Deaths in December 2013

The following is a list of notable deaths in December 2013.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

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

1

• Heinrich Boere, 92, Dutch-German convicted war criminal and member of the Waffen-SS.
• Maria Mambo Café, 68, Angolan politician, Minister of Social Affairs (1982–1986); Governor of Cabinda (1990).
• Maurice Cockrill, 78, British artist.
• Richard Coughlan, 66, English drummer (Caravan), pneumonia.
• Stirling Colgate, 88, American physicist.
• Walter E. Ellis, 53, American serial killer.
• T. R. Fehrenbach, 88, American author and historian.
• Lino Grech, 83, Maltese actor, writer and director.
• Edward Heffron, 90, American World War II veteran, portrayed in Band of Brothers.
• Jerzy Matałowski, 65, German-born Polish actor.
• Fernando Sabogal Viana, 72, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Bogotá (since 1996).
• André Schiffrin, 78, French-born American publisher and editor.
• Martin Sharp, 71, Australian artist, emphysema.
• Antônio Lino da Silva Dinis, 70, Portuguese-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Itumbiara (since 1999).
• Dany Vandenbossche, 57, Belgian politician, member of the Federal Parliament (1995–1999) and Flemish Parliament for East Flanders (1999–2009).
• James von der Heydt, 94, American lawyer and judge.

2

• William Allain, 85, American politician, Governor of Mississippi (1984–1988), Attorney General (1980–1984).
• Antonio Ansola, 82, Spanish footballer (Real Sociedad).
• Iván Bächer, 56, Hungarian writer and journalist.
• Bill Beckwith, 38, American contractor (Curb Appeal), motorcycle collision.
• Liam Connor, 58, Irish Gaelic football player (Offaly).
• Eva Davies, 88, British Olympic fencer.
• Marcelo Déda, 53, Brazilian politician, Governor of Sergipe (since 2007), cancer.
• John Ewbank, 64, British–born Australian rock climber.
• Rex Garvin, 73, American R&B musician.
• Brian Hitchen, 77, British journalist, Editor of the Daily Star (1987–1994) and Sunday Express (1994–1995), traffic collision.
• Salim Kallas, 77, Syrian actor and politician.
• Toshiko Karasawa, 102, Japanese politician, member of the House of Representatives (1946–1952).
• Gary Leadston, 72, Canadian politician, cancer.
• Junior Murvin, 67, Jamaican reggae singer ("Police and Thieves").
• Joseph Napolitan, 84, American political consultant.
• Mary Riggans, 78, Scottish actress (Take the High Road, Balamory, Dear Frankie), complications of a stroke.
• Pedro Rocha, 70, Uruguayan footballer (Peñarol, São Paulo FC).
• Katsumi Satō, 84, Japanese human rights activist, pneumonia.
• Vernon Shaw, 83, Dominican politician, President (1998–2003).
• Christopher Evan Welch, 48, American actor (Vicky Cristina Barcelona, The Master, Rubicon), lung cancer.

3

• John Albery, 77, British chemist and academic, Master of University College, Oxford (1989–1997).
• Fernando Argenta, 68, Spanish journalist, musician and presenter, pancreatic cancer.
• Gene Clair, 73, American sound engineer.
• Dick Greuel, 85, American politician, member of the Alaska House of Representatives (1953–1961), Speaker (1957–1959).
• Ronald Hunter, 70, American actor (Along Came Polly, Law & Order, The Big Bang Theory), heart and kidney failure.
• Niilo Koponen, 85, American politician, member of the Alaska House of Representatives (1983–1993).
• Norbert Kuchinke, 73, German journalist and actor (Autumn Marathon).
• Reda Mahmoud Hafez Mohamed, 61, Egyptian military leader, Commander of the Egyptian Air Force (2008–2012), Minister of Military Production (2013).
• Ahmed Fouad Negm, 84, Egyptian vernacular poet.
• Avo Paistik, 77, Estonian cartoonist, film director and painter.
• Edo Patregnani, 75, Italian footballer.
• Ida Pollock, 105, British romance novelist.
• Sefi Rivlin, 66, Israeli actor and comedian, cancer.
• Frank Rozendaal, 56, Dutch ornithologist.
• Sacha Sosno, 76, French sculptor and painter.

4

• Hassan al-Laqqis, Lebanese paramilitary officer, senior commander of Hezbollah, shot.
• Robert Allman, 86, Australian operatic baritone.
• Paul Aussaresses, 95, French army general.
• McDonald Bailey, 92, British Olympic sprinter (1948), bronze medalist (1952).
• Henry Cubitt, 4th Baron Ashcombe, 89, British peer.
• Charles Grigg, 97, British comics artist (Korky the Cat, Desperate Dan).
• José Esteban Muñoz, 46, Cuban-born American academic.
• Paddy O'Byrne, 83, Irish broadcaster (Radio 702) and actor.
• Bill Porter, 81, American door-to-door salesman (Door to Door).
• Joana Raspall i Juanola, 100, Spanish Catalan writer.
• Alexander Rennie, 54, South African Olympic slalom canoer (1992), plane crash.
• Murarilal Singh, 61, Indian politician.
• Fred O. Waters, 86, American photographer (Associated Press).

5

• Pierre Aliker, 106, French Martinican politician and independence activist, complications from a fall.
• Fred Bassetti, 96, American architect.
• Jean-Luc Benoziglio, 72, Swiss writer.
• Iryna Charnushenka-Stasiuk, 34, Belarusian Olympic long jumper (2008).
• William B. Edmondson, 86, American diplomat, Ambassador to South Africa (1978–1981).
• Günther Förg, 61, German artist.
• Monte Fresco, 77, British sports photographer.
• Ruperto Inchausti, 95, Bolivian footballer (The Strongest, national team).
• Barry Jackson, 75, English actor (Doctor Who, Wimbledon, Midsomer Murders).
• Nelson Mandela, 95, South African anti-apartheid activist and politician, President (1994−1999), lung infection.
• Danny Matt, 85, Israeli major-general.
• Joe Palumbo, 84, American football player (Virginia Cavaliers), member of College Football Hall of Fame.
• Andy Pierce, 45, Swedish rock vocalist (Nasty Idols), cerebral hemorrhage.
• Marvin Rabin, 97, American music educator and youth orchestra director.
• Cynthia Russett, 76, American historian, multiple myeloma.
• David Vestal, 89, American photographer, educator, and author.
• Colin Wilson, 82, English writer.

6

• Georges Baal, 75, Hungarian psychoanalyst, director, actor, theater therapist and professor, heart attack.
• Jean-Pierre Desthuilliers, 74, French poet.
• Philippe Favre, 51, Swiss racing driver, skiing accident.
• Tom Krause, 79, Finnish opera singer.
• Daniella Lehavi, 59, Israeli fashion designer.
• Peeter Mudist, 71, Estonian painter.
• Jack Purcell, 94, American trombonist and big band leader.
• Nya Quesada, 94, Argentine actress.
• Alan Robinson, 65, Canadian politician.
• Stan Tracey, 86, British jazz pianist.
• M. K. Turk, 71, American college basketball coach (Southern Miss).
• Louis Waldon, 78, American actor (Lonesome Cowboys, Blue Movie, Flesh), stroke.
• Kate Williamson, 82, American actress (Ellen, Disclosure, Dahmer).

7

• Juan Carlos Argeñal, 43, Honduran journalist, shot.
• Jack Fishman, 83, Polish-born American physician and pharmaceutical developer.
• Nadezhda Ilyina, 64, Russian Soviet Olympic bronze-medalist athlete (1976), traffic collision.
• Eero Kolehmainen, 95, Finnish Olympic silver-medalist cross country skier (1952).
• Józef Kowalski, 113?, Polish soldier, last surviving veteran of the Polish–Soviet War.
• Jacob Matlala, 51, South African WBO flyweight and light flyweight champion boxer (1993, 1995).
• Édouard Molinaro, 85, French film director and screenwriter (La Cage aux Folles).
• Allen Rosenberg, 82, American Olympic rowing coach.
• Esther Streit-Wurzel, 81, Israeli author.
• Dharmavarapu Subramanyam, 53, Indian comic actor.
• Kei Suma, 78, Japanese actor, liver cancer.
• Chick Willis, 79, American blues singer, cancer.

8

• Orlando Álvarez, 78, Chilean lawyer and writer, Judge of the Supreme Court (1998–2009).
• Leonid Baranovskyi, 60, Ukrainian Soviet footballer (Chornomorets).
• John Cornforth, 96, Australian-British chemist, laureate of the Nobel Prize (1975).
• Shirley E. Flynn, 84, American historian (Cheyenne Frontier Days).
• Mado Maurin, 98, French actress and comedian.
• Don Mitchell, 70, American actor (Ironside, I Dream of Jeannie, CHiPs).
• Luis Saavedra, 78, Spanish footballer (Tenerife).
• Hung Sin-nui, 88, Chinese Cantonese opera singer and actress.
• Sándor Szokolay, 82, Hungarian composer and professor.
• Edward Williams, 92, English composer (Life on Earth).
• Richard S. Williamson, 64, American lawyer and diplomat, United States ambassador to the United Nations for Special Political Affairs.
• John Wyker, 68, American musician (Sailcat).

9

• Florence Baron, 61, British jurist.
• Sam Barshop, 84, American hotelier (La Quinta Inns).
• Kees Brusse, 88, Dutch actor and film director.
• Shane del Rosario, 30, American mixed martial artist and kickboxer, complications from cardiac arrest.
• Simon D’Lima, 89, Pakistani school teacher and principal.
• John Gabbert, 104, American judge, California Appellate Court (1970–1974) and Superior Court (1949–1970).
• Norman Harding, 84, British trade unionist and political activist.
• Joe Black Hayes, 98, American football player (Tennessee Volunteers).
• Barbara Hesse-Bukowska, 83, Polish classical pianist.
• Lynne Kieran, 53, British-born Austrian singer (The Rounder Girls).
• Takeshi Miura, 75, Japanese actor, pneumonia.
• Milton Olin, Jr., 65, American businessman, Chief Operating Officer of Napster (2000–2002), traffic collision.
• Eleanor Parker, 91, American actress (The Sound of Music, Detective Story), pneumonia.
• Lloyd Pye, 67, American author and paranormal researcher.
• Shiva Regmi, 49, Nepali film director, kidney failure.
• Peter Urban, 72, German translator.
• Jacq Firmin Vogelaar, 69, Dutch writer.
• Thomson M. Whitin, 90, American economist.
• John Wilbur, 70, American football player (Dallas Cowboys, Los Angeles Rams, Washington Redskins).

10

• Maurice Benoit, 81, Canadian ice hockey player.
• The Child of Lov, 26, Belgian-born Dutch pop musician, complications from surgery.
• Alan Coleman, 76, English-born Australian television director and producer (The Young Doctors, Neighbours).
• Jim Corno, 66, American businessman, CEO and President of Comcast SportsNet Chicago, cancer.
• John Didion, 66, American football player.
• Jim Hall, 83, American jazz guitarist, composer and arranger.
• Aryeh Levi, 80, Israeli military general.
• Don Lund, 90, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).
• William L. Mallory, Sr., 82, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives (1967–1994) and House Majority Leader (1974–1994).
• Luis Ortiz Macedo, 80, Mexican architect and researcher.
• Herbert J. McChrystal, 89, American army general.
• Pete Naton, 82, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates).
• Rossana Podestà, 79, Italian actress (Helen of Troy).
• Ravella Venkatarama Rao, 86, Indian writer.
• Sundarnath Suvarna, 60, Indian film director and cinematographer in Kannada cinema, cancer.
• David Thurston, 95, American aircraft designer.
• Srikanta Wadiyar, 60, Indian politician, leader of Mysore Kingdom and Wadiyar dynasty (since 1974), heart attack.

11

• Nadir Afonso, 93, Portuguese geometric abstractionist painter.
• Kate Barry, 46, British photographer, fall.
• Barbara Branden, 84, Canadian biographer, lung infection.
• George H. Buck, Jr., 84, American music industry executive.
• Regina Derieva, 64, Russian poet.
• Frederick Fox, 82, Australian-born British milliner.
• Loretta Fuddy, 65, American health official, director of the Hawaii Department of Health, plane crash.
• Patrick Kavanagh, 90, British police officer, Deputy Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis (1977–1983).
• Luigi Menti, 79, Italian footballer.
• Garry Robbins, 56, Canadian professional wrestler and actor (Wrong Turn, The Love Guru, Narc).
• Kenneth Schechter, 83, American Navy pilot.
• Musa Shariefi, 71, Indian Islamic religious scholar.

12

• Molly Allott, 95, British Women's Royal Air Force officer.
• Chabua Amirejibi, 92, Georgian writer.
• Abraham Briloff, 96, American ethicist and author.
• Krisztina Dobos, 64, Hungarian politician and economist.
• Jang Sung-taek, 67, North Korean politician, Vice-Chairman of the National Defence Commission (2010–2013), executed.
• David Jones, 73, English footballer (Millwall).·
• Zbigniew Karkowski, 55, Polish composer.
• Kim Ji-hoon, 40, South Korean pop singer (Two Two), suicide by hanging.
• Tom Laughlin, 82, American actor (Billy Jack series), complications from pneumonia.
• Mac McGarry, 87, American television quiz show host (It's Academic), pneumonia.
• Abdul Quader Molla, 65, Bangladeshi politician, executed by hanging.
• Lee Raymond, 59, American stock car racing driver, cancer.
• Leo Sachs, 89, Israeli molecular biologist.
• Ezra Sellers, 45, American IBO cruiserweight champion boxer (2001–2002), heart failure.
• Audrey Totter, 95, American actress (Medical Center).
• Charles Marstiller Vest, 72, American academic, President of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1990–2004).
• Séry Wawa, 70, Ivorian footballer (Africa Sports, national team).
• Rae Woodland, 91, British soprano.
• Zvi Yanai, 78, Israeli publicist and philosopher.

13

• Marcel Cellier, 88, Swiss organist and musicologist.
• Daniel Escobar, 49, American actor (Lizzie McGuire, Dharma & Greg, How I Met Your Mother), complications of diabetes.
• Vivian Kellogg, 91, American AAGPBL baseball player (Fort Wayne Daisies).
• Kim Kuk-tae, 89, North Korean politician and party secretary.
• Harvey Littleton, 91, American glass artist.
• Claudio Nasco, 37, Cuban journalist and newscaster, stabbed.
• Hugh Nissenson, 80, American novelist.
• Zafer Önen, 92, Turkish film actor, heart failure.
• Andrew Plain, Australian sound editor.
• Wyn Roberts, 83, Welsh politician, MP for Conwy (1970–1997).
• James Schroder, 95, Canadian politician, MP for Guelph (1980–1984).

14

• Janet Abu-Lughod, 85, American sociologist.
• G. W. S. Barrow, 89, British historian.
• Fred Benjamin, 69, American choreographer, organ failure.
• Janet Dailey, 69, American romance writer.
• C. N. Karunakaran, 73, Indian painter.
• Teoman Koman, 77, Turkish army general.
• Junji Kunishige, 71, Japanese scholar of American literature, hepatocellular carcinoma.
• Peter O'Toole, 81, British-Irish actor (Lawrence of Arabia, The Lion in Winter, Troy).
• Neil Robson, 85, Australian politician.
• France Roche, 92, French actress.
• George Rodrigue, 69, American painter, cancer.

15

• Sandeep Acharya, 29, Indian singer.
• Enrique Beltrán Mullin, 95, Uruguayan lawyer, politician and journalist.
• Harold Camping, 92, American evangelist and doomsday predictor.
• Frank Meidell Falch, 93, Norwegian media director.
• Joan Fontaine, 96, British-American Oscar-winning actress (Rebecca, Suspicion), natural causes.
• Helmar Frank, 80, German mathematician.
• Lawrence Kitchen, 90, American aerospace manufacturer, CEO of Lockheed Corporation (1986–1988).
• Dennis Lindley, 90, British statistician.
• Conn McCluskey, 99, Irish civil rights activist.
• Dyron Nix, 46, American basketball player (Indiana Pacers), pneumonia.
• Sis Ram Ola, 86, Indian politician, Minister of Labour and Employment (2004, 2013), Minister of Mines (2004–2009).
• Valentin Pashin, 76, Russian naval constructor, Hero of the Russian Federation.
• Yevgeny Yatsinenko, 88, Russian Soviet Olympic sprint canoer (1956).

16

• James Isbell Armstrong, 94, American academic, President of Middlebury College (1963–1975).
• Eric Chekoloka, Zambian footballer.
• James Flint, 100, British Royal Air Force officer.
• Stuart Hilborn, 96, Canadian automotive engineer.
• Ray Price, 87, American singer ("Heartaches by the Number", "For the Good Times"), pancreatic cancer.
• Madhusudan Rege, 89, Indian cricket player (Maharashtra).
• Lolita Sevilla, 78, Spanish actress and singer.
• Michiaki Takahashi, 85, Japanese virologist (chickenpox vaccine), heart failure.
• Uthradom Thirunal Marthanda Varma, 91, Indian titular Maharaja of Travancore (since 1991), heart failure.
• Arie Vermeer, 91, Dutch footballer.

17

• Alfred Bates, 69, British politician, Member of Parliament for Bebington and Ellesmere Port (1974–1979).
• Paul Bäumer, 37, Dutch record producer (Bingo Players), cancer.
• Richard Britnell, 69, British historian.
• Ārvaldis Andrejs Brumanis, 87, Latvian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Liepāja (1995–2001).
• Kelly Clark, 56, American attorney, cancer.
• Ricardo María Carles Gordó, 87, Spanish Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Barcelona (1990–2004).
• Grigory Dashevsky, 49, Russian poet and philologist.
• Richard Heffner, 88, American historian and television host (The Open Mind), cerebral hemorrhage.
• Rudolf Filkus, 86, Slovak politician.
• Azean Irdawaty, 63, Malaysian actress, liver failure.
• Tetsurō Kashibuchi, 63, Japanese musician, composer (Tsuribaka Nisshi), and producer (Yukiko Okada), esophageal cancer.
• Robert Neuwirth, 80, American gynecologist, complications from a stroke.
• Janet Rowley, 88, American cancer researcher, complications of ovarian cancer.
• Joseph Santo, 84, American restaurateur, complications of heart surgery.
• Eyad al-Sarraj, 70, Palestinian human rights campaigner, leukemia.
• Bernard L. Shaw, 68, American bodyguard (Patty Hearst).
• Frank Sheehan, 80, Canadian politician.
• Conny van Rietschoten, 87, Dutch yacht racer.

18

• Ronnie Biggs, 84, English criminal (Great Train Robbery) and fugitive.
• Harry Boland, 88, Irish Olympic basketball player (1948).
• Sir Christopher Curwen, 84, British Head of the Secret Intelligence Service (1985–1989).
• Dominic Gamboa, 47, Filipino reggae artist.
• Ken Hutcherson, 61, American football player and anti-gay activist, prostate cancer.
• Gonzalo Inzunza Inzunza, 42, Mexican drug lord and Sinaloa Cartel leader, shot.
• Büyük Jeddikar, 84, Iranian footballer (Esteghlal F.C., national team), Alzheimer's disease.
• Martin Koeman, 75, Dutch footballer.
• Larry Lujack, 73, American disc jockey, esophageal cancer.
• Graham Mackay, 64, South African businessman (SABMiller).
• Titus Munteanu, 72, Romanian television producer (TVR), director and filmmaker, respiratory disease.
• Donald Roe Ross, 91, American federal judge.
• Brunon Synak, 70, Polish sociologist and politician.
• Paul Torday, 67, British author.

19

• Valeria Borza, 29, Romanian table tennis player, bacterial meningitis.
• Stephen Dee, 47, Irish radio broadcaster (South East Radio).
• Winton Dean, 97, English musicologist.
• Herb Geller, 85, American jazz saxophonist, pneumonia.
• Al Goldstein, 77, American publisher and pornographer, renal failure.
• José de Jesús Gutiérrez Rebollo, 79, Mexican general and drug trafficker, cancer.
• Marty Hornstein, 76, American film producer (Star Trek films).
• Hideo Kanaya, 68, Japanese motorcycle racer.
• Nae Lăzărescu, 72, Romanian actor and comedian, chronic liver disease.
• Krzysztof Marcinkowski, 53, Polish footballer (Lech Poznan).
• Takayuki Ōhigashi, 72, Japanese businessman, shot.
• Pedro Septién, 97, Mexican sports broadcaster, pneumonia.
• Ružica Sokić, 79, Serbian actress, Alzheimer's disease.
• Ned Vizzini, 32, American novelist (It's Kind of a Funny Story), suicide by jumping.

20

• Pyotr Bolotnikov, 83, Soviet Olympic champion athlete (1960).
• Harji Ram Burdak, 82, Indian politician.
• Yuri Dubinin, 83, Russian diplomat, Ambassador to the United States (1986–1990).
• Marie Fleming, 59, Irish university lecturer and euthanasia campaigner, multiple sclerosis.
• Khaled Khan, 55, Bangladeshi actor, progressive motor neurone disease.
• Lord Infamous, 40, American rapper (Three 6 Mafia), heart attack.
• Gyula Maár, 79, Hungarian film director.
• Didi Menosi, 85, Israeli dramatist, journalist and songwriter, Parkinson's disease.
• Nelly Omar, 102, Argentine actress and singer, cardiac arrest.
• Masafumi Ōura, 44, Japanese volleyball player (national team), stomach cancer.
• David Richards, 57, British record producer (Queen, Iggy Pop).
• Reginaldo Rossi, 69, Brazilian singer-songwriter, cancer.
• Vivian St. John, 63, American professional wrestler.
• Dharmesh Sangwan, 32, Indian rower, shot.
• Jeff Shannon, 52, American film critic and writer.
• Syeda Zohra Tajuddin, 80, Bangladeshi politician.
• Ukol Talumpa, Filipino politician, Mayor of Labangan (since 2013), shot.

21

• Ahmed Asmat Abdel-Meguid, 89, Egyptian diplomat.
• Edgar Bronfman, Sr., 84, Canadian businessman (Seagram), activist for Jewish and Israeli causes.
• David Coleman, 87, British television sports commentator and presenter.
• Lars Edlund, 91, Swedish composer and organist.
• John Eisenhower, 91, American historian, U.S. Ambassador to Belgium (1969–1971).
• Peter Geach, 97, British philosopher.
• Richard Hart, 96, Jamaican historian and politician.
• Rodolfo P. Hernandez, 82, American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient.
• Ina Scot, 24, Swedish racehorse, winner of the 1995 Prix d'Amérique, euthanized.
• Lam Kok, 46, Chinese businessman, helicopter crash.
• Björn J:son Lindh, 69, Swedish musician and composer, brain tumor.
• Bernard Henry McGinn, 50s, Irish republican, IRA member, convicted of conspiracy to murder and firearms possession. (body discovered on this date)
• Bronzell Miller, 42, American football player and actor (Bringing Down the House, Mr. 3000), multiple myeloma.
• El Perlo de Triana, 87, Spanish singer and poet.
• Aristóteles Picho, 56, Peruvian actor, director and drama teacher, heart attack.
• Lentxu Rubial, 68, Spanish politician, member of the Senate (2004–2011).
• Geoff Stirling, 92, Canadian businessman (CJON-DT, CHOZ-FM) and publisher of the Newfoundland Herald.
• Euris Vidal, 26, Dominican Republic cyclist, shot.
• Kazutami Watanabe, 81, Japanese scholar of French literature, sepsis.
• Marv Wolfenson, 87, American basketball team owner (Minnesota Timberwolves).
• Woon Sui Kut, 84, Singaporean sports official.

22

• Muriel Abdurahman, 75, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta (1993–1997).
• Trigger Alpert, 97, American jazz double-bassist (Glenn Miller band).
• Pran Chopra, 92, Indian journalist and newspaper editor (The Statesman).
• Diomedes Díaz, 56, Colombian vallenato musician.
• Shem Downey, 91, Irish hurler (Kilkenny).·
• Nedenia Post Dye, 46, American heiress (General Foods), stabbed.
• Ed Herrmann, 67, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox), prostate cancer.
• Hans Hækkerup, 68, Danish politician, Defence Minister (1993–2000), MP (1979–2001), multiple system atrophy.
• Keith McGowan, 70, Australian radio presenter (3AW), stroke.
• Oscar Peer, 85, Swiss writer.
• William Rosales, 59, Puerto Rican politician.
• Bill Tremel, 84, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs).
• Marco Zappia, 76, American television editor (Home Improvement, All in the Family).

23

• Stan Brooks, 86, American radio broadcaster (WINS).
• Chryssa, 79, Greek-born American artist.
• Addison Cresswell, 53, British comedy agent and manager.
• Gordon Hinkley, 88, American radio personality (WTMJ).
• Mikhail Kalashnikov, 94, Russian weapons designer (AK-47, AK-74).
• Yusef Lateef, 93, American Grammy Award-winning saxophonist (Yusef Lateef's Little Symphony).
• Juris Lauciņš, 56, Latvian actor, cancer.
• Ricky Lawson, 59, American drummer (Michael Jackson, Phil Collins), brain aneurysm.
• José Ortiz, 81, Spanish comics artist (Hombre, Tex Willer).
• András Pándy, 86, Hungarian-born Belgian serial killer, natural causes.
• Chuck Patterson, 68, American actor.
• Jeff Pollack, 54, American film director (Booty Call) and television producer (The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air), natural causes.
• Vito Rizzuto, 67, Canadian mafia leader.
• Viktor Sarianidi, 84, Russian archaeologist.
• G. S. Shivarudrappa, 87, Indian Kannada language poet.
• Francisco Manuel Vieira, 88, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Osasco (1989–2002).
• Robert W. Wilson, 86, American multimillionaire philanthropist, suicide by jumping.

24

• Eric Auld, 82, Scottish artist.
• Frédéric Back, 89, Canadian animator (Crac, The Man Who Planted Trees), cancer.
• Ian Barbour, 90, American scholar and author, stroke.
• Germán Coppini, 52, Spanish pop musician and singer (Siniestro Total, Golpes Bajos), hepatic cancer.
• André Dreiding, 94, Swiss chemist.
• Gunnar Ericsson, 94, Swedish politician and sports official.
• Soane Lilo Foliaki, 80, Tongan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tonga (1994–2008).
• Allan McKeown, 67, British film producer (Tracey Takes On...), prostate cancer.
• Ron Noades, 76, British football chairman (Crystal Palace), lung cancer.
• Helga M. Novak, 78, German-Icelandic writer.
• Walter Oi, 84, American economist.
• Jean Rustin, 85, French painter.
• Serghei Stroenco, 46, Moldovan football player (national team) and manager.
• Gillian Thompson, 47, Guyanese chief librarian of the National Library of Guyana, traffic collision.

25

• Anthony J. Bryant, 52, American author.
• Wayne Harrison, 46, English footballer.
• Luis Humberto Gómez Gallo, 51, Colombian industrial engineer, Senator (1994–2008), heart attack.
• Mike Hegan, 71, American baseball player (Milwaukee Brewers, New York Yankees) and announcer (Cleveland Indians), heart failure.
• Jorge Loring Miró, 92, Spanish Jesuit priest, stroke.
• Mel Mathay, 80, Filipino politician, Mayor of Quezon City (1992–2001), heart attack.
• Nicolasa Quintremán, 73, Chilean environmentalist.
• Viktor Savelyev, 85, Russian surgeon, Hero of Socialist Labor, recipient of the Demidov Prize in Medicine (2002).
• Adnan Şenses, 78, Turkish musician and actor, cancer.
• Wilbur Thompson, 92, American Olympic champion shot putter (1948).
• Art Weiner, 87, American football player.
• Slim Williamson, 86, American recording executive.

26

• Malena Alvarado, 59, Venezuelan actress, complications during surgery.
• Paul Blair, 69, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees).
• E. Otis Charles, 87, American clergyman and activist, Espiscopal Bishop of Utah (1971–1993).
• Dinu Cocea, 84, Romanian director and screenwriter, heart failure.
• Dr. Tangalanga, 97, Argentine comedian.
• Boyd Lee Dunlop, 87, American jazz pianist.
• Marta Eggerth, 101, Hungarian-born American singer and actress.
• Theo Lalleman, 67, Dutch writer.
• Ratu Isikeli Tasere, 67, Fijian rugby union player and official.
• Herbert F. Travers, Jr., 85, American attorney and judge.

27

• Mohamad Chatah, 62, Lebanese politician, Minister of Finance (2008–2009), Ambassador to the United States (1997–2000), car bomb.
• Patrick Crowby, 55, Ni-Vanuatu politician, Minister of the Interior (2008; 2011; 2013).
• Latifah Bint Fahd, 54, Saudi princess.
• John Matheson, 96, Canadian lawyer, judge and politician.
• Gunn Olsen, 61, Norwegian politician. MP for Telemark (1997–2013), cancer.
• Elvira Quintillá, 85, Spanish actress.
• Henri Rechatin, 82, French tightrope walker and chair balancer.
• Patricia Ryan, 75, American magazine editor, lung cancer.
• Farooq Sheikh, 65, Indian actor, heart attack.
• Fernando Ureña Rib, 62, Dominican painter.

28

• Halton Arp, 86, American astronomer.
• Jack S. Blanton, 86, American businessman and philanthropist.
• Esther Borja, 100, Cuban singer.
• Dwayne Burno, 43, American jazz bassist and composer, kidney disease.
• Aníbal Delgado Fiallos, 77, Honduran politician.
• Doe B, 22, American rapper, shot.
• Andrew Jacobs, Jr., 81, American politician, member of the House of Representatives (1965–1973; 1975–1997), natural causes.
• George Jacobs, 87, American author, butler to Frank Sinatra.
• Margrit Kennedy, 74, German architect and academic.
• Kazuyoshi Kino, 91, Japanese Buddhist scholar, pneumonia.
• Joseph Ruskin, 89, American actor (The Magnificent Seven, The Scorpion King, Alias), natural causes.
• Yosef Shapira, 87, Israeli politician, minister without portfolio (1984–1988).
• Harold Simmons, 82, American businessman and philanthropist.
• Ilya Tsymbalar, 44, Ukrainian-born Russian footballer, Footballer of the Year in Russia (1995), heart disease.

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• Paul Comstive, 52, English footballer, heart attack.
• Benjamin Curtis, 35, American rock musician (Tripping Daisy, Secret Machines, School of Seven Bells), lymphoma.
• Connie Dierking, 77, American basketball player (Philadelphia 76ers, Cincinnati Royals).
• Andy Granatelli, 90, American motorsport promoter and businessman, CEO of STP, heart failure.
• Wojciech Kilar, 81, Polish composer (Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Pianist), cancer.
• Besik Kudukhov, 27, Russian Olympic wrestler (2008, 2012), traffic collision.
• Jagadish Mohanty, 62, Indian Oriya language writer, hit by train.
• Mike O'Connor, 67, American journalists' advocate, heart attack.
• Kayo Redd, 22, American rapper, apparent suicide by gunshot.
• Paul Sally, 80, American mathematics professor.
• Armando Villegas, 87, Peruvian-Colombian painter.
• Mary Wibberley, 79, British novelist.

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• Akeem Adams, 22, Trinidadian footballer, stroke.
• John Dominis, 92, American photojournalist, complications from heart attack.
• Kenneth C. Edelin, 74, American physician and patient rights advocate.
• Charlie Hill, 62, American Oneida-Mohawk-Cree comedian, lymphoma.
• Sjoerd Huisman, 27, Dutch long distance ice-skater, cardiac arrest.
• José María Maguregui, 79, Spanish football player (Athletic Bilbao) and coach (Racing de Santander).
• Eero Mäntyranta, 76, Finnish Olympic champion (1960, 1964) cross-country skier.
• Tito Mora, 72, Spanish pop singer, pulmonary illness.
• Gerald Mortimer, 77, British author and sports journalist (Derby Telegraph).
• G. Nammalvar, 75, Indian agronomist and sustainability activist, cardiac arrest.
• Eiichi Ohtaki, 65, Japanese musician (Happy End), choking.
• Jaime Quijandría Salmón, 70, Peruvian economist and politician, Minister of Energy (2001–2003; 2004), Minister of Economy (2003–2004), pulmonary fibrosis.
• Jan Steyn, 85, South African judge, Supreme Court Justice (1964–1977).
• Geoffrey Wheeler, 83, British broadcaster (Songs of Praise, Top of the Form, Winner Takes All).

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• Roberto Ciotti, 60, Italian bluesman and composer (Marrakech Express).
• Puccio Corona, 71, Italian journalist.
• John Fortune, 74, British comedian (Bremner, Bird and Fortune) and actor (Match Point), leukaemia.
• Joaquim Gonçalves, 77, Portuguese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Vila Real (1991–2011).
• Nick Kafakalas, 93, American general, commander of the 28th Infantry Division.
• T.C. Narendran, 69, Indian taxonomist, heart attack.
• Johnny Orr, 86, American basketball player and coach (University of Michigan, Iowa State University).
• Ljubomir Tadić, 88, Serbian academic.