Deaths in October 2016

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

  October 2016

1

• Edda Heiðrún Backman, 58, Icelandic actress, motor neurone disease.
• Brian Bell, 86, New Zealand ornithologist.
• Bobby Burnett, 73, American football player, pancreatic cancer.
• William Dumbrell, 90, Australian biblical scholar.
• David Herd, 82, Scottish footballer.
• Anton Jeyanathan, 68, Sri Lankan politician, traffic collision.
• Jagoda Kaloper, 69, Croatian actress.
• Erol Keskin, 89, Turkish footballer.
• Daphne Odjig, 97, Canadian First Nations artist.
• Vittorio Scantamburlo, 86, Italian football manager and scout.
• Roger Theder, 77, American football player and coach, Parkinson's disease.
• Lowell Thomas Jr., 92, English-born American film producer and politician, member of the Alaska Senate, Lieutenant Governor of Alaska.
• Toni Williams, 77, Cook Islands-born New Zealand singer.

  2

• David Abdulai, 65, Ghanaian physician.
• Georg Apenes, 76, Norwegian politician and jurist.
• Walter Darby Bannard, 82, American painter.
• Betty Blayton-Taylor, 79, American artist, arts administrator, and co-founder of the Studio Museum in Harlem.
• Steve Byrd, 61, English guitarist, heart attack.
• Gordon Davidson, 83, American stage and film director.
• Pierre Durand Sr., 84, French Olympic equestrian
• Mary Hesse, 91, British academician and educator.
• Sir Neville Marriner, 92, British conductor, founder of the Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
• Bobby Molloy, 80, Irish politician, TD.
• Jeroen Oerlemans, 46, Dutch photojournalist, shot.
• Gary Reed, 60, American comic book writer, heart attack.
• Thomas Round, 100, British opera singer.
• Hanna Zora, 77, Iraqi-born Iranian-Canadian Chaldean Catholic hierarch, Archbishop of Ahwaz and Mar Addai of Toronto.

  3

• Cai Qirui, 102, Chinese chemist, educator and academician.
• Alain Chevallier, 68, French motorcycle designer, cancer.
• Ljupka Dimitrovska, 70, Macedonian-born Croatian singer.
• Isobel Finnerty, 86, Canadian politician, Senator.
• Anthony Goodman, 80, British medieval historian.
• K. David van Hoesen, 90, American bassoonist.
• Ahmad Salama Mabruk, 59, Egyptian leader of Jabhat al-Nusra, drone strike.
• Andrew Vicari, 84, British painter.
• Mário Wilson, 86, Portuguese football player and manager.

  4

• Gair Allie, 84, American baseball player, heart disease.
• Mario Almada, 94, Mexican actor.
• Kenneth Angell, 86, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Burlington.
• Yusuf Arakkal, 70, Indian painter.
• Bertrand M. Bell, 86, American physician, key figure in the Libby Zion Law legislation, kidney failure.
• Terry Butler, 58, Australian rugby league player, lung cancer.
• Elaine Lustig Cohen, 89, American graphic designer.
• Caroline Crawley, 53, British singer and musician.
• Stephen de Mowbray, 91, British counterintelligence officer.
• Melvin M. Grumbach, 90, American pediatrician.
• Brigitte Hamann, 76, German-Austrian historian and author.
• Pieter Hintjens, 53, Belgian software developer, euthanasia.
• Merfyn Jones, 85, Welsh footballer.
• Hso Khan Pha, 78, Burmese-born Canadian geologist and exiled prince of Yawnghwe.
• Ivan C. Lafayette, 86, American soldier, civic activist and politician.
• Fred Osam-Duodu, 78, Ghanaian football manager.
• Jim Parrott, 74, Canadian politician, MLA for Fundy-River Valley.
• Ned Randolph, 74, American politician, Mayor of Alexandria, Louisiana, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Bing Thom, 75, Hong Kong-born Canadian architect, brain aneurysm.
• Harsh Vardhan, 68, Indian politician.
• Donald H. White, 95, American composer.

  5

• Girma Asmerom, 66, Eritrean politician.
• Georges Balandier, 95, French sociologist, anthropologist and ethnologist.
• Jarlath Carey, 74, Irish Gaelic football player.
• Pompeiu Hărășteanu, 81, Romanian opera singer.
• Dick Haugland, 73, American biochemist, brain cancer.
• Michal Kováč, 86, Slovak politician, President, complications of Parkinson's disease.
• György Márkus, 82, Hungarian philosopher.
• Luisa Massimo, 87, Italian pediatrician.
• Yasmin Modassir, Indian zoologist.
• Conxita Mora Jordana, 61, Andorran politician and businesswoman, Mayor of Andorra la Vella and MP.
• Cameron Moore, 25, American basketball player.
• Arthur Z'ahidi Ngoma, 69, Congolese politician, vice-president of the transitional government.
• Donald M. Phillips, 87, Canadian politician, MLA for South Peace River.
• Josh Samman, 28, American mixed martial artist.
• Rod Temperton, 66, English keyboardist and songwriter, cancer.
• Michiyo Yasuda, 77, Japanese animator.
• Brock Yates, 82, American automotive journalist and screenwriter, Alzheimer's disease.

  6

• Hans W. Becherer, 81, American businessman, president of John Deere.
• James Colaianni, 94, American lay theologian.
• Peter Denton, 70, English footballer.
• Walter Greiner, 80, German theoretical physicist.
• Hidipo Hamutenya, 77, Namibian politician, Foreign Minister.
• Alan Hodgson, 64, English cricketer.
• Heisnam Kanhailal, 75, Indian art theatre personality.
• Eva Lokko, Ghanaian engineer and politician.
• Tony Mottram, 96, British tennis player.
• Barbara Oliver Hagerman, 73, Canadian music teacher and public servant, Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island, cancer.
• George Pernicano, 98, American businessman, co-owner of the San Diego Chargers.
• Marina Sanaya, 57, Russian Olympic figure skater.
• Fred Slaughter, 74, American college basketball player.
• Mike Tomkies, 88, British nature writer.

  7

• John Gleeson, 78, Australian Test cricketer.
• Ross Higgins, 85, Australian actor.
• Lyudmila Ivanova, 83, Russian actress.
• Barbara Kisseler, 67, German culture manager and politician.
• Frederick C. Neidhardt, 85, American microbiologist.
• Anne Pashley, 80, British athlete and opera singer, Olympic silver medalist.
• Gonzalo Peralta, 36, Argentine footballer, cancer.
• Martha Roth, 84, Italian-born Mexican actress.
• Wolfgang Suschitzky, 104, Austro-Hungarian-born British photographer and cinematographer.
• Alistair Urquhart, 97, Scottish author and soldier.
• Bill Warren, 73, American film historian and critic.
• Rebecca Wilson, 54, Australian sports journalist, breast cancer.

  8

• Peter Allen, 96, American radio broadcaster, host of Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts.
• Helmut Anschütz, 84, German Olympic fencer.
• Guillaume Bieganski, 83, French footballer.
• Stephen Bollenbach, 74, American businessman, CEO of Hilton.
• Lyn Chevli, 84, American underground comics artist.
• Don Ciccone, 70, American singer-songwriter and musician.
• Ray William Clough, 96, American engineer.
• Gary Dubin, 57, American actor, bone cancer.
• Maximiliano Giusti, 25, Argentine footballer, traffic collision.
• Alina María Hernández, 46, Cuban-American transsexual actress.
• Mayer Hersh, 90, Polish survivor of Auschwitz.
• Dickie Jeeps, 84, English rugby union player and administrator.
• Klaus Kertess, 76, American curator, art gallerist and writer, complications from Alzheimer's.
• Kuo Chin-fa, 72, Taiwanese Hokkien pop singer, cardiorespiratory failure.
• Wojciech Kurpiewski, 50, Polish sprint canoer, Olympic silver medalist.
• Luc Mbassi, 58/59, Cameroonian Olympic footballer.
• Michael Horace Miller, 88, British Royal Air Force officer.
• Jacob Neusner, 84, American academician and Judaica scholar.
• Stylianos Pattakos, 103, Greek military officer and coup leader, Deputy Prime Minister.
• Giovanni Scognamillo, 87, Turkish film critic.
• Pierre Tchernia, 88, French screenwriter and voice actor.
• Anton Winkler, 62, German luger, Olympic bronze medalist.

  9

• Susan Aceron, 44, Canadian actress, voice actress and businesswoman, nasopharynx cancer.
• René Avilés Fabila, 75, Mexican author, heart attack.
• Worth H. Bagley, 92, American admiral.
• Bored Nothing, 26, Australian musician, suicide.
• Mamadou Dembelé, 82, Malian physician and politician, Prime Minister.
• Santo DiPietro, 81, American businessman and politician, member of the Maine House of Representatives and mayor of South Portland, Maine.
• Francis Duteil, 69, French Olympic cyclist.
• Donn Fendler, 90, American wilderness survivor.
• Angus Grant, 49, Scottish fiddler, cancer.
• Sir Anthony Grant, 91, British politician, MP.
• David Konstant, 86, English Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Leeds.
• El Mongol, 86, Mexican professional wrestler.
• Zara Nutley, 90, New Zealand-born British actress.
• Aaron Pryor, 60, American light-welterweight boxer, WBA/IBF world champion, heart disease.
• Bilge Tarhan, 75, Turkish Olympic footballer
• Kenneth P. Thompson, 50, American lawyer, Kings County District Attorney, cancer.
• Andrzej Wajda, 90, Polish film director, pulmonary failure.

  10

• Tony Adamowicz, 75, American racing driver, brain cancer.
• Issa Bagayogo, 54, Malian musician.
• Leo Beranek, 102, American acoustics expert.
• Christian Erlandsen, 90, Norwegian politician, MP.
• Lorenzo Freeman, 52, American football player.
• Parmeshwar Godrej, 70, Indian socialite, businesswoman, and AIDS activist.
• Gerry Gow, 64, Scottish footballer, cancer.
• Graham C. Greene, 80, British publisher.
• Tamme Hanken, 56, German television personality.
• Marnix Kappers, 73, Dutch actor, suicide.
• Hans Petter Langtangen, 54, Norwegian computer scientist.
• Drew Nelson, 60, Northern Irish solicitor, politician, and Grand Secretary of the Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland.
• Eddie O'Hara, 80, Scottish footballer.
• Maulwi Saelan, 88, Indonesian Olympic footballer.
• Ram Ekbal Singh Warsi, 94, Indian politician, MLA.
• Kazunari Tanaka, 49, Japanese voice actor, intracerebral hemorrhage.
• John Vaughn, 88, American religious leader, Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor.
• Gonzalo Vega, 69, Mexican actor.

  11

• David Antin, 84, American poet and performance artist.
• Tom Barnes, 70, American journalist.
• Patricia Barry, 93, American actress.
• Ricky Callan, 54, Scottish actor.
• Emerson Stephen Colaw, 94, American theologian and prelate, Bishop of the United Methodist Church.
• Richard Fry, 92, British WWII army officer.
• Matti Hagman, 61, Finnish ice hockey player.
• Pia Hallström, 55, Swedish politician, MP for Värmland, breast cancer.
• Lars Huldén, 90, Finnish writer and translator.
• Dick Israel, 68, Filipino actor, complications from a stroke.
• Steve Lemmens, 44, Belgian snooker player, suicide.
• Antero Lumme, 82, Finnish racing cyclist.
• Marju, 28, Irish Thoroughbred racehorse.
• Jan Matocha, 93, Czechoslovak Olympic sprint canoer.
• Peter Reynolds, 58, Welsh composer.
• Don Ringe, 70, American journalist and documentary filmmaker.
• Pero Simić, 70, Bosnian Serb journalist and historian.
• Teatao Teannaki, 80, I-Kiribati politician, Vice-President and President, heart attack.
• Gurcharan Virk, 48, Indian Punjabi writer, director, lyricist and producer, heart attack.
• Ewen Whitaker, 94, British astronomer.

  12

• Reinhart Ahlrichs, 76, German theoretical chemist.
• Des Ball, 69, Australian security and defence expert, cancer.
• Shahlyla Baloch, 20, Pakistani footballer, traffic collision.
• Robert Bateman, 80, American songwriter and record producer, heart attack.
• Beata Bergström, 95, Swedish photographer.
• Pietro Diana, 84, Italian artist.
• Frank Fischl, 89, American air force pilot and politician, Mayor of Allentown, Pennsylvania.
• Thomas Mikal Ford, 52, American actor and comedian, stomach aneurysm.
• Jack Greenberg, 91, American lawyer and civil rights activist.
• Rick Gudex, 48, American politician, member of the Wisconsin Senate, suicide by gunshot.
• Leo Harrison, 94, English cricketer.
• Ma Jiang Bao, 74, Chinese martial arts teacher.
• Renato Ongari, 81, Italian Olympic sprint canoeist.
• Bryan Pearson, 82, British-born Canadian politician.
• Dylan Rieder, 28, American skateboarder and model, leukemia.
• Sonny Sanders, 77, American songwriter, arranger and record producer.
• Kemal Unakıtan, 70, Turkish politician, Minister of Finance.
• Fulton Walker, 58, American football player.
• Gerhard Wimberger, 93, Austrian composer.

  13

• Bhumibol Adulyadej, 88, Thai monarch, King, world's longest-serving head of state.
• William Gilbert Chaloner, 87, British palaeobotanist.
• Delia Davin, 72, English pioneer of Chinese women's studies, cancer.
• Curt Engelhorn, 90, German billionaire businessman.
• Dario Fo, 90, Italian playwright, Nobel Literature Prize laureate.
• Robert Haszeldine, 91, British chemist.
• Andrzej Kopiczyński, 82, Polish actor.
• Richard A. Pittman, 71, American Marine, recipient of the Medal of Honor.
• Booneua Prasertsuwan, 97, Thai politician, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
• Jim Prentice, 60, Canadian politician, Premier of Alberta, MP for Calgary Centre-North, plane crash.
• Primo Sentimenti, 89, Italian footballer.
• Louis Stettner, 93, American photographer.
• Tonino Valerii, 82, Italian film director.

  14

• Jean Alexander, 90, English actress.
• Cirilo R. Almario, 85, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Malolos.
• Jacqueline Barasinski, 68, French Olympic luger
• Lucy Baxley, 78, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Alabama.
• Klim Churyumov, 79, Soviet and Ukrainian astronomer, co-discoverer of the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
• Brajbir Saran Das, 90, Indian politician, Chief administrative officer of Sikkim.
• Kathryn Adams Doty, 96, American actress.
• Pierre Étaix, 87, French clown, comedian and film director, Oscar winner, complications from intestinal infection.
• Edward Gorman, 74, American writer, multiple myeloma.
• Kamal Habibollahi, 86, Iranian politician and admiral.
• Avis Higgs, 98, New Zealand artist.
• Thom Jones, 71, American writer.
• Helen Kelly, 52, New Zealand trade unionist, lung cancer.
• Brigit Pegeen Kelly, 65, American poet.
• Werner Lämmerhirt, 67, German singer-songwriter and guitarist.
• John Mone, 87, Scottish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Paisley.
• Farouk Shousha, 80, Egyptian poet.
• Song Yeong, 76, South Korean writer.
• Aleksandr Syomin, 73, Soviet Azerbaijani footballer.

  15

• Doug Anderson, 89, New Zealand rugby league player.
• Marcel Berger, 89, French mathematician.
• Hans Bruggeman, 89, Dutch activist and politician, member of the House of Representatives.
• Dennis Byrd, 50, American football player, traffic collision.
• Colin George, 87, Welsh actor and director.
• Quentin Groves, 32, American football player, heart attack.
• Teodor Laço, 80, Albanian politician, diplomat and author.
• Jossy Mansur, 82, Aruban editor.
• Bruce Marshall, 54, American ice hockey coach.
• Octagonal, 24, New Zealand-bred Australian Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
• Frank Peers, 98, Canadian broadcaster and political scientist.
• Yangthang Rinpoche, 86, Indian Buddhist teacher.
• Barbara Romack, 83, American golfer.
• John Spanswick, 83, English cricketer.
• Haruo Tomiyama, 81, Japanese photographer.
• Per Rune Wølner, 67, Norwegian footballer, cancer.

  16

• Mickey Byrne, 93, Irish hurler.
• Maggie Diaz, 91, American-born Australian photographer.
• Anthony Foley, 42, Irish rugby union player and coach, acute pulmonary oedema.
• Tony Golab, 97, Canadian football player.
• Calvin Gotlieb, 95, Canadian professor and computer scientist.
• Cecilia Hart, 68, American television and stage actress, ovarian cancer.
• Clyde C. Holloway, 72, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Louisiana's 8th district.
• Valerie Hunter Gordon, 94, British inventor of disposable nappies.
• Jia Jia, 38, Chinese giant panda, euthanized.
• Kigeli V, 80, Rwandan monarch, King.
• Ted V. Mikels, 87, American filmmaker, colon cancer.
• Stephen Moorbath, 87, German-born British geologist.
• Arsen Pavlov, 33, Russian military officer, participant in the War in Donbass, IED explosion.
• George Peebles, 80, Scottish footballer.
• Lucia Perillo, 58, American poet and novelist.
• Juras Požela, 34, Lithuanian politician, Minister of Health, pancreatitis.
• Juan Radrigán, 79, Chilean writer, cancer.
• Molly Rose, 95, British World War II aviator.
• Alfred P. Smyth, 74, Irish historian.
• Joseph A. Suozzi, 95, Italian-born American judge and politician.
• Geoffrey Yeh, 85, Hong Kong businessman.
• Viktor Zubkov, 79, Russian basketball player, Olympic silver medalist.

  17

• Rufin Anthony, 76, Pakistani Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Islamabad-Rawalpindi.
• Eddie Applegate, 81, American actor.
• Sandra Bartky, 81, American feminist philosopher.
• Vincenzino Culicchia, 84, Italian politician.
• Laurie Dwyer, 77, Australian football player.
• Teodor Kufel, 96, Polish general.
• Rolf Lamers, 89, German Olympic athlete.
• Cephas Msipa, 85, Zimbabwean politician.
• Edgar Munhall, 83, American art historian, pancreatic and lung cancer.
• Elena Santonja, 84, Spanish television presenter.
• Irwin Smigel, 92, American dentist, pneumonia.
• Morris Stroud, 70, American football player, Super Bowl winner.
• Rémy Vogel, 55, French footballer.

  18

• Anthony Addabbo, 56, American actor.
• David Bunnell, 69, American businessman, writer and publisher.
• Phil Chess, 95, Polish-born American record producer and company executive.
• Dave Colclough, 52, Welsh professional poker player, cancer.
• Alan Collins, 88, English sculptor.
• Anne Crookshank, 89, Irish art historian.
• Mike Daniels, 88, British jazz trumpeter and bandleader.
• Marianne de Trey, 102, British potter.
• Bobby Ellis, 84, Jamaican trumpeter, pneumonia-related illness.
• Francis Flood, 86, Irish racehorse trainer.
• Huw Jones, 82, Welsh Anglican bishop.
• Sergei Likhachev, 76, Azeri-born Russian tennis player and coach.
• William McKelvey, 82, British politician, MP for Kilmarnock and Loudoun.
• Fred Roots, 93, Canadian geologist.
• Gary Sprake, 71, Welsh footballer.
• Sir Sigmund Sternberg, 95, Hungarian-born British philanthropist, businessman and Labour Party donor.
• Turki bin Saud al-Kabir, Saudi prince and convicted murderer, executed by beheading.
• Ken Wiwa, 47, Nigerian journalist and author, stroke.

  19

• Tommy Bartlett, 88, American tennis and basketball coach.
• Safet Berisha, 66, Albanian footballer.
• Mark Birch, 67, British jockey.
• Radu Câmpeanu, 94, Romanian politician, Senator.
• Milka Canić, 72, Serbian television presenter and academic.
• Yvette Chauviré, 99, French prima ballerina.
• Luis María Echeberría, 76, Spanish footballer.
• Joe Kirrene, 85, American baseball player.
• Fergus O'Brien, 86, Irish politician, TD, Lord Mayor of Dublin.
• Rough Quest, 30, British racehorse, winner of the 1996 Grand National, euthanised.
• Pat Scott, 87, American baseball player.
• Mary Sheriff, 66, American art historian.
• Norman Sherry, 91, British author.
• Sammy Smyth, 91, Northern Irish footballer.
• Giovanni Steffè, 88, Italian Olympic rower.

  20

• Achieng Abura, 50s, Kenyan musician.
• Edward A. Allworth, 95, American historian.
• Henry J. M. Barnett, 94, Canadian physician.
• David Bellini, 43, Italian screenwriter, lymphoma.
• Bob Blauner, 87, American sociologist.
• William G. Bowen, 83, American educator, President of Princeton University.
• Kenneth Brandt, 77, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
• Gail Cogdill, 79, American football player.
• Roy D'Andrade, 84, American psychological anthropologist.
• Uwe Dreher, 56, German footballer.
• Seiji Hirao, 53, Japanese rugby union player and coach, bile duct cancer.
• Kaneta Kimotsuki, 80, Japanese voice actor, pneumonia.
• Roger Lallemand, 84, Belgian lawyer and politician, President of the Senate.
• Eric Harold Mansfield, 93, British aeronautical engineer.
• Michael Massee, 64, American actor, stomach cancer.
• Issifou Okoulou-Kantchati, 65, Togolese politician.
• Giorgos Pavlidis, 60, Greek politician, Governor of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, cancer.
• Svetlana Penkina, 65, Belarusian actress.
• Benedict Read, 71, British art historian.
• Simone Schaller, 104, American hurdler.
• Stanley Silverstein, 91, American footwear manufacturer.
• Junko Tabei, 77, Japanese mountaineer, first woman to climb Mount Everest, peritoneal cancer.
• Mieke Telkamp, 82, Dutch singer.
• Robert Weber, 92, American cartoonist.

  21

• Wally Argus, 95, New Zealand rugby union player.
• Paweł Baumann, 33, Polish Olympic sprint canoer, world championship silver medalist.
• Margaret Benyon, 76, British hologram artist.
• Dave Cash, 74, British radio presenter.
• Richard Cavendish, 86, British occult writer.
• Mary Keating Croce, 87, American politician.
• Ted Follows, 89, Canadian actor.
• Constantin Frățilă, 74, Romanian footballer.
• Frans Jozef van der Heijden, 78, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives, euthanasia.
• Roy Jennings, 84, English footballer.
• Dan Johnston, 77, American lawyer and politician.
• Satyadev Katare, 61, Indian politician.
• George Konik, 79, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Kenji Kosaka, 70, Japanese politician, Minister of Education.
• Manfred Krug, 79, German actor, singer, and author.
• Frenchy Martin, 69, Canadian professional wrestler and manager, bladder cancer.
• Bob McCord, 82, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Kevin Meaney, 60, American comedian and actor.
• Clément Michu, 79, French actor.
• Paolo Micolini, 77, Italian politician.
• Moscow Flyer, 22, Irish racehorse, colic.
• Richard Nicoll, 39, British-Australian fashion designer, heart attack.
• Janet Patterson, 60, Australian costume designer.
• David Pope, 54, American basketball player.
• Jerry Rullo, 93, American basketball player.
• Raine Spencer, Countess Spencer, 87, British socialite and politician.
• C. Peter Wagner, 86, American theologian and religious leader.
• Robert Windom, 86, American physician.

  22

• Martin Aitchison, 96, British illustrator.
• Anthony Bryer, 78, British historian.
• José Oscar Barahona Castillo, 77, Salvadoran Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of San Vicente.
• Steve Dillon, 54, English comic book artist, appendicitis.
• Gordon Hamilton, 50, Scottish climate scientist, snowmobile crash.
• Gavin MacFadyen, 76, American investigative journalist and filmmaker.
• Mehar Mittal, 80, Indian Punjabi actor and producer.
• Monarchos, 18, American Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the 2001 Kentucky Derby.
• Antoon Postma, 87, Dutch anthropologist.
• Colin Snedeker, 80, British-born American chemist, inventor of the washable crayon.
• Sheri S. Tepper, 87, American science fiction author.
• Frans Tutuhatunewa, 93, Indonesian politician, President in Exile of Republic of South Maluku.
• Bob Vanatta, 98, American college basketball coach.
• Valeriya Zaklunna, 74, Ukrainian actress and politician, Member of Verkhovna Rada.

  23

• Mike Bolan, 83, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.
• Pete Burns, 57, English singer-songwriter, cardiac arrest.
• Jack Chick, 92, American cartoonist and fundamentalist Christian publisher.
• Tom Hayden, 76, American writer, politician and activist, member of the California State Senate.
• Mikijirō Hira, 82, Japanese actor.
• Nerses Hovhannisyan, 78, Armenian film director, actor and screenwriter.
• Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani, 84, Qatari monarch, Emir.
• William Löfqvist, 69, Swedish ice hockey player, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Harold Mann, 78, Canadian boxer, Commonwealth Games gold medalist.
• Jimmy Perry, 93, English actor and screenwriter.
• Heinz Poenn, 82, Canadian Olympic slalom canoeist.
• Bob Saunders, 87, American politician, member of the Florida Senate.
• Jerzy Szymczyk, 74, Polish Olympic volleyball player.
• Haguroiwa Tomomi, 70, Japanese sumo wrestler, kidney failure.
• Wim van der Voort, 93, Dutch speed skater, Olympic silver medalist.

  24

• Jorge Batlle, 88, Uruguayan politician, President, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Gwanda Chakuamba, 82, Malawian politician.
• Eddy Christiani, 98, Dutch musician and songwriter.
• Benjamin Creme, 93, Scottish artist, author and esotericist.
• Roland Dobbs, 91, British physicist.
• Bill Duckworth, 98, Australian footballer.
• Herón Escobar, 62, Mexican politician, member of Congress.
• Bruce Goodluck, 83, Australian politician.
• Reinhard Häfner, 64, German footballer, Olympic champion.
• Bohdan Hawrylyshyn, 90, Ukrainian-born Canadian economist.
• Siv Holma, 64, Swedish politician, MP for Norrbotten, cancer.
• W. Dudley Johnson, 86, American surgeon.
• Hellmut von Leipzig, 95, German soldier.
• Eric Loiselet, 56, French politician.
• Harry Merlo, 91, American business and sports executive.
• Vic Rapp, 86, American-Canadian football coach.
• Eugeniusz Rudnik, 83, Polish composer and sound engineer.
• Rolf Heinrich Sabersky, 96, German-born American mechanical engineer.
• Jack Sellers, 72, American race car driver.
• Johan Stølan, 77, Norwegian politician.
• Felix Ungacta, 78, Guamanian politician, Mayor of Hagåtña.
• Pierre Vallon, 89, French politician.
• Bobby Vee, 73, American pop singer and actor, Alzheimer's disease.
• Charles Wolf Jr., 92, American economist, cardiac arrest.
• John P. Woodall, 81, British entomologist.

  25

• Margaret Ashcroft, 85, British television actress.
• Margit Bara, 88, Hungarian actress.
• Kevin Curran, 59, American television writer, cancer.
• Howard Davies, 71, British theatre and television director.
• Mel Haber, 80, American philanthropist, and hotel and restaurant proprietor.
• Safa Haeri, 79, Iranian-born French journalist.
• Mohamed Nadir Hamimid, 75, Algerian politician.
• Bob Hoover, 94, American Air Force test pilot.
• Bjørn Lidin Hansen, 27, Norwegian footballer, suicide.
• Burnet R. Maybank Jr., 92, American lawyer and politician, Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina.
• Krešo Omerzel, 59, Slovenian speedway rider and coach.
• Edouard Pliner, 80, Russian figure skating coach.
• Doug Pyzer, 93, Canadian football player.
• Thomas Rentschler, 84, American politician.
• Vaino Spencer, 96, American judge.
• Jerzy Szacki, 87, Polish sociologist.
• Georges Thines, 93, Belgian scientist.
• Carlos Alberto Torres, 72, Brazilian football player and manager, world champion, heart attack.

  26

• Melis Abzalov, 77, Uzbek filmmaker.
• Raj Begum, 89, Indian singer.
• Melpomeni Çobani, 88, Albanian actress.
• Filomeno Codiñera, 77, Filipino baseball and softball player.
• Tim Couzens, 72, South African historian.
• Kent Frizzell, 87, American attorney and politician.
• Mark Johnson, 65, American baseball umpire.
• Gérard Lamy, 97, Canadian politician.
• Birger Larsen, 54, Danish film director.
• William Eteki Mboumoua, 83, Cameroonian politician and diplomat.
• Donald C. Pogue, 69, American federal judge, U.S. Court of International Trade.
• Taqi Tabatabaei Qomi, 93, Iranian grand ayatollah.
• Luciano Rispoli, 84, Italian television and radio writer and presenter.
• Samuele Schiavina, 45, Italian racing cyclist.
• Ali Hussein Shihab, 55, Iraqi footballer.
• Yuichi Takai, 84, Japanese writer, heart failure.

  27

• João Lobo Antunes, 72, Portuguese neurosurgeon, melanoma.
• Victor Cannings, 97, English cricketer.
• René Chamussy, 80, French-Lebanese priest and rector.
• Jim Eddy, 80, American football coach.
• Elda Grin, 88, Armenian writer and psychologist.
• Brian Hill, 75, English footballer.
• Ruben Hovsepyan, 77, Armenian author and politician.
• Jolanda Insana, 79, Italian poet and translator, Viareggio Prize recipient.
• Fatim Jawara, 19, Gambian footballer, drowned.
• Susan Lindquist, 67, American biologist, cancer.
• Frank Marchlewski, 73, American football player.
• Bill Miller, 86, American javelin thrower, Olympic silver medalist.
• Nelson Pinedo, 88, Colombian singer, stroke.'
• Hazel Shermet, 96, American comedienne, actress and singer.
• Pentti Siimes, 87, Finnish actor.
• Takahito, Prince Mikasa, 100, Japanese royal, heart failure.
• Francis Tong Hui, 83, Chinese clandestine Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Yan’an.
• David Tyack, 85, American historian, Parkinson's disease.
• Bobby Wellins, 80, Scottish jazz saxophonist.
• John Zacherle, 98, American television and radio personality and voice actor.
• Vladimir Zemlyanikin, 83, Russian film and theater actor.

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• Gillon Aitken, 78, English literary agent.
• Melhem Barakat, 71, Lebanese singer.
• Sir Nicholas Brathwaite, 91, Grenadian politician, Prime Minister, Chairman of the Interim Advisory Council.
• H. Kay Hedge, 88, American politician, member of the Iowa Senate.
• Shashikala Kakodkar, 81, Indian politician.
• Angeline Kopka, 100, American politician, member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives.

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• Robert Belfanti, 68, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
• Norman Brokaw, 89, American talent agent.
• Nguyễn Văn Chính, 92, Vietnamese politician.
• Paul Demers, 60, Canadian singer-songwriter
• Roland Dyens, 61, French classical guitarist and composer.
• Tony Gauci, 75, Maltese businessman, witness in the Lockerbie bombing case.
• Christiane Gilles, 86, French trade unionist
• Raymond Gilmour, 56 or 57, Northern Irish undercover agent, infiltrated INLA and PIRA.
• E. Lee Hennessee, 64, American hedge fund manager.
• John Hicks, 65, American football player, diabetes.
• Francis Huxley, 93, British anthropologist.
• Stefan Jentsch, 61, German biologist.
• Dave Lanning, 78, English sports commentator.
• Paul Luebke, 70, American politician, member of the North Carolina House of Representatives, lymphoma.
• Thorvald Mellingen, 81, Norwegian engineer.
• Fernando Moresi, 46, Argentine field hockey player, Pan American champion.
• Kalle Reichelt, 82, Norwegian physician.
• John D. Roberts, 98, American chemist.
• Geraldo Scarpone Caporale, 88, American-born Honduran Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Comayagua.
• Pen Sovan, 80, Cambodian politician, Prime Minister.
• Barry Stout, 79, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and Senate.
• Tom Weal, 87, New Zealand politician.

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• Törner Åhsman, 85, Swedish boxer.
• Reg Boorman, 80, New Zealand politician, MP for Wairarapa.
• Jack Braughton, 95, British Olympic long distance runner.
• Fausto Cayambe, 40, Ecuadorian politician.
• James Galanos, 92, American fashion designer.
• Tammy Grimes, 82, American actress.
• Barney Hartman, 99, Canadian skeet shooter.
• Imre Józsa, 62, Hungarian actor.
• Betty Ann Kennedy, 86, American bridge player.
• Gil Krueger, 87, American football coach.
• Don Marshall, 80, American actor.
• David Nash, 77, Welsh rugby union player.
• Otaru Salihu Ohize, 63, Nigerian politician.
• Curly Putman, 85, American songwriter.
• Simon Relph, 76, British film producer and assistant director, pneumonia.
• René Velázquez Valenzuela, Mexican suspected hitman, leader of the Sinaloa Cartel, shot.

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• Natalie Babbitt, 84, American children's author and illustrator, lung cancer.
• Eric Christiansen, 79, British medieval historian.
• Abdul Majid Cockar, 93, Kenyan judge, Chief Justice.
• Paul Detienne, 91, Belgian Jesuit priest, scholar and writer of Bengali literature.
• Silvio Gazzaniga, 95, Italian sculptor.
• Jimmy Gray, 90, English cricketer.
• Andy Hill, 54, American politician, member of the Washington Senate, lung cancer.
• Huo Xuan, 28, Chinese volleyball player, heart attack.
• Gene La Rocque, 98, American rear admiral.
• Stanley Leavy, 101, American psychoanalyst.
• Ray Mabbutt, 80, English footballer, heart attack.
• Reynaldo Miravalles, 93, Cuban actor.
• Abdel Kader Morchid, 77-78, Moroccan footballer.
• Lionel Morrison, 81, South African-born British journalist and trade unionist.
• Number 16, 43, Australian trapdoor spider, longest-lived spider on record, parasitic wasp sting.
• Klaus Schulten, 69, German-American physicist.
• Patrick Sharkey, 85, Irish Olympic boxer.
• Vladimir Zeldin, 101, Russian theater and film actor, People's Artist of the USSR.