Deaths in 2023

The following notable deaths occurred in 2023. Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent nationality (if applicable), what subject was noted for, cause of death (if known), and reference.

February

3

• Anthony Fernandes, 86, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Bareilly (1989–2014), multiple organ failure.
• Jemal Gaganidze, 89, Georgian actor (Don't Grieve, The Saplings, The Wishing Tree).
• Oswald Gomis, 90, Sri Lankan Roman Catholic prelate and academic administrator, auxiliary bishop (1968–1996) and archbishop (2002–2009) of Colombo, chancellor of the University of Colombo (2002–2021).
• Alan Hurst, 77, British politician, MP (1997–2005). (death announced on this date)
• Paco Rabanne, 88, Spanish fashion designer.
• Zvi Singal, 84, Israeli footballer (Hapoel Jerusalem F.C.)
• Sergio Solli, 78, Italian actor (Il mistero di Bellavista, 32 dicembre, Ciao, Professore!).
• Vannarpettai Thangaraj, Indian actor (Pariyerum Perumal).
• Juan Velarde, 95, Spanish economist.

2

• Monica Comegna, 43, Italian actress (South Kensington).
• Fred la marmotte, Canadian groundhog.
• Jean-Pierre Jabouille, 80, French racing driver (Formula One, 24 Hours of Le Mans).
• Kenny Jay, 85, American professional wrestler (AWA).
• Glória Maria, 73, Brazilian journalist and reporter (Fantástico, Globo Repórter), cancer.
• Mohammed Saeed Al Mulla, 97, Emirati banker and politician.
• Solomon Perel, 97, German-born Israeli author and motivational speaker (Europa Europa).
• Lanny Poffo, 68, Canadian-American professional wrestler (NWA, WWF).
• Tim Quy, British musician (Cardiacs).
• Sagar, 70, Indian film director (Amma Donga, Sorry Enaku Kalyanamayidichu).
• Louis Velle, 96, French actor (Stopover in Orly, The Impossible Mr. Pipelet, Kings for a Day).
• K. Viswanath, 92, Indian film director (Sankarabharanam, Sagara Sangamam, Saptapadi).
• Barbara Wilk-Ślizowska, 87, Polish gymnast, Olympic bronze medallist (1956).
• James C. Wofford, 78, American equestrian, Olympic silver medalist (1968, 1972).
• Richard Woolcott, 95, Australian diplomat, author and commentator, permanent representative to the United Nations (1982–1988).
• John Zizioulas, 92, Greek Orthodox prelate, metropolitan of Pergamon (since 1986), COVID-19.

1

• Angel Alcala, 93, Filipino biologist, president of Silliman University (1991–1992), secretary of environment and natural resources (1992–1995) and chairperson of the CHED (1995–1999).
• Renato Benaglia, 84, Italian football player (Fiorentina, Catania, Roma) and coach.
• Joanne Bracker, 77, American Hall of Fame college basketball coach (Midland University).
• Jozef Čapla, 84, Slovak ice hockey player (HC Slovan Bratislava, HC Dukla Jihlava, Augsburger EV).
• Parimal Dey, 81, Indian footballer (East Bengal FC, Mohun Bagan AC, national team).
• Terence Dickinson, 79, Canadian astrophotographer and amateur astronomer.
• Benny Dollo, 72, Indonesian football manager (Persita Tangerang, Arema Malang, national team).
• Franklin Florence, 88, American civil rights activist.
• Kit Hesketh-Harvey, 65, British comedian (Kit and The Widow) and screenwriter (Maurice).
• Maria Mykolaychuk, 81, Ukrainian singer and actress.
• Leonard Pietraszak, 86, Polish actor (Vabank, Danton, Kingsajz).
• Lucy Quintero, 74, Panamanian folk singer, heart attack.
• Shinta Ratri, 60, Indonesian transgender activist.
• Terry Saldaña, 64, Filipino basketball player (Barangay Ginebra San Miguel, Pop Cola Panthers, Shell Turbo Chargers), kidney disease.
• Dan Suleiman, 80, Nigerian politician, governor of Plateau State (1976–1978).
• Philippe Tesson, 94, French journalist (Le Quotidien de Paris, Combat).
• George P. Wilbur, 81, American actor (Halloween, Remote Control, The Running Man) and stuntman.

January

31

• Louis-Charles Bary, 96, French trade unionist and politician, mayor of Neuilly-sur-Seine (2002–2008).
• Cleonice Berardinelli, 106, Brazilian writer, member of the Brazilian Academy of Letters.
• Shanti Bhushan, 97, Indian lawyer and politician, minister of law and justice (1977–1979).
• Cleve Bryant, 75, American college football player (Ohio Bobcats) and coach (Illinois Fighting Illini, Texas Longhorns).
• Lou Campanelli, 84, American basketball coach (James Madison Dukes, California Golden Bears).
• Anna Czerwińska, 73, Polish mountaineer.
• David Durenberger, 88, American politician, member of the U.S. Senate (1978–1995), heart failure.
• Donie Hanlon, 85, Irish Gaelic footballer (Gracefield, Offaly county).
• Kim Young-hee, 59, South Korean basketball player, Olympic silver medallist (1984), brain cancer.
• Jan Kudra, 85, Polish Olympic cyclist (1964).
• Nicole Lattès, 84, French editor.
• Luiz Suzin Marini, 87, Brazilian politician, Santa Catarina MLA (1991–1999).
• Donnie Marsico, 68, American singer (The Jaggerz), cancer.
• Josefina Angélica Meabe, 83, Argentine rancher and politician, senator (2009–2015).
• Henrik Nordbrandt, 77, Danish poet (Drømmebroer), novelist and essayist.
• Kadriye Nurmambet, 89, Romanian traditional folk singer and folklorist.
• Luigi Pasinetti, 92, Italian economist.
• Ilya São Paulo, 59, Brazilian actor (O Amuleto de Ogum, The Third Bank of the River, Amor de Mãe).
• Egon Schmidt, 91, Hungarian ornithologist and natural historian.
• Charlie Thomas, 85, American Hall of Fame singer (The Drifters), liver cancer. (death announced on this date)
• Graham Winteringham, 99, English architect (Crescent Theatre). (death announced on this date)

30

• John Adams, 71, American baseball superfan (Cleveland Indians/Guardians) and drummer.
• Viktor Ageyev, 86, Russian water polo player, Olympic silver medallist (1960).
• Jesús Aguilar Padilla, 70, Mexican politician, governor of Sinaloa (2005–2010).
• Bobby Beathard, 86, American Hall of Fame football executive (Miami Dolphins, Washington Redskins, San Diego Chargers), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Fernando Elboj Broto, 76, Spanish teacher and politician, senator (1982–1989, 2008–2011).
• Sir Michael Heller, 86, British mining executive, chairman of Bisichi Mining and London & Associated Properties.
• Donald M. Hess, 86, Swiss winemaker and art collector.
• Bobby Hull, 84, Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks, Winnipeg Jets, Hartford Whalers), Stanley Cup champion (1961).
• John Bailey Jones, 95, American jurist and politician, judge of the U.S. District Court for South Dakota (since 1981) and member of the South Dakota House of Representatives (1956–1960).
• László Kordás, 53, Hungarian trade unionist and politician, MP (since 2022), heart attack.
• Ann McLaughlin Korologos, 81, American politician, U.S. secretary of labor (1987–1989), complications from meningitis.
• Charly Loubet, 77, French footballer (Cannes, Nice, national team).
• Gerald Mortag, 64, German cyclist, Olympic silver medallist (1980).
• Linda Pastan, 90, American poet, cancer.
• Ouyang Pingkai, 77, Chinese engineer and academic administrator, president of Nanjing Tech University (2001–2012) and member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
• Shamsul Alam Pramanik, 70, Bangladeshi politician, MP (1996–2008), complications from diabetes.
• Mike Schrunk, 80, American district attorney, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Félix Sienra, 107, Uruguayan Olympic sailor (1948).
• Charles Silverstein, 87, American writer (The Joy of Gay Sex), therapist and gay activist.
• Pedo Terlaje, 76, American politician, member of the Legislature of Guam (since 2019).
• James Alexander Thom, 89, American author.
• K. V. Tirumalesh, 82, Indian writer and poet.

29

• Bob Born, 98, American candy manufacturer (Peeps), inventor of Hot Tamales.
• Alistair Charlton, 89, British racehorse trainer.
• Vito Chimenti, 69, Italian football player (Matera, Palermo, Taranto) and manager, heart attack.
• Naba Das, 61, Indian politician, member of the Odisha Legislative Assembly (since 2009), shot.
• John Devine, 82, Australian football player and coach (Geelong, North Hobart).
• Vadym Dobizha, 81, Ukrainian football manager (Zorya Luhansk, JK Sillamäe Kalev).
• Ross Gillespie, 87, New Zealand Olympic field hockey player (1960, 1964) and two-time Olympic coach.
• Masood Sharif Khan Khattak, 72, Pakistani intelligence officer, director-general of the Intelligence Bureau (1993–1996).
• Olha Kohut, 53, Ukrainian actress (The Undefeated, My Joy).
• Krister Kristensson, 80, Swedish footballer (Malmö, Trelleborg, national team).
• Heddy Lester, 72, Dutch singer and actress.
• Hazel McCallion, 101, Canadian politician, mayor of Mississauga (1978–2014), pancreatic cancer.
• Gerhard Moehring, 101, German teacher and local historian.
• Henry Moore, 88, American football player (New York Giants, Baltimore Colts).
• Simon Ifede Ogouma, 89, Beninese politician, minister of foreign affairs (1980–1982).
• Dmytro Pavlychko, 93, Ukrainian poet, translator and diplomat, ambassador to Slovakia (1995–1998) and Poland (1999–2002).
• George R. Robertson, 89, Canadian actor (Police Academy, E.N.G., JFK).
• Gordon Rohlehr, 80, Guyanese academic.
• Mandeep Roy, 73, Indian actor (Minchina Ota, Baadada Hoo, Benkiya Bale), cardiac arrest.
• Kyle Smaine, 31, American freestyle skier, avalanche.
• Gopal Sri Ram, 79, Malaysian jurist, judge of the Federal Court (2009–2010), lung infection.
• Will Steffen, 75, American-born Australian climatologist and chemist, pancreatic cancer.
• Gero Storjohann, 64, German politician, MP (since 2002), member of the Landtag of Schleswig-Holstein (1994–2002).
• Barrett Strong, 81, American singer ("Money (That's What I Want)") and songwriter ("I Heard It Through the Grapevine", "Papa Was a Rollin' Stone").
• Gabriel Tacchino, 88, French classical pianist.
• Vatti Vasant Kumar, 67, Indian politician, Andhra Pradesh MLA (2004–2014).
• Piotr Waśko, 61, Polish politician, MP (2007–2011).
• Annie Wersching, 45, American actress (24, The Last of Us, Runaways), cancer.
• Gerhard Woitzik, 95, German politician.

28

• Hilda Bettermann, 80, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives (1991–1999).
• Jacques Bloch, 98, French resistance fighter.
• Odd Børre, 83, Norwegian pop singer (Eurovision Song Contest 1968).
• Gérard Caillaud, 76, French actor (The Accuser, L'argent des autres, The Dogs) and stage director.
• Phil Coles, 91, Australian sports administrator and Olympic sprint canoeist (1960, 1964, 1968).
• V. R. Das, 73, Indian film producer (Mizhikal Sakshi).
• Amru Daulay, 83, Indonesian politician, regent of Mandailing Natal (2000–2010).
• Garth Everett, 69, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (2007–2020), cancer.
• Hussain Rabi Gandhi, 74, Indian writer and political activist.
• Jane F. Gardner, 88, British historian and academic.
• Max Huwyler, 91, Swiss writer.
• Eva Kushner, 93, Canadian academic.
• Viola Léger, 92, Canadian actress (Jerome's Secret) and politician, senator (2001–2005).
• Kent Lockhart, 59, American-born Australian basketball player (Eastside Spectres, Albany Patroons).
• Lisa Loring, 64, American actress (The Addams Family, Blood Frenzy, As the World Turns), stroke.
• Paulo Roberto de Souza Matos, 78, Brazilian politician, deputy (1987–1991).
• Evgeny Mogilevsky, 77, Russian pianist.
• Vyacheslav Nazaruk, 81, Russian animator (Leopold the Cat), painter and sculptor.
• Adama Niane, 56, French actor (Baise-moi, Get In, Lupin).
• Kevin O'Neal, 77, American actor (No Time for Sergeants).
• Landon Pearson, 92, Canadian author and politician, senator (1994–2005).
• Dan Ramos, 41, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives (2011–2019).
• Xavier Rubert de Ventós, 83, Spanish politician, philosopher, and writer, deputy (1982–1986) and MEP (1986–1994).
• Harold Rusland, 84, Surinamese politician, minister of education (1980–1983).
• Jaroslav Šedivý, 93, Czech politician, minister of foreign affairs (1997–1998).
• Jiří Šetlík, 93, Czech art historian and academic.
• Carlo Tavecchio, 79, Italian football executive, president of the FIGC (2014–2017), lung disease.
• Sidney Thornton, 68, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers).
• Tom Verlaine, 73, American musician (Television), songwriter ("Marquee Moon") and producer (Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk).
• Vasily Zakharyashchev, 77, Russian politician, deputy (2007–2011).

27

• Albert Almanza, 86, Mexican Olympic basketball player (1960, 1964).
• Bob Chrystal, 92, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers).
• Marcia G. Cooke, 68, American jurist, judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida (since 2004).
• Gerard Escoda, 50, Spanish footballer (Reus, Villarreal) and sporting director (CE Sabadell), cancer.
• Pietro Forquet, 97, Italian bridge player.
• Gregory Allen Howard, 70, American screenwriter and film producer (Remember the Titans, Ali, Harriet), heart failure.
• Shahidul Islam, 65, Bangladeshi politician, MP (2002–2006), complications from diabetes.
• Jamuna, 86, Indian actress (Milan, Pandanti Kapuram) and politician, MP (1989–1991).
• Gulmira Karimova, 45, Kazakh politician, senator (since 2023).
• Aleksander Krawczuk, 100, Polish historian, minister of culture (1986–1989) and MP (1991–1997).
• Alfred Leslie, 95, American painter and film director (Pull My Daisy), COVID-19.
• Li Wenjun, 92, Chinese translator.
• Hellmut Mehnert, 94, German internist and diabetologist.
• Mikhail Mustygin, 85, Belarusian footballer (Avangard-Kortek, CSK MO, Dinamo Minsk).
• Saša Petrović, 61, Bosnian-Serbian actor (It's Hard to Be Nice, Fuse, Lud, zbunjen, normalan).
• Gianna Piaz, 99, Italian actress (Atom Age Vampire, Il seduttore, Solo per te Lucia).
• Ghislaine Pierie, 53, Dutch actress, film director, and stage director (Baantjer, Moordvrouw, SpangaS).
• Peter G. J. Pulzer, 93, Austrian-born British historian.
• Martin Purtscher, 94, Austrian politician, governor of Vorarlberg (1987–1997).
• Alexander Pushnitsa, 73, Russian sambo practitioner, cancer.
• David Rimmer, 81, Canadian avant-garde filmmaker, and educator.
• Floyd Sneed, 80, Canadian drummer (Three Dog Night).
• Sylvia Syms, 89, English actress (At Home with the Braithwaites, The Queen, Ice Cold in Alex).
• Ting Chiang, 86, Taiwanese actor (Four Loves, The Bold, the Corrupt, and the Beautiful, All in 700) and film director.
• Isaac Trachtenberg, 99, Ukrainian toxicologist, member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.
• Donald Trelford, 85, British journalist, editor of The Observer (1975–1993), cancer.
• Daniel Lewis Williams, 73, American operatic basso profondo, complications from Alzheimer's disease. (death announced on this date)
• Yang Yi, 103, Chinese literary translator.

26

• Dave Albright, 63, American football player (Saskatchewan Roughriders), heart attack.
• Rodolfo Ares, 68, Spanish politician, member of the Basque Parliament (1994–2009, 2012–2016).
• Sayyid Ghulam Hussain Shah Bukhari, 90, Pakistani Islamic scholar.
• Dean Daughtry, 76, American keyboard player (The Candymen, Classics IV, Atlanta Rhythm Section).
• Sepp Dürr, 69, German politician, member of the Landtag of Bavaria (1998–2018), cancer.
• Diana Fisher, 91, Australian television personality (The Inventors, Beauty and the Beast) and commentator, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
• Attilio Labis, 86, French ballet dancer and teacher.
• Jessie Lemonier, 25, American football player (Los Angeles Chargers, Detroit Lions).
• Eduard Lobau, 34, Belarusian political activist, shot.
• Peter McCann, 74, American songwriter ("Do You Wanna Make Love", "Right Time of the Night") and musician.
• Billy Packer, 82, American sports broadcaster and analyst (ACC, NCAA Final Four), kidney failure.
• Gary Peters, 85, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox, Boston Red Sox).
• Judo. K. K. Rathnam, 92, Indian stuntman (Thamarai Kulam, Vallavan Oruvan, Thalai Nagaram).
• Allan Ryan, 77, American attorney, heart attack.
• Abdul Jabar Sabet, 78, Afghan politician, attorney general (2006–2008).
• Irvine Shillingford, 78, Dominican cricketer (West Indies, Combined Islands, Windward Islands).
• Mesir Suryadi, 79, Indonesian politician, member of the People's Representative Council (2004–2009).
• Keith Thomson, 81, New Zealand Olympic field hockey player (1968), and cricketer (Canterbury, national team).
• Vo Van Ai, 87, Vietnamese poet, journalist and human-rights activist.
• Wang Wei, 85, Chinese physicist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
• Alice Wolf, 89, Austrian-born American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1996–2013), leukemia.

25

• Wolfgang Altenburg, 94, German general, inspector general of the Bundeswehr (1983–1986) and chairman of the NATO Military Committee (1986–1989).
• Taijirō Amazawa, 86, Japanese poet and scholar.
• Noah Cowan, 55, Canadian artistic director (TIFF Bell Lightbox, SFFILM), glioblastoma.
• Maria Deroche, 84, Brazilian-born French architect.
• Shimon Elituv, 85, Israeli Orthodox rabbi.
• David Ewins, 80, British mechanical engineer.
• Ali Nihat Gökyiğit, 97, Turkish structural engineer, founder of the Turkish Foundation for Combating Soil Erosion and Tekfen Construction and Installation.
• Titewhai Harawira, 90, New Zealand Māori activist.
• Franciszek Jamroż, 79, Polish trade unionist and politician, mayor of Gdańsk (1991–1994).
• Shantabai Kamble, 99, Indian writer.
• Roger Louret, 72, French actor, playwright, and theatre director.
• Edrissa Marong, 27, Gambian long-distance runner.
• Bernhard T. Mittemeyer, 92, American lieutenant general, surgeon general of the U.S. Army (1981–1985).
• Claudio da Passano, 65, Argentine actor (Argentina, 1985).
• Duncan Pugh, 48, Australian Olympic bobsledder (2010), brain aneurysm.
• José Reis Pereira, 79, Brazilian politician, Piauí MLA (1987–1991).
• Willie Richardson, 74, American civil rights activist.
• Bilal al-Sudani, Somali terrorist.
• Cindy Williams, 75, American actress (Laverne & Shirley, American Graffiti, The Conversation).

24

• Zaza Aleksidze, 87, Georgian historian and linguist.
• Santo Bellina, 58, Italian actor (The Repenter, Dark Illness, Boys on the Outside).
• Benito Bollati, 96, Italian lawyer and politician, deputy (1974–1979).
• Cynthia Bostick, 70, American actress (Texas, That's the Way of the World, As the World Turns).
• B. V. Doshi, 95, Indian architect (CEPT University, Tagore Memorial Hall, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore), Pritzker Prize winner (2018).
• Christelle Doumergue, 59, French basketball player (Clermont UC, Tango Bourges Basket, national team).
• Mounir Jelili, 73, Tunisian Olympic handball player (1972, 1976).
• Lance Kerwin, 62, American actor (James at 15, The Loneliest Runner, Salem's Lot).
• Ole Didrik Lærum, 82, Norwegian oncologist and academic administrator, rector of the University of Bergen (1990–1995).
• Mira Lehr, 88, American artist.
• Li Zhao, 82, Chinese landmine expert, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
• George Magoha, 70, Kenyan surgeon and academic administrator, vice chancellor of the University of Nairobi (2005–2015) and minister of education (since 2019), cardiac arrest.
• Mònica Miquel Serdà, 60, Spanish politician, deputy (2003–2004).
• Pietro Nuti, 94, Italian actor (The Case Is Closed, Forget It, In the Name of the Italian People, Todo modo).
• Levan Paatashvili, 96, Georgian cinematographer (The Flight, A Lover's Romance, Siberiade).
• Panteleimon, 87, Greek Orthodox prelate, metropolitan of Belgium and exarchate of the Netherlands and Luxembourg (1982–2013).
• Jackson Rohm, 51, American singer-songwriter.
• Lieus Sungkharisma, 63, Indonesian activist and politician.
• Sabiha Tansuğ, 90, Greek-born Turkish ethnologist.

23

• Joseph Agassi, 95, Israeli philosopher and author (The Continuing Revolution).
• Pamela Kirkham, 16th Baroness Berners, 93, British hereditary peer, member of the House of Lords (1995–1999), stroke.
• Patrizio Billio, 48, Italian footballer (Crystal Palace, Ancona, Dundee), heart attack.
• Milton Bradley, 88, British racehorse trainer. (death announced on this date)
• Álvaro Colom, 71, Guatemalan engineer, businessman and politician, president (2008–2012), cancer and pulmonary emphysema.
• George Crabtree, 78, American physicist.
• Jozef Dravecký, 75, Slovak diplomat.
• Hu Guangzhen, 95, Chinese electronic engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
• Hiromitsu Kadota, 74, Japanese Hall of Fame baseball player (Nankai Hawks, Orix Braves).
• German Klimov, 81, Russian athlete and screenwriter (Sport, Sport, Sport, Farewell).
• Dolores Kondrashova, 86, Russian hairdresser.
• Kweon Kab-yong, 65, South Korean Go player.
• Serge Laget, 66, French board game designer (Mare Nostrum, Mystery of the Abbey). (death announced on this date)
• Lakshman, 74, Indian actor (Guru Shishyaru, Appaji, Yajamana).
• William Lawvere, 85, American mathematician.
• Fred Lindop, 84, British rugby league referee.
• Peter Maas, 69, Dutch politician, mayor of Sint-Oedenrode (2003–2017).
• Eugenio Martín, 97, Spanish film director (Bad Man's River, The Ugly Ones, Horror Express) and screenwriter.
• Victor Navasky, 90, American journalist (The Nation, Monocle, The New York Times Magazine).
• Abd Rani Osman, 64, Malaysian politician, Selangor State MLA (2008–2018), heart disease.
• Polo Polo, 78, Mexican comedian.
• Everett Quinton, 71, American actor (Natural Born Killers, Pollock, Bros), glioblastoma.
• E. Ramdoss, 66, Indian film director, screenwriter (Aayiram Pookkal Malarattum, Ravanan) and actor, heart attack.
• Almir Raščić, 38, Bosnian footballer (Željezničar Sarajevo, Goražde, Velež Mostar), shot.
• Jeremy Ruehlemann, 27, American model.
• Sami Sharaf, 93, Egyptian military officer.
• Dmytro Sharpar, 25, Ukrainian figure skater and military serviceman. (death announced on this date)
• Carol Sloane, 85, American jazz singer, complications from a stroke.
• Top Topham, 75, English guitarist (The Yardbirds).
• Valeri Urin, 88, Russian football player (Dynamo Moscow, Daugava Riga, Soviet Union national team) and manager.
• Sudheer Varma, 33, Indian film actor, suicide.
• Roland Weller, 84, French businessman, president of RC Strasbourg Alsace (1994–1997).

22

• Byram D. Avari, 81, Pakistani hotelier and sailor, owner of Avari Hotels.
• Ian Black, 69, British journalist (The Guardian), and author (Israel's Secret Wars), complications from frontotemporal lobar degeneration.
• Easley Blackwood Jr., 89, American composer (Twelve Microtonal Etudes for Electronic Music Media), pianist, and professor.
• Ștefan Bouroșu, 32, Moldovan actor, suicide.
• Lin Brehmer, 68, American disc jockey and radio personality (WXRT), prostate cancer.
• Lady Martha Bruce, 101, British aristocrat, prison governor and army officer.
• Matthew H. Clark, 85, American Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Rochester (1979–2012).
• Gianfranco Goberti, 83, Italian painter.
• David Hains, 92, Australian businessman and horse breeder.
• Thomas Hellberg, 81, Swedish actor (Rederiet).
• Darío Jara Saguier, 92, Paraguayan footballer (Rubio Ñu, Cerro Porteño, national team).
• Vaughan Johnson, 75, Australian politician, Queensland MLA (1989–2015).
• Octaviano Juarez-Corro, 49, Mexican-American fugitive (FBI Ten Most Wanted).
• Vadim Mikhailov, 91, Russian film director, screenwriter (The Year of the Dog) and writer.
• Seyed Abolhassan Mokhtabad, 53, Iranian journalist, heart attack.
• Lenie de Nijs, 83, Dutch swimmer, European champion (1958).
• Zhanna Pliyeva, 73, Georgian composer and pianist.
• Mario Pupella, 77, Italian actor (Angela, Salvo, Padrenostro) and theater director.
• Hossein Shahabi, 55, Iranian film director (For the Sake of Mahdi, The Sale, The Bright Day) and screenwriter, lung infection.
• Betty Sturm, 89, American actress (The World's Greatest Sinner), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Bernd Uhl, 76, German Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop of Freiburg (2001–2018).
• Agustí Villaronga, 69, Spanish film director (In a Glass Cage, Moon Child, Black Bread), screenwriter and actor.
• Sam Bass Warner Jr., 94, American historian.
• Nikos Xanthopoulos, 88, Greek actor and singer, heart disease.

21

• Erricos Andreou, 84, Greek film director (The Hook, Act of Reprisal) and screenwriter.
• Gaetano Azzolina, 91, Italian doctor and politician, deputy (1990–1992).
• B.G., the Prince of Rap, 57, American rapper and Eurodance artist ("The Colour of My Dreams", "Can We Get Enough?").
• Georges Banu, 79, Romanian-born French writer.
• Ritt Bjerregaard, 81, Danish politician, lord mayor of Copenhagen (2006–2009) and minister of education (1973, 1975–1979).
• Gabriel Dodo Ndoke, 51, Cameroonian politician.
• Simon Dunn, 35, Australian bobsledder and amateur rugby player.
• David Howard, 104, Canadian Olympic sailor (1956).
• Inge Kaul, 78, German economist.
• Vuyokazi Ketabahle, 49, South African politician, member of the National Assembly of South Africa (2015–2018), stroke.
• Micheál MacGréil, 91, Irish Jesuit priest, sociologist and author.
• Thulani Maseko, 52, Swazi human rights activist, shot.
• Na Chul, 36, South Korean actor (Sinkhole, Happiness).
• Tom Nairn, 90, Scottish political theorist, fall.
• Gary Pettigrew, 78, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles, New York Giants), myelodysplastic syndrome.
• Sal Piro, 72, American fan club president (The Rocky Horror Picture Show) and author (Creatures of the Night).
• Marek Plura, 52, Polish politician and psychotherapist, MEP (2014–2019), complications from spinal muscular atrophy.
• Pino Roveredo, 68, Italian writer and theater director.
• Kurt Schneider, 90, Austrian racing cyclist.
• Bill Schonely, 93, American sports broadcaster (Portland Trail Blazers).
• Harjit Singh Arora, 61, Indian Air Force officer, vice chief of the air staff (2019–2021).
• Włodzimierz Sroka, 55, Polish economist and manager.
• Sergiu Sumcă, 76, Moldovan editor, journalist, and astrologer.
• Friedrich Weissensteiner, 95, Austrian historian and writer.
• Gabrielle Williams, 59, Australian author, stroke.

20

• Xavier Albó, 88, Spanish Jesuit priest, linguist and anthropologist.
• Eleana Apergi, 90, Greek actress (Madalena, Ena Exypno Exypno Moutro).
• Sal Bando, 78, American Hall of Fame baseball player (Arizona State Sun Devils, Kansas City/Oakland Athletics, Milwaukee Brewers), World Series champion (1972, 1973, 1974), cancer.
• Tim Barlow, 87, English actor (Doctor Who, Les Misérables, Hot Fuzz).
• Ted Bell, 76, American novelist, intracerebral hemorrhage.
• Tom Birmingham, 73, American politician, member (1991–2002) and president (1996–2002) of the Massachusetts Senate.
• Jerry Blavat, 82, American DJ and radio presenter, complications from myasthenia gravis.
• Stella Chiweshe, 76, Zimbabwean mbira player.
• Fang Zhiyuan, 83, Chinese engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
• Julien Goekint, 93, Belgian politician, mayor of Ostend (1980–1997).
• Loïc Guguen, French dramatic baritone.
• Harunata, 69, Indonesian bureaucrat and politician.
• He Haoju, 100, Chinese politician, deputy (1983–1998).
• Arno van der Heyden, 61, Dutch comedian and actor.
• Pierce Higgins, 45, Irish hurler (Tooreen, Ballyhaunis, Mayo county), complications from motor neurone disease.
• Grigorijus Kanovičius, 93, Lithuanian writer.
• Hans Kasper, 84, German politician, member of the Landtag of Saarland (1970–1999).
• Gwen Knapp, 61, American sports journalist (The Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Times), lymphoma.
• Alan Komissaroff, 47, American political executive.
• Paul LaFarge, 52, American novelist, essayist and academic, cancer.
• Chris Leitch, 69, New Zealand politician, cancer.
• Jiří Macháně, 82, Czech cinematographer (Beauty and the Beast, The Ninth Heart, Černí baroni).
• Michael Moussa Adamo, 62, Gabonese politician, minister of foreign affairs (since 2022), heart attack.
• Michaela Paetsch, 61, American violinist, cancer.
• Oleh Petrov, 62, Ukrainian politician, MP (1998–2006).
• Nano Riantiarno, 73, Indonesian playwright.
• Taufikurrahman Saleh, 73, Indonesian politician, member of the People's Representative Council (1999–2009).
• Richard Steadman, 85, American surgeon.
• Howard M. Tesher, 90, American Thoroughbred horse racing trainer.
• Tom Villa, 77, American politician, member of the Missouri House of Representatives (1974–1984, 2000–2008).

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• Abdul Ghani Azhari, 101, Indian Islamic scholar.
• Gilles Beyer, 66, French figure skater and skating coach.
• Jim Bradbury, 85, British historian. (death announced on this date)
• Bertie Cunningham, 81, Irish Gaelic footballer (Meath).
• Kuldip Singh Dhillon, 72, Indian-British property developer and polo player.
• Rudy Englebert, 72, Dutch bassist (Herman Brood & His Wild Romance).
• Carin Goldberg, 69, American graphic designer.
• Claude Guillon, 70, French writer and philosopher.
• Nadir Latif İslam, 92–93, Turkish lawyer and politician, MP (1973–1977).
• Isuf Kalo, 80, Albanian physician.
• Imre Mécs, 89, Hungarian politician, MP (1990–2010).
• Maya Menglet, 87, Russian actress (It Happened in Penkovo, Chance, Bram Stoker's Burial of the Rats).
• Oladipo Ogunlesi, 99, Nigerian professor of medicine.
• Bert Peña, 63, Puerto Rican baseball player (Houston Astros), esophageal cancer.
• Sumitra Peries, 88, Sri Lankan film director (Gehenu Lamai, Ganga Addara, Yahaluvo).
• Nilmani Phookan Jr, 89, Indian poet.
• Andrey Popov, 59, Russian politician, MP (1993–1995).
• Andi Rasdiyanah Amir, 87, Indonesian scholar, rector of the Alauddin Islamic State Institute (1985–1994).
• George Rose, 81, American football player (Minnesota Vikings, New Orleans Saints).
• Norbert Sattler, 71, Austrian slalom canoeist, Olympic silver medallist (1972).
• Volodymyr Shcherbyna, 87, Ukrainian mathematician and politician, people's deputy (1990–1994).
• Ginger Stanley, 91, American model, actress and stunt woman (Creature from the Black Lagoon, Jupiter's Darling, Revenge of the Creature).
• Arsen Sukhovsky, Russian actor (Non-Orphanage). (death announced on this date)
• Betty Lee Sung, 98, American activist, author and academic.
• David Sutherland, 89, Scottish illustrator and comics artist (The Beano, Dennis the Menace and Gnasher, The Bash Street Kids).
• Kristina Taberyová, 71, Czech theatre and television director and humanitarian (People in Need).
• Peter Thomas, 78, English-Irish footballer (Waterford, Ireland national team).
• Seiya Ueda, 93, Japanese geophysicist.
• Jos Van Riel, 79, Belgian footballer (Antwerp).
• Vera Votintseva, 56, Russian singer-songwriter.
• Anton Walkes, 25, English footballer (Portsmouth, Atlanta United, Charlotte FC), boat collision.
• Bruce W. White, 70, American businessman, founder of White Lodging, cancer.
• Yoon Jeong-hee, 78, South Korean actress (Poetry, The Three-Day Reign, Oyster Village), complications from Alzheimer's disease.

18

• Henry Caicedo, 71, Colombian footballer (Independiente Medellín, Deportivo Cali, national team), complications from a stroke.
• Donn Cambern, 93, American film editor (Easy Rider, Romancing the Stone, Ghostbusters II), complications from a fall.
• Per Christiansson, 61, Swedish Olympic cyclist (1984), cancer.
• Herman Coessens, 79, Belgian actor (Ons geluk). (death announced on this date)
• David Crosby, 81, American Hall of Fame singer (The Byrds, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young) and songwriter ("Guinnevere").
• Sujan Dasgupta, 80, Indian writer.
• Nikolai Dostal, 76, Russian film director (Man with an Accordion, Cloud-Paradise), screenwriter and actor (Sea Tales).
• William Frank, 99, Canadian politician, MP (1972–1974).
• Clytus Gottwald, 97, German composer, conductor and musicologist.
• Robert Hersh, 82, American lawyer.
• Jacques Jarry, 93, French linguist and archeologist.
• Valiulla Maksutov, 68, Russian politician, senator (1996).
• John L. Murray, 79, Irish jurist, chief justice (2004–2011), judge of the Supreme Court (1999–2015) and the European Court of Justice (1992–1999).
• Melitta Muszely, 95, Austrian operatic soprano and voice teacher.
• Jagdish Nehra, 79, Indian politician, Haryana MLA (1982–1987).
• Doina Postolachi, 43, Moldovan poet and novelist, member of Moldovan Writers' Union and Writers' Union of Romania.
• Leopold Potesil, 89, Austrian Olympic boxer (1952, 1956).
• Victor Rasgado, 63, Mexican pianist and composer.
• Bill Relph, 94, Scottish rugby union player (Edinburgh District, national team).
• Prabhaben Shah, 92, Indian social worker, heart disease.
• Myroslav Symchych, 100, Ukrainian military and public figure.
• Paul Vecchiali, 92, French film director (At the Top of the Stairs, Rosa la rose, fille publique, Once More) and author.
• Cesare Veneziani, 89, Italian politician, mayor of Bergamo (1999–2004).
• Marcel Zanini, 99, Turkish-born French jazz musician.
• Hakim Zaripov, 98, Uzbek circus performer, trick rider and horse trainer.
• Marius Zibolis, 48, Lithuanian goalball player, Paralympic silver medallist (2000, 2008).
• Notable Ukrainians killed in the 2023 Brovary helicopter crash:
  • Yurii Lubkovych, 33, diplomat
  • Denys Monastyrsky, 42, politician, minister of internal affairs (since 2021) and MP (2019–2021)
  • Yevhen Yenin, 42, politician, deputy minister of internal affairs (since 2021)

17

• Jay Briscoe, 38, American professional wrestler (ROH, CZW, NJPW), traffic collision.
• John Bura, 78, American Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch, auxiliary bishop of Philadelphia (2006–2019).
• Van Conner, 55, American bass guitarist (Screaming Trees), pneumonia.
• Teodor Corban, 65, Romanian actor (12:08 East of Bucharest, 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Tales from the Golden Age).
• Jerome R. Cox Jr., 97, American computer pioneer, scientist and entrepreneur.
• T.J. deBlois, 38, American drummer (A Life Once Lost).
• Manana Doijashvili, 75, Georgian pianist.
• Leon Dubinsky, 81, Canadian actor (Life Classes, Pit Pony), theatre director and composer ("Rise Again").
• Maria Dworzecka, 81, Polish-American physicist and Holocaust survivor.
• Chris Ford, 74, American basketball player and coach (Detroit Pistons, Boston Celtics), NBA champion (1981, 1984, 1986).
• Renée Geyer, 69, Australian singer ("Say I Love You", "Heading in the Right Direction", "Stares and Whispers"), complications from hip surgery.
• William Thomas Hart, 93, American jurist, judge of the U.S. District Court for Northern Illinois (since 1982).
• Heinz-Dieter Hasebrink, 81, German footballer (Rot-Weiss Essen, 1. FC Kaiserslautern, Werder Bremen).
• Badara Joof, 65, Gambian politician, vice-president (since 2022).
• Mamoru Kobayashi, 78, Japanese politician, MP (1990–2003).
• Gino Landi, 89, Italian choreographer and television and theatre director.
• Hooshang Latifpour, 90, Iranian voice actor.
• Liang Jincai, 95, Chinese aerospace engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
• Joe Martin, 91, Irish footballer (Dundalk).
• Jean-Claude Marty, 79, French rugby league player (FC Lézignan XIII, Racing Club Albi XIII, national team).
• Nicola Molè, 91, Italian lawyer and politician, president of the Province of Terni (1995–1999).
• Larry Morris, 75, New Zealand Hall of Fame singer (Larry's Rebels).
• Constantin Munteanu, 72, Moldovan screenwriter, writer and theater director.
• Namiq Nasrullayev, 77, Azerbaijani politician, minister of economy (1996–2001), chairman of the Chamber of Accounts (2001–2007).
• Richard Oesterreicher, 90, Austrian guitarist and conductor.
• Arjan Paans, 53, Dutch journalist, cancer.
• Muhammad Prakosa, 62, Indonesian bureaucrat, diplomat, and politician, MP (2009–2021).
• Edward R. Pressman, 79, American film producer (Wall Street, Conan the Barbarian, Badlands).
• Jonathan Raban, 80, British travel writer, critic, and novelist (Soft City, Waxwings, For Love & Money).
• Josep Rahola i d'Espona, 104, Spanish engineer and politician, senator (1979–1986).
• Lucile Randon, 118, French supercentenarian, world's oldest living person (since 2022).
• Cornelius Rogge, 90, Dutch artist.
• Vladimir Rusalov, 83, Russian psychologist and anthropologist.
• Rickin Sánchez, Puerto Rican wrestling, boxing and baseball television broadcaster.
• Sandra Seacat, 86, American acting coach (Andrew Garfield, Laura Dern) and actress (Under the Banner of Heaven).
• Robert Simmonds, 96, Canadian police officer, commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (1977–1987).
• Paul Soulikias, 96, Greek-Canadian painter, pneumonia.
• Lewis Stevens, 86, British politician, MP (1983–1992).
• Stanislav Tereba, 85, Czech photojournalist.
• Ferenc Varga, 97, Hungarian sprint canoer, Olympic bronze medallist (1952).
• Sir Samuel Whitbread, 85, British businessman and public servant.
• Nicola Zamboni, 79, Italian sculptor.
• Martinez Zogo, 51, Cameroonian journalist.

16

• Carrie Acheson, 88, Irish politician, TD (1981–1982).
• Latif Afridi, 79, Pakistani lawyer and politician, president of the Supreme Court Bar Association (2020–2021) and MNA (1997–1999), shot.
• John Bicourt, 77, British Olympic middle-distance runner (1972, 1976).
• Manfred Böcker, 82, German teacher and politician, member of the Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia (1980–2005).
• Mousse Boulanger, 96, Swiss writer and journalist.
• Inna Bychenkova, 81, Ukrainian production designer, art director and costume designer (Guard Me, My Talisman).
• Ann Thomas Callahan, 87, Canadian Cree nurse.
• Vladas Česiūnas, 82, Lithuanian sprint canoeist, Olympic champion (1972).
• Jean-Claude Coquet, 94, French linguist and semiotician.
• Pierre Danos, 93, French rugby union player (RC Toulon, AS Béziers Hérault, national team).
• Mansour el-Essawy, 85, Egyptian politician, minister of interior (2011).
• Alan Glass, 90, Canadian artist.
• Guo Hong'an, 79, Chinese translator.
• Bjarne Hansen, 93, Norwegian footballer (Vålerenga, national team).
• Luisa Josefina Hernández, 94, Mexican writer, playwright and translator.
• Jann Hoffmann, 65, Danish darts player.
• Gina Lollobrigida, 95, Italian actress (Bread, Love and Dreams, Come September, The Hunchback of Notre Dame).
• Jim Molan, 72, Australian politician, senator (2017–2019, since 2019), cancer.
• Mats Nordberg, 64, Swedish politician, MP (since 2018).
• Pavel Pecháček, 82, Czech-born American journalist and manager.
• Brian Perry, 78, British-born Canadian ice hockey player (Oakland Seals, New York Islanders, Buffalo Sabres).
• Johnny Powers, 84, American rockabilly singer and guitarist.
• Arthur Ravenel Jr., 95, American politician, member of the South Carolina House of Representatives (1953–1959) and twice of the Senate, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1987–1995).
• Lupe Serrano, 92, Chilean-born American ballerina, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Rasul Siddik, 73, American jazz trumpeter.
• Gary Smith, 64, American record producer, cancer.
• Jean-Pierre Swings, 79, American-born Belgian astronomer.
• Frank Thomas, 93, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Mets, Chicago Cubs).

15

• Alexis Arette, 95, French farmer, writer, and politician, member of the Regional Council of Aquitaine (1986–1998).
• Balamurugan, 85, Indian screenwriter (Bantrothu Bharya, Soggadu).
• Leonid Barbier, 85, Ukrainian Olympic swimmer (1960).
• Ed Beard, 83, American football player (San Francisco 49ers), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Jane Cederqvist, 77, Swedish swimmer, Olympic silver medallist (1960), complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Omar Chawshin, 80, Iranian actor (Whisper with the Wind).
• Chen Qizhi, 97, Chinese military officer and academic administrator, deputy (1975–1983) and president of NUDT (1990–1994).
• Victoria Chick, 86, American economist.
• Noël Coulet, 90, French academic and historian.
• Doris, 75, Swedish pop singer.
• Bruce Gowers, 82, British television and music video director ("Bohemian Rhapsody", "Stayin' Alive", "1999"), Emmy winner (2009).
• C. J. Harris, 31, American singer (American Idol), heart attack.
• Piet van Heusden, 93, Dutch track cyclist.
• Sven Johansson, 94, Swedish politician, governor of Västerbotten County (1978–1991).
• Andrew Jones, 39, Welsh film director (The Amityville Asylum, Robert, Werewolves of the Third Reich) and screenwriter.
• Vakhtang Kikabidze, 84, Georgian singer, actor (Mimino, Don't Grieve) and politician, MP (since 2020), brain cancer.
• Jan Krol, 60, Dutch actor.
• Lloyd Morrisett, 93, American psychologist and television producer (Sesame Street).
• Mursal Nabizada, 32, Afghan politician, member of the National Assembly (2019–2021), shot.
• Shaye Al-Nafisah, 60, Saudi Arabian footballer (Al-Kawab, national team).
• Gino Odjick, 52, Canadian ice hockey player (Vancouver Canucks, New York Islanders, Montreal Canadiens), heart attack.
• Ruslan Otverchenko, 33, Ukrainian basketball player (BC Budivelnyk, SC Prometey, national team), heart disease.
• Fons Panis, 90, Dutch politician, mayor of Maartensdijk (1973–1987) and Leusden (1987–1997).
• Guadalupe Rivera Marín, 98, Mexican lawyer and politician, deputy (1961–1964, 1979–1982) and senator (1984–1988).
• Dilip Sardjoe, 73, Surinamese businessman and politician.
• Ted Savage, 85, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs, Los Angeles Dodgers).
• Shirley Shackleton, 91, Australian justice campaigner (Balibo 5).
• Gáspár Miklós Tamás, 74, Hungarian columnist (openDemocracy) and politician, MP (1989–1994).
• Jean Veloz, 98, American dancer and actress (Swing Fever, Where Are Your Children?, Jive Junction).
• Yoshimitsu Yamada, 84, Japanese aikido practitioner.

14

• Alireza Akbari, 61, Iranian-British politician and convicted spy, execution by hanging. (death announced on this date)
• Brenda Almond, 85, British philosopher.
• Les Barker, 75, English poet.
• Gianfranco Baruchello, 98, Italian painter.
• Keith Beaton, 72, American singer (Blue Magic). (death announced on this date)
• Ronald Blythe, 100, English writer and columnist (Church Times).
• Wally Campo, 99, American actor (Machine-Gun Kelly, The Little Shop of Horrors, Master of the World).
• Matthias Carras, 58, German pop singer, cancer.
• Zdeněk Češka, 93, Czech lawyer, academic and politician.
• Santokh Singh Chaudhary, 76, Indian politician, MP (since 2014), heart attack.
• Inna Churikova, 79, Russian actress (Jack Frost, The Very Same Munchhausen, Walking the Streets of Moscow).
• Bernard Delemotte, 83, French diver and cameraman.
• Sunder Lal Dixit, 80, Indian politician, three-time Uttar Pradesh MLA, fall.
• Carl Hahn, 96, German automotive industry executive, chairman of Volkswagen Group (1982–1993).
• Mukarram Jah, 89, Indian royal, titular Nizam of Hyderabad (since 1967).
• Craig Lowe, 65, American politician, mayor of Gainesville (2010–2013).
• Poul-Erik Nielsen, 91, Danish badminton player.
• Femi Ogunrombi, Nigerian actor and ethnomusicologist.
• David Onley, 72, Canadian journalist, writer and politician, lieutenant governor of Ontario (2007–2014).
• Qian Yitai, 82, Chinese chemist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
• Mansa Ram, 82, Indian politician, Himachal Pradesh MLA (1967–1977, 1982–1985, 1998–2003), kidney failure.
• Trifonio Salazar, 74, Filipino military officer.
• Hermann A. Schlögl, 85, German actor and Egyptologist.
• Miyuki Ueta, 49, Japanese murderer, asphyxiation.
• Lieuwe Westra, 40, Dutch Olympic cyclist (2012).
• John Wickham, 73, British motor racing team owner (Spirit Racing).

13

• Madeleine Attal, 101, French actress and theatre director.
• Odd Bergh, 85, Norwegian athlete.
• Al Brown, 83, American actor (The Wire), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Sir Alan Budd, 85, British economist, chairman of the Office for Budget Responsibility (2010), heart attack.
• Reginald Cooray, 75, Sri Lankan politician, three-time MP, chief minister of Western Province (2000–2009) and governor of Northern Province (2016–2018), heart attack.
• Ray Cordeiro, 98, Hong Kong disc jockey (RTHK Radio 3) and actor (Games Gamblers Play, Security Unlimited).
• Bill Davis, 80, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, San Diego Padres).
• John Fultz, 74, American basketball player (Virtus Bologna, AS Viganello Basket) and coach (Basket Club Ferrara), injuries sustained from traffic collision.
• Peter W. Hutchins, 77–78, Canadian legal scholar.
• Robbie Knievel, 60, American daredevil and stuntman, pancreatic cancer.
• Gordana Kuić, 80, Serbian novelist (The Scent of Rain in the Balkans).
• Klas Lestander, 91, Swedish biathlete, Olympic champion (1960).
• Mao Zhi, 90, Chinese engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
• Laila Mikkelsen, 82, Norwegian film director (Little Ida, Oss) and producer (Nedtur).
• James L. Morse, 82, American jurist, justice of the Vermont Supreme Court (1988–2003).
• Fañch Peru, 82, French teacher, writer and politician, mayor of Berhet (1983–2001).
• Zenon Pigoń, 82, Polish trade unionist and politician, MP (1989–1991).
• Enaxon Siddiqova, 68, Uzbek poet and politician, senator (since 2015).
• Mark Stokes, British scientist and academic, cancer.
• Claudio Willer, 82, Brazilian poet and translator, bladder cancer.
• Thomasina Winslow, 57, American blues musician, stroke.
• Marc Worth, 61, British fashion executive, co-founder of WGSN, heart attack.
• Yoshio Yoda, 88, Japanese-born American actor (McHale's Navy, The Horizontal Lieutenant).

12

• Robbie Bachman, 69, Canadian drummer (Bachman–Turner Overdrive).
• Els Bendheim, 99, Dutch-Israeli theologian and philanthropist.
• Harold Brown, 98, American Air Force officer (Tuskegee Airmen).
• Mike Cardinal, 81, Canadian politician, Alberta MLA (1989–2008).
• Sanjay Chauhan, 60, Indian screenwriter (I Am Kalam, Paan Singh Tomar, Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster Returns), liver disease.
• Gerrie Coetzee, 67, South African boxer, WBA heavyweight champion (1983–1984), cancer.
• Biagio Conte, 59, Italian missionary, colon cancer.
• Bob Cunnell, 80, English cricketer (Suffolk), pneumonia.
• Henri De Wolf, 86, Belgian racing cyclist.
• David Doctorian, 88, American politician, member of the Missouri Senate (1977–1991).
• Vittorio Garatti, 95, Italian architect.
• Frene Ginwala, 90, South African politician and academic administrator, speaker of the National Assembly (1994–2004), chancellor of the UKZN (2005–2007), complications from a stroke.
• Crystal Paula González, 56, Spanish hiker.
• Toos Grol-Overling, 91, Dutch teacher and politician, senator (1982–1999).
• Delwar Hossain, 67, Bangladeshi politician, MP (2001–2006), kidney disease.
• Paul Johnson, 94, British journalist and historian (Modern Times: A History of the World from the 1920s to the 1980s, A History of the American People, A History of Christianity).
• Otohiko Kaga, 93, Japanese author.
• Elka Konstantinova, 90, Bulgarian literary critic and politician, MP (1991–1994), minister of culture (1991–1992).
• Jean Laurent, 78, French banker and businessman, managing director of Crédit Agricole (1999–2005).
• Valentyna Lutayeva, 66, Ukrainian handball player, Olympic champion (1980).
• Sulambek Mamilov, 84, Russian film director (Ladies' Tango, Day of Wrath, The Murder at Zhdanovskaya).
• Aurel Mitran, 68, Romanian rock band manager (Holograf).
• Roy Pierpoint, 93, British racing driver, saloon car champion (1965).
• Lisa Marie Presley, 54, American singer-songwriter ("Lights Out", "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet"), cardiac arrest.
• Daniel Richard, 78, French entrepreneur.
• Sidharth Sharma, 28, Indian cricketer (Himachal Pradesh).
• Bruce Sharp, 91, Australian Olympic gymnast (1956).
• Carl-Gustaf Styrenius, 93, Swedish classical archaeologist.
• Lee Tinsley, 53, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Seattle Mariners, Philadelphia Phillies).
• Charles Treger, 87, American violinist.
• Brian Tufano, 83, English cinematographer (Trainspotting, Billy Elliot, Shallow Grave).
• Charlotte Vale-Allen, 81, Canadian-born American contemporary fiction writer.
• Elliot Valenstein, 99, American neuroscientist and psychologist.
• Bobby Wood, 87, American politician, member of the Tennessee House of Representatives (1976–2004).
• Sharad Yadav, 75, Indian politician, MP (1974–1980, 1986–2017), minister of consumer affairs, food and public distribution (2002–2004).

11

• Shimon Baadani, 94, Israeli Orthodox rabbi, pneumonia.
• Hamza Berkaoui, 36, Algerian sports journalist.
• Peter Campbell, 62, American water polo player, twice Olympic silver medallist (1984, 1988).
• Carole Cook, 98, American actress (The Lucy Show, The Incredible Mr. Limpet, Sixteen Candles), heart failure.
• Günther Deschner, 81, German author and historian.
• Alexandru Donos, 92, Moldovan journalist and writer.
• Dan Eytan, 91, Israeli architect.
• Piers Haggard, 83, British director (Pennies From Heaven).
• Harriet Hall, 77, American Air Force flight surgeon.
• Enamul Haque, 83, Bangladeshi politician, MP (1986–1988).
• Hussein el-Husseini, 85, Lebanese politician, speaker of the parliament (1984–1992).
• Doming Lam, 96, Macanese-born Hong Kong classical composer.
• Jan Ludwiczak, 85, Polish coal miner and Solidarity activist.
• Ben Masters, 75, American actor (Passions, All That Jazz, HeartBeat), COVID-19.
• Antonio Muratore, 95, Italian politician, senator (1983–1994).
• Pavlo Naumenko, 57, Ukrainian aerospace engineer.
• Rafiq Nishonov, 96, Uzbek politician, chairman of the Soviet Nationalities (1989–1991) and first secretary of the Communist Party (1988–1989).
• Eli Ostreicher, 39, British-born American serial entrepreneur, traffic collision.
• Tatjana Patitz, 56, German model and actress (Rising Sun), breast cancer.
• Haakon Pedersen, 64, Norwegian singer. (death announced on this date)
• Murtaza Rakhimov, 88, Russian politician, president of Bashkortostan (1993–2010).
• François Roussely, 78, French government official and magistrate, president of Électricité de France (1998–2004).
• Christian Sauvé, 79, French painter.
• Kamel Tahir, 78, Algerian footballer (USM Alger, JS Kabylie, national team).
• Yukihiro Takahashi, 70, Japanese drummer and singer (Yellow Magic Orchestra, Sadistic Mika Band, METAFIVE), pneumonia.
• Charles White, 64, American football player (Cleveland Browns, Los Angeles Rams), Heisman Trophy winner (1979), liver cancer.

10

• Sara Aboobacker, 86, Indian writer and translator.
• Jorge Ballesteros, 39, Spanish sports shooter, shot.
• Jeff Beck, 78, British Hall of Fame guitarist (The Yardbirds, The Jeff Beck Group), six-time Grammy winner, bacterial meningitis.
• Hans Belting, 87, German art historian.
• Gaudenzio Bernasconi, 90, Italian footballer (Atalanta, Sampdoria, national team).
• Black Warrior, 54, Mexican professional wrestler (CMLL).
• Donald Blom, 73, American murderer.
• Lothar Blumhagen, 95, German film (Sommerliebe) and voice actor.
• Dennis Budimir, 84, American jazz and rock guitarist (The Wrecking Crew).
• Jorge O. Calvo, 61, Argentine geologist and paleontologist.
• Hermenegildo Candeias, 88, Portuguese Olympic gymnast (1960).
• Constantine II, 82, Greek monarch and sailor, king (1964–1973) and Olympic champion (1960), stroke.
• Alain da Costa, 87, Gabonese football manager (USM Libreville, Vantour Mangoungou, national team).
• István Deák, 96, Hungarian-born American historian, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
• Pierre Dorsini, 88, French footballer (Toulouse, Nancy).
• Kalle Eller, 82, Estonian publisher, cultural researcher and poet.
• José Evangelista, 79, Spanish composer.
• Jean Gevenois, 91, Belgian politician, senator (1983–1996).
• Jeff Hamilton, 56, American Olympic skier, pancreatic cancer.
• He Ping, 65, Chinese film director (Swordsmen in Double Flag Town, Sun Valley, Warriors of Heaven and Earth), heart attack.
• Traudl Hecher, 79, Austrian ski racer, Olympic bronze medallist (1960, 1964).
• Blake Hounshell, 44, American journalist (The New York Times, Politico, Foreign Policy), suicide.
• David S. Howard, 94, American actor (Moonstruck, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Meet Joe Black).
• Irenaios, 83, Greek Orthodox prelate, patriarch of the Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem (2001–2005).
• Majid Jahangir, Pakistani comedian (Fifty Fifty).
• Jean Leccia, 84, French composer, conductor, and pianist.
• Sezi Mbaguta, 76, Ugandan politician, MP (2011–2016).
• Bruce Murray, 82, New Zealand cricketer (Wellington, national team).
• Tyre Nichols, 29, American motorist, subject of Tyre Nichols protests.
• George Pell, 81, Australian Roman Catholic cardinal, archbishop of Melbourne (1996–2001) and Sydney (2001–2014), prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy (2014–2019), complications from hip surgery.
• Peter Pereira, 93, Indian cinematographer (Toofan, Khiladiyon Ka Khiladi) and special effects coordinator (Mr. India).
• Roy Schwitters, 78, American physicist, cancer.
• Christopher T. Walsh, 78, American biochemist, member of the National Academy of Sciences, fall.

9

• Peace Anyiam-Osigwe, 53, Nigerian filmmaker and entertainment executive.
• Yahya Baş, 71, Turkish politician, MP (2002–2007) and mayor of Güngören (1992–2002).
• Séamus Begley, 73, Irish musician.
• Hermann-Josef Blanke, 65, German academic and legal scholar.
• Les Brown Jr., 82, American musician, actor and producer, cancer.
• Stefan Brzózka, 91, Polish chess player.
• Max Chantal, 64, French rugby league player (Villeneuve XIII, national team).
• Gheorghe Ciocoi, 80, Moldovan poet, essayist and translator.
• William Consovoy, 48, American attorney, brain cancer.
• Melinda Dillon, 83, American actress (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, A Christmas Story).
• David Duckham, 76, English rugby union player (Coventry, national team).
• Ahmaad Galloway, 42, American football player (Denver Broncos, San Diego Chargers, Frankfurt Galaxy).
• Adolfo Kaminsky, 97, Argentine-born French forger and resistant.
• Yoshito Kishi, 85, Japanese chemist (Nozaki–Hiyama–Kishi reaction), stroke.
• Simone Kramer, 83, Dutch author.
• Thomas Kretschmer, 68, German politician, member of the Landtag of Thuringia (1990–2008).
• Magnar Mangersnes, 84, Norwegian organist and choral conductor.
• Yoriaki Matsudaira, 91, Japanese composer, pneumonia.
• Ala Melnicova, 43, Moldovan singer.
• Raymond Mertens, 89, Belgian football player (Royal Uccle Sport) and coach.
• Ferenc Mészáros, 72, Hungarian footballer (Vasas SC, Vitória de Setúbal, national team).
• Lesego Motsumi, 58, Botswana politician, fire.
• K. Alex Müller, 95, Swiss physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (1987).
• Virginia Kraft Payson, 92, American thoroughbred horse breeder and sports journalist (Sports Illustrated), complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Cincy Powell, 80, American basketball player (Dallas Chaparrals, Kentucky Colonels, Virginia Squires).
• Rehman Rahi, 97, Indian poet.
• Wacław Sadkowski, 89, Polish literary critic and translator, editor of Literatura na Świecie and president of Czytelnik Publishing House.
• Mikio Sato, 94, Japanese mathematician (Sato–Tate conjecture, Sato–Bernstein polynomial).
• Tim Schadla-Hall, 75, British archaeologist.
• Charles Simic, 84, Serbian-born American poet, complications from dementia.
• Rainer Ulrich, 73, German football player (Karlsruher SC) and coach (SSV Ulm, VfR Mannheim).
• Norma Whiteman, 95, Australian cricketer (New South Wales, national team).
• Zhang Jinlin, 86, Chinese engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
• George S. Zimbel, 93, American-Canadian documentary photographer.

8

• Charles David Allis, 71, American molecular biologist, cancer.
• Gundars Bērziņš, 63, Latvian accountant and politician, minister of finance (2000–2002) and deputy (since 1993).
• Sietse Bosgra, 87, Dutch political activist.
• Arnie Coro, 80, Cuban radio presenter, co-founder of Radio Havana Cuba.
• Borislav Dević, 59, Serbian Olympic marathoner (1996).
• Roberto Dinamite, 68, Brazilian footballer (Vasco da Gama, national team) and politician, deputy (1995–2015), colon cancer.
• Willem Doise, 87, Belgian academic and psychologist.
• Mduduzi Fuzwayo, 36, Zimbabwean cricketer (Matabeleland Tuskers), traffic collision.
• Juan Francisco García, 69, Mexican Olympic boxer (1972).
• Patrick Grimlund, 50, Swedish television presenter, traffic collision.
• Lynnette Hardaway, 51, American conservative activist (Diamond and Silk), heart disease.
• Jack W. Hayford, 88, American Pentecostal minister and hymn writer, founder of The King's University.
• Bernard Kalb, 100, American journalist (Reliable Sources, The New York Times), assistant secretary of state for public affairs (1985–1986), complications from a fall.
• Siegfried Kurz, 92, German conductor and composer.
• Michel Laurencin, 78, French academic and historian.
• Barry Lines, 80, English footballer (Northampton Town).
• Harold Martens, 81, Canadian rancher and politician, Saskatchewan MLA (1982–1995).
• Ray Middleton, 86, British Olympic racewalker (1964), respiratory failure.
• Slim Newton, 90, Australian country music singer-songwriter (The Redback on the Toilet Seat).
• Christiane Papon, 98, French politician, MEP (1987–1989) and deputy (1988–1993).
• Luis Gabriel Ramírez Díaz, 57, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of El Banco (2014–2021) and Ocaña (since 2021).
• Walter Sequeira, 64, Argentine television producer and journalist.
• Aleksandr Shabanov, 87, Russian chemist and politician, deputy (1995–2003).
• Georgy Shayduko, 60, Russian sailor, Olympic silver medallist (1996), cardiac arrest.
• Aleksey Slapovsky, 65, Russian novelist, playwright and screenwriter (The Irony of Fate 2), pneumonia.
• Walter Tosta, 66, Brazilian politician, deputy (2011–2015).
• Keshari Nath Tripathi, 88, Indian politician, Uttar Pradesh MLA (1977–1980, 1989–2007), governor of West Bengal (2014–2019) and twice of Bihar.
• Adriaan Vlok, 85, South African politician, minister of correctional services (1991–1994).
• C. Anne Wilson, 95, British food historian.
• Wu Tao, 82, Chinese diplomat, ambassador to Portugal (1992–1994), Russia (1998–2001) and Australia (2001–2003), COVID-19.

7

• Russell Banks, 82, American novelist (Continental Drift, The Sweet Hereafter, Cloudsplitter), cancer.
• Miroslav Celler, 31, Slovak squash player, fall.
• Robert Crayton, 45, American actor (Ant-Man, The Staircase, Young Rock), suicide by gunshot.
• Djão, 64, Mozambican-born Portuguese footballer (Belenenses, Penafiel, national team).
• Marcelle Engelen Faber, 99, French resistance fighter.
• Joseph A. Hardy III, 100, American lumber industry executive, founder of 84 Lumber.
• Mary Ellen Hawkins, 99, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives (1974–1994).
• Rob Heming, 90, Australian rugby union player (New South Wales, national team).
• Henri Heurtebise, 86, French poet and editor.
• Miloš Horanský, 90, Czech theatre director and academic.
• Mohammad Hosseini, 39, Iranian dissident, execution by hanging.
• Walter Intemann, 78, Swiss-born Austrian businessman and politician.
• Nazrul Islam, 73, Indian politician, Assam MLA (1996–2021).
• Mohammad Mehdi Karami, 22, Iranian dissident, execution by hanging.
• Aleksandr Kharchikov, 73, Russian folk singer-songwriter.
• William S. W. Lim, 90, Singaporean architect (Marine Parade Community Building, People's Park Complex, Golden Mile Complex).
• Modeste M'bami, 40, Cameroonian footballer (Sedan, PSG, national team), Olympic champion (2000), heart attack.
• Yuri Manin, 85, Russian mathematician (Gauss–Manin connection).
• Zinaid Memišević, 72, Bosnian-Serbian actor (2012, Miracle, Bolji život).
• Sinikiwe Mpofu, 37, Zimbabwean cricket player (national team) and coach (Southerns).
• Philemon Mulala, 59–60, Zambian footballer (Mufulira Wanderers, Cape Town Spurs, national team), injuries sustained from dog attack.
• Tony Pantano, 74, Italian-born Australian singer and entertainer, cancer.
• Naomi Replansky, 104, American poet.
• Adam Rich, 54, American actor (Eight Is Enough, Dungeons & Dragons, The Devil and Max Devlin).
• Ken Scotland, 86, Scottish rugby union player (Leicester Tigers, national team) and cricketer (national team), cancer.
• Gian Pietro Testa, 86, Italian writer, journalist and poet.
• Dorothy Tristan, 88, American actress (Klute, Scarecrow) and screenwriter (Weeds), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Tehemton Erach Udwadia, 88, Indian surgeon and gastroenterologist.

6

• Sadiq al-Ahmar, 66, Yemeni politician and tribal leader, MP (1993–2011), cancer.
• Benjamin Almoneda, 92, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, auxiliary bishop (1990–1991) and bishop (1991–2007) of Daet.
• Walmor Barbosa Martins, 91, Brazilian politician, mayor of Jundiaí (1969–1973, 1989–1992).
• Benjamin Bederson, 101, American physicist (Manhattan Project).
• Fred Benners, 92, American football player (New York Giants).
• Omar Berdiýew, 43, Turkmen footballer (Esil Bogatyr, Dinamo Samarqand, national team).
• Jeff Blackburn, 77, American songwriter ("My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)") and guitarist (Blackburn & Snow, Moby Grape).
• Bill Campbell, 74, American baseball player (Minnesota Twins, Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs), cancer.
• Marc-Kanyan Case, 80, French Olympic footballer (1968).
• Slaheddine Cherif, 85, Tunisian judge and politician.
• Gervasio Gestori, 86, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of San Benedetto del Tronto-Ripatransone-Montalto (1996–2013).
• Jacques Grattarola, 92, French footballer (Cannes, Saint-Étienne).
• Sir Patrick Hogan, 83, New Zealand Hall of Fame racehorse breeder.
• Lew Hunter, 87, American screenwriter and screenwriting teacher, COVID-19.
• John Warren Johnson, 93, American businessman and politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives (1966–1974).
• Danny Kaleikini, 85, American Hawaiian entertainer and singer.
• David S. Laustsen, 75, American politician, member of the South Dakota House of Representatives (1977–1984) and senate (1985–1987).
• Kevin Lemons, 44, American gospel singer.
• Michael Levin, 90, American actor (Ryan's Hope, As the World Turns, All My Children).
• Vincent Lindo, 86, Jamaican cricketer (Nottinghamshire, Somerset).
• Annette McCarthy, 64, American actress (Twin Peaks, Creature, Baywatch).
• Stuart McCutcheon, 68, New Zealand academic administrator, vice-chancellor of the University of Auckland (2005–2020) and Victoria University of Wellington (2000–2004).
• Frank Molden, 80, American football player (Los Angeles Rams, Philadelphia Eagles, New York Giants).
• Carlos Monín, 83, Paraguayan football player (Toulouse, Red Star, national team) and manager.
• Theodore R. Newman Jr., 88, American jurist, judge (1976–2016) and chief judge (1976–1984) of the D.C. Court of Appeals, judge of the Superior Court of D.C. (1970–1976).
• Nguyễn Thọ Chân, 100, Vietnamese politician, minister of labor (1974–1981).
• Sigifredo Ochoa, 80, Salvadoran military officer and politician, deputy (2012–2015), traffic collision.
• David Penington, 92, Australian physician and academic administrator, vice-chancellor of the University of Melbourne (1988–1995).
• Karl Pfeifer, 94, Austrian journalist (Jungle World).
• Paula Quintana, 66, Chilean sociologist and politician.
• Owen Roizman, 86, American cinematographer (The Exorcist, Network, The French Connection).
• Renzo Sacco, 78, Italian politician, president of the Province of Padua (1995–1998).
• Dick Savitt, 95, American Hall of Fame tennis player.
• Shen Lyu-shun, 73, Taiwanese diplomat, representative to the United States (2014–2016) and the United Kingdom (2011–2014).
• Victoria de Stefano, 82, Italian-Venezuelan novelist.
• Axel Troost, 68, German politician, MP (2005–2017, 2021).
• Gianluca Vialli, 58, Italian football player (Juventus, national team) and manager (Chelsea), pancreatic cancer.

5

• Magomed Abdulaev, 61, Russian lawyer and politician, prime minister of Dagestan (2010–2013), traffic collision.
• Ruth Adler Schnee, 99, German-born American textile and interior designer.
• Gaspar Ariño Ortiz, 86, Spanish lawyer, professor and politician, deputy (1989–1993).
• Toni Batllori, 71–72, Spanish cartoonist.
• Jack Bender, 91, American cartoonist (Alley Oop), complications from dementia.
• Earl Boen, 81, American actor (The Terminator, Bonkers, World of Warcraft), lung cancer.
• Renate Boy, 83, German shot putter, Olympic silver medallist (1964).
• Mark Capps, 54, American sound engineer, shot.
• Ernesto Castano, 83, Italian footballer (Triestina, Juventus, national team).
• Jean Clémentin, 98, French journalist (Le Canard enchaîné), writer, and spy.
• Nate Colbert, 76, American baseball player (San Diego Padres, Houston Astros, Detroit Tigers).
• Carl Duser, 90, American baseball player (Kansas City Athletics).
• Martin Fabi, 80, Canadian football player (Saskatchewan Roughriders, Montreal Alouettes).
• Marcio Freire, 47, Brazilian surfer, surfing accident.
• Herbert Gintis, 82, American economist, behavioral scientist and author (Schooling in Capitalist America).
• Gordy Harmon, 79, American soul singer (The Whispers).
• Mike Hill, 73, American film editor (Apollo 13, Rush, Frost/Nixon), Oscar winner (1996), cryptogenic organizing pneumonia.
• Kim Deok-ju, 89, South Korean lawyer and judge, chief justice (1990–1993).
• Mondeño, 88, Spanish torero.
• Mahir Muradov, 66, Azerbaijani judge, member of the Constitutional Court (since 2012).
• Giorgio Otranto, 82, Italian historian, cerebral hemorrhage.
• Russell Pearce, 75, American politician, member (2006–2011) and president (2011) of the Arizona Senate.
• Ernesto Alfredo Piñón de la Cruz, 33, Mexican criminal (Los Mexicles), shot.
• Albert Rachkov, 95, Russian diplomat and politician, second secretary of the Communist Party of Turkmenistan (1980–1986).
• Sam Schacht, 86, American actor (Heart of Midnight, Puzzle of a Downfall Child, Badge 373).
• Dave Schubert, 49, American street photographer.
• Michael Snow, 94, Canadian filmmaker (Wavelength, Back and Forth) and artist (Flight Stop).
• Dušan Veličković, 75–76, Serbian writer, journalist and filmmaker.
• Buddhi Wickrama, 83, Sri Lankan actor (Anthima Reya, Water, Lantin Singho).
• Quentin Williams, 39, American politician, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives (since 2019), traffic collision.
• Yang Fuyu, 95, Chinese biochemist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

4

• Richard Bernal, 73, Jamaican diplomat and economist.
• Jean Bertho, 94, French actor (La Marie du port, The Doctor's Horrible Experiment) and film director.
• Thomas Stonor, 7th Baron Camoys, 82, British banker and peer, lord chamberlain (1998–2000).
• Arthur Duncan, 97, American tap dancer (The Lawrence Welk Show, The Betty White Show).
• Thirumagan Evera, 46, Indian politician, Tamil Nadu MLA (since 2021), cardiac arrest.
• Michel Ferté, 64, French racing driver (Formula 3000).
• Norman Fruchter, 85, American writer and academic, injuries sustained in a traffic collision.
• Renée Gailhoustet, 93, French architect.
• Ge Xiurun, 88, Chinese engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
• David Gold, 86, British retailer, publisher (Gold Star Publications), and football executive, chairman of West Ham United (since 2010).
• Casey Hayden, 85, American civil rights activist.
• Kléber Haye, 85, French engineer and politician, deputy (1981–1986).
• Elwood Hillis, 96, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1971–1987).
• Stan Hitchcock, 86, American country singer, cancer.
• Pierre Joassin, 74, Belgian film director and screenwriter (Maigret, Josephine, Guardian Angel).
• Zoran Kalezić, 72, Serbian-Montenegrin singer, lung cancer.
• Marie Kovářová, 95, Czech gymnast, Olympic champion (1948).
• Wyllie Longmore, 82, Jamaican-born British actor (Coronation Street, Love Actually), cancer.
• Sławomir Maciejowski, 71, Polish Olympic rower (1972).
• Alan Mackay-Sim, 71, Australian biomedical scientist.
• Rosi Mittermaier, 72, German alpine skier, double Olympic champion (1976).
• Géza Morcsányi, 70, Hungarian playwright and actor (On Body and Soul).
• Calvin Muhammad, 64, American football player (Los Angeles Raiders, Washington Redskins, San Diego Chargers).
• Marino Penna, 93, Chilean chemical engineer and politician, deputy (1965–1973).
• Beeyar Prasad, 61, Indian lyricist (Kilichundan Mampazham, Njan Salperu Ramankutty, Vamanapuram Bus Route), complications from a stroke.
• Volodymyr Radchenko, 74, Ukrainian politician and intelligence officer, vice prime minister (2007), minister of internal affairs (1994–1995) and twice head of the SBU.
• Hans Rebele, 79, German footballer (1860 Munich, West Germany national team).
• Sim Wong Hoo, 67, Singaporean entrepreneur, founder of Creative Technology.
• Miiko Taka, 97, American actress (Sayonara, The Art of Love, Walk, Don't Run). (death announced on this date)
• Maarten van Emden, 85, Dutch-Canadian mathematician and computer scientist.
• Fay Weldon, 91, British author (The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, Puffball, The Cloning of Joanna May), essayist and playwright.
• Wu Sheng, 88, Chinese nuclear engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
• Xu Mi, 85, Chinese nuclear engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

3

• Armand Joel Banaken Bassoken, 39, Cameroonian footballer (Persewangi Banyuwangi, Persijap Jepara, PSPS Pekanbaru), traffic collision.
• Karim Bennani, 87, Moroccan painter.
• Alberto Borin, 82, Belgian politician, senator (1987–1991, 1994–1995) and MP (1995–1999).
• James D. Brubaker, 85, American film producer (Rocky, Bruce Almighty, Gia), multiple strokes.
• Danièle Brun, 84, French academic and psychologist.
• Ib Christensen, 92, Danish politician, MP (1973–1975, 1977–1981), MEP (1984–1994).
• Theo Coetzee, 74, South African politician, MP (2009–2014), cancer.
• Walter Cunningham, 90, American astronaut (Apollo 7), complications from a fall.
• Seble Desta, 91, Ethiopian princess.
• Mohamed Enani, 83, Egyptian writer and translator.
• Elena Huelva, 20, Spanish influencer and writer, Ewing sarcoma.
• Laxman Pandurang Jagtap, 59, Indian politician, Maharashtra MLA (since 2009), cancer.
• Ruslan Khasbulatov, 80, Russian economist and politician, chairman of the Supreme Soviet (1991–1993).
• Greta Kiernan, 89, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly (1978–1980).
• Joseph Koo, 91, Hong Kong film composer (The Way of the Dragon, Fist of Fury, A Terra-Cotta Warrior).
• Eric Low, 75, Singaporean politician.
• James Lowenstein, 95, American diplomat, ambassador to Luxembourg (1977–1981).
• Abdelsalam Majali, 97, Jordanian physician and politician, prime minister (1993–1995, 1997–1998).
• Aleksey Malashenko, 71, Russian academic and political scientist.
• Frederick J. Marshall, 71, American judge, justice of the New York Supreme Court (2000–2022), non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
• Notis Mavroudis, 77, Greek guitarist and composer, fall.
• Mimosa, 62, French magician.
• Silvio Parnis, 57, Maltese politician, MP (1998–2022), cancer.
• Petr Pavlásek, 75, Czech Olympic weightlifter (1972, 1976).
• Robbie Pierce, 63, American off-road racing driver, scuba diving accident.
• Mitică Popescu, 86, Romanian actor (The Earth's Most Beloved Son, The Moromete Family, The Moment).
• Alan Rankine, 64, Scottish musician (The Associates).
• Nicolás Redondo, 95, Spanish union leader and politician, secretary general of the UGT (1976–1994) and deputy (1977–1987).
• Jeremy Salmond, 79, New Zealand heritage architect, NZIA Gold Medal winner (2018).
• Sergi Schaaff, 85, Spanish television producer (Saber y ganar, Ruta Quetzal).
• Nate Thayer, 62, American journalist (Far Eastern Economic Review, Jane's Defence Weekly, Soldier of Fortune).
• Giorgio Tombesi, 96, Italian politician, deputy (1976–1983).
• Páll Vang, 73, Faroese politician, minister of agriculture, health, transport and justice (1981–1985).
• Norbert Werbs, 82, German Roman Catholic prelate and theologian, auxiliary bishop of Schwerin (1981–1994) and Hamburg (1994–2015).
• Zhao Qiguo, 92, Chinese soil scientist, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
• Zhou Lingzhao, 103, Chinese painter.
• Lyuben Zidarov, 99, Bulgarian visual artist.

2

• Alain Acart, 71, French Olympic sprint canoer (1972, 1976), heart attack.
• Lincoln Almond, 86, American politician and lawyer, governor of Rhode Island (1995–2003), U.S. attorney for the district of Rhode Island (1969–1978, 1981–1993).
• Ken Block, 55, American rally driver (Rally America, Global Rallycross), co-founder of DC Shoes, snowmobile rollover.
• Frank Cameron, 90, New Zealand cricketer (Otago, national team).
• Suzy McKee Charnas, 83, American novelist (The Kingdom of Kevin Malone, The Holdfast Chronicles) and short story writer ("Boobs").
• Molly Corbett Broad, 81, American academic administrator.
• Catherine David, 73, French-American literary critic and novelist.
• Roxanne Donnery, 79, American politician, cancer.
• Andrew Downes, 72, British classical composer.
• Cai Emmons, 71, American author and blogger, complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Viktor Fainberg, 91, Russian philologist and Soviet dissident.
• Frank Galati, 79, American theatre director (The Grapes of Wrath, Ragtime) and screenwriter (The Accidental Tourist), Tony winner (1990), cancer.
• Cliff Gustafson, 91, American Hall of Fame baseball coach (Texas Longhorns), heart failure.
• Richard H. Hanson, 91, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives (1967–1968).
• Bobby Hogue, 83, American politician, member of the Arkansas House of Representatives (1979–1998).
• Kurt Horres, 90, German theatre director (Deutsche Oper am Rhein).
• Hu Fuming, 87, Chinese philosopher and politician, COVID-19.
• Thomas L. Hughes, 97, American government official, director of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (1963–1969).
• John Huo Cheng, 96, Chinese Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of Fenyang (since 1991).
• Mubasshar Hussein, 79, Bangladeshi architect and independence activist.
• Jean Nehr, 93, French actor (Summer of '62, Plus belle la vie).
• Dumitru Radu Popescu, 87, Romanian novelist and poet.
• Marilyn Stafford, 97, American-born British photographer.
• Robert Stephan, 89, American lawyer, Kansas attorney general (1979–1995).
• Siddeshwar Swami, 82, Indian Hindu religious leader.
• Kajsa Thoor, 51, Swedish television presenter, apartment fire.
• Abderrahim Tounsi, 86, Moroccan comedian.
• Wang Zhiliang, 94, Chinese translator.

1

• Mario Artali, 84, Italian businessman and politician, deputy (1972–1976).
• Francisco Bozinovic, 63, Chilean-Croatian biologist and academic, cancer.
• Martin Davis, 94, American mathematician (Davis–Putnam algorithm).
• N. C. Debbarma, 80, Indian politician, Tripura MLA (since 2018), stroke.
• Fan Weitang, 87, Chinese mining engineer, member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
• Gangsta Boo, 43, American rapper (Three 6 Mafia).
• Tetsuo Hasegawa, 84, Japanese actor (Mito Kōmon).
• Viktor Ivanenko, 75, Russian security officer.
• Bob Jongen, 95, German-born Dutch footballer (Alemannia Aachen, Fortuna 54, Roda Sport).
• R. K. Krishna Kumar, 84, Indian entrepreneur (Tata Sons, Sir Dorabji Tata and Allied Trusts), heart attack.
• Kuo Nan-hung, 86, Taiwanese politician, minister of transportation and communications (1987–1990) and president of the NCTU (1979–1987), COVID-19.
• Edith Lank, 96, American author and advice columnist.
• Elizabeth Livingstone, 93, English Anglican theologian.
• Kadri Mälk, 64, Estonian visual artist and jewellery designer.
• Frank McGarvey, 66, Scottish footballer (St Mirren, Celtic, national team), pancreatic cancer.
• Art McNally, 97, American Hall of Fame football official, director of officiating for the NFL (1968–1991).
• Kelly Monteith, 80, American comedian.
• Meenakshi Narain, 58, Indian-born American experimental physicist.
• Lise Nørgaard, 105, Danish journalist and writer (Matador).
• Edith Pearlman, 86, American short story writer.
• Apostolos Pitsos, 104, Greek industrialist and businessman.
• Sir Michael Rawlins, 81, British clinical pharmacologist, chair of the MHRA (2014–2020).
• Bohdan Rebryk, 84, Ukrainian political prisoner and politician, MP (1990–1994).
• Bobby Rivard, 83, Canadian ice hockey player (Pittsburgh Penguins), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Mako Sajko, 95, Slovenian director and screenwriter.
• Jacques Sereys, 94, French actor (On Guard, Chouchou, Towards Zero).
• Lázaro Valdés, 82, Cuban son and jazz musician.
• Wang Hao, 92, Chinese military officer.
• Fred White, 67, American Hall of Fame drummer (Earth, Wind & Fire).
• Zhu Zushou, 77, Chinese diplomat, ambassador to Hungary (2003–2007) and the Netherlands (2001–2003), COVID-19.

External links

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