Deaths in December 2016

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

  December 2016

1

• Sulabha Brahme, 84, Indian economist.
• Don Calfa, 76, American actor.
• Elisabeth Carron, 94, American operatic soprano.
• Jacques Cohen, 86, Egyptian-born Israeli actor, complications from pneumonia.
• Peter Corrigan, 75, Australian architect.
• Patricia Crampton, 90, English translator.
• Gérard Desrosiers, 97, Canadian physician.
• Jo-Anna Downey, 50, Canadian comedian, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Inkulab, 72, Indian poet and political activist.
• Bor-ming Jahn, 76, Taiwanese geochemist.
• Helen Ketola, 85, American baseball player.
• Barry Lloyd, 63, Welsh cricketer.
• Joe McKnight, 28, American football player, shot.
• Ljubo Sirc, 96, Slovene economist.
• Ousmane Sow, 81, Senegalese sculptor.
• Zekarias Yohannes, 91, Eritrean Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Asmara.

  2

• Odeefuo Boa Amponsem III, 94, Ghanaian royal, King of Denkyira.
• Coral Atkins, 80, English actress, cancer.
• Lyle Bouck, 92, American military officer and war veteran, pneumonia.
• H. Keith H. Brodie, 77, American psychiatrist and educator, President of Duke University.
• Joan Chalmers, 88, Canadian philanthropist.
• Billy Chapin, 72, American child actor.
• Cherushii, 33, American electronic musician and radio host, injuries from fire.
• Paul de Wispelaere, 88, Belgian writer.
• Dejo Fayemi, 83, Nigerian footballer.
• Barry Frank, 86, American pop singer.
• Mark Gray, 64, American country singer and songwriter.
• Halvar Jonson, 75, Canadian politician, Alberta MLA.
• Sammy Lee, 96, American diver, Olympic champion, pneumonia.
• Ko. Si. Mani, 87, Indian politician.
• Gisela May, 92, German actress and singer.
• James Reiss, 75, American poet and novelist.
• Teri Rofkar, 60, American Tlingit weaver.
• Rocco Salini, 85, Italian politician, President of Abruzzo.
• Jean Stead, 90, British journalist.
• Bosco Tjan, 50, American professor and psychologist, stabbed.
• Tove Kari Viken, 74, Norwegian politician, MP.

  3

• Rustam Asildarov, 35, Russian militant leader.
• Harry Balk, 91, American record producer and record company executive.
• Willie Casey, 84, Irish Gaelic football player.
• Dave Cropper, 70, British Olympic athlete.
• Susan Cummings, 86, German-born American actress, cardiogenic shock.
• Newman Darby, 88, American sailboard inventor.
• Gigliola Frazzoni, 93, Italian opera singer.
• Nikola Gigov, 79, Bulgarian author.
• Herbert Hardesty, 91, American jazz musician.
• Sir David Hay, 88, New Zealand cardiologist, anti-smoking campaigner.
• Arthur Latham, 86, British politician, MP for Paddington North and Paddington, Leader of London Borough of Havering.
• Bengt Lindqvist, 80, Swedish politician, MP.
• Bhai Mahavir, 94, Indian politician, Governor of Madhya Pradesh.
• Nancy Mairs, 73, American writer.
• Brockway McMillan, 101, American government official and scientist, Director of the National Reconnaissance Office.
• Antonio Membrado, 81, Spanish classical guitarist.
• Kuforiji Olubi, 80, Nigerian businesswoman and politician.
• Rémy Pflimlin, 62, French businessman, CEO of France Télévisions, cancer.
• Leonard B. Sand, 88, American judge.
• Bekal Utsahi, 92, Indian poet and politician, MP, brain haemorrhage.

  4

• Hiroshi Arakawa, 86, Japanese baseball player, batting coach and manager, cardiac arrest.
• Byron Birdsall, 78, American watercolor painter, heart failure.
• Lady Moyra Browne, 98, British nursing administrator.
• Tadeusz Chmielewski, 89, Polish film director, screenwriter and producer.
• Leonard T. Connors, 87, American politician, member of the New Jersey Senate.
• Kamarou Fassassi, 68, Beninese politician, Minister of Mines, Energy and Hydraulics.
• Julia Gomelskaya, 52, Ukrainian composer, traffic collision.
• Gotlib, 82, French comics artist.
• Ferreira Gullar, 86, Brazilian writer, essayist and art critic, pneumonia.
• Radim Hladík, 69, Czech musician, pulmonary fibrosis.
• Peter Latham, 91, British air marshal.
• Stu Locklin, 88, American baseball player.
• Jean-Loup Passek, 80, French film critic.
• Patricia Robins, 95, British novelist.
• Jack Rudin, 92, American real estate developer.
• John Swaab, 88, Dutch Olympic equestrian
• Margaret Whitton, 67, American actress, cancer.
• Tiina Wilén-Jäppinen, 53, Finnish politician, shot.

  5

• Charles H. Belzile, 83, Canadian army general. Commander of the Canadian Army.
• Big Syke, 48, American rapper.
• Mogens Camre, 80, Danish politician, MP and MEP.
• Geydar Dzhemal, 69, Russian Islamic revolutionist and activist.
• Julia Elena Fortún, 87, Bolivian anthropologist.
• Petros Fyssoun, 83, Greek actor.
• Jayalalithaa, 68, Indian politician and actress, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, heart attack.
• Mona Maraachli, 58, Lebanese singer, heart attack.
• Marcel Renaud, 90, French canoeist, Olympic silver medalist.
• Larry Roberts, 53, American football player.
• Rashaan Salaam, 42, American football player, Heisman Trophy winner, suicide by gunshot.
• Rodney Smith, 68, American photographer.
• Robert Sumner, 94, American Baptist pastor and author.

  6

• Bruno Bayen, 66, French novelist, playwright and theatre director.
• Adolf Burger, 99, Slovak-born Czech typographer, memoirist and Holocaust survivor.
• Brittany CoxXx, 38, American trans woman and performer.
• Dave Edwards, 76, American football player, heart illness.
• Lalit Mohan Gandhi, 65, Indian politician, fell from train.
• Jan Frøystein Halvorsen, 88, Norwegian Supreme Court Justice.
• Dave MacLaren, 82, Scottish football player and manager.
• Jacky Morael, 57, Belgian politician.
• Charles B. Reed, 75, American educator, Chancellor of State University System of Florida and California State University.
• Chonosuke Takagi, 68, Japanese judoka, world champion, heart attack.
• Peter Vaughan, 93, British actor, epilepsy.
• Jim Vickers, 93, Indian hurdler
• Luke Wendon, 90, British Olympic fencer.

  7

• Warren Allmand, 84, Canadian politician, member of the House of Commons of Canada and Cabinet minister.
• Brian Bulless, 83, English footballer.
• Ian Cartwright, 52, English footballer, renal and spinal cancer.
• Viktor Danilov, 89, Russian-born Belarusian Greek-Catholic priest and Soviet dissident.
• Paul Elvstrøm, 88, Danish yachtsman, Olympic champion.
• Mohamed Tahar Fergani, 88, Algerian singer.
• Hildegard Hamm-Brücher, 95, German politician.
• Hui Yin-fat, 80, Hong Kong social worker and politician, MLC, MEC and member of the PLC.
• Junaid Jamshed, 52, Pakistani musician, television personality and preacher, plane crash.
• Alex Johnstone, 55, Scottish politician, MSP for North East Scotland, cancer.
• Mike Kelly, 74, American politician, member of the Alaska House of Representatives, plane crash.
• Phillip Knightley, 87, Australian journalist.
• Greg Lake, 69, English singer and musician, cancer.
• Martin Puhvel, 82, Estonian-born Canadian philologist.
• Cho Ramaswamy, 82, Indian actor and lawyer, heart attack.
• Mick Roche, 73, Irish hurler.
• Helen Roseveare, 91, British Christian missionary.
• Romilly Squire of Rubislaw, 63, Scottish heraldic artist.
• Elliott Schwartz, 80, American composer.
• İsmet Sezgin, 88, Turkish politician, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence, multiple organ failure.
• Allan Stewart, 74, Scottish politician, MP for East Renfrewshire, Eastwood.
• Benny Woit, 88, Canadian ice hockey player.

  8

• Joop Braakhekke, 75, Dutch restaurateur and television presenter, pancreatic cancer.
• Putsy Caballero, 89, American baseball player.
• Valdon Dowiyogo, 48, Nauruan politician, MP.
• John Glenn, 95, American astronaut and politician, U.S. Senator from Ohio.
• Gareth Griffiths, 85, Welsh rugby union player.
• Peter Jackson, 90, British animal conservationist and journalist.
• Lélis Lara, 90, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Itabira–Fabriciano.
• Joseph Mascolo, 87, American actor, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Thomas C. Oden, 85, American theologian.
• Dame Sheila Quinn, 96, British nurse, President of the Royal College of Nursing.
• Fred Secombe, 97, Welsh priest and writer.
• Sir Alan Urwick, 86, British diplomat and public servant, Ambassador to Egypt, High Commissioner to Canada, Serjeant-at-Arms of the House of Commons.
• Peter van Straaten, 81, Dutch comics artist and political cartoonist.
• Palani Vaughan, 72, American Hawaiian music singer.

  9

• Romualdas Aleliūnas, 57, Lithuanian ceramics designer.
• Élcio Álvares, 84, Brazilian politician, Senator, Minister of Defence, and Governor of Espírito Santo.
• Edwin Benson, 85, American teacher, last speaker of the Mandan language.
• Georgia Blain, 51, Australian writer, brain cancer.
• Lawrence Demmy, 85, British ice dancer, world champion 1952–1955.
• A. Ross Eckler Jr., 89, American logologist, statistician, and author.
• Alejandro González Jr., 23, Mexican bantamweight boxer, shot.
• Sergei Lemeshko, 44, Russian footballer.
• Mario Milano, 81, Italian-born Australian professional wrestler.
• Nola Ochs, 105, American centenarian, world's oldest college graduate.
• Luke Owens, 83, American football player.
• Jens Risom, 100, Danish-born American furniture designer.
• Franco Rosso, 75, Italian-born British film director.
• Robert Scholes, 87, American literary critic and theorist.
• Rob Sherman, 63, American political activist, plane crash.
• William N. Small, 89, American admiral.
• P. Viswambharan, 91, Indian politician.
• Ronald Webster, 90, Anguillan politician, Chief Minister.
• Günther Wilke, 91, German chemist.

  10

• George Junus Aditjondro, 70, Indonesian academic and political dissident.
• Stefania Biegun, 81, Polish Olympic cross-country skier.
• Peter Brabrook, 79, English footballer.
• Felix Browder, 89, American mathematician.
• John Cordner, 87, Australian cricket and football player.
• T. Neil Davis, 84, American geophysicist and writer.
• Bill Dineen, 84, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
• Wolfgang Eisenmenger, 86, German physicist.
• Damião Experiença, 81, Brazilian outsider musician.
• Étienne Fabre, 20, French racing cyclist, fall.
• Jean-Claude Frécon, 72, French politician, Senator from Loire.
• James Gair, 88, American linguist.
• A. A. Gill, 62, British writer and restaurant critic, lung cancer.
• Gene Hamm, 93, American golf player and course designer.
• Ken Hechler, 102, American politician, U. S. Representative from West Virginia's 4th congressional district, Secretary of State of West Virginia, stroke.
• Hans-Eric Hellberg, 89, Swedish author and journalist.
• Eric Hilton, 83, American hotelier and philanthropist.
• László Huzsvár, 85, Serbian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Zrenjanin.
• Paul Shinichi Itonaga, 88, Japanese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Kagoshima.
• Herm Johnson, 63, American race car driver, liver and renal failure.
• Rick Klassen, 57, Canadian football player, cancer.
• George Klein, 91, Hungarian-Swedish biologist.
• V. C. Kulandaiswamy, 87, Indian academic.
• Miles Lord, 97, American federal judge, U. S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, Attorney General of Minnesota.
• Ian McCaskill, 78, British meteorologist and weatherman.
• Tommy McCulloch, 82, Scottish footballer.
• Sergey Mikaelyan, 93, Russian film director.
• John Montague, 87, Irish poet.
• John Newhouse, 87, American journalist and author.
• Luciano Nobili, 83, Italian footballer.
• Allan Prell, 79, American radio host.
• William J. Richardson, 96, American philosopher.
• Alberto Seixas Santos, 80, Portuguese film director.
• Balbir Singh Sidhu, 84, Kenyan Olympic hockey player
• Robert Stiller, 88, Polish author and translator.
• William Usery Jr., 92, American politician, Secretary of Labor, heart failure.

  11

• Sadiq Jalal al-Azm, 82, Syrian philosopher and academician.
• Sark Arslanian, 92, American football coach.
• João Castelo, 79, Brazilian politician, Governor of Maranhão, complications from surgery.
• Harry Jones, 71, American football player, heart attack.
• Bob Krasnow, 82, American record label executive, co-founder of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
• Charlie McNeil, 53, Scottish footballer.
• John Moffat, 97, British navy pilot.
• Marie Muhammad, 77, Indonesian politician, Finance Minister, brain cancer.
• Michael Nicholson, 79, British journalist and war correspondent.
• Sid O'Linn, 89, South African cricketer and footballer.
• Kevin O'Morrison, 100, American playwright and actor.
• Ramesh Prabhoo, 78, Indian politician, Mayor of Mumbai.
• Marion Pritchard, 96, Dutch-born American social worker and Righteous Among the Nations, cerebral arteriosclerosis.
• Esma Redžepova, 73, Macedonian Romani singer.
• Alan Sherlock, 78, Australian politician.
• Thressa Stadtman, 96, American biochemist.
• Roberto Vizcaíno, 59, Spanish tennis player and coach.

  12

• Barrelhouse Chuck, 58, American blues musician, prostate cancer.
• E. R. Braithwaite, 104, Guyanese novelist and diplomat, heart failure.
• Myron H. Bright, 97, American judge, U. S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
• Lucila Campos, 78, Peruvian singer.
• Gerard Clifford, 75, Irish Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Armagh.
• Donald L. Corbin, 78, American judge, Arkansas Supreme Court, lung cancer.
• Jean-Claude Deret, 95, French screenwriter.
• Anne Deveson, 86, Australian writer and broadcaster, Alzheimer's disease.
• Jimbo Elrod, 62, American football player, traffic collision.
• Jean Fisher, 74, British art critic and writer.
• Mark Fisher, 57, British musician.
• Robert Gomer, 92, Austrian-born American chemical physicist, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Shirley Hazzard, 85, Australian-born American writer.
• Gustav Jahoda, 96, Austrian-born British psychologist.
• Ratan Kumar, 75, Pakistani actor.
• Lord Gyllene, 28, New Zealand-bred racehorse, winner of the 1997 Grand National.
• Jim Lowe, 93, American singer-songwriter.
• Jim Prior, Baron Prior, 89, British politician, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and Employment.
• Konrad Reuland, 29, American football player, brain aneurysm.
• Javier Echevarría Rodríguez, 84, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, head of the Prelature of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei.
• Claus Ryskjær, 71, Danish humorist and actor.
• Bob Schnelker, 88, American football player and coach.
• Leo Sharp, 92, American drug dealer.
• Charles Mwando Simba, 80, Congolese politician.
• Walter Swinburn, 55, British jockey, fall from window.
• Bob Thomas, 62, Australian politician, member of the Western Australian Legislative Council, mesothelioma.
• Esther Wilkins, 100, American dentist.

  13

• Ralph Brown, 90, American football player and coach.
• Lawrence Colburn, 67, American Vietnam War veteran, intervened to end the My Lai Massacre, cancer.
• Roy Harrover, 88, American architect, emphysema.
• Bob James, 83, American Olympic sailor
• Ahuva Ozeri, 68, Israeli singer, laryngeal cancer.
• Betsy Pecanins, 62, American-born Mexican singer, songwriter and record producer, stroke.
• Ralph Raico, 80, American historian.
• Thomas Schelling, 95, American economist and professor, Nobel Prize laureate, complications from a hip fracture.
• Poul Søgaard, 93, Danish politician, MP and Defence Minister.
• David Strangway, 82, Canadian geophysicist.
• Zubaida Tharwat, 76, Egyptian actress.
• Alan Thicke, 69, Canadian actor, talk show host, and songwriter, ruptured aorta.
• Fernando Vignoli, 56, Brazilian painter and sculptor, sepsis.
• Andrzej Wasilewicz, 65, Polish stage and film actor, and director, Alzheimer's disease.
• Yevgeny Yufit, 55, Russian filmmaker.

  14

• Chuck Allen, 77, American football player.
• Paulo Evaristo Arns, 95, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Cardinal and Archbishop of São Paulo, complications from pneumonia.
• Fosco Becattini, 91, Italian footballer.
• Shirley Dysart, 88, Canadian politician, MLA.
• Stephen Fienberg, 74, Canadian statistician.
• Bernard Fox, 89, Welsh actor, heart failure.
• Harold Gilliam, 98, American environmental journalist.
• Garrett K. Gomez, 44, American jockey, drug overdose.
• Hurricane Run, 14, Irish racehorse, euthanized.
• Karel Husa, 95, Czech-born American composer.
• Halfdan T. Mahler, 93, Danish physician, Director-General of the World Health Organization.
• Michael Manning, 75, American Roman Catholic priest, complications of brain cancer.
• Tom Ong, 78, Filipino Olympic sport shooter.
• Sadatoshi Ozato, 86, Japanese politician, member of the House of Representatives and Minister of Labour.
• Päivi Paunu, 70, Finnish singer, cancer.
• Ahmed Rateb, 67, Egyptian actor, stroke.
• Sir Dudley Smith, 90, British politician, MP for Brentford and Chiswick and Warwick and Leamington.
• Reginald Stackhouse, 91, Canadian politician and academic.
• Harvey Stevens, 86, Australian footballer.
• Jeremy Summers, 85, British film and television director.
• Gennady Tsygurov, 74, Russian ice hockey player and coach, cancer.
• Bunny Walters, 63, New Zealand singer.

  15

• Albert Bennett, 72, English footballer.
• Howard Bingham, 77, American photographer and biographer.
• Leanna Brown, 81, American politician.
• Beki İkala Erikli, 48, Turkish self-help author, shot.
• Shep Houghton, 102, American actor.
• Shūji Iuchi, 66, Japanese anime director.
• Fran Jeffries, 79, American actress and dancer.
• Osiride Pevarello, 96, Italian actor.
• Craig Sager, 65, American sportscaster, leukemia.
• Harley Saito, 48, Japanese professional wrestler, esophageal cancer.
• Dave Shepherd, 87, English jazz clarinetist.
• Bohdan Smoleń, 69, Polish comedian, singer and actor, lung infection.
• Ajit Varman, 69, Indian composer.
• Ron Ziel, 77, American railway historian.
• Mohamed Zouari, 49, Tunisian flight engineer, shot.

  16

• David Berry, 73, American playwright, heart attack.
• Jigme Dorje Palbar Bista, 86, Nepalese royal, King of Mustang, complications from pneumonia.
• Joyce Dalton, 83, Australian cricketer.
• Walter Hachborn, 95, Canadian businessman, co-founder of Home Hardware.
• Cecil Howard, 85, American pornographic film director.
• Bill Malenfant, 87, Canadian politician, MLA for Memramcook, Mayor of Dieppe, New Brunswick
• Faina Melnik, 71, Ukrainian-born Russian discus thrower, Olympic champion.
• Saintly, 24, Australian racehorse, national champion.
• Fred Swearingen, 95, American football official.
• Jim Williams, 90, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Florida.
• Ive Mažuran, 89, Croatian historian.

  17

• Houshmand Almasi, 88, Iranian Olympic fencer.
• Eric Defoort, 73, Belgian politician, President of the European Free Alliance.
• Edmond Farhat, 83, Lebanese Maronite Catholic hierarch, Apostolic Nuncio.
• Benjamin A. Gilman, 94, American politician, Member of the United States House of Representatives from New York's 20th, 22nd and 26th congressional districts, complications from hip surgery.
• Bill Hanna, 86, American politician, Mayor of Shreveport, Louisiana.
• Louis Harris, 95, American opinion polling entrepreneur, journalist, and author.
• Henry Heimlich, 96, American physician, inventor of the Heimlich maneuver, complications from a heart attack.
• Gordon Hunt, 87, American voice director and voice actor, Parkinson's disease.
• Leanid Marakou, 58, Belarusian journalist, writer and historian, brain cancer.
• Anne Ranasinghe, 91, German-born Sri Lankan poet.
• Ismoil Talbakov, 61, Tajik politician.

  18

• Eddie Bailham, 75, Irish footballer.
• Ken Baird, 65, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Rolf Trygve Busch, 96, Norwegian diplomat, Ambassador to West Germany, to the United Kingdom.
• Enrique Cirules, 78, Cuban writer.
• Frank Crotty, 78, New Zealand rower.
• Brendan J. Dugan, 69, American academic administrator, President of St. Francis College.
• Zsa Zsa Gabor, 99, Hungarian-born American actress and socialite, heart attack.
• Guinio Ganev, 88, Bulgarian politician.
• Bobby Guanzon, 68, Filipino journalist and politician, cardiac arrest.
• William H. Hudnut III, 84, American politician, Member of the United States House of Representatives from Indiana's 11th congressional district, Mayor of Indianapolis.
• Sata Isobe, 72, Japanese volleyball player, Olympic champion.
• Vibeke Knudsen, 68, Norwegian diplomat, ambassador to Colombia.
• Jack V. Lunzer, 92, Belgian-born British industrial diamond merchant and museum curator.
• China Machado, 86, Chinese fashion model, cardiac arrest.
• Léo Marjane, 104, French singer.
• Sonny Moran, 90, American college basketball coach.
• Herbert Nootbaar, 108, American businessman and philanthropist.
• Rachel Owen, 48, British academic and print-maker, cancer.
• Gustavo Quintero, 76, Colombian singer-songwriter.
• Gordie Tapp, 94, Canadian country singer and entertainer.
• Margit Tóth, 55, Hungarian Olympic artistic gymnast.
• Heinz Ulzheimer, 90, German athlete, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Thomas Warburton, 98, Finnish writer and translator.

  19

• Elizabeth Bell, 88, American composer.
• Ger Blok, 77, Dutch football manager.
• Lionel Blue, 86, British rabbi, journalist and broadcaster, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Anne Borg, 80, Norwegian ballet dancer.
• Phil Gagliano, 74, American baseball player.
• Hugh Iltis, 91, Czechoslovakian-born American botanist, complications of a vascular disease.
• Andrei Karlov, 62, Russian diplomat, Ambassador to Turkey, shot.
• Annette Karmiloff-Smith, 78, British neuroscientist.
• Dick Latessa, 87, American actor, heart failure.
• Ville Lyytikäinen, 49, Finnish football coach.
• Anupam Mishra, 68, Indian author, journalist and environmentalist.
• Sir John Oakeley, 8th Baronet, 84, British Olympic yachtsman.
• Jim Pettapiece, 79, Canadian curler, world champion, cancer.
• Anique Poitras, 55, Canadian writer.
• Kishori Sinha, 91, Indian politician.
• Fidel Uriarte, 71, Spanish footballer.
• Christopher Young, 71, British rugby league player, complications from cancer and chest infection.

  20

• Lawrence Borst, 89, American politician, member of the Indiana House of Representatives and Senate.
• Robert Eddins, 28, American football player, shot.
• Raymond Heacock, 88, American engineer.
• Toby Hemenway, 64, American author and educator, pancreatic cancer.
• El Hortelano, 62, Spanish painter.
• Patrick Jenkin, Baron Jenkin of Roding, 90, British politician, Secretary of State for Social Services, Industry, and Environment.
• Andrew Karpati Kennedy, 85, Hungarian-born British author and literary critic.
• Andrew Killgore, 97, American diplomat, Ambassador to Qatar.
• Michèle Morgan, 96, French film actress.
• Archie Norman, 104, British paediatrician.
• Dame Frances Patterson, 62, British judge.
• Paul Peter Porges, 89, American cartoonist.
• Jagannatha Varma, 77, Indian actor.

  21

• Mandell Berman, 99, American businessman and philanthropist.
• Corno, 64, Canadian artist, throat cancer.
• Deddie Davies, 78, British actress and musician.
• Welington de Melo, 70, Brazilian mathematician.
• Sidney Drell, 90, American physicist.
• Rob Gray, 54, Canadian production designer.
• Abdul Gafur Hali, 87, Bangladeshi singer, composer and lyricist.
• John Gwilliam, 93, Welsh rugby union player.
• Robert Leo Hulseman, 84, American entrepreneur, inventor of the red solo cup.
• Bob Jeffery, 81, British Anglican priest, Dean of Worcester.
• Jaan Klõšeiko, 77, Estonian printmaker and photographer.
• Remigijus Morkevičius, 34, Lithuanian mixed martial artist and kickboxer, shot.
• Madame Nguyễn Cao Kỳ, 75, Vietnamese air hostess, First Lady of South Vietnam.
• Sir Nigel Nicholls, 78, British civil servant, Clerk of the Privy Council.
• Weston Noble, 94, American music educator and conductor, complications from a fall.
• Şehmus Özer, 36, Turkish footballer, traffic collision.
• Vyacheslav Shalevich, 82, Russian actor.
• Betty Loo Taylor, 87, American jazz pianist.

  22

• William Abitbol, 67, French politician.
• Carlos Averhoff, 69, Cuban jazz saxophonist.
• John Buckingham, 76, British jockey.
• Mocho Cota, 62, Mexican professional wrestler.
• Yevgeny Dzhugashvili, 80, Russian-Georgian activist and politician.
• Solomon Levy, 80, Gibraltarian politician, Mayor of Gibraltar.
• Andre Martel, 70, American politician, member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives.
• Bill Price, 72, British record producer.
• Sidney Percy Roberson, 79, British bodybuilder and director.
• Philip Saville, 86, British television director and screenwriter.
• Kenneth Snelson, 89, American sculptor, prostate cancer.
• Franca Sozzani, 66, Italian journalist, Editor-in-chief of Vogue Italia.
• Sir Dwight Venner, 70, Vincentian banker.
• Lella Vignelli, 82, Italian designer, dementia.
• Lillian Walker, 93, American politician.
• Miruts Yifter, 72, Ethiopian long-distance runner, Olympic champion, complications from collapsed lung.

  23

• John Aitchison, 90, Scottish statistician.
• Anis Amri, 24, Tunisian terrorism suspect, shot.
• Joyce Appleby, 87, American historian.
• Claude Arnold, 92, Canadian football player.
• Doug Coombs, 92, New Zealand geologist and cricketer.
• Jean Gagnon, 75, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Gaspé.
• Robert Hinde, 93, British zoologist, Master of St John's College, Cambridge.
• Meto Jovanovski, 88, Macedonian writer.
• Willa Kim, 99, American costume designer.
• Jim Lehew, 79, American baseball player, congestive heart failure.
• James F. Merow, 84, American judge.
• Poul Pedersen, 84, Danish footballer, Olympic silver medalist.
• Tim Pitsiulak, 49, Canadian artist, complications from pneumonia.
• Chetan Ramarao, 76, Indian actor.
• Andrés Rivera, 88, Argentine writer.
• Heinrich Schiff, 65, Austrian cellist.
• Piers Sellers, 61, British astronaut and meteorologist, pancreatic cancer.
• Luba Skořepová, 93, Czech actress.
• Vladimir Stupishin, 84, Russian diplomat, first Ambassador of Russia to Armenia.
• George Thompson, 88, Scottish politician, MP for Galloway.
• Vesna Vulović, 66, Serbian flight attendant, world record holder for longest fall.

  24

• Edith Ackermann, 70, Swiss-born American psychologist.
• Richard Adams, 96, British author, complications from a blood disorder.
• Pape Badiane, 36, French basketball player, traffic collision.
• John Barfield, 52, American baseball player, shot.
• Dinanath Bhargava, 89, Indian artist, cardiac ailment.
• Aloke Bhattacharjee, 63, Indian cricketer and umpire.
• Ron Broom, 91, New Zealand cricketer.
• Philip Cannon, 87, British composer.
• Davis Earle, 79, Canadian physicist.
• Joseph Fitzmyer, 96, American Roman Catholic priest and professor.
• Jeffrey Hayden, 90, American television director and producer.
• Felix Krivin, 88, Ukrainian-Israeli writer and poet.
• Ted Meines, 95, Dutch military officer and veteran affairs activist.
• Rick Parfitt, 68, British singer, songwriter and guitarist, infection.
• Gil Parrondo, 95, Spanish art director and production designer, Oscar winner.
• Edwin Reinecke, 92, American politician, Member of the United States House of Representatives from California's 27th congressional district and Lieutenant Governor of California.
• Vasant Sarwate, 89, Indian cartoonist and author.
• Liz Smith, 95, English actress.
• Bronson Thayer, 77, American banker and civil leader, prostate cancer.
• C. Howard Wilkins, Jr., 78, American businessman and diplomat, Ambassador to the Netherlands.
• George Williams, 81, British racewalker.
• Zhao Er-mi, 86, Chinese zoologist.
• Ben Xi, 22, Chinese singer.

  25

• Aghakhan Abdullayev, 66, Azerbaijani folk singer.
• Sibylle Boden-Gerstner, 96, German costume designer and fashion writer.
• Lady Marion Fraser, 84, Scottish music educator.
• Sandra Giles, 84, American actress.
• John Gregson, 92, British George Cross recipient.
• Karl Golser, 73, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bolzano-Bressanone.
• Jim Malacko, 86, Canadian ice hockey player.
• George Michael, 53, British singer and songwriter, Grammy winner, cardiomyopathy.
• Alphonse Mouzon, 68, American jazz drummer and record label owner, neuroendocrine carcinoma.
• John Nike, 81, English businessman.
• Miriam Pirazzini, 98, Italian opera singer.
• Núria Pompeia, 85, Spanish cartoonist and feminist activist.
• Vera Rubin, 88, American astronomer, innovator of dark matter theory, dementia.
• Johnny Rutherford, 91, American baseball player.
• Léon-Raymond Soulier, 92, French Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Pamiers and Limoges.
• Eliseo Subiela, 71, Argentine film director.
• Rafael Vardi, 94, Israeli general.
• Notable Russian people killed in the Russian Defence Ministry Tupolev Tu-154 crash:
• *Elizaveta Glinka, 54, humanitarian worker and charity activist.
• *Anton Gubankov, 51, scholar and journalist, Director of the Department of Culture.
• *Valery Khalilov, 64, military band conductor.

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• Abu Jandal al-Kuwaiti, 30s, Kuwaiti ISIL commander.
• Kyriakos Amiridis, 59, Greek diplomat, Ambassador to Brazil, homicide.
• Ashot Anastasian, 52, Armenian chess grandmaster.
• John J. Benoit, 64, American politician, member of the California State Senate, pancreatic cancer.
• Joachim Calmeyer, 85, Norwegian actor.
• Jaume Camprodon i Rovira, 90, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Girona.
• Duck Edwing, 82, American cartoonist.
• Frances Gabe, 101, American artist and inventor.
• Petr Hájek, 76, Czech mathematician.
• Ricky Harris, 54, American comedian and actor, heart attack.
• George S. Irving, 94, American actor, heart failure.
• József Katona, 75, Hungarian swimmer.
• Bujar Lako, 69, Albanian actor.
• Antonio Martínez, 90, Filipino basketball player.
• Seth J. McKee, 100, American military officer.
• Peter Nowell, 88, American cancer researcher.
• Luciano Panetti, 87, Italian football player and manager.
• Elvio Porta, 71, Italian screenwriter and film director.
• Martin Reagan, 92, English football player and manager.
• Buddha Sayami, 72, Nepalese politician and poet.
• Barbara Tarbuck, 74, American actress, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.
• Mary Wondrausch, 93, British artist and potter.
• Ashot Yeghiazaryan, 73, Armenian diplomat and politician, Interim Minister of Foreign Affairs.

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• Chrissy Adams, 49, American attorney, Chief Solicitor for South Carolina Circuit Court Tenth Judicial Circuit, cancer.
• Mariza Corrêa, 71, Brazilian anthropologist.
• Anthony Cronin, 88, Irish poet and novelist.
• Bruce DeHaven, 68, American football coach, prostate cancer.
• Jules Dervaes, 69, American urban homesteading leader, pulmonary embolism.
• Maurice Failevic, 83, French film director.
• Carrie Fisher, 60, American actress, novelist and screenwriter, cardiac arrest.
• Claude Gensac, 89, French actress.
• Heno Magee, 77, Irish playwright.
• Annanias Mathe, 40, Mozambican criminal.
• George A. Russell, 95, American educator, President of University of Missouri System.
• Hans Tietmeyer, 85, German economist, President of Deutsche Bundesbank.
• Ellen Watters, 28, Canadian racing cyclist, injuries sustained in a traffic collision.
• Ratnasiri Wickremanayake, 83, Sri Lankan politician, Prime Minister.
• Chuck Wright, 97, American politician, Mayor of Topeka, Kansas.

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• Gregorio Conrado Álvarez, 91, Uruguayan politician, President.
• Pierre Barouh, 82, French actor, writer and musician, heart attack.
• Lars Bilet, 89, Norwegian Olympic wrestler.
• Gilles Borrie, 91, Dutch politician and historian, Mayor of Sleen, Tiel, Rheden, and Eindhoven.
• Michel Déon, 97, French novelist and literary columnist, pulmonary embolism.
• Donya Fannizadeh, 49, Iranian puppeteer, cancer.
• Minnevali Galiyev, 86, Russian Olympic skier.
• Lev Gor'kov, 87, Russian-born American physicist.
• Balozi Harvey, 76, American community activist.
• Annelise Hovmand, 92, Danish director and screenwriter.
• Knut Kiesewetter, 75, German jazz musician, singer-songwriter and producer.
• Kyi Aye, 87, Burmese writer.
• Pan Pan, 31, Chinese-born giant panda.
• Sunder Lal Patwa, 92, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh, heart attack.
• Bruce D. Porter, 64, American Mormon elder, member of the First Quorum of the Seventy.
• Paul Powell, 83, American Baptist minister and educator, complications from a stroke.
• Debbie Reynolds, 84, American actress, dancer and singer, stroke.
• Edgar Robles, 39, Paraguayan footballer.
• Marilyn Sachs, 89, American author.
• Jean-Christophe Victor, 69, French political scientist, heart attack.
• Bernard Zaslav, 90, American viola soloist.

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• Raymond Burki, 67, Swiss cartoonist, cancer.
• Derick Burleson, 53, American academic and writer.
• Chris Cannizzaro, 78, American baseball player, emphysema.
• Laurie Carlos, 67, American performance artist, playwright and theater director, colon cancer.
• Keion Carpenter, 39, American football player, injuries sustained in a fall.
• Matt Carragher, 40, English footballer, cancer.
• Arthur H. Cash, 94, American academic and biographer.
• Kamal Mani Dixit, 87, Nepalese writer.
• Uzama Douglas, 18, Nigerian footballer, shot.
• LaVell Edwards, 86, American football coach, complications from a broken hip.
• Pooran Farrokhzad, 83, Iranian writer, poet, playwright, and encyclopedist, cardiac arrest.
• Néstor Gonçalves, 80, Uruguayan footballer.
• Santi Ibáñez, 58, Spanish actor, lung cancer.
• F. Ross Johnson, 85, Canadian businessman, pneumonia.
• John Kelly, 84, British boxer.
• Aleksander Koj, 81, Polish biochemist.
• Ferdinand Kübler, 97, Swiss racing cyclist, Tour de France winner.
• Judith Mason, 78, South African painter.
• Jinpachi Nezu, 69, Japanese actor, pneumonia.
• Maurice M. Paul, 84, American judge.
• Norman Rimmington, 93, English footballer, kidney failure.
• William Salice, 83, Italian businessman and inventor, stroke.
• Lucien Schaeffer, 88, French footballer.
• Peter Tamm, 88, German publishing manager.
• Olga Ulianova, 53, Russian-Chilean historian, cancer.
• Philip Wolfe, 89, American mathematician.
• Wacław Zalewski, 99, Polish construction engineer.

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• Ad-Diba, 89, Egyptian football player.
• Cara Rafaela, 23, American racehorse, euthanized.
• Rich Conaty, 62, American disc jockey, lymphoma.
• Thomas Ludger Dupré, 83, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Springfield in Massachusetts.
• Selig S. Harrison, 89, American journalist, blood disorder.
• Gabriel Jiménez Remus, 76, Mexican diplomat and politician, Ambassador to Cuba and Spain, member of the Senate of the Republic and Congress of Jalisco.
• George Kosana, 81, American actor.
• Con Linton, 78, New Zealand Olympic sailor.
• Jan Lutomski, 79, Polish swimmer.
• Justo Mullor García, 84, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Apostolic Nuncio, President of Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy.
• Judith Ortiz Cofer, 64, Puerto Rican-American writer, liver cancer.
• Balasaheb Vikhe Patil, 84, Indian politician.
• Gopal Rath, 71, Indian poet.
• Glen L. Rudd, 98, American general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
• Huston Smith, 97, American religious scholar and author.
• Matt Snorton, 74, American football player.
• Sutter Brown, 13, American Welsh Corgi belonging to Governor of California Jerry Brown.
• Allan Williams, 86, English businessman and promoter.
• Rose Wolfe, 100, Canadian social worker and philanthropist, chancellor of the University of Toronto.
• Tyrus Wong, 106, Chinese-born American artist and film production illustrator.

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• James S. Ackerman, 97, American architectural historian.
• Imtiaz Ahmed, 88, Pakistani Test cricketer, chest infection.
• José Ángel Sánchez Asiaín, 87, Spanish economist.
• Raj Brar, 44, Indian singer and actor.
• William Christopher, 84, American actor, small-cell carcinoma.
• Henning Christophersen, 77, Danish politician, Foreign Minister, Finance Minister, Vice-President of the European Commission.
• Sir Dennis Faulkner, 90, British officer in the Royal Navy.
• Peter Fernando, 77, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tuticorin and Archbishop of Madurai.
• Edward Gamble, 81, Canadian Olympic archer
• He Qun, 60, Chinese film director, heart attack.
• Keiichi Ishizaka, 71, Japanese businessman.
• Manjurul Islam Liton, 48, Bangladeshi politician, MP, shot.
• Henk Koning, 83, Dutch politician, MP.
• David Meltzer, 79, American poet and musician, stroke.
• Shirley Neil Pettis, 92, American politician, Member of the United States House of Representatives from California's 37th congressional district .
• Prince Dimitri Romanov, 90, Russian prince, banker, philanthropist, and author, claimant to the headship of the Imperial House of Russia.
• Orvis Sigler, 94, American college basketball coach.
• Eva Šuranová, 70, Hungarian-born Czechoslovak athlete, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Robert Taussat, 96, French historian and author.