Deaths in March 2014

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

  March 2014

1

• G.K. Chadha, 73, Indian economist, heart attack.
• Nancy Charest, 54, Canadian politician, Quebec MNA for Matane, hypothermia.
• Prafulla Dahanukar, 80, Indian painter.
• Philippe Ebly, 93, Belgian science fiction and fantasy writer.
• Andy Gilpin, 93, Canadian Olympic champion ice hockey player.
• Zdeněk Hajný, 72, Czech artist.
• Alan Heyman, 82, American-born South Korean traditional music scholar.
• Eckart Höfling, 77, German Catholic priest and missionary.
• Bangaru Laxman, 74, Indian politician, President of the Bharatiya Janata Party, cardiac arrest.
• Les Layton, 92, American baseball player.
• Donald Mahley, 71, American diplomat and army officer, representative to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, pancreatic cancer.
• Dave O'Brien, 57, American collegiate athletic director, cancer.
• Dimitrios Pappos, 74, Greek Olympic skier.
• Alain Resnais, 91, French film director.
• Tommy Ed Roberts, 73, American politician, member of the Alabama House of Representatives and Senate.
• Robert L. Spencer, 94, American fashion designer, heart attack.
• Paul Tant, 68, Belgian politician, Mayor of Kruishoutem.
• Gyula Toth, 72, Hungarian footballer.
• Werner Uebelmann, 92, Swiss entrepreneur and writer.
• John Wilkinson, 73, British politician, MP for Bradford West and Ruislip-Northwood.
• Alejandro Zaffaroni, 91, Uruguayan-born American chemist and entrepreneur, dementia.

  2

• Ryhor Baradulin, 79, Belarusian poet.
• Peter Bares, 78, German organist and composer.
• Ted Bergmann, 93, American sports television and entertainment producer, complications following surgery.
• Molly Bobak, 92, Canadian war artist, recipient of the Order of Canada.
• Bhuvnesh Chaturvedi, 85, Indian politician, State Minister, MP and Rajasthan MLA for Kota.
• Porky Chedwick, 96, American radio announcer.
• Sal DeRosa, 82, Italian-born American soccer coach.
• Gail Gilmore, 76, Canadian actress, lung cancer.
• Stanley Grinstein, 86, American businessman, kidney disease.
• Jacob Jervell, 88, Norwegian theologian, priest and author.
• Justin Kaplan, 88, American biographer, Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography or Autobiography, Parkinson's disease.
• Benjamin Lambert, 77, American politician, member of the Virginia House of Delegates and Senate.
• Rudolph Rummel, 81, American political scientist.
• Stanley Rubin, 96, American film and television producer.
• Clément Sagna, 71, Senegalese Olympic athlete.
• Scott Vanstone, 66, Canadian cryptographer, cancer.

  3

• Robert Ashley, 83, American composer, complications from cirrhosis.
• Christine Buchegger, 71, Austrian actress, complications from surgery.
• Martin Gutzwiller, 88, Swiss-born American physicist.
• Stan Koziol, 48, American soccer player, leukemia.
• Kurt Chew-Een Lee, 88, American military officer, first Asian-American officer in the Marine Corps, recipient of the Navy Cross, suspected heart attack.
• Curtis McClarin, 44, American actor, brain aneurysm.
• Harold Mowery, 84, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and Senate, pneumonia.
• Sherwin B. Nuland, 83, American National Book Award-winning author and surgeon, prostate cancer.
• F. Edward Osborne, 89, American politician, member of the Idaho House of Representatives and Senate.
• William R. Pogue, 84, American astronaut and Air Force pilot.
• Juan A. Rivero, 90, American Puerto Rican biologist, founder of the Dr. Juan A. Rivero Zoo, cancer.
• Billy Robinson, 74, British wrestler and trainer.
• Don Shows, 74, American football coach.
• Joab Thomas, 81, American university administrator, Chancellor of NC State, President of the University of Alabama and Penn State.
• Aino-Maija Tikkanen, 86, Finnish actress, recipient of the Order of the Lion of Finland.
• Xu Chongde, 85, Chinese political scientist and professor.
• Shōji Yasui, 85, Japanese actor.

  4

• Richard W. Burkhardt, 95, American academic, President of Ball State University.
• Gary Carson, 64, American poker player, academic and author, complications from vascular and renal disease.
• Renato Cioni, 84, Italian operatic tenor.
• Barrie Cooke, 83, English-born Irish artist.
• Hollie Donan, 85, American football player.
• László Fekete, 59, Hungarian footballer.
• Mark Freidkin, 60, Russian writer.
• Lawrence Patrick Henry, 79, South African Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Cape Town.
• Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman, 90, British politician and barrister, MP for Lancaster and MEP.
• Jack Kinzler, 94, American aeronautical engineer, NASA technical director that helped save Skylab.
• Chuck Kress, 92, American baseball player.
• John Wayne Mason, 90, American physiologist.
• Maja Petrin, 41, Croatian television and stage actress, heart failure.
• Boris Pustyntsev, 78, Russian human rights activist.
• Wu Tianming, 74, Chinese film director and producer, heart attack.

  5

• Nana Abdullahi, 54, Nigerian judge, first female High Court judge in Jigawa.
• Iain Donald Campbell, 72, Scottish biophysicist.
• Sir Robin Dunn, 96, British jurist, Lord Justice of Appeal.
• Geoff Edwards, 83, American game show host and actor, pneumonia.
• John Uzzell Edwards, 79, British painter.
• Nigel Groom, 89, British author and perfume connoisseur.
• Eli Hunt, 60, American Ojibwe politician, tribal chairman of Leech Lake Band.
• Scott Kalvert, 49, American director, suicide.
• Little Bridge, 8, New Zealand racehorse, colic.
• Ernest Anthony Lowe, 85, British economist.
• Alexander Macdonald, 95, Canadian politician, MP.
• Ailsa McKay, 50, Scottish economist and government policy advisor, cancer.
• Buck Melton, 90, American politician, author and lawyer, Mayor of Macon, Georgia.
• Leopoldo María Panero, 65, Spanish poet.
• Hank Rieger, 95, American television executive, President of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
• Ros Saboeut, 72, Cambodian musician activist and film subject, complications from a fall.
• Dave Sampson, 73, English rock singer.
• Dov Schperling, 76, Latvian-born Israeli Zionist activist.
• Luis Villoro, 91, Spanish-born Mexican philosopher and writer.

  6

• Joe Abbey, 88, American football player.
• Alemayehu Atomsa, 45, Ethiopian politician, President of Oromia Region, typhoid fever.
• Jean-Louis Bertucelli, 71, French film director.
• Christian Casadesus, 101, French actor.
• Maurice Faure, 92, French politician and diplomat, Interior Minister, Justice Minister, MP and Senator for Lot, last living signatory of the Treaty of Rome.
• Jack Finlay, 92, American football player.
• Martin Gottfried, 80, American drama critic and biographer, complications from pneumonia.
• Sérgio Guerra, 66, Brazilian economist and politician, member of the Federal Senate, lung cancer.
• Tony Herbert, 94, Irish politician and hurler.
• Antonio Hidalgo Rodríguez, 71, Spanish footballer.
• Gurth Hoyer-Millar, 84, Scottish sportsman.
• Frank Jobe, 88, American orthopedic surgeon, invented Tommy John surgery.
• Jojon, 66, Indonesian comedian, complications from cardiovascular disease.
• David Koff, 74, American documentary film maker and political activist, suicide.
• Barbro Kollberg, 96, Swedish actress.
• Joe Lane, 78, American politician, member of the Arizona House of Representatives, Speaker, Parkinson's disease.
• Sheila MacRae, 92, English-born American actress.
• Gwen Matthewman, 86, English speed knitter.
• Jagat Singh Mehta, 91, Indian diplomat and author, Foreign Secretary, High Commissioner to Tanzania.
• Ron Murphy, 80, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Martin Nesbitt, 67, American politician, member of the North Carolina Senate, stomach cancer.
• Danny Pierce, 93, American artist.
• Georgy Ragozin, 71, Russian army officer and academic.
• Luis Rentería, 25, Panamanian footballer, lupus.
• Peter Ruber, 73, American author and editor.
• Manlio Sgalambro, 89, Italian philosopher and writer.
• Margaret Spufford, 78, British historian.
• Marion Stein, 87, British pianist.
• David Talmage, 94, American immunologist.
• Tony Unger, 75, Rhodesian Olympic hockey player.

  7

• Lollu Sabha Balaji, 43, Indian comic actor.
• Heiko Bellmann, 63, German biologist, writer and photographer.
• Sir Richard Best, 80, British diplomat, Ambassador to Iceland.
• Bob Charles, 72, English footballer.
• Hal Douglas, 89, American voice actor and announcer, pancreatic cancer.
• Peter Dunn, 87, British engineer.
• Musa Geshaev, 73, Chechen poet, literary critic, songwriter, and historian.
• Sir Thomas Hinde, 88, British novelist.
• Anatoly Borisovich Kuznetsov, 83, Russian actor.
• Peter Laker, 87, English cricketer.
• Arnulfo Mendoza, 59, Mexican artist and weaver, heart attack.
• Tamás Nádas, 44, Hungarian aerobatics pilot and world champion air racer, plane crash.
• Javier Naranjo Villegas, 95, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Santa Marta.
• Ned O'Gorman, 84, American poet, pancreatic cancer.
• Victor Shem-Tov, 99, Bulgarian-born Israeli politician, Health Minister, Chairman of Mapam.
• Uwe Timm, 82, German writer.
• Patti Wicks, 69, American jazz singer and pianist, heart failure.

  8

• Runa Akiyama, 59, Japanese voice actress, heart failure.
• Leo Bretholz, 93, Austrian-born American Holocaust survivor, activist and writer.
• Bud Bulling, 61, American baseball player.
• James Ellis, 82, Northern Irish actor, stroke.
• Buren Fowler, 54, American rock and roll guitarist.
• William Guarnere, 90, American World War II non-commissioned officer and author, key figure in Band of Brothers.
• Omar Ould Hamaha, 50, Malian Islamist militia commander, air strike.
• Roy Higgins, 75, Australian jockey, Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee.
• Wendy Hughes, 61, Australian AFI Award-winning actress, cancer.
• Helmut Koenigsberger, 95, German-born British historian.
• Evgeni Krasilnikov, 48, Russian Olympic silver-medalist volleyball player.
• Gerard Mortier, 70, Belgian opera director and administrator, pancreatic cancer.
• Park Eun Ji, 35, South Korean politician.
• Alan Rodgers, 54, American author and poet, winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction.
• Larry Scott, 75, American bodybuilder, Mr. Olympia, Alzheimer's disease.
• David Smith, 88, American Olympic champion sailor.
• Randolph W. Thrower, 100, American politician and jurist, Commissioner of Internal Revenue.

  9

• Rafael Aburto, 100, Spanish architect.
• Françoise Adnet, 89, French figurative painter.
• Franklin S. Billings, Jr., 91, American politician and judge.
• Greg Brough, 62, Australian Olympic swimmer, cancer.
• John Christie, 84, Scottish footballer.
• Lionel Seymour Craig, 85, Barbadian politician, MP for Saint James, Cabinet Minister.
• Mohammed Fahim, 56–57, Afghan politician and military commander, Vice President, heart attack.
• William Clay Ford, Sr., 88, American businessman, pneumonia.
• Valentin Fortunov, 56, Bulgarian writer, publisher and journalist.
• Melba Hernández, 92, Cuban revolutionary, politician and diplomat, Ambassador to Vietnam and Cambodia, complications from diabetes.
• Steve Hill, 60, American pastor and evangelist, melanoma.
• Mike Jagosz, 48, American singer, aortic valvuolopathy.
• Monika Kinley, 88, British art dealer, collector and curator.
• Richard Liboff, 82, American physicist and author.
• Husein Mehmedov, 90, Bulgarian Olympic silver-medalist wrestler.
• Nazario Moreno González, 44, Mexican drug lord, shot.
• Carlos Moreno, 75, Argentine actor and director, heart attack.
• Ebrahim Yazdan Panah, 75, Iranian Olympic middle-distance runner.
• Guillo Pérez, 90, Dominican painter.
• Justus Pfaue, 72, German author and screenwriter.
• Joseph Sax, 78, American legal scholar, pioneer of environmental law, stroke.
• James Schaffer, 104, American Christian leader.

  10

• Alias Ali, 75, Malaysian politician and newspaper editor, MP for Hulu Terengganu, Chairman of Agro Bank, colon cancer.
• Tom Ament, 76, American politician, Milwaukee County Executive.
• Roldan Aquino, 65, Filipino actor, complications from a stroke.
• Juan Balboa Boneke, 75, Equatorial Guinean politician and writer, kidney failure.
• Eileen Colgan, 80, Irish actress.
• Francesco De Nittis, 80, Italian Roman Catholic prelate and diplomat, Apostolic Nuncio to PNG, El Salvador and Uruguay.
• Richard De Vere, 46, British illusionist, pneumonia and heart attack.
• Guy Gauthier, 93, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec.
• Ludomir Goździkiewicz, 78, Polish politician, member of the Sejm.
• Patricia Laffan, 94, British actress, multiple organ failure.
• Georges Lamia, 80, French footballer.
• Samuel W. Lewis, 83, American diplomat, Ambassador to Israel.
• Cynthia Lynn, 77, Latvian-born American actress, multiple organ failure.
• Allen Maxwell, 70, American politician, member of the Arkansas House of Representatives, Mayor of Monticello, Arkansas, heart attack.
• Joe McGinniss, 71, American author and political journalist, prostate cancer.
• Nicolás Mentxaka, 75, Spanish footballer.
• Matthew Power, 39, American journalist and magazine editor, complications from heatstroke and exhaustion.
• John Pring, 86, New Zealand rugby union referee.
• Vince Radcliffe, 68, English footballer.
• Tom Shanahan, 89, American broadcaster and sportscaster.
• Paul J. Sheehy, 79, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and Senate.
• T. J. Turner, 35, American football player, cancer.
• John Baird Tyson, 85, British explorer and mountaineer.
• Rob Williams, 52, American basketball player, heart failure.
• William H. Vernon, 69, American politician, member of the Delaware House of Representatives, cancer.

  11

• Dean Bailey, 47, Australian football player and coach, lung cancer.
• Brett Borgen, 79, Norwegian writer.
• Joel Brinkley, 61, American journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner for International Reporting, pneumonia.
• Len Buckeridge, 77, Australian billionaire construction executive, founder of Buckeridge Group of Companies, heart attack.
• Christine Buckley, 67, Irish activist, breast cancer.
• Marilyn Butler, 77, British literary critic and academic, Rector of Exeter College, Oxford.
• Bob Crow, 52, British trade unionist, General Secretary of the RMT, aneurysm and heart attack.
• Vladislav David, 86, Czech lawyer and academic.
• Elisabeth Dhanens, 98, Belgian art historian.
• Berkin Elvan, 15, Turkish student, head trauma from projected tear-gas canister.
• Nils Horner, 51, Swedish journalist, shot.
• Edmund Levy, 72, Israeli judge, member of the Supreme Court.
• Our Conor, 4, Irish Thoroughbred racehorse, fall.
• G.S. Paramashivaiah, 95, Indian irrigation engineer.
• John PiRoman, 62, American screenwriter and playwright.
• Hermann Schleinhege, 98, German Luftwaffe ace during World War II and Iron Cross recipient.
• Mehmooda Ali Shah, 94, Indian educationalist.
• Marga Spiegel, 101, German writer.
• Bobby Thompson, 74, American football player.
• Doru Tureanu, 60, Romanian Olympic ice hockey player.
• David Yeagley, 62, American Comanche political writer.

  12

• Cecil Abbott, 89, Australian police chief, Commissioner of New South Wales Police.
• Bahram Askerov, 80, Azerbaijani physicist.
• Věra Chytilová, 85, Czech film director, recipient of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Medal of Merit and the Czech Lion award.
• Phil Conley, 79, American Olympic athlete.
• Myles Conte, 66, South African cricketer.
• Richard Coogan, 99, American actor.
• Paul C. Donnelly, 90, American aerospace pioneer.
• Med Flory, 87, American saxophonist and actor.
• Jackie Gaughan, 93, American hotelier and casino owner.
• Art Kenney, 97, American baseball player.
• Bill Knott, 73, American poet.
• Shawn Kuykendall, 32, American soccer player, thymic cancer.
• René Llense, 100, French footballer.
• Fortunatus M. Lukanima, 73, Tanzanian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Arusha.
• Ola L. Mize, 82, American army officer, Korean War recipient of the Medal of Honor.
• John Cullen Nugent, 93, Canadian artist, sculptor and photographer.
• Kjell Nupen, 58, Norwegian artist, cancer.
• Calvin Palmer, 73, English footballer, cancer.
• José Policarpo, 78, Portuguese Roman Catholic cardinal, Patriarch of Lisbon, aortic aneurysm.
• Jenny Romatowski, 86, American AAGPBL baseball player.
• Zoja Rudnova, 67, Russian table tennis player.
• David Sive, 91, American environmental lawyer.
• Ray Still, 94, American classical oboist.
• Jean Vallée, 72, Belgian songwriter and performer.

  13

• Reubin Askew, 85, American politician, Governor of Florida, member of the Florida House of Representatives and Senate.
• Bill Ballard, 67, Canadian concert promoter and sport franchise owner, cancer.
• Chérifa, 88, Algerian singer-songwriter.
• Angelo Martino Colombo, 78, Italian footballer.
• Jan Erik Düring, 87, Norwegian director.
• Raymond Flood, 78, English cricketer.
• Joseph Bacon Fraser, Jr., 88, American real estate developer.
• Paulo Goulart, 81, Brazilian actor, cancer.
• Al Harewood, 90, American jazz drummer.
• Edward Haughey, Baron Ballyedmond, 70, Northern Irish politician, member of the House of Lords, founder of the Norbrook Group, helicopter crash.
• Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, 82, Sierra Leonean politician, President.
• S. Mallikarjunaiah, 82, Indian politician, MP for Tumkur, Karnataka MLA for Tumkur, heart attack.
• Vince McGlone, 97, New Zealand seaman and television personality.
• Icchokas Meras, 79, Lithuanian-born Israeli writer, recipient of the Lithuanian National Prize.
• Petar Miloševski, 40, Macedonian footballer, traffic collision.·
• Serge Perrault, 93, French ballet dancer and teacher.
• Pierre Prat, 84, French Olympic athlete.
• Abby Singer, 96, American production manager, cancer.
• Wang King-ho, 97, Taiwanese physician.
• Henk Weerink, 77, Dutch football referee.
• Janusz Zabłocki, 88, Polish politician and Catholic activist, MP.

  14

• John Agoglia, 76, American television executive, instrumental in decision to replace Johnny Carson with Jay Leno, cancer.
• Tony Benn, 88, British politician, Minister of Technology, Secretary of State, MP for Bristol South East and Chesterfield.
• Otakar Brousek, Sr., 89, Czech actor.
• Gary Burger, 72, American singer, pancreatic cancer.
• Cao Shunli, 52, Chinese human rights activist, complications from pneumonia.
• Jiří Dadák, 88, Czechoslovakian Olympic hammer thrower.
• John Bernard Philip Humbert, 9th Count de Salis-Soglio, 66, British major.
• Yves Delacour, 83, French Olympic rower.
• Richard Dermer, 74, American restaurateur, founder of Hideaway Pizza.
• Hans Fogh, 76, Danish-born Canadian Olympic sailor.
• Alec Gaskell, 81, English footballer.
• Meir Har-Zion, 80, Israeli commando.
• Vello Helk, 90, Estonian-born Danish historian.
• Gašo Knežević, 60, Serbian academic and politician, Minister of Education.
• Sam Lacey, 66, American basketball player.
• Roger Leir, 80, American podiatric surgeon and ufologist.
• Hugh Lunghi, 93, British military interpreter, one of the last living Big Three participants, first British soldier to enter Hitler's bunker.
• Warwick Parer, 77, Australian politician, Senator for Queensland, Minister for Resources and Energy.
• Sam Peffer, 92, British commercial artist.
• Werner Rackwitz, 84, German opera director and politician.
• Bob Thomas, 92, American journalist and biographer.
• Manuel Torres Pastor, 83, Spanish footballer.
• Ken Utsui, 82, Japanese actor.
• Wesley Warren, Jr., 50, American scrotal elephantiasis victim, heart attack.

  15

• Reşat Amet, 39, Crimean Tatar activist, murdered.
• Scott Asheton, 64, American drummer, heart attack.
• David Brenner, 78, American comedian, cancer.
• Charlotte Brooks, 95, American photographer.
• Andrew Kenneth Burroughs, 60, British consultant physician.
• Bo Callaway, 86, American politician, Secretary of the Army, member of the US House of Representatives for Georgia, complications from a brain hemorrhage.
• Mars Cramer, 85, Dutch economist.
• Paddy Cronin, 88, Irish fiddler.
• Huseyn Derya, 38, Azerbaijani rapper, traffic collision.
• Clarissa Dickson Wright, 66, English celebrity chef and television personality.
• H. Hugh Fudenberg, 85, American immunologist.
• Everett L. Fullam, 82, American Episcopalian priest.
• Jürgen Kurbjuhn, 73, German footballer.
• Jesper Langballe, 74, Danish politician, MP for Viborg.
• Jim Mikol, 75, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Luca Moro, 41, Italian race car driver, brain tumor.
• Cees Veerman, 70, Dutch singer and musician.

  16

• George E. Barker, 83-84, British philatelist.
• Gary Bettenhausen, 72, American race car driver.
• Markus Brüderlin, 55, Swiss art historian and curator.
• Carlos Camus, 87, Chilean Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Copiapó and Linares.
• Donald Crothers, 77, American chemist.
• Lapiro de Mbanga, 56, Cameroonian musician, political and social activist, cancer.
• DJ Edwin, 46, Australian DJ, remixer, songwriter and producer, heart attack.
• Joseph Fan Zhongliang, 95, Chinese Roman Catholic prelate and confined dissident, Bishop of Shanghai.
• Sanjeeva Kaviratne, 47, Sri Lankan politician, member of the Central Provincial Council, MP for Matale District.
• Mitch Leigh, 86, American Tony Award-winning composer, pneumonia as a complication of a stroke.
• Yulisa Pat Amadu Maddy, 77, Sierra Leonean poet, playwright, novelist and political prisoner.
• Steve Moore, 64, British cartoonist and writer.
• Frank Oliver, 65, New Zealand rugby player and coach.
• Alexander Pochinok, 56, Russian economist, Minister of Taxes and Levies, Minister of Labor and Social Development, cardiac arrest.
• Renzo Ranuzzi, 89, Italian Olympic basketball player.
• Chuck Scherza, 91, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Cesare Segre, 85, Italian philologist, semiotician and literary critic.
• Nicholas Spaeth, 64, American lawyer, North Dakota Attorney General.
• Kenneth Wade, 81, British chemist.
• Denké Kossi Wazo, 55, Togolese footballer.

  17

• Mareike Carrière, 59, German actress, cancer.
• Jim Compton, 72, American journalist, heart attack.
• José Delicado Baeza, 87, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Valladolid.
• Mercy Edirisinghe, 68, Sri Lankan actress and singer.
• Charley Feeney, 89, American sportswriter.
• Gene Feist, 91, American playwright and theatre director, co-founder of the Roundabout Theater Company.
• Marek Galiński, 39, Polish Olympic cyclist, traffic collision.
• Joseph Kerman, 89, American musicologist.
• Donald Michael Kraig, 62, American occultist author and practitioner, pancreatic cancer.
• Paddy McGuigan, 74, Irish songwriter and musician.
• Rachel Lambert Mellon, 103, American horticulturalist and arts patron.
• Oswald Morris, 98, British cinematographer.
• Antoni Opolski, 100, Polish physicist.
• Mohamed Salah Jedidi, 76, Tunisian footballer.
• L'Wren Scott, 49, American fashion designer and model, suicide by hanging.
• Egon Sendler, 90, German-born French Jesuit priest and art historian.
• James E. Stowers, 90, American investment management executive and philanthropist, founder of American Century Investments.
• Roy Trantham, 73, American stock car racing driver, leukemia.
• Quinto Vadi, 92, Italian Olympic gymnast.

  18

• Catherine Obianuju Acholonu, 62, Nigerian academic and feminist scholar, kidney failure.
• Jeffrey Anderson, 85, Canadian broadcaster, journalist and producer, CBC London bureau chief.
• Jorge Arvizu, 81, Mexican voice actor, heart failure.
• Karl Baumgartner, 65, Italian-born German film producer.
• Albert Dormer, 88, British bridge player.
• Kaiser Kalambo, 60, Zambian football player and coach, prostate cancer.
• Derek Knee, 91, British military interpreter.
• Serhiy Kokurin, 36, Ukrainian soldier, shot.
• Joe Lala, 66, American musician and actor, complications from lung cancer.
• Tivadar Monostori, 77, Hungarian footballer.
• Molavi Ahmad Narouei, 51, Iranian Sunni theologian, human rights activist and journalist.
• Lucius Shepard, 70, American science fiction author.
• Ara Shiraz, 72, Armenian architect and sculptor, complications from stroke.
• Ben Staartjes, 85, Dutch Olympic sailor.
• Raili Tuominen-Hämäläinen, 81, Finnish Olympic gymnast.

  19

• Robert Butler, 70, American artist, member of The Highwaymen, complications from diabetes.
• Ken Forsse, 77, American inventor and television producer, creator of the Teddy Ruxpin, heart failure.
• Patrick Joseph McGovern, 76, American technology executive, founder and chairman of IDG.
• Ernest Mühlen, 87, Luxembourgian politician, MEP, MP.
• Fred Phelps, 84, American pastor and anti-gay activist, founder of the Westboro Baptist Church.
• Philip Saliba, 82, Lebanese-born American Orthodox prelate, Metropolitan of the AOCANA.
• Enric Ribelles, 80, Spanish footballer.
• Heather Robertson, 72, Canadian journalist and author, cancer.
• Robert S. Strauss, 95, American politician and diplomat, Ambassador to Russia.
• László Szőke, 83, Hungarian footballer.
• Hank Utley, 89, American author and historian, executive director of Boys Club.
• Lawrence Walsh, 102, American lawyer and judge, Independent Counsel for the Iran–Contra affair, member of the US District Court for Southern New York.
• Joseph F. Weis, Jr., 91, American judge, U.S. Court of Appeals – Third Circuit, U.S. District Court for Western Pennsylvania, kidney failure.

  20

• Ragesh Asthana, 51, Ugandan-born Indian actor, heart attack.
• Hennie Aucamp, 80, South African poet, short story writer, cabaretist and academic.
• Iñaki Azkuna, 71, Spanish Basque politician, Mayor of Bilbao and World Mayor, prostate cancer.
• Hilderaldo Bellini, 83, Brazilian footballer, two-time World Cup winner, complications from a heart attack.
• Helena Belmonte, 28, American fashion model, suicide by jumping.
• Andrzej Grzegorczyk, 91, Polish mathematician.
• Judy Harrow, 69, American author and Wiccan priestess.
• Dick Heller, 76, American sportswriter.
• Dennis Jackson, 82, English footballer.
• Thomas Jolley, 70, American anti–war protester.
• Mohamed Mjid, 97, Moroccan politician.
• Tonie Nathan, 91, American politician, first woman to receive an electoral vote in a presidential election, Alzheimer's disease.
• Tommy O'Connell, 83, American football player.
• Ahmad Sardar, 40, Afghan journalist, shot.
• Khushwant Singh, 99, Indian journalist and author.
• William Toomath, 88, New Zealand architect.
• Marc-Adélard Tremblay, 91, Canadian anthropologist.
• Murray Weidenbaum, 87, American economist, Chairperson of the Council of Economic Advisers.

  21

• Deborah Backer, 54, Guyanese politician, Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly.
• Qoriniasi Bale, 85, Fijian lawyer and politician, Attorney-General.
• Bill Boedeker, 90, American football player.
• Jim Brasco, 83, American basketball player.
• Jack Fleck, 92, American professional golfer, winner of the U.S. Open.
• Linda Gerard, 75, American cabaret artist, cancer.
• Michael Henley, 76, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane.
• Ignatius Zakka I Iwas, 80, Iraqi religious leader, Patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church.
• Terry David Jones, 75, Canadian politician.
• Vincent Lamberti, 86, American medical researcher, developed the original Dove Soap bar, complications from heart failure.
• André Lavagne, 100, French composer.
• Edward E. Masters, 89, American diplomat, Ambassador to Bangladesh and Indonesia.
• Simeon Oduoye, 68, Nigerian politician, Senator for Osun.
• Kiril Pandov, 85, Bulgarian footballer.
• Kostis Papagiorgis, 66, Greek writer and translator.
• Nenad Petrović, 88, Serbian writer.
• James Rebhorn, 65, American actor, melanoma.
• Oddvar Rønnestad, 78, Norwegian Olympic alpine skier.
• Adrian Taylor, 60, American television news producer, winner of the Peabody Award, pancreatic cancer.
• Sir Colin Turner, 92, British politician, MP for Woolwich West.
• William Vahey, 64, American schoolteacher and child molester, suicide by stabbing.

  22

• Hermann Buhl, 78, German Olympic athlete.
• Yashwant Vithoba Chittal, 85, Indian Sahitya Akademi Award-winning author.
• Mickey Duff, 84, Polish-born British boxing manager and promoter, International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee.
• Kurt Rudolf Fischer, 92, Austrian philosopher.
• Riina Gerretz, 74, Estonian pianist.
• Hamza Abu al-Haija, c. 23, Palestinian militant, shot.
• Yngve A. A. Larsson, 97, Swedish pediatrician, professor of medicine and diabetologist.
• Thor Listau, 75, Norwegian politician, Minister of Fisheries, MP for Finnmark.
• Robert Meyers, 89, Canadian Olympic champion ice hockey player.
• Tasos Mitsopoulos, 48, Cypriot politician, Defence Minister, MP, complications from a brain haemorrhage.
• Ken Plant, 88, English footballer.
• Lou Rell, 73, American Naval and commercial aviator, First Gentleman of Connecticut, cancer.
• Siddakatte Chennappa Shetty, 62, Indian Yakshagana orator.
• Patrice Wymore, 87, American actress and philanthropist.

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• Ashley Booth, 76, Scottish footballer.
• Carmelo Bossi, 74, Italian Olympic silver-medalist boxer and world junior middleweight champion.
• Dave Brockie, 50, Canadian-born American heavy metal singer, heroin overdose.
• Jack Clancy, 79, Australian football player.
• Bobby Croft, 68, Canadian basketball player, first Canadian to get a full scholarship to NCAA school for basketball.
• Miller M. Duris, 86, American politician, Mayor of Hillsboro, Oregon.
• Walter Ewbank, 96, British Anglican prelate, Archdeacon of Westmorland and Furness, Archdeacon of Carlisle.
• David Henshaw, 74, New Zealand cartoonist.
• Roy Peter Martin, 83, British author.
• Jürg Neuenschwander, 67, Swiss organist and composer, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Peter Oakley, 86, British Internet vlogger.
• B. Palaniappan, 83, Indian gynaecologist.
• William Peters, 90, British diplomat and activist.
• Parviz C. Radji, 77, Iranian diplomat, Ambassador to the United Kingdom.
• Jaroslav Šerých, 86, Czech painter, printmaker and illustrator.
• Miroslav Štěpán, 68, Czechoslovakian politician, member of the Central Committee for the Communist Party, complications from cancer.
• Adolfo Suárez, 81, Spanish politician and lawyer, Prime Minister and leader of Spanish transition to democracy, Duke of Suárez, respiratory infection.

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• Giuseppe Agostino, 85, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Crotone-Santa Severina and Cosenza-Bisignano.
• Robert F. Coleman, 59, American mathematician.
• Margaret di Menna, 90, New Zealand microbiologist.
• Rusi Dinshaw, 86, Pakistani cricketer.
• Arne Løvlie, 83, Norwegian zoologist.
• Jean-François Mattéi, 73, French philosopher.
• Tom Mikula, 87, American football player.
• Oleksandr Muzychko, 51, Ukrainian political activist, shot.
• Bryan Orritt, 77, Welsh footballer, stroke.
• Kuldeep Pawar, 65, Indian actor, kidney failure.
• Paulo Schroeber, 40, Brazilian guitarist, heart failure.
• John Rowe Townsend, 91, British children's author.
• David A. Trampier, 59, American fantasy gaming artist.
• Rodney Wilkes, 89, Trinidadian Olympic silver- and bronze-medalist weightlifter.

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• Lorna Arnold, 98, British nuclear historian and author, stroke.
• Harm de Blij, 78, Dutch-born American geographer.
• Meredith Bordeaux, 101, American politician, member of the Maine House of Representatives.
• Dil Bahadur Lama, 84, Nepali politician and police official, cardiac arrest.
• Hank Lauricella, 83, American Hall of Fame football player and politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives and Senate.
• Eddie Lawrence, 95, American actor, comedian and singer.
• Jon Lord, 57, Canadian politician, Alberta MLA for Calgary-Currie, heart attack.
• Nicky McFadden, 51, Irish politician, TD for Longford–Westmeath, complications from motor neurone disease.
• Ángel César Mendoza Arámburo, 79, Mexican politician, Governor of Baja California Sur.
• Nanda, 75, Indian actress, heart attack.
• Frank O'Keeffe, 91, Irish Gaelic football player.
• Mohammad Ebrahim Bastani Parizi, 89, Iranian historian and author.
• Reinhold Pommer, 79, German Olympic cyclist.
• Joseph Purtill, 86, American politician and judge, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives.
• Jerry Roberts, 93, British wartime codebreaker, member of the Testery unit.
• Sonny Ruberto, 68, American baseball player, cancer.
• Jonathan Schell, 70, American author, journalist and anti-war activist, cancer.
• Thi. Ka. Sivasankaran, 88, Indian Sahitya Akademi Award-winning author and literary critic.
• Robert Slater, 70, American author and journalist, complications from influenza.
• Ralph Wilson, 95, American Hall of Fame football team owner and racehorse breeder, co-founder of the AFL.
• Lode Wouters, 84, Belgian Olympic gold- and bronze-medalist cyclist.

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• Roger Birkman, 95, American organizational psychologist.
• George Bookasta, 96, American child actor, pneumonia.
• Chu Teh-Chun, 93, Chinese-born French painter.
• John Disney, 94, Australian ornithologist.
• Warren Forma, 90, American documentary filmmaker and author.
• Barbara Halloran Gibbons, 80, American cookbook author and columnist.
• Dick Guidry, 84, American politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives.
• Tom Jones, 90, Australian politician, Member for Collie.
• Marcus Kimball, Baron Kimball, 85, British politician, MP for Gainsborough.
• Wolfgang Kirchgässner, 85, German Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Freiburg im Breisgau.
• Thomas Landauer, 81, American experimental psychologist.
• George Lerchen, 91, American baseball player.
• Mark Stock, 62, American artist, enlarged heart.

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• Francine Beers, 89, American actress.
• Bertrando, 25, American Thoroughbred Champion racehorse.
• Al Cihocki, 89, American baseball player.
• Kent Cochrane, 62, Canadian amnesiac, had one of the most studied human brains.
• Max Coll, 82, American politician, member of the New Mexico House of Representatives, stroke.
• Jean-Claude Colliard, 68, French political scientist and politician, member of the Constitutional Council.
• Nevio de Zordo, 71, Italian Olympic silver-medalist bobsledder.
• Augustin Deleanu, 69, Romanian footballer.
• Jeffery Dench, 85, British actor.
• Richard N. Frye, 94, American scholar of Armenian studies.
• Hal M. Lattimore, 93, American judge, member of the Texas Court of Appeals.
• Per Lillo-Stenberg, 85, Norwegian actor.
• Joseph Madachy, 87, American research chemist and mathematician, editor of Journal of Recreational Mathematics.
• Derek Martinus, 82, British television director, Alzheimer's disease.
• Robert Ojo, 72, Nigerian Olympic sprinter.
• Gina Pellón, 87, Cuban painter.
• P. Ramdas, 83, Indian film director, winner of the J. C. Daniel Award.
• Joseph Rigano, 80, American actor, throat cancer.
• James R. Schlesinger, 85, American government official, Director of the CIA, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Energy, pneumonia.
• Michael Schofield, 94, British sociologist and campaigner.

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• GOK Ajayi, 82, Nigerian lawyer.
• Rawle Barrow, 79, Trinidad and Tobago Olympic sailor
• Jeremiah Denton, 89, American politician and military officer, Senator from Alabama, recipient of the Navy Cross, complications from a heart ailment.
• Edwin Kagin, 73, American lawyer, national legal director for the American Atheists, heart disease.
• Michael F. Lappert, 85, British chemist.
• Billy Longley, 88, Australian criminal.
• Sam McAughtry, 91, Northern Irish writer and broadcaster.
• Godfrey Mdimi Mhogolo, 62, Tanzanian Anglican prelate, Bishop of Central Tanganyika, lung infection.
• Michael Putney, 67, Australian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Townsville, stomach cancer.
• Lorenzo Semple, Jr., 91, American screenwriter.
• Noel Sheppard, 53, American media critic and blogger, lung and lymph node cancer.
• Avraham Yaski, 86, Romanian-born Israeli architect and academic, recipient of the Israel Prize.

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• Hobart Alter, 80, American surfer and boat designer.
• Lelio Antoniotti, 86, Italian footballer.
• Catherine Hayes Bailey, 92, American plant geneticist.
• Mark Chamberlain, 82, American educator, President of Rowan University.
• Yosef Hamadani Cohen, 98, Iranian Jewish prelate, Chief Rabbi of Iran.
• Karl Spillman Forester, 73, American senior judge, member of the US District Court for Eastern Kentucky.
• Robin Gibson, 83, Australian architect.
• Elbert Gill, 82, American politician, member of the Tennessee House of Representatives.
• Billy Mundi, 71, American drummer, complications from diabetes.
• Marc Platt, 100, American dancer and actor.
• Oldřich Škácha, 72, Czech photographer and dissident.
• Ron Stott, 76, American politician, member of the New York State Assembly, Mayor of North Syracuse, New York.
• Birgitta Valberg, 97, Swedish actress.
• Dane Witherspoon, 56, American actor.

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• Muhammadu Kudu Abubakar, 52, Nigerian Emir of Agaie.
• Robert Billingham, 56, American Olympic silver medal-winning sailor, official and skipper, member of 1992 America's Cup winning team.
• Richard Black, 92, American commercial artist and landscape painter, creator of the Mr. Clean and Smokey Bear mascots.
• Gerardo D'Ambrosio, 83, Italian politician and magistrate.
• Michael Edmonds, 87, British artist, co-founder of 56 Group Wales.
• Sir David Gibbons, 85, Bermudian politician, Premier.
• Jan de Graaff, 70, Dutch television journalist.
• Ray Hutchison, 81, American politician, member of the Texas House of Representatives.
• Keizō Kanie, 69, Japanese actor, stomach cancer.
• Kate O'Mara, 74, English actress, ovarian cancer.
• Fred Stansfield, 96, Welsh international footballer.
• Phuntsok Wangyal, 92, Chinese Tibetan politician, military leader and government critic, led invasion of Tibet.

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• Gonzalo Anes, 82, Spanish historian, Director of Real Academia de la Historia.
• Anthony Beattie, 69, British civil servant, complications from a fall.
• Irene Fernandez, 67, Malaysian advocate for women and migrant workers, heart failure.
• Władysław Filipowiak, 87, Polish archaeologist and historian.
• Bryan Gahol, 36, Filipino basketball player, traffic collision.
• David Hannay, 74, Australian film producer.
• Edmond Harjo, 96, American Seminole Code Talker during World War II, recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal, heart attack.
• Ben Johnson, 74, American Makah tribal politician and fisheries expert, heart attack.
• Charles Keating, 90, American banker, key figure in the savings and loan crisis.
• Frankie Knuckles, 59, American disc jockey and record producer, complications from diabetes.
• Bob Larbey, 79, British comedy scriptwriter.
• Ferdinand Masset, 93, Swiss politician.
• Jimmy Newton, 35-36, American Southern Ute tribal chief, Chairman of the Reservation.
• Bob Ringma, 85, Canadian politician and army officer.
• Max Robinson, 81, Australian politician, member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly.
• Hermann von Siebenthal, 79, Swiss Olympic equestrian
• Enrique Plancarte Solís, 43, Mexican drug lord, shot.
• Roger Somville, 90, Belgian painter.
• Asep Sunandar Sunarya, 58, Indonesian wayang golek puppeteer, heart attack.
• Ahmet Yorulmaz, 81-82, Turkish writer.