Deaths in February 2015

• Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.

  February 2015

1

• Aldo Ciccolini, 89, Italian-born French pianist.
• Colum Corless, 92, Irish hurler.
• Anita Darian, 87, American singer, complications after intestinal surgery.
• Alby Duckmanton, 81, New Zealand cricket player and administrator.
• William Garrison, 90, American geographer.
• Jean-Paul Gladu, 93, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Sir Douglas Hague, 88, British economist.
• Patrick Aidan Heelan, 88, Irish physicist and philosopher of science.
• Ron Johnson, 76, American basketball player, aneurysm.
• Julius Ludorf, 95, German football player and coach.
• Ann Mara, 85, American football team owner, complications from fall.
• Isa Munayev, 49, Chechen militant, killed in the Battle of Debaltseve.
• Gordon Murray, 87, Scottish nationalist politician.
• Patrick Ngcobo, 43, South African Carnatic singer, renal failure.
• Monty Oum, 33, American animator, writer and director, anaphylaxis.
• Beryl Platt, Baroness Platt of Writtle, 91, British engineer and politician.
• Kenneth Kamal Scott, 74, American performer, liver cancer.
• Viktor Shekhovtsev, 74, Russian Soviet footballer.
• Irving Singer, 89, American philosopher, professor and author.
• Jos Suijkerbuijk, 85, Dutch professional road bicycle racer.
• Marie-José Villiers, 98, British-born Belgian World War II spy and countess.

  2

• Joseph Alfidi, 65, American pianist, composer and conductor.
• Helena Araújo, 81, Colombian writer.
• David Armytage, 85, British naval officer.
• Christian Backer-Owe, 90, Norwegian artist.
• Dave Bergman, 61, American baseball player, bile duct cancer.
• Tibor Bitskey, 85, Hungarian actor.
• Frank Borghi, 89, American Hall of Fame soccer player.
• Sandra Chalmers, 74, British broadcaster.
• Dalmo Gaspar, 82, Brazilian footballer.
• Joop Harmans, 93, Dutch Olympic cyclist, national champion.
• Ken Hawkes, 81, English footballer.
• The Jacka, 37, American rapper, shot.
• Andriy Kuzmenko, 46, Ukrainian singer, traffic collision.
• Dust La Rock, 38, American artist and designer.
• Roy Little, 83, English footballer.
• Gloria Ricci Lothrop, 80, American historian, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and pneumonia.
• Zane Musa, 36, American jazz saxophonist, suicide by jumping.
• Molade Okoya-Thomas, 79, Nigerian businessman and philanthropist.
• Karl-Erik Palmér, 85, Swedish footballer.
• Anand Shukla, 74, Indian cricketer.
• Stewart Stern, 92, American screenwriter, brain tumor.
• Henryk Szczepański, 81, Polish football player and coach.
• Osamu Tsurumine, 73, Japanese Olympic swimmer.

  3

• Christophe Gbenye, 87, Congolese rebel leader.
• Sir Martin Gilbert, 78, British historian and biographer, member of the Iraq Inquiry panel.
• Akif Jafar Hajiyev, 77, Azerbaijani mathematician.
• Hay List, 9, Australian Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanised following laminitis.
• Mary Healy, 96, American singer and actress.
• Jim Letcavits, 79, American CFL player, Alzheimer's disease.
• Walter Liedtke, 69, American art curator of European paintings, train crash.
• Sally Luther, 96, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives, leukemia.
• Vasu Malali, 48, Indian author and film director, cancer.
• Max Mangold, 92, German linguist.
• William Thomas McKinley, 76, American composer and jazz pianist.
• Carlos Noguera, 71, Venezuelan writer and psychologist.
• Ion Nunweiller, 79, Romanian football player and manager, triple Cupa României winner.
• Andrew Patner, 55, American art critic and radio host.
• Michael Refalo, 78, Maltese politician and diplomat, Tourism Minister, High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.
• Ataúlfo Sánchez, 80, Argentine football player and coach.
• Nasim Hasan Shah, 85, Pakistani judge, Chief Justice.
• Charlie Sifford, 92, American Hall of Fame golfer, complications from a stroke.
• Koos Van Den Akker, 75, Dutch-born American fashion designer.
• Norman Yemm, 81, Australian actor.

  4

• Dmitry Bagryanov, 47, Russian Olympic long jumper.
• Richard Bonehill, 67, British actor and stuntman.
• Ade Capone, 56, Italian cartoonist.
• Henryk Cegielski, 69, Polish Olympic basketball player.
• Chuang Shu-chi, 94, Taiwanese practitioner of traditional Chinese medicine.
• Wes Cooley, 82, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Oregon.
• Edmund Cranch, 91, American academic.
• Henry E. Emerson, 89, American army lieutenant general.
• Rune Ericson, 90, Swedish cinematographer.
• Celina González, 85, Cuban singer and songwriter.
• Ernest Ferlita, 87, American playwright and professor of drama and speech.
• Fitzhugh L. Fulton, 89, American NASA research pilot.
• Astrid Gräfin von Hardenberg, 89, German baroness.
• Martin Green, 82, British writer and publisher.
• Graeme Hall, 72, Australian weightlifter
• Robert E. Hanson, 67, American politician, North Dakota State Treasurer, complications from diabetes.
• Ziad Khalaf Raja al-Karbouly, Iraqi Al-Qaeda officer, execution by hanging.
• Donald M. Kerr, 69, American wildlife biologist and conservationist.
• Eduardo Laborde, 47, Argentine rugby union player, traffic collision.
• Odete Lara, 85, Brazilian actress, heart attack.
• Stanisław Makowiecki, 72, Polish Olympic wrestler.
• Albert L. Nash, 93, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
• Kristian Rambjør, 76, Norwegian executive, President of Norwegian State Railways.
• Sajida Mubarak Atrous al-Rishawi, c. 45, Iraqi Al-Qaeda failed suicide bomber, execution by hanging.
• Jack Ruina, 91, American professor of electrical engineering.
• Monica Scattini, 59, Italian actress, cancer.

  5

• K. N. Choksy, 81, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, MP, Minister of Finance.
• Henri Coppens, 84, Belgian footballer, winner of the Golden Shoe.
• Marisa Del Frate, 83, Italian actress, singer and television personality, cancer.
• Val Logsdon Fitch, 91, American Nobel Prize-winning physicist.
• Garey Hayden, 70, American bridge player.
• Sir Gordon Linacre, 94, English newspaper executive and bomber pilot.
• George A. Lovejoy, 83, American politician, member of the New Hampshire Senate.
• Louise Maheux-Forcier, 85, Canadian author.
• Elmer Matthews, 87, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly.
• Windy McCall, 89, American baseball player.
• Richard Meryman, 88, American journalist and biographer.
• Anne Moody, 74, American author and civil rights activist.
• Herman Rosenblat, 85, Polish-born American writer.
• Mike Runnels, 69, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of New Mexico.
• Jeffrey Segal, 94, British actor.
• Stay Gold, 20, Japanese Thoroughbred racehorse.
• Don Suman, 95, American college basketball coach.
• Dagfinn Tveito, 88, Norwegian horticulturalist.
• Mario Verdial, 52, Honduran businessman, Chairman of Real España, shot.

  6

• André Brink, 79, South African novelist and playwright.
• Johnny Campbell, 86, English footballer.
• D. Michael Collins, 70, American politician, Mayor of Toledo, Ohio.
• Carl Cunningham-Cole, 72, British ceramic artist.
• Satwant Singh Dhaliwal, 82, Malaysian geneticist.
• Assia Djebar, 78, Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker, member of the Académie française.
• Norm Drucker, 94, American basketball referee.
• Kayla Mueller, 26, American activist, humanitarian aid worker, ISIS hostage.
• Alan Nunnelee, 56, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Mississippi, brain cancer.
• Eliezer Shlomo Schick, 74, Israeli Hasidic rabbi.
• Tetaua Taitai, 67, I-Kiribati politician and physician, Leader of the Opposition, cancer.
• Kathrine Windfeld, 48, Danish film director, brain tumour.
• Ray Wolfinger, 83, American political scientist.
• Pedro León Zapata, 85, Venezuelan cartoonist, painter and writer.

  7

• Richard Austin, 60, Jamaican cricketer.
• Billy Casper, 83, American Hall of Fame golfer, 51 career PGA Tour wins, complications from pneumonia.
• Donald H. Clausen, 91, American politician, U.S. Representative from California.
• Nita Cunningham, 75, Australian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland.
• Gustavo Couttolenc, 93, Mexican translator and academic.
• Joseph M. Gaydos, 88, American politician, member of the House of Representatives, Pennsylvania Senate.
• Darwin Gonnerman, 68, Canadian football player.
• Earl Johnson, 83, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Robert Gavron, Baron Gavron, 84, British businessman and philanthropist, Labour life peer, heart attack.
• Adam Grad, 45, Polish footballer.
• René Lavand, 86, Argentine magician and illusionist.
• Joe B. Mauldin, 74, American bassist, cancer.
• George Muchai, 59, Kenyan politician, MP for Kabete, shot.
• Brian Reynolds, 82, English cricketer.
• Gilles Rhéaume, 63, Canadian Quebec independence activist.
• Marshall Rosenberg, 80, American psychologist, creator of Nonviolent Communication.
• Joe Simenic, 91, American baseball researcher and historian.
• Dean Smith, 83, American Hall of Fame basketball coach.
• Gordon Stone, 100, Australian rugby union player.
• Paul E. Toms, 90, American author and pastor.
• John C. Whitehead, 92, American financier and civil servant, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State.
• L. Pearce Williams, 87, American academic.

  8

• John W. Baldwin, 85, American historian.
• Ola Bratteli, 68, Norwegian mathematician.
• Stan Cowan, 83, Scottish rugby league player.
• David William Crews, 81, American politician, member of the Texas House of Representatives.
• Kenji Ekuan, 85, Japanese industrial designer, heart disorder.
• Vincent Valentine Ezeonyia, 73, Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Aba.
• Jesse Freitas Jr., 63, American football player.
• John Hart, 93, English ballet dancer and artistic director.
• Dave Hoyda, 57, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Debra A. Kemp, 57, American author.
• Rauni-Leena Luukanen-Kilde, 75, Finnish parapsychologist.
• Nicholas Mackintosh, 79, British experimental psychologist.
• Andrew Rosenfeld, 52, British businessman.
• Clyde W. Sare, 78, American politician, member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives.
• Müzeyyen Senar, 96, Turkish singer, pneumonia.
• Nick Sharkey, 71, English footballer.
• John J. Shea, Jr., 90, American physician.
• Oscar Stenström, 36, Finnish racing cyclist.
• Mario Vázquez Raña, 82, Mexican businessman and sports administrator, cancer.
• Sir David Watson, 65, British academic and educationalist.
• Thom Wilson, American punk rock producer.
• Ralph Yelton, 88, American politician, member of the Tennessee House of Representatives.

  9

• Abdul Rauf Aliza, 33, Afghan IS recruiter, Taliban commander, airstrike.
• Øyvind Bjorvatn, 83, Norwegian politician, leader of the Liberal People's Party.
• Horst Borcherding, 84, German footballer.
• Ken Cunningham, 71, American college basketball player and coach.
• Roman Frister, 87, Polish-Israeli journalist and Holocaust survivor.
• Jon Jerde, 75, American architect.
• Marvin David Levy, 82, American composer.
• Liu Han, 49, Chinese billionaire mining tycoon, execution.
• Roy Harris, 83, British linguist.
• Apirana Mahuika, 80, New Zealand Māori leader.
• Drew McDonald, 59, Scottish professional wrestler, cancer.
• Samuel H. Moffett, 98, American Korean theologian and missionary.
• Charlie O'Connell, 79, American roller derby skater.
• Valeri Poluyanov, 71, Russian Soviet-era footballer.
• Rex Ray, 58, American graphic designer and artist, lymphoma.
• Nadia Röthlisberger-Raspe, 42, Swiss curler, Olympic silver medalist and Paralympic coach, bone cancer.
• Claude Ruel, 76, Canadian ice hockey coach.
• Ed Sabol, 98, American filmmaker, founder of NFL Films.
• Jorge Sassi, 67, Argentine actor, renal failure.
• Richard Sher, 66, American broadcaster.
• Grant Strate, 87, Canadian dancer, cancer.
• Melanie Tem, 65, American horror and dark fantasy author, breast cancer.
• Max Yalden, 84, Canadian civil servant and diplomat.

  10

• Naseer Aruri, 81, Palestinian scholar and human rights activist, Parkinson's disease.
• Karl Josef Becker, 86, German Roman Catholic theologian, Cardinal-Deacon of San Giuliano Martire.
• Abdul Ghafoor Bhurgri, 94, Pakistani lawyer, author and politician.
• Daniel Brand, 79, American wrestler.
• Deng Liqun, 99, Chinese politician.
• Sir Noel Davies, 81, British chief executive.
• Wayne Dobbs, 75, American college basketball coach.
• Bill Enyart, 67, American football player, cancer.
• John Fox, 90, English composer and conductor.
• Matías Funes, 62, Honduran philosopher, professor, and presidential candidate, pancreatic cancer.
• Don Johnson, 88, American baseball player, kidney failure.
• Sir William Lawrence, 5th Baronet, 60, British aristocrat and politician.
• Corinne Le Poulain, 66, French actress, cancer.
• Bernard Marie, 96, French rugby league referee and politician, member of the National Assembly.
• Tom McQueen, 85, Scottish footballer.
• Dane A. Miller, 68, American business executive.
• Anne Naysmith, 77, British concert pianist, traffic collision.
• Michael Raupach, 64, Australian climatologist.
• Pat Rogan, 78, Australian politician.
• Roman Sidorov, 59, Russian footballer.
• Bobby Towns, 76, American football player.
• Manfred Wagner, 76, German footballer.

  11

• John Beresford, 8th Marquess of Waterford, 81, Irish aristocrat.
• Abel Costas Montaño, 94, Bolivian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tarija.
• Anne Cuneo, 78, Swiss author and film director.
• Rudolf Fila, 82, Slovak painter.
• Gary Glick, 84, American football player.
• Christopher Greener, 71, British basketball player and actor.
• Roger Hanin, 89, French actor and film director.
• Ray Hathaway, 98, American baseball player.
• Tama Huata, 64, New Zealand Māori performing arts leader.
• Tancred Ibsen, Jr., 93, Norwegian diplomat.
• Gus Moffat, 66, English football player and coach.
• John E. Murray, Jr., 82, American educator, President of Duquesne University, heart attack.
• Ricardo Palacios, 74, Spanish film actor and director, heart failure.
• Bob Simon, 73, American television journalist, traffic collision.
• Jerry Tarkanian, 84, American Hall of Fame basketball coach.

  12

• Idriss Arnaoud Ali, 69, Djiboutian politician.
• Sam Andrew, 73, American musician, complication after open heart surgery.
• David Carr, 58, American columnist and author, lung cancer.
• Movita Castaneda, 98, American actress, neck injury.
• John P. Craven, 90, American scientist.
• Désiré Dondeyne, 93, French composer.
• Rhonda Glenn, 68, American sportscaster and golf historian, cancer.
• Harvey Goldschmid, 74, American legal scholar and SEC commissioner.
• Alison Gordon, 72, Canadian sports journalist, lung ailment.
• Cornelis Pieter van den Hoek, 93, Dutch resistance fighter, recipient of the Military William Order.
• Christopher Horton, 76, New Zealand sharebroker.
• John-Edward Kelly, 56, American conductor and saxophonist.
• Jean Lechantre, 92, Belgian-born French international footballer.
• Mosie Lister, 93, American gospel music singer-songwriter.
• Anthony Low, 87, British historian.
• Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat, 84, Malaysian politician, Menteri Besar of Kelantan.
• Tomie Ohtake, 101, Japanese-born Brazilian artist, heart failure.
• Gary Owens, 80, American television announcer and voice actor, diabetes.
• Richie Pratt, 71, American jazz drummer.
• Oliver Rackham, 75, British landscape ecologist.
• Ernest J. Sternglass, 91, American physicist and professor, heart failure.
• Steve Strange, 55, British musician, heart attack.
• Mike Thresh, 84, British plant pathologist.

  13

• Faith Bandler, 96, Australian civil rights activist.
• Bob Bettisworth, 88, American politician, member of the Alaska House of Representatives.
• Thomas Bhalerao, 82, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Nashik.
• Stan Chambers, 91, American television reporter.
• Geneviève Dormann, 81, French journalist and writer.
• John Robert Evans, 85, Canadian paediatrician and academic.
• Kete Ioane, 64, Cook Islands politician, MP for Vaipae-Tautu, Cabinet Minister.
• John McCabe, 75, British composer and pianist.
• Jim McCusker, 78, American football player.
• James Montgomery, 80, Canadian Olympic boxer.
• Magnus Mwalunyungu, 84, Tanzanian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tunduru-Masasi.
• Albert Nijenhuis, 88, Dutch-born American mathematician.
• Nguyễn Bá Thanh, 61, Vietnamese politician, member of Central Committee of the Communist Party.
• Dan Tunstall Pedoe, 75, British cardiologist.
• Kesava Reddy, 68, Indian novelist.
• Hugh Walters, 75, British actor.
• Noah G. Willis, 75, American politician, member of the Alabama House of Representatives.

  14

• Kalim Aajiz, 95, Indian author and academic.
• Keith Copeland, 68, American jazz drummer.
• Pamela Cundell, 95, English actress.
• Bernd Dost, 75, German journalist.
• Michele Ferrero, 89, Italian businessman.
• Sheila Girling, 90, British artist.
• Helen Glass, 97, Canadian nurse and administrator.
• Philip Godana, Kenyan politician, MP for Moyale, shot.
• John D. Hargreaves, 91, British historian.
• Britta Hasso, 79, Swedish actress and journalist.
• José María Hernández, 55, Spanish politician, President of the Provincial Deputation of Palencia.
• Egon Horst, 76, German footballer.
• Alan Howard, 77, English actor, pneumonia.
• Hulon, 58, American jazz saxophonist and physician.
• Louis Jourdan, 93, French actor.
• Asbjørn Kjønstad, 72, Norwegian legal scholar.
• Philip Levine, 87, American Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, pancreatic cancer.
• Philippe Massoni, 79, French prefect, Representative Co-Prince of Andorra.
• Ammouri Mbarek, 63, Moroccan musician, cancer.
• Franjo Mihalić, 94, Croatian Yugoslav long distance runner, Olympic silver medalist.
• Finn Nørgaard, 55, Danish film director, shot.
• Richard Perham, 77, English molecular biologist.
• Wim Ruska, 74, Dutch judoka, Olympic champion.
• Hans Jürgen Teuteberg, 85, German historian.
• Thio Him Tjiang, 85, Indonesian footballer.
• Gerson Veii, 76, Namibian politician.

  15

• Haron Amin, 46, Afghan diplomat, Ambassador to Japan, cancer.
• George Attla, 81, American sprint dog musher.
• Sergio Blanco, 66, Spanish singer.
• Barbara Darling, 67, Australian Anglican prelate, stroke.
• Arnaud de Borchgrave, 88, American journalist, bladder cancer.
• Eileen Essell, 92, English actress.
• Leo Jordan, 85, Canadian politician, Ontario MPP.
• Wendell Kim, 64, American baseball player and coach, Alzheimer's disease.
• Mikhail Koulakov, 82, Russian abstract painter.
• Bruce A. McIntosh, 85, Canadian astrophysicist.
• Steve Montador, 35, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Jacob Stolt-Nielsen, 83, Norwegian businessman.
• John Treadgold, 83, British Anglican priest, Dean of Chichester.

  16

• Wilhelm Baumann, 89, German politician.
• Meli Bolobolo, 51, Fijian tribal chief and academic.
• Lasse Braun, 78, Italian pornographic film director and producer, complications from diabetes.
• Carlos de Castro, 35, Uruguayan footballer, complications from surgery.
• Gavin Clark, 46, British singer.
• John Davies, 76, Welsh historian.
• Robin Duff, 67, New Zealand education leader and gay rights activist, complications from surgery.
• Clyde Duncan, 54, American football player.
• Brett Ewins, 59, British comic book artist, emphysema.
• Lesley Gore, 68, American singer, lung cancer.
• Celia Lashlie, 61, New Zealand prison officer, social justice advocate and author, pancreatic cancer.
• Alexander Melentyev, 60, Soviet Russian sport shooter, Olympic champion.
• Geoff Morris, 66, English footballer.
• Tynnetta Muhammad, 73, American journalist, member of the Nation of Islam.
• Uri Orbach, 54, Israeli writer, journalist and politician.
• R. R. Patil, 57, Indian politician, oral cancer.
• Rajinder Puri, 80, Indian cartoonist and political activist.
• Lorena Rojas, 44, Mexican actress, singer and songwriter, breast cancer.
• Jerzy Samp, 63, Polish historian.
• Olga Törös, 100, Hungarian gymnast, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Feliks Tych, 85, Polish historian, director of the Jewish Historical Institute.
• Sir Robert Wade-Gery, 85, British diplomat, High Commissioner to India.
• Evan Walker, 79, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Council for Melbourne, Parkinson's disease.
• Heinrich Windelen, 93, German politician, member of the Bundestag.

  17

• John Barrow, 79, American CFL football player.
• Alberto Coramini, 70, Italian footballer.
• Joseph Devellerez Thaung Shwe, 79, Burmese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Pyay.
• Richard Alan Enslen, 83, American federal judge, U.S. District Court Justice for the Western District of Michigan.
• June Fairchild, 68, American actress, liver cancer.
• John Hurt Fisher, 95, American literary scholar.
• Andrzej Koszewski, 92, Polish composer.
• Antonio Lanfranchi, 68, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop-Abbot of Modena-Nonantola.
• Liu Yudi, 91, Chinese Air Force lieutenant general.
• George Mackie, Baron Mackie of Benshie, 95, British politician, Liberal Democrat life peer.
• Henri Martin, 87, French political activist.
• Juhani Salakka, 64, Finnish Olympic weightlifter.
• Cathy Ubels-Veen, 86, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives.
• K. Swami Veerabahu, 66, Sri Lankan politician, cancer.

  18

• Doug Armstrong, 83, New Zealand television sports presenter and politician, Mayor of Rodney District.
• Cass Ballenger, 88, American politician, member of United States House of Representatives from North Carolina.
• Mele Carroll, 50, American politician, member of Hawaii House of Representatives, cancer.
• Dave Cloud, 58, American musician, complications from melanoma.
• Georges Corbel, 72, French Olympic hockey player.
• Claude Criquielion, 58, Belgian cyclist, UCI World Road Race champion, complications from a stroke.
• Mark Fischer, 64, American intellectual property lawyer.
• Robert B. Fulton, 104, American Navy rear admiral.
• John Paul Jackson, 64, American writer and producer, complications from leg sarcoma.
• Jerome Kersey, 52, American basketball player, pulmonary embolism.
• Väinö Kuisma, 80, Finnish Olympic athlete.
• Mats Olausson, 54, Swedish keyboard player.
• D. Ramanaidu, 78, Indian film producer, prostate cancer.
• Buck Rinehart, 68, American politician, Mayor of Columbus, Ohio, pancreatic cancer.
• Hans F. Zacher, 86, German academic, President of the Max Planck Society.

  19

• Betty Lou Bredemus, 80, American stage actress and acting coach, lung cancer.
• Ivan Davidov, 71, Bulgarian footballer.
• Dennis Davis, 88, British mountaineer.
• Gérard Ducarouge, 73, French Formula One car designer.
• Peter Albert Dueck, 91, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.
• Harold Johnson, 86, American boxer, NBA/World Light Heavyweight Champion.
• Yutaka Katayama, 105, Japanese automotive executive.
• Erwin Marquit, 88, American physicist and Marxist philosopher.
• Nirad Mohapatra, 67, Indian film director, cardiac arrest.
• Rafael Orozco, 92, Mexican footballer.
• Frank Prendergast, 81, Irish politician, TD, Mayor of Limerick, cancer.
• Frank Ramírez, 65, Colombian actor, Parkinson's disease.
• Lisette Schulman, 63, Swedish television host and politician.
• Carol Severance, 71, American fantasy author.
• Mudaffar Sjah, 79, Indonesian politician, Sultan of Ternate.
• Warren Thomson, 79, Australian pianist.
• Talus Taylor, 82, American writer, co-creator of the Barbapapa series.
• Harris Wittels, 30, American television producer and writer, heroin overdose.
• Gary Woods, 60, American baseball player and scout, heart attack.

  20

• Nael al-Ajlouni, Jordanian politician, Health Minister.
• Ibrahim Biogradlić, 83, Bosnian Yugoslav footballer, Olympic silver medalist.
• Gérard Calvi, 92, French film composer.
• Errold La Frantz, 95, Australian cricket player, administrator, and commentator.
• Khalaf Masa'deh, Jordanian politician, Justice Minister.
• Wayne Moore, 83, American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist.
• Patricia Norris, 83, American costume designer.
• Govind Pansare, 81, Indian political activist and author, shot.
• Thérèse Quentin, 85, French actress.
• Henry Segerstrom, 91, American entrepreneur.
• Dick Triptow, 92, American basketball player.
• Markku Tuokko, 63, Finnish Olympic discus thrower and shot putter.
• Sandy Whitelaw, 84, British film producer and executive.
• John C. Willke, 89, American physician and anti-abortion activist.

  21

• Mohamed El Gourch, 79, Moroccan Olympic cyclist, Tour du Maroc winner, heart attack.
• Meredydd Evans, 95, Welsh professor, musician and television producer.
• Sami Farag, 79, Egyptian judge.
• Sir Anthony Grabham, 84, British surgeon and army officer.
• Aleksei Gubarev, 83, Russian Soviet-era cosmonaut.
• John Knapp-Fisher, 83, English painter.
• Mykhaylo Koman, 86, Ukrainian football player and coach.
• Robert O. Marshall, 75, American convicted murderer, arranged contract killing of his wife.
• Paul Napier, 84, American actor.
• George Onorato, 86, American politician, member of the New York Senate.
• Christopher Price, 83, British politician, MP for Birmingham Perry Barr and Lewisham West.
• Luca Ronconi, 81, Italian actor, theater director and opera director.
• Bruce Sinofsky, 58, American documentary filmmaker, diabetes.
• Sadeq Tabatabaei, 71, Iranian politician, Deputy Prime Minister, lung cancer.
• Clark Terry, 94, American jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist, diabetes.
• Daniel Topolski, 69, British rowing coach and commentator.
• Heinz Weifenbach, 75, German ice hockey executive.
• Bernardo Enrique Witte, 88, German-born Argentinian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of La Rioja and Concepción.

  22

• Erik Amundsen, 78, Norwegian jazz musician.
• Pasquale Carminucci, 77, Italian gymnast, Olympic bronze medallist.
• Roger Cecil, 72, Welsh painter, hypothermia.
• Ursel Finger, 85, German Olympic sprinter.
• Ivan Jones, 72, Australian rugby league player.
• Dzhangir Kerimov, 91, Azerbaijani-born Russian legal scholar.
• Kim Kyung-roul, 34, South Korean professional billiards player, fall.
• Jos Lambrechts, 78, Belgian Olympic sprinter.
• Rudy Mosbergen, 85, Singaporean Olympic hockey player.
• Chris Rainbow, 68, Scottish rock musician, Parkinson's disease.
• Renato Rocha, 53, Brazilian bassist and songwriter, cardiac arrest.
• John Rucho, 92, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
• Carmine Schiavone, 71, Italian criminal, member of the Casalesi clan.

  23

• James Aldridge, 96, Australian-born British writer.
• Rana Bhagwandas, 72, Pakistani judge, acting Chief Justice, cardiac arrest after heart ailment.
• Emidio Cavigioli, 89, Italian Olympic footballer.
• Haim Corfu, 94, Israeli politician, Transportation Minister.
• Abdelaziz Ben Dhia, 78, Tunisian politician.
• W. E. "Bill" Dykes, 89, American politician, member of the Louisiana State Senate.
• David Freeman, 86, English solicitor.
• Maria Golovnina, 34, Russian journalist, Reuters bureau chief for Afghanistan and Pakistan, asphyxiation.
• Algimantas Kezys, 86, Lithuanian-born American photographer.
• King of Kings, 20, Irish Thoroughbred racehorse, heart failure.
• Andy King, 72, Scottish footballer.
• Jim King, 82, American baseball player.
• Jerry Lambert, 74, American jockey.
• Gerald Lockwood, 87, English rugby league player.
• Ted Roberts, 83, Australian screenwriter and producer.
• John Rowlands, 76, Welsh author and novelist.
• R. C. Sakthi, 76, Indian film director and actor.
• Jaime Vásquez, 85, Chilean footballer.
• Dave Williams, 72, Welsh football player and coach.
• Ben Woolf, 34, American actor, traffic collision.

  24

• Rakhat Aliyev, 52, Kazakh politician and diplomat, hanging.
• Francis Némé Baïssari, 81, Lebanese Maronite Catholic hierarch, Auxiliary Bishop of Patriarch.
• Robert Belfour, 74, American blues musician.
• Joseph Beltrami, 83, British lawyer.
• Mayandi Bharathi, 98, Indian political activist.
• Roland Gerber, 61, German football coach and player.
• Tyzen Hsiao, 77, Taiwanese composer.
• Maurice Hurley, 75, American television writer and producer.
• Margaret Johnson, 77, Australian Olympic athlete.
• Irving Kahn, 109, American investor.
• Donald Keough, 88, American businessman, President of The Coca-Cola Company.
• Suzuka Mambo, 13, Japanese thoroughbred racehorse, heart failure.
• Dori J. Maynard, 56, American journalist, lung cancer.
• Mefodiy, 65, Ukrainian Orthodox hierarch, Metropolitan of Kyiv and Primate of the UAOC.
• Dame Thea Muldoon, 87, New Zealand community servant.
• Said Sheikh Samatar, 71, Somali scholar and writer.
• Gary Sittler, 62, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Bertrice Small, 77, American author, renal failure.
• Geoffrey Owen Whittaker, 83, British civil servant, Governor of Anguilla.

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• Hannes Baldauf, 76, German football player and coach.
• Harve Bennett, 84, American producer and writer, embolism.
• Robert Brisart, 61, Belgian philosopher.
• Ariel Camacho, 22, Mexican singer, traffic collision.
• Marie Cathcart, Countess Cathcart, 91, British peeress.
• Eugenie Clark, 92, American ichthyologist.
• Terry Gill, 75, British-born Australian actor, lung cancer.
• Agnes Griffith, 45, Grenadian Olympic sprinter.
• Liu Dongdong, 69, Chinese general.
• Charles E. Rice, 83, American legal scholar and author.
• Giacomo Rondinella, 91, Italian singer and actor.
• Raymond Smallman, 85, British metallurgist.
• Marian Szeja, 73, Polish footballer, Olympic champion.
• Mauno Valkeinen, 85, Finnish Olympic swimmer.
• A. Vincent, 86, Indian cinematographer and director.
• Victor Watson, 86, British executive, Parkinson's disease.

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• Jessica Ainscough, 30, Australian alternative therapy campaigner, cancer.
• Bob Braithwaite, 89, British trap shooter, Olympic champion.
• Eduard Budil, 90, Austrian Olympic equestrian
• Anthony R. Cucci, 92, American politician, Mayor of Jersey City.
• Brian Cumby, 64, British shipwright.
• Ruth Denison, 92, German-born American Buddhist teacher, stroke.
• Oscar Díaz, 32, American welterweight boxer, head injury.
• Angelo Raffaele Dinardo, 83, Italian politician, President of Basilicata.
• Sadiq Fakir, 47, Pakistani singer, traffic collision.
• Monroe H. Freedman, 86, American professor of law, chronic lymphocytic lymphoma.
• Sheppard Frere, 98, British historian and archaeologist.
• Theodore Hesburgh, 97, American Roman Catholic priest, President of the University of Notre Dame.
• Nadia Hilou, 61, Israeli social worker and politician, first Arab-Christian member of Knesset.
• Per Olof Hulth, 71, Swedish astroparticle physicist.
• Meera Kosambi, 75, Indian sociologist.
• Earl Lloyd, 86, American basketball player.
• Branislav Martinović, 77, Serbian Olympic wrestler.
• Curt Michel, 80, American astrophysicist.
• Franklin Quitugua, 81, Guamanian politician.
• Rowley Richards, 98, Australian World War II Army medical officer.
• Martin T. Smith, 80, American politician, member of the Mississippi Senate.
• Fritz J. Raddatz, 83, German feuilletonist, essayist, biographer and novelist.
• Avijit Roy, 42, Bangladeshi-American writer, stabbed.
• Tom Schweich, 54, American politician, State Auditor of Missouri, suicide by gunshot.
• Hukam Singh, 89, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Haryana.
• Carlos Talbott, 95, American air force lieutenant general.

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• Richard Bakalyan, 84, American character actor.
• Manfred Bayer, 86, German-born American microbiologist.
• Bob Benmosche, 70, American executive, President and CEO of American International Group, lung cancer.
• Malcolm Boyd, 91, American Episcopal priest, author, pneumonia.
• Mykhailo Chechetov, 61, Russian-born Ukrainian politician, member of Verkhovna Rada, suicide by autodefenestration.
• Tod Dockstader, 82, American sound artist and electronic music composer.
• John Fairchild, 87, American publisher and editor.
• Tim Ford, 63, American politician, Speaker of the Mississippi House of Representatives, heart attack.
• Paul Hutchison, 47, Australian cricketer.
• Jerome Kurtz, 83, American public servant, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, complications of surgery.
• Sue Landske, 77, American politician, member of the Indiana Senate, cancer.
• Boris Nemtsov, 55, Russian politician, Governor of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, First Deputy Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister, shot.
• Leonard Nimoy, 83, American actor and director, emphysema.
• Natalia Revuelta Clews, 89, Cuban socialite.
• Julio César Strassera, 81, Argentine lawyer and jurist.
• Anna Szatkowska, 86, Polish resistance fighter.
• Yevgeni Titov, 51, Russian footballer.
• Bohdan Tomaszewski, 93, Polish sports commentator.
• Patrick Whitefield, 66, English permaculturist.
• Joanne Woollard, British film art director.

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• Tom Bettis, 83, American football player and coach.
• William J. Bichsel, 86, American Jesuit priest and peace protester.
• Clifford Edmund Bosworth, 86, British oriental historian.
• Braulio Castillo, 81, Puerto Rican actor.
• P. T. De Silva, 86, Sri Lankan consultant physician.
• Sarah Foot, 75, British journalist and author.
• Gordie Gillespie, 88, American baseball, football and basketball coach.
• Alex Johnson, 72, American baseball player, prostate cancer.
• Yaşar Kemal, 91, Turkish author, Légion d'honneur recipient.
• John Komba, 60, Tanzanian politician.
• Ezra Laderman, 90, American composer.
• J. Michael Lenihan, 71, American politician, member of the Rhode Island Senate, cancer.
• Anthony Mason, 48, American basketball player, heart failure.
• Ed Modzelewski, 86, American football player, heart failure.
• Thakin Tin Mya, 91, Burmese politician.
• William Röttger, 66, German label manager, music manager and gallery owner, cancer.
• Thomas J. Stanley, 71, American author, traffic collision.
• Louis Sette, 68, American broadcaster and political candidate.
• Tracker Tilmouth, 62, Australian aboriginal activist, cancer.
• André Vallée, 84, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Military and Hearst.
• Gigi Vesigna, 83, Italian journalist and writer.
• Orris George Walker, 72, American episcopal prelate, Bishop of Long Island.