Deaths in June 2019
The following is a list of notable deaths in June 2019.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship, reason for notability, cause of death, and reference.
June 2019
1
- Camille Billops, 85, American sculptor, filmmaker, archivist and printmaker.
- Leah Chase, 96, American Creole chef.
- Glen Cressman, 84, Canadian ice hockey player.
- Nikola Dinev, 65, Bulgarian Olympic wrestler, world champion.
- Stephen Heilmann, 77, Greenlandic politician and journalist.
- Lee Shin Cheng, 79, Malaysian oil executive and property developer.
- Christobel Mattingley, 87, Australian writer.
- John Myers, 60, British radio executive and presenter, cancer.
- Sibongile Judith Nkomo, 63, South African politician, Secretary-General of the Inkatha Freedom Party and MP.
- Charles Reid, 81, American painter.
- José Antonio Reyes, 35, Spanish footballer, traffic collision.
- Michel Serres, 88, French philosopher, theorist and writer.
- Harry C. Triandis, 92, Greek-born American psychologist.
- Fons van de Vijver, 66, Dutch psychologist, brain haemorrhage.
- Alasdair Walker, 62, British physician and naval officer, brain cancer.
- Matt Wrbican, 60, American archivist and writer, brain cancer.
- Ani Yudhoyono, 66, Indonesian socialite, First Lady, leukaemia.
2
- Momtazuddin Ahmed, 84, Bangladeshi playwright and educationist.
- Yannick Bellon, 95, French film director.
- Luigi Biscardi, 90, Italian politician, Senator, Mayor of Larino.
- Steven Allan Boggs, 72, American scientist, brain cancer.
- Piet Botha, 63, South African rock musician, pancreatic cancer.
- Alistair Browning, 65, New Zealand actor, cancer.
- Neeta Choudhary, 50, Indian politician, MLA.
- P. K. Dharmalingam, 84, Indian cricketer.
- Donald M. Fraser, 95, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Mayor of Minneapolis.
- Jacob W. Gruber, 98, American archaeologist and anthropologist.
- Barry Hughes, 81, Welsh football manager.
- Iftikhar-ul-Hasan Kandhlawi, 97, Indian Islamic scholar.
- Alexey Kazannik, 77, Russian lawyer and politician, Prosecutor General and Deputy Governor of Omsk Oblast.
- Jerry Krall, 92, American football player.
- Lee Siu-kei, 69, Hong Kong actor, liver cancer.
- Luisinho Lemos, 67, Brazilian football player and manager, heart attack.
- Walter Lübcke, 65, German politician, shot.
- Henry T. Lynch, 91, American physician and cancer genetic researcher, namesake of Lynch syndrome.
- Ken Matthews, 84, English race walker, Olympic champion.
- Arthur A. McGiverin, 90, American judge, Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court.
- Nazmul Huda Mintu, 76, Bangladeshi film director.
- Stuart Mustow, 90, British civil engineer.
- Lowell North, 89, American sailor, five-time world champion, Olympic champion.
- Mart Nutt, 57, Estonian politician and historian, MP.
- Maciej Parowski, 72, Polish science fiction writer and editor.
- Don Pederson, 90, American politician, member of the Nebraska Legislature, pancreatic cancer.
- Noa Pothoven, 17, Dutch mental health activist and author, voluntary starvation.
- Alan Rollinson, 76, British racing driver, cancer.
- Mahmoud Soufi, 47, Qatari footballer.
3
- Hans Ankum, 88, Dutch legal scholar.
- Atsushi Aoki, 41, Japanese professional wrestler, traffic collision.
- Javier Barreda Jara, 52, Peruvian politician, Minister of Labor and Promotion of Employment, heart attack.
- Larry Beck, 79, American golfer.
- David Bergland, 83, American politician, chair of the Libertarian National Committee, prostate cancer.
- Agustina Bessa-Luís, 96, Portuguese writer.
- Ellen Bree Burns, 95, American senior judge, judge of the Federal District Court for the District of Connecticut.
- Ian Craft, 81, British physician.
- Roy Cruttenden, 94, British Olympic long jumper.
- Paul Darrow, 78, English actor.
- Fabrizio Fabbri, 70, Italian racing cyclist.
- Guy François, 71, Haitian footballer, heart attack.
- Evangelina García Prince, 84, Venezuelan women's rights activist, politician and academic, Senator and member of the Comisión para la Reforma del Estado.
- He Yi-hang, 62, Taiwanese television host and actor, colorectal cancer.
- Jurica Jerković, 69, Croatian footballer.
- Duchess Woizlawa Feodora of Mecklenburg, 100, German royal.
- Simjon Rosenfeld, 96, Polish-born Israeli Holocaust survivor.
- Michael Rumaker, 87, American writer.
- Tang Dingyuan, 99, Chinese physicist, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
- Ruma Guha Thakurta, 84, Indian actress and singer.
- Stanley Tigerman, 88, American architect, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
- Stanisław Wróblewski, 59, Polish Olympic wrestler.
4
- Alene S. Ammond, 86, American politician, New Jersey Senator, pneumonia.
- Keith Birdsong, 59, American illustrator, complications of cerebral hemorrhage from traffic collision.
- Emerson Cole, 91, American football player.
- Linda Collins-Smith, 57, American politician, member of the Arkansas House of Representatives and Senate, shot.
- Roger Covell, 88, Australian musicologist, critic and author.
- George Darwin, 87, English footballer.
- Léonard Dhejju, 88, Congolese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Uvira and Bunia.
- Billy Gabor, 97, American basketball player.
- Robin Herd, 80, British engineer, designer and businessman, co-founder of March Engineering.
- Teruko Ishizaka, 92, Japanese immunologist, pneumonia.
- Lennart Johansson, 89, Swedish sports official, president of UEFA.
- Max Kay, 82, Scottish-born Australian entertainer and manager, pneumonia as a complication of cancer.
- Lawrie Leslie, 84, Scottish footballer.
- Zakaria Ben Mustapha, 93, Tunisian politician, Mayor of Tunis and Minister of Culture.
- John Neff, 87, American investor.
- Joe Overstreet, 85, American painter.
- Nechama Rivlin, 73, Israeli academic and scientist, First Lady, complications from lung transplant.
- Antoni Roig Muntaner, 87, Spanish chemist and politician.
- Geevarghese Mar Timotheos, 91, Indian Eastern Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tiruvalla.
5
- Dinyar Contractor, 79, Indian actor.
- David Y. Copeland III, 88, American politician, member of the Tennessee House of Representatives.
- Noël Desaubliaux, 96, French Olympic sailor.
- Claire Donovan, 71, British historian.
- Robert Earle, 93, American game show host.
- Aubrey Gatewood, 80, American baseball player.
- Alejandro Jadresic, 62, Chilean engineer and politician, Minister of Energy, brain cancer.
- Jan Karwecki, 70, Polish footballer.
- Wilfried Kohlars, 79, German footballer.
- Geoff Lees, 85, English footballer.
- Raymond Louw, 92, South African journalist.
- John Lynch, 85, Irish Gaelic footballer.
- Johnny McGrath, 87–88, Irish hurler.
- Mohamed Negm, 75, Egyptian actor and comedian, stroke.
- Jonathan Nichols, 53, American politician, member of the Oklahoma Senate, shot.
- Lloyd John Ogilvie, 88, American Presbyterian minister, Chaplain of the U.S. Senate.
- Prakash Pant, 58, Indian politician, Finance Minister of Uttarakhand, cancer.
- Sir David Plastow, 87, British automobile and medical research executive.
- Albert Rohan, 83, Austrian diplomat, Permanent Secretary of the Austrian Foreign Minister.
- Herbert Sandler, 87, American banker.
- Elio Sgreccia, 90, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal, President of Pontifical Academy for Life.
- Stan Smith, 94, Australian footballer.
- Peter Toogood, 89, Australian amateur golfer.
6
- Joan Callahan, 76, American philosopher, liver cancer.
- Sharon Cather, 71, American art historian.
- John Gunther Dean, 93, American diplomat.
- Dr. John, 77, American Hall of Fame singer-songwriter, heart attack.
- Maida Heatter, 102, American pastry chef.
- Alexander Kuznetsov, 59, Russian-born American actor.
- Dave Marshall, 76, American baseball player.
- Rolf Maurer, 81, Swiss road racing cyclist.
- Schubert M. Ogden, 91, American theologian.
- Bolesław Pylak, 97, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop and Archbishop of Lublin.
- Johnny Robinson, 83, English footballer.
- Enver Sajjad, 84, Pakistani playwright.
- M. Sathyanarayana, 74, Indian politician, MLA.
- Seiko Tanabe, 91, Japanese author, cholangitis.
- Harry Thomson, 85, Malawian politician.
- Jota Mario Valencia, 63, Colombian television presenter, stroke.
- Ned Wheeler, 87, Irish hurler.
7
- Noémi Ban, 96, Hungarian-born American public speaker and Holocaust survivor.
- Jules Blattner, 78, American singer and guitarist.
- Ryszard Bugajski, 76, Polish film director.
- Eva Côté, 85, Canadian politician, MP.
- Franklyn Edwards, 81, Montserratian cricketer.
- Nello Governato, 80, Italian footballer.
- Nonnie Griffin, 85, Canadian actress and voice actress, ruptured aortic aneurysm.
- Narciso Ibáñez Serrador, 83, Uruguayan-born Spanish film director, urinary tract infection.
- Elisabeta Ionescu, 66, Romanian Olympic handball player, world championship silver medalist.
- Noel Lloyd, 72, Welsh academic, vice-chancellor of Aberystwyth University.
- Zhanneta Metallidi, 85, Russian composer and music educator.
- Julie Payne, 78, American actress, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
- Elżbieta Porzec, 74, Polish volleyball player, Olympic bronze medalist.
- Tony Rodham, 64, American presidential campaigner and business consultant.
- Donald E. Wilkes Jr., 74, American legal scholar.
8
- Milan Asadurov, 69, Bulgarian science fiction writer.
- Lucho Avilés, 81, Uruguayan-born Argentine entertainment journalist.
- Jenny Berthelius, 95, Swedish author.
- Wim Betz, 76, Belgian physician.
- Spencer Bohren, 69, American roots guitarist, prostate cancer.
- Guy Bois, 84, French historian.
- Jorge Brovetto, 86, Uruguayan engineer, academic and politician, President of Broad Front and Minister of Education and Culture.
- John Causby, 76, Australian cricketer.
- Adelaide M. Cromwell, 99, American sociologist.
- Norman Dewis, 98, British racing driver and engineer.
- Justin Edinburgh, 49, English football player and manager, cardiac arrest.
- Arthur Frackenpohl, 95, American composer.
- Kiron Kumar Gogoi, 64, Indian politician, MLA.
- Helmut Haid, 80, Austrian Olympic athlete.
- Bob Henderson, 85, Australian footballer.
- Karl Hurm, 88, German painter.
- Marja Leinonen, 73, Finnish linguist.
- Stefano Li Side, 92, Chinese clandestine Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tianjin.
- Frank Lucchesi, 92, American baseball player, coach and manager.
- Andre Matos, 47, Brazilian singer, heart attack.
- Renzo Patria, 85, Italian politician, Deputy.
- Eric Patterson, 26, American football player, shot.
- Abdul Baset al-Sarout, 27, Syrian footballer and militant, shot.
- Yehuda Talit, 74, Israeli businessman and record producer.
- Willie Williams, 67, American karateka, heart disease.
9
- Humberto Álvarez, 89, Colombian footballer.
- İbrahim Balaban, 98, Turkish painter, multiple organ failure.
- Yves Bot, 71, French magistrate, Advocate General of the European Court of Justice.
- Bill Bryant, 78, English rugby league player.
- Bushwick Bill, 52, Jamaican-American rapper, pancreatic cancer.
- Pádraig Carney, 91, Irish Gaelic footballer.
- Ahmed Essop, 87, Indian-born South African writer.
- Erla Bergendahl Hohler, 81, Norwegian archaeologist and art historian.
- Erich Iltgen, 78, German politician, president of the Landtag of Saxony.
- Maryon Kantaroff, 85, Canadian sculptor, complications from pneumonia.
- László Lantos, 80, Hungarian Olympic swimmer.
- Ma Ju-lung, 80, Taiwanese actor, infection.
- Mary Max, 52, American animal rights activist.
- Rafael Miguel, 22, Brazilian actor, shot.
- Adela Neffa, 96, Argentine-born Uruguayan sculptor.
- Joe Dan Osceola, 82, American Seminole tribal chief.
- Gerlind Reinshagen, 93, German writer.
- Helge Stormorken, 96, Norwegian veterinarian.
- Juhani Wahlsten, 81, Finnish ice hockey player.
- Wang Hanru, 81, Chinese major general and politician.
- William D. Wittliff, 79, American screenwriter, heart attack.
- Xu Datong, 90, Chinese political scientist and legal scholar.
10
- Beatrice Arbour, 98, American baseball player.
- Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, 84, American epidemiologist, cerebral vascular disease.
- Tom Derek Bowden, 97, British military officer.
- Lewis E. Braverman, 90, American endocrinologist, Waldenström's macroglobulinemia.
- Yuzuru Fujimoto, 83, Japanese voice actor, heart failure.
- Hao Yun, 94, Chinese translator, recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award in Translation.
- Klaus Hahn, 93, German Olympic rower.
- R. V. Janakiraman, 78, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Puducherry.
- Mohammed Sobhi al-Judeili, 36, Palestinian paramedic, shot.
- Girish Karnad, 81, Indian film director, actor and screenwriter.
- David Orr King, 81, American politician.
- Harold Lawson, 81–82, American-Swedish computer engineer.
- Lee Hee-ho, 96, South Korean women's rights and peace activist, First Lady, liver cancer.
- Mario Mangiarotti, 98, Italian fencer.
- Crazy Mohan, 66, Indian actor, heart attack.
- Ib Nørholm, 88, Danish composer and organist.
- Sven-David Sandström, 76, Swedish composer, cancer.
- Akhtar Sarfraz, 43, Pakistani cricketer, colon cancer.
- David Sawyier, 68, American Olympic rower.
- Alireza Shir Mohammad Ali, 21, Iranian political prisoner, stabbed.
- Paul Sinegal, 75, American zydeco and blues guitarist and singer.
- Michel Sitjar, 76, French rugby player, suicide.
- Sherman Utsman, 87, American racing driver.
- Wang Jun, 78, Chinese business executive, Chairman of the Poly Group and the CITIC Group.
- Peter Whitehead, 82, English writer and filmmaker.
- Cecil Woolf, 92, English author and publisher.
- Yang Yang, 44, Chinese tenor, suicide by jumping.
11
- Roberto Bailey, 66, Honduran footballer, traffic collision.
- Carl Bertelsen, 81, Danish footballer, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
- Yvan Delsarte, 90, Belgian Olympic basketball player.
- Domenico De Simone, 93, Italian politician, Mayor of Torremaggiore, Senator and Deputy.
- Martin Feldstein, 79, American economist, Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers.
- Gabriele Grunewald, 32, American middle-distance runner, salivary gland cancer.
- Abul Hasnat, 64, Indian politician.
- Mohaqiq Kabuli, 91, Afghan Grand Ayatollah.
- Billy McKee, 97, Irish republican, founding member and leader of the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
- Enrico Nascimbeni, 59, Italian singer, journalist and poet, heart attack.
- William Newman, 80, British computer scientist.
- Velvel Pasternak, 85, Canadian-born American musicologist.
- Francisco Miró Quesada Cantuarias, 100, Peruvian philosopher, journalist and politician, Minister of Public Education of Peru.
- Riazuddin, 60, Pakistani cricket umpire, heart attack.
- Robert Sorrells, 88, American actor and convicted murderer.
- Valeria Valeri, 97, Italian actress.
12
- Don Benson, 99, Australian rules footballer.
- Gattu Bheemudu, 67, Indian politician, MLA.
- Thandi Brewer, South African filmmaker, breast cancer.
- Gary Burrell, 81, American electronics executive and philanthropist, chairman and co-founder of Garmin.
- Chang Liyi, 89, Taiwanese pilot, member of the Black Cat Squadron, heart attack.
- Merv Collins, 85, Canadian football player.
- Armand De Decker, 70, Belgian lawyer and politician, President of the Senate.
- Te'o J. Fuavai, 82, American Samoan politician, former Senator, Speaker of the American Samoa House of Representatives.
- Fredrik Hagemann, 90, Norwegian geologist.
- Bridgette Jordan, 30, American record holder, world's shortest woman.
- Léon Kalenga Badikebele, 62, Congolese Roman Catholic prelate, Apostolic Nuncio to Argentina and Archbishop of Magnetum.
- Philomena Lynott, 88, Irish author, lung cancer.
- Wilbert J. McKeachie, 98, American psychologist.
- Sylvia Miles, 94, American actress.
- Bob Mitchell, 86, American baseball player.
- Julia Munro, 76, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.
- Elfriede Ott, 94, Austrian actress and singer.
- Ray Rigby, 96, American politician, member of the Idaho Senate.
- Igor Solopov, 58, Russian-born Estonian Olympic table tennis player, European championship bronze medalist.
- Tsuruko Yamazaki, 94, Japanese avant-garde artist, member of the Gutai group.
- Yozo Yokota, 78, American-Japanese lawyer and professor.
13
- Irena Backus, 69, Polish-born Swiss historian, complications from a stroke.
- Pat Bowlen, 75, American Hall of Fame sports executive, majority owner of the Denver Broncos, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
- Pierre DuMaine, 87, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of San Jose.
- Ron Ferri, 86, American artist.
- Nature Ganganbaigal, 29, Chinese-Mongolian folk-rock musician and composer.
- Edith González, 54, Mexican actress and dancer, ovarian cancer.
- Derrick Harris, 54, American music producer, kidney failure.
- Şeref Has, 82, Turkish footballer.
- A. Rahman Hassan, 73, Malaysian singer and composer.
- Derek Henderson, 93, English cricketer.
- Bourkou Louise Kabo, 84, Chadian politician, first woman Deputy.
- Edwin Michael Kosik, 94, American senior judge, member of the U.S. District Court for Middle Pennsylvania.
- Licelott Marte de Barrios, 85, Dominican politician, Minister of Finance and Deputy, cancer.
- Sean McCann, 83, Canadian actor, complications from heart disease.
- Menifee, 23, American racehorse, heart attack.
- R. Clayton Mitchell Jr., 83, American politician, member and speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates.
- Rosario Parmegiani, 82, Italian water polo player, Olympic champion.
- Joyce Pensato, 77, American painter.
- Jiří Pospíšil, 68, Czech Olympic basketball player.
- Pazhavila Rameshan, 83, Indian journalist and poet.
- Heinrich Reichert, 69, Swiss neurobiologist.
- Raul Ruiz, 78, American journalist and civil rights activist.
- Wilhelm Wieben, 84, German journalist, actor and author.
14
- Laura Almerich, 79, Spanish classical guitarist.
- Maurice Bénichou, 76, French actor.
- Roger Béteille, 97, French aeronautical engineer and businessman.
- Roland Boudreau, 83, Canadian politician, MLA.
- Elio Cruz, 87, Gibraltarian playwright, singer and songwriter.
- Francis P. Facione, 79, American prelate, Bishop of the Old Roman Catholic Church in North America.
- George E. Felton, 98, British computer scientist, developer of GEORGE operating system.
- Babayo Garba Gamawa, 53, Nigerian politician.
- Rod Hall, 81, American off-road racing driver, progressive supranuclear palsy.
- Bernard M. Judge, 79, American newspaper editor, pancreatic cancer.
- Ricardo Migliorisi, 71, Paraguayan painter and designer.
- Ning Bin, 60, Chinese control systems engineer, President of Beijing Jiaotong University, traffic collision.
- Vaira Paegle, 76, Latvian politician and diaspora activist.
- Dhaniram Paudel, 53, Nepalese politician, heart attack.
- K. Rathamani, 70, Indian politician, MLA, stomach cancer.
- Martin Roth, 41, Austrian artist.
- S. Sivasubramanian, 81, Indian politician, MLA.
- Butsaran Thongchiew, 28, Thai singer and actress.
- Ebert Van Buren, 94, American football player.
- James Wyngaarden, 94, American physician and academic administrator, director of the National Institutes of Health.
15
- Daniel Colin, 85, French politician, Deputy.
- David Esterly, 75, American woodcarver, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
- Larry Foss, 83, American baseball player.
- Marta Harnecker, 82, Chilean sociologist, politologist and journalist.
- Jane Hayward, 69, British actress.
- Wilhelm Holzbauer, 88, Austrian architect.
- Susannah Hunnewell, 52, American editor and publisher, cancer.
- Kevin Killian, 66, American poet, cancer.
- Charles A. Reich, 91, American scholar and author.
- Josl Rieder, 86, Austrian Olympic alpine skier, world champion.
- Beatriz Salomón, 65, Argentine actress, television presenter and singer, colon cancer.
- Wes Stewart, 74, Jamaican-born English cricketer.
- John Wilson, 79, Australian VFL footballer.
- Neville Tong, 84–85, English cyclist, heart attack
- Franco Zeffirelli, 96, Italian film and stage director and Senator.
16
- Frederick Andermann, 88, Ukrainian-born Canadian neurologist and epileptologist.
- Alan Brinkley, 70, American historian, complications from frontotemporal dementia.
- Bishop Bullwinkle, 70, American singer and comedian, heart attack.
- John Charles, 75, American football player.
- Kelly Coleman, 80, American basketball player.
- Wolfgang Danne, 77, German figure skater, Olympic bronze medalist.
- Paulino do Livramento Évora, 87, Cape Verdean Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Santiago de Cabo Verde.
- Feng Chuanhan, 105, Chinese orthopaedic surgeon, Vice President of Beijing Medical College.
- Charles Ginnever, 87, American sculptor.
- Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles, 94, Hungarian gymnast, Olympic silver medallist and champion.
- Frank LaMere, 69, American Winnebago activist, bile duct cancer.
- Adam Litovitz, 36, Canadian musician and composer.
- Steve Maaranen, 72, American Olympic cyclist.
- Brenda Maddox, 87, American journalist and biographer.
- Simona Mafai De Pasquale, 90, Italian politician, Senator, stroke.
- Molly O'Neill, 66, American food writer.
- Suzan Pitt, 75, American animator and painter, cancer.
- Francine Shapiro, 71, American psychologist, developer of eye movement desensitization and reprocessing.
- Monte Shelton, 85, American racing driver, pancreatic cancer.
- Charles Wyrsch, 98, Swiss painter.
17
- Knut Andersen, 88, Norwegian film director.
- Andrew Anderson, 74, American basketball player.
- Philipp Bobkov, 93, Russian intelligence officer.
- Michael Branch, 79, British linguist and academic administrator.
- Kiril Cenevski, 76, Macedonian film director.
- Jerome Ch'en, 99, Chinese-Canadian historian.
- Shlomi Eyal, 59, Israeli Olympic fencer.
- Moacyr Grechi, 83, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Porto Velho.
- Friederike de Haas, 74, German politician, member of the Landtag of Saxony.
- Darwin Hindman, 86, American politician, mayor of Columbia, Missouri, lung disease.
- Jean-Marie Hullot, 65, French computer scientist and programmer.
- Somchai Khunpluem, 81, Thai mobster and politician, colon cancer.
- Kung Hsiang-fu, 76, Chinese molecular biologist and virologist, member of the Academy of Sciences.
- Yehuda Levi, 93, American-Israeli rabbi and writer.
- Ian MacFarlane, 86, Scottish football player and manager.
- Mohamed Morsi, 67, Egyptian politician, President, heart attack.
- Pierre Pardoën, 88, French racing cyclist.
- Sascha Pohflepp, 41, German artist.
- Clemens C. J. Roothaan, 100, Dutch chemist and physicist, developer of Roothaan equations.
- Salvatore Senese, 84, Italian magistrate and politician, Deputy and Senator.
- Robert Therrien, 71, American sculptor.
- Gloria Vanderbilt, 95, American socialite, artist and fashion designer, stomach cancer.
- Remo Vigni, 80, Italian footballer.
- Henk Vonk, 77, Dutch football player and coach.
- Christian Wägli, 84, Swiss Olympic sprinter.
18
- Stephen Blaire, 77, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Stockton.
- Pavel Chihaia, 97, Romanian novelist and political dissident.
- Irene Coates, 94, English author.
- Bill Deacon, 75, New Zealand rugby league player.
- Tom Dillon, 93, Irish Gaelic footballer.
- François Doubin, 86, French politician, mayor of Argentan.
- Donald E. Hines, 85, American politician, member and President of the Louisiana State Senate.
- Alf Hughes, 88, Australian VFL footballer.
- Shona Dunlop MacTavish, 99, New Zealand dancer and choreographer.
- Obedingwa Mguni, 56, Zimbabwean politician, MP.
- Gyp Mills, 72, English sculptor and songwriter.
- Warren Niesłuchowski, 72, German-born Polish-American nomadic lifestyle artist and writer.
- Molara Ogundipe, 78, Nigerian writer and women's rights activist.
- Milton Quon, 105, American animator and actor.
- Maria Giuseppa Robucci, 116, Italian supercentenarian, Europe's oldest person.
- Patrick Smith, 55, American kickboxer and mixed martial artist, urothelial bladder cancer.
- Gerry Spiess, 79, American sailor.
- Vladimir Stoyanov, 54, Bulgarian footballer.
- Willem van Eijk, 77, Dutch convicted serial killer.
- Mladen Vranic, 89, Croatian Canadian Scientist and Medical Researcher, congestive heart failure.
19
- Christine Barnetson, 71, Australian Olympic swimmer.
- Filipe Bole, 82, Fijian politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister.
- Bobby Brown, 87, Scottish footballer.
- D. K. Chowta, 81, Indian writer and artist.
- Ernie Collumbine, 80, Scottish footballer.
- Etika, 29, American internet personality, suicide by drowning.
- Peter Allan Fields, 84, American television writer.
- Philip Geier, 84, American businessman, CEO of The Interpublic Group of Companies.
- Elemér Gergátz, 77, Hungarian politician and veterinarian, Minister of Agriculture.
- Anthony Hedges, 88, English composer.
- Lionheart, 36, British professional wrestler.
- David Matthews, 82, English rugby union player.
- Angelika Mertens, 66, German politician, member of the Bundestag and chairwoman of ASB.
- Peng Xiaolian, 65, Chinese film director.
- Jack Renner, 84, American recording engineer.
- Ibrahim Saber, 74, Bangladeshi field hockey player.
- Rafael de la Sierra, 70, Spanish politician, President of the Parliament of Cantabria and Minister of the Presidency and Justice of Cantabria.
- Dennis Silk, 87, English cricketer, and chairman of the Test and County Cricket Board.
- Pedro Antônio Simeão, 65, Brazilian Olympic footballer, pneumonia.
- Norman Stone, 78, Scottish historian and author.
- Su Huiyu, 84, Chinese legal scholar.
- Dmytro Tymchuk, 46, Ukrainian politician, military expert and blogger, member of the Verkhovna Rada, shot.
- Ioannis Veryvakis, 88, Greek Army officer.
- Dennis White, 70, English footballer.
- Leonid Zamyatin, 97, Russian diplomat, Ambassador to the UK, Director General of TASS.
20
- Wibke Bruhns, 80, German journalist.
- Bill Collins, 84, Australian film historian, critic and television host.
- Emanuele Crestini, 46, Italian politician, Mayor of Rocca di Papa, complications of burns and smoke inhalation.
- Anders Faager, 74, Swedish Olympic sprinter, European indoor champion.
- Dumitru Focșeneanu, 83, Romanian Olympic bobsledder, stroke.
- Eddie Garcia, 90, Filipino actor, director and television personality, complications from a fall.
- Judy Jacobson, 80, American politician, member of the Montana Senate.
- April Love Jordan, 31, Filipina beauty queen, liver cancer.
- Gunther Kress, 78, Austrian-born British semiotician, heart failure.
- Peter Matić, 82, Austrian actor.
- Gerald Messlender, 57, Austrian footballer.
- Colin A. Palmer, 75, Jamaican historian.
- Gino Pasqualotto, 63, Italian Olympic ice hockey player, cancer.
- Jimmy Reardon, 93, Irish Olympic sprinter.
- Toufiq M. Seraj, 63, Bangladeshi businessman, President of the Real Estate and Housing Association, heart attack.
- Rubén Suñé, 72, Argentine footballer.
- Mark Warawa, 69, Canadian politician, MP, pancreatic cancer.
- Noel White, 95, Australian rugby league player.
- Marion Wilson, 42, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
21
- Peter Ball, 87, English Anglican cleric and convicted sex offender, Bishop of Lewes and Gloucester.
- Susan Bernard, 71, American actress and model, heart attack.
- Ralph Brill, 83, American legal scholar.
- Demetris Christofias, 72, Cypriot politician, President, respiratory failure.
- Lindsay Drake, 69, Australian rugby league player.
- Oleksandr Filiayev, 84, Ukrainian footballer.
- Robert Friend, 99, American air force officer.
- Bubba Green, 61, American football player, cancer.
- Geraldine Harcourt, 67, New Zealand Japanese-English translator.
- Jane Hubert, 84, British anthropologist.
- Richard N. Levy, 82, American rabbi.
- Eugene V. Lux, 92, American politician.
- Jan Meyers, 90, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
- Karen Petch, 50, British television presenter, breast cancer.
- Avelino Muñoz Stevenson, 62, Puerto Rican television sportscaster, complications from pulmonary emphysema.
- Elliot Roberts, 76, American music executive and manager.
- Peter Selz, 100, German-born American art historian.
- William Simons, 78, Welsh actor.
- Jim Taricani, 69, American investigative journalist, kidney failure.
- John Vernon, 89, Australian Olympic high jumper.
- Paul Winner, 83, English public relations executive.
- Peter Winterburn, 57, Canadian geochemist, stabbed.
- Harriet Sohmers Zwerling, 91, American writer and artist's model.
22
- Arild Berg, 43, Norwegian footballer, suicide.
- Jerry Carrigan, 75, American rock drummer.
- Vince Costello, 87, American football player.
- Miguel Ángel Falasca, 46, Argentine-born Spanish Olympic volleyball player and coach, heart attack.
- Pierre Fortier, 86, Canadian politician.
- Willy Komen, 77, Kenyan politician, MP.
- Judith Krantz, 91, American author.
- Leevi Lehto, 68, Finnish poet, translator and programmer, multiple system atrophy.
- Robert V. Levine, 73, American psychologist.
- Ambachew Mekonnen, Ethiopian politician, President of Amhara Region, shot.
- Se'are Mekonnen, Ethiopian army officer, Chief of General Staff, shot.
- Concepción Paredes, 48, Spanish Olympic triple jumper.
- Thanjavur R. Ramamoorthy, 90, Indian musician.
- Zdeněk Remsa, 90, Czech Olympic ski jumper and ski jumping coach.
- Stepan Shakaryan, 84, Azerbaijani-born Armenian composer.
- John Shearer, 72, American photojournalist.
- Thalles, 24, Brazilian football player, traffic collision.
- Geoffrey Tordoff, Baron Tordoff, 90, British businessman and politician, Member of the House of Lords and President of the Liberal Party.
- Tõnis Vint, 77, Estonian graphic artist.
- Jolene Watanabe, 50, American tennis player, appendix cancer.
23
- Dave Bartholomew, 100, American Hall of Fame musician, bandleader and songwriter, heart failure.
- Marv Bevan, 83, Canadian football player.
- William F. Brown, 91, American playwright.
- Don Colo, 94, American football player.
- Andrey Kharitonov, 59, Russian actor, stomach cancer.
- Manus Kelly, 41, Irish rally driver, race collision.
- John Kobelke, 69, Australian politician, member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly.
- Helga Lie, 88, Norwegian politician.
- Spiro Malas, 86, American bass-baritone opera singer.
- Kerry Marbury, 67, American football player.
- Stephanie Niznik, 52, American actress.
- Naomi Quinn, 79, American academic.
- Fernando Roldán, 97, Chilean footballer.
- George Rosenkranz, 102, Hungarian-born Mexican chemist.
- Jack Rudolph, 82, American football player.
- Abdul Sattar, 88, Pakistani political scientist and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs.
- Steve Sipek, 77, Croatian-born American actor.
- George Strickland, 76, Australian politician, Speaker of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly.
- Žarko Varajić, 67, Serbian basketball player and executive, Olympic silver medallist.
24
- Harry Archer, 86, English rugby player.
- Janet Arnott, 63, Canadian curler, world champion, cancer
- Jeff Austin, 45, American mandolinist and singer.
- Graham Barnett, 83, English footballer.
- Billy Drago, 73, American actor, complications from a stroke.
- Steve Dunleavy, 81, Australian journalist.
- Iván Erőd, 83, Hungarian-Austrian composer and pianist.
- Jonás Gómez Gallo, 95, Chilean businessman and politician, Senator and Deputy.
- Min Hogg, 80, British journalist and interior designer.
- José Huerta, 71, Peruvian politician, Minister of Defense, heart attack.
- Yekaterina Mikhailova-Demina, 93, Russian military doctor.
- Al Ogletree, 89, American college baseball coach.
- Madan Lal Saini, 75, Indian politician, member of the Rajya Sabha and Rajasthan Legislative Assembly.
- Jörg Stübner, 53, German footballer.
- Brigitte Swoboda, 76, Austrian actress.
- Asaminew Tsige, Ethiopian general, suspected plotter of the Amhara Region coup d'état attempt, shot.
- Wu Guoqing, 82, Chinese police detective and forensic scientist.
25
- Mack Atkins, 87, Australian footballer.
- Tony Barone, 72, American basketball coach.
- Ken Behring, 91, American real estate developer, philanthropist and football franchise owner.
- Arthur Candy, 85, New Zealand Olympic cyclist.
- John Dillon, 76, Irish hurler.
- Russ Ewing, 95, American journalist, bladder cancer.
- Giuseppe Fabiani, 92, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Imola.
- Ulla Juurola, 77, Finnish politician.
- Bruno de Keyzer, 69, French cinematographer.
- Li Lun, 91, Chinese lieutenant general, Deputy Director of the PLA General Logistics Department.
- Alfie Linehan, 79, Irish cricketer.
- Bryan Marshall, 81, British actor.
- Kevin McKenna, 75, Irish republican, chief of staff of the Provisional Irish Republican Army.
- Astrid North, 45, German soul singer, pancreatic cancer.
- Ivan Prpić, 91, Croatian physician.
- Mohan Ranade, 88, Indian freedom fighter.
- Isabel Sarli, 89, Argentine actress and glamour model, Miss Argentina.
- Swami Satyamitranand, 86, Indian Hindu spiritual teacher, lung disease.
- Roderick Slater, 82, American artist.
- Ringaudas Songaila, 90, Lithuanian politician, First Secretary of the Communist Party of Lithuania.
- Eerik-Juhan Truuväli, 81, Estonian lawyer and professor, Chancellor of Justice.
- Eurig Wyn, 74, Welsh journalist and politician, MEP.
- Xu Zhongyu, 104, Chinese writer and literary scholar.
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- Ben Barenholtz, 83, Ukrainian-born American film producer.
- Fletcher Benton, 88, American artist.
- Georges Brossard, 79, Canadian entomologist, founder of the Montreal Insectarium, lung cancer.
- Carlito Joaquin Cenzon, 80, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Baguio.
- Beth Chapman, 51, American bounty hunter and reality television personality, throat cancer.
- Charalambos Cholidis, 62, Greek Greco-Roman wrestler, Olympic bronze medalist, heart attack.
- Ivan Cooper, 75, Northern Irish politician, MP, co-founder of the SDLP.
- Alex Cosmidis, 90, American baseball scout, player and manager.
- Douglas Fielding, 73, British actor and narrator.
- Tony Hall, 91, British music industry executive, columnist and presenter.
- Ian Johnson, 70, Australian television executive.
- Anne Johnston, 86, Canadian politician, Toronto City Councillor.
- Gerald McCann, 87, British fashion designer.
- Manuel Real, 95, American senior judge, member of the U.S. District Court for Central California.
- Morteza Saffari Natanzi, 63, Iranian politician, MP, pancreatic cancer.
- David Pentreath, 86, British Royal Navy officer.
- Andrey Sakharov, 89, Russian historian.
- Édith Scob, 81, French actress.
- Loredana Simioli, 41, Italian actress, cancer.
- Tadao Takashima, 88, Japanese actor.
- Max Wright, 75, American actor, lymphoma.
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- Gualberto Castro, 84, Mexican singer and television personality, complications from bladder cancer.
- Stephan Chase, 74, British actor.
- Jharna Dhara Chowdhury, 80, Bangladeshi social activist, cerebral haemorrhage.
- Don Frerichs, 88, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives.
- David Golomb, 86, Israeli politician, member of the Knesset.
- Claude Kohler, 87, American Olympic sailor.
- Brian Lennard, 84, British executive.
- Vukica Mitić, 65, Serbian Olympic basketball player.
- Shyam Mitra, 82, Indian cricketer, liver disease.
- Max Muscle, 56, American professional wrestler.
- Hartmut Nickel, 74, German Olympic ice hockey player.
- Vijaya Nirmala, 75, Indian film director and actress, heart attack.
- Kaj Pindal, 91, Danish-born Canadian animator.
- Justin Raimondo, 67, American author, co-founder and editorial director of Antiwar.com, lung cancer.
- Svanhild Salberg, 86, Norwegian politician.
- Jānis Skredelis, 79, Latvian football manager.
- Wallace Stickney, 84, American civil servant, Director of FEMA.
- Louis Thiry, 84, French organist and composer.
- Tong Daoming, 82, Chinese literary scholar, translator, and playwright.
- Peter Westergaard, 88, American composer and music theorist.
- Yu Pufan, 96, Chinese computer pioneer.
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- Liaquat Ali Asim, 67, Pakistani poet, heart attack.
- Paul Benjamin, 81, American actor.
- Şükrü Birand, 75, Turkish footballer, complications from a heart attack.
- Abburi Chayadevi, 85, Indian fiction writer.
- Jean-Louis Chrétien, 66, French philosopher.
- František Čuba, 83, Czech agronomist and politician, Senator, Medal of Merit recipient.
- Borislav Džaković, 71, Serbian-Bosnian basketball coach.
- Judith Poxson Fawkes, 77, American tapestry weaver.
- Willie Frazer, 58, Northern Irish loyalist activist and victims advocate, cancer.
- Mário Jorge da Fonseca Hermes, 92, Brazilian Olympic basketball player.
- Lisa Martinek, 47, German actress, swimming accident.
- Brian Rhodes, 68, Australian cricketer.
- Tony Sutton, 98, English cricketer.
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- Rafael Acosta Arévalo, 50, Venezuelan military officer.
- Jaya Arunachalam, 84, Indian social worker.
- David Brink, 71, American Olympic cyclist.
- Sir Simon Dawbarn, 95, British diplomat.
- Yevheniya Dembska, 98, Ukrainian actress.
- Gary Duncan, 72, American rock guitarist, complications from a seizure.
- Dieter Enders, 73, German chemist.
- Stewart Greene, 91, American advertising executive, cardiac arrest caused by lung cancer.
- Florijana Ismaili, 24, Swiss footballer, acute asphyxia.
- Jeon Mi-seon, 48, South Korean actress, suicide by hanging.
- Jiang Chongjing, 103, Chinese politician and academic administrator, President of the NPU and CQUT, Vice Minister of the Fourth Ministry of Machine Building.
- Tom Jordan, 82, Irish actor.
- Jesper Langberg, 78, Danish actor.
- Sir David Maddison, 72, English judge.
- Dickson Makwaza, 76, Zambian football player and coach.
- Guillermo Mordillo, 86, Argentine cartoonist.
- Babu Narayanan, 59, Indian film director, cancer.
- Ilkka Nummisto, 75, Finnish Olympic sprint canoer.
- Gunilla Pontén, 90, Swedish fashion designer.
- Santosh Rana, 76, Indian writer and politician, MLA, cancer.
- Jim Reed, 93, American racing driver.
- Jim Roberts, 97, English architect.
- Whitney North Seymour Jr., 95, American politician and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, member of the New York State Senate.
- Rakesh Shukla, 71, Indian cricketer.
- Kirsti Simonsuuri, 73, Finnish writer and poet, complications from cancer and Parkinson's disease.
- Sun Zhongliang, 82, Chinese electrical engineer, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
- Sir Kenneth Warren, 92, British politician, MP for Hastings and Hastings and Rye.
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- Sebastián Alarcón, 70, Chilean film director and screenwriter, cancer.
- David Binder, 88, American journalist, kidney disease.
- Amadou Boiro, 23, Senegalese footballer.
- Momir Bulatović, 62, Montenegrin politician, President of the Republic of Montenegro and Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, heart attack.
- Helmut Diefenthal, 95, German-born American radiologist.
- Mitchell Feigenbaum, 74, American physicist, discoverer of Feigenbaum constants.
- Doug Ford, 90, Australian cricketer.
- Boris Gamaleya, 88, French poet, linguist and social activist.
- Giovanni Giavazzi, 99, Italian politician, MEP.
- James Gill, 91, New Zealand cricketer.
- Glyn Houston, 93, Welsh actor.
- David Koloane, 81, South African artist.
- Luis Mercedes, 51, Dominican baseball player, complications from diabetes.
- Alexander Mitterhuber, 89, Austrian-born Canadian Olympic rower.
- Borka Pavićević, 72, Serbian dramaturge and newspaper columnist.
- John Rafferty, 65, Canadian politician, MP, cancer.
- Armando Salas, 73, Spanish cartoonist.
- Anne Vanderlove, 80, Dutch-born French singer-songwriter.
- Noel White, 89, British businessman and football club chairman.