Deaths in July 2017

The following is a list of notable deaths in July 2017.

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

• Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of citizenship (if applicable), what subject was noted for, cause of death (if known), and reference.

July 2017

1

• Ibra Agbo, 30, Cameroonian-born Equatoguinean football player and coach.
• Aleshia Brevard, 79, American transgender actress and author, pulmonary fibrosis.
• Norman Dorsen, 86, American civil rights activist, president of the American Civil Liberties Union (1977–1991), complications from a stroke.
• Myles Frechette, 81, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Cameroon (1983-1987) and to Colombia (1994-1997).
• Paul Hardin III, 86, American academic administrator (Wofford College, Drew University, UNC), ALS.
• Bahadur Nariman Kavina, 80, Indian naval officer, commanding officer of the Nipat.
• Joseph Keke, 89, Beninese politician.
• Ernest Krings, 96, Belgian judge.
• Stevie Ryan, 33, American actress and comedian (Stevie TV), suicide by hanging.
• Ayan Sadakov, 55, Bulgarian footballer (Lokomotiv Plovdiv, national team), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Richard Gilbert Scott, 93, British architect.
• Nilu Doma Sherpa, 32, Nepali film director, heart attack.
• Sergio Sorrentino, 92, Italian sailor.
• Stephen Tindale, 54, British environmentalist, suicide.
• Orri Vigfússon, 74, Icelandic environmentalist, lung cancer.
• Heathcote Williams, 75, British author and actor (City of Ember), kidney failure.

2

• Ataullah Behmanesh, 94, Iranian wrestler and sports journalist, stroke.
• Tony Bianchi, 65, British author.
• Jack Collom, 85, American poet, essayist and poetry teacher.
• Billy Cook, 77, British-born Australian footballer.
• Alfred G. Fischer, 96, German-born American geologist.
• Ron Fuller, 80, British artist and toy designer.
• Ryke Geerd Hamer, 82, German physician, charlatan and conspiracy theorist.
• Horace Harned, 96, American politician.
• Smith Hart, 68, American-Canadian professional wrestler (Stampede, WWC, IWE), prostate cancer.
• Abiola Irele, 81, Nigerian literary critic.
• Minos Kyriakou, 75, Greek media and shipping magnate, heart attack.
• Vladimir Malaniuk, 59, Ukrainian chess grandmaster.
• John McCormick, 80, Scottish footballer (Crystal Palace, Aberdeen), dementia.
• Bob Perry, 82, American baseball player (Los Angeles Angels).
• Marjorie Rice, 94, American amateur mathematician.
• Chris Roberts, 73, German singer and actor, lung cancer.
• Bert Rossi, 94, English gangster.
• Michael Sandberg, Baron Sandberg, 90, British banker and life peer, Chairman of HSBC (1977–1986).
• Nirupam Sen, 70, Indian diplomat, Permanent Representative of India to the United Nations (2004–2009).
• Mel Shaw, 70, American racing driver, car crash.
• Madhukar Toradmal, 84, Indian actor, kidney failure.
• David W. Vincent, 67, American baseball author, official scorer and statistician (Washington Nationals, SABR, Retrosheet), stomach cancer.
• Tatiana Zatulovskaya, 81, Soviet-born Israeli chess player, Woman Grandmaster (1976), stroke.
• Fay Zwicky, 83, Australian poet.

3

• Ângelo Angelin, 82, Brazilian politician, Governor of Rondônia (1985–1987).
• Tom Blom, 70, Dutch radio and television presenter (Te land, ter zee en in de lucht).
• Henrique Medina Carreira, 85, Portuguese jurist and financier, Minister of Finance (1976–1978).
• José Luis Cuevas, 83, Mexican artist.
• Spencer Johnson, 78, American author (Who Moved My Cheese?), complications from pancreatic cancer.
• Theodore Kanavas, 56, American politician, member of the Wisconsin Senate (2001–2011), cancer.
• John Ssebaana Kizito, 82, Ugandan politician, Mayor of Kampala (1999–2006).
• George Levinger, 90, American psychologist.
• Sandy Mactaggart, 89, Scottish-born Canadian property developer and academic, Chancellor of the University of Alberta (1983–1994).
• Lloyd Noel, 83, Grenadian attorney, Attorney General (1979–1980).
• Joe Robinson, 90, British actor (Diamonds Are Forever, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Thor and the Amazon Women).
• Rudy Rotta, 66, Italian blues guitarist and singer.
• Solvi Stubing, 76, German actress (Nude per l'assassino).
• Maitama Sule, 87, Nigerian politician and diplomat, Permanent Representative to the United Nations (1979–2017).
• Jean-Jacques Susini, 83, French militant, co-founder of the Organisation Armée Secrète.
• Paolo Villaggio, 84, Italian writer and actor (Ugo Fantozzi), complications from diabetes.

4

• Bryan Avery, 73, British architect.
• John Blackwell, 43, American funk and jazz drummer (Prince), brain tumor.
• Chen Xuejun, 98, Chinese physicist, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
• Gene Conley, 86, American baseball (Milwaukee Braves, Philadelphia Phillies) and basketball player (Boston Celtics), heart failure.
• Ji-Tu Cumbuka, 77, American actor (Roots, Blacula, Mandingo), cancer.
• Daniil Granin, 98, Russian author.
• John S. Palmore, 99, American judge, Chief Justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court (1966, 1973, 1977–1982).
• Ntuthuko Radebe, 22, South African footballer (Eupen), traffic collision.
• Carol Lee Scott, 74, English actress (Grotbags).
• Shen Panwen, 100, Chinese chemist (Academy of Sciences).
• Masatoshi Yoshino, 89, Japanese geographer and climatologist.
• David Yewdall, 66, American sound editor (The Thing, The Fifth Element, Escape from New York), pancreatic cancer.

5

• John Harland Bryant, 92, American physician and public health pioneer.
• Keith Conners, 84, American psychologist, heart failure.
• Chris de Freitas, 68, Trinidadian-born New Zealand climatologist, cancer.
• Max Gergel, 96, American chemist.
• Pierre Henry, 89, French composer.
• Paul Hollingdale, 79, British radio personality (BBC Radio 2).
• John Karlsen, 97, New Zealand actor (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure).
• John McKenzie, 91, Scottish footballer (Partick Thistle, Dumbarton, national team).
• Joachim Meisner, 83, German Roman Catholic cardinal, Bishop of Berlin (1980–1988) and Archbishop of Cologne (1988–2014).
• Joaquín Navarro-Valls, 80, Spanish journalist, Director of the Holy See Press Office (1984–2006).
• William Clark O'Kelley, 87, American judge, cancer.
• Irina Ratushinskaya, 63, Russian poet, cancer.
• Willi Reschke, 95, German Luftwaffe ace.
• John A. Robertson, 74, American law scholar and bioethicist.
• John Rodriguez, 80, Guyanese-born Canadian politician, mayor of Greater Sudbury (2006–2010) and member of the House of Commons (1972–1980, 1984–1993).
• Tinners Way, 27, American Thoroughbred racehorse, Pacific Classic Stakes winner (1994, 1995), euthanized.
• Andrzej Trzebski, 89, Polish physiologist.
• Mark Wilkinson, 66, English furniture designer, pancreatic cancer.
• Roger Wootton, 73, English aeronautical engineer and balloonist.

6

• Michel Aurillac, 88, French lawyer, politician and author, member of the National Assembly (1978–1981, 1986).
• David Alonso López, 39, Mexican boxer, shot.
• Håkan Carlqvist, 63, Swedish motocross racer, world champion (1979, 1983).
• Juan Carlos Colombres, 94, Argentine political cartoonist.
• Willie Stevenson Glanton, 95, American lawyer and politician, member of the Iowa House of Representatives (1965–1966).
• Giovanni Bernardo Gremoli, 91, Italian-born Emirati Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Arabia (1975–2005).
• Robert Grodt, 28, American volunteer medic (Occupy Wall Street, People's Protection Units).
• George Hansen, 83, Canadian football player (Calgary Stampeders).
• Nancy Jeffett, 88, American Hall of Fame women's tennis promoter.
• Melvyn "Deacon" Jones, 73, American blues musician.
• Joan Boocock Lee, 95, British-born American actress (Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, X-Men: Apocalypse) and model, complications from a stroke.
• William Morva, 35, American convicted murderer, executed by lethal injection.
• Shu Nakajima, 69, Japanese actor (47 Ronin, The Emperor in August, Kagemusha), fall.
• Paolo Piva, 67, Italian architect.
• Thomas E. Sanders, 63, American production designer and art director (Saving Private Ryan, Braveheart, Crimson Peak), cancer.
• Heinz Schneiter, 82, Swiss footballer (national team).
• Galip Tekin, 59, Turkish comic book artist, heart attack.
• Frederick Tuckman, 95, German-born British politician, MEP for Leicester. (1979–1989).
• Diane Von Hoffman, 55, American professional wrestler (USWA), complications from knee surgery.
• Ken Wimshurst, 79, English footballer (Bristol City F.C.).⋅

7

• Jean-Pierre Bernard, 84, French actor (The Eiger Sanction).
• Pierrette Bloch, 89, French-born Swiss artist.
• Chó do Guri, 58, Angolan author.
• Danny Daniels, 92, American dancer and choreographer (The Tap Dance Kid).
• Pedro Juan Figueroa, 66, Puerto Rican actor (Dios los cria) and radio host, pancreatic cancer.
• Claude Hall, 83, American journalist and writer (Billboard).
• Werner Hamacher, 68-69, German literary critic.
• Shlomo Helbrans, 55, Israeli rabbi and sect leader (Lev Tahor), drowned.
• Diego E. Hernández, 83, American military officer, Parkinson's disease.
• Johnson Kendrick, 25, Brazilian footballer (Al-Gharafa), shot.
• Georgy Koshlakov, 81, Russian-born Tajik politician and scientist.
• Daniel Lewis, 92, American conductor.
• Pam McConnell, 71, Canadian politician, member of the Toronto City Council (since 1998).
• Tony Moore, 69, English footballer (Chester City, Chesterfield, Grimsby Town).
• Egil Monn-Iversen, 89, Norwegian composer and pianist.
• James B. Nutter Sr., 89, American mortgage lender (James B. Nutter & Company), philanthropist (Children's Mercy Hospital) and power broker (Missouri).
• Ian Posgate, 85, English insurance underwriter.
• Marina Ratner, 78, Russian-American mathematician.
• Lala Rukh, 69, Pakistani women's rights activist and artist.
• Kenneth Silverman, 81, American biographer, Pulitzer Prize winner (1985), lung cancer.
• Alan Sisitsky, 75, American lawyer and politician.

8

• Evan Armstrong, 74, British boxer.
• Siri Austeng, 73, Norwegian politician.
• David Bishop, 75, Canadian politician, MLA for York North (1974-1987).
• Nelsan Ellis, 39, American actor (True Blood, Get on Up, Elementary), complications from heart failure.
• Gour Ghosh, 77, Indian cricketer.
• Don Johns, 79, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers).
• Bob Lubbers, 95, American cartoonist (Tarzan).
• Elsa Martinelli, 82, Italian actress (Donatella) and fashion model, cancer.
• Joseph Ole Nkaissery, 67, Kenyan politician, MP (2002–2014), heart attack.
• Roy Richards, 33, Vincentian footballer (national team), shot.
• Jacques Vien, 85, Canadian politician.
• Seiji Yokoyama, 82, Japanese composer (Saint Seiya, Magical Taluluto, Space Pirate Captain Harlock), pneumonia.

9

• Duke Friedrich August of Oldenburg, 81, German nobleman.
• Susanna Au-yeung, 63, Hong Kong actress (The Return of the Condor Heroes), lung cancer.
• Shaun Brogan, 73, British army officer.
• Gene Brucker, 92, American historian.
• Wally Burr, 91, American voice actor and director (The Transformers, Jem, Spider-Man).
• Naresh Chandra, 82, Indian diplomat, Ambassador to the United States (1996–2001), Governor of Gujarat (1995–1996), multiple organ failure.
• Ed Crawford, 82, American football player (New York Giants), Alzheimer's disease.
• Clare Douglas, 73, British film editor (United 93, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Bloody Sunday).
• Ilya Glazunov, 87, Russian painter.
• John McKnight, 86, Northern Irish Gaelic football player (Armagh GAA).
• Anton Nossik, 51, Russian writer and internet entrepreneur, heart attack.
• Neal Patterson, 67, American businessman (Cerner, Sporting Kansas City), cancer.
• Paquita Rico, 87, Spanish singer and actress (Let's Make the Impossible!, The Balcony of the Moon, Where Are You Going, Alfonso XII?).
• Sumita Sanyal, 71, Indian actress (Anand), heart failure.
• Jack Shaheen, 81, American media critic, author and Arab tolerance campaigner (Reel Bad Arabs).
• Adolfo Taylhardat, 83, Venezuelan diplomat, President of the United Nations Security Council (1993).
• Robert Vigouroux, 94, French politician, Mayor of Marseille (1986–1995), Senator (1989–1998).
• David Wilstein, 89, American real estate developer.

10

• Peter Alfond, 65, American investor (Berkshire Hathaway) and philanthropist (Maine Medical Center), malaria.
• Jim Bush, 90, American Hall of Fame track and field coach (UCLA), prostate cancer.
• Augustin Buzura, 78, Romanian writer and journalist.
• Peter Härtling, 83, German writer and poet.
• Miguel Luna Hernández, 63, Mexican politician.
• John M. Jacobus Jr., 89, American art historian.
• Eugène Koffi Kouamé, 29, Ivorian footballer, heart attack.
• Prudence Nobantu Mabele, 46, South African HIV activist, pneumonia.
• Marama Martin, 87, New Zealand television and radio personality (Family Favourites).
• Emma Mashinini, 87, South African trade unionist.
• Leonardo Maugeri, 53, Italian oil and gas expert.
• Martin Molony, 91, Irish jockey.
• Isabelle Sadoyan, 89, French actress (Les fantômes du chapelier, Mayrig, Irreplaceable).
• Mangesh Tendulkar, 82, Indian cartoonist.
• Elvira Vigna, 69, Brazilian writer, cancer.

11

• Nicholas Biwott, 77, Kenyan agricultural businessman and politician, MP (1979–2007).
• George W. BonDurant, 101, American preacher and academic administrator.
• Dianne Brushett, 74, Canadian politician, MP (1993–1997), leukemia.
• Bill Chambers, 86, American basketball player and coach (College of William & Mary), Parkinson's disease.
• Joseph Fire Crow, 58, American Cheyenne flutist, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
• Jeremy Dale Roberts, 83, English composer, prostate cancer.
• Jean-Claude Fignolé, 76, Haitian author.
• Fikret Hakan, 83, Turkish actor (Revenge of the Snakes, Borrowed Bride, Battal Gazi Destanı), lung cancer.
• Abdullah Hayayei, 36, Emirati Paralympic athlete, head trauma.
• Evzen Kolar, 67, Czech film producer (Never Say Never Again, Surf Ninjas, Inferno).
• Denis Mack Smith, 97, British historian.
• Keisuke Sagawa, 80, Japanese actor (Barom-1), heart attack.
• Éva Schubert, 86, Hungarian actress.
• Pakkiriswamy Chandra Sekharan, 83, Indian forensic expert.
• Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini, 87, Italian organist, harpsichordist, musicologist and composer.
• Gert Trinklein, 68, German footballer (Eintracht Frankfurt), leukemia.
• Imran Usmanov, 64, Russian Chechen folk singer.
• Buddy Wolfe, 76, American professional wrestler (AWA, NWA, WWWF).

12

• Chuck Blazer, 72, American soccer administrator, informant for the 2015 FIFA corruption case, colorectal cancer.
• Gerrit Braks, 84, Dutch politician, Minister of Agriculture, Nature and Fisheries (1980–1981, 1982–1990) and Education and Science (1989), Senate President (2001–2003).
• Tommy Carberry, 75, Irish jockey.
• S. Allen Counter, 73, American neurophysiologist.
• Joe Fields, 88, American record producer.
• Sam Glanzman, 92, American comics artist (Captain Willy Schultz).
• Liviu Giurgian, 54, Romanian hurdler, stroke.
• Thomas L. Haskell, 78, American historian.
• Allan Hunter, 94, New Zealand rugby union player (Hawke's Bay).
• Tamara Miansarova, 86, Ukrainian-born Russian pop singer ("May There Always Be Sunshine").
• Ray Phiri, 70, South African jazz singer and guitarist, lung cancer.
• Phillip Playford, 85, Australian geologist.
• Abd al-Majid al-Rafei, 90, Lebanese politician, MP (1972–1989).
• Tod Sloan, 89, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs, Chicago Black Hawks).

13

• Abdul-Rahman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 86, Saudi prince.
• Américo Amorim, 82, Portuguese cork businessman (Corticeira Amorim).
• Charles Bachman, 92, American computer scientist.
• Keith Baird, 94, Barbadian-born American linguist.
• John Bernecker, 33, American stunt performer (Logan, The Hunger Games, This is the End), blunt force trauma.
• Paritat Bulbon, 46, Thai racing driver.
• John Dalby, 88, English composer, singer and pianist.
• Vince Farrar, 70, English rugby league player (Featherstone Rovers, Sheffield Eagles, Hull).
• Giovanni Franzoni, 88, Italian writer and theologian.
• Okay Gönensin, 66, Turkish journalist.
• Anwarul Haque, 61, Bangladeshi judge, Supreme Court (since 2012).
• Simon Holmes, 54, Australian musician (The Hummingbirds).
• Giannis Kalatzis, 74, Greek singer.
• Egil Kapstad, 76, Norwegian jazz pianist, arranger and composer.
• Héctor Lechuga, 88, Mexican comedian, actor and radio personality (México 2000), heart attack.
• Liu Xiaobo, 61, Chinese writer and human rights activist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (2010), multiple organ failure due to liver cancer.
• Joaquim Molins i Amat, 72, Spanish politician, member of the Congress of Deputies (1979–1986, 1993–2000) and Parliament of Catalonia (1988–1993).
• Andrews Otutu Obaseki, 91, Nigerian judge, Supreme Court (1975–1991).
• Gertrude Poe, 101, American journalist (Laurel Leader).
• Carl E. Reichardt, 86, American banking executive (Wells Fargo).
• Derek Shiel, 78, Irish painter, sculptor, writer, and film-maker.
• Olive Yang, 91, Burmese opium warlady.

14

• Mahi Beamer, 88, American singer.
• Prunella Briance, 91, British natural childbirth campaigner.
• Wm. Theodore de Bary, 97, American sinologist.
• Paul Ferreri, 69, Italian-Australian boxer.
• Ross Giudice, 93, American basketball coach (San Francisco Dons).
• Anne Golon, 95, French author.
• Julia Hartwig, 95, Polish writer and translator.
• Bert Hill, 87, English footballer (Colchester United F.C.).
• William "Hootie" Johnson, 86, American banker and sports administrator (Augusta National Golf Club), member of the South Carolina House of Representatives (1957–1958).
• Maryam Mirzakhani, 40, Iranian mathematician and academic, Fields Medalist (2014), breast cancer.
• Roland Moyle, 89, British politician, MP for Lewisham North (1966–1974) and Lewisham East (1974–1983).
• Clara (Cuqui) Nicola, 90-91, Cuban guitarist, professor and pedagogue, cardiorespiratory arrest.
• Kosie Pretorius, 81, Namibian politician, MP (1990–2005).
• Pedro Richter Prada, 96, Peruvian politician, Prime Minister (1979–1980).

15

• Anne Buttimer, 78, Irish geographer, president of International Geographical Union (2000–2004).
• Wesley Carr, 75, British Anglican priest, Dean of Westminster (1997–2006).
• Warrick L. Carter, 75, American music educator and executive.
• Agostino Cilardo, 69, Italian Arabist.
• Justine Damond, 40, Australian woman shot by a Minneapolis Police officer.
• Josef Hamerl, 86, Austrian footballer (Wiener SK).
• William Hoyland, 73, English actor (Bill Brand, Hellboy, For Your Eyes Only).
• Martha Kyrle, 100, Austrian physician.
• Davie Laing, 92, Scottish footballer (Heart of Midlothian).
• Martin Landau, 89, American actor (Ed Wood, Mission: Impossible, Crimes and Misdemeanors), Oscar winner (1995), abdominal hemorrhage.
• Louise Merzeau, 53, French academic.
• Babe Parilli, 87, American football player and coach (Boston Patriots, Denver Dynamite, New York Jets), multiple myeloma.
• Vjekoslav Vojo Radoičić, 86, Croatian painter, sculptor, printmaker and stage designer.
• Vladimir Tolokonnikov, 74, Kazakh-Russian actor.
• Bob Wolff, 96, American sportscaster (Washington Senators).

16

• Trevor Baxter, 84, British actor (Doctor Who, Maelstrom, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow) and playwright.
• Nar Bahadur Bhandari, 76, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Sikkim (1979–1984, 1985–1994), cardiac arrest following spinal surgery.
• Jerry Bird, 83, American basketball player (Kentucky Wildcats, New York Knicks).
• Joan Calabrese, 77, American fashion designer, uterine cancer.
• Roland Cazimero, 66, American guitarist (The Brothers Cazimero).
• Régis Gizavo, 58, Malagasy accordionist.
• Kim Hammond, 72, American judge (Seventh Judicial Circuit Court of Florida) and football player (Florida State Seminoles).
• Wanda Lesisz, 92, Polish WWII resistance fighter.
• Tom Mitchell, 72, American football player (Baltimore Colts), lung cancer and diabetes.
• Zhibek Nukeeva, 22, Kyrgyz beauty queen, Miss Kyrgyzstan (2013).
• George A. Romero, 77, American-Canadian film director and screenwriter (Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Creepshow), lung cancer.
• Clancy Sigal, 91, American author and screenwriter (Frida).
• Cliff Whiting, 81, New Zealand Māori muralist, carver and teacher.
• Wilfried, 67, Austrian singer ("Lisa Mona Lisa"), cancer.

17

• Harvey Atkin, 74, Canadian actor (Cagney & Lacey, Meatballs, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit), cancer.
• Evan Helmuth, 40, American actor (The Devil Inside, Fever Pitch, Jobs), complications from a stroke.
• George Hill, 79, British-born New Zealand agronomist.
• John Potter, 93, British SOE agent and chemist.
• Raymond Sackler, 97, American physician.
• K. N. Shankara, 72, Indian space scientist.
• Hersh Wolch, 77, Canadian lawyer (David Milgaard).
• Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte, 87, French film and television editor and actress.

18

• Gustavo Alessandri Valdés, 88, Chilean lawyer and politician, Mayor of Central Commune of Santiago de Chile (1987–1989) and MP (1961–1965, 1969–1971, 1998–2002).
• José Bragato, 101, Italian-born Argentine cellist, composer, conductor and arranger (Teatro Colón).
• Ben's Cat, 11, American racehorse, euthanized.
• Jean Murrell Capers, 104, American judge.
• François Dehez, 85, Belgian fencer.
• Max Gallo, 85, French writer, historian and politician.
• Mauno Hartman, 87, Finnish sculptor.
• Shigeaki Hinohara, 105, Japanese physician (St. Luke's International Hospital).
• Val Jeffery, 82, Australian politician, ACT MLA (2016).
• André Lafargue, 100, French journalist (Le Parisien libéré).
• Ian Mason, 75, New Zealand cricketer (Wellington).
• Herbert Needleman, 89, American pediatrician and medical researcher.
• Andrew Paulson, 59, American executive (SUP Media), lung cancer.
• John Rheinecker, 38, American baseball player (Texas Rangers), suicide.
• José Luis Sánchez Paraíso, 74, Spanish Olympic sprinter (1968, 1972, 1976).
• Dawn Seymour, 100, American air force pilot.
• Chris Sherwin, 55, English veterinary biologist.
• Red West, 81, American actor and stuntman (Walking Tall, Road House, The Wild Wild West), aortic aneurysm.

19

• María Amuchástegui, 64, Argentine television fitness presenter, ballerina and singer, stroke and lung cancer.
• Miguel Blesa, 69, Spanish banker, Chairman of Caja Madrid (1996–2009), suicide by gunshot.
• Jake Butcher, 81, American banker and politician, financier of the 1982 World's Fair.
• Karel Franta, 89, Czech painter and illustrator, heart attack.
• Blaoui Houari, 91, Algerian singer and songwriter.
• Charles Weston Houck, 84, American jurist, U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina (1979–2003).
• David E. H. Jones, 79, British chemist and author.
• Jordin Kare, 60, American aerospace engineer, complications from heart valve surgery.
• Évelyne Prouvost, 78, French businesswoman and magazine executive (Marie Claire), fall.
• Ralph Regula, 92, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 16th congressional district (1973–2009).
• Fenwick Smith, 69, American flutist (Boston Symphony Orchestra).
• Mary Turner, 79, Irish-born British trade unionist.
• Joe Walters, 79, Scottish footballer (Clyde).
• Barbara Weldens, 35, French singer, cardiac arrest.
• Graham Wood, 45, Australian jazz pianist, bile duct cancer.

20

• Chester Bennington, 41, American singer and songwriter (Linkin Park, Dead by Sunrise, Stone Temple Pilots), suicide by hanging.
• David R. Brink, 97, American attorney, president of the American Bar Association (1981–1982).
• Wilindoro Cacique, 75, Peruvian Amazonian cumbia musician (Juaneco y Su Combo), pancreatic cancer.
• Marco Aurélio Garcia, 76, Brazilian politician, heart attack.
• Grand Armee, 18, Australian racehorse.
• Stephen Haseler, 75, British academic.
• Andrea Jürgens, 50, German schlager singer, kidney failure.
• Jesse Kalisher, 55, American photographer, cancer.
• Bernhard Kempa, 96, German handball player and coach (Göppingen).
• Kenneth Jay Lane, 85, American costume jewelry designer.
• John McCluskey, Baron McCluskey, 88, Scottish lawyer, judge and life peer, Solicitor General for Scotland (1974–1979).
• Ben Portis, 56, Canadian artist and curator, traffic collision.
• Pudsey, 11, British performing dog (Britain's Got Talent, Pudsey: The Movie, Mr Stink), blood cancer.
• Joseph Rago, 34, American journalist (The Wall Street Journal), sarcoidosis.
• Claude Rich, 88, French actor (Je t'aime, je t'aime).
• Robbie Savage, 50, Namibian football mascot, diabetic ketoacidosis.
• Deborah Schiffrin, 56, American linguist.
• Peter Sears, 80, American poet.
• Jonathan Shurberg, 54, American attorney and politician.

21

• Peter Doohan, 56, Australian tennis player, motor neurone disease.
• Anne Dufourmantelle, 53, French philosopher, drowned.
• Errol Dyers, 65, South African jazz guitarist and composer, emphysema.
• Howard Eichenbaum, 69, American psychologist and neuroscientist, complications of spinal surgery.
• Cune Gojković, 84, Serbian singer.
• John Heard, 71, American actor (Home Alone, Big, Prison Break), cardiac arrest.
• Hasan Akbar Kamal, 71, Indian poet and writer.
• Nikolay Kamenskiy, 85, Russian ski jumper, world championship silver medalist (1962).
• Yami Lester, 75, Australian Aboriginal and anti-nuclear activist.
• Geoff Mack, 94, Australian country singer-songwriter ("I've Been Everywhere").
• Jacques Nahum, 96, French television producer.
• Lonnie "Bo" Pilgrim, 89, American businessman (Pilgrim's Pride).
• Jon van Rood, 91, Dutch immunologist.
• Hrvoje Šarinić, 82, Croatian politician, Prime Minister (1992–1993).
• Kenny Shields, 69, Canadian singer (Streetheart), complications from heart surgery.
• Stubbs, 20, American cat, honorary mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska (since 1997).
• Soxie Topacio, 65, Filipino film director (Ded na si Lolo, Impostora) and LGBT activist (Quezon City Pride Council), lung cancer.
• Gary Waller, 72, British politician, MP for Brighouse and Spenborough (1979–1983) and Keighley (1983–1997).
• Deborah Watling, 69, English actress (Doctor Who, Take Me High, The Invisible Man), lung cancer.
• Paapa Yankson, 73, Ghanaian highlife musician.
• Clímaco Jacinto Zarauz Carrillo, 91, Ecuadorian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Azogues (1990–2004).

22

• Fergus Allen, 95, British civil servant and author.
• Margo Chase, 59, American graphic designer (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), plane crash.
• Fritz Hellwig, 104, German politician and bureaucrat, European Commissioner for Research, Technology and Information Distribution (1967–1970).
• Polo Hofer, 72, Swiss musician.
• Marcel Kunz, 74, Swiss footballer (Basel, national team).
• Robert Loder, 83, English art collector.
• Akbar Makhmoor, 61, Pakistani poet.
• Clarence Matthews, 111, American supercentenarian, oldest living man in the US.
• Edward Norfolk, 95, British Anglican priest, Archdeacon of St Albans (1982–1987).
• Ernst Ottensamer, 62, Austrian clarinetist, heart attack.
• Mathura Prasad Pal, 71, Indian politician, cancer.
• Shivajirao Girdhar Patil, 92, Indian politician, Padma Bhushan (2013).
• Haddon Robinson, 86, American author and academic, interim president of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.
• František Ševčík, 75, Czech ice hockey player (national team), Olympic silver medalist (1968).
• Kostiantyn Sytnyk, 91, Ukrainian botanist and politician, Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR (1980–1985).
• Artyom Tarasov, 67, Russian businessman and activist, first millionaire of the USSR.
• Willie Townes, 74, American football player (Dallas Cowboys).
• Jim Vance, 75, American news anchor (WRC-TV), cancer.

23

• Wenceslaus Anthony, 59, Indian-born New Zealand businessman.
• Reginald Arnold, 92, Australian racing cyclist.
• Denisa, 27, Romanian singer, hepatocellular carcinoma.
• Yuri Belov, 88, Russian painter.
• Elliott Castro, 68, Puerto Rican sports commentator and author, heart attack.
• Dave Cogdill, 66, American politician, member of the California State Assembly (2000–2006) and Senate (2006–2010), pancreatic cancer.
• Bob DeMoss, 90, American football player and coach (Purdue University).
• Simon Doggart, 56, English head teacher and cricketer (Cambridge University).
• Adebayo Faleti, 95, Nigerian actor, poet, journalist and writer.
• Thomas Fleming, 90, American writer and historian (American Revolution).
• Thomas Füri, 70, Swiss violinist (I Salonisti).
• Robin Gardiner, 70, English writer and RMS Titanic conspiracy theorist (Titanic: The Ship That Never Sank?)
• Amir Fryszer Guttman, 41, Israeli singer, drowned.
• John Kundla, 101, American Hall of Fame basketball coach (Minneapolis Lakers, University of Minnesota).
• Lau Wong-fat, 80, Hong Kong businessman and politician, member of the Legislative Council (1986–2016) and Executive Council (2009–2012).
• Jean-Pierre Le Bras, 86, French painter.
• Tom Lister, 73, New Zealand rugby union player (South Canterbury, Wellington, national team).
• Guennady Moisseev, 69, Russian motocross racer, world champion (1974, 1977, 1978).
• Waldir Peres, 66, Brazilian footballer (São Paulo, Corinthians, national team), heart attack.
• Mervyn Rose, 87, Australian Hall of Fame tennis player.
• Jerry Rushing, 80, American bootlegger and actor, inspiration for The Dukes of Hazzard.
• Snooty, 69, American manatee, mascot of Manatee County, Florida, drowned.
• Flo Steinberg, 78, American comic book publisher (Big Apple Comix) and secretary (Marvel Comics), complications from a brain aneurysm and lung cancer.
• Vladimir Stipetić, 89, Croatian economist and academician, rector of the University of Zagreb (1986–1989).
• József Szendi, 95, Hungarian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Veszprém (1983–1997).

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• Domingo Alzugaray, 84, Argentine-born Brazilian actor and journalist, founder of ISTOÉ, complications of Alzheimer's disease.
• B. R. Barwale, 86, Indian agronomist.
• Giovanni Bianchi, 77, Italian politician, MP (1994–2006), President of the PPI (1994–1997).
• Luis Gimeno, 90, Uruguayan-born Mexican actor (Mañana es para siempre).
• Michiko Inukai, 96, Japanese writer and philanthropist.
• Rajmata Mohinder Kaur of Patiala, 94, Indian royal and politician, MP (1967–1971).
• Jørgen Kosmo, 69, Norwegian politician, member (1985–2005) and President of Parliament (2001–2005), Minister of Defence (1993–1997).
• Michael Manktelow, 89, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Basingstoke (1977–1993).
• Naiyer Masud, c. 81, Indian Urdu short story writer.
• Niculae Nedeff, 88, Romanian handball player and coach.
• Yash Pal, 90, Indian scientist and educationist, Chairman of University Grants Commission (1986–1991), Padma Vibhushan (2013), lung cancer.
• Udupi Ramachandra Rao, 85, Indian space scientist, Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (1984–1994).
• Øivind Solheim, 89, Norwegian ice hockey player.

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• Hywel Bennett, 73, Welsh actor (The Virgin Soldiers, Shelley, EastEnders).
• Gretel Bergmann, 103, German-born American high jumper.
• Erzsébet Bognár, 75, Hungarian handball player, World champion (1965).
• Sydney Cohen, 95, South African-born British pathologist.
• Marian Diamond, 90, American neuroscientist.
• Gabriel Epstein, 98, German-born British architect and urban planner.
• Buddy Fletcher, 84, American politician, mayor of Lakeland, Florida (1993–2009), complications from a stroke.
• Michael Johnson, 72, American singer ("Bluer Than Blue", "Give Me Wings", "The Moon Is Still Over Her Shoulder"), songwriter and guitarist.
• Tarō Kimura, 52, Japanese politician, member of the House of Representatives (since 1996), pancreatic cancer.
• Marian Konieczny, 87, Polish sculptor (Warsaw Nike).
• Ivana Loudová, 76, Czech composer.
• Rula Quawas, 57, Jordanian feminist academic, aortic rupture.
• Luis María Ramírez Boettner, 99, Paraguayan lawyer and diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1993–1996).
• Barbara Sinatra, 90, American fashion model, showgirl and philanthropist.
• Billy Joe Walker Jr., 65, American guitarist and songwriter ("I Wanna Dance with You", "That's Why I Fell in Love with You", "B-B-B-Burnin' Up with Love").
• John Wraw, 58, British Anglican prelate, Bishop of Bradwell (since 2012), multiple myeloma.
• Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, 46, Australian Indigenous musician.
• Jean-Pierre-Dominique Zévaco, 91, French-born Malagasy Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tôlagnaro (1968−2001).

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• Paul Angerer, 90, Austrian conductor, violist, composer, and radio presenter.
• Magnus Böcker, 55, Swedish businessman (OMX, Singapore Exchange, Dustin), cancer.
• Cool "Disco" Dan, 47, American graffiti artist, complications from diabetes.
• Patti Deutsch, 73, American comedian (Rowan and Martin's Laugh-in), game show panelist (Match Game), and voice actress (The Emperor's New Groove), cancer.
• June Foray, 99, American voice actress (The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, Looney Tunes, Cinderella).
• Leo Kinnunen, 73, Finnish racing driver (Interserie, Nordic Challenge Cup, Formula One).
• Hervé Le Roux, 59, French film critic and director.
• K. E. Mammen, 95, Indian activist.
• Frank Otto, 80, American academic.
• Sergey Petrosyan, 29, Azerbaijani-born Russian weightlifter, European champion (2007, 2008), drowned.
• Lawrence Pezzulo, 91, American diplomat, Ambassador to Uruguay (1977–79) and Nicaragua (1979–81).
• Ronald Phillips, 43, American convicted murderer, execution by lethal injection.
• Giovan Battista Pichierri, 74, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Trani-Barletta-Bisceglie (since 1999).
• Maxlei dos Santos Luzia, 42, Brazilian footballer (Botafogo, AA Portuguesa, Vila Nova), cerebral edema.
• Keith Simons, 63, American football player (Kansas City Chiefs).
• Lyle Smith, 101, American football coach (Boise State Broncos).
• Helmut Thieltges, 61, German chef.
• Joachim Vobbe, 70, German Old Catholic prelate, Bishop of the Old Catholics in Germany (1995–2009).
• Peter Wende, 81, German historian.
• Jimmy White, 75, English footballer (AFC Bournemouth, Portsmouth, Gillingham).
• Ramón Xirau, 93, Spanish-born Mexican poet, philosopher and literary critic.

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• Cena N641, American labrador retriever therapy and bomb detection dog, bone cancer.
• Perivaldo Dantas, 64, Brazilian footballer (Botafogo, São Paulo, national team), pneumonia.
• John DeCamp, 76, American politician and lawyer.
• Abdelmajid Dolmy, 64, Moroccan footballer (Raja Casablanca, Olympique de Casablanca, national team).
• Michel Durafour, 97, French politician.
• H. A. Hargreaves, 89, Canadian science fiction writer.
• Stan Hart, 88, American comics and comedy writer (Mad), progressive supranuclear palsy.
• Eustace John, 78, Kittian politician, Deputy Governor-General (1992–2017).
• Kim Weon-kee, 55, South Korean wrestler, Olympic gold medalist (1984).
• Cheri Maples, 64, American police officer and peace activist, infection.
• Red Martin, 79, American Olympic ice hockey player (1964).
• Valeri Maslov, 77, Russian football and bandy player and coach, stroke.
• D. L. Menard, 85, American Cajun musician.
• Ovidio Messa, 64, Bolivian footballer.
• Mario Tullio Montano, 73, Italian fencer, Olympic champion (1972) and silver medalist (1976).
• George B. Rabb, 87, American zoologist.
• Manfred Rummel, 79, German football player and coach.
• Sam Shepard, 73, American playwright (Buried Child) and actor (The Right Stuff, Black Hawk Down), Pulitzer Prize winner (1979), complications from ALS.
• N. Dharam Singh, 80, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Karnataka (2004–2006).
• Marty Sklar, 83, American businessman (Walt Disney Imagineering).
• Gilles Tremblay, 84, Canadian composer, professor at Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal (since 1962).
• Peter Wegner, 84, Austrian-born American computer scientist.

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• Samson Abioye, 26, Nigerian computer programmer.
• Edward Allcard, 102, British architect and yachtsman.
• Enzo Bettiza, 90, Yugoslav-born Italian novelist, journalist (Il Giornale) and politician, Senator (1976–1979) and MEP (1979–1994).
• José Vicente Beviá Pastor, 83, Spanish politician, member (1979–2000) and Deputy Speaker of Congress of Deputies (1993–1996), Senator (1977–1979).
• James Egan, 88, Australian artist.
• Maurice Filion, 85, Canadian ice hockey executive and coach (Quebec Nordiques).
• Runa Førde, 84, Norwegian painter and illustrator.
• Charlie Gard, 11 months, British infant, subject of life support and parental rights case, MDDS.
• Håvard Holm, 73, Norwegian civil servant.
• Inder Kumar, 43, Indian actor (Wanted, Tumko Na Bhool Paayenge, Kahin Pyaar Na Ho Jaaye), heart attack.
• Inga Lantz, 74, Swedish politician, MP (1973–1988).
• Stein Mehren, 82, Norwegian poet, essayist and playwright.
• Siegfried Meister, 78, German executive (Rational AG).
• John G. Morris, 100, American photo editor (Life, The New York Times, Ladies' Home Journal).
• Gösta Peterson, 94, Swedish fashion photographer.
• Mamy Rakotoarivelo, Malagasy politician, Minister of Communications (2002), shot.
• Rosemary Anne Sisson, 93, British author and scriptwriter.
• Warren Keith Urbom, 91, American judge, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska (1972–1986).

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• Eunice de Souza, 76, Indian poet and novelist.
• Dave Grayson, 78, American football player (Oakland Raiders).
• Sophie Huet, 64, French journalist (L'Aurore, Le Figaro).
• Media Kashigar, 61, Iranian author and translator.
• Redha Malek, 85, Algerian politician and diplomat, Prime Minister (1993–1994).
• Charley Marouani, 90, Tunisian impresario and talent agent.
• Georges Martin, 87, French automotive engineer.
• Lee May, 74, American baseball player (Cincinnati Reds, Houston Astros, Baltimore Orioles), heart disease.
• José Osvaldo de Meira Penna, 100, Brazilian diplomat and writer.
• Yuri Alekseevich Ryzhov, 86, Soviet and Russian scientist and politician.
• Olivier Strebelle, 90, Belgian sculptor.
• Piotr S. Wandycz, 93, Polish-American historian, President of the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America and professor emeritus (Yale University).
• Stephen T. Worland, 94, American economist.

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• Tato Cifuentes, 91, Chilean comedian, actor, ventriloquist and singer, pneumonia.
• Ciro Cirillo, 96, Italian politician and kidnapping victim, President of the Province of Naples (1969–1975) and Campania (1979–1980).
• H. Sayeeduddin Dagar, 78, Indian Dhrupad singer.
• Paulo Garcia, 58, Brazilian neurosurgeon and politician, Mayor of Goiânia (2010–2016), heart attack.
• S. Nainar Kulasekaran, 92-93, Indian environmentalist.
• Slim Mahfoudh, 75, Tunisian actor (L'Étoile du Nord).
• Charlie Tagawa, 81, Japanese-born American banjoist.
• Steadman Upham, 68, American archaeologist, college professor and president (University of Tulsa).
• Anton Vratuša, 102, Slovenian politician and diplomat, Prime Minister (1978–1980) and Yugoslavia's ambassador to the United Nations (1967–1969).

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• Ray Albright, 83, American banker and politician, member of the Tennessee State Senate (1971–1994) and House of Representatives (1967–1971).
• Nigel Beard, 80, British politician, MP for Bexleyheath and Crayford (1997–2005).
• Jean-Claude Bouillon, 75, French comedian and actor (Child of the Night).
• Alan Cameron, 79, British classicist and academic.
• Max Day, 101, Australian ecologist.
• Jérôme Golmard, 43, French tennis player, complications from ALS.
• Francesco La Macchia, 78, Italian sprint canoeist, Olympic silver medalist (1960).
• Roberto Lazzari, 79, Italian Olympic breaststroke swimmer (1960).⋅
• Peter Lewington, 67, English cricketer (Warwickshire, Berkshire).
• Liu Wen-hsiung, 62, Taiwanese politician, MLY (1999–2008).
• Chuck Loeb, 61, American jazz guitarist (Fourplay), cancer.
• Jeanne Moreau, 89, French actress (Elevator to the Gallows, The Lovers, Jules and Jim).
• Les Murray, 71, Hungarian-Australian sports broadcaster (The World Game).
• Michael O'Nan, 73, American mathematician.
• Nancy Valentine, 89, American actress.