Deaths in October 2017

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship, what subject was noted for, cause of death, and reference.

  October 2017

1

• Olivier Baudry, 44, French footballer.
• Hansje Bunschoten, 59, Dutch Olympic swimmer and television presenter, complications from breast cancer.
• Pierluigi Cappello, 50, Italian poet, Viareggio Prize laureate.
• Dao Shixun, 89, Chinese politician.
• Bob Deacon, 73, British social scientist.
• Edward B. Giller, 99, American USAF major general.
• Robert D. Hales, 85, American religious leader.
• Andy Hopkins, 67, American football player.
• Arthur Janov, 93, American psychologist, complications from a stroke.
• Hugh Kearney, 93, British historian.
• František Listopad, 95, Czech-born Portuguese poet, prose writer and director.
• Donald James Mackinnon, 88, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Box Hill.
• Edmond Maire, 86, French labor union leader, secretary general of CFDT.
• István Mészáros, 86, Hungarian Marxist philosopher '' and professor.
• Muktar Muhammed, 72, Nigerian military officer, Governor of Kaduna, cancer.
• Angelika Muharukua, 59, Namibian Herero politician, MP.
• Samuel Irving Newhouse Jr., 89, American publisher and businessman.
• Stephen Paddock, 64, American gunman, suicide by gunshot.
• José Pratas, 59, Portuguese football referee.
• Philippe Rahmy, 52, Swiss poet and writer, Swiss Literature Awards laureate.
• Eliu Rivera, 73, Puerto Rican activist and politician.
• Dave Strader, 62, American sportscaster, cholangiocarcinoma.
• John Swinburne, 87, Scottish politician, founder of SSCUP and member of Parliament.
• Larissa Volpert, 91, Russian-Estonian philologist and chess Woman Grandmaster, Soviet women's chess champion.

  2

• Peter Burke, 90, New Zealand rugby union player.
• Warren Burton, 72, American actor and voice actor.
• Evangelina Elizondo, 88, Mexican actress, artist and singer.
• Robert Elsie, 67, Canadian-born German Albanologist, linguist and translator, motor neuron disease.
• Solly Hemus, 94, American baseball player and manager.
• Klaus Huber, 92, Swiss composer and academic.
• Azra Kolaković, 40, Bosnian pop singer, uterine cancer.
• Edwin N. Lightfoot, 92, American biochemical engineer.
• Friedrich von Löffelholz, 62, German Olympic time trials cyclist and university lecturer.
• Hanumant Moreshwar Marathe, 77, Indian writer and journalist.
• Edward Mhinga, 89, South African politician, Chief Minister of Gazankulu.
• Øyvin Norborg, 78, Norwegian newspaper editor.
• Simon Ostrach, 93, American scientist.
• Paul Otellini, 67, American businessman, CEO of Intel.
• Antonio Pantojas, 68, Puerto Rican actor, dancer, playwright and female impersonator, heart attack.
• Jim Patterson, 67, American politician, member of the Alabama House of Representatives, heart attack.
• Marcel Germain Perrier, 84, French Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Pamiers.
• Tom Petty, 66, American Hall of Fame musician and voice actor, accidental drug overdose.
• Jean Roesser, 87, American politician, member of the Maryland Senate, complications of leukemia.
• Patrocinio Samudio, 42, Paraguayan footballer, heart attack.
• Neil Smelser, 87, American sociologist.
• Barbara Tisserat, 66, American lithographer, lung cancer.
• Robert Yates, 74, American racing team owner, NASCAR Winston Cup champion, liver cancer.

  3

• Rodney Bickerstaffe, 72, British trade unionist, General Secretary of NUPE and UNISON.
• Robert Henry Bragg Jr., 98, American physicist.
• Ming Chang, 85, Chinese-born American naval officer.
• Curtis Ford Jr., 95, American politician, member of the Texas House of Representatives.
• Bob Gannon, 58, American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
• Chittani Ramachandra Hegde, 84, Indian Yakshagana artist, stroke.
• John Herrnstein, 79, American baseball player.
• Norm Jamison, 67, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, liver cancer.
• Ninja Jorgensen, 77, American Olympic volleyball player.
• Michel Jouvet, 91, French oneirologist and neurobiologist, developer of Modafinil and discoverer of REM sleep.
• Isabella Karle, 95, American scientist, brain tumor.
• Kim Un-yong, 86, South Korean sports administrator, President of World Taekwondo Federation.
• Jack Laver, 100, Australian cricketer.
• André Lévy, 91, French sinologist and translator.
• Victorino Martín Andrés, 88, Spanish breeder of fighting bulls, stroke.
• Francesco Martino, 80, Italian politician, President of Sicily.
• Les Mutrie, 66, English footballer, cancer.
• Dieter Nörr, 86, German scholar of ancient law.
• Lance Russell, 91, American professional wrestling announcer and commentator, complications from a broken hip.
• Jalal Talabani, 83, Iraqi-Kurdish politician, Prime Minister and President, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Norma Williams, 88, New Zealand swimmer, British Empire Games silver medallist.

  4

• Davoud Ahmadinejad, 67, Iranian politician, heart attack.
• Lawrence Argent, 60, British-born American sculptor, cardiac arrest
• Atiqa Bano, 77, Indian educationist and curator.
• Vivian Castleberry, 95, American journalist and newspaper editor.
• Bronisław Chromy, 92, Polish sculptor.
• Liam Cosgrave, 97, Irish politician, Taoiseach.
• Lyudmila Gureyeva, 74, Ukrainian-born Russian volleyball player, Olympic silver medalist.
• Rufus Hannah, 63, American advocate for homeless rights, traffic collision.
• Janis Hansen, 74, American singer and author, myelofibrosis and acute myeloid leukemia.
• Karel Kolář, 61, Czech athlete, European Indoor champion.
• Edward Mazurek, 78, American politician, member of the Maine House of Representatives, and Maine Senate.
• John Miller, 79, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Washington's 1st congressional district, cancer.
• Jesús Mosterín, 76, Spanish anthropologist and philosopher of science, lung cancer.
• Richard Paris, 75, Australian cyclist.
• Jerry Ross, 84, American producer and songwriter, founder of Heritage and Colossus Records, prostate cancer.
• Keith Schmidt, 95, Australian cricketer.
• Yosihiko H. Sinoto, 93, Japanese-born American anthropologist.
• William Tepper, 69, American actor and screenwriter, heart attack.
• Barry Thomas, 85, American sound engineer, stroke.

  5

• Helley de Abreu Silva Batista, 43, Brazilian teacher, burns.
• Armin Delong, 92, Czech physicist.
• Ruth Escobar, 81, Portuguese-born Brazilian actress and politician, founder of Teatro Ruth Escobar.
• Kelly Gage, 92, American attorney and politician, member of the Minnesota Senate.
• Toon Geurts, 85, Dutch sprint canoer, Olympic silver medalist.
• Georges Griffiths, 27, Ivorian footballer, shot.
• Ted Haley, 96, American politician and surgeon.
• Dan Hanganu, 78, Romanian-born Canadian architect.
• Nora Johnson, 84, American author.
• Eberhard van der Laan, 62, Dutch politician and lawyer, Minister for Housing, Communities and Integration, Mayor of Amsterdam, lung cancer.
• António de Macedo, 86, Portuguese filmmaker, esotericism writer and professor.
• Trevor Martin, 87, Scottish actor.
• Kurt Mislow, 94, German-born American chemist.
• Peter Plouviez, 86, British trade union leader, General Secretary of Equity.
• Giorgio Pressburger, 80, Hungarian-born Italian writer, Viareggio Prize laureate.
• Anna Stewart, 53, British businesswoman, CEO of Laing O'Rourke, non-executive director of Babcock International.
• Sylke Tempel, 54, German journalist and writer, struck by a tree.
• François Xavier Nguyên Van Sang, 85, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Thái Bình.
• Bilat Paswan Vihangam, 77, Indian writer and politician.
• Anne Wiazemsky, 70, French actress and writer, breast cancer.

  6

• Roberto Anzolin, 79, Italian footballer.
• Tarnia Baker, 50, South African politician, member of the National Assembly, traffic collision.
• Brian Bannon, 87, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Rockdale.
• Holly Block, 58, American museologist, gallery director in Art in General and Director of Bronx Museum of the Arts, breast cancer.
• Terry Downes, 81, British boxer, world champion and actor.
• Darsi Ferrer Ramírez, 47, Cuban journalist, doctor and Castro dissident, prisoner of conscience.
• Gao Mang, 90–91, Chinese translator.
• Lou Gare, 78, English jazz saxophonist.
• Marek Gołąb, 77, Polish weightlifter, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Connie Hawkins, 75, American Hall of Fame basketball player.
• Hervé L. Leroux, 60, French fashion designer, founder of Hervé Leger, ruptured aneurysm.
• David Marks, 64, British architect and entrepreneur, co-designer of London Eye and British Airways i360 observation tower.
• Ralphie May, 45, American comedian, cardiac arrest.
• Ian McNeill, 85, Scottish football player and manager.
• Mary Moore, 87, British author and diplomat.
• Angelo Munzone, 84, Italian politician, Mayor of Catania.
• Dick Roeding, 86, American politician, member of the Kentucky Senate.
• Bunny Sigler, 76, American songwriter and record producer, heart attack.
• Judy Stone, 93, American film critic and author.
• Ray Turnbull, 78, Canadian curler, world championship silver medalist, pneumonia.

  7

• Kazys Almenas, 82, Lithuanian physicist, engineer and publisher.
• Hugo Budinger, 90, German field hockey player, Olympic bronze medalist.
• George Dempsey, 88, American basketball player.
• Hugo Dollheiser, 90, German field hockey player, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Vyacheslav Ivanov, 88, Russian philologist and semiotician, co-developer of glottalic theory.
• Jan Arvid Johansen, 70, Norwegian musician, cancer.
• Ole Krarup, 82, Danish politician, MEP.
• Jim Landis, 83, American baseball player, cancer.
• Cosimo Mele, 60, Italian politician, Deputy, Mayor of Carovigno, stroke.
• Patrick Nair, 85, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Meerut.
• Antun Rudinski, 80, Serbian football manager and player.
• Konstantin Sarsania, 49, Russian football player and manager.
• Kundan Shah, 69, Indian film director, heart attack.
• Gaya Singh, 74, Indian politician, Senator.
• Jane Slowey, British charity worker.
• Wacław Świerzawski, 90, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Sandomierz.
• Washington SyCip, 96, Filipino accountant, founder of the Asian Institute of Management and SGV & Company.

  8

• Henedina Abad, 62, Filipino politician, member of the House of Representatives for Batanes, cancer
• Coriún Aharonián, 77, Uruguayan electroacoustic music composer and musicologist.
• Loula Anagnostaki, 88, Greek dramatist.
• László Aradszky, 82, Hungarian pop singer.
• Aldo Biscardi, 86, Italian football broadcaster.
• Mike Boland, 62, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Gianni Bonagura, 91, Italian actor and voice actor.
• Slim Chaker, 56, Tunisian politician, Minister of Youth and Sports, Minister of Finance and Minister of Public Health, heart disease.
• Michel Fernando Costa, 36, Brazilian footballer, leukemia.
• Lee Delano, 86, American actor.
• Mlondi Dlamini, 20, South African footballer, traffic collision.
• Edna Dummerth, 93, American baseball player.
• Darryl Edestrand, 71, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Merrill Heatter, 91, American screenwriter and producer.
• Mark S. Joshi, 48, British mathematician, heart attack.
• Jerry Kleczka, 73, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Wisconsin's 4th congressional district.
• Don Lock, 81, American baseball player.
• Gary Lowe, 83, American football player.
• Beverly Reid O'Connell, 52, American federal judge, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.
• Grady Tate, 85, American jazz drummer and singer.
• Y. A. Tittle, 90, American football player.
• Birgitta Ulfsson, 89, Finnish-Swedish actress.

  9

• Manuel Busto, 85, French racing cyclist.
• Armando Calderón Sol, 69, Salvadoran politician, President, lung cancer.
• Tony Calvento, 63, Filipino journalist, multiple organ failure.
• Allan Chumak, 82, Russian faith healer.
• Michel Diefenbacher, 70, French politician.
• Gary Flather, 80, English judge and disability rights campaigner.
• ElizaBeth Gilligan, 55, American fantasy author, cancer.
• Dale Hagerman, 90, American pharmacist, co-founder of Diplomat Pharmacy.
• Roy Hawes, 91, American baseball player.
• Ben Hawkins, 73, American football player.
• Hessie, 81, Cuban-born French-Montenegrin textile artist.
• Yoji Kondo, 84, Japanese astrophysicist and author.
• Vincent La Selva, 88, American conductor, complications of dementia.
• Robin Ling, 90, British orthopaedic surgeon.
• Rafe Mair, 85, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia.
• Victor Malu, 70, Nigerian military officer, Chief of Army Staff.
• Mike McQueen, 67, American baseball player.
• Larry Paul, 65, British boxer.
• Sergei Prigoda, 59, Russian football player and manager.
• Bill Puterbaugh, 81, American racing driver.
• M. V. S. Haranatha Rao, 70, Indian playwright and actor, heart attack.
• Jimmy Reid, 81, Scottish footballer.
• Jean Rochefort, 87, French actor.
• Fernando de Szyszlo, 92, Peruvian painter, sculptor and printmaker.
• József Tóth, 88, Hungarian footballer.

  10

• Kassim Ahmad, 84, Malaysian writer and politician, lung illness.
• David Chapman, 42, American handball player.
• Cho Jin-ho, 44, South Korean football player and manager, heart attack.
• Nick Corvino, 30, American political staffer, shot.
• Charles E. Gibson Jr., 91, American lawyer, Attorney General of Vermont.
• Pentti Holappa, 90, Finnish poet and writer.
• A. Daniel O'Neal, 81, American executive.
• Sandra Ruddick, 85, American artistic gymnast.
• Bob Schiller, 98, American screenwriter, Emmy winner.
• Lawrence Spence, 85, English cricketer.
• Alma Staudinger, 96, Austrian Olympic diver
• Brian "Stack" Stevens, 77, English rugby union player.

  11

• Emmanuel Borlaza, 81, Filipino film director and writer, heart attack.
• Zig Byfield, 73, English actor.
• Don Pedro Colley, 79, American actor, cancer.
• John Fitzallen, 82, Australian football player.
• James R. Ford, 91, American politician, Mayor of Tallahassee, Florida.
• Chikara Hashimoto, 83, Japanese baseball player and actor, lung cancer.
• Dick Hewitt, 74, English footballer.
• Paul Hufnagle, 81, American politician and businessman, Member of Minnesota House of Representatives.
• Sir Clifford Husbands, 91, Barbadian politician and judge, Governor-General.
• Jeremy, 2, British left-coiled snail.
• Gloria Johnson-Powell, 81, American child psychiatrist.
• Lika Kavzharadze, 57, Georgian actress.
• Karl-Heinz Kipp, 93, Swiss-German billionaire department store and hotel owner.
• Paolo Lunardon, 87, Italian clergyman, Abbot of San Paolo fuori le mura.
• Betty Moczynski, 91, American baseball player.
• Christiane Mora, 78, French politician and historian, MP and Mayor of Loches.
• Nélio José Nicolai, 77, Brazilian electrotechnician, inventor of Caller ID.
• Shen Zuyan, 82, Chinese physicist.
• Sir Richard Swinburn, 79, British army general, Commander UK Field Army.

  12

• Derek Blackburn, 83, Canadian politician, MP for Brant.
• Joan Blos, 89, American author.
• Simon Clarke, 79, English rugby union player.
• Muntaka Connmassie, 71, Nigerian jurist, Supreme Court.
• Margarita D'Amico, 79, Venezuelan journalist and academic.
• Keith Doyle, 92, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Vaucluse.
• Grape-kun, 21, Japanese Humboldt penguin.
• Bo Holmström, 78, Swedish journalist.
• Hu Bo, 29, Chinese novelist and film director, suicide.
• Ed Long, 83, American politician, member of the Oklahoma Senate.
• Andy McGhee, 89, American jazz saxophonist.
• Erwin Moser, 63, Austrian author.
• Horst Posdorf, 69, German politician, MEP.
• Robert Lynn Pruett, 38, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.

  13

• Bernd Bonwetsch, 76, German historian, founding director of German Historical Institute Moscow.
• Betty Campbell, 82, Welsh community activist and head teacher.
• Satish Chandra, 94, Indian historian.
• Lady Jean Fforde, 96, British aristocrat and codebreaker.
• Pierre Hanon, 80, Belgian footballer.
• William Lombardy, 79, American chess grandmaster, heart attack.
• Ted Z. Robertson, 96, American judge, Texas Supreme Court justice.
• Iain Rogerson, 56, British actor, complications from diabetes.
• P. S. Soosaithasan, 83, Sri Lankan politician, MP for Mannar.
• Albert Zafy, 90, Malagasy politician, President, stroke.

  14

• Wolfgang Bötsch, 79, German politician, MP and Federal Minister of Post and Telecommunications.
• Lazhar Bououni, 69, Tunisian politician and professor, Minister of Higher Education and Research and Justice, President of University of Sousse and University of Manouba.
• Emmanuel Aboagye Didieye, 40, Ghanaian politician, MP for Afram Plains North.
• Patrick Haslam, 69, British racehorse trainer, motor neurone disease.
• Inside Information, 26, American racehorse.
• Fulgence Werner Le Roy, 93, Belgian-born South African Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Polokwane.
• Yambo Ouologuem, 77, Malian writer.
• Lourdes Quisumbing, 96, Filipino politician, Secretary of Education, Culture and Sports.
• Marian Cannon Schlesinger, 105, American artist and author.
• Daniel Webb, 28, American baseball player, ATV collision.
• Richard Wilbur, 96, American poet and literary translator, Pulitzer Prize winner.

  15

• Chinggoy Alonzo, 67, Filipino actor, cancer.
• Dave Bry, 46, American music journalist and editor, cancer.
• Cathy Elliott, 60, Canadian playwright, actress and composer, struck by a car.
• Choirul Huda, 38, Indonesian footballer, cardiac arrest due to collision with teammate.
• Burrhead Jones, 80, American professional wrestler.
• Shamsher Khan, 84, Indian Olympic swimmer.
• Peter Lumsden, 88, British racing driver.
• Gonzalo Martínez Corbalá, 89, Mexican politician and diplomat, MP, Senator, Governor of San Luis Potosí.
• Sir Bert Massie, 68, British disability rights campaigner, Chairman of Disability Rights Commission, cancer.
• Xavier Johnsai Munyongani, 67, Zimbabwean Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Gweru.
• Miloš Radulović, 88, Montenegrin politician, President of Yugoslavia.
• Alison Robins, 97, British military communications listener.
• Rose Schwarz, 82, German missionary.
• Hernán Silva, 68, Chilean football referee.
• Herbert Suchiang, 86, Indian politician, cardiac arrest.
• Lekh Tandon, 88, Indian film director and actor.
• Serge Thion, 75, French sociologist and Holocaust denier, member of French National Center for Scientific Research.
• William Turnage, 74, American conservationist, business manager of Ansel Adams, cancer.

  16

• John Andreason, 88, American politician, member of the Idaho Senate, liver cancer.
• Kevin Cadle, 62, American-born British basketball coach and presenter.
• Daphne Caruana Galizia, 53, Maltese blogger and journalist, car bomb.
• Dharmakkan Dhanaraj, 67, Indian Christian theologian.
• Roy Dotrice, 94, British actor, Tony winner.
• John Dunsworth, 71, Canadian actor.
• Fedor Glushchenko, 73, Russian conductor and violinist.
• Isnilon Hapilon, 51, Filipino Islamist militant, shot.
• Sean Hughes, 51, Irish comedian and actor, cirrhosis.
• Koichi Kishi, 77, Japanese politician, Mayor of Kaneyama and member of the House of Councillors.
• Ma Lin, 92, Hong Kong biochemist, Vice-Chancellor of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
• Omar Maute, 37, Filipino Islamist militant, shot.
• Ajmal Mian, 83, Pakistani jurist, Chief Justice.
• David Pettifor, 72, British metallurgist.
• Marvin Rodríguez, 82, Costa Rican football player and coach.
• Phillip V. Sanchez, 88, American diplomat, ambassador to Honduras and Colombia.
• Iain Shedden, 60, Scottish-Australian musician and journalist, laryngeal cancer.
• Anthony Simonds-Gooding, 80, Irish executive.
• Heather Slade-Lipkin, 70, English pianist, harpsichordist and music teacher.
• Harriette Thompson, 94, American pianist.
• Yan Shunkai, 80, Chinese comedian, actor and film director.

  17

• Ed Barnowski, 74, American baseball player.
• Ian Baxter, 80, British army officer.
• Robert Butow, 93, American historian.
• Danielle Darrieux, 100, French actress and singer, complications from a fall.
• Gord Downie, 53, Canadian musician and activist, glioblastoma.
• Mychael Knight, 39, American fashion designer.
• Ryszard Kowalczyk, 80, Polish scientist and Soviet dissident.
• Ingvar Lidholm, 96, Swedish composer.
• Michele Marsh, 63, American television journalist, breast cancer.
• Giuseppe Massa, 69, Italian footballer.
• Julian May, 86, American science fiction writer.
• Dick Morley, 84, American electrical engineer, inventor of the programmable logic controller.
• Dunc Rousseau, 72, Canadian ice hockey player, cancer.
• Harry Stradling Jr., 92, American cinematographer.

  18

• Gregory Baum, 94, Canadian theologian.
• Brent Briscoe, 56, American actor and screenwriter, complications from a fall.
• Eamonn Campbell, 70, Irish musician.
• Arlie F. Culp, 91, American politician.
• Helen DeVos, 90, American philanthropist, stroke complications.
• Jerry Helluin, 88, American football player.
• Phil Miller, 68, English guitarist.
• Dorothy Morrison, 98, American child actress.
• Taizo Nishimuro, 81, Japanese businessman.
• Eva Paulusová-Benešová, 80, Czech Olympic cross-country skier.
• Marino Perani, 77, Italian football manager and player.
• John Phillips, 83, English cricketer.
• Sir Christopher Pitchford, 70, British jurist, Lord Justice of Appeal, motor neurone disease.
• Unity Spencer, 87, British artist.
• Ricardo Vidal, 86, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate and cardinal, Archbishop of Lipa and Cebu, President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference, sepsis.
• Ram Singh Yadav, 74, Indian politician, heart attack.
• Yeoh Tiong Lay, 87, Malaysian businessman.
• Issam Zahreddine, 56, Syrian Republican Guard major general, landmine explosion.

  19

• Jeanne Brousse, 96, French resistance member.
• Edmund Cotter, 90, New Zealand mountaineer.
• Dick DiBiaso, 76, American college basketball coach.
• Ken Gowers, 81, English rugby league player.
• Calvin Hultman, 76, American politician, member of the Iowa Senate.
• Umberto Lenzi, 86, Italian film director.
• Miguel Ángel Loayza, 77, Peruvian football player.
• Castor Paul Msemwa, 62, Tanzanian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tunduru-Masasi.
• Michael Pitfield, 80, Canadian politician, Clerk of the Privy Council and Senator, Parkinson's disease.
• Brian Riley, 80, English footballer.

  20

• Fay Chiang, 65, American poet, complications from cancer.
• Amal Dutta, 84, Indian politician.
• Ugo Fangareggi, 79, Italian actor, voice actor and comedian, Parkinson's disease.
• Rudolf Gorenflo, 87, German mathematician.
• Stan Kowalski, 91, American professional wrestler.
• Boris Lindqvist, 76, Swedish rock singer.
• Federico Luppi, 81, Argentine-Spanish actor.
• Russell Mawby, 89, American businessman, CEO of W. K. Kellogg Foundation.
• Judith McGrath, 70, Australian actress.
• Dick Noel, 90, American band singer.
• Justin Reed, 35, American basketball player, angiosarcoma.
• Betty Bone Schiess, 94, American Episcopal priest.
• Roland Ströhm, 89, Swedish Olympic cyclist.
• Mustapha Tlili, 80, Tunisian novelist.
• Thuravoor Viswambharan, 74, Indian Vedic scholar and writer.

  21

• Martin Eric Ain, 50, American-born Swiss bassist and entrepreneur, heart attack.
• Donald Bain, 82, American writer, heart failure.
• Rosaura Barahona, 75, Mexican journalist and feminist writer, pulmonary disease.
• Denise P. Barlow, 67, British geneticist.
• Kazimierz Chodakowski, 88, Polish ice hockey player.
• Chuck Churn, 87, American baseball player.
• Emilio D'Amore, 101, Italian politician, Deputy.
• Robert Getchell, 81, American screenwriter.
• Audrey Hancock, 98, British swimmer
• Nol Hendriks, 80, Dutch businessman and football executive, brain hemorrhage.
• Rosemary Leach, 81, English actress.
• John Morrow, 84, American football player.
• Lech Ordon, 88, Polish actor.
• Max Pfister, 85, Swiss linguist.
• Juan de Dios Pueblos, 74, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Kidapawan and Butuan.
• Herb Raybourn, 82, American baseball scout.
• Pat Shovelin, 41, Irish Gaelic football coach, cancer.
• Gilbert Stork, 95, American chemist.
• Herbert Strabel, 90, German art director, Oscar winner.
• Tom van Vollenhoven, 82, South African rugby union and rugby league player.

  22

• Piergiuseppe D'Andreamatteo, 73, Italian politician, Deputy.
• Christopher Grant, 81, English cricketer.
• Atle Hammer, 85, Norwegian jazz musician.
• Al Hurricane, 81, American singer and songwriter, complications from prostate cancer.
• Emu Lehtinen, 70, Finnish record dealer, leukemia.
• Patricia Llewellyn, 55, British television producer, BAFTA and Emmy winner, breast cancer.
• Baldo Marro, 69, Filipino actor and director.
• Ram Mukherjee, 84, Indian film director.
• Fernand Picot, 87, French racing cyclist.
• Scott Putesky, 49, American guitarist, colon cancer.
• Walter Babington Thomas, 98, New Zealand-born British army officer, GOC Far East Land Forces.
• Geraldo João Paulo Roger Verdier, 80, French-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Guajará-Mirim, hemorrhagic stroke.
• Chuck Weber, 87, American football player.
• Paul J. Weitz, 85, American astronaut, myelodysplastic syndrome.
• George Young, 70, Scottish-born Australian musician, songwriter, and producer.

  23

• Alinghi, 16, Australian racehorse, foaling complications.
• Corrado Böhm, 94, Italian computer scientist.
• Joe Corcoran, 77, Irish Gaelic football player.
• Reinhold Durnthaler, 74, Austrian bobsledder, world champion.
• Pyotr Gorelikov, 85, Russian Olympic sailor
• Gordon A. Haaland, 77, American academic.
• Anthony Hallam, 83, British geologist.
• Mila Hernando, 60, Spanish diplomat, Ambassador to Lebanon, cancer.
• Athanassios Kalogiannis, 52, Greek Olympic hurdler and fashion photographer, pulmonary edema.
• Walter Lassally, 90, German-born British-Greek cinematographer, Oscar winner.
• John Mattock, 91, British rose grower.
• Joyce McLaughlin, 78, American mathematician.
• Hamid Ali Mirza, 77, Pakistani judge.
• Mary Nissenson, 65, American television journalist, septic shock.
• Gordon Ogilvie, 83, New Zealand historian and biographer.
• Iona Opie, 94, British folklorist.
• Mari Lyn Salvador, 74, American anthropologist and museum director.
• Charles Sims, 80, American mathematician.
• Zenon Ważny, 87, Polish pole vaulter.

  24

• M. K. Anwar, 84, Bangladeshi politician, Minister of Agriculture.
• Ebrahim Ashtiani, 75, Iranian footballer, heart disease.
• Sir Peter Bairsto, 91, British air marshal, Deputy Commander in Chief Strike Command.
• Glenn Barr, 75, Northern Irish politician and advocate, member of Northern Ireland Assembly and Constitutional Convention.
• Inga Borg, 92, Swedish writer.
• Willie Chan, 76, Malaysian-born Hong Kong film producer and talent manager.
• Ingetraut Dahlberg, 90, German information scientist and philosopher, developer of Information Coding Classification.
• Girija Devi, 88, Indian thumri singer, Padma Vibhushan, cardiac arrest.
• Fats Domino, 89, American Hall of Fame pianist and singer-songwriter.
• Michael Patrick Driscoll, 78, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Boise.
• Alan Eddy, 90, British biochemist.
• Fu Quanxiang, 94, Chinese Yue opera actress.
• Tony Garrett, 99, British executive, chairman of Imperial Tobacco.
• Robert Guillaume, 89, American actor and singer, Emmy winner, prostate cancer.
• Clayton Howard, 83, British make-up artist.
• Sana Iqbal, 29, Indian cross-country cyclist and anti-suicide activist, traffic collision.
• Jane Juska, 84, American writer.
• Brady Keys, 81, American football player and businessman.
• Otto Kraus, 87, German arachnologist and myriapodologist.
• Eric Kipping, 92, Canadian politician.
• Andrew W. Lewis, 74, American medievalist
• Peter Lötscher, 76, Swiss Olympic fencer.
• Michael Proctor, 88, English botanist.
• Isabel Quintanilla, 79, Spanish visual artist.
• I. V. Sasi, 69, Indian film director, heart attack.
• Mahama Sawadogo, 63, Burkinabé politician, High Commissioner of Kadiogo Province and member of the National Assembly.

  25

• Mohamed Abshir Muse, 91, Somali military officer, commander of Somali Police Force and leader of SSDF.
• Jack Bannon, 77, American actor.
• Robert Blakeley, 95, American graphic designer.
• Vilnis Edvīns Bresis, 79, Latvian politician, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Latvian SSR.
• Ronald Breslow, 86, American chemist and professor, cancer.
• Ian Cathie, 85, Australian politician, Victorian MLA.
• Maud Linder, 93, French journalist, film historian and documentary film director.
• Lu Guanqiu, 72, Chinese billionaire automotive manufacturer, chairman and co-founder of Wanxiang.
• Peter MacGregor-Scott, 69, British film producer, injuries sustained in traffic collision.
• Joseph Mahn Erie, 92, Myanmar Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bassein.
• Sir John Manduell, 89, South African-born British composer and educator.
• John Mollo, 86, British costume designer, Oscar winner, vascular dementia.
• Donnchadh Ó Corráin, 75, Irish historian.
• Pinito del Oro, 86, Spanish trapeze artist.
• Ross Powell, 49, American baseball player, carbon monoxide poisoning.
• Gas Ronda, 91, American drag racer.
• Ben Shephard, 69, English historian and writer.
• Vincent Warren, 79, American-Canadian dance historian and lecturer.
• Jim Welch, 79, American football player.

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• Ali Ashraf Darvishian, 76, Iranian writer and democracy activist.
• Awurama Badu, 72, Ghanaian highlife musician.
• George Conzemius, 81, American politician, member of the Minnesota Senate.
• Simon Fitzmaurice, 43, Irish filmmaker, motor neurone disease.
• André Gauthier, 82, Canadian monument sculptor and designer.
• Arnett E. Girardeau, 88, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives and Senate.
• Juliette, 91, Canadian singer and television host.
• Sir Gavin Laird, 84, Scottish trade unionist.
• Ian McLeod, 63, South African football referee.
• Shea Norman, 45, American gospel singer, diabetes.
• Nelly Olin, 76, French politician, Mayor of Garges-lès-Gonesse and Senator, Minister of Environment.
• Barry Roberts, 84, Australian rugby union player.
• Richard M. Ryckman, 80, American psychologist.
• Sir Reginald Secondé, 95, British diplomat, Ambassador to Chile, Romania and Venezuela.
• Thomas Smales, 83, English rugby league player and coach.
• Geoff Tootill, 95, British computer scientist.
• Abdul Karim Telgi, 56, Indian forger.
• Stephen Toulouse, 45, American policy specialist and public relations manager, abdominal hemorrhage.

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• Lewis Golden, 94, English army officer and executive.
• Hans Kraay Sr., 81, Dutch football player and manager.
• Ladislav Kubík, 71, Czech-born American composer.
• Punathil Kunjabdulla, 77, Indian writer.
• Dieter Kurrat, 75, German football player and manager.
• Peter Lawrenson, 84, British electrical engineer.
• Cecil Moss, 92, South African rugby union player.
• David Reid, 84, Australian politician, member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly for Blackwood, Senator for Western Australia.
• David Shedden, 73, Scottish rugby union player.
• Digamber Singh, 66, Indian politician, cancer.
• Abdoulaye Soulama, 37, Burkinabé footballer.
• Deon Stewardson, 66, South African actor, suicide.
• Inkululeko Suntele, 23, Mosotho Olympic boxer, stabbed.
• Katalin Szőke, 82, Hungarian swimmer, Olympic champion.
• Joe Taub, 88, American business executive and co-owner of the New Jersey Nets.
• David Vaughan, 93, American dance historian, complications from prostate cancer.

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• Yvonne Baseden, 95, French-born British Special Operations Executive agent.
• Ronald Getoor, 88, American mathematician.
• Josaphat-Robert Large, 74, Haitian-American poet, novelist and art critic, Prix littéraire des Caraïbes.
• Roger Lockyer, 89, British historian.
• Al Oster, 92, Canadian folk singer.
• Leif Ottersen, 88, Norwegian Lutheran priest.
• Mitchell Peters, 82, American timpanist.
• Bernard Roy, 83, French mathematician.
• Manuel Sanchís Martínez, 79, Spanish footballer.
• Willy Schroeders, 84, Belgian racing cyclist.

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• Muhal Richard Abrams, 87, American jazz pianist.
• Cecil Austen, 98, Australian cricketer and football player.
• Dennis Banks, 80, American indigenous activist and actor, co-founder of American Indian Movement, complications from heart surgery.
• Thelma Boughner, 99, Canadian Olympic diver.
• Richard E. Cavazos, 88, American army general, Commanding General of FORSCOM, Alzheimer's disease.
• Claude Dulong, 95, French historian.
• Metin Ersoy, 83, Turkish singer.
• Roly Green, 90, New Zealand rugby union player.
• Richard Hambleton, 65, Canadian street artist, cancer.
• Frank Holder, 92, Guyanese jazz singer and percussionist.
• Władysław Kowalski, 81, Polish actor.
• Steve Landen, 64, American bridge player, hypothermia.
• Tony Madigan, 87, Australian boxer and rugby union player, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Billy Mize, 88, American steel guitarist, band leader and vocalist.
• Didier Motchane, 86, French politician, MEP, cancer.
• Manfredi Nicoletti, 87, Italian architect.
• Linda Nochlin, 86, American art historian.
• Juanita Quigley, 86, American child actress.
• Atluri Purnachandra Rao, 92, Indian film producer.
• Al Richter, 90, American baseball player.
• Peter Schutz, 87, German-born American businessman, Alzheimer's disease.
• Sir Ninian Stephen, 94, Australian judge, Governor-General, Justice of the High Court.
• Daniel Te'o-Nesheim, 30, American Samoan football player.

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• Candy Atherton, 62, British politician, MP for Falmouth and Camborne.
• Fred Beckey, 94, American rock climber, mountaineer and author.
• Algimantas Butnorius, 70, Lithuanian chess Grandmaster and World Senior Champion.
• Frank Doran, 68, British politician, MP for Aberdeen South and Aberdeen North.
• János Halász, 88, Hungarian Olympic basketball player.
• Kim Joo-hyuk, 45, South Korean actor, traffic collision.
• Cornelius Korir, 67, Kenyan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Eldoret.
• James D. Martin, 99, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Alabama's 7th congressional district.
• Judy Martz, 74, American politician, Governor of Montana, Olympic speed skater, pancreatic cancer.
• Salvador Minuchin, 96, Argentine-American psychotherapist, developer of structural family therapy, heart disease.
• Eugène Parlier, 88, Swiss footballer.
• Melanmai Ponnusamy, 66, Indian writer, heart attack.
• Mary Reveley, 77, British racehorse trainer.
• M. V. Sridhar, 51, Indian cricketer, heart attack.
• Daniel Viglietti, 78, Uruguayan folk singer, guitarist, composer and political activist.
• Abbas Zandi, 87, Iranian Olympic freestyle wrestler and World champion.

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• Wolfgang Achtner, 60, German theologian, heart attack.
• Weston Bate, 93, Australian historian.
• William Amherst Vanderbilt Cecil, 89, American businessman.
• Mircea Drăgan, 85, Romanian film director.
• Norman Hardie, 92, New Zealand mountaineer.
• Fanya Heller, 93, Ukrainian-born American Holocaust survivor and author.
• Myron P. Lotto, 92, American politician, member of the Wisconsin Senate.
• Terry McCashin, 73, New Zealand businessman and rugby union player.
• Clare McLaren-Throckmorton, 82, British barrister.
• Red Murrell, 84, American basketball player, heart disease.
• Mario das Neves, 66, Argentine politician, Governor of Chubut.
• Papi Oviedo, 79, Cuban tresero.
• Derek Robinson, 90, British trade unionist.
• Stefano Salvatori, 49, Italian footballer, cancer.
• Colin Simpson, 86, English journalist and author.
• Bob Talbot, 89, American baseball player.
• Abubakari Yakubu, 35, Ghanaian footballer.