The following is a list of notable deaths in June 2013.

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.

June 2013

1

• Oliver Bernard, 87, English poet and translator.^[1]
• Newbold Black, 83, American Olympic hockey player.^[2]
• William Cartwright, 92, American Emmy Award-winning film documentarian and editor, conservationist of the Watts Towers, natural causes.^[3]
• Frank Dempsey, 88, American football player (Chicago Bears, Hamilton Tiger-Cats).^[4]
• Carl Elsener Sr., 90, Swiss entrepreneur.^[5]
• Jelena Genčić, 76, Serbian handball and tennis player and coach.^[6]
• Mott Green, 47, American chocolatier, co-founder of the Grenada Chocolate Company, electrocuted.^[7]
• Bill Gunston, 86, British aviation writer.^[8]
• Ian P. Howard, 85, Canadian psychologist, cancer.^[9]
• James Kelleher, 82, Canadian politician, MP for Sault Ste. Marie (1984–1988), member of the Senate (1990–2005), heart failure.^[10]
• Atle Kittang, 72, Norwegian literary researcher and critic.^[11]
• Hanfried Lenz, 97, German mathematician.^[12]
• Joseph-André Motte, 88, French furniture designer.^[13]
• Alixa Naff, 93, Lebanese-born American historian, expert on Arab immigration to the United States.^[14]
• Dorothy Napangardi, 60s, Australian indigenous artist, traffic collision.^[15]
• Paul Olefsky, 87, American cellist (Philadelphia Orchestra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra).^[16]
• Leo Piek, 85, Dutch Olympic wrestler.^[17]
• Jane Purves, 63, Canadian politician and newspaper editor (Halifax Chronicle Herald), Nova Scotia MLA for Halifax Citadel (1999–2003), cancer.^[18]
• Edward Cornelius Reed Jr., 88, American senior (former chief) judge, District Court for Nevada (since 1979), natural causes.^[19]
• Sir Bernard Schreier, 95, Austrian-born British businessman.^[20]
• Basil Soper, 74–75, British actor.^[21]
• Janie Thompson, 91, American missionary and academic.^[22]

2

• Mario Bernardi, 82, Canadian conductor and pianist.^[23]
• Bruce Cathie, 83, New Zealand UFO author and theorist.^[24]
• Marco Frascari, 68, Italian architect.^[25]
• Chen Xitong, 84, Chinese politician, Mayor of Beijing, cancer.^[26]
• Andrew Doughty, 96, British anaesthetist.^[27]
• John Gilbert, Baron Gilbert, 86, British politician and life peer, MP for Dudley (1970–1974), Dudley East (1974–1997) and Minister for Transport (1975–1976).^[28]
• Margaret Jackson, 96, British Special Operations Executive secretary.^[29]
• Nick Keir, 60, Scottish musician, cancer.^[30]
• Sverre Magelssen, 95, Norwegian priest.^[31]
• Frank J. Magill, 86, American federal judge, member of the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals.^{[citation needed]}
• MickDeth, 35, American heavy metal bassist (Eighteen Visions, Bleeding Through), pre-existing heart condition.^[32]
• Rob Morsberger, 53, American rock and roll singer and songwriter, glioblastoma.^[33]
• Togrul Narimanbekov, 83, Azerbaijani artist.^[34]
• Ron Smith, 70, American football player (Chicago Bears, Atlanta Falcons, Los Angeles Rams), lung cancer.^[35]
• Jalal Al-Din Taheri, 87, Iranian Islamic cleric.^[36]
• Preston Ward, 85, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates, Cleveland Indians, Kansas City Athletics).^[37]
• Keith Wilson, 96, American classical musician, teacher and conductor.^[38]
• Mandawuy Yunupingu, 56, Australian musician (Yothu Yindi), kidney disease.^[39]

3

• Yves Bertrand, 69, French intelligence chief (Renseignements Généraux, 1992–2004).^[40]
• Will D. Campbell, 88, American Baptist minister, civil rights leader, author and lecturer, complications of a stroke.^[41]
• Atul Chitnis, 51, German-born Indian IT specialist, open source advocate and editor of PCQuest, intestinal cancer.^[42]
• Józef Czyrek, 84, Polish politician.^[43]
• G. R. Edmund, 82, Indian politician, Tamil Nadu MLA for Tiruchendur and Tirunelveli, multiple organ failure.^[44]
• Arnold Eidus, 90, American violinist.^[45]
• Howard Grief, 73, Canadian–born Israeli attorney.^[46]
• Shahnaz Himmeti, Afghani politician, MP for Herat, traffic collision.^[47]
• Eugênio Izecksohn, 81, Brazilian herpetologist (Izecksohn's Toad), professor and author.^[48]
• Deacon Jones, 74, American Hall of Fame football player (Los Angeles Rams), coined the term "sack", natural causes.^[49]
• Farid Khan, Pakistani politician, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa MLA for Hangu, shot.^[50]
• Jiah Khan, 25, American-born Indian actress, suicide by hanging.^[51]
• Frank Lautenberg, 89, American politician, member of the United States Senate for New Jersey (1982–2001, since 2003), complications of pneumonia.^[52]
• Enrique Lizalde, 76, Mexican actor.^[53]
• Vbos The Kentuckian, 11, Flat-Coated Retriever show dog, respiratory failure.^[54]
• Stanley T. Walker, 90, American Olympic biathlete.^[55]

4

• Walt Arfons, 96, American land speed record holder.^[56]
• Martin Arnold, 84, American journalist, editor and columnist (The New York Times), complications of Parkinson's disease.^[57]
• Auguste Cazalet, 74, French politician, Senator for Pyrénées-Atlantiques.^[58]
• Rudolph M. Clay, 77, American politician, member of the Indiana Senate (1972–1976), Mayor of Gary, Indiana (2006–2011), prostate cancer.^[59]
• Joey Covington, 67, American musician (Jefferson Airplane, Hot Tuna), traffic collision.^[60]
• John Crawley, 73, American judge, member of the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals (1995–2007).^[61]
• Monti Davis, 54, American basketball player (Philadelphia 76ers, Dallas Mavericks).^[62]
• Hermann Gunnarsson, 66, Icelandic broadcaster, footballer and handball player.^[63]
• Pekka Hämäläinen, 74, Finnish football player and executive, President of the Football Association of Finland (1997–2009).^[64]
• John B. Heilman, 92, American politician, member of the South Dakota House of Representatives (1953–1954).^[65]
• Carlos Hoffmann, 77, Chilean footballer.^[66]
• Gaston Isabelle, 92, Canadian doctor and politician, MP for Hull—Aylmer (1968–1988).^[67]
• Austin M. Lee, 93, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1956–1964), Pennsylvania State Ethics Commission (1991–2001).^[68]
• Luo Meizhen, 127?, Chinese unverified claimant for world's oldest person, natural causes.^[69]
• Sir Patrick Nairne, 91, British civil servant, Permanent Secretary to the Department of Health and Social Security (1975–1981).^[70]
• Zinia Pinto, 83, Indian Roman Catholic nun and educationalist.^[71]
• Samani Pulepule, 89, Samoan religious leader, Chairman of the Samoan Assemblies of God.^[72]
• S. Shamsuddin, 84, Singaporean actor.^[73]
• Ben Tucker, 82, American jazz musician, traffic collision.^[74]
• Will Wynn, 64, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles), heart failure.^[75]

5

• Sir James Bottomley, 92, British diplomat, Ambassador to South Africa (1973–76).^[76]
• Don Bowman, 75, American comedian, country singer and songwriter ("Just to Satisfy You").^[77]
• Dave Elias, 43, Canadian curler, liver cancer.^[78]
• Takkō Ishimori, 81, Japanese voice actor (One Piece, Magic Knight Rayearth).^[79]
• Kampta Karran, 56, Guyanese sociologist and author.^[80]
• Franz Kelch, 97, German singer.^[81]
• Hermann Lotter, 73, German Olympic swimmer.^[82]
• Helen McElhone, 80, British politician, MP for Glasgow Queen's Park (1982–83).^[83]
• Scarlet Moon de Chevalier, 62, Brazilian actress, journalist and writer, multiple system atrophy.^[84]
• Stanisław Nagy, 91, Polish Roman Catholic prelate, Cardinal of Santa Maria della Scala (since 2003).^[85]
• Lonappan Nambadan, 77, Indian politician, kidney ailment.^[86]
• Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, 80, Irish politician, TD for Longford–Westmeath (1957–61), President of Sinn Féin (1970–83) and Republican Sinn Féin (1987–2009).^[87]
• Michel Ostyn, 88, Belgian sports scientist.^[88]
• Balan Pandit, 86, Indian cricketer.^[89]
• Annabel Tollman, 39, Belgian-born American fashion journalist and magazine editor, blood clot.^[90]
• Katherine Woodville, 74, English-born American actress (Posse, The Informers), cancer.^[91]

6

• Erling Blöndal Bengtsson, 81, Danish cellist.^[92]
• Stan Gorton, 67, Australian rugby league footballer.^[93]
• Elmer Guckert, 84, American baseball umpire.^[94]
• Mohamed Hachaichi, 62, Algerian Olympic wrestler.^[95]
• Nada Inada, 83, Japanese psychiatrist and writer.^[96]
• Jerome Karle, 94, American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (1985), member of the Manhattan Project.^[97]
• Elaine Laron, 83, American songwriter and lyricist (The Electric Company, Captain Kangaroo), pneumonia.^[98]
• Rafael Marquina, 91, Spanish inventor, designer and architect.^[99]
• Jeffrey Mathews, 70, South African cricketer.^[100]
• Jack McGrath, 89, Australian footballer.^[101]
• Eugen Merzbacher, 92, German-born American physicist.^[102]
• Gennady Nikolayev, 76, Russian Soviet Olympic swimmer.^[103]
• Jules Schwartz, 85, American computer scientist.^[104]
• Tom Sharpe, 85, British author (Porterhouse Blue, Wilt), complications from diabetes.^[105]
• Maxine Stuart, 94, American actress (Kitten with a Whip, Days of Wine and Roses), natural causes.^[106]
• Malcolm Todd, 73, British historian and archaeologist.^[107]
• Esther Williams, 91, American swimmer (Billy Rose's Aquacade) and actress (Million Dollar Mermaid, Dangerous When Wet), natural causes.^[108]

7

• Rachel Abrams, 62, American writer, editor and artist, wife of Elliott Abrams, stomach cancer.^[109]
• Ekkayuth Anchanbutr, 58, Thai businessman and political activist, homicide.^[110]
• Lesley Cantwell, 26, New Zealand racewalker, suspected subarachnoid haemorrhage.^[111]
• Mirosław Car, 52, Polish footballer.^[112]
• Charlie Coles, 71, American basketball coach (Central Michigan University, 1985–1991; Miami University, 1996–2012).^[113]
• Harvey Dunn, Jr., 81, Australian football player (Carlton).^[114]
• Tom Fitzgerald, 74, Irish politician, member of the Seanad Éireann.^[115]
• Donna Hartley, 58, English Olympic bronze medallist runner (1980).^[116]
• Ken Kinkor, 59, American pirate historian (Whydah Galley).^[117]
• David Lyon, 72, British actor.^[118]
• Florin Mașala, 79, Romanian football player.^{[citation needed]}
• Pierre Mauroy, 84, French politician, Prime Minister (1981–1984), member of Senate for Nord (1992–2011), lung cancer.^[119]
• Christopher Pearson, 61, Australian journalist, political speech-writer, founder of the Adelaide Review.^[120]
• J. V. Raghavulu, 82, Indian playback singer and musical director.^[121]
• Richard Ramirez, 53, American serial killer, complications from B-cell lymphoma and hepatitis-C.^[122]
• Malu Rocha, 65, Brazilian actress, prion.^[123]
• Mark Starr, 50, American professional wrestler, heart attack.^[124]
• Kenneth R. Shoulders, 86, American experimental physicist.^[125]
• Joseph Michael Sullivan, 83, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Brooklyn (1980–2005), injuries sustained in a traffic collision.^[126]
• Juan Ignacio Torres Landa, 57, Mexican politician, President of the Chamber of Deputies (1992), helicopter crash.^[127]
• Amelia Wood, 82, American Olympic javelin thrower.^[128]

8

• John Boyd, 93, American science fiction author.^[129]
• Paul Cellucci, 65, American politician and diplomat, Governor of Massachusetts (1997–2001), Ambassador to Canada (2001–2005), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.^[130]
• Stumpy Cromer, 92, American comedian and dancer (Stump and Stumpy, DuBarry Was a Lady).^[131]
• Nathan Dean, 79, American politician, member of the Georgia House of Representatives (1962–1974) and Senate (1974–2004).^[132]
• Niels Diffrient, 84, American industrial designer, cancer.^[133]
• Charles M. Hudson, 80–81, American anthropologist.^[134]
• Beril Jents, 95, Australian fashion designer.^[135]
• Yoram Kaniuk, 83, Israeli writer, painter, journalist, and theater critic, cancer.^[136]
• Taufiq Kiemas, 70, Indonesian politician, Speaker of the People's Consultative Assembly (since 2009), heart attack.^[137]
• Jaimie Leonard, 39, American soldier, arms-related injury.^[138]
• Raymond McCormick, 82, Australian cricketer.^[139]
• Angus MacKay, 86, British actor (Doctor Who).^[140]
• Kyle Miller, 31, Canadian lacrosse player, cancer.^[141]
• Hugh Murray, 90, British historian.^[142]
• Ahad Rajabli, 51, Azerbaijani martial artist, world champion in sambo, suicide by hanging.^[143]
• Eugene P. Ruehlmann, 88, American politician, Mayor of Cincinnati (1967–1971).^[144]
• Richard J. Seitz, 95, American army officer.^[145]
• Udham Singh, Indian Maoist militant, shot.^[146]
• Willi Sitte, 92, German painter.^[147]
• Evert Sodergren, 92, American studio furniture maker.^[148]
• José Sosa, 60, Dominican baseball player (Houston Astros).^[149]
• Derrick Townshend, 69, Zimbabwean cricketer.^[150]
• Arturo Vega, 65, Mexican-born American punk graphic designer and artistic director (The Ramones), cancer.^[151]
• Philip White, 89, Canadian politician, Mayor of York, Ontario (1970–1978).^[152]

9

• Iain Banks, 59, Scottish author (The Wasp Factory), gallbladder cancer.^[153]
• Bruno Bartoletti, 86, Italian conductor.^[154]
• Martin Bernal, 76, British scholar, myelofibrosis.^[155]
• Ralph Bogan, 90, American businessman and part-owner of the Atlanta Braves.^[156]
• John Burke, 65, British rugby league player.^[157]
• Darondo, 67, American soul singer, heart failure.^[158]
• Wahab Dosunmu, 74, Nigerian politician, member of the Senate (1999–2003).^[159]
• K. T. Francis, 73, Sri Lankan cricket umpire, complications of diabetes.^[160]
• Ward Goodenough, 94, American anthropologist.^[161]
• J. Eugene Grigsby, 94, American educator.^[162]
• Franz Halberg, 93, Romanian biologist.^[163]
• Walter Jens, 90, German writer and intellectual, dementia.^[164]
• Harry Lewis, 93, American actor (Key Largo) and restaurateur, natural causes.^[165]
• Noel McMahon, 97, New Zealand cricketer.^[166]
• Chechenol Mongush, 41, Russian Olympic wrestler (1996), strangled.^[167]
• Solomon Oboh, 23, Nigerian footballer (Warri Wolves), traffic collision.^[168]
• Rudolf Pöder, 88, Austrian politician, President of the National Council (1989–1990).^[169]
• Elías Querejeta, 78, Spanish film producer.^[170]
• Zdeněk Rotrekl, 92, Czech poet.^[171]
• Dilip Sarkar, 64, Indian politician, West Bengal MLA for Barabani, shot.^[172]
• Seong Moy, 92, Chinese-born American painter and printmaker.^[173]
• Edward Stevens, 80, American Olympic gold medal-winning rower (1952).^[174]
• Joe Tereshinski, Sr., 89, American football player (Washington Redskins).^[175]
• Edith Thomas, 86, Chilean Olympian [1]

10

• Timothy Apiyo, 70s, Tanzanian politician and civil servant.^[176]
• Doug Bailey, 79, American political consultant.^[177]
• Ernst H. Beutner, 89, American microbiologist.^[178]
• Jacques Bialski, 83, French politician, member of the Senate for Nord (1979–1997).^[179]
• Gladys Clarke, 90, British javelin thrower.^[180]
• Valentin de Vargas, 79, American actor (Touch of Evil, Hatari!, To Live and Die in L.A.).^[181]
• Allen Derr, 85, American lawyer, won Reed v. Reed sex discrimination case.^[182]
• Jack Dye, 93, British army officer.^[183]
• Ralph Graves, 88, American writer, editor and news executive (Time, Life), kidney failure.^[184]
• Franz Handlos, 73, German politician, MP for Deggendorf (1972–1987).^[185]
• Petrus Kastenman, 88, Swedish Olympic equestrian (1956).^[186]
• Alice Kundert, 92, American politician, member of the South Dakota House of Representatives (1990–1994), Secretary of State of South Dakota (1979–1987).^[187]
• Louis-Paul M'Fédé, 52, Cameroonian Olympic footballer, lung infection.^[188]
• Ali Maher, 55, Jordanian artist, architect and teacher, stroke.^[189]
• Yehoshua Neuwirth, 86, Israeli Jewish scholar and clergy, compiled the Shemirat Shabbat Kehilchatah.^[190]
• Hector Oaxaca Acosta, 87, Mexican news photographer (Associated Press).^[191]
• Enrique Orizaola, 91, Spanish footballer.^[192]
• M. K. Purushothaman, 51, Indian politician, Kerala MLA for Njarackal (2006–2011), heart attack.^[193]
• Don Roby, 79, English footballer (Notts County F.C., Loughborough United).^[194]
• Daniel Somers, 30, American soldier, suicide.^[195]
• Pete Vonachen, 87, American baseball team owner and executive (Peoria Chiefs).^[196]
• Barbara Vucanovich, 91, American politician, member of the United States House of Representatives from Nevada's 2nd district (1983–1997).^[197]

11

• Miller Barber, 82, American professional golfer, lymphoma.^[198]
• Carl W. Bauer, 79, American politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives (1966–1972) and Senate (1972–1976).^[199]
• Sir Henry Cecil, 70, British racehorse trainer, stomach cancer.^[200]
• Babi Floyd, 59, American singer, songwriter, and voice actor, cancer.
• John Frederick Clarke, 86, British aeronautical engineer.^[201]
• Robert Fogel, 86, American economic academic, winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences (1993).^[202]
• James Grimsley, Jr., 91, American military officer and academic, President of The Citadel (1980–1989).^[203]
• Andreas Kilingaridis, 36, Russian-born Greek Olympic kayaker (2000, 2004, 2008), leukaemia.^[204]
• Olavio López Duque, 81, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Casanare (1977–1999).^[205]
• Murray Mitchell, 90, American basketball player.^[206]
• Rory Morrison, 48, British radio announcer and newsreader (BBC Radio 4), lymphoma.^[207]
• Aleksandr Nalivkin, 26, Russian footballer, cancer.^[208]
• Kristiāns Pelšs, 20, Latvian ice hockey player, drowning.^[209]
• Stephen Porter, 87, American stage director.^[210]
• Vidya Charan Shukla, 84, Indian politician, MP for Mahasamund, Minister of External Affairs (1990–1991), injuries sustained in a shooting.^[211]
• Johnny Smith, 90, American jazz guitarist and songwriter ("Walk, Don't Run"), natural causes.^[212]
• Charles Spielberger, 85–86, American clinical psychologist.^[213]
• Thyra Thomson, 96, American politician, Secretary of State of Wyoming (1963–1987).^[214]
• Jaakko Wallenius, 55, Finnish writer and journalist.^[215]
• Billy Williams, 80, American baseball player (Seattle Pilots).^[216]

12

• Laslo Babits, 55, Canadian Olympic javelin thrower (1984).^[217]
• Teresita Barajuen, 105, Spanish Roman Catholic laity, believed to hold record for longest service in cloister.^[218]
• Elroy Chester, 44, American criminal, execution by lethal injection.^[219]
• Fatai Rolling Dollar, 86, Nigerian musician.^[220]
• John Groppo, 92, American politician, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives (1959–1985).^[221]
• Hugo Gutierrez, Jr., 86, Filipino jurist, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (1982–1993), complications of diabetes.^[222]
• Helen Brush Jenkins, 94, American news photographer (Los Angeles Daily News).^[223]
• Michael Kasha, 92, American molecular biophysicist, complications of pneumonia.^[224]
• Jiroemon Kimura, 116, Japanese supercentenarian, verified oldest man in history, oldest verified living person in the world, natural causes.^[225]
• Jason Leffler, 37, American racing driver (NASCAR, IndyCar), blunt force neck injury from race collision.^[226]
• José de Lima, 89, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Itumbiara (1973–1981) and Sete Lagoas (1981–1999).^[227]
• Dick Mansperger, 80, American football player and coach, cancer.^[228]
• Ethel Marshall, 89, American badminton player.^[229]
• Teodoro Matos Santana, 66, Brazilian footballer (São Paulo FC), pancreatic cancer.^[230]
• Pa Odiase, 79, Nigerian composer ("Arise, O Compatriots").^[231]
• Cheryl Peake, 47, British Olympic ice skater (1988).^[232]
• Soh Hang-suen, 61, Hong Kong actress (Life Without Principle), complications of diabetes and stroke.^[233]
• Gavin Taylor, 72, British television and concert film director, (The Tube, U2 at Red Rocks, Queen at Wembley), cancer.^[234]
• Barry Till, 90, British scholar and educator.^[235]
• Joseph A. Unanue, 88, American chief executive (Goya Foods).^[236]

13

• Mohammed Al-Khilaiwi, 41, Saudi Olympic and World Cup footballer (1994, 1998), cardiac arrest.^[237]
• David Deutsch, 84, American advertising executive, founder and CEO of Deutsch Inc. (1969–1989), natural causes.^[238]
• Newton Lai, 62, Chinese Hong Kong actor, pneumonia.^[239]
• Philippe Massu, 60, French sailor (sport).^[240]
• Sam Most, 82, American jazz flautist, cancer.^[241]
• Ajit Pandey, 75, Indian pop singer and politician, West Bengal MLA for Bowbazar, heart attack.^[242]
• Edmund Pellegrino, 92, American bioethicist and academic, President of The Catholic University of America (1978–1982).^[243]
• Hans Petersen, 83, Danish Olympic boxer.^[244]
• Maxwell Nicholas Sparks, 92, New Zealand air force officer.^[245]
• Brett Usher, 66, English actor, writer and ecclesiastical historian, pancreatic cancer.^[246]
• Kenji Utsumi, 75, Japanese voice actor (Fist of the North Star, Dragon Ball, Fullmetal Alchemist), cancerous peritonitis.^[247]
• Albert White Hat, 74, American Lakota language teacher and activist.^[248]

14

• Betty Burstall, 87, Australian theatre director, founder of La Mama Theatre.^[249]
• Rod Bushie, 60, Canadian Anishinaabe elder, Grand Chief of Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs (1997–2000), lung cancer.^[250]
• Olav Sigurd Carlsen, 82, Norwegian politician.^[251]
• Geraldine Decker, 82, American operatic mezzo-soprano (Seattle Opera, Metropolitan Opera).^[252]
• Pa Dillon, 75, Irish hurler.^[253]
• Al Green, 57, American professional wrestler (WCW), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.^[254]
• Johnny Linaker, 86, English footballer.^[255]
• Martin Lowson, 75, English aeronautical engineer.^[256]
• Hugh Maguire, 86, Irish violinist.^[257]
• Gene Mako, 97, American tennis player, doubles winner at US Open (1936, 1938) and Wimbledon (1937, 1938), inducted into International Tennis Hall of Fame (1973).^[258]
• James W. Mayer, American physical chemist.^[259]
• Monica Ross, 62, British artist, academic, and feminist, cancer.^[260]
• Elroy Schwartz, 89, American television writer (Gilligan's Island, The Brady Bunch, Wonder Woman), complications from surgery.^[261]
• Tom Tall, 75, American rockabilly singer.^[262]
• Olwen Wymark, 81, American-born British dramatist.^[263]

15

• Kamu de Almeida, 73, Angolan diplomat, Ambassador to the Congo, Spain and Egypt.^[264]
• Tatiana Belinky, 94, Russian-born Brazilian children's author, poet, screenwriter (Sítio do Pica-pau Amarelo, O Jardineiro Espanhol) and journalist, Prêmio Jabuti laureate (1990, 1994).^[265]
• Peride Celal, 97, Turkish author.^[266]
• Satyapal Dang, 93, Indian politician, Punjab MLA for Amritsar West (1967–1980).^[267]
• Heinz Flohe, 65, German footballer (1. FC Köln), member of World Cup-winning team (1974), complications from a stroke.^[268]
• Edgar Gilbert, 89, American mathematician.^[269]
• José Froilán González, 90, Argentine racing driver, respiratory failure.^[270]
• Doreen Hawkins, 93, British actress.^[271]
• Joseph Hibbert, 65, Jamaican politician, MP for St. Andrew East Rural (2002–2011), Minister for Transport and Works, heart attack.^[272]
• Helen Hughes, 84, Czechoslovakian-born Australian economist, complications following surgery.^[273]
• Elena Ivashchenko, 28, Russian Olympic judoka, suicide by jumping from building.^[274]
• Thomas Penfield Jackson, 76, American senior judge, member of the US District Court for D.C. (1982–2004), cancer.^[275]
• Stanley A. Johnson, 88, American politician, member of the South Dakota House of Representatives (1968–1977).^[276]
• Walter Kahn, 65, American record producer, kidney failure.^[277]
• Sakaida Kakiemon XIV, 78, Japanese potter, Living National Treasure, cancer.^[278]
• Stan Lopata, 87, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies), complications of a cardiac condition.^[279]
• Manivannan, 58, Indian actor and director, heart attack.^[280]
• Evaristo Márquez, 73, Colombian actor.^[281]
• Dennis O'Rourke, 67, Australian documentary film maker, cancer.^[282]
• Wangnia Pongte, 60, Indian footballer and politician, Arunachal Pradesh MLA for Changlang North (1990–2009), traffic collision.^[283]
• Maurice Priestley, 80, British mathematician.^[284]
• Harry Rozmiarek, 74, American veterinarian.^[285]
• Paul Soros, 87, Hungarian-born American mechanical engineer and philanthropist.^[286]
• Kenneth G. Wilson, 77, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (1982), lymphoma.^[287]
• Syd Young, 95, Australian footballer (South Melbourne).^[288]

16

• Sam Farber, 88, American industrial designer, co-founder of OXO, complications from a fall.^[289]
• Peggy Fenton, 85, American baseball player.^[290]
• T. Ed Garrison, Jr., 91, American politician, member of the South Carolina House of Representatives (1956–1967) and Senate (1967–1986), natural causes.^[291]
• Frank Greenaway, 95, British museum curator.^[292]
• Roy Grow, 71, American political scientist.^[293]
• Hans Hass, 94, Austrian diving pioneer.^[294]
• Khondakar Ashraf Hossain, 63, Bangladesh poet and academic, heart attack.^[295]
• Isaiah Jesudason, 88, Malayali bishop.^[296]
• Josip Kuže, 60, Croatian football player and manager (Dinamo Zagreb), leukaemia.^[297]
• Richard Marlow, 74, English organist and choral director, Non-hodgkin lymphoma.^[298]
• James Massey, 79, American information theorist, cancer.^[299]
• TKM Bava Musliyar, 82, Indian Muslim scholar and educationalist.^[300]
• Maurice Nadeau, 102, French writer and editor.^[301]
• Dwight Pattison, 51, Indian musician, heart attack.^[302]
• Daya Perera, Sri Lankan diplomat and lawyer, Ambassador to the United Nations (1988–1991).^[303]
• B. Raman, 77, Indian intelligence officer, co-founder of the Research and Analysis Wing, cancer.^[304]
• Bernard Sahlins, 90, American comedy writer and theater owner, founder of The Second City.^[305]
• D. M. Schurman, 88, Canadian historian.^[306]
• Yousef Madani Tabrizi, 85, Iranian Grand Ayatollah.^[307]
• Colette Urban, 61, Canadian/American artist, cancer.^[308]
• Ottmar Walter, 89, German footballer (1. FC Kaiserslautern), member of 1954 World Cup-winning team.^[309]

17

• Michael Baigent, 65, New Zealand author (The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail), brain haemorrhage.^[310]
• Carmen Carrozza, 91, Italian-born American accordionist.^[311]
• Atiqul Haque Chowdhury, 82, Bangladeshi playwright and TV producer.^[312]
• Pierre F. Côté, 85, Canadian civil servant, Chief Electoral Officer of Quebec (1978–1997).^[313]
• Bulbs Ehlers, 90, American basketball and baseball player.^[314]
• Jim Goddard, 77, English film and television director (Fox).^[315]
• Michael Goldie, 81, British character actor.^[316]
• Irwin Held, 87, American restaurateur (Barney's Beanery), natural causes.^[317]
• James Holshouser, 78, American politician, Governor of North Carolina (1973–1977).^[318]
• Fuller Kimbrell, 103, American politician, member of the Alabama Senate (1946–1955).^[319]
• Werner Lang, 91, German automotive engineer.^[320]
• Albert Legogie, 76, Nigerian politician, member of the Senate for Edo North, malaria.^[321]
• Ma Xianda, 81, Chinese martial artist.^[322]
• Peter Millar, 62, Scottish footballer (Motherwell), brain tumour.^[323]
• Jalil Shahnaz, 92, Iranian maestro and Tar master, natural causes.^{[citation needed]}
• Ray Stone, 89, American politician and educator, Mayor of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho (1986–1994).^[324]
• Geoff Strong, 75, English footballer (Arsenal, Liverpool).^[325]
• Tom Turner, 97, American Negro league baseball player.^[326]
• Rafael Valek, 80, Colombian footballer.^[327]

18

• Brent F. Anderson, 80, American politician, Mayor of West Valley City, Utah (1987–1994).^[328]
• Raghunath Bhattacharyya, 61, Indian judge, member of the Kolkata High Court (since 2010), COPD.^[329]
• Hugh Burry, 82, New Zealand rugby union player (Canterbury).^[330]
• Alastair Donaldson, 58, Scottish musician.^[331]
• Vernon Fougère, 70, Canadian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Charlottetown (1991–2009).^[332]
• Gene Freese, 79, American baseball player, complications of back surgery.^[333]
• Garde Gardom, 88, Canadian politician, British Columbia MLA for Vancouver-Point Grey (1966–1986), Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia (1995–2001).^[334]
• Brian P. Goodman, 66, Canadian civil servant, Chair of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, heart arrhythmia.^[335]
• Michael Hastings, 33, American journalist (Rolling Stone, Newsweek, BuzzFeed), traffic collision.^[336]
• Norman MacKenzie, 91, English journalist, educationalist and historian.^[337]
• Jean Melzer, 87, Australian politician, Senator for Victoria (1974–1981).^[338]
• Imran Khan Mohmand, Pakistani politician, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa MLA for Mardan, bombing.^[339]
• Dave Petitjean, 85, American Cajun humorist and actor, complications from Alzheimer's disease.^[340]
• Alfred Planyavsky, 89, Austrian double-bassist and music historian.^[341]
• Michael Potter, 89, American cancer researcher, recipient of the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research (1984), acute myeloid leukemia.^[342]
• Claudio Rocchi, 62, Italian progressive rock singer-songwriter and musician, degenerative disease.^[343]
• Hassan Sadian, 88–89, Iranian Olympic wrestler.^[344]
• Ramón Sáez Marzo, 73, Spanish Olympic racing cyclist.^[345]
• Kukoi Sanyang, 61, Ivorian Gambian revolutionary.^[346]
• Sir Colin Stansfield Smith, 80, English architect and cricketer.^[347]
• Vijay Telang, 61, Indian cricketer (Vidarbha).^[348]
• David Wall, 67, British ballet dancer, cancer.^[349]

19

• Edward Chindori-Chininga, 58, Zimbabwean politician, MP for Guruve South, Minister of Mines and Mining Development (2000–2004), traffic collision.^[350]
• Vince Flynn, 47, American author (Mitch Rapp), prostate cancer.^[351]
• James Gandolfini, 51, American actor (The Sopranos, In the Loop, Crimson Tide), Emmy winner (2000, 2001, 2003), heart attack.^[352]
• Parke Godwin, 84, American author, natural causes.^[353]
• Michael Hodgman, 74, Australian federal and Tasmanian politician, MLC (1966–1974), MP (1975–1987), MHA (1992–1998, 2001–2010), emphysema.^[354]
• Gyula Horn, 80, Hungarian politician, Prime Minister (1994–1998).^[355]
• John Hughes, 78, Welsh ceramicist, creator of Grogg.^[356]
• Dave Jennings, 61, American football player (New York Jets, New York Giants), complications from Parkinson's disease.^[357]
• Danny Kravitz, 82, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates), cancer.^[358]
• Sait Maden, 82, Turkish translator, poet, painter and graphic designer, pneumonia after bypass surgery.^[359]
• Alexandru Mușina, 58, Romanian poet.^[360]
• Paul Mees, 52, Australian academic and lawyer, cancer.^[361]
• Miguel Morayta, 105, Spanish-born Mexican film director.^[362]
• Ólafur Rafnsson, 50, Icelandic sports executive, president of FIBA Europe and National Olympic and Sports Association of Iceland.^[363]
• Alfons Schilling, 79, Swiss painter, Parkinson's disease.^[364]
• Kim Thompson, 56, American comic book editor and publisher (Fantagraphics Books), lung cancer.^[365]
• Filip Topol, 48, Czech musician.^[366]
• Slim Whitman, 90, American country singer-songwriter ("Indian Love Call", "Rose Marie"), heart failure.^[367]

20

• Fernando Aguilar, 75, Spanish Olympic athlete.^[368]
• Diosa Costello, 100, American Puerto Rican actress and singer.^[369]
• Franz Xaver Eder, 87, German Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Passau (1984–2001).^[370]
• Ibrahim Haji Jama Mee'aad, Somali militant (Al-Shabaab), shot.^[371]
• Vern Pyles, 94, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1974–1980), heart disease and cancer.^[372]
• Dicky Rutnagur, 82, Indian cricket journalist and author.^[373]
• Ingvar Rydell, 91, Swedish Olympic footballer (1952).^[374]
• Jean-Louis Scherrer, 78, French fashion designer.^[375]
• Günter Seibold, 76, German footballer.^[376]
• Philip Slater, 86, American sociologist and academic, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.^[377]
• Manuel Bernardo de Sousa, 81, Angolan diplomat.^[378]
• Jeffrey Smart, 91, Australian painter, renal failure.^[379]
• John David Wilson, 93, English animator and producer (Grease, Lady and the Tramp, Peter Pan), dementia.^[380]
• Wu Zhengyi, 97, Chinese botanist, winner of the State Science and Technology Prize (2007).^[381]
• Pu Zoduha, 73, Indian politician, Mizoram nominated MLA (1984–1987), complications from hypertension and diabetes.^[382]

21

• Huáscar Aparicio, 41, Bolivian folk singer, car accident.^[383]
• Charles L. Campbell, 82, American sound editor (Back to the Future, E.T. the Extra Terrestrial, The Rocketeer), Oscar winner (1983, 1986, 1989).^[384]
• Mohan Lal Chakma, 101, Indian politician, Tripura MLA for Penchartal (1978–1983).^[385]
• Diane Clare, 74, British actress (The Haunting).^[386]
• N. Dennis, 85, Indian politician, MP for Nagercoil (1980–2003).^[387]
• Jerry Dexter, 78, American voice actor (Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., Josie and the Pussycats).^[388]
• Abdol-Aziz Mirza Farmanfarmaian, 93, Iranian architect.^[389]
• Genaro García, 34, Mexican boxer, shot.^[390]
• Margret Göbl, 74, German Olympic figure skater (1960).^[391]
• Dame Barbara Goodman, 80, New Zealand politician.^[392]
• James P. Gordon, 85, American physicist.^[393]
• Marcelo Grassmann, 88, Brazilian engraver and draughtsman.^[394]
• Bernard Hunt, 83, English professional golfer.^[395]
• Ed Iacobucci, 59, Argentinian-born American technology executive, co-founder of Citrix Systems, pancreatic cancer.^[396]
• Mina Izadyar, 63, Iranian professor and pediatrician, cancer.^[397]
• Jacqueline Livingston, 69, American photographer.^[398]
• Mary Love, 69, American soul and gospel singer.^[399]
• Edgar Mann, 86, British Manx politician, Chairman of the Executive Council (1981–1985), complications of cancer.^[400]
• Uzi Meshulam, 60, Israeli rabbi.^[401]
• Milorad Mišković, 86, Serbian ballet dancer, Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur.^[402]
• Alen Pamić, 23, Croatian footballer (NK Istra 1961), hypercholesterolemia and coronary artery plaque.^[403]
• Sajid Qureshi, 53, Pakistani politician, Sindh MLA for Karachi, shot.^[404]
• Elliott Reid, 93, American actor (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), heart failure.^[405]
• Wendy Saddington, 64, Australian jazz and blues singer (Chain), oesophageal cancer.^[406]
• Alfred O. Schumann, 89, American farmer and politician.^[407]
• Curtis W. Tarr, 88, American civil servant and academic, head of the Selective Service System during Vietnam, pneumonia.^[408]
• Per Ung, 80, Norwegian sculptor, cancer.^[409]
• Zhang Guangdou, 101, Chinese hydraulic engineer and educator.^[410]

22

• Cameron Baird, 32, Australian soldier, Victoria Cross recipient, shot.^[411]
• Robert O. Cox, 95, American politician, Mayor of Fort Lauderdale (1986–1991).^[412]
• Leandro Díaz, 85, Colombian music composer (Vallenato), acute kidney infection.^[413]
• Martha Mayer Erlebacher, 75, American artist.^[414]
• Beverly Fawell, 82, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives (1981–1983) and Illinois Senate (1983–1999), chronic heart failure.^[415]
• Sergio Focardi, 80, Italian physicist.^[416]
• Peter Fraser, Baron Fraser of Carmyllie, 68, Scottish politician and advocate, MP (1979–1987), Lord Advocate (1989–1992), Solicitor General (1982–1989).^[417]
• Gary David Goldberg, 68, American screenwriter and director (Family Ties, Must Love Dogs, Dad), Emmy winner (1979, 1987), brain cancer.^[418]
• Alexander Grunauer, 91, Russian scientist.^[419]
• Donald Hustad, 94, American evangelical church musician, academic and author.^[420]
• Jan Jaskólski, 73, Polish Olympic athlete.^[421]
• Henning Larsen, 87, Danish architect, natural causes.^[422]
• Loránd Lohinszky, 88, Hungarian actor and academic.^[423]
• Deric Longden, 77, British author and screenwriter, cancer.^[424]
• Allan Simonsen, 34, Danish racing driver, complications from a race collision during 2013 24 Hours of Le Mans.^[425]
• Javier Tomeo, 80, Spanish writer, infection and diabetes.^[426]
• Jesús Humberto Velázquez Garay, 73, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Celaya (1988–2003), respiratory disease.^[427]
• Soccor Velho, 29, Indian footballer, cardiac arrest.^[428]

23

• Pat Ashton, 82, English actress (The Benny Hill Show).^[429]
• Bobby Bland, 83, American blues and soul singer ("Further Up the Road", "Turn On Your Love Light").^[430]
• Frank Kelso, 79, American naval officer, Chief of Naval Operations (1990–1994), complications from a fall.^[431]
• Kurt Leichtweiss, 86, German mathematician.^[432]
• Little Willie Littlefield, 81, American pianist and singer, cancer.^[433]
• Richard Matheson, 87, American author and screenwriter (I Am Legend, The Shrinking Man, The Twilight Zone).^[434]
• Ron May, 57, American technology columnist, diabetes.^[435]
• Darryl Read, 61, British musician, poet and actor, motorcycle accident.^[436]
• Sharon Stouder, 64, American triple gold medal-winning Olympic swimmer (1964).^[437]
• Frank Stranahan, 90, American golfer, winner of The Amateur Championship (1948, 1950).^[438]
• Meamea Thomas, 25, I-Kiribati Olympic weightlifter (2004), traffic collision.^[439]

24

• Mick Aston, 66, British archaeologist (Time Team).^[440]
• Bill Atkinson, 68, English footballer (Torquay United F.C.).^[441]
• Cleve Backster, 89, American polygraph expert.^[442]
• Anibal Barrow, 58, Honduran journalist and news anchor, shot.^[443]
• John P. Clay, 78, American translator (Clay Sanskrit Library).^[444]
• Emilio Colombo, 93, Italian politician, Prime Minister (1970–1972).^[445]
• Papa Malick Diop, 68, Senegalese Olympic basketball player.^[446]
• Jackie Fargo, 82, American professional wrestler, congenital heart disease.^[447]
• Mauro Francaviglia, 60, Italian mathematician.^[448]
• Dame Phyllis Friend, 90, British nursing officer.^[449]
• Joannes Gijsen, 80, Dutch-Icelandic Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Roermond (1972–1993) and Reykjavík (1996–2007), cancer.^[450]
• William Hathaway, 89, American politician, member of the US House (1965–1973) and US Senate for Maine (1973–1979).^[451]
• Lucky Isibor, 36, Nigerian footballer.^[452]
• Puff Johnson, 40, American pop singer and songwriter, cervical cancer.^[453]
• James Martin, 79, British author, computer scientist and businessman, swimming accident.^[454]
• Alan Myers, 58, American New Wave drummer (Devo), brain cancer.^[455]
• John L. Nickels, 82, American judge, member of the Illinois Supreme Court (1992–1998).^[456]
• Denham Price, 73, South African cricketer.^[457]
• Lutfar Rahman Sarkar, 80, Bangladeshi banker, Governor of Bangladesh Bank.^[458]
• Michael Schwarzwalder, 69, American politician.^[459]
• Andy Scott, 58, Canadian politician, MP for Fredericton (1993–2009), Solicitor General (1997–1998), cancer.^[460]
• Vasile Tiță, 85, Romanian Olympic boxer (1952).^[461]

25

• Gianfranco Baldazzi, 69, Italian lyricist, record producer, author and journalist.^[462]
• Giuseppe Berton, 80, Italian missionary.^[463]
• George Burditt, 89, American television writer and producer (Three's Company, Silver Spoons).^[464]
• Jack Cantoni, 65, French rugby union player.^[465]
• Sarah Charlesworth, 66, American conceptual artist and photographer, brain aneurysm.^[466]
• Mark Fisher, 66, British stage designer and ceremony producer (2008, 2012).^[467]
• Catherine Gibson, 82, Scottish Olympic swimmer (1948).^[468]
• Robert E. Gilka, 96, American photographer and news executive, director of photography for National Geographic, complications of pneumonia.^[469]
• Jim Hudson, 70, American football player (New York Jets), traumatic dementia encephalopathy.^[470]
• Lau Kar-leung, 76, Chinese Hong Kong martial artist, action choreographer and film director (The 36th Chamber of Shaolin), cancer.^[471]
• Eddie Liu, 91, Australian community leader.^[472]
• James Lydon, 85, Irish educator and historian.^[473]
• Harry Parker, 77, American Olympic rower (1960) and Olympic rowing coach (USRowing, Harvard University).^[474]
• Taghi Rouhani, 93, Iranian news anchor.^[475]
• Uma Shivakumar, 71, Indian actress.^[476]
• Mildred Ladner Thompson, 95, American journalist (Wall Street Journal, Associated Press).^[477]
• Green Wix Unthank, 90, American senior judge, member of the US District Court for Eastern Kentucky (1980–2012).^[478]
• Warren Widener, 75, American lawyer.^[479]

26

• James Allan, 84, Canadian Anglican prelate, Bishop of Keewatin (1974–1991).^[480]
• Hervé Boussard, 47, French Olympic cyclist (1992), epileptic seizure.^[481]
• Antonio Jasso, 78, Mexican footballer (national team, Club América).^[482]
• Edward Huggins Johnstone, 91, Brazilian-born American senior (former chief) judge, member of the US District Court for Western Kentucky (since 1977).^[483]
• Sandy Knott, 75, American Olympic athlete.^[484]
• Adam Koppy, 40, American mechanical engineer, traffic collision.^[485]
• K. Narayana Kurup, 86, Indian politician, Kerala MLA for Vazhoor (1963–1967, 1970–1980, 1984–2005).^[486]
• Byron Looper, 48, American politician and criminal, cardiac ailment.^[487]
• Miguel Mansilla, 60, Uruguayan professional footballer, cardiac arrest.^[488]
• Dumitru Matcovschi, 73, Romanian-born Moldovan poet, complications from brain surgery.^[489]
• Mal McBean, 91, Australian rules footballer.^[490]
• Kimberly McCarthy, 52, American criminal, execution by lethal injection.^[491]
• Justin Miller, 35, American baseball player (Toronto Blue Jays, San Francisco Giants).^[492]
• Nilton Pacheco, 92, Brazilian Olympic basketball player (1948).^[493]
• Abdul Rahman Mokhtar, 55, Malaysian politician, Terengganu State Representative for Kuala Besut, lung cancer.^[494]
• Marc Rich, 78, Belgian-born American tax evader, commodities trader and illegal oil broker (Iran Hostage Crisis), stroke.^[495]
• Bert Stern, 83, American celebrity photographer (The Last Sitting) and documentary maker (Jazz on a Summer's Day).^[496]
• Rawleigh Warner, Jr., 92, American oil executive, CEO and Chairman of Mobil (1969–1986), inclusion body myositis.^[497]
• Subhash Yadav, 67, Indian politician, Madhya Pradesh MLA for Kasrawad (since 1993).^[498]

27

• Shafiq Badr, 87, Lebanese politician, MP for Chouf (1972–1992).^[499]
• Stefano Borgonovo, 49, Italian footballer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.^[500]
• Henrik Otto Donner, 73, Finnish composer and music industry executive.^[501]
• Muhammad Emin Er, c. 99, Turkish Islamic scholar.^[502]
• Josef Geryk, 70, Czech footballer (FC Spartak Trnava).^[503]
• Dudley Knight, 73, American drama teacher.^[504]
• Liu Wenjin, 76, Chinese composer of classical Chinese music.^[505]
• Alain Mimoun, 92, French Olympic runner (1948, 1952, 1956, 1960) and marathon champion (1956).^[506]
• James Njiru, Kenyan politician, cancer.^[507]
• Ian Scott, 68, New Zealand painter.^[508]
• A. C. Shanmughadas, 74, Indian politician, Kerala MLA for Balussery (1970–2003), cardiac arrest.^[509]

28

• João Alves, 87, Portuguese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Coimbra (1976–2001).^[510]
• Yiye Ávila, 87, American Puerto Rican televangelist, heart attack.^[511]
• Thérèse Blondeau, 99, French Olympic swimmer (1936).^[512]
• Ari Brynjolfsson, 86, Icelandic–born American physicist.^[513]
• Bhavna Chikhalia, 58, Indian politician, MP for Junagadh (1991–2004), cardiac arrest.^[514]
• George Hall Dixon, 92, American banker, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury.^[515]
• Fred Gibson, 101, Jamaican-born English cricketer.^[516]
• Ted Hood, 86, American yacht skipper (Courageous), judge and official (US Sailing), inducted into America's Cup Hall of Fame (1993), heart failure and pneumonia.^[517]
• Tamás Katona, 81, Hungarian politician and historian.^[518]
• Peter Lehmann, 82, Australian vineyard owner and vintner, kidney disease.^[519]
• Kenneth Minogue, 83, Australian academic and political scientist.^{[citation needed]}
• Bob Oliver, 66, American football player (Cleveland Browns), cancer.^[520]
• Matt Osborne, 55, American professional wrestler (Doink the Clown), accidental overdose of hydrocodone and morphine.^[521]
• Jacques Planchard, 84, Belgian politician, Governor of Luxembourg (1976–1996).^[522]
• F.D. Reeve, 84, American academic and author.^[523]
• David Rubitsky, 96, American World War II veteran, disputed claimant for Medal of Honor.^[524]
• Charlie L. Russell, 81, American playwright (Five on the Black Hand Side), brother of Bill Russell, gastric cancer.^[525]
• John Stollery, 83, British engineer and academic.^[526]
• Silvi Vrait, 62, Estonian singer ("Nagu merelaine") and actress, brain tumor.^[527]

29

• Khalnazar Agakhanov, 61, Turkmen diplomat and politician, Ambassador to Russia, Germany and Kazakhstan.^[528]
• Marge Anderson, 81, American Chippewa tribal executive, Chief of the Mille Lacs (1991–2000, 2008–2012), natural causes.^[529]
• Serge Blanc, 83, French classical violinist.^[530]
• Harisinh Pratapsinh Chavda, 83, Indian politician, MP for Banaskantha (2004–2008), Gujarat MLA for Danta (1975–1985).^[531]
• Abdul Mutalib Mohamed Daud, 52, Malaysian journalist, stroke.^[532]
• Peter Fitzgerald, 76, Irish footballer.^[533]
• Jack Gotta, 83, American CFL and WFL football player, coach and general manager (Calgary Stampeders, Saskatchewan Roughriders, Birmingham Americans).^[534]
• Sarah Guyard-Guillot, 31, French acrobat (Cirque du Soleil), fall.^[535]
• Lou Guzzo, 94, American journalist (Seattle Times), editor (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) and commentator (KIRO-TV).^[536]
• Margherita Hack, 91, Italian astrophysicist and popular science writer, suspected heart failure.^[537]
• Gilma Jiménez, 57, Colombian politician, member of Senate for Bogota, cervical cancer.^[538]
• Jim Kelly, 67, American martial artist and actor (Enter the Dragon), cancer.^[539]
• Leopoldo López Escobar, 72–73, Chilean geochemistry academic.^[540]
• Victor Lundin, 83, American actor (Robinson Crusoe on Mars).^[541]
• David Moore, 79, British botanist specialising in South American flora and fauna.^[542]
• Ryūtarō Nakamura, 58, Japanese animation director and storyboard artist (Serial Experiments Lain, Kino's Journey, Sakura Wars), pancreatic cancer.^[543]
• Paul Smith, 91, American jazz pianist, heart failure.^[544]
• Jørgen Sønstebø, 91, Norwegian politician.^[545]
• Larry Townsend, 66, American politician, member of the Vermont House of Representatives (since 2008), cancer.^[546]
• Kishorchandra Vankavala, 70, Indian politician, Gujarat MLA for Surat West (since 2007), lung cancer.^[547]

30

• Alan Campbell, Baron Campbell of Alloway, 96, British life peer, barrister and Colditz prisoner.^[548]
• Akpor Pius Ewherido, 50, Nigerian politician, member of the Senate for Delta Central (since 2011), Delta MLA for Ughelli South (1999–2007), complications from a stroke.^[549]
• Claudio Fattoretto, 57, Italian voice actor, stroke.^[550]
• Richard Fehr, 73, Swiss religious leader, Chief Apostle of the New Apostolic Church (1988–2005).^[551]
• Juggie Heen, 82, American politician, member of the Hawaii House of Representatives (1963–1967, 1969–1971), pancreatic and liver cancer.^[552]
• William Houle, 81, American Chippewa tribal executive, Chairman of the Fond du Lac (1974–1988), instrumental to Indian gaming in the United States.^[553]
• Kathryn Morrison, 71, American politician, member of the Wisconsin Senate (1975–1979), breast cancer.^[554]
• Thompson Oliha, 44, Nigerian footballer (Nigeria Super Eagles), complications from malaria.^[555]
• Iván Ruttkay, 87, Hungarian Olympic speed skater (1948).^[556]
• Sir Keith Seaman, 93, Australian viceroy, Governor of South Australia (1977–1982).^[557]
• Brian Sparks, 82, Welsh police officer and teacher.^[558]
• Joyce Waley-Cohen, 93, English educationalist and public servant.^[559]