Deaths in June 2017
The following is a list of notable deaths in June 2017.
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, what subject was noted for, cause of death, and reference.
June 2017
1
- Ernie Ackerley, 73, British footballer.
- Roy Barraclough, 81, British comedian and actor respiratory problems.
- Donald Caird, 91, Irish Anglican prelate, Archbishop of Dublin
- J. B. Dauda, 74, Sierra Leonean politician, MP for Kenema, Second Vice-President, and Minister of Foreign Affairs.
- Roberto De Vicenzo, 94, Argentine golfer, Open champion.
- Tankred Dorst, 91, German playwright.
- Ludvig Hope Faye, 86, Norwegian politician.
- Viviane Gauthier, 99, Haitian dancer.
- José Greci, 76, Italian actress.
- Sir Owen Green, 92, British chief executive.
- George Joseph, 66, Indian diplomat, Ambassador to Turkmenistan, Qatar and Bahrain, kidney disease.
- Jack McCloskey, 91, American basketball coach and executive, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
- Alois Mock, 82, Austrian politician, Vice-Chancellor and Foreign Minister, complications from Parkinson's disease.
- Charles Simmons, 92, American author.
- Sonja Sutter, 86, German actress.
- Rosa Taikon, 90, Swedish silversmith and Romani people activist.
- Raino Westerholm, 97, Finnish politician.
2
- Avie Bennett, 89, Canadian executive, Chancellor of York University.
- Gordon Christian, 89, American ice hockey player, Olympic silver medalist.
- Walter Eggert, 76, German Olympic luger.
- Iakovos Garmatis, 89, Greek-born American Orthodox hierarch, Metropolitan of Chicago, complications from surgery.
- Ellen Jose, 66, Australian artist and photographer.
- Oscar Kaibyshev, 78, Russian scientist.
- Jaroslav Kořán, 77, Czech translator, writer and politician, Charter 77 signatory, Mayor of Prague.
- Leon Lemmens, 63, Belgian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Mechelen-Brussels, leukemia.
- Malcolm Lipkin, 85, English composer.
- Pierrino Mascarino, 77, Italian actor.
- David Mattingley, 94, Australian WWII bomber pilot.
- Jack O'Neill, 94, American businessman.
- Barrie Pettman, 73, British author, publisher and philanthropist.
- Sharifuddin Pirzada, 93, Pakistani lawyer and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Attorney-General.
- S. Abdul Rahman, 79, Indian poet, urinary infection.
- Peter Sallis, 96, English actor.
- Herm Starrette, 80, American baseball player.
- Sir Jeffrey Tate, 74, British conductor, heart attack.
- Tom Tjaarda, 82, American automobile designer.
- Sergei Vikharev, 55, Russian ballet dancer, blood clot.
- Ralph Wetton, 89, English footballer.
- Stephen Williams, 90, American archaeologist.
- Aamir Zaki, 49, Pakistani guitarist, heart failure.
3
- Clifford Blackburn, 89, Canadian Olympic boxer.
- David Choby, 70, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Nashville, complications from a fall.
- Ignacio Echeverría, 39, Spanish banker, stabbed.
- Sara Ehrman, 98, American political lobbyist and Jewish activist, endocarditis.
- Stefan Gryff, 79, Polish-born Australian actor.
- James E. Martin, 84, American educator, president of the University of Arkansas and Auburn University.
- Niels Helveg Petersen, 78, Danish politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs, MP, esophageal cancer.
- Jimmy Piersall, 87, American baseball player and broadcaster.
- Rehman Rashid, 62, Malaysian journalist.
- Shivraj, 97, Indian actor.
- Eleanor Singer, 87, Austrian-born American expert on survey methodology.
- Vincent Tshabalala, 75, South African golfer.
- John K. Watts, 80, Australian football player and broadcaster.
- Lawrence Weed, 93, American medical researcher.
4
- Esmé Berman, 88, South African art historian, Parkinson's disease.
- Bill Butler, 83, British film editor.
- Danny Dias, 34, American reality television personality, complications from chronic substance abuse.
- Juan Goytisolo, 86, Spanish essayist, poet and novelist.
- Bennie Hofs, 70, Dutch footballer.
- Patrick G. Johnston, 58, Northern Irish scientist and academic administrator, Vice-Chancellor of Queen's University, Belfast.
- David Nicholls, 61, British jockey and horse trainer.
- Babatunde Osotimehin, 68, Nigerian politician and civil servant, executive director of the United Nations Population Fund.
- Thomas C. Perry, 76, American politician, Mayor of Akron, New York.
- Washington Sixolo, 83, South African actor.
- Roger Smith, 84, American actor, complications from Parkinson's disease.
- Ravi Subramanian, 51, Indian cricket umpire.
- Jack Trout, 82, American marketer and author, intestinal cancer.
- Zhang Tianfu, 106, Chinese agronomist and tea expert.
5
- Annette Barbier, 66, American artist, complications from a bone marrow disorder.
- Kathryn Stripling Byer, 72, American poet, North Carolina Poet Laureate, lymphoma.
- Marcos Coll, 81, Colombian footballer.
- Andy Cunningham, 67, British magician, puppeteer and actor, cancer.
- Helen Dunmore, 64, British poet and writer, cancer.
- Victor Gold, 88, American journalist and White House press secretary.
- Marilyn Hall, 90, Canadian-born American television producer.
- Anna Jókai, 84, Hungarian writer.
- William Krisel, 92, Chinese-born American architect.
- Giorgos Masadis, 72, Greek footballer.
- Rita Riggs, 86, American costume designer.
- Giuliano Sarti, 83, Italian footballer.
- N. S. Ramanuja Tatacharya, 90, Indian academic.
- Jimmy Thomas, 69, American football player.
- Cheick Tioté, 30, Ivorian footballer, heart attack.
- James Vance, 64, American comic book writer, cancer.
- Héctor Wagner, 48, Dominican baseball player, stomach cancer.
6
- John Bower, 87, American Nordic combined skier.
- Horace Burrell, 67, Jamaican soccer executive, President of the Jamaica Football Federation, cancer.
- Jean-Jacques Delvaux, 74, French politician, cancer.
- Ainslie Embree, 96, American historian.
- Andrew Francis, 70, Pakistani Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Multan.
- Vin Garbutt, 69, British folk singer, complications from heart surgery.
- Ragnhild Queseth Haarstad, 78, Norwegian politician.
- François Houtart, 92, Belgian theologian.
- Adnan Khashoggi, 81, Saudi arms dealer.
- Davey Lambert, 48, English motorcycle racer, injuries sustained in crash.
- Georgie Leahy, 78, Irish hurling coach.
- Earl Lestz, 78, American studio executive, heart attack.
- Bruce McMaster-Smith, 77, Australian football player.
- Walter Noll, 92, German-born American mathematician.
- Peter Norburn, 86, English rugby league footballer.
- Latifur Rahman, 81, Bangladeshi justice, Chief Justice and Chief Adviser.
- Sandra Reemer, 66, Dutch singer, breast cancer.
- Márta Rudas, 80, Hungarian javelin thrower, Olympic silver medalist.
- Era Sezhiyan, 94, Indian writer and politician.
- Keiichi Tahara, 65, Japanese photographer.
- Bill Walker, 88, Scottish politician, MP for Perth and East Perthshire and North Tayside.
- Rokas Žilinskas, 44, Lithuanian journalist and politician, pneumonia.
- Paul Zukofsky, 73, American violinist and conductor, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
7
- Angela Hartley Brodie, 82, British cancer researcher.
- Irene Brown, 98, British author and codebreaker.
- Arthur Bunting, 80, English rugby league player and coach.
- Ernie Edds, 91, English footballer.
- Cyril Frankel, 95, British film director
- Michael Francis Gibson, 87, Belgian-born French art critic and writer.
- James Hardy, 31, American football player, suicide by drowning.
- Jan Høiland, 78, Norwegian singer.
- Holy Bull, 26, American Thoroughbred racehorse, 1994 American Horse of the Year, euthanized.
- Robert S. Leiken, 78, American political scientist and historian.
- Trento Longaretti, 100, Italian painter.
- Françoise Mailliard, 87, French Olympic fencer.
- Charles-Eugène Marin, 91, Canadian politician, MP.
- Tom Poole, 81, British barrister.
- Eero Rislakki, 92, Finnish industrial engineer.
- France Rode, 82, Slovenian engineer, inventor of the scientific pocket calculator.
- Deo Rwabiita, 74, Ugandan politician and diplomat.
- Patsy Terrell, 55, American politician, member of the Kansas House of Representatives.
- Ed Victor, 77, American-born British literary agent, heart attack.
- Thierry Zéno, 67, Belgian writer and filmmaker, cancer.
8
- Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, 84, Nicaraguan diplomat, politician and priest, Foreign Minister of Nicaragua and President of the United Nations General Assembly.
- Fred Fiedler, 95, Austrian-born American psychologist.
- LeRoy Fjordbotten, 78, Canadian politician, MLA of Alberta.
- Ervin A. Gonzalez, 57, American attorney, suicide.
- Marcelo Guinle, 69, Argentine politician, Senator from Chubut Province.
- Václav Halama, 76, Czech football player and coach.
- Glenne Headly, 62, American actress, complications from pulmonary embolism.
- Naseem Khan, 77, British journalist.
- Sergo Kutivadze, 72, Georgian football player and coach.
- Robert Melson, 46, American murderer, executed by lethal injection.
- René Monse, 48, German heavyweight boxer.
- Jan Notermans, 84, Dutch footballer.
- Sam Panopoulos, 82, Greek-born Canadian cook, inventor of the Hawaiian pizza.
- Jill Singer, 60, Australian journalist, AL amyloidosis.
- Sir Bernard Tomlinson, 96, English neuropathologist.
- Norro Wilson, 79, American country music songwriter and record producer, Grammy winner, heart failure.
- Prince Udaya Priyantha, 48, Sri Lankan artist and singer, complications from a brain infection.
9
- Gazi Shahabuddin Ahmed, 78, Bangladeshi journalist, cancer.
- Natig Aliyev, 69, Azerbaijani politician, Minister of Energy, complications from a heart attack.
- Andrzej Baturo, 77, Polish photographer.
- Edit DeAk, 68, Hungarian-born American art critic and writer, pneumonia and respiratory stress syndrome.
- Vic Edelbrock Jr., 80, American automotive products manufacturer.
- Francisco Javier García Verdugo, 83, Spanish football player and manager.
- Patricia Goldsmith, 88, English artist.
- John Heyman, 84, British-American producer.
- Romualda Hofertienė, 75, Lithuanian politician.
- Lady Mary Holborow, 80, British magistrate, Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall.
- Ewald Janusz, 76, Polish Olympic sprint canoer.
- Frank A. Jenssen, 65, Norwegian writer and photographer.
- S. S. Khaplang, 77, Burmese politician.
- John Liu Shi-gong, 88, Chinese clandestine Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Jining.
- Palvai Govardhan Reddy, 80, Indian politician, heart attack.
- Grace Berg Schaible, 91, American lawyer and politician, Alaska Attorney General.
- Andimba Toivo ya Toivo, 92, Namibian anti-apartheid activist, politician and political prisoner.
- Adam West, 88, American actor, leukemia.
- Sheila Willcox, 81, British equestrian, European champion.
- John C. Yoder, 66, American judge and politician, member of the West Virginia Senate, complications of heart surgery.
10
- Abu Khattab al-Tunisi, Tunisian jihadist, shot.
- Ray J. Ceresa, 83, British philatelist.
- Chi Po-lin, 52, Taiwanese aerial photographer and director, helicopter crash.
- Alexander M. Cruickshank, 97, American chemist.
- Austin Deasy, 80, Irish politician, TD and Minister of Agriculture.
- Helen Freedhoff, 77, Canadian theoretical physicist.
- Peter Hocken, 84, British theologian and historian.
- John R. Holman, 67, British philatelist.
- Herma Hill Kay, 82, American legal scholar.
- Malang, 89, Filipino cartoonist, illustrator and painter.
- Oscar Mammì, 90, Italian politician, Minister of Mail and Telecommunications.
- Mihai Nedef, 85, Romanian basketball player.
- Jerry Nelson, 73, American astronomer.
- Julia Perez, 36, Indonesian actress, cervical cancer.
- Samuel V. Wilson, 93, American army general, Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency.
11
- Alan Campbell, 67, Northern Irish Pentecostal pastor and author.
- Errol Christie, 53, British boxer, lung cancer.
- Herman T. Costello, 96, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly and Senate.
- Alice Dewey, 89, American anthropologist.
- John Friedmann, 91, Austrian-born American academic.
- David Fromkin, 84, American historian.
- Jim Graham, 71, American politician, member of the Council of the District of Columbia, complications from an infection.
- Nigel Grainge, 70, British music industry executive.
- Alexandra Kluge, 80, German actress and physician.
- Lois McIvor, 86, New Zealand artist.
- Norman Pollack, 84, American historian, cancer.
- S. R. Ramchandra Rao, 85, Indian cricket umpire.
- Ragnar Rommetveit, 92, Norwegian psychologist.
- Geoffrey Rowell, 74, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Basingstoke and Europe.
- Clive Rushton, 69, British swimmer and swimming coach, cancer.
- Elaine Schreiber, 78, Australian Paralympic athlete.
- Rosalie Sorrels, 83, American folk singer.
- Corneliu Stroe, 67, Romanian drummer and percussionist, heart attack.
12
- Teresa Albuquerque, 87, Indian historian.
- Piotr Andrejew, 69, Polish film director.
- Myron Atkinson, 89, American politician, member of the North Dakota House of Representatives.
- Sam Beazley, 101, British actor.
- Brian Bellhouse, 80, British academic, engineer and entrepreneur, trampled.
- Theodor Bergmann, 101, German agronomist.
- Joan Bicknell, 78, English psychiatrist.
- Marike Bok, 74, Dutch portrait painter.
- Robert Campeau, 93, Canadian financier and real estate developer.
- Vinod Chohan, 68, Tanzanian particle accelerator specialist and engineer.
- Morton N. Cohen, 96, American author and scholar.
- Clifford John Earle Jr., 81, American mathematician.
- David W. Frank, 67, American actor, author and educator, complications from cancer.
- Jim Galton, 92, American businessman, CEO of Marvel Entertainment Group.
- Philip Gossett, 75, American musicologist.
- Gheorghe Gușet, 49, Romanian shot putter, competed in 1992, 2000, and 2004 Olympics, aortic dissection.
- Jagjeet Singh Kular, 75, Kenyan Olympic hockey player.
- Fernando Martínez Heredia, 78, Cuban revolutionary and politician.
- Masahide Ōta, 92, Japanese historian and politician, Governor of Okinawa Prefecture, pneumonia and respiratory failure.
- Frank Pecora, 86, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania Senate for the 44th District.
- Pessalli, 26, Brazilian footballer, traffic collision.
- C. Narayana Reddy, 85, Indian writer and poet, recipient of the Jnanpith Award.
- Frans Ronnes, 68, Dutch politician, Mayor of Haaren.
- David Shentow, 92, Belgian-born Canadian Holocaust survivor.
- Marvin Herman Shoob, 94, American federal judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia.
- Brian Taylor, 84, English cricketer.
- Charles P. Thacker, 74, American computer designer, co-inventor of Ethernet, complications from esophageal cancer.
- Karl-Heinz Weigang, 81, German football coach, heart attack.
- Donald Winch, 82, British economist and academic.
13
- Jeffrey Arenburg, 60, Canadian killer, heart attack.
- Richard Farson, 90, American behavioral psychologist, author, and educator.
- A. R. Gurney, 86, American playwright.
- Hansel, 29, American racehorse, winner of the 1991 Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes, euthanized.
- Richard Long, 4th Viscount Long, 88, British politician and aristocrat.
- Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma, 93, British peeress.
- Yōko Nogiwa, 81, Japanese actress.
- José Odon Maia Alencar, 88, Brazilian politician, Governor of Piauí, Mayor of Pio IX.
- Jack Ong, 76, American actor, brain tumor.
- Ootje Oxenaar, 87, Dutch graphic artist and banknote designer.
- Anita Pallenberg, 75, Italian actress, hepatitis.
- Pierre Papillaud, 81, French businessman.
- Zahir Shah, 70, Pakistani actor.
- Ulf Stark, 72, Swedish author, cancer.
- Rick Tuten, 52, American football player.
14
- Raziel Abelson, 95, American philosopher.
- Luis Abanto Morales, 93, Peruvian singer and composer.
- June Blum, 87, American artist.
- Fred Cogley, 82, Irish sports broadcaster.
- Lynn Conkwright, 63, American bodybuilder.
- Jacques Foix, 86, French footballer.
- Ann Louise Gilligan, 71, Irish feminist theologian, complications from a brain haemorrhage.
- Rob Gonsalves, 57, Canadian painter and illustrator.
- Ernestina Herrera de Noble, 92, Argentine newspaper publisher.
- Arthur J. Jackson, 92, American military officer, Medal of Honor recipient.
- Kuriakose Kunnacherry, 88, Indian Syro-Malabar hierarch, Archbishop of Kottayam.
- Don Matthews, 77, American-Canadian football coach, cancer.
- Khadija Saye, 24, British photographer, injuries sustained in the Grenfell Tower fire.
- Hein Verbruggen, 75, Dutch sports administrator, President of the UCI, leukemia.
15
- Ibrahim Abouleish, 80, Egyptian pharmacologist and biodynamic agriculturalist.
- Martin Aitken, 95, British archaeometrist.
- David L. Armstrong, 75, American politician, Mayor of Louisville.
- Ajmer Singh Aulakh, 74, Indian playwright, cancer.
- Aleksey Batalov, 88, Russian actor, complications from a fall.
- P. N. Bhagwati, 95, Indian judge, Chief Justice, acting Governor of Gujarat.
- Sheila Raye Charles, 53, American singer-songwriter, breast cancer.
- Jacques Charpentier, 83, French composer and organist.
- John Dalmas, 90, American science fiction writer, pneumonia.
- Bill Dana, 92, American comedian, actor and screenwriter.
- Wilma de Faria, 72, Brazilian politician, Governor of Rio Grande do Norte, cancer.
- Evelyn Freeman Roberts, 98, American musician, songwriter and educator.
- Kyla Greenbaum, 95, British pianist.
- Stina Haage, 92, Swedish Olympic gymnast.
- Larry Hayes, 81, American football player.
- Jim Hendrick, 82, American sports announcer.
- Phyllis A. Kravitch, 96, American judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and Eleventh Circuit.
- Barbara Kulaszka, 64, Canadian lawyer, lung cancer.
- Kalamandalam Leelamma, 65, Indian classical dancer.
- James W. McCord Jr., 93, American intelligence officer, pancreatic cancer.
- Dame Ngāneko Minhinnick, 77, New Zealand Māori leader.
- Rumen Nenov, 47, Bulgarian footballer.
- Harry Prime, 97, American big band singer.
- Danny Schock, 68, Canadian ice hockey player.
- Olbram Zoubek, 91, Czech sculptor.
16
- John G. Avildsen, 81, American film director, Oscar winner, pancreatic cancer.
- Christian Cabrol, 91, French cardiac surgeon and politician, MEP.
- Héctor Cardona, 81, Puerto Rican sports executive, president of Puerto Rico Olympic Committee, executive vice-president of International Amateur Boxing Association, cancer.
- Eliza Clívia, 37, Brazilian singer, traffic collision.
- Jim French, 84, American photographer
- Luciano Frosini, 89, Italian racing cyclist.
- Stephen Furst, 63, American actor, complications from diabetes.
- Curt Hanson, 73, American politician, member of the Iowa House of Representatives, cancer.
- Mieczysław Kalenik, 84, Polish stage and film actor.
- Edzai Kasinauyo, 42, Zimbabwean footballer.
- Helmut Kohl, 87, German politician, Chancellor, Minister-President of Rhineland-Palatinate.
- Maurice Mességué, 95, French herbalist.
- Ren Rong, 99, Chinese politician, Communist Party Chief of Tibet Autonomous Region.
- Günter Siebert, 86, German football player and executive, West German Champion and chairman.
- Hans Olav Tungesvik, 81, Norwegian politician, MP, traffic collision.
- Dick Warner, 70, Irish journalist and environmentalist.
17
- Rodolfo Fontiveros Beltran, 68, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Bontoc-Lagawe and Bishop of San Fernando de La Union.
- Elias Burstein, 99, American physicist.
- Ken Campbell, 89, Australian paleontologist.
- Gailanne Cariddi, 63, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
- Diana Cavallo, 85, American author.
- Iván Fandiño, 36, Spanish bullfighter, gored.
- Larry Grantham, 78, American football player.
- Józef Grudzień, 78, Polish lightweight boxer, Olympic champion and silver medalist.
- Pierre Imhasly, 77, Swiss author and poet, cancer.
- Henk van Rossum, 97, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives.
- Baldwin Lonsdale, 68, ni-Vanuatu politician, President, heart attack.
- Luis Lusquiños, 65, Argentine politician, member of the Chamber of Deputies, Chief of the Cabinet of Ministers.
- William S. Massey, 96, American mathematician.
- Thara Memory, 68, American jazz trumpeter.
- Omar Monza, 88, Argentine basketball player, world champion.
- Frederick P. Nickles, 69, American politician.
- Venus Ramey, 92, American beauty pageant contestant and gun rights activist.
- Leopoldo S. Tumulak, 72, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tagbilaran and Military Ordinary of the Philippines, pancreatic cancer.
- Anneliese Uhlig, 98, German actress.
- Emil Wojtaszek, 89, Polish politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs.
18
- Atmasthananda, 98, Indian Hindu leader, president of Ramakrishna Math.
- Octavio Betancourt Arango, 89, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Garzón.
- Hans Breder, 81, German-born American artist, complications of ischemic colitis.
- Pierluigi Chicca, 79, Italian fencer, Olympic silver and bronze medalist.
- Keith Farnham, 69, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives.
- Albert Franks, 81, English footballer.
- Roger Greenspun, 87, American journalist and film critic.
- Tim Hague, 34, Canadian mixed martial artist, brain hemorrhage.
- John Wesley Hardt, 95, American Methodist prelate and author.
- Joel Joffe, Baron Joffe, 85, South African-born British human rights lawyer and life peer.
- Predhiman Krishan Kaw, 69, Indian plasma physicist, heart disease.
- Joyce Lindores, 73, Scottish bowler, Commonwealth Games gold medalist.
- Tony Liscio, 76, American football player, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
- Antonio Medellín, 75, Mexican actor.
- Chris Murrell, 61, American jazz singer.
- Simon Nelson, 85, American mass murderer.
- Shih Chun-jen, 93, Taiwanese neurosurgeon and politician, Minister of the Department of Health, heart attack.
- Ola Skarholt, 77, Norwegian orienteering runner, world champion.
- Shirley Walters, 91, Australian politician, Senator for Tasmania.
19
- Wivianne Bergh, 78, Swedish discus thrower.
- Brian Cant, 83, British actor and television presenter, complications of Parkinson's disease.
- Ron Crane, 67, American electrical engineer.
- Ivan Dias, 81, Indian Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Bombay and Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
- Tony DiCicco, 68, American soccer coach, Olympic champion and 1999 World Cup winner.
- Tabaré Hackenbruch, 88, Uruguayan politician, MP and Mayor of Canelones.
- Carla Fendi, 79, Italian fashion executive.
- Sir Brian Kenny, 83, British army general, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe.
- Hedwig Leenaert, 85, Belgian Olympic athlete.
- Ilse Pagé, 78, German actress.
- Amrit Pal, 76, Indian actor, cirrhosis.
- Zoltan Sarosy, 110, Hungarian-born Canadian chess master.
- Otto Warmbier, 22, American college student, convicted of theft and imprisoned by North Korea.
20
- Roger D. Abrahams, 84, American folklorist.
- Herbert H. Ágústsson, 90, Austrian-born Icelandic composer and musician.
- Ali Audah, 92, Indonesian author.
- James Berry, 93, Jamaican-born British poet, Alzheimer's disease.
- Mervyn Crossman, 82, Australian field hockey player, Olympic bronze medalist.
- Bob A. Johnson, 71, American politician.
- Frode Larsen, 68, Norwegian footballer.
- Sergei Mylnikov, 58, Russian ice hockey player, Olympic champion.
- John Perry, 97, English Anglican priest, Archdeacon of Middlesex.
- Prodigy, 42, American rapper, accidental choking.
- Héctor Ríos Ereñú, 86, Argentine military officer, Chief of Defense Staff.
- William Schull, 95, American geneticist.
- Fredrik Skagen, 80, Norwegian writer.
21
- Gurmit Singh Aulakh, 79, Pakistani research scientist and political activist.
- Philip Coppens, 86, Dutch-born American chemist and crystallographer.
- Yuri Drozdov, 91, Russian spymaster.
- Kelechi Emeteole, 66, Nigerian footballer, throat cancer.
- John Faull, 83, Welsh rugby union player.
- Leroy Jenkins, 83, American televangelist.
- Jean-Pierre Kahane, 90, French mathematician.
- Pompeyo Márquez, 95, Venezuelan politician and guerrilla, founder of the Movement for Socialism party and Minister of Borders.
- Steffi Martin, 54, German luger, Olympic and world champion, cancer.
- Udit Narayan, 57, Fijian politician.
- Ludger Rémy, 68, German harpsichordist and conductor.
- Belton Richard, 77, American singer and Cajun accordionist, pneumonia.
- György Rubovszky, 73, Hungarian lawyer and politician, MP.
- Con Sciacca, 70, Italian-born Australian politician, MP for Bowman, Minister for Veterans' Affairs, cancer.
- Robert M. Shoemaker, 93, American military officer, commander of FORSCOM.
- Ray Smith, 88, English footballer.
- Brian Street, 73, British anthropologist.
- Ila Teromaa, 63, Finnish motorcycle speedway rider, complications from surgery.
- Gordon Voss, 79, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives, traffic collision.
- Howard Witt, 85, American actor.
22
- Norman Ayrton, 92, British actor, director and theatre instructor.
- Richard Benson, 73, American photographer, heart failure.
- Vincent Cooke, 81, American Jesuit and academic administrator, President of Canisius College, cancer.
- Pavel Dalaloyan, 38, Russian footballer, traffic collision.
- Paul De Rolf, 74, American actor and choreographer, Alzheimer's disease.
- Hervé Filion, 77, Canadian Hall of Fame harness racing driver, complications from COPD.
- Gunter Gabriel, 75, German singer, musician and composer, fall.
- Kevin Gatter, 65, English pathologist.
- Necmettin Karaduman, 90, Turkish politician.
- Des Hanafin, 86, Irish politician, member of Seanad Éireann.
- Carroll N. Jones III, 72, American artist.
- Mao Kobayashi, 34, Japanese actress and television presenter, breast cancer.
- Frank Kush, 88, American Hall of Fame football player and coach.
- Keith Loneker, 46, American football player and actor, cancer.
- Quett Masire, 91, Botswanan politician, President, complications from surgery.
- Sheila Michaels, 78, American writer and activist, popularizer of term Ms., leukemia.
- Bogoljub Mitić Đoša, 49, Serbian comedian and actor, heart attack.
- Jimmy Nalls, 66, American rock guitarist, fall.
- Hartmut Neugebauer, 74, German actor.
- John R. Quinn, 88, American Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of San Francisco.
- Bob Ring, 70, American ice hockey player.
- John E. Sarno, 93, American physician and writer.
- Philip F. Smith, 84, American Coast Guard officer.
- Sandy Tatum, 96, American sports administrator, president of the USGA.
- Robert F. Tinker, 75, American physicist and educationalist.
- Stewart Wieck, 49, American game designer.
- Nikolai Zhugan, 100, Ukrainian-born Russian pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union.
23
- John Freeman, 83, Welsh rugby player.
- Ant Gyi, 94, Burmese singer.
- Saman Kelegama, 58, Sri Lankan economist, stroke.
- Betty Metcalf, 95, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives, vascular dementia.
- Mr. Pogo, 66, Japanese professional wrestler, cerebral infarction during back surgery.
- Gabe Pressman, 93, American journalist.
- Stefano Rodotà, 84, Italian jurist and politician, Vice President of the Chamber of Deputies.
- Lucy Seki, 78, Brazilian linguist.
- Laird Sloan, 81, Canadian Olympic sprinter.
- Tonny van der Linden, 84, Dutch footballer.
24
- Andrey Dvinyaninov, 31, Russian sledge hockey player, Paralympic silver medalist.
- Paul Fitzgerald, 94, Australian painter.
- Amir Hassanpour, 73, Iranian-born Canadian academic.
- Loren Janes, 85, American stuntman, Alzheimer's disease.
- Mats Johansson, 65, Swedish journalist and politician, MP.
- Nick Kirk, 59, New Zealand priest, motor neuron disease.
- Tom Kremer, 87, Romanian-born British game designer and publisher.
- Parker Lee McDonald, 93, American jurist, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Florida.
- Maria Mutagamba, 64, Ugandan economist and politician, Minister of Tourism, liver cancer.
- Nils Nilsson, 81, Swedish ice hockey player, Olympic silver medalist.
- Monica Nordquist, 76, Swedish actress.
- Tomasi Rabaka, 51, Fijian rugby union player.
- Véronique Robert, 54, French-Swiss journalist, injuries sustained in explosion.
- Anandpal Singh, 40, Indian gangster, shot.
- Martin J. Steinbach, 75, Canadian ophthalmologist.
- Alberto Zerain, 55, Spanish mountaineer.
- Meir Zlotowitz, 73, American rabbi and publisher.
25
- Elsa Daniel, 80, Argentine film actress.
- Agha Shahbaz Khan Durrani, Pakistani politician, Senator, heart attack.
- Dave Evans, 66, American bluegrass musician.
- Olga Feliú, 84, Chilean lawyer, academic and politician, Senator.
- Walter Fillmore, 84, American marines brigadier general.
- Hal Fryar, 90, American actor and TV show host, bladder cancer.
- Harry Gorringe, 89, Australian cricketer.
- Skip Homeier, 86, American actor, spinal myelopathy.
- Sunil Lal Joshi, 51, Nepalese Olympic weightlifter, heart attack.
- Lorna McDonald, 100, Australian historian and author.
- Denis McQuail, 82, British communication theorist.
- K. R. Mohanan, 69, Indian film director, stomach illness.
- José Manuel Mourinho Félix, 79, Portuguese football player and manager.
- Meir Nimni, 68, Israeli Olympic footballer
- Robert Overend, 86, Northern Irish farmer and politician.
- Sir Richard Paniguian, 67, British civil servant and industrialist.
- Alain Senderens, 77, French chef.
- Gordon Wilson, 79, Scottish politician, leader of the Scottish National Party, MP.
- Eduard Zeman, 69, Czech politician, Minister of Education, Youth and Sports.
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- David Bleakley, 92, Northern Irish politician, MP.
- Jimmy Chi, 69, Australian playwright and composer.
- Claude Fagedet, 89, French photographer.
- Desh Bandhu Gupta, 79, Indian billionaire businessman, founder of Lupin Limited.
- Janet Lunn, 88, American-born Canadian children's writer.
- Rex Makin, 91, British solicitor, created the term "Beatlemania".
- Sir Duncan McMullin, 90, New Zealand jurist.
- Guy Ngan, 91, New Zealand artist.
- Doug Peterson, 71, American yacht designer, cancer.
- Isaías Pimentel, 84, Venezuelan tennis player.
- Habib Thiam, 84, Senegalese politician, Prime Minister.
- Alice Trolle-Wachtmeister, 91, Swedish countess, Chief Court Mistress.
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- Bridget Allchin, 90, British archaeologist.
- Geri Allen, 60, American jazz pianist, composer and educator, cancer.
- Dušan T. Bataković, 60, Serbian historian and diplomat.
- Peter L. Berger, 88, American sociologist.
- Better Talk Now, 18, American racehorse, winner of the 2004 Breeders' Cup Turf, euthanized.
- Piotr Bikont, 62, Polish journalist, publicist, culinary critic, and theatre director, traffic collision.
- Michael Bond, 91, British children's author.
- Jacinta Coleman, 42, New Zealand Olympic cyclist, bowel cancer.
- Pierre Combescot, 77, French journalist and writer.
- Tom Corcoran, 85, American alpine skier.
- Sudhin Das, 87, Bangladeshi Nazrul Sangeet musician.
- Mary Blagg Huey, 95, American educator, president of Texas Woman's University.
- Rae Desmond Jones, 75, Australian poet, novelist and politician.
- Paolo Limiti, 77, Italian journalist, television/radio writer/presenter and songwriter, brain cancer.
- João Oneres Marchiori, 84, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Caçador and Lages.
- Michael Nyqvist, 56, Swedish actor, lung cancer.
- Stéphane Paille, 52, French football player and manager.
- Fernando Picó, 75, Puerto Rican academic, historian and Jesuit priest, specialist on the history of Puerto Rico.
- Valentín Pimstein, 91, Chilean television producer, respiratory arrest.
- Maksym Shapoval, 38, Ukrainian chief intelligence officer, car bomb.
- Ric Suggitt, 58, Canadian rugby union coach.
- Suh Yun-bok, 94, South Korean Olympic athlete, winner of the Boston Marathon.
- Mustafa Tlass, 85, Syrian military officer and politician, Minister of Defense.
- Roger Toulson, Lord Toulson, 70, British lawyer and Supreme Court judge.
- Toytown, 24, British eventing horse.
- Anthony Young, 51, American baseball player, brain cancer.
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- Russ Adams, 86, American tennis photographer.
- Robert Bockstael, 94, Canadian politician.
- Peter Paul Busuttil, 73, Maltese politician, Mayor of Hal Safi and involved in Raymond Caruana murder.
- Phil Cohran, 90, American jazz trumpeter.
- Christopher Colclough, 70, English economist.
- Michael Lindsay Coulton Crawford, 100, British submariner.
- C. O. Erickson, 93, American producer and production manager, heart complications.
- John Higgins, 87, Scottish footballer, Alzheimer's disease.
- Nazmul Huda Bachchu, 78, Bangladeshi actor.
- Shinji Mori, 42, Japanese baseball player and coach, sepsis.
- Bernard Nottage, 71, Bahamian politician and sprinter.
- Wally O'Connell, 94, Australian rugby league footballer and coach.
- Ola Mildred Rexroat, 99, American Airforce Service pilot during World War II.
- Bruce Stewart, 80, New Zealand author and playwright.
- Danbaba Suntai, 55, Nigerian politician, Governor of Taraba State, brain injury.
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- Ai Mingzhi, 92, Chinese writer.
- James Davidson, 90, British politician, MP for West Aberdeenshire.
- Aline Hanson, 67, Saint Martin politician, cancer.
- Ken Hopper, 93, Australian football player.
- Carl W. Kroening, 89, American politician.
- Miriam Marx, 90, American author.
- John Monckton, 78, Australian swimmer, Olympic silver medalist and Commonwealth Games champion.
- Louis Nicollin, 74, French entrepreneur, Chairman of Montpellier Hérault Sport Club, heart attack.
- Pan Qingfu, Chinese martial artist.
- Chuck Renslow, 87, American businessman and LGBT activist.
- Marrion Roe, 82, New Zealand swimmer.
- Antonio Sagona, 61, Australian archaeologist.
- William Sanders, 75, American author and editor.
- Dave Semenko, 59, Canadian ice hockey player and scout, liver and pancreatic cancer.
- Achille Tramarin, 70, Italian politician.
- Suna Venter, 32, South African journalist and radio producer, heart failure.
- Michael Vickery, 86, American historian.
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- Ramiro Alejandro Celis, 25, Mexican bullfighter, gored.
- Minaketan Das, 56, Indian actor, pancreatic cancer.
- Karunamaya Goswami, 74, Bangladeshi musicologist.
- Mitchell Henry, 24, American football player, leukemia.
- Colin Hughes, 87, Bahamian-born Australian political scientist.
- Darrall Imhoff, 78, American basketball player, Olympic gold medalist, heart attack.
- Godfrey Gitahi Kariuki, 79, Kenyan politician, MP and Senator.
- László Kovács, 66, Hungarian football player and coach.
- Barry Norman, 83, British film critic and television presenter.
- Max Runager, 61, American football player.
- Ramon Schwartz Jr., 92, American politician.
- Jake Tordesillas, 68, Filipino screenwriter, complications from a fall.
- Simone Veil, 89, French lawyer and politician, President of the European Parliament, Minister of Health, and Holocaust survivor.