Deaths in December 2018

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

  December 2018

1

• Ken Berry, 85, American actor.
• Taramon Bibi, 62, Bangladeshi independence militant.
• Averroes Bucaram, 64, Ecuadorian politician, Speaker of National Congress and MP.
• Ennio Fantastichini, 63, Italian actor, Donatello winner, leukemia.
• Frederick Fasehun, 83, Nigerian physician and politician, founder of the Oodua Peoples Congress.
• P. M. Forni, 67, Italian-American academic, Parkinson's disease.
• Shan Goshorn, 61, American Cherokee artist, cancer.
• Anwar Hossain, 70, Bangladeshi photographer.
• Ivan Katardžiev, 92, Macedonian historian.
• Vivian Lynn, 87, New Zealand artist.
• Phineas Makhurane, Zimbabwean academic, Vice-Chancellor of the National University of Science and Technology.
• Dave Mantel, 37, Dutch actor.
• Bernd Martin, 63, German footballer.
• Judy McBurney, 70, Australian actress, cancer.
• Patricia Head Minaldi, 59, American federal judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana.
• Calvin Newborn, 85, American jazz guitarist.
• Maria Pacôme, 95, French actress.
• K. Punnaiah, 94, Indian judge and politician, MLA.
• Pauls Putniņš, 81, Latvian playwright, journalist and politician.
• Scott Stearney, 58, American vice admiral, Commander of the Fifth Fleet.
• Marvin Terrell, 80, American football player.
• Stefanie Tücking, 56, German radio and television presenter, pulmonary embolism.
• Jody Williams, 83, American blues musician, cancer.
• Zhang Ouying, 43, Chinese football player and coach, lung cancer.
• Shoucheng Zhang, 55, Chinese-born American physicist, member of the National Academy of Sciences.

  2

• Paul 'Trouble' Anderson, 59, British DJ.
• Séry Bailly, 70, Ivorian writer and politician, Minister of Communication, complications from surgery.
• Jean-François Ballester, 53, French figure skating coach, heart attack.
• Lothar Baumgarten, 74, German conceptual artist.
• Ugo De Censi, 94, Italian-Peruvian priest.
• Martin B. Dickman, 65, American biologist.
• Wilmer Clemont Fields, 96, American Southern Baptist minister and newspaper editor.
• Al Frazier, 83, American football player.
• Sergey Nikolayevich Popov, 89, Soviet Olympic hurdler.
• Luan Qerimi, 89, Albanian actor.
• Perry Robinson, 80, American jazz musician.
• Gunwantrao Rambhau Sarode, 78, Indian politician, member of the Lok Sabha.
• Paul Sherwen, 62, English racing cyclist and sportscaster, heart failure.
• William James Lanyon Smith, 96, New Zealand naval officer.
• Michael James Snyder, 68, American business executive, CEO of Red Robin, suicide by gunshot.

  3

• Markus Beyer, 47, German Olympic boxer, WBC super middleweight champion.
• Andrei Bitov, 81, Russian writer.
• Philip Bosco, 88, American actor, Tony winner, complications from dementia.
• Justin Cartwright, 75, South African-born British novelist.
• Albert Frère, 92, Belgian businessman.
• Fred Greenstein, 88, American political scientist.
• Giorgio Grilz, 88, Italian Olympic swimmer.
• Florence Hui, 44, Hong Kong politician, Undersecretary for Home Affairs, breast cancer.
• Toby Jessel, 84, British politician, MP.
• Tom Johnson, 73, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives and Senate, cancer.
• Kim Chol-man, 98, North Korean politician and military officer, Member of the Politburo, bladder cancer.
• Elżbieta Krysińska, 90, Polish Olympic athlete.
• Karre Mastanamma, 107, Indian internet chef.
• Roger Mercer, 74, British archaeologist.
• Mendi Msimang, 78, South African politician, Treasurer of the African National Congress.
• Mervin E. Muller, 90, American computer scientist and statistician.
• Geoff Murphy, 80, New Zealand film director.
• Josep Lluís Núñez, 87, Spanish businessman, President of F.C. Barcelona.
• Miguel Primo de Rivera y Urquijo, 84, Spanish aristocrat and politician, Mayor of Jerez and Senator.
• Robert F. Ruth, 97, American politician, member of the South Dakota House of Representatives.
• Hans-Günther Thalheim, 94, German linguist and writer.
• Alex Wizbicki, 97, American football player.
• Kenneth Yen, 53, Taiwanese businessman, Chairman of China Motor Corporation and Yulon, esophageal cancer.

  4

• Kadyrzhan Batyrov, 62, Kyrgyz businessman and politician, heart attack.
• Nh. Dini, 82, Indonesian novelist and feminist, traffic collision.
• Selma Engel-Wijnberg, 96, Dutch Holocaust survivor, escapee from Sobibor.
• Lester Kinsolving, 90, American political radio host.
• Michael McComie, 46, Trinidadian football player and manager, brain tumour.
• Sidy Lamine Niasse, 68, Senegalese press owner.
• Sam Nover, 77, American sportscaster.
• Nika Rurua, 50, Georgian politician, Minister of Culture, heart attack.

  5

• John Armstrong, 83, New Zealand politician, MP.
• Evy Berggren, 84, Swedish gymnast, Olympic champion.
• Peter Boizot, 89, British restaurateur and football club owner.
• Alex Boraine, 87, South African politician, MP.
• Marie-Thérèse Bourquin, 102, Belgian lawyer.
• Dynamite Kid, 60, English professional wrestler.
• Thor Hansen, 71, Norwegian poker player, cancer.
• Jim House, 70, American politician, member of the Arkansas House of Representatives, tractor accident.
• Jim Jamieson, 75, American professional golfer.
• Inge Johansen, 90, Norwegian engineer and educator, rector of the Norwegian Institute of Technology.
• Gary McPherson, 82, American college basketball coach.
• Lynn Schindler, 74, American politician, member of the Washington House of Representatives.
• Harry W. Shlaudeman, 92, American diplomat.
• José Tarciso de Souza, 67, Brazilian footballer, bone cancer.
• Bobby Treviño, 73, Mexican baseball player.
• Julia Vinograd, 74, American poet, colon cancer.

  6

• José de Anchieta Júnior, 53, Brazilian politician, Governor of Roraima, heart attack.
• Thomas Baptiste, 89, Guyanese-born British actor.
• Kuslan Budiman, 83, Indonesian poet and writer, pancreatic cancer.
• Ace Cannon, 84, American saxophonist.
• José Castillo, 37, Venezuelan professional baseball player, traffic collision.
• Robin Clark, 83, New Zealand-born British chemist.
• Dónall Farmer, 81, Irish actor, film director and producer.
• Győző Forintos, 83, Hungarian chess player and economist.
• Al Gallagher, 73, American baseball player, complications from diabetes.
• Larry Hennig, 82, American professional wrestler, kidney failure.
• Ivan Hladush, 89, Ukrainian police officer and politician, Minister of Internal Affairs.
• Joseph Joffo, 87, French author.
• Laszlo Lorand, 95, Hungarian-American biochemist.
• Jim Meehan, 66, American poker player.
• Aleksandr Minayev, 64, Russian football player and manager.
• Murray Murphey, 90, American historian.
• Jerome O'Shea, 87, Irish Gaelic footballer.
• Isiah Robertson, 69, American football player, traffic collision.
• Frank Joseph Rodimer, 91, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Paterson.
• Tim Rossovich, 72, American football player and actor.
• Pete Shelley, 63, English musician and songwriter, heart attack.
• Luis Valbuena, 33, Venezuelan professional baseball player, traffic collision.

  7

• Belisario Betancur, 95, Colombian politician, President, kidney infection.
• Reby Cary, 98, American politician, member of the Texas House of Representatives.
• Ljupka Džundeva, 84, Macedonian actress.
• Shmuel Flatto-Sharon, 88, Polish-born French-Israeli politician, member of the Knesset.
• Carlos Gallisá, 85, Puerto Rican politician and independence advocate, cancer.
• Mohammad Asrarul Haque, 76, Indian politician, member of the Lok Sabha, heart attack.
• Paul Henderson, 79, American journalist, Pulitzer Prize recipient, lung cancer.
• Ferenc Hirt, 51, Hungarian politician, MP.
• Håkan Jeppsson, 57, Swedish sports executive, chairman of Malmö FF.
• The Mascara Snake, 70, American artist and musician, traffic collision.
• Nguyễn Văn Trân, 101, Vietnamese politician, Minister of Transport.
• Paul Niedermann, 91, German-French journalist and photographer.
• Luigi Radice, 83, Italian football player and manager, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Charles Weldon, 78, American actor and director.

  8

• Lyudmila Alexeyeva, 91, Russian human rights activist.
• Evelyn Berezin, 93, American computer designer.
• Jakelin Caal, 7, Guatemalan migrant child in US custody, dehydration, shock and liver failure.
• Enrico Crispolti, 85, Italian art critic and historian.
• Rosanell Eaton, 97, American civil rights activist.
• Walter J. Floss Jr., 95, American politician, member of the New York State Senate.
• Colin Guest, 81, Australian Test cricketer.
• Rod Jones, 54, American football player, suicide by gunshot.
• Michele Monti, 48, Italian Olympic judoka, cancer.
• Jamal Nebez, 85, Iraqi Kurdish linguist, mathematician and writer.
• Roger, 12, Australian red kangaroo.
• Jolanta Szczypińska, 61, Polish politician, member of the Sejm, urinary tract disease.
• Pentti Tiusanen, 69, Finnish politician, MP.
• Wang Ruilin, 88, Chinese general and politician, member of the Central Military Commission.
• Sir David Weatherall, 85, British physician and molecular geneticist.

  9

• Eric Anderson, 48, American basketball player.
• Patrick Appleford, 93, British Anglican priest and hymn writer.
• Mohammed Aruwa, 70, Nigerian politician, Senator for Kaduna State.
• Yigal Bashan, 68, Israeli singer and composer.
• Tim Bassett, 67, American basketball player, cancer.
• Robert Bergland, 90, American politician, U.S. Representative from Minnesota's 7th district, Secretary of Agriculture.
• William Blum, 85, American historian and author, kidney failure.
• Melvin Dummar, 74, American suspected fraudster.
• Tor Fretheim, 72, Norwegian journalist and children's writer.
• Riccardo Giacconi, 87, Italian-born American astrophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• John Joseph Gibbons, 94, American judge, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
• Bob Giggie, 85, American baseball player.
• Elisapee Ishulutaq, 93, Canadian Inuit artist.
• Rodney Kageyama, 77, American actor.
• Peng Sixun, 99, Chinese medicinal chemist, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
• Guire Poulard, 76, Haitian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Port-au-Prince, pancreatic cancer.
• Wendy Ramshaw, 79, British artist and designer.
• Gordon Scholes, 87, Australian politician, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Minister for Defence and Territories.
• Michael Seymour, 86, British production designer, BAFTA winner.
• Yumiko Shige, 53, Japanese sailor, Olympic silver medallist, breast cancer.
• Dick Van Orden, 97, American rear admiral.

  10

• Alvin Epstein, 93, American actor and director.
• Sacha Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn, 72, British aristocrat.
• C. N. Balakrishnan, 84, Indian politician, kidney and heart failure.
• Bob and John, 15, American racehorse, euthanized.
• Chiang Pin-kung, 85, Taiwanese politician, Minister of Economic Affairs, Vice President of the Legislative Yuan, multiple organ failure.
• Fazio Fabbrini, 92, Italian politician, Senator and Mayor of Siena.
• Mushirul Hasan, 69, Indian historian.
• Raoul Hunter, 92, Canadian sculptor.
• Salihu Ibrahim, 83, Nigerian general, Chief of Army Staff.
• Alan Brock MacFarlane, 94, Canadian lawyer and politician.
• Johann Georg Reißmüller, 86, German journalist and publisher.
• Robert Spaemann, 91, German Roman Catholic philosopher.
• Xavier Tilliette, 97, French philosopher and theologian.

  11

• Winifred Griffin, 86, New Zealand swimmer, British Empire Games silver medalist, cancer.
• Helga Henning, 81, German Olympic athlete.
• Petrus Iilonga, 71, Namibian politician and political prisoner, Deputy Minister of Defence.
• Harold L. Kahn, 88, American historian.
• Eleanor Maccoby, 101, American psychologist.
• Bill Siegel, 55, American documentary producer and director, heart attack.
• Walter Smith, 98, English land surveyor, Director General of the Ordnance Survey.
• Hiwi Tauroa, 91, New Zealand rugby union player and coach, Race Relations Conciliator.
• Walter Williams, 35, Honduran footballer, stroke.
• Lia Wyler, 84, Brazilian translator.
• Sir Jack Zunz, 94, South African-born British civil engineer.

  12

• Prince Casinader, 92, Sri Lankan politician, MP.
• Carlos Cecconato, 88, Argentinian footballer.
• Iraj Danaeifard, 67, Iranian footballer, heart attack.
• Noël Duval, 88, French archaeologist.
• Wilhelm Genazino, 75, German journalist and author.
• Curtis Grimm, 65, American economist, pancreatic cancer.
• Ishwari Prasad Gupta, 87, Indian diplomat and civil servant, Lieutenant Governor of the Andaman and Nicobar Island.
• W. Brantley Harvey Jr., 88, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina, member of the South Carolina House of Representatives.
• Ferenc Kósa, 81, Hungarian film director.
• Bernard Lloyd, 84, Welsh actor.
• James Lyons, 91, American admiral, Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet.
• Billy MacLeod, 76, American baseball player.
• Nelson Martínez, 67, Venezuelan politician, Minister of Petroleum, President of PDVSA.
• Meng Lang, 57, Chinese poet and dissident, lung cancer.
• Audrey Moore, 89, American politician, Alzheimer's disease.
• William Newsom, 84, American judge.
• Odile Rodin, 81, French actress and model.
• Vahid Sayadi Nasiri, 37, Iranian human rights activist and hunger striker, starvation.
• Pavle Strugar, 85, Montenegrin military officer and convicted war criminal.
• Jane Ellen Usher, 101, Belizean politician, MP and President of the Senate.
• Wang Lianzheng, 88, Chinese agronomist and politician, Vice Governor of Heilongjiang, Vice Minister of Agriculture.
• Joseph Zeller, 100, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.

  13

• Ajayan, 68, Indian film director, heart attack.
• Abdullah Ayub, 92, Malaysian civil servant, Chief Secretary to the Government, stroke.
• Bill Fralic, 56, American football player, cancer.
• John Fujioka, 93, American actor.
• Gao Jindian, 79, Chinese military officer.
• Seán Garland, 84, Irish politician, General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Ireland.
• Christopher Hooley, 90, British mathematician.
• Matti Kassila, 94, Finnish film director.
• Sharmeen Khan, 46, Pakistani cricketer, pneumonia.
• Noah Klieger, 92, Israeli journalist and sports administrator.
• Väinö Korhonen, 91, Finnish Olympic fencer.
• Sheena Mackintosh, 90, British Olympic alpine skier.
• Timothy C. May, 67, American technical and political writer.
• Mike Montler, 74, American football player.
• Lisa Peattie, 94, American anthropologist.
• André Queillé, 87 French boxer
• Tulsi Ramsay, 74, Indian film director, heart attack.
• J. Evan Sadler, 67, American hematologist.
• Don Webster, 79, Canadian-American television host and meteorologist.
• Nancy Wilson, 81, American singer, Grammy winner, kidney cancer.
• Yuan Mu, 90, Chinese politician, Director of the State Council Research Office.

  14

• Vida Chenoweth, 90, American marimbist and ethnomusicologist.
• Gilberto Duavit Sr., 84, Filipino entrepreneur and politician, founder of GMA Network Inc., member of the House of Representatives.
• Salvador Flores Huerta, 84, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ciudad Lázaro Cárdenas.
• Horst Herold, 95, German police officer, President of the Federal Criminal Police Office.
• Amjad Hossain, 76, Bangladeshi actor and director, complications from a stroke.
• Patrick Daniel Koroma, 68, Sierra Leonean Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Kenema.
• Li Chengxiang, 87, Chinese ballet dancer and choreographer, Director of the National Ballet.
• Remedios Loza, 69, Bolivian artisan, TV presenter and activist, member of the Plurinational Legislative Assembly, stomach cancer.
• Zainuddin Maidin, 79, Malaysian politician, Minister of Information, heart attack.
• Joe Osborn, 81, American bass guitarist.
• Johnny Reagan, 92, American college baseball coach.
• John Seedborg, 75, American football player.
• Edmond Simeoni, 84, French politician and Corsican nationalism leader.
• Joan Steinbrenner, 83, American philanthropist and sports executive, vice chairperson of the New York Yankees.
• Thomas Thennatt, 65, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Gwalior.
• Eythor Thorlaksson, 88, Icelandic guitarist and composer.
• Jean-Pierre Van Rossem, 73, Belgian economist and politician, member of the Chamber of Representatives and the Flemish Parliament.

  15

• Jerry Chesnut, 87, American songwriter.
• Eryue He, 73, Chinese writer.
• Ronald Gajraj, 65, Guyanese politician, Minister of Home Affairs, heart attack.
• Ralph Koltai, 94, German-born British stage designer.
• Milunka Lazarević, 86, Serbian chess player.
• Arthur Maia, 56, Brazilian composer and musician, heart attack.
• Philippe Moureaux, 79, Belgian politician, Minister-President of the French Community.
• David Myles, 93, British politician, MP for Banffshire.
• Robert Nelson, 74, American economist.
• Dušan Nikolić, 65, Serbian footballer.
• Marc Olivier, 78, Belgian politician, MP and Flemish Councillor.
• Guy Rétoré, 94, French actor.
• Harald Stabell, 71, Norwegian lawyer.
• Jacques Verdier, 61, French writer.
• Ellsworth Wareham, 104, American surgeon.
• Girma Wolde-Giorgis, 93, Ethiopian politician, President.

  16

• Lawrence Allen, 97, British Olympic racewalker.
• Chiquetete, 70, Spanish flamenco and ballad singer, heart attack.
• John H. Dorsey, 80, American politician, member of the New Jersey Senate.
• Eraldo Isidori, 78, Italian politician, Deputy, complications from surgery.
• Geeta Iyengar, 74, Indian yoga teacher, heart attack.
• Karsten Johannessen, 93, Norwegian football manager.
• Lewis Judd, 88, American psychiatrist, chair of University of California, San Diego psychiatry department, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, natural causes.
• Colin Kroll, 34, American entrepreneur, co-founder of Vine and HQ Trivia.
• Eugène Philippe LaRocque, 91, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Alexandria-Cornwall.
• Lee Leonard, 89, American television host.
• Juan L. Maldonado, 70, Mexican-born American education administrator, President of Laredo Community College.
• Scott Matzka, 40, American ice hockey player, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• John Ford Noonan, 77, American actor and playwright, heart failure.
• Mircea Petescu, 76, Romanian football player and manager, Alzheimer's disease.
• Giuseppe Sermonti, 93, Italian biologist and geneticist.
• Joseph Thomin, 87, French racing cyclist.
• Ron Waller, 85, American football player and coach.
• T. K. Wetherell, 72, American politician and academic administrator, Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, President of Florida State University.
• John Wettaw, 79, American chemist and politician, member of the Arizona House of Representatives and Senate.
• Roy Woolcott, 79, English footballer.

  17

• Arun Bhaduri, 75, Indian classical vocalist, respiratory disease.
• Jon Bluming, 85, Dutch martial artist and actor.
• Warren Boyd, 91, Australian swimmer.
• Lawrence Curry, 82, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
• Gustavo L. Garcia, 84, American politician, mayor of Austin, Texas.
• Zura Karuhimbi, c. 93, Rwandan traditional healer, saved refugees during Rwandan genocide.
• Jorge Adolfo Carlos Livieres Banks, 87, Paraguayan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Encarnación.
• Frank LoVuolo, 94, American football player.
• Galt MacDermot, 89, Canadian-American composer and pianist.
• Penny Marshall, 75, American actress and director, heart failure.
• Paul Meister, 92, Swiss Olympic fencer.
• Amélie Mummendey, 74, German social psychologist.
• Oribe, 62, Cuban-born American hairstylist, heart attack.
• Anca Pop, 34, Romanian-Canadian singer-songwriter, traffic collision.
• Rona Ramon, 54, Israeli educator and activist, cancer.
• Francis Roache, 82, American police officer and politician, Boston Police commissioner.
• James E. Rogers Jr., 71, American businessman and author.
• Andrey Shcharbakow, 27, Belarusian footballer, traffic collision.
• David Shepherd, 94, American producer, director, and actor.
• Raven Wilkinson, 83, American ballerina.

  18

• David C. H. Austin, 92, British rose breeder.
• Alex Badeh, 61, Nigerian air force officer, Chief of the Defence Staff, shot.
• Mike Barnard, 85, English footballer and cricketer, stroke.
• Steve Daskewisz, 74, American actor and stuntman, complications from diabetes.
• Ali Ejaz, 77, Pakistani actor.
• Rick L. Farrar, 58, American attorney and politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives.
• Paul Frazier, 51, American football player, colon cancer.
• Tulsi Giri, 92, Nepali politician, Prime Minister, liver cancer.
• Masao Ito, 90, Japanese neuroscientist.
• Kazimierz Kutz, 89, Polish film director and politician.
• Gerald Larner, 82, English music critic, pulmonary thrombosis.
• Peter Masterson, 84, American writer, director, and actor, complications from a fall.
• Robert Neild, 94, British economist.
• María Jesús Rosa Reina, 44, Spanish boxer, WIBF world light flyweight champion, cancer.
• Lewis Ryder, 77, British theoretical physicist.
• Shinobu Sekine, 75, Japanese judoka, Olympic champion.
• Bill Slater, 91, English footballer, Alzheimer's disease.
• Saidul Anam Tutul, 68, Bangladeshi film director and editor, heart attack.
• Raimo Vartia, 81, Finnish Olympic basketball player.

  19

• Ron Abegglen, 81, American college basketball coach.
• Colin Barlow, 83, English football player and executive.
• Bhai, 83, Surinamese poet.
• Russell Carollo, 63, American journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner.
• Jacques David, 87, French Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of La Rochelle and Saintes and Évreux.
• Tömür Dawamat, 91, Chinese politician, Chairman of the Xinjiang Autonomous region.
• Norman Gimbel, 91, American Hall of Fame songwriter, Oscar winner.
• Mike Hiss, 77, American racing driver, cancer.
• Mel Hutchins, 90, American basketball player.
• Hugh Jack, 89, Australian Olympic athlete.
• Marshall Long, 82, American politician, member of the Kentucky Legislature, mayor of Shelbyville, Kentucky.
• Raúl Mata, 71, Mexican professional wrestler.
• Guy Modeste, 64, French footballer, cancer.
• Owen M. Panner, 94, American federal judge, U.S. District Court Judge for the District of Oregon.
• Barbara Gardner Proctor, 85, American advertising executive, complications from hip surgery.
• Geetha Salam, 72, Indian actor.
• Bill Sellars, 93, British television director and producer.
• Andrzej Skupiński, 66, Polish actor.
• Eva Tichauer, 100, German Holocaust survivor and author.
• Marty Zendejas, 54, American football player, beaten.

  20

• F. W. Bernstein, 80, German poet and cartoonist.
• Pascal F. Calogero Jr., 87, American judge, Louisiana Supreme Court Chief Justice.
• Randall Carrington, 84, New Zealand cricketer.
• Trevor Chinn, 81, New Zealand glaciologist.
• Klaus Hagerup, 72, Norwegian author and actor, colorectal cancer.
• Mike Hughes, 78, Welsh football player and manager.
• Dennis Johnson, 80, American mathematician and composer, complications from dementia.
• Donald Moffat, 87, British-born American actor, complications from a stroke.
• Henning Palner, 86, Danish actor.
• Rocky Rees, 69, American football player and coach, cancer.

  21

• Dipali Barthakur, 77, Indian singer.
• Gerard Bernacki, 76, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Katowice.
• Lev Borodulin, 95, Soviet-born Israeli photographer.
• Carlos Feller, 96, Argentine operatic bass singer.
• Forrest Fezler, 69, American golfer and golf course designer, brain cancer.
• Edda Göring, 80, German nurse.
• Alias Guacho, 29, Ecuadorian FARC dissident and drug lord, shot.
• Lars Hindmar, 97, Swedish racewalker.
• Tom Leonard, 74, Scottish poet.
• Daniela Payssé, 72, Uruguayan politician, Deputy and Senator, heart attack.
• Prapanchan, 73, Indian writer, cancer.
• Laya Raki, 91, German actress and dancer.

  22

• Paddy Ashdown, 77, British politician, Leader of the Liberal Democrats, High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, MP, bladder cancer.
• Rodel Batocabe, 52, Filipino politician, member of the House of Representatives, shot.
• Jean Bourgain, 64, Belgian mathematician.
• Tom Brownlee, 83, Scottish footballer.
• Kelly Burnett, 92, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Angélica García Arrieta, 60, Mexican public accountant and politician, Senator and founder of the National Regeneration Movement.
• Dayton Hyde, 93, American conservationist.
• Don Johnston, 89, South African Olympic swimmer.
• Robert Kerketta, 86, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Dibrugarh and Tezpur.
• Gary N. Knoppers, 62, Canadian theologian, pancreatic cancer.
• Jane Langton, 95, American author.
• Jiko Luveni, 72, Fijian politician, Speaker of the Parliament.
• Roger Owen, 83, British historian.
• Sergey Psakhie, 66, Russian physicist.
• Simcha Rotem, 94, Polish-Israeli resistance fighter, last surviving Warsaw Ghetto Uprising fighter.
• Sir Peter Singer, 74, British jurist.
• Roberto Suazo Córdova, 91, Honduran politician, President.
• Talal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 87, Saudi prince and politician.
• Willy Taminiaux, 79, Belgian politician, Minister in the Walloon Government and Senator.
• Jimmy Work, 94, American country singer-songwriter.
• Notable Indonesians killed in the Sunda Strait tsunami:
• *Aa Jimmy, 35, actor and comedian.
• *Dylan Sahara, 25, actress and presenter.
• *Herman Sikumbang, 36, guitarist.

  23

• Alfred Bader, 94, Austrian-born Canadian chemist and businessman.
• Eileen Battersby, 60, American-born Irish literary critic, traffic collision.
• Nana Chudasama, 86, Indian jurist and public servant.
• Hille Darjes, 75, German actress.
• Barbara Kloka Hackett, 90, American judge, U.S. District Court Judge for the Eastern District of Michigan.
• Troels Kløvedal, 75, Danish writer.
• Tonko Lonza, 88, Croatian actor.
• John Marshall, 60, Australian jockey, cancer.
• Sophie Oluwole, 83, Nigerian philosopher.
• Liza Redfield, 94, American conductor and pianist.
• Don Richardson, 83, Canadian Christian missionary.
• Elias M. Stein, 87, American mathematician.

  24

• Jozef Adamec, 76, Slovak football player and manager.
• Guy Bacon, 82, Canadian politician.
• Osvaldo Bayer, 91, Argentine writer and journalist.
• Cynthia Ross Friedman, 47, Canadian biologist, aortic dissection.
• Felipe Gómez Alonzo, 8, Guatemalan migrant child in US custody.
• Patrice Martinez, 55, American actress.
• Rosario Mazzola, 94, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Cefalù.
• Dwijen Mukhopadhyay, 91, Indian composer and singer.
• Jai Narain Prasad Nishad, 88, Indian politician.
• Stanko Poklepović, 80, Croatian football player and manager, kidney failure.
• Jerry Riopelle, 77, American musician, cancer.
• Dionne Rose-Henley, 49, Jamaican Olympic athlete, cancer.
• Nirupam Sen, 72, Indian politician.
• Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, 70, Iranian cleric and politician, Chairman of the Expediency Discernment Council, Chief Justice, cancer.
• William C. Thompson, 94, American judge and politician, member of the New York State Senate.
• Jaime Torres, 80, Argentine charango player.
• James Calvin Wilsey, 61, American musician.
• Notable Mexican politicians killed in the 2018 Puebla helicopter crash:
• *Martha Érika Alonso, 45, Governor of Puebla.
• *Rafael Moreno Valle Rosas, 50, Senator, Governor of Puebla.

  25

• Bill Baillie, 84, New Zealand Olympic runner.
• Werner Braun, 100, Israeli photojournalist.
• John Briggs, 84, American baseball player.
• Nirendranath Chakravarty, 94, Indian poet and writer, creator of Bhaduri Moshai, heart attack.
• Walter Chilsen, 95, American politician, member of the Wisconsin Senate.
• Larry Eisenberg, 99, American biomedical engineer and science fiction writer, acute myeloid leukemia.
• Álex Figueroa, 57, Chilean politician and physician, Minister of Health, liver cancer.
• István Levente Garai, 63, Hungarian physician and politician, MP.
• William Harbison, 96, British Royal Air Force fighter pilot during World War II.
• Thomas Hayden, 92, Irish Olympic weightlifter.
• Yoshitada Konoike, 78, Japanese politician, MP.
• Law Hieng Ding, 83, Malaysian politician, Minister of Science, Technology and Environment, MP.
• Conrad Leslie, 95, American businessman and crop forecaster.
• Michael Maclear, 89, British-Canadian journalist and documentarist.
• Sulagitti Narasamma, 98, Indian midwife, lung disease.
• Chester Nelsen Jr., 96, American cyclist.
• Vicente Pimentel Jr., 72, Filipino politician, Governor of Surigao del Sur.
• Baldur Ragnarsson, 88, Icelandic writer.
• Nancy Roman, 93, American astronomer, early developer of the Hubble Space Telescope.
• Sigi Schmid, 65, German-American Hall of Fame soccer manager, heart attack.
• Syed Ali Raza Abidi, 46, Pakistani politician, MNA, shot.
• Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, 77, American historian and author.
• Terence Wheeler, 82, British novelist and playwright.

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• Theodore Antoniou, 83, Greek composer and conductor, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Wendy Beckett, 88, British nun and art historian.
• Gerson Camata, 77, Brazilian politician, Governor of Espírito Santo, shot.
• Fabio Carpi, 93, Italian film director and novelist, Bagutta Prize.
• Penny Cook, 61, Australian actress, cancer.
• John Culver, 86, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.
• Haldane Duncan, 78, Scottish television producer and director.
• Herb Ellis, 97, American actor.
• Roy J. Glauber, 93, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• Jorge Grau, 88, Spanish artist and filmmaker.
• Sir Hew Hamilton-Dalrymple, 92, British aristocrat and military officer.
• Guillermo Hincapié Orozco, 92, Colombian politician, Mayor of Medellín.
• Tomokatsu Kitagawa, 67, Japanese politician, MP.
• Pete Lovrich, 76, American baseball player.
• Don McKay, 93, American actor.
• Mike Metcalf, 79, English footballer.
• Sono Osato, 99, American dancer and actress.
• Lawrence Roberts, 81, American computer scientist.
• Ronil Singh, 33, Fijian-born American police officer, shot.
• Morton Sobell, 101, American engineer and convicted Soviet spy.
• Margaret Stones, 98, Australian botanical illustrator.
• Sir Peter Swinnerton-Dyer, 91, British mathematician.
• Elizabeth Zachariadou, 87, Greek historian.

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• Juan Bautista Agüero, 83, Paraguayan footballer.
• Frank Blaichman, 96, Polish resistance member during World War II.
• Albert Burstein, 96, American politician.
• Joe Camacho, 90, American baseball coach.
• Jim Davis, 77, American basketball player, cancer.
• Mãe Stella de Oxóssi, 93, Brazilian ialorixá and writer, stroke.
• Giorgio Degola, 95, Italian politician, Senator.
• Jean Dumontier, 83, Canadian architect, cancer.
• Brian Jordan, 86, English footballer.
• Robert Kerman, 71, American actor.
• Miúcha, 81, Brazilian singer and composer, respiratory failure.
• Cheenu Mohan, 62, Indian actor, heart attack.
• Richard Arvin Overton, 112, American supercentenarian, nation's oldest living World War II veteran, complications from pneumonia.
• Tadeusz Pieronek, 84, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Sosnowiec and Rector of Pontifical Academy of Theology.
• Sir Fenton Ramsahoye, 89, Guyanese politician, Attorney General, MP.
• Børge Ring, 97, Danish animator, Oscar winner.
• Wilfred Shuchat, 98, Canadian scholar and rabbi.
• Bumper Tormohlen, 81, American basketball player.
• Warren Wells, 76, American football player, heart failure.

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• Abdelmalek Benhabyles, 97, Algerian politician, acting President.
• Iaia Fiastri, 84, Italian screenwriter.
• Elisa Frota Pessoa, 97, Brazilian experimental physicist, pneumonia.
• Toshiko Fujita, 68, Japanese voice actress, breast cancer.
• Santiago García Aracil, 78, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Jaén and Archbishop of Mérida-Badajoz.
• Al Hawkes, 88, American bluegrass musician.
• Peter Hill-Wood, 82, British businessman and football executive.
• Seydou Badian Kouyaté, 90, Malian writer and politician, lyricist of national anthem "Le Mali".
• Frank L. Lambert, 100, American chemist.
• Georges Loinger, 108, French resistance fighter.
• Edgar Maalouf, 83, Lebanese military officer and politician, MP.
• Christine McGuire, 92, American singer.
• Attila Miklósházy, 87, Hungarian-born Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of the Hungarian Emigrants.
• Robert Edward Mulvee, 88, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Providence and Wilmington.
• Amos Oz, 79, Israeli author and journalist, cancer.
• Bre Payton, 26, American conservative writer, complications from meningitis and swine flu.
• Shehu Shagari, 93, Nigerian politician, President.
• Colleen Smith, 93, American baseball player.
• Tom Weisner, 69, American politician, mayor of Aurora, Illinois, cancer.
• Oliver Wright, 71, Jamaican Olympic boxer, heart attack.
• Yevgeni Zimin, 71, Russian Hall of Fame ice hockey player, Olympic champion.

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• Bill Brundige, 70, American football player.
• David Cavanagh, British music writer and journalist.
• Scott Doran, 44, Irish Gaelic footballer.
• Agneta Eckemyr, 68, Swedish actress, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Brian Garfield, 79, American author, Parkinson's disease.
• Yehoshua Glazer, 91, Israeli footballer.
• Judith Rich Harris, 80, American psychology researcher and author.
• Syed Jahangir, 83, Bangladeshi painter.
• Norbert Kox, 73, American outsider artist, heart attack.
• Ringo Lam, 63, Hong Kong film director, heart attack.
• Liang Weiyan, 89, Chinese electrical engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
• Ling Te-Sheng, 90, Taiwanese Olympic athlete.
• Rosenda Monteros, 83, Mexican actress.
• Aldo Parisot, 100, Brazilian-born American cellist.
• Maria Isaura Pereira de Queiróz, 100, Brazilian sociologist.
• Carlos Sánchez, 83, Colombian actor.
• Roy Skeggs, 84, British film producer.
• Ted Urness, 81, Canadian football player.
• Bill Watson, 87, Australian Test cricketer.
• Dame June Whitfield, 93, English actress.

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• Cameron M. Alexander, 86, American Baptist minister.
• Larry Austin, 88, American composer.
• Seymour S. Cohen, 101, American biochemist.
• Karel Engel, 78, Czech Olympic wrestler.
• Pepita Ferrari, 66, Canadian documentary film director.
• Claude Gingras, 87, Canadian journalist and music critic.
• Marc Hauser, 66, American photographer.
• Dick Helling, 68, Dutch footballer.
• Edgar Hilsenrath, 92, German writer, complications from pneumonia.
• Jack Kahl, 78, American businessman.
• Joan Kaufman, 83, American baseball player.
• Don Lusk, 105, American animator and director.
• Warren Plunkett, 98, American football player, complications from pneumonia.
• Ron Reiffel, 86, Australian footballer.
• Anthony Revell, 83, British Royal Navy medical officer, Surgeon-General of the British Armed Services, cancer.
• Ambrose Schindler, 101, American football player and actor.
• Mrinal Sen, 95, Indian film director, heart attack.
• Calvin Stamp, 60, Jamaican Olympic weightlifter
• Héctor Timerman, 65, Argentine journalist and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs, liver cancer.
• Blandine Verlet, 76, French harpsichordist.

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• Maya Casabianca, 77, French-Israeli singer.
• Dean Ford, 72, Scottish singer and songwriter.
• Etty Fraser, 87, Brazilian actress, heart failure.
• Urbie Green, 92, American jazz trombonist.
• Kató Havas, 98, Hungarian classical violinist and teacher.
• Keylla Hernandéz, 45, Puerto Rican journalist, liver cancer.
• Kobi Kambon, 75, American psychologist.
• Kader Khan, 81, Afghan-born Indian-Canadian actor and screenwriter, complications from progressive supranuclear palsy.
• Mark Killilea Jnr, 79, Irish politician, MEP, TD.
• Elazar Mordechai Koenig, 73, Israeli Orthodox rabbi.
• Nicola L, 81, French-Moroccan multidisciplinary artist.
• Loknath, 91, Indian actor.
• Warren MacKenzie, 94, American potter.
• Richard Marks, 75, American film editor.
• Christian Mohn, 92, Norwegian ski jumper and sports official, president of the Norwegian Ski Federation.
• Nils Oskar Nilsson, 83, Swedish politician, Riksdagen.
• Gennaro Papa, 93, Italian politician, Deputy.
• Al Reinert, 71, American screenwriter and documentarian, cancer.
• Simon Britto Rodrigues, 64, Indian politician, MLA, heart attack.
• Ray Sawyer, 81, American singer.
• Eric L. Schwartz, 71, American neuroscientist.
• István Seregély, 87, Hungarian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Eger.
• Antônio Salvador Sucar, 79, Brazilian basketball player, world champion and Olympic bronze medalist.
• Gülriz Sururi, 89, Turkish actress and author.
• Peter Thompson, 76, English footballer.