Deaths in July 2019

The following is a list of notable deaths in July 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.

July 2019

1

• Joseph Amlong, 82, American Olympic rower.
• Ezzat Abou Aouf, 70, Egyptian actor, liver and heart failure.
• Joseph Bolangi Egwanga Ediba Tasame, 81, Congolese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Budjala (1974–2009).
• Eric A. Bowie, 82, Scottish-born Canadian tax judge.
• Bob Collymore, 61, Guyanese-born British telecom executive, CEO of Safaricom (since 2010), acute myeloid leukaemia.
• Nikola Dagorov, 94, Bulgarian Olympic triple jumper (1952).
• Renato Dehò, 72, Italian footballer.
• Norman Geisler, 86, American theologian.
• Osvalda Giardi, 86, Italian high jumper and pentathlete.
• Dave Gilbert, 84, Canadian politician, MHA (1985–1996).
• Rolland Golden, 87, American artist.
• Ennio Guarnieri, 88, Italian cinematographer (L'assoluto naturale, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis, Brother Sun, Sister Moon).
• Pierre Lenhardt, 91, French Roman Catholic theologian.
• Arthur McGee, 86, American fashion designer.
• Jackie Mekler, 87, South African long-distance runner, British Empire and Commonwealth silver medalist (1954).
• Derrill Osborn, 76, American fashion executive (Neiman Marcus).
• Al Picard, 96, Canadian ice hockey player (Sudbury Wolves, Buffalo Bisons, Dallas Texans).
• Sándor Popovics, 80, Hungarian football player (Sparta Rotterdam) and manager (N.E.C., De Graafschap).
• Ludy Pudluk, 76, Canadian politician, MLA (1975–1995).
• Khalid bin Sultan Al Qasimi, 39, Emirati royal (Al-Qasimi) and fashion designer.
• Sid Ramin, 100, American composer (West Side Story, Too Many Thieves, Stiletto), Oscar (1961) and Grammy winner (1961).
• Jacques Rougeau Sr., 89, Canadian professional wrestler (NWF).
• Bogusław Schaeffer, 90, Polish composer, musicologist and graphic artist.
• Jerry Seltzer, 87, American roller derby promoter.
• Tyler Skaggs, 27, American baseball player (Arizona Diamondbacks, Los Angeles Angels), drug overdose.
• Ulrike Stanggassinger, 51, German Olympic alpine skier (1988).

2

• Don Ballard, 95, American politician, member of the Georgia House of Representatives (1957–1965, 1967–1970) and Senate (1971–1982).
• Adrian Bey, 81, Rhodesian-born American tennis player.
• Leila Leah Bronner, 89, American Jewish historian and Bible scholar.
• Élie Brousse, 97, French rugby league player (Roanne, Lyon, national team).
• Pat Crawford Brown, 90, American actress (Desperate Housewives, Coach, The Rocketeer).
• Michael Colgrass, 87, American-born Canadian composer, Pulitzer Prize winner (1978), skin cancer.
• Costa Cordalis, 75, Greek-born German schlager singer.
• Suzanne Eaton, 59, American biologist, asphyxiation.
• Hugh Edighoffer, 90, Canadian politician.
• Ion Geantă, 59, Romanian Olympic sprint canoer.
• Diana Henderson, 72, British solicitor, army officer and historian.
• Lee Iacocca, 94, American automobile executive (Ford Motor Company, Chrysler) and writer (Where Have All the Leaders Gone?), complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Duncan Lamont, 88, British jazz saxophonist and composer.
• Li Zuixiong, 78, Chinese conservation scientist, Vice President of the Dunhuang Research Academy.
• Michelle Medina, 32, Ecuadorian singer, athlete and TV presenter, skin cancer.
• José Luis Merino, 92, Spanish film director (The Hanging Woman, Scream of the Demon Lover, Réquiem para el gringo).
• W. Thomas Molloy, 78, Canadian politician, Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan (since 2018), pancreatic cancer.
• Rabin Mondal, 90, Indian painter.
• Mr. Two Bits, 96, American cheerleader (University of Florida).
• Francesco Pontone, 92, Italian politician, Senator (1987–2013).
• Jaime Posada Díaz, 94, Colombian writer and politician, Minister of National Education (1958–1962) and Governor of Cundinamarca Department (1987–1990).
• George Barclay Richardson, 94, British economist, Warden of Keble College, Oxford (1989–1994).
• Richmond Shepard, 90, American theater director and mime.
• Charles E. Sova, 91, American politician.
• Lis Verhoeven, 88, German actress and theatre director.
• Bruce Wallrodt, 67, Australian shot putter and javelin thrower, Paralympic champion (1988, 1992, 1996).

3

• Sudarshan Agarwal, 88, Indian politician, Governor of Uttarakhand (2003–2007) and Sikkim (2007–2008).
• Perro Aguayo, 73, Mexican professional wrestler (AAA, UWA, WWF), heart attack.
• Koldo Aguirre, 80, Spanish football player (Athletic Bilbao, national team) and manager (Hércules).
• June Bacon-Bercey, 90, American meteorologist (NOAA, NWS, Atomic Energy Commission), frontotemporal dementia.
• Jacek Baluch, 79, Polish literary scholar.
• Basant Kumar Birla, 98, Indian businessman, Chairman of B.K. Birla Institute of Engineering & Technology (since 2007).
• Christopher Booker, 81, British journalist (The Sunday Telegraph, Private Eye).
• Pol Cruchten, 55, Luxembourgish film director (Somewhere in Europe, Wedding Night – End of the Song, Never Die Young).
• Julia Farron, 96, English ballerina.
• Mitsuo Itoh, 82, Japanese Grand Prix motorcycle road racer.
• Arte Johnson, 90, American comedian and actor (Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In), Emmy Award winner (1969), bladder and prostate cancer.
• Gary Kolb, 79, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Milwaukee Braves, Pittsburgh Pirates).
• Peter Lahdenpera, 91, American Olympic skier (1960, 1964).
• Malva Landa, 100, Ukrainian-born Russian geologist and human rights activist.
• Li Xintian, 90, Chinese novelist.
• Jared Lorenzen, 38, American football player (Kentucky Wildcats, New York Giants, Indianapolis Colts), infection.
• Arseny Mironov, 101, Russian aeronautical engineer.
• Nisar Nasik, 76, Pakistani poet ("Dil Dil Pakistan").
• Tony Robichaux, 57, American baseball player (McNeese State) and coach (Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns), complications from a heart attack.
• Alan Rogan, 68, British guitar technician (The Who), cancer.
• Thomas Shardelow, 87, South African cyclist, Olympic silver medallist (1952).
• Edward Shotter, 86, British Anglican priest and author, Dean of Rochester (1989–2003).
• Clovis Swinney, 73, American football player (New Orleans Saints, New York Jets).
• Vasco Tagliavini, 81, Italian football player (Internazionale, Udinese) and manager (Triestina).
• Raymond Tarcy, 82, French politician, Senator (1980–1989).
• Stephen Verona, 78, American film director (The Lords of Flatbush, Boardwalk, Pipe Dreams), lung cancer.

4

• Robert A. Bernhard, 91, American banker (Lehman Brothers).
• H. Gopal Bhandary, 66, Indian politician, member of the Karnataka Legislative Assembly (1999–2004, 2008–2013), heart attack.
• Chris Cline, 60, American billionaire mining entrepreneur, helicopter crash.
• Eduardo Fajardo, 94, Spanish actor (The Two Faces of Fear, Nightmare City, Exterminators of the Year 3000).
• Arturo Fernández Rodríguez, 90, Spanish actor (Red Cross Girls, College Boarding House, The Locket), stomach cancer.
• Vincenzo Finocchiaro, 66, Italian Olympic swimmer (1972).
• Héctor Huerta Ríos, Mexican criminal (Beltrán-Leyva Cartel), shot.
• Munshi Mohammad Fazle Kader, 90, Indian citizen, awarded Friends of Liberation War Honour.
• Holger Kirschke, 71, German Olympic swimmer.
• Eva Mozes Kor, 85, Romanian-born American Holocaust survivor and author, founder of CANDLES Holocaust Museum and Education Center.
• Leon Kossoff, 92, British painter.
• Pierre Lhomme, 89, French cinematographer (Cyrano de Bergerac, Lovers Like Us, Deadly Circuit).
• Robert F. Marx, 85, American scuba diver.
• Wayne Mass, 73, American football player (Chicago Bears), heart attack.
• Vernon McArley, 95, New Zealand cricketer (Otago).
• Christopher Minikon, 86, Liberian public servant, statesman, ambassador, professor, historian, and businessman.
• Vivian Perlis, 91, American musicologist.
• André Pinçon, 88, French politician, Mayor of Laval (1973–1994).
• Jean Royer, 81, Canadian poet.

5

• Carter F. Bales, 80-81, American investor and environmentalist.
• Marie Borroff, 95, American poet and translator.
• Dorothy Buckland-Fuller, 97, Australian sociologist.
• Douglas Crimp, 74, American art historian, writer and curator, multiple myeloma.
• Tzemach Cunin, 43, American rabbi.
• Mohan Das, Indian politician, MLA (1996–2001).
• Neil Davey, 98, Australian public servant, oversaw currency decimalisation.
• Gerry Fairhead, 96, Canadian Olympic sailor (1948).
• Joel Filártiga, 86, Paraguayan human rights activist and doctor.
• Andrew Graham-Yooll, 75, Argentine journalist and writer.
• Ugo Gregoretti, 88, Italian television and film director (Ro.Go.Pa.G., Omicron, Beautiful Families).
• Eberhard Havekost, 52, German painter.
• Kevin Higgins, 68, Australian footballer (Geelong, Fitzroy).
• Bobby Hopkins, 62, American football player (Tampa Bay Bandits) and world champion arm-wrestler.
• Hu Maozhou, 91, Chinese politician, Mayor of Chengdu (1981–1988).
• Sir Wynn Hugh-Jones, 95, British diplomat and politician.
• Luther "Houserocker" Johnson, 79, American musician.
• Mokhtar Kechamli, 56, Algerian football player (ASM Oran, MC Oran, national team) and manager, heart attack.
• Lewis Lloyd, 60, American basketball player (Golden State Warriors, Houston Rockets).
• John McCririck, 79, British horse racing journalist, lung cancer.
• Lis Mellemgaard, 95, Danish insurgent spy (Holger Danske) and ophthalmologist.
• José Muñoz Sánchez, 57, Spanish politician, Senator (since 2018).
• Adila Mutallibova, 81, Azerbaijani socialite, First Lady (1991–1992).
• Marie Ponsot, 98, American poet and literary critic.
• Eunice Rosen, 88, American bridge player.
• Klaus Sahlgren, 90, Finnish diplomat.
• Kathleen Sims, 77, American politician, member of the Idaho Senate (2001–2002) and House of Representatives (2010–2016).
• Paolo Vinaccia, 65, Italian jazz percussionist, pancreatic cancer.
• Nelly Wies-Weyrich, 86, Luxembourgian Olympic archer.
• Robert M. Young, 83, American author and academic.
• Zhang Baifa, 84, Chinese politician, Vice Mayor and Executive Vice Mayor of Beijing (1983–1995).

6

• Paco Alonso, 67, Mexican wrestling executive and promoter (CMLL).
• Patrícia Araújo, 37, Brazilian actress and model.
• Cameron Boyce, 20, American actor (Jessie, Grown Ups, Descendants), epileptic seizure.
• Bill Casimaty, 83, Australian farmer.
• Martin Charnin, 84, American lyricist (Annie, Two by Two, Hot Spot) and theatre director (Shadowlands), heart attack.
• Seydi Dinçtürk, 97, Turkish Olympic sprinter (1948).
• João Gilberto, 88, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist, pioneer of bossa nova music style.
• Elka Gilmore, 59, American chef, cardiac arrest.
• Peter Hamilton, 62, Australian footballer (Melbourne).
• Charles Hardnett, 80, American basketball player and coach.
• Ragnar Hoen, 78, Norwegian chess master.
• Parviz Jalayer, 79, Iranian weightlifter, Olympic silver medalist (1968) and Asian Games champion (1966).
• Eddie Jones, 84, American actor (Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, A League of Their Own, The Rocketeer).
• Arman Kirakossian, 62, Armenian diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1992–1993), ambassador to the United States (1999–2005) and United Kingdom (since 2018).
• Mandla Maseko, 30, South African candidate astronaut, motorcycle crash.
• Denis Pain, 83, New Zealand jurist, District Court judge (1970–1990), and Olympic eventing chef d'équipe (1988, 1992).
• Calvin Quate, 95, American electrical engineer.
• David Sansing, 86, American historian and author.
• K. L. Shivalinge Gowda, 93, Indian politician, MLA (1962–1967, 1978–1983).
• Lucio Soravito de Franceschi, 79, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Adria-Rovigo (2004–2015).
• Yannis Spathas, 68, Greek guitarist (Socrates Drank the Conium).
• Gus Stager, 96, American swimming coach.
• John Waddington, 81, Australian footballer (North Melbourne).

7

• Edna Anderson, 96, Canadian politician, MP (1988–1993).
• Salvatore Angerami, 62, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of Naples (since 2014).
• Artur Brauner, 100, Polish-born German film producer (The Plot to Assassinate Hitler, Angry Harvest, Europa Europa).
• George M. Browning Jr., 90, American lieutenant general.
• Jean Buckley, 87, American baseball player (Kenosha Comets, Rockford Peaches).
• Steve Cannon, 84, American novelist, playwright, and arts impresario (A Gathering of the Tribes), sepsis.
• Bob Fouts, 97, American broadcaster (San Francisco 49ers) and sports reporter (KPIX, KGO).
• Patricia Gallerneau, 64, French politician, Deputy (2017–2019), cancer.
• Rolf Gehlhaar, 75, American composer.
• Jonathan Hodge, 78, British composer (Henry's Cat, Fiddley Foodle Bird, Babe), multiple organ failure.
• Jeff Ingber, 83, English table tennis player.
• Greg Johnson, 48, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings, Nashville Predators, Pittsburgh Penguins), Olympic silver medalist (1994), suicide by gunshot.
• Wolfgang Joklik, 92, Austrian-born American virologist.
• Joe Kadenge, 84, Kenyan football player (Abaluhya) and manager (national team), complications from a stroke.
• Elizabeth Killick, 94, British naval electronics engineer, heart attack.
• Ekaterina Koroleva, 20, Russian handballer, drowned.
• Stefan Kwoczała, 85, Polish speedway rider, national individual champion (1959).
• Liu Wenxi, 85, Chinese painter, Vice Chairman of the China Artists Association.
• Amelia Mustone, 90, American politician.
• Ora Namir, 88, Israeli politician and diplomat, member of the Knesset (1973–1996), Minister of Labor (1992–1996), ambassador to China and Mongolia (1996–2000).
• Alex Navab, 53, American financier.
• Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, 49, Indonesian civil servant and academic, Head of Indonesian National Board for Disaster Management Public Relations (since 2010), lung cancer.
• Ramón Héctor Ponce, 71, Argentine footballer (Boca Juniors, Quilmes, Colo-Colo).
• R. Ramakrishnan, 73, Indian businessman and politician, MP (since 1980).
• Vlassis Rassias, 60, Greek writer, publisher and pagan revivalist.
• Mohammad Shahroudi, 93, Iraqi Marja'.
• Harry Simon, 95, German sinologist.
• James D. Wallace, 82, American philosopher.
• Barbara Zatler, 38, Danish model and actress (Klown).

8

• Godfrey Boyle, 74, British author and academic.
• Nick Garratt, 71, Australian rowing coach.
• Dick Lyon, 79, American Olympic rower, heart attack.
• Jan Mokkenstorm, 57, Dutch psychiatrist.
• Neil Oliver, 85, Australian politician, member of the Western Australian Legislative Council (1977–1989).
• Rosie Ruiz, 66, American runner, 1980 Boston Marathon cheat, cancer.
• Arthur Ryan, 83, Irish clothier, founder and chairman of Primark.
• Paul Schramka, 91, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs).
• Michael Seidenberg, 64, American bookseller and writer, heart failure.
• John Sykes, 70, American football player (San Diego Chargers), stroke.
• Zhai Xiangjun, 80, Chinese translator and educator.

9

• Husaini Abdullahi, 80, Nigerian vice admiral, Military Governor of Bendel State (1976–1978).
• John Bailey, 74, Irish politician, member of the Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council (since 2004), complications from motor neuron disease.
• Rushema Begum, 85, Bangladeshi teacher and politician.
• Claude Blanchard, 74, French Olympic ice hockey player (1968).
• Domenico Bova, 72, Italian politician, Deputy (1994–2006).
• Jean Brenchley, 75, American microbiologist.
• Miriam Butterworth, 101, American politician and educator.
• William E. Dannemeyer, 89, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1979–1993) and the California State Assembly (1963–1967, 1976–1978).
• Phil Freelon, 66, American architect (National Museum of African American History and Culture, National Center for Civil and Human Rights, Museum of the African Diaspora), complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Neil Greatrex, 68, British trade unionist and convicted fraudster, President of the Union of Democratic Mineworkers (1993–2009), complications from brain haemorrhage.
• Christian Guilleminault, 80, French medical researcher.
• Freddie Jones, 91, English actor (Emmerdale, The Ghosts of Motley Hall, Dune).
• Johnny Kitagawa, 87, Japanese-American talent manager, founder and president of Johnny & Associates, stroke.
• Glenn Mickens, 88, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers), pneumonia.
• Heather Nicholson, 88, New Zealand geologist and author.
• Ross Perot, 89, American billionaire businessman, philanthropist and presidential candidate, founder of Electronic Data Systems and the Reform Party, leukemia.
• Aaron Rosand, 92, American violinist.
• Fernando de la Rúa, 81, Argentine lawyer and academic, President (1999–2001), heart and kidney failure.
• Marian Spencer, 99, American politician, Vice Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio (1983–1988).
• Zaheen Tahira, 79, Pakistani actress (Khuda Ki Basti, Murad, Umm-e-Kulsoom), complications from a heart attack.
• Rip Torn, 88, American actor (Cross Creek, The Larry Sanders Show, Men in Black), Emmy winner (1996), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
• Ing Wong-Ward, 46, Canadian disability rights activist and journalist, colon cancer.

10

• Paulo Henrique Amorim, 77, Brazilian journalist.
• Bernard Bartzen, 91, American tennis player.
• Reinhard Bortfeld, 92, German geophysicist.
• Jim Bouton, 80, American baseball player (New York Yankees), writer (Ball Four), and actor (The Long Goodbye), cerebral amyloid angiopathy.
• April Byron, 72, Australian singer.
• Valentina Cortese, 96, Italian actress (Malaya, Brother Sun, Sister Moon, Day for Night).
• Lutz Fleischer, 63, German painter and graphic artist.
• Karen R. Hitchcock, 76, American biologist and university administrator.
• Bill Huffman, 94, American politician.
• Amirali Karmali, 89, Ugandan businessman, CEO of Mukwano Group.
• Lucette Lagnado, 62, Egyptian-born American journalist (The Wall Street Journal), complications from cancer.
• Jerry Lawson, 75, American a cappella singer (The Persuasions), Guillain–Barré syndrome.
• Motto McLean, 93, Scottish-born Canadian ice hockey player (Omaha Knights).
• Walt Michaels, 89, American football player (Cleveland Browns) and coach (New York Jets).
• Denise Nickerson, 62, American actress (Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Dark Shadows, Smile), seizure.
• Amit Purohit, 32, Indian actor.
• Nino Randazzo, 86, Italian-Australian politician, Senator (2006–2013).
• Jim Shanley, 82, American football player (Green Bay Packers).
• Albert Shepherd, 82, British actor (The Anniversary, Charlie Bubbles, Before Winter Comes).
• James Small, 50, South African rugby player (Springboks), heart attack.
• Danny Gordon Taylor, 69, American visual effects artist (Real Steel, Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, Alita: Battle Angel), heart attack.
• Dorothy Toy, 102, American tap dancer (Toy & Wing).
• Gerald Weissmann, 88, Austrian-born American physician, editor-in-chief of The FASEB Journal (2006–2016).
• Noel Whelan, 50, Irish politician and writer.

11

• Benjamin S. Blanchard, 89, American systems engineer.
• Jack Bond, 87, English cricketer (Lancashire).
• Robert Francis Christian, 70, American Roman Catholic prelate, Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco (since 2018).
• Mike Christie, 69, American ice hockey player (California Golden Seals, Vancouver Canucks), kidney disease.
• Robert Entwistle, 77, English cricketer (Minor Counties, Cumberland, Lancashire).
• Neil Estern, 93, American sculptor.
• Héctor Figueroa, 57, American labor leader, president of SEIU 32BJ, heart attack.
• Dengir Mir Mehmet Fırat, 76, Turkish politician, MP (1999–2011, since 2015), lung cancer.
• John Gardner, 54, Scottish legal philosopher, oesophageal cancer.
• Brendan Grace, 68, Irish comedian and actor (Moondance, Father Ted), lung cancer.
• Rose Greene, 72, American activist and financial planner, bone cancer.
• Séamus Hetherton, 89, Irish Gaelic footballer (Cavan).
• Soumendranath Kundu, 77, Indian cricketer (Bengal, Railways).
• Vincent Lambert, 42, French quadriplegic and vegetative state right-to-die figure, court assisted starvation.
• Théodore Mel Eg, 67, Ivorian politician, Minister of Culture and Francophonie (2005–2007) and of City and Salubrity (2007–2010).
• Sufi Muhammad, 86, Pakistani cleric and Islamist militant, founder and leader of Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (1992–2002).
• Arto Nilsson, 71, Finnish boxer, Olympic bronze medallist (1968).
• Pepita Pardell, 91, Spanish cinema animator pioneer, cartoonist and illustrator (Garbancito de la Mancha, Alegres vacaciones).
• Gord Simpson, 91, Canadian ice hockey player (Winnipeg Maroons).
• Siegfried Strohbach, 89, German composer and conductor.
• Rumen Surdzhiyski, 75, Bulgarian film director (Swan, Place Under the Sun).
• Mark E. Talisman, 78, American legislative aide (Charles Vanik) and Jewish activist.
• William H. Walls, 86, American senior judge of the District Court for the District of New Jersey (1994–2005).

12

• Jorge Aguado, 93, Argentine politician and ruralist, de facto Governor of Buenos Aires Province (1982–1983) and Minister of Agriculture and Livestock (1981).
• Georgios Anastassopoulos, 83, Greek journalist (Journalists' Union of the Athens Daily Newspapers) and politician, MEP (1984–1999) and Vice President (1989–1999).
• Fernando J. Corbató, 93, American computer scientist, developer of Multics, complications from diabetes.
• Franz Eisl, 98, Austrian Olympic sailor (1960, 1972).
• David L. Ferguson, 69, American academic.
• Joe Grzenda, 82, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers, Kansas City Athletics, New York Mets).
• Abdul Hamid, 92, Pakistani field hockey player, Olympic champion (1960) and silver medallist (1956), lung injury.
• Emily Hartridge, 35, British television presenter and internet personality, traffic collision.
• Arisu Jun, 66, Japanese actress and singer, cancer.
• Eberhard Kummer, 78, Austrian singer.
• Arno Marsh, 91, American jazz saxophonist.
• Clyde Middleton, 91, American politician.
• Hodan Nalayeh, 42, Somali-Canadian media executive and activist, shot.
• Claudio Naranjo, 86, Chilean psychiatrist, co-developer of the Enneagram of Personality.
• Gordon Proverbs, 95, New Zealand cricketer.
• M. J. Radhakrishnan, 61, Indian cinematographer (Deshadanam, Karunam, Naalu Pennungal), heart attack.
• Sadie Roberts-Joseph, 75, American civil rights advocate and museum founder (Odell S. Williams Now And Then African-American Museum), asphyxiation.
• Joseph Rouleau, 90, Canadian bass opera singer.
• Diane Ellingson Smith, 60, American gymnast and teacher.
• Russell Smith, 70, American singer-songwriter (Amazing Rhythm Aces), cancer.
• John Herd Thompson, 72, Canadian historian.
• Richard M. Thorne, 76, American physicist.
• Matthew Trundle, 53, British-born New Zealand classics and ancient history academic (University of Auckland), leukemia.
• Stéphanie Windisch-Graetz, 79, Austrian photographer.
• Jean-Pierre Worms, 84, French sociologist and politician, Deputy (1981–1993).

13

• Abu Bakar, 66, Indonesian politician, regent of West Bandung (2008–2018).
• Bob Bastian, 80, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1999–2008), crushed by tractor.
• Richard Carter, 65, Australian actor (Mad Max: Fury Road, The Great Gatsby, Rafferty's Rules).
• Cyril Edwards, 71, British medievalist and translator, heart attack.
• Augusto Fantozzi, 79, Italian lawyer and politician, Minister of Economy and Finance (1995–1996).
• June Felter, 99, American painter.
• Joginder Singh Gharaya, 92, Indian army lieutenant general.
• Sadashiv Vasantrao Gorakshkar, 86, Indian writer and art curator.
• Terry Hodgkinson, 70, British land developer, Chairman of Yorkshire Forward (2003–2010).
• Harlan Lane, 82, American psychologist.
• Bill Luxton, 92, Canadian actor and announcer (Tukiki and His Search for a Merry Christmas).
• Ike Maphotho, 88, South African revolutionary and politician, MPL (1994–2014).
• Paul F. Markham, 89, American attorney, U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts (1966–1969), key figure in the Chappaquiddick incident.
• Marcel Paterni, 82, French Olympic weightlifter.
• Kerry Reed-Gilbert, 62, Australian author and Aboriginal rights activist.
• Rod Richards, 72, Welsh politician, MP for Clwyd North West (1992–1997), Leader of the Welsh Conservative Party (1999), cancer.
• Paolo Sardi, 84, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal, Patron of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta (2009–2014).
• Aleksandr Shumidub, 55, Belarusian Olympic ice hockey player (1998) and manager.
• Victor Sosnora, 83, Russian poet and playwright.
• Wang Jiafu, 88, Chinese legal scholar, Director of the Institute of Law, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
• Ida Wyman, 93, American photographer.

14

• Carl Bertil Agnestig, 95, Swedish music teacher and composer.
• Frieder Burda, 83, German art collector.
• Rahul Desikan, 41, Indian-born American neuroscientist, complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
• Bianca Devins, 17, American social media personality, stabbed.
• Claire Dwyer, 55, British geographer, cancer.
• Robert Elgie, 54, Irish academic.
• Hussain Muhammad Ershad, 89, Bangladeshi military officer and politician, Chief of Army Staff (1978–1986) and President (1983–1990), Leader of the Opposition (since 2019), MDS.
• Hoàng Tụy, 91, Vietnamese mathematician.
• Charlee Jacob, 67, American author.
• Merv Johnson, 96, Canadian politician.
• Nereo Laroni, 76, Italian politician, Mayor of Venice (1985–1987) and MEP (1989–1994), complications from heart surgery.
• Margaret Mascarenhas, American author.
• Mike Maser, 72, American football coach (Miami Dolphins, Carolina Panthers, Jacksonville Jaguars).
• Ernie Mims, 86, American television host (WOC).
• Lavenia Padarath, 74, Fijian politician, MP (1999–2001, 2006) and President of the Labour Party (since 2015).
• David Shanno, 81, American mathematician.
• Karl Shiels, 47, Irish actor (Fair City, Into the Badlands, Henry IV, Part 1).
• Ray Skelly, 78, Canadian politician.
• James Taylor, 89, Scottish cricketer.
• Edmund R. Thompson, 89, American major general.
• Bella Tovey, 92, Polish Holocaust survivor.
• Sterling Tucker, 95, American politician and civil rights activist, Chairman of the Council of the District of Columbia (1975–1979), heart and kidney failure.
• Arvind Varma, 71, Indian-born American chemical engineer.
• Pernell Whitaker, 55, American boxer, four-weight world champion, Olympic champion (1984), traffic collision.
• Yu Dunkang, 89, Chinese philosopher and historian of philosophy.
• Paul Albert Zipfel, 83, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Bismarck (1996–2011).

15

• Frank Ackerman, 72, American economist.
• Alan Alder, 82, Australian ballet dancer.
• Maurice Atherton, 92, British brigadier.
• Marc Batchelor, 49, South African footballer (Kaizer Chiefs, Orlando Pirates), shot.
• Brian Coote, 89, New Zealand legal academic (University of Auckland).
• Mortimer Caplin, 103, American lawyer and educator, IRS Commissioner (1961–1964).
• Ousmane Tanor Dieng, 72, Senegalese politician, Vice-president of the Socialist International (since 1996).
• Craig Fallon, 36, British judoka, world champion (2005), suicide.
• Feng Yuanwei, 88, Chinese politician (6th CPPCC Committee Chairman of Sichuan).
• Harald Fereberger, 90, Austrian Olympic sailor (1952, 1960, 1972).
• Doug Flett, 83, Australian songwriter.
• Alexis Galanos, 78, Cypriot politician, president of the House of Representatives (1991–1996) and Mayor-in-exile of Famagusta (since 2006).
• Dick Hyde, 83, American trombonist.
• Edith Irby Jones, 91, American physician.
• Raymond Choo Kong, 70, Trinidad and Tobago actor, stabbed.
• Bruce Laingen, 96, American diplomat, Ambassador to Malta (1977–1979), captive during the Iran hostage crisis, complications from Parkinson's disease.
• Sir Fergus Millar, 84, British ancient historian, Camden Professor of Ancient History (1984–2002).
• Werner Müller, 73, German businessman and politician, Federal Minister for Economics and Technology (1998–2002).
• Johanna Narten, 88, German linguist (Narten present).
• Sir Rex Richards, 96, British chemist and academic.
• Joe Rayment, 84, English footballer.
• Byambasuren Sharav, 66, Mongolian composer and pianist.
• Thorsteinn I. Sigfusson, 65, Icelandic physicist.
• Hugh Southern, 87, British-born American performing arts manager, pneumonia and heart failure.
• Hugo Tolentino Dipp, 88, Dominican politician, President of the Chamber of Deputies (1982–1987).
• Margaret Todd, 101, Canadian golfer and BC Sports Hall of Fame inductee (1973).
• Olga Vyalikova, 65, Russian actress (An Ordinary Miracle).

16

• Judit Bar-Ilan, 60, Israeli computer scientist.
• Adam Bob, 51, American football player (New York Jets), liver disease.
• Rosa María Britton, 82, Panamanian doctor and novelist.
• Ernie Broglio, 83, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals, Chicago Cubs), cancer.
• Daniel Callahan, 88, American philosopher.
• Don Chelf, 87, American football player (Buffalo Bills), stroke.
• Chung Doo-un, 62, South Korean politician, Vice-Mayor of Seoul (2000–2003), MP (2004–2016), suicide.
• Johnny Clegg, 66, British-born South African singer and musician (Juluka, Savuka), pancreatic cancer.
• Barry Coe, 84, American actor (Jaws 2, Peyton Place, Bonanza), myelodysplastic syndrome.
• Raja Dhale, 78, Indian writer and anti-caste discrimination activist, co-founder of Dalit Panthers.
• Matt Doherty Jr., 79, Northern Irish footballer (Derry City, Glentoran).
• Howard Engel, 88, Canadian author, pneumonia.
• Michael English, 88, British politician, MP for Nottingham West (1964–1983).
• Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy, 86, British author.
• Sonia Infante, 75, Mexican actress (El precio de la fama, Un rostro en mi pasado, Young People), cardiac arrest.
• Terry Isaac, 60, American painter, heart attack.
• Pat Kelly, 74, Jamaican rocksteady and reggae singer, complications of kidney disease.
• James Moeller, 85, American jurist, Justice of the Arizona Supreme Court (1987–1998).
• Polly Murray, 85, American medical researcher and health activist.
• Claude-Hélène Perrot, 90, French Africanist and academic.
• Himayat Ali Shair, 93, Pakistani poet and writer.
• John Paul Stevens, 99, American judge, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (1975–2010), complications from a stroke.
• Su Shuyang, 81, Chinese playwright, novelist, and screenwriter.
• John Tanton, 85, American anti-immigration activist.
• Bill Vitt, 76, American drummer.
• Don Wishart, 85, Canadian ice hockey player.

17

• Andrea Camilleri, 93, Italian writer (Salvo Montalbano) and television writer (Le inchieste del commissario Maigret), complications from a heart attack.
• Ismail Changezi, 65, Pakistani actor.
• Warren Cole, 78, New Zealand rower, Olympic champion (1968).
• Swarup Dutta, 78, Indian actor (Apanjan, Uphaar, Andha Atit).
• Pumpsie Green, 85, American baseball player (Boston Red Sox, New York Mets).
• Nikola Hajdin, 96, Serbian civil engineer, president of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (2003–2015).
• Houston Markham, 75, American football coach.
• S. R. Mehrotra, 88, Indian historian.
• Giuseppe Merlo, 91, Italian tennis player.
• Ian Murphy, 40, American journalist and satirist (The Beast).
• Duane Mutch, 94, American politician, member of the North Dakota Senate (1959–1976; 1979–2006).
• Wesley Pruden, 83, American journalist and editor (The Washington Times).
• Dragomir Racić, 72, Serbian footballer (Red Star Belgrade, Castellón).
• Donald W. Thompson, 81, American film director, producer and writer (A Thief in the Night).
• Boris Vorobyov, 69, Soviet Olympic rower (1972).
• Robert Waseige, 79, Belgian footballer and coach (Standard Liège, national team).

18

• Yukiya Amano, 72, Japanese diplomat, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (since 2009).
• Bobbie Lea Bennett, 72, American disability and transgender rights activist.
• André Bradford, 48, Portuguese politician and journalist, Azores MLA (since 2004), MEP (since 2019), cardiac arrest.
• Charles Ceccaldi-Raynaud, 94, French lawyer and politician, Senator (1995–2004), Deputy (1993–1995), Mayor of Puteaux (1969–2004).
• Luciano De Crescenzo, 90, Italian writer, actor and film director (Così parlò Bellavista), lung disease.
• Joseph A. Falcon, 96, American mechanical engineer and business executive.
• Yves Forest, 98, Canadian politician, MP (1963–1972).
• Bob Frank, 75, American singer-songwriter.
• Rosemary Ellen Guiley, 69, American paranormal investigator.
• David Hedison, 92, American actor (The Fly, Live and Let Die, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea).
• Kurt Julius Isselbacher, 93, German-born American gastroenterologist, author and researcher, stroke.
• Ben Kinchlow, 82, American author, minister and televangelist, co-host of The 700 Club.
• Hugh McInnis, 80, American football player (St. Louis Cardinals, Detroit Lions).
• Robert Milli, 86, American actor (Guiding Light, Klute, Playing for Keeps).
• Macy Morse, 98, American peace and anti-nuclear activist.
• Roelof Nelissen, 88, Dutch politician and banker, Deputy Prime Minister (1971–1973), Minister of Finance (1971–1973), CEO of the AMRO Bank (1983–1991).
• Mitch Petrus, 32, American football player (New York Giants), heatstroke.
• P. Rajagopal, 72, Indian restaurateur and convicted murderer, founder of Saravana Bhavan, complications from a heart attack.
• Detlef Thorith, 76, German Olympic discus thrower.
• Darlene Tompkins, 78, American actress (Blue Hawaii), stroke.
• James Townsend, 91, American politician.
• Zhao Meng, 62, Chinese sculptor.
• Japanese victims of the Kyoto Animation arson attack:
  • Naomi Ishida, 49, colorist (Hyouka, Amagi Brilliant Park, A Silent Voice).
  • Yoshiji Kigami, 61, animation director (Munto, Tamako Market, Nichijou).
  • Futoshi Nishiya, 37, animator and character designer (Clannad, Inuyasha, Kanon).
  • Yasuhiro Takemoto, 47, animation director (Hyouka, Amagi Brilliant Park, Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid).

19

• Arswendo Atmowiloto, 70, Indonesian journalist and writer, prostate cancer.
• Inger Berggren, 85, Swedish schlager singer ("Sol och vår").
• Ivy Bethune, 101, Russian-born American actress (Back to the Future, General Hospital, Father Murphy).
• John Elya, 90, Lebanese-born American Melkite Greek Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Newton (1993–2004).
• Shirley Hardman, 90, New Zealand sprint athlete, British Empire Games silver medalist (1950).
• Emanuel Hatzofe, 90, Israeli sculptor.
• Rutger Hauer, 75, Dutch actor (Blade Runner, Nighthawks, The Hitcher).
• Paul Held, 91, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers, Green Bay Packers).
• Ágnes Heller, 90, Hungarian philosopher and political theorist (The New School), drowned.
• David Hunt, 84, Australian judge, member of the Supreme Court of New South Wales (1991–1998).
• Jeremy Kemp, 84, British actor (Top Secret!, Z-Cars, The Blue Max).
• William Morton, 58, Scottish cricketer (Warwickshire Bears, national team).
• Don Mossi, 90, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians, Detroit Tigers).
• César Pelli, 92, Argentine architect (Petronas Towers, Carnegie Hall Tower).
• Vincent J. Piro, 78, American politician.
• Bert Rechichar, 89, American football player (Baltimore Colts).
• Dixon Seeto, Fijian hotelier and politician, Senator (2006), complications from a traffic collision.
• Jerome B. Simandle, 70, American senior judge (U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey), liver cancer.
• Marcel Alain de Souza, 65, Beninese politician and banker, Minister for Development, Economic Analysis and Forecast (2011–2015), President of the ECOWAS Commission (2016–2018).
• Godfried Toussaint, 75, Canadian computer scientist.
• Marylou Whitney, 93, American socialite, philanthropist and Thoroughbred racehorse breeder.
• Patrick Winston, 76, American computer scientist, Director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (1972–1997).
• Yao Lee, 96, Chinese singer ("Rose, Rose, I Love You").

20

• Leif Jørgen Aune, 94, Norwegian politician, Minister of Local Government (1973–1978).
• Paul Barker, 83, British journalist.
• Paddy Bassett, 101, New Zealand agricultural scientist, first female graduate of Massey University.
• Dick Blanchfield, 79, Irish hurler.
• Thomas P. Carney, 78, American lieutenant general.
• Antonino Cuffaro, 87, Italian politician, MP (1976–1987, 1994–1996).
• Sheila Dikshit, 81, Indian politician, MP (1984–1989), Chief Minister of Delhi (1998–2013) and Governor of Kerala (2014), cardiac arrest.
• Roberto Fernández Retamar, 89, Cuban poet and essayist.
• Dick de Groot, 98, Dutch-American painter.
• R. James Harvey, 97, American politician and judge, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1961–1974) and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan (1973–1984).
• iNcontroL, 33, American professional StarCraft player, pulmonary embolism.
• Peter McNamara, 64, Australian tennis player and coach, prostate cancer.
• Marisa Merz, 93, Italian artist (Arte povera).
• Ilaria Occhini, 85, Italian actress (Doctor and the Healer, Loose Cannons).
• Jack O'Connell, 96, American film director and producer (Greenwich Village Story, Revolution, Swedish Fly Girls).
• Lance Pearson, 82, New Zealand cricketer.
• Liane Russell, 95, Austrian-born American geneticist and conservationist.

21

• Eddie Bohan, 86, Irish politician, Senator (1987–2007).
• Brian Carter, 80, English footballer (Bath City, Bristol Rovers).
• Hugo Cóccaro, 65, Argentine politician, Governor of Tierra del Fuego (2005–2007).
• José Manuel Estepa Llaurens, 93, Spanish Roman Catholic cardinal, Military Ordinary of Spain (1986–2003).
• Mange Ram Garg, 83, Indian politician, member of the Delhi Legislative Assembly.
• Trish Godman, 79, Scottish politician, MSP (1999–2011).
• Francisco Grau, 72, Spanish military officer and composer, Director of the Musical Unit of the Royal Guard (1988–2008).
• Yelena Grigoryeva, 41, Russian LGBT activist, stabbed and strangled.
• Nick Harrison, 37, American racing crew chief (Phoenix Racing), mixed drug intoxication.
• Laurie Hergenhan, 88, Australian literary scholar.
• Ben Johnston, 93, American microtonal composer.
• Mark Kleiman, 68, American criminologist, complications from a kidney transplant.
• Wayne Knox, 92, American politician.
• Paul Krassner, 87, American writer and political activist (The Realist).
• Yaakov Malkin, 92, Israeli writer and literary critic.
• Juan Carlos Márquez, 48, Spanish-Venezuelan businessman, asphyxiation.
• Robert Morgenthau, 99, American lawyer, New York County District Attorney (1975–2009) and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York (1961–1962; 1962–1970).
• Ann Moyal, 93, Australian historian.
• Éric Névé, 57, French film producer (Dobermann, Sheitan, Suburra).
• Pete Nielsen, 81, American politician.
• Ram Chandra Paswan, 57, Indian politician, MP (since 2014), heart attack.
• Claro Pellosis, 84, Filipino Olympic sprinter (1960), cardiac arrest.
• Peter Ramsay, 79, New Zealand educationalist (University of Waikato) and daffodil breeder.
• A. K. Roy, 90, Indian politician, MP (1977–1984, 1989–1991).
• Wong Po-yan, 96, Hong Kong industrialist and politician, member of the Legislative Council (1979–1988) and chairman of the Airport Authority (1995–1999).
• Adel Zaky, 71, Egyptian Roman Catholic prelate, Vicar Apostolic of Alexandria (since 2009).
• Michael Zearott, 81, American conductor and composer.

22

• Dan Clemens, 74, American politician, member of the Missouri Senate (2002–2010).
• Daniel Rae Costello, 58, Fijian-born Samoan guitarist, cancer.
• Petra Fuhrmann, 63, German politician, member of Landtag of Hesse (1994-2014).
• Peter Hamm, 82, German poet and writer.
• Christopher C. Kraft Jr., 95, American aerospace engineer, Director of Johnson Space Center (1972–1982).
• Brigitte Kronauer, 78, German writer.
• Hans Lagerqvist, 79, Swedish Olympic pole vaulter (1972), brain cancer.
• Juan Rodolfo Laise, 93, Argentine Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of San Luis (1971–2001).
• Li Peng, 90, Chinese politician, Premier (1987–1998), Vice Premier (1983–1987), and Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (1998–2003).
• Richard Macksey, 87, American academic.
• Leon Marr, 71, Canadian film director (Dancing in the Dark).
• Nikos Milas, 91, Greek Olympic basketball player (1952).
• Giuliana Morandini, 81, Italian writer and literary critic.
• Viktor Musiyaka, 73, Ukrainian politician, Deputy (1994–1998, 2002–2006), leader of the Forward, Ukraine! party.
• Art Neville, 81, American singer-songwriter and keyboardist (The Meters, The Neville Brothers).
• Michael Nauenberg, 84, German-born American theoretical physicist.
• Sea of Class, 4, Irish racehorse, euthanised for abdominal cancer.
• Bill Schulz, 80, American journalist (Reader's Digest).
• Wayne See, 95, American basketball player (Waterloo Hawks).
• Bassam Shakaa, 89, Palestinian politician, mayor of Nablus (1976–1982).
• Hilary Squires, 86, South African judge and barrister.
• Gunilla Tjernberg, 68, Swedish politician.

23

• Khwaja Muhammad Aslam, 97, Pakistani Olympic athlete (1952).
• Rella Braithwaite, 96, Canadian author.
• Cao Shuangming, 89, Chinese general, Commander of the PLA Air Force (1992–1994).
• Chaser, 15, American Border Collie with the largest-tested non-human memory.
• Aleksandr Chumakov, 92, Russian Olympic sailor (1952, 1956).
• Maxim Dadashev, 28, Russian NABF super lightweight champion boxer, head injuries sustained in match.
• Ruth Gotlieb, 96, British-born New Zealand politician, Wellington City Councillor (1983–2001).
• Jan Hrbatý, 77, Czech ice hockey player, Olympic silver medallist (1968).
• Peter Horn, 84, Czech-born South African writer and critic, cancer.
• Danny Keogh, 71, Ugandan-born South African actor (Invictus, Zulu, The Red Sea Diving Resort).
• Gabe Khouth, 46, Canadian actor (It, Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, Once Upon a Time), cardiac arrest.
• Pavel Kučera, 79, Czech lawyer and judge, vice president of the Supreme Court of the Czech Republic.
• Nika McGuigan, 33, Irish actress (Can't Cope, Won't Cope, Philomena, The Secret Scripture), cancer.
• Charan Narzary, 86, Indian politician, MP (1977–1980), complications from a fall.
• Dorothy Olsen, 103, American aviator.
• Bobby Park, 73, English footballer (Aston Villa, Wrexham, Hartlepool United), cancer.
• Michael Roth, 83, German engineer.
• Sir Patrick Sheehy, 88, British businessman (BAT Industries).
• Yuriy Shlyakhov, 36, Ukrainian Olympic diver (2008), heart disease.
• Barney Smith, 98, American plumber, artist and museum curator.
• Ferdinand von Bismarck, 88, German landowner and lawyer.
• Thomas Milton Weatherald, 81, Canadian politician, MLA (1964–1975).
• Lois Wille, 87, American journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner (1963, 1989), stroke.

24

• Claes Andersson, 82, Finnish writer, psychiatrist and politician, MP (1987–1999, 2007–2008).
• David Caplan, 54, Canadian politician, MPP (1997–2011).
• Sammy Chapman, 81, Northern Irish football player (Mansfield Town, Portsmouth) and manager (Wolves).
• Chen Hu, 57, Chinese military physician and stem cell researcher, heart attack.
• Mathias J. DeVito, 88, American lawyer and businessman, CEO of The Rouse Company (1979–1994), kidney failure.
• Sergio Di Giulio, 74, Italian voice actor and actor (One Hamlet Less).
• Bernard Evans, 82, English footballer (Oxford United, Wrexham, Queens Park Rangers).
• Margaret Fulton, 94, Scottish-born Australian chef and cookbook writer (The Margaret Fulton Cookbook).
• Luis González, 93, Colombian Olympic swimmer.
• Hwang Byungsng, 49, South Korean poet. (body found on this date)
• Cathy Inglese, 60, American college basketball coach (Vermont, Boston College, Rhode Island), fall.
• Ajoy Mukhopadhyay, 90, Indian politician.
• Nam Gi-nam, 77, South Korean film director (Night Fairy), cancer.
• Alfred G. Redfield, 90, American physicist and biochemist.
• Sir Frederick Sowrey, 96, British air marshal.
• Jaime Trobo, 62, Uruguayan politician, Minister of Sports and Youth (2000–2002) and Deputy (since 1990), cancer.
• Trudy, 63, American gorilla, world's oldest gorilla in captivity.
• Manfred Uhlig, 91, German actor (Hands Up or I'll Shoot).
• José Vidal, 81, Venezuelan footballer (Deportivo Lara, national team).
• Roger Warren, 75, Canadian miner and murderer.

25

• Giorgio Arlorio, 90, Italian film director and screenwriter (The Shortest Day, Ogro, Once Upon a Crime).
• Simon Bendall, 82, English numismatist.
• Michael J. Buckley, 87, American Jesuit priest and philosophical theologian.
• Anner Bylsma, 85, Dutch cellist.
• Peter Edwards, 88, British-born Canadian vexillologist.
• Farouk El-Fishawy, 67, Egyptian actor (The Suspect), cancer.
• Beji Caid Essebsi, 92, Tunisian politician, President (since 2014), Prime Minister (2011), and Minister of Foreign Affairs (1981–1986).
• Curt Faudon, 70, Austrian film director.
• John Ferriter, 59, American talent agent (William Morris Agency) and producer, complications from pancreatitis.
• Georg, Duke of Hohenberg, 90, Austrian aristocrat, Head of the House of Hohenberg (since 1977).
• Asao Hirano, 92, Japanese medical researcher, discoverer of Hirano bodies.
• Jesper Juul, 71, Danish author, pneumonia.
• Jorma Kinnunen, 77, Finnish javelin thrower, Olympic silver medalist (1968).
• M. Owen Lee, 89, American Roman Catholic priest and music scholar.
• Mihai Mandache, 58, Romanian Olympic swimmer (1980).
• Danny McCarthy, 76, Welsh footballer (Cardiff City, Abergavenny Thursdays, Merthyr Tydfil). (death announced on this date)
• Jimmy Patton, 87, British comedian (Patton Brothers, ChuckleVision), cancer.
• Pierre Péan, 81, French journalist and author.
• P. J. Qualter, 76, Irish hurler (Galway).
• Scott Rubenstein, 71, American television writer and story editor (Star Trek: The Next Generation).
• Óscar Enrique Sánchez, 64, Guatemalan Olympic footballer (1976), (Comunicaciones, national team).
• Victor Swenson, 83, American educator.
• Bruce Webster, 91, Australian broadcaster and politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Pittwater (1975–1978).

26

• Richard Berg, 78, American wargame designer.
• Boris Bračulj, 79, Croatian football player and manager.
• Hugh Brogan, 83, British historian and biographer.
• Arnie Brown, 77, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers, Detroit Red Wings, Toronto Maple Leafs).
• Mohamed E. El-Hawary, 76, Egyptian-born Canadian scientist.
• Lillian Faralla, 94, American baseball player (South Bend Blue Sox).
• Graham Freudenberg, 85, Australian political speechwriter.
• Monty Gordon, 87, Canadian Olympic bobsledder (1964).
• Roger Hoggett, 77, Australian rules footballer (Carlton).
• Hwung Hwung-hweng, 72, Taiwanese hydraulic engineer, founder and chairman of the Ocean Affairs Council (2018–2019).
• Christoforos Liontakis, 74, Greek poet and translator.
• Bryan Magee, 89, British philosopher and politician, MP (1974–1983).
• Joan Martin, 85, American baseball player (South Bend Blue Sox).
• T. K. Nallappan, 87, Indian politician, MLA (1980–1985).
• Ken Okoth, 41, Kenyan politician, cancer.
• Jaime Lucas Ortega y Alamino, 82, Cuban Roman Catholic cardinal, Archbishop of San Cristóbal de la Habana (1981–2016), pancreatic cancer.
• Vivian Paley, 90, American educator.
• Pascual Rabal Petriz, 89, Spanish politician, Senator (1996–2000) and Mayor of Jaca (1995–1999).
• Alberto Ponce, 84, Spanish classical guitarist and teacher.
• Attoor Ravi Varma, 88, Indian poet and translator, pneumonia.
• Kevin Roster, 36, American poker player and assisted suicide advocate.
• Gene Rychlak, 50-51, American powerlifter, heart condition.
• Dagfinn Stenseth, 82, Norwegian diplomat.
• Russi Taylor, 75, American voice actress (Disney's House of Mouse, The Simpsons, DuckTales), colon cancer.
• Bill Walker, 85, American football player (Edmonton Eskimos).
• Marty Wilson, 62, British poker player, cancer.

27

• Zenon Begier, 83, Polish Olympic athlete (1960, 1964).
• Chester Caddas, 83, American football coach (Pacific Tigers, Colorado State Rams).
• Tom Campbell, 81, Scottish philosopher.
• Paul Connerton, 79, British social anthropologist.
• Carlos Cruz-Diez, 95, Venezuelan artist.
• Dianne Foster, 90, Canadian actress (Bad for Each Other, Drive a Crooked Road, The Violent Men).
• Andrew Golden, 33, American convicted murderer, traffic collision.
• Fanny Hopeau, 74, American Olympic volleyball player.
• Graham Johnston, 89, South African Olympic swimmer.
• Johann Kresnik, 79, Austrian dancer, choreographer, and theater director.
• Edward Lewis, 99, American film producer (Spartacus, Grand Prix, Missing).
• Keith Lincoln, 80, American football player (San Diego Chargers).
• Humphrey Mijnals, 88, Surinamese-born Dutch footballer (Robinhood, DOS Utrecht, national team).
• Harry Orr, 74, Canadian ice hockey player.
• Mike Roarke, 88, American baseball player and coach (Detroit Tigers, St. Louis Cardinals, San Diego Padres).
• Işılay Saygın, 72, Turkish politician.
• John Robert Schrieffer, 88, American physicist, Nobel laureate (1972).
• Samprada Singh, 94, Indian generic drug manufacturer, founder of Alkem Laboratories.
• Roman Virastyuk, 51, Ukrainian Olympic shot putter (1996, 2000, 2004), complications of heart surgery.

28

• Valerik Apinian, 69, Armenian painter.
• Ferruh Bozbeyli, 92, Turkish politician, Chairman of the Democratic Party (1970–1978) and Speaker of the Grand National Assembly (1965–1970).
• Ian Drohan, 86, Australian football player (St Kilda Football Club).
• Walter Fiers, 88, Belgian molecular biologist.
• Eduardo Gómez, 68, Spanish actor and comedian (Aquí no hay quien viva, La que se avecina, Butterfly's Tongue), cancer.
• Patrick J. Hanratty, 88, American computer scientist.
• John W. Harbaugh, 92, American geologist.
• George Hilton, 85, Uruguayan actor (The Masked Man Against the Pirates, The Brute and the Beast, Man Called Invincible).
• Peter Bonu Johnson, 56, Gambian football player and manager (national team).
• Vladimir Kara-Murza Sr., 59, Russian journalist and TV host, co-founder of NTV.
• Li Jisheng, 76, Chinese aerospace engineer.
• Norma Matheson, 89, American politician.
• Peter McConnell, 82, English footballer (Carlisle United, Leeds United, Bradford City).
• Loek van Mil, 34, Dutch baseball player (Curaçao Neptunus, Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles, national team).
• Michael Moxon, 77, British Anglican cleric, Dean of Truro (1998–2004).
• Howard Nathan, 47, American basketball player (DePaul Blue Demons, Atlanta Hawks).
• George Parshall, 89, American chemist.
• Bartolo Pellegrino, 84, Italian politician, Sicilian Regional Deputy (1971–1976, 1991–2003), founder of the New Sicily party.
• Jaipal Reddy, 77, Indian politician, Minister of Earth Sciences and Science and Technology (2012–2014) and MP (1984–2014), pneumonia.
• Cesare Rizzi, 79, Italian politician, Deputy (1996–2006).
• Richard Rosenbaum, 88, American judge, member of the New York Supreme Court (1970–1972), chairman of the New York Republican State Committee (1972–1977).
• Donkupar Roy, 64, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Meghalaya (2008–2009), stomach disease.
• Bandar bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 96, Saudi royal.
• M. K. Seetharam Kulal, 79, Indian Tulu-Kannada dramatist.
• Yuu Shimaka, 70, Japanese voice actor (Kingdom Hearts, Ergo Proxy, Code Geass).
• Ruth de Souza, 98, Brazilian actress (The Landowner's Daughter, Macumba Love, A Glass of Rage), pneumonia.
• Richard Stone, 90, American politician, U.S. Senator (1975–1980), Secretary of State of Florida (1971–1974) and Ambassador to Denmark (1991–1993), complications from pneumonia.
• Kevin Stonehouse, 59, English footballer (Blackburn Rovers, Blackpool, Carlisle United).
• Sy Tomashoff, 96, American production designer (Ryan's Hope, Dark Shadows, The Bold and the Beautiful).
• Stanley Weintraub, 90, American historian and author.
• Harrison B. Wilson, 94, American basketball coach and educator, President of Norfolk State University (1975–1997).
• Lawrence Wrightsman, 87, American psychologist.

29

• Egil Danielsen, 85, Norwegian javelin thrower, Olympic champion (1956).
• Max Falkenstien, 95, American radio sportscaster (University of Kansas).
• Asghar Ghandchi, 91, Iranian entrepreneur.
• Doris Goddard, 89, Australian cabaret singer and actress.
• Mukesh Goud, 60, Indian politician, cancer.
• Traian Ivănescu, 86, Romanian football player and coach.
• Shamim Kabir, 74, Bangladeshi cricketer, cancer.
• Joyce Laboso, 58, Kenyan politician, Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly (2008–2017) and Governor of Bomet County (since 2017), cancer.
• Enrique Lafourcade, 91, Chilean writer, critic and journalist.
• Tom Manning, 73, American terrorist (United Freedom Front).
• Vasil Metodiev, 84, Bulgarian footballer (Akademik Sofia, Lokomotiv Sofia, Dobrudzha Dobrich)
• Mona-Liisa Nousiainen, 36, Finnish Olympic cross-country skier (2014), cancer.
• Vitthal Radadiya, 60, Indian politician, MP (2009–2014), cancer.
• Ras G, 40, American hip hop producer (Brainfeeder) and disc jockey.
• Archie Roboostoff, 67, American Olympic footballer (1972).
• Tuvya Ruebner, 95, Israeli poet and translator.
• V. G. Siddhartha, 60, Indian businessman and founder of Café Coffee Day, suicide by jumping.
• Zdeněk Srstka, 83, Czech Olympic weightlifter (1960), stuntman and actor (Poslední propadne peklu).
• Barbara Staff, 94, American political activist.
• Sam Trimble, 84, Australian cricketer (Queensland).
• Wang Qidong, 97, Chinese materials scientist and politician, Vice President of Zhejiang University (1978–1984), Vice Chairman of Zhejiang People's Congress.
• Werner von Moltke, 83, German decathlete, European champion (1966).
• John Wybrow, 91, New Zealand politician and diplomat.

30

• Jean Arasanayagam, 87, Sri Lankan poet and fiction writer.
• Morton Bahr, 93, American labor union leader, pancreatic cancer.
• Albert W. Bally, 94, American geologist.
• Marcian Bleahu, 95, Romanian geologist, writer and politician, Senator (1990–1992, 1996–2000) and Minister of the Environment (1991–1992).
• Nick Buoniconti, 78, American Hall of Fame football player (Miami Dolphins, Boston Patriots) and medical research advocate (Miami Project to Cure Paralysis).
• Deep Impact, 17, Japanese champion racehorse (Japanese Triple Crown, Japan Cup) and sire, euthanised.
• Antonio Franchi, 83, Italian racing cyclist.
• Subir Gokarn, 59, Indian economist, Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India (2009–2013).
• Ron Hughes, 89, Welsh football player (Chester, Holywell Town) and manager (Mold Alexandra).
• John Humble, 63, British hoaxer, claimed to be the Yorkshire Ripper.
• Mari Carmen Izquierdo, 69, Spanish sports journalist (Televisión Española, Marca), pancreatic cancer.
• W. Roy McCutcheon, 89, Canadian college administrator, President of Seneca College (1984–1992).
• Giancarlo Morresi, 74, Italian Olympic pentathlete.
• Malcolm Nash, 74, Welsh cricketer.
• John Petroske, 84, American Olympic silver medallist ice hockey player (1956).
• Rebecca Roeber, 61, American politician, member of the Missouri House of Representatives (since 2015).
• Karsten Schubert, 57, German art dealer, medullary thyroid cancer.
• Don Suggs, 74, American artist.
• Ian Van Bellen, 73, English rugby union and rugby league player.
• R. Verman, 72, Indian art director (Jewel Thief, Guide, Hum), heart attack.
• Zhao Zhihong, 46, Chinese serial killer and rapist, executed by firing squad.

31

• Martín Arzola Ortega, 42, Mexican convicted drug lord (Jalisco New Generation Cartel), shot.
• Marcel Berlins, 77, French legal journalist, brain haemorrhage.
• Chen Shunyao, 101, Chinese politician and academic administrator, deputy party secretary of Tsinghua University.
• John K. Davis, 92, American general.
• María Auxiliadora Delgado, 82, Uruguayan civil servant, First Lady (2005–2010, since 2015), heart attack.
• Harold Dull, 83, American underwater bodyworker and poet.
• Brendan Fennelly, 63, Irish hurling manager and player.
• Redmond Finney, 89, American football player (Princeton Tigers).
• Charles François, 96, Belgian scientist.
• Armand Jung, 68, French politician, Deputy (1997–2016).
• Hamza bin Laden, 29–30, Saudi jihadist (al-Qaeda), shot. (death announced on this date)
• Iraj Lalezari, 89, Iranian-born American academic.
• George I. Mavrodes, 92, American philosopher.
• Raffaele Pisu, 94, Italian comedian and actor (Susanna Whipped Cream, Weekend, Italian Style, The Consequences of Love), Nastro d'Argento winner (2005).
• Sherm Poppen, 89, American engineer and inventor.
• O. Leonard Press, 97, American broadcaster.
• Harold Prince, 91, American theatre director and producer (The Phantom of the Opera, Fiddler on the Roof, West Side Story).
• Steve Sawyer, 63, American environmentalist and activist, Executive Director of Greenpeace, co-founder of the Global Wind Energy Council, pneumonia and lung cancer.
• John Scarlett, 72, Australian footballer (Geelong, South Melbourne).
• Steve Talboys, 52, English footballer (Wimbledon, Watford).
• Jean-Luc Thérier, 73, French rally driver.
• Guido Vandone, 89, Italian footballer (Torino).

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