Deaths in April 2019
The following is a list of notable deaths in April 2019.
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.
April 2019
1
- Dixie Allen, 84, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives.
- Enrique Álvarez Conde, 67, Spanish academic, lung cancer.
- Giacomo Battaglia, 54, Italian comedian, complications from a stroke.
- Bill Butchart, 85, Australian Olympic middle-distance runner.
- Sardar Fateh Buzdar, 79–80, Pakistani politician, member of the Provincial Assembly of the Punjab.
- Caravelli, 88, French conductor and composer.
- Dimitar Dobrev, 87, Bulgarian wrestler, Olympic champion.
- Michael William Feast, 92, British-born South African astronomer.
- Gustav Hanson, 84, American Olympic biathlete.
- Sinethemba Jantjie, 30, South African footballer, traffic collision.
- Joan Jones, 79, American-born Canadian civil rights activist.
- Francisco Massiani, 74, Venezuelan writer and painter.
- Bucky McConnell, 90, American basketball player.
- Vonda N. McIntyre, 70, American science fiction author, pancreatic cancer.
- Frank E. Moore, 85, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
- Vladimir Orloff, 90, Romanian-Canadian cellist and music teacher.
- Yisroel Avrohom Portugal, 95, American rabbi, Rebbe of Skulen.
- Ruth-Margret Pütz, 89, German coloratura soprano.
- Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio, 91, Spanish writer, Cervantes Prize winner.
- Dilip Sarkar, 61, Indian politician, liver and kidney disease.
- Ron Sweed, 70, American television host, heart attack.
- Joseph Ubalde, 34, Filipino weatherman, news producer and columnist.
- Vodka, 14, Japanese racehorse, laminitis.
- S. Pierre Yameogo, 63, Burkinabé film director and screenwriter.
2
- Matoug Adam, 93, Libyan politician, Minister of Tourism and Interior.
- Rovshan Almuradly, 64, Azerbaijani actor, director and screenwriter, heart attack.
- Herman Braun-Vega, 85, Peruvian painter.
- Rick Elias, 64, American musician, brain cancer.
- Kim English, 48, American house and gospel singer-songwriter, kidney failure.
- Michael Fahy, 78, Irish politician, Galway County Councilor.
- Martin Fido, 79, British crime writer, fall.
- Ken Hay, 85, American religious leader, founder of The Wilds Christian Association.
- Bill Heine, 74, British radio broadcaster, leukaemia.
- Jón Helgason, 87, Icelandic politician, MP, Minister of Justice and Agriculture.
- Harry Judge, 90, English educational theorist.
- J. Mahendran, 79, Indian film director and actor.
- Jamshid Mashayekhi, 84, Iranian actor.
- John Oddo, 66, American jazz pianist and music arranger.
- Roger Paris, French slalom canoeist.
- Liliane Sprécher, 92, French Olympic athlete.
- Rosemarie Springer, 98, German Olympic equestrian.
- Sergio Valdés, 85, Chilean footballer, leukaemia.
- Franz Weber, 91, Swiss environmentalist.
- Don Williamson, 85, American businessman and politician, mayor of Flint, Michigan, complications of respiratory illness.
3
- Ferdinando Bologna, 93, Italian art critic.
- Mary Borgstrom, 102, Canadian potter and ceramist.
- Meyer Brownstone, 96, Canadian anti-poverty activist.
- Aleksey Buldakov, 68, Russian actor, blood clot.
- Philip Furia, 75, American author.
- Alina Kabata-Pendias, 89, Polish chemist and academic, specialist in biogeochemistry and soil science.
- Guo Kun, 83, Chinese Antarctic explorer, director of the Great Wall Station and the Chinese Arctic and Antarctic Administration.
- Daryl Hecht, 66, American judge, member of the Iowa Supreme Court, melanoma.
- Einar Iversen, 88, Norwegian jazz pianist and composer.
- Jacqueline Lichtenstein, 72, French philosopher and art historian.
- Billy Mainwaring, 78, Welsh rugby union player.
- Gabriel Piroird, 86, French Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Constantine.
- Maurice Pon, 97, French lyricist.
- Carmelita Pope, 94, American actress.
- W. Wesley Pue, 64, Canadian lawyer.
- Shawn Smith, 53, American singer, songwriter and musician, torn aorta and high blood pressure.
- Jerzy Wójcik, 88, Polish cinematographer.
4
- Cesare Cadeo, 72, Italian television presenter and journalist.
- Alberto Cortez, 79, Argentine singer and songwriter, gastric haemorrhage.
- Georgiy Daneliya, 88, Russian film director and screenwriter, People's Artist of the USSR, acute respiratory and heart failure.
- Đồng Sĩ Nguyên, 96, Vietnamese military officer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister.
- Ray Harper, 91, New Zealand rugby union executive and manager, bone cancer.
- Roberta Haynes, 91, American actress.
- Mike Jakubo, 71, Canadian ice hockey player, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
- Barry Malkin, 80, American film editor.
- Thompson Mann, 76, American swimmer, Olympic champion.
- Marilyn Mason, 93, American concert organist and academic.
- Ivan Mrázek, 93, Czech basketball player and coach, European champion.
- Alessandro Pizzorno, 95, Italian sociologist.
- Arthur Polonsky, 93, American painter.
- Louis Rosenblum, 95, American research scientist and activist.
- Shridhar Sathe, 68, Indian-born American food scientist.
- Albin Siwak, 86, Polish politician.
- Myer Skoog, 92, American basketball player.
- John Winneke, 81, Australian judge.
5
- Anandavally, 67, Indian actress and voice actress.
- Sydney Brenner, 92, South African biologist, Nobel Prize laureate.
- Julio Cotler, 86, Peruvian anthropologist.
- Roger DeJordy, 81, Canadian ice hockey player.
- Ib Glindemann, 84, Danish jazz composer and bandleader.
- Herb Goldberg, 81, German-born American psychologist and author.
- Nikolay Kovalyov, 69, Russian politician, Director of the Federal Security Service.
- Nina Lagergren, 98, Swedish activist, co-founder of the Raoul Wallenberg Academy.
- Gianfranco Leoncini, 79, Italian footballer, leukaemia.
- Pastor López, 74, Venezuelan singer-songwriter, stroke.
- Ly Tong, 73, Vietnamese-American anti-communist activist, lung failure.
- Trevor McKee, 81, New Zealand Thoroughbred trainer.
- Samuel Pilafian, 69, American tuba player, colon cancer.
- Lasse Pöysti, 92, Finnish actor.
- John Quarmby, 89, English actor.
- Keith Tate, 74, English boxer, stomach cancer.
- Elriesa Theunissen-Fourie, 25, South African cricketer, traffic collision.
- Davey Williams, 66, American avant-garde guitarist and music critic, cancer.
- Wowaka, 31, Japanese Vocaloid producer and vocalist, heart failure.
6
- Shirin Akiner, 75, Uzbek academic.
- Romus Burgin, 96, American World War II veteran and author.
- Paul J. Coleman, 87, American space scientist.
- Jack Corrin, 87, Manx jurist and politician, First Deemster.
- Louis Crump, 102, American politician, member of the Texas Senate.
- Jim Glaser, 82, American country music artist, heart attack.
- Richard Green, 82, American sexologist and psychiatrist.
- Fritz Hollings, 97, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate, Governor of South Carolina.
- Lin Mingyu, 81, Chinese politician, Party Secretary of Haikou, Vice Chairman of Hainan People's Congress and CPPCC.
- Olli Mäki, 82, Finnish boxer, European amateur champion, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
- Lloyd McDermott, 79, Australian rugby union player, nation's first indigenous barrister.
- Jean Namotte, 84, Belgian politician, Wallonia MP and handball player.
- Michael O'Donnell, 90, British physician, journalist, author and broadcaster.
- Nadja Regin, 87, Serbian actress.
- George Edward Rueger, 89, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Worcester.
- Tele Samad, 74, Bangladeshi actor and comedian.
- Ángel Sertucha, 88, Spanish footballer.
- Mike Sheppard, 82, American baseball coach.
- Marshall M. Sloane, 92, American entrepreneur.
- A. K. C. Sundaravel, 70, Indian politician, MLA, traffic collision.
- David J. Thouless, 84, British physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
7
- Peter Armstrong, 83, Australian rugby league player.
- Claire Ball, 77, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives.
- Hugo Ballesteros Reyes, 88, Chilean politician, Senator and Deputy, ambassador to the United Nations, brain cancer.
- Joe Bertony, 97, French-born Australian spy and engineer.
- Michael E. Busch, 72, American politician, Speaker and member of the Maryland House of Delegates, pneumonia and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis.
- Seymour Cassel, 84, American actor, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
- Cho Yang-ho, 70, South Korean businessman.
- John William Ditter Jr., 97, American jurist, Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
- Arie Irawan, 28, Malaysian golfer.
- Jean Paul Jacob, 81–82, Brazilian-American computer scientist.
- Wilbert Keon, 83, Canadian heart surgeon and politician, Senator.
- Víctor Manzanilla Schaffer, 94, Mexican politician and diplomat, Governor of Yucatán, Senator and Deputy, Ambassador to China and North Korea.
- Willie McPheat, 76, Scottish footballer.
- William B. Murray, 84, American opera baritone.
- Mya-Lecia Naylor, 16, English actress, hanged by misadventure.
- Neil D. Opdyke, 86, American geologist, heart failure.
- Luis Fernando Páez, 29, Paraguayan footballer, traffic collision.
- Sandy Ratcliff, 70, English actress.
- Billy Rosen, 90, American bridge player, winner of the Bermuda Bowl.
- Ahmet Şenol, 93, Turkish Olympic wrestler.
- Lodune Sincaid, 45, American mixed martial artist.
- L. Eugene Smith, 97, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
- Al Staley, 90, Canadian ice hockey player.
- Jan Wraży, 75, Polish footballer.
- Xiong Zhaoren, 107, Chinese major general.
8
- Sheikh Abdul Aziz, Bangladeshi politician, Minister of Information.
- Blase Bonpane, 89, American human rights activist.
- Clive Cohen, 73, English Anglican priest.
- Robert Forguites, 80, American politician, member of the Vermont House of Representatives.
- Rex Garrod, 75, British roboteer and television presenter, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
- Leif Haraldseth, 89, Norwegian trade unionist and politician, Minister of Local Government.
- Huang Yihe, 85, Chinese television director, created the CCTV New Year's Gala.
- Navtej Hundal, Indian actor.
- Josine Ianco-Starrels, 92, Romanian-born American art curator.
- Saad Jassim, 59, Iraqi footballer.
- Vasily Likhachyov, 67, Russian politician.
- Héctor del Mar, 76, Argentine-born Spanish professional wrestling commentator, heart attack.
- Sir Alexander Reid, 3rd Baronet, 86, English aristocrat and public servant.
- Gaston Rousseau, 93, French racing cyclist.
- Roger Schofield, 82, British historian.
- Samuel "Bay" Taylor, 90, American baseball player.
- Turgeon, 33, French racehorse, Cartier Champion Stayer.
- Anzac Wallace, 76, New Zealand actor and trade unionist, cancer.
9
- Bob Beckett, 83, Canadian ice hockey player.
- Elwyn Berlekamp, 78, American mathematician.
- Richard E. Cole, 103, American air force officer, last surviving member of the Doolittle Raid.
- Pieter de Lange, 93, South African academic, chairman of the Afrikaner Broederbond.
- Rod Galt, 67, Australian footballer, stroke.
- Nikolai Gorbachev, 70, Belarusian sprint canoeist, Olympic and world champion.
- Paul Hollander, 86, Hungarian-born American sociologist.
- James D. Hudnall, 61, American comic book writer.
- Bhima Mandavi, Indian politician, MLA, bombing.
- K. M. Mani, 86, Indian politician, member of the Kerala Legislative Assembly.
- Robert Pennock, 82, Canadian politician.
- Héctor Rivera Pérez, 85, Puerto Rican Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico.
- Marilynn Smith, 89, American Hall of Fame golfer, Titleholders champion.
- Charles Van Doren, 93, American academic, writer and television quiz contestant, part of the 1950s quiz show scandals.
10
- Werner Bardenhewer, 90, German Roman Catholic priest and humanitarian, Dean of Wiesbaden.
- Randall C. Berg Jr., 70, American attorney, Executive Director of the Florida Justice Institute, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
- Drupad Borgohain, 77, Indian politician, MP, kidney disease.
- Art Broback, 88, American politician, member of the Washington House of Representatives.
- Earl Thomas Conley, 77, American country music singer-songwriter, cerebral atrophy.
- Gilbert Dubier, 87, French Olympic wrestler.
- Tim Halliday, 73, British herpetologist.
- Keith Harrison, 73, Canadian novelist.
- Barbara Marx Hubbard, 89, American non-fiction writer.
- Irwin L. Jacobs, 77, American investor, suicide by gunshot.
- Raj Kumar Kapoor, 87, Indian actor, producer, director.
- Walter White, 67, American football player, pancreatic cancer.
- Estrella Zeledón Lizano, 89, Costa Rican politician, First Lady.
11
- Thomas A. Abercrombie, 68, American writer, liver cancer.
- Alexander V. Acebo, 91, American politician.
- Don Arnott, 83, Zimbabwean cricketer.
- Can Bartu, 83, Turkish basketball player and footballer.
- Geoffrey Chew, 94, American theoretical physicist.
- Ian Cognito, 60, British stand-up comedian, heart attack.
- Lewis Cooper, 81, Australian cricketer.
- Howard Copeland, 75, American politician, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, chordoma.
- Vijay Dev, 78, Indian academic.
- Dina, 62, Portuguese singer, pulmonary fibrosis.
- Al Hester, 86, American author and academic.
- Jorge Menéndez, 67, Uruguayan doctor and politician, Minister of Defence.
- Monkey Punch, 81, Japanese manga artist, pneumonia.
- Bill Nelsen, 78, American football player.
- Una-Mary Parker, 89, British journalist and novelist.
- Stanley Plumly, 79, American poet, multiple myeloma.
- Wayne Pomeroy, 96, American politician.
- Scott Sanderson, 62, American baseball player, agent and broadcaster, cancer.
- Satan's Angel, 74, American exotic dancer, pneumonia.
- Dmitri Savitski, 75, Russian writer and poet.
- Peter Smedley, 76, Australian businessman, Chairman of Arrium.
- Gary Stewart, 62, American music executive and archivist.
- Max van Weezel, 67, Dutch journalist, pancreatic cancer.
12
- Ivor Broadis, 96, English footballer.
- André Bureau, 83, Canadian lawyer and communications executive.
- Italo Casali, 78, Sammarinese Olympic sports shooter.
- Alajdin Demiri, 64, Albanian politician.
- Georgia Engel, 70, American actress.
- Forrest Gregg, 85, American Hall of Fame football player and coach, complications from Parkinson's disease.
- Ronald Paul Herzog, 76, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Alexandria.
- Ric Holt, 78, Canadian computer scientist.
- Robert F. Inger, 98, American herpetologist.
- John McEnery, 75, British actor.
- Norrie Muir, 70, Scottish mountaineer.
- Lindsay Parsons, 73, English football player and coach.
- Paul Rawlinson, 56, British lawyer, head of Baker McKenzie.
- Tommy Smith, 74, English footballer, dementia.
- Carol Thomas, South African gynecologist.
13
- Francisca Aguirre, 88, Spanish poet, Premio Nacional de las Letras Españolas winner.
- Donald Ault, 76, American literary scholar.
- Ron Austin, 90, Australian LGBT rights activist.
- D. Babu Paul, 78, Indian civil servant, multiple organ failure.
- Rodolfo Francisco Bobadilla Mata, 86, Guatemalan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Huehuetenango.
- Tony Buzan, 76, English author and educational consultant.
- Wally Carr, 64, Australian boxer, cancer.
- Neus Català, 103, Spanish Resistance fighter, Holocaust survivor and political activist.
- Mark Connolly, 63, American politician, brain hemorrhage.
- Michael Coper, 72, Australian legal scholar.
- Quentin Fiore, 99, American graphic designer.
- S. Thomas Gagliano, 87, American politician, member of the New Jersey Senate.
- Norman Garwood, 73, English production designer.
- Paul Greengard, 93, American neuroscientist, Nobel Prize laureate.
- Kwame Gyekye, 79, Ghanaian philosopher.
- Marsha Hanen, 82, Canadian academic, Vice Chancellor of the University of Winnipeg, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
- Winifred Jordan, 99, British sprinter.
- Norio Kaifu, 75, Japanese astronomer, director-general of the National Astronomical Observatory, president of the IAU, pancreatic cancer.
- Bamapada Mukherjee, 97, Indian politician.
- Billy Myers, 95, Canadian football player.
- Mamman Nasir, 89, Nigerian judge, President of the courts of appeals.
- Anne Patrizio, British LGBT rights activist.
- Paul Raymond, 73, English keyboardist and guitarist, heart attack.
- J. K. Rithesh, 46, Indian actor and politician, heart attack.
- S. K. Shivakumar, 66, Indian space scientist, complications from jaundice.
- Ján Starší, 85, Slovak ice hockey player and coach.
- LeRoy Washburn, 84, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of New Brunswick.
- Lydia Wideman, 98, Finnish cross-country skier, Olympic champion.
- Yvette Williams, 89, New Zealand Hall of Fame athlete, Olympic and Commonwealth champion.
14
- Bibi Andersson, 83, Swedish actress, complications from a stroke.
- Giuseppe Ciarrapico, 85, Italian politician and football executive, Senator and President of A.S. Roma.
- Colin Collindridge, 98, English footballer.
- David Brion Davis, 92, American historian.
- Elma Davis, 51, South African lawn bowler, shot.
- Denis Dupéré, 70, Canadian ice hockey player.
- Nand Lal, 74, Indian politician.
- Abdallah Lamrani, 72–73, Moroccan footballer.
- Anne Lewis, 56, American lawyer, cancer.
- John MacLeod, 81, American basketball coach, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
- Mirjana Marković, 76, Serbian politician and fugitive from justice, pneumonia.
- Hessel Miedema, 90, Dutch art historian.
- Dmitri Nabokov, 42, Russian ice hockey player.
- Jacek Namieśnik, 69, Polish chemist, rector of Gdańsk University of Technology.
- Gene Wolfe, 87, American science fiction and fantasy writer, Nebula and multi-Locus Award winner, heart disease.
15
- Warren Adler, 91, American author, liver cancer.
- Gustavo Arias Murueta, 95, Mexican painter, sculptor and poet.
- Jerry Clack, 92, American classics scholar.
- Marcelo Dascal, 78, Brazilian-born Israeli philosopher and linguist.
- Owen Garriott, 88, American astronaut.
- Sithembile Gumbo, 56, Zimbabwean politician, MP for Lupane, traffic collision.
- Rex Harry, 82, Australian cricketer.
- Lloyd James, 82, Bermudian cricketer.
- Louise H. Kellogg, 59, American geophysicist.
- Aleksandar Kostov, 81, Bulgarian football player and coach.
- Malky McCormick, 76, Scottish cartoonist, vascular dementia.
- Sir Roger Moate, 80, British politician, MP, cancer.
- Don Perry, 89, Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
- Quinzinho, 45, Angolan footballer, heart attack.
- Elaine Rapp, 91, American sculptor.
- Les Reed, 83, English songwriter.
- José María Rico, 84, Costa Rican lawyer, First Gentleman, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
- P. N. Shankar, 74, Indian fluid dynamicist.
- Winston L. Shelton, 96, American inventor and entrepreneur.
- Noel Starblanket, 72, Canadian politician, chief of the National Indian Brotherhood.
16
- Vladimir Boltyansky, 93, Russian mathematician.
- Ricardo Chibanga, 76, Mozambican bullfighter.
- Francis Croissant, 83–84, French archaeologist and art historian.
- Jörg Demus, 90, Austrian pianist.
- Dale Denno, 68, American politician, member of the Maine House of Representatives, lung cancer.
- Ahmad Eghtedari, 93–94, Iranian teacher, lawyer and writer, complications from lung and kidney deficiencies.
- Guro Fjellanger, 55, Norwegian politician, Minister of the Environment.
- Jose Mari Gonzales, 80, Filipino actor and politician, pneumonia.
- Kent Harris, 88, American songwriter and record producer, cancer.
- Len Hoogerbrug, 89, Dutch-born New Zealand architect.
- Kiyoshi Kawakubo, 89, Japanese voice actor.
- Bill LeCaine, 81, Canadian ice hockey player.
- Abraham D. Mattam, 96, Indian Syro-Malabar Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Satna.
- Fay McKenzie, 101, American actress.
- Ignace Murwanashyaka, 55, Rwandan militant, leader of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda.
- Bazilije Pandžić, 101, Croatian historian, archivist and orientalist.
- Pete Peterson, 89, American baseball player and general manager.
- Valentin Plătăreanu, 82, Romanian actor and director.
- Juan Francisco Rodríguez, 68, Spanish European bantamweight champion boxer.
- Suzanne Twelftree, 62, Australian Paralympic wheelchair tennis player and powerlifter.
- Xia Suisheng, 94, Chinese surgeon, pioneer in organ transplantation.
- Mountaineers killed in the Howse Peak avalanche:
17
- Peter Cartwright, 78, New Zealand lawyer, viceregal consort.
- Chet Coppock, 70, American broadcast journalist and sports talk personality, traffic collision.
- George Finkel, 82, American TV sports producer and director.
- Alan García, 69, Peruvian sociologist and politician, President, suicide by gunshot.
- Frederick Hemke, 83, American saxophonist.
- Ryszard Kaja, 57, Polish graphic artist.
- Norman Jacobsen, 89, Canadian politician.
- Kazuo Koike, 82, Japanese manga artist, pneumonia.
- Timothy Lawson-Cruttenden, 64, British solicitor.
- Ya'akov Nehoshtan, 93, Israeli politician and diplomat, member of the Knesset, ambassador to the Netherlands.
- Folagbade Olateru Olagbegi III, 77, Nigerian ruler, Olowo of Owo.
- Sir Clive Rose, 97, British diplomat.
- James V. Schall, 91, American Jesuit Roman Catholic priest, teacher and writer.
- Pieter Verhoeff, 81, Dutch film director.
- Alex Weil, 67, American filmmaker.
18
- John Bowen, 94, British novelist and dramatist.
- Ken Buehler, 99, American basketball player.
- Con de Lange, 38, South African-born Scottish cricketer, brain tumour.
- Ivo Frosio, 89, Swiss footballer.
- Samuel H. Gruber, 80, American marine biologist.
- Jamil Jalibi, 89, Pakistani linguist, writer and academic administrator, vice-chancellor of the University of Karachi.
- Andrew Mallard, 56, British-born Australian ex-prisoner, wrongfully convicted of murder, hit-and-run.
- Lyra McKee, 29, Northern Irish journalist, shot.
- Don Melnick, 65, American biologist and conservationist.
- Hasibul Islam Mizan, 62, Bangladeshi film director.
- Ira Neimark, 97, American retail executive.
- Jennifer Phipps, 87, Canadian actress.
- Iča Putrih, 77, Slovene comedian.
- Eddie Tigner, 92, American blues keyboardist, singer and songwriter.
- Andreas Ugland, 93, Norwegian ship's engineer.
- Willem Hendrik Velema, 89, Dutch theologian.
- Lorraine Warren, 92, American paranormal investigator and author, subject of The Conjuring.
- Siegmar Wätzlich, 71, German footballer, Olympic bronze medalist.
- Zheng Guo'en, 89, Chinese filmmaker and educator.
19
- Martin Böttcher, 91, German composer, arranger and conductor.
- Chitrabhanu, 96, Indian religious leader.
- Zora Dirnbach, 89, Croatian journalist and writer.
- Renald Knysh, 87, Belarusian artistic gymnastics coach.
- William Krehm, 105, Canadian Trotskyist activist and Spanish Civil War veteran.
- Philip Liner, 93, British-born New Zealand radio broadcaster.
- MC Sapão, 40, Brazilian singer, pneumonia.
- Michael Lyons, 75, British sculptor.
- Massimo Marino, 59, Italian television presenter and actor.
- Roy Mugerwa, 77, Ugandan physician.
- Yuriy Pimenov, 61, Russian rower, Olympic silver medalist.
- Francis Sanziri, 62, Ghanaian military officer, heart attack.
- Patrick Sercu, 74, Belgian cyclist, Olympic champion.
- Rodolfo Severino Jr., 82, Filipino diplomat, Secretary-General of the ASEAN, ambassador to Malaysia, complications from Parkinson's disease.
- Verena Wagner Lafferentz, 98, German Wagner family member and associate of Adolf Hitler.
- Xiao Yang, 80, Chinese judge, President of the Supreme People's Court, Minister of Justice.
- Okiharu Yasuoka, 79, Japanese politician, Minister of Justice, pancreatic cancer.
- Michael Yorke, 80, British Anglican priest, Dean of Lichfield.
20
- Bed Prakash Agarwal, 83, Indian politician, Odisha MLA.
- Enrico Alberto, 85, French-Italian footballer.
- Rolf Amrein, 89, Swiss Olympic sailor.
- Joe Armstrong, 68, British computer scientist, designer of Erlang.
- Jarosław Biernat, 58, Polish footballer.
- Luděk Bukač, 83, Czech ice hockey player and manager.
- Reggie Cobb, 50, American football player, heart attack.
- Peter Colotka, 94, Slovak academic, lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the Slovak Socialist Republic.
- Terence Dolan, 76, Irish lexicographer.
- Joyce Evans, 89, Australian photographer.
- Bazlul Karim Falu, 68, Bangladeshi politician.
- Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, 96, Iranian artist.
- Ernie Fischer, 88, American Olympic wrestler.
- Karl Grob, 72, Swiss footballer, heart failure.
- Charlie Kelsall, 98, Welsh footballer.
- Galina Kmit, 87, Russian photographer.
- Braulio Lara, 30, Dominican baseball player, traffic collision.
- Kiyonomori Masao, 84, Japanese sumo wrestler, pneumonia.
- Pedro Matrona, 91, Curaçaoan footballer.
- S. Muthiah, 89, Indian historian.
- Amar Pal, 96, Indian folk singer, heart attack.
- David V. Picker, 87, American film executive and producer, complications from colon cancer.
- Mavis Pusey, 90, Jamaican-born American abstract artist.
- Jacqueline Saburido, 40, Venezuelan-American anti-drunk driving campaigner, cancer.
- Phil Solomon, 65, American experimental filmmaker, complications following surgery.
- Doreen Spooner, 91, British photographer.
- Pranita Talukdar, 83–84, Indian academics, politician, social worker, Assam Legislative Assembly.
- Valdiram, 36, Brazilian footballer, beaten.
- John Whitworth, 74, British poet.
- Jayne Wrightsman, 99, American philanthropist and fine arts collector.
- Wu Yili, 87–88, Chinese-Singaporean pianist.
- David Zafer, 85, British-born Canadian violinist.
21
- Suzanne Carrell, 96, French-born American educator.
- Hannelore Elsner, 76, German actress, cancer.
- Violeta Gindeva, 72, Bulgarian actress and academic.
- Steve Golin, 64, American film producer, Oscar winner, cancer.
- Duncan Green, 93, British military officer.
- David A. Hamburg, 93, American psychiatrist, ischemic colitis.
- Aminul Haque, 76, Bangladeshi politician, MP, Minister of Posts and Telecommunications, liver cancer.
- Heidi Hetzer, 81, German entrepreneur and world tour rally driver.
- Polly Higgins, 50, Scottish environmentalist, cancer.
- Sigurður Jónsson, 96, Icelandic Olympic swimmer.
- Horst Kassner, 81, German motorcycle road racer.
- Ken Kercheval, 83, American actor, pneumonia.
- Shantha Mayadunne, Sri Lankan chef, bombing.
- Abu Saleh Mohammad Saeed, 73, Bangladeshi politician.
- Shivlal Sharma, 80, Indian politician, MLA, cardiac arrest.
- Joyce Steele, 83, American baseball player.
- Atli Heimir Sveinsson, 80, Icelandic composer.
- Amelia Vargas, 91, Cuban actress and dancer.
- John Wells-Thorpe, 90, English architect, Parkinson's disease.
- Frances Winfield, 77, American author.
22
- Patricia Battin, 89, American librarian.
- Krasimir Bezinski, 57, Bulgarian footballer, colorectal cancer.
- Robert L. Butler, 92, American lawyer and politician, Mayor of Marion, Illinois.
- Deborah Cook, 80, American operatic soprano, Alzheimer’s disease.
- Jim Dunbar, 89, American radio program director.
- Heather Harper, 88, Northern Irish soprano, Grammy winner.
- Huang Zhanyue, 92, Chinese archaeologist.
- Stanisław Jędryka, 85, Polish film director.
- Simon Kaipuram, 65, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Balasore.
- Ventseslav Konstantinov, 78, Bulgarian writer, aphorist and translator.
- John L'Heureux, 84, American author, complications from Parkinson's disease.
- Lê Đức Anh, 98, Vietnamese military officer and politician, Chief of the General Staff, Minister of Defence and President, complications from a stroke.
- William Levy, 80, American writer.
- Billy McNeill, 79, Scottish football player and manager, dementia.
- Andy O'Donnell, 94, American basketball player.
- John Quinn, 78, Canadian professional wrestler.
- Dave Samuels, 70, American percussionist.
- Greg Theakston, 65, American comics artist.
- František Xaver Thuri, 79, Czech composer.
- Oiva Toikka, 87, Finnish glass designer.
- Julio César Toresani, 51, Argentine football player and manager, suicide by hanging.
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- László Balogh, 61, Hungarian Olympic sport shooter, traffic collision.
- Henry W. Bloch, 96, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of H&R Block.
- Edward Brooks, 76, American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, leukemia.
- Matthew Buckland, 44, South African internet entrepreneur and businessman, cancer.
- Wendelin Enders, 96, German politician, MP.
- Mario Fabbrocino, 76, Italian mobster.
- Fermo Favini, 83, Italian football player and executive.
- Viggo Fossum, 69, Norwegian politician.
- Della Godfrey, Indian politician, MLA.
- Charles Gheerbrant, 94, French politician, Deputy, Mayor of Saint-Nicolas.
- Max Golser, 78, Austrian Olympic ski jumper.
- George Haigh, 103, English footballer.
- Jean, 98, Luxembourgish royal, Grand Duke, pulmonary infection.
- Edward Kelsey, 88, English actor.
- Denton Lotz, 80, American Baptist minister, Secretary of the Baptist World Alliance.
- Mark Medoff, 79, American playwright and screenwriter, Tony winner, complications from a fall.
- Voja Mirić, 86, Serbian actor.
- Juan José Muñante, 70, Peruvian footballer, lung cancer.
- Johnny Neumann, 68, American basketball player, cancer.
- Nils John Nilsson, 86, American computer scientist.
- Tadeusz Pluciński, 92, Polish actor.
- Lorenzo Quinteros, 73, Argentine actor.
- Pablo Ramirez, 26, American skateboarder, traffic collision.
- Terry Rawlings, 85, British film editor, heart failure.
- José Rizo Castellón, 74, Nicaraguan politician, economist and lawyer, Vice President.
- Jotindra Nath Roy, 84, Indian politician, MLA.
- Peter Skipper, 61, English footballer, complications from a stroke.
- Scott W. Sloan, 64, Australian civil engineer and academic.
- John Shorter Stevens, 85, American politician, member of the North Carolina House of Representatives.
- Charity Sunshine Tillemann-Dick, 35, American soprano and presenter, idiopathic pulmonary hypertension.
- Alan G. Thomas, 92, British materials scientist.
- David Winters, 80, English-American actor and choreographer.
- Johan Witteveen, 97, Dutch politician and economist, Deputy Prime Minister, Managing Director of the IMF.
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- Saleh Ahmed, 83, Bangladeshi actor.
- Chris Albertson, 87, American journalist, writer, and record producer.
- Françoise Barrière, 76, French composer.
- Benson K. Buffham, 99, American intelligence official, Deputy Director of the National Security Agency.
- Johnny Green, 81, American football player.
- Hubert Hahne, 84, German racing driver, dementia.
- Martin Kilson, 88, American political scientist.
- Francisco Lerma Martínez, 74, Spanish-born Mozambican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Gurué.
- Abbassi Madani, 88, Algerian Islamic militant and politician, President of the Islamic Salvation Front.
- Jean-Pierre Marielle, 87, French actor.
- Zoran Marojević, 76, Serbian basketball player, Olympic silver medalist.
- Sergey Pogorelov, 44, Russian handball player, Olympic champion.
- Feargal Quinn, 82, Irish businessman and politician, founder of Superquinn, Senator.
- Dick Rivers, 74, French rock and roll singer, cancer.
- Conrado San Martín, 98, Spanish actor.
- John Simpson, 85, English Anglican priest, Dean of Canterbury.
- Dennis Stanford, 76, American archaeologist.
- Babill Stray-Pedersen, 76, Norwegian physician.
- Michael Wolf, 64, German photographer.
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- Vidya Sagar Chaudhary, 85, Indian politician.
- Josip Ćuk, 83, Yugoslav Olympic sports shooter.
- Michiro Endo, 68, Japanese musician, pancreatic cancer.
- Povl Falk-Jensen, 98, Danish resistance member during World War II.
- Alberto Giovannini, 63–64, Italian economist.
- Gregory Gray, 59, Northern Irish singer-songwriter.
- Robbert de Greef, 27, Dutch road racing cyclist, heart attack.
- Svante Grundberg, 75, Swedish actor and comedian.
- John Havlicek, 79, American Hall of Fame basketball player, complications from Parkinson's disease.
- Kurohimeyama Hideo, 70, Japanese sumo wrestler, pneumonia.
- Larry "Flash" Jenkins, 63, American actor, heart attack.
- Dirceu Krüger, 74, Brazilian footballer, heart attack.
- Michael Lavery, 84, Northern Irish barrister.
- Manuel Lujan Jr., 90, American politician, Secretary of the Interior, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
- Faty Papy, 28, Burundian footballer, heart attack.
- Sir Nigel Seely, 95, English aristocrat.
- Morton Sosland, 93, American businessman.
- Peter Vander Pyl, 85, Canadian Olympic hockey player.
26
- Abdul-Latif Arabiyat, 86, Jordanian politician, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
- Jimmy Banks, 54, American soccer player and coach, pancreatic cancer.
- Elina Bystritskaya, 91, Russian actress, People's Artist of the USSR.
- Zé do Carmo, 85, Brazilian ceramist, heart attack.
- Nasser Farbod, 96–97, Iranian political activist and military officer, Chief of Staff.
- Jessie Lawrence Ferguson, 76, American actor.
- Nancy Fouts, 74, American artist.
- Fu Xinqi, 100, Chinese architect, academic, and painter.
- Anthony J. Hilder, 84, American surf music producer, radio host and conspiracy film maker.
- Eric Kent, 99, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Council.
- Anil Kumar Koneru, Indian film producer, cancer.
- Frederick Niels Larsen, 87, American religious leader, President of the Remnant Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
- Colette Lorand, 96, Swiss opera singer.
- Sir David McNee, 94, Scottish police officer, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police.
- Petar Omčikus, 92, Serbian painter.
- Steven Paul, 64, British fencer and stuntman, fall.
- Ken Rothman, 83, American politician, Lt. Governor of Missouri, member and Speaker of the Missouri House of Representatives.
- Mae Schmidle, 91, American politician, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives.
- Ellen Schwiers, 88, German actress.
- Reijo Taipale, 79, Finnish singer, dementia.
- C. K. Tedam, 93, Ghanaian teacher and politician.
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- Adrian Brown, 89, British stage and television director and producer.
- Bart Chilton, 58, American civil servant, Commissioner of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, pancreatic cancer.
- Edward Fraenkel, 91, German-born British mathematician.
- Teva Harrison, 42, Canadian-American writer and cartoonist, breast cancer.
- Dan LaRose, 80, American football player.
- Gerald James Larson, 81, American indologist.
- Aleksey Lebed, 64, Russian military officer and politician, Head of the Republic of Khakassia, internal bleeding.
- Ruth Macrides, 69, American historian.
- Jack de Mello, 102, American composer.
- Jerzy Moes, 83, Polish actor.
- María de los Ángeles Moreno, 74, Mexican politician, Secretary of Fisheries.
- Negasso Gidada, 75, Ethiopian politician, President.
- Vasanthi Stanley, 56, Indian politician, MP.
- Gene Stephens, 86, American baseball player.
- Mahfuz Ullah, 69, Bangladeshi journalist and environmentalist, heart and lung failure.
- Joseph Ward, 76, English tenor.
- Joe T. Wood, 96, American politician, member of the Georgia House of Representatives.
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- Anisur Rahman Anis, 78, Bangladeshi actor.
- William S. Banowsky, 83, American preacher and academic, President of Pepperdine University and the University of Oklahoma.
- Bruce Bickford, 72, American animator.
- Caroline Bittencourt, 37, Brazilian model, drowned.
- Sylvia Bretschneider, 58, German politician, member of the Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, cancer.
- Wayson Choy, 80, Canadian writer.
- Dan Conners, 78, American football player.
- Dax Cowart, 71, American attorney, complications from leukemia and liver cancer.
- Lothar Geisler, 82, German footballer.
- Zaki al-Ghul, 92–93, Palestinian politician.
- Daniel Horlaville, 73, French footballer.
- Thomas Jessell, 67, American biochemist, neurodegenerative disease.
- Damon Keith, 96, American judge, member of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, complications from leukemia and cardiovascular disease.
- Barry Latman, 82, American baseball player.
- Jo Sullivan Loesser, 91, American actress, heart failure.
- Richard Lugar, 87, American politician, U.S. Senator, mayor of Indianapolis, complications from CIDP.
- Karol Modzelewski, 81, Polish historian, writer, politician and academic.
- Genrikh Novozhilov, 93, Soviet and Russian aircraft designer.
- Maurício Peixoto, 98, Brazilian engineer and mathematician.
- Alejandro Planchart, 83, Venezuelan-born American musicologist.
- Otto Rogers, 83, Canadian painter.
- Bernt Rougthvedt, 62, Norwegian historian and crime writer, cancer.
- John Singleton, 51, American film director and television producer, stroke.
- Sir William Slack, 94, British surgeon.
- Jah Stitch, 69, Jamaican reggae singer.
- Menachem Mendel Taub, 96, Israeli Hasidic rebbe and Holocaust survivor.
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- Carlo Maria Abate, 86, Italian auto racing driver.
- Lee K. Abbott, 71, American writer, cancer.
- Doug Adair, 89, American television news anchor.
- Eldon Bargewell, 71, American army general, commander of Delta Force, lawnmower rollover.
- Stevie Chalmers, 83, Scottish footballer.
- Albert-Marie de Monléon, 82, French Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Pamiers and Meaux.
- René Dybkær, 93, Danish Olympic fencer.
- Tom Ellis, 86, American journalist and television news anchor, cancer.
- Franklin M. Fisher, 84, American economist.
- George W. Homsey, 93, American architect.
- Vijaykumar Khandre, 60, Indian politician, MLA, cardiac arrest.
- Jamsrangiin Ölzii-Orshikh, 52, Mongolian racing cyclist.
- Grigori F. Krivosheev, 89, Russian military historian.
- Wojciech Królikowski, 92, Polish physicist.
- Donald Lan, 88, American politician, Secretary of State of New Jersey.
- George Litto, 88, American film producer and talent agent, complications from aortic stenosis.
- Betty Lockwood, Baroness Lockwood, 95, British political activist and life peer, Member of the House of Lords.
- Gino Marchetti, 93, American Hall of Fame football player, pneumonia.
- John Llewellyn Moxey, 94, British film director.
- Les Murray, 80, Australian poet.
- José Rodrigues Neto, 69, Brazilian footballer, thrombosis.
- Makoto Ogino, 59, Japanese manga artist, kidney failure.
- Su Yu-chang, 78, Chinese martial artist, scholar and physician.
- Josef Šural, 28, Czech footballer, traffic collision.
- Ellen Tauscher, 67, American politician, Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security Affairs, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, complications from pneumonia.
- James D. Wright, 71, American sociologist.
- Nelliy Yefremova, 57, Russian canoeist.
- Werner Zimmer, 89, German Olympic wrestler.
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- Anémone, 68, French actress, César winner, lung cancer.
- Silvina Bosco, 52, Argentine actress, cancer.
- Beth Carvalho, 72, Brazilian samba singer.
- Chuck Cecil, 96, American broadcaster.
- Luciano Comaschi, 87, Italian football player and manager.
- Dunaden, 13, French racehorse, Melbourne Cup winner, complications of a paddock accident.
- Max Evans, 88, Australian politician.
- Ahmed Fagih, 76, Libyan writer.
- Russ Gibb, 87, American music promoter, heart failure.
- Fitzroy Gordon, 65, Jamaican-born Canadian radio broadcaster.
- Boon Gould, 64, English musician.
- Nurit Karlin, 80, Israeli cartoonist.
- Art Kunkin, 91, American journalist.
- Luis Maldonado Venegas, 62, Mexican politician, Deputy.
- Peter Mayhew, 74, English-American actor, heart attack.
- S. P. Y. Reddy, 68, Indian politician, MP, lung infection.
- Robert R. Spitzer, 96, American agricultural researcher and educator.
- Joseph D. Stewart, 77, American military officer, melanoma.
- Erika Strasser, 85, Austrian Olympic javelin thrower.