rouse Company, kidney failure.
• Sergio Di Giulio, 74, Italian voice actor and actor.
• Bernard Evans, 82, English footballer.
• Margaret Fulton, 94, Scottish-born Australian chef and cookbook writer.
• Hwang Byungsng, 49, South Korean poet.
• Cathy Inglese, 60, American college basketball coach, fall.
• Ajoy Mukhopadhyay, 90, Indian politician.
• Nam Gi-nam, 77, South Korean film director, cancer.
• Sir Frederick Sowrey, 96, British air marshal.
• Jaime Trobo, 62, Uruguayan politician, Minister of Sports and Youth and Deputy, cancer.
• Trudy, 63, American gorilla, world's oldest gorilla in captivity.
• Manfred Uhlig, 91, German actor.
• Roger Warren, 75, Canadian miner and murderer.

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• Giorgio Arlorio, 90, Italian film director and screenwriter.
• Farouk al-Fishawy, 67, Egyptian actor, cancer.
• Simon Bendall, 82, English numismatist.
• Anner Bylsma, 85, Dutch cellist.
• Peter Edwards, 88, British-born Canadian vexillologist.
• Beji Caid Essebsi, 92, Tunisian politician, President, Prime Minister, and Minister of Foreign Affairs.
• Curt Faudon, 70, Austrian film director.
• John Ferriter, 59, American talent agent and producer, complications from pancreatitis.
• Georg, Duke of Hohenberg, 90, Austrian aristocrat, Head of the House of Hohenberg.
• Asao Hirano, 92, Japanese medical researcher, discoverer of Hirano bodies.
• Jesper Juul, 71, Danish author, pneumonia.
• Jorma Kinnunen, 77, Finnish javelin thrower, Olympic silver medalist.
• M. Owen Lee, 89, American Roman Catholic priest and music scholar.
• Mihai Mandache, 58, Romanian Olympic swimmer.
• Danny McCarthy, 76, Welsh footballer.
• Jimmy Patton, 87, British comedian, cancer.
• Pierre Péan, 81, French journalist and author.
• P. J. Qualter, 76, Irish hurler.
• Scott Rubenstein, 71, American television writer and story editor.
• Óscar Enrique Sánchez, 64, Guatemalan Olympic footballer,.
• Victor Swenson, 83, American educator.
• Bruce Webster, 91, Australian broadcaster and politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Pittwater.

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• Richard Berg, 78, American wargame designer.
• Boris Bračulj, 79, Croatian football player and manager.
• Hugh Brogan, 83, British historian and biographer.
• Arnie Brown, 77, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Mohamed E. El-Hawary, 76, Egyptian-born Canadian scientist.
• Lillian Faralla, 94, American baseball player.
• Graham Freudenberg, 85, Australian political speechwriter.
• Monty Gordon, 87, Canadian Olympic bobsledder.
• Hwung Hwung-hweng, 72, Taiwanese hydraulic engineer, founder and chairman of the Ocean Affairs Council.
• Christoforos Liontakis, 74, Greek poet and translator.
• Bryan Magee, 89, British philosopher and politician, MP.
• Joan Martin, 85, American baseball player.
• T. K. Nallappan, 87, Indian politician, MLA.
• Ken Okoth, 41, Kenyan politician, cancer.
• Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, 82, Cuban Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of San Cristóbal de la Habana, pancreatic cancer.
• Vivian Paley, 90, American educator.
• Pascual Rabal Petriz, 89, Spanish politician, Senator and Mayor of Jaca.
• Alberto Ponce, 84, Spanish classical guitarist and teacher.
• Attoor Ravi Varma, 88, Indian poet and translator, pneumonia.
• Kevin Roster, 36, American poker player and assisted suicide advocate.
• Dagfinn Stenseth, 82, Norwegian diplomat.
• Russi Taylor, 75, American voice actress, colon cancer.
• Bill Walker, 85, American football player.
• Marty Wilson, 62, British poker player, cancer.

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• Zenon Begier, 83, Polish Olympic athlete.
• Chester Caddas, 83, American football coach.
• Tom Campbell, 81, Scottish philosopher.
• Carlos Cruz-Diez, 95, Venezuelan artist.
• Dianne Foster, 90, Canadian actress.
• Andrew Golden, 33, American convicted murderer, traffic collision.
• Johann Kresnik, 79, Austrian dancer, choreographer, and theater director.
• Edward Lewis, 99, American film producer.
• Keith Lincoln, 80, American football player.
• Humphrey Mijnals, 88, Surinamese-born Dutch footballer.
• Mike Roarke, 88, American baseball player and coach.
• Işılay Saygın, 72, Turkish politician.
• John Robert Schrieffer, 88, American physicist, Nobel laureate.
• Samprada Singh, 94, Indian generic drug manufacturer, founder of Alkem Laboratories.
• Roman Virastyuk, 51, Ukrainian Olympic shot putter, complications of heart surgery.

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• Valerik Apinian, 69, Armenian painter.
• Ferruh Bozbeyli, 92, Turkish politician, Chairman of the Democratic Party and Speaker of the Grand National Assembly.
• Ian Drohan, 86, Australian football player.
• Walter Fiers, 88, Belgian molecular biologist.
• Eduardo Gómez, 68, Spanish actor and comedian, cancer.
• George Hilton, 85, Uruguayan actor.
• Peter Bonu Johnson, 56, Gambian football player and manager.
• Vladimir Kara-Murza Sr., 59, Russian journalist and TV host, co-founder of NTV.
• Li Jisheng, 76, Chinese aerospace engineer.
• Peter McConnell, 82, English footballer.
• Loek van Mil, 34, Dutch baseball player.
• Michael Moxon, 77, British Anglican cleric, Dean of Truro.
• Howard Nathan, 47, American basketball player.
• George Parshall, 89, American chemist.
• Bartolo Pellegrino, 84, Italian politician, Sicilian Regional Deputy, founder of the New Sicily party.
• Jaipal Reddy, 77, Indian politician, Minister of Earth Sciences and Science and Technology and MP, pneumonia.
• Cesare Rizzi, 79, Italian politician, Deputy.
• Richard Rosenbaum, 88, American judge, member of the New York Supreme Court, chairman of the New York Republican State Committee.
• Donkupar Roy, 64, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Meghalaya, stomach disease.
• Bandar bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 96, Saudi royal.
• M. K. Seetharam Kulal, 79, Indian Tulu-Kannada dramatist.
• Yuu Shimaka, 70, Japanese voice actor.
• Ruth de Souza, 98, Brazilian actress, pneumonia.
• Richard Stone, 90, American politician, U.S. Senator, Secretary of State of Florida and Ambassador to Denmark.
• Kevin Stonehouse, 59, English footballer.
• Stanley Weintraub, 90, American historian and author.
• Harrison Wilson Jr., 94, American basketball coach and educator, President of Norfolk State University.

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• Egil Danielsen, 85, Norwegian javelin thrower, Olympic champion.
• Max Falkenstien, 95, American radio sportscaster.
• Asghar Ghandchi, 91, Iranian entrepreneur.
• Doris Goddard, 89, Australian cabaret singer and actress.
• Mukesh Goud, 60, Indian politician, cancer.
• Traian Ivănescu, 86, Romanian football player and coach.
• Shamim Kabir, 74, Bangladeshi cricketer, cancer.
• Joyce Laboso, 58, Kenyan politician, Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly and Governor of Bomet County, cancer.
• Enrique Lafourcade, 91, Chilean writer, critic and journalist.
• Tom Manning, 73, American terrorist.
• Vasil Metodiev, 84, Bulgarian footballer
• Mona-Liisa Nousiainen, 36, Finnish Olympic cross-country skier, cancer.
• Vitthal Radadiya, 60, Indian politician, MP, cancer.
• Ras G, 40, American hip hop producer and disc jockey.
• Archie Roboostoff, 67, American Olympic footballer.
• Tuvya Ruebner, 95, Israeli poet and translator.
• V. G. Siddhartha, 60, Indian businessman and founder of Café Coffee Day, suicide by jumping.
• Zdeněk Srstka, 83, Czech Olympic weightlifter, stuntman and actor.
• Barbara Staff, 94, American political activist.
• Sam Trimble, 84, Australian cricketer.
• Wang Qidong, 97, Chinese materials scientist and politician, Vice President of Zhejiang University, Vice Chairman of Zhejiang People's Congress.
• Werner von Moltke, 83, German decathlete, European champion.

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• Jean Arasanayagam, 87, Sri Lankan poet and fiction writer.
• Morton Bahr, 93, American labor union leader, pancreatic cancer.
• Albert W. Bally, 94, American geologist.
• Marcian Bleahu, 95, Romanian geologist, writer and politician, Senator and Minister of the Environment.
• Nick Buoniconti, 78, American Hall of Fame football player and medical research advocate.
• Deep Impact, 17, Japanese champion racehorse and sire, euthanised.
• Subir Gokarn, 59, Indian economist, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India.
• Ron Hughes, 89, Welsh football player and manager.
• John Humble, 63, British hoaxer, claimed to be the Yorkshire Ripper.
• Mari Carmen Izquierdo, 69, Spanish sports journalist, pancreatic cancer.
• Tom Manning, 73, American bomber and convicted murderer.
• W. Roy McCutcheon, 89, Canadian college administrator, President of Seneca College.
• Malcolm Nash, 74, Welsh cricketer.
• John Petroske, 84, American Olympic silver medallist ice hockey player.
• Rebecca Roeber, 61, American politician, member of the Missouri House of Representatives.
• Karsten Schubert, 57, German art dealer, medullary thyroid cancer.
• Don Suggs, 74, American artist.
• Ian Van Bellen, 73, English rugby union and rugby league player.
• R. Verman, 72, Indian art director, heart attack.
• Zhao Zhihong, 46, Chinese serial killer and rapist, executed by firing squad.

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• Martín Arzola Ortega, 42, Mexican convicted drug lord, shot.
• Marcel Berlins, 77, French legal journalist, brain haemorrhage.
• Chen Shunyao, 101, Chinese politician and academic administrator, deputy party secretary of Tsinghua University.
• María Auxiliadora Delgado, 82, Uruguayan civil servant, First Lady, heart attack.
• Brendan Fennelly, 63, Irish hurling manager and player.
• Charles François, 96, Belgian scientist.
• Armand Jung, 68, French politician, Deputy.
• Hamza bin Laden, 29–30, Saudi jihadist, shot.
• George I. Mavrodes, 92, American philosopher.
• Raffaele Pisu, 94, Italian comedian and actor, Nastro d'Argento winner.
• Harold Prince, 91, American theatre director and producer.
• Steve Sawyer, 63, American environmentalist and activist, Executive Director of Greenpeace, co-founder of the Global Wind Energy Council, pneumonia and lung cancer.
• John Scarlett, 72, Australian footballer.
• Steve Talboys, 52, English footballer.
• Jean-Luc Thérier, 73, French rally driver.
• Guido Vandone, 89, Italian footballer.