Deaths in March 2015

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

  March 2015

1

• Bob Armstrong, 82, American politician, member of the Texas House of Representatives and Commissioner of the General Land Office.
• Malcolm Bennett, 56, British poet and author.
• William Bowyer, 88, British painter.
• John Clegg, 80, Australian archaeologist.
• Deedee Corradini, 70, American politician, Mayor of Salt Lake City, lung cancer.
• Suzanne Farrington, 81, British stage actress.
• Joshua Fishman, 88, American linguist.
• Orrin Keepnews, 91, American jazz record producer, executive and writer.
• Georg Kreisel, 91, Austrian mathematical logician.
• Anatoly Logunov, 88, Russian theoretical physicist and academician.
• Stuart McGrady, 29, Scottish footballer.
• Jeff McKnight, 52, American baseball player, leukemia.
• Guram Minashvili, 79, Georgian basketball player, Olympic silver medalist, three-time European champion.
• Minnie Miñoso, 89, Cuban baseball player, pulmonary artery dissection.
• Tony Reddin, 95, Irish hurler.
• Atul Tandon, 67, Indian academic, heart attack.
• Raymond Toscanelli, 93, French footballer.
• Carel Visser, 86, Dutch sculptor.
• Daniel von Bargen, 64, American actor.
• Thomas Philip Watson, 81, American politician, member of the Oklahoma Senate.
• Chris Welp, 51, German basketball player, heart attack.
• Wolfram Wuttke, 53, German footballer, Olympic bronze medalist, multiple organ failure.
• Matthew Young, 70, British civil servant and executive.

  2

• Dennis Barker, 85, British journalist.
• Tom Butters, 89, Canadian politician.
• Leslie Chamberlain, 81, English rugby league player.
• Desmond Daniel, 72, South African cricketer.
• Francisco González Ledesma, 87, Spanish novelist, comics writer and journalist, complications of a stroke.
• Bettina Graziani, 90, French fashion model.
• Beverly Hall, 68, Jamaican-born American educator, breast cancer.
• Dean Hess, 97, American minister and air force colonel.
• Lavkumar Khachar, 84, Indian ornithologist, prostate cancer.
• Joseph Kohnen, 74, Luxembourgian writer.
• Dave Mackay, 80, Scottish football player and manager.
• Jem Marsh, 84, British automotive engineer, co-founder of Marcos Engineering.
• Jenna McMahon, 89, American television writer, heart failure.
• Jay Morrish, 78, American golf course designer.
• Mal Peet, 67, British author and illustrator, cancer.
• Marc Taraskoff, 59, French illustrator and stamp designer.

  3

• Kerry Ashby, 86, New Zealand Olympic rower.
• Lynn Borden, 77, American actress.
• Ernest Braun, 89, Austrian-born British academic and author.
• André Brulé, 93, French racing cyclist.
• Gilles Cistac, 53, French-born Mozambican human rights lawyer, shot.
• Denis Coe, 86, British politician, MP for Middleton and Prestwich.
• M. Stanton Evans, 80, American journalist, author and educator, pancreatic cancer.
• Otto Kinne, 91, German marine biologist.
• Roy McCrohan, 84, English footballer.
• Octávio Mobiglia, 83, Brazilian Olympic swimmer.
• John Mockler, 73, American politician, California Secretary of Education, pancreatic cancer.
• Joseph T. Palastra, Jr., 83, American army general.
• Brett Young, 47, American CFL football player, kidney failure.

  4

• Stacey Arceneaux, 79, American basketball player.
• Emory Bass, 89, American actor.
• Dušan Bilandžić, 90, Croatian historian and politician.
• Marguerite Dupire, 94, French ethnologist.
• Terry Fearnley, 81, Australian rugby league player and coach, cancer.
• George W. Grayson, 76, American politician, member of the Virginia House of Delegates from the 51st and 97th districts, heart attack.
• Ray Hatton, 83, British-born American author.
• Iwao Horiuchi, 63, Japanese wrestler, diabetes.
• Karl-Alfred Jacobsson, 89, Swedish footballer.
• Jørgen Jensen, 68, Danish Olympic cyclist.
• William King, 90, American sculptor.
• Ninan Koshy, 81, Indian academic.
• Lothar Lutze, 87, Polish-born German scholar.
• Laxminarayana Mudiraj, 86, Indian politician, Mayor of Hyderabad.
• James Norick, 95, American politician, Mayor of Oklahoma City.
• Jim Rhodes, 69, English golf player.
• Jam Sebastian, 28, Filipino webcast personality, lung cancer.
• Steve Shea, 72, American baseball player.
• John Simopoulos, 91, British philosopher.
• Jack Swanstrom, 53, American educator and film director.
• Arthur Wyatt, 85, British diplomat, High Commissioner to Ghana.

  5

• Klaus Basikow, 77, German football player and manager.
• Vlada Divljan, 56, Serbian musician.
• Edward Egan, 82, American Roman Catholic prelate, Cardinal, Bishop of Bridgeport, Archbishop of New York.
• Evelyn Furtsch, 100, American sprinter, Olympic gold medalist.
• Katherine Godwin, 98, American teacher and educator, First Lady of Virginia.
• Maigore Kallon, 89, Sierra Leonean politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs.
• John R. Keennan, 74, American baseball scout.
• Karina Kraushaar, 43, German actress, multiple organ failure.
• Fred Latremouille, 69, Canadian radio host.
• Albert Maysles, 88, American documentary filmmaker.
• Jim McCann, 70, Irish musician.
• Umarali Quvvatov, 46, Tajikistani opposition politician and leader of Group 24, shot.
• ML Procise, 62, American sound engineer.
• Erling Sandene, 93, Norwegian judge, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, County Governor of Møre og Romsdal.
• Dirk Shafer, 52, American model, actor and director, drug intoxication.
• Jerry Wilson, 78, American football player.

  6

• Lisa Bonchek Adams, 45, American breast cancer advocate and blogger, breast cancer.
• Mick Clark, 78, English rugby league player, Parkinson's disease.
• Fred Craddock, 86, American Christian minister, Parkinson's disease.
• Ram Sundar Das, 94, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Bihar.
• Arthur Gratias, 94, American politician.
• Paul John, 85, American tribal chief.
• Edward L. Keenan, 79, American historian.
• Ben Kingree, 80, American politician, member of the Tennessee House of Representatives.
• Kishore Te, 36, Indian film editor, blood clot.
• Dan Lewis, 79, American football player, diabetes.
• Vasilios Magginas, 66, Greek politician, Minister of Employment.
• Osi Rhys Osmond, 71, Welsh painter and television presenter, cancer.
• Andrew Oung, 64, Taiwanese businessman and politician, heart attack.
• Pheiroijam Parijat Singh, 72, Indian politician.
• George Silvernail, 87, Puerto Rican Olympic sports shooter.
• Colin Stewart, 88, American Olympic skier.
• Enrique "Coco" Vicéns, 88, Puerto Rican basketball player and politician.

  7

• Gregorio Bundio, 86, Argentine football player and coach.
• Izola Curry, 98, American assailant, attempted to kill Martin Luther King Jr.
• Sir Derek Day, 87, British diplomat, Ambassador to Ethiopia and High Commissioner to Canada.
• Ian Fraser, 93, British naval pilot and diplomat.
• Trevor Griffin, 74, Australian politician, Attorney-General of South Australia.
• Ray Hefferlin, 85, American physicist.
• G. Karthikeyan, 66, Indian politician, Speaker of the Kerala Legislative Assembly, liver cancer.
• F. Ray Keyser, Jr., 87, American politician, Governor of Vermont.
• Edmond Malinvaud, 91, French economist.
• Shinji Ogawa, 74, Japanese voice actor, pneumonia.
• Glorianne Perrier, 85, American Olympic silver medallist sprint canoer.
• Tomislav Radić, 74, Croatian film director.
• Brian Sutton-Smith, 90, New Zealand writer and play theorist, Alzheimer's disease.
• Yoshihiro Tatsumi, 79, Japanese manga author.
• Ross Turnbull, 74, Australian rugby union player, cancer.
• Neil Young, 78, Canadian politician.

  8

• Inezita Barroso, 90, Brazilian folk singer.
• Hans Bielenstein, 94, Swedish sinologist.
• Francisco Cacharro, 78, Spanish politician, President of the Provincial Deputation of Lugo.
• Brian Cahill, 84, Australian newsreader and politician.
• Velayudhan Govindan, Indian cricketer.
• Bengt Hägglund, 94, Swedish theologian.
• Ernst Heincke, 83, German-born American Olympic sprint canoer.
• Pavlo Khudzik, 29, Ukrainian footballer, complications after traffic collision.
• Maria Kryuchkova, 26, Russian gymnast, Olympic bronze medalist, embolism.
• Lars Larsson, 52, Swedish footballer and coach, cancer.
• Tjol Lategan, 89, South African rugby union player.
• Vinod Mehta, 73, Indian magazine and newspaper editor, multiple organ failure.
• Ivan Messmer, 83, Canadian politician.
• Sam Simon, 59, American writer, producer and director, colorectal cancer.
• Gerardo Sofovich, 77, Argentine actor, director and television presenter, heart failure.
• Lew Soloff, 71, American jazz trumpeter, heart attack.
• Joy Tamblin, 89, British WRAF officer.
• Thadeus Wierucki, 80, Belgian cyclist.

  9

• Rico Alaniz, 95, Mexican-born American actor.
• H. H. ter Balkt, 76, Dutch poet.
• Jon Bridgman, 84, American historian.
• Jerry Brightman, 61, American pedal steel guitarist.
• Flabba, 38, South African rapper, stabbed.
• David B. Frohnmayer, 74, American attorney, Oregon Attorney General, President of the University of Oregon, prostate cancer.
• Gene Gene the Dancing Machine, 82, American stagehand and performer, diabetes.
• Jack Harte, 94, Irish politician, Senator.
• Lu Houmin, 86, Chinese photographer, cancer.
• Paul Kalanithi, 37, Indian-born American neurosurgeon and writer, lung cancer.
• Wayne Kemp, 73, American country music singer and songwriter.
• Otar Koberidze, 90, Georgian actor and film director.
• P. A. Sampath Kumar, 63, Indian New Testament scholar.
• Jiří Matoušek, 51, Czech mathematician.
• Stanislav Melnyk, 53, Ukrainian politician, member of the Verkhovna Rada, suicide by gunshot.
• Windell Middlebrooks, 36, American actor, pulmonary embolism.
• James Molyneaux, Baron Molyneaux of Killead, 94, Northern Irish politician, UK MP for South Antrim and Lagan Valley, member of the House of Lords, leader of UUP.
• Jim Nelson, 77, Irish hurling manager.
• Juanita Morrow Nelson, 91, American civil rights activist.
• Frei Otto, 89, German architect and structural engineer, winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
• Rigoberto Paredes, 67, Honduran poet and essayist.
• Mukhammat Sabirov, 82, Russian engineer and politician, Prime Minister of Tatarstan.
• Lou Silverstone, 90, American comedy writer.
• John Paskin Taylor, 86, British field hockey player, bronze medalist at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
• Notable French people killed in the Villa Castelli helicopter collision:
• *Florence Arthaud, 57, sailor
• *Camille Muffat, 25, swimmer, Olympic gold medalist
• *Alexis Vastine, 28, boxer, Olympic bronze medalist

  10

• Fred Fredericks, 85, American cartoonist.
• Richard Glatzer, 63, American director, writer and producer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Vic Harris, 69, British snooker player, pneumonia.
• Harry A. Hoffner, 80, American hittitologist.
• Mohammed Kaliel, Nigerian army officer and politician.
• Allan Lurie, 91, American voice actor.
• Sadashivrao Dadoba Mandlik, 80, Indian politician.
• Tim Rucks, 54, American football player and coach, heart attack.
• Meena Shah, 78, Indian badminton player.
• Claude Sitton, 89, American Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper reporter, heart failure.
• Kenneth Smales, 87, British cricketer and football administrator.
• R. Marthanda Varma, 93, Indian neurosurgeon.
• Stuart Wagstaff, 90, British-born Australian entertainer, complications from pulmonary fibrosis.
• John Howard Wilson, 85, Scottish rugby union player.

  11

• William Beckley, 85, American actor.
• Walter Burkert, 84, German academic and author.
• Mayr Facci, 87, Brazilian Olympic basketball player.
• Tony Fenton, 53, Irish radio presenter, prostate cancer.
• Jimmy Greenspoon, 67, American keyboard player and composer, melanoma.
• Marni Hodgkin, 97, American-born British book editor.
• , 91, Swedish academic.
• Gerald Hurst, 77, American chemist and fire investigator.
• Georges Mamelonet, 60, Canadian politician, traffic collision.
• Al McCann, 85, Canadian sports broadcaster.
• Don McLeod, 68, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Christopher Morris, 72, English accountant.
• Harri Pritchard Jones, 81, Welsh writer, critic and psychiatrist.
• Janice Rebibo, 65, American-born Israeli poet, cancer.
• Alejandro Rebollo Álvarez-Amandi, 80, Spanish lawyer, civil servant and politician, member of the Congress of Deputies.
• Carlo Ubaldo Rossi, 56, Italian composer and music producer, traffic collision.
• Inger Sitter, 85, Norwegian painter and graphic artist.
• Ralph Taeger, 78, American actor.
• Arthur Thrall, 88, American painter and printmaker.
• Don Weeks, 76, American radio host.
• Dell Williams, 92, American businesswoman and actress.

  12

• Harith al-Dhari, 74, Iraqi Sunni Arab cleric, chairman of the Association of Muslim Scholars.
• Bob Anderson, 79, American baseball player.
• Ray Arnett, 97, American choreographer and stage director.
• Willie Barrow, 90, American civil rights activist.
• Dimitar Bobchev, 88, Bulgarian Olympic cyclist.
• Erol Büyükburç, 79, Turkish composer and singer.
• Carl, Prince of Wied, 53, German royal, heart attack.
• Geoff Coffin, 90, English footballer.
• Wolfgang Fikentscher, 86, German jurist.
• Delfi Galbiati, 70, Uruguayan actor.
• Michael Graves, 80, American architect.
• Magda Guzmán, 83, Mexican actress, heart attack.
• Eddie Hice, 85, American stuntman.
• Ada Jafri, 90, Pakistani Urdu poet.
• Oleksandr Peklushenko, 60, Ukrainian politician, governor of Zaporizhia Oblast.
• Sir Terry Pratchett, 66, British author, posterior cortical atrophy.
• Ron Przybylinski, 61, American meteorologist, cancer.
• Robert L. Saucy, 84, American theologian.
• S. Siddalingaiah, 79, Indian film director.
• Alice Teichova, 94, Austrian-born British economic historian.
• Sir Jerry Wiggin, 78, British politician, MP for Weston-super-Mare.

  13

• Daevid Allen, 77, Australian musician.
• Lilian Bader, 97, British WAAF aircraftwoman and teacher.
• Frank Chauvin, 81, Canadian humanitarian, lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
• George Connell, 84, Canadian academic and biochemist, President of the University of Toronto.
• Irwin Hasen, 96, American cartoonist.
• Suzette Jordan, 40, Indian anti-rape campaigner, meningoencephalitis.
• Gretchen Kafoury, 72, American civil servant and politician, member of the Oregon House of Representatives.
• Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska, 89, Polish paleobiologist, winner of the Prize of the Foundation for Polish Science.
• Adrian Malone, 78, British documentary filmmaker.
• Ismaïla Manga, 57, Senegalese painter.
• Lance Mann, 84, Australian sprinter and football player.
• Paddington Mhondoro, 28, Zimbabwean cricketer, traffic collision.
• Meyera Oberndorf, 74, American politician, Mayor of Virginia Beach, Virginia, Alzheimer's disease.
• Everett Osmond, 78, Canadian politician.
• Martin Petzoldt, 68, German theologian.
• Jeff Rees, 94, British WWII RAF officer and Distinguished Flying Cross recipient.
• Al Rosen, 91, American baseball player.
• Jack Lund Schofield, 91, American politician, member of the Nevada Assembly and Senate.
• Lia van Leer, 90, Romanian-born Israeli film archive pioneer.
• Maria Vicol, 79, Romanian foil fencer.
• Vincent Wong, 87, British actor.

  14

• Graham Avery, 85, New Zealand track cyclist.
• Helen Banks, 87, American animal welfare activist.
• Richard Brennan, 83, American restaurateur.
• Rene Cailliet, 97, American physician.
• L. S. Cousins, 72, British scholar in Buddhist studies.
• Nino Cristofori, 85, Italian senator, Minister of Labor and Social Security.
• Stuart Croft, 44, British filmmaker and educator, heart failure.
• Rosalind Dallas, 66, British television graphic designer.
• John C. Daniels, 78, American politician, Mayor of New Haven, Connecticut.
• Ana María Giunta, 72, Argentine actress, respiratory disease.
• Milton Huddart, 54, English rugby league footballer, heart attack.
• Bodys Isek Kingelez, 67, Congolese sculptor.
• Liezl Martinez, 47, Filipino actress, breast cancer.
• Ib Melchior, 97, Danish-born American author and screenwriter.
• Ogygian, 31, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized after complications from colic.
• Robert Plonsey, 90, American biomedical engineer.
• Valentin Rasputin, 77, Russian writer.
• Johan Chr. Schønheyder, 100, Norwegian orienteer and sports official.
• Joseph H. Young, 92, American federal judge.
• Therezinha Zerbini, 86, Brazilian attorney and activist.

  15

• Antonio Betancort, 78, Spanish footballer.
• Daniel Caldwell, 79, American actor and drama teacher, Alzheimer's disease.
• Collins Chabane, 54, South African politician, Minister of Public Service and Administration, traffic collision.
• Robert Clatworthy, 87, British sculptor.
• Narayan Desai, 90, Indian Gandhian and writer.
• Luciano Ercoli, 85, Italian producer and film director.
• Sally Forrest, 86, American dancer and actress, cancer.
• Curtis Gans, 77, American activist and writer, lung cancer.
• Krishna Kalle, 74, Indian playback singer.
• Daryl McClure, 68, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Bendigo.
• Norman Minnaar, 57, South African cricketer.
• Mike Moroney, 81, Australian Olympic athlete.
• Bob Parlocha, 76, American jazz radio personality, heart attack.
• Mike Porcaro, 59, American bassist, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Rallabhandi Kavitha Prasad, 53, Indian poet and civil servant, heart and renal failure.
• Eusebiu Ștefănescu, 70, Romanian actor, brain cancer.
• Bob Toneff, 84, American football player.
• Fritz Wegner, 90, Austrian-born British illustrator.
• Xu Caihou, 71, Chinese general, Vice-Chairman of the Central Military Commission, bladder cancer.
• Eric Yeo, 78, Singaporean Olympic water polo player

  16

• Bruce Crump, 57, American rock drummer.
• Eric Denham, 85, British Olympic sailor
• Miguel Donoso Pareja, 82, Ecuadorian writer, Parkinson's disease.
• Buddy Elias, 89, German-born Swiss actor.
• William B. Ewald, Jr., 89, American speechwriter and historian, respiratory failure.
• Andy Fraser, 62, British musician and songwriter, heart attack.
• Chet Giermak, 86, American basketball player, stroke.
• Jack Haley, 51, American basketball player, heart disease.
• Jean Hardisty, 69, American political scientist, lymphoma.
• Arthur A. Hartman, 89, American diplomat, Ambassador to France and the Soviet Union, complications after leg surgery.
• Norman Johnston, 96, American architect.
• Lev Kuznetsov, 84, Russian Soviet Olympic fencer.
• Marcella Leach, 89, American victim's rights activist.
• Jackson Kasanga Mulwa, 72–73, Kenyan judge and politician, MP for Makueni.
• D. K. Ravi, 35, Indian IAS officer, suicide by hanging.
• Herbert Rigg, 91, Australian cricketer.
• Don Robertson, 92, American songwriter.
• Allan Rowe, 58, Canadian politician, MLA for Dartmouth South, aneurysm.
• Gustavo Selva, 88, Italian journalist and politician.
• Braydon Smith, 23, Australian boxer, WBC youth silver featherweight champion, brain haemorrhage following bout.
• Janet Taylor Spence, 91, American psychologist.
• Max Stenbeck, 30, American-born Swedish financier and businessman, complications from diabetes.
• Nazmi Yükselen, 89, Turkish folk singer.

  17

• Ashley Adams, 59, Australian Paralympic shooter, traffic collision.
• Moustapha Alassane, 73, Nigerien film director.
• Ameerjan, 73, Indian film director.
• Bob Appleyard, 90, English cricketer.
• Deacon Chiu, 90, Hong Kong entrepreneur, founded Far East Bank.
• Pat Eatock, 77, Australian indigenous rights activist.
• Fang Ziyi, 98, Chinese major general.
• Raymond D. Fowler, 84, American psychologist.
• Antonio Dorado Soto, 83, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Guadix, Cádiz y Ceuta and Málaga.
• Marguerite Harbert, 91, American billionaire and philanthropist.
• Kuniyoshi Kaneko, 78, Japanese painter, illustrator and photographer, heart failure.
• Frank Perris, 83, Canadian motorcycle road racer.
• Alan Richardson, 74, Australian VFL footballer.
• Shaw Taylor, 90, British actor and TV presenter.
• Guido Zappa, 99, Italian mathematician.

  18

• Ramesh Chandra Bhanja, 76, Indian Oriya poet.
• David Bird, 55, American financial journalist, drowned.
• Samuel Charters, 85, American music historian and musician, myelodysplastic syndrome.
• Chiang Chung-ling, 92, Taiwanese general and politician, Minister of Defense, heart failure.
• Roy Doty, 92, American cartoonist and illustrator.
• Raymond Gilloz, 83, French Olympic speed skater
• Richard Gruenther, 90, American Olympic modern pentathlete.
• Harry Heijnen, 74, Dutch footballer.
• Thomas Hopko, 75, American Eastern Orthodox priest and theologian.
• Ciro Imparato, 52, Italian voice actor and writer.
• Richard Impola, 91, Finnish-born American translator.
• H. Allen Jerkens, 85, American horse trainer.
• Abdel Karim al-Khaiwani, 50, Yemeni politician and journalist, murdered.
• Grace Ogot, 84, Kenyan writer and politician.
• Providencia Paredes, 90, Dominican Republic-born American personal assistant of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
• Roberto Parga, 78, Uruguayan judge, member of the Supreme Court.
• Sir Don Rowlands, 88, New Zealand rower.
• Oleg Sakirkin, 49, Kazakh Olympic triple jumper.
• Lyle E. Schaller, 91, American church consultant and writer.
• Bernice Steadman, 89, American aviator, member of Mercury 13 team, co-founder of the International Women's Air & Space Museum.
• Zhao Dayu, 54, Chinese footballer, liver cancer.

  19

• Michel Albert, 85, French economist.
• Margarete Bagshaw, 50, American artist, brain tumor.
• Carlos Mijares Bracho, 84, Mexican architect.
• Yosef Ben-Jochannan, 96, American writer and historian.
• Michael Brown, 65, American musician and songwriter, heart failure.
• Marilyn Durham, 84, American author.
• Gus Douglass, 88, American politician, West Virginia Commissioner of Agriculture, fall.
• David Harrison, 88, English zoologist.
• Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs, 91, Dutch sprint athlete, Olympic gold medalist.
• Peter Katin, 84, British pianist.
• Leandra Becerra Lumbreras, 127?, Mexican longevity claimant, unverified oldest living person.
• Steve Mokone, 82, South African footballer.
• Ken Owen, 80, South African journalist and editor.
• Irma Palmieri, 83, Venezuelan film and television actress.
• Safet Plakalo, 65, Bosnian playwright and poet.
• Stanislav Prýl, 72, Czech Olympic bronze medallist ice hockey player.
• Mordecai Roshwald, 93, Polish-born American author.
• Danny Schechter, 72, American journalist and filmmaker, pancreatic cancer.
• Leslie Stanbridge, 94, British Anglican priest, Archdeacon of York.
• Vernon Treweeke, 76, Australian painter.
• Eino Uusitalo, 90, Finnish politician, Deputy Prime Minister.

  20

• Arabi Awwad, 87, Palestinian politician.
• Jim Berry, 83, American cartoonist.
• Eva Burrows, 85, Australian Salvation Army General.
• María del Socorro Bustamante, 60, Colombian lawyer and politician, Senator.
• Cincinnati Red, 40, American professional wrestler, heart attack.
• A. James Clark, 87, American billionaire engineer, heart failure.
• Mary Clarke, 91, British dance critic.
• Lisa Colagrossi, 49, American news anchor, brain aneurysm.
• Ellen Conford, 73, American children's writer, heart ailment.
• Daniel Donahue, 91, American baseball team owner.
• Charles T. Epps, Jr., 70, American politician, heart attack.
• Malcolm Fraser, 84, Australian politician, Prime Minister.
• Walter Grauman, 93, American director.
• Harley Hisner, 88, American baseball player.
• Bud Ings, 89, Canadian politician.
• Paul Jeffrey, 81, American jazz saxophonist.
• Robert Kastenmeier, 91, American politician, member of United States House of Representatives from Wisconsin, heart failure.
• Josef Mikoláš, 77, Czech ice hockey player, world championship silver medalist.
• Eddie Mulheron, 72, Scottish footballer
• Joe O'Malley, 83, American football player.
• A. J. Pero, 55, American drummer, heart attack.
• Sir Russell Pettigrew, 94, New Zealand businessman and sports administrator.
• Shahir Krishnarao Sable, 92, Indian Marathi folk singer-songwriter.
• Zoltán Szilárd, 84, Hungarian swimmer
• John Virgil Singleton, Jr., 97, American federal judge.
• Petr Vopěnka, 79, Czech mathematician and politician.
• Gregory Walcott, 87, American actor.
• Gerald Lee Warren, 84, American journalist, White House deputy press secretary.
• Viktor Viktorovych Yanukovych, 33, Ukrainian politician, People's Deputy, drowned.

  21

• Perro Aguayo Jr., 35, Mexican professional wrestler, stroke from vertebral artery dissection.
• Ishaya Bakut, 67, Nigerian military Governor of Benue State.
• Chuck Bednarik, 89, American NFL Hall of Fame football player.
• Miriam Bienstock, 92, American record company executive.
• James C. Binnicker, 76, American air force officer, Chief Master Sergeant.
• Betty Brey, 83, American Olympic swimmer, heart attack.
• Roland Clement, 102, American conservationist, anti-DDT advocate, Vice President of the National Audubon Society.
• Milen Dobrev, 35, Bulgarian weightlifter, Olympic gold medalist, heart attack.
• John Dymoke, 88, British noble, Queen's Champion.
• Hans Erni, 106, Swiss painter, designer and sculptor.
• Jack Ford, 67, American politician, Mayor of Toledo, Ohio.
• Malachy John Goltok, 49, Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bauchi.
• Jørgen Ingmann, 89, Danish musician, 1963 Eurovision Song Contest winner.
• Yusufali Kechery, 81, Indian poet and film producer.
• Vince Kendrick, 63, American football player, cancer.
• Arnošt Klimčík, 69, Czechoslovak Olympic silver medallist handball player.
• John Walter Guerrier Lund, 102, English psychologist.
• Hector Macpherson, Jr., 96, American politician, member of the Oregon Senate.
• Sir Hal Miller, 86, British politician, MP for Bromsgrove and Redditch and Bromsgrove.
• Jack Peltason, 91, American scholar, President of the University of California, Parkinson's disease.
• Thomas Scallen, 89, American businessman.
• Sir James Spicer, 89, British politician, MP for West Dorset.
• Divaldo Suruagy, 78, Brazilian politician, Governor of Alagoas.
• Sharon Tandy, 71, South African singer.
• Jackie Trent, 74, English singer-songwriter and actress.
• Alberta Watson, 60, Canadian actress, cancer.
• Robert Williams, 89, English chemist.
• Warren Womble, 95, American basketball coach.

  22

• Arkady Arkanov, 81, Russian writer and satirist.
• Petar Hadzi Boskov, 86, Macedonian sculptor.
• Horst Buhtz, 91, German football player and manager.
• William Campbell, 79, American politician, member of the California Senate and Assembly.
• Derek Chinnery, 89, English radio controller.
• Sir Anthony Garner, 88, British political organiser.
• Lyle Gramley, 88, American economist.
• Tom Koch, 89, American comedy writer.
• Joseph Kosala, 68, American police officer and actor, liver failure.
• Bernadett Kőszegi, 56, Hungarian Olympic volleyball player.
• Helen Landis, 92, English singer and actress.
• George Neel, Jr., 84, American author and businessman.
• Peter Pišťanek, 54, Slovak writer, suicide by overdose.
• Norman Scribner, 79, American choral conductor.
• Julieta Marín Torres, 71, Mexican politician, MP for Puebla, lung cancer.
• J. Terry Williams, 84, American film editor.

  23

• Tahira Mazhar Ali, 91, Pakistani women's rights activist.
• Günter Asser, 89, German mathematician.
• Gian Vittorio Baldi, 84, Italian director and producer.
• Gary Dahl, 78, American entrepreneur, inventor of the Pet Rock, COPD.
• Roy Douglas, 107, British composer.
• Earl Harris, 73, American politician, member of the Indiana House of Representatives.
• Herberto Hélder, 84, Portuguese poet.
• Søren Kam, 93, Danish Nazi war criminal.
• Lee Kuan Yew, 91, Singaporean politician, Prime Minister, pneumonia.
• Ted Lester, 92, English cricketer.
• Lil' Chris, 24, British singer-songwriter, actor and television personality, suicide by hanging.
• Michael Laurence, 80, Australian actor and television producer.
• Bobby Lowther, 91, American basketball player and athlete, All-American.
• Carla Macelloni, 78, Italian actress.
• Lajos Molnár, 68, Hungarian physician, Minister of Health.
• Ivan Nagy, 77, Hungarian-born American director.
• Nick Peters, 75, American journalist and baseball beat writer, recipient of the J. G. Taylor Spink Award.
• Alan Seymour, 87, Australian playwright.
• Steven Smith, 65, American tea company founder, liver cancer.
• LaVern Torgeson, 86, American football player.
• Frans Tumbuan, 76, Indonesian actor.
• Geoff Tunbridge, 82, Australian VFL football player.

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• Yehuda Avner, 86, Israeli diplomat, Ambassador to the United Kingdom and Ireland, and Australia, cancer.
• Malli Mastan Babu, 40, Indian mountain climber, climbing incident.
• Nico Baracchi, 57, Swiss bobsledder.
• Bryan Bartley, 86, New Zealand engineer and inventor.
• Richard Butson, 92, Canadian explorer and physician, recipient of the George Cross.
• Allan Charleston, 81, Australian water polo player
• Otto Frello, 90, Danish artist and illustrator.
• R. Geraint Gruffydd, 86, Welsh celtist.
• Jeff Hennessy, 85, American trampoline coach.
• Ian Isles, 96, British WWII army officer and actuary.
• Wladimir Jan Kochanski, 79, American pianist.
• Samuli Mansikka, 36, Finnish mountaineer, fall.
• Roger Mayer, 88, American film industry executive.
• Albert Probst, 83, German politician.
• Louis Renner, 88, American Jesuit priest, historian and academic, specialist in Catholic history in Alaska.
• Moncef Ben Salem, 62, Tunisian politician.
• Slamet Abdul Sjukur, 79, Indonesian musician and composer.
• Peter Stichbury, 91, New Zealand potter.
• Robert Folger Thorne, 94, American botanist.
• Kees van Vugt, 85, Dutch Olympic rower.
• Notable German people killed in the crash of Germanwings Flight 9525:
• *Oleg Bryjak, 54, Kazakh-born opera singer.
• *Maria Radner, 33, opera singer.

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• Indra Bania, 73, Indian actor.
• Dick Bond, 93, American politician, member of the Washington House of Representatives.
• George Fischbeck, 92, American television weatherman.
• Ivo Garrani, 91, Italian actor.
• Martyn Goff, 91, British bookseller, administrator of the Man Booker Prize.
• Tommy Maher, 92, Irish hurler.
• Jimmy McGill, 68, Scottish footballer.
• Richard O. Moore, 95, American poet and filmmaker.
• Jeannette Obstoj, 65, British lyricist.
• Jim Phillips, 79, American football player.
• Pedro Reyes, 53, Spanish comedian, humorist and actor, heart attack.
• Bill Slayback, 67, American baseball player.
• Allen Sheppard, Baron Sheppard of Didgemere, 82, British industrialist and politician.
• Smart Strike, 23, Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
• Ron Suart, 94, English football player and manager.
• Joris Van Hauthem, 51, Belgian politician, colorectal cancer.
• Loy Young, 92, American college football and basketball coach.

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• Ennio Appignanesi, 89, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Potenza-Muro Lucano-Marsico Nuovo.
• Anne Bannister, 78, British psychotherapist.
• Friedrich L. Bauer, 90, German computer scientist.
• Concern, 24, American Thoroughbred racehorse.
• Dinkha IV, 79, Iraqi Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East.
• Albert Irvin, 92, British abstract artist.
• Hermann Knoll, 83, Austrian Olympic hockey player and Olympic ice hockey player.
• Paty Ripple Kyndiah, 86, Indian politician.
• Alonso Llano Ruiz, 83, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Istmina-Tadó, leukemia.
• Karl Moik, 76, Austrian television presenter.
• Ian Moir, 71, Scottish footballer, cancer.
• John Renbourn, 70, British guitarist, heart attack.
• Fred Robsahm, 71, Norwegian actor.
• Luís Miguel Rocha, 39, Portuguese author, cancer.
• John D. States, 89, American doctor and automotive safety advocate, heart failure.
• J. Karen Thomas, 50, American actress, multiple myeloma.
• Tomas Tranströmer, 83, Swedish poet and translator, Nobel Prize laureate in Literature, stroke.
• Naomi Weisstein, 76, American psychologist and writer.

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• Craft Akard, 98, American politician.
• Daundre Barnaby, 24, Jamaican-born Canadian Olympic runner, drowning.
• Rik Battaglia, 88, Italian actor.
• Pauline Brockless, 85, English opera singer.
• Josefino Cenizal, 95, Filipino composer, director and actor.
• B.J. Crosby, 63, American singer and actress, complications from diabetes and a stroke.
• Neville Denton, 80, New Zealand rugby league player.
• Claus Dunne, 70, Irish hurler.
• Akpanoluo Ikpong Ikpong Ette, Nigerian physicist.
• Carlos Falchi, 70, Brazilian-born American accessories designer.
• William W. Hallo, 87, German-born American professor of Assyriology and Babylonian literature.
• Johnny Helms, 80, American jazz trumpet player and bandleader.
• Hot Rod Hundley, 80, American basketball player and television broadcaster, Alzheimer's disease.
• Annelise Høegh, 66, Norwegian politician, MP for Oslo.
• Yusuf Mohamed Ismail, 56, Somali diplomat, Ambassador to Switzerland, permanent representative to the United Nations, shot.
• Bob Lewis, 90, American politician, member of the Washington Senate.
• Fillie Lyckow, 80, Swedish actress.
• Janet L. Norwood, 91, American statistician, Commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Alzheimer's disease.
• Michael Rush, 65, American museum director, pancreatic cancer.
• T. Sailo, 93, Indian brigadier and politician, Chief Minister of Mizoram, heart failure.
• Sarbi, 12, Australian war canine, brain cancer.
• Walter Schuck, 94, German WWII fighter ace.
• Anthony Scrivener, 79, British lawyer, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Gertrud Sigurdsen, 92, Swedish politician, Minister of Social Affairs.
• Amaro Silva, 57, Canadian politician.
• Olga Syahputra, 32, Indonesian actor, comedian, singer and television host, meningitis.
• Mate Trojanović, 84, Croatian rower, Olympic gold medalist.
• George Wang, 96, Taiwanese actor and producer, heart failure.
• Lincoln Wolfenstein, 92, American particle physicist, cancer.
• Susumu Yokota, 54, Japanese musician and composer.

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• Richard L. Bare, 101, American director and producer.
• Leon Bass, 90, American educator and WWII soldier.
• Sarla Birla, 91, Indian educationalist.
• Chuck Brayton, 89, American Collegiate Hall of Fame baseball player and coach.
• Joseph Cassidy, 60, Canadian-born British Anglican priest and academic, Principal of St Chad's College, heart attack.
• Denis Eadie, 98, British WWII army officer and Military Cross recipient.
• Jim Fairburn, 87, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Amos Ford, 98, Belizean-born British forester.
• Gerry Hardstaff, 75, English cricketer, cancer.
• Akhil Mehta, 27, Indian comedian, suicide by jumping.
• Dick Mills, 70, American baseball player, melanoma.
• Albert Norak, 86, Estonian politician, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Miroslav Ondříček, 80, Czech cinematographer.
• Jerzy Orłowski, 90, Polish footballer.
• Gene Saks, 93, American stage and film director, pneumonia.
• Víctor Sánchez, 20, Venezuelan baseball player, head injury from boat propeller.
• Ronald Stevenson, 87, Scottish composer and pianist.
• Tuti Yusupova, 134?, Uzbekistani longevity claimant, unverified world's oldest person.

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• Ayla Arslancan, 78, Turkish actress.
• Romany Bain, 91, British show business journalist.
• William Delafield Cook, 79, Australian artist.
• Carmen Lozano Dumler, 93, Puerto Rican United States Army officer.
• Jim LaRue, 89, American football player and coach.
• Juan Carlos Maccarone, 74, Argentine Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Chascomús and Santiago del Estero.
• David Macklin, 86, British Olympic rower and local government executive.
• Jim Robison, 87, Australian VFL football player.
• John Sheppard, 93, British car designer.
• Peter Tarsey, 77, British Olympic diver, shot.
• Paul Torgersen, 83, American educator, President of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
• Mike Watt, 78, New Zealand Olympic sport shooter.
• Anne Woods, 67, British world gurning champion.

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• Aleck Che-Mponda, 79, Tanzanian politician and academic.
• Helmut Dietl, 70, German film director, lung cancer.
• Messias Pereira Donato, 93, Brazilian jurist and academic.
• John Elliott, 83, Jamaican Olympic boxer.
• Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, 93, German-born Dutch astronomer.
• Joan Kagezi, 47, Ugandan lawyer and prosecutor, shot.
• Phyllis R. Klotman, 90, American film theorist and archivist.
• Štěpán Kodeda, 27, Czech orienteering competitor, complications after traffic collision.
• John H. Makin, 71, American economist, cancer.
• Aniceto Molina, 75, Colombian cumbia musician, lung failure.
• Preston Ritter, 65, American drummer, kidney problems.
• Roger Slifer, 60, American comic book author and writer.
• Basil Soda, 47, Lebanese fashion designer, cancer.
• Trevor Williams, 76, British plant geneticist.
• Leon Wouters, 84, Belgian football player and coach.
• Robert Z'Dar, 64, American film actor and producer.

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• Albino Bernardini, 97, Italian author and pedagogue.
• Billy Butler, 69, American soul singer.
• Betty Churcher, 84, Australian arts administrator and curator, director of the National Gallery of Australia, cancer.
• T. W. Edwards, Jr., 85, American politician.
• Cocoa Fujiwara, 31, Japanese manga author.
• Lada Galina, 81, Bulgarian writer.
• Lalo García, 43, Spanish basketball player.
• Carlos Gaviria Díaz, 77, Colombian lawyer and politician, Magistrate of the Constitutional Court, Senator, presidential candidate, respiratory infection.
• Andrew Getty, 47, American heir, intestinal bleeding.
• Riccardo Ingram, 48, American baseball player, brain cancer.
• Ricky Marsh, 88, British journalist.
• Roland Mortier, 94, Belgian scientist.
• Park Hee-jin, 83, South Korean poet.
• Hanns Peters, 85, German Olympic rower.
• Philip Potter, 93, Dominica Methodist church leader, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches.
• Roy Ralph, 94, British cricketer.
• Anthony Saxton, 80, British advertising executive.
• Michel Scheuer, 87, German sprint canoer, Olympic gold medallist.
• Sharp Humor, 12, American thoroughbred racehorse, complications from paddock accident.
• Ralph Sharon, 91, British-born American pianist and bandleader.
• Klaus Tschira, 74, German physicist and entrepreneur, co-founder of SAP.
• Dalibor Vesely, 79, Czech-born British architectural historian.