The following is a list of notable deaths in April 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.

April 2016

1

• Karl-Robert Ameln, 96, Swedish sailor (1948 and 1952 Olympics).^[1]
• Aleksander Arkuszyński, 98, Polish brigadier general, WWII veteran.^[2]
• Pratyusha Banerjee, 24, Indian actress, suicide by hanging.^[3]
• Alan Carter, 86, British civil servant, Director of Immigration of Hong Kong (1983–1989).^[4]
• Tom Coughlin, 67, American business executive and convicted fraudster (Walmart).^[5]
• George Curry, 71, American football coach, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.^[6]
• Mame Younousse Dieng, 76, Senegalese writer.^[7]
• Alberto Fontanesi, 87, Italian footballer.^[8]
• Artur Górski, 46, Polish politician, member of Sejm (since 2005), leukemia.^[9]
• Kao Ching-yuen, 87, Taiwanese businessman (Uni-President Enterprises Corporation).^[10] (death announced on this date)
• Richard S. Kem, 89, American army Major-General.^[11]
• Emil Keres, 90, Hungarian actor and theatre director.^[12]
• Clarence Makwetu, 88, South African politician.^[13]
• Herbert Theodore Milburn, 84, American judge.^[14]
• John Minney, 76, English cricketer (Cambridge University, Northamptonshire).^[15]
• Wiebe Nijenhuis, 61, Dutch sportsman.^[16]
• Carl Nordling, 85, Swedish physicist.^[17]
• Marjorie Peters, 97, American baseball player (AAGBPL).^[18]
• Fausto Puccini, 83, Italian Olympic equestrian.^[19]
• Patricia Thompson, 89, American philosopher.^[20]
• André Villers, 85, French photographer.^[21]
• Tony Whittaker, 83, British solicitor and politician.^[22]
• Ron Wicks, 76, Canadian NHL ice hockey referee, liver cancer.^[23]

2

• Gato Barbieri, 83, Argentine jazz saxophonist, pneumonia.^[24]
• Rick Bartow, 69, American artist, heart failure.^[25]
• Moreese Bickham, 98, American convicted murderer and anti-death penalty activist.^[26]
• Sergio Ferrari, 72, Italian footballer.^[27]
• Gallieno Ferri, 87, Italian comic book artist (Zagor, Mister No).^[28]
• Boris Hybner, 74, Czech actor and mime artist.^[29]
• Gareth Jones, 85, British legal academic.^[30]
• Martin Lampkin, 65, English motorcycle trials rider, cancer.^[31]
• Nabil Nosair, 77, Egyptian footballer (Zamalek).^[32]
• Amber Rayne, 31, American pornographic actress, accidental drug overdose.^[33]
• Dennis Riggin, 79, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings).^[34]
• László Sárosi, 84, Hungarian football player and coach.^[35]
• Thomas Zeng Jing-mu, 95, Chinese clandestine Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Yujiang (1988–2012).^[36]
• Soldiers killed in the Armenian–Azerbaijani clashes:
  • Robert Abajyan, 19, Armenian (Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army).^[37]
  • Samid Imanov, 34–35, Azerbaijani (Special Forces).^[38]
  • Samir Kachayev, 22, Azerbaijani.^[39]
  • Murad Mirzayev, 40, Azerbaijani (Special Forces).^[40]
  • Kyaram Sloyan, 19, Armenian (Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army).^[41]

3

• Abu Firas al-Suri, 65, Syrian al-Nusra Front senior official, air strike.^[42]
• Phanor Arizabaleta-Arzayus, 78, Colombian criminal, heart attack.^[43]
• John C. Baldwin, 67, American cardiac surgeon, drowned.^[44]
• John Vane, 11th Baron Barnard, 92, British peer.^[45]
• Erik Bauersfeld, 93, American radio dramatist (KPFA) and voice actor (Star Wars, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Crimson Peak).^[46]
• Ward Crutchfield, 87, American politician, member of the Tennessee Senate (1985–2007).^[47]
• Bob Ellis, 73, Australian writer (Newsfront, My First Wife) and journalist, liver cancer.^[48]
• Bas van Erp, 36, Dutch wheelchair tennis player, Paralympic bronze medalist (2004).^[49]
• Leopoldo Flores, 82, Mexican artist.^[50]
• Don Francks, 84, Canadian jazz vocalist and actor (La Femme Nikita, Inspector Gadget, I'm Not There), lung cancer.^[51]
• Robert Guinan, 82, American painter, lymphoma.^[52]
• Lars Gustafsson, 79, Swedish writer and scholar.^[53]
• Rowley Habib, 82, New Zealand writer.^[54]
• Henry Harpending, 72, American anthropologist, stroke.^[55]
• Bill Henderson, 90, American jazz vocalist and actor (Clue, City Slickers, White Men Can't Jump), cancer.^[56]
• Dick Hodgins, Jr., 84, American cartoonist.^[57]
• Ross Honsberger, 87, Canadian mathematician.^[58]
• Stephen Jacobsen, 75, American bioengineer.^[59]
• Alex de Jesús, 33, Puerto Rican professional and Olympic lightweight boxer (2004), shot.^[60]
• Cesare Maldini, 84, Italian football player and manager.^[61]
• Joe Medicine Crow, 102, American Crow historian.^[62]
• Ronald Mulkearns, 85, Australian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ballarat (1971–1997), colon cancer.^[63]
• Whai Ngata, 74, New Zealand Māori broadcaster, journalist and lexicographer.^[64]
• Noh Jin-kyu, 23, South Korean short track speed skater, world champion (2011, 2012), osteosarcoma.^[65]
• Lola Novaković, 80, Serbian singer.^[66]
• Ian Robinson, 69, Zimbabwean cricket umpire, lung cancer.^[67]
• Jules Schelvis, 95, Dutch historian and Holocaust survivor.^[68]
• Kōji Wada, 42, Japanese singer ("Butter-Fly", "All of My Mind"), nasopharynx cancer.^[69]
• John Waite, 74, English footballer (Grimsby Town).^[70]
• Clarence Clifton Young, 93, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives from Nevada's at-large congressional district (1953–1957), Nevada Senate (1966–1980) and Supreme Court (1985–2002).^[71]

4

• Ranjan Baindoor, 66, Indian cricketer.^[72]
• Jarle Bondevik, 81, Norwegian philologist.^[73]
• Archie Dees, 80, American basketball player (Cincinnati Royals, Detroit Pistons).^[74]
• Eric Dott, 89, American game designer.^[75]
• Georgi Hristakiev, 71, Bulgarian footballer, Olympic silver medalist (1968).^[76]
• Shahidul Islam Khokon, 59, Bangladeshi filmmaker, motor neuron disease.^[77]
• Chus Lampreave, 85, Spanish actress (Belle Époque, Volver).^[78]
• Carlo Mastrangelo, 78, American bassist and doo-wop singer (The Belmonts).^[79]
• Getatchew Mekurya, 81, Ethiopian jazz saxophonist.^[80]
• John Miller, 68, American politician, member of the Virginia Senate (since 2008).^[81]
• Royston Nash, 82, English conductor (D'Oyly Carte Opera Company).^[82]
• George Radosevich, 88, American football player (Baltimore Colts).^[83]
• Mike Sandlock, 100, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).^[84]
• Abe Segal, 85, South African tennis player, cancer.^[85]
• Song Soo-kwon, 76, South Korean writer.^[86]
• Ken Waterhouse, 86, English footballer (Preston North End, Rotherham United).^[87]

5

• John Carlson, 82, American sportscaster.^[88]
• Michael Earls-Davis, 95, English cricketer.^[89]
• Zyta Gilowska, 66, Polish politician, Minister of Finance (2006, 2007), Deputy Prime Minister (2006, 2007).^[90]
• Roman Gribbs, 90, American politician, Mayor of Detroit (1970–1974).^[91]
• Leon Haywood, 74, American funk and soul singer.^[92]
• Ed Johnson, 71, American basketball player.^[93]
• Koço Kasapoğlu, 80, Turkish footballer.^[94]
• George Gelaga King, Sierra Leonean judge.^[95]
• Zena Latto, 90, American jazz saxophonist.^[96]
• Kerrie Lester, 62, Australian painter, leukaemia.^[97]
• Elsie Morison, 91, Australian soprano.^[98]
• E. M. Nathanson, 88, American author (The Dirty Dozen), heart failure.^[99]
• Cornel Patrichi, 72, Romanian ballet dancer, choreographer and actor, lung cancer.^[100]
• Mick Sullivan, 82, English rugby league footballer (Wigan), world champion (1954, 1960).^[101]
• Ahmed Refai Taha, 61, Egyptian terrorist, leader of al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, air strike.^[102]
• Barbara Turner, 79, American actress (Soldier Blue) and screenwriter (Georgia, Pollock, The Company).^[103]
• Frank Wainright, 48, American football player (Miami Dolphins, Baltimore Ravens), NFL champion (2000).^[104]

6

• Orison Rudolph Aggrey, 89, American diplomat, Ambassador to the Gambia (1973–1977), Senegal (1973–1977) and Romania (1977–1981).^[105]
• Joe Freeman Britt, 80, American attorney and death penalty advocate.^[106]
• Dennis Davis, 64, American drummer (David Bowie, Stevie Wonder), cancer.^[107]
• Jaime Pedro Gonçalves, 79, Mozambican Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Beira (1976–2012).^[108]
• Adrian Greenwood, 42, British art dealer and author, stabbed.^[109]
• Merle Haggard, 79, American singer-songwriter ("Okie from Muskogee", "The Fightin' Side of Me", "Carolyn"), Grammy winner (1984, 1998, 1999), complications from pneumonia.^[110]
• Darrell Hogan, 89, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers).^[111]
• Bernd Hoss, 76, German football manager.^[112]
• Garry Jones, 65, English footballer (Bolton Wanderers).^[113]
• Joel Kurtzman, 68, American economist, cancer.^[114]
• Robert MacCrate, 94, American lawyer, President of the American Bar Association (1987–1988).^[115]
• Ogden Mills Phipps, 75, American horse breeder.^[116]
• Josef Toms, 94, Czech Olympic basketball player.^[117]
• Pablo Lucio Vasquez, 38, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.^[118]
• Murray Wier, 89, American basketball player (Tri-Cities Blackhawks, Waterloo Hawks).^[119]

7

• László Bárczay, 80, Hungarian chess Grandmaster (FIDE, ICCF).^[120]
• Freda Briggs, 85, English-born Australian professor and child protection expert, Senior Australian of the Year (2000).^[121]
• A. V. Christie, 53, American poet, breast cancer.^[122]
• Frank E. Denholm, 92, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives from South Dakota's 1st congressional district (1971–1975).^[123]
• Marcel Dubé, 86, Canadian playwright.^[124]
• Hendrikje Fitz, 54, German actress (In aller Freundschaft), cancer.^[125]
• Theodore van Houten, 63, Dutch–British author and journalist.^[126]
• Vladimir Kagan, 88, American furniture designer.^[127]
• Cyril Edel Leonoff, 91, Canadian civil engineer and historian.^[128]
• Carlo Monti, 96, Italian athlete, Olympic bronze medalist (1948).^[129]
• Blackjack Mulligan, 73, American professional wrestler (WWWF, JCP, CWF).^[130]
• Charles Thomas, 87, British archaeologist.^[131]
• Jimmie Van Zant, 59, American singer, songwriter and guitarist, liver cancer.^[132]
• Chuck Waseleski, 61, American baseball statistician (Boston Red Sox).^[133]
• Ruth Westbrook, 85, English cricket player and coach (national team).^[134]
• Sir John Yocklunn, 82, Australian–Papua New Guinean librarian and government advisor.^[135]

8

• Nicolas Abu Samah, 76–77, Lebanese actor and director.^[136]
• Dick Alban, 87, American football player (Washington Redskins, Pittsburgh Steelers).^[137]
• Mircea Albulescu, 81, Romanian actor and writer, heart failure.^[138]
• Harry Apted, 90, Fijian cricketer.^[139]
• Victoria Chitepo, 88, Zimbabwean politician.^[140]
• Anatol Ciobanu, 81, Moldovan linguist, writer and university professor.^[141]
• David Dore, 75, Canadian figure skating competitor, judge and official, President (1980–1984) and Director General (1986–2004) of the CFSA.^[142]
• Phoebus Dhrymes, 82, American economist.^[143]
• Doug France, 62, American football player (Los Angeles Rams).^[144]
• Paul Fung Jr., 93, American cartoonist (Blondie).^[145]
• Mildred Gordon, 92, British politician, MP for Bow and Poplar (1987–1997).^[146]
• William Hamilton, 76, American cartoonist, traffic collision.^[147]
• Jack Hammer, 90, American musician and songwriter ("Great Balls of Fire").^[148]
• Charles Hirsch, 79, American forensic pathologist.^[149]
• Julien Hoferlin, 49, Belgian tennis coach (national team), cancer.^[150]
• George Ilsley, 88, Australian football player (Carlton).^[151]
• Grace Lotowycz, 99, American botanist.^[152]
• Fred Middleton, 85, English footballer (Lincoln City).^[153]
• Elizabeth Roemer, 87, American astronomer.^[154]
• Erich Rudorffer, 98, German Luftwaffe fighter ace during World War II.^[155]
• Gene Salvay, 96, American aircraft engineer.^[156]
• David Swift, 85, British actor (Drop the Dead Donkey).^[157]
• Wei Chueh, 88, Taiwanese Buddhist monk, founder of the Chung Tai Shan.^[158]
• Nigel Paulet, 18th Marquess of Winchester, 74, British peer, member of the House of Lords (1968–1999).^[159]

9

• Frederic W. Allen, 89, American judge.^[160]
• Arthur Anderson, 93, American actor (Courage the Cowardly Dog, Midnight Cowboy), voice of Lucky Charms leprechaun.^[161]
• Frank Baron, 93, Dominican politician.^[162]
• Duane Clarridge, 83, American CIA official, complications from esophageal cancer.^[163]
• Tony Conrad, 76, American avant-garde musician, composer, video artist and professor (University at Buffalo), pneumonia.^[164]
• Juris Ekmanis, 74, Latvian academic, President of Latvian Academy of Sciences (2004–2012).^[165]
• Finn Hodt, 96, Norwegian Olympic speed skating competitor (1956) and coach.^[166]
• J. Vinton Lawrence, 76, American CIA paramilitary officer, acute myeloid leukemia.^[167]
• Bea Maddock, 81, Australian artist.^[168]
• Lucas Martínez Lara, 70, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Matehuala (since 2006).^[169]
• Patrick J. O'Donnell, 68, Scottish academic.^[170]
• Martin Roberts, 48, English rugby union player (Gloucester Rugby).^[171]
• Derrick Rochester, 76, Jamaican politician and trade unionist, MP for South East St Elizabeth (1972–1980, 1989–2002), member of the Senate (1980–1983).^[172]
• Will Smith, 34, American football player (New Orleans Saints), Super Bowl champion (2010), shot.^[173]

10

• Alec Crikis, 71, Australian Olympic sports shooter.^[174]
• John Ferrone, 91, American book editor (The Color Purple), complications from Parkinson's disease.^[175]
• Louis Gladstone, 88, American politician.^[176]
• Nicholas Hood, 92, American politician and civil rights activist, Detroit City Councilman (1965–1993).^[177]
• Irene Maguire, 86, American figure skater, heart failure.^[178]
• Howard Marks, 70, Welsh cannabis smuggler, writer and legalisation campaigner, colorectal cancer.^[179]
• Thomas Kwaku Mensah, 81, Ghanaian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Obuasi (1995–2008) and Archbishop of Kumasi (2008–2012).^[180]
• Wayne Southwick, 93, American surgeon and academic.^[181]
• Henryk Średnicki, 61, Polish Olympic boxer (1976, 1980), amateur World Champion (1978).^[182]
• N. H. Wadia, 91, Indian neurologist.^[183]

11

• Tony Ayers, 82, Australian public servant.^[184]
• Helen Bailey, 51, British author, suffocated.^[185]
• Doug Banks, 57, American radio personality (The Doug Banks Radio Show), diabetes.^[186]
• João Carvalho, 28, Portuguese mixed martial arts fighter, injuries sustained in match.^[187]
• Albert Filozov, 78, Russian actor.^[188]
• Emile Ford, 78, Saint Lucian singer ("What Do You Want to Make Those Eyes at Me For?") and sound engineer.^[189]
• Hokie Gajan, 56, American football player and broadcaster (New Orleans Saints), liposarcoma.^[190]
• Mohsen Gheytaslou, 25–26, Iranian soldier (65th Airborne Special Forces Brigade).^[191]
• Ruth Gilbert, 99, New Zealand poet.^[192]
• Yura Halim, 92, Bruneian politician, Chief Minister (1967–1972) and lyricist (national anthem).^[193]
• Anne Gould Hauberg, 98, American arts patron, founder of the Pilchuck Glass School.^[194]
• Alan Hurd, 78, English cricketer.^[195]
• Peter J. Jannetta, 84, American neurosurgeon (Allegheny General Hospital).^[196]
• Dame Marion Kettlewell, 102, British naval officer, Director of the Wrens (1966–1970).^[197]
• Huntly D. Millar, 88, Canadian medical technology executive.^[198]
• Miss Shangay Lily, 53, Spanish drag queen, pancreatic cancer.^[199]
• Édgar Perea, 81, Colombian politician and football commentator.^[200]
• Steve Quinn, 64, British rugby league player (York, Featherstone Rovers).^[201]
• Richard Ransom, 96, American businessman (Hickory Farms).^[202]
• Ed Snider, 83, American sports executive (Comcast Spectacor, Philadelphia Flyers, Philadelphia 76ers), bladder cancer.^[203]
• A. R. Surendran, Sri Lankan lawyer, President's Counsel (2004).^[204]
• Bounama Touré, 63, Senegalese Olympic wrestler.^[205]

12

• James Bond, 70, Australian navy officer.^[206]
• Aquilino Bonfanti, 73, Italian footballer.^[207]
• Robbie Brennan, 68–69, Irish musician (Skid Row, Auto Da Fé, Grand Slam).^[208]
• Hector A. Cafferata Jr., 86, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.^[209]
• Paul Carey, 88, American radio broadcaster (Detroit Tigers), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.^[210]
• Gianroberto Casaleggio, 61, Italian entrepreneur, co-founder of Five Star Movement.^[211]
• Pedro de Felipe, 71, Spanish footballer (Real Madrid, Espanyol).^[212]
• David Gest, 62, American TV producer (Michael Jackson: 30th Anniversary Special) and reality show contestant (I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!).^[213]
• Gib Guilbeau, 78, American musician (The Flying Burrito Brothers) and composer (Boxcar Bertha).^[214]
• Anne Jackson, 90, American actress (The Shining, Folks!, Dirty Dingus Magee).^[215]
• Bryce Jordan, 91, American academic administrator, President of the Pennsylvania State University (1983–1990).^[216]
• Alexander Kanengoni, 65, Zimbabwean writer, heart failure.^[217]
• Alan Loveday, 88, New Zealand-born British violinist (Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Academy of St Martin in the Fields).^[218]
• Balls Mahoney, 44, American professional wrestler (ECW, WWE, SMW), heart attack.^[219]
• André Mayamba Mabuti Kathongo, 85, Congolese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Popokabaka (1979–1993).^[220]
• Tōru Ōhira, 86, Japanese voice actor (Super Sentai, One Piece).^[221]
• Tibor Ordina, 45, Hungarian Olympic track and field athlete (1996), brain cancer.^[222]
• Tomaž Pandur, 53, Slovenian theatre director.^[223]
• Spec Richardson, 93, American baseball executive (Houston Astros).^[224]
• Agha Saleem, 81, Pakistani writer.^[225]
• Sir Arnold Wesker, 83, British playwright.^[226]
• Said Zahari, 88, Singaporean journalist and political prisoner.^[227]

13

• Srinivas Aravamudan, 54, Indian-born British academic.^[228]
• Márton Balázs, 86, Romanian mathematician.^[229]
• Jackie Carter, 62, American children's author, lymphoma.^[230]
• Julio García Espinosa, 89, Cuban film director and screenwriter (The Adventures of Juan Quin Quin).^[231]
• Nuri Gezerdaa, 56, Abkhaz politician.^[232]
• Kurtis Haiu, 31, New Zealand rugby union player (Auckland, Blues), bone cancer.^[233]
• Earl B. Hunt, 83, American psychologist.^[234]
• Matthias Joseph Isuja, 86, Tanzanian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Dodoma (1972–2005).^[235]
• Robert W. Lundeen, 94, American executive (Tektronix).^[236]
• Mariano Mores, 98, Argentine tango composer and pianist.^[237]
• Eeti Nieminen, 89, Finnish Olympic Nordic skier (1952).^[238]
• Rex Patterson, 89, Australian politician, MP for Dawson (1966–1975).^[239]
• Jock Scot, 63, Scottish poet and recording artist, cancer.^[240]
• Manouchehr Sotoudeh, 102, Iranian geographer and scholar of Persian literature, lung infection.^[241]
• Jeremy Steig, 73, American jazz flutist.^[242]
• Gareth Thomas, 71, Welsh actor (Blake's 7, Children of the Stones, Star Maidens), heart failure.^[243]
• Gwyn Thomas, 79, Welsh poet and academic, National Poet (2006–2008).^[244]
• Ray Thornton, 87, American attorney and politician, member of the United States House of Representatives from Arkansas's 4th and 2nd congressional districts (1973–1979, 1991–1997).^[245]
• Nera White, 80, American Hall of Fame basketball player.^[246]
• Bernard B. Wolfe, 101, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives (1965–1974).^[247]
• Pete Yellin, 74, American jazz saxophonist and educator.^[248]
• Sayed Zayan, 72, Egyptian actor.^[249]

14

• Nguyen Anh 9, 76, Vietnamese songwriter and pianist.^[250]
• Ahmed Brahim, 69, Tunisian politician.^[251]
• David Collischon, 78, British executive (Filofax).^[252]
• Martin Fitzmaurice, 75, English darts personality.^[253]
• Gaetano Gagliano, 98, Canadian entrepreneur.^[254]
• Francesco Guarraci, 61, Italian-born American mobster.^[255]
• Hector Hatch, 80, Fijian boxer (1956 Olympics), politician and civil servant.^[256]
• Fred Hayman, 90, Swiss-born American fashion retailer (Giorgio Beverly Hills) and entrepreneur, helped develop Rodeo Drive.^[257]
• James W. Huston, 62, American author and lawyer.^[258]
• Dan Ireland, 57, Canadian-born American film producer and director (Jolene, The Whole Wide World, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont).^[259]
• Ilija Ivezić, 89, Croatian film actor (Last of the Renegades, The Golden Years, Marshal Tito's Spirit).^[260]
• Colin Knight, 81, New Zealand educationalist, principal of Christchurch Teachers' College (1986–1995).^[261]
• Liang Sili, 91, Chinese missile control scientist and academician (Chinese Academy of Sciences), vice-president of the International Astronautical Federation.^[262]
• Sir David MacKay, 48, British author, physicist and professor (University of Cambridge), stomach cancer.^[263]
• Rod Reyes, 80, Filipino broadcast executive and journalist (The Standard), heart failure.^[264]
• Phil Sayer, 62, British voice artist, oesophageal cancer.^[265]
• Malick Sidibé, 80, Malian photographer.^[266]
• Xu Caidong, 97, Chinese metallurgist and academician (Chinese Academy of Sciences), vice-governor of Guizhou.^[267]
• Ron Theobald, 72, American baseball player (Milwaukee Brewers).^[268]
• Carl M. Vogel, 61, American politician, member of the Missouri Senate (2003–2011), pancreatic cancer.^[269]

15

• Orville Gilbert Brim, Jr., 93, American social psychologist.^[270]
• Anne Grommerch, 45, French politician, member of the National Assembly (since 2008), Mayor of Thionville (since 2014), breast cancer.^[271]
• Byrle Klinck, 81, Canadian Olympic ice hockey player, bronze medallist (1956).^[272]
• Laura Liu, 49, American state judge, Cook County Circuit Court judge (2010–2014), Illinois Appellate Court judge (since 2014), breast cancer.^[273]
• Frederick Mayer, 94, German-born American spy (OSS).^[274]
• Derek Mayers, 81, English footballer (Preston North End).^[275]
• A. A. Raiba, 94, Indian painter.^[276]
• Harold Shillinglaw, 88, Australian football player and cricketer.^[277]
• Morag Siller, 46, British actress (Emmerdale, Memphis Belle, Casualty), breast cancer.^[278]
• Richard Smith, 84, British painter, heart failure.^[279]
• Lars-Inge Svartenbrandt, 70, Swedish criminal, apartment fire.^[280]
• Louis Van Geyt, 88, Belgian politician, chairman of Communist Party of Belgium (1972–1989).^[281]
• Guy Woolfenden, 78, English composer and conductor.^[282]

16

• Muhammad Ayyub, 64, Saudi Arabian imam and Islamic scholar.^{[citation needed]}
• Ron Bonham, 73, American basketball player (Boston Celtics, Indiana Pacers), NBA champion (1965, 1966).^[283]
• Jeanette Bonnier, 82, Swedish media proprietor (Bonnier Group), journalist (Expressen) and author.^[284]
• David R. Brown, 93, American computer scientist.^[285]
• Miloud Chaabi, 86, Moroccan businessman.^[286]
• Rod Daniel, 73, American film director (Teen Wolf, K-9, WKRP in Cincinnati), Parkinson's disease.^[287]
• Donald B. Easum, 92, American diplomat.^[288]
• William M. Gray, 86, American meteorologist.^[289]
• Guan Guangfu, 84, Chinese politician, Communist Party Chief of Hubei.^[290]
• Bernhard Hassenstein, 93, German biologist and behaviorist.^[291]
• Charlie Hodge, 82, Canadian ice hockey player (Montreal Canadiens, Vancouver Canucks) and scout.^[292]
• Clarence James, 84, Bermudian politician, Deputy Premier (1983–1989).^[293]
• Maurice Kenny, 86, American poet, heart ailment and kidney failure.^[294]
• Rubén Mendoza Ayala, 55, Mexican politician.^[295]
• Nathanael Orr, 98, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Council (1976–1984).^[296]
• U Pandita, 94, Burmese Buddhist monk and meditation teacher.^[297]
• Louis Pilot, 75, Luxembourgian football player (Fola Esch, Standard Liège, Royal Antwerp) and manager (national team).^[298]
• Ilias Polatidis, 50, Greek politician.^[299]
• Ismael Quintana, 78, Puerto Rican singer and composer.^[300]
• Peter Rock, 70, Austrian-born Chilean rock musician.^[301]
• Helmut Rohde, 90, German politician.^[302]
• Kit West, 79, British special effects artist (Raiders of the Lost Ark, Dragonheart, Enemy at the Gates), Oscar winner (1982).^[303]

17

• Ken Aldred, 70, Australian politician, MP for Henty (1975–1980), Bruce (1983–1990) and Deakin (1990–1996).^[304]
• Tiga Bayles, 62, Australian radio presenter and indigenous rights activist, cancer.^[305]
• Kong Bunchhoeun, 77, Cambodian author and songwriter, cancer.^[306]
• Bettye Caldwell, 91, American educator (University of Arkansas at Little Rock) and child-development campaigner (NAEYC).^[307]
• Bob Charles, 79, American-born Australian politician, MP for La Trobe (1990–2004).^[308]
• Chyna, 46, American professional wrestler (WWF) and actress (1 Night in China, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Cougar Club), mixed drug intoxication.^[309]
• Clifton C. Garvin, 94, American businessman, CEO of Exxon (1975–1986).^[310]
• Luis Horacio Gomez González, 57, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Puerto Gaitán (2014–2016).^[311]
• Anthony Keane, 87, American Olympic fencer (1968).^[312]
• Toshiro Konishi, 63, Japanese-born Peruvian chef, pioneer of Japanese cuisine in Lima, cancer.^[313]
• Bruce Mansfield, 71, Australian radio and television personality, prostate cancer.^[314]
• Scott Nimerfro, 54, American writer and producer (Hannibal, Once Upon a Time, X-Men), angiosarcoma.^[315]
• Constantine Papastephanou, 92, Syrian Eastern Orthodox prelate, Metropolitan of Baghdad and Kuwait (1969-2014).^[316]
• Doris Roberts, 90, American actress (Everybody Loves Raymond, Remington Steele, Christmas Vacation), stroke.^[317]
• Trần Phước Thọ, 23, Vietnamese footballer (Long An, U23 national team), traffic collision.^[318]
• Nicolas Tikhomiroff, 89, French photographer.^[319]
• Yang Hongxun, 84, Chinese architect, architectural historian, and archaeologist.^[320]

18

• Brian Asawa, 49, American opera singer, heart failure.^[321]
• Paul Busiek, 93, American politician.^[322]
• Yuri Bychkov, 84, Russian art historian.^[323]
• William Campbell, 75, American business executive (Apple) and college football coach (Columbia University), cancer.^[324]
• Adrian Berry, 4th Viscount Camrose, 78, British journalist.^[325]
• Robert Christophe, 78, French Olympic swimmer (1956, 1960, 1964), European champion (1958, 1962).^[326]
• Barry Davies, 71, British soldier and author, heart attack.^[327]
• Rubén Héctor di Monte, 84, Argentinian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Mercedes-Luján (2000–2007).^[328]
• Marwan Dudin, 79–80, Jordanian politician, Minister of Agriculture (1980–1984) and Minister of State for the Occupied Territory Affairs (1986–1988).^[329]
• Hugh Faulkner, 83, Canadian politician, MP for Peterborough (1965–1979), complications from surgery.^[330]
• Ben-Zion Gold, 92, Polish-born American rabbi.^[331]
• Cox Habbema, 72, Dutch actress, theater director and manager.^[332]
• Eva Henning, 95, Swedish stage and movie actress.^[333]
• Fritz Herkenrath, 87, German footballer (Rot-Weiss Essen).^[334]
• Karina Huff, 55, British actress (The House of Clocks, Time for Loving, Voices from Beyond) and television personality, breast cancer.^[335]
• Proverb Jacobs, 80, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles, New York Giants).^[336]
• Sir John Leslie, 4th Baronet, 99, Anglo-Irish aristocrat and media personality.^[337]
• Arnulfo Mejía Rojas, 59, Mexican architect and Catholic priest.^[338]
• Johan van Minnen, 83, Dutch journalist and politician, member of the European Parliament (1979–1984).^[339]
• Vladimir Nemukhin, 90, Russian painter (Bulldozer Exhibition).^[340]
• Charles J. Pilliod Jr., 97, American business executive and diplomat, Ambassador to Mexico (1986–1989).^[341]
• Guy Prather, 58, American football player (Green Bay Packers), cancer.^[342]
• Fulvio Roiter, 89, Italian photographer, Prix Nadar winner (1956).^[343]
• Pál Sajgó, 93, Hungarian cross country skier and biathlete.^[344]
• Gert Schramm, 87, German Holocaust survivor.^[345]
• Zoltán Szarka, 73, Hungarian football player and coach, Olympic champion (1968).^[346]
• Tao Siju, 81, Chinese politician, minister of Public Security.^[347]

19

• Gerasimos Arsenis, 84, Greek politician, Minister for National Defense (1993–1996) and National Education and Religious Affairs (1996–2000).^[348]
• Patricio Aylwin, 97, Chilean politician, President (1990–1994).^[349]
• Estelle Balet, 21, Swiss snowboarder, world champion (2015, 2016), avalanche.^[350]
• Dud Beattie, 81, Australian rugby league footballer and selector (Queensland).^[351]
• Errikos Belies, 66, Greek translator and poet.^[352]
• Dorothy R. Burnley, 89, American politician, member of the North Carolina General Assembly (1980–1984).^[353]
• Eloy Casados, 66, American actor (Ishi: The Last of His Tribe, Walker, Texas Ranger).^[354]
• Russell Dove, 87, Australian Olympic sports shooter (1972).^[355]
• Harry Elderfield, 72, British geochemist and professor (University of Cambridge).^[356]
• Ronit Elkabetz, 51, Israeli actress and film director (Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem), lung cancer.^[357]
• Solveig Ericsson, 84, Swedish Olympic athlete.^[358]
• Karl-Heinz von Hassel, 77, German actor.^[359]
• Walter Kohn, 93, Austrian-born American theoretical physicist, Nobel laureate (1998), jaw cancer.^[360]
• Lord Tanamo, 81, Jamaican ska and mento musician.^[361]
• John McConathy, 86, American basketball player (Milwaukee Hawks, Northwestern State).^[362]
• Mehrdad Oladi, 30, Iranian footballer (Malavan), heart attack.^[363]
• Milt Pappas, 76, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles, Cincinnati Reds, Chicago Cubs).^[364]
• Billy Redmayne, 25, Manx motorcycle racer, race collision.^[365]
• Igor Volchok, 84, Russian football manager.^[366]
• Pete Zorn, 65, American musician (Steeleye Span, Richard Thompson, The Albion Band), cancer.^[367]

20

• Solomon Blatt Jr., 94, American federal judge, U.S. District Court for South Carolina (since 1971).^[368]
• Cynthia Cooke, 96, British nurse, Matron-in-Chief of the Queen Alexandra's Royal Naval Nursing Service (1973–1976).^[369]
• Velda González, 83, Puerto Rican actress and politician.^[370]
• Guy Hamilton, 93, French-born British film director (James Bond, Battle of Britain, Evil Under the Sun).^[371]
• Avril Henry, 81, British academic, suicide.^[372]
• Dame Leonie Kramer, 91, Australian academic, author and university administrator.^[373]
• Attila Özdemiroğlu, 73, Turkish composer, lung cancer.^[374]
• Solly Pandor, 58, Zambian football manager.^[375]
• Harry Perkowski, 93, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Cincinnati Reds).^[376]
• Qi Benyu, 85, Chinese politician and propagandist, cancer.^[377]
• Jack Tafari, 69, British activist, liver failure.^[378]
• Giannis Voglis, 78, Greek actor.^[379]
• Dwayne Washington, 52, American basketball player (New Jersey Nets, Miami Heat, Syracuse University), brain cancer.^[380]
• Vern Wilson, 85, American Olympic athlete.^[381]
• Victoria Wood, 62, British comedian and actress (New Faces, Victoria Wood: As Seen on TV, dinnerladies), cancer.^[382]
• Yu Songlie, 95, Chinese agricultural scientist, educator and academician (Chinese Academy of Engineering).^[383]

21

• Frederick Bruce-Lyle, 62, Ghanaian-born Saint Vincentian judge in the Caribbean.^[384]
• Valeriu Cotea, 89, Romanian oenologist, member of Romanian Academy, cardiac arrest.^[385]
• Norbert Esnault, 87, French cyclist.^[386]
• Nade Haley, 68, American artist.^[387]
• Levi Karuhanga, 60, Ugandan major general.^[388]
• Per-Simon Kildal, 64, Swedish antenna specialist.^[389]
• Hans Koschnick, 87, German politician and diplomat, Bremen Senate president and mayor (1967–1985), President of the Bundesrat (1970–1971, 1981–1982), MP (1987–1998).^[390]
• Marco Leto, 85, Italian film and television director (Black Holiday, Al piacere di rivederla).^[391]
• Franz Lorette, 80, Belgian Olympic hockey player.^[392]
• Lonnie Mack, 74, American singer-guitarist (The Wham of that Memphis Man).^[393]
• Toshio Mashima, 67, Japanese composer, cancer.^[394]
• D. B. Nihalsinghe, 77, Sri Lankan filmmaker (Welikathara).^[395]
• Utako Okamoto, 98, Japanese medical scientist.^[396]
• Ferenc Paragi, 62, Hungarian Olympic javelin thrower (1976, 1980), world record holder (1980–1983).^[397]
• Prince, 57, American musician ("When Doves Cry", "Little Red Corvette", "Purple Rain") and actor, Oscar (1984) and four-time Grammy winner, accidental fentanyl overdose.^[398]
• Peter Ruckman, 94, American Independent Baptist pastor.^[399]
• Smoke Glacken, 22, American Thoroughbred racehorse, winner of the Hopeful Stakes (1996).^[400]
• Dene Smuts, 66, South African politician, MP (1989–2014).^[401]
• John Walton, Baron Walton of Detchant, 93, British politician, member of the House of Lords (since 1989).^[402]

22

• David Beresford, 68, British journalist.^[403]
• Yvon Charbonneau, 75, Canadian politician, stroke.^[404]
• Rudolph Chimelli, 87, German journalist and author.^[405]
• Isabelle Dinoire, 49, French mauled woman, first person to undergo a partial face transplant.^[406]
• Rex Fell, 71, New Zealand Thoroughbred breeder.^[407]
• Ojārs Grīnbergs, 73, Latvian singer, lung cancer.^[408]
• Roger Khawam, 94, Egyptian antique dealer and Egyptologist.^[409]
• John Lumsden, 55, Scottish footballer (Stoke City).^[410]
• Ariffin Mohammed, 74, Malaysian cult leader (Sky Kingdom).^[411]
• Robert Price, 83, American attorney and political campaign manager.^[412]
• Jory Prum, 41, American audio engineer and video game developer (Adaptation, The Walking Dead, Brütal Legend), traffic collision.^[413]
• Manfred Rein, 68, Austrian politician (ÖVP).^[414]
• Peter Sellers, 94, New Zealand sports broadcaster.^[415]
• Soran Singh, Pakistani politician, member of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly (since 2013), shot.^[416]
• Sir Denys Wilkinson, 93, British nuclear physicist.^[417]
• Anne Wolden-Ræthinge, 86, Danish author and journalist.^[418]

23

• Ron Brace, 29, American football player (Boston College, New England Patriots), apparent heart attack.^[419]
• Alfons Van den Brande, 88, Belgian cyclist.^[420]
• Carla Braan, 54, Dutch Olympic gymnast.^[421]
• Errol Crossan, 85, Canadian soccer player (Norwich City).^[422]
• Attila Ferjáncz, 69, Hungarian racing driver, Hungarian Rally champion (1976–1982, 1985, 1990).^[423]
• Luis González Seara, 79, Spanish politician.^[424]
• Inge King, 100, German-born Australian sculptor.^[425]
• Vjatšeslav Kobrin, 58, Russian guitarist and songwriter.^[426]
• Tom Muecke, 52, American CFL player (Winnipeg Blue Bombers, Edmonton Eskimos), heart attack.^[427]
• Tony Munro, 52, Australian sports journalist, stroke.^[428]
• Sir Richard Parsons, 88, British diplomat, Ambassador to Hungary, Spain and Sweden.^[429]
• Jacques Perry, 94, French novelist.^[430]
• Maurice Peston, Baron Peston, 85, English economist and politician, member of the House of Lords (since 1987).^[431]
• Miguel Picazo, 89, Spanish film director, screenwriter and actor (La Tía Tula).^[432]
• John Steven Satterthwaite, 87, Australian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Lismore (1971–2001).^[433]
• Bill Sevesi, 92, Tongan-born New Zealand musician.^[434]
• Madeleine Sherwood, 93, Canadian actress (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Flying Nun).^[435]
• Banharn Silpa-archa, 83, Thai politician, Prime Minister (1995–1996), asthma.^[436]
• Horace Ward, 88, American judge.^[437]
• Paul Hisao Yasuda, 94, Japanese Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Osaka (1978–1997).^[438]

24

• Zafar Ishaq Ansari, 84, Pakistani Islamic scholar, heart attack.^[439]
• Paul Annear, 68, New Zealand jeweller.^[440]
• Nina Arkhipova, 94, Russian film and stage actress (Burnt by the Sun).
• Chen Shilu, 95, Chinese flight mechanic, educator and academician (Chinese Academy of Engineering).^[441]
• Manuel de la Torre, 94, Spanish-born American golf player and instructor.^[442]
• Robert Dolan, 87, American marine geologist.^[443]
• Walter Jackson Freeman III, 89, American biologist.^[444]
• Perry O. Hooper Sr., 91, American judge, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama (1995–2001).^[445]
• Steve Julian, 57, American radio host (KPCC), brain cancer.^[446]
• Kiviaq, 80, Canadian lawyer, politician, boxer and football player, cancer.^[447]
• Tommy Kono, 85, American weightlifter, Olympic champion (1952, 1956), world champion (1953–1959), complications from liver disease.^[448]
• Thinle Lhondup, 72, Nepalese actor (Himalaya), fall.^[449]
• Benjamin Manglona, 78, Northern Mariana Islands politician, Lieutenant Governor (1990–1994), stroke.^[450]
• Ricardo Torres Origel, 59, Mexican politician.^[451]
• Lizette Parker, 44, American politician, Mayor of Teaneck, New Jersey (since 2014), respiratory illness.^[452]
• Billy Paul, 81, American R&B singer ("Me and Mrs. Jones"), pancreatic cancer.^[453]
• George Pieterson, 74, Dutch clarinetist.^[454]
• Terry Redlin, 78, American artist, Alzheimer's disease.^[455]
• Klaus Siebert, 60, German biathlon athlete and coach, world champion (1978, 1979), Olympic silver medalist (1980).^[456]
• Papa Wemba, 66, Congolese singer, seizure.^[457]
• George Alexis Weymouth, 79, American artist and conservationist, heart failure.^[458]

25

• Dumitru Antonescu, 71, Romanian footballer (Farul Constanța).^[459]
• Remo Belli, 88, American drummer, developed the synthetic drumhead (Remo), complications of pneumonia.^[460]
• Joe Blahak, 65, American football player (Minnesota Vikings).^[461]
• Nicolae Esinencu, 76, Moldovan screenwriter and writer.^[462]
• Göte Gåård, 84, Swedish Olympic sports shooter.^[463]
• Mel George, 80, American professor and twice interim president of the University of Missouri.^[464]
• Martin Gray, 93, Polish Holocaust survivor and writer.^[465]
• Michal Hornstein, 95, Polish-born Canadian executive.^[466]
• Tom Lewis, 94, Australian politician, Premier of New South Wales (1975–1976).^[467]
• Patrick Fabionn Lopes, 35, Brazilian football player, brain aneurysm.^[468]
• Xulhaz Mannan, 39, Bangladeshi editor, stabbed.^[469]
• Mei Baojiu, 82, Chinese Peking opera artist, bronchospasm.^[470]
• Poornima Arvind Pakvasa, 102, Indian social worker.^[471]
• Neculai Rățoi, 77, Romanian politician, mayor of Pașcani (1981–2008).^[472]
• John Ridsdel, 68, Canadian journalist (Calgary Herald), businessman (Petro-Canada) and Abu Sayyaf hostage, beheaded.^[473]
• Horst Sachs, 89, German mathematician.^[474]
• Samantha Schubert, 47, Malaysian actress and beauty queen, Miss Malaysia (1991), pancreatic cancer.^[475]
• Rudolf Wessely, 91, Austrian actor.^[476]

26

• Raymond Casey, 98, British geologist and philatelist.^[477]
• Vincent Darius, 60, Grenadian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Saint George's in Grenada (since 2002), pneumonia.^[478]
• Arne Elsholtz, 71, German voice actor.^[479]
• Mark Farmer, 53, British actor (Grange Hill, Minder, Johnny Jarvis), cancer.^[480]
• Winston Hill, 74, American football player (New York Jets), Super Bowl winner (1968).^[481]
• William H. Jarvis, 85, Canadian politician.^[482]
• Amanullah Khan, 82, Pakistani Kashmir separatism activist (JKLF), COPD.^[483]
• Lucy Kibaki, 82, Kenyan teacher and socialite, First Lady (2002–2013).^[484]
• M. H. Mohamed, 94, Sri Lankan politician.^[485]
• Álvaro Pérez Treviño, 85, Mexican politician.^[486]
• Peter Propping, 73, German geneticist.^[487]
• Ozzie Silna, 83, American basketball owner (Spirits of St. Louis), cancer.^[488]
• Martin Szipál, 91, Hungarian photographer, prostate cancer.^[489]
• Masako Togawa, 85, Japanese feminist, singer, actress and novelist.^[490]
• Dorothy Warburton, 80, Canadian geneticist.^[491]
• James H. Ware, 74, American biostatistician, cancer.^[492]
• Willie L. Williams, 72, American police commissioner (Los Angeles, Philadelphia).^[493]
• Harry Wu, 79, Chinese human rights activist, founder of the Laogai Research Foundation.^[494]
• Vladimir Yulygin, 80, Russian football player and coach.^[495]

27

• James Arvaluk, 68, Canadian politician.^[496]
• James Carroll, 60, American-born Canadian actor (Wind at My Back, Red Dead Redemption, Death to Smoochy), small cell lung cancer.^[497]
• Harold Cohen, 87, British computer artist (AARON).^[498]
• Angela Flanders, 88, British perfumer.^[499]
• Viktor Gavrikov, 58, Lithuanian-Swiss chess Grandmaster.^[500]
• Herta Groves, 96, Austrian-born British milliner, traffic collision.^[501]
• Philip Kives, 87, Canadian marketing entrepreneur, founder of K-tel.^[502]
• Julio Xavier Labayen, 89, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, territorial prelate of Infanta (1966–2003).^[503]
• Liu Lianman, 82, Chinese mountain climber, made the first ascent of Muztagh Ata.^[504]
• Robert C. Mathis, 88, American air force general.^[505]
• Chris Parkinson, 74, New Zealand broadcaster, co-founder of Radio Hauraki.^[506]
• Ray Salazar, 85, American politician, Mayor of El Paso, Texas (1977–1979).^[507]
• Gabriele Sima, 61, Austrian opera singer.^[508]
• Toms, 87, Indian cartoonist (Boban and Molly).^[509]

28

• Anderson Agiru, 54, Papua New Guinean politician.^[510]
• Óscar Marcelino Álvarez, 67, Argentine footballer (Panathinaikos).^[511]
• Sir Edward Ashmore, 96, British officer in the Royal Navy, First Sea Lord (1974–1977).^[512]
• Conrad Burns, 81, American politician, Senator from Montana (1989–2007).^[513]
• Enrique Cal Pardo, 93, Spanish priest, teacher and writer.^[514]
• Ed Davender, 49, American basketball player (Kentucky Wildcats).^[515]
• Jenny Diski, 68, English writer (Nothing Natural, Rainforest, London Review of Books), lung cancer.^[516]
• Joe Durham, 84, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles, St. Louis Cardinals).^[517]
• Igor Fesunenko, 83, Russian journalist, foreign affairs writer and teacher (MGIMO).
• Charles Gatewood, 73, American photographer, suicide by jumping.^[518]
• Fredrik Grønningsæter, 92, Norwegian priest, Bishop of Sør-Hålogaland (1982–1992).^[519]
• René Hausman, 80, Belgian comic book writer and illustrator.^[520]
• Barry Howard, 78, English actor (Hi-de-Hi!), blood cancer.^[521]
• Georg Kronawitter, 88, German politician, Mayor of Munich (1972–1978, 1984–1993).^[522]
• Ingram Olkin, 91, American statistics professor, colorectal cancer.^[523]
• David Page, 55, Australian composer, musical director of Bangarra Dance Theatre.^[524]
• Mohamed Roushdi, 94, Egyptian gymnast.^[525]
• Blackie Sherrod, 96, American sportswriter.^[526]

29

• Tim Bacon, 52, British restaurateur and actor.^[527]
• Alyson Bailes, 67, British diplomat, Ambassador to Finland (2000–2002).^[528]
• Sherry Cassuto, 59, American Olympic rower.^[529]
• Chen Zhongshi, 73, Chinese writer, oral cancer.^[530]
• Jok Church, 66, American cartoonist (You Can with Beakman and Jax).^[531]
• Renato Corona, 67, Filipino jurist, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (2010–2012), complications from a heart attack.^[532]
• Patrick Deuel, 54, American reality TV star.^[533]
• Bob Fitch, 76, American photojournalist.^[534]
• Erediauwa, 92, Nigerian traditional royal, Oba of Benin (since 1979).^[535] (death announced on this date)
• Dmytro Hnatyuk, 91, Ukrainian baritone opera singer.^[536]
• Hilarius Moa Nurak, 73, Indonesian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Pangkal-Pinang (since 1987).^[537]
• Dave Robinson, 67, English footballer (Birmingham City, Walsall).^[538] (death announced on this date)
• Jigdal Dagchen Sakya, 86, Tibetan Buddhist teacher.^[539]
• Don White, 89, American stock car racing driver.^[540]
• Wojciech Zagórski, 87, Polish actor.^[541]

30

• Daniel Aaron, 103, American writer and academic (Harvard University), co-founder of the Library of America.^[542]
• Michael Edward Ash, 88, British brewer.^[543]
• Daniel Berrigan, 94, American Jesuit priest, poet, peace activist and ex-convict (Catonsville Nine).^[544]
• Wayne Crawford, 69, American actor, writer and producer (Valley Girl, Jake Speed).^[545]
• Alphonsus F. D'Souza, 76, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Raiganj (since 1987), heart attack.^[546]
• Franco Di Giacomo, 83, Italian cinematographer.^[547]
• Marisol Escobar, 85, French-born American sculptor.^[548]
• Uwe Friedrichsen, 81, German actor (Faust, Schwarz Rot Gold, Sesamstraße).^[549]
• Guido Gillarduzzi, 76, Italian Olympic speed skater.^[550]
• Fritz Janschka, 97, Austrian-born American artist.^[551]
• Sir Harry Kroto, 76, British chemist, laureate of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1996).^[552]
• Réjean Lafrenière, 80, Canadian politician, member of the Quebec National Assembly (1989–2007).^[553]
• Ellen Niit, 87, Estonian children's writer, poet and translator.^[554]
• Scott Rains, 59, American travel writer, brain tumor.^[555]
• Phil Ryan, 69, Welsh keyboardist (Man).^[556]
• Tracy Scott, 46, American script supervisor (Whiplash, Concussion, Garden State), cancer.^[557]
• Peter Thomas, 91, American narrator (Nova, Forensic Files).^[558]
• Vasily Zvyagintsev, 71, Russian science fiction author.^[559]