Deaths in October 2015

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

  October 2015

1

• Božo Bakota, 64, Croatian footballer.
• Jacques Brodin, 68, French fencer, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Don Edwards, 100, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California.
• Erma Johnson Hadley, 73, American educator, Chancellor of Tarrant County College, pancreatic cancer.
• Illtyd Harrington, 84, British politician.
• Max Keeping, 73, Canadian broadcaster, cancer.
• Stanisław Kociołek, 82, Polish politician, Deputy Prime Minister.
• Cal Neeman, 86, American baseball player.
• Hadi Norouzi, 30, Iranian footballer, heart attack.
• Frans Pointl, 82, Dutch writer, nerve disease.
• Jacob Pressman, 95, American Conservative rabbi, co-founder of American Jewish University.
• Usnija Redžepova, 69, Macedonian singer, lung cancer.
• Angelito Sarmiento, 68, Filipino politician, member of the House of Representatives, heart attack.
• Gottfried Schatz, 79, Austrian biochemist, cancer.
• Johnny Strange, 23, American mountain climber and adventurer, wingsuit collision.
• Jean-Jacques Tillmann, 80, Swiss sports journalist.
• Joe Wark, 67, Scottish footballer, dementia.

  2

• Willie Akins, 76, American jazz saxophonist, heart failure.
• Naim Araidi, 65, Israeli Druze academic and poet, Ambassador to Norway, cancer.
• Steve Camacho, 69, Guyanese cricketer, cancer.
• François Dagognet, 91, French philosopher.
• Eric Arturo Delvalle, 78, Panamanian politician, President.
• Ferdinand Joseph Fonseca, 89, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Bombay.
• Brian Friel, 86, Irish dramatist.
• Rodolfo Frigeri, 73, Argentine economist and politician, Minister of Economy and Public Finances.
• Coleridge Goode, 100, Jamaican-born British jazz bassist.
• Arthur Lawson Johnston, 3rd Baron Luke, 82, British peer and politician.
• Lindsay Kline, 81, Australian cricketer.
• Serhiy Krulykovskyi, 69, Ukrainian footballer.
• Lubomír Lipský, 92, Czech actor, pneumonia.
• Megateo, 39, Colombian criminal.
• James Mutende, 53, Ugandan politician, State Minister of Industry.
• Johnny Paton, 92, Scottish football player, coach and manager.
• Alan Prince, 100, Canadian bureaucrat, Director of the Nuclear Safety Commission, oversaw the clean up of Kosmos 954.
• Hal Schacker, 90, American baseball player.
• Andy Sperandeo, 70, American magazine editor, cancer.
• Jean-Noël Tassez, 59, French journalist.

  3

• Utpal Kumar Basu, 76, Indian poet.
• A. R. M. Abdul Cader, 78, Sri Lankan politician, MP.
• Denis Healey, 98, British politician, Secretary of State for Defence, Chancellor of the Exchequer, heart attack.
• Lloyd Hinchberger, 84, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Olga Hirshhorn, 95, American art collector.
• Isao Hosoe, 73, Japanese designer.
• Javed Iqbal, 90, Pakistani judge, Justice of the Supreme Court.
• Muhammad Nawaz Khan, 71, Pakistani historian and writer, Parkinson's disease.
• Stewart McInnes, 78, Canadian lawyer and politician, member of Parliament, heart failure.
• Barbara Meek, 81, American actress, heart attack.
• Raghavan Narasimhan, 78, Indian mathematician.
• João Leithardt Neto, 57, Brazilian footballer, Olympic silver medalist, liver cancer.
• Paul R. Norby, 102, American Navy rear admiral.
• Dave Pike, 77, American jazz musician, emphysema.
• Arthur A. Small, 81, American lawyer and poet, kidney failure.
• Masjchun Sofwan, 88, Indonesian Governor of Jambi.
• Gerald Squires, 77, Canadian artist, cancer.
• Christopher Tambling, 51, British composer and choirmaster, cancer.
• William Taylor, 77, New Zealand children's writer and politician, Mayor of Ohakune.
• Peter Tillers, 72, Latvian-born American legal scholar.
• Franciszek Walicki, 94, Polish journalist.

  4

• Yves Barsacq, 84, French film actor, pneumonia.
• William A. Culpepper, 99, American judge, Louisiana Court of Appeal for the Third Circuit.
• José Eduardo Dutra, 58, Brazilian businessman and politician, Senator, cancer.
• Tove Fergo, 69, Danish politician, Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs, member of Folketinget, cancer.
• Daniel Fletcher, 41, Australian AFL football player, fall.
• S. Malcolm Gillis, 74, American academic, President of Rice University, cancer.
• Juan Carlos Ibáñez, 46, Argentine footballer, beaten.
• Jack McKee, 71, Northern Irish politician, Mayor of Larne.
• J. Whyatt Mondesire, 66, American journalist and civil rights activist, brain aneurysm.
• Eduardo Pavlovsky, 81, Argentine actor and playwright.
• Edida Nageswara Rao, 81, Indian film producer.
• Job de Ruiter, 85, Dutch politician, Minister of Justice, Minister of Defence.
• Sir John Severne, 90, British Royal Air Force officer.
• Jim Thomas, 76, American CFL player.
• Neal Walk, 67, American basketball player.
• Bob Whan, 82, Australian politician, MP for Eden-Monaro, cardiac arrest.
• Oganes Zanazanyan, 68, Greek-born Armenian football player and coach, Olympic bronze medalist.

  5

• Chantal Akerman, 65, Belgian film director, suicide.
• Frank Albanese, 84, American boxer and actor, prostate cancer.
• Joker Arroyo, 88, Filipino politician, Senator, heart attack.
• Gösta Bergkvist, 95, Swedish Olympic runner.
• Grace Lee Boggs, 100, American civil rights activist and author.
• Larry Brezner, 73, American film producer, leukemia.
• Michael Dean, 82, New Zealand broadcaster, dementia.
• Ana Diosdado, 77, Argentine-born Spanish playwright and actress, cardiorespiratory failure.
• Flavio Emoli, 81, Italian footballer.
• Mary Jane Farell, 95, American bridge player.
• Joe Henson, 82, British farmer and conservationist.
• Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria, 77, Spanish nobleman.
• Li Yongtai, 87, Chinese lieutenant general and politician.
• Trevor Lloyd, 91, Welsh rugby union player.
• Henning Mankell, 67, Swedish author, cancer.
• John O'Leary, 82, Irish politician, TD for Kerry South.
• Anna Pump, 81, German-born American baker and cookbook author, vehicle-pedestrian collision.
• Andrew Rubin, 69, American actor, lung cancer.
• Niall Rudd, 88, Irish-born British classical scholar.
• Ales Savitsky, 91, Belarusian writer.
• Jos Vandeloo, 90, Belgian author.
• Peter Wespi, 72, Swiss Olympic ice hockey player, cancer.

  6

• Christine Arnothy, 84, Hungarian-French writer.
• Duncan Bluck, 88, British businessman.
• Kevin Corcoran, 66, American actor and producer, colorectal cancer.
• Rich Davis, 89, American businessman, creator of KC Masterpiece barbecue sauce.
• Charles Coulston Gillispie, 97, American historian, President of History of Science Society.
• Árpád Göncz, 93, Hungarian writer and politician, President.
• Smokey Johnson, 78, American drummer.
• Stasys Povilaitis, 68, Lithuanian singer and poet, lung cancer.
• Fernando Rainieri, 74–75, Dominican politician, minister of tourism.
• Billy Joe Royal, 73, American pop and country singer.
• Vladimir Shlapentokh, 88, Ukrainian-born American sociologist.
• Sandra Spuzich, 78, American golfer.
• William Stanley, 58, American mammalogist, director of collections at Field Museum.
• Carmen Marina Torres, 58, Colombian actress.
• Otto Tucker, 92, Canadian educationalist.
• Juan Vicente Ugarte del Pino, 92, Peruvian historian and jurist.
• Ivan Vidav, 97, Slovenian mathematician.

  7

• Gene Allen, 97, American art director, President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
• Ray Appleton, 74, American jazz drummer, heart failure.
• Pushpa Bhuyan, 69, Indian classical dancer.
• Ângelo da Cunha Pinto, 66, Brazilian-Portuguese chemist.
• Friedrich Diedrich, 80, German Roman Catholic theologian.
• Dominique Dropsy, 63, French footballer, leukemia.
• Harry Gallatin, 88, American Hall of Fame basketball player and coach, complications from surgery.
• Hossein Hamadani, 60, Iranian military officer.
• Hy Hollinger, 97, American journalist and publicist, international editor of The Hollywood Reporter.
• Hasan Jamil, 63, Pakistani cricketer, cardiac arrest.
• Kenneth Koe, 90, American chemist.
• Elena Lucena, 101, Argentine film actress.
• W. R. Mitchell, 87, British writer and editor.
• Julius Muthamia, 81, Kenyan politician.
• Maria Lúcia Prandi, 70, Brazilian academic and politician, cancer.
• Charles P. West, 94, American politician, member of the Delaware House of Representatives.
• Helen Wilkes, 88, American businesswoman and politician, first female Mayor of West Palm Beach, Florida, City Commissioner.
• Arthur Woods, 86, New Zealand rugby union player.
• Clive Young, 67, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Dunwich, complications from surgery.
• Gail Zappa, 70, American businesswoman, lung cancer.
• Jurelang Zedkaia, 65, Marshallese Iroijlaplap and politician, President of the Marshall Islands, heart attack.

  8

• Gottfried Anglberger, 84, Austrian Olympic wrestler.
• Richard Davies, 89, Welsh character actor, Alzheimer's disease.
• Teifion Davies, 75, Australian Olympic boxer.
• Eric Dawe, 94, Canadian businessman and politician, member of the Newfoundland House of Assembly for Port de Grave.
• Jim Diamond, 64, Scottish singer-songwriter, pulmonary edema.
• Dennis Eichhorn, 70, American writer and comic book artist, pneumonia.
• Tom Goode, 76, American football player.
• Enrique Gratas, 71, Argentine television presenter, lung cancer.
• Dora Holzhandler, 87, French-born British painter.
• Lindy Infante, 75, American football coach, pneumonia.
• István Nemeskürty, 90, Hungarian writer and screenwriter.
• Paul Prudhomme, 75, American chef, cookbook writer and restaurateur, recipient of the Order of Agricultural Merit.
• Elizabeth Ramsey, 83, Filipino comedian, singer and actress, hyperglycemic attack.
• Massimo Scaglione, 84, Italian film director.
• Hugh Scully, 72, British television presenter.
• Jan Wallman, 93, American nightclub owner and producer.
• Stephen B. Wiley, 86, American politician, member of the New Jersey Senate.

  9

• Ben Abraham, 90, Polish-born Brazilian Holocaust survivor, author and journalist.
• Louise Alley, 88, American radio personality and advertising executive.
• Jean Badal, 88, Hungarian cinematographer.
• Ronald Brunskill, 86, British architectural historian.
• Du Runsheng, 102, Chinese politician.
• Raymond Duncan, 84, American entrepreneur and winemaker.
• Gordon Honeycombe, 79, British newscaster, author and actor, leukaemia.
• Geoffrey Howe, Baron Howe of Aberavon, 88, British politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Foreign Secretary, heart attack.
• Ravindra Jain, 71, Indian composer, kidney illness.
• Julia Jones, 92, British scriptwriter.
• Koopsta Knicca, 40, American rapper, stroke.
• Blanca Magrassi Scagno, 92, Mexican women's rights activist.
• Dave Meyers, 62, American basketball player, cancer.
• Bruce Nazarian, 66, American musician and producer.
• Jerry Parr, 85, American Secret Service agent, extricated Ronald Reagan during assassination attempt, heart failure.
• Tony Rafty, 99, Australian caricaturist, complications from pneumonia.
• N. Ramani, 81, Indian flautist.
• Larry Rosen, 75, American jazz producer, brain cancer.
• Ronald Lampman Watts, 86, Canadian academic, Principal of Queen's University.
• Eric Wright, 86, Canadian crime writer, kidney cancer.
• Zdravko Zupan, 65, Yugoslav Serbian comic-book creator and historian.

  10

• Alvin P. Adams Jr., 73, American diplomat, Ambassador to Peru, Haiti, and Djibouti, heart attack.
• Sam Adams, Sr., 67, American football player.
• Nuriyya Ahmadova, 64, Azerbaijani actress, heart attack.
• Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, 62, Nigerian politician, Governor of Bayelsa.
• Kane Ashcroft, 29, English footballer, cancer.
• Hilla Becher, 81, German photographer.
• Wes Funk, 46, Canadian author.
• Sophie el Goulli, 83, Tunisian writer and historian.
• Garry Hancock, 61, American baseball player.
• Richard F. Heck, 84, American chemist, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry.
• Tord Johansson, 60, Swedish businessman.
• Lyudmila Kedrina, 54, Russian Soviet alpine skier, cancer.
• Steve Mackay, 66, American saxophonist, sepsis.
• Manorama, 78, Indian Tamil actress, heart attack.
• Sir David Penry-Davey, 73, British jurist.
• Rochunga Pudaite, 88, Indian writer and translator.
• Maggie Riley, 79, British actress.
• Tex Rudloff, 89, American sound editor.
• Mahmoud Sehili, 84, Tunisian artist.
• Elias Skaff, 67, Lebanese politician.
• Sybil Stockdale, 90, American human rights activist, co-founder of National League of Families, Parkinson's disease.
• Stan Stoker, 71, English cricketer.
• Robbin Thompson, 66, American singer-songwriter, cancer.

  11

• Ali Barraud, 97, Burkinabe politician.
• John Berg, 83, American art director and designer, pneumonia.
• Dean Chance, 74, American baseball player and boxing official, founder of the International Boxing Association, heart attack.
• S. A. David, 91, Sri Lankan Tamil political activist.
• Jack Drake, 81, American politician, member of the Iowa House of Representatives.
• David Hunt, 55, British racing driver.
• Smokin' Joe Kubek, 58, American blues guitarist, heart attack.
• Bob Minkler, 78, American sound mixer, Oscar winner, respiratory failure.
• Salvador Trane Modesto, 85, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Dumaguete and San Carlos.
• John Murphy, 56, Australian drummer, percussionist and multi-instrumental session musician, cancer.
• Andrew Sayers, 58, British-born Australian curator, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, pancreatic cancer.
• Dominga Velasco, 114, Mexican-born American supercentenarian, oldest-ever verified Mexican-born person.

  12

• Sakit Aliyev, 49, Azerbaijani football player and coach.
• Mary Adrian Barrett, 86, American Roman Catholic nun.
• Anna Campbell Bliss, 90, American artist and architect.
• Sergio Caprari, 83, Italian boxer, Olympic silver medalist.
• Kevin Cass, 77, Australian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.
• Sam de Brito, 46, Australian author and columnist.
• Peter Dougherty, 59, American music television executive, creator and video producer, heart attack.
• Colleen Farrington, 79, American model and singer.
• David Finnegan, 74, American attorney, talk show host and politician, lung cancer.
• Ernestine Friedl, 95, American anthropologist.
• Hal Hackady, 93, American lyricist and screenwriter.
• Abdallah Kigoda, 61, Tanzanian politician, Minister of Industry and Trade, cancer.
• Levent Kırca, 67, Turkish actor, liver cancer.
• Armin Kircher, 48, Austrian composer and conductor, heart failure.
• Kazuo Kumakura, 88, Japanese actor.
• Joan Leslie, 90, American actress.
• Robert Leuci, 75, American police detective and writer, complications after surgery.
• Joseph J. Minnick, 82, American politician, member of Maryland House of Delegates, blood disease.
• George Mueller, 97, American space engineer, Associate Administrator of the NASA Office of Manned Space Flight.
• Maksut Narikbaev, 75, Kazakh jurist, Chairman of the Supreme Court of Kazakhstan.
• Sophie Nogler, 91, Austrian Olympic alpine skier.
• Tom Ognibene, 72, American politician, member of the New York City Council, cancer.
• Leo J. Reding, 91, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives.
• Gennady Riger, 67, Israeli politician, member of the Knesset.
• Laurence Smart, 87, Australian cricketer.

  13

• Rosalyn Baxandall, 76, American historian and feminist activist, kidney cancer.
• Guenther Boden, 80, German-born American endocrinologist.
• Arsenio Chirinos, 80, Venezuelan Olympic cyclist.
• Sir James Cruthers, 90, Australian business executive, pneumonia.
• Duncan Druce, 76, English composer and musicologist.
• Kyogon Hagiyama, 83, Japanese politician, member of the House of Representatives for Toyama Prefecture, heart failure.
• Bruce Hyde, 74, American educator and actor, throat cancer.
• Sue Lloyd-Roberts, 64, British television journalist, leukaemia.
• Leif Mevik, 85, Norwegian diplomat.
• Julien J. Studley, 88, Belgian-born American businessman.
• Skatemaster Tate, 56, American musician and television show host, liver cancer.
• K. Velayudam, 65, Sri Lankan politician and trade unionist, MP for Badulla.
• Michael Walsh, 88, British Army general and scouting leader, Chief Scout.
• Michael John Wise, 97, British geographer.

  14

• Nurlan Balgimbayev, 67, Kazakh politician, Prime Minister, cancer.
• Bobby Braithwaite, 78, Northern Irish footballer.
• Antonio Cedrés, 87, Spanish footballer.
• Marianne Dickerson, 54, American long-distance runner.
• José Luis García, 91, Mexican baseball player and manager.
• Peter Hermes, 93, German diplomat.
• Mathieu Kérékou, 82, Beninese politician, President.
• Margaret Keyes, 97, American historian and preserver of historic buildings.
• Florența Mihai, 60, Romanian tennis player, coach and official, Secretary General of the RTF, cancer.
• Jordi Miralles, 53, Spanish politician, member of the Parliament of Catalonia, meningitis.
• Bruce Mozert, 98, American photographer.
• Sol Roper, 79, English rugby league player.
• Radhakrishna Hariram Tahiliani, 85, Indian admiral and politician, Chief of the Naval Staff, Governor of Sikkim.
• Paul W. Taylor, 91, American philosopher.
• Robert M. White, 92, American meteorologist, director of the National Weather Service, ESSA, NOAA, complications of dementia.
• Miranda Yap, 67, Singaporean chemical engineer.

  15

• Lennart Anderson, 87, American painter.
• Robert D'Silva, 90, Pakistani Roman Catholic priest.
• Sergei Filippenkov, 44, Russian football player and coach, heart attack.
• Yoshihiko Funazaki, 70, Japanese writer.
• Nate Huffman, 40, American basketball player, bladder cancer.
• Harriet Klausner, 63, American book reviewer.
• Don Livingstone, 67, Australian politician, Queensland MLA for Ipswich West, stomach cancer.
• Dölf Mettler, 81, Swiss yodeler and painter.
• Joel Gustave Nana Ngongang, 33, Cameroonian LGBT rights activist.
• Neill Sheridan, 93, American baseball player, pneumonia.
• J. Robert Stassen, 88, American politician, member of the Minnesota Senate, Alzheimer's disease and dementia.
• Michael Stevens, 48, American television producer, stomach cancer.
• Stella Sutherland, 91, Scottish poet.
• Kenneth D. Taylor, 81, Canadian diplomat, Ambassador to Iran, awarded U.S. Congressional Gold Medal for role in "Canadian Caper", colorectal cancer.
• Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra, 83, Brazilian military officer, cancer.
• Larry N. Vanderhoef, 74, American biochemist, Chancellor of UC Davis, complications from ischemic strokes.
• Col Westaway, 79, Australian cricketer.
• Tyrone Young, 55, American football player, multiple myeloma.

  16

• Ralph Andrews, 87, American television producer, Alzheimer's disease.
• Mikhail Burtsev, 59, Russian Soviet fencer, six-time world champion, two-time Olympic champion.
• Richard J. Cardamone, 90, American judge, member of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
• Francesc de Paula Burguera, 87, Spanish journalist and politician, member of the Congress of Deputies.
• David Drew, 77, English ballet dancer.
• Deo Filikunjombe, 43, Tanzanian politician, MP for Ludewa, helicopter crash.
• James W. Fowler, 75, American theologian and pastoral psychologist, complications related to Alzheimer's disease.
• Luciano García Alén, 87, Spanish physician and ethnographer.
• Joseph E. Irenas, 75, American judge, member of the US District Court for New Jersey, fall.
• William James, 85, Australian soldier and military physician.
• John Jennings, 61, American musician and music producer, kidney cancer.
• Olimpo López, 97, Colombian pastry chef.
• Barbara Orzechowska-Ryszel, 84, Polish Olympic fencer.
• Beny Primm, 87, American physician, HIV/AIDS researcher and activist, kidney disease.
• Irwin Schiff, 87, American tax protester, lung cancer.
• Memduh Ün, 95, Turkish film director.
• Vera Williams, 88, American children's writer.
• Julia Wilson-Dickson, 66, English dialect coach, brain haemorrhage.

  17

• Lois Bellman, 89, American baseball player.
• Danièle Delorme, 89, French actress.
• Johnny Hamilton, 66, Scottish footballer.
• Howard Kendall, 69, English football player and manager.
• Anne-Marie Lizin, 66, Belgian politician, President of the Senate.
• Morando Morandini, 91, Italian film critic and author.
• Houston Ridge, 71, American football player.
• Peter Sands, 91, Irish politician.
• Tom Smith, 67, American politician.
• Emory Tate, 56, American chess player.
• Rosa Tschudi, 91, Swiss chef and author.
• Norman Vickar, 98, Canadian politician.

  18

• Franklin April, 31, Namibian footballer, asthma attack.
• André Bourgeois, 87, Belgian politician, Minister of Agriculture.
• Ignazio Cannavò, 93, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Messina-Lipari-Santa Lucia del Mela.
• Kallu Chidambaram, 70, Indian comedy actor.
• Robert Dickerson, 91, Australian artist, cancer.
• Gamal El-Ghitani, 70, Egyptian author, respiratory complications.
• Robert W. Farquhar, 83, American NASA mission design specialist.
• Walter S. Graf, 98, American cardiologist.
• Brian Hurn, 76, Australian cricketer.
• Héctor Mario López Fuentes, 85, Guatemalan general, prostate cancer.
• Ankaralı Namık, 38, Turkish folk singer, fall.
• Tommy O'Keefe, 87, American basketball player and coach.
• Anita Sarko, 68, American DJ and journalist, suicide by hanging.
• Loren P. Thompson, 88, American politician.
• Harry Verran, 85, Canadian politician, MP for South West Nova.
• Frank Watkins, 47, American bassist, cancer.
• Paul West, 85, British-born American novelist and poet, pneumonia.

  19

• Leon Bramlett, 92, American politician and football player.
• Bill Collier, 94, Australian rugby league player.
• Bill Daley, 96, American football player.
• Ron Greener, 81, English footballer.
• Ena Kadic, 26, Bosnian-born Austrian model, fall.
• Patricia Kern, 88, British mezzo-soprano and voice teacher.
• Fleming Mackell, 86, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Alessandro Plotti, 83, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Pisa.
• Dick Sharples, 88, British scriptwriter.
• Ali Treki, 78, Libyan diplomat, Foreign Minister, President of the United Nations General Assembly.
• D. C. Wilcutt, 92, American basketball player.
• Roland R. Wright, 96, American Mormon missionary.

  20

• Makis Dendrinos, 65, Greek basketball player and coach, complications from a heart attack.
• Rufus Granderson, 79, American football player.
• Arno Gruen, 92, German-born American psychologist.
• Neeltje Karelse, 89, Dutch Olympic track-and-field athlete.
• Gilberto Jiménez Narváez, 78, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Riohacha.
• Kazimierz Łaski, 93, Polish-born Austrian economist.
• Yoná Magalhães, 80, Brazilian actress, complications following heart surgery.
• Brian Oliver, 86, Australian Olympic athlete.
• Syed Zahoor Qasim, 88, Indian marine biologist.
• Don Rendell, 89, English jazz musician.
• Sir John Scott, 84, New Zealand medical researcher, President of the Royal Society of New Zealand.
• Ian Steel, 86, Scottish racing cyclist.
• K. S. L. Swamy, 77, Indian film director and singer, National Film Award for Best Children's Film.
• Jane Wardle, 64, British clinical psychologist, cancer.
• Cory Wells, 74, American singer, complications from multiple myeloma.

  21

• Peter Baldwin, 82, British actor.
• Piercarlo Beroldi, 87, Italian Olympic sports shooter
• France Bučar, 92, Slovene politician, Speaker of the National Assembly.
• Gregory Robert Choppin, 87, American nuclear chemist.
• E. Virgil Conway, 85, American civil servant.
• Marty Ingels, 79, American actor, stroke.
• Jim Jodat, 61, American football player, cancer.
• Suryanath U. Kamath, 78, Indian historian.
• Francis Kiddle, 73, British philatelist, lung cancer.
• Ossie Langfelder, 89, Austrian-born American politician, Mayor of Springfield, Illinois.
• Rhoda Leonard, 87, American baseball player.
• Michael Meacher, 75, British politician, MP for Oldham West and Oldham West and Royton.
• Norman W. Moore, 92, British conservationist, researcher into the use of organochloride pesticides.
• William Murray, 8th Earl of Mansfield, 85, Scottish nobleman and politician, appointed MEP.
• Diana Pullein-Thompson, 90, British writer.
• Jim Robertson, 87, American baseball player.
• Yawar Saeed, 80, Pakistani cricketer and manager, brain tumour.
• Anton Solomoukha, 69, Ukrainian-born French artist and photographer.
• Sir Christopher Walford, 80, British solicitor and politician, Lord Mayor of London
• Sheldon Wolin, 93, American political theorist.

  22

• Willem Aantjes, 92, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives.
• Çetin Altan, 88, Turkish writer and politician, MP.
• Murphy Anderson, 89, American comic book artist, creator of Zatanna, heart failure.
• John Backe, 83, American television executive, President and CEO of CBS, heart failure.
• Scott Barr, 99, American politician, member of the Washington House of Representatives and Senate.
• Larry Clarke, 90, Canadian businessman and Chancellor of York University.
• Tien Feng, 87, Chinese actor.
• Juan Ferrer, 60, Cuban judoka, Olympic silver medalist.
• Esther Geller, 93, American painter.
• Jürgen Henkys, 85, German theologian.
• Labh Janjua, 57, Indian singer-songwriter, suspected heart attack.
• Louis Jung, 98, French politician, Senator for Bas-Rhin.
• Bryan Lowe, 89, English cricketer.
• Jerome Kass, 78, American screenwriter, prostate cancer.
• Gorden Kelley, 77, American football player.
• Arnold Klein, 70, American dermatologist.
• Mark Murphy, 83, American jazz vocalist, complications from pneumonia.
• Michael Margaret Stewart, 62, American lawyer, First Lady of Alaska, ovarian cancer.
• Muhammad Dawood Sultanzoy, 63, Afghan politician, shot.
• Tomás Torres Mercado, 54, Mexican politician, member of the Senate, plane crash.
• John Tsitouris, 79, American baseball player.
• Jorge Valls, 82, Cuban activist and poet.
• Joshua Wheeler, 39, American army soldier, shot.

  23

• Jake Bailey, 37, American make-up artist, suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning.
• Bill Berezowski, 87, Canadian football player.
• Leon Bibb, 93, American folk singer.
• John Bossy, 82, British historian.
• Michel Couriard, 61, British Channel Islander civil servant, cancer.
• Roger De Clerck, 91, Belgian chief executive.
• Arthur Gilbert, 94, British nonagenarian triathlete.
• Reggie Hannah, 56, American basketball player, cancer.
• Guðbjartur Hannesson, 65, Icelandic politician, cancer.
• Antony Hignell, 87, British sportsman.
• Krunoslav Hulak, 64, Croatian chess grandmaster, lung cancer.
• Roar Johansen, 80, Norwegian footballer.
• Bill Keith, 75, American banjo player, cancer.
• Albert Kish, 78, Hungarian-born Canadian film director.
• Takis Papageorgopoulos, 81, Greek army general and politician.
• Peter Price, 83, Scottish footballer.
• Jim Roberts, 75, Canadian ice hockey player, cancer.
• Fred Sands, 77, American real estate mogul, stroke.
• Thomas G. Stemberg, 66, American office supply executive and philanthropist, stomach cancer.
• Paride Tumburus, 76, Italian footballer, heart attack.
• Lyubov Tyurina, 72, Russian Soviet volleyball player, Olympic champion.
• Zhu Muzhi, 98, Chinese politician.

  24

• Sir Michael Beetham, 92, British marshal of the air force, Chief of the Air Staff.
• Carlos Bousoño, 92, Spanish poet and literary critic.
• Alvin Bronstein, 87, American lawyer and prisoner rights activist, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Christopher Chapman, 88, Canadian writer, director, editor and cinematographer, creator of the multi-dynamic image technique.
• Hasset Go, 29, Filipino chef, liver cancer.
• Kirsty Howard, 20, British hospice fundraiser, complications from a kidney infection and heart attack.
• Shamshad Hussain, 69, Indian painter, liver cancer.
• Margarita Khemlin, 55, Ukrainian author.
• Edythe Kirchmaier, 107, American centenarian, oldest known Facebook user.
• Ján Chryzostom Korec, 91, Slovak Roman Catholic prelate, Jesuit Cardinal and Bishop of Nitra.
• Eteiwi Majali, 64–65, Jordanian politician, member of the House of Representatives.
• Maureen O'Hara, 95, Irish-American actress.
• Nat Peck, 90, American jazz trombonist.
• Sandra Peterson, 79, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives.
• Gaston Poulain, 88, French Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Périgueux.
• William John Quinn, 104, American railroad executive.
• Bhaskar Save, 93, Indian farmer and activist.
• Thomas Sunesson, 56, Swedish footballer.
• Ryszard Wcisło, 82, Polish scout leader.

  25

• Cao Ying, 92, Chinese translator of Russian literature.
• David Cesarani, 58, British Jewish historian, Holocaust specialist, complications from spinal surgery.
• Fehmi Demir, 58, Turkish politician, leader of the Rights and Freedoms Party, traffic collision.
• Wojciech Fangor, 92, Polish artist.
• Pijush Ganguly, 50, Indian actor, multiple organ failure following traffic collision.
• Ken Graveney, 90, English cricketer.
• Marlo Henderson, 67, American session guitarist.
• Lisa Jardine, 71, British early modern historian, cancer.
• Vladimír Kobranov, 88, Czech ice hockey player, Olympic silver medalist.
• Cecil Lolo, 27, South African footballer, traffic collision.
• Dennis Morgan, 63, American football player, heart attack.
• Georg Müller, 64, German-born Norwegian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Trondheim.
• Flip Saunders, 60, American basketball coach, lymphoma.
• Lee Shaw, 89, American jazz pianist.
• Matt Watson, 79, Scottish footballer.
• Basil Williams, 65, Jamaican cricketer, heart attack.

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• Willis Carto, 89, American white supremacist and Holocaust denier, founder of the American Free Press.
• S. Barry Cooper, 72, British mathematician, computational theorist, author and activist.
• Robert P. DeVecchi, 85, American rescue foundation executive, Director of International Rescue Committee.
• Peter Farquhar, 69, English novelist, homicide.
• Steve Goss, 65, American politician, member of the North Carolina Senate, cancer.
• Zeke Hogeland, 89, American college basketball coach.
• Penelope Houston, 88, British film critic, editor of Sight & Sound.
• Leo Kadanoff, 78, American physicist, President of American Physical Society, respiratory failure.
• Robert Light, 88, American politician, member of the New Mexico House of Representatives.
• Giuseppe Nazzaro, 77, Italian-born Syrian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Aleppo.
• David Rodriguez, 63, American singer-songwriter.
• Sam Sarpong, 40, British-born American model and actor, suicide by jumping.
• Ed Walker, 83, American radio personality, cancer.

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• Eric Allen, 66, American football player.
• Mitzura Arghezi, 90, Romanian actress, journalist and politician, MP.
• Helen Astin, 83, Greek-born American scholar and feminist.
• Ayerdhal, 56, French author, cancer.
• Ranjit Roy Chaudhury, 84, Indian pharmacologist.
• Betsy Drake, 92, American actress and writer.
• Philip French, 82, British film critic and BBC radio producer, heart attack.
• Herbie Goins, 76, American R&B singer.
• Henry Hook, 60, American crossword compiler.
• Miyu Matsuki, 38, Japanese voice actress, lymphoma due to chronic active EBV infection.
• Tshepo Ngwane, 39, South African actor.
• Gulam Noon, Baron Noon, 79, Indian-born British food production businessman, chancellor of University of East London, liver cancer.
• Noriyoshi Ohrai, 79, Japanese illustrator, pneumonia.
• Stanley Philips, 95, English cricketer.
• Rajendra Singh Rana, 54, Indian politician, Uttar Pradesh MLA for Deoband, cancer.
• Ralph Richeson, 63, American actor, heart failure.
• Yoshito Takamine, 89, American politician and labor leader, member of the Hawaii House of Representatives.
• Tillman, 10, American skateboarding English bulldog, heart disease.
• Irving Ungerman, 92, Canadian boxing manager, promoter, poultry executive and philanthropist, stroke.

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• Peter Barrett, 59, Irish Anglican prelate, Bishop of Cashel and Ossory.
• Jack A. Brown, 86, American politician, member of the Arizona House of Representatives and Senate.
• Diane Charlemagne, 51, British singer, cancer.
• Joseph Dergham, 85, Lebanese-born Egyptian Maronite Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Cairo.
• Nancy Dye, 56, American historian and educator, President of Oberlin College.
• Bruce L. Edwards, 63, American literary scholar, expert on C.S. Lewis, ruptured aortic aneurysm.
• Nicolás Fuentes, 74, Peruvian footballer, pulmonary failure as a complication of diabetes.
• Tom Hosier, 73, American college football coach.
• Attila Kálmán, 77, Hungarian educator and politician, MP.
• Sir Gerry Neale, 74, British politician, MP for North Cornwall.
• Gyang Pwajok, 48, Nigerian politician, member of the Senate for Plateau, complications from hepatocellular carcinoma.
• Jorge Scarso, 99, Italian-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Patos de Minas.
• Tadeusz Sobolewicz, 92, Polish actor and author, survivor of Nazi concentration camps.
• Scott James Wells, 54, American actor and model.

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• Nick Bolkovac, 87, American football player .
• Per Brunvand, 78, Norwegian newspaper editor.
• Luther Burden, 62, American basketball player, heart failure.
• Jacques Delécluse, 82, French percussionist.
• Kenneth Gilbert, 84, British actor.
• Ernesto Herrera, 73, Filipino politician, member of the House of Representatives and Senate, heart attack.
• Tassie Johnson, 77, Australian football player.
• Peter Knott, 59, Australian politician, member of the House of Representatives for Gilmore.
• Lowell B. Komie, 87, American lawyer and author.
• Boris Kristančič, 82, Slovene Olympic basketball player and coach.
• Franz Thaler, 90, Italian author.
• Ranko Žeravica, 85, Serbian basketball coach.

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• Mel Daniels, 71, American Hall of Fame basketball player.
• Haliru Dantoro, 77, Nigerian traditional ruler and politician, Emir of Borgu, member of the Senate.
• Zehra Deović, 76, Bosnian sevdalinka folk singer.
• Wallace Dollase, 78, American horse trainer.
• Joel Elkes, 101, American medical researcher.
• Colin Hilton, 78, English cricketer.
• John McCollum, 93, American opera singer.
• Al Molinaro, 96, American actor, complications from infected gall bladder.
• Lucídio Portela Nunes, 93, Brazilian politician, Governor of Piauí.
• Wallace E. Oates, 78, American economist.
• Sinan Şamil Sam, 41, German-born Turkish professional boxer, liver failure.
• Norm Siebern, 82, American baseball player.

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• Ants Antson, 76, Estonian speed skater, Olympic champion.
• Thomas Blatt, 88, Polish writer and Holocaust survivor following escape from Sobibór, complications from dementia.
• Sergio Donadoni, 101, Italian Egyptologist.
• Patricia Farrar, 84, American educator, First Lady of South Dakota, Parkinson's disease and Lewy body dementia.
• Ivan Frgić, 62, Serbian Yugoslav Olympic silver medallist wrestler.
• Howard Green, 90, Canadian-American physician and clinical researcher, pioneer in skin regeneration, respiratory failure.
• Hroar Hansen, 68, Norwegian politician, newspaper owner and editor.
• Charles Herbert, 66, American actor, heart attack.
• Tadeusz Jodłowski, 90, Polish artist.
• Pinky Kravitz, 88, American radio broadcaster.
• Dick Lane, 88, American politician, member of the Georgia House of Representatives, namesake of Dick Lane Bridge.
• Colin Nicholson, 79, New Zealand lawyer and jurist, judge of the High Courts of New Zealand and the Cook Islands.
• Ryūzō Saki, 78, Japanese writer, throat cancer.
• Gus Savage, 90, American newspaper executive and politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Illinois's 2nd district.
• David Shugar, 100, Polish-born Canadian physicist.
• Benjamin Drake Wright, 89, American psychometrician.
• T. M. Wright, 68, American author, Parkinson's disease.