Deaths in November 2016

• Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.

  November 2016

1

• Sverre Andersen, 80, Norwegian football player and manager, cancer.
• Tina Anselmi, 89, Italian politician, Minister of Health.
• Richard Ayling, 64, British Olympic rower.
• Rosanne Bailey, 66, American air force general and academic administrator.
• Auke Bloembergen, 89, Dutch jurist and legal scholar.
• Dave Broadfoot, 90, Canadian comedian.
• Jean-Michel Damian, 69, French music radio journalist, complications during surgery.
• Jan C. Dolan, 89, American politician.
• Wim Ernes, 58, Dutch national equestrian coach.
• Rodolfo Hinostroza, 75, Peruvian poet.
• Don Kates, 75, American lawyer.
• Bap Kennedy, 54, Northern Irish singer-songwriter, pancreatic and bowel cancer.
• Pocho La Pantera, 65, Argentine singer, kidney cancer.
• Martin Leach, 59, British automotive executive, cancer.
• Stanford Lipsey, 89, American publisher.
• Massimo Mongai, 65, Italian author.
• Earl E. Nelson, 79, American politician.
• John Orsino, 78, American baseball player.
• Zhang Benren, 87, Chinese geochemist and academician.

  2

• Max Alexander, 63, American comedian and actor, head and neck cancer.
• Bob Cranshaw, 83, American jazz bassist, cancer.
• Vern Handrahan, 79, Canadian baseball player.
• Jud Kinberg, 91, American producer.
• Dolores Klosowski, 93, American baseball player.
• A. Thomas Kraabel, 81, American classics scholar.
• Martin Lippens, 82, Belgian footballer and coach.
• Korkut Özal, 87, Turkish engineer and politician.
• Oleg Popov, 86, Russian clown, heart attack.
• Samuel Schatzmann, 61, Swiss equestrian, Olympic silver medalist.
• Jan Slepian, 95, American author and poet.
• Jean-Marie Trappeniers, 74, Belgian footballer.
• Giorgos Vasiliou, 66, Greek actor, lung cancer.
• Egon Wolff, 90, Chilean playwright.

  3

• Fat'hi Abu Taleb, 83, Jordanian army general and diplomat.
• W. D. Amaradeva, 88, Sri Lankan violinist, singer and composer.
• Misha Brusilovsky, 85, Russian artist.
• Vladimír Černý, 90, Slovak Olympic modern pentathlete.
• Clive Derby-Lewis, 80, South African politician, MP, convicted of conspiracy to murder Chris Hani, lung cancer.
• Maurice Gaffney, 100, Irish barrister.
• Yawar Hayat Khan, 73, Pakistani television producer, lung disease.
• Börje Lampenius, 94, Finnish actor and director.
• Marc Michel, 83, Swiss actor.
• Walter Piludu, 66, Italian politician, President of the Province of Cagliari.
• Antonio Preto, 51, Italian politician.
• Turid Karlsen Seim, 71, Norwegian theologian.
• Mangat Ram Sharma, 88, Indian politician.
• Kay Starr, 94, American singer, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Rick Steiner, 69, American producer.
• Lene Tiemroth, 73, Danish actress.
• Xia Meng, 84, Hong Kong actress.

  4

• Eddie Carnett, 100, American baseball player.
• DeVan Dallas, 90, American politician, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives.
• Claude de Kemoularia, 94, French diplomat and banker.
• Sylvio dos Santos, 81, Brazilian Olympic swimmer.
• Allen Eller, 39, American soccer player.
• Eddie Harsch, 59, Canadian keyboardist.
• Khalid Kelly, 49, Irish Islamist, suicide bombing.
• Max Mallmann, 48, Brazilian novelist, short story writer and screenwriter, lung cancer.
• Col Miller, 92, Australian politician, member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Ithaca.
• Jean-Jacques Perrey, 87, French electronic music producer, lung cancer.
• Mansour Pourheidari, 70, Iranian football player and manager, cancer.
• Gunnar Sandgren, 87, Swedish novelist.
• Ziaul Haque Zia, 63, Bangladeshi politician, Minister of Local Government.

  5

• John Carson, 89, English actor.
• Marc de Bonte, 26, Belgian kickboxer, Muay thai world championship silver medalist.
• Israel Cavazos Garza, 93, Mexican historian.
• Ralph Cicerone, 73, American scientist, President of National Academy of Sciences.
• Rolando Espinosa, 66, Filipino politician, shot.
• W. Eugene Hansen, 88, American religious leader, Alzheimer's disease.
• M. R. Khan, 88, Bangladeshi paediatrician and professor.
• Mel Lawrence, 81, American filmmaker and festival promoter.
• Arnold Mesches, 93, American artist.
• Julius Oketta, 60, Ugandan army general and politician.
• Abdulla Oripov, 75, Uzbek poet, literary translator and politician, lyricist of State Anthem of Uzbekistan.
• Laurent Pardo, 55, French bassist.
• Rodolfo Stavenhagen, 84, Mexican sociologist.
• Marek Svatoš, 34, Slovakian ice hockey player, mixed drug intoxication.
• Andreas Vgenopoulos, 63, Greek businessman and lawyer, heart attack.
• Giles Waterfield, 67, British art historian and curator.

  6

• Roddy Evans, 81, Welsh rugby union player.
• Mick Granger, 85, English footballer, Alzheimer's disease.
• Edward Itta, 71, American Iñupiat politician, Mayor of North Slope Borough, Alaska, member of U.S. Arctic Research Commission, cancer.
• Chisela Kanchela, 29, Zambian Olympic swimmer, diabetic attack.
• Biser Kirov, 74, Bulgarian pop singer.
• Zoltán Kocsis, 64, Hungarian pianist, conductor and composer.
• Rafael Francisco Martínez Sáinz, 81, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Guadalajara.
• Thomas Martyn, 69, English rugby league player.
• Lalatendu Bidyadhar Mohapatra, 52, Indian politician, multiple organ failure.
• Redovino Rizzardo, 77, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Dourados.
• Jos Romersa, 101, Luxembourgian Olympic gymnast.
• Georgie Sicking, 95, American rancher and poet.
• Marc Sleen, 93, Belgian cartoonist and comics artist.
• Vautour, 7, French-born Irish-trained racehorse, euthanised.

  7

• Zdeněk Altner, 69, Czech lawyer.
• Genjiro Arato, 70, Japanese filmmaker and actor, heart disease.
• May Claerhout, 77, Belgian artist, brain tumor.
• Leonard Cohen, 82, Canadian singer-songwriter, poet and novelist, complications from a fall.
• Kanu Gandhi, 87, Indian scientist.
• Thomas Gardner, 93, English footballer.
• Phil Georgeff, 85, American racetrack announcer.
• Julie Gregg, 79, American actress, cancer.
• Robert N. Hall, 96, American engineer and physicist.
• Ingibjörg Haraldsdóttir, 74, Icelandic poet and translator.
• Birger Jansen, 68, Norwegian ice hockey player and sailor, cancer.
• Consolata Kline, 100, American hospital administrator.
• Mohamed Masmoudi, 91, Tunisian politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs.
• Jayawantiben Mehta, 77, Indian politician, MP.
• Silvano Miniati, 82, Italian politician and trade union organizer.
• Eric Murray, 74, Scottish footballer.
• Janet Reno, 78, American lawyer and politician, first female U.S. Attorney General, Parkinson's disease.
• Joe Ryan, 80, American politician, member of the Alaska House of Representatives.
• Samuel Sitta, 73, Tanzanian politician, MP.
• Howard Taylor, 76, British structural engineer.
• Sir Jimmy Young, 95, British radio personality and singer.

  8

• Peter Brixtofte, 66, Danish politician, Tax Minister.
• Marlan Coughtry, 82, American baseball player.
• Raoul Coutard, 92, French cinematographer.
• Ian Cowan, 71, Scottish footballer.
• Yaffa Eliach, 79, Polish-born American Holocaust historian.
• Kazimír Gajdoš, 82, Slovak footballer.
• Aide Ganasi, Papua New Guinean politician, MP, heart attack.
• Giorgio Grigolli, 88, Italian politician, President of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol and Trentino.
• Junius Foy Guin Jr., 92, American federal judge.
• Ho Chih-chin, 64, Taiwanese politician, Minister of Finance.
• Bill Lapham, 82, American football player.
• N. K. Mahajan, 97, Indian adventurer.
• Touran Mirhadi, 89, Iranian educator.
• Pertti Nieminen, 79, Finnish ice hockey player.
• Russ Nixon, 81, American baseball player and manager.
• V. P. Ramakrishna Pillai, 84, Indian politician.
• Eugene Roberts, 96, American neuroscientist.
• Helga Ruebsamen, 82, Dutch writer.
• John T. Skelly, 89, American journalist.
• Umberto Veronesi, 90, Italian oncologist.

  9

• Emmanuel Kwasi Afranie, 73, Ghanaian football coach, traffic collision.
• Greg Ballard, 61, American basketball player, prostate cancer.
• Jack Bodell, 76, English heavyweight boxer, British champion.
• Branse Burbridge, 95, British WWII fighter pilot.
• Al Caiola, 96, American guitarist and composer.
• Osamu Ishiguro, 80, Japanese tennis player, Asian Games champion.
• Irfan Shahîd, 90, Palestinian literature professor.
• Martin Stone, 69, British guitarist and bookseller, cancer.
• La Veneno, 52, Spanish transsexual actress, singer and gossip celebrity, fall.

  10

• David Adamany, 80, American academic administrator, President of Temple University.
• Ken Ballantyne, 76, Scottish runner.
• Pierre Billard, 94, French film critic.
• Trevor Johnson, 81, Australian footballer.
• Don Keane, 85, Australian racewalker.
• Nikola Korabov, 87, Bulgarian director and screenwriter.
• Francisco Nieva, 91, Spanish playwright.
• André Ruellan, 94, French science fiction and horror writer.
• Bill Stanfill, 69, American football player, complications after a fall.

  11

• Ilse Aichinger, 95, Austrian writer.
• Jum Jainudin Akbar, Filipino politician, member of the House of Representatives, Governor of Basilan, cardiac arrest.
• Victor Bailey, 56, American bassist, complications from Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease and ALS.
• Uwe Bracht, 63, German footballer.
• Alfredo Bruto da Costa, 78, Portuguese politician.
• Željko Čajkovski, 91, Croatian football player and coach.
• Clarence Ditlow, 72, American automotive safety advocate, colon cancer.
• Doug Edwards, 70, Canadian musician and composer, cancer.
• Perico Fernandez, 64, Spanish light-welterweight boxer, world champion, diabetes and Alzheimer's disease.
• Greg Horton, 65, American football player.
• Leonid Keldysh, 85, Russian physicist.
• Sir Ralph Kohn, 88, British medical scientist.
• Claire Labine, 82, American author, screenwriter and producer.
• Bonnie Laing, 79, Canadian politician, MLA for Calgary-Bow.
• Lily, 64, Japanese singer and actress, lung cancer.
• Aileen Mehle, 98, American gossip columnist.
• Sir James McNeish, 85, New Zealand writer.
• Ronnie Nathanielsz, 81, Sri Lankan-born Filipino sports journalist and commentator, cardiac arrest.
• A. Nayyar, 61, Pakistani playback singer, cardiac arrest.
• Pascal Posado, 91, French politician, member of the National Assembly for Bouches-du-Rhône.
• Alfred Schmidt, 81, German footballer.
• Ray Singleton, 79, American songwriter and record producer, brain cancer.
• Muhammad Surur, 77–78, Syrian religious leader.
• Turki II bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 81–82, Saudi Arabian prince and politician.
• Sir Aubrey Trotman-Dickenson, 90, British chemist.
• Robert Vaughn, 83, American actor leukemia.

  12

• Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, 70, Egyptian actor.
• Malek Chebel, 63, Algerian anthropologist and philosopher, cancer.
• Dawn Coe-Jones, 56, Canadian golfer, chondrosarcoma.
• Punya Datta, 92, Indian cricketer.
• Louis Devereux, 85, English cricketer.
• Ebenezer Donkor, 78, Ghanaian actor.
• Jerry Dumas, 86, American cartoonist.
• Bob Francis, 77, Egyptian-born Australian radio broadcaster.
• Stanley G. Grizzle, 97, Canadian judge and political activist.
• Robert Kabel, 82, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Frank Konigsberg, 83, American talent agent and producer.
• Adolf Kunstwadl, 76, German footballer.
• Sonny Levi, 90, Indian powerboat designer.
• Eivor Olson, 94, Swedish shot putter.
• James Dale Ritchie, 40, American serial killer, shot.
• Howard Ruff, 85, American economist, Parkinson's disease.
• Edgard Sorgeloos, 85, Belgian racing cyclist.
• Lupita Tovar, 106, Mexican-American actress, heart disease.
• Paul Vergès, 91, Thai-born French Réunionese politician, MEP, member of the National Assembly and Senate.
• Jacques Werup, 71, Swedish musician and writer, thyroid cancer.
• Yu Xu, 30, Chinese air force aviator, plane collision.

  13

• Jehangir Bader, 72, Pakistani politician, heart attack.
• Maria Pilar Busquets, 79, Spanish Aranese writer and politician, Síndica d'Aran and member of Catalan Parliament.
• Luigi Caccia Dominioni, 102, Italian architect.
• Doris Egbring-Kahn, 90, German actress.
• Aslaug Fadum, 91, Norwegian politician.
• Frederick Irving, 91, American diplomat, Ambassador to Iceland, Ambassador to Jamaica.
• Leslie Kenton, 75, American writer.
• Lary Kuharich, 70, American football coach, brain cancer.
• Billy Miller, 62, American music historian, complications from multiple myeloma, kidney failure and diabetes.
• Enzo Maiorca, 85, Italian free diver, television host and politician.
• Jackie Pigeaud, 79, French historian.
• Laurent Pokou, 69, Ivorian footballer.
• Leon Russell, 74, American Hall of Fame musician and songwriter.
• Don Rutherford, 79, English rugby union player.
• Sir Mota Singh, 86, British judge.
• Denys Smith, 92, British racehorse trainer.
• Aloysius Ferdinandus Zichem, 83, Surinamese Roman Catholic Redemptorist prelate, Bishop of Paramaribo.

  14

• Hans Avé Lallemant, 78, Dutch-born American geologist.
• Diana Balmori, 84, American landscape designer.
• Vladimir Belov, 58, Russian handball player, Olympic silver medalist.
• Houston Conwill, 69, American sculptor, prostate cancer.
• Ibrahim Dasuki, 93, Nigerian spiritual leader, Sultan of Sokoto.
• Holly Dunn, 59, American country music singer-songwriter, ovarian cancer.
• Marti Friedlander, 88, New Zealand photographer, breast cancer.
• Bob Gain, 87, American football player.
• Gun Hellsvik, 74, Swedish politician, Minister of Justice, cancer.
• Roger Hobbs, 28, American author, overdose.
• Gwen Ifill, 61, American journalist, endometrial cancer.
• Sebastian Leone, 91, American politician, pneumonia.
• Mahpiya Ska, 20, American albino buffalo.
• David Mancuso, 72, American DJ and founder of The Loft.
• Gardnar Mulloy, 102, American tennis player, winner of the US Open and Wimbledon Championships, complications from a stroke.
• Janet Wright, 71, Canadian actress.

  15

• Bob Addis, 91, American baseball player.
• Mose Allison, 89, American jazz pianist, singer and songwriter.
• Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem II, 109, Ghanaian royal, Queen mother of the Ashanti Empire.
• Cliff Barrows, 93, American music director.
• Rod Bieleski, 85, New Zealand plant physiologist.
• Ray Brady, 79, Irish footballer.
• Victor Brown, 95, Cuban-born British singer.
• Bobby Campbell, 60, Northern Irish footballer, suicide by hanging.
• Ishwar Dass Dhiman, 82, Indian politician.
• Sixto Durán Ballén, 95, Ecuadorian politician, President.
• Jules Eskin, 85, American cellist, cancer.
• Ken Grieve, 74, British television director.
• Daniel Leab, 80, German-born American historian.
• Lisa Lynn Masters, 52, American actress, apparent suicide by hanging.
• Chester E. Norris, 88, American diplomat, Ambassador to Equatorial Guinea.
• Milt Okun, 92, American singer and music producer.
• Mukesh Rawal, 65, Indian actor, suicide by train.
• Paul Rosche, 82, German engineer.
• Clift Tsuji, 75, American politician, member of the Hawaii House of Representatives.

  16

• Len Allchurch, 83, Welsh footballer.
• Juan Amorós, 80, Spanish cinematographer.
• Dwayne Andreas, 98, American businessman.
• Joan Carroll, 85, American child actress.
• Teresita Castillo, 89, Filipino nun.
• Jay Wright Forrester, 98, American computer engineer and systems scientist.
• Melvin Laird, 94, American politician and writer, Secretary of Defense, U.S. Representative from Wisconsin's 7th congressional district, respiratory failure.
• Hans-Günter Neues, 66, German football player and coach.
• Enno Penno, 86, Estonian politician.
• Daniel Prodan, 44, Romanian footballer, heart attack.
• Alex Stewart, 52, Jamaican boxer, blood clot in lung.
• Larry Tucker, 81, American politician, member of the West Virginia House of Delegates and Senate.
• Mentor Williams, 70, American songwriter and producer, lung cancer.
• Jean Wishart, 96, New Zealand journalist, editor of New Zealand Woman's Weekly.
• Yeh Changti, 82–83, Taiwanese aviator, member of the Black Cat Squadron, heart attack.

  17

• Zenon Czechowski, 69, Polish Olympic cyclist.
• Virgilio Godoy, 82, Nicaraguan politician, Vice President.
• Ruth Gruber, 105, American journalist.
• Marzieh Hadidchi, 77, Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander and politician, MP.
• Babanrao Haldankar, 89, Indian classical singer and composer.
• Saki Kaskas, 45, Greek video game music composer, fentanyl overdose.
• Joseph Khoury, 80, Lebanese-born Canadian Roman Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Saint Maron of Montreal.
• Khairulla Murtazin, 75, Russian mathematician.
• Fidel Negrete, 84, Mexican Olympic long-distance runner, Pan American gold medalist.
• John Ningark, 72, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, cancer.
• Louis Pinton, 68, French politician.
• Venancio Shinki, 84, Peruvian painter.
• Harry W. Shipps, 90, American Episcopal prelate, Bishop of Georgia.
• Srinivas Kumar Sinha, 90, Indian army general and politician, Governor of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir.
• Whitney Smith, 76, American vexillologist, designer of the flag of Guyana, co-designer of the flag of Bonaire.
• Steve Truglia, 54, British stuntman, fall.
• Don Waller, 65, American music journalist and singer, lung cancer.
• Gérard Weber, 67, French politician.

  18

• Haji Muhammad Adeel, 72, Pakistani politician, kidney failure.
• Denton Cooley, 96, American heart surgeon.
• Jerzy Cynk, 91, Polish-British aviation historian.
• Ed Francis, 90, American professional wrestler and promoter.
• Sharon Jones, 60, American singer, pancreatic cancer.
• Valentin Kornev, 75, Russian sport shooter, Olympic silver medalist.
• Yevgeni Lazarev, 79, Russian-American actor, heart failure.
• Liu Sung-pan, 84, Taiwanese politician, member and President of the Legislative Yuan.
• Hugh McDonald, 62, Australian musician, prostate cancer.
• Bob Mitchell, 80, Canadian politician.
• Francesco Parisi, 86, Italian politician, member of the Senate and Parliament.
• Kervin Piñerua, 25, Venezuelan volleyball player, heart attack.
• Freddie L. Poston, 91, American lieutenant general in the United States Air Force.
• Théophane Matthew Thannickunnel, 88, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Jabalpur.
• Armando Tobar, 78, Chilean footballer, Alzheimer's disease.

  19

• Sutan Bhatoegana, 59, Indonesian politician, liver cancer.
• Monk Bonasorte, 59, American football player, brain cancer.
• John C. Carpenter, 86, American politician, member of the Nevada Assembly.
• John Dale, 86, English cricketer.
• Donald Farley, 46, Canadian cross-country skier, suspected heart attack.
• Irving A. Fradkin, 95, American philanthropist, founder of Scholarship America.
• Gino Gavioli, 93, Italian comics artist and animator.
• Erwin Hecht, 83, German-born South African Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Kimberley.
• Jacques Henry, 74, French rally driver.
• Jan Huberts, 79, Dutch motorcycle road racer.
• Ida Levin, 53, American violinist, leukemia.
• Józef Mayer, 77, Polish chemist.
• Aiace Parolin, 96, Italian cinematographer.
• Christian Salaba, 45, Austrian footballer.
• Paul Sylbert, 88, American production designer, Oscar winner.
• David Turner-Samuels, 98, British barrister.
• Hans Witsenhausen, 86, German mathematician.
• You Xiaozeng, 83, Chinese inorganic chemist and academician.

  20

• Gabriel Badilla, 32, Costa Rican footballer, heart failure.
• Wimal Kumara de Costa, 68, Sri Lankan film actor.
• Likhit Dhiravegin, 75, Thai political scientist and politician, cancer.
• Housseyn Fardjallah, 23, Algerian weightlifter, traffic collision.
• Maria Glazovskaya, 104, Russian scientist and agrochemist.
• Gene Guarilia, 78, American basketball player.
• Tim Heald, 72, British author and journalist.
• Janellen Huttenlocher, 84, American psychologist.
• Mita Mohi, 78, New Zealand rugby league player, traditional Māori weaponry expert.
• Hod O'Brien, 80, American jazz pianist, cancer.
• Diógenes da Silva Matthes, 83, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Franca.
• Konstantinos Stephanopoulos, 90, Greek politician, President, pneumonia.
• Hemant Talwalkar, 62, Indian cricketer.
• William Trevor, 88, Irish writer.
• Ivan Živković, 69, Serbian diplomat, ambassador to Kenya.

  21

• Kaylin Andres, 31, American blogger, cancer.
• Blakdyak, 46, Filipino reggae artist and comedian.
• Yehia El-Gamal, 86, Egyptian politician, Deputy Prime Minister.
• Rose Evansky, 94, British hairdresser.
• Edward L. Kimball, 86, American legal scholar and biographer.
• Masatoshi Kurata, 77, Japanese politician, cancer.
• Matthias Mauritz, 92, German Olympic football player.
• John Nuraney, 79, Kenyan-born Canadian politician, MLA of British Columbia.
• Jean-Claude Risset, 78, French composer.
• Hassan Sadpara, 53, Pakistani mountaineer, cancer.
• Vladimir Semyonov, 78, Russian Olympic water polo player.
• Jan Sonnergaard, 53, Danish writer, heart attack.
• René Vignal, 90, French footballer.
• Maximilian Ziegelbauer, 93, German Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Augsburg.

  22

• Tayssir Akla, 77, Syrian composer and conductor.
• M. Balamuralikrishna, 86, Indian Carnatic musician and composer.
• Donald Barker, 86, Canadian football official.
• Dorian Boose, 42, American football player.
• Mike Burgoyne, 65, New Zealand rugby union player.
• Chen Yingzhen, 79, Taiwanese writer.
• Bill Dimock, 93, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Carlos Fayt, 98, Argentine lawyer and politician.
• Rosa Anna Garavoglia, 83, Italian executive.
• Servaas Huys, 76, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives.
• Gloria Lane, 91, American operatic mezzo-soprano.
• M. G. K. Menon, 88, Indian physicist.
• John C. O'Riordan, 92, Irish-born Sierra Leonean Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Kenema.
• Moeenuddin Ahmad Qureshi, 86, Pakistani politician, Acting Prime Minister, lung infection.
• Viveki Rai, 92, Indian author.
• Red Marauder, 26, British racehorse, winner of the 2001 Grand National.
• Judith Roberts, 82, American Olympic swimmer.
• Peter Sumner, 74, Australian actor.
• Mathew Vattackuzhy, 86, Indian Syro-Malabar Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Kanjirappally.
• Ram Naresh Yadav, 90, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, Governor of Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh.

  23

• Rita Barberá, 68, Spanish politician, Mayor of Valencia and Senator, heart attack due to cirrhosis.
• Ralph Branca, 90, American baseball player.
• Brainbug, 57, Italian trance music producer and musician.
• Michel Deza, 77, Russian-born French mathematician.
• Richard Dougherty, 84, Canadian-born American ice hockey player, Olympic silver medalist.
• John Ebersole, 72, American educator, President of Excelsior College, myelodysplastic syndrome.
• Joe Esposito, 78, American author and publisher, road manager for Elvis Presley.
• Bill Hewitt, 86, Australian politician, member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Chatsworth and Greenslopes.
• Ernst Hilmar, 78, Austrian musicologist.
• Stan Huntsman, 84, American Olympic track and field coach, complications from a stroke.
• Karin Johannisson, 72, Swedish idea historian, cancer.
• Sagardeep Kaur, 35, Indian athlete, Asian champion, traffic collision.
• Peggy Kirk Bell, 95, American professional golfer.
• Joe Lennon, 81, Irish Gaelic footballer.
• Renato López, 33, Mexican actor and television host, shot.
• Rocky Malebane-Metsing, 67, South African politician.
• Abdul-Karim Mousavi Ardebili, 90, Iranian cleric and jurist, Chief Justice of Iran.
• Guy Rousseau, 81, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Ryu Mi-yong, 95, North Korean politician, chairwoman of the Chondoist Chongu Party, lung cancer.
• Andrew Sachs, 86, German-born British actor, dementia.
• Fred Stobaugh, 99, American songwriter.
• K. Subash, 57, Indian director and screenwriter, kidney failure.
• Jerry Tucker, 91, American child actor.

  24

• Michael Abbensetts, 78, Guyanese-born British playwright.
• Colonel Abrams, 67, American musician.
• Nadine Alari, 89, French actress.
• Marcos Ana, 96, Spanish communist activist, poet and veteran of the Spanish Civil War, political prisoner.
• Al Brodax, 90, American film and television producer.
• Matthew Chan, 69, Hong Kong Olympic fencer.
• Bob Chase, 90, American broadcaster, heart failure.
• Dave Ferriss, 94, American baseball player.
• Shirley Bunnie Foy, 80, American jazz musician.
• Larry W. Fullerton, 65, American inventor, brain cancer.
• Paul Futcher, 60, English footballer, cancer.
• Royal U. Grote Jr., 70, American prelate, Bishop of the Reformed Episcopal Church.
• Florence Henderson, 82, American actress and singer, heart failure.
• Prabhjot Kaur, 92, Indian author and poet.
• William Mandel, 99, American broadcast journalist, political activist and author.
• Boris Melnik, 71, Soviet sports shooter.
• Luis Miquilena, 97, Venezuelan politician, Minister of Interior and Justice.
• Pauline Oliveros, 84, American composer and accordionist.
• George C. Royal, 95, American microbiologist.
• Sabrina, 80, British model and actress.
• Charles M. Stein, 96, American statistician.
• Tormod Petter Svennevig, 87, Norwegian diplomat and politician.
• Norm Swanson, 86, American basketball player.
• Jules Sylvain, 90, Canadian Olympic weightlifter.

  25

• Bernardo Álvarez Herrera, 60, Venezuelan diplomat, Ambassador to the United States.
• Erich Bloch, 91, German-born American electrical engineer, director of the National Science Foundation.
• Fidel Castro, 90, Cuban politician, Prime Minister, President.
• Ron Glass, 71, American actor, respiratory failure.
• Jim Gillespie, 69, Scottish footballer.
• Trevor Goddard, 85, South African cricketer.
• David Hamilton, 83, British photographer.
• Dwan Hurt, 53, American basketball coach.
• Zdzisław Konieczny, 86, Polish historian.
• Jake Krull, 77, American politician, member of the South Dakota Senate.
• Burton J. Lee III, 86, American doctor, White House physician under President George H. W. Bush, bladder cancer.
• Ivan Mikoyan, 89, Russian aircraft designer.
• Russell Oberlin, 88, American countertenor.
• Margaret Rhodes, 91, British writer, cousin of Elizabeth II.
• Richard Dean Rogers, 94, American district court judge, U. S. District Court for the District of Kansas.
• Peter Schweri, 77, Swiss painter.
• Bill Skelton, 85, New Zealand jockey.
• Thomas Taylor, Baron Taylor of Blackburn, 87, British politician, injuries sustained in traffic collision.
• Alexander Yossifov, 76, Bulgarian composer.

  26

• Ida Blom, 85, Norwegian historian.
• Bill Endicott, 98, American baseball player.
• Urii Eliseev, 20, Russian chess grandmaster, fall.
• Miriam Eshkol, 87, Israeli education administrator.
• Harry Flournoy, 72, American basketball player.
• Alv Gjestvang, 79, Norwegian speed skater, Olympic silver medalist, cancer.
• Peter Hintze, 66, German politician, General Secretary of the CDU, Vice-President of the Bundestag.
• Peter Hans Kolvenbach, 87, Dutch religious leader, Superior General of the Society of Jesus.
• James E. McClellan, 90, American politician, member of the Maryland House of Delegates.
• Jean Moore, 83, Australian politician, member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council.
• David Provan, 75, Scottish footballer.
• Chad Robinson, 36, Australian rugby league footballer, suicide by traffic collision.
• Debra Saunders-White, 59, American educator, Chancellor of North Carolina Central University, kidney cancer.
• Nils-Börje Stormbom, 91, Finnish author.
• Velko Valkanov, 88, Bulgarian politician.
• Fritz Weaver, 90, American actor, Tony winner.

  27

• Nijolė Ambrazaitytė, 77, Lithuanian opera singer and politician.
• Joan Burke, 88, Irish politician.
• Bernard Gallagher, 87, British actor.
• Valerie Gaunt, 84, British actress.
• Jorge Luis González Tanquero, 46, Cuban dissident and prisoner of conscience.
• Ioannis Grivas, 93, Greek politician, Prime Minister.
• Paul Guers, 88, French actor.
• Viktor Ivannikov, 76, Russian computer scientist.
• Lim Chiew Peng, 65, Singaporean footballer, cancer.
• Graham Lay, 56, British antiques expert, cystic fibrosis.
• Dick Logan, 86, American football player.
• Tony Martell, 90, American music industry executive.
• Bruce Mazlish, 93, American historian.
• Thomas Pazyj, 61, Danish handball player.
• Alan Preen, 81, Australian sportsman.
• Wayne Smith, 66, Canadian football player.
• Brian Spalding, 93, British scientist.
• William Lay Thompson, 86, American ornithologist.
• Anand Yadav, 80, Indian Marathi writer.

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• Bill Bell, 87-88, Canadian Olympic basketball player.
• William Christenberry, 80, American artist, Alzheimer's disease.
• Jim Delligatti, 98, American entrepreneur, creator of the Big Mac.
• Haruka Eigen, 70, Japanese professional wrestler and executive, heart attack.
• John C. Harkness, 99, American architect.
• Adolfo Horta, 59, Cuban featherweight boxer, Olympic silver medalist.
• Carlton Kitto, 74, Indian jazz guitarist.
• Georg Lhotsky, 79, Austrian actor and director.
• Mai Yinghao, 87, Chinese archaeologist, cancer.
• Ng Bi-chu, 88, Taiwanese activist, complications of diabetes.
• Lolita Rodriguez, 81, Philippine actress, heart attack.
• Udiramala Subramaniam, 69, Indian cricketer.
• Sir John Swire, 89, British businessman.
• Mark Taimanov, 90, Russian Soviet-era chess grandmaster and concert pianist, USSR chess champion.
• Ivar Thomassen, 62, Norwegian folk singer-songwriter.
• Grant Tinker, 90, American television executive, CEO of NBC.
• André Tranchemontagne, 77, Canadian politician, Member of the Quebec National Assembly for Mont-Royal.
• Burghild Wieczorek, 73, German Olympic athlete
• Van Williams, 82, American actor, renal failure.
• Keo Woolford, 49, American filmmaker and actor, complications from a stroke.
• Lyudmila Yurlova, 44, Russian ice hockey player, smoke inhalation.
• Notable Brazilian people killed in the crash of LaMia Flight 2933:
• *Ailton Canela, 22, football player.
• *Dener Assunção Braz, 25, football player.
• *Sérgio Manoel Barbosa Santos, 27, football player.
• *Matheus Biteco, 21, football player.
• *Mateus Caramelo, 22, football player.
• *Ananias Eloi Castro Monteiro, 27, football player.
• *Victorino Chermont, 43, reporter.
• *Paulo Julio Clement, 51, commentator.
• *José Gildeixon Clemente de Paiva, 29, football player.
• *Guilherme Gimenez de Souza, 21, football player.
• *Lucas Gomes da Silva, 26, football player.
• *Josimar, 30, football player.
• *Caio Júnior, 51, football player and manager.
• *Everton Kempes dos Santos Gonçalves, 34, football player.
• *Filipe Machado, 32, football player.
• *Arthur Maia, 24, football player.
• *Marcelo Augusto Mathias da Silva, 25, football player.
• *Delfim Peixoto, 75, politician and football executive, vice-president of CBF, president of Federação Catarinense de Futebol and congressman.
• *Mário Sérgio Pontes de Paiva, 66, football player, manager, and commentator.
• *Bruno Rangel, 34, football player.
• *Cléber Santana, 35, football player.
• *Tiaguinho, 22, football player.
• *Thiego, 30, football player.

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• Bill Barrot, 72, Australian football player.
• Bill Bartmann, 68, American businessman, complications from heart surgery.
• Margaret Belcher, 80, New Zealand literary scholar.
• Ray Columbus, 74, New Zealand rock singer.
• James Danieley, 92, American educator, President of Elon University.
• Marcos Danilo Padilha, 31, Brazilian football player, injuries sustained in a plane crash.
• Joe Dever, 60, British author, complications from bile duct surgery.
• Duncan B. Forrester, 83, Scottish theologian.
• Luis Alberto Monge, 90, Costa Rican politician, President, cardiac arrest.
• Hardy Myers, 77, American politician, Attorney General for Oregon, complications from pneumonia.
• Norman Oakley, 77, English footballer.
• Roger Parent, 63, Canadian politician, cancer.
• Claudio Pavone, 95, Italian historian.
• Andrew Rippin, 66, British-born Canadian Islamic historian.
• Ruta Šaca-Marjaša, 89, Latvian lawyer, writer and politician, MP.
• Lana Spreeman, 61, Canadian alpine skier, Paralympic gold medalist, brain cancer.
• Richard B. Teitelman, 69, American judge.
• Alexander Thieme, 62, German sprinter, Olympic silver medalist.
• Allan Zavod, 71, Australian pianist, brain cancer.

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• Alice Drummond, 88, American actress, complications from a fall.
• Amar Ezzahi, 75, Algerian Chaabi singer.
• Michel Houel, 74, French politician, mayor of Crécy-la-Chapelle and member of the Senate.
• Kamilló Lendvay, 87, Hungarian composer and conductor.
• Leonard of Mayfair, 78, British celebrity hairdresser.
• Aleksei Maslennikov, 87, Russian tenor.
• Peng Chang-kuei, 97, Taiwanese chef, inventor of General Tso's Chicken, pneumonia.
• Sinclair Stevens, 89, Canadian politician, Leader of the Progressive Canadian Party, heart attack.
• Lionel Stoléru, 79, French politician and conductor.
• Erdal Tosun, 53, Turkish actor, traffic collision.
• Royce Womble, 85, American football player.