Deaths in August 2018

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

  August 2018

1

• Alija Behmen, 77, Bosnian politician, PM of Bosnia and Herzegovina federation and Mayor of Sarajevo.
• Garnet Bloomfield, 89, Canadian politician, MP for London—Middlesex.
• Gaqo Çako, 83, Albanian opera singer.
• Mary Carlisle, 104, American actress.
• Maruja Carrasco, 74, Spanish botanist, herbalist and academic.
• David I. Cleland, 92, American engineer and writer.
• Cui Xiuwen, 50-51, Chinese artist.
• Jack Gaffney, 88, Australian footballer and lawyer.
• Rick Genest, 32, Canadian fashion model and actor, fall.
• Howard Grant, 79, American jockey.
• Jan Kirsznik, 84, Polish rock saxophonist.
• Eleonore Koch, 92, German-born Brazilian painter and sculptor.
• Frédéric Kyburz, 74, Swiss Olympic judoka.
• Fakir Musafar, 87, American performance artist and modern primitive proponent, lung cancer.
• Jüri Rätsep, 83, Estonian politician and judge, magistrate of the Supreme Court.
• Celeste Rodrigues, 95, Portuguese fado singer.
• Hasanaga Sadigov, 67, Azerbaijani ashik musician, cancer.
• Jakob Schönenberger, 86, Swiss oberst, banker and politician, member of Council of States.
• Jalees Sherwani, Indian screenwriter and lyricist.
• Bhishma Narain Singh, 85, Indian politician, Governor of Assam and Tamil Nadu.
• John Tangi, 67, Niuean-born Cook Island politician.
• Nancy Tuckerman, 89, American secretary, White House Social Secretary, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
• Umbayee, 66, Indian ghazal singer, cancer.
• Rolf Valtin, 93, American soccer player.
• Hannie van Leeuwen, 92, Dutch politician, Senator.
• Stefano Vetrano, 95, Italian politician, Deputy.
• Taylor Whitley, 38, American football player.
• Rotraut Wisskirchen, 82, German biblical archaeologist and academic, Order of Merit.

  2

• Neil Argo, 71, American composer, heart failure.
• Shaharuddin Badaruddin, 55, Malaysian politician, colon cancer.
• Bob Berry, 102, New Zealand dendrologist.
• A. K. Bose, 69, Indian politician, cardiac arrest.
• Givi Chikvanaia, 79, Georgian water polo player, Olympic silver medalist.
• Gabriel Covarrubias Ibarra, 88, Mexican politician, Senator, Mayor of Guadalajara.
• Tom Cox, 88, British politician, MP for Wandsworth Central and Tooting.
• Armand de Las Cuevas, 50, French racing cyclist, suicide.
• Harald Hauptmann, 82, Czech-born German prehistorian, archaeologist and academic, member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.
• Yogi Huyghebaert, 74, Canadian politician, Saskatchewan MLA.
• Ûssarĸak K'ujaukitsoĸ, 70, Greenlandic Inuit politician and human rights activist, member of the Inatsisartut.
• Brian Kelly, 75, English footballer.
• Herbert King, 55, Colombian actor, heart attack.
• Salvatore Meleleo, 89, Italian politician, Deputy and Senator.
• Winston Ntshona, 76, South African actor and playwright, Tony winner.
• Vladimír Plaček, 53, Czech politician and physician, Senator.
• Mihai Radu Pricop, 68, Romanian politician, Senator.
• Heinz Rökker, 97, German night fighter pilot during World War II.
• Daan Schrijvers, 76, Dutch footballer.
• Darrel Sutton, 71, Canadian curler.
• Viktor Tyumenev, 61, Russian ice hockey player, Olympic champion.
• María José la Valenciana, 44, Spanish transsexual sex worker and internet personality.
• Bill Wattenburg, 82, American engineer, author, and radio talk show host, cancer.
• Ferdinand Willeit, 79, Italian politician, Deputy, heart attack.

  3

• Matija Barl, 78, Slovene actor.
• Joseph C. Burke, 86, American educator and academic, President of the State University of New York at Plattsburgh.
• Terry Bush, 75, English footballer.
• Carlos Buttice, 75, Argentine footballer.
• Raffaele Castielli, 91, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Lucera–Troia.
• Carlos Chávez, 59, Bolivian football administrator, cancer.
• Ingrid Espelid Hovig, 94, Norwegian television chef and cookbook author.
• Cliff Huxford, 81, English football player and manager.
• Koulla Kakoulli, 56, British musician, dominatrix and bodybuilder.
• Reinhart Langer, 97, German-born New Zealand plant physiologist and academic.
• John Loone, 87, Australian politician, member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council.
• Murray Matthewson, 73, New Zealand hand surgeon.
• Moshé Mizrahi, 86, Egyptian-born Israeli film director, Oscar winner.
• John Schella, 71, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Zbigniew Ścibor-Rylski, 101, Polish Air Force officer and brigadier general.
• Piotr Szulkin, 68, Polish film director.
• Ronnie Taylor, 93, British cinematographer, Oscar winner.
• Zhang Baosheng, 57–58, Chinese qigong master.

  4

• Sergey Ambartsumian, 96, Armenian scientist, member of Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.
• Afsar Amed, 58, Indian Bengali writer.
• Lorrie Collins, 76, American rockabilly singer.
• Delwyn Costello, 58, New Zealand cricketer.
• Lluïsa Forrellad, 91, Spanish writer.
• Stephen Goodson, South African banker and Holocaust denier, Director of the Reserve Bank.
• Donald Hunt, 88, British choral conductor.
• Anita Miller, 91, American author and publisher, co-founder of Academy Chicago Publishers.
• Josy Moinet, 88, French politician, Senator for Charente-Maritime, Mayor of Saint-Rogatien.
• Anar Nagilbaz, 44, Azerbaijani rapper, songwriter and actor, internal hemorrhage.
• Tommy Peoples, 70, Irish fiddler.
• Arsène Tchakarian, 101, Armenian-born French resistance fighter.
• Karma Topden, 77, Indian Sikkimese politician, member of the Rajya Sabha, Ambassador to Mongolia.
• Masahiko Tsugawa, 78, Japanese actor.
• Myron White, 61, American baseball player.

  5

• Majid Al-Majid, 52, Saudi folk singer, shot.
• Bernard F. Burke, 90, American astronomer.
• Miguel Ángel Campano, 70, Spanish painter.
• Ulises Aurelio Casiano Vargas, 84, Puerto Rican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Mayagüez.
• Barry Chuckle, 73, English children's entertainer, bone cancer.
• Robert Dugard, 76, British speedway rider and promoter.
• Tom Heckert Jr., 51, American football executive, amyloidosis.
• David Landsberg, 73, American actor and screenwriter, complications from surgery.
• Gerry Lenfest, 88, American media executive and philanthropist.
• Ellen Joyce Loo, 32, Canadian-born Hong Kong singer, suicide by jumping.
• Harry Mares, 79, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives.
• Lauri Mononen, 68, Finnish ice hockey player.
• Alan Rabinowitz, 64, American conservationist and zoologist, founder president of Panthera Corporation, leukemia.
• Charlotte Rae, 92, American actress, bone cancer.
• Aji Muhammad Salehuddin II, 93, Indonesian royal, Sultan of Kutai.
• John Shaw, 86, Australian cricketer.
• Matthew Sweeney, 65, Irish poet, motor neurone disease.
• Nev Warburton, 86, Australian politician, Leader of the Opposition of Queensland.
• Mary E. White, 92, South African-born Australian paleobotanist and author, homicide by overdose.

  6

• Patricia Benoit, 91, American actress.
• Kamrul Hasan Bhuiyan, 66, Bangladeshi military officer and writer.
• Rosa Maria Carrasco i Azemar, 82, Spanish politician, co-founder of Democrats of Catalonia.
• Anthony Catt, 84, English cricketer.
• R. K. Dhawan, 81, Indian politician.
• Christian Habicht, 92, German historian.
• Margaret Heckler, 87, American politician and diplomat, Ambassador to Ireland, Secretary of Health and Human Services, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, cardiac arrest.
• Nat Indrapana, 80, Thai sports executive, Vice Minister of Tourism and Sports, Vice President of the World Taekwondo Federation.
• Jimmy il Fenomeno, 86, Italian actor.
• Nicole Kullen, 38, Australian Paralympic equestrian, meningococcal disease.
• Paul Laxalt, 96, American politician, Governor of Nevada, member of the U.S. Senate.
• Leonard Lewinsohn, 64–65, American Islamic scholar.
• Sanaa Mazhar, 85, Egyptian actress.
• Robert A. Plane, 90, American chemist, vintner and academic administrator, President of Clarkson University and Wells College, founder of Cayuga Lake AVA.
• Pete Richens, 65, English screenwriter.
• Joël Robuchon, 73, French chef and cookbook author, Meilleur Ouvrier de France winner 1976, complications from pancreatic cancer.
• William E. Schluter, 90, American politician, member of the New Jersey Legislature.
• Anya Krugovoy Silver, 49, American poet, breast cancer.
• Dennis Thrower, 80, English footballer.

  7

• Carlos Almenar Otero, 92, Venezuelan singer and songwriter.
• Étienne Chicot, 69, French actor and composer.
• John Ciaccia, 85, Italian-born Canadian politician, member of the National Assembly of Quebec for Mont-Royal.
• David Coates, 71, British political economist.
• Andrew Coburn, 86, American author.
• John Doaninoel, 68, Papua New Guinean Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Honiara.
• Dumitru Fărcaș, 80, Romanian tárogató player.
• Arvonne Fraser, 92, American women's rights activist, Ambassador to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women.
• Gustavo Giagnoni, 86, Italian football player and manager.
• Nan Joyce, 77–78, Irish human rights activist.
• M. Karunanidhi, 94, Indian politician and writer, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, multiple organ failure.
• Richard H. Kline, 91, American cinematographer.
• Anton Lehmden, 89, Austrian painter.
• Liu Guangding, 88, Chinese marine geologist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
• Stan Mikita, 78, Slovak-born Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey player, NHL champion.
• Aaron Monsonego, 90, Moroccan religious leader, Chief Rabbi.
• Enno Patalas, 88, German film historian, restorer and collector.
• Joel H. Silbey, 84, American historian.
• Rika Vayani, 56, Greek actress, journalist and writer, lung cancer.
• Gerald Weinberg, 84, American computer scientist.
• Robley Wilson, 88, American writer.

  8

• Mario Alinei, 91, Italian linguist.
• Nicholas Bett, 28, Kenyan hurdler, world champion, traffic collision.
• Göran Bundy, 97, Swedish diplomat, Ambassador to Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and United Arab Emirates and Iran.
• Katie Cannon, 68, American theologian, leukemia.
• Ronald Crawford, 82, Australian Olympic racewalker.
• Arthur Davies, 77, Welsh opera singer.
• Willie Dille, 53, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives, suicide.
• Wendell Erickson, 93, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives.
• Pál Fábry, 99, Hungarian politician, MNA.
• Robert Hugh Ferrell, 97, American historian and author.
• John Glines, 84, American theatre producer and playwright.
• Xenia Gratsos, 78, Greek-American actress.
• Dave Hargreaves, 63, English footballer.
• Jarrod Lyle, 36, Australian golfer, acute myeloid leukaemia.
• Hernán Masanés, 86, Chilean Olympic cyclist
• Linda Mkhize, 37, South African rapper and DJ, hemosuccus pancreaticus.
• Takeshi Onaga, 67, Japanese politician, Governor of Okinawa Prefecture, Mayor of Naha, pancreatic cancer.
• Philip Riteman, 96, Polish-born Canadian lecturer and Holocaust survivor.
• Richard Searby, 87, Australian lawyer.
• Mikhail Shakhov, 86, Ukrainian wrestler, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Richard Sipe, 85, American sociologist, multiple organ failure.

  9

• Tamara Degtyaryova, 74, Russian actress.
• Donald F. Holcomb, 92, American physicist.
• Billy Ray Irick, 59, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• John Kennedy, 77, American baseball player.
• Manfred Melzer, 74, German Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Cologne.
• Mehrdad Pahlbod, 101, Iranian royal and politician, Minister of Culture and Art.
• Carol Springer, 81, American politician, State Treasurer of Arizona.

  10

• Emmanuel C. Aguma, Nigerian politician, Attorney General of Rivers State.
• Anant Bajaj, 41, Indian businessman, heart attack.
• Peter Berck, 68, American economist.
• Andrey Budnik, 65, Soviet-Russian diplomat, Ambassador to Pakistan and Nepal.
• Paul Cantor, 76, Canadian lawyer.
• William Corbett, 75, American poet, pancreatic cancer.
• László Fábián, 82, Hungarian sprint canoeist, Olympic and world champion.
• Árpád Fazekas, 88, Hungarian footballer.
• Robert J. LeRoy, 74, Canadian chemist.
• Fernando Llort, 69, Salvadoran artist.
• Dawn Mabalon, 45, American academic, asthma attack.
• Mahmut Makal, 88, Turkish writer.
• Jim McKiernan, 73, Irish-born Australian politician, Senator, cancer.
• Katherine Nelson, 87–88, American psychologist.
• A. R. Schwartz, 92, American politician, member of the Texas House of Representatives and Senate, heart attack.
• Kin Sugai, 92, Japanese actress, heart failure.
• Mohammed Awad al-Zayyud, 62, Jordanian politician, Secretary-General of Islamic Action Front, cancer.

  11

• Bùi Tín, 90, Vietnamese military officer and dissident, kidney failure.
• Pierre Coustillas, 88, French literary scholar and academic.
• Terry A. Davis, 48, American computer programmer, struck by train.
• Morris G. Hallock, 92, American politician, member of the South Dakota House of Representatives.
• Kazimierz Karabasz, 88, Polish documentarian.
• Stanley Keleman, 86, American writer and chiropractor.
• Li Chaoyi, 84, Chinese neurobiologist, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
• Benno Müller-Hill, 85, German biologist and author.
• Sir V. S. Naipaul, 85, Trinidadian-born British writer, Nobel Prize laureate.
• Fabio Mamerto Rivas Santos, 86, Dominican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Barahona.
• John Smyth, 77, British barrister, heart attack.
• Manch Wheeler, 79, American football player.

  12

• Sheika Frayha Al-Ahmad, 74, Kuwaiti royal and philanthropist.
• Samir Amin, 86, Egyptian-French Marxian economist.
• Richard Lloyd Anderson, 92, American LDS Church historian.
• Peter Chadwick, 87, British applied mathematician and physicist.
• Bryant Giles, 90, Australian politician, MP.
• Betty Gray, 96, Welsh table tennis player.
• Ma Jin, 83, Chinese geophysicist and structural geologist.
• Thomas J. Moran, 65, American executive and humanitarian, Chancellor of Queen's University Belfast.
• Willy Rasmussen, 80, Norwegian Olympic javelin thrower.
• Michael Scott Rohan, 67, Scottish fantasy and science fiction author.
• Steven T. Ross, 81, American military historian.
• Kazimiera Utrata, 86, Polish actress.

  13

• Mark Baker, 71, American actor.
• Zvonko Bego, 77, Croatian footballer, Olympic champion.
• John Calder, 91, Canadian-born British publisher.
• Salvatore Cantalupo, 59, Italian actor.
• John Carter, 95, American film editor.
• Somnath Chatterjee, 89, Indian politician, Speaker of the Lok Sabha, multiple organ failure.
• Tajul Islam Choudhury, 73, Bangladeshi politician, Opposition Chief Whip of Jatiya Sangsad.
• Ian Dean, 48, English professional wrestler, heart attack.
• Santiago María García de la Rasilla, 81, Spanish-born Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Jaén en Perú.
• Don Garrison, 93, American politician, member of the Texas House of Representatives.
• Giam Choo Kwee, 76, Singaporean chess player.
• Georges Hausemer, 61, Luxembourgian writer.
• Unshō Ishizuka, 67, Japanese voice actor, esophageal cancer.
• Mie Mie, 46, Burmese democracy activist, traffic collision.
• Powell A. Moore, 80, American government official.
• Ann Moss, 80, British literary historian.
• Gerald Nazareth, 86, Hong Kong judge, Non-Permanent Judge of the Court of Final Appeal.
• Jim Neidhart, 63, American professional wrestler, head injury from fall.
• Rico Pontvianne, 74, Mexican basketball player, Pan American championship silver medalist.
• Miguel Ángel Sanz Bocos, 100, Spanish fighter pilot, last living aviator of the Civil War.
• Golam Sarwar, 75, Bangladeshi journalist and founding editor of Samakal.
• Gyula Szabó, 70, Hungarian Olympic judoka.

  14

• Brief Truce, 29, Irish racehorse.
• Chemmanam Chacko, 92, Indian poet.
• Sir Hugh Cortazzi, 94, British diplomat, Ambassador to Japan.
• Charles Victor Grahmann, 87, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Dallas.
• Mela Hudson, 31, American actress and filmmaker.
• Jill Janus, 42, American rock singer, suicide.
• Tomasz Jędrzejak, 39, Polish motorcycle speedway rider, suspected suicide.
• Itai Keisuke, 62, Japanese sumo wrestler.
• Valentina Levko, 92, Russian opera and chamber singer.
• Michael Persinger, 73, American-born Canadian psychology professor, neuroscience researcher and ufologist.
• Mary Pratt, 83, Canadian painter.
• Randy Rampage, 58, Canadian thrash metal singer and bassist, heart attack.
• Hakam Singh, 64, Indian race walker, Asian Games champion, liver and kidney disease.
• Balram Das Tandon, 90, Indian politician, Governor of Chhattisgarh.
• Mario Trebbi, 78, Italian footballer.
• Eduard Uspensky, 80, Russian author and screenwriter.

  15

• Malik Ghulam Abbas, Pakistani politician, heart attack.
• Kunihiro Abe, 50, Japanese animator.
• Rita Borsellino, 73, Italian anti-Mafia activist and politician, MEP, cancer.
• Kenneth Bowles, 89, American computer scientist.
• Peter Box, 86, Australian footballer.
• Martin Brandon-Bravo, 86, British politician, MP for Nottingham South.
• Marie-Françoise Bucquet, 80, French pianist and teacher.
• Pierre Camou, 72, French rugby union administrator.
• Robert Everett, 97, American computer scientist.
• Peter Fisher, 67, British physician, traffic collision.
• François Garnier, 74, French Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Cambrai.
• Edmond Haan, 94, French footballer.
• Abu Bakr al-Jazaeri, 97, Algerian Islamic scholar and writer.
• Vivian Matalon, 88, British theatre director.
• Albert Millaire, 83, Canadian actor, cancer.
• Stuart Mitchell, 52, Scottish pianist and composer, lung cancer.
• Allan Rune Pettersson, 82, Swedish author.
• Marisa Porcel, 74, Spanish actress.
• Sir John Shipley Rowlinson, 92, British chemist.
• Momoko Sakura, 53, Japanese manga artist, breast cancer.
• Sterling Stuckey, 86, American historian.
• Ajit Wadekar, 77, Indian cricketer, cancer.

  16

• David Campion Acheson, 96, American attorney.
• Benny Andersen, 88, Danish author, poet and pianist.
• Michael Bettaney, 68, British MI5 agent and spy for the Soviet Union.
• George Athan Billias, 99, American historian.
• Glen Chin, 70, American actor.
• Mohamed Demagh, 88, Algerian sculptor.
• Donald E. Edwards, 81, American military officer and politician.
• Aretha Franklin, 76, American Hall of Fame singer, pianist and songwriter, 18-time Grammy winner, pancreatic cancer.
• Arne Johansson, 91, Swedish Olympic cyclist.
• Kim Yong-chun, 82, North Korean military officer and politician, Deputy, Chief of the KPA General Staff, heart attack.
• Gavri Levy, 80, Israeli dancer and choreographer, Chairman of the Israel Football Association.
• Michael McGuire, 92, British politician, MP for Ince and Makerfield.
• Count Prince Miller, 83, Jamaican-born British singer and actor, cancer.
• Joseph Minj, 87, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Simdega.
• Samir Salameh, 74, Palestinian-French visual artist.
• Warwick Selvey, 78, Australian Olympic discus thrower.
• Yelena Shushunova, 49, Russian Hall of Fame gymnast, European, World, and Olympic champion, complications from pneumonia.
• Atal Bihari Vajpayee, 93, Indian politician, Prime Minister, Minister of External Affairs, multiple organ failure.
• Wakako Yamauchi, 93, American playwright.
• Rafif al-Yasiri, 33, Iraqi plastic surgeon and television host, drug overdose.

  17

• Bromley Armstrong, 92, Jamaican-born Canadian civil rights leader.
• Bob Bass, 89, American basketball coach and executive, strokes.
• Graham Bond, 81, Australian gymnast.
• Leonard Boswell, 84, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa's 3rd district, complications from pseudomyxoma peritonei.
• Rodney Cass, 78, English cricketer.
• Jeremy Catto, 79, English historian.
• Ezzatolah Entezami, 94, Iranian actor.
• Linton Freeman, 91, American sociologist.
• Bunky Henry, 74, American golfer, complications following heart surgery.
• Claudio Lolli, 68, Italian singer-songwriter, cancer.
• David McReynolds, 88, American pacifist and magazine editor, fall.
• Paul Naumoff, 73, American football player.
• Anne-Li Norberg, 64, Swedish actress, cancer.
• Danny Pearson, 65, American R&B singer, liver cancer.
• Dennis Randall, 73, American football player.
• Warwick Roger, 72, New Zealand journalist, founder of Metro magazine.
• Hardayal Singh, 90, Indian field hockey player, Olympic champion.
• Gyula Szabó, 70, Hungarian Olympic sports shooter.
• Sahar Taha, 61, Iraqi-born Lebanese musician and journalist.
• Halima Xudoyberdiyeva, 71, Uzbekistani writer and poet.
• Kurt Walker, 64, American ice hockey player, sepsis.

  18

• Kofi Annan, 80, Ghanaian diplomat, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Nobel Prize laureate.
• Tom Clark, 77, American poet and biographer, traffic collision.
• Jack Costanzo, 98, American percussionist, complications from a ruptured aneurysm.
• Eduard Frolov, 85, Russian historian.
• Gaetano Gifuni, 86, Italian civil servant, Secretary General of the President and Minister for Parliamentary Relations.
• Costas Kondylis, 78, American architect.
• Hilary Lister, 46, British sailor, complications from reflex sympathetic dystrophy.
• Gabriel López Zapiain, 75, Mexican footballer.
• John E. McCarthy, 88, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Austin.
• Ronnie Moore, 85, Australian-born New Zealand speedway rider, world champion, lung cancer.
• Pedro Queiroz Pereira, 69, Portuguese natural resource magnate and Formula Two driver, chairman of The Navigator Company and Semapa, heart attack.
• Sir Peter Tapsell, 88, British politician, MP and Father of the House of Commons.
• Robert Todd, 55, American filmmaker.
• John Townend, 84, British politician, MP.
• Ozzie Van Brabant, 91, Canadian baseball player.
• Chennupati Vidya, 84, Indian politician, MP for Vijayawada, heart attack.
• Henk Wesseling, 81, Dutch historian.

  19

• Khaira Arby, 59, Malian singer.
• Bazlur Rahman Badal, 95, Bangladeshi folk dancer, Independence Day Award recipient, pneumonia as a complication of COPD.
• Vaughn Beals, 90, American businessman.
• Alan Boyson, 87–88, English muralist and sculptor.
• Rafael Calventi, 86, Dominican architect and diplomat, heart attack.
• Edoardo Catellani, 96, Italian politician, Senator.
• Louis Gambaccini, 87, American civil servant, NJDOT commissioner, founding chairman of NJ Transit, general manager of SEPTA.
• Alastair Gillespie, 96, Canadian politician and businessman.
• Hong Chaosheng, 97, Chinese physicist, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
• Darrow Hooper, 86, American shot-putter, Olympic silver medal.
• Miguel Irízar Campos, 84, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Callao.
• Joe Landrum, 89, American baseball player.
• Margareta Niculescu, 92, Romanian artist, puppeteer, director and teacher.
• Margaret Reid, 95, New Zealand religious leader, moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand.
• Rosa Ríos, 83, Bolivian actress, stroke.
• Pedro Roncal, 56, Spanish journalist, heart attack.
• Rod Saddler, 52, American football player.
• Marisa Sánchez, 85, Spanish chef and gastronomist.

  20

• John N. Abrams, 71, American military officer, Commander of TRADOC.
• Matthew Aid, 60, American author and historian, heart disease.
• Richard D. Alexander, 88, American evolutionary biologist.
• Ted Atkins, 60, British mountaineer, climbing accident.
• Uri Avnery, 94, Israeli peace activist and politician, member of the Knesset, complications from a stroke.
• Andrés Aylwin, 93, Chilean politician and human rights activist, Deputy.
• Turgut Berkes, 65, Turkish rock musician and artist.
• Charles Blackman, 90, Australian painter.
• Greg Boyed, 48, New Zealand television presenter.
• Elizabeth Connell, 92, American gynecologist and obstetrician, heart failure.
• Doc Edwards, 81, American baseball player and manager.
• Ottó Heinek, 58, Hungarian politician and journalist, Chairman of the National Self-Government of Germans in Hungary.
• Chicha Mariani, 94, Argentinian human rights activist, co-founder of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, stroke.
• Antoinette Martignoni, 99, American artist.
• Jimmy McIlroy, 86, Northern Irish football player and manager.
• Fidelis Mhashu, 76, Zimbabwean politician, Minister of National Housing and Social Amenities, MP for Chitungwiza North.
• Brian Murray, 80, South African Hall of Fame actor and theatre director.
• Peter Nott, 84, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Norwich.
• Antonio Pischedda, 75, Italian actor and politician, Senator, complications from a stroke.
• Piloo Sarkari, 91, Indian Olympic cyclist.
• Jacques Tétreault, 89, Canadian politician.
• Eddie Willis, 82, American studio guitarist, complications from poliomyelitis.
• Craig Zadan, 69, American film producer, complications following shoulder surgery.

  21

• George Andrie, 78, American football player.
• John Christgau, 84, American writer, heart attack.
• Enrico De Angelis, 97, Italian singer.
• Otávio Frias Filho, 61, Brazilian journalist, editorial director of Folha de S.Paulo, pancreatic cancer.
• Charles Gain, 94, American police officer, respiratory failure.
• Barbara Harris, 83, American actress, Tony winner, co-founder of The Second City, lung cancer.
• Spencer P. Jones, 61, New Zealand singer and guitarist, liver cancer.
• Vesna Krmpotić, 86, Croatian writer and translator.
• Donald Mackay, Baron Mackay of Drumadoon, 72, Scottish lawyer and politician, Lord Advocate.
• Hanna Mina, 94, Syrian novelist.
• Gerald Russell, 90, British psychiatrist.
• Renzo Sclavi, 94, Italian politician, Senator.
• Stefán Karl Stefánsson, 43, Icelandic actor, bile duct cancer.
• Dean Stone, 88, American baseball player.
• John van Reenen, 71, South African discus thrower, AAA champion, diabetes.
• Vicente Verdú, 75, Spanish writer, journalist and economist.
• Villano III, 66, Mexican professional wrestler, cerebral infarction.
• James Whittico Jr., 102, American physician.

  22

• Sergio Arredondo, 92, Chilean militant, member of the Caravan of Death, lung cancer.
• Natan Bernot, 87, Slovenian slalom canoeist, world championship silver medalist.
• Chris Champion, 57, American professional wrestler, stroke.
• Roger E. Combs, 73, American Air National Guard major general and judge.
• Jeremy Geffen, 40, American entrepreneur, drug overdose.
• Tullio Ilomets, 97, Estonian chemist and science historian.
• Richard Kadison, 93, American mathematician.
• Gurudas Kamat, 63, Indian politician, MP, heart attack.
• Ed King, 68, American Hall of Fame guitarist and songwriter, lung cancer.
• Lazy Lester, 85, American Hall of Fame blues musician, stomach cancer.
• Bill McGrath, 81, Australian politician, Victorian MLA.
• Joey Mente, 42, Filipino basketball player, cancer.
• Krishna Reddy, 93, Indian artist.
• Martin Shubik, 92, American economist.
• Jesús Torbado, 75, Spanish writer.

  23

• Arcabas, 91, French painter.
• Henry H. Arnhold, 96, American banker.
• Ted Bennett, 93, English footballer.
• Yves-Marie-Henri Bescond, 94, French Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Corbeil and Meaux.
• Jim Condon, 60, American politician, Member of the Vermont House of Representatives, esophageal cancer.
• Brian Drebber, 68, American sportscaster, traffic collision.
• Andriy Fedetskyi, 60, Ukrainian football player and manager.
• Delio Gamboa, 82, Colombian footballer.
• Cindy Haug, 61, Norwegian writer.
• Russ Heath, 91, American comic book artist, cancer.
• Dieter Thomas Heck, 80, German television host and actor.
• Oliver Hoare, 73, English art dealer, cancer.
• Ron Hunt, 72, English footballer.
• Wendy Hutton, 77, New Zealand travel and food writer.
• Ann Ireland, 65, Canadian novelist, carcinoid syndrome.
• Dominik Kalata, 93, Slovak Roman Catholic prelate, Titular Bishop of Semta.
• Eli Kassner, 94, Canadian guitar teacher and musician.
• Yasser Al-Masri, 47, Jordanian actor, traffic collision.
• Kuldip Nayar, 95, Indian journalist, human rights activist and politician, MP.
• Mick O'Toole, 86, Irish racehorse trainer.
• Dario Pegoretti, 62, Italian bicycle framebuilder, heart attack.
• George Sheldon, 71, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives, complications from a fall.
• Lance Thompson, 40, Australian rugby league player.
• Franck Venaille, 81, French poet and writer.
• George Walker, 96, American composer, Pulitzer Prize recipient, fall.
• David Yallop, 81, British author, complications from Alzheimer's disease.

  24

• Stan Black, 62, American football player, traffic collision.
• Andre Blay, 81, American film producer.
• Vijay Chavan, 63, Indian actor, lung disease.
• Lawrence J. DeNardis, 80, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, President of the University of New Haven.
• Claudiomiro Estrais Ferreira, 68, Brazilian footballer.
• Sherkhan Farnood, 57, Afghan banker and poker player, heart attack.
• Tom Frost, 81, American mountaineer and photographer, cancer.
• Uri Katzenstein, 67, Israeli sculptor and musician, stroke.
• Robin Leach, 76, British writer and television host, complications from a stroke.
• Jeff Lowe, 67, American mountaineer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Princeton Lyman, 82, American diplomat, Ambassador to Nigeria and South Africa, lung cancer.
• James Mallinson, 74–75, English record producer.
• Gordon McOmber, 98, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Montana.
• Stanley Morgan, 88, English novelist and actor.
• Emiddio Novi, 72, Italian journalist and politician, MP, traffic collision.
• Javier Otxoa, 43, Spanish cyclist, Paralympic champion.
• Aleksei Paramonov, 93, Soviet-born Russian football player and manager, Olympic champion.
• Antonio Pennarella, 58, Italian actor.
• Valentina Rastvorova, 85, Soviet-born Russian fencer, Olympic champion and silver medalist, eight-time world champion.
• Gordon Riddick, 74, English footballer.
• Trudy Stevenson, 73, Zimbabwean politician and diplomat, Ambassador to Senegal.
• Ivan Štraus, 90, Bosnian architect.
• Sir Adrian Swire, 86, British businessman
• Ciril Zlobec, 93, Slovene poet, writer and politician.

  25

• Miyoko Asō, 92, Japanese actress and voice actress, senile dementia.
• Florian Beigel, 76, German architect, cardiac arrest.
• Rolf Yngvar Berg, 92, Norwegian botanist.
• Dieudonné Bogmis, 63, Cameroonian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Éséka, stroke.
• Art Bragg, 87, American sprinter.
• Con Cooney, 84, Irish hurler and coach.
• Ruth Finley, 98, American publisher, respiratory failure.
• S. H. Hasbullah, 67, Sri Lankan geographer and academic, heart attack.
• Lindsay Kemp, 80, English dancer, choreographer and actor.
• Karl F. Lopker, 66, American business executive, prostate cancer.
• John McCain, 81, American politician and Navy officer, member of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, glioblastoma.
• Hari Chand Middha, 76, Indian politician, heart attack.
• Meyer Rosen, 98, American politician, Member of the South Carolina House of Representatives.
• Tadeusz Rudolf, 92, Polish economist and politician, Minister of Labor and Social Policy
• Noam Sheriff, 83, Israeli composer and conductor, heart attack.
• Eugenio Tarabini, 88, Italian politician, MP, heart attack.
• Vojtěch Varadín, 69, Slovak footballer.
• Germán Villegas, 74, Colombian lawyer and politician, Mayor of Cali, Governor of Valle del Cauca and Senator, stroke.

  26

• Alyosha Abrahamyan, 72, Armenian footballer.
• Federico Barbosa Gutiérrez, 66, Mexican jurist and politician, member of the Congress of the Union, heart attack.
• Martin van Beek, 58, Dutch politician, Senator, traffic collision.
• Inge Borkh, 97, German soprano.
• Gopal Bose, 71, Indian cricketer, heart attack.
• Rosa Bouglione, 107, French circus performer.
• Barbara Darrow, 86, American actress.
• Carlo Della Corna, 66, Italian football player and manager, cancer.
• Barrie Dunsmore, 79, American journalist.
• George J. Eade, 96, American Air Force general.
• Odysseus Eskitzoglou, 86, Greek sailor, Olympic champion.
• K. K. Haridas, 52, Indian film director, heart attack.
• Kerry Hill, 75, Australian architect.
• Tony Hiller, 91, British songwriter and producer.
• Brahim Karabi, 84, Tunisian sprinter
• Juhani Keto, 70, Finnish basketball player.
• Cristina Marsans, 72, Spanish golfer.
• Juraj Miklušica, 80, Czechoslovakian Olympic cyclist.
• Thomas J. O'Brien, 82, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Phoenix, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Patrick Quilty, 79, Australian palaeontologist.
• Hamsad Rangkuti, 75, Indonesian writer, complications from a stroke.
• Neil Simon, 91, American playwright and screenwriter, Tony winner, complications from pneumonia.

  27

• Alan Cairns, 88, Canadian political scientist.
• Robert Churchhouse, 90, British mathematician.
• Dale M. Cochran, 89, American politician, Secretary of Agriculture of Iowa, member of the Iowa House of Representatives.
• Rohan Daluwatte, 77, Sri Lankan Army general, heart attack.
• Tina Fuentes, 34, Spanish Olympic synchronised swimmer, cancer.
• Max Geuter, 80, German fencer.
• Aya Koyama, 45, Japanese professional wrestler and mixed martial artist, cancer.
• Henry McNamara, 83, American politician, member of the New Jersey Senate.
• S. Nagoor Meeran, 55, Indian politician, renal failure.
• Olga Meyer, 88, Norwegian journalist.
• Mirka Mora, 90, French-born Australian artist and cultural figure, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Iolanda Nanni, 49, Italian politician, Deputy, cancer.
• Ron Newman, 82, British-born American soccer player and manager.
• Alfonso Osorio, 94, Spanish military lawyer and politician, Minister of Presidency and Second Vice President.
• Emil Rachev, 28, Bulgarian footballer, heart attack.
• Bobby Walden, 80, American football player.
• Fredd Wayne, 93, American actor.
• Rupert Webb, 96, English cricketer.
• Stellan Westerdahl, 81, Swedish sailor, Olympic silver medalist.
• Murray Westgate, 100, Canadian actor.

  28

• Ray Barry, 89, American-born Canadian ice hockey player.
• Josep Fontana, 86, Spanish historian and academic.
• Andrew Hughes, 62, Australian police officer, Fijian Commissioner of Police, bowel cancer.
• Maqbool Hussain, Pakistani war prisoner.
• Tatyana Kuznetsova, 77, Soviet-born Russian cosmonaut.
• Nestorius Timanywa, 81, Tanzanian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bukoba.
• Szczepan Wesoły, 91, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Gniezno.

  29

• Robin Birley, 83, British archaeologist.
• Jim Breithaupt, 83, Canadian politician.
• Stan Brock, 82, British philanthropist, founder of Remote Area Medical.
• Tony Camillo, 90, American record producer and arranger.
• Silvano Campeggi, 95, Italian film poster designer.
• Samuel Conti, 96, American judge.
• Gary Friedrich, 75, American comic book writer, co-creator of Ghost Rider, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Ken Ford, 88, British sculptor.
• Joseph P. Graw, 103, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives.
• Nandamuri Harikrishna, 61, Indian actor and politician, traffic collision.
• Elizabeth Kishkon, 87, Canadian politician, Mayor of Windsor, Ontario.
• François Konter, 84, Luxembourgian footballer.
• Erich Lessing, 95, Austrian photographer.
• Ellie Mannette, 90, Trinidadian steelpan musician.
• Sir James Mirrlees, 82, Scottish economist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• Peter Mond, 4th Baron Melchett, 70, British environmentalist and politician.
• Tom Murphy, 81, Canadian politician, member of the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly.
• Carilda Oliver Labra, 96, Cuban poet.
• Mihály Petrovszky, 67, Hungarian Olympic judoka
• Marie Severin, 89, American Hall of Fame comic book artist, co-creator of Spider-Woman, stroke.
• Paul Spudis, 66, American geologist and planetary scientist, lung cancer.
• David Sugarbaker, 65, American physician.
• Paul Taylor, 88, American choreographer, renal failure.
• Kolya Vasin, 73, Russian author and collector of Beatles memorabilia, fall.
• Thomas Wiseman, 87, British author, playwright and screenwriter.
• Sir Barry Wilson, 82, British admiral.

  30

• Peter Corris, 76, Australian author and historian.
• Peter Frame, 61, American ballet dancer, suicide by jumping.
• Jack Garrick, 90, New Zealand ichthyologist.
• B. Jaya, 54, Indian film director and actress, heart attack.
• Joseph Kobzon, 80, Russian singer, People's Artist of USSR, prostate cancer.
• Ray Kubala, 75, American football player, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Zohar Manna, 79, Israeli computer scientist.
• Vanessa Marquez, 49, American actress, shot.
• Medicean, 21, British racehorse.
• William Joseph Nealon Jr., 95, American judge.
• Ray, 36, Hong Kong professional wrestler, brain cancer.
• David Watkin, 77, English architectural historian.

  31

• Susan Brown, 86, American actress, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, 96, Italian population geneticist.
• John M. Darley, 80, American social psychologist.
• Brian Davis, 84, Australian politician, member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly.
• José Luis Dibildox Martínez, 75, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tarahumara and Tampico ; chronic illness.
• Marianne Eckardt, 105, German-born American psychoanalyst, translator and editor.
• Mario Facco, 72, Italian football player and manager.
• Peter Hatendi, 91, Zimbabwean Anglican prelate, Bishop of Harare and Mashonaland, heart and lung disease.
• Gloria Jean, 92, American singer and actress, heart failure.
• Ian Jones, 86, Australian author and television producer.
• Hans Keil, 74, Samoan politician, cancer.
• Wolfgang Klausewitz, 96, German ichthyologist and marine biologist.
• Amanda Kyle Williams, 61, American crime novelist, cancer.
• Anita Lindman, 86, Swedish television announcer and producer.
• Elmar Pieroth, 83, German politician, member of the Bundestag.
• Carole Shelley, 79, British actress, Tony winner, cancer.
• Philip Short, 58, Irish chess player.
• Phil Slosburg, 91, American football player.
• Alice Yotopoulos-Marangopoulos, 101, Greek criminologist and women's rights activist, President of the International Alliance of Women.
• Alexander Zakharchenko, 42, Ukrainian separatist leader, President and Prime Minister of the Donetsk People's Republic, bombing.