Deaths in May 2016

The following is a list of notable deaths in May 2016.

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

 * Hamzat Ahmadu, 91–92, Nigerian diplomat, Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Netherlands, Cameroon, the Bahamas, and the United States.
 * Richard Gilpin, 76, British Anglican priest, Archdeacon of Totnes (1996–2005).
 * Jean-Marie Girault, 90, French politician, Mayor of Caen (1970–2001).
 * Solomon W. Golomb, 83, American mathematician and engineer.
 * Madeleine Lebeau, 92, French actress (Casablanca, 8½), complications from a broken thigh bone.
 * Merv Lincoln, 82, Australian Olympic middle-distance runner (1956, 1960).
 * Sydney Onayemi, 78, Nigerian-born Swedish DJ.
 * Doug Raney, 59, American jazz guitarist, heart failure.
 * Swasti Mitter, 76, Indian development economist.

2

 * Balwantrai Bhatt, 94, Indian composer and musician.
 * Basil Blackshaw, 84, Northern Irish artist.
 * Tobias de Boer, 85, Dutch scientist.
 * Jonathan Cainer, 58, British astrologer (Daily Mail), heart failure.
 * Richard Davis, 66, English radio astronomer.
 * Walter Dürst, 89, Swiss ice hockey player, Olympic bronze medalist (1948).
 * Mozibur Rahman Fakir, 69, Bangladeshi politician, cardiac arrest.
 * Al Ferrari, 82, American basketball player (St. Louis Hawks, Chicago Zephyrs).
 * John Kaye, 60, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (since 2007), cancer.
 * Jacky Lee, 77, American football player (Denver Broncos, Kansas City Chiefs), Alzheimer's disease.
 * Balraj Madhok, 96, Indian politician, President of Bharatiya Jana Sangh (1966–1967).
 * Tomohiro Matsu, 43, Japanese light novel writer (Listen to Me, Girls. I Am Your Father!, Mayoi Neko Overrun!), liver cancer.
 * Paul McDowell, 84, British actor and singer (The Temperance Seven).
 * Myles McKeon, 97, Irish-born Australian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bunbury (1969–1982).
 * Roger Millward, 68, British rugby league player (Hull Kingston Rovers, Castleford Tigers, national team).
 * Karel Pečko, 95, Slovenian artist.
 * Stasys Petronaitis, 83, Lithuanian actor.
 * Afeni Shakur, 69, American businesswoman (Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts, Amaru Entertainment, Makaveli Branded) and political activist (Black Panthers).
 * Fernando Soto Aparicio, 82, Colombian author.
 * Wilfried Straub, 77, German football official.
 * Gordie Sundin, 78, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles).

3

 * Charlie Beamon, 81, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles).
 * Paul Boutelle, 81, American politician, Socialist Workers candidate for U.S. Vice President (1968), kidney cancer.
 * Ian Deans, 78, Canadian politician, MP (1980–1986), Parkinson's disease.
 * Kristian Ealey, 38, British actor (Brookside, Hollyoaks).
 * Fan Lichu, 82, Chinese bridge structural engineer and academician (Chinese Academy of Engineering).
 * Abel Fernandez, 85, American actor (The Untouchables, Pork Chop Hill).
 * Marianne Gaba, 76, American model and actress (Missile to the Moon, The Choppers, The Beverly Hillbillies), brain cancer.
 * Gao Shan, 53, Chinese geochemist and academician (Chinese Academy of Science).
 * Tadeusz Gocłowski, 84, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Gdańsk (1992–2008), stroke.
 * Sarah D. Grant, 72, American judge.
 * Sunil Gudge, 56, Indian cricketer (Maharashtra), heart attack.
 * Kaname Harada, 99, Japanese World War II flying ace, multiple organ failure.
 * Frank Levingston, 110, American supercentenarian, nation's oldest World War II veteran.
 * Thomas W. Libous, 63, American politician, member of the New York State Senate (1989–2015), cancer.
 * Karol Machata, 88, Slovak actor (St. Peter's Umbrella).
 * Graeme McCall, 78, Australian Olympic rower.
 * Allan L. McCutcheon, 66, American sociologist and statistician.
 * Nicolas Noxon, 79, American filmmaker (Secrets of the Titanic), pancreatic cancer.
 * Ian Quigley, 84, New Zealand politician, MP for Otago Central (1972–1975).
 * Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd, 81, Swedish artist (Non-Violence), pneumonia.
 * Ian Sander, 68, American producer and director (Ghost Whisperer, Profiler, I'll Fly Away), heart attack.
 * Domingo Siazon Jr., 76, Philippine politician and diplomat, Secretary of Foreign Affairs (1995–2001), ambassador to Austria and Japan.
 * Jadranka Stojaković, 65, Bosnian singer-songwriter, motor neuron disease.
 * Gordon Strachan, 68, Scottish rugby union player, cardiac amyloidosis.
 * Janusz Tazbir, 87, Polish historian.

4

 * Tutty Alawiyah, 74, Indonesian politician, Minister for Women's Affairs (1998–1999).
 * Ángel de Andrés López, 64, Spanish actor (What Have I Done to Deserve This?, 800 Bullets, Taxi).
 * Blas Avena, 32, American mixed martial artist (WEC), suicide.
 * Sir Jack Baer, 91, British art dealer.
 * Jean-Baptiste Bagaza, 69, Burundian politician, President (1976–1987).
 * Bob Bennett, 82, American politician, U.S. Senator from Utah (1993–2011), pancreatic cancer and stroke.
 * Gaetan Boucher, 59, Canadian-born Swiss Olympic ice hockey player (1988), (HC Villars).
 * Karl Butzer, 81, German-born American geographer.
 * Michael Caborn-Waterfield, 86, British businessman (Ann Summers).
 * Giuseppe Faraca, 56, Italian racing cyclist.
 * Howard King, 83, American public address announcer (Michigan Stadium).
 * Olle Ljungström, 54, Swedish singer and guitarist.
 * Ursula Mamlok, 93, German-born American composer.
 * James Oyedeji, 63, Ghanaian sports historian.
 * Paul A. Paddock, 41, American artist.
 * Jordan Parsons, 25, American mixed martial artist (Bellator), traffic collision.
 * Rita Renoir, 82, French strip-teaser and actress.
 * Friedrich Schattleitner, 92, Austrian Olympic sport shooter (1968).
 * Ret Turner, 87, American fashion designer (Cher, Dolly Parton, Carol Burnett).
 * Adlan Varayev, 54, Russian wrestler, Olympic silver medalist (1988), drowned.
 * John Wright, 75, British Army officer and polo administrator.

5

 * Wan Mohammad Khair-il Anuar, 56, Malaysian politician, MP (since 2013), Chairman of Malaysian Palm Oil Board, helicopter crash.
 * Benito Cocchi, 81, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Modena-Nonantola (1996–2010).
 * Bentot Jr., 46, Filipino actor.
 * Rollin Dart, 90, American banker (Dart National Bank).
 * Matt Irwin, 36, British celebrity photographer, suicide.
 * Noriah Kasnon, 52, Malaysian politician, MP (since 2004), helicopter crash.
 * Sylvia Kauders, 94, American actress (Inside Llewyn Davis, Witness, Predator 2), heart attack.
 * Bill MacDermott, 79, American CFL coach (Edmonton Eskimos).
 * Anne Atai Omoruto, 59, Ugandan physician, cancer.
 * Romalı Perihan, 74, Turkish actress and singer.
 * Fred C. Robinson, 85, American academic.
 * Siné, 87, French political cartoonist.
 * Gabriel Thohey Mahn-Gaby, 88, Burmese Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Yangon (1971–2002).
 * Isao Tomita, 84, Japanese synthesizer musician, composer and arranger (Snowflakes Are Dancing), heart failure.
 * Martha Seim Valeur, 93, Norwegian politician, Deputy MP (1993–1997).
 * Nancy Zahniser, 67, American pharmacologist, glioblastoma.

6

 * Klaus Ampler, 75, German Olympic racing cyclist (1968).
 * Johannes Bauer, 61, German trombonist.
 * Nico de Bree, 71, Dutch footballer (NEC, Anderlecht), cancer.
 * Scott Burgess, 57, Australian actor, (Water Rats), heart attack.
 * Patrick Ekeng, 26, Cameroonian footballer (Le Mans, Dinamo București, national team), heart attack.
 * Dick Estell, 90, American radio host (The Radio Reader).
 * Roberta Gellis, 88, American author.
 * Reg Grundy, 92, Australian television production mogul (Reg Grundy Organisation).
 * David Hall, 85, American politician, Governor of Oklahoma (1971–1975), stroke.
 * Lakshmi Holmström, 81, Indian-born British author and translator.
 * Margot Honecker, 89, East German politician, Minister of People's Education (1963–1989), First Lady (1976–1989).
 * Johnny Joannou, 76, American politician, member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1976–1983, 1998–2016) and Senate (1984–1992), lung cancer.
 * Candye Kane, 54, American blues singer-songwriter and pornographic actress, pancreatic cancer.
 * Li Wanheng, 92, Chinese soldier, commander of the 67th Army of the People's Liberation Army (1981–1983).
 * George Mandler, 91, American psychologist.
 * Pierre, 33, American penguin, renal failure.
 * Larry Pinto de Faria, 83, Brazilian footballer (Sport Club Internacional).
 * Niklaus Schilling, 72, Swiss filmmaker (The Expulsion from Paradise).
 * Kōjō Tanaka, 91, Japanese photographer.
 * Abu Waheeb, 29–30, Iraqi field commander (ISIL) and prison escapee (Camp Bucca), airstrike.
 * Christopher Wathes, 64, British research scientist.
 * Valeriy Zuyev, 63, Ukrainian football player (Dynamo Kyiv) and manager.

7

 * Fernando Álvarez de Miranda, 92, Spanish politician, President of the Congress of Deputies (1977–1979).
 * Comply or Die, 16, British thoroughbred racehorse, won the Grand National (2008).
 * Ann Day, 77, American politician, member of the Arizona Senate (1990–2000), traffic collision.
 * Merritt Green, 85, American lawyer and judge.
 * Michael S. Harper, 78, American poet.
 * Mohammad-Ali Hosseinzadeh, 39, Iranian politician, traffic collision.
 * John Krish, 92, British film director.
 * Gonzalo López Marañon, 82, Spanish-born Ecuadorian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of San Miguel de Sucumbíos (1970–2010).
 * José Roberto Marques, 70, Brazilian footballer (São Paulo).
 * Chris Mitchell, 27, Scottish footballer (Queen of the South, Clyde), suicide by jumping in front of train.
 * Bernardo Ribeiro, 26, Brazilian footballer (Skënderbeu, Newcastle Jets, IFK Mariehamn), cardiac arrest.
 * George Ross, 73, Scottish footballer (Preston North End).
 * John Stabb, 54, American punk singer (Government Issue), stomach cancer.
 * Nikita Struve, 85, French literary critic and publisher.
 * Anne van den Ban, 88, Dutch agricultural economist.
 * Khurram Zaki, 40, Pakistani rights activist, shot.

8

 * Tom M. Apostol, 92, American analytic number theorist and professor.
 * Philippe Beaussant, 86, French author.
 * John Bradshaw, 82, American self-help writer, heart failure.
 * Tonita Castro, 63, Mexican-born American actress (Dads, Funny People, The Book of Life), stomach cancer.
 * Louisa Chase, 65, American painter.
 * Sir Iain Glidewell, 91, British jurist, Lord Justice of Appeal (1985–1995).
 * Ken Gorgal, 87, American football player (Cleveland Browns, Chicago Bears).
 * Gareth Gwenlan, 79, British television producer (Only Fools and Horses).
 * Joan Helpern, 89, American shoe designer.
 * Nick Lashaway, 28, American actor (Girls, In Time, The Last Song), traffic collision.
 * Elisa Mainardi, 85, Italian actress (Fellini Satyricon).
 * Wolfgang Patzke, 57, German footballer.
 * Geneviève Salbaing, 94, French-born Canadian dancer and choreographer.
 * William Schallert, 93, American actor (The Patty Duke Show, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, In the Heat of the Night), President of SAG (1979–1981).
 * Rajesh Nandini Singh, 59, Indian politician, member of the Lok Sabha (2009–2014), heart attack.
 * Friedrich von Huene, 87, German-born American woodwind maker.
 * John Young, 67, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers), founder of Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities.
 * Thomas Zhang Huai-xin, 90, Chinese clandestine Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Jixian (since 1981).

9

 * Chuck Curtis, 80, American football coach (University of Texas at Arlington).
 * Andi Muhammad Ghalib, 69, Indonesian politician, Attorney General (1998–1999), Ambassador to India (2008–2013).
 * Rex Hughes, 77, American basketball coach (Sacramento Kings).
 * Walther Leisler Kiep, 90, German politician, member of the Bundestag (1965–1976, 1980–1982).
 * Sandy Lewis, 85, Australian politician.
 * Bill MacIlwraith, 88, British playwright and screenwriter (Two's Company).
 * Karl Maramorosch, 101, Austrian-born American virologist, entomologist and plant pathologist.
 * Dennis Nineham, 94, British theologian.
 * Chennamaneni Rajeshwara Rao, 92, Indian politician.
 * Kelly Stearne, 57, Canadian curler.
 * Gijs Verdick, 21, Dutch professional cyclist, heart attack.
 * Ronald W. Walker, 76, American historian, lymphoma.
 * John Warr, 88, English cricketer.

10

 * Mustafa Badreddine, 55, Lebanese military commander (Hezbollah, Syrian Civil War), convicted planner of 1983 Kuwait bombings, explosion.
 * Heinz-Georg Baus, 82, German billionaire and businessman, owner of Bauhaus AG.
 * Jack Boothman, 79, Irish sports administrator, President of the Gaelic Athletic Association (1994–1997).
 * Sally Brampton, 60, British writer and magazine editor (Elle), suicide by drowning.
 * Sarah Corp, 41, British television producer, lung cancer.
 * Nicholas Fisk, 92, British children's author.
 * Carlos García y García, 88, Peruvian politician, Second Vice President (1990–1992).
 * Louis van Gasteren, 93, Dutch filmmaker and artist.
 * Gene Gutowski, 90, Polish-born American film producer (The Pianist, The Fearless Vampire Killers, Cul-de-sac), pneumonia.
 * Ilkka Hanski, 63, Finnish ecologist.
 * Kang Young-hoon, 93, South Korean politician, Prime Minister (1988–1990).
 * Mark Lane, 89, American lawyer, author (Rush to Judgment, Plausible Denial) and screenwriter (Executive Action), heart attack.
 * Thomas Luckmann, 88, Slovene-born American sociologist (The Social Construction of Reality).
 * François Morellet, 90, French painter, sculptor and light artist.
 * Betty Sabo, 87, American artist.
 * Shi Ping, 82, Chinese aircraft designer (Hongdu JL-8) and academic (Chinese Academy of Engineering).
 * Steve Smith, 26, Canadian mountain biker, race collision.
 * Riki Sorsa, 63, Finnish singer ("Reggae OK"), cancer.
 * Margaret Walker, 91, British sprinter.

11

 * Peter Behrens, 68, German drummer (Trio), multiple organ failure.
 * Bobby Carroll, 77, Scottish footballer (Celtic).
 * Tony Cozier, 75, Barbadian cricket writer and commentator.
 * Katherine Dunn, 70, American writer (Geek Love), lung cancer.
 * Abdul Baqi Jammoh, 93–94, Jordanian politician, Senator (1997–2001).
 * David King, 73, British graphic designer, art collector and writer (The Commissar Vanishes).
 * Promode Mankin, 77, Bangladeshi politician.
 * Anton Muheim, 99, Swiss politician, President of the National Council (1973–1974).
 * Motiur Rahman Nizami, 73, Bangladeshi politician and convicted war criminal, leader of Jamaat (since 2000), MP for Pabna (1991–1996, 2001–2006), execution by hanging.
 * Herman Obermayer, 91, American journalist and publisher (Northern Virginia Sun).
 * Jim Pothecary, 82, South African cricketer (Western Province, national team).
 * Michael Ratner, 72, American lawyer, won right of habeas corpus for Guantanamo Bay detainees, complications from cancer.
 * Majid al-Shibl, 80–81, Saudi Arabian announcer.
 * Joe Temperley, 86, Scottish saxophonist (Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra), cancer.
 * Jack L. Treynor, 86, American economist.

12

 * Mike Agostini, 81, Trinidadian-born Australian Olympic sprinter (1956), Commonwealth Games gold medalist (1954).
 * Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia, 91, Serbian royal.
 * Denise Bernot, 94, French academic.
 * Sidney Brazier, 96, British army bomb disposal officer.
 * Ulf Grenander, 92, Swedish statistician.
 * Denis Hardy, 80, Canadian politician, Vice President of the National Assembly of Quebec (1970–1973).
 * Susannah Mushatt Jones, 116, American supercentenarian, world's oldest living person.
 * Bohumil Kubát, 81, Czech wrestler, Olympic bronze medalist (1960).
 * Julius La Rosa, 86, American pop singer ("Anywhere I Wander", "Eh, Cumpari!") and actor (Another World).
 * Del Latta, 96, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio's 5th congressional district (1959–1989).
 * Peter J. Liacouras, 85, American academic, President of Temple University (1981–2000).
 * Giuseppe Maiani, 92, Sammarinese politician, Captain Regent (1955–1956, 1982).
 * Tapio Mäkelä, 89, Finnish cross-country skier, Olympic gold medalist (1952).
 * Giovanni Migliorati, 73, Italian-born Ethiopian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Awasa (since 2009).
 * Yukio Ninagawa, 80, Japanese film and theatre director, pneumonia.
 * Raghunath Patnaik, 89, Indian politician, heart disease.
 * Georges Sesia, 91, French footballer.
 * Hugh Smith, 81, American football player (Washington Redskins).

13

 * Seiji Arikawa, 86, Japanese politician, member of the House of Representatives (1990–1993).
 * Bill Backer, 89, American advertising executive (McCann Erickson) and songwriter ("I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (In Perfect Harmony)").
 * Ondrej Binder, 46, Slovak politician, member of the National Council (2016), traffic collision.
 * Buster Cooper, 87, American jazz trombonist, prostate cancer.
 * Karl Eigen, 88, German farmer and politician, member of the Bundestag (1972–1976, 1980–1990).
 * Sammy Ellis, 75, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds), cancer.
 * Rodrigo Espíndola, 26, Argentine footballer (Nueva Chicago), shot.
 * Makiko Futaki, 57, Japanese animator (Akira, Spirited Away, My Neighbour Totoro).
 * David McNiven Garner, 87, New Zealand oceanographer.
 * Blanche Hartman, 90, American Buddhist abbess.
 * W. K. Hastings, 85, Canadian statistician.
 * Doina Florica Ignat, 78, Romanian historian and politician, Senator (1992–1996).
 * John Imbrie, 90, American paleoceanographer.
 * Paul Jetton, 51, American football player (Cincinnati Bengals, New Orleans Saints).
 * Lauri Kähkönen, 69, Finnish politician, MP for North Karelia (1999–2011).
 * Rabbit Kekai, 95, American surfer.
 * Jan Korger, 78, Czech physician and politician, member of the House of Peoples of the Federal Assembly of Czechoslovakia (1992).
 * Engelbert Kraus, 81, German footballer (Kickers Offenbach).
 * Mikio Kudō, 55, Japanese baseball player, liver failure.
 * Dick McAuliffe, 76, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers), World Series winner (1968), Alzheimer's disease.
 * Howard Meeks, 83, American Episcopal prelate, Bishop of Western Michigan (1984–1988).
 * Fredrik Norén, 75, Swedish jazz drummer.
 * Pinuccio Sciola, 74, Italian sculptor and muralist.
 * James M. Shuart, 85, American academic administrator, President of Hofstra University (1976–2001), heart disease.
 * Baba Hardev Singh, 62, Indian spiritual guru, traffic collision.
 * Murray A. Straus, 89, American sociologist and professor (University of New Hampshire).

14

 * Larry Barnes, 84, American football player.
 * Tony Barrow, 80, British press officer (The Beatles).
 * Balázs Birtalan, 46, Hungarian author, cancer.
 * Darwyn Cooke, 53, Canadian comic book artist (Catwoman, The Spirit, DC: The New Frontier), cancer.
 * John Coyle, 83, Scottish footballer (Dundee United).
 * Ron Henry, 79, American baseball player (Minnesota Twins), cardiovascular and renal disease.
 * Jesús Leguina, 73–74, Spanish jurist, justice of the Constitutional Court (1986–1992) and director of the Bank of Spain (1994–2001).
 * Valerie Lush, 97, British actress.
 * Jaroslav Malina, 78, Czech scenographer and painter, heart attack.
 * Lasse Mårtenson, 81, Finnish singer ("Laiskotellen"), cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Malachi Mitchell-Thomas, 20, English motorcycle racer, injuries sustained in race collision.
 * Banza Mukalay, 63, Congolese politician, Minister of Culture (since 2014).
 * Christy O'Connor Snr, 91, Irish golfer.
 * Marjet Ockels, 72, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives (1991–1994).
 * Kenneth Painter, 81, English archaeologist and curator.
 * Johnny Seay, 75, American country music singer.
 * Paul Smoker, 75, American jazz trumpeter.
 * Monteagle Stearns, 91, American diplomat, Ambassador to Greece (1981–1985) and Ivory Coast (1976–1979).
 * Charles R. Stelck, 98, Canadian geologist.
 * Neculai Alexandru Ursu, 89, Romanian linguist, philologist and literary historian.
 * André Wicky, 87, Swiss racing driver and team owner.
 * Alvise Zorzi, 93, Italian journalist and author.

15

 * Hakkı Akansel, 92, Turkish military officer and politician, Mayor of Istanbul (1980–1981).
 * Oya Aydoğan, 59, Turkish actress, model and television presenter, aortic aneurysm.
 * Erika Berger, 76, German television presenter and author.
 * André Brahic, 73, French astrophysicist, discovered rings of Neptune, cancer.
 * Ghulam Sadiq Khan, 76, Indian classical vocalist.
 * Robert C. T. Lee, 92, Chinese-born American veterinarian.
 * Jane Little, 87, American musician (Atlanta Symphony Orchestra).
 * Clovis Maksoud, 89, American diplomat, Ambassador of the Arab League to the United Nations (1979–1990) and the United States (1979–1990), cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Bobby McIlvenny, 89, Northern Irish footballer (Oldham Athletic).
 * Cauby Peixoto, 85, Brazilian singer, pneumonia.
 * Ken Ramos, 48, American baseball player (Houston Astros), suicide by gunshot.
 * Michael Roberds, 52, Canadian actor (The New Addams Family, Elf, Hot Tub Time Machine).
 * Marion Tournon-Branly, 91, French architect.

16

 * Hussein Sheikh Abdirahman, 75, Somali politician, Minister of Defense (1989–1990). (death announced on this date)
 * Sir Gavyn Farr Arthur, 64, British judge, Lord Mayor of London (2002–2003).
 * Moidele Bickel, 79, German costume designer (La Reine Margot).
 * Anthony Bird, 85, British Anglican priest and academic.
 * Ken Cameron, 74, Scottish trade union leader.
 * Giovanni Coppa, 90, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal, Apostolic Nuncio (1979–2001).
 * Camille DesRosiers, 87, Canadian-born Tuvaluan Roman Catholic prelate, Superior of Funafuti (1986–2010).
 * Huguette Dreyfus, 87, French harpsichordist.
 * Robert Freeman, 82, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana (1980–1988).
 * Romaldo Giurgola, 95, Italian-born American-Australian architect (Parliament House, Canberra).
 * Aar de Goede, 87, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives (1967–1973), State Secretary of Finance (1973–1977), member of the European Parliament (1979–1984).
 * Mitsuo Horiuchi, 86, Japanese politician.
 * Sadek Khan, 82, Bangladeshi journalist and filmmaker.
 * François Maistre, 91, French actor (Angélique, Marquise des Anges, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie).
 * Jim McMillian, 68, American basketball player (Los Angeles Lakers, Buffalo Braves, New York Knicks), NBA champion (1972), complications from heart failure.
 * Julia Meade, 90, American actress (The Ed Sullivan Show, Pillow Talk).
 * Gillian Mears, 51, Australian writer (Foal's Bread), multiple sclerosis.
 * Emilio Navaira, 53, American country and Tejano singer (Life Is Good), heart failure.
 * Noriko Nishimoto, 75, Japanese-born Australian puppeteer, cancer.
 * Michael Pope, 89, British Olympic hurdler.
 * Mamie Rallins, 74, American hurdler, traffic collision.
 * David Rendel, 67, British politician, MP for Newbury (1993–2005), cancer.
 * Bjarne Saltnes, 82, Norwegian politician.
 * Ivaylo Sharankov, 82, Bulgarian Olympic swimmer.
 * Deepak Shodhan, 87, Indian cricketer, lung cancer.
 * Lino Toffolo, 81, Italian actor (Yuppi du, Brancaleone at the Crusades) and singer.
 * Jack Unruh, 80, American commercial illustrator.
 * Oscar Whitbread, 86, English-born Australian television producer.

17

 * Seán Ardagh, 68, Irish politician, TD (1997–2011).
 * Guy Clark, 74, American folk singer-songwriter ("Desperados Waiting for a Train", "Workbench Songs", "My Favorite Picture of You"), Grammy winner (2014), cancer.
 * Benjamin de Roo, 76, Dutch-born Australian Olympic gymnast (1960, 1964).
 * Vinjamuri Seetha Devi, Indian folk singer.
 * Paulo Emilio, 80, Brazilian football manager.
 * Kim Jae-soon, 92, South Korean politician, Speaker of the National Assembly (1988–1990).
 * Ed Kolenovsky, 87, American photographer (Associated Press).
 * Alexandru Lăpușan, 61, Romanian politician, mayor of Dej (1991), MP (1992–1994) and Minister of Agriculture (1992–1996).
 * Edmund V. Ludwig, 87, American federal judge, member of the District Court for the E.D. of Pennsylvania (since 1985).
 * Yūko Mizutani, 51, Japanese voice actress (Digimon, Black Jack, Tenchi Muyo!), breast cancer.
 * Xavier de Planhol, 90, French geographer.
 * Arthur Provis, 91, English cinematographer and producer.
 * Müzahir Sille, 84, Turkish wrestler, Olympic champion (1960).
 * Yuri Volkov, 79, Russian ice hockey player (Krylya Sovetov Moscow, HC Dynamo Moscow, national team).

18

 * Elaine Abraham, 86, American Tlingit elder and nurse.
 * Luis H. Álvarez, 96, Mexican industrialist and politician, President of the National Action Party (1987–1993).
 * Ethel Bush, 100, British police officer.
 * Eduardo Castrillo, 73, Filipino sculptor, cancer.
 * Adrian Flowers, 89, British photographer.
 * Astrid Gunnestad, 77, Norwegian journalist.
 * Ida Pedanda Gede Made Gunung, 63, Indonesian Hindu priest.
 * Zygmunt Kukla, 68, Polish footballer.
 * Adán Nigaglioni Loyola, 86, Puerto Rican doctor and educator.
 * Kornél Pajor, 92, Hungarian Olympic speed skater (1948), world champion (1949).
 * Sutham Phanthusak, 69, Thai businessman and politician.
 * Michael Reichmann, 71, Canadian photographer and blogger.
 * Boris Schnaiderman, 99, Ukrainian-born Brazilian translator, writer and essayist.
 * Fritz Stern, 90, German-born American historian.
 * Susan Tolchin, 75, American political scientist, ovarian cancer.
 * Ian Watkin, 76, New Zealand actor (Braindead, Sleeping Dogs, Charlotte's Web).
 * Doris Yankelewitz Berger, 82, Costa Rican artist and politician, First Lady (1982–1986).

19

 * Alexandre Astruc, 92, French film critic and director.
 * Irving Benson, 102, American actor and comedian.
 * Cook, 15, Spanish Jack Russell Terrier dog actor (Aquí no hay quien viva, La que se avecina, TV commercials of Loterías y Apuestas del Estado), cardiac arrest.
 * Ronald C. Davidson, 74, Canadian physicist, complications from pneumonia.
 * Jan Deutsch, 80, American philosopher and legal scholar.
 * George Forty, 88, British Army officer and author.
 * Jim Ray Hart, 74, American baseball player (San Francisco Giants).
 * Hugh Honour, 88, British art historian.
 * Hu Hongwen, 91, Chinese organic chemist and academician (Chinese Academy of Sciences).
 * Cindy Nicholas, 58, Canadian long distance swimmer and politician, liver cancer.
 * Rogelio Ordoñez, 75, Filipino author, liver cancer.
 * N. S. Palanisamy, 75, Indian politician, complications from kidney failure.
 * Laxminarayan Pandey, 88, Indian politician, member of the Lok Sabha for Mandsaur (1971–1979, 1989–2009).
 * Marco Pannella, 86, Italian politician and civil rights activist, MEP (1979–2009).
 * Morley Safer, 84, Canadian-born American journalist (60 Minutes), pneumonia.
 * John Sisko, 57, American sculptor.
 * Donald Snelgrove, 91, British Anglican clergyman, Bishop of Hull (1981–1994).
 * Alan Young, 96, English-born Canadian-American actor (Mister Ed, The Time Machine, DuckTales).

20

 * Gert Bals, 79, Dutch footballer (PSV, Ajax).
 * Glen Clegg, 82, Canadian politician.
 * Patricia M. Derian, 86, American human rights activist, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Vasile Duță, 60, Romanian lawyer and politician, Senator (2000–2004), lung cancer.
 * John David Jackson, 91, Canadian physicist.
 * Gabriel, 75, Russian prelate, Archbishop of the Russian Orthodox Church.
 * Brandon Grove, 87, American diplomat, ambassador to East Germany and Zaire, cancer.
 * Rosanna Huffman, 77, American actress (Babe, Oliver & Company, Murder, She Wrote), pancreatic cancer.
 * Kang Sok-ju, 76, North Korean diplomat and politician, Foreign Minister (2007), esophageal cancer.
 * Pranlal Kharsani, 89, Indian actor.
 * Kho Jabing, 32, Malaysian convicted murderer, executed by hanging.
 * Tsuyoshi Makino, 70, Japanese author, critic and social activist.
 * Joe McDonagh, 62, Irish sports administrator, President of the Gaelic Athletic Association (1997–2000).
 * Audrey Purton, 90, British Women's Royal Army Corps officer.
 * Miguel de la Quadra-Salcedo, 84, Spanish journalist and athlete.
 * Ádám Rajhona, 72, Hungarian actor.
 * Lucille Stone, 90, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League), complications from hydrocephalus.
 * Albert M. Sackett, 95, American Navy rear admiral.
 * Yagya Datt Sharma, 80, Indian politician, member of the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly.
 * Robyn Sisman, 66, American-born British publisher and author.
 * Bogdan Ulmu, 65, Romanian theatre director, writer and publicist.
 * Wheelock Whitney, Jr., 89, American sports executive (Minnesota Twins, Minnesota North Stars, Minnesota Vikings).

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 * Gaston Berghmans, 90, Belgian comedian and actor (The Silent Hedonist).
 * Lorne Clarke, 87, Canadian lawyer, Chief Justice of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court (1985–1998).
 * Andrea Maria Erba, 86, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Velletri-Segni (1988–2006).
 * Jane Fawcett, 95, British codebreaker at Bletchley Park during World War II, key figure in the sinking of the Bismarck.
 * Sir Denys Henderson, 83, British businessman, chairman of ICI (1987–1995).
 * Homeboykris, 9, American racehorse.
 * Eddie Keizan, 71, South African racing driver.
 * Tony Kriletich, 72, New Zealand rugby league player (Auckland, national team).
 * Alan Lewis, 61, British footballer (Reading, Derby County, Peterborough United).
 * Akhtar Mansour, c. 48, Afghan Islamist, Minister of the Emirate for Aviation and Tourism (1996–2001), leader of the Taliban (since 2015), airstrike.
 * Nick Menza, 51, German-born American drummer (Megadeth), heart failure.
 * Germán Serrano Pinto, 76, Costa Rican politician, Vice President (1990–1994).
 * Norman Tait, 75, Canadian First Nations artist, cancer.
 * Sándor Tarics, 102, Hungarian water polo player, Olympic gold medalist (1936).

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 * Lucjan Avgustini, 52, Albanian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Sapë (since 2006).
 * Adolf Born, 85, Czech painter, illustrator, caricaturist and filmmaker.
 * Malvina Cheek, 100, British war artist.
 * Merv Cowan, 91, Australian WANFL footballer.
 * Tom DeLeone, 65, American football player (Cleveland Browns, Cincinnati Bengals), brain cancer.
 * Intikhab, 22, American racehorse, heart disease.
 * John Lyons, 90, British trade union leader.
 * José Luis Romo Martín, 62, Mexican artist.
 * Alexis Navarro, 69, Venezuelan politician and diplomat, Governor of Nueva Esparta (2000–2004), Ambassador to Russia (2005–2008), heart attack.
 * Yasushi Niki, 90, Japanese baseball player.
 * Leonorilda Ochoa, 76, Mexican actress (Los Beverly de Peralvillo), Alzheimer's disease.
 * Subhash Pal, 40, Indian mountaineer.
 * Arulraj Rosli, 75, Malaysian Olympic racing cyclist (1964).
 * Velimir Sombolac, 77, Serbian-Yugoslav football player, Olympic champion (1960) and manager.
 * George Wildman, 88, American cartoonist.
 * Bata Živojinović, 82, Serbian actor (Walter Defends Sarajevo), complications from gangrene.

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 * Nurjahan Begum, 90, Bangladeshi journalist.
 * Jo Beverley, 68, British-born Canadian writer, cancer.
 * John Brophy, 83, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (Birmingham Bulls, Toronto Maple Leafs, Hampton Roads Admirals), namesake of John Brophy Award.
 * Joe Fleishaker, 62, American actor (Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV, Late Show with David Letterman), heart attack.
 * Vera Henriksen, 89, Norwegian writer.
 * Cedric McKinnon, 48, American football player (Cleveland Thunderbolts, Tampa Bay Storm).
 * Zdeněk Mézl, 81, Czech print-maker.
 * Sir Reginald Palmer, 93, Grenadian politician, Governor-General (1992–1996).
 * Nanette Rainone, 73, American feminist and reporter.
 * Arne Sandnes, 92, Norwegian politician.

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 * Ray Ash, 79, Canadian football player (Winnipeg Blue Bombers).
 * Suzanne Corkin, 79, American neuroscientist, liver cancer.
 * Adelina Dematti de Alaye, 88, Argentinian human rights activist, founder of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo.
 * Khaleda Ekram, 65, Bangladeshi architect, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
 * Lewis Fiander, 78, Australian actor (Pride and Prejudice, Who Can Kill a Child?, Bangkok Hilton), stroke.
 * Maycie Herrington, 97, American historian and social worker.
 * Buck Kartalian, 93, American actor (Planet of the Apes, Cool Hand Luke, The Rock).
 * Malik Iqbal Mehdi Khan, 64, Pakistani politician, MP (since 2013), liver disease.
 * Burt Kwouk, 85, British actor (The Pink Panther, Last of the Summer Wine, Goldfinger), cancer.
 * Frankie Laine, 73, Canadian professional wrestler, multiple sclerosis.
 * Mell Lazarus, 89, American cartoonist (Miss Peach, Momma).
 * Anne-Marie Nzié, 84, Cameroonian singer.
 * Hughes Oliphant Old, 83, American theologian.
 * Leo Proost, 82, Belgian racing cyclist.
 * Jorma Salmi, 83, Finnish Olympic ice hockey player (1960), (Ilves, Frölunda HC).
 * Berrick Saul, 91, British economist and academic administrator.
 * Soita Shitanda, 56, Kenyan politician, MP from Malava (since 1997).
 * Bé Udink, 90, Dutch politician and CEO.

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 * Giacomo Barabino, 88, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ventimiglia-San Remo (1988–2004).
 * Horacio Ernesto Benites Astoul, 82, Argentinian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Buenos Aires (1999–2008).
 * Cassandra Butts, 50, American lawyer.
 * Lloyd Campbell, 101, Canadian curler.
 * Nancy Dow, 79, American actress (The Ice House) and model.
 * Ian Gibson, 73, Scottish footballer (Cardiff City, Coventry City, Middlesbrough).
 * Gyula Kosice, 92, Czechoslovakian-born Argentine poet and sculptor.
 * Ku Chin-shui, 56, Taiwanese Olympic decathlete (1984), plasma cell leukemia.
 * Per Øien, 78, Norwegian flutist.
 * Valentin Petry, 88, German racing cyclist.
 * Bob Sorenson, 92, New Zealand rugby union player and coach (Auckland), and cricketer (Auckland).
 * Peggy Spencer, 95, British dancer.
 * József Tempfli, 85, Romanian-Hungarian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Oradea Mare (1990–2008).
 * John Webster, 60, British theologian.
 * Yang Jiang, 104, Chinese playwright, author, and translator.

26

 * Kazimierz Barburski, 73, Polish fencer, Olympic bronze medalist (1968).
 * Loris Francesco Capovilla, 100, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal, Prelate of Loreto (1971–1988).
 * Esad Čolaković, 46, Macedonian footballer (FK Sloga Jugomagnat).
 * Ted Dumitru, 76, Romanian football manager (Kaizer Chiefs, Mamelodi Sundowns, New York Apollo), heart attack.
 * Steve Edwards, 85, American professor.
 * Hedy Epstein, 91, German-born American Holocaust survivor and political activist (International Solidarity Movement), cancer.
 * Lou Grasmick, 91, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies) and businessman.
 * Noel Harding, 69, Canadian contemporary artist, heart failure.
 * Iana Kasian, 30, Ukrainian prosecutor and murder victim.
 * Robert O'Hearn, 94, American set designer.
 * Gustav Meier, 86, Swiss-born American conductor, cancer.
 * Wanaro N'Godrella, 66, French tennis player.
 * Angela Paton, 86, American actress (Groundhog Day, American Wedding, Lolita), heart attack.
 * Arturo Pomar, 84, Spanish chess grandmaster.
 * Coe Swobe, 87, American politician, member of the Nevada Senate (1966–1974).
 * Bob Williams, 86, American football player (Chicago Bears).

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 * Chen Nengkuan, 93, Chinese metal and detonation physicist and academician (Chinese Academy of Sciences).
 * Michael Dann, 94, American television executive (CBS).
 * Jean-Claude Decaux, 78, French billionaire advertiser, CEO of JCDecaux.
 * Louise Erickson, 86, American baseball player (Racine Belles, Rockford Peaches).
 * Gaylord T. Gunhus, 76, American army officer, Chief of Chaplains of the United States Army (1999–2003).
 * Gerhard Harpers, 88, German footballer (Sodingen, national team).
 * Kai G. Henriksen, 60, Norwegian businessman (Vinmonopolet).
 * R. G. Jadhav, 83, Indian literary critic.
 * František Jakubec, 60, Czech football player.
 * Marshall "Rock" Jones, 75, American bass player (Ohio Players).
 * George Klir, 84, Czech computer scientist.
 * Bonnie Law, 47, Hong Kong singer and actress (Happy Ghost), heart attack.
 * Leroidesanimaux, 15, Brazilian-born American racehorse, Eclipse Award winner, complications from accident.
 * Petro Herkulan Malchuk, 50, Moldovan-born Ukrainian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Kyiv-Zhytomyr (since 2011), heart attack.
 * Jaap Metz, 74, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives (1982–1986).
 * Frank Modell, 98, American cartoonist (The New Yorker).
 * Henrietta Phipps, 84, British landscape gardener.
 * La Ferne Price, 90, American ballplayer (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).
 * Girolamo Prigione, 94, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Apostolic Nuncio (1968–1997).
 * Ivor Robinson, 92, British-born American physicist.
 * Rocco Sollecito, 67, Italian-born Canadian gangster (Rizzuto crime family), shot.
 * Wang Shizhen, 100, Chinese nuclear medicine physician and academician (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Father of Chinese nuclear medicine.
 * Wang You-theng, 89, Taiwanese entrepreneur (Rebar), traffic collision.
 * Morton White, 99, American philosopher and historian.

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 * Giorgio Albertazzi, 92, Italian actor (Last Year at Marienbad) and film director.
 * Stanley Burke, 93, Canadian television journalist (The National News).
 * David Cañada, 41, Spanish cyclist, race collision.
 * Alexander DeConde, 95, American historian.
 * Bryce Dejean-Jones, 23, American basketball player (New Orleans Pelicans), shot.
 * Peter DeTroy, 68, American attorney, heart attack.
 * M. Brendan Fleming, 90, American politician, Mayor of Lowell, Massachusetts (1982–1984).
 * John Willison Green, 89, Canadian journalist.
 * Harambe, 17, American-bred western lowland gorilla, shot.
 * C. Michael Harper, 88, American executive (ConAgra Foods).
 * Christian Kay, 76, British lexicographer.
 * Joanneke Kruijsen, 47, Dutch politician, member of the House of Representatives (2003–2006).
 * Marion Lambert, 73, Belgian-born Swiss art collector, injuries sustained in traffic collision.
 * Michael McCurdy, 74, American illustrator and publisher.
 * Patrick Neill, Baron Neill of Bladen, 89, British barrister and life peer.
 * Eddie O'Hara, 78, British politician, MP for Knowsley South (1990–2010).
 * Wolf-Dieter Oschlies, 63, German Olympic rower.
 * Floyd Robinson, 83, American country singer.
 * Devarakonda Vittal Rao, 68, Indian politician.

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 * Kenne Fant, 93, Swedish actor, director and author, President of Svensk Filmindustri (1963–1980).
 * T. Marshall Hahn, 89, American academic administrator, President of Virginia Tech (1962–1974).
 * Henryk Kempny, 82, Polish footballer.
 * Ralph Ketner, 95, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founder of Food Lion, colon cancer.
 * Svetozar Koljević, 85, Serbian author, historian, translator and professor.
 * Mathew Mattam, 65, Indian Malayalam author.
 * Don McNay, 57, American financial author.
 * Edward Morris, 75, British art historian.
 * K. P. Noorudeen, 76, Indian politician, cerebral hemorrhage.
 * André Rousselet, 93, French businessman and politician, member of the National Assembly (1967–1968).
 * David Tod Roy, 83, American sinologist and translator (Jin Ping Mei).

30

 * Jan Aas, 72, Norwegian footballer (Fredrikstad).
 * Gérson Bergher, 91, Brazilian politician.
 * Boniface Choi Ki-San, 68, South Korean Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Incheon (since 2002).
 * Javare Gowda, 100, Indian writer, heart failure.
 * James Knepper, 84, American politician.
 * Tom Lysiak, 63, Canadian ice hockey player (Atlanta Flames, Chicago Blackhawks), leukemia.
 * Rick MacLeish, 66, Canadian ice hockey player (Philadelphia Flyers), meningitis and multiple organ failure.
 * Erkin Vohidov, 79, Uzbek poet, playwright and translator.

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 * Mohamed Abdelaziz, 68, Sahrawi politician, President (since 1976), lung cancer.
 * Corry Brokken, 83, Dutch singer ("Net als toen"), Eurovision Song Contest 1957 winner.
 * Jules Browde, 97, South African lawyer and human-rights activist.
 * James Campbell, 81, English historian.
 * Jan Crouch, 78, American televangelist and broadcasting executive (Trinity Broadcasting Network), complications from a stroke.
 * Olav Djupvik, 85, Norwegian politician.
 * Reshad Feild, 82, English mystic and musician (The Springfields).
 * Sergio Adolfo Govi, 81, Italian Central African Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bossangoa (1978–1995).
 * Antonio Imbert Barrera, 95, Dominican politician, President (1965).
 * Carla Lane, 87, English television writer (The Liver Birds, Butterflies, Bread).
 * Gene Logsdon, 84, American farmer and author.
 * Rupert Neudeck, 77, German journalist and humanitarian (Cap Anamur), complications from heart surgery.
 * Peter Owen, 89, German-born British publisher.
 * Rudra Madhab Ray, 78, Indian politician, kidney disease.
 * Ghislaine Roquet, 90, Canadian nun and academic.
 * Pam Royds, 91, British publisher.