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Punica is a small genus of fruit-bearing deciduous shrubs or small trees. It belongs in the family Lythraceae.

Name 
The name of the genus Punica was given by Linnaeus in 1753 in Species Plantarum (Vol. 1, page 472). The type species is Punica granatum L.

Punica comes from the Latin name for the pomegranate, malum punicum, meaning "Carthaginian apple" ("apple from Carthage").

Description 
The species in this genus are shrubs or small trees that could grow up to  high. Leaves are opossite. Flowers and fruits are yellow to bright red.

Fruits are berries with a strong skin, like leather. Fruits have many seeds with fleshy and edible coats (called sacrotesta).
Species 
There are only two species accepted in the genus Punica:
 Punica granatum L., pomegranate. The pomegranate originated in the region of modern-day Iran, and has been cultivated since ancient times throughout the Mediterranean region and northern India.
 Punica protopunica Balf.f., Socotra pomegranate. It is  endemic to the island of Socotra. It differs from the common pomegranate because it has pink (not red) flowers and smaller, less sweet fruit.

Although previously placed in its own family Punicaceae, recent phylogenetic studies have shown that Punica belongs in the family Lythraceae, and it is classified in that family by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group.

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Unadilla is a town in Dooly County, Georgia. The population of Unadilla was 3,118 as of 2020.

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"Needed Me" is a song by Barbadian singer Rihanna.  It is the seventh track from her eighth studio album, Anti.  The song was written by Rihanna, DJ Mustard, Adam Feeney, Brittany Hazzard, Charles Hinshaw, Derrus Rachel, Khaled Rohaim, Lewis Hughes, Nick Audino, and Te Whiti Barbrick, while DJ Mustard produced the song.  It was released as a single in the US on March 26, 2016.  "Needed Me" reached number seven on the Billboard Hot 100.  On the year-end Hot 100 of 2016, the song ranked number 13.  It has been certified four-times Platinum by the RIAA.

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Mentha arvensis – also known as field mint wild mint, or corn mint – is a species of Mentha genera, family Lamiaceae. 
It has circumboreal distribution. It is native to the temperate regions of Europe and western and central Asia. It is also found naturally in North America.

Description
Field mint  is a herbaceous perennial plant generally growing to  and rarely up to  tall. It has  erect or semi-sprawling squarish stems. The leaves are paired in  opposite positions. They are simple,  long and  broad. Leaves are  hairy, and with a coarsely serrated margin. The flowers are pale purple, but rarely  white or pink. These are in whorls on the stem at the bases of the leaves. Flower's Length  is  about . It  has a five-lobed hairy calyx, a four-lobed corolla with the uppermost lobe larger than the others. It has four stamens. The fruit is a two-chambered carpel.

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John Deely (April 26, 1942 – January 7, 2017) was an American philosopher and semiotician. He was a Professor of Philosophy at Saint Vincent College and Seminary in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. He was at the Center for Thomistic Studies of the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. He was born in Chicago, Illinois.

Deely died in Latrobe, Pennsylvania on January 7, 2017 from cancer, aged 74.

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Heinz Billing (7 April 1914 – 4 January 2017) was a German physicist and computer scientist. He is thought to be a pioneer in the construction of computer systems, computer data storage and built prototype laser interferometric gravitational wave detector. He was award the Konrad Zuse Medal in 1987.

Billing was born in Salzwedel, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. He studied at University of Göttingen. During his career, Billing worked at Aerodynamic Test Centre at Göttingen, the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, and at the Max Planck Institute for Physics. In 1943, he married Anneliese Oetker. They had three children. He turned 100 in April 2014

Billing died on 4 January 2017 in Garching bei München, Bavaria, Germany at the age of 102.

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Tracking down the gentle tremble at Max-Planck-Gesellschaft's website on account history of GEO600 with Heinz Billing.
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Robert Emmet Lighthizer (born October 11, 1947) is an American lawyer. He was the 18th United States Trade Representative from May 15, 2017 to January 20, 2021.

Lighthizer is a partner with the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, where he works to gain access to foreign markets on behalf of U.S. corporations. In the 1980s, he served as deputy trade representative during President Ronald Reagan's administration.

Early life
Lighthizer was born in Ashtabula, Ohio. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1969 and a Juris Doctor in 1973 from Georgetown University.

Career
From 1973 through 1978, before working in government, Lighthizer worked for the Washington, DC law firm of Covington & Burling. 

In 1983, during the administration of President Ronald Reagan, he became deputy trade representative. He negotiated two dozen bilateral international agreements on subjects ranging from steel to grain.
In 1985, Lighthizer negotiated against the United States, on behalf of Brazil, in a trade dispute over ethanol. Between 1985 and 1990, Lighthizer represented five foreign clients.

He has been a long time supporter of the U.S. steel industry. He convinced  Japan, South Korea, Mexico, and the United Kingdom to accept “voluntary restraint agreements” to limit the amount of cheap steel they could dump on the U.S. market.

United States Trade Representative (2017–2021)
On January 3, 2017, then-President-elect Donald Trump announced that he planned to nominate Lighthizer as U.S. trade representative, a cabinet-level position.

Lighthizer's nomination was confirmed by the United States Senate on a 82-14 vote.

Personal life
Lighthizer lives in Rockville, Maryland and has 2 children.

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Lois Smith (born November 3, 1930) is an American actress. She won a Drama Desk Award in 2006.

She has played supporting roles in movies including East of Eden, Five Easy Pieces, Resurrection, Fatal Attraction, Fried Green Tomatoes, Dead Man Walking, Tumbleweeds, Twister,  and Please Give.  

In television she has performed in series that include  The Americans, True Blood, and Desperate Housewives.

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Eduardo Verchez García (2 May 1929 – 20 June 2019), popularly  known as Eddie Garcia or Manoy, was a Filipino movie actor and movie director. He appeared in over 600 movies and TV shows as of 2019.

He is also the only person in the Philippines inducted into the FAMAS Hall of Fame in three categories: Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best Director.

On 8 June 2019, Garcia suffered a neck fracture after having a fall and was hospitalised in Manila. He was soon moved to Makati, where he died on 20 June 2019. He was 90.

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Henry Haller (January 10, 1923 – November 7, 2020) was a Swiss-American chef. He served as Executive Chef of the White House from 1966 to 1987. He served under the presidencies of Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. He retired on October 1, 1987.

Haller was born in Altdorf, Switzerland. He studied as an apprentice at hotels and ski resorts in Bern, Davos and Lucerne. He married Carole Itjem in the 1950s. They had four children. Haller died on November 7, 2020 in Rockville, Maryland at the age of 97.

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Gregory Dion "Greg" Jelks (August 16, 1961 – January 5 or 6, 2017) was an American Australian baseball third baseman. He played with the Philadelphia Phillies of the National Basketball League (NBL) in 1987. He later moved to Australia and played for Perth Heat and the national team. He was born in Centre, Alabama.

Jelks died sometime returning to Australia from the United States. His death was confirmed when his plane arrived in Sydney. He was 55.

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Sex Tape is a 2014 American comedy movie.

Plot
Jay and Annie Hargrove are a married couple. After having two kids, they have sex every chance they get. When Jay struggles to have an erection, Annie suggests making a sex tape. After making it, Annie asks Jay to delete the recording.

The son of Jay and Annie's friend says he will upload a copy of the sex tape to YouPorn unless they give him $25,000. They are not able to pay the money. Jay and Annie break into YouPorn's headquarters. They begin destroying the web servers. Their plan is stopped when an alarm sounds. The owner of YouPorn removes the sex tape.

Jay and Annie watch the video once themselves. After this, they take the USB flash drive and later destroy it.
Cast
 Cameron Diaz as Annie Hargrove, Jay's wife
 Jason Segel as Jay Hargrove, Annie's husband
 Rob Corddry as Robby
 Ellie Kemper as Tess
 Rob Lowe as Hank Rosenbaum
 Nat Faxon as Max
 Nancy Lenehan as Linda
 Randall Park as Edward
 Harrison Holzer as Howard
 Jolene Blalock as Catalina, the wife of the owner of YouPorn
 Dave "Gruber" Allen as Mailman
 Kumail Nanjiani as Punit
 Artemis Pebdani as Kia
 Jack Black (uncredited) as the owner of YouPorn

Release
Sex Tape was released on July 18, 2014.

Box office
The movie earned a total of $38.5 million in the United States alone. Worldwide, it earned a total of $126.1 million.

In the United Kingdom, it topped the box office. It earned £1.43 million. The movie opened at #1 in markets, such as Bulgaria, the Netherlands and Slovenia.

The biggest market was in countries like Germany, Australia and the United Kingdom. In those countries, the movie got back $12.14 million, $6.9 million and $7.14 million, respectively.
Reviews
Sex Tape earned mostly negative reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the movie has an approval rating of 17%. Metacritic gives the movie a score of 36, meaning generally unfavorable reviews.

Awards
Sex Tape won a Golden Raspberry Award for the Worst Actress. It was also nominated for Worst Screen Combo and Worst Screenplay.

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2014 comedy movies
2010s sex comedy movies
American sex comedy movies
English-language movies
Movies about families
Movies about marriage
Movies about suburbia
Movies set in Los Angeles
Movies about pornography
Movies directed by Jake Kasdan
Michael Leigh Chamberlain (27 February 1944 – 9 January 2017) was a New Zealand-born Australian writer, teacher and pastor. He was best known due to the August 1980 death of his missing daughter Azaria as the result of a dingo attack while camping near Uluru in the Northern Territory, Australia. 

Chamberlain's then-wife Lindy was falsely convicted of the baby's murder in 1982 and he was convicted of being an accessory after the fact. The findings of a 1987 royal commission made sure that the couple was innocent, but not before they were hated by the public and negatively covered by the media.

Chamberlain died on 9 January 2017 at Gosford Hospital, on the New South Wales central coast, aged 72 from complications of acute myeloid leukemia.

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Phillip Hugh Norman Witschke Rudzevecuis (born 19 May 1954), better known as Phil Rudd, is an Australian drummer. He is best known for being a member of the hard rock band AC/DC from 1975 to 1983, and again from 1994 to 2015. He lives in Tauranga, New Zealand. In November 2014, he was arrested for many crimes, including threatening to kill, trying to plan a murder and keeping illegal drugs. In July 2015, he was sentenced to eight months home detention.

Rudd was born in Melbourne. He is of a German and Irish background. His stepfather was from Lithuania. He has six children.

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Urk is a municipality in the province of Flevoland, the Netherlands. It has about 20,000 people (2016), and is both a former municipality of North Holland and of Overijssel.

Urk is a former island and well-known for its fishery activities.

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 Urk website
 

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Dokkum is a city in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. It is a part of the municipality of Noardeast-Fryslân. It has about 13,000 people (2014).

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Ulf Adolf Roger Dinkelspiel (4 July 1939 – 9 January 2017) was a Swedish politician and financier. He was a member of the Moderate Party. He served as the Minister of European Affairs and Foreign Trade from 1991 to 1994. He was born in Stockholm.

Dinkelspiel died from cancer on 9 January 2017 in Stockholm. He was 77.

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Winschoten is a small city in the province of Groningen, the Netherlands. Since 2010, it has been a part of the municipality of Oldambt. It has about 18,000 people (2013).

There is a railway station with direct connections to Groningen and Leer (Germany).

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Zierikzee, Zeelandic: Zurrikzeê, is a city in the province of Zeeland, the Netherlands. It is a part of the municipality and island of Schouwen-Duiveland. It has about 11,000 people (2015).

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Torgny is a village in the province of Luxembourg, Belgium. It is part of the municipality of Rouvroy. About 200 people live there. 

Torgny is the southernmost settlement in Belgium.

Former municipalities of Belgium
Luxembourg (Belgium)
A tithe, means the tenth-part of something, usually income, paid to a religious organization.  A tithe can be seen as a tax, a fee for a service or a voluntary contribution.   Tithing came from the Book of Numbers.  In ancient Israel, the tribes of Levites were the priests. The other tribes gave tithes to the tribes of Levies because they had been given no land in Canaan.  Tithes may be money or crops or other valuable thing.

Mosaic law 
Under the Laws of Moses a tenth part is given to the priests. Then, the priests were required to give a tenth part of what they received as an offering to God. These tithes were paid once a year.
Europe  
In France, tithes were taxes levied by The Roman Catholic Church before the French Revolution. Tithes were levied on the Third Estate (common people), which made up about 98% of the French population. The Tithes were taxes for land owned by members of the Third Estate. The tithe was abolished after the creation of The New Constitution of France in 1791, when the Constitution was completed.

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Gouda is a town (with city rights) in the province of South Holland, the Netherlands. In 2016 about 71,000 people lived there.

The city is famous for its Gouda cheese and stroopwafels. The city hall was built in the 15th century.

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 A collection of old pictures and drawings of Gouda. (A journey through the past)
Jacob Cats (10 November 1577 in Brouwershaven - 12 September 1660 in The Hague) was a Dutch poet, jurist and politician. He is most famous for his emblem books. His poems were told like nursery rhymes for many years.

Cats was pensionary of Middelburg and Dordrecht, and grand pensionary of Holland.

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The Bottom is the capital of the Caribbean island of Saba. In 2001, 462 people lived there.

The town was first called De Botte, which is old Dutch for "The Bowl". This is because the town made a bowl shape at the bottom of the mountains.

Saba
Capital cities in North America
The ENAC Foundation (French: Fondation de l'École nationale de l'aviation civile) has been created in 2012. It is to promote scientific and public interest activities in aviation, aerospace and aeronautics.

History
The Foundation has been created in 2012. The first scholarships have been given in 2014, in order to help students to go abroad. In 2015, the first research activity in UAV is financed, in partnership with Ineo, Cofely and Sagem.

References

Further reading
 Official website

French Civil Aviation University
This is a list of metro stations of Baku Metro in Baku, Azerbaijan. At present Baku Metro has 27 metro stations. Line 1 has 13 metro stations, Line 2 has 10 metro stations and Line 3 has 4 metro stations.

Metro stations

Related pages 
Baku Metro

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 Official website 
 Urbanrail - Baku Metro 

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La La Land is a 2016 American romantic musical comedy-drama movie. Its title is a reference to the nickname for the city of Los Angeles. It is also an idiom for being out of touch with reality.

Plot
On a crowded Los Angeles highway, an aspiring actress named Mia is distracted by her preparation for an upcoming audition. That leads to a moment of road rage between her and a pianist named Sebastian. Her audition is yet another failure. At the same time, Sebastian is having a problem paying his bills. This leads to an argument with his sister, Laura. Mia's car is towed. She has to walk back to her apartment.

Sebastian is told by the owner of a restaurant not to play any jazz. Instead, he plays simple variations of Christmas songs. But he begins a heartfelt improvisation at the restaurant. Mia overhears Sebastian playing. She is moved by his talent, and goes to watch him play. Sebastian, however, is quickly fired.
Months later, Mia goes to another party. She sees Sebastian again. He is now playing as the keyboardist for a 1980s pop music cover band. Mia requests that the band play "I Ran (So Far Away)" by A Flock of Seagulls. Afterward the two walk together and look for their cars.

Five years later, Mia is a famous actress. She is married to another man, with whom she has a daughter.

Cast

 Ryan Gosling as Sebastian Wilder
 Emma Stone as Mia Dolan
 John Legend as Keith
 Rosemarie DeWitt as Laura Wilder
 J. K. Simmons as Bill
 Finn Wittrock as Greg Earnest
 Tom Everett Scott as David
 Meagen Fay as Mia's Mom
 Damon Gupton as Harry
 Jason Fuchs as Carlo
 Jessica Rothe as Alexis
 Sonoya Mizuno as Caitlin
 Callie Hernandez as Tracy
 Josh Pence as Josh

Release
The world premiere for La La Land was at the Venice Film Festival. It was an opening night movie on August 31, 2016. The movie also showed at the Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, and many others.
Box office
La La Land has taken in more than $85 million against a budget of $30 million. The movie was released in the United States in December 2016. In January 2017, the movie showed in more theaters for a total of 1,515 theaters.

Critical response
La La Land was named by Peter Travers as his favorite movie of 2016. Other critics gave the movie high marks. Rotten Tomatoes rated the movie 91%.

Awards
La La Land won a number of awards. At the Golden Globe Awards, it won seven awards. These included Best Picture-Musical or Comedy, Best Actor-Musical or Comedy and Best Actress-Musical or Comedy.

References

2016 comedy-drama movies
2010s musical movies
2016 romantic comedy movies
2016 romantic drama movies
American comedy-drama movies
American musical comedy movies
American romantic comedy movies
American romantic drama movies
Dance movies
2010s English-language movies
Movies about entertainers
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Movies directed by Damien Chazelle
Angelica Ross (born 1980/1981) is an American activist for transgender rights.  She started TransTech Social Enterprises to help transgender people. She was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Work 

In 2014, Angelica Ross started the TransTech Social Enterprises organization in Chicago. Transtech is a training and design organization.  It trains and contracts transgender people in technology.  Transtech is a project of Allied Media Projects, an NGO in Detroit.

According to Ross, who transitioned in 2000, the time of gender transition can be difficult.  Some people need work but do not have the skills.  Other people have skills, but cannot find work because of discrimination.   If people can telecommute, they can work during the time of gender transition.

Awards 

In 2016, Ros received a Visibility Award from the Human Rights Campaign.

References

Other websites 
 Angelica Ross's website

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Charles J. "Charlie" Brotman (born December 30, 1927) is an American public relations specialist and public address announcer. He is known for his presentation of U.S. presidential inaugural parades of 11 presidents from Dwight D. Eisenhower to Barack Obama.

Career
Brotman has been behind the microphone for every inaugural parade in Washington, DC, since 1957, when Dwight D. Eisenhower was sworn in for his second term. Barack Obama's second inauguration in 2013 was the 15th consecutive ceremony that Brotman has announced, and his 16th overall.

In 2017, President-Elect Donald Trump's Presidential Inauguration Committee said that Brotman will not broadcast his inauguration, ending his broadcasting streak.

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Leanne Pittsford is an American entrepreneur.  She started the professional network Lesbians Who Tech.

Life 
Pittsford received a master's degree in education, equity and social justice from San Francisco State University and a bachelor's degree in political science from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

Work 
Leanne Pittsford started her career with the organization Equality California.  She wanted to repeal Proposition 8, a law in California against marriage for same sex couples. She saw there were not enough networking opportunities for lesbian women.  There were not any lesbian mentors to give help and advice to new people.
In 2012, Pittsford started Lesbians in Tech.  In 2015 she got Edie Windsor, a former manager from IBM, to speak to the organization, and started a scholarship in her name. Lesbians in Tech is now an international organization with 20 chapters from Berlin to Vermont. It has 10,000 members. In two years, they had over 200 events in 22 cities.  Every year they have summits in New York, San Francisco, and Berlin. In 2015 they had their first summit in Tel Aviv.

In 2015, Lesbians in Tech received a $165,000 award from the Arrillaga-Andreessen Foundation. They wanted to create more inclusion in the technology sector. The money will help start two programs: Bring a Lesbian to Work Day, for mentoring, and the Coding Scholarship Fund, for tuition.
In 2015, U.S. President Obama had an LGBT Pride reception at the White House for prominent member of the LGBT tech community. The event was attended by former Google executive and U.S. chief technology officer Megan Smith, Lesbians Who Tech founder Leanne Pittsford, and others.

Pittsford also helped support five other organizations for diversity in tech: AllOut, Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, CODE2040, Chicana Latina Foundation, and the National Center for Lesbian Rights.

References

Other websites 
 Lesbians Who Tech

Awards 
 Named one of "40 under 40" by San Francisco Times, 2015
 Featured in San Francisco Magazine's Power Issue, 2015
 Named one of "40 Diverse People In Tech Who Made Big Moves In 2015" by Techcrunch

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The following is a list of notable deaths in 2017. For notable deaths for a selective month during the year, please see "Months".  Per month, names under each date are reported in alphabetical order by last name or pseudonym. Deaths of non-humans are reported here also if notable.


Months
 January
 February
 March
 April
 May
 June
 July
 August
 September
 October
 November
 December

Related pages
 Deaths in 2014
 Deaths in 2015
 Deaths in 2016
 Deaths in 2018
 Deaths in 2019
 Deaths in 2020
 Deaths in 2021
 Deaths in 2022
 Deaths in 2023

References

Other websites
 The Guardian, UK obituaries
 Obituaries, Los Angeles Times
 Obituaries, Chicago Tribune
 The New York Times, US obituaries
 The Sydney Morning Herald, Australian obituaries
 The Telegraph obituaries

Index lists
The following is a list of notable deaths in January 2017. For notable deaths of other months in 2017, please see "Months".

 Each listing of a death must have a source. If no reference is included, the death notice will be removed. The following are the requirements of adding a name to the list in its order: name, age, nationality, what the person is known for, cause of death (if known) and most importantly a source.


January
January

1
Sir Tony Atkinson, 72, British economist, multiple myeloma.
Hilarion Capucci, 94, Syrian Melkite Catholic hierarch, Patriarchal Vicar of Jerusalem (1965–1974).
Aleksander Jackowski, 96, Polish anthropologist and ethnographer.
Mel Lopez, 81, Filipino politician, Mayor of Manila (1986–1987, 1988–1992), heart attack.
Memo Morales, 79, Venezuelan singer, heart attack.
Yaakov Neeman, 77, Israeli lawyer and politician, Minister of Justice (1996, 2009–2013) and Finance (1997–1998).
Emmanuel Niyonkuru, 54, Burundian politician, Senator (since 2015) and Minister of Water and Environment (since 2015), shot.
Derek Parfit, 74, English philosopher (Reasons and Persons).
Jeremy Stone, 81, American scientist and arms control activist.
Bogdan Tuszyński, 84, Polish sports journalist and reporter (Polskie Radio).
Alfonso Wong, 93, Hong Kong cartoonist (Old Master Q), multiple organ failure.
2
René Ballet, 88, French journalist and author.
John Berger, 90, English art critic and painter.
Albert Brewer, 88, American politician, Governor of Alabama (1968–1971).
François Chérèque, 60, French labor unionist (CFDT), leukemia.
Tom Harpur, 87, Canadian classicist, theologian, priest, and journalist.
Richard Machowicz, 51, American Navy SEAL and television host (Future Weapons, Deadliest Warrior), brain cancer.
Viktor Tsaryov, 85, Russian football player and coach (Dynamo Moscow, Soviet Union national team).
3
Rodney Bennett, 81, British television director (Doctor Who).
Martin Brandtner, 78, American Marine Corps general.
Ivo Brešan, 80, Croatian writer.
Mike Buchanan, 84, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks).
Charles J. Colgan, 90, American politician, member of the Virginia Senate (1976–2016), vascular ailment.
Shigeru Kōyama, 87, Japanese actor (Samurai Rebellion, Black Rain, Beyond Outrage), complications from pneumonia.
Rolf Noskwith, 97, German-born British businessman and codebreaker (World War II).
Igor Volk, 79, Ukrainian-born Russian cosmonaut and test pilot.
4
Hisham Al-Otaibi, 70, Kuwaiti politician, Minister of Finance (1998–1999).
Heinz Billing, 102, German physicist and computer scientist, created computer data storage.
Abdul Halim Jaffer Khan, 89, Indian sitar player and composer, cardiac arrest.
Jordi Pagans i Monsalvatje, 84, Spanish painter.
Ezio Pascutti, 79, Italian footballer (Bologna).
Georges Prêtre, 92, French orchestral and opera conductor.
Milt Schmidt, 98, Canadian Hall of Fame ice hockey player, coach and general manager (Boston Bruins, Washington Capitals), stroke.
Sir Douglas Wass, 93, British civil servant, Permanent Secretary to HM Treasury (1974–1983).
Wayne Westner, 55, South African golfer, suicide by gunshot.
5
Spartak Belyaev, 93, Russian theoretical physicist.
Géori Boué, 98, French operatic soprano.
Tullio De Mauro, 84, Italian linguist and politician, Minister of Education (2000–2001).
Paul Goble, 83, English-born American author and illustrator (Tipi: Home of the Nomadic Buffalo Hunters, The Girl Who Loved Wild Horses), Parkinson's disease.
Greg Jelks, 55, American-Australian baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).
Stanley Russ, 86, American politician, member of the Arkansas Senate (1975–2001), acute myeloid leukemia.
Jill Saward, 51, British sexual assault awareness campaigner, cerebral haemorrhage.
Christopher Weeramantry, 90, Sri Lankan judge, Vice-President of the International Court of Justice (1997–2000).
John Wightman, 78, American politician, Mayor of Lexington, Nebraska (1992–1995), member of the Nebraska Legislature (2007–2015), respiratory failure.
6
Yaron Ben-Dov, 46, Israeli footballer (Ironi Rishon LeZion, Maccabi Netanya, Hapoel Tel Aviv).
Les Lazarowitz, 75, American sound mixer (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Groundhog Day), cancer.
Octavio Lepage, 93, Venezuelan politician, Acting President (1993).
Ramón Martínez Pérez, 87, Spanish footballer (Sevilla, Granada, national team).
Bayezid Osman, 92, Turkish royalty, 44th Head of the Imperial House of Osman (since 2009).
Ricardo Piglia, 75, Argentine author, complications from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Om Puri, 66, Indian actor (Ardh Satya, City of Joy, East Is East), heart attack.
Tilikum, 35, American-held orca, subject of Blackfish, bacterial infection.
Gavin Whittaker, 46, Australian rugby league footballer (Canterbury Bulldogs, Gold Coast Chargers), stomach cancer.
Francine York, 80, American actress (It's Only Money, Batman, The Family Man), cancer.
Eli Zelkha, 66, Iranian-born American entrepreneur, inventor of ambient intelligence.
7
Lucina da Costa Gomez-Matheeuws, 87, Dutch Antillean politician, Prime Minister of the Netherlands Antilles (1977).
John Deely, 74, American philosopher, cancer.
Ramanuja Devnathan, 57, Indian Sanskrit scholar, heart attack.
Carlos Fernández Gondín, 78, Cuban politician, Minister of the Interior (since 2015), complications from a chronic condition.
Nat Hentoff, 91, American political philosopher, columnist and music critic (The Village Voice, Down Beat).
Jerzy Kossela, 74, Polish guitarist and vocalist (Niebiesko-Czarni, Czerwone Gitary).
Lelio Lagorio, 91, Italian politician, Minister of Defence (1980–1983) and Sport and Spectacles (1983–1986).
Mário Soares, 92, Portuguese politician, President (1986–1996) and Prime Minister (1976–1978, 1983–1985).
Lech Trzeciakowski, 85, Polish historian.
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Buddy Bregman, 86, American arranger, producer and composer, complications from Alzheimer's disease.
Klaib Al-Fawwaz, 66, Jordanian diplomat and politician, Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs (2011–2012), Secretary General of the Eslah Political Party (since 2012), heart attack.
Nicolai Gedda, 91, Swedish operatic tenor.
Miriam Goldberg, 100, American newspaper publisher (Intermountain Jewish News).
Roy Innis, 82, American civil rights activist and politician, National Director of the Congress of Racial Equality (since 1968), complications from Parkinson's disease.
Abdulkadir Kure, 60, Nigerian politician, Governor of Niger State (1999–2007).
Sir James Mancham, 77, Seychellois politician, President (1976–1977), stroke.
Jovanka Nikolić, 64, Serbian writer.
Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, 82, Iranian politician, President (1989–1997), heart attack.
Peter Sarstedt, 75, English singer-songwriter ("Where Do You Go To (My Lovely)?"), progressive supranuclear palsy.
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Zygmunt Bauman, 91, Polish-British sociologist.
Michael Chamberlain, 72, New Zealand-born Australian pastor, exonerated in the death of Azaria Chamberlain, complications from acute myeloid leukaemia.
Ugo Crescenzi, 86, Italian politician, President of Abruzzo (1970–1972, 1973–1974), member of the Chamber of Deputies (1987–1992), kidney failure.
Ulf Dinkelspiel, 77, Swedish politician, Minister of European affairs and Foreign Trade (1991–1994), cancer.
Bob McCullough, Australian sports administrator.
Ali Shariatmadari, 93, Iranian politician and academic, Minister of Culture (1979).
Warren Allen Smith, 95, American atheist gay-rights activist and writer (Humanist Manifesto II).
Claude Steiner, 81, French-born American psychologist and writer (Warm Fuzzy Tale).
Russell Trood, 68, Australian politician and academic, Senator for Queensland (2005–2011), thyroid cancer.
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Hiag Akmakjian, 91, American author, painter and photographer, lung cancer.
Ronald Buxton, 93, British politician, MP for Leyton (1965–1966).
Buddy Greco, 90, American jazz and pop singer, actor (The Girl Who Knew Too Much) and pianist.
Roman Herzog, 82, German politician, President (1994–1999), Judge of the Federal Constitutional Court (1983–1994).
Clare Hollingworth, 105, British journalist (The Daily Telegraph), broke news that World War II had started.
Ryszard Parulski, 78, Polish fencer, Olympic silver medalist (1964).
Manlio Rocchetti, 73, Italian make-up artist (Driving Miss Daisy, Lonesome Dove, Gangs of New York), Emmy winner (1989) and Academy Award winner (1990).
Tony Rosato, 62, Italian-born Canadian actor (Saturday Night Live, SCTV), heart attack.
Oliver Smithies, 91, British-American geneticist, Nobel Prize laureate (2007).
Kenny Wharram, 83, Canadian ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks), heart failure.
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Tommy Allsup, 85, American rockabilly and country swing guitarist, complications from hernia surgery.
Tony Booth, 83, British poster artist, cancer.
James Fairfax, 83, Australian business executive and philanthropist.
James Ferguson-Lees, 88, British ornithologist (British Birds).
Brian Fletcher, 69, British jockey, winner of the Grand National (1968, 1973, 1974), cancer.
Claude Lebey, 93, French food critic.
Nikolay Neprimerov, 95, Russian physicist.
Adenan Satem, 72, Malaysian politician, Chief Minister of Sarawak (since 2014), heart attack.
Saeeduzzaman Siddiqui, 78, Pakistani jurist and politician, Governor of Sindh (since 2016).
François Van der Elst, 62, Belgian national team footballer (Anderlecht, New York Cosmos, West Ham United), complications from cardiac arrest.
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Giulio Angioni, 77, Italian writer (Le fiamme di Toledo, Assandira) and anthropologist.
Meir Banai, 55, Israeli singer ("Shma Koli"), cancer.
William Peter Blatty, 89, American novelist (The Exorcist, Legion) and screenwriter (A Shot in the Dark), multiple myeloma.
Anthony King, 82, Canadian-born British political scientist. (death announced on this date)
Milton Metz, 95, American radio and television sports personality, complications from a fall.
Vsevolod Murakhovsky, 90, Ukrainian-Russian politician, First Deputy Premier of the Soviet Union (1985–1989).
Frank Spellman, 94, American weightlifter, Olympic champion (1948).
Graham Taylor, 72, English football player and manager (Watford, Aston Villa, England national team), heart attack.
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Gilberto Agustoni, 94, Swiss Roman Catholic cardinal.
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, 86, English photographer, filmmaker and former husband of Princess Margaret.
Walter Benz, 85, German mathematician.
Hans Berliner, 87, German-born American computer scientist and chess player.
Mark Fisher, 48, British writer, cultural theorist and music journalist (The Wire, Fact), suicide.
Dick Gautier, 85, American actor (Get Smart, Transformers, Bye Bye Birdie).
Horacio Guarany, 91, Argentine folkloric singer and writer, cardiac arrest.
Sir John Hanson, 78, British diplomat and historian.
John Jacobs, 91, English golfer, founder of the PGA European Tour. (death announced on this date)
Magic Alex, 74, Greek electronics engineer (The Beatles, Apple Electronics, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi), complications from pneumonia.
David Modell, 56, American businessman (Baltimore Ravens), cancer.
Anton Nanut, 84, Slovenian conductor.
Ari Rath, 92, Austrian-born Israeli journalist (The Jerusalem Post).
Nicodemo Scarfo, 87, American mobster, boss of the Philadelphia crime family (1981–1991).
Udo Ulfkotte, 56, German political scientist and journalist (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung), heart attack.
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Surjit Singh Barnala, 91, Indian politician, Chief Minister of Punjab (1985–1987), Governor of Uttarakhand (2000–2003) and Tamil Nadu (2004–2011).
Barry Cassin, 92, Irish actor (Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog, The Count of Monte Cristo, Byzantium).
Mohammed bin Faisal Al Saud, 80, Saudi royal and businessman.
Eldar Kuliev, 65, Kyrgyz Soviet screenwriter and author.
Herbert Mies, 87, German politician (Communist Party), Chairman (1973–1989).
Kevin Starr, 76, American historian, heart attack.
Yama Buddha, 29, Nepalese rapper, suicide.
Zhou Youguang, 111, Chinese linguist and supercentenarian, creator of the romanization of Chinese system.
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Ciel Bergman, 78, American painter.
Babette Cole, 66, English children's author (Drop Dead, Princess Smartypants, Prince Cinders).
Richard Divall, 71, Australian conductor and musicologist.
Aleksandr Ezhevsky, 101, Soviet engineer and statesman.
Dermot Gallagher, 72, Irish civil servant and diplomat, Secretary General of the Department of Foreign Affairs (until 2009) and Ambassador to the United States (1991–1997).
Han Peixin, 95, Chinese communist politician, Governor of Jiangsu (1982–1983) and Communist Party Secretary of Jiangsu (1983–1989), cardiac arrest.
Vicki Lansky, 75, American author and publisher, cirrhosis.
Eddie Long, 63, American pastor (New Birth Missionary Baptist Church), cancer.
David Poythress, 73, American military officer and politician, Secretary of State of Georgia (1979–1983).
Jimmy Snuka, 73, Fijian-born American professional wrestler (WWF, AWA, PNW), stomach cancer.
Jan Szczepański, 77, Polish boxer, Olympic champion (1972).
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Amin Nasir, 48, Singaporean football player (Woodlands Wellington, national team) and manager (Hougang United), colon cancer.
Eugene Cernan, 82, American astronaut (Apollo 7, Apollo 14, Apollo 17), last person to walk on the Moon.
William A. Hilliard, 89, American journalist (The Oregonian).
Franz Jarnach, 73, German actor (Dittsche) and musician (The Rattles), heart attack.
Peter Jones, 83, Australian politician, MLA (1974–1986).
Jiří Navrátil, 93, Czech scout leader and anti-Communist activist, President of Junák (since 1970).
Charles "Bobo" Shaw, 69, American jazz drummer.
Steve Wright, American bass guitarist (The Greg Kihn Band), heart attack.
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M. M. Ruhul Amin, 74, Bangladeshi judge, Chief Justice (2008–2009).
Brenda C. Barnes, 63, American businesswoman, CEO of Sara Lee (2005–2010), stroke.
Philip Bond, 82, British actor (Doctor Who, The Onedin Line).
Colo, 60, American Western gorilla, oldest living gorilla in captivity (since 2008) and first to be born in captivity.
Mario Fasino, 96, Italian politician, President of Sicily (1969–1972).
Heng Freylinger, 90, Luxembourgian Olympic wrestler (1952).
Steven Plaut, 65, American-born Israeli economist and academic, complications from kidney cancer.
Robert Timlin, 84, American judge, Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California (since 1994).
James S. Vlasto, 82, American public servant.
Daniel Vischer, 67, Swiss politician (National Council, Green Party of Switzerland), cancer.
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Peter Abrahams, 97, South African-born Jamaican writer (Mine Boy).
Red Adams, 95, American baseball player (Chicago Cubs) and coach (Los Angeles Dodgers).
Yosl Bergner, 96, Austrian-born Israeli painter.
Ion Besoiu, 85, Romanian actor (Toate pînzele sus).
David P. Buckson, 96, American lawyer and politician, Governor of Delaware (1960–1961).
Obed Dlamini, 79, Swazi politician, Prime Minister (1989–1993).
Rachael Heyhoe Flint, Baroness Heyhoe Flint, 77, English cricketer (women's national team), businesswoman and philanthropist.
Johnny Little, 86, Canadian-born Scottish footballer (Rangers, Morton, Scotland national team).
William Margold, 73, American pornographic actor and director.
Roberta Peters, 86, American coloratura soprano, Parkinson's disease.
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Jalal Allakhverdiyev, 87, Azerbaijani mathematician.
Wayne Barrett, 71, American journalist (The Village Voice), lung cancer.
Loalwa Braz, 63, Brazilian singer-songwriter ("Lambada"), burned.
Miguel Ferrer, 61, American actor (RoboCop, Mulan, Crossing Jordan), throat cancer.
Eddie Filgate, 101, Irish politician, TD (1977–1982).
Mike Kellie, 69, English multi-instrumentalist (Spooky Tooth, The V.I.P.'s, The Only Ones) and record producer.
Jan Kruis, 83, Dutch cartoonist (Jack, Jacky and the Juniors).
Ger van Mourik, 85, Dutch footballer (Ajax).
Edwin Pope, 88, American journalist (The Miami Herald, Athens Banner-Herald), cancer.
Walt Streuli, 81, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).
H. Boyd Woodruff, 99, American microbiologist, discovered actinomycin.
Teori Zavascki, 68, Brazilian judge, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (since 2012), and reporter (Operation Car Wash), plane crash.
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Hans Breukhoven, 70, Dutch businessman (Free Record Shop), pancreatic cancer.
Bill Fischer, 89, American football player (Chicago Cardinals).
Ahmed Gailani, 84, Afghan Qadiriyya leader and politician, founded National Islamic Front of Afghanistan.
Klaus Huhn, 88, German sports journalist (Neues Deutschland) and writer.
Naděžda Kavalírová, 93, Czech political prisoner and activist, head of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes (2007–2013).
Charles Liteky, 85, American military chaplain and peace activist.
Harry J. Middleton, 95, American speechwriter and library director (Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum).
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Byron Dobell, 89, American editor and writer, complications from Parkinson's disease.
Jamshid Giunashvili, 86, Georgian linguist and Iranologist, Ambassador to Iran (1994–2004).
Vahit Melih Halefoğlu, 97, Turkish diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1983–1987).
Maggie Roche, 65, American singer-songwriter (The Roches), cancer.
Veljo Tormis, 86, Estonian composer.
John Watkiss, 55, British comic artist (Deadman) and concept artist (Tarzan, Atlantis: The Lost Empire), cancer.
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Dan Caspi, 71, Romanian-born Israeli media theorist and academic.
İlhan Cavcav, 81, Turkish football executive, chairman of Gençlerbirliği S.K. (since 1978), brain hemorrhage.
Chen Yu-mei, 50, Taiwanese politician, Deputy Minister of the Overseas Community Affairs Council of the Executive Yuan (2013–2014).
Giovanni Corrieri, 96, Italian bicycle racer.
Søren Elung Jensen, 88, Danish actor (Det støver stadig, King Lear), lung cancer.
Cristina Adela Foișor, 49, Romanian Chess International Master, complications from pneumonia.
Moshe Gershuni, 80, Israeli painter and sculptor.
Jaki Liebezeit, 78, German drummer (Can), pneumonia.
Naqsh Lyallpuri, 88, Indian poet and songwriter, complications from a hip fracture.
Andy Marte, 33, Dominican baseball player (Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians, Arizona Diamondbacks), traffic collision.
Masaya Nakamura, 91, Japanese businessman, founder of Namco and Pac-Man.
Lev Navrozov, 88, Russian writer, historian and dissident, Parkinson's disease.
József Torgyán, 84, Hungarian politician, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (1998–2001).
Yordano Ventura, 25, Dominican baseball player (Kansas City Royals), traffic collision.
Pete Overend Watts, 69, English bass guitarist (Mott the Hoople), throat cancer.
Rudolf Wille, 79, German mathematician.
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Bimba Bosé, 41, Italian-born Spanish model, designer, singer and actress, breast cancer.
Dmytro Grabovskyy, 31, Ukrainian-born Israeli bicycle racer, heart attack.
Ralph Guglielmi, 83, American football player (Washington Redskins, New York Giants).
Gorden Kaye, 75, English actor ('Allo 'Allo!, Brazil, Coronation Street) and comedian.
Erland Kolding Nielsen, 70, Danish academic, Director General of the Royal Library.
Leslie Koo, 62, Taiwanese business executive (Taiwan Cement Corporation), cerebral hemorrhage.
Boško Krunić, 87, Yugoslav politician (League of Communists of Yugoslavia), Chairman of the Presidium (1987–1988), stroke. 
Ruth Samuelson, 56, American politician, member of the North Carolina General Assembly (2007–2015), ovarian cancer.
Andrew Telegdi, 70, Hungarian-born Canadian politician, MP for Waterloo (1993–2008).
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Fred André, 75, Dutch football player and manager (Telstar).
Chuck Canfield, 84, American businessman and politician, Mayor of Rochester, Minnesota (1996–2003).
Robert Folsom, 89, American politician, Mayor of Dallas, Texas (1976–1981).
Gil Ray, 60, American drummer (Game Theory, The Loud Family), cancer.
Butch Trucks, 69, American drummer (The Allman Brothers Band), suicide by gunshot.
Carlos Verdejo, 82, Chilean footballer.
Chuck Weyant, 93, American racecar driver.
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Đinh Xuân Lâm, 91, Vietnamese educator and historian.
Buchi Emecheta, 72, Nigerian novelist (The Bride Price, The Joys of Motherhood, Gwendolen), complications from a stroke.
Robert Garcia, 84, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives (1978–1990) and the New York State Legislature (1966–1978, 1983–1990), emphysema-induced infection.
Kevin Geer, 64, American actor (Twelve Angry Men, The Pelican Brief, The Contender), heart attack.
Sir John Hurt, 77, British actor (Midnight Express, Alien, The Elephant Man), pancreatic cancer.
Katja of Sweden, 97, Swedish fashion designer.
Harry Mathews, 86, American author (The Conversions, My Life in CIA), poet, translator (Ellis Island Revisited) and journalist (Locus Solus).
Jack Mendelsohn, 90, American cartoonist, screenwriter (Yellow Submarine) and television writer (The Carol Burnett Show, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), lung cancer.
Mary Tyler Moore, 80, American actress (The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Ordinary People) and philanthropist (JDRF), cardiopulmonary arrest complicated by diabetic-related pneumonia.
Siewert Öholm, 77, Swedish journalist and television presenter, liver cancer.
Marcel Prud'homme, 82, Canadian politician, MP (1964–1993) and Senator (1993–2009), heart attack.
Charles Reis Felix, 93, American writer.
Sir Nigel Rodley, 75, British human rights activist.
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Anne-Marie Colchen, 91, French track and field athlete and basketball player, European high jump champion (1946) and basketball world championship bronze medalist (1953).
Mike Connors, 91, American actor (Mannix, The Ten Commandments, War and Remembrance), leukemia.
Tam Dalyell, 84, Scottish politician, MP for West Lothian (1962–1983) and Linlithgow (1983–2005) and writer.
Barbara Hale, 94, American actress (Perry Mason), complications from COPD. 
Alexander Kadakin, 67, Russian diplomat, Ambassador to India (1999–2004, since 2009), heart failure.
Luciano Ravaglia, 94, Italian engineer, member of the Rotary Club of Forlì.
Dame Laurie Salas, 94, New Zealand women's rights and peace activist.
Michael Tönnies, 57, German footballer (MSV Duisburg).
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Wim Anderiesen Jr., 85, Dutch footballer (Ajax).
Valery Bolotov, 46, Ukrainian militant leader, Head of the Lugansk People's Republic (2014).
Henry-Louis de La Grange, 92, French musicologist and music critic (The New York Times), biographer of Gustav Mahler, complications from pneumonia.
Bob Holiday, 84, American actor (It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman).
Atanas Kirov, 70, Bulgarian weightlifter, world champion (1973, 1974, 1975), heart attack.
Brunhilde Pomsel, 106, German broadcaster and secretary to Joseph Goebbels.
Emmanuelle Riva, 89, French actress (Hiroshima mon amour, Amour), cancer.
Arthur H. Rosenfeld, 90, American physicist.
Billy Simpson, 87, Northern Irish footballer (Linfield, Rangers).
Gisella Sofio, 85, Italian actress (Accidents to the Taxes!!, La liceale, The Big Heart of Girls).