Deaths in May 2015

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

  May 2015

1

• Stephen Milburn Anderson, 67, American film director, writer and producer, throat cancer.
• Jamie Bishop, 44, Welsh cricketer.
• Pete Brown, 80, American professional golfer.
• José Canalejas, 90, Spanish actor.
• Ray Ceresino, 86, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Amitabha Chowdhury, 87, Indian journalist.
• David Day, 63, Australian radio broadcaster.
• Petro Didyk, 54, Ukrainian footballer, traffic collision.
• Geoff Duke, 92, British motorcycle racer, six-time Grand Prix world champion.
• Harry Geisinger, 81, American politician, member of the Georgia House of Representatives, leukemia.
• Dave Goldberg, 47, American executive, head trauma from treadmill fall.
• Vafa Guluzade, 74, Azerbaijani diplomat and political scientist.
• Leonard Haber, 82, American psychologist, politician and radio show host, Mayor of Miami Beach, Florida.
• John Hansen, 97, American politician.
• Alexander Kok, 89, South African-born British cellist.
• Amar Laskri, 73, Algerian film director.
• Paul Walter Myers, 82, British classical record producer.
• Phyllis Rutledge, 83, American politician, member of the West Virginia House of Delegates.
• María Elena Velasco, 74, Mexican actress, comedian and film producer, stomach cancer.
• Bob Wareing, 84, British politician, MP for Liverpool West Derby.
• Colin Whitaker, 82, English footballer.
• Grace Lee Whitney, 85, American actress.
• Beth Whittall, 78, Canadian Olympic swimmer, double Pan American champion.

  2

• Stuart Archer, 100, British army colonel, recipient of the George Cross.
• Michael Blake, 69, American author and screenwriter, Oscar winner.
• Guy Carawan, 87, American folk singer and civil rights activist.
• José María Castiñeira de Dios, 94, Argentine poet, pneumonia.
• Sarah Correa, 22, Brazilian swimmer, South American Games champion, hit by car.
• Philip S. Goodman, 89, American director, screenwriter and producer.
• Konstantyn K. Kuzminsky, 75, Russian performance poet.
• Ma Shui-long, 75, Taiwanese composer.
• John Mahaffy, 96, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Ryan McHenry, 27, Scottish film director and social media personality, bone cancer.
• Nick Mead, 93, British World War II Royal Navy officer.
• Martin Nag, 88, Norwegian writer, stroke.
• Rex Percy, 81, New Zealand rugby league player.
• Maya Plisetskaya, 89, Russian prima ballerina, heart attack.
• Ruth Rendell, 85, English crime novelist, stroke.
• Frank Snow, 74, American politician, lung cancer.
• Norman Thaddeus Vane, 86, American screenwriter and film director.
• Yu Pengnian, 93, Chinese real estate magnate and philanthropist.

  3

• Abdul Wahid Aresar, 65, Pakistani politician.
• Revaz Chkheidze, 88, Georgian film director.
• Thomas A. Constantine, 76, American police superintendent, Administrator for the Drug Enforcement Administration.
• John Elders, 84, English rugby union player.
• Margaret Garwood, 88, American opera composer, acute heart failure.
• André Gruchet, 82, French Olympic cyclist.
• Alan Hall, 62, British cell biologist.
• Danny Jones, 29, English rugby league footballer, heart attack.
• Symphorian Thomas Keeprath, 84, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Jalandhar.
• Zoran Lalović, 65, Serbian musician.
• Lu Ping, 87, Chinese politician and diplomat, cancer.
• Harry Martin, 95, American judge.
• Elizabeth Raybould, 89, British nurse and nursing educator.
• Warren Smith, 99, American professional golfer.
• Su Wenmao, 86, Chinese xiangsheng actor.
• Per Sundberg, 65, Swedish Olympic fencer.
• Abdul Basit Usman, 40–41, Filipino fugitive, shot.
• Tung Jeong, 84, Chinese-born American physicist.
• Bruce Barrymore Halpenny, 78, English military historian and author.

  4

• Eva Aeppli, 90, Swiss artist.
• Ann Barr, 85, British writer.
• William Bast, 84, American screenwriter and author, Alzheimer's disease.
• Ellen Albertini Dow, 101, American actress, pneumonia.
• Zhivko Gospodinov, 57, Bulgarian footballer.
• Jesús Hermida, 77, Spanish journalist and broadcaster, stroke.
• Marv Hubbard, 68, American football player, prostate cancer.
• Andrew Lewis, 44, Guyanese Olympic boxer and WBA welterweight champion, traffic collision.
• Joshua Ozersky, 47, American food writer, drowned.
• James Ritter, 84, American politician.
• Matti Viljanen, 77, Finnish politician, MP.
• William Willson, 93, British businessman.
• Vicente Joaquim Zico, 88, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, coadjutor Archbishop and Archbishop of Belém do Pará.

  5

• Jobst Brandt, 80, American author and cyclist.
• Michael Burns, 54, Irish Gaelic football player.
• Jon Castañares, 90, Spanish economist and politician.
• Gerard Davison, 47, Northern Irish Provisional IRA commander, shot.
• Craig Gruber, 63, American rock musician, prostate cancer.
• Oscar Holderer, 95, German-born American engineer, worked on Saturn V project.
• Hans Jansen, 72, Dutch politician, MEP, stroke.
• Jimmy Jones, 87, English footballer.
• Ralph Lainson, 88, British parasitologist.
• Odd Lie, 88, Norwegian Olympic gymnast.
• Bruce G. Lindsay, 68, American statistician, cancer.
• Des O'Hagan, 81, Northern Irish politician.

  6

• Novera Ahmed, 85, Bangladeshi sculptor.
• Richard J. Bartlett, 89, American legislator, New York State Chief Administrative Judge of the Courts.
• William Bronder, 84, American actor.
• Errol Brown, 71, Jamaican-born British singer, liver cancer.
• Jerome Cooper, 68, American jazz drummer, multiple myeloma.
• Graham Harcourt, 81, British Olympic gymnast.
• Nicolas Huỳnh Văn Nghi, 88, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Phan Thiết.
• Denise McCluggage, 88, American racing car driver, journalist, author and photographer.
• Michael O'Brien, 67, British historian of the Southern United States, cancer.
• Anson D. Shupe, 67, American sociologist.
• Janko Vranyczany-Dobrinović, 95, Croatian politician and diplomat.
• Jim Wright, 92, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas's 12th district, Speaker of the House.

  7

• Asim Thahit Abdullah al Khalaqi, 47, Saudi Arabian Guantanamo Bay detainee, kidney failure.⋅
• Michael Barratt Brown, 97, British economist and political activist.
• Joey Brush, 59, American politician, member of the Georgia State Senate, traffic collision.
• Frank DiPascali, 58, American financier and fraudster, lung cancer.
• John Dixon, 86, Australian cartoonist, stroke.
• Sir Sam Edwards, 87, Welsh physicist.
• Sir Maurice Flanagan, 86, British businessman.
• Rigby Graham, 84, British painter.
• Amalendu Guha, 91, Indian historian.
• Thomas F. Lamb, 92, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania Senate and House of Representatives.
• Gilbert Lewis, 74, American actor.
• Józef Pazdur, 90, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Wrocław.
• Jean de Croutte de Saint Martin, 82, French Olympic equestrian

  8

• Zeki Alasya, 72, Turkish actor and director, liver disease.
• Sir Edward Burgess, 87, British army general, Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe.
• Chuck Dow, 83, American politician, member of the Maine House of Representatives and Senate.
• Thomas Herlihy, 58, American politician, State Senator for Connecticut's 8th District.
• Mwepu Ilunga, 66, Congolese footballer.
• Menashe Kadishman, 82, Israeli artist, recipient of the Israel Prize.
• Adriana Maraž, 84, Slovene graphic artist.
• Bob Sandberg, 93, Canadian football player.
• Juan Schwanner, 94, Hungarian-Chilean football player and coach.
• Atanas Semerdzhiev, 90, Bulgarian politician, Vice-President.
• Phil Skoglund, 77, New Zealand lawn bowls player, triples world champion.
• Myriam Yardeni, 83, Israeli historian.
• Notable people killed in the 2015 Pakistan Army Mil Mi-17 crash:
• *Leif Holger Larsen, 61, Norwegian diplomat, Ambassador to Pakistan.
• *Domingo Lucenario, Jr., 54, Filipino diplomat, Ambassador to Pakistan.

  9

• Buddy Corlett, 93, Canadian-born New Zealand softball and basketball player.
• Russell Dermond, 78, American Olympic sprint canoer.
• Berry Avant Edenfield, 80, American federal judge and politician, U.S. District Court Judge for the Southern District of Georgia, member of the Georgia State Senate, lung cancer.
• Edward W. Estlow, 95, American football player, journalist and businessman.
• Kenan Evren, 97, Turkish military officer and coup leader, Chief of the General Staff, President.
• Johnny Gimble, 88, American country music fiddler.
• Igor Gorynin, 89, Russian metallurgist.
• Ton Hartsuiker, 81, Dutch pianist and director of music academies.
• Alexandre Lamfalussy, 86, Hungarian-born Belgian economist.
• Lo Wing-lok, 60, Hong Kong politician, member of the Legislative Council for Medical, lung cancer.
• Michael MacKellar, 76, Australian politician, MP for Warringah.
• Odo Marquard, 87, German philosopher.
• Đorđe Pavlić, 76, Serbian Yugoslav footballer.
• Ragne Tangen, 88, Norwegian children's television presenter.
• Elizabeth Wilson, 94, American actress, Tony Award winner.
• Christopher Wood, 79, English novelist and screenwriter.

  10

• Chukwuma Azikiwe, 75, Nigerian politician.
• Ray Baillie, 80, Canadian football player, fall.
• Ninad Bedekar, 65, Indian historian and writer.
• Jack Body, 70, New Zealand composer.
• Chris Burden, 69, American artist, melanoma.
• William T. Cooper, 81, Australian bird illustrator.
• Mario Da Vinci, 73, Italian Canzone Napoletana singer and actor.
• Jerry Dior, 82, American graphic designer, creator of the Major League Baseball logo, colorectal cancer.
• Juan Emery, 82, Spanish footballer.
• Luiz Henrique da Silveira, 75, Brazilian politician, Senator, Governor of Santa Catarina, Minister of Science and Technology, heart attack.
• Kim Kyok-sik, 76, North Korean military officer, Defence Minister, acute respiratory failure.
• Donald Neff, 84, American journalist and author, coronary heart disease and diabetes.
• James F. Rinehart, 64, American academic.
• Mario Rodríguez, 77, Argentine footballer.
• Jindřich Roudný, 91, Czech Olympic steeplechase athlete.
• Rachel Rosenthal, 88, French-born American performance artist, heart failure.
• Victor Salvi, 95, American-born Italian harpist and harp maker.
• Barbara Turnbull, 50, Canadian journalist and disability campaigner.
• Davey Whitney, 85, American Hall of Fame basketball coach.

  11

• Maggie Black, 85, American ballet instructor, heart failure.
• Alan Borovoy, 83, Canadian human rights activist and lawyer.
• Donna Jean Christianson, 83, American politician, cancer.
• Stan Cornyn, 81, American record label executive.
• Pierre Daboval, 96, French artist.
• Peter Füri, 77, Swiss footballer, heart failure.
• Jef Geeraerts, 85, Belgian author, heart attack.
• Kay Heim, 97, Canadian baseball player.
• John Hewie, 87, Scottish footballer.
• Olavi Lanu, 89, Finnish sculptor.
• Bob Light, 88, American college basketball coach.
• Frank Matich, 80, Australian racing car driver.
• Leonardo Neher, 92, American diplomat.
• Glen Orbik, 51, American artist.
• Mohammad-Ali Sepanlou, 75, Iranian poet.
• Eldridge Small, 65, American football player.
• Frankie Sodano, 84, American Olympic boxer.
• Isobel Varley, 77, British tattooed woman, world's most tattooed senior, Alzheimer's disease.
• Derek Walker, 85, British architect.
• Sir John Watts, 93, Grenadian politician, President of the Senate.
• Richard W. Winder, 91, American LDS church elder.

  12

• Cecil Jones Attuquayefio, 70, Ghanaian football player and coach, throat cancer.
• Tony Ayala Jr., 52, American light middleweight boxer.
• Suchitra Bhattacharya, 65, Indian novelist, left ventricular failure.
• Mervyn Burtch, 86, Welsh composer.
• John Colenback, 79, American actor, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
• John Dewes, 88, English cricketer.
• Sir Peter Fry, 83, British politician, MP for Wellingborough.
• Peter Gay, 91, German-born American historian.
• Bill Guthridge, 77, American college basketball coach.
• Rachel Jacobs, 39, American entrepreneur, injuries sustained in a train derailment.
• Bobby Jameson, 70, American pop singer and songwriter.
• Syd Lieberman, 71, American storyteller.
• William MacDonald, 90, English-born Australian serial killer.
• Evany José Metzker, 67, Brazilian journalist, homicide.
• Saulat Mirza, 43–44, Pakistani convicted murderer and political activist, execution by hanging.
• Ruth Mompati, 89, South African politician.
• Robin Page, 82, British artist.
• John Slater, 63, Canadian politician, MLA for Boundary-Similkameen.
• Neranjan Wickremasinghe, 53, Sri Lankan politician.
• Anthony C. Yu, 76, American translator and literature scholar, heart failure.
• William Zinsser, 92, American writer.

  13

• Earl Averill, Jr., 83, American baseball player.
• Eric Bakie, 87, Scottish footballer.
• Kathryn I. Bowers, 72, American politician, member of the Tennessee House of Representatives and Senate.
• Derek Davis, 67, Irish broadcaster.
• Gill Dennis, 74, American screenwriter.
• Robert Drasnin, 87, American composer and clarinet player, complications from a fall.
• Lucy Fabery, 84, Puerto Rican jazz singer.
• Romolo Ferri, 86, Italian motorcycle racer.
• Joseph Fidel, 91, American politician.
• Ed Fouhy, 80, American journalist and television news executive, complications from cancer.
• George W. Haley, 89, American politician and diplomat.
• Bert Hitchen, 76, English railway preservationist and racing cyclist.
• Anna Levinson, 76, German zoologist.
• Nina Otkalenko, 86, Russian athlete.
• Bob Randall, c. 81, Australian Indigenous musician and author.
• David Sackett, 80, Canadian physician.
• Gainan Saidkhuzhin, 77, Russian Soviet Olympic cyclist, heart attack.
• Stanley Sproul, 95, American politician, Mayor of Augusta, Maine, member of the Maine House of Representatives.
• Marisa Volpi, 86, Italian art historian and writer.

  14

• James H. Andreasen, 83, American judge.
• Geraldo Majela de Castro, 84, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Coadjutor Bishop and Archbishop of Montes Claros.
• Charles Favre, 54, Swiss Olympic sailor
• B.B. King, 89, American Hall of Fame blues guitarist, singer and songwriter, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Thomas Lothian, 86, American politician and academic.
• Micheál O'Brien, 91, Irish Gaelic footballer and hurler.
• Stanton J. Peale, 78, American astrophysicist.
• Mariana Pfaelzer, 89, American federal judge, U.S. District Court Judge for the Central District of California.
• Jean Pliya, 83, Beninese playwright and short story writer.
• Franz Wright, 62, American poet, lung cancer.
• Zdzisław Żygulski, Jr., 93, Polish art historian.

  15

• Ortheia Barnes, 70, American R&B and jazz singer, heart failure.
• Elisabeth Bing, 100, German physical therapist, author and proponent of natural childbirth.
• Jackie Brookner, 69, American artist, cancer.
• Michael Campus, 80, American director, producer, and screenwriter.
• Samih Darwazah, 85, Jordanian executive.
• Alfred DelBello, 80, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of New York, Westchester County Executive, Mayor of Yonkers, New York.
• Tommy Dunne, 83, Irish international footballer.
• Corey Hill, 36, American mixed martial artist, collapsed lung and heart attack.
• Bob Hopkins, 80, American basketball player and coach, heart and kidney failure.
• John Jarvis-Smith, 93, British World War II naval officer and shipbroker.
• Jacob Jensen, 89, Danish industrial designer.
• Matulidi Jusoh, 57, Malaysian politician, MP for Dungun, diabetes.
• André Jean René Lacrampe, 73, French Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ajaccio and Archbishop of Besançon.
• Claude Lajoie, 87, Canadian politician.
• John Lo Schiavo, 90, American Jesuit and educator, President of University of San Francisco.
• Flora MacNeil, 86, Scottish Gaelic singer.
• Carlos Maggi, 92, Uruguayan writer.
• Valentina Maureira, 14, Chilean euthanasia advocate, cystic fibrosis.
• Didi Petet, 58, Indonesian actor.
• John Stephenson, 91, American voice actor, Alzheimer's disease.
• James Takemori, 89, American judo coach.
• Donald Wrye, 77, American film director.
• Garo Yepremian, 70, Cypriot-born American football player, brain cancer.
• Renzo Zorzi, 68, Italian racing driver.

  16

• Jackie Basehart, 63, American-born Italian actor.
• Prashant Bhargava, 42, American filmmaker, cardiac arrest.
• Nelson Doi, 93, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii.
• Ernesto Estrada, 65, Filipino basketball player, heart attack.
• Johannes Exner, 89, Danish architect.
• Elias Gleizer, 81, Brazilian actor, circulatory failure.
• Shikha Joshi, 40, Indian actress.
• Adam Kilgarriff, 55, English linguist.
• Moshe Levinger, 80, Israeli Orthodox rabbi.
• Dean Potter, 43, American rock climber, BASE-jumping accident.
• Adrian Robinson, 25, American football player, suicide by hanging.
• Abu Sayyaf, Tunisian senior ISIS commander, head of oil operations, shot.
• Peter Tallberg, 77, Finnish Olympic sailor and IOC member.
• Syd Tate, 90, Australian VFL football player.
• John Templeton, Jr., 75, American physician and philanthropist, brain cancer.
• Raphael Tenthani, 43, Malawian journalist, traffic collision.
• Dominik Tóth, 89, Slovak Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Bratislava.
• Yeung Kwong, 89, Hong Kong pro-communist activist.
• Ahmed Zanna, 60, Nigerian politician, Senator for Borno Central.

  17

• Claude Carliez, 90, French fencer and stunt director.
• Chinx, 31, American rapper, shot.
• Óscar Collazos, 72, Colombian writer.
• Sheshrao Deshmukh, 85, Indian politician.
• Margaret Dunning, 104, American philanthropist, fall.
• Rex Garner, 94, British actor and theatre director.
• Leo Honkala, 82, Finnish wrestler, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Keiji Matsumoto, 65, Japanese racing driver.
• Nancy Masterton, 84, American politician, member of the Maine House of Representatives.
• Michael Alfred Peszke, 83, Polish-born American psychiatrist and historian.
• S. W. Schmitthenner, 87, American missionary, President of Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church.
• Gerald Steadman Smith, 85, Canadian artist.
• Don Smoothey, 96, British actor and comedian.
• Tranquility Bass, 47, American hip-hop musician.

  18

• Frank Pierpoint Appleby, 101, Canadian politician.
• Norm Armstrong, 89, Australian football player.
• Halldór Ásgrímsson, 67, Icelandic politician, Prime Minister, heart attack.
• Tommy Bing, 83, English footballer.
• Dewi Bridges, 81, Welsh Anglican prelate, Bishop of Swansea and Brecon.
• Helen Davis, 88, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives and Senate.
• Raymond Gosling, 88, British scientist.
• Hasanuzzaman Khan, 88, Bangladeshi journalist.
• Steiner Arvid Kvalø, 92, Norwegian politician.
• Al Matsalla, 89, Canadian politician.
• Dick Mountjoy, 83, American politician, Mayor of Monrovia, California, member of the California State Assembly and Senate, heart attack.
• T. J. Moran, 84, American restaurateur and philanthropist.
• Eli M. Pearce, 86, American chemist.
• Harald Seeger, 93, German football player and manager.
• Roland Sink, 89, American Olympic athlete.
• Jean-François Théodore, 68, French executive.
• Elbert West, 47, American country music singer-songwriter.

  19

• Ahmad Alaskarov, 79, Azerbaijani football player and manager.
• Jack Aspinwall, 82, British politician, MP, cancer.
• Joseph J. Barnicke, 92, Canadian real estate magnate.
• Joe Carr, 83, Scottish footballer.
• James Findlay, 60, Australian Olympic swimmer.
• Sir Thomas Gault, 76, New Zealand jurist.
• Edmond J. Gong, 84, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives and Senate.
• Gerald Götting, 91, German politician, President of the East German People's Chamber.
• Fahd Jaradat, 84–85, Jordanian politician, Finance Minister.
• Bruce Lundvall, 79, American record executive, complications of Parkinson's disease.
• Ted McWhinney, 91, Australian-born Canadian politician and academic.
• Yevgeni Menshov, 68, Russian actor and presenter.
• Burhan Muhammad, 57, Indonesian diplomat, Ambassador to Pakistan, burns from helicopter crash.
• Dale D. Myers, 93, American aerospace engineer, Deputy Administrator of NASA.
• S. V. Raju, 81, Indian politician.
• Happy Rockefeller, 88, American socialite and philanthropist, Second Lady of the United States, First Lady of New York.
• State of Bengal, 50, Bangladeshi-born British DJ and music producer.
• Roger J. Thomas, 73, American physicist.
• Robert S. Wistrich, 70, Kazakh-born Israeli-British history professor, heart attack.

  20

• Edward Adeane, 75, British courtier, Private Secretary to the Prince of Wales.
• Billy Baggett, 85, American football player.
• Bob Belden, 58, American musician, heart attack.
• Abdelaziz Bennani, 79, Moroccan army general.
• Sir Brian Cubbon, 87, British civil servant, Permanent Secretary of the Home Office, heart attack.
• Harald Eriksson, 93, Swedish cross-country skier, Olympic silver medalist.
• Eileen Gray, 95, British bicycle racer.
• J. S. Harry, 76, Australian poet.
• Ebba Hentze, 84, Faroese writer.
• Kirsten Idebøen, 52, Norwegian financier.
• Sir John Lea, 91, British Royal Navy vice-admiral.
• Paul Liao, 67, Taiwanese entrepreneur, lung cancer.
• Chifita Matafwali, 55, Zambian politician, member of the National Assembly for Bangweulu.
• Manfred Müller, 88, German Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Augsburg and Bishop of Regensburg.
• Bob Priestley, 95, American football player.
• Jan Prochyra, 66, Polish actor.
• Femi Robinson, 74, Nigerian actor.
• Sudha Shivpuri, 77, Indian actress, multiple organ failure.
• Mary Ellen Trainor, 62, American actress, pancreatic cancer.
• Livien Ven, 81, Belgian Olympic rower.

  21

• Jassem Al-Kharafi, 75, Kuwaiti magnate and politician, Speaker of the National Assembly, heart attack.
• Zaya Avdysh, 69, Ukrainian football player and manager.
• David Blake, 90, English cricketer.
• César Boutteville, 97, Vietnamese-born French chess player.
• Eduard Derzsei, 80, Romanian Olympic volleyball player.
• Joaquim Durão, 84, Portuguese chess player.
• Anne Duguël, 69, Belgian author.
• Fred Gladding, 78, American baseball player.
• Ernie Hannigan, 72, Scottish footballer.
• Louis Johnson, 60, American bassist.
• Martin Kitcher, 53, British singer-songwriter.
• James McDuffie, 85, American politician, member of the North Carolina Senate.
• Juan Molinar Horcasitas, 59, Mexican politician, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Marty Pasetta, 82, American television producer and director, traffic collision.
• Annarita Sidoti, 44, Italian race walker, world champion, breast cancer.
• Ellen Tronnier, 87, American baseball player.
• Twinkle, 66, British singer-songwriter, cancer.
• Alan Woodward, 68, English footballer.

  22

• Albert Baciocco, 84, American vice admiral.
• Marques Haynes, 89, American Hall of Fame basketball player.
• Sir John Horlock, 87, British mechanical engineer and university vice-chancellor.
• Kevin Hunt, 66, American football player.
• Vladimir Katriuk, 93, Romanian-born Canadian alleged war criminal.
• Alan Koch, 77, American baseball player.
• Michel Mortier, 90, French interior designer and architect.
• John Mosley, 93, American football player and World War II RAF officer.
• Radomir Naumov, 68, Serbian politician, Minister of Energy and Mining, Minister of Religion.
• Aminah Robinson, 75, American artist.
• Jean-Luc Sassus, 52, French football player, heart attack.
• Byron Sherwin, 69, American rabbi and theology scholar.
• Terry Sue-Patt, 50, British actor.
• Michael Osborne Waddell, 92, British World War II army officer and Military Cross recipient.

  23

• Hugh Ambrose, 48, American historian and author, cancer.
• Marcus Belgrave, 78, American jazz trumpeter, heart failure.
• Leo Berman, 79, American businessman and politician, member of the Texas House of Representatives, lymphoma.
• Hugh Boyle, 79, Irish golfer.
• Moyra Caldecott, 87, South African-born British writer.
• John Carter, 87, American actor, pneumonia.
• Peter Corbett, 74, South African cricketer.
• Trojan Darveniza, 93, Australian football player.
• Zedi Feruzi, Burundian politician, shot.
• Boody Gilbertson, 93, American basketball player
• Andy Hess, 91, American politician.
• Yrjö Mäkelä, 88, Finnish Olympic athlete.
• Anne Meara, 85, American comedian and actress.
• Aleksey Mozgovoy, 40, Ukrainian pro-Russian separatist.
• Alicia Nash, 82, Salvadoran-born American socialite and mental health care advocate, traffic collision.
• John Forbes Nash, Jr., 86, American mathematician, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Economics, subject of A Beautiful Mind, traffic collision.
• Carl Nesjar, 94, Norwegian painter and sculptor.
• Asbjørn Øksendal, 92, Norwegian writer.
• Andres Ortiz, 28, Puerto Rican basketball player, traffic collision.
• Ali Raymi, 41, Yemeni boxer, air strike.
• Carole Seymour-Jones, 72, Welsh biographer.
• Joseph Velikonja, 92, Slovene-born American geographer.
• Carlos Irizarry Yunqué, 93, Puerto Rican judge, justice of the Supreme Court.

  24

• Morris Beckman, 94, English writer and anti-fascist activist.
• Dean Carroll, 52, English rugby league footballer.
• Krushna Ghoda, 61, Indian politician, MLA for Palghar, heart attack.
• Cristian Gómez, 27, Argentine footballer, heart attack.
• Vladimír Hagara, 71, Slovak footballer.
• John H. Kerr III, 79, American politician.
• Sir Kenneth Jacobs, 97, Australian judge.
• Krzysztof Kąkolewski, 85, Polish writer.
• Tanith Lee, 67, British science fiction, horror and fantasy writer, breast cancer.
• Daniel Meltzer, 63, American lawyer, legal adviser to Barack Obama, cancer.
• Guido Plante, 78, Canadian-born Honduran Roman Catholic prelate, Coadjutor Bishop and Bishop of Choluteca.
• Pedro Roque, 47, Cuban Greco-Roman wrestler, world champion, respiratory failure.
• Michael W. Ryan, 66, American convicted murderer.
• Jarmila Šťastná, 82, Czech Olympic speed skater.
• Bharat Raj Upreti, 63, Nepali judge, justice of the Supreme Court, suicide by hanging.
• Winged Love, 23, Irish Thoroughbred racehorse, colic.

  25

• Garland Bayliss, 90, American historian.
• George Braden, 65, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories, gastric cancer.
• Dien Cornelissen, 91, Dutch politician, member of the Senate and House of Representatives.
• Robert Lebel, 90, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Valleyfield.
• Nathan J. Lindsay, 79, American major general and astronaut.
• Mary Ellen Mark, 75, American photographer, myelodysplastic syndrome.
• Moc Morgan, 86, Welsh fly fisherman and naturalist.
• John M. Murphy, 88, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 16th and 17th districts.
• Bill O'Herlihy, 76, Irish sports broadcaster.
• Jorge Salomão, 77, Brazilian Olympic boxer.
• Wallace Sampson, 85, American critic of alternative medicine.
• John Stubbs, 77, Australian political journalist.
• Zhanna Yorkina, 76, Russian Soviet cosmonaut.

  26

• Vicente Aranda, 88, Spanish film director.
• Walter Byers, 93, American college athletics executive, urinary tract infection.
• Claudio Caligari, 67, Italian screenwriter and director.
• Harold F. Clayton, 61, American sculptor, lung cancer.
• William Davidson, 95, English cricketer.
• Gottfried Diener, 88, Swiss bobsledder, Olympic champion.
• Leo Drey, 98, American timber magnate.
• Rocky Frisco, 77, American pianist.
• Thorbjørn Gjølstad, 72, Norwegian jurist and civil servant.
• Franklin P. Hall, 76, American politician, member of the Virginia House of Delegates.
• Bob Hornery, 83, Australian actor.
• Les Johnson, 90, Australian politician, MP for Hughes.
• Sverre Johan Juvik, 93, Norwegian politician.
• Robert Kraft, 87, American astronomer.
• João Lucas, 35, Portuguese footballer.
• Ubirajara Ribeiro Martins, 82, Brazilian entomologist.
• Edward Moylan, 91, American tennis player.
• John Pinder, 70, New Zealand-born Australian comedy producer.
• Cyril Roger, 93, English speedway rider.
• Art Thieme, 73, American folk musician.
• Aristidis Vlassis, 68, Greek painter.
• Dayton Waller, 90, American politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives for Shreveport.

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• Hassan Abdullah Hersi al-Turki, c. 71, Somali Islamist and Al-Shabaab leader, military leader of the Islamic Courts Union and Al-Itihaad al-Islamiya.
• Erik Carlsson, 86, Swedish rally driver.
• Nils Christie, 87, Norwegian criminologist.
• Cotton Coulson, 63, American filmmaker and photographer, scuba diving accident.
• Peter Celestine Elampassery, 76, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Jammu-Srinagar.
• Vittorio Paolo Fiorito, 74, Italian Hall of Fame basketball referee.
• Bill Foster, 79, American college basketball coach, Parkinson's disease.
• S. Parker Gilbert, 81, American financier, President of Morgan Stanley.
• Irvine B. Hill, 87, American politician, Mayor of Norfolk, Virginia.
• Sir Gordon Hobday, 99, British scientist and industrialist.
• Andy King, 58, English footballer, heart attack.
• Karsten Lund, 71, Danish footballer.
• Michael Martin, 83, American philosopher.
• John Miller, 81, American football player.
• William Newman, 80, American actor, vascular dementia.
• Liam Ryan, 79, Irish theologian and hurler.
• John Siegal, 97, American football player.
• Elisabeth Wiedemann, 89, German actress.
• Zhang Jieqing, 102, Chinese politician and writer.

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• John Buckner, 67, American politician, member of the Colorado House of Representatives, sarcoidosis.
• Jonas Čepulis, 75, Lithuanian heavyweight boxer, Olympic silver medalist.
• Masayuki Imai, 54, Japanese actor, writer and director, colon cancer.
• Esther Ghan Firestone, 90, Canadian cantor.
• Steven Gerber, 66, American composer, cancer.
• Johnny Keating, 87, British musician.
• Skeeter Kell, 85, American baseball player.
• Ray Kennedy, 58, American jazz pianist, multiple sclerosis.
• Gyles Longley, 96, British World War II army officer and Military Cross recipient.
• Robert S. Morse, 90, American prelate, Archbishop of the Anglican Province of Christ the King.
• Reynaldo Rey, 75, American actor and comedian, stroke.
• Claire Kelly Schultz, 90, American information scientist.

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• Martha Bachem, 90, Austrian Olympic figure skater.
• Arthur Bourns, 95, American chemist, President of McMaster University.
• Henry Carr, 73, American track and field athlete, Olympic champion, cancer.
• Doris Hart, 89, American Hall of Fame tennis player.
• Willie Horgan, 71, Irish hurling referee.
• Tom Jones, 72, American racing driver.
• Chris Kohlhase, 47, New Zealand softball player and coach, Parkinson's disease.
• Natalya Lagoda, 42, Ukrainian-born Russian singer and model, bilateral pneumonia.
• Rashid Massumi, 89, Iranian-born American cardiologist.
• Wim van Norden, 97, Dutch journalist, director of Het Parool.
• Betsy Palmer, 88, American actress.
• Bruno Pesaola, 89, Argentine-born Italian footballer.

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• Michel Arpin, 79, French Olympic skier
• Jim Bailey, 77, American singer, actor and impressionist.
• Beau Biden, 46, American politician, Attorney General of Delaware, brain cancer.
• Joël Champetier, 57, Canadian author, cancer.
• Jake D'Arcy, 69, British actor.
• John Drinkall, 93, British diplomat, Ambassador to Afghanistan, High Commissioner to Jamaica.
• Ingeborg Mueller Fernlund, 80, Swedish publisher.
• Hugh Griffiths, Baron Griffiths, 91, British jurist and law lord.
• Julie Harris, 94, British costume designer, Oscar winner.
• Ivan Kochergin, 79, Russian Olympic wrestler.
• John L. Lumley, 84, American professor of aerospace engineering, brain cancer.
• Tony McNamara, 85, English footballer.
• Lennie Merullo, 98, American baseball player.
• Cornell Moss, 55, Bahamian Anglican prelate, Archbishop of Guyana, heart failure.
• L. Tom Perry, 92, American apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, thyroid cancer.
• Michael Collins Piper, 54, American talk radio host and conspiracy theorist.
• Azmat Rana, 63, Pakistani cricketer, cardiac arrest.
• Somalatha Subasinghe, 78, Sri Lankan actress and theater director.
• Alvin P. Wegeman, 88, American Nordic combined skier.

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• Iain Campbell, 87, English cricketer and headmaster.
• Nico Castel, 83, Portuguese-born American tenor.
• Will Holt, 86, American songwriter and playwright, Alzheimer's disease.
• Jonathan Howes, 78, American politician, Secretary of the NCDENR, Mayor of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, heart disease.
• Françoise-Hélène Jourda, 59, French architect.
• Hiroshi Koizumi, 88, Japanese actor, pneumonia.
• François Mahé, 84, French professional cyclist.
• Frank McKinnon, 80, Canadian sports executive.
• Pat Petersen, 55, American marathon runner, pancreatic cancer.
• Christina Reid, 73, Northern Irish playwright.
• Slim Richey, 77, American guitarist, lymphoma.
• Mario Saliwa, 31, South African first-class cricketer.
• Gladys Taylor, 97, Canadian writer and newspaper publisher.
• Karl Wlaschek, 97, Austrian executive, founder of Billa.