Deaths in June 2015

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

  June 2015

1

• Alexandra Prinzessin von Hannover, 77, German politician.
• An Jun Can, 31, Taiwanese singer and actor, liver cancer.
• Katherine Chappell, 29, American visual effects editor, lion attack.
• Jon Hensley, 31, American radio personality, asphyxiation.
• Charles Jacob, 94, English stockbroker.
• Charles Kennedy, 55, British politician, Leader of the Liberal Democrats, MP, internal haemorrhage.
• Joan Kirner, 76, Australian politician, Premier of Victoria, oesophageal cancer.
• Peter Kruse, 60, German psychologist, heart failure.
• Nicholas Liverpool, 80, Dominican politician, President.
• Nobutaka Machimura, 70, Japanese politician, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Minister for Foreign Affairs, cerebral infarction.
• Buck Moyer, 94, American Lutheran pastor, Bishop of the Virginia Synod.
• Jacques Parizeau, 84, Canadian politician, Premier of Quebec.
• Kirill Pokrovsky, 53, Russian composer.
• Serajur Rahman, 81, Bangladeshi journalist and broadcaster.
• Sonya Rapoport, 92, American conceptual and digital artist, pancreatic cancer.
• Jean Ritchie, 92, American folk singer and song collector.
• Tommy Rogers, 54, American professional wrestler.
• Andy Scrivani, 98, American Olympic boxer.
• Dolores Richard Spikes, 78, American mathematician.
• Phili Viehoff, 90, Dutch politician, member of the European Parliament.
• Tadeusz Józef Zawistowski, 85, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Łomża.
• Robert K. Zukowski, 85, American farmer and politician.

  2

• Ifeoma Aggrey-Fynn, 34, Nigerian media personality, shot.
• Claudio Angelini, 72, Italian political correspondent.
• Fernando de Araújo, 52, East Timorese politician, President of the National Parliament, Acting President, stroke.
• Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas, 80, Colombian-born Dutch artist.
• Shufti Chaudhri, 95, Pakistani World War II British Indian Army officer.
• Martin Cole, 83, British sexologist.
• Alberto De Martino, 85, Italian film director.
• Walter Dexter, 83, Canadian ceramic artist.
• Giovan Battista Fabbri, 89, Italian football player and manager.
• Ortho R. Fairbanks, 90, American sculptor.
• Dennis Fidler, 76, English footballer.
• Gene Maddox, 76, American politician, Mayor of Clive, Iowa, member of the Iowa General Assembly.
• Gordon S. Marshall, 95, American electronics entrepreneur and philanthropist.
• John Mellekas, 81, American football player.
• Eugen Mwaiposa, 54, Tanzanian politician, MP for Ukonga.
• Clemens Nathan, 81, British humanitarian.
• Bijoya Ray, 98, Indian actress, pneumonia.
• Irwin Rose, 88, American biologist, Nobel laureate.
• Theo Saat, 87, Dutch Olympic sprinter.
• Shockley Shoemake, 92, American politician.
• Silvio Spaccesi, 88, Italian actor and voice actor.
• Kenneth Tempest, 93, British World War II Royal Air Force navigator.
• Besim Üstünel, 88, Turkish academic and politician.
• Tsonyo Vasilev, 63, Bulgarian footballer.
• Carmine Vingo, 85, American heavyweight boxer.
• Herb Wakabayashi, 70, Canadian-born Japanese Olympic ice hockey player.
• Charls Walker, 91, American economist and lobbyist.
• Norm Weiss, 79, Canadian politician.
• Stephen Wojdak, 76, American lobbyist and politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, respiratory failure.

  3

• Avi Beker, 64, Israeli academic, secretary-general of the World Jewish Congress, cancer.
• Horst Brandstätter, 81, German company owner, founder of Playmobil.
• Thomas Flynn, 83, Irish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Achonry.
• Bevo Francis, 82, American college basketball player.
• Leszek Hensler, 59, Polish Olympic hockey player.
• Margaret Juntwait, 58, American radio broadcaster, host of Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts, ovarian cancer.
• Eugene Kennedy, 86, American psychologist and theologian.
• Bud Kraehling, 96, American journalist and weatherman, cancer.
• Ricardo Morán, 74, Argentine actor.
• Nidoïsh Naisseline, 69, New Caledonian politician, President of Loyalty Islands Province.
• Fouad Qandil, 71, Egyptian author.
• Imre Rapp, 77, Hungarian international football player.

  4

• Bengt Berndtsson, 82, Swedish footballer.
• Edith Hancke, 86, German actress.
• Wayne Harris, 77, American Hall of Fame CFL football player.
• Charlie Morris, 88, British-born Australian naval officer and Olympic hammer thrower.
• Marguerite Patten, 99, British cookery writer, home economist and broadcaster.
• Leonid Plyushch, 77, Ukrainian Soviet dissident and mathematician.
• Jørgen Ravn, 75, Danish footballer.
• Henry Sampson, American electrical engineer and inventor.
• Roy Stroud, 90, English footballer.
• Jabe Thomas, 85, American racecar driver, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Dame Anne Warburton, 87, British diplomat, Ambassador to Denmark, Permanent Representative to the UN in Geneva, President of Lucy Cavendish College.
• Kurt Weber, 87, Polish cinematographer.
• Ray Weigh, 86, Welsh footballer.
• Albert West, 65, Dutch singer and record producer.
• Hermann Zapf, 96, German typeface designer.

  5

• Mehmet Abbasoğlu, 59, Turkish Kurdish politician, cancer.
• Govindrao Adik, 76, Indian politician.
• Tariq Aziz, 79, Iraqi politician, Foreign Minister, heart attack.
• Eshel Ben-Jacob, 63, Israeli physicist.
• Alan Bond, 77, British-born Australian businessman and convicted fraudster, complications from heart surgery.
• Sadun Boro, 87, Turkish sailor, bladder cancer.
• Manuel Camacho Solís, 69, Mexican politician, Mayor of Mexico City, Foreign Minister, Senator.
• Kazuo Chiba, 75, Japanese Aikido teacher.
• Jerry Collins, 34, Samoan-born New Zealand rugby union player, traffic collision.
• Xavier de Roux, 74, French politician.
• Frits Dragstra, 87, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives.
• Giacomo Furia, 90, Italian actor.
• Anita Hagen, 84, Canadian politician, cancer.
• Jane Briggs Hart, 93, American aviator, member of the Mercury 13, founding member of NOW, Alzheimer's disease.
• Ralph Hyde, 76, British curator.
• Jill Hyem, 78, British scriptwriter and actress.
• Julien Mawule Kouto, 68, Togolese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Atakpamé.
• Colette Marchand, 90, French ballerina and actress.
• Te Uruhina McGarvey, 87, New Zealand Māori elder.
• Worth McMillion, 88, American racing car driver.
• Paul A. Miller, 98, American academic, President of the Rochester Institute of Technology.
• Irving Mondschein, 91, American Olympic athlete and coach.
• Robbi Sapinggi, 30, Malaysian mountain guide, earthquake.
• Lecretia Seales, 42, New Zealand lawyer and right-to-die campaigner, brain cancer.
• George Seitz, 73, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Keilor.
• Paolo Tullio, 65, Italian-born Irish Michelin Star-winning chef and resident food critic.
• Roger Vergé, 85, French chef, co-founder of Nouvelle Cuisine, complications of diabetes.
• Seth Winston, 64, American screenwriter and director, Oscar winner, heart attack.

  6

• Barry Albin-Dyer, 64, British undertaker, brain cancer.
• Aarthi Agarwal, 31, American Telugu cinema actress, heart attack.
• Pierre Brice, 86, French actor, pneumonia.
• M. N. Buch, 80, Indian urban planner.
• Vincent Bugliosi, 80, American prosecuting attorney and author, cancer.
• Callisto Cosulich, 92, Italian film critic, author and screenwriter.
• Jorge Galemire, 64, Uruguayan musician.
• Ronnie Gilbert, 88, American singer-songwriter and actress.
• Colin Jackson, 68, Scottish footballer, leukaemia.
• Richard Johnson, 87, English actor.
• Dieter Medicus, 86, German jurist.
• Nyla Murphy, 83, American politician, bile duct cancer.
• Steve Nave, American actor and casting director, cancer.
• Steve Pritko, 94, American football player.
• Feras Saied, 34, Syrian bodybuilder, traffic collision.
• Sergey Sharikov, 40, Russian sabre fencer, two-time Olympic champion, traffic collision.
• Ludvík Vaculík, 88, Czech writer and journalist.
• John Williams, 87, American art historian.

  7

• Sheikh Razzak Ali, 86, Bangladeshi politician.
• Ken Barrett, 77, English footballer.
• Giuseppe Casarrubea, 69, Italian historian and author.
• Robert K. Casey, 83, American physician and politician.
• Ahmad Ghazi, 79, Iranian Kurdish writer and translator.
• Jimmy Goins, 66, American tribal politician, Chairman of the Lumbee Tribe, traffic collision.
• John Hurry, 95, British World War II air force officer.
• Felicia Kentridge, 84, South African lawyer and anti-apartheid activist, progressive supranuclear palsy.
• Harold LeDoux, 88, American cartoonist.
• Sir Christopher Lee, 93, British actor, voice artist, and singer, heart failure.
• Sean Pappas, 49, South African golfer, heart attack.
• Peter Petherick, 72, New Zealand cricketer.
• Gwilym Prichard, 84, Welsh painter.
• Jane Riga, 41, Estonian mountain climber, avalanche.
• Cole Tucker, 61, American pornographic actor, complications from AIDS.
• Vasili Zhupikov, 61, Russian footballer.

  8

• Archie Alleyne, 82, Canadian jazz drummer, cancer.
• Paul Bacon, 91, American book and album cover designer and jazz musician.
• Muhammad Sharif Butt, 89, Pakistani Olympic sprinter.
• Frank Cappuccino, 86, American boxing referee, Alzheimer's disease.
• Marie-Louise Carven, 105, French fashion designer.
• Thomas Chambers, 83, South African cricketer.
• Aldo da Rosa, 97, Brazilian electrical engineer.
• Eugenia Davitashvili, 65, Russian faith healer.
• Mervin Field, 94, American opinion pollster.
• Jack Grimsley, 89, Australian musical director and composer.
• Jean Gruault, 90, French screenwriter and actor.
• Otakar Hořínek, 86, Czech sport shooter, Olympic silver medalist.
• Valery Levental, 76, Russian theater stage designer.
• Elizabeth Peet McIntosh, 100, American spy, heart attack.
• Lynn Miles, 71, American human rights and Taiwan democracy activist, cancer.
• Tiki Nxumalo, 65, South African actor, asthma attack.
• Dasaradhi Rangacharya, 86, Indian writer and politician.
• Ivanka Raspopović, 85, Serbian modernist architect.
• David Rotem, 66, Israeli politician, member of the Knesset for Yisrael Beiteinu, heart attack.
• Chea Sim, 81, Cambodian politician, President of the Cambodian People's Party.
• Laurie Thompson, 77, British translator.
• Peter van Wijmen, 76, Dutch lawyer, professor and politician, member of the House of Representatives.

  9

• Finn Backer, 87, Norwegian Supreme Court judge.
• Larry Eschen, 94, American baseball player.
• Hemant Kanitkar, 72, Indian Test cricketer.
• Igor Kostin, 78, Romanian-born Ukrainian photographer, took first pictures of Chernobyl disaster, traffic collision.
• James Last, 86, German composer and big band leader.
• Fred Anton Maier, 76, Norwegian speed skater, Olympic champion, cancer.
• Amos Midzi, 62, Zimbabwean politician and diplomat, poisoned.
• Vincent Musetto, 74, American film critic, pancreatic cancer.
• Pumpkinhead, 39, American rapper.
• Rainer Riehn, 73, German composer and conductor.
• Alvin J. Salkind, 87, American chemical engineer.
• Sir Peter Williams, 80, New Zealand lawyer, prostate cancer.
• Pedro Zerolo, 55, Venezuelan-born Spanish politician, pancreatic cancer.

  10

• David Bellotti, 71, British politician and football executive, MP for Eastbourne, CEO of Brighton & Hove Albion.
• Bonecrusher, 32, New Zealand Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized following laminitis.
• Robert Chartoff, 81, American film producer, Oscar winner, pancreatic cancer.
• Larry Fisher, 65, Canadian convicted murderer.
• Johnny Fullam, 75, Irish footballer.
• Charles Wyndham Goodwyn, 81, British philatelist, Keeper of the Royal Philatelic Collection.
• Esther Harrison, 69, American politician, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives for the 41st District.
• Hugo Höllenreiner, 81, German Sinti Porajmos survivor.
• Wolfgang Jeschke, 78, German science fiction author.
• Coetie Neethling, 82, South African cricketer.
• Héctor Pérez Plazola, 81, Mexican politician.
• Ray Reidy, 78, Irish priest and hurler.
• Henry E. Riggs, 80, American academic.
• Geoff Robinson, 71, English cricketer.
• Judith St. George, 84, American author.
• Brian Taylor, 78, English footballer.

  11

• Jim Ed Brown, 81, American country singer, lung cancer.
• Arshad Chaudhry, 65, Pakistani Olympic bronze medallist field hockey player.
• Ornette Coleman, 85, American saxophonist and free jazz pioneer, cardiac arrest.
• Vittorio De Angelis, 52, Italian voice actor, heart attack.
• Jack King, 84, American public affairs officer, heart failure.
• Sarah Kyolaba, 59, Ugandan businesswoman, cancer.
• Sebastiano Mannironi, 84, Italian Olympic weightlifter.
• Ian McKechnie, 73, Scottish footballer.
• Ron Moody, 91, British actor.
• Mary Mulvihill, 55, Irish science writer.
• David Premack, 89, American psychologist.
• Dusty Rhodes, 69, American professional wrestler, booker and promoter, Hall of Fame, kidney failure.
• James Robertson, 86, Scottish footballer.
• Donald Sheldon, 85, American Olympic cyclist
• John Benjamin Stewart, 90, Canadian politician, MP for Antigonish—Guysborough.
• Charles Williams, 90, British Royal Navy rear admiral.

  12

• Nasir al-Wuhayshi, 38, Yemeni Islamist militant, leader of AQAP, airstrike.
• Shoshana Arbeli-Almozlino, 89, Iraqi-born Israeli politician, Minister of Health, Alzheimer's disease.
• Fernando Brant, 68, Brazilian poet and composer, complications of liver transplantation.
• Nek Chand, 90, Indian artist.
• Pierre Dolbeault, 90, French mathematician.
• Rick Ducommun, 62, Canadian actor, complications from diabetes.
• Micol Fontana, 101, Italian fashion designer and entrepreneur.
• James Gowan, 91, British architect.
• Hugh Johnson, Irish cinematographer.
• Monica Lewis, 93, American singer and actress, voice of Chiquita Banana.
• Frederick Pei Li, 75, Chinese-born American physician, Alzheimer's disease.
• Thomas Mayer, 88, American economist.
• José Messias, 86, Brazilian musician and television personality, multiple organ failure from kidney disease.
• Andrés Mora, 60, Mexican baseball player, pneumonia.
• Alain Nadaud, 66, French author and diplomat.
• Antoni Pitxot, 81, Spanish painter.
• Alexander Rondeli, 73, Georgian political scientist.
• Jacques Rosay, 66, French test pilot.
• Max Spittle, 92, Australian VFL football player.
• Patrick Lennox Tierney, 101, American art historian and Japanologist.
• Sümer Tilmaç, 67, Turkish actor, heart attack.
• Ernest Tomlinson, 90, British composer.

  13

• Big Time Sarah, 62, American blues singer.
• Buddy Boudreaux, 97, American jazz saxophonist and band leader.
• Allan Browne, 70, Australian jazz drummer.
• Tomás Ó Con Cheanainn, 94, Irish historian.
• Darius Dhlomo, 83, South African boxer, footballer and musician.
• Russell J. Donnelly, 85, Canadian physicist.
• Drs. P, 95, Swiss-born Dutch writer, composer and singer.
• Magnus Härenstam, 73, Swedish actor and comedian, spinal cancer.
• Junix Inocian, 64, Filipino actor.
• Sheila Kaul, 100, Indian politician, Governor of Himachal Pradesh.
• Graham Lord, 72, British biographer and novelist, liver cancer.
• David Oniya, 30, Nigerian footballer, heart attack.
• Sergio Renán, 82, Argentine actor, director and screenwriter.
• David C. Richardson, 101, American navy vice admiral.
• Walter Scheib, 61, American chef, White House Executive Chef, drowning.
• Mike Shrimpton, 74, New Zealand cricket player and coach.
• Phillip Toyne, 67, Australian environmental and indigenous affairs activist, bowel cancer.
• George Winslow, 69, American child actor, heart attack.

  14

• George Arthur, 46, Ghanaian football player and coach, cardiac arrest.
• Bob Bedell, 70, American basketball player.
• Hugo Blanco, 74, Venezuelan musician and composer.
• John Carroll, 73, American newspaper editor, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease.
• Richard Cotton, 74, Australian geneticist.
• Harri Czepuck, 87, German journalist.
• Pasquale Foresi, 85, Italian priest and theologian.
• Anne Nicol Gaylor, 88, American atheism and reproductive rights advocate, co-founder of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, complications from a fall.
• Boris Godjunov, 74, Bulgarian singer.
• Phil Judd, 81, English rugby union player.
• David Kennedy, 73, American film producer, complications following knee replacement surgery.
• Hilary Masters, 87, American author.
• Habibur Rahman Milon, 80, Bangladeshi journalist.
• Peter Prier, 73, German-born American violin maker.
• Qiao Shi, 90, Chinese politician, Chairman of the National People's Congress.
• Godfrey Steyn, 80, South African cricketer.
• Walter Weller, 75, Austrian conductor and violinist.
• Zito, 82, Brazilian footballer, World Cup-winning team member, complications of a stroke.

  15

• Ali Awni al-Harzi, 29, Tunisian Islamic militant, air strike.
• Wendy Coburn, 51, Canadian artist and academic.
• Wilfried David, 69, Belgian professional cyclist, 1973 Tour de France stage winner, traffic collision.
• Jean Doré, 70, Canadian politician, Mayor of Montreal, pancreatic cancer.
• Gerry Duffy, 84, Irish cricketer.
• Elisabeth Elliot, 88, American missionary and author.
• Alv Jakob Fostervoll, 83, Norwegian politician, Governor of Møre og Romsdal, Minister of Defence.
• Jeanna Friske, 40, Russian singer, brain cancer.
• Daniel W. Gade, 78, American geographer.
• Howard Johnson, 89, English footballer.
• Kirk Kerkorian, 98, American businessman.
• Magdalena Kopp, 67, German photographer and political activist.
• Mighty Sam McClain, 72, American soul blues singer, stroke.
• António Marques Mendes, 81, Portuguese lawyer and politician.
• Jesús Moroles, 64, American sculptor, traffic collision.
• Rosalind Rowe, 82, English table tennis player.
• Harry Rowohlt, 70, German author.
• Blaze Starr, 83, American stripper, burlesque comedian and club owner, subject of Blaze, heart failure.
• Wu Kwok Hung, 66, Hong Kong international footballer, laryngeal cancer.

  16

• Stephen Blauner, 81, American manager and producer.
• Charles Correa, 84, Indian architect.
• Poul Jessen, 89, Danish Olympic gymnast.
• Rosalind McGee, 77, American politician, member of the Utah House of Representatives.
• William Pajaud, 89, American artist.
• Greg Parks, 48, Canadian ice hockey player, Olympic silver medalist.
• Tony Ranasinghe, 77, Sri Lankan actor.
• Bill Sirs, 95, British trade unionist.
• Catharni Stern, 89, British sculptor.
• Jean Vautrin, 82, French writer, filmmaker and critic.

  17

• Francisco Domingo Barbosa Da Silveira, 71, Uruguayan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Minas.
• Nicola Badalucco, 86, Italian screenwriter and journalist.
• Per Arne Bjerke, 63, Norwegian journalist and politician.
• Chang Ch'ung-ho, 101, Chinese-born American poet, calligrapher, and Kunqu opera singer.
• Ron Clarke, 78, Australian long distance runner, Olympic bronze medallist, Mayor of the Gold Coast, kidney failure.
• John David Crow, 79, American Heisman Trophy-winning football player and coach.
• Süleyman Demirel, 90, Turkish politician, President, lung infection.
• Nelson Doubleday, Jr., 81, American publisher and Major League Baseball team owner, pneumonia.
• Noah Hutchings, 92, American fundamentalist evangelist and radio personality.
• Jimmy Lee, 62, American investment banker, heart attack.
• Roberto M. Levingston, 95, Argentine politician, President.
• Clementa C. Pinckney, 41, American politician and pastor, member of the South Carolina House of Representatives and Senate, shot.
• Madan Mohan Punchhi, 81, Indian jurist, Chief Justice of India.
• Başar Sabuncu, 71, Turkish film director and screenwriter.
• Vlastimir Đuza Stojiljković, 85, Serbian actor.
• Jeralean Talley, 116, American supercentenarian, world's oldest living person.
• Bryan Vaughan, 84, Australian politician and lawyer.

  18

• Edward J. Boling, 95, American academic.
• Sir Patrick Eisdell Moore, 97, New Zealand surgeon.
• Georges Kersaudy, 93–94, French translator.
• Martin Krampen, 86, German semiotician.
• Frances Kroll Ring, 99, American secretary and editor.
• Ralph J. Roberts, 95, American businessman, founder of Comcast.
• Jack Rollins, 100, American film producer.
• John M. Stephens, 82, American cameraman and cinematographer.
• Kazuya Tatekabe, 80, Japanese voice actor, acute respiratory failure.
• Fredrik Fasting Torgersen, 80, Norwegian convicted murderer, complications of pneumonia.
• Jim Vandiver, 75, American racing driver.
• Danny Villanueva, 77, American football player and broadcasting executive, co-founder of Univision, complications from a stroke.
• Allen Weinstein, 77, American historian, Archivist of the United States, pneumonia.

  19

• Jack Aeby, 91, American photographer.
• Jagjit Singh Anand, 93, Indian political activist and newspaper editor.
• Phil Austin, 74, American comedian, writer, and musician, aneurysm.
• Harold Battiste, 83, American jazz and R&B composer, arranger and musician.
• Joachim Boosfeld, 93, German officer in the Waffen-SS.
• Jeff Bradstreet, 60, American medical researcher, suicide.
• Jim Brailsford, 85, English cricketer.
• Esther Clenott, 91, American politician, Mayor of Portland, Maine.
• Sir Harold Knight, 95, Australian economist, Governor of the Reserve Bank.
• Len Matarazzo, 86, American baseball player.
• Earl Norem, 91, American comic book artist.
• Rondal Partridge, 97, American photographer.
• Tukoji Rao Pawar, 51, Indian royal and politician, brain haemorrhage.
• Bruce Poulton, 88, American educator, Chancellor of North Carolina State University.
• Paul Quinn, 77, Australian rugby league player.
• Venkoba Rao, 89, Indian cricketer.
• James Salter, 90, American novelist.
• Xie Tieli, 89, Chinese film director.

  20

• Robert K. Abbett, 89, American artist and illustrator.
• William Brantley Aycock, 99, American educator, fall.
• Bob Barry, Jr., 58, American sportscaster, traffic collision.
• Ian Bradley, 77, British-born New Zealand naval officer and politician.
• Esther Brand, 92, South African athlete, Olympic champion, complications of a fall.
• JoAnn Dean Killingsworth, 91, American actress and dancer, first person to play Snow White at Disneyland, cancer.
• François Delapierre, 44, French politician, brain tumour.
• Harold Feinstein, 84, American photographer.
• Elson Floyd, 59, American educator, President of Washington State University, complications from colon cancer.
• James Kerzman, 68, American politician, member of the North Dakota House of Representatives, tractor accident.
• Michael Kidson, 85, British schoolmaster.
• Robert S. Neuman, 88, American abstract painter and print maker.
• Angelo Niculescu, 93, Romanian football player and manager.
• Gerhard A. Ritter, 86, German historian.
• Doug Rombough, 64, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Takanonami Sadahiro, 43, Japanese sumo wrestler and coach, heart failure.
• Miriam Schapiro, 91, Canadian-born American painter, sculptor and printmaker.
• Anthony Sydes, 74, American child actor.
• Takeover Target, 15, Australian Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanised.
• Nan Waddy, 100, Australian psychiatrist.

  21

• Robert Barritt, 88, Bermudian painter and politician, member of the House of Assembly and Senate.
• Tseng Chung-ming, 60, Taiwanese politician, cirrhosis and lung cancer.
• Cora Combs, 92, American professional wrestler, complications from pneumonia.
• Reg Ellis, 97, Australian cricketer.
• Juan José Estrada, 51, Mexican boxer, WBA bantamweight champion, stabbed.
• Ezkimo, 35, Finnish hip hop musician.
• Dave Godfrey, 76, Canadian novelist and publisher, pancreatic cancer.
• Darryl Hamilton, 50, American baseball player, shot.
• John Hoerr, 84, American journalist and historian.
• Roger Ishee, 85, American politician, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives.
• Tony Longo, 53, American actor, heart failure.
• Veijo Meri, 86, Finnish author.
• Remo Remotti, 90, Italian actor, playwright, painter, sculptor and poet.
• Jim Rowan, 79, Scottish footballer.
• Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski, 82, East German politician.
• Gunther Schuller, 89, American composer, conductor, historian and jazz musician, leukemia.
• Lynn Steen, 74, American mathematician, heart failure.
• Stanisław Szczepaniak, 80, Polish Olympic biathlete.
• Carl Thompson, 33, Britain's heaviest man.
• Arved Viirlaid, 93, Estonian-Canadian writer.
• Dick Warwick, 87, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Wayne Wettlaufer, 71, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, suspected heart attack.
• Jules Wright, 67, Australian-born British theatre director, breast cancer.⋅

  22

• Laura Antonelli, 73, Italian actress, heart attack.
• Norm Berryman, 42, New Zealand rugby union player, heart attack.
• Carlinhos, 77, Brazilian football player and coach.
• James Carnegie, 3rd Duke of Fife, 85, Scottish nobleman.
• Constantin Cernăianu, 81, Romanian football player and coach.
• Malcolm Colledge, 75, British archaeologist.
• Joseph de Pasquale, 95, American violist.
• Armand DiMele, 75, American psychotherapist and radio broadcaster, complications from pneumonia.
• Jimmy Doyle, 76, Irish hurler.
• Albert Evans, 46, American ballet dancer.
• Don Featherstone, 79, American artist and inventor of the plastic pink flamingo, Lewy body dementia.
• James Horner, 61, American film composer, Oscar winner, plane crash.
• Albert Ilemobade, 74, Nigerian academic, asphyxiation.
• Inge Ivarson, 97, Swedish film producer.
• Lyubov Kozyreva, 85, Russian Soviet cross-country skier, Olympic gold medalist.
• David E. Kyvig, 71, American Constitutional scholar, heart attack.
• Buddy Landel, 53, American professional wrestler, injuries sustained in traffic collision.
• Donnie MacLeod, 76, Canadian politician.
• Guy Marchand, 71, French Olympic wrestler.
• Gregorio Morales, 62, Spanish author.
• Robert Sowell, 54, American football player, heart attack.
• Dick Stanfel, 87, American football player and coach.
• Tama, 16, Japanese calico cat, stationmaster at Kishi Station, heart failure.
• Ted Whelan, 85, Australian football player.
• Gabriele Wohmann, 83, German author.

  23

• Jack Asher, 88, Scottish shinty player and referee.
• Sanjeet Bedi, Indian actor.
• Praful Bidwai, 66, Indian journalist.
• Sharon Bryant, 54, American tribal politician, Chief of the Monacan Indian Nation, liver cancer.
• Marujita Díaz, 83, Spanish singer and actress, complications from colon cancer.
• Miguel Facussé Barjum, 90, Honduran businessman and landowner.
• Tommy Hudspeth, 83, American football coach and administrator, cancer.
• Nirmala Joshi, 80, Indian Roman Catholic religious sister, Superior General of the Missionaries of Charity.
• Thé Lau, 62, Dutch singer and guitarist, lung cancer.
• Helmuth Lohner, 82, Austrian actor and theatre director.
• Elizabeth MacLennan, 77, Scottish actress, writer and stage practitioner, leukaemia.
• Alex Mathew, 57, Indian actor, heart attack.
• Donald Max, 58, Tanzanian politician, MP for Geita.
• Ben Mboi, 80, Indonesian politician, Governor of East Nusa Tenggara.
• Domenico Moschella, 67, Canadian politician, Montreal City Councillor.
• Shusei Nagaoka, 78, Japanese illustrator.
• Magali Noël, 83, Turkish-born French actress and singer.
• Pat Peppler, 93, American football coach and executive.
• Jacques Perrier, 90, French Olympic silver medallist basketball player.
• Harvey Pollack, 93, American sport statistician, last surviving employee from first NBA season.
• Ajit Singh, 74, Indian-born British economist.
• Lonnie Spurrier, 83, American Olympic middle-distance runner.
• Tom Stagg, 92, American judge, U.S. District Court Chief Judge for the Western District of Louisiana.
• Dick Van Patten, 86, American actor, complications from diabetes.
• Sir Chris Woodhead, 68, British educationalist, Chief Inspector for Ofsted, motor neurone disease.

  24

• Cristiano Araújo, 29, Brazilian singer and songwriter, traffic collision.
• Dileep Singh Bhuria, 71, Indian politician.
• Mario Biaggi, 97, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York.
• Walter Browne, 66, Australian-born American chess Grandmaster, six-time U.S. champion.
• Marva Collins, 78, American educator.
• Susan Ahn Cuddy, 100, American Navy officer.
• Ruqaiya Hasan, 83, Indian linguist.
• João Lopes, 95, Portuguese Olympic equestrian
• John Joe Nerney, 93, Irish Gaelic footballer.
• John Palmer, 64, British criminal, shot.
• Robert Hugh Pickering, 82, Canadian politician and curler.
• John Winn, 94, British army officer.

  25

• Lou Butera, 78, American pool player, Parkinson's disease.
• Sir Graham Dorey, 82, Guernsey judge, Bailiff of Guernsey.
• Gordon Fearnley, 65, English footballer.
• Graham Gilchrist, 82, Australian football player.
• Hal Gould, 95, American photographer and gallery curator.
• Gunnar Kulldorff, 87, Swedish statistician.
• Maravene Loeschke, 68, American college administrator, adrenal cancer.
• Patrick Macnee, 93, English-American actor.
• Hélène Monette, 55, Canadian poet, cancer.
• Nerses Bedros XIX Tarmouni, 75, Egyptian-born Armenian Catholic hierarch, Patriarch-Catholicos of Cilicia.
• Vithal Rao, 85, Indian ghazal singer.
• Jamie Reid, 74, Canadian writer and activist.
• Alejandro Romay, 88, Argentine businessman.
• Alex Scott, 85, Australian-British actor.
• Jan de Voogd, 90, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives.
• Theodore Weesner, 79, American author.
• O'Kelley Whitaker, 88, American prelate, Episcopal Bishop of Central New York.

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• Paul Ambros, 82, German Hall of Fame ice hockey player.
• Pétur Blöndal, 71, Icelandic politician and mathematician.
• Roger Bordier, 92, French author.
• Larry Carberry, 79, English footballer.
• Damion Cook, 36, American football player, heart attack.
• Jerome M. Hughes, 85, American politician, President of the Minnesota Senate.
• David McAlister, 64, British actor, cancer.
• Matti Makkonen, 63, Finnish telecommunications engineer.
• Richard Matt, 49, American convicted murderer and prison escapee, shot.
• Norman Poole, 95, British World War II paratrooper.
• Yevgeny Primakov, 85, Russian politician and diplomat, Prime Minister.
• Gustavo Sainz, 74, Mexican writer.
• Kája Saudek, 80, Czech comics illustrator.
• Kal Segrist, 84, American baseball player.
• Shiv Singh, 76, Indian artist.
• Alexa Suelzer, 97, American author, educator and theologian.
• Chris Thompson, 63, American writer and producer.
• Denis Thwaites, 70, English footballer, shot.
• David Turner, 91, American rower, Olympic gold medalist.
• Donald Wexler, 89, American architect.

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• Jane Aaron, 67, American filmmaker and children's book illustrator, cancer.
• Eric Dunn, 85, New Zealand cricketer.
• Zvi Elpeleg, 89, Polish-born Israeli diplomat and academic.
• Elery Hamilton-Smith, 85, Australian academic and conservationist.
• Knut Helle, 84, Norwegian historian.
• Harvey McGregor, 89, British barrister, Warden of New College, Oxford.
• Ghias Mela, 53, Pakistani politician, member of the National Assembly from Sargodha, cardiac arrest.
• Boris Shilkov, 87, Russian speed skater, Olympic champion.
• Chris Squire, 67, English bass guitarist, acute erythroid leukaemia.
• Bronius Vyšniauskas, 92, Lithuanian sculptor.

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• Ian Allan, 92, British publisher.
• Pete Athas, 67, American football player, lymphoma.
• Goran Brajković, 36, Croatian football player, traffic collision.
• Robert C. Broward, 89, American architect.
• Jack Carter, 93, American comedian and actor, respiratory failure.
• Carlyle Crockwell, 83, Bermudian football referee.
• Edgar Dawson, 83, British rugby league player.
• Dietrich Haugk, 90, German film director and voice actor.
• Louis Norberg Howard, 86, American mathematician.
• Thomas P. Kennedy, 63, American politician.
• Joe Lobenstein, 88, German-born British politician.
• Liam Ó Murchú, 86, Irish broadcaster.
• Jope Seniloli, 76, Fijian politician, Vice-President.
• Sivuqaq, 21, American walrus and animal actor, heart failure.
• Todor Slavov, 31, Bulgarian rally driver, race crash.
• Wally Stanowski, 96, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Ben Wattenberg, 81, American author and political commentator, complications from surgery.
• Bart Williams, 65, American documentary filmmaker and actor, cancer.

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• Hisham Barakat, 64, Egyptian prosecutor, car bombing.
• Forrest Behm, 95, American football player.
• Helge Ole Bergesen, 65, Norwegian political scientist and politician, cancer.
• Ladislav Chudík, 91, Slovak actor.
• Bill Cross, 97, British World War II soldier and Legion of honour recipient.
• Willie Daniel, 77, American football player.
• Rabbe Grönblom, 65, Finnish chief executive.
• Kauto Star, 15, French-born British-trained racehorse, dual winner of the Cheltenham Gold Cup, euthanized.
• Clayton Kenny, 86, Canadian Olympic boxer.
• Josef Masopust, 84, Czech football player and manager.
• Joseph Bryan Nelson, 83, British ornithologist.
• Charles Pasqua, 88, French politician, Minister of the Interior.
• Mujibar Rahman, 96, Bangladeshi medical scientist.
• Bruce Rowland, 74, British rock drummer.
• Jackson Vroman, 34, American-Lebanese basketball player, drowned.

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• Charles W. Bagnal, 81, American Army lieutenant general.
• Edward Burnham, 98, English actor.
• Robert Dewar, 70, English-born American computer scientist, cancer.
• Raymond Dot, 88, French Olympic gymnast.
• Reiner Hanschke, 74, German Olympic hockey player.
• Charles Harbutt, 79, American photographer, emphysema.
• Ronald Kissell, 82, Australian cricketer.
• Eddy Louiss, 74, French jazz organist.
• K. P. P. Nambiar, 86, Indian industrialist.
• Paolo Piffarerio, 90, Italian animator and cartoonist.
• Arthur Porter, 59, Canadian physician, lung cancer.
• Leonard Starr, 89, American cartoonist.
• Khosrow Shakeri Zand, 76, Iranian author and human rights activist.