Deaths in March 2019

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship, reason for notability, cause of death, and reference.

  March 2019

1

• Zhores Alferov, 88, Russian physicist and politician, MP, Nobel Prize laureate.
• Kumar Bhattacharyya, Baron Bhattacharyya, 78, British-Indian engineer, educator and government advisor, member of the House of Lords.
• Jawaid Bhutto, 64, Pakistani philosopher, shot.
• Dhritikanta Lahiri Choudhury, 87, Indian naturalist.
• Joseph Flummerfelt, 82, American conductor, stroke.
• Håkon Wexelsen Freihow, 91, Norwegian diplomat, Ambassador to Japan and Portugal.
• Phaedon Georgitsis, 80, Greek actor, brain cancer.
• Maïmouna Kane, 82, Senegalese jurist and politician, Minister of Social Development.
• Ivars Knēts, 80, Latvian engineer and educator.
• Ludo Loos, 64, Belgian racing cyclist.
• Elly Mayday, 30, Canadian model and women's health advocate, ovarian cancer.
• Eusebio Pedroza, 65, Panamanian Hall of Fame boxer, WBA featherweight champion, pancreatic cancer.
• Kevin Roche, 96, Irish-born American architect, Pritzker Prize winner.
• Polan Sarkar, 97, Bangladeshi literacy activist.
• Mahadi Sinambela, 71, Indonesian politician, Minister of Youth and Sport.
• Robert S. Summers, 85, American legal scholar.
• Mike Tamoaieta, 23, Samoan-born New Zealand rugby union player.
• Peter van Gestel, 81, Dutch author.
• Mike Willesee, 76, Australian television journalist, throat cancer.
• Paul Williams, 78, English singer.
• Hennric David Yeboah, 62, Ghanaian politician, MP.

  2

• Bharat Mohan Adhikari, 82, Nepalese politician, Minister of Finance, pneumonia.
• Derek Aikman, 59, Belizean politician, MP.
• Reinhold Aman, 82, German-born American chemical engineer and linguist.
• Arnulf Baring, 86, German political scientist, historian and author.
• Yannis Behrakis, 58, Greek photojournalist, cancer.
• Keith Davis, 88, New Zealand rugby union player.
• John E. Gallagher, 61, American television director, cardiac arrest.
• Liam Gilmartin, 97, Irish Gaelic footballer.
• Jack Gregory, 74, American football player.
• Tullio Gregory, 90, Italian philosopher.
• Al Hazan, 84, American pianist, songwriter and record producer.
• David Held, 68, British political scientist.
• Fred Hill, 84, American baseball coach.
• Med Hondo, 82, Mauritanian-French film director, screenwriter and actor.
• Ed Keats, 104, American rear admiral, complications from a fall.
• János Koós, 81, Hungarian singer, parodist and actor.
• Franco Macri, 88, Italian-born Argentine businessman.
• Keith Harvey Miller, 94, American politician, Alaska Secretary of State and Governor, pancreatic cancer.
• Andra Neiburga, 62, Latvian writer.
• Mike Oliver, 74, British disability rights activist.
• Ogden Reid, 93, American publisher, diplomat, and politician, Ambassador to Israel and member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
• Werner Schneyder, 82, Austrian writer, director and actor.
• Beatriz Taibo, 88, Argentine actress.
• Rafael Torija de la Fuente, 91, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Santander and Bishop of Ciudad Real.
• Otto Trefný, 87, Czech politician, MP, physician of the national ice hockey team, member of the Czech Ice Hockey Hall of Fame.

  3

• Tom Bass, 92, American politician.
• John Bloom, 87, English entrepreneur.
• Harry Joseph Bowman, 69, American criminal, president of Outlaws Motorcycle Club.
• Leo de Castro, 70, New Zealand singer and guitarist.
• Bobbi Fiedler, 81, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
• Kyle Forti, 29, American political consultant, helicopter crash.
• David Gadsby, 71, British physiologist.
• Martí Galindo, 81, Spanish stage actor.
• José García Ladrón de Guevara, 89, Spanish poet and journalist, Senator.
• Elva Martha García Rocha, 72, Mexican politician, founder of the Party of the Democratic Revolution and member of the Legislative Assembly of Mexico City.
• Ben Hamilton-Baillie, 63, British architect, cancer.
• John Howlett, 78, English screenwriter and author.
• Peter Hurford, 88, British organist and composer, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Mark Klempner, 63, American folklorist.
• Lee Wen, 61, Singaporean performance artist, lung infection.
• Richard Lewis, 79, Australian politician.
• Roger W. Titus, 77, American senior judge, U.S. District Judge for Maryland, liposarcoma.
• Uroš Tošković, 86, Montenegrin painter.

  4

• King Kong Bundy, 63, American professional wrestler and actor.
• Eric Caldow, 84, Scottish footballer.
• Les Carlyon, 76, Australian writer and newspaper editor.
• Edward Collins, 78, Irish politician, TD.
• Juan Corona, 85, Mexican serial killer.
• Wilbur Cross, 100, American author.
• Garfield Davies, Baron Davies of Coity, 83, British trade unionist and life peer.
• Robert DeProspero, 80, American Secret Service agent, amyloidosis.
• Robert Wagner Dowling, 94, Canadian politician.
• Keith Flint, 49, English singer, suicide by hanging.
• Art Hughes, 88, Canadian soccer player.
• Klaus Kinkel, 82, German politician, Minister of Justice and Foreign Affairs, Vice Chancellor.
• V. Dhananjay Kumar, 67, Indian politician, MP, Minister of Civil Aviation and Tourism, kidney disease.
• Ted Lindsay, 93, Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey player.
• Mao Zhiyong, 89, Chinese politician, Party Secretary of Hunan and Jiangxi provinces, Vice Chairman of the CPPCC.
• Luke Perry, 52, American actor, complications from a stroke.
• Albert Redhead, 77, Grenadian lawyer and jurist.
• Anthony Ríos, 68, Dominican actor and singer-songwriter, heart attack.
• Jean Starobinski, 98, Swiss literary critic.
• Michael Thomas, 66, British actor, myeloma.
• Maya Turovskaya, 94, Russian theatrical and film critic, film historian and screenwriter.
• Sidney Verba, 86, American political scientist and librarian.

  5

• Richard Allen, 90, Canadian politician.
• Geoffrey Beck, 100, English cricketer and Congregational minister.
• Chu Shijian, 91, Chinese tobacco executive and convicted embezzler, complications from diabetes.
• André Damien, 88, French lawyer and politician, Supreme Court Justice, mayor of Versailles, Deputy.
• Ding Yi, 91, Chinese engineer and business executive, founded Dongfang Electric.
• Moris Farhi, 84, Turkish author, Vice-President of PEN International, heart disease.
• Khagen Gogoi, 92, Indian politician, MLA.
• Susan Harrison, 80, American actress.
• Stephen Irwin, 79, Canadian architect.
• Aleksandra Kasuba, 95–96, Lithuanian-born American environmental artist.
• David Kear, 95, British-born New Zealand geologist and science administrator, director-general of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
• Bernard Krisher, 87, German-born American journalist and philanthropist.
• Miroljub Lešo, 72, Serbian actor.
• Jacques Loussier, 84, French pianist and composer.
• Boro Maa, 100, Indian religious leader, matriarch of the Matua Mahasangha.
• Andrzej Mateja, 83, Polish Olympic skier.
• Luis Matte Valdés, 85, Chilean politician, mayor of La Florida and Minister of Housing and Urbanism.
• Doru Popovici, 87, Romanian composer, musicologist and writer.
• Esteban Righi, 80, Argentine lawyer and politician, Minister of the Interior and Attorney General.
• Abraham Stavans, 86, Mexican actor and theatre director.
• Yang Naisi, 91, Chinese linguist.

  6

• Andrey Anufriyenko, 48, Russian Olympic speed skater.
• Grayston Burgess, 86, English opera singer and conductor.
• Sir Simon Cassels, 91, British admiral, Second Sea Lord.
• Ernesto Horacio Crespo, 89, Argentine military officer, Chief of the General Staff of the Argentine Air Force.
• James Dapogny, 78, American jazz musicologist and pianist.
• Magenta Devine, 61, British television presenter.
• Alí Domínguez, 26, Venezuelan journalist and politician, beaten.
• Typist Gopu, 85, Indian actor.
• John Habgood, Baron Habgood, 91, British Anglican bishop, academic, and life peer, Bishop of Durham, Archbishop of York.
• Frances Heussenstamm, 90, American artist.
• Rachel Ingalls, 78, American author, multiple myeloma.
• Mai Chao-cheng, 77, Taiwanese economist, member of Academia Sinica.
• Gordon Osbaldeston, 88, Canadian civil servant.
• Charlie Panigoniak, 72, Canadian Inuktitut singer and guitarist.
• José Pedro Pérez-Llorca, 78, Spanish lawyer, diplomat and politician, Deputy and Minister of Foreign Affairs, co-Father of the 1978 Constitution.
• Daniel Rudisha, 73, Kenyan sprinter, Olympic silver medalist, heart attack.
• Carolee Schneemann, 79, American visual artist.
• Brian Sully, 82–83, Australian judge.

  7

• Dick Beyer, 88, American Hall of Fame professional wrestler.
• Joseph H. Boardman, 70, American railroad executive, president and CEO of Amtrak, complications from a stroke.
• Robert Braithwaite, 75, British marine engineer and executive, founder of Sunseeker.
• Johnny Brittain, 86–87, British motorcycle racer.
• Pino Caruso, 84, Italian actor.
• Kelly Catlin, 23, American cyclist, Olympic silver medalist and world champion, suicide by asphyxiation.
• William J. Creber, 87, American art director and production designer, complications from pneumonia.
• Raymond Donnez, 76, French music producer and conductor.
• Guillaume Faye, 69, French journalist and writer, cancer.
• Daniel de Fernando, 81, Spanish pharmacist and politician, Deputy, President of Ávila province.
• Ralph Hall, 95, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives and the Texas Senate.
• Dan Jenkins, 90, American author and sportswriter.
• Kusalakumari, 83, Indian actress.
• Patrick Lane, 79, Canadian poet, heart attack.
• Hi Duk Lee, 79, Korean-born American grocer, restaurateur and hotelier, cancer.
• Sam Miller, 97, American realty executive.
• Dick Nichols, 92, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
• Carmine Persico, 85, American mobster and convicted racketeer, head of Colombo crime family, complications from diabetes.
• Rosto, 50, Dutch artist and filmmaker, lung cancer.
• Ron Russell, 92, New Zealand-born Canadian politician, member and Speaker of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly.
• Sidney Sheinberg, 84, American lawyer and studio executive, President of MCA Inc..
• Shen Ziyin, 91, Chinese physician and medical researcher, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
• Issei Suda, 78, Japanese photographer.
• Anne Sjerp Troelstra, 79, Dutch mathematician.

  8

• Raoul Barrière, 91, French rugby union player and coach.
• Marshall Brodien, 84, American magician and actor, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Mike Colbern, 63, American baseball player.
• Nothando Dube, 31, Swazi royal, skin cancer.
• Michael Gielen, 91, Austrian conductor.
• D. Shelton A. Gunaratne, 79, Sri Lankan-born American academic.
• Cedrick Hardman, 70, American football player.
• Roland Hedlund, 85, Swedish actor, stroke.
• Frank Joranko, 88, American football and baseball player and coach.
• Ian Lawrence, 82, Australian-born New Zealand politician, Mayor of Wellington, bowel cancer.
• David Martin, 89, British sociologist and Anglican priest.
• Mel Miller, 79, American lawyer and politician, member and Speaker of the New York State Assembly, lung cancer.
• George Morfogen, 85, American actor.
• Mesrob II Mutafyan of Constantinople, 62, Turkish religious leader, Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople, dementia.
• Jaume Muxart, 96, Spanish painter.
• Nate Ramsey, 77, American football player.
• Jason Reese, 51, British engineer.
• Frankie Smith, 65–66, American funk and R&B musician.
• Eddie Taylor Jr., 46, American blues singer and guitarist, heart failure.
• Cynthia Thompson, 96, Jamaican Olympic sprinter and CAC champion.
• Mike Watterson, 76, English snooker player, promoter and commentator.

  9

• Sveinung Aarnseth, 85, Norwegian footballer.
• Jed Allan, 84, American actor.
• Joe Auer, 77, American football player.
• Akhteruzzaman Babul, 63, Bangladeshi politician, MP.
• Tom Ballard, 30, British rock climber, rock climbing accident.
• George Benson, 90, American jazz saxophonist.
• Alberto Bucci, 70, Italian basketball coach, cancer.
• Chokoleit, 46, Filipino actor and comedian, heart attack.
• Bernard Binlin Dadié, 103, Ivorian novelist, playwright and poet, Minister of Culture.
• Vladimir Etush, 96, Russian actor, People's Artist of the USSR, heart failure.
• Patrick Grandperret, 72, French film director and screenwriter.
• Heo Yong-mo, 53, South Korean boxer, stomach cancer.
• Harry Howell, 86, Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey player.
• Jadwiga Janus, 87, Polish sculptor.
• Wenche Kvamme, 68, Norwegian actress, cancer.
• Robert Lemaître, 90, French footballer.
• Albert Marenčin, 96, Slovak writer, translator and screenwriter.
• Leonidas Ralph Mecham, 90, American lawyer, director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts.
• Abdul Ali Mridha, Bangladeshi politician.
• Pierre de Saintignon, 70, French politician.
• Olatoye Temitope Sugar, 47, Nigerian politician, MP, shot.
• Francesca Sundsten, 59, American bassist and artist, lymphoma.
• Johnny Thompson, 84, American magician.
• Kevin Ward, 57, American baseball player, brain cancer.
• Wally Yamaguchi, 60, Japanese professional wrestling manager, stroke.

  10

• Edith Borroff, 93, American musicologist and composer.
• Anton Buteyko, 71, Ukrainian diplomat, Ambassador to the United States and Romania.
• Karl Eller, 91, American advertising executive and retailer.
• Josef Feistmantl, 80, Austrian luger, Olympic, world, and European champion.
• Russell Gary, 59, American football player, heart attack.
• Raven Grimassi, 67, American Wiccan priest and writer, pancreatic cancer.
• Louis Hailey, 93, Australian Olympic hockey player.
• Charlie Karp, 65, American musician, songwriter and Emmy-winning documentarian.
• İrsen Küçük, 79, Cypriot politician, Prime Minister of Northern Cyprus, heart attack.
• Britta Lindmark, 89, Swedish Olympic skater.
• Gordon McIntosh, 93, Scottish-born Australian politician, Senator.
• Eric Moss, 44, American football player.
• Charles Mutschler, 63, American archivist, traffic collision.
• Gheorghe Naghi, 86, Romanian film director.
• William Powers Jr., 72, American educator, President of the University of Texas at Austin, complications from a fall.
• Al Silverman, 92, American sports writer.
• Alekos Spanoudakis, 91, Greek basketball player.
• Paul Talalay, 95, German-born American pharmacologist, congestive heart failure.
• René Arnold Valero, 88, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Brooklyn, New York.
• Notable people who died in the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 plane crash:
• *Pius Adesanmi, 47, Nigerian-Canadian professor and writer.
• *Christine Alalo, 48–49, Ugandan police officer and peacekeeper.
• *Sebastiano Tusa, 66, Italian archaeologist and politician.

  11

• Dave Aron, 54, American music producer.
• Yona Atari, 85, Israeli singer and actress, Alzheimer's disease.
• Danny Ben-Israel, 75, Israeli musician.
• Hal Blaine, 90, American Hall of Fame drummer.
• Martín Chirino, 94, Spanish sculptor.
• John Dawson, 91, New Zealand botanist and academic.
• Willie Ellison, 73, American football player.
• Desmond Ford, 90, Australian evangelical theologian.
• Leetsch C. Hsu, 98, Chinese mathematician and educator.
• Saiful Azam Kashem, 71, Bangladeshi film director.
• Dzhemal Kherhadze, 74, Georgian footballer.
• Pertti Koivulahti, 67, Finnish ice hockey player.
• Danny Kustow, 63, English rock guitarist, pneumonia and liver infection.
• Joe Rosenblatt, 85, Canadian poet.
• Edward Rubenstein, 94, American physician.
• Sundar Lal Tiwari, 61, Indian politician, MLA, heart attack.
• Antônio Wilson Vieira Honório, 75, Brazilian football player and manager, world champion, heart attack.
• Speros Vryonis, 90, American historian.
• Peter Wong Man-kong, 70, Hong Kong shipping magnate and politician, member of the National People's Congress.
• Xing Shizhong, 80, Chinese general, President of the PLA National Defence University.

  12

• John Bardo, 70, American educator, president of Wichita State University, lung disease.
• Jim Beatty, 84, American jazz musician.
• Věra Bílá, 64, Czech singer, heart attack.
• Stu Briese, 72, Canadian politician, MLA.
• Thomas S. Carter, 97, American engineer, president of the Kansas City Southern Railway.
• Renato Cipollini, 73, Italian football player and executive, president of Bologna.
• Günter Dreyer, 75, German Egyptologist.
• Karl Fischer, 70, Hungarian-born Canadian architect.
• Joachim Mbadu Kikhela Kupika, 87, Congolese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Boma.
• John Kilzer, 62, American singer and songwriter, suicide by hanging.
• Shelly Liebowitz, 73, American record executive, promoter, producer, and manager.
• Alberto Lois, 62, Dominican baseball player.
• Tom Meyer, 96, American basketball player.
• Joseph C. Miller, 79, American historian.
• Eurico Miranda, 74, Brazilian football chairman and politician, Deputy.
• Gabriela Moser, 64, Austrian politician, MP.
• Alan Moss, 88, English cricketer.
• Hermann Mucke, 84, Austrian astronomer, founder and editor of Sternenbote.
• Sir John Richardson, 95, British art historian and Picasso biographer.
• Marjorie W. Sharmat, 90, American author, respiratory failure.
• Tom Skjønberg, 70, Norwegian sailor.
• Joffre Stewart, 93, American beat poet and anarchist.

  13

• Keith Butler, 80, British racing cyclist.
• Frank Cali, 53, American mobster, head of Gambino crime family, shot.
• Edmund Capon, 78, British-born Australian art historian and curator, director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, melanoma.
• Zofia Czerwińska, 85, Polish actress.
• Beril Dedeoğlu, 57, Turkish politician and academic, Minister of European Union Affairs, brain hemorrhage.
• Zagorka Golubović, 89, Serbian anthropologist and philosopher.
• Howard Hibbett, 98, American translator.
• Chuck Holmes, 84, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Harry Hughes, 92, American politician, Governor of Maryland, member of the Maryland House of Delegates and Senate.
• Ghazali Jaafar, 75, Filipino militant and politician, Speaker of the Bangsamoro Parliament, kidney failure.
• Demie Mainieri, 90, American Hall of Fame baseball coach.
• Ken McKinnon, 82, Canadian politician, Commissioner of Yukon, member of the Yukon Territorial Council.
• Joseph Hanson Kwabena Nketia, 97, Ghanaian ethnomusicologist and composer.
• David Palladini, 72, American illustrator.
• Andrea Pollack, 57, German swimmer, Olympic champion, cancer.
• Charles Sanna, 101, American inventor.
• Maggie Shaddick, 92, Canadian scout leader.
• Leroy Stanton, 72, American baseball player, traffic collision.

  14

• Paul Adams, 82, American football player and coach.
• Kurt Armbruster, 84, Swiss footballer.
• Birch Bayh, 91, American politician, U.S. Senator, member and Speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives, pneumonia.
• Rosamma Chacko, 91, Indian politician, MLA.
• Godfried Danneels, 85, Belgian Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels.
• Terry Donahue, 93, Canadian baseball player.
• Thomas Goddard, 81, Polish-born New Zealand jurist, Chief Employment Court Judge.
• Marian Sulzberger Heiskell, 100, American newspaper executive.
• Harry Helenius, 72, Finnish diplomat, ambassador to Russia and Sweden.
• Henry S. Horn, 77, American ecologist.
• Paul Hutchins, 73, British tennis player, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Joe Knowland, 88, American actor and newspaper publisher.
• Masahiko Kobe, 49, Japanese chef, fall.
• Pat Laffan, 79, Irish actor.
• Mate Mahadevi, 74, Indian Hindu sect leader, author and Lingayatism activist, sepsis.
• Ralph Metzner, 82, American psychologist.
• Ilona Novák, 93, Hungarian swimmer, Olympic champion.
• Onigu Otite, 80, Nigerian sociologist.
• Sir Stanley Peart, 96, British medical researcher.
• Jake Phelps, 56, American skateboarder and magazine editor.
• Anita Silvers, 78, American philosopher.
• Lester Smith, 76, American oil executive.
• Charlie Whiting, 66, British motorsports director, FIA Formula 1 race director, pulmonary embolism.
• Haig Young, 90, Canadian politician.

  15

• Luca Alinari, 75, Italian painter.
• Juan Manuel Arza Muñuzuri, 86, Spanish politician, President of the Government of Navarre.
• Tone Brulin, 92, Belgian stage director.
• Derek Burke, 89, British academic.
• Alec Coppen, 96, British psychiatrist.
• Atta Elayyan, 33, Kuwaiti-born New Zealand footballer and IT entrepreneur, shot.
• Okwui Enwezor, 55, Nigerian art critic and writer, curator of the Venice Biennale, multiple myeloma.
• Bengt Gustafsson, 85, Swedish military officer, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces.
• Sara Payne Hayden, 99, American WWII WASP pilot.
• John P. Healey, 97, American aerospace executive.
• Leif Henriksson, 75, Swedish ice hockey player.
• Dave Hood Jr., 64, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives, brain cancer.
• Lam Jones, 60, American sprinter and football player, Olympic champion, myeloma.
• Osmo Jussila, 81, Finnish historian.
• Helena Khan, 91, Bangladeshi children's writer.
• Wiesław Kilian, 66, Polish politician, member of the Sejm, Senator.
• Rudi Krausmann, 85, Austrian-born Australian poet and playwright.
• Derek Lewin, 88, English footballer.
• Günther Lohre, 65, German Olympic athlete.
• Luo Jye, 94, Taiwanese billionaire businessman, founder of Cheng Shin Rubber.
• W. S. Merwin, 91, American poet, Pulitzer Prize winner, United States Poet Laureate.
• Dominique Noguez, 76, French writer, Prix Femina winner.
• Maya Rani Paul, 86, Indian politician.
• Ron Peplow, 83, English footballer.
• Norman A. Phillips, 95, American meteorologist.
• Y. S. Vivekananda Reddy, 68, Indian politician, member of the Lok Sabha, stabbed.
• Jean-Pierre Richard, 96, French literary critic.
• Ezequiel Santiago, 45, American politician, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives, heart attack.
• Lothar Schneider, 79, German wrestler, world championship bronze medalist.
• Gerhard Skiba, 71, Austrian politician, mayor of Braunau am Inn.
• Mike Thalassitis, 26, English-born Cypriot footballer and reality show personality, suicide by hanging.

  16

• Michael Axworthy, 56, British academic and author, cancer.
• Timothy A. Barrow, 85, American politician, member of the Arizona House of Representatives, Mayor of Phoenix, Alzheimer's disease and cancer.
• Ian Brown, 93, Australian football player.
• Catherine Callaghan, 87, American linguist and anti-abortion activist, co-founder of Feminists for Life.
• Mordaunt Cohen, 102, British soldier and solicitor, AJEX chairman.
• Dick Dale, 81, American guitarist and surf music pioneer, heart failure.
• Larry DiTillio, 71, American television writer.
• Richard Erdman, 93, American actor.
• Joe Fafard, 76, Canadian sculptor, stomach cancer.
• Barbara Hammer, 79, American filmmaker, ovarian cancer.
• Tom Hatten, 92, American actor and media personality.
• Gilbert Hottois, 72, Belgian philosopher.
• Yann-Fañch Kemener, 61, French singer.
• Amos Kloner, 79, Israeli archaeologist.
• Alan Krueger, 58, American economist, suicide.
• Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Louly, 76, Mauritanian military officer and politician, Chairman of the Military Committee for National Salvation.
• Johann Maier, 85, Austrian talmudic scholar.
• Yulia Nachalova, 38, Russian singer, actress and television presenter, cerebral edema.
• Grozdana Olujić, 84, Serbian writer.
• Stephen Rolfe Powell, 67, American glass artist.
• David White, 79, American singer-songwriter.
• Sir William Whitfield, 98, British architect.

  17

• Hanne Aga, 71, Norwegian poet.
• Ken Bald, 98, American illustrator and comic book artist.
• Barbara Benary, 72, American composer and ethnomusicologist, Parkinson's disease.
• Ulf Bengtsson, 59, Swedish table tennis player.
• Bill Burlison, 88, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Missouri's 10th district.
• Mick Carley, 78, Irish Gaelic footballer.
• Shahed Chowdhury, 53, Bangladeshi film director.
• René Fontès, 77, French rugby executive and politician, president of ASM Clermont Auvergne, mayor of Eygalières, heart attack.
• Víctor Genes, 57, Paraguayan football player and manager, heart attack.
• Norman Hollyn, 66, American film and television editor, coronary embolism and cardiac arrest.
• Jorge Insunza Becker, 82, Chilean engineer and politician, Deputy.
• Olavi Mannonen, 89, Finnish modern pentathlete, Olympic silver medalist and bronze medalist.
• João Carlos Marinho, 83, Brazilian writer
• Paul-André Massé, 71, Canadian politician.
• Wolfgang Meyer, 64, German clarinetist, cancer.
• Mick Murphy, 77, English rugby player.
• José Musalem Saffie, 94, Chilean politician, Senator and Deputy.
• Manohar Parrikar, 63, Indian politician, MP, Minister of Defence and Chief Minister of Goa, pancreatic cancer.
• Chinmoy Roy, 79, Indian actor, heart attack.
• Richie Ryan, 90, Irish politician, Teachta Dála, MEP and Minister for Finance.
• Bernie Tormé, 66, Irish guitarist, singer and songwriter, pneumonia.
• Yuya Uchida, 79, Japanese singer and actor, pneumonia.
• Andre Williams, 82, American R&B singer and songwriter, colon cancer.
• Tunku Puan Zanariah, 78, Malaysian royal, Raja Permaisuri Agong.

  18

• Egon Balas, 96, Romanian mathematician.
• György Baló, 71, Hungarian broadcaster.
• Vlastimil Brlica, 90, Czech Olympic athlete.
• John Carl Buechler, 66, American visual effects artist and film director, prostate cancer.
• Marcel-Pierre Cléach, 86, French politician, Senator, mayor of Lombron.
• Jerrie Cobb, 88, American aviator.
• Louise Erickson, 91, American radio and film actress.
• Jackie Fahey, 91, Irish politician, Teachta Dála.
• William Haye, 70, Jamaican cricketer, shot.
• Tova Ilan, 89, Israeli politician, member of the Knesset.
• Roger Kirby, 79, American professional wrestler, pneumonia.
• Dessie Larkin, 49, Irish politician.
• Pavel Machotka, 82, Czechoslovakian-born American psychologist and painter, complications from a stroke.
• Karl-Heinz Mrosko, 72, German footballer, pancreatitis and pneumonia.
• Lorenzo Orsetti, 33, Italian volunteer soldier, shot.
• Pioneerof the Nile, 13, American racing thoroughbred, heart attack.
• Giovanni Sgro, 88, Italian-born Australian politician, MLC.
• Bomma Venkateshwar, 78, Indian politician, MLA.

  19

• Derek Anthony, 71, British military officer, Flag Officer Scotland, Northern England and Northern Ireland.
• Graham Arnold, 86, English artist.
• Arthur Bartman, 46, South African footballer.
• Mona Lee Brock, 87, American educator and crisis support counsellor, heart failure.
• Boris Dubrovin, 68, Russian mathematician, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Thanasis Giannakopoulos, 88, Greek pharmaceutical and sports executive.
• Tony Greenfield, 87, British statistician.
• Clinton Greyn, 85, Welsh actor.
• Chuck Harmon, 94, American baseball player.
• Rose Hilton, 87, British painter.
• Marlen Khutsiev, 93, Georgian-born Russian film director, People's Artist of the USSR.
• George W. Lindberg, 86, American judge, Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
• Brenda Muntemba, 48, Zambian diplomat, High Commissioner to Kenya, complications from a traffic collision.
• Genevieve Oswald, 97, American dance scholar and curator.
• Bill Phelps, 84, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Missouri.
• Maurílio Jorge Quintal de Gouveia, 86, Portuguese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Évora.
• Astri Riddervold, 93, Norwegian chemist and ethnologist.
• S. B. Sinha, 74, Indian judge.
• Ian Thorogood, 82, Australian football player and coach.
• Kenneth To, 26, Hong Kong-born Australian swimmer, FINA Swimming World Cup overall winner, Youth Olympics champion, cardiac arrest.

  20

• Joseph Victor Adamec, 83, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Altoona–Johnstown.
• Anatoly Adoskin, 91, Russian actor, People's Artist of the Russian Federation.
• Dennis Anderson, 69, Canadian politician, MLA for Calgary-Currie.
• Betty G. Bailey, 79, American artist.
• Eunetta T. Boone, 63, American television writer and producer, heart attack.
• Joaquín Calomarde, 62, Spanish teacher and politician, Deputy.
• Linda Gregg, 76, American poet.
• Nobuhiko Higashikuni, 74, Japanese Imperial prince.
• Noel Hush, 94, Australian chemist.
• Randy Jackson, 93, American baseball player.
• Donald Kalpokas, 75, ni-Vanuatu politician, Prime Minister.
• Panos Koutrouboussis, 82, Greek writer and artist.
• Georg Kreutzberg, 86, German neurobiologist.
• Antonio Menegazzo, 87, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Apostolic Administrator of El Obeid.
• Terje Nilsen, 67, Norwegian singer-songwriter.
• Hans Günter Nöcker, 92, German bass-baritone singer.
• Lance Oswald, 82, Australian footballer.
• Ralph Solecki, 101, American archaeologist.
• John Steeples, 59, English footballer.
• A. Subramaniam, 93, Indian politician, MLA.
• Keyvan Vahdani, 27, Iranian footballer, landslide.
• Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock, 94, British philosopher.
• Leonard Wolf, 96, Romanian-born American poet.

  21

• John Bersia, 62, American writer.
• Anna Maria Canopi, 87, Italian Benedectine abbess and spiritual writer.
• Mike Cofer, 58, American football player, amyloidosis.
• Marcel Detienne, 83, Belgian historian.
• Anthony Dickerson, 61, American football player, injuries sustained in a fall.
• Doris Duke, 77, American soul and gospel singer.
• Gordon Hill, 90, English football referee.
• Adzil Holder, 87, Barbadian cricketer.
• R. Kanagaraj, 66, Indian politician, cardiac arrest.
• Roger Moore, 79, American computer scientist and philanthropist.
• Gonzalo Portocarrero, 69, Peruvian sociologist, lung cancer.
• Francis Quinn, 97, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Sacramento.
• K. G. Rajasekharan, 72, Indian Malayalam film director.
• Haku Shah, 85, Indian artist, cardiac arrest.
• Balwant Singh, 82, Indian politician, secretary of Punjab Communist Party of India , MLA.
• Paul Kouassivi Vieira, 69, Beninese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Djougou.
• Franco Wanyama, 51, Ugandan Olympic boxer.
• Pyotr Zaychenko, 75, Russian film and theater actor.

  22

• Jack Absalom, 91, Australian painter and adventurer.
• Frans Andriessen, 89, Dutch politician, Minister of Finance, European Commissioner.
• Dino De Antoni, 82, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Gorizia.
• Prudent Carpentier, 97, Canadian politician, member of the National Assembly of Quebec.
• John Duignan, 73, Scottish comedy writer, motor neurone disease.
• Joe Hall, 71, Canadian singer-songwriter, liver cancer.
• June Harding, 81, American actress.
• Victor Hochhauser, 95, Slovak-born British music promoter.
• César Lévano, 92, Peruvian journalist and teacher.
• Hugh T. Lightsey, 93, American politician, member of the South Carolina House of Representatives.
• Keyonta Marshall, 37, American football player, cancer.
• Tom Maxwell, 94, British military officer.
• Art Mazmanian, 91, American baseball player and manager.
• Bobby McCool, 76, Scottish footballer.
• Denzil Meuli, 92, New Zealand writer, newspaper editor, and Roman Catholic priest.
• Charles A. Miller, 81, American political scientist, oropharyngeal and esophageal dysphagia.
• Jim Moody, 83, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Wisconsin's 5th, Wisconsin State Senate and Wisconsin State Assembly.
• Arlen Ness, 79, American motorcycle designer and entrepreneur.
• C. S. Shivalli, 58, Indian politician, heart attack.
• Scott Walker, 76, American-born British singer-songwriter, composer and record producer.
• Zinka Zorko, 84, Slovenian linguist, dialectologist and academic, member of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

  23

• Kate Baxter, 88, Australian Olympic fencer.
• Philomena Canning, 59, Irish midwife and women's health advocate, ovarian cancer.
• Tudor Caranfil, 87, Romanian film critic.
• Lina Cheryazova, 50, Uzbek freestyle skier, Olympic champion.
• Larry Cohen, 82, American film director and screenwriter.
• Clem Daniels, 81, American football player.
• Vinjamuri Anasuya Devi, 98, Indian singer and composer.
• Jacques Dessemme, 93, French Olympic basketball player.
• Denise DuBarry, 63, American actress, producer and marketer, fungal infection.
• Rafi Eitan, 92, Israeli intelligence officer and politician, member of the Knesset and Minister for Senior Citizens.
• James Carroll Fox, 90, American senior judge, U.S. District Judge for Eastern North Carolina.
• Ferd Lahure, 89, Luxembourgian footballer.
• Matti Launonen, 74, Finnish table tennis player, Paralympic champion, complications from a fall.
• Howard V. Lee, 85, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.
• Lee Shi-chi, 81, Taiwanese artist.
• Li Fulin, 59, Chinese police official and politician, Vice Governor of Hainan Province.
• Shahnaz Rahmatullah, 67, Bangladeshi singer, heart attack.
• Finn Willy Sørensen, 77, Danish footballer.

  24

• Reynaldo Aguinaldo, 70, Filipino politician, Mayor of Kawit, cardiac arrest.
• Andrew Browder, 88, American mathematician.
• Pancracio Celdrán, 77, Spanish professor and journalist.
• Anna Cohn, 68, American museum director and Judaic scholar.
• Ayanda Denge, South African transgender and anti-sex trafficking activist, stabbed.
• Erik Fjeldstad, 75, Norwegian ice hockey player.
• Alan H. Friedman, 91, American writer.
• Nancy Gates, 93, American actress.
• Joe Harvard, 60, American musician, liver cancer.
• Ensio Hyytiä, 81, Finnish ski jumper, world championship silver medalist.
• Noah Keen, 98, American actor.
• Vicky Kippin, 76, Australian politician, Queensland MLA.
• Julia Lockwood, 77, British actress, pneumonia.
• Finn Lowery, 28, New Zealand water polo player, suicide.
• Michael Lynne, 77, American studio executive and film producer.
• Brian MacArthur, 79, British newspaper editor and writer, leukaemia.
• Fred Malek, 82, American executive, political campaigner and philanthropist.
• Mich Matsudaira, 81, American businessman and civil rights activist.
• Desmond Dudwa Phiri, 88, Malawian historian and economist.
• Joseph Pilato, 70, American actor.
• Ronald K. Siegel, 76, American psychopharmacologist.
• Robert W. Sweet, 96, American senior judge, U.S. District Judge for Southern New York.

  25

• Edna Barker, 82, English cricketer.
• Ordell Braase, 87, American football player, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Virgilio Caballero Pedraza, 77, Mexican journalist and politician, MP.
• Paul Dawkins, 61, American-Turkish basketball player.
• Eduardo De Santis, 89, Italian actor and philanthropist.
• Len Fontaine, 71, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Barrie Hole, 76, Welsh footballer.
• Adolph Lawrence, 50, Liberian politician, member of the House of Representatives, traffic collision.
• Miklós Martin, 87, Hungarian Olympic water polo player.
• Antonio Napoletano, 81, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Sessa Aurunca.
• Julian Nott, 74, British balloonist and scientist.
• Susan Nutter, 74–75, American librarian.
• Gabriel Okara, 97, Nigerian poet and novelist.
• Jean Price, 75, American politician, member of the Montana House of Representatives, pancreatic cancer.
• Cal Ramsey, 81, American basketball player, heart attack.
• Sofía Rocha, 51, Peruvian actress, fall.
• Dorothy Rowe, 88, Australian psychologist and writer.
• Jerry Schypinski, 87, American baseball player.
• Sydel Silverman, 86, American anthropologist.
• Archbishop Stylianos of Australia, 83, Australian Greek Orthodox prelate, Archbishop of Australia.
• Bill Thompson III, 57, American ornithologist and publisher, pancreatic cancer.
• Lyle Tuttle, 87, American tattoo artist.

  26

• Ralph Allen, 92, Canadian painter.
• Michel Bacos, 95, French pilot.
• Ted Burgin, 91, English football player and manager.
• François Dubanchet, 95, French politician.
• Catherine R. Gira, 86, American educator and university administrator.
• Kenichi Hagiwara, 68, Japanese actor and singer, gastrointestinal stromal tumor.
• Rafael Henzel, 45, Brazilian sports broadcaster, survivor of LaMia Flight 2933 crash, heart attack.
• Immanuel Kauluma Elifas, 86, Namibian royal, Chief of Ondonga.
• Andrew Marshall, 97, American military and diplomatic advisor, director of Office of Net Assessment.
• Master Fatman, 53, Danish comedian, film director and singer.
• Bronco McLoughlin, 80, Irish stuntman.
• Ali Mema, 76, Albanian footballer and manager.
• Nodar Mgaloblishvili, 87, Georgian actor.
• James F. Nagle, 91, American politician, member of the New York State Assembly.
• Arthur Porter, 95, Sierra Leonean historian.
• W. H. Pugmire, 67, American writer.
• Ranking Roger, 56, British singer, cancer.
• Redoute's Choice, 22, Australian Thoroughbred racehorse and champion sire, euthanised.
• Isidro Sala Ribera, 86, Spanish-born Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Abancay.
• N. Selvaraj, 75, Indian politician, member of Lok Sabha.
• Tejshree Thapa, 52, Nepalese human rights lawyer, multiple organ failure.
• Heinz Winbeck, 73, German composer.

  27

• Friedrich Achleitner, 88, Austrian poet and architecture critic.
• Ashitha, 62, Indian writer, cancer.
• Joe Bellino, 81, American football player, Heisman Trophy winner.
• Dragan Bošnjak, 62, Serbian footballer.
• Pierre Bourguignon, 77, French politician, Deputy, mayor of Sotteville-lès-Rouen, heart attack.
• John Browne, 82, Irish politician, Senator and TD.
• Valery Bykovsky, 84, Russian cosmonaut.
• Roy Eugene Davis, 88, American spiritual teacher, heart failure.
• Abdul Latif Dayfallah, 89, Yemeni military officer and politician, Prime Minister.
• Edit Doron, 68, Israeli linguist.
• Jan Dydak, 50, Polish boxer, Olympic bronze medalist, cancer.
• Valentino Giambelli, 91, Italian football player and executive, Chairman of Monza.
• Yoji Harada, 46, Japanese tattoo artist and reality show personality.
• Jan Kobylański, 95, Polish-Paraguayan union leader and stamp printer.
• Akihito Kondo, 80, Japanese baseball player.
• Prasanta Kumar Majumdar, 78, Indian politician.
• John Permal, 72, Pakistani sprinter, pancreatic cancer.
• Dimitri Polizos, 68, American politician, member of the Alabama House of Representatives, heart attack.
• Marvin E. Proffer, 88, American politician, member of the Missouri House of Representatives.
• P. J. G. Ransom, 83, Scottish author.
• Lawrence Rhodes, 79, American dancer and ballet director.
• Bruce Yardley, 71, Australian Test cricketer, cancer.
• Stephen Fitzpatrick, 24, English musician, guitarist and vocalist for indie rock band Her's, traffic collision.

  28

• Vladimir Basalayev, 73, Russian football player and manager.
• Jonathan Baumbach, 85, American author, academic, and film critic.
• Bill Culbert, 84, New Zealand artist.
• Alphonse D'Arco, 86, American mobster, acting boss of the Lucchese crime family, kidney disease.
• Ralph Fertig, 89, American social justice activist, lawyer and author.
• Domenico Giannace, 94, Italian trade unionist and politician, member of the Regional Council of Basilicata.
• John Harris, 83, English cricketer.
• Klaus Koch, 92, German biblical scholar.
• Pierre Lacroix, 84, French rugby union player.
• Maury Laws, 95, American television and film composer.
• Ian McDonald, 82, Scottish civil servant.
• Koji Nakanishi, 93, Japanese chemist.
• Kevin Randall, 73, English football player and manager.
• Damir Salimov, 81, Uzbek film director.
• Eva Mae Fleming Scott, 92, American politician, member of the Virginia House of Delegates and Senate.
• Fuyumi Shiraishi, 82, Japanese voice actress, heart failure.
• Garry Sidebottom, 64, Australian VFL footballer, cancer.
• Jon Skolmen, 78, Norwegian actor.
• Bob Stewart, 79, British radio presenter.
• Henry Stern, 83, American politician and government official, member of NYCC, Commissioner of NYC Parks, complications of Parkinson's disease.
• Wong Tien Fatt, 64, Malaysian politician, MP, heart attack.
• Steve Wormith, 72, Canadian football player and psychologist, cancer.

  29

• Mark Alessi, 65, American comic book publisher, founder of CrossGen.
• Satish Kumar Chauhan, 58, Indian politician, MLA, heart attack.
• Allan Cole, 75, American author and television writer.
• Srima Dissanayake, 76, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician.
• Anders Ehnmark, 87, Swedish author and journalist.
• Joe Enook, 61, Canadian politician, member and Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut.
• Dobrica Erić, 82, Serbian writer and poet.
• Josep Esteve i Soler, 89, Spanish pharmaceutical executive.
• Kenneth A. Gibson, 86, American politician, mayor of Newark, New Jersey.
• Angeline Gunathilake, 79, Sri Lankan singer.
• Samantha Heath, 58, British politician, member of the London Assembly.
• Joshua Hecht, 91, American operatic bass.
• Tao Ho, 82, Hong Kong architect and designer of the flag of Hong Kong, pneumonia.
• Jim Holt, 74, American baseball player.
• Jon Østeng Hov, 83, Norwegian photographer and writer.
• Harry Kesten, 87, German-born American mathematician.
• Margaret Lewis, 79, American singer-songwriter, pneumonia.
• Shane Rimmer, 89, Canadian-born British actor.
• Agnès Varda, 90, French film director, cancer.
• Ed Westcott, 97, American photographer.

  30

• Mary Bayliss, 79, English magistrate, High Sheriff and Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire.
• Greg Booker, 58, American baseball player, melanoma.
• Paloma Cela, 76, Spanish actress, stroke.
• Ron Elvidge, 96, New Zealand rugby union player.
• Maurice Hardouin, 71, French footballer.
• Geoff Harvey, 83, Australian musician and music director.
• Truman Lowe, 75, American artist.
• Simaro Lutumba, 81, Congolese musician.
• Tania Mallet, 77, English model and actress.
• John Wilson Moore, 98, American biophysicist.
• David Paintin, 88, British obstetrician and gynaecologist.
• Lasse Petterson, 83, Swedish actor.
• Havel Rowe, 90, Australian VFL footballer.
• Jim Russell, 98, English racing driver.
• Michele Russo, 74, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Doba.
• Ruben Tovmasyan, 82, Armenian politician, First Secretary of the Armenian Communist Party.
• Virginia Uribe, 85, American educator and LGBT advocate.
• Ben West Jr., 78, American politician, member of the Tennessee House of Representatives.

  31

• Peter Coleman, 90, Australian politician and writer, Leader of the New South Wales Opposition, member of the House of Representatives.
• Britt Damberg, 82, Swedish singer.
• Cesare Dujany, 99, Italian politician, MP, President of Aosta Valley.
• Natalia Fileva, 55, Russian business executive, plane crash.
• Charles Foster, 65, American Olympic hurdler.
• Ralph S. Greco, 76, American surgeon, prostate cancer.
• José Antonio Gurriarán, 80, Spanish journalist.
• Corrado Hérin, 52, Italian luger and mountain bike racer, plane crash.
• Liz Howe, 59, British ecologist, cancer.
• Nipsey Hussle, 33, American rapper, shot.
• Frank Jonik, 61, Canadian snooker player.
• Joseph Levi, 95, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
• John J. Maurer, 96, American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Senate.
• Eva Moser, 36, Austrian chess player, leukaemia.
• Kit Napier, 75, Scottish footballer.
• Yves Préfontaine, 82, Canadian writer.
• Hedi Turki, 96, Tunisian painter.