Deaths in October 2014

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

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.

October 2014

1

• Lynsey de Paul, 66, English singer-songwriter ("Won't Somebody Dance with Me"), brain haemorrhage.
• Sir Maurice Hodgson, 94, British business executive.
• Shlomo Lahat, 86, Israeli general and politician, Mayor of Tel Aviv (1974–1993), lung infection.
• José Martínez, 72, Cuban baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates), coach (Kansas City Royals, Chicago Cubs) and executive (Atlanta Braves).
• Oluremi Oyo, 61, Nigerian journalist, cancer.
• Charlie Paulk, 68, American basketball player, heart attack.
• Matilde Pérez, 97, Chilean painter and kinetic artist.
• Jerome Reppa, 89, American politician, member of the Indiana House of Representatives (1972–1990).
• George Savage, 72, British politician, MLA for Upper Bann (1998–2003, 2007–2011).
• Robert Serra, 27, Venezuelan politician, MLA for Caracas, stabbed.
• Guido van Gheluwe, 88, Belgian lawyer, founded Orde van den Prince.
• Bob Young, 81, Scottish cricketer.

2

• Fyodor Bogdanovsky, 84, Russian weightlifter, Olympic champion (1956).
• André Buffière, 91, French Olympic basketball player (1948, 1952).
• Robert Flower, 59, Australian Hall of Fame VFL footballer (Melbourne).
• Michael Goldberg, 55, American screenwriter (Cool Runnings, Snow Dogs, Little Giants), brain and sinus cancer.
• Joanne M. Holden, 68, American nutritionist, cancer.
• Vaughn O. Lang, 86, American Army lieutenant general.
• György Lázár, 90, Hungarian politician, Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1975–1987).
• Carlos Lopez, 25, American stunt performer (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, John Wick), fall.
• N. Mahalingam, 91, Indian businessman.
• Pedro Peña, 88, Spanish actor (Médico de familia), Alzheimer's disease.
• Carolyn Rovee-Collier, 72, American professor of psychology, breast cancer and multiple sclerosis.
• Yoshikazu Sakamoto, 87, Japanese political scientist, heart failure.
• Frederic Tamler Sommers, 91, American philosopher.
• The Spaceape, 44, British poet and disc jockey, cancer.

3

• Michael Allenby, 3rd Viscount Allenby, 83, British aristocrat and politician.
• Peer Augustinski, 74, German actor and German-language dub artist (Robin Williams), complications from epilepsy.
• Comer Cottrell, 82, American businessman and baseball team part-owner (Texas Rangers).
• Ewen Gilmour, 51, New Zealand comedian.
• Nati Cano, 81, Mexican-born American mariachi musician (Mariachi los Camperos), recipient of the National Heritage Fellowship (1990).
• 'Elisiva Fusipala Vaha'i, 65, Tongan royal.
• Benedict Groeschel, 81, American Roman Catholic priest, author and television host, a founder of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal.
• Alan Henning, 47, British humanitarian aid worker and ISIS hostage, beheading. (death reported on this date)
• Peter Knecht, 78, American defense attorney, cancer.
• Jean-Jacques Marcel, 83, French footballer (Olympique de Marseille).
• Kevin Metheny, 60, American radio executive (WNBC (AM), WGN (AM)), suspected heart attack.
• Ward Ruyslinck, 85, Belgian author, Alzheimer's disease.
• Lori Sandri, 65, Brazilian football manager, brain tumor.
• Christopher van Wyk, 57, South African writer.

4

• Konrad Boehmer, 73, German-born Dutch composer and writer, stroke.
• Hugo Carvana, 77, Brazilian actor (Entranced Earth, Antonio das Mortes) and director (Casa da Mãe Joana).
• Fyodor Cherenkov, 55, Russian footballer (FC Spartak Moscow, Soviet national team).
• Jean-Claude Duvalier, 63, Haitian politician, President (1971–1986), heart attack.
• Herman Mandui, 45, Papua New Guinean archaeologist.
• Joan Molina, 73, Spanish actor (Doctor Mateo).
• Jewel Joseph Newman, 93, American politician and community organizer.
• Suhaila Noah, 82, Malaysian public figure, Spouse of the Prime Minister of Malaysia (1977–1981), widow of Hussein Onn.
• Gholamali Pouratayi, 73, Iranian musician.
• Rajesh Sanghi, 42, Indian cricketer.
• William Shija, 67, Tanzanian politician, Secretary General of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (since 2007).
• Silver Deputy, 29, Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
• Gertjie Williams, 73, South African cricketer.

5

• John Best, 74, British-born American soccer player, coach and manager, lung infection.
• Al Bruno, 87, American CFL player (Toronto Argonauts) and coach (Hamilton Tiger-Cats), heart failure.
• David Chavchavadze, 90, British-born American author and CIA officer.
• Andrea de Cesaris, 55, Italian racing driver (Formula One), traffic collision.
• Jimmy Feix, 83, American football player and coach.
• Anna Maria Gherardi, 74, Italian actress and voice actress (Lost Love, Petomaniac).
• Regis Groff, 79, American politician, member of the Colorado Senate (1974–1994).
• Göte Hagström, 96, Swedish steeplechase runner, Olympic bronze medalist (1948).
• Geoffrey Holder, 84, Trinidadian actor (Live and Let Die, Annie) and Tony-winning director (The Wiz), pneumonia.
• Philip Howard, 80, British journalist (The Times).
• Ike Jones, 84, American producer (A Man Called Adam) and actor (The Joe Louis Story, About Mrs. Leslie).
• Yuri Lyubimov, 97, Russian stage actor and director, founder of the Taganka Theatre.
• Anna Przybylska, 35, Polish actress, pancreatic cancer.
• Ronnie Spafford, 86, British army officer and philatelist.
• Jack Turner, 84, American basketball player (New York Knicks).
• Misty Upham, 32, American actress (Frozen River, August: Osage County, Django Unchained), blunt force trauma.
• Tsai Wan-tsai, 85, Taiwanese financier.
• David Watson, 74, British-American actor (Beneath the Planet of the Apes), heart attack.

6

• Vic Braden, 85, American tennis player and instructor (University of Toledo), heart attack.
• Feridun Buğeker, 81, Turkish footballer.
• Bill Campbell, 91, American sportscaster.
• Andrew Kerr, 80, British festival organiser (Glastonbury Festival).
• Johnny Midnight, 73, Filipino radio and television host, prostate cancer.
• Igor Mitoraj, 70, Polish sculptor.
• Diane Nyland, 70, Canadian actress (The Trouble with Tracy), heart failure and COPD.
• Mikhail Potylchak, 42, Russian footballer, suicide by hanging.
• Marian Seldes, 86, American actress (A Delicate Balance, Affliction, August Rush).
• Apiwan Wiriyachai, 65, Thai politician, lung cancer.
• Serhiy Zakarlyuka, 38, Ukrainian football player (Dnipro, national team) and manager, traffic collision.

7

• Walter Bockmayer, 66, German writer and film director, lung cancer.
• Federico Boido, 75, Italian actor and stuntman (Ace High, Superfly T.N.T.).
• Ugo Carrega, 79, Italian artist and poet.
• Cigar, 24, American thoroughbred racehorse, complications of neck surgery for osteoarthritis.
• Nuno Miguel Cerqueira Dias, 37, Portuguese swimmer.
• Nika Kiladze, 25, Georgian footballer, traffic collision.
• Richard Laws, 88, British zoologist, Director of the British Antarctic Survey (1973–1987), Master of St Edmund's College, Cambridge (1987–1996).
• Siegfried Lenz, 88, German writer.
• Angus Macleod, 63, British journalist and editor.
• Paul Margulies, 79, American philosopher and advertising executive.
• Nancy Merki, 88, American swimmer.
• Amos Mkhari, South African footballer.
• David Samuel, 92, British-Israeli scientist and peer.
• Zilpha Keatley Snyder, 87, American writer (The Egypt Game), stroke.
• Brad Stanius, 68, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives.
• Soviet Star, 30, American Thoroughbred racehorse.
• Ivor Wilks, 86, British historian.
• Iva Withers, 97, Canadian-born American theatre actress and singer.

8

• Mark Bell, 43, British musician and house music producer (LFO), complications from surgery.
• Thomas Eric Duncan, 42, Liberian courier, first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, Ebola virus disease.
• Shon Harris, 46, American author.
• Morris Lurie, 75, Australian writer, cancer.
• Abdul Matin, 87, Bangladeshi language activist (Bengali Language Movement).
• Alden E. Matthews, 93, American missionary.
• Harden M. McConnell, 87, American chemistry professor (Stanford University).
• Angelo Mottola, 79, Italian Roman Catholic archbishop and diplomat.
• Vi Robbins, 112, Australian supercentenarian, nation's oldest person.
• Helmut Ruge, 74, German comedian, actor, and cabaret writer.
• Jeen van den Berg, 86, Dutch Olympic speedskater (1956, 1960), winner of the Elfstedentocht (1954).
• Mike Waugh, 58, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania State Senate (1998–2014), cancer.

9

• Les Angell, 92, English cricketer (Somerset).
• Henning Bjerregaard, 87, Danish footballer.
• John Patrick Boles, 84, American Roman Catholic prelate, titular bishop of Nova Sparsa.
• Boris Buzančić, 85, Croatian actor and politician.
• Sir Sydney Chapman, 78, English politician and architect, MP for Birmingham Handsworth (1970–1974) and Chipping Barnet (1979–2005).
• Jan Hooks, 57, American comedian and actress (Saturday Night Live, Designing Women, Batman Returns), cancer.
• M. V. Kamath, 93, Indian journalist.
• Ana Karić, 73, Croatian actress.
• Carolyn Kizer, 89, American poet, Pulitzer Prize winner, complications of dementia.
• Kim Koscki, 50, American stunt performer (The Mighty Ducks, Contact, Apollo 13), cardiac arrest.
• Willy Matsanga, 45, Congolese politician.
• Ray Metzker, 83, American photographer.
• Peter A. Peyser, 93, American politician, member of the U.S. House for New York's 25th (1971–1973) and 23rd (1973–1977, 1979–1983) districts, Parkinson's disease.
• Tony Priday, 92, English bridge player.
• David Rayvern Allen, 76, English cricket historian, cancer.
• Style Scott, 58, Jamaican reggae drummer.
• Rita Shane, 78, American operatic soprano, pancreatic and liver cancer.
• Paul Allen Simmons, 93, American federal judge, U.S. District Court Judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania (since 1978).
• Robert Sproull, 96, American educator and physicist.
• Sir Jocelyn Stevens, 82, English publishing executive.
• Connell Thode, 103, New Zealand naval officer (HMS Scythian) and yachtsman.
• Victor Winding, 85, British actor (Doctor Who, Emmerdale).

10

• Olav Dale, 55, Norwegian composer and jazz saxophonist.
• Damiana Eugenio, 93, Filipino author and professor.
• Valeri Karpov, 43, Russian ice hockey player, world champion (1993), head injury.
• Lari Ketner, 37, American basketball player (Chicago Bulls, Cleveland Cavaliers, Indiana Pacers), colon cancer.
• Matt Koehl, 79, American neo-Nazi. (body discovered on this date)
• Pavel Landovský, 78, Czech actor and dissident, heart attack.
• Roy Law, 77, English footballer (Wimbledon).
• Finn Lied, 98, Norwegian military researcher and politician.
• Jonathan Mane-Wheoki, 70, New Zealand art historian, curator and academic, pancreatic cancer.
• Geoff Miller, 72, Australian public servant.
• Amildo Morales, 76, Guatemalan politician, MP for Jalapa (since 2012), attacked by a bull.
• Ed Nimmervoll, 67, Australian music journalist and author, brain cancer.
• Donald Rawson, 89, American historian and academic.
• Ichirō Satake, 86, Japanese mathematician, respiratory failure.
• Marianne Sjöblom, 80, Finnish Olympic fencer (1952).
• John Westcott, 93, British computer scientist.
• Ernie Wiggs, 73, New Zealand rugby league player (Auckland, national team).

11

• Abbas Ali, 94, Indian politician and independence activist.
• Anita Cerquetti, 83, Italian soprano.
• Tanhum Cohen-Mintz, 75, Israeli basketball player, cancer.
• Elbert Drungo, 71, American football player (Houston Oilers, Buffalo Bills), cancer.
• Walter Fitzgerald, 78, Canadian politician, Mayor of Halifax (1971–1974, 1994–1996), MLA for Halifax Chebucto (1974–1981).
• Donald Gauf, 87, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Margaret Hillert, 94, American author.
• Jazil, 11, American thoroughbred racehorse, injuries sustained in paddock accident.
• Jason Jurman, 34, American actor (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Blue Bloods, Cougar Club).
• Brian Lemon, 77, British jazz pianist.
• Gary McLarty, 73, American stunt performer (The Terminator, Jurassic Park, Beverly Hills Cop), traffic collision.
• Bob Orrison, 86, American stunt performer (Stargate, Road House, Speed), traffic collision.
• Mats Rondin, 54, Swedish cellist and composer, heart attack.
• Carmelo Simeone, 81, Argentine footballer (Vélez Sarsfield, Boca Juniors).
• Bob Such, 70, Australian politician, member of the South Australian House of Assembly for Fisher (since 1989), brain tumour.

12

• Tony Hibbert, 96, British army officer.
• Louise Daniel Hutchinson, 86, American historian.
• Aki Jones, 31, American football player (Washington Redskins), car accident.
• Maurie Keane, 91, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Woronora (1973–1988).
• Tommy Lewis, 83, American football player (University of Alabama, Ottawa Rough Riders).
• Lojze Logar, 70, Slovene artist.
• Tony Lynes, 85, British anti-poverty campaigner.
• Ali Mazrui, 81, Kenyan professor and political writer.
• Graham Miles, 73, English snooker player.
• Hussein Mjalli, 77, Jordanian lawyer and politician, involved in legal defence of Saddam Hussein, Justice Minister (2011), heart attack.
• Enrique Santiago Petracchi, 78, Argentine lawyer and judge, member of the Supreme Court (since 1983).
• Emilio Picasso, 87, Italian physicist.
• Robert Relf, 90, English political activist.
• Roberto Telch, 70, Argentine footballer (San Lorenzo, national team), heart attack.

13

• Sir John Bradfield, 89, British biologist and entrepreneur, founder of Cambridge Science Park.
• Antonio Cafiero, 92, Argentine politician, Governor of Buenos Aires (1987–1991), Senator (1993–2005), pneumonia.
• Patricia Carson, 85, British historian and author.
• Mario Mellado García, Mexican politician, Governor of Puebla (1972). (death announced on this date)
• Elizabeth Norment, 61, American actress (House of Cards, Party of Five, Doogie Howser, M.D.), cancer.
• Agnes Owens, 88, Scottish author.
• José Hernán Sánchez Porras, 70, Venezuelan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Military Ordinariate (since 2001).
• Mohammad Sarengat, 74, Indonesian sprinter, Asian Games champion (1962), complications from a stroke.
• Pontus Segerström, 33, Swedish footballer (IF Brommapojkarna), cancer.
• Kapil Krishna Thakur, 74, Indian politician, MP for Bangaon.
• Deborah Warren, 55, Argentine actress, cancer.

14

• Art Best, 61, American football player.
• Mary Downer, 89, Australian arts patron.
• Encke, 5, American-bred British-trained thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
• Humberto Lara Gavidia, El Salvadoran baseball player.
• Ted Gullicksen, 60-61, American social justice activist.
• Doğan Güreş, 88, Turkish general and politician.
• A. H. Halsey, 91, British sociologist.
• Bertha George Harris, 101, American tribal elder and potter, was oldest member of the Catawba people.
• Paul Hubbert, 78, American educator and politician.
• Leonard Liggio, 81, American libertarian author.
• Ron Loewinsohn, 76, American poet.
• Oriel Malet, 91, British novelist.
• Heidrun Mohr-Mayer, 73, German jeweller and philanthropist.
• Paul Muenzer, 82, American school administrator and politician, Mayor of Naples, Florida (1992–1996), liver and pancreatic cancer.
• Joe H. Mulholland, 80, American politician, Mississippi State Senator (1964–1968, 1976–1984), cancer.
• Bob Neilson, 91, New Zealand rugby league player (West Coast, national team).
• Paul J. Olscamp, 77, Canadian university administrator.
• Isaiah "Ikey" Owens, 39, American keyboardist, heart attack.
• Elizabeth Peña, 55, American actress (The Incredibles, Rush Hour, Jacob's Ladder), cirrhosis.
• John F. Stephenson, 77, Australian football player (Carlton), plane crash.
• Dharmaraj Thapa, 92, Nepali folk singer.
• Walter Victor, 97, American sports photographer.

15

• Sir James Balderstone, 93, Australian businessman and company director.
• João Corso, 86, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Campos (1990–1995).
• Marie Dubois, 77, French actress (Shoot the Piano Player, Jules and Jim, Monte Carlo or Bust!), multiple sclerosis.
• James Semple Kerr, 82, Australian architectural historian.
• Mile Krajina, 90, Croatian gusle player.
• José Refugio Mercado Díaz, 72, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Tehuantepec (2003–2009).
• Giovanni Reale, 83, Italian philosophy historian.
• Giorgio Rebuffi, 85, Italian comic book artist (Tiramolla, Cucciolo).
• Jiří Reynek, 85, Czech graphic artist, poet and translator.
• William J. Ronan, 101, American public servant, first chairman of MTA.
• Sabir Shaikh, 71, Indian politician.
• Sir Christopher Staughton, 81, British jurist, Lord Justice of Appeal, President of the Court of Appeal of Gibraltar (2005–2006).
• Robert Tiernan, 85, American politician, member of the U.S. House for Rhode Island's 2nd district (1967–1975).
• Nobby Wirkowski, 88, American football player (Toronto Argonauts) and coach (York University).

16

• Brian Bath, 67, South African cricketer.
• Ioannis Charalambopoulos, 95, Greek army officer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister (1985–1988).
• Patrick Paul D’Souza, 86, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Varanasi (1971–2007).
• James E. Defebaugh, 87, American politician, member of the Michigan House of Representatives (1971–1982).
• Ertuğrul Oğuz Fırat, 91, Turkish composer, painter, and poet.
• Allen Forte, 87, American music theorist and musicologist.
• Sumi Haru, 75, American actress (MASH), Interim President of the Screen Actors Guild (1995), emphysema.
• Tim Hauser, 72, American musician (The Manhattan Transfer), cardiac arrest.
• Seppo Kuusela, 80, Finnish basketball player.
• David Shepherd Nivison, 91, American sinologist.
• Shalom Schwartz, 63, Israeli footballer.
• John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough, 88, British peer, custodian of Blenheim Palace.

17

• John Andrew, 83, British-born American Anglican priest.
• Edwards Barham, 77, American politician, Louisiana State Senator (1976–1980), plane crash.
• Gero Bisanz, 78, German football player and coach.
• Claude Brodin, 80, French Olympic fencer (1964).
• Bill Diachuk, 85, Canadian politician, MLA (1971–1986).
• Masaru Emoto, 71, Japanese author.
• Hermione Hobhouse, 80, British architectural historian.
• Joseph Hogan, 77, American politician, member of the Nevada Assembly (since 2005).
• Vladimír Hrivnák, 69, Slovak football player and manager.
• Leigh Kamman, 92, American radio host.
• José Luis Lobato, 76, Mexican politician, Senator for Veracruz (2006–2012), shot.
• G. Dean Loucks, 79, American college football coach (Fordham Rams).
• Mikhail Marynich, 74, Belarusian politician.
• Anna Nakagawa, 49, Japanese actress (A Sign Days, Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah), uterine cancer.
• Daisuke Oku, 38, Japanese footballer (Júbilo Iwata, Yokohama F. Marinos), traffic collision.
• Lawrence J. Quirk, 91, American writer, Hollywood reporter and film historian.
• Jon Ramstad, 89, Norwegian politician.
• Tom Shaw, 69, American Episcopal prelate, Bishop of Massachusetts (1995–2014), brain cancer.
• Berndt von Staden, 95, German diplomat, Ambassador to the United States (1973–1979).

18

• Robert Barbour, 93, Scottish minister and author.
• Joanne Borgella, 32, American singer (American Idol) and model (Mo'Nique's Fat Chance), endometrial cancer.
• Paul Craft, 76, American musician and songwriter ("Brother Jukebox").
• Choi Soon-dal, 83, South Korean scientist.
• Efua Dorkenoo, 65, Ghanaian-born British campaigner against female genital mutilation, cancer.
• Luigi Gnocchi, 81, Italian Olympic sprinter.
• Kenneth House, 78, English cricket player (Dorset).
• Danny Light, 66, English footballer (Crystal Palace, Colchester United).
• Lou Lucier, 96, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Phillies).
• Rachel Makinson, 97, Australian research scientist.
• R. C. Mehta, 96, Indian musician and musicologist.
• Claude Ollier, 91, French nouveau roman author.
• Bruce Phillips, 85, Australian football player (St Kilda).
• Rick S. Piltz, 71, American climate analyst, metastasized liver cancer.
• Edward Regan, 84, American politician, New York State Comptroller (1979–1993).
• Mariano Lebrón Saviñón, 92, Dominican author and academic.
• Sidney Shapiro, 98, American-born Chinese author and translator.
• Melford Spiro, 94, American cultural anthropologist.
• Rebel Steiner, 87, American football player (Green Bay Packers).
• Veandercross, 26, New Zealand Thoroughbred horse.
• Paul Henry Walsh, 77, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Rockville Centre (2003–2012).
• Mervyn Winfield, 81, English cricket player (Nottinghamshire).

19

• A.F. Salahuddin Ahmed, 90, Bangladeshi historian.
• Horst Arndt, 80, German rower.
• Frank Barnes, 88, American Major League Baseball player.
• William Barrington-Coupe, 83, Welsh record producer.
• Lynda Bellingham, 66, Canadian-born British actress (Doctor Who, General Hospital, The Bill), colon cancer.
• Gloria Casarez, 42, American civil rights activist, cancer.
• Kathryn M Chaloner, 60, British-born American statistician, Professor of Biostatistics (University of Iowa).
• Edward Donno, 79, American stunt performer (Daredevil, The Untouchables, Star Trek).
• Stuart Gallacher, 68, Welsh rugby player (national union and league teams) and executive.
• John Holt, 67, Jamaican singer (The Paragons) and songwriter ("The Tide Is High").
• Ed Keegan, 75, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, Kansas City Athletics).
• James Levesque, 52, American bassist (Agent Orange).
• Arnold Mitchell, 84, English footballer (Exeter City).
• Étienne Mourrut, 74, French politician, MP for Gard's 2nd constituency (2002–2012), Mayor of Le Grau-du-Roi (1983–2014).
• Francis Nkwain, 84, Cameroonian senator.
• Gerard Parkes, 90, Irish-born Canadian actor (Fraggle Rock, The Boondock Saints).
• Stephen Paulus, 65, American composer, complications from a stroke.
• Imre Pichler, 67, Hungarian politician, MP for Szigetvár.
• Don Ratcliffe, 79, English footballer (Stoke City).
• Raphael Ravenscroft, 60, British saxophonist ("Baker Street") and author, suspected heart attack.
• Miloslava Rezková, 64, Czech high jumper, Olympic champion (1968).
• Jim Sharkey, 80, Scottish footballer (Celtic).
• Serena Shim, 30, Lebanese-born American journalist (Press TV), traffic collision.
• Ken Short, 87, Australian Anglican prelate, Assistant Bishop of Sydney.
• Bob Spear, 94, American naturalist, founder of Birds of Vermont Museum.

20

• Ox Baker, 80, American professional wrestler and actor (Escape from New York), heart attack.
• Raymond Beadle, 70, American Hall of Fame drag racer, heart attack.
• Dennis Biodrowski, 74, American football player (Kansas City Chiefs).
• Gerd Bonk, 63, German weightlifter, Olympic bronze (1972) and silver (1976) medalist.
• René Burri, 81, Swiss photographer, cancer.
• Lilli Carati, 58, Italian actress (Being Twenty, La compagna di banco), brain tumor.
• L. M. Kit Carson, 73, American screenwriter and actor (Paris, Texas, Running on Empty).
• Peter Daland, 93, American swimming coach (University of Southern California, 1964 Olympic women, 1972 Olympic men).
• Jim Dunegan, 67, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs).
• Rodney Fitch, 76, English designer, cancer.
• Sir John Hoskyns, 87, British businessman, policy advisor to Margaret Thatcher.
• Rajam Krishnan, 89, Indian writer.
• Ursula Lingen, 86, Austrian actress (The Model Husband).
• Pete Livermore, 73, American politician, member of the Nevada Assembly (since 2011), heart attack.
• David Malcolm, 76, Australian judge, Chief Justice of Western Australia (1988–2006).
• Christophe de Margerie, 63, French businessman, CEO of Total S.A. (since 2007), plane crash.
• Pavle Merkù, 87, Slovene composer.
• Gary Plauche, 68, American murderer.
• Oscar de la Renta, 82, Dominican fashion designer, cancer.
• Tom Slade, Jr., 78, American lobbyist, Chairman of the Republican Party of Florida (1993–1999), member of the Florida Legislature, heart failure.
• John Solomon, 82, English croquet player.
• Arthur Trestrail, 93, Trinidad cricketer.

21

• Jim Barrett, Jr., 83, English footballer (West Ham).
• Ben Bradlee, 93, American journalist, Executive Editor of The Washington Post (1968–1991), Alzheimer's disease.
• Chen Ziming, 62, Chinese democracy activist, pancreatic cancer.
• Johnny Lee Clary, 55, American professional wrestler, preacher and reformed Ku Klux Klan leader.
• Dale Dorman, 71, American radio disc jockey (WODS).
• Seth Gaaikema, 75, Dutch comedian and writer, heart failure.
• Nelson Bunker Hunt, 88, American oil company executive, cancer and dementia.
• Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani, 83, Iranian politician, Acting Prime Minister (1981), Minister of Interior (1980–1981), heart failure.
• George Kline, 93, American translator and philosopher.
• Yasumasa Narasaki, 86, Japanese politician, member of the House of Councilors (1992–1998), pneumonia.
• Jean Packard, 91, American politician.
• Tuna Scanlan, 80, Samoan boxer.
• Rudolf Schmid, 63, Austrian luger, Olympic bronze medalist (1976), traffic collision.
• Peter Trotter, 58, Australian Paralympic wheelchair racer.
• Gough Whitlam, 98, Australian politician, Prime Minister (1972–1975).

22

• Murad Ashurly, 41, Azerbaijani mountaineer, fall from height.
• Anatoly Chertkov, 78, Russian footballer.
• Elizabeth Forbes, 90, British writer and musicologist.
• George Francis, 80, English footballer (Brentford).
• John-Roger Hinkins, 80, American author and public speaker, founder of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness.
• Ashok Kumar, 72, Indian cinematographer and film director (Abhinandana).
• Barry McSweeney, Irish scientist, Chief Science Advisor (2004–2005).
• Paul Nabor, 86, Belizean musician.
• John Postgate, 93, British microbiologist and writer, professor at University of Sussex.
• David Redfern, 78, English photographer, cancer.
• Sonia Rolt, 95, British canal conservationist.
• Rinnat Safin, 74, Soviet biathlete, Olympic champion (1972).

23

• Ghulam Azam, 91, Bangladeshi convicted war criminal, Emir of Jamaat-e-Islami (1969–2000), stroke.
• Jeanne Black, 76, American country singer.
• John Bramlett, 73, American football player (Boston Patriots).
• Clarence Addison Brimmer, Jr., 92, American federal judge, Wyoming Attorney General (1971–1974).
• Sir Ronald Grierson, 93, British banker.
• Göran Johansson, 69, Swedish politician and union leader, Chairman of the Gothenburg Municipality Executive Board (1988–1991, 1994–2009), cancer.
• Terry Keenan, 53, American financial news anchor and journalist (CNN, FNC, New York Post), cerebral hemorrhage.
• Frederic S. Lee, 64, American economist.
• Clyde T. Lusk, 81, American coast guard officer, Vice Commandant of the United States Coast Guard (1988–1990).
• Frank Mankiewicz, 90, American journalist and political adviser, press secretary to Robert F. Kennedy.
• Bernard Mayes, 85, British-born American broadcaster and academic.
• André Piters, 83, Belgian footballer (Standard Liège).
• Joan Quigley, 87, American astrologer.
• Tullio Regge, 83, Italian theoretical physicist.
• Denma Locho Rinpoche, 86, Tibetan lama.
• Alvin Stardust, 72, English singer ("My Coo Ca Choo").
• Raleigh Trevelyan, 91, British author.

24

• Lorenzo Albacete, 73, American theologian and Roman Catholic priest.
• Kim Anderzon, 71, Swedish film and theatre actress (Göta kanal eller Vem drog ur proppen?, Rederiet), spinal cancer.
• Vic Ash, 84, English jazz saxophonist and clarinetist.
• Ted Beniades, 91, American actor (Scarface, Serpico, The Jackie Gleason Show).
• Jacksel M. Broughton, 89, American air force officer and fighter pilot.
• Reuben Cohen, 93, Canadian lawyer, Chancellor of Dalhousie University (1990–1994).
• Mike Dorsey, 84, English-born Australian actor (Number 96).
• Allison J. Doupe, 60, Canadian neuroscientist.
• Martin Garratt, 34, English footballer (York City).
• James F. Hastings, 88, American politician.
• Shirley Hooper, 78, American politician, Secretary of State of New Mexico (1979–1982).
• Gajanan Kathaley, 67, Indian cricketer.
• Gordon MacWilliam, 91, British Anglican priest.
• Pat McGlothin, 93, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).
• Mbulaeni Mulaudzi, 34, South African middle-distance runner, Olympic silver medalist (2004), traffic collision.
• S. S. Rajendran, 86, Indian actor, lung infection.
• Creighton Leland Robertson, 70, American prelate, Episcopal Bishop of South Dakota.
• Emily Ruto, 25, Kenyan cricketer (national women's team), leukemia.
• Marcia Strassman, 66, American actress (Welcome Back, Kotter, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids) and singer, breast cancer.
• Malcolm Thompson, 68, English footballer (Scarborough).
• Tugela, 19, American-born Australian thoroughbred horse.
• Alvin Wiederspahn, 65, American lawyer and politician, Wyoming State Senator (1985–1988).

25

• Jack Bruce, 71, Scottish bassist (Cream, Manfred Mann) and composer, liver disease.
• Ari Hoogenboom, 86, American historian.
• Peter Baptist Tadamaro Ishigami, 93, Japanese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Naha (1972–1997).
• Reyhaneh Jabbari, 26, Iranian convicted murderer, subject of international campaign against her execution, execution by hanging.
• Peter Maxey, 83, British diplomat, Ambassador to the United Nations (1984–1986).
• Carlos Morales Troncoso, 74, Dominican politician, Vice President (1986–1994), Secretary of Foreign Affairs (1994–1996, 2004–2014), leukemia.
• Sheila Shulman, 77, American-born British rabbi.
• David Somerset, 84, British banker, Chief Cashier of the Bank of England (1980–1988).
• Jim Stangeland, 92, American football player and coach.

26

• Genpei Akasegawa, 77, Japanese author and artist, sepsis.
• Vic Allen, 91, British academic, sociologist, historian and trade unionist (National Union of Mineworkers).
• David Armstrong, 60, American photographer, liver cancer.
• Françoise Bertin, 89, French actress.
• Mo Collins, 38, American football player (Oakland Raiders), kidney failure.
• Katrina Edwards, 46, American geomicrobiologist.
• Rémi Fraisse, 21, French botanist, hit by stun grenade.
• Germain Gagnon, 71, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks, Montreal Canadiens, New York Islanders).
• Michael Hawkins, 86, British actor (The Hound of the Baskervilles, Doctor Who).
• Dudley Knowles, 67, British philosopher.
• Rod Love, 61, Canadian political strategist.
• Senzo Meyiwa, 27, South African footballer (Orlando Pirates, national team), shot.
• Brian Moore, 70, Australian rugby league player (Newtown Jets).
• Hisahiko Okazaki, 84, Japanese diplomat and political commentator.
• Oscar Orefici, 68, Italian journalist and writer.
• Manuel Revollo Crespo, 89, Bolivian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bolivian Military (2000–2012).
• Jeff Robinson, 52, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).
• Gavin Smith, 59, American film studio executive, missing since 2012. (body discovered on this date)
• Gordy Soltau, 89, American football player (San Francisco 49ers).
• Oscar Taveras, 22, Dominican baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals), traffic collision.
• Antonio Terenghi, 92, Italian comic book artist (Pedrito el Drito, Tarzanetto).
• Sir Tay Wilson, 89, New Zealand sports official.
• Bob Wood, 93, American basketball player (Sheboygan Red Skins).

27

• Daniel Boulanger, 92, French actor and screenwriter.
• Norman Hansen, 90, American public official, Town Manager of Saugus, Massachusetts (1987–1992).
• Bob Kenney, 83, American basketball player, Olympic champion (1952).
• Kåre Langvik-Johannessen, 95, Norwegian philologist, literary historian and translator.
• Charles McCullough, 91, Northern Irish politician, member of the Senate (1968–1972).
• Ian Monro, 87, New Zealand naval officer (HMNZS Lachlan).
• Chris Nance, 74, American conductor.
• William Orchard, 84, Australian water polo player and psychiatrist.
• Dan Peters, 60, American college basketball coach (Youngstown State), pancreatic cancer.
• Lucio Sangermano, 82, Italian Olympic sprinter. [1]
• Shin Hae-chul, 46, South Korean pop singer (N.EX.T), heart attack.
• Leif Skiöld, 79, Swedish footballer and ice hockey player.
• Richard Stretch, 61, South African cricketer.
• Reidar Sundby, 88, Norwegian footballer (Larvik Turn).
• Starke Taylor, 92, American politician, Mayor of Dallas (1983–1987).
• Dub Williams, 87, American politician, member of the New Mexico House of Representatives (1995–2009).

28

• Ronald Norman Dalby, 85, Canadian engineer and academic administrator, Chancellor of the University of Alberta (1974–1978).
• Romualdas Granauskas, 75, Lithuanian writer.
• Mansour Hobeika, 72, Lebanese Maronite Catholic prelate, Bishop of Zahlé (since 2002).
• Koichiro Kimura, 44, Japanese mixed martial artist and professional wrestler, pneumonia.
• Galway Kinnell, 87, American poet, Pulitzer Prize winner, leukemia.
• James William Lair, 90, American CIA case officer.
• Nedo Logli, 91, Italian cyclist. [2]
• J. Ross Mackay, 98, Canadian geographer.
• Jim Paxson, Sr., 81, American basketball player (Minneapolis Lakers, Cincinnati Royals).
• Michael Sata, 77, Zambian politician, President (since 2011), heart attack.
• Hans Schneider, 87, Austrian-born American mathematician and journal editor (Linear Algebra and its Applications), cancer.
• Clark S. Smith, 102, American politician.
• David Trendell, 50, British organist and musical director.
• Carroll Waller, 87, American historic preservationist, First Lady of Mississippi (1972–1976), restored the Mississippi Governor's Mansion, Alzheimer's disease.
• Charlie Watkins, 91, British audio engineer (Watkins Electric Music).

29

• Alfred Biehle, 87, German politician.
• Don Bracken, 52, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Los Angeles Rams).
• Frans De Bruyn, 90, Belgian Flemish writer.
• Roger Freeman, 48, American politician, member of the Washington House of Representatives, colon cancer.
• Rainer Hasler, 56, Liechtenstein footballer. (death announced on this date)
• Roderick M. Hills, 83, American lawyer and business executive, Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (1975–1977), surgical complications.
• Klas Ingesson, 46, Swedish footballer (national team), multiple myeloma.
• Mary Jolliffe, 90, Canadian theatre publicist.
• H. Gary Morse, 77, American real estate developer (The Villages, Florida).

30

• Elijah Malok Aleng, 77, South Sudanese public servant.
• Renée Asherson, 99, English actress (Caesar and Cleopatra, Henry V, The Others).
• Joe Brown, 85, English football player and manager (Burnley).
• Geoffrey Clarke, 89, British artist.
• Xavier de Villepin, 88, French politician.
• Harcourt Dowsley, 95, Australian cricket and football player.
• Juan Flavier, 79, Filipino politician, Secretary of Health (1992–1995), member of the Senate (1995–2007), multiple organ failure.
• Bob Geigel, 90, American professional wrestler and promoter (Central States Wrestling), Alzheimer's disease.
• Max Homer, 79, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1969–1974).
• Mohamed Sheikh Ismail, 50s, Somali military commander, Chief of the Police Force (2014).
• Amin Kamil, 90, Indian poet.
• Thomas Menino, 71, American politician, Mayor of Boston (1993–2014), cancer.
• Andy Natowich, 95, American football player.
• Ida Elizabeth Osbourne, 98, Australian radio broadcaster, founder of the ABC's Argonauts Club.
• Clay Stapleton, 93, American football player and coach (Iowa State Cyclones).
• Christopher J. Turner, 81, British diplomat, Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands (1982–1987) and Montserrat (1987–1990).

31

• David Manker Abshire, 88, American diplomat, Permanent Representative to NATO (1983–1987).
• Michael Alsbury, 39, American test pilot and engineer (Scaled Composites), spaceplane crash.
• Armando Cavazzuti, 85, Italian footballer.
• Carlos Duque, 84, Panamanian politician.
• John Forzani, 67, Canadian businessman (Forzani Group) and football player (Calgary Stampeders), heart attack.
• Ian Fraser, 81, English composer and conductor (Scrooge, Christmas in Washington), cancer.
• Brad Halsey, 33, American baseball player (Oakland Athletics).
• Sir Henry Harris, 89, Australian cell biologist.
• Angel Jordanov Kapsov, 57, Bulgarian Chalga singer.
• Käbi Laretei, 92, Estonian concert pianist.
• Mal MacDougall, 86, American advertising executive and speechwriter.
• Hitoshi Motoshima, 92, Japanese politician, Mayor of Nagasaki (1979–1995).
• Walter North, 81, American politician, member of the Michigan Senate (1995–2002).
• Sofron Stefan Mudry, 90, Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk (1997–2005).
• Pat Partridge, 81, British football referee.
• Jim Sauter, 71, American stock car racing driver.
• Bibbi Segerström, 71, Swedish Olympic swimmer (1960).
• Renato Sellani, 88, Italian jazz pianist and composer.
• John V. Shields, 82, American chief executive (Trader Joe's).
• Ross H. Trower, 92, American naval officer, Chief of Chaplains of the United States Navy (1979–1983).