Deaths in October 2014

The following is a list of notable deaths in October 2014.

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
 * Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.

1

 * Michel Baranger, 87, Franco-American theoretical physicist.
 * Lynsey de Paul, 66, English singer-songwriter ("Sugar Me", "Won't Somebody Dance with Me"), brain haemorrhage.
 * H. Patrick Glenn, 74, Canadian legal scholar.
 * Sir Maurice Hodgson, 94, British business executive.
 * Greg Hyder, 66, American basketball players (Cincinnati Royals).
 * Shlomo Lahat, 86, Israeli general and politician, Mayor of Tel Aviv (1974–1993), lung infection.
 * José Martínez, 72, Cuban baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates), coach (Kansas City Royals, Chicago Cubs) and executive (Atlanta Braves).
 * Oluremi Oyo, 61, Nigerian journalist, cancer.
 * Charlie Paulk, 68, American basketball player (Milwaukee Bucks, New York Knicks), heart attack.
 * Matilde Pérez, 97, Chilean painter and kinetic artist.
 * Jerome Reppa, 89, American politician, member of the Indiana House of Representatives (1972–1990).
 * Hans Sauter, 89, Austrian Olympic gymnast.
 * George Savage, 72, British politician, MLA for Upper Bann (1998–2003, 2007–2011).
 * Robert Serra, 27, Venezuelan politician, MLA for Caracas, stabbed.
 * Guido van Gheluwe, 88, Belgian lawyer, founded Orde van den Prince.
 * James I. West Jr., 84, American politician.
 * Bob Young, 81, Scottish cricketer.

2

 * David Banfield, 81, British priest.
 * Fyodor Bogdanovsky, 84, Russian weightlifter, Olympic champion (1956).
 * André Buffière, 91, French Olympic basketball player (1948, 1952).
 * Priscilla Coolidge, 72–73, American recording artist, shot.
 * Bill Crane, 90, Australian footballer.
 * Harold "Deacon" Duvall, 97, American football coach.
 * Herbert Eiteljörge, 79, German football player.
 * Robert Flower, 59, Australian Hall of Fame VFL footballer (Melbourne).
 * Michael Goldberg, 55, American screenwriter (Cool Runnings, Snow Dogs, Little Giants), brain and sinus cancer.
 * Joanne M. Holden, 68, American nutritionist, cancer.
 * Vaughn O. Lang, 86, American Army lieutenant general.
 * György Lázár, 90, Hungarian politician, Chairman of the Council of Ministers (1975–1987).
 * Carlos Lopez, 25, American stunt performer (The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, John Wick), fall.
 * N. Mahalingam, 91, Indian businessman.
 * Pedro Peña, 88, Spanish actor (Médico de familia), Alzheimer's disease.
 * Carolyn Rovee-Collier, 72, American professor of psychology, breast cancer and multiple sclerosis.
 * Yoshikazu Sakamoto, 87, Japanese political scientist, heart failure.
 * Fred Sommers, 91, American philosopher.
 * The Spaceape, 44, British poet and disc jockey, cancer.

3

 * Michael Allenby, 3rd Viscount Allenby, 83, British aristocrat and politician.
 * Peer Augustinski, 74, German actor and German-language dub artist (Robin Williams), complications from epilepsy.
 * Nati Cano, 81, Mexican-born American mariachi musician (Mariachi los Camperos), recipient of the National Heritage Fellowship (1990).
 * Comer Cottrell, 82, American businessman and baseball team part-owner (Texas Rangers).
 * Gordon Younger Craig, 89, Scottish geologist.
 * George DeCicco, 84, American mobster.
 * Bill Fiore, 74, American actor (The Corner Bar).
 * ʻElisiva Fusipala Vahaʻi, 65, Tongan royal.
 * Ewen Gilmour, 51, New Zealand comedian.
 * Benedict Groeschel, 81, American Roman Catholic priest, author and television host, a founder of the Franciscan Friars of the Renewal.
 * Alan Henning, 47, British humanitarian aid worker and ISIS hostage, beheading. (death reported on this date)
 * Seaborn Jones, 71, American poet.
 * Peter Knecht, 78, American defense attorney, cancer.
 * Jean-Jacques Marcel, 83, French footballer (Olympique de Marseille).
 * Kevin Metheny, 60, American radio executive (WNBC (AM), WGN (AM)), heart attack.
 * Ward Ruyslinck, 85, Belgian author, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Lori Sandri, 65, Brazilian football manager, brain tumor.
 * Christopher van Wyk, 57, South African writer.

4

 * Louise Terry Batties, 103, American clubwoman.
 * Konrad Boehmer, 73, German-born Dutch composer and writer, stroke.
 * Hugo Carvana, 77, Brazilian actor (Entranced Earth, Antonio das Mortes) and director (Casa da Mãe Joana).
 * Fyodor Cherenkov, 55, Russian footballer (FC Spartak Moscow, Soviet national team).
 * Dorothy Davids, 91, American educator and activist.
 * Thom Dickerson, 65, American journalist.
 * Jean-Claude Duvalier, 63, Haitian politician, President (1971–1986), heart attack.
 * Judith Edelman, 91, American architect, heart attack.
 * Herman Mandui, 45, Papua New Guinean archaeologist.
 * Joan Molina, 73, Spanish actor (Doctor Mateo).
 * Suhailah Noah, 82, Malaysian public figure, Spouse of the Prime Minister of Malaysia (1977–1981), widow of Hussein Onn.
 * Gholamali Pouratayi, 73, Iranian musician.
 * Paul Revere, 76, American musician, cancer.
 * Rajesh Sanghi, 42, Indian cricketer, heart attack.
 * William Shija, 67, Tanzanian politician, Secretary General of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (since 2007).
 * Silver Deputy, 29, Canadian Thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
 * Gertjie Williams, 73, South African cricketer.

5

 * John Best, 74, British-born American soccer player, coach and manager, lung infection.
 * Al Bruno, 87, American CFL player (Toronto Argonauts) and coach (Hamilton Tiger-Cats), heart failure.
 * Charlie Butler, 94, American basketball player.
 * David Chavchavadze, 90, British-born American author and CIA officer.
 * Andrea de Cesaris, 55, Italian racing driver (Formula One), traffic collision.
 * Brahm Dutt, 88, Indian politician.
 * Jimmy Feix, 83, American football player and coach.
 * Anna Maria Gherardi, 74, Italian actress and voice actress (Lost Love, Petomaniac).
 * Regis Groff, 79, American politician, member of the Colorado Senate (1974–1994).
 * Göte Hagström, 96, Swedish steeplechase runner, Olympic bronze medalist (1948).
 * Geoffrey Holder, 84, Trinidadian actor (Live and Let Die, Annie) and theatre director (The Wiz), Tony winner (1975), pneumonia.
 * Philip Howard, 80, British journalist (The Times).
 * Ike Jones, 84, American producer (A Man Called Adam) and actor (The Joe Louis Story, About Mrs. Leslie).
 * Adalberto Lepri, 84, Italian Olympic wrestler.
 * Yuri Lyubimov, 97, Russian stage actor and director, founder of the Taganka Theatre.
 * Anna Przybylska, 35, Polish actress, pancreatic cancer.
 * Ronnie Spafford, 86, British army officer and philatelist.
 * Jack Turner, 84, American basketball player (New York Knicks).
 * Misty Upham, 32, American actress (Frozen River, August: Osage County, Django Unchained), blunt force trauma.
 * Tsai Wan-tsai, 85, Taiwanese financier.
 * David Watson, 74, British-American actor (Beneath the Planet of the Apes), heart attack.

6

 * King Block, 85, American football player.
 * Veniamin Borisov, 79, Soviet Russian painter.
 * Vic Braden, 85, American tennis player and instructor (University of Toledo), heart attack.
 * Feridun Buğeker, 81, Turkish footballer.
 * Bill Campbell, 91, American sportscaster.
 * Philip J. Carroll, 76–77, American businessman.
 * Chen Chi-lu, 91, Taiwanese politician, historian and anthropologist, multiple organ failure.
 * Carlos César Delía, 91, Argentine equestrian and a brigade general.
 * Denis Juneau, 89, Canadian painter, pneumonia.
 * Andrew Kerr, 80, British festival organiser (Glastonbury Festival).
 * Johnny Midnight, 73, Filipino radio and television host, prostate cancer.
 * Igor Mitoraj, 70, Polish sculptor.
 * Diane Nyland, 70, Canadian actress (The Trouble with Tracy), heart failure and COPD.
 * Mikhail Potylchak, 42, Russian footballer, suicide by hanging.
 * Marian Seldes, 86, American actress (A Delicate Balance, Affliction, August Rush), Alzheimer's disease.
 * Apiwan Wiriyachai, 65, Thai politician, lung cancer.
 * Serhiy Zakarlyuka, 38, Ukrainian football player (Dnipro, national team) and manager, traffic collision.

7

 * Lloyd J. Andrews, 94, American politician and businessman.
 * Walter Bockmayer, 66, German writer and film director, lung cancer.
 * Federico Boido, 75, Italian actor and stuntman (Ace High, Superfly T.N.T.).
 * Ugo Carrega, 79, Italian artist and poet.
 * Cigar, 24, American thoroughbred racehorse, complications of neck surgery for osteoarthritis.
 * Nuno Miguel Cerqueira Dias, 37, Portuguese swimmer.
 * George Giokas, 90, Canadian football player (Regina Roughriders).
 * John D. Jones, 91, American politician.
 * Nika Kiladze, 25, Georgian footballer, traffic collision.
 * Etsuko Komiya, 94, Japanese Olympic sprinter.
 * Richard Laws, 88, British zoologist, Director of the British Antarctic Survey (1973–1987), Master of St Edmund's College, Cambridge (1987–1996).
 * Siegfried Lenz, 88, German writer.
 * Angus Macleod, 63, British journalist and editor, cancer.
 * Paul Margulies, 79, American philosopher and advertising executive.
 * Nancy Merki, 88, American Olympic swimmer.
 * Amos Mkhari, South African footballer.
 * David Samuel, 92, British-Israeli scientist and peer.
 * Zilpha Keatley Snyder, 87, American writer (The Egypt Game), stroke.
 * Brad Stanius, 68, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives.
 * Soviet Star, 30, American Thoroughbred racehorse.
 * Ivor Wilks, 86, British historian.
 * Iva Withers, 97, Canadian-born American theatre actress and singer.

8

 * Aleksandra Antonova, 92, Russian, Kildin Sámi teacher, writer, poet and translator.
 * Mark Bell, 43, British musician and house music producer (LFO), complications from surgery.
 * Gerardo Budowski, 89, German–Venezuelan chess master, natural causes.
 * Thomas Eric Duncan, 42, Liberian courier, first person diagnosed with Ebola in the United States, Ebola virus disease.
 * Dave Engellenner, 95, Australian footballer.
 * Shon Harris, 46, American author.
 * Morris Lurie, 75, Australian writer, cancer.
 * Abdul Matin, 87, Bangladeshi language activist (Bengali Language Movement).
 * Alden E. Matthews, 93, American missionary.
 * Harden M. McConnell, 87, American chemistry professor (Stanford University).
 * Angelo Mottola, 79, Italian Roman Catholic archbishop and diplomat.
 * Helmut Ruge, 74, German comedian, actor, and cabaret writer.
 * Jeen van den Berg, 86, Dutch Olympic speedskater (1956, 1960), winner of the Elfstedentocht (1954).
 * Mike Waugh, 58, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania State Senate (1998–2014), cancer.

9

 * Les Angell, 92, English cricketer (Somerset).
 * Tibor Badari, 66, Hungarian Olympic boxer.
 * Henning Bjerregaard, 87, Danish footballer.
 * John Patrick Boles, 84, American Roman Catholic prelate, titular bishop of Nova Sparsa.
 * Boris Buzančić, 85, Croatian actor and politician.
 * Sir Sydney Chapman, 78, English politician and architect, MP for Birmingham Handsworth (1970–1974) and Chipping Barnet (1979–2005).
 * Jan Hooks, 57, American comedian and actress (Saturday Night Live, Designing Women, Batman Returns), cancer.
 * M. V. Kamath, 93, Indian journalist.
 * Ana Karić, 73, Croatian actress.
 * Carolyn Kizer, 89, American poet, Pulitzer Prize winner, complications of dementia.
 * Matthias Koehl, 79, American neo-Nazi.
 * Kim Koscki, 50, American stunt performer (The Mighty Ducks, Contact, Apollo 13), cardiac arrest.
 * Willy Matsanga, 45, Congolese politician.
 * Ray Metzker, 83, American photographer.
 * Peter A. Peyser, 93, American politician, member of the U.S. House for New York's 25th (1971–1973) and 23rd (1973–1977, 1979–1983) districts, Parkinson's disease.
 * Tony Priday, 92, English bridge player.
 * David Rayvern Allen, 76, English cricket historian, cancer.
 * Style Scott, 58, Jamaican reggae drummer.
 * Rita Shane, 78, American operatic soprano, pancreatic and liver cancer.
 * Paul Allen Simmons, 93, American federal judge, U.S. District Court Judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania (since 1978).
 * Robert Sproull, 96, American educator and physicist.
 * Sir Jocelyn Stevens, 82, English publishing executive.
 * Connell Thode, 103, New Zealand naval officer (HMS Scythian (P237)) and yachtsman.
 * Victor Winding, 85, British actor (Doctor Who, Emmerdale).

10

 * Ivan Armstrong, 86, New Zealand field hockey player and coach, tennis umpire, and educator.
 * Gaston Banda-Bafiot, 80, Central African engineer, diplomat, and politician, Minister of Mines and Geology (1981), Ambassador of the Central African Republic to the United States (1973-1975).
 * Prue Barron, 97, Scottish surgeon.
 * C. Curtis-Smith, 73, American composer and pianist.
 * Olav Dale, 55, Norwegian composer and jazz saxophonist.
 * Damiana Eugenio, 93, Filipino author and professor.
 * Peter Jackson, 80, Irish tennis player.
 * Valeri Karpov, 43, Russian Olympic ice hockey player (1994), world champion (1993), head injury.
 * Lari Ketner, 37, American basketball player (Chicago Bulls, Cleveland Cavaliers, Indiana Pacers), colon cancer.
 * Pavel Landovský, 78, Czech actor and dissident, heart attack.
 * Roy Law, 77, English footballer (Wimbledon).
 * Finn Lied, 98, Norwegian military researcher and politician.
 * Jonathan Mane-Wheoki, 70, New Zealand art historian, curator and academic, pancreatic cancer.
 * Geoff Miller, 72, Australian public servant.
 * Amildo Morales, 76, Guatemalan politician, MP for Jalapa (since 2012), attacked by a bull.
 * Ed Nimmervoll, 67, Australian music journalist and author, brain cancer.
 * Ichirō Satake, 86, Japanese mathematician, respiratory failure.
 * Marianne Sjöblom, 80, Finnish Olympic fencer (1952).
 * John Westcott, 93, British computer scientist.
 * Ernie Wiggs, 73, New Zealand rugby league player (Auckland, national team).
 * Anatoly Yagudaev, 79, Russian sculptor.

11

 * Abbas Ali, 94, Indian politician and independence activist.
 * Anita Cerquetti, 83, Italian soprano.
 * Tanhum Cohen-Mintz, 75, Israeli basketball player, cancer.
 * Elbert Drungo, 71, American football player (Houston Oilers, Buffalo Bills), cancer.
 * Walter Fitzgerald, 78, Canadian politician, Mayor of Halifax (1971–1974, 1994–1996), MLA for Halifax Chebucto (1974–1981).
 * Donald Gauf, 87, Canadian Olympic champion ice hockey player (1952).
 * Margaret Hillert, 94, American author.
 * Jazil, 11, American thoroughbred racehorse, injuries sustained in paddock accident.
 * Jason Jurman, 34, American actor (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Blue Bloods, Cougar Club).
 * Brian Lemon, 77, British jazz pianist.
 * Gary McLarty, 73, American stunt performer (The Terminator, Jurassic Park, Beverly Hills Cop), traffic collision.
 * Bob Orrison, 86, American stunt performer (Stargate, Road House, Speed), traffic collision.
 * Mats Rondin, 54, Swedish cellist and composer, heart attack.
 * Carmelo Simeone, 81, Argentine footballer (Vélez Sarsfield, Boca Juniors).
 * Bob Such, 70, Australian politician, member of the South Australian House of Assembly for Fisher (since 1989), brain tumour.

12

 * Jack A. Apsche, 67, American psychologist.
 * Cleo Baldon, 87, American architect, landscape architect, and furniture designer.
 * Geoff Elliott, 83, British decathlete.
 * Tony Hibbert, 96, British army officer.
 * Louise Daniel Hutchinson, 86, American historian.
 * Aki Jones, 31, American football player (Washington Redskins), car accident.
 * Maurie Keane, 91, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Woronora (1973–1988).
 * Bob Kelly, 78, American professional wrestler.
 * Tommy Lewis, 83, American football player (University of Alabama, Ottawa Rough Riders).
 * Lojze Logar, 70, Slovene artist.
 * Tony Lynes, 85, British anti-poverty campaigner.
 * Ali Mazrui, 81, Kenyan professor and political writer.
 * Graham Miles, 73, English snooker player.
 * Hussein Mjalli, 77, Jordanian lawyer and politician, involved in legal defence of Saddam Hussein, Justice Minister (2011), heart attack.
 * Enrique Santiago Petracchi, 78, Argentine lawyer and judge, member of the Supreme Court (since 1983).
 * Emilio Picasso, 87, Italian physicist.
 * Robert Relf, 90, English political activist.
 * Roberto Telch, 70, Argentine footballer (San Lorenzo, national team), heart attack.

13

 * Sir John Bradfield, 89, British biologist and entrepreneur, founder of Cambridge Science Park.
 * Barrie Brown, 83, Australian footballer.
 * Antonio Cafiero, 92, Argentine politician, Governor of Buenos Aires (1987–1991), Senator (1993–2005), pneumonia.
 * Patricia Carson, 85, British historian and author.
 * Mario Mellado García, 98, Mexican politician, Governor of Puebla (1972). (death announced on this date)
 * Margaret Helen Harper, 95, American computer programmer.
 * Tsutomu Katsuki, 68, Japanese organic chemist.
 * Charles Lovell, 91, British trade unionist.
 * Elizabeth Norment, 61, American actress (House of Cards, Party of Five, Doogie Howser, M.D.), cancer.
 * Agnes Owens, 88, Scottish author.
 * José Hernán Sánchez Porras, 70, Venezuelan Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Military Ordinariate (since 2001).
 * Mohammad Sarengat, 74, Indonesian sprinter, Asian Games champion (1962), complications from a stroke.
 * Pontus Segerström, 33, Swedish footballer (IF Brommapojkarna), cancer.
 * Kapil Krishna Thakur, 74, Indian politician, MP for Bangaon.
 * Deborah Warren, 55, Argentine actress, cancer.

14

 * Tamar Ariel, 25, Israeli Air Force navigator, freezing.
 * Art Best, 61, American football player (Chicago Bears).
 * Mary Downer, 89, Australian arts patron.
 * Eve Dutton, 86, Australian lecturer and politician.
 * Encke, 5, American-bred British-trained thoroughbred racehorse, euthanized.
 * Humberto Lara Gavidia, El Salvadoran baseball player.
 * Ted Gullicksen, 60–61, American social justice activist.
 * Doğan Güreş, 88, Turkish general and politician.
 * A. H. Halsey, 91, British sociologist.
 * Bertha George Harris, 101, American tribal elder and potter, was oldest member of the Catawba people.
 * Paul Hubbert, 78, American educator and politician.
 * Jean-Claude Lefebvre, 81, French cyclist.
 * Leonard Liggio, 81, American libertarian author.
 * Ron Loewinsohn, 76, American poet.
 * Oriel Malet, 91, British novelist.
 * Heidrun Mohr-Mayer, 73, German jeweller and philanthropist.
 * Paul Muenzer, 82, American school administrator and politician, Mayor of Naples, Florida (1992–1996), liver and pancreatic cancer.
 * Joe H. Mulholland, 80, American politician, Mississippi State Senator (1964–1968, 1976–1984), cancer.
 * Bob Neilson, 91, New Zealand rugby league player (West Coast, national team).
 * Paul J. Olscamp, 77, Canadian university administrator.
 * Isaiah "Ikey" Owens, 39, American keyboardist, heart attack.
 * Elizabeth Peña, 55, American actress (The Incredibles, Rush Hour, Jacob's Ladder), cirrhosis.
 * Hans Ernst Schneider, 87, Swiss Olympic sprinter.
 * John Stephenson, 77, Australian football player (Carlton), plane crash.
 * Dharmaraj Thapa, 92, Nepali folk singer.
 * Walter Victor, 97, American sports photographer.

15

 * Sir James Balderstone, 93, Australian businessman and company director.
 * João Corso, 86, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Campos (1990–1995).
 * Filipe Oliveira Dias, 50, Portuguese architect.
 * Marie Dubois, 77, French actress (Shoot the Piano Player, Jules and Jim, Monte Carlo or Bust!), multiple sclerosis.
 * James Semple Kerr, 82, Australian architectural historian.
 * Christian Kinck, 58, French Olympic weightlifter.
 * Mile Krajina, 90, Croatian gusle player.
 * José Refugio Mercado Díaz, 72, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Tehuantepec (2003–2009).
 * Giovanni Reale, 83, Italian philosophy historian.
 * Giorgio Rebuffi, 85, Italian comic book artist (Tiramolla, Cucciolo).
 * Jiří Reynek, 85, Czech graphic artist, poet and translator.
 * William Ronan, 101, American public servant, first chairman of MTA.
 * Sabir Shaikh, 71, Indian politician.
 * Sir Christopher Staughton, 81, British jurist, Lord Justice of Appeal, President of the Court of Appeal of Gibraltar (2005–2006).
 * Robert Tiernan, 85, American politician, member of the U.S. House for Rhode Island's 2nd district (1967–1975).
 * Nobby Wirkowski, 88, American football player (Toronto Argonauts) and coach (York University).

16

 * Brian Bath, 67, South African cricketer.
 * Ioannis Charalambopoulos, 95, Greek army officer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister (1985–1988).
 * Laurence Clancy, 85, British aerodynamicist.
 * Patrick Paul D'Souza, 86, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Varanasi (1971–2007).
 * James E. Defebaugh, 87, American politician, member of the Michigan House of Representatives (1971–1982).
 * Ertuğrul Oğuz Fırat, 91, Turkish composer, painter, and poet.
 * Allen Forte, 87, American music theorist and musicologist.
 * Sumi Haru, 75, American actress (MASH), Interim President of the Screen Actors Guild (1995), emphysema.
 * Tim Hauser, 72, American musician (The Manhattan Transfer), cardiac arrest.
 * Seppo Kuusela, 80, Finnish basketball player.
 * David Shepherd Nivison, 91, American sinologist.
 * Shalom Schwarz, 63, Israeli footballer.
 * John Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough, 88, British peer, custodian of Blenheim Palace.

17

 * Shobha Abhyankar, 68, Indian musicologist and teacher, cancer.
 * John Andrew, 83, British-born American Anglican priest.
 * Edwards Barham, 77, American politician, Louisiana State Senator (1976–1980), plane crash.
 * Gero Bisanz, 78, German football player and coach.
 * Claude Brodin, 80, French Olympic fencer (1964).
 * Robert Donald Cohen, 81, British physician.
 * Alfred Croisetière, 92, Canadian politician.
 * Bill Diachuk, 85, Canadian politician, MLA (1971–1986).
 * Arif Doğan, 68–69, Turkish officer.
 * Masaru Emoto, 71, Japanese author.
 * Hermione Hobhouse, 80, British architectural historian.
 * Joseph Hogan, 77, American politician, member of the Nevada Assembly (since 2005).
 * Vladimír Hrivnák, 69, Slovak football player and manager.
 * Leigh Kamman, 92, American radio host.
 * José Luis Lobato, 76, Mexican politician, Senator for Veracruz (2006–2012), shot.
 * G. Dean Loucks, 79, American college football coach (Fordham Rams).
 * Mikhail Marynich, 74, Belarusian politician.
 * Anna Nakagawa, 49, Japanese actress (A Sign Days, Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah), uterine cancer.
 * Daisuke Oku, 38, Japanese footballer (Júbilo Iwata, Yokohama F. Marinos), traffic collision.
 * Lawrence J. Quirk, 91, American writer, Hollywood reporter and film historian.
 * Jon Ramstad, 89, Norwegian politician.
 * Tom Shaw, 69, American Episcopal prelate, Bishop of Massachusetts (1995–2014), brain cancer.
 * Berndt von Staden, 95, German diplomat, Ambassador to the United States (1973–1979).

18

 * Horst Arndt, 80, German Olympic silver medallist rower (1956).
 * Robin Barbour, 93, Scottish minister and author.
 * Joanne Borgella, 32, American singer (American Idol) and model (Mo'Nique's Fat Chance), endometrial cancer.
 * Ralph Churches, 96, Australian soldier.
 * Paul Craft, 76, American musician and songwriter ("Brother Jukebox").
 * Choi Soon-dal, 83, South Korean scientist.
 * Eduardo D'Angelo, 75, Uruguayan actor, comedian and impressionist.
 * Jimmy Docherty, 83, Scottish rugby footballer.
 * Efua Dorkenoo, 65, Ghanaian-born British campaigner against female genital mutilation, cancer.
 * Sir Peter Downward, 90, British army general.
 * Luigi Gnocchi, 81, Italian Olympic sprinter.
 * Robert B. Grady, 71, American software engineer, ruptured aneurysm.
 * Kenneth House, 78, English cricketer (Dorset).
 * Danny Light, 66, English footballer (Crystal Palace, Colchester United).
 * Lou Lucier, 96, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Philadelphia Phillies).
 * Rachel Makinson, 97, Australian research scientist.
 * R. C. Mehta, 96, Indian musician and musicologist.
 * Claude Ollier, 91, French nouveau roman author.
 * Bruce Phillips, 85, Australian football player (St Kilda).
 * Rick S. Piltz, 71, American climate analyst, metastasized liver cancer.
 * Edward Regan, 84, American politician, New York State Comptroller (1979–1993).
 * Mariano Lebrón Saviñón, 92, Dominican author and academic.
 * Sidney Shapiro, 98, American-born Chinese author and translator.
 * Melford Spiro, 94, American cultural anthropologist.
 * Rebel Steiner, 87, American football player (Green Bay Packers).
 * Veandercross, 26, New Zealand Thoroughbred horse.
 * Paul Henry Walsh, 77, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Rockville Centre (2003–2012).
 * Mervyn Winfield, 81, English cricketer (Nottinghamshire).

19

 * A. F. Salahuddin Ahmed, 90, Bangladeshi historian.
 * Frank Barnes, 88, American Major League Baseball player.
 * William Barrington-Coupe, 83, Welsh record producer.
 * Lynda Bellingham, 66, Canadian-born British actress (Doctor Who, General Hospital, The Bill), colon cancer.
 * Cecil Carston, 87, New Zealand cricketer.
 * Gloria Casarez, 42, American civil rights activist, cancer.
 * Kathryn Chaloner, 60, British-born American statistician, Professor of Biostatistics (University of Iowa).
 * Leonore Davidoff, 82, American historian.
 * Edward Donno, 79, American stunt performer (Daredevil, The Untouchables, Star Trek).
 * Stuart Gallacher, 68, Welsh rugby player (national union and league teams) and executive.
 * John Holt, 67, Jamaican singer (The Paragons) and songwriter ("The Tide Is High"), cancer.
 * Ed Keegan, 75, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies, Kansas City Athletics).
 * James Levesque, 52, American bassist (Agent Orange).
 * Arnold Mitchell, 84, English footballer (Exeter City).
 * Étienne Mourrut, 74, French politician, MP for Gard's 2nd constituency (2002–2012), Mayor of Le Grau-du-Roi (1983–2014).
 * Francis Nkwain, 84, Cameroonian senator.
 * Gerard Parkes, 90, Irish-born Canadian actor (Fraggle Rock, The Boondock Saints).
 * Stephen Paulus, 65, American composer, complications from a stroke.
 * Imre Pichler, 67, Hungarian politician, MP for Szigetvár.
 * Don Ratcliffe, 79, English footballer (Stoke City).
 * Raphael Ravenscroft, 60, British saxophonist ("Baker Street") and author, suspected heart attack.
 * Miloslava Rezková, 64, Czech high jumper, Olympic champion (1968).
 * Jim Sharkey, 80, Scottish footballer (Celtic).
 * Serena Shim, 30, Lebanese-born American journalist (Press TV), traffic collision.
 * Ken Short, 87, Australian Anglican prelate, Assistant Bishop of Sydney.
 * Bob Spear, 94, American naturalist, founder of Birds of Vermont Museum.

20

 * Ox Baker, 80, American professional wrestler and actor (Escape from New York), heart attack.
 * Gilbert Baumslag, 81, American mathematician.
 * Raymond Beadle, 70, American Hall of Fame drag racer, heart attack.
 * Dennis Biodrowski, 74, American football player (Kansas City Chiefs).
 * Gerd Bonk, 63, German weightlifter, Olympic bronze (1972) and silver (1976) medalist.
 * René Burri, 81, Swiss photographer, cancer.
 * Lilli Carati, 58, Italian actress (Being Twenty, La compagna di banco), brain tumor.
 * L. M. Kit Carson, 73, American screenwriter and actor (Paris, Texas, Running on Empty).
 * Peter Daland, 93, American swimming coach (University of Southern California, 1964 Olympic women, 1972 Olympic men).
 * Hayward H. Davis, 86, American politician.
 * Bob Dawson, 90, American television personality, meteorologist, and producer.
 * Jim Dunegan, 67, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs).
 * Robert Kevin Ellis, 60, British millionaire businessman, slashed.
 * Rodney Fitch, 76, English designer, cancer.
 * Sir John Hoskyns, 87, British businessman, policy advisor to Margaret Thatcher.
 * Rajam Krishnan, 89, Indian writer.
 * Ursula Lingen, 86, Austrian actress (The Model Husband).
 * Pete Livermore, 73, American politician, member of the Nevada Assembly (since 2011), heart attack.
 * David Malcolm, 76, Australian judge, Chief Justice of Western Australia (1988–2006).
 * Christophe de Margerie, 63, French businessman, CEO of Total S.A. (since 2007), plane crash.
 * Pavle Merkù, 87, Slovene composer.
 * Gary Plauché, 68, American vigilante murderer, stroke.
 * Oscar de la Renta, 82, Dominican fashion designer, cancer.
 * Tom Slade Jr., 78, American lobbyist, Chairman of the Republican Party of Florida (1993–1999), member of the Florida Legislature, heart failure.
 * John Solomon, 82, English croquet player.
 * Arthur Trestrail, 93, Trinidadian cricketer.

21

 * Jim Barrett Jr., 83, English footballer (West Ham).
 * Sushil Biswas, Indian politician.
 * Ben Bradlee, 93, American journalist, Executive Editor of The Washington Post (1968–1991), Alzheimer's disease.
 * Otto Brolo, 85, Guatemalan sports shooter.
 * Chen Ziming, 62, Chinese democracy activist, pancreatic cancer.
 * Johnny Lee Clary, 55, American professional wrestler, preacher and reformed Ku Klux Klan leader.
 * Roger Darvell, 83, English footballer, stroke.
 * Dale Dorman, 71, American radio disc jockey (WODS).
 * Laurențiu Dumănoiu, 63, Romanian volleyball player.
 * Seth Gaaikema, 75, Dutch comedian and writer, heart failure.
 * Nelson Bunker Hunt, 88, American oil company executive, cancer and dementia.
 * Mohammad-Reza Mahdavi Kani, 83, Iranian politician, Acting Prime Minister (1981), Minister of Interior (1980–1981), heart failure.
 * George Kline, 93, American translator and philosopher.
 * Yasumasa Narasaki, 86, Japanese politician, member of the House of Councilors (1992–1998), pneumonia.
 * Jean Packard, 91, American politician.
 * Joan Quigley, 87, American astrologer.
 * Tuna Scanlan, 80, Samoan boxer.
 * Rudolf Schmid, 63, Austrian luger, Olympic bronze medalist (1976), traffic collision.
 * Peter Trotter, 58, Australian Paralympic wheelchair racer.
 * Gough Whitlam, 98, Australian politician, Prime Minister (1972–1975).
 * Catherine Mary Wisnicki, 95, Canadian architect.

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 * Murad Ashurly, 41, Azerbaijani mountaineer, fall from mountain.
 * Gert Boshoff, 83, South African Army general.
 * Martin Chalmers, 65, British translator.
 * Anatoly Chertkov, 78, Russian footballer.
 * Rhiannon Davies Jones, 92, Welsh novelist.
 * Elizabeth Forbes, 90, British writer and musicologist.
 * George Francis, 80, English footballer (Brentford).
 * John-Roger Hinkins, 80, American author and public speaker, founder of the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness.
 * Ashok Kumar, 72, Indian cinematographer and film director (Abhinandana).
 * Barry McSweeney, Irish scientist, Chief Science Advisor (2004–2005).
 * Paul Nabor, 86, Belizean musician.
 * John Postgate, 93, British microbiologist and writer, professor at University of Sussex.
 * David Redfern, 78, English photographer, cancer.
 * Sonia Rolt, 95, British canal conservationist.
 * Rinnat Safin, 74, Soviet biathlete, Olympic champion (1972).

23

 * Ghulam Azam, 91, Bangladeshi convicted war criminal, Emir of Jamaat-e-Islami (1969–2000), stroke.
 * Jeanne Black, 76, American country singer.
 * John Bramlett, 73, American football player (Boston Patriots).
 * Clarence Addison Brimmer Jr., 92, American federal judge, Wyoming Attorney General (1971–1974).
 * Robert C. Calfee, 81, American educational psychologist, stomach cancer.
 * Spanky Davis, 71, American jazz trumpeter.
 * Sir Ronald Grierson, 93, British banker.
 * Hayden Howard, 88, American poet and author.
 * Göran Johansson, 69, Swedish politician and union leader, Chairman of the Gothenburg Municipality Executive Board (1988–1991, 1994–2009), cancer.
 * Terry Keenan, 53, American financial news anchor and journalist (CNN, FNC, New York Post), cerebral hemorrhage.
 * Frederic S. Lee, 64, American economist.
 * Clyde T. Lusk, 81, American coast guard officer, Vice Commandant of the United States Coast Guard (1988–1990).
 * Frank Mankiewicz, 90, American journalist and political adviser, press secretary to Robert F. Kennedy.
 * Bernard Mayes, 85, British-born American broadcaster and academic.
 * André Piters, 83, Belgian footballer (Standard Liège).
 * Tullio Regge, 83, Italian theoretical physicist.
 * Denma Locho Rinpoche, 86, Tibetan lama.
 * Alvin Stardust, 72, English singer ("My Coo Ca Choo").
 * Raleigh Trevelyan, 91, British author.
 * Alan Tyrrell, 81, British lawyer and politician, MEP (1979–1984).

24

 * Esmeralda Agoglia, 91, Argentine prima ballerina and choreographer.
 * Alagappa Alagappan, 88, Indian-born American official.
 * Lorenzo Albacete, 73, American theologian and Roman Catholic priest.
 * Kim Anderzon, 71, Swedish film and theatre actress (Göta kanal eller Vem drog ur proppen?, Rederiet), spinal cancer.
 * Vic Ash, 84, English jazz saxophonist and clarinetist.
 * Joseph Battisto, 83, American politician.
 * Ted Beniades, 91, American actor (Scarface, Serpico, The Jackie Gleason Show).
 * Robert Brink, 90, American violinist, conductor, and educator.
 * Jacksel M. Broughton, 89, American air force officer and fighter pilot.
 * Reuben Cohen, 93, Canadian lawyer, Chancellor of Dalhousie University (1990–1994).
 * Jean-Michel Coulon, 94, French painter.
 * Mike Dorsey, 84, English-born Australian actor (Number 96).
 * Allison J. Doupe, 60, Canadian neuroscientist, cancer.
 * Martin Garratt, 34, English footballer (York City).
 * James F. Hastings, 88, American politician.
 * Shirley Hooper, 78, American politician, Secretary of State of New Mexico (1979–1982).
 * Jenny James, 87, Welsh swimmer.
 * Gajanan Kathaley, 67, Indian cricketer.
 * Gordon MacWilliam, 91, British Anglican priest.
 * Pat McGlothin, 93, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).
 * Mbulaeni Mulaudzi, 34, South African middle-distance runner, Olympic silver medalist (2004), traffic collision.
 * S. S. Rajendran, 86, Indian actor, lung infection.
 * Creighton Robertson, 70, American prelate, Episcopal Bishop of South Dakota.
 * Emily Ruto, 25, Kenyan cricketer (national women's team), leukemia.
 * Marcia Strassman, 66, American actress (Welcome Back, Kotter, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, M*A*S*H) and singer, breast cancer.
 * Malcolm Thompson, 68, English footballer (Scarborough).
 * Tugela, 19, American-born Australian thoroughbred horse.

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 * Radmilo Bogdanović, 80, Serbian politician.
 * Jack Bruce, 71, Scottish bassist (Cream, Manfred Mann) and composer, liver disease.
 * Gerry Burrell, 90, Scottish football player.
 * Oliver S. Crosby, 94, American diplomat.
 * Buzz Emick, 75, American attorney and politician.
 * Zbigniew Hnatio, 61, Polish footballer
 * Ari Hoogenboom, 86, American historian.
 * Peter Baptist Tadamaro Ishigami, 93, Japanese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Naha (1972–1997).
 * Reyhaneh Jabbari, 26, Iranian convicted murderer, subject of international campaign against her execution, execution by hanging.
 * Peter Maxey, 83, British diplomat, Ambassador to the United Nations (1984–1986).
 * Carlos Morales Troncoso, 74, Dominican politician, Vice President (1986–1994), Secretary of Foreign Affairs (1994–1996, 2004–2014), leukemia.
 * Sheila Shulman, 77, American-born British rabbi.
 * David Somerset, 84, British banker, Chief Cashier of the Bank of England (1980–1988).
 * Jim Stangeland, 92, American football player and coach.

26

 * Genpei Akasegawa, 77, Japanese author and artist, sepsis.
 * Jamil Alibekov, 86, Azerbaijani writer and public figure.
 * Vic Allen, 91, British academic, sociologist, historian and trade unionist (National Union of Mineworkers).
 * David Armstrong, 60, American photographer, liver cancer.
 * Françoise Bertin, 89, French actress.
 * Mo Collins, 38, American football player (Oakland Raiders), kidney failure.
 * Katrina Edwards, 46, American geomicrobiologist.
 * Rémi Fraisse, 21, French botanist, hit by stun grenade.
 * Germain Gagnon, 71, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks, Montreal Canadiens, New York Islanders).
 * Michael Hawkins, 86, British actor (The Hound of the Baskervilles, Doctor Who).
 * Cliff Hysell, 72, American football player and coach (Montana State Bobcats).
 * Dudley Knowles, 67, British philosopher, cancer.
 * Rod Love, 61, Canadian political strategist, cancer.
 * Senzo Meyiwa, 27, South African footballer (Orlando Pirates, national team), shot.
 * Brian Moore, 70, Australian rugby league player (Newtown Jets).
 * Hisahiko Okazaki, 84, Japanese diplomat and political commentator.
 * Oscar Orefici, 68, Italian journalist and writer.
 * Manuel Revollo Crespo, 89, Bolivian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bolivian Military (2000–2012).
 * Jeff Robinson, 52, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).
 * Gavin Smith, 59, American film studio executive, missing since 2012. (body discovered on this date)
 * Gordy Soltau, 89, American football player (San Francisco 49ers).
 * Oscar Taveras, 22, Dominican baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals), traffic collision.
 * Antonio Terenghi, 92, Italian comic book artist (Pedrito el Drito, Tarzanetto).
 * Sir Tay Wilson, 89, New Zealand sports official.
 * Bob Wood, 93, American basketball player (Sheboygan Red Skins).

27

 * Ron Adam, 80, Canadian football player (Saskatchewan Roughriders).
 * Daniel Boulanger, 92, French actor and screenwriter.
 * Norman Hansen, 90, American public official, Town Manager of Saugus, Massachusetts (1987–1992).
 * Thurston Hopkins, 101, British photojournalist.
 * Bob Kenney, 83, American basketball player, Olympic champion (1952).
 * Doug Laing, 83, Australian Olympic water polo player.
 * Kåre Langvik-Johannessen, 95, Norwegian philologist, literary historian and translator.
 * Charles McCullough, 91, Northern Irish politician, member of the Senate (1968–1972).
 * Ian Monro, 87, New Zealand naval officer (HMNZS Lachlan).
 * Chris Nance, 74, American conductor.
 * William Orchard, 84, Australian Olympic water polo player and psychiatrist.
 * Dan Peters, 60, American college basketball coach (Youngstown State), pancreatic cancer.
 * Lucio Sangermano, 82, Italian Olympic sprinter.
 * Shin Hae-chul, 46, South Korean pop singer (N.EX.T), heart attack.
 * Leif Skiöld, 79, Swedish footballer and ice hockey player.
 * Richard Stretch, 61, South African cricketer.
 * Reidar Sundby, 88, Norwegian footballer (Larvik Turn).
 * Starke Taylor, 92, American politician, Mayor of Dallas (1983–1987).
 * Dub Williams, 87, American politician, member of the New Mexico House of Representatives (1995–2009).

28

 * Ronald Norman Dalby, 85, Canadian engineer and academic administrator, Chancellor of the University of Alberta (1974–1978).
 * Romualdas Granauskas, 75, Lithuanian writer.
 * Mansour Hobeika, 72, Lebanese Maronite Catholic prelate, Bishop of Zahlé (since 2002).
 * Koichiro Kimura, 44, Japanese mixed martial artist and professional wrestler, pneumonia.
 * Galway Kinnell, 87, American poet, Pulitzer Prize winner, leukemia.
 * James William Lair, 90, American CIA case officer.
 * Nedo Logli, 91, Italian cyclist.
 * John Ross Mackay, 98, Canadian geographer.
 * Jim Paxson Sr., 81, American basketball player (Minneapolis Lakers, Cincinnati Royals).
 * Eberhard Prüter, 69, German actor and voice actor.
 * Michael Sata, 77, Zambian politician, President (since 2011), heart attack.
 * Hans Schneider, 87, Austrian-born American mathematician and journal editor (Linear Algebra and its Applications), cancer.
 * Clark S. Smith, 102, American politician.
 * David Trendell, 50, British organist and musical director.
 * Carroll Waller, 87, American historic preservationist, First Lady of Mississippi (1972–1976), restored the Mississippi Governor's Mansion, Alzheimer's disease.
 * Charlie Watkins, 91, British audio engineer (Watkins Electric Music).

29

 * Alfred Biehle, 87, German politician.
 * Don Bracken, 52, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Los Angeles Rams), staph infection.
 * Alan Dawson, 82, Australian rules footballer.
 * Frans De Bruyn, 90, Belgian Flemish writer.
 * Frank Domínguez, 87, Cuban composer and pianist.
 * Dennis Duncan, 71, Canadian football player, Parkinson's disease.
 * Thomas Dupuy, 32, French boxer, killed.
 * Roger Freeman, 48, American politician, member of the Washington House of Representatives, colon cancer.
 * Rainer Hasler, 56, Liechtenstein footballer.
 * Roderick M. Hills, 83, American lawyer and business executive, Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission (1975–1977), surgical complications.
 * Klas Ingesson, 46, Swedish footballer (national team), multiple myeloma.
 * Mary Jolliffe, 90, Canadian theatre publicist.
 * H. Gary Morse, 77, American real estate developer (The Villages, Florida).
 * Rosa Posada, 74, Spanish politician.

30

 * Elijah Malok Aleng, 77, South Sudanese public servant.
 * Renée Asherson, 99, English actress (Caesar and Cleopatra, Henry V, The Others).
 * Joe Brown, 85, English football player and manager (Burnley).
 * Geoffrey Chamberlain, 84, Welsh academic.
 * Geoffrey Clarke, 89, British artist.
 * Xavier de Villepin, 88, French politician.
 * Harcourt Dowsley, 95, Australian cricketer and football player.
 * Juan Flavier, 79, Filipino politician, Secretary of Health (1992–1995), member of the Senate (1995–2007), multiple organ failure.
 * John Forzani, 67, Canadian businessman and football player, heart attack.
 * Bob Geigel, 90, American professional wrestler and promoter (Central States Wrestling), Alzheimer's disease.
 * Lucy Gwin, 71, American disability rights activist.
 * Ed Hoffman, 89, American football coach.
 * Max Homer, 79, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1969–1974).
 * Mohamed Sheikh Ismail, 50s, Somali military commander, Chief of the Police Force (2014).
 * Amin Kamil, 90, Indian poet.
 * Don W. King, 72, American writer and gay rights activist, pancreatic cancer.
 * Thomas Menino, 71, American politician, Mayor of Boston (1993–2014), cancer.
 * Andy Natowich, 95, American football player.
 * Ida Elizabeth Osbourne, 98, Australian radio broadcaster, founder of the ABC's Argonauts Club.
 * Ann Paludan, 86, British author.
 * Clay Stapleton, 93, American football player and coach (Iowa State Cyclones).
 * Christopher J. Turner, 81, British diplomat, Governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands (1982–1987) and Montserrat (1987–1990).

31

 * David Manker Abshire, 88, American diplomat, Permanent Representative to NATO (1983–1987).
 * Michael Alsbury, 39, American test pilot and engineer (Scaled Composites), spaceplane crash.
 * Aden Robleh Awaleh, 72–73, Djiboutian politician.
 * Tony Blake, 87, English footballer.
 * José Manuel Briceño Guerrero, 85, Venezuelan writer, philologist and philosopher.
 * Marina Cárdenas, 67, Nicaraguan bolero singer.
 * Armando Cavazzuti, 85, Italian footballer.
 * Ciguli, 57, Bulgarian Chalga singer.
 * Pete Davis, 76-77, American archpriest.
 * Carlos Duque, 84, Panamanian politician.
 * Ian Fraser, 81, English composer and conductor (Scrooge, Christmas in Washington), cancer.
 * Brad Halsey, 33, American baseball player (Oakland Athletics), climbing fall.
 * Sir Henry Harris, 89, Australian cell biologist.
 * Dick Hendley, 88, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers).
 * Käbi Laretei, 92, Estonian concert pianist.
 * Mal MacDougall, 86, American advertising executive and speechwriter.
 * Hitoshi Motoshima, 92, Japanese politician, Mayor of Nagasaki (1979–1995).
 * Sofron Mudry, 90, Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Ivano-Frankivsk (1997–2005).
 * Walter H. North, 81, American politician, member of the Michigan Senate (1995–2002).
 * Pat Partridge, 81, British football referee.
 * Jim Sauter, 71, American stock car racing driver.
 * Bibbi Segerström, 71, Swedish Olympic swimmer (1960).
 * Renato Sellani, 88, Italian jazz pianist and composer.
 * John V. Shields, 82, American chief executive (Trader Joe's).
 * Ross H. Trower, 92, American naval officer, Chief of Chaplains of the United States Navy (1979–1983).