Deaths in July 2013

The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.

July 2013

1

• Armand Baeyens, 85, Belgian racing cyclist.
• Jack Boles, 88, British Colonial Service officer.
• Sidney Bryan Berry, 87, American military officer, United States Military Academy at West Point chief, heart failure.
• Texas Johnny Brown, 85, American blues musician and songwriter.
• Victor Engström, 24, Swedish bandy player, liver cancer.
• Charles Foley, 82, American toy and board game inventor, co-creator of Twister, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Maurice Foley, 83, Australian cricketer and Olympic field hockey player.
• Stoyan Ganev, 57, Bulgarian diplomat and politician, Foreign Minister (1991–1992), President of the United Nations General Assembly (1992–1993), cancer.
• Rolf Graf, 53, Norwegian musician (Lava).
• William H. Gray III, 71, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania (1979–1991), House Majority Whip (1989–1991), natural causes.
• David Halvorson, 64, American politician, member of the Montana House of Representatives (since 2013), cancer.
• Paul Jenkins, 74, American actor (The Waltons, Chinatown, Dynasty).
• Ulrich Matschoss, 96, German actor.
• Mita Noor, 42, Bangladeshi actress, suicide by hanging.
• Rolf Nordhagen, 85, Norwegian physicist and computer scientist.
• Barbara Robotham, 77, English mezzo-soprano and voice teacher.
• Bent Schmidt-Hansen, 66, Danish footballer (PSV Eindhoven).
• Gary Shearston, 74, Australian singer and songwriter, stroke.
• Maarten van Roozendaal, 51, Dutch singer-songwriter, lung cancer.
• René Sparenberg, 94, Dutch field hockey player.
• Maureen Waaka, 70, New Zealand politician and pageant contestant, Miss World New Zealand (1962), complications from a stroke.
• Ján Zlocha, 71, Slovak footballer.

2

• Anthony G. Bosco, 85, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Greensburg (1987–2004).
• Gregory Carroll, 35, American operatic tenor, heart attack.
• Hilda Clayton, 22, American combat photographer, mortar shell explosion.
• Emilio Croci-Torti, 93, Swiss cyclist.
• Douglas Engelbart, 88, American scientist, inventor of the computer mouse, kidney failure.
• Fawzia Fuad of Egypt, 91, Egyptian royal, Queen consort of Iran (1941–1948).
• Nilo Floody, 91, Chilean Olympic modern pentathlete (1948, 1952, 1956).
• Armand Gaudreault, 91, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins).
• Bengt Hallberg, 80, Swedish jazz pianist.
• Sef Imkamp, 88, Dutch politician.
• Noboru Kousaka, 94, Japanese politician.
• Hugh Lee, 58, Taiwanese Golden Bell-award-winning television actor and theatre director, bowel cancer.
• Anthony Llewellyn, 80, Welsh-born American chemist and astronaut candidate (NASA).
• Paul Lorieau, 71, Canadian national anthem singer (Edmonton Oilers) and optometrist, cancer.
• Lothar Pongratz, 61, German Olympic bobsledder.
• Theodore Reed, 90, American zookeeper and administrator, director of the National Zoo (1958–1983), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Arlan Stangeland, 83, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Minnesota (1977–1991) and the Minnesota House of Representatives (1966–1975).

3

• Claude Arabo, 75, French Olympic fencer (1964).
• Thengamam Balakrishnan, 86, Indian politician, journalist and editor (Janayugom), Kerala MLA for Adoor (1970–1975).
• Roman Bengez, 49, Slovenian football player and manager.
• Ray Coates, 89, American football player (New York Giants).
• Vincenzo Cozzi, 86, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Melfi-Rapolla-Venosa (1981–2002).
• Johnny MacRae, 84, American country music composer.
• Azelio Manzetti, 84, Italian prelate, Chief Chaplain of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.
• Frank Morriss, 85, American film editor (Romancing the Stone, Short Circuit, Blue Thunder).
• John Nunn, 94, British Royal Air Force officer and politician.
• Kenneth Olayombo, 65, Nigerian footballer.
• Maria Pasquinelli, 100, Italian Fascist and murderer.
• Amar Roy Pradhan, 82, Indian politician, MP for Cooch Behar (1977–1999), West Bengal MLA for Mekhliganj (1962–1977).
• Francis Ray, 68, American writer.
• PJ Torokvei, 62, Canadian actor, producer and screenwriter (WKRP in Cincinnati, Real Genius), complications from liver failure.
• Radu Vasile, 70, Romanian politician, historian and poet, Prime Minister (1998–1999) and MP (1992–2004), colon cancer.
• Bernard Vitet, 77, French jazz musician and composer.
• Snoo Wilson, 64, English playwright and screenwriter, heart attack.

4

• Javier Artiñano, 70, Spanish film costume designer.
• John Barrington-Ward, 84, British Olympic sailor.
• Mynampati Bhaskar, 67, Indian writer and journalist.
• Bernardine Bishop, 73, English novelist and teacher, colon cancer.
• Onllwyn Brace, 80, Welsh rugby union player.
• Jim Buck, 81, American dog walker, complications of emphysema and cancer.
• Jack Crompton, 91, English footballer (Manchester United).
• Mahasundari Devi, 82, Indian Madhubani painter and artist, recipient of the Padma Shri award (2011).
• James Fulton, 73, American dermatologist and medical researcher, co-discoverer of Retin-A, colon cancer.
• Willie Hargreaves, 82, English rugby league player (York).
• Charles A. Hines, 77, American military officer, commander of Fort McClellan (1989–1994), heart attack.
• Hung Chung-chiu, 23, Taiwanese soldier, organ failure.
• Tony Licari, 92, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings).
• Innocent Lotocky, 97, Ukrainian-born American Ukrainian Greek Catholic hierarch, Bishop of the Western United States (1981–1993).
• Iain McColl, 59, Scottish actor (Gangs of New York), cancer.
• Madan Mohan Mishra, 81, Nepalese author.
• Bernie Nolan, 52, Irish singer (The Nolans) and actress, breast cancer.
• Oliver Red Cloud, 93, American Oglala Sioux chief.
• Leslie Lloyd Rees, 94, British prelate, Anglican Bishop of Shrewsbury (1980–1986).
• Pamela Ropner, 82, British author.
• Ahmed Rushdi, 89, Egyptian interior minister (1984–1986).
• Robert L. Rutherford, 74, American general, natural causes.
• Richard Waters, 77, American artist, inventor of the waterphone.

5

• Akitsugu Amata, 85, Japanese swordsmith.
• Bud Asher, 88, American politician and football coach, Mayor of Daytona Beach, Florida (1995–2003).
• Duane Berentson, 84, American politician, member of the Washington House of Representatives (1962–1980), director of the WSDOT (1981–1993).
• David Cargo, 84, American politician, Governor of New Mexico (1967–1971), member of the New Mexico House of Representatives (1963–1967), complications from a stroke.
• Paul Couvret, 91, Dutch-born Australian politician and military veteran.
• Billy Cross, 84, American football player (Chicago Cardinals, Toronto Argonauts).
• John Curran, 59, American financial journalist and editor (Fortune, Bloomberg News), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Douglas Dayton, 88, American retail executive, founder of Target Corporation, cancer.
• Alice Masak French, 83, Canadian Inuvialuit author, poet and artist.
• Jean Guy, 90, American First Lady of North Dakota (1961–1973), complications from a stroke.
• Curtis Harnack, 86, American non-fiction author, President of Yaddo (1971–1987).
• Hue Hollins, 72, American NBA referee.
• Robert Lipka, 68, Soviet Union spy in USA.
• Clinton Pattea, 82, American politician, President of the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation.
• Gwyn Hanssen Pigott, 77, Australian ceramicist, stroke.
• Ama Quiambao, 65, Filipino actress, heart attack.
• Daniel Wegner, 65, Canadian-born American social psychologist.
• Lambert Jackson Woodburne, 73, South African vice admiral.
• Sheila Wright, 88, British politician, MP for Birmingham Handsworth (1979–1983).

6

• Erik Ahldén, 89, Swedish Olympic long-distance runner (1948).
• John Chun, 84, North Korean-born American car designer (Shelby Mustang, Tonka Toys), stomach cancer.
• John Hightower, 80, American museum director (Museum of Modern Art 1969–1970, Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk, Mariners' Museum 1993–2007).
• David Johnson, 67, British racehorse owner (Comply or Die), cancer.
• Rudy Keeling, 64, American college basketball coach (University of Maine, Northeastern University), Commissioner of the Eastern College Athletic Conference (2007–2013).
• Santo Krishnan, 93, Indian actor and stunt man.
• Robert Linderholm, 79, American astronomer.
• Lo Hsing Han, 77, Burmese drug trafficker and business tycoon (Asia World), heart failure.
• Thomas F. Malone, 96, American geophysicist.
• Leland Mitchell, 72, American basketball player (New Orleans Buccaneers).
• Tony Naughton, 61, Australian academic.
• Hamilton Nichols, 88, American NFL football player.
• Ruben J. Villote, 80, Filipino Roman Catholic priest and activist.
• Josip Torbar, 91, Croatian politician.
• Senji Yamaguchi, 82, Japanese atomic bomb survivor (Nagasaki) and anti-war activist.

7

• James Bean, 80, American politician, member of the Mississippi Senate (1988–2000), complications from a stroke.
• William Grant Black, 93, American prelate, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Southern Ohio.
• John Bockris, 90, South African–born American scientist.
• Sudhakar Bokade, 57, Indian film producer (Izzatdaar, Saajan), complications from heart attack.
• Berna Carrasco, 98, Chilean chess master.
• Tom Christian, 77, Pitcairn Island radio operator, complications from a stroke.
• Joe Conley, 85, American actor (The Waltons, Cast Away, Mister Ed), complications from dementia.
• MC Daleste, 20, Brazilian rapper, shot.
• Artur Hajzer, 51, Polish climber, fall.
• Robert Hamerton-Kelly, 74, South African-born American Christian theologian and academic.
• Rosalind Hudson, 86, British codebreaker and architectural model maker.
• Donald J. Irwin, 86, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Connecticut (1959–1961, 1965–1969), heart failure.
• Barbara Erickson London, 93, American pilot.
• François Xavier Nguyên Quang Sách, 88, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Đà Nẵng (1988–2000).
• Ben Pucci, 88, American football player.
• Charles Quinn, 82, American journalist (NBC News), heart failure.
• Alfred Rozelaar Green, 96, British artist.
• Charles Sowa, 80, Luxembourgian race walker and coach.
• Joan Stambaugh, 81, American philosopher.
• Anna Wing, 98, British actress (EastEnders, Son of Rambow).

8

• Norman Atkinson, 90, British politician, MP for Tottenham (1964–1987).
• Robert Bossenger, 72, South African cricketer.
• Chase, 13, American golden retriever, bat dog and mascot for the Trenton Thunder, cancer.
• Albert Dehert, 91, Belgian footballer (K. Berchem Sport).
• Berhanu Dinka, 78, Ethiopian diplomat and economist, Ambassador to Djibouti, Canada, the U.S. and the United Nations, cancer.
• Paul Feiler, 95, German-born British painter (St. Ives School).
• Dick Gray, 81, American baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers, St. Louis Cardinals).
• Bob Hardesty, 82, American speechwriter (Lyndon B. Johnson), heart failure.
• Dave Hickson, 83, British footballer.
• James Loper, 81, American television executive (KCET), director of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (1984–1999).
• Eunice Macaulay, 90, British-born Academy Award–winning animator.
• Edmund Morgan, 97, American historian and author.
• Joaquín Piña Batllevell, 83, Spanish-born Argentinian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Puerto Iguazú (1986–2006).
• Tunggan Mangudadatu Piang, Filipino politician, ARMM MLA for Maguindanao, heart attack.
• Nadezhda Popova, 91, Russian military pilot, awarded Hero of the Soviet Union.
• Claudiney Ramos, 33, Brazilian-born Equatorial Guinean footballer, malaria.
• Rubby Sherr, 99, American physicist and academic, member of the Manhattan Project, co-inventor of Fuchs-Sherr modulated neutron initiator.
• Sir Ian Sinclair, 87, British lawyer.
• Sabawi Ibrahim al-Tikriti, 66, Iraqi intelligence officer, half brother of Saddam Hussein, cancer.
• Sundri Uttamchandani, 88, Indian writer.
• Brett Walker, 51, American songwriter, musician and record producer.
• Frank Woodrow Wilson, 89, American politician, member of Louisiana House of Representatives.

9

• Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko, 93, Russian historian and writer.
• Guido Breña López, 82, Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Ica (1973–2007).
• Markus Büchel, 54, Liechtenstein politician, Prime Minister (1993).
• Arturo Cruz, 89, Nicaraguan economist and politician.
• Andrzej Czyżniewski, 59, Polish footballer, heart attack.
• Fasliyev, 16, American Thoroughbred racehorse and active sire.
• Jim Foglesong, 90, American country music executive (Capitol Records) and producer (Garth Brooks), Country Music Hall of Fame inductee (2004).
• Mary Ellen Hopkins, 79-80, American quilter and author, stroke.
• Kiril of Varna, 59, Bulgarian Orthodox hierarch, Metropolitan of Varna and Veliki Preslav (since 1989), drowning.
• Rasu Madhuravan, 44, Indian Tamil film director, cancer.
• Željko Malnar, 69, Croatian writer and documentarist.
• J. Paul McGrath, 72, American attorney.
• Kirsty Milne, 49, Scottish journalist and academic, lung cancer.
• Andrew Nori, 60-61, Solomon Islands politician and coup leader, Minister for Home Affairs (1984–1988), Minister for Finance (1993–1994).
• Johannes Østtveit, 86, Norwegian politician.
• Marsi Paribatra, 81, Thai royal and artist.
• Robert Pechous, 79, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives (1977–1983).
• Bhagwati Prasad, Indian politician, Uttar Pradesh MLA for Ikauna (1967–1969, 1969–1974), multiple organ failure.
• Barbara Robinson, 85, American children's author (The Best Christmas Pageant Ever), cancer.
• Toshi Seeger, 91, American environmental activist and filmmaker, founder of the Clearwater Festival.
• Gaétan Soucy, 54, Canadian novelist, heart attack.
• Andrea Veneracion, 84, Filipino singer, National Artist (1999), founder of the University of the Philippines Madrigal Singers.
• George Weissbort, 85, Belgian-born British artist.
• Masao Yoshida, 58, Japanese nuclear engineer, chief manager of the Fukushima Daiichi plant during the 2011 nuclear disaster, esophageal cancer.

10

• Audrey Amiss, 79, British Artist (1933-2013).
• Colin Bennetts, 72, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Coventry (1998–2008), brain tumour.
• Philip Caldwell, 93, American corporate executive, Chairman and CEO of the Ford Motor Company (1979–1985), complications from a stroke.
• Willem Adriaan Cruywagen, 91-92, South African politician.
• Józef Gara, 84, Polish linguist and Wymysorys language activist.
• Concha García Campoy, 54, Spanish radio and television journalist, leukemia.
• Caroline Duby Glassman, 90, American judge, first woman appointed to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court (1983–1997).
• Kemal Güven, 91-92, Turkish politician, Speaker of the Grand National Assembly (1973–1977).
• Ilan Halevi, 69, French-born Palestinian diplomat and adviser.
• Ana Emilia Lahitte, 91, Argentine writer.
• Gokulananda Mahapatra, 92, Indian science fiction and children's author.
• Dicky Mayes, 90, English cricketer.
• Walter McCaffrey, 64, American activist and politician (New York City Council, 1985–2001), complications from a traffic collision.
• Awadh Kishore Narain, 88, Indian historian.
• Ku Ok-hee, 56, South Korean golfer, President of the Korean LPGA (2011–2012), heart attack.
• Paschal O'Hare, 81, Irish solicitor and politician.
• K.V.Ramesh, 78, Indian epigraphist.
• Mabel Sonnier Savoie, 73, American singer and guitar player.
• William Ralph Turner, 93, British painter.
• Ibrahim Youssef, 54, Egyptian Olympic (1984) footballer (Zamalek SC), heart attack.

11

• Zeb Alley, 84, American politician, member of the North Carolina Senate (1971–1973), recipient of Bronze Star Medal.
• Emik Avakian, 90, American inventor.
• Egbert Brieskorn, 77, German mathematician.
• Nookala Chinna Satyanarayana, 89, Indian Carnatic musician.
• Robert Crichton-Brown, 93, Australian businessman.
• Aarne Nuorvala, 101, Finnish jurist.
• Eugene Parks Wilkinson, 94, American naval officer and nuclear power advocate, first CO of the USS Long Beach, founding CEO of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations.

12

• Mathieu Bénézet, 67, French writer and poet.
• M. Bhaskar, 78, South Indian filmmaker, heart attack.
• Paul Bhattacharjee, 53, British actor (EastEnders, Casino Royale, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel), suicide.
• Amar Bose, 83, American audio executive, founder of Bose Corporation.
• Derek Brown, 80, Scottish rugby union player.
• Ray Butt, 78, British television director and producer (Only Fools and Horses).
• Pratap Chitnis, Baron Chitnis, 77, British politician, Head of the Liberal Party Organisation (1966–1969).
• Robert Fukuda, 91, American politician and lawyer, member of the Hawaii House of Representatives (1959–1962).
• Antun Kropivšek, 88, Croatian Olympic gymnast.
• Mohammed Adam Mallik, 61, Indian political leader, president of Majlis Bachao Tehreek, cardiac arrest.
• Elaine Morgan, 92, Welsh writer, feminist and evolutionary theorist (The Aquatic Ape).
• Pran, 93, Indian actor, pneumonia.
• Takako Takahashi, 81, Japanese novelist and French language translator, heart failure.
• James L. Voss, 79, American veterinarian and equine specialist, Dean of CSU College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (1986–2001).
• Alan Whicker, 91, British journalist and broadcaster (Whicker's World), bronchial pneumonia.
• Abu Zahar Ithnin, 74, Malaysian politician, complications from kidney disease.

13

• Henry Paget, 7th Marquess of Anglesey, 90, British nobleman and author.
• Bana, 81, Cape Verdean morna singer and musician, multiple organ failure.
• Bertha Becker, 82, Brazilian geographer.
• John Cowdery, 83, American politician, member of the Alaska House of Representatives (1983–1985, 1997–2000) and Senate (2001–2009).
• Leonard Garment, 89, American lawyer and presidential adviser, central figure in Watergate scandal.
• William E. Glenn, 87, American inventor and academic.
• Louis G. Hill, 89, American politician and judge.
• Henri Julien, 84, French car industrialist (Automobiles Gonfaronnaises Sportives).
• Cory Monteith, 31, Canadian actor (Glee, Kyle XY, Monte Carlo) and singer, heroin and alcohol overdose.
• Ottavio Quattrocchi, 74, Italian businessman, central figure in the Bofors scandal, heart attack.
• Sharmila Rege, 48, Indian sociologist, feminist and author, complications from colon cancer.
• Mona Røkke, 73, Norwegian politician, MP (1977–1989), Justice Minister (1981–1985), cancer.
• Vernon B. Romney, 89, American politician, Utah Attorney General (1969–1977).
• Marc Simont, 97, French-born American children's book illustrator, Caldecott Medal winner for A Tree is Nice (1957).
• George W. Stocking, Jr., 84, American historian.
• Kip Tokuda, 66, American politician, member of the Washington House of Representatives (1994–2002), heart attack.

14

• Tonino Accolla, 64, Italian actor and voice actor.
• Herbert M. Allison, 69, American financial executive (Merrill Lynch), Assistant US Secretary of the Treasury (2009–2010), oversaw TARP, heart attack.
• Matt Batts, 91, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Detroit Tigers).
• Dennis Burkley, 67, American actor (King of the Hill, The Doors, Murphy's Romance), heart attack.
• Flemming Hansen, 64, Danish Olympic handball player (1972).
• Simmie Hill, 66, American basketball player.
• Thad J. Jakubowski, 89, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago (1988–2003).
• Jenny Lay, 74, British politician, Lord Mayor of Norwich, cancer.
• Saturnino Rustrián, 70, Guatemalan Olympic road racing cyclist (1968).
• George Smith, 92, British footballer (Manchester City).
• Bill Warner, 44, American motorcycle racer, set land speed record on a conventional motorcycle (2011), motorcycle collision.
• Vladimir Mikhailovich Zakharov, 67, Russian choreographer.

15

• Ninos Aho, 68, Syrian Assyrian poet and activist.
• Gordon Belcourt, 68, American Blackfeet tribal executive and social advocate.
• Henry Braden, 68, American politician, member of the Louisiana State Senate (1978–1984), heart failure.
• Aldo Calderón van Dyke, 45, Honduran journalist and news anchor, poisoning.
• Tom Greenwell, 57, American judge, suicide by gunshot.
• Earl Gros, 72, American football player (Green Bay Packers, Philadelphia Eagles).
• Reiner Kossmann, 86, German Olympic ice hockey player.
• Noël Lee, 88, Chinese-born French-American classical pianist and composer.
• Meskerem Legesse, 26, Ethiopian Olympic runner (2004), heart attack.
• John T. Riedl, 51, American computer scientist, melanoma.

16

• Robert Ackman, 85, Canadian chemist.
• Nobuyuki Aihara, 78, Japanese gymnast.
• Todd Bennett, 51, British Olympic runner (1988) and silver medalist (1984), cancer.
• Talia Castellano, 13, American internet celebrity, neuroblastoma.
• Alex Colville, 92, Canadian painter.
• Barun De, 80, Indian historian and academic.
• Elmer T. Lee, 93, American drink distiller.
• Torbjørn Falkanger, 85, Norwegian Olympic silver medalist ski jumper (1952).
• T-Model Ford, 93, American blues musician, respiratory failure.
• Sundararajan Krishna, 75, Indian cricketer.
• Mario Laserna Pinzón, 89, French-born Colombian educator, diplomat and politician, Ambassador to France and Austria, Senator (1991–1995), Alzheimer's disease.
• Don McIntyre, 98, Australian football player (Carlton Football Club).
• Frank Moretti, 69, American academic. (death announced on this date)
• Shringar Nagaraj, 74, Indian film producer and actor, kidney failure.
• Carlotta Nobile, 24, Italian art historian, violinist, writer and blogger, melanoma.
• Camilla Odhnoff, 85, Swedish politician, Governor of Blekinge County (1974–1992).
• Hassan Pakandam, 79, Iranian Olympic boxer (1964).
• Yuri Prokhorov, 83, Russian mathematician.
• Marv Rotblatt, 85, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).
• Brian Sollitt, 74, British inventor, heart attack.

17

• Henri Alleg, 91, British-born French-Algerian journalist.
• Peter Appleyard, 84, British-born Canadian jazz musician and composer, natural causes.
• Vincenzo Cerami, 72, Italian screenwriter (Life Is Beautiful).
• David Collins, 57, Irish restaurant designer (Gordon Ramsay at Royal Hospital Road, The Wolseley), skin cancer.
• Mansour Eid, 69, Lebanese writer. (death announced on this date)
• Adhemar Esquivel Kohenque, 82, Bolivian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tarija (1995–2004).
• Don Flye, 80, American tennis player.
• Sir Ian Gourlay, 92, British army general, Commandant General Royal Marines (1971–1975).
• Richard James, 87, American politician, member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives (1951–1954).
• Santosh Lal, 29, Indian cricketer, pancreatitis.
• George Lyn, 81, Jamaican politician, MP for North Central Clarendon (1993–2002), complications from a heart attack.
• Briony McRoberts, 56, British actress (Take the High Road), hit by train.
• Slobodan Obradov, 94, Serbian physician.
• Luis Ubiña, 73, Uruguayan footballer.
• Davie White, 80, Scottish football player and manager (Clyde, Rangers, Dundee).

18

• Olivier Ameisen, 60, French-born American cardiologist, myocardial infarction.
• Anatoly Budayev, 44, Belarusian footballer.
• John R. Deane, Jr., 94, American military officer, Commanding General of the 173rd Airborne Brigade and US Army Materiel Command.
• Mary Eide, 89, Norwegian politician.
• Ivar P. Enge, 90, Norwegian radiologist.
• Larry Grathwohl, 65, American informant, spied on Weather Underground for FBI, natural causes.
• Abdul Razak Abdul Hamid, 88, Malaysian academic, sole Malaysian survivor of Hiroshima atomic bomb.
• Francis X. Kane, 94, American space engineer.
• Willie Louis, 76, American key witness in Emmett Till murder trial.
• Kåre Lunden, 83, Norwegian historian.
• John H. Moore II, 85, American senior (former chief) judge, member of the US District Court for Middle Florida (since 1981), Florida Court of Appeals (1977–1981).
• Samar Mukherjee, 99, Indian politician, MP for Howrah (1971–1984), Senator (1986–1993), West Bengal MLA for Howrah (1957–1971), respiratory failure.
• C. Perumal, 62, Indian politician, Tamil Nadu MLA for Yercaud (1989–1996, since 2011), cardiac arrest.
• Vaughn Ross, 41, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Norman Sillman, 92, British sculptor and coin designer.
• Florentinus Sului Hajang Hau, 64, Indonesian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Samarinda (1993), Archbishop of Samarinda (since 2003).
• Vaali, 81, Indian Tamil lyricist, writer, poet and actor.

19

• Richard Carey, 84, American politician, member of the Maine House of Representatives (1967–1978), Maine Senate (1990–1998), mayor of Waterville (1970–1978).
• Paul Côté, 69, Canadian Olympic bronze medallist sailor (1972) and co-founder of Greenpeace.
• Leyla Erbil, 82, Tirkish writer.
• Mikhail Gorsheniov, 39, Russian punk rock musician (Korol i Shut), drug overdose.
• Fritz Griesser, 84, Swiss Olympic sprinter.
• Alan Hunt, 85, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Council (1961–1992).
• A K Azizul Huq, 84, Bangladeshi civil servant, Comptroller and Auditor General (1983–1989).
• Gordon McKenzie, 86, American Olympic long distance runner (1956, 1960).
• Ulla Mitzdorf, 69, German scientist.
• Geeto Mongol, 82, Canadian professional wrestler (Stampede Wrestling, WWWF).
• Simon Pimenta, 93, Indian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Bombay (1978–1996), Cardinal (1988–1996).
• Poncie Ponce, 80, American actor (Hawaiian Eye), heart failure.
• Wilf Proudfoot, 91, British politician, businessman and hypnotist, MP for Cleveland (1959–1964); Brighouse and Spenborough (1970–1974).
• Sarvesh Singh Seepu, 35, Indian politician, Uttar Pradesh MLA for Azamgarh (2007–2012), shot.
• Mel Smith, 60, English comedian and actor (Not the Nine O'Clock News, Alas Smith and Jones, The Princess Bride), heart attack.
• Bert Trautmann, 89, German footballer (Manchester City), heart failure.
• Phil Woosnam, 80, Welsh football player, coach and commissioner (NASL, 1968–1982), complications from prostate cancer and Alzheimer's disease.
• Peter Ziegler, 84, Swiss geologist.

20

• Efstathios Alexandris, 92, Greek lawyer and politician, MP (1977–1989), Minister of Justice (1981–1982), Minister for Mercantile Marine (1985–1987).
• John Casablancas, 70, American modeling agent and scout, founder of Elite Model Management, cancer.
• Leonel Duarte, 64, Portuguese Olympic wrestler.
• Pierre Fabre, 87, French pharmaceutical and cosmetics executive, founder of Laboratoires Pierre Fabre.
• André Grobéty, 80, Swiss footballer.
• Khurshed Alam Khan, 94, Indian politician, Governor of Goa (1989–1991) and Karnataka (1991–1999), aortic stenosis.
• Nkosiphendule Kolisile, 40, South African politician, traffic collision.
• Aleksandar Lilov, 80, Bulgarian politician and philosopher.
• Mark Mahowald, 81, American mathematician.
• Oommen Mathew, 73, Indian politician, Kerala MLA for Kuttanad (1980–1982).
• Kotagiri Vidyadhara Rao, 66, Indian politician, Andhra Pradesh MLA for Chintalapudi (1983–2004), cardiac arrest.
• Robert Ritson, 76, Australian politician, member of the South Australian Legislative Council (1979–1993).
• Augustus Rowe, 92, Canadian physician and politician, Newfoundland and Labrador MLA for Carbonear (1971–1975).
• Thomas Salmon, 100, Irish Anglican clergy, Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin (1969–1990).
• David Spenser, 79, Sri Lankan-born British radio play performer (Just William), actor and producer.
• Helen Thomas, 92, American journalist and author, member of the White House press corps.

21

• Andrea Antonelli, 25, Italian motorcycle racer (World Supersport Championship), race collision.
• Thony Belizaire, 58, Haitian news photographer (AFP), complications from respiratory difficulty.
• Yair Clavijo, 18, Peruvian footballer, cerebral edema.
• Ronnie Cutrone, 65, American artist.
• Det de Beus, 55, Dutch Olympic field hockey champion (1984) and bronze medal-winner (1988), cancer.
• Denys de La Patellière, 92, French film director (Marco the Magnificent) and novelist.
• Lourembam Brojeshori Devi, 32, Indian Olympic judoka (2000), complications from pregnancy.
• Sonny Gandee, 84, American football player (Detroit Lions).
• Irene Gleeson, 68, Australian humanitarian, throat cancer.
• Marvin Price, 81, American Negro league baseball player.
• Ugo Riccarelli, 59, Italian novelist, complications from a heart and lung transplant.
• Luis Fernando Rizo-Salom, 41, Colombian composer, hang–gliding accident.
• Jude Speyrer, 84, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Lake Charles (1980–2000).
• Vratislav Štěpánek, 83, Czech bishop.
• Fred Taylor, 93, American football coach (Texas Christian University, 1967–1970).
• Rodney Wallace, 64, American football player (Dallas Cowboys).

22

• John Tuson Bennett, 75, Australian solicitor and Holocaust denier.
• Guthrie S. Birkhead, Jr., 92, American educator and professor.
• Hugo Black, Jr., 91, American attorney.
• Natalie de Blois, 92, American architect.
• Dennis Farina, 69, American actor (Law & Order, Snatch, Midnight Run), pulmonary embolism.
• Ramon T. Jimenez, 89, Filipino lawyer.
• Ali Maow Maalin, 59, Somali health worker, last person to survive smallpox, malaria.
• Lawrie Reilly, 84, Scottish footballer (Hibernian F.C., national team).
• Mike Shipley, 56, Australian-born British Grammy Award-winning sound engineer and music producer (Def Leppard), apparent suicide.
• Chandrika Prasad Srivastava, 93, Indian civil servant, Chairman of the SCI, Secretary General of the IMO, recipient of the Padma Vibhushan (2009).
• Keron Thomas, 37, American train thief, heart attack.
• Rosalie E. Wahl, 88, American jurist, member of the Minnesota Supreme Court (1977–1994).

23

• Rona Anderson, 86, Scottish actress (Scrooge, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie).
• Dragan Babić, 76, Serbian journalist.
• Pauline Clarke, 92, English children's author.
• Arthur J. Collingsworth, 69, American diplomat, complications of bone marrow cancer.
• William P. Costas, 84, American politician, member of the Indiana Senate (1980–1988).
• Dominguinhos, 72, Brazilian composer and singer, infection and cardiac complications.
• Marvin Gray, 58, American murderer and suspected serial killer
• Emile Griffith, 75, U.S. Virgin Island boxer, world middleweight, junior middleweight and welterweight champion, complications from dementia.
• Kim Jong-hak, 61, South Korean television director, charcoal-burning suicide.
• Pino Massara, 82, Italian musician, composer, record producer and conductor.
• Red McManus, 88, American basketball coach (Creighton University).
• Károly Molnár, 69, Hungarian mechanical engineer and politician, minister without portfolio in charge of research and development (2008–2009).
• Mike Morwood, 62, Australian archaeologist, discoverer of the Flores hobbit, cancer.
• Mohammed Said Nabulsi, 85, Jordanian politician and banker.
• Ulrich Nitzschke, 79, German Olympic boxer.
• Jean Pede, 86, Belgian politician.
• Derek Percy, 64, Australian suspected serial killer and convicted child killer.
• Djalma Santos, 84, Brazilian footballer, two-time World Cup winner (1958, 1962), complications from pneumonia.
• Manjula Vijayakumar, 59, Indian actress, blood clot in the stomach.

24

• Enrique Beotas, 58, Spanish journalist and writer, injures from Santiago de Compostela derailment.
• Garry Davis, 91, American peace activist.
• Fred Dretske, 80, American philosopher and epistemologist.
• Arne Eriksen, 95, Norwegian footballer.
• Ernie Ernst, 88, American assistant district attorney.
• Virginia E. Johnson, 88, American sexologist (Masters & Johnson) and psychologist.
• Pius Langa, 74, South African judge, Chief Justice (2005–2009), member of the Constitutional Court (1994–2009).
• Chiwoniso Maraire, 37, Zimbabwean Mbira singer, lung infection.
• Ryuchi Matsuda, 75, Japanese martial arts writer.
• Adrian Shepherd, 74, British cellist.
• Donald Symington, 88, American actor (Annie Hall, Mighty Aphrodite), Parkinson's disease.
• Jim Underwood, 67, American Guamanian politician, member of the Legislature of Guam (1976–1984).

25

• Steve Berrios, 68, American jazz drummer.
• Mohamed Brahmi, 58, Tunisian politician and opposition leader, MP for Movement of the People (since 2011), shot.
• Peter Bridgeman, 80, British military officer.
• F. John Clendinnen, 88, Australian philosopher of science.
• Walter De Maria, 77, American sculptor (The Lightning Field), stroke.
• Graeme Farrell, 70, Australian cricketer.
• León Ferrari, 92, Argentinian conceptual artist.
• Nic Gotham, 53, Canadian jazz saxophonist and composer (Nigredo Hotel), cancer.
• William J. Guste, 91, American politician, member of the Louisiana Senate (1968–1972), Attorney General of Louisiana (1972–1992).
• Hugh Huxley, 89, British biologist, won Copley Medal (1997).
• Buland Iqbal, 83, Pakistani composer.
• Barnaby Jack, 35, New Zealand computer specialist and security researcher, heroin, cocaine, Benadryl and Xanax overdose.
• Andrew Lackey, 29, American murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Bernadette Lafont, 74, French actress (The Mother and the Whore, An Impudent Girl, Le Beau Serge), cardiac arrest.
• Duilio Marzio, 89, Argentinian actor, cardiac arrest.
• Jim McNally, 61, American Major League Baseball umpire.
• Arun Nehru, 69, Indian politician.
• Rick Norton, 69, American football player (Miami Dolphins), heart disease.
• Juan David Ochoa Vásquez, 65, Colombian convicted drug lord, co-founder of Medellín cartel, heart attack.
• Kongar-ol Ondar, 51, Russian Tuvan throat singer, brain hemorrhage.
• Philip Russell, 93, South African primate and Archbishop of Cape Town (1980–1986).
• Hans Tanzler, 86, American politician, mayor of Jacksonville, Florida (1967–1979).

26

• Shafiga Akhundova, 89, Azerbaijani composer.
• Jim Barnett, 86, American politician, member of the Mississippi House of Representatives (1992–2008).
• JJ Cale, 74, American Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter ("After Midnight", "Cocaine") and musician, heart attack.
• Edna Cisneros, 83, American lawyer.
• Luther F. Cole, 87, American politician and judge, member of the Louisiana House (1964–1966), Louisiana Supreme Court (1986–1992).
• Árpád Duka-Zólyomi, 72, Slovak politician for Hungarian minority, MEP (2004–2009).
• Harley Flanders, 87, American mathematician.
• Marco Antonio Flores, 76, Guatemalan author, natural causes.
• Leighton Gage, 71, American crime author, pancreatic cancer.
• Bellino Giusto Ghirard, 78, French Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Rodez (1991–2011).
• Lafif Lakhdar, 79, Tunisian writer and journalist.
• Jon Leyne, 55, British journalist (BBC News), brain tumour.
• Douglas Manley, 91, Jamaican politician, MP for South Manchester (1972–1976).
• George P. Mitchell, 94, American businessman, real estate developer, and pioneer of shale gas technology.
• Bob Savage, 91, American baseball player (Philadelphia Athletics, St. Louis Browns).
• Christoph Scriba, 83, German historian of mathematics.
• Obaid Siddiqi, 81, Indian biologist and academic, traffic collision.
• Sung Jae-ki, 45, South Korean rights activist, drowned.
• Unbridled's Song, 20, American thoroughbred horse, winner of Breeders' Cup Juvenile (1995), euthanized.
• Don Wilbanks, 86, American actor.

27

• Fernando Alonso, 98, Cuban ballet dancer, founder of National Ballet.
• Henryk Baranowski, 70, Polish actor.
• Lindy Boggs, 97, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Louisiana (1973–1991), Ambassador to the Holy See (1997–2001), natural causes.
• Sékou Camara, 27, Malian footballer (Pelita Bandung Raya), heart attack.
• Bud Day, 88, American USAF commander (Vietnam War), Medal of Honor recipient.
• Nick Evers, 75, Australian politician, Tasmanian MHA for Franklin (1986–1990).
• Mick Farren, 69, British music journalist, author and singer (The Deviants), heart attack.
• Jóhannes Jónsson, 72, Icelandic businessman (Baugur Group).
• Herb Kaplow, 86, American news correspondent (NBC News, ABC News), stroke.
• Kidd Kraddick, 53, American radio and television personality (Kidd Kraddick in the Morning; Dish Nation), cardiac arrest.
• Suzanne Krull, 47, American actress (Nash Bridges, Race to Witch Mountain, Go), ruptured aortic aneurysm.
• Michel Lemoine, 90, French actor and film director.
• Billy Lewis, 90, Welsh professional footballer.
• John Nunneley, 90, British army officer.
• Julito Rodríguez, 87, Puerto Rican bolero singer, guitarist and composer (Los Panchos).
• Santiago Santamaría, 60, Argentinian footballer (Stade de Reims), heart attack.
• Jacob Immanuel Schochet, 77, Swiss-born Canadian rabbi and scholar.
• Ilya Segalovich, 48, Russian technology executive, co-founder of Yandex, complications from stomach cancer.
• Virginia Tezak, 85, American baseball player.
• Richard Thomas, 87, American ballet teacher and dancer (New York City Ballet), stroke during treatment of pulmonary embolism.
• Pete Tunstall, 94, British RAF squadron leader, World War II POW in Colditz.

28

• Mustafa Adrisi, 91, Ugandan military officer and politician, Vice President (1977–1978).
• William F. Bell, 74, Canadian politician, mayor of Richmond Hill, Ontario (1988–2006).
• Eileen Brennan, 80, American actress (The Last Picture Show, Private Benjamin, Clue), Emmy winner (1981), bladder cancer.
• Frank Castillo, 44, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs), drowning.
• Claude Croté, 75, Belgian footballer.
• Lois DeBerry, 68, American politician, member of the Tennessee House of Representatives (since 1972), pancreatic cancer.
• George Kinzie Fitzsimons, 84, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Salina (1984–2004).
• Drungo Hazewood, 53, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles), cancer.
• Syed Tajammul Hussain, 62, Pakistani chemist and physicist.
• Leena Luostarinen, 64, Finnish painter.
• Cleto Maule, 82, Italian cyclist.
• Mykola Melnyk, 59, Ukrainian pilot, liquidator hero.
• Graham Murray, 58, Australian rugby league player and coach, complications from a heart attack.
• Princess Norodom Vichara, 68, Cambodian royal and politician, MP (1998–2003), lung cancer.
• Jagdish Raj, 84, Indian actor, respiratory arrest.
• Rita Reys, 88, Dutch jazz singer, intracranial hemorrhage.
• Otto Schultz, 93, German Luftwaffe ace during World War II and Iron Cross recipient.
• George Scott, 69, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, Milwaukee Brewers).
• William Scranton, 96, American politician, Governor of Pennsylvania (1963–1967), Ambassador to the United Nations (1976–1977), cerebral hemorrhage.
• Ray Strauss, 85, Australian cricketer.
• Jūgatsu Toi, 64, Japanese travel writer, lung cancer.
• Ersilio Tonini, 99, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Macerata-Tolentino (1969–1975), Archbishop of Ravenna (1975–1990), and Cardinal (since 1994).

29

• Ludwig Averkamp, 86, German Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Osnabrück (1987–1994), Archbishop of Hamburg (1994–2002).
• Christian Benítez, 27, Ecuadorian footballer (El Jaish SC, Birmingham City), cardiac arrest.
• Bernard Codd, 79, British motorcycle racer.
• Bobby Crespino, 75, American football player (Cleveland Browns, New York Giants).
• Norman de Mesquita, 81, British sports journalist and broadcaster.
• Peter Flanigan, 90, American investment banker, political campaign manager and presidential adviser.
• Tony Gaze, 93, Australian military officer, RAF World War II flying ace and Grand Prix race car driver.
• Munir Hussain, 83, Pakistani cricketer, journalist and broadcaster, cardiac arrest.
• Rocky Jones, 71, Canadian social activist, heart attack.
• Shivram Dattatray Joshi, 87, Indian Sanskrit scholar.
• Draga Matković, 105, Croatian-born German classical pianist.
• Ole Henrik Moe, 93, Norwegian pianist, art historian and critic.
• Hussain Najadi, 75, Bahraini banker, founder and managing director of AmBank, shot.
• S. N. Hanumantha Rao, 83, Indian cricket umpire.
• Godfrey Stafford, 93, British physicist.
• Sheila Whitaker, 77, British film programmer, director of London Film Festival (1987–1996).

30

• Cecil Alexander, 95, American architect.
• Uwe Bahnsen, 83, German car designer.
• Berthold Beitz, 99, German industrialist (ThyssenKrupp), member of IOC (1972–1988).
• Robert Neelly Bellah, 86, American sociologist, religious academic and author, complications from heart surgery.
• Harry F. Byrd, Jr., 98, American politician, member of the United States Senate from Virginia (1965–1983).
• Thomas G. Clines, 84, American CIA agent.
• Ron Dias, 76, American animator (The Chipmunk Adventure, The Secret of NIMH, Who Framed Roger Rabbit) and painter.
• Zyrafete Gashi, 55, Kosovar comedian.
• Álvarez Guedes, 86, Cuban writer and comedian, stomach ailment.
• Sir Reginald Harland, 93, British Royal Air Force commander.
• Myfanwy Horne, 80, Australian journalist, writer, reviewer and book editor.
• İsa Huso, 60, Syrian Kurdish politician, bombing.
• Eko Maulana Ali, 61, Indonesian politician, Governor of Bangka Belitung (since 2007), complications from kidney disease.
• Jim McGregor, 91, American basketball player.
• Jane Belk Moncure, 86, American author of early childhood non-fiction, fiction and poetry.
• Belal Muhammad, 77, Bangladeshi radio broadcaster and independence activist.
• Colm Murray, 61, Irish sports journalist and broadcaster (RTÉ), motor neurone disease.
• Lawrence Nowlan, 48, American sculptor (Espy Award, My VH1 Music Awards, statues of Harry Kalas, Jackie Gleason), natural causes.
• Antoni Ramallets, 89, Spanish footballer.
• Ossie Schectman, 94, American basketball player (New York Knicks).
• Harry Smith, 94, American football player (Detroit Lions) and coach (Saskatchewan Roughriders).
• Jean-Claude Suares, 71, American graphic design artist, heart failure.
• Irene Uchida, 96, Canadian scientist and Down syndrome researcher.
• Antonio Vidal Fernández, 85, Cuban artist.
• Benjamin Walker, 99, Indian-born British author.
• Gene Wettstone, 100, American gymnastics coach (Penn State University, USA Gymnastics).

31

• Michael Ansara, 91, Syrian-born American actor (Broken Arrow, Star Trek, Batman: The Animated Series), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Earl Barbry, 62, American Tunica-Biloxi tribal leader, Chairman (since 1978), cancer.
• William J. Cousins, 89, American sociologist.
• Michel Donnet, 96, British-born Belgian military officer, RAF wing commander during World War II.
• John Graves, 92, American author (Goodbye to a River).
• Judge Hughes, 69, American football player and coach, diabetes.
• Gail Levin, 67, American documentary film director, breast cancer.
• Corey Maclin, 43, American television broadcaster, announcer, play-by-play commentator and politician, car crash.
• Jean Madiran, 93, French nationalist writer.
• Mary Matz, 81, American theologian.
• Wendell Alverson Miles, 97, American senior judge of the US District Court for Western Michigan (1974–2008), US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (1989–1996).
• Antonio Moreno Casamitjana, 86, Chilean Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Concepción (1989–2006).
• Hirohiko Nakamura, 70, Japanese politician.
• David Stockings, 67, English cricketer (Norfolk).
• Trevor Storer, 83, English businessman and entrepreneur, founder of Pukka Pies.
• Gerald W. Thomas, 94, American academic, President of New Mexico State University (1970–1984).
• Alvis Wayne, 75, American rockabilly musician, liver cancer.
• Jon Manchip White, 89, Welsh–born American novelist and screenwriter.

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