Deaths in March 2018

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

  March 2018

1

• Bender, 37, Canadian rapper.
• Fredrik Bull-Hansen, 90, Norwegian military officer, Chief of Defence.
• Colin Campbell, 81, English actor.
• Enrique Cárdenas González, 91, Mexican politician, Governor of Tamaulipas, Municipal President of Ciudad Victoria.
• Diana Der Hovanessian, 83, American poet and professor.
• Dorne Dibble, 88, American football player, pneumonia.
• Jean-Guy Hamelin, 92, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Rouyn-Noranda.
• Anatoly Lein, 86, Russian-born American chess Grandmaster.
• Beth Morris, 74, Welsh actress.
• Arabinda Muduli, 56, Indian musician and Bhajan singer, cardiac arrest.
• Michael Paine, 89, American engineer.
• Vicente Piquer, 83, Spanish footballer.
• María Rubio, 83, Mexican actress.
• Orin C. Smith, 75, American coffee executive, President and CEO of Starbucks, pancreatic cancer.
• Luigi Taveri, 88, Swiss motorcycle road racer, Grand Prix champion, stroke.
• Johann Zeitler, 90, German footballer.

  2

• Barry Ansell, 70, English footballer.
• James T. Baldwin, 84, American industrial designer and architect.
• Maxine Berman, 71, American politician, member of the Michigan House of Representatives, lung cancer.
• Adela Calva Reyes, 50–51, Mexican Indigenous writer.
• Gordon Challis, 85, New Zealand poet.
• Gillo Dorfles, 107, Italian art critic, painter and philosopher.
• Ota Filip, 87, Czech novelist and journalist.
• Sean Garrison, 80, American actor.
• Emma Gresham, 92, American teacher and politician.
• Billy Herrington, 48, American gay pornographic actor, traffic collision.
• Mollie Hunt, 81, English cricketer.
• Joseph Israel, 40, American reggae musician, cancer.
• Khagendra Jamatia, 64, Indian politician, MLA, blood cancer.
• Brandon Jenkins, 48, American red dirt singer-songwriter, complications from heart surgery.
• Shree Lal Joshi, 86, Indian painter.
• Barbara Kiefer Lewalski, 87, American literary scholar.
• Jesús López Cobos, 78, Spanish conductor, cancer.
• Gerry Lowe, 90, English rugby player.
• Cle Newhook, 74, Canadian politician, leader of the NL NDP, cancer.
• Ronnie Prophet, 80, Canadian country singer, multiple organ failure.
• Craig Raisner, 56, American voice actor.
• Carlo Ripa di Meana, 88, Italian politician, Minister of the Environment and European Commissioner for the Environment.
• Omar Sey, 77, Gambian politician and sports administrator, Foreign Minister, President of Gambia Football Federation.
• Timothy Shelpidi, 70, Nigerian military officer.
• Sammy Stewart, 63, American baseball player.

  3

• Sir Roger Bannister, 88, British middle-distance athlete, doctor and academic, first person to run a sub-four-minute mile, Parkinson's disease.
• Clare Beghtol, 76, American-born Canadian information scientist.
• Mal Bryce, 74, Australian politician, Deputy Premier of Western Australia.
• Alva Campbell, 69, American convicted murderer.
• Tônia Carrero, 95, Brazilian actress, complications from surgery.
• Leslie Coffey, 81, Australian sports shooter.
• Jacqueline Desmarais, 89, Canadian billionaire philanthropist.
• Frank Doubleday, 73, American actor, complications from esophageal cancer.
• Fred Dugan, 84, American football player.
• Renzo Franzo, 103, Italian politician, Deputy.
• Kenneth Gärdestad, 69, Swedish songwriter, pneumonia and influenza following skin cancer and lymphoma.
• Jacques Gernet, 96, French sinologist.
• Vanessa Goodwin, 48, Australian politician, Attorney-General of Tasmania, brain cancer.
• Sabit Hadžić, 60, Bosnian Yugoslav-era basketball player, Olympic bronze medalist and coach.
• Emma Hannigan, 45, Irish author, breast cancer.
• Imogene Powers Johnson, 87, American billionaire philanthropist.
• Kim Chong-hoh, 82, South Korean politician.
• Anthony Lejeune, 89, British writer.
• Lin Hu, 90, Chinese general, deputy commander of the PLA Air Force.
• Enzo Lippolis, 61, Italian archeologist.
• Virgilijus Noreika, 82, Lithuanian opera singer, People's Artist of the USSR.
• Franz Pacher, 98, Austrian engineer.
• Ivone Ramos, 91, Cape Verdean writer.
• Curt Raydon, 84, American baseball player.
• Derek Saunders, 90, English footballer.
• Robert Scheerer, 89, American director and actor.
• Arthur Stewart, 76, Northern Irish footballer.
• Ian Stewart, Baron Stewartby, 82, British politician and numismatist.
• David Ogden Stiers, 75, American actor, bladder cancer.
• Yvon Taillandier, 91, French artist.
• Daranagama Kusaladhamma Thero, 54, Sri Lankan Buddhist monk, founder of The Buddhist TV.
• Jorge Wagensberg Lubinski, 69, Spanish physicist, academic, writer and aphorist, founder director of CosmoCaixa.
• Ken M. Wallace, 73, British engineering scientist.
• Ray Wilkins, 89, English footballer.
• Yao Xian, 90, Chinese general, commander of the Beijing Military Region Air Force.

  4

• Javed Abidi, 52, Indian disability rights activist, chest infection.
• Davide Astori, 31, Italian footballer, heart attack.
• Elma Bellini, 63, American judge, member of the New York Supreme Court, cancer.
• Charles Elbaum, 91, Polish-born American physicist.
• John Hollingworth, 87, British politician, MP for Birmingham All Saints.
• James Luna, 68, American performance artist, heart attack.
• Sir William McAlpine, 6th Baronet, 82, British engineering construction executive, Managing Director of Sir Robert McAlpine.
• Carmel McSharry, 91, Irish actress.
• Farhang Mehr, 94, Iranian-born American Zoroastrian scholar and writer, Deputy Prime Minister.
• H. Wayne Norman Jr., 62, American politician, member of the Maryland Senate and House of Delegates.
• Moe Racine, 80, Canadian Hall of Fame football player.
• J. Paul Raines, 53, American retail executive, CEO of GameStop, brain cancer.
• Alex Rennie, 69, Scottish football player and manager, esophageal cancer.
• Ernő Rozgonyi, 84, Hungarian politician, MP.
• Russell Solomon, 92, American retail executive, founder of Tower Records.
• José Triana, 87, Cuban poet.
• Johan Trondsen, 95, Norwegian politician.

  5

• Robert Assaraf, 81, Moroccan historian.
• Trevor Baylis, 80, British inventor.
• Derek Bickerton, 91, English-born American linguist and academic.
• John Hall Buchanan Jr., 89, American politician, member of the US House of Representatives for Alabama's 6th district, complications from dementia.
• Sean Byrne, 80, Irish politician.
• John T. Cacioppo, 66, American neuroscientist and psychologist.
• Tomas Aguon Camacho, 84, Northern Mariana Islands Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Chalan Kanoa.
• Mykhaylo Chemberzhi, 73, Ukrainian composer.
• Kjerstin Dellert, 92, Swedish opera singer.
• Bob Engel, 84, American baseball umpire.
• Rafiqul Islam, 82, Bangladeshi physician.
• Costakis Koutsokoumnis, 61, Cypriot football administrator, President of CFA and member of FIFA Council, cancer.
• André S. Labarthe, 86, French actor, film producer and director.
• Marcela Lombardo Otero, 91, Mexican politician, Deputy.
• Uri Lubrani, 91, Israeli diplomat and military official.
• Paul Magriel, 71, American backgammon and poker player and author, World Backgammon Champion.
• Helmut Maucher, 90, German food and beverage executive, CEO and chairman of Nestlé.
• Howard L. Resnikoff, 80, American mathematician.
• Gemma Romanyà i Valls, 72, Spanish businesswoman, printer and graphic arts patron.
• Jam Saqi, 73, Pakistani politician.
• Clive Sinclair, 70, British author, prostate cancer.
• D. Sreedevi, 78, Indian judge, member of the Kerala High Court, liver failure.
• Clarence F. Stephens, 100, American mathematician and educator.
• Stephan Tanneberger, 82, German oncologist and chemist, blood and bone cancer.
• Michael Watts, 79, British journalist.
• Hayden White, 89, American historian.

  6

• Arthur Barrett, 73, Jamaican cricketer.
• Lucie Brock-Broido, 61, American poet and academic, cancer.
• Paul Bùi Văn Đọc, 73, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Ho Chi Minh City, stroke.
• Donna Butterworth, 62, American actress and singer.
• William G. Callow, 96, American judge, member of the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
• Frank Cappelli, 65, American singer and actor.
• Muhibbe Darga, 96, Turkish archeologist.
• Aliyu Doma, 75, Nigerian politician, Governor of Nasarawa State.
• Peter Freund, 81, Romanian-born American physicist.
• Gene Gomes, 72, American judge, member of the California Court of Appeals, respiratory disease.
• Erivan Haub, 85, German retail executive.
• Amani W. A. Kabourou, 68, Tanzanian politician, MP for Kigoma.
• John Kurila, 76, Scottish footballer.
• Peter Nicholls, 78, Australian writer and editor.
• Octavio Novaro, 78, Mexican physicist specialized in theoretical catalysis, awarded the National Prize for Arts and Sciences and UNESCO Science Prize.
• Francis Piasecki, 66, French football player and coach.
• Ferdousi Priyabhashini, 71, Bangladeshi sculptor, heart attack.
• Indra Bahadur Rai, 91, Indian writer.
• John W. Reed, 99, American legal scholar.
• Irving Shain, 92, American chemist and educator, Chancellor of University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• Shammi, 88, Indian actress.
• Zena Skinner, 91, British television chef.
• Jeff St John, 71, Australian musician, bacterial infection.
• Steve Stroughter, 65, American baseball player.
• Sir John Sulston, 75, British biologist, Nobel Prize laureate, stomach cancer.

  7

• Fortunato Abat, 92, Filipino army general and politician, Secretary of the Department of National Defense.
• Reynaldo Bignone, 90, Argentine politician and convicted criminal, President, hip fracture and heart failure.
• Gary Burden, 84, American rock album cover artist, Grammy winner.
• Chen Tien-miao, 89, Taiwanese politician.
• Jacques Clemens, 108, Dutch Roman Catholic priest.
• Woody Durham, 76, American college basketball radio announcer, complications from primary progressive aphasia.
• Hao Bailin, 83, Chinese physicist.
• Victor Heringer, 29, Brazilian novelist, translator and poet, Prêmio Jabuti laureate, suicide by jumping.
• Jerzy Milian, 82, Polish jazz vibraphonist.
• John Molyneux, 87, English footballer.
• Antonia La Negra, 82, Spanish cantaora and bailaora, aortic aneurysm.
• Chuck Ortmann, 88, American football player.
• Bill Pulte, 85, American real estate developer.
• Werner Radspieler, 79, German Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Bamberg.
• Thomas L. Rhodes, 78, American political activist, Parkinson's disease.
• Marian Schmidt, 73, Polish artist photographer, mathematician.
• Charles Thone, 94, American politician, Governor of Nebraska, member of the US House of Representatives for Nebraska's 1st district.
• Kjell Venås, 90, Norwegian philologist.

  8

• Bernardo Bernardo, 73, Filipino actor, pancreatic cancer.
• Ron Franklin, 58, American jockey, Kentucky Derby winner, lung cancer.
• John P. Fullam, 96, American federal judge, member of the U.S. District Court for Eastern Pennsylvania, presided over Abscam trial.
• Sir Wilson Harris, 96, Guyanese writer.
• Antoni Imiela, 63, German-born British serial rapist.
• Jean Jolivet, 93, French philosopher.
• Milko Kelemen, 93, Croatian composer.
• Ralph Keller, 82, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Pearse Lyons, 73, Irish biochemist and beverage executive, founder and chairman of Alltech, complications following heart surgery.
• Bill Snow, 80, Australian anti-tobacco activist, ruptured aorta.
• Gerd Søraa, 83, Norwegian politician and writer.
• Peter Temple, 71, South African-born Australian writer, Miles Franklin Award winner, Gold Dagger, cancer.
• Albin Vidović, 75, Croatian handball player, Olympic champion.
• Togo D. West Jr., 75, American public servant, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, heart attack.
• Hal Wick, 73, American politician, member of the South Dakota House of Representatives.
• Kate Wilhelm, 89, American author.
• Ercan Yazgan, 71, Turkish actor, multiple organ failure.

  9

• Jerry Anderson, 62, Canadian professional golfer, first Canadian to win on PGA European tour.
• Robin Archer, 87, New Zealand rugby union player and coach.
• Joaquin Avila, 69, American civil rights activist and jurist.
• Remo Bicchierai, 79, Italian footballer.
• Dennis Furlong, 72, Canadian politician and physician, MLA for Dalhousie-Restigouche East, brain tumour.
• Chris Gedney, 47, American football player, suicide.
• Vladimir Gerasimov, 28, Russian footballer, traffic collision.
• Oskar Gröning, 96, German SS officer and war criminal, guard at Auschwitz concentration camp.
• Warren Hawksley, 74, British politician, MP for The Wrekin and Halesowen and Stourbridge.
• Jo Min-ki, 52, South Korean actor and professor, suspected suicide by hanging.
• Jung Jae-sung, 35, South Korean badminton player, heart attack.
• Patangrao Kadam, 74, Indian politician, kidney disease.
• Joy Michael, 91, Indoan theatre director.
• Ulla Nenonen, 84, Finnish missionary and Bible translator.
• Adam Ostrowski, 99, Polish World War II RAF officer.
• Harold Rosewarne, 87, Australian footballer.
• George A. Sinner, 89, American politician, Governor of North Dakota.
• Ethel Stein, 100, American textile artist.
• Millie Dunn Veasey, 100, American civil rights activist.
• Ion Voinescu, 88, Romanian footballer.
• Elías Yanes Álvarez, 90, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Zaragoza.

  10

• Peter Allday, 90, British hammer thrower.
• Tony Benneworth, 67, Australian cricketer and politician, MHA for Bass, boating incident.
• Christine Bernardi, 62, French mathematician.
• Garech Browne, 78, Irish arts patron, founder of Claddagh Records.
• Donald Collins, 92, American politician, member of the Maine Senate and House of Representatives.
• Buddy Cruze, 84, American football player.
• Peter Davies, 60, Australian cricketer.
• Michael Gershman, 73, American cinematographer, director and camera operator.
• Hubert de Givenchy, 91, French fashion designer.
• Wally Gould, 79, English footballer.
• Geoff Hibbins, 88, Australian footballer.
• Ken Houston, 64, Canadian ice hockey player, cancer.
• Ali Asghar Khodadoust, 82, Iranian surgical ophthalmologist, namesake of Khodadoust line, heart disease.
• Henry Koffler, 95, Austrian-born American academic, President of the University of Arizona.
• Saba Mahmood, 57, Pakistani-born American anthropologist, pancreatic cancer.
• Abubakar Saleh Michika, 77, Nigerian politician, Governor of Adamawa State.
• Val Mulkerns, 93, Irish writer and poet.
• Roch Pedneault, 90, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Chicoutimi.
• George Rawitscher, 90, German-born American physicist.
• Michel Raynaud, 79, French mathematician.
• Gene Rhodes, 90, American basketball player and coach.
• Tang Hsiang Chien, 94, Hong Kong industrialist.
• Ralf Waldmann, 51, German Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.

  11

• Alba Arnova, 87, Argentine-Italian ballerina and actress.
• Muhammad Ashiq, 82, Pakistani racing cyclist, stroke.
• Bob Baxt, 79, Australian jurist, chairman of Trade Practices Commission.
• Jean Damascène Bimenyimana, 64, Rwandan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Cyangugu.
• Baltasar Corrada del Río, 82, Puerto Rican judge and politician, Mayor of San Juan and Secretary of State.
• Peter H. Dailey, 87, American advertising executive and diplomat, Ambassador to Ireland.
• John Daly, 81, Australian athletics coach.
• Lorenz Dittmann, 89, German art historian.
• Sir Ken Dodd, 90, English comedian, singer and actor, chest infection.
• Paddy Donovan, 81, New Zealand Olympic boxer, British Empire and Commonweatlh Games bronze medalist, and rugby union player.
• Luciano Faraguti, 80, Italian politician, Deputy.
• Pete James, 60, British archivist.
• Cooper H. Langford, 83, American-born Canadian chemist, pancreatic cancer.
• Karl Lehmann, 81, German Roman Catholic Cardinal prelate, Bishop of Mainz, complications from a stroke.
• Mary LeMessurier, 88, Canadian politician, Alberta MLA.
• Graziella Mascia, 64, Italian politician, Deputy.
• H. Blair Neatby, 93, Canadian historian.
• David W. Noble, 92, American historian.
• Stephen A. Orthwein, 72, American polo player and executive, president and chairman of US Polo.
• Siegfried Rauch, 85, German actor, heart failure and injuries sustained in a fall.
• Mary Rosenblum, 65, American author, plane crash.
• Charles Sarkis, 78, American restaurateur and dog racetrack owner, complications from brain cancer.
• Henri Skiba, 90, French football player and manager.
• Alline Banks Sprouse, 96, American basketball player.
• Charles D. Strang, 96, American inventor, President of the Outboard Marine Corporation.
• Mario Vegetti, 81, Italian historian.

  12

• José Arranz, 88, Spanish priest.
• Miguel Barceló Pérez, 94, Spanish politician, Senator.
• Ivan Davis, 86, American classical pianist, stroke.
• Nokie Edwards, 82, American Hall of Fame instrumental and surf rock musician, complications from hip surgery.
• Ken Flach, 54, American tennis player, Olympic and Wimbledon champion, complications from pneumonia.
• Nikolai Glushkov, 68, Russian businessman, homicide by neck compression.
• Sverrir Hermannsson, 88, Icelandic politician, Minister of Industry and Education.
• Kong Bai Ji, 85, Chinese artist.
• Craig Mack, 47, American rapper, heart failure.
• Rudolf Mang, 67, German weightlifter, Olympic silver medalist, heart attack.
• Henry Minarik, 90, American football player.
• Bud Olsen, 77, American basketball player.
• Charlie Quintana, 56, American rock drummer, heart attack.
• Nikki Sievwright, 75, British model and soldier.
• Oleg Tabakov, 82, Russian actor, artistic director of the Moscow Art Theatre.
• William Teron, 85, Canadian land developer.
• Emily Stipes Watts, 81, American literary historian.
• Olly Wilson, 80, American composer, musicologist and jazz musician.
• Jeremiah Wolfe, 93, American Cherokee elder.

  13

• Ivano Beggio, 73, Italian transportation executive, President of Aprilia.
• Prem Bhatia, 78, Indian cricketer.
• T. Berry Brazelton, 99, American pediatrician and author.
• Gloria Cordes, 86, American baseball player.
• Philip J. Davis, 95, American applied mathematician.
• Bebeto de Freitas, 68, Brazilian Olympic volleyball coach and football manager, World Championship, heart attack.
• Brenda Dean, Baroness Dean of Thornton-le-Fylde, 74, British trade unionist and peer.
• Claudia Fontaine, 57, British singer and backing vocalist.
• Hamida Habibullah, 101, Indian politician, member of Rajya Sabha and MLA for Haidergarh.
• Leonid Kvinikhidze, 80, Russian screenwriter and film director.
• Ken Mulhearn, 72, British footballer.
• Emily Nasrallah, 86, Lebanese writer and women's rights activist.
• Jens Nilsson, 69, Swedish politician, MEP, Chairman of Östersund Municipality.
• J. L. Parks, 90, American basketball player.
• Dave Ragan, 82, American professional golfer.
• Nora Schimming-Chase, 77, Namibian politician and diplomat, member of the National Assembly, ambassador to Germany, Austria and Tanzania, cancer.
• Aldo Tarlao, 91, Italian rower, Olympic silver medalist.
• Václav Verner, 68, Czech speedway rider.
• Gordon Walgren, 85, American politician, member of the Washington House of Representatives, member of the Washington State Senate.
• Katherine Westphal, 99, American textile designer.
• Henry Williams, 47, American basketball player, world championship bronze medalist, kidney failure.
• Jimmy Wisner, 86, American pianist, producer and songwriter.

  14

• Robert L. Bireley, 84, American historian.
• Jim Bowen, 80, English television presenter and comedian.
• Alfred W. Crosby, 87, American ecological historian, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Halit Deringör, 95, Turkish footballer.
• Emilio Disi, 75, Argentine actor and humorist, lung cancer.
• Elusive Quality, 25, American racehorse, euthanized.
• Peter Entwisle, 69, English-born New Zealand art historian.
• Marielle Franco, 38, Brazilian politician, member of the Municipal Chamber of Rio de Janeiro, shot.
• Rubén Galván, 65, Argentine footballer, cirrhosis.
• Stephen Hawking, 76, English theoretical physicist, professor and writer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Narendra Jha, 55, Indian actor, heart attack.
• Palle Kjærulff-Schmidt, 86, Danish film director and screenwriter.
• Lefty Kreh, 93, American sports photojournalist, author and sport fisherman.
• Adrian Lamo, 37, American computer hacker.
• Steve Mandell, 76, American bluegrass guitarist and banjoist, prostate cancer.
• David Matza, 87, American sociologist and criminologist.
• Mac McCallion, 67, New Zealand rugby union player and coach, cancer.
• Liam O'Flynn, 72, Irish uilleann piper, cancer.
• Pijuan, 75, Puerto Rican pianist.
• Ronald Rotunda, 73, American legal scholar, pneumonia.
• Petar Stipetić, 80, Croatian military officer, Armed Forces Chief of Staff.
• Tawfiq Titingan, 55, Malaysian politician, MLA, colon cancer.
• Vasantha Vaidyanathan, 80, Sri Lankan Hindu activist and radio broadcaster.
• David Wyman, 89, American historian.

  15

• Francis M. Bator, 92, Hungarian-American economist and educator.
• Tom Benson, 90, American automobile dealer, philanthropist and sports franchise owner, influenza.
• Stan Brown, 76, English footballer.
• Ed Charles, 84, American baseball player.
• Bev Desjarlais, 62, Canadian politician, MP for Churchill, multiple system atrophy as a complication of Parkinson's disease.
• Erwin C. Dietrich, 87, Swiss film producer.
• Augie Garrido, 79, American college baseball coach, stroke.
• Carlton Gary, 67, American serial killer and rapist, executed by lethal injection.
• Michael Getler, 82, American journalist, complications from bile duct cancer.
• Robert Grossman, 78, American painter, sculptor, filmmaker and author.
• Jørgen Hansen, 74, Danish boxer.
• Huang Wenpan, 22, Chinese swimmer, Paralympic champion, traffic collision.
• Larry Kwong, 94, Canadian ice hockey player, first player to break NHL's colour barrier.
• Bronson La Follette, 82, American politician, Wisconsin Attorney General.
• Ling Yun, 100, Chinese politician, 1st Minister of Public Security.
• Don Mecklem, 91, Australian Olympic hockey player
• Eric Munshaw, 64, Canadian slalom canoer.
• Franz Oberwinkler, 78, German mycologist.
• Bob Phibbs, 90, Canadian basketball player.
• Gwilym Roberts, 89, British politician, MP.
• Mohamed Sayah, 84, Tunisian politician.

  16

• Betty Ann Bowser, 73, American journalist, pneumonia.
• John Brookes, 84, British landscape designer.
• Anna Campbell, 26, British feminist and soldier, airstrike.
• Barrie Clark, 85, Canadian politician and broadcaster.
• Guy Cury, 87, French Olympic hurdler.
• Russell Freedman, 88, American biographer and children's writer.
• Leslie Gonda, 98, Hungarian-born American aircraft leasing executive.
• Boyukagha Hajiyev, 59, Azerbaijani football player and manager, complications from a heart attack.
• Tankmar Horn, 93, Finnish diplomat and business executive.
• Guðjón Arnar Kristjánsson, 73, Icelandic politician, MP, cancer.
• Otomar Kvěch, 67, Czech composer.
• Arnie Lerma, 67, American writer and Scientology whistleblower, suicide by gunshot.
• Adrian Lillebekk Ovlien, 20, Norwegian footballer, sepsis.
• Dayton S. Mak, 100, American diplomat, Ambassador to Kuwait.
• Aidan Maloney, 97, Canadian politician, MHA for Ferryland.
• Magoroh Maruyama, 88, Japanese-born American business theorist.
• Milán Matos, 68, Cuban long jumper.
• George Meek, 84, Scottish footballer.
• Jane Moffet, 87, American baseball player.
• Buell Neidlinger, 82, American cellist and bassist, heart attack.
• Ezequiel Orozco, 29, Mexican footballer, lung cancer.
• Lisa Garcia Quiroz, 57, American media executive, pancreatic cancer.
• Lucien A. Schmit Jr., 89, American engineer.
• Louise Slaughter, 88, American politician, member of the US House of Representatives for New York's 25th district, complications from a fall.
• Raymond Wilson, 89, British physicist.
• Charles Yanofsky, 92, American geneticist.
• Marilyn J. Ziffrin, 91, American composer.

  17

• Sir William Aldous, 82, British jurist, Lord Justice of Appeal.
• Arnold Burden, 95, Canadian physician, helped rescue survivors in the 1956 and 1958 Springhill mining disasters.
• Dexter Davies, 66, Australian politician, member of the Western Australian Legislative Council, lung cancer.
• Nicholas Edwards, Baron Crickhowell, 84, British politician, Secretary of State for Wales.
• Geneviève Fontanel, 81, French actress.
• Benny Fredriksson, 58, Swedish actor and theatre director, CEO of Stockholm City Theatre, suicide.
• Peter Haynes, 92, British Anglican priest, Dean of Hereford.
• Jim Hendricks, 68, American actor and DJ.
• Mike MacDonald, 62, Canadian comedian and actor, heart complications.
• Zdeněk Mahler, 89, Czech pedagogue, writer, publicist and musicologist.
• Phan Văn Khải, 84, Vietnamese politician, Prime Minister.
• Greg Polis, 67, Canadian ice hockey player, cancer.
• Sushil Siddharth, 59, Indian writer, complications from a heart attack.
• Sammy Williams, 69, American actor, Tony winner, cancer.
• Za Hlei Thang, 75, Burmese politician.

  18

• Michel Adama-Tamboux, 89, Central African politician, President of the National Assembly.
• Karen Anderson, 85, American writer.
• Chuck Arrobio, 73, American football player.
• Cloria Brown, 75, American politician, member of the Missouri House of Representatives, cancer.
• Sergio Castellaneta, 86, Italian politician, member of the Chamber of Deputies.
• David Cooper, 68, Australian immunologist and medical researcher, President of the International AIDS Society.
• Samuel Epstein, 91, English-born American physician, cardiac arrest.
• Barkat Gourad Hamadou, 88, Djiboutian politician, Prime Minister.
• Michal Horský, 74, Slovak political scientist and politician, member of the House of the People.
• Killjoy, 48, American singer.
• Li Ao, 82, Chinese-Taiwanese writer and politician, MLY, brain tumour.
• Princess Mathilde of Saxony, 82, German royal princess.
• Georgi Mosolov, 91, Russian test pilot.
• Jean-Baptiste Natama, 53, Burkinabé politician and diplomat.
• Stefano Pellegrini, 64, Italian footballer.
• Otoniel Quintana, 71, Colombian footballer
• Ivor Richard, Baron Richard, 85, British politician and diplomat, Lord Privy Seal, ambassador to UN, MP for Barons Court.
• Michael Rutschky, 74, German author.
• Jerry Schoonmaker, 84, American baseball player.
• Hazel Smith, 83, American country music journalist, publicist, and singer-songwriter, heart failure.
• Clive Ulyate, 84, South African rugby player and cricketer.
• Sir James Weatherall, 82, British vice-admiral and Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps.
• John F. Wright, 72, American state judge, member of the Nebraska Supreme Court and Court of Appeals.

  19

• Roger G. Barry, 82, British-born American geographer and climatologist, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center.
• Irina Beglyakova, 85, Russian athlete, Olympic silver medalist.
• Linda Bement, 76, American model, winner of Miss Universe 1960.
• Madge Bester, 54, South African disability rights activist, once world's shortest woman.
• David Bischoff, 66, American novelist and television writer.
• Howard Clendaniel, 85, American politician, member of the Delaware House of Representatives.
• Sue England, 89, American actress.
• Julio Garrett Ayllón, 92, Bolivian politician, lawyer and ambassador, Foreign Minister and Vice President.
• Sir Andrew Gilbart, 68, British High Court judge, cancer.
• Hasan Celal Güzel, 73, Turkish journalist and politician.
• Arnold R. Hirsch, 69, American historian, Lewy body dementia.
• Irwin Hoffman, 93, American conductor.
• Chaim Samuel Hönig, 92, Brazilian mathematician.
• Nicolás Kingman Riofrío, 99, Ecuadorian journalist, writer and politician.
• Jürg Laederach, 72, Swiss writer.
• Jean Michel Larrasket, 67, French engineer and professor.
• Dick LeMay, 79, American baseball player.
• Stanley Lieberson, 84, Canadian-born American sociologist.
• Luo Fu, 89, Taiwanese poet.
• Anil Malnad, 60, Indian film editor, blood clot.
• Aghasi Manukyan, 51, Armenian wrestler, world champion.
• Keith O'Brien, 80, Scottish Roman Catholic Cardinal, Archbishop of St Andrews and Edinburgh, complications from a fall.
• Les Payne, 76, American journalist, Pulitzer Prize.
• Moishe Postone, 75, Canadian Western Marxist historian, philosopher and political economist, cancer.
• Kedarnath Singh, 83, Indian poet.
• Sudan, 45, Kenyan northern white rhinoceros, last known male of his subspecies, euthanized.
• Thunder Gulch, 25, American racehorse, Kentucky Derby winner, euthanized.
• Jacobus Verhoeff, 91, Dutch mathematician.
• Viktor Yerin, 74, Russian military officer, Minister of Internal Affairs.

  20

• Dilbar Abdurahmonova, 81, Uzbekistani conductor, violinist and teacher, People's Artist of the USSR.
• Ann-Charlotte Alverfors, 71, Swedish author.
• Katie Boyle, 91, Italian-born British actress, television personality and game-show panelist.
• Ariel Bybee, 75, American operatic mezzo-soprano.
• João Calvão da Silva, 66, Portuguese politician, MP for Coimbra, Minister of Internal Administration.
• Kak Channthy, 38, Cambodian space rock singer, traffic collision.
• Paul Colin, 97, French novelist.
• Peter "Mars" Cowling, 72, British bassist.
• John Donaldson, 92, American football player.
• Tom Griffin, 72, American playwright.
• Siringan Gubat, 68, Malaysian politician, MP for Ranau, MLA, heart attack.
• Ramon Deleon Guerrero, 71, Northern Mariana Islands politician, Senator.
• Gurbaksh Singh Khalsa, 52, Indian Sikh rights activist, suicide by jumping.
• C. K. Mann, 81–82, Ghanaian highlife musician.
• Dylan Mika, 45, New Zealand rugby union player, heart attack.
• Bobby Mitchell, 75, American golfer.
• Sergio Peña Clos, 90, Puerto Rican politician, member of the Senate of Puerto Rico.
• Peter G. Peterson, 91, American financier, co-founder of The Blackstone Group, Secretary of Commerce.
• Yuri Shatalov, 72, Russian ice hockey player.
• Deo Kumar Singh, 67, Indian Maoist leader and insurgent commander, heart attack.
• William Smith, 89, American wrestler, Olympic champion.
• Ayaz Soomro, 59, Pakistani politician, MNA, MPA for Larkana, heart disease.
• Joseph M. Sussman, 78, American engineer.
• Emmett Hulcy Tidd, 94, American military officer.

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• Anna-Lisa, 84, Norwegian actress.
• Kakon Bibi, c. 102, Bangladeshi spy and freedom fighter.
• Gerrit Blaauw, 93, Dutch computer scientist.
• Dejan Bravničar, 80, Slovene violinist.
• George H. Emert, 79, American biochemist, President of Utah State University.
• Frank Gaylord, 93, American sculptor.
• Tom Higgins, 73, American rock climber.
• Ulrica Hydman Vallien, 79, Swedish artist, heart attack.
• James C. Irwin, 88, American military officer, Vice Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard.
• Rolf Leeser, 88, Dutch footballer and fashion designer.
• Paul Edward Plunkett, 82, American federal judge, member of the U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois.
• John W. Vogt, 81, American politician, member of the Florida Senate, interstitial fibrosis.
• Peter Waddington, 71, British sociologist and police officer, cardiac arrest.
• Martha Wallner, 90, Austrian actress.
• Dick Wilmarth, 75, American dog musher, winner of the 1973 Iditarod, cancer.
• Leo C. Zeferetti, 90, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 15th congressional district.

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• Fergus Anckorn, 99, British magician, longest-serving member of The Magic Circle, bladder cancer.
• Michael Barnes, 85, British politician, MP for Brentford and Chiswick.
• Khozh-Akhmed Bersanov, 91, Russian Chechen writer and ethnographer.
• Morgan Chua, 68, Singaporean cartoonist.
• Jose Flores, 57, Peruvian-born American jockey, injuries sustained in racing fall.
• Dick Gamble, 89, Canadian hockey player.
• Paul Green, 94, American electrical engineer.
• James F. Holland, 92, American physician.
• René Houseman, 64, Argentine footballer, tongue cancer.
• Wayne Huizenga, 80, American entrepreneur and sports team owner, cancer.
• Johan van Hulst, 107, Dutch politician, author and academic, awarded Righteous Among the Nations, member of the Senate and the European Parliament.
• Jan Kantůrek, 69, Czech translator.
• Morgana King, 87, American jazz singer and actress, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
• Charles Lazarus, 94, American entrepreneur and executive, respiratory failure.
• Lyn Lott, 67, American golfer, complications from brain surgery.
• Carlos Eduardo Miranda, 56, Brazilian musician, record producer and reality television judge.
• Morten Piil, 75, Danish film critic.
• Michael J. Reynolds, 78, Canadian actor.
• Dariush Shayegan, 83, Iranian cultural theorist and philosopher, stroke.
• Nicholas Tsoucalas, 91, American judge, member of the Court of International Trade, pneumonia.

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• Paul L. Anderson, 71, American architect, heart attack.
• Glen Ash, 86, American actor.
• Don Ball, 81, American builder and philanthropist.
• Mike Beedle, 55, American software engineer, stabbed.
• Lino Bortolo Belotti, 87, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Bergamo.
• DuShon Monique Brown, 49, American actress, sepsis.
• Ernie Burrington, 91, British newspaper editor and journalist.
• Raymond Butt, 77, British schoolteacher, pancreatic cancer.
• Debbie Lee Carrington, 58, American actress and stuntwoman.
• Rudresh Gowda, 62, Indian politician, member of the Lok Sabha from Hassan, Karnataka MLA from Belur, Karnataka, heart attack.
• Hasili, 27, French racehorse.
• Murray S. Hoffman, 93, American cardiologist.
• Philip Kerr, 62, British author.
• Dan Lanphear, 80, American football player.
• Jukka Mikkola, 74, Finnish politician, MP.
• Zell Miller, 86, American politician, Governor of Georgia, member of the U.S. Senate, Parkinson's disease.
• Alberto Ongaro, 92, Italian journalist and writer.
• Jaakko Pakkasvirta, 83, Finnish film director and screenwriter.
• Aileen Paterson, 83, Scottish writer and illustrator.
• Idowu Sofola, 83, Nigerian jurist.
• Ephraim Stern, 84, Israeli archaeologist.
• Delores Taylor, 85, American actress and screenwriter, complications of dementia.
• Seán Treacy, 94, Irish politician, TD, Ceann Comhairle.
• John Welchli, 89, American rower, Olympic silver medalist.

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• José Antonio Abreu, 78, Venezuelan conductor and politician, founder of El Sistema.
• Arnold Andenmatten, 95, Swiss military patrol skier, winner of the Olympic demonstration event.
• Lys Assia, 94, Swiss singer, winner of the first Eurovision Song Contest.
• Rim Banna, 51, Palestinian singer, composer and activist, breast cancer.
• Arnaud Beltrame, 44, French gendarme, stabbed.
• Bernie De Koven, 76, American video game designer, lung cancer.
• John Ehle, 92, American writer.
• John Hsu, 86, Chinese-born American violist.
• Hassan Muhammed Lawal, 63, Nigerian politician.
• Bill Lucas, 101, British RAF officer and Olympic long-distance runner.
• Joe Malone, 94, Australian footballer.
• Frank Meisler, 89, German-born Israeli architect and sculptor.
• Hidetoshi Nagasawa, 77, Japanese sculptor and architect.
• Carl Scheib, 91, American baseball player.
• Marco Solfrini, 60, Italian basketball player, Olympic silver medalist, heart attack.
• Arthur Tafoya, 85, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Pueblo.
• Mely Tagasa, 82, Filipino actress, stroke.
• Michael Voigt, American sport shooter, handgun world champion, cancer.
• James Wickstrom, 75, American radio host and white supremacist.
• Alvin Wright, 57, American football player.

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• Bob Biderman, 77–78, British-American novelist.
• André Bourbeau, 81, Canadian politician, MNA for Laporte, Mayor of Saint-Lambert, Quebec, cancer.
• Jules-Aristide Bourdes-Ogouliguende, 80, Gabonese politician, Speaker of the National Assembly.
• Linda Carol Brown, 75, American equality campaigner, involved in Brown v. Board of Education.
• Edwin Carr, 89, Australian sprinter, dual Commonwealth champion.
• William W. Cates, 78, American writer and vintner.
• David Cobham, 87, British film director, stroke.
• Mike Harrison, 72, British singer.
• Desmond Lewis, 72, Jamaican cricketer.
• Vicente Ramón Hernández Peña, 82, Venezuelan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Trujillo.
• Mel Rosen, 90, American track and field coach.
• Seo Min-woo, 33, South Korean singer.
• Nicolae Tilihoi, 61, Romanian footballer.
• Dagfinn Vårvik, 93, Norwegian politician, leader of the Centre Party, Minister of Finance and Foreign Affairs.
• Olle Widestrand, 85, Swedish musician and composer.
• Jerry Williams, 75, Swedish singer, cancer.

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• Fouad al-Zayat, 77, Syrian businessman, cancer.
• Patricia Burton, 85, American baseball player.
• Sándor Demján, 74, Hungarian entrepreneur.
• Mamadou Diop, 81, Senegalese politician, Mayor of Dakar.
• António dos Santos, 85, Portuguese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Guarda.
• Sir John Grimley Evans, 81, British gerontologist.
• Fabrizio Frizzi, 60, Italian television presenter, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Nikolay Kaufman, 92, Bulgarian musicologist, folklorist and composer.
• Sergei Mavrodi, 62, Russian financial fraudster, member of State Duma, heart attack.
• William Plant, 73, Jamaican Olympic sailor
• Probosutedjo, 87, Indonesian businessman, thyroid cancer.
• Fernand Steenacker, 87, Belgian rower.
• Zeke Upshaw, 26, American basketball player, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
• Sir Michael Wheeler-Booth, 84, British public servant, Clerk of the Parliaments.

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• Stéphane Audran, 85, French actress.
• Benjamin Bassin, 74, Finnish diplomat.
• Jane Smisor Bastien, 82, American educator and piano teacher.
• Chan Sui-kau, 91, Hong Kong industrialist and philanthropist.
• José Hugo Garaycoa Hawkins, 87, Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tacna y Moquegua.
• Frank Hodgetts, 93, English footballer.
• David Humm, 65, American football player, complications from multiple sclerosis.
• Aimée Iacobescu, 71, Romanian actress, breast cancer.
• Luc Jalabert, 66, French rejoneador.
• Victor Kalashnikov, 75, Russian gun designer.
• Tom Martin, 69, American politician, Mayor of Lubbock, Texas.
• Sir Eric McClintock, 99, Australian businessman and public servant, chairman of Woolworths Limited.
• Jerry Moses, 71, American baseball player.
• Bert Nievera, 81, Filipino-American singer
• Kenny O'Dell, 73, American country singer-songwriter, Grammy winner.
• James "Quick" Parker, 60, American-Canadian football player.
• Rosendo Rodriguez, 38, American convicted rapist and murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Archibald 'Archie' Mncedisi Sibeko, 90, South African anti-apartheid activist.
• Robert Hugh Willoughby, 96, American flautist.

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• Oleg Anofriyev, 87, Russian actor, singer, songwriter, film director and poet.
• Armand Arabian, 83, American jurist, Supreme Court of California.
• Bobby Ferguson, 80, English football player and manager.
• Wolfgang Girardi, 89, Austrian Olympic gymnast.
• Travis Hill, 48, American football player.
• Walter E. Johnston III, 82, American politician.
• Peter Munk, 90, Hungarian-born Canadian mine owner and philanthropist.
• Clarence Pettersen, 65, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba.
• William Prochnau, 80, American journalist, coronary artery disease.
• Catherine Pym, 96, Australian Olympic fencer.
• Lívia Rév, 101, Hungarian pianist.
• Eugène Van Roosbroeck, 89, Belgian racing cyclist, Olympic champion.
• Clément Rosset, 78, French philosopher and writer.
• Caleb Scofield, 39, American rock bassist and singer, traffic collision.
• Daryl Thomas, 52, American basketball player, heart attack.
• Mike Tucker, 73, British equestrian rider and commentator.
• Norm Wilson, 83, New Zealand cricketer.

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• David Bartov, 94, Polish-born Israeli judge.
• R. J. Berry, 83, British geneticist and theistic evolutionist, stroke.
• Dexter Bristol, 57, Grenadian immigrant to the United Kingdom.
• Jim Callaghan, 91, British politician, MP for Middleton and Prestwich and Heywood and Middleton.
• Don Colpoys, 83, American baseball coach and manager.
• Corrado dal Fabbro, 72, Italian bobsledder, Olympic silver medalist.
• Geoffrey Dodsworth, 89, British banker and politician, MP for South West Hertfordshire.
• Sir William Gladstone, 7th Baronet, 92, British aristocrat and Chief Scout.
• Colin Harper, 71, English footballer.
• Ron Mailer, 85, Scottish footballer.
• Emiliano Mondonico, 71, Italian football manager, stomach cancer.
• Walter Pérez Villamonte, 81, Bolivian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Potosí.
• Pollyanna Pickering, 75, British wildlife artist.
• Stephen Reinhardt, 87, American judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, heart attack.
• Ed Samcoff, 93, American baseball player.
• Mohamed Shaker, 84, Egyptian diplomat, member of Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency and Ambassador to the UK.
• Anita Shreve, 71, American author, cancer.
• Sven-Olov Sjödelius, 84, Swedish canoer, Olympic champion.
• Rusty Staub, 73, American baseball player, multiple organ failure.
• Enrique Troncoso Troncoso, 80, Chilean Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Iquique and Melipilla.
• Paul Van Arsdale, 97, American hammered dulcimer player.

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• Alias, 41, American rapper, producer and record label founder, heart attack.
• Patrick Atiyah, 87, English legal scholar.
• Samuel Belzberg, 89, Canadian financier, complications from a stroke.
• Aureliano Bolognesi, 87, Italian boxer, Olympic champion.
• Sharon Brehm, 72, American psychologist, Chancellor of Indiana University Bloomington, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Ivan Čaklec, 85, Croatian Olympic gymnast.
• Anna Chennault, 92, Chinese-born American journalist and businesswoman.
• Saul Cherniack, 101, Canadian politician, Manitoba Minister of Finance.
• Saunders Davies, 80, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Bangor.
• André Duval, 97, French-Canadian author and historian.
• Josie Farrington, Baroness Farrington of Ribbleton, 77, British politician, life peer.
• Ivor Forbes Guest, 97, British historian and writer.
• Philip Gulliver, 96, British-born Canadian anthropologist.
• Drue Heinz, 103, American literary publisher and patron.
• Henry Theophilus Howaniec, 87, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Most Holy Trinity in Almaty.
• Daisy Kadibil, 95, Australian Aboriginal woman, inspiration for the film Rabbit Proof Fence, dementia.
• Sabahudin Kurt, 82, Bosnian folk and pop singer.
• André Bo-Boliko Lokonga, 83, Congolese politician, Speaker of the National Assembly and Prime Minister.
• Bill Maynard, 89, English actor, complications from a fall.
• Nacho Pérez Frías, 62, Spanish footballer and sports physician, complications of burns.
• Alexander Pylcyn, 94, Russian military officer.
• Wolfgang Schilling, 62, German football player and manager.
• Marcel Storme, 87, Belgian legal scholar and politician.
• Michael Tree, 84, American violist.
• Jean-Guy Trépanier, 86, Canadian politician.
• La Wilson, 93, American artist, stroke.

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• Frank Aendenboom, 76, Belgian actor.
• Margarita Carrera, 88, Guatemalan philosopher, professor and writer.
• Luigi De Filippo, 87, Italian actor.
• Chris Edwards, 41, British boxer, heart attack.
• John Mack Flanagan, 71, American disc jockey, heart failure.
• Charles Goodwin, 74, American linguistic anthropologist and semiotician, cancer.
• Ted J. Land, 81, American politician, member of the Georgia State Senate.
• Peg Lautenschlager, 62, American attorney and politician, Attorney General of Wisconsin, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, breast cancer.
• James McAlister, 66, American football player, cancer.
• Jan Snoeck, 91, Dutch sculptor.
• Leonard D. Wexler, 93, American judge.