Deaths in April 2017

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship, reason for notability, cause of death, and reference.

  April 2017

1

• Sharon Ambrose, 77, American politician, member of the Council of the District of Columbia.
• Alberto Assirelli, 80, Italian cyclist.
• Gary Austin, 75, American theatre writer and director, lung cancer.
• Parv Bancil, 50, British playwright.
• Lonnie Brooks, 83, American blues guitarist and singer.
• Antonio Ciliberti, 82, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Locri-Gerace, Archbishop of Matera-Irsina and Catanzaro-Squillace.
• Bob Cunningham, 82, American jazz bassist.
• Gösta Ekman, 77, Swedish actor and director.
• Nelson Elliott, 91, Canadian politician.
• Darcus Howe, 74, Trinidadian-born British civil rights activist, member of the Mangrove Nine.
• Ikutaro Kakehashi, 87, Japanese engineer and entrepreneur, founder of Ace Tone and Roland Corporation.
• Kim Jong-gil, 90, South Korean poet.
• Frederick Bernard Lacey, 96, American jurist, U.S. Attorney and judge for the District Court for the District of New Jersey.
• Antonio Lamela, 90, Spanish architect.
• Sir Peter Lawler, 96, Australian public servant and diplomat, Secretary of the Department of Administrative Services, Ambassador to the Holy See and Ireland.
• Stuart Markland, 69, Scottish footballer.
• Wycliffe Noble, 91, British architect and musician.
• William Pinch, 76, American mineralogist.
• Louis Sarno, 62, American musicologist and author, liver disease.
• Burton Watson, 91, American translator.
• Yevgeny Yevtushenko, 84, Russian poet.

  2

• Sam Ard, 78, American racecar driver.
• Stan Beal, 92, Australian football player.
• Vivienne de Silva Boralessa, 86, Sri Lankan singer.
• Ken Donnelly, 66, American politician, member of the Massachusetts State Senate, complications from a brain tumor.
• André Drouin, 70, Canadian politician, cancer.
• Alma Delia Fuentes, 80, Mexican actress.
• Hate Man, 80, American writer, heart failure.
• Ravi Jayewardene, 80, Sri Lankan army officer and sports shooter.
• Rhubarb Jones, 65, American country disc jockey and professional wrestling ring announcer, heart attack.
• Leonard Litwin, 102, American real estate developer.
• Rafael Molina Morillo, 87, Dominican newspaper editor and diplomat.
• Konrad Repgen, 93, German historian.
• Michèle Rosier, 86, French fashion designer, film director, documentary maker and screenwriter.
• Julio Rotemberg, 63, Argentine-born American economist, cancer.
• Gerard Washnitzer, 90, American mathematician.
• D. B. H. Wildish, 102, British Royal Navy vice admiral.
• Jeremy Wilson, 72, British editor, publisher and writer.

  3

• Kishori Amonkar, 84, Indian classical singer.
• Michel Arrivé, 80, French linguist and novelist.
• Bruno Burrini, 85, Italian Olympic alpine skier
• John Chrispinsson, 60, Swedish journalist, heart attack.
• John Cockburn, 79, British test pilot.
• Azim Daudpota, 83, Pakistani military officer and politician, Commander of the Air Force of Zimbabwe, Governor of Sindh.
• Abraham S. Fischler, 89, American academic, President of Nova Southeastern University.
• Davuldena Gnanissara Thero, 101, Sri Lankan Buddhist monk, Supreme Mahanayaka of Amarapura Nikaya.
• Sergio González Rodríguez, 67, Mexican journalist, heart attack.
• Leif Klette, 89, Norwegian fencer.
• John T. Knox, 92, American politician, member of the California State Assembly.
• Denis Mahony, 88, Irish Gaelic footballer.
• Tomairangi Paki, 64, New Zealand Māori kapa haka leader.
• Bruce Palmer, 81, New Zealand lawyer and jurist.
• Enrico Quarantelli, 92, American sociologist.
• Kathleen Ridder, 94, American philanthropist, educator, writer, and equality for women activist.
• Roy Sievers, 90, American baseball player.
• Thomas Tackaberry, 93, American military officer.
• Gary W. Thomas, 79, American judge.
• Bill Tinnock, 86, New Zealand rower, Commonwealth silver medalist.
• Stella Turk, 92, British zoologist, naturalist, and conservationist.
• Eva von Gamm, 84, German figure skater.
• William Walaska, 71, American politician, member of the Rhode Island Senate, cancer.

  4

• Tobias Barry, 92, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives.
• Samir Farid, 73, Egyptian film critic.
• Clóvis Frainer, 86, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Manaus and Juiz de Fora.
• George Mostow, 93, American mathematician.
• Mária Pozsonec, 77, Slovenian politician, MP.
• Raymond Reisser, 85, French racing cyclist.
• Giovanni Sartori, 92, Italian political scientist and journalist, throat cancer.
• Frank Schepke, 81, German rower, Olympic champion.
• Karl Stotz, 90, Austrian football player and manager.
• Fernand Tardy, 97, French soldier, politician, and author.
• Mike Taylor, 82, British racing driver, cancer.

  5

• Attilio Benfatto, 74, Italian bicycle racer, world championship bronze medalist.
• Arthur Bisguier, 87, American chess grandmaster and writer, respiratory failure.
• John Chittick, 69, American HIV/AIDS activist.
• Paul G. Comba, 91, Italian-American computer scientist and astronomer.
• Walter de Camp, 70, Finnish writer.
• David Gove, 38, American ice hockey player and coach, heroin overdose.
• Huang Yi, 65, Hong Kong author, stroke.
• Ryo Kagawa, 69, Japanese folk singer, leukemia.
• Margaret Kenyatta, 89, Kenyan politician and diplomat, mayor of Nairobi.
• Alma Soller McLay, 97, American stenographer.
• Bernard Millant, 87, French bow maker, archetier and luthier.
• Hans Heinz Moser, 80, Swiss actor.
• Paul O'Neill, 61, American producer, composer and songwriter, prescription medication reaction.
• Makoto Ōoka, 86, Japanese poet and literary critic.
• María Luisa Ozaita, 77, Spanish composer.
• Tim Parnell, 84, British racing driver.
• Memè Perlini, 69, Italian actor and director, suicide by defenestration.
• Steve Sandor, 79, American actor.
• Atanase Sciotnic, 75, Romanian sprint canoeist, Olympic silver medalist.
• Ameer Bux Shar, 56, Pakistani author.
• Dennis Shaw, 86, English cricketer.
• Ilkka Sinisalo, 58, Finnish ice hockey player, prostate cancer.
• George Snyder, 88, American politician, member of the Maryland Senate.
• Helen Szamuely, 66, Russian-born British political activist.

  6

• Stan Anslow, 85, English footballer.
• Frank Attkisson, 61, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives, Mayor of Kissimmee, Florida, traffic collision.
• Gordon Carton, 95, Canadian politician, Ontario MPP.
• Bob Cerv, 91, American baseball player.
• John Fraser, 82, British politician, MP.
• Ronald Gatski, 82, American politician.
• Armand Gatti, 93, Monégasque-born French playwright, poet and journalist.
• Libuše Havelková, 92, Czech actress and educator, Vice-Dean of Faculty of Theatre in Prague.
• Newton Holanda Gurgel, 93, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Crato.
• Imperial Commander, 16, Irish racehorse, heart attack.
• Michael McPartland, 77, British Roman Catholic priest.
• Bona Medeiros, 86, Brazilian politician, Governor of Piauí.
• Hugh Montgomery, 93, American intelligence officer.
• David Peel, 73, American singer and political activist, complications from a heart attack.
• Jack Pinoteau, 93, French film director.
• Don Rickles, 90, American comedian and actor, kidney failure.
• Rolf Sagen, 76, Norwegian author.
• Peter Savaryn, 90, Ukrainian-born Canadian lawyer.
• Clyde See, 75, American politician, member of the West Virginia House of Delegates.
• Jerzy Vetulani, 81, Polish neuroscientist.

  7

• Robert B. Baldwin, 93, American vice admiral.
• Joan Baker, 94, British painter.
• Relja Bašić, 87, Croatian actor.
• Arturo García Bustos, 90, Mexican painter.
• Sir Andy Chande, 88, Tanzanian executive and Freemason.
• Walter DeVerter, 81, American politician.
• Bill DuBois Sr., 100, American farmer and lobbyist.
• S. M. Ganapathy, 85, Indian temple architect and sculptor.
• John Glick, 78, American pottery artist.
• Marthe Gosteli, 99, Swiss women's rights activist, complications from a fall.
• Ray Guillery, 87, German-born British neuroscientist.
• Peter Isaacson, 96, Australian media publisher.
• Derrick Jensen, 60, American football player, Super Bowl Champion, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Robin Kay, 97, New Zealand painter and historian.
• Patricia McKissack, 72, American children's writer.
• Christopher Morahan, 87, English stage and television director.
• Mary Mumford, 15th Lady Herries of Terregles, 76, Scottish peeress.
• Glenn O'Brien, 70, American journalist and editor, complications from pneumonia.
• Craig Payne, 55, American boxer.
• Tim Pigott-Smith, 70, English actor.
• John Salmon, 86, British advertising executive.
• Ben Speer, 86, American musician.
• Frans Widerberg, 82, Norwegian painter.

  8

• Alicia Appleman-Jurman, 86, Polish-born Israeli-American memoirist.
• Stephen Caracappa, 75, American NYPD police detective and organized crime operative, cancer.
• Fishman, 66, Mexican professional wrestler, heart attack.
• Georgy Grechko, 85, Russian cosmonaut, Hero of the Soviet Union, heart failure.
• Eugene Lang, 98, American philanthropist.
• Brian Matthew, 88, English TV and radio presenter.
• Sir Douglas Myers, 78, New Zealand businessman, cancer.
• Vasantha Obeysekera, 79, Sri Lankan filmmaker.
• Rita Orlandi-Malaspina, 79, Italian opera singer.
• Park Nam-ok, 94, South Korean film director.
• David Perry, 79, English rugby union player.
• Kim Plainfield, 63, American jazz drummer.
• Mahmoodur Rahman, 75, Indian academic administrator, Vice-Chancellor of Aligarh Muslim University, cardiac arrest.
• Donald Sarason, 84, American mathematician.
• Anri Volokhonsky, 81, Russian poet.

  9

• Knut Borge, 67, Norwegian journalist and entertainer.
• Carme Chacón, 46, Spanish politician, Minister of Housing and Defence, heart illness.
• John Clarke, 68, New Zealand satirist.
• Jonny Forsström, 73, Swedish artist.
• Richard Kenneth Fox, 91, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago.
• Peter Hansen, 95, American actor.
• Harry Huskey, 101, American computer scientist.
• Margarita Isabel, 75, Mexican actress, emphysema.
• Kim Young-ae, 65, South Korean actress, pancreatic cancer.
• Dieter Kottysch, 73, German middleweight boxer, Olympic gold medalist.
• Édouard Le Jeune, 96, French Resistant and senator.
• Fouad Naffah, 92, Lebanese politician.
• Peter Par Jiek, South Sudanese military officer, shot.
• Jean Périmony, 86, French actor and theatre director.
• Stan Robinson, 80, British jazz tenor saxophonist and flautist.
• Giorgio Bàrberi Squarotti, 87, Italian literary critic.
• Bill Sutherland, 82, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Bob Wootton, 75, American country guitarist.
• Jean Worthley, 92, American naturalist and television presenter.,

  10

• Jack Ahearn, 92, Australian motorcycle road racer.
• Givi Berikashvili, 83, Georgian actor, respiratory failure.
• Arthur James Boucot, 92, American paleontologist.
• Raymond Chang, 77, Hong Kong-born American chemist.
• Bab Christensen, 89, Norwegian actress.
• Sir Arnold Clark, 89, Scottish businessman.
• Spike Dykes, 79, American football coach, heart attack.
• Blossom Elfman, 91, American novelist.
• Jan Faiks, 71, American politician, member of the Alaska Senate and president, brain cancer.
• Fred Furniss, 94, British footballer.
• Michael Gannon, 89, American historian and academic.
• Linda Hopkins, 92, American actress and singer, Tony winner.
• Dennis F. Kinlaw, 94, American academic, president of Asbury University.
• Kirill Kovaldzhi, 87, Russian author.
• Vuk Kulenovic, 70, Yugoslavian-born American composer.
• David Parry-Jones, 83, Welsh TV presenter and writer, Alzheimer's disease.
• Larry Reisbig, 77, American football player and coach.
• Carlo Riva, 95, Italian motorboat designer.
• Larry Sharpe, 66, American professional wrestler and trainer, liver disease.
• Margaret Towner, 96, British actress.

  11

• Michael Ballhaus, 81, German cinematographer.
• Martin J. Beckmann, 92, German economist.
• Frederick H. Borsch, 81, American Episcopal prelate, Bishop of Los Angeles, myelodysplastic syndrome.
• Edward Francis, 86, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Sivagangai.
• Samir Frangieh, 71, Lebanese politician, MP, cancer.
• J. Geils, 71, American guitarist.
• José Ramón Gurruchaga Ezama, 86, Spanish-born Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Huaraz and Lurin.
• Shantanu Kaiser, 62, Bangladeshi poet and essayist.
• Dorothy Mengering, 95, American television personality.
• Tom Modrak, 74, American sports executive, neurological disease.
• Chaïm Nissim, 68, Israeli-born Swiss anti-nuclear activist and politician, assisted suicide.
• Joyce Pipkin, 93, American football player.
• Margit Schumann, 64, German luger, Olympic gold medalist.
• Toby Smith, 46, British keyboardist, cancer.
• Mark Wainberg, 71, Canadian medical researcher, co-discoverer of lamivudine, asthma.

  12

• Sheila Abdus-Salaam, 65, American judge, member of the New York Court of Appeals.
• Ramesh Chandra Agarwal, 72, Indian newspaper publisher, heart attack.
• Jean Bernabé, 75, French writer.
• Kathleen Cassello, 58, American operatic soprano.
• Tom Coyne, 62, American Grammy award-winning music engineer, multiple myeloma.
• Akhilesh Das, 56, Indian politician and sporting executive, member of the Rajya Sabha, mayor of Lucknow, heart attack.
• Angel Espinosa, 50, Cuban boxer, world amateur champion.
• Tony Figueira, 57, Angolan-born Namibian photographer, multiple myeloma.
• William Norman Grigg, 54, American author, journalist, and libertarian activist, heart attack.
• Geoff Grover, 73, Australian footballer.
• Mufti Abdul Hannan, Bangladeshi terrorist, executed by hanging.
• Wayne Hardin, 91, American college football player and coach, stroke.
• Peggy Hayama, 83, Japanese singer, pneumonia.
• Toshio Matsumoto, 85, Japanese film director, intestinal obstruction.
• Charlie Murphy, 57, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter, leukemia.

  13

• Vic Barnhart, 94, American baseball player.
• Zareh Baronian, 75, Armenian theologian and abbot.
• K. S. Chandrasekharan, 96, Indian-Swiss mathematician.
• José Miguel Class, 78, Puerto Rican singer.
• Dennis Edwards Jr., 95, American judge.
• Fred Goldsmith, 84, Australian VFL footballer.
• Daniel Guice, 92, American politician, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives, mayor of Biloxi.
• Roger Highfield, 95, English historian.
• Nona Liddell, 89, British violinist.
• Robert Marta, 73, American film camera operator, President of the Society of Operating Cameramen.
• David Mwiraria, 78, Kenyan politician, MP for North Imenti, Minister of Finance, bone cancer.
• Eric Pringle, 81, British scriptwriter and author.
• Vakhtang Rcheulishvili, 63, Georgian physicist, construction executive and politician, MP, cancer.
• Georges Rol, 90, French Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Angouleme.
• Dan Rooney, 84, American football executive and diplomat, Chairman of the Pittsburgh Steelers, Ambassador to Ireland, member of the Hall of Fame.
• Jim Scott, 78, American politician, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Norio Shioyama, 77, Japanese animation director, fire.
• Robert Taylor, 85, American computer scientist and internet pioneer, recipient of the National Medal of Technology and the Draper Prize, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Imre Tóth, 68, Hungarian Olympic boxer.

  14

• Robert H. Abel, 75, American author.
• Carol Cuffy-Dowlat, 59, Trinidadian politician and radio host, Senator.
• John Thomas Curtin, 95, American jurist, member of the U.S. District Court for Western New York.
• Martín Elías, 26, Colombian vallenato singer, traffic collision.
• Henry Hillman, 98, American venture capitalist and philanthropist.
• George William Jones, 79, British political scientist and author.
• Bruce Langhorne, 78, American folk musician and film scorer, inspiration for "Mr. Tambourine Man", complications from a stroke.
• Bill Mitchell, 65, British theatre director, cancer.
• Hein-Direck Neu, 73, German discus thrower.
• Hugh Pitts, 83, American football player.
• Wilhelm Sachsenmaier, 90, Austrian sports shooter.
• Girish Chandra Saxena, 89, Indian politician, Governor of Jammu and Kashmir.
• James Smith, 97, Canadian politician, Commissioner of Yukon.
• Patti Smith, 70, American politician, member of the Oregon House of Representatives.
• John Woodburn, 80, British racing cyclist.

  15

• David Brumbaugh, 56, American politician, member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives.
• Johnny Carlyle, 87, Scottish ice hockey player.
• Alberto Carneiro, 79, Portuguese sculptor.
• Dorothy Dorow, 86, English soprano.
• Amílcar Henríquez, 33, Panamanian footballer, shot.
• Allan Holdsworth, 70, British guitarist and composer, heart attack.
• Matt Holt, 39, American singer and musician.
• Clifton James, 96, American actor, complications from diabetes.
• Aref Lorestani, 45, Iranian actor, heart attack.
• Emma Morano, 117, Italian supercentenarian, verified world's oldest living person, last-known surviving person born in the 1800s.
• Sylvia Moy, 78, American songwriter and record producer.
• Leonard Reiffel, 89, American physicist, inventor of telestrator.
• Matt Stephens, 91, Australian politician, member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly.
• Alfonso Yuchengco, 94, Filipino industrialist and diplomat.

  16

• George Bălăiță, 81, Romanian author.
• Michael Bogdanov, 78, British theatre director, heart attack.
• Gianni Boncompagni, 84, Italian television and radio presenter.
• Rosemary Frankau, 84, British actress.
• Robert Godwin, 74, American retiree, victim of random killing, shot.
• Ed Havrot, 89, Canadian politician.
• Satrio Budihardjo Joedono, 84, Indonesian economist, Chairman of the Audit Board.
• Spartaco Landini, 73, Italian footballer.
• Moses Paukan, 83, American Yup'ik politician, member of the Alaska House of Representatives.

  17

• Guy Ébrard, 90, French politician.
• Vimala Gowda, 63, Indian politician, member of Karnataka Legislative Council.
• Claude Frioux, 85, French academic.
• Robert B. Hibbs, 84, American Episcopal prelate, Bishop of West Texas.
• Dawson Mathis, 76, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia's 2nd district.
• Joe McCorquodale, 96, American politician, member and speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives.
• Devineni Nehru, 65, Indian politician, member of Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly, heart attack.
• John T. Noonan Jr., 90, American jurist, member of the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
• Michael Perham, 69, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Gloucester.
• Rosey, 47, Samoan-American professional wrestler, heart failure.
• Sean Scanlan, 68, Scottish actor.
• Nicolle Van Den Broeck, 70, Belgian racing cyclist, Road Race World Champion.
• Trish Vradenburg, 70, American screenwriter, heart attack.
• Shōichi Watanabe, 86, Japanese scholar and historical revisionist, heart failure.
• Othman Wok, 92, Singaporean politician, Minister for Social Affairs.

  18

• Vic Albury, 69, American baseball player.
• Bill Anderson, 80, American football player and broadcaster.
• David Ball, 90, American Episcopal prelate, Bishop of Albany.
• Amedeo Benedetti, 62, Italian author.
• Augustin Bubník, 88, Czech ice hockey player, coach and politician, MP.
• David Chandler, 72, American physical chemist.
• Frank Dostal, 71, German music producer and songwriter.
• Raymond Han, 85, American painter.
• Barkley L. Hendricks, 72, American painter.
• Dorrance Hill Hamilton, 88, American philanthropist, heiress of Campbell Soup Company.
• Gordon Langford, 86, English composer.
• Li Yih-yuan, 85, Taiwanese anthropologist, complications of pneumonia.
• Mihalj Mesaroš, 81, Serbian footballer.
• Jean Miot, 77, French journalist.
• Ron Moeser, 74, Canadian politician, lymphoma.
• Yvonne Monlaur, 77, French actress.
• Jaak Panksepp, 73, Estonian-born American neuroscientist, cancer.
• Diego Rafecas, 46, Argentine actor and film director.
• David H. Rodgers, 93, American politician, Mayor of Spokane, Washington.
• J. C. Spink, 45, American producer, accidental drug overdose.
• Digby Taylor, 75, New Zealand sailor.

  19

• Jill Amos, 89, New Zealand politician and community leader.
• Nikolay Andrushchenko, 73, Russian journalist, injuries sustained in a beating.
• Antun Bogetić, 94, Croatian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Poreč-Pula.
• Farouk Chanchoun, 61, Iraqi Olympic boxer.
• Dick Contino, 87, American accordionist.
• Delbert Daisey, 89, American waterfowl decoy maker.
• Tom Fleming, 65, American long-distance runner, heart attack.
• Phil Gray, 69, Australian politician.
• Aaron Hernandez, 27, American football player and convicted murderer, suicide by hanging.
• Eddie Macon, 90, American football player.
• Carl Manner, 87, Austrian businessman.
• Sven Pettersson, 89, Swedish ski jumper.
• Lyda Ann Thomas, 80, American politician, Mayor of Galveston, Texas.
• Yip Kai Foon, 55, Hong Kong gangster, cancer.
• Bohdan Zip, 88, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.

  20

• Magdalena Abakanowicz, 86, Polish sculptor.
• Alexander Bílek, 76, Czech Olympic racewalker.
• William F. Clayton, 93, American politician and attorney.
• Jay Dickey, 77, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Arkansas's 4th congressional district.
• David Dougherty, 50, New Zealand man wrongfully convicted of rape and abduction.
• Vic Elmes, 69, British musician.
• Sir Ewen Fergusson, 84, British diplomat, Ambassador to South Africa and France.
• Roberto Ferreiro, 81, Argentine footballer and manager.
• John Freely, 90, American author and physics professor.
• Cuba Gooding Sr., 72, American soul singer.
• Craufurd Goodwin, 82, Canadian-born American economist and historian.
• Paul Hébert, 92, Canadian actor and theatre director.
• Jari Helle, 54, Finnish ice hockey player and coach.
• Lawrence Hogan, 88, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Maryland's 5th congressional district.
• Sir Geoffrey Holland, 78, British civil servant.
• Trustin Howard, 93, American singer, actor and writer, complications from a fall.
• Eric Ingham, 72, British rugby league player.
• Jang Deok-jin, 82, South Korean politician, Minister of Agriculture.
• Philip Kgosana, 80, South African anti-apartheid activist.
• Kojo Laing, 70, Ghanaian novelist.
• Ledell Lee, 51, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Fernand Leischen, 97, Luxembourgian fencer.
• Germaine Mason, 34, Jamaican-born British high jumper, Olympic silver medalist, traffic collision.
• John McMillan, 78, Australian footballer.
• Sandy McNicol, 72, New Zealand rugby union player.
• Marlys Millhiser, 78, American writer.
• Skeeter Swift, 70, American basketball player and coach.
• Anicetus Andrew Wang Chong-yi, 97, Chinese Patriotic Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Guiyang.

  21

• Lucky Akhand, 60, Bangladeshi singer-composer, lung cancer.
• Cecilia Alvear, 77, Ecuadorian-born American journalist, breast cancer.
• Phillip Ayeni, 68, Nigerian military officer, administrator of Bayelsa State.
• Eric Barnard, 92, Australian politician.
• Alexei Bolshakov, 77, Russian politician.
• Danzel Becker, 69, South African cricketer and umpire.
• Carl Christ, 93, American economist.
• Cape Cross, 23, Irish-bred racehorse, euthanized.
• Ugo Ehiogu, 44, English football player and coach, heart attack.
• Maria Zhorella Fedorova, 101, Austrian-born American opera singer and teacher.
• Wolfgang Fürniß, 72, German politician.
• Sandy Gallin, 76, American talent agent and producer, multiple myeloma.
• John Grinold, 81, American college athletic director.
• Kristine Jepson, 54, American mezzo-soprano, cancer.
• Gerry Jones, 84, Australian politician.
• Sean McEniff, 81, Irish politician and businessman.
• Enrico Medioli, 92, Italian screenwriter.
• Onuora Nzekwu, 89, Nigerian writer.
• Stathis Psaltis, 66, Greek comedian, lung cancer.
• Robert H. Shaffer, 101, American academic.
• Jetsun Lobsang Tenzin, 80, Tibetan Lama, 103rd Ganden Tripa.

  22

• Miguel Abensour, 78, French philosopher.
• Hector Acebes, 96, American photographer.
• Jeff Butler, English football manager.
• Hubert Dreyfus, 87, American philosopher, cancer.
• Henning Eichberg, 74, German sociologist.
• Bjarte Eikeset, 80, Norwegian lawyer, judge and politician, traffic collision.
• Olga Hegedus, 96, British cellist.
• Götz Heidelberg, 94, German engineer.
• William Hjortsberg, 76, American novelist and screenwriter, pancreatic cancer.
• Vladimir Kamirski, 74, Polish-Australian conductor
• Jess Kersey, 76, American basketball official, cancer.
• Ian Kirkwood, Lord Kirkwood, 84, Scottish jurist, Senator of the College of Justice.
• Alvin H. Kukuk, 79, American politician.
• Lee Chi-chun, 74, Taiwanese radio presenter.
• Sophie Lefranc-Duvillard, 46, French alpine skier.
• Cleber Leite, 47, Brazilian Olympic rower
• Erin Moran, 56, American actress, tonsil cancer.
• Peter Moss, 78, British colonial administrator, park ranger, and pioneer of eco-tourism.
• Hiroshi Nakai, 74, Japanese politician, stomach cancer.
• Attilio Nicora, 80, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal, Bishop of Verona, President of Patrimony of the Apostolic See.
• Sir Julian Priestley, 66, British civil servant, Secretary General of the European Parliament, cancer.
• Witold Pyrkosz, 90, Polish actor.
• Gustavo Rojo, 93, Uruguayan actor.
• Hans-Heinrich Sander, 72, German politician.
• Michele Scarponi, 37, Italian racing cyclist, 2011 Giro d'Italia winner, traffic collision.
• Pere Tàpias, 70, Spanish food writer and radio presenter.
• Peter Wells, 80, British medical physicist.
• R. Cooper White Jr., 90, American politician, mayor of Greenville, South Carolina.

  23

• Isiaka Adeleke, 62, Nigerian politician, Governor of Osun State, heart attack.
• Jerry Adriani, 70, Brazilian singer and actor, cancer.
• Inga Ålenius, 78, Swedish actress.
• Leo Baxendale, 86, British comics artist.
• Chris Bearde, 80, Australian comedy writer and producer, heart attack.
• Jaynne Bittner, 91, American baseball player.
• Anne Pippin Burnett, 91, American classics scholar.
• Henry Chung, 98, Chinese-American diplomat.
• Kathleen Crowley, 87, American actress.
• Ana Delfosse, 85, Chilean-born American race-car driver and mechanic.
• Mickey Dewar, 61, Australian historian, motor neuron disease.
• Imre Földi, 78, Hungarian weightlifter, Olympic champion.
• Charles Foster, 94, English-born Canadian writer and publicist.
• Noritoshi Kanai, 94, Japanese-born American executive.
• Adalbert Korponai, 51, Ukrainian footballer, colon cancer.
• Kate O'Beirne, 67, American political columnist, editor, and commentator, lung cancer.
• Eva Picardi, 69, Italian philosopher.
• František Rajtoral, 31, Czech footballer, suicide by hanging.
• Luis Pércovich Roca, 85, Peruvian politician, Prime Minister.
• Johnny Roe, 79, Irish jockey.
• Ken Sears, 83, American basketball player.
• Erdoğan Teziç, 81, Turkish academic.
• Chriet Titulaer, 73, Dutch astronomer, television presenter, and science and technology writer.
• Michael Williams, Baron Williams of Baglan, 67, British peer and diplomat, pancreatic cancer.

  24

• Glory Annen, 64, Canadian actress.
• Benjamin Barber, 77, American political theorist and author, pancreatic cancer.
• František Brůna, 72, Czech handball player, Olympic silver medalist.
• Xavier Corberó, 81, Spanish sculptor.
• Agustín Edwards Eastman, 89, French-born Chilean newspaper publisher, owner of El Mercurio.
• Phil Edwards, 67, British Olympic racing cyclist.
• Agnes Giebel, 95, German soprano.
• Don Gordon, 90, American actor.
• Dagmar Lerchová, 86, Czech figure skater.
• Michael Mantenuto, 35, American actor and military officer, suicide by gunshot.
• Robert M. Pirsig, 88, American writer and philosopher.
• Osmund Reynolds, 84, British paediatrician.
• Bradley Sack, 81, American researcher, aneurysm.
• Nicholas Sand, 75, American chemist, heart attack.
• Evangelina Villegas, 92, Mexican biochemist.

  25

• Adolf Bachura, 84, Austrian ice hockey player.
• Calep Emphrey Jr., 67, American drummer.
• Rolf Fjeldvær, 91, Norwegian politician, MP.
• Hsieh Chin-ting, 81, Taiwanese politician, Miaoli County Magistrate.
• Chris Gollon, 64, British painter.
• Sasha Lakovic, 45, Canadian ice hockey player, brain cancer.
• Erik Martin, 81, German songwriter and editor.
• Philippe Mestre, 89, French media executive and politician, member of the National Assembly, Minister of Veteran Affairs and War Victims.
• Elena Rzhevskaya, 97, Belarusian-born Russian writer.
• Issa Samb, 71, Senegalese artist.
• Munyua Waiyaki, 90, Kenyan politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs.

  26

• Moïse Brou Apanga, 35, Ivorian-born Gabonese footballer, heart attack.
• Raj Bagri, Baron Bagri, 86, Indian-born British businessman.
• Prince Bartholomew, 77, Trinidadian cricketer.
• Babalola Borishade, 71, Nigerian politician, lung and heart disease.
• Jonathan Demme, 73, American film director, Oscar winner, complications from esophageal cancer and heart disease.
• Charles Eugster, 97, British Masters athlete.
• Tom Forkner, 98, American businessman and lawyer, co-founder of Waffle House.
• Andrew G. Frommelt, 95, American politician.
• James Knoll Gardner, 76, American jurist, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
• Robert Hilder, 67, American jurist, esophageal cancer.
• Chet Kalm, 91, American artist, pneumonia.
• Dennis Karjala, 77, American law professor.
• William L. Kirk, 84, American air force general.
• Daniel Francis Merriam, 90, American geologist.
• Bill Page, 91, American reed player and band leader.
• Margit Pörtner, 45, Danish curler, European champion, Olympic silver medalist.
• Harold Van Heuvelen, 98, American composer and teacher.
• Andreas von der Meden, 74, German actor, voice actor and musician.
• Peter Venables, 94, British psychologist.
• Ronald Karslake Starr Wood, 98, British plant pathologist.

  27

• Vito Acconci, 77, American artist and architectural designer, stroke.
• Amberleigh House, 25, Irish racehorse, winner of 2004 Grand National, complications from colic.
• Nikolai Arefyev, 37, Russian footballer.
• Eduard Brunner, 77, Swiss clarinetist.
• Vinu Chakravarthy, 71, Indian actor.
• Chen Tingru, 103, Chinese WWII army officer.
• Jan Flinik, 84, Polish field hockey player.
• Peter George, 75, Canadian economist, President of McMaster University.
• Vitaliy Kalynychenko, 79, Soviet-born American human rights activist.
• Vinod Khanna, 70, Indian actor and politician, member of the Lok Sabha for Gurdaspur, bladder cancer.
• Joe Leonard, 84, American motorcycle racer and racecar driver.
• Lin Yi-han, 26, Taiwanese novelist, suicide by hanging.
• Robin Millhouse, 87, Australian judge and politician.
• Alexia Pickering, 86, New Zealand disabilities rights campaigner.
• Sadanoyama Shinmatsu, 79, Japanese sumo wrestler, pneumonia.
• Peter Spier, 89, Dutch-born American illustrator and children's writer.
• Julius Youngner, 96, American virologist.

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• Lothar Beckert, 85, German long-distance runner.
• Brazo de Oro, 57, Mexican professional wrestler, heart attack.
• Joanna Brouk, 68, American electronic musician and composer.
• Ken Breitenbach, 62, Canadian ice hockey player, cancer.
• Ion Degen, 91, Ukrainian-born Israeli writer, doctor and medical scientist.
• Mariano Gagnon, 87, American missionary.
• Richard Haynes, 90, American lawyer.
• Danny Killeen, 84, American Olympic sailor
• Janelle Kirtley, 73, American water skier, world champion.
• Maurice Lauze, 94, French racing cyclist.
• Edouard Mathos, 68, Central African Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bambari.
• Luis Olmo, 97, Puerto Rican baseball player, double pneumonia and complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Billy Scott, 68, American race car driver.
• John Shifflett, 64, American jazz musician, pancreatic cancer.
• Donie Shine, 65, Irish football player and manager.
• Patrick Thaddeus, 84, American astronomer.
• Francis Travis, 95, American-born Swiss orchestral conductor.
• Andrew Tyler, 70, British animal rights campaigner and music journalist.
• Sir John Whitmore, 79, British racing driver and executive coach.

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• Diego Natale Bona, 90, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Porto e Santa Rufina and Saluzzo.
• Sonika Chauhan, 27, Indian actress and model, car crash.
• Jonathan Dele, 70, Nigerian boxer.
• Jordan Edwards, 15, American victim of police shooting, shot.
• George Genyk, 78, American college football player and coach, cancer.
• Vehid Gunić, 76, Bosnian journalist.
• William M. Hoffman, 78, American playwright.
• Saeed Karimian, 45, Iranian media activist, director-general of GEM TV, shot.
• Ernie Kell, 88, American politician, Mayor of Long Beach, cancer.
• Herbert Nkabiti, 36, Botswanan welterweight boxer, head injuries sustained in a fight.
• Lidia Pitteri, 83, Italian Olympic gymnast.
• R. Vidyasagar Rao, 77, Indian irrigation engineer, bladder cancer.
• Mátyás Usztics, 68, Hungarian actor.
• Edward D. White Jr., 92, American architect.

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• Leone Bagnall, 83, Canadian politician.
• Belchior, 70, Brazilian singer and composer.
• Clifford Brewer, 104, British surgeon.
• Anna Lee Carroll, 86, American actress.
• Mbah Gotho, 146, Indonesian longevity claimant, oldest unverified living person, heart failure.
• Lorna Gray, 99, American actress.
• Howard Hart, 76, American CIA officer.
• Esad Hećimović, 53, Bosnian investigative journalist.
• Preston Henn, 86, American entrepreneur and racing driver.
• Jayson Hinder, 51, Australian politician, member of the Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly, traffic collision.
• Jack Imel, 84, American entertainer.
• Jidéhem, 81, Belgian comics artist.
• Archduke Joseph Árpád of Austria, 84, Austro-Hungarian royal, Captain General of the Order of Vitéz.
• Ray Kogovsek, 75, American politician, member of the Colorado Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives from Colorado's 3rd congressional district.
• Borys Oliynyk, 81, Ukrainian author, poet, translator and politician, member of Verkhovna Rada.
• Anders Omholt, 90, Norwegian physicist.
• Tam Spiva, 84, American screenwriter.
• Ueli Steck, 40, Swiss rock climber and mountaineer, climbing fall.
• Jean Stein, 83, American author and editor, suicide by jumping.