Deaths in May 2019

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

  May 2019

1

• Issa J. Boullata, 90, Palestinian scholar and writer.
• Dinko Dermendzhiev, 77, Bulgarian footballer, complications from a stroke.
• Mary Doakes, 82, American educator.
• Maa Afia Konadu, 67, Ghanaian radio presenter.
• Kurt Lang, 95, German-born American sociologist, respiratory failure.
• Arnor Njøs, 88, Norwegian soil scientist.
• Alessandra Panaro, 79, Italian actress.
• Sir Arvi Parbo, 93, Estonian-born Australian mining executive.
• Beatrix Philipp, 73, German politician, member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Bundestag.
• B. Subhashan Reddy, 76, Indian judge, Chief Justice of Madras High Court and Kerala High Court.
• Heinz Unbehauen, 83, German control engineer.

  2

• Roland Aboujaoudé, 88, Lebanese Maronite Catholic hierarch, Auxiliary Bishop of Antioch.
• Max Arthur, 80, British military historian and actor.
• Susan Beschta, 67, American punk rock musician and judge, brain cancer.
• Mike Boehm, 63, American music critic and arts reporter.
• George C. Clerk, 87, Ghanaian botanist and plant pathologist.
• Michel Crauste, 84, French rugby union player.
• Fatimih Dávila, 31, Uruguayan model, Miss Uruguay, homicide.
• Larry Dick, 64, American football player.
• Rolf Eckrodt, 76, German automotive engineer and executive, CEO of Mitsubishi Motors.
• Telésforo Santiago Enríquez, Mexican journalist, shot.
• David Harney, 72, English footballer.
• Rafael Hernández Colón, 82, Puerto Rican politician, Governor, leukemia.
• Master Hirannaiah, 85, Indian actor, liver disease.
• Frank Ivancie, 94, American businessman and politician, Mayor of Portland, Oregon.
• Lord Toby Jug, 53, British politician.
• Red Kelly, 91, Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey player and politician, MP.
• Li Xintian, 95, Chinese psychologist.
• Micha Lindenstrauss, 81, German-born Israeli judge, State Comptroller.
• Duncan MacRae, 85, New Zealand rugby league player.
• Reginald Mengi, 75, Tanzanian businessman.
• Ali Mroudjaé, 79, Comorian politician, Prime Minister.
• Md. Nazim Uddin, 84, Bangladeshi freedom fighter.
• Pauline O'Regan, 96, New Zealand educator and writer.
• Chris Reccardi, 54, American animator, storyboard artist, cartoon director and musician, heart attack.
• Gloria Schiff, 90, American fashion editor and model.
• John Starling, 79, American bluegrass musician, Grammy winner, heart failure.
• Murray Thomson, 96, Canadian peace activist.
• Guido van den Berg, 44, German politician, member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia, cancer.
• Juan Vicente Torrealba, 102, Venezuelan harpist and composer.
• Warren W. Wiersbe, 89, American biblical scholar and pastor.
• Mike Williamson, 90, Australian sports commentator.
• David Gordon Wilson, 91, British-born American engineering professor.

  3

• Richard Brown, 86, American lawyer, Queens County District Attorney.
• Peter Bucher, 72, German Olympic handball player.
• George Economou, 84, American poet.
• Bill Gompers, 91, American football player.
• Kjell Grandhagen, 64, Norwegian military officer, head of the Norwegian Intelligence Service, multiple myeloma.
• Dante Gullo, 71, Argentine sociologist and politician, member of the Chamber of Deputies and Buenos Aires City Legislature.
• George Hanna, 90, Iraqi-American basketball player.
• Sir Peter Herbert, 90, British admiral.
• Andy Jick, 66, American sports announcer.
• Chuck Kinder, 76, American novelist, heart failure.
• V. Viswanatha Menon, 92, Indian politician.
• Mose Se Sengo, 73, Congolese musician.
• Goro Shimura, 89, Japanese mathematician.
• Frits Soetekouw, 80, Dutch footballer.
• Irene Sutcliffe, 94, British actress.
• Enrico Taglietti, 93, Italian-born Australian architect, recipient of the Australian Institute of Architects Gold Medal.
• Greg Younging, 58, Canadian Opaskwayak academic.
• Bob Zeman, 82, American football player and coach.

  4

• Claude Cadart, 91, French sinologist.
• Charles Clarke, 95, British military officer.
• J. R. Cobb, 75, American musician, heart attack.
• Salvatore Corallo, 90, Italian politician, President of Sicily, Deputy and Senator.
• Rachel Held Evans, 37, American Christian writer, encephalitis after allergic antibiotic reaction.
• Terje Moe Gustavsen, 64, Norwegian politician, Minister of Transport and Communications and Director of the Public Roads Administration, lung infection.
• Thomas Hynes, 80, American politician and lawyer, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Jumpin Jackie Jackson, 79, American basketball player.
• Ajmal Khan, Pakistani botanist.
• MacArthur Lane, 77, American football player.
• Prospero Nograles, 71, Filipino politician, member and Speaker of the House of Representatives.
• Ray Peters, 72, American baseball player.
• Ruth Anna Putnam, 91, American philosopher.
• Adam Sky, 42, Australian DJ, severed artery from broken glass.
• Tommy Sopwith, 86, British racing driver.
• Tyrone Thompson, 51, American politician, member of the Nevada Assembly.
• Yang Shengnan, 81, Chinese historian and palaeographer.

  5

• Frank Brilando, 93, American Olympic racing cyclist.
• Paco Cabasés, 102, Argentine footballer, pneumonia.
• Feng Shunhua, 85, Chinese economist.
• Lewis A. Fidler, 62, American politician, member of the New York City Council.
• Eugene McGee, 78, Irish Gaelic football manager.
• Norma Miller, 99, American lindy hop dancer, heart failure.
• Kadir Mısıroğlu, 86, Turkish writer.
• Celil Oker, 67, Turkish author.
• Barbara Perry, 97, American actress.
• Magaly Quintana, 66, Nicaraguan historian and women's rights activist, stroke.
• Shih Chi-yang, 84, Taiwanese politician, Minister of Justice, Vice Premier and President of the Judicial Yuan, multiple organ failure.
• Hani Shukrallah, 69, Egyptian journalist.

  6

• Anuar Abu Bakar, 48, Malaysian football player and manager, liver cancer.
• Pekka Airaksinen, 73, Finnish composer and musician.
• Max Azria, 70, Tunisian fashion designer.
• Jürgen Bräuninger, 62, South African composer, cancer.
• Jack Cohen, 85, British scientist and author.
• Dan Cordtz, 92, American business correspondent, cancer.
• Gjermund Eggen, 77, Norwegian Olympic cross-country skier, world champion.
• Peter Gammond, 93, British music critic and journalist.
• Andrés Junquera, 73, Spanish footballer, heart attack.
• John Lukacs, 95, Hungarian-born American historian.
• Seymour Nurse, 85, Barbadian cricketer.
• Pierre Riché, 97, French historian.
• Jimmy Satterfield, 79, American football coach.
• Ted Witherden, 97, English cricketer.
• George O. Zimmerman, 85, Polish-born American physicist.

  7

• A B M Taleb Ali, 92, Bangladeshi teacher and politician.
• Urs Amann, 67, Swiss painter.
• Ralph Benjamin, 96, British engineer and inventor.
• Charles Clarke, 95, British Royal Air Force officer.
• Seamus Close, 71, Northern Irish politician, MLA, liver cancer.
• Rafael Coronel, 87, Mexican painter.
• Karina Constantino David, 73, Filipino political activist and public servant.
• Vicente Emano, 76, Filipino politician, Governor of Misamis Oriental and Mayor of Cagayan de Oro, pneumonia.
• Bernt Frilén, 73, Swedish orienteer, world champion.
• Pedro Gamarro, 64, Venezuelan boxer, silver medalist at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
• Larry Hanley, 62, American union leader, international president of the Amalgamated Transit Union, pulmonary disease.
• Georg Katzer, 84, German composer.
• Te Wharehuia Milroy, 81, New Zealand Māori language academic.
• Prasert na Nagara, 100, Thai scholar.
• Subir Nandi, 66, Bangladeshi musician and playback singer, multiple organ failure.
• Kate Nicholson, 89, English painter.
• Robert Pear, 69, American journalist, stroke.
• Roberta L. Raymond, 80, American actress and open housing activist, heart failure.
• Adam Svoboda, 41, Czech ice hockey player, suicide by hanging.
• Jacques Taminiaux, 90, Belgian philosopher.
• Arnaldo Taurisano, 85, Italian basketball coach.
• Jean Vanier, 90, Canadian philosopher, theologian and humanitarian, founder of L'Arche, thyroid cancer.
• Joel Virador, 52, Filipino politician, member of the House of Representatives, thyroid cancer.
• Michael Wessing, 66, German Olympic javelin thrower, European champion, complications from surgery.

  8

• Martin Belinga Eboutou, 79, Cameroonian political figure and diplomat.
• Jens Beutel, 72, German politician, Lord Mayor of Mainz.
• Sprent Dabwido, 46, Nauruan politician, President, throat cancer.
• Ketaki Prasad Dutta, 74, Indian politician, MLA.
• Jim Fowler, 89, American zoologist and television host.
• Richard Hidalgo, 52, Peruvian mountain climber.
• Antoine Koné, 56, Ivorian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Odienné.
• Yevgeny Krylatov, 85, Russian film composer, pneumonia.
• Edgardo Maranan, 72, Filipino writer.
• Robert McEliece, 76, American mathematician and engineering professor.
• N. R. Madhava Menon, 84, Indian legal educator, liver cancer.
• David Montgomery, 72, American baseball executive, cancer.
• Wendell Nedderman, 97, American academic administrator, President of the University of Texas at Arlington.
• Georges Pouliot, 96, Canadian Olympic fencer.
• Judith S. Stern, 76, American nutritionist.

  9

• Abul Khayr Alonto, 73, Filipino politician, lawyer and businessman, chairman of the Mindanao Development Authority, pneumonia.
• David Arias Pérez, 89, Spanish-born American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Newark.
• Daniel H. Bays, 77, American historian, Parkinson's disease.
• Vasili Blagov, 64, Russian Olympic pair skater, Soviet champion.
• Martin Canin, 89, American pianist.
• Sergey Dorenko, 59, Russian journalist and news presenter, aortic rupture.
• Dave Edstrom, 80, American decathlete, Pan American champion.
• Preston Epps, 88, American musician.
• Clement von Franckenstein, 74, American actor, hypoxia.
• Manuel Giner Miralles, 92, Spanish politician, Deputy.
• Walter Harris, 93, British author.
• Jim Hawkes, 84, Canadian politician, MP, dementia.
• Nelly Korniyenko, 80, Russian actress.
• Arif Malikov, 85, Azerbaijani composer, People's Artist of the USSR.
• Annemarie Pawlik, 80, Austrian politician, Senator.
• Allene Roberts, 90, American actress.
• Mark Rubinstein, 74, American financial engineer.
• Alvin Sargent, 92, American screenwriter, Oscar winner.
• B. Mitchell Simpson, 87, American lawyer and naval historian.
• Freddie Starr, 76, English comedian, heart disease.
• Micky Steele-Bodger, 93, English rugby union player.
• Dan van der Vat, 79, Dutch-born British journalist and naval historian.
• Brian Walden, 86, British broadcaster and politician, MP, emphysema.
• Yuan Baohua, 103, Chinese politician and academic administrator, Director of the State Economic Commission, President of Renmin University.
• Zhan Wenshan, 78, Chinese physicist, founding director of the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

  10

• Carey Adamson, 76, New Zealand air force officer, Chief of Defence Force.
• Atanasio Ballesteros, 56, Spanish lawyer and politician, Deputy and Senator.
• Fleming Begaye Sr., 97, American WWII Navajo code talker.
• Malcolm Black, 58, New Zealand musician, bowel cancer.
• Frederick Brownell, 79, South African vexillographer, designer of the South African and Namibian flag.
• Bert Cooper, 53, American boxer, pancreatic cancer.
• Wiley Young Daniel, 72, American senior judge, United States District Court for the District of Colorado.
• Jon Gittens, 55, English footballer.
• Anatol Herzfeld, 88, German sculptor and artist.
• Richard L. Hills, 82, British historian.
• Janet Kitz, 89, Scottish-born Canadian historian and author.
• Jorge Longarón, 86, Spanish comics artist and illustrator.
• John MacInnes, 89, Scottish Gaelic scholar.
• Thoppil Mohamed Meeran, 74, Indian Tamil writer.
• Gordon Neate, 78, English footballer.
• Domenico Padovano, 78, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Conversano-Monopoli.
• Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, 67, Spanish politician, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of the Interior and Secretary General of the PSOE, stroke.
• Warren H. Phillips, 92, American journalist and executive.
• M. Ramanathan, 84, Indian politician, MLA.
• Geneviève Raugel, 68, French mathematician.
• Paul-Werner Scheele, 91, German Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Würzburg.
• Dick Tomey, 80, American football coach, lung cancer.
• James Tuck, 79, American archaeologist.

  11

• Jean-Claude Brisseau, 74, French film director.
• Hector Busby, 86, New Zealand Māori navigator and traditional waka builder.
• Sheikh Chand Mohammad, 88, Indian politician, speaker of Assam Legislative Assembly, deputy speaker of Assam Legislative Assembly, MLA.
• Gunther Cunningham, 72, German-born American football coach, cancer.
• Gianni De Michelis, 78, Italian politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Deputy Prime Minister and Deputy.
• Yogesh Chander Deveshwar, 72, Indian businessman, Chairman and CEO of ITC Limited, cancer.
• Melissa Ede, 58, English transgender rights campaigner and social media personality, heart attack.
• AKM Gouach Uddin, 69, Bangladeshi politician, MP.
• Larry Howard, 73, American baseball player.
• Harold Lederman, 79, American boxing judge and analyst, cancer.
• Peggy Lipton, 72, American actress and model, Golden Globe winner, colon cancer.
• Dan Lodboa, 72, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Pua Magasiva, 38, Samoan-born New Zealand actor.
• Josef Matoušek, 90, Czech hammer thrower.
• Robert D. Maxwell, 98, American combat soldier, recipient of the Medal of Honor.
• Hans Muchitsch, 86, Austrian Olympic athlete.
• Marcelo Muniagurria, 72, Argentine trade unionist, engineer and agronomist, President of INTA, Vice Governor of Santa Fe Province and Deputy.
• Rong Baisheng, 88, Chinese architect and civil engineer.
• Benoît Serré, 68, Canadian politician, cancer.
• Silver King, 51, Mexican professional wrestler and actor, heart attack.
• Thomas Silverstein, 67, American convicted murderer, Aryan Nations leader, complications from heart surgery.
• Eddie Ugbomah, 78, Nigerian film director, producer and actor.
• Nan Winton, 93, British broadcaster, first female BBC newsreader, fall.
• Sol Yaged, 96, American jazz clarinetist.

  12

• Mads H. Andenæs, 79, Norwegian legal academic.
• Leonard Lee Bailey, 76, American surgeon, throat cancer.
• Cosimo Campioto, 84, Italian Olympic rower.
• Italo Casali, 78, Sammarinese sport shooter.
• Eva Dahr, 60, Norwegian filmmaker.
• Dong Jian, 83, Chinese literary scholar, Vice President of Nanjing University.
• Dale Greig, 81, Scottish long-distance runner.
• Alan Grover, 74, Australian rowing coxswain, Olympic silver medalist.
• Klara Guseva, 82, Russian speed skater, Olympic champion, traffic collision.
• Nazir Hoosein, 78, Indian racing driver and motorsport administrator.
• Anatoli Ionov, 79, Russian ice hockey player, Olympic champion.
• Machiko Kyō, 95, Japanese actress, heart failure.
• Viktor Manakov, 58, Russian cyclist, Olympic champion, complications from surgery.
• Michal Marek, 36, Polish cave diver.
• Doug McAvoy, 80, British trade union leader.
• Hubert Monteilhet, 90, French author.
• Héctor Enrique Olivares, 61, Argentine politician, engineer and agricultural producer, Deputy, shot.
• B. Venkatarama Reddy, 75, Indian film producer.
• Gene Romero, 71, American motorcycle racer.
• Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir, 98, Lebanese Maronite cardinal, Patriarch of Antioch, chest infection.
• Alan Skirton, 80, English footballer, Alzheimer’s disease.
• Ron Smerczak, 69, South African actor.
• José Terrón, 79, Spanish actor.
• Bill K. Williams, 75, American politician, mayor of Saxman, Alaska, member of the Alaska House of Representatives.
• Bill Workman, 78, American politician, mayor of Greenville, South Carolina.
• Hiralal Yadav, 93, Indian folk singer.

  13

• Unita Blackwell, 86, American politician and civil rights activist, mayor of Mayersville, Mississippi, complications of dementia.
• Jerome Callet, 89, American music teacher and instrument designer.
• Doris Day, 97, American actress, singer and animal welfare activist, Golden Globe winner, pneumonia.
• Velma Demerson, 98, Canadian human rights activist.
• Samuel Eugenio, 60, Peruvian football player and coach, complications from surgery.
• Lajos Faragó, 86, Hungarian footballer, Olympic bronze medallist.
• Stanton T. Friedman, 84, American-Canadian nuclear physicist and ufologist.
• Dionisio Gallarati, 96, Italian mathematician.
• Mari Griffith, 79, Welsh radio presenter and singer, cancer.
• Hu Jinqing, 83, Chinese animator and director.
• Jörg Kastendiek, 54, German politician, member of the Bürgerschaft of Bremen, lymphoma.
• Lo Tung-bin, 92, Taiwanese biochemist, member of Academia Sinica.
• Hayat Saif, 76, Bangladeshi poet and literary critic.
• Nobuo Sekine, 76, Japanese sculptor.
• Kochavi Shemesh, 75, Iraqi-born Israeli lawyer and social activist, leader of the Black Panthers protest movement.
• George Smith, 75, Scottish football referee.
• Werner Weist, 70, German footballer.

  14

• Urbano José Allgayer, 95, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Passo Fundo.
• Lutz Bacher, 75, American artist.
• Sir Thomas Baird, 94, British Royal Navy Vice Admiral.
• Yuriy Bohutsky, 66, Ukrainian politician, Minister of Culture, complications from surgery.
• Leopoldo Brizuela, 55, Argentine journalist, translator and poet, winner of Alfaguara Prize and Konex Award.
• Tim Conway, 85, American actor and comedian, complications from normal pressure hydrocephalus.
• Tommy Donbavand, 53, English children's author and actor, throat and lung cancer.
• Grumpy Cat, 7, American internet celebrity cat, complications from urinary tract infection.
• Andrei Guzienko, 55, Ukrainian footballer, ruptured aneurysm.
• Sven Lindqvist, 87, Swedish author.
• Liu Housheng, 98, Chinese theatre director, critic, scholar, and playwright, Vice President of the China Theatre Association, co-founded the Plum Blossom Award.
• Barbara York Main, 90, Australian arachnologist.
• Iris Meléndez, Puerto Rican prosecutor, cancer.
• Mike Möllensiep, 43, German footballer, cancer.
• Ferenc József Nagy, 96, Hungarian politician, Minister of Agriculture.
• Étienne Perruchon, 61, French composer.
• Robert Bruce Propst, 87, American senior judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama.
• Ben Raemers, 28, British skateboarder, suicide.
• Leon Rausch, 91, American singer.
• Alice Rivlin, 88, American economist, director of the Office of Management and Budget.
• Michael Rossmann, 88, German-American physicist and microbiologist.
• Remig Stumpf, 53, German Olympic cyclist, suicide.
• Daniel Vidart, 98, Uruguayan anthropologist, historian and essayist.
• Mike Wilhelm, 77, American musician, cancer.

  15

• Rob Babcock, 66, American basketball executive, pancreatic cancer.
• Roger Blackley, 65, New Zealand art historian.
• Huelyn Duvall, 79, American rockabilly musician.
• Georgie Anne Geyer, 84, American syndicated newspaper columnist.
• Edgar Gorgas, 91, German Olympic boxer.
• Ikuo Kamei, 85, Japanese politician, member of the House of Councillors, respiratory failure.
• George L. Kelling, 83, American criminologist and professor, cancer.
• Charles Kittel, 102, American physicist.
• Frank F. Ledford Jr., 85, American military doctor, Surgeon General of the United States Army.
• Daisy Riley Lloyd, 95, American politician, member of the Indiana House of Representatives.
• Juan Antonio Menéndez Fernández, 62, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Astorga, heart attack.
• Gabriel Mmole, 80, Tanzanian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Mtwara.
• Richard Moore, 88, British journalist and politician.
• Kenneth Newing, 95, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Plymouth.
• Neerav Patel, 68, Indian poet, cancer.
• Eduardo A. Roca, 97, Argentine diplomat, Ambassador to the United States.
• John Ronane, 85, British actor.
• Rod Tam, 65, American politician, member of the Hawaii House of Representatives and Senate, complications from leukemia.
• Michael Zampelas, 82, Cypriot politician, mayor of Nicosia.

  16

• Nikolai Baturin, 82, Estonian novelist and playwright.
• Piet Blauw, 81, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives.
• David Cervinski, 48, Australian soccer player, melanoma.
• Steve Duemig, 64, American golfer and sports media personality, complications from brain cancer.
• Jean-Pierre Grafé, 87, Belgian politician.
• Bob Hawke, 89, Australian politician, Prime Minister, President of the ACTU.
• Jonas af Jochnick, 81, Swedish businessman, co-founder of Oriflame.
• G. N. Lakshmipathy, 104, Indian film producer.
• Liu Xianjue, 87, Chinese architectural historian.
• André Lurton, 94, French winemaker.
• Tohir Malik, 72, Uzbek writer.
• Emmanuel Mapunda, 83, Tanzanian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Mbinga.
• Peer Mascini, 78, Dutch actor.
• Ashley Massaro, 39, American professional wrestler, model and reality show contestant, suicide by hanging.
• Mick Micheyl, 97, French actress, singer and sculptor.
• Jamil Naqsh, 79, Pakistani painter, pneumonia.
• Tommy O'Connell, 79, English hurler.
• Walter Olmo, 80, Italian composer.
• I. M. Pei, 102, Chinese-born American architect, Pritzker Prize winner.
• Jennifer Price, 79, British archaeologist.
• Bob Schloredt, 79, American football player and coach.
• Dexter St. Louis, 51, Trinidadian Olympic table tennis player.
• Geoff Toseland, 87, English footballer.
• Steve Young, 69, American politician.

  17

• Paulius Antanas Baltakis, 94, Lithuanian Roman Catholic prelate, Apostolic Visitor for the Lithuanians in Diaspora.
• Giancarlo Bassi, 93, Italian Olympic ice hockey player.
• Osvaldo Batocletti, 69, Argentine football player and manager, cancer.
• Barbara Cranmer, 59, Canadian ʼNamgis documentary filmmaker, brain cancer.
• Peter Dahl, 85, Norwegian-born Swedish painter.
• Jan Elvheim, 69, Norwegian politician, MP.
• S. M. Mohamed Idris, 92, Malaysian worker and consumer rights activist, heart failure.
• Howard Kilroy, 83, Irish businessman.
• Neville Lederle, 80, South African racing driver.
• John Warlick McDonald, 97, American diplomat.
• Anton O'Toole, 68, Irish Gaelic footballer.
• Rallapalli, 73, Indian actor.
• Paul William Roberts, 68–69, Canadian writer, brain haemorrhage.
• Valentyn Sapronov, 87, Ukrainian football player and manager.
• Kadavoor Sivadasan, 87, Indian politician and trade unionist, MLA.
• Gerardo Traverso, 43, Uruguayan footballer.
• Jean Valentine, 94, British codebreaker.
• Herman Wouk, 103, American author, Pulitzer Prize winner.

  18

• Mario Baudoin, 76, Bolivian biologist.
• Jean Beaudin, 80, Canadian film director.
• Milton Born With A Tooth, 61, Canadian political activist, bowel cancer.
• Manfred Burgsmüller, 69, German footballer.
• Austin Eubanks, 37, American motivational speaker, survivor of the Columbine High School massacre, heroin overdose.
• Analía Gadé, 87, Argentine actress, cancer.
• Aleksandr Irkhin, 65, Russian football manager, heart attack.
• Jürgen Kissner, 76, German cyclist, Olympic silver medalist.
• Sir Timothy Kitson, 88, British politician, MP for Richmond, North Yorkshire.
• Ney da Matta, 52, Brazilian football manager, pancreatitis.
• John Payne, 86, American football coach.
• Quentin Pongia, 48, New Zealand rugby league player, bowel cancer.
• Justin Ponsor, 42, American comic book artist, cancer.
• Guenther Roth, 88, American sociologist.
• Sammy Shore, 92, American comedian and actor, co-founder of The Comedy Store.
• Signe Marie Stray Ryssdal, 94, Norwegian lawyer and politician, MP and County Governor of Aust-Agder.
• Geneviève Waïte, 71, South African actress, singer and model.
• Doug Wilson, 88, New Zealand rugby union player.
• Mitch Wilson, 57, Canadian ice hockey player, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

  19

• Carlos Altamirano, 96, Chilean lawyer and politician, MP and Secretary-General of the Socialist Party.
• Leidy Asprilla, 22, Colombian footballer, traffic collision.
• Jan Bagiński, 86, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Opole.
• William W. Caldwell, 93, American senior judge, U.S. District Court Judge for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.
• George Chaump, 83, American football player and coach.
• Vitaliy Chernobai, 89, Ukrainian athlete.
• Denis Earp, 88, South African military officer, Chief of the South African Air Force.
• Nilda Fernández, 61, Spanish-born French chanson singer, heart failure.
• Knut Fredriksson, 89, Swedish Olympic javelin thrower.
• Maya Ghosh, 67, Bangladeshi actress.
• Amédée Grab, 89, Swiss Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg and Chur.
• Bert J. Harris Jr., 99, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives.
• Ingemar Hedberg, 99, Swedish sprint canoeist, world champion, Olympic silver medalist.
• David Hunt, 80, English botanist.
• Nickey Iyambo, 82, Namibian politician, Vice-President.
• Alfred Janson, 82, Norwegian composer and pianist.
• Amalie Kass, 91, American historian.
• Bogdan Konopka, 65, Polish photographer.
• Nativo Lopez, 67, Mexican-American political activist, President of the Mexican American Political Association, bowel cancer.
• John Millett, 98, Australian poet.
• Vijaya Mulay, 98, Indian film director, historian and educationist.
• Susan Papa, 64, Filipino swimmer, cervical cancer.
• Liudvikas Saulius Razma, 81, Lithuanian politician.
• Bengt Rösiö, 92, Swedish diplomat, ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Czechoslovakia, Malaysia, and Zaire.
• Julio César Trujillo, 88, Ecuadorian lawyer and politician, member of the National Congress, complications from intracerebral haemorrhage.
• Grace Starry West, 72, American classics scholar, traslator and academic, lung cancer.
• Ronnie Young, 71, American politician, member of the South Carolina House of Representatives.

  20

• Nanni Balestrini, 83, Italian experimental poet.
• Adrish Bardhan, 86, Indian science fiction writer.
• Dave Bookman, 58, Canadian radio broadcaster.
• Hermann Bottenbruch, 90, German computer scientist.
• Sandy D'Alemberte, 85, American lawyer and administrator, member of the Florida House of Representatives, President of the ABA and FSU.
• Rex Dunlop, 91, Scottish footballer.
• Yasuo Furuhata, 84, Japanese film director, pneumonia.
• Andrew Hall, 65, English actor.
• Peter Hitchcock, 75, Australian environmentalist.
• Derek Holman, 88, British-born Canadian composer and conductor.
• Niki Lauda, 70, Austrian racing driver and airline owner, Formula One world champion.
• Miguel Montes Busto, 79, Spanish football player and manager.
• John Moore, Baron Moore of Lower Marsh, 81, British politician, MP.
• Czesław Nawrot, 77, Polish Olympic rower.
• Nguyễn Quảng Tuân, 93, Vietnamese writer and poet.
• Solomon Ogbeide, Nigerian football manager.
• Edmund Outslay, 67, American taxation professor.
• Remus Opriș, 60, Romanian politician, MP.
• Charles C. Pattillo, 94, American Air Force lieutenant general.
• Nicholas Peters, 51, English cricketer, cancer.
• Ronnie Virgets, 77, American writer and reporter.
• Mira Zakai, 76, Israeli opera singer, complications from a stroke.

  21

• Tirong Aboh, Indian politician, MLA, shot.
• James O. Bass, 108, American lawyer and politician, member of the Tennessee Senate.
• Kenelm Burridge, 96, Maltese-born American anthropologist.
• Lawrence Carroll, 64, Australian-born American painter.
• Densey Clyne, 96, Australian naturalist and author.
• Dennis Farnon, 95, Canadian composer.
• Fred Fox, 104, American French horn player and brass instrument teacher.
• Ernest Graves Jr., 94, American Army lieutenant general.
• Brian Kann, 85, Australian football player.
• Rik Kuypers, 94, Belgian film director.
• Michael Lynch, 84, Irish politician, TD, Senator.
• Ali Mohammad Mahar, 52, Pakistani politician, Minister of Narcotics Control and MP, heart attack.
• Royce Mills, 77, British actor.
• Yavuz Özkan, 76–77, Turkish film director.
• Aase Texmon Rygh, 94, Norwegian sculptor.
• Glauco Sansovini, 81, Sammarinese politician, Captain Regent.
• Peter Schulze, 83, Australian politician, member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council.
• Bohumil Staša, 75, Czech motorcycle road racer.
• Rosław Szaybo, 85, Polish painter, photographer and album cover designer, lung cancer.
• Donald West VanArtsdalen, 99, American senior judge, U.S. District Court Judge for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, leukemia.
• Freddie Velázquez, 81, Dominican baseball player.
• Binyavanga Wainaina, 48, Kenyan writer and journalist, stroke.
• Hisae Yanase, 75, Japanese artist.
• John A. Yngve, 94, American lawyer and politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives.

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• Ahmad Shah of Pahang, 88, Malaysian royal, Sultan of Pahang and Yang di-Pertuan Agong.
• Maurice Bamford, 83, English rugby league player and coach.
• Theresa Burroughs, 89, American civil rights activist.
• Tony Gennari, 76, Italian-American basketball player.
• Joar Hoff, 80, Norwegian football player and manager.
• Khalid Hossain, 83, Bangladeshi Nazrul Geeti singer.
• Flaminia Jandolo, 89, Italian actress and voice actress.
• Kwame Kenyatta, 63, American politician, Detroit City Councilman.
• Judith Kerr, 95, German-born British writer and illustrator.
• Alfred Kröner, 79, German geologist.
• Beverly Lunsford, 74, American actress.
• S I M Nurunnabi Khan, 77, Bangladeshi freedom fighter and writer.
• Surya Prakash, 79, Indian artist.
• Eduard Punset, 82, Spanish economic journalist, science popularizer and politician, Deputy and MEP, lung cancer.
• François-René Tranchefort, 86, French musicologist.

  23

• Zakir Rashid Bhat, 24, Indian militant, founder of Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind, shot.
• Joseph Cottet, 96, Swiss politician, member of the Grand Council of Fribourg and the National Council.
• Dumiso Dabengwa, 79, Zimbabwean politician, Minister of Home Affairs, President of the Zimbabwe African People's Union, liver disease.
• Kalpana Dash, 52, Indian mountaineer.
• Joseph Devine, 81, Scottish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Motherwell.
• Bill Dickie, 93, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.
• Bondan Gunawan, 71, Indonesian politician, Minister of State secretariat.
• Shirley Brannock Jones, 93, American district court judge.
• Mike Laffin, 101, Canadian politician, MLA for Cape Breton Centre.
• Peter Landau, 84, German jurist and legal historian.
• Bobby Joe Long, 65, American convicted serial killer and rapist, execution by lethal injection.
• Hosei Norota, 89, Japanese politician, Director-General of the Defense Agency and Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, bladder cancer.
• Wilfredo Peláez, 88, Uruguayan Olympic basketball player.
• Ping Hsin-tao, 92, Taiwanese publisher and producer.
• Marie-Madeleine Prongué, 79, Swiss politician, Senator.
• Zlatko Škorić, 77, Croatian footballer.
• Beaton Tulk, 75, Canadian politician, Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador and MHA, prostate cancer.
• Anna Udvardy, 69, Hungarian film producer, Oscar winner.
• Wim Woudsma, 61, Dutch footballer.
• Zhang Shiping, 72, Chinese businessman, chairman of China Hongqiao Group.

  24

• Horst H. Baumann, 84, German architect and light artist.
• Curtis Blake, 102, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Friendly's.
• Gianfranco Bozzao, 82, Italian footballer.
• Hugolino Cerasuolo Stacey, 87, Ecuadorian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Loja.
• Bertrand P. Collomb, 76, French business executive.
• Jaroslav Erik Frič, 69, Czech poet, musician and publisher, cancer.
• Murray Gell-Mann, 89, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
• Oleg Golovanov, 84, Russian rower, Olympic champion.
• Sharon McAuslan, 74-75, New Zealand jurist, District Court judge.
• Edmund Morris, 78, Kenyan-born British-American writer and biographer, Pulitzer Prize winner, stroke.
• Alan Murray, 78, Australian golfer, skin cancer.
• Ronald E. Nehring, 71, American judge, Justice of the Utah Supreme Court, complications of radiation treatments for cancer.
• Manuel Pazos, 89, Spanish footballer.
• John Pinto, 94, American Navajo code talker and politician, member of the New Mexico Senate.
• Dušica Žegarac, 75, Serbian actress.

  25

• Margaret-Ann Armour, 79, Scottish-born Canadian chemist.
• Paolo Babbini, 83, Italian politician, Deputy.
• Rod Bramblett, 53, American sportscaster, traffic collision.
• Claus von Bülow, 92, Danish-British socialite.
• Jean Burns, 99, Australian aviatrix.
• Joseph Anthony Galante, 80, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Camden.
• Rene Goulet, 86, Canadian professional wrestler.
• Anthony Graziano, 78, American consigliere.
• Robert Hecht-Nielsen, 71, American computer scientist.
• Dmytro Kremin, 65, Ukrainian poet, journalist and translator.
• Ibrahim Lame, 66, Nigerian educator and politician, Senator and Minister of Police Affairs.
• LaSalle D. Leffall Jr., 89, American surgeon and oncologist.
• Karel Masopust, 76, Czech ice hockey player, Olympic silver medalist.
• Thembinkosi Mbamba, 23, South African footballer, traffic collision.
• Seamus McGrane, 64, Irish dissident republican, convicted of terrorism as leader of the Real Irish Republican Army, heart attack.
• Mou Tun-fei, 78, Chinese film director.
• Fredrick Oduya Oprong, 83, Kenyan politician.
• Nicolae Pescaru, 76, Romanian footballer.
• Vittorio Zucconi, 74, Italian-American journalist and writer.

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• Abdel Latif El Zein, 86, Lebanese politician, MP.
• Leann Birch, 72, American developmental psychologist and academic.
• Percy Erceg, 90, New Zealand rugby union player, Tom French Cup winner.
• Harry Hood, 74, Scottish football player and manager, cancer.
• Everett Kinstler, 92, American painter.
• Eşref Kolçak, 92, Turkish actor.
• Richard Paul Matsch, 88, American senior judge, Chief Judge of the District Court for the District of Colorado.
• George Park, 86, Canadian Olympic swimmer.
• Rafael Safarov, 71, Russian football player and manager.
• Edmund Seger, 82 German Olympic wrestler.
• Norbert Schedler, 86, American professor of philosophy.
• Bart Starr, 85, American Hall of Fame football player and coach, Super Bowl MVP, complications from a stroke.
• Stephen Thorne, 84, British actor.
• Prem Tinsulanonda, 98, Thai military officer and politician, Prime Minister, Regent, heart failure.
• Kath Venn, 92, Australian politician, member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council for Hobart.

  27

• Kevin Joseph Aje, 85, Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Sokoto.
• Kamlesh Balmiki, 51, Indian politician, MP.
• Robert L. Bernstein, 96, American publisher and human rights activist.
• Jocelyne Blouin, 68, Canadian meteorologist and weather presenter, cancer.
• Bill Buckner, 69, American baseball player, Lewy body dementia.
• Petru Cărare, 84, Moldovan writer.
• Veeru Devgan, 77, Indian film choreographer, actor and director, cardiac arrest.
• Gabriel Diniz, 28, Brazilian singer and composer, plane crash.
• John Ellis, 88, British politician, MP for Bristol North West and Brigg and Scunthorpe.
• Karin Hafstad, 82, Norwegian politician, MP.
• Laurie Hendren, 60, Canadian computer scientist, cancer.
• Gamini Hettiarachchi, 68, Sri Lankan actor,, complications from a kidney transplant.
• Roger O. Hirson, 93, American dramatist and screenwriter.
• Tony Horwitz, 60, American journalist and author, Pulitzer Prize winner.
• Guy Jansen, 84, New Zealand choral director.
• James S. Ketchum, 87, American psychiatrist and US army colonel.
• Jimilu Mason, 88–89, American sculptor.
• Les McFarlane, 66, Jamaican-born English cricketer.
• Judith McKenzie, 61, Australian archaeologist.
• Kelly Paris, 61, American baseball player.
• Hariom Singh Rathore, 61, Indian politician, MP, cancer.
• Aharon Razin, 84, Israeli biochemist.
• Colin Ross, 85, English bagpipe maker.
• Sir David Sieff, 80, British businessman.
• Alan Smith, 97, English footballer.
• Moni Kumar Subba, 61, Indian politician, MP, heart failure.
• François Weyergans, 77, Belgian novelist and film director.

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• Horace Belton, 63, American football player.
• Freddy Buache, 94, Swiss journalist, film critic and historian.
• Fabio Calzavara, 68, Italian politician, Deputy, heart attack.
• Carmine Caridi, 85, American actor, pneumonia.
• Dan Crane, 83, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives.
• Jean Juventin, 91, French politician, Deputy, President of the Assembly of French Polynesia and Mayor of Papeete.
• Khoo Kay Kim, 82, Malaysian historian, respiratory failure.
• Li Hengde, 97, Chinese materials scientist, academician of the Academy of Engineering.
• John Paul Meagher, 80, Canadian politician.
• Ralph Murphy, 75, British-born Canadian country musician, pneumonia.
• Apolo Nsibambi, 78, Ugandan academic and politician, Prime Minister, cancer.
• Levi Oakes, 94, Canadian-born American soldier, last living WWII Mohawk code talker.
• Włodzimierz Ptak, 90, Polish immunologist and microbiologist.
• Fritz Schösser, 71, German politician, member of the Bavarian Senate, Landtag of Bavaria and Bundestag.
• Edward Seaga, 89, Jamaican politician, Prime Minister, cancer.
• Petr Sgall, 93, Czech linguist.
• Ingemar Skogö, 70, Swedish civil servant, Governor of Västmanland County, Director-General of the LFV and the SRA.
• Nick Stato, 97, American boxer.
• Tuulikki Ukkola, 75, Finnish journalist and politician, MP and leader of the Liberal People's Party.
• Thomas Wainwright, 78, English cricketer.
• Walter Wolfgang, 95, German-born British socialist and peace activist.
• Nick Yakich, 79, Australian rugby league player.

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• Jack Burton, 99, American Olympic equestrian.
• Errett Callahan, 81, American archaeologist.
• Tony DeLap, 91, American artist.
• Dennis Etchison, 76, American author and editor.
• Michel Gaudry, 90, French jazz bassist.
• Tony Glover, 79, American blues harmonicist.
• Muhammad Tholchah Hasan, 80, Indonesian Islamic cleric, academic, and politician, Minister of Religious Affairs, stomach cancer.
• Roy Jeffs, 26, American sexual abuse victim, suicide.
• Adam Patel, Baron Patel of Blackburn, 78, British clothier and Member of the House of Lords.
• Bayram Şit, 89, Turkish wrestler, Olympic champion.
• Michael Spicer, 76, British politician, MP, chairman of the 1922 Committee and Member of the House of Lords, Parkinson's disease and leukaemia.
• Peggy Stewart, 95, American actress.
• Jiří Stránský, 87, Czech author, translator and political prisoner.
• Jackie Winters, 82, American politician, member of the Oregon House of Representatives and Senate, lung cancer.
• Igor Zavozin, 63, Russian ice dancer.

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• Mike Balson, 71, English footballer and referee, complications from Lewy Body Dementia.
• Patricia Bath, 76, American ophthalmologist, cancer.
• Milan Blažeković, 78, Croatian animator.
• Michel Canac, 62, French Olympic alpine skier, skiing accident.
• Innocenzo Chatrian, 92, Italian Olympic cross-country skier.
• Thad Cochran, 81, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives, renal failure.
• Allan Edwards, 97, Australian cricketer.
• André Gerolymatos, 67, Greek-Canadian historian and professor, brain cancer.
• Eva Kleinitz, 47, German opera director.
• Frank Lucas, 88, American drug trafficker, depicted in American Gangster.
• Arne Lyngstad, 57, Norwegian politician, MP, cancer.
• Jason Marcano, 35, Trinidadian footballer, traffic collision.
• Murray Polner, 91, American editor and author.
• Anthony Price, 90, British author.
• Leon Redbone, 69, Cypriot-American singer-songwriter and actor, complications from dementia.
• Diogo Reesink, 84, Dutch Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Almenara and Teófilo Otoni.
• Giuseppe Sandri, 72, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Witbank.
• Andrew Sinclair, 84, British novelist and film director.
• John Tidmarsh, 90, English broadcaster and journalist.

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• David M. Ainsworth, 64, American politician, member of the Vermont House of Representatives.
• Andaiye, 76, Guyanese political activist, cancer.
• Roky Erickson, 71, American singer-songwriter.
• Paddy Fahey, 102, Irish composer and fiddler.
• Sir Grant Hammond, 75, New Zealand jurist, judge of the Court of Appeal.
• Đelo Jusić, 80, Croatian composer and guitarist.
• Panayotis Katsoyannis, 95, American biochemist.
• Jean-Claude Labrecque, 80, Canadian cinematographer and filmmaker.
• Jimmy Martin, 80, American politician, member of the Alabama House of Representatives, cancer.
• Patrick Matolengwe, 82, South African Anglican bishop.
• Jim McMullan, 82, American actor, complications from ALS.
• Aideen Nicholson, 92, Irish-born Canadian politician.
• Laila Nur, 84, Bangladeshi language activist.
• Hari Sabarno, 74, Indonesian military officer and politician, Minister of Home Affairs.
• Le Anne Schreiber, 73, American sports editor, lung cancer.
• Niara Sudarkasa, 80, American anthropologist, President of Lincoln University.
• Chitra Wakishta, 82, Sri Lankan actress.