Deaths in March 2014

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

Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:

• Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.

March 2014

1

• G.K. Chadha, 73, Indian economist, heart attack.
• Nancy Charest, 54, Canadian politician, Quebec MNA for Matane (2003â€"2007).
• Prafulla Dahanukar, 80, Indian painter.
• Philippe Ebly, 93, Belgian science fiction and fantasy writer.
• Andy Gilpin, 93, Canadian Olympic champion ice hockey player (1948).
• ZdenÄ›k Hajný, 72, Czech artist.
• Alan Heyman, 82, American-born South Korean traditional music scholar.
• Eckart Höfling, 77, German Catholic priest and missionary.
• Bangaru Laxman, 74, Indian politician, President of the Bharatiya Janata Party (2000â€"2001), cardiac arrest.
• Les Layton, 92, American baseball player (New York Giants).
• Donald Mahley, 71, American diplomat and army officer, representative to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, pancreatic cancer.
• Dave O'Brien, 57, American collegiate athletic director (Long Beach State, Temple, Northeastern), cancer.
• Alain Resnais, 91, French film director (Night and Fog, Hiroshima mon amour).
• Tommy Ed Roberts, 73, American politician, member of the Alabama House of Representatives (1974â€"1978) and Senate (1994â€"2006).
• Robert L. Spencer, 94, American fashion designer, heart attack.
• Paul Tant, 68, Belgian politician, Mayor of Kruishoutem (1977â€"2009).
• Gyula Toth, 72, Hungarian footballer.
• Werner Uebelmann, 92, Swiss entrepreneur and writer.
• John Wilkinson, 73, British politician, MP for Bradford West (1970â€"1974) and Ruislip-Northwood (1979â€"2005).
• Alejandro Zaffaroni, 91, Uruguayan-born American chemist and entrepreneur, dementia.

2

• Ryhor Baradulin, 79, Belarusian poet.
• Peter Bares, 78, German organist and composer.
• Ted Bergmann, 93, American sports television and entertainment producer (NBC), complications following surgery.
• Molly Bobak, 92, Canadian war artist, recipient of the Order of Canada (1995).
• Bhuvnesh Chaturvedi, 85, Indian politician, State Minister (1993â€"1996), MP (1978â€"1996) and Rajasthan MLA for Kota (1972â€"1977).
• Porky Chedwick, 96, American radio announcer.
• Sal DeRosa, 82, Italian-born American soccer coach.
• Gail Gilmore, 76, Canadian actress, lung cancer.
• Stanley Grinstein, 86, American businessman, kidney disease.
• Jacob Jervell, 88, Norwegian theologian, priest and author.
• Justin Kaplan, 88, American biographer, Pulitzer Prize winner for Biography or Autobiography (1967), Parkinson's disease.
• Benjamin Lambert, 77, American politician, member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1978â€"1986) and Senate (1986â€"2008).
• Rudolph Rummel, 81, American political scientist.
• Stanley Rubin, 96, American film and television producer (Revenge, Bracken's World, The Ghost & Mrs. Muir).
• Scott Vanstone, 66, Canadian cryptographer.

3

• Robert Ashley, 83, American composer, complications from cirrhosis.
• Christine Buchegger, 71, Austrian actress, complications from surgery.
• Martin Gutzwiller, 88, Swiss-born American physicist.
• Stan Koziol, 48, American soccer player, leukemia.
• Kurt Chew-Een Lee, 88, American military officer, first Asian-American officer in the Marine Corps, recipient of the Navy Cross, suspected heart attack.
• Curtis McClarin, 44, American actor (The Happening, Law & Order), brain aneurysm.
• Harold Mowery, 84, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1976â€"1990) and Senate (1993â€"2004), pneumonia.
• Sherwin B. Nuland, 83, American National Book Award-winning author and surgeon, prostate cancer.
• F. Edward Osborne, 89, American politician, member of the Idaho House of Representatives (1989â€"1990) and Senate (1991â€"1992).
• William R. Pogue, 84, American astronaut (Skylab) and Air Force pilot (Thunderbirds).
• Juan A. Rivero, 90, American Puerto Rican biologist, founder of the Dr. Juan A. Rivero Zoo, cancer.
• Billy Robinson, 74, British wrestler and trainer.
• Don Shows, 74, American football coach.
• Joab Thomas, 81, American university administrator, Chancellor of NC State (1975â€"1981), President of the University of Alabama (1981â€"1988) and Penn State (1990â€"1995).
• Aino-Maija Tikkanen, 86, Finnish actress (The Harvest Month, Mother of Mine), recipient of the Order of the Lion of Finland (1983).
• Xu Chongde, 85, Chinese political scientist and professor.
• Shōji Yasui, 85, Japanese actor (The Burmese Harp).

4

• Richard W. Burkhardt, 95, American academic, President of Ball State University (1978).
• Gary Carson, 64, American poker player, academic and author, complications from vascular and renal disease.
• Renato Cioni, 84, Italian operatic tenor.
• Barrie Cooke, 83, English-born Irish artist.
• Hollie Donan, 85, American football player.
• László Fekete, 59, Hungarian footballer.
• Mark Freidkin, 60, Russian writer.
• Lawrence Patrick Henry, 79, South African Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Cape Town (1990â€"2009).
• Dame Elaine Kellett-Bowman, 90, British politician and barrister, MP for Lancaster (1970â€"1997) and MEP (1975â€"1984).
• Jack Kinzler, 94, American aeronautical engineer, NASA technical director that helped save Skylab.
• Chuck Kress, 92, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).
• John Wayne Mason, 90, American physiologist.
• Maja Petrin, 41, Croatian television and stage actress, heart failure.
• Boris Pustyntsev, 78, Russian human rights activist.
• Wu Tianming, 74, Chinese film director and producer, heart attack.

5

• Nana Abdullahi, 54, Nigerian judge, first female High Court judge in Jigawa (since 2010).
• Iain Campbell, 72, Scottish biophysicist.
• Sir Robin Dunn, 96, British jurist, Lord Justice of Appeal (1980â€"1984).
• Geoff Edwards, 83, American game show host (Starcade, Treasure Hunt) and actor (Petticoat Junction), pneumonia.
• John Uzzell Edwards, 79, British painter.
• Nigel Groom, 89, British author and perfume connoisseur.
• Eli Hunt, 60, American Ojibwe politician, tribal chairman of Leech Lake Band (1996â€"2002).
• Scott Kalvert, 49, American director (The Basketball Diaries), suicide.
• Little Bridge, 8, New Zealand racehorse, colic.
• Ernest Anthony Lowe, 85, British economist.
• Alexander Macdonald, 95, Canadian politician, MP (1957â€"1958).
• Ailsa McKay, 50, Scottish economist and government policy advisor, cancer.
• Buck Melton, 90, American politician, author and lawyer, Mayor of Macon, Georgia (1975â€"1979).
• Leopoldo María Panero, 65, Spanish poet.
• Hank Rieger, 95, American television executive, President of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (1973â€"1975, 1977â€"1980), natural causes.
• Dave Sampson, 73, English rock singer.
• Dov Schperling, 76, Latvian-born Israeli Zionist activist.
• Luis Villoro, 91, Spanish-born Mexican philosopher and writer.

6

• Joe Abbey, 88, American football player.
• Alemayehu Atomsa, 45, Ethiopian politician, President of Oromia Region (2010â€"2014), typhoid fever.
• Jean-Louis Bertucelli, 71, French film director (Ramparts of Clay, Docteur Françoise Gailland).
• Christian Casadesus, 101, French actor.
• Maurice Faure, 92, French politician and diplomat, Interior Minister, Justice Minister, MP and Senator for Lot, last living signatory of the Treaty of Rome.
• Jack Finlay, 92, American football player (Los Angeles Rams).
• Martin Gottfried, 80, American drama critic and biographer, complications from pneumonia.
• Sérgio Guerra, 66, Brazilian economist and politician, member of the Federal Senate (2003â€"2011).
• Tony Herbert, 94, Irish politician (14th & 16th Senator) and hurler (Limerick).
• Antonio Hidalgo Rodríguez, 71, Spanish footballer (Celta Vigo).
• Gurth Hoyer-Millar, 84, Scottish sportsman.
• Frank Jobe, 88, American orthopedic surgeon, invented Tommy John surgery.
• Jojon, 66, Indonesian comedian, complications from cardiovascular disease.
• David Koff, 74, American documentary film maker and political activist, suicide.
• Barbro Kollberg, 96, Swedish actress.
• Joe Lane, 78, American politician, member of the Arizona House of Representatives (1979â€"1989), Speaker (1987â€"1989), Parkinson's disease.
• Sheila MacRae, 92, English-born American actress (The Honeymooners).
• Gwen Matthewman, 86, English speed knitter.
• Jagat Singh Mehta, 91, Indian diplomat and author, Foreign Secretary (1976â€"1979), High Commissioner to Tanzania (1970â€"1974).
• Ron Murphy, 80, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers, Chicago Black Hawks, Detroit Red Wings, Boston Bruins).
• Martin Nesbitt, 67, American politician, member of the North Carolina Senate (2004â€"2014), stomach cancer.
• Danny Pierce, 93, American artist.
• Georgy Ragozin, 71, Russian army officer and academic.
• Luis Rentería, 25, Panamanian footballer (Tauro), lupus.
• Peter Ruber, 73, American author and editor.
• Ros Saboeut, 72, Cambodian musician activist and film subject, complications from a fall.
• Manlio Sgalambro, 89, Italian philosopher and writer.
• Margaret Spufford, 78, British historian.
• Marion Stein, 87, British pianist.
• David Talmage, 94, American immunologist.

7

• Lollu Sabha Balaji, 43, Indian comic actor.
• Heiko Bellmann, 63, German biologist, writer and photographer.
• Sir Richard Best, 80, British diplomat, Ambassador to Iceland (1989â€"1991).
• Bob Charles, 72, English footballer (Southampton).
• Hal Douglas, 89, American voice actor and announcer, pancreatic cancer.
• Peter Dunn, 87, British engineer.
• Musa Geshaev, 73, Chechen poet, literary critic, songwriter, and historian.
• Sir Thomas Hinde, 88, British novelist.
• Sana Khan, 28, Pakistani model and actress, traffic collision.
• Anatoly Borisovich Kuznetsov, 83, Russian actor (White Sun of the Desert).
• Peter Laker, 87, English cricketer (Sussex).
• Arnulfo Mendoza, 59, Mexican artist and weaver, heart attack.
• Tamás Nádas, 44, Hungarian aerobatics pilot and world champion air racer, plane crash.
• Javier Naranjo Villegas, 95, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Santa Marta (1971â€"1980).
• Ned O'Gorman, 84, American poet, pancreatic cancer.
• Victor Shem-Tov, 99, Bulgarian-born Israeli politician, Health Minister (1970â€"1977), Chairman of Mapam.
• Uwe Timm, 82, German writer.

8

• Runa Akiyama, 59, Japanese voice actress, heart failure.
• Leo Bretholz, 93, Austrian-born American Holocaust survivor, activist and writer (Leap into Darkness).
• Bud Bulling, 61, American baseball player (Minnesota Twins, Seattle Mariners).
• James Ellis, 82, Northern Irish actor (Z-Cars), stroke.
• Buren Fowler, 54, American rock and roll guitarist (Drivin' N Cryin', R.E.M.).
• William Guarnere, 90, American World War II non-commissioned officer and author, key figure in Band of Brothers.
• Omar Ould Hamaha, 50, Malian Islamist militia commander.
• Roy Higgins, 75, Australian jockey (Light Fingers, Red Handed), Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductee (1987).
• Wendy Hughes, 61, Australian AFI Award-winning actress (Careful, He Might Hear You), cancer.
• Helmut Koenigsberger, 95, German-born British historian.
• Evgeni Krasilnikov, 48, Russian Olympic silver-medalist volleyball player (1988).
• Gerard Mortier, 70, Belgian opera director and administrator, pancreatic cancer.
• Park Eun Ji, 35, South Korean politician.
• Alan Rodgers, 54, American author and poet, winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Long Fiction (1987).
• Larry Scott, 75, American bodybuilder, Mr. Olympia (1965, 1966), Alzheimer's disease.
• David Smith, 88, American Olympic champion sailor (1960).
• Randolph W. Thrower, 100, American politician and jurist, Commissioner of Internal Revenue (1969â€"1971).

9

• Rafael Aburto, 100, Spanish architect.
• Françoise Adnet, 89, French figurative painter.
• Franklin S. Billings, Jr., 91, American politician (member and Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives) and judge (US District Court, Vermont Supreme Court).
• Greg Brough, 62, Australian Olympic swimmer (1968), cancer.
• John Christie, 84, Scottish footballer (Southampton, Walsall).
• Lionel Seymour Craig, 85, Barbadian politician, MP for Saint James (1966â€"1986), Cabinet Minister (1976â€"1986).
• Mohammed Fahim, 56â€"57, Afghan politician and military commander, Vice President (since 2009), heart attack.
• William Clay Ford, Sr., 88, American businessman (Ford Motor Company, Detroit Lions), pneumonia.
• Valentin Fortunov, 56, Bulgarian writer, publisher and journalist.
• Melba Hernández, 92, Cuban revolutionary, politician and diplomat, Ambassador to Vietnam and Cambodia, complications from diabetes.
• Steve Hill, 60, American pastor and evangelist, melanoma.
• Monika Kinley, 88, British art dealer, collector and curator.
• Richard Liboff, 82, American physicist and author.
• Glenn McDuffie, 86, American World War II sailor, claimant to subject of V-J Day in Times Square photograph, heart attack.
• Husein Mehmedov, 90, Bulgarian Olympic silver-medalist wrestler (1956).
• Nazario Moreno González, 44, Mexican drug lord, shot.
• Carlos Moreno, 75, Argentine actor and director, heart attack.
• Guillo Pérez, 90, Dominican painter.
• Justus Pfaue, 72, German author and screenwriter.
• Joseph Sax, 78, American legal scholar, pioneer of environmental law, stroke.
• James Schaffer, 104, American Christian leader.

10

• Alias Ali, 75, Malaysian politician and newspaper editor (Bernama), MP for Hulu Terengganu (1978â€"1995), Chairman of Agro Bank, colon cancer.
• Tom Ament, 76, American politician, Milwaukee County Executive (1992â€"2002).
• Roldan Aquino, 65, Filipino actor, complications from a stroke.
• Juan Balboa Boneke, 75, Equatorial Guinean politician and writer, kidney failure.
• Eileen Colgan, 80, Irish actress (Far and Away, My Left Foot, Angela's Ashes).
• Francesco De Nittis, 80, Italian Roman Catholic prelate and diplomat, Apostolic Nuncio to PNG (1981â€"1985), El Salvador (1985â€"1990) and Uruguay (1990â€"1999).
• Richard De Vere, 46, British illusionist (Blackpool Pleasure Beach), suspected heart attack.
• Guy Gauthier, 93, Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Quebec.
• Ludomir Goździkiewicz, 78, Polish politician, member of the Sejm (1989â€"1991).
• Georges Lamia, 80, French footballer.
• Samuel W. Lewis, 83, American diplomat, Ambassador to Israel (1977â€"1985).
• Cynthia Lynn, 76, Latvian-born American actress (Hogan's Heroes), multiple organ failure.
• Allen Maxwell, 70, American politician, member of the Arkansas House of Representatives (2004â€"2010), Mayor of Monticello, Arkansas, heart attack.
• Joe McGinniss, 71, American author and political journalist, prostate cancer.
• Nicolás Mentxaka, 75, Spanish footballer (Athletic Bilbao).
• Matthew Power, 39, American journalist and magazine editor (Harper's Magazine), complications from heatstroke and exhaustion.
• John Pring, 86, New Zealand rugby union referee.
• Vince Radcliffe, 68, English footballer.
• Tom Shanahan, 89, American broadcaster and sportscaster.
• Paul J. Sheehy, 79, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1965â€"1972) and Senate (1984â€"1991).
• T. J. Turner, 35, American football player (New England Patriots).
• John Baird Tyson, 85, British explorer and mountaineer.
• Rob Williams, 52, American basketball player (Denver Nuggets), heart failure.
• William H. Vernon, 69, American politician, member of the Delaware House of Representatives (1977â€"1981), cancer.

11

• Dean Bailey, 47, Australian football player (Essendon) and coach (Melbourne), lung cancer.
• Brett Borgen, 79, Norwegian writer.
• Joel Brinkley, 61, American journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner for International Reporting (1980), pneumonia.
• Len Buckeridge, 77, Australian billionaire construction executive, founder of Buckeridge Group of Companies, heart attack.
• Christine Buckley, 67, Irish activist, breast cancer.
• Marilyn Butler, 77, British literary critic and academic, Rector of Exeter College, Oxford (1993â€"2004).
• Bob Crow, 52, British trade unionist, General Secretary of the RMT (since 2002), aneurysm and heart attack.
• Vladislav David, 86, Czech lawyer and academic.
• Elisabeth Dhanens, 98, Belgian art historian.
• Berkin Elvan, 15, Turkish student, head trauma from projected tear-gas canister.
• Nils Horner, 51, Swedish journalist (Sveriges Radio), shot.
• Edmund Levy, 72, Israeli judge, member of the Supreme Court (2001â€"2012).
• Our Conor, 4, Irish Thoroughbred racehorse, fall.
• G.S. Paramashivaiah, 95, Indian irrigation engineer.
• John PiRoman, 62, American screenwriter and playwright, natural causes.
• Hermann Schleinhege, 98, German Luftwaffe ace during World War II.
• Marga Spiegel, 101, German writer.
• Bobby Thompson, 74, American football player (Detroit Lions, Montreal Alouettes).
• Doru Tureanu, 60, Romanian Olympic ice hockey player (1976, 1980).
• David Yeagley, 62, American Comanche political writer.

12

• Cecil Abbott, 89, Australian police chief, Commissioner of New South Wales Police (1981â€"1984).
• Askerov Bahram Mehrali oglu, 80, Azerbaijani physicist.
• VÄ›ra Chytilová, 85, Czech film director, recipient of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Medal of Merit and the Czech Lion award.
• Richard Coogan, 99, American actor (Captain Video and His Video Rangers, The Californians).
• Paul C. Donnelly, 90, American aerospace pioneer.
• Med Flory, 87, American saxophonist (Supersax) and actor (Daniel Boone, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., Lassie).
• Jackie Gaughan, 93, American hotelier and casino owner (El Cortez, Las Vegas Club, The Western, Gold Spike).
• Art Kenney, 97, American baseball player (Boston Bees).
• Bill Knott, 73, American poet.
• Shawn Kuykendall, 32, American soccer player (D.C. United), thymic cancer.
• René Llense, 100, French footballer.
• Fortunatus M. Lukanima, 73, Tanzanian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Arusha (1989â€"1998).
• Ola L. Mize, 82, American army officer, Korean War recipient of the Medal of Honor.
• John Cullen Nugent, 93, Canadian artist, sculptor and photographer.
• Kjell Nupen, 58, Norwegian artist, cancer.
• Calvin Palmer, 73, English footballer, cancer.
• José Policarpo, 78, Portuguese Roman Catholic cardinal, Patriarch of Lisbon (1998â€"2013), aortic aneurysm.
• Jenny Romatowski, 86, American AAGPBL baseball player.
• Zoja Rudnova, 67, Russian table tennis player.
• David Sive, 91, American environmental lawyer.
• Ray Still, 94, American classical oboist (Chicago Symphony Orchestra).
• Jean Vallée, 72, Belgian songwriter and performer.

13

• Reubin Askew, 85, American politician, Governor of Florida (1971â€"1979), member of the Florida House of Representatives (1958â€"1962) and Senate (1962â€"1971).
• Bill Ballard, 67, Canadian concert promoter and sport franchise owner (Toronto Maple Leafs), cancer.
• Cherifa, 88, Algerian singer-songwriter.
• Angelo Martino Colombo, 78, Italian footballer.
• Jan Erik Düring, 87, Norwegian director.
• Raymond Flood, 78, English cricket player (Hampshire).
• Joseph Bacon Fraser, Jr., 88, American real estate developer.
• Edward Haughey, Baron Ballyedmond, 70, Northern Irish politician, member of the House of Lords, founder of the Norbrook Group, helicopter crash.
• Paulo Goulart, 81, Brazilian actor, cancer.
• Al Harewood, 90, American jazz drummer.
• Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, 82, Sierra Leonean politician, President (1996â€"1997, 1998â€"2007).
• S. Mallikarjunaiah, 82, Indian politician, MP for Tumkur (1991â€"2009), Karnataka MLA for Tumkur (1971â€"1991), heart attack.
• Vince McGlone, 97, New Zealand seaman and television personality.
• Icchokas Meras, 79, Lithuanian-born Israeli writer, recipient of the Lithuanian National Prize (2010).
• Petar MiloÅ¡evski, 40, Macedonian footballer (Enosis Neon Paralimni), traffic collision.·
• Abby Singer, 96, American production manager (Remington Steele, St. Elsewhere), cancer.
• Henk Weerink, 77, Dutch football referee.
• Janusz ZabÅ‚ocki, 88, Polish politician and Catholic activist, MP (1965â€"1985).

14

• John Agoglia, 76, American television executive (NBC), instrumental in decision to replace Johnny Carson with Jay Leno, cancer.
• Tony Benn, 88, British politician, Minister of Technology (1966â€"1970), Secretary of State (1974â€"1979), MP for Bristol South East (1950â€"1960, 1963â€"1983) and Chesterfield (1984â€"2001).
• Otakar Brousek, Sr., 89, Czech actor.
• Gary Burger, 72, American singer (The Monks), pancreatic cancer.
• Cao Shunli, 52, Chinese human rights activist.
• Jiří Dadák, 88, Czechoslovakian hammer thrower.
• John Bernard Philip Humbert, 9th Count de Salis-Soglio, 66, British major.
• Yves Delacour, 83, French Olympic rower (1956).
• Richard Dermer, 74, American restaurateur, founder of Hideaway Pizza.
• Hans Fogh, 76, Danish-born Canadian Olympic sailor.
• Alec Gaskell, 81, English footballer.
• Meir Har-Zion, 80, Israeli commando.
• Vello Helk, 90, Estonian-born Danish historian.
• GaÅ¡o Knežević, 60, Serbian academic and politician, Minister of Education (2001â€"2004).
• Sam Lacey, 66, American basketball player (Cincinnati Royals).
• Roger Leir, 80, American podiatric surgeon and ufologist.
• Hugh Lunghi, 93, British military interpreter (Winston Churchill), one of the last living Big Three participants, first British soldier to enter Hitler's bunker.
• Warwick Parer, 77, Australian politician, Senator for Queensland (1984â€"2000), Minister for Resources and Energy (1996â€"1998).
• Sam Peffer, 92, British commercial artist.
• Werner Rackwitz, 84, German opera director and politician.
• Bob Thomas, 92, American journalist (Associated Press) and biographer.
• Manuel Torres Pastor, 83, Spanish footballer (Real Zaragoza, Real Madrid).
• Ken Utsui, 82, Japanese actor (Super Giant).
• Wesley Warren, Jr., 50, American scrotal elephantiasis victim, heart attack.

15

• ReÅŸat Amet, 39, Crimean Tatar activist, murdered.
• Scott Asheton, 64, American drummer (The Stooges), heart attack.
• David Brenner, 78, American comedian, cancer.
• Charlotte Brooks, 95, American photographer (Look).
• Andrew Kenneth Burroughs, 60, British consultant physician.
• Bo Callaway, 86, American politician, Secretary of the Army, member of the US House of Representatives for Georgia, complications from a brain hemorrhage.
• Mars Cramer, 85, Dutch economist.
• Paddy Cronin, 88, Irish fiddler.
• Huseyn Derya, Azerbaijani rapper.
• Clarissa Dickson Wright, 66, English celebrity chef and television personality (Two Fat Ladies).
• H. Hugh Fudenberg, 85, American immunologist.
• Everett L. Fullam, 82, American Episcopalian priest.
• Jürgen Kurbjuhn, 73, German footballer (Hamburger SV).
• Jesper Langballe, 74, Danish politician, MP for Viborg (2001â€"2011).
• Jim Mikol, 75, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers).
• Luca Moro, 41, Italian race car driver, brain tumor.
• Cees Veerman, 70, Dutch singer and musician (The Cats).

16

• George E. Barker, 83-84, British philatelist.
• Gary Bettenhausen, 72, American race car driver.
• Markus Brüderlin, 55, Swiss art historian and curator.
• Carlos Camus, 87, Chilean Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Copiapó (1968â€"1976) and Linares (1976â€"2003).
• Donald Crothers, 77, American chemist.
• Lapiro de Mbanga, 56, Cameroonian musician, political and social activist, cancer.
• DJ Edwin, 46, Australian DJ, remixer, songwriter and producer.
• Joseph Fan Zhongliang, 95, Chinese Roman Catholic prelate and confined dissident, Bishop of Shanghai (since 2000).
• Sanjeewa Kavirathna, 47, Sri Lankan politician, member of the Central Provincial Council, MP for Matale District.
• Mitch Leigh, 86, American Tony Award-winning composer (Man of La Mancha), pneumonia as a complication of a stroke.
• Yulisa Pat Amadu Maddy, 77, Sierra Leonean poet, playwright, novelist and political prisoner.
• Steve Moore, 64, British cartoonist and writer.
• Frank Oliver, 65, New Zealand rugby player and coach.
• Alexander Pochinok, 56, Russian economist, Minister of Taxes and Levies (1999â€"2000), Minister of Labor and Social Development (2000â€"2004), cardiac arrest.
• Chuck Scherza, 91, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins, New York Rangers).
• Cesare Segre, 85, Italian philologist, semiotician and literary critic.
• Nicholas Spaeth, 64, American lawyer, North Dakota Attorney General (1985â€"1992).
• Kenneth Wade, 81, British chemist.
• Denké Kossi Wazo, 55, Togolese footballer.

17

• Mareike Carrière, 59, German actress, cancer.
• Jim Compton, 72, American journalist (NBC News), heart attack.
• José Delicado Baeza, 87, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Valladolid (1975â€"2002).
• Mercy Edirisinghe, 68, Sri Lankan actress and singer.
• Charley Feeney, 89, American sportswriter.
• Gene Feist, 91, American playwright and theatre director, co-founder of the Roundabout Theater Company.
• Marek GaliÅ„ski, 39, Polish Olympic cyclist (1996, 2000, 2004, 2008), traffic collision.
• Joseph Kerman, 89, American musicologist.
• Donald Michael Kraig, 62, American occultist author and practitioner, pancreatic cancer.
• Paddy McGuigan, 74, Irish songwriter ("The Men Behind the Wire", "The Boys of the Old Brigade") and musician (The Barleycorn).
• Rachel Lambert Mellon, 103, American horticulturalist and arts patron.
• Oswald Morris, 98, British cinematographer (Fiddler on the Roof, The Guns of Navarone, Oliver!).
• Antoni Opolski, 100, Polish physicist, natural causes.
• Mohamed Salah Jedidi, 76, Tunisian footballer (Club Africain).
• L'Wren Scott, 49, American fashion designer and model, suicide by hanging.
• Egon Sendler, 90, German-born French Jesuit priest and art historian.
• James E. Stowers, 90, American investment management executive and philanthropist, founder of American Century Investments.
• Roy Trantham, 73, American stock car racing driver.
• Quinto Vadi, 92, Italian Olympic gymnast (1948, 1952).

18

• Catherine Obianuju Acholonu, 62, Nigerian academic and feminist scholar, kidney failure.
• Jeffrey Anderson, 85, Canadian broadcaster, journalist and producer, CBC London bureau chief.
• Jorge Arvizu, 81, Mexican voice actor, heart failure.
• Karl Baumgartner, 65, Italian-born German film producer (Le Havre, Underground).
• Albert Dormer, 88, British bridge player.
• Kaiser Kalambo, 60, Zambian football player and coach, prostate cancer.
• Derek Knee, 91, British military interpreter (Field Marshal Montgomery).
• Serhiy Kokurin, 36, Ukrainian soldier, shot.
• Joe Lala, 66, American musician and actor (Monsters, Inc., On Deadly Ground), complications from lung cancer.
• Tivadar Monostori, 77, Hungarian footballer (Dorogi FC).
• Molavi Ahmad Narouei, 50-51, Iranian Sunni theologian, human rights activist and journalist.
• Lucius Shepard, 70, American science fiction author.
• Ara Shiraz, 72, Armenian architect and sculptor, complications from stroke.
• Ben Staartjes, 85, Dutch Olympic sailor.

19

• Robert Butler, 70, American artist, member of The Highwaymen, complications from diabetes.
• Ken Forsse, 77, American inventor and television producer, creator of the Teddy Ruxpin, heart failure.
• Patrick Joseph McGovern, 76, American technology executive, founder and chairman of IDG.
• Ernest Mühlen, 87, Luxembourgian politician, MEP (1984â€"1989), MP (1989â€"1991).
• Fred Phelps, 84, American pastor and anti-gay activist, founder of the Westboro Baptist Church.
• Philip Saliba, 82, Lebanese-born American Orthodox prelate, Metropolitan of the AOCANA (since 1966).
• Enric Ribelles, 80, Spanish footballer.
• Heather Robertson, 72, Canadian journalist (Winnipeg Free Press) and author, cancer.
• Robert S. Strauss, 95, American politician and diplomat, Ambassador to Russia (1991â€"1992).
• László SzÅ'ke, 83, Hungarian footballer.
• Hank Utley, 89, American author and historian, executive director of Boys Club.
• Lawrence Walsh, 102, American lawyer and judge, Independent Counsel for the Iranâ€"Contra affair, member of the US District Court for Southern New York (1954â€"1957).
• Joseph F. Weis, Jr., 91, American judge, U.S. Court of Appeals â€" Third Circuit (1973â€"1988), U.S. District Court for Western Pennsylvania (1970â€"1973), kidney failure.

20

• Ragesh Asthana, 51, Ugandan-born Indian actor, heart attack.
• Hennie Aucamp, 80, South African poet, short story writer, cabaretist and academic.
• Iñaki Azkuna, 71, Spanish Basque politician, Mayor of Bilbao (since 1999), prostate cancer.
• Hilderaldo Bellini, 83, Brazilian footballer, two-time World Cup winner (1958, 1962), complications from a heart attack.
• Helena Belmonte, 28, American fashion model, suicide by jumping.
• Andrzej Grzegorczyk, 91, Polish mathematician.
• Judy Harrow, 69, American author and Wiccan priestess.
• Dick Heller, 76, American sportswriter (The Washington Times).
• Thomas Jolley, 70, American antiâ€"war protester.
• Mohamed Mjid, 97, Moroccan politician.
• Tonie Nathan, 91, American politician, first woman to receive an electoral vote in a presidential election, Alzheimer's disease.
• Tommy O'Connell, 83, American football player (Cleveland Browns, Buffalo Bills).
• Ahmad Sardar, 40, Afghan journalist (Agence France-Presse), shot.
• Khushwant Singh, 99, Indian journalist and author (Train to Pakistan).
• William Toomath, 88, New Zealand architect.
• Marc-Adélard Tremblay, 91, Canadian anthropologist.
• Murray Weidenbaum, 87, American economist, Chairperson of the Council of Economic Advisers (1981â€"1982).

21

• Qoriniasi Bale, 85, Fijian lawyer and politician, Attorney-General (1984â€"1987, 2001â€"2006).
• Bill Boedeker, 90, American football player.
• Jim Brasco, 83, American basketball player.
• Jack Fleck, 92, American professional golfer, winner of the U.S. Open (1955).
• Linda Gerard, 75, American cabaret artist, cancer.
• Michael Henley, 76, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane (1995â€"2004).
• Ignatius Zakka I Iwas, 80, Iraqi religious leader, Patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church (since 1980).
• Dennis Jackson, 82, English footballer. (death announced on this date)
• Terry David Jones, 75, Canadian politician.
• Vincent Lamberti, 86, American medical researcher, developed the original Dove Soap bar, complications from heart failure.
• André Lavagne, 100, French composer.
• Simeon Oduoye, 68, Nigerian politician, Senator for Osun (2003â€"2007).
• Kiril Pandov, 85, Bulgarian footballer (PFC Spartak Varna).
• Kostis Papagiorgis, 66, Greek writer and translator.
• Nenad Petrović, 88, Serbian writer.
• James Rebhorn, 65, American actor (Scent of a Woman, Independence Day, Homeland), melanoma.
• Oddvar Rønnestad, 78, Norwegian alpine skier.
• Adrian Taylor, 60, American television news producer (60 Minutes, The Early Show), winner of the Peabody Award (2013), pancreatic cancer.
• Sir Colin Turner, 92, British politician, MP for Woolwich West (1959â€"1964).
• William Vahey, 64, American schoolteacher and child molester, suicide by stabbing.

22

• Yashwant Vithoba Chittal, 85, Indian Sahitya Akademi Award-winning author (The Boy who Talked to Trees).
• Mickey Duff, 84, Polish-born British boxing manager and promoter, International Boxing Hall of Fame inductee (1999).
• Kurt Rudolf Fischer, 92, Austrian philosopher.
• Riina Gerretz, 74, Estonian pianist.
• Hamza Abu al-Haija, c. 23, Palestinian militant (Hamas), military raid.
• Yngve A. A. Larsson, 97, Swedish pediatrician, professor of medicine and diabetologist.
• Thor Listau, 75, Norwegian politician, Minister of Fisheries (1981â€"1985), MP for Finnmark (1973â€"1985).
• Robert Meyers, 89, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Tasos Mitsopoulos, 48, Cypriot politician, Defence Minister (2014), MP (2006â€"2013), complications from a brain haemorrhage.
• Ken Plant, 88, English footballer (Nuneaton Borough, Colchester United).
• Lou Rell, 73, American Naval and commercial aviator, First Gentleman of Connecticut (2004â€"2011), cancer.
• Siddakatte Chennappa Shetty, 62, Indian Yakshagana orator.
• Patrice Wymore, 87, American actress (The Errol Flynn Theatre, Ocean's 11) and philanthropist, natural causes.

23

• Ashley Booth, 74, Scottish footballer (St. Johnstone, East Fife).
• Carmelo Bossi, 74, Italian Olympic silver-medalist boxer (1960).
• Dave Brockie, 50, Canadian-born American heavy metal singer (Gwar), heroin overdose.
• Jack Clancy, 79, Australian football player.
• Bobby Croft, 68, Canadian basketball player (Kentucky Colonels, Texas Chaparrals), first Canadian to get a full scholarship to NCAA school for basketball.
• Miller M. Duris, 86, American politician, Mayor of Hillsboro, Oregon (1973â€"1977).
• Walter Ewbank, 96, British Anglican prelate, Archdeacon of Westmorland and Furness (1971â€"1977), Archdeacon of Carlisle (1978â€"1984).
• David Henshaw, 74, New Zealand cartoonist.
• Roy Peter Martin, 83, British author.
• Jürg Neuenschwander, 67, Swiss organist and composer.
• Peter Oakley, 86, British Internet vlogger.
• William Peters, 90, British diplomat and activist (Jubilee 2000).
• Parviz C. Radji, 78, Iranian diplomat, Ambassador to the United Kingdom (1976â€"1979).
• Jaroslav Å erých, 86, Czech painter, printmaker and illustrator.
• Miroslav Å tÄ›pán, 68, Czechoslovakian politician, member of the Central Committee for the Communist Party (1988â€"1989), complications from cancer.
• Adolfo Suárez, 81, Spanish politician and lawyer, Prime Minister (1976â€"1981), Duke of Suárez (since 1981), respiratory infection.

24

• Giuseppe Agostino, 85, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Crotone-Santa Severina (1973â€"1998) and Cosenza-Bisignano (1998â€"2004).
• Robert F. Coleman, American mathematician.
• Margaret di Menna, 90, New Zealand microbiologist.
• Rusi Dinshaw, 86, Pakistani cricketer.
• Arne Løvlie, 83, Norwegian zoologist.
• Jean-François Mattéi, 73, French philosopher.
• Tom Mikula, 87, American football player (Brooklyn Dodgers).
• Oleksandr Muzychko, 51, Ukrainian political activist, shot.
• Bryan Orritt, 77, Welsh footballer (Birmingham City, Middlesbrough), stroke.
• Kuldeep Pawar, 65, Indian actor, kidney failure.
• Paulo Schroeber, 40, Brazilian guitarist (Almah), heart failure.
• John Rowe Townsend, 81, British children's author (The Intruder).
• David A. Trampier, 59, American fantasy gaming artist (Dungeons & Dragons).
• Rodney Wilkes, 89, Trinidadian Olympic silver- and bronze-medalist weightlifter (1948, 1952).

25

• Lorna Arnold, 98, British nuclear historian and author, stroke.
• Harm de Blij, 78, Dutch-born American geographer.
• Dil Bahadur Lama, 84, Nepali politician and police official, cardiac arrest.
• Hank Lauricella, 83, American Hall of Fame football player (Tennessee Volunteers) and politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives (1966â€"1972) and Senate (1972â€"1996).
• Eddie Lawrence, 95, American actor, comedian and singer.
• Jon Lord, 57, Canadian politician, Alberta MLA for Calgary-Currie (2001â€"2004), heart attack.
• Nicky McFadden, 51, Irish politician, TD for Longfordâ€"Westmeath (since 2011), complications from motor neurone disease.
• Ángel César Mendoza Arámburo, 79, Mexican politician, Governor of Baja California Sur (1975â€"1981).
• Nanda, 75, Indian actress (Teen Devian, Gumnaam, Chhoti Bahen), heart attack.
• Frank O'Keeffe, 91, Irish Gaelic football player (Kerry).
• Mohammad Ebrahim Bastani Parizi, 89, Iranian historian and author.
• Reinhold Pommer, 79, Germam Olympic cyclist (1956).
• Joseph Purtill, 86, American politician and judge, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives (1959â€"1961).
• Jerry Roberts, 93, British wartime codebreaker, member of the Testery unit.
• Sonny Ruberto, 68, American baseball player (San Diego Padres), cancer.
• Jonathan Schell, 70, American author, journalist and anti-war activist, cancer.
• Thi. Ka. Sivasankaran, 88, Indian Sahitya Akademi Award-winning author and literary critic.
• Ralph Wilson, 95, American Hall of Fame football team owner (Buffalo Bills) and racehorse breeder (Arazi), co-founder of the AFL.
• Lode Wouters, 84, Belgian Olympic gold- and bronze-medalist cyclist (1948).

26

• Roger Birkman, 95, American organizational psychologist.
• George Bookasta, 96, American child actor, pneumonia.
• Chu Teh-Chun, 93, Chinese-born French painter.
• John Disney, 94, Australian ornithologist.
• Warren Forma, 90, American documentary filmmaker and author.
• Barbara Halloran Gibbons, 80, American cookbook author and columnist.
• Dick Guidry, 84, American politician, member of the Louisiana House of Representatives (1950â€"1954, 1964â€"1976).
• Tom Jones, 90, Australian politician, Member for Collie (1968â€"1989).
• Marcus Kimball, Baron Kimball, 85, British politician, MP for Gainsborough (1956â€"1983).
• Wolfgang Kirchgässner, 85, German Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Freiburg im Breisgau (1979â€"1998).
• Thomas Landauer, 81, American experimental psychologist.
• George Lerchen, 91, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Cincinnati Redlegs).
• Harry Novak, 86, American producer.
• Mark Stock, 62, American artist, enlarged heart.

27

• Francine Beers, 89, American actress (Law & Order, Three Men and a Baby, Keeping the Faith).
• Bertrando, 25, American Thoroughbred Champion racehorse (Woodward Stakes, Goodwood Breeder's Cup Handicap, Pacific Classic Stakes).
• Al Cihocki, 89, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians).
• Kent Cochrane, 62, Canadian amnesiac, had one of the most studied human brains.
• Max Coll, 82, American politician, member of the New Mexico House of Representatives (1972â€"2004), stroke.
• Jean-Claude Colliard, 68, French political scientist and politician, member of the Constitutional Council (1998â€"2007).
• Nevio de Zordo, 71, Italian Olympic silver-medalist bobsledder (1972).
• Augustin Deleanu, 69, Romanian footballer (Dinamo BucureÈ™ti).
• Jeffery Dench, 85, British actor (First Knight).
• Richard N. Frye, 94, American scholar of Armenian studies.
• Hal M. Lattimore, 93, American judge, member of the Texas Court of Appeals.
• Per Lillo-Stenberg, 85, Norwegian actor.
• Joseph Madachy, 87, American research chemist and mathematician, editor of Journal of Recreational Mathematics.
• Derek Martinus, 82, British television director (Doctor Who, Blake's 7, Z-Cars), Alzheimer's disease.
• Gina Pellón, 87, Cuban painter.
• P. Ramdas, 83, Indian film director, winner of the J. C. Daniel Award (2007).
• Joseph Rigano, 80, American actor (Casino, Mickey Blue Eyes, Analyze This), throat cancer.
• James R. Schlesinger, 85, American government official, Director of the CIA (1973), Secretary of Defense (1973â€"1975), Secretary of Energy (1977â€"1979), pneumonia.
• Michael Schofield, 94, British sociologist and campaigner.

28

• Godwin Olusegun Kolawole Ajayi, 82, Nigerian lawyer.
• Jeremiah Denton, 89, American politician and military officer, Senator from Alabama (1981â€"1987), recipient of the Navy Cross, complications from a heart ailment.
• Edwin Kagin, 73, American lawyer, national legal director for the American Atheists, heart disease.
• Michael F. Lappert, 85, British chemist.
• Billy Longley, 88, Australian criminal.
• Sam McAughtry, 91, Northern Irish writer and broadcaster.
• Godfrey Mdimi Mhogolo, Tanzanian Anglican prelate, Bishop of Central Tanganyika (since 1989), lung infection.
• Michael Putney, 67, Australian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Townsville (since 2001), stomach cancer.
• Lorenzo Semple, Jr., 91, American screenwriter (Batman, Flash Gordon, Three Days of the Condor).
• Noel Sheppard, 53, American media critic and blogger (NewsBusters), cancer.
• Avraham Yaski, 86, Romanian-born Israeli architect and academic, recipient of the Israel Prize (1982).

29

• Hobart Alter, 80, American surfer and boat designer (Hobie cat).
• Lelio Antoniotti, 86, Italian footballer.
• Catherine Hayes Bailey, 92, American plant geneticist.
• Mark Chamberlain, 82, American educator, President of Rowan University (1969â€"1984).
• Yosef Hamadani Cohen, 98, Iranian Jewish prelate, Chief Rabbi of Iran (since 1994).
• Karl Spillman Forester, 73, American judge, member of the US District Court for Eastern Kentucky (since 1988).
• Robin Gibson, 83, Australian architect (Queensland Cultural Centre). (death announced on this date)
• Elbert Gill, 82, American politician, member of the Tennessee House of Representatives (1966â€"1986).
• Billy Mundi, 71, American drummer (The Mothers of Invention, Rhinoceros).
• Marc Platt, 100, American dancer and actor (Oklahoma!, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers).
• OldÅ™ich Å kácha, 72, Czech photographer and dissident.
• Ron Stott, 76, American politician, member of the New York State Assembly (1975â€"1977), Mayor of North Syracuse, New York (1971â€"1974).
• Birgitta Valberg, 97, Swedish actress.
• Dane Witherspoon, 56, American actor (Santa Barbara).

30

• Muhammadu Kudu Abubakar, 52, Nigerian Emir of Agaie (since 2004).
• Robert Billingham, 56, American Olympic silver medal-winning sailor (1988), official and skipper, member of 1992 America's Cup winning team.
• Richard Black, 92, American commercial artist and landscape painter, creator of the Mr. Clean and Smokey Bear mascots.
• Gerardo D'Ambrosio, 83, Italian politician and magistrate.
• Michael Edmonds, 87, British artist, co-founder of 56 Group Wales.
• Sir David Gibbons, 85, Bermudian politician, Premier (1977â€"1982).
• Jan de Graaff, 70, Dutch television journalist.
• Ray Hutchison, 81, American politician, member of the Texas House of Representatives (1973â€"1977).
• Keizō Kanie, 69, Japanese actor.
• Kate O'Mara, 74, English actress (The Brothers, Dynasty, Doctor Who).
• Fred Stansfield, 96, Welsh international footballer.
• Phuntsok Wangyal, 92, Chinese Tibetan politician, military leader and government critic, led invasion of Tibet (1950â€"1951).

31

• Gonzalo Anes, 82, Spanish historian.
• Anthony Beattie, 69, British civil servant.
• Irene Fernandez, 67, Malaysian advocate for women and migrant workers, heart failure.
• WÅ‚adysÅ‚aw Filipowiak, 87, Polish archaeologist and historian.
• Bryan Gahol, 36, Filipino basketball player, traffic collision.
• David Hannay, 74, Australian film producer.
• Edmond Harjo, 96, American Seminole Code Talker during World War II, recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal (2013), heart attack.
• Ben Johnson, 74, American Makah tribal politician and fisheries expert, heart attack.
• Charles Keating, 90, American banker, key figure in the savings and loan crisis.
• Frankie Knuckles, 59, American disc jockey and record producer, complications from diabetes.
• Bob Larbey, 79, British comedy scriptwriter (Please Sir!, The Good Life, As Time Goes By).
• Ferdinand Masset, 93, Swiss politician, natural causes.
• Jimmy Newton, 37, American Southern Ute tribal chief, Chairman of the Reservation (since 2011).
• Bob Ringma, 85, Canadian politician and army officer.
• Enrique Plancarte Solís, 43, Mexican drug lord, shot.
• Roger Somville, 90, Belgian painter.
• Asep Sunandar Sunarya, 58, Indonesian wayang golek puppeteer, heart attack.
• Ahmet Yorulmaz, Turkish writer.

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