Deaths in December 2017

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

  December 2017

1

• Adarsh Sein Anand, 81, Indian judge, Chief Justice, Madras High Court, and Jammu and Kashmir High Court.
• Enrico Castellani, 87, Italian painter.
• Gilbert Chabroux, 83, French politician, Senator.
• Arif Dirlik, 77, Turkish-born American historian.
• Ernie Fazio, 75, American baseball player, complications from dementia and Parkinson's disease.
• Peter Feldstein, 75, American photographer.
• Åshild Hauan, 76, Norwegian politician, County Governor of Nordland, MP.
• Ken Inglis, 88, Australian historian.
• Philipp Graf Lerchenfeld, 65, German politician, member of the Bundestag and the Landtag of Bavaria, lung cancer.
• James Marson, 91, French politician, Senator.
• Ruben Rozendaal, 61, Surinamese soldier.
• Fredy Schmidtke, 56, German track cyclist, Olympic champion, heart attack.
• Abba Siddick, 92, Chadian politician and revolutionary.
• Cleopatra Tawo, Nigerian radio host.
• Uli Vos, 71, German field hockey player, Olympic champion.
• Perry Wallace, 69, American basketball player and jurist.

  2

• Jean Barthe, 85, French rugby league and rugby union player.
• William Blankenship, 89, American operatic tenor.
• Frances Marie Burke, 95, American beauty pageant contestant, Miss America winner.
• Hugh Davies, 85, Welsh cricketer.
• Norihiko Hashida, 72, Japanese folk singer-songwriter, Parkinson's disease.
• Leena Kaskela, 77, Finnish journalist.
• Jerzy Kłoczowski, 92, Polish historian, professor and member of the Senate.
• Ulli Lommel, 72, German actor and director, heart failure.
• Mundell Lowe, 95, American jazz guitarist and composer.
• Marianne Means, 83, American political journalist and columnist, complications from colon cancer.
• Edwin Mosquera, 32, Colombian weightlifter, Pan American champion, shot.
• Maureen Prinsloo, 79, Canadian politician, Chairwoman of the Toronto Police Services Board, brain cancer.
• Mekkawi Said, 61, Egyptian novelist and short story writer.
• Hannes Schiel, 103, Austrian actor.
• Ewald Schurer, 63, German politician, member of the Bundestag.
• Nava Semel, 63, Israeli author and playwright, cancer.
• Alan Sinfield, 76, English literary critic.
• Nikola Špear, 73, Yugoslav tennis player and coach.
• Les Whitten, 89, American investigative reporter.

  3

• John B. Anderson, 95, American lawyer and politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Illinois's 16th district.
• Leo Beukeboom, 74, Dutch signpainter.
• Adam Darius, 87, American dancer and choreographer.
• Elmar Faber, 83, German publisher.
• Jack Felder, 78, American biochemist.
• Thomas Finlay, 95, Irish judge and politician, TD, Chief Justice.
• Ernest A. Finney Jr., 86, American judge, Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court.
• Fil Fraser, 85, Canadian broadcaster, heart failure.
• Paul Genève, 92, French long-distance runner.
• Patrick Henry, 64, French murderer, lung cancer.
• Barbara Hoyt, 65, American nurse, kidney failure.
• Gene Hubka, 93, American football player.
• Kjell Opseth, 81, Norwegian politician, Minister of Transport and Communications.
• Kazimierz Pawełek, 81, Polish politician, journalist and writer.
• Carl Axel Petri, 88, Swedish lawyer and politician, Minister for Energy and Justice.
• Leandro Rizzuto, 79, American consumer products executive, pancreatic cancer.
• Ian Twitchin, 65, English footballer.
• Basclay Zapata, 71, Chilean military officer, cancer.

  4

• Armenak Alachachian, 86, Armenian basketball player, Olympic silver medalist, European champion.
• Robert Alt, 90, Swiss bobsledder, Olympic champion.
• Ron Attwell, 82, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Alastair Bellingham, 79, British haematologist, President of the Royal College of Pathologists.
• Mary Louise Hancock, 97, American politician, member of the New Hampshire Senate.
• Alexander Harvey II, 94, American federal judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, prostate cancer.
• Jimmy Hood, 69, British politician, MP for Clydesdale and Lanark and Hamilton East, heart attack.
• Henning Jensen, 68, Danish footballer, cancer.
• Shashi Kapoor, 79, Indian actor and director, cirrhosis.
• Christine Keeler, 75, English model and showgirl involved in Profumo affair, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
• Liu Lunxian, 74, Chinese politician and military officer.
• Manuel Marín, 68, Spanish politician, President of the European Commission and the Congress of Deputies, lung cancer.
• Guillermo Mosquera, 53, Colombian boxer, cancer.
• Thor Munkager, 66, Danish handball player and coach.
• Annette Page, 84, English ballerina.
• Gregory Rigters, 32, Surinamese footballer, traffic collision.
• Ali Abdullah Saleh, 70, Yemeni politician, President of North Yemen and President, shot.
• Carles Santos, 77, Spanish pianist and composer.
• James R. Thompson, 79, American statistician.
• John Baptist Todd, 96, Pakistani Franciscan priest.
• Rudolph G. Wilson, 82, American educator.
• Edward Zemprelli, 92, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania State Senate.

  5

• Adithyan, 63, Indian composer, kidney disease.
• August Ames, 23, Canadian pornographic actress, suicide by hanging.
• Claudine Arnaud, 77, Belgian soprano singer.
• Maureen Baker, 97, British fashion designer.
• Tharwat Bassily, 77, Egyptian television executive, founder of Coptic TV.
• Michel Dighneef, 80, Belgian footballer and politician, Senator, MP.
• Victor Fontana, 101, Brazilian politician, Vice-Governor of Santa Catarina.
• Elenito Galido, 64, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Iligan.
• Maurice Green, 91, American virologist.
• John Knott, 78, British metallurgist.
• Keijo Koivumäki, 91, Finnish Olympic rower
• Rosemary Margan, 80, Australian television presenter.
• Claude Martin, 87, French rower, Olympic silver medalist.
• Ron Meyer, 76, American football coach, aortic aneurysm.
• Michael I of Romania, 96, Romanian royal, King, complications from leukemia.
• Cristina Nicolau, 40, Romanian triple jumper, European Athletics U23 champion.
• Lila O'Connor, 77, Canadian politician.
• Jean d'Ormesson, 92, French writer, columnist, reporter and philosopher.
• Meic Povey, 67, Welsh actor and playwright, cancer.
• Laurie Rymer, 83, Australian footballer.
• Svein Scharffenberg, 78, Norwegian actor.
• Jacques Simon, 76, French footballer.
• Peter Sugandhar, 75, Indian Church of South India prelate, Bishop of Medak.
• Pamela Tudor-Craig, 89, British art historian, pulmonary fibrosis.

  6

• Lucyna Andrysiak, 62, Polish politician.
• Conrad Brooks, 86, American actor, complications from sepsis.
• Juan Luis Buñuel, 83, French film director.
• Charles J. Cella, 81, American real estate executive and racetrack operator, Parkinson's disease.
• Juan José Díaz Galiana, 68, Spanish football coach.
• Jacob Kuwinsuk Gale, South Sudanese politician, shot.
• Gao Bolong, 89, Chinese engineer.
• William H. Gass, 93, American novelist, critic and philosophy professor, heart failure.
• Johnny Hallyday, 74, French rock singer and actor, lung cancer.
• Kathleen Karr, 71, American novelist.
• George E. Killian, 93, American sports administrator, President of FIBA.
• Dominic Mai Thanh Lương, 77, Vietnamese-born American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Orange.
• Judith Miller, 76, French psychoanalyst and philosopher.
• Francis Nyenze, 60, Kenyan politician, MP, colon cancer.
• Tracy Stallard, 80, American baseball player.
• Cy Young, 89, American javelin thrower, Olympic champion, vascular dementia.

  7

• Ameer Muhammad Akram Awan, 82, Pakistani religious leader.
• MacDonald Becket, 89, American architect.
• John Catt, 78, British geologist and soil scientist.
• Fred J. Doocy, 104, American politician and banker, Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut.
• Morton Estrin, 93, American classical pianist.
• Rodney Harris, 85, British geneticist.
• Žermēna Heine-Vāgnere, 94, Latvian opera singer, People's Artist of the USSR.
• Augie Herchenratter, 98, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Tommy Horton, 76, British golfer.
• Kong Hon, 78, Hong Kong actor.
• Ivan Korsak, 71, Ukrainian writer and journalist.
• Subbarao Krishnamurthy, 79, Indian cricketer.
• Philippe Maystadt, 69, Belgian politician, Minister of Finance, President of the European Investment Bank, lung disease.
• Alexandru Moșanu, 85, Moldovan politician, President of the Moldovan Parliament, cancer.
• Sunny Murray, 81, American jazz drummer.
• Steve Reevis, 55, American actor.
• Sir Christus, 39, Finnish rock guitarist.
• Roland Taylor, 71, American basketball player, cancer.
• Matthias Yu Chengxin, 89, Chinese clandestine Roman Catholic prelate, Coadjutor Bishop of Hanzhong.
• Peter Walwyn, 84, British racehorse trainer.

  8

• Ruth Sharp Altshuler, 93, American philanthropist.
• Ron Boehm, 74, Canadian ice hockey player.
• James P. Cullen, 72, American brigadier-general, member of the Judge Advocate General's Corps.
• Vladimir Curbet, 87, Moldovan choreographer, People's Artist of the USSR.
• Pál Dárdai, 66, Hungarian football player and manager.
• Josy Eisenberg, 83, French television producer and rabbi.
• Magda Fedor, 103, Hungarian sports shooter.
• Carlos María Franzini, 66, Argentine Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Rafaela, Archbishop of Mendoza.
• Howard Gottfried, 94, American film producer, stroke.
• Jack Hayward, 86, British political scientist.
• Vincent Nguini, 65, Cameroonian guitarist, liver cancer.
• Atsutoshi Nishida, 73, Japanese consumer electronics executive, President of Toshiba, heart attack.
• Flerida Ruth Pineda-Romero, 88, Filipino judge, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
• Tubby Raymond, 91, American football coach, national champion.
• Im Sothy, 70, Cambodian politician, MP, Minister of Education, Youth and Sport.
• Alexander Taransky, 76, Australian sports shooter.
• Gloria Ann Taylor, 73, American soul singer.
• George Touliatos, 87, American actor.
• Ocimar Versolato, 56, Brazilian fashion designer, aneurysm following a stroke.
• Morris Zelditch, 89, American sociologist, bladder cancer.

  9

• Horst Beyer, 77, German Olympic decathlete.
• James Joseph Brady, 73, American judge, member of the U.S. District Court for Middle Louisiana.
• Leonid Bronevoy, 88, Ukrainian-born Russian actor, People's Artist of the USSR.
• Joey Corpus, 59, Filipino-American violin teacher.
• Frances Esemplare, 83, American actress.
• Ching Li, 72, Taiwanese actress.
• Lando Fiorini, 79, Italian actor and singer.
• Allen C. Kelley, 80, American economist.
• Damian Le Bas, 54, British artist.
• Marshall Loeb, 88, American business journalist and editor, Parkinson's disease.
• Benjamin Massing, 55, Cameroonian footballer.
• Grant Munro, 94, Canadian animator and filmmaker.
• Heitaro Nakajima, 96, Japanese digital audio pioneer.
• Joe Newton, 88, American track and field coach.
• Lyndon Pete Patterson, 82, American politician, member of the Texas House of Representatives.
• Bob Pifferini Sr., 95, American football player.
• Lionginas Šepetys, 90, Lithuanian politician, chairman of Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian SSR, co-signatory of Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania.
• Charles Skeete, 79, Barbadian economist and diplomat, Ambassador to the United States.
• Tony Sumpter, 95, American football player.
• Robin Waters, 80, Irish cricketer.
• Tom Zenk, 59, American bodybuilder and professional wrestler, arterial sclerosis.

  10

• Abe Addams, 91, American football player.
• Angry Grandpa, 67, American Internet personality, cirrhosis.
• Masood Ahmed Barkati, 84, Pakistani children's author, editor of Hamdard Naunihal.
• John Beer, 91, British literary critic.
• Simeon Booker, 99, American journalist, complications from pneumonia.
• Bruce Brown, 80, American documentarian.
• Manno Charlemagne, 69, Haitian singer-songwriter, guitarist and politician, Mayor of Port-au-Prince, cancer.
• Max Clifford, 74, British publicist and convicted sex offender, heart attack.
• Collier Bay, 27, British racehorse.
• Bette Cooper, 97, American beauty pageant contestant, Miss America winner.
• Bob Dawson, 85, Canadian football player.
• Curtis W. Harris, 93, American civil rights activist and politician.
• Ronald W. Hodges, 83, American entomologist and lepidopterist.
• Ray Kassar, 89, American executive.
• Piet Kuiper, 83, Dutch botanist.
• Harold Levine, 95, American mathematician.
• Arnold Maran, 80, British surgeon, President of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.
• Toni Mascolo, 75, Italian-born British hairdresser and businessman.
• Viktor Potapov, 70, Russian sailor, Olympic bronze medalist, traffic collision.
• Roy Reed, 87, American journalist, stroke.
• Antonio Riboldi, 94, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Arcerra.
• Al Rittinger, 92, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Kristen Rohlfs, 87, German astronomer.
• Joël Sarlot, 71, French politician, Deputy, Senator.
• Lalji Singh, 70, Indian biologist and zoologist.
• Ivan Stoyanov, 68, Bulgarian footballer.
• Jernej Šugman, 48, Slovenian actor, heart attack.
• Eva Todor, 98, Hungarian-born Brazilian actress, pneumonia.
• Lev Venediktov, 93, Russian-born Ukrainian choirmaster and teacher, People's Artist of the USSR, Hero of Ukraine.
• Drahomíra Vihanová, 87, Czech filmmaker, documentarist and screenwriter.
• Zarley Zalapski, 49, Canadian ice hockey player, complications of a viral infection.

  11

• Paul Annett, 80, British director.
• Keith Chegwin, 60, English television presenter and actor, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
• Jean-François Coatmeur, 92, French writer.
• David Roderick Curtis, 90, Australian medical scientist.
• Paul T. Fader, 58, American politician, Mayor of Englewood, New Jersey.
• Aline Griffith, Countess of Romanones, 94, American-born Spanish cipher clerk, aristocrat, socialite and writer.
• Paul Holz, 65, German footballer.
• Charles Robert Jenkins, 77, American soldier, deserted to North Korea.
• Manny Jiménez, 79, Dominican baseball player.
• Vera Katz, 84, American politician, member and Speaker of the Oregon House of Representatives, Mayor of Portland, Oregon, leukemia.
• Suzanna Leigh, 72, British actress, liver cancer.
• Walter Mafli, 102, Swiss painter.
• Roland Peterson, 76, Aruban police officer, first Commissioner and founder of the Aruba Police Force.
• Jorge Schiaffino Isunza, 70, Mexican politician, member of the Chamber of Deputies.
• Sir Hereward Wake, 14th Baronet, 101, British army officer.
• John P. Yates, 96, American politician, member of the Georgia House of Representatives.

  12

• Juan Ramón Aguirre Lanari, 97, Argentine lawyer and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs.
• Juan Manuel Bayón, 91, Argentine military officer, Governor of Misiones Province.
• Floro Bogado, 78, Argentine politician, lawyer and diplomat, Governor of Formosa Province.
• Ken Bracey, 80, American baseball player.
• Patrizia Casagrande Esposto, 66, Italian politician, President of the Province of Ancona.
• Michael Clendenin, 83, American newspaper editor and reporter, winner of Pulitzer Prize.
• Pat DiNizio, 62, American singer and musician.
• Peter Duffell, 95, British film and TV director.
• Jane Galletly, 89, British-born New Zealand TV scriptwriter and editor.
• Marvin Greenberg, 81, American mathematician.
• Bob Hale, 72, British philosopher.
• Alessandro Kokocinski, 69, Italian-Argentine artist and set designer.
• Ed Lee, 65, American politician, Mayor of San Francisco, heart attack.
• Lewis Manilow, 90, American lawyer and philanthropist, Alzheimer's disease.
• Pat O'Rawe, Irish politician, MLA for Newry Armagh.
• Alphonsus Liguori Penney, 93, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Grand Falls and Archbishop of St. John's.
• Willie Pickens, 86, American jazz pianist and educator.
• Anthony Scaduto, 85, American journalist and biographer.
• Harry Sparnaay, 73, Dutch bass clarinetist.
• Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman, 104, Israeli Haredi rabbi.
• Wang Qun, 91, Chinese politician, Communist Party Secretary of Inner Mongolia.

  13

• Mustafa Akgül, 69, Turkish computer scientist.
• Pavel Ardzinba, 56, Abkhazian-Georgian businessman and criminal, shot.
• Warrel Dane, 56, American rock singer, heart attack.
• Laurence de Grandhomme, 61, Zimbabwean cricketer.
• John DeLamater, 77, American social psychologist and sexologist.
• Simon Dickie, 66, New Zealand rowing coxswain, Olympic champion, fall from balcony.
• John Joseph Gerry, 90, Australian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Brisbane.
• Bruce Gray, 81, Puerto Rican-born Canadian actor, brain cancer.
• Vanessa Greene, 63, British-American television producer and writer, breast cancer.
• André Haddad, 87, Lebanese Melkite Catholic hierarch, Archbishop of Zahle and Forzol.
• Bette Howland, 80, American writer.
• Bill Hudson, 82, American football player.
• Dan Johnson, 57, American politician, member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, suicide by gunshot.
• Frank Lary, 87, American baseball player, pneumonia.
• Li Bude, 98, Chinese military officer and politician.
• Tommy Nobis, 74, American football player.
• Gerald O'Brien, 93, New Zealand politician, MP for Island Bay.
• Rory O'Donoghue, 68, Australian musician and actor, suicide.
• Martin Ransohoff, 90, American producer, co-founder of Filmways.
• Eti Saaga, 67, Samoan-born American Samoan poet and writer.
• Elżbieta Trylińska, 57, Polish high jumper.
• Paul Yesawich, 94, American basketball player and judge.
• Charles Zentai, 96, Hungarian-born Australian alleged Holocaust perpetrator.

  14

• Ákos Császár, 93, Hungarian mathematician.
• Hubert Damisch, 89, French philosopher.
• Bob Givens, 99, American animator.
• Tom Hall, 77, American football player.
• John Hickey, 62, Canadian politician, shot.
• Michael Hirst, 84, British art historian.
• Otto Kaiser, 92, German biblical scholar.
• Louis-Paul Neveu, 86, Canadian politician.
• Karl-Erik Nilsson, 95, Swedish wrestler, Olympic champion.
• Tamio Ōki, 89, Japanese voice actor.
• Charles Byron Renfrew, 89, American federal judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
• R. C. Sproul, 78, American theologian, author, and pastor, founder of Ligonier Ministries, complications from COPD.
• Page Stegner, 80, American novelist, essayist, and historian.
• Marc Van Eeghem, 57, Belgian actor, cancer.
• Antanas Vaupšas, 81, Lithuanian Soviet Olympic athlete.
• Neeraj Vora, 54, Indian actor, screenwriter and director, complications from a stroke and heart attack.
• Marilyn Ware, 74, American diplomat and businesswoman, Ambassador to Finland, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Lones Wigger, 80, American sports shooter, Olympic champion, pancreatic cancer.
• Ye Zhengda, 90, Chinese politician.
• Yu Kwang-chung, 89, Taiwanese poet.

  15

• Arthur S. Abramson, 92, American linguist.
• Dave Boyd, 90, Australian footballer.
• Don Hogan Charles, 79, American photographer.
• A. B. M. Mohiuddin Chowdhury, 73, Bangladeshi politician, mayor of Chittagong City Corporation.
• John Critchinson, 82, English jazz pianist.
• Darlanne Fluegel, 64, American actress, Alzheimer's disease.
• Kjell Grede, 81, Swedish director, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
• Michael Hartshorn, 81, British-born New Zealand organic chemist.
• Pierre Hohenberg, 83, French-American theoretical physicist.
• Tony Hunt Sr., 75, Canadian artist.
• Gidado Idris, 82, Nigerian civil servant.
• Calestous Juma, 64, Kenyan scientist.
• Felipe Mesones, 81, Argentine football player and coach.
• Neville Moray, 82, British psychologist.
• George Yod Phimphisan, 84, Thai Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Udon Thani.
• Kazimierz Piechowski, 98, Polish political prisoner and Holocaust survivor.
• Barry Sherman, 75, Canadian billionaire drug manufacturer, CEO and founder of Apotex, ligature neck compression.
• Michiru Shimada, 58, Japanese anime screenwriter.
• Rubén Pato Soria, 75, Mexican professional wrestler.
• Bunty Thompson, 92, Australian Olympic equestrian rider.
• Freddy Van Gaever, 79, Belgian politician and airline executive, Senator, cancer.
• Heinz Wolff, 89, German-born British scientist and television presenter, heart failure.

  16

• Ralph Carney, 61, American saxophonist and composer, head injuries from fall.
• Len Ceglarski, 91, American college ice hockey coach and player, Olympic silver medalist.
• John Clibborn, 76, British spy.
• Richard Dobson, 75, American country singer-songwriter.
• Reinhart Fuchs, 83, German chess player.
• Mohammad Sayedul Haque, 75, Bangladeshi politician, Minister of Fisheries and Livestock.
• E. Hunter Harrison, 73, American transportation executive, CEO of CSX Corporation, Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway.
• Angela Kokkola, 85, Greek politician, MEP.
• Sharon Laws, 43, British racing cyclist, cervical cancer.
• Andrew McCutcheon, 86, Australian politician, Attorney-General of Victoria.
• Jean-Michel Parasiliti di Para, 75, French royal, pretender to the throne of the Kingdom of Araucanía and Patagonia.
• Michael Prophet, 60, Jamaican reggae singer, cardiac arrest.
• Keely Smith, 89, American singer, Grammy winner, heart failure.
• Song Sin-do, 95, Korean former comfort woman.
• Tu An, 94, Chinese poet and translator.
• Robert G. Wilmers, 83, American billionaire banker, CEO of M&T Bank.
• Z'EV, 66, American percussionist and poet, pulmonary failure.

  17

• Castletown, 31, New Zealand racehorse, heart attack.
• Terry Cavanagh, 91, Canadian politician, Mayor of Edmonton.
• Pat Devery, 95, Australian rugby league player and coach.
• Mohamed Eshtewi, Libyan politician, mayor of Misurata, shot.
• Johnny Fox, 64, American sword swallower, liver cancer.
• Doug Gallagher, 77, American baseball player.
• Higinio García Fernández, 61, Spanish footballer.
• Bob Glidden, 73, American Hall of Fame drag racer.
• Frank Hodgkin, 76, Australian footballer.
• Al Kelley, 82, American golfer.
• Francesco Leonetti, 93, Italian writer and poet.
• Kevin Mahogany, 59, American jazz singer, heart attack.
• Bennett Malone, 73, American politician, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives.
• Georgy Natanson, 96, Russian director, screenwriter and playwright.
• Edward Rowny, 100, American army lieutenant general and presidential military advisor.
• Edmon Shehadeh, 84, Palestinian poet.

  18

• Janet Benshoof, 70, American reproductive rights activist and lawyer, founder of the Center for Reproductive Rights, uterine serous carcinoma.
• Drew Von Bergen, 77, American journalist and communications specialist, President of the National Press Club.
• Barry Cohen, 82, Australian politician, MP, Alzheimer's disease.
• William O. Harbach, 98, American television producer and director.
• Larry Harris, 70, American record label executive, abdominal aneurysm.
• Wolf C. Hartwig, 98, German film producer.
• Åke Hellman, 102, Finnish artist.
• David Huntley, 60, Canadian lacrosse player and coach.
• LeRoy Jolley, 80, American racehorse trainer, lung cancer.
• Kim Jong-hyun, 27, South Korean singer-songwriter and radio host, apparent suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.
• Johan C. Løken, 73, Norwegian politician, MP, Minister of Agriculture.
• Fritz Lustig, 98, German-born British army intelligence officer.
• Altero Matteoli, 77, Italian politician, Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, traffic collision.
• Ricardo Miledi, 90, Mexican neuro-scientist.
• Georges Othily, 73, French Guianese politician, Senator.
• Josef Pešice, 67, Czech football player and manager.
• Arseny Roginsky, 71, Russian dissident and historian, co-founder and chairman of Memorial.
• Ana Enriqueta Terán, 99, Venezuelan poet.
• Yves Trudeau, 87, Canadian sculptor, heart attack.
• Radoslav Večerka, 89, Czech linguist.
• Hannelore Weygand, 93, German equestrian.

  19

• Vasilena Amzina, 75, Bulgarian Olympic athlete.
• Lito Cruz, 76, Argentine director and actor.
• Thérèse DePrez, 52, American production designer, breast cancer.
• Célestin Gaombalet, 75, Central African politician, Prime Minister.
• Clifford Irving, 87, American author and convicted fraudster, subject of The Hoax and F for Fake, pancreatic cancer.
• Mamie Johnson, 82, American baseball player.
• Yevhen Kotelnykov, 78, Ukrainian football player and coach.
• Hiep Thi Le, 46, Vietnamese-American actress and restaurateur, stomach cancer.
• Ruth McClendon, 74, American politician, member of the Texas House of Representatives, cancer.
• Jerry A. Moore Jr., 99, American politician, member of the Council of the District of Columbia.
• Frank North, 92, American football coach.
• Jon Oberlander, 55, British cognitive scientist.
• Sir Peter Terry, 91, British air force commander and politician, Governor of Gibraltar.
• Tong Zhipeng, 93, Chinese scientist.
• Richard Venture, 94, American actor.
• Leo Welch, 85, American blues musician.
• Jeremy Wilkin, 87, English-born Canadian actor.

  20

• William Agee, 79, American business executive, complications from respiratory failure.
• Muhammad Mustafa Al-A'zami, 87, Indian hadith scholar.
• Florence Bjelke-Petersen, 97, Australian politician, Senator.
• Rosa Brítez, 76, Paraguayan potter, complications from lung disease.
• Henryk Cioch, 66, Polish lawyer and politician, Senator.
• Carolyn Cohen, 88, American biologist and biophysicist.
• Combat Jack, 53, American music journalist, historian and podcaster, colon cancer.
• Archie Duncan, 91, Scottish historian.
• Jim French, 89, American radio host and voice actor.
• Annie Goetzinger, 66, French comics artist.
• Jean-Jacques Guyon, 85, French equestrian, Olympic champion.
• Charlie Hennigan, 82, American football player.
• Omar Hodge, 75, British Virgin Islands politician, member of the House of Assembly, stroke.
• Keturah Kamugasa, 50, Ugandan fashion journalist and magazine executive.
• Bernard Francis Law, 86, American Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Boston.
• George Mans, 77, American football player and coach and politician, member of the Michigan House of Representatives.
• Stuart McDonald, 89, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Council and federal president of the National Party.
• Stan Pilecki, 70, Polish-born Australian rugby union player.
• Randolph Quirk, Baron Quirk, 97, British linguist and life peer.
• Jiří Sloup, 64, Czech footballer.
• Diane Straus, 66, American publisher and platform tennis player, cancer.
• Marilyn Tyler, 91, American opera singer.
• David Grant Walker, 94, British historian.
• Kenichi Yamamoto, 95, Japanese engineer, chairman of Mazda Motor Company.

  21

• Zdzisław Bieniek, 87, Polish footballer.
• Manouchehr Boroumand, 83, Iranian heavyweight weightlifter, Asian Games champion.
• Dorothy Bryant, 87, American feminist novelist and playwright.
• Ken Catchpole, 78, Australian rugby union player.
• Dick Enberg, 82, American sportscaster, heart attack.
• March Fong Eu, 95, American politician, California Secretary of State and member of the State Assembly, Ambassador to Micronesia, complications from surgery.
• Dominic Frontiere, 86, American composer.
• Chu Ishikawa, 51, Japanese composer.
• Halvard Kausland, 72, Norwegian jazz guitarist, cancer.
• Jean-Pierre Lehmann, 72, Swiss economist.
• D. Bruce MacPherson, 77, American Episcopal prelate, Bishop of Western Louisiana.
• Bruce McCandless II, 80, American astronaut.
• Bob Moses, 77, Australian rugby league player.
• Francelino Pereira, 96, Brazilian politician, Senator, Governor of Minas Gerais, and Deputy.
• Renan Martins Pereira, 20, Brazilian footballer, brain cancer.
• Nicholas Rayner, 79, British army officer and auctioneer.
• June Rowlands, 93, Canadian politician, Mayor of Toronto.
• Roswell Rudd, 82, American jazz trombonist, cancer.
• Mona Sulaiman, 75, Filipino sprinter, Asian Games champion.
• John Vear, 79, New Zealand cricketer.
• Mary Wixey, 96, British track and field athlete.
• Jerry Yellin, 93, American fighter pilot, lung cancer.
• Yicheng, 90, Chinese monk.

  22

• Lou Adler, 88, American radio journalist, Alzheimer's disease.
• Gerhard Andlinger, 86, Austrian-born American executive.
• Pervis Atkins, 82, American football player.
• Cyril Beavon, 80, English footballer.
• Hal Bedsole, 76, American football player.
• Viola Davis Brown, 81, American nurse.
• Domenic Cretara, 71, American painter.
• Stelio De Carolis, 80, Italian politician, Deputy and Senator, traffic collision.
• Gerald B. Greenberg, 81, American film editor, Oscar winner.
• Ken Hands, 91, Australian footballer.
• Banwari Lal Joshi, 81, Indian politician, Governor of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh, septic shock.
• Leon Kamin, 89, American psychologist.
• Jason Lowndes, 23, Australian racing cyclist, traffic collision.
• Eric Moonman, 88, British politician, MP for Billericay and Basildon, chairman of the Zionist Federation.
• Gonzalo Morales Sáurez, 72, Costa Rican painter, heart attack.
• Wang Panyuan, 109, Taiwanese painter, multiple organ failure.
• Joseph F. Timilty, 79, American politician, member of the Massachusetts Senate, cancer.

  23

• John Atkinson, 71, English rugby league player, dementia.
• Ray Bandar, 90, American biologist and skull collector, heart failure.
• Jeannette Clift George, 92, American actress.
• William G. Curlin, 90, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Charlotte, cancer.
• Maurice Hayes, 90, Irish politician, Senator.
• Volli Kalm, 64, Estonian geologist, rector of the University of Tartu.
• James Ligo, Ni-Vanuatu Anglican prelate, Bishop of Vanuatu and New Caledonia.
• Héctor Morera Vega, 91, Costa Rican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tilarán.
• Neftalí Rivera, 69, Puerto Rican Olympic basketball player, respiratory problems.
• Arto Sipinen, 81, Finnish architect.
• Thomas Stanford, 93, German-born American film editor, Oscar winner.
• Stuart Wenham, 60, Australian engineer, melanoma.
• Mark Whittow, 60, British archaeologist and Byzantinist, traffic collision.

  24

• Lynne Rudder Baker, 73, American philosopher, heart disease.
• Thomas P. Griesa, 87, American judge, member of the U.S. District Court for Southern New York.
• Mietek Grocher, 91, Polish-born Swedish writer.
• Don Hahnfeldt, 73, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives, cancer.
• Don Hall, 87, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Mathew Hintz, 41, American painter.
• Jimmie C. Holland, 89, American medical researcher.
• Brian Jenkins, 74, British swimmer, European championship silver medalist, heart disease.
• Jerry Kindall, 82, American baseball player and coach, stroke.
• Mária Littomeritzky, 90, Hungarian swimmer, Olympic champion.
• Heather Menzies, 68, Canadian-born American actress, brain cancer.
• Sir Brian Neill, 94, British judge, Lord Justice of Appeal, President of Court of Appeal for Gibraltar.
• Dick Orkin, 84, American voice actor and radio personality, stroke.
• Marcus Raskin, 83, American author and idealist.
• Robert H. Reed, 88, American air force general.
• Carlos Stohr, 86, Czech-born Venezuelan painter.
• Andrey Zaliznyak, 82, Russian linguist.

  25

• Michael Britt, 57, American basketball player.
• Ray Brown, 81, American football player, NFL champion.
• Antonio Camacho García, 91, Spanish politician, Mayor of Granada.
• Ken Feltscheer, 102, Australian footballer.
• Claude Haldi, 75, Swiss racing driver.
• Francess Halpenny, 98, Canadian editor.
• Oliver Ibielski, 46, German rower.
• Maura Jacobson, 91, American crossword puzzle constructor.
• Stanisław Kędziora, 83, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Warsaw and Warszawa-Praga.
• Erich Kellerhals, 78, German entrepreneur.
• Larry Libertore, 78, American football player and politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives.
• D. Herbert Lipson, 88, American magazine publisher.
• Sergio Magaña Martínez, 68, Mexican politician, Senator, mayor of Morelia.
• Renato Marchiaro, 98, Italian footballer.
• Vladimir Shainsky, 92, Ukrainian-born Russian composer.
• Willie Toweel, 83, South African flyweight boxer, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Samin Uygun, 77–78, Turkish footballer.

  26

• Shahnon Ahmad, 84, Malaysian writer and politician, MP.
• Dick Allen, 78, American poet, heart attack.
• Orsten Artis, 74, American basketball player.
• Johnny Bower, 93, Canadian ice hockey player, pneumonia.
• Jim Burns, 65, American television executive, co-creator of MTV Unplugged, traffic collision.
• Gerd Cintl, 79, German rower, Olympic champion.
• Ed Diachuk, 81, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Devendra Prasad Gupta, 84, Indian botanist and academician, vice-chancellor of the Ranchi University, pneumonia.
• Gerd Hennig, 82, German football referee.
• Asa Lanova, 84, Swiss dancer and author.
• Tuija Lindström, 67, Finnish-born Swedish photographer.
• Gualtiero Marchesi, 87, Italian chef and restaurateur, cancer.
• Willie Penman, 78, Scottish footballer.
• Steve Piper, 64, English footballer.
• Shang Chuan, 72, Chinese historian.
• Francis Walmsley, 91, English Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of the Forces.
• Irv Weinstein, 87, American broadcaster and television news anchor, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

  27

• Ben Barres, 63, American neurobiologist, pancreatic cancer.
• Fernando Birri, 92, Argentine filmmaker.
• Robert A. Bryan, 91, American professor.
• Amanda Davis, 62, American journalist and news anchor, complications from a stroke.
• Osvaldo Fattori, 95, Italian footballer.
• Bernard Gordon Lennox, 85, British army general.
• Thomas Hunter, 85, American actor.
• Larry McGuinness, 97, Canadian Olympic equestrian
• Ken Poulsen, 70, American baseball player.
• Lothar Schämer, 77, German footballer.
• Curly Seckler, 98, American bluegrass musician.
• Daljit Singh, 83, Indian eye surgeon.
• Jack Van Berg, 81, American horse trainer.

  28

• Bronwen, Lady Astor, 87, British model, psychotherapist and society figure.
• Ron Baensch, 78, Australian Olympic cyclist.
• Giulio Einaudi, 89, Italian Roman Catholic prelate and Vatican diplomat, Apostolic Nuncio.
• Rubens Augusto de Souza Espínola, 89, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Paranavaí.
• John Faulkner, 69, English footballer.
• Sue Grafton, 77, American author, cancer.
• Normand Grimard, 92, Canadian lawyer and politician.
• Jean-François Hory, 68, French politician, MP, MEP, president of the PRG, cancer.
• Al Luplow, 78, American baseball player.
• Rose Marie, 94, American actress.
• Robert T. Marsh, 92, American air force general.
• Juan Masferrer, 77, Chilean politician, Deputy.
• Ronit Matalon, 58, Israeli novelist and social activist, cancer.
• Melton Mustafa, 70, American jazz musician and educator, prostate cancer.
• Helen Nibouar, 96, American cryptographer.
• Nichols Canyon, 7, British-bred Irish-trained racehorse, euthanized after race fall.
• Mariam Nabieva, 80, Tajik First Lady, injuries from a fire.
• Barry Paw, 55, Burmese-born American biologist.
• Recy Taylor, 97, American kidnapping victim and activist.
• Stanisław Terlecki, 62, Polish footballer.
• Mamoudou Touré, 89, Senegalese economist and politician, Minister of Finance.
• Ulrich Wegener, 88, German police officer, founder of GSG9, led raid to end hijack of Lufthansa Flight 181.
• Francis Wyndham, 93, British author, literary editor and journalist.

  29

• Hoshang Amroliwala, 86, Indian cricketer.
• Jim Baikie, 77, British comic book artist.
• Danny Breen, 67, American actor, comedian and producer, cancer.
• John A. Carter, 84, Canadian politician, MHA for St. John's North.
• Vicente Rodrigo Cisneros Durán, 83, Ecuadorian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ambato and Archbishop of Cuenca.
• Clyde Cumberbatch, 81, Trinidadian cricket umpire.
• Peggy Cummins, 92, Welsh-born Irish actress, stroke.
• Art Dorrington, 87, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Odd Fossengen, 72, Norwegian speedway rider, complications from a heart attack.
• Carmen Franco, 1st Duchess of Franco, 91, Spanish noble, cancer.
• Erhard Heinz, 93, German mathematician.
• Guy Joron, 77, Canadian politician, MNA for Gouin and Mille-Îles.
• José Louzeiro, 85, Brazilian novelist and screenwriter.
• John C. Portman Jr., 93, American architect.
• Lawrence Stager, 74, American archaeologist, fall.

  30

• Harold Balazs, 89, American sculptor.
• Alan Bleviss, 76, Canadian voice actor, lung cancer.
• Chummy Broomhall, 98, American cross country skier.
• Robert N. Clayton, 87, Canadian chemist.
• Prince François, Count of Clermont, 56, French royal, styled Dauphin of France.
• Erica Garner, 27, American civil rights activist, heart attack.
• Stan Knowles, 86, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly.
• Bill Lishman, 78, Canadian sculptor and inventor.
• Sunanda Murali Manohar, 60, Indian film producer, cancer.
• Sean McCaffrey, 58, Irish football manager, diabetes and kidney disease.
• Donald Moe, 75, American politician, member of the Minnesota Senate and House of Representatives, cancer.
• Jackie Mooney, 79–80, Irish footballer.
• Chingiz Sadykhov, 88, Azerbaijani pianist.
• Sanshō Shinsui, 70, Japanese actor, heart failure.
• Jonathan Z. Smith, 79, American historian of religion.
• Dame Cheryll Sotheran, 72, New Zealand museum executive, founding director of Te Papa.
• Bernd Spier, 73, German schlager singer and record producer.
• Gavin Stamp, 69, British architectural historian, prostate cancer.
• Gyöngyi Szalay-Horváth, 49, Hungarian fencer, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Tsuneo Tamagawa, 92, Japanese mathematician.
• Tatsuro Toyoda, 88, Japanese car executive, pneumonia.
• Khalid Shameem Wynne, 64, Pakistani military officer, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, traffic collision.

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• E. Theo Agard, 85, American physicist.
• Barbara Balmer, 88, Scottish artist and teacher.
• Richard Cousins, 58, British catering and business support executive, CEO of Compass Group, plane crash.
• Clément Fecteau, 84, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière.
• Edward Simons Fulmer, 98, American Army Air Forces officer, recipient of the Military Order of William.
• Richard Havers, 66, British music writer.
• Auckland Hector, 72, Kittitian cricketer.
• Aravind Joshi, 88, Indian computer scientist.
• Doreen Keogh, 93, Irish actress.
• Maurice Peress, 87, American conductor and music educator.
• Vinod Raj, 80, Indian actor.
• Charles Alexander Ramsay, 81, British Army officer.
• Philippe Rondot, 81, French general and spy.
• Gale Sherwood, 88, Canadian singer and actress.
• Viola Thompson, 95, American baseball player.
• Larry Winn, 98, American politician, member of the US House of Representatives for Kansas's 3rd.