Deaths in January 2016
The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2016.
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.
January 2016
1
- Natasha Aguilar, 45, Costa Rican swimmer, silver and bronze medalist at the 1987 Pan American Games, complications of a stroke.
- George Alexandru, 58, Romanian theater and film actor, complications from an abdominal infection.
- Fazu Aliyeva, 83, Russian Avar poet and journalist, heart failure.
- Lennie Bluett, 96, American actor.
- Dale Bumpers, 90, American politician, Governor of Arkansas, Senator from Arkansas.
- Antonio Carrizo, 89, Argentine broadcaster.
- Delia Córdova, 62, Peruvian Olympic volleyball player.
- Jacques Deny, 99, French mathematician.
- Brian Johns, 79, Australian company director, managing director of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, cancer.
- Gilbert Kaplan, 74, American conductor and businessman, cancer.
- Helmut Koester, 89, German-born American history professor.
- Tony Lane, 71, American art director, brain cancer.
- Mark B, 45, British hip-hop record producer.
- Gilberto Mendes, 93, Brazilian composer.
- John Coleman Moore, 92, American mathematician.
- Homa Nategh, 80, Iranian educator and historian.
- Mike Oxley, 71, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives from , lung cancer.
- Ian Pieris, 82, Sri Lankan cricketer.
- Jim Ross, 89, Scottish-born Canadian ice hockey player.
- Anil Salgaocar, 75, Indian executive and politician.
- Fred Wiedersporn, 84, German Olympic gymnast.
- Vilmos Zsigmond, 85, Hungarian-American cinematographer, Oscar winner.
2
- Faris al-Zahrani, 38, Saudi al-Qaeda member, execution by beheading.
- Mieke Andela-Baur, 92, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives.
- Marcel Barbeau, 90, Canadian painter and sculptor.
- Ardhendu Bhushan Bardhan, 91, Indian politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party of India, complications from a stroke.
- Vicente Camacho, 86, Northern Mariana Islands businessman and politician, member of the Marianas Political Status Commission.
- Michel Delpech, 69, French singer-songwriter and actor, throat cancer.
- Leonard Evans, 86, Canadian politician, complications from a heart attack.
- Tim Francis, 87, New Zealand diplomat, Ambassador to the United States, Administrator of Tokelau, cancer.
- Brad Fuller, 62, American video game composer, Director of Engineering for Atari, pancreatic cancer.
- Maria Garbowska-Kierczyńska, 93, Polish actress.
- Matt Hobden, 22, English cricketer, fall.
- Shigeji Kaneko, 84, Japanese boxer, OPBF featherweight champion, pneumonia.
- Matthiew Klinck, 37, Canadian film director and producer, stabbed.
- Thomas Johnstone McWiggan, 97, British aviation engineer.
- Gisela Mota Ocampo, 33, Mexican politician, Mayor of Temixco, member of the Chamber of Deputies, shot.
- Nimr al-Nimr, 56, Saudi Shia religious leader, execution by beheading.
- John Reid, 87, Australian Anglican prelate, Bishop of South Sydney.
- Rino Salviati, 93, Italian singer, guitarist and actor.
- Stanley Siegel, 79, American talk show host, pneumonia.
- Fateh Singh, 51, Indian sports shooter and army officer, shot.
- Mirko Vujačić, 91, Montenegrin Olympic athlete.
- Frances Cress Welsing, 80, American psychiatrist and author, complications from a stroke.
- Leonard White, 99, British television producer and actor.
- Sabri Yirmibeşoğlu, 87, Turkish military officer, Secretary-General of the National Security Council, kidney failure.
3
- Klaas Bakker, 89, Dutch footballer.
- Robert H. B. Baldwin, 95, American businessman, pneumonia.
- Leonard Berkowitz, 89, American social psychologist.
- Paul Bley, 83, Canadian jazz pianist.
- Gary Flakne, 81, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives.
- Amby Fogarty, 82, Irish footballer and manager.
- C. B. Forgotston, 70, American lawyer and political blogger, suicide by gunshot.
- Demmus Hentze, 92, Faroese politician, Finance Minister.
- John McDade Howell, 93, American academic and university chancellor.
- Shankar Prasad Jaiswal, 83, Indian politician.
- Alberto Iniesta Jiménez, 92, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Madrid.
- Raymond W. Lessard, 85, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Savannah.
- Gomer Lloyd, 68, British Olympic bobsledder.
- Raghu Nandan Mandal, 63, Indian politician.
- Andy Maurer, 67, American football player, cancer.
- Peter Naur, 87, Danish computer science pioneer, Turing Award winner.
- Georg Nees, 89, German academic and artist.
- Bill Plager, 70, Canadian ice hockey player.
- Peter Powell, 83, English kite maker, stroke.
- Tommy Sale, 97, English rugby league player.
- Igor Sergun, 58, Russian military officer, Director of the GRU.
- Ted Stanley, 84, American philanthropist and businessman.
4
- Tom Allin, 28, English cricketer, suicide by jumping.
- Frank Armitage, 91, Australian-born American painter and animator.
- Jan Aronsson, 84, Swedish footballer.
- Robert Balser, 88, American animator, respiratory failure.
- Fernando Barrachina, 68, Spanish footballer.
- Stephen W. Bosworth, 76, American diplomat, Ambassador to South Korea, prostate cancer.
- Colin Butler, 102, British entomologist.
- Rūsiņš Mārtiņš Freivalds, 73, Latvian computer scientist and mathematician, heart attack.
- Michel Galabru, 93, French actor.
- Long John Hunter, 84, American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter.
- S. H. Kapadia, 68, Indian judge, Chief Justice.
- Jorge Lepra, 73, Uruguayan diplomat and politician, heart failure.
- Maja Maranow, 54, German actress, breast cancer.
- Achim Mentzel, 69, German musician and television presenter.
- Red Parker, 84, American football coach.
- Donald J. Parsons, 93, American Episcopal prelate, Bishop of Quincy.
- Marjorie Pizer, 95, Australian poet.
- Joseph Ritz, 86, American author and playwright.
- John Roberts, 69, Welsh footballer.
- Andres Rodriguez, 31, Venezuelan equestrian competitor, silver medalist at the 2015 Pan American Games, traffic collision.
- Leo Rucka, 84, American football player.
- Gavriel Salomon, 77, Israeli educational psychologist.
- Alexander O. Shirley, 88, British Virgin Islands civil servant and cricketer, Accountant General, namesake of the A. O. Shirley Recreation Ground.
- Antonio Soto Díaz, 66, Puerto Rican politician, member of the Puerto Rico Senate, heart attack.
- Robert Stigwood, 81, Australian band manager and film producer.
- Edhi Sunarso, 83, Indonesian sculptor, heart failure.
- André Turcat, 94, French aviator.
5
- Mamdouh Abdel-Alim, 59, Egyptian actor, heart attack.
- Bob Armstrong, 82, American basketball player.
- María Lorenza Barreneche, 89, Argentine socialite, First Lady.
- Pierre Boulez, 90, French composer and conductor.
- Nicholas Caldwell, 71, American R&B singer, congestive heart failure.
- Agapito Robleda Castro, 83, Honduran politician.
- Patrick Crofton, 80, Canadian politician.
- Christine Lawrence Finney, 47, American painter and animator.
- John Freebairn, 85, Australian politician, member of the South Australian House of Assembly for Light.
- Percy Freeman, 70, English footballer.
- Albert Gubay, 87, British businessman.
- Rudolf Haag, 93, German theoretical physicist.
- Lev Nikolayevich Korolyov, 89, Russian computer scientist.
- Jean-Paul L'Allier, 77, Canadian politician, member of the National Assembly of Quebec, Mayor of Quebec City.
- George MacIntyre, 76, American football player and coach.
- Tancrède Melet, 32, French tightrope walker and base jumper, fall.
- Gerry O'Malley, 87, Irish Gaelic footballer.
- Uche Okeke, 82, Nigerian artist.
- Antônio Pompêo, 62, Brazilian actor.
- Michael Purcell, 70, Australian rugby union player.
- Jay Ritchie, 79, American baseball player
- Anatoly Roshchin, 83, Russian heavyweight wrestler, Olympic champion.
- Elizabeth Swados, 64, American composer and writer, complications from surgery.
- Keith Thiele, 94, New Zealand WW2 pilot.
- Alex Timpson, 69, British children's rights activist.
- Hanna-Marie Weydahl, 93, Norwegian pianist.
- Norm Wolfinger, 70, American State Attorney.
6
- Robert D. Acland, 74, American surgeon.
- Maliheh Afnan, 81, Palestinian-born artist.
- Alfredo "Chocolate" Armenteros, 87, Cuban trumpeter, prostate cancer.
- Ladislav Bačík, 82, Czech Olympic swimmer.
- Douglas Greer, 94, American actor.
- Pat Harrington Jr., 86, American actor, complications from a brain haemorrhage.
- Florence King, 80, American writer.
- Serena Sinclair Lesley, 89, American journalist.
- Christy O'Connor Jnr, 67, Irish golfer.
- Silvana Pampanini, 90, Italian actress.
- Ioannis Petridis, 84, Greek politician, MP for Pieria.
- Sol Polansky, 89, American diplomat, Ambassador to Bulgaria.
- Qian Min, 100, Chinese politician.
- Marion Studholme, 88, English soprano and music teacher.
- Nivaria Tejera, 86, Cuban poet and novelist, pancreatic cancer.
- Labhshankar Thakar, 80, Indian author.
- Robert D. Timm, 94, American politician.
- Yves Vincent, 94, French actor.
- Zbigniew Zychowicz, 62, Polish politician, Marshal of West Pomeranian Voivodeship.
7
- Brahim Chergui, 94, Algerian militant.
- Patrick Connolly, 88–89, Irish lawyer, Attorney General.
- André Courrèges, 92, French fashion designer.
- Robert M. Cundick, 89, American organist and composer.
- Paddy Doherty, 89, Northern Irish civil rights activist.
- Michael J. Egan, 89, American politician.
- Bill Foster, 86, American college basketball coach.
- Joaquín Gamboa Pascoe, 93, Mexican trade union leader and politician.
- Robert Goossens, 88, French jeweller.
- Alwin Albert Hafner, 85, Malagasy Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Morombe.
- Alan Haven, 80, English jazz organist.
- John Johnson, 68, American basketball player, NBA Champion.
- Kitty Kallen, 94, American singer.
- Judith Kaye, 77, American lawyer, Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals, cancer.
- István Komáromi, 72, Hungarian politician, MP.
- Richard Libertini, 82, American actor, cancer.
- Cristian Moisescu, 68, Romanian politician, Mayor of Arad.
- William H. O'Dell, 77, American politician, member of the South Carolina Senate.
- Houshang Ostovar, 88, Iranian composer.
- Jit Samaroo, 65, Trinidadian Steelpan musician and arranger.
- Ashraf Pahlavi, 96, Persian princess, President of the Women's Organization of Iran.
- Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, 79, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Minister of Home Affairs, multiple organ failure.
- Troy Shondell, 76, American singer, complications from Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease.
- Sergey Shustikov, 45, Russian football player and manager.
- Sergei Simonov, 23, Russian ice hockey player, complications after spleen surgery.
- Anton Srholec, 86, Slovak writer and priest, lung cancer.
- Anna Synodinou, 88, Greek politician and actress.
- János György Szilágyi, 97, Hungarian historian.
- Yeow Chai Thiam, 62, Malaysian politician, cancer.
- Jesús María Ramón Valdés, 77, Mexican politician.
- Sir Christopher Wallace, 73, British army lieutenant general, Commandant Royal College of Defence Studies, amyloidosis.
- Hansrudi Wäscher, 87, German comics artist.
- Valerio Zanone, 79, Italian politician, Secretary of Italian Liberal Party and Mayor of Turin.
8
- Hamdy Ahmed, 82, Egyptian actor.
- Horst Boog, 88, German historian.
- Otis Clay, 73, American R&B and soul singer, heart attack.
- Maria Teresa de Filippis, 89, Italian racing driver, first woman to race in Formula One.
- Oscar Fritschi, 76, Swiss politician.
- Ida Gaskin, 96, Welsh-born New Zealand teacher and quiz show contestant.
- Alessandro Ghinami, 92, Italian politician, President of Sardinia.
- M. O. Joseph, 86, Indian film producer.
- Medea Jugeli, 90, Georgian gymnast, Olympic champion.
- Gunaram Khanikar, 66, Indian herbalist.
- Diana Mitchell, 83, Zimbabwean political activist and writer.
- German Moreno, 82, Philippine television host and actor, cardiac arrest.
- Royal Parker, 86, American television personality, heart failure.
- Paddy Reid, 91, Irish rugby union and league player.
- Red Simpson, 81, American country singer-songwriter, complications from a heart attack.
- Brett Smiley, 60, American singer-songwriter.
- Piet Steenkamp, 90, Dutch politician, President of the Senate.
- Risto Syrjänen, 90, Finnish Olympic hurdler.
- Carlos Milcíades Villalba Aquino, 91, Paraguayan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of San Juan Bautista de las Misiones.
9
- Barbara Allyne Bennet, 76, American actress.
- Myra Carter, 86, American actress, pneumonia.
- Merab Chigoev, 65, South Ossetian politician, Prime Minister, traffic collision.
- Lawrence H. Cohn, 78, American surgeon, stroke.
- Cielito del Mundo, 80, Filipino singer, actress and politician, heart attack.
- Henri Delerue, 76, French Olympic racewalker.
- Hamada Emam, 68, Egyptian footballer.
- Peter Gavin Hall, 64, Australian statistician, leukemia.
- John Harvard, 77, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba.
- Gareth Hoskins, 48, Scottish architect, complications of a heart attack.
- Johnny Jordan, 94, English footballer.
- Mike McGinnity, 74, English football chairman.
- Robert Naegele, 90, German actor.
- Umberto Raho, 93, Italian actor.
- Lance Rautzhan, 63, American baseball player, cancer.
- José María Rivas, 57, Salvadoran footballer, leukemia.
- Gianni Rondolino, 83, Italian film critic and historian, founder of the Turin Film Festival.
- Paul-Marie François Rousset, 94, French Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Saint-Étienne.
- Angus Scrimm, 89, American actor.
- Beau St. Clair, 63, American film producer, ovarian cancer.
- St Jovite, 26, American-bred Irish-trained racehorse, winner of the 1992 Irish Derby and King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes.
- Ed Stewart, 74, British TV and radio broadcaster, stroke.
- Vicente Troudart, 64, Panamanian baseball umpire.
- Peggy Willis-Aarnio, 67, American ballet choreographer.
- Zelimkhan Yaqub, 65, Azerbaijani poet.
10
- Abbas Bahri, 61, Tunisian mathematician and professor.
- Wim Bleijenberg, 85, Dutch footballer.
- David Bowie, 69, English singer-songwriter, musician and actor, liver cancer.
- Bård Breivik, 67, Norwegian sculptor, cancer.
- Alton Brown, 90, American baseball player.
- Ann Z. Caracristi, 94, American cryptographer, Deputy Director of the NSA, complications from dementia.
- Charles Congden Carpenter, 94, American naturalist.
- Teofil Codreanu, 74, Romanian footballer.
- Jeanne Córdova, 67, German-born American LGBT activist, brain cancer.
- Carolyn Denning, 88, American pediatrician, stroke.
- Michael Galeota, 31, American actor, heart disease and hypertension.
- Hernán Gamboa, 69, Venezuelan musician, cancer.
- Ulrich Hahnen, 63, German politician, Deputy of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia, cancer.
- Ralph Hauenstein, 103, American philanthropist and businessman.
- Thomas Alexander Hickman, 90, Canadian judge and politician.
- Francis Thomas Hurley, 88, American Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Anchorage, Bishop of Juneau.
- George Jonas, 80, Hungarian-born Canadian writer, Parkinson's disease.
- Kalevi Lehtovirta, 87, Finnish Olympic footballer.
- Anthony Mellows, 79, British barrister and academic, Lord Prior of the Order of St John.
- Connie Mhone, 47, Malawian netball player and coach.
- Bob Oatley, 87, Australian yachtsman and winemaker.
- Arthur S. Obermayer, 84, American entrepreneur and philanthropist, cancer.
- Dick Spady, 92, American businessman.
- John Stokes, 70, British Army soldier and mountaineer.
- The Wolfman, 80, Hungarian-born Canadian professional wrestler.
- Cornelis Zitman, 89, Dutch-born Venezuelan sculptor.
- Yusuf Zuayyin, 84, Syrian politician, Prime Minister.
11
- Budi Anduk, 47, Indonesian actor and comedian, pneumonia.
- Reginaldo Araújo, 38, Brazilian footballer, heart attack.
- Elizabeth Aston, 67, English author.
- Sylvan Barnet, 89, American literary critic, cancer.
- Robert Coates, 87, Canadian politician, MP.
- Sir Kenneth Corfield, 91, British camera engineer, inventor of the Corfield Periflex.
- John Easter, 70, English squash player and cricketer, World Championship silver medallist.
- Berge Furre, 78, Norwegian politician and historian.
- Monte Irvin, 96, American Hall of Fame baseball player, winner of the 1954 World Series.
- Yevgeny Kotlov, 66, Russian Soviet ice hockey player.
- Albert Onyembo Lomandjo, 84, Congolese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Kindu.
- Stanley Mann, 87, Canadian scriptwriter.
- John B. Mansbridge, 98, American art director.
- David Margulies, 78, American actor.
- Chuck Pitcock, 57, American football player.
- János Radványi, 93, Hungarian-born American political scientist and diplomat, Ambassador to the United States.
- Don Strauch, 89, American politician, Mayor of Mesa, Arizona, member of the Arizona House of Representatives, complications from a fall.
- Gunnel Vallquist, 97, Swedish writer and translator ''.
12
- Gian Bazzi, 84, Swiss Olympic ice hockey player.
- Robert Black, 68, Scottish serial killer and kidnapper, heart attack.
- James L. Browning, Jr., 83, American prosecutor, fall.
- Ivan Bukavshin, 20, Russian chess Grandmaster, stroke.
- Rose Chibambo, 86, Malawian politician, Deputy Minister for Hospitals, Prisons and Social Welfare, heart attack.
- Marian Czapla, 69, Polish painter.
- Gastón Guzmán, 83, Mexican mycologist and anthropologist, heart attack.
- Brian Johnson, 59, Australian rugby league player and coach, Alzheimer's disease.
- Ruth Leuwerik, 91, German film actress.
- Witold Mańczak, 91, Polish linguist.
- Tommy Mulgrew, 86, British footballer.
- Meg Mundy, 101, American actress.
- William Needles, 97, American-Canadian actor.
- Erik Olsson, 85, Swedish Olympic wrestler.
- Milorad Rajović, 61, Serbian footballer.
- Dave Sime, 79, American sprinter and ophthalmologist, Olympic silver medalist, cancer.
- Andrew Smith, 25, American basketball player, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
- John Stevens, 86, British journalist.
- Melania Ursu, 75, Romanian stage and film actress.
- Carolyn D. Wright, 67, American poet, thrombosis.
13
- Luis Arroyo, 88, Puerto Rican baseball player, winner of the 1961 World Series, cancer.
- Brian Bedford, 80, British actor, cancer.
- William Craig, 97, American philosopher.
- Giorgio Gomelsky, 81, Georgian-born Swiss filmmaker, impresario, band manager, songwriter and record producer.
- Bern Herbolsheimer, 67, American composer, cancer.
- J. F. R. Jacob, 92, Indian military officer, pneumonia.
- Sir Albert McQuarrie, 98, Scottish politician, MP for East Aberdeenshire and Banff and Buchan.
- Dick Megugorac, 87, American land speed racer and customizer.
- Conrad Phillips, 90, British television and film actor.
- Lawrence Phillips, 40, American football player and convicted felon, suicide.
- Vladimir Pribylovsky, 59, Russian human rights activist and journalist.
- Addepalli Ramamohana Rao, 80, Indian Telugu poet.
- Mike Salmon, 82, British racing driver.
- Jim Simpson, 88, American sportscaster.
- Zaharije Trnavčević, 90, Serbian politician, Acting President of the National Assembly.
- G. A. Vadivelu, 90, Indian independence activist and politician.
- Lois Weisberg, 90, American civil servant and socialite.
- Tera Wray, 33, American pornographic actress, suicide.
14
- René Angélil, 73, Canadian entertainment manager, throat cancer.
- George Carroll, 94, American lawyer and politician, Mayor of Richmond, California.
- Franco Citti, 80, Italian actor.
- Calvin Greenaway, 67, Antigua and Barbuda Olympic athlete.
- Laurence Guest, 80, British Olympic rower.
- Jim Hannah, 71, American attorney, Chief Justice of the Arkansas Supreme Court.
- Al Hart, 88, American radio host.
- Glyn W. Humphreys, 61, British neuropsychologist.
- Anna Lærkesen, 73, Danish ballerina.
- Franco Oppo, 80, Italian composer.
- P. M. K. Raghunath, 65, Indian cricketer.
- Alan Rickman, 69, English actor, Emmy winner, pancreatic cancer.
- Shaolin, 44, Brazilian humorist, heart attack.
- Robert Banks Stewart, 84, Scottish television writer, cancer.
- Sergio Vacchi, 90, Italian painter.
- Rajesh Vivek, 66, Indian actor, heart attack.
- Ellen Meiksins Wood, 73, American historian, cancer.
- Leonid Zhabotinsky, 77, Ukrainian Soviet weightlifter, Olympic champion.
15
- Tunku Alif Hussein Saifuddin Al-Amin, 31, Malaysian royal.
- Francisco X. Alarcón, 61, American poet, cancer.
- Peter Atteslander, 89, Swiss sociologist.
- James Birren, 97, American gerontologist.
- Daniel Bohan, 74, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Regina, cancer.
- Noreen Corcoran, 72, American actress, cardiopulmonary disease.
- Robert Darène, 102, French actor.
- Robin Fletcher, 93, British academic administrator and field hockey player, Olympic bronze medallist.
- Anil Ganguly, 82, Indian film director.
- Marie L. Garibaldi, 81, American judge, first woman to serve on the New Jersey Supreme Court.
- Dan Haggerty, 74, American actor, spinal cancer.
- Pete Huttlinger, 54, American guitarist, stroke.
- Avrom Isaacs, 89, Canadian art dealer.
- Ken Judge, 58, Australian football player and coach, cancer.
- Andrzej Kotkowski, 75, Polish film director.
- Peter Kraus, 83, German Olympic athlete.
- Marvin Lipofsky, 77, American glass artist, complications of diabetes.
- P. J. Mara, 73, Irish public affairs consultant, Senator.
- Rex Morgan, 67, American basketball player, throat cancer.
- John J. Pruis, 92, American educator, President of Ball State University.
- Alexandre Reza, 93, Russian-born French jeweler.
- Oleksandr Shevchenko, 78, Ukrainian scientist, jurist and politician, member of the Verkhovna Rada.
- Grzegorz Strouhal, 73, Polish Olympic sport shooter.
- Manuel Velázquez, 72, Spanish footballer, winner of the 1965–66 European Cup.
- Aristide von Bienefeldt, 56, Dutch writer.
- Buzzy Wilkinson, 83, American basketball player.
16
- Joannis Avramidis, 93, Georgian-born Austrian sculptor.
- Joan Balzar, 87, Canadian artist.
- Charles L. Bestor, 91, American composer and academic.
- Theodor Danetti, 89, Romanian stage and film actor.
- Ananda Chandra Dutta, 92, Indian botanist.
- Thor Furulund, 72, Norwegian painter.
- Hubert Giraud, 94, French songwriter.
- Bob Harkey, 85, American racecar driver.
- Joe Hergert, 79, American football player.
- Georgie Lamon, 81, Swiss politician, shot.
- Gary Loizzo, 70, American singer, pancreatic cancer.
- Ted Marchibroda, 84, American football player and coach.
- Rudy Migay, 87, Canadian ice hockey player.
- John Mills, 85, Canadian writer.
- Carmelau Monestime, 86, Haitian-born American activist and radio broadcaster, pioneer of Haitian Creole radio in South Florida.
- Hans-Joachim Reich, 85, German Olympic swimmer.
- Jean-Noël Rey, 66, Swiss businessman, CEO of Swiss Post, shot.
- Lloyd Rudolph, 88, American political scientist.
- Mervyn Sandri, 83, New Zealand cricketer
- Leonidas B. Young, II, 62, American politician, Mayor of Richmond, Virginia.
17
- Reza Ahadi, 53, Iranian football player and coach.
- Peggy Anderson, 77, American author and journalist.
- Blowfly, 76, American musician and producer, liver cancer.
- Mondli Cele, 26, South African footballer, traffic collision.
- Olamide David, 14, Nigerian actor, abdominal injury.
- Melvin Day, 92, New Zealand artist.
- Jo de Winter, 94, American actress.
- Geethapriya, 83, Indian director.
- Mic Gillette, 64, American brass player, heart attack.
- Dale Griffin, 67, British drummer, Alzheimer's disease.
- Gulch, 31, American thoroughbred racehorse, euthanised due to complications from cancer.
- Gottfried Honegger, 98, Swiss artist and graphic designer.
- Carina Jaarnek, 53, Swedish singer and Dansband artist, cerebral haemorrhage.
- Stephen Levine, 78, American poet.
- Jules Le Lievre, 82, New Zealand rugby union player.
- Sherron Mills, 44, American basketball player, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
- Ion Panțuru, 81, Romanian bobsledder, Olympic bronze medalist.
- Delphine Parrott, 87, British immunologist.
- Billy Quinn, 80, Irish hurler.
- V. Rama Rao, 80, Indian politician, Governor of Sikkim.
- Josef Rösch, 90, Czech-born American radiologist.
- Angus Ross, 59, Scottish darts player, pancreatic cancer.
- Ramblin' Lou Schriver, 86, American country musician and radio broadcaster, heart disease.
- Francis B. Schulte, 89, American Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of New Orleans.
- Mike Sharpe, 64, Canadian professional wrestler.
- John Taihuttu, 61, Dutch footballer.
- Sudhindra Thirtha, 89, Indian Hindu religious leader.
- Jenő Váncsa, 87, Hungarian politician, Minister of Agriculture and Food.
18
- Leila Alaoui, 33, French-born Moroccan artist and photographer, heart attack.
- António de Almeida Santos, 89, Portuguese lawyer and politician, President of Assembly of the Republic.
- Johnny Bach, 91, American basketball player and coach.
- Terence Cook, 88, Welsh rugby union and rugby league footballer.
- Manpreet Akhtar, 51, Indian Punjabi and folk singer.
- Pierre DesRuisseaux, 70, Canadian poet.
- Glenn Frey, 67, American songwriter, musician and actor, complications following intestinal surgery.
- Karsten Isachsen, 71, Norwegian priest, author and public speaker.
- Andy Dog Johnson, 57, British artist, designer of many The The record sleeves, brain tumour.
- Lars Roar Langslet, 79, Norwegian politician, Minister of Culture and Science.
- Armando Loaiza, 72, Bolivian diplomat and politician, Foreign Minister.
- Oleksiy Logvynenko, 69, Ukrainian translator.
- Loredana, 91, Italian actress.
- Mike MacDowel, 83, British racing driver, cancer.
- Pablo Manavello, 65, Italian-born Venezuelan musician.
- William Morgan, 85, American architect.
- Else Marie Pade, 91, Danish composer.
- Asha Patil, 79, Indian actress.
- Thrisadee Sahawong, 35, Thai actor.
- Bharat Shah, 70, Indian cricketer.
- T. S. Sinnathuray, 85, Singaporean Supreme Court judge, pneumonia.
- Antonella Steni, 89, Italian actress.
- Joe Sweeney, 82, Australian Olympic wrestler.
- Michel Tournier, 91, French writer.
- Nicolaus Zwetnow, 86, Norwegian sport shooter.
19
- William G. Bowdler, 91, American diplomat, Ambassador to South Africa.
- Robert M. Carter, 73, British-born Australian marine geologist and climate change denier, complications from a heart attack.
- Antonia Churchill, 96, American Olympic sailor.
- John Corcoran, 56, Irish sports administrator.
- Jean-Philippe Douin, 75, French military officer, Chief of the Defence Staff.
- Joachim Fernandez, 43, Senegalese footballer.
- M. K. A. D. S. Gunawardana, 68, Sri Lankan politician, Minister of Lands.
- Yasutaro Koide, 112, Japanese supercentenarian, world's oldest living man, heart failure and pneumonia.
- Claude Lefebvre, 86, Canadian politician, Mayor of Laval, Quebec.
- Laurence Lerner, 90, South African-born British literary critic.
- Richard Levins, 85, American mathematical ecologist and population geneticist.
- Forrest McDonald, 89, American historian and constitutional scholar.
- Sylvia McLaughlin, 99, American environmentalist, co-founder of Save the Bay.
- Micole Mercurio, 77, American actress.
- Lou Michaels, 80, American football player, pancreatic cancer.
- Max Nijman, 74, Surinamese singer.
- Samuel Odulana Odungade I, 101, Nigerian royal, Olubadan of Ibadan.
- Ettore Scola, 84, Italian film director and screenwriter, heart attack.
- Sheila Sim, Lady Attenborough, 93, English actress, dementia.
- William Y. Smith, 90, American air force general, heart failure.
- Frank Sullivan, 85, American baseball player, pneumonia.
- Eugen Vollmar, 87, Swiss Olympic rower.
20
- Herbert L. Abrams, 95, American physician.
- Lee Abramson, 45, American composer and musician.
- Arch, 21, American Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the Super Derby and Fayette Stakes, heart attack.
- Bud Beardmore, 76, American lacrosse coach, Parkinson's disease.
- Constance Beresford-Howe, 93, Canadian novelist.
- Subrata Bose, 83, Indian politician, cardiac arrest.
- Mykolas Burokevičius, 88, Lithuanian politician, member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee.
- Chang Yung-fa, 88, Taiwanese businessman.
- Edmonde Charles-Roux, 95, French writer.
- Stuart Cowden, 90, English footballer.
- Bairbre Dowling, 62, Irish actress.
- Ronald Greenwald, 82, American rabbi.
- David G. Hartwell, 74, American editor, publisher and critic, injuries from a fall.
- Hung-ta Chang, 102, Chinese botanist.
- Brian Key, 68, British politician, MEP for Yorkshire South.
- Kingmambo, 25, American-bred French thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
- Valerie Pearl, 89, British historian.
- Eva Schorr, 88, German painter and composer.
- George Weidenfeld, Baron Weidenfeld, 96, Austrian-born British publisher, philanthropist, and newspaper columnist.
- Edward Yourdon, 72, American computer scientist.
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- Ron Collins, 59, Canadian curler.
- Mauro Gianneschi, 84, Italian cyclist.
- Andrew J. Hinshaw, 92, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives from California's 39th and 40th congressional districts.
- Bill Johnson, 55, American alpine skier, Olympic champion.
- Bogusław Kaczyński, 73, Polish classical music journalist, stroke.
- Gérard Kamanda wa Kamanda, 75, Congolese politician.
- Richard Klinkhamer, 78, Dutch writer.
- Derrick Todd Lee, 47, American convicted serial killer, heart disease.
- Cabot Lyford, 90, American sculptor, pulmonary distress.
- Harrison McIntosh, 101, American ceramicist.
- Jerker Porath, 94, Swedish biochemist.
- Stephanie Rader, 100, American spy.
- Garnet Richardson, 82, Canadian curler, world champion.
- Mrinalini Sarabhai, 97, Indian classical dancer, choreographer and instructor.
- Robert Sassone, 37, French road racing cyclist, suicide.
- Val Sears, 88, Canadian journalist.
- Francis Seow, 87, Singapore-born American writer and political refugee, pneumonia.
- Michael Sheringham, 67, English literary academic.
- Ron Southern, 85, Canadian businessman.
- Robert Tuggle, 82, American writer and archivist.
- Gerald Williams, 86, Welsh tennis commentator.
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- Tom Aidala, 82, American architect.
- Victor Arbez, 81, French Olympic skier.
- Homayoun Behzadi, 73, Iranian football player and coach, Asian Champion.
- Eugene Borowitz, 91, American rabbi and philosopher.
- Fred Bruney, 84, American football player.
- Tommy Bryceland, 76, Scottish footballer.
- Pete Carmichael, 74, American football coach.
- Ryuichi Doi, 76, Japanese politician.
- John Dowie, 60, Scottish footballer.
- John Farris, 75, American author.
- Kamer Genç, 75, Turkish politician, member of the Grand National Assembly, cancer.
- Shankar Ghosh, 80, Indian tabla player, pneumonia.
- Bill Groom, 81, Canadian curler.
- Waymond C. Huggins, 88, American politician.
- Juan Manuel Ley, 82, Mexican businessman.
- Constantin Mihail, 70, Romanian track and field coach.
- Ian Murray, 83, Scottish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Argyll and the Isles.
- Abolhassan Najafi, 86, Iranian writer and translator.
- Denise Newman, 91, British Olympic diver.
- Mikhail Odnoralov, 71, Russian-born American painter.
- Cecil Parkinson, Baron Parkinson, 84, British politician, cabinet minister, cancer.
- Robert Pickus, 92, American activist.
- Lois Ramsey, 93, Australian actress.
- Miloslav Ransdorf, 62, Czech politician, MEP.
- Raymond Rock, 93, Canadian politician.
- Sarah, 15, American zoo cheetah.
- Anthony Simmons, 93, British screenwriter and film director.
- Storm Flag Flying, 16, American thoroughbred racehorse, foaling complications.
- Rik Wilson, 53, American ice hockey player.
- Tahsin Yücel, 83, Turkish writer.
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- Nikolay Abramov, 54, Russian Vepsian writer and translator.
- Bob Arnott, 93, Australian Olympic alpine skier.
- Lela Autio, 88, American painter.
- Jimmy Bain, 68, Scottish bassist, lung cancer.
- Jack Bannister, 85, English cricket player and commentator.
- Barry Brickell, 80, New Zealand ceramic artist.
- Cadalack Ron, 34, American rapper.
- Pablo Contessi, Paraguayan doctor and politician, Governor of Presidente Hayes Department, traffic collision.
- Antony Emerson, 52, Australian tennis player, cancer.
- Espectrito, 49, Mexican professional wrestler.
- Josip Friščić, 66, Croatian politician, Vice President of Parliament.
- Sofía Gandarias, 58, Spanish painter.
- Archie Gouldie, 79, Canadian professional wrestler, complications from hip surgery.
- Jennifer Guinness, 78, Irish socialite and kidnapping victim, cancer.
- Grahame Hodgson, 79, Welsh rugby union player.
- Žuži Jelinek, 96, Croatian fashion stylist, designer and writer.
- A. C. Jose, 78, Indian politician, Speaker of Kerala Legislature, member of Parliament.
- Marie Mahoney, 91, American baseball player.
- R. Clayton McWhorter, 82, American businessman and philanthropist.
- Hugh Mortimer, 66, British diplomat.
- Elisabeta Polihroniade, 80, Romanian chess Woman Grandmaster and International Arbiter.
- Bernard Quennehen, 85, French racing cyclist.
- Bill Roberts, 90, American basketball player.
- Francisco Rubio Llorente, 85, Spanish jurist, President of the Spanish Council of State.
- George Sefcik, 76, American football coach.
- Koichi Sekimoto, 37, Japanese footballer.
- Dmitry Shirkov, 88, Russian theoretical physicist.
- Bobby Wanzer, 94, American Hall of Fame basketball player and coach, NBA Champion.
- Walt Williams, 72, American baseball player, heart attack.
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- Gian Carlo Abelli, 74, Italian politician, member of the Chamber of Deputies.
- Fredrik Barth, 87, Norwegian social anthropologist.
- Neville Black, 90, New Zealand rugby union and rugby league player.
- Yvonne Chouteau, 86, American ballerina.
- David Finkelstein, 86, American physicist.
- Forouzan, 78, Iranian actress.
- Malcolm Grear, 84, American graphic designer.
- John Jay Hooker, 85, American politician.
- Christine Jackson, 53, British-born Australian cellist, complications from a brain aneurysm.
- Constantijn Kortmann, 71, Dutch legal scholar.
- Clyde Mashore, 70, American baseball player.
- Donald Milne, 81, American politician, member of the Vermont House of Representatives, cancer.
- Marvin Minsky, 88, American cognitive scientist and pioneer in artificial intelligence, cerebral hemorrhage.
- Wim Mook, 83, Dutch physicist.
- Alejandro Muñoz-Alonso, 82, Spanish politician, member of the Congress of Deputies and Senate.
- Zarkus Poussa, 40, Finnish drummer and songwriter.
- Teófilo Rodríguez, 44, Venezuelan criminal, shot.
- Lois Snowe-Mello, 67, American politician, member of Maine House of Representatives and Senate.
- Schalk van der Merwe, 54, South African tennis player.
- Eric Webster, 84, English football player and manager.
- Henry Worsley, 55, British adventurer, multiple organ failure.
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- Jashubhai Dhanabhai Barad, 60, Indian politician, member of Parliament, brain tumour.
- David Chatters, 69, Canadian politician, pancreatic cancer.
- Thornton Dial, 87, American artist.
- Denise Duval, 94, French soprano.
- Kalpana, 50, Indian actress, heart attack.
- Howard Koslow, 91, American illustrator.
- Robert Lorick, American lyricist and voice actor.
- Mike Minor, 75, American actor, cancer.
- Padmarani, 79, Indian actress.
- Concepcion Picciotto, 80, Spanish-born American peace activist.
- Leif Solberg, 101, Norwegian composer and organist.
- Ron Stillwell, 76, American baseball player, cancer.
- Paul Terasaki, 86, American scientist and philanthropist.
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- Sunday Adewusi, 79, Nigerian policeman, Inspector-general of police.
- Zaw Zaw Aung, 79, Burmese author and public intellectual.
- Black, 53, British singer-songwriter, head injuries sustained in a traffic collision.
- Bernard Cookson, 79, British cartoonist.
- LaVoy Finicum, 54, American cattle rancher and militant, shot.
- Barney Hall, 83, American sports commentator, complications from surgery.
- Gil Kahele, 73, American politician, member of the Hawaii Senate.
- Ted Karras Sr., 81, American football player, NFL champion.
- Tommy Kelly, 90, American actor, heart failure.
- Sahabzada Yaqub Khan, 95, Pakistani politician and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador to the United States.
- Martin Lavut, 81, Canadian film maker.
- Margaret Pardee, 95, American violinist and teacher.
- Ray Pointer, 79, English footballer.
- Bryce Rohde, 92, Australian jazz pianist, composer.
- T.J. Tindall, 65, American guitarist.
- Jerzy Tomaszewski, 92, Polish photographer.
- Takeo Uesugi, 75, Japanese landscape architect.
- László Versényi, 84, Hungarian theatre and voice actor.
- Abe Vigoda, 94, American actor.
- Barrington Watson, 85, Jamaican painter.
- Oscar Wiggli, 88, Swiss composer and sculptor.
- Larry Woods, 76, Canadian Olympic sailor
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- Peter Baker, 84, English footballer.
- Barbara Berger, 85, American baseball player.
- John Brudenall, 77, Australian librarian.
- Antonio Castellanos Mata, 68, Spanish physicist.
- Mary Lou Crocker, 71, American professional golfer.
- Georgy Firtich, 77, Russian composer and pianist.
- Artur Fischer, 96, German inventor.
- James Garrett Freeman, 35, American criminal, execution by lethal injection.
- Augusto Giomo, 75, Italian Olympic basketball player.
- John Howe, 85, South African-born British air vice marshal.
- Carlos Loyzaga, 85, Filipino Olympic basketball player, bronze medalist at the 1954 FIBA World Championship.
- William E. Martin, 70, American musician, songwriter, screenwriter and voice actor.
- Jack Reed, 91, American businessman and politician.
- Shirley Tonkin, 94, New Zealand paediatrician and sudden infant death syndrome researcher.
- DeWitt Williams, 96, American politician.
- Ihor Zaytsev, 81, Russian-born Ukrainian Soviet footballer.
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- Signe Toly Anderson, 74, American singer.
- Maheswar Baug, 85, Indian politician and independence activist.
- Yisroel Belsky, 77, American rabbi.
- Franklin Gene Bissell, 89, American football player and coach.
- Buddy Cianci, 74, American politician and radio host, Mayor of Providence, Rhode Island.
- Robert Courtney, 56, New Zealand Paralympic champion sprinter.
- Aleš Debeljak, 54, Slovenian writer, struck by vehicle.
- James deSouza, 90, Pakistani Roman Catholic priest.
- Emile Destombes, 80, French-born Cambodian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Phnom Penh.
- Trude Dothan, 93, Israeli archaeologist.
- Paul Kantner, 74, American musician and songwriter, multiple organ failure.
- Jim Morris, 80, American bodybuilder.
- Tommy O'Hara, 62, Scottish footballer.
- Nigel Peel, 48, English cricketer, brain tumour.
- Peter Robinson, 57, New Zealand musician.
- Axel Schandorff, 90, Danish track cyclist, Olympic bronze medalist.
- Nadine Senior, 76, English dance teacher.
- Dave Thomson, 77, Scottish footballer.
- Bob Tizard, 91, New Zealand politician, Deputy Prime Minister.
- Ladislav Totkovič, 53, Slovak football player and manager.
- Richard P. Von Herzen, 85, American earth scientist.
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- Karen Johnson Boyd, 91, American heiress and philanthropist.
- Jean-Marie Doré, 77, Guinean politician, Prime Minister.
- Billy Faier, 85, American banjo player.
- Sam Hulbert, 79, American academic.
- Nayani Krishnakumari, 85, Indian writer and folklorist.
- Albert Low, 87, British author.
- Linus Maurer, 90, American cartoonist, inspiration for the name Linus Van Pelt.
- Aurèle Nicolet, 90, Swiss flautist.
- Cayetano Paderanga Jr., 67, Filipino economist, Director-General of NEDA, complications after heart surgery.
- Ruth Rehmann, 93, German writer.
- Jacques Rivette, 87, French film director and critic, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
- Philip J. Rock, 78, American politician, President of the Illinois Senate.
- John Roper, Baron Roper, 80, British politician.
- Benjamin F. Shobe, 95, American civil rights attorney and judge.
- Donald I. Williamson, 94, British biologist.
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- Roberto Albanese, 65, Italian politician.
- Girolamo Arnaldi, 86, Italian historian.
- Tony Blaz, 57, Guamanian politician and civil servant, member of the Legislature of Guam, pneumonia.
- Tias Eckhoff, 89, Norwegian industrial designer.
- Asuquo Ekpe, Nigerian international footballer.
- Feyrouz, 72, Egyptian actress.
- Frank Finlay, 89, English actor, heart failure.
- Francisco Flores Pérez, 56, Salvadoran politician, President, cerebral hemorrhage.
- Betty Francis, 84, American baseball player.
- T. N. Gopakumar, 58, Indian journalist, cancer.
- K. V. Krishna Rao, 92, Indian general.
- Don Marks, 62, Canadian writer and indigenous rights advocate, liver disease.
- Noelle Middleton, 89, Irish actress.
- Maikhail Miller, 23, American football player, traffic collision.
- Kollam G. K. Pillai, 91, Indian actor.
- Georgia Davis Powers, 92, American civil rights activist and politician, first female and African-American member of the Kentucky State Senate.
- Bill Reinhard, 93, American football player.
- Peter Quinn, 90, Irish Gaelic footballer.
- Ken Sailors, 95, American basketball player, complications from heart attack.
- Mohammad Salimi, 78, Iranian general, Commander-in-Chief of the Army.
- Dov Yermiya, 101, Israeli army officer and author.
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- Jalal Aliyev, 87, Azerbaijani politician.
- Gillian Avery, 89, British children's novelist and historian.
- Mere Broughton, 79, New Zealand Māori language activist and unionist.
- Gil Carmichael, 88, American politician, Federal Railroad Administrator and real estate developer, heart attack.
- Miron Chichișan, 70, Romanian politician, Mayor of Zalău.
- Lance Cox, 82, Australian football player.
- Elizabeth Eisenstein, 92, American historian.
- Tom Hancock, 67, American politician.
- David Lake, 86, Indian-born Australian science fiction writer.
- Artie L. Metcalf, 86, American biologist.
- Bob Pelkington, 74, American basketball player.
- Pat Piper, 81, American politician.
- Betty Rosenquest Pratt, 90, American tennis player.
- Wolfgang Rademann, 81, German television producer and journalist.
- Donald Van Norman Roberts, 87, American civil engineer.
- Randhir Singh, 94, Indian political scientist.
- Benoît Violier, 44, French-Swiss chef, suicide by gunshot.
- Sir Terry Wogan, 77, Irish-British broadcaster, cancer.
- Hubert Yockey, 99, American physicist and information theorist.
- Yuan Geng, 98, Chinese politician and business executive.