Deaths in April 2015

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

  April 2015

1

• Dave Ball, 65, British musician, colorectal cancer.
• Roel Cortez, 47, Filipino singer-songwriter, colon cancer.
• Peter Diamandopoulos, 86, Greek-born American academic, President of Adelphi University.
• Johnny Gardiner, 92, Canadian CFL football player.
• John Paul Hammerschmidt, 92, American politician, member of the US House of Representatives from Arkansas's 3rd district, heart and respiratory failure.
• Sir John Ingram, 90, New Zealand engineer and businessman.
• Zdravko-Ćiro Kovačić, 89, Croatian water polo player, Olympic silver medalist for Yugoslavia.
• Eddie LeBaron, 85, American football player.
• Cynthia Lennon, 75, British author, cancer.
• Raul Loya, 76, American workers' rights activist.
• Nicolae Rainea, 81, Romanian football referee, pulmonary edema.
• Paul D. Reynolds, 52, Canadian investment banker, CEO of Canaccord Genuity.
• J. D. Smith, 83, American football player.
• Joseph Sweda, 89, American politician.
• Robert Walker, 54, Canadian-born American animator and director, heart attack.
• Muhammadu Dikko Yusufu, 84, Nigerian politician and police officer, Inspector General of the Police.

2

• Paule Anglim, 92, Canadian-born American art dealer.
• Luis Delgado Aparicio, 74, Peruvian politician, MP, pancreatic cancer.
• Natalia Bobrova, 36, Russian gymnast, stomach cancer.
• Mick Brown, 77, New Zealand jurist.
• Per Vilhelm Brüel, 100, Danish engineer.
• Wally Cassell, 103, Italian-born American actor.
• Tom Coyne, 84, British news broadcaster and television presenter.
• James de Beaujeu Domville, 81, French-born Canadian theatrical producer.
• William Benedict Friend, 83, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Alexandria-Shreveport and Shreveport.
• Raúl Gorriti, 58, Peruvian footballer.
• Robert Blair Kaiser, 84, American journalist.
• Dennis Marks, 66, British television producer and music director.
• Ben Meisner, 76, Canadian broadcaster, cancer.
• Norman H. Nie, 72, American social scientist, lung cancer.
• Hayley Okines, 17, British progeria campaigner, pneumonia.
• Manoel de Oliveira, 106, Portuguese film director and screenwriter, heart failure.
• Stanisław Pestka, 85, Polish Kashubian poet.
• Joseph L. Reid, 92, American oceanographer.
• Barbara Sass, 78, Polish film director and screenwriter.
• Olga Sawicka, 83, Polish dancer and choreographer.
• Doug Sax, 79, American audio mastering engineer, cancer.
• Robert H. Schuller, 88, American televangelist.
• Alberto Ricardo da Silva, 71, East Timorese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Díli.
• Steve Stevaert, 60, Belgian politician, Chairman of the SP.a, Governor of Limburg.
• Abdelhadi Tazi, 94, Moroccan scholar and diplomat.
• Tom Towles, 65, American actor, complications from a stroke.
• Jerzy Treder, 72, Polish philologist.
• Eugene Vielle, 101, British air force officer and inventor.

  3

• Milton Berkes, 90, American politician.
• Michael Birkett, 2nd Baron Birkett, 85, British hereditary peer and film producer.
• Nigel Boocock, 77, British speedway rider.
• Sarah Brady, 73, American gun control campaigner, pneumonia.
• Bob Burns, 64, American drummer, traffic collision.
• Sam Cathcart, 90, American football player, cancer.
• John Darnton, 96, American football coach.
• Traute Foresti, 100, Austrian poet and actress.
• Rocío García Gaytán, 55, Mexican politician, MP, cancer.
• Osea Gavidi, 71, Fijian politician, indigenous chief and secessionist leader.
• Mathias Gnädinger, 74, Swiss actor, cardiac complications and acute respiratory distress syndrome.
• Paul Grigoriu, 70, Romanian radio personality.
• Michael Jandreau, 71, American Native leader, chairman of the Lower Brulé Sioux tribe, pneumonia and heart disease.
• Kayahan, 66, Turkish musician, cancer.
• Terdell Middleton, 59, American football player.
• Vivian Nathan, 98, American actress.
• Mpok Nori, 84, Indonesian comedian.
• Algirdas Vaclovas Patackas, 71, Lithuanian politician and poet, signatory of the 1990 Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania.
• Luis María Pérez de Onraíta, 81, Spanish-born Angolan Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Malanje.
• Chris Plumridge, 70, British golf writer.
• Andrew Porter, 86, British music critic, pneumonia.
• Christopher Reynolds, 92, British linguist.
• Robert Rietti, 92, British-born Italian actor.
• Charlie Sumner, 84, American football player.
• Shmuel Wosner, 101, Austrian-born Israeli Haredi rabbi.

  4

• Jaroslav Balcar, 62, Czechoslovak Olympic ski jumper.
• Ramón Barreto, 75, Uruguayan football referee.
• Zdeněk Čihák, 82, Czech Olympic athlete.
• Bill Ellerington, 91, English footballer.
• John Gogo, 83, Canadian politician.
• Jamaluddin Jarjis, 63, Malaysian politician, MP for Rompin, helicopter crash.
• Elmer Lach, 97, Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey player, stroke.
• Donald N. Levine, 83, American sociologist.
• Ira Lewis, 82, American actor and playwright, complications following open heart surgery.
• Elie Naasan, 83, Lebanese Olympic wrestler.
• Ioan Pușcaș, 82, Romanian gastroenterologist.
• Sir John Read, 97, British executive.
• Klaus Rifbjerg, 83, Danish writer, recipient of the Nordic Council's Literature Prize.
• Lisa Simon, 64, American director, producer and production assistant.
• Marjorie Townsend, 85, American electrical engineer.
• Dick Wood, 79, American football player.

  5

• Bauyrzhan Baimukhammedov, 67, Kazakh football player and coach.
• Barbara Bergmann, 87, American feminist economist.
• Fredric Brandt, 65, American dermatologist, suicide by hanging.
• Juan Carlos Cáceres, 79, Argentine tango musician and painter, cancer.
• Hugh Delano, 81, American sports journalist.
• Richard Dysart, 86, American actor, cancer.
• Lalit Kishore Chaturvedi, 84, Indian politician.
• Ramnath Dhakal, 52, Nepalese politician, swine flu.
• Maurice Fenner, 86, English cricketer.
• Victor Gotbaum, 93, American labor leader, heart attack.
• Tony Hutton, 82, British Royal Navy officer, organized the refugee evacuation effort following the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.
• Sid Ali Kouiret, 82, Algerian actor.
• Naken Kyrykbaev, 39, Kazakh footballer.
• Richard LaSalle, 97, American film composer.
• Anne-Claude Leflaive, 59, French winemaker, cancer.
• Norman B. Leventhal, 97, American property developer.
• Don Looney, 98, American football player.
• Akira Machida, 78, Japanese Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
• Sargy Mann, 77, British painter.
• Gordon Moyes, 76, Australian radio evangelist and politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council.
• Louis Miles Muggleton, 92, South African-born British physicist.
• John Patton, 84, American politician.
• Claudio Prieto, 80, Spanish composer.
• Jehan Rajab, 81, Kuwaiti author.
• Steve Rickard, 85, New Zealand professional wrestler.
• Lon Simmons, 91, American sports broadcaster.
• Francesco Smalto, 87, Italian fashion designer.
• Gardner C. Taylor, 96, American preacher and civil rights activist.
• Julie Wilson, 90, American singer and actress, stroke complications.
• Yacoub Zaiadeen, 95, Jordanian politician.

  6

• Theodosios Balafas, 91, Greek Olympic pole vaulter.
• Hardijs Baumanis, 47, Latvian diplomat, Ambassador to Azerbaijan and Lithuania.
• Giovanni Berlinguer, 90, Italian politician, MEP.
• James Best, 88, American actor, pneumonia.
• Ray Charles, 96, American musician, cancer.
• Paul Dearing, 73, Australian Olympic silver medallist field hockey player and bronze medallist (1964

  7

• Patrick H. Adkins, 67, American fantasy author.
• Tim Babcock, 95, American politician, Governor of Montana.
• Mohammad Bahr al-Ulloum, 88, Iraqi Shi'a Islamic leader and politician.
• José Capellán, 34, American baseball player, heart attack.
• Harry Dowd, 76, English footballer.
• Eugene Louis Faccuito, 90, American dancer and choreographer.
• Stan Freberg, 88, American comedian and voice actor, pneumonia.
• Edward Gallenstein, 92, American wood carver and magazine editor.
• Jean Germain, 67, French politician, Mayor of Tours, suicide by gunshot.
• Richard Henyekane, 31, South African footballer, traffic collision.
• Kardam, Prince of Turnovo, 52, Bulgarian royal, lung infection.
• Stanley Kutler, 80, American historian.
• Geoffrey Lewis, 79, American actor, heart attack.
• Boonkua Lourvanij, 84, Thai Olympic shooter.
• Betty Lucas, 90, Australian actress.
• Dickie Owen, 88, British actor.
• Richard F. Post, 96, American physicist.
• Maria Luisa Poumaillou, 61, Venezuelan-born French fashion consultant.
• James B. Rhoads, 86, American public servant, Archivist of the United States.
• Kalmanje Jagannatha Shetty, 78, Indian judge.
• Donald Smith, 81, English cricket player.
• Rich Szaro, 67, Polish-born American football player.
• Janet Turner, 78, British architectural lighting designer.
• Torrey Ward, 36, American basketball coach, plane crash.
• Naomi Wilzig, 80, American writer and museum owner.

  8

• Jean-Louis Crémieux-Brilhac, 98, French resistance member, civil servant and historian.
• Abraham Eraly, 80, Indian historian and magazine editor.
• Harry K. Fukuhara, 95, American army officer.
• Nagore E. M. Hanifa, 89, Indian politician and playback singer.
• Willie Honicutt, 82, American Negro league baseball player.
• Graham Howarth, 99, English entomologist.
• Rayson Huang, 94, Chinese chemist, vice-chancellor of the University of Hong Kong.
• Jayakanthan, 80, Indian Tamil author.
• Sergei Lashchenko, 27, Ukrainian kickboxer, shot.
• David Laventhol, 81, American newspaper editor and publisher, Parkinson's disease.
• Nan Inger Östman, 92, Swedish children's book author.
• Billy Ronson, 58, English footballer.
• Giorgio Salvini, 94, Italian physicist and politician, Minister of University, Scientific Research and Technology.
• Hermann Schweppenhäuser, 87, German philosopher.
• Joel Shankle, 82, American hurdler, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Joel Spira, 88, American inventor, co-founder of Lutron Electronics Company, heart attack.
• Hilde Stavik, 52, Norwegian long-distance runner, cancer.
• Udugama Sri Buddharakkitha Thero, 85, Sri Lankan Buddhist monk.
• Ion Trewin, 71, British editor, publisher and author.
• Lars Tunbjörk, 59, Swedish photographer.
• Jean-Claude Turcotte, 78, Canadian Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Montreal.
• Ole Wackström, 82, Finnish Olympic racing cyclist.

  9

• Paul Almond, 83, Canadian filmmaker and television director, heart disease.
• Betty Tackaberry Blake, 94, American WWII aviator.
• Nina Companeez, 77, French film director.
• Alexander Dalgarno, 87, British physicist.
• Ivan Doig, 75, American author, multiple myeloma.
• Moira Gemmill, 55, British design director, traffic collision.
• Jurgen Gothe, 70, German-born Canadian radio broadcaster.
• Charles Hamel, 84, American congressional aide and oil industry whistleblower.
• Ray Harm, 87, American artist, prostate cancer.
• Ghulam Rasool Kar, 94, Indian politician.
• Kuo Ting-tsai, 78, Taiwanese politician, MLY, complications of cancer.
• Bob McLean, 67, Australian winemaker, liver cancer.
• Hrushikesh Moolgavkar, 94, Indian air chief marshal and Chief of Air Staff.
• Ron Payne, 89, Australian politician, member of the South Australian House of Assembly for Mitchell.
• Elmo Noel Joseph Perera, 82, Sri Lankan Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop and Bishop of Galle.
• Narra Raghava Reddy, 92, Indian politician.
• Hans Ring, 86, Swedish Olympic athlete.
• Margaret Rule, 86, British archaeologist.
• João Alves dos Santos, 58, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Paranaguá.
• Rafael Soriano, 94, Cuban painter.
• Alex Soto, 49, Puerto Rican actor and drag queen, heart attack.
• Rogvold Sukhoverko, 74, Russian film and voice actor.
• Johan B. Steen, 81, Norwegian biologist.
• Tut Taylor, 91, American bluegrass musician.
• John Toohey, 85, Australian jurist, High Court Justice.
• Tsien Tsuen-hsuin, 105, Chinese-born American sinologist, professor, and librarian.
• Sascha Weidner, 40, German artist, heart failure.

  10

• Andrzej Ajnenkiel, 84, Polish historian.
• Richie Benaud, 84, Australian cricket captain and television commentator, skin cancer.
• Raúl Héctor Castro, 98, Mexican-born American politician and diplomat, Governor of Arizona, Ambassador to El Salvador, Bolivia and Argentina.
• David Dank, 76, American politician, member of Oklahoma House of Representatives, heart attack.
• Peter de Giles, 88, British Olympic rower.
• Desmond Digby, 82, New Zealand-born Australian theatre designer, children's book illustrator and painter.
• Waltraud Falk, 85, German economist.
• Eduardo Gauggel Medina, 48, Honduran lawyer and politician, MP, shot.
• Eduardo Gauggel Rivas, 61, Honduran lawyer and politician, member of the Supreme Court, shot.
• Ray Graves, 96, American football player and coach.
• Ronald Hambleton, 97, English-born Canadian broadcaster and music critic.
• Bárbara Heliodora, 91, Brazilian theatre critic.
• Lauren Hill, 19, American college basketball player, pediatric cancer advocate, brain cancer.
• Dorothy Jelicich, 87, New Zealand politician, MP for Hamilton West.
• Jin Youzhi, 96, Chinese royal.
• Rustin R. Kimsey, 79, American prelate, Episcopal Bishop of Eastern Oregon.
• Judith Malina, 88, German-born American actress and director, lung disease.
• Keith McCormack, 74, American singer and songwriter, stroke.
• Bobby Moore, 56, American baseball player.
• Jim Mutscheller, 85, American football player, kidney failure.
• William S. Powell, 95, American historian.
• Rocco Quattrocchi, 88, American politician, member of the Rhode Island Senate and House of Representatives.
• Rose Francine Rogombé, 72, Gabonese politician, Acting President.
• Ray Treacy, 68, Irish footballer.
• Peter Walsh, 80, Australian politician, Minister for Finance, Senator for Western Australia.

  11

• Charlie Beasley, 69, American basketball player.
• Martin Tore Bjørndal, 70, Norwegian diplomat.
• Nico Frijda, 87, Dutch psychologist.
• Jimmy Gunn, 66, American football player, heart failure.
• Guy Hannen, 90, British WWII army officer and auctioneer.
• Helen Anne Henderson, 68, Canadian journalist and disability rights activist, complications from cancer
• Peter Jones, 95, British WWII army officer.
• Muhammad Kamaruzzaman, 62, Bangladeshi politician and convicted war criminal, execution by hanging.
• Sheila Kitzinger, 86, British natural childbirth activist.
• Janusz Kurczab, 77, Polish Olympic fencer, mountaineer and expedition leader.
• François Maspero, 83, French writer and translator.
• Viv Nicholson, 79, British football pools winner, complications of a stroke and dementia.
• Heino Pulli, 77, Finnish ice hockey player.
• Hanut Singh, 81, Indian army officer.
• Tekena Tamuno, 83, Nigerian history professor.
• Kyle Testerman, 80, American politician, Mayor of Knoxville, Tennessee.
• Levi Watkins, 70, American heart surgeon, complications from a heart attack and a stroke.

  12

• Ibrahim Sulayman Muhammad Arbaysh, 35, Saudi Arabian suspected terrorist, drone attack.
• Aleksey Bochkov, 45, Russian Olympic cyclist.
• Paulo Brossard, 90, Brazilian jurist and politician, Minister of Justice, justice of the Supreme Federal Court.
• Jože Ciuha, 90, Slovenian painter.
• Patrice Dominguez, 65, French tennis player.
• Alfred Eick, 99, German U-boat commander.
• Bill Etches, 93, British WWII army officer.
• Doug Gregory, 92, British Royal Air Force officer and stunt pilot, hit by car.
• Claude Lanthier, 82, Canadian politician, MP for Lasalle.
• Walter Lee, 93, American politician.
• Patrick McCauley, 87, American journalist.
• André Mba Obame, 57, Gabonese politician.
• Mario Wallenda, 74, American highwire artiste.

  13

• Bruce Alger, 96, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas's 5th district, heart ailment.
• Brice Bosnich, 78, Australian chemist.
• Gerald Calabrese, 90, American politician and basketball player.
• Ronnie Carroll, 80, Northern Irish singer and political candidate.
• Noël De Pauw, 72, Belgian cyclist.
• Tony Eldridge, 91, British Royal Navy officer.
• Eduardo Galeano, 74, Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist, lung cancer.
• Claire Gordon, 74, British actress, brain tumour.
• Günter Grass, 87, German novelist, Nobel Prize laureate in Literature, lung infection.
• Mária Gulácsy, 73, Hungarian fencer, Olympic silver medalist.
• Neal Horsley, 70, American anti-abortion activist.
• Pat King, 68, Irish Gaelic football player and coach.
• Thelma Coyne Long, 96, Australian Hall of Fame tennis player.
• Joselyn Alejandra Niño, 20, Mexican suspected assassin, shot.
• Neal Nitz, 61, American politician.
• Anna-Lisa Ohlsson, 89, Swedish Olympic sprint canoeist.
• Bob Pinkalla, 86, American ten-pin bowler, heart failure.
• Elizabeth Brown Pryor, 64, American author and historian, traffic collision.
• Antônio Alberto Guimarães Rezende, 89, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Caetité.
• Rex Robinson, 89, British actor.
• Haanii Shivraj, 29, Malaysian actress, cancer.
• Serhiy Sukhobok, 50, Ukrainian journalist, shot.
• Herb Trimpe, 75, American comic book artist, co-creator of Wolverine.

  14

• Norman H. Bangerter, 82, American politician, Governor of Utah, stroke.
• Klaus Bednarz, 72, German journalist and writer.
• Homaro Cantu, 38, American chef, suicide by hanging.
• Sheldon Galbraith, 92, Canadian figure skating coach.
• Aref Gholizadeh, 77, Iranian international footballer.
• Ameril Umbra Kato, 68, Filipino warlord, leader of Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, heart attack.
• Kō Kojima, 87, Japanese manga artist, cerebral hemorrhage.
• M. Joseph Manning, 90, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
• Zsuzsa Nádor, 87, Hungarian Olympic swimmer
• Leslie Peterson, 91, Canadian lawyer and politician, Attorney General of British Columbia.
• Gordon Preston, 89, English mathematician.
• Majid Rahnema, 91, Iranian diplomat and politician.
• Mark Reeds, 55, Canadian ice hockey player and coach, pneumonia.
• Meir Rosenne, 84, Israeli lawyer and diplomat, Ambassador to France and United States.
• Kevin Rosier, 53, American super heavyweight kickboxing champion and mixed martial artist, heart attack.
• Vilas Sarang, 73, Indian author.
• Howie Schumm, 75, Canadian football player.
• Arnold Schütz, 80, German footballer.
• Percy Sledge, 74, American R&B singer, liver cancer.
• Alex Stevens, 79, American actor and stunt performer.
• Buddy Temple, 73, American businessman and politician.
• Roberto Tucci, 93, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, President of Vatican Radio, Cardinal-Priest of S. Ignazio di Loyola a Campo Marzio.
• Kathrine Sorley Walker, 95, English ballet critic.
• David Ward-Steinman, 78, American composer and music professor.

  15

• Sidney Abbott, 77, American feminist activist, fire.
• Kinya Aikawa, 80, Japanese actor, lung cancer.
• Zaur Ardzinba, 65, Abkhazian politician.
• Joseph A. Bennett, 47, British actor, suicide by hanging.
• Paul Clark, 67, American poker player.
• Jonathan Crombie, 48, Canadian actor, brain haemorrhage.
• Margaret Harrison, 96, Scottish peace campaigner.
• Billy Ray Hearn, 85, American record label chairman, heart disease.
• John Howard, 94, American optical physicist.
• Oleg Kalashnikov, 52, Ukrainian politician, shot.
• Felice Leonardo, 100, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Cerreto Sannita-Telese-Sant’Agata de’ Goti.
• Alexander Nadson, 88, Belarusian religious leader, Apostolic Visitor for Belarusian Greek-Catholic faithful abroad.
• Luis Ortega Álvarez, 62, Spanish judge, member of the Constitutional Court of Spain.
• Govindbhai Patel, 72, Indian filmmaker, cancer.
• Margo Reed, 73, American jazz musician, complications from dementia.
• Mykola Storozhenko, 86, Ukrainian painter.
• Barbara Strauch, 63, American author and reporter, breast cancer.
• Surya Bahadur Thapa, 88, Nepalese politician, Prime Minister, respiratory failure.
• Gunilla Wolde, 75, Swedish writer and illustrator.

  16

• Ron Bailey, 88, New Zealand politician, MP for Heretaunga.
• Driss Bamous, 73, Moroccan Olympic footballer.
• Valery Belousov, 66, Russian ice hockey player and coach.
• Ollie Brown, 71, American baseball player, mesothelioma.
• Attaphol Buspakom, 53, Thai football player and coach, blood infection.
• Oles Buzina, 45, Ukrainian journalist, shot.
• Bhola Nath Chalise, 63, Nepalese economist, kidney ailments.
• Alden G. Glauch, 95, American air force major general.
• Stanislav Gross, 45, Czech politician, Prime Minister, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Johnny Kemp, 55, Bahamian singer, fall.
• Heino Kleiminger, 76, German footballer, cancer.
• Eduard Koblmueller, 69, Austrian mountaineer, hypothermia.
• Nimal Mendis, 81, Sri Lankan singer and songwriter.
• Tommy Preston, 82, Scottish footballer.
• Lee Remmel, 90, American public relations director.
• Smuggler, 12, American Thoroughbred racehorse, complications from foaling.
• Marjorie Elliott Sypher, 89, Canadian-born Costa Rican First Lady.
• Giuseppe Zigaina, 91, Italian neorealist painter and author.

  17

• Renato Altissimo, 74, Italian politician, Minister of Health, Minister of Trade and Industry.
• Steve Beck, 58, English executive, chairman of York City F.C..
• Brian Couzens, 82, British music industry executive.
• Mariano Gago, 66, Portuguese physicist and politician, cancer.
• Francis George, 78, American Roman Catholic Cardinal, Archbishop of Chicago, President of the Conference of Catholic Bishops, bladder cancer.
• Peter Graham, 60, English cricketer.
• Robert P. Griffin, 91, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate from Michigan and House of Representatives from Michigan's 9th district.
• Jaroslav Holík, 72, Czech ice hockey player, world champion.
• Viktor Korshunov, 85, Russian actor, People's Artist of the USSR.
• Tore Bernitz Pedersen, 80, Norwegian cartoonist.
• Hannes Lindemann, 92, German sailor.
• Phil Lundgren, 75, British Olympic boxer.
• Ray Nemec, 85, American baseball researcher and historian.
• Scotty Probasco, 86, American businessman and philanthropist.
• Don Quayle, 84, American broadcast journalist, President of NPR.
• Jack Rieley, 72, American record producer and band manager.
• Jeremiah J. Rodell, 93, American brigadier general and priest.
• Keith Shackleton, 92, British painter and television presenter.
• S. K. Sharma, 62, Indian cricket umpire.
• Ann Stepan, 71, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives, lymphoma.
• A. Alfred Taubman, 91, American real estate developer, philanthropist and football team owner.

  18

• Sir Christopher Bayly, 69, British historian.
• Walter Conahan, 87, American politician, member of the South Dakota Senate, cancer.
• Francesco Dapiran, 94, Italian Olympic rower.
• Gunnar Gravdahl, 87, Norwegian politician, Mayor of Bærum.
• Joe Hutter, 77, American politician, member of the Iowa House of Representatives.
• Joseph Lechleider, 82, American inventor.
• Sir Roger Lobo, 91, Macanese-born Hong Kong businessman and politician, senior unofficial member of the Legislative Council, moved "Lobo Motion", cancer.
• Mario Pirani, 89, Italian journalist, economist, and writer.
• William Schultz, 76, New Zealand rugby league player.
• Laverne Torczon, 79, American football player.
• Leonid Vladimirsky, 94, Russian book illustrator.
• Erwin Waldner, 82, German footballer.

  19

• Richard Anthony, 77, Egyptian-born French singer.
• Sir Raymond Carr, 96, British historian.
• Haney Catchings, 66, American football coach, cancer.
• Uche Chukwumerije, 75, Nigerian politician, Senator for Abia North, lung cancer.
• Margot Duke, Marchioness of Reading, 96, British aristocrat.
• William Price Fox, 89, American novelist.
• Lothar Friedrich, 84, German cyclist.
• Eva Galambos, 87, American politician, Mayor of Sandy Springs, Georgia, cancer.
• Freddie Gray, 25, American police suspect, severed spinal cord.
• Aliaskhab Kebekov, 43, Dagestani-Russian Islamist leader, Emir of the Caucasus Emirate, shot.
• Sandra Mackey, 77, American writer.
• István Marton, 72, Hungarian politician.
• Roy Mason, Baron Mason of Barnsley, 91, British politician, MP for Barnsley and Barnsley Central, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
• Scott Mason, 55, American radio personality.
• Tom McCabe, 60, Scottish politician, Minister for Finance and Public Service Reform.
• Tony Morelli, 58, Canadian stunt performer.
• Hiroyuki Nishimoto, 88, Japanese voice actor, aortic dissection.
• Theodosia Okoh, 92, Ghanaian flag designer and sports administrator.
• Michael J. D. Powell, 78, British mathematician.
• Else Repål, 85, Norwegian politician.
• Oktay Sinanoğlu, 80, Turkish scientist.
• Bernard Stollman, 85, American record label founder, colon and spine cancer.
• Elio Toaff, 99, Italian rabbi, Chief Rabbi of Rome.
• Betty Willis, 91, American graphic designer.
• Casimir Witucki, 86, American football player.

  20

• Gilberto Almeida, 86, Ecuadorian painter.
• Gary Brain, 72, New Zealand timpanist and conductor.
• Doug Buffone, 70, American football player and radio host.
• Cláudio Cunha, 68, Brazilian actor.
• Hassan El-Shazly, 71, Egyptian footballer.
• Pedro Eugênio, 65, Brazilian politician, MP, complications from surgery.
• Tommy Graham, 72, Scottish politician.
• Peter Howell, 96, British actor.
• Nobuo Kaiho, 73, Japanese Olympic basketball player.
• Albert Kalonji, 85, Congolese politician, King of South Kasai.
• Gábor Kucsera, 65, Hungarian Olympic swimmer.
• Aharon Lichtenstein, 81, French-born American-Israeli rabbi, recipient of the Israel Prize.
• Bob Maloubier, 92, French secret agent.
• Frederic Morton, 90, Austrian-born American writer.
• Bob St. Clair, 84, American Hall of Fame football player.
• Ibrahim Yusri, 65, Egyptian actor, kidney failure.

  21

• M. H. Abrams, 102, American literary critic.
• Mykola Bahrov, 77, Ukrainian academician and politician.
• Steve Byrnes, 56, American sports announcer, head and neck cancer.
• Gideon Eilat, 91, Israeli soldier.
• Betsy von Furstenberg, 83, German-born American actress and baroness, Alzheimer's disease.
• Edan Milton Hughes, 80, American art dealer and author.
• Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov, 49, Tajik-Russian film director.
• Ferenc Konrád, 70, Hungarian water polo player, Olympic bronze, silver and gold medalist.
• Jim McCarthy, 90, Irish rugby union player.
• Sergei Mikhalev, 67, Russian ice hockey coach, traffic collision.
• John Moshoeu, 49, South African footballer, African Cup of Nations champion, cancer.
• Janaki Ballabh Patnaik, 88, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Odisha, Governor of Assam, heart attack.
• Robert P. Patterson, Jr., 91, American federal judge.
• Borisav Pisić, 66, Bosnian Yugoslav Olympic hurdler.
• Sydney Valpy Radley-Walters, 95, Canadian WWII tank commander.
• Abdel Rahman el-Abnudi, 76, Egyptian poet.
• Derek Vonberg, 93, British physicist.
• Dave Walker, 73, English footballer.
• Elizabeth Weaver, 74, American judge, Michigan Supreme Court Justice, Chief Justice.
• Cindy Yang, 24, Taiwanese model and actress, suicide by helium inhalation.

  22

• Hugh Alan Anderson, 81, Canadian politician.
• Dick Balharry, 77, British conservationist, cancer.
• Peter B. Best, 76, British marine mammal expert.
• Dorothy Custer, 103, American comedian.
• Yoichi Funado, 71, Japanese novelist, thymic cancer.
• Régis Ghesquière, 65, Belgian Olympic decathlete, heart attack.
• Alasdair Graham, 85, Canadian politician, Senator for Nova Scotia.
• Nagare Hagiwara, 62, Japanese actor, traffic collision.
• Imtiaz Alam Hanfi, 86, Pakistani banker.
• Ronny Lee, 88, American guitarist and writer.
• Audree Norton, 88, American actress.
• Bernard Penfold, 98, British army major general, general manager of the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club.
• Aideen O'Kelly, 74, Irish actress.
• Páll Skúlason, 69, Icelandic philosopher.
• Gennadi Vengerov, 55, Belarusian-born Soviet actor, lung and bone cancer.
• Irene Woodall, 69, American magazine editor.

  23

• Afzaal Ahmed, 66, Pakistani cricketer and umpire.
• Aziz Asli, 77, Iranian footballer.
• Dick Barone, 82, American baseball player.
• Desmond Boal, 85, Northern Irish lawyer and politician, MP for Belfast Shankill.
• Frana Cardno, 74, New Zealand politician, Mayor of Southland District, bile duct cancer.
• Sir Philip Carter, 87, British football director.
• Richard Corliss, 71, American film critic, stroke.
• Alexander Eliot, 95, American writer.
• Marie Herbst, 86, American politician, Mayor of Vernon, Connecticut, member of the Connecticut Senate.
• George Horner, 91, Czech-born American pianist and physician.
• Ray Jackson, 74, Australian aboriginal activist and Wiradjuri elder.
• Pierre Claude Nolin, 64, Canadian politician, Speaker of the Senate, cancer.
• Frank Porretta, 84, American tenor and musical theater actor.
• Paul Ryan, 69, American actor, television host and correspondent, leukemia.
• Jim Steffen, 78, American football player.
• E. M. Subramaniam, 67, Indian Carnatic percussionist.
• Sawyer Sweeten, 19, American actor, suicide by gunshot.
• Francis Tsai, 48, American concept artist, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Sixto Valencia Burgos, 81, Mexican comic artist.
• Guillermo Zúñiga Martínez, 72, Mexican academic and politician, Mayor of Xalapa, MP for Veracruz.

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• Władysław Bartoszewski, 93, Polish politician and resistance fighter, Auschwitz concentration camp prisoner, Minister of Foreign Affairs.
• Ken Birch, 81, British footballer.
• Thomas Joseph Connolly, 92, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Baker.
• Rustum Ghazaleh, 61, Syrian military officer, head injury.
• Ismail Hussain, 65, Indian politician, MP for Barpeta, cancer.
• Horst-Peter Kretschmer, 59, German Olympic ice hockey player.
• Valentine Lamb, 76, British journalist.
• Frankie Lee, 73, American blues singer-songwriter.
• Benjamin F. Logan, 87, American electrical engineer and bluegrass musician, heart attack.
• Sabeen Mahmud, 39, Pakistani human rights activist, shot.
• Michael Mustill, Baron Mustill, 83, British judge, barrister and peer.
• Herbert Ninaus, 78, Austrian-born Australian international footballer.
• Claudia Paz, 95, Chilean actress.
• Max Rojas, 74, Mexican poet.
• Raymond Roussin, 75, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Gravelbourg and Victoria, Archbishop of Vancouver.
• Success Express, 30, American Thoroughbred racehorse.
• Sid Tepper, 96, American songwriter.
• George C. Young, 98, American lawyer and judge, heart attack.

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• Colin Bloomfield, 33, British radio presenter, skin cancer.
• Sujit Bose, 80, Indian cricketer.
• Arthur Brittenden, 90, British newspaper editor.
• Wilfred Brown, 85, Australian cricketer.
• Edward Coke, 7th Earl of Leicester, 78, British nobleman.
• Jim Fanning, 87, American baseball player and manager.
• Paolo Galletti, 78, Italian Olympic swimmer.
• Jiří Hledík, 86, Czech footballer.
• Otakar Krámský, 55, Czech racing driver, triple European hillclimb champion, training collision.
• Don Mankiewicz, 93, American screenwriter, heart failure.
• Ben Molar, 99, Argentine composer and musical producer.
• Mike Phillips, 59, American basketball player, fall.
• Alfred Schreyer, 92, Ukrainian-born Polish fiddler and singer.
• Christine Stewart, 74, Canadian politician, Secretary of State and Minister of the Environment.
• Richard West, 84, British journalist and author.
• Notable deaths consequent to the April 2015 Nepal earthquake:
• *Dan Fredinburg, 33, American executive, head of privacy at Google.
• *Matthias Kuhle, 67, German geographer.

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• Masudur Rahman Baidya, 46, Indian swimmer, heart attack.
• Talal Akbar Bugti, 63, Pakistani tribal leader and politician, heart attack.
• Edward T. Chambers, 85, American activist, director of the Industrial Areas Foundation, heart failure.
• Hojatollah Khatib, 61, Iranian sports administrator, cancer.
• Izatullo Khayoyev, 78, Tajik politician, Vice-President, Prime Minister.
• Jayne Meadows, 95, American actress.
• Józef Paczyński, 95, Polish WWII prisoner, barber of Rudolf Hoss.
• Marcel Pronovost, 84, Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey player.
• Bill Valentine, 82, American baseball umpire.
• Wang Guozhen, 58, Chinese poet, liver cancer.

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• Jay Appleton, 95, British geographer.
• Randy Bennett, 51, Canadian swimming coach, cancer.
• Suzanne Crough, 52, American actress.
• David Fletcher, 90, English cricketer.
• Gene Fullmer, 83, American professional boxer, two-time middleweight world champion.
• Verne Gagne, 89, American professional wrestler, trainer and promoter, Hall of Fame.
• Frank Henderson, 92, American politician, member of the Idaho House of Representatives.
• Guy LeBlanc, 54, Canadian keyboard player, kidney cancer.
• Andrew Lesnie, 59, Australian cinematographer, Oscar winner, heart attack.
• Harvey R. Miller, 82, American lawyer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Marty Napoleon, 93, American jazz pianist.
• Lionel Repka, 80, Canadian ice hockey player, liver cancer.
• Alexander Rich, 90, American biologist.
• Inês Etienne Romeu, 72, Brazilian political prisoner.
• Abraham Rotstein, 86, Canadian economist.
• Rolf Smedvig, 62, American classical trumpeter, heart attack.
• Chris Turner, 64, English football player and manager.
• John Wimpenny, 92, English aeronautical engineer.

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• Antônio Abujamra, 82, Brazilian actor and director.
• Marcia Brown, 96, American writer and children's books illustrator.
• Duri Camichel, 32, Swiss ice hockey player, traffic collision.
• Glenn Dennis, 90, American ufologist.
• Jack Ely, 71, American singer.
• René Féret, 69, French actor and director.
• Ashura Hara, 68, Japanese professional wrestler, pneumonia.
• Keith Harris, 67, British ventriloquist, cancer.
• Michael J. Ingelido, 98, American Air Force major general, stroke.
• Yoshihiko Osaki, 76, Japanese swimmer, Olympic silver medalist, pneumonia.
• Vicente Piccio, Jr., 83, Filipino Air Force major general.
• Einar Thorsteinn, 73, Icelandic architect.
• James Watson, 78, British novelist.
• Xu Guangxian, 94, Chinese chemist.

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• Charles Benton, 84, American public digital media promoter, CEO of the Benton Foundation, cancer.
• Carlos Calderón Fajardo, 69, Peruvian journalist and novelist.
• Giovanni Canestri, 96, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Cagliari and Genoa.
• Daniel During, 83, South African cricketer.
• Gopulu, 90, Indian cartoonist.
• Nicholas Gruner, 72, Canadian Roman Catholic priest, promoter of the message of Our Lady of Fatima, heart attack.
• John G. Heyburn II, 66, American federal judge, Chief District Court Judge for the Western District of Kentucky, liver cancer.
• Paul Hudak, 62, American professor of computer science, leukemia.
• Milap Chand Jain, 86, Indian judge and politician, Governor of Rajasthan.
• Gary Liddell, 60, Scottish footballer.
• Valmir Louruz, 71, Brazilian football manager.
• François Michelin, 88, French businessman, CEO of Michelin.
• Vardan Militosyan, 64, Armenian Olympic silver medallist weightlifter.
• Jean Nidetch, 91, American businesswoman, founder of Weight Watchers.
• Calvin Peete, 71, American golfer, Tournament Players champion.
• Joe Pikula, 70, Canadian football player.
• Barbara Reynolds, 100, English scholar, lexicographer and translator.
• Brian Sedgemore, 78, British politician, fall.
• Dan Walker, 92, American politician, Governor of Illinois, heart failure.
• Notable convicted drug traffickers executed by Indonesian firing squad:
• *Andrew Chan, 31, Australian
• *Rodrigo Gularte, 42, Brazilian
• *Myuran Sukumaran, 34, Australian

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• Lennart Bodström, 87, Swedish politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs.
• Sharon Callahan, 63, American Olympic athlete.
• Bold Pilot, 22, Turkish thoroughbred racehorse.
• Halina Daniec, 66, Polish Olympic gymnast.
• Peter Dobkin Hall, 69, American author and historian, traffic collision.
• David Fonseca, 60, Belizean politician, Mayor of Belize City, suicide by gunshot.
• Adrian Gibson, 79, Australian politician, MP for Denison.
• Steven Goldmann, 53, Canadian music video and film director, cancer.
• Rutger Gunnarsson, 69, Swedish bassist.
• Ben E. King, 76, American soul and R&B singer, coronary heart disease.
• Gregory Mertens, 24, Belgian footballer, heart attack.
• Patachou, 96, French singer and actress.
• William Pfaff, 86, American author and columnist, heart attack.
• Ronald Senator, 89, British composer, house fire.
• Sky Classic, 28, Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse.
• Nigel Terry, 69, British actor, emphysema.