Deaths in November 2015

The following is a list of notable deaths in November 2015.

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

 * Abdikarim Yusuf Adam, Somali military officer, Chief of Army (2015), shot.
 * Bill Ballantine, 78, British-born New Zealand marine biologist.
 * Ronald Desruelles, 60, Belgian Olympic athlete (1976, 1984), suicide by hanging.
 * Thomas R. Fitzgerald, 74, American judge, Chief Justice (2008–2010) and member (2000–2010) of the Illinois Supreme Court, Parkinson's disease.
 * José Fonseca e Costa, 82, Portuguese film director (No Trace of Sin), pneumonia.
 * Anselmo Gouthier, 82, Italian politician, MEP (1979–1984).
 * Gloria Salguero Gross, 74, Salvadoran politician, President of the Legislative Assembly (1994–1997), cardiac arrest.
 * Stephen Hancock, 89, English actor (Coronation Street).
 * Afzal Khan Lala, 89, Pakistani politician, MP for Swat (1993–1997), complications from cirrhosis.
 * Houston McTear, 58, American sprinter, lung cancer.
 * Charles Duncan Michener, 97, American entomologist.
 * Paolo Poiret, 70, Italian actor and voice actor.
 * Günter Schabowski, 86, German politician, editor-in-chief of Neues Deutschland, First Secretary of the East Berlin SED, prematurely announced the fall of the Berlin Wall.
 * Hayden Shell, 78, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Geelong West (1982–85) and Geelong (1985–92).
 * Rudolf Scheurer, 90, Swiss football referee.
 * Fred Thompson, 73, American politician and actor (Law & Order, Sinister, Cape Fear), U.S. Senator from Tennessee (1994–2003), minority counsel to the Senate Watergate Committee, lymphoma.
 * A. Veluppillai, 78, Sri Lankan Tamil academic and author.

2

 * Frank Budgen, 61, British commercial director (Tag, Mountain), cancer.
 * Andrzej Ciechanowiecki, 91, Polish art historian.
 * Mike Davies, 79, Welsh tennis player, mesothelioma.
 * Roy Dommett, 82, British engineer and rocket scientist.
 * Peter Donaldson, 70, Egyptian-born British newsreader and radio broadcaster (BBC Radio 4), cancer.
 * Christopher Duggan, 57, British historian, suicide by hanging.
 * Betty Fountain, 85, American baseball player (AAGPBL).
 * Hashim Abdul Halim, 80, Indian politician, West Bengal MLA for Amdanga (1977–2006) and Entally (2006–2011), heart attack.
 * Omar El-Hariri, c. 71, Libyan general, traffic collision.
 * Karl Jaeger, 85, American educator, writer and artist.
 * Haruko Kato, 92, Japanese actress (Howl's Moving Castle, Kiki's Delivery Service).
 * Alexey Kozlov, 80, Russian Soviet intelligence officer, Hero of the Russian Federation.
 * Neville Lakay, 77, South African cricketer.
 * Eddie Milner, 60, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds, San Francisco Giants).
 * Tommy Overstreet, 78, American country singer.
 * Roméo Phillion, 76, Canadian prisoner, wrongly convicted of murder, COPD.
 * Miroslav Poljak, 71, Croatian water polo player, Olympic champion (1968).
 * Kondavalasa Lakshmana Rao, 69, Indian actor, brain infection.
 * Arthur Shaw, 91, English footballer (Arsenal).
 * Donald Shell, 91, American computer scientist (Shellsort).
 * Barbara Snelling, 87, American politician, Vermont Lieutenant Governor (1993–1997), State Senator (1999–2002), and First Lady (1977–1985 and 1991).
 * Edward Soja, 75, American geographer.
 * David Stock, 76, American composer and conductor, blood disease.
 * Tan Kim Bee, 86, Malaysian Olympic weightlifter.
 * Carlos Vargas Ferrer, 44, Puerto Rican politician, member of the P.R. House of Representatives, traffic collision following a heart attack.
 * Colin Welland, 81, British actor and screenwriter (Kes, Straw Dogs, Chariots of Fire), Oscar winner (1982).

3

 * Peter Bayley, 94, English academic.
 * Adriana Campos, 36, Colombian actress (Vecinos), traffic collision.
 * Judy Cassab, 95, Austrian-born Australian painter and Holocaust survivor, only woman to win two Archibald Prizes (1960, 1967).
 * Ahmed Chalabi, 70, Iraqi politician, Deputy Prime Minister (2005–2006), President of the Governing Council (2003), Iraq War lobbyist, heart attack.
 * Howard Coble, 84, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from NC's 6th congressional district (1985–2015), complications from surgery.
 * Csaba Fenyvesi, 72, Hungarian fencer, Olympic champion (1968, 1972), cancer.
 * David Graham, 91, American casting director (Three's Company, Purple Rain).
 * Tom Graveney, 88, English cricketer (Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, England), Parkinson's disease.
 * Paul Gundani, 49, Zimbabwean footballer (national team), suspected malaria.
 * Chuck Hurston, 72, American football player (Kansas City Chiefs, Buffalo Bills), cancer.
 * Sidney H. Lazard, 84, American bridge player.
 * S. Mahalingam, 89, Sri Lankan mechanical engineer and academic.
 * Fred McNeill, 63, American football player (Minnesota Vikings), complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
 * Beggzadi Mahmuda Nasir, 86, Bangladeshi academic.
 * Lauretta Ngcobo, 84, South African author and activist.
 * Nils Nygaard, 83, Norwegian professor of law.
 * Dan Poynter, 78, American author, publisher, pioneer in self-publishing, acute myeloid leukemia and renal failure.
 * Paul Rose, 79, British politician, MP for Manchester Blackley (1964–1979).
 * Fred J. Scollay, 92, American actor (Law & Order, Death Wish).
 * Rick Sortun, 73, American football player (St. Louis Cardinals).
 * Katherine Stenholm, 98, American film director.
 * Lesley Vance, 76, American politician, member of the Alabama House of Representatives (since 1994), colon cancer.

4

 * Gülten Akın, 82, Turkish poet.
 * Ingo von Bredow, 75, German sailor, Olympic bronze medalist (1960).
 * Desmond Bull, 80, Australian cricketer.
 * Piotr Domaradzki, 69, Polish-born American journalist (Dziennik Związkowy), essayist and historian, smoke inhalation.
 * Ron Drzewiecki, 82, American football player (Chicago Bears).
 * René Girard, 91, French-American historian, literary critic, and philosopher of social science.
 * Ian Greer, 82, British political lobbyist (Cash-for-questions affair).
 * Steve Hanson, 54, Australian rugby league player (North Sydney, Eastern Suburbs, New South Wales), heart attack.
 * Veikko Heinonen, 81, Finnish ski jumper.
 * Truman McGill Hobbs, 94, American judge, District Court for the Middle District of Alabama (1980–1991).
 * Károly Horváth, 65, Romanian–Hungarian composer and musician.
 * Ole Knapp, 83, Norwegian politician.
 * Themba Makhanya, 45, Swazi Olympic athlete.
 * Melissa Mathison, 65, American screenwriter (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, The Black Stallion, Kundun), neuroendocrine cancer.
 * Marina Pankova, 52, Russian volleyball player, Olympic champion (1988).
 * Laila Pullinen, 82, Finnish sculptor.
 * Lee Robinson, 72, American politician, member of the Georgia Senate (1974–1982), Mayor of Macon (1987–1991), colon cancer.
 * Jerzy Sadek, 73, Polish footballer (Sparta Rotterdam, national team).
 * David Teeuwen, 45, American newspaper editor (USA Today), intestinal cancer.
 * Kostas Tsakonas, 72, Greek actor, cancer.

5

 * James Achurch, 87, Australian Olympic javelin thrower (1956).
 * George Barris, 89, American custom car designer (Batmobile, Munster Koach), cancer.
 * Ritch Brinkley, 71, American actor (Murphy Brown, Cabin Boy, Beauty and the Beast).
 * Nora Brockstedt, 92, Norwegian singer.
 * Soma Edirisinghe, 76, Sri Lankan executive, film producer, philanthropist and social worker.
 * Pierre Gy, 91, French chemist and statistician.
 * Ehud Havazelet, 60, American author.
 * Theodore Cyrus Karp, 89, American musicologist.
 * Czesław Kiszczak, 90, Polish soldier and politician, last Prime Minister of the People's Republic of Poland (1989) and Minister of Internal Affairs (1981–1990).
 * Ed Lechner, 95, American football player (New York Giants).
 * Mikhail Lesin, 57, Russian political advisor and media executive (Gazprom-Media), creator of Russia Today, blunt force head trauma.
 * Hans Mommsen, 85, German historian of Nazism and the Holocaust.
 * Lar O'Byrne, 91, Irish footballer (Shamrock Rovers).
 * Kjell Öhman, 72, Swedish musician.

6

 * Brian Cadle, 67, Canadian ice hockey player (Winnipeg Jets), brain cancer.
 * Bobby Campbell, 78, British football player and manager.
 * Gimme Da Lute, 3, American racehorse, euthanized.
 * José Ángel Espinoza, 96, Mexican singer, composer and actor.
 * Karel Mejta, 87, Czech rower, Olympic champion (1952).
 * John Pashley, 82, Australian rugby union player (national team).
 * Chuck Pyle, 70, American country-folk singer-songwriter, drowned.
 * Ri Ul-sol, 94, North Korean politician and military official, lung cancer.
 * Yveta Synek Graff, 81, Czech opera singer and vocal coach.
 * Beni Veras, 80, Brazilian politician, Governor of Ceará (2002–2003).

7

 * Bappaditya Bandopadhyay, 45, Indian director and poet, heart attack.
 * Fred Besana, 85, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles).
 * Ken Booth, 84, English footballer.
 * John Davis, 72, Australian science documentary filmmaker (ABC) and climber, first person to scale Ball's Pyramid, helicopter crash.
 * Carl-Åke Eriksson, 80, Swedish actor (Frostbite, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest, The Simple-Minded Murderer), cancer.
 * Gladys-Marie Fry, 84, American folklorist and historian, heart attack.
 * Pancho Guedes, 90, Portuguese architect and artist.
 * Gunnar Hansen, 68, Icelandic-born American actor (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre), pancreatic cancer.
 * Eddie Hoh, 71, American rock drummer (The Mamas & the Papas, The Monkees, Donovan).
 * Yitzhak Navon, 94, Israeli politician, President (1978–1983).
 * David Shawcross, 74, English footballer (Manchester City, Stockport, Halifax).
 * Vincent Thomas, 93, American politician, Mayor of Norfolk, Virginia (1976–1984).
 * João Verle, 75, Brazilian politician, Mayor of Porto Alegre (2002–2004).
 * Carl L. Weschcke, 85, American publisher (Llewellyn Worldwide).

8

 * Abd Al-Karim Al-Iryani, 81, Yemeni politician, Prime Minister (1998–2001).
 * Rhea Chiles, 84, American philanthropist, First Lady of Florida (1991–1998), founder of Florida House on Capitol Hill and the Polk Museum of Art.
 * Harry Clarke, 94, English footballer (Darlington) and cricketer.
 * Joseph Cure, 31, American ice hockey player and actor (Miracle), traffic collision.
 * Rod Davies, 85, British astronomer, cancer.
 * Charlie Dick, 81, American record promoter.
 * Andrei Eshpai, 90, Russian classical pianist, composer and scholar, stroke.
 * Luciano Gallino, 88, Italian sociologist.
 * Betty Groff, 80, American chef and cookbook author, expert on the Pennsylvania Dutch cuisine.
 * Aldo Guidolin, 83, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers).
 * Om Prakash Mehra, 96, Indian military officer, Chief of Air Staff (1973–1976), Governor of Maharashtra (1980–1982) and Rajasthan (1985–1987).
 * Angad Paul, 45, British manufacturing executive and film producer (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, The Tournament), suicide by jumping.
 * Alfred Roussel, 94, Canadian politician.
 * Maduluwawe Sobitha Thero, 73, Sri Lankan Buddhist monk and political activist.
 * Dora van der Groen, 88, Belgian actress (Dokter Pulder zaait papavers).
 * Leon Vlok, 86, South African cricketer (North Eastern Transvaal).

9

 * Jacqueline A. Berrien, 53, American lawyer, chairwoman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (2010–2014), cancer.
 * Carol Doda, 78, American topless dancer, kidney failure.
 * Ernst Fuchs, 85, Austrian painter, co-founder of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism.
 * Tommy Hanson, 29, American baseball player (Atlanta Braves, Los Angeles Angels), multiple organ failure caused by cocaine and alcohol toxicity.
 * Brian Keighley, 67, Scottish physician and medical unionist (BMA).
 * Ruth Kramer, 89, American baseball player (All-American Girls Professional Baseball League).
 * Byron Krieger, 95, American Olympic fencer (1952, 1956), burns.
 * Vito J. Lopez, 74, American politician, member of the New York State Assembly (1985–2013), cancer.
 * Sebastião do Rego Barros Netto, 75, Brazilian lawyer and diplomat, Ambassador to the Soviet Union (1990–1991), Russia (1991–1994) and Argentina (1999–2001), fall from building.
 * Remko Scha, 70, Dutch computer scientist and musician.
 * Yolanda Sonnabend, 80, British theatrical designer.
 * Andy White, 85, British drummer (The Beatles), stroke.
 * Mikhail Zubchuk, 47, Russian footballer (Saturn, Fakel).

10

 * Gene Amdahl, 92, American computer architect and high-tech entrepreneur, pneumonia.
 * Vernon Ashley, 99, American Crow Creek chief.
 * David Atlas, 91, American meteorologist, stroke.
 * John Carlill, 90, British rear admiral, President of Royal Naval College, Greenwich (1980–1982).
 * Larry Chimbole, 96, American politician, member of the California State Assembly (1974–1978).
 * Harold Collins, 90, Canadian politician, member of the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly for Gander (1967–1979).
 * Robert Craft, 92, American conductor and writer.
 * Pat Eddery, 63, Irish jockey, eleven-time Champion Jockey, four-time Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe winner, three-time Lester Award and Epsom Derby winner, heart attack.
 * André Glucksmann, 78, French philosopher and writer.
 * Johannes Pujasumarta, 65, Indonesian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Semarang (since 2010).
 * Bill Quinlan, 83, American football player (Green Bay Packers).
 * Klaus Roth, 90, German-born British mathematician, recipient of the Fields Medal (1958).
 * Helmut Schmidt, 96, German politician, Chancellor of West Germany (1974–1982), complications from surgery.
 * Allen Toussaint, 77, American musician, producer, songwriter ("Fortune Teller", "Working in the Coal Mine", "Southern Nights") and arranger, heart attack.
 * Alix d'Unienville, 97, French wartime spy.
 * Tim Valentine, 89, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina's 2nd district (1983–1995) and N.C. House (1955–1960), heart failure.
 * Laurent Vidal, 31, French Olympic triathlete (2008, 2012), heart attack.
 * Michael Wright, 35, American-Turkish basketball player, head injury.

11

 * Nancy Charton, 95, South African Anglican priest.
 * Madeline DeFrees, 95, American poet.
 * Rita Gross, 72, American Buddhist feminist theologian and author, stroke.
 * Bob LaLonde, 93, American politician, member of the Wyoming Senate (1989–1994).
 * Nathaniel Marston, 40, American actor (One Life to Live), spinal injuries from traffic collision.
 * Ole Sjølie, 92, Norwegian painter.
 * Tage Skou-Hansen, 90, Danish writer.
 * Scotty Stirling, 86, American journalist and sport executive (NBA, Oakland Raiders, Oakland Oaks).
 * Phil Taylor, 61, English drummer (Motörhead), liver failure.
 * Georgi Yungvald-Khilkevich, 81, Russian Soviet film director (d'Artagnan and Three Musketeers), heart failure.

12

 * Earl E. Anderson, 96, American Marine Corps general.
 * Graham Atkinson, 77, English cricketer (Lancashire, Somerset).
 * Lucian Bălan, 56, Romanian footballer (Baia Mare), suicide by drug overdose.
 * Anne-Marie Campora, 76, Monegasque politician, Mayor (1991–2003).
 * José Refugio Esparza Reyes, 94, Mexican politician, Governor of Aguascalientes (1974–1980).
 * Naila Faran, 37, Saudi doctor.
 * Márton Fülöp, 32, Hungarian footballer (Sunderland, national team), cancer.
 * Jihadi John, 27, Kuwaiti-born British Islamic State propagandist, drone strike.
 * Ellsworth Kalas, 92, American Methodist theologian.
 * Tom King, 91, American basketball player.
 * Marie Seznec Martinez, 57, French model, cancer.
 * Peter McLeavey, 79, New Zealand art dealer, Parkinson's disease.
 * Harry Rowen, 90, American national security expert, heart attack.
 * Aaron Shikler, 93, American artist, renal failure.
 * Jaspal Singh, 47, Indian cricketer.
 * Paul Stewart, 89, American historian, founder of the Black American West Museum and Heritage Center.
 * Pál Várhidi, 84, Hungarian football player (Újpesti Dózsa) and manager (Újpesti Dózsa, Vác, BEAC).
 * Travis Ward, 93, American oil magnate.

13

 * Sam Adams, 87, Canadian football player (BC Lions).
 * Abu Nabil al-Anbari, Iraqi militant, leader of ISIL in Libya, airstrike.
 * Giorgio Bambini, 70, Italian boxer, Olympic bronze medalist (1968).
 * Bruce Dayton, 97, American retail executive and philanthropist, President and Chairman of Target, founder of B. Dalton.
 * Glenn Goerke, 84, American academic.
 * John Gray, 68, New Zealand Anglican clergyman, Bishop of Te Waipounamu (1996–2015).
 * Betty Ann Grove, 86, American singer and actress.
 * Johnny Podesto, 94, American football player.
 * Henk Visser, 83, Dutch Olympic long jumper (1952), (1960).
 * Jennifer Willems, 68, Dutch actress.

14

 * Hemanga Baruah, 49, Indian cricketer.
 * Gys van Beek, 96, Dutch-born American inventor.
 * Nick Bockwinkel, 80, American professional wrestler (AWA).
 * Berugo Carámbula, 70, Uruguayan actor (Son Amores) and comedian, complications from Parkinson's disease.
 * Alan Davison, 79, British inorganic chemist.
 * K. S. Gopalakrishnan, 86, Indian film director, screenwriter and producer.
 * Cyril Pius MacDonald, 87, Canadian politician.
 * Warren Mitchell, 89, British actor (Till Death Us Do Part, Death of a Salesman, The Price).
 * Hisham Nazer, 83, Saudi Arabian executive and diplomat.

15

 * Kai Atō, 69, Japanese actor and TV personality.
 * Stephen Birmingham, 86, American author, lung cancer.
 * LeRoy Braungardt, 76, American politician, member of the Missouri House of Representatives (1978–1985).
 * Kenneth Monroe Carr, 90, American vice admiral.
 * Carmen Castillo, 57, Dominican baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Minnesota Twins), heart attack.
 * Dora Doll, 93, French actress (Manon, French Cancan, Julia).
 * Norm Ellenberger, 83, American college basketball coach (New Mexico Lobos).
 * George Genovese, 93, American baseball player (Washington Senators) and scout (San Francisco Giants).
 * Grete Jenny, 85, Austrian Olympic sprinter (1948).
 * Guo Jie, 103, Chinese Olympic athlete (1936).
 * Saeed Jaffrey, 86, Indian-born British actor (The Man Who Would Be King, Shatranj Ke Khilari, My Beautiful Laundrette), brain hemorrhage.
 * Nicoletta Machiavelli, 71, Italian actress (Navajo Joe, The Hills Run Red, Bawdy Tales).
 * Vincent Margera, 59, American reality television personality (Viva La Bam, Jackass, CKY), kidney and liver failure.
 * Jackie McGugan, 76, Scottish footballer (St Mirren, Leeds United).
 * Moira Orfei, 83, Italian circus artist and actress (Scent of a Woman, Ursus, The Birds, the Bees and the Italians), stroke.
 * Cynthia Payne, 82, British brothel keeper.
 * Gisèle Prassinos, 95, French author.
 * Herbert Scarf, 85, American mathematician and economist, heart failure.
 * John P. Schlegel, 72, American Jesuit and academic administrator, President of Creighton University (2000–2011) and the University of San Francisco (1991–2000), pancreatic cancer.
 * P. F. Sloan, 70, American singer and songwriter ("Secret Agent Man", "Eve of Destruction", "A Must to Avoid"), pancreatic cancer.
 * Heinz Stickel, 66, German footballer.
 * Said Tarabeek, 74, Egyptian actor, heart attack.
 * Lauri Vaska, 90, American chemist.

16

 * Yuliya Balykina, 31, Belarusian Olympic sprinter (2012), homicide. (body discovered on this date)
 * Ronald Bandell, 69, Dutch mayor.
 * David Canary, 77, American actor (All My Children, Bonanza).
 * Louise Cowan, 98, American educator.
 * Richard Cowan, 57, American opera singer and festival director.
 * Ricardo Ferrero, 60, Argentine football player and coach.
 * Nando Gazzolo, 87, Italian actor and voice actor (West and Soda, The Hills Run Red, Django Shoots First).
 * Michael C. Gross, 70, American graphic designer and producer (Ghostbusters, Heavy Metal, Beethoven), cancer.
 * Jerzy Katlewicz, 88, Polish conductor and artistic director.
 * Wally Kincaid, 89, American Hall of Fame college baseball coach (Cerritos College).
 * Paul Laffoley, 80, American artist and architect, heart failure.
 * Seymour Lipkin, 88, American concert pianist, conductor, and educator.
 * Bert Olmstead, 89, Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens, Chicago Black Hawks, Toronto Maple Leafs), complications from a stroke.
 * Mel Ryan, 82, British cricketer (Yorkshire).
 * Alton D. Slay, 91, American air force general, blood cancer.
 * Glee S. Smith, Jr., 94, American politician, member of the Kansas Senate (1957–1973).
 * Soviet Song, 15, Irish-bred British-trained thoroughbred racehorse, Cartier Champion Older Horse 2004, euthanized.
 * David Steen, 79, British newspaper and magazine photographer.
 * Barbara Thiering, 85, Australian theologian, writer and Biblical revisionist (Jesus the Man).

17

 * Al Aarons, 83, American jazz trumpeter (Count Basie Orchestra).
 * Ishtiaq Ahmad, 74, Pakistani spy fiction author, heart attack.
 * Igwe Aja-Nwachukwu, 63, Nigerian politician, Federal Minister of Education (2007–2008).
 * Ed Boykin, 83, American politician.
 * Donald Brian, 90, New Zealand cricketer.
 * Guy Buckingham, 94, British engineer and automobile designer (Nota).
 * Mario Cervi, 94, Italian essayist and journalist, co-founder of Il Giornale.
 * Pino Concialdi, 69, Italian painter.
 * Milton Crenchaw, 96, American aviator (Tuskegee Airmen), cardiovascular disease and pneumonia.
 * John Gainsford, 77, South African rugby union player (Springboks), cancer.
 * Drago Grubelnik, 39, Slovene Olympic alpine skier (1998, 2002, 2006), traffic collision.
 * Sir John Leahy, 87, British diplomat, High Commissioner to Australia (1984–1988).
 * Rahim Moeini Kermanshahi, 89, Iranian poet.
 * Pithukuli Murugadas, 95, Indian devotional singer.
 * Olaf H. Olsen, 87, Danish historian and archaeologist.
 * Terence Robbins, 81, Welsh rugby union and rugby league footballer.
 * Laura Rockefeller Chasin, 79, American philanthropist.
 * Ashok Singhal, 89, Indian Hindu activist.
 * David VanLanding, 51, American rock singer (Michael Schenker Group, Crimson Glory), traffic collision.

18

 * Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 28, Belgian suspected ringleader of the November 2015 Paris attacks, shot.
 * Bjørn Borgen, 78, Norwegian footballer (Fredrikstad, national team).
 * Charles Cawley, 75, American businessman (MBNA).
 * Fang Jing, 44, Chinese news anchor (CCTV), cancer.
 * Rosetta A. Ferguson, 95, American politician.
 * Daniel Ferro, 94, American opera singer and vocal coach.
 * Wilbur Foss, 94, American politician and musician.
 * Dan Halldorson, 63, Canadian golfer, stroke.
 * Redvers Kyle, 86, South African-British television continuity announcer, voice-over artist and actor.
 * Jonah Lomu, 40, New Zealand rugby union player (All Blacks), heart attack.
 * Mack McCormick, 85, American musicologist and folklorist, esophageal cancer.
 * Lindela Ndlovu, Zimbabwean educator, Vice-Chancellor of National University of Science and Technology.
 * Norman C. Pickering, 99, American engineer and inventor.
 * James Prideaux, 88, American playwright and screenwriter, stroke.
 * Harold Searles, 97, American psychiatrist.
 * Jim Slater, 86, British financier.
 * André Valmy, 96, French actor.

19

 * Armand, 69, Dutch protest singer, pneumonia.
 * Ricardo de la Cierva, 89, Spanish historian and politician, Culture Minister (1980) and Senator by Murcia (1977–1979).
 * Rex Cunningham, 91, New Zealand rugby league player.
 * Sir Naim Dangoor, 101, Iraqi-born British businessman and philanthropist.
 * Ann Downer, 54, American writer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
 * Allen E. Ertel, 78, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 17th district (1977–1983).
 * James Evans, 52, American football player (Kansas City Chiefs, Tampa Bay Buccaneers).
 * John Hall-Jones, 88, New Zealand historian.
 * János Herbst, 59, Hungarian footballer and politician, MP (1998–2002).
 * Ron Hynes, 64, Canadian folksinger ("Sonny's Dream"), throat cancer.
 * John A. Knauss, 90, American oceanographer.
 * Korrie Layun Rampan, 62, Indonesian author and politician.
 * Rex Reason, 86, German-born American actor (This Island Earth, The Creature Walks Among Us, The Roaring 20's).
 * Jim Stump, 83, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).
 * R. K. Trivedi, 94, Indian politician, Governor of Gujarat (1986–1990).
 * Herman Wecke, 88, American soccer player.
 * Mal Whitfield, 91, American middle-distance runner, Olympic champion (1948, 1952) and aviator (Tuskegee Airmen).
 * John Eugene Zuccotti, 78, American businessman, namesake of Zuccotti Park.

20

 * Peter Dimmock, 94, British broadcaster (Sportsview).
 * Vlatko Dulić, 72, Croatian actor and theatre director.
 * Miroslav Fiedler, 89, Czech mathematician.
 * Ronald Frankenberg, 86, British anthropologist.
 * Néstor Isella, 78, Argentine football player and coach.
 * Lex Jacoby, 85, Luxembourgian writer.
 * Austin H. Kiplinger, 97, American journalist.
 * Svetlana Kitova, 55, Russian middle-distance runner.
 * Agustin Mantilla, 70, Peruvian economist and politician.
 * Keith Michell, 88, Australian actor (The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Henry VIII and His Six Wives, Murder, She Wrote) and director.
 * Jan Monrad, 64, Danish comedian and entertainer, blood clot.
 * Nguyen-Thien Dao, 75, Vietnamese-French composer.
 * Carlos Oroza, 92, Spanish poet.
 * Richard Owen, 92, American federal judge and composer.
 * Jim Perry, 82, American television emcee (Definition, Card Sharks, $ale of the Century), cancer.
 * Héctor Salva, 75, Uruguayan international footballer.
 * Nancy Sandars, 101, British archaeologist.
 * Kitanoumi Toshimitsu, 62, Japanese sumo wrestler, chairman of the Japan Sumo Association (2002–2008, since 2012), multiple organ failure.
 * Raymond van Schoor, 25, Namibian cricketer, stroke.

21

 * Gregory H. Adamian, 89, American academic.
 * Gil Cardinal, 65, Canadian filmmaker, cirrhosis.
 * Kerry Dineen, 63, American baseball player (New York Yankees), cancer.
 * Ameen Faheem, 76, Indian-born Pakistani politician, Commerce Minister (2008–2013) and poet, leukaemia.
 * Fan Xuji, 101, Chinese academic.
 * Bob Foster, 77, American boxer, world light heavyweight champion (1968–1974).
 * Linda Haglund, 59, Swedish Olympic sprinter (1972, 1976, 1980), cancer and pulmonary hemorrhage.
 * Adele Horin, 64, Australian writer and journalist, lung cancer.
 * Ken Johnson, 82, American baseball player (Atlanta Braves, Houston Astros).
 * Paku Alam IX, 77, Indonesian prince and politician.
 * Tayva Patch, 62, American actress in Mormon cinema, complications from surgery.
 * Cavit Şadi Pehlivanoğlu, 88, Turkish politician, member of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey (1961–1996), complications from pneumonia.
 * Anthony Read, 80, British screenwriter (Doctor Who).
 * Red Cadeaux, 9, British-bred Australian racehorse, three-time runner-up in the Melbourne Cup, euthanized after race injury.
 * Germán Robles, 86, Spanish-Mexican actor.
 * Richard Russell, 91, American finance writer.
 * Joseph Silverstein, 83, American violinist and conductor, heart attack.
 * Zoran Ubavič, 50, Slovenian footballer.

22

 * Hazel Adair, 95, British television writer (Crossroads, Compact, Emergency – Ward 10).
 * Abubakar Audu, 68, Nigerian politician, Governor of Kogi State (1992–1993, 1999–2003), heart attack.
 * Henson P. Barnes, 81, American politician, member of the North Carolina Senate (1977–1992).
 * Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury, 66, Bangladeshi politician and convicted war criminal, execution by hanging.
 * Howard E. Greer, 94, American vice admiral.
 * Jerzy Karasiński, 73, Polish footballer (Lech Poznań).
 * Kim Young-sam, 87, South Korean politician, President (1993–1998), heart failure.
 * Sipke van der Land, 78, Dutch presenter (NCRV).
 * Weslyn Mather, 70, Canadian politician, Alberta MLA for Edmonton-Mill Woods (2004–2008), skin infection.
 * Valentin Mogilny, 49, Ukrainian Soviet gymnast, heart attack.
 * Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojaheed, 67, Bangladeshi politician and convicted war criminal, execution by hanging.
 * Adele Morales, 90, American painter, pneumonia.
 * Nola, 41, Sudanese-born American and last surviving female northern white rhinoceros, euthanized.
 * Albert Pick, 93, German numismatist.
 * Alfredo Prucker, 89, Italian Olympic Nordic skier, (1948), (1952), (1956).
 * Ingeborg Sjöqvist, 103, Swedish Olympic diver (1932, 1936).
 * Robin Stewart, 69, British actor (Bless This House, Cromwell, The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires).
 * André Waignein, 73, Belgian composer.

23

 * Jamiluddin Aali, 90, Pakistani Urdu poet.
 * Topazia Alliata, 102, Italian painter and writer.
 * Pierre Bernard, 73, French graphic artist and designer.
 * Manmeet Bhullar, 35, Canadian politician, Alberta MLA (Calgary-Greenway) and cabinet minister, traffic collision.
 * Jerzy Browkin, 81, Polish mathematician.
 * Dan Fante, 71, American author and playwright.
 * Hazel Holt, 87, British novelist.
 * Steve Hrymnak, 89, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Black Hawks).
 * Kâmran İnan, 86, Turkish politician.
 * Jouni Kaipainen, 58, Finnish composer.
 * Alex Kersey-Brown, 73, Welsh rugby player, cancer.
 * Chuck Lamson, 76, American football player (Los Angeles Rams, Minnesota Vikings).
 * Beatriz Lockhart, 71, Uruguayan pianist and composer.
 * Antônio Lomanto Júnior, 90, Brazilian politician, Governor of Bahia (1963–1967).
 * Sam Mardian, 96, American politician, Mayor of Phoenix (1960–1964).
 * Douglass North, 95, American economist and laureate of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1993), esophageal cancer.
 * Lev Okun, 86, Russian theoretical physicist.
 * Juan Quarterone, 80, Argentine football player and coach.
 * Kaladevanhalli Ramprasad, 81, Indian cricketer.
 * Cynthia Robinson, 71, American trumpeter and vocalist (Sly and the Family Stone), cancer.
 * Willie Royster, 61, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles).
 * Otto Schaden, 78, American Egyptologist.
 * Jim Sochor, 77, American football player and coach (UC Davis), cancer.
 * Ankie Stork, 94, Dutch World War II resistance fighter.
 * Yoram Tsafrir, 77, Israeli archaeologist.

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 * Sir Robert Ford, 91, British army general Adjutant-General to the Forces (1978–1981).
 * John Forrester, 66, British historian and philosopher of science, cancer.
 * Pierre Gabriel, 82, French mathematician (Gabriel's theorem).
 * Zdeněk Humhal, 81, Czech volleyball player, Olympic silver medalist (1964).
 * Jack C. Inman, 90, American politician.
 * Al Markim, 88, American actor (Tom Corbett, Space Cadet).
 * Quincy Monk, 36, American football player (New York Giants, Houston Texans), cancer.
 * Marium Mukhtiar, 23, Pakistani fighter pilot, plane crash.
 * Heinz Oberhummer, 74, Austrian physicist.
 * A. S. Ponnammal, 89, Indian politician, cancer.
 * Aubrey Sheiham, 79, South African-born British dental epidemiologist.
 * Douglas W. Shorenstein, 60, American real estate developer, chairman of the board of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, cancer.
 * Bobby Smith, 81, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Mets).
 * Niel Tupas Sr., 82, Filipino politician, prostate cancer and heart failure.
 * Varduhi Varderesyan, 87, Romanian-born Armenian actress.
 * Aurora Venturini, 92, Argentine author.
 * Steven Vogel, 75, American biologist, cancer.
 * Steve Wildstrom, 68, American technology journalist (BusinessWeek), brain cancer.
 * Mieko Yagi, 65, Japanese Olympic equestrian.

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 * O'Neil Bell, 40, Jamaican cruiserweight boxer, undisputed world champion (2006), shot.
 * Sir Jeremy Black, 83, British admiral.
 * Kerry Casey, 61, Australian actor, writer and director (George of the Jungle 2, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie), cancer.
 * Svein Christiansen, 74, Norwegian jazz drummer.
 * Gloria Contreras Roeniger, 81, Mexican dancer and choreographer.
 * Jean Corti, 86, French accordionist.
 * Judith Fitzgerald, 63, Canadian poet.
 * Eva Fuka, 88, Czech-born American photographer.
 * Lennart Hellsing, 96, Swedish author and translator.
 * Pierre-Yvon Lenoir, 79, French Olympic middle-distance runner (1960).
 * Chris Martin, 42, British civil servant, Principal Private Secretary to the Prime Minister (since 2012), cancer.
 * Beth Rogan, 84, British actress (Mysterious Island).
 * Inuwa Wada, 98, Nigerian politician.
 * Elmo Williams, 102, American editor and producer (High Noon, The Longest Day, Tora! Tora! Tora!), Oscar winner (1953).
 * Ken Woolley, 82, Australian architect.

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 * Amir Aczel, 65, Israeli-born American mathematician and scientist, cancer.
 * Ronnie Bright, 77, American bass singer (The Cadillacs, The Coasters, The Valentines).
 * Jorgo Bulo, 76, Albanian philologist and historian.
 * Eldzier Cortor, 99, American artist.
 * Eddy De Leeuw, 59, Belgian Olympic sprinter.
 * Tom Dublinski, 85, American football player (Toronto Argonauts, Detroit Lions, Hamilton Tiger-Cats).
 * Norbert Gastell, 86, German actor and voice actor (Homer Simpson).
 * Tommy Gilbert, 75, American professional wrestler (CWA/USWA) and referee (UWF).
 * Noboru Karashima, 82, Japanese historian.
 * Jerrold Kemp, 94, American academic.
 * Del Kennedy, 92, Australian football player (Footscray).
 * Guy Lewis, 93, American Hall of Fame college basketball coach (Houston Cougars).
 * Tom Moss, 87, American politician, Speaker (1991–2000) and member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1966–2002), heart attack.
 * Larry Powers, 76, American bodybuilder and actor (Me, Natalie).
 * George Pyne III, 74, American football player (Boston Patriots), cancer.
 * Jovan Šarčević, 49, Serbian footballer (FK Proleter Zrenjanin).
 * Sumiko Shirakawa, 80, Japanese voice actress (Doraemon, Sazae-san, Space Dandy), subarachnoid hemorrhage.
 * Bill Stauffer, 85, American basketball player (Missouri Tigers), brain hemorrhage.
 * David Steinmetz, 79, American historian.
 * Bill Tucker, 73, American football player (San Francisco 49ers, Chicago Bears), heart attack.
 * H. Khekiho Zhimomi, 69, Indian politician, heart ailment.

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 * Humza Al-Hafeez, 84, American police officer and activist.
 * Ragnhild Barland, 81, Norwegian politician, member of Parliament (1985–1997).
 * Mark Behr, 52, Tanzanian-born South African author (The Smell of Apples).
 * José Benedito Simão, 64, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Assis (since 2009).
 * Ian Dargie, 84, English footballer (Brentford).
 * Luca De Filippo, 67, Italian actor and theatre director.
 * Esperanza Guisán, 75, Spanish philosopher.
 * Barbro Hiort af Ornäs, 94, Swedish actress (Brink of Life, The Touch, Shame).
 * V. Krishnaprasad, 69, Indian cricketer.
 * Alexander Kukarin, 22, Russian modern pentathlete, heart attack.
 * Lou Marone, 69, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates).
 * Mukund Sathe, 78, Indian cricketer.
 * Maurice Strong, 86, Canadian businessman and diplomat.
 * Garrett Swasey, 44, American police officer and junior ice dancing champion (1992), shot.
 * J. Randolph Tucker, Jr., 101, American politician and judge.
 * Xosé Neira Vilas, 87, Spanish author.
 * Philippe Washer, 91, Belgian tennis player.

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 * Mircea Anca, 55, Romanian actor and director, leukemia.
 * Aurèle Audet, 95, Canadian politician.
 * Yoka Berretty, 87, Dutch actress (Makkers Staakt uw Wild Geraas, The Silent Raid, Punk Lawyer).
 * Luc Bondy, 67, Swiss theater and opera director.
 * Gerry Byrne, 77, English footballer (Liverpool, national team), World Cup Champion (1966), Alzheimer's disease.
 * Marion Crecco, 85, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly (1986–2002).
 * Tahir Elçi, 49, Turkish pro-Kurdish lawyer, shot.
 * Federico O. Escaler, 93, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, Prelate of Kidapawan (1976–1980) and Ipil (1980–1997).
 * Ivan Hlevnjak, 71, Croatian Yugoslav footballer.
 * Jean Joubert, 87, French author.
 * Doug Lennox, 77, Canadian actor (X-Men, Police Academy) and writer.
 * Lin Rong-San, 76, Taiwanese billionaire politician, publisher and businessman, cardiopulmonary failure.
 * Marjorie Lord, 97, American film and television actress (The Danny Thomas Show).
 * Nauro Machado, 80, Brazilian poet.
 * José María Mendiluce, 64, Spanish politician and author.
 * Janez Strnad, 81, Slovene physicist.
 * Tomasz Tomczykiewicz, 54, Polish politician, member of Sejm (2001–2015), chronic kidney disease.
 * Olene Walker, 85, American politician, Governor (2003–2005) and Lieutenant Governor of Utah (1993–2003).

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 * Claire Aho, 90, Finnish photographer, fire.
 * Wayne Bickerton, 74, British songwriter ("Nothing but a Heartache", "Sugar Baby Love"), record producer, and music executive.
 * Ramón de los Santos, 66, Dominican baseball player (Houston Astros).
 * John Demarie, 70, American football player (Cleveland Browns).
 * Ottó Dóra, 53, Hungarian politician, Mayor of Salgótarján (since 2014).
 * Joseph F. Girzone, 85, American Catholic priest and author.
 * George Hadjinikos, 92, Greek musician.
 * Jonathan Janson, 85, British Olympic sailor.
 * Vasyl Lishchynskyi, 51, Ukrainian Paralympic athlete.
 * Tunku Abdul Malik, 86, Malaysian royal.
 * Joe Marston, 89, Australian soccer player (Preston North End) and manager (national team).
 * Joachim Carlos Martini, 84, Chilean-born German conductor (Junge Kantorei).
 * Christopher Middleton, 89, British poet and translator.
 * Buddy Moreno, 103, American musician and radio and television personality.
 * Otto Newman, 93, Austrian-born British sociologist.
 * Oʻtkir Sultonov, 76, Uzbek politician, Prime Minister (1995–2003).

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 * Meli Bainimarama, 70, Fijian businessman and permanent secretary.
 * Pío Caro Baroja, 87, Spanish director and writer.
 * Jack Brizendine, 71, American horse trainer, lung cancer.
 * Nigel Buxton, 91, British travel writer.
 * André Carbonnelle, 92, Belgian Olympic hockey player.
 * Charles Shipley Cox, 93, American oceanographic physicist.
 * Jean Deplace, 71, French cellist.
 * Bob Dustal, 80, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).
 * Jack Fagan, 82, New Zealand rugby league player.
 * Greg Fisk, 70, American politician, Mayor of Juneau, Alaska (2015).
 * Minas Hatzisavvas, 67, Greek actor.
 * Gerrit Holdijk, 71, Dutch politician, Senator (1986–1987, 1991–2015), lung cancer.
 * Sabri Khan, 88, Indian sarangi player.
 * Marcus Klingberg, 97, Polish-born Israeli scientist and spy for the Soviet Union.
 * Brajraj Mahapatra, 94, Indian monarch, Raja of Tigiria State (1943–1947).
 * Fatema Mernissi, 75, Moroccan feminist writer and sociologist.
 * Shigeru Mizuki, 93, Japanese manga artist (GeGeGe no Kitarō, Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths, Showa: A History of Japan), heart attack.
 * Adolph Plummer, 77, American sprinter.
 * Eldar Ryazanov, 88, Russian film director (Carnival Night, The Irony of Fate, Promised Heaven), respiratory and heart failure.
 * Steve Shagan, 88, American novelist, screenwriter, and producer (Save the Tiger, Voyage of the Damned, Primal Fear).
 * David Simmons, 85, New Zealand ethnologist and historian.
 * Renzo Trivelli, 90, Italian politician.
 * Leslie Waddington, 81, British art dealer.