Deaths in May 2018
The following is a list of notable deaths in May 2018.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
- Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship, reason for notability, cause of death, and reference.
May 2018
1
- Javier Aller, 46, Spanish actor, complications from diabetes.
- Elmar Altvater, 79, German political scientist.
- Arthur Barnard, 89, American sprinter and Olympic bronze medalist.
- Max Berrú, 74, Ecuadorian-Chilean musician.
- Dennis Claridge, 76, American football player, bladder cancer.
- Ninalee Craig, 90, American-born Canadian teacher and photograph subject, complications from lung cancer.
- Carl W. Duckworth, 63, American politician, member of the Utah House of Representatives, bone cancer.
- Raymond D. Dzendzel, 96, American politician, member of the Michigan House of Representatives and Senate.
- Reg Gadney, 77, British author.
- Phil Gowan, 65, American historian, cancer.
- Robert B. Kennedy, 78, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and Governor's Council, Mayor of Lowell.
- Chuck Missler, 83, American evangelist and author.
- Ashok Mitra, 90, Indian economist and politician.
- Pavel Pergl, 40, Czech footballer, suicide by hanging.
- Bozor Sobir, 79, Tajikistani poet and politician, lung disease.
- John "Jabo" Starks, 79, American drummer.
- Charlie Stone, 67, English rugby league footballer.
- Sun Yueh, 87, Chinese-born Taiwanese actor, sepsis.
- Peter Temple-Morris, Baron Temple-Morris, 80, British politician and life peer, MP for Leominster.
- Universo 2000, 55, Mexican professional wrestler.
- Wanda Wiłkomirska, 89, Polish violinist and teacher.
- Bob Woffinden, 70, British journalist and author, mesothelioma.
- Betty Workman, 93, American politician, member of the Maryland House of Delegates.
2
- Gord Brown, 57, Canadian politician, MP, heart attack.
- Tony Cucchiara, 80, Italian singer and songwriter.
- Paul Dick, 77, Canadian politician, heart attack.
- Dick Edell, 74, American lacrosse coach, pneumonia.
- János Juszkó, 78, Hungarian racing cyclist.
- Herman Krebbers, 94, Dutch violinist.
- Tokay Mammadov, 90, Azerbaijani sculptor.
- Vadim Mulerman, 79, Soviet singer, cancer.
- Katherine O'Regan, 71, New Zealand politician, MP for Waipa, list MP, cancer.
- Kottayam Pushpanath, 80, Indian author.
- Harald Range, 70, German jurist, Attorney General.
- James Thorp, 81, American electrical engineer.
- Finn Tøraasen, 81, Norwegian footballer.
- Bill Torrey, 83, Canadian ice hockey executive.
- Wolfgang Völz, 87, German actor.
- Chris Walsh, 66, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, lymphoma.
- Wang Danfeng, 93, Chinese actress.
- Cliff Watson, 78, English rugby league footballer, cancer.
- Sir Keith Williamson, 90, British air force commander, Chief of the Air Staff.
3
- Jim Argue, 66, American politician, member of the Arkansas Senate, kidney cancer.
- Monica Barnes, 82, Irish politician, Teachta Dála, Senator.
- Davida Coady, 80, American pediatrician, ovarian cancer.
- H. Basil S. Cooke, 102, South African-Canadian geologist and palaeontologist.
- Doina Cornea, 88, Romanian human rights activist and professor.
- Afonso Dhlakama, 65, Mozambican politician and opposition leader, heart attack.
- Cliff Downey, 89, Canadian politician, MP.
- Dan Grimm, 77, American football player, Parkinson's disease and dementia.
- John Hinnells, 76, British theologian.
- György Holovits, 71, Hungarian Olympic sailor
- David Pines, 93, American physicist.
- Bob Prewitt, 93, American college basketball coach.
- Junior Rodriguez, 82, American politician.
- Joe Scannella, 89, American football coach.
- Paolo Signorelli, 79, Italian footballer.
- Demetrio Túpac Yupanqui, 94, Peruvian academic and Quechua translator.
4
- Paul Bloodgood, 58, American artist, Alzheimer's disease.
- Edwin G. Burrows, 74, American historian and professor.
- Naser Cheshmazar, 67, Iranian composer, heart attack.
- Renate Dorrestein, 64, Dutch writer and journalist, esophageal cancer.
- Cathy Godbold, 43, Australian actress, brain cancer.
- Bobbie Louise Hawkins, 87, American poet and author.
- Larry Hunter, 68, American college basketball coach, complications from a stroke.
- B. N. Vijaya Kumar, 59, Indian politician, heart attack.
- Lionel Lamy, 74, French footballer.
- Patricia Lascelles, Countess of Harewood, 91, Australian-British violinist and fashion model.
- André Le Dissez, 88, French racing cyclist.
- Juan Morano, 76, Spanish politician, member of the Congress of Deputies, mayor of León.
- Luyanda Ntshangase, 21, South African footballer, lightning strike.
- Abi Ofarim, 80, Israeli musician and dancer.
- Tony Steel, 76, New Zealand rugby union player and politician, MP for Hamilton East.
- Kenneth J. Thorneycroft, 90, Canadian military officer.
- Alexander Tschäppät, 66, Swiss politician, National Councillor, Mayor of Bern, cancer.
5
- Michele Castoro, 66, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Manfredonia-Vieste-S.Giovanni Rotondo, cancer.
- Klaus Dede, 82, German writer and journalist.
- Frederic H. Dustin, 88, American businessman and philanthropist.
- Stanley Falkow, 84, American microbiologist.
- Wilson Frost, 92, American politician, member of the Chicago City Council.
- Arjun Hingorani, 92, Indian film producer and director.
- José María Íñigo, 75, Spanish journalist and commentator, cancer.
- Séamus Lagan, 71, Northern Irish Gaelic footballer.
- Lambert Maassen, 76, Dutch footballer.
- Ermanno Olmi, 86, Italian film director and screenwriter, complications from Guillain–Barré syndrome.
- Aaron D. Panken, 53, American rabbi, President of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, plane crash.
- Fuad Poladov, 69, Azerbaijani actor.
- P. N. Sathya, 46, Indian actor and director.
- Rosemarie Schuder, 89, German writer.
- Dick Williams, 91, American singer.
- Roy Wright, 84, American baseball player.
6
- Sam Aanestad, 71, American politician, member of the California State Assembly and Senate.
- Cirilo Bautista, 76, Filipino writer and poet.
- Raymond Book, 93, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
- Herbert E. Brekle, 82, German typographer and linguist.
- Dick Casull, 87, American gunsmith.
- Jack Chamangwana, 61, Malawian football player and coach.
- Daniel Cohen, 82, American writer, sepsis.
- Ivan Dagnin, 80, South African cricketer.
- Arun Date, 84, Indian singer.
- Jean-Claude Decagny, 78, French politician, MP, Mayor of Maubeuge.
- Leonard Faulkner, 91, Australian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Adelaide.
- Paolo Ferrari, 89, Belgian-born Italian actor, voice actor and television presenter.
- Eric Geboers, 55, Belgian motocross racer, five-time world champion, drowned.
- Tarcisio Gitti, 82, Italian politician, President of Brescia province and deputy.
- Gurukrushna Goswami, 83, Indian lyricist.
- George G. Hall, 93, British applied mathematician.
- Lai Meng, 89, Malaysian actress.
- David Mitchell, 84, Australian lawyer and missionary.
- Khaled Mohieddin, 95, Egyptian military officer, member of the Revolutionary Command Council.
- Jamal Naji, 63, Jordanian author, stroke.
- Ruth Richard, 89, American baseball player.
- Derek Riley, 95, Canadian rower.
- Charles W. Steger, 70, American academic, President of Virginia Tech.
- Brad Steiger, 82, American author and paranormal researcher.
- Ray Szmanda, 91, American radio personality and Menards spokesman.
- Scott Wilson, 67, American bodybuilder, skin cancer.
7
- Andreas Findig, 56, Austrian author.
- Mikhail German, 85, Russian writer.
- Joan Groothuysen, 60, Canadian Olympic cross-country skier, cancer.
- Thomas Hempel, 76, Swedish radio journalist.
- Søren Hyldgaard, 55, Danish composer, diabetes.
- Jesús Kumate Rodríguez, 93, Mexican physician and politician, Secretary of Health.
- Maurane, 57, Belgian singer and actress.
- Miki Muster, 92, Slovenian artist.
- César Paredes Canto, 76, Peruvian academic and politician, Vice President, heart attack.
- Isyaku Rabiu, 92, Nigerian businessman and Islamic scholar.
- Charlie Russell, 76, Canadian naturalist, complications from surgery.
- Jeremy D. Safran, 66, Canadian-born American psychotherapist, beaten and stabbed.
- Crosbie E. Saint, 81, American military officer.
- António Saraiva, 84, Portuguese footballer.
- Gayle Shepherd, 81, American singer, dementia.
- Roman Toi, 101, Estonian-Canadian composer, choir conductor and organist.
- Tore Torell, 76, Norwegian magician, esophageal cancer.
- Miroslav Vardić, 73, Serbian footballer.
8
- Big Bully Busick, 63, American professional wrestler, spinal fluid cancer.
- Anne V. Coates, 92, British film editor, Oscar winner.
- George Deukmejian, 89, American politician, Governor of California.
- Marta DuBois, 65, Panamanian actress.
- Peter Fehlner, 86, American Roman Catholic priest and theologian.
- Eunice Groark, 80, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut.
- Mahmoud Hammoud, 82–83, Lebanese politician and diplomat.
- Larry Leach, 81, Canadian ice hockey player.
- Ernest Medina, 81, American army officer, commander of unit responsible for the My Lai Massacre.
- Lara Saint Paul, 73, Eritrean-born Italian singer, cancer.
- James Scott, 71, American light-heavyweight boxer and convicted murderer.
- Al Stanek, 74, American baseball player.
- Jonathan Sternberg, 98, American conductor and musical director, heart failure.
- Rauf Talyshinski, 61, Azerbaijani journalist and editor.
- Don Testerman, 65, American football player, dementia.
- Frøystein Wedervang, 100, Norwegian economist.
9
- Dino Adriano, 75, British businessman.
- Poldine Carlo, 97, American writer and Koyukon elder.
- Lolita Chatterjee, 81, Indian actress, stroke.
- Omar Daoud, 35, Libyan footballer, traffic collision.
- Tom Dooley, 83, American football referee.
- Arthur Fitzsimons, 88, Irish football player and manager.
- Tom Fletcher, 75, American baseball player.
- Richard Haag, 94, American landscape architect.
- Mustafa Nur-Ul Islam, 91, Bangladeshi academic, National Professor.
- Per Kirkeby, 79, Danish artist.
- Tan Duc Thanh Nguyen, 34, Australian heroin smuggler, stomach cancer.
- Rajinder Pal, 80, Indian cricketer.
- Murai Shimako, 89, Japanese playwright.
- Carlos Enrique Trinidad Gómez, 63, Guatemalan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of San Marcos.
- Duke Friedrich of Württemberg, 56, German aristocrat, heir of House of Württemberg, traffic collision.
10
- Ann Bergren, 75, American literature and architecture scholar.
- Karl Bergström, 81, Swedish boxer.
- Graham Bunyard, 78, South African cricketer.
- Ankit Chadha, 30, Indian storyteller, drowned.
- Liz Chase, 68, Zimbabwean field hockey player, Olympic champion.
- Donnie Forman, 92, American basketball player.
- David Goodall, 104, English-born Australian botanist, assisted suicide by lethal injection.
- Emile Gumbs, 90, Anguillan politician, Chief Minister.
- Günther Haensch, 95, German linguist and lexicographer.
- Ken Hodgkisson, 85, English footballer.
- Scott Hutchison, 36, Scottish singer, songwriter and guitarist.
- Kevin Kamenetz, 60, American politician, Baltimore County Executive, cardiac arrest.
- Graham Lovett, 70, English footballer.
- Alfonso Lovo Cordero, 90, Nicaraguan politician, member of the Liberal-Conservative Junta.
- Josue Marquez, 71, Puerto Rican boxer, renal failure.
- John Campbell Munro, 70, Scottish-Australian folk singer, cancer.
- Neelu, 81, Indian actor.
- Don Oslear, 89, English cricket umpire, complications from Parkinson's disease.
- Adam Parfrey, 61, American writer, editor and publisher, complications from several strokes.
- Joseph Paul, 81, Pakistani Roman Catholic priest.
- Maynard Troyer, 79, American race car driver and race chassis engineer.
- Evgeni Vasiukov, 85, Russian chess Grandmaster.
- The Wanderer, 59, Norwegian serial burglar.
- Wu Dechang, 90, Chinese toxicologist, President of the Academy of Military Medical Sciences.
11
- Mikhail Alperin, 61, Ukrainian-born Norwegian jazz pianist.
- Tony Beers, 55, Australian footballer.
- Bob Bonnett, 85, Australian footballer.
- Zlatko Bourek, 88, Croatian filmmaker.
- Anita Das, 66, Indian actress, heart attack.
- Gérard Genette, 87, French literary theorist.
- Josh Greenfeld, 90, American author and screenwriter, pneumonia.
- Hugo Guerra, 52, Uruguayan footballer, heart attack.
- Tom E. Lewis, 59, Australian Yan-nhaŋu actor, heart attack.
- Peter Mayer, 82, American publisher, complications from amyloidosis.
- Bengt Nilsson, 84, Swedish high jumper.
- Jose Francisco Oliveros, 71, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Malolos.
- Himanshu Roy, 54, Indian police officer, Director General of Police for Maharashtra, suicide by gunshot.
- Ulla Sallert, 95, Swedish actress and singer.
- Viktor Shamburkin, 86, Russian sport shooter, Olympic gold medalist.
- Germain Van der Moere, 93, Belgian sprint canoeist, world champion.
12
- Mansoor Ahmed, 50, Pakistani field hockey player, Olympic bronze medalist, heart failure.
- Will Alsop, 70, British architect, Stirling Prize winner.
- Eddy Bandura, 77, German footballer.
- Billy Brewer, 83, American football player and coach.
- Nick Drahos, 99, American football player, pneumonia.
- Eufranio Eriguel, 58, Filipino physician and politician, Mayor of Agoo shot.
- Vern Harper, 81, Canadian Cree elder and indigenous rights activist.
- Geoffrey Hendricks, 86, American artist.
- Tessa Jowell, Baroness Jowell, 70, English politician, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, MP and peer, brain cancer.
- Chuck Knox, 86, American football coach, dementia.
- Antonio Mercero, 82, Spanish film and television director, Emmy and Goya winner, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
- Borislav Mikelić, 78, Serbian politician, Prime Minister of Serbian Krajina.
- Dennis Nilsen, 72, Scottish serial killer.
- Sam Nzima, 83, South African photographer.
- Jack Sures, 83, Canadian artist.
- Charles Thake, 90, Maltese actor.
- Joe Thomson, 70, Scottish legal scholar, Regius Professor of Law .
- Kevin Tierney, 67, Canadian film producer and journalist, cancer.
- Gareth Powell Williams, 63, British rugby union player.
- Donald Gary Young, 68, American business executive, founder of Young Living, complications from multiple strokes.
13
- Edgardo Angara, 83, Filipino politician, Senator, Senate President and Minister of Agriculture, heart attack.
- Balkavi Bairagi, 87, Indian poet and politician.
- Rajab Ali Khan Baloch, 48, Pakistani politician, member of the National Assembly, cancer.
- Henry Bethard, 93, American attorney and politician.
- Rogelio Blaín, 73, Cuban actor.
- Glenn Branca, 69, American avant-garde composer and guitarist, throat cancer.
- Epitácio Cafeteira, 93, Brazilian politician, Senator from Maranhão and Governor.
- Beth Chatto, 94, British gardener and writer.
- Clare Drake, 89, Canadian ice hockey coach.
- Donald T. Farley, 84, American physicist and engineering scientist.
- Steve Hogan, 69, American politician, Mayor of Aurora, Colorado, member of the Colorado House of Representatives, cancer.
- Margot Kidder, 69, Canadian-American actress and activist, suicide by drug and alcohol overdose.
- Chuck Panama, 93, American publicist and journalist.
- James F. Short Jr., 93, American sociologist and criminologist.
- Harry Stiller, 79, British racing driver, British Formula Three champion.
- Baadur Tsuladze, 83, Georgian actor, film director, writer and broadcaster.
- Lucien Villa, 95, French politician, Deputy.
14
- Kalasala Babu, 68, Indian actor, complications from a stroke.
- Howard Bayne, 75, American basketball player.
- James B. Beard, 82, American horticultural scientist.
- T. P. Burns, 94, Irish jockey.
- Peter Byrne, 90, English actor and director.
- Mike Drass, 57, American football coach, heart attack.
- Elaine Edwards, 89, American politician, U.S. Senator and First Lady of Louisiana.
- Abdulrahim Abby Farah, 98, Welsh-born Somali diplomat and politician.
- Roberto Farias, 86, Brazilian film director, producer and screenwriter, cancer.
- Doug Ford, 95, American golfer, PGA and Masters champion.
- Amir Ganiel, 55, Israeli swimmer.
- John James, 79, British poet.
- Vladimír Jirásek, 84, Czech slalom canoeist, multi-ICF world champion.
- Dieter Kunzelmann, 78, German political activist.
- María Elena Meneses Rocha, 56, Mexican journalist, technologist and academic.
- Kamel Omrane, 67, Tunisian politician and academic, Minister of Religious Affairs.
- Luis Pellicer, 87, Spanish footballer.
- Frank Quilici, 79, American baseball player, manager and commentator, kidney disease.
- Mani Shah, 51, Nepalese footballer.
- E. C. George Sudarshan, 86, Indian theoretical physicist and professor.
- William Vance, 82, Belgian comics artist, Parkinson's disease.
- Tom Wolfe, 88, American author and journalist, infection.
- Jozef J. Zwislocki, 96, Polish-born American neuroscientist.
15
- Balakumaran, 71, Indian writer.
- Akki Chennabasappa, Indian actor.
- Joseph G. Clemons, 90, American soldier, subject of Pork Chop Hill.
- Martin Hoffman, 88, Czech-born British bridge player, writer and Holocaust survivor.
- Wilson Chisala Kalumba, 53-54, Zambian politician, Mayor of Lusaka, heart failure.
- Jean-Claude Lamy, 76, French journalist.
- José Lavat, 69, Mexican voice actor, renal failure.
- Milan Malatinský, 48, Slovak football player and manager, train collision.
- Tom Murphy, 83, Irish playwright.
- Barbara Nawrocka-Dońska, 93, Polish journalist and feminist essayist.
- Elyas Omar, 81, Malaysian politician, Mayor of Kuala Lumpur, heart disease.
- Jlloyd Samuel, 37, Trinidadian footballer, traffic collision.
- Georges Scandar, 91, Lebanese Maronite Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Baalbek and Zahleh and Zahleh.
- Austin Thomas, 79, Aruban fencer.
16
- François Bréda, 62, Romanian writer and literary critic.
- Joseph Campanella, 93, American actor, complications from Parkinson's disease.
- Nick Coleman, 67, American journalist, stroke.
- Hugh Dane, 75, American actor, pancreatic cancer.
- Richard Fork, 82, American physicist, respiratory arrest.
- Nils Foss, 90, Danish civil engineer, Parkinson's disease.
- Camille Gira, 59, Luxembourgish politician and ecologist, member of the Chamber of Deputies, heart attack.
- Elena Gremina, 61, Russian scriptwriter, director and playwright, heart attack.
- Miriam T. Griffin, 82, American academic.
- Tom Hadfield, 83, New Zealand rugby league player.
- Yuriko Hoshi, 74, Japanese actress.
- Russell Jessop, 60, Australian footballer.
- Andy Johnson, 65, American football player.
- Gérard Jouannest, 85, French pianist.
- Eloísa Mafalda, 93, Brazilian actress.
- Salih Mirzabeyoğlu, 68, Turkish writer and Islamist leader, brain hemorrhage.
- Diana E. Murphy, 84, American judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit, U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota.
- Lucian Pintilie, 84, Romanian film director.
- Hideki Saijo, 63, Japanese singer, heart failure.
- Michael Slive, 77, American college athletics commissioner.
- Bill Smyly, 95, British WWII army officer and journalist.
- Ray Wilson, 83, English footballer, world champion, Alzheimer's disease.
- Zhao Kangmin, 81, Chinese archaeologist, discovered the Terracotta Army.
17
- Ezio Barbieri, 95, Italian criminal.
- Inger Brattström, 97, Swedish writer.
- Sir James Eberle, 90, British Royal Navy Admiral, Commander-in-Chief Fleet.
- Skip Finn, 69, American Ojibwe politician, member of the Minnesota Senate.
- Nicole Fontaine, 76, French lawyer and politician, President of the European Parliament.
- Craig Harbison, 74, American art historian.
- Jim Hay, 87, Canadian ice hockey player.
- Murray Hofmeyr, 92, South African cricketer and rugby player.
- Lawrence Jegen, 83, American legal scholar.
- Lee Young-hee, 82, South Korean hanbok fashion designer, pneumonia.
- Bill Longmore, 79, British civil servant, West Mercia Police and Crime Commissioner, cancer.
- Maciej Maciejewski, 103, Polish actor.
- Jürgen Marcus, 69, German singer, COPD.
- Anthony Michael Milone, 85, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Great Falls-Billings, cancer and heart disease.
- Richard Pipes, 94, Polish-born American historian and professor.
- Mait Riisman, 61, Estonian water polo player, Olympic gold medalist.
- Jon Sholle, 70, American musician.
- Tom Von Ruden, 73, American athlete.
- Mehdi Tabatabaei, 82, Iranian Shia cleric and politician, MP, lung disease.
18
- Stephanie Adams, 47, American model and author, suicide by jumping.
- Rolande Allard-Lacerte, 88, Canadian journalist and writer.
- Ayad Futayyih Al-Rawi, 76, Iraqi military officer and convicted criminal, stroke.
- John Ashdown-Hill, 69, British archaeologist, motor neurone disease.
- Doğan Babacan, 88, Turkish football referee.
- Sir John Carrick, 99, Australian politician, Minister for Education.
- Darío Castrillón Hoyos, 88, Colombian Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Bucaramanga, Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy and President of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, liver disease.
- Christopher Jones, 82, Irish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Elphin.
- Antonio Lupatelli, 88, Italian illustrator, writer and comics artist.
- Eric McLuhan, 76, Canadian communications theorist and media ecologist.
- Dilshad Najmuddin, 80–81, Pakistani police officer.
- Liam Ó Muirthile, 68, Irish poet.
- Fred Peters, 95, American animator and comics artist.
- Jack Reilly, 86, American jazz pianist.
- Sir Des Champs, 11, Irish racehorse, race injury.
- Yrsa Stenius, 73, Finnish-born Swedish journalist.
- Sun Fuling, 96, Chinese business executive and politician, Vice Mayor of Beijing, Vice Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
- Philip Tabane, 84, South African musician.
- Troy Waters, 53, Australian light middleweight boxer, Commonwealth champion, acute myeloid leukaemia.
19
- John Avery, 90, Australian police officer, Commissioner of the New South Wales Police.
- Eddy C. Bertin, 73, Belgian author.
- Joseph Cassar, 71, Maltese diplomat, United Nations representative and Ambassador to Portugal, Italy, Libya and Russia.
- Harvey Hall, 77, American businessman and politician, Mayor of Bakersfield, California.
- Barry Hindess, 78, British sociologist.
- Robert Indiana, 89, American pop artist, respiratory failure.
- Houmane Jarir, 73, Moroccan footballer.
- Maya Jribi, 58, Tunisian politician, cancer.
- Bernard Lewis, 101, British-American Middle East historian and professor.
- Reggie Lucas, 65, American songwriter, guitarist and record producer, Grammy winner, heart failure.
- Vincent McEveety, 88, American film and television director.
- Thomas McGhee, 89, English footballer.
- John Moorfield, 74, New Zealand Māori language academic, cancer.
- Eric Murray, 89, Canadian bridge player.
- Giovanni Pace, 84, Italian politician, deputy and President of Abruzzo.
- Hardy Rodenstock, 76, German wine collector and dealer.
- Ernst Sieber, 91, Swiss pastor, founder of Sozialwerke Pfarrer Sieber.
- Arne Sorensen, 84, Canadian Olympic sports shooter.
- David Treasure, 74, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Gippsland East.
- Richard Wilson, 92, British-American physicist.
- Zhengzhang Shangfang, 84, Chinese linguist.
20
- Antonio Annibale, 78, Italian footballer.
- Jaroslav Brabec, 68, Czech shot putter and athletics coach.
- Billy Cannon, 80, American football player, Heisman Trophy winner.
- Ramón Chao, 82, Spanish anti-Francoist journalist and writer.
- Dick Deschaine, 87, American football player.
- Bill Gold, 97, American film poster artist, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
- Richard N. Goodwin, 86, American political writer, cancer.
- Ali Hussnein, 93, Libyan politician, Foreign Minister of Kingdom of Libya.
- Koo Bon-moo, 73, South Korean business executive, Chairman of LG Corporation, brain tumor.
- Fernando Mac Dowell, 72, Brazilian engineer and politician, Deputy Mayor of Rio de Janeiro, heart attack.
- Elizabeth Norman McKay, 86, English musicologist.
- Carol Mann, 77, American Hall of Fame golfer.
- Patricia Morison, 103, American actress.
- Colin Morris, 89, British Methodist minister.
- John Morroni, 63, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives, leukemia.
- Ernie Page, 83, Australian politician, MLA for Waverley and Coogee.
- Rolf Sand, 98, Norwegian actor.
- Dieter Schnebel, 88, German composer.
- Roland Vogt, 77, German politician.
21
- António Arnault, 82, Portuguese politician, poet and Grand Master of Grande Oriente Lusitano, Minister of Social Affairs.
- Aleksandr Askoldov, 85, Russian actor and film director.
- Max Cohen-Olivar, 73, Moroccan racing driver.
- Camilo Diaz Gregorio, 78, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bacolod and Prelate of Batanes.
- Muhammad Fazil, 91, Pakistani Olympic sprinter.
- Anna Maria Ferrero, 84, Italian actress.
- Franny Firth, 61, English footballer.
- John Fremantle, 5th Baron Cottesloe, 91, English aristocrat.
- Dave Garcia, 97, American baseball coach and manager.
- Gholamreza Hassani, 90, Iranian Islamic leader.
- Don Jessop, 90, Australian politician, MHR for Grey, Senator.
- Adam Keel, 93, Swiss artist.
- Nobukazu Kuriki, 35, Japanese mountaineer, heart attack.
- Allyn Ann McLerie, 91, Canadian-born American actress, singer, and dancer.
- Yaddanapudi Sulochana Rani, 78, Indian novelist.
- Dovey Johnson Roundtree, 104, American civil rights activist and attorney.
- Reg Stratton, 78, English footballer.
- Pedro Tenorio, 84, Northern Mariana Islander politician, Governor.
- Vasilis Triantafillidis, 78, Greek comedian and singer.
- Marjet Van Puymbroeck, 97, Belgian politician, Senator and Flemish MP.
- Clint Walker, 90, American actor, heart failure.
- Faith Whittlesey, 79, American politician and diplomat, ambassador to Switzerland, cancer.
- Gina Zamparelli, 59, American concert promoter, glioblastoma.
22
- Tazin Ahmed, 42, Bangladeshi actress, heart attack.
- Michael Banton, 91, British social scientist.
- Alberto Dines, 86, Brazilian journalist, writer and professor.
- Lu Chunling, 96, Chinese flautist.
- Yuriy Kutsenko, 66, Russian athlete, Olympic silver medalist.
- Abdul Majeed Abdul Bari, 55, Maldivian politician, Minister of Islamic Affairs.
- Júlio Pomar, 92, Portuguese painter.
- Philip Roth, 85, American writer, Pulitzer Prize winner, heart failure.
- Daniela Samulski, 33, German swimmer, European champion, stomach cancer.
- Hafiz Siddiqi, 87, Bangladeshi academic, vice-chancellor of North South University.
- Elizabeth Sung, 63, Hong Kong-born American actress.
- Roland Wommack, 81, American Olympic fencer.
23
- Michel Archambault, 67, Canadian ice hockey player.
- Eric Barnard, 90, British neuroscientist.
- Vinod Bhatt, 80, Indian humourist and biographer.
- Celia Brackenridge, 67, British sportswoman and campaigner, leukaemia.
- Bob Buczkowski, 54, American football player.
- Glynn Edwards, 87, British actor.
- Kai Ekanger, 88, Norwegian politician.
- Antonio Horvath, 68, Chilean civil engineer and politician, Deputy and Senator, lymphatic cancer.
- Sir Miles Hunt-Davis, 79, British army officer and courtier, Private Secretary to the Duke of Edinburgh.
- Irving London, 99, American hematologist and geneticist.
- Carlos Lozano Guillén, 68, Colombian activist and political leader, cancer.
- Jeanna Michaels, 62, American actress.
- Homer Neal, 75, American physician, stroke.
- Jean-François Parot, 71, French diplomat and writer.
- Richard Peck, 84, American writer, Newbery Medalist.
- Luis Posada Carriles, 90, Cuban exiled anti-Castro militant, CIA agent and convicted terrorist.
- Daniel Robin, 74, French wrestler, Olympic double-silver medalist.
- László Tábori, 86, Hungarian-born American Olympic athlete.
- Masaki Tamura, 79, Japanese cinematographer.
24
- Zorawar Chand Bakhshi, 96, Indian army general, lung infection.
- Tsehaytu Beraki, 78, Eritrean krar player and independence activist.
- Jacky Buchmann, 86, Belgian politician, MP, Flemish MP, Senator.
- Gudrun Burwitz, 88, German neonazi militant, daughter of Heinrich Himmler.
- Phil Emmanuel, 65, Australian guitarist, asthma attack.
- Angelo Falcón, 66, Puerto Rican political scientist and journalist, founder of the National Institute for Latino Policy.
- Charlotte Fox, 61, American mountaineer.
- Adrien Giraud, 81, French politician, Senator for Mayotte Island.
- Paul Harris, 69, Scottish author and publisher.
- Horst Hirnschrodt, 77, Austrian footballer.
- Cliff Jackson, 76, English footballer.
- Jerry Maren, 98, American actor, heart failure.
- Robin Miller, 65, American journalist and author.
- Albrecht Müller, 78, German rower, European champion.
- Oddur Pétursson, 86, Icelandic cross country skier.
- José Alberto Rozo Gutiérrez, 81, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Puerto Gaitán.
- TotalBiscuit, 33, British gaming critic, commentator and Internet personality, colorectal cancer.
- Bob Sullivan, 60, Canadian ice hockey player.
- Walter Vera, 90, Uruguayan Olympic sport shooter.
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- Elmer Behnke, 89, American basketball player.
- Paul Bloch, 78, American publicist.
- Dean Francis, 44, British boxer, cancer.
- Gary Garfinkel, 55, American studio executive.
- Sergio Graziani, 87, Italian actor and voice actor.
- Kaduvetti Guru, 57, Indian politician.
- José Hawilla, 74, Brazilian journalist, convicted fraudster and informant, lung disease.
- Brendan Ingle, 77, Irish boxing trainer.
- Piet Kee, 90, Dutch composer and organist.
- Fred Kovaleski, 93, American tennis player and spy, prostate cancer.
- Naser Malek Motiei, 88, Iranian actor.
- Bill Mallory, 82, American football coach, fall.
- Phil McKnight, 93, Scottish footballer.
- Jim Phillips Sr., 87, American politician, member of the North Carolina Senate.
- Hildegard Puwak, 68, Romanian politician, Minister of European Integration.
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- Alan Bean, 86, American astronaut, fourth person to walk on the Moon.
- Pierre Bellemare, 88, French writer and radio personality.
- Peter Berry, 83, English Anglican clergyman, Provost of Birmingham Cathedral.
- Stuart Bondurant, 88, American physician.
- Clement Chang, 89, Taiwanese politician, Minister of Transportation and Communications.
- Ted Dabney, 81, American electrical engineer, co-founder of Atari, esophageal cancer.
- Herman D. Farrell Jr., 86, American politician, member of the New York State Assembly.
- Chipper Harris, 55, American basketball player, complications from diabetes.
- William Howie, Baron Howie of Troon, 94, British politician and life peer.
- Gregg Juarez, 94, American art dealer and philanthropist.
- Mazhar Kaleem, 75, Pakistani lawyer and novelist.
- Gerard Kerkum, 87, Dutch football player and manager.
- Michael Kirwan, 64, American artist.
- Harding Lemay, 96, American screenwriter.
- Fonda Metassa, 80, Australian rugby league footballer.
- Nick Michaels, 67, Canadian-American voice actor.
- Roger Piantoni, 86, French footballer.
- Antonio Pujía, 88, Italian-born Argentine sculptor.
- John Rowan, 93, British psychologist.
- Svetlin Rusev, 84, Bulgarian artist.
- William Shaw, 85, Canadian politician, MNA.
- Paul E. Zeltner, 92, American politician.
- Frank Zullo, 85, American politician, Mayor of Norwalk, Connecticut.
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- Jean Konan Banny, 88, Ivorian politician.
- Marcos de Celis, 86, Spanish bullfighter.
- John DiFronzo, 89, American mobster, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
- Gardner Dozois, 70, American Hall of Fame science fiction writer and editor, Nebula Award winner, infection.
- Andrés Gandarias, 75, Spanish racing cyclist.
- Connie Kurtz, 81, American LGBT rights activist, liver cancer.
- Aly Lotfy Mahmoud, 82, Egyptian economist and politician, Prime Minister.
- Russell Nype, 98, American actor and singer, Tony winner.
- Odd Oppedal, 81, Norwegian footballer.
- Donald H. Peterson, 84, American astronaut, Alzheimer's disease and bone cancer.
- Madala Ranga Rao, 70, Indian actor and film producer.
- Russ Regan, 89, American music business executive.
- Harald Bjarne Slettebø, 96, Norwegian politician.
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- Ely Calil, 72, Lebanese-British businessman, fall.
- Pippo Caruso, 82, Italian composer and conductor.
- Neale Cooper, 54, Scottish football player and manager.
- Paulette Coquatrix, 102, French costume designer.
- Serge Dassault, 93, French businessman and politician, Senator.
- Yves de Daruvar, 97, Turkish-born French military officer and politician, High Commissioner of Comoros, Secretary-general of French Somaliland.
- Michael Dickson, 73, British structural engineer.
- Semavi Eyice, 95, Turkish art historian, Presidential Culture and Arts Grand Awardee.
- Cornelia Frances, 77, English-born Australian actress, bladder cancer.
- Stevan Horvat, 85, Serbian wrestler.
- Eddie Lane, 88, Australian footballer.
- Lin Zunqi, 75, Chinese physicist and specialist in solid-state laser, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
- Siddu B. Nyamagouda, 70, Indian politician, traffic collision.
- María Dolores Pradera, 93, Spanish singer and actress.
- Dick Quax, 70, Dutch-born New Zealand athlete, Olympic silver medalist, cancer.
- Rachel Rockwell, 49, American actress and choreographer, ovarian cancer.
- Hanns-Martin Schneidt, 87, German conductor, harpsichordist, organist, generalmusikdirektor and academic.
- Jens Christian Skou, 99, Danish physician and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
- Chuck Stevens, 99, American baseball player.
- Michel Stolker, 84, Dutch racing cyclist.
- Dick Tuck, 94, American political prankster.
- Cliff Tucker, 29, American basketball player, traffic collision.
- Ola Ullsten, 86, Swedish politician, Prime Minister.
- Wang Da-hong, 100, Chinese-born Taiwanese architect.
- Scott R. White, 55, American materials scientist, ocular melanoma.
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- Ray Barker, 82, American baseball player.
- Rosa Briceño Ortiz, 61, Venezuelan conductor, leukemia.
- Luciano José Cabral Duarte, 93, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Aracaju.
- Yoseph Imry, 79, Israeli mesoscopic physicist.
- A. S. Jayawardena, 81, Sri Lankan economist.
- Brian Mee, 88, Australian footballer.
- Ray Podloski, 52, Canadian ice hockey player, complications from a heart attack.
- James Schaefer, 79, American politician, member of the South Dakota House of Representatives, traffic collision.
- Muktha Srinivasan, 88, Indian film director and producer.
- Ivar Stakgold, 92, Norwegian-born American mathematician, heart failure.
- Arturo Antonio Szymanski Ramírez, 96, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of San Luis Potosí.
- René Yañez, 75, Mexican-born American artist, founder of Galería de la Raza, cancer.
- Madiha Yousri, 96, Egyptian actress.
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- Wale Aboderin, 60, Nigerian journalist and sports administrator, heart disease.
- Baruch Brody, 75, American bioethicist.
- Barry Dodd, 70, British entrepreneur and ceremonial officer, Lord Lieutenant of North Yorkshire, helicopter crash.
- Gabriel Gascon, 91, Canadian actor.
- Walter Habersatter, 88, Austrian ski jumper.
- Auguste Mukwahepo Immanuel, 80, Namibian freedom fighter.
- Dan Kneen, 30, Manx motorcycle rider, race collision.
- Ferenc Kovács, 84, Hungarian football player and coach, Olympic bronze medalist.
- Li Zaiping, 92, Chinese molecular biologist, academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
- Michael Noakes, 84, British artist.
- Jack Tu, 53, Taiwanese-born Canadian physician.
- Mel Weinberg, 93, American con artist and police informant.
- Ray Weinberg, 91, Australian track and field athlete.
- Freda Whitlam, 97, Australian educator.
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- Ella Brennan, 92, American restaurateur.
- Peter Clifton, 76-77, Australian film director.
- Michael D. Ford, 90, English art director and set decorator, Oscar winner.
- Colin Forsyth, 70-71, English rugby league footballer.
- Pandurang Pundalik Fundkar, 67, Indian politician, member of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly and Lok Sabha, heart attack.
- Eunice Lam, 75, Hong Kong writer, columnist, and socialite, lung cancer.
- Nairn MacEwan, 76, Tanzanian-born Scottish rugby union coach.
- Roland Penner, 93, Canadian politician, MLA, complications of a broken ankle.
- Steven Pitt, 59, American forensic psychiatrist, shot.
- Aníbal Quijano, 90, Peruvian sociologist, developer of coloniality of power concept.
- Marcel-Claude Roy, 81, Canadian politician.
- Étienne Sansonetti, 82, French footballer.
- M. L. Thangappa, 84, Indian writer.
- Joe E. White, 80, American educator.