Deaths in July 2014
The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.
July 2014
1
- Betty Cody, 92, Canadian-born American country music singer.
- Umaru Dikko, 77, Nigerian politician, Minister of Transportation, multiple strokes.
- Jean Garon, 76, Canadian Quebecois politician, Minister of Agriculture and Education, MNA and Mayor of Lévis.
- Stephen Gaskin, 79, American counterculture figure, peace activist and commune founder.
- David Greenglass, 92, American atomic spy for the Soviet Union, worked on the Manhattan Project.
- Bob Jones, 59, British politician, West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner.
- Anatoly Kornukov, 72, Soviet-born Russian military officer, commander-in-chief of the Russian Air Force, ordered KAL 007 to be shot down.
- Graeme McMahon, 74, Australian AFL football executive, Chairman of Essendon, pancreatic cancer.
- Martin Mehkek, 77, Croatian painter.
- John Muller, 80, South African cricketer.
- Walter Dean Myers, 76, American award-winning children's writer.
- Kipng'eno Arap Ng'eny, 77, Kenyan politician and telecommunications executive, Minister of Water, MP for Ainamoi, Managing Director of KPTC.
- Frederick I. Ordway III, 87, American space scientist.
- Gérard Kango Ouédraogo, 88, Burkinabé politician and diplomat, Prime Minister, Minister of Finance, MP, member of the French National Assembly for Burkina Faso, Ambassador to the United Kingdom.
- Douglas W. Petersen, 66, American politician.
- Anatoly Petrov, 84, Soviet Olympic athlete.
- Dámaso Ruano, 76, Spanish geometric landscape artist.
- Seth J. Teller, 50, American computer engineer and scientist, pioneer in human-robot interactions, suicide.
- Oscar Yatco, 83, Filipino conductor and violinist.
2
- Emilio Álvarez Montalván, 94, Nicaraguan ophthalmologist, Foreign Minister, heart attack.
- Errie Ball, 103, Welsh-born American golfer, oldest PGA member, last living player from inaugural Masters Tournament, natural causes.
- Chad Brown, 52, American professional poker player and actor, liposarcoma.
- Manuel Cardona, 79, Spanish physicist.
- Wayne K. Curry, 63, American politician, county executive for Prince George's County, Maryland, lung cancer.
- Lorraine Elliott, 70, Australian politician, Victoria MLA for Mooroolbark, complications from breast cancer.
- Mervyn Finlay, 89, Australian judge and rower, Olympic bronze medalist, member of the Supreme Court of New South Wales.
- Vincent J. Graber, Sr., 83, American politician, member of the New York State Assembly, cancer.
- Mary Innes-Ker, Duchess of Roxburghe, 99, British aristocrat.
- Harold W. Kuhn, 88, American mathematician.
- Enrique Labo Revoredo, 75, Peruvian football referee.
- Marlinde Massa, 69, German field hockey player.
- Ridwan Laher Nytagodien, 50, South African political scientist.
- Abdel Hamid Shaheen, 75, Egyptian footballer.
- Leo Wardrup, 77, American politician, member of the Virginia House of Delegates.
- Louis Zamperini, 97, American Olympic long distance runner, military officer, prisoner of war, subject of , pneumonia.
3
- Bjørn Bruland, 87, Norwegian politician and naval officer, President of the NRC, chairman of the NUWC.
- Elizabeth Millicent Chilver, 99, British academic administrator, Principal of Bedford College, London and Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford.
- Peter Dawkins, 67, New Zealand-born Australian record producer and musician, injuries from a fall.
- Jini Dellaccio, 97, American photographer.
- Ross Doyen, 87, American politician, member of the Kansas House of Representatives and Senate.
- Ronald A. Edwards, 91, South African military commander, Chief of the Navy.
- Tim Flood, 87, Irish hurler.
- Rose Folder, 88, American baseball player.
- Guy Gaucher, 84, French Roman Catholic prelate and theologian, Bishop of Meaux, Auxiliary Bishop of Bayeux.
- Volkmar Groß, 66, German footballer.
- Mohamed Mohamud Hayd, Somali politician and military officer, Minister of Education and Environment, MP, admiral, shot.
- Ramai Hayward, 97, New Zealand actress and filmmaker.
- Annik Honoré, 56, Belgian music journalist and promoter, portrayed in Control, cancer.
- David Jones, 79, English footballer.
- Ira Ruskin, 70, American politician, member of the California State Assembly, Mayor of Redwood City, complications from a brain tumor.
- Don Saltsman, 80, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives.
- Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, 89, Ukrainian-born American rabbi.
- Peter Whelan, 82, British playwright.
- Zdeněk Zika, 63, Czech Olympic rower.
4
- Alan Alan, 87, British escapologist and magician.
- Paul Apted, 47, British sound editor, colon cancer.
- Arimbra Bapu, 78, Indian politician.
- Val Biro, 92, Hungarian-born English children's author, artist and illustrator.
- Maurice Campbell, 94, Canadian curler.
- Arthur Clarke, 92, British sports shooter.
- Benoît Duquesne, 56, French journalist and news anchor, heart attack.
- Giorgio Faletti, 63, Italian author, actor and singer, lung cancer.
- Myer Fredman, 82, British-Australian conductor.
- Torill Thorstad Hauger, 70, Norwegian author, children's writer and illustrator, winner of the Dobloug Prize.
- C. J. Henderson, 62, American horror and crime author, cancer.
- Carmen Hornillos, 52, Spanish journalist and television presenter, cancer.
- Arpad Joó, 66, Hungarian-born American conductor.
- Li Fook-wo, 97, Hong Kong politician and banker.
- Joas Magolego, 42, South African footballer.
- George Moore, 95, American Olympic pentathlete.
- Tolomeo Mwansa, 73, Zambian footballer.
- Otto Nes, 94, Norwegian broadcasting personality and programme director.
- Earl Robinson, 77, American baseball player and basketball player, heart failure.
- Richard Mellon Scaife, 82, American billionaire philanthropist, newspaper publisher and political activist, cancer.
- Avelin P. Tacon Jr., 99, American USAF officer, major general commander of Nellis, Langley and Foster Air Force Base, deputy commander of the Twelfth Air Force.
- Harold Ivory Williams, 93, American prelate, Bishop of Mt. Calvary Holy Churches of America.
- Archibald Wilson, 93, Rhodesian-born Australian fighter pilot, flew for the Royal Air Force during World War II.
5
- Sharifah Aini, 61, Malaysian singer, complications from pulmonary fibrosis.
- Imogen Bain, 55, English actress, pneumonia.
- Noel Black, 77, American film and television director, writer and producer.
- John Bone, 83, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Reading.
- Pedro DeBrito, 55, Cape Verdean-born American soccer player, traffic collision.
- Elenor Gordon, 81, Scottish Hall of Fame swimmer, first Scottish Commonwealth Games gold medalist.
- Robert Jeangerard, 81, American Olympic champion basketball player, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
- John Jobst, 94, German-born Australian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Broome.
- Elsbeth Juda, 103, German-born British photographer.
- Peter Marler, 86, British-born American neurobiologist, pneumonia.
- Rosemary Murphy, 89, American actress, Emmy winner, esophageal cancer.
- Peter Nydrle, 59, American commercial and music video director.
- Volodymyr Sabodan, 78, Ukrainian Orthodox hierarch, head of the UOC-MP, internal bleeding.
- Kathy Stobart, 89, British jazz saxophonist.
- Rod Taylor, 70, American skier, owner of Woodbury Ski Area.
- Gugi Waaka, 76, New Zealand Māori musician, heart problem.
- Hans-Ulrich Wehler, 82, German historian.
- Brett Wiesner, 31, American soccer player, drowning.
- Brian Wood, 73, English footballer, dementia and Parkinson's disease.
- Don Wright, 84, American Gwich'in politician, President of the Alaska Federation of Natives, involved in negotiations for the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.
- Wilbur Young, 65, American football player.
6
- Granville Austin, 87, American historian and academic, leading authority on the Constitution of India, recipient of Padma Shri.
- Herbert Berman, 80, American politician, member of the New York City Council.
- Dave Bickers, 76, British motorcross racer and movie stuntman, stroke.
- Vicente Cabrera Funes, 69-70, Ecuadorian academic.
- Benedito de Assis da Silva, 61, Brazilian footballer, multiple organ failure.
- Alan J. Dixon, 86, American politician, U.S. Senator from Illinois, Illinois Treasurer and Secretary of State.
- Carl Garner, 99, American engineer.
- S. D. Gunadasa, 82, Sri Lankan clothing manufacturer.
- Gene Hodges, 77, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives.
- Anne Hollander, 83, American historian of fashion.
- Peter Kearns, 77, English footballer.
- Estanislau Amadeu Kreutz, 86, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Santo Ângelo, multiple organ failure.
- Dave Legeno, 50, British actor, heat stroke.
- Andrew Mango, 88, Turkish-born British journalist and biographer.
- Albert McDonald, 83, American politician, member of the Alabama Senate.
- Carleton Opgaard, 85, American educator.
- Zdeněk Pičman, 81, Czech Olympic silver medallist footballer,.
- Rogelio Polesello, 75, Argentine muralist, optical artist and sculptor, complications from a bacterial blood infection.
- Tô Hoài, 93, Vietnamese writer.
- James Clinton Turk, 91, American senior judge, member and Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for Western Virginia.
- Ernesto Ueltschi, 92, Argentine politician, Governor of Mendoza.
- Martin Van Geneugden, 82, Belgian professional road bicycle racer.
7
- Vicenç Badalona Ballestar, 85, Spanish figurative artist and author.
- Horst Bollmann, 89, German actor.
- Duccia Camiciotti, 86, Italian poet.
- Mario Coyula Cowley, 79, Cuban architect, cancer.
- Alfredo Di Stéfano, 88, Argentine-born Spanish football player and coach, complications from a heart attack.
- Frankie Dunlop, 85, American jazz drummer.
- Aaron Fussell, 91, American politician and educator, member of the North Carolina House of Representatives.
- Francisco Gabica, 76, Spanish cyclist, winner of the Vuelta a España, complications during heart surgery.
- Lars Gårding, 94, Swedish mathematician.
- Bertil Haase, 91, Swedish modern pentathlete, Olympic bronze medalist.
- Philip Hurlic, 86, American actor.
- Lois Johnson, 72, American country music singer.
- Jon Pyong-ho, 88, North Korean military officer, general and secretary in charge of nuclear weapons and arms development, heart attack.
- Dick Jones, 87, American actor.
- Lammtarra, 22, British racehorse, Cartier Champion Three-year-old Colt, won Epsom Derby, KG VI and QE Stakes and Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, euthanized.
- Denis Lyons, 78, Irish politician, TD for Cork North-Central.
- Sheila K. McCullagh, 93, English author.
- Howard Plumb, 42, British Olympic windsurfer, injuries sustained in a traffic collision.
- Donald Ross, 91, South African-born British surgeon.
- Stanley Julian Roszkowski, 91, American senior judge, member of the U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois.
- Michael Scudamore, 82, English jockey.
- Mohamed Shangole, 83, Somali footballer.
- Eduard Shevardnadze, 86, Soviet Georgian politician and diplomat, President, Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs.
- Anthony Smith, 88, British explorer, balloonist and television presenter.
- Bora Todorović, 83, Yugoslav-born Serbian actor, complications from a stroke.
- Peter Underwood, 76, Australian jurist, Governor of Tasmania, member and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Tasmania, complications from a kidney tumour.
8
- Vanna Bonta, 56, Italian-born American actress.
- Ray Buckingham, 84, Australian Olympic fencer
- Maxine Cochran, 87, Canadian politician, Nova Scotia Minister of Transport and MLA for Lunenburg.
- Tom Collings, 75, British-born Canadian Anglican prelate, Bishop of Keewatin.
- Plínio de Arruda Sampaio, 83, Brazilian jurist and politician, bone cancer.
- John V. Evans, 89, American politician, Governor of Idaho.
- Richard Hewes, 87, American politician, member and Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives and Senate, Parkinson's disease.
- John Hoover, 51, American baseball player.
- Nosipho Ntwanambi, 54, South African politician, women's and human rights activist, MP, first female Chief Whip of the National Council of Provinces.
- Ben Pangelinan, 58, American Guamanian politician, member and Speaker of the Legislature of Guam, cancer.
- Mario J. Rossetti, 78, American judge, member of the New York Supreme Court and New York Court of Claims.
- Howard Siler, 69, American Olympic bobsledder and coach.
- Tom Veryzer, 61, American baseball player, stroke.
9
- Hameed Al-Qushaibi, Yemeni soldier.
- Lorenzo Álvarez Florentín, 87, Paraguayan composer and violinist, heart attack.
- Bamidele Aturu, 49, Nigerian lawyer and human rights activist, leukemia.
- David Azrieli, 92, Polish-born Canadian-Israeli billionaire real estate and finance executive.
- Buba Baldeh, 61, Gambian politician, journalist and editor, Minister of Youth and Sports, MP for Basse and Jimara, MD of The Daily Observer.
- Julio Bernad, 85, Spanish footballer.
- John Cloake, 89, British diplomat, Ambassador to Bulgaria.
- Eileen Ford, 92, American model agency executive, co-founder of Ford Models, complications from meningioma and osteoporosis.
- Mohammad Mohammadi Gilani, 85, Iranian judge and politician.
- Ahmed Sheikh Jama, Somali politician and poet.
- Don Lenhardt, 91, American baseball player and coach.
- Yoel Lerner, 72-73, Israeli linguist, translator, educator, and terrorist.
- Fred Martinez, 60, Belizean politician and diplomat, Minister of Trade, Senator, Ambassador to Mexico and Guatemala.
- Luiz Alberto Dias Menezes, 63, Brazilian geologist and mineral dealer.
- Robert Methuen, 7th Baron Methuen, 82, British peer and politician.
- Ken Simpson, 76, Australian ornithologist and writer.
- John Spinks, 60, British guitarist, singer and songwriter, liver cancer.
- Ralph C. Thompson, 67, Canadian judge, member and Chief Justice of the Provincial Court of PEI, cancer.
- Ken Thorne, 90, British composer, Oscar winner.
10
- José Manuel Abdalá, 57, Mexican journalist and politician, MP for Tamaulipas, colon cancer.
- Robert C. Broomfield, 81, American judge, member and Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court of Arizona, member of the FISC, cancer.
- John R. Driscoll, 90, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
- Siegfried Geißler, 85, German composer, conductor, hornist and politician.
- Curt Gentry, 83, American author, lung cancer.
- Paul Gibson Jr., 86, American airline executive, Deputy Mayor of New York City.
- Douglas Goodfellow, 97, New Zealand dairy executive and philanthropist.
- Peter Mentz Jebsen, 84, Norwegian businessperson, athlete and politician.
- On Kawara, 81, Japanese conceptual artist.
- Juozas Kazickas, 96, Lithuanian billionaire philanthropist, financier, natural resources and telecommunications executive, founder of Omnitel.
- Paul G. Risser, 74, American educator and ecologist, President of Oregon State University and Miami University.
- Gloria Schweigerdt, 80, American baseball player.
- Zohra Sehgal, 102, Indian actress and choreographer, heart failure.
- Louis Vignaud, 85, French Olympic sports shooter
11
- R. Perry Beaver, 75, American Muscogee politician, Principal Chief of the Muscogee Nation.
- Sir Howard Cooke, 98, Jamaican politician, Governor-General, MP and MP for St James, Senate President.
- Lyndley Craven, 68, Australian botanist.
- Jean-Louis Gauthier, 58, French racing cyclist, heart attack.
- Charlie Haden, 76, American jazz bassist and bandleader, three-time Grammy Award winner, post-polio syndrome.
- Eilene Hannan, 67, Australian opera singer, cancer.
- Ray Lonnen, 74, British actor, cancer.
- Carin Mannheimer, 79, Swedish author and screenwriter, cancer.
- Bill McGill, 74, American basketball player.
- Tommy Ramone, 65, Hungarian-born American Hall of Fame record producer and drummer, bile duct cancer.
- John Seigenthaler, 86, American newspaper journalist and editor, editor for team that won Pulitzer Prize.
- Randall Stout, 56, American architect, renal cell carcinoma.
- Paul Van Riper, 97, American political scientist.
12
- Jamil Ahmad, 83, Pakistani author, heart attack.
- Nestor Basterretxea, 90, Spanish Basque artist.
- Emil Bobu, 87, Romanian communist activist and politician, Interior Minister, Labor Minister, heart attack.
- Chris de Broglio, 84, Mauritian-born South African weightlifter and anti-apartheid activist, recipient of the Olympic Order.
- Mark Burchett, 54, American director, producer and actor.
- Alberto Cassano, 79, Argentine engineer and academic.
- Pat Costello, 85, American Olympic silver medallist rower.
- Ken Goodwin, 79, Australian academic and author.
- Kenneth J. Gray, 89, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Illinois, heart attack.
- Aimé Gruet-Masson, 73, French Olympic biathlete.
- Alistair Hanna, 69, Northern Irish managerial consulting executive, cancer.
- Zoia Horn, 96, American librarian and intellectual freedom advocate.
- Red Klotz, 93, American basketball player and coach.
- Bill Koski, 82, American baseball player.
- Hullad Moradabadi, 72, Indian Hindi language poet, cardiac arrest.
- Valeriya Novodvorskaya, 64, Soviet Russian politician and dissident, septic shock.
- Peter Sainsbury, 80, English cricketer.
- Charles P. Smith, 88, American politician, Wisconsin State Treasurer.
- Tom Tierney, 85, American paper doll maker.
- Barbara Turf, 71, American home furnishing executive, CEO of Crate & Barrel, pancreatic cancer.
- Tommy Valentine, 64, American golfer, cancer.
- Jerzy Żyszkiewicz, 64, Polish politician.
13
- Thomas Berger, 89, American novelist.
- Geoffrey Blackburn, 99, Australian Baptist minister.
- Jeremy Browne, 11th Marquess of Sligo, 75, Irish hereditary peer.
- Alfred de Grazia, 94, American political scientist and author.
- Con Devitt, 86, Scottish-born New Zealand trade unionist.
- Nadine Gordimer, 90, South African writer and anti-apartheid activist, Nobel Prize laureate in Literature.
- Giriraj Kishore, 94, Indian Hindu political activist.
- Jeff Leiding, 52, American football player, heart attack.
- Josh Liavaa, 65, Tongan-born New Zealand rugby league player, shot.
- Werner Lueg, 82, German Olympic bronze medallist middle distance runner and 1500 metre joint world record holder.
- Lorin Maazel, 84, American conductor, violinist, composer and music director, complications of pneumonia.
- Cledan Mears, 91, Welsh Anglican prelate, Bishop of Bangor.
- Jan Nolten, 84, Dutch racing cyclist, brain hemorrhage.
- Halima Rafiq, 17, Pakistani cricketer and sexual harassment plaintiff, suicide.
- Gert Voss, 72, German actor, leukemia.
14
- Alice Coachman, 90, American high jumper, first black woman to become Olympic champion.
- Hugh Davidson, 84, Canadian music critic and arts administrator.
- Pia Gyger, 73, Swiss religious author.
- Vilhjálmur Hjálmarsson, 99, Icelandic politician.
- Martin Richard Hoffmann, 82, American public servant, Secretary of the Army.
- Guillermo Leaden, 100, Argentine Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Buenos Aires.
- Vange Leonel, 51, Brazilian singer, writer, feminist and LGBT activist, ovarian cancer.
- George McCague, 84, Canadian politician, Ontario MPP for Dufferin-Simcoe and Simcoe West, leukemia.
- Sir Jimmy McGregor, 90, British colonial politician, member of the Hong Kong Executive Council and Legislative Council.
- John Milne, 72, Scottish broadcaster.
- John Victor Parker, 85, American senior judge, member of the U.S. District Court for Middle Louisiana.
- Antonio Riva Palacio, 88, Mexican politician, Governor of Morelos.
- Tom Rolf, 82, Swedish-born American film editor, complications from hip surgery.
- James Stillwell, 79, American baseball team owner.
- Horacio Troche, 79, Uruguayan footballer.
- Jack Tocco, 87, American mafioso, head of the Detroit Partnership, suspect in the Jimmy Hoffa disappearance, natural causes.
- Leopoldo Verona, 82, Argentine actor.
- Vintage Crop, 27, Irish Thoroughbred racehorse, won Melbourne Cup.
- Vasile Zavoda, 84, Romanian Olympic footballer.
15
- Óscar Acosta, 81, Honduran author, diplomat and poet, Ambassador to Spain, Italy and the Holy See.
- Adhu Awiti, Kenyan politician, Minister of Planning, MP for Karachuonyo, cancer.
- Edda Buding, 77, German tennis player, Olympic champion.
- James MacGregor Burns, 95, American historian and political scientist, recipient of the Pulitzer Prize.
- Gerald Cresswell, 85, South African cricketer.
- Lyndam Gregory, 59, Indian-born British actor, lung cancer.
- Sulekha Hussain, 85, Indian Urdu novelist.
- Faruk Ilgaz, 92, Turkish football administrator, chairman of Fenerbahçe S.K..
- Erosi Kitsmarishvili, 49, Georgian diplomat, Ambassador to Russia, suspected suicide.
- Saúl Lara, 32, Spanish footballer, colon cancer.
- Pietro Giacomo Nonis, 87, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Vicenza.
- Abdukadir Osman, Somali writer.
- Gerallt Lloyd Owen, 69, Welsh poet.
- Edward Perl, 87, American neuroscientist.
- Rudolf Rauer, 64, German Olympic handball player.
- Robert A. Roe, 90, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives for New Jersey's 8th district.
16
- Julio Abbadie, 83, Uruguayan footballer.
- Karl Albrecht, 94, German billionaire grocery executive, co-founder of Aldi.
- Harriet Barber, 46, English figurative painter, breast cancer.
- Pulin Das, 95, Indian cricketer.
- Norberto Esbrez, 47, Argentine tango dancer, liver failure.
- Hans Funck, 61, German film editor, asthma attack.
- Burkhardt Öller, 71, German footballer.
- Mary Ellen Otremba, 63, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives.
- Frank A. Salvatore, 92, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
- Sir Alexander Stirling, 86, British diplomat, Ambassador to Bahrain, Iraq, Tunisia and Sudan.
- Szymon Szurmiej, 91, Polish actor and theatre manager.
- Manfred Wekwerth, 84, German theatre director.
- Johnny Winter, 70, American Hall of Fame blues guitarist, singer and triple Grammy Award-winning producer.
- Heinz Zemanek, 94, Austrian pioneering computer engineer.
17
- Ross Burden, 45, New Zealand celebrity chef, infection from bone marrow transplant.
- Enric Cluselles, 99, Spanish artist.
- Alec Douglas, 74, South African cricketer.
- J. T. Edson, 86, English novelist.
- Henry Hartsfield, 80, American NASA astronaut and test pilot, commander of Discovery and Challenger missions, complications from back surgery.
- Ernie Lancaster, 60, American blues musician, cancer.
- Bjørn Johan Landmark, 87, Norwegian physicist.
- Jack Lewis, Baron Lewis of Newnham, 86, British politician, educator and chemist, first Warden for Robinson College.
- Ian Moutray, 78, Australian rugby union player.
- Bill Mulliken, 74, American swimmer, Olympic champion.
- Jim Myers, 92, American football coach.
- Otto Piene, 86, German color abstract artist, sculptor and academic, co-founder of Group Zero.
- Andries P Putter, 78, South African naval officer, chief of the Navy, kidney failure.
- J. Sasikumar, 85, Indian filmmaker and director.
- Robert Smithdas, 89, American deaf-blind teacher.
- Elaine Stritch, 89, American actress, Emmy winner.
- John Walton, 62, Australian actor.
- Notable people killed in the crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17:
- *Liam Davison, 56, Australian author.
- *Joep Lange, 59, Dutch physician, President of the International AIDS Society.
- *Shuba Jay, 38, Malaysian television and theatre actress.
- *Willem Witteveen, 62, Dutch politician and legal scholar, member of the Senate.
18
- Donald Arden, 98, English Anglican prelate, Archbishop of Central Africa, Bishop of Nyasaland-Malawi.
- Andreas Biermann, 33, German footballer, suicide.
- Tony Dean, 65, British rugby league player, cancer.
- James Govan, 64, American singer.
- Jure Pelivan, 85, Bosnian politician, Prime Minister of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- Carlo Dalla Pozza, 71, Italian philosopher.
- João Ubaldo Ribeiro, 73, Brazilian writer, pulmonary embolism.
- Augie Rodriguez, 86, American dancer, popularized the Mambo.
- Sir Nicholas Scheele, 70, British automotive manufacturing executive, President and CEO of Jaguar Cars and Ford Motor Company.
- Dietmar Schönherr, 88, Austrian actor and entertainer.
- John Wall, 70, American educator and politician, member of the North Dakota House of Representatives.
19
- Rubem Alves, 80, Brazilian writer, philosopher and theologian, multiple organ failure due to pneumonia.
- Madeline Amgott, 92, American television producer, lymphoma.
- Skye McCole Bartusiak, 21, American actress, accidental drug overdose.
- Jack Coffey, 87, American director.
- David Easton, 97, Canadian political scientist.
- John Fasano, 52, American screenwriter, director and weapons expert, heart failure.
- Lionel Ferbos, 103, American jazz trumpeter.
- Iring Fetscher, 92, German political scientist.
- Paul M. Fleiss, 80, American pediatrician.
- Jim Fulghum, 70, American politician, member of the North Carolina House of Representatives, esophageal cancer.
- James Garner, 86, American Hall of Fame actor, heart attack.
- Robert Havern III, 65, American politician, cancer.
- Sergio Insunza, 94, Chilean lawyer and politician, Minister of Justice.
- Ray King, 89, English footballer, complications from a fall.
- Dan Markel, 41, Canadian-American legal academic, shot.
- Peter Marquardt, 50, American actor.
- Petar Nikezić, 64, Serbian footballer.
- Yehuda Nir, 84, Polish-born Israeli-American psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor.
- Norberto Odebrecht, 93, Brazilian engineer, founder of Odebrecht and the Odebrecht Foundation, cardiac complications.
- Ingemar Odlander, 78, Swedish journalist and news reporter.
- Harry Pougher, 73, English cricketer.
- Leen Vleggeert, 83, Dutch politician, member of the Senate.
- John Winkin, 94, American baseball coach, complications from a stroke.
20
- Álex Angulo, 61, Spanish Basque actor, traffic collision.
- Victor Atiyeh, 91, American politician, Governor of Oregon, member of the Oregon House and Senate, renal failure.
- Thomas Brennan, 74, Irish Olympic equestrian.
- Ian Brune, 64, South African cricketer.
- Kadhal Dhandapani, 71, Indian actor, cardiac arrest.
- Ray DiPierro, 87, American football player, complications of Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases.
- Herlyn Espinal, 31, Honduran journalist, shot.
- John Fairgrieve, 88, British Olympic sprinter.
- Berndt Katter, 82, Finnish modern pentathlete, Olympic bronze medalist.
- Ivan Kuvačić, 91, Croatian sociologist.
- Constantin Lucaci, 91, Romanian contemporary sculptor.
- Bob McNamara, 82, American CFL and AFL football player.
- Saybattal Mursalimov, 83, Kyrgyzstani Olympic equestrian.
- Tony Palmer, 48, British Episcopalian prelate, traffic collision.
- Lynda Patterson, 40, Northern Irish-born New Zealand Anglican priest, Dean of ChristChurch Cathedral, natural causes.
- Berl Priebe, 96, American politician, member of the Iowa House of Representatives and Senate.
- Prized, 28, American Thoroughbred racehorse.
- Panna Rittikrai, 53, Thai martial arts choreographer, actor and film director, complications from multiple organ failure.
- Lois Rosenthal, 75, American publisher and philanthropist.
- Yevgeny Samoteykin, 85, Russian Soviet diplomat, Ambassador to Australia.
- Klaus Schmidt, 61, German archaeologist, heart attack.
- Manfred Sexauer, 83, German radio and television presenter.
- Boswell Williams, 88, Saint Lucian politician, Governor General, MLA for Vieux Fort Quarter.
21
- Louise Abeita, 87, American Pueblo writer, poet, and educator.
- Alan Astbury, 79, Canadian physicist.
- George Baillie, 95, British Olympic ice hockey player
- Félix Betancourt, 68, Cuban Olympic boxer.
- Dan Borislow, 52, American telecommunications executive, inventor of magicJack, heart attack.
- John M. Coyne, 97, American politician, Mayor of Brooklyn, Ohio.
- Lettice Curtis, 99, British World War II military pilot and test engineer, first woman to qualify in a four engine bomber.
- Robert William Donnelly, 83, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Toledo.
- Verda Erman, 70, Turkish pianist, winner of the Long-Thibaud-Crespin Competition, leukemia.
- Liv Holtskog, 79, Norwegian poet and farmer.
- Harald Hove, 65, Norwegian politician.
- Hans-Peter Kaul, 70, German judge, member of the International Criminal Court.
- Rilwanu Lukman, 75, Nigerian oil executive, Minister of Oil and OPEC, Director of the NNPC.
- Kevin Skinner, 86, New Zealand rugby union player.
- Richard Stanbury, 91, Canadian politician, President of the Liberal Party of Canada.
- Tareq Suheimat, 77, Jordanian physician, military officer and politician.
22
- John Blundell, 61, British economist and policy adviser, Director General of the Institute of Economic Affairs.
- Johann Breyer, 89, German-American suspected war criminal.
- Waltraud Bundschuh, 86, German politician.
- Betty Jo Charlton, 91, American politician, member of the Kansas House of Representatives.
- Glenn Jowitt, c. 59, New Zealand photographer.
- Louis Lentin, 80, Irish theatre, film and television director.
- Slaheddine Ben Mbarek, 77, Tunisian politician and diplomat.
- Robert Newhouse, 64, American football player, heart disease.
- Nitzan Shirazi, 43, Israeli football player and manager, cancer.
- Elma Steck, 91, American baseball player.
- Morris Stevenson, 71, Scottish footballer.
- Helmut Uhlig, 71, German Olympic basketball player.
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- Dora Bryan, 91, British film, television and stage actress.
- James Gustafson, 75, American politician.
- Helen Johns, 99, American swimmer, Olympic champion.
- Don Lanier, 78, American songwriter.
- Norman Leyden, 96, American conductor, composer and musician.
- Gilad Margalit, 55, Israeli historian and writer.
- Elizabeth Shaw, 90, American politician, member of the Iowa House of Representatives and Senate.
- Ariano Suassuna, 87, Brazilian writer, cardiac arrest as a complication from a stroke.
- Haris Suleman, 17, American pilot, plane crash.
- Jordan Tabor, 23, English footballer.
- Bill Thompson, 82, American television host.
- Frank Vaughan, 96, Australian rugby league player.
- Saado Ali Warsame, 64, Somali singer-songwriter and politician, MP, shot.
- Yeh Ken-chuang, 83, Taiwanese master carpenter, plane crash.
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- Jaan Arder, 62, Estonian singer.
- Ik-Hwan Bae, 57, South Korean violinist.
- David Broomhead, 64, British mathematician.
- Ian Rees Davies, 72, British dentist and university administrator, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Hong Kong.
- Christian Falk, 52, Swedish singer and bassist, pancreatic cancer.
- Cees Heerschop, 79, Dutch footballer.
- Walt Martin, 69, American sound mixer, vasculitis.
- Patrick Sawyer, 40, Liberian-born American lawyer, ebola virus disease.
- Dale Schlueter, 68, American basketball player, cancer.
- See More Business, 24, Irish thoroughbred, won King George VI Chase and Cheltenham Gold Cup.
- Władysław Sidorowicz, 68, Polish politician and political prisoner, Minister of Health, Senator for Wrocław.
- Alois Spichtig, 87, Swiss graphic artist and sculptor.
- Hans-Hermann Sprado, 58, German journalist and author.
- V. Sreekumar, 48, Indian cricketer.
- Yoo Chae-yeong, 40, South Korean singer, stomach cancer.
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- Pedro Luís António, 93, Angolan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Kwito-Bié.
- Sen Arevshatyan, 86, Armenian manuscript scholar, director of the Matenadaran.
- Alphonse Baume, 80, Swiss Olympic skier.
- Carlo Bergonzi, 90, Italian operatic tenor.
- Beau Genius, 29, Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
- Cheng Yang-ping, 84, Hong Kong simultaneous interpreter, Chief Interpreter and Chief Conference Interpreter of the Hong Kong Government.
- UK Ching, 76, Bangladeshi freedom fighter, recipient of Bir Bikrom, stroke.
- Kenneth Ferries, 78, Australian cricketer.
- David Green, 62, American politician, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives.
- Alan C. Greenberg, 86, American financier, chairman and CEO of Bear Stearns, complications from cancer.
- Çolpan İlhan, 77, Turkish actress, heart attack.
- Bel Kaufman, 103, German-born American teacher and author.
- Richard Larter, 85, English-born Australian pop artist.
- Manuel Martínez Canales, 86, Spanish footballer.
- Ronaldo Rogério de Freitas Mourão, 79, Brazilian astronomer.
- Thor-Eirik Gulbrandsen Mykland, 74, Norwegian politician.
- Manny Roth, 96, American nightclub owner, natural causes.
- Zafar Saifullah, 78, Indian civil servant, Minister for Administration, first Muslim to be appointed to cabinet-level position.
- Art Schult, 86, American baseball player.
- Wilhelm Solheim, 89, American anthropologist.
- Peter Williams, 89, British physician, Director of the Wellcome Trust..
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- Oleh Babayev, 48, Ukrainian politician, Mayor of Kremenchuk, shot.
- Ange Dellasantina, 80, French footballer.
- Erich Fuchs, 89, German Olympic sprinter.
- Paul Kemp, 83, American football player, coach, and scout.
- Charles R. Larson, 77, American naval officer, Commanding Admiral of the USPACOM, Superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy, pneumonia.
- Sir Richard MacCormac, 75, British modernist architect, cancer.
- Spiridon Mattar, 93, Lebanese-born Brazilian Melkite Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Nossa Senhora do Paraíso em São Paulo.
- William Menahan, 78, American politician, member of the Montana House of Representatives, pulmonary fibrosis.
- Majid Nizami, 86, Pakistani newspaper journalist and editor, heart ailment.
- Sergei O. Prokofieff, 60, Russian anthroposophist.
- Louise Shivers, 84, American novelist, heart failure.
- Roland Verhavert, 87, Belgian film director, heart attack.
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- Eric Anderson, 83, New Zealand rugby union player.
- Sir Richard Bolt, 91, New Zealand military officer, Air Marshal Chief of Staff and Defence Staff Chief.
- G. Raymond Chang, 65, Jamaican-born Canadian financial analyst, Chancellor of Ryerson University, acute myeloid leukemia.
- Warren Dibble, 83, New Zealand playwright and poet, Robert Burns Fellow.
- Kristina Fetters, 34, American convicted murderer, youngest woman to receive life sentence in United States, breast cancer.
- George Freese, 87, American baseball player.
- Sam Hunter, 91, American art historian.
- Sir Robin Ibbs, 88, British banker, Chairman of Lloyds Bank.
- Wallace Jones, 88, American basketball player, Olympic champion.
- Kyozan Joshu Sasaki, 107, Japanese-born American Rinzai Zen teacher.
- Diouldé Laya, 77, Nigerian sociologist.
- Francesco Marchisano, 85, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Cardinal of Santa Lucia del Gonfalone.
- Peter Miller, 53, Australian software engineer, leukemia.
- Fritz Naef, 80, Swiss Olympic ice hockey player.
- Govind Ram Nirmalkar, 78, Indian actor and folk theatre artist.
- Christine Oddy, 58, British politician, MEP for Midlands Central, cervical cancer.
- Paul St. Pierre, 90, Canadian journalist, author and politician, MP for Coast Chilcotin.
- Paul Schell, 76, American politician, Mayor of Seattle.
- James Shankar Singh, 90, Fijian politician.
- Nini Stoltenberg, 51, Norwegian television personality.
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- Margot Adler, 68, American journalist, radio broadcaster and author, endometrial cancer.
- Philipp Brammer, 44, German actor, fall.
- Arthur Büssecke, 96, German World War II Luftwaffe Oberleutnant der Reserve.
- Gerardo Cornejo Murrieta, 77, Mexican writer and scholar.
- Madhukar Dighe, 94, Indian politician, Governor of Meghalaya and Arunachal Pradesh.
- Željko Đurđić, 51, Serbian handball player.
- Jon Erikson, 59, American long distance swimmer.
- Brian Eyre, 80, British materials scientist.
- Sally Farmiloe, 60, South African-born British actress, breast cancer.
- Alex Forbes, 89, Scottish footballer, prostate cancer.
- Arturo Goetz, 70, Argentine actor.
- Bob Hargrave, 94, American football player.
- Hans Georg Herzog, 98, Romanian Olympic handball player.
- Veikko Lahti, 87, Finnish Olympic wrestler.
- Eugene F. Lally, 79, American aerospace engineer.
- Torrin Lawrence, 25, American track and field athlete, traffic collision.
- Yvette Lebon, 103, French actress.
- Alakbar Mammadov, 84, Azerbaijani Soviet football player and manager.
- Paul D. McGowan, 67, American politician, member of the Maine House of Representatives, suicide.
- Johnny Rebb, 79, Australian rock and roll singer.
- Shahid Sajjad, 77-78, Pakistani sculptor.
- James Shigeta, 85, American actor.
- Ed Sprinkle, 90, American football player.
- Benedict L. Stabile, 86, American vice admiral, Vice Commandant of the United States Coast Guard.
- Axel Stoll, 65, German geophysicist and conspiracy theorist.
- Theodore Van Kirk, 93, American military officer, Army Major, navigator and last surviving crew member on the Enola Gay.
- Bill Walsh, 90, English footballer.
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- M. Caldwell Butler, 89, American politician, member of the U.S. House for Virginia's 6th, Virginia House of Delegates.
- Jon R. Cavaiani, 70, American NCO and prisoner of war, Army Special Forces sergeant major, recipient of the Medal of Honor.
- John Frechette, 71, American football player, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
- Giorgio Gaslini, 84, Italian pianist and composer, complications from a fall.
- María Antonia Iglesias, 69, Spanish writer and journalist.
- Hashmat Karzai, Afghan-American policy advisor, security and construction executive, bombing.
- Umar Khan, 39, Sierra Leonean physician, chief virologist in charge of the ebola epidemic, ebola.
- Péter Kiss, 55, Hungarian politician, Minister of Social Affairs, member of the National Assembly.
- Sadanam Divakara Marar, 77, Indian percussionist.
- L.A. Meyer, 72, American young adult author, lymphoma.
- Idris Muhammad, 74, American jazz drummer.
- Tom Patsalis, 92, American track and field athlete.
- Thomas R. St. George, 94, American author, reporter, editor and columnist.
- Michael Zinni, 65, American golfer and coach, lung infection.
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- Dave Bakenhaster, 69, American baseball player.
- Martin Copley, 74, British-born Australian conservationist.
- Robert Drew, 90, American documentary filmmaker, natural causes.
- Fausto Fanti, 35, Brazilian humorist and musician, suicide by hanging.
- Harun Farocki, 70, German filmmaker.
- Bhairab Ganguli, 82, Indian cricket umpire.
- Julio Grondona, 82, Argentine football executive, President of AFA, Senior Vice-President of FIFA, aortic aneurysm.
- Finn Gundersen, 81, Norwegian footballer.
- Sir Peter Hall, 82, British urban planner, academic, government adviser and writer, conceptual developer of enterprise zones.
- Dennis Lipscomb, 72, American actor.
- Harrison Lobdell, Jr., 90, American Air Force major general.
- Rick Mittleman, 84, American television writer, traffic collision.
- Gomolemo Motswaledi, 44, Botswanan politician, traffic collision.
- Shūsei Nakamura, 79, Japanese voice actor.
- Manfred Roeder, 85, German extreme-right activist and Wehrmacht soldier.
- Dick Smith, 92, American special effects make-up artist, Oscar winner, natural causes.
- Dick Wagner, 71, American rock guitarist and songwriter, lung infection.
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- János Bencze, 79, Hungarian Olympic basketball player.
- Warren Bennis, 89, American educator, scholar and author, President of the University of Cincinnati.
- Nabarun Bhattacharya, 66, Indian author, cancer.
- Jeff Bourne, 66, English footballer, motor neurone disease.
- Wilfred Feinberg, 94, American judge, member and Chief Judge for the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals.
- Jim Frederick, 42, American author and magazine editor, cardiac arrest and arrhythmia.
- Franciszek Gąsienica Groń, 82, Polish Nordic skier, Olympic bronze medalist.
- Kenny Ireland, 68, Scottish actor, brain cancer.
- Jorge Jacobson, 78, Argentine journalist and news reader, heart attack.
- King Robbo, 44, English underground graffiti artist, complications from a head injury.
- Mukku Raju, 83, Indian Nandi Award-winning actor.
- Khenpo Kyosang Rinpoche, 63, Tibetan Buddhist teacher.