Deaths in September 2015

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

  September 2015

1

• Bouteldja Belkacem, 68, Algerian singer and composer.
• Frank Brennan, 67, Irish economist.
• Boomer Castleman, 70, American singer-songwriter and guitarist, inventor of the palm pedal, cancer.
• Gurgen Dalibaltayan, 89, Armenian colonel-general.
• Eric H. Davidson, 78, American biologist, heart attack.
• Antonio Deinde Fernandez, 79, Nigerian diplomat.
• Richard G. Hewlett, 92, American public historian.
• Don Holder, 86, American Olympic gymnast.
• Dean Jones, 84, American actor, Parkinson's disease.
• Ben Kuroki, 98, American bomber crewman.
• Jiří Louda, 94, Czech heraldist, designer of the current Coat of arms of the Czech Republic.
• Hanna Mierzejewska, 65, Polish politician.
• Takuma Nakahira, 77, Japanese photographer.
• Antonio Nirta, 96, Italian organized crime boss.
• Abdul Hafeez Pirzada, 80, Pakistani politician and lawyer.
• Will Provine, 73, American science historian, brain tumor.
• Robert Ravenstahl, 90, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
• Aleksandar Stipčević, 84, Croatian historian of the Illyrians.
• Jacek Wierzchowiecki, 71, Polish Olympic equestrian

  2

• John E. Boland, 78, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives.
• Suheil Bushrui, 85, Lebanese academic.
• Lindsay Collins, 71, Australian marine geologist.
• Avinash Deobhakta, 78, Indian-born New Zealand jurist.
• Boudjemaâ El Ankis, 88, Algerian musician.
• Ephraim Engleman, 104, American rheumatologist.
• Henry Gleitman, 90, German-born American psychologist.
• Charles Gyamfi, 85, Ghanaian football player and coach.
• Stan Kane, 86, Scottish actor.
• Piero Livi, 90, Italian film director.
• Aleksander Mandziara, 75, Polish football player and coach.
• Stewart McCrae, 85, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.
• Manos Nathan, 67, New Zealand artist, leukaemia.
• Giuseppe Petitto, 46, Italian film director.
• Brianna Lea Pruett, 32, American singer and songwriter, suicide.
• William Arbuckle Reid, 82, British curriculum theorist.
• Simo Salminen, 82, Finnish comic actor.

  3

• Wayne D. Bennett, 87, American politician, member of the Iowa House of Representatives and Senate.
• Gabrielle Burton, 76, American novelist, pancreatic cancer.
• Sir Adrian Cadbury, 86, British businessman and rower, chairman of Cadbury.
• Judy Carne, 76, British actress and comedian, pneumonia.
• Stanton R. Cook, 90, American chief executive.
• Chandra Bahadur Dangi, 75, Nepalese primordial dwarf, shortest man in recorded history, pneumonia.
• Harold Drasdo, 85, English rock climber and writer.
• Giltedge, 29, Irish-born American eventing horse.
• Dan Eley, 100, British chemist.
• Claude Flahault, 92, French Olympic sailor
• Leon Gorman, 80, American businessman, President and chairman of L.L.Bean, cancer.
• Ken Horne, 89, English footballer.
• Carter Lay, 44, American businessman and philanthropist, heir to Frito-Lay.
• Leland McPhie, 101, American masters athlete.
• John Noah, 87, American ice hockey player, Olympic silver medalist, Alzheimer's disease.
• Jean-Luc Préel, 74, French politician, member of the French National Assembly for Vendée.
• Andrew Sibley, 81, Australian painter.
• Daniel Thompson, 94, Canadian-born American inventor, creator of the automatic bagel maker and the folding ping pong table.
• Yevgeny Ukhnalyov, 83, Russian artist, co-creator of the current coat of arms of Russia.
• John Waller, 91, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Stafford.
• Binny Yanga, 57, Indian social worker and activist.
• Zhang Zhen, 100, Chinese general.

  4

• Geoffrey Bolton, 83, Australian historian.
• Graham Brazier, 63, New Zealand musician and songwriter, heart attack.
• Antonio Ciciliano, 82, Italian sailor, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Frédéric Comte, 39, French rally driver, car crash.
• Jean Darling, 93, American silent film actress, radio personality and author.
• Eldon Johnson, 85, American politician, member of the Oregon House of Representatives, stroke.
• Sylvie Joly, 80, French actress and comedian, heart attack.
• Rainer Kirsch, 81, German author and poet.
• Max Kruse, 93, German novelist.
• Sara Little Turnbull, 97, American product designer.
• Claus Moser, Baron Moser, 92, German-born British statistician, stroke.
• Warren Murphy, 81, American author and screenwriter.
• Rico Rodriguez, 80, Cuban-born British trombonist.
• Joel Rufino dos Santos, 74, Brazilian historian and writer.
• Wilfred de Souza, 88, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Goa.
• Egon Sundberg, 104, Swedish footballer.
• Duane Weiman, 69, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan.
• Hal Willis, 82, Canadian country singer.
• Jonathan Woolf, 54, British architect.
• Cyril Zuma, 30, South African footballer, traffic collision.

  5

• Ilja Bergh, 88, Danish pianist and composer.
• Antonio Dalmonte, 96, Italian footballer.
• Avery Dennis Sr., 86, American tribal politician and substance abuse counselor, Trustee of the Shinnecock Indian Nation.
• Gene Elston, 93, American Major League Baseball broadcaster.
• Goh Eng Wah, 92, Malaysian-born Singaporean film distributor.
• Dennis Greene, 66, American singer, actor, movie studio executive and law professor, esophageal cancer.
• Peter D. Hannaford, 82, American public relations consultant.
• Setsuko Hara, 95, Japanese actress, pneumonia.
• Jacques Israelievitch, 67, French-born Canadian violinist.
• Yotaro Kobayashi, 82, English-born Japanese businessman, chronic empyema.
• Alacid Nunes, 90, Brazilian politician, Governor of Pará.
• Aadesh Shrivastava, 51, Indian composer and singer, cancer.
• Alan Steel, 79, Italian bodybuilder and actor.
• Chester Stranczek, 85, American politician, Mayor of Crestwood, Illinois.
• Fagaoalii Satele Sunia, 69, American Samoan literacy advocate, First Lady, stroke.
• Peter Alfred Sutton, 80, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Keewatin–Le Pas.
• RO Tambunan, 80, Indonesian lawyer.
• Patricia Canning Todd, 93, American tennis player.
• Ivan Voshchyna, 57, Ukrainian drummer.

  6

• Beverly Daggett, 69, American politician, member and President of the Maine Senate, polycystic kidney disease.
• Bastien Damiens, 20, French canoeist, European kayaking champion, fall.
• Richard E. Flathman, 81, American political theorist.
• Rufus Hollis Gause, 90, American theologian.
• Åke Hansson, 88, Swedish footballer.
• Jack Linn, 48, American football player.
• Thor-Erik Lundby, 78, Norwegian Olympic ice hockey player.
• Herbert Mayr, 72, Italian politician.
• Ralph Milne, 54, Scottish footballer, liver disease.
• Martin Milner, 83, American actor, heart failure.
• Harald Norbelie, 70, Swedish writer and journalist, prostate cancer.
• Fred Ohr, 96, American World War II flying ace.
• Nelson Peery, 92, American political activist and author.
• John Perreault, 78, American art critic and poet, complications from gastrointestinal surgery.
• Allen Roberts, 92, New Zealand cricketer.
• Barney Schultz, 89, American baseball player.
• Muhammad Shah Rukh, 88, Pakistani Olympic field hockey player and cyclist.
• Gaylord Shaw, 73, American journalist.
• Calvin J. Spann, 90, American fighter pilot.
• Vladislav Timakov, 22, Russian water polo player, heart attack.
• Peter Walker, 65, British Royal Air Force officer, Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey.
• Petraq Zoto, 77, Albanian writer.

  7

• Susan Allen, 64, American harpist, brain cancer.
• Elena Arnedo, 74, Spanish gynecologist, writer and women's rights activist.
• Cor Edskes, 90, Dutch organ builder and restorer.
• Jorge Alberto Garramuño, 61, Argentine politician, Senator.
• Leon Gordis, 81, American epidemiologist.
• George Guida, 93, American Olympic sprinter.
• Jane Hill, 79, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Frankston and Frankston North.
• Dickie Moore, 89, American child actor.
• Sigifredo Nájera Talamantes, Mexican drug cartel leader, heart attack.
• Candida Royalle, 64, American Hall of Fame pornographic actress, producer and director, ovarian cancer.
• Guillermo Rubalcaba, 88, Cuban pianist, bandleader and composer.
• José María Ruiz Mateos, 84, Spanish businessman and politician.
• Rebecca Shaw, 83, English author, stroke.
• Sowkoor Jayaprakash Shetty, 80, Indian politician.
• Leonard Silverman, 84, American politician and judge.
• Turdakun Usubalijev, 95, Kyrgyz Soviet politician.
• Mitrasen Yadav, 81, Indian politician, convicted embezzler and pardoned double murderer.
• Voula Zouboulaki, 90, Egyptian-born Greek actress.

  8

• Merv Adelson, 85, American television producer, cancer.
• Habil Aliyev, 88, Azerbaijani musician, heart and lung failure.
• Joaquín Andújar, 62, Dominican baseball player, complications from diabetes.
• Ron Beagle, 81, American football player.
• Erlinda Cortes, 91, Filipino actress.
• Willi Fuggerer, 73, German track cyclist, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Ebby Halliday, 104, American realtor and businesswoman.
• Teri Harangozó, 72, Hungarian singer.
• Basil H. Johnston, 86, Canadian writer.
• Ferenc Kiss, 73, Hungarian wrestler, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Andrew Kohut, 73, American political scientist, leukemia.
• Bettina Le Beau, 83, Belgian-born British actress.
• Peeter Luksep, 60, Swedish politician, MP.
• Tyler Sash, 27, American football player, accidental drug overdose.
• Carlo Schäfer, 51, German author.
• Miroslav Josić Višnjić, 69, Serbian writer.
• Smokey Wilson, 79, American blues guitarist.
• Robert Wylie, 67, New Zealand cricketer.
• Joost Zwagerman, 51, Dutch author, suicide.

  9

• John Allen, 83, British Anglican priest, Provost of Wakefield.
• Annemarie Bostroem, 93, German writer.
• Lane Bray, 86, American politician, member of the Washington House of Representatives.
• Gabriel Fragnière, 81, Swiss academic.
• Green Desert, 32, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
• Charles Hallac, 50, American businessman, colorectal cancer.
• Leina'ala Kalama Heine, 75, American hula dancer.
• Einar H. Ingman, Jr., 85, American Army Medal of Honor recipient.
• K. Kunaratnam, 81, Sri Lankan academic.
• Fernando Di Laura Frattura, 83, Italian politician, President of Molise, member of the Chamber of Deputies.
• Jørgen Sonne, 89, Danish writer.

  10

• Philip Amm, 51, South African cricketer.
• John Connell, 91, American actor.
• Norman Farberow, 97, American psychologist, pioneer of suicidology.
• Adrian Frutiger, 87, Swiss type designer.
• José María Gamazo, 86, Spanish politician.
• Ihab Hassan, 89, Egyptian-born American literary theorist.
• Franco Interlenghi, 83, Italian actor.
• Kärt Jänes-Kapp, 55, Estonian journalist and editor.
• Antoine Lahad, 88, Lebanese military officer, leader of South Lebanon Army, heart attack.
• Bengt Nyholm, 85, Swedish footballer.
• Radim Palouš, 90, Czech dissident.
• James E. Proctor, Jr., 79, American politician, member of the Maryland House of Delegates.
• Alberto Schommer, 87, Spanish photographer.
• Colleen Waata Urlich, 75, New Zealand ceramicist.
• Gert Wilden, 98, German film composer.

  11

• Rezo Cheishvili, 82, Georgian writer.
• Vincenzo Dall'Osso, 86, Italian boxer
• Bárbara Gil, 85, Mexican actress.
• Vernon Hauser, 87, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Council.
• Dennis Paul Hebert, 88, American politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for Tangipahoa Parish.
• Fred Lucas, 81, English cricketer.
• Roy Marble, 48, American basketball player, lung cancer.
• Marcelo Moren Brito, 80, Chilean agent of Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional, head of Villa Grimaldi, convicted of crimes against humanity, multisystem failure.
• Knut Næss, 88, Norwegian football player and coach.
• Jaswant Singh Neki, 90, Indian academic and poet.
• Lawrence S. Phillips, 88, American philanthropist.
• Alan Purwin, 53, American helicopter pilot and aerial film operator, plane crash.
• Kerry Simon, 60, American chef, multiple system atrophy.
• Ray Smolover, 94, American opera director and hazzan.
• Bruno Stutz, 77, Swiss clown.

  12

• Deborah Asnis, 59, American infectious disease specialist, discovered the first cases of West Nile virus in the United States, breast cancer.
• Max Beauvoir, 79, Haitian houngan and biochemist.
• William J. Becker, 88, American theater critic and film distributor, complications of kidney failure.
• Melvin Bernhardt, 84, American theater director, fall.
• Claudia Card, 74, American philosopher, lung cancer.
• Arrigo Delladio, 86, Italian Olympic cross-country skier.
• Valentin Dzhonev, 63, Bulgarian Olympic athlete.
• John Emerton, 87, British Hebraist, Regius Professor of Hebrew at Cambridge University.
• Frank D. Gilroy, 89, American playwright and screenwriter.
• Malcolm Graham, 81, English footballer.
• Kenneth Leech, 76, British Anglican priest and theologian, founded Centrepoint.
• Maciek Malish, 53, Polish-born American sound editor, traffic collision.
• Bill H. McAfee, 84, American radio and TV broadcaster and politician, member of the Tennessee House of Representatives.
• Bryn Merrick, 56, Welsh bassist, cancer.
• Al Monchak, 98, American baseball player and coach.
• Aronda Nyakairima, 56, Ugandan army officer and politician, Chief of Defence Forces, Minister of Internal Affairs, heart attack.
• Neil Rosendorff, 70, South African cricketer.
• Salvo, 68, Italian artist.
• Bernard Secly, 84, French horse trainer.
• Ron Springett, 80, English footballer.
• Zhang Xu, 101, Chinese telecommunications engineer.

  13

• Sir Jim Belich, 88, New Zealand politician, Mayor of Wellington.
• Erma Bergmann, 91, American baseball player .
• Brown Panther, 7, British Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized after race injury.
• Brian Close, 84, English cricketer.
• Georges de Paris, 81, French-born American tailor.
• Stanley Hoffmann, 86, Austrian-born French scholar.
• Jane Jacobs, 91, American baseball player.
• Howie Johnson, 90, American golf player.
• Betty Judge, 94, Australian runner and coach.
• Betty Lago, 60, Brazilian actress, gallbladder cancer.
• Moses Malone, 60, American Hall of Fame basketball player, atherosclerosis.
• Barrie Meyer, 83, English footballer, cricket player and umpire.
• Raymond Mould, 74, British property developer and racehorse owner.
• Ian Payne, 65, South African cricketer.
• Gord Pennell, 86, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Jay Scott Pike, 91, American cartoonist and illustrator.
• Gary Richrath, 65, American guitarist and songwriter.
• Kalamandalam Satyabhama, 77, Indian dancer.
• Carl Emil Schorske, 100, American cultural historian, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction.
• Ted Smith, 95, British nature conservationist.
• Vivinho, 54, Brazilian footballer.

  14

• Davey Browne, 28, Australian boxer, head injuries sustained in a bout.
• Fred DeLuca, 67, American businessman, co-founder of Subway, leukemia.
• Bill Golden, 81, American drag racer.
• Indika Gunawardena, 72, Sri Lankan politician, Minister of Higher Education.
• Martin Kearns, 38, British drummer.
• Bob Ledger, 77, English footballer.
• Steve Meilinger, 84, American football player.
• György Mészáros, 82, Hungarian sprint canoeist, Olympic silver medalist.
• Mile Novaković, 65, Serbian major general, Commander of the Republic of Serbian Krajina Army.
• Hugh O'Neil, 79, Canadian politician, MPP of Ontario.
• Adam Purple, 84, American environmental activist, heart attack.
• Willy O. Rossel, 94, Swiss-born American chef.
• Paweł Sobek, 85, Polish international footballer.
• Keith Remfry, 67, British judoka, Olympic silver medallist.
• Corneliu Vadim Tudor, 65, Romanian politician, Member of the European Parliament, journalist and editor, heart attack.
• Ali Wardhana, 87, Indonesian economist, Minister of Finance, Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs.

  15

• Harry J. Lipkin, 94, Israeli nuclear physicist.
• Cor Melchers, 61, Dutch painter, legionnaires' disease.
• José María Ortiz de Mendíbil, 89, Spanish football referee.
• Meir Pa'il, 89, Israeli politician and military historian, member of the Knesset, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Tomas Pontén, 69, Swedish actor and director.
• Tommy Thompson, 86, English footballer.
• Ian Uttley, 73, New Zealand rugby union player, traffic collision.
• Bernard Van de Kerckhove, 74, Belgian racing cyclist.
• Mihai Volontir, 81, Moldovan actor.
• Randy Wiles, 64, American baseball player, cancer.

  16

• Christophe Agou, 46, French photographer, cancer.
• David Ashby, 65, British motorcycle speedway rider, cancer.
• Guy Béart, 85, French singer-songwriter, heart attack.
• Julio Brady, 73, U.S. Virgin Islander judge and politician, Lieutenant Governor.
• Bob Cleary, 79, American ice hockey player, Olympic gold medalist.
• David Cook, 74, British broadcaster and writer.
• Clóvis Fernandes, 60, Brazilian football fan, cancer.
• Overton James, 90, American educator and politician, Governor of the Chickasaw Nation.
• Peggy Jones, 75, American guitarist.
• Abolghasem Khazali, 90, Iranian politician and Shi'i ayatollah, co-author of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
• Robert Kilpatrick, Baron Kilpatrick of Kincraig, 89, Scottish physician and life peer.
• Emma Wong Mar, 89, American political activist.
• Ossi Mildh, 85, Finnish Olympic hurdler,.
• Peter Molan, 71, Welsh-born New Zealand biochemist, cancer.
• Kevin Anthony Morais, 55, Malaysian public prosecutor, homicide.
• W. H. Oliver, 90, New Zealand historian and poet.
• Kurt Oppelt, 83, Austrian figure skater, Olympic champion.
• Niall O'Shaughnessy, 59, Irish Olympic middle distance runner, brain cancer.
• Joe Morrone, 79, American soccer coach.
• Ton van de Ven, 71, Dutch industrial designer.
• Allan Wright, 95, British World War II flying ace.

  17

• Ingrīda Andriņa, 71, Latvian stage and film actress.
• Peter Barrable, 72, South African cricketer.
• Stojan Batič, 90, Slovene sculptor.
• Valeria Cappellotto, 45, Italian Olympic racing cyclist.
• Tom Cichowski, 71, American football player.
• Eddie Connolly, 29, Irish hurler, brain cancer.
• Dettmar Cramer, 90, German football manager.
• Bobby Etheridge, 73, American baseball player.
• Milo Hamilton, 88, American Hall of Fame sportscaster.
• Sir Peter Heatly, 91, Scottish Olympic diver, chairman of the Commonwealth Games Federation.
• Danilo Jovanovitch, 96, Australian poet and actor.
• Vadim Kuzmin, 78, Russian theoretical physicist.
• Joe Maiden, 74, British horticulturist, prostate cancer.
• Carlos Manga, 87, Brazilian film director.
• D. M. Marshman Jr., 92, American screenwriter ''.
• Bal Pandit, 86, Indian cricket player, writer and commentator.
• Everett Parker, 102, American civil rights activist.
• Mikhail Remizov, 66, Russian actor.
• Nelo Risi, 95, Italian poet and film director.
• Bruno Tommasi, 85, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Lucca.
• Sir David Willcocks, 95, British choirmaster, director of music at Choir of King's College, Cambridge.
• Eraclio Zepeda, 78, Mexican author and politician.

  18

• Nancy Bernstein, 55, American visual effects and film producer, colorectal cancer.
• Eduardo Bonvallet, 60, Chilean footballer and commentator, suicide by hanging.
• James R. Houck, 74, American astrophysicist.
• John A. Jane, 84, American neurosurgeon.
• Holger Karlsson, 80, Swedish Olympic ski jumper.
• Moe Mantha, Sr., 81, Canadian ice hockey player and politician, MP.
• Mario Menéndez, 85, Argentine military officer, Military Governor of the Falkland Islands.
• William E. Paul, 79, American immunologist and AIDS researcher, acute myeloid leukemia.
• Jim Ross, 87, Australian football player.
• Czesław Ryll-Nardzewski, 88, Polish mathematician.
• Freddy Ternero, 53, Peruvian football player and manager, kidney cancer.
• Marcin Wrona, 42, Polish film and television director, suicide by hanging.

  19

• Rashid bin Mohammed Al Maktoum, 33, Emirati prince, businessman and endurance runner, heart attack.
• Hannah Idowu Dideolu Awolowo, 99, Nigerian businesswoman and politician.
• Enrique Ballesté, 68, Mexican theatre director.
• James Rodger Brandon, 88, American academic.
• Mishael Cheshin, 79, Israeli judge, member of the Supreme Court, cancer.
• Jackie Collins, 77, British-American novelist, breast cancer.
• Georg Eder, 87, Austrian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Salzburg.
• Todd Ewen, 49, Canadian ice hockey player, suicide by gunshot.
• Miki Gorman, 80, Japanese-born American marathon runner, cancer.
• Sadhan Gupta, 97, Indian lawyer and politician.
• Ismael Kiram II, 76, Philippine sultan, Regent of Sulu, kidney failure.
• Bill Larson, 77, American football player.
• Alan Magill, 61, American medical researcher.
• Winton W. Marshall, 96, American air force lieutenant general.
• Eugenio Mayer, 75, Italian Olympic skier.
• Brian Sewell, 84, British art critic.
• Masajuro Shiokawa, 93, Japanese politician, Minister of Finance, pneumonia.
• Herschel Silverman, 89, American Beat poet.
• Walter Young, 35, American baseball player, heart attack.

  20

• Carmen Balcells, 85, Spanish literary agent.
• Dorothy Butler, 90, New Zealand children's author, bookseller and reading advocate.
• Mario Caiano, 82, Italian film director.
• Jagmohan Dalmiya, 75, Indian cricket official, President of International Cricket Council and Board of Control for Cricket in India, cardiac arrest.
• Giovanni De Vivo, 75, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Pescia.
• Siegfried Gottwald, 72, German mathematician.
• Joseph Iannuzzi, 84, American mobster and FBI informant, bone cancer.
• Jack Larson, 87, American playwright and actor.
• Geoffrey Lilley, 95, British aeronautical scientist.
• John Parker, 6th Earl of Morley, 92, British aristocrat, Lord Lieutenant of Devon.
• Franz Surges, 57, German composer and musician.
• Radhika Thilak, 45, Indian singer, cancer.
• C. K. Williams, 78, American poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, multiple myeloma.

  21

• Ben Cauley, 67, American trumpet player and singer.
• Juliet Clutton-Brock, 82, English zooarchaeologist.
• Honey Lee Cottrell, 68, American photographer and filmmaker.
• N. Patrick Crooks, 77, American judge, Wisconsin Supreme Court justice.
• Victor Démé, 53, Burkinabe singer-songwriter, malaria.
• Ivan Dvorny, 63, Russian basketball player, Olympic champion, lung cancer.
• Abdulcadir Gabeire Farah, 59–60, Somali-born Polish social activist and historian, candidate for President of Somalia in 2016, bombing.
• Raphael Michael Fliss, 84, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Superior.
• Esther Golar, 71, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives, cancer.
• Yoram Gross, 88, Polish-born Australian animation producer and director.
• Vasily Ilyin, 66, Russian Soviet handball player, Olympic champion.
• Kenneth L. Johnson, 90, British engineer.
• Charles Kellogg, 75, American Olympic skier.
• Armen Movsisyan, 53, Armenian politician, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, cancer.
• Costas Papacostas, 75, Cypriot politician, Minister of Defence.
• Leon Root, 86, American orthopedic surgeon and author, complications of a low blood count.
• Robert E. Simon, 101, American real estate entrepreneur.
• Ray Warleigh, 76, Australian-born British saxophonist and flautist, cancer.
• Richard Williamson, 74, American football player and coach.

  22

• Yogi Berra, 90, American Hall of Fame baseball player and manager, member of 13 World Series championship teams.
• Richard Dickson Cudahy, 89, American federal judge.
• Edmund Fantino, 76, American neuroscientist, prostate cancer.
• Elizabeth Fink, 70, American defense attorney.
• Nana Gichuru, 28, Kenyan actress, traffic collision.
• Asako Kishi, 91, Japanese cookery journalist.
• Joe LeSage, 86, American lawyer and politician, member of the Louisiana State Senate
• Gerard Mach, 89, Polish Olympic sprinter.
• John J. McNeill, 90, American Jesuit priest and gay rights activist.
• Ali Salem, 79, Egyptian writer.
• James David Santini, 78, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Nevada at-large, esophageal cancer.
• Al Seckel, 57, American optical illusion collector and sceptic.
• Richard G. Scott, 86, American cleric, Mormon apostle.
• Phyllis Tickle, 81, American religious studies author and lector, lung cancer.
• Derek Ware, 77, British stuntman and actor, cancer.
• Mokhtar Yahyaoui, 63, Tunisian judge, cardiac arrest.

  23

• Carlos Álvarez-Nóvoa, 75, Spanish actor.
• Tor Arneberg, 87, Norwegian sailor, Olympic silver medalist.
• Adnan Buyung Nasution, 81, Indonesian lawyer and human rights activist, kidney failure.
• Jean-Marie Drot, 86, French writer and documentary filmmaker.
• Mike Gibson, 75, Australian sports journalist and broadcaster, suicide.
• Dragan Holcer, 70, Croatian footballer.
• Aleksandr Kolpovski, 62, Russian Soviet footballer.
• Dayananda Saraswati, 85, Indian Hindu monk and teacher.
• Denis Sonet, 89, French Roman Catholic priest and marriage counselor.

  24

• Mohan Bhandari, Indian actor, brain tumour.
• Paul Carney, 72, Irish judge, High Court judge.
• Uğur Dağdelen, 41, Turkish footballer, suicide by gunshot to head.
• Bas van Duivenbode, 75, Dutch Olympic boxer.
• Chuck Forsberg, 71, American computer programmer.
• Kikujirō Fukushima, 94, Japanese photographer, stroke.
• Assad Murtaza Gilani, 47, Pakistani politician, Member of National Assembly, Hajj stampede.
• William W. Gullett, 92, American politician.
• Michael Howard, 67, British pagan author and editor.
• Ellis Kaut, 94, German author.
• Naomi Kawashima, 54, Japanese actress, bile duct cancer.
• Celina Kombani, 56, Tanzanian politician.
• Alan Moore, 101, Australian war artist.
• Patrick O'Donnell, 75, Canadian general, Vice Chief of the Defence Staff.
• Hugo St-Cyr, 36, Canadian actor, bone cancer.
• samfree, 31, Japanese musician and producer.
• Peter P. Sorokin, 84, American physicist.
• Harold Stapleton, 100, Australian cricketer.
• Ed Sukla, 72, American baseball player, osteosarcoma.
• Bilkisu Yusuf, 62, Nigerian journalist and editor, Mina stampede.
• Wang Zhongshu, 89, Chinese archaeologist.

  25

• Carlos Anibal Altamirano Argüello, 73, Ecuadorian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Azogues.
• Claudio Baggini, 79, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Vigevano.
• Bill Bridges, 76, American basketball player.
• Dino Brugioni, 93, American imagery intelligence analyst.
• Martin Colfer, Irish footballer,.
• Bill Crawford, 79, American politician, member of Indiana House of Representatives.
• Hassan Danesh, 29, Iranian Qari, Mina stampede.
• Pat Dunne, 72, Irish football player and manager.
• John Galvin, 86, American army general, Supreme Allied Commander Europe.
• Tommie Green, 59, American basketball player and college coach.
• Terje Gulbrandsen, 70, Norwegian footballer.
• Hugo Gutiérrez Vega, 81, Mexican poet, diplomat and academic, Ambassador to Greece.
• Christopher Jackson, 67, Canadian musician, lung cancer.
• Henry Jacobs, 91, American sound artist and radio presenter.
• Tom Kelley, 71, American Major League Baseball player.
• Moti Kirschenbaum, 76, Israeli journalist and media personality.
• Morten Krogh, 67, Norwegian Olympic fencer.
• Jim Meadowcroft, 68, English snooker player and commentator.
• Manuel Oltra, 93, Spanish composer, pneumonia.
• Carol Rama, 97, Italian painter.
• David Watt, 98, Australian cricketer.
• Joe Wilson, 78, English footballer.
• Zabeel, 28, New Zealand racehorse, leading sire in Australia and New Zealand, namesake of the Zabeel Classic.

  26

• Jamal al Barzinji, 75, Iraqi-born American Muslim activist.
• Chng Seng Mok, 65, Singaporean Olympic sports shooter.
• Eugene D. Commins, 83, American physicist.
• Tino García, 80, Nicaraguan-Puerto Rican actor, bone cancer.
• Roy Kelly, 90, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Kazuaki Kimura, 69, Japanese academic.
• Hopingstone Lyngdoh, 86, Indian politician.
• Sidney Phillips, 91, American Marine, physician and author.
• Ulla Puolanne, 84, Finnish politician, Deputy Minister of Finance.
• Paul Reed, 96, American artist.
• Fred Ridgway, 92, English cricketer.
• Homa Rousta, 71, Iranian actress, cancer.
• Ana Seneviratne, 88, Sri Lankan diplomat and Inspector General of Police.

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• Syed Ahmed, 73, Indian politician, Governor of Jharkhand and Manipur, cancer.
• Howard A. Anderson, Jr., 95, American visual effects artist and title designer.
• Albert Blan, 85, English rugby league player.
• Odd Blomdal, 88, Norwegian judge and civil servant.
• Roland Collins, 97, English painter.
• Norm Defelice, 82, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Wilton Felder, 75, American saxophonist and session bassist.
• John Guillermin, 89, British film director and producer, heart attack.
• In Style, 20, Canadian show jumping horse, euthanized.
• Pietro Ingrao, 100, Italian politician, President of the Chamber of Deputies, journalist and partisan.
• Hugh Jackson, 75, Irish golfer.
• Denise Lor, 86, American singer and actress.
• Kallen Pokkudan, 78, Indian environmental activist and writer.
• Richard Rainwater, 71, American investor.
• Torgeir Stensrud, 66, Norwegian businessman, cancer.
• Fred Stickel, 93, American newspaper publisher.
• Frank Tyson, 85, English cricketer, journalist and commentator.

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• Sir Peter Abbott, 73, British admiral, Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff, cancer.
• Frank Martinus Arion, 78, Dutch Antillean author.
• Siert Bruins, 94, Dutch war criminal.
• Michael Burgess, 70, Canadian tenor, skin cancer.
• Claudia Bär, 35, German slalom canoer, European champion, leukemia.
• Catherine E. Coulson, 71, American actress and production assistant, cancer.
• Louis Armand Desrochers, 87, Canadian lawyer and academic.
• Carlos Diaz, 57, American baseball player.
• Alexander Faris, 94, Northern Irish composer.
• Frankie Ford, 76, American singer.
• Valerie Ganz, 79, Welsh painter.
• Sjur Hopperstad, 84, Norwegian politician, county mayor of Sogn og Fjordane.
• Walter Dale Miller, 89, American politician, Governor of South Dakota.
• Simo Rinne, 74, Finnish Olympic speed skater
• Karsten Schwan, 63, American computer scientist, cancer.
• Ignacio Zoco, 76, Spanish footballer.

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• Nawwaf bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 83, Saudi Arabian prince, director of General Intelligence Directorate.
• Sorin Avram, 72, Romanian Olympic football player and coach.
• Al Benecick, 78, American football player.
• Claude Dubar, 69, French sociologist.
• Mauro Ferri, 95, Italian politician.
• Gillian Gear, 72, English historian and archivist.
• Benjamin Hutto, 67, American organist, choirmaster and academic, gallbladder cancer.
• Susumu Ito, 96, American cell biologist and WW2 veteran.
• Ram Kapse, 81, Indian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
• Hellmuth Karasek, 81, German literary critic and journalist.
• William Kerslake, 85, American NASA engineer and wrestler.
• Gilles Mayer, 86, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Sybil C. Mobley, 89, American academic.
• Gamaliel Onosode, 82, Nigerian businessman and politician.
• Burton Raffel, 87, American literary translator and writer.
• Soaring Softly, 20, American racehorse, paddock accident.
• Jean Ter-Merguerian, 79, French violinist.
• Pat Woodell, 71, American actress, cancer.
• Phil Woods, 83, American saxophonist, emphysema.

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• Guido Altarelli, 74, Italian theoretical physicist.
• Frank Battig, 79, Austrian Olympic modern pentathlete and fencer.
• Pierre de Bellefeuille, 92, Canadian politician.
• Caio César, 27, Brazilian voice actor and policeman, shot.
• Claude Dauphin, 64, French business executive, co-founder and CEO of Trafigura, cancer.
• Morris E. Fine, 97, American scientist.
• Kelly Gissendaner, 47, American convicted malice murderer, executed by lethal injection.
• Göran Hägg, 68, Swedish writer and literary critic, heart attack.
• Antje Huber, 91, German politician, Federal Minister for Youth, Family and Health.
• Svein B. Manum, 89, Norwegian botanist.
• Eric Martin, 90, English cricketer.
• Robert M. Polich, Sr., 94, American World War II bomber pilot.
• Donald Seawell, 103, American theater producer and newspaper publisher.
• Alfred Schickel, 82, German historian.
• Rick Talan, 54, Dutch footballer, brain cancer.
• Ian Thwaites, 72, English cricketer.