Deaths in January 2015

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

  January 2015

1

• Barbara Atkinson, 88, British actress.
• Staryl C. Austin, 94, American air force brigadier general.
• Ulrich Beck, 70, German sociologist, heart attack.
• Fiona Cumming, 77, British television director.
• Eric Cunningham, 65, Canadian politician, Ontario MPP for Wentworth North.
• Mario Cuomo, 82, American politician, Governor of New York, heart failure.
• Donna Douglas, 82, American actress, pancreatic cancer.
• Matthew Franjola, 72, American journalist and photographer.
• Jeff Golub, 59, American guitarist, progressive supranuclear palsy.
• Jack Howell, 88, British physician.
• Omar Karami, 80, Lebanese politician, Prime Minister.
• Bill Keating, 70, American football player and attorney.
• Tore Helge Larsen, 69, Norwegian harness racer, cancer.
• Géry Leuliet, 104, French Roman Catholic prelate, world's oldest Catholic bishop, Bishop of Amiens.
• Boris Morukov, 64, Russian physician and cosmonaut, STS-106 mission specialist.
• Kjell Noreik, 85, Norwegian physician.
• Mrunalini Devi Puar, 83, Indian educator, Chancellor of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda.
• Ninón Sevilla, 93, Cuban-born Mexican actress, heart attack.
• William Lloyd Standish, 84, American federal judge, District Court Judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
• Manasa Vaniqi, 62, Fijian civil servant and lieutenant colonel, Permanent Secretary for Sugar.
• Miller Williams, 84, American poet, Alzheimer's disease.

  2

• Per-Olof Åstrand, 92, Swedish physiologist.
• James A. Barlow, 91, American politician, member of the Wyoming House of Representatives.
• Charles Baur, 85, French politician, President of the Regional Council of Picardy.
• Noel Cobb, 76, American-born British philosopher, psychologist and author.
• Little Jimmy Dickens, 94, American country music singer, cardiac arrest.
• Baldina Di Vittorio, 94, Italian politician.
• Danny Dunton, 90, English speedway rider and promoter.
• Maurice Fontaine, 95, French politician.
• Bob Gilmore, 53, British musicologist.
• Vasant Gowarikar, 81, Indian scientist and ISRO chairman, dengue and urinary tract infection.
• Basil Hansen, 88, Australian Olympic ice hockey player.
• Lloyd House, 83, American politician, member of the Arizona House of Representatives.
• Lam Pou-chuen, 63, Hong Kong dubbing artist, diabetes.
• Abu Anas al-Libi, 50, Libyan al-Qaeda member in United States custody, liver cancer.
• John McQuilten, 65, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Council for Ballarat.
• Derek Minter, 82, British Grand Prix motorcycle and short-circuit road racer.
• Arthur Neu, 81, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Iowa, member of the Iowa Senate.
• Tihomir Novakov, 85, Serbian-born American physicist.
• Billy O'Neill, 85, Irish sportsman.
• István Pásztor, 89, Hungarian Olympic cyclist.
• Dan Poulin, 57, Canadian ice hockey player, cancer.
• Arpád Račko, 84, Hungarian-born Slovak sculptor.
• Vincent Cartledge Reddish, 88, Scottish astronomer, Astronomer Royal for Scotland.
• Kristian Sundtoft, 77, Norwegian politician.

  3

• Jamal Uddin Ahmad, 85, Bangladeshi politician, Deputy Prime Minister.
• Daniel Albright, 69, American academic.
• Martin Anderson, 78, American economist and political adviser.
• Adunni Bankole, 55, Nigerian businesswoman, heart attack.
• Edward Brooke, 95, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts.
• Bryan Caldwell, 54, American football player, Hodgkin's lymphoma.
• Paulinus Costa, 78, Bangladeshi Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Dhaka, heart attack.
• Maher Hathout, 79, Egyptian-born American Islamic leader, cancer.
• Dwight Hooker, 86, American photographer and architect.
• Bill Jessup, 85, American football player.
• Rueben Philip Job, 86, American United Methodist prelate, Bishop of the Iowa episcopal area.
• Muath al-Kasasbeh, 26, Jordanian fighter pilot and ISIS hostage, burned alive.
• Roger Kitter, 65, British actor and entertainer, cancer.
• Olga Knyazeva, 60, Russian fencer, Olympic champion.
• Bernice Madigan, 115, American supercentenarian, world's fifth-oldest person.
• Willy Ovesen, 90, Norwegian civil servant.
• Terence Ranger, 85, British historian.
• Jaime Romero Móran, 22, Mexican gymnast, shot.
• Allie Sherman, 91, American football player and coach.
• Jouko Törmänen, 60, Finnish ski jumper, Olympic champion.

  4

• Chang Sung-hwan, 94, South Korean lieutenant general and diplomat, Chief of Staff of the Air Force, natural causes.
• Elisabetta Catalano, 70, Italian fine-art photographer.
• Pino Daniele, 59, Italian singer and songwriter, heart attack.
• Chitresh Das, 70, Indian dancer, instructor and choreographer, aneurysm.
• Al Delugach, 89, American Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, mesothelioma.
• Lance Diamond, 69, American singer, heart complications.
• Jay Furman, 72, American real estate developer, cancer.
• He Zhenliang, 85, Chinese politician and diplomat.
• Dan Held, 53, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Gene Kemp, 88, British children's author.
• Haroldo Lara, 80, Brazilian Olympic swimmer.
• Azizullah Lodin, 75–76, Afghan politician.
• John McPhee, 77, Scottish footballer.
• Stu Miller, 87, American baseball player.
• Juan Isidro Moreno, 90, Dominican Republic poet.
• Hasan Hazer Moshar, 91, Iranian artist.
• Jack Parr, 78, American basketball player.
• Natalino Pescarolo, 85, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Fossano and Cuneo.
• Hank Peters, 90, American baseball executive, complications from a stroke.
• Ahuti Prasad, 57, Indian actor, colon cancer.
• Ives Roqueta, 78, French Occitan author.
• Eli Sagan, 87, American clothing manufacturer, cultural anthropology author and Nixon Enemy.
• Stuart Scott, 49, American sports journalist, appendix cancer.
• Michele Serros, 48, American novelist and poet, adenocarcinoma of the salivary gland.
• Nelson Torno, 87, Argentine Olympic sports shooter.
• Upendra Trivedi, 78, Indian actor and director.
• Richard D. Veltri, 79, American politician, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives.
• René Vautier, 86, French film director.
• Bernard Williams, 72, British film producer, cancer.
• Edmund Wnuk-Lipiński, 70, Polish academic.
• János Zsombolyai, 75, Hungarian cinematographer, film director and screenwriter.

  5

• Joy Ali, 36, Fijian middleweight boxer, suicide.
• Philippe Baillet, 74, French Olympic basketball player.
• Allan Beard, 95, British civil servant.
• Jean-Pierre Beltoise, 77, French Formula One racing driver, winner of the 1972 Monaco Grand Prix, stroke.
• Al Bendich, 85, American civil rights attorney.
• Khan Bonfils, 42, English actor.
• Jim Burton, 53, Canadian ice hockey player and coach, heart attack.
• Jack Calmes, 71, American inventor, executive and musician.
• Eylül Cansın, 24, Turkish transgender woman, suicide by jumping.
• Bobby Carter, 75, American politician, member of the Tennessee Senate.
• William R. Catton, Jr., 88, American environmental sociologist.
• Arthur E. Chase, 84, American politician, member of the Massachusetts Senate.
• Albert Firth, 77, English rugby league player.
• Antonio Fuertes, 85, Spanish footballer.
• Vadim Glovatsky, 45, Kazakhstani Olympic ice hockey player,.
• Joe Haines, 91, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives.
• Ken Hale, 75, English football player and manager.
• Niels Hansen, 90, German diplomat.
• Milton Hebald, 97, American sculptor.
• Martin Joseph, 65, Trinidadian politician, Minister of National Security, drowned.
• Mustafa Kamal, 81, Bangladeshi judge, Chief Justice, heart disease.
• Anthony Ledwith, 81, British chemist.
• Earl MacNaughton, 95, Canadian physicist.
• Bernard Joseph McLaughlin, 102, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Buffalo.
• Harold Murphy, 76, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives.
• Ganesh Patro, 69, Indian playwright and screenwriter, cancer.
• Alfons Peeters, 71, Belgian footballer.
• Joan Peters, 78, American author, complications from a stroke.
• King Sporty, 71, Jamaican-American reggae musician.
• Geoff Truett, 79, English footballer.

  6

• Anton Amann, 58, Austrian chemist.
• Else M. Barth, 86, Norwegian philosopher.
• Vlastimil Bubník, 83, Czech ice hockey player and footballer, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Buffalo Tiger, 94, American politician, Chairman of the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida.
• Joseph Djida, 69, Cameroonian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ngaoundéré.
• Johannes de Villiers Graaff, 86, South African economist.
• Lawrence Gushee, 83, American musicologist.
• Jean Hendriks, 89, Dutch politician, member of the Senate.
• Francesca Hilton, 67, American actress and socialite, stroke.
• Ron Hovey, 82, Australian football player.
• Arthur Jackson, 96, American sports shooter.
• Sir John Mason, 91, British meteorologist.
• George H. McKee, 91, American air force lieutenant general.
• Lance Percival, 81, British actor and singer.
• Gilberto Perez, 71, Cuban-born American professor of film studies.
• Sanford E. Reisenbach, 82, American marketing executive.
• Patricia Roppel, 76, American historian and teacher, specialist in the history of Southeast Alaska, cancer.
• Thunder Rumble, 26, American Thoroughbred racehorse, complications from colic.
• Alexandru Segal, 67, Romanian-born Brazilian economist and chess player.

  7

• Subhas Anandan, 67, Indian-born Singaporean lawyer, heart failure.
• José Arias, 92, Spanish Olympic alpine skier.
• Tim Arson, 38, American professional wrestler.
• Ricardo Bueno Fernández, 74, Spanish politician, member of the Senate and Congress of Deputies.
• John Burritt, 80, American Olympic biathlete.
• Gilbert Finn, 94, Canadian businessman, Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick.
• Michael Fisher, 68, British solicitor, cancer.
• Tadeusz Konwicki, 88, Polish writer and filmmaker.
• Mompati Merafhe, 78, Botswanan lieutenant general and politician, Vice President.
• Arch A. Moore, Jr., 91, American politician, Governor of West Virginia.
• J. P. Parisé, 73, Canadian ice hockey player, lung cancer.
• Jethro Pugh, 70, American football player.
• Archie Radebe, 55, South African footballer and coach.
• B. S. Abdur Rahman, 87, Indian business executive and philanthropist.
• David Rolfe, 50, Australian Paralympic swimmer, complications relating to heart surgery.
• Julio Scherer García, 88, Mexican journalist, septic shock.
• Herb Simpson, 94, American baseball player.
• Rod Taylor, 84, Australian actor, heart attack.
• Nancy Thomas, 96, British television producer.
• Notable French people killed in the Charlie Hebdo shooting:
• *Cabu, 76, cartoonist
• *Elsa Cayat, 54, psychoanalyst and columnist
• *Charb, 47, caricaturist and journalist
• *Philippe Honoré, 73, cartoonist
• *Bernard Maris, 68, economist and journalist
• *Mustapha Ourrad, 60, Algerian-born copyeditor
• *Tignous, 57, cartoonist
• *Georges Wolinski, 80, cartoonist

  8

• William E. Boeing Jr., 92, American businessman.
• Andraé Crouch, 72, American gospel singer, heart attack.
• Kep Enderby, 88, Australian politician and judge, MP, Supreme Court Justice of New South Wales.
• Patsy Garrett, 93, American singer and actress.
• Jean-Claude Gasigwa, 31, Rwandan tennis player.
• Peter Hill, 83, English footballer.
• Jenő Lasztovicza, 53, Hungarian politician, MP.
• Curtis Lee, 75, American singer, cancer.
• Hubert Markl, 76, German biologist.
• Ray McFall, 88, British nightclub owner.
• Roy McKie, 93, American illustrator.
• Richard Meade, 76, British equestrian, three-time Olympic champion, cancer.
• Leif Rantala, 67, Finnish linguist.
• Erbey Satterfield, 75, American politician, member of the Utah House of Representatives.
• Egil Toreng, 92, Norwegian newspaper editor and politician.
• Nelson Townsend, 73, American athletic director, heart attack.

  9

• Angelo Anquilletti, 71, Italian footballer.
• Jasodhara Bagchi, 77, Indian feminist critic and academic.
• Amedy Coulibaly, 32, French jihadist, shot.
• Harry A. DeMaso, 93, American politician, member of the Michigan Senate.
• Samuel Goldwyn Jr., 88, American film producer, heart failure.
• Ah Chew Goo, 96, American basketball player and coach.
• Michel Jeury, 80, French science fiction author.
• Robert V. Keeley, 85, American diplomat, Ambassador to Mauritius, Zimbabwe and Greece, stroke.
• Sarah Kemp, 77, Australian actress, lung cancer.
• Chuck Locke, 82, American baseball player.
• Frans Molenaar, 74, Dutch fashion designer, complications from a fall.
• Józef Oleksy, 68, Polish politician, Prime Minister, cancer.
• Bud Paxson, 79, American media executive, co-founder of the Home Shopping Network, founder of Pax TV.
• Peder Pedersen, 69, Danish track cyclist, Olympic champion.
• Abdul Rahman Ya'kub, 87, Malaysian politician, Chief Minister of Sarawak.
• Whitney Reed, 82, American tennis player.
• James L. Reveal, 73, American botanist.
• Robert Scott, 73, American author.
• Iqbal Sheikh, 80, Pakistani cricketer.
• Bud Sherman, 88, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba, member of the House of Commons.
• Miroslav Soviš, 60, Czech Olympic biathlete.
• Paul M. Starnes, 80, American politician, member of the Tennessee House of Representatives.
• Roy Tarpley, 50, American basketball player.
• Christian Vannequé, 65, French sommelier and restaurateur.

  10

• John Angus, 66, New Zealand children's rights advocate, Children's Commissioner.
• Jorgelina Aranda, 72, Argentine model and actress.
• Robert Berner, 79, American geologist and geochemist.
• Walter Berns, 95, American constitutional law and political philosophy professor.
• Frans Bolweg, 64, Dutch sailor and coach.
• Brian Clemens, 83, British screenwriter and television producer.
• Abed Daoudieh, 94, Jordanian politician, Awqaf and Islamic Affairs Minister.
• George Dickerson, 81, American actor.
• James R. Dixon, 86, American herpetologist.
• Tim Drummond, 74, American bassist.
• Pierre-André Fournier, 71, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Rimouski.
• Elemér Hankiss, 86, Hungarian sociologist.
• Maeve Hillery, 91, Irish physician.
• Jim Hogan, 81, Irish Olympic long-distance runner, European champion.
• Harry V. Jaffa, 96, American political philosophy professor.
• Annis Jensen, 93, American roller derby skater.
• Frederik H. Kreuger, 86, Dutch high voltage scientist.
• Junior Malanda, 20, Belgian footballer, traffic collision.
• Marko Marin, 84, Slovenian theatre director and art historian.
• Slobodan Martinović, 70, Serbian chess player.
• Roger Moyer, 80, American politician, Mayor of Annapolis, Maryland, Parkinson's disease.
• Yoko Nagae Ceschina, 82, Japanese classical music philanthropist.
• Taylor Negron, 57, American comedian and actor, liver cancer.
• Margit Nünke, 84, German fashion model, actress and beauty queen.
• Ged Peck, 67, English musician.
• Hugh Peery, 83, American Olympic wrestler.
• George Probert, 87, American jazz musician and music editor.
• Francesco Rosi, 92, Italian film director.
• Francis Simard, 67, Canadian revolution activist and criminal, aneurysm.
• Hans Stoiber, 96, Austrian poet.
• Robert Stone, 77, American novelist, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
• Denis Tsygurov, 43, Russian professional ice hockey player.
• Inge Vermeulen, 30, Brazilian-born Dutch field hockey player, European champion.
• Roger Wosahlo, 67, English footballer, cancer.

  11

• Jenő Buzánszky, 89, Hungarian footballer, Olympic champion, last living member of the Golden Team.
• Gary Dighton, 46, British Olympic cyclist, suicide.
• Doriemus, 24, New Zealand Thoroughbred racehorse, Melbourne Cup winner, euthanised following paddock accident.
• Anita Ekberg, 83, Swedish-Italian actress.
• Chashi Nazrul Islam, 73, Bangladeshi filmmaker.
• Chic Littlewood, 84, British-born New Zealand television personality and actor.
• Albert McPherson, 87, English football player and coach.
• Vernon Benjamin Mountcastle, 96, American professor emeritus and neuroscientist.
• Fritz Pott, 75, German football player and coach.
• Bruno Visintin, 82, Italian boxer, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Ryszard Zub, 80, Polish fencer, Olympic silver and bronze medalist.

  12

• John Bayley, 89, British literary critic and writer.
• Bonnie Christensen, 63, American children's book author and illustrator, ovarian cancer.
• Germán Cobos, 87, Spanish actor.
• Trevor Colbourn, 87, Australian educator and academic, President of the University of Central Florida.
• James Naanman Daman, 58, Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Jalingo and Shendam.
• Stephen Gold, 58, British computer journalist, complications of heart surgery.
• Robert Gover, 85, American author.
• John Hill, 69, American game designer, heart failure.
• Akira Kinoshita, 78, Japanese photographer.
• Carl Long, 79, American baseball player.
• William C. Martel, 59, American political scientist, cancer.
• A. J. Masters, 64, American singer and songwriter, prostate cancer.
• Paul Morgan, 40, Welsh rugby union and league player.
• Elena Obraztsova, 75, Russian mezzo-soprano.
• Alex Omes, 43, American nightlife impresario, co-founder of Ultra Music Festival.
• V. B. Rajendra Prasad, 82, Indian film producer and director.
• Gabriel Ramushwana, 73, South African general, Head of State of Venda, colon cancer.
• Ed Skinner, 78, American politician and attorney, member of the Iowa House of Representatives.
• Darrell Winfield, 85, American rancher and model, Marlboro Man.

  13

• Robert Boon, 98, Dutch-born American actor.
• Tony Ciprian, 82, New Zealand television sports presenter and producer.
• Doug Cunningham, 69, American football player.
• Robert Dotson, 91, American flatfoot dancer.
• Ralph Faudree, 75, American mathematician.
• Frank Glazer, 99, American pianist and composer.
• Sir Jack Hayward, 91, English businessman, property developer and philanthropist, president of Wolverhampton Wanderers.
• Mark Juddery, 43, Australian author and journalist, cancer.
• H. Wesley Kenney, 89, American television director and producer, cardiac arrest.
• Mike Marqusee, 61, American-born writer and activist, multiple myeloma.
• Frank Mazzola, 79, American film actor and editor.
• Hara Patnaik, 56, Indian actor and film director, cancer.
• Ronnie Ronalde, 91, British music hall singer and siffleur.
• Isabel Rosado, 107, Puerto Rican independence activist.
• John H. Rubel, 94, American defense electronics executive.
• Bill Thompson, 70, American talent manager, heart attack.
• Jane Wilson, 90, American painter.
• Keith Wright, 73, Australian politician and convicted child rapist, MP for Capricornia.
• Hillel Zaks, 85, Polish-born Israeli rabbi.

  14

• Mordechai Shmuel Ashkenazi, 71, Israeli rabbi.
• Bob Boyd, 84, American basketball coach.
• Jerry Dempsey, 81, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives.
• Bill Dodd, 78, English footballer.
• Lotte Hass, 86, Austrian model and underwater diver.
• Val Holten, 87, Australian cricketer.
• Danny Malloy, 84, Scottish footballer.
• Jerzy Holzer, 84, Polish historian.
• Susanto Pudjomartono, 71, Indonesian newspaper editor and diplomat, second chief editor of The Jakarta Post, Ambassador to Russia.
• Nélida Romero, 88, Argentine actress.
• Darren Shahlavi, 42, English actor and martial artist, heart attack.
• Obrad Sretenović, 79, Croatian Olympic boxer.
• Layne Tom Jr., 87, American actor.
• Warren Weinstein, 73, American economist, USAID contractor kidnapped by al-Qaeda, drone strike.
• Robert White, 88, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Paraguay and El Salvador.
• Zhang Wannian, 86, Chinese general.

  15

• Bai Jinian, 88, Chinese politician, party chief of Shaanxi Province.
• Jean-Claude Baker, 71, French-born American restaurateur, suicide.
• Ludmila Brožová-Polednová, 93, Czech prosecutor, participated in the show trial of Milada Horáková.
• Arnaldo Calveyra, 85, Argentine poet and novelist, heart attack.
• Eugene E. Covert, 88, American aeronautics engineer.
• Ervin Drake, 95, American songwriter, bladder cancer.
• Kim Fowley, 75, American record producer, band manager, impresario and musician, bladder cancer.
• Alan Hirschfield, 79, American film executive, CEO of Columbia Pictures, Chairman of 20th Century Fox.
• Mirko Holbus, 74, Serbian Olympic ice hockey player.
• Anwarul Iqbal, 64, Bangladeshi politician and police chief, cardiac arrest.
• Archibald Kennedy, 8th Marquess of Ailsa, 58, Scottish peer, hereditary chief of Clan Kennedy.
• Karel Lichtnégl, 78, Czech football player.
• Jean Lindenmann, 90, Swiss virologist and immunologist, co-discoverer of interferon.
• Rimma Markova, 89, Russian actress.
• Ray Nagel, 87, American football player and coach.
• Chikao Ohtsuka, 85, Japanese voice actor, ischemic heart failure.
• Raoul Pantin, 71, Trinidadian journalist, playwright, and screenwriter, survivor of the Jamaat al Muslimeen coup attempt.
• Robert S. Pirie, 80, American lawyer.
• Ignacio Posada, 79, Colombian Olympic fencer.
• Harvey Sweetman, 93, New Zealand World War II pilot.
• Rameshwar Thakur, 88, Indian politician, Governor of Odisha, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.
• Walter Westbrook, 93, South African artist.
• Bob Wilson, 85, American sportscaster.
• Joseph Mukasa Zuza, 59, Malawian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Mzuzu, traffic collision.

  16

• Miriam Akavia, 87, Israeli writer.
• Sir Ian Athfield, 74, New Zealand architect, pneumonia.
• Mohamed Olow Barrow, Somali politician.
• Andrew Benson, 97, American biologist.
• Vivaldo Frota, 86, Brazilian politician, Governor of Amazonas.
• Ted Harrison, 88, British-born Canadian painter.
• Pedro María Iguaran, 74, Spanish footballer.
• Patrick Journoud, 50, French Olympic athlete.
• Stuart Loory, 82, American journalist and media executive, lung cancer.
• Ray Lumpp, 91, American basketball player, Olympic champion.
• Luis Marsans, 84, Spanish painter.
• Louis Martin, 78, Jamaican-born British weightlifter, Olympic silver and bronze medallist.
• Ghelubhai Nayak, 91, Indian political activist.
• Walter Peregoy, 89, American animator.
• Tony Ridler, 59, Welsh darts player.
• Faith Seidenberg, 91, American attorney and civil rights activist.
• Yao Beina, 33, Chinese singer, breast cancer.

  17

• Bruno Ballarini, 77, Italian footballer.
• Walter Bauza, 75, Argentine Olympic sports shooter
• Joseph Brannigan, 83, American politician, member of the Maine Senate.
• Marie Foucher-Creteau, 89, French Olympic swimmer.
• Ken Furphy, 83, English footballer and manager.
• Gobinda Halder, 84, Indian lyricist and composer, kidney failure.
• Faten Hamama, 83, Egyptian actress.
• Don Harron, 90, Canadian comedian, actor and author, cancer.
• Kazumasa Hirai, 76, Japanese manga author.
• Fritz C. Holte, 89, Norwegian economist.
• Justin Kili, 61, Papua New Guinean journalist and media personality.
• Rebecca D. Lockhart, 46, American politician, Speaker of the Utah House of Representatives, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.
• Henry Manne, 86, American law and economics academic.
• Roderick McDonald, 69, American basketball player.
• Terence Miller, 96, British palaeontologist.
• Origa, 44, Russian singer, lung cancer.
• David E. Paulson, 83, American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Assembly for the 28th District.
• Greg Plitt, 37, American fitness trainer and actor, hit by train.
• Bill Sykes, 75, English author and chaplain.

  18

• Mohammad Ali Allahdadi, 52, Iranian army general, airstrike.
• José Carrasco, 71, Peruvian politician, Minister of Energy and Mines and member of the Congress, lung cancer.
• Vinay V. Deodhar, 66, Indian mathematician.
• Maurice Dumas, 87, Canadian politician, MP for Argenteuil—Papineau—Mirabel.
• Cynthia Layne, 51, American jazz singer, cancer.
• Grazia Livi, 84, Italian author and journalist, Viareggio Prize winner.
• D. C. McNeil, 87, Canadian politician.
• Alberto Nisman, 51, Argentine prosecutor, apparent suicide by gunshot.
• Paul O'Grady, 54, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council, cancer.
• Muna Obiekwe, 36, Nigerian actor, kidney disease.
• Dorothy Barnes Pelote, 85, American politician, member of the Georgia House of Representatives.
• Pietro Pianta, 74, Italian footballer.
• June Randall, 87, British script supervisor.
• Piet van der Sanden, 90, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives, member of the European Parliament.
• Milt Schoon, 92, American basketball player.
• Harish Chandra Srivastava, 90, Indian politician.
• Yasuaki Taiho, 51, Taiwanese-born Japanese baseball player, acute myeloid leukemia.
• Dallas Taylor, 66, American drummer, complications of viral pneumonia and kidney disease.
• Christine Valmy, 88, Romanian-born American cosmetologist.
• Tony Verna, 81, American television producer, invented instant replay, leukemia.
• Kjell Arnljot Wig, 90, Norwegian media personality.

  19

• John Bilezikjian, 66, Armenian oud musician, kidney disease.
• Rose Marie Brown, 95, American beauty pageant contestant, Miss Virginia.
• Justin Capră, 81, Romanian inventor.
• Gordon Dickson, 83, Canadian Olympic marathon runner.
• Adam Yahiye Gadahn, 36, American al-Qaeda operative, drone strike.
• Vera Gornostayeva, 85, Russian pianist and piano teacher.
• Michel Guimond, 61, Canadian politician, MP for Montmorency—Charlevoix—Haute-Côte-Nord, heart failure.
• José María Hernández González, 88, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Chilapa and Netzahualcóyotl.
• Oscar Hayes, 47, American gospel musician.
• Arthit Kamlang-ek, 89, Thai general, Supreme Commander of the Royal Thai Armed Forces.
• Vladimir Kesarev, 84, Russian footballer.
• Anne Kirkbride, 60, British actress, breast cancer.
• Rajni Kothari, 85, Indian political scientist.
• Robert Manzon, 97, French Formula One driver, last surviving racer from first World Championship.
• Mark Marquess, 89, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Reinaldo Oliver, 82, Puerto Rican javelin thrower and Olympic athlete.
• Karl H. Pribram, 95, Austrian-born American neuroscientist and educator, cancer.
• Bob Sadino, 81, Indonesian businessman.
• Ward Swingle, 87, American musician.
• Bob Symes, 90, British inventor and television presenter.
• Reies Tijerina, 88, American Chicano activist.
• Gene S. Walker, Sr., 88, American rancher and businessman.
• Peter Wallenberg, Sr., 88, Swedish financier and industrialist, patriarch of the Wallenberg family.

  20

• Canserbero, 26, Venezuelan rapper, suicide by jumping.
• James L. Fowler, 84, American military veteran, founded the Marine Corps Marathon.
• Edgar Froese, 70, German musician, pulmonary embolism.
• Melvin Gordon, 95, American business executive, CEO of Tootsie Roll Industries.
• Lawrence Hogben, 98, New Zealand meteorologist and naval officer.
• Anatol Hrytskievich, 85, Belarusian historian.
• Graeme Hugo, 68, Australian demographer and geographer, cancer.
• Herman E. Lauhoff, 81, American politician, member of the Texas House of Representatives.
• Rose Marie McCoy, 92, American songwriter.
• Gloria D. Miklowitz, 87, American author.
• Wilfride Piollet, 71, French ballerina and choreographer, cancer.
• Peter Pontiac, 63, Dutch cartoonist, winner of the Stripschapprijs, liver disease.
• Bette Rogge, 92, American radio and television presenter.
• William Roffler, 84, American football player, pneumonia.
• Hitoshi Saito, 54, Japanese judoka, Olympic champion, bile duct cancer.
• Ricardo dos Santos, 24, Brazilian surfer, shot.
• Jerome Van Sistine, 89, American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Senate.
• James Walker, 41, Australian television writer, diabetes.

  21

• George Atkins, 82, American football player.
• Patricia Berjak, 75, South African botanist.
• Marcus Borg, 72, American Biblical scholar and theologian, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
• Leon Brittan, 75, British politician, Home Secretary, Vice-President of the European Commission, cancer.
• Vince Camuto, 78, American footwear designer, prostate cancer.
• Emmanuel Carter, 85, Trinidadian politician, President of the Senate, acting President during the Jamaat al Muslimeen coup attempt.
• Frieda Dänzer, 84, Swiss Alpine skier, Olympic silver medalist.
• George W. Downs, 68, American political scientist, heart failure.
• George Goodwin, 97, American journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner.
• Harry Gordon, 89, Australian Olympic historian, journalist and newspaper editor.
• Martin Honeysett, 71, British cartoonist.
• Frank Hooley, 91, British politician, MP for Sheffield Heeley.
• Waldemar Kmentt, 85, Austrian operatic tenor.
• Roy Noble Lee, 99, American judge, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Mississippi.
• Johnnie Lewis, 68, Liberian lawyer and politician, Chief Justice.
• Kemal Monteno, 66, Bosnian singer-songwriter, pneumonia and sepsis.
• Keith Rayner, 71, American cognitive psychologist.
• Marshall Schlom, 86, American script supervisor, complications from a fall.
• Chin Shunshin, 90, Japanese author.
• Pauline Yates, 85, English actress.

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• Don Bryant, 73, American baseball player.
• Peggy Charren, 86, American children's television activist.
• Wendell Ford, 90, American politician, Governor of Kentucky, member of the U.S. Senate, lung cancer.
• Margaret Bloy Graham, 94, Canadian children's book illustrator.
• Joan Hinde, 81, English trumpeter and entertainer.
• René Jodoin, 94, Canadian animation director and producer.
• Tommy Mason, 75, American football player.
• Fabrizio de Miranda, 88, Italian structural engineer and university professor.
• Franco Nicolazzi, 90, Italian politician, MP, Secretary of the Italian Democratic Socialist Party.
• Kel O'Shea, 81, Australian rugby league player.
• Wayne Quinton, 94, American biomedical engineer.
• Dacia Valent, 51, Somali-born Italian politician, MEP, myocardial infarction.
• Lawrence Paul Zatkoff, 75, American federal judge, cancer.

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• Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, 90, Saudi royal, King, complications from pneumonia.
• Ernie Banks, 83, American Hall of Fame baseball player, heart attack.
• Jalynn Bennett, 71, Canadian consultant and corporate director.
• Betty Jane Diener, 74, American politician, Virginia Secretary of Commerce, pulmonary fibrosis.
• Marc Dufour, 73, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Prosper Ego, 87, Dutch activist, founder of the Oud-Strijders Legioen.
• Nol Heijerman, 74, Dutch footballer.
• Simma Holt, 92, Canadian journalist and politician, MP for Vancouver Kingsway.
• Barrie Ingham, 82, English actor.
• Nick Koback, 79, American baseball player.
• Svein Døvle Larssen, 86, Norwegian newspaper editor.
• Alexander Lastin, 38, Russian chess grandmaster.
• Pedro Lemebel, 62, Chilean writer, laryngeal cancer.
• Les McMahon, 84, Australian politician, member of the Australian House of Representatives for Sydney.
• Bud Miller, 91, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.
• M. S. Narayana, 63, Indian Telugu actor, multiple organ failure.
• Jackie Selebi, 64, South African police officer, Commissioner, kidney disease.
• Frank Sims, 93, American baseball broadcaster.

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• Stig Bergling, 77, Swedish secret service officer convicted of treason, Parkinson's disease and lung ailment.
• Robert Bonnaventure, 94, French cyclist.
• Peter Bridges, 89, British Anglican priest, Archdeacon of Southend, Coventry and Warwick.
• Link Byfield, 63, Canadian conservative columnist, politician and publisher, oesophageal and liver cancer.
• Julio Canessa, 89, Chilean politician and general, member of the Government Junta, Senator.
• Otto Carius, 92, German World War II tank commander.
• Maria Cerra, 96, American Olympic fencer.
• Aisha Chaudhary, 18, Indian motivational speaker and author, pulmonary fibrosis.
• Toller Cranston, 65, Canadian figure skater, Olympic bronze medallist, heart attack.
• Maria Della Costa, 89, Brazilian actress, pulmonary edema.
• Floyd Dunn, 90, American electrical engineer.
• Johan Ferner, 87, Norwegian sailor, Olympic silver medalist.
• Eric Fitzgibbon, 78, Australian politician, member of the House of Representatives for Hunter.
• Joe Franklin, 88, American television and radio talk show host, prostate cancer.
• Sir David Graaff, 3rd Baronet, 74, South African businessman and winemaker.
• Muhammad Ibrahim Habsade, 62, Somali politician and rebel soldier, diabetes.
• Frances Lennon, 102, British artist.
• Erkki Lyijynen, 89, Finnish Olympic rower.
• V. S. Raghavan, 90, Indian Tamil actor.
• Alfred H. Savage, 84, Canadian civil servant, manager of the Toronto Transit Commission.
• Joan Serra, 87, Spanish Olympic water polo player.
• Fred Shank, 74, American nutritionist.
• Daniel R. Simpson, 87, American politician, member of the North Carolina House of Representatives and Senate, Lewy body dementia.
• Peter Westervelt, 95, American physicist.
• Toyoko Yoshino, 94, Japanese Olympic athlete.
• Tengku Ampuan Tua Intan Zaharah, 86, Malaysian royal, Raja Permaisuri Agong.

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• Zulkifli Abdhir, 48, Malaysian terrorist and bomb maker, shot.
• Sir Robert Atkinson, 98, British businessman and naval officer.
• Sonny Berger, 92, American baseball player.
• Rose Cabat, 100, American studio ceramicist.
• Mari Ellis, 101, British writer and women's rights activist.
• Pauline Fisk, 66, British author, cancer.
• Demetrio González, 87, Spanish-born Mexican actor and singer, complications from a stroke.
• Pierre Gosnat, 66, French politician, cancer.
• Godfrey Kalimugogo, 71, Ugandan writer.
• John Leggett, 97, American writer, director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, pneumonia.
• Giancarlo Ligabue, 83, Italian palaeontologist, Forza Europa politician and businessman.
• Sarojini Mahishi, 88, Indian translator and politician.
• Richard McBrien, 78, American Roman Catholic priest and theologian.
• Bill Monbouquette, 78, American baseball player.
• Don O'Hearn, 86, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Demis Roussos, 68, Egyptian-born Greek singer.
• Ian Towers, 74, English footballer.
• Ernst Träger, 88, German judge.

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• R. J. Adams, 72, American actor, heart attack.
• José Luis Allende, 88, Spanish Olympic sailor
• Henk Bloemers, 69, Dutch footballer.
• Miguel Ángel Cascallana, 66, Spanish Olympic handball player.
• Edwin A. Colvin, 87, American politician, member of the Vermont House of Representatives.
• Cleven Goudeau, 83, American greeting card artist.
• Howard C. Hawkins, 82, American bicycle tool manufacturer.
• Stephen R. Johnson, 63, American television and music video director, cardiac complications.
• Begum Kulsum Saifullah Khan, 91, Pakistani businesswoman and politician.
• R. K. Laxman, 93, Indian cartoonist, illustrator and humourist, multiple organ failure.
• Neil Levang, 83, American musician.
• Lucjan Lis, 64, Polish cyclist, Olympic silver medalist.
• Lester McCumbers, 93, American fiddler.
• Valery Miloserdov, 63, Russian Olympic dual bronze medallist basketball player.
• Sidewalk Sam, 75, American artist.
• Lee Spick, 34, English snooker player, liver-related illness.
• Charles Thomas, 82, American sprinter and athletics coach.
• Tom Uren, 93, Australian politician, member of the House of Representatives for Reid.
• Rositsa Yanakieva, 60, Bulgarian politician and chemist, Vice-Chairwoman of the National Assembly, brain hemorrhage.

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• Wilfred Agbonavbare, 48, Nigerian footballer, cancer.
• Rafael Corrales Ayala, 89, Mexican politician, MP for Guanajuato, Governor of Guanajuato.
• Rocky Bridges, 87, American baseball player.
• Harriet Elizabeth Byrd, 88, American politician, member of the Wyoming House of Representatives and Senate.
• Arturo Carmassi, 89, Italian sculptor and painter.
• Yves Chauvin, 84, Belgian-born French Nobel Prize-winning chemist.
• Roger Cowley, 75, English physicist.
• Suzette Haden Elgin, 78, American science fiction author and linguist.
• Henk Faanhof, 92, Dutch Olympic and professional road bicycle racer.
• Roy Francis, 92, British naval officer and railway engineer.
• Ebbe Grims-land, 99, Swedish composer and viola player.
• Pierre Hernandez, 86, French boxer
• Warren Hill, 54, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Vladimir-Georg Karassev-Orgusaar, 83, Estonian film director.
• David Landau, 67, British-born Israeli journalist and newspaper editor.
• John T. Myers, 87, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives from Indiana.
• Ronnie O'Reilly, 63, Irish cricket umpire.
• José Pereira, 84, Indian Sanskrit scholar, historian and artist.
• Joe Rígoli, 78, Argentine actor and comedian, heart failure.
• Joseph Rotman, 80, Canadian businessman and philanthropist, chancellor of The University of Western Ontario.
• Al Severinsen, 70, American baseball player.
• Bob Shea, 90, American basketball player.
• Charles H. Townes, 99, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physics.
• Gunnar Christie Wasberg, 91, Norwegian non-fiction writer.
• Charlie Williams, 67, American baseball player, complications from heart surgery.
• Larry Winters, 58, American professional wrestler and trainer, heart attack.

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• Suraj Abdurrahman, 60, Nigerian army officer.
• Egon Adler, 77, German Olympic silver medallist cyclist.
• Arthur Lawrence Alarcón, 89, American federal judge.
• Mala Aravindan, 76, Indian Malayalam actor.
• Francis Bennion, 92, British lawyer.
• Alberto Cardaccio, 65, Uruguayan footballer, traffic collision.
• Lionel Gilbert, 90, Australian historian, author, curator, lecturer, and biographer.
• Georg Guggemos, 88, German Olympic ice hockey player.
• Don Jones, 91, American artist and art therapist.
• Tommie Manderson, 102, British make-up artist.
• Beric Morley, 71, British architectural historian.
• Neyko Nenov, 53, Bulgarian major general, Deputy Chief of Defence, brain tumor.
• Charles B. Peatross, 74, American jurist.
• Jaswant Singh Rajput, 88, Indian field hockey player, Olympic champion.
• Edward Saylor, 94, American World War II veteran, member of Doolittle's Raiders.
• Katharine Worth, 92, British drama academic.

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• Maurizio Arcieri, 72, Italian singer.
• Amparo Baró, 77, Spanish actress, cancer.
• Subhash Ghisingh, 78, Indian politician, cirrhosis and liver cancer.
• Walter Glechner, 75, Austrian footballer.
• Bernice Gordon, 101, American crossword writer, heart failure.
• Terry Hollindrake, 80, English rugby league player.
• Taeko Kono, 88, Japanese writer and critic, respiratory failure.
• Cedric Kushner, 66, South African-born American boxing promoter, heart attack.
• Noel Lister, 87, British businessman.
• Riichiro Manabe, 90, Japanese composer.
• José Martins da Silva, 78, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Porto Velho.
• Will McBride, 84, American photographer.
• Danny McCulloch, 69, English bassist, heart failure.
• Colleen McCullough, 77, Australian author, renal failure.
• Rod McKuen, 81, American poet, singer and songwriter, respiratory arrest.
• Kel Nagle, 94, Australian golfer, British Open champion.
• Paul Panhuysen, 80, Dutch composer.
• Derek S. Pugh, 84, British psychologist and business theorist.
• Dora Prince, 84, Argentine actress.
• Derek Robertson, 65, Scottish footballer, cancer.
• Doris Schoettler-Boll, 70, German artist.
• Tenkoko Sonoda, 96, Japanese politician, member of the Diet.
• Ole Sørensen, 77, Danish footballer.
• Peter Towe, 92, Canadian diplomat, Ambassador to the United States.
• Alexander Vraciu, 96, American World War II Navy fighter ace, Navy Cross recipient.
• Len Wyatt, 95, New Zealand cricketer.
• Israel Yinon, 59, Israeli conductor.

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• Richard Clark Barkley, 82, American diplomat, Ambassador to East Germany.
• Carl Boldt, 82, American basketball player.
• Ricardo Bressani, 88, Guatemalan food scientist, heart attack.
• Carl Djerassi, 91, Austrian-American chemist, novelist and playwright, liver and bone cancer.
• Rose Frisch, 96, American biologist.
• Johnny Goodman, 87, British TV producer.
• Kenji Goto, 47, Japanese journalist and ISIS hostage, beheading.
• Harold Hassall, 85, English footballer.
• John Hopkins, 78, British photographer, activist, and promoter.
• Stuart Inder, 88, Australian journalist and publisher, specialist in Pacific Islands affairs.
• Ülo Kaevats, 67, Estonian philosopher and politician, Secretary of State.
• Jack Kay, 63, American academic and college administrator.
• Geraldine McEwan, 82, British actress, stroke.
• John McHugh, 84, American politician, Mayor of Toledo, Ohio, cancer.
• Howard Norris, 80, British rugby union player.
• Richard Richards, 82, American politician, Chairman of the Republican National Committee.
• Ben Schadler, 90, American basketball player.
• Jerry L. Smith, 71, American politician, member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives and Senate.
• Gerrit Voorting, 92, Dutch professional road bicycle racer, Olympic silver medalist.
• Than Wyenn, 95, American actor.
• Zhelyu Zhelev, 79, Bulgarian politician, President.

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• Harith bin Ghazi al-Nadhari, Yemeni militant, drone strike.
• Vasco Bendini, 93, Italian informalist painter.
• Robert Blees, 96, American film and television screenwriter and producer.
• José Manuel Lara Bosch, 68, Spanish media executive, CEO of Grupo Planeta and Atresmedia, pancreatic cancer.
• Tomás Bulat, 50, Argentine economist and journalist, traffic collision.
• Earl Christensen, 95, American politician, member of the Wyoming Senate.
• Don Covay, 78, American R&B singer and songwriter.
• Vic Howe, 85, Canadian ice hockey player.
• William Klinger, 42, Croatian historian, shot.
• Udo Lattek, 80, German football coach.
• Adalberto Arturo Rosat, 81, Italian-born Bolivian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of the Territorial Prelature of Aiquile.
• Michael Saward, 82, British Anglican priest and hymnist.
• Lizabeth Scott, 92, American actress, congestive heart failure.
• Richard von Weizsäcker, 94, German politician, President of West Germany and Germany.