Deaths in March 2019

The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2019.

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), reason for notability, cause of death (if known), and reference.

March 2019

1

• Zhores Alferov, 88, Russian physicist and politician, MP (since 1995), Nobel Prize laureate (2000).
• Kumar Bhattacharyya, Baron Bhattacharyya, 78, British-Indian engineer, educator and government advisor, member of the House of Lords (since 2004).
• Jawaid Bhutto, 64, Pakistani philosopher, shot.
• Dhritikanta Lahiri Choudhury, 87, Indian naturalist.
• Joseph Flummerfelt, 82, American conductor, stroke.
• Håkon Wexelsen Freihow, 91, Norwegian diplomat, Ambassador to Japan (1981–1989) and Portugal (1992–1995).
• Phaedon Georgitsis, 80, Greek actor (The Red Lanterns, Blood on the Land, Marijuana Stop!), brain cancer.
• Maïmouna Kane, 82, Senegalese jurist and politician, Minister of Social Development (1983–1986).
• Sibusiso Khwinana, 25, South African actor, stabbed.
• Ivars Knēts, 80, Latvian engineer and educator.
• Ludo Loos, 64, Belgian racing cyclist.
• Elly Mayday, 30, Canadian model and women's health advocate, ovarian cancer.
• Eusebio Pedroza, 65, Panamanian Hall of Fame boxer, WBA featherweight champion (1978–1985), pancreatic cancer.
• Kevin Roche, 96, Irish-born American architect, Pritzker Prize winner (1982).
• Polan Sarkar, 97, Bangladeshi literacy activist.
• Mahadi Sinambela, 71, Indonesian politician, Minister of Youth and Sport (1999–2000).
• Robert S. Summers, 85, American legal scholar.
• Mike Tamoaieta, 23, Samoan-born New Zealand rugby union player (Blues, North Harbour).
• Peter van Gestel, 81, Dutch author.
• Mike Willesee, 76, Australian television journalist (This Day Tonight, Four Corners, A Current Affair), throat cancer.
• Paul Williams, 78, English singer (Zoot Money's Big Roll Band, Juicy Lucy, Allan Holdsworth).
• Hennric Yeboah, 62, Ghanaian politician, MP (2004–2015).

2

• Bharat Mohan Adhikari, 82, Nepalese politician, Minister of Finance (1994–1995), pneumonia.
• Derek Aikman, 59, Belizean politician, MP (1984–1992).
• Reinhold Aman, 82, German-born American chemical engineer and linguist.
• Arnulf Baring, 86, German political scientist, historian and author.
• Yannis Behrakis, 58, Greek photojournalist, cancer.
• Keith Davis, 88, New Zealand rugby union player (Auckland, New Zealand Māori, national team).
• John E. Gallagher, 61, American television director (ER, Criminal Minds, The Good Wife), cardiac arrest.
• Liam Gilmartin, 97, Irish Gaelic footballer (St. Dominics).
• Jack Gregory, 74, American football player (Cleveland Browns, New York Giants).
• Tullio Gregory, 90, Italian philosopher.
• Al Hazan, 84, American pianist (B. Bumble and the Stingers), songwriter and record producer.
• David Held, 68, British political scientist.
• Fred Hill, 84, American baseball coach (Rutgers University).
• Med Hondo, 82, Mauritanian-French film director (Soleil O, Sarraounia), screenwriter and actor (1871).
• Ed Keats, 104, American rear admiral, complications from a fall.
• János Koós, 81, Hungarian singer, parodist and actor.
• Franco Macri, 88, Italian-born Argentine businessman.
• Keith Harvey Miller, 94, American politician, Alaska Secretary of State (1966–1969) and Governor (1969–1970), pancreatic cancer.
• Colleen Mulvihill, 66, American Olympic gymnast (1968).
• Andra Neiburga, 62, Latvian writer.
• Mike Oliver, 74, British disability rights activist.
• Ogden Reid, 93, American publisher, diplomat, and politician, Ambassador to Israel (1959–1961) and member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1963–1975).
• Werner Schneyder, 82, Austrian writer, director and actor.
• Beatriz Taibo, 88, Argentine actress.
• Rafael Torija de la Fuente, 91, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Santander (1969–1976) and Bishop of Ciudad Real (1976–2003).
• Otto Trefný, 87, Czech politician, MP, physician of the national ice hockey team, member of the Czech Ice Hockey Hall of Fame.

3

• Tom Bass, 92, American politician.
• John Bloom, 87, English entrepreneur (Rolls Razor).
• Harry Bowman, 69, American criminal, president of Outlaws Motorcycle Club.
• Leo de Castro, 70, New Zealand singer and guitarist.
• Bobbi Fiedler, 81, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1981–1987).
• Kyle Forti, 29, American political consultant, helicopter crash.
• David Gadsby, 71, British physiologist.
• Martí Galindo, 81, Spanish stage actor.
• José García Ladrón de Guevara, 89, Spanish poet and journalist, Senator (1979–2000).
• Elva Martha García Rocha, 72, Mexican politician, founder of the Party of the Democratic Revolution and member of the Legislative Assembly of Mexico City (1997–2000).
• Ben Hamilton-Baillie, 63, British architect, cancer.
• John Howlett, 78, English screenwriter and author.
• Peter Hurford, 88, British organist and composer, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Mark Klempner, 63, American folklorist.
• Lee Wen, 61, Singaporean performance artist, lung infection.
• Richard Lewis, 79, Australian politician.
• Roger W. Titus, 77, American senior judge, U.S. District Judge for Maryland (since 2003), liposarcoma.
• Uroš Tošković, 86, Montenegrin painter.

4

• Ann Stewart Anderson, 84, American artist.
• John Ashman, 92, English cricketer.
• King Kong Bundy, 63, American professional wrestler (WCCW, WWF) and actor (Married... with Children), complications from diabetes.
• Eric Caldow, 84, Scottish footballer (Rangers, national team).
• Les Carlyon, 76, Australian writer and newspaper editor (The Age, The Herald).
• Vivian Cherry, 98, American photographer.
• Edward Collins, 78, Irish politician, TD (1969–1987).
• Juan Corona, 85, Mexican serial killer.
• Wilbur Cross, 100, American author.
• Garfield Davies, Baron Davies of Coity, 83, British trade unionist (USDAW) and life peer.
• Robert DeProspero, 80, American Secret Service agent, amyloidosis.
• Robert Wagner Dowling, 94, Canadian politician.
• Keith Flint, 49, English singer (The Prodigy), suicide by hanging.
• Art Hughes, 88, Canadian soccer player (Vancouver Firefighters).
• Klaus Kinkel, 82, German politician, Minister of Justice (1991–1992) and Foreign Affairs (1992–1998), Vice Chancellor (1993–1998).
• V. Dhananjay Kumar, 67, Indian politician, MP (1991–2004), Minister of Civil Aviation and Tourism (1996), kidney disease.
• Ted Lindsay, 93, Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings, Chicago Blackhawks).
• Mao Zhiyong, 89, Chinese politician, Party Secretary of Hunan and Jiangxi provinces, Vice Chairman of the CPPCC.
• Luke Perry, 52, American actor (Beverly Hills, 90210, Riverdale, Buffy the Vampire Slayer), complications from a stroke.
• Albert Redhead, 77, Grenadian lawyer and jurist (Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court).
• Anthony Ríos, 68, Dominican actor and singer-songwriter, heart attack.
• Jean Starobinski, 98, Swiss literary critic.
• Michael Thomas, 66, British actor (Life Without George, The Boat That Rocked, Head over Heels), myeloma.
• Maya Turovskaya, 94, Russian theatrical and film critic, film historian and screenwriter.
• Sidney Verba, 86, American political scientist and librarian.
• Rick Walters, 73, American tattoo artist.

5

• Richard Allen, 90, Canadian politician.
• Geoffrey Beck, 100, English cricketer (Oxfordshire) and Congregational minister.
• Chu Shijian, 91, Chinese tobacco executive (Hongtashan) and convicted embezzler, complications from diabetes.
• André Damien, 88, French lawyer and politician, Supreme Court Justice (1981–1997), mayor of Versailles (1977–1995), Deputy (1996–1997).
• Ding Yi, 91, Chinese engineer and business executive, founded Dongfang Electric.
• Moris Farhi, 84, Turkish author, Vice-President of PEN International (since 2001), heart disease.
• Khagen Gogoi, 92, Indian politician, MLA (1972–1978).
• Susan Harrison, 80, American actress (Sweet Smell of Success).
• Stephen Irwin, 79, Canadian architect.
• Aleksandra Kasuba, 95–96, Lithuanian-born American environmental artist.
• David Kear, 95, British-born New Zealand geologist and science administrator, director-general of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (1980–1983).
• Bernard Krisher, 87, German-born American journalist (Newsweek, Fortune) and philanthropist.
• Miroljub Lešo, 72, Serbian actor.
• Jacques Loussier, 84, French pianist and composer.
• Boro Maa, 100, Indian religious leader, matriarch of the Matua Mahasangha.
• Andrzej Mateja, 83, Polish Olympic skier (1956, 1960).
• Luis Matte Valdés, 85, Chilean politician, mayor of La Florida (1961–1964) and Minister of Housing and Urbanism (1972–1973).
• Doru Popovici, 87, Romanian composer, musicologist and writer.
• Esteban Righi, 80, Argentine lawyer and politician, Minister of the Interior (1973) and Attorney General (2004–2012).
• Abraham Stavans, 86, Mexican actor (El Chavo del Ocho, Once Upon a Scoundrel, Original Sin) and theatre director.
• Yang Naisi, 91, Chinese linguist.

6

• Andrey Anufriyenko, 48, Russian Olympic speed skater (1994, 1998).
• Grayston Burgess, 86, English opera singer and conductor.
• Sir Simon Cassels, 91, British admiral, Second Sea Lord (1982–1986).
• Ernesto Horacio Crespo, 89, Argentine military officer, Chief of the General Staff of the Argentine Air Force (1985–1989).
• James Dapogny, 78, American jazz musicologist and pianist.
• Magenta Devine, 61, British television presenter (Rough Guide, Network 7).
• Alí Domínguez, 26, Venezuelan journalist and politician, beaten.
• Guillaume Faye, 69, French journalist and writer, cancer.
• Typist Gopu, 85, Indian actor.
• John Habgood, Baron Habgood, 91, British Anglican bishop, academic, and life peer, Bishop of Durham (1973–1983), Archbishop of York (1983–1995).
• Frances Heussenstamm, 90, American artist.
• Rachel Ingalls, 78, American author, multiple myeloma.
• Mai Chao-cheng, 77, Taiwanese economist, member of Academia Sinica.
• Gordon Osbaldeston, 88, Canadian civil servant.
• Charlie Panigoniak, 72, Canadian Inuktitut singer and guitarist.
• José Pedro Pérez-Llorca, 78, Spanish lawyer, diplomat and politician, Deputy (1977–1982) and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1980–1982), co-Father of the 1978 Constitution.
• Daniel Rudisha, 73, Kenyan sprinter, Olympic silver medalist (1968), heart attack.
• Carolee Schneemann, 79, American visual artist.
• Brian Sully, 82–83, Australian judge.

7

• Dick Beyer, 88, American Hall of Fame professional wrestler (AJPW, WWA, AWA).
• Joseph H. Boardman, 70, American railroad executive, president and CEO of Amtrak (2008–2016), complications from a stroke.
• Robert Braithwaite, 75, British marine engineer and executive, founder of Sunseeker.
• Johnny Brittain, 86–87, British motorcycle racer.
• Bobby Campbell, 77, Scottish footballer (Motherwell, St Mirren, Greenock Morton).
• Pino Caruso, 84, Italian actor (La governante, The Sunday Woman, Il ficcanaso).
• Kelly Catlin, 23, American cyclist, Olympic silver medalist (2016) and world champion (2016, 2017, 2018), suicide by asphyxiation.
• William J. Creber, 87, American art director and production designer (The Poseidon Adventure, The Towering Inferno, Planet of the Apes), complications from pneumonia.
• Raymond Donnez, 76, French music producer and conductor.
• Daniel de Fernando, 81, Spanish pharmacist and politician, Deputy (1977–1979), President of Ávila province (1979–1982, 1987–1991).
• Ralph Hall, 95, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1981–2015) and the Texas Senate (1963–1973).
• Dan Jenkins, 90, American author and sportswriter (Sports Illustrated, Golf Digest, Playboy).
• Kusalakumari, 83, Indian actress (Konjum Salangai, Koondukkili).
• Patrick Lane, 79, Canadian poet, heart attack.
• Hi Duk Lee, 79, Korean-born American grocer, restaurateur and hotelier, cancer.
• Sam Miller, 97, American realty executive (Forest City).
• Dick Nichols, 92, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1991–1993).
• Carmine Persico, 85, American mobster and convicted racketeer, head of Colombo crime family (1973–1990, since 1993), complications from diabetes.
• Rosto, 50, Dutch artist and filmmaker, lung cancer.
• Ron Russell, 92, New Zealand-born Canadian politician, member (1978–2006) and Speaker (1998–1999) of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly.
• Sidney Sheinberg, 84, American lawyer and studio executive, President of MCA Inc. (1973–1995).
• Shen Ziyin, 91, Chinese physician and medical researcher, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
• Issei Suda, 78, Japanese photographer.
• Anne Sjerp Troelstra, 79, Dutch mathematician.

8

• Raoul Barrière, 91, French rugby union player (AS Béziers, national team) and coach (RC Narbonne).
• Marshall Brodien, 84, American magician and actor (The Bozo Show), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Mike Colbern, 63, American baseball player (Chicago White Sox).
• Nothando Dube, 31, Swazi royal, skin cancer.
• Michael Gielen, 91, Austrian conductor.
• D. Shelton A. Gunaratne, 79, Sri Lankan-born American academic.
• Cedrick Hardman, 70, American football player (San Francisco 49ers, Oakland Raiders).
• Roland Hedlund, 85, Swedish actor (Ådalen 31, The Hunters), stroke.
• Frank Joranko, 88, American football and baseball player and coach (Albion).
• Ian Lawrence, 82, Australian-born New Zealand politician, Mayor of Wellington (1983−1986), bowel cancer.
• David Martin, 89, British sociologist and Anglican priest.
• Mel Miller, 79, American lawyer and politician, member (1971−1991) and Speaker (1987−1991) of the New York State Assembly, lung cancer.
• George Morfogen, 85, American actor (Oz, V).
• Mesrob II Mutafyan of Constantinople, 62, Turkish religious leader, Armenian Patriarch of Constantinople (1998–2016), dementia.
• Jaume Muxart, 96, Spanish painter.
• Nate Ramsey, 77, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles, New Orleans Saints).
• Jason Reese, 51, British engineer.
• Frankie Smith, 65–66, American funk and R&B musician.
• Eddie Taylor Jr., 46, American blues singer and guitarist, heart failure.
• Cynthia Thompson, 96, Jamaican Olympic sprinter (1948) and CAC champion (1946).
• Mike Watterson, 76, English snooker player, promoter and commentator.

9

• Sveinung Aarnseth, 85, Norwegian footballer (Lyn, national team).
• Jed Allan, 84, American actor (Days of Our Lives, Santa Barbara, Lassie).
• Joe Auer, 77, American football player (Buffalo Bills, Miami Dolphins, Atlanta Falcons).
• Akhteruzzaman Babul, 63, Bangladeshi politician, MP (1988–1990).
• Anna Costanza Baldry, 48, Italian social psychologist and criminologist.
• Tom Ballard, 30, British rock climber, rock climbing accident. (body discovered on this date)
• George Benson, 90, American jazz saxophonist.
• Alberto Bucci, 70, Italian basketball coach (Fortitudo Bologna, Virtus Bologna, Scaligera Verona), cancer.
• Chokoleit, 48, Filipino actor (Love Spell, Marina, Asintado) and comedian, heart attack.
• Bernard Binlin Dadié, 103, Ivorian novelist, playwright and poet, Minister of Culture (1977–1986).
• Vladimir Etush, 96, Russian actor (Kidnapping, Caucasian Style, The Twelve Chairs, 31 June), People's Artist of the USSR (1984), heart failure.
• Patrick Grandperret, 72, French film director and screenwriter (Murderers).
• Heo Yong-mo, 53, South Korean boxer, stomach cancer.
• Harry Howell, 86, Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey player (New York Rangers, Los Angeles Kings).
• Jadwiga Janus, 87, Polish sculptor.
• Wenche Kvamme, 68, Norwegian actress, cancer.
• Robert Lemaître, 90, French footballer.
• Albert Marenčin, 96, Slovak writer, translator and screenwriter.
• Leonidas Ralph Mecham, 90, American lawyer, director of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts (1985–2006).
• Abdul Ali Mridha, Bangladeshi politician.
• Pierre de Saintignon, 70, French politician.
• Olatoye Temitope Sugar, 47, Nigerian politician, MP (since 2015), shot.
• Francesca Sundsten, 59, American bassist (The Beakers) and artist, lymphoma.
• Johnny Thompson, 84, American magician.
• Kevin Ward, 57, American baseball player (San Diego Padres), brain cancer.
• Wally Yamaguchi, 60, Japanese professional wrestling manager (AJPW, FMW, WWF), stroke.

10

• Edith Borroff, 93, American musicologist and composer.
• Anton Buteyko, 71, Ukrainian diplomat, Ambassador to the United States (1998–1999) and Romania (2000–2003).
• Karl Eller, 91, American advertising executive and retailer (Circle K).
• Josef Feistmantl, 80, Austrian luger, Olympic (1964), world (1969), and European (1967) champion.
• Russell Gary, 59, American football player (New Orleans Saints, Philadelphia Eagles), heart attack.
• Raven Grimassi, 67, American Wiccan priest and writer, pancreatic cancer.
• Louis Hailey, 93, Australian Olympic hockey player (1956, 1960).
• Charlie Karp, 65, American musician, songwriter and Emmy-winning documentarian.
• İrsen Küçük, 79, Cypriot politician, Prime Minister of Northern Cyprus (2010–2013), heart attack.
• Britta Lindmark, 89, Swedish Olympic skater (1952).
• Gordon McIntosh, 93, Scottish-born Australian politician, Senator (1974–1987).
• Eric Moss, 44, American football player (Minnesota Vikings, Scottish Claymores).
• Charles Mutschler, 63, American archivist, traffic collision.
• Gheorghe Naghi, 86, Romanian film director (Telegrame).
• William Powers Jr., 72, American educator, President of the University of Texas at Austin (2006–2015), complications from a fall.
• Al Silverman, 92, American sports writer.
• Alekos Spanoudakis, 91, Greek basketball player (Olympiacos).
• Paul Talalay, 95, German-born American pharmacologist, congestive heart failure.
• René Arnold Valero, 88, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Brooklyn, New York (1980–2005).
• Notable people who died in the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 plane crash:
  • Pius Adesanmi, 47, Nigerian-Canadian professor and writer.
  • Christine Alalo, 48–49, Ugandan police officer and peacekeeper (AMISOM).
  • Sebastiano Tusa, 66, Italian archaeologist and politician.

11

• Dave Aron, 54, American music producer.
• Yona Atari, 85, Israeli singer and actress (Rechov Sumsum), Alzheimer's disease.
• Danny Ben-Israel, 75, Israeli musician.
• Hal Blaine, 90, American Hall of Fame drummer (The Wrecking Crew).
• Martín Chirino, 94, Spanish sculptor.
• John Dawson, 91, New Zealand botanist and academic (Victoria University of Wellington).
• John T. Driscoll, 93, American politician.
• Willie Ellison, 73, American football player (Los Angeles Rams, Kansas City Chiefs).
• Desmond Ford, 90, Australian evangelical theologian.
• Leetsch C. Hsu, 98, Chinese mathematician and educator.
• Saiful Azam Kashem, 71, Bangladeshi film director.
• Dzhemal Kherhadze, 74, Georgian footballer (Torpedo Kutaisi).
• Pertti Koivulahti, 67, Finnish ice hockey player (Tappara).
• Danny Kustow, 63, English rock guitarist (Tom Robinson Band), pneumonia and liver infection.
• Joe Rosenblatt, 85, Canadian poet.
• Edward Rubenstein, 94, American physician.
• Patrick Ruttle, 88, Canadian Olympic field hockey player (1964).
• Sundar Lal Tiwari, 61, Indian politician, MLA (since 2013), heart attack.
• Antônio Wilson Vieira Honório, 75, Brazilian football player (Santos, national team) and manager (Valeriodoce), world champion (1962), heart attack.
• Speros Vryonis, 90, American historian.
• Peter Wong Man-kong, 70, Hong Kong shipping magnate and politician, member of the National People's Congress (since 1993).
• Xing Shizhong, 80, Chinese general, President of the PLA National Defence University (1995–2002).

12

• John Bardo, 70, American educator, president of Wichita State University (since 2012), lung disease.
• Jim Beatty, 84, American jazz musician.
• Věra Bílá, 64, Czech singer, heart attack.
• Stu Briese, 72, Canadian politician, MLA (2007–2016).
• Thomas S. Carter, 97, American engineer, president of the Kansas City Southern Railway (1973–1986).
• Renato Cipollini, 73, Italian football player (SPAL, Atalanta) and executive, president of Bologna (2001–2004).
• Günter Dreyer, 75, German Egyptologist.
• Karl Fischer, 70, Hungarian-born Canadian architect.
• Joachim Mbadu Kikhela Kupika, 87, Congolese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Boma (1975–2001).
• John Kilzer, 62, American singer and songwriter, suicide by hanging.
• Shelly Liebowitz, 73, American record executive, promoter, producer, and manager.
• Alberto Lois, 62, Dominican baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates).
• Tom Meyer, 96, American basketball player (Detroit Gems).
• Joseph C. Miller, 79, American historian.
• Eurico Miranda, 74, Brazilian football chairman (Vasco da Gama) and politician, Deputy (1995–2002).
• Gabriela Moser, 64, Austrian politician, MP (1994–1996, 1997–2017).
• Alan Moss, 88, English cricketer (Middlesex, MCC, national team).
• Hermann Mucke, 84, Austrian astronomer, founder and editor of Sternenbote.
• Sir John Richardson, 95, British art historian and Picasso biographer.
• Marjorie W. Sharmat, 90, American author, respiratory failure.
• Tom Skjønberg, 70, Norwegian sailor.
• Joffre Stewart, 93, American beat poet and anarchist.

13

• Keith Butler, 80, British racing cyclist.
• Frank Cali, 53, American mobster, head of Gambino crime family (since 2015), shot.
• Edmund Capon, 78, British-born Australian art historian and curator, director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales (1978–2011), melanoma.
• Zofia Czerwińska, 85, Polish actress (A Generation, Ashes and Diamonds, The Pianist).
• Beril Dedeoğlu, 57, Turkish politician and academic, Minister of European Union Affairs (2015), brain hemorrhage.
• Zagorka Golubović, 89, Serbian anthropologist and philosopher.
• Howard Hibbett, 98, American translator.
• Chuck Holmes, 84, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings).
• Harry Hughes, 92, American politician, Governor of Maryland (1979–1987), member of the Maryland House of Delegates (1955–1959) and Senate (1959–1971).
• Ghazali Jaafar, 75, Filipino militant (Moro Islamic Liberation Front) and politician, Speaker of the Bangsamoro Parliament (since 2019), kidney failure.
• Demie Mainieri, 90, American Hall of Fame baseball coach (Miami Dade College).
• Ken McKinnon, 82, Canadian politician, Commissioner of Yukon (1986–1995), member of the Yukon Territorial Council (1961–1964, 1967–1978).
• Joseph Hanson Kwabena Nketia, 97, Ghanaian ethnomusicologist and composer.
• David Palladini, 72, American illustrator.
• Andrea Pollack, 57, German swimmer, Olympic champion (1976, 1980), cancer.
• Charles Sanna, 101, American inventor.
• Maggie Shaddick, 92, Canadian scout leader.
• Leroy Stanton, 72, American baseball player (New York Mets, California Angels, Seattle Mariners), traffic collision.

14

• Paul Adams, 82, American football player and coach (Deerfield High School).
• Jeff Michael Andrews, 59, American jazz bassist.
• Kurt Armbruster, 84, Swiss footballer (Lausanne, national team).
• Birch Bayh, 91, American politician, U.S. Senator (1963–1981), member (1954–1962) and Speaker (1958–1960) of the Indiana House of Representatives, pneumonia.
• Francis J. Cain, 96, American politician.
• Rosamma Chacko, 91, Indian politician, MLA (1982–1997).
• Godfried Danneels, 85, Belgian Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels (1979–2010).
• Terry Donahue, 93, Canadian baseball player (Peoria Redwings).
• Thomas Goddard, 81, Polish-born New Zealand jurist, Chief Employment Court Judge (1989–2005).
• Marian Sulzberger Heiskell, 100, American newspaper executive.
• Harry Helenius, 72, Finnish diplomat, ambassador to Russia (2004–2008) and Sweden (2011–2014).
• Henry S. Horn, 77, American ecologist.
• Paul Hutchins, 73, British tennis player, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Joe Knowland, 88, American actor (Escape from Alcatraz, Little Miss Marker) and newspaper publisher (Oakland Tribune).
• Masahiko Kobe, 49, Japanese chef, fall.
• Pat Laffan, 79, Irish actor (Father Ted, The Snapper).
• Maate Mahadevi, 74, Indian Hindu sect leader, author and Lingayatism activist, sepsis.
• Ralph Metzner, 82, American psychologist.
• Ilona Novák, 93, Hungarian swimmer, Olympic champion (1952).
• Onigu Otite, 80, Nigerian sociologist.
• Sir Stanley Peart, 96, British medical researcher.
• Jake Phelps, 56, American skateboarder and magazine editor (Thrasher).
• Anita Silvers, 78, American philosopher.
• Lester Smith, 76, American oil executive.
• Charlie Whiting, 66, British motorsports director, FIA Formula 1 race director (since 1997), pulmonary embolism.
• Haig Young, 90, Canadian politician.

15

• Luca Alinari, 75, Italian painter.
• Juan Manuel Arza, 86, Spanish politician, President of the Government of Navarre (1980–1984).
• Tone Brulin, 92, Belgian stage director.
• Derek Burke, 89, British academic.
• Alec Coppen, 96, British psychiatrist.
• Atta Elayyan, 33, Kuwaiti-born New Zealand footballer (national futsal team) and IT entrepreneur, shot.
• Okwui Enwezor, 55, Nigerian art critic and writer, curator of the Venice Biennale (2015), multiple myeloma.
• Bengt Gustafsson, 85, Swedish military officer, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces (1986–1994).
• Sara Payne Hayden, 99, American WWII WASP pilot.
• John P. Healey, 97, American aerospace executive.
• Leif Henriksson, 75, Swedish ice hockey player (Frölunda HC).
• Dave Hood Jr., 64, American politician, member of the Florida House of Representatives (2012–2014), brain cancer.
• Lam Jones, 60, American sprinter and football player (New York Jets, Dallas Cowboys), Olympic champion (1976), myeloma.
• Osmo Jussila, 81, Finnish historian.
• Helena Khan, 91, Bangladeshi children's writer.
• Wiesław Kilian, 66, Polish politician, member of the Sejm (2005–2007, 2010–2011), Senator (since 2011).
• Rudi Krausmann, 85, Austrian-born Australian poet and playwright.
• Derek Lewin, 88, English footballer (Bishop Auckland, Great Britain Olympic football team).
• Günther Lohre, 65, German Olympic athlete (1976).
• Luo Jye, 94, Taiwanese billionaire businessman, founder of Cheng Shin Rubber.
• W. S. Merwin, 91, American poet, Pulitzer Prize winner (1971, 2009), United States Poet Laureate.
• Dominique Noguez, 76, French writer, Prix Femina winner (1997).
• Maya Rani Paul, 86, Indian politician.
• Ron Peplow, 83, English footballer (Brentford).
• Norman A. Phillips, 95, American meteorologist.
• Y. S. Vivekananda Reddy, 68, Indian politician, member of the Lok Sabha (1999–2009), stabbed.
• Jean-Pierre Richard, 96, French literary critic.
• Ezequiel Santiago, 45, American politician, member of the Connecticut House of Representatives (since 2009), heart attack.
• Lothar Schneider, 79, German wrestler, world championship bronze medalist (1965).
• Gerhard Skiba, 71, Austrian politician, mayor of Braunau am Inn (1989–2010).
• Mike Thalassitis, 26, English-born Cypriot footballer (Boreham Wood, Ebbsfleet United) and reality show personality (Love Island), suicide by hanging.

16

• Michael Axworthy, 56, British academic and author, cancer.
• Timothy A. Barrow, 85, American politician, member of the Arizona House of Representatives (1966–1973), Mayor of Phoenix (1974–1976), Alzheimer's disease and cancer.
• Phil Branch, 86, American football player (Saskatchewan Roughriders).
• Ian Brown, 93, Australian football player (Geelong).
• Catherine Callaghan, 87, American linguist and anti-abortion activist, co-founder of Feminists for Life.
• Mordaunt Cohen, 102, British soldier and solicitor, AJEX chairman.
• Dick Dale, 81, American guitarist and surf music pioneer ("Let's Go Trippin'", "Misirlou"), heart failure.
• Larry DiTillio, 71, American television writer (He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, Beast Wars: Transformers, Babylon 5).
• Richard Erdman, 93, American actor (Community, Stalag 17, Tora! Tora! Tora!).
• Joe Fafard, 76, Canadian sculptor, stomach cancer.
• Barbara Hammer, 79, American filmmaker (Nitrate Kisses, Tender Fictions), ovarian cancer.
• Tom Hatten, 92, American actor (The Secret of NIMH, Spies Like Us) and media personality (KTLA).
• Gilbert Hottois, 72, Belgian philosopher.
• Yann-Fañch Kemener, 61, French singer.
• Amos Kloner, 79, Israeli archaeologist.
• Alan Krueger, 58, American economist, suicide.
• Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Louly, 76, Mauritanian military officer and politician, Chairman of the Military Committee for National Salvation (1979–1980).
• Johann Maier, 85, Austrian talmudic scholar.
• Howard Morgan, 87, Welsh cricketer (Glamorgan).
• Yulia Nachalova, 38, Russian singer, actress and television presenter, cerebral edema.
• Grozdana Olujić, 84, Serbian writer.
• Stephen Rolfe Powell, 67, American glass artist.
• David White, 79, American singer-songwriter (Danny & the Juniors, The Spokesmen).
• Sir William Whitfield, 98, British architect.

17

• Hanne Aga, 71, Norwegian poet.
• Ken Bald, 98, American illustrator and comic book artist (Dr. Kildare).
• Barbara Benary, 72, American composer and ethnomusicologist, Parkinson's disease.
• Ulf Bengtsson, 59, Swedish table tennis player.
• Bill Burlison, 88, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Missouri's 10th district (1969–1981).
• Mick Carley, 78, Irish Gaelic footballer (Westmeath).
• Shahed Chowdhury, 53, Bangladeshi film director.
• René Fontès, 77, French rugby union executive and politician, president of ASM Clermont Auvergne (2004–2013), mayor of Eygalières (since 2008), heart attack.
• Víctor Genes, 57, Paraguayan football player (Cerro Porteño) and manager (Trinidense, national team), heart attack.
• Norman Hollyn, 66, American film and television editor (Heathers, Wild Palms, The Equalizer), coronary embolism and cardiac arrest.
• Jorge Insunza Becker, 82, Chilean engineer and politician, Deputy (1969–1973).
• Olavi Mannonen, 89, Finnish modern pentathlete, Olympic silver medalist (1956) and bronze medalist (1952, 1956).
• João Carlos Marinho, 83, Brazilian writer (O Gênio do Crime)
• Paul-André Massé, 71, Canadian politician.
• Wolfgang Meyer, 64, German clarinetist, cancer.
• Mick Murphy, 77, English rugby player (St Helens, Leigh).
• José Musalem Saffie, 94, Chilean politician, Senator (1965–1973) and Deputy (1953–1965).
• Manohar Parrikar, 63, Indian politician, MP (2014–2017), Minister of Defence (2014–2017) and Chief Minister of Goa (2000–2005, 2012–2014, since 2017), pancreatic cancer.
• Chinmoy Roy, 79, Indian actor (Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne, Ekhoni, Subarna Golak), heart attack.
• Richie Ryan, 90, Irish politician, Teachta Dála (1959–1982), MEP (1973–1977, 1979–1982) and Minister for Finance (1973–1977).
• Bernie Tormé, 66, Irish guitarist, singer and songwriter (Gillan, Guy McCoy Tormé, Desperado), pneumonia.
• Yuya Uchida, 79, Japanese singer (Flower Travellin' Band) and actor (Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, Black Rain), pneumonia.
• Andre Williams, 82, American R&B singer and songwriter ("Shake a Tail Feather"), colon cancer.
• Tunku Puan Zanariah, 78, Malaysian royal, Raja Permaisuri Agong (1984–1989).

18

• Egon Balas, 96, Romanian mathematician.
• György Baló, 71, Hungarian broadcaster.
• Vlastimil Brlica, 90, Czech Olympic athlete.
• John Carl Buechler, 66, American visual effects artist and film director (Troll, Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood, Hatchet), prostate cancer.
• François Camoin, 79, French-American academic and writer.
• Marcel-Pierre Cléach, 86, French politician, Senator (1995–2014), mayor of Lombron (1995–2011).
• Jerrie Cobb, 88, American aviator.
• Louise Erickson, 91, American radio and film actress.
• Jackie Fahey, 91, Irish politician, Teachta Dála (1965–1992).
• William Haye, 70, Jamaican cricketer, shot.
• Tova Ilan, 89, Israeli politician, member of the Knesset (2006).
• Roger Kirby, 79, American professional wrestler (CSW, WWA, NWA Mid-America), pneumonia.
• Dessie Larkin, 49, Irish politician.
• Pavel Machotka, 82, Czechoslovakian-born American psychologist and painter, complications from a stroke.
• Karl-Heinz Mrosko, 72, German footballer (Bayern Munich, Hannover 96, Arminia Hannover), pancreatitis and pneumonia.
• Lorenzo Orsetti, 33, Italian volunteer soldier, shot.
• Pioneerof the Nile, 13, American racing thoroughbred, heart attack.
• Giovanni Sgro, 88, Italian-born Australian politician, MLC (1979–1992).
• Bomma Venkateshwar, 78, Indian politician, MLA (1999–2004).

19

• Derek Anthony, 71, British military officer, Flag Officer Scotland, Northern England and Northern Ireland (2000–2003).
• Graham Arnold, 86, English artist.
• Arthur Bartman, 46, South African footballer (Kaizer Chiefs, Maritzburg United).
• Mona Lee Brock, 87, American educator and crisis support counsellor, heart failure.
• Boris Dubrovin, 68, Russian mathematician, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Thanasis Giannakopoulos, 88, Greek pharmaceutical and sports executive (Vianex S.A., Panathinaikos A.O.).
• Maurílio de Gouveia, 86, Portuguese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Évora (1981–2008).
• Tony Greenfield, 87, British statistician.
• Clinton Greyn, 85, Welsh actor (Compact, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Doctor Who).
• Chuck Harmon, 94, American baseball player (Cincinnati Redlegs, St. Louis Cardinals).
• Rose Hilton, 87, British painter.
• Marlen Khutsiev, 93, Georgian-born Russian film director (I Am Twenty, July Rain, Infinitas), People's Artist of the USSR (1986).
• George W. Lindberg, 86, American judge, Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois (2001–2012).
• Brenda Muntemba, 48, Zambian diplomat, High Commissioner to Kenya, complications from a traffic collision.
• Genevieve Oswald, 97, American dance scholar and curator (New York Public Library).
• Bill Phelps, 84, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Missouri (1972–1980).
• Astri Riddervold, 93, Norwegian chemist and ethnologist.
• S. B. Sinha, 74, Indian judge.
• Ian Thorogood, 82, Australian football player (Melbourne) and coach (Carlton).
• Kenneth To, 26, Hong Kong-born Australian swimmer, FINA Swimming World Cup overall winner (2012), Youth Olympics champion (2010), cardiac arrest.

20

• Joseph Victor Adamec, 83, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Altoona–Johnstown (1987–2011).
• Anatoly Adoskin, 91, Russian actor (Seven Old Men and a Girl, The Brothers Karamazov, Moscow-Cassiopeia), People's Artist of the Russian Federation (1996).
• Dennis Anderson, 69, Canadian politician, MLA for Calgary-Currie (1979–1993).
• Betty G. Bailey, 79, American artist.
• Eunetta T. Boone, 63, American television writer and producer (One on One, Raven's Home, The Hughleys), heart attack.
• Joaquín Calomarde, 62, Spanish teacher and politician, Deputy (2000–2008).
• Tom Doncourt, 63, American musician, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis.
• Linda Gregg, 76, American poet.
• Nobuhiko Higashikuni, 74, Japanese Imperial prince.
• Noel Hush, 94, Australian chemist.
• Randy Jackson, 93, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs, Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers, Cleveland Indians).
• Donald Kalpokas, 75, ni-Vanuatu politician, Prime Minister (1991, 1998–1999).
• Panos Koutrouboussis, 82, Greek writer and artist.
• Georg Kreutzberg, 86, German neurobiologist.
• Antonio Menegazzo, 87, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Apostolic Administrator of El Obeid (1996–2010).
• Terje Nilsen, 67, Norwegian singer-songwriter.
• Hans Günter Nöcker, 92, German bass-baritone singer.
• Lance Oswald, 82, Australian footballer (St Kilda).
• Ralph Solecki, 101, American archaeologist.
• John Steeples, 59, English footballer (Grimsby Town, Scarborough).
• A. Subramaniam, 93, Indian politician, MLA (1971–1977).
• Keyvan Vahdani, 27, Iranian footballer (Paykan), landslide.
• Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock, 94, British philosopher.
• Leonard Wolf, 96, Romanian-born American poet.

21

• John Bersia, 62, American writer.
• Anna Maria Canopi, 87, Italian Benedictine abbess and spiritual writer.
• Mike Cofer, 58, American football player (Detroit Lions), amyloidosis.
• Marcel Detienne, 83, Belgian historian.
• Anthony Dickerson, 61, American football player (Dallas Cowboys), injuries sustained in a fall.
• Doris Duke, 77, American soul and gospel singer.
• Gordon Hill, 90, English football referee.
• Adzil Holder, 87, Barbadian cricketer.
• R. Kanagaraj, 66, Indian politician, cardiac arrest.
• Roger Moore, 79, American computer scientist and philanthropist.
• Gonzalo Portocarrero, 69, Peruvian sociologist, lung cancer.
• Francis Quinn, 97, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Sacramento (1980–1993).
• K. G. Rajasekharan, 72, Indian Malayalam film director.
• Haku Shah, 85, Indian artist, cardiac arrest.
• Balwant Singh, 82, Indian politician, secretary of Punjab Communist Party of India (Marxist) (1998–2008), MLA (1980–1985).
• Paul Kouassivi Vieira, 69, Beninese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Djougou (since 1995).
• Franco Wanyama, 51, Ugandan Olympic boxer.
• Pyotr Zaychenko, 75, Russian film and theater actor (Planet Parade, Taxi Blues, Leningrad 46).

22

• Jack Absalom, 91, Australian painter and adventurer.
• Frans Andriessen, 89, Dutch politician, Minister of Finance (1977–1980), European Commissioner (1981–1993).
• Dino De Antoni, 82, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Gorizia (1999–2012).
• Prudent Carpentier, 97, Canadian politician, member of the National Assembly of Quebec (1970–1976).
• John Duignan, 73, Scottish comedy writer, motor neurone disease.
• Joe Hall, 71, Canadian singer-songwriter, liver cancer.
• June Harding, 81, American actress (The Trouble with Angels, The Richard Boone Show, Matt Lincoln).
• Victor Hochhauser, 95, Slovak-born British music promoter.
• César Lévano, 92, Peruvian journalist and teacher.
• Hugh T. Lightsey, 93, American politician, member of the South Carolina House of Representatives (1965–1971).
• Keyonta Marshall, 37, American football player (Philadelphia Eagles, Hamburg Sea Devils), cancer.
• Tom Maxwell, 94, British military officer.
• Art Mazmanian, 91, American baseball player and manager (Newark Orioles, Oneonta Yankees).
• Bobby McCool, 76, Scottish footballer (Cheltenham Town, Gloucester City).
• Denzil Meuli, 92, New Zealand writer, newspaper editor (Zealandia), and Roman Catholic priest.
• Charles A. Miller, 81, American political scientist, oropharyngeal and esophageal dysphagia.
• Jim Moody, 83, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Wisconsin's 5th (1983–1993), Wisconsin State Senate (1979–1982) and Wisconsin State Assembly.
• Arlen Ness, 79, American motorcycle designer and entrepreneur.
• Behrouz Rahbar, 73, Iranian Olympic racing cyclist (1972).
• C. S. Shivalli, 58, Indian politician, heart attack.
• Scott Walker, 76, American-born British singer-songwriter (The Walker Brothers), composer and record producer.
• Zinka Zorko, 84, Slovenian linguist, dialectologist and academic, member of Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (since 2003).

23

• Kate Baxter, 88, Australian Olympic fencer.
• Philomena Canning, 59, Irish midwife and women's health advocate, ovarian cancer.
• Tudor Caranfil, 87, Romanian film critic.
• Lina Cheryazova, 50, Uzbek freestyle skier, Olympic champion (1994).
• Larry Cohen, 82, American film director (It's Alive, The Stuff) and screenwriter (Phone Booth).
• Clem Daniels, 81, American football player (Oakland Raiders).
• Domingos de Oliveira, 82, Brazilian director, playwright, screenwriter and actor.
• Vinjamuri Anasuya Devi, 98, Indian singer and composer.
• Jacques Dessemme, 93, French Olympic basketball player (1952).
• Denise DuBarry, 63, American actress (Black Sheep Squadron, Being There, Monster in the Closet), producer and marketer, fungal infection.
• Rafi Eitan, 92, Israeli intelligence officer and politician, member of the Knesset (2006–2009) and Minister for Senior Citizens (2006–2009).
• James Carroll Fox, 90, American senior judge, U.S. District Judge for Eastern North Carolina (1982–2017).
• Hal King, 75, American baseball player (Houston Astros, Atlanta Braves, Cincinnati Reds).
• Ferd Lahure, 89, Luxembourgian footballer (national team).
• Matti Launonen, 74, Finnish table tennis player, Paralympic champion (1992, 1996), complications from a fall.
• Howard V. Lee, 85, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.
• Lee Shi-chi, 81, Taiwanese artist.
• Li Fulin, 59, Chinese police official and politician, Vice Governor of Hainan Province.
• Shahnaz Rahmatullah, 67, Bangladeshi singer, heart attack.
• René Remangeon, 87, French racing cyclist.
• Finn Willy Sørensen, 77, Danish footballer (Boldklubben Frem, Washington Whips).

24

• Reynaldo Aguinaldo, 70, Filipino politician, Mayor of Kawit (2007–2016), cardiac arrest.
• Andrew Browder, 88, American mathematician.
• Pancracio Celdrán, 77, Spanish professor and journalist.
• Anna Cohn, 68, American museum director and Judaic scholar.
• Ayanda Denge, South African transgender and anti-sex trafficking activist, stabbed.
• Erik Fjeldstad, 75, Norwegian ice hockey player (national team).
• Alan H. Friedman, 91, American writer.
• Nancy Gates, 93, American actress (Masterson of Kansas, World Without End, Magnificent Roughnecks).
• Joe Harvard, 60, American musician, liver cancer.
• Ensio Hyytiä, 81, Finnish Olympic ski jumper (1960, 1964), world championship silver medalist (1958).
• Noah Keen, 98, American actor (Arrest and Trial, Battle for the Planet of the Apes, Tom Sawyer).
• Vicky Kippin, 76, Australian politician, Queensland MLA (1974–1980).
• Julia Lockwood, 77, British actress (My Teenage Daughter, Please Turn Over, No Kidding), pneumonia.
• Finn Lowery, 28, New Zealand water polo player (national team), suicide.
• Michael Lynne, 77, American studio executive (New Line Cinema) and film producer (The Lord of the Rings, A Nightmare on Elm Street).
• Brian MacArthur, 79, British newspaper editor and writer, leukaemia.
• Fred Malek, 82, American executive (Marriott Corporation, Coldwell Banker, Northwest Airlines), political campaigner and philanthropist.
• Mich Matsudaira, 81, American businessman and civil rights activist.
• Desmond Dudwa Phiri, 88, Malawian historian and economist.
• Joseph Pilato, 70, American actor (Day of the Dead, Pulp Fiction, Digimon: The Movie).
• Ronald K. Siegel, 76, American psychopharmacologist.
• Robert W. Sweet, 96, American senior judge, U.S. District Judge for Southern New York (since 1978).

25

• Lisle Atkinson, 78, American jazz double bassist.
• Edna Barker, 82, English cricketer (national team).
• Ordell Braase, 87, American football player (Baltimore Colts), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Virgilio Caballero Pedraza, 77, Mexican journalist and politician, MP (2015–2018).
• Douglas Court, 86, Canadian figure skater.
• Paul Dawkins, 61, American-Turkish basketball player (Utah Jazz, Galatasaray).
• Eduardo De Santis, 89, Italian actor and philanthropist.
• Len Fontaine, 71, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings).
• Stylianos Harkianakis, 83, Australian Greek Orthodox prelate, Archbishop of Australia (since 1975).
• Barrie Hole, 76, Welsh footballer (Cardiff City, Aston Villa, national team).
• Adolph Lawrence, 50, Liberian politician, member of the House of Representatives (since 2012), traffic collision.
• Miklós Martin, 87, Hungarian Olympic water polo player.
• Antonio Napoletano, 81, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Sessa Aurunca (1994–2013).
• Julian Nott, 74, British balloonist and scientist.
• Susan Nutter, 74–75, American librarian.
• Gabriel Okara, 97, Nigerian poet and novelist.
• Jean Price, 75, American politician, member of the Montana House of Representatives (2011–2019), pancreatic cancer.
• Cal Ramsey, 81, American basketball player (St. Louis Hawks, New York Knicks, Syracuse Nationals), heart attack.
• Sofía Rocha, 51, Peruvian actress, fall.
• Dorothy Rowe, 88, Australian psychologist and writer.
• Jerry Schypinski, 87, American baseball player (Kansas City Athletics).
• Sydel Silverman, 86, American anthropologist.
• Bill Thompson III, 57, American ornithologist and publisher (Bird Watcher's Digest), pancreatic cancer.
• Lyle Tuttle, 87, American tattoo artist.

26

• Ralph Allen, 92, Canadian painter.
• Michel Bacos, 95, French pilot (Air France Flight 139).
• Ted Burgin, 91, English football player (Sheffield United, Leeds United, Rochdale) and manager.
• Christopher N. Chandler, 80, American journalist (Chicago Sun-Times) and political speechwriter, prostate cancer.
• François Dubanchet, 95, French politician.
• Catherine R. Gira, 86, American educator and university administrator.
• Kenichi Hagiwara, 68, Japanese actor and singer, gastrointestinal stromal tumor.
• Rafael Henzel, 45, Brazilian sports broadcaster, survivor of LaMia Flight 2933 crash, heart attack.
• Immanuel Kauluma Elifas, 86, Namibian royal, Chief of Ondonga (since 1975).
• Andrew Marshall, 97, American military and diplomatic advisor, director of Office of Net Assessment (1973–2015).
• Master Fatman, 53, Danish comedian, film director (Gayniggers from Outer Space) and singer.
• Bronco McLoughlin, 80, Irish stuntman (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Star Wars, Superman).
• Ali Mema, 76, Albanian footballer (Tirana, national team) and manager.
• Nodar Mgaloblishvili, 87, Georgian actor (Centaurs, Formula of Love, Katala).
• James F. Nagle, 91, American politician, member of the New York State Assembly (1977–1992).
• Arthur Porter, 95, Sierra Leonean historian.
• W. H. Pugmire, 67, American writer.
• Ranking Roger, 56, British singer (The Beat, General Public), cancer.
• Redoute's Choice, 22, Australian Thoroughbred racehorse and champion sire, euthanised.
• Isidro Sala Ribera, 86, Spanish-born Peruvian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Abancay (1992–2009).
• N. Selvaraj, 75, Indian politician, member of Lok Sabha (1980–1984).
• Tejshree Thapa, 52, Nepalese human rights lawyer, multiple organ failure.
• Heinz Winbeck, 73, German composer.

27

• Friedrich Achleitner, 88, Austrian poet and architecture critic.
• Ashitha, 62, Indian writer, cancer.
• Joe Bellino, 81, American football player (Naval Academy, Boston Patriots), Heisman Trophy winner (1960).
• Dragan Bošnjak, 62, Serbian footballer (Spartak Subotica, Vojvodina, Dinamo Zagreb).
• Pierre Bourguignon, 77, French politician, Deputy (1981–1993, 1997–2012), mayor of Sotteville-lès-Rouen (1989–2014), heart attack.
• John Browne, 82, Irish politician, Senator (1983–1987) and TD (1989–2002).
• Valery Bykovsky, 84, Russian cosmonaut (Vostok 5, Soyuz 22, Soyuz 31).
• Roy Eugene Davis, 88, American spiritual teacher, heart failure.
• Abdul Latif Dayfallah, 89, Yemeni military officer and politician, Prime Minister (1963, 1975).
• Edit Doron, 68, Israeli linguist.
• Jan Dydak, 50, Polish boxer, Olympic bronze medalist (1988), cancer.
• Valentino Giambelli, 91, Italian football player (Olginatese, Monza, Gallaratese) and executive, Chairman of Monza (1980–2000).
• Yoji Harada, 46, Japanese tattoo artist and reality show personality (Miami Ink).
• Jan Kobylański, 95, Polish-Paraguayan union leader and stamp printer.
• Akihito Kondo, 80, Japanese baseball player.
• Prasanta Kumar Majumdar, 78, Indian politician.
• John Permal, 72, Pakistani sprinter, pancreatic cancer.
• Dimitri Polizos, 68, American politician, member of the Alabama House of Representatives (since 2013), heart attack.
• Marvin E. Proffer, 88, American politician, member of the Missouri House of Representatives (1962–1986).
• P. J. G. Ransom, 83, Scottish author.
• Lawrence Rhodes, 79, American dancer and ballet director.
• Bruce Yardley, 71, Australian Test cricketer, cancer.

28

• Vladimir Basalayev, 73, Russian football player (Lokomotiv Moscow, Dynamo Moscow, USSR national team) and manager.
• Jonathan Baumbach, 85, American author, academic, and film critic.
• Bill Culbert, 84, New Zealand artist.
• Alphonse D'Arco, 86, American mobster, acting boss of the Lucchese crime family (1990–1991), kidney disease. (death announced on this date)
• Ralph Fertig, 89, American social justice activist, lawyer and author.
• Domenico Giannace, 94, Italian trade unionist and politician, member of the Regional Council of Basilicata (1980–1985).
• John Harris, 83, English cricketer (Somerset).
• Klaus Koch, 92, German biblical scholar.
• Pierre Lacroix, 84, French rugby union player.
• Maury Laws, 95, American television and film composer (Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Frosty the Snowman, The Little Drummer Boy).
• Ian McDonald, 82, Scottish civil servant.
• Koji Nakanishi, 93, Japanese chemist.
• Kevin Randall, 73, English football player and manager (Chesterfield, York City).
• Damir Salimov, 81, Uzbek film director.
• Eva Mae Fleming Scott, 92, American politician, member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1972–1979) and Senate (1980–1984).
• Fuyumi Shiraishi, 82, Japanese voice actress (Mobile Suit Gundam, Patalliro!, The Monster Kid), heart failure.
• Garry Sidebottom, 64, Australian VFL footballer (St Kilda, Geelong, Fitzroy), cancer.
• Jon Skolmen, 78, Norwegian actor (Sällskapsresan, Hodet over vannet).
• Bob Stewart, 79, British radio presenter (Radio Luxembourg).
• Henry Stern, 83, American politician and government official, member of NYCC (1974–1983), Commissioner of NYC Parks (1983–1990, 1994–2000), complications of Parkinson's disease.
• Wong Tien Fatt, 64, Malaysian politician, MP (since 2013), heart attack.
• Steve Wormith, 72, Canadian football player (Montreal Alouettes) and psychologist, cancer.

29

• Mark Alessi, 65, American comic book publisher, founder of CrossGen.
• Satish Kumar Chauhan, 58, Indian politician, MLA (1985–1990), heart attack.
• Allan Cole, 75, American author and television writer.
• Johnny Creedon, 86, Irish Gaelic footballer.
• Srima Dissanayake, 76, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician.
• Anders Ehnmark, 87, Swedish author and journalist (Expressen, Norrskensflamman, Folket i Bild/Kulturfront).
• Joe Enook, 61, Canadian politician, member (since 2011) and Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Nunavut (since 2017).
• Dobrica Erić, 82, Serbian writer and poet.
• Josep Esteve i Soler, 89, Spanish pharmaceutical executive.
• Paul D.K. Fraser, 78, Canadian jurist, president of the Canadian Bar Association (1981–1982) and the Commonwealth Lawyers Association (1993–1996).
• Kenneth A. Gibson, 86, American politician, mayor of Newark, New Jersey (1970–1986).
• Angeline Gunathilake, 79, Sri Lankan singer.
• Samantha Heath, 58, British politician, member of the London Assembly (2000–2004).
• Joshua Hecht, 91, American operatic bass.
• Tao Ho, 82, Hong Kong architect (Hong Kong Arts Centre) and designer of the flag of Hong Kong, pneumonia.
• Jim Holt, 74, American baseball player (Minnesota Twins, Oakland Athletics).
• Jon Østeng Hov, 83, Norwegian photographer and writer.
• Harry Kesten, 87, German-born American mathematician.
• Margaret Lewis, 79, American singer-songwriter ("The Girl Most Likely", "Reconsider Me"), pneumonia.
• Shane Rimmer, 89, Canadian-born British actor (Thunderbirds, Dr. Strangelove, The Spy Who Loved Me).
• Agnès Varda, 90, French film director (Cléo from 5 to 7, Le Bonheur, Vagabond), cancer.
• Ed Westcott, 97, American photographer (Manhattan Project).

30

• Billy Adams, 79, American rockabilly musician.
• Mary Bayliss, 79, English magistrate, High Sheriff (2005–2006) and Lord Lieutenant of Berkshire (2008–2015).
• Greg Booker, 58, American baseball player (San Diego Padres, Minnesota Twins, San Francisco Giants), melanoma.
• John Brown, 83, British rugby union player (Harlequins, British Lions) and Olympic bobsledder (1968).
• Jay Chevalier, 83, American singer.
• Paloma Cela, 76, Spanish actress (Forty Degrees in the Shade, Cry Chicago, The Legion Like Women), stroke.
• Ron Elvidge, 96, New Zealand rugby union player (Otago, national team).
• Maurice Hardouin, 71, French footballer.
• Geoff Harvey, 83, Australian musician and music director (The Mike Walsh Show, Midday).
• Truman Lowe, 75, American artist.
• Simaro Lutumba, 81, Congolese musician (TPOK Jazz).
• Tania Mallet, 77, English model and actress (Goldfinger).
• John Wilson Moore, 98, American biophysicist.
• David Paintin, 88, British obstetrician and gynaecologist.
• Lasse Petterson, 83, Swedish actor.
• Havel Rowe, 90, Australian VFL footballer (Richmond).
• Jim Russell, 98, English racing driver.
• Michele Russo, 74, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Doba (1989–2014).
• Ruben Tovmasyan, 82, Armenian politician, First Secretary of the Armenian Communist Party (2005–2014).
• Virginia Uribe, 85, American educator and LGBT advocate.
• Ben West Jr., 78, American politician, member of the Tennessee House of Representatives (1985–2011).

31

• Peter Brenner, 81, Swiss civil engineer and geologist.
• Peter Coleman, 90, Australian politician and writer, Leader of the New South Wales Opposition (1977–1978), member of the House of Representatives (1981–1987).
• Britt Damberg, 82, Swedish singer.
• Cesare Dujany, 99, Italian politician, MP (1979–1996), President of Aosta Valley (1970–1974).
• Natalia Fileva, 55, Russian business executive (S7 Airlines), plane crash.
• Charles Foster, 65, American Olympic hurdler (1976).
• Ralph S. Greco, 76, American surgeon, prostate cancer.
• José Antonio Gurriarán, 80, Spanish journalist.
• Corrado Hérin, 52, Italian luger and mountain bike racer, plane crash.
• Liz Howe, 59, British ecologist, cancer.
• Nipsey Hussle, 33, American rapper ("Last Time That I Checc'd", "Racks in the Middle"), shot.
• Jake Jaeckel, 76, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs).
• Frank Jonik, 61, Canadian snooker player.
• Joseph Levi, 95, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1975–1984).
• John J. Maurer, 96, American politician, member of the Wisconsin State Senate (1975–1985).
• Eva Moser, 36, Austrian chess player, leukaemia.
• Kit Napier, 75, Scottish footballer (Brighton & Hove Albion, Blackburn Rovers).
• Yves Préfontaine, 82, Canadian writer.
• Hedi Turki, 96, Tunisian painter.