The following is a list of notable deaths in May 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.

May 2013

1

• Martin Kevan, 66, Kenyan-born Canadian film and voice actor (Far Cry 3) and author, cancer.^[1]
• Massimo Mollica, 84, Italian actor and stage director.^[2]
• Pierre Pleimelding, 60, French football player (national team) and manager (SAS Épinal, Ivory Coast, FCSR Haguenau).^[3]
• Henry Hope Reed Jr., 97, American architecture critic.^[4]
• Gregory Rogers, 55, Australian children's book writer, cancer.^[5]
• Ruby Stone, 89, American politician, member of the Idaho House of Representatives (1986–2002).^[6]
• Stuart Wilde, 66, British writer and metaphysical teacher, heart attack.^[7]
• Chob Yodkaew, 78, Thai economist and politician, stroke.^[8]

2

• Sir Terence Beckett, 89, British businessman, Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry.^[9]
• Marcel Bélanger, 92, Canadian academic.^[10]
• Roddy Blackjack, 86, Canadian Little Salmon/Carmacks First Nation elder and chief, architect of Yukon Land Claims agreement.^[11]
• Elbert Crawford, 46, American football offensive lineman, heart attack.^[12]
• Mihail Dolgan, 85, Moldovan professor.^[13]
• Boris Elik, 83, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings).^[14]
• Ernie Field, 70, English boxer, cancer.^[15]
• Jeff Hanneman, 49, American guitarist (Slayer), liver failure.^[16]
• Ken Lippiatt, 93, Australian rules footballer.^[17]
• Joseph P. McFadden, 65, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Harrisburg (since 2010), heart attack.^[18]
• Allen McKay, 86, British politician, MP for Penistone (1978–1983) and Barnsley West and Penistone (1983–1992).^[19]
• Tancred Melis, 79, South African cricketer.^[20]
• Danny Ray Mitchell, 69, American pastor, businessman and politician.^[21]
• Dvora Omer, 80, Israeli author, recipient of the Israel Prize (2006).^[22]
• Jo Pitt, 34, Scottish paralympic equestrian, pulmonary veno-occlusive disease.^[23]
• Bob Rafkin, 69, American singer songwriter, cancer.^[24]
• James E. Ramsey, 81, American politician, member of North Carolina House of Representatives (1963–1974), Speaker (1973–1974), complications from a stroke.^[25]
• Harry Randall Jr., 86, American politician.^[26]
• Sylvester Sanfilippo, 87, American pediatrician.^[27]
• Gordon Sherwood, 83, American classical composer.^[28]
• Sarabjit Singh, 49, Indian convicted spy, injuries sustained from blunt force trauma.^[29]
• Ronald Thresher, 82, English cricketer.^[30]
• Ivan Turina, 32, Croatian footballer (AIK Stockholm), cardiac dysrhythmia.^[31]
• Selma Urfer, 85, Swiss author and actress.^[32]
• Lefteris Vogiatzes, 68, Greek theater actor and director, cancer.^[33]
• Charles Banks Wilson, 94, American artist.^[34]

3

• Joe Astroth, 90, American baseball player (Philadelphia/Kansas City Athletics).^[35]
• Herbert Blau, 87, American theater director, scholar and theorist, sarcomatoid carcinoma of the chest.^[36]
• Cedric Brooks, 70, Jamaican musician (The Skatalites), cardiac arrest.^[37]
• Keith Carter, 88, American Olympic silver medalist swimmer (1948).^[38]
• Bruno Chersicla, 75, Italian painter and sculptor.^[39]
• Walt Clay, 89, American football player.^[40]
• Brad Drewett, 54, Australian tennis player and administrator, ATP Executive Chairman (2012–2013), motor neurone disease.^[41]
• David Morris Kern, 103, American pharmacist, developed Orajel to fight toothaches.^[42]
• Curtis Rouse, 52, American football player (Minnesota Vikings, San Diego Chargers).^[43]
• Branko Vukelić, 55, Croatian politician, Minister of Defence (2008–2010), pancreatic cancer.^[44]
• Sir David Innes Williams, 93, British paediatric urologist.^[45]

4

• Bobbie Banda, 66, American Juaneño elder and activist, stroke.^[46]
• Otis Bowen, 95, American politician, Governor of Indiana (1973–1981), Secretary of Health and Human Services (1985–1989).^[47]
• Christian de Duve, 95, Belgian cytologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (1974), euthanasia.^[48]
• Javier Díez Canseco, 65, Peruvian politician and sociologist, MP (1995–2000, 2001–2006, since 2011), pancreatic cancer.^[49]
• Frederic Franklin, 98, British-born American ballet dancer and director, complications from pneumonia.^[50]
• Sylvi Keskinen, 79, Finnish Olympic hurdler.^[51]
• Ed Kringstad, 76, American politician, member of the North Dakota Senate (1995–2006).^[52]
• Len Legault, 80, Canadian Football League player.^[53]
• Alton Lemon, 84, American civil rights activist, Alzheimer's disease.^[54]
• Fredric Lieberman, American ethnomusicologist, composer, music professor, and author, cardiac arrest.^[55]
• Mario Machado, 78, American news anchor, journalist and actor (Scarface, RoboCop, St. Elmo's Fire), Parkinson's disease.^[56]
• Jack Makari, 95, Lebanese-American cancer immunologist.^[57]
• Sir Morgan Morgan-Giles, 98, British Royal Navy officer and politician, MP for Winchester (1964–1979).^[58]
• David Noriega Rodríguez, 68, Puerto Rican politician and lawyer, member of the House of Representatives (1984–1996), pancreatic cancer.^[59]
• César Portillo de la Luz, 90, Cuban Filin composer and interpreter.^[60]
• Jacques Stockman, 74, Belgian footballer (R.S.C. Anderlecht).^[61]
• John Swaim, 64, American attorney, Pennsylvania state legislator.^[62]
• Wilbur Zelinsky, 91, American cultural geographer.^[63]

5

• Jürg Amann, 65, Swiss author and dramatist.^[64]
• Alan Arnell, 79, English footballer (Liverpool).^[65]
• Sir Richard Barratt, 84, British police officer, Chief Inspector of Constabulary (1987–1990).^[66]
• Peter Curtis, 83, Australian public servant and diplomat.^[67]
• Lotfi Dziri, 67, Tunisian actor.^[68]
• Rossella Falk, 86, Italian actress (8½, Modesty Blaise, The Legend of Lylah Clare).^[69]
• William Havens, 94, American Olympic canoer (1948).^[70]
• Grady Hunt, 91, American costume designer.^[71]
• Dean Jeffries, 80, American car customizer, painter and stuntman (The Fugitive, Fletch).^[72]
• Mazin Abu Kalal, Iraqi politician, bombing.^[73]
• Sarah Kirsch, 78, German poet.^[74]
• G. X. McSherry, 88, American politician, member of the New Mexico House of Representatives (1982–1998).^[75]
• Tore Magnussen, 74, Norwegian boxer.^[76]
• Eugene Millerick, 88, American politician, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives (1986–1994).^[77]
• Bill Orr, 78, American insurance executive, First Gentleman of Nebraska (1987–1991), COPD.^[78]
• Leif Preus, 85, Norwegian photographer, founder of the Preus Museum.^[79]
• Greg Quill, 66, Australian roots musician and entertainment critic (Toronto Star), pneumonia.^[80]
• Robert Ressler, 76, American criminologist.^[81]
• Hayri Sezgin, 52, Turkish Olympic wrestler.^[82]
• Peu Sousa, 35, Brazilian guitarist (Nove Mil Anjos, Pitty) and record producer, suicide by hanging.^[83]
• Dirk Vekeman, 52, Belgian footballer (RSC Anderlecht).^[84]
• Helmin Wiels, 54, Curaçaoan politician, leader of Pueblo Soberano in the Estates of Curaçao (since 2010), shot.^[85]
• Menachem Yedid, 95, Israeli politician, member of the Knesset (1965–1977).^[86]

6

• Diana Keppel, Dowager Countess of Albemarle, 103, British aristocrat.^[87]
• Giulio Andreotti, 94, Italian politician, Prime Minister (1972–1973, 1976–1979, 1989–1992), Minister of Foreign Affairs (1983–1989) and Lifetime Senator (since 1991).^[88]
• Yordan Angelov, 59, Bulgarian Olympic silver medallist volleyball player (1980).^[89]
• Severo Aparicio Quispe, 89, Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Cuzco (1978–1999).^[90]
• Steve Carney, 55, English footballer (Newcastle United), pancreatic cancer.^[91]
• Jānis Eglītis, 52, Latvian politician.^[92]
• Fatima Grimm, 78, German translator, author and speaker.^[93]
• Michel Knuysen, 83, Belgian Olympic silver medallist rower (1952).^[94]
• Ian MacLeod, 53, Scottish footballer (Motherwell).^[95]
• Esperanza Magaz, 91, Cuban-born Venezuelan television actress (RCTV), cancer.^[96]
• Steve Martland, 58, English composer, heart attack.^[97]
• Arnaldo Ninchi, 77, Italian actor, voice actor and basketball player.^[98]
• Michelangelo Spensieri, 64, Canadian politician and lawyer, member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Yorkview (1981–1985).^[99]
• Anne-Lise Stern, 91, French psychoanalyst and Holocaust survivor.^[100]
• Yang Tzuo-chow, 84, Taiwanese politician, MLY (1999–2002).^[101]

7

• Al Fritz, 88, American bicycle developer and inventor (Schwinn Sting-Ray), complications from a stroke.^[102]
• Ray Harryhausen, 92, American stop-motion animator (Jason and the Argonauts, Clash of the Titans, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad).^[103]
• Kozo Igarashi, 87, Japanese politician, member of the House of Representatives, Chief Cabinet Secretary (1994–1995), pneumonia.^[104]
• Balbino Jaramillo, 61, Colombian Olympic cyclist.^[105]
• Gunnel Johansson, 90, Swedish artistic gymnast.^[106]
• Joseba Larrinaga, 45, Spanish Paralympic athlete, traffic collision.^[107]
• P. G. Lim, 96, British-born Malaysian diplomat and lawyer, Ambassador to the United Nations, Yugoslavia, Austria and the European Economic Community.^[108]
• Ferruccio Mazzola, 65, Italian football player and manager.^[109]
• Teri Moïse, 43, American singer, suicide.^[110]
• Mark Perakh, 88, American scientist and blogger.^[111]
• Peter Rauhofer, 48, Austrian DJ, remixer and record producer, Grammy Award (2000), brain cancer.^[112]
• Romanthony, 45, American DJ, record producer and singer ("One More Time", "Make This Love Right"), complications from kidney disease.^[113]
• Herbert Romerstein, 82, American anti–communist writer.^[114]
• Mairuth Sarsfield, 88, Canadian broadcaster and author (No Crystal Stair).^[115]
• George Sauer Jr., 69, American football player (New York Jets), heart failure.^[116]
• Antônio da Silva Terezo, 59, Brazilian Olympic footballer.^[117]
• Wiktor Tołkin, 91, Polish sculptor and architect.^[118]
• Jan Villerius, 74, Dutch footballer, cancer.^[119]
• Aubrey Woods, 85, British actor (Doctor Who, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory).^[120]

8

• Dan Adkins, 76, American comic book artist (The Avengers, Doctor Strange, X-Men).^[121]
• Jeanne Cooper, 84, American actress (The Young and the Restless).^[122]
• Zia Fariduddin Dagar, 80, Indian dhrupad vocalist, musician and maestro.^[123]
• Bryan Forbes, 86, British actor (The League of Gentlemen), film director (The Stepford Wives) and screenwriter (Chaplin).^[124]
• Ralph Homan, 84, American politician, member of the South Dakota House of Representatives (1983–1986).^[125]
• Brita Malmer, 87, Swedish numismatist.^[126]
• Taylor Mead, 88, American writer and actor (Coffee and Cigarettes), stroke.^[127]
• Juan José Muñoz, 62, Argentine businessman, President of Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata, renal failure.^[128]
• André Sana, 92, Iraqi Chaldean Catholic hierarch, Archbishop of Kirkuk (1977–2003).^[129]
• Asaph Schwapp, 26, American football player (Hartford Colonials), non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.^[130]
• Hugh J. Silverman, 67, American philosopher, cancer.^[131]
• Géza Vermes, 88, Hungarian-born British theologian and Dead Sea Scrolls scholar, cancer.^[132]
• Ken Whaley, 67, British rock musician (Man, Ducks Deluxe, Help Yourself), lung cancer.^[133]
• Dallas Willard, 77, American author and philosopher, cancer.^{[134][unreliable source?]}
• Ernie Winchester, 68, Scottish footballer.^[135]

9

• Alan Abelson, 87, American financial writer, editor and columnist (Barron's), heart attack.^[136]
• Fred Ashton, 82, American politician, Mayor of Easton, Pennsylvania (1968–1976).^[137]
• Ramón Blanco, 61, Spanish football player and manager (RCD Mallorca, Cadiz), cerebral infarction.^[138]
• Grete Dollitz, 88, German–born American radio presenter and classical guitarist.^[139]
• Sanaullah Haq, 52, Pakistani convict, beaten.^[140]
• Patterson Hume, 90, Canadian professor and science educator.^[141]
• Bonnie Huy, 77, American politician, member of the Kansas House of Representatives (2001–2006).^[142]
• Alfredo Landa, 80, Spanish actor, Alzheimer's disease.^[143]
• George M. Leader, 95, American politician, Governor of Pennsylvania (1955–1959).^[144]
• Humberto Lugo Gil, 79, Mexican politician, Governor of Hidalgo (1998–1999).^[145]
• Dave Lyon, 74, Canadian Olympic track and field coach (1984, 1988, 1992, 2000).^[146]
• Ottavio Missoni, 92, Italian fashion designer and Olympic hurdler (1948).^[147]
• Paul Tangi Mhova Mkondo, 67, Zimbabwean businessman, cancer.^[148]
• Huguette Oligny, 91, Canadian theatre actress.^[149]
• Malcolm Shabazz, 28, American Islamist, grandson of Malcolm X, beaten.^[150]
• Andrew Simpson, 36, British Olympic champion sailor (2008, 2012), catamaran capsize.^[151]
• Joseph A. Steger, 76, American psychologist and academic, President of the University of Cincinnati (1984–2003).^[152]
• Julia Tashjian, 74, American politician, Secretary of the State of Connecticut (1983–1991), heart attack.^[153]
• Sadegh Tirafkan, 47, Iranian contemporary artist, brain cancer.^[154]
• Ron Weaver, 75, American Emmy Award-winning television producer (The Bold and the Beautiful, Sesame Street).^[155]

10

• Félix Agramont Cota, 95, Mexican politician and agricultural engineer, first Governor of Baja California Sur (1970–1975), myocardial infarction.^[156]
• Barbara Brenner, 61, American health activist, executive director of Breast Cancer Action (1993–2010), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.^[157]
• Sir John Bush, 98, British Royal Navy admiral, Commander-in-Chief Western Fleet (1967–1970).^[158]
• Barbara Callcott, 66, Australian actress, cancer.^[159]
• Malcolm Clarke, 82, British marine biologist.^[160]
• Jean Delobel, 80, French politician.^[161]
• Vincent Dowling, 83, Irish actor and theatre director (The Playboy of the Western World), complications following surgery.^[162]
• Laurence Haddon, 90, American actor (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Dallas, Knots Landing), Lewy body disease.^[163]
• Brigitte Kiesler, 88, German Olympic gymnast.^[164]
• Aleksey Komarov, 91, Russian Olympic rower (1952).^[165]
• Boicho Kokinov, 52, Bulgarian cognitive scientist.^[166]
• Hugh Mackay, 14th Lord Reay, 75, British peer, Member of the European Parliament (1973–1979), member of the House of Lords (since 1964).^[167]
• Philippe Malivoire, 70, French rower.^[168]
• Per Maurseth, 80, Norwegian historian and politician.^[169]
• Malcolm Parkes, 83, English academic.^{[citation needed]}
• John Shea Jr., 84, American politician, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives (1961–1962).^[170]
• Wanade, 71, Kenyan television actress, cancer.^[171]
• Al-Haj Suliman Yari, 76, Afghan politician.^[172]

11

• Johnny Bos, 61, American boxer and author, heart failure.^[173]
• Jack Butler, 85, American Hall of Fame football player (Pittsburgh Steelers), complications from a staph infection.^[174]
• Emmanuelle Claret, 44, French biathlete, world champion (1996), leukemia.^[175]
• Mike Davison, 67, American baseball player (San Francisco Giants).^[176]
• Joe Farman, 82, British physicist, identified ozone hole.^[177]
• Marianne Ferber, 90, Czech-born American feminist economist and author.^[178]
• Doug Finley, 66, Canadian politician, Senator for Ontario (since 2009), Campaign Director during the 2006 and 2008 elections, colorectal cancer.^[179]
• Ollie Mitchell, 86, American big band musician (The Wrecking Crew and original member of Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass), cancer.^[180]
• Arnold Peters, 87, British actor (The Archers), complications from Alzheimer's disease.^[181]
• Lenny Yochim, 84, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates), heart failure.^[182]

12

• Judit Ágoston-Mendelényi, 76, Hungarian Olympic champion fencer (1964).^[183]
• Samuel Aguilar, 80, Paraguayan footballer.^[184]
• Sergei Alexeyev, 88, Russian politician, author of the Constitution of Russia, heart attack.^[185]
• Daisy Avellana, 96, Filipino stage actor and director, National Artist of the Philippines for Theater and Film.^[186]
• Doug Beasy, 83, Australian football player (Carlton).^[187]
• Olaf B. Bjørnstad, 82, Norwegian ski jumper.^[188]
• George William Gray, 86, British scientist, recipient of the 1995 Kyoto Prize for Advanced Technology.^[189]
• Mr. Kenneth, 86, American hairdresser (Jacqueline Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe), recipient of the Coty Award (1961).^[190]
• Gerd Langguth, 66, German politician and political scientist.^{[citation needed]}
• Daniel W. LeBlanc, 82, American judge, member of Louisiana Court of Appeals, cancer.^[191]
• Toni Linhart, 70, Austrian-born American football player (Baltimore Colts), cancer.^[192]
• Julian Malonso, 89, Filipino military man, educator and sports executive, lingering illness.^{[193][unreliable source?]}
• Bill Miles, 82, American documentary filmmaker.^[194]
• José García Quesada, 82, Chilean Olympic footballer.^[195]
• Félix Ramananarivo, 78, Malagasy Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Antsirabe (1994–2009).^{[citation needed]}
• Francesco Renda, 91, Italian historian and politician.^[196]
• Constantino Romero, 65, Spanish voice actor, television and radio host, motor neuron disease.^[197]
• K Bikram Singh, 75, Indian filmmaker, complications from liver failure.^[198]
• Max Stadler, 64, German politician, member of the Bundestag (since 1994).^[199]
• Kenneth Waltz, 88, American political scientist.^[200]
• Peter Worthington, 86, Canadian journalist (Toronto Telegram) and editor-in-chief (Toronto Sun).^[201]

13

• Hedda Bolgar, 103, American psychoanalyst.^[202]
• André Bord, 90, French politician, Veterans Minister (1972–1974), President of the Alsace Regional Council (1973–1977).^[203]
• Joyce Brothers, 85, American psychologist, newspaper columnist, and actress (Loaded Weapon 1, Spy Hard), respiratory failure.^[204]
• André Denys, 65, Belgian politician, Governor of East Flanders (2004–2013).^[205]
• Dave Everett, 51, Australian criminal, cancer.^[206]
• Otto Herrigel, 75, Namibian politician, cancer.^[207]
• Enio Iommi, 87, Argentinian sculptor.^[208]
• Jill Kitson, 74, Australian radio broadcaster and literary journalist.^[209]
• Kennett Love, 88, American journalist (The New York Times), respiratory failure.^[210]
• Luciano Lutring, 75, Italian criminal, painter and author.^[211]
• Jagdish Mali, 59, Indian fashion photographer, multiple organ failure.^[212]
• Chuck Muncie, 60, American football player (New Orleans Saints, San Diego Chargers), heart attack.^[213]
• Daniel Offer, 83, American psychiatrist.^[214]
• Sir Ellison Pogo, 66, Solomon Islands Anglican primate, Archbishop of Melanesia (1994–2008), lymphoma.^[215]
• Lilo Ramdohr, 99, German Resistance fighter, member of the White Rose.^[216]
• Vladimir Romanovsky, 56, Soviet Olympic sprint canoer (Gold and silver medallist).^[217]
• Derrick Thomas, 69, British agricultural researcher, cancer.^[218]
• Fyodor Tuvin, 39, Russian footballer.^[219]
• Lynne Woolstencroft, 69, Canadian politician, Mayor of Waterloo, Ontario (2000–2003), cancer.^[220]

14

• Joy Baluch, 80, Australian politician, Mayor of Port Augusta (1981–1993, since 1995).^[221]
• Wayne Brown, 76, American politician, Mayor of Mesa, Arizona (1996–2000).^[222]
• Arsen Chilingaryan, 47, Armenian football player and manager.^[223]
• Asghar Ali Engineer, 74, Indian writer and activist.^[224]
• Billie Sol Estes, 88, American businessman and convicted con man.^[225]
• Ray Guy, 74, Canadian humorist, writer and journalist, cancer.^[226]
• Mohammad Ezodin Hosseini Zanjani, 92, Iranian Islamic prelate, Grand Ayatollah, complications from surgery.^[227]
• Marian Jeżak, 84, Polish ice hockey player.^[228]
• Margaret Rayburn, 86, American politician, member of the Washington House of Representatives (1985–1995).^[229]
• Sardar Arif Shahid, Pakistani Kashmiri politician, shot.^[230]
• Harvansh Singh, 64, Indian politician, Madhya Pradesh MLA for Keolari (since 1993), cardiac arrest.^[231]
• Ingrid Visser, 35, Dutch Olympic volleyball player (1996), homicide.^[232]
• Lubomír Zajíček, 67, Czech Olympic bronze medallist volleyball player (1968).^[233]

15

• Nasser al-Rashed, 20, Kuwaiti squash player, heart attack.^[234]
• Noelle Barker, 84, British soprano and singing teacher.^[235]
• Paddy Buggy, 84, Irish hurler (Kilkenny) and sport executive, President of the GAA (1982–1985).^[236]
• Linden Chiles, 80, American actor (Quincy, M.E., Barnaby Jones, Perry Mason), fall.^{[citation needed]}
• Raul Gonzalez, 78, Filipino journalist, Press Secretary for Diosdado Macapagal (1961–1965), cancer.^[237]
• Robert Hunt, 77, British police officer.^[238]
• Gábor Gellért Kis, 66, Hungarian journalist, MP for Monor (1994–1998).^[239]
• Albert Lance, 87, Australian-born French opera singer.^[240]
• Thomas M. Messer, 93, Czechoslovakian-born American museum director (Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation).^[241]
• Bill O'Hagan, 68, British journalist and sausage maker.^[242]
• Jens Elmegård Rasmussen, 69, Danish linguist and Indo-Europeanist.^[243]
• Billy Raymond, 75, Scottish-born Australian entertainer, lung cancer.^[244]
• Henrique Rosa, 67, Bissau-Guinean politician, Acting President (2003–2005), lung cancer.^[245]
• James Stuart-Smith, 93, British judge and army officer, Advocate General of the Armed Forces (1984–1991).^[246]
• Darrell Tryon, 70, New Zealand linguistics professor and Pacific Islands language specialist, melanoma.^[247]
• Fred White, 76, American sports broadcaster (Kansas City Royals), complications from melanoma.^[248]
• Harold Whitfield, 94, South African cricketer.^[249]

16

• Richard Andriamanjato, 82, Malagasy politician.^[250]
• Carl Bennett, 97, American basketball executive, coach and GM of Detroit Pistons.^[251]
• Félix Bonnat, 92, French bobsledder.^[252]
• Kristen Kyrre Bremer, 87, Norwegian theologian and bishop.^[253]
• Mario Brescia Cafferata, 83, Peruvian billionaire financial and industrial executive.^[254]
• Angelo Errichetti, 84, American politician, Mayor of Camden, New Jersey (1973–1981); member of the New Jersey Senate (1976–1981).^[255]
• Fiona Gore, 94, Scottish powerboating racer.^[256]
• Geoffrey Gowan, 83, Canadian sports broadcaster (CBC) and executive (CAC), Parkinson's disease.^[257]
• Frank Nigel Hepper, 84, English botanist.^[258]
• Bryan Illerbrun, 56, Canadian football player (Saskatchewan Roughriders).^{[259][unreliable source?]}
• Ivar Kallion, 81, Estonian Communist politician, chairman of the executive committee of Tallinn (1971–1979).^[260]
• Valtr Komárek, 82, Czech politician, complications following cardiac surgery.^[261]
• Frankie Librán, 65, American Puerto Rican baseball player (San Diego Padres), complications from diabetes.^[262]
• Maurice Marshall, 86, New Zealand Olympic middle-distance athlete (1952).^[263]
• Heinrich Rohrer, 79, Swiss physicist, Nobel laureate (1986).^[264]
• Paul Shane, 72, British actor and comedian (Hi-de-Hi!, You Rang, M'Lord?).^[265]
• Max Schirschin, 92, German football player and manager (Rouen, Le Havre, Metz).^[266]
• Dick Trickle, 71, American NASCAR driver, suicide by gunshot.^[267]
• Bernard Waber, 88, American children's author (Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile), kidney failure.^[268]

17

• Dominic Kodwo Andoh, 84, Ghanaian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Accra (1971–2005), heart-related ailment.^[269]
• Philippe Gaumont, 40, French Olympic racing cyclist (1992), heart failure.^[270]
• John Goddard, 88, American adventurer, cancer.^[271]
• Penne Hackforth-Jones, 63, American-born Australian actress (Mao's Last Dancer), lung cancer.^[272]
• Elijah Harper, 64, Canadian Cree politician and band chief, Manitoba MLA for Rupertsland (1981–1992), MP for Churchill (1993–1997), heart failure.^[273]
• Jack Hawkins, 96, American Marine Corps officer (Bay of Pigs Invasion).^[274]
• Lola Hendricks, 80, American activist.^[275]
• Tauatomo Mairau, French Polynesian royal claimant.^[276]
• Alan O'Day, 72, American singer-songwriter ("Undercover Angel", "Angie Baby"), brain cancer.^[277]
• Jérôme Reehuis, 73, Dutch actor.^[278]
• Colin A. Russell, 84, British historian.^[279]
• Peter Schulz, 83, German politician, First Mayor of Hamburg (1971–1974).^[280]
• Albert Seedman, 94, American police officer.^[281]
• Harold Shapero, 93, American composer and pianist (Symphony for Classical Orchestra), complications from pneumonia.^[282]
• Taronda Spencer, 54, American archivist, heart attack.^[283]
• Sir Rodney Sweetnam, 86, British surgeon, President of the Royal College of Surgeons (1995–1998).^[284]
• Anthony Trickett, 73, British doctor, Lord Lieutenant of Orkney (since 2007).^[285]
• Don Tonry, 77, American Olympic gymnast.^[286]
• Ken Venturi, 82, American golfer and golf analyst, winner of the U.S. Open (1964), World Golf Hall of Fame inductee (2013), multiple infections.^[287]
• Jorge Rafael Videla, 87, Argentine military lieutenant general and politician, President (1976–1981), complications from a fall.^[288]

18

• Aleksei Balabanov, 54, Russian filmmaker, seizure.^[289]
• Jo Benkow, 88, Norwegian writer and politician, President of the Parliament (1985–1993).^[290]
• Isabel Benham, 103, American railroad businesswoman.^[291]
• Neil Chrisley, 81, American baseball player (Washington Senators, Detroit Tigers).^[292]
• Steve Forrest, 87, American actor (Dallas, North Dallas Forty, S.W.A.T).^[293]
• Zahra Shahid Hussain, 69, Pakistani politician, shot.^[294]
• Marek Jackowski, 66, Polish rock musician (Maanam).^[295]
• Ernst Klee, 71, German historian and writer.^[296]
• Arthur Malet, 85, English actor (Mary Poppins, Halloween, In the Heat of the Night, Anastasia).^[297]
• Max, 29, beagle, dachshund and terrier mix, world's oldest dog, Tonic–clonic seizure.^[298]
• David McMillan, 31, American football player (Cleveland Browns), shot.^[299]
• Nam Duck-woo, 89, South Korean politician, Prime Minister (1980–1982), testicular cancer.^[300]
• Newton Russell, 85, American politician, member of the California State Assembly (1964–1974) and California Senate (1974–1996), lung cancer.^[301]
• Lothar Schmid, 85, German chess grandmaster.^[302]
• Harold Sossen, 88, American businessman.^[303]
• Claramae Turner, 92, American opera singer (Carousel, The Medium).^[304]

19

• Sasanka Chandra Bhattacharyya, 94, Indian natural product chemist.^[305]
• Leonard Erickson, 66, American oncologist.^[306]
• Bella Flores, 84, Filipino actress, complications from hip surgery.^[307]
• G. Sarsfield Ford, 79, American judge, member of the Connecticut Supreme Court.^[308]
• Michael Kpakala Francis, 77, Liberian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Monrovia (1981–2011).^[309]
• Leonard Harbin, 98, Trinidad cricketer.^[310]
• Robin Harrison, 80, Canadian pianist and composer, heart attack.^[311]
• Vuyo Mbuli, 46, South African television personality and news presenter, pulmonary embolism.^[312]
• Carlo Monni, 69, Italian character actor.^{[citation needed]}
• Murat Öztürk, 60, Turkish aerobatics pilot, plane crash.^[313]
• Neil Reynolds, 72, Canadian newspaper editor (The Ottawa Citizen), cancer.^[314]
• Mirek Smíšek, 88, Czech-born New Zealand potter.^[315]
• Ally Sykes, 86, Tanzanian politician.^[316]
• Franklin White, 90, British ballet dancer.^[317]
• Alexey Dobrovolsky, 74, Russian ideologue of neo-paganism.^[318]

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• Yohanan Cohen, 95, Israeli politician and diplomat.^[319]
• Dave Costa, 71, American football player (Oakland Raiders, Denver Broncos).^[320]
• Flavio Costantini, 86, Italian artist.^[321]
• Billie Dawe, 88, Canadian ice hockey player.^[322]
• Anders Eliasson, 66, Swedish composer.^[323]
• Ari Huumonen, 57, Finnish discus thrower.^[324]
• Miloslav Kříž, 88, Czech basketball player and coach.^[325]
• Ray Manzarek, 74, American rock musician (The Doors), bile duct cancer.^[326]
• Jevan Maseko, 70, Zimbabwean military officer, Governor of Matabeleland North Province, Ambassador to Algeria, Russia and Cuba, diabetes and kidney failure.^[327]
• Idriss Ndélé Moussa, 54, Chadian politician, President of Pan African Parliament (2009–2012), traffic collision.^[328]
• Sir Denys Roberts, 90, British colonial official and judge, Chief Justice of Hong Kong (1979–1988).^[329]
• Harry Schuh, 70, American football player (Oakland Raiders, University of Memphis).^[330]
• Zach Sobiech, 18, American pop singer and viral video performer, osteosarcoma.^[331]
• Dominik Sucheński, 86, Polish Olympic sprinter.^[332]

21

• Trevor Bolder, 62, British musician (David Bowie, Uriah Heep), cancer.^[333]
• Antoine Bourseiller, 82, French comedian and opera director.^[334]
• Eddie Braben, 82, British comedy writer (Morecambe and Wise, Ken Dodd).^[335]
• Evelyne Bradley, 88, American Navajo judge, District Court judge (1984–1995).^[336]
• Robert Chambers, 59, New Zealand judge, member of the Supreme Court (since 2011).^[337]
• Frank Comstock, 90, American composer.^[338]
• Cot Deal, 90, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, St. Louis Cardinals).^[339]
• Peter Ellis, 66, Australian football player.^[340]
• Zsolt Erőss, 45, Hungarian mountaineer.^[341]
• Mick Grambeau, 83, Australian rules footballer.^[342]
• Mohammad Khaled Hossain, 34, Bangladeshi mountaineer and film director.^[343]
• Keith Jukes, 59, English Anglican clergyman, Dean of Ripon (since 2007), stomach cancer.^[344]
• Harold Long, 72, Canadian politician, British Columbia MLA for Mackenzie (1986–1991) and Powell River-Sunshine Coast (2001–2005), plane crash.^[345]
• Louis de Cartier de Marchienne, 91, Belgian baron and businessman.^[346]
• Hank Kozloski, 85, American sportswriter.^[347]
• Leonard Marsh, 80, American beverage executive, co-founder of Snapple.^[348]
• Vernon McGarity, 91, American soldier (Battle of the Bulge), recipient of the Medal of Honor (1946).^[349]
• Fred Mitchell, 89, American artist.^[350]
• Edna Moyle, 71, Caymanian politician, MLA for North Side (1992–2009), Speaker (2001–2009), cancer.^[351]
• Charley Reese, 76, American newspaper columnist, respiratory failure.^[352]
• Count Christian of Rosenborg, 70, Danish royal.^{[citation needed]}
• Anand Shetty, 52, Indian sprinter, car accident.^[353]
• Mykola Simkaylo, 60, Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Kolomyia – Chernivtsi (since 2005).^[354]
• Bob Thompson, 88, American composer and orchestra leader.^[355]
• Dominique Venner, 78, French historian, journalist and essayist, suicide by gunshot.^[356]

22

• Bill Austin, 84, American football player (New York Giants), coach (Pittsburgh Steelers, Washington Redskins).^[357]
• Dick Barry, 87, American politician, member of the Tennessee House of Representatives (1954–1967), Speaker (1963–1967).^[358]
• Wayne Cottrell, 69, New Zealand rugby union player.^[359]
• Henri Dutilleux, 97, French composer.^[360]
• Andrea Gallo, 84, Italian presbyter.^[361]
• Brian Greenhoff, 60, English footballer (Manchester United).^[362]
• Sarah P. Harkness, 98, American architect.^[363]
• Usha Rani Hooja, 90, Indian sculptor.^[364]
• William Douglas Lansford, 90, American writer.^[365]
• Elizabeth Mavor, 85, British writer.^[366]
• Mick McManus, 93, English professional wrestler.^[367]
• Wayne F. Miller, 94, American photographer.^[368]
• Lawrence Pope, 73, American politician and academic, member of the Iowa House of Representatives (1979–1983), renal cancer.^[369]
• Éric Remacle, 52, Belgian scientist.^[370]
• Pat Shea, 73, American football player (San Diego Chargers).^[371]
• Sigurd Ottovich Schmidt, 91, Russian historian and ethnographer.^[372]
• Richard Thorp, 81, English actor (Emmerdale).^[373]
• Ibragim Todashev, 27, Chechen–born American mixed martial artist, shot.^[374]
• Teruto Tsubota, 90, American marine (Battle of Okinawa).^[375]

23

• John Antonio, 83, American advertising executive, created Clemson University tiger paw logo, cancer.^[376]
• William Demby, 90, American writer.^[377]
• Dick Evey, 72, American football player (Chicago Bears, University of Tennessee).^[378]
• Richard G. Fallon, 89, American academic and theatre director (Asolo Repertory Theatre).^[379]
• Lenin Gani, 45, Bangladeshi sports journalist, pulmonary hypertension.^[380]
• Epy Guerrero, 71, Dominican Major League Baseball scout (Houston Astros, New York Yankees, Toronto Blue Jays), kidney failure.^[381]
• Hazel Hawke, 83, Australian social activist and National Treasure, first wife of Prime Minister Bob Hawke, complications of dementia.^[382]
• In Excess, 26, Irish-born American Thoroughbred racehorse.^[383] (death announced on this date)
• J. Christopher Jaffe, 85, American acoustical engineer.^[384]
• Hayri Kozakçıoğlu, 75, Turkish politician, shot.^[385]
• Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse, 86, German prince and Head of the House of Hesse.^[386]
• Michael Lev, 95, Ukrainian-born Israeli writer.^[387]
• Georges Moustaki, 79, Egyptian-born French singer and songwriter.^[388]
• Gerry Peacocke, 81, Australian politician, NSW MLA for Dubbo (1981–1999).^[389]
• Flynn Robinson, 72, American basketball player (Los Angeles Lakers, Milwaukee Bucks), multiple myeloma.^[390]
• Brian Sternberg, 69, American pole vaulter, quadriplegic complications.^[391]
• Jim Zabel, 91, American sports broadcaster (University of Iowa).^[392]
• Luis Zuloaga, 90, Venezuelan baseball player (Leones del Caracas).^[393]

24

• Elsa Bornemann, 61, Argentine children's writer.^[394]
• Helmut Braunlich, 84, American composer.^[395]
• Michel Crozier, 90, French sociologist.^[396]
• Ron Davies, 70, Welsh footballer Norwich, Southampton.^[397]
• John F. Dolan, 90, American politician.^[398]
• Gabriel Fernandez, 8, American child murder victim.^[399]
• Gotthard Graubner, 82, German painter.^[400]
• Huang Yu, 96, Chinese film director, screenwriter and actor.^[401]
• Haynes Johnson, 81, American journalist (The Washington Post, Washington Evening Star), winner of Pulitzer Prize (1966), heart attack.^[402]
• Yevgeny Kychanov, 80, Russian orientalist.^[403]
• John Lucas, 92, British Army officer.^[404]
• Lorene Mann, 76, American country music singer and songwriter.^[405]
• Arnoldo Martínez Verdugo, 88, Mexican politician.^[406]
• Godwin Mawuru, 52, Zimbabwean filmmaker and television producer, complications from diabetes.^[407]
• John "Mule" Miles, 90, American Negro league baseball player.^[408]
• Sir Garth Morrison, 70, British scouter, Chief Scout (1988–1996).^[409]
• Ralph Perlman, 96, American public official, Louisiana budget director (1967–1988).^[410]
• Antonio Puchades, 87, Spanish footballer (Valencia CF), Alzheimer's disease.^[411]
• Ed Shaughnessy, 84, American drummer (The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson), heart attack.^[412]
• Rob Smith, 61, Australian footballer.^[413]
• John Sumner, 88, Australian founder and artistic director of the Melbourne Theatre Company.^[414]
• Pyotr Todorovsky, 87, Ukrainian-born Russian film director (Wartime Romance), screenwriter (What a Wonderful Game) and cinematographer, heart attack.^[415]
• Tripura, 84, Indian writer.^[416]
• Erling Welle-Strand, 96, Norwegian writer and resistance member.^[417]

25

• Mohammed Rashad Abdulle, 79, Ethiopian academic.^[418]
• Gordon Berg, 85, American politician, member of the North Dakota House of Representatives (1977–1991).^[419]
• Harry Birrell, 85, American radio news broadcaster (KNX (AM)), interstitial lung disease.^[420]
• Tyrone Brunson, 57, American musician.^[421]
• Walt Budko, 87, American basketball player.^[422]
• Gene Burns, 72, American political radio broadcaster and food critic, complications from a stroke.^[423]
• Paul Cuprowski, 73, American politician, member of the New Jersey General Assembly (1983–1985).^[424]
• Larry Johnson, 62, American baseball player.^[425]
• Mahendra Karma, 62, Indian political leader, founder of Salwa Judum, shot.^[426]
• Jan Kinder, 68, Norwegian Olympic ice hockey player.^[427]
• Marshall Lytle, 79, American rock and roll musician (Bill Haley & His Comets), Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee (2012), lung cancer.^[428]
• Uday Mudliyar, Indian politician, Chhattisgarh MLA for Rajnandgaon (1993–1998), shot.^[426]
• Nand Kumar Patel, 59, Indian politician, Chhattisgarh MLA for Kharsia (since 1990), shot.^[429]
• Ronald Payne, 87, British journalist and war correspondent.^[430]
• T. M. Soundararajan, 91, Indian playback singer.^[431]
• Jimmy Wray, 78, British politician, MP for Glasgow Provan (1987–1997) and Glasgow Baillieston (1997–2005).^[432]
• Lewis Yocum, 66, American orthopedist, specialist in Tommy John surgery, liver cancer.^[433]

26

• Ray Barnhart, 85, American businessman and politician, Director of the Federal Highway Administration (1981–1987).^[434]
• John Bierwirth, 89, American aircraft executive, Chairman of Grumman (1972–1988).^[435]
• Roberto Civita, 76, Italian-born Brazilian businessman, CEO of Grupo Abril, heart failure.^[436]
• Mbuya Dyoko, 68, Zimbabwean musician, cirrhosis.^[437]
• Héctor Garza, 43, Mexican professional wrestler, lung cancer.^[438]
• Graham Leggett, 92, British RAF squadron leader, youngest surviving pilot of the Battle of Britain.^[439]
• Tom Lichtenberg, 72, American football coach (University of Maine, Ohio University), cancer.^[440]
• Charles M. McGowan, 89, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1968–1978).^[441]
• Otto Muehl, 87, Austrian painter and activist, Parkinson's disease and cardiac ailment.^[442]
• José María Pérez Gay, 70, Mexican journalist, academic and diplomat, Ambassador to Portugal, National Journalism Prize (1996).^[443]
• Happy Pieterse, 70, South African boxer, complications of diabetes.^[444]
• Jack Vance, 96, American science fiction author.^[445]

27

• György Bárdy, 92, Hungarian actor.^[446]
• Jean Bach, 94, American filmmaker (A Great Day in Harlem).^[447]
• Nazmiye Demirel, 86, Turkish first lady, wife of Süleyman Demirel, Alzheimer's disease.^[448]
• Cullen Finnerty, 30, American football player, pneumonia (Grand Valley State University).^[449]
• Steven Klepper, 64, American economist.^[450]
• Muttanisseril Koyakutty, 86, Indian Islamic scholar and writer.^[451]
• Little Tony, 72, Italian-born Sammarinese pop singer and actor, lung cancer.^[452]
• Jagjit Singh Lyallpuri, 96, Indian politician.^[453]
• Bill Pertwee, 86, British radio and television actor (Dad's Army, You Rang, M'Lord?) and author.^[454]
• Abdoulaye Sékou Sow, 83, Malian politician, Prime Minister (1993–1994).^[455]
• Giacomo Soffiantino, 84, Italian painter and artist.^[456]
• Beverley Taylor Sorenson, 89, American education philanthropist.^[457]

28

• Silvério Paulo de Albuquerque, 96, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Caetité (1970–1973) and Feira de Santana (1973–1995).^{[citation needed]}
• Eddi Arent, 88, German actor.^[458]
• Nino Bibbia, 91, Italian Olympic skeleton racer and bobsledder (1948).^[459]
• Robert Chalmers, 67, South African cricketer.^[460]
• Abigail Heyman, 70, American feminist journalist, heart failure.^[461]
• Viktor Kulikov, 91, Russian military officer, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1977), Warsaw Pact commander-in-chief (1977–1989).^[462]
• R. Travis Osborne, 99, American psychologist and professor emeritus.^[463]
• Fotis Polymeris, 93, Greek musician.^[464]
• William Earl Reid, 78, Canadian politician, Minister of Tourism for British Columbia (1986–1989).^[465]
• Eddie Romero, 88, Filipino film director, blood clot and prostate cancer.^[466]
• Gerd Schmückle, 95, German general.^[467]
• Caesar Trunzo, 87, American politician, member of the New York Senate (1972–2008).^[468]
• Masuko Ushioda, 71, Japanese violinist, acute leukemia.^[469]

29

• Werner Andermatt, 96, Swiss painter.^[470]
• Ramón Aguirre Suárez, 68, Argentine footballer (Estudiantes de La Plata).^[471]
• Richard Ballantine, 72, British cycling writer.^[472]
• Nino Baragli, 88, Italian film editor (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West).^[473]
• Donald Bevan, 93, American author.^[474]
• Françoise Blanchard, 58, French actress (La Morte Vivante).^[475]
• Mike Carrell, 69, American politician, member of the Washington House (1994–2004) and Washington State Senate (since 2004), myelodysplastic syndrome.^[476]
• Juan Américo Díaz, 68, Bolivian footballer.^[477]
• Jabulani Dube, Zimbabwean politician, MP-elect for Insiza South.^[478]
• Andrew Greeley, 85, American Roman Catholic priest, author (The Cardinal Sins) and columnist (Chicago Sun-Times), complications from skull fracture.^[479]
• Mamman Kontagora, 69, Nigerian military officer and politician.^[480]
• Cliff Meely, 65, American basketball player (University of Colorado, Houston Rockets), blood infection.^[481]
• Mulgrew Miller, 57, American jazz pianist, stroke.^[482]
• Henry Morgentaler, 90, Polish-born Canadian physician, abortion advocate, Holocaust survivor, heart attack.^[483]
• Franca Rame, 83, Italian theatre actress, playwright, political activist, and wife of Dario Fo.^[484]
• Dame Margaret Shields, 71, New Zealand politician, MP for Kapiti (1981–1990), dementia and Parkinson's disease.^[485]
• Ludwig G. Strauss, 63, German physician and academic, cancer.^[486]
• Wali-ur-Rehman, 42, Pakistani Taliban militant, military action.^[487]

30

• Dean Brooks, 96, American physician and actor (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest).^[488]
• Elliot del Borgo, 74, American composer.^[489]
• Michael Baillie, 3rd Baron Burton, 88, British aristocrat.^[490]
• Harold A. Carter, 76, American pastor, cancer.^[491]
• Güzin Dino, 102, Turkish literary scholar.^[492]
• Raymond Evans, 92, United States Coast Guardsman.^[493]
• Rituparno Ghosh, 49, Indian filmmaker, cardiac arrest.^[494]
• Ted Gorin, 89, Welsh professional footballer.^[495]
• Helen Hanft, 79, American actress (Manhattan), intestinal complications.^[496]
• Arquímedes Herrera, 77, Venezuelan Olympic track and field athlete (1964).^[497]
• Tamás Homonnay, 87, Hungarian Olympic athlete.^[498]
• Jayalath Jayawardena, 59, Sri Lankan politician, physician and human rights campaigner, heart disease.^[499]
• Larry Jones, 79, American football player and coach (Florida State University, 1971–1973).^[500]
• Kyprianos Koutsoumpas, 78, Greek Orthodox hierarch, Metropolitan of Oropos and Fili, President of Synod of the Old Calendarist Church of Greece, stroke.^[501]
• Vina Mazumdar, 86, Indian academic and women's activist, lung tumour.^[502]
• Andrzej Nowak, 57, Polish ice hockey player.^[503]
• Péter Szilágyi, 59, Hungarian conductor and politician, MP for Berettyóújfalu (1994–2002).^[504]

31

• Mufti Abdullah, 82, Pakistani politician, Gilgit-Baltistan MLA for Khaplu.^[505]
• Eelco van Asperen, 48, Dutch computer scientist.^[506]
• Jeff Berry, 64, American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan leader, lung cancer.^{[507][unreliable source?]}
• Gerald E. Brown, 86, American theoretical physicist.^[508]
• Elvin Feltner, 83, American broadcaster and film producer (Carnival Magic).^[509]
• Abir Goswami, 37, Indian television actor, heart attack.^[510]
• Tommy Henderson, 85, English footballer (Burnley F.C.).^[511]
• Jeffrey Hunker, 56, American cyber security expert and academic.^[512]
• Frederic Lindsay, 79, Scottish novelist.^[513]
• Miguel Méndez, 82, American author.^[514]
• Jairo Mora, 26, Costa Rican environmentalist, shot.^[515]
• Richie Phillips, 72, American baseball umpire union official, cardiac arrest.^[516]
• Marta Romero, 85, American Puerto Rican actress and singer.^{[citation needed]}
• Tim Samaras, 55, American tornado chaser (Storm Chasers, TWISTEX), crushed vehicle tornado injuries.^[517]
• Jean Stapleton, 90, American actress (All in the Family, You've Got Mail, Michael), Emmy winner (1971, 1972, 1978).^[518]