Deaths in February 2014
The following is a list of notable deaths in February 2014.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.
February 2014
1
- Floyd Adams, Jr., 68, American politician, Mayor of Savannah, Georgia.
- Antone S. Aguiar, Jr., 84, American judge and politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
- Orlanda Amarílis, 89, Cape Verdean author.
- Luis Aragonés, 75, Spanish football player and manager.
- Prospero Nale Arellano, 77, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, Prelate of Libmanan.
- Elisabetta Barbato, 92, Italian opera singer.
- Stefan Bozhkov, 90, Bulgarian football player and manager.
- John J. Cali, 95, American real estate developer.
- Gunnar Hallkvist, 95, Swedish Olympic speed skater.
- Tony Hateley, 72, English footballer.
- Ronald McLelland, 87, Canadian politician.
- Vasily Petrov, 97, Russian military officer, Marshal of the Soviet Union.
- Meine Pit, 82, Dutch politician, Senator.
- Dave Power, 85, Australian Olympic bronze-medalist athlete.
- Rene Ricard, 67, American poet, painter and art critic, cancer.
- Luis Salvadores Salvi, 81, Chilean basketball player.
- Maximilian Schell, 83, Austrian-Swiss actor, Oscar winner, pneumonia.
- Tajul Ulama, 94, Indian Sunni Muslim scholar.
- Henri Wassenbergh, 89, Dutch academic.
- Gordon Zacks, 80, American businessman and presidential advisor, prostate cancer.
2
- Gerd Albrecht, 78, German conductor, chief conductor of the Czech Philharmonic.
- Tommy Aquino, 21, American motorcycle racer, training collision.
- Karl Erik Bøhn, 48, Norwegian teacher, team handball player and coach, leukemia.
- Keith Bradshaw, 74, Welsh rugby union player.
- Nicholas Brooks, 73, English medieval historian.
- Bunny Rugs, 65, Jamaican reggae musician, leukemia.
- Eduardo Coutinho, 80, Brazilian film director, stabbed.
- Cecil Franks, 78, British politician, MP for Barrow and Furness.
- Philip Seymour Hoffman, 46, American actor, Oscar winner, acute mixed drug intoxication.
- Werner Husemann, 94, German Luftwaffe night fighter pilot, recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross.
- Craig Lahiff, 66, Australian film director.
- J. D. 'Okhai Ojeikere, 83, Nigerian photographer.
- Jiří Palko, 72, Czech Olympic rower.
- Sibusiso Papa, 26, South African footballer, traffic collision.
- Michel Pastor, 70, Monacan business executive, Chairman of AS Monaco FC, cancer.
- Luis Raúl, 51, American Puerto Rican actor and comedian, bilateral pneumonia.
- Yves Ryan, 85, Canadian politician, Mayor of Montreal North, heart disease.
- Alfredo Sinclair, 98, Panamanian artist, heart failure.
- Eric O. Stork, 87, American civil servant.
- Al Vandeweghe, 93, American football player.
- Nigel Walker, 54, English footballer, cancer.
- Cliff Williams, 74, Welsh rugby player.
3
- Rosendo Álvarez Gastón, 87, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Jaca and Almería.
- Louise Brough, 90, American Hall of Fame tennis player, ranked No. 1.
- Richard Bull, 89, American actor, natural causes.
- Isaac de Vega, 93, Spanish Canarian writer.
- Nel Garritsen, 80, Dutch Olympic swimmer.
- Óscar González, 23, Mexican super bantamweight and featherweight boxer, brain injury sustained in bout.
- Mircea Grosaru, 61, Romanian politician and jurist, MP, cardiac arrest.
- Max Howell, 86, Australian educator and rugby union player, cancer.
- Thomas P. Hughes, 90, American historian of technology.
- Alister Leat, 28, New Zealand judoka, suicide.
- Gloria Leonard, 73, American pornographic actress and magazine publisher, complications from a stroke.
- Chiwanki Lyainga, 30, Zambian international footballer, stabbed.
- Joan Mondale, 83, American arts advocate, Second Lady of the United States, Alzheimer's disease.
- Helmut Niedermeyer, 87, Austrian businessman, heart attack.
- John F. Rockart, 83, American organizational theorist.
- Barry Rubin, 64, American-born Israeli academic and writer, cancer.
- Ricardo Sepúlveda, 72, Chilean football player and manager.
- Bill Sinkin, 100, American equality and alternative energy activist.
- Pål Skjønberg, 94, Norwegian actor.
- Hiroyuki Suzuki, 68, Japanese architectural historian, pneumonia.
4
- Richard Aldridge, 68, British palaeontologist.
- Keith Allen, 90, Canadian ice hockey player and executive, dementia.
- Eugenio Corti, 93, Italian writer.
- Howard Kupperman, 82, American politician, Mayor of Longport.
- Pierre Lacaze, 88, French Olympic athlete.
- Dennis Lota, 40, Zambian footballer.
- Hubert Luthe, 86, German Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Essen.
- R. Ellen Magenis, 89, American pediatrician and geneticist.
- Ed McKitka, 75, Canadian politician, Mayor of Surrey, British Columbia, traffic collision.
- Peter Moreth, 72, German politician.
- Anirudh Lal Nagar, 83, Indian econometrician.
- Minus Polak, 85, Dutch politician and judge, member of the Senate and Council of State, heart attack.
- Hazel Sampson, 103, American Klallam elder and linguist, last native speaker of the Klallam language.
- Ștefan Stoica, 37, Romanian politician, Senator, cancer.
- Józef Trojak, 47, Polish footballer, heart failure.
- David Wasawo, 91, Kenyan zoologist.
- Wu Ma, 71, Chinese-born Hong Kong actor and director, lung cancer.
- Alfred S. Yue, 95, American engineer and professor emeritus.
5
- Joop Ave, 79, Indonesian government official, Minister of Tourism, Post and Telecommunications.
- Suzanne Basso, 59, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
- Carlos Borges, 82, Uruguayan footballer.
- Robert A. Dahl, 98, American political scientist and professor emeritus.
- Gary Giles, 74, New Zealand cricketer.
- Richard Hayman, 93, American conductor.
- Samantha Juste, 69, British television personality, stroke.
- John S. Pickett, Jr., 93, American politician.
- Árpád Prandler, 83, Hungarian jurist, judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.
- Mirkka Rekola, 82, Finnish writer.
- Juthika Roy, 93, Indian bhajan singer.
- Tom Sandberg, 60, Norwegian art photographer.
- Edward B. Sell, 71, American taekwondo instructor, leukemia.
- Rama Varma Kochaniyan Thampuran, 101, Indian royal.
- Tzeni Vanou, 74, Greek singer, cancer.
6
- Harmodio Arias Cerjack, 57, Panamanian politician, Foreign Minister.
- Claire Betz, 93, American baseball team owner.
- Vasiľ Biľak, 96, Czechoslovak politician, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party.
- Cornelius Botha, 81, South African politician, Administrator of Natal Province, heart failure.
- Tommy Dixon, 84, English footballer.
- Lester Goran, 85, American novelist.
- Alison Jolly, 76, American primatologist and author.
- Ralph Kiner, 91, American Hall of Fame baseball player and announcer, natural causes.
- Maxine Kumin, 88, American poet and author, Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry.
- Bob McQuillen, 90, American contra dance musician.
- Tōru Mori, 78, Japanese baseball player, hepatocellular carcinoma.
- Peter Philipp, 42, German writer and comedian.
- Marty Plissner, 87, American political commentator, coined "too close to call" phrase, lung cancer.
- Sandeep Singh, 25, Indian cricketer, tractor accident.
- Ingemar Ståhl, 75, Swedish economist.
- John Vockler, 89, Australian Anglican prelate, Bishop of Polynesia.
- Vaçe Zela, 74, Albanian singer and guitarist, recipient of the Merited Artist of Albania and the People's Artist of Albania.
7
- David Alexander-Sinclair, 86, British Army major general.
- Hans Andresen, 86, Danish Olympic cyclist.
- Christopher Barry, 88, British television director.
- Terje Bergstad, 75, Norwegian painter and graphic artist.
- Kenneth Francis Brown, 94, American Hawaiian politician.
- S. M. H. Burney, 90, Indian civil servant.
- Chriselliam, 3, Irish-bred British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse, foot infection.
- Claire Duhamel, 88, French actress.
- Mohamed Guessous, 76, Moroccan sociologist and politician.
- Hasjrul Harahap, 82, Indonesian government official, Minister of Forestry.
- Daniel J. Harrington, 73, American Jesuit priest, biblical scholar and professor, cancer.
- Georgina Henry, 53, British journalist, deputy editor of The Guardian, sinus cancer.
- Arthur J. Hubbard, Sr., 102, American Navajo Code Talker and politician, Arizona State Senator.
- Ernie Lyons, 99, Irish motorcycle racer.
- Murray Mendenhall, Jr., 88, American basketball player and coach.
- Hylton Mitchell, 87, Trinidad Olympic cyclist.
- Doug Mohns, 80, Canadian ice hockey player, myelodysplastic syndrome.
- Bill Ritchie, 86, Canadian politician.
- J. Mack Robinson, 90, American businessman and philanthropist.
- Tado, 39, Filipino comedian, traffic collision.
- Camille Wagner, 88, Luxembourgian footballer.
8
- Terry Adkins, 60, American conceptual artist, heart failure.
- Ernst Bakker, 67, Dutch politician, Mayor of Hilversum.
- Richard Battin, 88, American electrical engineer.
- Dick Berk, 74, American jazz drummer and bandleader.
- Els Borst, 81, Dutch politician, Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of State, homicide.
- Deogratias Muganwa Byabazaire, 72, Ugandan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Hoima.
- Michael Denborough, 84, Australian medical researcher, founder of the Nuclear Disarmament Party.
- Finbarr Dwyer, 67, Irish accordion player.
- Bernard Hedges, 86, Welsh cricketer.
- Nancy Holt, 75, American land artist.
- Keith Hughes, 45, American basketball player.
- Abdul Salam Kanaan, 83, Jordanian politician.
- Philippe Mahut, 57, French footballer, cancer.
- Mike Melluish, 81, English cricket player and administrator, President of the Marylebone Cricket Club.
- Andy Paton, 91, Scottish footballer.
- Sir Richard Peirse, 82, British air vice marshal.
- Maicon Pereira de Oliveira, 25, Brazilian footballer, traffic collision.
- John Ikataere Rarikin, 70, Tuvaluan Roman Catholic prelate, Superior of Funafuti.
- Thee Kian Wie, 78, Indonesian economist.
- Nishioka Tsuneo, 90, Japanese martial artist.
- Abe Woodson, 79, American football player.
9
- Pius Suh Awa, 83, Cameroonian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Buéa.
- Gabriel Axel, 95, Danish film director and actor.
- Eric Bercovici, 80, American screenwriter and producer, heart attack.
- Ranjit Bhatia, 77, Indian Olympic long-distance runner.
- Serafin R. Cuevas, 85, Filipino jurist, Secretary of Justice.
- William Goodreds, 93, English cricketer.
- Jan Groenendijk, 67, Dutch footballer, esophageal cancer.
- Joseph Harb, 74, Lebanese writer and poet.
- Hal Herring, 89, American football player and coach.
- Sir Graham Hills, 87, Scottish chemist.
- Eddie Holding, 83, English football player and manager, prostate cancer.
- Florentina López de Jesús, 74, Mexican weaver, heart attack.
- La Cucaracha, 12, British Thoroughbred racehorse.
- Marius, 2, Danish giraffe, considered unsuitable for breeding, shot.
- Roland Oliver, 90, British academic and professor emeritus.
- Harald Øveraas, 86, Norwegian trade unionist.
- Mauro Pane, 50, Italian racing driver and stuntman, traffic collision.
- Antanas Račas, 73, Lithuanian politician.
- Logan Scott-Bowden, 93, British military officer, first commander of the Ulster Defence Regiment.
- Fazal Shahabuddin, 78, Bangladeshi poet and journalist.
- Sverre Solberg, 54, Norwegian actor.
- Sir John Stibbon, 79, British military officer, Master-General of the Ordnance.
- Roger Tomlinson, 80, British geographer.
- AKM Yusuf, 87, Bangladeshi politician.
10
- Robert Bell, 87, American politician and lawyer.
- Jim Butler, 70, American football player, dementia.
- Carlos Capriles Ayala, 90, Venezuelan historian and diplomat.
- Len Chalmers, 77, English footballer.
- Mike Cottell, 82, British civil engineer.
- Stuart Hall, 82, Jamaican-born British cultural theorist.
- Gordon Harris, 73, English footballer, cancer.
- Doug Jarrett, 69, Canadian ice hockey player, cancer.
- Betty Jaynes, 68, American Hall of Fame basketball coach.
- Olga Jevrić, 91, Serbian sculptor.
- Alan R. Katritzky, 85, British chemist.
- Nenad Lukić, 45, Serbian footballer.
- Ronnie Masterson, 87, Irish actress.
- Ian McNaught-Davis, 84, British television presenter and mountaineer, President of the UIAA.
- Albin W. Norblad, 74, American attorney and jurist, Oregon Circuit Court Judge, brain hemorrhage.
- Christian Patria, 69, French politician, MP.
- Tomaž Pengov, 64, Slovenian singer-songwriter, guitarist, lutist and poet.
- Bolesław Polnar, 61, Polish artist.
- Boris Romanov, 76-77, Soviet Olympic cyclist.
- Shirley Temple, 85, American actress and diplomat, Ambassador to Ghana ; Czechoslovakia, COPD.
- Pere Tena Garriga, 85, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Barcelona.
- Hōzan Yamamoto, 76, Japanese musician.
11
- Roy Alvarez, 63, Filipino actor, cardiac arrest.
- Aslan, 83, French artist.
- Alice Babs, 90, Swedish singer and actress, Alzheimer's disease.
- Tito Canepa, 97, Dominican painter.
- Peter Desbarats, 80, Canadian author, playwright and journalist.
- John Fichter, 79, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
- Lewis Gunn, 95, Canadian cricketer.
- Fernando González Pacheco, 81, Colombian television personality.
- Léon Hégélé, 89, French Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Strasbourg.
- Gregorio Jiménez de la Cruz, 42, Mexican journalist and photographer, murdered.
- Max McLeary, 66, American minor league baseball umpire, cancer.
- Amadou Meïté, 64, Ivorian Olympic sprinter.
- Seán Potts, 83, Irish musician.
- Stan Rickaby, 89, English footballer.
- Skënder Sallaku, 79, Albanian comic and actor.
- Kayman Sankar, 87, Guyanese rice farmer and politician.
- Rolf Clemens Wagner, 69, German terrorist.
- Emory Williams, 102, American businessman.
12
- Stewart W. Bainum Sr., 94, American businessman and philanthropist.
- Luigi Balzarini, 78, Italian footballer.
- Thomas Borcherding, 74, American economist.
- Sid Caesar, 91, American comedian and actor, Emmy winner.
- Aldo Colombini, 63, Italian magician.
- Sir Diarmuid Downs, 91, British automotive engineer.
- Maggie Estep, 50, American poet and writer, heart attack.
- Santiago Feliú, 51, Cuban singer-songwriter, heart attack.
- Jean-Louis Giasson, 74, Canadian-born Honduran Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Yoro.
- Masayuki Ishii, 84, Japanese Olympic sailor
- Theodor Kleine, 89, German Olympic canoer.
- John Pickstone, 69, British science historian.
- John Poppitt, 91, British footballer.
- Josef Röhrig, 88, German footballer.
- William Zeckendorf, Jr., 84, American real estate developer.
13
- Gordon Bell, 79, British cartoonist.
- Lorna Casselton, 75, British biologist.
- Tommy Cooke, 99, Irish hurler.
- Piero D'Inzeo, 90, Italian Olympic show jumper, European champion.
- Drew Denson, 48, American baseball player, complications from amyloidosis.
- King Kester Emeneya, 57, Congolese singer, heart failure.
- Charles J. Fillmore, 84, American linguist.
- Rose Finn-Kelcey, 68, British artist, motor neurone disease.
- Seyed Kazem Ghiyassian, 74, Iranian footballer.
- Raymond Heimbecker, 91, Canadian cardiovascular surgeon.
- Jimmy Jones, 85, Northern Irish footballer.
- Ken Jones, 83, British actor, bowel cancer.
- Balu Mahendra, 74, Indian National Film Award-winning filmmaker, cinematographer, screenwriter and editor, heart attack.
- Georgy Martyniuk, 73, Russian actor, People's Artist of Russia.
- Ernest Mead, 95, American academic.
- John Mortimore, 80, English cricketer.
- Louis Nganga a Ndzando, 90–91, Congolese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Lisala.
- Richard Møller Nielsen, 76, Danish football player and manager, brain tumour.
- Zbigniew Romaszewski, 74, Polish politician, Senator.
- Ghulam Mohammad Saznawaz, 74, Indian Sufi musician.
- René Teulade, 82, French politician, Social Affairs Minister, Senator.
- Marty Thau, 75, American rock and roll entrepreneur and music producer, renal failure.
- Michael J. Wagner, 72, American politician, member of the Maryland House of Delegates and Senate, cancer.
- Ralph Waite, 85, American actor.
- Ken'ichi Yamamoto, 57, Japanese novelist, winner of the Naoki Prize, lung cancer.
- Uanhenga Xitu, 89, Angolan writer and politician.
14
- George Anastaplo, 88, American law professor, prostate cancer.
- Francisco José Arnáiz Zarandona, 88, Spanish-born Dominican Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Santo Domingo.
- Khodeza Azam, 76, Bangladeshi civil servant.
- Marshall Browne, 78, Australian banking executive and crime novelist, cancer.
- James Cahill, 87, American art historian, authority on Chinese art, prostate cancer.
- Remo Capitani, 86, Italian actor.
- James Condon, 90, Australian actor ''.
- José Darcourt, 55, Cuban baseball player, colon cancer.
- William Duff, 91, Scottish banker and Arabist.
- Sir Thomas Finney, 91, English footballer.
- Jim Fregosi, 71, American baseball player and manager, complications from a stroke.
- Robert M. Fresco, 83, American documentary filmmaker.
- Martha Goldstein, 94, American harpsichordist.
- Sally Gross, 60, South African anti-apartheid and intersex activist.
- John Henson, 48, American puppeteer, heart attack.
- Ferry Hoogendijk, 80, Dutch journalist and politician, member of the House of Representatives.
- Chad Kellogg, 42, American mountaineer, rock fall.
- Chris Pearson, 82, Canadian politician, Premier of Yukon.
- Benny Reynolds, 77, American rodeo performer, PRCA All-Around Cowboy Champion, heart attack.
- Patrick Scott, 93, Irish artist.
- Mike Stepovich, 94, American politician, Governor of the Territory of Alaska, head injury following a fall.
- Edward J. Walsh, 71, American journalist, lung cancer.
- John Wilson, 2nd Baron Moran, 89, British diplomat and peer.
- Clifford Wright, 91, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Monmouth.
15
- Corrado Benedetti, 57, Italian footballer.
- Herbert Blöcker, 71, German Olympic equestrian, cancer.
- Cliff Bole, 76, American television director.
- Federico Campbell, 72, Mexican writer, stroke following influenza.
- Mary Grace Canfield, 89, American actress, lung cancer.
- Jamie Coots, 41, American pastor, snake handler and reality television cast member, snakebite.
- Robert Descharnes, 88, French photographer and filmmaker, collaborator with Salvador Dalí.
- Thelma Estrin, 89, American computer scientist.
- Jean-Marie Géhu, 83, French botanist.
- Hans Gericke, 101, German architect and urban planner.
- Charles Hammock, 72, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
- Angelo Henderson, 51, American journalist and radio personality, Pulitzer Prize winner for Feature Writing, coronary embolism.
- Jim Lacy, 87, American basketball player, melanoma.
- Christopher Malcolm, 67, Scottish actor, cancer.
- Roy Oxlade, 85, British painter.
- Rajendran Raja, 65, Indian-born American physicist, brain cancer.
- Horst Rechelbacher, 72, Austrian-born American business executive, founder of Aveda, pancreatic cancer.
- Oliver Reynolds, 92, South African cricketer.
- Raghunath Seth, 83, Indian flautist and composer.
- Enyu Valchev, 78, Bulgarian Olympic medalist freestyle wrestler.
- Dénes Zsigmondy, 91, Hungarian classical violinist and music educator.
16
- Ron Casey, 61, American politician, member of the Missouri House of Representatives, complications from a fall.
- George Coates, 90, Australian football player.
- Robert J. Conley, 73, American Cherokee author.
- Dimitar Drazhev, 89, Bulgarian alpine skier.
- Frank Espada, 83, American photojournalist.
- Eisenhower Tree, 125, American loblolly pine, damage from ice storm.
- Ken Farragut, 85, American football player, complications from diabetes.
- Raymond Louis Kennedy, 67, American singer-songwriter, musician and producer.
- Charlie Kraak, 81, American basketball player.
- Gert Krawinkel, 66, German musician, lung cancer.
- Jaroslav Krejčí, 98, Czech sociologist, academic and historian.
- Emmet G. Lavery, Jr., 86, American television executive and producer, natural causes.
- Parasram Maderna, 87, Indian politician, Rajasthan MLA for Jodhpur, respiratory failure.
- Jimmy T. Murakami, 80, American animator and film director.
- Mbulelo Mzamane, 65, South African writer and academic.
- Jay S. Rosenblatt, 90, American psychoanalyst.
- Matti Ruohola, 73, Finnish comic actor.
- Israel Scheffler, 90, American philosopher.
- Michael Shea, 67, American science fiction author.
17
- Amarkant, 88, Indian writer.
- Joe Bell, 90, Canadian ice hockey player.
- Reza Barati, 23, Iranian architect and asylum-seeker, murdered.
- Richard N. Cabela, 77, American businessman, co-founder of Cabela's.
- Bob Casale, 61, American guitarist and film score engineer, heart failure.
- Makar Dhwaja Darogha, 81, Indian classical dancer.
- Frank Farmer, 89, American writer and author.
- Peter Florin, 92, German politician and diplomat, President of the United Nations General Assembly.
- Ahmed Mirza Jamil, 92, Pakistani calligrapher.
- Ian Kagedan, 58, Canadian public servant.
- Per Källberg, 66, Swedish cinematographer.
- Frankie Kao, 63, Taiwanese singer, leukemia.
- James McNaughton, 51, Irish hurler.
- Tibor Perecsi, 72, Hungarian footballer.
- Dick Reynolds, 86, American politician, member of the Texas House of Representatives.
- Don Safran, 84, American screenwriter and producer, heart failure.
- Wolfgang Schulhoff, 74, German politician.
- Kokichi Shimoinaba, 87, Japanese politician and police chief, Minister of Justice, sepsis.
- Wayne Smith, 48, Jamaican reggae musician.
- R. K. Srikantan, 94, Indian Carnatic singer.
- Frank Wappat, 84, English radio personality, heart failure.
- Arthur M. Wolfe, 74, American astrophysicist, cancer.
- Hanns Egon Wörlen, 98, German architect.
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- Forman S. Acton, 93, American computer scientist.
- Isaiah Balat, 61, Nigerian politician, Senator for Kaduna South.
- Gordon Bowra, 77, British surgeon.
- Valeriy Brezdenyuk, 50, Ukrainian painter, shot.
- Yudhistir Das, 90, Indian politician, Odisha MLA for Kissan Nagar, Speaker of the Legislative Assembly.
- Peter Davies, 88, Welsh rugby player.
- Pacer Edwards, 51, Bermudian cricketer, traffic collision.
- Ounsi el-Hajj, 77, Lebanese poet.
- Mavis Gallant, 91, Canadian writer, Companion of the Order of Canada.
- Kristof Goddaert, 27, Belgian professional cyclist, traffic collision.
- Al Greene, 59, American baseball player.
- Cob Jarvis, 81, American college basketball player and head coach.
- Gregory Kane, 62, American newspaper columnist, cancer.
- Buddy Leake, 80, American CFL football player.
- George Lenne, 97, Australian football player.
- Herbie Martin, 86, Irish cricketer.
- Bernd Noske, 67, German musician.
- Michael Peterson, 72, American politician, member of the Kansas House of Representatives.
- Arthur Rowley, 80, English footballer.
- Nikhil Baran Sengupta, 70, Indian art director, production designer and actor.
- Margarita Stāraste-Bordevīka, 100, Russian-born Latvian author of children's books.
- Andrea Joyce Stone, 65, American Mayanist.
- Malcolm Tierney, 75, British actor, pulmonary fibrosis.
- Joy Todd, American casting director, natural causes.
- Robbie van Graan, 74, South African cricketer.
- Viscera, 43, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
- Maria Franziska von Trapp, 99, Austrian-born American singer, portrayed in The Sound of Music.
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- Antonio Benítez, 62, Spanish footballer, complications from bladder cancer.
- Norbert Beuls, 57, Belgian footballer.
- Kresten Bjerre, 67, Danish footballer, cancer.
- Génesis Carmona, 22, Venezuelan pageant winner, shot.
- Toshiko D'Elia, 84, Japanese-born American long-distance runner, brain cancer.
- Simón Díaz, 85, Venezuelan singer and composer.
- Dale Gardner, 65, American astronaut, brain aneurysm.
- John Henderson, 84, British footballer.
- Dick Hervey, 93, American businessman and mayor.
- Ced Hovey, 95, Australian footballer.
- Valeri Kubasov, 79, Russian cosmonaut.
- Josefina Napravilová, 100, Czech social worker.
- Duffy Power, 72, English blues and rock and roll singer.
- P. R. Rajan, 75, Indian politician.
- Ivor Robinson, 89, British bookbinder and craftsman.
- Bernie Shannon, 85, Australian football player.
- Miroslav Štandera, 95, Czech World War II fighter pilot, recipient of the Order of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk.
- Toni Ucci, 92, Italian actor and comedian.
- Blanca Vela, 78, American politician, first female mayor of Brownsville, Texas.
- Jim Weirich, 57, American computer scientist, developer of Rake.
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- Anthony Clifford Allison, 88, South African geneticist.
- Rafael Addiego Bruno, 90, Uruguayan jurist and politician, Constitutional President.
- Walter D. Ehlers, 92, American World War II soldier, recipient of the Medal of Honor.
- Sir Samuel Falle, 95, British diplomat.
- Antoinette Fouque, 77, French feminist psychoanalyst.
- Roger Hill, 65, American actor, heart attack.
- Ustym Holodnyuk, 19, Ukrainian activist and Euromaidan, shot.
- Tea Ista, 81, Finnish actress.
- Ihor Kostenko, 22, Ukrainian journalist and student, shot.
- Parvathi Krishnan, 94, Indian politician, MP for Coimbatore.
- Reghu Kumar, 60, Indian composer, complications from kidney treatment.
- Lu Xuechang, 49, Chinese film director, natural causes.
- Sir Ian McKay, 84, New Zealand judge and lawyer, Judge of the Court of Appeal.
- Cuthbert A. Pattillo, 89, American Air Force military officer.
- Jorge Polaco, 67, Argentine filmmaker, cardiac arrest.
- Peter A. Rona, 79, American oceanographer and professor, multiple myeloma.
- Roy Simmons, 57, American football player, complications from pneumonia.
- Garrick Utley, 74, American television journalist, prostate cancer.
- Anthony Whitaker, 69, New Zealand herpetologist, heart attack.
21
- Alphonse Arzel, 86, French politician, Senator for Finistère.
- Paul Bitz, 90, American politician, Indiana State Senator.
- Sakis Boulas, 59, Greek singer-songwriter and actor, cancer.
- Stanley Brotman, 89, American senior judge, District Court Judge for New Jersey and the Virgin Islands.
- Bootsie Calhoun, 90, American politician, member of the Georgia House of Representatives.
- Gene Carmichael, 86, American politician, South Carolina State Senator.
- Elaine Cassidy, 83, Australian politician.
- Rune Flodman, 87, Swedish Olympic shooter.
- Héctor Maestri, 78, Cuban baseball player.
- Beatrix Miller, 89, British magazine editor.
- George Modelski, 88, American political scientist.
- Roland Nilsson, 89, Swedish Olympic athlete.
- Eddie O'Brien, 83, American baseball player.
- Elaine O'Brien, 58, American politician, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives, glioblastoma.
- Georgette Rejewski, 104, Belgian-born Dutch actress.
- Matthew Robinson, 28, Australian Paralympic snowboarder, skiing accident.
- Đoko Rosić, 81, Serbian-born Bulgarian actor.
- Cornelius Schnauber, 74, German-born American academic, complications from a heart attack.
- Bob Sharpe, 88, British footballer.
- John Strawson, 93, British Army officer.
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- Maurice Bessinger, 84, American restaurateur.
- William Chambliss, 80, American criminologist and sociologist.
- Arduíno Colassanti, 78, Italian-born Brazilian actor.
- Zsuzsa Csala, 80, Hungarian actress.
- Richard Daugherty, 91, American archaeologist, led excavation of Ozette Indian Village, bone cancer.
- Charlotte Dawson, 47, New Zealand-born Australian television personality, suicide by hanging.
- Abdul-Karim Gharaybeh, 91, Jordanian historian, academic and politician, member of the Senate.
- Sir Richard Ground, 63, English judge and jurist, Chief Justice of the Turks and Caicos Islands and Bermuda.
- Grigor Gurzadyan, 91, Armenian astronomer.
- Edith Kramer, 98, Austrian artist.
- Giancarlo Livraghi, 86, Italian author.
- Ivan Nagy, 70, Hungarian ballet dancer.
- Sigbert Prais, 85, German-born British economist
- Fred Sunnen, 74, Luxembourgian politician.
- Trebor Jay Tichenor, 74, American ragtime pianist and composer.
- Leo Vroman, 98, Dutch-American hematologist, poet and illustrator.
- Robert C. Wright, 69, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, complications from Lyme disease and ALS.
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- Carla Accardi, 89, Italian painter.
- Ezio Bertuzzo, 61, Italian footballer.
- Keith Bridges, 84, British rugby league player.
- Charles Capps, 80, American Christian preacher.
- John Christoforou, 92, British painter.
- K. Alison Clarke-Stewart, 70, Canadian developmental psychologist.
- G. Bhuvaraghan, 86, Indian politician, MP for Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu MLA for Vridhachalam.
- Ely Capacio, 58, Filipino basketball player, coach and executive, Board Governor of the Petron Blaze Boosters, ruptured aneurysm.
- Chip Damiani, 68, American drummer, massive brain hemorrhage.
- Penny DeHaven, 65, American country singer, cancer.
- John Grant, 83, Scottish children's author.
- Thomas M. Herbert, 86, American politician and judge.
- Alice Herz-Sommer, 110, Czech-British supercentenarian, world's oldest Holocaust survivor, subject of The Lady in Number 6.
- Roger Hilsman, 94, American government official, political scientist and author, Director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research.
- John Koerner, 100, Czech-born Canadian artist.
- Hansi Knoteck, 99, German actress.
- Mike Parker, 84, British-born American typographer and software executive, helped popularize use of Helvetica.
- Paul Pawlak, Sr., 96, American politician, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives.
- Charlie Porter, 63, American mountaineer and climate change scientist, heart attack.
- Piyush Sadhu, 36, Indian cricketer.
- József Sátori, 87, Hungarian Olympic rower.
- Samuel Sheinbein, 34, American-Israeli convicted murderer, shot.
- William F. Thomas, 89, American newspaper editor, oversaw 11 Pulitzer Prizes, natural causes.
- Eugene M. Wescott, 82, American scientist, artist, and traditional dancer.
- Norman Whiting, 93, English cricketer.
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- Samuel Adesina, 56, Nigerian politician, Speaker of the Ondo State House of Assembly, bladder cancer.
- Ralph Bahna, 71, American business executive, CEO of Cunard Line, Chairman of Priceline.com.
- Franny Beecher, 92, American Hall of Fame guitarist.
- Wiel Bremen, 88, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives.
- Ted Connolly, 82, American football player, acute myelocytic leukemia.
- Eilert Eilertsen, 95, Norwegian politician and footballer.
- Lamar Davis, 92, American football player.
- Jerry Denbo, 63, American politician, member of the Indiana House of Representatives.
- Neil Harrison, 64, Canadian Hall of Fame curler, world champion, cancer.
- Nicolae Herlea, 86, Romanian operatic baritone, recipient of the Order of the Star of Romania.
- Valerie V. Hunt, 97, American scientist.
- Alexis Hunter, 65, New Zealand-born British painter and photographer, motor neurone disease.
- Vasile Huțanu, 59, Romanian Olympic ice hockey player.
- Hamid Nawaz Khan, Pakistani military officer, Defence Secretary, Interior Minister.
- Prokash Karmakar, 81, Indian painter.
- Christopher Luxmoore, 87, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Bermuda.
- Carlos Páez Vilaró, 90, Uruguayan artist.
- Juan José Plans, 70, Spanish writer.
- Harold Ramis, 69, American writer, director and actor, vasculitis.
- Günter Reisch, 86, German film director.
- Anna Reynolds, 82, English opera singer.
- Alex Russell, 91, Northern Irish footballer.
- Bhob Stewart, 76, American cartoonist and writer.
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- Angèle Arsenault, 70, Canadian singer-songwriter, cancer.
- Juanita Bartlett, 86, American television producer.
- Pim Bekkering, 82, Dutch footballer.
- Wilfried Brauer, 76, German computer scientist.
- Jürgen Brümmer, 49, German Olympic gymnast, suicide by jumping.
- Peter Callander, 74, British songwriter and record producer, heart attack.
- Orlando Castro Llanes, 88, Venezuelan banker.
- Antonio Cermeño, 44, Venezuelan boxer, two-time world champion, shot.
- Mário Coluna, 78, Portuguese footballer, pulmonary infection.
- Ian Cuttler, 43, Mexican photographer and art director, traffic collision.
- Quentin Elias, 39, French actor, model and singer, heart attack.
- Carlos Gracida, 53, Mexican polo player, brain injury from competition fall.
- George Guerieri, 86, American politician, Mississippi State Senator.
- Edward A. Irving, 86, Canadian geologist.
- Jim Lange, 81, American game show host and disc jockey, heart attack.
- Paco de Lucía, 66, Spanish flamenco guitarist, heart attack.
- Chokwe Lumumba, 66, American politician and lawyer, Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi.
- Tom Margerison, 90, British science journalist and broadcaster, founder of New Scientist.
- David McKinney, 68, New Zealand author and journalist.
- Gordon Nutt, 81, English footballer.
- Anthony Shacklady, 68, British Olympic wrestler.
- Emil Simon, 77, Romanian conductor and composer, cancer.
- Philip Smart, 53, Jamaican record producer, pancreatic cancer.
- Rick Smoliak, 70, American college baseball head coach.
- Lydia Stevens, 95, American politician, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives, pneumonia.
- Martin E. Sullivan, 70, American museum director, renal failure.
- Dennis Turner, Baron Bilston, 71, British politician, MP for Wolverhampton South East.
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- K. S. Balachandran, 69, Sri Lankan actor.
- Al Berard, 53-54, American Cajun musician, aneurysm.
- Chua Sian Chin, 80, Singaporean politician, Health Minister, heart failure.
- Sorel Etrog, 80, Canadian sculptor, recipient of the Order of Canada.
- Wayne Frye, 83, American Olympic champion rower.
- Georges Hamel, 66, Canadian country music singer-songwriter.
- Phyllis Krasilovsky, 87, American children's author, stroke.
- Dezső Novák, 75, Hungarian Olympic champion football player and coach.
- Frank Reed, 59, American soul singer.
- Bill Roetzheim, 85. American Olympic gymnast.
- Frankie Sardo, 77, American rock and roll musician, cancer.
- Michael Taylor, 47, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
- Tim Wilson, 52, American stand-up comedian and country music singer, heart attack.
- Irv Wisniewski, 89, American football and basketball player and coach.
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- Aaron Allston, 53, American game designer and sci-fi author, heart failure.
- Raymond James Boland, 82, Irish-born American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Birmingham and Kansas City-St Joseph, lung cancer.
- Bryan Clarke, 81, British geneticist.
- Luis Díaz, 42, Cuban baseball player, myocardial infarction.
- Max Gors, 67, American judge, member of the South Dakota Supreme Court.
- Jan Hoet, 77, Belgian art critic and curator, heart attack.
- Tim Kehoe, 43, American author and toy inventor.
- Assad Kotaite, 89, Lebanese administrator, Secretary-General and Council President of the International Civil Aviation Organization.
- Eric Lockwood, 81, English rugby league player.
- Huber Matos, 95, Cuban dissident, activist and writer, heart attack.
- Arnstein Øverkil, 76, Norwegian police chief and jurist.
- Terry Rand, 79, American basketball player, second round NBA draft pick, heart attack.
- Richard Sacher, 71, Czech politician, Czechoslovak Interior Minister, member of the Federal Assembly.
- Wilford Scypion, 55, American boxer, Golden Gloves National Middleweight Champion, complications from pneumonia.
- Chuner Taksami, 83, Russian ethnographer.
- Vicente T. Ximenes, 94, American civil rights activist.
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- Nadeem al-Zaro, 82, Jordanian politician, Minister of Transport and Minister of Interior, Mayor of Ramallah.
- Guy Alexandre, 68, Haitian diplomat, Ambassador to the Dominican Republic, heart attack.
- Matthías Bjarnason, 92, Icelandic politician.
- Juul Bjerke, 85, Norwegian economist.
- Kevon Carter, 30, Trinidadian footballer, heart attack.
- Hugo Brandt Corstius, 78, Dutch author.
- Ophelia DeVore, 91, American businesswoman and model.
- Ruth Frith, 104, Australian masters athlete.
- Benjamín Galván Gómez, 41, Mexican politician and newspaper publisher, homicide.
- Tex Hill, 70, American actor and stuntman.
- Robert Holliday, 81, American politician, member of the West Virginia House of Delegates and Senate.
- David Holmes, 87, British journalist and broadcaster, BBC News Political Editor.
- Jerzy Kolendo, 80, Polish historian and archaeologist.
- Lee Lorch, 98, American desegregation activist.
- Michio Mado, 104, Japanese poet.
- Ana María Moix, 66, Spanish writer, cancer.
- Donald Murdoch, 90, New Zealand cricketer.
- Karl Anton Rickenbacher, 73, Swiss conductor, heart attack.
- C. R. Simha, 71, Indian actor and director, prostate cancer.
- Gib Singleton, 78, American sculptor.
- James Tague, 77, American writer, key witness to the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
- Randy Trautman, 53, American football player.
- Norman Yonemoto, 67, American video and visualization artist, stroke.