# Deaths in August 2014
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The following is a list of notable deaths in August 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.

## August 2014
### 1

* Gretta Bader, 83, American portrait and bust sculptor, heart failure.
* Valyantsin Byalkevich, 41, Belarusian football player and coach, aneurysm.
* Godwin Chepkurgor, 45, Kenyan journalist, offered Bill Clinton dowry to marry Chelsea Clinton, injuries sustained in an elephant charge.
* Chung Eun-yong, 91, South Korean policeman, instigated United States admission of role in No Gun Ri Massacre.
* Norman Cornish, 94, English artist.
* Rod de'Ath, 64, Welsh drummer (Rory Gallagher).
* Jürgen Degenhardt, 83, German songwriter, actor, director and author, cancer.
* Karen X. Gaylord, 92, American actress (The Three Stooges).
* Don George, 80, American football player (BC Lions).
* Catherine Gregg, 96, American philanthropist and environmentalist, First Lady of New Hampshire (1953–1955), restored the Wentworth-Coolidge Mansion.
* Michael Johns, 35, Australian singer-songwriter (American Idol), blood clot.
* Jan Roar Leikvoll, 40, Norwegian author.
* Hossein Maadani, 43, Iranian volleyball player and coach, pancreatic failure.
* Charles T. Payne, 89, American soldier.
* Saeed Saleh, 76, Egyptian actor (Madrast Al-Mushaghebeen).
* Mike Smith, 59, British television and radio presenter (BBC Radio 1), complications from heart surgery.

### 2

* Wolf-Dieter Ahlenfelder, 70, German Bundesliga referee.
* Mariana Alarcón, 27, Argentine human rights activist.
* James Anguilo, 74, Italian-American criminal.
* Luciano Borgognoni, 62, Italian Olympic cyclist.
* Brian Buckley, 78, Australian VFL football player (Carlton).
* Chelsea Clark, 31, Canadian athlete, neuroblastoma.
* Rosetta Hightower, 70, American R&B singer (The Orlons).
* Ed Joyce, 81, American television executive, President of CBS News (1983–1985).
* June Krauser, 88, American Hall of Fame swimmer, swimming official and rules writer, Parkinson's disease.
* Eroni Kumana, 93, Solomon Islander fisherman, rescued John F. Kennedy after PT-109 sinking.
* Billie Letts, 76, American novelist (Where the Heart Is), pneumonia.
* Kate O'Hanlon, 83–84, British nurse.
* Sir Alan Peacock, 92, British economist.
* Barbara Prammer, 60, Austrian politician, Women's Affairs and Consumer Protection Minister (1997–2000), President of the National Council (since 2006), pancreatic cancer.
* Sue Richards, 56, Canadian artist.
* James Thompson, 49, American-born Finnish crime writer.
* Pete Van Wieren, 69, American sports broadcaster (Atlanta Braves), cutaneous B-cell lymphoma.
* Olga Voronets, 88, Russian mezzo-soprano folk singer.

### 3

* Daladier Arismendi, 39, Colombian singer, stabbed.
* George Ashe, 81, Canadian politician, Ontario MPP for Durham West (1977–1987), Mayor of Pickering (1973–1977), Parkinson's disease.
* Miangul Aurangzeb, 86, Pakistani politician, Governor of Balochistan (1997–1999) and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (1999).
* Charles Calhoun Jr., 83, American politician and judge, member of the Texas Senate.
* Fernando Casimiro, 83, Portuguese Olympic sprinter.
* Andrew Chatwood, 82, Canadian administrator and politician, heart failure.
* Edward Clancy, 90, Australian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Sydney (1983–2001).
* Tony Clunn, 68, British army officer and archaeologist, rediscovered Kalkriese site of Varus's defeat by Arminius.
* Cec Creedon, 92, Australian politician.
* Dorothy Salisbury Davis, 98, American crime fiction writer, recipient of the Grand Master Award (1985).
* Kenny Drew Jr., 56, American jazz pianist and composer.
* Robert H. Ellsworth, 85, American art dealer.
* Helmut Faeder, 79, German footballer (Hertha BSC, Hertha Zehlendorf).
* Emmanuel Farber, 95, Canadian-American physician.
* Christian Frémont, 72, French politician, chief of staff (Nicolas Sarkozy), Representative of the French Co-Prince of Andorra (2008–2012).
* Yvette Giraud, 97, French singer and actress.
* Wimper Guerrero, 32, Ecuadorian footballer, heart attack.
* Jess Marlow, 84, American news broadcaster (KNBC, KCBS), complications from Alzheimer's disease.
* James McClure, 88, Northern Irish politician, chairman of the Democratic Unionist Party.
* Richard Newman, 89, Australian cricketer.
* Steve Post, 70, American radio broadcaster (WNYC), colon and lung cancer.
* Charles Simeons, 92, British politician, MP for Luton (1970–1974).
* David Smail, 76, British clinical psychologist.
* Benedito de Ulhôa Vieira, 93, Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Uberaba (1978–1996).
* Lydia Yu-Jose, 70, Filipino political scientist, non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

### 4

* Ashraf Abbasi, 91, Pakistani politician.
* James Brady, 73, American government official and gun control advocate, White House Press Secretary (1981–1989).
* Hugh Calkins, 90, American lawyer and educator.
* Rich Ceisler, 58, American stand-up comedian, Guillain–Barré syndrome.
* Chester Crandell, 68, American politician, member of the Arizona House of Representatives (2011–2013) and Senate (since 2013), horseriding fall.
* Julieka Ivanna Dhu, 22, Australian detainee, sepsis and pneumonia.
* Barbara DeGenevieve, 67, American artist, cancer.
* Irma Elizondo Ramírez, 68, Mexican politician, MP for Coahuila (since 2012), heart attack.
* Bonar Hardie, 89, British Olympic sailor.
* George Hilton, 89, American historian, heart failure.
* Jake Hooker, 61, Israeli-born American pop musician (Arrows), co-writer ("I Love Rock 'n' Roll") and producer.
* Erich E. Kunhardt, 65, Dominican-born American physicist.
* Walter Massey, 85, Canadian actor (Arthur, Lassie, The Greatest Game Ever Played).
* Rodolfo Motta, 70, Argentine football player and coach.
* Rafael Santa Cruz, 53, Peruvian cajon musician and actor, heart attack.
* Walter J. Sullivan, 91, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1951–1953), Mayor of Cambridge, heart failure.
* Peter A. Vellucci, 71–72, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
* Bill Wall, 83, American basketball executive.

### 5

* Dmitri Anosov, 77, Russian mathematician.
* Arvind Apte, 79, Indian cricketer, prostate cancer.
* Joyce Baird, 85, Scottish medical researcher, Alzheimer's disease.
* Diann Blakely, 57, American poet, lung disorder.
* Elfriede Brüning, 103, German writer.
* Marilyn Burns, 65, American actress (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre).
* Ruth Sacks Caplin, 93, American screenwriter (Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont), heart ailment.
* Scott Ciencin, 51, American adaption novelist (Godzilla, Kim Possible, Buffy the Vampire Slayer), blood clot.
* John Crawford III, 22, American murder victim, shot.
* Michael A. B. Deakin, 74-75, Australian mathematician and mathematics educator.
* Hans V. Engström, 65, Swedish actor (Rederiet), liver failure.
* Yakov Etinger, 84, Russian historian and political activist.
* Harold J. Greene, 55, American military officer, Army commanding general of NSRDEC, shot.
* Dave Hereora, 57, New Zealand politician, Labour Party list MP (2002–2008).
* Edward Leffingwell, 72, American art critic and curator.
* Khalil Morsi, 67, Egyptian actor.
* Joe McManemin, 91, New Zealand athletics coach and sports administrator.
* Angéla Németh, 68, Hungarian javelin thrower, Olympic (1968) and European (1969) champion.
* Richard Olson, 85, American politician, Mayor of Des Moines, Iowa (1972–1979), traffic collision.
* Vladimir Orlov, 77, Russian novelist.
* Chapman Pincher, 100, British journalist and historian.
* Rodrigo de Triano, 25, English thoroughbred, Cartier Champion Three-year-old Colt (1992), pneumonia.
* Yoshiki Sasai, 52, Japanese biologist (RIKEN), apparent suicide by hanging.
* Pran Kumar Sharma, 75, Indian cartoonist (Chacha Chaudhary), colon cancer.
* Jesse Leonard Steinfeld, 87, American naval officer and physician, Surgeon General (1969–1973), complications from a stroke.
* Ronnie Stonham, 87, British army officer and broadcasting adviser.
* Emanuel Tanay, 86, American physician and Holocaust survivor, prostate cancer.

### 6

* James L. Adams, 92, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives (1955–1974).
* Ralph Bryans, 72, Northern Irish Grand Prix motorcycle racer, World Champion (1965).
* Aloha Dalire, 64, American hula dancer, first Miss Aloha Hula winner (1971).
* Imre Bajor, 57, Hungarian actor, brain tumor.
* Ghaleb Barakat, 86, Jordanian diplomat and politician, Minister of Tourism and Antiquities (1967–1972).
* Clem Comly, 59, American baseball researcher and author.
* Julien Fourgeaud, 34, French entrepreneur, base jumping collision.
* Brent Galloway, 70, American linguist.
* Ananda W. P. Guruge, 85, Sri Lankan diplomat and academic.
* John Woodland Hastings, 87, American biochemist, pioneer in antibiotics research, pulmonary fibrosis.
* Stephen Heinemann, 75, American neuroscientist, complications from kidney failure.
* Macarthur Job, 88, Australian aviation writer and air safety consultant.
* Norman Lane, 94, Canadian Olympic bronze medallist* sprint canoer (1948*, 1952).
* Li Hu, 40, Chinese HIV activist, complications from AIDS.
* Ken Lucas, 73, American professional wrestler (NWA).
* Frank Shipway, 79, British conductor.
* Andrey Stenin, 33, Russian photojournalist.
* Smita Talwalkar, 59, Indian film actress, producer (Tu Tithe Mee) and director, ovarian cancer.
* Dharmesh Tiwari, 63, Indian actor (Mahabharat), cardiac arrest.
* Jimmy Walsh, 83, British footballer.
* David Weidman, 93, American animation background artist (The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo, Wacky Races) and silkscreen artist (Mad Men).

### 7

* Claude Bertrand, 97, Canadian neurosurgeon.
* Robin Brunyee, 75, English sprinter.
* Dick Collver, 78, Canadian politician.
* Cristina Deutekom, 82, Dutch coloratura soprano opera singer, fall.
* Víctor Fayad, 59, Argentine politician, Mayor of Mendoza (since 2007), mediastinum cancer.
* Walter R. Hanson, 83, American politician, member of the Minnesota House of Representatives (1971–1982).
* Mary Healy, 60, American zoo executive, CEO and director of the Sacramento Zoo, cerebral aneurysm and heart attack.
* Mitsuo Higashinaka, 90, Japanese politician, member of the House of Representatives for Osaka's 2nd District (1969–2000), lung cancer.
* William Jones, 89, Uruguayan Olympic rower.
* Michael Kerrigan, 61, British television director (Doctor Who, Coronation Street).
* Suruli Manohar, Indian comic actor, cancer.
* Perry Moss, 88, American football coach (Montreal Alouettes, Orlando Predators) and player (Green Bay Packers), complications from a neuromuscular disease.
* Alberto Pérez Zabala, 89, Spanish footballer.
* Harold Poole, 70, American bodybuilder.
* Syed Rahim, 85, Indian cricketer.
* Henry Stone, 93, American record company executive and record producer (TK Records).
* Ayman Taha, Palestinian militant and spokesman (Hamas).
* Ekanath K. Thakur, 73, Indian politician and finance executive, MP for Maharashtra (2002–2008), chairman of Saraswat Bank, cancer.
* Voytek, 89, Polish-born British television director and production designer.
* Sir Denys Williams, 84, Barbadian judge, member and Chief Judge of the Supreme Court, Acting Governor-General (1995–1996).

### 8

* Martin V. B. Bostetter, 86, American judge.
* Luciano Bux, 78, Italian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Oppido Mamertina-Palmi (2000–2011).
* Edmund Collins, 83, Australian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Darwin (1986–2007).
* Menahem Golan, 85, Israeli director and producer (Operation Thunderbolt, The Delta Force, Masters of the Universe), recipient of the Israel Prize (1999).
* Charles Keating, 72, English Emmy Award-winning actor (All My Children, Another World), lung cancer.
* Viktor Kopyl, 54, Ukrainian footballer (Karpaty Lviv, Volyn Lutsk).
* Leonardo Legaspi, 78, Filipino Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Caceres (1983–2012), Rector of University of Santo Tomas, lung cancer.
* Danny Murphy, 58, American actor (There's Something About Mary, Me, Myself & Irene), cancer.
* J. J. Murphy, 86, Northern Irish actor (Mickybo and Me, Angela's Ashes, Game of Thrones).
* Arthur Olsen, 100, American politician, member of the Nevada Assembly.
* Simon Scott, 47, British artist and musician.
* Peter Sculthorpe, 85, Australian composer (Kakadu).
* Åke W. Sjöberg, 90, Swedish assyriologist.
* Michael K. Smith, 48, American politician, member of the Illinois House of Representatives (1995–2011), heart attack.
* Red Wilson, 85, American baseball player (Detroit Tigers).

### 9

* J. F. Ade Ajayi, 85, Nigerian academic and historian of Africa.
* Andriy Bal, 56, Ukrainian football player (Soviet national team) and coach (national team), blood clot.
* Michael Brown, 18, American student, shot.
* Manuel Caldeira, 87, Portuguese footballer.
* Arthur G. Cohen, 84, American real estate developer (Crowne Plaza Hotel, Royalton Hotel, One Worldwide Plaza, Olympic Tower).
* Mary A. Conroy, 82, American politician, hepatitis.
* Jerome Ehlers, 55, Australian actor (Quigley Down Under, The Marine, The Great Raid), cancer.
* Obi Henry Ezeagwuna II, Nigerian royal, traditional leader of Issele-Uku, traffic collision.
* J. E. Freeman, 68, American actor (Miller's Crossing, Alien Resurrection, Wild at Heart).
* Charles Gelatt, 96, American businessman and philanthropist.
* Trevor Boots Harris, 69, Jamaican entertainment journalist and broadcaster, heart attack.
* Wayne Ison, 90, American aircraft designer (Team Mini-Max).
* Merle G. Kearns, 76, American politician, member of the Ohio House of Representatives (2001–2005) and Senate (1991–2000).
* Alexander Kwapong, 87, Ghanaian academic, Vice Chancellor of the University of Ghana.
* Dave Lloyd, 77, American football player (Cleveland Browns, Philadelphia Eagles).
* Khayelihle Mathaba, South African royal and politician, KwaZulu-Natal MLA, chieftain of the eMacambini, traffic collision.
* Yasuyuki Nakai, 60, Japanese baseball player (Yomiuri Giants), esophageal cancer.
* Ed Nelson, 85, American actor (Gunsmoke, Murder, She Wrote, Peyton Place), heart failure.
* George Nicholaw, 86, American radio executive (KNX).
* Henry Pease, 69, Peruvian politician and political scientist, member of DCC (1992–1995) and Congress (1995–2006), cardiac arrest as a complication from cancer.
* Stanley Reiter, 89, American economist.
* Norris Stubbs, 65, Bahamian Olympic sprinter.
* Emigdio Vasquez, 75, American muralist and pictorial artist, pneumonia.
* Myrtle Young, 90, American potato chip collector, heart failure.

### 10

* Constantin Alexandru, 60, Romanian wrestler, Olympic silver medalist (1980).
* Gabriel Acosta Bendek, 83, Colombian politician, Senator (1994–2010), heart attack.
* Peter Chippindale, 69, British newspaper journalist (The Guardian) and author.
* Jim Command, 85, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).
* Carlos Espejo, 90, Argentine Olympic swimmer.
* Graham Gedye, 85, New Zealand cricketer (national team).
* Frederick Jacob Reagan Heebe, 91, American senior judge, member (since 1966) and Chief Judge (1972–1992) of the U.S. District Court for Eastern Louisiana.
* Stanley Hochman, 89, American book publisher and editor.
* John Kearney, 89, American sculptor.
* Princess Lalla Fatima Zohra, 85, Moroccan royal.
* Dotty Lynch, 69, American television journalist and editor (CBS News), melanoma.
* Metakse, 88, Armenian poet, writer and translator.
* Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw, 101, British mathematician and politician, Lord Mayor of Manchester (1975–1976), mentor and advisor to Margaret Thatcher.
* Ann Rowan, 85, Irish actress (The Riordans, Father Ted).
* Shree Krishna Shrestha, 47, Nepalese actor, pneumonia.
* Ima Wells, 77, American politician, member of the New Mexico House of Representatives (1993).
* Bob Wiesler, 83, American baseball player (New York Yankees, Washington Senators).

### 11

* Nadezhda Andreyeva, 55, Russian Soviet alpine skier.
* Raquel Barros, 94, Chilean folklorist, fall.
* Vladimir Beara, 85, Yugoslav football player (national team) and manager, Olympic silver medalist (1952).
* Jean-Claude Brisville, 92, French writer, playwright, novelist and author for children.
* Djalma Cavalcante, 57, Brazilian football player and coach, heart attack.
* Armando Círio, 98, Italian-born Brazilian Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Cascavel (1978–1995).
* Vol Dooley, 87, American police sheriff.
* Martin Erler, 93-94, German philatelist.
* Sir Leonard Figg, 90, British diplomat, Ambassador to Ireland (1980–1983).
* Raymond Gravel, 61, Canadian Québécois Roman Catholic priest and politician, MP for Repentigny (2006–2008), lung cancer.
* Morkos Hakim, 83, Egyptian Coptic Catholic hierarch, Bishop of Sohag (1982–2003).
* Sam Hall, 77, American Olympic silver-medalist diver (1960), politician and mercenary, member of the Ohio House of Representatives.
* Liz Holzman, 61, American animation designer, producer and director (DuckTales, Animaniacs, The Smurfs), cancer.
* Reshamlal Jangade, 90, Indian politician, MP for Bilaspur (1952–1961, 1989–1991), Madhya Pradesh MLA (1950–1952).
* Maibam Kunjo, 73, Indian politician.
* Rolf Larsen, 79, American judge, member of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1978–1994), only justice ever impeached by Pennsylvania Senate, lung cancer.
* Simon Leys, 78, Belgian diplomat, Australian sinologist and author (Chinese Shadows), cancer.
* Marion Milne, 79, American politician, member of the Vermont House of Representatives (1995–2001).
* Stelio Nardin, 74, Italian footballer (Napoli).
* Dame Julia Polak, 75, Argentinian-born British pathologist.
* Kika Szaszkiewiczowa, 97, Polish artist, writer and blogger.
* Franca Tamantini, 82, Italian actress.
* Joe Viskocil, 61, American visual effects artist (Independence Day, Star Wars, Terminator 2: Judgment Day), Oscar winner (1997), complications from liver and kidney failure.
* Robin Williams, 63, American actor (Good Will Hunting, Aladdin, Mork & Mindy) and comedian, Oscar winner (1998), suicide by hanging.

### 12

* Carlos Abella y Ramallo, 80, Spanish diplomat, Ambassador to Kenya (1987–1991) and the Holy See (1996–2004).
* Lauren Bacall, 89, American actress (Key Largo, The Mirror Has Two Faces, Written on the Wind), Tony winner (1970, 1981), stroke.
* Purdy Crawford, 82, Canadian corporate lawyer and financier, CEO and chairman of Imasco, Allstream Inc. and Canada Trust.
* Velva Darnell, 75, American country singer.
* Daroji Eramma, 83-84, Indian folk singer.
* Frank Eisenberg, 70, German Olympic athlete.
* Samuel Olatunde Fadahunsi, 94, Nigerian civil engineer.
* Jean Favier, 82, French historian, director of National Archives, president of the National Library.
* Pierino Gelmini, 89, Italian Roman Catholic priest.
* Hugh Harding, 88, Maltese judge.
* Javad Heyat, 89, Iranian surgeon and journalist.
* Newt Hudson, 86, American politician, member of the Georgia House of Representatives (1982–2002).
* Futatsuryū Jun'ichi, 64, Japanese sumo wrestler, lung cancer.
* Abel Laudonio, 75, Argentine actor and boxer, Olympic bronze medalist (1960), stroke.
* Gordon Mackenzie, 77, American baseball player (Kansas City Athletics) and coach.
* Arlene Martel, 78, American actress (Star Trek, Hogan's Heroes, The Twilight Zone), heart attack.
* Kongō Masahiro, 65, Japanese sumo wrestler, pneumonia.
* Lida Moser, 93, American photographer.
* Frederick Gale Ruffner Jr., 88, American publisher.
* Kazimierz Trampisz, 85, Polish Olympic footballer.

### 13

* Hani Abbadi, Jordanian politician, member of the House of Representatives (1993–1997).
* Bernard Blum, 75, French agricultural scientist, heart attack.
* Steve Brook, 80, British-born Australian satirical writer.
* Frans Brüggen, 79, Dutch musician.
* Eduardo Campos, 49, Brazilian politician, Minister of Science and Technology (2004–2005), Governor of Pernambuco (2007–2014), 2014 presidential candidate, plane crash.
* Columba Domínguez, 85, Mexican actress (Pueblerina).
* Martino Finotto, 80, Italian racing driver.
* Edith Flagg, 94, Romanian-born American fashion designer, pioneer in the use of polyester.
* Werner Franz, 92, German cabin boy (LZ 129 Hindenburg) and skating coach.
* Frank W. Hirschi, 89, American politician, member of the Idaho House of Representatives (1960–1996).
* Buddy Jones, 77, American bluegrass musician.
* Alan Landsburg, 81, American screenwriter, film producer (Jaws 3-D), racehorse owner and official, chairman of the California Horse Racing Board.
* Fanny Morweiser, 74, German writer.
* Joel J. Nobel, 79, American physician.
* James J. Schiro, 68, American executive (PricewaterhouseCoopers), multiple myeloma.
* Rainer Schubert, 72, German Olympic hurdler.
* Dorothy Schwieder, 80, American biographer and historian, lymphoma.
* Süleyman Seba, 88, Turkish football player and sport executive, president of Beşiktaş J.K., respiratory tract infection.
* Jack Shallcrass, 91, New Zealand author, educator, and humanist.
* Robert Bruce Smith IV, 69, American music expert, writer, historian, and poet, traffic collision.
* Terence Todman, 88, American diplomat, Ambassador to Chad, Guinea, Costa Rica, Spain, Denmark and Argentina.
* Kurt Tschenscher, 85, German football referee.
* Frank Udvari, 90, Canadian Hall of Fame NHL referee.
* Tom Veen, 72, Dutch politician, member of the States of Gelderland (1974–1981) and Senate of the Netherlands (1979–1983).

### 14

* Kaija Aarikka, 85, Finnish designer.
* Paul Aldread, 67, English footballer.
* Mariana Briski, 48, Argentine actress, breast and lung cancer.
* Emile Capgras, 88, Martinican politician, President of the Regional Council (1992–1998).
* Pedro Caino, 58, Argentine Olympic cyclist.
* Rory Chappell, 55, South African tennis player.
* John Cinicola, 85, American basketball coach (Duquesne Dukes), cancer.
* Madeleine Collinson, 62, Maltese actress.
* Leonard Fein, 80, American Jewish activist, academic, editor (Moment), columnist (Forward) and author, founder of MAZON and Moment.
* Vernon F. Gallagher, 99, American Roman Catholic priest.
* Gregory Grossman, 93, Soviet-born American economist and scholar.
* Ada Haug Grythe, 79, Norwegian journalist.
* Géza Gulyás, 85, Hungarian footballer (Ferencváros).
* Javier Guzmán, 69, Mexican footballer (Cruz Azul, national team), diabetes.
* George V. Hansen, 83, American politician, member of the U.S. House for Idaho's 2nd district (1965–1969, 1975–1985).
* Peter M. Harman, 70, British historian.
* Josef Kapín, 69, Czech Olympic boxer.
* Stephen Lee, 58, American actor (The Negotiator, Nash Bridges, WarGames), heart attack.
* George Linton, 57, Barbadian cricketer (national team) and coach.
* Rivka Bertisch Meir, 72, Argentine-American psychologist, mental health counselor, and psychotherapist.
* Rick Parashar, 50, American record producer (Pearl Jam, Temple of the Dog, Alice in Chains), blood clot.
* Mervyn Susser, 92, South African activist and epidemiologist.

### 15

* Jay Adams, 53, American skateboarder, heart attack.
* Licia Albanese, 105, Italian-born American operatic soprano.
* John Blake Jr., 67, American jazz violinist, multiple myeloma.
* Pierre Bussières, 81, Canadian politician.
* James Cama, 56, American martial artist and teacher.
* Jim Carrigan, 84, American senior judge, member of the U.S. District Court for Colorado (1979–1995) and the Colorado Supreme Court (1976–1979).
* Timothy Cathcart, 20, Northern Irish rally driver, race collision.
* Chen Kuei-miao, 81, Taiwanese politician, member of the Legislative Yuan (1990–1998), co-founder of the New Party.
* Piet de Ruiter, 75, Dutch politician and editor, member of the House of Representatives (1971–1976).
* Jan Ekier, 100, Polish pianist, composer and competition judge, Chopin authority, a winner of the Chopin Competition (1937), recipient of the Order of the White Eagle (2010).
* Barbara Funkhouser, 84, American newspaper journalist and journalism academic, editor of the El Paso Times (1980–1986).
* James Freeman Gilbert, 83, American geophysicist.
* Sylvia Hassenfeld, 93, American activist and philanthropist.
* Ken Hawley, 87, British industrial historian.
* Lynn Hovland, 98, American football player and coach.
* Sulejman Kupusović, 63, Bosnian film director.
* Jerry Lumpe, 81, American baseball player (Kansas City Athletics, Detroit Tigers, New York Yankees).
* Amitava Nandy, 71, Indian politician, MP for Dum Dum (2004–2009), cancer.
* Svein Nymo, 61, Norwegian violinist and composer.
* Bruno Petroni, 72, Italian footballer.
* Ferdinando Riva, 84, Swiss footballer.
* Joseph T. Walsh, 84, American judge, member of the Delaware Supreme Court (1985–2003), cancer.
* Dare Wilson, 95, British army major general (SAS), Military Cross recipient.

### 16

* Patrick Aziza, 66, Nigerian military officer and political leader, Military Governor of Kebbi (1991–1992), cancer.
* Kevin Barry, 78, New Zealand rugby union player (Thames Valley, national team).
* Besim Bokshi, 83, Albanian poet, linguist and philologist.
* Fannie Mae Clackum, 85, American soldier.
* Bernard F. Fisher, 87, American air force officer, Medal of Honor recipient.
* Liam Flood, 71, Irish bookmaker and poker player.
* Adrián Gaona, 40, Mexican journalist, murdered. (death announced on this date)
* David Glass, 77, Israeli politician, member of the Knesset (1977–1981).
* Raul Goco, 84, Filipino jurist and diplomat, Solicitor General (1992–1996), Ambassador to Canada, pneumonia and renal failure.
* Mustafa Hussein, 79, Egyptian cartoonist and journalist, cancer.
* Deirdre Eberly Lashgari, 73, American literary critic and editor.
* Andy MacMillan, 85, Scottish architect
* Mike Matarazzo, 48, American bodybuilder, heart problems.
* Njoroge Mungai, 88, Kenyan politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs (1969–1974).
* Vsevolod Nestayko, 84, Ukrainian children's writer.
* Shaken Niyazbekov, 75, Kazakhstani artist, designed the national flag.
* Mario Oriani-Ambrosini, 53, Italian-born South African politician, MP (since 2009), lung cancer.
* Peter Scholl-Latour, 90, German newspaper and television journalist, Middle East correspondent and author.
* Fernand St Germain, 86, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Rhode Island's 1st district (1961–1989).
* Tsang Shu-ki, 64, Hong Kong economist and social activist (Meeting Point).

### 17

* Abdullah Yeop Noordin, 74, Malaysian football player.
* Emilia Castro de Barish, 98, Costa Rican diplomat.
* Rosalba Rincon Castell, 79, Colombian fencing coach.
* Dragoljub Čirić, 78, Serbian chess player.
* Sammy Conn, 52, Scottish footballer (Airdrieonians, Falkirk), motor neurone disease.
* Christian Cuch, 70, French cyclist.
* Caterina De Nave, 67, New Zealand television and film producer (Shortland Street).
* Ger van Elk, 73, Dutch artist.
* Cliff Frazier, 61, American football player (Kansas City Chiefs) and actor (North Dallas Forty, House Party), lung cancer.
* Michael A. Hoey, 79, British producer, director and screenwriter (Fame, Falcon Crest).
* Ricardo Izurieta, 71, Chilean military officer, Army Commander-in-chief (1998–2002).
* Børre Knudsen, 76, Norwegian minister and anti-abortion activist.
* Pierre Lagaillarde, 83, French politician, a founder of the OAS.
* Wolfgang Leonhard, 93, German historian, last living member of the Ulbricht Group.
* Rebecca Lepkoff, 98, American photographer.
* Marie Little, 81, Australian sport administrator.
* Sophie Masloff, 96, American politician, Mayor of Pittsburgh (1988–1994).
* Miodrag Pavlović, 85, Serbian poet, writer and critic.
* David Russell, 75, South African Anglican prelate, Bishop of Grahamstown (1987–2004).
* Nicholas Russell, 6th Earl Russell, 45, British aristocrat and disability rights campaigner, thrombosis.
* Joanie Spina, 61, American magician.
* Eliaba James Surur, 83, Sudanese politician.
* Dick Teed, 88, American baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers).
* Pierre Vassiliu, 76, Swiss-born French singer.

### 18

* Suzie d'Auvergne, 71, Saint Lucian barrister and jurist, High Court judge (1990–2004).
* Drew Bernstein, 51, American punk, goth, fetish fashion designer and musician, suicide.
* Ricardo Cabot Boix, 97, Spanish Olympic field hockey player.
* Enoch Callaway, 90, American psychiatrist.
* Per Engebretsen, 67, Norwegian civil servant.
* Gordon Faber, 83, American politician.
* Frank Fossella, 88, American politician.
* Sam Galbraith, 68, British politician, MP and MSP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden.
* James Alexander Gordon, 78, British radio broadcaster (BBC Radio 5 Live).
* Elmer Gray, 91, American baseball scout.
* Lawrence N. Guarino, 92, American Air Force colonel, prisoner of war.
* Drew Hutton, 60, Canadian politician.
* Hashim Khan, 100, Pakistani squash player, heart failure.
* Jim Jeffords, 80, American politician, member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Vermont's at-large district (1975–1989), Senator for Vermont (1989–2007).
* Levente Lengyel, 81, Hungarian chess player.
* Hans-Joachim Merker, 84, German physician and anatomist.
* Jean Nicolay, 76, Belgian footballer, winner of the Belgian Golden Shoe (1963).
* Paul Nguyên Thanh Hoan, 74, Vietnamese Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Phan Thiêt (2001–2009).
* Don Pardo, 96, American radio and television announcer (Saturday Night Live, Jeopardy!).
* Nobuyuki Sekiyama, 80, Japanese politician, member of the House of Representatives for Niigata's 1st district (1983–1996), stomach cancer.
* Doug Williams, 91, Australian footballer (Carlton).

### 19

* Ameyo Adadevoh, 57, Nigerian physician, Ebola virus disease.
* Samih al-Qasim, 75, Palestinian Druze poet and journalist, cancer.
* Elaine M. Alphin, 58, American author.
* Carlos Arango, 86, Colombian footballer.
* Joginder Singh Bakshi, 81, Indian lieutenant general.
* Mercedes Baptista, 93, Brazilian ballet dancer and choreographer, diabetes.
* M. J. Bayarri, 57, Spanish statistician.
* Jacques Beaulieu, 82, Canadian physicist.
* Simin Behbahani, 87, Iranian writer and poet.
* Manuel da Costa, 68, Portuguese Olympic equestrian.
* Richard Dauenhauer, 72, American poet, historian and translator, expert on Tlingit history and language, pancreatic cancer.
* Linda Dégh, 94, Hungarian-born American folklorist and academic.
* Joe Edwards, 59, American politician.
* Francisco García Escalero, 66, Spanish serial killer.
* James Foley, 40, American photojournalist, beheading. (death reported on this date)
* Tom Forehand, 67, American politician, cancer.
* Yves Fortier, 100, Canadian geologist.
* Sam Foster, 82, British politician, MLA for Fermanagh and South Tyrone (1998–2003).
* Hayk Ghazaryan, 83, Armenian historian.
* Bob Glading, 94, New Zealand golfer, winner of New Zealand Open (1946, 1947).
* Brian G. Hutton, 79, American actor and director (King Creole, Kelly's Heroes, Where Eagles Dare), complications from a heart attack.
* Grantland Johnson, 65, American politician.
* Gladys Keating, 91, American civic activist and politician.
* Kåre Kolberg, 78, Norwegian composer.
* Adyar K. Lakshman, 80, Indian dancer.
* Geoffrey Leech, 78, British linguist.
* Candida Lycett Green, 71, British author, pancreatic cancer.
* Jackie Mayo, 89, American baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies).
* George Munroe, 92, American basketball player (St. Louis Bombers, Boston Celtics).
* Dinu Patriciu, 64, Romanian businessman and politician, liver disease.
* Tom Pevsner, 87, German-born British film producer (GoldenEye, Julia).
* Henry Plée, 91, French karate master.
* Odessa Sathyan, 56, Indian documentary filmmaker, pancreatic cancer.
* David St John Thomas, 84, English publisher and writer.
* Deborah Sussman, 83, American graphic designer and artist, breast cancer.
* Walter Thirring, 87, Austrian physicist.
* Maruxa Vilalta, 81, Mexican playwright and theatre director.
* Gershon Yankelewitz, 104, Belarusian-born American rabbi.

### 20

* Eric Barber, 72, Irish footballer (Shelbourne).
* Laurie Baymarrwangga, 96-97, Australian Aboriginal traditional owner.
* Tamás Beck, 85, Hungarian politician, Minister of Trade (1988–1990).
* Anton Buslov, 30, Russian blogger and magazine columnist (The New Times).
* Lois Mai Chan, 80, American librarian, professor and author.
* Boris Dubin, 67, Russian sociologist and translator.
* Joseph J. Fauliso, 98, American politician, Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut (1980–1991).
* Morteza Hosseini Fayaz, 85, Iraqi Twelver Marja'.
* Ken Griffiths, 69, New Zealand-born British photographer, complications from motor neuron disease.
* Christian Guilbert, 86, French Olympic rower.
* Herm Hedderick, 84, American basketball player (New York Knicks).
* B. K. S. Iyengar, 95, Indian yogi, founder of Iyengar Yoga, heart attack and renal failure.
* Nafe Katter, 86, American actor and stage director.
* Buddy MacMaster, 89, Canadian fiddler.
* Margaret Marks, 96, New Zealand cricketer.
* Aiko Miyawaki, 84, Japanese sculptor, pancreatic cancer.
* Rudy Ortiz, 51, Guatemalan military officer, head of the military, helicopter crash.
* José Luis Saldívar, 60, Mexican football player (Monterrey) and coach (Cruz Azul), cardiac arrest.
* Sava Stojkov, 89, Serbian painter.
* Edmund Szoka, 86, American Roman Catholic prelate, cardinal, Archbishop of Detroit (1981–1990), President of the Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State (1997–2006).
* Jan Thorstensen, 81, Norwegian Olympic alpine skier (1956).
* Andrew F. Wissemann, 86, American Episcopal prelate, Bishop of Western Massachusetts.

### 21

* Raed al Atar, c. 40, Palestinian militant (Hamas), missile strike.
* Gerry Anderson, 69, British broadcaster (BBC Northern Ireland).
* Helen Bamber, 89, British psychotherapist.
* Don Clark, 96, English footballer (Bristol City).
* Robert E. Connick, 97, American professor emeritus (UC Berkeley).
* Mohammad Dabbas, 86–87, Jordanian politician, Minister of Finance (1976–1979).
* Joan Erbe, 87, American artist.
* Peter Handrinos, 42, American author.
* Robert Hansen, 75, American convicted serial killer.
* Glyn Jenkins, 87, Australian politician, member of the Victorian Legislative Council (1970–1982).
* John Macklin, 66, British Hispanist.
* Steven R. Nagel, 67, American astronaut, melanoma.
* Jean Redpath, 77, Scottish folk singer-songwriter, cancer.
* Albert Reynolds, 81, Irish politician, Taoiseach (1992–1994).
* Mary Thomas, 70, American Pima politician, first female Governor of the Gila River Indian Community (1994–2000).
* Verna Vels, 81, South African screenwriter and programme director.

### 22

* Abu Mosa, Islamic State press officer, air strike.
* John Fellows Akers, 79, American businessman, President (1983–1989) and CEO (1985–1993) of IBM.
* U. R. Ananthamurthy, 81, Indian writer, cardiac arrest and renal failure.
* Lekhraj Bachani, 85, Indian politician, member of the Rajya Sabha (2000–2006).
* Donald A. Beattie, 83, American aerospace scientist.
* John Binienda, 67, American politician, member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (since 1986), diabetes and kidney disease.
* Jean Sutherland Boggs, 92, Canadian art historian, Director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (1979–1982).
* Winifred Dawson, 85, English librarian and biographer, stroke.
* Sir Philip Dowson, 90, British architect.
* Bohumila Grögerová, 93, Czech poet, recipient of the Magnesia Litera (2009).
* Jack Harris, 91, Australian golf player.
* Stella K. Hershan, 99, Austrian-American novelist.
* Franz Hillenkamp, 78, German scientist.
* Richard Holden, 67, American highway patrolman.
* Peter Hopkirk, 83, British journalist and author (The Great Game).
* Jean-Marie Joubert, 82, French Olympic cyclist.
* Emmanuel Kriaras, 107, Greek lexicographer and philologist, heart attack.
* Pete Ladygo, 86, American football player (Pittsburgh Steelers).
* Noella Leduc, 80, American baseball player (AAGPBL).
* Helen Mason, 99, New Zealand potter.
* Nariman Mehta, 94, Indian-born American pharmacologist.
* Roy Andrew Miller, 89, American linguist.
* Renato Mori, 79, Italian actor and voice actor. (La Piovra)
* Douglas Sang Hue, 82, Jamaican cricket umpire.
* John Satterwhite, 71, American Olympic shooter (1976).
* Amy Shuman, 89, American baseball player.
* Adel Smith, 54, Italian Muslim activist.
* John Sperling, 93, American businessman, founder of the University of Phoenix.
* John S. Waugh, 85, American chemist and professor (MIT), recipient of the Irving Langmuir Award (1976) and the Wolf Prize in Chemistry (1983).
* Ed Whitaker, 76, American stock car team owner.

### 23

* Albert Ebossé Bodjongo, 24, Cameroonian footballer (Douala AC, Perak FA, JS Kabylie), head injury from projectile.
* Jaime Giraldo Ángel, 84, Colombian politician and psychologist, Minister of Justice (1990–1991).
* Sally Buck, 83, American baseball team part-owner (Philadelphia Phillies).
* Jack Edwards, 83, Australian football player (North Melbourne).
* Dursun Ali Eğribaş, 81, Turkish Olympic wrestler (1956).
* Inga Juuso, 68, Norwegian singer and actress.
* Annefleur Kalvenhaar, 20, Dutch cross-country cyclist, European Cyclo-cross under-23 champion (2013), race collision.
* Dan Magill, 93, American college tennis coach and sports information director (Georgia Bulldogs).
* Hajo Meyer, 90, German-Dutch physicist and Holocaust survivor.
* William Thomson Newnham, 91, Canadian educationalist, President of Seneca College.
* Adnan Omran, 57–58, Syrian general, landmine.
* Ahti Pekkala, 89, Finnish politician, Speaker of the Parliament (1978–1979), Governor of Oulu Province (1986–1991).
* Jindřich Pokorný, 87, Czech translator.
* Marcel Rigout, 86, French politician.
* Philippine de Rothschild, 80, French winemaker.
* Bobo Sikorski, 87, Canadian football player (BC Lions).
* Birgitta Stenberg, 82, Swedish author, illustrator and translator, hepatocellular carcinoma.
* Jaume Vallcorba Plana, 64, Spanish philologist and publisher.
* Elsa Wiezell, 87, Paraguayan poet.

### 24

* Richard Attenborough, 90, English actor (The Great Escape, Jurassic Park) and film director (Gandhi), Oscar winner (1983).
* Greg Corbett, 41, American banjo player.
* Alexander Monteith Currie, 86, British university administrator.
* Antônio Ermírio de Moraes, 86, Brazilian businessman, CEO of the Votorantim Group, heart failure.
* Aldo Donati, 66, Italian singer, composer and television personality, cerebral hemorrhage.
* Bekir Sıtkı Erdoğan, 88, Turkish poet and songwriter.
* Eduard Giray, 65, German Olympic wrestler.
* Noël Lajoie, 86, French cyclist.
* Douglas McCain, 33, American Islamic militant (ISIS).
* K. Mohan, 89, Indian film producer (Pasamalar).
* Merton Sandler, 88, British chemical pathologist.
* Leonid Stadnyk, 44, Ukrainian farmer, world's tallest man claimant, brain haemorrhage.
* Arthur Wade, 95, Australian politician, member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly for Newcastle (1968–1988).
* Eduardo White, 50, Mozambican writer.
* Enrique Zileri, 83, Peruvian publisher.

### 25

* Maj-Briht Bergström-Walan, 89, Swedish psychologist.
* Anne Borsay, 59, British medical historian.
* John Brandon, 85, American actor (The Bold and the Beautiful, Dynasty, Scarface).
* Csaba Csutorás, 76, Hungarian Olympic sprinter (1960, 1964).
* William Greaves, 87, American documentary filmmaker (Symbiopsychotaxiplasm).
* Ramón Echarren Istúriz, 84, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Canarias (1978–2005).
* Hildur Krog, 92, Norwegian botanist.
* Martin Magga, 60, Solomon Islander politician, MP for Temotu Pele (since 2010).
* Alfredo Martini, 93, Italian cyclist and coach (national team).
* Marcel Masse, 78, Canadian politician, MP for Frontenac (1984–1993), MNA for Montcalm (1966–1973).
* Karl Molitor, 94, Swiss alpine skier, Olympic silver and bronze medalist (1948).
* Lars Mortimer, 68, Swedish comic artist.
* Nico M. M. Nibbering, 76, Dutch chemist.
* Carla Rotolo, 73, American folk music researcher.
* Len Terry, 90, English motorsport engineer, (Lotus, BRM).
* Uziah Thompson, 78, Jamaican percussionist, heart attack.
* Bob Warren, 68, American basketball player.
* Arthur Henry White, 90, American business consultant.
* John Wu Shi-zhen, 93, Chinese Roman Catholic prelate, Archbishop of Nanchang (1990–2011).

### 26

* Christian Bourquin, 59, French politician, President of the Regional Council of Languedoc-Roussillon (since 2010), cancer.
* Carlos de la Madrid Virgen, 74, Mexican politician, Governor of Colima (1991–1997).
* Simon Featherstone, 56, British diplomat, High Commissioner to Malaysia (2010–2014), Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein (2004–2008).
* Peter Bacon Hales, 63, American historian and photographer, traffic collision.
* Darrell Lynn Judge, 79, American physicist.
* Caroline Kellett, 54, British fashion journalist.
* Sir Douglas Morpeth, 90, British accountant.
* John Joseph Nevins, 82, American Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Venice in Florida (1984–2007).
* Dalton Paranaguá, 87, Brazilian politician, mayor of Londrina (1969–1973).
* Jim Petrie, 82, British cartoonist (Minnie the Minx).
* Chūsei Sone, 76, Japanese film director (Angel Guts: Red Classroom), pneumonia.
* David E. Sorensen, 81, American Latter-day Saints leader.
* Bob Wilson, 88, American basketball player.
* Masakane Yonekura, 80, Japanese actor and stage director, abdominal aortic aneurysm rupture.

### 27

* Givi Agrba, 77, Abkhazian politician.
* Amadou Balaké, 70, Burkinabé singer.
* Jean-François Beltramini, 66, French footballer.
* Yehezkel Braun, 92, Israeli composer.
* Jim Briscoe, 90, English footballer.
* Al Carrell, 88, American home improvement expert and columnist, pneumonia.
* Frank Corner, 94, New Zealand diplomat.
* Roy Crimmins, 85, English jazz trombonist, composer and arranger.
* Jacques Friedel, 93, French physicist.
* Gábor Gabos, 84, Hungarian pianist.
* Jan Groth, 68, Norwegian singer (Aunt Mary, Just 4 Fun), cancer.
* Bobby Kinloch, 79, Scottish footballer (Hibernian).
* Herbert Lottman, 87, American biographer.
* Richard Luke, 66, Australian rules footballer (South Melbourne).
* Alfredo Chavez Marquez, 92, American federal judge.
* Jimmy Nesbitt, 79, Northern Irish police detective, investigated Shankill Butchers.
* Peret, 79, Spanish singer, guitarist and composer, lung cancer.
* Valeri Petrov, 94, Bulgarian poet, screenwriter (Yo Ho Ho), playwright and translator, stroke.
* Benno Pludra, 88, German children's author.
* Orlando Polmonari, 90, Italian Olympic gymnast (1960).
* Victor J. Stenger, 79, American physicist and author, aortic aneurysm.
* Marjorie Strider, 81, American artist.
* Sandy Wilson, 90, English composer and lyricist (The Boy Friend).
* Xia Peisu, 91, Chinese computer scientist, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

### 28

* Ali al-Sayyed, 29, Lebanese soldier, decapitated. (death announced on this date)
* France Anglade, 72, French actress.
* Margaret E. Bailey, 98, American nurse.
* Joe Bethancourt, 68, American folk musician.
* Pierre Brabant, 89, Canadian composer and pianist.
* Yondani Butt, 69, Chinese conductor (music).
* Roberto Cairo, 51, Spanish actor (Cuéntame cómo pasó), lung cancer.
* Roger Clarke, 74, Jamaican politician, Minister of Agriculture (since 2012).
* G. Bradford Cook, 77, American lawyer.
* Glenn Cornick, 67, British bassist (Jethro Tull), heart failure.
* Andrew Cray, 28, American activist and political figure, oral cancer.
* Carlos Alberto Etcheverry, 81, Argentine footballer.
* Hal Finney, 58, American cryptographer and programmer, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
* Mary Featherstonhaugh Frampton, 86, British civil servant.
* Hans Hoets, 93, Dutch World War II resistance fighter.
* Hal Hunter, 82, American football coach (California Vulcans).
* Ivan Ivančić, 76, Croatian Yugoslav Olympic shot putter (1972, 1976) and coach.
* Andrew Kay, 95, American computer pioneer.
* Bill Kerr, 92, South African-born Australian actor and comedian (Hancock's Half Hour).
* Jack Kraft, 93, American college basketball coach (Villanova Wildcats, Rhode Island Rams).
* Patrick le Rolland, 71, French Olympic equestrian.
* Hans Möhr, 98, Swiss Olympic equestrian (1960, 1964).
* David Murphy, 93, American CIA officer, heart failure.
* Norihiro Nakajima, 64, Japanese manga artist, colorectal cancer.
* Alan Reynolds, 88, British artist.
* John Anthony Walker, 77, American naval officer, convicted of spying for the Soviet Union.
* Fernando Zunzunegui, 70, Spanish footballer (Real Madrid).

### 29

* Kurt Bachmann, 78, Filipino Olympic basketball player (1960).
* Jane Baker, 91, British television writer (Doctor Who, Space: 1999, Watt on Earth).
* David Bala, 67, Singaporean comedian and actor, heart disease.
* Michael Banda, 84, Sri Lankan socialist activist.
* Brasse Brännström, 69, Swedish actor (Fem myror är fler än fyra elefanter), heart attack.
* Octavio Brunetti, 39, Argentine tango pianist.
* Jesse Castete, 80, American football player.
* Shamim Farooqui, 70, Indian poet.
* Sir Jasper Hollom, 96, English banker, Chief Cashier of the Bank of England (1962–1966), Deputy Governor of the Bank of England (1970–1980).
* George L. Little, 63, American costume designer (Apocalypse Now, Jarhead, The Hurt Locker).
* Simon Akwali Okafor, 79, Nigerian Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Awka (1994–2010).
* Ryūko Seihō, 73, Japanese sumo wrestler and actor, heart attack.
* Eberhard Sengpiel, 73–74, German sound engineer.
* Rosella Towne, 96, American actress (Yes My Darling Daughter).
* Björn Waldegård, 70, Swedish rally driver, world champion (1979), cancer.

### 30

* Lucien Bahuma, 57, Congolese army officer, heart attack.
* Charles Bowden, 69, American writer.
* Cherlynlavaughn Bradley, 62, American chemist.
* Bipan Chandra, 86, Indian historian.
* Igor Decraene, 18, Belgian cyclist, winner of the UCI Road World Championships – Junior men's time trial (2013), hit by train.
* Shaban Demiraj, 94, Albanian albanologist and linguist.
* Philippe Gurdjian, 69, French car racing promoter (French Grand Prix) and driver (24 Hours of Le Mans).
* Mayumi Inaba, 64, Japanese writer, Tanizaki Prize recipient, pancreatic cancer.
* Shlomo Kalo, 86, Israeli writer.
* Doone Kennedy, 87, Australian politician, first female Lord Mayor of Hobart (1986–1996).
* Victoria Mallory, 65, American singer and actress, pancreatic cancer.
* Kirby McCauley, 72, American literary agent, renal failure.
* Andrew V. McLaglen, 94, British film and television director (McLintock!, Gunsmoke, Rawhide).
* Sir David Mitchell, 86, British politician, MP for Basingstoke (1964–1983) and North West Hampshire (1983–1997).
* Felipe Osterling, 82, Peruvian lawyer and politician, Minister of Justice (1980–1981), Senator (1985–1992).
* Jean-Pierre Perrinelle, 65, French Olympic hurdler.
* Joseph E. Persico, 84, American writer.
* Manuel Pertegaz, 96, Spanish fashion designer.
* Bohumil Prošek, 85, Czech Olympic ice hockey player (1956).
* Ann Zwinger, 89, American natural history author.

### 31

* Abdul Alim, 83, Bangladeshi politician.
* Ștefan Andrei, 83, Romanian politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs (1978–1985).
* Bapu, 80, Indian film director and cartoonist, cardiac arrest.
* Yves Carcelle, 66, French businessman, kidney cancer.
* Bobbie Clarke, 74, British drummer, cancer.
* Kenneth Clarke, Australian field hockey player.
* Flip Fraser, 62, Jamaican-British journalist and playwright.
* Stan Goldberg, 82, American comic book artist (Archie), stroke.
* Josef Hrnčíř, 93, Czech conductor.
* Lajos Kiss, 80, Hungarian canoer, Olympic bronze medalist (1956).
* María Eugenia Llamas, 70, Mexican actress, cardiac arrest.
* Viktor Radev, 77, Bulgarian Olympic basketball player (1956, 1960).
* Peter Stursberg, 101, Canadian writer and broadcaster.
* Carol Vadnais, 68, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins, California Golden Seals, New York Rangers), cancer.
* Jonathan Williams, 71, British racing driver.