Deaths in April 2014

The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.

1

 * Bai Dongcai, 98, Chinese politician.
 * Andreas Bjørkum, 82, Norwegian philologist.
 * Anker Buch, 74, Danish violinist.
 * Pierre Capretz, 89, French linguist and academic, creator of French in Action series.
 * Melissa Minnich Coleman, 96, American architect.
 * Guillermo Delgado, 83, Peruvian footballer.
 * King Fleming, 91, American jazz pianist, natural causes.
 * Essie Garrett, 74, American ultramarathon runner.
 * Rudolph Hargrave, 89, American judge, member of the Oklahoma Supreme Court (1978–2010), Chief Justice (1989–1990, 2001–2002).
 * Jacques Le Goff, 90, French historian.
 * Andrew Joseph McDonald, 90, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Little Rock (1972–2000).
 * Bill Mitchell, 85, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings), kidney failure.
 * Carlos Oneto, 84, Peruvian actor and comic.
 * Merimeri Penfold, 93, New Zealand Māori language academic (University of Auckland), cancer.
 * Rolf Rendtorff, 88, German academic, Emeritus Professor of Old Testament (University of Heidelberg).
 * Harry Rowe, 89, Australian footballer and cricketer.
 * Colin Scott, 80, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Hulme (1984–1998).
 * John W. Shelton, 85, American politician, member of the West Virginia House of Delegates (1995–2004).
 * Alida van der Anker-Doedens, 91, Dutch Olympic silver-medalist sprint canoer (1948).
 * Keane Wallis-Bennett, 12, British student, crushed in wall collapse.
 * Norman Warner, 70, Canadian politician and insurance broker, cancer.

2

 * Taha Basry, 67, Egyptian football player and manager.
 * Ibrahim Bin Shakaran, 34, Moroccan militant, shot.
 * Richard Brick, 68, American film producer (Deconstructing Harry) and executive, New York City Film Commissioner (1992–1994), esophageal cancer.
 * Stephanie Camp, 46, American historian, cancer.
 * Robert Clodius, 93, American academic.
 * Everett De Roche, 67, Australian screenwriter, cancer.
 * Harris Goldsmith, 77, American pianist and critic.
 * Sandy Grossman, 78, American sports director (CBS Sports, Fox Sports), directed 10 Super Bowls, cancer.
 * Lyndsie Holland, 75, English opera singer and actress.
 * Lucy Hood, 56, American television executive (News Corporation), President of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (since 2013), cancer.
 * Glyn Jones, 82, South African writer and actor.
 * Mamoon Kazi, 78, Pakistani judge, member of the Supreme Court (1997–2000) and Sindh High Court (1985–1997).
 * Willi Kafel, 83, Austrian Olympic gymnast.
 * Michael Pearse Lacey, 97, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Toronto (1979–1993).
 * Allan Lindsay, 88, British Olympic athlete.
 * Miloš Mikeln, 83, Slovene writer.
 * Consuelo Moure, 67, Colombian actress, lung cancer.
 * Carl Epting Mundy Jr., 78, American military officer, Commandant of the Marine Corps and member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1991–1995), Merkel cell carcinoma.
 * Alfred Niepieklo, 86, German footballer.
 * Mary Lou Petty, 98, American Olympic swimmer (1936).
 * Unnikrishnan Puthur, 80, Indian novelist.
 * Gustavo Rodríguez, 67, Venezuelan film, stage and television actor.
 * Vern Rutsala, 80, American author and poet.
 * Alieu Badara Saja Taal, 70, Gambian academic and newspaper executive, managing director of The Daily Observer, liver infection.
 * Mahjoub Sharif, 66, Sudanese poet and activist.
 * David Werdyger, 94, Polish-born American Hasidic singer.
 * Urs Widmer, 75, Swiss author.

3

 * Joseph Archibald, 80, Kittitian-born British Virgin Islander jurist, member of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court.
 * Andrei Bodiu, 48, Romanian poet.
 * Máximo Cajal López, 79, Spanish diplomat.
 * Régine Deforges, 78, French author, editor, director and playwright.
 * Akira Endo, 75, Japanese-born American conductor.
 * Pedro Fré, 89, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Corumbá (1985–1989) and Barretos (1989–2000).
 * Edvard Grimstad, 81, Norwegian politician, MP for Østfold (1989–1997), Governor of Østfold (1998–2003).
 * Norval Horner, 83, Canadian politician, MP for Battleford—Kindersley (1972–1974).
 * Fred Kida, 93, American cartoonist.
 * Virginie Korte-van Hemel, 84, Dutch politician, Deputy Minister of Justice (1982–1989).
 * Paul Lüönd, 63, Swiss musician and politician.
 * Jovan Pavlović, 77, Serbian Orthodox prelate, Metropolitan Bishop of Zagreb, Ljubljana and Italy.
 * Prince Michael of Prussia, 74, German author.
 * Heribert Reitböck, 80, Austrian neuroscientist.
 * John Ryan, 86, Irish politician, Leas-Cheann Comhairle (1982–1987).
 * Paul Salamunovich, 86, American choral director (Los Angeles Master Chorale) and film conductor (Dracula), complications from West Nile virus.
 * Tommy Lynn Sells, 49, American serial killer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Arthur Smith, 93, American musician and songwriter ("Guitar Boogie", "Dueling Banjos").
 * Ed Spencer, 85, American race car driver.
 * Dame Dorothy Winstone, 95, New Zealand educationalist and academic.

4

 * José Aguilar, 55, Cuban Olympic bronze-medalist light-welterweight boxer (1980), cerebral infarction.
 * Len Ardill, 83, Australian politician, member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Salisbury (1986–1992) and Archerfield (1992–1998).
 * İsmet Atlı, 83, Turkish Olympic champion light heavyweight freestyle wrestler (1960).
 * James Bates, 61, American conductor.
 * Dave Blakey, 84, English footballer (Chesterfield).
 * William W. Blanton, 90, American politician, member of the Texas House of Representatives (1976–1988), pneumonia.
 * Archie Boyd, 95, English Royal Air Force officer.
 * Eleanor de Freitas, 23, English false rape victim, suicide by hanging.
 * Willie Duggan, 88, Irish Olympic boxer.
 * Kumba Ialá, 61, Bissau-Guinean politician, President (2000–2003), cardiopulmonary arrest.
 * Charles Jordan, 76, American politician.
 * Peter Liechti, 63, Swiss filmmaker.
 * Margo MacDonald, 70, Scottish politician, MP for Glasgow Govan (1973–1974), MSP for Lothian (since 1999), Parkinson's disease.
 * Klaus Meyer, 76, German footballer.
 * Anja Niedringhaus, 48, German photojournalist (Associated Press), Pulitzer Prize winner for Breaking News Photography (2005), shot.
 * Curtis Bill Pepper, 96, American journalist (Newsweek) and author.
 * Muhammad Qutb, 95, Egyptian Islamist author and academic.
 * Emma Reed, 88, American Olympic athlete.
 * Richard Small, 68, American racehorse trainer (Concern), cancer.
 * Gyula Szabó, 83, Hungarian actor.

5

 * Azamour, 13, Irish racehorse and sire, euthanised.
 * Óscar Avilés, 90, Peruvian guitarist and singer.
 * Poul Erik Bech, 76, Danish football manager.
 * Willis Blair, 90, Canadian politician, Mayor of East York (1973–1975).
 * Andy Davidson, 81, Scottish footballer (Hull City).
 * Alan Davie, 93, Scottish painter and musician.
 * Mariano Díaz, 74, Spanish Olympic racing cyclist.
 * Antonio Díaz Gil, 79, Spanish footballer.
 * Rolv Enge, 92, Norwegian resistance member and architect.
 * Stuart Fullerton, 74, American entomologist (University of Central Florida).
 * Leif Haanes, 81, Norwegian ship-owner and Christian leader.
 * Wayne Henderson, 74, American jazz trombonist (The Jazz Crusaders) and record producer, heart failure.
 * Rhondda Alder Kelly, 87, Australian model, Miss Australia (1946).
 * Peter Matthiessen, 86, American author (At Play in the Fields of the Lord, The Snow Leopard), leukemia.
 * L. B. McGinnis, 72, American novelist.
 * Stanislaus Okurut, 84, Ugandan politician, Minister of Labour, Sports and Transport, heart failure.
 * John Pinette, 50, American comedian and actor (Parker Lewis Can't Lose, The Punisher, Junior), pulmonary embolism.
 * Gordon Smith, 59, Scottish footballer (St Johnstone, Aston Villa).
 * Yvonne Stoffel-Wagener, 82, Luxembourgian Olympic gymnast.
 * Peter Thorne, 90, English fighter pilot and diplomat.
 * José Wilker, 66, Brazilian actor (Medicine Man) and director, heart attack.

6

 * Mary Anderson, 96, American actress (Gone With the Wind).
 * Jacques Castérède, 87, French composer.
 * Leee Black Childers, 68, American punk rock and art photographer (The Factory, Andy Warhol).
 * Liv Dommersnes, 91, Norwegian actress.
 * Sir Maurice Drake, 91, British judge of the High Court of England and Wales.
 * Charles Farthing, 60, New Zealand doctor, heart attack.
 * Peter Kaberere, 30, Kenyan gospel singer, electrocuted.
 * Erzsi Kovács, 85, Hungarian pop singer and performer.
 * Domenico Mennitti, 75, Italian politician, Mayor of Brindisi (2004–2011).
 * Mickey Rooney, 93, American actor (The Black Stallion, Breakfast at Tiffany's, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World), Emmy winner (1982), natural causes.
 * Leandro Rovirosa Wade, 96, Mexican politician and engineer, Governor of Tabasco (1977–1982).
 * Farhad Sepahbody, 85, Iranian exiled diplomat, Ambassador to Morocco (1976–1979).
 * Chuck Stone, 89, American navigator, journalist and academic, Tuskegee Airman during World War II, co-founder of the NABJ.
 * Massimo Tamburini, 70, Italian motorcycle designer (Ducati 916, MV Agusta F4), lung cancer.
 * Van Vlahakis, 79, Greek-born American chemist.

7

 * Andrei Aleksenko, 80, Russian scientist.
 * Ron Barkhouse, 87, Canadian politician.
 * Kevin Bokeili, 51, French science fiction writer.
 * Ashish Bose, 83, Indian demographer, coined "BIMARU" term, fall.
 * Claudine Bouché, 88, French film editor (Shoot the Piano Player, Jules and Jim).
 * George Dureau, 83, American painter and photographer, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Peaches Geldof, 25, English television presenter, writer and model, heroin overdose.
 * Sandy Green, 88, British mathematician.
 * Alexandre Guyodo, 91, French Olympic steeplechaser (1948).
 * Géza Henni, 87, Hungarian Olympic footballer.
 * Xaver Höger, 84, German Olympic athlete.
 * Robert Hull, 68, American architect, stroke.
 * Noel Knockwood, 81, Canadian Mi'kmaq spiritual leader and civil servant, Sergeant-at-Arms for Legislative Assembly of Nova Scotia (2000–2005), National Aboriginal Achievement Award (2002), stroke.
 * Ernest Kurnow, 101, American academic.
 * V. K. Murthy, 90, Indian cinematographer (Kaagaz Ke Phool, Pyaasa, Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam), recipient of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award (2008).
 * Perlita Neilson, 80, British actress.
 * Zeituni Onyango, 61, Kenyan computer programmer, involved in immigration case during 2008 US presidential election campaign, breast cancer and respiratory ailments.
 * Jack Satter, 92, American philanthropist, partly owned the New York Yankees.
 * Jerry Sharkey, 71, American Wright brothers historian, conceived idea for Dayton Aviation Heritage National Historical Park, heart failure.
 * John Shirley-Quirk, 82, English bass-baritone opera singer, cancer.
 * George Shuffler, 88, American Hall of Fame bluegrass musician (The Stanley Brothers).
 * Steve Smith, 64, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives (1999–2012).
 * Josep Maria Subirachs, 87, Spanish Catalan sculptor and painter, Parkinson's disease.
 * Scato Swu, 90, Indian politician.
 * Frans van der Lugt, 75, Dutch Jesuit priest, shot.
 * Čedo Vuković, 93, Montenegrin writer.
 * Royce Waltman, 72, American college basketball coach (Indiana State).
 * Emilio Yap, 88, Filipino businessman and philanthropist.

8

 * Starla Brodie, 58, American poker player.
 * Jim W. Brown, 87, Australian footballer.
 * Sandy Brown, 75, Scottish footballer (Everton).
 * Emmanuel III Delly, 86, Iraqi Chaldean Catholic hierarch, Patriarch of Babylon (2003–2012).
 * Karlheinz Deschner, 89, German writer and activist.
 * Robert Dickson, 88, Australian architect.
 * Shrish Chandra Dikshit, 91, Indian politician, MP for Varanasi (1991–1996), DGP for Uttar Pradesh.
 * Charles Anthony Fager, 90, Bahamian neurosurgeon.
 * Jay R. Galbraith, 75, American organizational theorist.
 * Phil Hardy, 69, British film and music journalist.
 * Eric Harroun, 31, American jihadist, drug overdose.
 * Andrew Intamba, 67, Namibian diplomat and security director, first Ambassador to Egypt (since 2008), Director of the Central Intelligence Service (1991–2007).
 * Art Kimball, 72, American politician, member of the Utah Senate (1977–1981).
 * Ghiță Licu, 68, Romanian Olympic bronze and silver medallist handball player (1972, 1976).
 * Ivan Mercep, 84, New Zealand architect (Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa).
 * Monte Olsen, 57, American politician, member of the Wyoming House of Representatives (2002–2008), myocardial ischemia.
 * Herbert Schoen, 84, German footballer.
 * Cornelius Taiwo, 103, Nigerian academic.
 * The Ultimate Warrior, 54, American Hall of Fame professional wrestler (WWF, WCW), heart attack.
 * Adrianne Wadewitz, 37, American scholar, rockclimbing fall.

9

 * Manuel Alejandro Aponte Gómez, 43, Mexican bodyguard (Joaquín Guzmán Loera), shot.
 * Python Anghelo, 59, Romanian-born American artist, video game and pinball machine designer (Joust, Taxi, PIN•BOT), cancer.
 * Gil Askey, 89, American-born Australian musician and composer (Lady Sings the Blues), lymphoma.
 * Chris Banks, 41, American football player (Denver Broncos, Atlanta Falcons).
 * Jacob Birnbaum, 87, German-born American Jewish activist, founder of the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry.
 * Peter Michael Blayney, 93, Australian artist.
 * Jos Chabert, 81, Belgian politician, Minister of State (2009).
 * Joan Crespo Hita, 87, Spanish road bicycle racer.
 * Rory Ellinger, 72, American politician, member of the Missouri House of Representatives (since 2010), liver cancer.
 * Norman Girvan, 72, Jamaican professor and politician, Secretary General of the Association of Caribbean States (2000–2004), fall.
 * Robin Holliday, 81, British molecular biologist.
 * Sir James Holt, 91, British medieval historian.
 * Daniel S. Koltun, 80, American theoretical physicist.
 * Boniface Lele, 66, Kenyan Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Mombasa (2005–2013), Bishop of Kitui (1995–2005), cardiac arrest.
 * René Mertens, 92, Belgian cyclist.
 * Eddie Miller, 82, American basketball player.
 * Ale Narendra, 67, Indian politician, MP for Nizamabad (1999–2004) and Medak (2004–2008), Andhra Pradesh MLA for Himayatnagar (1983–1999).
 * Val Ogden, 90, American politician, member of the Washington House of Representatives (1991–2003), cancer.
 * A. N. R. Robinson, 87, Trinbagonian politician, President (1997–2003), Prime Minister (1986–1991), recognized for role in establishing the International Criminal Court.
 * Ferdinando Terruzzi, 90, Italian Olympic champion cyclist (1948).
 * Svetlana Velmar-Janković, 80, Serbian writer.

10

 * Dominique Baudis, 66, French journalist, writer and politician, Mayor of Toulouse (1983–2001), cancer.
 * Justin Marie Bomboko, 86, Congolese politician, Head of Government (1960–1961), Foreign Minister (1960–1963, 1965–1969, 1981).
 * George Bornemissza, 90, Australian entomologist and ecologist.
 * Ray Colledge, 91, British climber and mountaineer.
 * Commendable, 16, American Thoroughbred racehorse, won the 2000 Belmont Stakes.
 * Joe Dini, 85, American politician, member of the Nevada House of Representatives (1967–2002).
 * Bill Doolittle, 90, American football player and coach (Western Michigan Broncos).
 * László Felkai, 73, Hungarian Olympic champion and dual bronze medallist water polo player (1960, 1964, 1968).
 * Jim Flaherty, 64, Canadian politician, Minister of Finance (2006–2014), MP for Whitby—Oshawa (since 2006), MPP for Whitby—Ajax (1995–2005), heart attack.
 * Phyllis Frelich, 70, American Tony Award-winning actress (Children of a Lesser God), progressive supranuclear palsy.
 * Ken Greengrass, 87, American television producer.
 * Carol Grimaldi, 75, American restaurateur, co-founder of Grimaldi's Pizzeria, cancer.
 * James Hilleary, 90, American architect and painter.
 * Ján Hirka, 90, Slovak Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Prešov (1990–2002).
 * Richard Hoggart, 95, British academic and author (The Uses of Literacy), dementia.
 * Thomas M. Jacobs, 87, American Olympic skier (1952).
 * M. Daniel Lane, 83, American biochemist, myeloma.
 * Doris Pilkington Garimara, 76, Australian author (Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence), ovarian cancer.
 * Gregory White Smith, 62, American biographer (Jackson Pollock: An American Saga), Pulitzer Prize winner (1991), brain tumor.
 * Anatoly Sukhorukov, 78, Russian physicist.
 * Eddy Thomas, 82, Jamaican dancer, choreographer and teacher, co-founder of National Dance Theatre Company.
 * Sue Townsend, 68, British novelist and playwright (Adrian Mole series), stroke.
 * Sidney Weintraub, 91, American economist.

11

 * Alfredo Alcón, 84, Argentine actor (The Innocents, El Santo de la Espada, Sugar Harvest), respiratory disease.
 * Antonio Aldonza, 88, Spanish footballer.
 * Eppie Archuleta, 92, American weaving artist, recipient of the National Heritage Fellowship (1985).
 * Nandu Bhende, 58, Indian musician and actor, heart attack.
 * Rolf Brem, 88, Swiss graphic artist, sculptor and illustrator.
 * Hal Cooper, 91, American television director and producer (I Dream of Jeannie, Maude, Gimme a Break!), heart failure.
 * Edna Doré, 92, British actress (EastEnders, Les Misérables, Another Year), emphysema.
 * Dunstan Endawie Enchana, 78, Malaysian politician, Sarawak MLA for Krian, Deputy Chief Minister (1977–1979), High Commissioner to Australia and New Zealand.
 * Cele Hahn, 72, American politician and media owner (WNNZ (AM), WNNZ-FM), member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1995–2003).
 * Nevyl Hand, 90, Australian rugby league player.
 * Bill Henry, 86, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Cincinnati Reds), heart attack.
 * Zander Hollander, 91, American sportswriter, journalist, editor and archivist.
 * Lou Hudson, 69, American basketball player (St. Louis Hawks, Los Angeles Lakers), complications from a stroke.
 * Myer S. Kripke, 100, American rabbi and philanthropist.
 * Bernard J. Lechner, 82, American electronics engineer (RCA).
 * Leonard Levy, 74, Jamaican cricketer.
 * William J. Lyons Jr., 92, American politician, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives and Senate.
 * Eugene McGehee, 85, American lawyer, jurist and politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives (1960–1972).
 * Helga Mees, 76, German Olympic silver- and bronze-medalist fencer (1964).
 * Sergey Nepobedimy, 92, Soviet rocket designer (3M6 Shmel, Arena, OTR-23 Oka, OTR-21 Tochka, 9K11 Malyutka).
 * Ron Pundak, 58, Israeli diplomat, involved in Oslo I Accord, cancer.
 * Sanggeun, 9, South Korean dog actor, complications of cancer.
 * Patrick Seale, 83, Northern Irish journalist, foreign correspondent and historian (The Observer), brain cancer.
 * Rolando Ugolini, 89, Italian-born British footballer (Middlesbrough).
 * Jesse Winchester, 69, American musician and songwriter, bladder cancer.
 * Carl Zimmermann, 96, American news anchor (WITI) and World War II war correspondent.
 * Darrell Zwerling, 85, American actor (Chinatown, Grease, Starsky and Hutch).

12

 * Pierre Autin-Grenier, 67, French author.
 * Robin Capell, 79, South African cricketer.
 * Jerry Carle, 90, American football, basketball, and baseball player and coach.
 * James M. Coleman, 90, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly (1966–1972).
 * Eduard Gaugler, 85, German economist.
 * Beverly Hanson, 89, American golfer, U.S. Amateur Champion (1950), LPGA Championship (1955), Western Open (1956), Titleholders Championship (1958), complications of Alzheimer's and COPD.
 * Robert Harder, 84, American politician, member of the Kansas House of Representatives (1961–1967), brain tumor.
 * Fred Ho, 56, American saxophonist, composer and social activist, complications from colorectal cancer.
 * Brita Koivunen, 82, Finnish schlager singer.
 * Pierre-Henri Menthéour, 53, French racing cyclist, cancer.
 * My Flag, 21, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
 * Øystein Øystå, 79, Norwegian writer.
 * Maurício Alves Peruchi, 24, Brazilian footballer, traffic collision.
 * Robert Potter, 64, British geographer.
 * Hal R. Smith, 82, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals).
 * Billy Standridge, 60, American race car driver and team owner (NASCAR, Nationwide Series), cancer.
 * Hamish Watt, 88, Scottish politician, MP for Banffshire (1974–1979).

13

 * Michael Boddy, 80, English-Australian actor and writer.
 * Howard Brandt, 75, American physicist.
 * John Brunsdon, 80, British artist.
 * Emma Castelnuovo, 100, Italian mathematician.
 * Mahay Choramo, Ethiopian evangelist.
 * Peter Clarke, 84, South African artist.
 * Peter Drummond-Murray of Mastrick, 84, Scottish herald and banker.
 * Fred Enke, 89, American football player (Detroit Lions, Philadelphia Eagles), dementia.
 * Pat Gish, 87, American journalist (The Mountain Eagle), complications from kidney failure.
 * Sally Haydon, 55, American equestrian and academic.
 * Edward Kamuda, 74, American historian, co-founder of the Titanic Historical Society, consultant on Titanic.
 * Ernesto Laclau, 78, Argentine post-Marxist political theorist, heart attack.
 * Otto Petersen, 53, American ventriloquist and comedian (Otto & George).
 * Michael Ruppert, 63, American author, journalist, radio show host and conspiracy hawk, suicide by gunshot.
 * Theoklitos Setakis, 83, Greek Orthodox hierarch, Metropolitan Bishop of Ioannina (since 1975).
 * Irene Shepard, 91, American politician, member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives.
 * Rafał Sznajder, 41, Polish Olympic fencer (1996, 2000, 2004), heart attack.

14

 * Kshetra Pratap Adhikary, 70–71, Nepali poet and writer, heart attack.
 * Roland Issifu Alhassan, 81, Ghanaian diplomat and politician, Ambassador to Germany (2001–2006), MP for Tolon-Kumbungu (1969–1971, 1979–1981), co-founder of the New Patriotic Party.
 * Ian Askew, 92, British officer.
 * Howard Behrens, 80, American artist.
 * Reid Buckley, 83, American novelist, public speaker and columnist, cancer.
 * Nina Cassian, 89, Romanian poet, heart attack.
 * Joe Curl, 59, American basketball coach (University of Houston), heart failure.
 * Phillip Hayes Dean, 83, American stage actor, director and playwright, aortic aneurysm.
 * Reg Egan, 86, Australian footballer.
 * Peter Ellson, 88, English footballer (Crewe Alexandra).
 * Brian Harradine, 79, Australian politician, Senator for Tasmania (1975–2005), longest-serving independent parliamentarian, stroke.
 * Thorleif Holth, 83, Norwegian politician.
 * Ollie Hopkins, 78, English footballer (Barnsley, Peterborough United, Brentwood Town).
 * Norman Kelvin, 89, American scholar.
 * Crad Kilodney, 66, Canadian writer, cancer.
 * Ingeborg von Kusserow, 95, German actress.
 * Albert Manent, 83, Spanish writer and activist.
 * Rudolf Matutinović, 87, Croatian sculptor.
 * Wally Olins, 83, British business consultancy and public relations executive, Chairman of Saffron Brand Consultants.
 * Manuel Ortega, 92, Spanish painter.
 * Armando Peraza, 89, Cuban-born American Latin jazz percussionist (Santana, George Shearing, Dave Brubeck), pneumonia.
 * Paul Sadala, Congolese militant, shot.
 * Davorin Savnik, 85, Slovene industrial designer and architect.
 * Bill Sinegal, 85, American rhythm and blues musician.
 * Mick Staton, 74, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives for West Virginia's 3rd district (1981–1983).

15

 * Kirsten Bishopric, 50, Canadian voice actress (Sailor Moon, Jacob Two-Two Meets the Hooded Fang), lung cancer.
 * Little Joe Cook, 91, American doo-wop singer and songwriter.
 * Robert-Casimir Dosseh-Anyron, 88, Togolese Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Lomé (1962–1992).
 * John L. Ducker, 91, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives (1960–1968).
 * Shane Gibson, 35, American guitarist (Korn, stOrk), complications from a blood clotting disorder.
 * Lowell P. Hager, 87, American enzymologist and protein chemist.
 * Robert Heard, 84, American journalist (Associated Press), complications from hip surgery.
 * William Hird, 92, Australian cricketer.
 * John Houbolt, 95, American aerospace engineer, complications from Parkinson's disease.
 * Júnior, 70, Spanish singer and actor.
 * Don King, 85, American football player (Cleveland Browns, Denver Broncos, Green Bay Packers).
 * Luo Qingchang, 96, Chinese politician, member of the Central Committee (1973–1987) and Standing Committee (1978–1983).
 * Thomas C. Salamone, 87, American politician, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives (1963–1971).
 * Ratchanee Sripraiwan, 82, Thai language scholar, author and academic.
 * Claudio Tello, 50, Chilean footballer (Cobreloa), cancer.
 * Rosemary Tonks, 85, British poet.
 * Eliseo Verón, 78, Argentine sociologist, anthropologist and semiotician, cancer.
 * Hugo Villar, 88, Uruguayan physician and politician.
 * Sir Owen Woodhouse, 97, New Zealand judge, member of the Supreme Court, President of the Court of Appeal (1981–1986).
 * Anselmo Zarza Bernal, 97, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Linares (1962–1966) and León (1966–1992).

16

 * Basil Anthony, 76, Sri Lankan cricket umpire.
 * Joan Blanch, 77, Spanish lawyer and politician, Mayor of Badalona (1983–1999), cancer.
 * Anne Briscoe, 96, American biochemist.
 * Brock Brower, 82, American writer.
 * Gyude Bryant, 65, Liberian politician, Chairman of the Transitional Government (2003–2006).
 * Douglas L. Coleman, 82, Canadian scientist and philanthropist, recipient of the Shaw Prize (2009) and the Albert Lasker Award (2010).
 * Jim Cotter, 71, English priest.
 * Richard Greenfield, 71, American newspaper publisher (Jewish Ledger).
 * Khosrow Jahanbani, 72, Iranian royal (Qajar dynasty).
 * Stan Kelly-Bootle, 84, British songwriter, author and computer engineer.
 * Frank Kopel, 65, Scottish footballer (Dundee United), complications from dementia.
 * Jiří Načeradský, 74, Czech artist.
 * Basil A. Paterson, 87, American politician and labor lawyer, New York Secretary of State (1979–1983), member of the New York Senate (1965–1970).
 * Leonard Rosen, 83, American bankruptcy lawyer, co-founder of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz.
 * Aulis Rytkönen, 85, Finnish football player and manager.
 * Jacques Servier, 92, French physician and pharmaceutical executive, founder of Servier Laboratories.
 * Ernst Florian Winter, 90, Austrian-American historian and political scientist.

17

 * Ashwath Aiyappa, 30, Indian cricketer, drowned.
 * Mayra Alejandra, 58, Venezuelan actress, cancer.
 * Nancy Brataas, 86, American politician, member of the Minnesota Senate (1975–1992), emphysema and COPD.
 * Steve Cappiello, 89, American politician, Mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey (1981–1984).
 * Allison DeLong, 73, Canadian politician.
 * Cheo Feliciano, 78, American Puerto Rican salsa and bolero composer and singer, traffic collision.
 * Andrés Uriel Gallego, 64, Colombian civil engineer and politician, Minister of Transport (2002–2010), cancer.
 * Gabriel García Márquez, 87, Colombian author (One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera), laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1982), pneumonia.
 * Jon Imber, 63, American artist, complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
 * Michael C. Janeway, 73, American newspaper editor (Boston Globe), academic and author, cancer.
 * Bernat Klein, 91, Yugoslavian-born Scottish fashion designer and spy.
 * McDowell Lee, 89, American politician, member of the Alabama House of Representatives (1955–1962), Secretary of the Alabama Senate (1963–2011), cancer.
 * Wojciech Leśnikowski, 75, Polish architect and academic, cancer.
 * Henry Maksoud, 85, Brazilian businessman, cardiac arrest.
 * Anthony Marriott, 83, British actor and playwright.
 * Karl Meiler, 64, German tennis player, complications from a fall.
 * Raul Bragança Neto, 68, São Toméan politician, Prime Minister (1996–1999).
 * L. Jay Oliva, 80, American academic and educator, President of New York University (1991–2002), pancreatic cancer.
 * Volodymyr Ivanovych Rybak, 72–73, Ukrainian politician.
 * Karpal Singh, 73, Malaysian lawyer and politician, MP for Jelutong (1978–1999) and Bukit Gelugor (since 2004), Chairman of DAP (2004–2014), traffic collision.
 * Lloyd Sommerlad, 95, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1955–1967).
 * Nikolaos Vorvolakos, 83, Greek Army officer, head of the Cypriot National Guard (1993–1998).

18

 * Habib Boularès, 80, Tunisian politician and diplomat, President of the Chamber of Deputies (1991–1997).
 * David W. Burke, 78, American television news executive, first chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, President of CBS News (1988–1990).
 * Donald Dahl, 69, American politician, member of the Kansas House of Representatives (1996–2008), plane crash.
 * Guru Dhanapal, 55, Indian film director (Unna Nenachen Pattu Padichen, Suyamvaram, Periya Manushan).
 * Mirko Đorđević, 75, Serbian publicist.
 * Sanford Jay Frank, 59, American television comedy writer (Late Night with David Letterman), brain cancer.
 * Robert Keith Gray, 92, American lobbyist and public relations official.
 * Johnley Hatimoana, 57, Solomon Islands politician, MP for Ngella (since 2013), pneumonia.
 * Deon Jackson, 68, American soul singer and songwriter, brain hemorrhage.
 * Lindy Kasperski, 63, Canadian politician.
 * Eduard Kosolapov, 38, Russian footballer, suicide by gunshot.
 * Trygve Lange-Nielsen, 92, Norwegian barrister and judge.
 * Ramon Malla Call, 91, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Lleida (1968–1999), acting Co-Prince of Andorra (1969–1971).
 * David McClarty, 63, Northern Irish politician, MLA for East Londonderry (since 1998), cancer.
 * Antonín Molčík, 74, Czech actor.
 * Tim Moran, 95, American politician, member of the Utah House of Representatives (1984–1996).
 * Brian Priestman, 87, British maestro and conductor (Denver Symphony Orchestra).
 * Andrew Sessler, 85, American physicist and academic (University of California, Berkeley), recipient of the Enrico Fermi Award (2013), cancer.
 * Zev Sufott, 86, British-born Israeli diplomat, Ambassador to the Netherlands and China.
 * Dylan Tombides, 20, Australian footballer (West Ham United), testicular cancer.

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 * Bashir Ahmad, 74, Bangladeshi playback singer.
 * Steve Antone, 92, American politician, member of the Idaho House of Representatives (1968–1996).
 * Theophil Antonicek, 76, Austrian musicologist.
 * Lindy Berry, 86, Canadian CFL football player (Edmonton Eskimos), complications from pneumonia.
 * Helena Bliss, 96, American actress and soprano.
 * Yuriy Chyrkov, 66, Russian football player and coach.
 * Derek Cooper, 88, British broadcaster (The Food Programme) and food journalist, Parkinson's disease.
 * Luciano do Valle, 66, Brazilian sports commentator.
 * George Downton, 85, English cricketer (Kent).
 * Kan Cheong Dunn, 89, Taiwanese ambassador.
 * Richard Elrod, 80, American sheriff (Cook County, Illinois) and politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives (1968–1970), liver cancer and cirrhosis.
 * Diomid Gherman, 86, Moldovan academic and politician.
 * John R. Gibson, 88, American senior circuit judge.
 * Robert Gunnell, 87, British broadcaster.
 * Mimi Kok, 80, Dutch actress, pulmonary disease.
 * Aaron Landes, 84, American rabbi and U.S. Navy chaplain, leukemia.
 * Ian McIntyre, 82, Scottish radio broadcaster and executive (BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4).
 * Mark Prothero, 57, American swimmer (USA Swimming) and defense lawyer (Gary Ridgway), lung cancer.
 * Erik Schmidt, 88, Estonian painter and writer.
 * Kevin Sharp, 43, American country music singer, complications from a digestive disorder.
 * Adhik Shirodkar, Indian lawyer and politician.
 * Sonia Silvestre, 61, Dominican singer and announcer, stroke.
 * Barry Sterling, 70, American politician, member of the Tennessee House of Representatives.
 * John Stopp, 80, Australian politician, member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council (1983–1995).
 * Frits Thors, 104, Dutch journalist and news anchor.
 * Hrant Vardanyan, 65, Armenian businessman, heart disease.
 * Arthur Woodhouse, 80, English cricketer.

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 * Joyce Anderson, 90, American furniture designer and woodworker.
 * Ruth Baltra Moreno, 75, Chilean actress, playwright, teacher, and theater director.
 * Mithat Bayrak, 85, Turkish Olympic champion wrestler (1956, 1960) and trainer.
 * Bill Blair, 92, American baseball player (Indianapolis Clowns), journalist and civil rights activist.
 * Torrey C. Brown, 77, American politician, member of the Maryland House of Delegates (1970–1994), Secretary for Natural Resources (1983–1994), heart disease.
 * Rubin Carter, 76, American middleweight boxer, subject of "Hurricane" and The Hurricane, prostate cancer.
 * Beanie Cooper, 86, American football coach.
 * Theodore Dollarhide, 65, American composer.
 * David Kerr, 86, British nephrologist.
 * Robert E. Longacre, 92, American linguist.
 * Alistair MacLeod, 77, Canadian author, complications from a stroke.
 * George E. McDonald, 90, American labor union leader.
 * Benedikt Sarnov, 87, Russian author and literary critic.
 * Peter Scoones, 76, British underwater photographer (Life on Earth, Planet Earth, The Blue Planet).
 * Yoshio Shinozuka, 90, Japanese Imperial Army soldier (Unit 731).
 * Julian Wilson, 73, British horse racing correspondent and broadcaster (BBC), cancer.
 * Neville Wran, 87, Australian politician, Premier of New South Wales (1976–1986), dementia.

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 * Edmund Abel, 92, American inventor, patented design for Mr. Coffee machine.
 * Donald Bogue, 96, American sociologist.
 * Eliza T. Dresang, 72, American academic and author.
 * Mundo Earwood, 61, American country music singer-songwriter, pancreatic cancer.
 * Herb Gray, 82, Canadian politician, Deputy Prime Minister (1997–2002), MP for Essex West (1962–1968) and Windsor West (1968–2002).
 * Tage Grøndahl, 82, Danish Olympic rower.
 * Janet Gray Hayes, 87, American politician, Mayor of San Jose (1975–1983), stroke.
 * George H. Heilmeier, 77, American inventor and technology executive, championed LCD displays, stroke.
 * Lionel Heinrich, 80, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins).
 * Craig Hill, 88, American actor (Whirlybirds, All About Eve).
 * Ladislav Hlaváček, 88, Czechoslovak football player (Dukla Prague).
 * Weldon Kern, 90, American basketball player (Oklahoma A&M Aggies).
 * John Kompara, 78, American football player (Los Angeles Chargers).
 * Harry Koundakjian, 83, American news photographer and editor (Associated Press), complications from open heart surgery.
 * Alexander Lenkov, 70, Russian actor, People's Artist (1997).
 * Roy Matsumoto, 100, American World War II veteran, recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal (2011).
 * Arlene McQuade, 77, American television actress (The Goldbergs, The Milton Berle Show), Parkinson's disease.
 * Albert Onyeawuna, 78, Nigerian footballer (national team).
 * Ramón Pons, 73, Spanish actor (Murder in a Blue World), anemia.
 * Gene Timms, 81, American politician, member of the Oregon Senate (1982–2000).
 * Francisco Ovidio Vera Intriago, 71, Ecuadorian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Portoviejo (since 1992), kidney disease.
 * Win Tin, 85, Burmese journalist and political prisoner, recipient of the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize (2001), renal failure.

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 * Harry Bell, 89, English footballer (Middlesbrough).
 * Abdul Qadir, 70, Afghan politician, Minister of Defense (1978, 1982–1986).
 * Neil Chanmugam, 73, Sri Lankan cricketer.
 * Fiona Hale, 88, American actress (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Minority Report, Seven Pounds).
 * John Hannigan, 75, Irish Gaelic footballer (Donegal).
 * Allen Jacobs, 72, American football player (Green Bay Packers, New York Giants), heart attack.
 * Bill Klucas, 72, American basketball coach, journalist and political consultant, liver cancer.
 * Jovan Krkobabić, 84, Serbian politician, Deputy Prime Minister (since 2008), Minister of Labour, Employment and Social Policy (since 2012).
 * Dennis Liwewe, 77, Zambian football player and commentator, liver failure.
 * Alfonso Márquez de la Plata, 80, Chilean politician, Minister of Agriculture (1977–1980), General Secretary of Government (1984) and Labour (1984–1988), pneumonia.
 * Ricardo Mórtola, 63, Ecuadorian architect.
 * Mohammad Naseem, 90, British Islamic leader and political activist, chairman of Birmingham Central Mosque.
 * Chris Nkulor, Nigerian actor, kidney ailment.
 * Werner Potzernheim, 87, German Olympic bronze-medalist cyclist (1952).
 * Safely Kept, 28, American Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
 * Gordon Smith, 93, British army officer.
 * Oswaldo Vigas, 90, Venezuelan painter.
 * Val Werier, 96, Canadian journalist (Winnipeg Free Press).

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 * Yozo Aoki, 85, Japanese footballer (national team).
 * Benjamín Brea, 67, Spanish-born Venezuelan musician, stomach cancer.
 * Monte Geralds, 79, American politician, member of the Michigan House of Representatives.
 * Michael Glawogger, 54, Austrian film director (Workingman's Death, Whores' Glory, Slumming), malaria.
 * Władyslawa Górska, 94, Polish chess player.
 * Jaap Havekotte, 102, Dutch skater, skate inventor and centenarian.
 * Kenneth A. R. Kennedy, 83, American archaeologist and paleontologist.
 * Federico Ling Altamirano, 75, Mexican diplomat and politician, Ambassador to the Vatican, Senator for Mexico City (2000–2006).
 * Connie Marrero, 102, Cuban baseball player (Washington Senators), oldest former Major League Baseball player.
 * Leonhard Pohl, 84, German Olympic runner (1956).
 * Lorenzo Relova, 98, Filipino judge, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (1982–1986).
 * F. Michael Rogers, 92, American Air Force general, complications from Parkinson's disease.
 * Roby Schaeffer, 83, Luxembourgian Olympic sprinter.
 * Mark Shand, 62, British travel writer and conservationist, injuries sustained from a fall.
 * Patric Standford, 75, English composer.
 * Dixie Tan, 78, Singaporean cardiologist and politician, MP for Ulu Pandan (1984–1991), brain cancer.
 * Zhu Qizhen, 86, Chinese diplomat and politician, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs (1984–1989), Ambassador to the United States (1989–1993).

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 * Angeles Arrien, 73–74, Basque-American cultural anthropologist, educator, author, lecturer and consultant, pneumonia.
 * Ricardo Bauleo, 73, Argentine actor, heart failure.
 * Bogdan Borčić, 87, Slovene painter, printmaker, and educator.
 * Louis Gage, 85, American Olympic boxer.
 * Hans Hollein, 80, Austrian architect (Museum für Moderne Kunst, Haas House), laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize (1985), pneumonia.
 * Sandy Jardine, 65, Scottish footballer (Rangers, Hearts, national team), liver cancer.
 * Ken Kagaya, 70, Japanese politician.
 * Janet Kalven, 100, American Catholic educator and writer.
 * James H. Kasler, 87, American Air Force officer, three-time recipient of the Air Force Cross.
 * Michel Lang, 74, French film and television director, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Rolf Johan Lenschow, 85, Norwegian civil engineer.
 * Eugène Letendre, 82, French cyclist.
 * Moslem Malakouti, 89, Iranian Shiite cleric.
 * Ray Musto, 85, American politician, member of the U.S. House for Pennsylvania's 11th district (1980–1981), Pennsylvania House (1971–1980) and Senate (1983–2010), cancer.
 * Barry O'Keefe, 80, Australian judge, member of the NSW Supreme Court (1993–2004), Commissioner of the Independent Commission Against Corruption (1994–1999).
 * Konstantin Orbelyan, 85, Armenian composer and conductor.
 * Sister Ping, 65, Chinese convicted people smuggler, cancer.
 * Bogdan Poniatowski, 82, Polish Olympic rower (1960) and coach.
 * Shobha Nagi Reddy, 45, Indian politician, Andhra Pradesh MLA for Allagadda (since 1996), traffic collision.
 * Tadeusz Różewicz, 92, Polish poet and playwright, recipient of the Austrian State Prize for European Literature (1982).
 * Eddie Rubin, 79, American rock and jazz drummer and composer, cardiac failure.
 * Vishweshwar Thool, 67, Indian cricketer.
 * Frederick C. Turner, 90, American Navy officer, vice admiral.
 * Jerzy Wieteski, 79, Polish footballer.

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 * Florentino Bautista, 83, Filipino Olympic basketball player.
 * Flor Coffey, 93, Irish hurler.
 * Boniface Nyema Dalieh, 80, Liberian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Cape Palmas (1973–2008).
 * Dandeniya Hemachandra de Silva, 81, Sri Lankan cricketer.
 * Dan Heap, 88, Canadian politician, MP for Spadina (1981–1988) and Trinity—Spadina (1988–1993), Alzheimer's disease.
 * James Higginbotham, 72, American philosopher of language.
 * William Judson Holloway Jr., 90, American judge, member of the US 10th Circuit Court of Appeals (since 1968), respiratory illness.
 * Stanko Lorger, 83, Slovene Yugoslav Olympic hurdler (1952, 1956, 1960).
 * Paulo Malhães, 76, Brazilian soldier, heart attack.
 * Ernest G. McClain, 95, American professor emeritus of music, natural causes.
 * Earl Morrall, 79, American football player (Baltimore Colts, Detroit Lions, Miami Dolphins), complications from Parkinson's disease.
 * Mukund Varadarajan, 32, Indian army officer, awarded Ashok Chakra, shot.
 * Tito Vilanova, 45, Spanish football player and coach (Barcelona), throat cancer.
 * Stefanie Zweig, 81, German writer (Nowhere in Africa).

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 * Georgy Adelson-Velsky, 92, Russian mathematician and computer scientist.
 * Bill Ash, 96, American-born British Marxist writer, Royal Canadian Air Force pilot during World War II.
 * José Moreira Bastos Neto, 61, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Três Lagoas (since 2009), heart attack.
 * David Brokenshire, 89, New Zealand potter and architect.
 * Joan Bruce, 86, British-born Australian actress (Dot and the Kangaroo).
 * Paul Copenhaver, 72, American politician.
 * Werner J. Dannhauser, 84, German-born American political philosopher.
 * Tony DiMidio, 71, American football player (Kansas City Chiefs).
 * Ole Enger, 65, Norwegian actor, cancer.
 * Jacqueline Ferrand, 96, French mathematician.
 * Manfred Fuchs, 75, German aerospace engineer, founded OHB System.
 * Protacio Gungon, 88, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Antipolo (1983–2001).
 * Gerald Guralnik, 77, American physicist, co-original Higgs mechanism and Higgs boson theorist, recipient of the Sakurai Prize (2010).
 * Patrick Hanan, 87, New Zealand sinologist and author.
 * Adrian Haynes, 88, American Wampanoag chief.
 * Michael Heisley, 77, American billionaire aerospace defense executive (HEICO) and basketball franchise owner (Memphis Grizzlies), complications from a stroke.
 * Tim Hunt, 39, American professional baseball player and USA national softball team member, ATV accident.
 * David Langner, 62, American football player (Auburn Tigers), key player in "Punt Bama Punt" (1972 Iron Bowl), cancer.
 * Sandro Lopopolo, 74, Italian Olympic silver-medalist lightweight boxer (1960), WBC champion light welterweight (1966–1967), respiratory infection.
 * Lee Marshall, 64, American radio personality, professional wrestling announcer and voice actor (Tony The Tiger), esophageal cancer.
 * Tony Ninos, 94, American politician and hotelier, Mayor of Cocoa, Florida (1959–1963), member of the Florida House of Representatives (1966–1967).
 * Aloísio Roque Oppermann, 77, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Uberaba (1996–2012). (body discovered on this date)
 * Antonio Pica, 83, Spanish actor.
 * Judith Pinsker, 74, American television writer (Ryan's Hope, General Hospital).
 * Leroy Powell, 80, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).
 * DJ Rashad, 34, American footwork disc jockey, blood clot in leg.
 * Seth Roberts, 61, American psychologist and self-help author.
 * Paul Robeson Jr., 86, American archivist and author, lymphoma.
 * Adolf Seilacher, 89, German palaeontologist.
 * Glen Stassen, 78, American Baptist ethicist and theologian, cancer.
 * Philip Sugden, 67, English historian and true crime writer (Jack the Ripper), cerebral haemorrhage. (body discovered on this date)
 * Stan Turley, 93, American politician, member of the Arizona Senate (1973–1985) and House of Representatives (1965–1973), Speaker (1967–1968), natural causes.

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 * Yigal Arnon, 84, Israeli lawyer.
 * Vujadin Boškov, 82, Yugoslav Olympic silver-medalist football player (1956) and coach (national team, Real Madrid).
 * Al Clayton, 79, American photographer.
 * Dan Colchico, 76, American football player (San Francisco 49ers), complications from heart surgery.
 * Theo Constanté, 80, Ecuadorian artist.
 * Micheline Dax, 90, French comedian and actress.
 * Rakesh Deewana, 44–45, Indian actor, complications from bariatric surgery.
 * DJ E-Z Rock, 46, American hip-hop musician (Rob Base and DJ E-Z Rock), complications from diabetes.
 * T. Scarlett Epstein, 91, British-Austrian social anthropologist and economist.
 * Harry Firth, 96, Australian racing driver and team manager.
 * Peter Hallock, 89, American organist and choirmaster (Compline Choir).
 * Vasco Graça Moura, 72, Portuguese lawyer, writer, translator and politician, cancer.
 * Ilija Ničić, 91, Serbian Olympic sport shooter (1960).
 * Andréa Parisy, 78, French actress (The Little Bather, Babes a GoGo).
 * Marlbert Pradd, 69, American basketball player (New Orleans Buccaneers).
 * Turhan Tezol, 81, Turkish Olympic basketball player (1952).
 * Marsden Wagner, 84, American obstetrician.

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 * Toimi Alatalo, 85, Finnish cross-country skier, Olympic champion (1960).
 * Gerard Benson, 83, British poet, cancer.
 * Pedro Cunha, 33, Portuguese actor, suicide by asphyxiation.
 * Barbara Fiske Calhoun, 94, American cartoonist.
 * Garnet de la Hunt, 80, South African scout, Chairman of the World Scout Committee (1999–2002), cancer.
 * Damião António Franklin, 63, Angolan Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Luanda (since 2001).
 * Valeri Goryushev, 40, Russian Olympic silver medallist volleyball player (1996, 2000).
 * William Honan, 83, American journalist and author, cardiac arrest.
 * Amaka Igwe, 51, Nigerian film director and producer, asthma attack.
 * Dennis Kamakahi, 61, American Grammy Award-winning musician, lung cancer.
 * Richard Kershaw, 80, British broadcaster and journalist.
 * Ismail Sulemanji Khatri, 76, Indian craftsman.
 * Derek King, 65, Australian VFL footballer (St Kilda).
 * Edgar Laprade, 94, Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey player (New York Rangers).
 * Walt Matthews, 79, American baseball figure (Houston Astros ).
 * Kamaruzaman Mohamad, 53, Malaysian journalist and editor (Utusan Malaysia), kidney ailment.
 * Madan Pande, 70, Indian cricketer.
 * J. Dwight Pentecost, 99, American Christian theologian.
 * Sidney Postol, 96, American politician, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives.
 * Jack Ramsay, 89, American Hall of Fame basketball coach (Portland Trail Blazers), cancer.
 * Djahanguir Riahi, 99, French antique collector.
 * Idris Sardi, 75, Indonesian violinist and composer.
 * Frederic Schwartz, 63, American architect, prostate cancer.
 * Ryan Tandy, 32, Australian rugby league player involved in match-fixing scandal, drug overdose.
 * Mitraniketan Viswanathan, 86, Indian social reformer and environmentalist, founder of Mitraniketan.
 * Bruce Woodgate, 74, British-born American aerospace engineer (NASA), designer and principal investigator for STIS on the Hubble Space Telescope, complications from strokes.

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 * Ali Gul Sangi, 61, Pakistani poet.
 * Beverly Baker Fleitz, 84, American tennis player.
 * Iveta Bartošová, 48, Czech singer, three-time winner of Zlatý slavík (1986, 1990, 1991), suicide by train.
 * Graham Bizzell, 72, Australian cricketer.
 * Frank Budd, 74, American Olympic sprinter (1960) and football player (Philadelphia Eagles, Washington Redskins).
 * Tahar Chaïbi, 68, Tunisian footballer (Club Africain), complications from a stroke.
 * M. V. Devan, 86, Indian artist and academic.
 * Don Earl, 81, Australian footballer.
 * Russell Edson, 85, American poet.
 * Al Feldstein, 88, American writer and editor (Mad, Tales from the Crypt).
 * Reuven Feuerstein, 92, Romanian-born Israeli psychologist.
 * Bob Hoskins, 71, English actor (Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Mona Lisa, Hook), BAFTA winner (1987), pneumonia.
 * Michael Kadosh, 74, Israeli football player and manager, cancer.
 * Glenn Osser, 99, American musician, musical arranger, orchestra leader, and songwriter.
 * Daphne Pochin Mould, 93, British author and photographer.
 * Norma Pons, 71, Argentine actress and showgirl, natural causes.
 * Ramil Rodriguez, 72, Filipino actor, lung cancer.
 * Bassem Sabry, 31, Egyptian journalist, fall.
 * Gailene Stock, 68, Australian ballet dancer and executive, Director of the Royal Ballet School (since 1999), cancer.
 * Edgars Vinters, 94, Latvian painter.
 * Walter Walsh, 106, American FBI agent and Olympic shooter (1948), longest-living Olympic competitor.

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 * Michael Brock, 94, British historian.
 * Khaled Choudhury, 94, Indian theatre personality and artist.
 * Kartina Dahari, 73, Malaysian singer, ovarian cancer.
 * Chris Harris, 71, British actor, cancer.
 * Reg Kermode, 87, Australian businessman.
 * Leo Kraft, 91, American composer.
 * Volodymyr Kudryavtsev, 79, Ukrainian lyricist.
 * Julian Lewis, 67, British developmental biologist, cancer.
 * Marsha Mehran, 36, Iranian-born American author. (body discovered on this date)
 * Judi Meredith, 77, American actress (Ben Casey, The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, Hotel de Paree).
 * Carl E. Moses, 84, American politician, member of the Alaska House of Representatives (1965–1973, 1993–2007).
 * Ralph Nattrass, 88, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Black Hawks).
 * Larry Ramos, 72, American guitarist, banjo player, and vocalist (The Association), metastatic melanoma.
 * Deborah Rogers, 76, British literary agent.
 * Ian Ross, 73, Australian television news presenter (Nine Network, Seven Network), pancreatic cancer.
 * Yukio Takefuta, 78, Japanese English education scholar.
 * Sarmad Tariq, 38, Pakistani motivational speaker and paralysis activist, cardiac arrest.
 * Junichi Watanabe, 80, Japanese writer (A Lost Paradise), prostate cancer.
 * Mieczysław Wilczek, 82, Polish politician, Minister of Industry (1988–1989).