Deaths in August 2017

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship, what subject was noted for, cause of death, and reference.

  August 2017

1

• Ana-Maria Avram, 55, Romanian composer.
• Sir Patrick Bateson, 79, English biologist, Provost of King's College, Cambridge.
• Pushpa Mittra Bhargava, 89, Indian scientist, writer, and administrator.
• Sir John Blelloch, 86, British civil servant, Permanent Secretary at the Northern Ireland Office.
• Jeffrey Brotman, 74, American businessman, co-founder of Costco, heart failure.
• Hans Fahsl, 75, German Olympic athlete.
• Ian Graham, 93, British Mayanist.
• Daniel James III, 71, American Lieutenant General, Director of the Air National Guard, heart failure.
• Jaroslav Konečný, 72, Czechoslovak Olympic handball player.
• Alfie Lorenzo, 78, Filipino talent manager, heart failure.
• Mariann Mayberry, 52, American actress, ovarian cancer.
• Goldy McJohn, 72, Canadian keyboardist, heart attack.
• Harunur Rashid Khan Monno, 84, Bangladeshi industrialist and politician, MP.
• Bud Moore, 75, American racing driver.
• Phil Muntz, 83, Canadian-born American aerospace engineer, physicist and Canadian football player.
• Shōgorō Nishimura, 87, Japanese film director.
• John Reaves, 67, American football player.
• Diana Reynell, 83, English grotto designer.
• Patrick Thomas, 85, Australian conductor.
• Eric Zumbrunnen, 52, American film editor, cancer.

  2

• Tore Bøgh, 93, Norwegian diplomat, Ambassador to Yugoslavia and Portugal.
• David Caldwell, 85, Scottish footballer.
• Wanda Chotomska, 87, Polish children's author and screenwriter.
• Tony Cohen, 60, Australian record producer.
• Sir Alcon Copisarow, 97, British civil servant and management consultant.
• Santosh Mohan Dev, 83, Indian politician, Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises.
• Robin Eady, 76, British dermatologist.
• Alexander Gerasimenko, 71, Belarusian diplomat and politician, Mayor of Minsk.
• Marshall Goldman, 87, American economist.
• Sir John Graham, 82, New Zealand rugby union player, sports administrator, and educator, cancer.
• Duke Harris, 75, Canadian ice hockey player, complications from heart surgery.
• David Ince, 96, British WWII RAF officer.
• Judith Jones, 93, American book editor and publishing proponent.
• Leonard H. Lavin, 97, American businessman and racehorse owner.
• Daniel Licht, 60, American soundtrack composer and musician, sarcoma.
• Jim Marrs, 73, American journalist, author, and conspiracy theorist, heart attack.
• Rosemary Reed Miller, 78, American historian and boutique owner.
• Ara Parseghian, 94, American football player and coach.
• Paul Renton, 54, New Zealand rugby union player.
• Erich Schwandt, 82, Canadian musician and musicologist.
• Shen Daren, 89, Chinese politician, Communist Party Chief of Ningxia and Jiangsu.
• Ely Tacchella, 81, Swiss football player.
• Graham Wiltshire, 86, English cricket player and coach.

  3

• Émile Belcourt, 91, Canadian operatic tenor.
• Giovanni Benedetti, 100, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Foligno.
• David James Bowen, 91, Welsh academic.
• Claudia Pinza Bozzolla, 92, Argentine-born American opera singer and teacher.
• Kevin Carton, 83, Australian Olympic hockey player
• Ladislav Čisárik, 63, Slovak heraldic artist, co-designed the national coat of arms and flag.
• Jacques Daoust, 69, Canadian politician, Québec Minister for Transport and MNA.
• Bonaventura Duda, 93, Croatian Franciscan friar and theologian.
• Richard Dudman, 99, American journalist.
• Hans Fahsl, 75, German Olympic athlete
• Ty Hardin, 87, American actor ''.
• Robert Hardy, 91, British actor.
• Julia Harrison, 97, American politician and activist, cancer.
• Garry Hart, Baron Hart of Chilton, 77, British life peer, member of the House of Lords, cancer.
• Dickie Hemric, 83, American basketball player.
• Souad Al-Humaidhi, 78, Kuwaiti businesswoman, banker and real estate developer.
• Eberhard von Koerber, 79, German manager, Chairman of World Organization of the Scout Movement and Co-President of Club of Rome.
• Laurent Lavigne, 81, Canadian politician, MNA.
• Dejan Miladinović, 68, Serbian opera director.
• Ángel Nieto, 70, Spanish motorcycle racing driver, winner of 13 Grand Prix World Championships, cerebral edema.
• Iwao Ōtani, 98, Japanese film recording engineer.
• Alan Peckolick, 76, American graphic designer.
• Ioan Popa, 64, Romanian Olympic fencer.
• Çetin Şahiner, 82, Turkish Olympic hurdler.
• Chandra Sathe, 69, Indian cricket umpire.

  4

• Émile Baffert, 92, French racing cyclist.
• Richard Bonney, 70, English historian and priest.
• Laurie Brokenshire, 64, English Royal Navy officer and magician, brain cancer.
• Erling Brøndum, 87, Danish journalist and politician, Minister of Defence.
• Gene Brown, 91, American professor emeritus.
• Raffaele Calabro, 77, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Andria.
• Bruno Canfora, 92, Italian jazz composer, conductor and music arranger.
• John Frame, 86, Canadian Anglican prelate, Bishop of Yukon⋅.
• Chuck Hay, 87, Scottish curler, world champion.
• Angel G. Jordan, 86, Spanish-born American computer engineer.
• Walter Levin, 92, German-born American violinist.
• Luiz Melodia, 66, Brazilian actor, singer and songwriter, bone marrow cancer.
• Reijo Puiras, 65, Canadian Olympic cross-country skier.
• Waldemar Schreckenberger, 87, German lawyer, jurist and politician, Minister of Justice and Chancellery Chief of Staff.
• Jessy Serrata, 63, American Tejano musician, kidney cancer.
• Bogusław Wolniewicz, 89, Polish philosopher, professor and journalist.

  5

• Dame Helen Alexander, 60, British businesswoman, President of CBI, Chairwoman of PLA and Chancellor of University of Southampton, cancer.
• Irina Berezhna, 36, Ukrainian politician, People's Deputy, traffic collision.
• Ralph Biasi, 69, Brazilian politician, Mayor of Americana and Minister for Science and Technology.
• Lee Blakeley, 45, British opera and theatre director, heart attack.
• Patricia Bridges, 95, Australian golfer.
• Joe Cilia, 79, Maltese footballer.
• Martin Clark, 78, British historian of Italy, complications of Parkinson's disease.
• Theodore Frankel, 88, American mathematician.
• Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, 94, Dutch-born American art historian.
• Doug Insole, 91, English cricketer.
• Wojciech Krzemiński, 84, Polish astronomer.
• Roy Lunn, 92, American automotive engineer, stroke.
• Hélène Martini, 92, French nightclub owner.
• Christian Millau, 88, French food critic and author.
• Richard O'Brien, 60, American television director, complications from injuries sustained in traffic collision.
• William S. Patout III, 84, American sugar executive.
• Marcelino Perelló Valls, 73, Mexican activist and journalist.
• Doug Shave, 70, Australian politician, member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly.
• George Bundy Smith, 80, American lawyer and judge, New York Supreme Court and Court of Appeals.
• Dionigi Tettamanzi, 83, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Milan, Genoa, and Ancona-Osimo.
• Mark White, 77, American politician, Governor of Texas, Attorney General of Texas, heart attack.
• Ernst Zündel, 78, German Holocaust denial publisher and pamphleteer.

  6

• Wolfgang H. Berger, 79, German-American oceanographer, geologist and micropaleontologist, emeritus professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
• Arthur Boyars, 92, British poet and musicologist.
• Nicole Bricq, 70, French politician, Deputy, Senator, Minister for Ecology, Sustainable Development and Energy and Foreign Trade, fall.
• Betty Cuthbert, 79, Australian Hall of Fame athlete, fourfold Olympic champion.
• Darren Daulton, 55, American baseball player, World Series champion, glioblastoma.
• Hugh Heclo, 74, American political scientist.
• Eugene Hlywa, 91, Ukrainian-born Australian psychologist.
• Tim Homer, 43, New Zealand radio host.
• Hinrich Lehmann-Grube, 84, German politician, Mayor of Leipzig, cancer.
• Li Shengjiao, 82, Chinese diplomat, international jurist, educator and bilingual author.
• Dick Locher, 88, American cartoonist, Pulitzer Prize winner, Parkinson's disease.
• David Maslanka, 73, American composer, colon cancer.
• Daniel McKinnon, 90, American ice hockey player, Olympic silver medalist.
• Kevin McNamara, 82, British politician, MP for Hull North and Hull Central, pancreatic cancer.
• Jack Rabinovitch, 87, Canadian real estate developer and philanthropist, founder of the Scotiabank Giller Prize, fall.
• Martin Roth, 62, German museologist, Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

  7

• Vytautas Astrauskas, 86, Lithuanian politician, President of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet.
• Don Baylor, 68, American baseball player and manager, World Series champion, multiple myeloma.
• Chantek, 39, American hybrid orangutan who learned American Sign Language, heart disease.
• Tor Røste Fossen, 77, Norwegian football player and manager.
• David Heimbach, 78, American surgeon.
• Michael A. Lehman, 74, American politician, member of the Wisconsin Assembly.
• Haruo Nakajima, 88, Japanese actor, pneumonia.
• Sigmund Sobolewski, 94, Polish activist and Holocaust survivor, pneumonia.
• Ralf Stemmann, 59, German-born American record producer and musician.
• Patsy Ticer, 82, American politician, member of the Virginia Senate and Mayor of Alexandria, Virginia, complications from a fall.
• Kjellfred Weum, 77, Norwegian hurdler.

  8

• Merv Agars, 92, Australian footballer.
• Arleta, 72, Greek singer, songwriter and book illustrator, stroke.
• Rosemary Balmford, 83, Australian jurist.
• Jean-Marie Berthier, 77, French poet, traffic collision.
• Blanche Blackwell, 104, Jamaican socialite.
• Julio César Bonino, 70, Uruguayan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tacuarembó.
• Eugene Burger, 78, American magician, cancer.
• Glen Campbell, 81, American singer and actor, Grammy winner, Alzheimer's disease.
• Barbara Cook, 89, American singer and actress, respiratory failure.
• Max De Pree, 92, American businessman, cancer and kidney failure.
• Mike Deakin, 83, English footballer.
• Hashem El Madani, 88–89, Lebanese photographer.
• Emerson H. Fly, 82, American academic administrator, president of the University of Tennessee system, Parkinson's disease.
• Arlene Gottfried, 66, American photographer, breast cancer.
• Pierre Jaubert, 88, French record producer.
• Ken Kaiser, 72, American baseball umpire, American League, complications from diabetes.
• Ke Jun, 100, Chinese metallurgist.
• Dick MacPherson, 86, American football coach.
• Cathleen Synge Morawetz, 94, Canadian mathematician.
• Pēteris Plakidis, 70, Latvian composer and pianist.
• Rius, 83, Mexican intellectual, political cartoonist and writer.
• Ken Roberts, 79, British rugby league player.
• Gonzague Saint Bris, 69, French novelist and biographer, Prix Interallié winner, traffic collision.
• Janet Seidel, 62, Australian cabaret singer, jazz vocalist, pianist and music teacher, Bell Awards winner, ovarian cancer.
• Gyan Singh Sohanpal, 92, Indian politician, Speaker of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly.
• Zeny Zabala, 80, Filipina actress.
• Mattlan Zackhras, 47, Marshallese politician and diplomat, member of the Nitijela, Minister in Assistance to the President of Marshall Islands.
• Jorge Zorreguieta, 89, Argentine businessman and politician, Secretary of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, leukemia.

  9

• Thomas A. Bird, 98, British WWII army officer and architect.
• Jerry Campbell, 73, American football player, heart attack.
• Romdhan Chatta, 77, Tunisian actor.
• Ted Corbett, 82, English cricket writer.
• Aubyn Curtiss, 92, American politician, member of the Montana House of Representatives.
• Patricio Echegaray, 70, Argentine politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Argentina.
• Patricia Giles, 88, Australian women's rights activist and politician, Senator for Western Australia, dementia.
• Khine Htoo, 61, Burmese singer, pancreatic cancer.
• Sanwar Lal Jat, 62, Indian politician, MP for Ajmer, Minister of State for Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation, kidney failure.
• Beethoven Javier, 70, Uruguayan football player and coach.
• Johno Johnson, 87, Australian politician, President of the New South Wales Legislative Council.
• Tony Keady, 53, Irish hurler, complications from a heart attack.
• Kerk Kim Hock, 61, Malaysian politician, MP, complications from deep vein thrombosis.
• Malle Leis, 77, Estonian painter.
• Al McCandless, 90, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 37th and 44th congressional districts.
• Raymond Damase Ngollo, 81, Congolese general.
• Marcel Rué, 90, Monegasque Olympic sports shooter.
• Robert Joseph Shaheen, 80, American Maronite clergyman, Eparch of Our Lady of Lebanon of Los Angeles.
• Janie Shores, 85, American judge, Alabama Supreme Court, stroke.
• Marián Varga, 70, Slovak organist and composer.
• Danny Walton, 70, American baseball player.
• Wang Xiuyun, 72, Singaporean actress.
• Peter Weibel, 66, German racing cyclist, cancer.
• Mac Wilson, 103, Australian football player.

  10

• Jim Chandler, 76, American author.
• Miroslav Ćurčić, 55, Serbian footballer.
• Katalin Csőke, 60, Hungarian Olympic discus thrower.
• Sam Dryden, 67, American food security expert, multiple systems atrophy.
• Alois Eisenträger, 90, German footballer.
• Don Gross, 86, American baseball player.
• Luciano Guerzoni, 82, Italian politician, President of Emilia-Romagna region and Senator.
• Chris Hesketh, 73, English rugby league player.
• Inamul Haque Khan, 90, Pakistani air marshal and politician, Minister of Interior, Housing and Works, and Water and Power.
• Barry Myers, 78, American baseball college coach.
• Vijay Nambisan, 54, Indian poet.
• Sheila Natusch, 91, New Zealand naturalist, writer and illustrator.
• Jim Nevin, 86, Australian racing cyclist.
• Patrick O'Connell, 83, Irish actor.
• Sitaram Panchal, 54, Indian actor, kidney and lung cancer.
• Zygfryd Perlicki, 85, Polish sailor.
• Ruth Pfau, 87, German-Pakistani nun and physician.
• T. Jack Thompson, 74, British historian, cancer.

  11

• Abdulhussain Abdulredha, 78, Kuwaiti actor and writer.
• Luiz Vicente Bernetti, 83, Italian-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Apucarana.
• Susan Brown, 79, British mathematician.
• Segun Bucknor, 71, Nigerian musician, complications from multiple strokes.
• Neil Chayet, 78, American lawyer and radio personality, cancer.
• Richard Gordon, 95, English physician and author.
• Yisrael Kristal, 113, Polish-Israeli supercentenarian and Holocaust survivor, world's oldest living man.
• Jerry Janes, 82, Canadian football player.
• Kent Lee, 94, American naval officer, Vice Admiral of the U.S. Navy.
• Terele Pávez, 78, Spanish actress, Goya winner, stroke.
• Eugenio Polgovsky, 40, Mexican filmmaker.
• Daisy Sweeney, 97, Canadian music teacher.
• Kim Wall, 30, Swedish journalist.

  12

• Nils G. Åsling, 89, Swedish entrepreneur, politician and farmer, Minister of Industry.
• Christopher Buxton, 88, English property developer.
• Paul Casanova, 75, Cuban baseball player, cardiorespiratory complications.
• Zdravko Hebel, 74, Croatian water polo player, Olympic champion and President of Croatian Olympic Committee.
• Fatima Ahmed Ibrahim, 84, Sudanese writer and feminist.
• Leo Kieffer, 86, American politician, member of the Maine Senate.
• Bryan Murray, 74, Canadian ice hockey coach and general manager, colon cancer.
• Don Pettie, 90, Canadian Olympic sprinter.
• Tudor Postelnicu, 85, Romanian politician, police officer and criminal, head of the Securitate, Minister of Internal Affairs.
• John F. Russo, 84, American politician, member of the New Jersey Senate, President of the Senate, esophageal cancer.

  13

• Aung Shwe, 99, Burmese politician and army general.
• Harry Beitzel, 90, Australian football umpire and broadcaster.
• Joseph Bologna, 82, American actor, pancreatic cancer.
• Shobha Sen, 93, Indian actress, natural causes.
• Reinhard Breymayer, 73, German philologist.
• Savino Bernardo Maria Cazzaro Bertollo, 92, Italian-Chilean Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Puerto Montt.
• Stephen Keynes, 89, English banker.
• Sylvester Li Jian-tang, 91, Chinese Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Taiyuan.
• Nick Mantis, 81, American basketball player.
• Basilio Martín Patino, 86, Spanish film and documentary director.
• Victor Pemberton, 85, British writer and television producer.
• Paul Xie Ting-zhe, 86, Chinese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Xinjiang-Urumqi.

  14

• Leonard E. Baum, 85, American mathematician.
• Andrzej Blumenfeld, 66, Polish actor.
• Frank Broyles, 92, American college football coach and athletic director, Alzheimer's disease.
• Franklin Cleckley, 77, American state judge, member of the Supreme Court of West Virginia.
• Mohammad Ali Falahatinejad, 41, Iranian weightlifter, World champion, kidney infection.
• Abdelkrim Ghallab, 97, Moroccan politician and writer.
• Winston Green, 58, Jamaican dentist and politician, MP.
• Joi Harris, 40, American motorcycle racer and stuntwoman, motorcycle stunt accident.
• Allan Hay, 88, Canadian chemist.
• Benard Ighner, 72, American musician, record producer and songwriter, lung cancer.
• Robert Millman, 77, American physician.
• Nubar Ozanyan, 61, Turkish Armenian militant, shot.
• J. S. Parker, 72, New Zealand painter, lung cancer.
• Lateef Raji, 54, Nigerian politician.
• Thomas L. Saaty, 91, American mathematician.
• Neil Smyth, 89, Australian cricketer.
• Robert B. Stobaugh, 89, American economics writer.
• Stephen Wooldridge, 39, Australian cyclist, Olympic and world champion, suicide.
• Bhakti Yadav, 91, Indian doctor.

  15

• Abdirahman Barre, 79, Somali politician, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance and Minister of Foreign Affairs.
• Gunnar Birkerts, 92, Latvian-born American architect, heart failure.
• Liam Devaney, 82, Irish hurler.
• Pavel Egorov, 69, Russian pianist, cancer.
• Vern Ehlers, 83, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan's 3rd congressional district.
• Tui Flower, 91, New Zealand food writer.
• Brian Gibson, 80, Australian politician, Senator for Tasmania, cancer.
• Roger Hendrix, 74, American biologist.
• Eberhard Jäckel, 88, German historian.
• Kasatka, 41, American orca, euthanized.
• Joe McGurn, 52, Scottish footballer, cancer.
• Mark Merlis, 67, American writer, pneumonia.
• Paul Oliver, 90, British architecture and blues historian.
• Diane Pearson, 85, British book editor and author.
• Shanmugasundaram, 77, Indian actor.
• Zhu Jian'er, 94, Chinese composer.

  16

• Peter Bird, 82, British computer scientist.
• Jennifer Daniel, 81, Welsh actress.
• Vera Glagoleva, 61, Russian actress, People's Artist, cancer.
• Kira Golovko, 98, Russian actress, People's Artist.
• Tom Hawkins, 80, American basketball player.
• Mike Hennessey, 89, English music journalist and jazz pianist.
• Ross Johnson, 77, American politician, member of the California State Assembly and Senate, cancer.
• William Jones, 88, Canadian Olympic sport shooter.
• Bill Lasseter, 76, Canadian football player.
• Wayne Lotter, 51, South African elephant conservationist and anti-poaching activist, shot.
• Peter Milward, 91, British Jesuit priest and literary scholar.
• Roger Pinto Molina, 57, Bolivian politician, plane crash.
• Patrick O'Flaherty, 78, Canadian historian and author.
• John Ogston, 78, Scottish footballer.
• Nelia Penman, 101, British barrister and political activist.
• Jon Shepodd, 89, American actor.
• David Somerset, 11th Duke of Beaufort, 89, British peer, member of the House of Lords.
• Vicente Sota, 93, Chilean politician, Deputy and President of the Chamber of Deputies.
• John E. Tapscott, 87, American politician, member of the Iowa House of Representatives and Senate.
• Michael Twomey, 83, Irish actor.
• Bill Weick, 85, American wrestler and coach.
• Lester Williams, 58, American football player.

  17

• John Books, 76, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Parramatta.
• Peter Byrne, 81, Canadian Olympic sailor
• Francis X. DiLorenzo, 75, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Honolulu and Richmond.
• Joseph Grimberg, 84, Singaporean lawyer and judge.
• Sonny Landham, 76, American actor, heart failure.
• M. T. Liggett, 86, American folk sculptor.
• Parker MacDonald, 84, Canadian ice hockey player.
• John Nderu, 71, Kenyan Olympic boxer.
• Mohamed Refaat El-Saeed, 84, Egyptian politician and scholar.
• Sirkka Selja, 97, Finnish poet.
• Paulo Silvino, 78, Brazilian actor and humorist, stomach cancer.
• Fadwa Souleimane, 47, Syrian actress and activist, cancer.
• Halwa Vasu, 54, Indian comic actor, liver failure.

  18

• Pertti Alaja, 65, Finnish footballer, President of Football Association of Finland, cancer.
• Alfonso Azpiri, 70, Spanish videogame cover and comic artist.
• Sonny Burgess, 88, American rockabilly guitarist, singer and songwriter.
• Duncan Bush, 71, Welsh author.
• Dave Creighton, 87, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Arthur J. Finkelstein, 72, American political consultant, lung cancer.
• Sir Bruce Forsyth, 89, English television presenter and entertainer, bronchial pneumonia.
• Vicente Iturat, 88, Spanish racing cyclist.
• William Kretschmar, 84, American lawyer and politician, member of the North Dakota House of Representatives.
• Zoe Laskari, 72, Greek actress and beauty pageant winner.
• Mirosława Litmanowicz, 89, Polish chess player.
• Liz MacKean, 52, British broadcast journalist, stroke.
• Venero Mangano, 95, American bookmaker, racketeer and extortionist.
• Roger D. McKellips, 94, American politician, member of the South Dakota Senate.
• Lívia Mossóczy, 81, Hungarian table tennis player, World champion.
• Tadayoshi Nagashima, 66, Japanese politician, member of the House of Representatives, mayor of Yamakoshi, Niigata.
• Duncan Russell, 59, English football manager, cancer.
• Don Shepherd, 90, Welsh cricketer.
• Sergio Zaniboni, 80, Italian comics artist.

  19

• Brian Aldiss, 92, British science fiction writer and editor.
• Charles R. Bentley, 87, American glaciologist.
• Len Bracko, 73, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.
• Mario Roberto Cassari, 73, Italian Roman Catholic prelate and diplomat, Apostolic Nuncio to Malta and South Africa.
• Pyotr Deynekin, 79, Russian military officer, commander of the Russian Air Force, Hero of the Russian Federation.
• Salif Diallo, 60, Burkinabé politician, President of the National Assembly.
• Gérard Férey, 76, French chemist.
• Janusz Głowacki, 78, Polish-American playwright, screenwriter and essayist.
• Karl Otto Götz, 103, German artist, filmmaker, and writer.
• Dick Gregory, 84, American comedian and civil rights activist, heart failure.
• Gary O'Callaghan, 83, Australian radio broadcaster.
• Jorge Rodriguez-Chomat, 72, Cuban-born American politician and judge, member of the Florida House of Representatives and the Eleventh Judicial Circuit Court.
• Alan Sayers, 101, New Zealand athlete, journalist and writer, British Empire Games bronze medalist.
• Ed Sharockman, 77, American football player, heart failure.
• Shane Sieg, 34, American racing driver.
• Concha Valdés Miranda, 89, Cuban composer.
• Bea Wain, 100, American singer, heart failure.

  20

• Karin Bang, 88, Norwegian writer.
• Velichko Cholakov, 35, Bulgarian weightlifter, European champion, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Radoš Čubrić, 83, Serbian Yugoslav Olympic cyclist.
• Bernard Dunstan, 97, British artist.
• Harry Haureliuk, 70, Australian bodybuilder.
• Margot Hielscher, 97, German singer and film actress.
• Wilhelm Killmayer, 89, German composer, conductor and lecturer.
• Fredell Lack, 95, American violinist.
• Jerzy Leśniak, 60, Polish journalist and historian, heart attack.
• Jerry Lewis, 91, American comedian, actor and humanitarian, cardiomyopathy.
• Sir Colin Meads, 81, New Zealand rugby union player, coach and manager, pancreatic cancer.
• Nati Mistral, 88, Spanish actress and singer.
• Gary West, 57, Australian Olympic cyclist and cycling coach, motor neurone disease.
• Gordon Williams, 83, Scottish writer.

  21

• Arturo Corcuera, 81, Peruvian poet.
• Dianne de Las Casas, 47, Filipino-born American author, house fire.
• Josip Despot, 64, Croatian Olympic rower.
• Réjean Ducharme, 76, Canadian novelist and playwright.
• Greg Evers, 62, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives and Senate, traffic collision.
• Roberto Gottardi, 90, Italian architect.
• Bill Green, 66, English football player and manager.
• Helmut Hofmann, 91, German Olympic boxer.
• Thomas Meehan, 88, American playwright, Tony winner, cancer.
• Don Nichols, 92, American motorsport team owner.
• Rikard Olsvik, 87, Norwegian politician, MP.
• Helmut Piirimäe, 86, Estonian historian.
• P. V. R. K. Prasad, 77, Indian civil servant.
• Ron Previte, 73, American gangster.
• Felo Ramírez, 94, Cuban-American sports broadcaster, complications from a fall.
• Abdur Razzak, 75, Bangladeshi actor, five-time winner of National Film Award for Best Actor.
• Bajram Rexhepi, 63, Kosovar politician, Prime Minister, stroke.
• Seija Simola, 72, Finnish singer.
• Boris Spremo, 81, Yugoslav-born Canadian photojournalist, complications from multiple myeloma.
• Dame Margaret Turner-Warwick, 92, British physician and thoracic specialist, first female president of the Royal College of Physicians.
• Perch Zeytuntsyan, 79, Egyptian-born Armenian playwright, Minister of Culture.

  22

• John Abercrombie, 72, American jazz guitarist, heart failure.
• Nestor Assogba, 88, Beninese Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Parakou and Cotonou.
• Alain Berbérian, 63, French film director and writer.
• Feyyaz Berker, 91, Turkish executive.
• Thomas W. Blackwell, 58, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
• Jim Blount, 82, American newspaper editor and historian.
• Tim Bruxner, 94, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Tenterfield.
• Tony deBrum, 72, Marshallese politician, Foreign Minister.
• Gertrude Goodrich, 102, American painter and writer.
• Michael J. C. Gordon, 69, British computer scientist.
• Carol Hanson, 83, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives, Mayor of Boca Raton, Florida.
• Rishang Keishing, 96, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Manipur, multiple organ failure.
• Matthew Kia Yen-wen, 92, Taiwanese Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Taipei, Bishop of Kiayi and Hwalien.
• Aloys Kontarsky, 86, German pianist, complications from a stroke.
• Mario Milita, 94, Italian voice actor.
• Pedro Pedrossian, 89, Brazilian politician, Governor of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul.
• Tim Poston, 72, English mathematician.
• Tom Pritchard, 100, New Zealand cricketer.
• Fejat Sejdić, 76, Serbian brass band leader.
• Nick Sloane, 63, English track and field athlete and executive.
• Jim Whelan, 68, American politician, Mayor of Atlantic City, member of the New Jersey General Assembly and Senate, heart attack.

  23

• Eduardo Angeloz, 85, Argentine politician, Governor of Córdoba and Senator.
• Tjitze Baarda, 85, Dutch theologian.
• Yossi Beinart, 61, Israeli economist, CEO of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
• Binh Pho, 61, Vietnamese artist in wood.
• Kevin Curran, 88, Zimbabwean cricketer.
• Michael Dauncey, 97, British Army brigadier.
• Viola Harris, 91, American actress.
• Engelbert Jarek, 82, Polish footballer.
• George A. Keyworth II, 77, American physicist, prostate cancer.
• Joe Klein, 75, American baseball executive, complications from heart surgery.
• Ronan Leprohon, 78, French Breton nationalist politician.
• Izak Parviz Nazarian, 88, Iranian-American businessman.
• Sean O'Callaghan, 63, Irish IRA member, informant and writer.
• John Petty, 82, English Anglican priest.
• Fiona Richardson, 50, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Northcote, breast cancer.
• Jack Rosenthal, 82, Israeli-born American journalist.
• Jeannie Rousseau, 98, French Allied spy.
• Ramananda Sengupta, 101, Indian cinematographer.
• Francis Thompson, 92, British economic and social historian.
• Susan Vreeland, 71, American author, complications from heart surgery.

  24

• Cecil Andrus, 85, American politician, U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Governor of Idaho, lung cancer.
• Michael Dougall Bell, 73, Canadian diplomat, Ambassador to Israel, liver cancer.
• Alan Boswell, 74, English footballer.
• J. D. Disalvatore, 51, American LGBT film producer, breast cancer.
• Thomas Docking, 63, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Kansas, cancer.
• Doug Everingham, 94, Australian politician and minister, Minister for Health and Aged Care and MP.
• Pete Kuykendall, 79, American bluegrass musician.
• Kai Linnilä, 75, Finnish writer and editor.
• Larry Marshall, 75, Jamaican reggae singer, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Mary Montgomery, 60, American Olympic swimmer.
• Michael Quinn, 71, British chef.
• Houssenaly Zahid Raza, Malaysian honorary consul, shot.
• Charlie Robertson, 83, American politician, mayor of York, Pennsylvania.
• Jay Thomas, 69, American actor and radio talk show host, Emmy winner, cancer.
• Amelyn Veloso, 43, Filipino journalist and broadcaster, breast cancer.

  25

• Martin Biles, 98, American Olympic javelin thrower.
• Enzo Dara, 78, Italian opera singer.
• Sharry Konopski, 49, American model and actress, pneumonia.
• Ed McGaa, 81, American air force pilot and author, complications of cancer.
• Drew Morphett, 69, Australian sports broadcaster.
• Margaret Moser, 63, American journalist, colon cancer.
• Rich Piana, 45, American bodybuilder and Internet personality, complications from a heart attack and brain trauma.

  26

• Dagobert Banzio, 60, Ivorian politician.
• Dave Bumpstead, 81, English football player and manager.
• Christie Davies, 75, British sociologist.
• Harry Dinnel, 76, American basketball player and coach.
• Dámaso González, 68, Spanish bullfighter, pancreatic cancer.
• Tobe Hooper, 74, American film director.
• Muzaffer İzgü, 83, Turkish children's writer and teacher, cancer.
• Howard Kaminsky, 77, American publisher, heart attack.
• Tomasz Konina, 45, Polish theatre and opera director and stage designer.
• Léonard Lévesque, 82, Canadian politician, MNA.
• Grzegorz Miecugow, 61, Polish newscaster and columnist, cancer.
• Josef Musil, 85, Czech volleyball player, Olympic silver and bronze medalist.
• Wilson das Neves, 81, Brazilian percussionist and singer, cancer.
• Bernard Pomerance, 76, American playwright, cancer.
• Lacey Putney, 89, American politician, member of the Virginia House of Delegates.
• Alan Root, 80, British-born Kenyan filmmaker, glioblastoma.
• Larry Sherman, 94, American actor and publicist.
• Rick Sowieta, 63, Belgian-born Canadian football player, cancer.
• Horacio White, 90, Argentine Olympic swimmer.
• Adam Wójcik, 47, Polish basketball player, leukemia.

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• Martin Azonhiho, Beninese politician, Minister for Defence.
• Ahmed Khan, 90, Indian Olympic footballer.
• Khalid Kharal, 78, Pakistani politician.
• Maurice Rigobert Marie-Sainte, 89, Martinican Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Saint-Pierre and Fort-de-France.
• James Dickson Phillips Jr., 94, American federal judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
• José Maria Pires, 98, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Araçuaí and Archbishop of Paraíba, pneumonia.
• Yitzhak Pundak, 104, Polish-born Israeli military officer and diplomat.
• Syd Silverman, 85, American publisher.
• Helli Stehle, 109, Swiss actress and radio presenter.
• Chris Winn, 90, English cricketer.
• Ebrahim Yazdi, 85, Iranian politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Deputy Prime Minister, pancreatic cancer.
• M. A. Zaher, 85, Bangladeshi geologist.

  28

• Melissa Bell, 53, English singer.
• Bobby Boyd, 79, American football player.
• Bruce Collingwood, 64, Canadian politician.
• Muhammad Dandamayev, 88, Russian Babylon historian.
• Mireille Darc, 79, French actress and model.
• Willie Duggan, 67, Irish rugby union player.
• Tore Frängsmyr, 79, Swedish historian.
• Jack Geddes, 92, Canadian curler.
• Tsutomu Hata, 82, Japanese politician, Prime Minister.
• Jud Heathcote, 90, American Hall of Fame basketball coach, national champion.
• Gulzar Khan, Pakistani politician, member of the National Assembly.
• Narendra Kumar, 77, Indian physicist.
• Kirti Kumari, 50, Indian politician, MLA, swine flu.
• Angélica Mendoza de Ascarza, 87, Peruvian human rights activist.
• Dean Mercer, 47, Australian ironman, four-time national champion, heart attack.
• David Torrence, 31, Peruvian-American Olympic athlete.

  29

• Adnan Abu Amjad, 39–40, Syrian military officer.
• Senarath Attanayake, 51, Sri Lankan politician.
• A. H. M. Azwer, 80, Sri Lankan politician, MP.
• Mahmud Kanti Bello, 72, Nigerian politician, Senator.
• Janine Charrat, 93, French ballerina and dance choreographer.
• Kurt Dahlmann, 99, German pilot and journalist.
• Larry Elgart, 95, American jazz bandleader.
• Carlos Gereda y de Borbón, 70, Spanish aristocrat.
• Harold Hurley, 87, Canadian ice hockey player, Olympic silver medalist.
• Otto Kandler, 96, German botanist and microbiologist.
• Léon Konan Koffi, 88, Ivorian politician.
• Dmitri Kogan, 38, Russian violinist, lymphoma.
• Soledad Saieh, 45, Chilean businesswoman, film producer, and cultural manager, pulmonary edema.
• Sir David Tang, 63, Hong Kong businessman, liver cancer.

  30

• Elmer Acevedo, 68, Salvadoran footballer.
• Sid Ahmed Ould Bneijara, 70, Mauritanian politician, Prime Minister.
• Marjorie Boulton, 93, British author and poet.
• Alan Cassell, 85, Australian actor.
• Richard Sui On Chang, 75, American Episcopal prelate, Bishop of Hawaii.
• Jennie Darlington, 93, Canadian polar explorer, heart illness.
• Peter Diamondstone, 82, American lawyer and politician.
• Hato Hasbún, 71, Salvadoran politician, heart attack.
• Louise Hay, 90, American motivational author.
• Tessa Holyoake, 54, Scottish haematologist, cancer.
• Abdul Jabbar, 78, Bangladeshi singer.
• Efrain Loza, 78, Mexican Olympic footballer.
• Alan MacDonald, 61, British production designer.
• Károly Makk, 91, Hungarian film director and screenwriter.
• Rollie Massimino, 82, American Hall of Fame basketball coach, national champion.
• Tim Mickelson, 68, American rower, Olympic silver medalist, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Sam Pivnik, 90, Polish Jewish Holocaust survivor, author and memoirist.
• Skip Prokop, 73, Canadian drummer and disc jockey.
• L. N. Shastri, 46, Indian playback singer, intestinal cancer.
• Sumiteru Taniguchi, 88, Japanese anti-nuclear weapons activist, cancer.

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• Richard Anderson, 91, American actor.
• William Beik, 76, American historian.
• John Bourchier, 87, Australian politician, member of the House of Representatives for Bendigo.
• Christopher Byworth, 78, British Anglican priest.
• Janne Carlsson, 80, Swedish actor and drummer, liver cancer.
• Mike Cockerill, 56, Australian soccer journalist, cancer.
• Sir Edward du Cann, 93, British politician, MP for Taunton.
• Marco Ferraro, 62, Canadian curler, brain cancer.
• Egon Günther, 90, German film director and writer.
• Dirk Hafemeister, 59, German equestrian, Olympic champion, heart attack.
• William Ives, 73, British executive.
• Ann Jellicoe, 90, British dramatist.
• Bernie Katz, 49, British night club manager.
• Norbert Kückelmann, 87, German film director.
• Barry Liebmann, 63, American comedy writer, liver cancer.
• Tormod MacGill-Eain, 80, Scottish comedian and singer.
• Novella Nelson, 77, American actress and singer.
• Jan Romare, 81, Swedish diplomat and comics artist.
• Tamara Tchinarova, 98, French ballet dancer.