Deaths in January 2017

The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2017.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
 * Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

1

 * Sir Tony Atkinson, 72, British economist, multiple myeloma.
 * Hilarion Capucci, 94, Syrian Melkite Catholic hierarch, Patriarchal Vicar of Jerusalem (1965–1974).
 * Jewel Plummer Cobb, 92, American biologist.
 * Bill Craig, 71, American swimmer, Olympic champion (1964), complications from pneumonia.
 * Yvon Dupuis, 90, Canadian politician.
 * Peter Farmer, 75, British set designer.
 * Karl Gerstner, 86, Swiss typographer.
 * Stuart Hamilton, 87, Canadian pianist, vocal coach and broadcaster, prostate cancer.
 * Aleksander Jackowski, 96, Polish anthropologist and ethnographer.
 * Jean Le Lan, 79, French cyclist.
 * Lorne Loomer, 79, Canadian rower, Olympic champion (1956).
 * Mel Lopez, 81, Filipino politician.
 * Bill Marshall, 77, Canadian film and theater producer, co-founder of the Toronto International Film Festival, cardiac arrest.
 * George Miller, 87, Scottish cricketer (national team).
 * Memo Morales, 79, Venezuelan singer, heart attack.
 * Moruca, 84, Spanish football player and coach (Racing de Santander).
 * Yaakov Neeman, 77, Israeli lawyer and politician, Minister of Justice (1996, 2009–2013) and Finance (1997–1998).
 * Emmanuel Niyonkuru, 54, Burundian politician, Senator (since 2015) and Minister of Water and Environment (since 2015), shot.
 * Derek Parfit, 74, English philosopher (Reasons and Persons).
 * Sir Jeremy Reilly, 82, British army general.
 * Abis Rizvi, 49, Indian businessman and film producer (Roar: Tigers of the Sundarbans), shot.
 * Samuel Schweber, 80, Argentinian chess player, International Master.
 * Jeremy Stone, 81, American scientist and arms control activist.
 * Aleksander Tšutšelov, 83, Estonian sailor, Olympic silver medalist (1960).
 * Talat Tunçalp, 101, Turkish Olympic racing cyclist (1936) and president of the Turkish Cycling Federation (1950–1968).
 * Abu Omar al-Turkistani, Chinese Islamist militant.
 * Bogdan Tuszyński, 84, Polish sports journalist and reporter (Polskie Radio).
 * Sylvester Uphus, 89, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives (1983–1993).
 * Robert Vallée, 94, French mathematician.
 * Alfonso Wong, 93, Hong Kong cartoonist (Old Master Q), organ failure.

2

 * Auriel Andrew, 69, Australian country singer.
 * René Ballet, 88, French journalist and author.
 * John Berger, 90, English art critic and painter.
 * Albert Brewer, 88, American politician, Governor of Alabama (1968–1971).
 * François Chérèque, 60, French labor unionist (CFDT), leukemia.
 * Ian Davison, 79, English cricketer (Nottinghamshire).
 * Barbara Fei, 85, Hong Kong opera singer.
 * Richard Gee, 83, Australian federal judge, Family Court (1980–1999), drowning.
 * Tom Harpur, 87, Canadian classicist, theologian, priest, and journalist.
 * Travis Hirschi, 81, American sociologist.
 * Richard Machowicz, 51, American Navy SEAL and television host (Future Weapons, Deadliest Warrior), brain cancer.
 * Daryl Spencer, 88, American baseball player (New York/San Francisco Giants, St. Louis Cardinals).
 * István Tatár, 58, Hungarian Olympic sprinter (1980, 1988).
 * Viktor Tsaryov, 85, Russian football player and coach (Dynamo Moscow, Soviet Union national team).
 * Jean Vuarnet, 83, French alpine skier, Olympic champion (1960), stroke.
 * Brian Widlake, 85, British broadcaster (The Money Programme).

3

 * Vida Alves, 88, Brazilian actress (Sua Vida Me Pertence), multiple organ failure.
 * Augusto Barreto, 93, Portuguese Olympic fencer (1952).
 * Enzo Benedetti, 85, Italian footballer (Palermo).
 * Rodney Bennett, 81, British television director (Doctor Who).
 * Martin Brandtner, 78, American Marine Corps general.
 * Ivo Brešan, 80, Croatian writer (How the War Started on My Island).
 * Mike Buchanan, 84, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks).
 * Kevin Casey, 40, Irish broadcaster (WLR FM), cancer.
 * Charles J. Colgan, 90, American politician, member of the Virginia Senate (1976–2016), vascular ailment.
 * J. Dewey Daane, 98, American economist.
 * George M. Dennison, 81, American university administrator, President of the University of Montana (1990–2010), non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
 * Cecilia González Gómez, 55, Mexican politician, Deputy of Congress (2012–2015), heart attack.
 * Russ Gorman, 90, Australian politician, MHR for Chifley (1983–1984) and Greenway (1984–1996).
 * Shigeru Kōyama, 87, Japanese actor (Samurai Rebellion, Black Rain, Beyond Outrage), complications from pneumonia.
 * Gilberto Martínez, 82, Colombian Olympian
 * Rolf Noskwith, 97, German-born British businessman and codebreaker (World War II).
 * Peter Pollen, 89, Canadian politician, Mayor of Victoria, British Columbia (1971–1975, 1981–1985).
 * H. S. Mahadeva Prasad, 58, Indian politician, MLA (since 1994), heart attack.
 * Rosemary Stevenson, 80, American baseball player (Grand Rapids Chicks).
 * Alan Surgal, 100, American screenwriter (Mickey One).
 * Igor Volk, 79, Ukrainian-born Russian cosmonaut and test pilot (Soyuz T-12).

4

 * Hisham Al-Otaibi, 70, Kuwaiti politician, Minister of Finance (1998–1999).
 * Heinz Billing, 102, German physicist and computer scientist.
 * William J. Cason, 92, American politician, member of the Missouri Senate (1960–1976).
 * John Cummings, 73, British politician, MP for Easington (1987–2010), lung cancer.
 * Willie Evans, 79, American football player (University at Buffalo).
 * Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan, 89, Indian sitar player and composer, cardiac arrest.
 * Bruce Hugo, 71, American politician, member of the Oregon House of Representatives (1983–1993).
 * Bade Fateh Ali Khan, 82, Pakistani singer, lung disease.
 * Sandra Landy, 78, British contract bridge player, meningitis.
 * Carl E. Misch, 69, American prosthodontist, cancer.
 * Jordi Pagans i Monsalvatje, 84, Spanish painter.
 * Ezio Pascutti, 79, Italian footballer (Bologna).
 * Art Pennington, 93, American baseball player (Chicago American Giants, Birmingham Black Barons).
 * Georges Prêtre, 92, French orchestral and opera conductor.
 * Lois Rice, 83, American business executive.
 * Milt Schmidt, 98, Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey player, coach and general manager (Boston Bruins, Washington Capitals), stroke.
 * Anna Senkoro, 54, Tanzanian politician.
 * Gabriel Tang, 66, South Sudanese rebel leader, killed in Civil War.
 * Vlastimir Trajković, 69, Serbian composer.
 * Anthony Tu Shihua, 97, Chinese prelate from Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association, illegitimate Bishop of Hanyang (since 1959).
 * Veronica Steele, 69, Irish cheesemaker.
 * Sir Douglas Wass, 93, British civil servant, Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury (1974–1983).
 * Paul Went, 67, English footballer (Charlton Athletic, Leyton Orient, Portsmouth).
 * Wayne Westner, 55, South African golfer, suicide by gunshot.

5

 * David Alexander, 90, British Royal Marines general.
 * Graham Atkinson, 73, English footballer (Oxford United), cancer.
 * Spartak Belyaev, 93, Russian theoretical physicist.
 * Leonardo Benevolo, 93, Italian architect and city planner.
 * Géori Boué, 98, French operatic soprano.
 * Luc Coene, 69, Belgian economist.
 * Tullio De Mauro, 84, Italian linguist and politician, Minister of Education (2000–2001).
 * Paul Goble, 83, English-born American author and illustrator (Tipi: Home of the Nomadic Buffalo Hunters, The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses), Parkinson's disease.
 * Gangmumei Kamei, 77, Indian academic and politician.
 * Gerald E. McClearn, 89, American behavior geneticist.
 * Frank Murphy, 69, Irish Olympic middle-distance runner (1968, 1972), European Championship silver medalist (1969).
 * Alfonso Humberto Robles Cota, 85, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tepic (1981–2008).
 * Stanley Russ, 86, American politician, member of the Arkansas Senate (1975–2001), myeloid leukemia.
 * Jorge Sanguinetti, 82, Uruguayan politician, Minister of Transport (1985–1989).
 * Jill Saward, 51, British sexual assault awareness campaigner, subarachnoid haemorrhage.
 * Marzio Strassoldo, 77, Italian politician, President of the Province of Udine (2001–2007).
 * Rafiq Subaie, 86, Syrian actor, writer and director.
 * Harry Taylor, 81, English footballer (Newcastle United).
 * Christopher Weeramantry, 90, Sri Lankan judge, vice-president of the International Court of Justice (1997–2000).
 * Peter Weston, 72, British science fiction fanzine editor, cancer.
 * Kurt Wigartz, 83, Swedish Olympic gymnast (1952, 1956, 1960).
 * John Wightman, 78, American politician, Mayor of Lexington, Nebraska (1992–1995), member of the Nebraska Legislature (2007–2015).

6

 * Yaron Ben-Dov, 46, Israeli footballer (Ironi Rishon LeZion, Maccabi Netanya, Hapoel Tel Aviv).
 * Audrey Grevious, 86, American civil rights activist.
 * Awad Moukhtar Halloudah, 85, Egyptian Olympic swimmer.
 * John Hubbard, 85, American-born British artist.
 * Greg Jelks, 55, American-Australian Olympic baseball player (2000), (Philadelphia Phillies).
 * Kosei Kamo, 84, Japanese tennis player, winner of the 1955 U.S. Open, heart attack.
 * Una Kroll, 91, British nun and Anglican priest.
 * Les Lazarowitz, 75, American sound mixer (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Groundhog Day), cancer.
 * Joseba Leizaola, 86, Spanish politician, President of the Basque Parliament (1990–1998).
 * Octavio Lepage, 93, Venezuelan politician, Acting President (1993).
 * Ivar A. Mjør, 83, Norwegian dental researcher.
 * Ramón Martínez Pérez, 87, Spanish footballer (Sevilla, Granada, national team).
 * Bayezid Osman, 92, Turkish royal, 44th Head of the Imperial House of Osman (since 2009).
 * Ghaith Pharaon, 76, Saudi businessman.
 * Ricardo Piglia, 75, Argentine author, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
 * Sylvester Potts, 78, American singer and composer (The Contours).
 * Om Puri, 66, Indian actor (Ardh Satya, City of Joy, East Is East), heart attack.
 * Bob Sadowski, 79, American baseball player (Los Angeles Angels, Chicago White Sox).
 * Tilikum, 35, American-held orca, subject of Blackfish, bacterial infection.
 * Gavin Whittaker, 46, Australian rugby league footballer (Canterbury Bulldogs, Gold Coast Chargers), stomach cancer.
 * Francine York, 80, American actress (Days of Our Lives, Batman, The Family Man), cancer.

7

 * Cheick Fantamady Camara, 57, Guinean film director (Il va pleuvoir sur Conakry).
 * Bill Champion, 69, American baseball player (Milwaukee Brewers, Philadelphia Phillies).
 * Lucina da Costa Gomez-Matheeuws, 87, Dutch Antillean politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles (1977).
 * John Deely, 74, American philosopher, cancer.
 * Ramanuja Devanathan, 57, Indian Sanskrit scholar.
 * Refik Erduran, 88, Turkish playwright, columnist and writer.
 * Carlos Fernández Gondín, 78, Cuban politician, Minister of the Interior (since 2015).
 * Stein Gauslaa, 68, Norwegian journalist and civil servant.
 * Nat Hentoff, 91, American political philosopher, columnist and music critic (The Village Voice, Down Beat).
 * Eddie Kamae, 89, American ukuleleist (Sons of Hawaii).
 * Jerzy Kossela, 74, Polish guitarist and vocalist (Niebiesko-Czarni, Czerwone Gitary).
 * Lelio Lagorio, 91, Italian politician, President of Tuscany (1970–1978), Minister of Defence (1980–1983) and Sport and Spectacles (1983–1986).
 * Abdul Hafeez Lakho, 87, Pakistani lawyer.
 * Betty Lasky, 94, American film historian, pneumonia.
 * Mildred Meacham, 92, American baseball player (AAGBPL).
 * Mike Ovey, 58, British Anglican clergyman and academic administrator (Oak Hill College), heart attack.
 * Einfrid Perstølen, 99, Norwegian psychiatrist and language proponent.
 * Murray Ryan, 94, American politician, member of the New Mexico House of Representatives (1969–1999).
 * Michael Scanlan, 85, American Roman Catholic priest and academic administrator.
 * Sir Bruce Slane, 85, New Zealand public servant, Privacy Commissioner (1993–2003).
 * Mário Soares, 92, Portuguese politician, President (1986–1996) and Prime Minister (1976–1978, 1983–1985).
 * Lech Trzeciakowski, 85, Polish historian.
 * Alice Whitty, 82, Canadian Olympic high jumper (1956).
 * Laurel Woodcock, 56, Canadian artist and academic.

8

 * Dominique Appia, 90, Swiss painter.
 * Buddy Bregman, 86, American arranger, producer, and composer.
 * Jackie Brown, 73, American baseball player and coach (Texas Rangers).
 * James C. Christensen, 74, American fantasy artist, cancer.
 * Colin Cameron Davies, 92, Spanish-born Kenyan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ngong (1964–2002).
 * Jerry DeLucca, 80, American football player (Boston Patriots, Buffalo Bills, Philadelphia Eagles).
 * Klaib Al-Fawwaz, 66, Jordanian diplomat and politician, Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs (2011–2012).
 * Nicolai Gedda, 91, Swedish operatic tenor.
 * Miriam Goldberg, 100, American newspaper publisher (Intermountain Jewish News).
 * Mary Ann Green, 52–53, American tribal leader and politician, Chairperson of the Augustine Band of Cahuilla Indians (1988–2016).
 * Svennik Høyer, 85, Norwegian political scientist.
 * Roy Innis, 82, American civil rights activist, Parkinson's disease.
 * Elspeth Kennedy, 85, New Zealand sharebroker and community leader.
 * Abdulkadir Kure, 60, Nigerian politician, Governor of Niger State (1999–2007).
 * Sir James Mancham, 77, Seychellois politician, President (1976–1977).
 * Rod Mason, 76, British jazz trumpeter.
 * Jovanka Nikolić, 64, Serbian writer.
 * Zacharie Noah, 79, Cameroonian footballer (Stade Saint-Germain, Sedan-Torcy).
 * Ruth Perry, 77, Liberian politician, interim Head of State as Chairwoman of the Council of State (1996–1997).
 * Pioneer Cabin Tree, c.1000, American giant sequoia tree, storm damage.
 * Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, 82, Iranian politician, President (1989–1997).
 * Peter Sarstedt, 75, English singer-songwriter ("Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)?"), progressive supranuclear palsy.
 * Colin Shortis, 82, British army general.
 * Nigel Spearing, 86, British politician, MP for Acton (1970–1974) and Newham South (1974–1979), Alzheimer's disease.
 * Laurie Topp, 93, English footballer (Hendon).
 * Eli Zelkha, 66, Iranian-born American entrepreneur, inventor of ambient intelligence.

9

 * Qari Saifullah Akhtar, Pakistani Al-Qaeda militant.
 * Zygmunt Bauman, 91, Polish-British sociologist.
 * Jacques F. Benders, 92, Dutch mathematician.
 * Rodney H. Brady, 83, American businessman (Deseret Management Corporation) and academic administrator (Weber State University).
 * Charles Bragg, 85, American artist.
 * Roberto Cabañas, 55, Paraguayan footballer (New York Cosmos, Boca Juniors), cardiac arrest.
 * Michael Chamberlain, 72, New Zealand-born Australian pastor, exonerated in the death of Azaria Chamberlain, complications from leukaemia.
 * Crazy Toones, 45, American hip-hop record producer and DJ, heart attack.
 * Ugo Crescenzi, 86, Italian politician, first President of Abruzzo (1970–1972, 1973–1974), member of the Chamber of Deputies (1987–1992), kidney failure.
 * Ulf Dinkelspiel, 77, Swedish politician, Minister of European Affairs and Foreign Trade (1991–1994), cancer.
 * Patrick Flores, 87, American Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of San Antonio (1979–2004), pneumonia and heart failure.
 * Gerry Glaude, 89, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicoutimi Saguenéens).
 * Daan van Golden, 80, Dutch artist.
 * Mary Emily Gonsalves, 97, Pakistani Roman Catholic nun.
 * Jens Christian Magnus, 96, Norwegian politician and resistance activist.
 * Edward Margolies, 91, American author.
 * Bob McCullough, 85, Australian sports administrator, President of the Australian Paralympic Committee (1994–1996).
 * Terry Ramshaw, 74, English rugby league footballer (Featherstone Rovers, Wakefield Trinity).
 * Gerry Rinaldi, 72, Canadian Olympic alpine skier (1968).
 * John Sailhamer, 70, American evangelical Old Testament scholar, Parkinson's disease.
 * Teresa Ann Savoy, 61, British-born Italian actress (Caligula, Salon Kitty), cancer.
 * Ali Shariatmadari, 93, Iranian politician and academic, Minister of Culture (1979).
 * Warren Allen Smith, 95, American author, atheist, and gay-rights activist, signatory of Humanist Manifesto II.
 * Claude Steiner, 81, French-born American psychologist.
 * René Thomas, 88, Belgian biologist.
 * Russell Trood, 68, Australian politician and academic, Senator for Queensland (2005–2011), thyroid cancer.
 * Brown Turei, 92, New Zealand Anglican co-primate, Archbishop and Pihopa o Aotearoa (since 2006).
 * Timothy Well, 55, American professional wrestler (WWF, PNW, WCW), kidney failure.
 * T. K. Whitaker, 100, Irish economist and public servant.

10

 * Hiag Akmakjian, 91, American author, painter and photographer, lung cancer.
 * Horst Astroth, 93, German Olympic racewalker (1960).
 * Oddvar Barlie, 87, Norwegian Olympic sport wrestler (1960).
 * Ronald Buxton, 93, British politician, MP for Leyton (1965–1966).
 * Fernand Decanali, 91, French racing cyclist, Olympic champion (1948).
 * Leonard French, 88, Australian glass artist.
 * Steve Fryar, 63, American rodeo performer.
 * William Goodhart, Baron Goodhart, 83, British lawyer and politician.
 * Buddy Greco, 90, American singer, actor (The Girl Who Knew Too Much) and pianist.
 * Josef Grumser, 82, Austrian Olympic boxer.
 * Roman Herzog, 82, German politician, President (1994–1999), Judge of the Federal Constitutional Court (1983–1994).
 * Clare Hollingworth, 105, British journalist (The Daily Telegraph), broke news of German invasion of Poland.
 * Achmad Kurniawan, 37, Indonesian footballer (Arema Cronus), complications from a heart attack.
 * Claude Lebey, 93, French food critic.
 * Steven McDonald, 59, American police detective (NYPD), heart attack.
 * Ryszard Parulski, 78, Polish fencer, Olympic silver medalist (1964).
 * Võ Quý, 87, Vietnamese zoologist.
 * Manlio Rocchetti, 73, Italian make-up artist (Driving Miss Daisy, Lonesome Dove, Gangs of New York), Oscar and Emmy winner (1989).
 * Tony Rosato, 62, Italian-born Canadian actor (Saturday Night Live, SCTV, Night Heat), heart attack.
 * Oliver Smithies, 91, British-American geneticist, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (2007).
 * Kenny Wharram, 83, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks).

11

 * Tommy Allsup, 85, American rockabilly and swing guitarist, complications from hernia surgery.
 * Pierre Arpaillange, 92, French author, senior judge and politician, Minister of Justice (1988–1990).
 * Tony Booth, 83, British poster artist (The Beatles), cancer.
 * James Fairfax, 83, Australian business executive and philanthropist.
 * Peter Fenix, 77, South African cricketer.
 * James Ferguson-Lees, 88, British ornithologist (British Birds).
 * Brian Fletcher, 69, British jockey, winner of the Grand National (1968, 1973, 1974), cancer.
 * Henry Foner, 97, American social activist.
 * Katherine Fryer, 106, British artist.
 * Victor Griffin, 92, Irish Anglican clergyman and theologian.
 * Conrad Hilberry, 88, American poet, complications from cancer and pneumonia.
 * Mark Josephson, 73, American cardiologist, cancer.
 * Victor Lownes, 88, American businessman (Playboy).
 * Charles Lyell, 3rd Baron Lyell, 77, British peer.
 * Arthur Manuel, 66, Canadian Neskonlith chief, indigenous rights and environmental activist.
 * Nikolay Neprimerov, 95, Russian physicist.
 * Robert Pierre Sarrabère, 90, French Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Aire and Dax (1978–2002).
 * Adenan Satem, 72, Malaysian politician, Chief Minister of Sarawak (since 2014), heart attack.
 * Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui, 78, Pakistani jurist and politician, Governor of Sindh (since 2016).
 * Akio Takamori, 66, Japanese-born American sculptor, cancer.
 * François Van der Elst, 62, Belgian footballer (Anderlecht, West Ham United, national team), heart attack.
 * Christopher Chubasco Wilkins, 48, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.
 * Kenyon Wright, 84, Scottish Episcopal priest and political campaigner.

12

 * Giulio Angioni, 77, Italian writer (Le fiamme di Toledo, Assandira) and anthropologist.
 * Meir Banai, 55, Israeli singer, cancer.
 * Eduardo Blasco Ferrer, 60, Spanish-Italian linguist.
 * William Peter Blatty, 89, American novelist and screenwriter (The Exorcist, Legion, A Shot in the Dark), Oscar winner (1974), multiple myeloma.
 * Gerry Gersten, 89, American cartoonist.
 * Robin Hyman, 85, British publisher.
 * Anthony King, 82, Canadian-born British political scientist and commentator.
 * Milton Metz, 95, American radio and television host.
 * Karima Mokhtar, 82, Egyptian actress.
 * Vsevolod Murakhovsky, 90, Ukrainian-born Russian politician, First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union (1985–1989).
 * Jill Roe, 76, Australian historian and academic.
 * Frank Spellman, 94, American weightlifter, Olympic champion (1948).
 * Martha Swope, 88, American photographer, Parkinson's disease.
 * Graham Taylor, 72, English football player and manager (Watford, Aston Villa, national team), heart attack.

13

 * Gilberto Agustoni, 94, Swiss Roman Catholic cardinal, Prefect of Apostolic Signatura (1992–1998).
 * Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, 86, English photographer and filmmaker.
 * Walter Benz, 85, German mathematician.
 * Jerome A. Berson, 92, American chemist.
 * Hans Berliner, 87, German-born American computer scientist and chess player.
 * Bernard d'Abrera, 76, Australian entomologist.
 * Mark Fisher, 48, British writer, cultural theorist and music journalist (The Wire, Fact), suicide.
 * Dick Gautier, 85, American actor and singer (Get Smart, Transformers, When Things Were Rotten).
 * Horacio Guarany, 91, Argentine folkloric singer and writer, cardiac arrest.
 * Sir John Hanson, 78, British diplomat and historian.
 * Robert H. Hughes, 91, American politician.
 * Alan Jabbour, 74, American fiddler and folklorist (Library of Congress).
 * John Jacobs, 91, English golfer, founder of the PGA European Tour.
 * Zainuri Kamaruddin, 50, Malaysian Islamist militant, air strike.
 * Magic Alex, 74, Greek electronics engineer (The Beatles, Apple Electronics), complications from pneumonia.
 * David Modell, 56, American businessman (Baltimore Ravens), lung cancer.
 * Anton Nanut, 84, Slovenian conductor.
 * Albert H. Owens Jr., 90, American oncologist.
 * Ari Rath, 92, Austrian-born Israeli journalist (The Jerusalem Post).
 * Nicodemo Scarfo, 87, American mobster, boss of the Philadelphia crime family (1981–1991).
 * Fumiko Shiraga, 49, Japanese-German pianist, breast cancer.
 * Jan Stoeckart, 89, Dutch composer, conductor and trombonist.
 * Udo Ulfkotte, 56, German political scientist and journalist (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), heart attack.

14

 * Surjit Singh Barnala, 91, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Punjab (1985–1987), Governor of Uttarakhand (2000–2003) and Tamil Nadu (2004–2011).
 * John Boudreaux, 80, American drummer.
 * Barry Cassin, 92, Irish actor (Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog, The Count of Monte Cristo, Byzantium).
 * Mohammed bin Faisal Al Saud, 80, Saudi royal and businessman.
 * Alex Jones, 75, American Roman Catholic deacon.
 * Eldar Kuliev, 65, Kyrgyz-born Russian screenwriter and author.
 * Herbert Mies, 87, German politician, Chairman of the Communist Party (1973–1989).
 * Deepal Silva, 49, Sri Lankan singer, heart attack.
 * Kevin Starr, 76, American historian and librarian, heart attack.
 * Yama Buddha, 29, Nepalese rapper, suicide.
 * Yee Tit Kwan, 90, Singaporean Olympian
 * Zhou Youguang, 111, Chinese linguist and supercentenarian, developed the pinyin romanization system.

15

 * Isidro Baldenegro López, 50, Mexican Rarámuri farmer and environmental leader, shot.
 * George Beall, 79, American attorney, prosecuted Spiro Agnew for corruption.
 * Ciel Bergman, 78, American painter.
 * Babette Cole, 66, English children's author.
 * Terry Cryer, 82, British jazz and blues photographer.
 * Roman Darowski, 81, Polish philosopher.
 * John Davis, 78, British anthropologist.
 * Richard Divall, 71, Australian conductor and musicologist.
 * Aleksandr Ezhevsky, 101, Soviet engineer and statesman.
 * Dermot Gallagher, 72, Irish civil servant and diplomat.
 * Luis Gámir, 74, Spanish politician, Minister of Trade and Tourism (1980).
 * Gorky González Quiñones, 77, Mexican potter.
 * Han Peixin, 95, Chinese politician, Governor of Jiangsu (1982–1983).
 * Kozo Kinomoto, 68, Japanese footballer and sports executive (Japan Football League), heart failure.
 * Thandi Klaasen, 85, South African jazz singer, pancreatic cancer.
 * Vicki Lansky, 75, American author and publisher, cirrhosis.
 * Eddie Long, 63, American pastor (New Birth Missionary Baptist Church), cancer.
 * Mieczyslaw Malinski, 93, Polish theologian.
 * Nasir al-Din Nasir Hunzai, 99, Pakistani writer and poet.
 * Erwin Obermair, 70, Austrian astronomer.
 * Paul C. Paris, 86, American metallurgist.
 * David Poythress, 73, American military officer and politician, Secretary of State of Georgia (1979–1983).
 * Robert Rodman, 76, American computer scientist, complications from inclusion body myositis.
 * Shutaro Shoji, 83, Japanese Olympic basketball player (1956, 1960).
 * Dale Smith, 88, American rodeo performer.
 * Jimmy Snuka, 73, Fijian-born American professional wrestler (WWF, AWA, PNW), stomach cancer.
 * Jan Szczepański, 77, Polish boxer, Olympic champion (1972).
 * Greg Trooper, 61, American singer-songwriter, pancreatic cancer.

16

 * Carolyn Allport, 66, Australian historian and trade unionist.
 * James R. Ambrose, 94, American aerospace executive (Ford Aerospace).
 * Amin Nasir, 48, Singaporean football player (Woodlands Wellington, national team) and manager (Hougang United), colon cancer.
 * Gene Cernan, 82, American astronaut (Apollo 10, Apollo 17), last person to walk on the Moon.
 * Jack Eames, 94, Australian football player (Richmond).
 * Roland Glavany, 94, French army general.
 * Gerd Grochowski, 60, German opera singer.
 * Phyllis Harrison-Ross, 80, American psychiatrist, lung cancer.
 * William A. Hilliard, 89, American journalist (The Oregonian).
 * Franz Jarnach, 73, German actor (Dittsche) and keyboardist (The Rattles), heart attack.
 * Cuthbert Johnson, 70, British musician, liturgist and Benedictine abbot.
 * Peter Jones, 83, Australian politician, member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly (1974–1986).
 * Kerry McNamara, 76, Namibian architect and political activist, cancer.
 * Jiří Navrátil, 93, Czech Scout leader, President of Junák.
 * Dan O'Brien Sr., 87, American baseball executive (Texas Rangers, Seattle Mariners, Cleveland Indians).
 * William Onyeabor, 70, Nigerian singer-songwriter.
 * Charles "Bobo" Shaw, 69, American jazz drummer.
 * C. V. Vishveshwara, 78, Indian physicist.
 * Brian Whitehouse, 81, English footballer (West Bromwich Albion, Crystal Palace).
 * Steve Wright, 66, American bass guitarist (The Greg Kihn Band), heart attack.

17

 * M. M. Ruhul Amin, 74, Bangladeshi judge, Chief Justice (2008–2009).
 * Brenda C. Barnes, 63, American businesswoman, CEO of PepsiCo (1996–1997) and Sara Lee (2005–2010), stroke.
 * Philip Bond, 82, British actor (Doctor Who, The Onedin Line).
 * David P. Buckson, 96, American lawyer and politician, Governor of Delaware (1960–1961).
 * Tirrel Burton, 86, American football player and coach (Michigan).
 * Colo, 60, American-bred western gorilla, oldest gorilla in captivity.
 * Mario Fasino, 96, Italian politician, President of Sicily (1969–1972), President of the Sicilian Regional Assembly (1974–1976).
 * Heng Freylinger, 90, Luxembourger wrestler, competitor at 1952 Summer Olympics.
 * Pascal Garray, 51, Belgian comics artist (Benoît Brisefer, The Smurfs).
 * Herbert Gauls, 86, German photographer.
 * Alenka Goljevšček, 85, Slovenian writer.
 * Tokio Kano, 82, Japanese politician, member of the House of Councillors (since 1998), heart failure.
 * Lucy Killea, 94, American politician, member of the California State Senate (1982–1996).
 * William Margold, 73, American pornographic actor and director.
 * Kenneth McNenny, 81, American politician, member of the South Dakota House of Representatives (1987–2000) and Senate (2005–2008).
 * Gene Olaff, 96, American soccer player (Brooklyn Hispano).
 * Malcolm Peat, 84, Canadian academic.
 * Steven Plaut, 65, American-born Israeli economist and academic.
 * Robert Timlin, 84, American federal judge, U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (since 1994).
 * Daniel Vischer, 67, Swiss politician, member of the National Council (2003–2015), cancer.

18

 * Peter Abrahams, 97, South African-born Jamaican writer (Mine Boy).
 * Red Adams, 95, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs) and coach (Los Angeles Dodgers).
 * María Nsué Angüe, 71–72, Equatorial Guinean writer and politician.
 * Yosl Bergner, 96, Austrian-born Israeli painter.
 * Ion Besoiu, 85, Romanian actor (Toate pînzele sus).
 * Obed Dlamini, 79, Swazi politician, Prime Minister (1989–1993).
 * Ed Dyck, 66, Canadian ice hockey player (Vancouver Canucks, Indianapolis Racers), cancer.
 * Ronan Fanning, 75, Irish historian, cancer.
 * Gullow Gjeseth, 79, Norwegian military officer.
 * Rachael Heyhoe Flint, Baroness Heyhoe Flint, 77, English cricketer (women's national team), businesswoman and philanthropist.
 * Zohurul Hoque, 90, Indian Islamic scholar.
 * Yuji Ijiri, 81, Japanese-born American accounting academic.
 * Jung Mikyung, 56, South Korean novelist.
 * Mike Kellie, 69, English drummer (Spooky Tooth, The Only Ones) and record producer.
 * Peter Kippax, 76, English cricketer (Yorkshire, MCC), Alzheimer's disease.
 * Hanns Kreisel, 85, German mycologist.
 * John Levee, 92, American painter.
 * André Léveillé, 83, Canadian politician.
 * John Little, 86, Canadian-born Scottish footballer (Rangers, Morton, Scotland national team).
 * Hubert Lucot, 81, French author.
 * Lawrence S. Margolis, 81, American judge, United States Court of Federal Claims (1982–1997).
 * Władysław Markiewicz, 97, Polish sociologist.
 * Harry Minor, 88, American baseball player and manager (New York Mets).
 * Ymer Pampuri, 72, Albanian Olympic weightlifter (1972).
 * Roberta Peters, 86, American coloratura soprano, Parkinson's disease.
 * David Spicer, 70, American organist.
 * Dick Starr, 95, American baseball player (St. Louis Browns).
 * Juan Thomas, 90, Spanish Olympic sports shooter.
 * Samuel Widmer, 69, Swiss physician, psychiatrist and psychotherapist (psycholytic therapy).
 * Ståle Wikshåland, 63, Norwegian musicologist, blood clot.

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 * Jalal Allakhverdiyev, 87, Azerbaijani mathematician.
 * Hilary Bailey, 79, British writer.
 * Wayne Barrett, 71, American journalist (The Village Voice), lung cancer.
 * Loalwa Braz, 63, Brazilian singer-songwriter ("Lambada"), burns.
 * Thibaut Cuisset, 58, French photographer.
 * Miguel Ferrer, 61, American actor (RoboCop, Mulan, Twin Peaks), heart failure and complications of throat cancer.
 * Eddie Filgate, 101, Irish politician, TD (1977–1982).
 * Ralph F. Fiske, 85, Canadian politician, member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly (1970–1974).
 * Roderick Ham, 91, British architect.
 * Craig Howard, 64, American football coach (Oregon Tech, Southern Oregon).
 * Roman Jarymowycz, 72, Austrian-born Canadian soldier and educator.
 * Rafael Kadyrov, 47, Russian ice hockey referee, brain tumor.
 * Jan Kruis, 83, Dutch cartoonist (Jack, Jacky and the Juniors).
 * Ger van Mourik, 85, Dutch footballer (Ajax).
 * Joyce Murland, 79, Canadian wheelchair athlete, Paralympic silver medalist (1972, 1976).
 * Paul Ornstein, 92, Hungarian-born American psychoanalyst.
 * Edwin Pope, 88, American journalist (The Miami Herald, Athens Banner-Herald), cancer.
 * Walt Streuli, 81, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).
 * Guillaume Van Tongerloo, 83, Belgian Olympic cyclist.
 * Giovanni Vastola, 78, Italian footballer (Vicenza, Bologna).
 * James S. Vlasto, 82, American public servant.
 * H. Boyd Woodruff, 99, American microbiologist.
 * Teori Zavascki, 68, Brazilian Supreme Court judge, Operation Car Wash reporter, plane crash.

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 * Bruno Amoroso, 80, Italian-born Danish economist.
 * Robert Anker, 70, Dutch writer.
 * José Luis Astigarraga Lizarralde, 76, Spanish-born Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Yurimaguas (1991–2016).
 * Jack August, 63, American historian, specialist in the history of Arizona, liver failure.
 * Leendert Bosch, 92, Dutch biochemist.
 * Hans Breukhoven, 70, Dutch businessman, founder of the Free Record Shop, pancreatic cancer.
 * Joy Coghill, 90, Canadian actress (Da Vinci's Inquest), heart failure.
 * Bill Fischer, 89, American football player (Chicago Cardinals).
 * Ahmed Gailani, 84, Afghan Qadiriyya leader and politician, founded National Islamic Front of Afghanistan.
 * Michael Goldberg, 73, American sports executive (NBCA).
 * Judith Palache Gregory, 84, American writer.
 * Klaus Huhn, 88, German sports journalist and writer.
 * Naděžda Kavalírová, 93, Czech political prisoner and activist, head of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes (2007–2013).
 * Alec Devon Kreider, 25, American convicted murderer, suicide by hanging.
 * Charles Liteky, 85, American military chaplain and peace activist.
 * Harry J. Middleton, 95, American writer and library director.
 * Joey Powers, 82, American singer-songwriter.
 * Czesław Rajtar, 87, Polish footballer
 * Sergio Reolon, 65, Italian politician.
 * Colin Rushmere, 79, South African conservationist and cricketer.
 * Carlos Alberto Silva, 77, Brazilian football manager (Guarani, Porto, national team).
 * Chuck Stewart, 89, American jazz photographer.
 * Tommy Tate, 72, American soul singer and songwriter.
 * Emma Tennant, 79, British author, posterior cortical atrophy.
 * Frank Thomas, 80, French songwriter.
 * John Watkiss, 55, British comic artist (Deadman) and concept artist (Tarzan, Atlantis: The Lost Empire), cancer.

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 * Marc Baecke, 60, Belgian footballer (Beveren, national team).
 * Alexinia Baldwin, 91, American educator.
 * Biruta Baumane, 94, Latvian artist.
 * Mark Baumer, 33, American environmental activist, traffic collision.
 * Erika Böhm-Vitense, 93, German-born American astronomer.
 * Byron Dobell, 89, American editor and writer, complications from Parkinson's disease.
 * Bernd Drechsel, 63, German Olympic wrestler (1972).
 * Jamshid Giunashvili, 86, Georgian linguist and Iranologist.
 * Vahit Melih Halefoğlu, 97, Turkish diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1983–1987).
 * Phil Hill, 53, American bodybuilder, heart attack
 * Yuri Karash, 53, Russian journalist, heart attack.
 * José de Jesús Madera Uribe, 89, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Fresno (1980–1991) and Auxiliary Bishop for the Military Services, USA (1991–2004).
 * Hiroki Matsukata, 74, Japanese actor (Battles Without Honor and Humanity, Shogun's Samurai), complications from lymphoma.
 * Walter "Junie" Morrison, 62, American Hall of Fame musician (Ohio Players, Parliament-Funkadelic) and record producer.
 * William Albert Norris, 89, American judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1980–1994).
 * Shirley Paget, Marchioness of Anglesey, 92, British public servant and writer.
 * Ernst Petzold, 87, German theologian.
 * Maggie Roche, 65, American singer-songwriter (The Roches), cancer.
 * Francesco Saverio Salerno, 88, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Secretary of Apostolic Signatura (1998–2003).
 * Dave Shipperley, 64, English footballer (Charlton Athletic, Gillingham).
 * Harry E. T. Thayer, 89, American diplomat, Ambassador to Singapore (1980–1985), Director of the American Institute in Taiwan (1984–1986).
 * Veljo Tormis, 86, Estonian composer.
 * Ken Wright, 70, American baseball player (Kansas City Royals).

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 * Merete Armand, 61, Norwegian actress.
 * J. S. G. Boggs, 62, American artist.
 * Pietro Bottaccioli, 88, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Gubbio (1989–2004).
 * Dan Caspi, 71, Romanian-born Israeli media theorist and academic.
 * İlhan Cavcav, 81, Turkish football executive, chairman of Gençlerbirliği S.K. (since 1978), brain hemorrhage.
 * Chen Yu-mei, 50, Taiwanese politician.
 * Giovanni Corrieri, 96, Italian bicycle racer.
 * Søren Elung Jensen, 88, Danish actor (Det støver stadig, King Lear), lung cancer.
 * Cristina Adela Foișor, 49, Romanian chess player, International Master.
 * Jean Georgakarakos, 76, French music producer.
 * Moshe Gershuni, 80, Israeli painter and sculptor.
 * Aleksander Kan, 91, Russian-born Swedish historian.
 * Evelyn Kawamoto, 83, American swimmer, Olympic bronze medalist (1952).
 * Lisbeth Korsmo, 69, Norwegian speed skater, Olympic bronze medalist (1976).
 * Jaki Liebezeit, 78, German drummer (Can), pneumonia.
 * Naqsh Lyallpuri, 88, Indian poet and songwriter.
 * Katharine Macmillan, Viscountess Macmillan of Ovenden, 96, British politician and aristocrat.
 * Andy Marte, 33, Dominican baseball player (Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians, Arizona Diamondbacks), traffic collision.
 * Masaya Nakamura, 91, Japanese businessman, founder of Namco.
 * Lev Navrozov, 88, Russian writer, historian and dissident.
 * Werner Nekes, 72, German film director.
 * Glenn D. Paige, 87, American political scientist.
 * Francisco Palmeiro, 84, Portuguese footballer (Benfica).
 * József Torgyán, 84, Hungarian politician, Minister of Agriculture (1998–2001).
 * Alexis S. Troubetzkoy, 82, Russian writer and educator.
 * Yordano Ventura, 25, Dominican baseball player (Kansas City Royals), traffic collision.
 * Pete Overend Watts, 69, English bass guitarist (Mott the Hoople), throat cancer.
 * Rudolf Wille, 79, German mathematician.

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 * Volodymyr Bezkorovainy, 72, Ukrainian vice admiral, Commander of the Navy (1993–1996).
 * Bimba Bosé, 41, Italian-born Spanish model, designer, singer and actress (El cónsul de Sodoma), breast cancer.
 * Kay Cornelius, 84, American novelist.
 * Preben Dabelsteen, 91, Danish badminton player, Thomas Cup silver medalist (1949).
 * Earl Foreman, 92, American lawyer and sports executive (Washington Whips, Virginia Squires, Major Indoor Soccer League).
 * Bobby Freeman, 76, American singer and songwriter ("Do You Want to Dance"), heart attack.
 * Dmytro Grabovskyy, 31, Ukrainian bicycle racer, heart attack.
 * Ralph Guglielmi, 83, American football player (Washington Redskins, New York Giants).
 * Ted Haggis, 92, Canadian sprinter.
 * Mustafa Imamović, 76, Bosnian historian.
 * Kang Ki-sop, North Korean politician, Director of General Civil Aviation Administration (since 2010). (death announced on this date)
 * Leon Katz, 97, American playwright.
 * Gorden Kaye, 75, English actor ('Allo 'Allo!, Brazil, Coronation Street), kidney failure.
 * Kudditji Kngwarreye, 78, Australian Aboriginal artist.
 * Erland Kolding Nielsen, 70, Danish academic, Director General of the Royal Library.
 * Leslie Koo, 62, Taiwanese business executive (Taiwan Cement Corporation), fall.
 * Boško Krunić, 87, Serbian politician (League of Communists of Yugoslavia), Chairman of the Presidium (1987–1988).
 * Li Kwan-ha, 79, Hong Kong police officer, Commissioner of the Royal Hong Kong Police (1989–1994), fall.
 * Bernard Redmont, 98, American journalist.
 * Douglas Reeman, 92, British author.
 * Anatol Roshko, 93, Canadian-born American physicist and engineer.
 * Ruth Samuelson, 57, American politician, member of the North Carolina General Assembly (2007–2015), ovarian cancer.
 * David Sayer, 80, English cricketer (Kent).
 * Franz Schelle, 87, German Olympic bobsledder (1956, 1964).
 * Betty Tebbs, 98, British women's rights activist.
 * Andrew Telegdi, 70, Hungarian-born Canadian politician, MP for Waterloo (1993–2008).
 * Marvell Thomas, 75, American keyboardist.
 * Serhiy Tovstoplet, 79, Ukrainian Olympic swimmer (1960).
 * Jaroslav Vacek, 73, Czech Indologist.
 * Herman Vanden Berghe, 83, Belgian geneticist.
 * Mary Webster, 81, American actress (The Delicate Delinquent, The Tin Star, Master of the World).
 * G. A. Wells, 90, British professor of German.

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 * Dan Adamescu, 68, Romanian businessman (Unirea Shopping Center).
 * Fred André, 75, Dutch football player and manager (Telstar).
 * Ronald Kent Campbell, 82, American politician.
 * Chuck Canfield, 84, American businessman and politician, Mayor of Rochester, Minnesota (1996–2003).
 * Lualemaga Faoa, American Samoan judge and politician, Paramount Chief of Aasu, Governor of Western District (since 2013).
 * Robert Folsom, 89, American politician, Mayor of Dallas, Texas (1976–1981).
 * Helena Kmieć, 25, Polish Roman Catholic missionary.
 * Martin Nicholas Lohmuller, 97, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Philadelphia (1970–1994).
 * Manu Maniapoto, 81, New Zealand rugby union player (Bay of Plenty, Māori national team).
 * Porfirio Méndez, 50, Paraguayan Olympic athlete.
 * Gil Ray, 60, American drummer (Game Theory, The Loud Family), cancer.
 * Butch Trucks, 69, American drummer (The Allman Brothers Band), suicide by gunshot.
 * Carlos Verdejo, 82, Chilean footballer (Santiago Wanderers).
 * Chuck Weyant, 93, American racecar driver.
 * Adlyn White, 87, Jamaican religious leader.
 * Peter Woodman, 73, Irish archaeologist.

25

 * Arne Asper, 93, Norwegian businessman.
 * William Lacy Carter, 91, American politician, member of the Tennessee House of Representatives (1970–1974).
 * Stephen P. Cohen, 71, Canadian academic, male breast cancer.
 * Ann Dandrow, 80, American politician, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives (1986–2002).
 * Ronnie Davis, 66, Jamaican reggae singer.
 * Đinh Xuân Lâm, 91, Vietnamese educator and historian.
 * Buchi Emecheta, 72, Nigerian novelist (The Bride Price, The Joys of Motherhood, Gwendolen).
 * Charles Reis Felix, 93, American writer.
 * Shunji Fujimura, 82, Japanese actor (Monkey, Death Note, Black Butler), heart failure.
 * Robert Garcia, 84, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 21st congressional district (1978–1990), emphysema-induced infection.
 * Kevin Geer, 64, American actor (Twelve Angry Men, The Pelican Brief, The Contender), heart attack.
 * Sir John Hurt, 77, British actor (Alien, The Elephant Man, Hellboy), BAFTA winner (1979, 1981), pancreatic cancer.
 * Jun Izumida, 51, Japanese professional wrestler (AJPW, Pro Wrestling Noah), heart attack.
 * Katja of Sweden, 97, Swedish fashion designer.
 * Jean-Pierre Sohahong-Kombet, 81, Central African diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1981), cancer.
 * Nicolae Lupan, 95, Moldovan author and journalist.
 * Harry Mathews, 86, American novelist and poet.
 * Jack Mendelsohn, 90, American cartoonist and screenwriter (Yellow Submarine, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), lung cancer.
 * Mary Tyler Moore, 80, American actress (The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Ordinary People), 7-time Emmy winner, cardiopulmonary arrest.
 * Jacques Moreau, 83, French politician, MEP (1979–1984).
 * Siewert Öholm, 77, Swedish journalist and television presenter, liver cancer.
 * Arturo Pérez de Alejo Rodríguez, 66, Cuban dissident.
 * Mike Peyton, 96, British cartoonist.
 * Ivan Pritargov, 64, Bulgarian footballer (Chernomorets Burgas, CSKA Sofia, national team), stroke.
 * Marcel Prud'homme, 82, Canadian politician, MP (1964–1993) and Senator (1993–2009).
 * Sir Nigel Rodley, 75, British human rights professor and lawyer.
 * Raúl Valerio, 90, Mexican actor.
 * Margaret Wall, Baroness Wall of New Barnet, 75, British trade unionist and peer.

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 * Ramdas Agarwal, 79, Indian politician.
 * Bakhti Belaïb, 64, Algerian politician, Minister of Trade (1996–1999, and since 2015), cancer.
 * Anne-Marie Colchen, 91, French track and field athlete and basketball player, European high jump champion (1946) and basketball world championship bronze medalist (1953).
 * Saloua Raouda Choucair, 100, Lebanese painter and sculptor.
 * Mike Connors, 91, American actor (Mannix, The Ten Commandments, Tightrope!), leukemia.
 * Sir Tam Dalyell, 84, Scottish politician, MP for West Lothian (1962–1983) and Linlithgow (1983–2005), Father of the House (2001–2005).
 * Lindy Delapenha, 89, Jamaican football player (Middlesbrough) and sports broadcaster.
 * Martin Froy, 90, British painter.
 * Hal Geer, 100, American producer and filmmaker (Looney Tunes).
 * Raynald Guay, 83, Canadian politician, MP (1963–1980).
 * Barbara Hale, 94, American actress (Perry Mason, Airport, The Window), complications from COPD.
 * Barbara Howard, 96, Canadian sprinter and educator.
 * Montserrat Julió, 87, Spanish film and television actress (A Land for All).
 * Alexander Kadakin, 67, Russian diplomat, Ambassador to India (1999–2004, since 2009), heart failure.
 * Leonard Linkow, 90, American dentist.
 * Paul Lanneau, 91, Belgian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Mechelen-Brussels (1982–2002).
 * Peter Lynch, 52, Australian mining engineer, plane crash.
 * David Mantell, 82, English cricketer (Sussex).
 * J. Kenyon Mason, 97, British medical and legal scholar.
 * Fred Parslow, 84, Australian stage and television actor (Alvin Purple).
 * Mario Quintero, 93, Cuban Olympic basketball player (1948, 1952).
 * Luciano Ravaglia, 94, Italian engineer.
 * Charles Recher, 66, American artist, stroke.
 * David Rose, 92, British television producer (Z-Cars), founder of FilmFour.
 * Dame Laurie Salas, 94, New Zealand women's rights and peace activist.
 * Miikka Toivola, 67, Finnish footballer (HJK Helsinki, national team).
 * Michael Tönnies, 57, German footballer (MSV Duisburg).

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 * Pierre Albertini, 75, French Olympic judoka.
 * Wim Anderiesen Jr., 85, Dutch footballer (Ajax).
 * Valery Bolotov, 46, Russian-born Ukrainian militant leader, Head of the Lugansk People's Republic (2014).
 * Stan Boreson, 91, American comedian and television host.
 * Bob Bowman, 86, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).
 * Henry-Louis de La Grange, 92, French musicologist, biographer of Gustav Mahler.
 * Gwen Gillen, 76, American sculptor, dementia.
 * Wanda Hjort Heger, 95, Norwegian resistance activist.
 * Bob Holiday, 84, American actor (It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman).
 * Atanas Kirov, 70, Bulgarian weightlifter, world champion (1973, 1974, 1975).
 * Ján Kobezda, 41, Slovak ice hockey player and coach (HK Dukla Trenčín), heart attack.
 * Petr Kop, 79, Czech volleyball player, Olympic silver medalist (1964).
 * Robert Ellis Miller, 89, American film director (Reuben, Reuben, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Any Wednesday).
 * Yevdokiya Pasko, 97, Russian military officer and pilot, Hero of the Soviet Union.
 * Brunhilde Pomsel, 106, German broadcaster and secretary to Joseph Goebbels.
 * Geoffrey Raisman, 77, British neuroscientist.
 * Tatiana Repeikina, 43, Russian footballer (Ryazan VDV, Zvezda Perm).
 * Emmanuelle Riva, 89, French actress (Amour, Thérèse Desqueyroux, Hiroshima mon amour), BAFTA winner (2013), cancer.
 * Arthur H. Rosenfeld, 90, American physicist.
 * Charles Shackleford, 50, American basketball player (New Jersey Nets, Philadelphia 76ers).
 * Billy Simpson, 87, Northern Irish footballer (Linfield, Rangers).
 * Gisella Sofio, 85, Italian actress (Accidents to the Taxes!!, La liceale, The Big Heart of Girls).
 * Betty Stanhope-Cole, 79, Canadian golfer, cancer.
 * Jack Thrasher, 80, American immunotoxicologist.
 * Frank Tidy, 84, English cinematographer (The Duellists, Under Siege, Chain Reaction), dementia.

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 * Kazem Afrandnia, 71, Iranian actor, stroke.
 * Mohammed Bello Abubakar, 93, Nigerian Muslim preacher and polygamist.
 * Sir Christopher Bland, 78, British-Irish businessman, Chairman of the BBC (1996–2001), and Olympic fencer, prostate cancer.
 * Jean Bogaerts, 92, Belgian racing cyclist.
 * Edgar Britt, 103, Australian jockey.
 * Iain D. Campbell, 53, British religious leader (Free Church of Scotland), suicide by hanging.
 * Renzo Canestrari, 92, Italian psychiatrist.
 * Alexander Chancellor, 77, British journalist (The Spectator).
 * Lubomír Doležel, 94, Czech literary theorist.
 * Sabine Eggerth, 73, German actress.
 * Jaakko Elo, 91, Finnish urologist.
 * Guitar Gable, 79, American blues musician.
 * Sang Chul Lee, 92, Canadian Christian minister, Moderator of the United Church of Canada (1988–1990).
 * Charles LeMaistre, 92, American academic administrator, Chancellor of University of Texas System (1971–1978).
 * Many Clouds, 9, Irish-bred British-trained racehorse, Grand National winner (2015), pulmonary haemorrhage.
 * John N. Mather, 74, American mathematician.
 * Bharati Mukherjee, 76, Indian-born American writer (Jasmine) and academic, complications from rheumatoid arthritis and takotsubo cardiomyopathy.
 * Sterling Newberry, 101, American inventor.
 * Geoff Nicholls, 68, English keyboardist (Black Sabbath, Quartz), lung cancer.
 * Lennart Nilsson, 94, Swedish photographer.
 * Anthony J. Perpich, 84, American politician, member of the Minnesota Senate (1967–1976).
 * Richard Portman, 82, American sound mixer (The Godfather, Star Wars, The Deer Hunter), Oscar winner (1979), complications from a fall.
 * Günter Ropohl, 77, German philosopher of technology.
 * William Schwarzer, 91, American federal judge.
 * Thomas Joseph Simpson, 95, Canadian World War II veteran.
 * Dan Spiegle, 96, American comic book artist (Hopalong Cassidy, Scooby-Doo, Jonah Hex).
 * John J. Stamos, 92, American judge.
 * Darryl Sutton, 64, Australian VFL footballer (North Melbourne), pneumonia.
 * Salvatore Tatarella, 69, Italian politician, MEP (1994–1999).
 * Alexander Tikhanovich, 64, Belarusian pop singer (Verasy).
 * Stuart Timmons, 60, American gay historian and activist, cardiac arrest.
 * Ion Ungureanu, 81, Moldovan actor (That Sweet Word: Liberty!) and politician, MP (1990–1994).

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 * Sir Harold Atcherley, 98, British businessman and arts administrator.
 * Ruslan Barburoș, 38, Moldovan footballer (Sheriff).
 * Oscar Bolaño, 65, Colombian footballer.
 * Pat Corr, 89, Northern Irish footballer.
 * Edmund Eiden, 95, American football player (Detroit Lions).
 * Willy Fossli, 85, Norwegian footballer (Asker).
 * Harald Friedrich, 69, German physicist.
 * Joop Gouweleeuw, 76, Dutch Olympic judoka (1964).
 * Joseph Mélèze-Modrzejewski, 86, Polish-French historian.
 * Howard Frank Mosher, 74, American author (Where the Rivers Flow North), cancer.
 * Ko Ni, 64, Burmese lawyer, shot.
 * Boris Nikolov, 87, Bulgarian boxer, Olympic bronze medalist (1952).
 * William Owens, 36, American Navy SEAL soldier, shot.
 * Stanislaw Padewski, 84, Polish-Ukrainian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Kharkiv-Zaporizhia (2002–2009).
 * Leonard H. Perroots, 83, American military officer, Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (1985–1988).
 * Michael Rainey, 76, Australian-born British fashion designer.
 * Elkin Ramírez, 54, Colombian singer-songwriter (Kraken), brain cancer.
 * Mario Reading, 63, British writer and translator, cancer.
 * Olav Smidsrød, 80, Norwegian biochemist.
 * Elliot Sperling, 66, American historian.

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 * Dore Ashton, 89, American writer and critic.
 * Marta Becket, 92, American dancer.
 * Winnett Boyd, 100, Canadian engineer.
 * Don Coleman, 88, American football player (Michigan State).
 * Carmen Contreras-Bozak, 97, American World War II veteran, first Puerto Rican woman to serve in the Women's Army Corps.
 * Eiður Svanberg Guðnason, 77, Icelandic politician and diplomat, Ambassador to Australia (2003–2007).
 * Walter Hautzig, 95, Austrian-born American pianist.
 * Gilbert Henderson, 90, Canadian Olympic sports shooter (1960).
 * Doris Lockness, 106, American aviation pioneer.
 * Aito Mäkinen, 90, Finnish film director (Onnelliset leikit).
 * Mario R. Ramil, 70, Filipino-born American justice, Associate Justice of the Hawaii State Supreme Court (1993–2002), cancer.
 * Cesar C. Raval, 92, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bangued (1988–1992).
 * Harold Rosen, 90, American electrical engineer, complications from a stroke.
 * Johnny Wahlqvist, 43, Swedish powerlifter, heart illness.

31

 * Konstantin Arsenović, 76, Serbian politician and military official.
 * Thomas Barlow, 76, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kentucky's 1st congressional district (1993–1995).
 * Grethe Bartram, 92, Danish war criminal.
 * John Beasley, 86, Australian racing cyclist.
 * Matilde Capuis, 104, Italian organist, pianist and composer.
 * Trice Harvey, 80, American politician, member of the California State Assembly (1986–1996), injuries sustained in a fall.
 * Kang Bong-kyun, 74, South Korean politician, Minister of Finance (1999–2000).
 * Deke Leonard, 72, Welsh rock guitarist (Man).
 * Paul McBlane, 53, Australian rugby league referee, heart attack.
 * Jim Mitchener, 87, Canadian football player.
 * Frank Pellegrino, 72, American actor (Goodfellas, The Sopranos) and restaurateur (Rao's), lung cancer.
 * Annie Saumont, 89, French author and translator.
 * John Schroeder, 82, British composer, songwriter and record producer (Helen Shapiro, Sounds Orchestral, Status Quo).
 * David Shepard, 76, American film preservationist.
 * Rob Stewart, 37, Canadian filmmaker (Sharkwater), drowned.
 * Bobby Watson, 86, American basketball player (Kentucky Wildcats, Minneapolis Lakers, Milwaukee Hawks).
 * John Wetton, 67, British singer-songwriter ("Only Time Will Tell", "Heat of the Moment") and bass guitarist (Asia, King Crimson), colorectal cancer.
 * Tokitenkū Yoshiaki, 37, Mongolian sumo wrestler, lymphoma.