Deaths in October 2018
The following is a list of notable deaths in October 2018.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship, reason for notability, cause of death, and reference.
October 2018
1
- Shirin Aliabadi, 45, Iranian visual artist, cancer.
- Charles Aznavour, 94, French-Armenian singer, lyricist and actor, complications from pulmonary edema.
- Peter C. Bjarkman, 77, American baseball historian and author.
- John H. Bryan, 81, American business executive and philanthropist, CEO of Sara Lee, complications from lung cancer.
- Mario Castellazzi, 82, Italian footballer.
- Caroline Charrière, 57, Swiss composer, conductor and flautist.
- Stelvio Cipriani, 81, Italian composer, complications from a stroke.
- Ben Daglish, 52, British composer, lung cancer.
- Đỗ Mười, 101, Vietnamese politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party, Prime Minister, respiratory and kidney failure.
- Carlos Ezquerra, 70, Spanish comics artist, lung cancer.
- Michael Freedland, 83, British journalist and biographer.
- Jerry González, 69, American bandleader and trumpeter, heart attack.
- Francesco Greco, 75, Italian politician, Senator.
- Darryl Greenamyer, 82, American aviator and record holder.
- Ronnie Leitch, 64, Sri Lankan singer and actor, heart attack.
- M. V. V. S. Murthi, 76, Indian academic, businessman and politician, founder of GITAM, MP for Visakhapatnam, traffic collision.
- Donald Read, 88, British historian.
- Graciano Rocchigiani, 54, German boxer, WBC and IBF world champion, traffic collision.
- Franco Sar, 84, Italian Olympic decathlete, heart attack.
- Antoine Sfeir, 69, Lebanese journalist and professor.
- María Teresa Sosa, 88, Guatemalan politician and activist, First Lady.
- Chris Wilkins, 74, South African cricketer.
- Élaine Zakaïb, 59, Canadian politician, brain cancer.
2
- Wendy Atkin, 71, British epidemiologist.
- Smilja Avramov, 100, Serbian academic and educator.
- Balabhaskar, 40, Indian violinist, composer and record producer, heart attack.
- Ron Casey, 89, Australian broadcaster and sports journalist.
- Geoff Emerick, 72, English recording engineer, multi-Grammy winner, heart attack.
- Dorothy Hukill, 72, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives and Senate, cancer.
- Bob Jones, 91, American cartoonist and illustrator
- Thampi Kannanthanam, 64, Indian film director.
- Roman Kartsev, 79, Russian actor.
- Jamal Khashoggi, 59, Saudi Arabian journalist, strangled.
- Wilhelmus Luxemburg, 89, Dutch mathematician.
- Utu Abe Malae, American Samoan businessman, banker and politician.
- Cosimo Ennio Masiello, 88, Italian politician, Mayor of Brindisi and Senator.
- Ceri Peach, 78, Welsh geographer.
- Hermenegildo Sábat, 85, Uruguayan comic book artist.
- José Lorenzo Sartori, 86, Argentine Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of San Roque de Presidencia Roque Sáenz Peña.
- Ole E. Storlien, 83, Norwegian politician.
- Burhan Uray, 87, Chinese-Indonesian timber tycoon and philanthropist.
3
- Elisabeth Andersen, 98, Dutch actress.
- Jiří Bis, 77, Czech politician, Senator.
- Julien Bogaert, 94, Belgian sprint canoeist.
- Fang Nanjiang, 75, Chinese novelist and major general of the People's Armed Police.
- David M. Fergusson, 74, British-born New Zealand psychologist, lung cancer.
- Wen Fong, 88, Chinese-American art historian, leukemia.
- Sir Roger Gibbs, 83, British financier.
- Heo Su-gyeong, 54, South Korean poet.
- Joseph Kamaru, 79, Kenyan benga musician and political activist, complications from Parkinson's disease.
- Saak Karapetyan, 58, Russian attorney, Deputy Attorney General, helicopter crash.
- Leon M. Lederman, 96, American experimental physicist, Nobel Prize laureate, dementia.
- Bent Lorentzen, 83, Danish composer.
- Marty Pattin, 75, American baseball player.
- Hollie Pihl, 90, American judge.
- Hugo Raspoet, 77, Belgian singer and guitarist.
- Bror Stefenson, 89, Swedish navy admiral.
- Keiichiro Takahara, 87, Japanese businessman, founder of Unicharm.
- Antonio Valero, 86, Spanish footballer.
- John Von Ohlen, 77, American jazz drummer.
- Peter Wales, 89, English cricketer.
- Prosper Weil, 92, French lawyer.
- Edward E. Williams, 73, American economist.
4
- Dave Anderson, 89, American sportswriter, Pulitzer Prize winner.
- Jeanne Ashworth, 80, American speed skater, Olympic bronze medalist, pancreatic cancer.
- Jack Avina, 89, American college basketball coach.
- Hamiet Bluiett, 78, American jazz saxophonist, complications from a series of strokes.
- Kevin Ellison, 31, American football player, traffic collision.
- Barrie Frost, 79, New Zealand-born Canadian psychologist and neuroscientist.
- Takumi Furukawa, 101, Japanese film director, heart failure.
- José Lluis, 80, Spanish Olympic basketball player.
- Kurt Malangré, 84, German politician, Lord Mayor of Aachen and MEP.
- Karl Mildenberger, 80, German boxer.
- Walter Paine, 95, American journalist and publisher.
- Bert Romp, 59, Dutch equestrian, Olympic champion, kicked by horse.
- José Sacal, 74, Mexican surrealist sculptor.
- Neville Sayers, 91, Australian Olympic modern pentathlete and sports shooter.
- Sir John Swinton, 93, British military officer.
- John Tyrrell, 76, British musicologist.
- Will Vinton, 70, American animator, Oscar winner, multiple myeloma.
- Audrey Wells, 58, American film director and screenwriter, cancer.
- Konisi Yabaki, 77, Fijian politician, Minister for Fisheries and Forests.
5
- Wayne Berry, 86, American football player.
- John Deeble, 87, Australian health economist.
- Louis A. DeSimone, 96, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Philadelphia.
- Frank Drum, 87, Australian footballer.
- Jimmy Duquennoy, 23, Belgian racing cyclist, heart attack.
- Ray Galton, 88, British scriptwriter, dementia.
- Richard Horden, 73, British architect.
- Ed Kenney, 85, American singer and actor.
- Grigorij Khizhnyak, 44, Ukrainian basketball player, heart attack.
- Herbert Kleber, 84, American psychiatrist.
- Lin Xiao, 97, Chinese politician, Chairman of Henan People's Congress.
- Greg Marx, 68, American football player.
- Ivar Odnes, 55, Norwegian politician, MP, cancer.
- Víctor Pey, 103, Spanish-Chilean engineer, counselor of Salvador Allende.
- Hege Skjeie, 63, Norwegian political scientist.
- Rudy Wowor, 74, Indonesian actor, prostate cancer.
6
- Don Askarian, 69, Armenian filmmaker.
- John Nicholson Black, 96, British academic and university administrator, Principal of Bedford College, London.
- Eef Brouwers, 79, Dutch journalist and spokesman, Director-general of the RVD.
- Montserrat Caballé, 85, Spanish opera singer, Grammy winner, gallbladder infection.
- Tahir Chaudhry, Pakistani chef, cardiac arrest.
- Edwin-Michael Cortez, 66, American library science professor.
- James Cowan, 76, Australian author.
- Encosta De Lago, 25, Australian racehorse and sire.
- Lorna Cooke deVaron, 97, American choral conductor.
- Ira Gasman, 76, American playwright and lyricist, heart failure.
- Paul James, 87, American sportscaster.
- George Kaftan, 90, American basketball player.
- Quentin Kenihan, 43, Australian disability advocate and actor, asthma attack.
- Wilf Malcolm, 84, New Zealand pure mathematician, vice-chancellor of the University of Waikato.
- Victoria Marinova, 30, Bulgarian journalist and television presenter, strangled.
- Bert Nederlof, 72, Dutch journalist and radio sports commentator.
- Ramon Neto da Costa, 31, Brazilian footballer, heart attack.
- Robert Pitofsky, 88, American legal scholar.
- Don Sandburg, 87, American actor, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
- Michel Vovelle, 85, French historian.
- Scott Wilson, 76, American actor, complications from leukemia.
7
- René Bouin, 81, French politician, Deputy, Mayor of Chenillé-Changé.
- Boris Braun, 98, Croatian professor and Holocaust survivor.
- John Gagliardi, 91, American Hall of Fame college football coach.
- Gibba, 93, Italian animator.
- Betty Grissom, 91, American plaintiff winner against NASA contractor.
- Brian Hughes, 80, Welsh footballer.
- Eija Krogerus, 86, Finnish bowler.
- Patrice L'Heureux, 46, Canadian boxer, heart attack.
- Nino Lombardo, 91, Italian politician, Deputy, heart failure.
- Peggy McCay, 90, American actress.
- Moi-Yo Miller, 104, Australian actress and illusionist, dementia.
- Ludo Monset, 72, Belgian politician, Senator, Mayor of Blankenberge.
- Peter Nyombi, 64, Ugandan politician, Attorney General, heart failure.
- John Odey, 58, Nigerian politician, Minister of Environment, cancer.
- Moses Olaiya, 82, Nigerian actor, complications from a stroke.
- Oleg Pavlov, 48, Russian writer, heart attack.
- Marie M. Runyon, 103, American political activist and politician, member of the New York State Assembly.
- Natwar Thakkar, 86, Indian social worker.
- John Wicks, 65, British singer and songwriter.
- Celeste Yarnall, 74, American actress, ovarian cancer.
8
- Fernando Albán Salazar, 56, Venezuelan lawyer and politician, Libertador Bolivarian Municipality councilman.
- Shibly Aziz, 75, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, Attorney General.
- Neville Chamberlain, 78, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Brechin.
- Tim Chandler, 58, American rock bassist.
- Chris Curran, 44, Australian footballer.
- Dina Haroun, 44, Syrian actress, lung infection.
- Alfred Holland, 91, British-born Australian Anglican bishop.
- Juan Heredia Moreno, 76, Spanish footballer.
- Arnold Kopelson, 83, American film producer, Oscar winner.
- John Quinn, 85, American theoretical physicist.
- Geoff Smith, 76, Australian sprint cyclist, Olympic tandem.
- George Taliaferro, 91, American professional and college Hall of Fame football player, first African-American selected in an NFL Draft.
- Joseph Tydings, 90, American lawyer and politician, U.S. Senator from Maryland.
- Hiroshi Wajima, 70, Japanese sumo yokozuna and professional wrestler, throat cancer.
- David Wise, 88, American journalist, pancreatic cancer.
9
- Carolyn Blanchard Allen, 97, American politician, Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
- Heiki Arike, 53, Estonian politician, Minister of the Interior.
- Robert Bausch, 73, American author, multiple myeloma.
- Robert W. Cox, 92, Canadian political scientist.
- Pat Gorman, 85, British actor.
- Thomas M. Hannigan, 78, American politician, member of the California State Assembly.
- Anna Harvey, 74, British fashion editor and stylist.
- Tony Hopper, 42, English footballer, motor neurone disease.
- Diane Jergens, 83, American actress.
- George W. Landau, 98, American diplomat.
- Larry Larrañaga, 80, American politician, member of the New Mexico House of Representatives, Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease.
- Lü Junchang, 53, Chinese palaeontologist.
- Frank Padavan, 83, American politician, member of the New York Senate, heart attack.
- José Santiago, 90, Puerto Rican baseball player.
- Warner Saunders, 83, American news anchor.
- Werner Scheler, 95, German physician and pharmacologist, president of the East German Academy of Sciences.
- Alex Spanos, 95, American real estate developer and football team owner, dementia.
- Thomas A. Steitz, 78, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate, pancreatic cancer.
- Venantino Venantini, 88, Italian actor, complications from surgery.
- Carolyn Warner, 88, American politician, Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction.
- William Wilbanks, 78, American criminologist.
- Roman Zabzaliuk, 58, Ukrainian politician, MP, cancer.
10
- Andie Airfix, 72, British graphic designer and album artist.
- Malcolm Andrews, 73–74, Australian writer.
- Yvan Blot, 70, French politician, MEP.
- Louis Brouillard, 97, American Roman Catholic priest.
- Achille Cutrera, 89, Italian politician, Senator.
- Raymond Danon, 88, French film producer.
- Denzil Davies, 80, British politician, MP.
- Frank Deem, 90, American politician, member of the West Virginia House of Delegates and Senate, pneumonia.
- Don Eddy, 71, American baseball player, pancreatic cancer.
- Laurence Forristal, 87, Irish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ossory.
- Zíbia Gasparetto, 92, Brazilian spiritualist writer, pancreatic cancer.
- Theresa Hightower, 64, American jazz singer, colon cancer.
- Angelo Marino, 62, Italian art curator.
- Mary Midgley, 99, British moral philosopher.
- Raye Montague, 83, American naval engineer, heart failure.
- Richard T. Morgan, 66, American politician, member of the North Carolina House of Representatives.
- Peter Ramseier, 73, Swiss footballer.
- Bruce N. Whitman, 85, American aviation executive.
- Tex Winter, 96, American Hall of Fame basketball coach, innovator of the triangle offense.
11
- G. D. Agrawal, 86, Indian environmental activist, starvation following hunger strike.
- Ireneo A. Amantillo, 83, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Cagayan de Oro and Tandag, prostate cancer.
- Paul Andreu, 80, French architect.
- Fatos Arapi, 89, Albanian poet.
- Leif Axmyr, 80, Swedish double murderer.
- Marie Bignold, 91, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council.
- Charlie Crickmore, 76, English footballer.
- Robert Dean, 89, American ufologist.
- Sir Doug Ellis, 94, English entrepreneur and football club chairman.
- Milton Gendel, 99, American-Italian photographer and art critic.
- Carol Hall, 82, American composer and lyricist, complications from primary progressive aphasia.
- Labinot Harbuzi, 32, Swedish footballer, heart attack.
- Duncan Johnson, 80, Canadian-born British DJ, complications from Parkinson's disease.
- Dieter Kemper, 81, German racing cyclist.
- Anatoli Levitin, 96, Russian painter and art educator.
- Pran Nevile, 95, Indian art historian.
- P. Chandrasekhara Rao, 82, Indian jurist.
- Yoshito Sengoku, 72, Japanese politician, Minister of Justice, lung cancer.
- Engelbert Siebler, 81, German Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Munich and Freising.
- Jimbo Simpson, 60, Northern Irish paramilitary, lung cancer.
- Greg Stafford, 70, American game designer.
- Hebe Uhart, 81, Argentine writer.
12
- Pik Botha, 86, South African politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs.
- George Castledine, 72, British nursing educator.
- Chang Chun-yen, 81, Taiwanese engineer, President of National Chiao Tung University, member of Academia Sinica, cancer.
- Colleen Conway-Welch, 74, American academic administrator, Nursing Living Legend, pancreatic cancer.
- Rudy Horn, 85, German juggler.
- Tom Jago, 93, British liquor executive and distiller, creator of Baileys Irish Cream.
- Kim Chang-ho, 49, South Korean mountaineer, fall.
- Takehisa Kosugi, 80, Japanese composer and violinist, esophageal cancer.
- Pat Leane, 88, Australian athlete, Olympic decathlon.
- Helen Neville, 72, Canadian-born American psychologist and neuroscientist.
- A. G. Russell, 85, American knife maker.
- Jan Jakob Tønseth, 71, Norwegian author.
- Claude Zilberberg, 80, French semiotician.
13
- Jockin Arputham, 71, Indian urban planner and social worker.
- Jean Bienvenue, 90, Canadian politician.
- Fabien Eboussi Boulaga, 84, Cameroonian philosopher.
- François Jacques Bussini, 82, French Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Amiens.
- William Coors, 102, American brewer.
- Annapurna Devi, 91, Indian classical surbahar player.
- Robert W. Doran, 73, New Zealand computer scientist.
- Edgar S. Harris Jr., 93, American Air Force lieutenant general.
- Patricia Hollis, Baroness Hollis of Heigham, 77, British politician.
- Sue Hubbell, 83, American author, dementia.
- Parithi Ilamvazhuthi, 58, Indian politician, heart attack.
- Don Leo Jonathan, 87, American-Canadian Hall of Fame professional wrestler.
- Meher Kabir, 97, Bangladeshi academic and litterateur.
- János Konkoly, 78, Hungarian Olympic diver
- Nikolai Pankin, 69, Russian breaststroke swimmer, Olympic bronze medalist and swimming coach.
- Georgeta Pitica, 88, Romanian table tennis player, world champion.
- Gerhard Prinzing, 75, German alpine skier.
- Jim Taylor, 83, American Hall of Fame football player.
- Johannes Weertman, 93, American geophysicist.
14
- Vicente Almeida d'Eça, 100, Portuguese military officer, Governor of Cape Verde.
- Eduardo Arroyo, 81, Spanish painter, set designer and writer.
- Enrique Baliño, 90, Uruguayan basketball player, Olympic bronze medalist.
- Patrick Baumann, 51, Swiss basketball executive, Secretary General of FIBA, heart attack.
- Ahmed Boustila, 74, Algerian military officer, Commander of the Gendarmerie Nationale.
- Peter Brackley, 67, British football commentator, heart attack.
- Robert Bushby, 91, American aircraft designer.
- Tom Delahunty, 83, British-born New Zealand football referee, FIFA list.
- Milena Dravić, 78, Serbian actress.
- Per Theodor Haugen, 86, Norwegian actor.
- Germ Hofma, 93, Dutch footballer.
- Abdulaziz Jassim, 61, Qatari actor.
- H. G. Jones, 94, American archivist.
- Brian Kinsella, 64, Canadian ice hockey player.
- Donald Stovel Macdonald, 86, Canadian politician and diplomat, MP, Government House Leader, and High Commissioner in the UK.
- R. Burnett Miller, 95, American politician, Mayor of Sacramento, California.
- Bengt Harding Olson, 81, Swedish politician, MP.
- Mel Ramos, 83, American artist, heart failure.
- Valeriy Shmarov, 74, Ukrainian politician, Minister of Defence.
- Dick Tinkham, 86, American basketball executive, co-founder of the American Basketball Association, muscular dystrophy.
- Raymond L. White, 74, American geneticist.
- Wu Zhaonan, 92, Taiwanese xiangsheng comedian, multiple organ failure.
15
- Paul Allen, 65, American businessman and sports team owner, co-founder of Microsoft, septic shock.
- William Edwin Beckel, 92, Canadian academic administrator, President of University of Lethbridge and Carleton University.
- Cicely Berry, 92, British theatre director and voice coach.
- Mario Buatta, 82, American interior designer, pneumonia.
- Maximira Figueiredo, 79, Brazilian actress and voice actress, lung cancer.
- Shelley Hamlin, 69, American professional golfer, breast cancer.
- Eugeniusz Kamiński, 86, Polish actor.
- John Knox, 90, British chemist.
- Cindy Li, 43, American web designer, cancer.
- Ramón Darío Molina Jaramillo, 83, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Montería and Neiva, fall.
- Michael H. O'Brien, 64, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, heart attack.
- Arto Paasilinna, 76, Finnish novelist, complications from a stroke.
- Nancy-Lou Patterson, 89, Canadian artist.
- Fernando Serena, 77, Spanish footballer.
- Bob Spoo, 80, American football coach.
- Joe Stanka, 87, American baseball player.
- William Thompson, 96, American admiral, led development of United States Navy Memorial, complications from cancer.
- Jim Wiechers, 74, American professional golfer.
16
- Thomas Aisu, 64, Ugandan physician and educator, heart attack.
- Ismail Amat, 83, Chinese politician, Chairman of Xinjiang, State Councillor.
- Pierre Barlaguet, 86, French football player and manager.
- Oleh Bazylevych, 80, Ukrainian football player and manager.
- Joseph R. Cistone, 69, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Saginaw, lung cancer.
- David Helwig, 80, Canadian poet.
- Dave Hill, 80, American baseball player, cancer.
- Dennis Hof, 72, American brothel owner and reality show personality.
- Even Hovdhaugen, 77, Norwegian linguist.
- Walter "Dee" Huddleston, 92, American politician, U.S. Senator from Kentucky.
- Sid Michaels Kavulich, 62, American sportscaster and politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, complications from heart surgery.
- Ian Kiernan, 78, Australian yachtsman and environmental campaigner, cancer.
- Wayne Krenchicki, 64, American baseball player.
- Berthold Leibinger, 87, German engineer and philanthropist.
- Albert Lexie, 76, American philanthropist.
- Giovanni Moretti, 94, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Vartana, Apostolic Nuncio.
- Paul O'Brien, 64, British chemist.
- Dimitar Petrov, 93, Bulgarian film director.
- Margaret Thorsborne, 91, Australian conservationist.
- Jacob Weinroth, 71, Israeli lawyer, cancer.
- Chuck Wilson, 70, American jazz saxophonist, liver failure.
17
- Enrique Bolín, 78, Spanish industrialist and politician, Mayor of Benalmádena and Senator.
- Carlos Boloña Behr, 68, Peruvian economist and politician, Minister of Economy and Finance.
- Sebastian Fischer, 90, German actor.
- Valters Frīdenbergs, 30, Latvian singer, contestant in Eurovision Song Contest 2005, cancer.
- Leone Frollo, 87, Italian comic book artist.
- Cornelius Gallagher, 97, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey's 13th district.
- Ara Güler, 90, Turkish photojournalist, heart attack.
- Sir Ngātata Love, 81, New Zealand Māori leader.
- Jacques Monory, 94, French painter and filmmaker.
- Geoff Scott, 61, English football player and manager, cancer.
- Derrick Sherwin, 82, English television producer and actor.
- Sir Thomas Thorp, 92, New Zealand jurist, judge of the High Court.
- Kōji Tsujitani, 56, Japanese voice actor '', stroke.
- Fritz Wittmann, 85, German politician, MP, president of the Federation of Expellees.
18
- Elihu Abrahams, 91, American theoretical physicist.
- Abdul Raziq Achakzai, 39, Afghan police officer, shot.
- Ayub Bachchu, 56, Bangladeshi singer-songwriter, heart attack.
- Anthea Bell, 82, British literary translator.
- Todd Bol, 62, American teacher and public bookcase proponent, creator of Little Free Library, pancreatic cancer.
- Dick Cole, 92, American baseball player.
- Abdel Rahman Swar al-Dahab, 83, Sudanese military officer and politician, President.
- Jeff Hallebone, 89, Australian cricketer.
- Randolph Hokanson, 103, American classical pianist.
- Danny Leiner, 57, American film director, lung cancer.
- Li Lianda, 84, Chinese pharmacologist, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
- Judit Magos-Havas, 67, Hungarian table tennis player.
- Izumi Maki, 49, Japanese Olympic long-distance runner, breast cancer.
- Åke Ortmark, 89, Swedish radio journalist, author and television presenter.
- Hideo Osabe, 84, Japanese author, heart failure.
- Lisbeth Palme, 87, Swedish child psychologist and philanthropist.
- Dick Slater, 67, American professional wrestler.
- Darren Stewart, 52, Australian soccer player and manager.
- U Thuzana, 71, Burmese Buddhist monk, leader of the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army.
- N. D. Tiwari, 93, Indian politician, Minister of External Affairs and Finance, multiple organ failure.
19
- Werner Cohn, 91–92, German-born Canadian sociologist.
- Charles Y. Glock, 99, American sociologist.
- Åge Hovengen, 90, Norwegian politician, MP.
- Takanobu Hozumi, 87, Japanese actor, gallbladder cancer.
- Walter Knödel, 92, Austrian mathematician and computer scientist.
- Victor Marchetti, 88, American CIA agent and author, complications from dementia.
- Sir John McGrath, 73, New Zealand jurist, judge of the Supreme Court.
- Tom Meehan, 92, Australian footballer.
- Dick Modzelewski, 87, American football player.
- Tom Neville, 78–79, Irish hurler.
- Patsy Dan Rodgers, 74, Irish painter and musician, King of Tory.
- Osamu Shimomura, 90, Japanese organic chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
- Bhola Singh, 79, Indian politician, MP.
- Diana Sowle, 88, American actress.
20
- Jun Ashida, 88, Japanese fashion designer, pneumonia.
- Bruno Bertotti, 87, Italian physicist.
- Martin Bott, 92, British geologist.
- Gaétan Gervais, 74, Canadian historian and author, co-designer of the Franco-Ontarian flag.
- Wim Kok, 80, Dutch politician and trade union leader, Prime Minister, heart failure.
- Walter Kwok, 68, Hong Kong real estate developer, complications from a stroke.
- Aubrey Manning, 88, English zoologist and broadcaster.
- Jon McMurray, 34, Canadian rapper and freeskier, fall.
- Ngok Wah, 76, Hong Kong actor.
- P. B. Abdul Razak, 63, Indian politician, MLA.
- Pedro Luís Guido Scarpa, 93, Italian-born Angolan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ndalatando.
- István Talabos, 62, Hungarian Olympic sports shooter
- Charles Turbiville, 75, American politician, member of the South Dakota House of Representatives, stroke.
- Peter Velappan, 83, Malaysian football administrator and manager.
- Zheng Xiaosong, 59, Chinese politician and diplomat, Director of the Macau Liaison Office, Vice-Governor of Fujian Province, fall.
21
- Earl Bakken, 94, American pacemaker inventor and museum founder.
- Ilie Balaci, 62, Romanian football player and manager, heart attack.
- Seymour Crawford, 74, Irish politician, TD for Cavan-Monaghan.
- Matityahu Drobles, 87, Israeli politician, Knesset member.
- Harry L. Ettlinger, 92, American engineer, member of the Monuments Men, Congressional Gold Medal recipient.
- Robert Faurisson, 89, British-born French academic and Holocaust denier.
- John Hill, 68, American football player, pancreatic cancer.
- Idris Legbo Kutigi, 78, Nigerian lawyer, Chief Justice.
- François Montmaneix, 80, French poet and writer.
- Benedetto Vincenzo Nicotra, 85, Italian politician, Deputy.
- Jun-ichi Nishizawa, 92, Japanese electrical engineer.
- Joachim Rønneberg, 99, Norwegian broadcaster and military officer.
- Harold Stevenson, 89, American painter.
- Tan Chin Nam, 92, Malaysian property developer and racehorse owner.
- Charles Wang, 74, Chinese-born American software developer, philanthropist and sports team owner, lung cancer.
- Eleanor Witcombe, 95, Australian screenwriter.
22
- Gilberto Benetton, 77, Italian businessman, co-founder of Benetton Group, pneumonia.
- Frank Branch, 74, Canadian politician, Speaker and member of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick, cancer.
- Terēzija Broka, 93, Latvian conductor and educator.
- Horacio Cardo, 74, Argentine painter and illustrator.
- Nikola Čupin, 79, Croatian Olympic rower.
- Raymond Fraser, 77, Canadian writer.
- Hank Greenwald, 83, American sportscaster.
- Boris Kokorev, 59, Russian pistol shooter, Olympic champion.
- Mahamadou Djeri Maïga, 46, Malian politician and Azawad separatist.
- Sarah Nyendwoha Ntiro, 93, Ugandan educator and activist.
- Friedrich Ostermann, 86, German Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Münster.
- Silvio Palmieri, 60, Canadian composer.
- Eugene H. Peterson, 85, American clergyman and biblical scholar.
- Milad Petrušić, Yugoslav Olympic hurdler
- Robert Saladrigas, 78, Spanish writer, journalist and literary critic.
- Arthur Schnabel, 70, German judoka, Olympic bronze medalist.
- José Varacka, 86, Argentine football player and manager.
23
- Eladio Benítez, 79, Uruguayan footballer.
- Skip Campbell, 69, American politician, member of the Florida Senate, mayor of Coral Springs, Florida.
- Melvin Cohn, 96, American immunologist, co-founder of the Salk Institute.
- Daniel Contet, 74, French tennis player.
- Tony Hoagland, 64, American poet, pancreatic cancer.
- John Hostettler, 93, English author.
- James Karen, 94, American actor, cardiorespiratory arrest.
- Nicola Lapenta, 92, Italian politician, MP, President of the Antimafia Commission.
- Mighty Shadow, 77, Trinidadian calypsonian, stroke.
- Louis O'Neill, 93, Canadian writer, professor and politician, MNA.
- Rein Põder, 75, Estonian writer and publisher.
- Laurens van Ravens, 96, Dutch football referee.
- Alojz Rebula, 94, Italian-born Slovenian writer, playwright and essayist.
- Todd Reid, 34, Australian tennis player.
- Roberto Renzi, 95, Italian cartoonist and journalist.
- Rod Rust, 90, American football coach.
- Max Webb, 101, Polish-born American real estate developer and philanthropist.
24
- Carmen Alborch, 70, Spanish feminist, writer and politician, Minister of Culture, cancer.
- Dame Beryl Beaurepaire, 95, Australian political activist.
- Darijan Božič, 85, Slovenian composer.
- Pat Farrelly, 83, Canadian Olympic athlete
- Rudolf Gelbard, 87, Austrian Holocaust survivor.
- Anatoly Gladilin, 83, Russian writer.
- Keith Hunter, 66, New Zealand marine and freshwater chemist.
- John D. Lamond, 71, Australian film director, complications from Parkinson's disease.
- Na Muthuswamy, 82, Indian theatre artist and playwright.
- Michael J. O'Connor, 89, American politician, member of the South Dakota House of Representatives and Senate.
- Hip Hop Pantsula, 38, South African rapper, suicide by hanging.
- Pellegrino Tomaso Ronchi, 88, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Porto-Santa Rufina and Città di Castello.
- Horst Schulze, 97, German actor and opera singer.
- Christine Stix-Hackl, 60, Austrian jurist, Advocate General at the European Court of Justice.
- Galeai Moaaliitele Tuufuli, 81, American Samoan politician, member of the American Samoa Senate.
- Benny Valenzuela, 85, Mexican baseball player, renal failure.
- Wah Wah Watson, 67, American guitarist.
- Tony Joe White, 75, American singer-songwriter, heart attack.
- Haider Zaman Khan, 82, Pakistani politician.
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- Sara Anzanello, 38, Italian volleyball player, leukemia.
- Cheam Channy, 57, Cambodian politician, MP, brain tumour.
- Chen Tiemei, 83, Chinese archaeologist.
- Lindon Crow, 85, American football player, stroke.
- Martin Dalby, 76, Scottish composer.
- Sylvia Edwards, 81, American abstract artist.
- Sonny Fortune, 79, American jazz saxophonist, stroke.
- Ruth Gates, 56, British biologist, brain cancer.
- John Taylor Gatto, 82, American author and teacher, heart failure.
- Tyrone Gayle, 30, American political campaign staffer, colon cancer.
- Thomas Keating, 95, American Trappist monk.
- Dorothea Kreß, 94, German Olympic athlete
- Li Yong, 50, Chinese television host, cancer.
- Michael Metcalf, 85, British numismatist, heart attack.
- Borislav Pelević, 61, Serbian politician.
- Norman Sheil, 86, English racing cyclist.
- Shivinder Singh Sidhu, 89, Indian politician, Governor of Meghalaya and Goa.
- Ulysses S. Washington, 98, American college football player and coach.
- Elder Roma Wilson, 107, American gospel harmonica player and singer.
- John Ziegler Jr., 84, American ice hockey executive, President of the NHL.
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- Marc Francina, 70, French politician, Deputy, Mayor of Évian-les-Bains.
- Ana González de Recabarren, 93, Chilean human rights activist.
- Warren B. Hamilton, 93, American geologist.
- Nikolai Karachentsov, 73, Russian actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR, kidney failure.
- György Károly, 65, Hungarian poet and writer, brain tumor.
- Valentin Masengo Mkinda, 78, Congolese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Kabinda.
- Russ Mobley, 84, American politician, member of the Kentucky General Assembly.
- Richard Murunga, 65, Kenyan boxer, Olympic bronze medalist.
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- Angela Bianchini, 97, Italian author and literary critic.
- Richard L. Bloch, 89, American businessman and sports team owner.
- Daniel Correa Freitas, 24, Brazilian footballer, stabbed.
- Perry Lee Dunn, 77, American football player.
- Kyoko Enami, 76, Japanese actress, pulmonary emphysema.
- Enrique Granados, 84, Spanish Olympic swimmer.
- Freddie Hart, 91, American country musician and songwriter, pneumonia.
- Fred Hess, 74, American tenor saxophonist.
- Murray Khouri, 77, New Zealand-Australian clarinetist, complications of heart surgery.
- Madan Lal Khurana, 82, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Delhi, Governor of Rajasthan.
- Denis Miéville, 72, Swiss mathematician and philosopher.
- Antônio Possamai, 89, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ji-Paraná.
- Mario Segale, 84, American real estate developer, namesake of Nintendo's Mario.
- Ntozake Shange, 70, American poet and playwright.
- Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha, 60, Thai duty-free retailer and football club owner, helicopter crash.
- Yang Ziyuan, 90, Chinese politician, Mayor of Guangzhou.
- Todd Youth, 47, American punk and metal guitarist.
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- Anthony Anenih, 85, Nigerian politician, Minister of Works and Housing.
- Mick Archer, 75, Irish hurler and Gaelic footballer.
- Luis Miguel Enciso Recio, 88, Spanish historian and politician, Senator.
- Peter Everwine, 88, American poet.
- David Fieldhouse, 93, English historian of the British Empire.
- Philippe Gildas, 82, French television and radio presenter.
- Richard Gill, 76, Australian conductor, colorectal and peritoneal cancer.
- I. John Hesselink, 90, American theologian.
- Konstantīns Konstantinovs, 40, Latvian powerlifter.
- Eldridge M. Moores, 80, American geologist.
- Vera Micaelsen, 43, Norwegian journalist and author, cervical cancer.
- Erno Polgar, 64, Hungarian writer, heart attack.
- Colin Sylvia, 32, Australian footballer, traffic collision.
- Bill Trumbo, 79, American college basketball coach, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
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- Germán Aceros, 80, Colombian football player and manager.
- William F. Bernhard, 93, American cardiovascular surgeon, pneumonia.
- Gérald Bloncourt, 91, Haitian painter and photographer.
- Peter Brace, 94, British actor and stuntman.
- Bernard Bragg, 90, American actor, co-founder of the National Theatre of the Deaf.
- Sir Nigel Broomfield, 81, British diplomat, Ambassador to Germany.
- Klaas Bruinsma, 87, Dutch translator.
- Dave Duncan, 85, Scottish-born Canadian fantasy and science fiction author, brain hemorrhage.
- Jimmy Farrar, 67, American rock singer, heart attack.
- Franco Franchi, 95, Italian racing cyclist.
- Lodi Gyari, 69, Tibetan diplomat, liver cancer.
- Werner Holzer, 81, American Olympic wrestler
- Mariama Keïta, 72, Nigerien journalist and feminist activist.
- Li Xifan, 90, Chinese literary scholar and redologist.
- Andrea Manfredi, 26, Italian racing cyclist, plane crash.
- M. S. Rajashekar, 75, Indian film director, lung infection.
- John Roselius, 74, American actor.
- Larry Snyder, 76, American jockey, cancer.
- Tuti Tursilawati, 34, Indonesian housekeeper and killer, executed by beheading.
- Wang Guangying, 99, Chinese entrepreneur and politician, founder of China Everbright Group, Vice-Chairman of the National People's Congress.
- Young Greatness, 34, American rapper, shot.
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- David Azulai, 64, Israeli politician, Minister of Religious Services, member of the Knesset, cancer.
- Whitey Bulger, 89, American gangster and convicted murderer, beaten.
- Yashwant Dev, 91, Indian poet and composer, pneumonia.
- Bill Fischer, 88, American baseball player.
- María Irene Fornés, 88, Cuban-American playwright.
- Hardy Fox, 73, American composer and musician.
- Jin Yong, 94, Hong Kong novelist, essayist and newspaper proprietor.
- Rae Ann Kelsch, 58, American politician, member of the North Dakota House of Representatives, bacterial infection.
- Tadeusz Kraus, 86, Czech football player and manager.
- Frank Litsky, 92, American sports columnist.
- Erika Mahringer, 93, Austrian alpine skier, double Olympic bronze medalist.
- Beverly McClellan, 49, American singer and reality talent show finalist, endometrial cancer.
- Emil Paleček, 88, Czech chemist, discovered nucleic acids electrochemistry.
- Rico J. Puno, 65, Filipino pop singer, heart failure.
- Sangharakshita, 93, British Buddhist teacher and writer, founder of the Triratna Buddhist Community, pneumonia and sepsis.
- Set Them Free, 28, American racehorse.
- Götz Schulze, 54, German jurist and judge, heart attack.
- Bob Skoronski, 84, American football player, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
- Steven L. Zinter, 68, American judge, complications from surgery.
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- Enzo Apicella, 96, Italian cartoonist and designer.
- José Araújo, 46, Brazilian footballer, heart attack.
- Preston Bynum, 79, American politician, member of the Arkansas House of Representatives, heart failure.
- Chen Chuangtian, 81, Chinese materials scientist, discovered BBO and LBO.
- Louise DeSalvo, 76, American writer and literary scholar, breast cancer.
- Colin Edwynn, 85, British actor.
- Sir Thomas Eichelbaum, 87, German-born New Zealand jurist, Chief Justice.
- Johnny Graham, 73, Scottish footballer.
- Hou Fusheng, 94, Chinese petroleum engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
- Yammie Lam, 55, Hong Kong actress.
- Kenny Marks, 67, American Christian music singer, heart attack.
- Willie McCovey, 80, American Hall of Fame baseball player, infection.
- Dana G. Mead, 82, American businessman.
- Jack Patera, 85, American football player and coach, pancreatic cancer.
- Teodoro Petkoff, 86, Venezuelan journalist and politician, Minister of the Central Office of Coordination and Planning.
- Hamdi Qandil, 82, Egyptian journalist.
- Ken Shellito, 78, English football player and manager.
- Roger Bootle-Wilbraham, 7th Baron Skelmersdale, 73, British politician, member of the House of Lords.
- Mariasilvia Spolato, 83, Italian academic, LGBT activist and author, complications from a stroke.
- Tony Streather, 92, British army officer and mountaineer.
- Wolfgang Zuckermann, 96, German-born American harpsichord maker and sustainability activist.