Deaths in April 2016

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

  April 2016

1

• Karl-Robert Ameln, 96, Swedish sailor.
• Aleksander Arkuszyński, 98, Polish brigadier general, WWII veteran.
• Pratyusha Banerjee, 24, Indian actress, suicide by hanging.
• Alan Carter, 86, British civil servant, Director of Immigration of Hong Kong.
• Tom Coughlin, 67, American business executive and convicted fraudster.
• George Curry, 71, American football coach, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Mame Younousse Dieng, 76, Senegalese writer.
• Alberto Fontanesi, 87, Italian footballer.
• Artur Górski, 46, Polish politician, member of Sejm, leukemia.
• Kao Ching-yuen, 87, Taiwanese businessman.
• Richard S. Kem, 89, American army Major-General.
• Emil Keres, 90, Hungarian actor and theatre director.
• Clarence Makwetu, 88, South African politician.
• Herbert Theodore Milburn, 84, American judge.
• John Minney, 76, English cricketer.
• Wiebe Nijenhuis, 61, Dutch sportsman.
• Carl Nordling, 85, Swedish physicist.
• Marjorie Peters, 97, American baseball player.
• Fausto Puccini, 83, Italian Olympic equestrian.
• Patricia Thompson, 89, American philosopher.
• André Villers, 85, French photographer.
• Tony Whittaker, 83, British solicitor and politician.
• Ron Wicks, 76, Canadian NHL ice hockey referee, liver cancer.

  2

• Gato Barbieri, 83, Argentine jazz saxophonist, pneumonia.
• Rick Bartow, 69, American artist, heart failure.
• Moreese Bickham, 98, American convicted murderer and anti-death penalty activist.
• Sergio Ferrari, 72, Italian footballer.
• Gallieno Ferri, 87, Italian comic book artist.
• Boris Hybner, 74, Czech actor and mime artist.
• Gareth Jones, 85, British legal academic.
• Martin Lampkin, 65, English motorcycle trials rider, cancer.
• Nabil Nosair, 77, Egyptian footballer.
• Amber Rayne, 31, American pornographic actress, accidental drug overdose.
• Dennis Riggin, 79, Canadian ice hockey player.
• László Sárosi, 84, Hungarian football player and coach.
• Thomas Zeng Jing-mu, 95, Chinese clandestine Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Yujiang.
• Soldiers killed in the Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes:
• *Robert Abajyan, 19, Armenian.
• *Samid Imanov, 34–35, Azerbaijani.
• *Murad Mirzayev, 40, Azerbaijani.
• *Kyaram Sloyan, 19, Armenian.

  3

• Abu Firas al-Suri, 65, Syrian al-Nusra Front senior official, air strike.
• Phanor Arizabaleta-Arzayus, 78, Colombian criminal, heart attack.
• John C. Baldwin, 67, American cardiac surgeon, drowned.
• John Vane, 11th Baron Barnard, 92, British peer.
• Erik Bauersfeld, 93, American radio dramatist and voice actor.
• Ward Crutchfield, 87, American politician, member of the Tennessee Senate.
• Bob Ellis, 73, Australian writer and journalist, liver cancer.
• Bas van Erp, 36, Dutch wheelchair tennis player, Paralympic bronze medalist.
• Leopoldo Flores, 82, Mexican artist.
• Don Francks, 84, Canadian jazz vocalist and actor, lung cancer.
• Robert Guinan, 82, American painter, lymphoma.
• Lars Gustafsson, 79, Swedish writer and scholar.
• Rowley Habib, 82, New Zealand writer.
• Henry Harpending, 72, American anthropologist.
• Bill Henderson, 90, American jazz vocalist and actor, cancer.
• Dick Hodgins, Jr., 84, American cartoonist.
• Ross Honsberger, 87, Canadian mathematician.
• Stephen Jacobsen, 75, American bioengineer.
• Alex de Jesús, 33, Puerto Rican professional and Olympic lightweight boxer, shot.
• Cesare Maldini, 84, Italian football player and manager.
• Joe Medicine Crow, 102, American Crow historian.
• Ronald Mulkearns, 85, Australian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ballarat, colon cancer.
• Whai Ngata, 74, New Zealand Māori broadcaster, journalist and lexicographer.
• Noh Jin-kyu, 23, South Korean short track speed skater, world champion, osteosarcoma.
• Lola Novaković, 80, Serbian singer.
• Ian Robinson, 69, Zimbabwean cricket umpire, lung cancer.
• Jules Schelvis, 95, Dutch historian and Holocaust survivor.
• Kōji Wada, 42, Japanese singer, nasopharynx cancer.
• John Waite, 74, English footballer.
• Clarence Clifton Young, 93, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives from Nevada's at-large congressional district, Nevada Senate and Supreme Court.

4

• Ranjan Baindoor, 66, Indian cricketer.
• Jarle Bondevik, 81, Norwegian philologist.
• Archie Dees, 80, American basketball player.
• Georgi Hristakiev, 71, Bulgarian footballer, Olympic silver medalist.
• Shahidul Islam Khokon, 59, Bangladeshi filmmaker, motor neuron disease.
• Chus Lampreave, 85, Spanish actress.
• Carlo Mastrangelo, 78, American bassist and doo-wop singer.
• Getatchew Mekurya, 81, Ethiopian jazz saxophonist.
• John Miller, 68, American politician, member of the Virginia Senate.
• Royston Nash, 82, English conductor.
• George Radosevich, 88, American football player.
• Mike Sandlock, 100, American baseball player.
• Abe Segal, 85, South African tennis player, cancer.
• Song Soo-kwon, 76, South Korean writer.
• Ken Waterhouse, 86, English footballer.

  5

• John Carlson, 82, American sportscaster.
• Michael Earls-Davis, 95, English cricketer.
• Zyta Gilowska, 66, Polish politician, Minister of Finance, Deputy Prime Minister.
• Roman Gribbs, 90, American politician, Mayor of Detroit.
• Leon Haywood, 74, American funk and soul singer.
• Ed Johnson, 71, American basketball player.
• Koço Kasapoğlu, 80, Turkish footballer.
• George Gelaga King, Sierra Leonean judge.
• Zena Latto, 90, American jazz saxophonist.
• Kerrie Lester, 62, Australian painter, leukaemia.
• Elsie Morison, 91, Australian soprano.
• E. M. Nathanson, 88, American author, heart failure.
• Cornel Patrichi, 72, Romanian ballet dancer, choreographer and actor, lung cancer.
• Mick Sullivan, 82, English rugby league footballer, world champion.
• Ahmed Refai Taha, 61, Egyptian terrorist, leader of al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, air strike.
• Barbara Turner, 79, American actress and screenwriter.
• Frank Wainright, 48, American football player, NFL champion.

  6

• Orison Rudolph Aggrey, 89, American diplomat, Ambassador to the Gambia, Senegal and Romania.
• Joe Freeman Britt, 80, American attorney and death penalty advocate.
• Dennis Davis, 64, American drummer, cancer.
• Jaime Pedro Gonçalves, 79, Mozambican Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Beira.
• Adrian Greenwood, 42, British art dealer and author, stabbed.
• Merle Haggard, 79, American singer-songwriter, Grammy winner, complications from pneumonia.
• Darrell Hogan, 89, American football player.
• Bernd Hoss, 76, German football manager.
• Garry Jones, 65, English footballer.
• Joel Kurtzman, 68, American economist, cancer.
• Robert MacCrate, 94, American lawyer, President of the American Bar Association.
• Ogden Mills Phipps, 75, American horse breeder.
• Josef Toms, 94, Czech Olympic basketball player.
• Pablo Lucio Vasquez, 38, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Murray Wier, 89, American basketball player.

  7

• László Bárczay, 80, Hungarian chess Grandmaster.
• Freda Briggs, 85, English-born Australian professor and child protection expert, Senior Australian of the Year.
• A. V. Christie, 53, American poet, breast cancer.
• Frank E. Denholm, 92, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives from South Dakota's 1st congressional district.
• Marcel Dubé, 86, Canadian playwright.
• Hendrikje Fitz, 54, German actress, cancer.
• Theodore van Houten, 63, Dutch–British author and journalist.
• Vladimir Kagan, 88, American furniture designer.
• Cyril Edel Leonoff, 91, Canadian civil engineer and historian.
• Carlo Monti, 96, Italian athlete, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Blackjack Mulligan, 73, American professional wrestler.
• Charles Thomas, 87, British archaeologist.
• Jimmie Van Zant, 59, American singer, songwriter and guitarist, liver cancer.
• Chuck Waseleski, 61, American baseball statistician.
• Ruth Westbrook, 85, English cricket player and coach.
• Sir John Yocklunn, 82, Australian–Papua New Guinean librarian and government advisor.

  8

• Nicolas Abu Samah, 76–77, Lebanese actor and director.
• Dick Alban, 87, American football player.
• Mircea Albulescu, 81, Romanian actor and writer, heart failure.
• Harry Apted, 90, Fijian cricketer.
• Victoria Chitepo, 88, Zimbabwean politician.
• Anatol Ciobanu, 81, Moldovan linguist, writer and university professor.
• David Dore, 75, Canadian figure skating competitor, judge and official, President and Director General of the CFSA.
• Phoebus Dhrymes, 82, American economist.
• Doug France, 62, American football player.
• Paul Fung Jr., 93, American cartoonist.
• Mildred Gordon, 92, British politician, MP for Bow and Poplar.
• William Hamilton, 76, American cartoonist, traffic collision.
• Jack Hammer, 90, American musician and songwriter.
• Charles Hirsch, 79, American forensic pathologist.
• Julien Hoferlin, 49, Belgian tennis coach, cancer.
• George Ilsley, 88, Australian football player.
• Grace Lotowycz, 99, American botanist.
• Fred Middleton, 85, English footballer.
• Elizabeth Roemer, 87, American astronomer.
• Erich Rudorffer, 98, German Luftwaffe fighter ace during World War II.
• Gene Salvay, 96, American aircraft engineer.
• Edward J. Steimel, 94, American lobbyist and fundraiser, founder of the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry.
• David Swift, 85, British actor.
• Wei Chueh, 88, Taiwanese Buddhist monk, founder of the Chung Tai Shan.

  9

• Frederic W. Allen, 89, American judge.
• Arthur Anderson, 93, American actor, voice of Lucky Charms leprechaun.
• Frank Baron, 93, Dominican politician.
• Duane Clarridge, 83, American spy, complications from esophageal cancer.
• Tony Conrad, 76, American avant-garde musician, composer, video artist and professor, pneumonia.
• Juris Ekmanis, 74, Latvian academic, President of Latvian Academy of Sciences.
• Finn Hodt, 96, Norwegian Olympic speed skating competitor and coach.
• J. Vinton Lawrence, 76, American CIA paramilitary officer, acute myeloid leukemia.
• Bea Maddock, 81, Australian artist.
• Lucas Martínez Lara, 70, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Matehuala.
• Patrick J. O'Donnell, 68, Scottish academic.
• Martin Roberts, 48, English rugby union player.
• Derrick Rochester, 76, Jamaican politician and trade unionist, MP for South East St Elizabeth, member of the Senate.
• Will Smith, 34, American football player, Super Bowl champion, shot.

  10

• Alec Crikis, 71, Australian Olympic sports shooter
• John Ferrone, 91, American book editor, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Louis Gladstone, 88, American politician.
• Nicholas Hood, 92, American politician and civil rights activist, Detroit City Councilman.
• Howard Marks, 70, Welsh cannabis smuggler, writer and legalisation campaigner, colorectal cancer.
• Thomas Kwaku Mensah, 81, Ghanaian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Obuasi and Archbishop of Kumasi.
• Wayne Southwick, 93, American surgeon and academic.
• Henryk Średnicki, 61, Polish Olympic boxer, amateur World Champion.
• N. H. Wadia, 91, Indian neurologist.

  11

• Tony Ayers, 82, Australian public servant.
• Helen Bailey, 51, British author, suffocated.
• Doug Banks, 57, American radio personality, diabetes.
• João Carvalho, 28, Portuguese mixed martial arts fighter, injuries sustained in match.
• Albert Filozov, 78, Russian actor.
• Emile Ford, 78, Saint Lucian singer and sound engineer.
• Hokie Gajan, 56, American football player and broadcaster, liposarcoma.
• Mohsen Gheytaslou, 25–26, Iranian soldier.
• Ruth Gilbert, 99, New Zealand poet.
• Yura Halim, 92, Bruneian politician, Chief Minister and lyricist.
• Anne Gould Hauberg, 98, American arts patron, founder of the Pilchuck Glass School.
• Alan Hurd, 78, English cricketer.
• Peter J. Jannetta, 84, American neurosurgeon.
• Dame Marion Kettlewell, 102, British naval officer, Director of the Wrens.
• Huntly D. Millar, 88, Canadian medical technology executive.
• Miss Shangay Lily, 53, Spanish drag queen.
• Veenu Paliwal, 44, Indian motorcyclist, traffic collision.
• Édgar Perea, 81, Colombian politician and football commentator.
• Steve Quinn, 64, British rugby league player.
• Richard Ransom, 96, American businessman.
• Ed Snider, 83, American sports executive, bladder cancer.
• A. R. Surendran, Sri Lankan lawyer, President's Counsel.
• Bounama Touré, 63, Senegalese Olympic wrestler.

  12

• James Bond, 70, Australian navy officer.
• Aquilino Bonfanti, 73, Italian footballer.
• Robbie Brennan, 68-69, Irish musician.
• Hector A. Cafferata Jr., 86, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.
• Paul Carey, 88, American radio broadcaster, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
• Gianroberto Casaleggio, 61, Italian entrepreneur, co-founder of Five Star Movement.
• Pedro de Felipe, 71, Spanish footballer.
• David Gest, 62, American TV producer and reality show contestant.
• Gib Guilbeau, 78, American musician and composer.
• Anne Jackson, 90, American actress.
• Bryce Jordan, 91, American academic administrator, President of the Pennsylvania State University.
• Alexander Kanengoni, 65, Zimbabwean writer, heart failure.
• Alan Loveday, 88, New Zealand-born British violinist.
• Balls Mahoney, 44, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
• Apphia Clara Manjoro, 68, Zimbabwean pastor.
• André Mayamba Mabuti Kathongo, 85, Congolese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Popokabaka.
• Tōru Ōhira, 86, Japanese voice actor.
• Tibor Ordina, 45, Hungarian Olympic track and field athlete, brain cancer.
• Tomaž Pandur, 53, Slovenian theatre director.
• Spec Richardson, 93, American baseball executive.
• Agha Saleem, 81, Pakistani writer.
• Sir Arnold Wesker, 83, British playwright.
• Said Zahari, 88, Singaporean journalist and political prisoner.

  13

• Srinivas Aravamudan, 54, Indian-born British academic.
• Márton Balázs, 86, Romanian mathematician.
• Jackie Carter, 62, American children's author, lymphoma.
• Julio García Espinosa, 89, Cuban film director and screenwriter.
• Nuri Gezerdaa, 56, Abkhaz politician.
• Kurtis Haiu, 31, New Zealand rugby union player, bone cancer.
• Earl B. Hunt, 83, American psychologist.
• Matthias Joseph Isuja, 86, Tanzanian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Dodoma.
• Robert W. Lundeen, 94, American executive.
• Mariano Mores, 98, Argentine tango composer and pianist.
• Eeti Nieminen, 89, Finnish Olympic Nordic skier.
• Rex Patterson, 89, Australian politician, MP for Dawson.
• Jock Scot, 63, Scottish poet and recording artist, cancer.
• Manouchehr Sotoudeh, 102, Iranian geographer and scholar of Persian literature, lung infection.
• Jeremy Steig, 73, American jazz flutist.
• Gareth Thomas, 71, Welsh actor, heart failure.
• Gwyn Thomas, 79, Welsh poet and academic, National Poet.
• Ray Thornton, 87, American attorney and politician, member of the United States House of Representatives from Arkansas's 4th and 2nd congressional districts.
• Nera White, 80, American Hall of Fame basketball player.
• Bernard B. Wolfe, 101, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives.
• Pete Yellin, 74, American jazz saxophonist and educator.
• Sayed Zayan, 72, Egyptian actor.

  14

• Nguyen Anh 9, 76, Vietnamese songwriter and pianist.
• Ahmed Brahim, 69, Tunisian politician.
• David Collischon, 78, British executive.
• Martin Fitzmaurice, 75, English darts personality.
• Gaetano Gagliano, 98, Canadian entrepreneur.
• Francesco Guarraci, 61, Italian-born American mobster.
• Hector Hatch, 80, Fijian boxer, politician and civil servant.
• Fred Hayman, 90, Swiss-born American fashion retailer and entrepreneur, helped develop Rodeo Drive.
• James W. Huston, 62, American author and lawyer.
• Dan Ireland, 57, Canadian-born American film producer and director.
• Ilija Ivezić, 89, Croatian film actor.
• Colin Knight, 81, New Zealand educationalist, principal of Christchurch Teachers' College.
• Liang Sili, 91, Chinese missile control scientist and academician, vice-president of the International Astronautical Federation.
• Sir David MacKay, 48, British author, physicist and professor, stomach cancer.
• Rod Reyes, 80, Filipino broadcast executive and journalist, heart failure.
• Phil Sayer, 62, British voice artist, oesophageal cancer.
• Malick Sidibé, 80, Malian photographer.
• Xu Caidong, 97, Chinese metallurgist and academician, vice-governor of Guizhou.
• Ron Theobald, 72, American baseball player.
• Carl M. Vogel, 61, American politician, member of the Missouri Senate, pancreatic cancer.

  15

• Orville Gilbert Brim, Jr., 93, American social psychologist.
• Anne Grommerch, 45, French politician, member of the National Assembly, Mayor of Thionville, breast cancer.
• Byrle Klinck, 81, Canadian Olympic ice hockey player, bronze medallist.
• Laura Liu, 49, American state judge, Cook County Circuit Court judge, Illinois Appellate Court judge, breast cancer.
• Frederick Mayer, 94, German-born American spy.
• Derek Mayers, 81, English footballer.
• A. A. Raiba, 94, Indian painter.
• Harold Shillinglaw, 88, Australian football player and cricketer.
• Morag Siller, 46, British actress, breast cancer.
• Richard Smith, 84, British painter, heart failure.
• Lars-Inge Svartenbrandt, 70, Swedish criminal, apartment fire.
• Louis Van Geyt, 88, Belgian politician, chairman of Communist Party of Belgium.
• Guy Woolfenden, 78, English composer and conductor.

  16

• Muhammad Ayyub, 64, Saudi Arabian imam and Islamic scholar.
• Ron Bonham, 73, American basketball player, NBA champion.
• Jeanette Bonnier, 82, Swedish media proprietor, journalist and author.
• David R. Brown, 93, American computer scientist.
• Miloud Chaabi, 86, Moroccan businessman.
• Rod Daniel, 73, American film director, Parkinson's disease.
• Donald B. Easum, 92, American diplomat.
• William M. Gray, 86, American meteorologist.
• Guan Guangfu, 84, Chinese politician, Communist Party Chief of Hubei.
• Bernhard Hassenstein, 93, German biologist and behaviorist.
• Charlie Hodge, 82, Canadian ice hockey player and scout.
• Clarence James, 84, Bermudian politician, Deputy Premier.
• Maurice Kenny, 86, American poet, heart ailment and kidney failure.
• Rubén Mendoza Ayala, 55, Mexican politician.
• Nathanael Orr, 98, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council.
• U Pandita, 94, Burmese Buddhist monk and meditation teacher.
• Louis Pilot, 75, Luxembourgian football player and manager.
• Ilias Polatidis, 50, Greek politician.
• Ismael Quintana, 78, Puerto Rican singer and composer.
• Peter Rock, 70, Austrian-born Chilean rock musician.
• Helmut Rohde, 90, German politician.
• Kit West, 79, British special effects artist, Oscar winner.

  17

• Ken Aldred, 70, Australian politician, MP for Henty, Bruce and Deakin.
• Tiga Bayles, 62, Australian radio presenter and indigenous rights activist, cancer.
• Kong Bunchhoeun, 77, Cambodian author and songwriter, cancer.
• Bettye Caldwell, 91, American educator and child-development campaigner.
• Bob Charles, 79, American-born Australian politician, MP for La Trobe.
• Clifton C. Garvin, 94, American businessman, CEO of Exxon.
• Luis Horacio Gomez González, 57, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Puerto Gaitán.
• Anthony Keane, 87, American Olympic fencer.
• Toshiro Konishi, 63, Japanese-born Peruvian chef, pioneer of Japanese cuisine in Lima, cancer.
• Bruce Mansfield, 71, Australian radio and television personality, prostate cancer.
• Scott Nimerfro, 54, American writer and producer, angiosarcoma.
• Constantine Papastephanou, 92, Syrian Eastern Orthodox prelate, Metropolitan of Baghdad and Kuwait.
• Doris Roberts, 90, American actress, stroke.
• Trần Phước Thọ, 23, Vietnamese footballer, traffic collision.
• Nicolas Tikhomiroff, 89, French photographer.
• Yang Hongxun, 84, Chinese architect, architectural historian, and archaeologist.

  18

• Brian Asawa, 49, American opera singer, heart failure.
• Paul Busiek, 93, American politician.
• Yuri Bychkov, 84, Russian art historian.
• William Campbell, 75, American business executive and college football coach, cancer.
• Adrian Berry, 4th Viscount Camrose, 78, British journalist.
• Robert Christophe, 78, French Olympic swimmer, European champion.
• Barry Davies, 71, British soldier and author, heart attack.
• Rubén Héctor di Monte, 84, Argentinian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Mercedes-Luján.
• Marwan Dudin, 79–80, Jordanian politician, Minister of Agriculture and Minister of State for the Occupied Territory Affairs.
• Hugh Faulkner, 83, Canadian politician, MP for Peterborough, complications from surgery.
• Ben-Zion Gold, 92, Polish-born American rabbi.
• Cox Habbema, 72, Dutch actress, theater director and manager.
• Eva Henning, 95, Swedish stage and movie actress.
• Fritz Herkenrath, 87, German footballer.
• Karina Huff, 55, British actress and television personality, breast cancer.
• Proverb Jacobs, 80, American football player.
• Sir John Leslie, 4th Baronet, 99, Anglo-Irish aristocrat and media personality.
• Arnulfo Mejía Rojas, 59, Mexican architect and Catholic priest.
• Johan van Minnen, 83, Dutch journalist and politician, member of the European Parliament.
• Vladimir Nemukhin, 90, Russian painter.
• Charles J. Pilliod Jr., 97, American business executive and diplomat, Ambassador to Mexico.
• Guy Prather, 58, American football player, cancer.
• Fulvio Roiter, 89, Italian photographer, Prix Nadar winner.
• Pál Sajgó, 93, Hungarian cross country skier and biathlete.
• Gert Schramm, 87, German Holocaust survivor.
• Zoltán Szarka, 73, Hungarian football player and coach, Olympic champion.
• Tao Siju, 81, Chinese politician, minister of Public Security.

  19

• Gerasimos Arsenis, 84, Greek politician, Minister for National Defense and National Education and Religious Affairs.
• Patricio Aylwin, 97, Chilean politician, President.
• Estelle Balet, 21, Swiss snowboarder, world champion, avalanche.
• Dud Beattie, 81, Australian rugby league footballer and selector.
• Errikos Belies, 66, Greek translator and poet.
• Dorothy R. Burnley, 89, American politician, member of the North Carolina General Assembly.
• Eloy Casados, 66, American actor.
• Russell Dove, 87, Australian Olympic sports shooter.
• Harry Elderfield, 72, British geochemist and professor.
• Ronit Elkabetz, 51, Israeli actress and film director, lung cancer.
• Solveig Ericsson, 84, Swedish Olympic athlete.
• Karl-Heinz von Hassel, 77, German actor.
• Walter Kohn, 93, Austrian-born American theoretical physicist, Nobel laureate, jaw cancer.
• Lord Tanamo, 81, Jamaican ska and mento musician.
• Richard Lyons, 57, American musician, nodular melanoma.
• John McConathy, 86, American basketball player.
• Mehrdad Oladi, 30, Iranian footballer, heart attack.
• Milt Pappas, 76, American baseball player.
• Billy Redmayne, 25, Manx motorcycle racer, race collision.
• Igor Volchok, 84, Russian football manager.
• Pete Zorn, 65, American musician, cancer.

  20

• Solomon Blatt Jr., 94, American federal judge, U.S. District Court for South Carolina.
• Chyna, 46, American professional wrestler and actress, mixed drug intoxication.
• Cynthia Cooke, 96, British nurse, Matron-in-Chief of the Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service.
• Velda González, 83, Puerto Rican actress and politician.
• Guy Hamilton, 93, French-born British film director.
• Avril Henry, 81, British academic, suicide.
• Dame Leonie Kramer, 91, Australian academic, author and university administrator.
• Attila Özdemiroğlu, 73, Turkish composer, lung cancer.
• Solly Pandor, 58, Zambian football manager.
• Harry Perkowski, 93, American baseball player.
• Qi Benyu, 85, Chinese politician and propagandist, cancer.
• Jack Tafari, 69, British activist, liver failure.
• Giannis Voglis, 78, Greek actor.
• Dwayne Washington, 52, American basketball player, brain cancer.
• Vern Wilson, 85, American Olympic athlete
• Victoria Wood, 62, British comedian and actress, cancer.
• Yu Songlie, 95, Chinese agricultural scientist, educator and academician.

  21

• Frederick Bruce-Lyle, 62, Ghanaian-born Saint Vincentian judge in the Caribbean.
• Valeriu Cotea, 89, Romanian oenologist, member of Romanian Academy, cardiac arrest.
• Nade Haley, 68, American artist.
• Levi Karuhanga, 60, Ugandan major general.
• Per-Simon Kildal, 64, Swedish antenna specialist.
• Hans Koschnick, 87, German politician and diplomat, Bremen Senate president and mayor, President of the Bundesrat, MP.
• Marco Leto, 85, Italian film and television director.
• Franz Lorette, 80, Belgian Olympic hockey player
• Lonnie Mack, 74, American singer-guitarist.
• Toshio Mashima, 67, Japanese composer, cancer.
• D. B. Nihalsinghe, 77, Sri Lankan filmmaker.
• Utako Okamoto, 98, Japanese medical scientist.
• Ferenc Paragi, 62, Hungarian Olympic javelin thrower, world record holder.
• Prince, 57, American musician, songwriter and actor, Oscar and Grammy winner, accidental overdose of fentanyl.
• Peter Ruckman, 94, American Independent Baptist pastor.
• Smoke Glacken, 22, American Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the Hopeful Stakes.
• Dene Smuts, 66, South African politician, MP.
• John Walton, Baron Walton of Detchant, 93, British politician, member of the House of Lords.

  22

• David Beresford, 68, British journalist.
• Yvon Charbonneau, 75, Canadian politician, stroke.
• Rudolph Chimelli, 87, German journalist and author.
• Isabelle Dinoire, 49, French mauled woman, first person to undergo a partial face transplant.
• Rex Fell, 71, New Zealand Thoroughbred breeder.
• Ojārs Grīnbergs, 73, Latvian singer, lung cancer.
• Roger Khawam, 94, Egyptian antique dealer and Egyptologist.
• John Lumsden, 55, Scottish footballer.
• Ariffin Mohammed, 74, Malaysian cult leader.
• Robert Price, 83, American attorney and political campaign manager.
• Jory Prum, 41, American audio engineer and video game developer, traffic collision.
• Manfred Rein, 68, Austrian politician.
• Peter Sellers, 94, New Zealand sports broadcaster.
• Soran Singh, Pakistani politician, member of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly, shot.
• Sir Denys Wilkinson, 93, British nuclear physicist.

  23

• Ron Brace, 29, American football player, apparent heart attack.
• Alfons Van den Brande, 88, Belgian cyclist.
• Carla Braan, 54, Dutch Olympic gymnast
• Errol Crossan, 85, Canadian footballer.
• Attila Ferjáncz, 69, Hungarian racing driver, Hungarian Rally champion.
• Luis González Seara, 79, Spanish politician.
• Inge King, 100, German-born Australian sculptor.
• Vjatšeslav Kobrin, 58, Russian guitarist and songwriter.
• Tom Muecke, 52, American CFL player, heart attack.
• Tony Munro, 52, Australian sports journalist, stroke.
• Sir Richard Parsons, 88, British diplomat, Ambassador to Hungary, Spain and Sweden.
• Jacques Perry, 94, French novelist.
• Maurice Peston, Baron Peston, 85, English economist and politician, member of the House of Lords.
• Miguel Picazo, 89, Spanish film director, screenwriter and actor.
• John Steven Satterthwaite, 87, Australian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Lismore.
• Bill Sevesi, 92, Tongan-born New Zealand musician.
• Madeleine Sherwood, 93, Canadian actress.
• Banharn Silpa-archa, 83, Thai politician, Prime Minister, asthma.
• Horace Ward, 88, American judge.
• Paul Hisao Yasuda, 94, Japanese Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Osaka.

  24

• Zafar Ishaq Ansari, 84, Pakistani Islamic scholar, heart attack.
• Paul Annear, 68, New Zealand jeweller.
• Nina Arkhipova, 94, Russian film and stage actress.
• Chen Shilu, 95, Chinese flight mechanic, educator and academician.
• Manuel de la Torre, 94, Spanish-born American golf player and instructor.
• Robert Dolan, 87, American marine geologist.
• Walter Jackson Freeman III, 89, American biologist.
• Perry O. Hooper Sr., 91, American judge, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama.
• Steve Julian, 57, American radio host, brain cancer.
• Kiviaq, 80, Canadian lawyer, politician, boxer and football player, cancer.
• Tommy Kono, 85, American weightlifter, Olympic champion, world champion, complications from liver disease.
• Thinle Lhondup, 72, Nepalese actor, fall.
• Benjamin Manglona, 78, Northern Mariana Islands politician, Lieutenant Governor, stroke.
• Ricardo Torres Origel, 59, Mexican politician.
• Lizette Parker, 44, American politician, Mayor of Teaneck, New Jersey, respiratory illness.
• Billy Paul, 81, American R&B singer, pancreatic cancer.
• George Pieterson, 74, Dutch clarinetist.
• Terry Redlin, 78, American artist, Alzheimer's disease.
• Klaus Siebert, 60, German biathlon athlete and coach, world champion, Olympic silver medalist.
• Papa Wemba, 66, Congolese singer, seizure.
• George Alexis Weymouth, 79, American artist and conservationist, heart failure.

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• Dumitru Antonescu, 71, Romanian footballer.
• Remo Belli, 88, American drummer, developed the synthetic drumhead, complications of pneumonia.
• Joe Blahak, 65, American football player.
• Nicolae Esinencu, 76, Moldovan screenwriter and writer.
• Göte Gåård, 84, Swedish Olympic sports shooter.
• Mel George, 80, American professor and twice interim president of the University of Missouri.
• Martin Gray, 93, Polish Holocaust survivor and writer.
• Michal Hornstein, 95, Polish-born Canadian executive.
• Tom Lewis, 94, Australian politician, Premier of New South Wales.
• Patrick Fabionn Lopes, 35, Brazilian football player, brain aneurysm.
• Xulhaz Mannan, 39, Bangladeshi editor, stabbed.
• Mei Baojiu, 82, Chinese Peking opera artist, bronchospasm.
• Poornima Arvind Pakvasa, 102, Indian social worker.
• Neculai Rățoi, 77, Romanian politician, mayor of Pașcani.
• John Ridsdel, 68, Canadian journalist, businessman and Abu Sayyaf hostage, beheaded.
• Horst Sachs, 89, German mathematician.
• Samantha Schubert, 47, Malaysian actress and beauty queen, Miss Malaysia, pancreatic cancer.
• Rudolf Wessely, 91, Austrian actor.

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• Raymond Casey, 98, British geologist and philatelist.
• Vincent Darius, 60, Grenadian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Saint George's in Grenada, pneumonia.
• Mark Farmer, 53, British actor, cancer.
• Winston Hill, 74, American football player, Super Bowl winner.
• William H. Jarvis, 85, Canadian politician.
• Amanullah Khan, 82, Pakistani Kashmir separatism activist, COPD.
• Lucy Kibaki, 82, Kenyan teacher and socialite, First Lady.
• M. H. Mohamed, 94, Sri Lankan politician.
• Álvaro Pérez Treviño, 85, Mexican politician.
• Peter Propping, 73, German geneticist.
• Ozzie Silna, 83, American basketball owner, cancer.
• Martin Szipál, 91, Hungarian photographer, prostate cancer.
• Masako Togawa, 85, Japanese feminist, singer, actress and novelist.
• Dorothy Warburton, 80, Canadian geneticist.
• James H. Ware, 74, American biostatistician, cancer.
• Willie L. Williams, 72, American police commissioner.
• Harry Wu, 79, Chinese human rights activist, founder of the Laogai Research Foundation.
• Vladimir Yulygin, 80, Russian football player and coach.

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• James Arvaluk, 68, Canadian politician.
• James Carroll, 60, American-born Canadian actor, small cell lung cancer.
• Harold Cohen, 87, British computer artist.
• Angela Flanders, 88, British perfumer.
• Viktor Gavrikov, 58, Lithuanian-Swiss chess Grandmaster.
• Herta Groves, 96, Austrian-born British milliner, traffic collision.
• Philip Kives, 87, Canadian marketing entrepreneur, founder of K-tel.
• Julio Xavier Labayen, 89, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, territorial prelate of Infanta.
• Liu Lianman, 82, Chinese mountain climber, made the first ascent of Muztagh Ata.
• Robert C. Mathis, 88, American air force general.
• Chris Parkinson, 74, New Zealand broadcaster, co-founder of Radio Hauraki.
• Ray Salazar, 85, American politician, Mayor of El Paso, Texas.
• Gabriele Sima, 61, Austrian opera singer.
• Toms, 87, Indian cartoonist.

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• Anderson Agiru, 54, Papua New Guinean politician.
• Óscar Marcelino Álvarez, 67, Argentine footballer.
• Sir Edward Ashmore, 96, British officer in the Royal Navy, First Sea Lord.
• Conrad Burns, 81, American politician, Senator from Montana.
• Enrique Cal Pardo, 93, Spanish priest, teacher and writer.
• Ed Davender, 49, American basketball player.
• Jenny Diski, 68, English writer, lung cancer.
• Joe Durham, 84, American baseball player.
• Igor Fesunenko, 83, Russian journalist, foreign affairs writer and teacher.
• Charles Gatewood, 73, American photographer, suicide by jumping.
• Fredrik Grønningsæter, 92, Norwegian priest, Bishop of Sør-Hålogaland.
• René Hausman, 80, Belgian comic book writer and illustrator.
• Barry Howard, 78, English actor, blood cancer.
• Georg Kronawitter, 88, German politician, Mayor of Munich.
• Ingram Olkin, 91, American statistics professor, colorectal cancer.
• David Page, 55, Australian composer, musical director of Bangarra Dance Theatre.
• Blackie Sherrod, 96, American sportswriter.

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• Tim Bacon, 52, British restaurateur and actor.
• Alyson Bailes, 67, British diplomat, Ambassador to Finland.
• Sherry Cassuto, 59, American Olympic rower.
• Chen Zhongshi, 73, Chinese writer, oral cancer.
• Jok Church, 66, American cartoonist.
• Renato Corona, 67, Filipino jurist, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, complications from a heart attack.
• Patrick Deuel, 54, American reality TV star.
• Bob Fitch, 76, American photojournalist.
• Erediauwa, 92, Nigerian traditional royal, Oba of Benin.
• Dmytro Hnatyuk, 91, Ukrainian baritone opera singer.
• Hilarius Moa Nurak, 73, Indonesian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Pangkal-Pinang.
• Dave Robinson, 67, English footballer.
• Jigdal Dagchen Sakya, 86, Tibetan Buddhist teacher.
• Don White, 89, American stock car racing driver.
• Wojciech Zagórski, 87, Polish actor.

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• Daniel Aaron, 103, American writer and academic, co-founder of the Library of America.
• Michael Edward Ash, 88, British brewer.
• Daniel Berrigan, 94, American Jesuit priest, poet, peace activist and ex-convict.
• Wayne Crawford, 69, American actor, writer and producer.
• Alphonsus F. D'Souza, 76, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Raiganj, heart attack.
• Franco Di Giacomo, 83, Italian cinematographer.
• Marisol Escobar, 85, French-born American sculptor.
• Uwe Friedrichsen, 81, German actor.
• Guido Gillarduzzi, 76, Italian Olympic speed skater
• Fritz Janschka, 97, Austrian-born American artist.
• Sir Harry Kroto, 76, British chemist, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
• Réjean Lafrenière, 80, Canadian politician, member of the Quebec National Assembly.
• Ellen Niit, 87, Estonian children's writer, poet and translator.
• Scott Rains, 59, American travel writer, brain tumor.
• Phil Ryan, 69, Welsh keyboardist.
• Tracy Scott, 46, American script supervisor, cancer.
• Peter Thomas, 91, American narrator.
• Vasily Zvyagintsev, 71, Russian science fiction author.