Deaths in February 2020
The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2020.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship, reason for notability, cause of death, and reference.
February 2020
1
- Viktor Afanasyev, 72, Russian military musician, Senior Director of the Military Band Service of the Armed Forces of Russia.
- Péter Andorai, 71, Hungarian actor.
- Danny Ayres, 33, British speedway rider.
- Ilie Bărbulescu, 62, Romanian footballer, heart attack.
- George Blondheim, 63, Canadian pianist and composer.
- Leons Briedis, 70, Latvian poet and author.
- John A. DiBiaggio, 87, American academic administrator, President of the University of Connecticut, Michigan State University and Tufts University.
- Ronald Duman, 65, American psychiatrist.
- Lila Garrett, 94, American television writer.
- Luciano Gaucci, 81, Italian football executive, President of Perugia.
- Andy Gill, 64, English post-punk guitarist and record producer.
- Clarence "Jeep" Jones, 86, American community activist.
- Jaswant Singh Kanwal, 100, Indian novelist.
- Roger Landry, 86, Canadian businessman and publisher.
- Lev Mayorov, 50, Russian-Azerbaijani football player and manager.
- Denford McDonald, 90, New Zealand businessman.
- Anthony N. Michel, 84, American electrical engineer.
- Luciano Ricceri, 79, Italian production designer.
- Admiral K. Sangma, Indian politician, MLA, heart disease.
- Peter Serkin, 72, American classical pianist, Grammy winner, pancreatic cancer.
- Howard E. Smither, 94, American musicologist.
- Charles Wood, 87, British screenwriter.
2
- Peter Aluma, 46, Nigerian basketball player.
- Claire Clouzot, 86, French film director and critic.
- Johnny Lee Davenport, 69, American actor, leukemia.
- Bernard Ebbers, 78, Canadian communications executive and convicted fraudster, CEO of WorldCom.
- Roger Fieldhouse, 79, British historian and academic.
- Sir Victor Glover, 87, Mauritanian chief judge.
- Mad Mike Hoare, 100, British mercenary leader.
- Harold H. Izard, 80, American politician, New York State Assemblyman.
- Kofi B, Ghanaian highlife musician, heart attack.
- Ivan Král, 71, Czech-American musician and songwriter.
- David Lacy-Scott, 99, English cricketer.
- Enemésio Ângelo Lazzaris, 71, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Balsas.
- Philip Leder, 85, American geneticist.
- Mike Moore, 71, New Zealand politician, Prime Minister, Director-General of the World Trade Organization, Ambassador to the United States.
- Ryszard Olszewski, 87, Polish Olympic basketball player and coach, and politician.
- Lovelady Powell, 89, American actress.
- Kommareddy Surender Reddy, Indian politician, MLA.
- M. Narayana Reddy, 88, Indian politician, MP, MLA.
- Gale Schisler, 86, American politician, member of the U.S. and Illinois Houses of Representatives.
- Robert Sheldon, Baron Sheldon, 96, British politician, MP and member of the House of Lords, heart attack.
- Rabi Singh, 89, Indian Odia poet.
- Salahuddin Wahid, 77, Indonesian politician and Islamic scholar, member of the People's Consultative Assembly, complications from heart surgery.
- Valentin Yanin, 90, Russian historian.
3
- Philippe Adamov, 63, French cartoonist.
- Robert Alner, 76, British racehorse trainer.
- Deborah Batts, 72, American judge.
- John Edward Brockelbank, 88, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan.
- Jacques Delelienne, 91, Belgian Olympic athlete.
- Donald S. Gann, 87, American trauma surgeon.
- Pranab Kumar Gogoi, 83, Indian politician, MLA.
- John Grant, 70, Scottish science fiction writer.
- Bob Griffin, 85, American journalist.
- Hsueh Shou Sheng, 93, Chinese-Canadian academic.
- Durul Huda, 64, Bangladeshi politician, MP, mayor of Rajshahi City Corporation.
- David Kessler, 60, French senior official.
- Douglas Knapp, 70, American cinematographer and camera operator.
- William John McNaughton, 93, American-born Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Incheon.
- Vilen Prokofyev, 18, Kazakh ice hockey player, Ewing's sarcoma.
- Gene Reynolds, 96, American actor and television producer, heart failure.
- Frank H. T. Rhodes, 93, British-American academic, president of Cornell University.
- Josefa Rika, 32, Fijian cricketer.
- Valentyna Shevchenko, 84, Ukrainian politician, chairperson of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.
- George Steiner, 90, French-American literary critic and essayist.
- Jana Vápenková, 72, Czech Olympic volleyball player.
- Roy Walton, 87, English card magician.
- Eugen V. Witkowsky, 69, Russian fantasy writer.
- Willie Wood, 83, American Hall of Fame football player.
4
- Giancarlo Bergamini, 93, Italian fencer, Olympic gold medalist.
- Claudio Bonadio, 64, Argentine federal judge, brain tumor.
- Kamau Brathwaite, 89, Barbadian poet and academic.
- Bill Britten, 91, American actor.
- Andrew Brough, 56, New Zealand musician and songwriter.
- Gil Coan, 97, American baseball player.
- José Luis Cuerda, 72, Spanish film director, producer and screenwriter, Goya winner.
- Marie-Fanny Gournay, 93, French politician.
- Abadi Hadis, 22, Ethiopian Olympic long-distance runner.
- Tibor Halgas, 38, Hungarian footballer, traffic collision.
- Terry Hands, 79, British theatre director.
- Peter Hogg, 80, New Zealand-born Canadian lawyer and legal scholar.
- Volodymyr Inozemtsev, 55, Ukrainian triple jumper.
- Laurie Johnson, 92, Barbadian cricketer.
- Volker David Kirchner, 77, German violist and composer.
- Dick Koecher, 93, American baseball player.
- Romualdas Lankauskas, 87, Lithuanian writer and playwright.
- Nadia Lutfi, 83, Egyptian actress.
- Bonnie MacLean, 80, American psychedelic poster artist.
- Asiwaju Yinka Mafe, 46, Nigerian politician.
- Donatien Mavoungou, 72, Gabonese physician and fraudster.
- Alice Mayhew, 87, American book editor and publisher.
- L. Jacques Ménard, 74, Canadian businessman, Chancellor of Concordia University.
- Jane Milmore, 64, American playwright, television writer and producer, pancreatic cancer.
- Zwy Milshtein, 85, Romanian-born French painter.
- Gianni Minervini, 91, Italian film producer, Nastro d'Argento winner.
- Daniel arap Moi, 95, Kenyan politician, MP, Vice President and President, multiple organ failure.
- Nguyễn Văn Chiếu, 70, Vietnamese martial artist, master of Vovinam.
- William Oxley, 80, English poet and philosopher.
- Ljiljana Petrović, 81, Serbian singer.
- Eugen Pleško, 71, Croatian Olympic cyclist.
- Frank Plummer, 67, Canadian microbiologist.
- Benito Sarti, 83, Italian footballer.
- Teodor Shanin, 89, Lithuanian-born British sociologist.
- Alexander Skvortsov, 65, Russian ice hockey player, Olympic champion.
- Fernando Suarez, 52, Filipino Roman Catholic priest, heart attack.
5
- Aidar Akayev, 43, Kyrgyz politician, President of the National Olympic Committee, cardiac arrest.
- Edwin Barbosa, 51, Brazilian percussionist.
- Carlos Barisio, 69, Argentine footballer, lung cancer.
- Eamonn Boyce, 94, Irish IRA volunteer.
- Buddy Cage, 73, American pedal steel guitarist, multiple myeloma.
- Diane Cailhier, 73, Canadian filmmaker and director.
- Stanley Cohen, 97, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
- Kevin Conway, 77, American actor, heart attack.
- Ian Cushenan, 86, Canadian ice hockey player, Stanley Cup champion.
- Gyurme Dorje, 69, Scottish Buddhist philosopher.
- Kirk Douglas, 103, American actor, Honorary Oscar winner.
- F. X. Feeney, 66, American screenwriter, film director and film critic.
- James Leo Garrett Jr., 94, American theologian.
- Naadodigal Gopal, 54, Indian actor and comedian, heart attack.
- Irwin Kremen, 94, American artist.
- Beverly Pepper, 97, American sculptor.
- Lawrence W. Pierce, 95, American jurist, Judge of the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
- Dmitry Ponomarev, 67, Russian entrepreneur.
- Yves Pouliquen, 88, French ophthalmologist, member of the Académie française.
- Mohammad Shafiq, Pakistani politician, MLA, cardiac arrest.
- Rajendra Prakash Singh, 75, Indian politician, MLA, cancer.
- John C. Whitcomb, 95, American theologian and author.
6
- Dick Atha, 88, American basketball player.
- Cyril Bardsley, 88, English track cyclist.
- Francie Brolly, 82, Irish politician, MLA.
- Rush Brown, 65, American football player.
- Raphaël Coleman, 25, British actor.
- Greg Hawick, 87, Australian rugby league football player and coach.
- Gioacchino Illiano, 84, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Nocera Inferiore-Sarno.
- Roger Kahn, 92, American author.
- Earl Kemp, 90, American publisher and editor, fall.
- Malik Ata Muhammad Khan, 78, Pakistani feudal lord and politician.
- Bruno Léchevin, 68, French trade unionist.
- Jan Liberda, 83, Polish football player and manager.
- Ola Magnell, 74, Swedish musician, heart failure.
- Miss Shefali, 76, Indian actress, kidney disease.
- André Neles, 42, Brazilian-Equatorial Guinean footballer.
- Qiu Jun, 72, Chinese bodybuilder, COVID-19.
- Bommireddy Sundara Rami Reddy, 84, Indian politician, MLA.
- Peter Rockwell, 83, American sculptor.
- Charles Royster, 75, American historian.
- Nello Santi, 88, Italian conductor.
- J. B. Sumarlin, 87, Indonesian economist and politician, Minister of Finance.
- Krishna Baldev Vaid, 92, Indian writer.
- Jhon Jairo Velásquez, 57, Colombian hitman, drug dealer and extortionist, esophageal cancer.
- Wang Jin, 93, Chinese archaeologist, thoracic spinal tuberculosis.
7
- Mohammad S. Abdeli, Saudi Arabian footballer.
- Sir Leonard Appleyard, 81, British diplomat, Ambassador to China.
- Mykolas Arlauskas, 89, Lithuanian agronomist, signatory of the Act of March 11.
- Orson Bean, 91, American actor and game show panelist, traffic collision.
- Raju Bharatan, 86, Indian cricket journalist.
- Ron Calhoun, 86, Canadian non-profit executive.
- Ronny Drayton, 66, American guitarist.
- Angel Echevarria, 48, American baseball player, fall.
- Lucille Eichengreen, 95, German Holocaust survivor and memoirist.
- Lenin El-Ramly, 74, Egyptian screenwriter.
- Brian Glennie, 73, Canadian ice hockey player , Olympic bronze medallist .
- James George, 101, Canadian diplomat.
- Mary Griffith, 85, American LGBT rights activist.
- Pierre Guyotat, 80, French novelist.
- Hong Ling, 53, Chinese geneticist and professor, COVID-19.
- Marilyn Jenkins, 85, American baseball player.
- Paul Koralek, 86, Austrian-born British architect.
- Bal Kudtarkar, 98, Indian radio personality.
- Jørgen E. Larsen, 74, Danish football player and manager.
- Li Wenliang, 33, Chinese ophthalmologist and whistleblower, COVID-19.
- James McGarrell, 89, American painter.
- Nexhmije Pagarusha, 86, Albanian singer and actress.
- Brian Pilkington, 86, English footballer.
- Larry Popein, 89, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
- Go Soo-jung, 24, South Korean actress and model.
- Harold Strachan, 94, South African writer and anti-apartheid activist.
- Ann E. Todd, 88, American actress.
- Wichie Torres, 67, Puerto Rican painter, cardiovascular disease.
- Grazia Volpi, 78, Italian film producer.
- Steve Weber, 76, American folk singer, songwriter and guitarist.
8
- Paddy Broderick, 80, Irish jockey.
- Michael Bushby, 88, English cricketer.
- Robert Conrad, 84, American actor, heart failure.
- Jacques Cuinières, 77, French photographer.
- Maurice Girardot, 98, French basketball player, Olympic silver medalist.
- Aleksandr Titovich Golubev, 83, Russian intelligence officer.
- Victor Gorelick, 78, American comic book editor.
- Paula Kelly, 77, American actress and dancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
- Erazim Kohák, 86, Czech philosopher and writer.
- Lew Mander, 80, New Zealand-born Australian organic chemist.
- Robert Massin, 94, French graphic designer, cerebral hemorrhage.
- Dave McCoy, 104, American businessman, founder of the Mammoth Mountain Ski Area.
- Ron McLarty, 72, American author, narrator and actor.
- Bhagwat Patel, 84, Indian politician, MLA.
- Bill Robinson, 71, Canadian Olympic basketball player.
- Carlos Rojas Vila, 91, Spanish author.
- Sankar Sen, 92, Indian academic and politician, vice chancellor of Jadavpur University, MLA.
- Keelin Shanley, 51, Irish journalist and newscaster, cancer.
- Volker Spengler, 80, German actor.
- Yi Hae-won, 100, South Korean princess, head of the House of Yi.
9
- Terry Bamford, 77, British social worker.
- Goldie Brangman-Dumpson, 99, American nurse.
- Sir John Cadogan, 89, British organic chemist.
- Délizia, 67, Belgian singer.
- Abdel Aziz El Mubarak, 69, Sudanese singer, pneumonia.
- Marvin P. Feinsmith, 87, American bassoonist.
- Richard J. Fox, 92, American real estate developer.
- Mirella Freni, 84, Italian operatic soprano.
- David Gistau, 49, Spanish TV writer and novelist, brain injury.
- Margareta Hallin, 88, Swedish operatic soprano.
- Sorrel Hays, 79, American pianist and composer.
- Giriraj Kishore, 82, Indian writer, heart attack.
- Delores J. Knaak, 90, American educator and politician, member of the Minnesota Senate.
- Enrique Marin, 84, Spanish-born French painter and sculptor.
- Peter McCall, 83, English footballer.
- P. Parameswaran, 91, Indian historian and political activist.
- Carlos Julio Pereyra, 97, Uruguayan politician, Senator, kidney failure.
- Karl-Heinz Rädler, 84, German astrophysicist.
- K. Jayachandra Reddy, 90, Indian jurist, Judge of the Supreme Court and Chairman of the Press Council.
- Donald Russell, 99, British classicist and academic.
- Sergei Slonimsky, 87, Russian composer, pianist and musicologist.
- Alvin V. Tollestrup, 95, American physicist.
10
- Saïd Amara, 75, Tunisian handball player and coach.
- Efigenio Ameijeiras, 88, Cuban revolutionary and military commander, sepsis.
- Álvaro Barreto, 84, Portuguese politician.
- Claire Bretécher, 79, French cartoonist, co-founder of L'Écho des savanes.
- Diana Garrigosa, 75, Spanish teacher and activist.
- Waqar Hasan, 87, Pakistani cricketer.
- Robert Hermann, 88, American mathematician, pneumonia.
- Patrick Jordan, 96, English actor.
- Lin Zhengbin, 62, Chinese physician and organ transplant expert, COVID-19.
- Ignatius Datong Longjan, 75, Nigerian politician, Senator.
- Lyle Mays, 66, American jazz pianist and composer.
- Marge Redmond, 95, American actress.
- Dick Scott, 86, American baseball player.
- Rubén Selman, 56, Chilean football referee, heart attack.
- Shariff Abdul Samat, 36, Singaporean footballer.
- John Smith, 83, Australian cricketer.
- Pavel Vilikovský, 78, Slovak writer.
- Hussein M. Zbib, 61, Lebanese-born American engineer.
11
- François André, 52, French politician, Deputy, lung cancer.
- Maurice Byblow, 73, Canadian politician.
- Bob Cashell, 81, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Nevada and mayor of Reno.
- George Coyne, 87, American Roman Catholic priest and astronomer, director of the Vatican Observatory, cancer.
- Jim Cullinan, 77, Irish hurler.
- Paul English, 87, American drummer, pneumonia.
- Jean-Pierre Gallet, 76, Belgian journalist.
- Jamie Gilson, 86, American author.
- Raj Kumar Gupta, 85, Indian politician, MLA.
- Ron Haddrick, 90, Australian cricketer and actor.
- Louis-Edmond Hamelin, 96, Canadian geographer.
- Yasumasa Kanada, 70, Japanese mathematician, myocardial ischemia.
- Jack Kramer, 80, Norwegian footballer.
- Anne Windfohr Marion, 81, American heiress and art patron, co-founder of Georgia O'Keeffe Museum.
- Sammy McCarthy, 88, British boxer.
- Jacques Mehler, 83, French cognitive psychologist.
- Katsuya Nomura, 84, Japanese Hall of Fame baseball player and manager.
- Timothy Porteous, 86, Canadian administrator.
- Ramjit Raghav, 104, Indian wrestler and farmer, world's oldest father, house fire.
- Valery Reinhold, 77, Russian footballer.
- Marcelino dos Santos, 90, Mozambican poet and politician, Vice President of FRELIMO and President of the Assembly of the Republic.
- Joseph Shabalala, 79, South African musician.
- Betty Siegel, 89, American academic, president of Kennesaw State University.
- David Stout, 77, American writer.
- Joseph Vilsmaier, 81, German film director.
12
- Javier Arevalo, 82, Mexican artist, heart failure.
- Whitlow Au, 79, American bioacoustics specialist.
- Jeanne Beaman, 100, American choreographer.
- Benon Biraaro, 61, Ugandan military officer, colon cancer.
- Christie Blatchford, 68, Canadian journalist, lung cancer.
- Hubert Boulard, 49, French comic book author.
- Miguel Cordero del Campillo, 95, Spanish veterinarian and parasitologist, Senator, rector of the University of León.
- Simone Créantor, 71, French athlete.
- Takis Evdokas, 91, Cypriot politician and psychiatrist, founder of the Democratic National Party.
- Geert Hofstede, 91, Dutch social psychologist.
- Charles Hubbard, 79, Canadian politician.
- Frederick R. Koch, 86, American collector and philanthropist.
- Mike Lilly, 70, American banjo player and singer, leukemia.
- Hansjoachim Linde, 93, German inspector general.
- Hamish Milne, 80, English pianist.
- Nikolai Moskvitelev, 93, Russian military officer.
- Victor Olaiya, 89, Nigerian highlife trumpeter.
- Christopher Pole-Carew, 88, British newspaper editor and High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire.
- Wendell Rodricks, 59, Indian fashion designer.
- Mahima Silwal, Nepali actress, traffic collision.
- Søren Spanning, 68, Danish actor.
- T. Tali, 77, Indian politician, MLA.
- Nikitas Venizelos, 89, Greek businessman and politician, MP and Deputy Speaker.
- Cheryl Wheeler-Dixon, 59, American stuntwoman, shot.
- Tamás Wichmann, 72, Hungarian sprint canoeist, Olympic silver and bronze medalist.
13
- Ronne Arnold, 81–82, American-born Australian dancer, dance teacher, choreographer and actor.
- Sir Michael Berridge, 81, Southern Rhodesian-born British biochemist.
- Aleksey Botyan, 103, Soviet-Armenian spy and intelligence officer.
- Sir Des Britten, 80, New Zealand television chef, restaurateur and Anglican priest, cancer.
- Henry T. Brown, 87, American chemical engineer.
- Valeri Butenko, 78, Russian football referee.
- Renzo Chiocchetti, 74, Italian Olympic cross-country skier.
- Christophe Desjardins, 57, French violist.
- Franco Del Prete, 76, Italian musician.
- Tatiana Fabergé, 89, French CERN secretary.
- Herman Kahan, 93, Romanian-born Norwegian businessman and Holocaust survivor.
- Liliane de Kermadec, 92, French film director and screenwriter.
- Ai Kidosaki, 94, Japanese author and chef, heart failure.
- David Lane, 92, American politician, Massachusetts state representative.
- Carlo de Leeuw, 59, Dutch footballer, tongue cancer.
- Michel Lequenne, 98, French politician and writer.
- Buzzy Linhart, 76, American folk-rock singer and songwriter.
- Liu Shouxiang, 61, Chinese watercolour painter, COVID-19.
- Charles James McDonnell, 88, American Roman Catholic bishop.
- Ralph Mercier, 83, Canadian politician, mayor of Charlesbourg.
- Karel Neffe, 71, Czech rower, Olympic bronze medalist.
- Rajendra K. Pachauri, 79, Indian economist and engineer, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
- Daniel M. Pierce, 91, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives.
- Charles H. Pitman, 84, American lieutenant general, cancer.
- Malcolm Pyke, 81, English footballer.
- Rafael Romero Marchent, 93, Spanish film director, actor and screenwriter.
- Yoshisada Sakaguchi, 80, Japanese voice actor, colorectal cancer.
- Imtilemba Sangtam, 74, Indian politician, MLA.
- Chuck Shelton, 84, American football player and coach.
- Zara Steiner, 91, American-born British historian and academic.
- Taty Sumirah, 68, Indonesian badminton player, 1975 Uber Cup winner, lung disease.
- Jimmy Thunder, 54, Samoan-born New Zealand heavyweight boxer, Commonwealth Games champion, complications from brain surgery.
14
- Peter Iornzuul Adoboh, 61, Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Katsina-Ala.
- Syed Imtiaz Ahmed, 65, Indian cricketer.
- Abdul Hafeez Khan Al Yousefi, 82, Pakistani-born Emirati agronomist, leukemia.
- Gilbert Belin, 92, French politician and sculptor, Senator and mayor of Brassac-les-Mines.
- Alwin Brück, 88, German politician.
- Malhotra Chamanlal, 84, Indian cricketer.
- Christophoros, 88, Greek Orthodox prelate.
- Ivo Cocconi, 90, Italian footballer.
- Lynn Cohen, 86, American actress.
- Jimmy Conway, 73, Irish footballer.
- Robert H. Dyson, 92, American archaeologist.
- Garrett Fitzgerald, 65, Irish rugby union player and coach.
- Brian Jackson, 86, English footballer.
- Kenneth Keniston, 90, American social psychologist.
- Adama Kouyaté, 92, Malian photographer.
- Reinbert de Leeuw, 81, Dutch conductor, composer and pianist.
- Matvey Natanzon, 47, Russian-born Israeli backgammon player.
- Godfrey O'Donnell, 80, Northern Irish priest, president of the Irish Council of Churches.
- K. P. Rajendra Prasad, Indian politician, MLA, cancer.
- Decebal Traian Remeș, 70, Romanian economist and politician, Minister of Finance.
- Michel Ragon, 95, French art historian and critic.
- Esther Scott, 66, American actress, heart attack.
- Sonam Sherpa, 48, Indian guitarist, cardiac arrest.
- John Shrapnel, 77, English actor, lung cancer.
- Abdus Sobhan, 83, Bangladeshi politician and convicted war criminal, MP.
- Sun Ruyong, 92, Chinese ecologist, heart attack.
- Thrinimong Sangtam, 87, Indian politician, MLA.
- Masao Takahashi, 90, Canadian judoka.
- Clayton Williams, 88, American businessman and politician, pneumonia.
15
- Shahnaz Ansari, 50, Pakistani politician, MPA, shot.
- Mykola Bondar, 29, Ukrainian figure skater.
- David Clewell, 65, American poet, Poet Laureate of Missouri.
- Louis A. Craco, 86, American lawyer.
- Virgil C. Dechant, 89, American Roman Catholic fraternity leader, Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus.
- Duan Zhengcheng, 85, Chinese engineer, COVID-19.
- Tony Fernández, 57, Dominican baseball player, complications from kidney disease and stroke.
- Caroline Flack, 40, English television and radio presenter, suicide by hanging.
- Jamey Gambrell, 65, American translator, cancer.
- Naeemul Haque, 70, Pakistani political advisor, blood cancer.
- Amie Harwick, 38, American therapist, homicide.
- Rudy Hayes, 85, American football player.
- A. E. Hotchner, 102, American editor and novelist, co-founder of Newman's Own.
- Noor Hussain, 90, Bangladeshi politician, MP.
- Simon Kagugube, 65, Ugandan lawyer and corporate executive, heart failure.
- A. K. M. Jahangir Khan, 80, Bangladeshi film producer.
- Éric Laforge, 56, French radio show host.
- Vatroslav Mimica, 96, Croatian film director and screenwriter.
- Prince Kudakwashe Musarurwa, 31, Zimbabwean singer-songwriter, lung cancer.
- Hilmi Ok, 88, Turkish football referee.
- Lavy Pinto, 90, Indian Olympic sprinter.
- Donald Stratton, 97, American naval seaman and memoirist.
- David Sturtevant Ruder, 90, American jurist and academic.
- Karl Ludwig Schweisfurth, 89, German businessman.
- Sheu Yu-jer, 67, Taiwanese economist and politician, Minister of Finance.
- Wilfried Thaler, 85, Austrian cyclist.
- Ron Thompson, 66, American blues guitarist.
- Léon Wurmser, 89, Swiss psychoanalyst.
- José Zalaquett, 77, Chilean lawyer and civil rights activist.
16
- Henry Akin, 75, American basketball player.
- Duane Alexander, 79, American physician, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
- Md. Rahamat Ali, 74, Bangladeshi politician, Minister of Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operatives, MP.
- Graeme Allwright, 93, New Zealand-born French singer-songwriter.
- Joan Armengol, 97, Andorran politician, Mayor of Andorra la Vella.
- Didier Cabestany, 50, French rugby league footballer.
- Zoe Caldwell, 86, Australian actress, 4-time Tony winner, complications from Parkinson's disease.
- Pearl Carr, 98, English singer.
- Habul Chakraborty, 60, Indian politician, MLA.
- John Cockett, 92, English field hockey player, Olympic bronze medallist.
- Frances Cuka, 83, British actress.
- Clyde Davenport, 98, American old-time fiddler and banjo player.
- Jason Davis, 35, American actor, fentanyl overdose.
- Andrew Fairfield, 76, American bishop.
- Harry Gregg, 87, Northern Irish footballer, Munich air disaster survivor.
- Loek Hollander, 81, Dutch karate master.
- Barry Hulshoff, 73, Dutch football player and manager.
- John Iliffe, 88, British computer designer.
- Robert B. Jordan, 87, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina, member of the North Carolina Senate.
- Arun Kumar Kar, 81, Indian politician, MLA, cardiac arrest.
- Corinne Lahaye, 72, French actress.
- Katharine Kyes Leab, 78, American publisher.
- Erickson Le Zulu, 41, Ivorian disc jockey, cirrhosis.
- John Liebenberg, 61, South African photojournalist, complications from surgery.
- Dawn Mello, 88, American fashion executive.
- Mack Miller, 87, American Olympic cross-country skier.
- Ed Murphy, 78, American college basketball coach.
- Kellye Nakahara, 72, American actress and artist, cancer.
- Agarala Eswara Reddi, 86, Indian politician, MLA.
- M. Shamsur Rahman, 80, Bangladeshi academic, vice-chancellor of Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University.
- Heinz Schaufelberger, 72, Swiss chess FIDE Master.
- Glenn E. Summers, 94, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives.
- Larry Tesler, 74, American computer scientist, designer of cut, copy, and paste.
- Mátyás Tímár, 96, Hungarian economist and politician, Minister of Finance and Governor of the National Bank.
17
- Chaudhary Khurshid Ahmed, 85, Indian politician, MLA, MP.
- Per Andersen, 90, Norwegian neuroscientist.
- Owen Bieber, 90, American labor union executive, president of the United Automobile Workers.
- Jens Bjerre, 98, Danish adventurer and filmmaker.
- Jean Clausse, 83, French runner.
- Ja'Net DuBois, 87, American actress and singer, cardiac arrest.
- Henry Gray, 95, American Hall of Fame blues pianist and singer.
- Pandhari Juker, Indian make-up artist.
- Lorenzo León Alvarado, 91, Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Huacho.
- Greg Lewis, 66, American politician, member of the Kansas House of Representatives, glioblastoma.
- Terry Lineen, 84, New Zealand rugby union player.
- Mário da Graça Machungo, 79, Mozambican politician, Prime Minister.
- Kizito Mihigo, 38, Rwandan gospel singer, organist and peace activist, founder of the Kizito Mihigo Peace Foundation.
- Andrzej Popiel, 84, Polish actor.
- Charles Portis, 86, American author.
- Ampitiye Rahula Maha Thero, 106, Sri Lankan Sinhalese Buddhist monk.
- Giorgi Shengelaia, 82, Georgian film director.
- James G. Spady, 75, American writer, historian and journalist.
- Vladimír Svitek, 57, Slovak ice hockey player.
- Georges Villeneuve, 97, Canadian politician, MP and mayor of Dolbeau-Mistassini.
- Rita Walters, 89, American politician, member of the Los Angeles City Council .
- Andrew Weatherall, 56, English music producer, DJ and musician, pulmonary embolism.
- Ror Wolf, 87, German writer and poet.
- Mickey Wright, 85, American Hall of Fame golfer, AP Athlete of the Year, heart attack.
- Mustafa Yücedağ, 53, Turkish footballer, heart attack.
- Sonja Ziemann, 94, German actress.
18
- Ken Joe Ada, 37, Guamanian politician.
- Jaime Amat, 78, Spanish Olympic field hockey player.
- Kishori Ballal, 82, Indian actress.
- Pranjal Bharali, 60, Indian film producer.
- José Bonaparte, 91, Argentine paleontologist.
- Flavio Bucci, 72, Italian actor, heart attack.
- Jon Christensen, 76, Norwegian jazz drummer.
- Colonel Dinar, 33, Chadian comedian, stabbed.
- Philippe Forquet, 79, French actor.
- Yoshikichi Furui, 82, Japanese author and translator, hepatocellular carcinoma.
- Linda P. Johnson, 74, American politician, member of the North Carolina House of Representatives, stroke.
- Eugeniusz Kabatc, 90, Polish writer and translator.
- Peter Montgomery, 72, American mathematician.
- Tapas Paul, 61, Indian actor and politician, MLA and MP, cardiac arrest.
- Bob Petty, 79, American television reporter and news anchor, lung cancer.
- Peregrine Pollen, 89, English auctioneer.
- Jean Schlegel, 94, French Olympic long-distance runner.
- Ashraf Sinclair, 40, British-born Malaysian actor, heart attack.
- Bert Sutherland, 83, American computer scientist.
- Seda Vermisheva, 87, Armenian-Russian poet and economist.
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- Lucien Aimé-Blanc, 84, French police officer.
- Pete Babando, 94, Canadian ice hockey player, Stanley Cup champion.
- Patamada Belliappa, 79, Indian cricketer.
- Beatriz Bonnet, 89, Argentine actress, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
- Bob Cobert, 95, American composer, pneumonia.
- Heather Couper, 70, British astronomer and broadcaster, President of the British Astronomical Association.
- James Cutsinger, 66, American author and academic.
- Bob Daimond, 73–74, British civil engineer.
- Jean Daniel, 99, Algerian-born French journalist, founder of L'Obs.
- Wilfred De'ath, 82, British journalist.
- Wilhelm von der Emde, 97, German-Austrian civil engineer.
- Gust Graas, 95, Luxembourgian painter and businessman.
- Ann Grifalconi, 90, American author and illustrator, complications from dementia.
- Hector, 73, French singer.
- Thiruvalaputhur T A Kaliyamurthy, 71, Indian musical Thavil artist, heart attack.
- Ke Huibing, 41, Chinese professor.
- Jos van Kemenade, 82, Dutch politician, Minister of Education and Sciences, Queen's Commissioner of North Holland.
- Inesa Kozlovskaya, 92, Russian physiologist, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation.
- Robert H. Lee, 86, Canadian real estate executive, philanthropist and university administrator, chancellor of the University of British Columbia.
- Hubert B. MacNeill, 97, Canadian politician and physician.
- Yervand Manaryan, 95, Iranian-born Armenian actor.
- K. S. Maniam, 78, Malaysian writer, bile duct cancer.
- José Mojica Marins, 83, Brazilian film director, bronchopneumonia.
- Jerry G. Melvin, 90, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives.
- Fernando Morán, 93, Spanish diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs, ambassador to the UN and MEP.
- Germaine Poliakov, 101, Turkish-born French music teacher and Holocaust survivor.
- John Robertson, 90, Canadian Olympic sailor.
- Wes Sandle, 84, New Zealand physicist.
- Pop Smoke, 20, American rapper, shot.
- Jack Youngerman, 93, American artist, complications from a fall.
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- Mohammed Abaamran, 87, Moroccan actor and singer.
- Sadhu Aliyur, 57, Indian watercolor painter.
- Mary Rose Barrington, 94, British parapsychologist and barrister.
- Peter Louis Cakü, 66, Burmese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Kengtung.
- Peter Dreher, 87, German painter.
- Emmanuel Emovon, 90, Nigerian chemist and academic.
- Jeanne Evert, 62, American tennis player, ovarian cancer.
- Yona Friedman, 96, Hungarian-born French architect and theorist.
- Joanna Frueh, 72, American artist and feminist scholar, breast cancer.
- Zoe Gail, 100, South African-born American actress and singer.
- István Gáli, 76, Hungarian Olympic boxer.
- Gilbert Kaenel, 70, Swiss archaeologist and historian.
- Usman Ullah Khan, 45, Pakistani Olympic boxer, cancer.
- Bill Malarkey, 68, Manx politician, MHK, cancer.
- Glynn Mallory, 81, American lieutenant general.
- Joaquim Pina Moura, 67, Portuguese politician and economist, Minister of Economy and Treasury and MP.
- Claudette Nevins, 82, American actress.
- Jean-Claude Pecker, 96, French astronomer, President of the Société astronomique de France and General Secretary of the International Astronomical Union.
- Dan Radakovich, 84, American football coach.
- Ronald B. Scott, 74, American author and journalist, cancer.
- René Visse, 82, French politician, Deputy.
- Elyse Weinberg, 74, Canadian-American singer-songwriter, lung cancer.
- Jimmy Wheeler, 86, English football player and manager.
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- Shlomo Aronson, 83, Israeli historian and politologist.
- A.P. Indy, 31, American racehorse and sire.
- Lois Betteridge, Canadian silversmith and goldsmith.
- Alan Caiger-Smith, 90, British potter.
- Michel Charasse, 78, French politician, Senator.
- Camila María Concepción, 28, American screenwriter and transgender rights activist, suicide.
- Nick Cuti, 75, American comic book artist, cancer.
- Du Yulu, 79, Chinese actor, lung cancer.
- Sir David Evans, 95, British air chief marshal.
- Sir Sydney Giffard, 93, British diplomat and writer, ambassador to Switzerland and Japan.
- Zygmunt Grodner, 88, Polish Olympic fencer.
- Hisashi Katsuta, 92, Japanese voice actor.
- Lal Khan, 64, Pakistani Marxist political theorist, cancer.
- Sir Andrew Leggatt, 89, British judge, Lord Justice of Appeal.
- Boris Leskin, 97, Russian actor.
- Phil Maloney, 92, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
- Vince Marinello, 82, American sportscaster and convicted murderer.
- Lisel Mueller, 96, German-born American poet.
- Vera Paunović, 72, Serbian politician.
- Ilídio Pinto Leandro, 69, Portuguese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Viseu.
- Vangelis Ploios, 82, Greek actor.
- Tao Porchon-Lynch, 101, American yoga master and author.
- Baju Ban Riyan, 78, Indian politician, MLA, MP.
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- Krishna Bose, 89, Indian social worker and politician, MP.
- James Brown, 68, American painter, traffic collision.
- June Dally-Watkins, 92, Australian model and businesswoman.
- Kiki Dimoula, 88, Greek poet.
- Binoy Dutta, 75, Indian politician, MLA.
- Butch Gautreaux, 72, American politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, Louisiana State Senate.
- Harber H. Hall, 99, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives, Illinois Senate.
- Nobuya Hoshino, 83, Japanese table tennis player.
- Jacques Houplain, 99, French painter and engraver.
- Mike Hughes, 64, American daredevil and flat Earth conspiracy theorist, rocket crash.
- Jeff Kimpel, 77, American meteorologist.
- Kazuhiko Kishino, 86, Japanese voice actor, heart failure.
- Maryan Plakhetko, 74, Ukrainian-born Russian footballer.
- B. Smith, 70, American restaurateur and television host, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
- Thích Quảng Độ, 91, Vietnamese Buddhist monk, patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Sangha of Vietnam.
- Simon Warr, 66, British broadcaster and actor, pancreatic and liver cancer.
- Linda Wolfe, 87, American journalist and author.
- Mark Zanna, 75, Canadian social psychologist.
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- Ahmaud Arbery, 25, American jogger, shot.
- Pierre Aubenque, 90, French philosopher.
- Hervé Bourges, 86, French journalist and executive.
- Russ Cochran, 82, American comic book publisher.
- Ramón Conde, 85, Puerto Rican baseball player.
- Double Trigger, 28, Irish racehorse, Ascot Gold Cup winner, heart attack.
- Amr Fahmy, 36, Egyptian football administrator, cancer.
- Stefan Florenski, 86, Polish footballer.
- Quenby Fung, 54, Hong Kong novelist, cancer.
- Norene Gilletz, 79, Canadian kosher cookbook author.
- János Göröcs, 80, Hungarian football player and manager, Olympic bronze medalist.
- Zoran Modli, 71, Serbian journalist, radio disc jockey and aviator.
- Seaver Peters, 87, American ice hockey player.
- Sha Qinglin, 89, Chinese engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
- Vince Weber, 66, German blues pianist.
- Raymond York, 86, American jockey, pneumonia.
- Zhou Tonghui, 95, Chinese analytical chemist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
- Margrit Zimmermann, 93, Swiss pianist and composer.
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- Bob Andelman, 59, American journalist, author and talk show host, cancer.
- Andrzej Bryl, 62, Polish taekwondo practitioner.
- Mario Bunge, 100, Argentine philosopher of science.
- Robert Cabaj, 72, American psychiatrist, scholar and author.
- Diana Serra Cary, 101, American actress.
- Ben Cooper, 86, American actor.
- István Csukás, 83, Hungarian poet and author.
- Clive Cussler, 88, American adventure novelist and underwater explorer, founder of the NUMA.
- John Franzese, 103, Italian-born American mobster.
- Don Furner, 87, Australian rugby league coach.
- Ernie Gaskin, 86, English greyhound trainer.
- Bruce George, 77, British politician, MP, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
- Jiang Yiyuan, 92, Chinese agricultural engineer.
- Katherine Johnson, 101, American mathematician.
- Ayrat Karimov, 48, Russian footballer.
- Sung Wan Kim, 79, Korean-born American pharmacologist and bioengineer.
- Jan Kowalczyk, 78, Polish show jumper, Olympic champion.
- Johan van Loon, 85, Dutch ceramist and textile artist.
- John Lang Nichol, 96, Canadian politician.
- Roy Norris, 72, American serial killer.
- Frank Nowacki, 72–73, British architect, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
- Ida Stephens Owens, 80, American scientist.
- David Roback, 61, American guitarist and songwriter.
- Stephan Ross, 88, Polish-born American holocaust survivor, founder of New England Holocaust Memorial.
- Vasily Savvin, 80, Russian military officer, commander of the Internal Troops of Russia.
- Peter Schimke, 59, American pianist and composer, suicide.
- Georg R. Sheets, 72, American historian.
- Guillermo Solá, 90, Chilean Olympic runner.
- Dick Tamburo, 90, American college athletic director.
- Jahn Teigen, 70, Norwegian musician.
- Olof Thunberg, 94, Swedish actor.
- Juan Eduardo Zúñiga, 101, Spanish literary scholar and writer.
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- Javier Arias Stella, 95, Peruvian pathologist and politician, Minister of Health and of Foreign Affairs, discovered the Arias-Stella reaction.
- Lee Phillip Bell, 91, American television producer.
- Valerian D'Souza, 86, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Poona.
- Claude Flagel, 87, French musician.
- Nesby Glasgow, 62, American football player, cancer.
- Kazuhisa Hashimoto, 61, Japanese video game programmer, creator of the Konami Code.
- Naimatullah Khan, 89, Pakistani politician, Mayor of Karachi.
- Hikmet Köksal, 88, Turkish military officer, Commander of the Army.
- Yuri Kuplyakov, 89, Russian diplomat, Soviet ambassador to Nigeria.
- Adam Maher, 47, Australian rugby league player, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
- Raymond Martin, 94, Australian chemist and academic administrator, vice-chancellor of Monash University.
- Hosni Mubarak, 91, Egyptian military officer and politician, President, Prime Minister and Vice-President, kidney failure.
- Satya Nandan, Fijian diplomat, representative to the United Nations and ambassador to the Netherlands.
- Bernard Pingaud, 96, French writer.
- Peter Pritchard, 76, English turtle zoologist.
- Lívia Rusz, 89, Romanian-Hungarian graphic artist.
- P. Sankaran, 72, Indian politician, MP and MLA.
- Erico Spinadel, 90, Austrian-Argentine industrial engineer.
- Bob Steiner, 73, Canadian football player.
- George Yankowski, 97, American baseball player.
- Dmitry Yazov, 95, Russian military officer, Minister of Defence and Marshal of the Soviet Union.
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- Henry J. Abraham, 98, American scholar and writer.
- Donald E. Belfi, 84, American judge.
- Bhadreswar Buragohain, 74, Indian politician, MLA, MP.
- Sam Boghosian, 88, American football player and coach.
- Eduardo Bort, 72, Spanish guitarist.
- Stroma Buttrose, 90, Australian architect and town planner.
- Betsy Byars, 91, American author.
- Hans Deinzer, 86, German clarinetist.
- Sergei Dorensky, 88, Russian pianist.
- Muhamed Filipović, 90, Bosnian politician, writer and historian.
- Nick Apollo Forte, 81, American musician and actor.
- Isgandar Hamidov, 71, Azerbaijani politician, Minister of Internal Affairs.
- Nexhmije Hoxha, 99, Albanian politician, MP and chairwoman of the Democratic Front.
- Rudolf Kassel, 93, German classical philologist.
- Michel Leplay, 92, French Protestant pastor.
- Lionel D, 61, French radio host and rapper.
- Clinton Marius, 53, South African writer and performer.
- Michael Medwin, 96, English actor.
- Andrea Mugione, 79, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Cassano all'Jonio, Archbishop of Crotone-Santa Severina and Benevento.
- Bijaya Kumar Nayak, 68, Indian politician, MLA.
- Bertram Raven, 93, American academic.
- Annie Riis, 92, Norwegian writer.
- Corky Rogers, 76, American football coach.
- Carl Slone, 83, American college football coach.
- David Smith, 78, Canadian politician, MP.
- François Tajan, 57, French auctioneer, food poisoning.
- Clementina Vélez, 73, Colombian doctor, academic and politician, MP and city councillor of Cali, heart attack.
- Kostas Voutsas, 88, Greek actor and writer, lung infection.
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- Eduardo Alas Alfaro, 89, Salvadoran Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Chalatenango.
- R. D. Call, 70, American actor, complications from back surgery.
- David Callister, 84, Manx broadcaster and politician.
- Tina Carline, 71–72, New Zealand television weather presenter, cancer.
- Sudhakar Chaturvedi, 122, Indian Vedic scholar and courier.
- Burkhard Driest, 80, German actor.
- Eugene Dynarski, 86, American actor.
- Irvino English, 42, Jamaican footballer, shot.
- Valdir Espinosa, 72, Brazilian football manager, complications from surgery.
- Juan Diego González, 39, Colombian footballer.
- Colin S. Gray, 76, British-American geopolitical writer.
- Samvel Karapetyan, 58, Armenian historian.
- Hadi Khosroshahi, 81, Iranian cleric and diplomat, COVID-19.
- Seiji Kurata, 74, Japanese photographer, lung cancer.
- Lillian Offitt, 81, American blues and R&B singer.
- Gloster Richardson, 77, American football player, Super Bowl Champion.
- K. P. P. Samy, 57, Indian politician, MLA.
- Sripal Silva, 59, Sri Lankan cricketer, injuries sustained in a traffic collision.
- Leroy Suddath, 89, American major general.
- Braian Toledo, 26, Argentine javelin thrower, Youth Olympic champion, traffic collision.
- Suthep Wongkamhaeng, 85, Thai luk krung singer.
- Alki Zei, 94, Greek novelist and children's writer.
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- Johnny Antonelli, 89, American baseball player.
- Allen Boothroyd, 76, British industrial designer, co-founder of Meridian Audio, prostate cancer.
- Kenyel Brown, 40, American serial killer, suicide by gunshot.
- Ulambayaryn Byambajav, 35, Mongolian sumo wrestler, world champion.
- Jaime Carbonell, 66, Uruguayan-born American computer scientist.
- Janusz Cisek, 65, Polish historian and academic, leukemia.
- Joe Coulombe, 89, American entrepreneur.
- Emmanuel Debarre, 71, French sculptor.
- Freeman Dyson, 96, British-born American physicist and mathematician, fall.
- Joyce Gordon, 90, American actress and pitchwoman.
- Sir Lenox Hewitt, 102, Australian public servant, Secretary of the Prime Minister's Department, Lewy body dementia.
- Muhammad Imara, 88, Egyptian Islamic scholar.
- S. Kathavarayan, 58, Indian politician, MLA.
- Mahmoud Khayami, 90, Iranian industrialist and philanthropist.
- Balbir Singh Kullar, 77, Indian field hockey player, Olympic bronze medallist, heart attack.
- Gennady Kuzmin, 74, Ukrainian chess player.
- Teresa Machado, 50, Portuguese Olympic discus thrower and shot putter.
- Craig Mackay, 92, Canadian Olympic speed skater.
- Baidyanath Prasad Mahto, 72, Indian politician, MLA, MP.
- Stig-Göran Myntti, 94, Finnish football and bandy player.
- Phil Prince, 93, American university football player and academic administrator, President of Clemson University.
- John Renton, American geologist.
- Shadakshari Settar, 84, Indian historian and archaeologist, pleural effusion.
- Esala Teleni, Fijian rugby player and military officer.
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- Chloe Aaron, 81, American television executive, cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
- Nicholas Alahverdian, 32, American child welfare advocate and whistleblower, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
- Gérard Arseguel, 82, French poet.
- Avraham Barkai, 99, German-born Israeli historian.
- G. P. Mellick Belshaw, 91, American Episcopal prelate, Bishop of New Jersey.
- Bill Bunten, 89, American politician, member of the Kansas House of Representatives and Senate, Mayor of Topeka, pneumonia.
- Malcolm Chase, 63, British social historian, brain tumour.
- Raymond C. Fisher, 80, American jurist, Judge of the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, cancer.
- Ian Lyall Grant, 104, British army officer and engineer.
- Bella Hammond, 87, American activist and political figure, First Lady of Alaska.
- Vito Kapo, 97, Albanian politician, Minister of Industry.
- Dieter Laser, 78, German actor.
- Fiona MacCarthy, 80, English journalist and biographer.
- Arnaud Marquesuzaa, 85, French rugby union player.
- Eleanor Martin, 69, Australian dancer.
- Luis Alfonso Mendoza, 55, Mexican dubbing and voice actor, shot.
- Ceri Morgan, 72, Welsh darts player.
- Odile Pierre, 87, French organist and composer.
- Mohammad Ali Ramazani Dastak, 56, Iranian military officer and politician, MP, influenza.
- Herman Redemeijer, 89, Dutch politician, member of the Senate.
- Bill Smith, 93, American jazz clarinetist and composer, complications from prostate cancer.
- Éva Székely, 92, Hungarian Hall of Fame swimmer, Olympic champion.
- Andrei Vedernikov, 60, Russian racing cyclist, world champion.
- Gene Waldorf, 84, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives and Senate.