Deaths in April 2018

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship, reason for notability, cause of death, and reference.

  April 2018

1

• Amsale Aberra, 64, Ethiopian-born American fashion designer, uterine cancer.
• Françoise Adret, 97, French ballerina and choreographer.
• Bob Beattie, 85, American skiing coach and sports commentator.
• Steven Bochco, 74, American television producer and writer, 10-time Emmy winner, leukemia.
• Gil Brealey, 85, Australian film director and producer.
• Ricardo Pedro Chaves Pinto Filho, 79, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Leopoldina and Archbishop of Pouso Alegre.
• Foster Diebold, 85, American academic, President of the University of Alaska system and Edinboro University of Pennsylvania.
• Edward Digby, 12th Baron Digby, 93, British peer and Army officer.
• Gabriel Dover, 80, British geneticist, chest infection.
• Robert F. Gatje, 90, American architect, stroke.
• Kazimierz Gierżod, 81, Polish pianist.
• Almerindo Jaka Jamba, 69, Angolan politician and rebel leader, stroke.
• Etelka Keserű, 92, Hungarian politician, Minister of Light Industry.
• Audrey Morris, 89, American jazz singer and pianist.
• Brian Moynahan, 77, British journalist and historian.
• Vladimir Nakoryakov, 82, Russian physicist, absorptive heat pump theorist.
• Jocelyn Newman, 80, Australian politician, Senator for Tasmania, Minister for Social Security and Family and Community Services, Alzheimer's disease.
• Aimo Nieminen, 77, Finnish Olympic weightlifter.
• John Pretlove, 85, English cricketer.
• C. V. Rajendran, 81, Indian film director.
• Efraín Ríos Montt, 91, Guatemalan military officer and politician, President, heart attack.
• Avichai Rontzki, 66, Israeli general, Chief Military Rabbi of the Israel Defence Forces, colorectal cancer.
• Michel Sénéchal, 91, French tenor.
• Ruth Sonntag Nussenzweig, 89, Austrian-Brazilian immunologist.
• Efraín Trelles, 64, Peruvian historian of Spanish colonialism and sports commentator, heart attack.
• Julia Vargas-Weise, 76, Bolivian photographer, screenwriter, and film director.

  2

• Susan Anspach, 75, American actress, heart failure.
• Clyde Billington Jr., 83, American politician, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives.
• P. L. Thibaut Brian, 87, American chemical engineer.
• Alton Ford, 36, American basketball player, lymphoma.
• Morris Halle, 94, Latvian-born American linguist.
• Claus Heß, 84, German rower.
• Evert Kroon, 71, Dutch water polo player, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Tuiloma Pule Lameko, 83, Samoan politician.
• Connie Lawn, 73, American journalist, longest-serving White House correspondent, Parkinson's disease.
• Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, 81, South African anti-apartheid activist and politician, MP, complications of diabetes.
• Ahmed Janka Nabay, 54, Sierra Leonean Bubu musician.
• Elie Onana, 66, Cameroonian footballer.
• Bill Rademacher, 75, American football player.
• Laura Roslof, 69, American illustrator.
• Fufi Santori, 85, Puerto Rican basketball player and writer.
• Paul Sinibaldi, 96, French footballer.
• Burton Smith, 77, American computer scientist, complications from heart disease.
• Ahmed Khaled Tawfik, 55, Egyptian novelist.
• Wilbur Ternyik, 92, American civic leader and politician.
• Minoru Uchida, 91, Japanese actor.
• Bhai Vaidya, 89, Indian politician.
• Velga Vīlipa, 78, Latvian actress.

  3

• Bujari Ahmed, 65, Sahrawi diplomat and independentism leader, Permanent Representative of Polisario to the UN.
• Ron Dunbar, 78, American songwriter, Grammy winner.
• David Edgerton, 90, American entrepreneur, co-founder of Burger King, complications from surgery.
• David J. Foulis, 87, American mathematician.
• Pam Golding, 89, South African real estate developer.
• Eugene M. Grant, 99, American real estate mogul.
• Mary Hatcher, 88, American actress, bile duct cancer.
• Dale Haupt, 88, American football coach.
• Kelly Lai Chen, 84, Hong Kong actor.
• Lill-Babs, 80, Swedish singer and actress, cancer and heart failure.
• Hashem Mahameed, 73, Israeli politician, member of Knesset.
• Stuart Matchett, 67, Australian broadcaster, cancer.
• Charles McDew, 79, American civil rights activist.
• Arrigo Petacco, 88, Italian journalist and writer.
• Irma Rapuzzi, 107, French politician.
• Jacques Tixier, 93, French archaeologist and prehistorian.
• Tomas Villa, 34, Mexican boxer, traffic collision.

  4

• Ignatius Peter VIII Abdalahad, 87, Syrian Syriac Catholic hierarch, Patriarch of Antioch and all the East.
• Andres Ammas, 56, Estonian politician.
• David Bonetti, 71, American art critic.
• Burt Boyar, 90, American voice actor and author.
• Don Cherry, 94, American singer and golfer.
• Elton Georges, 74, British Virgin Islands politician, Deputy Governor.
• Gertrude Jeannette, 103, American actress.
• Li Zhengyou, 82, Chinese agronomist and politician, Vice-Governor of Yunnan Province.
• John Lynch, 91, British historian of Latin America.
• C. Shannon Mallory, 81, American Anglican prelate, Bishop of Botswana and El Camino Real, leukemia.
• Jim Nielsen, 79, Canadian politician, MLA.
• Soon-Tek Oh, 85, South Korean-American actor, Alzheimer's disease.
• Jonathan Pitre, 17, Canadian advocate for raising awareness of epidermolysis bullosa, complications from septic shock.
• Stuart Pottasch, 86, American astronomer.
• Raobail, 80, Indian cartoonist.
• Joaquín del Real, 76, Spanish Olympic rower
• Leonid Sokov, 76, Russian artist and sculptor.
• Johnny Valiant, 71, American Hall of Fame professional wrestler and manager, traffic collision.
• Clément Vincent, 86, Canadian politician, MP.
• Ron White, 64, Canadian actor, cancer.
• Ray Wilkins, 61, English football player and manager, heart attack.

  5

• Yuriy Abramochkin, 81, Russian photographer and photojournalist.
• Grady Alderman, 79, American football player.
• Eric Bristow, 60, English Hall of Fame darts player, world champion, heart attack.
• George Bryanchaninov, 98, Russian-Australian priest in the Russian Greek Catholic Church.
• Cynthia Chalk, 104, Canadian photographer.
• Charles de Chassiron, 69, British diplomat, cancer.
• Geoffrey M. Footner, 94, American maritime historian, heart failure.
• Dieter Freise, 73, German field hockey player.
• Lars Hall, 79, Swedish advertiser and art director.
• Ajith Kollam, 55, Indian actor, stomach illness.
• Tim O'Connor, 90, American actor, cancer.
• Bolette Sutermeister Petri, 97, Danish-Swiss travel writer.
• Branislav Pokrajac, 71, Serbian handball player, Olympic champion.
• Frederick D. Reese, 88, American civil rights activist.
• Saw O Moo, 42–43, Burmese environmental activist, shot.
• Mete Sozen, 87, Turkish-born American structural engineer.
• Isao Takahata, 82, Japanese film director, producer and screenwriter, co-founder of Studio Ghibli, lung cancer.
• Cecil Taylor, 89, American jazz pianist and poet.
• Jaime Thorne León, 74, Peruvian politician, Minister of Defense.
• Irina Tokmakova, 89, Russian writer.
• Raymonde Vergauwen, 90, Belgian swimmer.

  6

• Daniel Akaka, 93, American educator and politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Hawaii's 2nd district and Senate, organ failure.
• Daniel Chavarría, 84, Uruguayan-born Cuban author.
• Dorothy Garlock, 98, American historical romance author.
• Billy Gustafsson, 70, Swedish politician, MP.
• Jacques Higelin, 77, French pop singer.
• Raj Kishore, 85, Indian actor, heart attack.
• Aleksandr Kurlovich, 56, Belarusian weightlifter, Olympic champion.
• Senteni Masango, 37, Swazi royal, 8th wife of Mswati III of Eswatini.
• Donald McKayle, 87, American dancer and choreographer.
• Colin McLeod, 96, New Zealand civil engineer, Commissioner of Works.
• Yaser Murtaja, 30, Palestinian journalist, shot.
• Pavol Paška, 60, Slovak politician, MP, Speaker of the Slovak National Council.
• Acácio Pereira Magro, 85, Portuguese politician, economist and academic, Minister of Social Affairs and Commerce and Tourism.
• Henryk Skolimowski, 87, Polish philosopher.
• Lewis Van Bergen, 79, American actor.
• Edla Van Steen, 81, Brazilian playwright, actress and journalist.
• Urbano Zea, 49, Mexican swimmer, heart attack.

  7

• Brigitte Ahrenholz, 65, German rower.
• Ai Xing, 93, Chinese mechanical engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
• Agni Vlavianos Arvanitis, 82, American biologist.
• Gerald Ayres, 82, American studio executive and film producer, complications from dementia.
• Munin Barua, 71, Indian film director.
• John D. Biggers, 94–95, British biologist and physiologist.
• Petr Braiko, 98, Soviet soldier, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• Petr Černý, 84, Czechoslovak-born Canadian mineralogist.
• Peter Grünberg, 78, German physicist, co-discoverer of giant magnetoresistance, Nobel Prize laureate.
• Gerd Honsik, 76, Austrian writer and Holocaust denier.
• Li Zhen, 93, Chinese politician, Chairman of the Shandong People's Congress.
• Samuel B. McKinney, 91, American civil rights activist and pastor.
• Ángel Peralta Pineda, 92, Spanish rejoneador, respiratory failure.
• Božidar Smiljanić, 81, Croatian actor.
• Wang Wusheng, 73, Chinese photographer.

  8

• Leila Abashidze, 88, Georgian actress, film director and screenwriter, stroke.
• Tate Adams, 96, Australian printmaker.
• António Barros, 68, Portuguese footballer.
• William Sperry Beinecke, 103, American philanthropist.
• Nathan Davis, 81, American jazz musician.
• Michael Goolaerts, 23, Belgian racing cyclist, heart attack.
• Juraj Herz, 83, Czech film director, actor, writer and scenic designer.
• Barbora Horáčková, 49, Czech archer.
• Efraín Jara Idrovo, 92, Ecuadorian writer and existentialist poet, Premio Eugenio Espejo.
• Viacheslav Koleichuk, 77, Russian sound artist.
• Fjodor Koltšin, 61, Estonian skier.
• Sir Peter Le Cheminant, 97, British air chief marshal, Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey.
• André Lerond, 87, French footballer.
• Chuck McCann, 83, American voice actor, heart failure.
• Joe McConnell, 79, American sports announcer.
• John Miles, 74, British racing driver, complications from a stroke.
• Gunnar Persson, 84, Swedish cartoonist.
• Guy Lyon Playfair, 83, British author and paranormal researcher.
• Óscar Saavedra San Martín, 77, Bolivian physicist, astrophysic and academic.

  9

• Fredy Brupbacher, 83, Swiss Olympic alpine skier
• Felix Chen, 75, Taiwanese conductor.
• Pierre Descoteaux, 66, Canadian lawyer and politician.
• Liam Devally, 85, Irish singer, television presenter and lawyer.
• Barney A. Ebsworth, 83, American business executive and art collector.
• Jonathan M. Hess, 52, American philologist, aneurysm.
• Jigjidiin Mönkhbat, 76, Mongolian wrestler, Olympic silver medalist.
• Ira Philip, 92, Bermudian writer and politician.
• Silviniaco Conti, 12, French racehorse, team chasing accident.
• Kimberly G. Smith, 69, American biologist.
• Felipe Tejeda García, 83, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of México.

  10

• Alex Beckett, 35, English actor, suicide by hanging.
• Danarto, 76, Indonesian writer and artist.
• John Dlugos, 89, Canadian football player.
• F'Murr, 72, French comics artist.
• Samir Gharbo, 93, Egyptian water polo player.
• Viliam Karmažin, 95, Slovak composer and conductor.
• Andre de Krayewski, 84, Polish-American graphic artist.
• John Lambie, 77, Scottish football player and manager.
• Li Dawei, 47, Chinese director, intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma.
• Li Yaowen, 99, Chinese admiral and diplomat, Political Commissar of the PLA Navy.
• Jean Marzollo, 75, American children's author.
• J. D. McClatchy, 72, American poet, cancer.
• Fergie McCormick, 78, New Zealand rugby union player, throat cancer.
• Richard Muth, 90, American economist, gallbladder cancer.
• Alastair Rellie, 83, British intelligence officer.
• Matthew Stark, 88, American civil rights activist.
• Sauro Tomà, 92, Italian football player.
• Wu Nansheng, 95, Chinese politician, party chief of Shenzhen.
• Yang Gui, 89, Chinese politician, chief designer of the Red Flag Canal.

  11

• Gillian Ayres, 88, British abstract artist.
• Jim Caine, 91, Manx jazz pianist and radio presenter.
• Karen Dawisha, 68, American political scientist and writer, lung cancer.
• Bruce M. Fischer, 82, American actor.
• Jumana El Husseini, 86, Palestinian artist.
• Li Tian, 79, Chinese physicist and aircraft designer.
• Jorge Lozada Stanbury, 87, Peruvian agricultural engineer and politician, Member of the Congress, constituent deputy and Speaker of the Senate.
• Robert Matthews, 56, British athlete, Paralympic champion, brain tumor.
• Patrick F. McManus, 84, American writer.
• Mauro Panaggio, 90, American basketball coach.
• Polixeni Papapetrou, 57, Australian photographer, breast cancer.
• Phillip Pipersburg, 62, Belizean Olympic sprinter.
• Theo Ramos, 89, Spanish-born British painter.
• Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber, 100, French politician and journalist, MP.
• Mitzi Shore, 87, American comedy club owner, Parkinson's disease.
• Zola Skweyiya, 75, South African politician, Minister of Public Service and Administration and Social Development, High Commissioner to the UK.
• Carmen Stănescu, 92, Romanian actress, cardiopulmonary arrest.
• Alexander Welsh, 84, American literary scholar.
• Kevin Wortman, 49, American ice hockey player.

  12

• Gyula Babos, 68, Hungarian jazz guitarist.
• Heinrich Brändli, 79, Swiss engineer.
• Giuliano Cenci, 86, Italian animated film director, injuries due to a fall.
• Naseem Mirza Changezi, 108, Indian independence activist.
• Ronald Chesney, 97, British comedy screenwriter.
• Deborah Coleman, 61, American blues musician, complications from bronchitis and pneumonia.
• Stuart Devlin, 86, Australian goldsmith.
• Irwin Gage, 78, American pianist.
• Carlos Enrique Gómez Centurión, 93, Argentine politician, geologist and diplomat, Governor of San Juan.
• Hu Chengzhi, 100, Chinese palaeontologist and palaeoanthropologist, discoverer of Keichousaurus.
• Rafael Grossman, 84, American rabbi.
• Brij Bhushan Kabra, 81, Indian classical slide guitar player.
• Juozas Karvelis, 83, Lithuanian politician, co-signatory of the Act of the Re-Establishment.
• Takeda Kiyoko, 100, Japanese scholar.
• Zoran Krasić, 62, Serbian politician, Minister of Trade.
• Alan Lloyd, 91, British writer and journalist.
• Oliver Lozano, 77, Filipino lawyer and politician.
• Nestor Mata, 92, Filipino journalist.
• John Melcher, 93, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Montana's 2nd district and Senate.
• Neil Nugent, 91, British field hockey player, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Len Okrie, 94, American baseball player and coach.
• Bob Pickens, 75, American wrestler and football player.
• Sergio Pitol, 85, Mexican novelist and translator, Miguel de Cervantes Prize, aphasia.
• Dame Daphne Sheldrick, 83, Kenyan-British conservationist, breast cancer.

  13

• Yogesh Atal, 80, Indian sociologist.
• Art Bell, 72, American author and radio host, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
• Zbigniew Bujarski, 84, Polish composer.
• Cesarino Cervellati, 88, Italian football player and manager.
• Ron Cooper, 79, English footballer.
• Barrie Dexter, 96, Australian diplomat and public servant.
• J. Harold Ellens, 84, American psychologist and theologian.
• Walter Fink, 87, German entrepreneur and music patron.
• Miloš Forman, 86, Czech-American film director, Oscar winner.
• Joy Laville, 94, English-Mexican artist, National Prize for Arts and Sciences.
• André Maman, 90, French politician and Romance philologist, Senator.
• William Nack, 77, American journalist and author.
• Tata Subba Rao, 75–76, Indian-born British statistician.
• Lidia Redondo de Lucas, 52, Spanish librist and politician, Senator.
• Marc Rowell, 80, Australian politician, member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Hinchinbrook.
• Clive Stanbrook, 70, British barrister.
• Fernando Tamayo Tamayo, 68, Colombian economist and politician, MP and Senator, cancer.
• Gus Weill, 85, American political writer and strategist.

  14

• Rajendra Bhalekar, 66, Indian cricketer, multiple organ failure.
• Isabella Biagini, 74, Italian actress, complications from a stroke.
• Colin Bland, 80, South African cricketer.
• Frank Bren, 74, Australian actor and playwright.
• David Buckel, 60, American LGBT rights lawyer, suicide by fire.
• Daedra Charles, 49, American basketball player, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Hal Greer, 81, American Hall of Fame basketball player, NBA champion.
• Sam Hamill, 74, American poet and publisher.
• Michael D. Healy, 91, American military officer.
• Robert Holmes, 72, American football player.
• Ram Kumar, 93, Indian artist.
• Jean-Claude Malgoire, 77, French conductor.
• Jon Michelet, 73, Norwegian author, cancer.
• Gerald Nachman, 80, American journalist and author.
• Roger G. Newton, 93, German-born American physicist.
• Stan Reynolds, 92, British jazz musician.
• Armando Salgado, 80, Mexican photographer and photojournalist, pancreatic cancer.
• Neil Shand, 84, British comedy writer and journalist.
• Kirk Simon, 63, American documentarian, Oscar winner, cardiac arrest.
• André Sterling, 94, Belgian civil engineer.

  15

• Hadassa Ben-Itto, 91, Polish-born Israeli judge and writer.
• Bob Braden, 84, American computer scientist.
• Rinaldo Fidel Brédice, 85, Argentine Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Santa Rosa.
• Philip D'Antoni, 89, American film producer, Oscar winner.
• Frank Drowota, 79, American judge, Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court.
• R. Lee Ermey, 74, American actor and military drill instructor, complications from pneumonia.
• Michael Halliday, 93, English-born Australian linguist.
• Beatrix Hamburg, 94, American psychiatrist, Alzheimer's disease.
• Luise Hercus, 92, German-born Australian linguist.
• Judy Kennedy, 73, American politician, Mayor of Newburgh, New York, ovarian cancer.
• Kenneth Matiba, 85, Kenyan politician, MP.
• Boki Milošević, 86, Serbian clarinetist.
• Miriam Naveira, 83, Puerto Rican jurist, first woman Associate Justice and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
• George Oster, 77, American biologist.
• Domenico Pittella, 86, Italian politician, Senator, complications from a broken hip.
• Edward Diego Reyes, 88, Guamanian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Guam.
• Neena Schwartz, 91, American endocrinologist.
• Waqar Ahmad Shah, 74, Indian politician, MLA.
• Frank Skartados, 62, Greek-born American politician, member of the New York State Assembly, pancreatic cancer.
• Vittorio Taviani, 88, Italian film director.
• Stefano Zappalà, 77, Italian politician, MEP, respiratory failure.
• H. Dieter Zeh, 85, German theoretical physicist.

  16

• Harry Anderson, 65, American actor and magician, stroke.
• Gustav Victor Rudolf Born, 96, German-born British pharmacologist.
• Vic Bubas, 91, American college basketball coach.
• Carlos Chasseing, 91, Argentine politician, De facto Federal Interventor of Córdoba.
• Choi Eun-hee, 91, South Korean actress.
• Florea Dumitrescu, 91, Romanian politician and diplomat, Minister of Finance, Governor of the National Bank.
• Sir Roger Elliott, 89, British theoretical physicist.
• Beverley Farmer, 77, Australian novelist and short story writer.
• Giant's Causeway, 21, American racehorse.
• Pamela Gidley, 52, American actress and model.
• Earl B. Gustafson, 90, American judge and politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives, dementia.
• Ken Hottman, 69, American baseball player.
• Henri Landwirth, 91, Belgian hotelier and philanthropist, founder of Give Kids the World Village.
• Dona Ivone Lara, 97, Brazilian singer and composer.
• Lü Chuanzan, 85, Chinese politician, Chairman of Hebei Provincial People's Congress.
• Ivan Mauger, 78, New Zealand motorcycle speedway rider, world champion.
• Matthew Mellon, 54, American billionaire investor, heart attack.
• Napsiah Omar, 74, Malaysian politician, liver cancer.
• Alejandro Rojas Wainer, 73, Chilean politician and academic, President of University of Chile Student Federation and deputy.
• Sax Man, 65, American street saxophonist.
• Paul Singer, 86, Austrian-born Brazilian economist, co-founder of Partido dos Trabalhadores.
• Lynn A. Stout, 60, American legal scholar, cancer.
• Rein Tölp, 76, Estonian middle-distance runner.
• Martin J. Whitman, 93, American investment advisor.

  17

• John Amirante, 83, American anthem singer.
• Rosemary Bamforth, 93, British pathologist and code breaker.
• Big Tom, 81, Irish country music singer.
• Barbara Bush, 92, American political matriarch, First Lady and Second Lady, complications from COPD and heart failure.
• Joan Chase, 81, American novelist.
• Gérard Desanghere, 70, Belgian footballer.
• Ken Dolan, 75, American journalist and broadcaster, cancer.
• Dick Fichtner, 78, American college basketball coach.
• David Edward Foley, 88, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Birmingham, bone cancer.
• Peter Guidi, 68, Italian jazz saxophonist and flutist, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.
• Marcia Hafif, 88, American artist.
• Carl Kasell, 84, American radio journalist and quiz show judge, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Amoroso Katamsi, 79, Indonesian actor.
• Nils Malmer, 89, Swedish ecologist.
• Richard Oldenburg, 84, Swedish museum curator, Director of the Museum of Modern Art.
• Vel Phillips, 94, American attorney and politician, Secretary of State of Wisconsin.
• Philibert Randriambololona, 90, Malagasy Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Antsirabé and Archbishop of Fianarantsoa.
• Karl Rawer, 104, German physicist.
• Judith Révész, 102, Hungarian-Dutch potter and sculptor.
• Randy Scruggs, 64, American music producer, songwriter and guitarist, multiple Grammy winner.
• T. V. R. Shenoy, 76, Indian journalist.
• Maurice Sion, 90, Yugoslav-born American-Canadian mathematician.

  18

• Karl Wolfgang Boer, 92, German-born American physicist.
• Robert F. Chapman, 91, American judge.
• Kevin Colson, 80, Australian actor.
• Jean Flori, 82, French medieval historian.
• Grigory Gamarnik, 88, Soviet-born Ukrainian wrestler.
• Jerry Green, 79, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly.
• John Hope, 47, American baseball player.
• Paul Jones, 75, American professional wrestler and manager.
• Joan Konner, 87, American academic and journalist, Dean of the Columbia School of Journalism, leukemia.
• Luisa Pastor Lillo, 69, Spanish politician, President of Province of Alicante and Mayor of Sant Vicent del Raspeig, cancer.
• Howard Sachar, 90, American historian.
• Bruno Sammartino, 82, Italian-American Hall of Fame professional wrestler, longest-reigning Heavyweight Champion, multiple organ failure.
• Joël Santoni, 74, French film director and screenwriter.
• Willibald Sauerländer, 94, German art historian.
• Henk Schouten, 86, Dutch footballer.
• James Whelan, 81, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
• Jeanne Wilson, 92, American swimmer.
• Dale Winton, 62, English radio DJ and television presenter.

  19

• Graciela Agudelo, 72, Mexican pianist and composer.
• Allan Campbell, 88, American microbiologist.
• Evžen Čermák, 85, Czech Olympic alpine skier.
• Dharam Pal Choudhary, 66, Indian politician, liver disease.
• Stuart Colman, 73, English musician, record producer and broadcaster, cancer.
• John Duffie, 72, American baseball player.
• Darrell Eastlake, 75, Australian television presenter and sports commentator, Alzheimer's disease and emphysema.
• Arnold Eidslott, 91, Norwegian poet.
• Joseph Hoover, 85, American actor.
• Cornelius Jakobs, 93, Estonian Russian Orthodox hierarch, Metropolitan Bishop of Tallinn and all Estonia.
• Zacharias Jimenez, 70, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Pagadian and Auxiliary Bishop of Butuan.
• Soso Lorho, 79, Indian politician.
• Vladimir Lyakhov, 76, Ukrainian-born Russian cosmonaut.
• Pepe Mediavilla, 77, Spanish voice actor.
• Luis Montes Mieza, 68-69, Spanish anesthetist and pro-euthanasia activist, heart attack.
• Walter Moody, 83, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Herbert Pilch, 91, German linguist and celtologist.
• Saleh Ali al-Sammad, 39, Yemeni politician, President of the Houthi Supreme Political Council, air strike.
• Gil Santos, 80, American sportscaster.
• Agnès-Marie Valois, 103, French nun and World War II nurse.
• Abraham Viruthakulangara, 74, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Khandwa and Archbishop of Nagpur.

  20

• George Alusik, 83, American baseball player.
• Avicii, 28, Swedish electronic musician, DJ and record producer, suicide by exsanguination.
• Roy Bentley, 93, English footballer.
• Eddie Blackburn, 61, English footballer.
• Earle Bruce, 87, American football coach, Alzheimer's disease.
• Leopoldo Cantancio, 54, Filipino boxer, Asian Games silver and bronze medalist, traffic collision.
• Khurshid Drabu, 72, Indian-born English judge and Muslim community leader.
• Pedro Erquicia, 75, Spanish journalist.
• Bob Gale, 84, English cricketer.
• Anne Gibson, Baroness Gibson of Market Rasen, 77, British trade unionist and life peer.
• Grace Jelagat Kipchoim, 56, Kenyan politician, member of the National Assembly, cancer.
• James Ajongo Mawut, 57, South Sudanese army commander.
• Nie Bichu, 90, Chinese politician, mayor of Tianjin.
• John Petercuskie, 93, American football coach.
• Rajinder Sachar, 94, Indian judge.
• James F. Sirmons, 100, American broadcasting executive.
• John Stride, 81, British actor.
• Pavel Šrut, 78, Czech poet, writer and translator.
• Al Swift, 82, American broadcaster and politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Washington's 2nd district, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
• Shane Yarran, 28, Australian footballer, suicide.
• Charles Zwick, 91, American civil servant, Director of the Bureau of the Budget.

  21

• Fadi Mohammad al-Batsh, 35, Palestinian engineer and academic, shot.
• Anwara Begum, 83, Bangladeshi academic and First Lady.
• Zoran Bojović, 81–82, Serbian architect.
• Pierre Ceyrac, 71, French politician, MEP.
• Nina Doroshina, 83, Russian actress.
• William F. Dowd, 74, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly.
• Dee Hardison, 61, American football player.
• Robert Kates, 89, American geographer.
• Firmin Le Bourhis, 67, French author, heart attack.
• Jim Miceli, 83, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, heart attack.
• Les Pearce, 94, Welsh rugby league player and coach.
• Desmond Saunders, 91, British film and television director.
• Nelson Pereira dos Santos, 89, Brazilian filmmaker, liver cancer.
• Nabi Tajima, 117, Japanese supercentenarian, world's oldest living person and last living verified person born in the 19th century.
• Huguette Tourangeau, 79, Canadian operatic mezzo-soprano.
• Verne Troyer, 49, American actor, suicide by alcohol overconsumption.
• Paul Younger, 55, British hydrogeologist and environmental engineer.

  22

• Wakil Hussain Allahdad, 32, Afghan wrestler, bombing.
• Keith Ashfield, 66, Canadian politician, MP and MLA.
• Demeter Bitenc, 95, Slovenian actor.
• Wiam Dahmani, 34, Moroccan singer and actress, heart attack.
• Per K. Enge, 64, Norwegian-born American engineer.
• Roy Haggerty, 58, English rugby league player.
• Ken Hofmann, 95, American businessman and sports team owner.
• Richard Jenrette, 89, American investor, cancer.
• Gary Jordan, 76, English rugby league footballer.
• Nino Khurtsidze, 42, Georgian Grandmaster chess player, International Master, cancer.
• Dave Nelson, 73, American baseball player and broadcaster, liver cancer.
• Ivan Neumyvakin, 89, Russian physician.
• Balantrapu Rajanikanta Rao, 98, Indian writer, composer and musicologist.
• Charlie Rice, 98, American jazz drummer.
• Kona Schwenke, 25, American football player.
• Hoyt Patrick Taylor Jr., 94, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina.

  23

• Liri Belishova, 91, Albanian politician and resistance member during World War II.
• Don Bustany, 89, American radio and television broadcaster.
• Bennie Cunningham, 63, American football player, cancer.
• Haddon Donald, 101, New Zealand Army lieutenant colonel and politician, MP for Wairarapa.
• Bob Dorough, 94, American pianist, singer and composer.
• Lyall Hanson, 88, Canadian politician.
• Isamu Imoto, 92, Japanese politician, Governor of Saga Prefecture.
• Sachio Kinugasa, 71, Japanese baseball player, colon cancer.
• Gennady Leonov, 71, Russian mathematician and mechanic.
• Béla Magyari, 68, Hungarian air force colonel.
• Patrick James McGlinchey, 89, Irish Roman Catholic missionary, myocardial infarction and kidney failure.
• Jerrold Meinwald, 91, American chemist.
• Alice Provensen, 99, American children's illustrator and writer.
• Arthur B. Rubinstein, 80, American composer, cancer.
• Bob Schermerhorn, 75, American college basketball coach.
• Art Simmons, 92, American jazz pianist, stomach cancer.
• Doreen Simmons, 85, British sumo wrestling commentator.
• Arthur R.G. Solmssen, 89, American novelist.
• Edward W. Tayler, 87, American literary scholar.
• Henk Temming, 94, Dutch footballer.
• Vladimír Weiss, 78, Slovak footballer, Olympic silver medalist.
• Barrie Williams, 79, British football coach and manager.
• Leland B. Yeager, 93, American economist.

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• Belal Chowdhury, 79, Bangladeshi poet.
• Angelos Delivorrias, 80, Greek art historian and academic, Director of Benaki Museum and member of the Academy of Athens.
• Rick Dickinson, 61, British industrial designer, cancer.
• Arthur Eustace, 92, New Zealand sprinter, British Empire Games bronze medalist, and sports administrator.
• Victor Garaigordóbil Berrizbeitia, 102, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Los Rios.
• Dinu C. Giurescu, 91, Romanian historian.
• Paul Gray, 54, Australian musician, myeloma.
• Christine Jewitt, 91, Canadian baseball player.
• Henri Michel, 70, French football player and coach.
• Hariton Pushwagner, 77, Norwegian artist.
• Marv Rackley, 96, American baseball player.
• Quentin Sickels, 91, American football player.
• Leszek Skorupa, 66, Polish Olympic weightlifter
• Emma Smith, 94, English author.
• André Tarallo, 92, French businessman.
• Susan Williams, 66, American marine biologist, traffic collision.

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• Abbas, 74, Iranian photographer.
• Shuhrat Abbosov, 87, Uzbek actor, film director, screenwriter and film producer.
• Adebayo Adedeji, 87, Nigerian politician and diplomat.
• Laura Aguilar, 58, American photographer, complications from diabetes.
• Michael Anderson, 98, British film director, heart disease.
• Rolla Anderson, 97, American football and basketball player and coach.
• Dick Bate, 71, English football player and manager.
• Bill Brown, 92, American track athlete, Pan-American champion.
• Margo Buchanan-Oliver, New Zealand academic.
• Paul N. Carlin, 86, American businessman, Postmaster General, bronchitis and pneumonia.
• Gregorio Casal, 82, Mexican actor.
• Jacquelyn Crowell, 30, American racing cyclist, brain cancer.
• David Edwards, 89, British Anglican priest, Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons, Dean of Norwich, Provost of Southwark.
• Madeeha Gauhar, 61, Pakistani actress and founder of Ajoka Theatre, cancer.
• Yeshayahu Hadari, 84, Israeli rabbi, first rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat HaKotel.
• Bjørn Hansen, 79, Norwegian football coach.
• Inuka, 27, Singaporean polar bear, first born in the tropics, euthanized by anaesthesia.
• Kato Khandwala, 47, American record producer, injuries sustained in traffic collision.
• Hans-Reinhard Koch, 88, German Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Erfurt.
• Jerry L. Larson, 81, American judge, Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court.
• Edith MacArthur, 92, Scottish actress.
• Steven Marcus, 89, American literary critic and scholar.
• Alberto Marson, 93, Brazilian basketball player, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Cveto Pretnar, 61, Slovenian ice hockey player.
• Bill Stokes, 89, American college basketball coach.
• M. S. Rajeswari, 86, Indian playback singer.
• Anam Vivekananda Reddy, 67, Indian politician, MLA for Nellore Rural, prostate cancer.
• Donald Seldin, 97, American nephrologist.

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• Jean Duprat, 81, French politician, member of the National Assembly.
• A. Theodore Eastman, 89, American Episcopal preslate, Bishop of Maryland, Parkinson's disease.
• Philip H. Hoff, 93, American politician, Governor of Vermont.
• Yoshinobu Ishii, 79, Japanese football player and manager.
• Shamsul Islam, 86, Bangladeshi politician, Minister of Information.
• Félix Mata, 67, Venezuelan Olympic sprinter.
• Sean McPherson, 47, American politician, member of the South Dakota House of Representatives, cancer.
• David Mitchell, 77, New Zealand architect.
• Charles Neville, 79, American saxophonist, Grammy winner, pancreatic cancer.
• Jordan Nikolić, 84, Serbian folk singer.
• Henk Numan, 62, Dutch judoka.
• Elvira Orphée, 95, Argentine writer, Guggenheim Fellow.
• Gianfranco Parolini, 93, Italian film director.
• Pierre Plateau, 94, French Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Bourges.
• Donald Whitton, 94, Canadian concert cellist and teacher.
• Wolfgang Zapf, 81, German sociologist.

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• Álvaro Arzú, 72, Guatemalan politician, President, Mayor of Guatemala City, heart attack.
• Yukiji Asaoka, 80, Japanese actress, Alzheimer's disease.
• Earl Balfour, 85, Canadian ice hockey player, cancer.
• Livio Besso Cordero, 70, Italian politician, Senator.
• Donald Keats, 88, American composer.
• Maya Kuliyeva, 97, Turkmen operatic soprano and actress.
• Michael Luscombe, 64, Australian chief executive, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.
• George Mulhall, 81, Scottish football player and manager.
• Kristin Nelson, 72, American actress, painter and author, heart attack.
• Juan Carlos Olivas, 34, Mexican actor, cancer.
• Paul Junger Witt, 77, American film and television producer, cancer.
• Bernard Woma, 51, Ghanaian gyile player.
• Roy Young, 83, British singer and pianist.

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• Roberto Angleró, 88, Puerto Rican music composer and singer.
• James H. Cone, 81, American Methodist theologian.
• Larry Harvey, 70, American artist, philanthropist and activist, founder of the Burning Man festival, complications from a stroke.
• James Hylton, 83, American stock car racing driver and race team owner, traffic collision.
• Akhumzi Jezile, 29, South African television presenter and actor, traffic collision.
• Eric Koch, 98, German-born Canadian author, broadcaster and academic.
• Gerson Leiber, 96, American painter, heart attack.
• Judith Leiber, 97, Hungarian-born American fashion designer and businesswoman, Holocaust survivor.
• Ramón López Carrozas, 80, Spanish-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop and Bishop of Bom Jesus do Gurguéia.
• Tetsuro Miura, 62, Japanese football player and manager, lung cancer.
• Art Paul, 93, American graphic designer, pneumonia.
• Montse Pérez, 61, Spanish actress.
• Carlos del Pozo, 75, Cuban basketball player
• Russell Renfrey, 94, Australian football player.
• Agildo Ribeiro, 86, Brazilian actor.
• Art Shay, 96, American photographer and writer, heart failure.
• Yevgeny Titarenko, 82, Russian writer.
• Karl Toft, 81, Canadian sex offender, lung cancer.
• Bruce Tulloh, 82, British athlete, European champion, cancer.

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• Richard L. Collins, 84, American aviation journalist.
• Ewa Dyakowska-Berbeka, 61, Polish painter and graphic and stage designer.
• Luis García Meza, 88, Bolivian general and politician, President, heart attack.
• Derek Keys, 86, South African executive and politician, Minister of Finance.
• Rose Laurens, 65, French singer-songwriter.
• Robert Mandan, 86, American actor.
• Michael Martin, Baron Martin of Springburn, 72, British politician, MP and Speaker of the House of Commons.
• Andrzej Orłoś, 84, Polish Olympic equestrian.
• Lester James Peries, 99, Sri Lankan film producer, director, and screenwriter.
• Jan Salter, 82, British artist and animal sanctuary keeper.
• Reginald C. Stuart, 74, Canadian historian.
• Aaron Traywick, 28, American life extension activist, drowned.

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• Tim Calvert, 52, American rock guitarist, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Jan Cameron, 71, Australian swimmer and coach, Olympic silver and Commonwealth Games triple medalist.
• Geneviève Claisse, 82, French abstract painter.
• Manfredo do Carmo, 89, Brazilian mathematician.
• Elisa Izaurralde, 58, Uruguayan biochemist.
• Anatole Katok, 73, Russian-born American mathematician.
• Joel Kovel, 81, American environmentalist and anti-war activist.
• Idris Hasan Latif, 94, Indian military officer, Chief of Air Staff.
• Terry Mackenroth, 68, Australian politician, Deputy Premier of Queensland, lung cancer.
• Shah Marai, 40, Afghan photojournalist, bombing.
• Jhoon Goo Rhee, 86, South Korean taekwondo practitioner.
• Gajendra Narayan Singh, Indian musicologist.
• Naresh Sohal, 78, Indian composer.
• Ralph Stephan, 89, American rower.
• Sir John Treacher, 93, British Royal Navy Admiral, Commander-in-Chief Fleet.
• David Wiegand, 70, American journalist.