Deaths in May 2016

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

  May 2016

1

• Hamzat Ahmadu, 91–92, Nigerian diplomat, Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Netherlands, Cameroon, the Bahamas, and the United States.
• Richard Gilpin, 76, British Anglican priest, Archdeacon of Totnes.
• Jean-Marie Girault, 90, French politician, Mayor of Caen.
• Solomon W. Golomb, 83, American mathematician and engineer.
• Madeleine Lebeau, 92, French actress, complications from a broken thigh bone.
• Merv Lincoln, 82, Australian Olympic middle-distance runner.
• Sydney Onayemi, 78, Nigerian-born Swedish DJ.
• Doug Raney, 59, American jazz guitarist, heart failure.
• Swasti Mitter, 76, Indian development economist.

  2

• Balwantrai Bhatt, 94, Indian composer and musician.
• Basil Blackshaw, 84, Northern Irish artist.
• Tobias de Boer, 85, Dutch scientist.
• Jonathan Cainer, 58, British astrologer, heart failure.
• Richard Davis, 66, English radio astronomer.
• Walter Dürst, 89, Swiss ice hockey player, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Mozibur Rahman Fakir, 69, Bangladeshi politician, cardiac arrest.
• Al Ferrari, 82, American basketball player.
• John Kaye, 60, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council, cancer.
• Jacky Lee, 77, American football player, Alzheimer's disease.
• Balraj Madhok, 96, Indian politician, President of Bharatiya Jana Sangh.
• Tomohiro Matsu, 43, Japanese light novel writer, liver cancer.
• Paul McDowell, 84, British actor and singer.
• Myles McKeon, 97, Irish-born Australian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bunbury.
• Roger Millward, 68, British rugby league player.
• Karel Pečko, 95, Slovenian artist.
• Stasys Petronaitis, 83, Lithuanian actor.
• Afeni Shakur, 69, American businesswoman and political activist.
• Fernando Soto Aparicio, 82, Colombian author.
• Wilfried Straub, 77, German football official.
• Gordie Sundin, 78, American baseball player.

  3

• Charlie Beamon, 81, American baseball player.
• Paul Boutelle, 81, American politician, Socialist Workers candidate for U.S. Vice President, kidney cancer.
• Ian Deans, 78, Canadian politician, MP, Parkinson's disease.
• Kristian Ealey, 38, British actor.
• Fan Lichu, 82, Chinese bridge structural engineer and academician.
• Abel Fernandez, 85, American actor.
• Marianne Gaba, 76, American model and actress, brain cancer.
• Gao Shan, 53, Chinese geochemist and academician.
• Tadeusz Gocłowski, 84, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Gdańsk, stroke.
• Sarah D. Grant, 72, American judge.
• Sunil Gudge, 56, Indian cricketer, heart attack.
• Kaname Harada, 99, Japanese World War II flying ace, multiple organ failure.
• Frank Levingston, 110, American supercentenarian, nation's oldest World War II veteran.
• Thomas W. Libous, 63, American politician, member of the New York State Senate, cancer.
• Karol Machata, 88, Slovak actor.
• Graeme McCall, 78, Australian Olympic rower.
• Allan L. McCutcheon, 66, American sociologist and statistician.
• Nicolas Noxon, 79, American filmmaker, pancreatic cancer.
• Ian Quigley, 84, New Zealand politician, MP for Otago Central.
• Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd, 81, Swedish artist, pneumonia.
• Ian Sander, 68, American producer and director, heart attack.
• Domingo Siazon Jr., 76, Philippine politician and diplomat, Secretary of Foreign Affairs, ambassador to Austria and Japan.
• Jadranka Stojaković, 65, Bosnian singer-songwriter, motor neuron disease.
• Gordon Strachan, 68, Scottish rugby union player, cardiac amyloidosis.
• Janusz Tazbir, 87, Polish historian.
• Dick Yoder, 79, American academic and politician, mayor of West Chester, Pennsylvania.

  4

• Tutty Alawiyah, 74, Indonesian politician, Minister for Women's Affairs.
• Ángel de Andrés López, 64, Spanish actor.
• Blas Avena, 32, American mixed martial artist, suicide.
• Sir Jack Baer, 91, British art dealer.
• Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, 69, Burundian politician, President.
• Bob Bennett, 82, American politician, U.S. Senator from Utah, pancreatic cancer and stroke.
• Gaetan Boucher, 59, Canadian-born Swiss Olympic ice hockey player,.
• Karl Butzer, 81, German-born American geographer.
• Michael Caborn-Waterfield, 86, British businessman.
• Giuseppe Faraca, 56, Italian racing cyclist.
• Howard King, 83, American public address announcer.
• Olle Ljungström, 54, Swedish singer and guitarist.
• Ursula Mamlok, 93, German-born American composer.
• James Oyedeji, 63, Ghanaian sports historian.
• Paul A. Paddock, 41, American artist.
• Jordan Parsons, 25, American mixed martial artist, traffic collision.
• Rita Renoir, 82, French strip-teaser and actress.
• Friedrich Schattleitner, 92, Austrian Olympic sport shooter.
• Ret Turner, 87, American fashion designer.
• Adlan Varayev, 54, Russian wrestler, Olympic silver medalist, drowned.
• John Wright, 75, British Army officer and polo administrator.

  5

• Wan Mohammad Khair-il Anuar, 56, Malaysian politician, MP, Chairman of Malaysian Palm Oil Board, helicopter crash.
• Benito Cocchi, 81, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Modena-Nonantola.
• Bentot Jr., 46, Filipino actor.
• Rollin Dart, 90, American banker.
• Matt Irwin, 36, British celebrity photographer, suicide.
• Noriah Kasnon, 52, Malaysian politician, MP, helicopter crash.
• Sylvia Kauders, 94, American actress, heart attack.
• Bill MacDermott, 79, American CFL coach.
• Anne Atai Omoruto, 59, Ugandan physician, cancer.
• Romalı Perihan, 74, Turkish actress and singer.
• Fred C. Robinson, 85, American academic.
• Siné, 87, French political cartoonist.
• Gabriel Thohey Mahn-Gaby, 88, Burmese Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Yangon.
• Isao Tomita, 84, Japanese synthesizer musician, composer and arranger, heart failure.
• Martha Seim Valeur, 93, Norwegian politician, Deputy MP.
• Nancy Zahniser, 67, American pharmacologist, glioblastoma.

  6

• Klaus Ampler, 75, German Olympic racing cyclist.
• Johannes Bauer, 61, German trombonist.
• Nico de Bree, 71, Dutch footballer, cancer.
• Scott Burgess, 57, Australian actor,, heart attack.
• Patrick Ekeng, 26, Cameroonian footballer, heart attack.
• Dick Estell, 90, American radio host.
• Roberta Gellis, 88, American author.
• Reg Grundy, 92, Australian television production mogul.
• David Hall, 85, American politician, Governor of Oklahoma, stroke.
• Lakshmi Holmström, 81, Indian-born British author and translator.
• Margot Honecker, 89, East German politician, Minister of People's Education, First Lady.
• Johnny Joannou, 76, American politician, member of the Virginia House of Delegates and Senate, lung cancer.
• Candye Kane, 54, American blues singer-songwriter and pornographic actress, pancreatic cancer.
• Li Wanheng, 92, Chinese soldier, commander of the 67th Army of the People's Liberation Army.
• George Mandler, 91, American psychologist.
• Chris Mitchell, 27, Scottish footballer, struck by train.
• Pierre, 33, American penguin, renal failure.
• Larry Pinto de Faria, 83, Brazilian footballer.
• Niklaus Schilling, 72, Swiss filmmaker.
• Kōjō Tanaka, 91, Japanese photographer.
• Abu Waheeb, 29–30, Iraqi field commander and prison escapee, airstrike.
• Christopher Wathes, 64, British research scientist.
• Valeriy Zuyev, 63, Ukrainian football player and manager.

  7

• Fernando Álvarez de Miranda, 92, Spanish politician, President of the Congress of Deputies.
• Comply or Die, 16, British thoroughbred racehorse, won the Grand National.
• Ann Day, 77, American politician, member of the Arizona Senate, traffic collision.
• Merritt Green, 85, American lawyer and judge.
• Michael S. Harper, 78, American poet.
• Mohammad-Ali Hosseinzadeh, 39, Iranian politician, traffic collision.
• John Krish, 92, British film director.
• Gonzalo López Marañon, 82, Spanish-born Ecuadorian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of San Miguel de Sucumbíos.
• José Roberto Marques, 70, Brazilian footballer.
• Bernardo Ribeiro, 26, Brazilian footballer, cardiac arrest.
• George Ross, 73, Scottish footballer.
• John Stabb, 54, American punk singer, stomach cancer.
• Nikita Struve, 85, French literary critic and publisher.
• Anne van den Ban, 88, Dutch agricultural economist.
• Khurram Zaki, 40, Pakistani rights activist, shot.

  8

• Tom M. Apostol, 92, American analytic number theorist and professor.
• Philippe Beaussant, 86, French author.
• John Bradshaw, 82, American self-help writer, heart failure.
• Tonita Castro, 63, Mexican-born American actress, stomach cancer.
• Louisa Chase, 65, American painter.
• Sir Iain Glidewell, 91, British jurist, Lord Justice of Appeal.
• Ken Gorgal, 87, American football player.
• Gareth Gwenlan, 79, British television producer.
• Joan Helpern, 89, American shoe designer.
• Nick Lashaway, 28, American actor, traffic collision.
• Elisa Mainardi, 85, Italian actress.
• Wolfgang Patzke, 57, German footballer.
• Geneviève Salbaing, 94, French-born Canadian dancer and choreographer.
• William Schallert, 93, American actor, President of SAG.
• Rajesh Nandini Singh, 59, Indian politician, member of the Lok Sabha, heart attack.
• Friedrich von Huene, 87, German-born American woodwind maker.
• John Young, 67, American baseball player, founder of Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities.
• Thomas Zhang Huai-xin, 90, Chinese clandestine Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Jixian.

  9

• Chuck Curtis, 80, American football coach.
• Andi Muhammad Ghalib, 69, Indonesian politician, Attorney General, Ambassador to India.
• Rex Hughes, 77, American basketball coach.
• Walther Leisler Kiep, 90, German politician, member of the Bundestag.
• Sandy Lewis, 85, Australian politician.
• Bill MacIlwraith, 88, British playwright and screenwriter.
• Karl Maramorosch, 101, Austrian-born American virologist, entomologist and plant pathologist.
• Dennis Nineham, 94, British theologian.
• Chennamaneni Rajeshwara Rao, 92, Indian politician.
• Kelly Stearne, 57, Canadian curler.
• Gijs Verdick, 21, Dutch professional cyclist, heart attack.
• Ronald W. Walker, 76, American historian, lymphoma.
• John Warr, 88, English cricketer.

  10

• Mustafa Badreddine, 55, Lebanese military commander, convicted planner of 1983 Kuwait bombings, explosion.
• Heinz-Georg Baus, 82, German billionaire and businessman, owner of Bauhaus AG.
• Jack Boothman, 79, Irish sports administrator, President of the Gaelic Athletic Association.
• Sally Brampton, 60, British writer and magazine editor, suicide by drowning.
• Sarah Corp, 41, British television producer, lung cancer.
• Nicholas Fisk, 92, British children's author.
• Carlos García y García, 88, Peruvian politician, Second Vice President.
• Louis van Gasteren, 93, Dutch filmmaker and artist.
• Gene Gutowski, 90, Polish-born American film producer, pneumonia.
• Ilkka Hanski, 63, Finnish ecologist.
• Kang Young-hoon, 93, South Korean politician, Prime Minister.
• Mark Lane, 89, American lawyer, author and screenwriter, heart attack.
• Thomas Luckmann, 88, Slovene-born American sociologist.
• François Morellet, 90, French painter, sculptor and light artist.
• Betty Sabo, 87, American artist.
• Shi Ping, 82, Chinese aircraft designer and academic.
• Steve Smith, 26, Canadian mountain biker, race collision.
• Riki Sorsa, 63, Finnish singer, cancer.
• Margaret Walker, 91, British sprinter

  11

• Peter Behrens, 68, German drummer, multiple organ failure.
• Bobby Carroll, 77, Scottish footballer.
• Tony Cozier, 75, Barbadian cricket writer and commentator.
• Katherine Dunn, 70, American writer, lung cancer.
• Abdul Baqi Jammoh, 93–94, Jordanian politician, Senator.
• David King, 73, British graphic designer, art collector and writer.
• Promode Mankin, 77, Bangladeshi politician.
• Anton Muheim, 99, Swiss politician, President of the National Council.
• Motiur Rahman Nizami, 73, Bangladeshi politician and convicted war criminal, leader of Jamaat, MP for Pabna, execution by hanging.
• Herman Obermayer, 91, American journalist and publisher.
• Jim Pothecary, 82, South African cricketer.
• Michael Ratner, 72, American lawyer, won right of habeas corpus for Guantanamo Bay detainees, complications from cancer.
• Majid al-Shibl, 80–81, Saudi Arabian announcer.
• Joe Temperley, 86, Scottish saxophonist, cancer.
• Jack L. Treynor, 86, American economist.

  12

• Mike Agostini, 81, Trinidadian-born Australian Olympic sprinter, Commonwealth Games gold medalist.
• Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, 91, Serbian royal.
• Denise Bernot, 94, French academic.
• Sidney Brazier, 96, British army bomb disposal officer.
• Ulf Grenander, 92, Swedish statistician.
• Denis Hardy, 80, Canadian politician, Vice President of the National Assembly of Quebec.
• Susannah Mushatt Jones, 116, American supercentenarian, world's oldest living person.
• Bohumil Kubát, 81, Czech wrestler, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Julius La Rosa, 86, American pop singer and actor.
• Del Latta, 96, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio's 5th congressional district.
• Peter J. Liacouras, 85, American academic, President of Temple University.
• Giuseppe Maiani, 92, Sammarinese politician, Captain Regent.
• Tapio Mäkelä, 89, Finnish cross-country skier, Olympic gold medalist.
• Giovanni Migliorati, 73, Italian-born Ethiopian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Awasa.
• Yukio Ninagawa, 80, Japanese film and theatre director, pneumonia.
• Raghunath Patnaik, 89, Indian politician, heart disease.
• Georges Sesia, 91, French footballer.
• Hugh Smith, 81, American football player.

  13

• Seiji Arikawa, 86, Japanese politician, member of the House of Representatives.
• Bill Backer, 89, American advertising executive and songwriter.
• Khamidbi M. Beshtoev, 73, Russian physicist.
• Ondrej Binder, 46, Slovak politician, member of the National Council, traffic collision.
• Buster Cooper, 87, American jazz trombonist, prostate cancer.
• Karl Eigen, 88, German farmer and politician, member of the Bundestag.
• Sammy Ellis, 75, American baseball player, cancer.
• Rodrigo Espíndola, 26, Argentine footballer, shot.
• Makiko Futaki, 57, Japanese animator.
• David McNiven Garner, 87, New Zealand oceanographer.
• Blanche Hartman, 90, American Buddhist abbess.
• W. K. Hastings, 85, Canadian statistician.
• Doina Florica Ignat, 78, Romanian historian and politician, Senator.
• John Imbrie, 90, American paleoceanographer.
• Paul Jetton, 51, American football player.
• Lauri Kähkönen, 69, Finnish politician, MP for North Karelia.
• Rabbit Kekai, 95, American surfer.
• Jan Korger, 78, Czech physician and politician, member of the House of Peoples of the Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia.
• Engelbert Kraus, 81, German footballer.
• Mikio Kudō, 55, Japanese baseball player, liver failure.
• Dick McAuliffe, 76, American baseball player, World Series winner, Alzheimer's disease.
• Howard Meeks, 83, American Episcopal prelate, Bishop of Western Michigan.
• Fredrik Norén, 75, Swedish jazz drummer.
• Pinuccio Sciola, 74, Italian sculptor and muralist.
• James M. Shuart, 85, American academic administrator, President of Hofstra University, heart disease.
• Baba Hardev Singh, 62, Indian spiritual guru, traffic collision.
• Murray A. Straus, 89, American sociologist and professor.

  14

• Larry Barnes, 84, American football player.
• Tony Barrow, 80, British press officer.
• Balázs Birtalan, 46, Hungarian author, cancer.
• Darwyn Cooke, 53, Canadian comic book artist, cancer.
• John Coyle, 83, Scottish footballer.
• Ron Henry, 79, American baseball player, cardiovascular and renal disease.
• Jesús Leguina, 73–74, Spanish jurist, justice of the Constitutional Court and director of the Bank of Spain.
• Valerie Lush, 97, British actress.
• Jaroslav Malina, 78, Czech scenographer and painter, heart attack.
• Lasse Mårtenson, 81, Finnish singer, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Malachi Mitchell-Thomas, 20, English motorcycle racer, injuries sustained in race collision.
• Banza Mukalay, 63, Congolese politician, Minister of Culture.
• Christy O'Connor Snr, 91, Irish golfer.
• Marjet Ockels, 72, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives.
• Kenneth Painter, 81, English archaeologist and curator.
• Johnny Seay, 75, American country music singer.
• Paul Smoker, 75, American jazz trumpeter.
• Monteagle Stearns, 91, American diplomat, Ambassador to Greece and Ivory Coast.
• Charles R. Stelck, 98, Canadian geologist.
• Neculai Alexandru Ursu, 89, Romanian linguist, philologist and literary historian.
• André Wicky, 87, Swiss racing driver and team owner.
• Alvise Zorzi, 93, Italian journalist and author.

  15

• İsmail Hakki Akansel, 92, Turkish military officer and politician, Mayor of Istanbul.
• Oya Aydoğan, 59, Turkish actress, model and television presenter, aortic aneurysm.
• Erika Berger, 76, German television presenter and author.
• André Brahic, 73, French astrophysicist, discovered rings of Neptune, cancer.
• Ghulam Sadiq Khan, 76, Indian classical vocalist.
• Robert C. T. Lee, 92, Chinese-born American veterinarian.
• Jane Little, 87, American musician.
• Clovis Maksoud, 89, American diplomat, Ambassador of the Arab League to the United Nations and the United States, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Bobby McIlvenny, 89, Northern Irish footballer.
• Cauby Peixoto, 85, Brazilian singer, pneumonia.
• Ken Ramos, 48, American baseball player, suicide by gunshot.
• Michael Roberds, 52, Canadian actor.
• Marion Tournon-Branly, 91, French architect.

  16

• Hussein Sheikh Abdirahman, 75, Somali politician, Minister of Defense.
• Sir Gavyn Farr Arthur, 64, British judge, Lord Mayor of London.
• Moidele Bickel, 79, German costume designer.
• Anthony Bird, 85, British Anglican priest and academic.
• Ken Cameron, 74, Scottish trade union leader.
• Giovanni Coppa, 90, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal, Apostolic Nuncio.
• Camille DesRosiers, 87, Canadian-born Tuvaluan Roman Catholic prelate, Superior of Funafuti.
• Huguette Dreyfus, 87, French harpsichordist.
• Robert Freeman, 82, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana.
• Romaldo Giurgola, 95, Italian-born American-Australian architect.
• Aar de Goede, 87, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives, State Secretary of Finance, member of the European Parliament.
• Mitsuo Horiuchi, 86, Japanese politician.
• Sadek Khan, 82, Bangladeshi journalist and filmmaker.
• François Maistre, 91, French actor.
• Jim McMillian, 68, American basketball player, NBA champion, complications from heart failure.
• Julia Meade, 90, American actress.
• Gillian Mears, 51, Australian writer, multiple sclerosis.
• Emilio Navaira, 53, American country and Tejano singer, heart failure.
• Noriko Nishimoto, 75, Japanese-born Australian puppeteer, cancer.
• Michael Pope, 89, British Olympic hurdler
• Mamie Rallins, 74, American hurdler, traffic collision.
• David Rendel, 67, British politician, MP for Newbury, cancer.
• Bjarne Saltnes, 82, Norwegian politician.
• Ivaylo Sharankov, 82, Bulgarian Olympic swimmer.
• Deepak Shodhan, 87, Indian cricketer, lung cancer.
• Lino Toffolo, 81, Italian actor and singer.
• Jack Unruh, 80, American commercial illustrator.
• Oscar Whitbread, 86, English-born Australian television producer.

  17

• Seán Ardagh, 68, Irish politician, TD.
• Guy Clark, 74, American folk singer-songwriter, Grammy winner, cancer.
• Benjamin de Roo, 76, Dutch-born Australian Olympic gymnast.
• Vinjamuri Seetha Devi, Indian folk singer.
• Paulo Emilio, 80, Brazilian football manager.
• Kim Jae-soon, 92, South Korean politician, Speaker of the National Assembly.
• Ed Kolenovsky, 87, American photographer.
• Alexandru Lăpușan, 61, Romanian politician, mayor of Dej, MP and Minister of Agriculture.
• Edmund V. Ludwig, 87, American federal judge, member of the District Court for the E.D. of Pennsylvania.
• Yūko Mizutani, 51, Japanese voice actress, breast cancer.
• Xavier de Planhol, 90, French geographer.
• Arthur Provis, 91, English cinematographer and producer.
• Müzahir Sille, 84, Turkish wrestler, Olympic champion.
• Yuri Volkov, 79, Russian ice hockey player.

  18

• Elaine Abraham, 86, American Tlingit elder and nurse.
• Luis H. Álvarez, 96, Mexican industrialist and politician, President of the National Action Party.
• Ethel Bush, 100, British police officer.
• Eduardo Castrillo, 73, Filipino sculptor, cancer.
• Adrian Flowers, 89, British photographer.
• Astrid Gunnestad, 77, Norwegian journalist.
• Ida Pedanda Gede Made Gunung, 63, Indonesian Hindu priest.
• Zygmunt Kukla, 68, Polish footballer.
• Adán Nigaglioni Loyola, 86, Puerto Rican doctor and educator.
• Kornél Pajor, 92, Hungarian Olympic speed skater, world champion.
• Sutham Phanthusak, 69, Thai businessman and politician.
• Michael Reichmann, 71, Canadian photographer and blogger.
• Boris Schnaiderman, 99, Ukrainian-born Brazilian translator, writer and essayist.
• Fritz Stern, 90, German-born American historian.
• Susan Tolchin, 75, American political scientist, ovarian cancer.
• Ian Watkin, 76, New Zealand actor.
• Doris Yankelewitz Berger, 82, Costa Rican artist and politician, First Lady.

  19

• Alexandre Astruc, 92, French film critic and director.
• Irving Benson, 102, American actor and comedian.
• Cook, 15, Spanish Jack Russell Terrier dog actor, cardiac arrest.
• Ronald C. Davidson, 74, Canadian physicist, complications from pneumonia.
• Jan Deutsch, 80, American philosopher and legal scholar.
• George Forty, 88, British Army officer and author.
• Jim Ray Hart, 74, American baseball player.
• Hugh Honour, 88, British art historian.
• Hu Hongwen, 91, Chinese organic chemist and academician.
• Cindy Nicholas, 58, Canadian long distance swimmer and politician, liver cancer.
• Rogelio Ordoñez, 75, Filipino author, liver cancer.
• N. S. Palanisamy, 75, Indian politician, complications from kidney failure.
• Laxminarayan Pandey, 88, Indian politician, member of the Lok Sabha for Mandsaur.
• Marco Pannella, 86, Italian politician and civil rights activist, MEP.
• Morley Safer, 84, Canadian-born American journalist, pneumonia.
• John Sisko, 57, American sculptor.
• Donald Snelgrove, 91, British Anglican clergyman, Bishop of Hull.
• Alan Young, 96, English-born Canadian-American actor.

  20

• Gert Bals, 79, Dutch footballer.
• Glen Clegg, 82, Canadian politician.
• Patricia M. Derian, 86, American human rights activist, Alzheimer's disease.
• Vasile Duță, 60, Romanian lawyer and politician, Senator, lung cancer.
• John David Jackson, 91, Canadian physicist.
• Gabriel, 75, Russian prelate, Archbishop of the Russian Orthodox Church.
• Brandon Grove, 87, American diplomat, ambassador to East Germany and Zaire, cancer.
• Rosanna Huffman, 77, American actress, pancreatic cancer.
• Kang Sok-ju, 76, North Korean diplomat and politician, Foreign Minister, esophageal cancer.
• Pranlal Kharsani, 89, Indian actor.
• Tsuyoshi Makino, 70, Japanese author, critic and social activist.
• Joe McDonagh, 62, Irish sports administrator, President of the Gaelic Athletic Association.
• Audrey Purton, 90, British Women's Royal Army Corps officer.
• Miguel de la Quadra-Salcedo, 84, Spanish journalist and athlete.
• Ádám Rajhona, 72, Hungarian actor.
• Lucille Stone, 90, American baseball player, complications from hydrocephalus.
• Albert M. Sackett, 95, American Navy rear admiral.
• Yagya Datt Sharma, 80, Indian politician, member of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly.
• Robyn Sisman, 66, American-born British publisher and author.
• Bogdan Ulmu, 65, Romanian theatre director, writer and publicist.
• Wheelock Whitney, Jr., 89, American sports executive.

  21

• Gaston Berghmans, 90, Belgian comedian and actor.
• Lorne Clarke, 87, Canadian lawyer, Chief Justice of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court.
• Andrea Maria Erba, 86, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Velletri-Segni.
• Jane Fawcett, 95, British codebreaker at Bletchley Park during World War II, key figure in the sinking of the Bismarck.
• Sir Denys Henderson, 83, British businessman, chairman of ICI.
• Homeboykris, 9, American racehorse.
• Eddie Keizan, 71, South African racing driver.
• Tony Kriletich, 72, New Zealand rugby league player.
• Alan Lewis, 61, British footballer.
• Akhtar Mansour, c. 48, Afghan Islamist, Minister of the Emirate for Aviation and Tourism, leader of the Taliban, airstrike.
• Nick Menza, 51, German-born American drummer, heart failure.
• Germán Serrano Pinto, 76, Costa Rican politician, Vice President.
• Norman Tait, 75, Canadian First Nations artist, cancer.
• Sándor Tarics, 102, Hungarian water polo player, Olympic gold medalist.

  22

• Lucjan Avgustini, 52, Albanian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Sapë.
• Adolf Born, 85, Czech painter, illustrator, caricaturist and filmmaker.
• Malvina Cheek, 100, British war artist.
• Merv Cowan, 91, Australian WANFL footballer.
• Tom DeLeone, 65, American football player, brain cancer.
• Intikhab, 22, American racehorse, heart disease.
• John Lyons, 90, British trade union leader.
• José Luis Romo Martín, 62, Mexican artist.
• Alexis Navarro, 69, Venezuelan politician and diplomat, Governor of Nueva Esparta, Ambassador to Russia, heart attack.
• Yasushi Niki, 90, Japanese baseball player.
• Leonorilda Ochoa, 76, Mexican actress, Alzheimer's disease.
• Subhash Pal, 40, Indian mountaineer.
• Arulraj Rosli, 75, Malaysian Olympic racing cyclist.
• Velimir Sombolac, 77, Serbian-Yugoslav football player, Olympic champion and manager.
• George Wildman, 88, American cartoonist.
• Bata Živojinović, 82, Serbian actor, complications from gangrene.

  23

• Nurjahan Begum, 90, Bangladeshi journalist.
• Jo Beverley, 68, British-born Canadian writer, cancer.
• John Brophy, 83, Canadian ice hockey player and coach, namesake of John Brophy Award.
• Joe Fleishaker, 62, American actor, heart attack.
• Vera Henriksen, 89, Norwegian writer.
• Cedric McKinnon, 48, American football player.
• Zdeněk Mézl, 81, Czech print-maker.
• Sir Reginald Palmer, 93, Grenadian politician, Governor-General.
• Nanette Rainone, 73, American feminist and reporter.
• Arne Sandnes, 92, Norwegian politician.

  24

• Ray Ash, 79, Canadian football player.
• Suzanne Corkin, 79, American neuroscientist, liver cancer.
• Adelina Dematti de Alaye, 88, Argentinian human rights activist, founder of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo.
• Khaleda Ekram, 65, Bangladeshi architect, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
• Lewis Fiander, 78, Australian actor, stroke.
• Maycie Herrington, 97, American historian and social worker.
• Buck Kartalian, 93, American actor.
• Malik Iqbal Mehdi Khan, 64, Pakistani politician, MP, liver disease.
• Burt Kwouk, 85, British actor, cancer.
• Frankie Laine, 73, Canadian professional wrestler, multiple sclerosis.
• Mell Lazarus, 89, American cartoonist.
• Anne-Marie Nzié, 84, Cameroonian singer.
• Hughes Oliphant Old, 83, American theologian.
• Leo Proost, 82, Belgian racing cyclist.
• Jorma Salmi, 83, Finnish Olympic ice hockey player,.
• Soita Shitanda, 56, Kenyan politician, MP from Malava.
• Bé Udink, 90, Dutch politician and CEO.

  25

• Giacomo Barabino, 88, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ventimiglia-San Remo.
• Horacio Ernesto Benites Astoul, 82, Argentinian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Buenos Aires.
• Cassandra Butts, 50, American lawyer.
• Lloyd Campbell, 101, Canadian curler.
• Nancy Dow, 79, American actress and model.
• Ian Gibson, 73, Scottish footballer.
• Gyula Kosice, 92, Czechoslovakian-born Argentine poet and sculptor.
• Ku Chin-shui, 56, Taiwanese Olympic decathlete, plasma cell leukemia.
• Per Øien, 78, Norwegian flutist.
• Valentin Petry, 88, German racing cyclist.
• Bob Sorenson, 92, New Zealand rugby union player and coach, and cricketer.
• Peggy Spencer, 95, British dancer.
• József Tempfli, 85, Romanian-Hungarian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Oradea Mare.
• John Webster, 60, British theologian.
• Yang Jiang, 104, Chinese playwright, author, and translator.

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• Kazimierz Barburski, 73, Polish fencer, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Loris Francesco Capovilla, 100, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal, Prelate of Loreto.
• Esad Čolaković, 46, Macedonian footballer.
• Ted Dumitru, 76, Romanian football manager, heart attack.
• Steve Edwards, 85, American professor.
• Hedy Epstein, 91, German-born American Holocaust survivor and political activist, cancer.
• Lou Grasmick, 91, American baseball player and businessman.
• Noel Harding, 69, Canadian contemporary artist, heart failure.
• Joel Hastings, 46, Canadian pianist, heart attack.
• Robert O'Hearn, 94, American set designer.
• Gustav Meier, 86, Swiss-born American conductor, cancer.
• Wanaro N'Godrella, 66, French tennis player.
• Angela Paton, 86, American actress, heart attack.
• Arturo Pomar, 84, Spanish chess grandmaster.
• Coe Swobe, 87, American politician, member of the Nevada Senate.
• Bob Williams, 86, American football player.

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• Chen Nengkuan, 93, Chinese metal and detonation physicist and academician.
• Michael Dann, 94, American television executive.
• Jean-Claude Decaux, 78, French billionaire advertiser, CEO of JCDecaux.
• Louise Erickson, 86, American baseball player.
• Gaylord T. Gunhus, 76, American army officer, Chief of Chaplains of the United States Army.
• Gerhard Harpers, 88, German footballer.
• Kai G. Henriksen, 60, Norwegian businessman.
• R. G. Jadhav, 83, Indian literary critic.
• František Jakubec, 60, Czech football player.
• Marshall "Rock" Jones, 75, American bass player.
• George Klir, 84, Czech computer scientist.
• Bonnie Law, 47, Hong Kong singer and actress, heart attack.
• Leroidesanimaux, 15, Brazilian-born American racehorse, Eclipse Award winner, complications from accident.
• Petro Herkulan Malchuk, 50, Moldovan-born Ukrainian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Kyiv-Zhytomyr, heart attack.
• Jaap Metz, 74, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives.
• Frank Modell, 98, American cartoonist.
• Henrietta Phipps, 84, British landscape gardener.
• La Ferne Price, 90, American ballplayer.
• Girolamo Prigione, 94, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Apostolic Nuncio.
• Ivor Robinson, 92, British-born American physicist.
• Berrick Saul, 91, British economist and academic administrator.
• Rocco Sollecito, 67, Italian-born Canadian gangster, shot.
• Wang Shizhen, 100, Chinese nuclear medicine physician and academician, Father of Chinese nuclear medicine.
• Wang You-theng, 89, Taiwanese entrepreneur, traffic collision.
• Morton White, 99, American philosopher and historian.

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• Giorgio Albertazzi, 92, Italian actor and film director.
• Stanley Burke, 93, Canadian television journalist.
• David Cañada, 41, Spanish cyclist, race collision.
• Alexander DeConde, 95, American historian.
• Bryce Dejean-Jones, 23, American basketball player, shot.
• Peter DeTroy, 68, American attorney, heart attack.
• M. Brendan Fleming, 90, American politician, Mayor of Lowell, Massachusetts.
• John Willison Green, 89, Canadian journalist.
• Harambe, 17, American-bred western lowland gorilla, shot.
• C. Michael Harper, 88, American executive.
• Christian Kay, 76, British lexicographer.
• Joanneke Kruijsen, 47, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives.
• Marion Lambert, 73, Belgian-born Swiss art collector, injuries sustained in traffic collision.
• Michael McCurdy, 74, American illustrator and publisher.
• Patrick Neill, Baron Neill of Bladen, 89, British barrister and life peer.
• Eddie O'Hara, 78, British politician, MP for Knowsley South.
• Wolf-Dieter Oschlies, 63, German Olympic rower.
• Floyd Robinson, 83, American country singer.
• Devarakonda Vittal Rao, 68, Indian politician.

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• Kenne Fant, 93, Swedish actor, director and author, President of Svensk Filmindustri.
• T. Marshall Hahn, 89, American academic administrator, President of Virginia Tech.
• Ralph Ketner, 95, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Food Lion, colon cancer.
• Svetozar Koljević, 85, Serbian author, historian, translator and professor.
• Mathew Mattam, 65, Indian Malayalam author.
• Don McNay, 57, American financial author.
• Edward Morris, 75, British art historian.
• K. P. Noorudeen, 76, Indian politician, cerebral hemorrhage.
• André Rousselet, 93, French businessman and politician, member of the National Assembly.

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• Jan Aas, 72, Norwegian footballer.
• Gérson Bergher, 91, Brazilian politician.
• Boniface Choi Ki-San, 68, South Korean Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Incheon.
• Javare Gowda, 100, Indian writer, heart failure.
• James Knepper, 84, American politician.
• Tom Lysiak, 63, Canadian ice hockey player, leukemia.
• Rick MacLeish, 66, Canadian ice hockey player, meningitis and multiple organ failure.
• Erkin Vohidov, 79, Uzbek poet, playwright and translator.

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• Mohamed Abdelaziz, 68, Sahrawi politician, President, lung cancer.
• Corry Brokken, 83, Dutch singer, Eurovision Song Contest 1957 winner.
• Jules Browde, 97, South African lawyer and human-rights activist.
• James Campbell, 81, English historian.
• Jan Crouch, 78, American televangelist and broadcasting executive, complications from a stroke.
• Olav Djupvik, 85, Norwegian politician.
• Reshad Feild, 82, English mystic and musician.
• Sergio Adolfo Govi, 81, Italian Central African Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bossangoa.
• Antonio Imbert Barrera, 95, Dominican politician, President.
• Carla Lane, 87, English television writer.
• Gene Logsdon, 84, American farmer and author.
• Rupert Neudeck, 77, German journalist and humanitarian, complications from heart surgery.
• Peter Owen, 89, German-born British publisher.
• Rudra Madhab Ray, 78, Indian politician, kidney disease.
• Ghislaine Roquet, 90, Canadian nun and academic.
• David Tod Roy, 83, American sinologist and translator.
• Pam Royds, 91, British publisher.