# Deaths in September 2014
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The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2014.
Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
* Name, age, country of citizenship and reason for notability, established cause of death, reference.

## September 2014
### 1

* David Anderle, 77, American record producer (The Doors), cancer.
* Liaqat Ali Bangulzai, Pakistani politician and columnist.
* Bernard Baran, 49, American teacher's aide, wrongfully convicted of indecent assault.
* Ralf Bendix, 90, German Schlager singer, music producer, composer and songwriter.
* Frank Calloway, 99, American artist and longevity claimant.
* Mary T. Clark, 100, American religious sister, academic, and civil rights advocate.
* Dillard Crocker, 89, American basketball player.
* Mark Gil, 52, Filipino actor, cirrhosis.
* Ahmed Abdi Godane, 37, Somali militant, Emir of al-Shabaab (2009–2010, since 2011), airstrike.
* Arturo Hammersley, 92, Chilean Olympic skier.
* Donnie Humphrey, 53, American football player (Green Bay Packers).
* Jimi Jamison, 63, American musician (Survivor), hemorrhagic brain stroke.
* Jim Jennings, 73, American college basketball player (Murray State Racers).
* Gottfried John, 72, German actor (Berlin Alexanderplatz, GoldenEye), cancer.
* Mzee Kaukungwa, 94, Namibian politician.
* Mile Kos, 89, Serbian football player and coach and sportswriter.
* A. J. Langguth, 81, American historian and journalist.
* Roger McKee, 87, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).
* Charlie Powell, 82, American football player (San Francisco 49ers, Oakland Raiders) and boxer.
* Maya Rao, 86, Indian Kathak dancer, cardiac arrest.
* Sergio Rodrigues, 86, Brazilian architect and designer.
* Hugh McGregor Ross, 97, English computer scientist and theologian.
* Joseph Shivers, 93, American textile chemist, developed spandex.
* Bala Tampoe, 92, Sri Lankan lawyer and trade unionist, General Secretary of the Ceylon Mercantile Union.
* Elena Varzi, 87, Italian actress (Path of Hope), cardiac arrest.
* Yoon Jung-chun, 41, South Korean football player and coach.

### 2

* Thierry Bianquis, 78-79, French orientalist and arabist.
* Cao Keming, 81, Chinese politician.
* Bob Cain, 80, American radio and television journalist.
* Jack Culpin, 86, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for Glenroy (1976–1985) and Broadmeadows (1985–1988).
* F. Emmett Fitzpatrick, 84, American attorney and politician, District Attorney of Philadelphia (1974–1978), Alzheimer's disease.
* Cayo Sila Godoy, 94, Paraguayan classical guitarist.
* Norman Gordon, 103, South African Test cricketer.
* William D. Gourley, 77, American football coach and sportscaster.
* J. LaMoine Jenson, 79, American religious leader, President of the Priesthood of the Apostolic United Brethren (since 1977), colon cancer.
* Jiang Zhonghua, Chinese Navy rear admiral, suicide by jumping.
* Dino Menardi, 91, Italian Olympic ice hockey player.
* William "Bill" Ralph Merton, 96, British military scientist and financier.
* Helena Rakoczy, 92, Polish gymnast, Olympic bronze medalist (1956) and world champion (1950).
* Paul W. Robertson, 59, Canadian television executive, cancer.
* Sándor Rozsnyói, 83, Hungarian steeplechase runner, Olympic silver medalist (1956) and European champion (1954).
* Steven Sotloff, 31, American journalist (Time), beheading. (death announced on this date)
* Su Nan-cheng, 78, Taiwanese politician.
* Goolam Essaji Vahanvati, 65, Indian lawyer, Attorney General (2009–2014), heart attack.
* Antonis Vardis, 66, Greek composer and singer, cancer.
* A. P. Venkateswaran, 84, Indian diplomat, Foreign Secretary (1986–1987).
* James White, 76, Irish politician and hotelier.

### 3

* Abu Al-Izz Al-Hariri, 68, Egyptian politician.
* Dorothy Braxton, 87, New Zealand journalist.
* Marina von Ditmar, 99, German film actress.
* Thawan Duchanee, 74, Thai painter, architect and sculptor, liver failure.
* Quintin Goosen, 67, Zimbabwean cricketer and umpire.
* Roy Heather, 79, English television actor (Only Fools and Horses).
* Mark Otway, 82, New Zealand tennis player. (death announced on this date)
* Aarno Raninen, 70, Finnish actor, composer and musician, house fire.
* Andy Stapp, 70, American political activist, founded the American Servicemen's Union.
* Zeus, 5, American Great Dane, world's tallest dog, natural causes.

### 4

* Martynas Andriukaitis, 33, Lithuanian basketball player, suicide by gunshot.
* Donatas Banionis, 90, Lithuanian Soviet actor (Solaris), stroke.
* Terry W. Brown, 64, American politician, cancer.
* Giuseppe Carattino, 95, Italian Olympic sailor.
* Riva Castleman, 84, American art historian.
* Clare Cathcart, 48, British actress (Call the Midwife, Doctors), asthma attack.
* Gustavo Cerati, 55, Argentine singer and musician (Soda Stereo), respiratory arrest.
* René Radembino Coniquet, 81, Gabonese politician.
* Franca Falcucci, 88, Italian politician, Minister of Education (1982–1987).
* Mohammed Fazal, 92, Indian politician, Governor of Maharashtra (2002–2004).
* Willie Finlay, 88, Scottish footballer (East Fife).
* Philip Hough, 90, English cricketer (Cheshire, Wiltshire).
* David T. Kennedy, 80, American politician.
* Włodzimierz Kotoński, 89, Polish composer.
* Gerrit Kouwenaar, 91, Dutch poet, recipient of the P. C. Hooft Award (1970).
* Georges Kunz, 92, French Olympic sprint canoeist.
* Claudius Léger, 93, Canadian politician.
* Roy Leonard, 83, American radio personality (WGN), esophageal infection.
* Hopeton Lewis, 66, Jamaican singer, kidney failure.
* Edi Mall, 90, Austrian Olympic alpine skier.
* Mizchif, 38, Zimbabwean rapper.
* Habib Wali Mohammad, 93, Pakistani ghazal singer.
* Maggie Morris, 88, Canadian radio and television personality (Flashback).
* Ron Mulock, 84, Australian politician, Deputy Premier of New South Wales (1984–1988).
* John Ondawame, 60, Indonesian-born Swedish activist, advocate for West Papuan independence, heart attack.
* Orunamamu, 93, American storyteller.
* Joseph B. Raynor Jr., 91, American politician, member of the North Carolina Senate (1965–1992).
* Jacqueline Risset, 78, French poet.
* Joan Rivers, 81, American comedian, actress (Spaceballs) and television host (Fashion Police), cardiac arrest.
* Ichirō Satsuki, 95, Japanese rōkyoku performer.
* Hagen Schulze, 71, German historian.
* Edgar Steele, 69, American lawyer and convicted criminal.
* David Wynne, 88, British sculptor.

### 5

* Rubel Ahmed, 26, Bangladeshi immigrant to Britain, suspected heart attack.
* Simone Battle, 25, American singer (G.R.L.), suicide by hanging.
* Kerrie Biddell, 67, Australian jazz and session singer, stroke.
* Feroze Butt, 72, Pakistani Test cricket umpire.
* Karel Černý, 92, Czech art director and production designer (Amadeus).
* Ramkanai Das, 78-79, Bangladeshi folk and classical musician.
* Arnold Fine, 90, American editor (The Jewish Press) and humor columnist.
* Noel Hinners, 78, American scientist and administrator, NASA Chief Scientist (1987–1989), brain tumor.
* Sanford Kadish, 92, American criminal law scholar.
* David Lomax, 76, British television reporter and interviewer (Panorama).
* Nicole Lubtchansky, French film editor (Celine and Julie Go Boating, La Belle Noiseuse).
* Todor Manolov, 63, Bulgarian Olympic athlete.
* Bruce Morton, 83, American news correspondent (CBS, CNN), cancer.
* Mara Neusel, 50, German mathematician.
* Wolfhart Pannenberg, 85, German theologian.
* Ken Reed, 72, American CFL player (Edmonton Eskimos, Saskatchewan Roughriders), traffic collision.
* Hemendra Chandra Singh, 46, Indian politician.
* Eoin Young, 75, New Zealand motoring journalist.

### 6

* Peter F. B. Alsop, Australian engineer and historian.
* Arne Amundsen, 62, Norwegian footballer (Lillestrøm SK).
* Clyde F. Bel Jr., 82, American businessman.
* Odd Bondevik, 73, Norwegian theologian.
* Dominique Darbois, 89, French photojournalist.
* Andy DePaul, 85, American boxer.
* Jim Dobbin, 73, British politician, MP for Heywood and Middleton (since 1997).
* Hendrik Fernandez, 81, Indonesian politician, Governor of East Nusa Tenggara (1988–1993), complications from a stroke.
* Cirilo Flores, 66, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of San Diego (since 2013), prostate cancer.
* Stefan Gierasch, 88, American actor (Carrie, Dark Shadows, High Plains Drifter).
* Édith Girard, 65, French architect.
* Molly Glynn, 46, American actress (Chicago Fire, In America), struck by falling tree.
* Martin Harrison, 65, British-born Australian poet, heart attack.
* János Héder, 80, Hungarian Olympic gymnast.
* Seth Martin, 81, Canadian Olympic ice hockey player (Spokane Jets, St. Louis Blues), heart attack.
* Royal Nebeker, 69, American painter and print maker.
* A. W. Pryor, 86, Australian physicist.
* Emma Richards, 87, American pastor, first female pastor of a Mennonite congregation.
* Yoko Yamaguchi, 77, Japanese songwriter and novelist, winner of the Naoki Prize (1985), respiratory failure.
* Kira Zvorykina, 94, Soviet-born Belarusian chess player, triple national champion (1960, 1973, 1975).

### 7

* Genrikh Abaev, 81, Belarusian engineer.
* Nikolay Adamets, 30, Belarusian footballer (Granit Mikashevichi), cerebral hemorrhage.
* Jacque Batt, 88, American political figure, First Lady of Idaho.
* Vasu Chanchlani, 62, Indo-Canadian serial entrepreneur, philanthropist and trans-nations builder.
* Jack Cristil, 88, American radio sports broadcaster (Mississippi State Bulldogs), complications from kidney disease and cancer.
* Maryna Doroshenko, 33, Ukrainian basketball player (national team), leukemia.
* Joseph B. Ebbesen, 89, American politician and optometrist.
* Harry Evans, 68, Australian public servant, Clerk of the Australian Senate (1988–2009).
* Raul M. Gonzalez, 83, Filipino politician, Secretary of Justice (2004–2009), multiple organ failure.
* Don Keefer, 98, American actor (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Gunsmoke, The Twilight Zone).
* Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács, 78, Hungarian film director.
* Subramanian Krishnamoorthy, 84–85, Indian Tamil writer.
* Kwon Ri-se, 23, South Korean singer (Ladies' Code), injuries sustained in a traffic collision.
* Neal Peters McCurn, 88, American federal judge.
* Frederic Mullally, 96, British journalist and novelist.
* Anahita Ratebzad, 82, Afghan politician and diplomat.
* Eberhard Schlotter, 93, German painter.
* Harold Shipp, 88, Canadian businessman.
* Douglas E. Smith, 53, American video game designer (Lode Runner).
* Elsa-Marianne von Rosen, 90, Swedish ballet dancer and actress.
* Yoshiko Yamaguchi, 94, Chinese-born Japanese actress (Eternity) and singer, member of the House of Councillors (1974–1992), heart failure.

### 8

* Roger Auque, 58, French journalist and diplomat, Ambassador to Eritrea (2009–2012), cancer.
* Marvin Barnes, 62, American basketball player.
* Robert Bauer, 64, German mycologist.
* Lee Behel, 64, American air racer, plane crash.
* S. Truett Cathy, 93, American restaurateur and businessman, founder of Chick-fil-A.
* Errol Clince, 61, New Zealand hunter, cancer.
* Erhard Egidi, 85, German cantor and organist.
* Mary G. Enig, 83, American nutritionist.
* Rashi Fein, 88, American professor of health economics.
* Bobby Fong, 64, American academic, President of Ursinus College (since 2011).
* Justin Gocke, 36, American actor (Santa Barbara, Simon & Simon).
* Goose Gonsoulin, 76, American football player (Denver Broncos).
* René Guissart, 84, French Olympic rower.
* Edward R. Hauser, 98, American animal scientist.
* Yuriy Kabanov, 75, Russian sprint canoer.
* John King, 85, English painter.
* Kevin O'Neill, 95, Australian cricketer.
* Sean O'Haire, 43, American professional wrestler (WWE, WCW, NJPW), suicide by hanging.
* Magda Olivero, 104, Italian operatic soprano.
* Tibor Rudas, 94, Hungarian entrepreneur.
* Ken Staples, 87, American baseball player, coach and manager.
* Gerald Wilson, 96, American jazz musician, pneumonia.
* George Zuverink, 90, American baseball player (Baltimore Orioles), pneumonia.

### 9

* Montserrat Abelló i Soler, 96, Spanish poet and translator.
* Hassan Aboud, 35-36, Syrian rebel leader, bomb attack.
* Firoza Begum, 84, Bangladeshi singer.
* Emilio Botín, 79, Spanish financier (Santander Group).
* Neil Brown, 62, Australian footballer.
* Vaduvur Srinivasa Desikachariar, 85, Indian scholar.
* Howell Evans, 86, Welsh actor (Stella).
* Samuel Gitler Hammer, 81, Mexican mathematician.
* Graham Joyce, 59, British speculative fantasy author, cancer.
* Denny Miller, 80, American actor (Tarzan, the Ape Man, Wagon Train), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
* Bob Suter, 57, American ice hockey player, Olympic champion (1980), heart attack.
* Tang Yijie, 87, Chinese philosopher.
* Antonín Tučapský, 86, Czech-born British composer.
* David Whyte, 43, English footballer (Charlton Athletic).
* Robert Young, 49, Scottish guitarist (Primal Scream).

### 10

* Robert William Dean, 94, American diplomat.
* Grant Dunlap, 90, American baseball player (St. Louis Cardinals).
* Ntiero Effiom, 67, Nigerian football coach.
* António Garrido, 81, Portuguese football referee.
* Richard Kiel, 74, American actor (The Spy Who Loved Me, Happy Gilmore, Tangled), heart attack.
* Oldřich František Korte, 88, Czech composer and pianist.
* Walter L. McVey Jr., 92, American politician.
* Edward Nelson, 82, American mathematician, professor emeritus (Princeton University).
* Yoshinori Sakai, 69, Japanese athlete, lit cauldron at the 1964 Summer Olympics, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Károly Sándor, 85, Hungarian footballer.
* George Spencer, 88, American baseball player (New York Giants).
* Paul K. Sybrowsky, 70, American businessman, President of Southern Virginia University (2012–2014).
* Hans Petter Tholfsen, 67, Norwegian harness racer.
* Joakim Vislavski, 73, Serbian football player (Partizan) and manager (Hajduk Kula).
* Ernst Wilfer, 91, German engineer.

### 11

* John A. Burroughs Jr., 78, American diplomat.
* Bob Crewe, 82, American songwriter ("Big Girls Don't Cry", "Rag Doll") and record producer (The Four Seasons).
* Antoine Duhamel, 89, French composer and conductor.
* Fletcher Dulini Ncube, 74, Zimbabwean politician.
* Mirko Ellis, 91, Swiss-Italian actor, self-defenestration.
* Kendall Francois, 43, American serial killer.
* Basil Charles Elwell French, 95, British Anglican priest.
* Joachim Fuchsberger, 87, German actor (Edgar Wallace movies), television host and lyricist.
* Jerônimo Garcia de Santana, 79, Brazilian politician, Governor of Rondônia (1987–1991), Mayor of Porto Velho (1986).
* Joanne Garvey, 79, American attorney.
* Hamish McHamish, 15, Scottish celebrity cat, chest infection.
* Rudolf Kortokraks, 86, German painter.
* Cosimo Matassa, 88, American recording engineer and studio owner.
* Elizabeth Whelan, 71, American consumer rights activist, founder of the American Council on Science and Health.
* Ali Yahya, 66, Israeli diplomat.

### 12

* Vasile Anghel, 76, Romanian footballer.
* Edmundo Domínguez Aragonés, 75, Mexican journalist.
* Mahant Avaidyanath, 93, Indian politician.
* John Bardon, 75, English actor (EastEnders).
* Fred Britton, 82, Canadian curler.
* André Dran, 90, French singer.
* Atef Ebeid, 82, Egyptian politician, Prime Minister (1999–2004).
* Salah El Mahdi, 89, Tunisian musicologist and composer.
* Peter Erős, 81, Hungarian-American conductor, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Theodore J. Flicker, 84, American writer and director (Barney Miller, The President's Analyst).
* Joseph Abangite Gasi, 86, South Sudanese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Tombura-Yambio (1974–2008).
* John Gustafson, 72, English singer and bassist (Ian Gillan Band, Roxy Music, The Big Three).
* Henrik Have, 68, Danish artist and writer.
* Antony Kidman, 75, Australian psychologist and academic, heart attack.
* Irwin I. Kimmelman, 84, American politician.
* Zoran Knežević, 66, Serbian Yugoslav politician and judge.
* Lonnie Lynn, 71, American basketball player (Pittsburgh Pipers) and spoken word poet.
* Anwar Ali Noon, 90, Pakistani politician.
* Ian Paisley, Baron Bannside, 88, Northern Irish politician, first minister (2007–2008), MP (1970–2010) and member of the House of Lords (since 2010).
* Warren Perkins, 92, American basketball player (Tri-Cities Blackhawks).
* Dimitry Pospielovsky, 79, Canadian historian.
* Hugh Royer Jr., 78, American professional golfer.
* Bengt Saltin, 79, Swedish physiologist.
* Joe Sample, 75, American jazz musician (The Crusaders), and songwriter ("One Day I'll Fly Away", "Street Life").
* Sir Donald Sinden, 90, English actor (The Cruel Sea, The Day of the Jackal, Two's Company), prostate cancer.
* Ts'ao Yung-ho, 93, Taiwanese historian.
* Herbert Vorgrimler, 85, German theologian.
* Zhou Weizhi, 98, Chinese musician and politician, Minister of culture.
* Harold Williams, 90, Welsh football player.
* Abdel Rahman Zuabi, 82, Israeli judge.

### 13

* Benjamin Adekunle, 78, Nigerian army leader.
* Bjørn Tore Bryn, 77, Norwegian news anchor.
* Marvin Cheung, 67, Hong Kong accountant and politician, Chairman of the AAHK (2008–2014), unofficial member of the Executive Council (2005–2012), leukemia.
* Luis Colman, 60, Uruguayan Olympic rower.
* Robert M. Ellis, 92, American artist.
* Iberê Ferreira, 70, Brazilian politician, Governor of Rio Grande do Norte (2010–2011).
* Helen Filarski, 90, American baseball player (AAGPBL).
* Milan Galić, 76, Serbian Yugoslav Olympic champion footballer (1960), (national team).
* David Haines, 44, British humanitarian aid worker and ISIS hostage, beheading. (death reported on this date)
* Shelley Riley Moore, 88, American educator, First Lady of West Virginia (1969–1977, 1985–1989).
* Dmitry Sakunenko, 84, Russian Soviet Olympic speed skater (1956).
* Matthew Sands, 94, American physicist.
* Frank Torre, 82, American baseball player (Milwaukee Braves, Philadelphia Phillies), cardiac arrest.
* Paul Valenti, 94, American college basketball coach (Oregon State).
* Nigel Walker, 97, British criminologist, Wolfson Professor of Criminology (1973–1984).

### 14

* Isidoro Álvarez, 79, Spanish businessman, CEO of El Corte Inglés.
* Tony Auth, 72, American Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, cancer.
* Behrens, 20, American thoroughbred racehorse.
* Bruno Castanheira, 37, Portuguese racing cyclist.
* Saifuddin Choudhury, 62, Indian politician, leader of the CPI(M), cancer.
* Servílio Conti, 97, Italian-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Roraima (1965–1975).
* Thoma Deliana, 88-89, Albanian politician.
* José Gómez, 70, American civil rights activist and academic.
* Assheton Gorton, 84, English production designer (101 Dalmatians, Legend, The French Lieutenant's Woman).
* Peter Gutteridge, 53, New Zealand singer and guitarist (The Clean, The Chills, Snapper).
* Miroslav Hlinka, 42, Slovak ice hockey player, gold medalist at the 2002 IIHF World Championship, suicide by hanging.
* Takatada Ihara, 85, Japanese television producer and director, heart disease.
* Kireet Joshi, 83, Indian philosopher and educationist, cancer.
* Boris Khimichev, 81, Russian actor.
* Benoy Krishna Konar, 84, Indian politician, member of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly.
* Angus Lennie, 84, Scottish actor (The Great Escape, Crossroads, Doctor Who).
* Charles Philip Littlejohn, 91, New Zealand judge.
* E. Jennifer Monaghan, 81, English-born American historian, stroke.
* Chase N. Peterson, 84, American physician and academic, President of the University of Utah (1983–1991).
* Philip Somerville, 84, English milliner.

### 15

* Iwao Akiyama, 93, Japanese printmaker.
* John Anderson Jr., 97, American politician, Governor of Kansas (1961–1965).
* Jeremy Ball, 45, Australian politician and actor (The Matrix), Deputy Mayor of Launceston, Tasmania (since 2011), traffic collision.
* Ted Belytschko, 71, American mechanical engineer.
* Giuliana Berlinguer, 80, Italian director, screenwriter, and novelist.
* Roger Blomquist, 57, Swedish sports journalist (SVT).
* Post Bahadur Bogati, 61, Nepalese politician, brain hemorrhage following cardiac arrest.
* Thomas Hale Boggs Jr., 73, American lawyer, lobbyist and politician, heart attack.
* Jackie Cain, 86, American jazz vocalist (Jackie and Roy), complications from a stroke.
* Waldemar Capucci, 85, Brazilian Olympic sport shooter.
* Dame Peggy Fenner, 91, British politician, MP for Rochester and Chatham (1970–1974, 1979–1997).
* Eugene I. Gordon, 84, American physicist.
* Yitzhak Hofi, 87, Israeli general, Director of Mossad (1974–1982).
* Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia, 91, French-born Russian claimant to the headship of the House of Romanov (since 1992).
* Jürg Schubiger, 77, Swiss psychotherapist and children's author.
* Claude A. Simard, 71, Canadian painter.
* Wayne Tefs, 67, Canadian writer, cancer.
* Marjorie Thompson, 60, American biologist and musician.
* François Wahl, 89, French literary editor.
* Glen Whitten, 78, American Olympic diver.

### 16

* Edward Atienza, 90, British actor.
* Lloyd Blackman, 86, Canadian musician.
* E. Leslie Conkling, 82, American politician.
* Narendra Dave, 64, Kenyan cricket umpire.
* Grant Evans, 65, Australian anthropologist and historian.
* H. M. Fowler, 96, American politician.
* Michael Hayes, 85, British television director (Doctor Who, Z-Cars, An Age of Kings) and newsreader.
* Buster Jones, 71, American voice actor (Super Friends, The Transformers, The Real Ghostbusters).
* Jef Lataster, 92, Dutch Olympic long-distance runner (1948).
* John Moat, 78, British poet, founded the Arvon Foundation.
* Alf Ivar Samuelsen, 72, Norwegian politician, tractor crash.
* Mary Speer, 89, American southern gospel singer (Speer Family).
* Linganath Subbu, 83, Indian cricketer.
* Dinis Vital, 82, Portuguese footballer.

### 17

* Hari Kumar Audichya, 84, Indian politician.
* Glenn D. Broyles, 88, American politician.
* Edward Fletcher Cass, 77, British miner and banker.
* Marianne Clausen, 66, Danish musicologist and choir conductor.
* Lisa Ann Coleman, 38, American criminal, executed.
* Renée Klang de Guzmán, 97, Dominican philanthropist, First Lady of the Dominican Republic (1978–1982).
* George Hamilton IV, 77, American country music singer (Abilene), complications from a heart attack.
* Andriy Husin, 41, Ukrainian football player (Dynamo Kyiv, Krylia Sovetov, national team) and coach, traffic collision.
* Wakachichibu Komei, 75, Japanese sumo wrestler.
* Elaine Lee, 74, South African-born Australian actress (Number 96).
* John Lofton, 73, American political commentator.
* Sir Charles Read, 95, Australian air marshal.
* Street Cry, 16, Irish thoroughbred racehorse, euthanised.
* Lorna Thomas, 96, Australian cricket player and manager.
* Welby Van Horn, 94, American tennis player and coach.
* Peter von Bagh, 71, Finnish film historian.
* China Zorrilla, 92, Uruguayan actress (Elsa & Fred), pneumonia.

### 18

* Richard Arenstorf, 84, American mathematician.
* Shakil Auj, 54, Pakistani Islamic researcher and scholar, shot.
* Jan Berdyszak, 78, Polish artist.
* Margie Day, 88, American R&B singer.
* Oleg Ivanovsky, 92, Russian spacecraft designer (Vostok, Prognoz).
* Patrick Lowry, 77, Irish Olympic sprinter.
* Milan Marcetta, 77, Canadian ice hockey player (Toronto Maple Leafs, Minnesota North Stars).
* Will Radcliff, 74, American businessman, creator of the Slush Puppie.
* George Radwanski, 67, Canadian journalist and civil servant, Privacy Commissioner (2000–2003), heart attack.
* Earl Ross, 73, Canadian race car driver.
* Hirofumi Uzawa, 86, Japanese economist, pneumonia.
* Olivier Vanneste, 84, Belgian politician and economist, Governor of West Flanders (1979–1997).
* Kenny Wheeler, 84, Canadian jazz trumpeter.

### 19

* André Bergeron, 92, French trade union leader.
* Hans-Georg Bohle, 66, German geographer.
* Keith Brueckner, 90, American theoretical physicist.
* Milton Cardona, 69, Puerto Rican jazz musician, heart failure.
* Püreviin Dagvasüren, 71, Mongolian traditional wrestler.
* Bill Detrick, 87, American college basketball coach (Central Connecticut Blue Devils).
* Peggy Drake, 91, Austrian-born American actress (King of the Mounties).
* Gaby Dlugi-Winterberg, 65, German international footballer.
* Marcel Dussault, 88, French road racing cyclist.
* Francisco Feliciano, 73, Filipino composer and conductor.
* Avraham Heffner, 79, Israeli filmmaker (Laura Adler's Last Love Affair).
* Jaap Leemhuis, 72, Dutch Olympic field hockey player.
* Audrey Long, 92, American film actress (Tall in the Saddle).
* Robert Long, 77, British army officer.
* Iain MacCormick, 74, Scottish politician, MP for Argyll (1974–1979).
* H. Tyler Marcy, 96, American business executive (IBM).
* Rod Milgate, 80, Australian painter, playwright and newsreader, heart attack.
* John Mlacak, 78, Canadian politician and artist.
* Hilda Oates, 89, Cuban actress.
* Bronisław Pawlicki, 88, Polish Olympic field hockey player (1952).
* U. Srinivas, 45, Indian mandolin player, complications from a liver transplant.
* K. Udayakumar, 54, Indian volleyball player, cardiac arrest.
* Derek Williams, 89, Welsh rugby union player (Cardiff).

### 20

* Anton-Günther, Duke of Oldenburg, 91, German noble.
* Anatoly Berezovoy, 72, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz T-5).
* Polly Bergen, 84, American singer and actress (Cape Fear, Cry-Baby, Desperate Housewives), Emmy winner (1958).
* Rob Bironas, 36, American football player (Tennessee Titans), traffic collision.
* Ron Bishop, 71, American off-road motorcycle racer.
* Erich Bloch, 75, Zimbabwean economist.
* Hal Burrows, 89, American tennis player.
* Vince Callahan, 82, American politician, member of the Virginia House of Delegates (1968–2008), West Nile meningitis.
* Pino Cerami, 92, Italian-born Belgian cyclist.
* J. California Cooper, 82, American playwright and author.
* Takako Doi, 85, Japanese politician, Speaker of the House of Representatives (1993–1996), pneumonia.
* Eric the Actor, 39, American dwarf, member of The Wack Pack.
* Odette Gartenlaub, 92, French pianist and composer.
* Kamara James, 29, Jamaican-born American Olympic fencer (2004).
* Ashok Ramchandra Kelkar, 85, Indian linguist and writer.
* John J. Lloyd, 92, American art director and production designer (Animal House, The Blues Brothers, The Thing), heart failure.
* Erik Ninn-Hansen, 92, Danish politician.
* Kazusuke Ogawa, 84, Japanese literary critic, stomach cancer.
* Randy Pike, 60, American politician, member of the Missouri House of Representatives (since 2012).
* Alfred Prinz, 84, Austrian composer and clarinetist.
* Igor Radin, 76, Serbian Yugoslav Olympic ice hockey player.
* Ramón Rojas, 35, Chilean BASE jumper, training accident.
* George Sluizer, 82, Dutch filmmaker (The Vanishing), cardiovascular disease.
* Erwin Sparendam, 80, Surinamese-born Dutch footballer.
* Şeref Taşlıova, 76, Turkish storyteller.
* M. B. W. Tent, 69, American author and educator.

### 21

* Shirley Baker, 82, British photographer.
* Les Bruckner, 96, American football player.
* Diana Capponi, 61, Canadian mental health activist, breast cancer.
* Cecilia Cenci, 72, Argentine actress, brain cancer.
* Anne-Marie Deschodt, French actress and writer.
* Linda Griffiths, 60, Canadian actress and playwright, breast cancer.
* Michael Harari, 87, Israeli intelligence officer.
* Lori Heiser, 86, American politician.
* Caldwell Jones, 64, American basketball player (Philadelphia 76ers, Portland Trail Blazers), heart attack.
* Ed Koffenberger, 88, American basketball and lacrosse player (Duke University), leukemia.
* Galina Konovalova, 98, Russian actress (Uncle Vanya).
* Ruben Kun, 72, Nauruan politician, President (1996–1997) and Speaker of Parliament (1981–1986).
* John Chrysostom Lan Shi, 89, Chinese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Sanyuan (2003–2008).
* Sheldon Patinkin, 79, American theatre director.
* Joseph Plaskett, 96, Canadian painter.
* Alastair Reid, 88, Scottish poet and scholar.
* Scott Ross, 45, American football player (New Orleans Saints), heart failure.
* Jan Werner, 68, Polish sprinter, Olympic silver medalist (1976).

### 22

* Nanda Prasad Adhikari, 51–53, Nepali activist.
* Fernando Cabrita, 91, Portuguese football player and manager.
* Alexey Chervonenkis, 76, Russian mathematician (Vapnik–Chervonenkis theory).
* Anandji Dossa, 98, Indian cricket statistician.
* Joseph Gurzenda, 77, American politician.
* Ezra Heymann, 86, Venezuelan philosopher.
* Serge Kujawa, 89, Polish-born Canadian politician.
* Ray Lambrecht, 96, American car dealer.
* Nikita Larionov, 82, Russian writer.
* Skip E. Lowe, 85, American talk show host, emphysema.
* E. J. Mishan, 96, English economist.
* Samira Saleh Ali al-Naimi, 50–51, Iraqi human rights activist and lawyer, executed.
* Billy Neil, 75, Scottish footballer (Queen's Park, Airdrieonians).
* Sahana Pradhan, 88, Nepalese politician, brain haemorrhage.
* Alexis Sarei, 80, Papua New Guinean politician and diplomat, Premier of North Solomons Province (1976–1980, 1984–1987).
* Cara Silverman, 54, American film editor (Super, He's Just Not That Into You, A Cinderella Story).
* Erik van der Wurff, 69, Dutch pianist and composer, cancer.
* Flor Van Noppen, 58, Belgian politician, MP (2007–2014), multiple system atrophy.
* Hans E. Wallman, 78, Swedish film director, producer and composer, injuries sustained in a horse riding accident.
* Ben Webb, 38, New Zealand artist.

### 23

* Alaviyya Babayeva, 93, Azerbaijani writer and translator, People's Artist of the Azerbaijani SSR.
* Myrtle Baylis, 94, Australian cricket and netball international.
* A. W. Davis, 71, American basketball player (University of Tennessee) and coach.
* Irven DeVore, 79, American anthropologist.
* John Divers, 74, Scottish footballer.
* Anatoly Eiramdzhan, 77, Russian-Armenian film director.
* Robin Freeman, 80, American college basketball player (Ohio State).
* Mullah Ghani, Afghan politician, Governor of Nimruz Province (1995), shot.
* Henryk Glücklich, 69, Polish speedway rider.
* Gabriel Gómez Michel, 49, Mexican politician, MP for Jalisco (since 2012), homicide. (body discovered on this date)
* Gilles Latulippe, 77, Canadian comedian, actor and theatre manager, lung cancer.
* Don Manoukian, 80, American football player (Oakland Raiders).
* Kresimir Sipusch, 84, Croatian-born Yugoslav composer and conductor.
* Al Suomi, 100, American professional hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks).
* George Herbert Swift Jr, 88, American mathematician and computer scientist.
* John Toner, 91, American football coach and athletic administrator (University of Connecticut).
* Abu Yusuf Al-Turki, 47, Turkish terrorist, commander of al-Nusra Front, air strike. (death reported on this date)
* Shankar Vaidya, 86, Indian Marathi poet and writer.
* Margaret Vogt, 64, Nigerian diplomat.
* John Baptist Wang Jin, 90, Chinese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Yuci (since 1999).
* Don Wollett, 95, American author, arbiter and college professor.

### 24

* Mohsen Amiraslani, 36-37, Iranian psychoanalyst, execution.
* Catherine Beattie, 93, American farmer and politician.
* Eckart Berkes, 65, German Olympic hurdler (1972).
* Fred Branfman, 72, American author and anti-war activist, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
* Ron Butlin, 89, Canadian ice hockey executive.
* Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, 94, British writer and socialite, last surviving Mitford sister.
* Sir Edward Eveleigh, 96, British judge, Lord Justice of Appeal.
* Ailo Gaup, 70, Norwegian Sami author.
* Reuben Greenberg, 71, American police chief.
* Sebastian Haag, 35, German extreme skier and mountaineer, avalanche.
* Christopher Hogwood, 73, English conductor.
* Carlotta Ikeda, 73, Japanese butoh dancer, liver cancer.
* Ray Isherwood, 76, Australian cricket umpire.
* Ken James, 80, Canadian politician, MP for Sarnia—Lambton (1984–1993).
* Vladimir Kadyshevsky, 76, Russian theoretical physicist.
* Madis Kõiv, 84, Estonian author, physicist and philosopher.
* Nancy Virtue Lewis, 64, American politician.
* Greg Mackey, 52, Australian rugby league player (South Sydney, Warrington, Hull F.C.), bowel cancer.
* Sir Gordon Manzie, 84, British civil servant, Chief Executive of the Property Services Agency.
* Lily McBeth, 80, American transgender teacher.
* Jack Mezirow, 91, American educationalist.
* Karl Miller, 83, British literary editor (The Listener, London Review of Books).
* Priscilla Mitchell, 73, American country music singer.
* Hugh C. Rae, 78, Scottish author.
* Derek Roe, 76–77, British archaeologist.
* Stephen Sykes, 75, English Anglican prelate, Bishop of Ely (1990–1999).

### 25

* Toby Balding, 78, American-born British racehorse trainer.
* Ulrick Chérubin, 70, Haitian-born Canadian politician, Mayor of Amos, Quebec (since 2002).
* Vladimir Dolbonosov, 65, Russian footballer (Dynamo Moscow).
* Stefan Grimm, 51, German biologist, suicide by asphyxiation.
* István Hernek, 79, Hungarian Olympic sprint canoer.
* Jaak Joala, 64, Estonian Soviet singer.
* Jim Kincaid, 84, American football player (Washington Redskins).
* Bonnie Lynn Tempesta, 61, American food manufacturer, cancer.
* Sulejman Tihić, 62, Bosnian politician, Member of the Presidency (2002–2006), cancer.
* Dorothy Tyler-Odam, 94, British athlete, Olympic silver medalist (1936, 1948).
* Christine Vladimiroff, 74, American nun.
* Barbara Washburn, 99, American mountaineer, first woman to climb Denali.
* Cedric Wyatt, 74, Australian public servant and indigenous rights advocate.

### 26

* Michaela Andörfer, 85, German Roman Catholic nun.
* Jim Boeke, 76, American football player (Dallas Cowboys) and actor (Coach, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country).
* Charles Dobzynski, 84-85, French poet, journalist and translator.
* Wouter Gortzak, 83, Dutch journalist (Het Parool) and politician, member of the House of Representatives (1998–2002).
* Hermann Greiner, 94, German World War II flying ace.
* Sam Hall, 93, American television writer (Dark Shadows, One Life to Live).
* Astrid Dirdal Hegrestad, 85, Norwegian politician.
* Wolfgang Hutter, 85, Austrian artist.
* Michael McCarty, 68, American actor (Loving, The Legend of Bagger Vance, Dunston Checks In), heart failure.
* Tony McMichael, 71, Australian epidemiologist, complications of pneumonia.
* Gerry Neugebauer, 82, American astronomer, complications of spinocerebellar ataxia.
* Tamir Sapir, 67, Georgian-born American businessman.
* Takamaro Shigaraki, 87–88, Japanese Buddhist philosopher.
* Maggie Stables, 70, British actress (Doctor Who).
* Shao Tong, 20, Chinese student (Iowa State University), suffocated. (body discovered on this date)
* Guro Valen, 54, Norwegian professor of medicine, cancer.
* Zelda, 11+, American wild turkey, resident of New York City's Battery Park, traffic collision. (body found on this date)

### 27

* Gaby Aghion, 93, French fashion designer (Chloé).
* Gil Aldema, 86, Israeli composer and conductor.
* Angelo Arrigoni, 91, Italian rugby union and professional rugby league footballer.
* Joan Benesh, 94, British ballet dancer, pneumonia.
* Lou Curtis, 86, Australian cricketer.
* Anna Morpurgo Davies, 77, Italian-born British philologist.
* Eugie Foster, 42, American science fiction author, respiratory failure.
* Taylor Hardwick, 89, American architect, cancer.
* Harry Harley, 88, Canadian politician, MP for Halton (1962–1968).
* Wally Hergesheimer, 87, Canadian professional ice hockey player (Chicago Blackhawks, New York Rangers).
* Park Honan, 86, American literary scholar.
* Abdelmajid Lakhal, 74, Tunisian theatre director and actor.
* Antti Lovag, 94, Hungarian architect.
* Sarah Danielle Madison, 40, American actress (7th Heaven, Jurassic Park III, Training Day).
* Dorothy Maharam, 97, American mathematician.
* Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 88, French publisher.
* Michael Scott-Joynt, 71, English Anglican prelate, Bishop of Stafford (1987–1995) and Winchester (1995–2011).
* Earl Smith, 86, American baseball player (Pittsburgh Pirates).
* James Traficant, 73, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Ohio's 17th district (1985–2002).
* Zhang Xianliang, 77, Chinese author and poet.

### 28

* Dannie Abse, 91, British doctor and poet.
* Joseph H. Alexander, 76, American historian and Marine Corps officer.
* Lisbeth Bodd, 56, Norwegian performance artist and theatre leader.
* Daniel F. Clark, 59, American politician, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1989–2002), lung cancer.
* Nicolae Corneanu, 90, Romanian Orthodox hierarch, Metropolitan of Banat (since 1962).
* Daniel Dion, 55-56, Canadian artist.
* Roy Ebron, 63, American basketball player (Utah Stars).
* Jim Eley, 81, Australian footballer.
* Sheila Faith, 86, British politician, MP for Belper (1979–1983).
* Paul Fatt, 90, British neuroscientist.
* Lubomír Havlák, 92, Czech opera singer.
* Ralph Maxwell, 94, American district judge and athlete.
* Sirkka Polkunen, 86, Finnish Olympic cross-country skier.
* George R. Poulos, 87, American politician, mayor of Flint, Michigan (1962-1964).
* Tim Rawlings, 81, English footballer (West Bromwich Albion, Walsall).
* George Roberts, 86, American trombonist.
* José Luis Serna Alzate, 78, Colombian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Florencia (1978–1989) and Líbano–Honda (1989–2002).
* John Sheridan, 72, American politician, former New Jersey Transportation Commissioner, stabbed.
* Petr Skoumal, 76, Czech musician and composer.
* Jakob Stämpfli, 79, Swiss bass concert singer.
* Ieke van den Burg, 62, Dutch politician, MEP (1999–2009).
* Jan Vodička, 82, Czech Olympic ice hockey player (1956).
* Sophia Yin, 48, American veterinarian and animal behaviorist, suicide by hanging.

### 29

* Warren Anderson, 92, American businessman.
* JP Auclair, 37, Canadian freestyle skier, avalanche.
* Walter Evan Black Jr., 88, American federal judge.
* Miguel Boyer, 75, French-born Spanish economist and politician, Minister of Economy, Treasury and Commerce (1982–1985), pulmonary embolism.
* Mary Cadogan, 86, British writer.
* Tarik Carson, 68, Uruguayan-born Argentine writer and painter.
* Carlo Curis, 90, Italian Roman Catholic prelate and diplomat, Apostolic Nuncio to Canada (1990–1999).
* Richard Dickerson, 77, American politician, member of the California State Assembly (1998–2002), mayor of Redding, California.
* Hugh Doherty, 93, Irish footballer (Celtic).
* Andreas Fransson, 31, Swedish extreme skier, avalanche.
* Mohammad Ghouse, 83, Indian cricket umpire.
* Stan Monteith, 85, American author and radio host.
* Luis Nishizawa, 96, Mexican painter.
* John Ritchie, 93, New Zealand composer.
* Len Ronson, 78, Canadian-born American ice hockey player (New York Rangers).
* Pat Sawilowsky, 83, American Jewish community leader.
* George Shuba, 89, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).
* Len Stephenson, 84, English footballer.

### 30

* Jadir Ambrósio, 91, Brazilian musician and composer.
* Iftikhar Hussain Ansari, 72, Indian Kashmiri cleric, politician and businessman.
* Billie Barry, Irish dance instructor.
* Thomas A. Benes, 63, American Marine Corps major general, myelodysplastic syndrome.
* Kaj Björk, 95, Swedish politician and diplomat.
* Lidya Buzio, 65, Uruguayan-born American ceramist, cancer.
* Sandra Cano, 55-57, American anti-abortion activist.
* Ralph Cosham, 78, British-born American actor (Starman, The Pelican Brief, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion).
* Victor Crespo, 81, Portuguese politician, President of the Assembly of the Republic (1987–1991).
* Hama Arba Diallo, 75, Burkinabé politician and diplomat.
* Roselyn P. Epps, 83, American pediatrician and public health physician.
* Peter Eriksson, 50, Swedish curler.
* Shizuko Gō, 85, Japanese author (Requiem).
* Erik Hansen, 74, Danish canoeist, Olympic champion (1960).
* Iemasa Kayumi, 80, Japanese voice actor (Lupin III, One Piece, Astro Boy).
* Jerrie Mock, 88, American pilot, first woman to fly solo around the world.
* San W. Orr Jr., 73, American businessman.
* Martin Lewis Perl, 87, American physicist, discovered the tau particle, Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (1995), heart attack.
* Ren Runhou, 56, Chinese businessman and politician.
* Yevgeny Samsonov, 88, Russian rower, Olympic silver medalist (1952).
* Sheila Tracy, 80, British broadcaster and musician (Big Band Special).
* Xu Lizhi, 24, Chinese poet and factory worker, suicide by jumping.