Deaths in February 2016
The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2016.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.
February 2016
1
- Wasil Ahmad, 11, Afghan child soldier, shot.
- Israr Ali, 88, Pakistani Test cricketer.
- Ali Beratlıgil, 84, Turkish football player and coach.
- Francis Buckley, 94, Canadian business executive.
- Jon Bunch, 45, American rock musician, suicide by drug overdose.
- Miguel Gutiérrez, 84, Mexican footballer.
- Li Xiuren, 94, Chinese politician.
- Murray Louis, 89, American modern dancer and choreographer.
- Kelly McGarry, 33, New Zealand mountain biker, cardiac arrest.
- Óscar Humberto Mejía Victores, 85, Guatemalan military officer and politician, President.
- Francis Ormsby-Gore, 6th Baron Harlech, 61, British peer, member of the House of Lords.
- Bernard Piras, 73, French politician, member of the Senate for Drôme, Mayor of Bourg-lès-Valence, cancer.
- Paul Pholeros, 62, Australian architect.
- Jaime Powell, 63, Argentine paleontologist.
- Tom Pugh, 78, English cricketer.
- Kunigal Ramanath, 83, Indian actor.
- Thomas Tigue, 70, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, lung cancer.
- Dušan Velkaverh, 72, Slovenian lyricist.
- Sir Peter Whiteley, 95, British general in the Royal Marines, Lieutenant Governor of Jersey.
2
- Robert Beiner, 65, American television sports director.
- Heinz Bohlen, 80, German microwave electronics and communications engineer.
- Seth Cardew, 81, English studio potter.
- Abram Cohen, 91, American Olympic fencer.
- Bob Elliott, 92, American comedian and actor, throat cancer.
- Jim Goode, 71, American restaurateur.
- Dag Gundersen, 88, Norwegian linguist and lexicographer.
- Halling, 24, American racehorse.
- Intizar Hussain, 92, Pakistani writer.
- Chris Kenny, 78, Irish-born New Zealand boxing coach.
- Luiz Felipe Lampreia, 74, Brazilian diplomat, Minister of External Relations.
- Aldo Bufi Landi, 92, Italian actor.
- Gérald Laniel, 91, Canadian politician, MP for Beauharnois—Salaberry.
- Rebecca Masika Katsuva, 49, Congolese women's rights activist.
- Mubeen Mughal, 23, Pakistani cricketer.
- Yasushi Nirasawa, 52, Japanese concept designer and illustrator, kidney failure.
- Mike Oehler, 78, American author.
- Manuel Tenenbaum, 81, Uruguayan historian, President of the Latin American Jewish Congress.
- Marcus Turner, 59, New Zealand folk singer and television presenter.
3
- Ernesto Alais, 86, Argentine Olympic sports shooter
- Joe Alaskey, 63, American voice actor, cancer.
- Big Kap, 45, American hip hop DJ, heart attack.
- Mark Farren, 33, Irish football player, brain cancer.
- Richie Giachetti, 76, American boxing trainer.
- John Hirst, 73, Australian historian.
- Balram Jakhar, 92, Indian politician, Speaker of the Lok Sabha.
- Michał Janiszewski, 89, Polish politician and army officer.
- Brandon Astor Jones, 72, American criminal, execution by lethal injection.
- József Kasza, 70, Serbian politician and economist.
- Brad Kent, 61, Canadian musician, complications from pneumonia.
- Suat Mamat, 85, Turkish footballer.
- K. S. Paripoornan, 83, Indian judge, multiple organ failure.
- Valery Postnikov, 70, Russian ice hockey player and coach.
- Mercedes Richards, 60, Jamaican astronomer and physicist.
- John P. Riley Jr., 95, American ice hockey player and coach.
- Edith Skom, 86, American novelist.
- Alba Solís, 88, Argentine singer and actress.
- Saulius Sondeckis, 87, Lithuanian violinist and conductor.
- Andy Thompson, 91, Canadian politician, Leader of the Ontario Liberal Party.
- Arnold Weiberg-Aurdal, 90, Norwegian politician.
4
- Leslie Bassett, 93, American composer, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Music.
- Sonia Borg, 85, Austrian-born Australian screenwriter.
- Marlow Cook, 89, American politician, Senator from Kentucky, complications from a heart attack.
- Don Davis, 82, American gun shop owner.
- Joe Dowell, 76, American pop singer, heart attack.
- William Gaskill, 85, British theatre director.
- Harry Glasgow, 76, Scottish footballer.
- Harry Harpham, 61, British politician, MP for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough, cancer.
- Bob Harrison, 78, American football player.
- Jimmie Haskell, 79, American composer and orchestrator.
- Paddy Kehoe, 93, Irish Gaelic football and hurling manager and player.
- Galina Leontyeva, 74, Russian volleyball player, Olympic champion.
- Katie May, 34, American model, stroke.
- Kristine Miller, 90, American actress.
- Dave Mirra, 41, American BMX rider, X Games winner, suicide by gunshot.
- Edgar Mitchell, 85, American astronaut.
- Sir Jeremy Morse, 87, British banker and crossword compiler.
- Miguel Roa, 72, Spanish conductor.
- Axl Rotten, 44, American professional wrestler, heroin overdose.
- Haro Senft, 87, German filmmaker.
- David Sloan, 74, Northern Irish footballer.
- Ulf Söderblom, 85, Finnish conductor.
- Howard G. Swafford, 96, American politician.
- Dimitris Tsaloumas, 94, Greek-born Australian poet.
- Lorna Jorgenson Wendt, 72, American women's equality advocate.
- Edgar Whitcomb, 98, American politician, Governor of Indiana.
- Maurice White, 74, American songwriter and musician, complications from Parkinson's disease.
5
- Markand Bhatt, 87, Indian theatre director and actor.
- Bill Birchfield, 80, American politician, member of Florida House of Representatives for the 21st district.
- Ciriaco Cañete, 96, Filipino martial artist, prostate cancer.
- Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum, 86, American judge, District Court for the Southern District of New York, stroke.
- Ray Colcord, 66, American film and television composer, pancreatic cancer.
- Leo Foley, 87, American politician, Minnesota State Senator.
- Bodil Malmsten, 71, Swedish poet and novelist.
- John Lewis Mitchell, 97, British Royal Air Force pilot.
- Tayeb Saddiki, 77, Moroccan playwright.
- C. V. Subramanian, 91, Indian scientist.
- Carl E. Wang, 85, Norwegian politician.
6
- Milton V. Backman, 88, American historian.
- Alastair Biggar, 69, Scottish rugby union player, cancer.
- Jules Boes, 88, Belgian Olympic basketball player.
- Luciano Conati, 65, Italian racing cyclist.
- David John de Laubenfels, 90, American botanist.
- Robin Chandler Duke, 92, American social advocate and diplomat, Ambassador to Norway.
- Dan Gerson, 49, American screenwriter, brain cancer.
- Winifred Green, 78, American civil rights activist.
- Dan Hicks, 74, American singer-songwriter, liver cancer.
- York Larese, 77, American basketball player and coach.
- Anisa Makhlouf, 86, Syrian political matriarch, First Lady.
- James Moore, 99, American baseball player.
- Emanuel Parzen, 86, American statistician.
- Sam Spence, 88, American composer.
- Giacomo Tachis, 82, Italian oenologist.
- Sudhir Tailang, 55, Indian cartoonist, brain cancer.
- John L. Tishman, 90, American property developer.
- Eddy Wally, 83, Belgian singer, cerebral hemorrhage.
- David Weinrib, 91, American artist.
7
- Juliette Benzoni, 95, French novelist.
- Konstantinos Despotopoulos, 102, Greek philosopher and politician.
- Andrew Glaze, 95, American poet.
- Andrew Hintz, 52, New Zealand cricketer.
- Dogomar Martínez, 86, Uruguayan Olympic boxer.
- Emilyano Ochagaviya, 70, Russian theater actor.
- Redding Pitt, 71, American attorney and politician.
- Thomas Rea, 86, American dermatologist and leprosy researcher, cancer.
- Roger Willemsen, 60, German author, essayist and TV presenter.
8
- Sikiru Adesina, 44–45, Nigerian film actor and director.
- Amelia Bence, 101, Argentine actress.
- Jakov Bienenfeld, 67, Croatian executive.
- Michael Brick, 41, American journalist and songwriter, colon cancer.
- Charles C. Campbell, 68, American army general.
- Ken Delo, 77, American singer.
- John Disley, 87, Welsh steeplechase runner, Olympic bronze medallist and co-founder of the London Marathon.
- Johnny Duncan, 92, American actor.
- Nida Fazli, 77, Indian poet, respiratory problems.
- Giuliano Ferraris, 80, Italian Olympic ice hockey player.
- Luigi Ferrari Bravo, 82, Italian academic and judge, International Court of Justice.
- Margaret Forster, 77, English novelist and biographer, cancer.
- Norman Hudis, 93, English screenwriter.
- August P. Mardesich, 95, American politician, member of the Washington House of Representatives and Senate.
- Samuel Rappaport, 83, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
- Willie Richardson, 76, American football player.
- Viggo Rivad, 93, Danish photographer.
- Roy Señeres, 68, Filipino politician and diplomat, Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates, complications of diabetes.
- William Donald Stiehl, 90, American federal judge, District Court for the Southern District of Illinois.
- William Stowe, 75, American rower, Olympic champion.
- Zdravko Tolimir, 67, Bosnian Serb military commander in the Bosnian War.
- Violette Verdy, 82, French ballerina.
- Leon Vilaincour, 92, Polish-born British painter.
9
- J. B. Danquah-Adu, 50, Ghanaian politician and MP, stabbed.
- Myer Bloom, 87, Canadian physicist.
- Vittorio Di Prima, 74, Italian actor and voice actor.
- Wayne England, 56, English artist.
- Claudie Flament, 85, French Olympic hurdler
- Bob Halverson, 78, Australian politician, Speaker of the House of Representatives, MP, cancer.
- Michael Hanlon, 51, British science journalist, heart attack.
- Roy Harris, 82, British folk singer.
- André van den Heuvel, 88, Dutch actor, two-time winner of the Louis d'Or.
- Sushil Koirala, 76, Nepalese politician, Prime Minister, President of Congress, pneumonia.
- Edwin McDonough, 72, American actor.
- Alethea McGrath, 95, Australian actress.
- Graham Moore, 74, Welsh footballer.
- Quan Minyu, 12, Chinese singer, DIPG.
- Edgar Riek, 95, Australian entomologist and wine pioneer
- Jagnandan Singh, 87, Kenyan Olympic hockey player
- Elizabeth Joan Smith, 88, Canadian politician, MPP for London South, brain injury from fall.
- Donald E. Thorin, 81, American cinematographer.
- Leslie Thornton, 90, English sculptor.
- Jan Zoon, 92, Dutch politician, Senator.
- Alexandru Vulpe, 84, Romanian historian, archaeologist and academician.
- Nore Westin, 78, Swedish Olympic biathlete
10
- Jakob Aano, 95, Norwegian politician, MP.
- David Boykett, 81, Australian rower, Olympic bronze medallist.
- Claude Jeancolas, 66, French author.
- Ian Cowap, 65, English cricketer, cancer.
- Yuriy Dumchev, 57, Russian Olympic Soviet discus thrower, world record holder.
- Leo Ehlen, 62, Dutch footballer.
- Hildesuse Gaertner, 93, German alpine skier and politician.
- Phil Gartside, 63, English businessman and football chairman, cancer.
- Anatoli Ilyin, 84, Russian Soviet football player, Olympic champion.
- Bayard Johnson, 63, American screenwriter, cancer.
- Andrew L. Lewis Jr., 84, American business executive and politician, Secretary of Transportation, complications of pneumonia.
- Asami Nagakiya, 30, Japanese musician, strangled.
- Lennie Pond, 75, American race car driver, cancer.
- Eliseo Prado, 86, Argentine footballer.
- Christopher Rush, 50, American illustrator.
- Günter Schröter, 88, German football player and coach.
- John Spencer, 81, New Zealand businessman.
- Fatima Surayya Bajia, 85, Pakistani novelist.
- Richard Unis, 87, American judge, stroke.
- Bob Wielinga, 70, Dutch academic.
- Abdel-Bari Zamzami, 73, Moroccan religious leader, cancer.
11
- Warner Batchelor, 81, Australian Olympic boxer.
- Les Belshaw, 88, British rugby league player.
- Sir Timothy Bevan, 88, British banker, chairman of Barclays.
- Naushaba Burney, 83, Pakistani journalist.
- Jakob Denzinger, 91, Croatian concentration camp guard.
- John Gagnon, 84, American sociologist, pancreatic cancer.
- Charles Garabedian, 92, American artist, prostate cancer.
- William Haze, 49, American actor.
- Thomas N. Hibbard, 86, American computer scientist.
- Douglas Inman, 95, American oceanographer.
- Jung Byung-tak, 75, South Korean football player and manager.
- John Baptist Kakubi, 86, Ugandan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Mbarara.
- Ellison Kelly, 80, American-born Canadian football player, heart failure.
- Philip A. Kuhn, 82, British-born American sinologist.
- Warren Manzi, 60, American playwright, pneumonia.
- Mildred Shapley Matthews, 100, American science writer.
- Juan Mujica, 72, Uruguayan football player and manager.
- Sohrab Rahimi, 53, Iranian-born Swedish poet.
- Kevin Randleman, 44, American mixed martial artist, UFC Heavyweight Champion, pneumonia and heart failure.
- Ferenc Rudas, 94, Hungarian football player and manager.
- Arthur Tunstall, 93, Australian sports administrator.
- John Keith Wells, 94, American Marine platoon commander.
- Kim Williams, 68, American songwriter.
- Peter Wood, 90, English theatre director.
- Zeng Xuelin, 86, Chinese football player and manager.
12
- Eddie Barry, 96, American ice hockey player.
- Kekuni Blaisdell, 90, American Hawaii sovereign activist and professor of medicine, respiratory failure.
- Oscar Camilión, 86, Argentine lawyer and diplomat, Minister of Defense, Foreign Minister.
- Dominique D'Onofrio, 62, Italian-born Belgian football coach.
- Kenny Easterday, 42, American actor and "man with half a body" due to sacral agenesis.
- Braulio Manuel Fernández, 74, Mexican politician.
- Robert Frederick Froehlke, 93, American lawyer, Secretary of the Army.
- Bergljot Hobæk Haff, 90, Norwegian novelist.
- Barbara Hardy, 92, British author.
- Keith Jeffery, 64, Northern Irish historian.
- Martin Jensen, 74, Norwegian triple jumper.
- Giannis Kalaitzis, 70, Greek cartoonist and caricaturist.
- Sossen Krohg, 92, Norwegian actress.
- Johnny Lattner, 83, American football player.
- Yvonne Porcella, 79, American quilt artist.
- Bennie Purcell, 86, American basketball player and tennis coach.
- Henri Rey, 83, French Olympic basketball player
- Hugo Tassara, 92, Chilean football manager.
- George Tipton, 84, American composer and arranger.
- Yan Su, 85, Chinese playwright and lyricist, cerebral infarction.
- Xymena Zaniewska-Chwedczuk, 91, Polish scenographer, architect and fashion designer.
13
- Angela Bairstow, 73, English badminton player.
- Nathan Barksdale, 54, American heroin dealer, dramatized in The Wire.
- Yvonne Barr, 83, Irish virologist, discovered Epstein–Barr virus.
- Avigdor Ben-Gal, 79, Israeli general, GOC Northern Command.
- Flakey Dove, 30, British racehorse, winner of the 1994 Champion Hurdle, euthanized.
- Robin Ghosh, 76, Bangladeshi composer.
- Trifon Ivanov, 50, Bulgarian footballer, heart attack.
- Barry Jones, 74, New Zealand Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Christchurch.
- O. N. V. Kurup, 84, Indian poet, recipient of the Jnanpith Award.
- Edward J. McCluskey, 86, American electrical engineer.
- Rafael Moreno Valle, 98, Mexican military physician and politician, Governor of Puebla, Secretary of Health.
- Giorgio Rossano, 76, Italian Olympic footballer.
- Slobodan Santrač, 69, Serbian football player and manager, heart attack.
- Antonin Scalia, 79, American judge, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
- Mike Shepherdson, 85, Malaysian Olympic hockey player and cricketer.
- Bořek Šípek, 66, Czech architect and designer, cancer.
- Bud Webster, 63, American science fiction and fantasy writer.
- Sir Christopher Zeeman, 91, British mathematician.
14
- Eric Lubbock, 4th Baron Avebury, 87, British politician, MP for Orpington, acute myeloid leukaemia.
- Peter Bottome, 78, Venezuelan businessman.
- Ali Brownlee, 56, English radio sports broadcaster, bowel cancer.
- Muriel Casals i Couturier, 70, Spanish economist and Catalan independence leader, President of Òmnium Cultural, brain injury.
- Joanne M. Cohoon, 61, American sociologist.
- Max Gruenberg, 72, American politician, member of the Alaska House of Representatives.
- Drewe Henley, 75, British actor, asphyxiation.
- David Hey, 77, English historian.
- Mitchell Higginbotham, 94, American World War II veteran, member of the Tuskegee Airmen.
- Anselmo López, 81, Venezuelan bandola player.
- Wiesław Rudkowski, 69, Polish boxer, Olympic silver medalist.
- Steven Stucky, 66, American classical music composer, brain tumor.
- L. C. Ulmer, 87, American blues musician.
15
- Paul Bannon, 59, Irish footballer.
- Paulo Barreto Menezes, 90, Brazilian civil engineer and politician, Governor of Sergipe.
- Piero Buscaroli, 85, Italian musicologist.
- Alcibíades Colón, 96, Dominican baseball player.
- Mary Dodson, 83, American art director, complications from Parkinson's Disease.
- Lewis Feild, 59, American rodeo cowboy, pancreatic cancer.
- Edward T. Foote II, 78, American educator, President of the University of Miami.
- George Gaynes, 98, Finnish-born American actor.
- Constance Glube, 84, Canadian judge, Chief Justice of Nova Scotia.
- Victor Goldbloom, 92, Canadian politician.
- Abdul Rahman Al-Hanaqtah, 52–53, Jordanian politician, member of the House of Representatives.
- Virgil Jester, 88, American baseball player, pneumonia.
- Jerzy Kroh, 91, Polish chemist.
- Louis Lane, 92, American conductor.
- Walter McGowan, 73, Scottish boxer, world champion.
- Muhayadin Mohamed, Somali politician, Defence Minister, explosion.
- Salman Natour, 67, Israeli Palestinian author.
- W. F. H. Nicolaisen, 88, German-born Scottish scholar.
- Joyce Paul, 78, American country music singer.
- Carlos Quintero Arce, 96, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Hermosillo.
- Hans Posthumus, 68, Dutch footballer.
- Jean Rabier, 88, French cinematographer.
- Fighton Simukonda, 58, Zambian football player and manager, diabetes.
- Steve Thompson, 50, American football player.
- Vanity, 57, Canadian singer, actress, and evangelist, renal failure.
16
- Alisa Bellettini, 61, American television producer, creator of House of Style.
- Ronnie Blackman, 90, English footballer.
- Boutros Boutros-Ghali, 93, Egyptian politician and diplomat, Secretary-General of the United Nations, complications from a fall.
- Eugenio Carmi, 95, Italian painter and sculptor.
- Fred V. Cherry, 87, American military pilot, POW during the Vietnam War, heart disease.
- Mircea Costache II, 75, Romanian handball player and coach, world champion.
- Srđan Dizdarević, 63, Bosnian diplomat and journalist.
- Jack Elrod, 91, American cartoonist.
- Gustavo Julian Garcia, 43, American criminal, execution by lethal injection.
- Douglas Haynes, 80, Canadian abstract painter.
- Mahmudul Islam, 79, Bangladeshi lawyer, Attorney General.
- Gregorio Garavito Jiménez, 96, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Villavicencio.
- Mike Greenstein, 95, American strongman.
- Lou Holland, 74, American football player and investment management executive, Grey Cup champion.
- Bernard Kirschenbaum, 91, American artist.
- Herbert Louis, 87, American orthopedic surgeon.
- Arman Manaryan, 86, Iranian-born Armenian film director.
- Belinda Nash, 69, Canadian-born American historian, cancer.
- Jim Pleass, 92, Welsh cricketer.
- Jože Pogačnik, 83, Slovenian film director.
- Charles Caldwell Ryrie, 90, American theologian.
- Robert Walker, 87, American sailor, Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy.
17
- Arthur J. Aasland, 82, Norwegian executive.
- Gelu Barbu, 83, Romanian-born Spanish ballet dancer and choreographer.
- Jesús Barrero, 57, Mexican actor and voice actor, lung cancer.
- Eduardo Chirinos, 55, Peruvian poet.
- Elias P. Demetracopoulos, 87, Greek journalist and activist, involved in the Watergate scandal.
- François Fourquet, 76, French economist.
- Andy Ganteaume, 95, Trinidadian cricketer.
- Alexander Gutman, 71, Russian film director.
- Eddie Haigh, 80, British trade unionist.
- Sophia Hawthorne, 39, New Zealand actress.
- Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, 92, Egyptian journalist, kidney disease.
- Noela Hjorth, 75, Australian artist.
- Michael Jaharis, 87, American businessman and philanthropist.
- Akbar Kakkattil, 61, Indian writer, lung cancer.
- Archie Lang, 95, American actor.
- Liu Wan-lai, 89, Taiwanese translator.
- Brock Pemberton, 62, American baseball player.
- Tony Phillips, 56, American baseball player, World Series champion, heart attack.
- George Redmond, 92, Irish politician.
- Norbert Verougstraete, 81, Belgian Olympic cyclist.
- Ray West, 90, American sound mixer, Oscar winner.
- Andrzej Żuławski, 75, Polish film director and writer, cancer.
18
- Victorico Chaves, 83, Filipino sports administrator and politician.
- Harold C. Conklin, 89, American anthropologist.
- Jim Davenport, 82, American baseball player, heart failure.
- Sir Tony Durant, 88, British politician, MP.
- Jo-Ann Episkenew, 63, Canadian author and indigenous rights activist.
- Rosario Ferré, 77, Puerto Rican writer, poet, and essayist, First Lady.
- Rudolf Fischer, 92, Romanian historian and linguist.
- Paul Gordon, 52, American musician, complications from heart disease.
- Brendan Healy, 59, English actor and musician, cancer.
- Abdul Rashid Khan, 107, Indian Hindustani musician.
- Bruce Lacey, 89, British artist and actor.
- Horst Mittelstaedt, 92, German biologist.
- Johnny Miller, 65, English footballer, cancer.
- Tom Mullica, 67, American comedy magician and actor, complications from surgery.
- Cherussery Zainuddeen Musliyar, 78, Indian religious scholar.
- Pantelis Pantelidis, 32, Greek singer-songwriter, traffic collision.
- Sigmund Pritchard, 86, Bahamian Olympic sailor
- Angela Raiola, 55, American television personality, lung and throat cancer.
- John Reinhardt, 95, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Nigeria.
- Don Rossiter, 80, English footballer and politician.
- Karl Stirner, 92, German-born American sculptor.
- Thyge Thøgersen, 89, Danish Olympic runner.
- Giorgio Tinazzi, 81, Italian footballer.
- Yūko Tsushima, 68, Japanese author.
- Arumugam Vijiaratnam, 94, Singaporean athlete and Olympic hockey player.
19
- Tamerlan Aguzarov, 52, Russian politician, Head of North Ossetia-Alania, complications from pneumonia.
- Humbert Allen Astredo, 86, American actor.
- John Binotto, 96, American football player.
- Din Joe Crowley, 70, Irish footballer.
- Harald Devold, 51, Norwegian jazz musician, cancer.
- Umberto Eco, 84, Italian philosopher and novelist, pancreatic cancer.
- Ariel Forman, 72, Israeli actor and voice actor, lung cancer.
- Freddie Goodwin, 82, English football player and manager.
- Sir Anthony Hidden, 79, British judge.
- Harper Lee, 89, American author.
- Chiaki Morosawa, 56, Japanese anime screenwriter, aortic dissection.
- Sir William O'Brien, 99, British admiral, Naval Secretary.⋅
- Vi Subversa, 80, British musician.
- Mutsuo Tahara, 72, Japanese judge.
- Charlie Tuna, 71, American radio personality.
- Samuel Willenberg, 93, Polish-born Israeli sculptor and painter, last survivor of the Treblinka extermination camp prisoners' revolt.
- Bruno Zuppiger, 63, Swiss politician.
20
- Pia Bech Mathiesen, 54, Danish designer and businesswoman, cancer.
- Fernando Cardenal, 82, Nicaraguan priest and politician, Minister of Education.
- Kevin Collins, 69, American MLB baseball player.
- Moisés Dagdug Lützow, 65, Mexican politician, stabbed.
- Ove Verner Hansen, 83, Danish actor and opera singer, heart attack.
- Kim Seong-jip, 97, South Korean weightlifter, Olympic bronze medalist and Asian Games champion.
- Steven Pirika Kama, 54, Papua New Guinean Bougainvillean politician, member of the National Parliament.
- Mike McCoy, 62, American football player.
- Peter Mondavi, 101, American wine producing pioneer.
- Muhamed Mujić, 82, Bosnian Yugoslav footballer, Olympic silver medallist.
- Dave Needle, 68, American computer engineer.
- Jon Rollason, 84, British actor.
- Pradeep Shakthi, 60, Indian actor and restaurateur.
- Renee Valente, 88, American film and television producer, Emmy-winner.
- Xie Jialin, 95, Chinese physicist and academician.
- Nando Yosu, 76, Spanish football player and manager, Alzheimer's disease.
21
- María Luisa Alcalá, 72, Mexican actress.
- Akbar Ali, 90, Indian Kannada poet.
- Pascal Bentoiu, 88, Romanian composer.
- Eric Brown, 97, British test pilot.
- John Caldwell, 69, American comic strip artist and cartoonist, pancreatic cancer.
- Roger Chorley, 2nd Baron Chorley, 85, British peer.
- Chu Qing, 92, Chinese politician.
- Vlasta Dalibor, 94, Czech-born British puppeteer.
- Jean-Pierre Detremmerie, 75, Belgian politician, suicide by hanging.
- David Duffield, 84, British sports commentator and cyclist, fall.
- George Robin Henderson, 74, Scottish mathematician.
- Andrew Herxheimer, 90, German-born British clinical pharmacologist.
- Patrick Hodgkinson, 85, British architect.
- Nina Hole, 75, Danish artist.
- Peter Marlow, 63, British news photographer, influenza contracted during a stem cell transplant.
- Ivan M. Matheson, 89, American politician.
- René Matte, 81, Canadian politician.
- Kalanidhi Narayanan, 87, Indian classical dancer.
- Miroslav Nemirov, 54, Russian poet, cancer.
- Don Owen, 84, Canadian film director.
- Albert Rhoton Jr., 83, American neurosurgeon.
- Marcus George Singer, 90, American philosopher.
- Debbie Smith, 60, American politician, member of the Nevada Senate, brain cancer.
- Richard Horner Thompson, 89, American army general.
- Betty Jane Watson, 94, American actress and singer.
22
- Christian Berg-Nielsen, 95, Norwegian diplomat.
- Barbara M. Clark, 76, American politician, member of the New York State Assembly.
- Wesley A. Clark, 88, American computer engineer, atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.
- Cristiana Corsi, 39, Italian Olympic taekwondo martial artist, European champion.
- Eileen Foley, 97, American politician, Mayor of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, seven-term member of the New Hampshire Senate.
- Yolande Fox, 87, American beauty queen and operatic soprano, lung cancer.
- Steve Harris, 52, American basketball player, colon cancer.
- Sonny James, 87, American country singer-songwriter.
- Cara McCollum, 24, American journalist and beauty queen, Miss New Jersey, traffic collision.
- Hans Reffert, 69, German musician and composer.
- Douglas Slocombe, 103, British cinematographer, complications from a fall.
- Yochanan Sofer, 93, Hungarian-born Israeli rabbi, Rebbe of Erlau, pneumonia.
- Lev Zbarsky, 84, Russian painter, lung cancer.
23
- Waqar Ahmed, 68, Pakistani cricketer.
- José Artecona, 83, Puerto Rican Olympic sports shooter
- Jaime Ornelas Camacho, 95, Portuguese politician, President of Madeira.
- Rey Caney, 89, Cuban musician.
- Ramón Castro Ruz, 91, Cuban farmer and quartermaster.
- Bill Carmody, 58, American Catholic priest, cancer.
- Lies Cosijn, 84, Dutch ceramist.
- Angel Gabriele, 60, American comic book artist and wrestler.
- Valérie Guignabodet, 48, French film director, cardiac arrest.
- László Gyöngyösi, 88, Hungarian Olympic swimmer.
- Antanas Janauskas, 78, Lithuanian animated film director.
- Darlene Jones, 62, American indoor football team owner and league commissioner, cancer.
- Slobodan Lang, 70, Croatian politician.
- Peter Lustig, 78, German television presenter and author.
- Luis Alberto Machado, 84, Venezuelan lawyer and politician.
- Madison Marye, 90, American politician, member of the Senate of Virginia.
- Jacqueline Mattson, 87, American baseball player.
- Havo Molisale, 53, Ni-Vanuatu politician, member of Parliament, Foreign Minister, Deputy Speaker.
- Burt Nodella, 91, American television producer.
- Tosun Terzioğlu, 74, Turkish mathematician.
- Joaquim Veà Baró, 57, Spanish Catalan primatologist.
- Donald E. Williams, 74, American astronaut.
24
- A. K. N. Ahmed, 85, Bangladeshi economist and diplomat, Governor of Bangladesh Bank, Ambassador to Japan and South Korea, stroke.
- Lennie Baker, 69, American musician and singer.
- Ryszard Bender, 84, Polish politician and historian, Senator.
- Adriana Benetti, 96, Italian actress.
- Carlos Cámara, 82, Dominican-born Mexican actor.
- Miguel Ángel Coria, 78, Spanish composer.
- Michael Atul D'Rozario, 90, Bangladeshi Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Khulna.
- Ronnie Edwards, 63, American politician and civil rights activist, pancreatic cancer.
- Eddie Einhorn, 80, American broadcasting and baseball executive, complications from a stroke.
- Ken English, 89, New Zealand rugby league player.
- Ragnar Gustafsson, 85, Swedish Olympic equestrian
- Rafael Iriondo, 97, Spanish international football player and manager.
- Colin Low, 89, Canadian filmmaker.
- Ladislav Matetić, 88, Croatian Olympic rower
- Jim McFadzean, 77, Scottish footballer.
- Peter van de Merwe, 74, Dutch footballer.
- S. F. C. Milsom, 92, English barrister and legal historian.
- George C. Nichopoulos, 88, American physician.
- Billie Nipper, 86, American painter.
- Northern Spur, 25, Irish-born French and American Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of Prix du Lys and Breeders' Cup Turf.
- James C. Russell, 87, American politician, member of the Missouri House of Representatives, skin cancer.
- Yordan Sokolov, 83, Bulgarian politician, Chairperson of the National Assembly.
- Timber Country, 24, American Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of Preakness Stakes.
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- Sam Beall, 39, American restaurateur and resort executive, blunt force trauma while skiing.
- Bob Bryant, 71, American politician, member of the Georgia House of Representatives.
- Tony Burton, 78, American actor, pneumonia.
- John Chilton, 83, British jazz musician and writer.
- Jim Clark, 84, British film editor, Oscar winner.
- Ian Davis, 77, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Essendon.
- Brian Barnett Duff, 85, American judge and politician.
- François Dupeyron, 65, French film director and screenwriter.
- Miloš Hájek, 94, Czech historian, signatory and spokesperson of Charter 77.
- Bhavarlal Jain, 78, Indian businessman.
- Sir Peter Kenilorea, 72, Solomon Islands politician, Prime Minister.
- John Kidd, 69, Australian athlete, Paralympic silver medallist.
- Gillis Lundgren, 86, Swedish furniture designer.
- Alfred E. Mann, 90, American entrepreneur.
- Otto-Werner Mueller, 89, German conductor.
- Irén Psota, 86, Hungarian actress.
- Habib-ur-Rehman, 85, Pakistani actor, brain hemorrhage.
- William Schaap, 75, American lawyer, author and publisher, pulmonary disease.
- Zdeněk Smetana, 90, Czech artist and animator.
- Mark Young, 48, American wrestler.
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- Mirza Mohammed Athar, 79, Indian Muslim cleric, pneumonia.
- Andy Bathgate, 83, Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey player.
- C. L. Blast, 81, American soul singer.
- William Y. Cooper, 82, American artist.
- Karl Dedecius, 94, Polish-born German translator.
- Nina Dorda, 91, Russian singer.
- Jack Forrest, 92, New Zealand rugby league player.
- B. K. Garudachar, 99, Indian cricket player.
- Don Getty, 82, Canadian football player and politician, Premier of Alberta, heart failure.
- Antony Gibbs, 90, British film editor.
- Eri Klas, 76, Estonian conductor.
- Ivan Kristoffersen, 85, Norwegian newspaper editor.
- Loh I-Cheng, 92, Taiwanese diplomat, Ambassador to Guatemala and South Africa.
- Michael S. Longuet-Higgins, 90, British mathematician and oceanographer.
- Juan Conway McNabb, 90, American-born Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Chulucanas, heart failure.
- Thadeo Ouano, 71, Filipino politician, mayor of Mandaue.
- Robert Palladino, 83, American calligrapher and academic.
- Robert Struble Jr., 72, American historian and author.
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- Winston Blake, 75, Jamaican record producer.
- Michael Bowes-Lyon, 18th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, 58, Scottish aristocrat, cancer.
- Dick Bradsell, 56, British bartender, brain cancer.
- James Z. Davis, 72, American judge, member of the Utah Court of Appeals.
- David Douglas, 52, American football player, brain cancer.
- Yushu Kitano, 85, Japanese wrestler, Olympic silver medalist.
- Francisco Kraus Trujillo, 89, Spanish baritone.
- Lúcio Lara, 86, Angolan politician.
- Lee Khoon Choy, 92, Singaporean politician and diplomat, MLA, MP, ambassador to Japan, South Korea, Indonesia and Egypt.
- Claude Parent, 93, French architect.
- Vid Pečjak, 87, Slovene psychologist and writer.
- Peter N. Perretti Jr., 84, American lawyer, Attorney General of New Jersey.
- Rajesh Pillai, 41, Indian film director.
- Steven Rumbelow, 66, British theatre and film director, sepsis.
- Farajollah Salahshoor, 63, Iranian film director.
- Anna-Leena Siikala, 73, Finnish academic.
- Bob Spicer, 90, American baseball player.
- Rian Sukmawan, 30, Indonesian badminton player, heart attack.
- Wiswa Warnapala, 79, Sri Lankan politician, MP.
- Elmer Wingate, 88, American lacrosse and football player, Alzheimer's disease.
- Yi Cheol-seung, 93, South Korean politician.
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- Sengai Aaliyan, 75, Sri Lankan author.
- Don Battye, 77, Australian composer and television producer.
- Didier Bellens, 60, Belgian businessman, CEO of Belgacom.
- Delmer Berg, 100, American resistance fighter, last known American member of XV International Brigade.
- Moisés Julio Blanchoud, 92, Argentine Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Salta.
- Honey Chhaya, 85, Indian film director and actor.
- Stephen Clarkson, 78, Canadian political scientist and academic, sepsis following influenza and pneumonia.
- Paul Colinvaux, 85, British ecologist and author.
- John Cameron, Lord Coulsfield, 81, Scottish judge, Senator of the College of Justice.
- Bram Goldsmith, 93, American banker, CEO and Chairman of City National Bank, philanthropist.
- John Johnson, 98, American athletics and football trainer.
- John Jones, 91, English author and academic.
- John Philip Kassebaum, 84, American attorney and art collector.
- Frank Kelly, 77, Irish actor, heart attack.
- George Kennedy, 91, American actor, Oscar winner, heart disease.
- Kumarimuthu, 76, Indian comedian and film actor.
- Jack Lindquist, 88, American child actor and theme park executive, President of Disneyland.
- Nabil Maleh, 79, Syrian film director.
- Raúl Sánchez, 82, Chilean footballer.
- Jan H van der Merwe, 94, South African physicist.
- Craig Windham, 66, American radio broadcaster, pulmonary embolism.
- Liliane Wouters, 86, Belgian author.
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- Alice Arlen, 75, American screenwriter.
- Stuart Beck, 69, American-Palauan diplomat, Ambassador to the United Nations for Palau, renal cancer.
- Rudy Bukich, 85, American football player, NFL champion.
- Wenn V. Deramas, 49, Filipino film and television director, heart attack.
- Helias Doundoulakis, 92, American Greek WWII resistance fighter.
- Gil Hill, 84, American police officer, actor and politician, pneumonia.
- John Hofsess, 77, Canadian writer and right to die activist.
- Fernand Jourdenais, 82, Canadian politician.
- Hannes Löhr, 73, German football player and manager.
- Josefin Nilsson, 46, Swedish singer, enlarged heart and barbiturate overdose.
- José Parra Martínez, 90, Spanish footballer.
- Francis Xavier Osamu Mizobe, 80, Japanese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Sendai and Takamatsu.
- Mumtaz Qadri, 30–31, Pakistani convicted murderer, execution by hanging.
- Louise Rennison, 64, British author.
- Conrad Santos, 81, Filipino-born Canadian politician, MLA for Burrows, Broadway and Wellington.
- Henry Snyder, 86, American historian.
- Shōichi Ueno, 79, Japanese newspaper publisher and philanthropist, lung cancer.
- Nihal Ahmed Maulavi Mohammed Usman, 90, Indian politician, Maharashtra MLA, mayor of Malegaon.
- Ana Vieira, 76, Portuguese artist.
- Ranginui Walker, 83, New Zealand academic and writer.