Deaths in May 2014

The following is a list of notable deaths in May 2014.

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

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

May 2014

1

• Adamu Atta, 86, Nigerian politician, Governor of Kwara State (1979–1983), member of the House of Representatives (1976–1979).
• Bjørn Barth, 83, Norwegian diplomat.
• Juan de Dios Castillo, 63, Mexican football player and coach (Cruz Azul, Honduras, El Salvador), skin cancer.
• Chou Meng-tieh, 92, Taiwanese poet and writer, multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
• Clive Clark, 73, English footballer (West Bromwich Albion).
• Mel Clark, 87, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).
• Radhia Cousot, 66, French computer scientist.
• Arthur Cromarty, 94, American judge, member of the New York Supreme Court, heart failure.
• Assi Dayan, 68, Israeli film director and actor.
• Mark Elvins, 74, British priest and author, Warden of Greyfriars, Oxford (2007–2008).
• Hellmut Federhofer, 102, Austrian musicologist.
• Gordon H. Fitzgerald, 87, Canadian politician and lawyer, Nova Scotia MLA for Halifax (1960–1970), Speaker (1969–1970).
• Juan Formell, 71, Cuban Grammy Award-winning musician, composer and director (Los Van Van).
• Richard Percival Lister, 99, English author, poet, artist and metallurgist.
• Spike Maynard, 71, American judge, member of the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia (1996–2008).
• Peggy O'Shea, 91, American Daytime Emmy Award-winning screenwriter (One Life to Live), complications from a stroke.
• John Wash Pam, 73, Nigerian politician, Senator for Plateau State, complications from prostate cancer.
• William F. Poe, 82, American politician, Mayor of Tampa, Florida (1974–1979).
• Paul Ramsay, 78, Australian billionaire health care (Ramsay Health Care), football (Sydney FC) and media (Prime Television) executive and philanthropist, heart attack.
• Peter Ruscuklic, 58, Australian VFL player (Fitzroy, Geelong).
• Heinz Schenk, 89, German television presenter and actor.
• Howard Smith, 77, American columnist (The Village Voice) and filmmaker (Marjoe), cancer.
• David Stoliar, 91, Romanian World War II soldier, sole survivor of the Struma disaster.
• Georg Stollenwerk, 83, German football player and coach (1. FC Köln).
• Kenneth Tomlinson, 69, American magazine editor (Reader's Digest) and media executive, chairman of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, melanoma.
• Manfred von Richthofen, 80, German sports official, Director of the Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund (1994–2006).
• Paul Whetnall, 67, English badminton player and coach.
• Eli Woods, 91, English comedian and comic actor.
• Barbara Worley, 79, Australian sports administrator.
• Kōji Yada, 81, Japanese voice actor (One Piece, Dragon Ball Z), kidney failure.

2

• Tomás Balduino, 91, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Goiás (1967–1998).
• Sir William Benyon, 84, British politician, MP for Buckingham (1970–1983) and Milton Keynes (1983–1992).
• Chelokee, 10, American thoroughbred horse.
• Jaroslav Cihlář, 90, Czech Olympic cyclist.
• Jessica Cleaves, 65, American singer (The Friends of Distinction, Earth, Wind & Fire).
• Hansel DeBartolo, 66, American surgeon, part-owner of the Chicago White Sox.
• Martin Dent, 88, British academic, co-founder of Jubilee 2000.
• George Digby, 96, American baseball scout (Boston Red Sox).
• John E. Dolibois, 95, American diplomat, Ambassador to Luxembourg (1981–1985), last survivor of Nuremberg trials interrogation team.
• John Dungs, 62, Nigerian military officer, Governor of Delta State (1996–1998).
• Elio Guzzanti, 93, Italian doctor and politician, Minister of Health (1995–1996).
• Anwar Ahmed Khan, 80, Pakistani Olympic field hockey player (1956, 1960, 1964).
• Andrey Korneyev, 40, Russian swimmer, Olympic bronze medalist (1996) and European aquatics champion (1995, 1997), stomach cancer.
• Mohammad-Reza Lotfi, 67, Iranian classical musician, cancer.
• Charles Marowitz, 80, American playwright, stage director and theatre critic, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Moni Maker, 21, American trotter horse, Harness Horse of the Year (1998, 1999), complications from colic surgery.
• Marin Niculescu, 91, Romanian Olympic cyclist.
• Žarko Petan, 85, Slovene writer.
• Pom, 94, Belgian comic writer and artist.
• Nigel Stepney, 55, British Formula One mechanic (Ayrton Senna, Michael Schumacher), involved in 2007 Formula One espionage controversy, traffic collision.
• Pauline Wagner, 103, American actress and glamour girl.
• Efrem Zimbalist Jr., 95, American actor (The F.B.I., 77 Sunset Strip, Batman: The Animated Series).

3

• Kofi Ansah, 62, Ghanaian fashion designer.
• Gary Becker, 83, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate in Economics (1992), complications following surgery.
• Leslie Carlson, 81, American-born Canadian actor (A Christmas Story, The Fly, The X-Files), cancer.
• Imre Danka, 83, Hungarian footballer.
• James H. Daughdrill, Jr., 80, American educator, President of Rhodes College (1973–1999).
• Bobby Gregg, 78, American drummer (Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel) and record producer.
• Ben Hoberman, 92, American radio executive (KABC, ABC Radio), pioneered talk radio format in the United States, complications from lung cancer.
• Francisco Icaza, 83, Mexican modernist artist and writer.
• Chet Jastremski, 73, American swimmer, Olympic bronze medalist (1964) and 100-meter breaststroke world-record holder.
• Trine Krogh, 59, Norwegian Olympic swimmer (1972).
• Jim Oberstar, 79, American politician, member of the US House of Representatives for Minnesota's 8th District (1975–2011).
• John Hartley Williams, 72, British poet, cancer.

4

• Jack Agüeros, 79, American community activist, Alzheimer's disease.
• Eddie Andreini, 77, American stunt pilot, air crash.
• Dick Ayers, 90, American comic book artist (Fantastic Four, Ghost Rider).
• Elena Baltacha, 30, Ukrainian-born British tennis player, liver cancer.
• William Bender, 83, American entertainment critic and magazine editor (Time), heart failure.
• Edgar Cortright, 90, American scientist and engineer.
• Pierre Derivery, 88, French sprint canoer.
• Mike Hawker, 77, English songwriter.
• Nestor Jacono, 89, Maltese Olympic sprinter (1948).
• Helga Königsdorf, 75, East German physicist and author, Parkinson's disease.
• Ross Lonsberry, 67, Canadian hockey player (Philadelphia Flyers, Los Angeles Kings, Pittsburgh Penguins), cancer.
• Jean-Paul Ngoupandé, 65, Central African politician, Prime Minister (1996–1997).
• Al Pease, 92, British-born Canadian Hall of Fame racing driver (Formula One).
• Andrew Quintero, 51, American scientist and entrepreneur (JumpStartFund), drowned.
• Tatiana Samoilova, 80, Soviet-born Russian actress (The Cranes Are Flying, Anna Karenina), People's Artist (1993), complications from a heart condition.
• Dana Seetahal, 58, Trinidadian politician and legal academic, MP (2002–2010), shot.
• Tony Settember, 87, Filipino-born American racing driver and engineer.
• Bohdan Skaradziński, 83, Polish writer and social activist.
• Phyllis Stern, 88, American professor and nursing theorist.
• William Worthy, 92, American newspaper journalist, challenged travel restrictions to Communist countries, complications from Alzheimer's disease.

5

• Timothy John Byford, 72, British-born Serbian television director, multiple myeloma.
• Butler Derrick, 77, American politician, member of the House of Representatives for South Carolina (1975–1995) and SC House of Representatives (1969–1975), cancer.
• Dave Diamond, 77, American radio disc jockey and rock music journalist, pneumonia.
• Billy Frank, Jr., 83, American Nisqually tribal fishing rights activist.
• Jean Gaven, 92, French film actor.
• Daniel R. Gernatt, Sr., 97, American businessman.
• Elaine Green, 73, American television journalist (WCPO), recipient of the Peabody Award (1981).
• Harold Haering, 83, American politician, member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, Senator (1983–1988).
• Amik Kasoruho, 81, Albanian author and publicist, pulmonary disease.
• Eduardo Mac Entyre, 85, Argentine artist.
• Lorne Maeck, 88, Canadian politician.
• István Major, 64, Hungarian Olympic high jumper (1972, 1976).
• Michael Otedola, 87, Nigerian politician, Governor of Lagos State (1999–2007), complications from a stroke.
• Sven Sønsteby, 80, Norwegian illustrator.
• Jackie Lynn Taylor, 88, American actress and television personality (Our Gang), Alzheimer's disease.
• Lynn R. Williams, 89, Canadian labor unionist, President of the United Steelworkers (1983–1994), Parkinson's disease.

6

• Wil Albeda, 88, Dutch politician, Minister of Social Affairs (1977–1981), member of the Senate (1966–1977, 1981–1983).
• Virginia Belmont, 92, American actress.
• William H. Dana, 83, American NASA test pilot (X-15 rocket), complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Georges Delahaie, 80, French sculptor.
• Roger Dimmock, 78, British admiral, Naval Secretary (1985–1987).
• Jimmy Ellis, 74, American boxer, WBA heavyweight champion (1968–1970), dementia.
• Billy Harrell, 85, American baseball (Cleveland Indians) and basketball player (Siena Saints).
• Antony Hopkins, 93, British composer, conductor and pianist.
• Larry Ivie, 77, American comic artist and writer, lung cancer.
• Maria Lassnig, 94, Austrian artist.
• Livio Maritano, 88, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Acqui (1979–2000).
• Farley Mowat, 92, Canadian author (People of the Deer, Lost in the Barrens, Never Cry Wolf).
• Bill Nunn, 89, American editor (Pittsburgh Courier) and football executive (Pittsburgh Steelers), complications from a stroke.
• William Olvis, 56, American film and television music composer (Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman), throat cancer.
• Bud Osborn, 66, Canadian poet and activist.
• Học Phi, 101, Vietnamese dramatist and scriptwriter.
• Aziz Sattar, 88, Malaysian actor, complications from a heart attack.
• Leslie Thomas, 83, Welsh author (The Virgin Soldiers).
• Cedric Thornberry, 77, British lawyer, Assistant-Secretary-General of the United Nations.
• Lex Watson, 71, Australian LGBT rights activist and political scientist.
• Lois Rhame West, 92, American healthcare and physical fitness advocate (Muscular Dystrophy Association), First Lady of South Carolina (1971–1975).

7

• Al Bahathri, 32, American-bred British-trained Thoroughbred racehorse. (death announced on this date)
• Nazim Al-Haqqani, 92, Cypriot Islamic Sufism prelate and scholar, multiple organ failure.
• Raúl Baca Carbo, 82, Ecuadorian engineer and politician.
• Sir George Christie, 79, British opera manager (Glyndebourne Festival Opera).
• Stanford Darger, 93, American politician, member of the Utah House of Representatives.
• Manuel Jiménez de Parga, 85, Spanish politician.
• Tony Genaro, 72, American actor (Tremors, World Trade Center, The Mask of Zorro), natural causes.
• Ramón Vega Hidalgo, 80, Chilean military officer and politician, Commander-in-chief of the Air Force (1991–1995).
• Zundel Kroizer, 89, Israeli rabbi.
• Sir Neville McNamara, 91, Australian defence chief.
• Samrath Lal Meena, 79, Indian politician, Rajasthan MLA for Rajgarh, Speaker (1998–1999).
• William Meyers, 70, South African featherweight boxer, Olympic bronze medalist (1960).
• Colin Pillinger, 70, British planetary scientist, brain haemorrhage.
• David Prentice, 77, British artist.
• Wilbur Rakestraw, 85, American race car driver (NASCAR), heart failure.
• Rashid Rehman, 55, Pakistani lawyer, shot.
• Elaine Sturtevant, 89, American pop and minimalist artist.
• Kelly E. Taggart, 81, American admiral and civil engineer, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Officer Corps.
• Dick Welteroth, 86, American baseball player (Washington Senators).
• Martha Wilkinson, 72, American literacy campaigner, First Lady of Kentucky (1987–1991), natural causes.
• Lawrence Williams, 59, Guyanese finance official, Governor for the Bank of Guyana (since 2005), cancer.

8

• Bill Coughlin, 91, American newspaper journalist (Los Angeles Times), editor (Washington Daily News) and novelist, Pulitzer Prize winner for Public Service (1990).
• Roger L. Easton, 93, American scientist, inventor and designer of GPS.
• Jens Christian Hansen, 82, Norwegian geographer.
• George Kohut, 70, Ukrainian-born American camera operator (Batman Begins, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Fugitive).
• Yago Lamela, 36, Spanish Olympic athlete (2000, 2004), heart attack.
• Homero Leite Meira, 82, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Itabuna (1978–1980) and Irecê (1980–1983).
• Beverly Long, 81, American actress (Rebel Without a Cause, Father Knows Best).
• Nancy Malone, 79, American Emmy Award-winning producer, director (Dynasty) and actress (Naked City), leukemia-induced pneumonia.
• Leo Marentette, 73, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Montreal Expos), heart attack.
• Charlie Mead, 93, Canadian baseball player (New York Giants).
• Harry Potter, 72, Australian television journalist (Ten Eyewitness News), cancer.
• Allan Potts, 79, New Zealand Olympic track and field coach, official and runner, President of Athletics New Zealand (2002–2003), bone cancer.
• Geoff Richards, 85, English footballer (West Brom), pneumonia.
• Jair Rodrigues, 75, Brazilian musician and singer, heart attack.
• Mercedes Salisachs, 97, Spanish writer.
• Vladimir Nikolaevich Smirnov, 67, Russian footballer.
• R. Douglas Stuart, Jr., 98, American food executive and diplomat, CEO of Quaker Oats Company (1966–1981), Ambassador to Norway (1984–1989), heart attack.
• Robert Symms, 83, American photographer.
• Joseph P. Teasdale, 78, American politician, Governor of Missouri (1977–1981), complications from pneumonia.
• Dale Thorn, 71, American journalist and professor, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Harry Weltman, 81, American basketball executive (Cleveland Cavaliers, New Jersey Nets), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Alan Woodman, 58, Australian VFL football player (Geelong).
• Tommie Wright, 95, American pianist and composer (Florida State Seminoles fight song).

9

• Giacomo Bini, 75, Italian Franciscan priest, Minister General of the Order of Friars Minor (1997–2003).
• Bob Duynstee, 93, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives (1956–1967) and State Secretary for Defence (1967–1971).
• Terry Farmer, 82, English footballer (Rotherham United).
• Flossie Gomile-Chidyaonga, Malawian diplomat involved in leaked diplomatic cable controversy, High Commissioner to Tanzania (since 2011).
• Stephen Hall, 72, American politician.
• Bob Hoysted, 88, Australian racehorse trainer (Manikato, Rose of Kingston, Sydeston).
• Donald Kirkpatrick, 90, American academic and author.
• Harlan Mathews, 87, American politician, US Senator from Tennessee (1993–1994), brain cancer.
• Galindo Mellado Cruz, 41, Mexican drug lord, a founder of Los Zetas, shot.
• Jules Mutebusi, 54, Congolese militant.
• Janaky Athi Nahappan, 89, Malaysian independence fighter, founding member of the MIC, pneumonia.
• Mel Patton, 89, American sprinter, double Olympic champion (1948) and world record holder for 100- and 220-yard dashes.
• Nedurumalli Janardhana Reddy, 79, Indian politician, AP MLA (1989–1994) and Chief Minister (1990–1992), RS MP (1972–1978, 2009–2014), LS MP (1998–2009), liver disease.
• Selim Sesler, 57, Turkish clarinet player.
• Mary Stewart, 97, British novelist (Merlin series), heart failure.
• Frank Strazzeri, 84, American jazz pianist.
• Donald Tandy, 95, British actor (EastEnders).
• Joe Wilder, 92, American jazz trumpeter, heart failure.
• Jorge Zavala, 91, Ecuadorian politician.

10

• Carmen Alardín, 80, Mexican poet, writer and translator.
• Yeso Amalfi, 88, Brazilian footballer (Olympique de Marseille).
• Carmen Argibay, 74, Argentine judge, member of the Supreme Court (since 2005), heart attack.
• Marie Dean Arrington, 80, American convicted murderer.
• Miguel Brascó, 87, Argentine writer.
• Andrés Carrasco, 67, Argentine neurologist, challenged Monsanto over safety of glyphosate.
• Ronnie Caveness, 71, American football player (Arkansas Razorbacks), melanoma.
• Brij Bihari Chaubey, 73, Indian academic.
• Gene Chyzowych, 79, Ukrainian-born American soccer player and coach (national team, New York Apollo), cancer.
• Lem Johns, 88, American Secret Service agent (Lyndon B. Johnson).
• Mari Kinsigo, 67, Estonian chess player.
• Patrick Lucey, 96, American politician and diplomat, Governor of Wisconsin (1971–1977), Ambassador to Mexico (1977–1979).
• Nash the Slash, 66, Canadian rock musician (FM).
• Lane Penn, 74, New Zealand rugby union executive, President of the NZRU (2001–2003).
• André Popp, 90, French composer.
• José Falcó Sanmartín, 97, Spanish fighter pilot.
• Patrick Woodroffe, 74, British fantasy, surrealist and record jacket artist, Pick's disease.
• Viktor Yerokhin, 74, Russian football coach and player.

11

• Marcel Bon, 89, French mycologist.
• Gérard Drainville, 83, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Amos (1978–2004).
• Thelma Eisen, 92, American baseball player (AAGPBL).
• Corinne Freeman, 87, American politician, Mayor of St. Petersburg, Florida (1977–1985), cancer.
• Ed Gagliardi, 62, American bass guitarist (Foreigner), cancer.
• Reg Gasnier, 74, Australian Hall of Fame rugby league player (St. George Dragons) and national team captain.
• Tarakant Jha, 86, Indian politician.
• Paul Kinsman, 83, Canadian politician, Nova Scotia MLA for West Kings (1963–1967), Kings South (1984).
• Barbara Knudson, 86, American actress (Meet Danny Wilson, The Jayhawkers!, The Cry Baby Killer).
• Kaare Kroppan, 81, Norwegian actor.
• Camille Lepage, 26, French photojournalist.
• Jeb Stuart Magruder, 79, American presidential aide (Richard Nixon), convicted for conspiracy to obstruct justice and wiretapping (Watergate scandal), complications from a stroke.
• Guy Morton, Jr., 83, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox).
• Celso Pereira de Almeida, 86, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Porto Nacional (1976–1995) and Itumbiara (1995–1998).
• Margareta Pogonat, 81, Romanian actress.
• Sir David Rowlands, 66, British civil servant.
• Francisco Sobrino, 82, Spanish sculptor.
• Martin Špegelj, 86, Croatian politician and army officer, Minister of Defence (1990–1991).
• Harry Stopes-Roe, 90, British philosopher and humanist, Vice President of the British Humanist Association.
• Ivan Wingreen, 52, South African-born Australian cricketer, brain tumour.

12

• Babis Angourakis, 63, Greek politician, MP for Athens (1997–2000), MEP for the KKE (since 2009), aneurism.
• Cornell Borchers, 89, Lithuanian-born German actress (The Big Lift, Istanbul).
• Isabel Carrasco, 59, Spanish politician, shot.
• Marco Cé, 88, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal, Patriarch of Venice (1978–2002).
• Jacinto Convit, 100, Venezuelan physician, scientist and researcher, developed vaccines against leprosy and leishmaniasis.
• Lynne Cohen, 69, American-born Canadian photographer, lung cancer.
• Terry Cook, 66, Canadian archivist, cancer.
• Keith Crisco, 71, American politician, fall.
• William J.D. Escher, 82, American aerospace engineer.
• Billie Fleming, 100, English long distance cyclist.
• H. R. Giger, 74, Swiss surrealist artist (Alien), Oscar winner (1980), injuries from a fall.
• Svetlana Grigoryan, 83, Armenian actress.
• Tom Hafey, 82, Australian AFL football player (Richmond) and coach (Richmond, Collingwood, Geelong, Sydney), cancer.
• Cornelia Groefsema Kennedy, 90, American judge, 6th Cir. Court of Appeals (1979–1999), member (1970–1979) and Chief Judge (1977–1979) of the US District Court of E. Mich.
• Ineke Lambers-Hacquebard, 68, Dutch politician, cancer.
• Ľudovít Lehen, 88, Slovakian painter and chess composer.
• Bhagwandas Mulchand Luthria, 70, Indian film actor (Satte Pe Satta).
• Brian Marchinko, 65, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Islanders).
• Hugh McLeod, 81, Scottish rugby union player.
• Joe Mence, 93, British cricketer (Berkshire).
• Min Huifen, 69, Chinese erhu master and composer, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Daud Mirza, 45, Pakistani-born Norwegian actor.
• Pál Orosz, 80, Hungarian football player and coach, Olympic bronze medalist (1960).
• Ralph Peduto, 72, American actor (The Rock, Mrs. Doubtfire) and playwright, leukemia.
• Ruben T. Profugo, 76, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Lucena (1982–2003).
• Sarat Pujari, 79, Indian actor, heart attack.
• Leroy Serisier, 86, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1970–1978).
• Hugh Smyth, 73, Northern Irish politician, Leader of the Progressive Unionist Party (1979–2002), Lord Mayor of Belfast (1994–1995).
• James Walston, 65, British political scientist, cancer.
• A. J. Watson, 90, American Hall of Fame race car builder and mechanic (Pat Flaherty).
• Lorenzo Zambrano, 70, Mexican building material executive, CEO of Cemex.

13

• Máximo Alcócer, 81, Bolivian footballer.
• David Malet Armstrong, 87, Australian philosopher.
• Martin Barreras, 49, American noncommissioned officer, Army Ranger Sergeant Major in charge of the rescue of Jessica Lynch, wounds sustained in combat.
• John Barritt, 98, British Bermudian politician, BMP for Devonshire South, Speaker (1979–1989).
• Malik Bendjelloul, 36, Swedish documentarian (Searching for Sugar Man), Oscar winner (2013), suicide.
• Gilles Cloutier, 85, Canadian physicist, Rector of the Université de Montréal (1985–1993).
• J. F. Coleman, 95, American military and test pilot (Convair XFY Pogo), winner of the Harmon Trophy (1954), natural causes.
• Dick Douglas, 82, Scottish politician, MP for Clackmannan and Eastern Stirlingshire (1970–1974), Dunfermline (1979–1983) and Dunfermline West (1983–1992).
• Fred Dunsmore, 84, Canadian ice hockey player (Winnipeg Maroons).
• Hamad Khalaily, 85, Israeli politician, member of the Knesset (1981–1984).
• Miodrag Rakić, 39, Serbian politician.
• Altamiro Rossato, 88, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Marabá (1985–1989), Archbishop of Porto Alegre (1991–2001).
• Mohammad Baqer Shirazi, 82, Iranian Grand Ayatollah.
• Rowena Spencer, 91, American pediatric surgeon.
• Ron Stevens, 64, Canadian politician, Alberta MLA for Calgary-Glenmore (1997–2009). (death announced on this date)
• Anthony Villanueva, 69, Filipino featherweight boxer, Olympic silver medalist (1964), heart attack.
• Tessa Watts, 68, British music video producer ("Sledgehammer"), pancreatic cancer.
• Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart, 65, American neopagan, author and priestess (Church of All Worlds), multiple myeloma.

14

• Diane Barz, 70, American judge, first female member of the Montana Supreme Court (1989–1990), cancer.
• Bruce Bowley, 92, Australian cricketer.
• Douglas Cummings, 67, British cellist (London Symphony Orchestra).
• John M. Fitzpatrick, 65, British urologist, subarachnoid haemorrhage.
• Gisela Kessler, 78, German trade unionist.
• Jeffrey Kruger, 83, British music business executive (Flamingo Club, Ember Records).
• Emanuel Raymond Lewis, 85, American librarian and author.
• Alexander Murray MacBeath, 90, British mathematician.
• Leonard Quilty, 94, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario (1958–1975).
• Sam W. Russell, 68, American politician, member of the Texas House of Representatives (1983–1992).
• Morvin Simon, 70, New Zealand Māori composer, kapa haka leader and historian.
• Warren Keith Sinclair, 90, New Zealand physicist.
• Martin Skowroneck, 87, German harpsichord builder.
• Stephen Sutton, 19, British charity fundraiser, colorectal cancer.
• Terry Wire, 73, British politician, Mayor of Northampton, cancer.

15

• George J. Armelagos, 77, American anthropologist, pancreatic cancer.
• Peter Ayerst, 93, British World War II fighter and test pilot (Supermarine Spitfire).
• Terry Bell, 69, English footballer (Reading).
• Hans Breidbach-Bernau, 93, Austrian Olympic writer 1948.
• Robert Burns, 77, Canadian politician, Quebec MNA for Maisonneuve (1970–1979).
• Jean-Luc Dehaene, 73, Belgian politician, Prime Minister (1992–1999), fall.
• M. B. Etheredge, 98, American politician and World War II army officer, awarded Texas Legislative Medal of Honor.
• Robert J. Flynn, 76, American naval officer, Vietnam War POW held in China (1967–1973).
• Greg Hughes, 75, Irish Gaelic football player (Offaly GAA).
• M B Manik, 43, Bangladeshi filmmaker, shot.
• Michael Mence, 70, British cricketer (Berkshire).
• Jan Mucha, 72, Polish speedway motorcycle rider, cancer.
• Jean Oury, 90, French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, pancreatic cancer.
• I. M. Jayarama Shetty, 63, Indian politician, MP for Udupi (1998–1999).
• Noribumi Suzuki, 80, Japanese film director (Torakku Yarō).
• Ed Swearingen, 88, American aeronautical engineer.
• Carlo Weber, 80, German architect (Auer+Weber+Assoziierte).
• Nahum Zolotov, 88, Israeli architect.
• Robert Zwanzig, 86, American physicist.

16

• Benaouda Boudjellal, Algerian footballer.
• Vera Dajht-Kralj, 85, Croatian sculptor.
• Dehere, 23, American Thoroughbred racehorse.
• Chris Duckworth, 81, South African cricket player.
• Vito Favero, 81, Italian road racing cyclist.
• Allan Folsom, 72, American novelist (The Day After Tomorrow), metastatic melanoma.
• Nicola Ghiuselev, 77, Bulgarian operatic bass.
• Bud Hollowell, 71, American baseball player and manager.
• Zil-e-Huma, 70, Pakistani singer, renal disease and diabetes.
• Russi Mody, 96, Indian steel and airline executive, President of Tata Steel, Indian Airlines and Air India, recipient of the Padma Bhushan (1989).
• Aleksandr Shumeyko, Kyrgyzstani Soviet football manager.
• Clyde Snow, 86, American forensic anthropologist, cancer and emphysema.
• Viktor Sukhodrev, 81, Soviet-born Russian interpreter (Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev).
• Ruth Tarvydas, 66 or 68, Australian fashion designer, fall.
• Louise Wilson, 52, British fashion academic (Central Saint Martins).

17

• Catherine Abate, 66, American politician, member of the New York Senate (1994–1998), uterine cancer.
• David Abbott, 76, British advertising executive and copywriter.
• Hussein al-Imam, 63, Egyptian actor and musician.
• Olivier Chesneau, 42, French astronomer.
• Gerald Edelman, 84, American biologist, Nobel Prize laureate in Physiology or Medicine (1972), natural causes.
• Clarence Ellis, 71, American computer scientist.
• Matt Kailey, 59, American author and transgender activist.
• Jerrold E. Lomax, 87, American architect.
• Hiram Mann, 92, American military officer and pilot, Army Lt. Col. for the Tuskegee Airmen 332nd Fighter Group.
• Bongani Masuku, 50, South African singer (Johnny Clegg), shot.
• Miss Beazley, 9, American-born Scottish terrier, co-First Dog (2005–2009), euthanized due to lymphoma.
• C. P. Krishnan Nair, 92, Indian hotelier, founder and chairman of The Leela Palaces, Hotels and Resorts, recipient of the Padma Bhushan (2010).
• Paul Victor Obeng, 66-67, Ghanaian economic advisor, asthma.
• Bob Odom, 78, American politician and power broker.
• Anna Pollatou, 30, Greek rhythmic gymnast, Olympic bronze medalist (2000), traffic collision.
• Źmicier Sidarovič, 48, Belarusian musician, singer and piper.

• Notable Laotian people killed in the Lao People's Liberation Army Air Force An-74 crash:
  • Soukanh Mahalath, 59, Governor of Vientiane, Minister of Finance (2001–2006), Governor of the Bank of the Lao P.D.R. (1999–2001).
  • Douangchay Phichit, 70, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defense (since 2001).
  • Thongbanh Sengaphone, 61, Minister of Public Security (since 2005).
  • Cheuang Sombounkhanh, Secretariat of the Central Party Committee, Governor of the Bank of the Lao P.D.R. (1997–1999).

18

• Per Almar Aas, 84, Norwegian politician.
• Lykourgos Angelopoulos, 73, Greek cantor (Greek Byzantine Choir).
• Arizal, 71, Indonesian director.
• General Baker, 72, American labor unionist and politician.
• Dobrica Ćosić, 92, Serbian writer and politician, President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992–1993).
• Hans-Peter Dürr, 84, German physicist.
• Radu Florescu, 88, Romanian-born French historian, complications from pneumonia.
• Hussein Isaac, Syrian Major General.
• Kaiketsu Masateru, 66, Japanese sumo wrestler (Ozeki) and executive, Chairman of the Japan Sumo Association (2010–2012), ischemic heart disease.
• Don Meyer, 69, American basketball coach (Hamline Pipers, Lipscomb Bisons, Northern State Wolves), carcinoid cancer.
• Chukwuedu Nwokolo, 93, Nigerian doctor and medical researcher.
• Wubbo Ockels, 68, Dutch physicist and astronaut, first Dutch citizen in space, renal cell cancer.
• Francis T. Purcell, 95, American politician, member of the New York Assembly (1964–1965).
• Claude Lavoie Richer, 84, Canadian Olympic cross country skier (1952).
• Per Rollum, 85, Norwegian Olympic alpine skier (1952).
• Jerry Vale, 83, American singer ("Have You Looked into Your Heart", "The Star-Spangled Banner") and actor.
• Morris Weiss, 98, American cartoonist (Mickey Finn).
• Gordon Willis, 82, American cinematographer (The Godfather, Annie Hall, Manhattan), cancer.

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• Michael Aldrich, 72, British inventor.
• Simon Andrews, 31, British motorcycle racer, head injuries sustained in a race collision.
• Sir Jack Brabham, 88, Australian racing driver, triple Formula One world champion (1959, 1960, 1966).
• Count Suckle, 82, Jamaican-born British sound system operator and club owner, heart attack.
• Peter Curtin, 70, Australian actor.
• Franz-Paul Decker, 90, German-born Canadian conductor (Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Cologne Opera).
• Eurico Dias Nogueira, 91, Portuguese Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Braga (1977–1999).
• Terry W. Gee, 73, American businessman and politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives (1980–1992).
• Sam Greenlee, 83, American writer and filmmaker (The Spook Who Sat by the Door), natural causes.
• Vincent Harding, 82, American civil rights activist and speechwriter (Martin Luther King, Jr.), complications from a heart aneurysm.
• April Jace, 40, American athlete, shot.
• Sante Kimes, 79, American murderer.
• Gabriel Kolko, 81, American historian and author, passive euthanasia.
• Mario Missiroli, 80, Italian director.
• Zbigniew Pietrzykowski, 79, Polish boxer, Olympic silver (1960) and bronze medalist (1956, 1964).
• Christine Quinn-Brintnall, 62, American judge, member (2000–2014) and Chief Judge (2012–2013) of the Washington Court of Appeals, melanoma.
• Shekar, 48, Indian cartoonist.
• Antanas Šurna, 75, Lithuanian actor.

20

• Sandra Bem, 69, American psychologist, suicide by overdose.
• Ross Brown, 79, New Zealand rugby union player (Taranaki, national team).
• Robyn Denny, 83, British artist.
• Tadeusz Dominik, 86, Polish artist.
• Chhanda Gayen, 34, Indian mountain climber, avalanche.
• Arthur Gelb, 90, American newspaper editor and critic (The New York Times), complications from a stroke.
• Jim Gulley, 75, American politician, member of the North Carolina House of Representatives (1996–2010).
• Herbert Klausmeier, 98, American educational psychologist.
• Prince Rupert Loewenstein, 80, British-German financial adviser (The Rolling Stones), Bavarian aristocrat.
• Barbara Murray, 84, English actress (Passport to Pimlico, The Plane Makers), heart attack.
• Rupert Pate, 96, American football player (Chicago Cardinals, Philadelphia Eagles).
• Charles W. Robinson, 94, American businessman and diplomat, Deputy Secretary of State (1976–1977).
• Phil Sharpe, 77, English cricketer (Yorkshire, national team).

21

• Poni Adams, 95, American actress (House of Dracula, Batman and Robin).
• Tunku Annuar, 74, Malaysian royal, heart attack.
• Samuel A. Beatty, 91, American judge, member of the Alabama Supreme Court.
• Evelyn Blackmon, 89, American politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives (1984–1988).
• Paul-Émile Charbonneau, 92, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Hull (1963–1973).
• Duncan Cole, 55, English-born New Zealand footballer (national team).
• Johnny Gray, 87, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics/Kansas City Athletics).
• Mack Herewini, 74, New Zealand rugby union player (Auckland, New Zealand Māori, All Blacks).
• James Jones, 87, American politician, member of the South Dakota House of Representatives (1987–1988).
• Abbas Kamandi, 62, Iranian Kurdish singer.
• Karl-Hans Kern, 81, German politician.
• Harmon Elwood Kirby, 80, American diplomat, Ambassador to Togo (1990–1994).
• Ray Kunze, 86, American mathematician.
• João Filgueiras Lima, 82, Brazilian architect, prostate cancer.
• Jaime Lusinchi, 89, Venezuelan politician, President (1984–1989).
• Hélène Pastor, 76–77, Monégasque heiress and businesswoman, injuries sustained in a shooting.
• Alireza Soleimani, 58, Iranian Olympic freestyle wrestler (1992), world champion (1989), heart attack.
• Than Nyein, 76, Burmese politician, founded the National Democratic Force, liver cancer.
• R. Umanath, 92, Indian politician and political leader (CPI(M)), MP for Pudukottai (1962–1971), Tamil Nadu MLA for Nagapattinam (1977–1984).
• Ruth Ziolkowski, 87, American museum executive, CEO of the Crazy Horse Memorial (since 1982), cancer.

22

• Farid Aksheh, 93, Jordanian politician, Minister of Social Development and Labour (1967), Minister of Health (1972–1973).
• Sergio Bustamante, 79, Mexican actor, heart attack.
• Matthew Cowles, 69, American actor and playwright (All My Children, Shutter Island, Oz).
• Edward Howel Francis, 89, British geologist.
• Imre Gedővári, 62, Hungarian fencer, Olympic champion (1988) and bronze medalist (1980).
• Laurie Hill, 71, Australian VFL football player (Collingwood).
• Donald Levine, 86, American toy executive, developer of the first action figure and G. I. Joe, cancer.
• Wes Lofts, 71, Australian VFL football player and administrator (Carlton), emphysema.
• Dragoljub Velimirović, 72, Serbian chess grandmaster.
• Paolo Viganò, 64, Italian footballer.
• Saleh Wreikat, 74, Jordanian politician, MP for Amman's fifth district.

23

• Ranjit Abeysuriya, 82, Sri Lankan lawyer.
• Mikhail Egorovich Alekseev, 64, Russian linguist.
• Joel Camargo, 67, Brazilian footballer (Santos), renal failure.
• Herman Dillon, 82, American Puyallup tribal executive, chairman and tribal leader, heart failure.
• Mona Freeman, 87, American film actress.
• Michael Gottlieb, 69, American director and screenwriter (Mannequin, Mr. Nanny), traffic collision.
• Rolf Hermichen, 95, German Luftwaffe fighter ace, recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves.
• Richard Kolitsch, 24, German footballer, traffic collision.
• Vivi Krogh, 94, Norwegian political activist.
• Madhav Mantri, 92, Indian cricketer, was oldest-living Indian Test player, heart attack.
• John McCormack, 79, Scottish professional light middleweight boxer, Olympic bronze medalist (1956).
• Anand Modak, 63, Indian musician and film composer, heart attack.
• Gerald O'Leary, 81, American politician.
• Andy Olsen, 83, American baseball umpire.
• Nikolai Pastukhov, 91, Russian actor.
• Panagiotis Poikilidis, 49, Greek Olympic wrestler (1984, 1992, 1996), stroke as a complication of an aortic aneurysm.
• Uña Ramos, 80, Argentine musician.
• Walter Romberg, 85, East German politician, Minister of Finance (1990).
• Hugh Roy, 78, South African cricketer.
• John Satterthwaite, 88, English Anglican prelate, Bishop of Gibraltar (1970–1993).

24

• Lakshmi Kumari Chundawat, 97, Indian author and politician, MP (1972–1978) and Rajasthan MLA (1962–1971) for Devgarh, recipient of Padma Shri (1984), lung infection.
• Stormé DeLarverie, 93, American LGBT activist, involved in the Stonewall Riots, dementia.
• Arthur Getagazhev, 38, Russian Ingush militant leader, shot.
• Klaus Herm, 89, German actor.
• Mahafarid Amir Khosravi, 45, Iranian billionaire industrialist, convicted of embezzlement, execution by hanging.
• Maurizio Mannelli, 84, Italian Olympic water polo player (1952).
• Andrei Nikolaevich Mironov, 60, Russian journalist and human rights activist, mortar attack.
• Steve Moore, 59, American comedian.
• Knowlton Nash, 86, Canadian journalist, author and news anchor (The National).
• Nitya Pibulsonggram, 72, Thai diplomat, Foreign Minister (2006–2008), Ambassador to the United States (1984–2000) and United Nations, stroke.
• Andrea Rocchelli, 30, Italian photojournalist, mortar attack.
• Mark Selbee, 45, American kickboxer, drowning.
• Roger Stanley, 71, American politician and informant, member of the Illinois House of Representatives (1977–1982), informant in George Ryan corruption case.
• E. Don Taylor, 76, Jamaican Anglican prelate, Bishop of the Virgin Islands (1986–1994), Vicar of New York City (1994–2009), heart disease.
• John Vasconcellos, 82, American politician, member of the California State Assembly (1966–1996) and Senate (1996–2004), organ failure.

25

• David Allen, 78, English cricketer (Gloucestershire, national team).
• Tommy Blom, 67, Swedish radio host and singer (Tages).
• Lee Chamberlin, 76, American actress (The Electric Company, All My Children), cancer.
• John Cole, 81, South African cricketer.
• Marcel Côté, 71, Canadian economist and politician.
• Peter Dunfield, 82, Canadian figure skater and Olympic coach (Elizabeth Manley).
• Bertha Gilkey, 65, American community activist, cancer.
• Wojciech Jaruzelski, 90, Polish military officer and politician, Prime Minister (1981–1985), Chairman of the Council of State (1985–1989), President (1989–1990).
• Herb Jeffries, 100, American actor and jazz and traditional pop singer, heart failure.
• Sir Toaripi Lauti, 85, Tuvaluan politician, Prime Minister of Tuvalu (1978–1981), Governor-General of Tuvalu (1990–1993).
• John Maginnis, 66, American political writer, commentator and journalist.
• Elmer Osmar Ramón Miani, 81, Argentinian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Catamarca (1989–2007).
• Matthew Saad Muhammad, 59, American Hall of Fame light heavyweight boxer, WBC champion (1979–1980), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Jhonny Perozo, 29, Venezuelan footballer, shot.
• Sir Robert Porter, 90, Northern Irish politician, Minister of Home Affairs and Health and Social Services (1969), MP (NI) for Queen's University of Belfast (1966–1969) and Lagan Valley (1969–1973).
• Washington César Santos, 54, Brazilian footballer (national team), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Malcolm Simmons, 68, British motorcycle speedway racer (Poole Pirates), World Team Cup Winner (1974, 1975, 1977), World Pairs Champion (1976, 1977, 1978), emphysema.
• Robert Steinberg, 92, American mathematician.
• Tang Yuhan, 101, Hong Kong oncologist.
• Bunny Yeager, 85, American model and photographer, heart failure.

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• Albert Attalla, 82, American nuclear physicist.
• Anna Berger, 91, American actress (Ghost World, The Sopranos, You Don't Mess with the Zohan).
• Baselios Thoma Didymos I, 92, Indian Orthodox Church hierarch, Catholicos of The East and Malankara Metropolitan (2005–2010).
• Roland Dille, 89, American educator, President of Minn. St. Moorhead (1968–1994).
• Mike Gordon, 60, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs), acute myeloid leukemia.
• Sir John Gorman, 91, Northern Irish politician, MLA for North Down (1998–2003).
• Princess Jin Moyu, 95, Chinese Manchurian royal (Qing dynasty).
• Frances Kornbluth, 93, American painter.
• Ma Man-kei, 94, Chinese Macanese politician.
• Marcial Mes, 64, Belizean politician, first Mayan appointed to cabinet, member of the House of Representatives for Toledo West, traffic collision.
• William R. Roy, 88, American politician and physician, member of the U.S. House of Reps for Kansas's 2nd District (1971–1975), complications following heart surgery.
• Hooshang Seyhoun, 93, Iranian architect.
• Manuel Uribe, 48, Mexican obese man, was world's third-heaviest person, liver failure.
• Westmead Hawk, 10-11, English Greyhound, winner of the English Greyhound Derby (2005, 2006).
• Peter Williams, 56, South African cricketer.
• Shinichi Yamaji, 50, Japanese racing car driver.
• Yu Chen Yueh-ying, 87, Taiwanese politician and judge, MP for Kaohsiung (1982–1985).

27

• Dagfinn Aarskog, 85, Norwegian physician.
• Shehu Abubakar, 76, Nigerian chieftain, Emir of Gombe (since 1984).
• Giancarlo Bacci, 82, Italian footballer.
• Harold Baer, Jr., 81, American judge, S.D.N.Y. federal judge (since 1994), New York Supreme Court justice (1982–1992), internal bleeding after a fall.
• Aurora Bretón, 65, Mexican Olympic archer (1972, 1984, 1988, 1992) and executive, President of the Mexican Archery Federation.
• Hugh Austin Curtis, 81, Canadian politician, British Columbia MLA for Saanich and the Islands (1972–1986), cancer.
• Ruth Flowers, 74, British disc jockey.
• Robert Genn, 78, Canadian landscape artist.
• Jack Joyce, 71, American business executive (Nike, Inc.), co-founder of Rogue Ales.
• Kōji Kojima, 83, Japanese Olympic volleyball coach (1972), pneumonia.
• Lochsong, 26, British thoroughbred sprinter racehorse, Horse of the Year (1993), Champion Sprinter (1993, 1994), colic.
• Malcolm MacDonald, 66, Scottish music critic.
• Mosoeu Magalefa, 65, South African navy officer, Chief of Naval Staff (2005–2009).
• Miodrag Radulovacki, 81, Serbian medical research scientist.
• Alf Ramsøy, 88, Norwegian long-distance runner, cross-country skier and actor.
• Helma Sanders-Brahms, 73, German film director (Germany, Pale Mother).
• Sigmund Kvaløy Setreng, 79, Norwegian philosopher.
• Janice Scroggins, 58, American jazz pianist.
• Charles Swithinbank, 87, British glaciologist.
• Roberto Vargas, 84, American Puerto Rican baseball player (Milwaukee Braves).
• Massimo Vignelli, 83, Italian graphic designer (New York City Subway map, American Airlines).

28

• Maya Angelou, 86, American author (I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings), poet ("On the Pulse of Morning") and civil rights activist.
• Fauzi Ayub, 47, Lebanese-Canadian militant (Hezbollah), FBI most wanted terrorist. (death announced on this date)
• Azlan Shah of Perak, 86, Malaysian royal, Yang di-Pertuan Agong (1989–1994), Sultan of Perak (since 1984), Lord President of the Supreme Court (1982–1984), Chief Justice (1979–1982).
• Pierre Bernard, 81, French footballer.
• Rachel Berman, 68, American-born Canadian painter.
• Stan Crowther, 78, English footballer.
• Ciro de Quadros, 74, Brazilian physician, cancer.
• Christine Daure-Serfaty, 87, French human rights activist and writer.
• Oscar Dystel, 101, American book publishing executive (Bantam Books), pioneered mass marketing of paperbacks.
• Malcolm Glazer, 85, American real estate executive (First Allied Corporation) and sports franchise owner (Manchester United, Tampa Bay Buccaneers).
• Dave Herman, 78, American radio personality (WNEW-FM), aneurysm.
• Bob Houbregs, 82, Canadian Hall of Fame basketball player (University of Washington, Milwaukee Hawks, Detroit Pistons).
• Ertuğrul Işınbark, 73, Turkish stage magician.
• Isaac Kungwane, 43, South African football player (Kaizer Chiefs, national team) and commentator (SuperSport), complications from diabetes.
• David Nadien, 88, American violinist.
• Wyc Orr, 67, American politician, member of the Georgia House of Representatives (1988–1992).
• Lawrence Paul, 79, Canadian Mi'kmaq politician, Chief and Chairman of Millbrook First Nation (1984–2012).
• Jāzeps Pīgoznis, 79, Latvian landscape artist and academic, recipient of the Order of the Three Stars (2011).
• Mordechai Piron, 92, Austrian-born Israeli chief military rabbi (Israel Defense Forces, 1969–1980).
• James K. Randall, 84, American composer.
• Jimmy Saxton, 74, American Hall of Fame football player (Texas Longhorns), dementia.
• Peter Van de Wetering, 82, Dutch-born American horticulturist (Park Avenue, United Nations Plaza).

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• Bern Bennett, 92, American radio and television announcer.
• Karlheinz Böhm, 86, Austrian actor (Peeping Tom, The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm).
• Christine Charbonneau, 70, Canadian singer and songwriter.
• Walter Jakob Gehring, 75, Swiss developmental biologist.
• Peter Glaser, 90, Czech-born American scientist and aerospace engineer.
• Maxine Greene, 96, American educational philosopher.
• Stefans Grové, 91, South African composer.
• Alfred Jaretzki III, 94, American surgeon and academic.
• Rafael Mendiluce, 74, Spanish footballer.
• Grigori Mints, 74, Russian philosopher and mathematician.
• Ian Norman, 75, Australian businessman and retail executive, co-founder of Harvey Norman.
• Miljenko Prohaska, 88, Croatian composer.
• Herman Rattliff, 88, American politician, member of the Kentucky House of Representatives (1968–1986).
• William M. Roth, 97, American shipping executive (Matson, Inc.), conservationist (Ghirardelli Square) and diplomat, U.S. Trade Representative (1967–1969).
• Ken Schram, 66, American television (KOMO-TV) and radio journalist (KOMO-AM), infection.
• Tito Torbellino, 31, American banda singer and musician, shot.
• Willem van Asselt, 68, Dutch theologian.
• Felisa Vanoff, 89, American dancer, choreographer, and theatrical producer, cancer.

30

• Don Barry, 82, Canadian football player (Edmonton Eskimos).
• Hienadz Buraukin, 77, Belarusian poet, journalist and diplomat, Ambassador to the United Nations (1990–1994), cancer.
• Henning Carlsen, 86, Danish Bodil Award-winning film director (Hunger, People Meet and Sweet Music Fills the Heart).
• Richard Dürr, 75, Swiss footballer (Lausanne Sports).
• Tod Ensign, American military veteran's rights lawyer.
• Peter Hall, 86, New Zealand cricketer.
• Jacques-André Hochart, 65, French cyclist.
• Ron Kleemann, 76, American photorealist painter.
• Joan Lorring, 88, British Hong Kong-born American actress (The Corn Is Green, Three Strangers).
• Lyudmila Makarova, 92, Soviet-born Russian actress, People's Artist of the USSR (1977).
• Hanna Maron, 90, German-born Israeli actress, recipient of the Israel Prize (1973).
• Brad Mooney, 83, American admiral, Chief of Naval Research (1983–1987).
• Satao, 45–46, Kenyan African elephant, poisoned arrow.
• Michael Szameit, 64, German science fiction writer.
• Idrissa Timta, 71-72, Nigerian chieftain, Emir of Gwoza (since 1981), shot.
• Leonidas Vasilikopoulos, 82, Greek naval officer, Admiral and Chief of the Hellenic Navy General Staff (1986–1989) and the National Intelligence Service (1993–1996).

31

• Mary Anthony, 97, American choreographer, modern dancer and dance teacher (Arthur Mitchell, Donald McKayle).
• Marilyn Beck, 85, American syndicated entertainment journalist and columnist, lung cancer.
• Jiří Bruder, 86, Czech actor.
• Jack Casley, 88, English football player (Torquay, Headington) and scout.
• Marinho Chagas, 62, Brazilian footballer (Botafogo, national team), gastrointestinal bleeding.
• Jack Dittmer, 86, American baseball player (Boston Braves/Milwaukee Braves).
• Hoss Ellington, 79, American race car driver and team owner (NASCAR), cancer.
• Martha Hyer, 89, American actress (Some Came Running, Sabrina).
• Lewis Katz, 72, American media (The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia Daily News, YES Network) and sport franchise owner (New Jersey Nets and Devils), plane crash.
• Pat McDonagh, 80, British-born Canadian fashion designer, cancer.
• Brajanath Ratha, 78, Indian Oriya poet.
• Margaret Rodgers, 75, Australian deaconess.
• Jon Sandsmark, 72, Norwegian textile artist.
• Steven H. Scheuer, 88, American film and television historian and critic, heart failure.
• Mary Soames, Baroness Soames, 91, British aristocrat.
• Sir Godfrey Taylor, 88, British local government leader.