Deaths in September 2018

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

  September 2018

1

• Kenneth Bowen, 86, Welsh operatic tenor singer.
• Chen Xian, 98, Chinese politician, Director of the National Bureau of Statistics.
• Carl Duering, 95, German-born British actor.
• Irving Petlin, 83, American artist, liver cancer.
• Tarun Sagar, 51, Indian Jain monk, sallekhana.
• Margit Sandemo, 94, Norwegian-Swedish author.
• Jean Seitlinger, 93, French politician, lawyer and writer, Deputy and MEP.
• Mykola Shytyuk, 64, Ukrainian historian, stabbed.
• Randy Weston, 92, American jazz pianist and composer.
• Ehsan Yarshater, 98, Iranian scholar, director of the Center for Iranian Studies at Columbia University.

  2

• Elsa Bloise, 92, Argentine stage actress.
• Clarence Brandley, 66, American janitor wrongly convicted for murder, pneumonia.
• Ian Lariba, 23, Filipino Olympic table tennis player, acute myeloid leukemia.
• Cornel Piper, 81, Canadian football player, cancer and dementia.
• Kawther Ramzi, 87, Egyptian actress, circulatory collapse.
• Conway Savage, 58, Australian rock keyboardist, brain tumour.
• Frank Lee Sprague, 60, American guitarist and composer.
• Giovanni Battista Urbani, 94, Italian politician, Mayor of Savona, Senator.
• Claire Wineland, 21, American cystic fibrosis assistance advocate, stroke.
• Fred Zamberletti, 86, American athletic trainer, spinal osteomyelitis.

  3

• Rama Chowdhury, 81, Bangladeshi author, complications from diabetes.
• Lydia Clarke, 95, American actress and photographer, complications from pneumonia.
• Klaus Gerwien, 77, German footballer.
• Ian Hampshire, 70, Australian football player and manager.
• Jalaluddin Haqqani, 78–79, Afghan militant, founder of the Haqqani network.
• Warren Jones, 74, American judge, Justice of the Idaho Supreme Court, stroke.
• Ju Kyu-chang, 89, North Korean politician, director of nuclear and missile development, pancytopenia.
• Paul Koech, 49, Kenyan long distance runner, half marathon world champion.
• Jacqueline Pearce, 74, British actress, lung cancer.
• Gordon Phillips, 72, English football player and manager, cancer.
• Katyna Ranieri, 93, Italian singer and actress.
• Thomas Rickman, 78, American screenwriter, cancer.

  4

• Joseph Marie Régis Belzile, 87, Canadian-born Chadian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Moundou.
• Marijan Beneš, 67, Bosnian boxer, European amateur champion, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• István Bethlen, 72, Hungarian aristocrat and economist, MP.
• Sydney Anicetus Charles, 92, Trinidadian-born Grenadian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Saint George's in Grenada.
• Sheldon S. Cohen, 91, American attorney, Commissioner of Internal Revenue, heart failure.
• Ralph Wolfe Cowan, 86, American portrait artist.
• Bill Daily, 91, American actor and game show panelist.
• Don Gardner, 87, American rhythm and blues singer.
• Jason Hairston, 47, American football player and hunting gear salesman, suicide.
• Vladeta Jerotić, 94, Serbian neuropsychiatrist and author.
• Ian Johnston, 71, Australian Olympic coxswain, cancer.
• Christopher Lawford, 63, American actor, memoirist and political activist, heart attack.
• Lee Wang-pyo, 64, South Korean professional wrestler and martial artist, gallbladder cancer.
• Ab McDonald, 82, Canadian ice hockey player, cancer.
• Bertrand Osborne, 83, Montserrat politician, Chief Minister.
• A. George Pradel, 80, American politician, Mayor of Naperville, Illinois, cancer.
• John W. Rogerson, 83, British Anglican priest and biblical scholar.
• Elisa Serna, 75, Spanish protest singer-songwriter, heart attack.

  5

• Roger Aguilar Salazar, 79, Mexican politician, Deputy-elect, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Imrich Andrejčák, 77, Slovak general, last Defence Minister of Czechoslovakia, first Defence Minister of Slovakia.
• Rachael Bland, 40, Welsh journalist and presenter, breast cancer.
• Jim Borst, 86, Dutch Roman Catholic missionary, heart failure.
• Minor J. Coon, 97, American biochemist.
• Robert Coulter, 88, Northern Irish politician, MLA for Antrim North.
• François Flohic, 98, French admiral.
• Salawat Gallyamov, 58, Russian linguist.
• Dennis Green, 87, Australian sprint canoeist, Olympic bronze medalist, cancer.
• Erik Hauri, 52, American geochemist, cancer.
• Arthur Lawrence Hellyer Jr., 95, American radio and television broadcaster.
• Mike Hogewood, 63, American sportscaster and professional wrestling commentator, heart attack.
• Shubhangi Joshi, 72, Indian actress, stroke.
• Dick Lane, 91, American baseball player.
• Diane Leather, 85, British middle-distance runner.
• Makdah Murah, 62, Syrian actress.
• Madeleine Yayodele Nelson, 69, American musician.
• Freddie Oversteegen, 92, Dutch resistance member.
• Lise Payette, 87, Canadian journalist, writer and politician, MNA.
• Alan Peart, 96, New Zealand World War II fighter ace.
• Gilles Pelletier, 93, Canadian actor.
• Vince Phason, 65, American football player, complications from traffic collision.
• Beatriz Segall, 92, Brazilian actress, pneumonia.
• Bhagwatikumar Sharma, 84, Indian Gujarati writer and journalist.
• John Stacpoole, 98, New Zealand architect and architectural historian.
• Rudolph Edward Torrini, 95, American sculptor, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Priscila Uppal, 43, Canadian poet, synovial sarcoma.

  6

• Peter Benson, 75, English actor.
• Richard DeVos, 92, American businessman and sports team owner, complications from infection.
• Philippe Eidel, 61, French music producer, writer and film composer.
• Ken Eyre, 76, British rugby league player.
• Liz Fraser, 88, British actress, complications from surgery.
• Will Jordan, 91, American comedian and actor, complications of a stroke.
• Johnny Kingdom, 79, English wildlife filmmaker, digger rollover.
• Gilbert Lazard, 98, French linguist and Iranologist.
• Oleg Lobov, 80, Russian politician.
• Sylvia Meehan, 89, Irish women's rights activist.
• Wilson Moreira, 81, Brazilian sambista, singer and songwriter.
• Thad Mumford, 67, American television producer and writer, Emmy winner.
• Alan Oakman, 88, English cricketer.
• Burt Reynolds, 82, American actor, Emmy winner, heart attack.
• Claudio Scimone, 83, Italian conductor.

  7

• Gaston-Armand Amaudruz, 97, Swiss neo-fascist political philosopher and Holocaust denier.
• Jacques Amyot, 93, Canadian long-distance swimmer, cancer.
• Steve Andreas, 82, American psychotherapist and author, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Jonas Algirdas Antanaitis, 97, Lithuanian politician, MP.
• Julio Blanck, 64, Argentine journalist, cancer.
• Samuel Bodman, 79, American politician, Secretary of Energy, complications from primary progressive aphasia.
• Joris Borghouts, 79, Dutch Egyptologist.
• Chang Baohua, 87, Chinese xiangsheng actor.
• Joel M. Charon, 78, American sociologist.
• Janis Claxton, 53, Australian choreographer, lung cancer.
• Vincent Cyril Richard Arthur Charles Crabbe, 94, Ghanaian judge, Justice of the Supreme Court.
• Drago Grdenić, 99, Croatian chemist and crystallographer.
• Marcelite J. Harris, 75, American air force general, first black woman general in the U.S. Air Force.
• Kurt Helmudt, 74, Danish rower, Olympic champion.
• Anna Karabessini, 95, Greek folk singer and songwriter.
• Alexander Margulis, 97, Yugoslavian-born American professor.
• Mac Miller, 26, American rapper, musician and record producer, accidental drug overdose.
• Ingemar Mundebo, 87, Swedish politician, MP, Governor of Uppsala County, Economy minister.
• Hans Oleak, 88, German astrophysicist.
• Szarlota Pawel, 71, Polish comic book artist.
• Beverly Polcyn, 90, American actress.
• Donald Robinson, 95, Australian Anglican prelate, Archbishop of Sydney.
• Micheline Rozan, 89, French producer, co-founder of the International Centre for Theatre Research.
• Sheng Zhongguo, 77, Chinese violinist, heart attack.
• Mohsen Vaziri-Moghaddam, 94, Iranian abstract painter.
• Paweł Waloszek, 80, Polish motorcycle speedway rider.
• Sheila White, 69, British actress and singer, heart failure.
• Yang Side, 96, Chinese PLA general.

  8

• Tito Capobianco, 87, Argentine-born American stage director, lung cancer.
• Gennadi Gagulia, 70, Abkhazian politician, Prime Minister, traffic collision.
• Giancarlo Galdiolo, 69, Italian footballer, frontotemporal dementia.
• Reidar Goa, 76, Norwegian footballer.
• Christopher Harper-Bill, 71, British medieval historian.
• Lorraine H. Morton, 99, American politician, Mayor of Evanston, Illinois.
• Abu Hassan Omar, 77, Malaysian politician, MP, Menteri Besar of Selangor, heart attack.
• Ramin Hossein-Panahi, 23, Iranian convicted Kurdish insurgent, execution by hanging.
• Erich Riedl, 85, German politician, member of Bundestag.
• Chelsi Smith, 45, American beauty pageant winner, liver cancer.
• John Tovey, 85, British restaurateur.
• Richard Vincent, Baron Vincent of Coleshill, 87, British military officer and life peer.
• Yang Zhenya, 90, Chinese diplomat, ambassador to Japan.

  9

• Simon Adut Yuang, South Sudanese Episcopal prelate, Bishop of Yirol, plane crash.
• Frank Andersson, 62, Swedish wrestler and reality show contestant, Olympic bronze medalist, bacterial lung infection.
• Frank Davis, 82, American politician, member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives.
• Silvio Grassetti, 82, Italian Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.
• Adrian C. Louis, 72, American Lovelock Paiute author and screenwriter.
• Mr. Catra, 49, Brazilian singer, stomach cancer.
• Krystian Popiela, 20, Polish footballer, traffic collision.
• Beat Richner, 71, Swiss pediatrician and cellist.
• Bill Smith, 80, English cricketer.
• Paul Stuffel, 91, American baseball player.
• Wallace Tripp, 78, American illustrator and author, Parkinson's disease.
• Javier Usabiaga Arroyo, 79, Mexican politician, Minister of Agriculture and Deputy.

  10

• Kurt Benirschke, 94, German-born American geneticist and pathologist.
• Michel Bonnevie, 96, French basketball player, Olympic silver medalist.
• Chris Buttars, 76, American politician, member of the Utah State Senate.
• Adam Clymer, 81, American journalist, pancreatic cancer.
• Warrington Colescott, 97, American artist.
• Peter Donat, 90, Canadian-born American actor, complications from diabetes.
• István Géczi, 74, Hungarian footballer, Olympic silver medalist.
• Johannes Geldenhuys, 83, South African military commander, Chief of the Defence Force.
• Hu Fo, 86, Taiwanese political scientist and activist, member of Academia Sinica, fall.
• Albin F. Irzyk, 101, American military officer.
• Robert Harold Porter, 85, Canadian politician, MP.
• Bianca Reinert, 52, Brazilian ornithologist, cancer.
• Paul Virilio, 86, French philosopher and urbanist, heart attack.
• Roy Wagner, 79, American anthropologist.
• Co Westerik, 94, Dutch painter and photographer.

  11

• Richard Newbold Adams, 94, American anthropologist.
• Peter J. Barnes Jr., 89, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly.
• Edwin Davies, 72, English football club owner and management accountant.
• Fenella Fielding, 90, English actress, stroke.
• Thomas Aquinas Higgins, 86, American judge.
• Jim Houston, 80, American football player, complications from dementia and ALS.
• Kalle Könkkölä, 68, Finnish politician and human rights activist, MP, pneumonia.
• Cheikhna Ould Mohamed Laghdaf, Mauritanian diplomat and politician, Foreign Minister.
• Siegfried Linkwitz, 82, American audio engineer, prostate cancer.
• M. Sam Mannan, 64, Bangladeshi chemical engineer.
• Kulsoom Nawaz, 68, Pakistani politician, member of the National Assembly, complications from lymphoma.
• Don Newman, 60, American basketball coach and football player, cancer.
• Don Panoz, 83, American executive, pancreatic cancer.
• Roger W. H. Sargent, 91, British chemical engineer.
• Shan Tianfang, 83, Chinese pingshu performer.
• Tchan Fou-li, 102, Hong Kong photographer.
• Charlene Todman, 87, Australian athlete.

  12

• Shlomo Aronson, 81, Israeli landscape architect.
• Pasquale Buba, 72, American film editor, cancer.
• Ronald Carter, 71, British linguist.
• Don Corbett, 75, American college basketball coach, cancer.
• Barry Cunningham, 78, Australian politician, MP for McMillan.
• Hossein Erfani, 76, Iranian voice actor, lung cancer.
• Robert Gillam, 72, American investor, stroke.
• Robert A. Johnson, 97, American Jungian analyst and author.
• Henry Kalis, 81, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives.
• Erich Kleinschuster, 88, Austrian trombonist and bandleader.
• Hans Kloss, 80, German artist and graphic designer.
• Gerald LaValle, 86, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania Senate.
• Geoff Manning, 92, Australian historian.
• Wayne M. Meyers, 94, American microbiologist, chemist and humanitarian.
• Walter Mischel, 88, Austrian-born American psychologist, pancreatic cancer.
• Billy O'Dell, 85, American baseball player, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Mark W. Olson, 75, American banker.
• Ralph Prouton, 92, English cricketer and footballer.
• Jorunn Ringstad, 75, Norwegian politician, MP.
• Carl Sargent, 65, British parapsychologist and roleplaying game designer.
• Frank Serafine, 65, American sound designer and editor, traffic collision.
• Shen Chun-shan, 86, Taiwanese physicist and academic, President of National Tsing Hua University, ruptured intestine.
• Bettina Shaw-Lawrence, 97, British painter.
• Benedict Ganesh Singh, 90, Guyanese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Georgetown.
• Rachid Taha, 59, Algerian singer, heart attack.
• Albert Ullin, 88, German-born Australian children's bookseller.
• Jack N. Young, 91, American actor and stuntman.

  13

• Roman Baskin, 63, Estonian actor and director, cancer.
• Diana Baumrind, 91, American psychologist, traffic collision.
• Valentin Chaikin, 93, Russian speed skater.
• Emmanuel Dabbaghian, 84, Syrian Armenian Catholic hierarch, Archbishop of Baghdad.
• Roxana Darín, 87, Argentinian actress.
• Sir William Kerr Fraser, 89, British civil servant, Chancellor of the University of Glasgow, Permanent Secretary to the Scottish Office.
• Lin Hujia, 101, Chinese politician, Mayor of Beijing and Tianjin, Minister of Agriculture.
• Marin Mazzie, 57, American actress and singer, ovarian cancer.
• Ivo Petrić, 87, Slovenian oboist and composer.
• K. N. T. Sastry, 73, Indian film director and critic.
• Kyle Stone, 54, American pornographic film actor and comedian.
• John B. Thomas, 93, American electrical engineer.
• Martha Vaughan, 92, American biochemist and physiologist.
• Albrecht Wellmer, 85, German philosopher.
• John Wilcock, 91, British journalist, stroke.

  14

• Alan Abel, 94, American prankster and writer, cancer and heart failure.
• Max Bennett, 90, American jazz bassist and session musician.
• Beverly Bentley, 88, American actress.
• Bernardo Bello, 84, Chilean footballer.
• Phil Clark, 86, American baseball player.
• Ruth Dowman, 88, New Zealand sprinter and long jumper, British Empire Games bronze medalist.
• Majid Gholamnejad, 35, Iranian footballer, heart attack.
• Anneke Grönloh, 76, Dutch singer.
• Branko Grünbaum, 88, Yugoslavian-born American mathematician.
• Dinesh Chandra Joarder, 90, Indian politician, MP, MLA.
• Saeed Kangarani, 63, Iranian actor, heart attack.
• Zienia Merton, 72, Burmese-born British actress, cancer.
• Carlos Rubira Infante, 96, Ecuadorian pasillo and pasacalle singer-songwriter.
• Chai-Anan Samudavanija, 74, Thai political scientist.
• Rudolf Schieffer, 71, German historian.

  15

• Scotty Bloch, 93, American actress.
• Lady Elizabeth Cavendish, 92, British aristocrat and courtier.
• Peggy Clarke, 80, British chess player.
• John M. Dwyer, 83, American set decorator, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Masashi Fujiwara, 72, Japanese politician, member of the House of Councillors, liver cancer.
• Jo Gilbert, 63, British film producer, brain tumour.
• James Haar, 89, American musicologist.
• Dorothy M. Kellogg, 98, American politician, Member of the South Dakota House of Representatives and Senate.
• Warwick Estevam Kerr, 96, Brazilian agricultural engineer, geneticist and entomologist.
• Kirin Kiki, 75, Japanese actress, breast cancer.
• Silvio Liotta, 82, Italian politician, Deputy.
• David Lowenthal, 95, American geographer and historian.
• Mike Margulis, 68, American soccer player.
• Lionello Puppi, 86, Italian art historian and politician, Senator.
• Charles Rappleye, 62, American writer, cancer.
• Clay Riddell, 81, Canadian geologist and oil executive, co-owner of the Calgary Flames.
• David Rubadiri, 88, Malawian poet and diplomat.
• José Manuel de la Sota, 68, Argentinian politician, Senator, Governor of Córdoba, traffic collision.
• Dudley Sutton, 85, British actor, cancer.
• Victor Veselago, 89, Russian physicist.
• Jean Briggs Watters, 92, British cryptanalyst and Women's Royal Naval Service personnel.
• Virginia Whitehill, 90, American women's rights activist.
• Fritz Wintersteller, 90, Austrian mountaineer.
• Zhu Xu, 88, Chinese actor.

  16

• Iris Acker, 88, American actress, pancreatic cancer.
• Perry Miller Adato, 97, American documentary film director and producer.
• Maartin Allcock, 61, English multi-instrumentalist and record producer, liver cancer.
• Kevin Beattie, 64, English footballer, heart attack.
• Tommy Best, 97, Welsh footballer.
• Assid Corban, 93, New Zealand politician, Mayor of Waitakere City, cancer.
• Albuíno Cunha de Azeredo, 73, Brazilian engineer and politician, Governor of Espírito Santo.
• John F. Kelly, 69, American politician, member of the Michigan Senate, heart attack.
• Jim Kettle, 93, Australian footballer.
• Jone Kubuabola, 72, Fijian politician, Minister for Finance.
• Big Jay McNeely, 91, American R&B saxophonist, prostate cancer.
• Min Naiben, 83, Chinese physicist, member of the Academy of Sciences.
• John Molony, 91, Australian historian.
• Frank Parker, 79, American actor, complications from dementia and Parkinson's disease.
• James B. Thayer, 96, American army brigadier general.
• Butch Wade, 73, American basketball player.
• Wang Guofa, 72, Chinese politician, Vice Governor of Jilin Province, Chairman of the Jilin CPPCC.
• Michael Young, 59, Australian footballer, cancer.

  17

• Celia Barquín Arozamena, 22, Spanish golfer, stabbed.
• Enzo Calzaghe, 69, Italian-born Welsh boxing trainer.
• Captain Raju, 68, Indian military officer and actor, complications from a stroke.
• Maninder Singh Dhir, 66, Indian politician, complications from a stroke.
• Stephen Jeffreys, 68, British playwright and screenwriter, brain tumour.
• Dean Lindo, 86, Belizean politician, member of the House of Representatives.
• Anna Rajam Malhotra, 91, Indian civil servant.
• Annette Michelson, 95, American film and art critic, dementia.
• Daniel N. Robinson, 81, American philosopher, heart failure.

  18

• Steve Adlard, 67, English football player and coach, cancer.
• James Allan, 86, British diplomat, High Commissioner to Mauritius and Ambassador to Mozambique.
• Ernie Bateman, 89, English footballer.
• Gian Luigi Boiardi, 67, Italian politician, Deputy, heart attack.
• Carlo Dell'Aringa, 77, Italian politician, Deputy, heart attack.
• David DiChiera, 83, American composer and founding general director of Michigan Opera Theatre, pancreatic cancer.
• Lady Judith Kazantzis, 78, British poet.
• Piotr Lachert, 80, Polish composer and pianist.
• Carmencita Lara, 91, Peruvian singer.
• Marceline Loridan-Ivens, 90, French writer, film director and Holocaust survivor.
• Titti Maartmann, 97, Norwegian luger.
• Lawrence Martin-Bittman, 87, Czech-born American artist, author and intelligence officer.
• Jean Piat, 93, French actor and writer.
• Richard M. Pollack, 83, American mathematician.
• Robert Venturi, 93, American architect, Pritzker Prize winner, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Norifumi Yamamoto, 41, Japanese mixed martial artist, stomach cancer.

  19

• Dave Barrett, 63, American news radio correspondent, three-time Edward R. Murrow Award winner, heart attack.
• Sir Louis Blom-Cooper, 92, British lawyer.
• Geta Brătescu, 92, Romanian visual artist.
• Buren Bayaer, 58, Chinese singer and journalist, heart attack.
• Jon Burge, 70, American police officer, suspected mass torturer and convicted perjurer.
• Bunny Carr, 91, Irish television presenter.
• Geoff Clayton, 80, English cricketer.
• John Hopkins, 81, British academic lawyer.
• Vishnu Khare, 78, Indian poet and writer, stroke.
• Kondapalli Koteswaramma, 100, Indian communist revolutionary and writer, stroke.
• Győző Kulcsár, 77, Hungarian fencer, Olympic champion.
• Marilyn Lloyd, 89, American politician, U.S. Representative from Tennessee's 3rd congressional district, complications from pneumonia.
• David Wong Louie, 63, American writer, throat cancer.
• Arthur Mitchell, 84, American dancer and choreographer, founder of the Dance Theatre of Harlem, heart failure.
• Wojciech Myrda, 39, Polish basketball player.
• Keith Nord, 61, American football player, cancer.
• Denis Norden, 96, English comedy writer, television presenter and radio personality.
• Gamil Ratib, 91, Egyptian-French actor.
• Pavel Řezníček, 76, Czech poet, writer and translator.
• Jesús Rodríguez Magro, 58, Spanish racing cyclist, heart attack.
• Joseph E. Schwartzberg, 90, American geographer.

  20

• Edmundo Abaya, 89, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Nueva Segovia.
• İbrahim Ayhan, 50, Turkish politician, MP, heart attack.
• Fadhil Jalil al-Barwari, 52, Iraqi military officer, commander of the Iraqi Special Operations Forces, heart attack.
• Maria Bitner-Glindzicz, 55, British geneticist, traffic collision.
• John Cunliffe, 85, English children's book author, heart failure.
• Ulrich Everling, 93, German jurist, Judge at the European Court of Justice.
• Inge Feltrinelli, 87, German-born Italian publisher and photographer.
• George N. Hatsopoulos, 91, Greek-born American mechanical engineer.
• Huang Qingyun, 98, Hong Kong-Chinese children's author.
• Jacob Israelachvili, 74, Israeli-born American professor, cancer.
• Joseph Hoo Kim, 76, Jamaican record producer, liver cancer.
• K-Run's Park Me In First, 13, American beagle show dog, winner of the 2008 Westminster Best in Show, cancer.
• Lou Karras, 91, American football player.
• Mohammed Karim Lamrani, 99, Moroccan politician and holding investor, Prime Minister.
• Laurie Mitchell, 90, American actress.
• Ranganayaki Rajagopalan, 86, Indian veena player, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Nils Rydström, 97, Swedish Olympic fencer.
• Mohamed Sahnoun, 87, Algerian diplomat, Ambassador to the United States.
• Ludovikus Simanullang, 63, Indonesian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Sibolga, sepsis.
• Reinhard Tritscher, 72, Austrian Olympic alpine skier, climbing accident.
• Conrado Walter, 95, German-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Jacarezinho.
• Wang Mengshu, 79, Chinese railway engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
• William Ward, 74, American astronomer, brain tumor.
• Henry Wessel Jr., 76, American photographer, lung cancer.
• Riccardo Zinna, 60, Italian actor and composer, cancer.

  21

• David Bamigboye, 77, Nigerian military officer and politician, Governor of Kwara.
• Eigil Friis-Christensen, 73, Danish geophysicist.
• Katherine Hoover, 80, American composer and flutist.
• Adolf Knoll, 80, Austrian footballer.
• José Roberto López Londoño, 82, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Armenia and Jericó.
• David Laro, 76, American judge.
• Vitaliy Masol, 89, Ukrainian politician, Prime Minister.
• Herbert Meier, 90, Swiss writer and translator.
• Howard Michaels, 62, American businessman, cancer.
• Zinaida Mirkina, 92, Russian poet and translator.
• Kevin Phillips, 89, Australian footballer.
• Bernard Szczepański, 72, Polish Olympic wrestler.
• Lee Stange, 81, American baseball player.
• Trần Đại Quang, 61, Vietnamese politician, President, Minister of Public Security, virus.
• Xu Delong, 66, Chinese materials scientist, Vice President of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

  22

• Barry Cohen, 79, American attorney, leukemia.
• Avi Duan, 62, Israeli politician, member of the Knesset.
• Adel Hekal, 84, Egyptian footballer.
• Chas Hodges, 74, British musician, organ failure.
• Johannes Kapp, 89, German Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Fulda.
• Mike Labinjo, 38, Canadian football player.
• Bob Lienhard, 70, American basketball player, cancer.
• Imtikumzuk Longkumer, 51, Indian politician, heart attack.
• Al Matthews, 75, American actor.
• Edna Molewa, 61, South African politician, Minister of Environmental Affairs and Social Development, Premier of North West.
• Dolly Niemiec, 87, American baseball player.
• Ottokar Runze, 93, German filmmaker.
• Mario Valiante, 93, Italian politician, MP.
• Sir Eric Yarrow, 98, British businessman.

  23

• Olav Angell, 86, Norwegian poet and jazz musician.
• Baek Sang-seung, 82, South Korean politician, Mayor of Gyeongju, lymphoma.
• Eric Berntson, 77, Canadian politician, MLA.
• Ciriaco Calalang, 67, Filipino politician, member of the House of Representatives, stroke.
• Jane Fortune, 76, American author, journalist and historian, cancer.
• Sir Charles Kao, 84, Hong Kong electrical engineer, Nobel Prize laureate, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Helmut Köglberger, 72, Austrian footballer.
• Gary Kurtz, 78, American film producer, cancer.
• Kalpana Lajmi, 64, Indian filmmaker, kidney and liver failure.
• Liu Jie, 103, Chinese politician, Governor of Henan.
• Mark Livolsi, 56, American film editor.
• John Anthony Nevin, 85, American psychologist, pancreatic cancer.
• Shantaram Potdukhe, 86, Indian politician, MP.
• Kidari Sarveswara Rao, Indian politician, shot.
• Gennady Ulanov, 88, Russian politician.
• Harry Walden, 77, English footballer.
• Derek Wheatley, 92, English barrister and novelist.
• David Wolkowsky, 99, American property developer.

  24

• Roy Booth, 91, English cricketer.
• Norm Breyfogle, 58, American comic book artist, complications from a stroke.
• Jim Brogan, 74, Scottish footballer, dementia.
• Ronald Bye, 80, Norwegian politician, Minister of Transport and Communications.
• José María Hurtado Ruiz-Tagle, 73, Chilean politician, Deputy.
• Peter Maurice King, 78, Australian politician, MP.
• Arnold Krammer, 77, American historian.
• Marion Marshall, 89, American actress.
• Ivar Martinsen, 97, Norwegian Olympic speed skater.
• Tommy McDonald, 84, American football player.
• Terry Moore, 82, Canadian broadcaster and author, cancer.
• Michael O'Gorman, 53, American coxswain.
• Merv Smith, 85, New Zealand radio personality and actor.
• Lars Wohlin, 85, Swedish politician, Governor of the National Bank, MEP.

  25

• Helena Almeida, 84, Portuguese photographer and painter.
• Galal Amin, 83, Egyptian economist.
• Evelyn Anthony, 92, British author.
• Charles Berger, 79, American communication theorist, cancer.
• Andrew Colin, 82, British computer scientist.
• Marie Colton, 95, American politician, member of the North Carolina House of Representatives.
• Baba Hari Dass, 95, Indian yoga master, silent monk, and commentator.
• Friedhelm Döhl, 82, German composer.
• Karyn Dwyer, 43, Canadian actress, suicide.
• Ismail Fahd Ismail, 78, Kuwaiti novelist and literary critic.
• Ivan Kapitanets, 90, Russian military officer, Admiral of the Fleet.
• Danny Lewicki, 87, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Jack McKinney, 83, American basketball coach.
• Sam Morshead, 63, Irish jockey and horse racing administrator, cancer.
• Wenceslao Padilla, 68, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, Apostolic Prefect of Ulaanbaatar.
• Yadollah Samadi, 66, Iranian film director, heart failure.
• Ronnie Shelton, 57, American convicted serial rapist.
• Jasdev Singh, 87, Indian sports commentator.
• Jerry Thorpe, 92, American director and producer.
• Vladimir Voronkov, 74, Russian cross-country skier, Olympic champion.

  26

• Joe Carolan, 81, Irish footballer.
• Ivan Deyanov, 80, Bulgarian footballer.
• Eric Griffiths, 65, British academic and literary critic.
• Ignaz Kirchner, 72, Austrian actor.
• Tito Madi, 89, Brazilian singer and composer.
• George F. Perpich, 85, American dentist and politician, Member of the Minnesota State Senate, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Charles Poliquin, 57, Canadian strength coach, heart attack.
• Roger Robinson, 78, American actor, Tony winner.
• Manuel Rodríguez, 79, Chilean footballer, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Antonio Santucci, 89, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Trivento.
• Andrew O. Skaar, 96, American politician, Member of the Minnesota House of Representatives.
• José Antonio Tébez, 69, Argentinian footballer.
• Aamer Wasim, 58, Pakistani cricket player and coach.

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• Cy A Adler, 91, American author, organiser and conservationist.
• Marty Balin, 76, American Hall of Fame rock singer and musician.
• Carles Canut, 74, Spanish actor and theater manager.
• Tara Fares, 22, Iraqi model and blogger, shot.
• Ray Fogarty, 61, American politician, member of the Rhode Island House of Representatives.
• Frank Ford, 83, Australian theatre promoter.
• Frank Herbert, 87, American politician, member of the New Jersey Senate.
• Blagoje Istatov, 71, Macedonian football player and manager.
• Brian A. Joyce, 56, American politician, member of the Massachusetts Senate.
• James Lawton, 75, British sports journalist and biographer.
• Anita Madden, 85, American racehorse owner, political activist and socialite.
• Kavita Mahajan, 51, Indian writer, pneumonia.
• James G. March, 90, American sociologist.
• Ernest Maxin, 95, British television producer and choreographer.
• Namkhai Norbu, 79, Tibetan-born Italian Buddhist monk and Dzogchen teacher.
• Michael Payton, 48, American Hall of Fame football player, cancer.
• Manoharsinhji Pradyumansinhji, 82, Indian cricketer and politician, MLA.
• Virginia Ramos, 65, Mexican-born American chef.
• Joaquim Roriz, 82, Brazilian politician, Governor of the Federal District.
• Yvonne Suhor, 56, American actress, pancreatic cancer.
• Philip Trenary, 64, American airline executive, shot.
• Art Williams, 78, American basketball player, stroke.

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• Peter Adams, 82, Canadian politician, MPP, MP, cancer and kidney failure.
• Tamaz Chiladze, 87, Georgian writer and poet.
• Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini, 76, Swazi politician, Prime Minister.
• Edredon Bleu, 26, British racehorse, winner of the King George VI Chase, euthanised.
• Predrag Ejdus, 71, Serbian actor.
• Peter Gelling, 58, Australian musician and author.
• Ito Giani, 77, Italian Olympic sprinter.
• Rachel Hirschfeld, 72, American animal welfare lawyer.
• Wes Hopkins, 57, American football player.
• Bob Jane, 88, Australian race car driver and entrepreneur, prostate cancer.
• Joe Masteroff, 98, American playwright, Tony winner.
• David Schippers, 88, American lawyer, Chief Investigative Counsel for the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, pancreatic cancer.
• Sidney Shachnow, 83, Lithuanian-born American Army general and Holocaust survivor.
• Rajendra Shah, 68, Indian cricketer.
• Shi Shengjie, 65, Chinese xiangsheng comedian.
• Juris Silovs, 68, Latvian athlete, Olympic silver and bronze medalist.
• Celso José Pinto da Silva, 84, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Vitória da Conquista, Archbishop of Teresina.
• Greg Terrion, 58, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Margo Woode, 90, American actress .
• Zang Tianshuo, 54, Chinese rock musician, liver cancer.

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• Luigi Agnolin, 75, Italian Hall of Fame football referee.
• Macià Alavedra, 84, Spanish politician, Deputy.
• Alves Barbosa, 86, Portuguese racing cyclist.
• Tulsidas Borkar, 83, Indian harmonium player, chest infection.
• Thomas E. Brennan, 89, American jurist, Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court.
• Pascale Casanova, 59, French literary critic.
• Alain Ducellier, 84, French historian.
• Lewis Elton, 95, German-born British physicist and researcher.
• Eugene John Gerber, 87, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Dodge City and Wichita, heart attack.
• Hu Chuanzhi, 88, Chinese engineer and politician, CEO of the China State Shipbuilding Corporation.
• Rolf Knierim, 90, German biblical scholar, traffic collision.
• Frank Maine, 81, Canadian politician, MP.
• Angela Maria, 89, Brazilian singer.
• Billy Neville, 83, Irish footballer.
• Henry Ong, 68, Malaysian-born American playwright.
• Stefania Podgórska, 97, Polish Holocaust heroine and award winner.
• Peter Robeson, 88, British equestrian, Olympic bronze medalist.
• Otis Rush, 84, American Hall of Fame blues guitarist and singer, complications from a stroke.
• Richard A. Searfoss, 62, American astronaut.
• Stepan Topal, 80, Moldovan politician, Governor of Gagauzia, MP.
• Mille-Marie Treschow, 64, Norwegian estate owner.
• Dirceu Vegini, 66, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Foz do Iguaçu.
• Claudie Weill, 72–73, French historian.
• Earle F. Zeigler, 99, American-Canadian academic.

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• Maurice Barrette, 62, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Michael J. Bennane, 73, American politician, member of the Michigan House of Representatives.
• Geoffrey Hayes, 76, English television presenter and actor, pneumonia.
• David Henderson, 91, British economist.
• Wilhelm Keim, 83, German chemist.
• Walter Laqueur, 97, German-born American historian and journalist.
• Kim Larsen, 72, Danish rock singer, songwriter and guitarist, prostate cancer.
• Carlos Ángel López, 66, Argentine footballer.
• John J. McDermott, 86, American philosopher.
• Robert M. O'Neil, 83, American educator, President of the University of Wisconsin System and the University of Virginia.
• Sonia Orbuch, 93, Polish Jewish resistance fighter and Holocaust educator.
• René Pétillon, 72, French satirical and political cartoonist.
• William Proffit, 82, American orthodontist.
• Sophon Ratanakorn, 87, Thai jurist, President of the Supreme Court of Thailand.
• Czesław Strumiłło, 88, Polish chemical engineer.