Deaths in November 2015
The following is a list of notable deaths in November 2015.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.
November 2015
1
- Abdikarim Yusuf Adam, Somali military officer, Chief of Army, shot.
- Bill Ballantine, 78, British-born New Zealand marine biologist.
- Ronald Desruelles, 60, Belgian Olympic athlete, suicide by hanging.
- Thomas R. Fitzgerald, 74, American judge, Chief Justice and member of the Illinois Supreme Court, Parkinson's disease.
- José Fonseca e Costa, 82, Portuguese film director, pneumonia.
- Anselmo Gouthier, 82, Italian politician.
- Gloria Salguero Gross, 74, Salvadoran politician, President of the Legislative Assembly, cardiac arrest.
- Stephen Hancock, 89, English actor.
- Afzal Khan Lala, 89, Pakistani politician, MP for Swat, complications from cirrhosis.
- Houston McTear, 58, American sprinter, lung cancer.
- Charles Duncan Michener, 97, American entomologist.
- Brijmohan Lall Munjal, 92, Indian transportation manufacturing executive, co-founder of Hero Cycles and Hero MotoCorp.
- Paolo Poiret, 70, Italian actor and voice actor.
- Günter Schabowski, 86, German politician, editor-in-chief of Neues Deutschland, First Secretary of the East Berlin SED, prematurely announced the fall of the Berlin Wall.
- Hayden Shell, 78, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Geelong West and Geelong.
- Rudolf Scheurer, 90, Swiss football referee.
- Fred Thompson, 73, American politician and actor, U.S. Senator from Tennessee, minority counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee, lymphoma.
- A. Veluppillai, 78, Sri Lankan Tamil academic and author.
2
- Frank Budgen, 61, British commercial director, cancer.
- Andrzej Ciechanowiecki, 91, Polish art historian.
- Mike Davies, 79, Welsh tennis player, mesothelioma.
- Roy Dommett, 82, British engineer and rocket scientist.
- Peter Donaldson, 70, Egyptian-born British newsreader and radio broadcaster, cancer.
- Christopher Duggan, 57, British historian, suicide by hanging.
- Betty Fountain, 85, American baseball player.
- Hashim Abdul Halim, 80, Indian politician, West Bengal MLA for Amdanga and Entally, heart attack.
- Omar El-Hariri, c. 71, Libyan general, traffic collision.
- Karl Jaeger, 85, American educator, writer and artist.
- Haruko Kato, 92, Japanese actress.
- Alexey Kozlov, 80, Russian Soviet intelligence officer, Hero of the Russian Federation.
- Neville Lakay, 77, South African cricketer.
- Eddie Milner, 60, American baseball player.
- Tommy Overstreet, 78, American country singer.
- Roméo Phillion, 76, Canadian prisoner, wrongly convicted of murder, COPD.
- Miroslav Poljak, 71, Croatian water polo player, Olympic champion.
- Kondavalasa Lakshmana Rao, 69, Indian actor, brain infection.
- Arthur Shaw, 91, English footballer.
- Donald Shell, 91, American computer scientist.
- Barbara Snelling, 87, American politician, Vermont Lieutenant Governor, State Senator, and First Lady.
- Edward Soja, 75, American geographer.
- David Stock, 76, American composer and conductor, blood disease.
- Tan Kim Bee, 86, Malaysian Olympic weightlifter
- Carlos Vargas Ferrer, 44, Puerto Rican politician, member of the P.R. House of Representatives, traffic collision following a heart attack.
- Colin Welland, 81, British actor and screenwriter, Oscar winner.
3
- Peter Bayley, 94, English academic.
- Adriana Campos, 36, Colombian actress, traffic collision.
- Judy Cassab, 95, Austrian-born Australian painter and Holocaust survivor, only woman to win two Archibald Prizes.
- Ahmed Chalabi, 71, Iraqi politician, Deputy Prime Minister, President of the Governing Council, Iraq War lobbyist, heart attack.
- Howard Coble, 84, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from , complications from surgery.
- Csaba Fenyvesi, 72, Hungarian fencer, Olympic champion, cancer.
- David Graham, 91, American casting director.
- Tom Graveney, 88, English cricketer, Parkinson's disease.
- Paul Gundani, 49, Zimbabwean footballer, suspected malaria.
- Chuck Hurston, 72, American football player, cancer.
- Sidney H. Lazard, 84, American bridge player.
- S. Mahalingam, 89, Sri Lankan mechanical engineer and academic.
- Fred McNeill, 63, American football player, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
- Beggzadi Mahmuda Nasir, 86, Bangladeshi academic.
- Lauretta Ngcobo, 84, South African author and activist.
- Nils Nygaard, 83, Norwegian professor of law.
- Dan Poynter, 78, American author, publisher, pioneer in self-publishing, acute myeloid leukemia and renal failure
- Paul Rose, 79, British politician, MP for Manchester Blackley.
- Fred J. Scollay, 92, American actor.
- Katherine Stenholm, 98, American film director.
- Lesley Vance, 76, American politician, member of the Alabama House of Representatives, colon cancer.
4
- Gülten Akın, 82, Turkish poet.
- Ingo von Bredow, 75, German sailor, Olympic bronze medalist.
- Piotr Domaradzki, 69, Polish-born American journalist, essayist and historian, smoke inhalation.
- Ron Drzewiecki, 82, American football player.
- René Girard, 91, French-American historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science.
- Ian Greer, 82, British political lobbyist.
- Steve Hanson, 54, Australian rugby league player, heart attack.
- Veikko Heinonen, 81, Finnish ski jumper.
- Truman McGill Hobbs, 94, American judge, District Court for the Middle District of Alabama.
- Károly Horváth, 65, Romanian–Hungarian composer and musician.
- Ole Knapp, 83, Norwegian politician.
- Themba Makhanya, 45, Swazi Olympic athlete.
- Melissa Mathison, 65, American screenwriter, neuroendocrine cancer.
- Marina Pankova, 52, Russian volleyball player, Olympic champion.
- Laila Pullinen, 82, Finnish sculptor.
- Lee Robinson, 72, American politician, member of the Georgia Senate, Mayor of Macon, colon cancer.
- Jerzy Sadek, 73, Polish footballer.
- David Teeuwen, 45, American newspaper editor, intestinal cancer.
- Kostas Tsakonas, 72, Greek actor, cancer.
5
- James Achurch, 87, Australian Olympic javelin thrower.
- George Barris, 89, American custom car designer, cancer.
- Ritch Brinkley, 71, American actor.
- Nora Brockstedt, 92, Norwegian singer.
- Soma Edirisinghe, 76, Sri Lankan executive, film producer, philanthropist and social worker.
- Pierre Gy, 91, French chemist and statistician.
- Ehud Havazelet, 60, American author.
- Theodore Cyrus Karp, 89, American musicologist.
- Czesław Kiszczak, 90, Polish soldier and politician, last Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Poland and Minister of Internal Affairs.
- Ed Lechner, 95, American football player.
- Mikhail Lesin, 57, Russian political advisor and media executive, creator of Russia Today, blunt force head trauma.
- Hans Mommsen, 85, German historian of Nazism and the Holocaust.
- Lar O'Byrne, 91, Irish footballer.
- Kjell Öhman, 72, Swedish musician.
6
- Brian Cadle, 67, Canadian ice hockey player, brain cancer.
- Bobby Campbell, 78, British football player and manager.
- Gimme Da Lute, 3, American racehorse, euthanized.
- José Ángel Espinoza, 96, Mexican singer, composer and actor.
- Karel Mejta, 87, Czech rower, Olympic champion.
- Chuck Pyle, 70, American country-folk singer-songwriter, drowned.
- Ri Ul-sol, 94, North Korean politician and military official, lung cancer.
- Yveta Synek Graff, 81, Czech opera singer and vocal coach
- Beni Veras, 80, Brazilian politician, Governor of Ceará.
7
- Bappaditya Bandopadhyay, 45, Indian director and poet, heart attack.
- Fred Besana, 85, American baseball player.
- Ken Booth, 84, English footballer.
- John Davis, 72, Australian science documentary filmmaker and climber, first person to scale Ball's Pyramid, helicopter crash.
- Carl-Åke Eriksson, 80, Swedish actor, cancer.
- Gladys-Marie Fry, 84, American folklorist and historian, heart attack.
- Pancho Guedes, 90, Portuguese architect and artist.
- Gunnar Hansen, 68, Icelandic-born American actor, pancreatic cancer.
- Eddie Hoh, 71, American rock drummer.
- Yitzhak Navon, 94, Israeli politician, President.
- David Shawcross, 74, English footballer.
- Vincent Thomas, 93, American politician, Mayor of Norfolk, Virginia.
- João Verle, 75, Brazilian politician, Mayor of Porto Alegre.
- Carl L. Weschcke, 85, American publisher.
8
- Abd Al-Karim Al-Iryani, 81, Yemeni politician, Prime Minister.
- Rhea Chiles, 84, American philanthropist, First Lady of Florida, founder of Florida House on Capitol Hill and the Polk Museum of Art.
- Harry Clarke, 94, English footballer and cricketer.
- Joseph Cure, 31, American ice hockey player and actor, traffic collision.
- Rod Davies, 85, British astronomer, cancer.
- Charlie Dick, 81, American record promoter.
- Andrei Eshpai, 90, Russian classical pianist, composer and scholar, stroke.
- Luciano Gallino, 88, Italian sociologist.
- Betty Groff, 80, American chef and cookbook author, expert on the Pennsylvania Dutch cuisine.
- Aldo Guidolin, 83, Canadian ice hockey player.
- Om Prakash Mehra, 96, Indian military officer, Chief of Air Staff, Governor of Maharashtra and Rajasthan.
- Angad Paul, 45, British manufacturing executive and film producer, suicide by jumping.
- Alfred Roussel, 94, Canadian politician.
- Maduluwawe Sobitha Thero, 73, Sri Lankan Buddhist monk and political activist.
- Dora van der Groen, 88, Belgian actress.
- Leon Vlok, 86, South African cricketer.
- Abdul Razzak Abdul Wahid, 85, Iraqi poet.
9
- Selwyn Sese Ala, 29, ni-Vanuatu international footballer.
- Jacqueline A. Berrien, 53, American lawyer, chairwoman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, cancer.
- Carol Doda, 78, American topless dancer, kidney failure.
- Ernst Fuchs, 85, Austrian painter, co-founder of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism.
- Tommy Hanson, 29, American baseball player, multiple organ failure.
- Brian Keighley, 67, Scottish physician and medical unionist.
- Ruth Kramer, 89, American baseball player.
- Byron Krieger, 95, American Olympic fencer, burns.
- Vito J. Lopez, 74, American politician, member of the New York State Assembly, cancer.
- Sebastião do Rego Barros Netto, 75, Brazilian lawyer and diplomat, Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Russia and Argentina, fall from building.
- Remko Scha, 70, Dutch computer scientist and musician.
- Yolanda Sonnabend, 80, British theatrical designer.
- Andy White, 85, British drummer, stroke.
- Mikhail Zubchuk, 47, Russian footballer.
10
- Gene Amdahl, 92, American computer architect and high-tech entrepreneur, pneumonia.
- Vernon Ashley, 99, American Crow Creek chief.
- David Atlas, 91, American meteorologist, stroke.
- John Carlill, 90, British rear admiral, President of Royal Naval College, Greenwich.
- Larry Chimbole, 96, American politician, member of the California State Assembly.
- Harold Collins, 90, Canadian politician, member of the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly for Gander.
- Robert Craft, 92, American conductor and writer.
- Pat Eddery, 63, Irish jockey, eleven-time Champion Jockey, four-time Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner, three-time Lester Award and Epsom Derby winner, heart attack.
- André Glucksmann, 78, French philosopher and writer.
- Johannes Pujasumarta, 65, Indonesian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Semarang.
- Bill Quinlan, 83, American football player.
- Klaus Roth, 90, German-born British mathematician, recipient of the Fields Medal.
- Helmut Schmidt, 96, German politician, Chancellor of West Germany, complications from surgery.
- Allen Toussaint, 77, American musician, producer, songwriter and arranger, heart attack.
- Alix d'Unienville, 97, French wartime spy.
- Tim Valentine, 89, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina's 2nd district and N.C. House, heart failure.
- Laurent Vidal, 31, French Olympic triathlete, heart attack.
- Michael Wright, 35, American-Turkish basketball player, head injury.
11
- Nancy Charton, 95, South African Anglican priest.
- Madeline DeFrees, 95, American poet.
- Rita Gross, 72, American Buddhist feminist theologian and author, stroke.
- Bob LaLonde, 93, American politician, member of the Wyoming Senate.
- Nathaniel Marston, 40, American actor, spinal injuries from traffic collision.
- Ole Sjølie, 92, Norwegian painter.
- Tage Skou-Hansen, 90, Danish writer.
- Scotty Stirling, 86, American journalist and sport executive.
- Phil Taylor, 61, English drummer, liver failure.
- Georgi Yungvald-Khilkevich, 81, Russian Soviet film director, heart failure.
12
- Earl E. Anderson, 96, American Marine Corps general.
- Graham Atkinson, 77, English cricketer.
- Lucian Bălan, 56, Romanian footballer, suicide by drug overdose.
- Anne-Marie Campora, 76, Monegasque politician, Mayor.
- Philip Ciaccio, 88, American judge, member of the Louisiana Circuit Courts of Appeal.
- José Refugio Esparza Reyes, 94, Mexican politician, Governor of Aguascalientes.
- Naila Faran, 37, Saudi doctor.
- Márton Fülöp, 32, Hungarian footballer, cancer.
- Jihadi John, 27, Kuwaiti-born British Islamic State propagandist, drone strike.
- Ellsworth Kalas, 92, American Methodist theologian.
- Tom King, 91, American basketball player.
- Marie Seznec Martinez, 57, French model, cancer.
- Peter McLeavey, 79, New Zealand art dealer, Parkinson's disease.
- Harry Rowen, 90, American national security expert, heart attack.
- Aaron Shikler, 93, American artist, renal failure.
- Jaspal Singh, 47, Indian cricketer.
- Paul Stewart, 89, American historian, founder of the Black American West Museum and Heritage Center.
- Pál Várhidi, 84, Hungarian football player and manager.
- Travis Ward, 93, American oil magnate.
13
- Sam Adams, 87, Canadian football player.
- Abu Nabil al-Anbari, Iraqi militant, leader of ISIL in Libya, airstrike.
- Giorgio Bambini, 70, Italian boxer, Olympic bronze medalist.
- Bruce Dayton, 97, American retail executive and philanthropist, President and Chairman of Target, founder of B. Dalton.
- Glenn Goerke, 84, American academic.
- John Gray, 68, New Zealand Anglican clergyman, Bishop of Te Waipounamu.
- Betty Ann Grove, 86, American singer and actress.
- Henk Visser, 83, Dutch Olympic long jumper,.
- Jennifer Willems, 68, Dutch actress.
14
- Hemanga Baruah, 49, Indian cricketer.
- Gys van Beek, 96, Dutch-born American inventor.
- Nick Bockwinkel, 80, American professional wrestler.
- Berugo Carámbula, 70, Uruguayan actor and comedian, complications from Parkinson's disease.
- Alan Davison, 79, British inorganic chemist.
- K. S. Gopalakrishnan, 86, Indian film director, screenwriter and producer.
- Cyril Pius MacDonald, 87, Canadian politician.
- Warren Mitchell, 89, British actor.
- Hisham Nazer, 83, Saudi Arabian executive and diplomat.
15
- Kai Atō, 69, Japanese actor and TV personality.
- Stephen Birmingham, 86, American author, lung cancer.
- Kenneth Monroe Carr, 90, American vice admiral.
- Carmen Castillo, 57, Dominican baseball player, heart attack.
- Dora Doll, 93, French actress.
- Norm Ellenberger, 83, American college basketball coach.
- George Genovese, 93, American baseball player and scout.
- Guo Jie, 103, Chinese Olympic athlete.
- Saeed Jaffrey, 86, Indian-born British actor, brain hemorrhage.
- Nicoletta Machiavelli, 71, Italian actress.
- Vincent Margera, 59, American reality television personality, kidney and liver failure.
- Jackie McGugan, 76, Scottish footballer.
- Moira Orfei, 83, Italian circus artist and actress, stroke.
- Cynthia Payne, 82, British brothel keeper.
- Gisèle Prassinos, 95, French author.
- Herbert Scarf, 85, American mathematician and economist, heart failure.
- John P. Schlegel, 72, American Jesuit and academic administrator, President of Creighton University and the University of San Francisco, pancreatic cancer.
- P. F. Sloan, 70, American singer and songwriter, pancreatic cancer.
- Heinz Stickel, 66, German footballer.
- Said Tarabeek, 74, Egyptian actor, heart attack.
- Lauri Vaska, 90, American chemist.
16
- Yuliya Balykina, 31, Belarusian Olympic sprinter, homicide.
- Ronald Bandell, 69, Dutch mayor.
- David Canary, 77, American actor.
- Louise Cowan, 98, American educator.
- Richard Cowan, 57, American opera singer and festival director.
- Ricardo Ferrero, 60, Argentine football player and coach.
- Nando Gazzolo, 87, Italian actor and voice actor.
- Michael C. Gross, 70, American graphic designer and producer, cancer.
- Jerzy Katlewicz, 88, Polish conductor and artistic director.
- Wally Kincaid, 89, American Hall of Fame college baseball coach.
- Paul Laffoley, 80, American artist and architect, heart failure.
- Bert Olmstead, 89, Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey player, complications from a stroke.
- Mel Ryan, 82, British cricketer.
- Alton D. Slay, 91, American air force general, blood cancer.
- Glee S. Smith, Jr., 94, American politician, member of the Kansas Senate.
- Soviet Song, 15, Irish-bred British-trained thoroughbred racehorse, Cartier Champion Older Horse 2004, euthanized.
- David Steen, 79, British newspaper and magazine photographer.
- Barbara Thiering, 85, Australian theologian, writer and Biblical revisionist.
17
- Al Aarons, 83, American jazz trumpeter.
- Ishtiaq Ahmad, 74, Pakistani spy fiction author, heart attack.
- Igwe Aja-Nwachukwu, 63, Nigerian politician, Federal Minister of Education.
- Ed Boykin, 83, American politician.
- Donald Brian, 90, New Zealand cricketer.
- Luiz de Carvalho, 90, Brazilian gospel singer.
- Guy Buckingham, 94, British engineer and automobile designer.
- Mario Cervi, 94, Italian essayist and journalist, co-founder of Il Giornale.
- Pino Concialdi, 69, Italian painter.
- Milton Crenchaw, 96, American aviator, cardiovascular disease and pneumonia.
- John Gainsford, 77, South African rugby union player, cancer.
- Drago Grubelnik, 39, Slovene Olympic alpine skier, traffic collision.
- Sir John Leahy, 87, British diplomat, High Commissioner to Australia.
- Rahim Moeini Kermanshahi, 89, Iranian poet.
- Pithukuli Murugadas, 95, Indian devotional singer.
- Olaf H. Olsen, 87, Danish historian and archaeologist.
- Terence Robbins, 81, Welsh rugby union and rugby league footballer.
- Laura Rockefeller Chasin, 79, American philanthropist.
- Ashok Singhal, 89, Indian Hindu activist.
- David VanLanding, 51, American rock singer, traffic collision.
18
- Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 28, Belgian suspected ringleader of the November 2015 Paris attacks, shot.
- Bjørn Borgen, 78, Norwegian footballer.
- Charles Cawley, 75, American businessman.
- Fang Jing, 44, Chinese news anchor, cancer.
- Daniel Ferro, 94, American opera singer and vocal coach.
- Wilbur Foss, 94, American politician and musician.
- Dan Halldorson, 63, Canadian golfer, stroke.
- Redvers Kyle, 86, South African-British television continuity announcer, voice-over artist and actor.
- Jonah Lomu, 40, New Zealand rugby union player, heart attack.
- Mack McCormick, 85, American musicologist and folklorist, esophageal cancer.
- Lindela Ndlovu, Zimbabwean educator, Vice-Chancellor of National University of Science and Technology.
- Norman C. Pickering, 99, American engineer and inventor.
- James Prideaux, 88, American playwright and screenwriter, stroke.
- Harold Searles, 97, American psychiatrist.
- Jim Slater, 86, British financier.
- André Valmy, 96, French actor.
19
- Armand, 69, Dutch protest singer, pneumonia.
- Ricardo de la Cierva, 89, Spanish historian and politician, Culture Minister and Senator by Murcia.
- Rex Cunningham, 91, New Zealand rugby league player.
- Sir Naim Dangoor, 101, Iraqi-born British businessman and philanthropist.
- Ann Downer, 54, American writer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
- Allen E. Ertel, 78, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 17th district.
- James Evans, 52, American football player.
- John Hall-Jones, 88, New Zealand historian.
- János Herbst, 59, Hungarian footballer and politician, MP.
- Ron Hynes, 64, Canadian folksinger, throat cancer.
- John A. Knauss, 90, American oceanographer.
- Korrie Layun Rampan, 62, Indonesian author and politician.
- Rex Reason, 86, German-born American actor.
- Jim Stump, 83, American baseball player.
- R. K. Trivedi, 94, Indian politician, Governor of Gujarat.
- Herman Wecke, 88, American soccer player.
- Mal Whitfield, 91, American middle-distance runner, Olympic champion and aviator.
- John Eugene Zuccotti, 78, American businessman, namesake of Zuccotti Park.
20
- Peter Dimmock, 94, British broadcaster.
- Vlatko Dulić, 72, Croatian actor and theatre director.
- Miroslav Fiedler, 89, Czech mathematician.
- Ronald Frankenberg, 86, British anthropologist.
- Néstor Isella, 78, Argentine football player and coach.
- Lex Jacoby, 85, Luxembourgian writer.
- Austin H. Kiplinger, 97, American journalist.
- Svetlana Kitova, 55, Russian middle-distance runner.
- Agustin Mantilla, 70, Peruvian economist and politician.
- Keith Michell, 88, Australian actor and director.
- Jan Monrad, 64, Danish comedian and entertainer, blood clot.
- Nguyen-Thien Dao, 75, Vietnamese-French composer.
- Carlos Oroza, 92, Spanish poet.
- Richard Owen, 92, American federal judge and composer.
- Jim Perry, 82, American television emcee, cancer.
- Héctor Salva, 75, Uruguayan international footballer.
- Nancy Sandars, 101, British archaeologist.
- Kitanoumi Toshimitsu, 62, Japanese sumo wrestler, chairman of the Japan Sumo Association, multiple organ failure.
- Raymond van Schoor, 25, Namibian cricketer, stroke.
21
- Gregory H. Adamian, 89, American academic.
- Gil Cardinal, 65, Canadian filmmaker, cirrhosis.
- Kerry Dineen, 63, American baseball player, cancer.
- Ameen Faheem, 76, Indian-born Pakistani politician, Commerce Minister and poet, leukaemia.
- Fan Xuji, 101, Chinese academic.
- Bob Foster, 77, American boxer, world light heavyweight champion.
- Linda Haglund, 59, Swedish Olympic sprinter, cancer and pulmonary hemorrhage.
- Adele Horin, 64, Australian writer and journalist, lung cancer.
- Ken Johnson, 82, American baseball player.
- Paku Alam IX, 77, Indonesian prince and politician.
- Tayva Patch, 62, American actress in Mormon cinema, complications from surgery.
- Cavit Şadi Pehlivanoğlu, 88, Turkish politician, member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, complications from pneumonia.
- Anthony Read, 80, British screenwriter.
- Red Cadeaux, 9, British-bred Australian racehorse, three-time runner-up in the Melbourne Cup, euthanized after race injury.
- Germán Robles, 86, Spanish-Mexican actor.
- Richard Russell, 91, American finance writer.
- Joseph Silverstein, 83, American violinist and conductor, heart attack.
- Zoran Ubavič, 50, Slovenian footballer.
22
- Hazel Adair, 95, British television writer.
- Abubakar Audu, 68, Nigerian politician, Governor of Kogi State, heart attack.
- Henson P. Barnes, 81, American politician, member of the North Carolina Senate.
- Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury, 66, Bangladeshi politician and convicted war criminal, execution by hanging.
- Howard E. Greer, 94, American vice admiral.
- Jerzy Karasiński, 73, Polish footballer.
- Kim Young-sam, 87, South Korean politician, President, heart failure.
- Sipke van der Land, 78, Dutch presenter.
- Weslyn Mather, 70, Canadian politician, Alberta MLA for Edmonton-Mill Woods, skin infection.
- Valentin Mogilny, 49, Ukrainian Soviet gymnast, heart attack.
- Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, 67, Bangladeshi politician and convicted war criminal, execution by hanging.
- Adele Morales, 90, American painter, pneumonia.
- Nola, 41, Sudanese-born American and last surviving female northern white rhinoceros, euthanized.
- Albert Pick, 93, German numismatist.
- Alfredo Prucker, 89, Italian Olympic Nordic skier,,,.
- Ingeborg Sjöqvist, 103, Swedish Olympic diver.
- Robin Stewart, 69, British actor.
- André Waignein, 73, Belgian composer.
23
- Jamiluddin Aali, 90, Pakistani Urdu poet.
- Topazia Alliata, 102, Italian painter and writer.
- Pierre Bernard, 73, French graphic artist and designer.
- Manmeet Bhullar, 35, Canadian politician, Alberta MLA and cabinet minister, traffic collision.
- Jerzy Browkin, 81, Polish mathematician.
- Dan Fante, 71, American author and playwright.
- Hazel Holt, 87, British novelist.
- Steve Hrymnak, 89, Canadian ice hockey player.
- Kâmran İnan, 86, Turkish politician.
- Jouni Kaipainen, 58, Finnish composer.
- Alex Kersey-Brown, 73, Welsh rugby player, cancer.
- Beatriz Lockhart, 71, Uruguayan pianist and composer.
- Antônio Lomanto Júnior, 90, Brazilian politician, Governor of Bahia.
- Sam Mardian, 96, American politician, Mayor of Phoenix.
- Douglass North, 95, American economist and laureate of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, esophageal cancer.
- Lev Okun, 86, Russian theoretical physicist.
- Juan Quarterone, 80, Argentine football player and coach.
- Kaladevanhalli Ramprasad, 81, Indian cricketer.
- Cynthia Robinson, 71, American trumpeter and vocalist, cancer.
- Willie Royster, 61, American baseball player.
- Otto Schaden, 78, American Egyptologist.
- Jim Sochor, 77, American football player and coach, cancer.
- Ankie Stork, 94, Dutch World War II resistance fighter.
- Yoram Tsafrir, 77, Israeli archaeologist.
24
- Sir Robert Ford, 91, British army general Adjutant-General to the Forces.
- John Forrester, 66, British historian and philosopher of science, cancer.
- Pierre Gabriel, 82, French mathematician.
- Zdeněk Humhal, 81, Czech volleyball player, Olympic silver medalist.
- Al Markim, 88, American actor.
- Quincy Monk, 36, American football player, cancer.
- Marium Mukhtiar, 23, Pakistani fighter pilot, plane crash.
- Heinz Oberhummer, 74, Austrian physicist.
- A. S. Ponnammal, 89, Indian politician, cancer.
- Aubrey Sheiham, 79, South African-born British dental epidemiologist.
- Douglas W. Shorenstein, 60, American real estate developer, chairman of the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, cancer.
- Niel Tupas Sr., 82, Filipino politician, prostate cancer and heart failure.
- Varduhi Varderesyan, 87, Romanian-born Armenian actress.
- Aurora Venturini, 92, Argentine author.
- Steven Vogel, 75, American biologist, cancer.
- Steve Wildstrom, 68, American technology journalist, brain cancer.
- Mieko Yagi, 65, Japanese Olympic equestrian
25
- O'Neil Bell, 40, Jamaican cruiserweight boxer, undisputed world champion, shot.
- Sir Jeremy Black, 83, British admiral.
- Kerry Casey, 61, Australian actor, writer and director, cancer.
- Svein Christiansen, 74, Norwegian jazz drummer.
- Gloria Contreras Roeniger, 81, Mexican dancer and choreographer.
- Jean Corti, 86, French accordionist.
- Judith Fitzgerald, 63, Canadian poet.
- Eva Fuka, 88, Czech-born American photographer.
- Lennart Hellsing, 96, Swedish author and translator.
- Pierre-Yvon Lenoir, 79, French Olympic middle distance runner.
- Chris Martin, 42, British civil servant, Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister, cancer.
- Beth Rogan, 84, British actress.
- Inuwa Wada, 98, Nigerian politician.
- Elmo Williams, 102, American editor and producer, Oscar winner.
- Ken Woolley, 82, Australian architect.
26
- Amir Aczel, 65, Israeli-born American mathematician and scientist, cancer.
- Ronnie Bright, 77, American bass singer.
- Jorgo Bulo, 76, Albanian philologist and historian.
- Eldzier Cortor, 99, American artist.
- Eddy De Leeuw, 59, Belgian Olympic sprinter.
- Tom Dublinski, 85, American football player.
- Norbert Gastell, 86, German actor and voice actor.
- Tommy Gilbert, 75, American professional wrestler and referee.
- Noboru Karashima, 82, Japanese historian.
- Jerrold Kemp, 94, American academic.
- Del Kennedy, 92, Australian football player.
- Guy Lewis, 93, American Hall of Fame college basketball coach.
- Tom Moss, 87, American politician, Speaker and member of the Virginia House of Delegates, heart attack.
- George Pyne III, 74, American football player, cancer.
- Jovan Šarčević, 49, Serbian footballer.
- Sumiko Shirakawa, 80, Japanese voice actress, subarachnoid hemorrhage.
- Bill Stauffer, 85, American basketball player, brain hemorrhage.
- David Steinmetz, 79, American historian.
- Bill Tucker, 73, American football player, heart attack.
- H. Khekiho Zhimomi, 69, Indian politician, heart ailment.
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- Humza Al-Hafeez, 84, American police officer and activist.
- Ragnhild Barland, 81, Norwegian politician, member of Parliament.
- Mark Behr, 52, Tanzanian-born South African author.
- José Benedito Simão, 64, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Assis.
- Ian Dargie, 84, English footballer.
- Luca De Filippo, 67, Italian actor and theatre director.
- Esperanza Guisán, 75, Spanish philosopher.
- Barbro Hiort af Ornäs, 94, Swedish actress.
- V. Krishnaprasad, 69, Indian cricketer.
- Alexander Kukarin, 22, Russian modern pentathlete, heart attack.
- Mukund Sathe, 78, Indian cricketer.
- Maurice Strong, 86, Canadian businessman and diplomat.
- Garrett Swasey, 44, American police officer and junior ice dancing champion, shot.
- J. Randolph Tucker, Jr., 101, American politician and judge.
- Xosé Neira Vilas, 87, Spanish author.
- Philippe Washer, 91, Belgian tennis player.
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- Mircea Anca, 55, Romanian actor and director, leukemia.
- Aurèle Audet, 95, Canadian politician.
- Yoka Berretty, 87, Dutch actress.
- Luc Bondy, 67, Swiss theater and opera director.
- Gerry Byrne, 77, English footballer, World Cup Champion, Alzheimer's disease.
- Marion Crecco, 85, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly.
- Tahir Elçi, 49, Turkish pro-Kurdish lawyer, shot.
- Federico O. Escaler, 93, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, Prelate of Kidapawan and Ipil.
- Ivan Hlevnjak, 71, Croatian Yugoslav footballer.
- Jean Joubert, 87, French author.
- Doug Lennox, 77, Canadian actor and writer.
- Lin Rong-San, 76, Taiwanese billionaire politician, publisher and businessman, cardiopulmonary failure.
- Marjorie Lord, 97, American film and television actress.
- Nauro Machado, 80, Brazilian poet.
- José María Mendiluce, 64, Spanish politician and author.
- Janez Strnad, 81, Slovene physicist.
- Tomasz Tomczykiewicz, 54, Polish politician, member of Sejm, chronic kidney disease.
- Olene Walker, 85, American politician, Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Utah.
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- Claire Aho, 90, Finnish photographer, fire.
- Wayne Bickerton, 74, British songwriter, record producer, and music executive.
- Ramón de los Santos, 66, Dominican baseball player.
- John Demarie, 70, American football player.
- Ottó Dóra, 53, Hungarian politician, Mayor of Salgótarján.
- Joseph F. Girzone, 85, American Catholic priest and author.
- George Hadjinikos, 92, Greek musician.
- Jonathan Janson, 85, British Olympic sailor.
- Vasyl Lishchynskyi, 51, Ukrainian Paralympic athlete.
- Tunku Abdul Malik, 86, Malaysian royal.
- Joe Marston, 89, Australian soccer player and manager.
- Joachim Carlos Martini, 84, Chilean-born German conductor.
- Christopher Middleton, 89, British poet and translator.
- Buddy Moreno, 103, American musician and radio and television personality.
- Otto Newman, 93, Austrian-born British sociologist.
- Oʻtkir Sultonov, 76, Uzbek politician, Prime Minister.
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- Meli Bainimarama, 70, Fijian businessman and permanent secretary.
- Pío Caro Baroja, 87, Spanish director and writer.
- Jack Brizendine, 71, American horse trainer, lung cancer.
- Nigel Buxton, 91, British travel writer.
- André Carbonnelle, 92, Belgian Olympic hockey player
- Charles Shipley Cox, 93, American oceanographic physicist.
- Jean Deplace, 71, French cellist.
- Bob Dustal, 80, American baseball player.
- Jack Fagan, 82, New Zealand rugby league player.
- Greg Fisk, 70, American politician, Mayor of Juneau, Alaska.
- Minas Hatzisavvas, 67, Greek actor.
- Gerrit Holdijk, 71, Dutch politician, Senator, lung cancer.
- Sabri Khan, 88, Indian sarangi player.
- Marcus Klingberg, 97, Polish-born Israeli scientist and spy for the Soviet Union.
- Brajraj Mahapatra, 94, Indian monarch, Raja of Tigiria State.
- Fatema Mernissi, 75, Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist.
- Shigeru Mizuki, 93, Japanese manga artist, heart attack.
- Adolph Plummer, 77, American sprinter.
- Eldar Ryazanov, 88, Russian film director, respiratory and heart failure.
- Steve Shagan, 88, American novelist, screenwriter, and producer.
- David Simmons, 85, New Zealand ethnologist and historian.
- Renzo Trivelli, 90, Italian politician.
- Leslie Waddington, 81, British art dealer.