Deaths in August 2014

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

  August 2014

1

• Gretta Bader, 83, American portrait and bust sculptor, heart failure.
• János Bencze, 79, Hungarian Olympic basketball player.
• Valyantsin Byalkevich, 41, Belarusian football player and coach, aneurysm.
• Godwin Chepkurgor, 45, Kenyan journalist, offered Bill Clinton dowry to marry Chelsea Clinton, injuries sustained in an elephant charge.
• Chung Eun-yong, 91, South Korean policeman, instigated United States admission of role in No Gun Ri Massacre.
• Norman Cornish, 94, English artist.
• Rod de'Ath, 64, Welsh drummer.
• Catherine Gregg, 96, American philanthropist and environmentalist, First Lady of New Hampshire, restored the Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion.
• Michael Johns, 35, Australian singer-songwriter, blood clot.
• Jan Roar Leikvoll, 40, Norwegian author.
• Hossein Maadani, 43, Iranian volleyball player and coach, pancreatic failure.
• Charles T. Payne, 89, American soldier.
• Saeed Saleh, 76, Egyptian actor.
• Mike Smith, 59, British television and radio presenter, complications from heart surgery.

  2

• Wolf-Dieter Ahlenfelder, 70, German Bundesliga referee.
• Luciano Borgognoni, 62, Italian Olympic cyclist.
• Brian Buckley, 78, Australian VFL football player.
• Rosetta Hightower, 70, American R&B singer.
• Ed Joyce, 81, American television executive, President of CBS News.
• June Krauser, 88, American Hall of Fame swimmer, swimming official and rules writer, Parkinson's disease.
• Eroni Kumana, 93, Solomon Islander fisherman, rescued John F. Kennedy after PT-109 sinking.
• Billie Letts, 76, American novelist, pneumonia.
• Kate O'Hanlon, 83-84, British nurse.
• Sir Alan Peacock, 92, British economist.
• Barbara Prammer, 60, Austrian politician, Women's Affairs and Consumer Protection Minister, President of the National Council, pancreatic cancer.
• Sue Richards, 56, Canadian artist.
• James Thompson, 49, American-born Finnish crime writer.
• Pete Van Wieren, 69, American sports broadcaster, cutaneous B-cell lymphoma.
• Olga Voronets, 88, Russian mezzo-soprano folk singer.

  3

• Peter Arguindegui, 82, American oilman and politician.
• Daladier Arismendi, 39, Colombian singer, stabbed.
• George Ashe, 81, Canadian politician, Ontario MPP for Durham West, Mayor of Pickering, Parkinson's disease.
• Miangul Aurangzeb, 86, Pakistani politician, Governor of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
• Charles Calhoun, Jr., 83, American politician and judge, member of the Texas Senate.
• Edward Clancy, 90, Australian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Sydney.
• Tony Clunn, 68, British army officer and archaeologist, rediscovered Kalkriese site of Varus's defeat by Arminius.
• Cec Creedon, 92, Australian politician.
• Dorothy Salisbury Davis, 98, American crime fiction writer, recipient of the Grand Master Award.
• Kenny Drew, Jr., 56, American jazz pianist and composer.
• Helmut Faeder, 79, German footballer.
• Christian Frémont, 72, French politician, chief of staff, Representative of the French Co-Prince of Andorra.
• Yvette Giraud, 97, French singer and actress.
• Wimper Guerrero, 32, Ecuadorian footballer, heart attack.
• Jess Marlow, 84, American news broadcaster, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• James McClure, 88, Northern Irish politician, chairman of the Democratic Unionist Party.
• Richard Newman, 89, Australian cricketer.
• Steve Post, 70, American radio broadcaster, colon and lung cancer.
• Charles Simeons, 92, British politician, MP for Luton.
• David Smail, 76, British clinical psychologist.
• Benedito de Ulhôa Vieira, 93, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Uberaba.
• Lydia Yu-Jose, 70, Filipino political scientist, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

  4

• James Brady, 73, American government official and gun control advocate, White House Press Secretary.
• Hugh Calkins, 90, American lawyer and educator.
• Rich Ceisler, 58, American stand-up comedian, Guillain–Barré syndrome.
• Chester Crandell, 68, American politician, member of the Arizona House of Representatives and Senate, horseriding fall.
• Irma Elizondo Ramírez, 68, Mexican politician, MP for Coahuila, heart attack.
• Bonar Hardie, 89, British Olympic sailor
• George Hilton, 89, American historian, heart failure.
• Jake Hooker, 61, Israeli-born American pop musician, co-writer and producer.
• Erich E. Kunhardt, 65, Dominican-born American physicist.
• Walter Massey, 85, Canadian actor.
• Rodolfo Motta, 70, Argentine football player and coach.
• Rodrigo Osorio, 48, Salvadoran footballer, traffic collision.
• Rafael Santa Cruz, 53, Peruvian cajon musician and actor, heart attack.
• Walter J. Sullivan, 91, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, Mayor of Cambridge, heart failure.
• Peter A. Vellucci, 71-72, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.

  5

• Dmitri Anosov, 77, Russian mathematician.
• Arvind Apte, 79, Indian cricketer, prostate cancer.
• Diann Blakely, 57, American poet, lung disorder.
• Elfriede Brüning, 103, German writer.
• Marilyn Burns, 65, American actress.
• Ruth Sacks Caplin, 93, American screenwriter, heart ailment.
• Scott Ciencin, 51, American adaption novelist, blood clot.
• Hans V. Engström, 65, Swedish actor, liver failure.
• Yakov Yakovlevich Etinger, 84, Russian historian and political activist.
• Harold J. Greene, 55, American military officer, Army commanding general of NSRDEC, shot.
• Dave Hereora, 57, New Zealand politician, Labour Party list MP.
• Edward Leffingwell, 72, American art critic and curator.
• Khalil Morsi, 67, Egyptian actor.
• Joe McManemin, 91, New Zealand athletics coach and sports administrator.
• Angéla Németh, 68, Hungarian javelin thrower, Olympic and European champion.
• Richard Olson, 85, American politician, Mayor of Des Moines, Iowa, traffic collision.
• Vladimir Orlov, 77, Russian novelist.
• Chapman Pincher, 100, British journalist and historian.
• Rodrigo de Triano, 25, English thoroughbred, Cartier Champion Three-year-old Colt, pneumonia.
• Yoshiki Sasai, 52, Japanese biologist, apparent suicide by hanging.
• Pran Kumar Sharma, 75, Indian cartoonist, colon cancer.
• Jesse Leonard Steinfeld, 87, American naval officer and physician, Surgeon General, complications from a stroke.
• Ronnie Stonham, 87, British army officer and broadcasting adviser.
• Emanuel Tanay, 86, American physician and Holocaust survivor, prostate cancer.

  6

• James L. Adams, 92, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives.
• Ralph Bryans, 72, Northern Irish Grand Prix motorcycle racer, World Champion.
• Aloha Dalire, 64, American hula dancer, first Miss Aloha Hula winner.
• Imre Bajor, 57, Hungarian actor, brain tumor.
• Ghaleb Barakat, 86, Jordanian diplomat and politician, Minister of Tourism and Antiquities.
• Clem Comly, 59, American baseball researcher and author.
• Julien Fourgeaud, 34, French entrepreneur, base jumping collision.
• Brent Galloway, 70, American linguist.
• Ananda W. P. Guruge, 85, Sri Lankan diplomat and academic.
• John Woodland Hastings, 87, American biochemist, pioneer in antibiotics research, pulmonary fibrosis.
• Macarthur Job, 88, Australian aviation writer and air safety consultant.
• Norman Lane, 94, Canadian Olympic bronze medallist* sprint canoer.
• Li Hu, 40, Chinese HIV activist, complications from AIDS.
• Ken Lucas, 73, American professional wrestler.
• Frank Shipway, 79, British conductor.
• Andrey Stenin, 33, Russian photojournalist.
• Smita Talwalkar, 59, Indian film actress, producer and director, ovarian cancer.
• Dharmesh Tiwari, 63, Indian actor, cardiac arrest.
• Jimmy Walsh, 83, British footballer.
• David Weidman, 93, American animation background artist and silkscreen artist.

  7

• Claude Bertrand, 97, Canadian neurosurgeon.
• Dick Collver, 78, Canadian politician.
• Cristina Deutekom, 82, Dutch coloratura soprano opera singer, fall.
• Víctor Fayad, 59, Argentine politician, Mayor of Mendoza, mediastinum cancer.
• Walter R. Hanson, 83, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives.
• Mary Healy, 60, American zoo executive, CEO and director of the Sacramento Zoo, cerebral aneurysm and heart attack.
• Mitsuo Higashinaka, 90, Japanese politician, member of the House of Representatives for Osaka's 2nd District, lung cancer.
• Michael Kerrigan, 61, British television director.
• Suruli Manohar, Indian comic actor, cancer.
• Perry Moss, 88, American football coach and player, complications from a neuromuscular disease.
• Alberto Pérez Zabala, 89, Spanish footballer.
• Harold Poole, 70, American bodybuilder.
• Syed Rahim, 85, Indian cricketer.
• Henry Stone, 93, American record company executive and record producer.
• Ayman Taha, Palestinian militant and spokesman.
• Ekanath K. Thakur, 73, Indian politician and finance executive, MP for Maharashtra, chairman of Saraswat Bank, cancer.
• Voytek, 89, Polish-born British television director and production designer.
• Sir Denys Williams, 84, Barbadian judge, member and Chief Judge of the Supreme Court, Acting Governor-General.

  8

• Martin V.B. Bostetter, 86, American judge.
• Luciano Bux, 78, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Oppido Mamertina-Palmi.
• Edmund Collins, 83, Australian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Darwin.
• Menahem Golan, 85, Israeli director and producer, recipient of the Israel Prize.
• Charles Keating, 72, English Emmy Award-winning actor, lung cancer.
• Viktor Kopyl, 54, Ukrainian footballer.
• Leonardo Legaspi, 78, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Caceres, Rector of University of Santo Tomas, lung cancer.
• Danny Murphy, 58, American actor, cancer.
• J. J. Murphy, 86, Northern Irish actor.
• Arthur Olsen, 100, American politician, member of the Nevada Assembly.
• Simon Scott, 47, British artist and musician.
• Peter Sculthorpe, 85, Australian composer.
• Åke W. Sjöberg, 90, Swedish assyriologist.
• Michael K. Smith, 48, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives, heart attack.
• Red Wilson, 85, American baseball player.

  9

• J. F. Ade Ajayi, 85, Nigerian academic and historian of Africa.
• Andriy Bal, 56, Ukrainian football player and coach, blood clot.
• Arthur G. Cohen, 84, American real estate developer.
• Jerome Ehlers, 55, Australian actor, cancer.
• Obi Henry Ezeagwuna II, Nigerian royal, traditional leader of Issele-Uku, traffic collision.
• Gerhard Fischer, 98, German army officer, recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.
• J. E. Freeman, 68, American actor.
• Charles Gelatt, 96, American businessman and philanthropist.
• Trevor Boots Harris, 69, Jamaican entertainment journalist and broadcaster, heart attack.
• Wayne Ison, 90, American aircraft designer.
• Merle G. Kearns, 76, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives and Senate.
• Alexander Kwapong, 87, Ghanaian academic, Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana.
• Dave Lloyd, 77, American football player.
• Khayelihle Mathaba, South African royal and politician, KwaZulu-Natal MLA, chieftain of the eMacambini, traffic collision.
• Yasuyuki Nakai, 60, Japanese baseball player, esophageal cancer.
• Ed Nelson, 85, American actor, heart failure.
• George Nicholaw, 86, American radio executive.
• Henry Pease, 69, Peruvian politician and political scientist, member of DCC and Congress, cardiac arrest as a complication from cancer.
• Stanley Reiter, 89, American economist.
• Norris Stubbs, 65, Bahamian Olympic sprinter.
• Emigdio Vasquez, 75, American muralist and pictorial artist, pneumonia.
• Myrtle Young, 90, American potato chip collector, heart failure.

  10

• Constantin Alexandru, 60, Romanian wrestler, Olympic silver medalist.
• Gabriel Acosta Bendek, 83, Colombian politician, Senator, heart attack.
• Peter Chippindale, 69, British newspaper journalist and author.
• Jim Command, 85, American baseball player.
• Graham Gedye, 85, New Zealand cricketer.
• Frederick Jacob Reagan Heebe, 91, American senior judge, member and Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for Eastern Louisiana.
• John Kearney, 89, American sculptor.
• Princess Lalla Fatima Zohra, 85, Moroccan royal.
• Dotty Lynch, 69, American television journalist and editor, melanoma.
• Metakse, 88, Armenian poet, writer and translator.
• Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw, 101, British mathematician and politician, Lord Mayor of Manchester, mentor and advisor to Margaret Thatcher.
• Ann Rowan, 85, Irish actress.
• Shree Krishna Shrestha, 47, Nepalese actor, pneumonia.
• Ima Wells, 77, American politician, member of the New Mexico House of Representatives.
• Bob Wiesler, 83, American baseball player.

  11

• Nadezhda Andreyeva, 55, Russian Soviet alpine skier.
• Vladimir Beara, 85, Yugoslav football player and manager, Olympic silver medalist.
• Djalma Cavalcante, 57, Brazilian football player and coach, heart attack.
• Armando Círio, 98, Italian-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Cascavel.
• Vol Dooley, 87, American law enforcement officer, sheriff of Bossier Parish, Louisiana.
• Sir Leonard Figg, 90, British diplomat, Ambassador to Ireland
• Raymond Gravel, 61, Canadian Québécois Roman Catholic priest and politician, MP for Repentigny, lung cancer.
• Morkos Hakim, 83, Egyptian Coptic Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Sohag.
• Sam Hall, 77, American Olympic silver-medalist diver, politician and mercenary, member of the Ohio House of Representatives.
• Liz Holzman, 61, American animation designer, producer and director, cancer.
• Reshamlal Jangade, 90, Indian politician, MP for Bilaspur, Madhya Pradesh MLA.
• Maibam Kunjo, 73, Indian politician.
• Rolf Larsen, 79, American judge, member of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, only justice ever impeached by Pennsylvania Senate, lung cancer.
• Marion Milne, 79, American politician, member of the Vermont House of Representatives.
• Stelio Nardin, 74, Italian footballer.
• Dame Julia Polak, 75, Argentinian-born British pathologist.
• Pierre Ryckmans, 78, Belgian diplomat, Australian sinologist and author, cancer.
• Kika Szaszkiewiczowa, 97, Polish artist, writer and blogger.
• Franca Tamantini, 82, Italian actress.
• Joe Viskocil, 61, American visual effects artist, Oscar winner, complications of liver and kidney failure.
• Robin Williams, 63, American comedian and actor, Oscar winner, suicide by hanging.

  12

• Carlos Abella y Ramallo, 80, Spanish diplomat, Ambassador to Kenya and the Holy See.
• Lauren Bacall, 89, American actress, Tony winner, stroke.
• Purdy Crawford, 82, Canadian corporate lawyer and financier, CEO and chairman of Imasco, Allstream Inc. and Canada Trust.
• Velva Darnell, 75, American country singer.
• Frank Eisenberg, 70, German Olympic athlete.
• Samuel Olatunde Fadahunsi, 94, Nigerian civil engineer.
• Jean Favier, 82, French historian, director of National Archives, president of the National Library.
• Pierino Gelmini, 89, Italian Roman Catholic priest.
• Javad Heyat, 89, Iranian surgeon and journalist.
• Newt Hudson, 86, American politician, member of the Georgia House of Representatives.
• Futatsuryū Jun'ichi, 64, Japanese sumo wrestler, lung cancer.
• Abel Laudonio, 75, Argentine actor and boxer, Olympic bronze medalist, stroke.
• Gordon Mackenzie, 77, American baseball player and coach.
• Arlene Martel, 78, American actress, heart attack.
• Kongō Masahiro, 65, Japanese sumo wrestler, pneumonia.
• Lida Moser, 93, American photographer.
• Frederick Gale Ruffner, Jr., 88, American publisher.
• Kazimierz Trampisz, 85, Polish Olympic footballer.

  13

• Hani Abbadi, Jordanian politician, member of the House of Representatives.
• Frans Brüggen, 79, Dutch musician.
• Eduardo Campos, 49, Brazilian politician, Minister of Science and Technology, Governor of Pernambuco, 2014 presidential candidate, plane crash.
• Columba Domínguez, 85, Mexican actress.
• Martino Finotto, 80, Italian racing driver.
• Edith Flagg, 94, Romanian-born American fashion designer, pioneer in the use of polyester, natural causes.
• Frank W. Hirschi, 89, American politician, member of the Idaho House of Representatives.
• Buddy Jones, 77, American bluegrass musician.
• Alan Landsburg, 81, American screenwriter, film producer, racehorse owner and official, chairman of the California Horse Racing Board.
• Fanny Morweiser, 74, German writer.
• Joel J. Nobel, 79, American physician.
• James J. Schiro, 68, American executive, multiple myeloma.
• Rainer Schubert, 72, German Olympic hurdler.
• Dorothy Schwieder, 80, American biographer and historian, lymphoma.
• Süleyman Seba, 88, Turkish football player and sport executive, president of Beşiktaş J.K., respiratory tract infection.
• Jack Shallcrass, 91, New Zealand author, educator, and humanist.
• Robert Bruce Smith, IV, 69, American music expert, writer, historian, and poet, traffic collision.
• Terence Todman, 88, American diplomat, Ambassador to Chad, Guinea, Costa Rica, Spain, Denmark and Argentina.
• Kurt Tschenscher, 85, German football referee.
• Frank Udvari, 90, Canadian Hall of Fame NHL referee.
• Tom Veen, 72, Dutch politician, member of the States of Gelderland and Senate of the Netherlands.

  14

• Mariana Briski, 48, Argentine actress, breast and lung cancer.
• Emile Capgras, 88, Martinican politician, President of the Regional Council.
• Pedro Caino, 58, Argentine Olympic cyclist.
• John Cinicola, 85, American basketball coach, cancer.
• Madeleine Collinson, 62, Maltese actress.
• Leonard Fein, 80, American Jewish activist, academic, editor, columnist and author, founder of and Moment.
• Vernon F. Gallagher, 99, American Roman Catholic priest.
• Ada Haug Grythe, 79, Norwegian journalist.
• Géza Gulyás, 85, Hungarian footballer.
• Javier Guzmán, 69, Mexican footballer, diabetes.
• George V. Hansen, 83, American politician, member of the U.S. House for Idaho's 2nd district.
• Stephen Lee, 58, American actor, heart attack.
• George Linton, 57, Barbadian cricketer and coach.
• Rick Parashar, 50, American record producer, blood clot.
• Mervyn Susser, 92, South African activist and epidemiologist.

  15

• Jay Adams, 53, American skateboarder, heart attack.
• Licia Albanese, 105, Italian-born American operatic soprano.
• John Blake, Jr., 67, American jazz violinist, multiple myeloma.
• James Cama, 56, American martial artist and teacher.
• Jim Carrigan, 84, American senior judge, member of the U.S. District Court for Colorado and the Colorado Supreme Court.
• Timothy Cathcart, 20, Northern Irish rally driver, race collision.
• Chen Kuei-miao, 81, Taiwanese politician, member of the Legislative Yuan, co-founder of the New Party.
• Piet de Ruiter, 75, Dutch politician and editor, member of the House of Representatives.
• Jan Ekier, 100, Polish pianist, composer and competition judge, Chopin authority, a winner of the Chopin Competition, recipient of the Order of the White Eagle.
• Barbara Funkhouser, 84, American newspaper journalist and journalism academic, editor of the El Paso Times.
• James Freeman Gilbert, 83, American geophysicist.
• Robin Greene, 82, South African cricketer.
• Ken Hawley, 87, British industrial historian.
• Sulejman Kupusović, 63, Bosnian film director.
• Jerry Lumpe, 81, American baseball player.
• Amitava Nandy, 71, Indian politician, MP for Dum Dum, cancer.
• Svein Nymo, 61, Norwegian violinist and composer.
• Bruno Petroni, 72, Italian footballer.
• Ferdinando Riva, 84, Swiss footballer.
• Joseph T. Walsh, 84, American judge, member of the Delaware Supreme Court, cancer.
• Dare Wilson, 95, British army major general, Military Cross recipient.

  16

• Patrick Aziza, 66, Nigerian military officer and political leader, Military Governor of Kebbi, cancer.
• Kevin Barry, 78, New Zealand rugby union player.
• Bernard F. Fisher, 87, American air force officer, Medal of Honor recipient.
• Liam Flood, 71, Irish bookmaker and poker player.
• Adrián Gaona, 40, Mexican journalist, murdered.
• David Glass, 77, Israeli politician, member of the Knesset.
• Raul Goco, 84, Filipino jurist and diplomat, Solicitor General, Ambassador to Canada, pneumonia and renal failure.
• Mustafa Hussein, 79, Egyptian cartoonist and journalist, cancer.
• Andy MacMillan, 85, Scottish architect
• Mike Matarazzo, 48, American bodybuilder, heart problems.
• Njoroge Mungai, 88, Kenyan politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs.
• Vsevolod Nestayko, 84, Ukrainian children's writer.
• Shaken Niyazbekov, 75, Kazakhstani artist, designed the national flag.
• Mario Oriani-Ambrosini, 53, Italian-born South African politician, MP, lung cancer.
• Peter Scholl-Latour, 90, German newspaper and television journalist, Middle East correspondent and author.
• Fernand St. Germain, 86, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Rhode Island's 1st district.
• Tsang Shu-ki, 64, Hong Kong economist and social activist.

  17

• Emilia Castro de Barish, 98, Costa Rican diplomat.
• Rosalba Rincon Castell, 79, Colombian fencing coach.
• Dragoljub Čirić, 78, Serbian chess player.
• Sammy Conn, 52, Scottish footballer, motor neurone disease.
• Ger van Elk, 73, Dutch artist.
• Michael A. Hoey, 79, British producer, director and screenwriter.
• Ricardo Izurieta, 71, Chilean military officer, Army Commander-in-chief.
• Børre Knudsen, 76, Norwegian minister and pro-life activist.
• Pierre Lagaillarde, 83, French politician, a founder of the OAS.
• Wolfgang Leonhard, 93, German historian, last living member of the Ulbricht Group.
• Rebecca Lepkoff, 98, American photographer.
• Marie Little, 81, Australian sport administrator.
• Sophie Masloff, 96, American politician, Mayor of Pittsburgh.
• Miodrag Pavlović, 85, Serbian poet, writer and critic.
• David Russell, 75, South African Anglican prelate, Bishop of Grahamstown.
• Nicholas Russell, 6th Earl Russell, 45, British aristocrat and disability rights campaigner, thrombosis.
• Joanie Spina, 61, American magician.
• Eliaba James Surur, 83, Sudanese politician.
• Dick Teed, 88, American baseball player.
• Pierre Vassiliu, 76, Swiss-born French singer.

  18

• Suzie d'Auvergne, 71, Saint Lucian barrister and jurist, High Court judge.
• Ricardo Cabot Boix, 97, Spanish Olympic field hockey player.
• Per Engebretsen, 67, Norwegian civil servant.
• Gordon Faber, 83, American politician.
• Sam Galbraith, 68, British politician, MP and MSP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden.
• James Alexander Gordon, 78, British radio broadcaster.
• Elmer Gray, 91, American baseball scout.
• Lawrence N. Guarino, 92, American Air Force colonel, prisoner of war.
• Hashim Khan, 100, Pakistani squash player, heart failure.
• Jim Jeffords, 80, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Vermont's at-large district, Senator for Vermont.
• Levente Lengyel, 81, Hungarian chess player.
• Hans-Joachim Merker, 84, German physician and anatomist.
• Jean Nicolay, 76, Belgian footballer, winner of the Belgian Golden Shoe.
• Paul Nguyên Thanh Hoan, 74, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Phan Thiêt.
• Don Pardo, 96, American radio and television announcer.
• Nobuyuki Sekiyama, 80, Japanese politician, member of the House of Representatives for Niigata's 1st district, stomach cancer.
• Doug Williams, 91, Australian footballer.

  19

• Ameyo Adadevoh, 57, Nigerian physician, Ebola virus disease.
• Samih al-Qasim, 75, Palestinian Druze poet and journalist, cancer.
• Elaine M. Alphin, 58, American author.
• Carlos Arango, 86, Colombian footballer.
• Simin Behbahani, 87, Iranian writer and poet.
• Manuel da Costa, 68, Portuguese Olympic equestrian
• Richard Dauenhauer, 72, American poet, historian and translator, expert on Tlingit history and language, pancreatic cancer.
• Linda Dégh, 94, Hungarian-born American folklorist and academic.
• James Foley, 40, American photojournalist, beheading.
• Yves Fortier, 100, Canadian geologist.
• Sam Foster, 82, British politician, MLA for Fermanagh and South Tyrone.
• Hayk Ghazaryan, 83, Armenian historian.
• Bob Glading, 94, New Zealand golfer, winner of New Zealand Open.
• Brian G. Hutton, 79, American actor and director, complications from a heart attack.
• Grantland Johnson, 65, American politician.
• Kåre Kolberg, 78, Norwegian composer.
• Adyar K. Lakshman, 80, Indian dancer.
• Geoffrey Leech, 78, British linguist.
• Candida Lycett Green, 71, British author, pancreatic cancer.
• Jackie Mayo, 89, American baseball player.
• George Munroe, 92, American basketball player.
• Dinu Patriciu, 64, Romanian businessman and politician, liver disease.
• Tom Pevsner, 87, German-born British film producer.
• Henry Plée, 91, French karate master.
• Odessa Sathyan, 56, Indian documentary filmmaker, pancreatic cancer.
• David St John Thomas, 84, English publisher and writer.
• Deborah Sussman, 83, American graphic designer and artist, breast cancer.
• Walter Thirring, 87, Austrian physicist.
• Maruxa Vilalta, 81, Mexican playwright and theatre director.
• Gershon Yankelewitz, 104, Belarusian-born American rabbi.

  20

• Eric Barber, 72, Irish footballer.
• Tamás Beck, 85, Hungarian politician, Minister of Trade.
• Anton Buslov, 30, Russian blogger and magazine columnist.
• Lois Mai Chan, 80, American librarian, professor and author.
• Boris Dubin, 67, Russian sociologist and translator.
• Joseph J. Fauliso, 98, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut.
• Morteza Hosseini Fayaz, 85, Iraqi Twelver Marja'.
• B. K. S. Iyengar, 95, Indian yogi, founder of Iyengar Yoga, heart attack and renal failure.
• Buddy MacMaster, 89, Canadian fiddler.
• Margaret Marks, 96, New Zealand cricketer.
• Aiko Miyawaki, 84, Japanese sculptor, pancreatic cancer.
• Rudy Ortiz, 51, Guatemalan military officer, head of the military, helicopter crash.
• José Luis Saldívar, 60, Mexican football player and coach, cardiac arrest.
• Sava Stojkov, 89, Serbian painter.
• Edmund Szoka, 86, American Roman Catholic prelate, cardinal, Archbishop of Detroit, President of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State.
• Jan Thorstensen, 81, Norwegian Olympic alpine skier.
• Andrew F. Wissemann, 86, American Episcopal prelate, Bishop of Western Massachusetts.

  21

• Raed al Atar, c. 40, Palestinian militant, missile strike.
• Gerry Anderson, 69, British broadcaster.
• Helen Bamber, 89, British psychotherapist.
• Don Clark, 96, English footballer.
• Robert E. Connick, 97, American professor emeritus.
• Mohammad Dabbas, 86-87, Jordanian politician, Minister of Finance.
• Joan Erbe, 87, American artist.
• Peter Handrinos, 42, American author.
• Robert Hansen, 75, American convicted serial killer.
• Glyn Jenkins, 87, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Council.
• John Macklin, 66, British Hispanist.
• Steven R. Nagel, 67, American astronaut, melanoma.
• Jean Redpath, 77, Scottish folk singer-songwriter, cancer.
• Albert Reynolds, 81, Irish politician, Taoiseach.
• Mary Thomas, 70, American Pima politician, first female Governor of the Gila River Indian Community.
• Verna Vels, 81, South African screenwriter and programme director.

  22

• John Fellows Akers, 79, American businessman, President and CEO of IBM.
• U. R. Ananthamurthy, 81, Indian writer, cardiac arrest and renal failure.
• Lekhraj Bachani, 85, Indian politician, member of the Rajya Sabha.
• John Binienda, 67, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, diabetes and kidney disease.
• Jean Sutherland Boggs, 92, Canadian art historian, Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
• Sir Philip Dowson, 90, British architect.
• Bohumila Grögerová, 93, Czech poet, recipient of the Magnesia Litera.
• Jack Harris, 91, Australian golf player.
• Franz Hillenkamp, 78, German scientist.
• Richard Holden, 67, American highway patrolman.
• Peter Hopkirk, 83, British journalist and author.
• Emmanuel Kriaras, 107, Greek lexicographer and philologist, heart attack.
• Pete Ladygo, 86, American football player.
• Noella Leduc, 80, American baseball player.
• Helen Mason, 99, New Zealand potter.
• Nariman Mehta, 94, Indian-born American pharmacologist.
• Roy Andrew Miller, 89, American linguist.
• Renato Mori, 79, Italian actor and voice actor.
• Douglas Sang Hue, 82, Jamaican cricket umpire.
• John Satterwhite, 71, American Olympic shooter.
• Amy Shuman, 89, American baseball player.
• Adel Smith, 54, Italian Muslim activist.
• John Sperling, 93, American businessman, founder of the University of Phoenix.
• John S. Waugh, 85, American chemist and professor, recipient of the Irving Langmuir Award and the Wolf Prize in Chemistry.
• Ed Whitaker, 76, American stock car team owner.

  23

• Albert Ebossé Bodjongo, 24, Cameroonian footballer, head injury from projectile.
• Jaime Giraldo Ángel, 84, Colombian politician and psychologist, Minister of Justice.
• Sally Buck, 83, American baseball team part-owner.
• Jack Edwards, 83, Australian football player.
• Dursun Ali Eğribaş, 81, Turkish Olympic wrestler.
• Inga Juuso, 68, Norwegian singer and actress.
• Annefleur Kalvenhaar, 20, Dutch cross-country cyclist, European Cyclo-cross under-23 champion, race collision.
• Dan Magill, 93, American college tennis coach and sports information director.
• Hajo Meyer, 90, German-Dutch physicist and Holocaust survivor.
• William Thomson Newnham, 91, Canadian educationalist, President of Seneca College.
• Adnan Omran, 57-58, Syrian general, landmine.
• Ahti Pekkala, 89, Finnish politician, Speaker of the Parliament, Governor of Oulu Province.
• Jindřich Pokorný, 87, Czech translator.
• Marcel Rigout, 86, French politician.
• Philippine de Rothschild, 80, French winemaker.
• Bobo Sikorski, 87, Canadian football player.
• Birgitta Stenberg, 82, Swedish author, illustrator and translator, hepatocellular carcinoma.
• Jaume Vallcorba Plana, 64, Spanish philologist and publisher.
• Elsa Wiezell, 87, Paraguayan poet.

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• Richard Attenborough, 90, English actor and director, Oscar winner.
• Greg Corbett, 41, American banjo player.
• Alexander Monteith Currie, 86, British university administrator.
• Antônio Ermírio de Moraes, 86, Brazilian businessman, CEO of the Votorantim Group, heart failure.
• Aldo Donati, 66, Italian singer, composer and television personality, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Bekir Sıtkı Erdoğan, 88, Turkish poet and songwriter.
• Eduard Giray, 65, German Olympic wrestler.
• Douglas McCain, 33, American Islamic militant.
• K. Mohan, 89, Indian film producer.
• Merton Sandler, 88, British chemical pathologist.
• Leonid Stadnyk, 44, Ukrainian farmer, world's tallest man claimant, brain haemorrhage.
• Arthur Wade, 95, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Newcastle.
• Eduardo White, 50, Mozambican writer.
• Enrique Zileri, 83, Peruvian publisher.

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• Maj-Briht Bergström-Walan, 89, Swedish psychologist.
• Csaba Csutorás, 76, Hungarian Olympic sprinter.
• William Greaves, 87, American documentary filmmaker.
• Ramón Echarren Istúriz, 84, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Canarias.
• Hildur Krog, 92, Norwegian botanist.
• Martin Magga, 60, Solomon Islander politician, MP for Temotu Pele.
• Alfredo Martini, 93, Italian cyclist and coach.
• Marcel Masse, 78, Canadian politician, MP for Frontenac, MNA for Montcalm.
• Karl Molitor, 94, Swiss alpine skier, Olympic silver and bronze medalist.
• Lars Mortimer, 68, Swedish comic artist.
• Nico M. M. Nibbering, 76, Dutch chemist.
• Carla Rotolo, 73, American folk music researcher.
• Len Terry, 90, English motorsport engineer,.
• Uziah Thompson, 78, Jamaican percussionist, heart attack.
• Bob Warren, 68, American basketball player.
• Arthur H. White, 90, American business consultant.
• John Wu Shi-zhen, 93, Chinese Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Nanchang.

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• Christian Bourquin, 59, French politician, President of the Regional Council of Languedoc-Roussillon, cancer.
• Carlos de la Madrid Virgen, 74, Mexican politician, Governor of Colima.
• Simon Featherstone, 56, British diplomat, High Commissioner to Malaysia, Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein.
• Peter Bacon Hales, 63, American historian and photographer, traffic collision.
• Caroline Kellett, 54, British fashion journalist.
• Sir Douglas Morpeth, 90, British accountant.
• John Joseph Nevins, 82, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Venice in Florida.
• Jim Petrie, 82, British cartoonist.
• Chūsei Sone, 76, Japanese film director, pneumonia.
• David E. Sorensen, 81, American Latter-day Saints leader.
• Bob Wilson, 88, American basketball player.
• Masakane Yonekura, 80, Japanese actor and stage director, abdominal aortic aneurysm rupture.

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• Givi Agrba, 77, Abkhazian politician.
• Amadou Balaké, 70, Burkinabé singer.
• Jean-François Beltramini, 66, French footballer.
• Yehezkel Braun, 92, Israeli composer.
• Al Carrell, 88, American home improvement expert and columnist, pneumonia.
• Frank Corner, 94, New Zealand diplomat.
• Jacques Friedel, 93, French physicist.
• Gábor Gabos, 84, Hungarian pianist.
• Jan Groth, 68, Norwegian singer, cancer.
• Bobby Kinloch, 79, Scottish footballer.
• Herbert Lottman, 87, American biographer.
• Alfredo Chavez Marquez, 92, American federal judge.
• Jimmy Nesbitt, 79, Northern Irish police detective, investigated Shankill Butchers.
• Peret, 79, Spanish singer, guitarist and composer, lung cancer.
• Valeri Petrov, 94, Bulgarian poet, screenwriter, playwright and translator, stroke.
• Orlando Polmonari, 90, Italian Olympic gymnast.
• Benno Pludra, 88, German children's author.
• Victor J. Stenger, 79, American physicist and author, aortic aneurysm.
• Marjorie Strider, 81, American artist.
• Sandy Wilson, 90, English composer and lyricist.
• Xia Peisu, 91, Chinese computer scientist, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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• Ali al-Sayyed, 29, Lebanese soldier, decapitated.
• Joe Bethancourt, 68, American folk musician.
• Pierre Brabant, 89, Canadian composer and pianist.
• Roberto Cairo, 51, Spanish actor, lung cancer.
• Roger Clarke, 74, Jamaican politician, Minister of Agriculture.
• Glenn Cornick, 67, British bassist, heart failure.
• Carlos Alberto Etcheverry, 81, Argentine footballer.
• Hal Finney, 58, American cryptographer and programmer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Mary Featherstonhaugh Frampton, 86, British civil servant.
• Hans Hoets, 93, Dutch World War II resistance fighter.
• Hal Hunter, 82, American football coach.
• Ivan Ivančić, 76, Croatian Yugoslav Olympic shot putter and coach.
• Andrew Kay, 95, American computer pioneer.
• Bill Kerr, 92, South African-born Australian actor and comedian.
• Jack Kraft, 93, American college basketball coach.
• Hans Möhr, 98, Swiss Olympic equestrian.
• David Murphy, 93, American CIA officer, heart failure.
• Norihiro Nakajima, 64, Japanese manga artist, colorectal cancer.
• Alan Reynolds, 88, British artist.
• John Anthony Walker, 77, American naval officer, convicted of spying for the Soviet Union.
• Fernando Zunzunegui, 70, Spanish footballer.

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• Kurt Bachmann, 78, Filipino Olympic basketball player.
• David Bala, 67, Singaporean comedian and actor, heart disease.
• Brasse Brännström, 69, Swedish actor, heart attack.
• Octavio Brunetti, 39, Argentine tango pianist.
• Shamim Farooqui, 70, Indian poet.
• Sir Jasper Hollom, 96, English banker, Chief Cashier of the Bank of England, Deputy Governor of the Bank of England.
• George L. Little, 63, American costume designer.
• Simon Akwali Okafor, 79, Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Awka.
• Ryūko Seihō, 73, Japanese sumo wrestler and actor, heart attack.
• Eberhard Sengpiel, 73-74, German sound engineer.
• Rosella Towne, 96, American actress.
• Björn Waldegård, 70, Swedish rally driver, world champion, cancer.

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• Bud Andrews, 74, American radio personality and producer.
• Charles Bowden, 69, American writer.
• Bipan Chandra, 86, Indian historian.
• Igor Decraene, 18, Belgian cyclist, winner of the UCI Road World Championships – Junior men's time trial, hit by train.
• Philippe Gurdjian, 69, French car racing promoter and driver.
• Mayumi Inaba, 64, Japanese writer, Tanizaki Prize recipient, pancreatic cancer.
• Shlomo Kalo, 86, Israeli writer.
• Doone Kennedy, 87, Australian politician, first female Lord Mayor of Hobart.
• Victoria Mallory, 65, American singer and actress, pancreatic cancer.
• Kirby McCauley, 72, American literary agent, renal failure.
• Andrew V. McLaglen, 94, British film and television director.
• Sir David Mitchell, 86, British politician, MP for Basingstoke and North West Hampshire.
• Felipe Osterling, 82, Peruvian lawyer and politician, Minister of Justice, Senator.
• Jean-Pierre Perrinelle, 65, French Olympic hurdler.
• Joseph E. Persico, 84, American writer.
• Manuel Pertegaz, 96, Spanish fashion designer.
• Bohumil Prošek, 85, Czech Olympic ice hockey player.
• Ann Zwinger, 89, American natural history author.

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• Ștefan Andrei, 83, Romanian politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs.
• Bapu, 80, Indian film director and cartoonist, cardiac arrest.
• Bobbie Clarke, 74, British drummer, cancer.
• Stan Goldberg, 82, American comic book artist, stroke.
• Josef Hrnčíř, 93, Czech conductor.
• Lajos Kiss, 80, Hungarian canoer, Olympic bronze medalist.
• María Eugenia Llamas, 70, Mexican actress, cardiac arrest.
• Viktor Radev, 77, Bulgarian Olympic basketball player.
• Peter Stursberg, 101, Canadian writer and broadcaster.
• Carol Vadnais, 68, Canadian ice hockey player, cancer.
• Jonathan Williams, 71, British racing driver.